IIBE FERTILIZER TRUST INDICTED .Federal Grand Jury at Nashville Takes Action. EIGHTY FERTILIZER MANUFACTURERS. Indicted After Probing ol Four Weeks Six Coantt Are Named la tbo -Indictment Tbe Docket ladlctmenl li Inicrlbed at foiled States vs. tbe Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company et aU" ,' Nashville, Tenn. (Special) Tli grand Jury of tlic United States Circuit Court for the Middle 1'istrict of Tennessee, af ter four weeks' investigation of the al leged Fertilizer Trust, made their report to Judge Horace II. l.urton. returning an indictment against nh nit So fertiliser manufacturers, including corporations, firms and individuals. There were six counts in the indict ment, which details in specific form al leged violations of anti-trust laws and I charges the defendants with combining and ticimi engaged in a trust or cnmbitia tion. The case are M he calVd !t the October term of the court in this city. I During the investigation 140 witnesses from various states were examined be fore the grand jury. The investigation was conducted by Hon. E. T. Smford. of Ku iwille; Hon. Harwood Craves, of the Department of Justice at Washington, and Hon. A. M. Tillman, district attorney. From 50 to IOO of the best lawyers in the state will appear as coun-el when the cases are taken up for trial. The six counts in the indictment are in a double series of ihree each. The first charge the defendants with c?ig-.g-ing in a conspirrtrv; the second charecs the defendants with conspiring, and the third with conspiring, under section 5440, Revised Statutes, to commit the offense of cncr.cing in a combination as defined by the Sherman law. The third count is new in form and procedure, and charges the nmmi:!ing of an offen-e against the United States of encaging in a combination in restraint of trade as defined and prohibited by the Sherman act. The puiti-dnnent un ler section 5.140 is two years in prison and a ?!o,o.x fire. The third count is new in form and pro cedure. It charecs the committing of an offense again-'t the Unite 1 States by en gaging in a combination in restraint of trade, as defined and prohibited by the Sherman act. The style of the rase on the docket indictment is United States vs. Virginia Carolina Chemical Company et al and the indictment is described as "indictment for violating act of Congress approved July 2. 1S00. and entitled 'An Act To Pro tect the Trade and Commerce Against Unlawful Restraints and Monopolies.' and section 1440, Revised Statutes, United States." Among the manufacturers indicted be sides the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company are Armour & Co., Illinois; A.abama Chemical Comnanv of New Jersey, Federal Chemical Company 0 Del aware, tVmldinz Ferti'irer Company of Florida, National Fertilizer Company of Tennessee, New Orleans Acid and Fertiliser Companv of New Jer-ev. F. S. Poynter Guano Company, of Virginia, and Swift & Co., of Illinois. Dooblo Grave For Her. New York (Special) Mrs. Jno. Brown of White Plains, who died Friday, weigh ed 300 pounds, and Undertaker Lyons is constructing a special casket for the body, and a double grave is being opened. It will be necessary to tear out part of the house from which the funeral will be held in order to get the ca-ket out of it. Instead of a hearse, an np.-n undertaker's wagon will be used to convey the corpse to the cemetery. Mrs. Brown was 34 years old. Funeral Drivers' Strike. New York (Special). A temporary settlement of the strike of the downtown funeral coach drivers was reached at a conference between representatives cf the downtown union and the downtown coach owners. No written agreement was signed, but a truce was called until the last day of this month, the coach own ers, most of them are undertakers, prom ising to pay the drivers $14 a week in the meantime, with 11 hours r.ff cut of every 2(. SPAKKS FROM THR WIRES. Louis3 Perez, a wealthy Cuban woman, has sued to recover the possession of her daughter, whose foster father has made her an acrubat in a circus. A cat overturned a lamp in White Plains, N. Y., causing a fire which re sulted in the fatal injury of a girl and the serious burning of her sister. Dr. E. J. Ernst, of the City Dispensary staff in St. Louis, was stabbed with a hatpin by a young woman wdio appeared to be drmented. Frank Wyrant, of Kansas City, is anx ious to establish the fact that hi; sun is a negro. Bvth appear to be white. Twelve persons were injured, two of them severely, in an accident at the White Ciiy Amusement Park. Chicago. The Russian Foreign Office has ex pressed to United States Ambassador Meyer the deepest regrets over the as sassination of William H. Stuart, the American vice consul at Batoum, and has promised to make the must rigid investigation, Final reports f.-"in San Francisco in dicate that the damage to the skyscrapers of that city is far less than was at first supposed. Cleveland fO.) sheet metal workers have unionized two more establishments, ' and there are now but four large shops remaining from which 11.1 agreements have been obtained. Another Hungarian crisis is threatened because of the refusal of Emperor Fran cis Joseph 10 approve the Hungarian Cabinet's demand for an autonomous Hungarian tariff. Fire l..