TEN PEOPLE KILLED IN X TROLLEY CRASH Motorman’s Neglect Causes Collision in Indiana. GOING AT FORTY MILES AN HOUR. The Other Car Had Beén Brought To A Standstill, But The Impact | Was So Great That The Two Cars | Were Welded Together And Many | Of The Dead And Injured Had To Be Cut Out Of The Wreck—The Responsible Motorman Killed At His Post. South Bend, Ind. (Speecial).—Ten| killed and 40 injured | in a wreck on the Chicago, Lake | Shore and South Bend in | Porter County, Ind., two of electric cars colliding head cording to General Manager H, Wallace, the wreck was due to disobedience of orders by Motorman George A. Reed, of the eastbound car, who was killed. Reed received instructions at Gary to wait at Wilson, a short dis- tance west of Baileyvtown, the point at which the disaster occurred, for the westbound ear to pass. The im- pact of the cars was so great that they were reduced to mass of wreckage. The eastbound car was going 50 miles an hour to niake up lost time, When the crash occurred the east- bound car was telescoped and almost demolished. In this train were all of the killed and most of the i jured passengers on the westbound rain escaping with bruises. The two cars were welded to- gether in a mass of debris, in which lay the dead and dying and two score injured. The cries for help caused a scene of confusion for many minutes, Soon, however, the cool- headed passengers brought order out of chaos, and while some converted the home of E. R. Borg into a hos- pital and morgue others rescued the injured. Darkness greatly the process of the rescuers, and to make matters worse nearest tel- ephone was nearly a mile away. All but one of the killed were the smoking compartment of the car in the front end. This space was crowded. Titus Kinzie, a real estate dealer, Cordius Kline, both of South left the smok- ing-room minute the crash escaped although suffered injuries. David Crawford, South Bend, related of the accident. “There were about car,” said Crawford. got on at Hammond. at the automobile races Point. Tired b the ng day of excitement, many of p gers were asleep Suddenly thet was a terrific cor Motorman George Reed was pinned between the vestibules of the two cars so that was impossible fo move the body. He had done nothing to prevent th The accident track.” . ’ persons were Railroad, big Ac- U. 1 a the on. a n= a interfered with the in E. and Bend, less than a came and the latter before death, severe of chauffeur S1Ory a a graphic 50 "Most having o # a ' i in our ¢ Of us heen + Crown out A O the passe ash. idly re apparently s col * 501 it r us to occurr the was hound motorman of said wien ‘ He added: car was nearing when I sdw the head] eastbound trai flashi tance. The train had to wait for my at distance west of Dune Park. 1 lized at once that the motorman the car had overlooked his orders I put on the brakes and brought mv car to a stop, while the eastbound car kept rusHing toward me. I tried to back my car, but ‘the air- brakes did not release the wheels and I could not move before the crash came.” Superintendent Welsh, of the In- terurban line, was in Michigan City when the accident occurred. but it was impossible to run electric cars to the scene because the trolley wires had been broken. Three physicians | Were sent in a gasoline traction speeder and three more dispatched | in an automobile. When the phy- sicians reached the scene they found scores of farmers and villagers rush- | ing about endeavoring to care for | the wounded and to extricate the | dead and dying by the light of a few | lanterns. Many of the wounded | were pinioned in the wreckage sol that it was necegsary to use axes, Officers of the Lake Shore and | Michigan Soythern Railroad told ai passing westbound train to take on doctors and nurses at South Bend und Laporte and put them off at Dune Park. Similar instructions | were given an eastbound train, | which brought assistance from Whit- ing and Indians Harbor. The New | York and Boston fast express of | the Lake Shore and Michigan South- ern Railroad stopped at Dune Park | and took aboard the wounded, who were carried to South Bend and La- | porte and placéd in hospitals, One of the heroes of the wreck was C. A. Simmons, of Benton Héir- bor, Mich. He lost consciousness im- | mediately after the collision. When he recovered his senses he was lying | in the sand’ near a ditch. Both of his legs were broken, but Dr. Axe. of Michigan City, reached him and tendered surgical aid, he refused it, instructing the physician to give his time to others more seriously injured than he. “My legs are broken,” he said. “but my head is all right and 1 guess 1 can stand it for a while.” that } the east " a IE th been Ore car Wilson, some rea- of i Battle With Burglars, Oxford, Mass. (Special). — Albert E. Milyer, 33 years