A EOTHER KILLS HER SEVEN CHILDREN Tknwi Herself m BanHf With Bodies. SSE BEVIVES, BUT SOON DIES. A BorriHe Batcltrjr y aa Iihn Weaaa la IWeel Tow-Kill Her Chlldrea Will Ai, Flit Thole BodU Btd Sit. rated With Cad Oil aad Set Fir t It Thea Throw Hcrielf lit th Clam. Cambridge, III. (Special). The neigh bors of Clarence. Markham, a farmer living southwest of Cambridge, discov ered that the Markham house was on fire. Hastening there to assist in sub duing the flame, they were horror stricken upon their arrival to see the bodies of Mrs. Markham and her seven children lying inside the burning build ing in a heap on the floor, covered with blood. After frantic efforts they succeeded in pulling the bodies from the flames, only to find them horribly mutilated, gashed and burned. All were apparently dead, but later signs of life were discovered in the woman and she was revived. Mrs. Markham at first said a strange man had killed the children and then set the house on fire. Later, and just be fore dying, she confessed that she had killed the children with an ax. She had attempted to kill herself with the same implement, she said, but failing, she placed the bodies of the little ones on a bed saturated with conl oil, which she set afire. She threw herself on the burning bed and was horribly burned. After her death a letter was found in the rural mail box addressed to her hus band, telling him she was going to kill herself and the children; that she loved him and the children, but believed they would be better off and safer in the arms of the Lord than they were on earth. The woman is supposed to have been temporarily insane. The husband was away from home at the time. He is prostrated. The family was poor. The children ranged from 10 years to a baby in arms. The Markhanis lived apart from neighbors, the husband being employed as a laborer on a nearby farm. He was compelled to be away from home during the day. Having noted his wife acting queerly for several weeks, he had kept the children, the oldest of whom was but nine years of age, out of school, to be with the mother. She was never known to exhibit violent tendencies pre viously. WOMISN HIS VICTIMS. A Successful Swlodltr Fiaally Coem to Orlet Chicago (Special). George Moore. 50 years old and of clerical appearance, who admits that for four years he has made a business of swindling women of Chi cago, Milwaukee and other places, is under arrest here. Moore claimed to be an agent for an art journal published by a department store. He offered yearly subscriptions to housekeepers at $1.50 and gave them an order on a department store for six yards of dress goods. He said the store filJed these orders free to get the mag azine starter. -oe secured subscriptions readily and his weekly receipts are said by the police to have been large. Leap of Two Okf Woaica, New York (Special). Two women, each about "0 years old, jumped from the third-story window of a burning ten ement building in Brooklyn. One of them escaped serious injury; the other's skull was fractured. They were Catherine and Cecila Hart When the fire started two men who were passing rushed up to the women's rooms, threw a mattress out on the sidewalk and urged the women to jump. Cecilia landed safely on the mat tress, but Catherine fell upon the side walk and was badly injured. The two rescqers jumped to the mattress unin jured. Rica Maa Killed By All. Des Moines, Iowa (Special). Fred erick A. Harliman, lawyer, banker and one of the wealthiest men in Northern Iowa, was killed in an automobile acci dent. He was descending a steep hill, tost control of the machine and was thrown into a deep gulch, the car crush ing him to death. Arthur and Frederick Reed, who were with him, were badly hurt. Vlcc-Prerideat Provost Dead. Philadelphia (Spec ial). Sutherland M. Prevost, third vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died at his home here of a complication of kidney and heart trouble. lie was 60 years old. Mr. Prevost had been ailing for more than a year, but his illness did not become serious until last July, when he was compelled to give up his duties. He had been bedridden several weeks. Railroad Officials at Swllae. Chicago (Special). Railroad officials worked as switchmen Saturday in the yards of the Grand Trunk Railroad, where the yard men struck. Division superintendent F. VV. F.trnn, Assistant Superintendent W. E. Costello, Yard JMaster M. J. Conron and others assisted a handful of non-union switchmen to make up trains and throw switches. Ohio Towi Buried Out Jeffcrsonville, O. ( Special). Fire broke out at JcffcronviIle, a town of 3,000 inhabitants, lying in Fayette coun ty, near Clark county border, and in a short time had wiped out the entire busi ness section of the village. AUofed lyacber Acquitted. Springfield, O. (S p e c i a 1). James O'Brien was acquitted of complicity in the lynching of Richard Dixon. It was atated by several prisoners in the jail that they peeped from their cells as the mob hurst into the halls and that they aw O'Brien grab Dixon and take him from the cell, turning him over to the mob. A few minutes later the negro was lynched. O'Brien was one of six i 11 diet -' ed for complicity in the lynching and the second to be tried and