THREE PERSONS KILLED
Motorcar Struck By a Fast Express
Train,
MEMBERS OF THE PARTY DEAF
Charles J. Root, His Mother and Her
Sister Dead and Mr. Root’s Sister
and His Niece in a Critical Condi-
tion — The Family Prominent in
Connecticut.
MANY MOTOR DISASTERS.
Auto struck by three
killed, two injured.
Auto goes over
chauffeur saved
wreck.
Cigarette sets
chauffeur burned
ing an explosion.
Auto dashes into telegraph
pole; one man seriously injured.
Explosion on motorboat; two
| killed and five injured.
!
i
train;
embankment;
from burning
anto ablaze and
while prevent-
Great Barrington, Mass. (Special).
~—An automobile containing a party
of five persons from Bristol, Ct., col-
lided with the New York-Pittasfield
express at Ashley Falls crossing, near
here.
Three of the motoring party were
killed and the two
fatally injured. The dead:
Charles J. Root, 40
automobile manufacturer,
instantly killed.
Mrs. Root, his morther. died from
injuries while being removed to
Pittsfield by train.
Miss Roberts, sister of Mrs. Root.
Miss Mary Root, daughter of
Charles J. Root, removed to the
hospital at Pittsfield, where her con-
dition was reported as very critical.
Miss Katherine Root, aged
niece of Mrs. Root, knocked uncon-
scious and suffering from internal
injuries.
The express train was going near-
ly 60 miles an hour, and the auto-
mobile was
rate, The accident occurred on
crossing which is almost at right
gles. The driver is deaf, and
Root claims he did not hear the
until the crossing was reached.
ple on the car say that
had been racing the
about half a mile. A part of
automobile was carried 50 feet
the wreckage was terrible.
other
of Bristol;
a
car
the
express
Ct.
here
Bristol, (Special) .—News
received the
Ashley Falls, Mass., resulting
death of Charles J. Root:
er, Mrs. Joel H. Root.
ter, Miss Candace Rob¢ and
probable fatal injuring of Mr.
sister, Miss Mary Root,
Catherine Root
The party left here at 8.3 A.M
for a trip through Lenox. Lee
the Berkshires. All the members
the party,
little girl,
thought here
the train may
to them for
Only one brother
Root) is left here. H
of Catherine, and
almost prostrated®
Root was a manufact
ing machines
registers He
old. Mrs. Joel
67 years old, and
Roberts, two years
were very prominent
Revolutionary stock
Wi
of catastrophe
in
his mot!
ais
and her sis
rts, the
toot's
and
0
were deaf, and {t i
t the ¢
tha
tha
not
tha
have
reason
(Theodore CC
father
wife are
Mr
le e is th
nd
To rief.
r of count-
kinds and of
about 45
Root was
her sister,
Younger,
being
of
was
H about
All
of
here
the
tevolu-
was 8
state through her writings for
Daughters of the American
tion, of which society
member.
ha
she
Dashes Over Embankment.
Atlantic City, N. J (Special).
Dashed embankment by
sudden swerve at a turn in road
between and Mays
Landing, a big automobile, in
James H. Hook. of Lancaster,
and his two sons were driving
Atlantic City Townsend
turned turtle and threw the
into a gulley
The Ch
who was
the accident occurred
under the overturned
caught fire, and was on
death by the arrival of
brandt, a who pried
heavy m from the in
over an
the
Pleasantville
te fot
0 Inlet
three
ley
auffeur,
idling
the
car,
only saved from
tha
the
jured
o
farmer,
chi
nine
All
four
njured,
being roasted
of the car were
recover.
occupants
but will
Cigarette Sets Auto Ablaze
Atlantic City, N. J
cigarette butt carelessly tossed |
the body of an automobile stand-
ing at the foot of Virginia Avenue, ig-
nited a leaking gasoline tank and
cafised flames to shoot high in the air
subsequently destroying the machine.
after calling out almost the
fire department of the city
Hazel, a chauffeur for a New York an-
tomobilist, saved an explosion by
shutting off the flow of gasoline, and
suffered severe barns on the hands
and arms in congequence
{ Special).
