The News Domestic Seventy-two men who for morn than 14 hours hud been faring death in the raging sea near Fire Island were rescued from the crumbling hoik of the big German ihlp Petei Rlckmcrs. The ship is a wreck. A (Ire In the business district ol Atlanta, Cla., destroyed $1,600,000 worth of property, compromising two blocks of building. Mrs. Russell Sage has offered 600,000 to the American Bible So olety on condition that the society raise a like sum. Four persons were killed by the explosion of n kitchen gas stove In a tenement at St. Johnsbury, Vt. Three more corpses were found on the farm of Mrs. Delia Guinness, at Laporte, Ind. The Euclid Avenue Trust Com pany, of Cleveland, O., has made an assignment. The oil-tank steamer Washtenaw went ashore off Monmouth Heach, N. J. Edward E. Bronnan, a lawyer of Butte. Mont., was arrested In the of fice of F. Augustus Heinze, at 74 Broadway. New York, on the charge of extorting 40,OjOO In demand notes from Mr. Heinze, The delegates-nt-large from the Massachusetts Democratic Convention to the national convention In Denver were instructed to vote for Bryan for the presidential nomination. Major O. P. Chaffee, who was an officer In the Confederate Army and a brother of Lieutenant General Ad na R. Chaffee, 0. 8. A., retired, died In Kansas City. Train robbers shot and killed an express messenger, after which they robbed a safe In a baggage car of a Denver und Rio Grande train. The shed on the Guinness arm. at Laporte, Ind., containing the remains of the victims was broken Into anj the bodies seriously disturbed. Joe Qarcia. alias Joe Cordova, whe killed a policeman in Salt Lake City, was fatally wounded by detectives la Seattle. The famous Pequot House, In New London, Ct., was destroyed by fire. Judson Harmon was nominated as the Democratic candidate for govern or of Ohio on a Bryan platform. Twenty-five masked men vlslte;) the home of John Sanders, at Wells burg, Ky.. and compelled him to din up his tobeacco plant bedB on pain of death. When the beds were de stroyed the riders whipped Sander until the blood flowed. They next went to Nelson Cummings' place, and upon his refusal to come out, the rid ers fired several volleys into tho house. The sensational divorce proceed ings brought by Henry J. Lord, mil ionaire horseman and dog fancier, of Nichols, Ct., against his beautiful young wife, a former society leader of Brooklyn and Richmond, Va.. came to an abrupt end when the at torney for Mrs. Lord withdrew from the case and she consented to her husband securing a decree. District Attorney Jerome said that he would go to jail rather than com ply with an order received from Judge Rosalsky that certain grand Jury minutes be filed with the clerk of the Court of General Sessions and forced the Judge to write a new order. Foreign Prince Philip Zu Eulenberg. for mer Tavorite of Kaiser William, and an alleged member of the notorious Knights of the Round Table, was ar rested on the charge of perjury. A verdict for $37,500 damages has been rendered In London against thJ Time-8 in favor of John Murray, a publisher. Delagoa Bay, In Portugese East Africa, Is to be leased to the Trans vaal, according to the Lisbon Econo mist. Ludovlc Halevy. French novelist and dramatic author, and a member of the Freuch Academy, died in Paris. The Douma adopted the budget of the ministry of communications, with changes amounting to $3,000,000. Henri Rockette, the French pro moter, arrested on the charge of swindling, was released on $40,000 ball. Juan Durand. the leader of the Peruvian revolutionists, and 10 of his followers were captured. The bill repealing the Irish Coer cion Act passed Its second reading in the House of Commons. England has joined Japan in ask ing the Chinese government to sup press the boycott. Emperor William and the rulers of a dozen Herman States personally congratulated Emperor Francis Jo seph at Vienna on the sixtieth anni versary of his accession to the Aus trian throne. King Alfonso pardoned the three men who facilitated Anarchist Mor tal's escape following the letter's at tempt to assissinate the King and Queen Victoria on their wedding day. The Peruvian government caused the arrest of a number of persons on the charge of being involved in the revolutionary movement. The legal expert of the court pre sented his conclusion in the MeKec divorce case, his finding being in fav or of granting a divorce. Mrs. L. Snow Miller, a tourist ir. the Sandwich Islands, has been found dead on a forest trail in Hawaii. It is reported that the coat of mal. he wore saved President Cabrera ol Guatemala from assassination. Fernando E. Queechalla has beet elected president of Bolivia. A daring break for liberty wa. made by a group of political prison era in Alexandrosk, Kus.