THE NEWS
Domestic
It is stated that Theodore Roose
velt is expected to exert all his in-
fluence to persuade Hughes to re-
Hnquish the Supreme Bench for the
present and run again for governor
next fall
Martin Van Buren Smith, a metal-
jurgical engineer of New York, was
killed by falling out a hotel window
at Reading, Pa.
Mining Engineer J. IL. Ames
tramped 22 miles across a California
desert to bring succor to six lost
companions,
San Francisco has raised $6,154,-
T6565 of the $7,000,000 needed toward
getting the Panama-Pacific Exposi-
tion,
Mrs. Mary A. Lavender, of Chica-
go, who sued Rev. E. D Crawford
. for slander, was awarded $4,000,
Gen. Frederick Funston, reported
dangerously ill, is now out of danger
The Department of Justice refus-
ed a request of Charles W. Morse,
who is serving a sentence in the At-
lanta Penitentiary, for permission to
attend his son's graduation from
Yale University,
President Taft sigaed
and Harbor Bill, but sent
to the Senate saying he
the system a bad one and
sign another.
Extradition of Porter
Italy to be tried for k
formerly Mary
resisted on the gr that the you
is mentally und On the
hand, !
an, Capt
the Coast
thing
Charlton's
fshment ir
The
State
the
ould not
W
Scott Castle
lead
Island
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and bri
registered at a Chicago hotel
and Mrs. William Throop Rogers
Yale has conferred a
master of arts on Miss Jane Addams,
of Hull House, Chicago
id
\
as
8 oor v
degree o
Foreign
Prince Chun, regent of China, has
order the reincarnation of a Budd-
hist hizh priest in Tibet who lost
his head when he
pleasure the since deposed Dalal
Lama
The German
ing an inquiry
concessions in
that
of
government,
regarding
Asia Minor,
the promoters reach
suggests
an
pany.
The Premier of
that the governme
gram would be carried out
protest of the Vatican
The Russian Council of the
pire passed the Finnish bill on its
first reading. The bill is bitterly op-
posed in Finland.
Stanford Burton, an American
dental surgeon practicing at Oxford,
England, poisoned himself.
Coloned Jose R. Pizarro was ap-
pointed Peruvian minister of war,
succeeding Gen. P. E. Muniz, who,
owing to ill health, resigned when
it seemed prebable that the bound-
ary dispute between Feru and Ecua-
dor would be settled through arbl-
tration.
The Grecian government has
granted the demand of the Ruman-
lan foreign office in satisfaction of
The International Congress of
Chamber of Commerce at London
shelved a resolution recommending
the establishment of a permanent
court of arbitral justice
The United States battleships In-
diana, Massachusetts and lowa, with
500 middies from the Naval Acad-
emy on a practice cruise, arrived at
Plymouth, Eng.
a Greek mobs attack
manian steamer
The leaders of the Japanese .80.
cialist party and six associates were
arrested in Tokio on the charge of
manufacturing Infernal machines
General Mena's forces of 1,500
men occupied San Vicente, Nicara-
gua, and is reported s&s advancing
upon Acoyapa
Capt. F. 8 Cody, the aviator,
while making a flicht at Aldersho!
fell 100 feet and was geriously in-
Jured,
smperor William arrived at Kiel
for the annua! yachting regatia
Spain announced
n
i
and
ignored
upon a Ru-
A PITCHED BATTLE
WITH DARING. BANDITS
Shoe Manufacturer and Police-
man Shot to Death.
