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flENEY, BMFTP8OSECUTOR, SHflTDBWNIHCBUBTROOK Assailant a Saloon Kesper, Whi Was Kept Off Jury. RUEF SENT BACK TO JAM Wound Not Likely to Be MortalWild Excitement in San Fran cisco, and Threats of Lynching Are Made by Angry Citizens. San Francisco, Cal. ? Francis J Heney, chief prosecutor in the grafl cases and Assistant District Attorney was shot in the head by Morris Haas a saloon keeper, during a five-minut( adjournment of court in the Ruei case. The bullet hit no vital orgar and he will recover. The shooting was the result of an exposure ol Haas' criminal record made by Henej in the previous trial of Abe Ruei for the Parkside bribery case. Heney had been in Judge Lawlor's 11 Dnof nn the charge of bribing Supervisor Furey, , When court adjourned James Foley, his body ,guard, who usually sticks very close to Heney to guard against any attack, had walked to the rear of the room. Heney was seated at a small table at the side of the court room talking with former Supervisor Gallagher. Suddenly J^prris Haas, who had been a venire man in the Ruef Parkside bribery case, sauntered into the court room, came up behind Heney and pulling out a pistol shot, him just below the right ear. Heney fell out of his chair, while Gallagher grappled with Haas and prevented him from firing a second shot. Heney was rushed to the hospital and Haas was taken to the city prison. Haas, who is an undersized German, was wildly excited, but declared that be had shot Heney because Heney in the Parkside bribery case had first accepted him as a juror and then had him rejected because he asserted Haas was an,ex-convict and therefore unfit. "I shot him," he shouted, "to get even for humiliating me." Immediately after the shooting Judge Lawlor, against the protests of Ruef's attorneys, ordered Ruef into custody regardless of the fact that he has been at liberty under the record breaking ball of $1,500,000. The feeling among the decent people of the town is that the shooting of Mr. Heney is a triumph for the graft element. The report that Mr. Heney would recover, breaking in on a prevailing certainty of several hours' duration that he was mortally wounded, has relieved the public tension in a small degree. Yet there are citizens in the streets discussing the ethics of lynch law. W. E. AMMON KILLED. Shot in P. R. R. Station in Jerse) City, N. J. , " Jersey City, N. J.?Walter E. Amnion, a well known business man of Jersey City and a brother of Colonel Robert A. Ammon, was shot and instantly. killed in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's ferry house at Jersey City. -Andrew McGrath, a man he had befriended, was arrested as the slayer of Ammon. Mr. Ammon was about to have his luncheon in the restaurant in the railway station, on the second floor. He has ascended the stairs and turned toward the restaurant, when he was confronted by McGrath, to whom he made a cheery remark. Without a word in reply, McGrath drew a revolver, which he carried in his coat pocket, and fired at him. The bullet entered the left temple and plowed into the brain. Two more bullets were fired into his body after he fell. LORD MAYOR IS INAUGURATED. Banquet Closes Celebration of King's Birthday in London. London.?The PrimeMinister, Herbert H. Asquith, was the principal speaker at the Guild Hall banquet, which marked the inauguration of the new Lord Mayor of London, Sir Georee Wvatt Truscott. and brought to a fitting close the celebration of the King's sixty-seventh birthday. The Prime Minister devoted hi3 observations mainly to the European situation. After congratulating Turkey, in the person of the Turkish Ambassador, Musurus Pasha, on the success of the most amazing revclu? tion in the annals of history, he declared that, subject to the important principle that international treaties could not be altered except by the consent of all the signatories, the British Government had no'prejudice against or preference in favor of any particular settlement. NEW SURGEON-GENERAL. Colonel Torney Jumped Over Nine Seniors by President. / Washington, D. C. ? President Roosevelt, on the recommendation of Secretary Wright and the General Staff, has appointed Colonel George H. Torney Surgeon-General of the army, to succeed Robert M. O'Reilley, who retires January 14. He is tenth on the list of the medical corps and his appointment will cause soreness among his seniors, but it is the Roosevelt idea that the older men had their chance for promotion when other Surgeons-General were appointed. * : PUBLIC IN MARKET. Stocks Rise