MANY FALL AT MOSCOW
Troops Fire Ipoo Crowd After Bombs
Are Thrown.
COYS AND WOMEN BEATEN BY COSSACKS
Troops Fir I'pon the Mobs, and Oenerol
Panic Eaiurs Conttlct Between the Bikers
lod the So'dlers it Moscow Troops Shoot
Down Miojt People Numerous Arrests
Are Mide.
Tims, (By Cable). Several bombs
were thrown at the Cossacks Sunday
evening. The troops fired and a general
panic ensued. Many persons were killed
or wounded.
Moscow, (By Cable). The number of
strikers here was increased by the bakers
joining their ranks. Bread is still pro
curable at double price. No newspapers
are printed hire, and even St. Petersburg
papers are scarce, the striking printers
having waylaid the supplies and torn
them to pieces.
Sunday the crowds on the Ivcrskoy
Street Boulevard assumed threatening
proportions. The police and military,
horse and foot, with Cossacks, were
fully prepared. A pitched battle took
place. The troops, who fired three vol
leys pointblar.k at the people, were met
by the crowd with stones and revolvers.
It is impossible to estimate the casual
ties, as, according to custom, immedi
ately the mob was dispersed the streets
were cordoned and the dead and wound
ed removed into yard1, the gates of
which were closed.
It is feared that the workmen to the
number of 30,000 employed in the great
factories may join the demonstration.
The populace is exasperated to the last
degree, less by the open street fighting
than by the action of the police against
all and sundry after the disturbance had
been quelled.
This wo s a repetition of what hap
pened earlier in the year. The prefect
has issued a proclamation which pleases
the police and troops in an absolute pos
session of more rights than a civilized
army would employ against an enemy in
time of war. In virtue of the proclama
tion, the police seize any person they
please. Any pretext is sufficient for an
arrest.
After the fighting was over boys and
youths, nun and women were dragged
into the prefect's courtyard, the gates of
which were then closed. Thereupon began
what is known as giving a lesson to the
"intellectuals." Scores were taken to a
long table, along the sides of which
were drawn up two lines of picked
troops, mostly Cossacks. The victims
were made to run the gauntlet. There
were 50 men on each side, who brutally
struck them with whips and the butt
ends of rifles.
The victims of this ferocious brutality
are forced to run the gauntlet until they
drop fainting or dead. They are then
picked up and removed to prison, the
infirmary or mortuary. The unfortunate
creatures are then taken straight from
the street to this peculiar Russian form
of execution, without the possibility of
offering any defense or hearing what ac
cusaton is made against them.
It is stated that a bomb that was
thrown at the game market killed 12
Cossack patrols. It is impossible to con
firm the report, but it is certain that a
number of riderless Cossack horses re
turned to the barracks aficr the collision
with the mob.
WANTS LAWSOM ARRESTED.
Oot of the Men tie Alticked Applies for
Wirrial.
'joston, Mass., (Special). C. W. Bar
ron, publisher of the Boston News Bu
reau, went before Judge Went worth, in
the first session of the Municipal Crim
inal Caurt, here, and applied for a war
rant charging Thorrns W. Lawson with
criminal -libel of Mr. Barron. Judge
Wentworth put the request over until
Tuesday. It is understood that the ap
plication is baed on certain things al
leged to have been written by Mr. Law
son concerning Mr. Barron, which ap
peared in his "Frenzied Finance" stories
in a magazine.
Barron, when asked about the matter,
referred the reponer to Sherman L.
Whipple, his lawyer, who declined to
say anything.
MUST PRODUCE THEIR BOOKS.
Judt Vindcvcnter Dccldei Cue Against the
Piper Trust
S- Paul, Minn., (Special). Judge
Vandeventcr, in the United States Dis
trict Court, decided that the case of the
Jptted States vs. the General Paper
Company was not appealable.
This decision related to a motion for
stay of a previous order of the court,
pending an appeal to the United States
Supreme Court.
The court ordered that the officers of
the Hennepin Paper Company, the Itasca
Paper Company and the Northwestern
Paper Company must answer the ques
tions asked before Special Examiner
Taylor, and that they must produce tlie
books of the company.
To Weed Out Czar's Navy.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). Ineffi
cient officer; arc to be gradually weeded
out of the Russian Navy during the next
five ycais and pensioned off to make way
for better trained men to command the
reconstructed navy. In a rescript ad
dressed to the Minister of Marine, Em
peior Nicholas directs him to compul
sorily retire all naval officers who are
unable to fulfill the higher requirements
which the projected reformer in the
service will demand.
Farmers Fire 00 Aeronaut.
August, Ga., (Special). Ascending
in an aiiship at the fair grounds lure at
6 o'clock Aeronaut Follette was caught
in an air current and carried away. His
assistants, seeing his danger, followed in
a buggy until stopped by swamps. Near
midnight Follcltc alighted in Milledge
ville, greatly exhausted. Fifteen miles
out he was fired on during the night by
farmers, who report seeing the airship
and thinking it was a big bird. Some
of the shuts struck the framework of
the ship, but the aeronaut was not hit.
