THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. i Orchard Tells How Circle Spread Terror Among Union's Rivals. MURDER, HIS TRADE Declaring Himself the Perpetrator tie Kwcnn He ivnt Incited Thereto by Haywood nnd Other Officials of tle Miners' Federation und Paid by Them Boise, Idaho, June 11. In soft May tones almost like those of a koiiian Harry Orchard, confessed amassin of Governor Steunenberg, told a story of nineteen revolting Murders with gun nnd bomb, com mitted for cold cash, that Is with out a parallel In the history of crime la this country. In the Steunenberg murder, and In all the other assassinations In which Orchard had a hand, he wna acting undor the explicit dirortlon, be testified, of Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone. He began Involving Haywood from the time of the Cripple Creek strike In 103. In all Orchard confessed to par ticipating In the murder of 19 men. Two were killed In a Coeur D'Alene mine blow-up; two more at the Vin dicator mine In the Cripple Creek district. Into the body of another man a detective he fired three ehargea of buckshot, instantly kill Ins him. Then, he said, he set and Bred the mine under the Indepen dence depot, killing 14 men. For this piece of work Haywood praised Mm; highly and paid him $500. Finally after nn attempt to poison a mine manager in San Francisco, tad failed, he fixed up a bomb In front of his front door that blew die mine manager into the street. The manager, however, survived. After the San Francisco Bomb throwing he says: "I returned to Denver under the guise of a soldier L Immediately called Pettibonu on Ibe telephone. "Pettibone asked me how Bradley as." he continued. "I told him Bradley was still alive when I left fan Francisco, but It was reported he vould lose his eyesight and probably te deaf for the rest of his life. Pettibone said tliut was better than I I had killed him outright that Jradley would now be a living ex imp le." Orchard said he asked :'or money ind received $125 from Pettibone, rlth the assurance thnt he could get nore whenever I wanted It. He said he sh:;Uowed Gov. Pea tody for week p. First he tried to kill Um with hit shotgun, then he fol towed him to his home in Canyon ttty and plotted to dynamite him. The Governor suddenly changed his feblts. Orchar.d averred, so that frnamite proved futile. The more revolting his crimes and he more lives lost In any attack the fetter he was paid, he says by Hay ood. Moyer and Pettibone. , This la how Orchard told of Steu :enberg's death: I located him Just before evening. 1 was In the saloon part of the otel playing Tarda and I came out ito the lobby and I seen Mr. Steu enberg Bitting in the hotel talking another man. I went up to his tsidence as fast as I could walk nd placed the bomb at his gate In ach a way that when the gate was ened it was fastened with a string ad would explode. When I was going back toward b hotel I met Mr. Steunenberg and ' ran as fast as I could. I was !out a block and a half from the aratoga Hotel on the foot bridge ihen I heard It go off. I hurried as jst as I could and went Into the sloon part of the hotel and met the ie bartender there and helped him up a little parcel, and then went p to my room. Gould Would Pay Big Alimony. New York, June 12. Howard 2uld Is considering the advisa iilty of starting a counter-suit for paration against his wife. Such i action, he thinks, would lessen le chances of Mrs. Gould's obtulr. VA a court decree for alimony of ?50,000 u year. Mr. Gould said through one of his 'Mends that he would be perfectly silling to set aside a sufficient sum V the support of his wife, but that . certainly would not entertain the fcmand for a quarter of a million Mlars a year. "Not only is such a sum ridlcu .msly large," said Mr. Gould's jiend, "but Mr. Gould 'thinks that, wing to the conduct of Mrs. Gould 'wring the last three years they Ved at Castle Gould, she has no i?lld claim for such a sum. Crokcr's Orbjr Wins !rby. London, June, 12. For the third :ue In the history of the Derby the .reatest classic of the turf world haa en carried off by an American vner. At EjMiom, Uichard Croker's iby. the son of an American dam ill ridden by Johnny Relff, an Am lican Jockey, euslly defeated the st of tho English three-year-olds lid came homo a handsome winner two lengths. Wool Winder was cond and Slleve Galllon, the 8 to il favorite, third. From the financial side Croker taped a rich profit from the race. i m UTILITIES BILL SIGNED. Effective July 1st. Orporntlons Under Strict Aceonntnblllty. Albany, N. Y., June 11. The much discussed public utilities bill is now a law. It was signed by Governor Hughes last Thursday. It was repassed by both houses over the veto of Mayor McClellan of New York city. The Governor filed no memoran dum with tho bill. Demand Made by the New