———— BEARER OF TAFT MESSAGE 15 KILLED Accident Ends Across Country Auto Run. CAR OVERTURNED NEAR READING. Henry L. Buckley, Reporter For The Philadelphia Press, Carrying The President's Greeting In Relay Run From Philadelphia To The Seattle Exposition, Crushed To Death Beneath Auto, Reading, Pa. (Special), — The transcontinental automobile relay run from Philadelphia to Seattle, Wash.,, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Press, came to a sud- den and sad end when the first relay car was wrecked at Robesonia, 12 miles west of here, causing the death of one of tha occupants of the machine and the gerjou- injury of several of the other passengers. The dead man was Henry L. Buck. ley, a reporter for the Press, William Brown, of Philadelphia, was so seri. ously injured that he may die, and William H. Bohn, of the Acme Auto. mobile Agency in Philadelphia, sus. tajned a deep laceraton of the scalp. Clifford R. Ely, the chauffeur, and Halyard Canter, colored, a valet, were slightly injured. The automobile was going through Robesonia at a 25-mile clip when something went wrong with a rear tire. The car upset and Buckley was thrown into the middle of the road, fracturing his skull. Relief au. tmoobiles were quickly at hand and the injured were brought to this city. Buckley died in a hospital When the news of the accident reach. ed the Press the run was immediately called off. The run promised to be an interesting affair. The Press had obtained from President Taft a letter of greeting to President Chilberg, of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and had planned to carry it across PELLAGRA TO BE GREAT PROBLEN Sounds Note of Warning, Situation At Illinois State Hospital For The Insane Studied—Nearly B50 Cases Of The Strange Disease Found There—Cannot Trace It To A Corn Diet—Has Been In The Institution For Years. Dr. Lavinder Washington, D. C. (Special).— Expressing a confirmed belief that “pellagra” {is likely to become in this country a public health problem of greater proportions than can at the present time be realiged, C. H Lavinder, passed assistant surgeon, Public Health and Marine Hospitals Service, has just reported the results of his investigations of the preva- lence of that disease in the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane to Sur- Beon General Wyman. As a prelude to his report Dr. Lavinder states that the housing, feeding and care of pa- tients in the institution are above criticism, As soon as the strange malady was discovered in the Illinois insti- 10 MRS. HARRIMAN Railroad King Leaves Property to His Wife. AND NO RESTRICTIONS ARE MADE E. H, Harriman's Will, Filed At Goshen, A Hirief Document Dated June 8, 1003—His Vast Hold. ings, Real And Personal, Are De. queathed To Her Absolutely And She Is Named Executrix——Charles Peabody Is A Witness. New York (8peclal) All of Ed- ward H. Harriman's property, real and personal, is bequeathed without restrictions of any sort to the widow, Mary W. Harriman. The will was filed at Goshen, N, Y., but was made public in this city, It is an extreme- ly brief document, dated June 8, 1903, and reads as follows: “I, Edward H, Harriman, den, in the State of New York, Jo make publish and declare this as and for my last will and testament, of Ar- that i8 to say, 1 give, devige, and bequeath all of my property, real | and perconal, of every kind and na tution and finally diagnosed as pel- lagra, the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service was requested to cooperate in the investigation of the! outbreak there. There are in the | neighborhood of 40 or 50 well-de-| fined cases of pellagra In the insti-| tution, acocrding to Dr. Lavinde He states that the type of the disease | found there differs in some respects | from the general type he Is familiar | with in the South, but that the dis- ease should vary in different ities is sald to be not unusual | “The condition is. however,’ de-| clares Dr. Lavinder, “definite and well marked and admits of a positive | diagnosis. Inquiry was made as to how much corn or its products en-| tered into the general diet, and it was learned that corn used spar-| ingly, perhaps on an average of not | more than two or three times a! week. The quality of the meal hominy which I saw was to all i i | i fa the country by relays of automobiles. The car wrecked left Philadelphia] at 12.30 P, M., Mayor Reyburn giv.