modish garb and exceeding good looks, up-
on whom porter and cavalier .alike danced
a worshipful attendance.
Eastlake straightway flattened himself in-
- to the friendly shadow of a baggage truck.
‘‘Betty!”’ he gasped.
Whereupon, throngh the brightly lit
windows of the Pullman, he saw the group
straggle down the aisle, peering at the sec-
tion numbers, and finally halt with hostile
glances at a point where, in sign of pre-
emption, a man’s luggage filled the rear
seat.
‘‘Betty!”’ breathed the hypnotized spec-
tator again. ‘‘And in my section!’
In tranced amaze, he followed a panto-
mime to which the lady contributed a bat-
tery of taking graces and her companion an
air of extreme devotion. This latter per-
son wae prodigal of magazines, flowers and
like trifles for the beguilement of a long
journey; lavish, too, with his talk, to which
his listener lent a pink-tipped and apparent
ly willing ear; while his leavetaking as
the wheels began to turn was that of one
who ventured with his eyes intimacies
which he durst not as yet put more elo-
quently. He dropped to the platform just
as Eastlake, curbing a fierce primitive im-
pulse to mar and maim, swung himself
aboard.
Eastlake’s progress toward his section
was less impetuous. Indeed, it was only
after several false starts and a futile parley
with the sleeping-car conductor that he
plucked up courage to present himself be-
fore his seatmate. The moss casual wit-
ness would have agreed that his reception
justified his reluctance. To call it glacial
would snggest a warmth it could not boast;
compare it rather with the unchanging cold
of some dead world.
The man shivered elaborately.
‘‘Yes,”’ he confessed apologetically;‘ ‘this
is really my seat, Betty.”’
The lady hridled.
‘‘Betty!”’ she repeated indignantly.
‘“Elizabeth,’’ amended the offender.
‘Not to you.”’
‘Well, then—Mrs. Eastlake! I dare say
that’s scarcely more palatable, though I
remember you thought it a pretty name
when you married it.”’
She seemed unmoved by this reminis-
cence.
‘‘I was about to explain,’”’ added her
husband, ‘‘that I have tried to get a birth
elsewhere, and failed. The travel is nn-
usually heavy tonight.’’
Another pause.
‘‘However,I will try not to annoy you,”’
some candid thinking since we took differ-
ent roads, Betty;and I see, as I couldn’$
once, that I’ve been a loafer—just one of
the ‘idle rich’ that the socialists and that
lot carse.”’
‘“You weren’t really idle,”’ came an un-
expected demurrer.
“I might as well have been idle. Auto-
racing, fox-hunting, polo are well enough
as sport; as a profession they’re just what
you once told me—useless. I see that now.
1 realize how I disappointed all your fine
ambitions for me. Gad, the chances I’ve
let slip! Think of that Wall Street offer,
that berth with the Steel Trust; think of
the Congressional nomination! Why, I'll
wager there are a million deserving beggars
who’d pawn their souls for a go at any one |
of the opportunities I chucked away.’’
For an interval he sat glooming down
the aisle. His wife gazed steadfastly out
into the night.
‘I guess it was my throwing over the
political chance for a polo tournament that
cut you deepest,’ he went on presently.
That was a chance. Yon always said that
I'd get on if I were to go in for politics,
Betty, and I feel it in my bones that you’re
right. I can mix with all sorts of people;
it’s as easy as breathing for me to make a
speech. That brownstone district is our
party’s by rights. It belongs to the men
who either don’t register, or play golf all
election day when they do. The candidate
who can poll that full silk-stocking vote
will turn the scale. And I could have got
it out! You remember what the fellows in
the clubs said they’d do? I’d have won,
Betty, won hands down. For once in my
life at least you’d have been proud of me.”’
‘‘I was proud of you in other ways,
Tom,’ said his wife softly, Eastlake’s
splendid horsemanship flashing uppermost
in her mind’s eye. “‘Truly! Don’t think
I wasn’t. And don’t think, either, that I
hold myself blameless. I coald have given
you more sympathy than I did. I, too,
helped wreck our marriage.’’
He flushed at her admissson.
‘*That’s mighty square of you,’’ he said;
‘‘but it’s more generous than troe.’’
