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ill CO. FAIL _ OWING $1,250,000 inability to Sell Spot Cotton Causes Bankruotcv. INMAN'S WIDOW WITHDREW J. R. Gray, Owner of Atlanta Journal, One of the Partners in This Well Known Finn of Augusta ' (Ga.) Brokers?May Resume. Atlanta, Ga.?The firm of Inman & Co., cotton brokers of Augusta, with wide connections, went into the hands of a receiver. The liabilities ! are said to be about 51.250,000, and ' the assets in excess of that amount, i The long-continued depression in the I cotton market and consequent failure . of the firm to dispose of its spot cot- \ ton, Is given as the cause of the faili ure. Walker P. Inman was formerly j head of the firm. After his death , last November his widow withdrew from it. The sole members of the , present firm are James F. McGowan, . of Augusta, and James R. Gray, own- j or and editor of the Atlanta Journal. , Mr. Gray is a son-in-law of the late [ Mr. Inman. The petition in involuntary bankruptcy was filed in the United States j Court by attorneys for the Atlantic ( Compress Company, the Gulf Com- , press Company, J. C. Evans and C. ( R. Sims, creditors for sums ranging ( from $500 to $11,000. T. W. Barrett, Jr., of Augusta, was made re- , ceiver. ? Mr. Gray explained that the firm had prevailed upon the creditors to j hr>id off until every possible means e was exhausted. The firm was ready j to co-operate for an economical ad- j ministration of its affairs. , Mr. Inman always indorsed liber- ( ally for this firm, and lent it the full , st ~ngth of his great credit. His rleath last November has rendered it ( impossible for the firm to have the < benefit of this powerful assistance. ( There has been no speculation on the part of the firm or either member, . and the embarrassment grows solely ) out of the depression in the cotton , market and cotton contracts for act- " ual delivery to the mills and consum- , ers. The mills have practically quit buying cotton, and have left the firm , In a position where they have been , unable to dispose of their enormous holdings at anythinglike a fair figure. It is believed that with economical handling of the assets the creditors J will be paid in full. It is difficult to . say just how the firm stands, as the 1 fluctuations in the market affect the assets. ( F. A. Tcole is the manager of the | N'ew York office of Inman & Co. in ! the Cotton Exchange Building. He , 3aid that he knew nothing regarding the bringing of bankruptcy proceedings, and that he had had no advices on the subject up to the time he left the office for the day. Being told 1 that the advices from the South gave the inability of the firm to realize on its spot cotton as the chief reason for , the firm's embarrassment, Mr. Toole said that from what he knew of the situation he would regard that as the only reason for the failure. The name of Inman has been prom- , Inently identified with the spot cotton ' market for nearly half a century. DEFICIT NOW $51,644,615. Loss From Last Year Likely to Reach $125,000,000. Washington, D. C.?The statement of the Government for April, 1908, shows the total receipts to have been 543,919,321, and the expenditures $59,888,784. leaving a deficit for the month of nearly $16,000,000, and a , deficit for the ten months of the present fiscal year of $51,644,615, as against a surplus for the correspond- ; Ing period last year of $96,475,751. TV* a etofarionf cfonvr'c fVmf Hlirimr these last ten months there has been j a falling off in the receipts of $41,397,562 and an increase in expenditures of $66,722,804, making a difference in the condition of the Treasury of $108,120,366. This amount is likely to be increased to $125,000,000 , l>y the close cf the fiscal year. AFGHANS INVADE INDIA. Attack in Kliybcr Pass?Large Forccs Moving South. London.?India is a source of con siderable uneasiness to the British Government at present. The difficulty with the Mohammeds seemed on the eve of settlement when a new danger threatened, in an attempt made by a large Afghan force, numbering from 13.000 to 20,000, which crossed the border, moved south, divided into two bodies and attempted to seize the blockhouses in Khyber Pass near j Laud'-Khotal. The attacks were re-; puiied with trifling casualties. Boundary Treaty Ratified. The Canadian international bounJ* J mm ?~ ~ ^ ^ ,1 K,* V U ~ Clary U'Caiy ?aa i atmcu u?