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HELD UP TRAIN Thru Daring Robbers Secured Thirty Five Thoisaig Dollars f CAREFULLY PLANNED Most Successfully Carried Out, as the Indications Are That the Desperadoes Had Prepared 10very tiling With Cunning and Careful Foresight to Illlle the Mail Car. Denver, Feb. 13.?A holdup of the Dearer & Rio Grande passenger train No. 4, near Denver, earl^this morning \Vas the work of three instead of two robbers, as at llrst was believed, and the robbery of the mail car gave them a loot of possibly $3 5,000. This is indicated by the invest i?a Hon of the police and railroad officials today. So far no tangible clew to the identity or whereabouts of the robbers has been found, but it seems probable that the men came to Denver and are now hiding in this city. Eighteen packages^' of registered mail were secured. The robbery was re^mrkable for its originality and daring. It took place within eight miles of Denver, within less than two miles of Fort Logan, the United States military reservation, and af1 the spot where habitations are plentiful. Yet so thorough was the ffVork of the robbers and so well!were their plans laid that they hrd fully an hour and a half start of the officers. Search of the vicinity of the holdup indicated that a third man and possibly a fourth, were engaged in tlie robbery, that a rubber-tired buggy was in waiting for the actual holdup men and that torpedo and red signal fires were, used unsuccessfully in an attempt to stop the train before the automatic revolvers of the two men on the engine tender succeeded in doing so. Amid a fusillade of revolver shots from one of tile?robbers, another forced the mail clerk to open the door of his car. The second robber then cooly searched every piece of registered mail in the car, threw the nasckairos ht> desired Into m snok and jumped off. At the points of revolvers the engineer, fireman, baggageman and mail clerks, were marched up the track a distance, then told to get back to their train. fcTho robber; then disappeared with -booty. ArmJBhfcaKjVs'*' of deputies and squads of regular soldiers from Fort Logan and police are searching tlie country around Fort Logan and the foot hills in search of the two bandits, but no trace of them has been four.d. * Mix SHOT DOWN" And KilhJl in the Streets of Charlotte Tuesday. Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 0.?J. G. Hood, for many years prominent in business here, was shot through the head three times this morning by W. S. Riggers, a farmer.B Riggers overtook Hood in front of the Central hotel and fired four shots at close range. One ball pased through the hotel bus, missing the driver's head by six inches, it is understood that Riggers claimed he had been swindled out of money in business transactions. Roth men has families. EXPLODED DVXAMITE * . In His Pocket aiul Dlel'Vrom Injury Received. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 8.?Herbert Fisher, aged 13 years, of Sparks Gap, south of Birmingham, is dead as a result of exploding a dynamite cap which he had in his pocket. Tho little fellow did not know what he had and was knocking it whon the explosion followed. The boy's arm and hip were torn from the body and death was instantaneous. TARIFF ON PAPER. Special Committee of House Wants It Reduced. Washington, Feb. 12.?The special committee on pulp and paper investigation consisting of Messrs. Mann, Stafford, Banon, Sims and Ryan, mot this morning and agred to recommend a material reduction in the A ?1 48 ? ? -1 ?Olioh mini. oil grouuu wuuu uuuci conditions as would put on the free list pulp wood and ground wood pulp Imported from Canada. ? & SlIBSi % MURDERER LYNCHED. NK(JRO WHO nonilKl) AND KILL-1 Kl> MINISTER At Houston, Miss., Several Days A^o, Taken From .lull and Hanged After lie Confessed. Houston, Miss., Feb. 8.?Roby Haskln, the eighteen-year-old negro under arrest here, has confessed to I the murder nf lir vv t w. . If | 1 I 1 1 UU OU 11 , in Moore's Grove, near this town, Saturday morning. Ho says he shot Dr. Hudson because ho had robbed him, and then decided to got him out of the way. The governor ordered out a company of militia to protect the negro, but later canI celled the order when he found out I that there was no danger of a lynching. I Houston, Miss., Feb. 0. ? Roby Baskin, murderer of the Rev. \V. T. Hudson, was lynched by a mob here this afternoon. A crowd of over 300 determined citizens took him from the jail and hanged him to a nearby tree. Not a shot was tired, and whole proceeding was conducted quietly. Sheriff Dean, of Okolona, arrived just as the negro breathed his last. Leaders of the mob said the negro had not been given a speedy trial as promised, and that they could not bo blamed for taking justice into their own hands. TIip nrlsniuii' -- ??? * - >uv?