old, a constable, and keeper of a waiting station news stand at Oxford Heights, was shot to death by thugs, who it is sup- posed were robbing a building ad- joining the station. A man who was identified as Frank Harding, of South Milford, was found later In the waiting room with a bullet hole through his heart. Miller's hand- cuffs were lying at Harding's feet 0 A SS AAT AB I 5 i WEARER I * JAPANESE TROUBLE ON HAWAII ISLAND 9,000 Laborers Present Demand More Of The Charged With Cone spiracy To Committ Murder And Incite Others To Crime — Futile Appeal Of An Agitator To The Jap- anese Government To Interfere | The Japanese Consul's Report Of The Situation, Honolulu delegates from (Special). — Forty-five the Japanese Union | $9,000 laborers, have just conciuded four days and nights. They resolved not to strike nor help the Oahu strikers, but to present a statement of their demands | and trust to the fairness of the! planters They ask for a 10-hour day at one dollar, for time and a half for overtime work and on Sun- days and for quarters equal to those of the Spaniards and Portuguese. | These demands will be presented to! the planters’ association. Following the eral of the Japanese strike the Territorial Grand Jury returned additional indictments against VY. Soga, F. Makino, M Negoro, . Kawamura, Y. Tasaka and Y a session lasting of leaders, ROV~ indictments mur- others to crime. was ACCUS and to incite indictment for assault Sugwara, who is attempting to collect funds strikers by violence. 'In addition these indictments 13 of the stri- g Japanese at the Waipalu plan- tation were indicted for attacking a police officer and rioting. As a sult of the vigorous action of authorities the strikers are much « pressed. The replevin brought cover the papers seized in of the newspaper Jiji by High Sheri Henry was dismissed. sul Uyeno 8 investigating leged destruction of t tor Soga, of the Jijl, which ken open by the authorities, Tokio (Special).——The report that the Japanese of Hawaii had appealed to Tokio, charging violation of trealy rights as an outee of the strike agitation In the is fact that the agitators who was arrested at Honolulu sent a cablegram a brother living in Japan requesting him to endeavor to the ROvV~ in of that brother conve vernment overnment der An against § 1 i found ¢ { of for the 10 Fh Ie th he a office ft Japanese Con- | the Of sul the al- safe Ed! was bro- he VEY EY ne tals 2 5 . islands, based up- on the one of to of In it secure intercession the his behalf spite Knew Was use- wved the appeal ernment the joss, fact he © tho to the A dispatch japanese consul at here Honolulu says is improving all men in the two distri e returned to work strike, fs a part wOrst received from £ 3 the and or strike situation that 8 sul savs on the ton ation of Japanese element among s who have their countrymen They claimed. {8 that been trying to dis they the Aaser $ increase bu JUrpose wages, r col. i was 10 money OBJECTS TO CIGARETTES. Admiral Schroeder Wants Them Bar. red From His Ships, Wash te ington. D. C { Special) ¥ smoking by the Cigarette enlisted men of the United States Navy should $ be di discouraged as much as possible in the opinion of Rear Admiral Sea. ton Schroeder, mander in chief4 of the Atlantic battleship fleet Ad- miral Schroeder desires to see a ban | placed on the habit and has recom- | mended to the Secretary of the Navy | that no cigarettes sold at the | ship's store on any of the vessels un- | der his command. It is probable that Meyer will take action In Admiral Schroeder's Admiral Schroeder began his observations as to the ef- fects of cigarette smoking by the jackies at different times while he | was executive officer of several of the | He believes that | cigarettes impair the health of the | com be accordance with recommendation, their efficiency for duty. GREAT CONVENTION HALL. | i Seat | Is Planning One To 45,000 Persons, (Special). — The convention hall in the three times larger than Square Garden in New York and four | Chicago largest | country — Madison | Chicago seum-—has been planned for Chi-| cago, according to an announcement made by Harlow N. Higginbotham. The building will be elliptical in form and, with slight modifications, be a reproduction of the his-| be known as | have a! of the] The building will exclusive seating more than 45,000 persons. Thieves Return $15,000. Seattle, Wash, (Special).—Mrs. George Shea, of Duluth, who noti- fied the police on May 230 that $20. 