Rillroid Colllsoa Due to Fog.
Pottstown, Pa., (Special). Two
members of the crew of a fast freight
train on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway were killed in a rear-end colli
sion which occurred at Royersford, near
here. They were Christian Zimmerman,
fireman, of Hurrisburg, and George W.
Montgomery, of Reading. The men were
riding in the engine cab, when the train
crashed into the rear end of coal train,
and both were pinned under the wreck
age, dying before assistance could be se
cured. The iccidtnt was due to a dense
io.
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
POMKST1C
The Peoria National Bank,' whose
president is accused of embezzlement,
closed its doors, and the Dime Savings
Hank, with which he is also connected,
posted the 60-day sign.
Two city blocks were burned over on
the upper East Side in New York by a
fire that threatened to involve the entire
lumber district.
Wilkens Hobensack, who had been
private secretary to Congressman F. Y.
Wanger, committed suicide in Norris
town, Pa.
Burglars dynamited the stamp box at
the Chagrin Falls (Ohio) Postoffice and
got away with the contents.
Olhcers were elected at the Congress
of the Daughters of the Confederacy in
San Francisco.
Gaynor and Greene were taken from
Montreal, Can., to New York by Secret
Service men.
Judge F. A. Smith, of the Appellate
Court, in Chicago, in a decision against
union men, declared that there is no
such thing as peaceful, polite and gen
tlemanly picketing.
The Great Northern Railroad Com
pany has offered rewards aggregating
$'5,000 for the arrest and identification
of all the robbers who held up the
Great Northern train near Seattle.
The Convention of the German
American National Alliance at Indianap
olis took steps to further instruction in
the German language in the public
schools.
The Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee concluded its session in Cincin
nati. Gen. Fred D. Grant and Lieut. U.
S. Grant third were present.
J. B. Williams, president of the Ver
mont Slate Company, and 13 Hungarian
laborers were killed by a cavein at the
quarry, near Granville, N. Y.
The latest reports of the typhoon's
terrible havoc in the Philippines show
that 200 natives and 25 Americans and
foreigners were killed.
William McDermott insisted on plead
ing guilty of counterfeiting in Houston,
Tex., and was sent to Fort Leavenworth
for 13 months.
The trial of the suit of Mrs. Lizzie S.
Cowen against the estate of the late
Broadway Kouss was begun in New
York. Formal demurrers were filed in the
federal court in Chicago in the Beef
Trust case by the attorney for the pack
ers. Col. Martin Van Burcn Davis, con
nected with the government mint, died
at his home, in Philadelphia.
Henry A. Leonard, the Wall street
clerk, was indicted for forgery in the
second degree.
The structural ironworkers have gone
on strike in Winnipeg, Man.
N. C. Dougherty, for many years city
superintendent of schools and one of
the most prominent educators in the
country, was arrested in Peoria, 111.,
following an indictment by the grand
jury charging forgery.
New Orleans reports 28 new cases of
yellow fever, a total to date of 3,122.
The bark Tillie Baker, from Savannah
for Philadelphia, has been held up at
Marcus Hook pending investigation of
suspicious cases of fever on board.
District Attorney Jerome announced
that he would submit certain features
of the life-insurance scandal developed
by the legislative committee to an ex
traordinary grand jury.
An operation for appendicitis was per
formed on August Belmont at the Me
morial Hospital, in New York. It was
reported to be successful.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars are mining f.om t'le Alamosa (Col.)
Bank. The owners of the bank are
likewise missing.
Five thousand two hundred dollars
was secured br burglars, who entered
the Bank of Springfield, S. D., and blew
open the vault.
Three children were burneO to death
and a number of persons had narrow
escapes in a burning flathouse in Brook
lyn. Vito Laduca was held without bail in
Brooklyn on the charge of being impli
cated in the kidnapping of Tony Meren
dmo. Louis Carmichael, who worked up
Horace Greeley's boom for president,
died suddenly in Sydney, N. Y.
FOKEIGN
Prof, von Behring made si statement
before the International Tuberculosis
Cemgress concerning his new curative
principle for tuberculosis. The next
cemgress will be held at Washington in
190K
The visit of the British squadron to
Japanese waters will be made the occa
sion for a big naval display in the harbor
of Tokio. United States warships are
expected to be present.
It is reported in London that Ger
many's efforts to form a new triple alli
ance of Russia, France and herself will
fail because of her- bullying France last
June.
The strike movement at Moscow is
causing the Russian authorities much
uneasiness owing to the probability of it
extending to St. Petersburg and other
cities.
Prof. Baron Ferdinand von Rich
thofen, the distinguished geographer,
died in Berlin.
The Japanese Associated Chambers of
Commerce, at their meeting in Tokio, ad
vocated a customs tariff union between
Korea and Japan, the opening of a uni
versal exposition and the adoption of
measures against the expansion of cur
rency. Field Marshal Edhem Pasha, who was
commander-in-chief of the victorious
Turkish Army in the war with Greece,
died in Constantinople.