on New York Exchange in Ten Days $2,000,000,000. New York City.?Since the Presidential election the market value of stocks and bonds quoted in Wall Street has been advanced more than $2,000,000,000. The enormous increase in value has been accomplished in ten days of trading. This calculation is based , ? upon actual quotations made on the New York Stock Exchange. METCALF RESIGNS. His Assistant, Newberry, Will Become Secretary of Navy. Washington, D. C.?Victor H. Metcalf, of California, resigned as Secretary of the Navy. Truman H. Newberry, of Michigan, Assistant Secretary, succeeds to the portfolio. Th? change will take place December 1. Lack of health and probably a sense of isolation and estrangement between himself and President Roose velt prompted Mr. Metcalf's resigna tion. He has been ill for a year, anc during the last two months he has scarcely been able to sit at his desk. i DESPERADO US SEW !! ' ' Himself Burned in House in Whic He Took Refuge. 3 Day of Bloodshed in Oklahoma Tow ?Police Official the First Victim ?Sheriff Shot Next. Okmulgee, Okla.?James Dechar a negro desperado, quarreled wil Steve Grayson, an Indian boy, ar ' beat him with a stone until he wi insensible. The scene of the quarr . was the station of the St. Louis ar t San Francisco Railroad. Friends i Grayson called the police. Assistai , Chief of Police Klaber went to tl } station, and then Dechard fled to h . house, near by, and barricaded hir [ self. When Klaber approached tl 1 house Dechard shot him dead. > i Shoriff Pohinsnn s^nthprpd den' ? ties, among them a number of n \ groes, whom he commissioned, ar advanced on Dechard's house. As the attacking party approache Dechard'began shooting with a rifl . firing as rapidly as he could load h , weapon. The sheriff fell first, ii stantly killed. Then five of the n | gro deputies were slain. [ Dechard's house was soon su rounded by a frenzied mob of arme ; men. Fire was set to a house jut i north of Dechard's. Volleys of bu ; lets were poured into Dechard's hous ' and he was shot down. He was see to roll over on the floor, strike match and set fire to his own hous which was soon a roaring furnace, ] , which his body was baked. Dechai evidently had a large quantity of an munition stored in his house, ft many cartridges exploded while tt house was burning. The dead: Chapman, colorei and his brother; James Dechard, co i ored; Henry Klaber, Assistant Chi< of Police; Edgar Robinson, Sheriff < Okmulgee County; three unidentifle negroes. The injured: Victor Farr, chief < Sioux, shot through shoulder; Stet Grayson, Indian boy, probably fatal] beaten. A deputy sheriff's arm was broke and seven others were .slight] wounded. "JTM CROW" SCHOOLS LEGAL, U. S. Supreme Court So Decides?Ju tices Harlan and Day Dissent. Washington, D. C. ? In decidin the case of Berea College vs. tfc State of Ker.tucky the Supreme Coui held that the States may legislate t prevent the co-education of the wh'.l and black races. The case wj brought to test the validity of tb Kentucky law of 1894 prohibitin white and black children from a tending the same schools. The higl er State court took the position ths the white and black races are natu: ally antagonistic, and that enforce separation of their children is in tli line of the preservation of the peace The opinion of the Supreme Cowhanded down by Justice Brewer, a: firmed the finding ^of both the Kei tucky Circuit Court and the Court c Apeals. Justices Harlan and Oa * dissent. HAAS A SUICIDE IN PRISON. Assailant of Heney Shoots Himsel With Revolver in Son Francisco. San Francisco, Cal.?Morris Haas who shot Francis J. Heney, con mitted suicide in the County . Jail b shooting himself through the heat One report says that the pistol wit which Haaa ,shot himself was cor . cealed' in his shoe, where he hid i before shooting Heney. Another report says the pistol wa secretly passed to Haas , by a frien since his incarceration. Haas was "in his cell with his nigh guard. He retired to bed early, pull ing the blankets over his. head, j moment afterward the guard was sui prised to hear the muffled report c a pistol under the blankets. The stripped off the covering and foun Ha*s dying with a bullet hole through his head and blood flowing from th wound. DOWAGER EMPRESS DEAD. China's Ruler Passes Away Sooi After the Emperor's Death. Pekin, China.?Tsu Hsi, Dowage Empress of China, and its real rule for more than a generation, is dead. /The announcement of the Dowage Empress* death was official and fol lowed closely the announcement tha Emperor Kwangsu died the da A * - i?u a