iff Waters-Pierce Concern Is Also Uxpclled from State by Texas Jury. RECALLS BAILEY CASE Big lYnulty for Violating Anti-Trust liflW Astounds the. Defence, Whirl, Will Apeil Trust Agent Have Left Little Property That Can Ho Attached. Austin, Texas, June 4. In the nit of the State agalnBt the Waters. Pierce OH Company the Jury brought In a verdict which found that branch of the Standard OH monopoly guilty on 2,021 counts of violating the Anti-Trust law of 1903 and fixed the penalty at a fine of $1,623,000 and revocation of the license to do busi ness in the .State. It was a Jury of farmers which re turned this verdict, a sweeping vic tory for the Statu after a trial last ing three weeks. The defence, It ir. aid, will appeol. This company was once before isted from the State because of it p connection with tho Standard, but was readmitted on the affidavit of H. Clay Pierce that it was not con nected in any way with the combine. Tot this affidavit Pierce was subse quently indicted on the charge of porjury. Senator Bailey was the lawyer who engineered the Waters-Pierce Com pany's fight for readmlsston to the State nt that time and this caused the great fight on Bailey at the last tension of tho Legislature. Texas later filed suit against the Waters-Pierce Company to force It to pay license fees, as provided by liw. The company refused to pay JOSEPH W. BAILEY, and the present ouster suit followed, The State contended that the com ;any should be fined for every day t allowed the license fee to go un paid and the Jury upheld tho con vention. " How substantial a verdict the tttate has won Is problematical. It I taken as a matter of fact that KPPeals will be taken by the Waters "Fierce Company, and the litigation tous prolonged probably for onq war or even a longer period. It be case shall be affirmed there is Jttle tangible property of the com jny in Texas with which to sat afy the Judgment. It consists main ly of horses, harnesses, cheap tank tagons and some few pieces of In Bfferent real estate, the total valua tot exceeding $100,000. China's Famine is Over. Shanghai, China, June 4. The 'kmine which has prevailed for many seeks, causing hundreds of dent ha ad great suffering, has been broken. The crops are still thin, but the hot wather of the paRt month has been ivorahle to a good yield, i American gifts have supplied milk ttgularly to 1,006 babies at the Hsu tbeofu Temple, while 200 more have men nourished occasionally. 8.000 Tars on Strike. Paris, June 4. In accordance with .to order issued by the Defence Com aitte of tho Seaman's Union, 3,000 llors of all grades went out on trlke hero. The strike is expected : tie up the French merchant ser nce entirely. Warships will be jsed In transporting the malls to Algeria. To Mum Jamestown Fair. Norfolk Pa., June 4. James M. Jarr, former president of the Sea ioard Air Line Railway, has ac cepted tho offer of the Board If Gov mors of tho Jamestown Exposition Company and will manage the ex hibition. Mr. Barr will direct the stairs of the Ter-Centennial wlth ut compensation. Increase in Merchandise. New York, June 5. Colonel Ed ard S. Fowler, Appraiser of tho Vort of New York, has stated that archandlso handled in May, 1907, increased 17 per cent over that onth last year. Fewer uutomo i.les were imported and precious jtones fell off a third. Lottery Men Fined. Mobile, Ala., June 6. Thirty-two V-fendants pleaded guilty in the ffnited States District Court to the Uarge of conspiring to cause the iftterftato carriage of lottery adver islug mutters and were fined an Ui,'gregute of $284,000. INI i . a fa t" I V V ZtoX citv will r.i; srLi- Relieved Court Order Will P.Hn I. organization an1 Peace, Chicago, June 4. Over the ob jections made by Mrs. Jane Howie and her ton, A. J. Gladstone Dowle, WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA. Judge Lamlls In the Federal Court of this city entered an order granting authority to John C. Hate ly. receiver of Zlon City, to sell tho property immediately. As soon ns the contests of John Alexander Dow. le's widow and son are overcome the trust estate of Dowle will be dis posed of to the creditors. This order Is expected to result in the complete reorganization of Zlon City atwl the restoration of peace among tho warring factions ot tho Dowle followers, for the dis ruption of which Deacon John A. Lewis, named by Dowle as his suc cessor, holds overseer Wilbur Glenn Vollva responsible. HIKKIIS OF ASSASSINS. ProHprntor Accuse Miners of Whole, wale Murders, Boise, Idaho, June 6. Through James H. Hawley, senior of the group of prosecutors, the State of Idaho made the opening statement against William