THE NEWS,
Domestic
A new indictment found by the
federal grand jury of New York
against F, Augustus Heinze, the cop-
per man and president of the Mer-
cantile National Bank at the time of
the panic, charges Heinze with taking
sums from the bank
2,250,000 between March 14
October 14, and misapplying
for his own use.
and
of New
a
Bank
to
National
crashed
the State
Orleans, which
| COLLISION CAUSED
| BY TRAIN ROBBERS
| Plundered Mall Runs Back Wild Into
Passenger Cars,
| lf
| TWELVE PERSONS ARE INJURED.
i Trainmen See The Collision Impend-
| ing And Place Ties On The Track
To Lessen Its Violence—One Of
The Bandits Is Said To Be An Old
Engineer — The Amount Of Their
Plunder Is Unknown, But It May
Reach $20,000—Deputics Are Now
In Pursuit Of Robbers,
i
}
74 counts in the indictment brought
ing laws.
Two of the five
the “Turpentine Trust’ case
Savannah, Ga., were sentenced
gerve three months in jail, while fines
ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 were
assessed in each
Frederick Zimmerman,
have been stealing eggs, was
and killed by Adams Express
pany detectives in Philadelphia,
Jacob Riis, of New York, has been
elected president of the Playground
Association of America,
Seven divorces in 28
the new record in
in
at
to
men convicted
case,
to
shot
Com-
gaid
was
dis-
minutes
the speedy
solution of the marriage bond set by
Superior Judge George H. Cabanlss,
of San Francisco,
The transport Prairie which ar-
rived at the Philadelphia navy yard
from Newport, will transport four
hundred men to the Isthmus of
Panama.
The New York Air Brake Company
filed papers with the Secretary of
State of New Jersey, increasing its
capital from $10,000,000 to $13,000,-
000.
The anthracite coal operators
elected as their representatives on
a board of conciliation: W. L. Con-
nell, 8S. D. Warriner and W. J. Rich-
ards.
Nearl Harris, a negro, is held in
Madison county jail in connection
with the killing of Charles Cheatham
at Brooklyn, IIL
Rifts in the south polar cap ol
Mars were reported by Prof. Perci
val Lowell from observatory at
Flagstaff, Ariz
More than 5,000 persons attended
the memorial services in honor ol
the late Henrich Conried at New
York.
Mrs. Alice Braun, of Waterloo,
known throughout the musical world
at Rose Ettinger, died in London.
Engineers in wireless telegraphy
will be trained in the engineering
department at Ohio State University,
Harry Allen, of Kansas City, was
struck by a New York Central loco-
motive at Rochester, N. Y.
Twenty men were blown to pieces
by the premature explosion of dyna-
mite in the stone quarry of the
Callalan Road Improvement Com-
pany, near Albany, N. Y,.
Judge E. H. Gary, of the United
States Steel Corporation, will present
a $100,000 Y. M. C. A, bullding to
the town of Gary, Ind
The New York Central Railroad
has paid $136,000 in fines for grant
ing rebates to the American Sugar
Refining Company
The aged machinist of Painesville,
0O., who claimed to be the mis:
Archduke Joharn of Ausiria, has dis-
appeared
A monument to Capt
who was in command
prison, was unveiled
ville, Ga.
Extraordinary large
mackerel are reported be
Henry and Cape Henlopen
his
at
A garden party given by Prince
Shimazu, of Japan, at Tokio, to Rear
Admiral Harbor, commander of the
third division of Pacific Squad.
ron, UU. 8. N., and Rear Admiral
Lambton, commander of the British
Squadron, was a magnificent affair,
The Berne copyright convention
passed its second reading in the Ger
man Reichstag, the copyright legis
lation of the United States being
sharply attacked during the discus
sion.
Lady William Beresford,
land, who died recently,
tate of $900,000, She was the
dadghter of the late Commodore
Price, United States Navy.
M. Lopukine, former director of
police in St, Petersburg, was gen.
tenced to five years’ hard labor for
being a member of a revolutionary
organization.
