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WERE SHOT DOWN \ i ', r . ? ? , . c By Robbers Who Robbed tbe Bank of Foor Hendred Dollars. AND THET& ESCAPE General Manager and Assistant ManV ager of the Rank Instantly Killed and a Citizen Passing on the Pircet Was Shot and Probably Fatally Wounded. A bank robbery, with wild West features, was pulled off by four desperadoes In McKee's Rocks, Pa., on Tuesday with the slaying of two men and the possible fatal shooting of another. The robbers themselves, covering their escape of volleys of revolver shots, got safely away with at least $4 00 in cash from the officers of the-Vlctor Banking company. Samuel Fiedman, general manager of the company, was killed, his assistant, Isaac Schwartz, who was dangerously wounded in the head, died later on the operating table while the surgeons were probing for the bullet, which penetrated his brain, and Robert King, a passer-by, was seriously shot In the groin. The latter is in McKee's Rocks Hospital. Friedman and Schwartz wene alone In the bank, which does a foreign exchange business on the outskirts of McKee's Rocks, counting the day's cash, which was spread upon the countier when four foreigners invaded the place with guns. Friedman was shot twice, while one of the men scooped up the money but as they esca|? (1 the wounded Friedman followed them, shouting for help, only to fall with another volley from the robbers. A policeman's face, which appeared around the. corner just at the moment was , grazed with a bullet. With the exception of the lone officer, who appeared at the corner as t.he bandits dashed i way, tlucre were no police involved and no witnesses of th<? robbery. It occurred nlK)ut nine o'clock, the hour at which the Imnk usually clos? s. It is believed that Friedman was armed and returned the robbers' fire, for he apparently tried to dash after them, but no revolver was found by his body. Schwartz fell by the counter and was unconscious thereafter. King, V who is a railroad man, was just I leaving Green's Hotel nearby when one of the fleeing bandits turned for a last shot at the policeman. Instead of hitting the officer it felled King. He may recover. Both Friedman and Schwartz were about thirty years old and neither was married. WIFE KOI,l> WITH BUSINESS. Makes Had Bargain, Hegrets it ami Gets a Heating. Sixty dollars for a shoemaking business and a wife thrown in was the unique bargain made between Antonio S. Flourers and Cornelius Pace, in Beverly, N. Y. In the negotiations for the sale of business Mrs. Pace fell in love with the stranger. When the business was sold she begged that she go with it. The husband was willing and an agreement was signed. Everything went along smoothly for the newly mated pair. Later Pace, who had gone to Philadelphia, regretted his bargain and consulted a magistrate. He was told to go to Flourers and make demands for her. Confronted with the agreement and the refusal of Mrs. Pace to follow him. Pace attacked Flourers and was beaten, and left town. * DANCE COSTS A LIFE. Snaps Pistol at Wife's Partner and Is Himself Shot. I Enraged at the sight of his wife v dancing with Bee Holllngsworth, J. ^ t W. Perrell, at Hampton, Ark., a cattle buyer from Cooper, Tex., leveled a revolver at Holllngsworth Monday night and pulled the trigger, but the cartridge failed to explode. As Hol, llngiworth saw the Irate husband pull his gun. lie reached for his own niotol llfforo Perrell could shoot again. Hollinggworth opened fire upon his assailant and shot him twice, f.;;' one ballet taking effect in the left breast. i'errell was taken to a hotel. H I where his wife is earing for him. but j||| thtr attending physicians say there is gffij I no hope for his recovery. Mg A man that's clean Inside and ontK& Jp sldv ; who neither looks up to the rich nor down on the poor; who can lose without squealing; and who can j|fg win without bragging; considerate ijg J to women, children and old people; flu who is too hrave to lie. too generous v to cheat nnd too sensible to loaf; and who tak* s l?ffc share of the world's Bag goods and lets other people have B|| theirs, is my idea of a true gentle9 GIVES HIS VERSION PAPAL SECRETARY TALKS OP THE INCIDENT. Pope Demanded Assurance That the j ex-President Would Not Visit the Hateful Methodists. A dispatch from Rome says now that Mr. Roosevelt