D. Haywood, whom It charges with the murder of Gover nor Frnnk Steunenbcrg. Testimony ty which It hopes to prove the Indict ment laid against him was begun. The opening statement was a sweep ing arraignment of tho leaders of the Federation of Miners, who were charged with plotting wholesale mur der a'nd hiring assassins, all In a glnnt conspiracy of vengeance upon those who obstructed their Bway, to destroy opposition by terrorism, to control the political destinies of the communities covered by their organ ization and to perpetuate their own powers within tho organization. DAMAGES FOIt MRS- VAXKKRKM.T Government Gives $U.j( For Yacht Run Down by a Cutter. Newport, June 6. Two hundred and fifty dollars have been awarded by the Government to Mrs. Alfred 0. Vanderbllt for the damage done to her 30 footer Caprice, which was run into by a Government launch bearing Rear Admiral John P. Mer ell, U. S. N., and several other naval officers from the German cruiser Bremen. The award was made on the find ings of the special board of naval officers appointed to Investigate the accident. Grill for Tlurriman. Washington, June 6. Proceed ings will be begun in New Yok this month, to compel Edward H. Harri man to answer those questions which, on his attorney's advice, be refused to answer when under examination at the Interstate Commerce Com mission Inquiry into his Chicago and Alton, Illinois Central and Union Pa. ciflc Juggling. That a confession of how much of tho watered stock of those companies had been washed through his hands should be wrung from Harriman was decided at a conference between President Roose. vent, and Frank B. Kellogg, special counsel of the commission. Mrs. McKlnlcy's Heirs. Canton, O., Juno 0. Mrs. M. C. Barber, sister of Mrs. McKlnley, and sole heir, was appointed adminis tratrix of Mrs. McKinleys eBtate. Mrs McKlnley's estate is valued at $12u, 000 in personal property and $67, 000 real estate. This Is exclusive of tho estate of the President, which by will goes to his direct heirs, Mrs. Duncan and Miss Helen McKlnley, of Clevelaud, and Mrs. Hermanns Buor (Mable McKlnley. Accused Assassin on Trial. Madrid, June 6. The tilul of rrofessor Ferrer, director of tho Modorn School, of Barcelona; Don Jose Nokens, editor of El Motin, and others charged with complicity in tho attempt to assassinate King Alphon so and Queen Victoria, May 81, 1906, began here. The State demands that Ferrer be sentenced to sixteen years' imprisonment aud the others to ten years. Gov't. Swindlers Convicted. New Orleans June 5. The sen tence -f the Savannah Court In the Greeu and Gaynor case, involving over half a million dollars' fraud In Government contract work In tho Savannah harbor, has been affirmed in an opinion handed down by the United States Circuit 'Court of Ap peals, The sentence is four years' imprisonment and a tn. afgregat inc $576,000. THE COLUMBIAN, Covering Minor Happen ings from all Over the Globe. HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled and ConnVnscd for the Busy R'iulcr A Complete Itorord of I'uroponn Despatches and Im portant Kvfnti from Kvf r) u here Dolled Down for Hasty Perusal. Governor Hughes' reappointment plan was adopted by the republican caucus in the State Senate. Governor Hughes of Now York, in a special message urged the pass age of five important bills before the end of tho legislative session. After a csll from the Counsellor of tho Japanese Embassy in Wash ington, Secretary Root intimated that Japan would take no further o.llc I al action rcgnrdlng the riot in Sun Francisco. omcers of the New York Histori cal STliclety prevented tho distribu tion of pamphlets provided by Henry Dexter saying the society's new building was a memorial to bis slain eon. De Lancey Nlcoll of New York, made a motion before Judge McCall to have parts of Mrs. Howard Gould's suit for separation stricken out as rrelevant and scandalous. The United Sates Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans La., affirmed the sentences of Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gaynor In the Savannah Harbor fraud cases. Five hundrcl women asked Cor oner Jermon, in Philadelphia, to hold Mr. George F. Baer, president of the Reading Railroad, for the death of a father and son who were killed by a swtch engine. Counsel or Charles Rohrer, pris oner in a big Jewel robbery case, asked President Roosevelt not to permit him to be taken hack to England, nsertlng that he is an Am erican citizen. Harry Hamlin, a wealthy resident of Buffalo, was killed when his auto mobile crashed into a horse and buggy. The Haywood Jury was completed and the hearng of evidence will be