P. A
Fatal Melon Feast,
New Orleans, La (Special) The
body of an unknown young man, ap-
parently 17 years of age, was found
in Pearl River at the mouth of
Halidays Canal. The young man
had gone into a watermelon patch
nearby where strychnine had been
put in the melons to stop depredating
prowlers. The stranger got hold of
one of these, and when Se went to
the river to quench the thirst caused
by the poison fell over dead. No
identification was possible.
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.
Officials of the telegraph companies
claim that the general strike order
did not affect them, The men claim
that 5,000 telegraphers walked out,
The Western Union and Postal offi-
clals say they are handling 75 per
cent. of their normal business.
J. Warner Hastings, aged 65, since
1864 an official of the United States
subtreasury in Boston, was arrested
on: a charge of abstracting three
$1,000 bills from a package contain-
ing $105,000.
Criminal and civil prosecutions are
to be brought against 18 men ac-
cused of graft in the Harrisburg cap-
ital scandal by the final report of
the investigating commission.
Five persons were killed and 10 in-
Jured in the collapse of a two-story
frame building at Fray end Chase
Streets, Chicago, Ill., during a ter-
rific windstorm.
KH. H. Harriman
reveal the inside
cago and Alton deal to the
state Commerce Commission.
William Waldorf Astor has inher-
ited $2,000,000 and a Newport villa
through the death of Miss Zela
Gibbes, an aunt.
A bursted water main shot
stream of water 60 feet high in
streots of Chicago and caused a panic
in the Stockholm Hotel.
Tax Assessor Henry Alexander, of
Absecom, N. J., has imposed a tax |
of $100 on wealthy bachelors in the |
community.
Four loaded meat cars fell from
the steel arch bridge over the Niagara
River Gorge in the Whirlpool Rapids.
ixperts for the Southern Railway |
{say that the two-cent rate law of}
North Carolina is confiscatory.
Forest fires near Hyannis,
have burned over a stretch
miles.
will
Chi-
Inter-
declares he
facts of the
{
a]
Mass.,
of nine
ING
{ FREND HERE wit
RTTLE. HEN,
ALWAYS DOES
FIN
A work train on the Long Island
Railroad backed into a crowded |
street car at a crossing on Coney |
its tracks and
trolley from
{jury of 18 others
federal
State
the
has secured a
tion restraining the
bama from enforéing
| a-half-cent Rate Law.
Winfield Marson, aged
i formerly a clerk in the
National Bank, of Springfield
was captured with $4,700 in
tin a dress-suit case.
While disturbed by a dream, Rose
aged six fell t of
story window in Philadel;
road
of
168 years,
Ch fcopee
Mass.
years, on
every Done in
body.
Samuel a
v under
of emt
Ins
atch
pp
Hulse,
held
a charge
500 from the Peddie
government
~
iii
lawyer,
is
will disy th
I
I
iu ilo
the
to
Over half a
summer
M«
as resuit ol the discovery
plot rookerios
and
Orchard,
raid the al
hundred
in Old
were destroy d by fire
The Pennsylvania Rallroad
equip its yard locomotives with
fighting pumps
Feder al Jud ue
B. C
aol
again
3 te
hotels
cottages
will
fl ron
ARs OO
Pritchard has
Beckwith from
st the North ¢
an-
bring
arolins
tor
eCOvYer
{allroad
for
penal
flect the
Company
ties failure to put into e
law
Manufacturin
2 WW Cent
service Commi
of the Interbor
Traction
New York
Coxey is
i investigation
Metropolitan
resumed in
General
Compans
other pligrimage.
The submarine Viper has complet
her torpedo trials at Narragan- |
Bay.
Fire and a explosions |
threatened the of the
{ Eastman Kodak Company's plant at |
Rochester,
The State of New Jersey's gift of
1a silver service was presented to the |
{ battleship New Jersey in New York
An eight-year-old boy was arrested |
New York charged with the com- |
ssion of a series of burglaries. i
i The government's vigorous action |
against alleged rebate offenders came |
ito a sudden stop In Chicago
| The steamer Adirondack was ds m- |
aged by fire while bound from New |
| od
gett
series of
destruction
n
yd
i
i
| 0
York to Albany.
