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, OCTOBER 19, 1905. Sl.fiO Per Year. " ^a,T> -v %' * , ?f " ? ^ * LUKE ' HAMMOND, THE. MISER. P/ riwit Vf m# nonry rvotf i" ' Author Q**mr CopTTirtt im, v by lomt Boim'i Bon. (4lrtfktonNrMi) CHAPTER XXV. Continued. ' **I bare seen that cloud-surrounded Vice, my father's face, and more dis tinctly than ever before. The same .warning, too, to beTrare of Harriet IFoss. And am I not bewaring of that womsn? John Marks will remove her to win his son. And Such a son! I dreamed that Idiot was mj son, and that he called me 'Father! Father!* until my brain reeled with the shrlU of his cries. But, worst of all. I Breamed of James Greene? of James Greene and my two dead wives. I thought I saw him holding them by the fcand, and climbing up out of the old Well ? climbing, climbing, until they all got In here, and then the floor opened under me. and I fell, whirling down la thousand years, amid Imps, Idiots fend dead men, until I stopped, mangled . jto a pulp, in a lake of burning brandy ! tHorrlble! I awoke, and the sun was chining In my face with a gleam that blinded me. Then I dreamed that I bought for the lost will, and not finding It, fired the house, and saw everybody In It escape except myself, who was igrasped by James Greene, and held In tlie well until it was red hot and I a tinder." i He rambled on of Ills dreams, trembling and nervou3. until Stephen ?neaked into the library. "Stephen," said Hammond, "take these letters to the postoffice. Then ^call at my office In Wall street for letters* and say that I am out of town. There's an order for you to get the letters. Then go to No. ? Mott street. ?Ask for Mr. Thomas Allday. Tell him Ibis note Is due, and that he will be .wanted some time to-night. Tell him he shall have his note and Its value In cash besides if he is found not want ing. Then hurry home." , Stephen took the letters aud de parted. After bathing, as was his custom, Hammond breakfasted, aud was returning to his library, when old Fan sprpng up In his path and said: "Mr. Hammond, I want to go away." 1 "Go where? You are better off here than you can hope to be elsewhere," ?aid Hammond, eying her suspiciously. ! "I want to go away," said the old (creature, sitting down on the steps, and rocking herself backward and forward. "I want to go away from this dread ful house, Luke Hammond. My yellow birdies aren't safe here." "Come, this Is all nonsense," said (Luke, angrily. "Get up; get out of my way. I wish to pass up to the library." i "Not until you can tell me I can go * ?~can go, Luke Hammond." said Fan. ?'You must tell me you won't set the (dogs on me, and let me go." I Luke looked at her sharply. ? "What do you wish to go after?" v said he. ( "After! Nobody," said Fan. "You lie, you old hag. You wish to betray me. Go to your kitchen; and remember, my eye is on you always." "Yes, yes? so is his? so is his!" said UTau. hiding her face in her apron. ! "His? "Whose?" demanded Luke. I "James Greene's ? yes! James Greene's,'' sn!d Fan. "His eye is al ways on me? on me! just as ho looked when the floor sank under him and be Went down ? down; but he comes up!? Pie comes up! and he creeps and crawls (ill over the house, looking at me? at me! and for you? for you!" ? "Old woman, I must tie you up," thought Hammond, as she rose and ? prept slowly away. "You are growing .rery dangerous." .' He entered his library, and pulled k bell cord, then called out quick and llharp, like a snap: , "Come up! Quick!" , Theu, pacing around the table with ibneasy steps, he muttered: "The old woman grows dangerous. ttVc must act, and immediately." When Nancy entered he said: | "Well, It has reached that point." t "What point, Luke?" ' "That point at which necessity de mands that Fan shall be secured," Mid he. "Does she suspect?" asked Nancy. "I care not whether she suspects or hot," said Luke, savagely. "I scent L danger in the air, Nancy Harker. iWhlle I slept this morning my dreams vere horrible? terrific. I shudder now In remembering them." Nancy smiled. "Oh, you may grin," said Luke. "But I tell you that dreams have frightened me for the first time In my life of fifty years. And now, at this Instant, a sense of rapidly nearing peril so racki my brain, my nerves, my whole being, that the very air smells of Imminent danger." ? Hammond drew his tall, lean fignrs rigidly erect, and tossing back his long, narrow head, until his cruel face was turned upward, dilated his eyes and nostrils, and repeated, sweeping his hands in a wild circle: k "I scent danger In the air!" On the stairs, not