THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY DOMESTIC Jacob H. Schiff, head of the firm of TOLD. WILL ASK FOR RECOGNITION, NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY. New York Ciry, N. Y. Denouncing President Castro of Vene- A MOTHER KILLS BACK IN WASHINGTON HER SEVEN CHILDREN ; President BIG FRAUD ON BANK Forger Gets $360,000 From New York Norway Wants 10 Be of Powers. —— , One Enthusiatic Ovation fo Kuhn, Throws Herself on Burning Bed With Bodies. SHE REVIVES, BUT SOON DIES. an Illinois Town Kills Her Children With an Ax, Piles Thelr Bodies on a Bed Sat. urated With Coal Oil and Sets Fire to It Then Throws Herself Into the Flames. Cambridge, 11] bors of { Spe Clarence Mark biving southwest of that fire. Has duing the stricken n cred WOMEN HIS VICTIMS Swindler Grief. A Successful Flaally Comes to Ww the men's sidewalk jump. Ce tress, walk and was rescuers jumped jured. Rich Mas Killed By Auto. Moines, Iowa Harliman, lawyer, ba the weal 1 Jowa, was kill dent. He was ost control of Des erick A one of { Special) ed Vice-President Provost Dead. Chi ag { Special ).— Railroad flicials | worked as switchmen Saturday in th yards of the Grand Trunk Railroad. where the yard men struck. Division superintendent F. W. Egan, Assistant Superintendent W. E. Costello, Yard Master M. J. Conron and others assisted a handful of non-union switchmen to make up trains and throw switches, Oblo Town Burned Out. Jeffersonville, © (Special) ~Fire broke out at Jeffersonville, a town of 2,000 inhabitants, lying in Fayette coun- ty, near Clark county border, and in a short time had wiped out the entire busi. ness section of the village, er Alleged Lyacher Acqulitted, Springfield, O. (Special), — James O’Brien was acquitted of complicity in the lynching of Richard Dixon. It was stated by several prisoners in the jail that they peeped from their cells as the mob burst into the halls and that they saw O'Brien grab Dixon and take him from the cell, turning him over to the mob, A few minutes later the negro was lynched. O’Brien was one of six indict ed for complicity in the lynching and the second to be tried and acquitted. Loeb & Co. bankers, of New York, and formerly 2 directbr of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, was the first witness called before the leg- islative life insurance investigating com mittee, William R. Travers, a millionaire club man, son of the celebrated wit and Wall Street operator. W. R. Travers, committee by shooting himself in his ' ate suicide through the head New York Former apartment QO. MG stand in his figh SOO0,000 Captain witness 1 dd WOeK ation otf arrest $20.000.00¢ 3 THEFT A 1 ampmen Amer FOREIGN £1 re th Sweden 15 a large } . 4 ihe Livde, astern i rage war proceed ! lattter country private, It 1s officially announced that 20 cases of cholera, of which 28 resulted fatally, occurred iy Poland between September 20 and 27 The new Franco-Russian commer convention was signed ai St burg, It becomes effective 1000, The anniversary of the death of Emile Zola was observed in Paris, and the tomb of the writer was decorated. Alderman Walter Vaughan was elected lord mayor of London. is a banker and a bachelor M. Witte proceeded to Bjoerks for a conference with the Czar on the imperial yacht La Caussade and Viallet, leading op- erators in the Paris sugar market, have failed Only one new case of cholera was re ported in Germany during the last 24 hours. An armistice between the Russian and the Japanese forces in Korea has not yet been arranged, the Russians refusing to agree to the Japanese proposals, Ta Peters March 1, Morgan He Roosevelt, House, Which Was Brilliantly HHluminated- Members of the Cabloet Were Line. Th urnedq « HIGH HONORS TO BE GIVEN WITTE The Russisn Statesman Joins Czar on Mis Yacht FIRST DIP OF NEW WARSHIP, Philadelphia, f Siw i mpany Mabel daugh States Uwing to the prevalence of yellow fever in the South, K Vardaman, staff were unable to attend the launching. The Governor was represented by Senator Money. The guests included Admiral Dewey, Lieutenant Commander Wood, Rear Admiral Rogers, Mavor Weaver, i this city; naval officers stationed here and in Washington and prominent civil ans oncy, ry 1 of Mississippi, and his Jap Commits Suicide. New York (Special). <A well-dressed and educated Japanese, who registered