‘Oh, its true enough. It’s plain enough,
also, like all wisdom of the day after. But
we can’t live our lives twice. The big
chances don’t come twice a-begging.’’
The man straightened suddenly.
‘‘One chance bas come again.’’
Hisaltered tone stirred her.
“One chance has?’ ' she
‘“Which?”’
He bent to her eagerly. -
repeated.
NOTE.—The Socialists polled
5 votes for State Treasurer al
nd 13 for Supreme Court; the Socialist Labor polled 6 votes for State
‘‘But it is,’’she answered in a low voice. OFFICIAL VOTE CAST IN CENTRE COUNTY ON TUESDAY, NOV. 7TH, 1905.
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That slowly mingles there. - s = outhern precinct..! 67| 56. .... | 30, - 48! hil, ! { 52] 39] 5 i | 48 od 4] 4211 431 48] 39) 52|| 45] 49
That slowly ming For a space they read one another, will : orthern precinct...| 58 22 1! 41 20/| 61 41 44 411 18 2; 41 181 39 20 43) 18) 45 10f 43) 39 gp 18 2 45 17} 17/| 40, 20
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porter of the Esmeralda pottered over the | ing as if——’’ He choked wrathfully at Miles township Nd precinct, 51) 141] 3) 43] 135) 176|| 43] 48 42121) 3) 41] 136] 49) 130|| 41|138|| 40] 140f 36 43 136 143] 41| 36| Mo 137) 41] 137
berths of a regiment of women with small | the recollection, and abruptly ended: ‘I : ~~ | Western precin 14 7 2) 1 66) 74 13 14 u 22 0S To 7} 03 2 9 Uo B B. 67 = 14 1 od of 13 66
children who had made prior demands up- | could bave jammed his handsome face be- Pom fownanippormere een | 1900 0 LL O00 107) 908] 31) 33 51 91 19) 35 189 5 191) 30 192]] a| 10) 2 201 193] 14]| 31| 28 199] 198] 3] 10d
on his incompetence. The waiting man | neath the wheels.” 3 Northern precinet..| 35 107] 2|, 35 98/| 127 34 38 33] 94 3 97)! 34 o7|| 36) 96l| 36} 96 34 331 99 98 321 33 100] 97/| 30 101
was well into his second cigar,and the pro- She stole a bewildered glance at him. Potter township < Scuthern precinet...] 44! 97 vernal Be 86/| 111 3 id 34 a 2 id = 35 i 5 80! i 711) 3 2 it 2 36] 35 81; 80|| 35 82
found conviction that he bad botched life | His own face had a wholesome comeliness Noster precinel al Wl 3 Hl Sirol mm Mm ml a Hl od em Rela a ala oe
from the outset, when his eyes were arrest- | which suffered nothing by comparison wish Rush township Easier precinct. dal gal 2 20/| 40 2 20) 20 1 Pl I 21) 19 2 18 22 2 0) 2 20 20 20 20) 20 20] 20 20 2
ed by a gleam of lilac petticoat. the one he would have marred, and it just Southern precin 212 32| 4 80/| 173 o 99 96| 70| 4/| 98] S6|| 92 93 112} 75 | 85 99! 78 70|| 105| 102) 76| 173i 108] 72
” t . . s s i 100! Jig i 152 3 1 2
Now, lilac, for a sufficient reason, was | now reflected something infinitely more de- Snow Shoe Twp. Tn Dict no 4 162 1s 2s I> 1% i 0 10 To » = Tai 152 as a 38 = wr a Bl 5% b pb oo
with him a touchstone, and his speaking | sirable than physical charm. As she look orthern precinet...| 120] 57(c...|| 104 (58) 100]1 110] 114) 105 2 | lar a 108 a 102 8 112 59 1p 168 6 2 109 liz | 105 64
: i i with to a closer surve ) h ned and with a flas Spring township Southern precinct... 149 116| 2|| 140| 115}| 250(| 146] 155) 146! 97 1/| 202. 62}| 157| 108}, 147] 117|| 159 104|| 11 148) 154] 107] 111) 119, 145
detail led him forthwith toac : y | ed and puzzled, he turned and PHng DW rn Prosar] 109 115 2 96) 62] 158|| 9o| 105 93 56] 14|| 125 42(| 101] o4| 101 59] 100, c6|| 87 87 s7| 02 95| 102 63{ 56/| So 71
of a litsle procession which wound its way | of insight read her thought. Taylor township. 107] 20 =2| 64 13|| 17/l o4f 58 0] 12] 1] 6s II 65 15)! 72{ 7|| G4 16 62 66 14 15 67 63] 14| 14/| 67 13