Traffic on the Suez Canal, which was
blocked by the blowing up of the wreck
of a steamer, is being resumed.
Major General Corbin and Mrs. Corbin
-ailed from .Manila for Australia on a
two-month leave of absence.
A five-story building in course of erec
tion in St. Petersburg fell and loo work
men were buried in the ruins.
Robert Mcl.aurin, champion checker
player of Canada, died at Windsor.
There are rumors of an agreement be-twee-n
Great Britain and Russia.
The idea of restoring St. Saviour's
Church, Southwark, England, as a me
morial to John Harvard will probably
be carried out within a few months. Of
the $10,000 required, $9,000 has already
been secured by subscriptions from
Americans resident in London and vis
iting Americans.
In passing the peace treaty the Japan
ese Privy Council has clearly impressed
upon the antipcace agitators the impos
sibility of a refusal to ratify it.
John O'Donnel, Nationalist member
of Parliament for South Mayo, was Bent
io jail for three months for making an
inflammatory speech.
More trouble is brewing in the Rus
sian universities owing to the revolu
tionary spirit which permeates the tu
lent bodies.
A strong sentiment against Count
Wilte developed at a caucus of the St.
I Petersburg municipality.
GIRL'S AWFUL DEATH
Was Locked in a Room With Young
rhjsiciao.
THE DOCTOR SWALLOWS TOISON.
Evidence That Tea-yeir-old Irene Ktokow Wis
Millreited and Then Poisoned Aomin
Sight Oreeted Neighbor Whs Broke Down
the Door ol the Room In Which the Dylnf.
Oirl ind Dr. Hirt Were Locked.
Chicago (Special). Dr. Oliver B.
Hart, a young physician residing in the
suburb of Rogers Park, is in the custody
of the police pending further investiga
tion of the death of Irene Klokow, 10
years old, which occurred in the residence
of the physician. It is theopinion of
the police that a charge of murder will
be lodged against Dr. Hart.
The girl died in a bedroom of the Hart
residence, in which she and the physi
cian had been locked for several hours.
It is the opinion of the authorities, based
on the facts disclosed at the inquest,
that the girl was maltreated and then
poisoned in an attempt to conceal the
crime. After finding that it was impos
sible for the child to recover, the physi
cian swallowed morphine and lay in an
unconscious condition all night and dur
ing the greater part of next day. Late
in the afternoon he partially recovered
and was brought to the city and locked
up in the East Chicago Avenue Police
Station.
The girl was taken about a year ago
from the Illinois Industrial Home for
Girls by Dr. Hart and his wife, who de
sired a girl who could serve in a measure
as companion for Mrs. Hart, who is but
17 years of age, and at the same time
do light housework about the house.
Thursday two sisters of Irene Klokow
called at the Hart residence, and, in
company with Mrs. Hart, went on a
shopping expedition to the city. Irene
complained of a headache and was left
alone in the house with the physician.
What happened in the house is not
known, but the first intimation that any
thing was wrong was a telephone mes
sage sent bv Dr. Hart to a neighbor,
Mrs. Richard Cortis. Dr. Hart told the
woman to summon help at once, as he
was dying. Mrs. Cortis sent word to a
physician and then ran to the Hart resi
dence. She let her little daughter climb
through a cellar window and unbolt the
front door. After entering she called
to Dr. Hart, and he shouted from the
floor above :
"Here I am. You will have to break
through another door." Mrs. Cortis
threw her weight against the bedroom
door and broke it open. The Kleikow
girl was lying on the bed partly dressed,
her hair disarranged and much of it
torn from her head, and the room show
ing evidences of a desperate struggle.
The girl was unconscious and evidently
dying, and Dr. Hart informed Cortis that
she had swallowed morphine pills after
he had given her some medicine.
Just as this instant Mrs. Hart re
turned from her shopping expedition,
and the physician summoned by Mrs.
Cortis arrived. Dr. Hart repeated to
them the story he had told to Mrs. Cor
tis, and when the physician, Dr. Hul
stron, went to work over the body of
the girl, Dr. Hart went into an adjoin
ing room and swallowed a large quantity
of morphine. The efforts of Dr. Hul
stron to revive the girl were unavailing
and she died in a short time.
Dr. Hart was given some restoratives
and Dr. Hulstron labored over him for
several hours before being convinced that
he would ultimately recover. A detail
of police officers was placed at Dr. Hart's
beelside and he was practically under ar
rest until late in the afternoon, when
the coroner's inquest over the body of
the Klokow girl was adjourned. Dr.
Hart, who was then in almost a normal
condition, was formally taken into cus
tody. Dr. Hart has resided in Chicago but a
short time, and is the son of a million
aire of St. Louis, who has sent him reg
ularly an allowance of money which has
supported him and his wife. Mrs. Hart
was, before her marriage, Vera Kriegcs
mann, the daughter of an official in the
St. Louis postoffice. They were mar
ried when Mrs. Hart was but 16 years
of age. She testified at the coroner's
inquest that she left Irene Klokow and
her husband alone in the house, but de
clares that she believes him innocent of
wrong doing.
