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ESTABLISHED HS" 1* THE RATE BILL Senator Tillinan Makes Report on the Measure and -; STATIS HIS VIEWS. Says Amendments Can Be Made U Pre vent Delays la Enforcing Rate< Or dered by Interstate Commerce Commission. Also Wants j Situation la Virginia Tbe United States Senate Thursday <oontinu?d consideration of tbe rail* road rate question by listening to tbe reading of a report on tbe House bill by Senator Tillman, and to s speech on tbat measure by Senator Nelson. ?Senator Tillman's report was read at tbe request of Senator Aldrloh, who said tnat bo was curious to hear -opinion of the South Carolina Si Da tor. The report of Senator Tiilmsn e n bodied the first clear and concise ment of the differences concerning -Court review features and other pro posed amendments that nad made a unanimous xeport from the committee impossible. Without hesitano7 the Senator de clared it to be his belief that tbe bil! should be amended, but that amend ment should not bs of a character to Impair or prevent the accomplishment . -of the objects of the legislation, which are Bet forth best, he says, in the )' President's message to Congress. He / emphasized the need of regarding the measure as non partisan, but predict ed that the issue created will be para mount in the next Presidential elec tion. Senator Tillman prefaced his report by speaking of the peculiar circum stances ruling the committee's actions ?on the House bill, which made it an embarrassing task to submit views that would be concurred in by the ^committee as a whole. "Instead of being amended in com mittee as isu&Uil," the report said, :'so as to command as a whole the en dorsement and support of a majority of its members, the bill was brought into the Sena to.'in a form not entire ly satisfactory to more than two mem ners. ''This lack of harmony among tbe ?.-supporters of the bill?it would be speaking ?Ith more accuracy to say the supporters of the pohc? involved in the bill?brings about tne anoma lous situation In which a member of the minority party in Congress is put in charge in the Senate of proposed legislation, which is generally regard ed throughout the country as the ?cherished scheme of the President, with whose general policy and princi ples that member is not in accord. At . the same time the bill is designed to -carry into effect his own long cherish ed convictions and the thrice-reitera ted demands cf the party to which he belongs." Enpiiasizlog the olaim that this ?condition is without precedent in leg islative history, Senator Tillmau says it brings into prominence the fact that the proposed legislation is non partisan, anc. is so recugofzad as a re sult of the unanimous support given it by toe minority in the Hjuse and tbe few opposing votes?only seven?in that entire body. There would follow "a C7clone of pas8-onate resentment," sa;d Sen ator Tillman in presenting what would be the result of failure on the part of Congress to anet the widespread demand for railroad rate legislation. He declared that "woe will be harvest" of any member of the Smate or House, who^e work in formulating a bill to regulate railroads lacks earnestness or honesty of pur poses and who shall seek to belittle the question or hill the bill by subter fuge and deception. Tha Constitution gives to congress the power to regulate the railroads, he contended, ana taere are many wrong to right. Tne bill as it comes from tbe House S-nator Till man characterized as loosely worded and capable cf different interpreta tions. ?Senator Tillman pointed out that it is generally supposed that the pend lng measure embodies the "well di gested views of the Executive and those of his party whose advice he consents to take." After enumera ting the essentbl c'iarges from the existing laws rt-gula lng later-State commerce, he stated fiat the most important is found lnSeoUmlS, in which power is sought to be vested in the Inter-S ate commerce commission "after full heariDg upon a complaint made to determine and prescribe what will In its judgment be the Just and reasonable and f.ilrly remunerative rate * * * to be hereafter ob served in such case as tbe maximum to be charged," and make aa oraer that the same shall go into effect and remain in force for tnree years, which order shall "go in*o t Sect thirty davs after notice to the carrier an i shall remain in force and be observed by the carrier, unless the same