-,.3 again broken cut in the Cour ricres Mines in France, where the dis asters of March u last occurred, result inir in the loss of about j.jv lives. Two bundle' n:cn ar. engage! in the construction of the ah" 1 i p in Paris in which Walter Wc"nu;i will .uakc his North Pole cuprdition. Mr. Francis, the new American minis ter to Austria-Hungary, v. as given n cordial reception by the Ami San minis ter of Foreign Affairs. Torrents of mud have emelnped the royal observatory on Mount Vesuvius, and the director i.nd hie assistants have hrn -tmprikj to abandon their !) LATESTMWS IXSIIQRTCRDER DOMESTIC A. J. Cassatt, president of the Penn sylvania Railroad, has abandoned his trip abroad, and will return to America, it is believed, owing to the revelations before the Interstate Commerce Com mission regarding gift of stock to Penn sylvania officials. A commission of lunacy was appointed to inquire into the sanity of Josephine Terranova, charged with the murder of her uncle and aunt, in their Williams Bridge home. The trial was halted until the commissioner makes its re port. The New York Court of Appeals de cides that George W. Perkins did not commit larcenv in handling campaign g.fts of tbe New York Life, but that restitution may lie in civil action. The French line steamer, l.a Provence broke the record between Harve and New York, making the passage in six days, three hours and thirty-five minutes. A committee of too leading citizens of New York, is being organised to es-tabli.-h a permanent memorial to the late Ctrl Schurz. John J.icoS Acer's automobile ran into a team of heroes at Khiiiebeck, N. Y., and the mi'.fionairc narrowly escaped serious injury. George L Thomas an 1 I.. B. Taggart, accuse ! of giving rebates 011 shipments out of Kansas, was found guilty. Judge Johns, in denying an injunction to restrain a union of the Northern and Cumberland Presbyterians, declares the equity courts must be guided by the ques tions of faith by the tribunals of the church. Both denominations seem on the eve of uniting. Judge Waiiace, of the New York Cir cuit Court of Appeals, t il l President Truesda'c, of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, that the corpor ation's repudiation of a contract with a shipper was "morally no better than lar ceny." Representatives of several trading stamp companies were arrested in Phil adelphia, charge ! with defrauding mer chants out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The board of directors of the Pennsyl vania Railroad decided to investigate the holding of coal stocks of officials and employes of the corporation. Patrolman 1 farry Morton, accused of perjury in the Claiche case, made two attempts at suicide at police headquarters, in New York. Experts for the defense offered testi mony that Josephine Terranova, accused of killing her uncle and mint, is insane. By direction of the governor and the mayor, Louisville, Ky., is to be dry Sundays. A petition a mile long has been pre sented to Governor Guild, of Massachu setts, asking that a life sentence in stead of the death penalty be imposed on Charles L. Tucker for the murder of Mabel Page. Thousands of people were in Charlotte, N. C, to witness the ceremonies at tending the celebration -of the Mecklen burg Declaration of Independence. Edward Payson Weston,, aged 63 years, is to walk from Philadelphia to New York in an effort to break a recorj he made in his younger days. John Mulvaney, painter of "Custer's Last Stand," was found drowned in East River. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who has been critically ill in New York, is now rapidly recovering. Senator Gorman is said to be so much improved that he is now able to sit up. The Republic Oil Company has with drawn from the State of Ohio. Miss Grace Parker was engaged to zo to Europe as a travelling companion to Miss Mattie French, but the latter's nephew, John P. Harding, fell in love with the girl, and will take her abroad as his bride. William I. Schnablc, a patient at the University Hospital in Philadelphia, has been in a state of coma for 47 days. The doctors do not expect him to regain consciousness. While lying' very ill at a hospital in Keys:-, ne, S. D., Sllss Lulu Kendall, in a vision, saw her father fall from a chff. The accident really occured just as she saw it. In behalf of her blind grandfather, Pearl McDade, 13 years of age, made a pita to the Alabama Board of Pardons to release the old man's only son. IOKF.1G.N Anarchists attacked the Industrial Sav in's Bank at Warsaw, Poland. The clerks drew revolvers, and in the fight that followed, two customers were killed and two other customers, five clerks and one of the anarchists were woundeJ. The hcd office of the. Mutual Reserve Life Insuraco Company, in London and all the agencies in England were closed. The company will discontinui- all efforts to secure ne.v business in England, King Alfonso met h. future bride, Prince-s Ena, of Battcn'Mcrg. at the fron tier of Spam and escorted her to Mad rid, where she was received with im posing ceremony. Governor Jelinski, of KieVe, Poland, is suspected of the murder ot a woman who was found dead in his room. He says she committed suicide. Many lives were lost and immense damage done to property by earthquakes in Mongolia. Emperor Francis Joseph is reported to be suffering from intestinal catarrh. The Russian government has given out an official statement justifying its re fusal to grant plenary amnesty. King Victor Emmanuel received in private audience Silas Mcliee, editor of the Churchman, of New York. The International Postal Congress, in session in , Rome, decided to raise the weight of Utters to one ounce. Foreign Secretary Tschirsky made his first speech in the Reichstag since his appointment to that office. Count Solsky has been relieved of the presidency of the Council of the Empire. Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian poet and dramatist, died in Christiana. The "Black Hundred" arc reported to be active in Southern Russia. Emperor-King Francis Joseph formal ly opened the Hungarian Parliament. In his speech he said that after the ques tion of electoral reforms had b.en set tled a new parliament would be sum moned, , The French cabinet decided that the law providing for the separation of church and state abolished the right of divinity students to a reduction of the usual term of military service. A band of 100 Greeks set fire to the Bulgarian village Startcbina, near Mona stir, but Turkish troops appeared and put the Greeks to flight after killing 17 of them. Despatches from St. Petersburg indi cate that the Emperor does not consider the address of the lower house as being an ultimatum beyond the demand for amnesty, which will take first place in I hi MO'"- SUE WILL CLIMB THE HIGHEST PEAK Miss Annie Peck to Ascend Mount Buascaran. MADE THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN CLIMB. Claims Tbat Her First Attempt to Climb lbs Lollies! of tbo Andta Failed Btcaust Two Malt Mountain Cllmbtra In tier Party Refuted to Oo All tbt War thi Top. New York, (Special). A daring mountain-climbing exploit is planned by Miss vnuic S. Peck, the famous woman Alpinist, of Providence, R. I., who sailed from here Thursday for Colon. Alone, except for such natives of Tcru as she selects for guides, Miss Peek will attempt to climb Mount-Huascaran, said to be the highest peak in the An des Mountains. She will make the climb equipped with scientific instruments, with which to determine whether Huascaran is of greater altitude than Mount lilampu, which has an estimate height of J 1, 500 feet. In I'XM, Miss Peck made an attempt to ascend Huascaran, but did not suc ceed, and lays the blame of the failure in part to two male mountain-climbers who formed a portion of her party and refused to proceed all the way to the top. She is planning on the present climb to equip the native guides with Eskimos' clothing as a protection ajainst exces sive cold, for upon reaching a height of 1,900 feet on her first climb the tem perature was 20 degrees below rrro. Miss Peck has no fears for her own safety or health, she said, and she feels if she had "determination enough to take nip up 20 Huascarans." She hold the distinction of having made the highest climb on record upon any mountain in the Western Hemi sphere, wdien she ascended Mount So rata, also nn Andean peak. This moun tain is one of the tremendous chain of peaks which form the backlionc of the Andes and of which Mount Huascaran is one of the leat known and most imposing. In addition to American mountain-climbing exploits Miss Peck has ascended the Matterhorn, the peril ous Five Finger peaks of the Tyrol and several other world-famous mountains. RESIST INCOME TAX. Amerlcao Engineers Temporarily la Canada Btfnti to Pay. Detroit, Mich., (Special). An inter national dispute of magnitude it immi nent between the United States and Can ada over the question of the payment of the 'Canadian income tax by the United States government engineers who are in charge of the dredging operations in the Canadian channel of the Detroit River, and who make their homes in Amherstburg, at the mouth of the river. Although the Canadian courts have decided against the Americans, the latter still refuse to pay, and the Canadian government seized the household goods to Chief Engineer C. Y. Dixon and As sistant Engineers Harry Hodgman, E. R. Lewis and B. A. Pripp. A sale of these goods by public auction hat been announced to satisfy the government's demands. No More Birds, Ladles I Albany, N. Y., (Special). Commis sioner Whipple, of the State Forest Fish and Game Department, served notice through the press of the milliners of the State, retail and wholesale, that his de partment intends to use every legitmate means to enforce the law prohibiting the possession or sale of the bodies or feathers of wild birds, whether taken in this State or elsewhere. Realizing the opposition wdiich will undoubtedly meet his efforts to rob wo man of .her most papular hat trimming, trie Commissioner jays that this depart ment, being entrusted with the protection of bird life, is desirous of obtaining re sults without working any hardship to the public and the trade. Cannot Join Marine Band. Boston (Special). A resolution pro hibiting