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SOLD BAD MEAT. Charleston Man Accused of Violating the Law. HAD MEATS SHIPPED To Him li^'T Names of "Soap Grease" ami "Hog Tallow" So As He Could Fool ;Tlio Department of Agriculture, Which Caught On To the Trick and Gave Him Some Plain Talk. A letter from Washington says John F. Werner, of Charleston, is likely to get into serious trouble with the government over the meat inspection law unless he complies at I unco \v 11n tne requirements of Hocrotary Wilson. For Bonietimo Werner has boon in correspondence with the secretary of agriculture concerning the shipment of meat in interstate commerce This correspondence began last fall. Kefering toVthis correspondence, the last letter of Secretary Wilson issued Thursday to Werner, which explains fully the case is as follows: "Disregarding all the instructions and advice which had been given you by the department, you wrote to packers having federal inspection, asking them to ship to you mutilated meats and such parts as will not pass federal inspection. You asked them to pack these meats down in tierces and to mark the same "hog tallow" and to ship them to you. as you could realize more from their sale than the packers could by tanking the meat. You have instructed shippers that If they bill tainted meat as "tallow" or "wiflll ITMUO" tin " nnin # . ' 41 1' CI n" PVUlll|l Ul UlOllfUllOIl is required. ^ The departmet4 hns conchiHlve evidence that sour and tainted meats have been shipped to and received by you, in some instances billod as ?oap grease or meat unfit for human food, and it is the intention of the department that you dispose of these unsound, unhealthy, unwholesome meat for human consumption in the city of Charleston and elsewhere. In one instance which was called to your attention you claimed that meat shipped to you as soap grease was so shipped because of ignorance on the part of the shipper. The department has evidence that this particular shipment of meat was billed to you as "soap grease," in accordance with your directions for shipping it. After this meat had been shipped you, you wrote to the department, stating that 9 0 pr cent of it was in good condition, healthful, wholesome and fit for human food. You asked that you be allowed to reshlp it in inter-state trade. The statement regarding the condition of the meat was absolutely untrue. The meat waB inspected by an expert meat Inspector of the bureau of animal Industry, who reports thut none of it was good and that the stench from moat or me pieces was very oaa. "It is a well known fact that prior to the passage of the meat inspection law, jobbers in some of the aouthern states made their places of business a regular dumping ground for unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, and tainted meats, and It seems to me that you are continuing in this practice in the face of the present meat inspection law. Your house is used for the collection and distribution of any kind or class of tainted, inferion, unhealthful, unwholesome, and unsound I meats obtained from any source in any conceivable vwiy. A watch haf been put over J/nir incoming and outgoing shipments of meat and meat food products and this watch will be maintained until the departI ment is satisfied that you are coinforming your business to the law. Common carriers leading into and out of Charleston have been advisod that the denartment will not accent your certification to the soundness of meat for human food, and thai it will therefore he necessary foi them, by their own observation and examination, to assure themselves affirmatively that any meat which you may offer for Interstate commerce is sound, wholesome, and fll for human food. You will note from the above thai you have undoubtedly been an ac cessory both before and after thf fact to the vlolatjr of this law, and unless you discontinue your practice Immediately you will be reported tc the department of justice for prose cutlon. I surmise that the methods em ployed by you In conducting youi business will be of interest to thr liealth authorities of the city o Charleston and to the authorities o the state of South Carolina. Accord ingly I have sent a copy of this let ter to the governor of South Carolim It is further my purpose to giv< copies of this letter to the news papers." Four Greeks Killed. Four Creeks employed on Tide water Railroad construction work wore Friday struck by a Norfoll and Western freight train near Roa noke, Va., and killed. The men stepped from track to another dlr ectly in front of an approching train Col. E. R. Fox, Los Angele? t Cal., was arrested and held in $5,00 ^bail on a charge of criminal libt made by