throngh the wicket from the Waieing foes ‘“Yes, I care, little woman,’’ he owned. Union township... 110{ 38) 17/| 85 57| 140/j 90 8) 87| 42 5 93 3 88 52/1 08 421 91 48|| 2 88 50 3 901 89) 48 48 88 50
ntly ended its leisured march at | ‘I’ve always cared.’’ E D. 62! 58 1(| 54] o2|| 110); 52 56! 53 £7 2|| 69 49] v8 40| 56 62[| 56 61] 55 58 61 59 56| 57) 61] 49! 69
and Drager a hes Tooon.| Her li J ted Walker TwpAM. Fo. aif s1 1 33] ol 108] 20| 47 42). c6| 10|| 68 dof| 91 31 31) s7|| 40 7|| 41 36 so 7r|| 36 38 74| s0/| 3 70
the step of the watcher's own car. Tecon-| Her lips parted. u Woe ran asl 00....[| 23! os|| ss|| 30 34 e8 s6| ‘ull 51 40|| 30 5a|| 2s| all sz ssl 25 27 er] o2)| 290 as Go| 63) 10 se
sisted of a station porter buen with Don’t say hi 2 Spargsd. Nobody| worth township... 136] 43 3 100) 47|| 145] 107) 106] 105] 42} 3] 107 42} 101) 48|| 103] 45|| 108 d42|| 97/107) 47| 45 107} 105 43) 41) 105| 44
feminine belongings; a gentleman of ingra- | knows better than I how seldom my actions {rmmmme| om mom mtn fra mr fmm res pees || stan | mize ee | tess mee or = bes |
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tiating address; and a young woman of | squared with my words. But I've done 3 ET eR onl lo | 3071 R01 30] [oer 301 | 212] 20] ator 4183
ly along the obscurity of the floor for his
down one of its elusive columns, peered
hurriedly at his watch,and began to scram-
ble into his clothes. He grouped fruitless-
footwear, and, between impatient jabs at
the electrie button, probed with an um-
brella underneath his berth; but Betty's
traveling-bag alone rewarded his soundings.
Nor was there any response to his call,
though he could hear the porter’s bell trill
in the far corridor above the rumble of the
wheels; and rummaging an extra pair of
shoes from his own bag be tore toward the
dressing-room.
His toilet complete, be ran the Pullman
conductor to cover in a near-by coach. It
was on his mind to read this person a vig-
orous lesson on the management of sleep-
ing-cars, but the intention lost itseif in a
laugh which still shook him as he re-enter-
ed the Esmeralda and carefully explored
its floor. He hesitated before his own sec-
tion, then, gathering courage, stooped and
with all caution drew his wife's bag
from beneath the lower berth, and tried its
fastenings. To find it locked was but a
momentary embarrassment. Betty's du-
plicate keps still hung beside his own, and
in a trice the bag yawned before him with
the object of his burglarions quest lying
obligingly at hand. He had only just clos-
ed the bag and popped it back again when
the throes of the hangings warned him that
Betty was astir, and hunting out a step-
ladder which he placed within her reach, he
retreated to the corridor and posted him-
self before the porter’s annunciator to await
events.
They came. The call sounded once,
twice, a third and then a fourth time at di-
winishing intervals, and a little metal
finger quivered at the number indicating
Betty’s berth. At the final summons the
mechanism hissed like a maddened insect,
and Eastlake reconnoitred from the rope
portiere at the end of the main passage to
behold an indignant young woman, with
lilac conspicuous in her dishabille, take
her way toward the opposite dressing-room.
His smile was bland as he readjusted the
annunciator.
A fifth summons lured him into the
central aisle, now filling with the dishevel-
ed people, where he bowed gravely to Bet-
ty, who, her skirts drawn close about her
feet, was perched upon the stepladder, hor-
ing the tip of her umbrella into the elec-
tric button. Eastlake imperturbably col-
*‘It should be.”’