any member of the American Federation of Musicians from accepting an engagement with the United States Marine Band, of Washington, D. C, on its tour of Europe this summer, upon penalty of a fine not exceeding $1,000 or expulsion from the association, was unan imously passed at the business session at the Federation's eleventh annual conven tion. A restitution also was passed pro hibiting members from playing with In dian bands on reservations which arc under the protection of the United States government. Sottthtro Rol:T Surgeons. Charleston, S. C. (Special). The As sociation of Surgeons of the Southern Railway selected Washington as the meet ing place of the next convention and elected the following officers: President, R. S. Toombs, Greenville, Miss.; vice president, M. F. Coomes, Louisville, Ky. ; second vice president, B. H. Simms, Tal ladega, Ala.; secretary an I treasurer, J. U. Ray, Woodstock, Ala., reelected; ex ecutive committee, one year, F. Gobbel, English, Ind ; five years, W. W. Harper, Selma, Ala. The convention will con clude tonight. Joint Prolcat to Cblna. Washington, D. C. (Special). Upon Minister Rockhill's report to the effect that he had not succeeded in obtaining satisfactory assurances from the Chinese government as to the recent edict rela tive to the assumption by natives of the control of the customs, he has been instructed to join the British and German representatives at Peking in energetic protest against the proposed change. " The Clyde engineers have by a very large majority declared by ballot that they will, go out on strike unless the em ployers consent to pay their wages week ly in place of once a fortniglu, as at present. Emperor William received a message from the German Naval League express ing tbe hope that the completion of the fleet was progrt-ssiiis in order to main tain peace. A detachment of Turks on Saturday annihilated a band of 11 Bulgarians at Ijsnlai. near Mor.astir. LIVE WASELWfON AFFAIRS. Tho House win thrown In on uproar before lending the Railroad Rate Hill to conference by Hepburn shaking hil fist at Cooper end accusing the latter of circulating a falsehood. The Mexican Government has sent data to the Department of State which indicates that the American fishing ves sel seized by gunboats were in pro hiiiited'wateri. Provision for governmental inspection of the fresh meat aupply of the nation was attached to the Agricultural Appro priation Bill, which passed the Senate. Secretary Root favors a settlement of the fisheries disputes with Canada by direct negotiations and payment of cash. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte favors the construction of another float ing drydock like the Dewey. The Senate Committee authorized the reporting of a resolution requiring all supplies and implements for the Panama Canal to be of domestic manufacture unless the prices asked are extortionate or unreasonable. The former chief engineer of the Panama Canal sent a letter to the Senate Committee accusing Secretary Taft and Governor Magoon of bad faith. The Senate passed the Urgent Defici ency Appropriation Bill providing money for the opening of Indian reservations in the Northwest. The President has accepted the resig nation of Horace A. Taylor, assistant secretary of the treasury. The Senate directed its Committee on Privileges and Elections to investigate the status of oeiiator Burton, whose convic tion was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court. Senator Lodge introduced a bill at the request of Secretary Taft for a readjust ment of the ratio of the Philippine coin age and for an increase in the elasti city of the present system. A. C. Hayden, representing the Carne gie Steel Company, made an argument before the House Committee in opposi tion to ihe eight-hour bill. The State Department has been ad vised of revolutionary movements in progress against President Caceres of Santo Domingo. A resolution was adopted in the House providing for the reference of the Rail road Rate Bill to a conference. There is opposition in the Senate to the naval program that conitemplates building a bigger warship than the Dreaduaught. Secretary Root and Ambassador Casa sus, of Mexico, signed a treaty to regu late the use of the waters of the Rio Grande. The Agricultural Appropriation Bill as reported to the Senate carries 715.000. James A. Goulden, of New York, told the House Committee on the Judiciary that any member of the New York Assembly could make from fifty to a hundred thousand dollars out of the insurance companies. Marines are to go on the cruiser Col umbia, which is to be sent to meet any emergency arising out of the Panama elections. Milton was plain in his eating, as in everything else. His breakfast was a bit of bread and cheese, or a chop and a glass of milk, The British employer has to pay on the average 46 per cent, more for labor than the German employer pays, while the difference as against the American em ployer is 191 per cent. CHINESE PERISH BY THOUSAND. Floods and Flrea Cause Terrible Destruction lo China. Victoria, B. C, (Special). THe steamer Teucer, which arrived here from Japan and China, brought further advices re garding