| ing the signal for the start. The machine was gally decorated and! was given a rousing send-off by the] crowd that witnessed the start.) Buckley was the courier bearing the} message A second car was to have! taken up the run from Harrisburg| to Altoona, and a third from that city to Pittsburg, and so om acrofs| to the Pacific Ocean. Thirty-two au-| tomobiles were to have been used inj the run Juckley was leave the! car at Harrisburg and take a train] for a farther point west while a sec- ond courier rode in machine | until again Buckley, when] they were to exchange places. Buc) ley was 24 years old and a gaaduate | of Lafayette College, to the he mot He DWELLING DYNAMITED, - | Family Of Charles I. Gibson Have | 0. Charles { Special) I eral manager of the Struthers plant | of s Compa the Youngstown, ~The | ¢ gon. residence of Gibson, ican Sheet and Tinplate | None of was In-| i thrown of tha the mer was dynamited "yo SJ occupants of the house jured, but from their explosion A strike the mill Gibson has forts to secure the ning of the plant under the open shop plan While Mr. Gibson has made no direct charges against anyone, the county authorities believe that strike sym- pathizers are responsible for the dynamiting. The escape of the Gibson from injury was remarkable A large brass shel! filled with dy- namite and fitted with a cap and a fuse was exploded in a cellar win- dow directly under Mr. Gibson's room. The house was badly dam- aged. The report of the explosion was heard for miles. ; all of them were beds by the foree gress at | a Mr in his ef-} been al active reope has for s in pre woo) ks and SRE 25 $0 vel 363 been family MORE WOMEN THAN MEN. | mam Massachusetts Census Shows Them | Still In The Load. -The popula in 1905, last state census, | of which 1,461,584] were males and 1,542,091 were females, according to the report of that census made public by Director Charles F. Gottemay, of the Massa- chusetts Bureau of Statistics. This 18 an increase of 198.334 persons over the figures reported for 1900. or the total population for 1905 2,085,626 persons are of native birth and 918,044 of foreign birth. The classification by color and race shows 2,966,762 white, 34.041 color. ed, 2,224 Chinese, 160 Japanese and 553 Indians. More than one-half the entire population, or 55.54 per cent, were single, 37.76 per cent. were married, 6.36 per cent. were widow- ed and about one-fourth of 1 per cent.,, or 7.676 persons, were di- vorced, Boston tion date was {8pecial) Massachusetts the of the of taking 3,003.6 50, —— Halley Comet Photographed, ‘Ban José, Cal. (Special). — Halley's comet has .been located by Heber D. Curtis, and photographed with thes ald of the Crossley reflecting tele. scope at Lick Observatory, Assaulted With Hatchet, Macon, Ga, (Special). -— Nicholag Carehell, an aged Italian merchant, was discovered by officers mortally wounded in a little room in the rear of his store, A bloody hatchet and biood-spattered floor and walls told a story of an awful struggle. Officery are of the opinion that robbery fol- lowed assault. Whether this was the prime motive of the attack the police will offer no opinjon. Carshell had by common report amassed quite a fortune. pearances excellent I am unable assign any satisfactory local for extent of disease hospital, oq tion LO Cause in th the Lae the Lids Bre in 8 this Onhie institution which has 8 well as elsewhere, when the dise| ease was finally recognized the medic | staff can recall that the disease has been in the institution for many | years, and the superintendent told | me that he now realizes that he has! had cases ever since the institution was opened, eight years ago.” BOY CAUGHT BY BALLOON. The Earth, { Special) Py vine Frankfort During an! of val dirigible in which Miss Kath ne sister of Orville Wright, was sr, & boy become entangled the se rigging and was car aloft, swinging head downward! the legs ship f feet ascension the are ball Vright, passen on, 1 5 ried by The had attained an altitude! before the pilot could back When boy was re- was Insensible af 800 to! the the ground leased he SHOOTS HIS DINNER GUEST. J. F. Boarcher Resents Upsetting Of Coffee On Tablecloth, Lawrenceburg, Ind Ritzie was invited to eat din-| ner at the home J. F. Boarcher | and a few minutes after entering the | house he was carried out with five bullet holes in his body He accidentally turned over a cup coffee on the table cloth and re- sented reproval of the act by his host | Joarcher got his revolver and emp- | five chambers in Ritzie's body, and he is now at a hospital in a dying condition. Boarcher escaped (Special) of TO BUILD TWO DREADNOUGHTS. | Contracts Awarded, But Style Of! Engines Still Undecided, D. C, Acting Secretary of the Washington, { Special) Navy Win-| the new ships Arkansas and Wyoming to Wil. iam Cramps Sons & Co. and the New York Shipbuilding Company, | who were the two lowest bidders. | It is not yet decided whether both | these ships shall have Parson's tur-| bines, as recommended by the Board | of Construction, or whether one ship | shall be equipped with Parson's tur. | bines and the other with a combi-| nation of Parson's turbines and re- ciprocating engines. two 26.000-ton battle.! GIRL MAIL CARRIER KILLED. West Virginian Hurled Over Precipice From Carriage, Elkins, W. Va. (S8pecial).