shall be suspended or modified or set aside by the commission, or be suspended or set aside by a Court of competent au thority.". Concerning this Bection, Senator Tillman said: "Around the flrotprovision t.hem wt earnest ard exciting contention has arisen ard there is great d<ff renc9 of opinion as to the scope of this clause and the executive now.:rs of the com mission under it. On the one hand, it is ^laimed moat positively tha5; Con | gresn cannot delegate its powers to the commission and thus authorize it to fix a rate, while, on the othsr h*ud, it is asserted with equal earnestness )69. and force that this power is indisput able. Whatever mav be the rest Its of this discussion in the Senate, li tbf bill becomes a law in the final deter mination of the question at issue must be made by the Supreme Court," There is, he said, even (neater solicitude upon the question of jndioial review. Senator Tillman added that at ihs same time the cries of the people are demanding relief for producers and shippers. He declared that it is the duty of Congress to hold an even bal ance between these . conflicting and contending interests. ~ Senator Tillman inclines to the view and said he had not the slightest doubt that it is possible to properly amend the bill so as to prohibit the Circuit Courts from Interfering with the orders of the Inter-State com merce commission by any interlocutory Older. 4 "The Senate mast determine by its vote what shall be its attitude upon the question of Court review and In terlocutory suspensions. The whole question at issue as to giving relief to producing interests of the country re volves around this feature of the bill. If any decision of the Supreme Court shall declare that Congress is power less to grant speedy relief through a commission:, it needs no prophet to tell that an outburst of surprise and Indignation will sweep over the coun try." Summing up the situation he said: "It is impossible to deny that this great accumulation of wealth in the uands of the few is such a menace to liberty that the honest patriot stands appalled by the outlook." After commenting at length upon what he declared to be the existing system of juggling with railroad prop ertic3, "for toe robbery of the masses," I Senator Tillman Bald: "There is a dangerous provision in this bill which, in my judgment, ought to be striken out, and that is in Section 15, where the Inter-State com merce commission is told "to deter mine and prescribe what will, in its jidgment, bathe just and reasonable and fairly remunerative rate,' etc. The last words are-too elastic and am biguous and can be construed to mean too much that it would be harmful and dangerous for Congress to enact into a law. 'Fiirly remunerative rate' on what; the actual value or the ficti tious valu3 of the properties?" /Senator Tillman declared there can .03 no justice in compelling the people as a whole to pay dividends on water ed stock, primarily to inorease the fortunes of men already too rich. "Whatever else Congress does, or fails to do," he added, "the produo ers of the country should be relieved from such danger of being oompelltd to made good the values of over-cap ital zad railroads as lurks in this in nocent-looking and plaustole provision -about 'fairly remunerative rates ? " Senator Tillman recommended that tbe amendments to the bill be adopt ed, which would give relief to "tbe ancmaluus and outrageous condition of affairs disclosed as existing in West Virginia. Continuing, he said; "Vested with the rights of eminent domain to con struct their lines -ud granted liberal franchises and charters, the railroads designed to be publio oarriers for the benefit of the wnole people, In the last few years have become rapidly transformed into the veriest band oi Bobbers?Highwaymen who do not thrust their pistols in the f aoas of their victims and demand money or their Iivjs, but who levy tribute in freight rates, which are as high as the traffic will bear, deny access to mar ket, monopolize witu effronter one of the prime nesessarles of life, coal, and in every way show their absolute con tempt for the paopla and the people's right. Senator Tillman conoluded with "a word of caution to the friends of the proposed legislation." He said: "Our full expectations may not bs realized at the present session of Con greaa. The opponents or effective legislation are alert, have had large experience and are tuorou^hly organ ized. The demand of the people for relief from the oppressions and wrong* they now endure may be thwarted by the great intiuetc; of the railroad corporations. This influence has hith erto been paramount, and its reprc santatives in the two houses may feel it is tafe to redress the grievances and Coountluue the policy of non lnterf-Ji encs. They may ignore popular clam or; aDd either pass no bill at all or enact one that will prove wnolly In adequate. They may palter with us in a double sense: "Keep the word of promise to the ear And break it to thu hope " "Suci action on their part will In my judgement, be very unwise and will only dim up the water. T ia Issue will be made the paramount one In themext election, and these who are rasponsibia for delay or Inadequate legislation will find that, when at last :he fl:od gatei of popular wrath and indiguision are holsied there wlil be some fine grindln/ done." Toe Wagte or am. A pathetie tragedy occurred at Georgetown, Ga., one day last week. G^rrett Vaughn, a young white man wds cjnvlctdd in the city oourt of burglary and sentenced io serve seven years In the penitentiary. Daring Wednesday night he covered bis dis grace witn the mantle of death?he committed suicide. Thursdiy morn ing he was found ucounsclous, I" was found that he had taken a fatal dnse of mnrpbine, wnioh, it is believ ed, he had been saving for the emer gency. Kassian Losses. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says the invalid, the organ of :he military, is still printing daily lists of the losses sustained during the war, which, without ircluding Port Arthur, now total 151,000 killed. ..cunded and disappeared. The lists covering the fighting at Mukden are ju^t beginning to appear. A remark able feature in the percentage of men whose fate is unknown. ORANGrEBTJIlG, I WEIRA STORY. A. Girl Poisoned to Death by a Dead Man, WAS HE? SUITOB. Takes Fata! Poison He Left When He Killed Himself a Month Ago. He Gave Her tbe Deadly Poison, Callir>? it a Love Charm. Stranger than ali tbe tales of tbe poisonings by tbe Borg las, and sur passing all stories of death pacts by disappointed sweethearts are tbe cir cumstances surrounding the death at Peterson, Is1. J., of Mae Agnes Mor ton, a young woman of nineteen, wbo a month after tbe death of her puitor, James Boucher, by his own hand, fell a victim to the dead man, a murderer tn death. Only his surpassing belief In the wonderful power of the young wo man's love for him could have inspired the far-reaching plot and sent the young man to his grave confident that his sweetheart, innocent of any inten tion upon her own life, but trusting in the < fficacy of tbe potion he had : .eft witn her at their sad parting, I would soon follow him to the land of the shadow. The church <has set Its seal upon the verdict of murder against the young man, acquitted Miss Morton of the charge of suicide, although she confessedly died of poison administer ed by her own hand, and permitted her body to be laid at rest In conse crated ground. \ It was the law of the Roman Oath olio Qhuroh which forbids the burial of tbe self-slain in consecrated ground, invoked in this case on behalf of Miss Morton, that brought to light the re markable story of love, suicki * and post mortem murder. In a s . . :f five weeks the plot was formed and made complete in the duel tragedy. Miss Morton, well connected and socially prominent, who lived with her father, Alexander Morton, at No. 72 Madison street, met, some months ago, James Boucher, a young man of excellent ancestry, tbe nephew of Dr. WJbiam A. Norval, of No. 381 Main street, a member of the Board of Freeholders. The young man and woman became sweethearts, but for some reason there was objection to their marrying on the part of Miss Morton's family, and after the oppo sition to their courtship had contin ued for some time, and bad only serv ed to cement the bond of affection be tween them, the young man, despair ing of his suit, decided to leave Patei son. Before the final parting tbe plot for the death of Miss Morton and himself must have formed In his mind, and at the last he put it into execution. He gave to his sweetheart just before he irft Paterson on February 7 an enve? ope containing a number of tablets. He told her that they were a love por tion or charm, and that she should tak one of them every time she thought of bim when he was absent; that the mysterious power of the tab lets would