KIDNAPPING OF
A MILLIONAIRE
Mine,
WAS ABDUCTED FROM HOUSTON,
He Had Disappeared and His Family
Had Been led to Believe He Had
Been Drowned—When Found He
Declares He Has No Knowledge of
What Occurred,
Houston, Texas (Special).—J. E
Webb, the operator
who it was supposed drowned
while bathing at Galveston four
months ago, was found by his wife a
millionare oil
was
working in a mine at
He
He
count
few days ago
Joplin, Mo.
back here.
cohorent
pened
Detectives
ploved after
pearance
ducted
carried "to a small place
Louis, where he was Kept
armed guard for al time.
he should have been abducted
body can explain. If he was
ducted his abductors ver
ed a ransom of his family,
friends, and nothing known to
have hapened that would lead other
men to abduct him and expose them-
selves to imprisonment
All that Webb knows
ing himself near
he once worked in ¢
employment
weeks wielded
drill.
J
The
has been brought
is urable to give a
af of what has hap-
him last June.
his friends
mysterious
that Webb
Houston, drugged
to gince
whom em-
his disap-
declare was ab-
from and
near Bt
under an
nNno-
ab-
Ne
or
Of
is
is find-
Mo.
that
where
he sought
for several
or held a
there
a
owner of one of the
J. H. Putn who knew hin
ago, recognized him and
Mrs. Webb of his whereabouts
with a party
of Webb, went to Joplin after
Webb is guarded in his
detectives are i
peculiar case
his wife, but
with the statements
“I don't remember
happened after I
1 Humble
last,”
found my
near Joplin, Mc I was
plight and had
“Where
know I
murder
of oil operators,
OIE
ie
v
still workin
He
this
drove
fron on the
’
19
the
er developed All of
facts will soon come oul
FLIES “OLD GLORY" AND DIES.
Blind Veteran's Last
Patriotism.
Pa.
Spangenburg,
fell
Act One Of
Carlisle, { Special)
blind
dead with
window
Grand
from the
honor
here
Mr
his
to
himself,
swung
breezes
roo
Hardly
a difficult one {«
he back
room, where
daughter
of a
Si fio 111 3g a vederan fey i
would attends
country's flag
after 9
daughter
the fiving hi
and shortly
starry
from
o'clo
ee banner to the
the window of hia
had he concluded his task.
ir a blind man,
dead on the fl
he was
when
’ tt
fell oor of his
found by his
Loving Two Girls, He Dies.
Savannah,
by conflicting emotions caused by
his love for two girls, Frank Cox,
years old, committed suicide
Cox was enraptured with a girl at
Ellabelle, Ga., his old home. S8he!
was his first love, but at Thunder-
bolt he met another charmer. Then |
he became the football of Cupid. |
Time and time again he tried lo!
decide, but each effort was useless, |
and left him as fond of one as the
other, Between the new and the
old he could make no final selection,
80 he determined to end his misery
by death.
(ia {Special ) .—Torn
oe
2H
Wedding Not Off, Is Report, ;
london (By Cable).—The Dally
Telegraph's Rome correspondent says
that be is able to state on the high-
est authority that the wedding of the
Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Elkin
will certainly take place very soon
Steel Magnate Dies,
Wheeling, W. Va.
John Richard Robinson, one of the
oldest fron and steel magnates
the Ohlo Valley, and for many years
manager of the LaBelle properties,
is dead, here, aged 78 years, He
was born of Quaker parents in Phil.
adeiphia, and came to Wheeling in
1866, After engaging in farm work
for many years he entered the em-
ploy of the LaBelle and afterward
was prominently Identified with oth-
JAPAN DEMANDS
IN EXPLANATION
China's Course May Result in Serious
(C.ash.
Tokio (By Cable), —
that
Skirmishes
followed the refusal of the Chi-
nese war office to permit a detach-
ment of Japanese soldiers to pursue
a band of Chinese marauders across
the Korean line into China bids fair
to lead to serious complications be-
tween China and Japan.
