TERRORIZED BY BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS Hold Up a Mail Train Just Outside of Denver, Col, ——— SCARE THE CREW AND PASSENGERS, Flyer Held Up In Outskirts Of Dene ver, Colo.~—Engineer And Fireman Covered With Guns And Ordered To Slow Down—The Mail Clerks Marched Out Of The Car—A Fusil- lade Of Bullets, Denver, Col. (Special). —'That the hold-up of the Denver and Rio Grande passenger and mail train No. 4, near Denver, was the work of three instead of two robbers and th~t the looting of the mail car yield ed the bandits posibly $35,000, 18 indicated by the investigation of the « police and railroad officials So far no tangible clue to the identity or whereabouts of the robbers has been . found. but it seems probable that the men came to Denver and are now hiding in this city. Eighteen packages of registered mail were secured, These included | five from Salt Lake City addressed | to Greely, Col.; Georgetown, Cal,: Waco. Texas: White Wright, Texas, | and Denver; one was sent from | Pueblo to Denver; one from Colo-| rado Springs to Denver; one from | Taylor, Wash., to Steamboat Springs, | Col.: one from Winfield, Wash. to] Sterling, Col.; one from Leadville to | Denver, and others from Glenwood Springs and additional Colorado towns, One of these packages Is said to have contained a large sum | of money, but until a thorough checking up of the missing packages is possible the exact amount lost cannot be ascertained. The hold-up was remarkable for its daring. It was carried out with- in eight miles of Denver, within less than two miles of Fort Logan, the United States military reservation, and at the spot where habitations are plentiful. Yet so thorough was the work of the bandits and so well | were their plans laid that they had | fully an hour and a half start of | the officers. i Search of the vicinity of the hold- up indicates that a third man, and possibly a fourth was engaged in the robbery, that a rubber-tired buggy | was in waiting for the actual hold-| up and the torpedoes and red sig- nal fires were used unsuccessfully in an attempt to stop the train be- fore the revolvers of the two men | on the engine tender suceeeded in| doing this. Amid a fusillade of revolver shots | from one of the robbers, while an- other forced the mail c¢lérk to open the door of his car. The second rob- ber then cooly searched every piece | of registered mail, threw the pack- | ages he desired into a sack and Jumped off. At the points of revol- vers the engineer, fireman, baggage- man and mail clerks were marched up the track, and then told to get! back to their train. The robbers | thereupon disappeared with their] booty. i i FOUND IT HARD TO DROWN, i Would-Be Suicide Swam Ashore | Twice; Then Grabbed Rope, i Chicago (Special). —Three times | Benjamin Martin, a farmer of Hope- | dale, Ill, tried to drown himself in | the Chicago River. Twice he swam | ashore. The third time he would | have sunk had not a policeman thrown him a rope. When taken out he became uncon- scious and was hurried to a hospital, where he recovered. He said he had grown despondent because of the loss of $100,000 in land speculation in Nebraska two Years ago, and because there is now a mortgage of $10,000 on his farm at Hopedale, WARNS AGAINST NEW TRIAL. Judge Tells Jones To Stick To Life § Sentence. Union, 8. C. (Spec’al). — W. T. Jones, who last Saturday wag found guilty of the murder of his wife, with recommedation to mercy, has been refused a new trial by Judge Memminger, The Court sentenced Jones to life imprisonment in the State Peniten- tiary, telling hm he would suggest his taking the term, for if tried again he believed it would mean his hang- ing. Jones received the sentence with composure. He has been remanded to jail. He will probably appeal to the Supreme Court, TO STOP KENTUCKY FEUDS, Great Meeting Will Start Campaign ; Against Lawlessness., Jackson, Ky. (8pecial).—A forma! call has been fasued here for a great mass meeting of delegates from the 42 counties in Eastern Kentucky to gather there on Friday, April 30, and take action to stop lawlessness in the Eastern Kentucky mountains, Strong resolutions were adopted at A meeting in which each county was asked to appoint five delegates, The resolutions state that capital has been kept out of the mountains by reasons of the fends, moonshine dis tilling and other lawlessness, and that such offenses must stop. To Bar Diseased Nursery Stock, Washington, D. ©. (Special). The House Committee on Agricul ture will report the bill of Repre- pentative Scott, of Kansas, providing for Government inspection of nursery stock at. ports of entry. It author fzes the Becretary of Agriculture to establish a quarantine against the importation or transportation in in- terstate commerce of diseased nur- wy stock or stock infested with in- inserts. Two American Claims Se:tled and Three To Be Arbitrated, William 1. Buchanan Succeeds In His Mission—N. Y. Asphalt Co, To Get Back Its Property. Washington, D. C. (Special).