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FIREMEN LOSE LIFE
Four Killed and Pvlany Others
Hurt in Explosions.
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BIG BLAZE IN NEW YORK
flames Destroy a Six-Story Factory
Building and Series of Explosions
t Entrap Firefignters Under
Piles of Debris.
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Four firemen perished and about a
score of firemen and citizens were injured
in New York city Monday in a
lire which was accompanied by a scries
of explosions that demolished a
.six-story factory building at Bedford
and Downing streets. That the darn'
age, which is estimated at from $300,>000
to $400,000, was not far greater,
was declared by Chief Croker to be
due to the explosions which shattered
.the building and crushed the blaze
.beneath tons of debris at the moment
when the flames were completely beyond
control and threatening to sweep
tHe entire block.
One fireman was taken out of the
? building alive, but died almost immediately.
The bodies of his comrades
were recovered after the fire was over,
crushed under the wreckage.
The dead are: Foreman John Walsh,
Fireman George C. Christian, Firenian |
John Walsh, Fireman Thomas L. Hal- j
pin. Fireman J. Healy. All of these
men were of engine company No. 14.
* Fireman Jacob Cohen and L. F. Call,
also cf engine company No. 14, were
* hurnea and bruised and removed to
the hospital. The other persons injured
were for the most part employees
in the factory, dwellers in the
v adjacent tenements and persons passing
in the streets, who were struck by
, falling brick or glass. None of these
were seriously hurt.
Three hundred men and women
, were in the factory building during the
lunch hour, when a slight explosion
^occurred on one of the upper floors
and almost instantly the whoie structure
was enveloped in flames. Some
| had time to reach the street by the
stairs, but the greater number were
compelled to take refuge on the Are
escapes, where they remained hud*
* died together and imploring assistance
until the fire engines arrived. Before
.the fire ladder could be run up policemen,
firemen and volunteers formed a
human pyramid against the front wall
of .the factory, and in this way handed
down to safety upward of sixty girls,
who were clinging to the fire escapes
on the second floor. Others jumped
into the life saving nets or on piles of
bedding hastily gathered and heaped
A on the sidewalks. Within ten minutes
all the occupants cf the building
had been taken cut in safety and un- j
hurt, save for miner injuries.
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A WEDDING CUT SHORT.
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Father Mortally Wounds His Daughter
and Kills Himself.
Less than three hours before the
time set for her wedding Monday,
Pansy E. Townsend was shot And
mortally wounded by her father, Joseph
Townsend, in their home in Ev*
eret, Mass. . Townsend then ended hi3
own life with a bullet.
Miss Townsend was to have been
married to Francis E. Perry of Fort
Myers, Fla., at 6 o'clock Monday
night.
- GAPON HAS A SPOUSE.
Russian Priest Finally Admits Being
Married.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says:
Rev. Gapon, in a frank, open letter, replies
to the attack cn his public and j
private life. He explains that, Te- J
fusing to follow the rule of the or- i
thodox church prohibiting the remarriage
of priests, which he declares
j?rto Herev to secret immorality.
Uinco v-uv v. ?
he took to his bosom as his wife a
girl jvhom he loved and that she is
still living with him.
GAVE BIRTH TO SEVEN CALVES.
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Remarkable and Unprecedented Fe- !
cundity of a Durham Cow.
Seven calves, perfectly formed, born
to one Durham cow, was the unusual
incident recorded a few days ago at
the farm of Martin S. Hill, near Boston,
Mass. They included four bulls,
weighing thirty pounds each, and
three heifers, 25 pounds each. All the
* calves died at their birtth, or immediately
after.
Cattlemen and veterinaries say the
occurrence is unprecedented in their
experience.
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BLAST TAKES TWO LIVES.
Premature Explosion in Alabama Mine
Does Deadly Work.
A telephone message from Readers
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mines, about 15 miles souuiwest, yi
Birmingham, Ala., says two are dead
and several fatally injured by the premature
explosion of dynamite inside
the works.
In preparing the nights "hring," it
is thought a spark ignited one of the
shots.