ii?i. t j. previous, cut it is Deueveu mat uui died some time ago. An edict issued at 8 a. m. place upon the throne Prince Pu Yi, the no quite three-year-old son of Princ Chun, whom a previous edict ha made Regent of the Empire. At the palace elaborate rites ar being observed, and a flood of edict has been sent forth. THE COOPERS INDICTED. Ex-Sheriff Also Charged AVith Murde of Ex-Sei:ntor Carmack. Nashville, Tenn. ? Indictment were returned by the Davidson Coun ty Grand Jury charging Colonel Dun can B. Cooper, Robin Cooper and es Sheriff John D. Sharpe jointly wit the murder of ex-Senator E. W. Cai mack. Sharpe is also indicted on charge of being accessory before th fact. * Shortage Made Good. At the hearing in Newark of Cha: Jones, cashier of the First Nations ! Banlc, of SeabrigHt, N. J., it was ar nounced that Jones and members c his family had made good a $45,00 shortage. Cabin John Bridge Leap Fatal. ! . James Evans, the farmhand at , cused of having assaulted eleven year-old Maggie Collins, died a ; Washington, D. C., as the result c ' his leap from Cabin John Bridge, span 125 feet high. About Noted People. , Richard Croker decided t(/ leav Ireland for a visit to the Unite States. Seth Low succeeds James R. Mors . In the presidency of the America . Asiatic Association, now eleven yea: . old. Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish ei i plorer, says that he has discovere t the true sources of the Bramaputr and Indus. " DeLancey Nlcoll, attorney, o" Ne' 1 York City, said that Howard Gould 3 Income had been cut down $300,00 and was ?.Qw only $400,000. i] LVLN AN LXPLR' " DROP ONCI :h i I i % d -( S LATE EVENTS ME; i Prof. Hirth Calls Ch >df tarians?Pre New York City.?Friedrich Hirtl Professor of Chinese in ColumbJ ly University, who as a lifelong studer of the Chinese people, thefr languag a and literature, is considered one c ly the best authorities living on Chinee topics, gave it as his opinion that tn death of the Empress Dowager an the Emperor meant the opening c ' an entirely new and better era whic would benefit not only China but th s- other nations of the world. H thought affairs in China would froi now on advance rapidly toward Eurc S pean ideals, and though progress wi! 10 be less rapid than in Japan, Chin rt would in thirty or even twenty year ;? be transformed into a nation on a 9 equal footing with the other grea 13 nations of the world. 10 Professor Hirth had no belief i the report ,that foul play had entere into the death of the Dowager or th Emperor. In regard to the genera lt attitude of the influential parties an r" individuals toward the new rule, h d said: 10 VI think the events of the next fei weeks or days will determine th J' question of bloodshed or peace. think that both Liberals and Consei l" vatives are ready^ to wait quietly L ,c order to see what course the Govern y ment will take. Prince .Chun is ; Liberal, and he has enough followers I think, among the really dangerou party, the overardent Liberals, whi might be called the Anarchistic partj to avert any trouble from them. ^ "Prince Chun, I believe, is an abl man. He has visited Germany on i 5 "diplomatic mission. He alone of thos who have come into great power ii y( China has seen Europe; that singl fact should be enough to show ii k what direction his rule will tend." L_ Speaking in a general way of th it death of Emperor and Dowager h said: v s "It appears to me a very beneflcia fVv;n rr fnr- Hhinn: Tho nntapTinlftti relations between the two and thi t control by the Dowager of the Em i. peror roused great dlssatisfactioi among the Liberals, who had restei _ their hopes on the Emperor, f J VOODOO SIGN ( h ______ e Superstitious Test Applied to a Man A Red Stain on the Weapon, Mi! Q Monticello, Ark. ? Suspicion o murder having been confirmed agains him in the' eyes of his neighbors by i r voodoo test, Louis Hursh, a farmer r cut his throat and died in the pres ence of the Coroner's jury, r Samuel Haywood was the mai 1- whose murder was under investiga ,t tion. He was called to his front doo y at night and killed with a charge o h buckshot. His wife had but a fleet ing glance at the assassin and coul( s give no clew to his identity, it Hursh was questioned about thi e crime at the inquest, but proteste< d. ,that he had no knowledge of it. Mem bers of the family swore that he wai e at home when the shot was fired, an< a Hursh apparently had been elimin ated from the list, of suspects whei one <?f the jurymen,'an aged negro spoke up. "Try the voodoo test on him,' urged the negro. r "What's that?" inquired the