Unless a satisfactory explanation
is made of the refusal, the Japanese
in several Northern Korean garri-
sons will hereafter disregard bound-
ary lines in thelr clashes with the
Chinese
The Chinese attacked the
station in Kantao, occupied by
nese soldiers who were sent
protect the Koreans, and
fighting that followed the
routed, geveral
police
Japa-
there
in the
Chinese
had been
to
were after
killed,
The commander of
requested permission
Chinese border, but
the
to
was
Cross
it refused
king for an explanation
SUDOEN DEATH OF
University,
Dr. Daniel Coit Gil
emer
versit)
of his Misses Gilmar
sisters,
Ct.,
1 |
Q CIOCK
Norwich,
of hi
His wife
Gilman,
him whe
mm
sald
ailernoon
Was
“Use
n
1 ’ ath wv 11 ey
In the death of 1 Giiman
passes one of known men
ational and the cele-
newest
For
had
BANDIT KILLED IN BATTLE.
Posse Follows Thieves To Mountains,
But Loses Them.
{ Special.)
A
has robbed
band
num
Gordon, miles
was overtaken by a
in the alo Pinto
the baitle that er
and an
the latter escaped
60
of Dallas,
iff’ posge
in
bandit was killed
but
unhurt
Mount;
vins
sued one
other wounded
with the
band
{ne
members of the
0 ie
¢ " at
{ the Hi
had his left
The dead bandit
is unidentified Nothing was found
in his pockets. His comrades prob-
ably his papers and valuables
posse
1
grazed by a bullet
took
Sneeze Canses Paralysis,
Wilmington, Del. (Special)
Coyle, aged 55 years, while standing
the street, sneezed so hard that |
he burst a blood vessel In his brain, |
and as a result he is now at his!
home unconscious and paralyzed |
from head to foot. His condition
is 80 serious that he is not expected i
to live. He has not regained con- |
sciousness, and the physicians have
been unable to stop the flow of blood |
John |
Forty Dollars A Minute.
Suffolk, Va. (Special). Mrs. Rosa
Stone of Myrtle, Va.,, was given a
$400 verdict against the Norfolk and
ed to ride seven miles In a “Jim
Crow” car with negroes. She asked
for $1,000. This is the only case
of that sort ever tried In Virginia.
The jury allowed her $40 a minute
for actual riding time
$1,000,000 For Hospital,
New York (Bpecial).-<It was an-
nounced that James 8 Kennedy, the
New York banker, has given $1,000.
this city, of which he is president.
The money is to be used In cone
struction of buildings. Other gifts
made by Mr. Kennedy and previous-
ly announced are $500,000 to Co-
lumbia University, a $600,000 build
ing for the United Charities and
$250,000 to the School of Philan-
or sjeel interests here,
91 PERSONS FLEEING
FROM TRAIN PERISH
Blazing Forests Scene of Terrible
Catastrophe.
SKULLS FOUND IN CAR'S RUINS.
Stopped by Burned.out Culvert, Refu.
gees’ Train Starts to Back Out of
Fire, But Rails Spread Under It and
Flames Close in From Both Sides-
Careless Hunters Blamed.
Detroit (Special).
with
Twenty-one
dead, others
missing and probably dead, a dozen
known scores of
more who escaped with life but were
badly burned, two small towns wip-
out, many others in imminent
danger, scores of farmhouses burn-
od, millions dollars’ worth of
property destroyed-- all this is a
day's record the forest! fires In
Northern Michigan That greater d«
ed
of
of
throphy,
uction of property will
that many more lives have
is practically certain
known to dead were all
Metz township, Presque
been lost
Those he
residents of
Isle County, in the
t ila
( death
refugees from
wis
the
of the
them were
f
yf furnace
families yf
have
and
whos
rods of
f train
consume
re’
known
Mowick!
couple,
town
wiped
wife,
Was
hip are {0
John
aged
within ¢ PCW
Out,
an
relie
were
and
BOI
cinorat
Ciaeia
8 i
ed
were not
rents
For Life,
more
which
gs doe seen
managed to get
of the relie
women
with men.
household
thai
bodies
remuoant
a
“2 Hi fits ]
share
Union
the
Pa
biggest
iz buving
coined
ieee
pleces
or
Philadelphia
The rumor of an in
000.000 in Cheasapeake
stock was officially denled
Connellsville coke ovens
18,26 and out
&
$10.-
rease of
&
blast
bias!
