Baan
DUEL T0 DEATH
WITH A BURGLAR
Wealthy Pittsburgar Killed in His
Own Houses.
THE MANY CRIMES ALARM CITY.
Henry Firth Smith Shot to Death by
Burglar He Surprised in the Act of
Robbing His Father's House Evi-
dence of a Desperate Battle Before
the Burglar Got Away.
Henry
ol
Pa.
10 years
Pittsburg, { Special),
Firth Smith, old,
Jos. Smith, a prominent and wealthy
business man of this city, was
shot twice and almost instantly killed
at 4 o'clock Sunday morning by a
burglar whom he surprised in the
dining-room of his father's residence,
in the east end section of the city
The crime, following a little more
than a week after the murder of
James A. McMillen, another wealthy
business man of this section, has
aroused the city, and, with a num-
ber of holdups by highwaymen dur-
ing the past fortnight, city officials
have been importuned for 150 more
policemen to suppress the wave of
s0On
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic,
president of the New York
Life Insurance Company
secured an injunction from the court
at Frankfort, Ky., restraining the
State Commissioner from revoking
the company’s license to do business
in the Kentucky field.
Frederick Schaffhauser, a civil en-
gineer, was shot and fatally wounded
in the City Hall of Philadelphia by
Frederick Homberger, a pumping
station employe, who accused the en-
gineer of wrecking his home.
Miss Nellie O'Reilly, an opera sing-
er, was awarded $15,000 damages
in a breech of promise suit against
Dennis Sweeney, a wealthy resident
of Long Island.
An inspection
The
Mutual
of
work on the
cantile organizations of the United
States is proposed.
Five incendiary night fires
heart of New York caused a
among thousands and death
woman from shock,
John Price Wetherill, of Philadel-
phia, who amassed a fortune in zine,
dled in Philadelphia.
New York detectives found a child
who had been chained to a corncrib
for a year and a half.
in the
panic
of a
DEAL MAIL CARWITH
BOMBS MD LOOT I
First Kill The Gendarmes and Place
Sentinels,
MARCH OFF IN MILITARY ORDER.
Threw Thre: Bombs at the Mail Car
While Engines Were Being Changed,
De aled the Car, Robbed It and
Fled With a Sum of Money Said to
Ar ount to $650,000.
ian
sacks have
their
train
well-armed
P. M.,
station, threw three
mail car of a train
were being changed,
derailed the car, robbed it and fled
with a sum of money now said to
amount to $650,000
Laid Their Plans Well,
station-mas
hid in
and were
Portland, (By
thus fa:
pursuit
Rus
The Cos
unsuccessful
the
numbering a
men, who at
rounded this
bombs at the
while engines
Rognow,
Cable)
been
Of
in
revolutionist robbers
hundred
o'clock
9
sur-
declare the
114
excellently
The
evolutionists
y
ing forests
ster
in the
dis-
The Standard Oil
raised the pay of all
Company has
employes from |
i
crime.
That desperate battle took place |
between young Smith and the burg-
lar is evident from the disordered
condition of the dining-room and |
kitchen of the Smith home. In ad- |
dition to the two bullets which were |
found to have entered Smith's body, |
five other balls were found lodged i
in the floors and walls of the two |
rooms. Three cartridges of Smith's |
revolver had been discharged.
Neighbors adjacent to the Smith
home heard the shots and ran to |
their windows, but they saw no |
one running from the house. Hun- |
dreds of dollars’ worth of silver
plate had been gathered together by
the burglar, who apparently had been
in the house sometime before being
heard by voung Smith
The ng man's
a
|
§
i
i
say
i
young father and
mother were awakened by the sounds
of the shots, and rushed down stairs
to find their son on the kitchen floor.
with two bullet holes in his body.