> me cicuate in executive session, at Washington, D. C. It provides for a more complete definition and demarcation of the boundary between the United States and Canada, but does not change the existing line. Prince 'William Married. Prince William o! Sweden and ! Grand Duchess Marie Pavlona of Russia were married at Tsarskoe-Selo. H. H. Rogers Asks Damages. H. II. Rogers filed his answer to the Government's suit to dissolve the Union Pacific merger at Salt Lake, Utah, denying unlawful combination and asking for damages for the harm done to his name by suing him, and his costs. Yanderbilt's Coach Cheered. A. G. Vauderbilt and his coach Venture were heartily cheered all the way from London to Brighton, Eng- ' land. Uphold Let-Us-Alonc Policy. New York City merchants and financiers unanimously upheld the ' let-us-alone" policy of the National Prosperity Association's campaign, urged optimism in business and predicted that a new era of good times is at hand. Rig Autos in Contest. I-"my neavyweignc auiomuuues ui aH classes left Paris for a month's tour of France. They are engaging in an industrial competition under Ifcc patronage of the Ministry of War. MOOT OF Mil Justice Will Hear Slayer's Side in Poughkeepsie. Meantime White's Murderer Rests in Very Snug ijuaners in uiu Dutchess County Jail. Poughkepsie. N. Y.?The hearing on the writ of habeas corpus sued out for the purpose of getting Harry K. Thaw out of the Asylum for Criminal Insane at Matteawan was begun here, and almost as soon as begun was adjourned for a week in order to give District Attorney Jerome a chance to get into the case in person. Assistant District Attorney Garvan represented Mr. Jerome and stated that he was on hand for the purpose, if possible, of getting the hearing switched to New York County. District Attorney Mack, of Dutchess County, helped Mr. Garvan argue for a relegation to New York, and James G. Graham, Thaw's new counsel, opposed their motion with vehemence on the frank ground that he didn't want any more Centre street justice for his client. Ultimately the bone of contention svas divided by Justice Morschauser 2? fn Vow VnrV and xgieeius iu su uwnn .-.v,.. - ?. ~ ?? hear the witnesses on Mr. Jerome's side of the case and in the meantime sit in Poughkeeepsie and hear Thaw's witnesses. Thaw, in a neat new suit and lookins as fit as an athlete, sat In the :ourt room and chatted cheerfully tvith his counsel and friends. None 3f his immediate relatives was in court. Mr. Garvan said the hearing on the svrit would take a month and cost 530,000, if not more. Not only, he said, would that be a stiff figure for Dutchess County which, he understood, only had about $10,000 a year :o disburse on court and jury charges, Dut moreover if the court let this proceeding get before it there would be :stablished a bad and expensive precelent. "We expect to send commissions :o Pittsburg, Paris, Rome, Monte Darlo and London. It will cost a lot 5f money," said Mr. Garvan. "Mr. Graham," said the Justice, 'how about hearing Mr. Jerome's witnesses in New York? I have to have your consent. I'll hear all your side up here, and go down to New York ifterward. Do you agree.'" Mr. Graham agreed, and Mr. Garran asked an adjournment, so that VIr. Jerome could be on hand. He got it and the day's proceedings closed. Thaw was taken upstairs to Sheriff Robert W. Chanler's official apartments in charge of Deputy Sheriff Townsend. The apartments have all the comforts of home, including twin beds for Thaw and Townsend, a por:elain bath and a punching bag. Thaw grinned when he saw the place and said it would do nicely for the short time that he believes he will have to remain a prisoner. * ^ 375,770 FREIGHT CAES IDLE. Surplus Reaches Greatest Total in History of Railroads. Chicago.?A startling decline in railroad traffic in April is shown in the bi-weekly statement of car surpluses and shortages issued by the the Car Efficiency Committee of the American Railway Association. The statement, which is regarded as an excellent business barometer, portrays conditions up to April 15 on 153 railroads of the. United States and Canada. During the fortnight following April 1 the number of idle cars suddenly mounted frotn 307,507to 375,770, the greatest total in the history of American railroads. The figures bear out the statements of railroad men that during the month of April business conditions have been at a inwpr ehb than at anv time durins the panic. The highest previous surplus figure was on February 5, when it reached what was then considered the immense total of 343,928. SIX RAILROADS FIXED .