-la. Bonn of the prisoners and some of th guar. I. were killed. Japanese government bonds havi dropped from 90 to SO since the strln geucy began and private securillei are still more seriously depressed. The Italian government has order ed relief to the SUiclaiis driven fron their homes by terror of a serloui eruption from Mount Etna. The German Reichstag adjournec after passing a number of necessart bills. Judge Bosanegra has been deslg nated as Guatemala's representative on the Central American Court ol Justice. The House of Commons adopted a resolution looking to the abolition of licenses for opium dens in China A terrible state of affairs prevail! at La Guayra, Venezuela, which ii devastated by the plague. Russia la making extensive mill tary preparatlona on the TurklsV frontier. THE DEATH FARM A PICNIC GROUND 15,000 Sightseers Visit the Guinness Place. FINDING SOME GRUESOME BITS. The Town of Laporte Is Overrun by the Rush of Sunday Visitors, and the Surrounding Country Is Practically Deserted - Lemonade and Lunch Stands Are Set Up. Laporte, Ind. (Special). -All roads in Laporte County Sunday led to the farm of Mis. Belle Guinness, alleged murderer of at least 10 persons whose bodies have been unearthed in the barnyard, and now thought to have been burned to death with her three children In a fire that destroyed her farmhouse on April 28. I'pwards of In, 000 sightseers visit ed the place of death before sunset of the first Snhhath to pass sine" news of the mystery transpired. Nearly every able-bodied resident of Laporte went to the Guinness farm, and railroads and trolley lines brought about 4,000 nonresidents to the city. Mayor Harrow found It necessary to Issue Btrlngent orders that tho Sunday closing laws should be strict ly enforced. Hotels and restaurants were overrun with patrons. Every conveyance In Laporte was pressed Into Bervice In an attempt to provide transportation to the farm, which Is a mile north of Laporte. Hundreds, however, were forced to walk. Nearby villages reached by electric railways were almost deserted while citizens hastened to Laporte to satisfy their curiosity. The strangers had no difficulty in finding their way to the death farm. The constant stream of carriages, cabs, omnibuses, auto mobiles, motor cycles, bicycles, farm wagons and carriages pointed unmis takable directions to those who were tompelled to walk. Read CbOked With Vehicles. The macadam road which winds past Clear Lake and the Gulnnes3 farm to Pine' Lake was choked so lhat even the automobiles were com pelled to move slowly. At the farm only a speaker'? stand, with its customary pitcher of water, was necessary to complete the Impression that a political rally had Irgwn the thousands to the spot. There was nothing in the attitude of the crowd to indicate that they were visiting a place where grewsome trag edies had taken place. Jokes and laughing comments were henrd on every side, and exclama- I Hnno nt Inv frnm Kllr-cessful relic hunter were numerous. Family pic lie parties grouped themselves on the sloping lawn under the fine pines and cedars which dot the dooryard, or found resting places beneath tho (lowering apple and plum trees of the orchard. Children were numer mis, and many groups had a baby cab ! ib a nucleus. Along the roadside were several lemonade stands and lunch wagons. I at the gates were venders of sou renir postal cards, and those bear- I 'ng a group picture of Mrs. Guinness ind the three little ones who met lealli with ber found ready sale. In the rush to Laporte In the after loon several farm horses, frightened y automobiles, started to run away. buggy was upset, and Mrs Ben lamin Zanelar, of Laporte, suffered i broken arm. Several pickpockets did a thriving luslness while the throng waited for komewardbound trains. One saloon teeper was arrested for opening his lar on Sunday. Inquiries Alxuit Victim. Investigation of the farm for more todies hulled Sunday. The sheriffs tnd other officers were forced to be :ome spectators also. Several vlsit )is, however, were seeking informa ,lon concerning missing friends or 'elatlves, and some further lnforma lon regarding the possible identity if the victims of the farm resulted rom their Inquiries. The most definite information :ame from Olaf Lindboe, of Chicago, de said that his brother Thoma; vorked for Mrs. Guinness three years igo, and that the last letter from rhomas said that Thomas intended 0 marry Mrs. Guinness. Olaf worte to Mrs. Guinness later, ind she replied that Thomas had ;one to St. Louis and that Bhe had tad no word from him. Olaf Lindboe tas not heard of ThomaB since. He liewed the unidentified corpses, but vas unable to find any likeness to lis brother in the bundles of bones md flesh. Sheriff Smutzer will continue his nvestlgntions at the Guinness' farm 'londav. The first object of search rill be the heaps of ashes and other refuse In the cellar of the ruined touse. The ashes ami the cinders are to ke carefullv sifted and then sluiced hy a miner Ii an