MADHAN KILLS A MISSION WORKER Frank Skala Assassinated After Sermon on Martyrdom. HS COMPANION WAS ALSO SHOI. Fearful Crime Of Half-witted Man In Pittsbarg-—Prominent Mission Worker Is Shot Down Just After He Had Declared Himself Ready To Die For Christ—-John Gay, Who Wag With Him, Seriously Wounded—No Apparent Motive For The Crime. Is Pittsburg (Special).——A sermon on “Martyrdom,” in which Frank Skala, editor and prominent mission worker, had declared himself willing to lay down his life for the Christian cause, was followed by his assassination in & highly sensational! manner, and the shooting down also of a fellow church leader, John Gay. Arm in arm, the two missionaries were leaving the litle Congregational Church in Woods Run, a suburb, at the head of more than a hundred foreigners. A raggedly dressed and collarless man poked his way through the crowd as it reached the corner! of Eckert Street and McClure Ave- nue, and when he was but a behind the leaders he pressed a re-| volver to Skala's head and fired | twice. The bullets took effect in the | Jaw and temple, and in the midst | of his followers he fell dead i Gay, who threw right hand | ag if to ward off weapon, was| struck, first, in the thumb, and then! a second bullet was buried in’ his! head. He fell unconscious across the lifeless body of his colleague For a moment-—for several ments-—the assassin stood prey in a crazed ontemplation the deed, flourishing his while the panic-stricken to shelter behind posts ways The madman was Jan 8 character known mission his slovenly dress step up his rig the mo- his of revolver, fled €( over crowd and door- for and Just From A momen: ? read ! : Sunday ) viously he had eat the : 1 mon, the hand swviteh his murderous There were 1 he r people ihe assass! wh of his ‘oot on t! the avenu ‘oad tra riew., A letectives 00n onight the Sunday in gree had mur vy in pursn aim FOUND POLE ONE YEAR AGO, Peary's First Anniversary Congratulations. New York (Special) ‘ a8 H. Hubbard, president of the Peary Arctic Club, the first anniversar; ery of the North ole by er Robert BE. Pq gent the followir president of the merce of Marion, Ind “The Peary Arctic ulateg the Marion Cha merce on its first annual North Pole Brings Gon “yo. Tho n recognition of of th discov 0 Command. April 6 g telegram ti Chamber 16800, to the of Com- Club congrat- er of Come opportunity to hold celebration attalbment It lends you Peary for this date only, and invites you to join its later cele! ration of his- toric events.” ENGINE CUTS CARL IN TWO. A Dozen Persons Injured, Bix Seri. ously, In Chicago. Chicago (Special). A dozen or more persons were Injured, six of them geriously, when an electric car on the South Chicago and Calumet Line was demolished by a switch engine on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in South Chicago. The electric car was cut in half, the pas- sengers being scattered in all dires. tions, None was fatally injured All the injured were residents of South Chicago, Rob Treasury And Kill 17. Tiflis, Transcaucasia (Specialy. Thirty robbers attacked the treasury few days ago. The military guard made a brave defense and 17 were killed in the conflict, Including five soldiers, a noncommissioned officer, the cashier and bookkeeper of the Institution and meveral natives. tulogies To Senator McLaurin, Washington, D. C. (Special). —In honor of the late Senator McLaurin, of Missiesippl, eulogies were held in the House of Representatives hore Sunday. Those who paid tribute to him were Representatives Spight, Collier, Candler, Sisson and Bowers, of Mississippi; Clark, of Missouri: Calderhead, of Kansag: Rauch, of Indiana; Gardner, of Michigan, and Sherwood, of Ohio. A Co England's high roads cost $4,000 a mile to construct. i | | | BOY KILLED IN PRIEFGHT Solar-Plexus Blow Fatal to Gil- bert Trehon. Schoolboy Quarrel At Passaic, N, J. Has A Serious Termination—Tre- hou Is Dead, Frank Keiser, Who Struck The Blow, Has Fled, And A Sunday School Superintendent, Said To Have Beem Referee, Ar rested, With 20 Others, Passaic, N, J. (Special).