HAD PLANNED TO STEAL ROCKEFELLER.
Pit Crowe Siys He Would Hive Kidnapped
This Old Mao.
Butte, Mont. ( Special). Pat Crowe,
who is still in jail awaiting the arrival
of officers from Omaha, is putting in his
time confessing to escapades of his life.
He gives off a new one each day. He
told about a plan he had formed soon
after the Cudahy kidnapping to steal
John D. Rockefeller and get a two-million
dollar ransom from young Rocke
feller. The plan was formed while he
was hiding in Chicago after the Cudahy
affair at Omaha. He took in a partner,
and they went to Cleveland to study the
situation, and concluded that it would
be "dead easy" to steal "old man Rock
efeller" from Forest Hill.
It was planned to hold up the watch
man, gag him and then enter the house.
The time was fixed, but his partner
weakened at the last moment and the ad
venture was put off for another day, but
in the end the partner quit altogether.
Crejwe then feared that his partner
might peach on him and he fled to New
York, and from there went to South
Africa, where he joined the Boer Army.
Explosion ol Powder MIIL
Wilmington, Del. ( Special). Wil
mington and surrounding towns were
shaken by an explosion of powder at
the Dupont Powder Works, just outside
the city limits. The force of the ex
plosion was felt for a distance ef 12
miles. No one was injured, as the work
men had not yet reported for duty. The
roof of Mill No. 13, where the explosion
incurred, was blown off and one of the
walls demolished. Houses in the vicinity
of the mill were damaged by the shat
tering of window glass.
Costly Rare Coins Sloleo.
Paris (By Cable). Rev. Jeremiah
Zimmerman, of Syracuse, N. Y., a well
known numismatist and Egyptologist,
who stopped over in Paris on his way
:o the United States from Egypt, was
the victim of thieves, who stole the
entire collection of ancient coins, medals
and cameos obtained by him during his
Egyptian tour, and w'.-S -vre destined
for the Metrmiolitan . - ! ' f Art in
New York. The value . Pahllection
is estimated at $2oo,oot. '.iigliih
man staying at the samet 'its been
irrested nn suspicion. I
- LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
The military secretary has been ad
vised of the death, from locomotor
ataxia, of Col. Frank E. Nye, assistant
rommissary general, which occurred at
Chicago, 111., October 6, 1905.
Second Lieutenant Clarence B. Ross,
Artillery Corps, was reprimanded, in ac
cordance with court-martial sentence,
and reduced to files.
Representative Bartholdt brought to
President Roosevelt a personal message
from Emperor William,
John G. Sullivan has been appointed
assistant chief engineer of the Isthmian
Canal Commission.
Mrs. Charles F. Dubois, wife of a
Treasury Department clerk, committed
suicide.
William M. White, a marine, at
tempted to kill himself.
It has been decided to have the man
agement of the Isthmian Canal affairs
continue under the War Department.
The President appointed Charles W.
Russell assistant attorney general, vice
William D. Purdy, promoted.
The President had a long conference
on the subject of railroad rate legisla
tion with Representative Townsend, who
had his bill nearly ready for submis
sion to the House.
A tentative program has been ar
ranged for the entertainment of Prince
Louis of Battenberg when he visits New
York and Annapolis.
President Roosevelt received a call
from Minister A. Grin, of Sweden and
Norway, who recently returned from a
trip abroad.
Representative Townsend, of Michi
gan, in an interview, asserted that Presi
dent Roosevelt is in earnest on the sub
ject of rate legislation.
Secretary Mctcalf will protest against
any modification of the order which was
issued because of the Chinese boycott.
Secretary Taft discussed with the
President the advisability of transferring
the Panama Canal affnirs to the State
Department.
Capt. T. Ryan, Royal British Navy,
has been appointed naval attache of the
British Embassy at Washington.
An extra allotment has been cabled
to Manila feir the relief of the sufferers
from the recent typhoon.
The grand jury of Canton, O., .indict
ed William L. Davis, vice president, and
Irwin D. Bachtcl, cashier of the- Canton
State Bank, now in the hands of re
ceivers. John Mitchell, president of the United
Mineworkers, called at the White House
to urge the appointment of a friend to
a federal office in Scranton.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE PERISH.
Typhoon's Frightful Havoc oo Chinese
Islands.
Victoria, B. C, (By Cable). The
steamer Tartar, which arrivel from the
Orient, brought news from Shanghai
that) the loss of life among the natives of
the island at the mouth of the Yangtse
River, as a result of the typhoon at the
beginning of September, was tremen
dous. The North China Daily News, of
Shanghai, says :
"To the east of Tamagming two is
lands, one called Yawosha, the other
Shihiousha, distant about 20 miles from
Woosung, have suffered much from the
typhoon, nearly all the inhabitants hav
ing been swept away. The islands have
only been inhabited for a short time,
comparatively speaking, as they are of
recent formation and not much above
high-water mark. It is reported that
nearly 10,000 people have been drowned
on these two islands and the smaller
islands adjacent. Tamagming itself has
not suffered much, be-ing well above the
higlPwater mark."
