THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMsBURU, PA. to mjkw Cabinet at 116386111 View Now Divided in Favor of Mrs. Stetson. CONSPIRACY ON FOOT Charge Ih Made tluit tlio Leader of the Christian Science Church In Mew Virk City Is Identified with Strange Activities at Concord, anl that l'r)e Is Her Agent. Boston Mans, May 7. Develop ments in the equity suit to compel an accounting of the estate of M:nv Baker U. Eddy reveal an ama.in.i; state of affairs at Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., where the ng-d founder of Christian Science, areortl ing to the sworn charge" of her rel atives 1b a hoi pirns prisoner In tin power of conspirators. Former Senator William E. Chand r and all the lawyers associated with him as counsel for the plalntl'f relatives now express tho belief that "rs. Eddy, wrecked In health aril unbalanced in mind, is beset on ever tide by two opposing sets of con. plrators. engaged In a desperate corn diet for mastery. It Is now charged that Mrs. Agust i Stetson, leader of the Christian Sd snce cult in New York City, Is close! Identified with the strange activlt l- at Pleasant View; that Calvin A. Ftj; the all powerful footman-seer" ary, Is Mrs. Stetson's agent In that louse of mystery; and that a plot hi b foot to compel the retirement o.' Krs, Eddy and the elevation of Mrs. 3tetson to the leadership: It Is further charged, on thi jstrength of new-found evidence, that Mfred Farlow, H. S. Herlng, Irvlmj TomIIn8on and the other defendants amed In the bill of equity, are com Jdned In determined opposition ti &m Stetson-Frye group. ;)KAN HUFFCVT A SUICIDE. Wan Head of Cornell Law School nnf Gov. Hughes's Adviser. New York, May 7. Ernest Vllso: Suffcut, forty-seven years old, leraj advbier to Governor Hughes, reviser 'f the much discussed Public Utilities Mil and until recently dean to lh( w school of Cornell University, lotnmltted suicide on the promen tds deck of the Hudson River steam Joat C. W. Morse, on which he had! .ken passage from Albanv to New1 fork. Mental depression, cuusri by over, work and insomnia, rati possibly .iggravated by the defeat of the effort o overthrow Otto H. Kelsey and the Aght on the Utilities bill, Is given as he reason for his act of self des truction. A letter to his sister, which Tas found In his stateroom, Indicates .tat he was suffering from brain fag wd that he had long considered th Jndlng of "sleep after toll" by tak ing his life. LEOIOLD'S MISSION FAILS. Trench Flnane'ers Did Not Accept ' Belgian Ruler's Congo Proposals. Paris, May 7. Absolute conflrma Mon has been obtained by The As sociated Press of the complete fail ure of the mission of King Leopoli ,f Belgium to Paris, which was in .Irectly designed to obtain the sup- r KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM. put of Franco against Great Britain in the matter of the Congo Indu ien cli-tit Stuto. The plan was to induce a French Jlnanclal Institution to convert the '..ougo debt, hypothecating for that purpose the ruiu-oiids and other fran ohlses of the Congo to tho French Government, which already enjoys preference in the matter of taking over tho Congo, should Belgium de cline to refuse to consider the pro posals made on the subject to that country. kiisky justice quick, heavy. Xeyro Who Attacked Miss Paris Sen tenced to Twelve Yeurs and $:,00(I Fine, Extreme Penalty. Woodbury, N. J., May 7. SwK J-tlce was meted out to Edwin-' Gibson, a negro, who attacked MIc Dorothy Paris, nineteen years old o 'Venonah. Qobsln, who was caugh .oon afterward, was arralnged to. day before Judge Scott. He mad ) no defence, and the Court sentence,! Mm to twelve years' Imprisonment) and to pay a fine of -3,000. 