LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Domestic Acting Attorney General Hayden Clement, of Raleigh, N. C.,, has de- clared that his State cannot accept or care for John R. Early, of Lyun, N. C., a leper, now quarantiaad in the District of Columbia. The late Frederick Cooper Hewitt bequeathed $2,000,000 to the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, $1,600,000 to the Me- tropolitan Museum of Art and $500,- 000 to Yale University. Judge Vandeventer, in the United States Circuit Court at St. Paul, granted the injunction asked for by roads operating in Arkansas, and which prevents the enforcement of the two-cent rate. Some unknown person put dyna- mite in the chimngy at the home of John Silock, Laurel Hill, Pa, and Mrs. Silock and her son were in- jured. An effort made to have Harry K. Thaw transferred from the Pough- keepsie Jail failed. He will remain where he is until the hearing this month. Orville Wright mace a flight In thie aeroplane he made for the Sig- nal Corps in the presence of a num- ber of Army officers at Fort Myer. Mrs. O. L. Godfrey, wife of a wealthy Colorado Springs banker, is in Chicago being treated for rabies, HEADLESS BODY PACKED IN TRUNK Actress’ Limbs and Skull Found in Kitcken Range. BUTCHER KNIFE WAS THE WEAPON. Chester Jordan, an Actor, Forced by the Police to Open Trunk They Sup. posed Contained Stolen Silver—Is Overcome and Confesses—Declares (Special). — The committed In Boston, Mass. most brutal crime Greater Boston since the death of Busan Geary, a chorus girl, four years ago, and one much resembling it in its details, was disclosed by the discovery of a torso of Mrs, Ho- norah Jordan, an actress, aged 23 years, of Bomerville, in a trunk In a boarding-house at 7 Hancock Street, on Beacon Hill, this city. Later the head and boneg of the limbs were found in the furnace of the Jordan home, at Somerville, and the scalp, hair and other gruesome remains were taken from the kitchen range of the house, Chester Jordan, aged 28 years, an actor, of Somerville, is held by the police, charged with the murder, and according to the officers, he made a complete confession of the erime, According to Jordan's confession, he accidentally killed his wife in a quarrel at their home, and, becom- having been bitten by a pet dog. J. Plerpont Morgan and Charles | Steele have returned from a trip to | Europe and report conditions as | quite satisfactory. A panic in a Chicago street car | resulted in the death of a baby, which | was knocked to the floor and trampl- | ed upon. Chief of Police Woodruff, of At- | lantic City, claims to be on the trail | of a new suspect in the Roberts shoot- | ing case, declaring that neither jeal- | ousy nor robbery was the motive for | the crime, and that he expects to] make an arrest in a few days. Dr. Bellisario Arrutia Suarez, pri-| vate secretary of President Figueroa, | of San Salvador, who is In New York, | gavs there is no friction between his | country and Central American | republics, The Iron Trade Review of Cleve-| land declares August has been the! best month of the year in the iron business, and looks for a satisfactory condition of the industry by January 1, 1909, City Engineer Keefe, of New York, | gays the introduction of electricity in the operation of railroads tends to increase the amount of coal used, The Detroit investigat- ing the death of a woman, who was ag drowned, but who was found to have a broken the police are reported afterward neck. Dr. J. D. Burke, Teachers’ Traini N. Y., has returned from an gating trip to the Philippines The Pi UTE olice YU TA a letter help in identify ing the 1 with acid before principal of the at Alba investi- ns o MY ug School, . 5 ’ have f« which man Tr om he September Del., Gresha f m, Ww dow of 1 es bt ae Siates her £100,000, and threatened central viaduct and Nickle Plate Rallway bridge. A night of disorder followed trial of the suit for divor Rach- John of | tum} iumbper 0 the » of ne Cherry from Paris, Mo The Spanish ing, in annual ton, held a parade, men marched, Rear Admiral Glass, U tired, died at his home, Robles, Cal, after an months, A father and son were instantly killed in a collision befween an elec tric ear and a buggy at Pittsburg. | Foreclosure proceedings on the! first mortgage were hegun against the Pittsburg Wabash Terminal, Cherry, War Veterans’ meet- | encampment at in which Bos- | 6.000 at illness of two! N., re-| Paso | Foreign Lionel Sackville-West, the second Baron Sackville, dled in London. He was the British minister who, in 