bring them into a closer communion of souls, and that he would know she was tolnklng of him. The trustful young woman believed bim, and jeabusly guarded the pre cious tablets, which were in reality corrosive Hublimate, and deadly. I Oa February 9 Boucher was found dead in his room in the Lacawanna Hot*?4j in Scranton, Pa. It was at first believed that he had died of heart failure, but a further examination showed that bis death had resulted from mercurial poisoning, and that he had coubtltsH killed himself. It is believed now that he also took corro sive sublimate to end his life. Miss Morton was so affected by the deatn that sne was prostrated at her home aud unable to attend the funer al of look upon the face of the dead man. Her grief over his death made her forget about the potloa given to uer by Boucher when they parted. "'Miss Morton, grieving over the tragic death of Boucher aud constant ly thinking of him, remembered a few luys ago the tablets In tue envelope and took a number of them, regard less of tbe pain they caused ner. Shi rook theni jrst often enough to kvt) duce tue cu'?uititive eff.-Cu which re sulted in her death. WhGn Miss Morton became 111 on Thursday it'was balieved that she was .suffering with gasjrlvs. Sue grad u 11 v wrew worse and the physlclnns diagmsjd the case as one of poisoning but believed it to be ptomaine. S.oe was then in a dying condition, and the physicians questioned her about what she bad eaten, and for the tirnt. time learned of tne existence of the love tablets. Toe last rites of the church were administered to the dying girl, and alter her death a s^arco. was made for rhe tablets of whlcn she had spoken. Tne envelops which had contained tuem was found, but .she had taken ail the tablets. Some powder from them remained and this was analyz.d and found to be corrosive ^blirnate. A letter written to Boucher by Miss Morton probably the day after he left, hut never malte'd, was found among rinr til cts. aud in it sue spjkc about the taolets and her determination to take *hem. Dr. McBridc reached the tce'inical finding that me death was a suicide, hut the authorities of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic C::urch made an in vestigation and oonoluded that the dead man was guiltv of murdt r and that the girl was blameless In her death. T I 3. 0., THITBSDAY, MAB< GUNS AMD TOBCHIS USED BY NEQROE 3 IN CHATTA NOOGA ON TUESDAY' Following the tummary Execution of One of Their Bace for S Assault. A dispatch says law and order won a signal victory in Chattanooga, Term., on Tuesday night when a bquad of less than 100 policemen, backed by four companies of militia, neld a large crowd of negroes, various ly estimated from 2.000 to 4,000 in number, in check; preserved peace; and prevented ? riot which might nave resulted in a great loss of life. With the exception of a small fusil lade of shots on E ist Ninth street, near the intersection of A., in which two white men were shot, and the burning of a house on West Nintb street, there was no further disorder. Op to midnight the following injur ed had been reported: John Curtis, a railroad man, shot In shoulders by unknown negro. Dick Light, deputy sheriff, shot in hand by unknown negroes. Tuesday night opened with every evidence of trouble. During the day all the manufacturing plants in the city were closed because of the refusal of the negroes to work, and by night thev were forming into parties which the officers broke up a* fast as possi ble. The trouble was caused by the lyn ching of a negro named Ei. Johnson for committing an assault an t white woman some weeks ago. Johnson had been tried, convicted and sentenced to be hung. He was confined in the jail at Chattanooga awaiting execu tion, which would have taken place on Friday. The oase had been appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which had issued an order postponing the execution. This so exasperated the people that they took tho fiend from the jail and lynched him. They were afraid that he would escape his just punishment for the terrible orlme he bad committed. Johnson was lynch ed on Monday, and this oaused the negroes to attempt vengeance. Had the thing not been nipped in the bud hundreds of negroes would have been killed, as the whites were fully armed and ready. _ A WAYWARD GI&L. An Atlanta Yonng Woman Who la Stage Strock. Atlanta, Ga . like other places has some foolish young women among her residents. One