The Shanghai papers say that the
damage to the Canadian Pacific Railroad
liner Empress of Japan by the typhoon
will necessitate the expenditure of $100,
000 for repairs. During the storm the
steamer Pcchili, formerly the Rio de
Grande du Sol, foundered near the
mouth of the Yangtse. Her crew of 54
were saved by the German steamer
Albenga.
Billion and Quirter Debt.
Tokio (By Cable). Former Foreign
Minister Okuma, leader of the Progress
ive party, before the Associated Cham
bers of Commerce, referring to the sud
den expansion of Japan's finance, said
that when the withdrawal of the troops
is completed she will find herself con
fronted with a debt of $1,250,000,000, the
interest on which alone, roughly speak
ing, will be $75,000,000, or nearly twice
the revenue of the country jo years ago.
The per capita rate of taxation before
the war was $2. Now it is $6. The per
capita share in the national debt before
the war was $6. It is now $25.
Jipio's Wir Losses.
Victoria, B. C, (By Cable). Japa
nese advices say that official returns of
the casualties of the Japanese Army
throughout the war show 46,180 killed,
10,070 died of wounds and 15,300 died of
disease; a total of 72450 dead.
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
On October 17, at New York city,
United Textile Workers of America
will ffiect in convention.
Newcastle, Pa., is an "eight-hour
town" such a condition having been ac
complished without a strike.
A movement is on foot to organize all
the sterling silver and silverplate work
ers of Gre-ater New York. .
It is protiable that the labor party will
be doubled in England at the next elec
tion. There are fourteen members of
the party ijow in Parliament.
At Danville, 111., on October 17, the
annual convention eif the Illinois State
Federation eif Labor will be held.
Each employee in Great Britain lost
in wages less than one shlling (25 cents J
because of strikes during the year 10x14.
One of the oldest of the English trade
unions the Steam Engine Makers' So
cietyhas just celebrated its eightieth
anniversary.
The Citizen's Industrial Associatioa of
America is now issuing a monthly maga
zine freim its New York headquarters.
The journal is entitled "The Square
Deal."
Boston (Mass.) Waiters' Benevolent
Association will be 43 years old on Tues
day, October 17, and will celebrate the
anniversary with a big banquet.
Tool insurance iB to be granted mem
bers of the Patternmakers' League of
North America as a protection against
loss of tools by reason of fires.
Elevator Constructors' International
Union has the trade absolutely organized
throughout the country and has interna
tional agreements with all the big firms.
Headquarters of the International As
sociation of Steam and Hot Water Fit
ters nd Helpers have be-en removed from
New Haven, Conn., to Chicago, J1L
PROF. BEBRING'S NEW FIND
I I I H I
Gains De Das Discovered Care For
Tuberculosis.
PREVENFATlVEASmj, AS CIRATlVE.
Professor Behring Will, However, Hold the
Secret for Sometime, is He Did In the
Cue of His Dlpbterli Scram Hi Siys
Thit From Now on Victims of the Dlseise
Miy Hope Afiln.
Paris (By Cable). Professor Behring,
who discovered the serum treatment for
diphtheria, and who is on-; of the most
famous of the Pasteur Institute experts,
informs the Matin that he intends to pro
claim next August a method of curing
tuberculosis, which he has discovered.
He says that the method involves the
use of neither serum nor vaccine, but
that it is a preventive, as well as cura
tive remedy, lie will hold the secret
some time, as he did in the case of his
diphtheria scrum.
He will explain the method to Drs.
Roux and Mentchikoff and leave the ap
plication of it to medical practitioners
without revealing the nature of the rem
edy, berause he thinks he has a right
to reserve temporarily the profits of the
discovery to enable him to prosecute
other researches.
Professor Behring added : "From to
day onward the victims of tuberculosis
may hope again."
The Nobel prize in medicine, the value
of which was $4o,ewx, was awareled to
Professor Behring in loot for his meth
od of rendering cattle immune from tu
berculosis by inoculation.
In a lecture delivered shortly afterward
in Stockholm, Behring said that he would
devote the prize money to further experi
ments in the same field. In April of the
next year proof sheets of a book by
Behring upein this method were given
out. The book gave the result of six
years of investigation and experiment.
In the fouowing May the success of
his serum treatment for diphtheria was
noted in the official statistics of Berlin,
where a death rate of 1,300 to 2,000 was
cut down in loot to 409 by use of the
serum.
In March, 1903. he made public the
fact of the extension of his tuberculin
experiments to human beings and ex
pressed the belief that they would be
successful.