**With shoes in it?"
‘Of course.”’
Then it’s plain sailing, isn’t it? The bag-
gageman surely won’t refuse to let you
open it.”
His wife dimpled.
‘‘I could bardly parade the train like
this,’ she rejoined, with a twinkle of silk-
en hoisery by way of illustration.
“But I conld go for yon—if Iseem trust-
worthy.”
A long pause. Then:
‘‘Betty,’’ began Eastlake.
“Yes?”
Would it make this rervice—and others’
perhaps—any more acceptable if’ you knew
that I wired ‘Yes’ last night for my own
sake?"
“Tom! You understood? Oh, why aren’t
we alone?”
Eustlake considered their agitated fel-
low travelers, and then laid sudden bands
upon a berth hanging.
‘‘We are as good as alone,’”’ he declared.
‘*Anyhow, what if they do take us fora
rural bride and groom?”
Mrs. Eastlake recaptured a shining
strand of hair which the curtain bad dis-
placed.
“And now, Tom,’”’ she sail briskly,
“I'm quite ready for that pair of slippers I
bappened to see vou purloin.”’—By Mark
Lee Luther in The Saturday Evening Post.
They Must Have Agent Hamilton.
Mr. McClain Told He Must Order Missing Insurance
Agent Home. Probers Demand Accounting.
New York, Nov. 14.—John A. Mc-
Call, president of the New York Life
Insurance company, was called before
the Armstrong committee of insurance
investigation and peremptorily ordered
by the committee to demand the return
from Europe of Andrew Hamilton, the
lawyer who has had charge of legisla-
tive matters for the New York Life.
Mr. McCall was further ordered to de-
mand an accounting from Hamilton of
the moneys expended by him and of
the balance which he owes the New
York Life. Mr. Call denied that it was
the policy of his company to have Mr.
Hamilton remain abroad until after
ance firm that places all the risks on
the properties of the Metropolitan is
composed of W. D. Edmister and Silas
B. Dutcher, the latter a director of the
Metropolitan Life.
The low rate of interest at which Mr.
Hegeman secured loans and the reason
of the rebates of this interest that
Mr. Hegeman received from the old
firm of Vermilye & Co. was testified to
by several members of that firm, which
has since gone out of business. This
firm was the banker of the Metropoli-
tan Life, but since last March the busi-
ness has been taken over by Wm. A.
Reade & Co. Mr. Reade was a wit-
ness and said that Mr. Hegeman got
these loans at a rate below the market
rate because Mr. Hegeman had been a
client for a number of years and be-
cause of the volume of business he
transacted with the firm of Vermilye
& Co.
ATLANTIC CITY ELEPHANT GONE
Odd Feature of the Island Destroyed
By Fire.
Atlantic, N. J, Nov. 13.—The fa.
mous wooden elephant, built 18 or
20 years ago in South Atlantic City by
James lLaferty, caught fire and was
destroyed. There is no city water in
South Atlantic City, and though word
was sent here no apparatus was sent.
The elephant has been an odd fea
ture of the island since it was first
built. It was constructed of wood, of
huge dimensions, and in the interior
were rooms fitted up for a restaurant.
The “eyes” were large windows, form-
ing an observatory which commanded
a fine view of the ocean.
CUBA FEARS COUP D’ETAT
Number of Police at Palance Have
Been Trebled.
Havana, Nov. 14.—It is believed that
the government fears a coup d’etat, as
the number of police at the palace has
recently been trebled and for the last
two nights the policemen have been
WITTE’'S CAB..._. MEETS
Part of Upper Housz of National As.
sembly to Be Elective.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 14.—The sec-
ond session of Count Witte’s new cabi-
net was held yesterday. One of the
matters under consideration was the
project for placing the council of the
empire, the upper house of the na-
tional assembly, to a certain extent on
an elective basis, which Count Witte
fasisted upon before accepting the
premiership, and which was one of the
principal causes of the long delay in
tssuing the imperial manifesto of
October 30.
The project, as elaborated, provides
for the representation of land owners,
Orthodox, non-conformist and non-
Christian clergy and boerse commit-
tees. Ten representatives each are to
be chosen for five years by owners of
over 5000 acres, the Orthodox and the
non-conformist clergy and six by the
hoerse committees. The number to be
chosen by the non-Christian clergy has
not yet been decided.