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WILLIAMS MAKES PROTEST
Against Statement of Watson in his
Magazine Anent Question of Cutting
South's Representation.
A Washington dispatch says: Hon.
John Sharp Williams cf Mississippi,
democratic leader of the house of representatives,
raises his voice in \igor
ous protest against me reiuarKauivs
contention of Tom Watson, that it
makes no difference if the souths
representation in congress is reduced.
Being queried on the subject Mr.
Williams said:
"It is a curious question to ask a
sane man. You might about as well
ask me, if it was of no interest or
value to a man to cut off one of his
arms, with which he fights and with
which he resists.
"The answer seems so obvious that
it is hard to answer at all. In addition
to the ordinary legislation concerning
rivers and harbors, rural free
delivery and the hundred and one
other things, in which each part of
the union is interested in seeing that
it gets justice and fair dealing, there
are the great principles of a fundamental
character, concerning which
people differ, not only as individuals,
but as sections. The less votes a section
has, the less its power to do its
own will, or to resist others when they
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won id ao rneir wm against n.
"If the south had had less representation
than it now has; the republicans
would have had a twothirds
majority?and therefore a constitution-changing:
majority?in a half
dozen congresses, where they have
not had it. In addition to all this,
there are sentimental reasons why
the south wants to remain as strong
as possible in the popular body of
the national legislature. Her traditions
and ideals are strong in proportion
to her representation."
No recent political development has
so stirred the senators and representatives
from the southern states as
Watson's declaration in the March
number of his magazine that it would
make no difference to the south or
to the democratic party if the representation
of the southern states in
the national house and in the'electoral
college should be cut in accordance
with the schedule outlined by
Representative Keifer (republican)
in the reduction bill he has introduced.
Watson, in the March issue of his
magazine, declares:
"It makes no difference whatever
to Georgia or to the people in her
limits whether she has six representa:
tives in congress (the number proposed
by General Keifer) or eleven
(the number to which the state is
entitled)."
The Keifer schedule provides for
the following reductions in the representation
of the southern states:
From. To.
Alabama 9 5
Arkansas 7 5
Florida 3 1
Georgia 1 6
Louisiana 7 3
Mississippi 8 3
North Carolina 10 6
South Carolina 7 3
Tennessee 10 8
Texas 16 12
Virginia ..10 8
Totals ......... .... 98 60
Total reduction 38
FACTORIES BAR UNION MEN.
Radical Action Taken by Big Plants at
High Point, N. C.
The employees in thirty furniture
and glass factories at High Point, N.
C., over 2,000 in number, were notified
Saturday afternoon, when paid off,
that after April 2, no union men would
be employed.
The owners state that the action
was taken as the result of intimidation
of non-union employees by union
hands. The employers also claim that
High Point laborers are among the
best paid in the south.
Tljere are about 5,000 laborers in
the town, 1,500 of whom belong to
the union. High Point has 40 other factories
of various kinds.
FOUR MILLION MORTGAGE.
Filed by Columbus, Ga., Company to
Develop Water Powers.
The Columbus, Ga., Power company
Monday filed in Muscogee superior
court a mortgage for $4,000,000, to secure
an issue of 5 per cent gold bonds.
They will not all be issued at once.
Bonds aggregating $1,250,000 will
be issued at once and the proceeds
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will be used 111 carrying uui mc
pany's plans for a gigantic development
of water power along the Chattahoochee
river north of Columbus.
THEFT CHARGE CAUSED SUICIDE.
College Girl Kills Ss!f Rather Than
Face Accusation.
The body of Miss Prudie Ford, a
college student at Hartford, Kv., was
found in the Rough river Saturday.
She left a note saying she had been
accused of stealing money and clothes
from her boarding house and that
rather than face a charge of which
| she was innocent she would end her
life.
[STEALIS EFFECTED
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|Campaign Gifts of Trust
Funds Pure Larceny.
IS ASSERTION OF JUDGE
"And Insurance Officials Who Made
Such Gifts Should Be in Prison."
District Attorney Jerome Offers
to Prosecute.