Coro ner. "Get Hursh's gun and fire it of 3 again while he is standing by. If h< l" did the murder th? gun will swea J* blood." , r j" The Coroner was disinclined t< _ take this step, but others urged it oi him and he finally consented. Hursl * declared that it was a matter of in ? difference to Him wnetner xne les President's Promise to an Ohio Veteran of the Civil War 3. tl Washington, D. C.?General H. C i- Corbin, retired, secured from Presi ,f dent Roosevelt a promise to appoint 0 Gilbert Van Zandt, the drummer boj of the Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteei Infantry in the Civil War, to a pla"c< | in me vjoveriiintjiii. sei vice. ucucio Corbin brought Van Zandt, whos< home is at Wilmington, Ohio, wltl l" him and told the President that entered the military service at tei >r years of age as a drummer boy in th< a Seventy-ninth Ohio. Stub Ends of News. It was believed in Berlin tha ? France and Germany are nearer wai ? than they have been since 1870. Washington dispatches reportec 16 Frank H. Hitchcock would be Post n master-General in the Taft Cabinet* 3 Charles F. Murphy asserted tha Tammany Hall did all it could for W c* J. Bryan, despite charges to the con & trary. It Is now "All aboard for Guate mala" from any railway station ii ^ the United States. All rail commu 8 nication with Progressive City is nov 0 open. r LELT5 50MLTHINC L IN A WHILE. Cartoon by Triggs, in the New York Press. \N A MODERN CHINi inese Born Parliamendiets Progress. i, "Yet Tsi-An played-a valuable par a It almost seems she saved the natlo it In 1898, when by a coup d'etat tb ;e young .Emperor trjed to crowd o 1 PKiwo i n +nron f vr H o vo ohon era a TirVi 1 n ;e the nation would have needed s e many years to digeBt. d "Yet, the Emperor being highl if appreciated by the party of refori h and progress, her seizure of the reir e of Government and suppression c e new ideas cast a gloom over the spir n of the empire. And little as we kno1 i- the new characters on the Chines II stage, It is fair to believe that bot a extremes?conservative and progres s sive?will hold themselves In checl n and will wait to see where the Goi ,t ernment is tending. All depends o events; it is impossible to state wha n will happen; one can only speak c d probabilities. e "But the tendency, whether call l1 or violent, will, I feel sure, be towar d liberalism. These two deaths hav e cleared the course for China. Ther is much talk of antagonism towar v Manchu rule, yet that antagonism j e a thing of recent years; It has bee I greatly heightened by the relation >- between the Emperor and his aunt n the Dowagar. I believe now that tha - antaeonism will calih down for th a time, and will, if the new Goveru i, ment gives satisfaction, die out. s "The talk is of a Constitutions 3 Government. I think, and have a! ways thought, the Chinese well fitte for it. They have always appeared t e me to be born parliamentarians. Cer a tainly they are as well fitted for lit e eral institutions as any Oriental na a tdon?better fitted than the Turks o e Persians, as well fitted, I think, a a the Japanese. But I believe they wi] model their Government on the Jai e anese Government, and that th e stages of their progress generally wi] be peaceful. ,1 "The present Government has c strong liberal party behind it, and th e radicals are too much in the minorlt - now to do any hartn. So many stron i1 men, both liberal and radical, ar i I -oMttv the flovernment that I do no ' foresee a serious outbreak." :aused suicide. ccused of Murder Drives Him to Deathstaken For Blood, is Really Rust. i f, was applied or not. He told wher t his gun woi^ld be found, and it wa i brought into court. , The Coroner and jury adjourned t - the woods near by, and the gun wa ' loaded and discharged. Hursh stooi i by, apparently careless of the results Following the firing of the gun th r jurymen crowded around it to exam f ine it for the sign. A murmur aros - among them, and the suspense wi 1 more than the prisoner could beii IJe turned to the gun to examine Jt e and the man who had suggested tn i voodoo test pointed to a red stall - near the muzzle of the weapon. Hursl 3 became agitated and Beemed on thi 1 point of making a dash for libert; - when he was seized by a deputy. l Without further investigation th nartv filed back into the court room where in a few moments Jhe jur; ' held Hursh responsible for the kill ing, and Coroner Lewis signed th - commitment, i When the prisoner saw that he wa f to be sent to jail on the strength o s the voodoo test he took a 'sharp knif< t from his