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Little Gir! Is Brutally Slain.
The bruta: murder of a five-year-old
barn at Newark, N. I. !
The little girl, when found dead in
a corner of the old building. still held
a penny in her right hand. Aroupd |
her neck there was a belt that {
papers belonging to Louis R. Glavis tc death. Her clothing was practically
was broken open by land office agents | g)) torn from her body, indicating that |
ir the postoffice building at Seattle, ‘at least a fierce attempt had :
Wash. They found, so it is alleged, page to attack the little girl, who had |
copies of a number of important let- | fought desperately to defend herself. |
ters and telegrams that were missing
from the official files of the office
which Glavis had then turned over to
his successor.
This fact came out in the course of | the finding of the body and now they
inquiry and | gre on a hunt for the murderer.
the Ballinger-Pinchot
created a sensation. Glavis denied ab-
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golutely that he ever had the letters |
after he had delivered his office and
its belongings to his successor, A. C.
Christensen. He promptly denounced
the episode in Seattle as a “frame-up.”
Several of the letters were in a list
published by Collier's Weekly last fall
in one of the attacks made by that
newspaper on Secretary Ballinger.
When the investigation by the joint
committee of congress begun, Louis
D. Braindeis, attorney for Glavis, re-
quested the committee to ¢all for a
number of letters and documents, and
this list included most of those which
were in dispute. John J. Vertrees, of
Nashville, Tenn., attorney for Secre-
tary Ballinger, who conducted the
cross-examination of Glavis, explained
to the joint committee that Secretary
Ballinger called on the chief of the
fleld agents at Seattle to furnish cer-
tain letters. The first reply to the re-
quest was that the documents could
not be found. But they were received
Monday by the secretary of the in-
terior from Seattle, accompanied by
an explanation from Glavis' successor
fn which it was said that they were
recovered from the box of personal
belongings.
Glavis Says It's a “Frame-Up.”
“It is a frame-up,” exclaimed Glavis.
“It makes me indignant for any one
to assume that I would have been
foolish enough to have put those let.
ters in a box and left them where
they would have been accessible to the
very men who are trying to make a
case against me, It makes me indig-
nant to think that subordinates of the
secretary of the interior would stoop
to such methods in order to serve Mr.
Ballinger.” .
Glavis denied ever having placed
the letters in the box. He told the com-
mittee that he believed that the agent
of the land office had taken them from
the office files and placed them there
for the purpose of making it appear
that he had abstracted them from the
files and had refused to give them up.
Attorney Vertrees proposed to sub-
mit the letters and the accompanying
explanation from A. C. Christensen,
the special agent in chgrge at Seattle.
But a vigorous objection was made.
Before this question had been dis-
posed of Representative James, of
Kentucky, voiced his indignation at
the manner in which the letters had
appeared in the committee room. At-
torney Brandeis then made a spirited
protest against the way in which Sec-
retary Ballinger had turned over to
his attorney for submission to the
committee as evidence letters that the
comwittee had called for under in-
structions as to their custody.
Glavis took the stand at the open- |
ing of the hearing. Mr. Vertrees drew |
from the witness that the Cunning-
ham claimants were the first to pay
up on their claims and that in numer
ical order they were entitled to first
consideration in any legislation.
No Direct Accusations.
Referring to Glavis' report to the
president, a magazine article by him
and his testimony before this commit-
tee, Mr. Vertrees asked if he had made
any direct accusations.
Glavis said he had intentionally re-
frained from making anw charges; he
presented the facts to let the people
draw their own inferences,
Asked what he thought the facts
showed, witness replied that “the land
department was not in safe hands and
that the people's interests were not be-
ing protected in the Alaska cases.”
. Glavis said flatly that he thought
the facts established official miscon-
duct on the part of Ballinger and Den-
nett.
Called on to explain why then he
-made no charge of corruption, he sald:
“If 1 had thought the facts warrant-
-ed a charge of corruptness I would
have gone to the grand jury instead of
to the president.”