1888, was recalled at the request of President Cleveland. A sergeant of police and six ward- ens of a prison at Dorpat, Russia, were convicted or torturing political prisoners and sentenced to one year imprisonment, Andrew Carnegie has promised to give $60,000 more to the City of Glasgow, Scotland, for distriet ii- braries. He has already given $500,- 000 for the same purpose. Count Zeppelin will establish a company to facilitate the administra- tion of the $750,000 fund contribu- ted by the German people to aid him in building airships. Mrs. James W. Colfelt, wife of the son of the Rev. Dr. Colfelt, of Phil- adelphia, attempted suicide in Paris, as the result of a domestic quarrel. President Butler, of Columbia Col- lege, delivered the first of a series of lectures on “American Civiliza- tion” at the Copenhagen University, The civil court of Caracas, Vene- zuela, has found the French Cable Company guilty of complicity in the Matos revolution and fined it $5,- 000,000. ig Gustav Herzberg, a Berlin banker, who appropriated his customers’ funds, committed suicide, The French have been angered by Germany's decision to immediately recognize Mulal Hafid as Sultan of Turkey, and a war cloud is now hanging over Europe, Edward Harrison caused a panic on the London Stock Exchange by firing three shots from his revolver, He is believed to be insane, The Banange Creek Mining Com- pany, of Yukon Térritory, has filed a suit against the Governor of Cana- fa for $17,600,000, The Moorish tribesmen renewed their attacks on the French posts on ing desperate over what he had done, he went out and bought a butcher's! knife and hacksaw, cut up the body | He | then planned to take the steamer | Harvard for New York and throw the parts of the body overboard. The! that the Harvard was laid off owing to an accident disarranged his | plans, and he was obliged to hire a hackman to take the trunk to a Bos favorable opportunity. ! The discovery of the crime was Jameg Collins, who had in mind the numerous robberies which have tak-| en place about Boston recently, and, | surmising from its weight that the trunk. contained silverware, notified the police. Collins reported that he had taken the trunk from the North Station, it having come in from, Somerville on local train. The hackman stated he left Jordan and the trunk at 7 Sergt. Michael Crowley was detall- to go to house and investi- Jordan not in, but the shown the back room floor which Jordan and found trunk the tr L a8 not ed the was on had At second engaged, this time About ’ and was commanded trunk. Jordan alarmed, opene o clock retu did but le argun to the lock T up then and burying Crowley the Sergeant aghast open ing mass of hacked torso filling great while pieces of fl other parts of the bod; into the The was bespattered was no covering of any gtaggered back disclosure in wre hi lay a sicken- flesh, a part for the at trunk bef: m woman's of the the trunk, from eah were stuffed corners entire interior of the yl trunk with blo There: 8aort over the Jordan submitted to arrest protest and was led to sta- and locked up Giving his name and address. he declared body in the trunk was that of wife, and sald he was perfectly will. ing to tell everything roncerning the the For more than four hours Jordan was closeted with the police officials and time after time went over the horrible details Whi professing that he was dazed when the erime was committed, vet, by the clearness and consigeness of hig tale, it seem ed that whatever preceded the actual killing, the. most careful plans were laid for the disposal of the body and the covering up of the orime Jordan's story of the murder was substantially as follows: He stated that he was married in| September, 1604, to Mrs. Honorah | Eddy, whose maiden name was! O'Reilly and whose home was in Somerville He did not know who his wife's first husband was or what | had become of him. The couple! went on the vaudeville stage, Mr. | Jordan taking the part of a tramp | and his wife that of a nurse, in a sketch. They went first to Butte, | Mont., four years ago, but only re- | mained three or four weeks Later! they went to Chicago and appeared | in some of the smalled theaters there, remaining three months, About| three years ago they returned to | Somerville and took a flat in the house at 508A Medford Street, ! Mrs. Jordan, according to her! husband, had taken to drinking of | late, and he claims, was associating | with other men, and be became jeal- ous. It was in a fealous quarrel! that the trouble started which ended in the death of his wife. : Hargis Trial To Estill County, Jackson, Ky. (8pecial).