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TS BUOYANT IY COURT
Five Men Chosen For Jury
to Try Harry EK. Thaw.
MOTHER ABSENT; STRAIN TELLS,
Sm —
Forty-five Taleamen Rejected nt Son
satienal Murder Trial For Slayiag
NEW YORK, Jan 25 —After trying
in vain for many hours to secure ad-
ditional jurors to try Harry K. Thaw
for killing Stanford White and just
when counsel and spectators and even
the defendant himself were drowsy
fren the menotony of the proceedings
there came 8 sudden chauge in the tide
and within the last three quarters of
an hour three new jurors were accepted
and sworn In Thus five jurors have
been accepted out of Afty talesmuen
examined, leaving seven men yet to be
chosen.
Thaw, with head thrown back and
shoulders squared, strode bueyantly
inte court. The prisoners spirits had
risen to u high pitch, and his demeanor
was in sharp contrast to that of the
sad faced wife who gased at Bim
through red and tired eyes and gave
20 sign of greeting.
It was a dramatic entrance that be
made. There have been other prison-
ers on trial for their lives who have
enjoyed the publicity of being stared
at by & crowded courtroom. and, like
them, this young Pittsburg millionaire
is apparentiy pleased at the situation
he has brought about.
His movements seem to be inten-
tionally exaggerated as If he were
playing a role that he enjoyed, and
he evinced considerable interest In
watching the spectators.
While the prisoner's actions showed
he was in an almost jubilant frame of
mind the absence of bis mother and
his sister, the Countess of Yarmouth,
eaused considerable comment.
Twenty three talesmen had been ex
amined without success when the un
expected Dappened. and two talesmen
im sucoresion proved acceptable to both
a )
JUSTICE JAMES FITZGERALD.
District Atterney Jerome, representing
the peeple, and the defendant's attor-
noys. Then followed the drawing of
five more taleamen, who were quickly
excused for one reasom or another.
Henry C. Haruey, a plano dealer, about
fifty-five years of sage, way the thirty-
first talesman to be called, and as he
bad never formed am opinion in the
case and had read but little about it
in the papers he was quickly accepted.
The other jurors choseu were George
Pfaff, thirty-four years of age, a dealer
in machinists’ supplies, and Arthur §.
Campbell, forty-two years of age, =a
superintendent of telegraph and tele
phone construction. The two jurors
selected the first day of the trial were
Deming B. Smith, a retired manufac
tarer, who will serve as foreman, and
Charles H. Feeke, a shipping agent.
Each of the jurors ls married and has a
family.
The tedious manner in which the se
lection of jurors proceeded makes It
difficult to predict just when the trial
panel of twelve will finally be filled.
The order of the court that the jury
must be kept together under the care
of bailiffs had the apparemt effect of
making many of the talesmen reluctant
te serve. Various excuses are offered,
ome man declaring that te be locked up
for two months would se wreck his
perves as to make A calm consideration
of the case an lmpoasibility. [It will
probably require two or three days yet
te complete the jury.
The fect that Thaw's attorneys asked
several of the talesmen if they had any
prejudice against any particular line or
character of defense was taken by
many to indicate that the defense may
be either the so called “unwritten law”
or emotions! lusanity or a combination
of both. Thaw's attorneys again of.
fered no objection, however. to the dis
trict attorney's guestions as to whether
or mot the pruposed jurors would be
guided by the actual law as laid down
by the court to the exclusion of any
fanciful law they might the elves im-
pert into the case. Each of the accept.
od Jurors promised to abl Ly the In
terpretation of the court
Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the
@efendant, war net In court, as she
was greatly fatigued by the first ses
slons and was on thk verge of a col
lapse at cue time Wednesday night.
She remains in her apartinents, where
she is attended by her daughter, the
Countess of Yarmouth. The other
members of the family were iu their
accustomed wets iu behind the
dete rd N brother
FIRST NEGRO CONFERENCE.
Beoker 1. Washington Striving Vor
Hacial Harmony In the South.
