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 ? 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 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.