Washington, June 25. — Important
measures extending federal regulation
and control have been enacted at the
first session of the 59th congress, now
rapidly drawing to a close. The rall-
road rate bill and the meat inspection
bill will soon become laws, and before
adiournment of congress both houses
will have passed pure food bills,
which, though dissimilar in terms, are
both based on the same principle of
federal control. It is the present in-
teention to try and adjust these dif-
ferences before adjournment.
Besides branching off into this new
field of legislative endeavor, the pres-
ent session of congress has made itself
important in other ways. It has added
one, and perhaps two, new states to
the Union, and by so doing has dis-
posed of four territories. Great re-
sults to the people are expected from
the removal of the tax on denatured
alcohol. If predictions are fulfilled
heat, light and power are to be sup-
plied by alcohol made from the corn-
fields of the country, from sugar beets
and sugar cane, from fruits and other
vegetation.
By a deft turn of legislative points
of view, the questions which have per-
plexed congress for some time regard-
ing the Panama canal have been set-
tled. The president may dig a lock
canal as fast as he pleases. A joint
resolution was agreed to requiring
eanal supplies to be made of American
manufacture.
Before discussing the number of acts
passed, it is interesting to note that
with all the strenuous exertions of an
appropriation committee in the house
with a new chairman—Representative
Tawney—it has been impossible to
hold the appropriations down to much
less than $900,000,000, although “econ-
omy” was the watchword from the
start.
Organized labor has succeeded in its
requests of the present session of con-
gress to the extent of securing the en-
actment of what is known as the “em-
ployers’ lability bill.” This enactment
will make it possible for an employe to
secure damages for his injuries, not-
withstanding his own negligence may
have been in part responsible for that
injury. Another bill which has re-
ceived the approval of the senate, and
will doubtless become a law before the
end of the session, is that limiting the
hours of continuous service of railway
trainmen to 16 consecutive hours’ work,
to be followed by 10 hours’ rest. The
much-agitated eight-hour day bill re-
ceived a favorable vote from the labor
committee of the house, but too late to
secure action at the hands of congress,
The anti-injunction bill was postponed
fn committee until the next session of
eongress, upon a direct vote on that
proposition.
One of the novel features of law-
making was the enactment of the meas-
ure to preserve the scenic beauty of
Niagara Falls.
Hazing at the naval academy was
given a further legislative rebuke by
the passage of a bill giving the secre-
tary of the navy discretion to dismiss
or otherwise punish hazers at that in-
stitution,
Important to the southern states was
the enactment of the general quaran-
tine bill, providing for co-operation of
state and federal authorities in sup-
pressing yellow fever. |
President Roosevelt was given $25,006
to pay traveling expenses of himself
and invited guests.
The private pension legislation of
the session was heavy, and many hun-
dred acts will be signed before the end
comes,
The Jamestown, Va., ter-centennial
i8 expected to be recognized by law be-
fore the session ends.
GRADUATE BECOMES INSANE
Collapsed While Making Address and
Died Soon Afterward.
Owatonna, Minn, June 23. — Miss
Xaura Kelly became violently insane
during the class day exercises at Pills-
Bury Academy and died soon after-
‘ward. She collapsed while making an
address. Miss Kelly had heen gradu.
ated with highest honors after four
years of hard study.
Train Wrecked at Open Switch.
Shamokin, Pa., June 26.—A Penn-
ayivania railroad passenger train ran
into an open switch at Green Ridge
between here and Mt. Carmel, causing
the train to be completely wrecked.
William Burns, the engineer, of the
Sunbury, was killed and C A. Leach
the fireman, also of Sunbury, had arn
arm torn off and received other in-
juries. The passengers were badly
shaken up, a few being injured, but
mone seriously.
Runner Drops Dead After Race.
Westfield, Mass, June 25.—Just ds
Re crossed the tape at the end of a
quarter-miie sprint, William Karns, of
Chicopee high school, dropped dead.