Low on Common Carriers. Safe and adequate service and Just and reasonable charges are required of every corporation, and rebates and discrimination In rates between dif ferent classes of shippers or passen gers or kinds of traffic are prohibit ed. No common carrier Is to charge any greater compensation In the aggregate under substantially slm liar circumstances and conditions for a shorter than for a longer distance. Common carriers must furnleh to shippers upon reasonable notice sufficient and suitable cars for the transportation of freight In carload lota. If a common carrier has not suffl clent cars to meet all reasonable re quirements the cars available must bo distributed among the several ap' pllcants without discrimination. A receipt or bill of lndlng must be given, and corporations are prohibit ed from stipulating therein that they shall be exempt from anjr liability for loss or damage to property. Every common carrier is specifi cally made liable for loss or damage due to dolay In transit occasioned by negligence. Railroad corporations are required to furnish switch and side track connections to shippers where re asonably practicable. Common carriers are required to file with the commission and to keep open to the public a schedule of rates and fares in a form prescribed by the commission. Neither commission may author- lie the capitalization of any fran chise In excess of tho amount (ex clusive of any tax or annual charge) actually paid to the Btate or to a political subdivision thereof as the consideration for the gTant of such franchise. No corporation shall purchase or hold stock In another such corpora tion or common carrier unless auto, orb.ed by tho commission. PHINCESS MARIE BONAPARTE, who is said to be oa the list of a marriage bureau In Paris although she Is most beautiful and has a pri vate fortune of 15,000,000 francs. She Is a connection of Jerome Bona parte of Washington, and Charles Bonaparte. NAVY LAUNCH LOST. Believe Six Midshipmen and Five Seamen Are Irowncd. Fort Monroe, Va., June 13. Six midshipmen and a crew of five sea men of the steam launch of the bat tle Bhlp Minnesota, now at Hampton Roads, are believed to have been drowned while returning to the Min nesota from shoro during the night. The party of officers had attended a dance at the Jamestown Exposition grounds, and the launch left the ex position pier about midnight and has not been heard from since. A ditty box, or small chest, belonging to G. W. Westphal, a fireman of the launch has ben picked up afloat near berth No. 27 of the Jamestown war ship anchorage. It was stated authoritatively that the naval officials have absolute knowledge of the Identity of a steum er which ran down the launch, and that the arrest of the crew of the steamer la expected to follow. FIREMEN WEllK FIREBUGS. Started Fires In Town in Saxony, to Win Heworda us Heroes. Berlin, June 12. A series of forty three fires In Slebenlohn, Saxony, ex tending from 1896 to 1906, by which fiixty-three houses were burned, has been traced to tho volunteer fire brl. gade there. Certain evidence given In a local law-suit put the police on the track of the incendiaries, and It was found that the chief traders and artisans, together with the Burgomaster, were the heads in the conspiracy. The firemen used to be period ically rewarded for heroic conduct in extinguishing fires which they themselves had Btarted. .IIBWIII Covering Minor Happen Ings from nil Over the Globe. HOMO AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for the Busy Reader A Complete Record of European Despatches and Im portant Events from Everywhere Boiled Down for Rusty PerusaL Harry Orchard described attempt on the life of Governor Peabody In the Haywood trial. Cuban liberal leaders protested ftgalnfst the passnge of the resolution federalizing Havana. Governor Hughes of New York vetoed the bill providing for a two cent railroad fare. The general manager of tho Sov ereign Bank, nt Toronto, reported a tirlnknge of $2,840,000 In the value of the Institution's assets, attributed to bad Investments by a former man ager. Mayor Schmitz denied on the wit ness stand that he had ever received protection money from the French restaurants in San Francisco. President Roosevelt at Jameatown advocated Income and Inheritance taxes and payment to all workmen hurt In accidents. Hnrry Orchard under a severe cross-examination gave dotal la of al leged murders done under orders of Miners' Federation heads. The council of the progressive party In Toklo called on the govern ment to compel the United Statos government to protect Japanese in America. It was found that the $200,000 in money and securities carried by three persons arrested In Naples was the property of the Friars of Santo Dom ingo. When Secretary Wilson, of the De partment of Agriculture, was