A New York special says: If the
grand jury which is investigating
some of the conditions developed by
the recent legislative investigation,
reaches the conclusion that contributions
of insurance company funds to
political campaign committees were
made with intent to deprive or defraud
the true owner of his property,
it must find that larceny was committed.
This opinion was expressed Friday
by Justice O'Sullivan, in the court of
general sessions, in answer to a presentment
on the subject submitted to
him by the grand jury. Judge O"Sullivan
added that it is not within the
province of the court to say whether
or not there was intent.
That Is a question which the jurors
must determine for themselves from
all the i'imts and circumstances in the
case. He charged the jury to make
a thorough investigation into all the
j facts and to place the responsibility
for such crimes, if they find that
I crimes were committed.
' Ycu arc net to go seeking for shelter
as an excuse to avoid an unpleasant
duly." he said.
This opinion is, in effect, directly
opposite to one upon the same subject
which was given by District Attorney
Jerome several days ago. Judge
O'Sullivan agreed, however, with the
contention of the district attorney
I that intent must have been present
I to constitute the crime of larceny, but
declares that th,e question whether
there was intent is a question which
is yet to be determined.
Mr. Jerome was in court, and when
Judge O'Sullivan had delivered his
opinion the district attorney asked
the grand jury to remain, as he desired
to address them upon the subject
in question. He declared that
Judge O'Sullivan jhad misconceived
the subject which he had considered
I and that he held to the opinion that
it would be the duty of the grand
jury to return indictments against
George W. Perkins, former vice president
of the New York Life Insurance
Company, for larceny, and
against George B. Cortelyou, chairman,
and Cornelius N. Bliss, treasu*
I rer of the republican national committee,
as receivers of stolen goods.
Mr. Jerome informed Judge O'SuIlivan
that if he would sit as a magistrate
he would submit affidavits to
the acts committed by George W. Perkins
and would ask for a warrant for
his arrest. lie added .that in event
of such a warrant being issued, a
j writ of habeas corpus would follow
i and that the case would be taken
to the highest courts, where the district
attorney would retain Alton B.
Parker as special counsel.
Judge CSullivan declined to grant
the warrant, giving his reason that
the question at issue should be passed
upon by the grand jury.
WANT NO INTERFERENCE.
Local Officials Promise to Punish the
Lynchers in Chattanooga.
The department of justice was in
telegraphic communication Friday
with United States District Attorney
Penland at Chattanooga, regarding the
lynching of the negro, Ed Johnson.
There have been conferences regarding
messages which have reached
the president and members of the supreme
court, which are said to have
expressed the hope that the government
will leave matters for the local
authorities to deal with, and at
the same time conveyed assurance
that the responsible parties in the
lynching would be adequately punished.
GIVES THE LIE TO WATSON.
Representative Livingston Denies the
Statement Made by Tom.
Using the strongest language that
he knows how to use, Colonel Livingston
characterizes as infamously false
the charge made by Tom Watson in
the last issue of his magazine that
he (Livingston) had leaned his official
stamp or frank to the Southern railway,
and in this way had been party
A- -u ~ moll; Hnr?n<r tho
IU lilt; (JUWUXIIS \JL i,nc iiiaiu uuiiug
period when the mails are weighed by
the government.
OFFICIALS DENY SALE OF ROAD.
President of Northern Makes" Statement
to Public.
The presence of President Spencer
of the Southern railway and a number
of other prominent Southern railway
officials in New Orleans, Friday,
revived the rumors of the purchase
of the Northeastern railroad by the
Southern, to gain an entrance into
New Orleans, but President Spencer
and President C. C. Harvey of the
| ^Nortneastern Dom ueu) mc icpun^
deal.
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EXTRADITION IS RE-FUSED
j Lum Woo, Atlanta Chink, Will Not
j Be Taken to Louisiana on Murder
Charge? Terrell Saves Hi;n.
Governor Terrell of Georgia Friday
declined to honor the requisition
of the governor of Louisiana for Lum
Woo, the Atlanta Chinaman, and he
will not be taken to New Orleans on
the charge of murder, and where he
.fears the Highbinders will have revenge
cn liim for informing on Chinamen
who 'frere running a gambling
house in Atlanta.