<513,130. Landis Imposes Penalties at Chicago For Violation of Law. Chicago. ? In ninety-five cases brought by the Government against six railroad companies, charging violation of the twenty-eight-hour' law for the transportation of cattle, Judge Landis in the United States District Court imposed fines aggregating: $13,150. The railroads fined were as follows; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, forty-five cases, $6550; Chicago and Northwestern, twenty-six cases, $3(500; Illinois Central, nine cases, $1100; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, seven cases, $350; Atchison', Topeka and Santa Fe, six cases, S750, and the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, two cases, $200. The majority of the fines were imposed on pleas of guilty, but in all cases Chicago and Northwestern pleaded not guilty. Senator Bailey's Majority 20.000. Almost complete returns from the State Democratic primaries of Texas give Senator J. W. Bailey and his associates on tjie ticket as delegates to the Democratic National Convention a majority of from 18,000 to 20,000. The total vote was 213,972. congress Appropriates a isunon. Appropriations by Congress in the present session will exceed $1,000,000,000, and the Treasury deficit for the fiscal year is estimated at ?50,000,000. . Medical Hero Pensioned. Dr. Hall Edwards, of Birmingham, England, who lost an arm in the course of his researches into the Xrav, but who is the discoverer of a successful method-of X-ray treatment for cancer, has been given a civil service pension of $GOO a year. Forecast For Bryan. The New York Herald's forecast of the Democratic Presidential situation gives W. J. Bryan C76 votes, or four more than necessary to nominate. HUIC3 VII lilt JL?J?UIVUU. Sammy Leever and "Chick" Fraser, two old pitchers, started the season with a shut out each. Pitcher Mathewson, of the New York Nationals, looks to he as good as he ever was in his career as a pitcher. McQuillin. of the Philadelphia Nationals. is a right-handed pitcher, tut is developing a very puzzling crossfire. Williams, who was traded hy New York to St. Louis, has batted in mora runs for the St. Louis American Club than any player of the team. RETURNING ( ; dm J 'BAn h Ite ?A "Let Us Alone" cartoon 1 ORIGIN OF "LET US The "Let Us Alone" Socie St. Louis recently, is a direct F. Yoakum, chairman of the B Louis and San Francisco lir eludes many of the most pror Louis, E. C. Simmons being a two months Mr. Yoakum has : necessity of inaugurating w! Alone" policy, in order to rest mercial world and to prevent Iural developments of the reso West and Southwest. REMARKABLE SPREAD OF THE AND "1 ! Slogan Proposed ly Railroad M and Promoters Are Delighted ness For a "Fair Deal, Suns St. Louis, Mo.?The most hopeful i | sign of an improvement soon to come s j in the condition of business is the for- . mation of the National Prosperity As- i 60ciation of St. Louis, with its slogan, t "Let us alone," and its platform, ] 'Give us a rest and sunshine.-" j Numerous organizations through- ] out the country have taken up the , I matter, and already the outlook is ] I brighter. ] All thinking men agree that the j ! two greatest curses in this country , 1 are the politicians and the yellow . j journals, and any association formed j to combat the harm they have done | and are doing can but result in good ( ! for the country. ] j The National Prosperity Associaj tion of St. Louis was organized, fol- ] I lowing an address of B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the Executive Board of | j the Rock Island-'Frisco railroads be- j | fore the St. Louis Trade Club. His I "Let us alone" suggestion was taken i up by the business organizations, and ; a "Give us a rest and sunshine" cam- ] .paign planned, under the National < Prosperity Association. ? The purpose of the organization \ Is to inaugurate a national movement ] for the restoration of confidence, and i ' a general revival of commercial and j < industrial ill'liviljr. 