Only about 1.000 French govern.
ment employes in Paris are on strike
A discussion of the strike in the
, Chamber of Deputies caused
scene,
the
to
of Eng
left an es
The French government has made
Henry Vignand first secretary of the
American embassy at Paris, a grand
officer of the Legion of Honor,
The U. 8. revenue cutter Tahoma
arrived at Alexandretta to protect
American interests.
The new cable connecting Vene
zuela with
opened,
Portugal has a new ministry, with
enceslao De Lima as the premier
Earthquakes have been doing con.
siderable damage In Ecuador,
The first day of the postal strike
In France passed off without any
disturbance and without any serious
inconvenience to a4 government for
commercial service,
The report of a British .
mental committee reported pan.
American beet combination may
Prove dangerous to the British trade.
he Venezuelan government and
the French Cable Company signed
_ @n agreement in settlement of all
Outstanding difficulties.
The Emperor and Empress of Ger.
many exchanged greetings with the
King and Queen of Italy and Brindisi,
The appointment will be an-
Bounced presently of Marquis de
Villalobar as Spanish minister at
Washington,
”
-
Spokane, Wash
ern by six
and Mead, 12
sons were injured when the
motive and the mail car, cut
the rest of the train, ran back
after the bandits had ed
of an unknown amount,
with the rest of train,
had been left standing where
bandits got possession of the
Having taken the detached
car down the track a
train
between Colbert
passenger
per-
off from
bo
i
the whic!
consideral
istered mall, and, reversing the
gine, sent the locomotive and the
mall car crashing back into the pas-
senger coaches,
The conductor
backing down
saw the wild
the track
Cars
25 i
a tie on the track to stop their flight:
but the cars, though partly stopped
by this means, plunged into the
coaches, throwing passengers from
seats, cutting them
from broken windows. A trainman
nerved to the task sprang
the locomotive as the collision
their
OC
ping the havoc.
When the train reached Colbert
While the engine crew
this work two men
cab and, thrusting a revolver against
the bodies of Engineer Wm
and Fireman John Hill,
to do as commanded.
and the fireman
mail cars cut
of the train by four
The locomotive and
were then run the
miles, Then
fireman were
cah,
Two of went
door of the car and ordered it open-
ed. Their command was obeyed t
Benjamin F. Stumpf, mall clerk, who
was hurried away from the
with the enginemen, by a dozen
volver shots,
Mamming
The
complied,
off from
other
the
and
were the rest
robbs rs
mail car
track a few
and his
leave t
up
up
the engineer
forced to
Lhe
the robbers to the
3 ¥
CATS,
the locomotive them-
selves, the outlaws took the mail
cars down the track and looted the
registered mail. Then they started
the locomotive back toward the rest
of the train and escaped
Conductor C. IL. Robertson had
a brakeman cut in the telegraph wire
to send word to Spokane While
he was busy telgraphing, about a
half hour after the locomotive and
the mall car had disappeared, he
saw the powerful locomotive career
ing toward the coaches In which
many persons were asleep, as
robbers had acted quietly in seizing
the mall
Many
nothing of the
ed by th colli
Lae
the
Car. *
passengers knew
10ldup until awaken-
of
HEARD HIS FUNERAL SERMON.
Man, Told He Is About To Die, Calls
In Minister And Friends,
Ind
as E
On his
Years
meral sermon preach-
(Special). —
88
Gas City
deathbed,
old, :
ed. After having advised
his physician that he could live
a few hours m Mr. Burns sum-
moned his minis Rev, Henry
Schwan, and forty of his friends and
neighbors and asked them to give
him the satisfaction of attending his
funeral service in his bedroom.
Hymns were sung and Mr. Schwan
preached a sermon after reading the
eighth chapter of Romans. After
the service the sick man
stronger,
delirium.
Burns,
been by
only
A Magistrate Murdered.
Weston, W. Va. (8pecial).—Bilood-
trail of Charles B
escaped
ly killing Peace Justice William P.