When it was announced that Governor
Terrell had declined to honor
I tne requisition lor imm woo iuvi-k
was quite a scene of rejoicing at the
capitol among Lum's- white friends.
Luiii Woo was so delighted that he
rushed up to the governor, placed
bis hands on his excellency's shoulders
and exclaimed:
"You gleatee man. You oughtee be
plesident Lunited State."
i John (Hook, the educated Chinaman
who brought the witnesses from
New Orleans to testify against Lura
Woo. and who acted as interpreter,
said that he was not concerned over
the liberation of Lum Woo.
Detective Stubbs returned to New
Orleans Friday night with a copy of
Governor Terrell's decision. He was
accompanied by the two Chinese wit'
nes'ses, Hook remaining in Atlanta
for a coupie of days' stay.
Governor Terrell's decision was as
follows:
I "State of Georgia, Executive De
partmer.t, Atlanta, Ga., March 23,1906.
?Agreeing with the attorney general
in the conclusion reached by him in
the above and foregoing opinion relative
to the law of. the case based
upon the finding of fact by the governor,
it is
"Ordered, That the requisition by
his excellency, the governor of Louisiana,
for Lum Woo, a resident of this
state, be and the same is hereby declined.
"J. M. TERRELL, Governor."
BROWN HEIRS MAKE UP.
Family Suit Over Estate of Former
George Governor Withdrawn.
The suit in the Atlanta courts of
four of the heirs against two, who
were executors of the estate of exGoveroor
Joseph E. Brown has been
withdrawn and the disagreement has
been amicably and ^satisfactorily adjusted
by the six heirs deciding to
form a corporation for the management
of the estate.
The superior court will be applied
to for a charter for the company, with
the six heirs as the sole incorporators
and stockholders, with share and
share alike.
Each heir is to become a one-sixth
stockholder and each is to have an
equal voice in the affairs of the estate.
The six heirs to the estate of Joseph
E. Brown are:
Julius L. Brown, Joseph M. Brown,
Geoorge M. Brown, Elijah Brown, Saiie
E. Brown and Mrs. Mary V. Coj^
nanv. unaer me win juuua ?j. auu
Joseph M. Brown were made executors.
A few months ago Elijah,
George and Miss .Sallie Brown an l
Mrs. Connally filed a bill praying for
the removal of Julius and Joseph
Brown as executors, and the charge
was made that the executors had
grossly mismanaged the estate and
caused the property to depreciate and
the income to diminish. It is also
charged that Julius Brown was dissipated.
To this bill there was filed an answer
by Julius L. and Joseph M.
Brown in which they denied the statements
made by the complainant.
The affair appeared to be highly
sensational, and it looked as if there
was to be a serious family* rupture
which would have to be finally settled
in the courts.
It was expected that the investigation
in the superior court would be
decidedly interesting. The settlement,
however, has stopped all further litigation,
and it is said, the executors
and the other heirs have resumed
friendly relations, no ill feeling whatever
remaining as an after effect of
the suit.
The estate of Joseph E. Brown is
valued at between $450,000 and $500,000.
The property in Atlanta, consisting
of store houses and dwellings, is
worth about $400,000, and there ars
lands in Texas valued at $100,000.
DEATH LIST TWENTY-THREE.
Score of Bodies Are Recovered from
Explosion-Wrecked Mine.
The death list of the Century mine
disaster in West Virginia has nowreached
twenty-three, while twenty or
more are injured. Officials of the
company reported Friday night that
twenty-two bodies have been recovered,
and but one remains in the mine.
ELEVEN BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
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Costly Blaze in Fayetteville, N. C.
Several People Hurt.
A fire, which started in the Frank
Thornton Dry Goods company's store
at Fayetteville, N. C., Sunday night,
in the center of the city, destroyed
eleven buildings. The loss is estimated
at $300,000. No one was killed,
but several persons were hurt
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Party cf Labor Slated to En-1
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I ASSERTION UF GGMPhRS i
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Be Taken Before tne American
People for Adjudication.