the disastrous floods of the Hai Nang II ao in China. All the valleys along the river were inundated, homes swept away by hundreds, and thousands of men and animals drowned. v At Hsiangtau fires broke out and the greater part of the walled city was de stroyed. This news was tele-graphed by the Japanese consul at Hsiangtau, who says that, although an immense Joss of life occured among the Chinese, none of his nationality was lost. The Hunan Steamship Company's steamers were still running, but could get no pasesngers or cargo. It is feared tbat the destruction of the rice crop in the flooded areas may cause an extensive famine. KNIFE USED ON INCORRIGIBLE. Diseased Craolal Membrane Caused Joseph Sbopl's Badness. Toledo, Ohio, (Special). Convinced by the famous operation on Harold Hur ley some weeks ago that physical condi tions are largely responsible for the acts of children, officers of the Juvenile Cour, have entered on another delicate ex periment. The subject of the present operation is 10-year-old Joseph Shopf. Little Joe is incorrigible. At the Toledo Medical College an ex amination revealed a diseased condition of the membranes of Joe's head, which was affecting the brain. An operation was begun and already much of the dis eased membrane has been removed. The vicious traints of character are slowly leaving the lad and surgeons arc confi dent that a complete cure will reward their efforts. A NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL. Captain Oarii, Commander of Ibt Rhode ' Island, Defendant. Washington (Special). A general court-martial has been ordered for the trial of Capt. Perry Garst, commanding the battleship Rhode Island, for ground ing that ship, May 6, on York Spit. The court will meet on board the Rhode Is land, in Hampton Roads, this week. Southerners Art Anxious. New Orleans, (Special). The best in terests in the Southern States are show ing grave concern over Ihe failure of the joint House and Senate conference com mittee to reach an agreement .on the National Quarantine bill, including the 'Richardson amendment, which would put a stop to the unnecessary and unscientific local quarantines in the South whenever a case of yellow fever is reported. The Girard Trust Company, Philadel phia, subscribed for $13,000,000 of the Pennsylvania's $50,000,000 of notes ALL FRISCO BANKS ARE OPEN AGAIN Millions in Sight and No Limit on Demands. THE MUSICAL CLICK OF GOLD. Payments Resomtd by the Banks ol tb Destroyed City Long Llneg Walt lor Tbtlr Mooey la Orderly Fisbloo, Being Coolldeot ol tbo Solvency of tho Different Institutions. San Francisco (Special). Practically every bank in this city that has1 been able to secure temporary quarters threw open its doors to the public Wednesday. There was no sign of a run. Never in the history of San Francisco was there so much bank money on hand. For the past week money has been pouring into the local financial institu tions from all parts of the world. Super intendent Leach, of the United States Mint, has received many large transfers from Eastern and European centers. The total to date has not been computed, but several days ago it txceeeded $.10,000,000. 1 The last transfer consisted mostly of large sunn for the savings banks. When their doors opened Wednesday morning, however, they by no means had to depend upon money received from out side sources. Institutions like the Hi bernia, the Humboldt and the Mutual had millions in coin and valuable secur ities in their vaults which were undis turbed by the fire. The Hibrmia it was reported, had $15,000,000 in United States bands and $10,000,000 in other gilt-edged securities, together with millions in coin. Among its depositors arc many workingmcn and women. Most of them lost their all in the fire, and at an early hour they began to line up before the bank's doors. By 9 o'clock the lines were over a block long, and the police were summoned to maintain order. Their duties, however, consisted of little more than keeping the patient men and women in line. Fea tures were stamped with expectancy rath er than with 'worry, for confidence in the bank's ability to pay in full was not questioned. Over the shattered bank building an American flag floated in the sunshine, and when the doors swung open the shuffle of feet in the long line was ac companied by the click ot gold. It was music to these men and women, who once feared the accumulations of a lifetime had been swept away. The bank pail without limit. The Mutual opened in its own build ing, which had been badly damaged, but a few remaining counters and the un damaged vaults made the necessary re pairs no great ta.sk. The bank officials said they had over $2,000,000 on hand, and they met all demands promptly and without limit. Cashier Storey, of the Mutual, said that the bank had but $2,400,000 in loans in the burnt district, and that $1, 250,000 of this was covered by good in surance. At the Union Safe D.