in
number of
19,309,
Output
>
ay
min
2] 8
2b,
of the Newhouse
in Beptember about
000 pounds over the August produc
tion, or & per cent
E. H. Harriman,
Charles Steele and
bly were
Erie,
Mr. Harriman says over his own
gignature that the Erie shouid be
electrified for its suburban business,
but he says he cannot state definite
Ream,
Twom-
of the
N. B
H. McK.
re-elected directors
The Portland Company, of Crip-
Ms fourth
dividend this year, making the dis
tribution $480,000 In 1908,
Bankers who purchased the $14.
000,000 Southern Pacific refunding
4 per cent. bonds announce that all
of them have been sold.
The receiver of the Monica mine,
of Arizona, has made a clean-up. It
amounted to a MfAfty-pound bar of
pure gold
According to a statement Xt has
filed with the Stock Exchange, the
Pennsylvania Railroad in the (welve
months gnded June 30, 1908, earn-
ed more than 10 per cent. on its
capital stock. .
Unfilled orders on the United
States Steel Company's books, which
reprosent business in hand, have this
vear decreased 60 per cent, as com-
pared with last December. Earn-
ings for the September quarter are
etimated at $24,000,000, compared
with $43,000,000, in that guarier
last year and $18,229.000, which
AUSTRIA MAKES
A NAVAL MOVE
Six Warships Are Anchored Near
Montenegro,
Cettinje, Montenegro (By Cable)
Six Austrian warships
off Bpinza, in Dalmatia,
of Austria-Hungary. They are not
more than 10 miles from Antivari
the sole seaport of Montenegro.
anchored
a crown land
l.ondon (By Cable) All the men
of the home fleet absent from thei:
ships on liberty have been suddenly
recalled. Insomuch as the reason for
this has not vet been ascertained
the order has caused considerable ex
citement.
(By
turbed by reports of Bulgaria's
Constantinople
Di
mili
Cable)
tary activity the Porte has ins
Turkish representatives
call this matter
the powers, and
Turl will decline
respons ty should Bi
her
in hostllitie
tructed
abre i
fe !
the as
i lo
af
that
the at
to state
10
to take the
iigaria’s per
gigtence In present attitude re
sult
NO ULTIMATUM SENT.
A
Bellicose
(By Cab
agent
Intentions,
Paris le)
the diplomatic
receipt
which
current her
Bulgaria has
is in
Sofia
{ Paris,
from As
rumors
purposes
of sending an
or of ordering furt}
her forces
le os f 11 YY
Uitimg
outiook for a
with
{ regarded in
{ sured through
Tis ed
UTES
DIPLOMATS DISPLEASED.
Handed Action.”
i disagreeable
produced In
natives;
longer
their consuls
0 £020)
sod By
+s
a Lae
that
ndependence
i1lled the so
ch exempted
+
The di
BOMB STARTS HOTEL PANIC,
Wrecks Bear Of Building And Emp-
ties It OF Guests,
iAny persons
ed out hed
fled In
ie stairs to
tholr nip?
thelr nig:
ui reet fol
but
the
the :
engines
wan
fire
blaze
owed the explosion,
re called out and
extinguished
Chief Shippy was
ified and ordered a e of detec.
ves fo investigate Within a
ie a number of arres!s were mad
t proved alibis
SOON
immediately no-
KUED
aged
LOCKS JEWELER IN VAULT
TiN At leisure
Pass Store,
Thief Robs
While Crowds
Wellsville, N. Y. (Special)
by
Then
Lock.
in his own vault a smoolh
Fred Ward, a
of this town, mourns the loss of §57
from his till while scores of
towns-people promenaded the street
before his store,
Ward was alone in the store when
the stranger entered and asked for a
box of cartridges. As Ward entered
the vault where they were kept the
door was slammed upon him, and the
theif, sweeping clean the store till,
fled. Within a few minutes Ward's
muffled yells brought a crowd. He
shouted the vauit's combination
through its door, and was released,
but the robber was gone, leaving no
trace.
leading jeweley
Woman Fatally shot,
Chicago (8pecial) Mrs. Marie
Lange, wife of John Lange, janitor
of a South Side apartment building.