The executive council of the Ainer- 1
lean Federation of Labor spent some !
time in Washington Thursday dis- j
! cussing the replies of Piesiuent licose- !
j velt and speaker Cannon to the bill !
i of grievances presented to them and \
I to President Pro lem. Frye, or the i
j senate Wednesday, regarding legisia- {
uoii affecting labor interests.
Mr. Gompers said that the conclu- !
ding paragraph in the memorial
meant exactly what it said, lhat is
if congress fails to remedy the grie\ances,
the organization will appeal
direct to the people.
In other words, he said the Federa|
tion of Labor will enter the field of
! politics and urge organized labor to
elect men of tlieir own choosing and
thus have a personal voice in the government
There will be further discussion of
the situation by the members of the
council, among whcm remarks oI the
president and Mr. Cannon have made
a deep impression.
Mr. Gompers insists the council is j
in the right regarding the statements
set forth ;n the bill of grievances, that
it has abundant proof of the representations
made and that the condition
of affairs in the labor world is
the best proof of its contentions.
DEADLY MINE EXPLOSION.
Ten Men Known to Be Dead, TwentyFive
Hurt and Many Missing.
Ten men are known to be dead,
twenty-five injured and from twentyfive
to seventy-five missing arid believed
to be dead, as the result of
an explosion of gas in the shaft of
the Century Coal Company, at Century,
a small mining town situated
50 miles south of Fairmont, We3t Virginia,
on the Bellington and Buckhanon
branch, of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
Tfie explosion icok piace ai *:.5u
Thursday afternoon, but owing to tho
telephone wires being put out of commission
by high winds details are
lacking.
The- Century mine, which is owned
by Shaw Brothers of Baltimore, Md.,
is one of the largest independent operations
in northern West Virginia.
Over 250 men are employed daily in
the shaft, and had the explosion been
an hour earlier the less of life would
have been appalling.
As it was, there were but a few
remaining in the shaft, the main body
of the miners having quit work for
the day. The giant fan, which furnishes
air for the shaft, was partially
wrecked by the force of the explosion,
but was repaired immediately, and
within an hour after the accident n
relief gang was at work in the mine.
SNOWSLIDE ENGULFS CAMP.
Half a Dozen Men Killed in Mining
District by Avalanche.
A special from Granite, Col., say3:
An enormous snowslide came down
Wednesday evening in the Winfleld
and Clear Creek mining district, killing,
it is reported, at least half a
dozen men.
Among the dead is Harry Wlnebom,
! the pioneer prospector and mining
I man of Chaffee county. A relief parj
ty was organized and went to the
scene of the disaster.
To Consider Quarantine Bill.
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K0pr0SBIlI2lXlVC Wiillctuud yjL jnooidj
slppi Introduced a resolution Thursday
fixing March 27 as the*da* for
I consideration by the house of the Mal|
lory-Williams bill, to extend federal
I quarantine.
INSURANCE IS NOT COMMERCE. .
houss Committee Decides Against the
President's Recommendation.
By "unanimous vote the house committee
cn judiciary agreed Friday that
insurance cannot be regarded as interstate
commerce, and decided to
make a report to the house to that effect.
The president's [message i'orought.
j the subject of national control of fnj
surance be fore the house, and the refj
erence of his message led to the comj
mittee's action on the subject.
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CC37LY CTEAMER BURNED.
Vcss"! of Fsl! Fivar Lin a Destroyed,
Entailing Million Collar Loss.
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strcyo.i the Fall Fiver Line steamer I
Plymouth as she lay at her deck at
Xov/port, the north pier of the freight
shed and hoisting apparatus adjoining,
and damaged the freight steamer City
of Lowell. Much ether property was
temporarily threatened. The loss is
estimated at $1,000,000.
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MOODY ON THE TRAIL. M
"United States Attorney General Is
Preparing to Move Against the
Lynchers of Chattanooga Negro.
A Washington special says: Utilizing
every instrumentality at the command
of the department of justice, At- *;?g|
torney General Moody will push, forward
with all possible vigor and dispatch
an investigation into the Chattanooga
lynching with a view to the
punishneut of the lynchers.