effort to discover he gold fillings which are said to tave le ii in Mrs. Guinness' teeth. The floor of the cellar may also 1 e dug up and additional excavations may be made in the yard, where ten cadavers have been unearthed. AT THE ALTAR A Virginian Changes His Mind About Marrying. Richmond, Va. (Special). Mra. Blanche Dlggs, a pretty widow of 10 months, who was to have been mar ried at night to R. C. Fueral, was deserted at the altar, after the wed ding feast had been prepared and the house decorated, and while the min ister and the guests were In attend ance. The cozy little home on Clay Street was deoorated for the cere mony, the friends of the contracting parties had assembled, the minister, Rev. Dr. Hicks, of Manchester Bap tist Church, was on hand, and the bride was preparing for her second wedding, when a letter handed In by a postman Informed the young widow that her ungallant lover had chang ed his mind. In his letter the bridegroom stated that he had come to the conclusion that It would not be best for him to marry. It la learned that on Friday morning Fueral packed his clothing In a suitcase and left his boarding house, since which time nothing hns been heard of him. He paid his board bill before leaving. Friday afternoon, prior to the date set for the wedding, Mrs. Diggs went to Ashland to spend the day with her Bister, and consequently, she did not know of her fiance's disappearance until she started home, about noon Saturday. She at first would not be lieve Hint he had deserted her. and contended until the receipt of his let ter that he would surely be present In time for the ceremony. Three weekB ago J. it. Humphreys, proprietor of the boarding-house In which Mrs. Dlggs lived, Inserted nn advertisement. In a newspaper for a young man to occupy a large front room In a private family. Fueral was attracted, was given hoard, and there met the woman he was destin ed to court, win and afterward desert. At first the couple saw little of each other, but two weeks ago their attachment became closer, and Thurs day the announcement was made that the wedding would take place Sat urday. Since the death of her hus band Mrs. Dlggs has been employed In a large dry goods store, having been thrown upon her own resources to make a living. Prof, Bnach Killed. Sterling, 111. (Special). Prof. Carl Busch, said to be a graduate of th? I'nlverslty of Lelpslc, for many years holding the chairs of German and Greek literature at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, was killed by a freight train near here while walk ing on the railroad tracks. - Six years ago he met with financial re verses, resigned his position at the college and became a wanderer. Typhoid Raging In A Prison. Kiev, Russia (By Cable). A frightful epidemic of exanthematuus typhoid Is raging In the city prison. More than 200 deaths so far have occurred and practically all of the inmates are infected. The authori ties are withholding details. THE BIG FLEET ON FULL DRESS PARADE Metcalt Reviews Long line of Armorclads. EVANS TOO ILL TO BE THERE. WASHINGTON The Interstate Commerce Commis sion, in reply to the Senate resolution of inquiry, sent a communication denying that It bad any information of any agreement or understanding whereby any railroad would have im munity from prosecution under the commodity clause of the Hepburn bill The President has written letters to Senators Rayner, Stewart and Smith, of Michigan, In which he de clares he is the commander-in-chief Greatest Assemblage of Warships in the World in Picturesque Array In San Francisco Harbor Secretary Metralf, on the Torktown, Steams Between Powerful Fighting Craft. San Francisco (Special). The combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets of battleships, armored cruiserB, torpedo-boat destroyers and auxiliaries aggregating weight of displacement the enormous total of more than four hundred thousand tons the greatest assemblage of armorclads thus far to mark the progress of the American Navy to second rank among the floating forces of the world were reviewed In picturesque San Francisco harbor Friday by Sec retary of the Navy Metcalf. The 4 4 vessels of the two fleets lay at archor in four long columns, and proceeding from the Oakland shore, the Secretary on board the little gunboat Yorktown a reminder of the days when the Navy was in Its infancy proceeded southward through the lines formed by the ar mored cruisers of the Pacific fleet nearest the Oakland shore and the second squadron of the Atlantic fleet, headed by the Minnesota. Turning back to the north at tho end of these two lines, the York town traversed the lane formed on the starboard by the battleships of the first Atlantic squadron and on the port by the grim little destroy ers. The day was brilliant with sun shine, and a sighing breeze from the west set the waters of the hill-protected bay dancing in