Dr. H. McD. Peggs. The story sent out from Washing ton that a machine had been inveni ed to take the fuzz off of cotto seed is pronounced a fake. BURNED TO DEATH. A Spark Popped From Fire to a Quilt Around Him. Power of Speech Itcturiicd to Paralytic When lie Saw That II? Was Doomed. Mr. John Terrell W Ilk ins. aged 7 8 years, father of the president of the Mary Louise cotton mill was burned to death Wednesday morning at his home near the mills, and the flames spreading from ills clothing, destroyed the house and all the household effects. Mr. W ilk ins has been paralyzed for a number of years, and he and | his wife lived alone in the vicinity of the mill, four miles from Cowpens in Spartanburg county. The stroke of paralysis had made Mr. W ilk ins completely helpless, even to the loss of the power of speech?he had not spoken for a long time. Wednesday morning he was assisted from his bed by Mrs. Wilkins who left .,im seated before the Are. wrapped in a unlit, while she left the room to prepare his breakfast. During her absence a hot coal popped from the fireplace onto the guilt about. Mr. Wilkins' person, und in a few seconds lie was almost completely wrapped in flames. Mrs. Wilkins was attracted by the smell oT smoke and, rushing to the roofh where she left her husband, made frantic efforts to beat out tin* blaze. A remarkable and extremely pa-1 thetic feature of the sad accident was tne ract that the old gentleman,! who had for years been paralyzed, for many months robbed of his power of speech, thought even in his dying moments of the life companionwho was spending every moment of her declining years in attention to him and his aflllctlons. Realizing that he was doomed and that Mrs. Wilkins and the house was in danger, Mr. Wilkins made an extreme effort, and for a second, regained his power of speech, crying to his wife in plainly distinct, but labored words: "Take care of yourself. Get out of the house, don't mind me." Mrs. Wilkins rushed from the house, crying for help, and to the home of some neighbors, but when assistance arrived, Mr. Wilkins had already been burned to death, and the house was ablaze. Mr. Wilkins is survived by two sons, Mr. S. It. Wilkins, a prominent merchant of that section and a member of the Spartanburg board of assessors, and Mr. Rail Wilkins, president of the Mary Louise cotton mill. WAYLAID AND K1LLKI). Priminent Georgian Foully .Murdered Near His Homo. Mr. O. W. May, a prominent and wealthy citizon of Ashburn, Oft., was waylaid and killed near his V. - \? *,..1 ...I .. .. A HUIIIW TY UUIlCDliaj lllftUL. A IKT^iU whom Mr. May had employed the day before is suspected of the murder, and the sheriff and a posse are now in search of him. The body of Mr. May was discovered Thursday. It had been dragged from the roadway and concealed in the bushes. The body showed that he had been struck on the head with an axe. Mr. May had been to Ash hum and , drawn $150 from the bank. It is presumed that the uegro was aware that the money wus on Mr. May's person. The pockets hud been rifled when the body was found. FATALLY liUltNKIh Ily the KxploNion of a Small Tank of Gasolene. At Wnycross, Ga., Homer Curry, [ a 12-year-old boy, was probably fat[ ally burned by the explosion of the i gasoline tank back of tho Herald ofllee Wednesday morning. The boy was tilling a small tank from a large drum of gasoline when a match was I lighted, causing the explosion. AnI other boy was playing with the Cur ry boy, and each accuses the other 5 of lighting a match. The boy's L clothing caught on tire and he start' ed to run but was thrown down by I some men and covered with sand i His clothing was torn from him, hie 1 body being badly burned from hear to his waist. I K1GIIT PEOPLE KILLED t ___ , In a Hail road Wreck Near Sunset [ Mill, Ga. > Eight employes of the Union Pineonolis Saw Mills were killed in t wrack near Sunset Mill Thursday r morning and others are seriously ; injured. There were sixty persons f on th wrecked train. The train con f sisting of Hat cars was hacking oui - and the negroes were on the from - car. A tree had burned across th< i track in a sandy place and was no > noticed until too late to prevent th< - wreck. All the dead are negroes Several white men were on the en gino but none were injured. Mill iialnsr Scarce. Much interest is being taken li <. trial of the cotton mill men in th< federal court at Greensboro, who - are accused of importing labor un - der contract. Evidence shows grea i. scarcity of labor for textile mills. b | Detectives announce that the 0 have located W. F. Walker, the de il | faulting treasurer of a hank in Nc\ 1 Britian, Conn., in San Franciscc They await ident fication. > i Western railro ids have