— Special Commissioner William 1. Buchanan telegraphed the State De- partment that he has signed a pro- tocol with the Venezuelan Govern- ment for the settlement of the dis putes between that country and the United States, Mr. Buchanan's mission has occu- pled a much longer time than was expected. What was thought would be a comparatively easy task proved to be a very perplexing one. The State Department officials, however, were patient, not desiring to have the impression created in Venezuela that an attempt was being made to force the issue. Questions of pride and national honor have operated to delay the successful outcome of the negotiations, The advices from Mr. Buchanan indicates that these have been overcome and the prospects are for an end of the long-standing dif- ferences between the two countries which led to the rupture of diplo- matic relations last spring. Mr Buchanan will probably come north on the eruiser Des Moines. MR. TAFT STANDS BY KNOX Him Eligibe. The Doubtful Judiciary Com- mittee—To Be Rushed Through. Washington, D. {Bpecial).— President-elect Williany, H. Taft's telegrams to Senator Hale, Speaker Cannon and Representative Payne urging that Congress remove from Senator Knox any constitutional dis- ability it might believe to rest the service of the Senator as Becretary of State in the Taft service in the Senate served to clear the atmosphere in Congress. Mr. Taft's telegram to Hale was as follows: New Orleans, Feb. 11, 1800, Eugene Hale, United States Senate, Washington, D. C.: I sincerely hope that Congress will pass a bill to remove any doubt of Knox's eligibility I have no doubt that a bill to repeal the bill increas- ing the salary of the Secretary of State will effect this purpose, and 1 sincerely hope that it will pass. | should regard the losg of Senator Knox from the first place in my Cab- inet as a public misfortune. William H. Taft, Senator Hon SAYS SERUM CURES PARESIS, In Ohio State Hospital Claims Notable Discovery, Massillon, Ohio (Special).—In his address at the sixth councilor dis- triet of the Union Medical Society at McKinley Hall, Massillon State Hos- pital, Dr. J. D. O'Brien exhibited four patients who are suffering from paresis and who have been treated with a recently discovered serum. All are inmates of the Massillon State Hospital. In the clinic, Dr. O'Brien told of the results of experiments made on patients by the use of the serum, which he had found beneficial, he gays. He told of cases at the Massillon been seu: away cured, but gave no names of patients. The foar inmates exhibited in different stages of paresis. It is proposed to test Dr. O'Brien's methods of treatment on these four subjects. were WELDING ALUMINUM, THEY SAY, Torch Of Acetylene And Oxygen Gives 6,800 Degrees, Cleveland (Special). — A torch, operated by oxygen and acetylene, radiating a heat of 6.300 degrees, said to be the most terrific known to science, has been invented here. By means of this torch it is possi- ble, it is declared, to weld aluminum, heretofore regarded as an impossi- bility. The torch makes a flame that will cut through two inches of solid steel in less than a minute, and plerce a twelve-inch plece of the hardest steel in less than 10 minutes, It would take a saw almost 20 hours to do the work. TO CALL CITY UNITED STATES. Halian General Would Commemos rate Ald From America, Rome (S8pecial). — The American relief party which left Rome last week, including Nelson Gay Dodge and Captain Mola, has reached Palm} and is doing good work, General Tarditl, the commander there, praised them for the way in which the expedition was fulfilling ita charge, and he has had the happy idea of giving the name United States to a new city which In time may rise and be a place of remembrance of the generous ald given to the pop ulace by America. A ek May Send Warship To Liberia. Washington, D. C, (Special).