acquitted. Ma' Ho ad oa Cog la Pilot. Cincinnati, O. (Special). When a freight engine on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway reached Covington, the head of a man, supposed to be Charles Check, of Aberdeen, O., was found em bedded in the pilot, having been carric from Marysviilc, Ky., a distance of over 6a miles, before discovery. The man wa killed by the freight early in the morn ing, as the train pasted through .Marys viile, the engineer's fir! knowledge of the accident Lei:,; the finding of the bead. TIE LATEST NEWS ISIEflY TOLA. DOMESTIC Jacob If. Schiff. head of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb ft Co., bankers, of New York, and formerly a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, was the first witness called before the leg islative life insurance investigating com mittee. William R. Travers, a millionaire club man, son of the late celebrated wit and Wall Street operator, W. R. Travers, committee suicide by shooting himself through the head in Ii is apartments in New York. Former Captain O. M. Carter has been on the witness stand in Chicago for nearly a week in his fight to prevent the confiscation of $600,000 seized at time of his arrest. Mayor Curtis, of Madion, Wis., has instructed the police of that city to -,hoot students who resist arrest and who at tack the officers. In Chicago Federal Judge Humphrey sustained the demurrer filed by United States District Attorney in the beef pack ers case. The yellow fever situation in New Or leans continues to improve. Only two deaths were reported. Police and two burglars exchanged shots in Hartford after Die latter had blown open two safes. A coachman 111 Elizabeth. N. I., was attacked by rats and was severely lac erated. In New York all grades of refined su gar declined 20 cents a hundred pounds.' The south tunnel of the New York and New Jersey tunnel has been com pleted. In New orl Mrs. Peckham refused to answer questions in the cotton-leak case. Attorney General Wade, of Ohio. wiV, investigate the Harvester Trust. lite Weller Roller Mills plant, in Win- nistun, Ala., was burned. A forger obtained $.150,000 worth of securities from a Wall Street Bank, New J orR, by forging a check with the name of Pearl & Co., stock brokers, who had borrowed $300,000 from the bank for one dav. Secretary Wilson, of the Deoartment of Agriculture, predicted lower retail prices during the coming season for meat, dairy products, poultry and other neces sities of life. Cross-examination of former Cant. Oberlin M. Carter, charged with de frauding the government out of near v $3,000,000, was continued before Spe cial Examiner Wyman in Chicago. Hospital engineering problems were discussed at ;he continued conference of tne Association of Hospital Superin tendents in Boston. Mrs. Edith M. Baily, who, while run ning an automobile in Cleveland, O., caused a man's death, was held for manslaughter. Bessie Perkins, white, was sentenced in Magnolia, Miss., to the penitentiary for 10 years for marrying a negro. Jacob Hart, a leeless man. confessed in Chicago to having killed his wife. whom he suspected of infidelity. Capt. Charles Price, a counselor for the Southern Railwav, died at Salisbury, N. C. Gen. I. C. Black addressed the Na tional Association of Postmasters in Dayton, O. A movement is under wav amonc rail road brotherhoods to secure a reduction in the working hours of railroad em ployes. Mrs. Marie Ivers Lawrence was in dicted in Chicago on a charge of at tempting to blackmail Governor Her rick, of Ohio. President Nicholas Murray Butler, of the Columbia University, severely criti cised modern business methods. Surgeon General S. Suzuki, of the Jap anese Navy, addressed the Convention of Military Surgeons at Detroit. Wheeler H. Peckham, the New York lawyer and reformer, died from apoplexy at his office, in New York city. The board of directors of the Penn sylvania Company authorized the issue of $.20,000,000 worth of stock. President Ely, of the American Street Railway Association, denounced social ism in his annual address. The National Encampment of the Pa triotic Sons of America elected officers at Atlantic City. Attorneys for the government attacked the defense of former Captain Carter. Ten persons were injured in a wreck near Glencoe, Col. Secretary of War Taft arrived in San Francisco. FOREIGN The fact is now disclosed that Japan made peace because she feared a finan cial collapse, the war having proved more expensive than was calculated. Emperor Francis Joseph has given up his usual autumn shooting excursion and will remain in Vienna to deal with the Hungarian question. The movement in large Russian cities for the removal of restriction on the ad mission of Jewish students to universi ties has become general. The special committee of the Norwe gian Storthing decided, by a vote of 12 to 6, to recommend the adoption of the treaty with Sweden. There is a large increase in shipbuild ing on the Clyde, due to the boom in Far Eastern trade as a result of the end of the war. Miss Roosevelt and party left Seoul and x ill proceed to Japan, but the visit to the lattter country will be strictly private. It is officially announced that 50 cases of cholera, of which 28 resulted fatally, occurred in Poland