abolisbe n | all reduced fare in retaliation fo legislatures passing 2-cent rate law. I GIVES UP FIGHT. Pitiful Case of a Young Mother in Savannah Who TOOK HER OWN LIFE. After Buttling for Two Long Years After ller llushuitd's Death She landed Life's Struggles by Taking Laudanum, Which She Bought Wit It Money Borrowed for the Purpose. Tired out with her struggles with poverty and exclaiming that she was unablo to care for iter two small children, Mrs. Belle Baslor. twenty-four years of age, died at the Savannah hospital Sunday night, ending her life with three ounces of iaudnum which she bought with money borrowed for the purpose. The young woman pretty and well educated, had become almost entirely dependent upon the ..charity of friends and with one of her children was living at the home of Mrs, Carrie Jones, at No. f>7<5 Hay street, west. Within two blocks of Mrs. Jones' home the young woman swallowed the poison a few minutes after she purchased it from a druggist on West IJond steet, and then went to her room and prepared to die The poison was bought tit two o'clock in the afternoon and for several hours the young woman lay upon her bed waiting for death. About her in the little room they shared together, played iter two-year-old son, Arthur, unmindful of the rapidly approaching death of his young mother. Mrs. Jones went into the room during the late afternoon and noticed that Mrs. llaslor's appearance had changed and her endeavor to find out the real trouble resulted in the final effort made to save the young woman's life. Mrs. Jones went from the little room on tho second floor to the apartment occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson, on the first floor. Mrs. Pearson's son, A. Stoddard, a machinist, hearing Mrs. Jones tell his mother of tho unuasual appearance of the young woman who was dying t^pstairs, remembered some strange remarks about the future world which Mrs. Haslor had made during /the last few days. Suddenly he became impressed with the fear that she had made an effort to end her life, and at once li<>C2tti. j? rnnnit t\f fho itriif ?lr>r<iu In the neighborhood. Ho found that a druggist had sold a young woman three ounces of laudnum in the early afternoon. He hurried home and to him and to Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Baslor told of swallowing the poison. Turning to Mrs. Pearson the young mother held out her son In her arms and asked that her friend keep the boy. "Take him and bring him up as he should be brought up," requested Mrs. Baslor. "My people have all deserted mo and I can't 11 nd enough work to enable me to care for myself and my child. I will get out of the way now, but you must take care of Arthur." Suddenly Mrs. Paslor lapsed into unconsciousness and was hurried to the Savannah hospital, where a light of several hours was made by physicians in an offort to save her life. At 11 o'clock she died without once regaining consciousness. A. Stoddard, whose inquiries revealed tho fact that Mrs. Baslor had swallowed poison, stated that he believed tho young woman had intended to end her life for several days and that she was prevented because she did not have money enough to buy a deadly drug. "She* wouldn't have used a knife or anything like that," he said. She borrowed 25 cents from my motheT at noon, and spent the money for tho laudnum. We all loved her. She was nice and quiet and sweet. We would have cared for her the bcsl we could if she had stayed with us." ' Mrs. Baslor's husband died two years ago and since that time she had been practically penniless. Before her death she asserted that she 1 had been deserted by well-to-do rel nlltfAn tarlwx n U cvi I 1 V ruifO Mttai/I f f\l cinvi;n w uu nuuuiu uavi/ vui v/vi *v#? her. Her elder child, Earl, hi belnf cared for by a family in Middle Geor 1 gla, but the youngest, Arthur, hat! remained with his mother. KILLED IIV SHOCK Death Visits the Same Home Twin t in Same Day. The homo of Mr. II. Feldman, o " Macon, (la., was visited twice Thurs l day by the angel of death. In tin morning, Mr. Feldman aged 66 year: passed away, and lesH than two hour: . later his stop-daughter, Miss Herth ] Arnold, died. The news of tin death of her step-father was largol; " responsible for the death of Mis Arnold, who was quite ill at th< 1 time. She was unable to rally fron the sinking spell that followed th< 2 announcement. A double funera was held at tho family residence. Confessed to Forgery L. L. Reading, a citizen of Ches tor, was committed to jail on Tue? 2 day charged with forging tho nam J of Mr. L. D. Childs to a number c } checks. Mr. Reading came fror " Ohio two years ago to manage th 1 Buffalo Lick springs near Chestei He has confessed the forgeries. y Ex-President Grover Cleveland !