whltecapped waves. The heavy battleships and cruisers, gay with fluttering signals flags of full dress, paid no heed to the whistling wind, but the destroy ers rolled and swayed In the trough of the seas. Hills Black With People. Excursion craft crowded about the anchorage area and gave the patrol boats plenty of work. They added many touches of color to the scene, however, and gave the people of tho bay cities who again made blacR Hit hillsides their second splendid watei pageant within three days. The re view, however, was the last of th bIiow features on the waters, for sooi the ships will be departing, some U go to the navy yard for repairs anti others of the Pacific fleet startlnj south on a practice cruise. Rear Admiral Evans, who hat hoped to end bis active naval careet by participating In the official cere monies, was not permitted by his at tending physician to go aboard the Connecticut. Rear Admiral Charlei M. Thomas was again the senior of ficer. Admiral Evans, who returned to the fleet at Santa Cruz the da; before it sailed through the Golden Gate, in completion of the originally planned cruise, has made his home on shore at the St. Francis Hotel since the afternoon of the arrival He rode in the long parade and was quite fatigued by the trip. Thoinns' Brief Command. Admiral Evans' leavetaking of the fleet thus will date from the journey through the Golden Gate, when, clad In the double-breasted frock coat ol "undress B," the official uniform foi entering port, he stood upon the bridge of tho flagship for the last time. Accompanied by members of hli family and by officers of his personal staff. Admiral Evans will leave foi his home in Washington, where he will remain awaiting orders until the date of retirement on his sixty-second and had the right to take the action he did in the Brownsville affair and birthday, August 18. In the case of Colonel Stewart. Admiral Thomas will he in com- The crop report Issued by the De- j mand of the Atlantic fleet only until pnrlment of Agriculture shows the 'May 16, when he, too, hauls down Two Men Blown To Bits. Mobile, Ala. (Special). Twin boil ers In a big lumber plant at Collins, Miss., exploded and killed William Whltten and Thomas Hoblnson, both white. The men were torn to bits. A loss of $100,000 is sustained. Decision Against Railroad. Boston (Special). The Informa tion filed by Attorney General Dana Malor.e, sometime ago against the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, In which he clulmed that the company had transgressed the law in securing control of six street railway companies In Massachusetts, was affirmed by the full bench of the Supreme Court, so lar as It rotates to livo of tho road3, the exception being in the case of tho Springlleld Street Railway Company. House Blown I'p. Dayton, Ohio (Special). The eu tlre rear portion of the house occu pied by Frunk Gentile, n wealthy Italian fruit merchant, was blown to pieces by a heavy charge of dyna mite. No one was injured. Four days ago he rocelved a letter from Plqua demanding the payment of $10,000 to the Black Hand Society. A vigorous search has been begun by the police of this city and Piqua, with a well-defined clue to follow, and arrests are expected soon. Ii is flag for all time, to return home on waiting orders until bis retire ment In the fall. Rear Admiral Charles M. Sperrj will resume command with the de parture of Admiral Thomas. KILLS EXPRESS MESSENGER. Robbers Then Rifle Safe On Denvei And Rio Grande Train. Denver, Col. (Special). Train robb rs. who boarded Denver and Rio Grande train No. 4 at Castle Rock, shot and killed Express Messenget Charles II. Wright, aged CO, employ- Bureau shows the wages paid in man-1 ed by the Globe Bipreu Company, ufacturing establlahm nts in different i From the dead messenger the roh parts of the country. I bers took the keys to a small safe Speaker Joseph G. Cannon received ln "1P baggage car, wnich tnep open the congratulations of his friends up yield of wheat to be less than last year. The House committee agreed to a favorable report on the bill to refer to the Court of Claim the claims of the Ute Indians in Colorado for about $2,000,000. A number of publishers testified before the House committee investi gating the Paper Trust to the exor bitant prices extorted for print pa per. Senator Rayner will Introduce a resolution In the Senate asking for an investigation Into the treatment of Col. William F. Stewart. A special report of the Census NINE ARE MURDERED IN ONE HOUSE Five Corpses Found in Yard of Woman's Home. Laporte, Ind. (Special). One of the most grewsome murder mystei !es ever unearthed In this section of the country came to light here, when the bodies of five persons, all of them murdered, were found in the yard of the home of Mrs. Belle Gunneas, who with three of her children, was burn ed to death on the night of April 28. So far