of these is Blanche Winters, a handsome 17 year,old girl, whoso home is on West Peaohtree street. The foolish young woman prefers the life on the stage to that of any other, and wanted to commit suicide because her mother had her taken from the Star theatre in Atlan ta and sent her to the Home of tte Good Snepberd in Cincinnati. Miss Winters, who Is an unusually prepossessing looking girl and has been raised well, recently disappeared from her bomHer mother institu ted a search and located the recreant daughter in the chorus of the Star, a theatre of the burlesque class and which Is frequented only by men. Policemen found the girl In a Equal ly room, littered with the remnants of a late supper, and carried her to the police station. When her mother and Recorder Broyles tried to extract a promise from the young woman to give up the stage she exclaimed dra matically: ''I will die before I give up the stage." ? When the office started back to the cell wlLh her she begged him for his revolver with which tt blow her baalns out. She said she bad rather die than go to the Cincinnati home. She was carried to Oincinnatti home by Mrs. Bonefi-eld, police matron. Her mother is heart-broken over the girla's ac tions. Jail Delivery. Douglas, Ga., had a wholesale jail delivery Wednesday night. While the jaller, S. O. Brown, was away, five negroes, one charged with murder, three with assault with Intent to muider, and one with a misdemeanur sawed off the hinges of the door and walked out with no one to hinder. Track dogs were on the scene within half an hour, but it was found that tbe eseaprs had washed their f et with the disinfectant left In the cor rid )r and tne dogs failed to take the trail. E.stman BrowD, c lored, un der a chargecf assault with Intent to murder, refused to go and is now the only prisoner In the j ill. Su'Ctdeto Avoid Trial Louis Brown, twenty-nine years old awaiting trial for the murder of Flos sie R>ese, at whom he threw a lighted lamp which exploded, fatally burning the woman, committed suicide in his cell In Norfolk jail tnis morning by cutting his thn at with a sharp pen knife which he had in some unknown manner smuggled into the jail. Brown was formerly prominent In Ports mouth, Va. He was witnout friend* or money, his family having aban doned him, and grew desperate as the day of his trial approached. During the recant j ill fire here 'he escaped, out surrenoered a few bourn laier. Hay Ii?Nit. "This world is full of thices, and I am heartily glad to be* going to a place wrr re there is none." S > spoke Jharles B ewsier of Coudrep irt, Pa , jost before toe sner fi* "wurked him eft" on the gallows on Tuesday for the murder of his stepfather. CH 22* 1906. SHIP GOES DOWN I And Twenty-Seven Lives Are Lost in the Atlantic. FOUNDERED AT SEA. I There Were Many 4cts of Heroism and Self Sacrifice. Twenty-Four Mem bers of the Crew Were Picked Up at Sea and Carried to Boston. Soff iring, mental and physical, from numerous acts of heroism in saving life, rarely equalled in the record of tragedies of the sea, attended the loss of the Phoenix llie steamer British King, which on Sunday, March 11, In a raging Atlantio storm, foundered about 150 miles south of Sable island and carried to death 27 members of the orew. Thirteen men weie rescued from the sinking vessel by the Ley land line steamer Bostonlan, bound from Manchester to Boston, and 11 by the German tank steamer Mannheim, Rotterdam for New.York. Five others who had been drawn down in the vor tex into which the British King was engulfed were picked up by the Bos tonian from a frail bit of wreokage which they had grasped after a des perate struggle for life in the whir pool. The Bostonlan arrived at Bos ton Wednesday afternoon and the de tails of the disaster became known. Oapt. James O'Hagan of the Brit ish King died on board the Bostonlan from the effects of terrible Injuries sustained in trying to save his ship. Oaj of the boats of the Bostonlan was crushed to fragments and the volun teer orew which manned it were thrown into the high running seas, while engaged in the work of rescue, I but all were safely landed on board the steamer. Volunteers from the Mannheim, j after a heroic battle with the waves, had taken cff 11 from the British King, but after this neither of the | steamers, in consequence of the in creasing gale, oould make an attempt to reach the foundering freighter. Moreoyer, darkness fell and it