—Gilbert Trehou died here from a solar plex- us blow received in a prize fight. With brief intermissions he had been unconscious since he was lifted out of the ring carried to a hospital Frank Keizer, who is named In a warrant as the other principal, missing, and the police hear he has fled to Canada Henry Knackstedt, said to have acted as referee, who is also superintendent of a Presby- terian Sunday School! here, was ar- rested and released in $500 bail. Trehou and Keizer were both nineteen years old, both pupils of the Passaic High School and both of good family, Reports of their quarrel differ, but the patchwork story pieced together by the police | is that there had been bad blood be-! tween them for sometime and that they agreed to settle their differ ences with the gloves Word was passed about their friends and Tuesday boys’ and is among night a lot he- off | On crowd met in a vacant an oil tank and squared the ring. Lanterns were hung the ropes, seconds were chosen and timekeeper and referee named. | The hat was passed for a purse to | the winner and the collection given to a stakeholder. The boys stripped and went at it and tongs. According to | eye witnesses, in the seventh and fa- tal round, Kelzer caught Trehonu flush on the jaw with a heavy swing. staggered and before he got again Keizer shot in a body ust below the end of the Trehou went down and The referee counted the hoy lay flat The perceived that sd thing was wrong an began to melt {ne of 0 Trehou his feet punch J sternum lay ten aning 1 still crowd gr ant 6 timeKeep- when, they y id tt and ie n, carried im FOR TWO MORE BATTLESHIPS. EXPLOSION AND PANIC ON SHIP Many Persons Injured ou the Steamer Cairnrona. THE MEN FIGHT FOR THE BOATS Women With Babies In Arms Sit- ting On A Hatch When Explosion Occurs—Hurled To All Parts Of The Deck And Some Of Them Ter- ribly Injured—Men Fight With The Women In A Mad Seramble To Reach Boats—Steamer Bound For Portland, Me, Dover, England (Special).—A ter. rific explosion occurred on the Brit- ish steamer Cairnrona, off Dungen- which wrecked the women's | quarters, killing one child and injur-| ing a number of women and chil-| dren. The steamer caught fire and a panic ensued, in which men fought for the possession of the boats and | had to be beaten back by the crew | to allow the women to be taken off | first. A large number of the passengers were landed here, many of them in an exhausted condition. in all, | twenty were severely injured and not less than 50 were slightly in-| Jured by the explosion and in the panic that followed it The Cairnrona sailed from London | for Portland, Me She carried passengers, for the most part eml. grants, and a general cargo Hy good luck the steamers Up- and Kanawha where at when the Cairnrona caught! They stood by and off | hundred passengers and} them here. Several of the and American e888, S00 Ciose hand fire took irst-class passen- | cattlemen gave! details of the dent, | of women with dren | their arms were sitting a hat when suddenly a violent explosic hurled them to al] parts of the deck Some of them were ; jured and one child wi hatch was to A terrible grants, most] and down, their hands creased by ired n and efforts ace number chi " 3 031 OF blown the volumes from the By the Hou: e izing of He an one propos- | ywiding for three. | that three bat- | no increase, but | ordinary By | House | nly GUY would pro depreciatio an reje Te, almost Mnimou ote the . Dakota, moved to s uthorization for shi the constru Ps, a viva voce there were of a "1 le Speaking | vor of tieship plan, Mr. Tawney r iis statement that . cent vente the country was b expended for wars that had pass- and for preparations for Wars to come He declared that one hat- wae suffi to mainta'n the proper strength of the Navy. Mr. Thomas, proposed an no advo- & # ax calles eiterated “a fer of i Ol Oe ient of Ohio, amendment