f LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Domestic Mn, Ben Teal, wife of the stage di rector; Harry 8. Mousley. a private detecelve, and Miss Julia Fleming, when arraigned In Hem rat Sessions In New York on the Indictment! for at tempted subornation of perjury, bas ed on the charge that they attempted to manufacture false evidence against Frank Gould In the suit for divorce brought against htm by his wife, pleaded not guilty. Two men were killed In a man hole explosion at Forty-fifth Street and Eighth Avenup, New York. The dead men ate Michael Muldoon and Peter Collins. A dozen firemen and policemen were overcome In attempt ing rescues. The first meeting of the creditor! of Harry K. Thaw has been postpon ed indefinitely, as no one entered an appearance for Thaw when his case was called before a referee. J. Frank Cordova, a former minis ter, who eloped with a choir singer and served a four-year sentence, was released from the New Jersey state prison. Mrs. M. A. Gibbons, of Washing ton, D. C, gave a reception at Sura toga. N. Y., at which all the guests were over 80 years old. Conrad Steingraber. whose death from hydrophobia within -14 hours was predicted by physicians, died as the doctors forecasted. John J. Carroll, a veteran of the New Orleans police force, was dls embowled and killed by a negro. Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, has been opernted on for appendicitis. Robert Bacon, assistant secretary of state, has satisfactorily settled the questions In dispute between the fed eral government and the Catholic Church in Porto Rico arising out of the control of estates by the church orders. Mrs. Benjamin Teal, Harry M. Mousley and Julia Fleming have been indicted by the New York grand jury on the charge of attempted sub ordnatton of perjury in connection with the Frank J. Gould divorce pro ceedings. Walter Martin, a young farmer, was decoyed Into the country and fatally wounded by an unknown as sailant near St. Joseph, Mo., close to the scene of the murder of Dr. P. L. Whitney. Pletro Barilla, a rich hotelkeeper of Wuodhaven, L. I., was murdered by members of the Black Hand, who dragged him from a bicycle and stab bed and shot him. The American Association of Op ticians, meeting at Philadelphia, elected H. J. Cook, of Knoxvllle, president and selected Hariisburg us the next meeting place. J. B. Richards, leader of the Anti Saloon League in Georgia, has flatly admitted that prohibition in that State is a failure and that liquor can be purchased openly. It has been discovered at Baby lon, L. I., that wealthy Mrs. Egbert V. Strong has a daughter 20 years old whom she has hated since the moment of birth. Mrs. Adeline Miller, aged 49 years, was found in her home at St. Louis with a stocking stuffed In her throat and her feet bound tightly together. Engineer Charles Strange fell from his engine near Battle Creek and the train ran for two miles with no one at the throttle. Tony Pastor, the oldest vaudeville artist In the United States, and once a wealthy man, is dying at his home at Elmhurst, L. I. The Empire Roller Mills, at Cleve land, have been opened with a full force of men after having been clos ed for six weeks. Failing in their effort to have a baker reemployed at a shop in New York loo Journeymen bakers wreck ed the piace. No special term of the criminal branch of the New York Supreme Court will be held to try the race track cases. The police of New Orleans are closely wa'ching the strikers in the cotton mill district, trouble being ex pected. Tobacco growers of Indiana, near Owensboro, Ky., have been advised by night riders to pool their crop After a drouth lasting 23 days the vicinity of Chicago was flouded with the' worst rain In 23 years. MURDERS BOTH FATHER UNO SON Old Feud Results in Sensational Tragedy. A CRIMINAL SHOOTS HIMSELF. Benjamin Dc Gildo. Having Shot Down Enamlss, Tries to Kscape - Being Closely Pursued He Turns Weapon Upon Himself and Dies Instantly Patrick Murphy, Struck by Bullet. Westchester, Pa. (Special). Ben jamin DeOlldo, of Philadelphia, shot and killed HenJamln DeFellx, fatally wounded Paso.uale DeFellx, father of the murdered man. her and then, to escnpe capture at the hands of an Infuriated mob, committed suicide by shooting himself. The sensational shooting Is said to he the outgrowth of a feud that has existed between the Italians for a long lime. The bad feeling was recc ntly increased by the arrest of DeFellx, the murdered man, on a charge 0( keeping a "speakeasy" and being Identified with a counterfeiting plot. DeFellx was cleared of the charges at a hearing In Philadelphia, at Which time he openly accused DeGlldo of having offered to give Black Hand agents $7o to kill De Fellx. DeGlldo came here accompanied by Angella Dlermerneglldo. The couple met Benjamin DeFellx on the street. A few words passed and DeGlldo drew a revolver and shot DeFellx In the breast. As the man fell, DeGlldo sent another bullet Into his