five feet from the ?pen door of the little library, old Fan was peeping through the banisters, her keen, witch-like eyes on a level with floor. But she could not see Ham inond nor Nancy, and was as unper itlved by them. 81m had crept there to listen, for In her distorted brain began to bnrn a suspicion that Luke Hammond had lied when be told lier that Roland Dunn, her son, was hanged, and that Luke Hammond knew whers that son was. But that Luke Hammond was that son, old Fan aa jet, never dreamed. "Nancy," continued Luke, "often be fore now, during my life of plot and scheme, I have felt as I now feel, and always I have acted." "Act then, Luke," said Nancy, who was much impressed by his earnest bearing and pallid face. "You consent ?" "Not to her death, Luke," said Nancy, "but to her imprisonment." "Folly! I feel as If my unseen agent of success tells me to remove forever this woman, whose remorse begins to threaten my death ? death on the gal lows?to your death, Nancy Harker." "I will not consent to her death," said Nancy. "Imprison her. She may not suspect Imprison her Until you have got full possession of Elgin's estate, then we will share the wealth, and you may fly to whatever place you like." "And you, Nancy Harker?" "This affair finished, we must sep arate." said Nancy. "I shall fly to Italy." "And where shall we imprison old Fan?" asked Luke. Until he uttered those words old Fan had no idea of whom he was speak ing. She began to creep farther up the steps; the conversation was growing very interesting to her. "Anywhere. There are places enough In this large bouse to keep the old creature safe," said Nancy. "There is but one safe place for her," said Hammond, shutting the library door. But old Fan's ear was at the key-hole in a second. "And where is that?" said Nancy. "In the old store-room." Old Fan nearly screamed at the bare thought of the place. "You mean to murder her, Luke," said Nancy. "I will not consent to it." "Take core, woman. You are glow ing dangerous. You arc opposing me." "I care not whether I am growing dangerous or not," said Nancy, vehe mently. "Bad as I am, Luke Ham- j mond, there is a crime I cannot com mit. Our conduct caused the death of our father, the madness of our mother and were you to place your pistol at my head and say, 'Do it or die!' 1 will die before I consent to the death of our mother." "Fool!" cried Luke, in a rage. "I did not say 1 wished her death. I pay she muse be Imprisoned in the old store-room, not beneath It. She can not know why." "The mere fact of being there would kill her? her remorse would kill her," said Nancy. "No; imprison her In any other room." "She shall be Imprisoned in the old itore-room, and nowhere else. I have ?akl it," said Luke, fiercely. "And now to do it. We shall need Daniel's help." He opened the library door, and old Fan sprung into the room, bnro blade In hand. "I know you now! I know you both!" screamed Fan, slamming the door and placing her back against it, while Hammond and Nancy recoiled to the other side of the room. "You are crazy! you are a lunatic!" said Luke, while Nancy grasped his arm. "I know it! I know It!" shreked Faa "And who made me so? My children! Who slew their noble father? broke Ills heart? killed him dead? My chil dren! You, Roland Dunn, and you, Nellie Dunn! Oh, Nicholas, my dead and murdered husband! could you have lived to see tbls day! Not content with crushing of the noble heart? not con tent with driving their mother mad sea! hear! the parricides plot to finish by assassinating that half mad mother." She sank down upon the floor nnd moaned bitterly. Her knife fell from tier hand, nnd her sobs almost suffo cated her. Hammond's quick eye saw the knife, and he began to creep towards her to secure It. "Back! unnatural son!" cried Fan, snatching up the knife nnd springing to her feet. "Back! Roland Dunn! For years In my feverish, fitful mad ness I have vowed to avenge the death of my husband. But my brain? my brain reels? and I csnnot kill my ebll dren! No! I cannot! I thought I could -I thought it would bo a pleasure; but I was Insane? I am Insane now? Jt cracks my brain to try to think. How came I here In New York? I know not. Where have I been? Hero and there ? wandering, wandering, ever wandering; scorned, Jeered, lauglitfl at ?made a show, a scoff? by whom? By my children. Ah me! I am going mad again? I feel the fire rushing back upon my bra'n? all! wait! wait, let me think; oh, my sen, 'twa* you made your old erased mother an accomplice In a murder? what murder?? let me think ?yes. of James Greene. Ob, my hus