> i ii (in nri/icil ? lllUHU resistance and accepted his faie as a matter of course, sullen and without a word of entreaty or prayer, lie was hanged from an elm tree within two hundred yards of the county jail. The representatives of the sheriff here dec la' ul they considered their action in surrendering the negro, in view of the refusal of the court to call a special term, justified in the interest of law and order. Should their action be criticised they declare they will resign. According to Raskin's confession he first robbed and, in fear that he would be arrested for the robbery, shot and killed the minister, throwing his body into a pond where it was found by searchers. KILLS SELF AM) WIFE. .Man Gets Drunk and Commits the Terrible Crime. New Castle, Pa., Feb. 10.?Peter Cupps and his wife were found dead in their home tonight when neighbors arrived in response to cries for help of Cupp's stepson, Clyde Warneck, who ran front the house with blood streaming from a wound in I his shoulder. Mrs. Cupps was seated in a rocking chair with a bullet hole in her forehead. Cupps was on a couch i't an adjoining room, shot above the right eye, while his fingers still | clutched a revolver. Warneck stated that when he returned home from work Cupps was intoxicated and quarrelling with his wife. lie says he interfered to protect his mother, whereupon Cupps shot him through the shoulder. After he ran from the house he says he heard two shots. Cupps was present was GO years old. and according to the stepson, frequently quarrelled with his uife. Warneck is expected to recover. VALUAHLE MATTRESS. Over Fifty Thousand Dollars Found Sewed In One. Lockport, N. Y., Feb. 9.?More than $50,000 in cash has been found In a mattress on the bod of James Mahar, a civil war veteran, who died hero on Saturday. His two sons, James and Lawrence, will inherit the money. The old soldier, who died in his seventy-first year, had been a prisoner at Andersonville during the civil war and drew a government pension. He had been ill for fourteen years and during all that time did not leave his room. His pension money, together with a large part of his life savings, he had placed carefully in the mattress. Danger Point Passed. Washington, Feb. 10.?The President today in talks with visitors expressed the belief that the danger of rupture with Japan was practically over. Many think the war scare all a hoax. Theatres Corrupt. New York, Feb. 8.?"The stage is worse today than it was in the days of Paganism," said Archbishop Farely, in his sermon in St. Patrick's cathedral yesteray. CRIBE N( \ SOME WAR TALK Russia Getting Ready to Give Japan a Thrashing. WILL EVEN UP SCORES J Such Is the I*rediction of Congressman MoKinluy, of California, Ad[ mirul ltoblcy 1). Kvans and Wilj liam T. Snead, One of Knglaiid's Greatest Editors, Who Is Here. Washington, Feb. 11.?Recently a single issue of a Washington news* paper contained statements from three eminent men, concerning directly and indirectly the present roJ lations between this country and Japan, which are of much significance. In a speech delivered in Washington Saturday night. Representa tive William S. Mf'Kinlay, of California, defended the right of his State to regulate its own Local affairs, and made use of the following language with reference to the relations between Japan and the United States: "The question of war is idle. Among those who really know conditions in the far East, the concensus of opinion is this: Japan has only ended a preliminary skirmish with Russia. The Russian defeat is not ultimate.. Today Russia is double-tracking the railroad whose ridiculous inadequacy led to her humiliation. She is preparing to protect her frontier, is making up to the present peace of civilization, and has not turned her face from the goal sot by Peter the Great. "If Japan should turn for a moment to engage in warfare with a second, or even a third rate, power, Russia would be at her throat. The statesmen of Japan know this phase of the question so much better than we do that it is ridiculous to discuss it. "Fighting Rob's" Opinion. The same issues of the newspapers which reported Mr. McKinI 1 ? !??,> ft spi't'cn carried an Associated i Press dispatch reading as follows: Chicago, Feb. 6.?"A few days ago, when the Russian government floated a loan of $250,000,000, which was subscribed thirty