COLUMBIA, § C, Jan. 25 -—Booker
T. Washington, president of the Tuske-
gee institute, has addressed the first
negro mace conference ever held in
South Carvlina.
Washington spoke at Allen univer
sity, a negro Institution of this city,
and also addressed a large andience st
the Columbia theater. The first floor
of the house was reserved for white
people.
Washington after praising the work
of Rev. Richard Carroll, the moving
spirit of the conference, sald that the
holding of this conference in South
Carolina was in hiz opinion evidence
that the friendly feeling between the
races was steadily growing. Washing-
ton sald In part
“] was born here In the south, my
early boyhood was spent In slavery
here In the south. and there ls Bo spot
on earth so dear lo we as the soll of
our southern states, where we of both
races for so many years have lived and
tolled
“We of both races are to live here In
the south side by side for all time, no
inatter what theories may be advanced
and emphasized. This to any seusible
man. it seems to me, is the fact which
we must face. Since we are to remain
together the question which we should
constantly consider is how we can best
do it in peace in harmony and in a
way that each race will serve the In-
terests of the other, in a way that each
race will be made more happy, more
prosperous because of the presence of
the other. It is the extreme of folly
and almost a crime for auy individual
or group of individuals to pursue a
course which will encofifage racial
strife when two peoples are to remain
together for all time
“1 was glad to see that a brave
strong white man from Mississippl a
few days ago at the southern cotton
convention held In Birmingham stood
up and sald that he bad got to the
point where he was tired of hearing
the negro coutinually abused. That
opinion represents the attitude of thou:
sands of our best southern white peo
ple.”
WILLIAM WHITELY MURDERED.
Famous Merchant of Leadon Killed
by Youth, Who Then Shot Himself.
LONDON, Jan. 25 Willlam Whitely,
founder of the first big department
store in London, was shot and killed
by a young man who afterward shot
himself
Mr. Whitely was upon the point of
leaving his store when hls assailant
rushed wp to him with a revolver in
his hand, fired several shots and the
merchant fell dead where he stood
The assassio then emptied the revolr-
or into his own body
At the hospital the assassin gave the
pame of Cecll Whitely and sald he
was a son of the murdered man. Rel.
atives of the late Mr Whitely who
have seen the assassin say that they
do not recognize him.
He is lingering between life and
death, with little hope of surviving.
Williams Whitely was one of the old-
est and best known merchants in Lon-
den and was known by the title of
“Universal Provider” The present
Whitely company has au authorized
capital of over $4,500,000
An Euglish army officer wagered
that Mr. Whitely could furnish any
thing another officer named. The lat
ter took the bet and sald be wanted
six elephants. The first officer said Le
felt certain Mr, Whitely could furnish
them and, after privately communicat-
ing with the merchant, went to his
store with the second officer later In
the day. To the astonishment of the
latter the six elephants were produced.
Mr. Whitely had secured them from a
menagerie, and the Arst officer won his
bet.
Passenger Jumped Overboard,
CHARLESTON, 8 C., Jun. 20.—-The
Clyde steamship Comanche, which was
run down by a salling vessel ou her
last trip north, lost a passenger by
suicide on her following trip south
While still lo sight of Sandy Hook
lightship about dusk oun Tuesday a
steerage passenger, Patrick Burus,
leaped from the forward mall into the
sea. A buoy and line was thrown at
ouce, but he paid no beed to it, and
a boat failed to rescue him.
Shoerks Cause Panic at Schenectady.
SCHENECTADY, N.Y, Jan 25-A
distinet earthquake shock was felt In
this city at 2:30 o'clock in the morning
in several homes dishes rattled and
fell from pantry shelves. ln one of the
downtown office buildings a large plece
of plastering fell. lu the residential
section many were frightened and
rushed frow their homes luto the four
teens below zero atmosphere. No dam-
age was done.
Riggins Semewhnt Better,
OLEAN, N.Y, Jan. 23.--The follow-
Ing bulletin has been given out at for
mer Governor Higgins’ home: “Mr
Higglus is boldipg hix own and has
taken some nourishment, He has ful
ly maintained the improvement mdi
cated twenty fours ngo as to heart and
temsperature.”