8LAVEH OF THREE CONFESSES. Tells of Murder Without the Slight est Higii of Remorse. Goshen, N. Y., May 7. "Take me out and kill me any time you pleas) ' aid Charles H. Rogers when at his Journey's end here. He was lorknd up In the couty Jail charged with three peculiarly atrocious murders. He had made full confession that he was the solo person responsible for the killing of Fred H. Olney, Willis Olney and Alice Ingerlck, daughter of their housekeeper, Mrs. Ingerlck, -whose life he also tried to take at the Olney farm near Howell's Station on the Erie, fourteen miles from here. Tho murders were done on Oct. 6 1905. For a long time It appeared ns If Justice would be foiled. Although Rogers, -who was a fnrm laborer and a trolley motorman, was under sus picion, there was little to connect him with tho crime, except the fact ha he had dlssappeared e day of tho the murder. Persistent but vain efforts had been made to discover Roger's whenreabouts, until the final clue camo In a way that proves again tho truth of the trite saying, murder will out. AI'TO HI NT IN .IKRSEY. Stntc's Machine, In Disguise, Start Out to (Jot Speed Violator. Trenton, May 9. Somewhere on. the highways of tho State Is the new seventy-flve-mile-nn-hour automobile of State Motor Vehicle Commissioner! J. B. R. Smith, waiting for violator of the State auto laws. The machlnd went Into commission to-day and de parted from the State capital under sealed orders. This Is the opening of the cam paign against violators of the State1 automobile laws. The new machine, holding State Inspectors, has no dis tinguishing marks on It. The number will be changed from time to time, and arrangements have been made to substitute another car as soon as autoists learn the identity of the State machine. Occupants of this car will have power to stop any automoblllst and demand the pro duction of bis credentials. BTKICKEN DUMB IX COVUT. Lawyer Who Was About to Plead May llt Forevr-r Mute. South Norwalk, Conn., May 0. Ernest C. Gregory, a young lawyer, appeared recently to niaka an appeal for a client. As he attempted to ad dress the Court his voice falied him and he could not utter a word. The lawyer coughed, hemmed and rubbed his ears, thinking that per haps he couldn't hear his owu voice, and the Judge thought the proceed ing decidedly unprofessional, ns the spectators had begun to laugh. Ho started to upbraid th. lawyer, hut' Gregory fell back In his chplr almost; In a swoon from surprise and grief. The laughter subsided when tho' gravity of the situation became ap-l parent. It was thought that the af- tlictlon might be but temporary, but experts have ascertained that the vocal organs are paralyzed. 11,000 IIEHKKOS PERISH. Brave Foes of Germans Keek u New Home 4,000 Survive. Cape Town, May 9. Finding it useless to further resist the German troops, 15,000 Horero tribesmen, ac cording to Information received hero to-day from German Southwest' Africa, decided some time ago to move northeastward, with the object; of establishing a settlement In IM Lake Ngaml region. Only 4,000 of the natives reached their destination, after terrible suff erings, the remaining 11,000 having perished from starvation. Sports. CAUGHT AFTER 80 YEARS. Man I'nder Indictment for Murder Arrested in Vlrginlu. Gainesville, Va., May 7. Thirty yer-rs after being indicted for the murder of William King in Madison County, Georgia, William Graham was arrested In Hal County, whort) l:e has lived since 1877. Graham Is Bald to have beaten! Kl'ig so budly with a stick that the1 latter died from his injuries. Hanged But is Revived; Free. Galveston, Tex., May 9. John A. Armstrong, a nergo who wsb legally1 hanged and oillcially prononnced dead, at Colombus, Texas, on April 27, for the murder of his wife, Is alive and presumably fully recovers!, where he is. The hanging w.is a Jiulgllng affair, and the rope broke, iliut the doctors pronounced tho man dead and hlH body was delivered to irelnUves. Armstrong was revived .and a log of wood was placed la the iol!lti and burled. Tho District At torney declares the man can lm panged and a warrant has berti iltk"'ed. he State Attorney General con tends