The delegates to the International Tu
berculosis Congress spent the day visit
ing sanatoriums in various districts. A
large party, including Casimir Pereir,
former president of Rrance, accompanied
President Loubet to Montigny, in the
Department du Nord, where the Presi
dent opened a new sanatorium.
The American delegates have met with
much encouragement in urging Washing
ton as the place for holding the next
congress and entertain hopes of a fa
vorable decision.
MAY TURN CANAL OVER TO ROOT.
Secretary Tift Thinks State Department
Should Handle It.
Washington, D. C. (Special). At a
meeting between Secretary Taft and the
President at the White House the ques
tion of transferring the Panama Canal
affairs from the War Department and
Secretary Taft to the State Department,
where Secretary Root would be in
charge, was discussed. Secretary Taft
made the suggestion that this be done
just before he went to the Philippines,
but the question has not been settled
and will probably be the subject of con
siderable discussion before it is.
Secretary Taft now has the Philip
pines and the War Department to look
after, in addition to the numberless du
ties which arc put upon him that are en
tirely outside the province of a Secre
tary of War, and which make his work
exceedingly arduous and difficult.
SAYS FORMER WIFE CUT HIS THROAT.
Charges He Wis Held Down By Son-ln-Law.
Kansas City, Mo., (Special). Be
cause he refused to retract alleged slan
derous statements he had made about his
wife, James Green's tongue was almost
cut out. He charged that he was held
down by Charles Thomas, son-in-law of
his former wife, while the former Mrs.
Green tried to cut out his organ of
speech with a sharp knife.
Green is now in a hospital, where the
doctors are in doubt whether the al
most severed tongue will knit together
so as to enable Green again to talk.
The patient told his story of the at
tack upon him by writing it down with
pen and ink while he lay in the police
station, after being found bleeding in
his home.
In the affidavit Green asserts that he
was at work in his home when Mrs.
Martha Fannon, his former wife, and
Thomas entered. Green refused to re
tract anything he had said about the
woman. At this point Thomas joined
in the attack with a knife. After he
and Green had been severely cut in nu
merous places, Thomas got Green down
on the floor and held him. The en
raged Thomas, according to Green's
story, then handed the knife to Mrs.
Fannon, and she made a desperate ef
fort to cut out Green's tongue.
Bisk Officials Indicted.
Canton, O. (Special). The grand
jury returned indictments against Wr.
L. Davis, vice presielent, and Irwin D.
Bachtel, cashier, of the Canton State
Bank, now in the hands of receivers.
Davis is held for embezzlement of $15,
300 and for grand larceny of the same
amount. Bachtcl is indicted for the same
two offenses, and an additional indict
ment is placed against him charging
false entries on the bank's books.
Duel to Deitb in Prison Cell.
Frankfort, Ky. (Special). In a cell
at the State penitentiary, from which
neither could escape, Albert Herndon,
of Louisville, and Cam Shepherd, of
Lexington, fought a duel to the death
with a knife and iron rod as weapons.
Shepherd held the knife, and when both
men fell exhausted to the floor it was
found that Herndon had 14 knife
wounds, any one "of four of which would
have been fatal. Shepherd is badly bat
tered and his condition is serious.
Nearly Forty Years In Prison.
Chicago (Special). Frank Hope, jg
years old, who has served 39 years behind
the bars, pleaded guilty to a charge of
swindling and was sentenced to the peni
tentiary for 10 years. Hope's real name
is said to be Puncheon, and it is said
he has respectable relatives in London,
England. lie was released from Joliet
prise n in August last, and had been at
liberty only two weeks when he was
again arrested. He confessed that he
advertised for a woman to act as trav
eling companion for children and then
robbed the applicants for the position.
NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY.
Niw Yokk City, N. Y.
Charles Fiske Bound, a retired broker,
about 60 years old, and Miss Josephine
Richards, the 19-year-old daughter of
Professor and Mrs. W. W. Richards,
both of Hagcnsack, N. J., were married
in the Crypt of the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine, New York city. The bride
was graduated from the Hackensack
High School two years ago with high
honors. Her father is a teacher of lan
guages in that school. Mr. Bound has
two children, both older than his bride.
The couple have been much in each
other's company, and often were taken
for father and daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
Hound will spend their honeymoon in
Europe.
"Hello!" said a voice at the telephone,
"come down at once; your store has
been robbed."
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Ignatz Popper, tobacco merchant, 136
Water street, left his comfortable bed
at 141 East Ninety-fifth street and went
out into a drenching rain, only to find
that he had been hoaxed. Herman Adcls
on, Jr?e Levenson and "Ben" Ablo
witch, boys with large bumps of hu
mor, were arrested. Magistrate Whit
man read them a severe lecture. They
explained that they had tried to apolo
gize over the telephone, but Popper had
hung up the receiver.
"A personal apology is necessary,"
said the magistrate.
The, boys all apologized to Popper.
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Love had a lottery at $5 a chance, os
tensibly at 20 Broad street, and one "J.