was an utter impossibility to do else but wait for the moonlight to guide them. In the darkness the British Xing, which was then waterlogged and helpless, plunged to the bottom. For three days her captain and crew, working against unconquerable odds, had tried to prevent, or at least postpone, their ship's destruction. Barrels of oil and wreckage forming | into a powerful arm, were driven down upon her sides with crushing force, opening up the vessel's plates and al lowing the water to pour into her holds. The extent of the leak was not un derstood until the following day, how ever, and then, although all hands were placed at tbe pumps, the water gained considerably. Tbe fires had been extinguished and the engines rendered useless by tbe rising water. The only remedy .at hand lay in re pairing the damaged sections, and while personally superintending his work, Capt. O'Hagan sustained a| fractured leg and internal injuries. Al though he was unable to s*and he con tinued to direct tbe efforts of bis crew. At the end of the three days when all hands had labored ceaseless ly without rest and with little f .od. tbe Bostonlan and Mannheim were sighted, and to these Capt. O'Hagan displayed tbe signal for assistance. Both the Bostonlan and Mannheim stood by the scene of the wreck until Monday morning, but no bodies were recovered. The British King saiied from New York bound for Antwerp with a mis cellaneous cargo of 150 head of cattle The passage was uneventlul until Fri day morning, when tbe ship was struck by a strong northwesterly wind, which suddenly developed into a hurricane. Some of the hatches were torn open, great volumes of water pouring Into the ships compartments, disabling tbe engines, and soon the ship became absolutely helpless, the rudder also having been swept away. Reallzmg tbe necessity of quick action, Capt. O'Hagan himself went into the holo and strove to repair the most damag ed sections. It was while doing this that a bar rel of oil fractured one of his legi in two places. The Id jury was so severe that a piece of the bone protruded through the flesh. In spite of this he urdered that nls leg he bound up and when this had b-.:en done, resumed command and directed the effjrts which were boing made to rlug >ip the hole In tbe snip's side. Hut all efforts at repairs were fruitless. All haods were forced to take refuge on the main deck. The cattle were swept overboard gradually by the seas and drowned. At 6 o'clock Sunday morning Capt. O'uagau biwhted tbe Mannheim and shortly afterwards the Bostonian, b -th of which hove to. The British King signalled that soe was waterlog ged and would have to be abandoned. At 8 o'clock she sent another signal which read: "Do not abandon me." The half hundred or more men of the wrecked steamer were In plain view of ti'ose on board tue Bubtunian and Mannheim who could, however, do nothing at that time In the way of res cue on account of that was running. At 1.40 p m. the British K'ng slg r a;,ed: ' Help u-, we are sinking." A slight moderation of the weather per mitted the Mannheim to lower a br?at in charge of a volunteer crpw wntch, after a perilous and most difficult row I to the British King, rescued 11 of the . crew. Tne men of the British K'ng were brava for they pushed one another forward, all apparently will ing to wale for the last chance of be ing saved. Sailors of the Bostonian vied wltb each otber for the honor of sitting in the life boat and were not deterred from this when the first boat wrs dashed to pieces against the steamer's stern. First Officer Wm. Brown and the six seamen with bim were left struggling in the water, but they were saved by means oi lines thrown from the Leyland boat. The men were all badly bruised. A great cheer went up from the Bostonian when at 4 o'clock the star board life boat was successfully put out in charg9 of Second Offlsei Crom well. The steward and four sailors went with bim and the encouraging cheers were kept up as the little crew gallantly struggled to reach the sink ing steamer. Tbis boat took off 13 men, it eluding Capt. O'Bagan, wbo was tenderly but hastily lowered by his men by means of a l.ne from the stern. The Bostonian was reached and the resoued seamen placed on board. But oefore the life savers could climb to the deck a quick forming sea hurled the futile craft against the side of the steamer, forcing her apart, and then, the water receding, carried the volun teers some