Robbers Pump Lead From Magazine
Revolvers, In Business
Of Lynn, Mass, At Manufacturer
Pursue Highwaymen—One Ends
Life When Surrounded-—Another
Shot In
Wounded, Sarrenders,
Four
on
Lynn, Mass. (Special). 1
Russian Poles, who had been
{ in New York, shot and killed Thomas
hree
Viwiw or
living
facturer, and Policeman James
Carroll; seized a bag containing $4.-
{ 500, which Mr. Landregan was carry-
{ing
{his factory,
right and
Within
tured one of
Bank to
fled,
left at the pursuing crowd
the
bandits
from the Lynn National
and then firing
two hours police cap
3
killed
the thi
the
i second, fa wounded
and recovers the
money
lives i § Lan a
Girl Saves Her
Horse:
ir y }
at the hostler's head and seized the
bridle,
Miss Baker, calling
telephone the police,
threw her arms around
neck and cried:
“Don't take my pet
The man dropped
10 feet, stopped and
The bullet whizzed
Meantime the pursuers were almost
on him, He fired several shots at
them and rushed up over High Rock,
dropping the bag of money
A Battle In The Brush,
Crossing a large field near the out-
he plunged into the brush
officers and 500 hundred ecfti-
surrounded the fleld The offi-
| cers began to beat the brush, firing,
{and he returned the fire Officers
| Moore and Lynch found the man hid
| ing behind a bush, his index finger
i shot off. They sprang upon him and
{disarmed him
Officers Grady and
the patrol wagon, overtook a se
bandit on Boston Street. He
| fire They jumped from the
i and fired He dropped and
a fow minutes
The third bandit nearly
{the fleld, Police and citize
| close upon him. One of his
went through the
| Crowley Suddenly
drop It was
attempted
cal
to her mother
rushed up,
the horse's
to
the bridle,
fired at
by her
ran
her
head
| skirts,
| Fifty
zens
Thompson, in
ond
opened
wagon
suicl
inatiol
exXan
been
Ivankowski Confelses.
ater ts ¥ i"
ral hours
_nGe A «
ed---A Great
RECORD OF CONGRESS,
Bills Passed,
Main
n o™
Reorganization
house
Two now
Additi
“White
Agricult
lands
sor vice
batt
ave'' trai
urai
gettlement on coal
Main Bills Not Passed,
Federa! Incorporation bill
Seven bills covering the admin-
istration's conservation system
A bill to limit the issue it1=
junctions,
New form
Alaska
Ship subsidy
Bureau of Public Health
Codification of postal laws, in-
creasing rates on second ciass
mail
of
of government for
Farmer Killed By Train.
Martinsburg, W. Va. (Special).
William E. Mustetter, a well-known
i young farmer near North Mountain,
this county, was fatally
while attempting to board a freigh
train on the Baltimore and Ohlo
Rallroad near his home
beneath the wheels, and his arm
and jeg were ground to a pulp. He
was rushed to a local hospital and
the mangled limbs were amputated,
but he died today without regain.
ing consciousness. He was unmar-
and reveral sisters and brothers
| Bequeaths $17,000,000 To Family.
Bethlehem, Pa. (Special).—Under
{the will of the late Elisha P. Wilbur,
financier, and once president of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, an estate
of $17,000,000 is bequeathed to his
family So far ag is known, there
was no gift to a public or charitable
institution,
Women Sit As Jurymen.
Hiahns Peak, Col. (8Special).—One
of the first women juries in a court
of record in the United States was
ssrembled in the County Court by
Judge Morning to pass upon the
ganity of Elizabeth Hutchinson,
Hahns Peak was almost wiped out
by a recent fire and court could not
locate enough eligible men in the
town to make up the necessary jury
of six. The women were duly sworn,
reard the evidence and adjudged
Viss Hutchinson Insane.
Rush of W
inal Day.
OIE
ckeraham
tha
the
month
A House Blown Up.
Va { Special)
Brooks,
eight
Petersburg, «The
home of Frank farmer of
Dinwiddie County, miles from
Petersburg, was destroyed dyna-
mite and fire
evidently set
a
by
{1dAine
building
and the family
The
afire
{ blown to pieces by dynamite
{ therein, which
heat Th houses
and de
Brooks
thousand
e explosion jarred
gevernl miles around
outbuilding on the
The loss is several
| for
‘dollars
BY TELEGRAPH
A House bill amending the immi-
gation laws to permit certain persons
ito complete thelr naturalization
| without being subjected to the delay
{ generally incident to the naturaliza-
tion process was passed by the Sen-
ate
| Senator Smith secured the ac-
| ceptance of an amendment to the
| Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill car-
| rying an appropriation for an inves-
tigation into the feasibility of drain-
ing the swamp lands in Maryland.