that the man cannot be hanged t-vlce for the sumo crime. A friend as tho condemned man had boerv working on his neck for months pre paring for tho trick which cheated tho gullows. Conxlcted on Peonage Charge. Tampa, Fla., May ft. F. I. U-vk den. general manager of tho Pralii'J Pebule Phosphate Company at MiiN ber.Vt Fla., was convicted of poiiu age by a Jury In the Unltod f!atci Cow t after two day's trial. Judgo Locho reserved sentence. illy Kills Covering Minor Happen ings from all Over the Qlobe. HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for the Husjr Reader A Complete llccord of European Despatches and Im portant Erwt from Everywhere Ilo tied Down for Hasty Perusal. Eight men were shot In riots be tween strike breakers and strikers In the streets of San Francisco. Both Senator Kalnes and Speaker Wadsworth declared themselves firm ly against the present "removal" clause In the Public Utilities bill and will fight the Governor of New York on It. Six occupants of a boarding house In San Francisco were shot by an In sane man. The Lake, a submarine boat, ntude a maximum speed of 7.73 knots run ning awash in the tests at Newport. Cuban despatches announced the recovery of President Pal ma from a serious attack of liver trouble. Announcement was made In Pitts burg that Mrs William Thaw had mortgaged Lyndhurst for $100,000 to help pay expenses of her Bon's trial. , Insurance companies declared that Mrs. Ella H. Shumaker, of Pittsburg, who Is suclng for $40,000, the am ount of policies on Alvin P. Shu maker's life, waa never legally wed to Shumaker. Harold S. Jones, sixteen years old, shot himself in Philadelphia after turning highwayman and shooting at a policeman whom he thought he had killed. Two nephews, George Gront Ma son and William Smith Mason, are te principal heirs to the great for tune left by James Henry Smith, whose will was made public. Representatives of more than twenty steamship lines In New York decided to resist tho longshoremen's wage demands Indefinitely. Delewaro and Hudon directors plan to Issue $15,000,000 convertible bonds and authorise stock lncroaao. xndon markets continued stag nant and extravagant rumors were the only diversion. Miss Margaret Curtis and Miss Harriet Curtis both survived the first round In the women's British golf championship at Newcastle, county Down. Five hundred women took part In the opening championship play of the Women's Whist League In the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. It Is believed In Washington that tho dispute between Mexico and Guat emala, while acute, will not lead to hostilities. , Senators who voted for Otto Kel sey are coming over to Governor Hughes and assuring him of their support of the Public Utilities bill. Counsel for William D. Haywood, accused of the murder of Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, asked the court in Boise to direct the State of furnish a bill of particulars before going to trial. Tuberculosis In children and sour ces of infection were discussed by the National Association for the Study and 'r-.-vtut'on of Tuberculosis In .V,v.h'nMon. D. 0. High winds compelled a postpone ment of the submarine boat trials at Newport. - Secretary of War Taft denied that the Jamaican government had been asked to pay for supplies sent by tho United States for the Kingston earth quake sufferers. It is alleged, by a Chicago trust company that men known as Stand ard oil people had conspired to wreck the Corn Products Company. Wh'. key rectifiers protested against Attorney General Bonapartes ruling barring the label "whiskey" on any but "straight goods." Relatives of Mrs. De Massey, slayer of Gustave Simon, a wealthy New York City manufacturer, declared that sho was no baroness, but JuFt plain Delia Benolt, of Worcester, Mass. Firty thousand socialists and labor men in a demonstration in New York City to express sympathy with Moyer, Heywood and Pettlbone de