Moss, of Stouts Mills, near here
Townsend,
to prevent
tis wife,
Night Rider Juror Suicide,
Union City, Tenn.
Mansfield Haroldson, one of
jurors before whom the eight Night
Riders were tried here last January.
8ix of the accused being sentenced
to’ hang, committed suicide. His
body was found hanging in one of
the outhouses on his farm. His mind
Is believed to have been unfalanced
by brooding over the trial
Earthquake In Montana.
Great Falls, Mont, (Bpecial) A
| distinct earthquake shock was felt
here at 9.15 o'clock, and it was also
| felt at Choteau, Havre, Wagner and
other points, showing that it prevail-
ed generally over Northern Montana.
While no serious damage was done,
the shock was sufficient to spill arti.
eles from shelves In stores, and there
was some breakage of glassware,
—-
Saved In Their Cellars,
Kansas City, Mo. (Bpecial) Five
members of the Kekstrom, supposed
to have been killed on their farms
near Hollis, Kansas, in the tornado,
and Charles Quance, a ranchman
who wns believed to have suceumbed
near Larned, Kan., escaped unharm-
dM to tornado cellars. The fact
became known when wire communi-
cation was resumed with these
points. The known dead from the
ttorm- in this Yi of the Southwest
Is three and the injured 55.
{ ad
Canvas Takes Fire and Pandemonium
Reigns in Audience,
Accident At Corry, Pa., During An
Exhibition Of Cole Brothers' Cir.
cus — Heavy Poles Crush Several
Persons — Reserved Seat Section
Also Collapses With Struggling,
Shrieking Crowd — Mothers Lose
Children In Excitement — Tent.
men Work Heroically,
Pa. (Special).—~The main
tent of the Cole Brothers’ Circus blew
Corry,
moment's
AY, during
the big top
's for the
he same
at section
shrieking,
down, without a
t 8 o'clock P.
windstorm, while
rowded with spectiat
performance
the «
aown
a
was
evens
ing's
1ent
w
truggling
ran
panic
niire reserved se
and buried the
Circus
y1¢
crowd
it is
re than the 1d
ence.
A portion
from the gas
Cries fire
trugelis
f 3
{iO
of
lami
of and
caused the
gection CANVAaR
ferno. The canvas mer
performers,
holeg in
the frigl
conld
Corry
OF
worked H
the
ened
be
Fire
cany
Is ased
as they
The
people
reached
Department
ed out to assist in recovering possible
victims.
Among the injured are Mrs. By
Davids, struck by pole, seriously in-
jured; Chief of Police Stevens, sli
ly injured by a pole; Charles Tuttle,
city clerk, struck by pole, extent of
injuries unknown.
The damage to the show
TRADE OF THE WORLD,
al Commerce,
D.
for
the
1807, ac
Ll,
the
world
i
Washington, {Special).~—
A new record
of
was estab
1s ording to the
¢
hed In
abstract of v
the
Statistics of the Department
merce and Labor. This al
the total exports of the
and
year
imports at L000. 000,
Of this grand total the United
States accredited with 14.4
the and with
of the exports Ten coun-
tries contributed more than two-
thirds of the total. On the export
side the United Kingdom headed the
list with $2.,073.000, United
States coming next with $1,835,000,
Germany next with §1,629,000 and
France fourth with $1 On
the import side the United Kingdom
again headed the list with $2,143.-
000,000, Germany coming second
with $2,082.000,000, France third
with $1,201,000,000 and the United
States fourth with $1,194,000.000
Practically two-thirds this total
of international accredited
to Europe.
statistical nited
Bureau of
of
States prepared py
Com-
ract put
Hs coun-
in
and
Vario
world
0a O00
tries the
that
the (00a
is
of
per cent
Ter
per
imports 8.2
the
LRG. 000,
of
trade is
TONSILS AND TUBERCULOSIS.