The death of the youth furnished a
sad ending for the annual interscho-
Iastic games of the Westfield and
Chicopee high schools. Karns had
participated in a number of events,
and was, it is said, in no condition to
take part in the quarter-mile run.
A Deluge of Green Frage.
Alton, IIL, June 25.—A heavy rain
storm, accompanied by a gale, swept
over Alton, and a deluge of smali
green frogs was precipitated. The
frogs fell so’ plentifully that thou-
sands were hopping around the
streets. Pedestrians and vehicles
‘erushed them by hundreds, so thickiy
were the streets strewn.
Murder on Roof Garden
New York, June 26. — Stanford
Vhite, the eminent architect, of the
3rm of McKim, Mead & White, was
shot and almost instantly killed by
Harry Thaw, a member of the promi-
nent Pittsburg family, during the per
formance of the musical extravaganza
“Mamzelle Champagne” on the roof of
the Madison Square Garden. Mr.
White died before an ambulance could
be summoned, and Thaw was arrested
immediately after the shooting.
The Madison Square roof garden,
which has been closed for several
years, was crowded with a fashion-
able audience. While a sextette
was singing a comic song and
the Garden was echoeing with the
laughter and applause of the audience,
a series of shots rattled in the rear of
the auditorium, and a man in evening
dress was seen to fall across a table
at which he was sitting with a party
of friends. The man who had fired the
shots fled, pistol in hand, toward the
nearest exit, where he was seized and
disarmed by the police.
Instantly the audience was thrown
into a panic, and a wild stampede oc-
curred, during which chairs and tables
were overturned, and men and women
fought with desperation to escape
from the roof. .
The man who was shot was quickly
{dentified as Mr. White, but his assail-
ant was not positively known to be
Thaw until after he had been taken to
the station house.
“You've Ruined My Home.”
The first intimation of trouble came
when, walking in front of his seated
victim, the man exclaimed: “You've
deserved this! You've ruined my
home!” and drawing an automatic pis-
tol, fired three shots. The first two
took effect, but as the third was dis-
charged the pistol was struck up by
a fireman on duty in the theatre, and
the bullet went skyward.
The assailant was taken to the West
80th street police station, where he
described himself as John Smith, a
student, of 130 Lafayette place, Wash.
ington, D. C., but the police on search-
ing him found cards and letters ad-
dressed to Harry Thaw, of Pittsburg,
and later his identity was fully estab-
lished.
Mr. White had previously been
at the Manhattan club, and had only
been at the Garden a few minutes
when Thaw confronted him.
Fireman Bruden took the revolver
away from Thaw and handed him over
to Policeman Debbs, who placed him
under arrest. Thaw handed the police-
man $10 and asked him to notify An-
drew Carnegie that he was in trou-
ble.
Thaw, it is alleged, said to the fire-
man: “Deserved what he got. He
ruined my life and deserted the girl.”
While Thaw was being held by the
policeman the young woman, who is
described as short, slender, dark and
very pretty, again put her arms about
his neck. Thaw told her to keeep quiet
and not get excited, as all would come
out all right.
The audience for a few moments be-
lieved the firing of the shots was a hoax
and applanded. But developments
came =o fast and it was so suddenly
made clear that they had been witness-
ing a tragedy that a panic followed.
The performance was drawing to a
close and Spice's Big Six, a sort of up-
to-date Florodora sextette, came on,
when Mr. White entered the place. He
came from the Manhattan Club, where
he had spent the earlier part of the
evening. He took a seat in the fifth
row and on the left side of a table and
leaning over engaged in conversation
with Harry Stevens, the caterer of the
garden.
Thaw had been present during the
entire performance with a woman said
to be Mrs. Thaw and had seats at a rear
table. He got up every few minutes
and walked about and the spectators
later recalled that he had acted very
nervously.