Eighteen Japanese Saved From Sen.
VICTORIA, B. C., Jau 20 -Eighteon
shipwrecked Jnapauese seamen taken
from the sinking Japanese schooner
Kayama Maru about 200 miles off the
Japanese coast were landed here hy
the steamer Jydeus, which reachsd
port from Liverpool via the orfeut
Three Hundred Flee For Their Live.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan, 25 -Tel
ephoune advices from Meron, south of
this city, state that the Wabash river
levees, protectivg an entire township
, broke away, and the 300
valley Lad to fee for
Admiral Landed Rescue Force
on Officials’ Request.
IS ENTIRELY FREE FROM BLAME,
Leadon Dispateh Says That Although
Reosevell ling Ended incident Gov
ernment Will Call For a Reck-
ening From Swettenham,
WASHINGTON, Jan. To ascer-
tain exactly the conditions upon which
American paval forces were employed
in Junaica, and especially to deter
mine the point whether or not they
were used at the request of the colo
nial authorities or whether thelr ser
ice was gratuitous, Secretary Metealr
called upou Admiral Davis through his
superior, Admiral Evans, for copies of
the text of the letters Letween the ad
miral and the British “authorities of
Jamaica. These Lave been received
by cable, and a careful comparison
wade at the aavy departinent between
the letters as furnished Ly Admiral
Davis and the same as appeared lu the
press dispatches from Kiugstou show
that they are substantially alike, the
only difference being some trivial con-
densation of terms. This polut Is es-
tablished, that Admiral Davis did uot
land naval forces without request, for
in his report to the department, among
other things, he says:
“Yielding to the entreaties of the
colonial secretary and the ipspector of
police, who spoke for the governor, I
Janded fifty men under arms from the
Indiana.”
This was under date of Jan. 18, and
on the same day the following letter
was delivered to Admiral Davis from
the governor of the island:
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Jamaica, Jan 1S
Sir —~1 beg to thank your excellency
for the kind assistance which you render
ed to the government of this colony. 1
have the hoher to be, sir, your obedient
servant, J. A SWETTENHAM,
Governer.
lu the opinion of the department off
clals Admiral Davis is thus entirely
relieved (rom any criticism for his
action in landing naval forces
A Loudon dispatch says that the
closing of the iucident by President
Roosevelt Is cousidersd there to ap
ply to the International aspect only, as
there remains a cousiderable reckoning
between Great Britaiu and Goveruor
Swettenham
ORRETT SETS FORTH FACTS.
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Conditions Improving at Kingston.
Forty More Bodies Found,
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 25 —-Gov-
ernor Bwettenhain Las written a courte:
ous letter to John F. Stevens, chief en-
gineer of the Panama canal thaukiog
him for the tents and supplies sent
from the lsthwus by the steamer Ad-
vauce.
The governor sald
“Convey my grateful and heartfelt
acknowledgment to the citizens of the
United States aud the officials and em-
ployees of tLe canal commission who
so prowptly testified their sywpathy
with suffering Kingston."
The governor nlso has written a let-
ter to the secretary of state for Haltl
accepting sand thauking the secrefary
for food, wedicines and the sum of
$5,000 sent to Klogstou on board the
Haltlan guuboat Alesis Nord This
communication refers to the consign.
ment of relief which the goveruor was
said to have declined
Willams H. Orrett, the Awerican
vice cousul bere, has published a let-
ter setting forth the facts relative to
the landing of marines from the Amer
ican warships under command of Rear
Admiral Davis. This letter Is as fol-
lows:
“l met Rear Admiral Davis at bead-
quarters house and latroduced him to
Coloalal Secretary Bourne. The ad-
miral offered his services to land lm-
mediately such food and medical sup-
plies as were needed and to detall all
his men to Lelp generally. While In
the midst of this faterview the deputy
fuspector general arrived burriedly
aud reported to the colonial secretary
that there was a serious mutiny at
the geueral penitentiary and added it
could be quelled only with an armed
force, The ald of the American ad-
miral was invoked and accepted, and
be arranged that a party be landed at
once. The admiral, In the presence
of the colonial secretary, the deputy
inspector general and wyself, gave in.