"For the first time we now Ivive a
national lynching, one which the federal
government must and will punish,"
the attorney general is quoted
as saying. "It is the theory cf the flgl
department of justice and of the supreme
court justices that Ed John- ~
son, the negro lynched, was in the .
charge cf the federal government, being
under the protection of an order
of the supreme court of the United ||
States. Acting upon that assumption,
orders have been sent the federal officials
of Tennessee to make a full
and complete investigation, using the Vj
force of the United States marshal, J
and any ether force deemed neces* ;
sary for this purpose." v
In the opinion of the officials this ;
movement is of great importance. All
previous efforts to have the federal t
authorities interested in lynching
cases have proved futile because the
puiiisiiuieui ui l^ucucid uad uccu xu v?BH
the hands of the state courts and .
state authorities. This case, in the ^
opinion of the department of justice, * itfSj
clearly opens the way for the federal ^
government to take a hand, and the -C
steps already taken show its purpose V%j|B
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says: v;g9
General J. R. Penland, United States >'rM
district attorney. Thursday morning &j
received an anonymous letter through
the mails in which he was severely .
criticised for saying that he thought ;.:|3
that the lynching of the negro Ed , '%
Johnson at Chattanooga was not Jus- ,:|1
tifled and that the sheriff of Hamil
ton county had been negligent. The
letter was mailed in Knoxville,' and
was well written. >1
The district attorney is warned IS
against proceeding in the interest of
the government, and is told that "if '
you know yourself, you will let the 1 J
thing alone. That nigger -was guilty JgH
aifd had made a confession that he .
was, and what do you want to inter- u
fere for? The state courts, like that
in Knox county, that of the whole ufaBB
state and of the United States, are "f >j|
corrupt* and the people have got to
take the affairs in their hands." pj
FOR TWO NEW BATiLtsniro. ^
Bonaparte Wants Fighting Machine to
Surpass Everything Afloat. ,- |1
'Secretary Bonaparte appeared be- ^ %
fore the house committee on naval
affairs Thursday in support of an. in- '
crease of the navy. He advocated an |
appropriation this year for two 16,OOC-ton
battleships, and in case congress
does not see fit to provide for :.zM
two such ships, he urged the construe- i
tion of one 19,400-ton battleship.
TO USE NAME COSTS MONEY. -JW
Dealers Must Pay f:r Word "Ken- vJ |
tucky" Branded on Liquor. ^
The lower house of the Kentucky I'M
general assembly in extra session for
consideration of the question of the j
taxation of rectified spirits adopted a
bill imposing a license tax of 1 1-2 "3
cents per gallon on all such liquors '|aH
manufactured in the state or liquor
shipped into the state for the purpose
of branding "Kentucky" upon the bar- ^
rels and packages. 'V
NEGROES DROWN IN RIVER.
Tug Sinks, Causing Death of Four
Deck Hands. .
News of the sinking of the tug Mary
B and the drowning of four negro
deck hands was brought to New Orleans
Thursday by Captain William f'||H
Bisso. part owner of the vessel. The
officers and crew all had narrow es
capes and four cf the deck nanaa, .~&m
whose names are unknown, were '*|g
drowned. .
RAN AMUCK AT FUNERAL. Jl
Crazy Man Shcot3 Into a Crowd and
is Himself Killed.
Brooklyn, just acress the Patapsco
river from Baltimore, Md., is horrified
over the deeds and death of Walt?r
Potee, an insane man 28 years
old. who, entering his brother's house,
just as friends and reltives were gathering
to attend the funeral of the
brother s little child, opened fire with
a revolver, set fire to the house and
himself died from gunsnui wuuuuo, ,:<a_
but whether self-inflicted or otherwise ^
is not known.
PROFESSOR GOES NO PEN.
College Man Sentenced at Tampa,
Florida, for Counterfeiting.
At Tampa, Fla., Friday, .Judge Boarman
sentenced George H. Stephens,
former professor in Lafayette college,
at Easton, Pa., to a term of two
years in the penitentiary for counterfeiting.
The term will date from the
incarceration of Stephens, eight
months ago. Stephens wept when led
away by the officers.