000 which she had concealed under the mattress of her bed had been stolen, has received $15,000 in a letter signed “Two Thieves.” The writers say they used $5,000 to fur- nish their home, and, having no fur- ther use for the money, returned It to‘the owner, Three Shot In A Feud, Fairfield, Ill. (Special). Charles F. Leininger, a veterinary surgeon and secretary of the Wayie County Fair Association, is dead at his home in this city with a bullet through his heart, Frank Bender MeCullough is fatally wounded and Richard Sloss is shot through the thigh, as the re. sult of a feud between several young men of the town and members of the Harrington Theater Company. The fight was caused because of the ate tentions the showmen have pald to the girls of Fairfield. RS — CORPORA BY P Washington, D. that an amend- to the Constitution conferring to levy an income tax be sub- and that an amendment to! tariff bill be passed imposing message advocating ment the companies, except national banks, an excise tax of 2 per cent. on their net income, Text Of The text the Message, The Bage is as follows: “To of President's mes- the Senate sentatives: “It is Pre sident commend VON EES and House of Repre- the of to of Constitutional from to the such measures NEeCesgary vel ny inaugural addres weceding this present session CoRgress, tion to the necessity tariff at the principles the referred to the ing deficit and ligation on the of the tariff bill BO to secure and gible kinds the time I'e Cons 8 shall fudge judg ar in | 1 1 { ’') I inary | atten m of ated ht i Of for i the session, and which 1 flected, rapidly increas el u the framers arrange the duty income thoug Or JOE 54 " rey d revision 1 paint oh- part to an adequate suggested that if to do so by of taxation ust among them 1 1 Inheritance in principle and as of collection. As it Wag not pos- new adopted recommended a LAX a&8 correct ertain and easy rt duties, be Income Tax Proposed, The “louse of Representatives has adopted the suggestion and has pro- vided in the i for the h tax in the Sen- ate the action of its Finance Commit. tee and the course the debate in- dicate that {t may not agree to this provision, and it is now proposed to make up the deficit by the imposition of a general income tax and of almost exactly ' game that which in the ve, Fa Loan and rust Company (157 429) was held by the Su; urt to a direct tax, and not within ower of the Federal Government is 1 it passed § ii t 1d of in form substance character af as Case Pollock rmers’ i. B Teme be therefore the the p oned to impose, unles 1 : DHO api Stato ” { - Soy or States according 8“ rei a the severa tc lation, 3 Pp Amendment Proposed. yf td Court d power cision « ie Sug deg yf 1 reme rive 2 iv 1 in the Income tax case National Gov which, reason o pvious ernment « Hy oy de. tui . f the & oy = 11 cisions of ths EF generally It SU PPOs d the undoubtedly Government 1 } be indispensable in great foun CONRIGET natural rises HAYES DOL vd amend- Et tt feration mendment r course for its eastabli ull extent 1 to the Congress that a two-third shall propose an amendment e Constitution ferring the power of levy an tax upon National Government me rop- iva sed 4+ tha v b shment to mend Doyasre 2 t s 3 ‘ f therefore recom woth v vote, » to th Cone income the WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH || An amendment considerably reduc- ing the duty on window glass was | adopted in epite of Senators Scott | and Elking, of West Virginia: Oliver, | i i It is certain that both houses of | Congress will adopt the Taft meas- | ures for a tax on corporation earn- | ings and for a constitutional amend- ment permitting an income tax. Quartermaster General Aleshire awarded contracts for 940,000 yards! of khaki duck for army tents. President Taft accepted Francis! E. Leupp's resignation as commis | gioner of Indian affairs and promo.’ ted Robert E. Valentine, assistant | I i The court allowed Holmes Conrad! as counsel $60,453 out of a judg The heirs got $10,848. Specifications were issued to pros pective bidders for the two 26,000- ton hattieships, i The battleship Michigan, which had its speed test off Provincetown on Saturday will be laid up for repairs for six weeks as the result of going aground. The Isthmian Canal Commission awarded a contract to the Keystone Powder Manufacturing Company for 9,000,000 pounds of dynamite, The government sent orders to cpl- lectors at Virginia and North Caro- lina ports to detain the steamer Nan- ticoke and the tug Despatch. Senator Clay, of Georgia, express. ed the opinion that Congress will be in session until August 1, and prob- ably until September 1, A new counterfeit $5 note has been reported to the Secret Service Bureau. , At the home of Francis Scott Key, author of the “Star-spangled Bane ner,” a facsimile of the Fort McHenry flag was raised. Lieutenant Commander L. C. Ber. tolette has been ordered to command the monitor Monterey at Olongopo. Lumber production in the United States was less In the calendar year coming 10s ‘epors Han’ by. he cording a repo ed Cenuus Bureau, i i i EE — without apportionment among the Second—The decision in the