1 lie [Iiauuim, ! adopted unanimously by the leaders j of the movement, is?To keep the dinner pail full, to keep the pay car ! going, to keep the factory busy, to I keep the workmen employed, to keep I the present wages up. ! The idea spread like wildfire j throughout the country, and to aid in | the dissemination of the cheer the Executive Committee had printed j 1,000,000 copies of the platform. : These, with letters, were sent to ! every business, labor and civia organization in the United States. Through all the avenues of public; ity the "give us a rest" declaration I has circulated rapidly and effectually, | reaching hamlets on thecountry cross | roads and settlements on the inter' national boundaries, and from all ! parts of the United States are coming spontaneous responses. < ' AfAmnnf 5 c? nnn' fir , X 11^ IliU T to iu.1 Utjuiiu ; | the period of an exchange of greet| ings and assurances, and there are < numerous tangible evidences that it t will lead soon into an actual national ] assertion against pernicious agita- ( tion. The "fair deal, sunshine and l square meal" principle is ecpressed 1 1 in all the letters received, and the i | officers of the association are aston- < ! ished at the number and tone of leti ters from corporations and individ- i ! uals in distant parts of the country. j Merchants, railroad men, bankers, ] i brokers and men conducting every ! j other sort of business joined in the 1 j new slogan, "let us alone," sounded j against the indiscriminate flaying of j corporate interests. With one accord they agreed that j 1 it is time to put a stop to the destruc- I j tion of economic stability that such a < 1 policy caused. I The most encouraging messages in < I the mass received were from New ; I York, Chicago and Kansas City. The 1 i idea seems to have taken hold almost < I instantly in the East and Middle ' j West. i Assurances of zealous support were 1 i Women Janitors For Yale?The 1 Middle-Aged Receive Preference. New Haven, Conn.?Under the heading, "A Startling Innovation," 1 the Yale News announces that women i janitors will be gradually installed in I , the Yale dormitories. s The experiment will first be made ( in Vanderbilt Hall. Bursar Osborn, < of the University, said that young < women need not apply for the jobs, I and that middle-aged women with I [ families who have been thrown on 1 their own resources would receive the ' preference. 1 The World of Sport. There is no lack of good boy jockeys ' lo the riding this season. Gulch lost $25 by failing to throw Henry Ordemann in fifteen minutes 1 | at xvnuucapui 10. Swarthmore College defeated Le- 1 high University at lacrosse by a score of nine goals to four. Fred HerreshofT captured the low- < scored prize in the annual spring golf : tournament at Lakewood. i It will be a shame to tell what the Western athletes will do with some < of the Eastern cracks at the Olympic i try-outs. i ZONFSDEINCE. [ \ jy Davenport, in the New York Mail. ALONE" SLOGAN. ty, which was organized in outgrowth of efforts by B. oard of Directors of the St. les. The organization inninent business men of St. t its head. Within the last spoken several times on the hat he termed a "Let Us :ore confidence in the coma serious check to the natiurces of the country in the "GIVE US A REST" ! LET US ALONE" MOVEMENT! ; [an Catches on Like Wildfire ?A Campaign of Cheerful- j hine and a Square Meal.*' ! a] eceived from the Business Men's As- I e sociation, Danbury, Conn.; the Com- j u nercial Club, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; | d :he Board of Trade, Little Rock, i h \rk.; the Business Men's League, St. w, Joseph, Mo.; the Commercial Club, b Brookfield, Mo.; the St. Louis Credit | 2 VIen's Association; theBusiness Men's League, Little Rock, Ark.; the Busi- j b less Men's League, Helena, Ark.; the j y. Business Men's Association, Sedalia, j a VIo.; the Retail Merchants' Associa- ! n lion, East St. Louis, III.;- the Busi- j n less Men's Club, Memphis, Tenn., \ t md the Commercial Club, East St. j G Louis, 111. b Thousands of letters came from d corporations in different cities of the : it East, North, South and West. ! t( The Business Men's Association of | y, Danbury, Conn., was the first organi- ! a jation of any of the fmaller cities in | n ;he East to officially express its ap- o proval of the movement. T That general business conditions b ire improving all along the line was h ilso the unanimous-opinion of these ti raen, who are in close touch with all sections. j tl "TVio crrriTvino' wpalfh flf the OOUn- i 11 :ry will not permit business to re- g nain stagnant for any length of d :ime," they said. "If the crops are c ;ood, and at present there is every i ndication they will be, there is likely n :o be a business revival that will