body. The shooting ocurred not far from the DeFellx home and Pnsquale De Fellx. father of the murdered man. ran to the assistance of his son. He felled DeGlldo with a brick and as hf struggled to his feet DeGlldo again used his revolver, sending a bullet into the elder DeFellx's ab domen. DeOlldo Red) pursued by an angry mob Including many friends of t ie DeFellx family. Unable to shake off his pursuers DeGlldo stopped running and facing the mob turned his reolver upon himself, dying Instantly. In the sensational shooting which aroused the entire town, Patrick Murphy was struck in the leg by a stray bullet and severely wounded, and Michael Sargeant was shot in the arm. It la said, by the friend of DeGldo, who was arrested. So aroused was the Italian settle ment by the shooting that the en tire force of police was sent Into the settlement and additional guards were put on duty to prevent any pos sible attempt on the rart of the De Fellx friends to lynch Dlermerne glldo. BIND AND GAG WOMEN. Rubbers Forte Way Into Houm- In Search Of Cash. Washington, Pa. ( Special) .Three masked men entered the home of Miss Maria De Garmo, in a remote part of the county. After battering down the door, bound antl gagged Miss De Garnio and her niece. Miss Lizzie Hart man, the only occupants of the house, and robbed them of their Jewelry and a small amount of cash. Carpets were slashed, mattresses rip ped open and chests broken Into. When no largo sum of money was found the women were tortured until the elder one fainted and the men left. Miss Hai l until, bleeding and cut, at last freed herself from the ropes and released her aunt. Fifteen hundred dollars which had been re ceived the day before for a timber tract was found where the robbers had overlooked It. NEW T0RPE00 GUN PLEASES THE EXPERTS Commander Davis' Weapon Is Tested at Boston. Boston, Mass (Special). Ord nance experts of the Army and Navy expressed great satisfaction at the performance of the new Davis tor pedo gun, Invented by Commander Cleland Davis, U. 8. N. The tests were made at Fort Strong, Boston harbor; the first part of last week, three of the projectiles being fifed, and in every test the target was overturned. Brigadier General M-n-ray, chief of artillery, was among the officers who witnessed the tests. The Davis torpedo Is a combina tion gun and projectile In Itself, and Is effective at at least 5.000 feet, having its own motive power, similar to that on the ordinary Whitehead torpedo, The projectile Is In two parts. It la 45 centimeters In diam eter and five meters long The outer tube Is about two-thirds the length of the Inner torpedo, and behind the torpedo proper Is 4 0 pounda of high explosive. When the nose of the projectile comes In contact with any obstacle which stops Its progress preferably the enemy's ship the concussion, no mntter how slight, sets off that 40 pounds of explosive. The explosion drives the projectile through the object struck and at the same time starts a time fuse that causes the torpedo proper to explode a few seconds later. It Is this double action that gives the Davis projectile Us great value. The two objective points In aiming at the enemy's vessel are naturally the magazine and engine-room. If the magazine is struck, the result Is ob vious; if the engine-room receives the force of the blow, the least that can happen is to stop all the ma chinery of the vessel and make the ship so defenseless as a canoe. Commander Davis has been work ing on his Idea for the past two veurs, and for a year he was balked by the want of a metal that would hold when the first 40 pounda of explosion let go. His first tube weighed 1,000 pounds and was so heavy that he could not float It to the objective point. Then he began experimenting with Bteel processes In un effort to find something that would give him the necessary strength together with lightness. He found what he wanted in vanadium, combined with chroninm and nickle The result that the tube used today weighs SO pounds Instead of 1,000, and still gives the tensile strength necessary to hold when 4 0 pounds of high explosive is ignited. This low weight was found only after Intricate and trying experiments at the Bethlehem Steel Works under the direction of Commander Davis. Several more tests of the torpedo gun were made later in noston Har bor. One torpedo WEI nred at a target off Sheep Island and It accom plished the object of the Inventor, passing through the target without detonating the real charge, the thickness and the resistance of the target resisting the outer and Inner bottoms, and three bulkheads of a battleship. Officials of both the Army and Navy and others interested In the experiments were witnesses of the test. Foreign Surprised at the stir his utterance has raised, Count Okuma. of Japan, declares that he had no desire or in tention to reflect on the honor or courage of the American Navy. Two persons were killed and six Injured by the explosion of n