-posit and Trust Company's banks, both commercial anil savings, everything proceeded with a de gree of ordtr and quiet remote from even a suggestion of panic. The Humboldt Bank in its temporary quarters carried on an almost norma! business. Cashier Palmer said that only about 30 per cent, of the bank's losses were in the burnt district, and that it is the intention to turn over insurance mon eys to the borrowers to aid rebuilding projects. The fact that all of the banks did not reonen was due to a dearth of quar ters. Those institutions wdiich had parts of their old sites remaining had the ad vantage. Now that normal conditions have been about restored, the clearing-house bank in the lint has been practically closed. ELEPHANT HOLDS UP TRAIN. Queen Had Fan With Engineer and Fireman ss Long at Water Lasted. Indianapolis, Ind., (Special). Queen, the biggest elephant with the Robinson Circus, held up the train on which she was traveling at Belfast for a half hour and fatally, it is thought, in jured a man on the railroad platform who was watching her antics. The big elephant was in the car next to the en gine and just as the train drew up at Belfast she had filled her trunk with water from the engine tank and deluged the engineer and fireman, who were driven .'rom the cab. Every time they tried to return the elephant threw a stream of water against them with such force as to lake them almost off their feet. Charles Williamson was standing on the station platform when Queen sudden ly turned a trunk full of water upon him. He was knocked from the platform and rolled down an embankment and was picked up unconscious. Three ribs were broken, and one of them, it is thought, was driven into the stomach. No one dared go near the car, and Queen held the engineer and fireman off till shc had practically drained the tank, mud arid all, and thrown it on every side at whatever object came within reach. Noted South Carolinian Dead. Columbia, S. C. (Special). J. E. Tin dal, of Clarendon County, secretary of state during the administration of Gov ernor Tilman, fell from a street car in this city, and died of his injuries. Mr. Tindal was 67 years old. and had been I romi.icnt in Souti. Carolina politics sir.ee 18WS. Wages Increased 10 Per Cent Danielson, Ct. (Spcciall. A voluntary district, notices to that effect having been granted all cotton mill employes in this district, ni'.ices to that effect having been posted in the mills of this town, Moosup, Jewett City. Wauregan and many other placej in Windham and New London Counties. The actio.) of the mill owners affects 20.000 persons. It is due, it is said, to the present excellent condition of the cotton millinj industry in the state. Despiral Li ap lo Death. Somerset, Ky., (.Special). To avoid a wreck, which 'lid not occur, Scott Gil lespie, of Son ersct, a locomotive engi neer, jumped- from Itis locomotive at New River bridge, one of the highest in the -rid, and was killed. John Colyar, the fireman, also leaped into the river and. it not expected to live. The men became alarmed when one of the trucks of the locomotive left the rails, believ ing it would fall from the structure, but it was stopped on the bridge by the second locomotive. EXPRESS mm AXD AUTO COLLIDE, Two Mia Kilted, Tbtlr Bodltl Badly Mangltd. New York ( Special) -The road croai-' Ing at the railroad depot in Wejtburyy Long Island, was the acene of a fright ful accident, when -a 60-horscpower auto belonging to Robert J. Collier dashed into the i'ort Jefferson expresi of the Long Island Railroad. In the automo bile were Gearge Bishop, the chaffeur, and Fred Whitehead, a valet of Mr.' Collier. The two men were dragged un-' dcr the train and instantly killed. Their bodies were horribly mangled. The big auto was smashed into bits, and that the train, which was running at the rate of Oo miles an hour, was not derailed is considered remarkable. The two men were speeding in the machine to the Meadowbrook Club with the polo trappings of Mr. Collier. A practice was scheduled, and Mr Collier had- left his country place on the Whit ney estate, at Wheatley Hills, and had gone on ahead to the polo field with his ponies and grooms. The men were de laved in getting started, and the driver sent the machine ahead at great speed, and it shot through the village uf Wcst Jntrv. When near the depot Henry Wanzcr, a butcher, who had heard the npproach ing train, called out to the pair, but he was not heard. Wanzcr says he pulled out his handkerchief and waved it at the men in the machine, but that they evidently thought he was waving a greet ing, for the valet smiled and waved his hand in reply. The automobile struck the tracks as the express train thundered by. The low front of the car ran right under the second coach of the train. There was a terrific roar and crash as the big ma chine was dragged under the train anc ripped along the tracks pinned in before the rear trucks. The machine was torr into fragments and the two occupant! v ere dragged under the train for a dis Circe of 300 yards. For sometime after the accident Mr Collier and the other polo players at thi Meadowbrook Club grounds were ignor ant of w'hat had happened. When th news of the accident reached the ciul the game was immediately called off and players and spectators hurried t the scene of the fatality in automobile and on horseback. Coroner Cornelius Remsen, of Roslyn was summoned, and he held