«sas shot ‘and - fatally wounded.
Noighbors who had ueard sounds of
a quarrel followed by six shots,
found ghe woman in a pool of blood.
The couple is said to have come to
this city from Pittsburg three weeks
ago. The police are searching for
Lange,
Blown In Air By Auto Tire.
South Norwalk, Conn. (Special).
—«When an automobile tire explod-
ed J. Bentley Hadley, a New York
Broker, was thrown backward a dis-
tance of 20 feet and seriously in-
Jured.' He was picked up uncon-
scious, and it was found that his
nose was broken, and one ear near-
iy torn off, in addition to severe
brujses. Mr. Hadley discovered a
nail in one of the rear tires of the
machine, and was removing it when
was the poorest quarter of 100%
[HE SUPPLY OF PULP
15 INEXHAUSTIBLE
Testimony Before Congressiona' Com-
mittee,
NO ONE KNOWS ITS
Hillowner Declares One
Hritish Canada Contains
Forest From 200 to 300
Long — Committee Would
lariff,
EXTENT.
ef
Spruce
Miles
Reduce
fection
Minneapolis,
facts
of
Digging for
ber supply the
WINE an unusua
timber supply of
f
cmoritiee of
examine
to
were
reiation
Mi
B
iles Wood,
les And M
§
Of
3 t
don’t
lieve anybody knows
Do
exhaustible?
iI bel
inexhaustible
“"
know if
You
Lynch explain
of the nion
ing timber land
were advertised
rights were sold
der
Domi
to
brought
timber we i
After that
a thousand
acreage rental
gection The
the district in whic
ig situated and the guantily
timber on the land We do not al
ways cut it immediately, as we 0
ure that the increase in the growth
of the timber is worth the land rent
al we pay.”
WASHINGTON |
The last
us about 2
we pay an
$5 to 330 a
pends upon
of
sad
Price
i
A handsome monument erected by;
the State of Pennsylvania to the mem.
ory of Brigadier General Theodore
J. Wint, who died in Philadeiphis
last year, after long service in the |
Civil War, Indian campaigns, Span
ish War and the Philippine Insur
rection, has been unveiled in the N
tional Cemetery at Arlington.
Dr. Luis Anderson, of Costa 11
who was the president of the Cen!
American Peace Conference, held
this city last year, had a conferen:
with Secretary of State Root on
tral American affairs,
President Roosevelt has referred
to the War Department the open let
ter recently written to him by First
Sergeant Mingo Sanders, of the
Twenty-fAifth Infantry, a battalion oi |
which was discharged without honoi
for (alleged participation in the
Brownsville riot.
The suger industry has reached
the most critical period of its his
tory, and it is now the center of a
great conflict in the Brazilian bus.
{ness world, in which producing and
refining Interests are at war, writes
Consul General Anderson,
#
A BIG MOB LAYS
OIEGE T0 PARLIAIENT
Women Suffragists Lead Crowd; of
100,0C0 People.
i raoutld nd
mont made pri
riage to Miss
in Pittsburg
Alice
Apri
Of
Then
Alo
Hinself,
{Spec
Shot Sons,
ial) i
to tv
his twy
shot
moitally wounded
and killed
the raged;
Goldsberry,
). Seaman, a farmer, went
school,
aged 10 and 12
one of them dead,
the other and then
himself. The cause
#8 not known
.¥
called
yoars
shot
of
Eleven Are Reportod Killed,
Tokio (By Cable). in the en
counter botween Japareep and Chi
troops ar Kanta, according to
information received here, eight Chi
nese and three Japanese soldiers
were killed. The Chinese are sald
to have been the aggressors.
Kills Girl And Himself,
Des Moines, Iowa (Special) —1lar
Bright and Esther Cook, aged
years, of Shenandoah, dead
aa the result of a double tragedy in
which the youth shot the girl and
then himself The girl waz aid
to have been in love with DBright,
but was soon lo testify 1 a case
against the young man and his sis
ter. Bright toek the Cook girl tn
hix father's house, barvieadsd ihe
door and slew the girl and hizwsell
oy
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