between September 20 and 27. The new Franco-Russian commercial convention was signed at St. Peters burg. It becomes effective March I, 11x16. The anniversary of the death of Emile Zola was observed in Pans, and the tomb of the writer was decorated Alderman Walter Vaughan Morgan was elected lord mayor of London. He is a banker and a bachelor. M. Wide proceeded to Bjoerks for a conference with the Czar on the imperial yacht. La Caussade and Viallet, leading op erators in the Paris sugar market, have failed. Only one new case of cholera was re ported in Germany during the last 24 hours. An armistice between the Russian and the Japanese forces in Korea, has not yet been arranged, the Russians refusing to agree to the Japanese proposals. Premier Rouvier, of France, and the German Ambassador signed the Franco German accord concerning the Morocco conference. - The Council of Professors in St. Pet ersburg has voted in favor of the un restricted admission of Jews to the uni 'rsity courses. The nobility of St. Petersburg at a acting adopted resolutions of a liberal form character. The wreck of the steamer Chatham, ink in the Suet Canal, was blown up with dynamite. Thirty Japanese fishermen were mur dered by native on the Kamtchatka Peninsula. BACK IN WASHINGTON Emhuiitic Ovatio. Prtxiaeit RooseTelt. CROWDS ALL ' ALUM THE AVENUE. Htsrty Chirr Orool Hiai aid HI Party aa lit Way From th Stattea ta tat Whit House, Which Wa Brillloolly lltomhutod Mtaher af th Cahlait Wort ll th Lla. Washington, D. C. (Special). Thou sands of his fellow-citizens turned out to welcome President Roosevelt to the national capital, and made his home coming an occasion for an ovation from the time he was sighted on the plat form of his car until he passed within the doors of the White House. There was no band of music, but the sweeter melody of the cheers of the assembled people made the air ring with hurrahs as his carriage passed slowly up the avenue. "It was awfully kind of them to come out to greet me," the PreMdent remarked to some friends at the White House por tecochere, "and I was deeply, deeply touched by their welcome." The presidential train came into the station at 6: to o'clock. On the platform were assembled a dozen or more officials. At their head was Mr. West, the Dis: trict Commissioner, who was in charge of the arrangements for the welcome, and who was the first to shake the Pres ident's hand as he stepped from the train. With the President were his sec retary of state, Mr. Root, and Mrs. Root, and the secretary of the treasury, Mr. Shaw. At the station were Secretary Hitchcock, Postmaster General Cortelyou, Mr. (Jueada, the Luban minister; Dr. Rixey. the surgeon general of the Navy; Mr. Palmer, the marshal for the Dis trict of Columbia, and others. A mighty cheer went up as the crowd inside the depot caught sight of the President, which was taken up by the crowds outside of the station and passed along the line as the President was recognized. He shook hands first with the Cabinet members' and other officials. Then, giving Mrs. Roosevelt his arm, he walked slowly to his carriage, which was waiting at the Sixth street entrance. As he reached the engine the President thanked the engineer for his safe trip and stopped to shake his hand, in the car riage with the President were Mrs. Roosevelt, Ethel, Kermit and Quentin. Qucntin sat on the box with the coach man. The cabinet officers and the other mem bers of the party followed in carriages, accompanying the President to the White House. 1 he President frequently arose and bowed to the cheering crowds on both sides of the Avenue,' and, during the latter part of the drive, the "hur rahs" became so enthusiastic that the President stood most of the time. Mrs. Roosevelt was greatly pleased with the greeting, and her face was radiant as she bowed to the right and left. Not since last inauguration day has Pennsylvania avenue held such a crowd as lined it from the station to the White House. Heavy cables, stretched the whole length on both sides, kept the crowds on the sidewalks.,. Street cars were stopped and vehicles were halted in the side streets as the party came up the avenue. From every flagpole and from many windows flags were flapping in the cool evening breeze. A brilliant scene greeted the Presi dent's eye as he reached the White House. The mansion was illuminated from basement to attic, bathing the whole white structure in a soft, radiant glow. As the President reached the White House gate he stopped his carriage, and, lifting his hat to the crowd, said: "Good night, good luck and thank you so much for all this." man HONORS to be qiven witte. The Russia Staietoua Join Citr aa HI Yacht. St. Petersburg (By Cable). M. Witte left St. Petersburg by boat to meet Em peror Nicholas, who, with his family, is prolonging his yachting trip in the Fin nish Gulf. The meeting will take place at Bjocrke, the unfrequented little fish ing port where the historic interview be tween Emperor Nicholas and Emperor William took place just before the peace conference, and where the imperial yacht Polar Star is now lying. It has been reported that Witte will be made a count and receive the Order of St. Andrew, with which Presidents Faur and Loubet were decorated, but