nounced President Rooseelt. Socrelury Taft, with the approval of President Roosevelt, refused the demand of Panama Canal steam Fhovel men for higher wages. It was declared by an expert steel rull maker In Pittsburg that the pro cons of making railroad rails left ivery one defective when finished. Steps were taken to prosecute those Involved In the Pennsylvania State Capitol scandal, where, It is estimated, $3,500,000 profits wer made out of a $5,550,785 contract. John Mitchell, president of thi United Mine Workers, declared in favor of compulsory publicity of all the affairs of every trust. FOREIGN NEWS. Latlu-Amerlcan diplomats In Wash ington resented Andrew Carneirlf'H selection of Diego Mendoza, forrnoiiy Colombian Minister, to go on a peac, mission to South American republics. Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, dis cussing politics in Paris, said Presi dent Roosevelt and William J. Bryan would be tho leading Presidential candidates In 1908. James T. Ford, an English engi neer, Jumped from the Deutschland, three days out from New York. Dr. and Mrs. Bullock Workman, ol the United States, climbed to height In the Himalaya Mountains hitherto unknown to man, says a despatch from Paris. The long awaited Irish bill, de signed to meet the demand for homo rule, was presented by the govern ment to the House of Commons. In the French Chamber M. Clem enceau, Premier, demanded a con solidation of the long list of Inter pellations on the policy of the gov ernment In dealing with labor dem onstrations. The commercial modus Vivendi be tween the Unltod States and Ger many passed Its first reading In the Reichstag. GENERAL. Two Japanese cruisers and one Chilian cruiser Joined the fleet of war ships at Hampton Roads. At no fewer than seven theatres American plays or actors or American subjects occupy the stage says a nespatch from London. According to a despatch from Paris, American artists' works aru slighted In the Salon, being badly placed. A despatch from Paris says that hiany priests have formed unions to buy supplies cheaply and to obtain work to support themselves. Aniln es Sultan, new Persian Pre mier, attended a Cabinet meeting and spoke hopefully of concord be tween the government and the na tional party, Bays a despatch from Teheran. On the London Stock Exchange a complete deadlock exists, according to a despatch. King Alfonso opened Madrid's first automobile exposition, according to a despatch. By the proposed Irish Council bill It Is believed that an elective body will be formed having control of expenditure without complete home rule. A Chrlstlanla despatch gives an account of the remarkable discovery of important manuscripts of Henrlk one of them being a complete epic Ibsen, all written before 1864, and poem. SPORTING NEWS. The Giants won first place In the National Baseball League by defeat ing Brooklyn, 2 to 1. A. L. Thomes, expelled In Syracuse last September, wus reinstated by th Board of Review of the National Trotting Association. Dr. Gardner won the Montague and Frizette the Rosedale Stakes at the Jamaica race track. Harvard easily defeated Dartmouth in a dual athletic meet. The Eastern Yacht Club has ar ranged for a three days' meet of motor boats off Marblehead in July. One hundred fast trotters and pacers were In line in the annual parade on the Hudson River Speed way, New York. LAND ROIIREKS SENTENCED. Ex'Senutois of Oregon Sent to Prison und Heavily Fined. Portland, Ore., May 7. Former State Senators Franklin P. Mays and W. N. Jones were sentenced by Fed eral Judgo W. H. Hunt in connect ion with the land fraud cases of East ern Oregon. May's punishment Is a $10,000 fine and four months In Jail, and that of Jones Is $2,000 and eight months in Jail Maya's sentence was stayed until Nov. 1. to permit the case going before tho United States Court of Appeals. Kills Consumptives When Dying. Washington, May 9. "It is my practice and It is your Bacred