asked on the witness stand in the "cotton leak" hearing if he did not agree to suppress certain Information he re piled: "I do not remember." The Princess Anne Hotel, at Vir ginia Beach, Va., was burned, with a reported loss of two lives. As a result of Harry Thaw's trial, a bitter quarrel has appeared la the Thaw family. Demanding money she says Is due on losses in the San Francisco fire. women has threatened the life of George Crawford, president of the West Chester Fire Insurance Com pany. Proceedings were taken by a dau ghter of E. W. Vanderbilt, of New York, who married Mrs. Pepper, to have a commission Inquire into her father's sanity. , Stuyvesant Fish, addressing Col- ' umbla graduates, said new federal laws would stop the construction of railroads. i With liabilities of $0,500,000 the firm of Millken Brothers, structural steel manufacturers and construct ors, of New York went Into bank ruptcy. Cuban liberals opposed the policy of federalization of Havana. ; Many persons were killed by tor nadoes In Illinois, Indiana and Ken tucky. Governor Hughes vetoed three ' bills increasing patronage In New York city boroughs. I President Roosevelt took part In ' laying the cornerstone of the Mason. , lc Temple in Washington. " j Mayor Mahool, of Baltimore, ask- ' ed the Appeal Tax Court to put a tax of $1,000 a year on bachelors. I More than a thousand persons were thrown Into a panic In the Goth. ham Theatro, In Brooklyn, by a shout of "Fire!" during the uerformance. Robert L. Steiner, a blind patient in a sanitarium a Corona, L. I., es caped and was found dead near the Institution. Long Islnnd'a Poosepatuck Indiana celebrated their 935th annual feast la honor of the dead on their reser vation. Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Ayres, whose wife haa been barred from the West Point Academy grounds, made an attack on other officers which It Is believed will lead to a court martial. Dr. William R. Day, chancellor of Syracuse University, declared the re public was under an autocracy a government by commissions. The young wife of the Rev. J. J. Hunt preached In a Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal Church In the absence of her huBband. Cuban liberals asked Senator Zay as and Qeneral Gomez to resign as aspirants for the Presidency In the interest of party peace. Open hearth furnaces will be sub stituted by the Carnegie Company for the Bessemer process of making Bteel rails. One man was killed and ten In jured when a large automobile crash ed into a victoria in the Ocean Park way, Brooklyn N. Y., FOREIGN NEWS. According to a despatch, the Dub In corporation will bo asked to con- icr tho freedom of the city on Rich ard Croker. The French Cabinet haa decided to supprejB the wine frauds which have aroused the growers tn the South. Tho Irish nationalists are plann- I Ing a bitter fight against the British i liberal government. I Major General Sir Arthur E. A. Ellis, who was In attendance upon King Edward at the Olympla Hoise Show, died suddenly as he stood close to the soverlgn during the perform ance. More than a hundred American clergymen are in Paris on their re turn from the Sunday School Con gress In Rome, says a despatch. I By buying coal fields here a Bo hemian haa taken the flrrt etep to ward the introduction of American coal Into Germany, says a despatch. In an automobile accident near Banbury, England, Mr. Johnson, of California, was killed and his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Blake, of Phila delphia, were fatally Injured. Local officials In Southern France are resigning, to emphasize the pro test of the wine growers. In England a movement haa been begun to stop the display of adver tisements which are spoiling the scenery In country . districts. The eighth international confer ence of the Red Cross Society waa opened In London. Conservatives In China have been shocked to learn that "Duke Con fnciua," direct descendent of the sage Confucius In the seventy-sixth generation, has Joined the liberal movement In the Empire. Wine growers at Montpellier mada a demonstration against the Inact ivity of the government In regard to their complaints, with the result that 1,200 offlclala of municipalities and communes in the South of France will resign their posts. Mr. Joseph H. Choate Is receiv ing marked social attentions in Eng land. Henley stewards, mny bar all for eigners from competing in the row ing regatta. SPOUTING NEWS. Miss Marie Wagner and H. H. Mollenhauer won the metropolitan mixed doubles lawn tennis champion ship. Walter Christie, on the eve of his departure to France to compete In the Grand Prix, announced a mile trial on Long Island in 29 seconds. The Dervish arrived first at Ber muda In the ocean sail race and wan followed. by the yawl Hyperion and the yawl Lila, in order. The win ner of the