The six women on the stage had be-
gun their song when Thaw left his
wife and walking rapidly down the
aisle stood for a few moments right
behind Mr. White looking at him hard.
Shot Without Warning.
White apparently was utterly ignor-
ant of his peril. Then Thaw quickly
pulled a pistol from his trocuser’'s pock-
et and in quick succession fired three
shots. Two took effect, either wound
being mortal.
Mr. White without a sound slipped
down to the floor, the chair and table
falling on top of him. The audience
proke into a ripple of applause. Two
women nearby seeing what had hap-
pened and the blood flowing from the
man's wounds, screamed. Two of the
girls on the stage fled screaming into
the wings. The curtain was rung down
quickly.
Several men in the audience rushed
to Mr. White's assistance, but the phy-
siclan said he had died instantly. His
body was taken after it became pos-
sible in the excitement which followed
to his home at 121 East 21st street.
Immediately after the shooting
Thaw pointed the revolver in the di-
rection of the stage, and then sweep-
ing it around towards the audience, as
if attempting to cover his retreat,
started for the exit. He was quickly
disarmed by Fireman Frank Bruden,
who rushed at him regardless of any
peril. He sald later that Thaw ap-
peared to be dazed and offered little
resistance. Henry Rogers, one of the
audience, assisted the fireman, and
together they rushed Thaw to the ele
vator.
While waiting for the car to come,
a matter of a few seconds, Thaw's
wife, who was Evelyn Nesbitt, a mem-
ber of the original Florodora sextette,
rushed up to him, threw her arms
rround Thaw and declared: “I'll stand
by you, Harry!”
In the car that arrived was Police-
man Debes, of the West 30th street
station, who had heard the shooting
and cries of the audience, and Thaw
was taken by him at once to the police
station.
There were several stories of what
Thaw did after firing the shots, but a
number of men agreed that he had
said: ““That —— —— —— will never
go with that woman again.”
To Policeman Debes at the Garden
he said: “Well, damn him, he deserved
it"
Once in the police station he had
apparently recovered himself and had
become the least excited man in it.
Standing before the sergeant’s desk in
easy pose, his overcoat hanging over
his left arm, he first calmly took out
a cigarette and lighted it.
Answering the usual questions as to
name, address, etc, he sald he was
“J. Smith, 33 years old, a student, of
33 Lafayette place, Washington, D. C.”
When searched his identity was con-
firmed. In his card case were cards
engraved with his name, “Henry Ken-
dall Thaw.” He had about $250 in
cash. Refusing to say a word about
the crime, and asking that his lawyers,
Lewis A. Delafield and Frederick
Longfellow, be notified, he puffed his
cigarette and was taken back and
locked in a cell. The charge against
him is murder.
Mystery still surrounds the cause
of the tragedy, but its solution may be
found in the words attributed to Thaw
immediately after the shooting: “Well,
he ruined my wife, and I got him.”
It is known that for years bitter en-
mity had existed between White and
Thaw on account of the former's at-
tentions to Mrs. Thaw, which had be-
gun prior to her marriage.
SON OF WEALTHY FAMILY
Thaw's Father Was Vice President of
Pennsylvania Lines West.
Pittsburg, June 26.—Harry Kendall
Thaw is about 36 years old and is the
son of the late William Thaw, who
was vice president of the Pennsylva-
nia lines west and one of the wealth-
fest families of Pittsburg. He was a
graduate of the Western University of
Pennsylvania, and when in Pittsburg
made his home with his mother at
Lyndhurst, Beechwood boulevard, in
the east end of this city. Since his
graduation from college and the at-
tainment of his majority Thaw has
lived little in Pittsburg. Much of his
time has been spent abroad, and it
was while in Paris that he met Evelyn
Nesbitt, the actress, whom he after-
wards married, and who was with
him when he is alleged to have done
the shooting.
Harry K. Thaw is a brother of J.