duty, when you see a dying consumptive before you, to give that sufferer mor phlno In plenty, that the end may come quickly and painlessly," This sensational statement, mado before the members of the National Tuberculosis Congress by Dr. S. Adolph Knopf, of No. 10 West Ninety-fifth street, New York City, caused the session to adjourn In con fusion, and is the chief topic of dis cussion among tho noted medical men now gathered in this city. Dr. Knopf is one of the world's foremost authorltloE upon tubercul osis. Emperor William decorated him for his work in fighting thu white plague and gave him n prize of $5,000 for the best treatise upon that disease. $100 Grows to $10,4:11.72. Northhampton, Mush., May t. The will of John James, of Goshen made one hundred years ago, was presented in the Probate Court here. It stipulated that $100 ylth lis uccu muluted Interest should go to the Congregational Church, of Goshen, the $100, with Its interest, has grown to $19,431.72. Oldest Connecticut Man Dead. North Woodstock, Conn., May 9. Ceumin Warner, probably the oldcsj resident of Connecticut, died here at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Harriet Mathewson. He was 10:1 years old, and In 1832 munied Sara:j Gayley, who survives Mm. H Of 11 Id UN Famous Author and Eng lish Clergyman Dies from Bloodpoison. EN D WAS UNEXPECTED Renowned As Writer, Lecturer aud Preacher "ItoiuUe Briar Hush" 11 U Writings Were Varied and Covered Most Noted Work, Though Ills a Wide Field. Burlington la., May 8. Dr. Johu Watson (lan Maclaren), famous au thor, died at Mount Pleasant, Id. The cause was blood poisoning from tonslllUU. He was taken 111 at Mount Pleasant April 25, an abscess formed on the right ear. Blood poisoning set in, and other abscesses Btarted to form in the left ear and throat. The patient's condition was aggravated by a bad attack of rheumatism. Watson's end was sudden and unex pected, and was hastened by a weak heart. Dr. Watson was born at Manlug trcc, Essex, England, Nov. 3, 1850. He was the eldest son of the late John Watson, an employe of the British civil service, received his ed ucation at Edinburgh university and In Germany and was ordained a min ister of the Free Church of Scotland lu 1874. The Rev. John Watson, D. D., was better known to tho world of readers by the pseudonymn of Ian Maclaren, first adopted In what Is still his best kuown novel. "BeBlde the Bonnlu Briar Bush," in 1894 and continued on the title pages of other charming stories of Scottish life and character which followed In almost yearly suc cession until the appearance of "His Majesty's Baby," In 1902. , ELLEN TERRY WEDS AT 80. Famous English Actress la the Bride of Her leading Man. New York, May 8. Miss Ellen Terry, a famous English actress, was married 'to her leading man, James Carew, while the actress' company was playing in Pittsburg, Pa., on March 27. , In years Mr. Carew Is much tho Junior of his bride. He Is thirty-five )ears old, while she Is fifty-nine. She MISS ELLEN TERRY. has already been twice married. Nevertheless it is understood by all their friends that It was purely a love match, the beginning of which was soon after their first meeting. In the House of Lords the conser vative bill to reconstitute the upper chamber on a partly elective basis was debated, but the liberal govern ment refused to be drawn out us to 1U plans. , MARVIN CHILD FOUND DEAD Hunter Conies Upon the Body Face Downward 'n a Marsh. Dover, Del., May 7. Lying in a marshy pKco of laud the body of little Horace N. Marvin, tho four-year-old sou of Dr. H. N. Marvin, whoe mysterious dlBappearanra from the Bay Meadow farm, near Dover, had baffle j solution Blnco March 4, was foind ubout half a mile from tho Marvin farm to-day by Ollle Pleasanton, a farmor. Dr. Marvin says he searched over the same marsh nenrly every day since the disappearance, and with detective burned grass off the place four weks ago, but