-. The State Department is considering the question of dispatching an Amer jean war vessel to Liberia, wher alarm is felt for the safely of British and French citizens employed in the customs service of the republic. Al ready the British Government has dispatched a war vessel to Monrovia a company of soldiers. The pres. ent situation, according to official ad. vices, may result in a ing of Liberia's 40000 miles territory COUNTED BY CONGRESS I ——— Official Record of the Election of Mr. Taft, A BIG CROWD WAS PRESENT Impressive Ceremony While The Vote Of The States Is Read In Joint Session Of The House And Senate, With Fairbanks Presiding. The Galleries Are Filled With Eager Spectators, Washington, D. (Special). — With impressive ceremony the closing scene of the presidential election was enacted in the hall of the House of Representatives. In joint session the members of the Senate and of the House of the National Congress met and counted the electoral votes for President and Vice President and declared the elec- tion of William Howard Taft, of Ohio, and James Schoolcraft Sher- man, of New York. After appointed by both houses, and representing both politi- cal parties, had carefully scrutinized the returns fromthe several states, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks tellers, in the electoral college 321 had been cast for Taft for President. 321 for Sherman for Vice President, 162 for William J. Bryan for President and 162 for John W. Kern for Viee President. Incidenthlly, the fact was recalled that it was the largest vote ever cast for candidates for President in the history of the United States, the re- cent admission of Oklahoma having added seven votes to the electoral college since this ceremony was per- formed four years ago The joint session began at 1 o'clock in the presence of a notable assem- blage. Admission to the galleries was only obtained by card, and these points of observation were crowded with the wives and friends of mem- bers, Mrs. Sherman, accompanied by a large party of friends, including Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Fairbanks and members of their families, were interested spectators, and the diplo- matic gallery was well filled with the of foreign govern- the process in the greatest republic on REPORT ON Washington, D. C. (S8pecial) The report of the Country Life Com- mission was transmitted by the President to Congress, accompanied by a special message in the course of which the President says: “At the outset | desire to point out that not a dollar of the public money has been paid to any commis sioner for his work on the commis sion. “Judging by 30 public hearings, to which farmers and farmers’ wives from 40 states and territories came, and from 120,000 answers to print. ed questions sent out by the Depart- ment of Agriculture, the commission finds that the general level of coun- try life is high compared with any preceding time, or with "any other land. If it has in recent years slip- ped down In some places, it has risen in more places. “There are three main directions in which farmers can help them- selves; namely, better farming, bet- ter business, and better living on the farm. Agriculture, which has rendered services equaled by no other simi- jar department in any other time or place: the state departments of ag- riculture; the state colleges of agri- culture and the mechanic arts, es- pecially through their extension work; the state agricultural experi- mont stations; the Farmer's Union; the Grange; the agricultural press, and other similar agencies, have all combined to place within the reach of the American farmer an amount and quality of agricultural informa- tion which, if applied; would enable him, over large areas, to double the production of the farm Not Better Crops, But Better Life, “The object of the Commission on Country Life, therefore, is not to help the farmer raise betler crops. but to call his attention to the op- portunities for better business and better living on the farm. Those A AB AAA a "IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE ———————— BE. H. Harriman made his debut a! a New York Central board meeting. A leading Philadelphia bank has bought a big block of Rock Island bonds for its own account, The $13,100,000 of Baltimore and Ohlo, Lake Erie and West Virginia refunding 4 per cent. bonds, which have just been sold, are a part of an authorized issue of $75,000,000, H. A. Kuhn, of Pittsburg, has is- sued an Hlustrated booklet entitled, “Qubstantial Prosperity,” which deals especially with the coal resources of western Pennsylvania, It contains many diagrams which are interesting. Great Britain last year bought $1,000,000,000 of new