THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA.
1 IKBI 11
Ready to Trust President
Roosevelt to Settle the
Trouble With Japan.
STATUS SATISFACTORY
43bnferonoe with the Chief Executive
Expected to Result In Complete
Adjustment Xo Demand by offi
cials California Visitors Bealixe
Japnn Muxt h Mollified.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 12. Tho
situation regarding a settlement of
the Japanese trouble seems In every
way satisfactory. The positive state
ment was made by one of those who
were most opposed In temporizing
with the Japanese that a very few
more conferences between tho .Sun
Francisco authorities anil President
Roosevelt would result In an adjust
ment of the whole question, leaving a
few details to be arranged by tho
President and Secretary Root.
It has been apparent from the time
the Mayor and other officials of San
Francisco consented to come to
Washington for a conference that
Mr. Roosevelt had the situation In
his own hands. His appeal to the
California delegation in Congress,
which resulted In the coming of tha
Officials from the coast, deeply stir
red the State, and, although news
Viper opposition continues In San
Francisco, It Is said the local govern
ment Is wiling to do exnetly what
the President requests and Mr.
Roosevelt has been very careful to
request nothing which cannot bo
done without loss of pride or self-respect
by the Callfornlans.
The San Francisco officials are said
to have frankly admitted that tho
presenco In the schools of tho com
flarntlvely few Japanese children now
In San Francisco could not possibly
aarm the city or the white children,
and that the anti-Japaneso senti
ment was the result of labor agita
tion. The officials said if coolie immi
gration were checked public senti
ment would not for a minute object
io an alteration of the school regu
lations In such a way as to admit the
Japanese children to the public
jehools. They were willing perhaps
to admit all those below the age of
-tfxteen.
William W. Flnley,
ha new President of the Southern
'iailway, succeeding the late Samuel
.'.)pncer.
Monument for Murddcresa.
Rutland, Vt., Feb. 6. The grave
at Mrs. Mary Rogers, who was hang
id at Windsor, December 8, 1905, for
murder of her husband at Ben
Jngton In 1902, U to be marked by
t $600 monument. Tha donor is a
tealthy Vermont woman who was
.jreatly interested in tho fight for
.Ira. Rogers life on tha eve of her
hanging.
Snowsllde Spared the Baby.
Sallna, Col., Feb. 7. Seven per
sona were killed by the snowsllde
.feat came down Monarch Mountain.
Yhe bodies were recovered from be
neath great masses of snow and bro
ken tlmbrs. They were Fred Mason
. yd wife, Joseph Boyle, John Emer
nn, George Griffith,. and John Gil
bert, miners, and Stephen Skinner, a
taloon keeper. Of tha fourteen In
,'.ured two may die. A young Infant
f Mrs. Mason's waa found alive
fourteen hours later.
Service Pensions Voted.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 6. By a
vote of 196 to 20 the House passed
the Service Pension bill, which pass
ad the Senate January IS, increasing
the pensions of soldiers and sailors
of the civil war and the war with
Mexico.
The bill provides that persons
tdxty-two years old shall receive $12
per month; seventy $16, and seventy-five
years, $20. The pensions will
oegln from the date of filing the ap
plication. Agrees to Jamestown Loan.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 6. Tha
House by a vote of 110 to 85 con
curred in the Senate amendment to
the Urgent Deficiency bill to lend
$1,000,000 to the Jamestown Ex
hibition, safeguarding the loan by a
lien on the gross receipts.
Mayor of Kingston Dead.
Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 12.
Mayor Talt died from the effects of
injuries he sustained in the earth
guake. He was sixty-eight years old.
I
mansion i,oss $1:1.000,000,
Estimate of Committee That As-
eeed Damage to Property.
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 14. Ac
cording lo a schedule of losses gath
ered by Allen D. Roberts, the Kings
ton representative of the Philadel
phia Commercial Museum, the dam
age dono by tho recent earthquake
and Are In the city of Kingston Is es
timated at $13,000,000. Figures re
turned show thnt the loss by fire and
earthquake, exclusive of church,
Government and municipal build
ings, Is nearly $11,000,000. In addi
tion to this, the church loss Is $250,
000; municipal buildings, $300,000;
Government properties, $4 00,000;
and St. Andrew's Parish, $879,300.