gin. It was announced that under the new traffic agreement with Germany tho United States would save $G, 604,000 a year on exported goods. President Roosevelt returned to Washington from bis Western trip. The Isthmian Canal Commission announced that the Gatun Lake, formed by tho great Gatun dam, would be 250 aqnure miles to area. The Amerian Museum of Natural History has sent out an expidltion to unearth relics of prehistoric man in the North Platte region. Henry W. Denlson, American ad visor to the Japanese Foreign Offce, declared the Mikado was not seeking war with America. Governor Hughes ma;- fore, tho Legislature to pass the Direct Prim aries bill, Albany despatches state. Services In memory of Mrs. Mc Klnley were held in the Methodist Episcopal church of which she was a member in Canton, Ohio. It was announced that the govern, ment of Ontario had arrainged, thro ugh a generating company, to sup ply power from Niagara Falls to sixteen municipalities at $10.40 a year for each horse power. During a fight between a tiger and a bull in Panama city the tiger broke out of the enclosure and rushed to the grand stand occupied by three thousand persons, where it was shot to death. Good results are promised from the active campaign to prevent pol lution of New York streams and lakes. Four men from New York city were drowned by the capsizing of a yacht oft Norwalk, Conn., and one was saved. The Trust has raised the price of beef two cents a pound, the Increase applying on the better cuts. FOREIGN NEWS. Prince Phlllipp zu Eulenberg, a favorite of the Kaiser and a court official, says a despatch from Berlin, has resigned because of charges made in a newspaper that he was rullty of discreditable acts. Conditions in the seaman's strike in Fiance remain uncertain, but it U believed the end 1b near. Italy at the Peace Conference at rim Hague will, as a member of the Triple Alliance, unite In reservations against the present practibillty of limiting armaments. Unable to pay dividends, the Aby. Kslnian Railway applied for liquida tion, and a Frenchman was appointed as receiver. It is reported in England, a des patch says, that Sir Henry Camp-bell-Baunerman is about to marry the woman who attended his wife In her last illness at Marlenhad. England, through her Ambassa dor, Mr. Bryce, is demanding tariff concessions in view of the commercial i modus vlvendl arranged with ler- many. BLOOMSBURG, PA. The Irish Council bill wns for mally dropped In the House of Com mons, the British Premier express ing regret at the. action of the Irish peopo, as expressed at tho Dublin convention. Mr. Joseph II. Choate renewed ood friendship with English leaders at a dinner and reception given in Ills honor by the United States Ambnssa. dor in Iondon. Russia, with Austria and Germany opposes any discussion at The Haguo of the question of limitation of armaments. Rejection of the Irish Council blli by the Dublin convention places tho British Cabinet in a precarious posi tion, says a despatch from London. There is keen betting on the com ing Derby, according to a despatch from London, Sllevo Galllon being the favorite. Weakness in tho London copper market, says a despatch, is due to speculation, realizing sales and the largo qulntlty of second hand mater ial offered. Paris, according to a despatch, Is full of Russian terrjrists plotting against the grand dukes and grand duchesses now in tho French capital Tho French government lias en tered an appeal against a court de cision surrendering to the former Empress Eugenie articles given to Napoleon III. and now displayed In various museums. The general plan of procedure at the Hague pence conference will be modelled on that of tho first con gress, bed in 1899. London newspapers are reviving a report that Richard Croker cherishes an ambition to enter the British Parliament. S POUTING NEWS. American manufacturers of auto mobiles are to agitate for a national highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Emll Herz bought Montgomery for $25,000 and won the colt out by backing him for tho Jockey Club weight for age race at Belmont Tark. There has been a great rush for tickets for the International Horso Show, to be held in London. James R. Keene's two-year-old colt Collin won the Stallion Stake at Bel. mout Park in th fastest emorneorcd mont Pork in the fastest time on re cord at this track for tho dlstauce .five furlougs in 58 seconds. In the annual boat races of the First Battalion, Naval Militia, on tho Hudson River, the Second division crew carried off tho trophy offered by W. B. Duncan, Jr. Ten boats have been ontered for the elimination trials to be hold