————
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’