WIFE SOAKED OL AND BURNED Was Bound and Gagged and Then Placed on Stove. HUSBAND OF WOMEN IS UNDER ARREST. Mrs. Alice Van Zandt Choked Into Unconsciousness, Bound With Strips Of Lace Curtain And Laid Across Gas Stove In The er Poured Two Jars Of Coal Oil Over Her—Burned To A Crisp As Children Played Nearby. (Special) .—Bound of Mrs. Allce crisp, was 0. the b 3 urn ed Cincinnati, and gaged, Van Zandt. found iying in her kitchen woman had met her death whil her three young children were playi uffconscious of the tragedy, in the adjoining room Jesse A ed woman's BS 8 witnd admits that he wife all Friday time he left ing, an hour, discovery According Zandt was gciousness, with strips and placed her head in er. The horror creased by the that the woman CON/CIOUSNESS found all the ed off the bi red to cinder The police i Zandt had been tention to a young The father of t ed strongly conduct, an before a ; dered her con Refuge On her mendation, however instead body to yf a the gas stove murder- g held Vai the hus bein - 1 85 UY the of he mu to the rst b to a convent Buarned To The crime neighbor moned the body was burne only remnants of ing to it The police had been eatu proof of this was fruit jars whic! oil and in an Because no police believe taken unaware consclousne Mrs. Clara who gave that when sufficiently f en, she found The front d When Van summoned h old son, “When did last?" The questi several “1 saw I left she was ner. What He refused tions and was | The Van Zandts the East One n Mrs. Van Zandt troubles said ths was preparing to | the or her to ent th Zandt arrive times her has $ CHILDREN KILL THEMSELVES. Boy 16 And Girl 14 Take Strychuine Because They Couldn't Marry. Des Moines, cause of parental opposition to their marriage on Vernon Barr, Ammer, aged 14, killed They were found clasped in each upright in which they were ric a dance. On the cup partly filled water. The horse way and stopped at girl's home ial) Be- & oe fowa | account of their yo aged 16, and Li themselves ar Monroe, sitting n other's arms young BB witli AUTO WITH SIX DROPS 10 FEET. Three Occupants Killed; Three Ex. | pected To Die. Kansas City, Kan. (Special). — Three persons were killed and three | badly injured when a motorcar, own- ed and driven by John Mahoney, a | contractor, of Kansas City, Kan.. be- came unmanageable at CHff Drive and Agnes Avenue and plunged 40 feet over an embankment into what is known as Cliff Drive Canvon. The machine was demolished and the oe cupants were badly mutilated, [It Is! feared al] of the injured will die Needle In Her Toe 15 Years. York, Pa. (Special).—Mrs. Charles E. Carr, 663 West Princess Street. had removed from her great toe on | her right foot half of a needle which had entered the toe 15 years ago. The needle showed no rust spots whatever. Mra. Carr says she swal- lowed the needle, and about eight years ago took a plece of it out of the left foot, a—. ns Shoots Wife And Her Mother. Chicago (Special) — Charles Barnes, an actor, shot his wife in the mouth and through the wrist and her mother Mrs. M. Servoss, in the chest at a hotel here. Neither is thought to be fatally Injured. The shooting was the outcome of the separation of Barnes and his wife, who has been living with her mother, It is sald Barnes concealed himself in the women’s room and opened fire when they entered. He escaped aft- er the shooting. SHOT DOWN BY PRISON GUARDS in Attempt To Escape From The Naval Prison Made By Men Serving Short Terms For Minor Offenses—{Guards Fire On Them With Riot Guns Loaded With Buckshot When They Disregard Demand For Surrender, One two Portsmouth, N. H. (8pecial).-— was shot and killed and others seriously wounded in ing break for liberty from the naval man a n at the here dead in navy yard man {8 Raymond F Indianapolis, Ind., aged years, a marine private who was Serving a two-vear. sentence The wounded men are } Garvey, a coal pass serving Of iarry Me- a tence « Yt al ars through the right elbow and J. Montgom ‘onl passer i yea an ai months’ s eft Albe Ie BATTLESHIPS POWERLESS. Their Da Passed, Harmon, Aerconaut. y Has Says C, ' WOMAN BEATS BURGLAR rye Knocks Him Out And I Him To Police hen Takes Station hel dors a. 000 “Chanffenr's Arm" Now. Albany, N (8 Dr lam Thomas, of New York, & paper “The Chauff« ture” Vv wil : Sein Wil. 8 read ur's of the State He declared it an occupational digease caused by! the slipping of the crank hanlle of an automobile. If the handle strikes | on the Frac. | at meeting of a peculiar character of several cases where