Copeley Thaw, the Countess of Yar-
mouth, who was Alice Thaw, and also
of Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, of
Cumberland, Fla. He is also a half-
brother of Benjamin Thaw.
Mrs. William Thaw, mother of
Harry, sailed for Europe Saturday on
one of the slow steamers. She is on
her way to visit her daughter, the
Countess of Yarmouth. Harry and his
bride were booked to sail on Wednes-
day of this week. No reason for the
shooting can be assigned by friends of
the family.
MET DEATH IN STOLEN LAUNCH
Boat Run Down By Tug In Delaware
River and One Man Drowned.
Camden, N. J., June '25.—A launch
that had been stolen from a wharf in
this city last Friday was run down
by a tugboat in the Delaware river off
here, and John McCormick, one of the
two occupants of the small boat, was
drowned. The tug cut the launch in
half, throwing both men into the wa-
ter. William Brown, McSormick's com:
panion, managed to get a hand hold
on the tug and climbed over its side.
McCormick sank before he could he
reached. Brown was landed here and
disappeared before it was learned that
the launch had been stolen.
JEALOUSY CAUSED MURDER
Italian Shoots and Kills Former Fiance
of His Wife.
Norristown, Pa., June 25—Maddened
by the sight of a former fiance of his
wife, Emelio Alterio, an Italian, aged
23 years, shot and killed Alfredo Ro-
sato, cf Philadelphia, here. The mur:
dered man, who was 21 years old, has
only been in this country a couple of
months. He was an admirer of Mrs.
Alterio in Italy. With several friends
he called on an Italian family near Al-
terio’'s home. The latter saw him, ap-
proached, and when near fired four
shots, all of which took effect. Alterio
then waved a farewell to his wife
and fled.
Endows Room For Sick Journalists.
Philadelphia, June 26.—Joseph F.
Sinnott, a distiller, of this city, whe
died last week, leaving an estate of
more than $1,000,000, bequeathed $10,
000 in trust to the University of Penn-
sylvania hospital for equipping and
maintaining a room for one sick per-
son at a time, who shall have been a
newspaper writer or a journalist, in
preference to any other calling. The
endowment is in commemoration of
bis deceased son, Joseph E. Sinnott,
who was a reporter in this city.
She Would.
“I'm going up to interview your
wife,” sald the soclety reporter. “Do
you suppose she'll talk?”
“Do I?” replied the husband. “Why,
she'll be talking when your twenty-
second edition comes out.”
A Vacancy Filled.
Gerald—I have a cold in my head.
Geraldine—Well, I suppose that is bet-
ter than nothing.—New York Press.
ALL KINDS ON
Bowling is one of our games that
originated in the middle ages. The ex-
act date of its introduction is obscure,
but it has been clearly traced to the
thirteenth century. The first bowling
greens were made in England. In bad
weather these could not be used to ad-
vantage, and this led to the construec-
tion of covered bowling alleys.
Hard Luck.
Caller—I have here several bills which
are long overdue, Harduppe (desper-
ately)—I am sorry to say that our cash-
fer is out today. Caller—Oh, well, it
doesn’t make much difference. I'll call
and pay them &t some future date.
Good day, sir.
His Best Bedroom,
An American physician says that
while in England he saw a vaulted
tomb in a London cemetery which had
the following inscription engraved on
the door:
Dr. John Gardner's Last and Best Bed-
room.
The Lid Off.
Johnnie—Say, pa, who was Pandora?
Johnnie's Pa—Pandora, my son, was a
little girl who started a lot of trouble
because she didn't keep the lid down.—
Princeton Tiger.
quisite kindness and thoughtful be-
nevolence in that rarest of gifts, fine
breeding.—Bulwer.
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the bath. Washing in the golden age
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and baths were built with as much
care as temples. There has been a re-
vival in this century of public baths,
but from an aesthetic point of view
‘they cannot compare with those of a
barbarous age. This is not an age of
washers.—London Lady.
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road with the lady, from Boston, “I
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