- shooting ducks at Georgetown, S, C v as the guest of Gen E. P. Alexande >. He is accompanied by E. C. Benedi< and Admiral Lamberton. d M. G dovin, the president o? ?f lower house of the Russion p i Mi i. ment, had an audience with the cza / THEY GO CLEAR. Virginia Jury Upholds the Unwritten Law by Verdict IN STROTHERS CASE. Two Young Men, Who Were Charged With Murder, Were Acquitted for Having Killed a Man by the Name of llywnters for Seducing Their Sister Under u Promise of Marriage. The unwritten law has been upheld by a Virginia Jury, which -rendered a verdict of not guilty on Thursday at Culpepper In the case of James and Phillip Strother. who was tried for murder, they having killed William F. Bywators for ruining their sister under promise of marriage. The case had excited great Interest all over Virginia, and the trial lasted several days. The jury was out one hour and u half before it brought its verdict of not guilty. The case was fought very hard on both sides, but. the verdict was not unexpected, as it was plain that public sentiment was in fn\or of the two young men who voro being tried. All t lie parties connected with the case were prominent. The jurors retired to the Jury room immediately after Judge Harrison had put the caso in their hands Then began the most trying test of tiie ordeal for the defendants. The strain was most apparent on the fneo g\t' 111 lr? Ci - - ? -- wmivHiini , tliu JUUllftor defendant, while James apparently, was confident of a favorable verdict. Me sat In silence, listening to the comments of his counsel, and occaslonly offerd words of consolation to his wife, who sat at his side. As the minutes passed away the situation became more strained, many in the court room taking the delay as an unfavorable sign to the accused. Judge Harrison, himself keyed to a high pitch, paced restlessly up and down the narrow space behind his bench, while the counsel for both sides gathered to discuss the meaning of what seemed to them a delay. At precisely 11.10 o'clock, the jurymen, proceeded by Sheriff Boworsett, filed into the court room and took their accustomed seats. A breathless silence fell over the room as the spectators waited the announcement of the verdict. "Gentlemen of the jury," asked Deputy Clerk Ollkerson, "have you agreed upon your verdict?" "We have," replied Foreman Price handing the verdict to the court officer. "Wo find the defendants, James and Philip Strother. not guilty,"' was the message read aloud by Clerk Gilkerson. The announcement was the signal for an outburst of approval which Judge Harrison quickly silenced. The effect of the verdict was, howover, instantaneous. James Strother reached for the hand of Mr. Moore, one of his counsel, and Philip was quickly surrounded by the friends who have stood by the brothers since the opening of the trial. Mrs. James Strother, overcume hy emotion, fell forward into her husband'H arniH, sobbing and exclaiming her thanks. When the effects" of the critical moment passed, Judge Harrison addressed the Jury as follows: "Gentlemen of tho Jury I thank you for a verdict which I think will be approved hy the public. It is an i estahlishd precodent in tho State of i Virginia that no man tried for dei fending the santity of his home should bo found guilty." ) After further words of approval ! from the bench, ihe Jurymen left the court room, with the intention of going directly to their homes in > Shenandoah county. CHIEF OF POLICE DIBS. \ From Wound Received While Ivooking for Hlind Tiger. ? Chief of Police Chasin, of Fayette ville, N. C., who was shot on last Sat; urday night by a negro, Tom Walker - died Tuesday morning from the efI fecta of the wounds. The negro shot two other policemen, one of whom is not expected to live. The police were making a raid on the negro's house to learn if he was conducting a blind tiger. The negro was landed in the penitentiary and Governor Glenn promised a speedy trial. Court convenes at Fayettef ville the 2f>th when the trial of the - murderer will take place. I TINSELED POST CARDS B . Poisons a Mail Carrier in .Jersey 3 V City Postortlce. B B Tho New York American says ii Frederick Huneker, a Jersey City letter carrier, is critically ill at his 1 home in Magnolia avenue of blood poisoning, caused by the scratch of a tinseled souvenir postal card. The edge of the card cut his finger. A few i- days ago tho postal authorities of kr .. d'. aI r? I /1/t/ytt irtd nen /\ 4 ?" i^OW 1 OI K luon umuiai i;uguiAaum e fact that flying partlclos of tinsel 01 ?f poisonous colored matter had resultn ed in an epidemic of bronchial ail? ments among post office employes r. it is thought