structions to his tag lieutenant to re-
turn at ounce to the flagship, to order
the Indiana to auchor off the peniten-
tiary and to laud an armed party and
to land eny other parties the authori-
flea might need
“Only a stall guard was landed with
the working party which saved the
archives at the cousulate, aud when
these men had completed thelr work
they joined the general working party.
“Frerything that Adwiral Davis did
was with the full knowledge and con.
sent of the authorities
Conditions here are slowly Improv.
Ing. There Is no scarcity of fol.
Cash allowauces to the needy nre be
ing made by the archbishop and the
rellef conmittee. There are 200 per.
sons destitute and without homes
Many bodies are belng recovered dal.
ly. Forty more were found Wednes.
day. The exact number of bodiea
buried or cremated Is not known, but
it will probably reach 00, and It Is
believed that the total fatalities will
reach 800 persons
There Is great consternation here as
A result of a cablegram from London
saying that all the lnsurance compa.
niles disclaims Habllity for Josses In-
curred as a result of the earthquake
and fire. Even the most sanguive ray
that this precludes the possibility of
rebuilding the city.
The earth abocks coutinue, but they.
STEVENS TO HEAD CANAL WORK. |
Ex-Chalrman Shonta Deunles That |
There Was Any Frictian. i
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 —Annonnce- |
ment was made at the war department |
that the offices of chairman and chief
engineer of the Isthmian canal commis |
sion would be combined and that Mr. |
Stevens, tlie present chief engineer, |
would be given the appointment, the |
understanding being that he will main- |
tain a residence on the isthmus !
Secretary Taft announced his pur
pose of filling the four vacancies ex-|
isting ou the Isthmian canal commis
sion by the appointment of some o
JOHN F. STEVENS
the bureau chiefs in the employ of the
cotnmissiou now at work on the isth
mus
Mr. Shouts resigned to take charge of
the Belmont-Ryan traction interests in
New York city
be submitted to the directors of that
company at the anunal meeting, which
Is to take place in New York In April
A Kansas City dispatch says that T
I. Shonts in the course of an luterview
sald regurdiug biz pesiguation: “1 have
done exactly what I =ald | should do
organize the isthiuisn canal commis
sion. There was no friction-uot a bit
of friction ™
Treasury Tellers Asked to Hesign.
NEW YORK, Jan 25 -Samuel B.
Terry, paying teller at the United
States subtreasury, and Edgar F. Lee,
the assistant paying teller, have hand
od thelr resignations to Assistant
Freasurer Hamilton Fish The resig-
nations were given at the request of
Mr. Fish, and they were at once ac-
cepted. Mr. Fish declined to make
public the reason for his action in the
case beyond saying that both Terry
and Lee had been xuilty of lrregularl-
ties, He sald that the accounts of
both men were ahsolutely correct. He
gave Terry and Lee the choice of hand-
ing In their resignations at ounce or
having charges preferred against them
to the secretary of the treasury, They
chose the former alteruative
Shot Wife and Killed Himself
HOBOKEN, N. J, Jan 25 Mrs.
Mary Barbazian, aged sixteen, was
found probably fatally wounded in her
mother's home here Leside the lifeless
body of Ler husband, Peter Barbazian
Mrs. Barbaziso amd her mother de-
clared that Barbazian shot his wife
nnd then killed Limself, but the coro-
ner sald that some of the phases of the
case were 30 mysterious that be in:
tended to iuvestigute it. According to
Mrs. Barbazian's mother, the younger
womuan had left her busband and goue
to live with her mother
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Castro Still Master at Caracas.
