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