The greatest loss was In the residen
tial section, because the figures as
gathered by the committee are $6,
4 81,060, or which 75 per cent, la a
total loss.
mm
.www.
Mrs. Funny L. Perry,
the lone Indian widow of Watuppa
Rond reservation who has appealed
to tho Massachusetts Legislature to
prevent her land from being used for
waterworks. She Is the last descend
ant of the Packawanots and Warn
panaogs, and the land which she now
holds was granted to her ancestors In
the Colonial days.
Graft Dog's Hone to Boy.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 12. Nine
Inches of a dog's leg bone inserted In
a boy's leg has proved a success in
surgery after a year's work.
Nine inches of diseased bone had
been taken from the leg of Danny
Buck, nine years old, son of Dr. and
Mrs. J. H. Buck. Until Wednesday
he used crutches and was told not to
let his right foot touch the ground.
The doctors have now pronounced
the healing process complete and
have given the boy permission to
throw away his crutches.
Two years ago tho boy began to
suffer with tuberculosis of the fibula.
Kills Woman in Street.
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 12. With a
blow that broke the woman'B neck an
unknown footpad murdered Mrs.
Mercedes Donovan, robbed the body
of the few coins she had. and fled.
The murder was done near Third
and Commerce streets, In tho heart
of the city.
She waa under an arc light when a
man stepped from the shadow. Mra.
Donovan screamed, but before the
cry could be repeated the footpad
struck her.
Needy Colleges Barred.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 12. "Tha col
leges that need money the most can
not jet it under the Rockefeller gift
because they cannot comply with his
conditions," said President Harris of
Northwestern University, discussing
the Rockefeller fund. He cited Be
lolt, which was offered $200,000 If
it would raise $100,000. Falling, it
received only $50,000 from tha Gen
eral Education Board.
To Bar Show of Weapons.
Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 11.
Representative Spence of Stoddart
County, has Introduced a bill pro
hibiting the exhibition in store win
dows of pistols, bowle knivea, dirks,
sling shots, daggers and metal
knuckles. Violation Is punishable by
a fine of $50 to $500 or imprison
ment for from ten days to six
months.
Four Killed at Funeral.
New York, Feb. 14. An expresi
train on the Long Island Railroad
crarhed through the funeral proces
sion of Henry Taylor, a retired Bea
captain, of 116 East Forty-second
street, Manhattann, at the Penny
bridge crossing, Just outside Long
Island City. The train hit one of the
carriages with full force, killing lta
driver and three occupants.
Girls Court-Martlaled.
Moscow, Feb. 12. .A search for
bombs at he Moscow Female Univer
sity has resulted In several unfilled
ones being found.
It is reported that eight girl stu
dents, arrested In connection with
recent assassinations of high officials,
liav been tried by drumhead court
martial. Seen Indians Wandering Beggars.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 7. Whila
the Senate was considering the In
jrllan appropriation bill Mr. McCum
her predicted tat within fifteen years
every acre of Indian land would hare
jputmed Into the hands of the white
loan, and the IndlanB would be wan
dering bands of beggars. Their only
Ihopu would be to get into Mexico.
Li
As Told to Harry Thaw
When He Asked Her to
Marry Him.
LAID BARE HEIJ LIFE
Architect Induced Her to Drink
Dragged Wine Then All Won
Blank After Recovering Con-
i
clousnes Knew She Had Been
Mode His Victim.