pocket and with one stroki ended his life. 5 Subsequently more careful examin 1 ation of the red stain on the muzzli l of the gun was made and beyond an; - faMibt it was established to be noth t ing but rust. Queer Dr. Gabrini Dead in His Swiss Chateau Geneva.?The richest and most ec - centric man in Switzerland, Dr. Ga t brini, is dead at Lugano, leaving s f fortune of $500,000, most of whicl r was made in America. * . Dr. Gabrini was a man of the sim plest. habits. He would wear tht shabbiest clothes, and many tourist! who visited his beautiful chateau a Ciani accepted his services as a guid< under the impression that he wa: one of bis gardeners. He used tt take their tips ..with glee. The Field of Sports. ^ P. T. Powers was elected presideni r of the Eastern Baseball League. Thomas C. Jefferson, one of th< * best known owners of trotting anc " saddle horses In Kentucky, died a his home in Lexington, Ky., agec t fifty-seven years. The ten-mile Marathon run to be " held in conjunction with the Brooklyi Postoffice games on Saturday, Janu - ary 16, is going to be au interestinj i affair. All the old-timers will start - The feature will be the race of Gil f lespie, who wing a bride if he crossei the taoe first. \ ^ GERMAN KAISER YIELDS ( TO OEIMOS Of PEOPLE < Gives Pledge to His Chancellor For Future Conduct. * VON BUELOW WILL REMAIN Emperor Surrenders His Personal | Policy in Government?Country Rejoices That Crisis Has Been Safely Passed. Berlin, Germany.?By a complete surrender to the Reichstag and the people the Kaiser averted a clash with the nation that seemed fraught ^ with prospects of^disaster and caused satisfaction and joy to replace'muttered threats and grave discontent in | every part of the German Empire. Aft-an o nnnforonce with flhaneelior I Von Buelow that lasted just forty- five minutes, in which the demands of ' the nation were put before him apd the ultimatum of the Chancellor to resign if he did not give*up his per- s sonal policy in Government affairs, p the Emperor yielded completely. a "It was the bitterest hour of my c life," Emperor William said wearily f after the conference had ended. a Another effect of the Kaiser's his- p tory making interview with Von Buelow is the effectual quenching of al- v most the last flicker of the mediaeval p torch of divine right. c Bluntly, almost brutally, the Chan- p cellor told William III. that he must o capitulate to the demand of the Ger- t, I man race people, who required of him b \ thaf ho -would in future refrain from unwarranted meddling with the af- f fairs of the State and practically leave n - the conduct of the public business of l) the country In the hands of his Minis-' h ters arid the Reichstag. / I The conference was perhaps the a most momentous of the Kaiser's li t. reign. All Germany heaved a sigh of d n relief when It was announced that the 3 e Emperor had yieMed satisfactorily > n and completely. n b Had the Empe*.or stood firm, even f; 12 his fawning courtiers were afraid to r forecast jthe outcome, for it would v y have precipitated a direct clash be- b 11 tween the Emperor and the empire. n '8 The meeting between the Chancel- n lor, who in this instance acted as the L [t tribune of the people rather than the ii representative of his ruler, and the ii >0 Kaiser was dramatic in the extreme. J h Worn and nervous and with none f of the old defiance that he used to f< ?fla2h in every look, the Kaiser list- t r* ened to the unvarnished truth, boldly y n and mercilessly related. t l* Public opinion everywhere applauds E the Emperor's decision and where c twenty-four hours ago there was gen ? eral revllement of him, he is the ob- r ? ject- of greater esteem than at any e e other time in his life. fThe result is c J considered a marvellous triumph for a d j Von Bi/elow, as great a diplomatic^ t 8 | victory as even Prince Bismarck, the u n Iron Chancellor, ever achieved. it ,a This meeting, which was watched t ^ by the entire German people with the I lt most profound interest, is an outcome v 6 of the much-discussed "interview" t L" with'an Englishman published in the b London Daily Telegraph on October li Ll 28, in which the Emperor was cred- p ? ited with a very frank statement 9 4 of the world policy of the German b 0 Empire, and also with being a very good friend with Great Britain. rN? 1: h publication was followed by a furious c l" outbreak in Germany against the d r Kaiser. He was most severely criti- v cised in the German press and in the d ** * " 1 ? An V?lo QO_ 0 li Keicnstag lor nis muinureuuu, Uio au- | H sumption of the royal