only two of the bodies hnve been Identified. These are Andrew Heldgren, who came to this city from Aberdeen, 8. D., for the purpose of marrying Mrs. Gunncss, whose ac quaintance had been made thro ?h a matrimonial bureau. The other 13 that of Jennie Olson Ounnesa, a ( M cago girl, who had been adopted by Mrs Gunness. She disappeared in September, 1906, and It was said had gone to Los Angelea to attend school. The other bodies were thoae of two men and a woman. None of them has been as yet identified. The body of Heldgren was dismem bered, and the arms, legs, trunk and head were burled In different parts of the yard. Woman Helped Cover Graves. It Is believed by the authorities that Guy Lamphere, who has been under arrest slnco the burning of the Gunness home, on the charge of murdering Mrs. Gunness and her family, committed the Heldgren rrlme. Lamphere Is a carpenter, and the manner In which the body of Heldgren was dismembered lends to the belief that It was done by some body familiar with the use of a saw. In some quarters It Is believed that Mrs. Gunness may hnve known some thing of the murders of the five peo ple, as It Is not considered likely that bo many could have been burled ln her yard without her, at sometime, becoming familiar with the fact. There have been rumors that Jennie Olson Gunness had knowledge of the manner In which the first husband of Mrs. Gunness came to his death In Chicago. Little is known, how ever, on this subject. It la known that Heldgren had loaned $1,500 to Mrs. Gunness and that he bad another $1,500 in his possession Just prior to his death. It Is considered probable that he was killed by Mrs. Gunness or by Lam phere, or by both of them, in order to procure the caah he had and to avoid the necessity of paying the loan he had mnde. Lamphere, against whom n strong case of circumstantial evidence ex ists ln connection with the burning of the Gunness home and the death of Mrs. Gunness and her children, denies all knowledge of the bodies found. He has said, however, on other occasions that Mrs. Gunness was anxious to send him to nn Insane asylum because of his knowledge of her career. Did Trunks Contain Corpses? It was current gossip, however, that Lamphere was insanely Jealous of Mra. Gunness and of Heldgren, and It Is well known that the woman stood greatly In fear of him and had asked for police protection. The search by which the bodies were found was Instigated by John Heldgren, the brother of Andrew, who has always believed that his brother was murdered, and that he had never gone to Norway, as claim ed by Mrs. Gunness and Lamphere. He noticed some recently upturned earth In tho yard, and suggested to Sheriff Smutzer that an excavation be made to see If hlB brother's body could not be found. It was dug up after a brief search. No identification of the other bod ies found in the yard is expected for some time. It Is considered prob able, however, that they are those of people muredercd with the knowl edge of Mrs. Gunness for the purpose of securing money. While Interviewing Joseph Max son, a hired hand, on the Gunnes3 place, John Heldgren learned of th? mysterious digging of holes by him, all of them being filled at a later date by Mrs. Gunness. The remains were only four feet under ground and were inclosed ln a gunnysack. DID FLEET ENTERS THE GOLDEN GATE Reccr J Breaking Cruise From the Chesapeake Ends. San Francisco (Special) Through the towering rocky portals of the Golden Gate heavy laden with tho romance of centuries--Into the har bor of the city of a hundred hills; Into a new San Francisco, risen from the ruins of two years ago, the At lantic battleship fleet steamed Wed nesday in review of a multitude un numbered. It was the aame Imposing pageant of Immaculate white ships that sail ed from Hampton Roads nearly five months ago ln the wnke of the Pres dent'a flag, but with the splendid ac complishments of a record-break i lg cruise of more than 14,000 mllea and three weeks of wonderful target work behind It. Wednesday the white-anchored, four-starred blue flag of the Secr- j tary of the Navy, flying from the mainmast of the trim little gunboat Yorktown, fluttered the welcome e the Navy, while the Governor of Cr -fornla, the Mayor of San Franc' jo and the people of a hundred t' Jin and cltlea voiced the greetings cr the enthusiastic West. San Franciaco, Oakland and other cities nearly all took a holiday to witness the coming of the fleet. There was a complete cessation of business, and the streets ln the downtown sections were absolutely deserted. More people came Into the city than left during the terror and homeless days following the fire. Sun Shines Just In Time. A few remaining scare of a city shaken and burned appeared rose tinted ln the Joy of the general cele bration. A welcome sign spelled in letters 50 feet high topped the high Telegraph Hill. The sun, which all