a more substantial honor may be his nomination to the post of chief of the cabinet of ministers, the details of which are now being elaborated and which would make him the first subject in the realm, with the right of naming all the ministers except the court and war min isters. FIRST DIP OF NEW WARSHIP. Lauocblag af th Bittleiala Mississippi it Philadelphia. Philadelphia (Special). In the pres enc of a distinguished party of guests the battleship Mississippi was launched here at the yard of the William Cramp Ship and Engine Building Company. The vessel's sponsor was Miss Mabel Clare Money, daughter of United States Senator Money. Owing to the prevalence of yellow fever in the South, Gov. J. K. Vardaman, of Mississippi, and his staff were unable to attend the launching. The Governor was represented by Senator Money. The guests included Admiral Dewey, Lieutenant Commander Wood, Rear Admiral Rogers, Mayor Weaver, of this city; naval officers stationed here and in Washington and prominent civil ians. Jap Comll Suicide, New York (Special). A well-dressed and educated Japanese, Mho registered at the Delaware Hotel, Third avenue and Thirty-fourth street, as K. Nakamer, committed suicide by slashing his throat from ear to ear and then jumping from the roof to an extension, a distance of four stories. Both legs and several ribs were broken, and he was dead when found. He had been brooding over the Japanese-Russian terms of peace, and had told the hotel proprietor that his country had been disgraced. 0ly flat a Jolt. Washington, D. C. (Special). Roy Kauffman, 6 years old, 1346 H street northeast, felt from a fourth-story win dow at Kann't store to the pavement, a distance of 50 feet, and lives to tell the story. Not a bone wa broken, and at the Emergency Hospital, where he was taken, it i reported that he is suffering only slightly from the shock of the fall. The accident happened soon after the President had paioed on hi way to the White House and the street were crowded. NEW KB AS SEEM BAT BT BAT. Haw Toaa: Wtt, N. T. Denouncing President Castro of Vene tuela as a tyrant, a briber and a traitor, Vincent! Perei Leon, a Venezuelan in voluntary exile, gave some sensational testimony while being examined before United States Commissioner Gilchrist in the $11,000,000 damage suit brought by the Venezuelan government against the New, York and Bermudei Asphalt Company, known as the Asphalt Trust, on the charge that the American com pany aided the Mateo revolutionists in toot. The witness referred to Castro in the most scathing language, citing one instance wherein he had caused him (the witness) to be thrown into jail and ter ribly lushed. Leon declared the Castro government entered into a plot to steal the rights of the New York and Ber mudez Company. An active imagination, inflamed by the morbid adventures of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," which she had recently seen staged, was responsible for 15-year-old Nellie Nusibaum's excursion into "Black Hand" literature. She lives at 25$ East Sixty-first Mreet. She desired to play the dual role of the villain and the in nocent, and succeeded so well that for weeks she kept an entire neighborhood in a ferment of fear. Selecting her own father and R. E. Saunwalt, a neighbor, as her victims, she wrote skull-and-crossbone letters, threatening them in true Mafia style and signing "Black Hand." Now she has confessed, been forgiven and promised to be good. Storming with anger, and at the same time weeping copiously, a tall and attractive-looking young woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Adelina Shelor, went to police headquarters and demanded that detectives be sent in pursuit of her husband to arrest him on a charge of bigamy. Then the told a story of the discovery of his alleged duplicity, a fifrry interview with another .wife, who had threatened to throw vitriol, and finally the supposed night of the man to Mon treal. She said he was living with his other wife at the Grausis, but detectives could not find him, and he is supposed to have gone to Canada. .? For the third time since the death of Charles Broadway Rouss, the eccentric merchant, in March, 1002, a woman has appeared as a claimant to his estate of $8,000,000. Mrs. Elizabeth Slattery Cow an has begun suit against the estate to recover a claim of $39,250, which she says is due her as a balance on a contract made with the blind merchant in 1892. The most startling feature of Mrs. Cow an's suit is that she accuses Rouss of having tricked her into a sham mar riage, which he finally found convenient to renounce. Exnlaininff the earlv movement nf cnM f n this rniintru , I . i c uqtnn r.-, ... ... Wall Street banker says that Europe has been an unusually heavy buyer of our securities during the past summer. The heaviest buyer has been Holland, which holds about $284,000,000 in American railways and $261,500,000 in American industrial securities, face value. a - In opposing habeas corpus proceedings on behalf of Henry Kopp, 28 Manhattan avenue, Williamsburg, now confined in a sanatorium at Amityville, Mrs. Kopp declared he had insisted upon her skat ing on rollers while he sailed kites, and in one day bought 10 docs, is pictures and 200 padlocks for his trunk. Kopp was in court and denied his wife's charges. Mrs. Kopp, in pleading with the Court to keep her husband under restraint, said he drank IS to 20 classes of whisky daily, and sometimes two quarts. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. According to a reoort from Minister Lyon, of Liberia, American trade with that country has dwindled to insignificant proportions. He attributes the falling off to the loss of American merchant marine. According to advices received from Japan the Mikado's government favors laws by us excluding the Japs from our shores. Thev are wanted for the. de velopment of Korea and Manchuria. By direction of the President, the Army and Navy Departments are plan ning receptions to Prince Louis of Bat tenburg upon his visit to the United states. The State Department was informed that William S. Athers had been sen tenced to three years' imprisonment by a Nicaraguan court. ' secretary Bonaparte has announced that he will not take up the sale of the Constitution until Congress meets. Treasury official are very much grati fied at the excellent showing made by that department during the month. I he First National Bank. Orrville. O.. closed its doors by order of the Comp troller of the Currencv. Former Governor Fifer, of Illinois. will resign as member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The post at Malaki, Philippine Islands, is reported to have been destroyed by the typhoon. Secretary Wilson, of the Denartmfnt of Agriculture, returned to Washington Irom a visit to the Middle West. He says the glowing reports of enormous crops have not been exaggerated. Car Fall l Soavealr. San Francisco (Special). Secretary Taft and party left by a special train wiai included a oaggage car containing trophies in the way of curios collected by the party in the various countries lHv vettA find VlJ .iff, n.aa.... r. "lJ ' ..y mit ..... -t,.a piVSKII.CU i W the Secretary of War. The party will arrive in Washington over the Balti more and Ohio Railroad. FINANCIAL Money got to 4 per cent, in New York. Standard Oil has made another ad vance in the price of petroleum. Soft coal prices in Western Pennsyl vania were advanced 5 cents a ton. Cates is said to be again operating in Louisville and Nashville. It is now believed that powerful bank ing interests are again buying securities. Chairman Miller, of the St. Paul, says that company will issue new stock at $150 a share. The extremely strong tone of the Southern Railroad stocks dominated by Morgan looks significant. . It is said that the Hallgarten pool in Southern Railway has been dissolved. and that Morgan is buying most of the stock, Jersey Central directors were re-elected at the annual meeting. President Baer denies that a conference of coal opera tor ha been called. A well-known clubman of Philadel. phi, who ha made a large fortune in the stock market in the past six year, say: "Tie up to United State Steel common.'' HI' FRAUD ON BANK Forger .ti 133,13 Fro Mew York Cit; National disco vebepaftIbcheck CAME BACK Clertr gwladltr PrtooaKd Check to Carer $JO,tM Laa Mad I Port k Co., Broker, ad Rmlvd tha SecarlH Which Hid Be a Dtpeolted aa Collateral PratN Beta Chock Bcarlag Nom af th Owatf New York (Special). By means of a forged certified check of Pearl & Co., ostensibly drawn on the Hanover Na tional Bank, securities valued at $.159. 080, deposited as collateral for a loan, were obtained from the National City Bank. The National City Bank is generally understood to be owned and controlled by the Rockefellers and the so-called "Standard Oil crowd." Conducted by men who showed they had an exact knowledge not only of the business procedure between Wall Street banks and stock-brokerage houses and the clearing-house system, but the spe cific transaction involved, a loan of $300, 000, was supposedly taken up and 24 hours' grace obtained in which to dis pose of the securities to innocent third persons. The facts becoming known just be fore noon, the best men of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, as well as the police of nearby cities, were exerting every ef fort within an hour. Their reports at night were that no trace of the missing securties had appeared in any transfer office, although there was a watch upon every one of them. All detective theories eliminate the possibility of any professional criminals being concerned in the swindle and pur suit, it was alleged, had narrowed down to a certain number of men, who alone knew of the transaction in question. Every one of these men is so closely watched that a single suspicious move would bring on arrest. Pearl & Co. is a banking and brokerage house in 27 William street. The mem bers of the firm are Dyer Pearl and E. F. Slayback, both of whom are mem bers of the New York Stock Exchange. The firm is regarded as wealthy, doing a large business. Wishing to obtain a loan of $300,000 for a short time. Mr. Slayback went to the National City Bank and negotiated through the proper per son there a "one-day" loan, or a call loan, as it is termed, at 4'A per cent. As collateral security for this loan Mr. Slayback offered stock securities of 1,000 shares of United States Steel com mon, 1,000 shares of Rock Island com mon, 700 of Missouri