S. B. Dodsey, of the Confed-
{ Gen. B
jerate Army, died at Cincinnati
Foreign, i
manipulation |
by the Chieca-
led with the In.
J A complaint against
tof railroad securities
{go and Alton was
terstate Commerce Commission
The fight in the building trades
for the open shop has apparently
i failed, several union leaders taking |
places with nonunion men i
i Proceedings are to be instituted
{in Chicago against the Hafrvester
| Trust for alleged violation of the
{ Anti-trust law,
| A general court-martial
{ Capt. Herbert J.
wil] try
Hirshinger, of the
Marine Corps, on the charge of neg-
lect of duty.
F. 8. Curtis, of Mount Vernon, .,
has been appointed chief clerk of the
Navy Department,
The Hottentot chief Morengo has
crossed the frontier into German
Southwest Africa and is causing the
German government much uneasi-
ness
The French and Spanish command-
ers at Casablanca are not in accord.
General Drude is expecting another
{ attack from the Moors.
The Esperanto Congress, in con-
vention in Cambridge, England, de-
cided to hold the next session In
Germany.
Two men have been killed and a
number injured in a labor riot which
occurred among dockmen in Buenos
Ayres,
A convention of German wine-
growers at Oestrich-on-the-Rhine de-
manded revision of the wine laws.
Fourteen passengers were drowned
when the American bark Prussia was
wrecked in Flindero Bay.
Governor Frear was inaugurated
at Honoluln,
PO
LY.
/ You Are
FINED ABQUT
STEEN MILLION ()
DOLLARS 7
SPYING
NS
The Recor
sits
ents
* AE
States
ed
working through
porations, PAY ~
rolls of
and
are 3
all the bi I's corpora
tt
Or
us
country
“In
are
3 » 5
aione it
spec
spe
al
railroads
men
and
and are
at
working
ghouse
ave
are
packin
watching
with a view
the corporation laws are observe
companies
letter aud spirit
th
these ing employes
]t
Spy :
stances men who have
ed have
positions
ent as
‘Une
heen removed
on
the
secret
of
the
wera employ
Wer npi
m spies
end
when
this
Justice,
army was
sald
could
the officials of
of
asked if such an
for the Governm
“If it were 50. 1
ent,
not tell
heard the
but 1
If such
Bureau
like
1 have
before,
under suspicion
statement made
of the
most
work is done, agents
fit.’
the
to be
"The
iy engaged in
rumor that Government
SHOT HER FATHER 10
Happens.
FATHER ACCUSED OF CRUELTIES.
George Wasser Opens Fire on His Wife
Sends for Revolver and Fires Four
He Returns Shots.
New York (Special)
dered his wife and was in turn &lain
by his daughter at the home of the
women, in Harlem. Wasser fired
upon his wife and then exchanged
shots with the daughter. The latter
was not wounded. Mrs. Wasser soon
succumbed to her injuries and her
husband died a little later. The
daughter was arrested. She assert-
ed that the father had persistently
practiced cruelties upon his family.
On entering the flat in Third Ave-
nue whee his wife and daughter
lived Wasser upbraided the former
had placed all
packing
Government
ah
a he
nt and that
empioved
reiuse
Rall-
(30Y~
werd
Whe
eclare
agent
WHE A
there
SARE A0 8
| Brown tired of
of corporations
mtiract of
act that
far by
wernment
given by
ithe alleged
“All
' seemed
| Bory
{ one
i 8 ©"
has been uncovered
TT ye
departments
Wrong
th
t Ge
the of the
bas
parties gullty
us
the
of t
crime
rallway officials interviewed
be convinced that Secret
ice agents were in their employ
official stating that under
| $tood the espionage extended to sta-
| tion work on the line of his road
"“ ‘If the Government is looking for
{old offenses,’ said one official, ‘they
| may be found, but I do not believe
{ the strictest system of espionage will
disclose anything willfully wrong on
the part of the railroads now. '"
been
of
evidence
»
one ae
to
he
He then drew a
several shots at
Langlotz,
i he annoyed her
i revolver and fired
his wife. Adeline
| owed daughter,
ter,
a revolver The little girl obeyed
and Mrs. Langlotz opened fire on her
| father
Wasser ran, his daughter pursu-
ting and firing several shots at him
a8 he fled from room to room Was-
ser turned several times in his flight
and fired at his daughter In the
parior Wasser fell to the floor. The
noise of the shooting caused a panie
in the h
tenants
gather,
{ser lying wounded
while the father lay
wounded in the head.