for four battleships, but the House voted it down almost unanimously. Mr. Tawney's amend- ment for one battleship also was lost by a vote of 104 to 138 A point of order was sustained eliminating from the bil authority given the Becretary of the Navy for the construction of a million-dollar fleet collier, to be built on the Pa-| by private contract, so | that under existing law it will be constructed in a government navy yard on the Pacific Coast. The ap- propriation of $1,000,000 for one re. pair ship was also stricken out on a point of order, Famous Scout Found Dead. Boulder, Col. (8pecial). « Joseph Sturtevant, a scout, famous through- | out the Western country as "Rocky Mountain Joe,” was found dead near an interurban railroad track. It is hofleven that his death wag acciden-~ tal. Cudahy And Wife Reconciled, Los Angeles, Cal (Special), John P. Cudahy is on hig way to Kansas City and a reconciliation with his wife Is in sight, the es trangement caused by his assault on Jere 8. Lillis, the Kansas City bank- er, having Ween patched up by the young man’s father, Michael Cudahy. This information was disclosed by friends of the Cudahy family, fol- lowing the departure of young Cud- ahy last night from Pasadena nju 1649 and supplied with i, clothing a IP nl 1d rince ¢ Prin officers medical attendan \dmira Tu Batienbursg ced Brit T nding ass'stance naval of with the BIG HATS WEIGH LITTLE. Why Rallroads Have On Them. Raised Rates Washington, D. C Women’s bats have larger and have lar er been lighter in weig an's hat weig and more room than 10 dig 10 ye A freight or express only a tenth of the hats and the carriers ralged make up the difference That the anawer of the railroads and ex companies to plaint Millinery sociation, which was the Interstate Comn it was purely into which the length ping did not enter The millirers gay the rateg are too high and t carriers say the evolution of the headgear simply made them put on the increase ou a “aizno takes ago hold did, rates Are * will Cal ™ iii it once the to reus the AB. before of heard Sree {‘omn gion a hats, q jestion of the THAW WAS WORTH $100,000. Mother A Witness In Suit By Coun- sel For Fees, New York (Special).—Mrs Copeley Thaw, mother of Thaw, was a witness the brought by Clifford W. lawyer, for alleged counsel fees in Thaw's trial for the murder of Stan- ford White, When counsel asked Mrs if her son was wealthy at the time he hired lawyer, she replied: “He had some money of his own, but not near so much as the news. papers stated.” “What was he worth?” 1 should say about $400,000.” in suit U. 8, Building For Grafton, Washington, D. C. (Special). -. Benator N. B, Scott, of West Virginia, procured the passage through the Sen- ate of his bill calling for an appro. priation of $200,000 for the erection of & new Federal public building to house the postofiice and other Gov ernment offices at Grafton, W. Va. The building is to be erected on » site that has already been procured by the Treasury Department. The bill will now go to the House for consideration. A BATTLE WITH BANK BURGLARS Posse in Auto Chase Train Ban- dits Brarded, THEY HAD BLOWN UP A BANK. Entire Population Aroused By Ex. plosion In Bank Of Coal City, IlL—Highwaymen Leap On A Freight Train With Plunder— Pursuers Use Autos And Pitched Battle Follows—Three Bandits Wounded—Two Escape, Chicago bandits, masked OoG Five {Special ). escaping with Bank of Coal City, at Coal exchanged shots with posse citizen: Three of the rob. bers being wounded and captured. Coal Clty is miles southwest Chicago. stolen from City, the Iii. ¥ 03 a 6a of The marauders a freight the began entered on train, and watchman, Frye, the night and engi The robbers then blew up the contents of a Bante Fe their plunder, stamps. Three and, after the the safe, freight seizing leaped on train with was partly in inflicted by small shot were rested at Morris, 111. The wounds were received, it reported, when a posse, formed along line of the