morning long had been obscured by heavy gray clouds, broke through Just as the ships were passing through tho Golden Gate and shone with noonday brilliancy on thj pag enntry of fighting craft. The city Is gay with merrymaking, and the long program of entertain ments planned In honor of the fleet la well under way. Streets and buildings are illuminated for the first time In tho history of the city, many of the giant skyscrapers that have risen upon the sites of less Impos ing buildings destroyed being out lined in a fire of electric bulbs. The still crowded hills of tho city arc flooded now and then in the flash and the play of scores of searchlights trained from lighting tops and flying 1 bridges. Below them ln the anchor age grounds the Illuminations of the heaviest fleet ever assembled under any flag makes brilliant the water.' of the bay for thousands of yards 1 around. Official dinners, band concerts, and a reception and ball at the Fairmonnl Hotel, with 5,000 invited guests, are features of the first evening of the fleet's Btay. Tho fleet threaded Ha way througl; the crowded harbor, past the lslandf and ferry lanes and reaching far out to the Oakland shore, turned at last when opposite Hunters Point, and pointing back toward Golden Gate t face the Incoming tide, steamed intc anchorage formation. WAS HOISTED ALIVE ON THE FIRE ESCAPE Child's Horrible Oeath During Tene ment Blaze. OVER ONE HUNDRED RESCUED. CONFESSES ON DEATHBED. OFFERED $500,000. on having reached the age of years. The Senate parsed a bill appropria ting $5,000 to aid the Pocahontas Memorial Association to mark at Jamestown, Va. An argument in behalf of postal savings banks was made in the Sen ate by Mr. Carter. all ed and took the contents, lu worth leas than $1 00. A big safe in the car, which con t lined a large sum Of money, and the combination of which Is known only to clerks of the company ln the prin cipal stations along the route, was tampered with, but the robbers were unable to enter It. The body waa dis-overod by O. M. Bishop, chief night ilerk of the The Senate adopted a resolution ; Globe Company's ofllce at Denver introduced by Senator Foraker dl-j Union Depot, and B. M. Peterson, hid rectlng the Interstate Commerce ! assistant. These men w nt to Hieca. t.) Commission to inform the Senate get express matter and could not get whether railroads engaged ln Inter-1 through the door, which should have state commerce have since May 1 been opened by Wright. Wright was eoruplle-d with the commodity clause I lying beside the big safe in a pool of the Interstate Commerce Law. of blood. Mrs. Russell Sage's Proposition To American Bible SocU-ty. New York (Speciul). The Ameri can Bible Society has received from Mrs. Russell Sage an offer to con tribute $500,000 toward a perma nent endowment for the society, on condition that an additional $500, 000 shall be contributed for the same purpose before the end of the present ye ar. The reports of the organization for the year 1007 show that during th" year the society distributed 1,800,000 Blhles, Testaments and Scripture por tions. These were printed In about 100 different languages, and were cir culated in all parts 0 the globe. FINANCIAL The propagandist methods of tho forestry service were attacked by various senators during the discus sion of the Agricultural Appropria tion Bill. That the Republic of Columbia has twice made demands for and then asked arbitration of her claim for $10,000,000 from the United States and been refused was made known at the State Depart r.11 r.i. The late Stephen Decatur Smith bequeathed a plain gold ring which wad formerly the propel' if Com modore Stephen Decatu: . the Na tional Museum. The President has decided to ap point Jamea J. Croffley, of Iowa, I'nited States district attorney for the third district of Alaska to suc ci ed Machan V. Harlan, w ho has re signed. The House of Representatives, by an overwhelming vote, went on rec ord against the reestablish ment of the canteen In National Soldiers' Home. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations agreed to report favorably the general arbitration treaties wltb Sweden and the Netherlands. Huron Stcrnhurg Goes (o Eiin.pe. Washington, D. C. (Special). Baron gternburg, the German am bassador, accompanied by the Bar oness, will sail from New York foi Burope on May IB, taking a steamei which touches at Genoa They wll be absent about three months. The Baron expects to spend part of hh vacation in r'axony looking nfter per sonal affairs. Mies Langbam, the baroness' sister, will leave New Yorl on May litth for Cherbourg, to Jolr her slater, the Countess de Faramond in Paris. Wholesale Arrests In Peru. Lima, Peru (By Cable). As an outcome of Its Inveil lgatlon of the recent futile revolutionary movemeut ln Peru, the government caused te be arrested and has turned over foi trial by a military court 10 of