has made public the documents which the Vatican had considered confidential. Cardinal Merry del Val, Papal Secretary of Starte, wishes the entire history of the negotiations for the audience, which the former President sought of Pope Pius X to be known. Cardinal Merry del Val is credited with the responsibility for the Vatican's pact in the matter, and the following may be accepted as his version: "Following the exchanges between Mgr. Kennedy and American Ambassador L/eishman and Mr. Roosevelt's decision not to be received under the terms imi?osed, John Callon O'Loughlin, who was assistant Secretary of State in 1909, and a personal friend of Mr. Roosevelt, called ui>on Cardinal Merry del Val, bearing an introduction from Mgr. Falconio, Apostol-I ic delegate In the United States. Im- I mediately after being introduced to the presence of the Cardinal Mr O'Loughlin said: " T do not come in the name of Mr. Roosevelt, but on my own .account, as an American Catholic."" Cardinal Merry del Val said "Then what are we here for. It Is useless to discuss the matter. If you do not represent Mr. Roosevelt you cannot make any arrangement or Bpeak for hint." Mr. O'lxnighlln replied: "What I consider important is to tell your eminence that if the two dispatches sent by Mgr. Kennedy are retracted, I can assure you that Mr. Roosevelt will accept your audience." Cardinal Merry del Val said. "I will not discuss Mr. Roosevelt's right, but give me confidential assurance that de facto, Mr. Roosevelt will not go to the Methodists and the audience will occur." i.Vlr. O'lxjughlin refused to give this assurance. The Cardinal then suid: "Mr. Roosevelt is free to go to the Methodists and do whatever he chooses, but the Pontiff is certainly free not to receive a man who would claim the right to insult him on the day after having been received by him or perhaps on the same day, as, according to your statement he may leave Rome on the same day of the Papal audience, thus having only between Noon and evening Tuesday in which to see the Methodists. "It is of little consequence whether he is a Catholic, Protestant, Israelites or Buddhist. All religions persons merit the same esteem. The important thing is to be honest and sincere. So far as the form of belief is concerned I believe that all honest people will he always on good terms with Ocd." METHODIST BISHOP'S COMMENT. Says tlie Methodists Are Not in This Case. A1 Cincinnati, Ohio, Bishops Earl Cranston and John Wale Walden, of the -Methodist Episcopal Church, commenting sharply on the Vatican's position regarding Col. Roosevelt's abandoned visit. Bishop Cranston said: "It seems that the Vatican accepts nothing short of absolute submission, including the yielding up of one's vcial privileges and religious and patriotic fellowships. "Americanism is worth more to the world than Papal assumption, and it is the spirit of Americans that is now again put under ban by the Pope. No honeyed words for the public can change that fact. The Methodists are not in this case." Bishop Walden said that two monumental blunders had been committed by th-e present Pope. He declared that Pope Reo was "far too wise to have been guilty of the errors of Pope Plus." "But," he added, "it is not. atfer all the Methodist Church which has its bristles out, but the Roman Catholic church. Th" Methodist church has not been injured in the least. We are more used to the insults and attacks of Rome, perhaps, than any other denomination, owing to the fact that we have been active in many countries which are peculiarly Roman. It ia our success which liai aroused Rome and made her lift her bristles. If we had not been successful; if Methodism was not a vital, powerful force where we hav planted it, we would hear nothing from Rome." Itaby Takes Strychnine. The baby of Joseph Rrown, living near Mason, Texas, Monday accident alty got hold of a bottle containing strychnine and swallowed some o the contents. It died a few houri later from the effects of the poison i The latest victim of the Roose ( velt endurance test seems to havi been the Pope of Rome, and hi stood it vtery poorly. SNUBS THE POPE Presided Roosevelt Declines to Accept Vatican's Terms. CANCELS CALL ON POPE While Mr. Roosevelt Concedes the Right of the Pope to Receive Any One He Pleases, He Refused to Accept Conditions Limiting His Freedom of