securities, France $400,000,000 and the United States $1,400,000,000. So far this year France has led, having bought $250,000,000 of Ruesian bonds In one block. English bankers say that the demand in London for new capi- tal {8 almost unprecedented. This has its direct effect n America, be- cause it has been thought that the Pennsylvania and possibly some other airaade woula sell i Jens in Eu e this year, Pp " Tt mariot is as good in the United ftates na it is In London and Paris. From Speeches Made At The Lin. coln Day Celebrations, “As the years roll by, and as all of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel an equal pride In the valor and self-devotion alike of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray, so this whole nation will grow to feel a peculiar sense of pride in the man whose | blood was shed for the union of his people and for the free- dom of a race; the lover of his country and of all mankind, the mightiest of the mighty | men who mastered the mighty days, Abraham Lincoln.” Theodore Rocsevelt. “The eloquence of Demosthenes | i and Cicero were no more nec- | essary to their work, and Lin- | coln deserves to have his name | written on the scroll with | theirs.” W. J. Bryan. : “In revering the name of Lin- coln there ig now no North or South, nor East or West, There is but one heart in all and that | heart the heart of patriotic America.” Joseph W. Folk. i "To Lincoln more than to any i other man we owe, and shall for all time owe, the joy, the power and the gift of grace of a mighty people joined togeth- ér as they never were before under one flag and one cove- nant of the law.” Gov. Willson, of Kentucky. “America had a Washington when i a Washington was needed and a Lincoln when a Lincoln could gave them.” M. Jules Jusserand. “It was Lincoln's dauntiess cour- : age and his clear thinking that fitted him to be the pilot who brought your ship through the | wildest tempest that ever broke | upon her.” Ambassador James Bryce. | “Lincoln was like some great in- | strument of humanity Wher- ever life touched him he #poke | back it8 meaning, gave forth fire to kindle its life.” Woodrow Wilson. “The South can and does without bitterness and in all sincerity join with all the people of this nation and all the people of the libera- the Abraham Lincoln, tor, the pacificator, American.” Gen. Luke E. Wright. COUNTRY LIFE in all commercial necessary, under conditions, to organize for mutual advantage of every progressive European coun- try have found in themselves combination they need, “It 8 not within the sphere ers cial life of farming communities. It is, however, quite within its power to use its influence and the machinery of publicity which it can control for calling public attention to the needs and facts. For example, it is the obvious duty of the government to {eall the attention of the farmers to | the growing monopolization of water | power, the farmers, above all, should ‘have that power, on reasonable ‘terms, for cheap transportation, for lighting their homes, and for ionum- erable uses in the dally tasks on the farm. “The government through the De- partment of Agriculture does not {cultivate any man's farm for him. { But it does put at his service use. ! ful knowledge that he would not oth- ‘erwise get. In the same way the na- (tional and state governments might put into the people's hands the new and right knowledge of school work. The task of maintaining and devel. oping the schools would remain, as now, with the people themselves, mit is that an appropriation of $25,- ; 000 be provided, to enable the com- mission to digest the material it has collected, and to collect, and to digest i much more that is within its reach, and thus complete its work. The commissioners have served without compensation, and 1 do not recom- ‘mend any appropriation for their ‘ services, but only for the expenses that will be required to finish the | task that they have begun.” THREE BLOWN UP IN TUNNEL —— UM Two Men Are Dead And The Third May Not Recover, Jersey City, N. J. (8pecial). Two men were killed and one was so badly injured that he may nof re cover by an explosion in the McAdoo tunnel, along the Hudson River, here, The accident is supposed to have been due to a prematiire blast, The three men were members of a gang engaged in building a spur to connect the two (unnels on this side of the Hudson River, Choked With His False Leg. Columbus, Ohio (Special) Using a strap attached to an artificial leg, Cornelius Cummins, of Columbus, 48 years