an inques at Westb-.iry. The crew of the trail were not hel l by the authorities, as i was apparent they were not to blame, ZION CITY ABLE 10 PAY ITS DEBTS. Declaration of Judge Landis In Crier eyestrain log Vollva and Attorney!. Chicago (Special). Judge Landis it the United States District Court issuec an order restraining Wilbur G. Voliv: and all of Voliva's attorneys, agents and employes, from disposing of or in any manner dissipating the estate of Zion City. An injunction previously issued enjoining counsel of Voliva from at tcm, .ing to secure the dissolution of an injunction in the State Court, which pre vents Voliva from interfering with Dowic, was dissolved by the court. Judge Landis said that he preferred to preserve the estate under his own or der. An order declaring Dowie, individually, to be insolvent wss entered by the court. Some of the creditors desire to contest the insolvency of Dowie. In making these orders Judge Landis said that the agents who had been ap pointed by him for the purpose of ex ainininrr into the condition of affairs a : Zion City had reported to him that thtd j .ion City industries can make money; that there has been no misappropriation of funds, and that, under proper manage- mcnt, the estate can be made to pay too j cents on the dollar. A Fetal Smajbup. Pittsburg, Pa., (Special). Engineer A. Boyer was killed and three trainmen seriously injured in a collision of two Baltimore and Ohio coal trains at Blue Lick Cut, near Meycrsdalc, Pa. The injured are J. A. Beck, engineer, Cum berland, badly scalded; Clarence Manz holdcr, fireman, Myersdalc, Pa., inter nally hurt ; J. S. Starvish, brakeman, Cumberland, Md., right arm cut off. The collision was caused by the heavy fog. MUCH IN LITTLE. The Queen of Italy has just offered an international cup to be presented to the first aeronaut wh succeeds in crossing the Alps by balloon. Harps have been discovered in Egypt ian tombs, Hie strings of which, in stveral instance, were intact and gave forth distinct sounds, after an. estimated silence of 3.000 years. At the present time it is estimated that there are considerable more than I'O.ooo Slavs in western Pennsylvania. Tlnse make up the great majority of the workers in the anthracite region. A celebrated' German specialist has recently been cxpermenting with ink to find which color gathers the least amount of microbes. They develop more rapidly in red than in black, violet or blue. A new process for purification of sugar-beet juice, by means of hy droAiiiphuric acid, is announced by Con sul Ledoux, of Prague. The Bohemian inventors have obtained patents in Aus tria and Germany. Conscl F. W. Goding, of Newcastle, reports that the government of New South Wales has invited tenders for the supply of 4ro miles of rabbit-proof wire netting, the tenders to clos-. May 17, the sizes to b; i)j-l-l7 and j6-lK-ll. A male c.::u is to be seen sitting in the ostrich house at the London zoo. Hut the (jigs he is looking after so care fully are onlv Wooden ones, of the color of the real article. Those that the fe male deposits in the nest arc removed to be hatched it: a-i incubator. The city of Si. I.e. uic is soon to have .in exhibition b -ilditi;;, or permanent inn. scum, that will co'.t $l,noo,ooo. The committee furthering the b.iildinjc of the museum is s;.o:i lo report definite plans. A $ 1 ,co.-,ooo fund has already been .as sured that will t:dc: form of an 't doivnment. The quf't'on is bting dkcussefl in London wlutl :t the war department or the navy department Ijas the legal ri.'rht to buy and operate airships for f.l'.'ing purposes. Soma suggest a new department of national defense ill? "Airaity." Albert F. Springsteen, connected wit!) ihe Pension o.Tice, Washington, claims to have been the you.-.gest regularly en listed and i.-ustcred soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. He en listed at Indianapolis on October l?6l, .V. the age of 11 yeaYs and i months. I THE KEYSTONE STATE 1b Latest Pennsylvania Newt Told In Short Order. Fiftcen-ycar-old, Eva Arncr, who left diotne, Allcntown, two weeks ago, with 1 theatrical company and went to Ntw York City, has not been heard of since, and her parents have asked the police department to assist them in locating her. While swimming at Wannamakcrs, Le high County, Thursday, Edwin Leiby wai seized with cramps and drowned before assistance could reach him. The Gottshall saw mill, in Mahan tonga Valley, was destroyed by fire, en tailing a hiss of $5000, with no insurance. The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is though to be the work of incendt. arics. Robbers entered the Third Presbyter ian Church, of Chester, but little -was stolen. The burglars forced an entrance through the window of the study, which had been le6t unlocked. The desk of Rev. A. L. Lathem, the pastor, was ' broken open and all of the papers scat tered over the floor. Fred Rowley, a motorman of the Chester Traction Company, while motor ing a Park Place car, was seized with a weak spell and fell over the side of the car to the street, a distance of several feet, sustaining injures that may result in his death. Maggie Moore, wife of Fleming Moore, a