band! let not the deed stand against me tpo* the dread record! of heaTMl I knew not what I did! 1 am dying r Bhe sank forward upon her face, U weak as * child. "Bhe la dying," said Nancy. "Help me to place her upon the settee/* "Now Bhe must not die here." said Lake. "Come, we iHU take her to Catharine Elgin's room up stairs." He was fearfully agitated, and per haps at that moment even his soul writhed with remorse. They raised tho unconscious form of their mother, and bore It to the room formerly used by Kste Elgin. They placed their mother upen the bed, end she opened her eyes. They started back from the calm, reproachful expression of those eying orbs. "My children," said Pan, in a feeblo voice, "I am dying. I know I am dy ing, but I am glad to die. I thank God that I die In my senses. It seems like a fearful dream, but I know it, Is true? a dread reality. You, who call your self Luke Hammond, are my son. And you are my daughter. My mind la calm and clear; it was not utterly clouded as It has sometimes been, and I remember all, or nearly all, I have done in this house. At times during D7 madness I have been entirely sane, and so great was my misery In being sane, that I havo prayed to be mad cgain. But never have I been in my clear mind more than a few moments at a time; and for many months I have never been utterly mad. I have al ways believed that I should see my children again. May God forgive me for all the evil I have done, as I for give you, my children. I have done and thought much evil, but I was mr.d. or half mad. My daughter, place your hand in my bosom, there is a weight there." Nancy Harker obeyed, and drew cut the little sack of golden coin. "Sink it! bury it! cast it away!" said the dying woman. "How I loved It in my madness! There's the price of a human life in It! Oh, scatter it to the winds! Roland, my son." But Hammond felt weak, tick and faint, and hurried away to his library. His face wove an appalled and ghast'y look, as he departed, but there was 110 tear In his eye, no repentance in hia coul. He regretted? nothing more. "He has gone," moaned Fan, turning hrr weeping eyes upon Nancy, who knelt near her. "Ah, I loved my hus band too much to gain the love of my children. Have you children, Nellie?" "Yes, my mother, one sou," eald Ncncy. "And has he? has Roland children?" "Yes, u:y mother, one son," replied Nancy. "I would ask many questions." said the dying woman, "I would talk much with you, my daughter. But death Is near me. But oh, my child, tell me, havo you known me to be your poor mother very long?" "No, my mother," said Nancy. "We have suspected it only a short time, 1 wrote my father's name ou the floor, and you recognized It." "I remember now. I fainted. Look at my scarred and distorted face. See the ravages of that awful disease, the smallpox. No wonder you did not sus pect sooner. But stay, I remember something more. That sick man in the red room? that young maiden in the other? who are they? You do not answer. What deed of crime ara you doing, my daughter?" Nancy made no reply. Sorry far what she had done she was, but sor row Is not repentance. She had a pur pose to accomplish, and what that pur. pose was the reader shnll soon learn. "Farewell, my daughter, and may God forglvo you. May you repent and reform ere you die. And now to Thy inorcy, Father of all mercy, I commeud my soul." Old Fan, aa we have called Ellen Elizabeth Duun, never spoke agr.in. She fell asleep, and in that sleep her tortured spirit passed away from earth forever. Nancy covered the body with a sheet, and stole away to the library. Sho found Luke drinking brandy, and look. Ing very wild. "She Is dead," said Nancy, coldly. "It Is well," said Luke. "And uow you must perform the duties she per formed for a time." "Are you not sorry, Luke?" "Of course I am. Nancy," said ho. "I am puzzled how to manage about the burial. Troublo there? trouble ahead." And that was his sorrow! "Now, Nancy, go to Catharine Elgin. Daniel must have his sleep. I must think." Nancy left him sitting at his desk? his eyes hard, keen and cruel, and every feature growing Btltf In Iron re solve. Ills race was nearly run. CHATTER XXVI. ? JOHN MAKKS EXT0KTS A CONFESSION. Luke Hammond had not been think ing long, when ho heard the gate-bell tinkle. Ho left the library and went to the end of tho ball, where, through the closed shutters, be could see the person who demanded admittance. "Ha!" said be; "It Is my dear friend, John Marks. Con be have dono his work so soon?" Then hastening to Daniel, he uwtko him, and ordered him to conduct tjo