sur- g pass anything of the kind the country b aas ever experienced. | f; "That the people have more money j :han they ever had before is demon- i f; jtrated by the fact that there is about j h 5160,000,000 more gold in the coun- j tl :ry at this date than there was six | ti nonths ago." s Last fall more than $100,000,000 j n >f gold was imported from Europe , tl Since then only about $6,000,000 has n )een exported. In the meantime the ! j< nines in this country have been pro- j y lucing more than $10,000,000 a p nonth. ' d Statistics also show that as far j ^ Dack as last January there was in cir- j $ iulation in this country $191,000,000 i _ -i 1 il nrnn ' O more actual money man lucic wao uu , :he corresponding date in 1907 and t] M13.000.000 more than on the corre- | t< ;ponding date in 1906. ; b Bankers also pointed out that proof , the general improvement in the ti situation was contained in the re- | p )orts of commercial houses regarding i ]j collections and in the resumption of I ti >uying by merchants in the interior. ! fi [Jnder such conditions, they declared j b there must be a gradual resumption G af mills all through the country. | g But the "let tis alone'" theory will tvork more harm than good, accord- j lj ing to some of the statements, if a , a proper check is not kept on the specu- ' t ator. He is the man, it is explained, i y ivho has worked much of the harm ti mil will work more if he is not taken b in hand. e: Many of the responses are coming c in. by mail, owing to the necessity of i formal action by the various business j c ireanizations. but the mass of tele- j b grains and letters from all over the o country received daily indicate be- T yond any doubt that the National v Prosperity Association is- producing l; substantial benefits, and that the 1: 'fair deal, sunshine and square l< meal" platform has touched a sympa- n thetic chord. p Ex-Senator Chandler Frames the Fight on Secretary Taft. _ Washington. D. C.?Former Sena- ft tor William E. Chandler, whose re- h sourceful tactics secured to Ruther- tl 'ord B. Hayes the Presidency, has as- a jiinied charge of the tactical campaign d if the allies opposing the nomination d >f A month ago Mr h CI". jlci was one of the intimates at d the White House, and acted as go- S( between for the President and the d Democratic Senators on the Rate bill. " Then came the controversy in which s< the President scored Chandler. e: Stub Ends of News. Illinois Democrats instructed (ot Bryan. N Secretary Tfift will take a three B weeks' trip to Panr*na A Norwegin* volition is to hri held tl. '.lung b.ii.:mcr at I3 r.*o" 'hjeni. Suit for nearly i.\o millions was h ?ntered against H. H. Rogers, G. A. o Burt and A. C. Bedford by a Virgin- o ian. Senator Bulkeley, of Connecticut, S defended the negro soldiers dis- c missed on account of the Brownsville si affray. . si r IODIES OF FIVE SLAIN UNEARTHED IN YARD ndiana Woman Lured Men to j noath hu "flrie " Fnr Hiichanrt ! UWUkll VJ nuv* I VI MUWUMIHII IRS.^ GUNNESS A BORGIA [ystcry in Murders at La Porte?Rc? ' mains of Victims Dug Up on l Premises Where Woman and Three Children Perished. i tl DEATHS LAID CLOSE TO MRS. GUNNESS' DOOR. I Following are those closely as- * sociated with Mrs. Gunness, of whose deaths she is believed to 1 have had knowledge: Heldgren, Andrew, 40 years old, 1 bachelor. Aberdeen. S. D.. '' suitor for Mrs. Gunness' hand, '' who came to La Porte in Jan- 1 uary and disappeared one ' month later after loaning the 1 woman $1500. ' Gunness, Miss .Jennie Olson, 16 years old. adopted daughter of Mrs. Gunness; disappeared in September. 1906, ostensibly to ! attend school at Los Angeles. Man, believed by Sheriff Smulzer to have been an admirer of the ' woman. Boy, apparently 8 years old; mu- ' tilated body in gunny sack. i : Girl, about 7 years old; mutilated body in gunny sack. " Gunness, Joseph, husband of j Mrs. Gunness, whose death at La Porte four years ago had 1 always remained a mystery. Sorensen, Albert, woman's first husband, who died under mysterious circumstances in Chi- j j cago eight years ago. i ; Gur.ness, Mrs. Belle, believed to have been burned to death in j 1 fire which destroyed her home one week ago. Sorensen, Myrtle, 11 years old, ' oldest daughter of Mrs. Gun AU V 4. A. ~ m AxtnU ! XJtibb, luuugui lu udve [icusucu in the fire. I , Sorensen, Lucy, 9 years old, also beHeved to have been a victim of the fire. j 1 Gunness, Philip, 5 years