SIAL MURDERED “IN A CEMETERY carded Lover Accused of An Awful Crime. THE FATE OF AN EASTER BRIDE. Lillie Davis Stops Work on Her ousseau to Take a Walk With Her Former Sweetheart —He Declares He Loaned Her His Pistol and That She Committed Suicide. Bristol, Tenn. (Special). — Ack Hale, 21 years of age, now languishes in a Bristol (Va.) jail and must face the charge of having murdered his former sweetheart, Miss Lillie Davis, a pretty 18-year-old girl. The trage- dy occurred in East Hill Cemetery, 86 feet from the Virginia state line, in Tennessee. The police give no credence whatever to Hale's story that he loaned the girl his revolver, at her request, that she might commit suicide. The girl was to have been married Sunday, March 31, to J. M. Mec- Roberts, of Georgel, Va. She had been the sweetheart of Ack Hale for two vears until some months before the killing, when they separated and she accepted McRoberts. Hale is said to have become very much angered 80 cooled, and, presumably on account of the love affair, he came to the oity Tuesday from his home, Domestic. The trustees of the Industrial Peace Fund met and organized, Chief Justice Fuller was elected president. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has been appealed to to name the third member of an arbitration board to comsider the dispute over the question of wages between the conductors and trainmen on the Western railroads out of Chicago and the railroad officials, which threatens to involve 40 railroads and 500,000 men. The men have refus- ed to arbitrate. Nathan Y. Landis, a Philadelphia furniture dealer, testified in the in- vestigation of the alleged $4,000,000 graft en the capitol at Harrisburg that he made the bootblack stand in the Senate toilet room for about $1256. The state paid Contractor An- derson $1,619.20 for the stand. The Supreme Court of Minnesota decided that the Great Northern Rall- way Company may issue the $60, 000,000 of stock, the offer of which was made to the stockholders De- cember 12 last without getting anu- thority from the State Railroad Com- mission. Jennie Burch, the 15-year-old girl charged with the death of an infant by giving the child a poisoned peach, was declared not guilty but insane, and was sent to Matteawan The Supreme Court of Minnesota that it $60,- contention to is the in its right Company it the sue to Colorado. Pulaski, Va., abandoned his proposed trip and returned to Bristol. mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, on ing, and took Lillie for a walk Davis home adioins the very hot and the moon was shining brightly, persons who saw them sus- pected nothing, presuming that they were going to sit down on the benches in the cemetery and rest Fifteen minutes later a shot rang out tery. He passed the home of the girs mether and went 200 further to another home, where reported that the girl had committed suicide with his pistol. Miss Davis was found lying on the grass private square with a mortal Horace G. Knowles, American min- ister to Ronmania and Servia, sailed for Europe from New York on steamer La Provence. The bill for a recount of the votes November, 1905, passed the 118 to 21 Mitchell, president Mineworkers’, is confined in Indianapolis with in Assembly John the of to his apartments a severe cold. Hamlin F Confederate Union hew of the fought Colorado Lee, a nep who at coeneral tha general ne Army, died “er At Guilford, Chenango County, N fire destroyed the opera hou two stores and was gushing her life's blood. never regained consclousness, talked incoherently, and frequently eried out: “Oh, Ack, how could you? You are smothering to death. Please quit, for God's sake.” She died an hour and a half later, Hale was arrested on charging him with the murder Miss Davis had gone driving with Hale in the afternoon before death but 6 ne ing on her wedding trousseau. came and asked her to take a walk she would return in time to an hour to aid in finishing up the clothes that night. Witnesses testifi- ed that they saw Hale hold her and pour whiskey down her throat. Be- side her after the shooting was wie flask. Ten feet distant was the pistol which ended her life. The examination of the girl's body by physicians resulted in the disclos- ure that she had been eriminally saulted. saulted the girl and on the grass half fired the shot that sent eternity. It is also recalled that Miss Davis while she unconscious her he (Hale's) brother, killed her brother, Roy Irby Hale, Davis, at ago, and for which he is shortly to be tried. While the Davises are not wealth people, they are highly thought of, and are closely related to some the richest people in this section. Hale {8 in Virginia and refuses to cross the state line. He was locked up in Virginia after the shooting be- diction. It developed later that the killing was on Tennessee soil. 40 YEARS TO DIG CANAL. Towne At Banquet. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). - at of Co.'s warehouse 15,000 bales burned. containing hamp, Was Stevenson $500,000 Herbert B. Walker was elected r of the 01d Dominion Steamship Compan} Rev. Ambrose W, Vernon, meuth, accepted the call to homiletics at Yale. W. R. Hearst filed five the Chicago Tribune $500,000 each. Miss Bertha committed ding day. Three the chair of libel of Canton, her wed- NeNally, suicide on indictments were returned R officers it the Brewster February its wreck of the night which 24 persons were killed The officials are Vice President Alhert H Smith and General Super- intendent Ira A. McCormick The Keystone Express on the Pean- sylvania Rallroad was wrecked near ifimerding, Pa when the engine and three cars left the tracks had the tracks apart Charles William Sohege, of the third husband the an of Ww torn Paul Pari . of jate sah a alla Eugenia Sohege, whose first was Moers foun of the Singer Sewing chine Company, has in the it Ringer Isanc 2 ged interest the Singer eo Capt. William cOm- manded the new cut when she st y - snnect! ruck a rock off the Monroe The undergraduate student body at of the former president's sev- or Fereign, Desperate fighting troops and peasants between the in Roumania bombarded by ! | Emperor Francis Joseph performed his usual Maundy Thursday cere mony at the Hofburg in washing the feet of 12 aged men, to whom he gave silk purses each containing Gen. J. Warren Keifer. of Ohio, at the annual banquet of the Pittsburg Board of Trade. Congressman James F. Burke, of this city, acted as toast- master, Congressman Towne spoke “Commercialism.” Ha referred to the Panama Canal by saying that he did believe the work would not be completed in eight years, but thought forty years would see its completion. Gen. Keifer's subject was “The Panama Canal.” He recently return- #1 from a trip to the Canal Zone, ind, speaking of health conditions, said : ‘It 1s marvelous—almost as mar- velous ag the things Christ taught In His miracles. When we arrived there we found a thing of death brought to life, Today it is aa healthy th Panama as It {8 in Pitts. burg. What has done this? We carried our great medical sclence.” A Victory For Cupid. New York (8peclal).——Dan Cupid sleaned up $10,000,000 on a clever turn in the marriage market, when Mre. Katherine Gelshenen, widow of the former president of the Garfield National Bank, announced her en- gagement to Henry J. Braker, an im- porter, pf thig city. When the bank- er died he left hig $10,000,000-estate to his wife, but provided that she would forfeit it if ghe married again, The estate will go to Mrs, Gelshenen's nen's children, who are grown. in mistake for M ter of the interior of Russia, was sentenced to four years’ solitary con- R. D. Holt, Liberal, was elected to the Hexham division liament, by & majority of 1,157 over Colonel Bates, Unionist candidate. Governor Magoon and United a report published that Mr. Stein- hardt was to become provisional gov- ernor in succession to Mr. Magoon. The full resources of the Commis- sary Department of the United States Army are to be employed in secur- ing supplies of food for the starving Chinese, Franee and Spain are arranging for a joint naval demonstration in Mo- roccan waters should such a ‘step be- COME ROCENsAry. The Hamburg-American company has taken over the Woermann Line's steamers, paying $1,250,000 for them. ¥. L. Laraway, alias E. L. Lee, has been arrested in London at the request of the Albany (N, Y.) police on a charge of grand larceny, The general strike in the Canton De Vaud, Switzerland, in sympathy with the strikers in a chocolate fac- tory at Vevey, iz extending. In a speech to the Japanese Diet Foreign Minister Hayashi sald the government would adhere to the principles of the open door policy. The strike of the longshoremen at Hamburg appears to be nearing a compromise settlement. TWENTY-SIX KILLED ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC Express Train Is Derailed By An Open Switch. MOST OF DEAD WERE ITALIANS. Disaster Occurred One Mile East of Col- ton, Cal. Players Were In a Special Car—Eighteen Bodies Recovered and Others Under Debris—Of 90 Pullman Passengers, Only Two Are Hurt. Colton, Cal., (8pecial).