visitor to his library. It was not long before John Marks aud Luko Hammond wero once inoro together. "Ha! you are prompt and pale, John Marks," said Hammond. "Am I?" replied Marks, coldly. "But I have come lo see Nanc#r Harker, not you." "And have you no news from Harriet Foss?" cried Hammond. To bu continued. THE CLOSING SCENE fatsflKHrth Treaty Officially Signed By Both Balers _? ? IS DONE WITHOUT ANY CttEMONY War in the Far East Officially Ends With the Signatures of Czar and Mikado. i Washington, Special-4The emperor of Russia and the empdror of Japan Saturday morning sigued their re spective copies of the peace treaty, thus officially ending wat. Baron Rosen, the Russian ambas sador, called at the state department and saw Secretary Root. Whi!e he had no official advices ob the subject information had reached him to the effect that the emperor of Russia had early in the day affixed his signature to the treaty. A few minutes after noon Minister Takaliira appeared at the state de pal tment with a message stating that the emperor of Japan had signed the treaty at Tokyo. A cablegram was I immediately dispatched to Spencer Eddy charge of the American embas sy at St. Petersburg, who was in structed to inform the Russian for eign office that the emperor of Ja pr.n had signed the treaty. St. Petersburg, By Cable. ? The treaty of peace was signed Saturday though the representative of the for eign office refused to make any offi cial statement on parchment with the the French and English text in paral lel columns, was sent by Foreign Min ister Lamsdorff to Peterhof, where the ceremony of signing took place. Paris, By Cable. ? Premier Ro.ivier, acting on behalf of the Russian* gov ernment, cabled M. Harmand, the French minister at Tokyo, to inform the Japanese government that the em peror of liu^sia had sgincd t lie peace treaty, thus completing Russia's part in t he conclusion of pcn<*e between that country and Japan. DEATH OF SIR HENRY IRVING. Attack of Synocopt Aftei Return to Hotel On Conclusion of Perform ance at Bradford, England, Caus ed Death at 11:30 O'cljpck Friday Night. Ix>wlon, By Cable.? Sir Henry Irv ing died suddenly at Bradford Friday night. The death, of the distinguished ac tor was totally unexpected. He was engaged in a tour of the provinces, appearing nightly, and a few dajs ago spoke at a publio meeting in advo cacy of tbe movement for a munici pal t heat ro. Sir Henry played as usual at Brad ford, and returned from the theatre to his hotel, where he was seized with an attack of syncope, dying at 11:30 o'clock. Irving 's last appearance wus ts "Becket," in Lord Tennyson's play of that name. The Associated Press received the following telegram from Sir Henry Irving 's mnager, Bran Stoker: "Very terrible news. Sir Henry Irving had an attack of Syncope alter returning from the theatre to the hotel and died suddenly." Ready For General Passenger Agents. Mexico City, Special. ? The commit tee having in charge the entertain ment of the members of the General Passenger Agents' Association - of Ameirca hns completed all arrange ments for the care of the party from tho time of their arrival at the bor der until they reach this city, where they will hold their convention from October 17 to 21 inclusivo. Slight Fire on Governor's Island. New York, Special. ? A slight fire started Sunday in the bakery of Cas tle Williams, on Governor's Island, in which there are about 300 military prisoners, most of whom were exer cising in the court yard. The pris oners formed a bucket bngrade and had the blaze out before the fire com pany arrived. The damage is small. Five Swept Overboard. New York, Special. ? Five lives arc known to have been lost and more than 30 persona injured, some of them senously, on the Cunard line steainer Campania last Wednesday when a s;i gaiitic wave rolled over the stoamer and swept across a deck thick with steerage passengers. John Graham of Milwaukee was one of the passengers washed overboard and lost. Ho was traveling in the steerage. In addition to the name of John Graham the Cunard line officials gave out the fol lowing names of steeraee passengers who were washed overboard. Holston Methodist Conference Prais es President. Bristol, Vn., Special. ? The Holston Conference of the Methodist Episco pal church, South, in session here unanimously adopted a resolution commending President Roosevelt's ef forts in behalf of peace between Ja pan and Russia. Bishops Hoss and Duncan of the Southern Methodist church, were both present at the con ference, OFFERED $100,000 REWARD Offered For OonTiction of a