old, youngest child, said to have j ] have been killed in the fire. j i La Porte, Ind.?One of the most j hocking murder mysteries ever unarthed came to light when the bodjs of five persons, all of them uiurered, were found in the yard of the ome of Mrs. Bella Gunness, who, ( 'ith three of her children, was | urned to death on the night of April j , s- I; So far only two of the bodies have ; ^ een identified. These are Andrew j ( feldgren, who came to this city from | ( .berdeen, S. D., to marry Mrs. Gun- I ( ess, whose acquaintance he had ! , lade through a matrimonial bureau. ; 1 "hf> nther is that of Jennie Olson I runness, a Chicago girl, who had j . een adopted by Mrs. Gunness. She , isappeared in September, 1906, and ' J : was said had gone to Los Angeles ( 3 attend school. The other bodies , rere those of a man and two children, pparently twelve years old. So lany bones are missing that the sex ( ? the children cannot be determined. , 'he body of Heldgren was dismem- J ered, and the arms, legs, trunk and ead were buried in different parts of j tie yard. ' ! It is believed by the authorities , j hat Guy Lamphere, who has been I , nder arrest since the burning of the- | runness home on the charge of murering Mrs. Gunness and her family, \ lii 3 4.U~ TT?1 A I ' umiJiiimu me nciu^icu tnuic. | , ,amphere is a carpenter, and the i , lanner in which the body of Held- | . ren was dismembered leads to the l j elief that it was done by some one ! ( amiliar with the use of a saw. j { That Mrs. Gunness, a handsome, j ( ascinating woman, poisoned her first ? usband, Albert Sorensen, in Chicago | | here is no doubt now. Then she en- j ( iced men to her by advertising that ( he would marry "a gentleman of , leans." Once having enthralled hem by her charms she robbed and lurdered them. Three of the bod?s found in her proprietory grave- , ard are those of men; one has been k ositively identified as that of Anrew Heldgren, of Aberdeen, S. Dak., rho was worth between $40,000 and j 50,000. - . I Two bodies are those of women, i if them one, Jennie Olson Gunness, i tie adopted daughter, certainly knew j ; jo much for the safety of this blue- i earded lady. , ] ( Thousands of persons tramped j 1 hrough the rain to the Gunness I j lace. Scores of men reinforced the I iborers whom Sheriff Smulzer hired i J 3 dig up the yard. There is a dread- | \ ill probability that more bodies will , I e found, for it is certain that Mrs. | l-unness was as deliberate as a Bor- I i ia and infinitely more cruel. j \ The cellar of her home where she j j ived for four years, which is now in ! t shes, will be excavated. She had I 1 he cellar paved with cement two | [ ears ago. ajid she jealously guarded ! s be cellar when this improvement was j i eing made. State's Attorney Smith j xpressed the belief that the cement 1 overs a tomb. That her murderous career was I | at suddenly short seems to be proved y letters to her from Carl Peterson, f Waupaca, Wis., which were found, 'hey were corresponding "with a ? iew to matrimony." Peterson, plain* [ f a frank, honest man, wrote candid- ^ f that he was much pleased with her ] ;tters, but feared he had not as much 1 loney as she wished her husband to i ? ossess. Had ho been richer?. ' c A week ago a fire, then?and nov> -believed to be incendiary,destroyed ^ [rs. Gunness' house. Ten hours iter she and her three children, Myre. eleven years; Lucy, nine years, nd Philip, five years, were found ] ead in the ruins. A Dante could not 1 escribe, a Dore could not picture the f orrors this woman must have en- t ured to save her children and her- t slf. She was devoted to her chilren; that she was widel> praised as t a good mother" tended to divert j t jme of the suspicions that have aris- i f a since her residence here. I1 About Anted People. ^ Former United States Senator J. i r. Camden, of West Virginia, died in j j altimore. Karon Hayashi, Japanese Minister ; ) China, has beenordered home from ekin, and will be sent to Rome. Dr. Harold P. Ernst, of Harvard, i ! as been elected the new presldcut | f the American Association of Palh lu^iaio ami uacici ta. Lord Rayleigli (John William truttj has been elected lord chan- . ellor of Cambridge University la j accession to the late Duke of Devou* \ ti're j S FLEET ill SAMBO Biff" Evans on the Bridge as Ships j Enter Golden Gate. Great Voyage of 11,000 Miles Ends 1 With liooni of Hands Play- I ing .and Thousands Cheering. San Francisco.?"Welcome," in