New York. Feb. 12. Evelyn Nes
blt Thaw took the witness stand
when court opened In the trial of her
husband for the murder of Stanford
White and entered upon the recital
of her extraordinary story. That
It would be extraordinary had been
anticipated. It turned out to be
more sensational than could well
have been Imagined,
"Mr. Thaw was sitting down oppo
site me, and he suddenly said to ma
that he loved me and wanted to mar-
Mrs. Harry K. Thaw,
ry me, and I stared at him for a mo
ment, and then ho said, "Don't you
care for me? Don't you care anything
about me?" And I said, "Yes." And
he Bald, "What le tho matter?" And
I said, "Nothing at all," and he
said, "Why won't you marry rue?"
and I said "Because," and then he
said, "Well, tell mo why, won't you,
for what reason: why won't you mar
ry me?" Then ho leaned over me
and put his hands on my shoulders
and looked straight at me, and he
aid, "Is It because of Stanford
White?" "And I said, "Yes."
"I told him that In the theater a
girl named Edna Goodrich had coma
to me and asked mo to go a dinner
party with some friends of hers, and
I told her my mother would not want
me to go. She came again and asked
mo to go out ugain, and I still re
fused, but I said this time I would
ask my mother. My mother refuued
to let me go. Then this young lady
and another young lady came to me
and asked me to go to a lunch party.
They said the people were very nice
people, and were in the very best
New York society, and that It was all
right. And they also asked my
mother. And my mother consented
"Then this young lady came up for
me one day in a hansom cab. My
mother dressed me and we got into
the hansom and I remember hoping
that wa would go to tha Waldorf, be
cause I wanted to see It. But Instead
of that we went down Twenty-third
treat up around where I lived and
then wa went straight down Broad
way and turned Into West .Twenty
fourth street and stopped at a little
dingy looking door.
"Tha door opened without anybody
opening It. It opened Itself. And we
went In through that door and then
we went up some steps, and another
door opened in the same way. Then
a man'a voice called down stairs
that man was Stanford White.
"When we went into the room there
was a table set for four people. The
furnishings in the room were of vel
vet and very fine; but I thought the
man big and ugly. Ho asked us to
take oft our hats, and se we took off
our hats. Another gentleman came a
few minutes after and we sat down
to the table, and I remember they
teased me because my hair was down
my back and I wore short dresses.
"Then Mr. White came to call on
my mother several times, and asked
if she wanted to go to Pittsburg to
visit her friends there, and she said,
'No;' that she could not go and visit
there and leave me alone In New
York, and he said, 'No; that Is per
fectly right,' and then he came again
and saw mother several times whllo
I was there, and I remember hearing
him tell her It was not Impossible for
her to go and visit Pittsburg, if I was
left with him. He said she might go
and visit Pittsburg and leave mo In
New York In perfect safety. He
would take good care of me, and ho
made ma promise I would not go out
with anybody but him while mama
was away.
"And mama told me he was a very
grand man, and afterward she went
to Pittsburg, and I remember he
gave her the money to go. Then
mama went to Pittsburg, and the
next day, I think, after she left Mr.
White sent a carriage for me at 10
o'clock In the morning und fold ma
that I was to come to the sLidio uud
have rome photographs taken.
"Tho next night after that 1 re
ceived a note from Mr. White at tho
theater asking me to come to a party
and ho would send a carrlugo for mo.
So after the theater I got Into the
carriage and was taken down to the
Twenty-fourth street studio, and
when I got there the door opend nnd
I went upstairs nnd Mr. White was
there, but no one else was there and
I asked him If tho same people would
bo there who were at the other
pnrty. And he said, 'What do you
think, they have turned us down."
And I said, 'Oh, It's too bad. Then
we won't have a pnrty.' He said,
'They have turned us down and
probably gone off somewhere else
and forgotten all about us.' And I
said, 'Had I better go home?' and he
said, 'No, we will sit down and havs
some food anyhow In spite of them;
that I must be hungry.' So he sat
down at th table and I took off my
hat and root.
"We sat down at the tnhlo and ato
the food. Then I remember Mr.
White going away for a while and
coming back ngaln. So after tho
supper when 1 got up from the tnblo,
ho told me hat 1 hadn't seen nil of
his place, that they had three floors
and there were some very beautiful
things In all the different rooms and
he would take me around and show
them to me.