prerogative u 6 and for unwarranted' interference in o 11 the state affairs of the.nation. Prince Von Buelow replied'to these criti- y a cisms in the' Reichstag, and said that a e the Emperor in the future would re- 1) y frain from a repetition of his most v S unpopular course of action. d e ' s t SHOOTS JUDGE IN COURT. Dejected Litigant in Lcipsic Woandl Presiding Justice and Kills Clerk. . Leipsic, Germany.?A defeated litigant in the Supreme Civil Tribu? | nal, of Leipsic, drew a revolver and j opened fire on Herr Maenner, the I; i Presiding Judge, and the Court Clerk, a The Clerk was shot dead and tne o Judge dangerously wounded. f e The assassin, a man named Gros3 ser, succeeded in firing ten shots be- e fore he was overpowered. ' Grosser a 0 was plaintiff in a auit concerning the P 3 validity of a will, and the decision o* b , Judge Maenner was in favor of the f ' defense. As soon as Grosser heard e the ruling he drew a revolver and I began firing. Consternation reigned E e in the court room until he was dis- e s armed. * I ii 1 .JUSTIFIES A KILLING. C e F a n k Kentucky Governor Pardons a Man * e Who Was Trying to Protect a Girl. n y Frankfort, Ky. ? That Governor Willson believes it the duty of a man e to kill if necessary to save the honor i. of a girl who has no protector is set Y forth in his reasons given for pardon- , - ing Green B. Howard, of Harlan 5 e County, for killing Jacob Noe while in pursuit of Rena Noe who, it is al3 leged, had stolen the girl from How- q ? ard's house to marry her to a man t s whose character Howard did not think s 3 would stand up. ^ Y Tobacco Interest Protests. p ? At the revision hearing in Wash* Y ington, D. C., American growers pro- p tested against an> reduction of the U tariff on tobacco. ii Steel Trust to Spend .$10,000,000. Arrangements ror spenumg huuul $10,000,000 on new mills and 1mprovement of old mills in the Pitts1 burg district were completed by L 1 officials of the United States Steel S Corporation at Pittsburg. jj France to Own Mines. * The French Minister of Public Works, M. Barthou, has obtained the 3 consent of the Cabinet to introduce a I.1 3 bill for the eventual acquisition and e ' operation by the State of mining con- F cessions. 3 Among the Workers. I . t I There are signs of a reviva_l_in the j lead and slate industries of Wales. iv j A ur^on labor club was formed at ^ I the last meeting of the San Francisco, w t Cal., laundry workers. c 1 Typographical unions have been formed in the colonies of Barbadoes, Cl 3 British Guiana and Trinidad. * 1 printers' unions have been started in the sister colonies of Trinidad, ? ? Barbados and British Guiana. ^ An Oklahoma farmer insists that c a man can live on nine cents a day. f, * provided he uses the products of his % farm. n 1U1CK SENTENCE FOR FORGER lets 14 Years Within 4 Hours After His Arrest 'eter Van Vllssingen, of Chicago, Confesses to Frauds Extending Over Twenty Years. Four Unpleasant Hours For Van Vlissingen. 1.30 p. m. Peter Van Vlissingen confronted in his office by a detective and asked to go to the | State's attorney's office. S p. in. Arrives at State's *Attbrney's office and, after being told of charges, confesses. 3.15 p. m. Grand Jury, -which had been presented with evidence, returns indictment. 4.15 p. m. Prisoner brought before Judge Windes and hearing i begun. 5 p. m. Sentence pronounced. < 5.15 p.' m. Van Vlissingen i locked up in the County Jail. ! Chicago.?Peter Van Vlissingen, upposedly wealthy real estate dealer, hilanthropist, automobile enthusiast ,nd member of many clubs, was disovered to be a criminal and within our hours had confessed, been tried nd sentenced to fourteen years in rison. The knowledge of Van Vlissingen's rrongdoing, hitherto wholly unsusected, came with startling suddeness. The celerity with which his unishment Was fixed was due to his wn desire and to the aid he gave to he District Attorney in uncovering .is felonies. Van Vlissingen proves to be a orger and embezzler to the extent of early $1,000,000. He has placed lie exact amount "wrongfully landled" at $750,000. He asked hat he be taken to the penitentiary t once, but as creditors have begun 3gal actions against him, he may relain in the Cook County jail here for ome time. The arrest of Van Vlissingen was lade upon a charge that, on the surace, did not seem important or easonable in connection with one ?ho had for a quarter of a century een regarded as one of Chicago's lost prosperous and reputable busi.ess men. He was accused by T. J. ,efers and William C. Seipp of sellng to them mortgage notes