letters fifty feet high, greeted the Atlantic battleship fleet, as it steamed through the portals of the (iolden Gate into the harbor of the new city of San Francisco, but the real welcome which will be shown during the next ten days of festivies and pageantry can never be measured, all loyal Californians say. The railroads brought 300,000 people into the city, but the multitude that crowded every hilltop, every cliff about the bay, every building, hill 1 and portion of the city that afforded I a glimpse of the fleet steaming in | at noon, no man is bold enough to sstimate. More people came into the I :ity than left it during the terror and homeless days following the fire. Hundreds of thousands of flags and the cheers from a tremendous multitude vied with the booming of cannon ' as the national salute of twenty-one suns was given at the Presidio and 1 the tooting of whistles from factory and steamboat when the fleet threada _ ? it U IV. V.o*. ga us way lurougu me tiu>?ucu u<?bor and steamed into anchorage formation. The battleships having the light of line, were first to let their anchors go. The sixteen veterans of the Atlantic fleet, augmented by two battleships recruited here for the remainder of the trip around the world?the Nebraska and Wisconsin?occupy the two inside lines of the four columns of ships now in the harbor. The armored cruisers of the Pacific fleet have the lines nearest the Oakland shore, while the little black destroyers of both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets are berthed close in toward the San Francisco waterfront. The little vessels .looked mere specks alongside the immense fighting machines of the Connecticut type. The Connecticut swung past the Cliff House site first with the torpedo boat destroyer Whipple abreast. The Conaecticut and Whipple are the flagships of their divisions, the big battleship being the floating home of Rear-Ad mirai nomey v. nivajua, wuuc mc i smaller vessel is the flagship of the ) torpedo boat destroyer flotilla. The nineteen battleships, six torpedo boat destroyers, one hospital ship and one or two transports took exactly one hour and a half from their anchorage ground near the lightship until the Connecticut was abreast of the outer wail3 of the Golden Gate. As the ships swept through the channel near the Gate sheering broke forth from the multitudes and it was carried along by the thousands of voices clear to the Presidio. Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet and just now in command of the assembled ships of both oceans, stood 1 on the after bridge of the Connecticut, as the famous flagship led the svay through the harbor gate. No sooner had the ships reached their final anchorage than a commit tee boat carrying Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco, and member of the 1 official reception committee, includ- ' ing James D. Phelan, the chairman, i put off, officially to welcome Admiral i Evans and the officers and men of i the fleet to San Francisco. The cere- ( monies aboard the Connecticut were , brief and informal. j Admiral Evans rode a part of the iistance in the naval and military pa- I rade through the streets of the city, i svhen 8000 bluejackets and marines, I 3000 soldiers of the regular army and \ many civic and military bodies were , In line, but further than this he will not take an active part in the celebra- , , tion. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf on j 1 board his reviewing ship, the York- | I Lown, saw the entry of the magnifi- ' I :ent line of fighting vessels from just f ' ivithin the harbor gates. SUICIDE TO EVADE POSSE. stormed by Troops, Ohio Murderer Kills Himself. Washington Court House, Ohio.? \fter a company of State militia had j , jeen ordered to capture Bert Deva- j ley, who barricaded himself in a barn ifter having slain two persons, pos- j iibly a third, and fatally wounded ; mother, Devaney committed sui- ! j :ide. Devaney's first victim was i -ida Bird, a mulatto, twenty-two ! ' rears old, whom he shot to death in ier Ijome. Her mother, who attempt- i ?d to save the girl, was fatally ! 