Action. The audience which it was believed ex-President Roosevelt would have with the Pope on Tuesday last did not take place, owing to conditions which the Vatican had imposed and which Mr. Roosevelt refused to accept. When at Gondokoro in February la9t. Mr. Roosevelt wrote to Ambassador Lelshman saying he would be glad of the honor of an audience with King Victor Emmanuel and the Pope. The audience with the king was promptly arranged. Before an arrangement could be reached relative to an audience with the Pope, several telegrams were passed, and the negotiations were ended by Mr. Roosevelt refusing in any wav to bo limited as to his conduct, and announcing that an audience with the Pope under the circumstances was now imi>ossIl)le. The history of the negotiation is about as fhllows: While at Cairo. Mr. Roosevelt received the following telegram irirn Ambassador Leishman, dated March 23rd: "Monsignor ennedy. rector of th^ American Catholic college, in reply to an inquiry which I caused to be made, requests that the folloving communication be transmitted to you. " 'The Holly Father will b? delighted to grant an audience to Mr. Roosevelt on April 6, .and ?h-*t. nothing will arise to prove* t such as the ranch regretted 'ncident which made the reception of Mr. Fairbanks impossible' " Replying by cable to Ambassador Leishruan on March 2f>, Mr. Roosevelt said: "Please present th' following to Monsignor Kennedy: "It wou'J t?e a real pleasure to me to be presented to the Holy Father, for whom I entertain high respect, both personally nnd as the head cf a grea. church. I fully recognize his entire right to receive or not receive whjnisoeve" he chooses, for any reason th it seems good to him, and if he does not receive me I shall not for a moment question the propriety of his ac?.i??n. On the ther hand. I, in my turn, must decline to make any stlpula*' >ns or submit to any conditions which in any way would limit my freedom of conduct. 1 trust that on April n he will find it convenient to receive me." On March .28, Mr. Roosevelt, al Cairo, received a cablegram from Ambassador Leishnran giving a message from Monsignor Kennedy, which concludes by saying: "The audience cannot take place except on the understanding expressed in the former message." The following day Mr. Rp.osevelt sent another message to the American ambassador, saying: "The proposed presentation is, of cotirse, now imjiossible." The determination of Mr. Roosevelt to forego an audience with Pope Pius X rather than subscribe to the conditions imposed by the Vatican uits created a sensation. 'i nis incident overshadows every other feature of the distinguished American in his visit to the Eternal City. HATPIN DEADS TO ARREST. Brooklyn Woman First Victim of ChicsKo Ordinance. At Chicago the first arrest under the aldermen's hatpin ordinance was made Wednesday. Mrs. Maud Rollins of Brooklyn, N. Y., had just alighted from a train at the Lasalle street depot when she bumped into , John F. Slater, a countryman from Harahoo, Wis. The hatpin, one foot three inches Ions and sharp, jabbed him in the cheek. Sinter gave a yell and Detective Russell went to his rescue. Mrs. Rollins was taken to the Harrison street police station. She was indignant when Judge Gemmill fined her $1 and costs. The poi lice kept the hatpin. Should 1 * 1111 Together. Faction spirit is the curse of many ' towns. It causes ill feeling, divides ! the people into hostile camps and effectually prevents progress of any kind. Doubtless each faction sincerely wants to see the place flourish, ? but the spirit of jealousy and oppo s'tion is so keen that whatever one r olde proposes, however good the f proposition itself may be, the other a side is sure to oppose It. The on* , thing needful is to bury all such bit ter and irrational feeling out ol - sight, to consider every plan for bete terment 011 its merits, and for all tc 51 work with an eye single to the welfare of the community. I.. i'lyi GOES FOR TEDDY SENATOR TILLMAN GIVES HIM A GOOD ROAST. the Rought Rider Han Bamboozled the Public Long Enough and He Must Re Still. "All this hurrah about Roosevelt and the manifest effort to make him a presidential factor Irritates me so that I do not like to discuss It." said Senator Tillman, as he was leaving Atlanta for a visit to his home on Wednesday. "I think the Idea of Roosevelt becoming