"So we went up another flight of
talrs, not the one I had gone up be
fore, but a little tiny backstairs, and
came Into a strange room. thnt I had
n't seen before, and there was a
piano in this room, paintings on tho
wall and very interesting cabinets all
about, and we looked at this rorta
for some time, nnd I sat down at tho
piano and played something.
"Mr. White asked me to come see
the back room, and he went through
some curtnlns, and tho back room
was a bedroom, nnd 1 sat down at the
table, a tiny little table; there was a
bottle of hnmpagno, a small bottle,
and one glass. Mr. White picked up
the bottle and poured tho glass full
of champagne. I paid no attention to
him, because I was looking at a ;lo
turo over the mantel, a very beauti
ful one that attracted my attention.
"Then he told me he had decora
ted th4s room himself, showed me all
the different things about It. It wa3
very small. Then he came to ma
and told me to finish ray champagne.
I suld I didn't core much for It. Ha
Insisted that I drink this glass of
champagne, which I did, and I don't
know whether It was a minute after
or two minutes after, but a pounding
began In my ears, a something and a
pounding, then he whole room seem
ed to go around; everything got very
flat.
"Then, when I woke up all my
clothes were pulled off of me, and I
wns In bed. I sat up In tho bed, and
I started to ffcream. Mr. White wns
there and got tip and put on one of
his kimonos. The kimono was lying
on a chair; and then I moved up nnd
pulled some covers over me and sat
up, and there were mirrors all uro nd
the bed; there were mirrors on the
side of the wall, and on top. Then I
screamed, and screamed, and scream
ed, and he came over and asked me
to please keep quiet, that I must not
make bo much noise. He said, .'It U
all over; It Is all over.' Then I
screamed, 'Oh, no.' And then he
brought a kimono over to me and he
went out of the room. Then, as I jot
out of the bed, I began to scream
more than ever. Then Mr. White
came into the room and got down on
his knees beside me and picked up
the ends of my dress and kissed It.
"Then he began to talk to me. He
told me that I must not be worried j
about what had occured. He said
that everything was all right. He
said he thought I had the most beau
tiful hair he had ever seen. He said
he would do a great many things for
me. He said everybody did these
things; that all people were doing
those things; that that is all people
were for all they lived for. He said
that Iwas so nice and young and slim
did It.
that he couldn't help It, and so
"Then he told me that only very
young girls were nice, and the thinner
they were tha prettier they were, and
that nothing was so loathsome as fat,
and that I must never got fat. And
then I looked at him and said: "Does
everybody you know do these
things?" And he said: 'Yes.'
"He said the great thing in this
world was not to be found out; that
I must be very clever about It."
Walked l.ftOO Miles on Water.
New Orleans, La., Feb. 12. Cap
tain Charles W. Oldrleve. to win a
bet, has walked 1,600 miles, from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, on water.
He made the trip In forty-five less
than forty days. He wins $5,000.
Had he been forty-six minutes later
he would have lost.
Oldrleve used cedar wood shoes,
four feet five Inches long, five Inches
broad and seven Inches deep. With
these he trod the surface of the river,
closely followed all the way by hU
wife In a rowboat.
$50,000 Garden for John I).
New York, Feb. 12. John D.
Rockefeller, during the coming sum
mer, will lay out in front of his new
mansion at Pocantlco Hills the larg
est and costliest Italian and French
gardens in America. It is said that
he will spend $50,000 for marble
steps, terraces and ancient pillars
and statuary.
Oldest Muson Is Dead.
Rockford, III., Feb. 12. Otis
Eddy, aged one hundred and two, Is
dead here. He was believed to have
been tho oldest Muson in this conn
try, havilng been Initiated in 1S26
NUB I
Covering Minor Happen
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Complied nnd Condensed for tlio
Busy Bonder A Complete Record
of Kiiropean Despatches nnd Im
portant F.vents from F.verywliora
Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal.
John D. Rockefeller's gift of $43,
000,000 will be used by the General
Education Bonrd to promote colleges
In cities and to advance the educa
tion of women everywhere.
Cubans of the better class, all of
whom favor an American protector
ate, declare they will revolt ugalnst
the new republic to be established by
the United States.