restrictive legislatloi will be demanded. is It is claimed that the Louisian 1 sulphur mines can supply the worl r. (.with that article of commerce. Th ct Italian government is interested i the statement, in N. T. Maxwell, accountant of th a-1 Southern at Spencer. N. C., is in ja ,r. charged with padding the pay rolh % 1 REFUNDS MONEY. Perki is Reimburses New York Life Insurance Company. * Says lit* Acted On (lit* President'* Advice for Host Interests <?r tin Policyholders, George W. Perkins, of Now York, former vice president of the Now New York Idfo Insurance compuuy and now a member of the firm of .) I P. Morgan & Co., has soul to the New York Life ills personal check for 154,019.19 to reimburse the company for the Republican campaign fund contribution made from its funds in 1 904 in connection with which Mr. Perkins was recently made defendant on a charge of larceny. Announcement of the restitution N of the principal of $4 8,500 and in- < terest to date was made Thursday * by President Alexander E. Orr, of ( the New York Life, to whom Mr Perkins addressed-' a letter Inclosing the cheek. President Orr also gave * out the letter. In it Mr. Perkins ! declares that in dismissing tlio crim- ' inal proceedings against him the 1 court intimated tlu\t tlio campaign i contribution was n*t for a proper ' corporate purpose. He again asserts that ho was acting upon a request of the then president of the Netf York Life when ho ad- < vanned the money for the campaign : contribution In 1904, and says that when the then president of the company rimbursed him, there was no 1 thought on the part of either of any personal advantage, but a belief 1 that they were "acting for the best and broadest interests of the policy holders, both at home and abroad." The letter follows: i "In 1904, at the request of the i then president of the company, I advanced $48,f>00 as a payment on < behalf of the New York l/lfo Insur- i ance company to the Republican national campaign committee. I did this with the understanding with the j president that 1 should be reitqburs- | ed by the company. Subsequently < I was so reimbursed. The payment without any thought on the part of the president or myself of personal advantage, but solely in the be- , lief that it was for the best and broadest interests of the policyholders, both at home and abroad. "In dismissing the criminal proceedings Instituted against mo for accepting reimbursement, the courts ' have Intimated that the payment, i therefore the reimbursement, was ' not for a corporate purpose. I there- i fore return to the company the I amount of money paid by it to me, < inclosing herewith my check for < $ f> 4.01 9,1 9 to cover principal and interest." A SPOOK CASK. Causes a Helmut ion Among the Cult in New York. If half the charges she makes are true, one or the most sensational exposures of fake spiritualism in the history of the country can lie exported as a result of the suit filed in New York by Mrs. Harriet E. Strickland agains t Dr. Hugh It. Moore, u spiritualistic minister and conjurer of spooks. Mrs. Strickland asks $25,000 damages for defamation of character fol lowing the quitting of Mooro's secvices, where she was employed as a "spook in chief." The woman alleges that the patrons of the parlor discovered her to be a very tangihlo sort of spirit and she worked to quit the game. Mrs. Strickland says she will disclose sensational facts relative to the fake practices of Rev. I)r. Moore, of the first church of progressive spirits over which he presided. She says Moore has a complete staff of people of various ages who wero spook actors with which he met any demand that might he made by his clients who wished to converse with any particular variety of spooks. FARMER MURDERED A Negro Farm Rand Suspected of The Crime. Information was received at Ashburton, Ga., on Wednesday afternoon of a murder mystery about five miles away which is puzzling the authorities. Mr. George W. Way, a prominent farmer, and one of the most prosperous and well known men of his section of the state, was rnurdored on his place by some unknown party. It is stated that there is no clue to the guilty party, beyond the fact that a strange negro whom Mr. Way employed a short time ago as a farm laborer, and who has been missing Hince the murder. AG A INST HOL'TH CAKOLI N A The State Government Can Not Pay Immigrants I'assart*. The Attorney General of the United StftteH has given President Roosevelt an opinion on the South Carolina immigration case, holding that it is unlawful for the State Government to pay ttie passage of prospective immigrants otherwise than by advertisments. Previously the solicitor of the Department of Commerce and I*abor, decided