1 vounded. The cause of this shooting ' s supposed to have been jealousy. After the shooting Devaney fled | j md took refuge from a crowd which j < vas following him in the barn of j ( >ilas Shackelford. The owner enered the barn and ordered him to j eave and he was shot down. Com- [ iany M, Fourth Regiment, O. N. G., j itormed the barn. They found Dev- | iney inside dead. 1 SUCCESSFUL TEST OF AIRSHIP. I I ' *! ?t- - " il-- TM? I? Vnir I I ii riyni urumcrs nj 111 lui-u .n." Aeroplane. Manteo, N. C.?Wright Brothers. ! leronauts. now at Kill Devil Hill, nade a flight in their new aeroplane. The machine under control traveled L000 feet. The flight was for the jurpose of testing a new steering i tear. The elevation of the machine I lid not reach more than twenty feet. SHOT BY A GIRL SUICIDE. Han She Never Met Fatally Wounded ' at Montpelier, Vt. Montpelier, Vt. ? Miss Christina j 3au, a young woman supposed to | lave been insane, shot and probably i atally injured Louis Neveaux, a ho;el clerk, on the principal street of J he city and then killed herself. j Npvmhy told the officials of Hea- | , ;on Hospital, where he was removed, j 1 hat he had never seen Miss Ban be- j ' 'ore. and that he could not account j * .'or the tragedy. | 1 |1 TROOPS GUARD OHIO TOBACCO, i j I Militia Called Out to Halt the Work I of Night Riders From Kentucky. j] Columbus, Ohio.?Adjutant Critcb- I ield decided to send two troops of he National Guard to Brown and | 1 Clermont Counties, in the hurley ro- ! 1 jacco district of Ohio, along the Ohio I 1 ftiver. to prevent the outrages by ventucky night riders. The troops will deploy between Hig- J ;insport and Aberdeen, where to- |' jaeco beds nave been torn up aim | varehouses burned nearly every night j I lor two weeks. ? 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Longest Railway Tangent. The longest railway tangent in the world iz said to be on the line of the Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway, in the Argentine Republic. It la 205% miles long and is on the main line between miles 158 and 362% from Buenos Ayres. The straight stretch of track was formerly broken by reverse curves forming a detour from Lake Soria; the longer portion was then 175 miles and was even then the world's record. Newton's Apple. Voltaire Is the authority for the nrsNll ? "? Art/1 nf A O hrtll f tllO Q H wCll-ivuu??u auck/uuii; uuv/ui. ?.??>, v.r pie. He had his information from Newton's favorite niece, Catherine Btrton. How much truth there Is la the story will probably never he known. It is plausible and by no means improbable. It is certain that tradition marlzed a tree in a garden it Woolsthrope, where Newton spent i part of the summer of 1666. This tree stood until 1820, when, owing to iecay, it was out down.?New York American. Warning to America. The figures recently given by the Central News as to the number of suicides in the United States form a remarkable commentary upon the unlatural "hustling" life which threatens to become characteristic of the trans-Atlantic people. During the last twelve months 10,782 people have taken their lives. It is an appalling figure, exceeding that of the number of convicted criminals over the same area. No sermon could better point the moral that the trans _ r iu - lifn ia gresaiuii ui iue law ui uci tuuo iuo u paid for by the heaviest penalty. On this side of the water men and women are suffering in an increasing degree from "nerves," and this is due largely to the growing pressure of life. The melancholy figures quoted regarding America should serve as a douche to fevered Englishmen whose lives are one continued rush. The preaching of the "simple life," which was so fashionable a few years ago, is now no longer heard. It needs reviving, and, above all, practicing.? The Christian, London, England. Dies on Eve of Fortune. A legacy of $50,000 was devised by i London merchant to Mr. George Elmy, a clerk who had been in his employ for forty years. On the eve of fortune the good and faithful servant dfed suddenly of heart disease. ' \ The Society for the Protection of Children in England against the :ruelty of parents and others receives uver 40,000 complaints a year. FRIENDS HELP St. Paul Park Incident. "After drinking coffee for breakCast I always felt languid and dull, having no ambition to get to my morning duties. Then in about an hour or so a weak, nervous derangement of the heart and stomach would :ome over me with such force I would frequently have to lie down. "At other time.3 I had severe headiches; stomach finally became affected and digestion so impaired that I liad serious chronic dyspepsia and :onstipation. A lady, for many years State President of the W. C. T. 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