Count John Tolstoi, who resigned
the position of head of the Academy
of Fine Arts owing to General Tre-
poff’s repressive policy, was appointed
minister of education.
Emperor Nicholas will resume his
residence at Tsarskoe Selo on No-
vember 16.
No Freedom For Poland.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 13.—Poland is
not to be permitted to become a sec-
ond Finland. The Russian government
in a strongly worded communication
serves notice on the Polish National-
ists that for good or ill the ancient
kingdom of Poland has now become an
integral part of the Russian empire,
and that while the government intends
to fully observe the national rights of
Poland, any attempt to wrest Polish
autonomy from the emperor would be
considered an act of revolt and would
lead the Poles into the sorrowful
paths trodden by them in 1831 and
he went on. ‘‘A shade more cordiality on ‘“The political one. Conditions haven't : : compelled to sleep on the palace floor.
your part would prevent our being taken changed much since two years ago. The Jocted part 90 hiv lofiany Su mga this investigation had been cencluded b hn : 1863.
for a eelf-conscious bridal pair; but suit | distriot leader has been to me again. He's | © 0% "0 "eo. anxiously consulting ber | 80d said that on the contrary he would Two Burned to Death In Jail. HIS" ENTIRE FAW MURDERED
yourself as to that. If, on the other hand,
it pleases you to treat me as a stranger—
vou’re acting the part capitally just now,
by the way—at least permit me as a strang-
er—a courteous one-—to offer youn the rear
seab.’’
‘No, thank you.”
‘But it always makes you sick to ride
backward. Be—Mrs. Eastlake,” he re-
monstrated. ‘‘Do take it.”’ :
The lady eclipsed her face with one of
her numerous magazines. Her husband
smilingly outflanked her by means ofa
mirror across the aisle, but she promptly
detected and blocked even that loophole.
At this moment of seeming utter root the
great god Luck, who sometimes befriended
him, deigned to smile. As the train jolted
over the last suburban switch to an unim-
peded track, he saw a small glove slip
gently from Betty’s lap to the floor, and
struck for it like a raving hawk. Unhappily
its owner was no less alert, and, the train
forwarding their joint efforts, they collided
between seats in an attitude which, ina
less impassioned moment, the man could
only liken to that classic marble styled
The Wrestlers.
Speech for the instant failed him. Not
so his wife.
‘‘How like you,”’ he dropped.
Her husband accepted the rebuke with
humility.
‘‘I suppose 0,’’ he assented. *‘‘I never
was much of a carpet-knight. Probably
that was why we didn’t make a go of it to-
gether.”
‘‘How unjust!’’ she protested.
know very well I never wanted ——?’
The conductor cut in with a 1equest for
tickets—a respite which Eastlake employ-
ed in a vain eucdeavor to learn his wiles
destination. The ticket’s reverse side per-
sistently confronted him, however, and it
was not until the official bad gone his way
and Betty was coiling the thing’s inordi-
nate length into a microscopic pocketbook
that its legend squarely mes his astounded
eye.
‘Sioux Falls!’ he hroke ont. ‘“Then
it’s true, Betty? You’re going to apply for
a Dakota divorce? They told me to expeot
it, but I laoghed them in the face. I
wouldn’t—I couldn’t believe it of you.
Tell me it’s all a mistake, little woman!
“You
asked me a second time to make the run.
Shall I wire him ‘Yes’ Betty? Shall I do it
for your sake?”’
His eyes held a meseage which she bad
not read there since their hetrothal. Her
lips half framed an answer whicha more
sober thought withheld.
‘Leave my sake ous of it,”’ she answered
steadily. ‘‘The decision must be yours
alone.”
‘‘Oh,”’ said Eastlake slowly, his face
shadowing. ‘‘I forgot. For a moment I
imagined you still cared.”
She made no rejoinder, and the raw p
ter here put in an appearauce with the not
altogether inept remark that he had come
to make them up. Hisready assumption
that they were man and wife grimly amus-
ed Eastlake. Betty seemed to miss its
humor. :
‘*‘Mine is the upper berth,’’ she whipped
in crisply. ‘‘And my shoes are muddy,
porter. Please don’t forget.”’