Gang of Brutes. New York, Special. ? Isidore Wo rai se r, the millionaire banker, offered $100,000 reward for the conviction of a gang of men who recently assaulted Annie Thornton, a domestic employ ed in his household. In court wheu five men were arraigned for the as sau'.t Mr. Wormser said: "I will give $100,000 to have the perpetrators of this dastardly crime convicted and sent to prison." Recently, on Miss Thornton's birth day Mr. Wormser gave her $50 and a holiday as a reward for several years service in his household. That evening while passing a stable on the West Side, she said she was seized by two men and dragged into a stable and that about a dozen others join ed them there. She did not escape from the stable until the next morn ing. Her health was seriously affect ed by her experience. The five men arraigned were held in $2,000 bail each and the police an nounced that they expected to arrest nine more men in connection with the assault. Mutiny on High Seas. Wilmington, N. C., Special. ? A spe cial to the Star from Southport says the schooner Blanche II. King, Cap tain J. W. Taylor, Brunswich, (Ja., September 23rd to Philadelphia, put in there bringing in irons three ne groes, ail that remain of the crew of the four masted schooner Harry A. Berwind. Captain Rumill, from Mo bile, September 23rd, to Philadelphia, the captain, mate, cook and an en gineer having been ostensibly murder ed in a mutiny at sea and their bod ies thrown overboard. The body of a fourth negro of the crew was found lying on deck where he, too, had evi dently been murdered. Captain Tay lor, of the schooner King, sighted the Berwind early Thursday morning about thirty miles off the Cape Fear bar, and was attarcted to her by the manner in which she was being steer ed, having several times como very near running down the King. A near er approach to the Berwind showed that she had been practically aban doned. Captain Taylor and crew boarded the vessel and placing the two vessls off the bar, whence one of them wes towed in by Wilmington tugs, which have noiv gone for the other schooner, a gale prevailing on the out side. The Italian Earthquake. Rome, Special, ? According to the latest official reports 300 villages were dent roved by the recent earthquake in the province of Calalria. Reconstruc tion work, it is estimated, will cost about $30,000,000 and funds contri buted up to the present time amount to $400,000. The pope is much dis tressed became if the situation, es pecially now that the severity of the autumn weather is felt among the in habitants of the stricken district. His holiness received the Right Rev. Fran cis Borune, Roman Catholic archbish op of Westminster, in audience and thanked him warmly for opening a collection among the clergy of West minster, adding: "All good Catholic# throughout the world should imitate him." Governor Wright to Retire. Washington, Special. ? By reason of what appears to be dissatisfaction with the situation in the Philippines, Luke E. Wright, governor general of the Philippine commission, will retire from that position about the 1st of December. General Wright is ex pected to nrrivo in the United States during that month and is entitled to six month's leave of absence prior to the formal relinquishment of his la bors as governor general. To Forco Mixed Schools. Topeka, Kas., Special. ? The State supreme court issued a writ of alter native mandamus against the board of education of Kansas City, Kns., re turnable November 7, requiring said board to show causo why colored pu pils are not allowed to attend school at the same hours and in the same buildings as the white pupils. Judje Solicited for Campaign. Washington, Spccial.? The charge of soliciting and accepting campaign contributions in t lie campaign of 1002 made against Tinted Ktntcs Circuit Court Judge linker, of Indiana, by th'1 Civil Service Commission, Ins been referred to the Department of tistice by the commission. In connec tion with the refernce the commission gave out an official statement of the case in which if >va3 said "the statute of limitations is the only defense which can be opposed to the charge." Gave His Body to Science. New York, Special.?