by the Eastern Yacht Club off Marble head to Belect a team to send to Kiel or the Emperor William Cup in the Bonder class match. The Naval Academy third crew won a mile and a half race on the Severn, defeating the Vesper Boat Club, Central High School and the second Navy crew. Miss May Sutton won her first lawn tennis match played In Eng land this season, defeating Miss Eastlake Smith by 6 4, C 4. SHAKE-IP I1Y STRAUS. Every Chinese Interpreter Trans, ferred from His Station. Washington. Juno 4. A violent shake-up has boen given the Chinese Immigration service by Secretary Straus. Many complaints have reached the department charging inefficiency and in some instances SECRETARY OSCAR STRAUS. unreliability of the Chinese Inter preters and as a result Commissioner-General Sargent, of tho Bureau of Immigration, has been directed by Secretary Straus to transfer every Chinese interpreter from the station where he is now employed to some other station. Plan SIO.OOO.OOC Hospital. Philadelphia Pa., June 5 A plan Is under way, bacled by Henry Phipps, the Pittsburg millionaire, and other prominent men, to pur chase a large piece of land in tho neighborhood of Seventh and Lom bard streets, this city, for the erect ion of an institution to cost $10,000, 000 to fight tuberculosis among the poor of the city. Mr. Phipps has already contributed one million dol lars toward the project. A rebellion has broken out at Wongkong, China, and tho German mission station at Lien Cbow ban been destroyed. DEAD CHICKS IN DIVORCE NUT. Incubator llred Trouble and Mrs. Cornish Husband Rent Her. Teaneck N. J., Juno 5. Troublo thnt had its start with a chicken In cubator was the basis of a divorce suit by Mrs. Ellznbeh F. Cornish of Teaneck, N. J., heard by Chancellor Garrison in Jersey City. She r.lleged that her husband, Alex ander Cornish, waxed wroth on May 16 last when seven chickens formed the entiro harvest of 297 eggs in the Incubator, and that his violence was bo great she wns forced to leave him. She appealed to the Vice Chancellor for alimony and counsel fees, but the motion was denied on the ground there was no testimony that the nl leged violence hnd caused any bruises or other marks, HOWARD GOULD'S CHARGES. Mrs. Gould Ilought Clothes and Jew els She Never Wore. . .New York, June 6. Extravagance on tho part of Mrs. Howard Gould, carried to a point at which even a son of Jay Gould winced and was compelled to shut off the outward flow of tho golden stream, it was learned would be one of the alle gations in Howard Gould's answer to his wife's suit for a seperatlou. A closo personal friend of the millionaire said that the two main counter allegations against the wife would bo that hor indulgence in intoxicants and her unwonted extra vagance made it Impossible for Gould to continue to live with her. Monument to Jefferson Davis. An everlasting memorial of Jeff erson Davis, the patriot, of "the lost cause" and the first and only presi dent of the Confederate State of Am. erica, was unveiled this week at Richmond Va., as the crowning feat ure of the annual reunion of the Con. federate veterans. BURNS HIS COMPANY'S BOOKS. Express Embezzler Confesses III Crime at Newport News. Newport News, Va., June 5. Fear, lng arrest for the embezzlement of his company's fundB, George P. Decker, agent at Old Point Comfort for the United States Express Com pany, confessed he set fire to the building on the Government wharf at Old Point, burning his books, the only evidence aaglnst him, and many papers in the offles of the Old Dominion Steamship and other com. panics. Ilnnimel Busy Sorting Bread. New York, June 4. Abraham Hummel is at last at work assorting bread In the big bakery in Black well's Island prison. The little law. yer, it was said, had sufficiently re covered from his recent illness to be able to Join his fellow prisoners in their daily labors. He refuses to bo seen by newspaper representatives and also denies himself to other call, era. Vaudeville Calls lUisuli. Tangier, June 5. The Board of Foreign affairs has offered a pardon to Raisull, the noted bandit, ou con dition that he leave Morocco and live far from Tangier on a pension to be paid by the Government. A friend of Raisull proposes that he make a tour of tho British and American music halls. It Is believed that Raisull favors such a scheme. Army Worms Stop Trains. Hickman, Ky Juno 6. Array worms are so numerous between Campbell, Mo., and Nemons, Ark., thut traffic on the St. Loula, Ken neth and Southeastern Railway has been interrupted. When tho car wheels mash the worms, the ralla bet as though soaped. Arrested for Shaking His Fin-r. Worcester, Mass., Juno 