Sante Fe, came up with the fugitives 8 the carrying the niled the town, Ghetto succeeded ling honds § ar is out in bandi and, notified watchman south of E. D Watts, the time, Watts a repeating shotgun ried a revolver At his phone, night miles Dr station at the robbers en ay WAaEe and the Al 5a " fy MAZCON ARIK ch ic the Cars train were made filed before ; nission by the Lack- Company, and from panies. alleging discriz {es vivania and «i defendants the Inlerstite Ce Comm awanna Steel other nation on com coal 1 { nd LO88Ip Ind Spring ber iged itself in fashion and had every n President's Cabinet ex- intending to gign. All were vigorously de- f the 0 tes ing § ¢ rumors i eo! of re thean ior Ballin ns of dispo- s approximately 1 Wyoming wh are ntain deposits of oil, Ary reservation probably created in Arizona the { the National Guard of that used as a target Taft visit SU PPOs. for fio he range cancelled his indianapolis dent 0 en- nt on Chairman Lodge, of the Senate of Living Committee, introduc- a bill restricting cold storage iods and requiring the period of on food Cost ed per The House Committee on Foreign Affairs 1ejected the Senate bill au- thorizing officers of the Army and from foreign powers. The House Ways and Means Com- mittee acted favorably upon the Sen- ate bill for the protection of the seal fisheries of Alaska. The House adopted the conference ployers’ Liability Act. Reports show the Navy League of the United States to be in a flourish- Senators Warren and Heyburn had a clash in the Senate over the former's bill authorizing the disposal of surplus waters of government ir. rigation projects to corporations. The will of the late Justice Brew- er, of the United States Supreme Court, was fi'ed for probate. His home in Washington and most of his.personal property was bequeath- ed to his widow, Books, magazines and other pub- leations printed in raised letters for the blind will be sent through the mails free of postage if a bil] pass ed by the House is approved by the Sennte, Robert 8. Sharp, collector of ine ternal revenue at Nashville, Tenn. Jus appointed chief postoflice inspec STEEL BARON FRANK HOFFSTOTT 1S INDICTED A BIPLAE DROPS ON- AUTOMOBILE Car Co. in Graft Scandal. Grand Jury Recommends The Pre sentment of Frank N. Hoffstat, Said To Have Paid Big Sum To City Councilman To Name Bank Defense To Charge Of Councilman With $20,000, The Pittsburg with the Pittsburg prom { Special) ised in the graft came the grand jury of which of Frank the wenl in is ident of : RA most ihe country The court ordered drawn against Hoffstat with erand jury's namely, on twp. counts and conspiracy to The presentment stat shall ordered witne “and in do so immediately of forthwith 1 pres ( gmpany of the in t} the presentment : presenimen of bribery cily Holl to appear does defraud the reads that De case ht that the attorney Allegheny County ceed {vy tradite him.’ nciuded tion 0 ex irsued phis Meet, AN AVIATOR'S AWFUL SWIFT PLUNGE. J. C. Mart, A Skillful And Daring Flyer, Escapes With A Wrenched Kunee—Canopy Top On The Tour- ing Car Protects The Women And Children Occupants From Serie ous Injury—A Thrilling Close Of The First Aviation Meet In The Tennessee City, Memphis, Loe ane which of 95 downward infield alight n-pasienger tour- (Bpecial). 4 vipi 1 stoeMy Bai the ¥ * 5 ere, ig On to p of ing 1 which re feale] three dren CANOPY be ver the touring car saved th »f its occupants, Was siightly ip- smashed inte ght under the ut CA DEe th no in bruised WOrse thi . fio had wreniched ght Cus Juries Eeverely and and a sl Findings Of The Jury. » following in abbreviated form, 5 # uy £55 a» fi» 3 ig find- ry ne the mos rand jury's presen nt 3 - Hoffstat, oe 1 Ys aE ai La : IK iN Pressed ald ’ gigent v reid. : TE ’ Bank of ly identified to Charles councilman, a brilx of coun. BURGLARS USE CHLORO}? ORM. Ten Members Of Two Hendered Families Are Unconscious. 