hundred feet distance from their ship. Cheering cries reached them to cling to the wreckage while the * n glnes of the Bostonian started and the ship manoeuverd to a point near the struggling seamen. Again were tbe lines used with skill, and success I for all the volunteers were hoisted to the ship, though Offlcr Cromwell was almost drowned. Capt. Parry deemed It imprudent to send another boat to the wreck, as darkness was setting In, and decided to wait until the moon arose before continuing the work of rescue. About II o'clock, when tbe gale was running with apparent reinforced velocity, the British King was seen to stagger in the trough of the sea, raise herself, ana plunge down. , Both the Mennbelm and the Bosto nian steamed to the point where tbe ship had foundered and it had just been decided that all those on board had perished when a feeble cry from the darkness tola that some at least had not been drowned. Half an hour later Capt. Parry of the Bostonian lo cated a small section of a oattle deck to which five men were clinging. These were Second Officer Fianigan, Chief Engineer Crawford; Adolphus Beok. fourth engineer, and two cattlemen. They bad been carried down with the steamer but after coming to the sur face, had, after mighty efforts, sue ceeded in swimming beyond the whirl pool, and in finding a temporary refuge upon the wreckage. All night and until 7.30 a. m. on Monday both the Mannheim and the B Estonian stood by searching for bod ies and then both ships resumed their passage. Yesterday, after terrible suffering, Capt. O'Hagan died. Fifty six men, including a stowaway, were oh board the British King, and 27 of these, it is deemed almost oertain per ished with their ship. LOCKED HIS WIFE,UP. And T?en Killed a Yonnig Woman and' Himself. At New York on Thursday Louis ^oszer, a race track man, lockea hlB wife in a bath room today and while she was a prisoner there shot and kill ed Stella Reynolds, of New Orleans, an aotress, who was a visitor ai their home, and then killed himself. Miss Reynolds, it was said, wa^for merly an intimate friend of Noszer. The murder and suicide was the se quence of a stormy scene Thursday ev?ning. when Miss Reynolds jailed at the Noszer home, Mrs. Noszer, it was reported, objacted to the call, and during tbe argument whlob followed her husband swallowed a small quan tity of laudanum. Both women, by united efforts, forc ed bim to take an emetic Immediate ly and tbe prison did him no harm. Miss Reynolds then remained with Mrs. Noszer all nlgnt. Today, while his wife was in the bathroom, Noszer turned tbe key, and disregarding her protestations to be let out, he went to Miss Reynold's room. Their voices, the man's threaten ing, and the woman's pleading, were heard by the wifo in the bathroom. Shs sprang to the telephone which ran from this room to the c dice of the apartment house, and told a maid woo answered her ring to hurry to the apartment and release her. The maid entered the apartment too late to save Miss Reynold's life. As she opened the door she heard Njszjr saying to the woman: "There Is no use for you and I to live any longer. The best thing I can do is to kill you and kill myself." N ?z;r then shot Miss Reynolds in the temple and himself in the fore head, bota dying almost instantly Not zu was 40 years of age, Miss R-?' noids was 25. Miss Reynolds' stage name was Er teile Young. S iock- d ilit; Naliuii. Brief comment on the recent battle in the Philippines was made in the House on Fiiday by Mr. Jones, who sala, makiug every allowance for the personal relations known to exist be tween the president and Gen Wood, he was unable to understand how the president cuuld endorse the kill iug of women and cnlloren. It had ?nocTed tna whole nation. "In mv judgment," he continuedv "this action oa.the part of the commanding gen eral of our forces in tue M ;ro provin ces cannot be condonei or excused." He regard d as clgnly improbable tiiat toe Moros took their children in their'arms as shields and charged the American trocps. Tne Moros could not fi^nt in tnat mauner. $1,00 PEE AXNTJM. BURNT ALIVE. Thirty-five People Lose Their Lives in a Wreck. TWO TRAINS COLLIDE Several of the Uafortunate Passengers - Were Pinioned in the Debris and Were Slowly Roasted to Death as the Rescuers Looked on Helplessly. Thirty-five Uvea were crushed out early Friday In a head-end collision of two passenger trains near Adobe, Col., on the Dever and