The entire police and detective
forces are working on the case, but
so far no has been discovered. |
Every policeman in the East End |
district orted in civilian clothes
Superintendent of Police McQuaide
issued order that act-
ing in the manner
was to be station
for examination,
Another
the
Livi
nance
up by a neg
is
clue
rej
any person
least suspicious
0 sent he police
was reported
Miss 1
the
holdup
Sunday.
sister
of
sabe]
of
ord-
held
of
this ei
hi * ne,
distance from the
The negro held
until he
ed
on,
officer yY,
‘0 near hot
a
residence
ver at her
purse
Ol
v
her
a
took
Te
head
and the n di BAN
THE STUDENTS LEAVE
College Forced To
Its
La Special
Centenary
Close Doors,
N
tenary
w Orleans,
%
College, at Jacks
closed its doors pe
of the f¢
of
a ¢
flicted
sequencs
the
ignation
is ing in
wounds fr
of physics in a
drawal of all its stud
The college was
Louisiana, having in
1825 as tbe Louisiana State College
It failed, and soon aft
into the hands of the
who natded it Centenar)
honor of the centennial
ism.
The college was prosperous
earlier days and among its distin-
guished graduates were Jefferson
Davis, president of the Southern Con-
federacy; Judah P. Benjamin,
retary of State of the Confederacy
and most of the prominent Methodist
clergymen of the Southwest Bis
hop Keener was for many its
president.
The building will probably be fngedd
A8 an annex the overflow of the
State Insane asylum, which |
situated at Jackson. near the college
from
oldest in
been founded
erward passed
Methodists
College, in
of Method-
in i
8
BEC
years
for
8 alan
MURDERED AND HOME ROBBED.
Woman Found Wiih Her Thoat Cut
And Head Battered,
Stafford Springs, Ct.
Mrs. Henry Williams, about 50 vears
old. was found murdered in her
home, near here tobbery, appar-
ently, was the mot and the mur-
derer ig believed to be a tramp. The
body of Mrs. Williams found
lying near a stove on the floor of the
kitehien of her house, with the throat
cut, head battered and a towel twist-
ed around the neck. Near the body
lay & knife and a club.
The woman died after a hard
struggle with her assailant, who, it
is thought, struck her down with a
club and then cut her throat, after
which the towel was wound ahout
her neck.
Following the murder the man
made a systematie search for money,
for the house was thoroughly ran-
sacked and a trunk In an upstairs
room was broken open and about
$100 in money taken from it. Part
of the money, later, was found on
the lawn in front of the house,
The husband of the murdered
woman, who had been away from
home, discovered the body,
{ Special).
ive,
was
The Currency Problem.
Washington (Speeial).—-The cur-
rency committee of the American
Bankers’ Association, appointed in
pursuance to a resolution adopted at
the St. Louis meeting, will assemble
here this week to discuss a plan for
a more elastic banking currency, The
committee will consider various
propositions. It Is expected that
Secretary Shaw and Comptroller of
the Currency Ridgely will address
the meeting before the final adjourn.
ment.
5 to 10 per cent
The special federal
in Minneapolis,
into the alleged rebating
use railroads, and re
turned 147 indictments. The mini- |
each case is $1,000 |
$2,000 |
affair Money,
Miss, L.. J. Henderson, a prominent
merchant and planter, was instantly
killel by A. J. Money, a brother of
United States Senator Money. Money
was also not
wounded
grand
Minn.
jury |
system in by
in
the
In a shooting
and maximum
at
0
% seriously
shot, but is
A powder magazine owned by the |
Du Pont Company and situated
Park, near Chicago,
such force that window
broken in the of
the Midlothian Club, three miles dis- |
{
ex- |
loded
anes
with
were
home
A
receiver
for the
wag appointed in Al
North German Fire In
of New York
crippled by the San Fran- |
ance Company
was
tated :
railroad |
to have the re
on trains
in
Proceedings
Scranton, Pa.,
CPR
efender
veiled
A dynamite
Carrick, ne
men were
The
in Rome,
in
Two
occurred
a
hurt
carried all
in Porto Rico,
eXple
even
dis
leaving the Republicans without rep-
the next House of
election was very |
resentatives
in
Delegates. Ihe
orderly.
Foreign,
French
announced
of Deputies that
would give the
vear for reflection,
churches would not
minister of
in the
the gov-
clericals
and
be closed
M.
public
Briand,
worship,
that
the
next month.
Prince Albert, of Flanders, nephew |
the sovereign |
guccessor of King as
of the Congo Independent State,
Ns, BD. £3.
charge of
Frau
Karl Hau, of Washingi«
still held in London on
murdering his wife's mother,
Molitor, at Baden-Baden.
creditors
}
i
are |
Count Castellane’s
granting of a divorce until their case
ia settled.
s M James, of
is studying trades
Hussia, was arrested in
burg.
ving Edward of
the sixty-fifth
birth.