—A disas- trous wreck on the Southern Pacific occurred 1% miles east.of here, westbound Train No. 9, from for San Francisco, switch while going miles an hour. 14 coaches were when New Orleans into an open the rate of 40 Ten of the ralled. Twenty-six persons are known have been killed, and the final will probably total much higher. injured number about 100, many whom may die. The wrecked coaches were every direction and four mashed into splinters Most of dead were Italians from New York and New Orleans, going to San Fran. They occupied the smoker and coach. dead and mangled brought to Colto al ran at de- 10 1st The of hurled in were maimed Eighteen corpses were ! 1d eight addition und: terribly were ribl hodies goon wrneath not brought could was rrick 60 away injured were carried in vehic of all sorts, and the Colton Hospital was quickly filled to its ca- pacity Many taken to Presbyterian The here les were then jut two are known { have several of » expects da few ho of Muncie, Ind., The baggage- been within George 1, instant] urs nll “ ©. HIIMAD DAS ed serious injury eNEOrs onlytwo su Pulls tain throa 1 § nres ain- and the of conches the the CATS the Th practi- were on Tear track were leave not not of these unharmed Florence The Rober ipled one was hurl from the ends of It were crus pact against 22 members in} hurt The the others the company Roberts es of ured o~ r r escape f this death wa rom Car anner in and women of rel i which torn the m gplintered DOOR were Tn nia pl the ear other where the in the of Colton catas tha There were three tracks occurred, which is The fe no Hundreds h and ountry ¢ people s frat ¢ } ~ 0 he tified of the ok urried to and Bernardino geen physicians nurses ware ght from Ban ] ton MILLIONAIRE ENDS HIS LIFE. William A. Proctor Shoots Himself While In Bathroom, ‘flliam A. Proctor & einnatl (Special) Ww i president of the wy Ty} TaTvI iE ible Company firm's founders, died from a bul- Glendale, a suburb of this city. Nn announcement was made of his stated that death re- and it did not devel- it was sulted suddenly, #113 isi gsoveral himself in the head while alone the bathroom Mr. Proctor was widely known in business circles and was a prominent in the Protestant Episcopal Church, to the institutions of which wag a liberal giver most of which was made the had been noted for co-operative Blown Out To Sea. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special) of Mrs. Amelia Louis by the wind, among the promenaders Mrs. Louls was in a rolling chair, and took the money from her hand- baz. when the rubber band suddenly the bills went sailing the sea More than $100 In twenties and smaller bills were lost in the ocean. Strollers rescued the remainder and returned the money to the woman, who was hysterical The roll contained more than $3,000. Suicide On Wedding Day. Canton, O. (Special). Miss Bertha McNally, 28 years old, committed suleide Thursday by taking ecarbolle acid. It was Miss McNally’'s birth- day. It was also to have been her wedding day. She was to have been married to Emil Knolle, a policeman on the Pittsburg force. Six weeks ago Knolle was taken with pnen- monia, and died In a hospital in Pitts. burg. Since that time Miss MeNally has been despondent. Suicide For Love At 15, Springfield, 111. (Special) .—Hls love for a schoolgirl of his own age, Misg Nina Hocker, together with the thought that a rival lover had alien ated her affections, caused Warren Fulton, 16 years old, to shoot him- gelf. He died instantly. The boy took his life in front of the home of Patrick MeCarthy, a neighbor, in the presence of Mr, McCarthy's 8- year-old son. ‘The rival for the affections of Miss Hocker is James Campbell, 16 years old. - AN HEIRESS TO $60,000,000 Famous “‘Silent Jim’’ Smith Died on Honeymoon, James Hen- Wall Street had of “Bllent” Bmith, Kioto, Japan, some- time on Tuesday night. The of his death reached here in a cable dispatch. It was sent by the Duke of Manchester, who wag one of the Smith party. Mr. Smith was on a wedding trip with his wife, who was Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, and who was Miss Annie Armstrong, of Baltimore. Mr. Smith and Mrs. Stewart were married in Scotland last September and began a tour of the world with friends several months ago, leaving England on Anthony J Drexel’'s vacht Margerita The other members besides Mr. and Mrs. Smith, were Migs Anita Stewart, Mre. Smith's daughter, whose guardian she rame under her of from William Rhinelander Btewart, and the Duke and Duchess of Man- chester The party spent York ry Smith, to given the died sudenly Now (Special). whom name at news of the party, decree Amir from had Later met the tan reports India said, the party When Mr York enger there hich made gten Lo hed chill, Ww ha read BOeVere ide to yacht ngkong Smith had it sent back New party K a Yokohoma. to Kioto news that Mr suddenly iil ained in a cable di } Mr. Smith's offices here