LA GUAYRA, Venezuela, Jan 25 —
Further clashes Letween the minister
of war, General Arango, aud Cow
mandant Baza, a distant relative of
President Castro, who as commanding
oflicer of the Trinidad barracks at
Carncas refused to permit the wminls-
ter of war to substitute 2x0 of Baza's
soldiers lu the barracks with men of
his own choosing. are improbable, as
President Castro 1s considerably better
and has personally Instructed the min
lster of war to exercise bis sutbority
tactfully
Carnegie Lake to He Lowered.
NEW YORK, Jaw. 25 -In accond
ance with ap agreement made with
the Pennsylvania rallroad and the Del
aware and Raritan Cannel company the
water of Lake Carnegie at Princeton
will be drawn down sufficiently to en
able the canal company to make lieces
sary repalrs, The sluice gates will be
opened tomorrow The lake will
reflooded on Saturday, Feb, 14
Le
Coldest Wanther In Years
HOOSICK FALLR N.Y, Jano
I'he wenther ia the in recent
years, The mercury staved below zero
all day. At an early hour the ther
mometer registered 29 degrees belaw
Che pxposed districts covered by rural
arriers showed a temperature of 32 to
0 degrees Ice harvesters are uow
confident that a full crop will be bar
vested
an
-t
coldest
Cowhoy Kills Hall Dosen Mesicans.
CHICAGO, Jan, 25. A dispatch to the
t'ritmae from Douglass, Ariz. says “lu
a slugle banded combat at a Southern
Pacific camp eight miles from Monte
gunn, Sonora, Mexico, Bert Seeley. an
Arizona cowboy, shot and killed six
Mexicans He killed three each in two
separate fights snd escupal”
Americans Wed at Naples,
NAPLES Jan 25 - Caspar 8 Crown
imshield, the commercial ageuat of the
United States at Castellamare di Sta
ba, was married bere to Miss Grace
Snelling of New York,
O'Mara Acquitied of Peonage.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 25-
The second trial of I. J. O'Hara
the United Biates court here on the
charge of peonage resulted in a ver
ire ww
GENERALALGER DEAD
United States Senator From
Michigan Dies Suddenly.
AT WORK IN CONGRESS ON TUESDAY
A Brave and Gallant Veteran Whe
Fought Under Kilpatrick, Sheridan
and Custer—Was Formerly
Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, Jan 25 — United
{aies Benator Russell A. Alger of Mich
Although
some time his death was
Beuator Alger attended the session
Browusville affair.
The uews of the death was st once
communicated to President Hoosevelt
and Vice President Fairbanks, the lat
ter being the first to call at the Alger
residence to express his sympathy He
was shortly afterward followed by
Renator Elect William Alden Smith
and by Truman Newberry, assistant
secretary of the navy and his lifelong
friend
The funeral services will be beid at
2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the
family residence in this city. The body
will be taken to Detroit. Mich for
burial
Upon Alger’s brave and galiant con.
duct on more than one occasion Gen
erals Kilpatrick, Sheridan and Custer
commented approvingly in their off
cial reports. He served under Sheri.
dan at Booneville, Mo, and rendered
effectual assistance at 8 very critical
moment in the battle. Sheridan with
917 men was leading a forlers hope
agaiust a force estimated at 3.000
when Alger, under Bbheridan’s instruc
tions, made a ferce attack upon the
rear of the force With ouly aloety
troopers at bis command, Alger helped
to throw the enemy Into such confu
sion that they fled ia disorder before
Sheridan's front attack. General Sher
idan records this incident In his “Per
sonal Memoirs.”
General Alger was secretary of war
during the administration of President
McKinley, from March 5, 1897, to Aug
1, 1809. The president has addressed
8 note of condolence to Mrs. Alger
and accompanied it with a floral offer:
ing.
lee Gorge BSiretches Forty Miles.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Jan. 25
The lce gorge which has formed here
in Grand river now practically extends
from a half mile perth of this city
nearly to Grand Haven, forty miles
away. While the water is slowly fall
ing below this city, it Is rising hourly
above. Am lice gorge is now forming
above which threatens to flood nearly
all the west side, the river streets be
ing under water, Weather Observer
Schneider anticipates serious flood con
ditions for about a week. The river [a
a solid mass of ice nearly all the way
from Grand Rapids to Lake Michigan
Bandit Ralsull Cornered.