old, farmerly a railroad engl neer, committed suicide In a room at the State Hospital, where he had been a patient for a few months suf. fering from melancholia. He had det one end of the strap from an artificial leg he wore and leaving he had braced hig foot against the wall of his room and choked himself to death, FIVE FIREMEN DEAD IN RUNS AT MILWAUKEE Perhaps a Dozen Hurt When Wal of Flaming Warehouse Fas, TWO OF THEM EXPECTED TO DI . Were Fighting Flames From Roof Of Structure Adjoining Building Afire When Wall Topples Over And Crashes Down On Men—La- borer Runs From Burning Build. ing Saturated With Oil From Ex- piosion, And A Living Torch. Died In Hospital, Milwaukee, Wis. (Bpecial) Five firemen were killed and about a doz- en injured, two fatally, by the top- pling over of a brick wall while they fought a blaze in the big plant of the H. W. Johns Manville Manufactur- ing Company, 225 Clyhourne Street An employe of the concern received in his death at a hospital The covered by insurance Two companies firemen were stationed on a wall and roof of the Waltham Piano Building, south of the H. W. Johns Manville plant without warning, the rear wall the Johns-Manville concern outward and crashed down men were caught under the mass of brick and timber, which smashed through the roof of the plano ware- house, carrying the firemen t» the floor below. The dead are: of when, of The fire- N. J. Whaley, lieutenant. Joseph Bilinski, pipeman James Burke: John Kraft. Of the injured Otto Ninmer. driver, and Jack McGeé will probably die, : The employe of the Johns-Manvilla who received burns from died at a hospital was Thomas Pitchs The fire followed an explosion of oil on the second floor of the plant of H T. Johns-Manville Company, which is a maker of pipe and boller The stock of the Charles Netsow Company, manufsciurers i i : i buflding, was damaged to WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Two of the American claims Venezuela have been setiled are to be submitted to for arbitration and three The Hague President returned his trip to Roosevelt tO House from Lincoln's birthplace Chief Engineer Goethals savs Panama Canal will be finished January 1, 1815. W. A. Clark, the by a special agent to investigate market conditions in The charges of corruption and connection with the Rainey recently the House were re- vived in tives, compelled to perform C. 0. D. serv. ice for, the liquor traffic was held by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. The Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads of the Senate practically completed consideration of the Post- office Appropriation Bill in a letter from Culebra to Major J. B. Cummin, of Augusta, the Presi- dent-elect praises the work on the Panama Canal. in his invocation Chaplain Cou- den, of the House of Representatives, paid a tribute to Abraham Lincoln. The Senate adopted a bill to repeal the provision raising the salary of the Becretary of State in order to make Senator Knox eligible to the premiership in President-elect Taft's Ferdinand C. Fox filed a complaint with the Department of Justice against the Confectioners’ Associa- tion of Baltimore, which he charges to be an illegal combine. A Benate bill was passed by the House extending the time for the construction of the Lake Erie and Ohio River ship canal. Senator McLaurin, in a speech In the Senate, upheld the President in discharging the negro soldiers who “shot up” Brownsville Labor leaders In conference with Secretary Strauns blamed the lack of guisloyment on the Immigration AWS. A review of the work of the Re clamation Service was given to the Jouse committee by Secretary Gar The House leaders have practically abandoned the effort to pass the Cen- sus Bill over the President's veto, The House passed the Agricultural Appropriation Bill as it was reported by the committee. : Secretary Newberry discussed with a committee of workmen in the Phil. adelphia Navy Yard his plan for the consolidation of bureaus in the Navy Department, wi The establishment of a children's bureau in the Department of the Interior is provided for in a bill which the House committee will re. port favorably. The Postal Bavings Bank bill was before the Senate d . most of Jia poke in opposition to not The Senate « tion of John D, Pringle, to be of merchandise & Hen FINE END FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT TAFT ’ New Orleans Does Herseif Proud in the Cuinary Line, New Orleans (Special), — Presi- dent-elect Taft again voiced his en- thusiastic faith in