contest will not be known until later. American manufacturers of auto mobiles are to agitate for a national highway from the Atlantic to tho Pacific Ocean. ROMR FOR PEACE CONFERENCE. Japau to Put Fonvurd Question of Conqueror to Territory Vienna, June 18. According to one of the representatives of a great Power who has been chosen to take part in the Hague conference matters are little likely to bo as couleur de rose at the coming meeting of the pence delegates as Is popularly thou ght. He said: "In circles where people are apt to have Information of what is go ing on behind the scenes it is already well known that an intensely dan gerous question Is to be raised and a soft of international political bomb is to be thrown Into the would bo court of peace which opens at the Hague a few days hence. "And the Jupanese are the aggres sors. Nothing, It appears, will dls uade them In their Intentions. Would Know Conquerors' Rights- "The Japanese envoy, Suuukl, late ly Under Secretary of State, Is com mUsloued by his government to put forward with all the forclbllity pos sible the question of the right of a conqueror to annex outright all tho territory conquered, with all that Is upon It. That Is to say, that Japan brings up the proposition, hitherto unrecognised, to the effect that all property in a country conquered or annexed belongs to the conqueror r annexee." ELEPHANT KILLS BOY. Reaches From Circus Parade Into Crowd on the Sidewalk Buffalo, N. Y., Juno 12. rrovoi cd to anger by the torment;-, of a half dosen small boys who ke;,t pace with her and aimed pebbles at her flapping ears, Ruth, the seventy-five-yoar-old, five-ton elephant lu Cole Brothers' clrcua parade, wound lior trunk around the body of Rocco Laquino, 12 years old, as he stood In a densely packed crowd on tho pavement, and dashed his life out on tho paving atones. Dropped Dead After A Fast. Washington, June 13. As tho probable result of a fast undertaken by the members of a physical cul ture association, John H. Swordflger, a printer at the Government Print ing Office, dropped dead of heart dlHouBe after beginning his day'a work. The members of the organi zation, said to number several thou sand, began the fast on June 1, they agreeing to take nothing but water qr thirty days. I EI JP US Petition to Have Them selves Named as Plain tiffs Denied. BLOW TO PETITIONERS Fryo and Others Summoned For Eqnlty Proceding -Execution of Document Constituted Contempt of Court Her Competency At' tucked tight Promises Interest Concord, N. H., June 12. Judge Robert N. Chamberlain to-day de nied the petition of Henry M. Baker, of Bow; Joslah E. Fernald, of Con ford, nnd Archibald McLollan, of Boston, to be substituted as plain tiffs in the suit which the hclrs-at law and next friends of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy have begun to s. cu-e an accounting of the property and an adjudication as to Mra. Eddy's mental condition. Judge Chamberlain made no com ment. His decision rends: "The petition of Henry M. Baker, Archibald McLellan and Joslah K. Fernald for leave to Intervene as plaintiffs in the equity proceedings of Eddy vs. Frye is denied." Calvin Frye and three of the ten defendants In the suit were Imme diately served with summonses re quiring them to give their deposi tions In the equity proceeding. This decision Is in favor of tb next frienda, who are represented by x-benator William E. Chandler and other prominent lawyers of New England. After thoir bill of equity was filed, on March 1 last, a so- called "trust deed" was recorded, in which Mrs. Eddy gave control of all her property Into the hands of three trustees. This action, taken oa March 6, was followed by the trust ees that they should be substituted, for tho next friends who had brought the suit for an accounting and an adjudication as to Mrs. Eddy's com petency. A two day's bearing In court waa held at which Gen. Frank S. Street er, of Concord, argued for the trust ees that they hould be substituted. as by thoir acceptance of the trust they had been given the right to ap pear for Mrs. Eddy In all actions at luw. Ex Senator Chandler, in op posing the petition, declared that the "trust deed" was executed for the purposo of avoiding tho suit and that It was void because the question of Mrs. Eddy's competency already had been attacked. Mr. Chandler argued also that the hurried execu tion of the document while court pro ceedings were pending constituted contempt of court. Edna Mny a Bride. Edna May, who has so convinc ingly proved her claim to the title of "The Belle of Mayfalr" on the stage and off by right of the might of an unimpeachable profllo, was married last week in London to Oa car Lewlshon, a millionaire. Though Miss May is renouncing the footlights and retiring to fam ily life by way of the Registrar's ofllce her trossoau Is ample evidence that tho vanities of tho world Btill have their attractions. One of the Items Is $750 worth of shoes. Other things are in keeping. Senator Morgan Dies Suddenly. Washington. D. C. June lis. United States Senator John Tyler Morgan, of Alabama, for thirty curs a member of the upper ilouso of Congress, chairman of the S-'en.