- In accordance with the provisions of the will of (Jcorgc W. ('alt, president of the At lantic Dredging and Construction Company, who died on Sunday, at his residence here, his body was taken to the Bellevue Hospital Medical College to be dissected in the interests of science. Mr. Catt was the husband of Mrs. Carrio Chapman Catt, Presi dent of the National Suffrage League, lEXriLE HEilSJf INTEREST Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing Enterprises Ware Shoals, S. 0. ? Another big Southern mill, the Ware Shoals Manu facturing company, is Hearing comple tion. Its buildings are now complet ed, the machinery has been ordered and is being received at the plant for installation. This latter work is ex pected to-be completed by November 20, and then the spindles and looms will begin to produce. The mill build ing is four stories high, 150 by 277 feet in size, and will have 25,000 spin dles, together with 800 looms, from the Draj>er Company, of Hopedalc, Mass. There wil then remain suffici ent space iu the building to double the spindles when the company desires to increase its equipment. The corpora tion owning this mill is capitalized at $500,000, and N. B. Dial, of Laurens. S. C., is its president. Gaffncy, S. C. ? It is expected that the work of developing Gaston Shoals, a property on Broad river, about five miles from Gaffney, will he started at once. This property and other water privileges were acquired by the GafT ney Manufacturing Company some time ago, but were sold recently to a company that Mr. J. B. Cleveland, of Spartanburg, is said to lie at the head of. This company had a corps of surveyors at work at I lie property last week and it is thought here that the work of developing will be heiMin in the near future. This property is considered very valuable and if prop erly develojH'd it is thought that these falls will furnish water power sulli eient for the manufacturing plants at Gaffney , Spartanburg. Cherokee Falls, Blacksburg, in South Carolina, and Shelby and other points iu North Carolina. Nashville, Tcnn. ? A meeting of the stockholders of the Warioto Cotton Mills, was held on September to to consider plans for that company's en terprise. Olliecrs were elected as fol lows: President, W. K. Odd!, ol Concord, N. C. ; vice-president, Wil liam Nelson; and secretary-treasurer. J. B. Morgan. Directors were chosen .is follows: M J. Smith. Edward Warner. Joseph H. Thompson, 11. <5. Lipscomb and A. II. Robinson, am! the three officers named. This com pany wil! not be in a position to make its building ready nor to install ma chinery until next summer, as it hat purchased the cotton mill property of ilu Tennessee Manufacturing Com pany, which iu under lease for some months yet, as stated recently. Durham, N. 0, ? The Durham and Southeastern Hallway will soon be running trains from hurliuin to Apex. N. C., where this road will cross the Seaboard Air Line and connect wit I :i road already running to a point on (he Atlantic (.'oast Line a few miles north of Fayelteville. This road will bo a great eonvonlcnoe to the Erwin Cotton Mill interests at Durham which have already established a large new mill and commenced the erection of a fine new town at Duke, which is on the line of this road only a short distance from its eastern termi nus at Dunn, N. C. It is probable in fact that the Duke and Erwin inter ests have been the chief factors in the building of this 1'oad which will be of great benefit to a section of conn try heretofore seriously lacking iu fa cilities for transportation of its pro ducts. Spartanburg, 8. 0.? The Sun Mills will be incorporated with an authoriz ed capital stock of $500,000 to build and operate a cotton-rope and twine mill. John B. Cleveland, John A. Law, Walter S. Montgomery and A. \V. Smith will be the direetois and in charge of construction work and in stallation of machinery. Mr. Mont comery will be president. San Hartonia, Texas. ? The contract with Del Rio people nud Eastern cap italists for the erection of a large cot ton mill at this place was closed on the 20th and Colonel S. O. Grimshaw. representing the capitalists, left at once for Fall River, Mass., where he will make arrangements for work to begin on the building. The plant will cost $150,000, and work is to begin within four weeks. Muscagee. ? The Commercial Club is negotiating with the representative of New York capitalists relative to the erection of a large textile mill, prob ably a cotton factory. Marlon, S. 0.? It. has been but a few months sinec the Marion Manu facturing Company began operations with its 5.000 spindles, but. already it. finds it necessary to add to that equipment. The company's directors met and ordered that 2,000 spindles be installed, and Willianp Stackhouse president, left at once for the North to buy the new equipment. Memphis, Tenn.? Makers of textile machinery are invited to correspond wirti the Shelby Cotton Products Co., relative to the purchase of machinery for manufacturing cotton yarns and hlnchimr that product. Tlie Shelby enterprise contemplates adding a yarn mil' to its present plant to utilize the linters and waste cotton, and is pre pared to receive information ami esti mates on the cost of the required equipments for the purposes named. IS LIKE LYNCH LAW President Spencer Speaks laifway Fate Lefislatioi TAKES A FIRM STAND AGAINST IT Declares Government Herniation is Unfair, Unjust, and Opposed to the Fundamental Principles of Anglo Saxon Jurisprudence. Newark, N. J., Speci.l._That gor ernment eoutrol of railroad proper, i? fV'TT ?' "'e K?.