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.
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bors of
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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
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in his figh
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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
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suit
the New
Company,
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in the most at}
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thrown inte
lashed Leon dec
rmment entered into
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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 (
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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,