Eastlake detained her an instant longer.
*‘At least use the lower,”” he entreated
in a low tone. ‘““You got a two-day head-
ache from your last upper berth. Do you
remember those queer little shelves we had
to put up with on that narrow-gauge Mex-
ican road? Take it, Betty.’’
His wile shook her head without looking
at him. He could not see her mouth. His
own hardened.
‘No favors from me, eh?”’ he muttered,
making way for her to pass. “‘I’m beyond
the pale?”
ere Was no answer.
He sat long in the smoking compartment
but he brooded more than he smoked.
Once when the train halted for a time in a
vast cavern of a station he got out. When
he sought his berth at last it was after
midnight and the porter was collecéing the
shoes. Eastlake saw to it that Betty’s were
not forgotten. Sleep came tardily, and
some telepathic sense told him that
another ‘was wakeful. Once he started
listen. He could have sworn he heard a
woman’s sob.
The noise of shrilling brakes roused him
at sunrise, and, raising his curtain, East-
lake eraned to 1ead the signhoaid of a rural
station which the train was passing at
slackened speed. Then he jerked a rail-
bolt upright from a doze and strained to
watch. She held herself rigidly erect, but
to her husband’s discerning eye her stature
seemed over night to have lost at least one,
if not two, of its inches.
‘“The bell appears to be out of order,”
she remarked.
“It’s not the bell that’s out of order,’’he
informed her calmly; ‘‘it’s the porter.”
‘‘But I mast see him.”’
“I hardly think you’ll be able.”
‘But I must,’’ she repeated. *'I cannot
find my—my property.’
“‘Shoes?’’ he suggested.
She shot him a look which he felt to be
full of suspicion.
“I missed mine, too,’’ he explained.
‘Indeed, the whole carful seems engaged
in what a punster wonld call a bootless
quest. The sad fact is, Betty, our footgear
is probably two hundred miles away.”
‘“What?’’ wailed Mrs. Eastlake.
‘Yes; you see the colored person who
controls our destinies happened to fall
asleep in a rear car which was laid off in
the small hoars.”’
*‘With my shoes!”
‘‘With all our shoes.”
‘‘But you have yours.’
‘‘An extra pair. I trust you are as lucky.
It will be duced awkward when the train
reaches Chicago, but I presume the compa-
ny will provide invalid chairs or some-
thing of the kind. From all appearances,’’
he added, taking in the rising hubbub as
the dire news circulated the Esmeralda,
‘‘the supply will scarcely meet the de-
mand.”
Betty seemed aghast.
“This is horrible,”” she exclaimed.
‘Why, I simply can’t arrive in Chicago in
my stocking-fees.’’
‘‘It does look formidable,”” her husband
agreed impersonally. ‘‘Besides, you'll
have to cross the city for your— Western
connection.’’
Silence greeted thie contribution.
‘‘But perhaps some makeshilt will ocour
to youn,”” he continued hopefully. ‘How
about slippers—or rubbers even, if it came
to a pinch?’
‘I haven’t even sandals. I thooght a pair
of ties were in my bag. but I can’t find
them.”
‘No?’ sympathized Eastlake. ‘‘How
Tell me it isn’t so.?’
She met his look frankly.
road folder from a miniatnre hammock
slung near his head, ran eye and finger
very much like to have Mr. Hamilton
return.
Mr. McCall, replying to Mr. Hughes,
counsel for the committee, said he had
called. the attention of the board of
trustees to his testimony before the
committee relative to Hamilton and
gave Mr. Hughes a copy of his state-
ment, which said that if Hamilton did
rot return to the New York Life the
sum of $235,000 by December 31 he
would himself pay it to the company.
Mr. McCall said Mr, Hamilton was
either in Paris or Nauheim.
Another interesting line of examina-
tion was opened up just before the ad-
journment for the day when John Mc-
Guinness, an employe of the Equitable
Life, was called. He produced letter
books and memoranda which Mr.
Hughes read and was in the midst of
reading when adjournment was taken:
These were instructions from former
Comptroller Thomas D. Jordan, of the
Equitable, to A. C. Fields relative to
the killing or assisting the passage of
every bill introduced into the legisla-
ture that would affect or help the in-
terests of the insurance company or
any of its officers.