—The trial of Beech Hargis for the murder of his father, Judge James Hargis, will be held in Estill County. Judge Adams granted a change of venue. le A lS dh Girl's Corpse Found At Sea. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special). Whatever mystery there was in the of Bouth Atlantic City, and Charles Bateman, of Philadelphia, who start- ed on a launch trip last Friday and were not seen again was partly cleared up Thursday when the body of the gir! was found by fishermen 15 miles at sea. The launch in which they started on the supposed pleasure trip was picked up Monday night, and fishermen believe that the the Algerian border. A GREAT CRUSH IN STREETS OF MELBOURNE Women Hurt in Crowds to See MeThourne (Special). —The streets of Melbourne late Monday night were filled with surging, good humored crowds numbering hundreds of thou- sands, all out to do honor to the visiting Americans, who arrived here on Saturday aboard the 16 great bat. tleships, and the scene challenged comparison with that of an election night in New York. The crush in the principal thorougfares was so great that many women fainted and several persons were injured. The entire day was set apart to jollifi- cation and the day will ever live in the memory of the inhabitants of Victoria. The federal government tendered a banquet to the admirals and senior officers of the visiting warships at the Parliament house, at which Lord Northcote, governor general of the commonwealth, and Prime Deakin made brilliant throughout which prominence given to the friendly feeling exists between the commonwealth and the United States. Rear Ad- miral Sperry, commander-in-chief of the American fleet, replying In half of the American Navy, declared that a rupture between the English speaking nations would not only be a loss, but a crime, . Ablaze With Electricity. speeches, be- dor. All ablaze with electric in this respect being wealth state bullding and Bridge, of the Central where a striking (llumination picture of battleships was displayed The {lluminations on shore were held in conjunction with an electric notable common- Prince's lights, the th ne warships in the harbor. Earlier in the evening a plcture- sque torchlight procession was held, in whic metropolitan and county fire brigades, numbering about two thousand men, took part. The pa- rade started at the headquarters of the metropolitan fire brigade and was disbanded over Prince's Bridge. Rain began to fall at a late hour, CRURIDE A pred ret home- ward, The dense crowds converging toward the r station forced the women and children into perilous po- sitions, and many were ext with difficulty, after ng consider ably bruised Two persons were se. riously and se others slightly injured. The enormous i crowa Lo hk wilh 4 ie American h the . ipitate rea allway rion ta ricated bei X al VETal sailors the Prince's Bridge Yara River, and 3 ¥ 5 fh barriers were several po Formal Reception. Admiral Sperry nida s si ry haeol, sir Thomas sn-Carmi governor design the the EOver. *rince's shortly John Madden, leut mn at reac? nor, joined the process Bridge, which after noon and th Americans Admiral route was Here ouncilors ii A the govern a ihe govern oh "ry &* & the Mayor med the Gr entered jage. The ine prox CR. £ { weld an Sperrys carn throughout which sion threaded its was lined bj a dense mass of cheering humanity, and the popular wave of enthusiasm was continually demonstrated uniil was There a public reception was eral of Australia, in honor of the erous guests had been invited WASHINGTON | United Las W. W. Russell, formerly States minister to Venezuela, been Ecuador. retired, died at Fort Wyoming. resignation of Midshipman John 8. falsifying his score at the rifle meet a deal for Forti Daniel court martial investigaie horses and alleged usury at Wayne, Mich, where Col. Camman is in command. Immigration added 209,000 to the population of the country during the last fiscal year, Secretary Metcalf has returned to Washington after a three-month va- cation. Bids to build 10 new torpedo boats and 3 colliers were opened at the Navy Department. Secretary Stratis approved the ac tion of immigration oMcials at Boe ton, who held up a number of Mor- mon immigrants, Albert R. Johnson, replying to his wife's suit for annulment of marvi- age, denied that he was of negro blood. Francis Mooney, an American, was arrested in Salvador on tke charge of being involved In the revolution. ary movement against Honduras, President Roosevelt 1efused to pardon Willlam Dutch, colored, who is morving an eight-year-term for eraft was upset in a storm, stealing hia wedding dinner. CONSUMPTION T0 BE STAMPED OUT —————— Nearly Conquered Says a Philadel- phia Doctor. 