Hear Their Ree
In Cure,
Physicians
moval Aids
Chicago (Special
Chicago
Wholesale
the
Oo tuber-
cutting out of tonsils from
throats of everyone subject t
culosis is advocated by the physicians
attending the fifty-fourth annual con-
vention the Illinois Homeopat
Medical Association
Tonsils clearly had no friends
among the assembled physicians
One described them as “things good
for breeding microbes.” Another de
ciared that no use for them ever has
been found, and the agreement was
general that their removal checked
incipient tuberculosis
“Twelve per cent. of the children
examined recently.” said Dr. Richard
Street, "were found infected with
tuberculosis. When
of hic
the |
“Rat” Saves Woman's Life.
Jackson, Mich. (Special). —A large |
of Mrs. Richard Frost in an automo-
Mrs. Frost and her baby were both
thrown from the machine when it |
Mrs. |
Frost, whose husband was driving |
the machine, struck on her head with |
into her scalp At the hospital the
surgeons who attended her said that
the “rat” saved her head from being |
Big Coal Contracts,
Washington (Special). Contracts |
ment for the transportation of be- |
tween 40,000 and 45,000 tons of
coal from the Atlantic seaboard to
the Mare Island and Bremerton navy |
yards. It is expected that much of |
the coal will be shipbed from Balti-
more, The New York and Porto
Rico Steamship Company will trans-
port six ship loade at the rate of
$3.30 per ton. Bowring & Co., of
New York, will have two shiploads at
$3.29 per ton. .
Danced Herself To Death.
Chicago (Special) Marie Fron,
20 years old, danced herself to death
in a public dance hall, according to
the verdict of a coroner's jury. The
girl possessed a frail constitution, but
waltzing wae a mania with her. She
was warned by her parents not to ex-
ert herself, but the music caused her"
to forget the warning and she danced
continuously until she had to be car-
ried cut of the hall fainting. She
died in a hospital;
TRUST MAGNATES ~~
ARE SENT T0 JAL
———————
Sentences imposed in Naval Stores
Case, 4
———————————
BOND GIVEN PENDING AN APPEAL.
a4 PP.
Three
Spencer And
Given
Judge
FP. BSchotter
Cooper Myers Are
Months In Jail By
While The
Men Are Only Fined—The
Will Be Appealed,
Case
- ver.
of judg-
Savannah,
ruling the
ment
Ga. (Special).
in
the
pard
guilty of
motion arrest
by
Hey
offered defense. Judg:
am B. 8S
found
gentenced the
'1 6h viol: ir
men Violating
the Sherman anti-trust law and In
cases Jjall sentences were im
posed
P.
board of
lcan Naval 8
tenced to
id to
Spencer Shotter, chairman
directors of
tores Company,
fine of
ne ¥
«SUN,
Ane
Coops Tr
Ameri
to pay
George
Naval
Was
fined
Moller, of . ki lle, Fla.
of American and
manager the National
Carl
the
of
general
$c
and Mr.
in t}
they
Years
B00.
Myers
was fined
Shotter
to
jail
the
Mr were
terms
because
court two
had
Ago, en-
Mr. Moller's sentence was made
heavy because of his connection with
the Terminal vards Jacksonville,
where regrading and regauging were
alleged to have taken place,
The case will be appealed
United States Court Ap
SOON as ill of except
be prepared ertified
court A it of error cit
grounds was f immediately
wa
in
[841
Gf
the
5e ence
t the
! the
fense on Was a
in gum of $20
for all the defendants
were released per
nation of thelr app
must pay if the
and sentences stand will,
reach $1
defendants
separately Judge Sheppard
no long addre but
each man an opportunity
sentence should not be
a privilege of which they
small advantage.