Adeline Langlotz and the little
daughter Annie were taken to the
| police station after the reserves had
| Bcattered a crowd of several thous-
ands of excited people, who flocked
{around the house. Mrs. Langlotz
| sald her parents had been separated
| for several years and that recently
| Wasser had tried to assault Annie,
| He was arrested, but not convicted,
i Frequently, she sald, her father
{came to the house and threatened
{to kill the entire family. Mrs. Lang-
ilotz said she believed she had done
| the right thing in trying to kill her
i father,
caused a large crowd to
in the parlor
Her Body In A Bos.
Chefoo, China (By Cable).
Adsetts, formerly a sergeant in the
United States Marines forming the
guard of the American Legation at
Peking, was arrested here on susple-
fon of robbing and killing a woman
whose body was discovered in a box
on board the British steamship Mont-
eagle at Hongkong. Adsetts was ar-
rested by the British sheriff, after a
violent resistance. Several thousand
dollars and a quantity of jewelry
were found in his clothes.
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD,
Selling of Lehigh Valley recently
has come mainly from New York,
Which last winter bought quite a lot
of it.
The street expects Morgan to be
a doctor for the sick market. If
he can cure it his prestige will be
greater than ever.
Right or wrong,
ists that the Stan
done about all it
the market,
the impression ex-
dard Oil party has
could to support
1 THE TONS EL
Some Interesting Happenings Eriefly
Told.
There was a decrease of 653 in
the number of court-martials in the
Army during the year, according to
the report of Acting Judge Advocate
General Porter, who also points out
the evil results of the Anticanteen
Law.
The War and
will co-operate to
service between
Francisco,
The two daughters and son of the
late Major Huntington, who were
shot by their brother Versailles,
are reported to be in con-
dition,
Navy
maintain
Alaska
Departments
wireless
and San
n
a serious
Empero:
Ischl,
Edward visited
Joseph of Austria at
with
King
Francis
and the two their
cussed political affairs
Admiral Philibert, in
the French naval
blanca, telegraphed that peace seems
to be assured
advisers, di
and
commana of
squadron at (
The House of Commons pa
Wife's Bill an
House of Lords
Joseph y 16 gre
man vic
The
settled
Deceased Sister d
it to the 0
it
fry i
lin Berlin
t
rike wa
discriming
made the Lehigh
tallway Company before the
Commerce Commission
Charges of gro
wore
lev
terstate
Val
In
by
against
ton, Pa.
The records
of Health show t single
contagious disease has in evi-
dence during the past six months
of the Bureau
hint
Man
Manila
not
been
i
employe
of Print-
heir
Humes, an
sureau
Miss Anna M
in the Government
ing, ie said to have f
{ estate of $1
Empl
nonunion
places vacated by
bullding trades
allen
OH G00 ann
ee
i he Yer
brought
returned
his desk
his
Taft
clear uj
starting on
ABIDES BY VERDICT
With
Becretary
ington to
{tory
Phili
aii
RUSS
No
to ty
the
of Revenge
Japanese.
War
as a link nn :
tional is removing
Far East
Agreemen
the
§ 9
believed
treaty
ie
Russo-Japanse
ludes a clause which has not
published, specifically defining the
r {f influence of the
two untries this clause it
is reported that a portion the
Sungari River is placed within Jap-
ans sphere, thereby modifying the
exclusive rights of pavigating that
stream which was conferred upon
Russia by the treaty Algun
wee 1
been
espective spheres o
co Under
of
of
OIL TRUST DIVIDEND,
Amount Declared So Far This Year
Same As In 1906.