Pacific, 47 of Amer ican Tobacco 6 per cent, bonds, two $100 bonds of the North American Company, i.ooo shares Metropolitan Street Railway and $20,000 Wabash debenture B bonds. This collateral had a market value of $359.o8o, and this proving acceptable the money was paid to Mr. Slayback and by him deposited in the Bank of New York. The note with the securities coming to the loan clerk of the National City Bank was by him deposited in the regular place for such deposits, in a great steel safe, duly ticketed, after having passed through the bookkeeping department to be entered in the proper books. In a bank like the National City, where the loans may amount to $179,- 000,000, loan of $300,000 passes without a ripple, and may be one of a dozen of larger size to be adjusted within 10 min utes. Payment on loans is made by certified check, and those checks are carried about by young men or boys. There was a long line of such messengers before the loan clerk's window on Wednesday morning, when a young man. appearing like the rest, placed a certified check for $300,037.50 through the window, saying he was there to take up the Pearl & Co. call, loan with interest for one day at per cent. The loan clerk examined the check. It was seemingly drawn by Pearl & Co. on the Hanover National Bank, by which it also appeared to have been certified in the regular way. There was not the least to attract suspicion, and the clerk obtaining the collateral from the safe pushed it through the window and turn ed to the next transaction. The check went to the Clearing House, which sent it to the Hanover National Bank for collection, and was promptly marked "No funds," Pearl & Co., when asked to explain, pronounced the oheck a forgery'. 1 olice and detective action was swift. Before a half hour the transfer office of every security missing was notified of the loss and formally advised not to transfer the stock. Word has come back that no such certificates had appeared. LEGLESS MAN'S CRIME. Admit Kllllag HI Wife, of Whom tit Wa Suspicious. Chicago, 111. (Special). Jacob Hart, who is without legs, dragged himself into the court of Judge Barnes and whis pered to Assistant Stale's Attorney Bar bour that he was anxious to enter a pica of guilty to a charge of murder. Mr. Barbour explained to Hart the serious ness of such a plea, and that the court had power to inflict severe punishment on it. The crippled defendant, homever, said he understood his position and the plea was allowed to be entered. Hart ha confessed that he shot and kiled his wife Marie June 15, 1905. He accused her of being too friendly with other men, and when she refused to explain where she had been the night previous he drew a revolver and snot her. He also shot himself in an at tempt to commit suicide, but he re covered. Ordered ta Shoot Studeat. ' Madison, Wis. (Special). As a re sult of an attempt by a crowd of stu dents to break up the performance of a carnival company showing here, Mayor Curtis gave orders to the police to shoot any student resisting arrest or assault ing an officer. President Vanhise of the State University urged officers and courts to show no discrimination in fa vor of students, and said that he would expel every student convicted in court, and would suspend all arrested. v Booh Hurled at Tmot. New York (Special). A bomb filled with both dynamite and a quantity of in flammable oil was thrown at the rear of a crowded tenement-house at Eight ave nue and One Hundred and Forty-third street. More than a core of persons, who were sleeping at the time, were hurled from their beds, and two of them were taken from the house unconscious. Th police believe that "Black Hand" Italian assassins threw the bomb at an Italian barber-shop WILl ASK FOR RECOGNITION. Hery Wool ta B Oa af th Pwtr. Taris (By Cable). M. Loe viand, min ister of foreign affairs of Norway, gave the Temps Christiania correspondent an authorized statement. He said Norway would take steps to ecure an early rec ognition by the powers. This recognition would cover Norway's independent sov ereignty without reference to the ques tion of the government' status as a monarchy or a republic, which would be subsequently determined. Concerning the -offer of the throne to Prince-Charles of Sweden, M. Loevland said: "The Storthing's offer still operates, as it has not been formally and officially rejected. But Norway will not make a second offer, nor can we indefinitely wait for an answer froi King Oscar. If we do not receive a response very soon we shall consider ourselves relieved and turn elsewhere. Prince Charles of Denmark would then be the most available through language and nationality. Prince Charles of Sweden would have received an en thusiastic welcome had he accepted the throne. He would still be welcome, but the people are no longer enthusiastic." Asked what form of government Nor way would adopt if the monarchy is abandoned, M. Loevland answered: "We shall have to choose between three kinds of republics ; first, a monarchi cal republic, like France, where the presi dent is virtually king, with a -fixed term; second, an absolute republic, like that of the United States, where the president is autocratic in power, and, third, a demo cratic republic, like