The defense was reprogented by
W. W. Mackall, former J®ige Sam-
pel B Adams and Gen. Peter W
Meldrim. With Mr. W. CC: Toomer,
of Jacksonville governm was
stant District
erman
the
and they
dete
costs
tion
said,
The
i
they con
it
aon
sentenced
made
merely gave
to say why
pronounced,
took bul
wore
the ent
represented by Ass
Alexander A
torney
TO PLANT 1,000,000 TREES,
Pennsylvania Railroad Planning For
Timber Sappiy In Future,
The Penn-
planning to set
New York (Special)
Railroad is
1.600.000
of
have been
this spring m than
trees This will n
3,430,000
are
ake a total
trees, which
last three to
of the
in
in the years
for some
requirements
fies
planted
company's
provide
timber and
future
Cross
This constitutes the largest
try plan yet undertaken by any priv-
ate corporation. Heretofore the com-
pany’s forestry operations have been
confined to a limited area between
Philadelphia and Altoona. This year, |
however, 65,000 trees are being set
out on tracks of land near Metuchen |
and New Brunswick, N. J In ad-
{ores.
month 207,000 trees near |
Conewago, Pa. 186,000 in the]
vicinity of Van Dyke: 234,000 at]
Junction; 7,000 at Pome- |
The bare places in the locust tree
plantations, which were started some
years ago, are being filled in with
in order that these!
i
fence posts and other purposes. Of!
the trees that are to be get out!
this spring, 893,000 are red oak. |
40,000 Scotch pine, 28,000 locust, |
14,000 hardy catalpa, 14,000 pin|
oak, 5,000 European larch, 3,000
black walnut and 1,000 white pine.
Two Dead In Old House,
Gloucester. N. J. (Special) .—Ly-
ing side by side with their skulls
crushed, the bodies of James Purdy
and John Whitelaw, were discovered
in an abandoned tallow house here
by three boys. Nearby was a shovel
and an iron bar, both covered with
blood. Purdy, who was identified
through a letter found in his pocket,
recently received a money order for
$210 from St. Thomas, Ontario,
where he lived at one time. He was
an fronworker by trade. It is be-
Heved that he and his companion
were murdered by tramps.
ns ——
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE
#
Gold exports for the year now ap-
proximate $50,000,000.
Uncle Sam has $62,000,000 in na-
tional banks.
New York Air Brake will add $3.-
000,000 to its capital stock.
It cost Tonopah approximately
$8.50 to mine and treat a ton of ore.
Mont has made a
ment of $10,000
property $40,
[CAPTAIN PETER C,
HAINS FOUND GUILTY
Convicted on Manslaughter in the
First Degree,
On The First Ballot The Jury Stood
Six For Conviction Of Murder In
First Degree And Six For Acquit-
tal On The Ground Of Insanity
Result Is A Compromise — Be.
lieved Mrs, Hains Was Guilty And
That Annis His Fate,
But Barred Unwritten Law.
Deserved
A NUTSHELL
jury
killing of
at the
Flushing, L. 1.,
The penalty for manslaughter
lisher,
from one to 2f¢
The prisoner
nded the
i
NH unt « f gag
aX until sentend
{ first degree is
imprisonment.
immedi wo
of the
ately rem
sheri
HUrors were
while the oth
The jury,
sliberations at
ready to bring
o'clock
Judge Garrelson was
Captain Ashmead
is hotel to convene
counsel
Hotel and
from
hurried
The
the
at-
Tav-
Court and
court
in
district
Olden
from h
Hains
Flushing
torney's staff
ve: ab 5 oy
rushed In fre
the
“Ye
meelf at
vai
the
£1
Lae
court
“Defendant,
rk
deadly
court cle
pale, h lips
reached out and, grasping
: in front ! rose io
his feet, He did not to need
any assistal and offered
any Slowly the prisoner turned his
head and directed his gaze at the
foreman of fury
“Have you agreed
dict?” the clerk asked
of the jury.
“Yes, we have,”
man.
“Manslaughter in the first degree,”
he added without waiting for any
further questions from the clerk
Captain Hains stood facing the jury,
squaring his shoulders, thrown back
in military fashion, as
Sunding recited the verdict As he
heard the decision of the jurors
face
tightly
3.1
the ta Vie of
0
the
upon a yer.
the foreman
replied the fore-
staring at the jury after he
heard the verdict. Then one of his
down
In striking contrast to the demean-
or of the prisoner was the grief of his
aged father, Gen. Peter C. Hains, and
his brother, Major John Power Haina,
sat
then broke down and wept The
trial, was not in court.