Duke of Manchester, that Mr. Smith was pas From 10 went The first Sm taken ateh rod cont 311 Monday at 1 on $3 Qe the said reat Was by and simply very |i sent Inherited Uncle's Wealth, Mr Smith, whoge fortune wa death, ir most of hi his of ited uncle, George the West, Alexander innel torestod cams q 3 3 ” 18588, wher sed then posse of a fortune of sever- l dollars al mi He well known to his businesg associates, but had (aor on was no role in society was Scotland, and cam to the Northwest, bul before hig death he had Lond plaved ive of BE A for Smiith A ba optatle Inter cago and sold his holding a great 1 ' lant ana, ry iy profi Alexander Mitchell opened a bank Marines and nein and charter of to accept 850 bank in these certificates tk called r more readily than of the st ates 1eY were als Railroad One Mr investments chase of a large am bonds. which he obtained at 20 and at par This single ment is sald to have netted him more than Mr. Smith never death the bulk went Smith's most profitable was a pur- int of Argentine of probably TT inves 10,000,000 profit married and at his of his great fort uno une Alexander Mitchell settled in Mil- Smith settled in New sending to Scotland for his nephew, James Henry Smith, and galing London to live for the rest of his life. with the exception of occasional visits to this country. Lewis’ Ashes, (8pecial) ~The adopted a request Won't Move Nashville, Tenn. Legislature refusing the Lewis, the famous ex- in Lewis County, Tennessee, where his memory. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Told. Fear is expressed in official circles in Washington that President Zelaya will follow up his success in the cam- palgn against Honduras by moving against other Central American states. The United States and Mexi- eo, however, do not consider this a time to Intervene. The prosecution concluded its evi- dence in the case of Binger Hermann, accused of conspiring to defraud the government. The executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools considered plang for elevating the standard, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, in charge of the Isthmian Canal headquarters, says there is no strike on the canal gone among the workmen. As the result of prompt action on the part of the Interstate Commerce Commission the rallroads of Indiana and Illinois have abandoned thelr determination to raise the rate on coal shipped to Chicago. W. D. Volk, a government land of- fice clerk, testified in the Hermann trial that he had been In the employ of J. A. Benson to expedite land Shted in which Benson was inter- ented, RULE 1S NOW BROKEN Troops In Honduran Capital, END OF THE WAR IS IN SIGHT. Secretary of the American Legation at Tegueigalpa Assumed Charge of the City After the Precitate Flight of the Hondurans and Held It Until the Nicaraguans Occupied It. Washington (Bpecial) Nicaragua has established a provisional g« Honduras and his rules at Tegucigalpa and the Hondu- ran eapital Instead of Intervention by the United States and Mexico, this Government will be asked CCOg- nize the new government which President Zelaya, by his conquest of Honduras, has established In the opinion of officials this ends the war. ment in | Zelaya, through representatives, to 1 ere, These the indicated at the State 3 tral American diplamats News of the fall of Tegucigalp: iy offi cial confirmation ip | Brown, ¥ Legation to G in this ment Te Wed ne 3 cupied Tuesday ) Honduran sumed charge aid and preserved order ments uation the develo Central in ie latest American dispatches HBT ¥ al i ¢ Bit partment J L, BOTS 1 Ca Ii i IUTras di nart- paich gucigalpa sday pr guan and - forces [ a ternal with government Definite bri treating witl $T ablisl ments of Hon + effort t« 20 ie d apparent 23 of the the it 1 ar YG one » parties to the co if ita established at Teg fieelf itrovery weigalpa can { hs it that seem provisional governmen ii affairs H intervention i Axe over the need There is Bonilia's enough of the for Hondura the fact indica and has heen that red Balvador wil ive fu r assistance to Hon that Bonlill reckoned wit} Mexican Amt } {arin tel he dispatches the opinion i= Creel confirm yressed a desl rica, and is anx- exert the has cace in Central have Ba 2000 2% g . influence in n lalvador Am to Mexico ling of Salvador w War iil dou Costa the action vent Guater in taking Honduras Salvador San army of the frontie: or fy Victories, The On Claims {By {gs concentrated 2a ivadan SRIVAQO]T Salvador 3 all the necessary It is stated her the contrary have been counters The Even the allowed tories of gus it is Salvador will to pul ah Presi 14 nt asserted that armi and Honduras have acting probably { account ) between generals, {le the Nicaraguan iz said to be well discipli the been together, {os ned POG SAVES BOY'S LIFE. Under Trolley Car. Cincinnati, Ohio (Special) A Bernard Lange, aged eight, | sfruck by a front of his home on the Springfield ! pike in Park Place. The animal saw | the approaching car, and [ailing | his attempts to warn the lad of | danger, grabbed him by the coat «ail and pulled him from the tracks | The fender, however, struck the | hoy on the back of the head, and | he received slight injuries The car was coming at top speed, | but the lad, who was playfully ing stones at his pet, did not lceive the danger. Motorman | rows, who was in charge of the car, {gat the brakes in a frenzied effort to check the speed of the car, but it had gained such headway that it could not be stopped in time, At the risk of being ground to under the car wheels, the Glendale street car in in toss pers aged to drag him to the side of the rails just as the car dashed by. Bomb Hurled At Admiral, 8t Peterbsurg (Special). —While Rear-Admiral Greve commandant of the port, was inspecting the slip in which the cruiser Bayan being constructed a bomb weighing five pounds was hurled at him. The mis- gile fell in the snow within two feet of the Admiral, but did not explode. The would-be assassin escaped. Poor To Get Millions. gt. Paul (Special).—The State Su. preme Court decided against Dr. T. BE. W. Villiers Appelby in a suit to obtain a share of his deceased wife's estate, which, with the estate belong- ing to Mrs. Appleby’s parents, amounting to $2,000,000 or $3,000, 000, was bequeathed in trust for the ald of the worthy poor in Bt. Paul Mr. Appleby sought to set aside an antenuptial contract and obtain a share in the estate as an Inheritance. The Supreme Courts upholds the antanuptial contract. is HON JAPS ARE TO BE BARRED (Special). Secretary Department of Com~ accordance with order of March 14 last, bearing on the of the immigration of aliens into the United fsgued a number of regula tions relating to the coming of Jap- aneges and Korean laborers to the continental territory of the United States. These are as follows “Aliens from Japan and Korea are subject the immigration Washington of the merce and Labor, in Straus, the executive ubject States, to IAWR, “Every er, skilled or admission at a se: border port of the having in his issued by the entitling him Mexico, Canada refud®d admission ay an Japanese or Kors labor- ] pplying for DoT a land [Tnited Btates, and { a passport of Japan, to be posse governim to proceed only or Hawaii, shall “If a Japanese of applies for admission no passport it shall pres that he presents umed (a.) he did from pasgport ant the United he not p limited Hawall POBgeEs at hig mn a pass ada and ort appv merce anda i.a conditions as atta ed under the laws ‘If a Japanese ed labore enforcemen laws to af these reg be taken and consideration see to it that | execution iiations 8 care tn soe tha the cn hich the de- 11 ot tment require pf a foreierners i of whatever: thosa affect "ry are ghown tc “ge gulations SELF-PERFORMED SURGERY. Aged Sufferer From Asthma Cats Her Throat. Philadelphia (Special) Fearing she was choking to death in an asth- matic attack, Mre. Eliza Pendelberry, eighty-one vears old, of 6031 Vine Street, gashed hor razor in an attempt to get her and in a serious Philadelphia hroat lies West Hospital Mri Hom Pendelberry who zon resides with James, been for vears a sufferer ft asthma. and 1 she has heen despondent over her has om 03 als her ailment About 10 a'elock A. M., was in the bath room o© and unable te summon grasped har shelf near The heroile effect, while she home tan ee son's razor lying her had able on a by and cut jeasure was n for she With biood pouring ‘rom her neck, she was removed to the hospital. There it is said amall hope ia enter. tained for her recovery, owing to the loss of blood and the danger from pneumonias, . Dover, Del (8pecial).—Dr. vin, father of Horace Marvin, aged four years, who has been missing from hiz home, near there for more than two weeks, deposited $1000 In gold with the eaghier of a local bank which will be paid for the return of the boy. Mar- Famine Brings Cannibalism. Shanghal (By Cable) The fam- ine-stricken Chinese have been prac- ticing canibalism in localities where the distress is most acute. The spread of fever continues and the heavy rains are increasing the gen- oral misery. Spasmodie rioting has occurred but the outbreaks have not been serious. The faniine relief or ganization Is taxed to the utmost in supervising the distribution of re- Uaf and in manaciag tha relief work
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