barber, of Chester, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by her husband, charging her with abstracting $3.65 from his pockets. The case was heard by Alderman Holt, who discharged the wo man, stating that a wife has a. right under the law to take money from her husband at any time and that under no considera tion can she be prosecuted. Edward Demora, a member of the Lancaster Fire Department, attempted to jump on a ladder truck as it was being driven at a rapid gait in response to a iire alarm and falling underneath was fatallv crushed. The wheels passed over -is abdomen, causing his death within a naif hour, life was twenty-eight years if age ami a single man. Michael Cockrane. aged 23, and John S'aughton, of Harrisburg, were beating heir way to rittsburg on a Pennsylvania express train and while it was passing Tyrone the former's hat blew off. In in attempt to catch it Cockran fell off md was killed. The jury in the case of Mrs. Helen rCressler. of South- Bethlehem, against '1 F. Beatty, of Easton, for $25,000 lamages for the loss of her husband, las given a verdict for the defendant, 'le is the owner of an ore mine in Lower ;aucon, and Kressler was killed by a land, llide in the mine. The jury found Krcss r guilty of contributory negligence. Climbing to the top of an electrically 'tharged telegraph pole. Thomas Coyle, 8 fears old, seized a feed wire and uttered 1 shriek. Unable to free himself, the boy .was being slowly electrocuted. Wilson Kciser, by means of an iron projection, nounted the pole, and formed a circuit A-hich enabled the boy to release his hold nf the feed wire, hut the shodc threw Keiser to the pavement, a distance of eighteen feet, injuring him severely. Young Coylc escaped with a bndly burn ed hand. Engineer A. Boyrr was killed and three trainmen seriously injured in a collision of two Baltimore & Ohio coal trains at Blue Lick cut, near Meycrsdalc. Mrs. Elize Howell, in a suit against the borough of West Chester for pointing a stream of water running through bet farm, was awarded $087 damages. The case has been before tho court for several days, and was caused' by the borough allowing sewers to empty into the stream. Their arms h den with flowers, which thev had just gathered, two little girls, Frances Bailer, aged 14 years, and Alta Rogers, aged 10 years, were struck by the Black Diamond express and instantly killed. The children left Athens, about two miles from Sayre, late in the after noon, crossed the Lehigh Valley Rail road bridge over the Chemung, gathered some flowers and then started for thcit homes. They had to recross the railroad bridge and had almost completed that part of their journey when they heard a train behind them. Both-children were at once panic stricken and fled as rapid ly as possible. They did not look up behind to ascertain on which track the train was approaching, but rushed blind ly ahead. When they were near the end of the bridge they left the eastbound and crossed to the westbound track, di rectly in front of the Lehigh flyer. A. E. Drake, the engineman, did not see the girls until the train was on the bridge. This was because of a curve in the tracks at the bridge approach. The locomotive struck the children, hurled both off the bridge, and one little body rolled down the side of the embankment, while the other was thrown lifeless from the opposite side of the track elevation. Both children were mangled almost be yond recognition. At a .meeting of Captain Roland Stoughton Camp, 288, Sons of Veterans, in Lewisburg, a class of ten recruits was initiated. The work was performed by a degree team from Cameron Camp, Sunbury, under the direction of Com mander L. G. Haupt. This makes six teen new members taken into Stoughton Camp within a month. Thinking that men trying to halt him were joking, George Federhoof, aged 74 years, drove on the railroad at Mon toursville, and was killed by a passenger train. Creightou McGarry: sahLto be the man who robbud lsador Boyle s general store in Altoona, was arrested and bound over fijr court. Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., gave out the con tract in Freeland for inclosing 160 acres of forest, which it is his purpose to stock for a game preserve. The park extends west from Woodside, and includes a densely-wooded district.' George Wolf, a young resident of Shuniokin,' stepping from one track to another on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, to escape ajiassenger train, was struck by a locomotive and killed. Francis Wolfgang, a popular young farmer, of Slatington, was caught under an overturning wagon and killed. Four families of striking miners were evicted iro nithe Pennsylvania Coal &. Coke Company's houses at Cresson, by deputies. ' One striker permitted his 'goods be set out without a struggle, but ,three others barred the doors which were hoken down. Mrs. Christiana Branch died at Free land, aged 99 years. She has . been n great grandmother for many years, and cavei an army of descendants. She was in possession of her sight and mental faculties to the last, and enjoyed good health up to a few days ago.
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