Switzerland. This last satisfies us best, and wc shall un doubtedly try it." M. Loevland read and approved the interview. WEIGHED 540 POUNDS. A Woiaa Who Died of Fitly Deteaeratloa of Heart Bridgeport, Ct. (.Special). Mrs. Marie E. Clark, 52 years of age, died Satur day from fatty degeneration of the heart. She weighed 540 pounds, and the un dertaker had to have a specially con structed coffin made for her remains. At the funeral 10 pallbearers, six of them husky piano movers, were necessary to get the casket out of the house at 1206 Main street. The undertaker first planned to have a rigging put up to -get the ckct out through a window, and engaged a truckman to do the work. The family objected, and the coffin was built so that it could be taken through the door. ' PENCIL IN APPENDIX. Doctor Ltugbed at lb Idea, But Fund It Wi So. Chicago (Special). Robert Hanners, a baker, 24 years of age, walked into the county hospital and announced to the physician in charge: "Doctor, two years ago I swallowed a leadpencil, and I believe it is bothering me a bit." The doctor laughed at him, but Han ners stuck to his story, and complained of a severe pain in his right side. His case was diagnosed as appendicitis and a case that required an immediate opera tion. The pencil, five inches in length, and sharpened at one end, was found im bedded as Hanners had predicted. Han-' ners will recover. Albcr Sentenced. Washington (Special). Minister Mer ry, at San Jose, Costa Rica, cabled the State Department that William S. Al bers had been sentenced to three years in prison, but that an appeal had been taken to the Supreme Court. Mr. Don aldson, American consul at Managua, whose exequatur was canceled as an in cident of this case, is expected to arrive here early next week, r Killed With BbH Bat. Detroit, Mich. (Special). While pro tecting his 16-year-old invalid daughter from assault in the yard in the rear of his lesidence, William E. Harrington beat Charles Martin, who boarded at his home, so severely with a baseball bat that Martin died later in a hospital. Martin, it is alleged, had been drink ing and attacked the girl. Her cries aroused the father, who rushed fo her rescue with a bail bat. Eaf load Hold lb Key. Paris (By Cable). Admiral Fournier stated that the British naval station at Singapore gives a strategic base sufficient to prevent the passage of naval forces within the China Sea, and is capable of suppressing commercial communication between China and Europe. Thus Singa pore becomes Great Britain's key to the door of the China Sea. Wealthy Woa Killed. Cleveland (Spccial).-Mrs. Edith M. Bailey, wife of a wealthy manufacturer, beneath whose automobile Joseph Brocs tle was fatally injured, was held for the grand jury on a charge of manslaugh ter. The accident happened at the Su perior Street viaduct September 15. Mrs. Bai-lcy was driving the machine. Broestlc, who crossing the street, was struck by the automobile, dying next day. Coaiutl Uador Ether. New York (Special). Dr. H. Hol brook Curtis, who performed an opera tion on the Duchess of Marlborough (formerly Miss Consuclo Vanderbilt) said that the operation was not for throat trouble as reported, but was. for a nasal difficulty. It was performed to remove a slight deafness which resulted from a fall received by the Duchess in her youth. Dr. Curtis said that his patient would be able to leave the hospital on Thursday. IN TEE FIELD OfTaBOR. The American Federation of Labor has been petitioned to grant an interna tional charter to the Association of Steam, Hot Water and Powler Pipe Fit ters and Helpers. The Vallejo (Cala.) Trades and Labor Council has been victorious in it fight for the eight-hour day. A meeting of the Metals Trades Coun cils of Minneapolis and' St. Paul was held recently at which a resolution was passed unanimously favoring the consol idation of the two bodies. Tampa (Fla.) cigarmakers have se cured the requisite number of indorse ments by local unions of a proposed con stitutional amendment having for its object the establishment of a sanitarium or health farm. The Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders of America is enjoy ing a period of unusual prosperity, ac cording to the officials, who say that the membership has in the Inst three year increased almost 8000. Taking the whole industrial popula tion of Great Britain into consideration, the time lost in strikes during the year 1904 amounted to about one-seventh of day for each employ. k SETBACK F02 PACKERS Tie Decisiot Bj Federal Judje Against Them. TRICK FFlVFD IN TRF PI FA mmmm iwnitMB' jii auaw a afwru - ladlctaitat Fouad Alast The Declared Nat ta B Null aid Vold-Th Dtclslea, 814 Mm JnM. Waa Nat ftaatJ aa Tack. IcaHtte. hat l' th Bread Qreoadi at PahHc Policy. Chicago (Special). Federal Judge J. Oti Humphrey sustained the demurrer filed by United States District Attorney Morrison to the plea in abatement made by packers seeking to have indictment for alleged restraint of trade declared void. Judge Humphrey said he made his decision on broad grounds without taking into consideration technicalities which the government advanced against the plea in abatement. It is likely that the jury for the trial will be drawn about the middle of Octo ber. After