—Bea- trice Loughey, of Hannahsville, Tucker County, mall carrier between Rowlesburg and Hannahsville, was instantly killed, when the horse she was driving backed off the road over a precipice along the Cheat River, hurling her on jagged boulders in a deen ravine, When she falled to arrive within an hour of the scheduled time her family became alarmed and a search was begun. Her body was found near the banks of the Cheat River. Big Four To Spend Millions. New York (Bpecial). — James Stillman, chalrman of the board of directors of the National City Bank, was elected a director of the Cleve. land, Cincinnati, Chicago and 8t. Louis Rallroad Company to succeed James Barnett, resigned. The direc- tors adopted a resolution for sub- mission to stockholders at the an- nual meeting providing for an is sue of $20,000,000 bonds, the pro- ceeds to be used In improving the road and equipment. ture, to my wife, Mary W. Harri- man, to be hers absolute vy and for-| ever; and | ninate and | appoint the gald Mary Harriman | to be th will : do Liereby nox WwW thi thi i have and seal the year © ROCULNIX of f here. | this! 1903, | n witness whereo unto set my dav of I igned.) “Edward H settled, publi ator as hand ine, in Harriman." hed and de-| and for his} in our pres t and in his ¥ ence of ment ho n at nig requs and | n the pre each GEN. DIAZS BIRTHDAY. 70 Years Old And 32 dent Of Mexico, Mexico C all Diaz ity (8peci President of Mexic w recipient from foreign locked to the na sonally The dy ‘nited States on alf of General latter, presses General Diaz, Bens lt) slim orl iealth, feelingly wn resent thed per lationa Diplomatie consular be were earls ace, and 1 Thompson, and den beh Consul £3 Drier, for 16 tations answered salutat of who expressed the 3 t rule Mes gd their President to tears Diaz has magistracy the past He again nominated to fill the in 15810 and later. these 14 ong workmen to came Bope that many moved vet «3 for enthusiasm ssident occupied republic has bes term com- ending six of the years, years Takahira May Not Return, Tokio It stated in! circies well informed in Government matters that Baron Kogoro Taka-| hira, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, who was called home Office on matters of importance, will not re. turn to Washington. It is sald that Yasuya Uchida, Japanese Ambas- sador at Vienna, will succeed him as { Bpecial). is ————— st ——— To Explore Pole By Disigible. Kiel ' (Special), —Prince announced that Emperor | had accepted the protection! of the enterprise named the German! Arctic Airship Expedition, whieh purs| poses to conduct scientific research in! Henry of] This project was! before Dr, Cook and Com-! mander Peary reported having dis) covered the Pole. The enterprise has financial resources. Colton To Take Charge Nov. 1. Washington, D. C. (Special), George B. Colton, who will succeed Regis H. Post as Governor of Porto Rico, will assume his office Novem. ber 1 next, according to arrange. ments completed at the War Depart- ment. IN THE WORLD OF A; C. M. Schwab denies that he has bought the Tidewater Steel Com- pany, So-called experts put out very pes. simistic reports on the cotton crop, and the price advanced, Pennsylvania Rallroad interests are reliably understood to be buying more Norfolk and Western. In February United States Steel common sold. at $41, and Wednesday it was $84. The market walue In seven months has risen from $208, 000,000 to $426,000,000, “Just remember,” sald a cotton broker, “‘that America’s 11,000,000 bale crop with cotton at 12 % cents is worth as much as a bumper 13, 500,000 crop when cottom waa but 10 cents a pound.” It is announced that the Ameri. ean Telephone and Telegraph Com. pany has purchased from the West. ern Union $16,000,000 of New York Telephone Conpany stook. The American Company already owned $32,000,000 of the $60,000,000, so that this deal will give it all but J2.000.000 of the shares of the Now ork Bell system UNTRUE, WAS PEARY'S REPLY ———————— Again Flatly Declare Doctor Cook An Imposter. Says Dash For Pole Was His Least Eventful Trip—Little Of Adven- ture And Few Of Hair-breadth Escapes Of Earlier Arctic Journeys. Boston (Special).