E. A. Smith," "broker," who gives that
as the address for marriageable women
to answer, has sent out a circular broad
cast to the newspapers of the country
asking that the fact of his desirability
be made public. In the circular Smith
puts himself up as the only prize, and to
stimulate the minds of the contestants
for himself the prize he says he has
placed a certain number in "escrow,"
and for the next "30 days any woman
who is educated and refined, in good
health and physical condition, who has
a good disposition or self-control, may,
for $5 a chance, register a guess as to
the number chosen. At the end of 30
days the number will be published, and
I will marry the winner." Postal au
thorities are investigating.
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Two burglars, one of whom has red
lair, are being sought by the police at
the request of Michael Naftal, who says
ttat by cutting a slit in the side of his
store they despoiled his show window
of $2000 worth of gems and antiques.
His establishment is at 744 Sixth ave
nue, and it is devoted principally to the
sale of discarded gowns of the wealthy.
Two youths appeared last Saturday, an
nounced that they were electricians and
obtained a hall bedroom in the building.
In this apartment was found an assort
ment of augers, saws and chisels. The
burglars got one tray containing 36 dia
mond rings, besides 20 seal rings and
many bits of gold jewelry and antiques.
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J. J. Scanlon, 40 years of age, who
said he lived at 306 West One Hundred
and Forty-third street, was held up at
the point of a gun in the residence of
Dr. George Lindcnnieyr, at 306 West
One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street,
by Frederick Gramm, a relative of the
physician. Scanlon was taken to the
West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
Street Station and locked up as a suspi
cious person. He said that he meant no
harm and that he thought he was in his
own home.
Dr. Lindrnmeyr lives in a private
house, and Scanlon could not tell how
he got into it. At the station-house a
membership card of the "Chasers' League
of America," made out to J. J. Scanlon,
with a lot of clippings on love, was found
in his pocket. Dr. Lindcnmeyr went to
the police station to make a complaint
igainst the man, and said that he had
never seen him before.
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Frederick G. Oakley, one of the best
known young men of White Plains, at
tempted suicide. Oakley is 33 years
old and a rich bachelor. After dining
I at his home, he walked to the Carhart
Homestead Park, where he is building a
fine residence. He returned in an hour
with his face covered with blood. His
mother meeting him m this condition
on the front porch of their residence,
her screams drew a crowd. Drs. Hyatt
and Parker dressed the wound, which
had been inflicted apparently with a dull
knife. Young Oakley fought desper
ately before the doctors could quiet him.
He will recover.
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Presiding Justice Olmstcad, in the
Court of Special Sessions, with the as
sent of his associates, Deuel and Wyatt,
announced that from now on wife-beaters
would get the limit of sentence
one year in the Penitentiary at hard la
bor and to pay a fine of $500. He there
upon imposed a penalty of one year in
the Penitentiary and a fine of $250 on
Frank McDonald, 36 years old, who lived
with his wife, Ethel, 24 years old, at 1726
Lexington avenue. Justice Olmstcad said
intoxication was no defense.
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Joseph "Hand, 8 years old, of 102 Bar
clay street, Newark, N. J., is accused
by the police of being a full-fledged high
way robber. He was captured after he
had "held up" two boys, both older than
himself, on Monroe street, and robbed
:hem of the contents of their poeketB, in
cluding a purse containing 90 cents.
Hand was 111 the act of throwing the
empty purse away when Policeman
Kromelbein nalibed him. The precocious
knight'of the highway was placed in the
custody of the Juvenile Court, with eight
other boys ranging in age from 9 to 11
years, members of a band of youthful
thieves.
FINANCIAL
Conditions are most favorable for sow
ing winter wheat.
Drcxel sold 5000 shares of Cambria
Steel.- E. T. Stotesbury is a director of
the latter company.
Wasserman and his pool were indi
viduals that lifted Reading second pre
ferred, which crossed par fpr the fiist
time.
Robert Bacon's retirement from the
United States Steel Board leaves a va
cancy that the Morgan interests will
probably fill.
Canadian Pacific's net profit in August
reise $263,000.
John W. Sparks, who is well posted
on International Mercantile Marine af
fairs says that the enormous crops which
mean great exports will help greatly the
company's earnings the current fiscal
year.
Railway Steel Springs common has
been put upon a 4 per cent, divielend
basis by the declaration of a semi-annual
dividend of a per cent.
Tennesse Coal & Iron Is earning at
the rite of 3 per cent, on its common
stock, which is lets than has been popu
larly supposed.
OVERLAND TRAIN HELD UP!
Robbers Got Away With Some Valuable
Booty.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF ROBBERY.
While tht Bandits Were Busy With lb En
gineer and Ei press Messeoter, Conphf
of Youths Took Advinliie of tht Panic
Amoof tht PiiiDtri aid Begin Miking
Them (Jive Up.
Seattle, Wash. (Special). The Great
Northern overland train leaving Seattle
at night was held up and the baggage
and express car dynamited about five
milej from Ballard. Three men are
known to have done the work. Two
boys who got on the blind baggage here
as soon as the holdup began entered the
passenger coaches and began holding up
the passengers. They were captured.