Pol- lock case left power in the National Government to levy an excise tax, which accomplishes the same purpose #8 a corporation income tax, and is free from certain objections urged to proposed income tax measure. Suggests Excise Tax, I, therefore, recommend an amend- ment to the tariff bill imposing upon | all corporations and joint stock com- panies for profit, except national banks {otherwise taxed), savings banks and building : ABBO- clations, an excise tax by « per cent net | of such corpor i an cise tax eo wwe of doing business as an ar entity and! of freedom from eéneral partner-| ship. lability enjoyed by own the stock, I am informed this character treasury of the than §$ decision in the case Refining 1 (192 {0 esin Buch a tax as upon privilege on property on the atious. ex | upon th or a § those 9 that a would per cent, | bring in-' United States 26,000,000, Of of of to the not less The Court Sugar MeClalr clearly the Supreme Spreckels against Bees the principle that a if An excite tax and not a tax and is within Fed- eral power without apportionment according populations The tax on net me is ferab to one proportionate BEIross the Company U. 8B, 397) direct the to ince pre percentage of the it is a tax failure it source af! the cor-| ae pay and to a because and burden time able casy receipts 8 upon 1m poss the SUCOCER, a income poration when Brings Another t at a when well in Federal merit of supervision in over is 4’ an iO collection Supervision. tax which to make annual of y ul this thei must be the law | arc counts | all cor- iy of as- has been | busi- | sub- the pub- | were | very : legiti- iaxa- 10 the is exercised effective and basiness transactions porations. While fa suming a corporate m of utmost utility in the ness true abuses order the t} Lilie fc 1 the world. algo is is he the that all the reform stanticily all and evils which He the made possible by the u faculty. I know, by a i mate and effect gVEtem tion, we are in , possess the Government stockholders and knowledge of the transactions and fits Every aroused necessity of th re have to of this tly of able and 5 | we rf ed vo tally ide RiiY [3 riot EP ‘5h ae Dub { the real business pro- of country toward corpora furthes : i Fig tie ad agopti 3 9 twWo-t to the States Constitu Government ion collect portio cording the énacim tance tax of ations excise tax upon 2 per ne iam H. Taft June 18, 1509 will The White House, Accidentally Confessed Murder. Columbus, O Shepherd, William negro, confessed by accident Columbus police that he is wanted Durham, N. C.. for murder He i is held awaiting word from Durham. Solomon Thomas, a the {8pecial) alias to began the police arrested him. He to deny that he had “killed the man After some questioning as to what he meant Shepherd sald he was im- | plicated in the killing of Engineer | Holt, of the Seaboard Air Line, be- tween Winston and Durham, last Oc- | tober. He said the engineer caught | him riding the blind baggage and | him off, whereupon he fired | at the engineer, Power Travels 17 Miles, Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special). —At | 3 o'clock P. M., a current of elec-! tricity was turned into this city and | power from the great lock and dam 17 miles from the city, is now available fori the operation of industries here. The dam has been in course of construc tion for three years and the plant will furnish 50,000 horse-power. The cost of the lock, dam, power and wire line was over $3,000,000. The construction of this lock and dam re- sults in the opening of navigation on the Tennessee River to Chatta- nooga the Year round. oe a ——— Junior Order Ritual Changed, Detroit, Mich. (Special). — The National, Council Junior Order of United American Mechanics passed a resolution changing the ritual of the order sc that it will contain three degrees instead of one. A resolution was passed accepting the offer of the Tennessee State Council to donate grounds and building: for a home for old and’ indigent members of the order. The Institution is to be lo- cated In Tennessee and its cost is estimated at $75,000, Woodmen's Big Fund, Detroit, Mich. (Special). At the session here of the Sovereign Camp, Woodmen of the World, the report of the emergency fund committee was read, showing a grand total in the fund at present of $8,002,875. Major General Yates, of the uniform rank of the order, Syoried the member ship to be 82 is and 6568 com. panies, an Increase of over 400 cent. over 1807. The report of mileage Sotiitiee shows the otal expense ° convention ba $33.741. > been WHY THE RUSSIANS FIRED ON BRITISH SHIP Feared She Would Strike the Czar's Yacht, VESSEL IN FORBIDDEN WATERS. Declares The Steanjer Was Heading Dircetly For The' Standart — The Firing Upon The Woodburn Not THE HORRORS OF A NEW RUSSIAN SECT Worship a Red Idol