~—In a wireless message from Battle Harbor quoted here, Commander Peary, replying to an Interrogation as to Dr. Cook's claim, disposes of ft with these words: “It is simply untrue, Peary in this message gives fur- ther detalls concerning his own lash for the Pole, but not a word as to why Harry Whitney left the Roose- velt. Nor would the explorer enter into any further conversation as to bis commandeering of Cook's sup- plies or the proof that he has declar- ed is in his possession that the | Brooklyn physician did not reach the top of tle earth “1 have expressed myself clearly in my Jdispatches, I think,” he con- tinued “Dr, Cook's attempts to con- | vince scientists that he has the Pole will be futile pretty generally known that pedition was in the Arctic that we expected to this time or a few There was also a susp fon we hoped to reach the Pole this] and that we had all other Northern the way North and had prepar- ! for what we hoped e final trip.” ip the Of been tol It was our ex. | get back nbout Iater, that year records knew od would be t “What were carefully ¥ Some ef in-| nals 5 ABN ti { ian any of tual reach- and being A re Had i , whict We To Take Their Chance hief Jang cil iANge was one true! to 1 of had urage Over and how of the required, ng io THREE LITTLE CHILDREN SHOT BY IN ITALUN Brutal Crime By a Strange Man in Utica, N. VY. Y. at murders that N (Special) One of [ ever shoo ; was re. three chil- oe th in jen one ds " a of gold left arm, wae daughter Procopio; aged 30 son of Mr. and Mrs. Ercole was shot through the bowels, and his sister, Fannie, aged 6 years, was wounded by a bullet | through the left forearm. It is supposed that the crime was committed by some one who had a against the father of one of other of the children Attlee Fernando Infusino is at the point of death at Faxton Hospital He cannot live, for a revolver shot | has torn a great hole in his abdomen, His sister, Fannie, also at Faxton suffers great pain, for the in her left arm is shattered, and in consequence the police have been able to glean but little from her concerning the circumstances of the crime and the identity of the per-! petrator, All day long two WBloodhounds) owned by the New York Central! Railroad worked at the scene of the! crime, and finally traced the scent | of the murderer to a car line half| a mile from the spot where the crime was committed. But despite the ef- farts of 40 police officers and plain | clothes men little apparently has been accomplished beyond the ap- | prehension of several suspicious pers | sons who were liberated after they! had explained their movements dur-| ing the past 24 hours. i The children went out for a walk ¥ A revolver The child killed on Theresa Procoplo, aged of Mr. and Mrs. Raffaele Infusino, not #3048 the { i tance from their home they were ao- costed by a strange Italian. It is said that the stranger assured the little Infusino girl that she need not | fear him, because he was a friend of her father. The quartet was seen going up Third Street, but from that time thelr movements are unknown, Words can hardly describe the fiendish cruelty or the crime. One of the vietims was but a toddling in- fant, and after the murderer had fired a .38-caliber bullet through the baby's body the little one, still con- scious, was left lylng on the ground to suffer all night. The baby’s sister, little Fannie Infusino, though shot through the arm, spent the night sitting beside here little brother, and when day broke she called for help, Halley's Comet Sighted, Cambridge, Mass. (Special). Hal ley’'s comet, for which astronomers have been eagerly watching, has been seen after an absence of 70 years, according to a dispatch received at the Harvard Observatory from Pro- fessor Wolff, of Heldelburg, The alght was obtained Beptember 11, 5642, In right ascension 6 hours 18 Hinuber i" minutes Jog It hd . cou be made aut only with a large tele ORVILLE WRIGHT'S HIGH FLIGHT RECORD Excels the Distance Made By Hubert Latham. 765 FEET IS NOW THE MARK. The Empress Of Germany, Accom Berlin Court, Witnesses The Feat And Congratulates The Aviation—Panlhan Wins sand-Dollar Prize, here e fiying in pre <Lhnce in ti Princess his aeroplane of the Prince and broke He (765 feet) for height, by Hubert Lath Wright's by a height Empress, and Prince large party from the the record for high altained a height of 243 The best 182 Louise, Adelbert August Court, flight melers record made “ previous nieters am, altitude was captive balloon of 153 meters, and it 0 meters he Empres tulated M1 [THD CHIGAGD WOMEN | FIGHT LIKE DEMONS | Mrs, Tripp Is Dead and Mrs. Silb2r | Dying After An Hour's Battle. Murdered Woman Has Fifteen Bul let Wounds In Her Body—The Fight Occurr-d In A Chicago Apartment House In The Exclu. sive Residence District—dJ ~alousy Is Thought To Have Been The { Cause—Mrs, Silber Is Unconscious In A Hospital. 