i A House bill authorizing the grant-
{ing of papers of honorable discharge
‘to minors who served under assum-
{ed names during the Civil War and
ithe war with Spain, was passed by
{the Senate,
A bill has been Introduced in Con-
gress providing for a monument to
the memory of Hiram Crouk, said
to be the last survivor of the War
of 1812, who dled in 1905, aged 105
years
A Joint resolution passed the Sen-
até extends two years the time dur-
ing which ex-Confederates may file
claime for losses of personal proper.
ty after surrender.
fenators Bacon, Guggenheim and
| Crawford were appointed as a com-
mittee to represent the Senate at the
coming cere2onies in celebration of
the Mexican Centennial,
PORTER CHARLTON
THE WIFE MURDERER
Caught in New York Landing
From Ship From Italy.
HE MAKES A SIGNED CONFESSION.
8, A.
Liner By
Charl
Cone
Capt. Henry H, Scott, U, Lad
To Meet The Incoming
Premonition That Porter
ton Was Aboard-—Prisoner
That He Killed His Wife
Mallet, Tossed Body And
Into Lake Como—Penni-
fesses
With
Trunk
ed Name.
A HONEYMOON TRAGEDY
8 Porter Charlton
iter of HL H
Franci
scott
San
vaundevil
vaudaevil
G1
1910
settlement
f extraditio
his arrest
Captain
80 accurate}
em o
8 foresight, dire
it falis little s
nit resual
arrest 5
on Fishers
Ct
otl's
jon,
young :
Island,
off New deo!
obtained
and went
passengers of
Hoboken
Hit
in his signed
ton declared that no one «
had h l in the deat
io
ng liners
i aided him
Her With Mallet,
confession
dete
Charl
ise had
nN of 8 wile
incompatibil
After he had
ambling way
condensed it
§ ) atement which
he asked the prisoner to
was written on regular court bianks
used for ition
His confessio
“My name
live at 204
dep
follows
Porter Chariton 1
West Fiftv-fifth Street,
New York Iam in twenty-one years
was born in Omaha, , and
a bank clerk My wife and |
lived happily together, but she had
an uncontrollable temper and so had
L
n
i
+8
Neb,
“On the night of the murder she
had the worst outbreak of temper
I ever saw. | told her to keep quiet
or 1 would make her keep quiet
Then she had another outbreak. |
took up a wooden mallet, with which
I had been repairing a table, and hit
her on the head and body two or
three times. At midnight I put the
body in a trunk, dragging it to the
lake and threw it in.
“1 spent the night at Moltrasio.
Then | went to Como and then to
Genoa and boarded the Princess
Irene, of the North German Lloyd
line.
(Signed) “Porter Charlton.”
BOT AA AANA
$15,000,000 In Fake Cures,
Poston (Special) Over $15,000,
000 ig annually poured into the cof-
fers of those who exploit and adver-
tise “fake consumption cures, ac
cording {o a statement issued by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The
report stated that for this vast sum,
victims receive nothing in return,
but are often permanently injured
and in many cases deprived of the
chance for a real cure
UNITED STATES SENATOR
GORE REFUSED BIG SUM
Says Momey Was offered Him
For His Influence.
The
Causes A Sensation In The Senate,
He Was Approached By A
lepresentative Of J. FF. McMuar-
Of Oklahoma, With A Sug-
gestion That The Money Would
Be Available If He
Legislation Affecting
Land Cases.
Oklahoma Senator's Statement
Bays
ray,
Fees In
Washington, D
7%
i
Gore,
ged
[terpreted as an
{ Cit in the
{in conneclion
and town-
charge
Senate,
{ The
| Ihe
{the
|
the House
juence ge
INTO WHITE-HOT METAL
Of Steelworker Consumed [ee
Of
Body
fore Eyes Companions,
VOTES
S20 000 v0,
ill To
Reclamation
Tesne Notes Fe
ive Bravan.