the decision had been given, the defending attorneys tried to amend the fourth plea by the insertion of the word "for." This met with resistance from the District Attorney, but the court promised that if the law was clear on the point he would allow it. The gov ernment is said to fear a trick in the in sertion of the one word. The District Attorney moved that ' the defendants plead to the indictment. It waa an nounced that a demurrer is to be filed by the packers, attacking the face of the entire indictment as far as defects and insufficient allegations are concerned. The defendants were ordered by the court to plead next Thursday morning, the pleadings to be taken up in argument before Judge Humphrey by the follow ing Monday. In the meantime a bill of exceptions it to be prepared by the de fendants to the ruling just made by Judge Humphrey. Exceptions were taken by all of the defendants to the court's ruling on every count in the pleas. This was for the purposes of appeal after the trial. One of the points in the pleading which attracted considerable attention and which the court declared had given him some difficulty, was in regard to the right of Judge S. H. Bethea to re ceive the return of the indictment. It was' argued by the defense that he was sitting in the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois and re ceived an indictment voted in the North ern Division of the Northern Districl of Illinois. The "District Attorney de clared that if the-law of March 3, 1005, which created the position now held by the Judge and also rearranged the dis tricts was construed against his conten tions there was no court, and there was no judge, and there was no return of the indictment. The court surprised al most everyone in court when he read from President Roosevelt's message in the Congressional Record of last No vember in which it is declared that Judge Bethea was appointed as a successor to Judge C. C. Kohlsaat, promoted front the District Court to the Circuit Court. This promotion gave Judge Bethea the right to accept the return of an indict- mlMif vntH in til nt fttstrirt. THREW HIM TO SHARKS. Sivteet Danced While Ht Wa Bclog Tera to Piece. Victoria, B. C. (Special). From the New Hebrides news was received by the steamer Miowera of an attack by na tives upon a French expedition sent to punish the blacks for outrageous actions against white settlers on Malleco Island. The French warship Muerthe landed a party of marines, who arrested three chiefs. As the party was leaving, a shot fired from ambush killed a marine. The party then attacked the village, dispers ing the natives and killing four men. The landing party burned the village and returned to the bay, where it was again fired on and a marine wounded. The natives alleged that the murder ers of Capt. Richard Pentecost and six members of the trader Petrel's crew were taken to Noumea. They were the ring leaders ofa party which tied Capt. Pen tecost to a tree and cast spears into his body, and while he was still conscious they threw him into the shark-infested water and danced while the monsters tore the body to pieces. JAPAN FORCED TO MAKE PEACE. Th Ooveraaieat Peered a - Flaanclit Collapse Tokio (By Cable). Notwithstanding the silence of the government, the real fact is disclosed that Japan made peace at Portsmouth in fear of a financial breakdown. The w-ar proved more costly than had been calculated, and the rice and cereal crops seemed doomed to failure. Instead of sunlight and warmth during the month of August, when the crops ripen, there was continuous rain and exceed ingly cold weather. While some improvements may still be in store, it is certain that the rice crop promises to b from 15 to 20 per cent, below the average and far below last year's crop, when it was marvelous ly large. Pre ldut Roosevelt t Visit Rkluooad. Richmond, Va. (Special). Richmond is preparing to give President Roosevelt a rousing reception on the occasion oi his visit to this city October 18. An ex penditure of probably $3,000 will be made for the purpose of lunching the Presi dent. The President will make a brief speech in the Capitol Square, but will not hold a public reception. Every pre caution will be taken for the reception of the President. The Richmond Howit zers will act as hi escort. Sixty Day Par Coatempt. Grand Ranids. Mich. (Special). Rich. ard R. Metheny, president of the Trav erse City, Leelanau and Manistique Rail way, has appealed to the .Supreme Court of Michigan to reverse a tig-day com mitment for coutcmnt made acainsi him by. Circuit Judge Perkins. .The case grows out of a $43,000 judgment obtained hv the Cumbria Ktt Pmnnanv urilnc. his railroad. Metheny refused to com ply with an order directing him to pro duce the Company's books. Ocrmia Tarhla Bal Fait. Hamburg (By Cable). The Ihmb'trc. American Steamship Company' Crist ' .... - .1. . Vrt! ... . iiiiuiii nicdiiici, uiv jvai&cr, iiihuc a suc cessful trial trip, reaching 20 sea miles an hour; or a mile above the contract stipulation. Baak Sal Dyamltod. Osborn, Ohio (Special). The safe of the Bank of Osborn was dynamited. The safe-blower escaped. The amount of booty secured ha not yet been deter-) mined.
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