chauffeurs with dangerous fractures from being struck by a crank handle have driven their machines for miles after the He told; were badly hurt. Women Organize. Washington, D. C. { Special). A meat boycott was launched in the en's Anti-Food Trust League was or- ganized at the home of Mrs. John B, Henderson, wife of former Sena- tor Henderson, of Missour!, who was elected its president. All the wom- en’ clubs in the district. and worse generally, will be asked to join in the movement. A ASIN, Ballain Explains His Offer, Washington, D. C. (8pecial) John A. Ballain, of Seattle, Wash., was in- troduced to the President by Senator Jones, of Washington, and briefly ex. plained the proposition male by him a few days ago to the Senate Com- mittee on Territories to pay a royal ty of 50 cents per ton for the coal to be taken from the government lands in Alaska, The President only com- mented that he hoped that Congress would some day make provision for getting at the immense store of coal in that faraway territory « PEOPLE OF PARIS IN DESPAIR OVER RUIN Nine Square Miles of the City Under Water, CHASMS IN THE MANY BOULEVARDS, Seine Has Stopped Rising and Tributaries Going Down. PUBLIC SERVICES BADLY Bursting Sewers Cause Streets To Parts Darkness—Convents Bulldings Converted And Hospitals Homeless——Welrd : Broken Gas Of City Into And Public Into Asylums The Sick And Mains Plunge For THE 20TH CENTURY FLYER 15 WRECKED a Minute. Former Fails To See Signal To Slow And Dashes Onto A the Tracks Topples And Slides 300 Feet—The Train ‘Smeared' Down Over At Full Over Between Speed—Locomotive i Over Four Tracks—— i . ! No Passengers Hurt, i | Utica, i N ¥ Oi i motive Twentieth bound, turned 84 quarter of Johnsville, ¥ ital—Women Crying For Bread From Windows DESTRUCTION SPREADS And Part Of Darkness Collapsing In Building City refugees a number of pped » 3 ORS numero ited of women refused 1 submer their & an on A? dren who had homes in the shrieking fro: bread The leav ged windows number of refugees arriving here enormous, Chareaton alone | gending In 38.000 who have come there from Calais and other afflicted points } Many thrilling rescues are record-| The family of M. Barthou, for-} mer minister of public works, whose | in the Avenne d’Antin is sur. rounded, were taken out on the] backs of soldiers and rescued in boats. A large number of schools! are closed because of the lack of heat | and the municipality is ecnizidering! the advisability of closing all of them, Practically all of the flooded su- burban towns above and below Paris are without light and several of them without water. Their inhabitants are hastily leaving. Editor And Dramatist Dead, Rochester, N. Y. (Special). Al bert R. Haven, elitor of the Rochesi. er Union and Advertiser, died, aged 69 years. He was a dramatist and wrote several successful plays. In 1890 he was editor of the New York Cuban Minister Resigns, Havana (S8Special).--The State De- partment announced that the resig- nation has been received of Gen. Carlos Garcia Velez, Cuban Minister to the United States, who will shortly return to Havana, Genersl Velez will probably be succeeded by Car. rera Justiz, Minister at Madrid. Velez will likely $0 to Argentina, while Jose Garcia Velez, the former Secretary of State, will assume the post at Berlin, and Senor Quesada the post at Madrid, _ WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH has determined 1e suit agai ger of the ific Railroad 1 Brazilian battles will escort tl Cruises ring body wor Nabuco, to Brazil immigration for the the fiscal al for the for 150% Alken South the caiptal of the be dry territory Boutell made a vig- tio of months kept up the tot exceed that Representative wants States to of Year VEAT of Congressman he showed that prices have gone up on commodities on which the tariff was lowered Rear Admiral Capps, chief con- structor of the Vy, gave to the! House Committee on Naval Affairs | his views upon the subject of naval Dr. Wiley gave the House sub- committee a demonstration to show fresh eggs can be told from the cold | The Senate receiv the Postal Savings Bill, which is an administra. | tion measure, and referred it to com- | miitee, i Plans fbr the new Washington! City Postoffice have been approved. The structure is to cost about $3,500, 000. The year 1909 in gold mining was marked by increased recovery from the depressed condition of the two preceding years, according to data presented in a report by the United States Geological Survey. Former Becretary of the Interior