State Controller discovered thnt
there was no witness under his pred
ecessors to the destruction of $3,
000,000 worth of defective stock
transfer stamps, and he only has the
word of n clerk that they were not
stolen.
Minority stockholders of the old
Northern Pnclfic Railway are behind
tho effort to obtain a Senatorial In
vestigation of the reorganization of
tho concern.
George F. Curtis, of Shanghai, de
clared the disbarment of American
lawyers by the Consular Court In
Shanghai was an act of retaliation by
the State Department for the expo
sure of consular abuses.
In his sermon to graduating mid
shipmen tho chaplain of the Naval
Academy regretted oppostlon to the
gathering of wnr shlpR at the coming
Jamestown exposition.
New York Slate Hoard of Chari
ties In Its annual report criticised
State Architect for not having beauty
and utility combined In State Institu
tion buildings.
Bill was prepared by Assembly
men Phillips of New York, limiting
cnmpalgn expenses for every candi
date for office, the extreme limit be
IliiK $10,000 for a gubernatorial can
didate. The Rev. Walter Lowrle's whist
sermon at Newport nearly defeated
his confirmation as rector of tho
American Church at Rome.
Mrs. Frederick S. Goodwin of New
York, has Issued Invitations to sixty
friends to attend a banquet for which
the menu will consist of uncooked
food.
FOREIGN News.
Reports that Infernal machines
had been found In tho house of
Count Witte, former Russian Pre
mier, are confirmed, according to n
despatch.
King Edward opened Parliament
with Imposing ceremonies, the strug
gle over the liberal plan to curtail
tho House of Lords being foreshad
owed in the initial session.
A despatch from Nice announces
the death of Harold S. Van Buren,
United States Consul In that city.
Dr. Montono, according to a St.
Petersburg despatch, informs M.
Isvolsky, Russian Minister of For
eign Affairs, that the evacuation of
Manchuria is a proof of the Mikado's
desire for a complete resumption of
friendly relations with Russia.
Sir William Howard Russell, who
became famous as a war correson
dent of the London Times, has died
at the age of eighty-six.
President Bonllla of Honduras Is
said to have caused the rupture of
the arbitration tribunal which waa
arranging differences with Nicara
gua. Haytl has refused to annul a trans
action with a German firm at the de
mand of the Kaiser's Minister at Port
au Prince, and complications are
feared.
London's Stock Exchange, accord
ing to a despatch, followed New
York's lead In the early recovery and
subsequent sudden decline In prices.
SPOUTING NEWS.
H. L. Doherty, English lawn ten
nis champion, will defend his title,
and he and his brother Intend visit
ing this country soon.
Sabine Roller, a home bred smooth
fox terrier, has been purchased by
the British expert, George Raper. of
Gomersal, England, and sails for
Liverpool after the New York and
Boston shows.
The auxiliary three-masted yacht
building In South Boston for Henrv
W. Putnam, Jr., N. Y. Y. C, Is 18
feet over all and 140 feet on the
water line.
Smith Succeeds It. A. AHjer.
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 7. Repre
sentative William Alden Smith waa
elected by the Legislature to fill out
the unexpired term of Senator R. A.
Alger, who died suddenly in Wash
ington. Smith had already been
elected as Senator Alger's successor
nt the expiration of his terra on
March 4.
Lawyer Dies Pleading Case.
Tunhannock, Pu., Feb. 7. Oscar
pieshelmer, a prominent member of
the Wyoming County bar. died sud
denly In court, In Montrose.
He rose to object to soma testi
mony offered, and after sitting down
dropped his head In his hand and ex.
plred almost InBlantly of apoplexy.
:..govi:unoii iiighiys dkaik.
After Day of 1'ncoiinrlouKiios
Ha
Panftc Away nt His Homo.
Olean, N. Y., Feb. 14. Former
Governor of New York Frank Way
land Hlgglnn died Inst Tuesday. Tha
end came pencefully and he passed
away without a struggle, ns If falling
asleep. He had boon unconscious all
day.