1 C {Bpecial) hicago demons for nearly an terrified, fere two wi wrecked the €r's police ciothes to Ty ATIpp Various Mrs, Anna : in It batt URLLe Tong made } execu Kills Woman Who Jilted. Worth, Tex is th For cans { Leys 8 WASHINGTON rafliroads warned confront Roadmasters they are § $ in the tas th ties Assistant gpect riage i Becretary Hays will the proceis of turning a Nort Carolina swamp into arable land Consul General Skinner, of Ham- burg, says Germany offers a good market for toys and mechanical de- h Departthent of Roosevelt riding tests to ts gervice Hitcheock is some of the order stem 1. Myer, gaid the detriment Gen. Texas, are a Postmaster attempting kinks in money John T. Titcumb, fishery expert, United States Civil service emploves return to their home examinations for promotion Surgeon Spear sail there were traces of powder around the wound in Lieutenant Sutton’s head Alleging discrimination in favor of Chicago, Detroit and Toledo by the Chesapeake and Ohlo, the 8t - General to eradicate the By well-known from Commission a resigned Fish #5 the not take need tates to a complaint with the Interstate Com. merce Commission United States Consul Fleming, at Yarmouth, N. 8, has telegraphed the State Department that the reve. nue cutter Androscoggin towed to Yarmouth the Anne Blies, of New | The Becretary of State has post- | poned until May, 1911, the meeting | in Washington of the International! Convention for the Protection of I'n-| dustrial Property. The boundary ispute between | Peru and Bolivia has been settled, | both countries having accepted the | award made by Argentine as arbitra | tor. The Comptroller of the Currency appointed R. D. Garrett, of Prince. fon, Ky., as receiver of the failed First National Bank of Burnside. Charles H. Treat, of New York, treasurer of the United States, an- nounced that he had tendered his resignation to President Taft Secretary Ballinger withdrew for temporary sites 13,700 acres of land lying along the Klickitat River, in Washington, Another $2,000 was sent by the American National Red Cross Soclety to American Consu! Hanna, at Mon- terey, Mexico. The armored crulser squadron which ia to dinate in the cele bration at New Orleans when the President visits that city is to ren. dezvous at Hampton i Government receipts in Cuba are according to an re. : port at the State ared hildren treet and courts from 1& cent flo of the battle tured oa oF 0 od Was Mrs : the other woman When the the entire a wild through each Mrs. Tripp was a bedroom The ind across room vi left breast und order, as is nrogressed 4 TOOK YOW BESIDE COFFIN Widower Ends His Life To Wife To The Grave, New York Le ner fulfilled a promise made over his wife's coffin when he commitie cide by shooting himself th head During Mrs. Leigner’s illness the husband was frequ heard to say that he would n without her Those who attended the funeral of Mrs. Lelsner sald that just before the casket was closed he knelt beside It and cried "1 don’t care, Carrie. I'll be with Os Follow (Special). —Oscar car.” Before he shot himself. Leisner tried to find Oscar, his little son, fallure to do s0 may have saved the boy's life Sewing Machine Inventor Dead. Westport, Ct (Special). — Carl Wilcox, of the sewing machine firm suddenly of heart failure at his home Mr. Wilcox was an inventor in the sewing machine field. He was about 65 years old and a bachelor. Here's Another Charge. Trondhjen, Norway (Special). The Dagposten accuses Dr ‘Cook of appropriating the plans and * the route for reaching the North Pole, devised by Captain Baumann, of the last Fram expedition, and published in 1906. Runs Tank-Junks In China, Washington, D. C. (Svecial) ~The Standard Oil Company has completed the Inetallation at Bwatow of the largest and most modern oil plant in China, The storage tank bas a capacity "of 1,624,438 guliona, the settling tank, 215.914 gallons, and the filling tank 47,000 gallons. The Standard is mow carrying bulk ofl to inland Joints in steel tanks of about 10,000 gallons each, built in Chinese Jjunis, the low draft o which Jelipits the economical ment of oll to the interior of China’
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