TANGIER, Jan. 25. —Ralsull at night.
fall was surrounded Ly Cald Mehalla's
forces In Zellal's stronghold. An at
temupt was made to storm the strong
hold, but it was unsuccessful. Dark.
ness intervened. Foreigners here gen-
erally regard the pursuit of Ralsull as
being an opera bouffe performance,
believing that the bandit chief will be
allowed to escape and that Mebhalla
will return bere empty handed
Priest Jailed at Guesen, Prussia.
GNESEN, Prussia, Jan 20 —A Cath
olic priest named Plotrowicz has been
sentenced to two months’ imprison
ment for the expression of sentiments
in a sermon which the authorities re
garded as calculated to excite the peo
ple to a disobedience of the Iaws and
for having distributed In the sacristy
of his church a leaflet countaluing sta
tistics bearing on the strike of sahool
children in German Polaud
Injunction Favors Ten HRallroads.
ST. PAUL, Mion, Jan 20- Judge
Lochreu of the United States circuit
court has granted a temporary injune
tion restraining the state rullroad and
warehouse commission from putting
into effect the reduwtion lo freight rates
ordered Ly the railroad and warehouse
cotnmission Dec 24. The ten rallroads
doing business in the state allege that
the order is confiscatory in its nature
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Mount Etna (Causing Shecks.
ROME, Jan. 25 A dispatch says
that the activity of Mount Etna, Ia
Biclly, Is Increasing There is an
eruption inside the crater, and a thick
colutnn of smoke and dark ralo of
ashes are being thrown out, especial
ly ou the mortheastern side This ac
tivity is accompanied hy slight earth
shocks
Train Goes Over Bank at Lengdale.
PARKERSBURG, W.Va, Jan. 25 —
Three wen were killed aud one so se
riously Injured that he will. die as the
result of a freight traln running ever
an enibaukment at Longdale, near Le
tart, about sixty miles south of this
city, on the Ohio river division of the
Baltimore and Olle railroad
Sattieship Cannecticunt slightly Hart.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. -The wavy
department wax advised that the bat
tleship Connecticut, which struck bet
tom while entering Culebra harbor on
Jan 13, suffered only slight damage
and that the vessel Ix now afloat
I Ss ——
Weat Probabilities,
Fair and ; northwest winds,
— -
OUR
At a straight cut of ten per cent for
kinds
New Val and Mechlin
Laces
Another lot of French and German
Vals, also fine line of Mechlin Laces
in sets to match
Torchons
Just received large assortment of
Torchons in all widths: also 6 yd and
12 yd pleces, specially priced.
New Plaids
Fine line of Spring Plaids at 10¢,
12%¢, Iie, 25¢c, 39¢, 50c and Tic.
Plaid Silks
Just a few left, plaid and Roman
stripe silks, very popular In the city.
Closing 79e.
Blankets! Blankets :
Now is the time to buy them. Wool
and Cotton Blankets below wholesale
prices for next year. We quote a few
prices which mean just what we ad-
vertise
11-4 Grey Wool, worth $4.25, Janu-
ry Sale.
11-4 Grey Wool, worth $4.75, Janu-
ry Sale
11-4 Grey Wool, worth $5.60, Janu-
ry Sale
11-4 White
ry Sale
11-4 White
ry Sale . sos nnn nat
11-4 White Wool, worth $6.75, Janu-
ry Sale
11-4 White
ry Sale
11-4 White
ry Sale
Cotton Blankets
Share In this sale. Both white and
grey, as follows: 42¢, Se, 88e¢, 78e,
SSe, #8¢, $1.12%, $1.50 and $1.76
“ens
25¢ kind now 1b¢ each,
50c kind now 3% each.
Tams
60 and Thc Tams, closing $9e.
Globe Warehe
Talmadge 3lock, Rlmer Avenus
Valley Phone.