300 PER CENT REDUCTION IN CASES, Conference on Tuberculosis on Septem- ber 23 Will Assist Greatly in Pre. venting Spread of the White Plague, Thinks the Physician — Delegates From All Parts of Werld. mmanernilBons Philadelphia (8pecial).—The pro- gram of the International Conference on Tuberculosis which will be held in this city this month, was made pub- lle by Dr. Lawrence ¥. Flick, of the Phipps Institute for Consumptives, and chairman of the conference, The International Con- gress of Tuberculosis, which wil] be held in Washington this month, will be under the direction of Dr. Flick. The conference, Dr. Flick explained Is an organization made up of rep head Poor all parts of the world, in 1602, The society when the first Since then conference has met yearly: Paris, In 1903; in Copenhagen, 1304; in Paris again, in 1805: at The Hague, in 1006, and in Vienna 1807, Its meventh session will Philadelphia this vear, to “Each year sald Dr. Flick, conference have had a of great strides made toward eventual conquering of consumption, and the conference this year will be remarkable for the telling of a prog- ress twice as great as has been made in any year before, “In Philadelphia alone, a reduction of 300 hag been made in the death rate of the last six months, from the same six months in the vear before The total number of deaths resulting from consumption last in the City was 3,600, and if the same rate of progress is kept up for six years to come, consumption will ed.” Asked {f, in his opinion, would be brought Flick sald: “1 am sure that less tuberculosis will be wiped is a wider knowl edge how prevent [tg spread. If we could everyone the sim pie methods of preventing con we could immediately stop all further progress of the disease, and in a few years it would be gone Thelr wide educational value 8 the reason for holding the national! conferences’ This Year we intend to h as many peo as through th in be in Eep- 26, gince ite inception,” sicry to Year be abolish this result ever about, Dr. in 15 years or out needed of {to teach red we Can « 0 25, i i undreds of apers oh He *4 throug srlands wa Russia, Sweder and Hangary £200,000 FIRE IN ATLANTA. Trunk Factory And Box Plant Burned. Are Atlanta fire here Sm sad m Atlanta ber and : dam- small wooden 7 sed 44 po buildings as estimated $2 at 00.000 The fire apread it was discovered alarm was turned in general a4 Darrow from residences, difficulty and it that the from many with great men kept the flames this street The burned t are on Madison Avenue, be Peters and Castleberry Streets, run back to the Central of Georgia Railroad tracks was Mother Poisons Children. Hampshire, Ill. (Special). — Mrs Matthew Rerna, of this place, pol soned her three children with carbal life. One child, two months old, Is dead, and the mother and others are not expected to survive. BShe left a note telling George, to be separated from her children. Escaped Insane Father. Durham, N. C. (Special). escaping from his Insane father, who, it is alleged, burnt the house to destroy his two motherloss chil Lambert Riley, who lives 10 miles from Durham, was held by the authorities and the young chil dren were sent to the Oxford Or. phanage The house was burned, but the children escaped. ~After Japanese Exhibition Postponed. Tokio (By Cable). ~The postpone. ment until 1917 of the Japanese In- be held In 1912, was officially an- nounced. It is due to economical reasons and to the lack of time to make proper preparations. ‘The date chosen ‘s the fiftieth anniversary of the accession of the Emperor. Kermit Starts On Hunt. Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special). ~The President's son, Kermit Roosevelt, who will accompany his father on the hunting expedition into the wilds of Africa, left here for a hunt of his own. «He will join John Greenway, the President's friend and former Rough Rider, who is now In. charge of the United Slates 8Bteel Corpora tion's mines ir, the lower Mesaba Range, and tog ther they will hunt over the big jame regions of the PLURALITY ABOUT 28,000. Vermont Election Does Not Forecast A Bryan Victory, White River Junction, Vt. Bept. 1, ~The Republican plurality in the Vermont State election seems to have been smaller by some 3,000 or more than it was four years