|,-Town??d oill, which was considered at the last session of congress, is unfair, unjust o the railroads, op|M>sed to the fun damental principles of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, and is equivalent to providing1 by statute for the enforce ment of commercial lynch law, is in substance the replay of the railroad* the agitation for railroad rate ]e*. lslation, as outlined by President Sam uel S|>eiicer, of the Southern railway. j? an address before tlie Newark board of trade. Mr. Spencer said in part : "Up to the present time shipper and earner have been free to work to gether without jKditical interference o acilitate the establishment of new industries; to reach out for new mar turors ! ?"r (Iunm>rs nml manufac to m ,! . ? ,,ew wwl,m unities and 0 maintain the prosperity of thou? :'h?' l"?'ible extent to en - inTV ? v"lMm" of '"'III <"ir domestic and foreign trade. <<T?>r0p08e 10 Ch?nge System. It is now pro|K>scd to change this system and substitute for it Tic in wK bureacratic methods of tiado the?,1,u'e vi' tl'e natural laws ot tiade ami commence, which have been the controlling force and evolu tion ot I lie present system. And it must be borne in mind that ?t is proposed to give those enormous lowers to a body on whom no respon sibilities rest or can rest, for the pre servation of maintenance of the rail road property, or for the discharge of financial obligations, or the fulfillment or its duties to the public as an effi cient common carrier. The president, in his last annual message, laid special emphasis upon 1 he necessity for doing away with re bates and lor the keeping of the high ways of transportation open to all upon equal terms. There is no issue or controversy before the people or congress as to whether or not rebate, or secret discriminations should be stopped. No one desires more than the railway managers themselves that there should bo an end to all such practices. <<VrNo Suggestions. No rational suggestions have been made, however, as to how the grant ing of rate making power to the in terstate commcrcc commission sould be effective to this end. A rebate or any secret discrimination device can of course, be applied to a government rate as well as to one inado by the carrier. Ono of (ho most serious objection! to the legislation proposed is that, un der it a rate once fixed by the com mission would continue in force inde finitely, unless changed by the com mission or by the court. The oarriei would, theroforo, have no power to mako either reductions or increase! to meet new conditions. "To place in the hands of one tri bunal which is or may be prosecutor, jury and judge and at the same time executioner is equivalent to being one statute for the enforcement of com mercial lynch law." Wisconsin Central Sold. Alilwnukcc, Special. ? The Journal says: "The Wisconsin Central has been sold and the new interests are in full control. They represent big Kastorn financiers ami the change means that the line will finally enter Milwaukee Southern and that it will become part of a great railroad sys tem." Was There Foul Play? New York, Special. ? Police dragged the Harlem river for the body of Mrs. KatWrinc Dticrr, who was drowned tinder circumstances so suspicious as to cause the arrest of Mis. Duerr's hushan<j. Otto, and his J/iond Charles Hahn. Raymond Mossmer and his wife, Mary, parents of the drowned woman, declared to Coroner O'Oor mpn that they believed she had been a victim of foul play. Hearst Accepts Nomination. New York, Special. ? William Ran dolph Hearst has made public a letter addressed to Judge Samuel Scabury, of the Municipal Ownership league, accepting the league's recent tender of a nomination for mayor of New York. The municipal convention of the organization will be held Thurs day, but Mr. Hearst was offered ths nomination at a meeting some days ago. His aeeptance assures three mayoralty tickets in the field this fall ? the democratic, the republican and municipal ownership League.