Glavis said he did not believe there
‘were any corrupt motives on the part
.of Ballinger or Dennett, but their not
protecting the people was intentional.
Pressed further, witness said per-
‘haps he and Mr. Vertrees didn't have
the same view of the meaning of “cor-
rupt.” “I think,” he added, “when a
man acts corruptly he acts criminally.
There are no charges of criminality
pere.”
Baby Born on Train.
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 15.—While a
Union Pacific passenger train from
Denver to St. Louis was speeding
through Kansas a son was born ta
Mrs. D. H. Stiles, of Sandwich, IIL
Strange Disease Fatal.
A strange disease has made its ap-
pearance among the people of the town
of Parrilla, near Durango, Mexico,
causing many deaths. Physicians are
unable to check its progress, which is
rapid. The body of the victim turns
black after death, it is stated.
Eggs Ordered Destroyed.
Federal Judges Orr and Young made
an order, upon application of the Unit-
ed States district attorney, that a ship-
ment of 25,000 storage eggs be de-
. The shipment was recelved
in Pittsburg from Baltimore last week.
| prominently into the limelight in Pitts.
The body was found by the father of
the little ons and a neighbor, who Bp
kept up a search for her all night.
The police were at once notified of
The little victim was Sadie Tishko-
witz, five years old, of 31 Jones street.
She was the daughter of Harry Tish- |
kowitz. who conducts a carpenter re-
pair shop at the same address. |
Schaeffer Pays Death Penalty.
George N. Schaeffer. the Schnecks-
ville chicken farmer, who killed Leo-
pold Ermann, of Philadelphia, on Nov.
18, 1908, was hanged in the corridor
of the jail at Allentown, Pa.
The trap was sprung by James Van
Hise. of Jersey City, New Jersey's of
ficial hangman. who used his own
scaffold, and who wns assisted by his
brother-in-law, tdward Donham.
Schaeffer was pronounced dead in
eight minutes, his neck having been
broken. The body was cut down in
fifteen minutes.
Schaeffer had nothing to say except
tc bid goodby to prison officials. He
walked coolly to the gallows and need-
ed no support on the way or on the
scaffold. The execution was witnessed
by seventy-five persons. It was Lehigh
county's fourth legal hanging in a cen.
tury and Van Hise's eighty-ninth exe-
cution. oo
McKinley's Enemy Commits Suicide.
Casper Limbach, a wealthy man,
with anarchistic principles, who came
burg just after the assassination of
Precident McKinley, through his ut-
terance “That McKinley deserved just
what he got,” committed suicide by
shooting.
His wife declares the shooting was
caused by the continued persecutions
ho had undergone at the hands of his
neighbors since applauding the death
of McKinley. He has been burned in
effigy, pelted with stones and at times
crowds have gathered to lynch him.
As a result of the damage to his
property, Limbach sued the county
and was awarded several thousands of
dollars.
T. Roosevelt, Jr, Engaged to Marry.
Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander, of
42 West Forty-seventh street, New
York city, has announced the engage-
ment of her daughter, Miss Eleanor
Butler Alexander, to Theodore Roose-
velt, Jr., eldest son of former Presi.
dent Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Roose-
velt said that the announcement was
made at this time because it was the |
desire of his family to have the an-
nouncement made before the depar-
ture of his mother for Europe within
a few days.
Young Roosevelt, since his gradua-
tion from Harvard, has been learning
carpet manufacturing in a factory at
Thompsonville, Conn.
Pennsy Bars “Chewing.”
One of the most far-reaching re-
forms ever inaugurated by the Penn-
sylvania railroad went into effect
when an order was promulgated at
Altoona, Pa., prohibiting all employes
of the passenger and freight stations
east of Pittsburg and Erie the use of
tobacco in any form while on duty.
For years smoking has been frown-
ed upon, but now “chewing” comes
under the ban. The order aims at
cleanliness and sanitation.
The Pennsy is issuing a new book
of rules, which shows many changes
to meet new conditions and to better
safeguard public travel.