at the Delaware Hotel, Third avenue and Thirty-fourth street, as K Nakamer, committed suicide by slashing his throat from ear to ear and then jumping from the roof to an extension, a distance of four stories. Both legs and several ribs were broken, and he was dead when found. He had been brooding over the Japanese-Russian terms of peace, and had told the hotel proprietor that his country had been disgraced, zuela as a tyrant, a briber and a traitor, Vincenti Perez Leon, a Venezuelan in voluntary exile, gave some sensational testimony while being examined before United States Commissioner Gilchrist in the $11,000,000 damage brought by the Venezuelan government against York and Bermudez Asphalt known a Asphalt Trust, the charge that American the revolutionists in referred to Castr thing language, citing one stance wherein he had caused him (the } to be suit the New Company, } om acl d 1001 T in the most at} Mateo y thrown inte lashed Leon dec rmment entered into B ¥ dat United Department was sen imprisonment by Athers had been f 1H he Intersia Islands, by Hiippine destroved Seq retary iy Wilson, ufture the Department of Agni returned to Washington from 3 is8it to the Middle West He says t glowing reports of enormous crops have not been exagrerated Car Full of Souvenirs. San ( Special) Secretary Taft and party left by a special train that included a baggage car containing trophies in the way of curios collected by the party mm the various countries they visited and the gifts presented to the Secretary of War. The party will arrive in Washington over the Balti more and Ohio Railroad. Francisco Money got to 4% per cent. in New York. Standard Oil has made another ad. vance in the price of petroleum. Soft coal prices in Western Pennsyl- vania were advanced § cents a ton, Gates is said to be again operating in Louisville and Nashville, It is now believed that powerful bank. ing interests are again buying securities. Chairman Miller, of the 8t. Paul, says that company will issue new stock at $150 a share. City National, Check Bearing Names of the Owaers. LEGLESS MAN'S CRIME. Suspicious. . 3 enler - Of gun) i ha? ¢ yiirdd Ms Barbour explained to of such a plea, the power to inflict severe punishment The crippled defendant, he 1 his position and eas had On it Hnever, said he understood his hie plea wae allowed to be entered Hart has confessed that he kiled his wife Marie June 12, 1908, He accused her of being too friendly with other men, when she refused to explain where she had been the night previous he drew a revolver and shot her. He also shot himself in an at tempt to commit suicide, but he re covered : shot and and Madison, Wis. (Special).—As a re sult of an, attempt by a crowd of stu. dents to break up the performance of a carnival company showing here, Mayor Curtis gave orders to the police to shoot any student resisting arrest or assault ing an officer. President Vanhise of the State University urged officers and courts to show no discrimination in fa- vor of students, and said that he would expel every student convicted in’ court, and would suspend all Sirested. Paris ( By Cable) ter of foreign affair he Temps ( : fst hie WEIGHED 549 POUNDS A Woman Who Died of Fatty Degeneration of Heart. PENCIL IN APPENDIX. Doctors Laughed #t the Ides, But Found If Was So. Kilicd With Baseball Bat. England Holds the Key. A Nil Consuelo Under Ether. York (Special).—Dr. H. Hol rook Curtis, who performed an opera- 1 the Duchess of Marlborough Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt) uble as reported, but was for a nasal difficulty. It was performed to remove a shght deafness which resulted from a fall received by the Duchess in her youth. Dr. Curtis said that his patient would be able to lcave the Hospital on Thursday. IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. The American Federation of Labor has been petitioned to grant an intefna- tional charter to the Association of Steam, Hot Water and Powler Pipe Fit- ters and Helpers, The Vallejo (Cala) Trades and Labor Council has been victorious in its fight for the cight-hour day. A meeting of the Metals Trades Coun cils of Minneapolis and St. Paul was held recently at which a resolution was passed unammously favoring the consol dation of the two bodies,
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