ago, but the total vote was smaller, and the indi. cated plurality of 28,000 for George H. Prouty for Governor is taken as an earnest of a Republican national victory by the leaders. It 18 a common saving that it 25,000 In a Presidential vear a Demo crat will sit in the White House, and this test has been borne out in for- mer years Tuesday's results, however do not seem to forecast a Bryan victory, and the leaders are cheerful over the fact over the 25,000 danger mark 7,870 TOWNS DISCOVERED. They Were Not Officially Known To Mexico, Mexico City graphical appointed by the government seven ago t« map all of the towns of the country have just made report They make the astounding statement that discovered 7,670 whic} were not officially known to and which heretofore ha federal control. Many of (Special) .-—~The Geo Commission VEears their towns exist have thege towns are of i 5,000 them are sl recesses of the in localities far r dinary courses of tra: to 15.0060 people in the KILLED IN MELBOURNE. MANY SHIPS WRECKED ~ AND LIVES LOST Terrific Storm off the Coast of England, 28 OF BARK'S. CREW PERISH, The Amazon Ashore at Neath, Wales ~Island Steamer Vera Jean on the Rocks—Steamer Empress Unable to Land Passengers at Folkestone Furious Winds. London (By EwWept orms and the English, r Reports recely much damage wel en the £ $1 . ies iCwW at By A Train. {By Cable) several Melbourne been TRAMPLED TO DEATH. oe — Baby Killed During Panic In Chicago Street Car, lator after : woman and now held Prohibitionists Want Hughes, N. Y cial) A pro- ominate Governor Hughes, made at the State hibition nvention here, was posed by aron 8. Watkins, of Ohio the party's candidate for Vice-Pres ident. Mr. Watkins took thai ‘ke convention shouid gtraight-out party nomination addressed a mass meeting tonight Syraccee (Spe po sal Pro O3- the Bind . liant » ~ FINANCIAL Chesapeake & Ohio's gross eam : net profits fell $22,849, Cotton jumped about 10 when the Government report came out. The size of the crop is a little smaller than was expected An order for seventy-five pay-as you-enter cars hag been received by | i York. Norfolk & Weatern's July 765 and a net decrease of $145,985 Twenty-five representative raliroad bonds show an average gain of near. ly 3% per cent. over the price of the game bonds a year ago. In two weeks the number of idle cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad de- creased 8.000 As tabulated so far, rallrcads had a decrease of 18 per cent. earninre in April, 22 per cent. in May and 17 per eent. in June. estimates from a smaller number of roads put the decrease in July at 14 per cent. a } wore it has er to WATCHMAN RiILLS BOY. Frighten Fhe Fired To Him From Bullet Glances und, ad regte WOMAN BOUND TO TREE, Organist At Camp Meeting Was Un- All Night 5 Special ’ conscious O - Miss camp h. Buck- und and Smith's of the regain Columbus, for 5 organist for he Lake, who was found bi gaged and tied to a tree in Grove, about 300 feet bach hotel, Sunday night, did not coneciouvsness until Monday She had been drugged and sald she remembered nothing that happened alter 6 o'clock in the even- ing, when she was in Newark Miss Culp is 1% years old eve and the a far- ag no idea of the iden- geallants mer fhe | arike By Miners Called OR. Birmingham, Ala. (Special).—An trict was jssued to all the camps in it was signed by Presi: Lewis, Vice President White and Seeretaryv-Treasurer Ryan, of the United Mine Workers of America. American Wins At Golf. Newcastle, Ireland (By Cable). -- in the second round of the Irish open golf championship D. Grant, England for eleven years was $26.05 a ton and In the same time $26.22 ft ton in the United Stater. The aver age tariff duty on rails in this coun try in those eleven years was $7 84 a ton. ‘ B. F. Yoakum figures out that | American rallroads were to charge as high freight rates as they do it cronsed $4,000,000,000, He falls te state, however, that in England or twenty-second hole. “Pay Of Big Loan, New York (Special). The Trust Company of America, of New York City, upon which a sensational run was precipitated during the financial panic of 1907, has managed its busi ness 80 successfully as to be able to pay off the loan of $25,000,000 which it then effected in its entirety. The company, in point of assets and Habilities was the second largest in the country, and the run which it swiftly than in America, thereby add ing to the cost of carrying it. ever known in the history of Amer jena. wr
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