Now Killing Giraffes,
Nairobi, British East Africa
{8pecial), ~~ Theodore Roosevelt's
hunting trips continue to be success
ful. The animals that most recently
have fallen before his gun include
two giraffes and a rhinoceros. Ker
mit Roosevelt, his son, has succeeded
in bringing down a big bull giraffe.
Mr. Roosevelt visited the American
mission at Machakos. The entire
party will break camp near Macakos
and move to the Ju Ja ranch of
George McMillan. All the members
of the expedition are well,
Washington, D. ©. (Special).
“Uncle Joe” Cannon has given the
Senate a solar plexus because of its
enaillike progress in the tariff debate.
“The only thing that moves and car.
ries the previous question and brings
about a vote in the Senate,” he said,
“is from 96 to 100 degrees in the
shade.” It is now pretty generally
believed that tropical weather is the
upon its mill, leav-
inp the debt upon that
only h ‘of an
Pe
ISS
BLOWN SKYWARD
Premature Explosion of Dynamite in
a Stone Quarry. ‘
S——————
A THOUSAND POUNDS GO OFF.
Thirteen Holes Had Been Drilled
When Percussion Cap Accidens
tally Explodes, Firing All The
Charges—Workmen And Tons Of
Rock Hurled Hundreds Of Feet
Into The Afr —— Panic Reigns In
Village Half A Mile From The
Quarry — Fragments Of Unrecoge.
Dead Carted To
nizable Morgue,
At least
Snature
quarry,
id Im-
South
of
ynamite
Lie Vic
of feet
muli~
recog.
ng a
DOUG
been
hiil,
itives
Calla
furnish
building
day's bil
for six weeks
feet deep, had
about 20 feet
arry,
§4
ve Ww
Company
road
the
been d
DIE qu
were to
displace
namite
n i ie work
lace 500-pound charges
work-
percas-
scharg-
lowed,
the
were to have
men had 71
c of
the
the
hat might
The body
brothers, John
of the ledge, wh
had been drilled
ed. 50 feet from
In the pit be
displaced rock, |
brother
the
f the
there
was a
bod-
other
was left
charred
fog were
The be
2403 5
accident
The nine bodi
recovered are either
rocks or have been blown into such
| small pleces that it will be fmpos-
gible to associate them as bodies
J mem m——
wiso
A police census of the District of
{ Columbia shows a population of
343,006, including 97,142 negroes
| and 15,425 more women than men.
President Taft has written to
| Governor Stubbs, of Kanses, resents
{ing the effort to use him in the fac-
tion fight in that state
! The body of Rear Admiral Charles
8. Cotton, U. 8. N., retired, was
{ buried in Arlington National Ceme-
| tery,
| Employer of the navy yards will
be given half holidays on Saturdays
during July, August and September.
The meeting of the National As-
sociation for the Study and Preven
tion of Tuberculosis was concluded.
The Porto Rican Bill was taken
under consideration by the House
Committee on Ways and Means.
The Secretary of the Navy approv.
ed the program for the maneuvers
of the Atlantic fleet. :
President Taft was mustered in as
a member of the Associate Society 2
Farnsworth Post.
The Senate Committee on Finance
has decided to leave crude petroleum
on the free list. Mr. L. Duncan
Bulkley, a New York specialist,
visited leper Karly and took cultures,
Guinean pigs, rabbits and rats, and
like small animals, must be trans-
ported by express companios at mere
chandise rates under an order issued
by the Interstate Commerce Commis
salon.
Senor Eepinosa, the Nicaraguan
minister, presented to Secretary of
State Knox Pedro Gonzales, who has
come to Washington to settle the
Emery claim,
Rear Admiral Uriah R. Harris was
io assume command of the
we