Agitation
New York, |
unionism in |
St. Peters-
England celebrat- |
ot anniversary of his |
the ac-
placing an
in Italy a; 15t
the Mid-
gorolug phase,
The Russian government is nego-
the view of concluding svpplemen-
tary treaties covering fugitives ac-
cused of the preparation of explosives
for bombs.
At a meeting of the leading mem-
berg of the Liberal party in Cuba it
was decided to appoint a committee
to express to the Governor the party's
dizastisfaction with recent appoint.
ments,
Prince Joachim of Prussia has
been ordered to German Southwest
Africa for daring to oppose the Em-
peror's wishes in threatening to
marry Marie Sulzer, the concent hall
singer,
A newspaper in Lubeck, Germany,
states that a German steamer, Jan
Minlos, with a cargo of explosives
for the Russian government, was fired
upon by a Russian cruiser.
For instigating a revolt of the gar-
rison of Odessa the two revolution-
ary leaders have been exiled to Bi-
beria, and eight others to hard labor
for four years.
their commander
h bugle signals.
robbery was completed the revo
tutionistg transported their booty
two wagons and marched off
t order, singing Soclall
Sye-witne confirm
ciplined,
orders throus
to
in mili
gtic
the
tionist
SONES
ary
that + revolu were
hid in neighboring
and when t train stopped the
with up
den woods,
} |
armed on
ides.
Bprang
Gendarmes,
the
orders
gendarmes
ita We
tion
1Onists
he
at all the approaches
killed, an 1€@ revoiut
placed sentinel
and cut the telegraph wires.
While some of
trainmen other
corts of the mail p
Of t three be
@ attacked
ymbs thrown, two
force,
chwood,
he
with terrific blowing
cars into
soldiers and
others
Marching Off In Military Order.
The revolut
mail car,
notes, gold
mat
vs 374 22 11x
MOorLaily
ionists then ransacked
bank
own
flag,
warched
the transferred
ar
the
med
#
Of
up i
the
troons
ogow is now ocen;
Tried To Catch
$208
\
Bomb,
» rallroad
A Sad Double Tragedy.
Pa After
Fulmer,
Walter
by shooting
calibre
tragedy
in 32
ver
a f«
left
occu
the family
table, and was
¢
Of
Ww
3.
ed
couple
is the
Yerkes,
turn
order t
crime
wi
ness the
of
this place,
entire
the
#01
of
the
Squire Joseph
B
sufficient
out
of
was
populace
details
to in
0 learn the
Has Not Hesigned.
Washington
Montagna, the Charge of the
{ Special)
talian
partment Thursday denied the story
that Ambassador Mayor Des Planches
had resigned, and stated that he ex-
pected the Ambassador return to
this country next
his connection with the Embassy.
to
Highwayman Holds Up Train.
Kansas City (Special) A lone
rear sleeper of the eastbound combi-
nation Chicago and Alton-Roeck Ia-
Slater and Gias-
after
44, between
Mo., shortly
as No.
20%,
ed in the darkness
She Found The Leak.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). Miss
Catherine Keener, aged 21 years,
awakened by the odor of gas.
lighted a match to investigate
explosion which followed blew
away one side of the house, and
Miss Keener received burns from
which she died.
Killed On The Track.
Alexandria, Va. (Special). —Wil-
Ham A. Fuller, 44 years old, of
Washington, who was employed as a
ear inspector in the Union freight
yards here, was instantly killed by
a Southern Rollway engine a mile
north of this city. He was terribly
mangled,
was
She
The
Millionaire's Nephew Sentenced.
Worcester, Mass. (Special).——-Ro-
bert L. Hunter, of Roxbury, Mass.
aged 18 years, was sentenced by
Judge H. E. Hitchcock In Superior
Criminal Court to not less than six
nor more than eight years in state
prison for stabbing to Jeath his
friend, Charles H. LaCrosse, here
June 25. He is a nephew of James
P. Timliity, the millionaire Boston
contractor.