balloon owned by Captain Lovelace, of the New York Aero Club, on the grounds of the Franco-British Exhibition. Owing to the increase In the num ber of intestinal disorders in St. Pe tersburg the department of health ha ,i"'l the city Is treuteneil with cholera. Crown Prince Christian, at Copen hagen, welcomed to Denmark the 300 delegates to the International Con gress of Orientalists. The Chinese uprising in French Inde-Chlna. reported aa crushed ievernl weeks ago, has again assumed dangerous proportions. King Alfonso of Spain was exam ined at Bordeaux by a surgeon, who operated on his nose last year. Sir Edward Goschen, British am bassador at Vienna, is to succeed Sir Frederick Laselles at Berlin. Paul Mauser, the aged inventor of the rifle bearing his name, has in vented a new military rifle. The new Parseval dirigible balloon constructed un the flexible system made a flight over Berlin. The American Tariff Commission has about completed its work in Frunce. The American battleship fleet sailed from Auckland for Sydney this morning. A preliminary investigation has failed to show the exact cause of the tun explosion on board the school ahlp Couronne at Toulon, France, which resulted in the killing of six men and the wounding cf 18 othori. Admiral Syerry and 200 officers of the American fleet witnessed tile thermal wonders and attended the dedication of a Maori house near Auckland, New Zealand. The left wing of Wilbur Wright's aeroplune was broken In a false man euver at Mentou, France, and he will not be able to fly again for several days. King Edward left lsche, Austria, tor Marlenbud, after a short but pleasant vlalt to Emperor Francis Joseph. Alfred Zayai tendered his reslgna tluu as a candidate for the presidency of Cuba. CIGARETTE HABIT GROWS. Average Of li.JKI A Year For Tile Smokers Alleged. Washington, D. C. (Special). ! That the cigarette habit Is decidely on the increase in this country is shown by the Government statistics just issued. In the United States i during the last year 55,402,336,113 cigarettes were smoked. Figuring I that 25,000,000 men and boys smok- ed, this gives an average per smoker ' of 2,210. Taking into consideration that there are thousands of smokers who use tobacco In some other form. It brings the average for the ciga rette smoker very high, and shows an increased tendency on the part of the American people to use this form of tobacco. THREE HI RT l WRECK. Passenger Train Runs Into Open Switch. Nlles, Ohio (Special). A passen ger train on the Pennsylvania rail road from Ashtabula to New Castle was wrecked here about B o'clock A. If. Three trainmen were Injured, but none fatally. Men on a handcar passed a switch and did not close it. The passenger took the siding and ran into a freight train. W illiam Walker, conductor on the passenger train; Charles Bryan, brakeman, and George W. Cheffell, mail clerk, all of Ashtabula, were hurt. T U T III VS ANOTHER HOUSE. li s Prize Winner, 111 M High, And Weighing 1,i!t0 Pounds. Lexington, Ky. I Special ) William II. TaTt, through an agent, bought n Southern plantation horse, sixteen hands high, weighing 1.200 pounds, of ghelby t. Harbison, of Lexington. The horse won the first prize at the Blue Grass fair. The horse will be shipped to Mr. Taft this week. WASHINGTON TROOPS COME FROM PANAMA. Part Of Force Sent To Preserve Order At Flection Item lies New York. New York (Special). The steam er Colon, which just arrived here from Cristobal, Panama, brought 111 United States marines and officers, Capt. O. W. A. Patterson being in command of the party. The troops were part of the force lent to the Canal Zone to preserve order during the recent eelctlon. vol ISC ootxo A Mum Works His Shift To Gain Ki: w ledge Of Engineering. Mexico City (Special). Klngdon Gould, son of George J. Gould, will work In the mines of Guanajuato for the next month, studying the prae tlcal rudiments of mining, and learn ing to set his blast so as to get the most out of a charge of explosive. His work will be done under the Instruction and supervision of Profes sor Kemp, Instructor of geology of Columbia University. An order was Issued by the Inter state Commerce Commission extend ing from September 1 to November 1, the date when the new bill of lading shall go Into effect. Word was received from Consul General Harris, at Smyrna, that 60 naturalized Americans had renounced their citizenship and were no longer entitled to protection. W. F. Thomas, a Washington theatrical manager, has asked the Department of Justice to proceed against the theatrical combination. A coutraet has been awarded the Chesapeake and Ohio Kallroad for the transportation of 250 sailors from Newport to San Francisco. Mehnied All Bey, deposed Turkish minister, fears for his life. The le gallon at Washington is guarded by- Secret Servile men. The ForcBt Bureau has called at tention to the profits in willow cul ture. an Industry that Is neglected in this country. The Nuvy