Scores Drowned at Sea.
The French Transatlantic steamship
General Chanzy, from Marseilles with
seventy-five passengers and a crew of
sixty-five, has been wrecked on the
north coast of Minorca, near Palma.
Only one passenger was saved out of
all the persons on board. The vessel is
a complete loss.
The sole survivor was landed on the
coast of Minorca near Ciudad Ciudad
Ela. The vessel was bound for Al-
glers.
Yale Gets $100,000.
A gift of $100,000 to Yale university,
at New H-ven, Conn., given by Al
fred G. Vanderbilt, of New York, was
made gnown. The gift will be applied
toward the general university endow-
ment, and is part of & subscription of
$250,000 for this purpose.
Mr. Vanderbilt has thus far given
$175,000, and it is understood will com-
plete the amount before the close of
the year.
Loss of Jobs May Follew In Anthracite
Region.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Feb. 156.—From 40
to 50 per cent of the miners in the an-
thracite mines of Luzerne county will
lose their places by the campaign of
elimination started by the miners’
examining board. Every miner will be
compelled to undergo the state exam-
{nation to show whether he is or is
not go familiar with mining conditions
that he is a competent miner. As the
law provides that each one examined
must be able to speak and read Eng-
lish, it is estimated that many of the
foreign-born miners will Jose their
places. Coal companies and mine in-
spectors estimate that the elimination
of incompetents will reduce the num-
ber of mining accidents 50 per cent.
| Where the “Holler” Was More Im-
pressive Than the Words.
The appeal that a fine flow of oratory
wiil make to men and women was
{ amusingly exemplified one night at a
. meeting In West Philadelphia, says a
Philadelphia paper. A noted speaker
was appealing to a gathering to give
funds toward the work of cleaning the
slums, making life healthy and happy
for the poor and other utopian schemes
of men and women whose hearts throb
with longing to help their kind.
For half an hour he drew pictures
of the conditions; then with expressive
zestures and Lis voice throbbing with
enthusiasm he poured out a flow of
rhetoric.
“Our duty, our flag, our country,”
dotted the speech with italics. The
audience shouted and cheered, and the
women wept, while a storm of ap-
plause swept the room when the,
speech was over,
“That's going some, eh?” said one
| man to another in the cloakroom later.
“Fine sentiments, real feoling—great,
great”
“I'm so deaf.” spoke up another,
with disappointment in his voice, “that
I couldn't hear. What did he say?’
“Say—say!” stammered the others,
fooking into each other's faces, “Why
~he—he—er—hanged if 1 know!” And
to this day they don’t know. It was
only the “holler” that got them, not
the words,
This Is, however, what makes the
uritor,
A Strange M:thod c’ Salutation. |
Of all the strange modes of saluta-
tion the most extraordinary is the
“dance of ceremony” current in the
west African kingdom of Dahomey.
Whenever any Daboman chief or offi-
cial of rank comes to pay you a visit
he always opens the interview by
dancing around you with various queer
contortions (extremely suggestive of
his having just upset a kettle of boil |
ing water over his knees), which you
are bound to imitate as closely as pos.
sible. It is even reported that one of
the native ministers of the terrible
King Gezu owed Lis rapid rise at the
Dahoman court wholly to his superior
skill ‘in cutting these strange capers
and that he thus literally as weil as.
figuratively jumped to preferment. |
Temmy's Mistake.
Father—Come, young man, Get your
jacket off and come with me. Tom:
my—You're not going to lick me, are
you, dad? TFather—Certainly. Didn't
1 tell you this morning that I should
settle with you for your bad be:
havior? Tommy—Yes, but I thought
it was only a joke, like when you told
the grocer you was going to settle with
him.—London Tit-Bits,
His Landscapes.
A nouvean riche recently attended a
picture sale. A friend who had noticed
him at the sale asked afterward, “Did
you pick up anything at that picture
sale, Jorkins?" and the other respond-
ed: “Oh, yes; a couple of landscapes.