the ultimate sbe- cessful construction of the Panama Cenal in an address delivered at the dinner tendered him by citizens of New Orleans, . He reiterated his approval, in ac- cordance with the finding of the com- miseion of engineers who accompan- ied him to the Isthmus, of the lock type of waterway He was uproar- iously aplauded by his auditors when he expressed the hope that the canal may be completed within the four years of his administration, but pre- dicted that in any event vessels | would be passing through the chan- nel by January 1, 1915 Mr. Taft has avoided any stiate- ments which might appear as leveled in reply to utterances antagonistic to the present type of with its systems of locks and | Gams, that have marked recent de- { bates upon the subject the Een- ate The problem Answering those statements {8 to be left it is understood, to the chief engineer in charge of canal construction The banquet, at which per- BONE were seated, formed the culmi- nating event marking Judge Taft's i Viglt in New Orleans A feeling in- vocation was offered by Cardinal Gib- bone, who i# a guest of his brother. canal, ladders in Of Ir] REGGIO SHAKEN AGAIN. | Walls Thrown Down And People In A Panic, Reggio -A dulatory, (Special). vertical felt here at 8.35 violent, un- earth shock was P.M It lasted 10 #econds, threw down many damaged walls and caused a panic among the people, who fled from their huts ter- ror-stricken There were no fatali- ties : The shock was felt throughout Calabria Nelson Gay, of joston, and Ear! Dodge. secrelars of Am- bassador Griscom, who are engaged in distributing American relief here did their best to calm the alarmed populace Voleanic Eruption Getting Serious, Tampico, Mex The 40 em- lind Bocas, { Bpecial) acres or more which are a ireads ¢ y { the Ber urface o geyeen Geronimo braced in the oil and water the at Dos near have cave-in the San heer #1111 further enlarged by a on its which gives volcano a connection with the water of Lake Tamihauy The discharge of boiling water and oll was increased by the enlarged opening An enor- mous amount of pumice stone is be- ing emitted from the crater and it is claimed by scientists that these scenes are the forerunner of ap i eruption of lava east side Beaten And Choked, Washington, D. C | Mrs. Eolia Buckley was choked with {a towel and unconscious Lome here. After committing the { assault her assailant ransacked the | drawers of a buffet and stole a pock- | etbook containing $11. Mrs. Buck- ley received such severe treatment tliat she has since been confined to @ | couch in her home (Special) beaten until she was a burglar her by at 20,000 Wild Cheyenne, Wyo. (Special).— Mem. | bers of the Legislature have recsived { word that 20,000 wild elk are stary- | ing in Jackson County. The deop i now, covered with a hard crust pre- vents the elk from getting the grass beneath, and in their search for food they are breaking into the haystacks of farmers. Many farmers are said to be on guard day and night The Legislature will make some provis- ion for feeding the elk. Cow Died Of Rabies. Washington, D. C. (Special), — The death of a cow in the District from rabies and the exposure to in- fection of two men employed around the stable has been reported io the hea'th office. Steps have been taken to prevent spread of the infection. In the opinion of health officials the cow was probably bitten by a rabid dog some time last summer or fall. Big Icicle Badly Injures Two. Youngstown, Ohio (Special) —An icicle weighing between 200 and 300 pounds, which fell from the roof of the Haseltou furnace, struck Ray- mond Reagan, aged 17 years, and Pairick McCan, a furnace employe. Reagan it thought to be fatally in- jured his skull being fractured. Me Can was hurt about the back and shoulders. Both were taken to the hospital. AS UA. SAAS. 265 A Russian Horror, Yuzovka, Russia (Special). — An explosion occurred in the Catherine Mine here and it was followed quickly by fire. One hundred and twenty-five miners are imprisoned in the mine. An engineer and three workmen who atitempled to rescue the victims, have been killed. A NN OAS SBA NAAN. A Warlike Movement, Cettinje, Montenegro ( al) Twelve Aunt ToHunaarian vies have arrived at Spizea Bay, close to the Montenegrin frontier, and a cruiser is patrolling the coast. Aus. trian infantry wi machine guns also have arrived at he frontier be. tween Herzegovina and Montenzzro, A British rel # organization fe trying to transplant a race by
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