times over, that was Russia's notice to Japan 'To get ready for war, and stay ready, for I am going to lick you.' " Rear Admiral Robley I). Evans, seated in his apartments in the Auditorium Annex, tonight made this statement: "And what is more," added the admiral, "Japan herself recognizes and realizes the position in which she is placed. The hand-writing is plain. Japan can read." A number of other predictions, of international import, viewed from the standpoint of "Rob" Evans, did the admiral make. Rrieily summerized, they are as follows: The United States will have no trouble with Japan, neither will rmgiana. When the next RussoJapanese war does come Germany, France and Austria will espouse the cause of the Russian. England will find herself allied with Japan by virtue of existing treaties. What the result of it all will be no man can foresee. "Japan cannot go on at the rate that she is spending money now," he continued. "It is out of the question. Japan recognizes that a conflict with Russia is inevitable, and the government is straining every nerve, exhausting every effort to put itself in a state of preparedness." W. T. Stead's View. The third statement appearing contemparaneously with the two above quoted is from the pen of William T. Stead, the great English journalist. While it makes no direct reference to Japan or her relations with the United States, it is significant that his remarks bear out what Mr. McKlnlay and Admiral Evans say concerning Russia. Mr. Stead says: "The great fact which ought to command universal attention is overlooked. It is the coming of the Slav Into his kingdom, a fact compared with which the fortunes of kings and emperors are as dust in the balance. The proposed annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Austro-IIungarlan empire is but one of the signs of the ripening of the Slavonic question, the gradual emergence of the Slavs from the position of subordination and political 1 aormam nn/l (ViaIk "" i w* ?v?v/?ii mtau viivii uniaui i o ii iii*?ii i tt3 i i the predominant race in the heart ? of Europe. i "Of all the great races of Europe I tho Slavs have received the fewest ' favors from the fates. Providence i )W TO AID FOR A BOAT THAT LAY HELPLESS OFF CAPE HATTKKES8 Summoned by Wlwless, and Boven Shifts llnston to Aid a Distressed llarkentine. Now York, Feb. 11.?Thanks to a wireless summons sent by the steamer El Norte of the Southern Pacitlc Steamship Company, six oc! eau-going vessels and the revenue cutter Onondaga are keeping more or less distant watch tonight on the barkentine Matahzas, bound for Philadelphia from Fernandina, and sighted 12 miles southeast, of the Diamond Shoals lightship, flying signals of distress In a northeast gale. The El Norte came up with the barkentine yesterday and stood t?v her until daylight, while the crew jettisoned her cargo of lumber. A wireless message sent by the 101 Norte to owners of the Matanzas here apprised them of the plight of the barkentine. A similar message sent to the four winds was picked up by the steamer Com us of the Southern Pacific Steamship Company, which hastened to the assistance of the disabled ship. The 101 Norte then proceeded upon assurance from the captain of the Matanzas that he could keep his vessel ntloat. When the Comus came up with the barkentine a few hours later the water was gaining on the men at the pumps at the rate of a foot an hour, and her captain decided to stand by. A wireless message sent by him to the liatleras station and out to sea a thousand miles brought the steamer Larjtner of the .1. M. Ctiiffey Petroleum Company to the scene and the two vessels stood guard over the little sinking craft until 5 o'clock this afternoon when she was reported 43 miles northeast of the Diamond Shoals lightship. The Larime then proceeded, leaving the Comus on guard. The Comus and the Capo Hatteras station are in wireless communication with the revenue cutter Onondaga, which is hurrying to the assistance of the Matanzas and with the Prince Eitel Frederick of the | Hamburg-American line en route from Jamaica to New York; the Comaijchte of the Clyde line, on her way from New York to Jacksonville; ih^ Seminole of the Clyde line, bopnd from Turk's Island to New York, and the Lampasas of the Mailory line, out from New York for Tampa, so that the hnrlrnnt Inn mill not want for assistance should it be needed. ATLANTA HAS lilG SCANDAL. I Wealthy Ileal Estate Mail's Wife ami Hoarding House Mistress l ight. Atlanta, Feb. 12.?The announcement by Mrs. Evelyn Jarrell that she will probably sue her husband, W. A. Jarrell, the