One of 'em was a basket of fruit and
the other a storm at sea.”
Frozen to Death In Alley.
, tain herself uo longer.
| umbrella?’ she asked.
Adam King, of Wassergase, was
frozen to death while on his way
home, and his body was discovered in
a side alley at Hellertown, near Allen-
tewn, Pa. King evidently had been to
the store for a supply of groceries, for
beside his body was found a basketful ,
of provisions. In his clothing was '
found $35.
Murdere~ of Six Electrocuted.
Howard '.ttle, who murdered Mrs.
Betsy Justis, her son-in-law, George
Meadows, and his wife and three chil-
dren in their home, near Hurley, in
Buchanan county, Va., last September,
was put to death by electrocution in
the penitentiary at Richmond without
unusual incident. Little confessed.
Cottonseed Fiour Bread Shown.
Bread made from cottonseed flour
was exhibited on the board of trade
at Chicago by Charles Stearns. Al-
though ten days old, it was sweet and
palatable and resembled brown bread.
The seed was ground and the bread
baked at Ennis, Tex. The flour can be
had at $30 a ton, or 1% cents a pound.
Electrocution For Burglar.
Jesse Whitehead, a negro, was con-
victed of burglary in the first degree
by the Craven county superior court
at Newbern, N. C.. and sentenced to
be electrocuted April 29.
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4 Torrent of Thanks Did Not ,
pany Its Recovery.
It was on a train coming through |
southern Wisconsin, On board was
one of those impromptu comedy crowds |
that badn't any idea it was funay.
One woman suddenly descended on her
husband with the thrilling inquiry: }
“Where's tha! umbrell’ of mine?”
“I dunno.” growled the husband.
“Well, you hud it inst.”
“Didn't neither.”
“You did, tos, nnd you've got to git |
busy findit’ it. I bet it's up forrerd |
there where we was a-settin® before |
we come back hyer.” |
More growls from the husband, who |
was sleepy. i
“You got t' help me hunt it, any-|
way." i
She tuck him and went forward,
peering under the seats, All up and
down the aisic they went, searching
vainly. The more uncomfortable the
stopping made her the madder and
worse excited the woman got and the |
worse Ler husband growled, i
Fiaally she began poking under the |-
seats to see if she could touch the
umbrella In some recess beyond her
vision, :
A girl with # bine feather in her
bat who had been timidly watching
the performance and showing a blush-
ing tendency to interrupt could con-
“What's that you're poking under
the seats with? Isn't that the lost
The woman straightened up, gave
one look at the tightly grasped instru-
ment and snapped out, “Yes, it is!"
She said it just as if it had all been
the fault of the girl with the blue
feather in her hat.—Chicago News,
Followed Instructions.
At Gloucester some time ngo a man
was sentenced to one month's hard la-
bor for stealing a bottle of medicine
that he had been asked to deliver by
the doctor in the village in which he
lived. Some months after he was
brought up ‘on a similar charge and
when in the dock was asked what he
had to say in his defense.
“Well, your honor.” he replied, “1
was asked by the doctor to call again
for another patient's medicine, and the
bottle stood on the doctor's desk lab-
eled, ‘To be taken as before.”
He was discharged amid roars of
laughter.—London Fun.
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SHOES
this week only, for $1.48
THINK OF IT less than HALF PRICE
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Our
White Sale
has been very successful and we are
adding new things every week. We
are receiving this week our second lot
of new Embroideries and Table Linens,
something specially good and at lowest
prices. See our Night Gowns, Drawers
and Corset Covers, the best value,
prices the lowest. Shirt Waists—anoth-
er new lot of Shirt Waists just opened.
Receiving new Spring and Summer
dress goods every day. “You have
the largest and best assortment of
Silks and fine Dress Goods in town,”
was told to us frequently by a number
of customers.
We are getting ready for a big Rum-
mage sale. Odds and ends from every
department must be sold. New Mat-
tings, Carpet, Linoleums and Oilcloth
just in.
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