5 (Mi escape and Laer necious overed th h hey be to suspect that they a 4 loroformed Later uel! Kern and fam- ily, ived on above, Were stil} from the effects of the drug Was not Lt . ipl robbery began ¥ \ his the floo: iffering who | LT % A ouna WOMEN AS JAILBREAKERS. Men For Release Two Heady And Have Auto Flight, Denver, Col. (Special) two women, who to to i proe are thought smuggl th ba a vided a: nol tw the guardhe The men ing sentence Smith, an army arrested have BAWSE Ww which cut the window a ile for the sOners escat at Fort Logan W. T. Shaw. await- robbery, and J. P deserter from recently i * mili F pr ed from Mise Were for Leavenworth, La Junta, Col Soldiers, the escaped men, learned that they fled In an automobile with two wom- A dozen other prisoners decline at en Bank Robbed By Masked Men. Randolph, Neb. (Special). First National Bank of Randolph v4 robbed of $10,000 by three masked men, who bound and gagged Town Marshal Carroll and placed him In plane crashed into it the omobile when the aero Mra Bd Ritter, Emits the onl a slight ter was car, hav up the “eG dows 1h were Edna Wilmer ward L.ouls id hab a thriy aviation followes #8 the caught spin righ CO Tee —" PRY WIDOW SHOT DOWN BY HER ADMIRER The Man Then Puts Bullet Through His Heart. Chased nable n Wik by her Margaret whose Chi by superis Life Insur he had a Walsh tarp f, and afi- send. fali- Co every effort the secret eanlime daughier, with her grandparents being rushed here on to see her mother Dee AWAY family ” <4 4 shot hime coeded in his heart g£ in the the re01d 13-yea fore she Walsh MM fo living at Pen- a daughter is for a telephone ocom- {Edward C. Walsh) Bates Park, Bevery, er (John B. Walsh) il Street, Baltimore, and Mrs. Ryan had both with Mrs. E. 1. Kel eet, Wilkinsburg, for Their meetings had and an attachment between them Mra wn an inclination te ng else but a friendly relationship, but Walsh's insistence on an elopement is believed to have precipitated today's tragedy luncheon a quarrel tated and Walsh chased into the house from the porch, shooting at her as she He shot her three times. and fell, apparently dead, in the a $ where work 8On No gaid arding Str TroOwn had anytl wd Shortly precipi the woman after to as she i § i i the vault. The robbers escaped. Cyclone Strikes Ohio Town, Youngstown, Ohio (Special). — A cyclone struck the Lansingville sec tion of this city at 2.30 o'clock, dur- ing a heavy rainstorm, wrecking a dozen buildings and unroofing sever. al others. Five persons are r.port- ed to be injured, none seriously. Thaw Spent $700 To Recover Whip. New York (8pecial).—1t cost Clif. ford W, Hartridge, attorney for Har ry K. Thaw, in Thaw's first trial for than $700 to recover a dog whip with which it is said Thaw beat various girls, so the lawyer testified in his suit against Thaw's mother for $82,000 for his services. The 6 anid, was given to a wom. pawned the whip. The suit was not concluded. and dropped dead over the prostrate Ryan Friends of both are unable to ae nt for the shooting. They had The two had attended church to- gether several times Mra. Ryas rame to Pittsburg last October and Walsh in September. Two poems written and signed by Walsh were found in his room. One fs entitled “Vespers of the Wild Winde’ and the other “A Miner's Reverie.” In the latter he writes of hearing his baby's voice, and there is also mention of “Sarah.” On the mirror of his raom ta thie motto: “A resgimist ie 3 man who would rather be right than happy” Mrs. Ryan is a stenographer, Congul P. BE Taylor noter from a Norwegian newspaper the organiza tion of a corporation for raising hogs on an extensive scale. A farm bas been purchased a few miles from Stavanger and is being fitted for the purpose, The company 3isns to make a specialty of raizing thorough. dred hogs and a'so to supply the In eal meat market, Shipments of French velvet rid- bons from St. Etienne to the United States, writes Consul Willlam HB Hunt, advanced from $387179 a 1508 to $937.148 In 1909, | .
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