saw no signs of tho body. Artificial Copper, Baltimore, Md., May 7. Dr. Ira Remsen president of John Hopkins University, Is authority for th state ment that Sir William Ramsay, a famous chemist of Cambridge Uni versity, has discovered the method of making artificial copper, and that the great discovery will bo madj known to science when Sir William will read the paper on tho subject before the Royal Chemical Society of Great Britain. Itaili-onds Ilult Work. Memphis, May 7. Railroad rim ing through Mississippi are showlna their resentment againBt recent ad' vere legislation by calling a hult on tit) vork projected for this year and next, except what must be finished. TO SOOTHE THE JAPANESE. Arilmnmlor Aokl Will Make Ad di'csc on Pnclllc Const. Washington, May 7. Viscount Aokl, the Japanese Ambassador, kaa der ided to visit tho Pacific coast no4 make a series of addresses to fiti countrymen there, for the purpose of VISCOUNT SIUZO AOKI. soothing the feelings of tho Japan on the roast ruffled by the San Fr rlsco school Incident and by the new lnv barring Japanese from hm United States. He will make this Isit on the Invitation of tho Japan ese nssnclatlons of San Francisco and Prattle. longshoremen Strike. New York, May 9. With 10,0t 'longshoremen Idle and on strtTi slong the river fronts of Manhattan, n.ooklyn, Jersey City and Hobokeo. It Is remarkable that only one snrkl! ronfllct that might be dignified wit the-name of a "disturbance." ro the r-t the strikers 'stood by." waiting to see how long the steam phlp companies would suffer gtxI freight business to go to waste tar the sake of the extra pay they demanding. As affairs stand, the longshore men have the upper hand. Whr a gang of 250 or 300 men would b needed to unlond a cargo, load t2a nhtp and get her away on time, some of the big liners were doing the beat they could with their own crews. Tornado Kills Nine. Mount Pleasant, Tex., May -Heavy damage aud loss of life wcra wrought by a. tornado which swept North Texas. The towns of Rld way and Birthright, forty miles vnt of here, are reported practically des troyed. Nine persona are report! killed In the two villages and tbo vicinity. Birthright, a town of 500 inhabi tants, Is reported to have been cora pletely destroyed. BASEBALL LEAGUE SUMMARIES. Standing of the Clubs. National. W. L. P. C, New York hi 8 Jvtf CWcago 15 8 ifllJ Pittsburg 9 6 jus Plilladepliln io 6 .M Hston 7 10 .41 Cincinnati 1 10 .41 J St. I ou is 8 16 ay Brooklyn 1 lfl jlsfA American. W. L. P. C Chicago U 0 .rovi New York 11 8 .at? Philadelphia 10 7 MH I''U"lt 10 8 -fcfi Cleveland U 10 ATi Bobton 8 10 .444 Washington 6 11 All St. Louis 6 14 FINANCIAL Stocks were weak and lnactlra. Figures of the bank statement showed a decrease In Burplus reserr of $5,522,150, an Increase In loan of $10,902,700 and an Increase is deposits of $14,416,600. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm Prodac Quoted for the Week. Milk. The Milk Exchange price fcr standard qnality is 8 cents per quart. Buttek. Creamery, Western, eatea. 27c. Stute dairy finest 20a3U'lc, Fir4. S!6a2tJc. Ciileke. State, fall ereuia, butty. 14al.rc. part skims, 71aS1ic. simul U 15c. Kitun. StatojtPena 19a30c. West in Firsts, lTalbo. Chil-kkks. Phila., per lb., IUI80. Duckmkus. sp'g. per lb. 20a25a Ha v. Prime, 100 lbs., fl.17a1.2fc. Stkaw. Long rye, 00aU7.o'. Potatoes. Old bbl., f I.fi0a2.00. Ctci MUKiw. Baskut, f 2.2503.2.1. Oskjn.s. Whito, per bbl. f2.25a3.7S. I.KTT1C K. Basket, fl.00a8.00. SriSAL-ii. Burrel, f J.OOaU.OO. Bki-.th. per bbl. ft).7Bal.25. Flock. Winter patents, f3.00aS.85; Spring I'ateiits, f4.20a6.Ofi. Wiikat. No. l,4o. No. 3 Red, 88&S- Colts. No. 2 White, 6o. Oats. Mixd, 04 ni uvi.K. City dres'd. 7110'c ' ? Oat.vm. City tlreB'd. 8al2o. Country dressed per lb. OaOo. SiajKi'. Per 100 lb. f 1.5o! lhxis. Live per 100 lb. ftl.Oa7.2. Couutry dreKod or lb. b,a0o. jj 1
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