the leading men In the Democratic and Liberal parties. The prisoner In elude Gallon Plerola Benjamin Bozo and Jcaa Carlos Bernales. The In urgeutH, dispersed by government troops, have fled to the Huauuco dls trict and the Durand brothers, the leaders of the movement are In hid-tag. New high price for Rending, 5GVi. since tho October slump. May corn in Chicago Jumped from 70 to 74 centB. A b.ar panic pre vailed in the corn pit. It la said Gould needs $10,000, 000 at ouce with which to continue work on the Western Pacific. J. P. Morgan joins other leading nipt alms of finance and Industry la declaring thut the worst corner in business has been turned. The Central National Bank, Phila delphia, has declared Its usual semi annual dividend of 8 per cent, and carried $100,000 to surplus fund, making $2,600,000, and leaving un divided profits of $295,000. So far in 11)08 Pennsylvania Rail road shipments of coal and coke aro 22 per cent, smaller on their East ern Hues than during a correspond ing period of 1907. The decrease tn tons la 4,386.400. "80 far this year our house has sold $20,000,000 of bonds," said the Philadelphia representative of u pro minent house. A Philadelphia coal dealer wh serves several score mills, says thai collections are now very eusy, far more so than they were one year ago. April fire losses In the United States and Canada were $20,669,000, compared with $21,925,000 last year and $292,500,000 In 1906. The last-named montb was the biggest on record, and was due to tbe Ban Francisco catastrophe. Mether Acknowledge She Killed Tk Of Her Children. Bristol, Tenn. (Special). Mrs Mnxle Peltier cleared up two murdei myBterles on her deathbed in the City Hospital here, where she died at 5 o'clock. Calling a nurse to her side, Mrs. Peltier, who was a good looking middle-aged woman, confessed thai two years ago she threw her three- 1 year-old son Into the Holston Rivet ! from a trestle, and six months latet. she strangled her one-year-old baby I to death with a shoe string. The I drowning was at that time believed 1 to have been done by others and the I mother was not suspected of having i killed her offspring. Mra. Peltier wus a member of a good family residing : In KIngsport and came to Bristol for treatment several days ago. Attached In Japanese Town. Toklo (By Cable). An ofllclul re porl from Mlyazafll Prefecture states that a mob of 80 persons attacked a limber factory owned, by French men In the village of Illno on May 5, doing considerable damage to the factory and the residences of tho Frenchmen, who either took refuge ln the mountains or left for Kobe. No person was Injured. Forty ar rests have been made In connection with the affair. The motive of the attack has not yet been reported. The damage Is estimated at about. $50,000. More I'ay For Soldiers. Waahlngton, D. C. (Special). The officers and enlisted men of the Army won their fight for lncrensed pay, when the House of Representatives, after a debate of two hours, agreed to tho conference report of the Army Appropriation BUI. An appropriation of $7,000,000 waa made for the pur pose, $5,000,000 of which will rv to the enlisted men. Nine hundred and forty-two officers on the retired list also will benefit by the increase. Un der suspension of the rules bills were passed placing the Porto Rican Regi ment of Infantry on a permanent basis. Five Men Browned. Newburyport, Mass. (Special). Five of a party of nine men were drowned by the capsizing of a nnpttin launch owned by George E. Bailey of this city, on I'lum Island Bar, oil here. Those who loBt their live! were all young Italians employed lr a local ahoe shop, and their bodiet were swept out to sea. Bailey Thomas Keenan and two othera clunt to the overturned craft until hoati came to their assistance The Plurr Island life-saving crew took then ashore to the station and cared foi the men. Train Wreckers Foiled. Washington, Pa. (Special). The passing of a shirting engine, which the would-be train wreckers had not counted upon, undoubtedly averted serious disaster to the east bound flyer I rom St. Louis to Pittsburg on the Pauhandle Railroad of (he Penn sylvania syatem between hero and McDonald. An obstruction was plac ed on the tracks In such a manner, experienced railroad men say, that nothing could have saved the fast train bad It not been discovered. The awitcblng engine ran Into the oh stmotlnri mi wr- '"' - ' Fal'a Through Escape to the Kedhttt Platform on the rlonr Below From Her Mother's Arms When Woman Made a MUslep in Attempting to Get Out of the Burning Building. New York (Special). Four per sons were killed and 12 Injured In a. fire believed to be of Incendiary or igin, which practically destroyed tho flve-atory tenement house at 101 Or chard Street. This building is with in a stone's throw of D?lanrey and Mien Streets, where 26 persons were mrned to death in a tenement hou.so