amountng to $4500, to which the names of oseph and Bertha Grossman had been orged. He not only promptly con?ssed to these forgeries, but tearfully old a story of wrongdoing from outh, undetected until now, that asounded Assistant State's Attorney larbqur, who had the matter in harge. It appears, according to his con essor, tnat van viissingen nas, ior ighteen or twenty years, been protiring large sums on forged deeds nd notes; that he had been able hrough the years of deception, and ntll recently, to buy back the spurdus documents before any one of hem was discovered to be forged. Triable to find the small sum with fhich to .take up the Grossman notes, he genuine originals of which he iad also disposed of, detection folawed, with fraudulent, unredeemed >aper out against him amounting to 750,000 or more. This paper is eld by about twenty-five individuals. In leaving nothIngruntold, but addQg to .the marvel of his criminal areer, the prisoner told of a unique :evice for forgery that he had mented. It consists of a plate glass lesk top, so arranged that by an Iectric light thrown up from beleath he could readily trace from riginal signatures and forge papers. Van Viissingen is about forty-five ears old. He was at one time rated ,s a millionaire, for years figured argely in the world of finance and ras widely known and trusted. His lownfall has caused a tremendous ensation. j SIX KILLED AS CAGE DROPS. line Officials Fall 285 Feet in a Pennsylvania Shaft. Pittsburg.?Six men were instanty killed, another critically injured ,nd three had narrow escapes in a nine cage accident at Ellsworth Mine lo. 1, in Washington County. Because of a break in the machinry the cage occupied by ten men, everal of whom were mine officials, ilunged from near tl^e outlet to the ottom of the shaft, a distance of 285 eet. The dead are: M. J. Walsh, 23, 'hillipsburg, Pa., mining engineer; Jugene G. Smyth, 25, Alliance, Ohio, [lining engineer; J. B. Newcomer, 2 6, )awson, Pa., chief mining engineer - ? ?f ir?ilcTt/nrth minps! LI una I gt? U L LUC 1UU1 JUiiOf>WA?w , )sep Dnschek, 20, loader; James telly, 29, loader; Tony Dovowsfey, 6, loader. Newcomer and Smyth were to be narried on Thanksgiving Day. PATRICK LOSES CASE. uprenie Court Dismisses His Appeal "Without Opinion. Washington, D. C.?The Supreme !ourt without an opinion dismtesed he appeal of Albert Patrick, nvho ought to have the court review the ecision of the Federal Court at New 'ork refusing on writ of habeas corus to release him from Sing Sing. He was sentencsd'to fifty years' imrisonment there for murdering Willim Marsh Rice, an aged millionaire, i New York in 1900. Large Transport Liner Launched. Belfast, Ireland.?The steamship linnewauska, the largest vessel of he fleet of the Atlantic Transport ,ine, was successfully launched here, he is of 14,500 tons, and will start l the New York service eany l 1909. Young Due do Chaulnes Born. The Duchesso de Chaulnes, formerr Miss Shonts, of New York, has givn birth to a posthumous son in Paris, 'ranee. Both are doing well. Mrs. honts is at he.f daughter's bedside. Feminine Notes. Dr. V. A. Latyam, of Chicago, and liss Mary A. Booth, of Springfield, lass., are said to be the only expert omen photomicrographers in this ountry. Miss Ruby Abrams, who was reently graduated at the head of the rt class in Cooper Institute, New 'ork City, is deaf, and until a few ears ago was also dumb. She has een an art stucrent ever since she ras graduated at the head of her lass six years ago at the Institute ar the Improved Instruction of Deaf lutes. She has the record of having ron four prizes during her art course. Habitual , Constipation Hay be permanently overcome ly proper personal efforts withtbe assistance ' bfthe one truly benejicial laxative remedy, Syru p of figs ondEl'uir cfSetm^ which. enables onetojorm regular ' habit$ daily so tHat assistance to nature may be gradually dispensed w\JH when no longer needed a$yfche best of * remedies, when required, are to assist nature and not to supplant tbe natural functions, vhich must depend ulti* j mateJy upon proper nourishment, proper efforts,and rigKt living generally. Tomt its benejtciai effects, alwqytf ^ 1 buy the genuine ;> 1 ' syrup^flgs^elwiffsenna ^ manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only i SOip BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS B one atze only, regular pt.ce 50? p?r Bottle Wool. 7" H Wool Is raised extensively In all I parts of the United. States, Including I Wall Street. It' Is used as a garment I for wolves and to adjust over people's eyes. In Wall Street -wool takes the form of fleece and is highly prized as a protection for both bulls and bears, I who are often too thinly clad for.their ' I own comfort. Thus the tender lamb Is glad to help out its brothers in dis- 9 tress. The shearing hours are from 10 to 3. Wool is obtained from sheep that we remember to have seen in qll paintings dotting the landscape. Dotting tfye landscape is, however, not an occupation in Itself, bat is only a I means toward an end. M6st ef It ' is imported to other countries, hat I occasionally traces of it are ^onnd In our domestic woolen underwear. 