a candidate for the presl u* tn j ui au IUI pwi L til 11 luciur in straightening out the Republican party is absurd. In the first place, Taft would be more than human if he did want vindication and a second term. "His alliance with Aldrich and the* money powers will insure him the support of Wall street, whose captains of finance would give up millions to encompass the defeat of Roosevelt. "In the second place, the Idea of Roosevelt straightening out the Republican party is absurd. "He is not so clean and straight himself. He has bamboozled the public *lme and time again. "Roosevelt is the creation of the newspepers and little else. They lent themselves to his making in the most remarkable manner this country has ever known. No, I do not think Roosevelt can be resurrected. What will be his future? That is hard to forecast. Doubtless he will have to adjust himself to the difficulties of private citizenship. "This will be hard, and it will be a pretty physchological study for the country to watch. Rut others have had to tackle It, and why not Roosevelt?" HAVE STREET lH'KL. One Man Killed and the Other One Makes His Escape. Two Frenchmen fought a duel early Friday morning in a New York street, not far from the East Side water front. One of them was killed by a shot fired straight through his bead. His adversary escaped, leaving no clue to his identity. The strange battle was seen, as far as learned by only one witness, an antomobilist, who was speeding down the street on his way to his uptown home. By the light of his automobile lamp, though two blocks away, he saw the two men step out rrom a hallway, measure off a certain number of paces and then turn quickly, revolvers in hand. There were three quick shots and one of the combatants fell. The other, throwing down the weapon, dashed back into the hallway and made his escape. The automobilist quickly called the police, but the. patrolman found nothing but the corpse and the two revolvers. The dead man has not been identified. SAI bolts Mlltl>i:itKI>. Accomplice in the Crime Makes Confession. Retribution for the mysterious murders of sailors, long a puzzle at the ports of Puget Sound,seinms now close at hand. Giving alleged details of the killing of John Hoffman and Charhs Hedberg, John Klingonberg has made a sworn confession to Prosecuting Attorney Campbell at Aberdeen, Wash. Klingenberg says that he, under threat of death at the hands of William Gohl, kilh d Hedberk. The statement charges the slaying of Hoffman direct to Gohl, who is a former agent of the Sailor's Union, and is under arrest at Monte Sano, waiting trial for wholesale slaying that t rial. As in many previous cases two sailors. Hedberg and Hoffman, dis<1 111 <A 'i t <?11 t'eii ei'voal llA'lhyvHw'n I'livoivu iiijoif iiuimij. llCTIUCIg ") body was found, but search failed to reveal Hoffman. TilK ATLANTA WAY. Novel Way for Church to Secure a Congregation. Deacons of the Western Heights Baptist Church of Atlanta have hit upon a novel plan to induce delinquent members to attend services. A prize fluht was advertised to take place in the church several nights ago and long before the time the bout was to begin every pew was ~.i .? ? .1. nnvu. uiuii uv (IIICI WUIU L WII 111 lilt" d?>acons appeared gloved for the ring. The fighters faced each other and the flght was on. but after sparring a few minutes, both failing lo land a blow the bout was declared off and the regular services held. ( round to Pieces. In full view of a large crowd. Sallie Williams, the two-year-old j daughter of Inspector Williams, of J the Atlanta waterworks department . was ground to death under a street ? car Thursday night. The child had . wandered away from home when the ? accident occurred. GOLF A SERIOUS STRAIN. Demand For Almost Inhuman Per fection on the Links. Immediately after playing a game of golf and making a fairly good score, a prominent man committed suicide. Though there is no reason to suppose that there Is any casual relation between golf and suicide, yet the incident calls to mind certain characteristics of the game at least as they appear to a beginner. The serious intensity required far outdoes that demanded by baseball or tennis. Good-natured indifference is , regarded on the links as an aesthetic crime. A man who contemplates the landscape, or enjoys the atmosphere is a Philistine of the ranxest kind; or if he indulges in conversation overheard by the serious ones, he is looked upon as a common pest. That ? 