and Make Human Sacrifices, Members (Of Sect Accused Of Other Horrible Practices—The Ural Hee gion, In Which The Sect Flour- ishes, The Breeding Ground For Various Fanatical Cults — Discov. ery In A Secret Grove, tigation To Be Fireman's Story, 8 t. Petersburg (Special) British } Embassy received a report concer firing upon by the British steamer Woodburn Rus patrolling th Vicinity « Bay, and Emperor W the following day rom Brit borg, ed der a vessel of the squadron whic Pit. Miecholas ian was { 3} wh Emperor : meet comes the from for 3 4 on ¥ ¥ “urn, bie t I that was Bay by Bquadror injuries, in a where he #lan and ds j 6 Was H« that three other members of ti sustained slight inj Russian fire Further OOCUr rend ghow ; Btraved leave th RVE : removed ded iries © du BONE GRAFTING OPERATION. Limb Of A Youth. { iQ I H gical 1A riq. WAR d Hospital bone from } grafted into th Townsend to ghattered Townsend an and was taken to the days ago after suffered a right leg decided was was from £ repiace tibia elevator operator wpital several in which is an accident compound Amput fracture tation was Later Dr. Cassius in consultation to try to graft of a healthy his at first on called decided the leg it a bone lamb Surgeons of Chicago asserted that this was the first time this opera- tion ever was attempted in America DIES IN DOUBLE ACCIDENT, Under Touring Car. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special). Annje McCabe, aged 40 years, by a taxicab at Illinois Avenues while waiting The taxicab threw the air and she landed under the big touring car of Ralph Taylor, of this city, which was pass- ing at the time Mrs. McCabe was run over by the touring car and so badly crushed that she died on the way to the hos pital Following the accident the taxicab disappeared and the chaffeur and Atlantic for a car in ing an investigation ———————— sp IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE Atchison has ordered 500 cars for carrying automobiles. Wabash has cut passenger rates from Chicago eastward. The St. Paul's through line to the Pacific has been opened, St. Paul's $25,000,000 of bonds have already been marketed. London sold stocks on the firing upon a British ship by a Russian tor pedo boat. Morgan bankers say the Paris list. fing of United States Steel is only halted and not prevented. On one day this week United States Steel got orders for 210,000 tons of steel rails, A 2 per cent. tax on the dividends of American corporations would call for an outlay of approximately $12,- 000,000, 4 It is estimated that the railroads have contingent ordera amounting to $100,000,000 which wil be aced within the next six weeks the St. Disg- Porm, Petersburg (Bpecial) { palches received here from Ru begun European ssia, po- of gay ithe local ice have an investiga'ion the “sect” of members BOTH DUELISTS DEAD itchman And To Detective sw Other Railroad Shoot Each Death. Policeman Shoots A Mad Down. A Quake In The Canaries, fled re re casuaities ar Wolves From Roosevelt, Naples (Spe The German dma rrived id r na Has =a teame OTe OR Ong wi ired by They will be York board next week and capt "oly , ali which were x-President Roosevelt i to New e Pannonia, sailing % h b 1 € transshipped on th i 1,000 Feet To Death. i Juneau, Alaska (Special) Noel Omilvie, head of the Canadian sur. vey party, arrived with the news of ithe tragic death of James Yorke, one of the members of the surveying party, at Sumdum. Yorke was on a precipice attempting to take a pic ture He Jost his footing and plung- ed 1,000 feet to death WE Gas Explosion Kills Four. Denver, Col. { Special) Four | men were killed and four injured in ! an explosion in the power plant of the Denver Gas and Electric Com- { pany. The plant was badly damag- | ed. Live Lizard In Solid Rock. Great Falls, Mont (Special) .—Ip |a coal mine near here Moses Martin. { dale, a miner, uncovered a lizard | about nine feet from the surface and { embedded in the solid rock. There lis no conceivable method by which ithe lizard could have entored the | cavity, since nature closed the gap {| thousands of years ago. When first uncovered the reptile was torpid, When brought to the light, however, it showed more signs of life. There is no evidence that it had been affect. ed injuriously ;by fits long fast and imprisonment fa the solid rock. Marriage Or Grand Opera For Her. Chicago (8pecial) With the prophecy that she is to be either Mrs. Claus Spreckels, Jr., or a grand opera star, Miss Mary Adele Case, of Port Spreckels has been rumored, loft Chi sag at 10 o'clock bound for home. “I'll tell you,” said Miss Case. “If 1 don’t get married I'm going to go into grand opera and become a star. ini get married, I won't. Either marriage or opera-—that's the crops turn out big. % . ”»
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