The letter referred Fields to a bill
relative to taxation which Mr. Jordan
instructed Fields to have killed if it
affected Suffolk county. Mr. Hughes
who had been reading the memoranda,
stopped here and asked the witness
what interest the Equitable had in Suf-
folk county. Witness hadn’t sufficient
information to clear this point, but
when asked if it wasn’t because James
H. Hyde had a residence there, witness
replied he thought it was.
Other witnesses were John R. Hege-
man, president of the Metropolitan Life,
and Vice President Fiske, who were in-
terrogated along the line of agents’ sal:
aries, legal expenses of the company,
real estate holdings and the methods
of acquiring properties, and the fact
about your trunk? Do you suppose it is
aboard this train?’’
was brought out that the fire insur-
Lake City, Ia., Nov. 13.—George W.
Buttrick and William Jackson were
burned to death in the city jail by a
fire started by Buttrick. These, with
J. I. Hipple and Isaac Allen, were ar-
rested for carousing on the streets.
Soon after being lodged in jail smoke
was seen issuing from the cell occu-
pled by Buttrick and Jackson. Marshal
Miles arrived in time to rescue Hipple
and Allen, but the other two were
dead when the officer reached their
cell. Before the discovery of the blaze
some boys heard Allen saying that
Buttrick was trying to fire the jail.
Cunliffe Gets Six Years.
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 13.—Edward G.
Cunliffe, the express company clerk,
who on October 9 stole $101,000 from
the Adams Express company agency
in this city, and whose flight and cap-
ture 10 days later attracted the at-
tention of the entire country, was sen-
tenced by Judge James R. MacFar-
lane in criminal court to two terms of
three vears each in the western peni-
tentiary and two fines of $100 each
and all costs of the prosecution on
two charges of larceny, making a to-
tal term of six years’ imprisonment.
Prince Charles Will Be King.
Christiania, Norway, Nov. 14.—The
returns of the plebiscite are still in-
complete, but no changes in its main
feature are now possible. The results
in 418 constituencies show 235,935
votes in favor of Prince Charles of
Denmark as king of Norway and 62,-
78 9against him. The Republicans ex-
pected to poll 33 per cent. of the vote,
but only obtained 21 per cent.
——Chief—'‘Do yon mean to say that
you baven’t heen able to get a single clew
to the perpetrator of this erime?”’
Detective—‘‘Naw. Them newspaper re-
porters is down on me and they won’t tell
me anything.”
Philadelphia Jew Lost 25 Relatives In
Massacre at Odessa.
Philadelphia, Nov. 14. — Max Bu-
towski, a Russian Jew residing in this
city, has received a cablegram from
Russia that his entire family has been
murdered by Russians in Odessa. The
family, he says, consisted of his
father, mother, married sister with
five children, two unmarried sisters,
two brothers, sister-in-law with four
children, her mother and his aunt
and her six children—25 persons in
all. He said they resided in the Chris.
tian section of Odessa.
WON'T ACCEPT OFFICE
Can't Conscientiously Take Oath.As He
Gave Opponent $1000 to Withd: w.
Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 11.—The Intelli-
gencer, Democratic, announces that
Edward D. Reilly, Democrat, will not
accept the office of county commis.
sioner, to which he was elected Tues-
day, after one of the bitterest political
battles in the history of the county.
Reilly won over Eli Hess, the Lincoln
candidate. The reason advanced by
Mr. Reilly for his action is that he
cannot conscientiously take the oath
of office, as he gave Hess a note for
$1000, ostensibly to cover campaign
expenses, to secure Hess’ withdrawal
in the Democratic convention, which
assured Reilly’s nomination. Hess
never cashed this note, the receipt of
which he publicly acknowledged, and
it figured prominently in the cam-
paign. The Intelligencer claims that
it is common knowledge that as a con-
sequence of Reilly's refusal to as
sume the office the court will reap:
point J. Val Wise, the present Demo-
cratic commissioner, whom the Intel:
ligencer declares has not acted in har.
mony with Democratic inter 3. Mr.
Reilly announced the dissolui.on of his
law partnership with John D. Tetrick.
He will remove from the .
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