1 1 ? 0 lUI.? 11 Biunuuaijr live unuj, tuc uhdcuuii "rooter," does not affect 'he nerves of the calm and automatic player; but a laugh, a careless motion, or an trrel- < evant gesture on the golf links is a , sign of moral and aesthetic turpitude. ( Is It because the golf p:ayer begins ( the sport latei In life. %hen he has ] fully developed nerves and moral ( sensibilities, that the game has the hair-trigger character? In golf, there is n certain demand 1 for almost lnbuman perfection, not only In skill, but In form, etiquette, * and the minor moralities; and such < demand for excellence is a strain on ' the imperfect human betng. Not Instinct, but Habit. If anything in the entire animal ! kingdom would seem to be a matter i of pure instinct, that thing Is the tra ditional antipathy of cat and mouse Yet a recent study by C. S. Berry. ( made in Professor Munsterberg's laboratory at Harvard, shows pretty clearly that a cat has no Instinctive Impulse to kill and eat mice?nor the mouse any instinctive fear of cats. Berry finds that a mouse may smell the nose of an inexperienced cat. or even perch on its back, and be quite safe. so long as it does not run away. For the instinct of the kitten is to chase any small moving object?ball. e pool, tail, mouse?indifferently. It Is not the mouse that interests it. but the mouse in motion. Sotne day. often by accident, the kitten plays toe roughly with its captive, and discovers that there is meat inside. It Is well known that cats specialize theii bunting, sotne catching mice. Borne squirrels. some birds. It seems. In each case, to depend on accidents of discovery. A good mouser, then, is not a cat with a strong instinct for catching mice, but one with a strong habit of doing so. Advice From the Bench. Some years ago many farmers along the line of tire Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway brought suit against It and engaged a young lawyer named Brown. Judge Gantt. who was presiding. was compelled 10 throw many of the cases out of court because they were improperly brought. Brown was mad all over. Swelling with Indignation, he arose and said: "Your Honor, will you please fell me how It Is possible in this court to get Justice gainst a railroad company?" Judge Gantt quietly ignored the contempt of court shown ">y the lawyer and asked: "Do you wish an answer to that question. Mr. Brown?" "Yes, sis," defiantly replied the Indignant lawyer; "yes, sir, and I want to know how a farmer ran get his case into this court so thnt it will be beard." Judge Gantt smiled and said: "Well, first, Mr. Brown, I'd advise the farmer to hire a lawyer." Brown wilted.?Cleveland Leader. Woman Champion Cotton Picker. The world's record for cotton picking is held by Miss Margaret Montgomery, of Stillwater, Okla. In a four-hour contest she picked 3.r>0 pounds, or eighty-seven and a half pounds an hour. She defeated crack cotton pickers from all parts of the cotton-growing belt, averaging about five pounds nn hour more than her nearest competitor. Miss Montgomery is the daughter of a wealthy cotton grower and she picks only for her own amusement. There were men and women in the field against her. For three hours she easily led everyKaM V 1 lion oho hotro n in innr . m uuu; D..o ucfiitn IU lliK 11 \ J 111 weary nrms unci cramps n the fingers. ! She lacked the training of the others but showed her pluck by holding on and retaining her lead uDtil the time limit expired. Cultivate Friendliness. It in the self-centred hero who lays hold of us?it is ever the comradeship of heroes. Dumas' "Three Musketeers" (and the Gascon who made the ! greater fourth, with their oath, "Each for all. and all for each.' Inherit that j "kingdom of romance." How seldom one pauses to think of the Infinite meaning of friendliness, how little it costs and how ever-wideuing is its circumference. Had Sensitive Ear for Music. A Munlph servant girl has given notice beeffuse she says her mistress persists in playing clnsslral music for a c-ouple of hours every morning, although she has not the slightest notion how it should be interpreted. The Reason. "One-half of the world does not know how the other half lives." "Well", it is gratifying to think that one-half of the world attends to its own business."