-.ta Committee on Interoceaulc CtumU and prominent as a brigadier general In the Confederate army, died at his home here Tuesday night. Senator Morgan had been In bad health for a number of years, but hud more or less regularly attended tho sessions of Congress. Ha mitt. ered from angina pector. which was tho cause of his death. He passed away at fifteen minutes past eleven o'clock. At the deathbed were has daughters, Miss JA&tj and Mam Cby nella Morgan, both of thts cltft nd his aocretury, J. O, Kmn l, ill ijh N.Y. MARKET LETTER (From our Special Correspondent) Favorable weather conditions throughout the wheat belt and lowwr continental markets Induced small holders to sell nt the opening. Ten porartly support was lacking, but t the declines a good demand develop, ed. Advices from KansM contint4 to be received regarding poor pre, pects for the crop. Notwithstanding the complaint of poor flour demand, the output of r.onr Is In excess of last year. Tbors were no changes of Importance la fowls. The offerings of Boler.tod quality have not been large this ww and close clearances have been eff ected. Tho recent decline In prices of spring ducks does not appear t have stimulated the demand to my appreciable extent, and the tone ai tho close waa baroly steady. Fur.cy squabs of largo size are steady ani nctlve. The market la still badly over stocked with eggs of poor quality and for such, prices are merely the result of negotiations after th ly spection of samples. Unexpected weakness develop.d ot small sixes of white and colon d cheoHo, and with accumulations o hand and dull trade, the commiUes reduced the price to 12cts. Largs tilzea havo been relatively scarce this v.cek and with excellent demand closed steady at 12' cts. Skint ha.o been dragging for several dajs. and all grades are M lower. Wheat July .. .97 Sept. ...09 Deo. . . 1 .noty July. . . .641$ Sept 68T,- Deo.. . . .61 Oats. Mixed, (t file. r.KRVKS. City drea'd. SaO'o. Calves. City drea'd. lOaisWa. Country dressed per lb. 8al2c. Mikkh. Per 100 lb. t5.0Oafl.00. Hixifi. Live per 100 lb. tf?.7,-n an Conutry dressed per lb. 8a04a ay. i Time, 100 lb., $ 1.20. Stiuw. Long rye. Gr.u70c. Live pollthy Fowls. Per lb. al5. Cuic'kens. SpriuK, per lb., a2o Dlt KS. Per lb. alS'jc. ClKF.sn. Per lb. alO. Dj:i.sed pori.TRY i Tl'KKEYrt. Per lb. 17a 18c. Fowls. Per lb. lflalSo. Silahs. Per dozen fl.26a4.2S. Vkoktahlf.s Potatoes. Old bl., ?1.70a3.7 "V Clrt MHKiw. BoNket, $1.252.50. Onions. White, per bbL ta.35a3.74. LliTTUCK. Haskot, .7Acnl.fiO. fcn.MAt'U. Barrel, .76ea$l.O0. Bekts. per bbl. fl.00al.50. Stuawueukies. Sallo. FINANCIAL Stocks were uncertain and At. cllned sharply toward the market's close. Charlos S. Mellon made a wurm defence of his nlan for the Nw Haven-Boston and Maine merger at the State House In Boston. Stocks again Bcored advances and closed strong. Figures of the bank Htatenivct showed a decrease in surplus re serve of $6,801,925, an increase ia loans of $1,514,300. and a riucr.flit. of deposits of $9,053,100. BASEBALL LEAGl'E SUMMARIES. Stauding of the Clubs. National. W. L. P. C Chncago jjj 9 oj New York 0 14 !HJ Philadelphia 20 17 ,aoi Pittsburg 33 w .asa noit& 17 28 H6 Cincinnati 17 87 .3 Brooklyn 15 30 .34! St. Louis ig as .ml American. w. l, p. a Chncago so IS Ml Cleveland 30 16 Mi Detroit 84 17 ... Philadelphia 24 30 .M New York 20 21 .4.S8 St. Louis is 28 .Wi Washington 14 37 41 Boston 14 80 .Sli PAY FOR SPANISH WAR MEN. $80,000 at Albany Represents Share of the Government. Albany, June 12. Upward of $80,000 from the Treasury of the United States la In the handB of the State authorities for distribution among the 10,000 or 18,000 niea who Berved In the volunteer regi ments of this State In the Spanish American war. New Jersey and other States as serted that during tike time the State troops were in the camps of rendezvous within their own State they were serving under two con tracts, ono with the State at their regular enlistment rate, the other with tho United States at the army rate, and were therefore entitled to what amounte to double pay. Thhi contention finally succeeded. The fund will average $6 or $7 per man. Seven t'nnnl Men Killed. Panama. June 12. A nramntnrt explosion of dynamite took place at Pedro Mldguel, on the line of the canal, and resulted in tho death or seven men and the woundlnsr of uoverul others. Four men were killed nhnrt time ago at this same spot by another premature explosion.
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