New York (Special) At a
ing of the Standard Ofl Company
New Jersey held here a dividend for
the quarter of $6 a share was declar
ed which makes the dividend declar-
ation far this year 330 a share
The previous dividend was $9 a
share. At this time in 1906 and in
1 1905 dividends of $6 a share were
| declared, the same as this one, and
{ the amount declared for 1907 to date
is the same as for the period in the
past two years in the full vea:
1806 the company paid 40 per cent. :
in 1805 the same Its highest re-
corded dividend rate was 48 per
cent. in 1900 and 1901.
moet.
of
gO
Living In A Treetop,
Worcester, Mass. (Special). — Mr
and Mrs. Frank P. Felton have open-
ed a unique summer home in the
topmost branches of a willow tree,
30 feet from the ground. The house
consists of two rooms, one a sleep-
ing room and the other a sitting
and dining room. The roof walls
are entirely of duck, so that on par-
ticularly warm nights the roof can
be drawn up. Both Mr. and Mre
Felton are firm believers in fre«h air
treatment ag a preventive of all ills.
Shot Dead By His Wife,
Grand Rapids, Mich. (Special).-
James A. Conley was shot and kill
ed at §8 Commerce Streot this af-
trnoon by Madeline Conley, his wife.
The man came home at 2 o'clock
and found the door of the house
locked He was climbing through a
window when the woman shot him.
Conley ran outside and fell dead.
It is sald another man wag the
cause of the trouble. The woman
war arrested.
CRIMINAL SUMS
"10 BE BROUGHT
Harrisburg Capitol Grafters To Be
Prosecuted,
EIGHTEEN NAMES ARE GIVEN.
Gov. Stuart Says He Will Transmit
the Heport Immediately to the At-
torney General for Action, and As-
sures the People of Pennsylvania That
the Prosecution Will Be Vigorous.
Pa Both
criminal and civil
Harrisburg {SBpecial)
proceed
all persons concer ned
lent transactions in connection
the construction
| Pennsylvanis
re reco
a
of the
ransacti
eral, throug
ito
T
act a on
he
| whom
are recor
derson { hile
for furnishings
Philadel;
H. lewis
Bhumaker of }
uperintendent of 1}
i grounds and
and E. B
ore general
Frank G. Harris
urers; Congressman
president of the
no
foy
Ge
audit
structio Company
the metallic
George F.
cagings
‘ayne
partner
Boileau,
{Go rge
he capit
A Sapp
5 ’
He oO
¥
lemental Report.
net in whic! e sal
To Compel Restituti
} ansmit the 1
General for
“I will t2
Attor:
I can
vania
prosecution
ey
assure the
that
there
of
the evidence may
| guilty
connect}
furnishing o
“Wherever
shows that
money wrongfully or fraud
treasur)
{to ipel resti
of
submit-
any
tak-
uits
beet
ulently
civi
)
there
ted
*n from the state
be commenced
tution.”
Too Much Coal.
Reading. Pa. (8pecial
ported that
and Reading Coal and Iro
will order its mn
next week, and thes
but three davs
time The matter
ia few davs The
{ unusual
| age yards fo
the Philadel;
Com
here
n
collieries « haif
that wil
te rs
week for
will
compauy ha i
coal in ite
season ol the
doe
quantity stor
r this VOUr.
Another Yellow Fever Victim,
Private
Hospital {
Ro-
wes
| Havana Special)
land Shepherd, of the
tof the American Army,
{low fever at the militar
{at Cienfuegos. There has
{ other case of the fever among
| American soldiers. Three Ww cases
have been reported in the
city of
| Clenfuegos, where conditions are
serious
1
died of ©
1
been ane
the
no
Ostogenarians Marry,
wancaster, Pa. (Special) Amos
Miller, aged 83 years, and Susan
B. McClay, aged 80. were married
here They walked to and from
the home of the justice who married
them, four miles Each one was
married three times before Miller
lost two wives hy death and one by
divorce Mrs. Miller's former hus
hands dead
8.
are
Repydiated By Canada.
Montreal, Canada (Special) —The
report that Capt. 8B. © Young, a
Canadian, contemplated seizing Isle
Royal and raising the Rritish flag
over the island, apparently ba “cach.
ed the English colonial offic A
cable message reached the Canadian
Secretary of State from the Earl of
Elgin, colonia! seceretary, requesting
A statement on the case. The re-
port that Captain Young had any
designs against Isle Royal. or that
Canada in any way questions the
title of the United States