?Puck. What They Really Are. A good many so-called optimists are merely cheerful Idiots. Italian Proverb. One door never shuts but another opens. ea BLEW UP BANK five Bandits Who Did It Pursued by Me> in Automobile and THREE ARE CAPTURED Hie Masked Robbers Overpower the Watchman and Knglncer and Robbed the Rank of Two Thousand Dollars, but Were Chased and Three of Them Captured. Five maRk^d bandits esraping with S2.000 stolen from the Hunk of Coal City, at Coal City, Illinois, exchanged shots with a posse Thursday, threo of the robbers being wounded and captured. Coal City is sixty-three miles sonthwiKt of fhificm tva _ M - -w - a Cll" tire population was aroused by the ?xploBion in the bank and the ensuing pursuit. The marauders entered the town on a passing freight train and began operation by tieing Barney Ghetto, the night watchman, and Washington Frye, the night engineer of the plectrip plant. They then blew up the bank building and shattered tho safie with a charge of nitro-glycerlne, and after seizing the contents of tho safe, leaped on a Sante Fe train with their plunder, which was partly in st am p8. As the train carrying the bandit* pulled out of town, Ghetto succeeded in cutting his bonds and rushed to the telephone, notifying Eugene Miller, the night watchman at Mason, seven miles south of Coal City, and he with Dr. E. D. Watts, who was at t'he station at the time, laid in wait for the robbers, ^atts was armed with a repeating shot gun and Miller carried a revolver. At iMason the freight train stopped to switch cars, the bandits leaped from the train and hid in a clump of shrubbery near the track. .Miller and the doctor discovered their hiding place and opened tiro which was promptly returned, a>>out 2f> shots being exchanged. When the train started the bandits leaped on board and again escaped. Immediately the sheriff at Morris was notified. Several automobiles were pressed into service and the. -mrsuit began, the machines following a road along the Santa Fe right of way For a time the motor cars sped directly alongside the train, members of the posse occasslonallv firing at the dark objects which were taken to be ihe bandits. W.ien the train came *o a stop at Verona, near Morris, the ens were searched by the sheriff and his men. Three of the fugitives were found In an emnfv Imirwioo 4 " - ? t'v^ vai . nil wrro wounded. The other two, hart A-*!. It is believed that they leaped off the moving train from the side opposite the posse and escaped with the booty. The prisoners were taken to Morris. where they refused to discuss tho robbery. The prisoners admitted that their homes were in Chicago and gave the names of John Hoyt, Rawer Tonaszewski and Joseph Crow lick. FIRK AMOVE AND liKIX)W. Rescued From Perilous Position I'niler a Itridge. Fire in the shaft above their heads threatening thD lives of five men working in a caisson 125 feet below ground in the foundation of tho municipal building under Hrooklyn bridge terminal. Dense volumes of smoke poured from the shaft, where electric wires had become crossed and had ignited combustibles nearby. Fearing the men would he suffooat/d, the foreman on the work hastily ordered the steel bucket lowered. The men scramhh into it and tho car shot them up through the smoke. They reach <1 tho surface in fainting condition, hut were soon revived. Fireman flooded the caisson, putting out the Are. - - - Made Him Rich. Warren O. Pent of Dayton, Ohio, a brewery wagon driver, n-ceived $41,500 for 70 acres of West Virginia land which he bought 20 years years ago for $117.25. The discovery of oil by agents of the Standard Oil company was the reason for tho enormous increase- in the value of the land which Dent had supposed to have been almost worthless. Negroes Lynch Negroes. A mob, composed entirely of negro s, overpowered Constable Ma4lory of Keo, Ark., seized his two prisoners, both negroes, one a woman, and shot them to death, after | which their bodies were strung up. The victims were chared with killing the husband of the woman and wife of the man. C.oos for Life. Refusing to grant a new trial. Judge McDonald at Anderson sentenced Webb Simmons, a young white nvan, to spend the remainder of his life at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. Simmons killed Ifniterl States Deputy McAdams in 1908.