Frnnk Wnyland Hlgglns wns born
In Kushford, N. Y., on August 18,
1N56, nnd was a son of Orrln T. Hlg
gliiF, the wealthiest mnn In the town.
Frank W. Wwim.
! tTujiiBiipjLii'sigcararresrian
Tlr? family came originally Inm
England and, settling In New Eng
land, drifted westward with tho tlda
of Immigration to New York.
Mr. Hlgglns for years has been af
flicted by nheart trouble. After ho
entered upon his work as Governor
of tho State he wns warned by Dr. R
G. Janeway, of New Yotk, of a se
rlouit organic difficulty in the heart,
but no effort was relaxed and no duty
was left unperformed which Mr. Hlg
glns believed essential to the faithful
discharge of the trust reposed In him
by the people.
180 PF.HISII icy BLAST.
Schooner Sinks Steamer Larchmont
In n Midnight Collision.
Providence, It. I., Feb. 14. More
than 180 persons are known to be
dead as a result of a collision be
tween the Joy line steamship Larch
mont and the schooner Itnrry Knowl
ton. In Long Island Sound, five mile
off Block Island, last Tuesday!' The
Larchmont foundered 'n ten min
utes, but most of her 200 souls sur
vived to meet a worse death In tha
terrors of an Icy gnlo that swept thu
broad reaches of the Sound at fifty
miles an hour. Lifeboats and rafts
reached Block Island with tho bodies
of men and women and children fro
ron like statues, while the HvlnR
were almost paralyzed by frost and
unable to utter a word. Thirty-eight
bodlos were picked up on tho Block
Island shore. Tho Knowlton wa
kept afloat until she could bo beach
ed, und her captain and crew of six
men escaped with their lives.
Awful Plight of Cimtauays.
Victoria, B. C, Feb. 7. Tha
steamer Tartar, on the way from
Hongkong, ran Into a Chinese Junk
and cut the vessel In two. Some of
the crew escaped In a sampan and
others wero rescued by a boat low
ered from the liner, but three mea
w-ere drowned.
On the way home the steamer res
cued three Chinese from a drifting
sampan, many miles from the Chi
nese coast. One dead man was la
the boat. The living were nearly
dead, their legs and hands having
mortified so that it was necessary to
amputate them.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
Wholesale Prices of Farm Produce
Quoted for the Week.
The Milk Exchange price for stan
dard quality Is 3c. per qt.
Butter.
Creamery, extra 32 8IVi
firsts 29 Jl
State dairy, fancy 87 29
Choose.
Fancy 13H014W
Small 18 H ti'14Vi
Part Skims 7 V & 8V
State and Penn 28 8l
Western Firsts 25 V4 27
Duck .. 80 3
Live Poultry.
Chickens, per lb 11
Fowls, per lb , 13H'
Dressed Poultry.
Turkeys, per lb ,. 10 18 ;
Chickens, Phlla, lb 20 2$ ,
Geese, spring, lb 13
Ducklings, per lb 15
Fruits Fresh.
Apples Greenings
. Per bbl $1 50 $3 25
King, per bbl 2 76 4 00
Ben Davis, per bbl... 1 60 2 76
Vegetables.
Potatoes, L. I., bbl , , $ 1 50$1 76
Cabbages, per 100.., . 2 60 4 50
Onions, per bbl , 3 00 6 50
Carrots, per bbl 1 00 2 00
Turnips, per bbl 75 1 00
Hay and Straw,
llav, prime, cwt.$l 00 $1 15
No. l.percwt. 95 1 00
No. 2, per cwt. 95 1 00
Straw, long rye. . 5 67 M
Gruin, Etc.
Flour, Win. pats. $3 00 $3 85
Spring pats. . . 4 10 4 90
Wheat, No. 1... . 91'
No. 2, red 82 H 83
Outs, mixed .... 44
Clipped white. 4 6 48
Live Stock.
iBeeves.clty drs'd. 7 8 I
Calves, city drs'd. 8 14
, Country, drs'd. 7 & It
Sheep, per cwfr.f 3 00 3 69.
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