They say two of the men were on the
blind baggage when they got on, and
the third got on at Ballard. All wete
well dressed, with raincoats and slouch
hats. So far as reported no one wai
killed, but Charles Anderson, an ex
press messenger, was slightly injured.
The train was flagged near the brick
yard, and as the engineer slowed up two
men with raincoats climbed over the
tender and presented revolvers to his
head. When the train stopped, the engi
neer was instructed to pull ahead, which
he did for several hundred yards, when
he was again commanded to stop. Two
of the robbers tlven jumped off, making
the engineer and fireman do the same,
and all marched to the baggage-car
door. The messenger was commanded
to open the door, and, refusing, an extra
heavy charge of dynamite was placed
against it and exploded. The explosion
tore the car almost to pieces. The safe
was then dynamited. The train was
delayed two hours and a half, and then
pulled into Edmonds, mnhing a brief re
port before proceeding to Everett. The
two boys claim they never met the hold
ups until they got on the train, and are
in no way connected with their wo-k.
The idea to hold up the passengers oc
curred to them after the explosion.
Sheriff Smith has started out with a
posse.
Conductor Grant's report of the hold
up shows that at least seven men were
engaged in the robbery. The conductor
believes there were other men further
down the track, but they did not take
any part, possibly because the train had
stopped too soon.
When once inside the car the robbers
began dynamiting, the first explosion
being of six sticks, the second of 12 and
the third of 18.
While the robbers were engaged on
the safe the two boys who had been
riding on the blind baggage slipped off
and went through the train, attempting
to hold up the passengers. They had;
no guns, but took advantage of the ti-l
midity of the passengers while the shoot
ing was going on outside. I
The boys, who gave their names as'
Frank Alfred and Roland Gibbs, are
now in jail at Everett. A passenger on
the train says , that their method while
going through the coaches consisted of
more of a begging character than a
holdup. I
No one was injured seriously, al
though a continual fire of revolvers was
kept up. Stories differ as to the num-,
bcr of robbers engaged in the job. There
were at least three. There may have;
been four, or even more. !
The express messenger says he does
not know how much was obtained by
the holdups. The local safe was not
molested.
A reward of $5,000 was offered by the
Great Northern Express, Company for
the capture and identification of the rob-:
bers. I
Deputy Sheriff Scott said that, so far
as known, only $346 in cash was taken
from the safe. No statement has been
made regarding express matter. .
EXCHANGE OP RATIFICATIONS.
Tikahlra Calls on Kosea and They Oo to
Ihe State Department.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Rati
fications of the treaty of Portsmouth will
be exchanged at Washington between
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador,
and Mr. Takahira, the Japanese minis
ter, as soon as these important docu
ments are received from St. Petersburg
and Tokio. The ratifications will con
tain the French and English texts of tht
treaty. This was decided at a confer
ence between Baron Rosen and Mr. Tak
ahira, which began in the Russian Am
bassador's apartments and was conclud
ed at the State Department. Mr. Taka
hira called on Baron Rosen to find out
from him the usual form of the Russian
ratification. In order that the Minister
might inspect a copy, they went to the
State Department, where Mr. Adee, the
third assistant secretary of state, re
ceived them and showed them the ratifica
tion of the Russian-Americait' extradition
treaty.
Mr. Takahira will inform his govern
ment fully on the subject, so that the
ratifications may conform. The special
plenary powers to be conferred on the
two. plenipotentiaries, enabling them to
exchange ratifications, will be identical
in scope.
The approval of the treaty by the
Privy Council at Tokio in effect ratifies
the convention, and it is expected the
formality of the Emperor's signature,
will follow shortly. As the treaty be
comes effective as soon as ratified, the
exchange of ratification is only a for
mality. Japan will be ready to exchange
as soon as the Emperor's signature is
affixed, as the formal ratification can b
prepared and delivered at the legition
here. It is not believed that the Rus
sian ratification will be long delayed.
The Hunter Strike.
. St. Petersburg (By Cable). The
"hunger strike" which began October a
in the women's department of one of the
large prisons here devoted to the deten
tion of political offenders has become
general, For'thrce days all the iifnalei
of the prison have b-cn refusing to eat
as a protest against the rough treatment
of a female prinoncr and the general
administrative conditions in the prison.
The prisoners are mainly socialists,
many of whom were arrested last week.
( Hearst Noolnitcd For Miyor.
New York (Special). William Ru
dolph Hearst was named as a candidate
for maryor at a municipal ownership
mass-meeting in the Grand Central Pa
lace, and a committee appointed by J. G.
Phelps Stokes, who presided, will sclett
the remainder of the ticket. Much cheer
ing followed the resiling of a letter
from the Rev. Dr. Charles II. Parkhurst.
jin which he praised the growing demand
ff or government interference to protect
jthc public from the tyranny of monopolists.