Mother and Four Children Die
The Flames,
New York Penned in
by fire, four children and one woman
death in
the East
blaze had
(Bpecial)
were burned to a tene
ment-house fire Side
When finally the
tinguished and the firemen could
penetrate the hullding the bodies
the victims, charred beyond pos-
sibility of recognition, were found in
the ruins
‘he fire started on the second floor
of the five-story tenement at 266
Madison Street. The building is the
oldest type of tenement-house con-
struction, with narrow halle and
stairs and lots of seasoned wood work.
Beginning in rubbish near the
stairs, the fire spread rapidly through
the hall and was goon licking its way
through the upper floor.
Most of the 15 families in the
building were at supper, and there
was the wildest kind of excitement.
Policemen were on the scene immedi-
ately, and as sonn as the firemen ar-
on
been ex
Of
some
the
and
women
floors
adders
children from
he fire escape
More than 50
the fire
the firemen
almost ¢
upper
1s
by
arrived
escane
When the
the
on
window of
with women
assistance,
: had filled
ith Ke
Cape
and there
in the
the
vir
was erowded
children
fire
halls an stairway Ww
1d
in the wer floors
off n
fire
wany
minutes
The
few
peopl
the bul
di
eing
the fir
possibly
deluge of
floors, but
headway
When
the
a
in extingul
finzily they
earch for victims
taken
Only
wreh
the second
bodies
on
reveal
floor
did the
There, huddled
the flats, were
the
to a erisp
baodv
and nearby
of a woman burned
a group, the
remains of
HAVE NO SPIES IN JAPAN.
General Staff Not Seeking Informa-
This Way.
{Special} Officers of
tion In
Washington
ral staff of the Ar endea-
my
that
tativ
auve
had been
not been lef
ons of this body
the other war-
of the world
A Family Asphyxiated.
Pa 1
leighton, ial) Coal gas
caused
{Spec
the death of Harry
20
fumes
23 d: hi wife,
ttle girl of 10, at their home
South Second Street. It is be-
that fire started in the stove
supplied the sleeping apart-
with heat and that the fatal
gas entered their bedehember
and killed them while they slept.
Bowman, vears ol
and a li
on
lieved
which
ment
coal
Curzon Rumor Unfounded.
{By Cable) In connec-
tion with the rumors from America
that Lord Curzon, the ex-Vieeroy of
india, | succeed Sir Mortimer
Ambassador of Great
Washington, the Foreign
gays there is
for the reports,
London
to
as
at
here
“
Britain
Typhoid Ascribed To Oysters,
Middletown, Ct, (Special).——An-
The victim is John C
J., catcher on
The out.
been due
the Weszlyan baseball taem.
break is thought to have
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.
President Roosevelt will present
a gold medal to Major George F
Shields for saving a wounded Philip-
pino from between the firing lines,
The Interstate Commerce Commis.
sion is to Investigate the alleged
holding company for the Harriman
railroad in the West,
Minister to Portugal Charles Page
Bryan may sueceed Lloyd Griscom as
American minister at ‘Rio Janeiro,
Brazil.
In his annual report Brigadier
General Croizer, chief or ordnance.
says the Army is being well supplied
with modern arms and ammunition.
San Francisco policyholders have
appealed to the State Department for
ald In forcing German fire insurance
companies to pay losses,
President Roosevelt awarded a
medal of honor to Edward Murray,
a Pennsylvania Railroad conductor
of Pittsburg.
It is hinted that Lord Curzon may
become British ambassador to the
Unitad States,
President Roosevelt directed that
Chief Moon be reprimanded for
transferring a printer who had been
expelled by the typographical union.
THE PRESIDENT OFF
FOR CANAL ZONE
“Going To See How The Ditch Is
Getting Along.”
SECRET SERVICE MEN THERE.
Yard to See the President Off on
Hiz Unique Expedition At the
White House There Was a Contest
Among the Roosevelt Children.
Washington, D
Good-by i
the
shouted
“ain
how ditch getting along.’