4 The phrase "All wool and a\yard J wide" was invented before the mod- . em laundryman. Since hla'advent it has been revised to "All wool andj^^H three inches wide." 1 .. . Sheep are very simple in Itheir hab Its, and although they never use hair B tonics, or wash or dress their hair fl every night before going to bed, the? flj seldom become bald or obliged to sit: H in the front row. Their name is ^lso . H always the same, so they are not like- H ly to get lost. When we sa? -sheep H we simply mean a lot of sheeps gath- fl ered together.?Success Magatine. White House Creeds. flj In the past generation, or Sl&e the flj time of Grant, the Methodist^^utd the H Presbyterians have been fw'j^re H .reprefented than all the other, de-nominations put together in the j H White House,- and among ^esiden- H tlal candidates. Grant, Hayes 'and H McKlnley were credited to the Meth- I odists, and Tllden, Blaine, Cleveland* Harrteon and Bryan.to the Presby- H terians; Greeley was a Universalis^, Hj although various kinds of eccentric H ethical and religious Ideas were at- -fl eributed to him; Garfield was of the Campbellltes, and once' had been a H preacher among them; Arthur had Episcopalian affiliations, and . Roose- jH velt is of the Dutch Reformed Church.?Chicago Journal. * " 10 Wax Matches. Wax matches, so-called, are made II by drawing strands of fine cotton i fl thread, twenty or thirty at a time, through melted stearine, with a small r. n admixture of? paraffin. The wax hardens quickly upon the threads, IH and the long tapers thus produced fl| are smoothed and rounded by pulling them through iron plates perforated with holes of the desired size. Flnally the tapers are cut into natch lengths and dipped. The Fall of Rome. fiS Joseph Tunison, the Roman schol- IB nr and translator of Virgil, always maintained that the luxurious Roman baths destroyed the Rtoman Empire. He paid no attention to the enconr- HH agement of mendicancy by Calus Gracchus. As many as 200,000 peo- ' H| pie were fed at the public stores in the time of Augustus, and it was impossible to get men to labor. Dont encourage mendlcaiicy, Chicago! HI f^eed the needy, but require the ablelodied to do a ?ull day's work.?New . Htf ork freaa. )? UPWARD START After Changing From Coffee to Po*. H turn. Many a talented i?ersoo is kept back because of the interference of HH coffee with the nourishment of the HH This Is especially so with tbosa ^H whose nerves are very sensitive, as la j M often the case with talented persons. HB There is a.simple, easy way to get rid HI of coffee evils, and a Tenn. lady's ex- UA perience along these lines is worth HK considering. She says: H9B "Almost from the beginning of the use of coffee it hurt my stomach. By ^H the time I was fifteen I was almost a jflfl nervous wreck, nerves all unstrung, H9 no strength to endure the most triv- BSBBj ial thing, either work or fun. HH "There was scarcely anything I HH could eat that would agree with me. ^H The little I did eat seemed to give me n more trouble than it was worth. I BH finally quit coffee and drank hot wat- IK er, but there was so little food could digest, I was literally starving; was so weak I could not sit up long at a time. "It was then a friend brought mea'IS hot cup of Postum. < I drank part of ,.HH it and after an hour I felt as though I had had something to eat ? felt strengthened. That was about five years ago, and after continuing Pos- ^99 i 11 ni in nlare of ^ffee and 2-rnd 11a 11 v J iuu. ... ?' -- ? getting stronger, to-day I can eat and digest anything I want, walk as much BH as I want. My nerves are steady. "I believe, the first thing that did me any good and gave me an upward start, was Postum, and I use it altogether now instead of coffee." "There's a Reason." DB Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. . Read "The Road to HH Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A H9 new one appears from time to time. The* are genuine, true, and full of human interest. H|