5. Ou tho complaint of Mrs. Colomon Jones, of Shrewsbury, Dr. Oscar F. George, a prominent physician of his city, lias been arrested on a churgo of ass ault. The assault alleged was thi shaklug of the index finger of Kit right hand ut Mrs. Jones. Honor Mrs. Field. Chicago, HI., June 6. Mrs. Mar shall Field, widow of Chicago's greutest merchant was appointed by Mayor Busse ono of the six member! of the Consulting Board of tho Health Department to advise with Commissioner Evans In the conduct of the health affairs of the city. N. Y. .MARKET LETTISH (From our Special Correspondent. ) After starling out with the taa e-isy the w heat market lnimed:;.. ly turned strong, accompanied by heavy covering of aborts. Townrd the clime prices again reacted In proflt-tiM'S sales, tho session ending Mr.y steady In tone. The early depiwi lou was due to selling by pit tr:n!(vj on reports of general rains In h winter wheat territory, and the bear, ish weekly crop report of the (.' cli.natl Price Current. A cable from Bulgaria stated thnt the prospects of this year'B harvn-t li the Ualknn Peninsular are dis couraging, ns the dry, cold weutlivr has proved disastrous to the autumn sown crops, and has also delo.'vj planting of the spring wheat. The tone on really fine eggs U about steady, but for average bvjt qualities, weakness Is uotod. 7M quality of western and south-western eggs Is much poorer thnn It w.is last week, but shipments from f$ iiorlherly sections is very good, and losses are small. A steady tone is noted on eaMorn broilers. Wcpturn broilers are arriv lng In very small lots, with dry picked selling more freely than scald, ed. Squabs are steady and large sizes move freely. The best grai. of frozen stock are firmly held in about the former range of value. WllKAT May IKWi July Sept ll!T, Doc 1 'XI Colts Mar. . . .MX, July. . . .634' Sept Sltf Oats. Mixed, (.r 4.1c. r.i-ttVKs. City dres'd. 8alM,o. Cai.vf.s. City dres'd. 10al!I.V4o. Country dressed per lb. 8al2o. SmcKP. Per KKl lb. t4.S0n6.2S. Hons. Lire per 100 lb. 7156.2. Country dressed per lb. Hh9o. Hay. Prime, 100 lbs., $1.20. St'tkaw. Long rye, C.')a70c. Live 1'ih:i.tky Fiavi-s. Per lb. alf. Chickens. Spring, p r lb., a8So. , Dt i ks. Per lb. aiaSiC Ueese. Per lb. alO. DkKSSKI) I'OtLTKY Ti iikkys. IVr lb. lTulSc , Fowus. IVr lb. a 15c. SyfAHS. Per duzuu 1.25a4.25. Vei.ktaui.es Potatoes. Old bbl., 2.00u3.30. CfcTMiwiw. Basket, tl.20a2.60. Onions. White, per bbl. f2.2oa2.7 Lettuce. Basket, tl.00a2.00. Spinach. Barrel, tl.25al.75. P.eets. p. r bbl. tl.00al.50. MAPLE SUGAR. Pure sugar is re ported lirm under ligbt offerings, ami there is a moderate demand. Holder ijuoto lSgaHu and syrup is firm at Si 14 ujl.10 per gallon as to holder. FINANCIAL. Stocks scored a general recover j !n prices. Tho American Telephone and Tele graph Company announced an lssua of $21,925,000 of new stock. There was wild excitement on ts Cotton Exchange following the pub lication of the government's crop re. port. BASEBALL LEAGUE SLM.MAJUKS. Standing of tho Clubs. National. W. L. P. C. Chicago 81 0 .773 New ork 28 11 .71 Philadelphia 24 15 .604 Pittsburg ill 17 M Boston 16 24 .-too Cincinnati 19 24 .400 Brooklyn 12 27 .319 St. Louis 12 80 .20 American, W. L. P. C- Chicago 29 IS .W7 Cleveland 20 16 .K Detroit 21 16 MS New York 19 18 .5Ij Philadelphia 20 20 .50U St. Louis 10 26 .SWt Boston 14 2U JiO Washington 12 21 .8M Put Dynamite In a Stove. Mount Vernon, N. Y., June 6. Somebody put a big stick of dyna mite in the stove in the home of Joseph Morroney, at 30 North Fourth avenue, and it exploded, mangling Morroney's aged mother and injur ing his wife and ten-year-old daugh ter. The injured are Mrs. Mary Mor rcney, 76 years old, urius blown off and body badly burned; Mrs. Joseph Morroney, scalp partly torn off and body burned, and Annie the daugh ter, face disfigured and hair burned off. Hangs As Mother Sits Near. Now York, Juno 6. Whivi hi mother was only ten feet distant In an adjoining room, Isldor Taub, 14 years old, hanged himself with, a ropo attached to a nail In the wall In the family apartment, No. 46 Fast Eleveuth street, last nlgbt When Mrs. Taub entered the room uu hour after her Bon had kissed h-r and said he was going to bed It wu8 to. find the body growing cold. Jersey Bull Sold For $I1..M Alleiitown, Pa., Juno 4. Th world's record price, $11,500, was paid by A. B. I-ewis, of Frederlcks b mr. Va., for Stockwell, the king of the l.erd, at the sale of Jersey cxt tK) ut the Linden Grove Farm by T. l;. Copper. It was announced the bull would head the herd on Thorns P. Ryan's Virginia estate.
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