Pre
the after s
Mavflower
ident Roosevel
stood on
the yacht
ington Navy Yard
leaving the dock with
his Panama trip
Accompanying the
Mrs. Roosevelt
geon General Rixe
ps
nt
the wa
wwident
an
th
for
President
maid;
were
an Sur
and
Navy
Latta, ons tant
f retaries at the
i Mayflower
ligt
Trap 11
ia
the
to
| the
convey
isthmu
When
n
the
will
President
Republi
only n
trip are Rear
President
f
for a |
em
! general of
le nt
vovage,’
SUICIDE COSTS THREE LIVES,
A Girl, Disappointed In Love, Turns
On Gas,
Chicago, 111 { Special
she had been 4 a love
affair, Aloysia arsi
took to kill herself
gas in a room at
at if
A
German Hospital
with her were three
Two of then
other ving a
fumes
will
Pp
ie are
result
The
recover
other gir
the
inhaling the
who Jesired t«
At the Larrabee
lover ig he risoner
investigation
All the girlies were
At night
party and returned late,
into dormit
as of
Ee
y die
Station her
a rigid
entire affair
employed at the
they attended a
letting them-
with
Heo
i
pending
selves ary
The Marsi girl had faith-
less lover at the party, and it is sup-
posed she was discouraged after
an interview with him that she deter-
mined to emd her life She is yet
annot give
met her
80
a connected story of the tra
the hospital smelled and finally
broke into the Two of the
girls were then dead and Miss Lotri
was bevond resuscitation By hard
work Miss Marsi was partially re.
vived and admitted that she had
closed all the windows, locked the
doors and turned on the gas with
the intention of killing herself. She
had hoped the other girls would be
awakened by the smell of gas in
time to escape.
gas
room.
“
i
Bridge Tender Responsible,
Atlantie City, N. J. (Special).
After a stormy scene, lasting several
hours, the coroner's jury agreed to
place the blame for the Thorough-
fare wreck of Sunday, October 25.
upon Daniel Stewart, the aged
bridge-tender. The jury disagreed
on many points, According to the
coroner, Stewart will be arrested on
the charge of criminal negligence.
New Hotel Collapses,
Long Beach, Cal, (Special). The
new Bixby being erected on the beach
here caved in supposedly from weak
construction, and possibly a score of
men are buried in the ruins. The
building is of reinforced concrete.
The whole structure caved in with-
out warning from the basement to
the fourth floor, leaving but one wing
standing. Estimates of the number
of dead range from 10 to 25.
FAVROT KILLS HIS FRIEND
Congressman-Eleet Shoots His 1 ife.
time Comrade.
Baton Rouge,
ati
atic
Congr
bios
M
re
defeat
Robes
gentatis
His
Sweetheart
ringing h
VAR di
Bahawalpur
edan
sail i Cats
The Nawab of
incipal
swrthern
grimage
yf
AE oh
Mol
india, is g
to Mex
family
with al
of 1
“a
bers oth
ic retinue
significance attacl
pilgrimage
r ntinantal
On the railwayve of ¢
and the R
miscellaneous soran
Inst a
the or boat and lists
the people want eat i
aumber and this insures
crowding delay
¥
" there
¢
hine steamers
line Page
no MINE OF
sloward Foes
who io Each
a
ithont or
w
a has COREA
decla
the
Lars
found it n« Y to
ring that for all legal
words “railroad and
to be eo sidered
Virgini
pass a w
pu
“rajllway
onymons
rnotes
FINANCIAL WORLD.
swkefeller contingent are re-
be buying Northern Pacific.
It iz denied that United States
Steel will dismantle its Homestead
armor plate plant.
American tobacco declared the
regular quarterly dividend 215
on the common and an exira dividend
of 7% per cent,
it seemed 10 be the conser of
opinion among leading cong tive
bankers that there is to be no big
bull market just«yet
Assistant Secretary of State Bacon
retired from the Burlington diree-
torate and J. T. Talmage was chosen
to succeed him.
The Pennsylvania's increase in
wages will effect 125,000 employees
and will mean an extra outlay by
of several millions
The
Rx
ported to
Of
Tus
annually,
Directors of the Merchants’ Na-
tional Bank, Philadelphia, declared
a semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent.
aut of profits of the past six months.
This raises the annual rate from 6
the first time in wany years that one
per cent. to 8 per cent. The dividend
fs payable on demand. The bank's
capital is $600,000; surplus $600,000
and undivided profits $160,737.