real estate man, for divorce on account of his alleged intimacy with Mrs. M. C. Evans, 25 years old, a former boarding house keeper; the arrest of Mrs. Evans on a charge of disorderly and immoral conduct, and an order by Recorder llroyles that Jarrell be arrested on the same charge are a few of the most startling developments of a personal encounter between Mrs. Jarrell and Mrs. Evans in the lobby of a theatre Wednesday night of this week. Mr. Jarrell and Mrs. Evans had attended the play and Mrs. Jerrell, disguised, had followed them. * A YOUNG SUICIDE. V ?. I I Eight-Year-Old Girl Takes Her Own t Ijife. Pittsburg, Feb. 8.?Word was received here today from Bolivar, Pa., of the suicide there last night of May Estella, eight years old. The child's mother died some time ago and she has since been caring for I j two younger children. Sunday night tlie child said to her father: "Papa, I am going to shoot." Before he had time to realize the meaning of the words, the girl fired a bullet into her right temple. has been to them a cruel step mother. "From century to century thoy have been the prey of conquerors, European and Asiatic. When, as in Russia, they were able to assent their independence of Tartar and Turk, they could only do &o by submitting to an autocrat whoso yoke j was seldom easy and whoso burden i ; was never light. But for this Cin, : der.ella of Europe the light is rising I in the darkness and there are not lacking signs that in the future the , despised kitchen maid mav vet ho >,the belle of the ball." <1 % f THE HO / A BOLD HOLD UP | IN THK CITY OF UltKENVIMiE LAST WEEK. There Wort* Two Highwaymen md They <jot the Sum of One Hundred I>ollarH. Greenville, Fob. 12.?The News says two masked men held up Messrs. Ell Kantor and A. Baron on Towues street Wednesday night and took the sum of $100 from the latter. The hold-up occurred between the residence of Mr. Tom Sloan and that of Sheriff Poole about 7:30 o'clock, but the fact did not become generally known until yesterday as the ofllcers desired that it be kept from the public for a time. Messrs. Kantor and Baron were together and tho latter had $10i) In his trousers' pocket and $200 in ills watch pocket. The money in the watch pocket was not taken, the highwaymen forgetting to look in it. A gun was taken off of tho victim's person and Messrs. Huron and Kantor were then told to beat a hasty retreat up tho hill. This they did. Sheriff I'oole was notified of the hold-up and he at once notified his deputy, Mr. .1. S. llunsinger. The search for the highwaymen was continued until late in the night, hut no arrests were made. Deputy Sheriff llunsinger stated last night that they thought they had the right man spotted and that there would probably be some developments shortly. The two men were masked and Messrs. Uaron and Kan tor are therefore unable to give any description of them. The officers have a clue, however, which will lead to their detention in all probability. Messrs. Kantor and Haron noticed the highwaymen some feet ahead of them but did not pay any special attention to them until a gun was thrown in their faces and they were ordered to throw up their hands, which they did. Both were taken completely by surprise. Mr. Kantor did not have any money on his perso n. A passer-by was ordered to get on up the street and that quick. He complied with the orders of the highwaymen. After having secured all of the booty they could And the same order was given Messrs. Kantor and Haron. One of these asked the highwaymen which way they wished them to go and the reply was "up the hill.' These gentlemen carried out instructions and hence did not see which way the robbers re treated. The robbery was 0110 of the boldest committed In this city in many years and every effort will he made to locate the guilty parties. The officers hope to catch them and make an example of them so that there will be no more robberies of this kind in the city. Just why the officers wished to I keep the affair a secret is hard to conjecture, but no 'publicity was given it until yesterday. The news, once started, soon spread all over the city and was a topic of general conversation all day. Mr. Baron is the proprietor of a pawn shop on Main street. * GOT MOW IJOWIOK LIP. Heinat'kable Skin Grafting Operation On a Young Boy. Charlottesville, Feb. 12.?A remarkable skin grafting operation recently successfully performed at the University of Virginia hospital, has given to William Jones, a ten-yearold boy of Rio, this county, an entire new lower lip. The boy had his lip shot away last September by the accidental discharging of a gun. Yesterday ho returned to his home with a new lip that will answer every purpose. Dr. H. S. Watts, of the University hospital, first transplanted a flap of skin from the abdominal wall of tho patient to the forearm. After growing to the forearm it was brought up and attached to tho face and, after remaining there about two weeks to secure a blod supply, was cut off from tho arm and molded into position. ? NEW TRIAL REFUSED JONES. Sentenced to tlio 1'cnltentiary for Life by the Judge. Union, Feb. 12.?W. T. Jones was refused a new trial after many hours' argument. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Judge Memmlnger, in passing sentence, told tho prisoner he had better tako tho term, for ii granted a new trial he believed h< would be hanged. Jones is a verj rich man, but his money won't sav< him from deserved punishment a the hands of the law. ? RRY HE JERSEY FIENDS Roast a Man Alive on the School Grounds USED OIL ON VICTIM The I'life? I in# WreUln's Hound and Hugged tlic Cnfortunato Man and Tlwl Hint Over a llontlro and ltoUvSted llim to Death, and Charred ltody Found. New York, Feb. 12.?Hound with ropes hand and foot and stretched over a lire built on the grounds of the Hazel avenue public school In West Orange, an unknown man was burned to death some time this morning before the break of day. The charred fragments of tho body were found on tin4 lawn of tho school early this morning by Samuel Salinardo, a laborer employed in a quarry near West Orange. At the sight of the ghastly traces of the crime, Salinardo, a superstitious Italian, ran screaming to tho nearest house and in this way had the polico informed of what he had discovered. The grass and a lot of brush under the body?or what was left of the body?were burned to carbon. At one side was a new two-gallon oil can and some old newspapers. Chief of Police Danford, of the \ 1 ' * / x >> f?L vsraiigo rorce, llII 1*1*it??I to tho school house grounds with all of his available men and made a minute study of t ho affair in tho hope of getting a clue. The victim of this most awful of murders was a man apparently about forty-five years of age. /V little hair was left on tho head and it showed red and long. He was about five feet, ten inches in height and had been strong of statue. Tho only part of the clothes unconsented by the fire were the legs of the trousers. They were of blue cloth of good texture. Tho shoes were in good condition. Near the body were tho charred pieces of rope and the most awful of all tho ghastly details was Immediately noticed by the- police?the man had struggled front the tire and had rolled away front it in his last moments of agony. There wore every evidence that he had come to consciousness toward the end and had made one desperate and futile effort to escape his terrible fate. Who the victim is the police have no idea. What manner of criminal would pick out the lawn of a school house on which to build a pyre for a living man the police cannot conceive. The spot chosen for tho deed was only about 200 feet from tho uniiAni building and about 300 feet from a row of fine family houses. It is believed that the victim of this crime was either struck on the head and made unconsious or was gagged before being stretched on the fire. Had lie cried out for help liis cries would have been heard in the nearby houses, but so far as the polico now know no one heard an outcry. The police said today that the murder was done between 1:30 and f?:30 in the morning. During theso hours the nearest quarry works are closed and the neighborhood is deserted. electokal vote counted. I art and Sherman Declared President and Vice-President. Washington, Feb. 10.?With sim. pie but Impressive ceremonies, the counting of the electoral voto for President and Vice-President occurred today at a joint session of tho Senate and House of Representatives, held In tho chamber of the lower body. William II. Taft, of Ohio, and James S. Sherman, of New York, were officially declared to bo tho choice of tho people for tho term beginning March 4 next. The count consumed exactly forty minutes. CONVICTED OF MURDER Voting White Man Uoen to Penitentiary for Life. Columbus, Feb. 12.?The jury In the case of C. R. Smith, charged with ' the murder of E. A. Laurent at Ari tosia, Miss., several weeks ago today brought in a verdict of murder in ! the first degree. The jury made a > recommendation to mercy. Under ' the verdict the court wll be compell3 ed to send Smith to the penitentiary t for life. The defense gave notice ' of a motion for a new trial. RALD