fire three years ago. The dead are: Eva Berg, 5.1 years olo. Samuel Sach, 10 years old. Haltle Kopelmann, 2 M yenrs old. Unidentified man. The fire was first seen by a police man, whoso call for assistance brought several other officers to his tsslstnnce, and In a moment nearly everyone in the house had bei iroused and the fire escapes were :hoked with frightened tenants. TI19 Dollcemen carried eeveral children to '.he ground before the firemen ar rived. By thai time men, women and :hlldren were packed 80 closely on .he narrow platforms of the fire es :npcs that no one could get down. While persons In tbe building, who ind been unable to get out became til the windows leading to the lire ?8capes were crowded, struggled for ;xlt on one side, the firemen on ex .enslon ladders labored on the other. Dne by one women and children were Iragged from the overloaded plat 'orms by the firemen and carried lown the extension ladders to ths itreet and saTety. More than a hun Ired persons were taken from tho lire escapes in this way. In the meantime those who had been forced to remain in t ho blazing house, finding BSCBpa by window? and stairways blocked, sought to get out on the roof. Not one of them succeeded In reaching the roof, how ever, as the fianie-.; had swept up Ih stairways and spread ill through the upper part of the bull ilng. It waa while attempting to reach I ho upper part of the house that lit tle Hattie Kopelmann 1 ;st her life and her mother had a remarkably narrov escnpe from death. Mrs, Kopelmahii had gone out on a tire escape intend ing to make her way to the rOOtkM the flames were sweeping around the lower part of the Iron ladder. Sho had the child In ber arms when bIk; stepped through the window to the platform. A misstep caused her to fall, and as she s ruck tho side of the platform Haltle fell from her arms and rolled through the open ing ln the platform to the platform of the floor below, which was red hot. There the child was burned to death before anyone could reach her. Mrs. Kopelmann rolled acorss tho opening, but saved herself from fall ing through. Mrs. Eva Be'g and the Sach hoy were burned to death In their rooms, apparent hnvlng been overcome by smoke while asleep. Night Rider Again. Lexington, Ky. (Snecial) . Several tobacco beds on tho farm of Joaeph Ware, In Boyle County, were blown up by "Night Riders." There was no Intimation of their presence on the farm until tho explosion told of the destruction of the plant beds. No warning had been given Ware, it is Bald. There Is no clue to the Iden tity of the riders or whence thoy came. Body Warm When Found. Hammond, Ind. (Special) George Simons and Fred. Whlttmore, em ployees of the Knickerbocker Sand Company of Chicago, while covering a sand pit two miles east of Gary, came across the body of a young man, still warm. The face was mashed In with a club, almost to a pulp. Tho features were unrecognizable. Be sides the remaina was a club with which the deed had been committed, as It was covered with blood. United Stntcs And Japan. Washington, D. C. (Special). A general arbitration treaty between the United Stales and Japan wns nlgned by Secretary Root and Am bassador Takahira. TI1I3 treaty fol lows the lines of tho several arbitra tion agreements which have been ne gotiated between this country and European nations during the winter, in accordance with the Ideas adopted at the recent Hague Conference. It will permit of the arbitration at The Hague of nearly every class of dis pute which may arise between Ibfl signatory powers. ODDS AND ENDS. During the last six months lliero have been burned lu New York Cl'.y 10.385,000 Ions of coal. Receipts of Iho Manlnllan Pof.i offlco are now amounting to $51, 870 each day that it is open. A house to cost $2,500 will bo built by the elly of Chicago to skel ter the elephunt Duchess in Lincoln Park. A monument to tho Brownback family to be erected ut PottSVlito, Pa., will weigh eight tons und con tain 1,800 names. At least 90 per cent, of all cases of neuralgic headache are attributed by Dr. Toms, an American oculist, 10 defects in the eyes. A moderate wind moves at the rate of seven milem on hour, a Htorm at the rate of 30 miles, and a hur ricane at the rate of 80 miles. A child Just born to Mr. and Mis. Charles Kuenhle, at Bucyrus, O., is its own uncle. Its father la ulso its grandfather. Figure It out. There has been a noticeably In crease ln the negro population of New York City recently, and most of it Is settling on the upper west side of Manhattan Island. Among Austrian railways bri quettes are used ouly by the State railways. They used last year 33,000 tons made at Pilseu, Bohemia, and 11,000 tons of English briquettes. The coal used during the eame period amounted to 4,400,000 tons. Tho briquettes were of two sizes one -rMp 2 ! nounds. and the othpr
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