Garfield continued his statement be- fore the Senate Committe on Public Lands in reference to the several bills introduced at the request of Sec. retary Ballinger, About 25 leading magazine pub- lishers appeared before the House Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads and protested against the pro. posed increase in the rates for sec- ond-class mail matter, The American University has juset received a cash gift of $5,000 from Miss Sarah M. Billings, of Wellsboro, Pa. for the ovening fund. CHICAGO HAS A irand Jury, | AMD vi | Paul Redieske, Commissioner Michael Contractor, Resigned Of Public McGovern, A And Nine clals Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud City Deputy Works: City In Connection Tunnel Construction. he engly Did Not Fil} Contract og * § RBedieske Unemoti tiyrr ad TRAIN WRECK KILLS FOUR Wh Engine Jumps Track Pa Three Others Ininred en Freight ville Thre gouthbou 1 been ¢ One fn the is it had ) engine the train rear The fast. when the leading the rails and plunged track. The cars beh: engine All the “0 ahea and the other train ug i d of the very left the apon were The hours idle LEeAr was traveling g engine ACTORS d piled victims gine Zelaya Going To Belgium, Mexico City (Special). San- tos Zelaya, formerly President of Nicaragua, announced that he in tended to leave Mexico City this week for Vera Cruz, whence he will sail for Belgium Zelaya will call on President Diaz before he takes his | departure, Jose Working For Morse's Pardon, Washington, D. C. (Special). Act. ing for some unknown person or persons a number of agents began a house to house canvas in this city seeking subscriptions to a monster petition to be presented to President Taft for the pardon of Banker Mores who has just begun to serve a 15- year sentence in the Atlanta peni- tentiary. Children End Lives For Love. Des Moines, lowa (Speci: 1).—Be- cause of parental opposition to their marriage on accoun: of thelr youth Vernon Barr, aged 16 years and Lina Ammer, aged 14 years, killed themselves. They were found near Monroe, clasped in each other's arms, sitting upright in young Barr's buggy, In which they were riding home from a dance. On the girl's lap rested a cup partly filled with strychnine and water. Both had drunk of this. NEW YORK WORLD WINS LIBEL SUT | Action Started By Roosevelt Is Thrown Out of Court. Indictment Against Josephs Pulitzer For Attacks On Forme: i Roosevelt And Quashed By Judge House i Ground That Federal plied Is Not Sufficient In ity And That The United CJ. Lacks Jurisdiction President Taf The Ap. Author BlLates President On siatute urt i Roosevelt's Se athing Words, we he slate fA. RV sands Lhe lalements the; ished by in ugh ER BR ev to ond sanders is atuity Be that part Can glories Faw © ILE ¢ i oR I Pe . Hu 4 thould eco particular Lh y wi the vant whe #seTrYan! r any k r Joseph n this in a hirk ma tie #3 er theft Lr - y nla = a peopae In State Courts. nes t the crime r through { the place s matier is 4 crime courts, the In this oc] tha: k City and nity But ix mment Como BOVE iwction ed that by the be com mitie and the na ! noe reson shment of the of The jaw n invoked here fa 1 a territorial conveni therefore, in this case, if has hern committed, regarded rather as an of prainst the State of New which happened to be com on government land, ‘he ar against (he governmeat wn slatute “The ourden prosecution fender h tale 't, tO one igdiction has bee simpls and, crime b a hic ene any is to ork. Qf proof revs wpos to show that it Was the courts of the United States the panishment of olonses other than Lightning Brings Wealth, Dalhart, Texas (Special). — Mrs Josie Pettis declared that a bolt of lightning struck the ground on the mountainside near her farmhouse ro cently and uncovered a spring ol crude ofl, which is now producing 200 barrels daily. The land, before the uncovering of the spring, hac barely yielded enough to support he: nn For A National Cotton Association Atlanta, Ga. (Special) A meet. ing to organize the National! Cotton Products Association has been called for Atlanta for February 10. The call says the purpose of the mex association will be: "To concentrate the heretofore scattered efforts of helping the government to improve arrienlture by means of states, jress colleges, railroads, experiment gta. tions, industries and Individuals tate one t cooperative movement through which alone we can hope te achieve the highest results and soomve andnvine wrosnarity *
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