Bio Grande railroad, and nearly a score of the victim} were Incinerated, several beyond recogni tion, by a fire that destroyed the wrecked coaches. More than a score were injured, but all will probably re cover. ; The wreck was due to undelivered orders, heavy mountain grades, a blinding snowstorm, a sharp carve and the slippery condition of the rails. Only the locomotives, baggage and day coaches were wrecked, the sleep ing oars escaping almost unscathed, as in the Eien disaster on the same road in 1904, when part of a train ran into a flooded canyon through a wash ed out. bridge. Many of the dead were homessek ers bound for the Northwest. The three crushed locomotives set fire to the splintered coaches and it was hours before all the bodies were recov ered. ':;he flames being so hot that res cuers oould not approaoh the debris until the fuel burned out. It was a wild, stormy night in the mountain canyons when the two heavy trains met. Blinding snow darkened the rooky gorges and speed was not high. Suddenly headlights flashed out and it'wan realized by the engineers that something was wrong. According to Fireman J. H. Smith of the west bound train, Engineer Walter Ooslett applied the emergency brake, but the slippe :y rails allowed the momentum of the heavy train to carry it on to the fatal crash. The impact was severely noticeable, but toe trains crushed and ground into each other. The heiper engine of the westbound train acted as a cush ion, minim?zing the force and weight of the heavy mountain engines. This helper was crushed together like so mush :paper and the other loeem jtives ran through the mesh of iron and plowed each other to pieoBS. Fireman Smith was the only one of the engine crews to escape. The bag gage cir of the westbound train broke in two and three coaches were squeez ed together. The baggage car, the mail car and a coach of the eastbound train buckled but none of the cars telescop ed. Hardly had the noise of the wreck ceased when a sheet of flame ran through the shattered cars of both trains. In the forward coach of the westbound train every seat was occu pied by passengers, most of whom were homeseekera. A number of forelgneia were among them and in their terror they gave up life without making any attempt to reach safety outside the burning cars. They sank to the floor of the opr and were roasted alive. The cooler ones in the car, seeing their danger, rushed for the windows and doors and with the aid of the passen gers in the rear of train crew who were unhurt, managed to reach the open air. Many were injured by the rough handling they received or bi flying glass. When the occupants of the two sleeping cars taw that nothing could be done to check the flames, they aid- - ed the trainmen in pushing bsoi the undamaged cars. Communication was opened with the Pueblo offloe of the railroad from Portland, a mile from the wacck, and a relief train with physicians was dispatched to the ac cident. The injured were placed in the sleeping cars and brought to Pueblo with the passengers of the t-astbound train, who were unhurt. Another relief train came from Flor ence to take away the uninjured por tion of the eestbound train. Officer Shot frum Atutmeb. Tom Robinson, marshal of Wlnokur, 15 miles north of Folkston, Ga., was snot and Instautly killed bv negroes at that place last Tuursday night. A crowd of negroes were shooting on the streets and Rjbicson smarted towards them for the purpose of putting them under arrest. When the negroes saw the marshall approaching they seoe ted th !tmelves by the ruadside. Ooe of ?hem got behind a hog pen and opened fire wich a rifle. He shot at R blo3ou four or live time* before he was shot by the marshall and lnstant 'y killed. At this juncture another negro nearby opened lire on the mar shal with a doubled barreled shotgun, the first shot penstratlnK bis breast uear the heart and kl'llng him in stantly. Lucius Crawford was placed In ja.'l Thursday charged with the killing. R )blo?on was about 25 years ?oid and leaves a wife and ooe child. The UsuaI KuHuIr. Georgia hot cuopers se?m to be as Ta'.al */? th" colored iStcrdatits ?8 the douth Carolina article. Bon Tbt;kav colored, is in Clarke county jul on the charge of killing Jim Jackson another negro. Joxkson was cursing the wife of Thokas when the latter took his pistol and killed him. The killing took place at a hot supper at the home jf Tnukaa a few miles from Athens, Georgia.