there was no vlo iation of the contract labor law in " the Wittekind case wherein the im migrants were brought to South Car1 olina on money raised by subscription. amounting to $30,000. a Thousands of Georgians paid their d last homage to Judge Logan E, e Bleckley at the funeral in the capi n tol in Atlanta Thursday. It is reported that a battle tooV e place between the forces of Hondu il ras and Nicaragua in which the Nic i. araguans were defeated. HE SAWED OUlT \ Prisoner Succeeds in Cutting Through Iron Bars of THE COLUMBIA JAIL. . le Took 111m lied Ticking mul Miuto a Hope One Hundred uml Fifty Feet lx>ng, i/owcml Himself iu Tilt* (.round and Hotfooted It Across ilie Country to Parts Tli(ft Are I'likiiown W. D Ellison, a white man, wbu vns serving out a sentence in th? Columbia In 11 for grand larceny, mule good his escape on Wednesday wetting of last week. Ellison's escape was a particularly luting one. In some way he had uicceedod in getting a saw ami tome illcm. With these tools he cut through six heavy Iron bars, and earing tip his bed he took the ticking and made It into a rope 150 feet long and lowered himself to tine i round There was also evidence on tire broken bars that some kind of powerful acid find been used to aid hi -tawing through the bars. It Is believed that Ellison Is a professional veggman, as his method of his ennape is certainly not that employed by amateurs. The escape was nffeel uu ni-iwccii i i p. in. and o a. in. Up to last Saturday Doc Milltvr and young Travis, the forgor, occi*pled adjacent colls, and it in belleyad the throo mon worn in a compact Lo lironk Jail, but tholr removal m> tho penitentiary ...otiday loft them out of It. Otnolals bolieve that had not those mon been removed just ujt the right time they would have also made their escape. Tho authorities are making a desperate effort to apprehend Kllison, though there Is uo slow wliatovor to work on. KlliliINd NEAU IIOIMjWH. David Hunter Fatally J aloe Taylor on Monday. About five miles from Hodges, David Gunter siiot and killed .Jakjr raylor on Monday of last week. Do tin men wore under tho influence of whiskey ut tho lime of the unfortunate occurrence. They wcg working at a sawmill for Messrs. Prult & Smith. They had hoen sawing nut a strand on C. W. Brlseey's plane hut preparations were being maito to move tho plant to a {mint near Ware Shoals, oth parties are white and citizens of Abbeville county. Ml Taylor lived until 4.20 o'clock tin morning following the shooting. Ounter was locked up in the Greenwood county jail. SELLS HIS WIF1Q. Then Asks Board of (luudtie* Tk Care for Four Children. At Home, N. Y., Lawrence Weir, Thursday made application to Superintendant Graves of the Hoard oi Charities, to have his four children placed In some institution. Weir ' admitted to the superintendent thai ' he had sold his wife for |6 to n man at Highland Mills, two milen above Home. The wife consented to tho transfer. Weir has six children, besides the four at home. Otto is working in a cigar factory and onn is with relatives. Weir is about ifr years old, and is emyloyed in a braan mill. AGED GOOBH Ha id To be Over Hevcntjr-Two Yean Of Age. William Yours Strong, a farmer near Caldwell, N. J., owns a goosn which is seventy-two years of age h* says. William Yours, the man I wan named after, gave me this goose tn 1871," said Strong. "Yours was going hack to the old country, and he said 'Hill, I've owned this goose for thirty-six years. I would take her with me, hut I fear she cannot stand th? voyage, so I will give her to you. Cherish her, Hill; he kind to her in her old age, for she is almost like a sister to me.' Yours kissed the goose good by," Mr. Strong added. "Look at her, who la an active rh n gosling. I)AK1N<? HOLDUP. Moscow University ProfeAHors lt?> lieved of their Salaries. A daring holdup took place at the university at Moscow, Russia, while the officials were being paid off In the chancellery seven armed men entered with pistols and demanded the money. The intruders fled after seizing $20,000 and decamped, kill Ing the sergeant of police, whom they met at the door as he was about to enter the room. The university is now surrounded by the police and - ? ? Al 1 J - it an me nousos hi iuw viumiijr aiw owing searched. Must liny Their Papers The railroad commission has decided that It will not pay for newspaper subscriptions and that the newspapers taken by its members must bo paid for by them Individnally. Senator Bailey denies that he hajt asked to succeed Senator Blackburn as the democratic leader of the United States senate. A Pennsylvania Railroad passen* ger train plunged over* an embank ment near Warren, Pa., and nine* persons were hurt.