for
an
been
mid
CRB
ted States
had
huildineg r
Dulicding ol
d
ale
re
Leaves 830,000 To Employe,
i ipecial) For
employer
faithful
the
his candy
girl, Miss
rewardes
g (Spe
= wt
services t her from
in
YOURE
n
{ime gh began to work
: Blore,
Minnie
M
CRAY $50,000, half hi
will
OnDerate
stores and Miss Eiche
anced the
of them
with
estate, l¢ ! et y the
Charles issner
several cand)
ny 1 “IB
10 post
Fatally Wounds Himself,
Birmingham, Ala, (Special)
Johnson, former president
Alabama Consolidated
Iron Company, shot and fatally
jured himself at his home here. The
| shot was fired with suicidal intent
and physicans say it ie impossible for
him to recover After having shot
i himself Mr
iattributed his
| verses,
~{30v
R
{Coal
act to business re-
Across Continent In 77 Days,
San Francisco (Special). —lLower-
ing all records for the walk across
the Continent, Jack Eldredge, aged
26 years, arrived here after covering
4,000 miles In 77 days. Eldredge's
performance won him a purse of $2.
000 offered “Hy the Boston Athletic
Club for any one covering the 4,000
miles within 100 days. The record
for the distance had been held by
Edward Payson Weston, who walked
the 4,000 miles in 105 days last year
A oA:
Princess Feodora Dead,
Karlsruhe (Special). — Princess
Feodora of sSchleswig-Holstein, the
youngest sister of Empress Auguste
Victoria, died suddenly from heart
failure. The princess was born July
8, 1874. She never married She
had written several volumes of
verses and was an artist of merit
Owing to the death of her sister,
the Empress has cancelled all her
social engagements for the near
future and her expected visit to
Kiel for the yachting regatta.
| Pwenty Passengers Carried Om
| Schedule Time, Making The Dis~
tance, 300 Miles, In Nine Hoursd
i The Dirigible Easily Beat The Exe
press Train Time Between Mann<
heim And Dusseldorf—Zeppelin'd
Dramatic Career.
(Rpecial).—
passenge
wher
t, they
iH Een gersg
successfully made the first scheduled
iri to thix
n nine
The
BETVICE
first
wa ingugu nere,
Zeppelin's grees ers
Deutschland
L.ount
tho
ite in the
traversed.
railroad
annbeim
dis
the
hours.
3d the
The
the
nately
ried
124
» rate
best
net rated
raved
a1 vl
sold
$25
Fogingn 2
SLAYS TENANT AND WOMAN.
The Tenant's
Surrenders.
Als Wounds
And Then
1 { 8pecial)
Ky
Farmer
Mother
Jackson, Asbury
well-to-do of
County, and once a promi
figure in the Hargis feud, shot
and killed Asbury Fugate, a tenant
on: Spicer’s farm, and Dennie John-
son, a woman, and wounded Fugate's
mother
The killing occurred in the coun-
try and the first known of it was
when Speer tele; honed that he had
killed Fugate and shot Fugate's
mother and was coming te Jackson
give himself up
Spicer telephoned to Sheriff Hued-
gon that he would come to own and
surrender, but the latter lefl at once
for Jett's Creek, the of the
tragedy Later it was reported that
| Mrs. Fugate will recover from her
{ wounds, but that Asbury Fugate and
a woman, Dennie Johnson, who was
a member of the Fugate household,
were both dead.
Spicer a farmear
Breathitt
nent
io
soene
Many Entombed In Mine.
Halifax, N. 8. (Special) Follow
ing a mine explosion in the Chignee-
to coal mines of the Maritime Coal
and Power Company, it was reported
{that many members of the night
shift were entombed. Searching
parties who tried to penetrate into
the mine were driven back by gas,
and it will be impossible te search
[the lower levels until the fire is
| extinguished
Beautiful Girl Saicide.
Covington, Ky. (Special). Miss
Nellie Rye, 18% years old, considered
the most beautiful girl in Covington,
committed suicide by drinking ear.
‘bolle acid. She sent a child to a
[neighboring hous: for te acid and
iat once drank it, rurnisg to her
mother later and telling her what
she had done
Warrant For Charlton.
London (Special) A warrant
was issued in London for the arrest
of Porter Charlton, whose wife,
Mary Scott Castle Charlton, was
murdered and her body thrown into:
Lake Como, after having been placed
in & trunk. The issuance of a war
rant followed a request made by the
Itallan government, which holds the
opinion that Charlton is in hiding In
England, They do not believe be
has salled for the United States.