Department Is preparing to test the speed of the new scout cruisers. Foods of every description espec ially prepared for InfantB and In vallds will be scientifically Invest! gnted by the bureau of chemistry of the Department of Agriculture to determine whether or not they arc Injurious to health. Brigadier General Daniel H. Buck er. who Is 96 years old, has been officially pronounced dead, an insur ance company having tired of car rylng him on its books and settled the policy. Mundl Bey, the new TurklBli charge, says he doesn't give a d about the ambassadorship, and pil fers being a newspaper man. It is proposed to begin the na tional highway between Washington and Gettysburg at Port Stevens. Librarian Ainsworth It. Spofford, of the Congressional Library, died In Plymouth, N. H. Baron Alexander de Pury-Herve who married u princess und who died in poverty, was Interred by friends Mehmed All Bey, the Turkish mln ster, has been recalled owing to a change in the Turkish ministry. A mail pouch left In front of the building of the Department of Com merce and Labor was stolen and rob bed of checks worth nearly $2,000. Dr. Robert Koch, the German scientist, will attend the Internation al medical congress to bo held In Washington in September. Gen. .lames Allen, chief signal of ficer, announces mat the Army will buy the Baldwin balloon. Washington is dealing directly with the Honduran government regarding tbt canceling of the exequatur of American consuls. Hear Admiral Kohl' !). Evans will he placed on the r . list August 18. The Revenue Cutter 8ervice train ing ship Itasca has sailed from Co runa Spain, for Gibraltar. Judge Barnard has rendered a de cision that th Philadelphia, Balti more and Washington Railroad is entitled to 11,500,000 from the Dis trict of Columbia. The District Com missioners will appeal. Esperanto has been officially recog nized by the government and a repre smtatlve of the United States ap M Inted to attend tho congress to be rull at Dresden. Aug-jrt 16 to it WILLIAM J. BRYAN NOTIFIED OF NOMINATION Democracy's Candidate Says He Places Himself on Party Platform. ESCORTED TO STATE CAPITOL. Democrats Throng Lincoln, Neb., to Rear Candidate's Speech of Ac ceptance and Capital Grounds Is a Sea of Faces Cheeri Last Several Minutes. "SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE?" BRYAN'S TEXT IN SPEECH OF NOTIFICATION. "Shall the people rule?" Shall the people control their own gov ernment, and use that govern ment for the protection of their rights and for the promotion of their welfare, or shall the repre sentatives of predatory wealth prey upon a defenseless public, while the offenders secure im munity from subservient officials whom they raise to power by un scrupulous methods? In the name of the Democratic party, I accept the challenge, and charge that the Republican party Is responsible for all tho abuses which now exist In the Federal Gorvernment, and that It Js impo tent to accomplish the reforms which are Imperatively needed. Why were these "known abuses" permitted to develop? Why have they not been cor rected? If existing laws are suf ficient, why have they not been enforced? All of the executive machinery of the Federal Govern ment is In the hands of the Re publcan party. For a generation the Republi can party has drawn its cam- paign funds from the beneficiaries of special legislation. Privileges have been pledged and granted In return for money contributed 10 aaoauca elections. r nnt can be expected when official uuthor- j ltv Is turned over to the represen- I tatlves of those who first furnish the Blnews of war and then reim burse themselves out of the pock ets of the tax-payers? An election is a public affair. What exciiBe can be given for se crecy aa to the Influences at work? If a trust magnate con tributes $100,000 to elect polltl- I cal friends to office, with a view to preventing hostile legislation, Why should that fact be concealed until his friends are securely Scaled In their official positions? We may expect those who have committed larceny by law and Purchased Immunity with their I political Influence to attempt to raiac false Issues, ana to employ "the livery of Heaven" to con ceal their evil purposes, but they CM no longer deceive. The Dem- j ocratle party Is not the enemy of any legitimate Industry or of hon- I est accumulations. It Is, on the contrary, a friend of Industry and the steadfast protector of that I j weulth which represents a service I to society. S The Democratic, party seeks not revolution, but reformation, and j I need hardly remind the student of history that cures are mildest I when applied nt once; that reme i dies Increase in severity as their application Is postponed. Blood nnleonlne mav be stopped by the I loss of a finger today; It may cost T I an arm tomorrow or a lire the next day. So poison In the body I politic cannot be removed too soon, for the evils produced by it Increase with the lapse of time. From W. J. Bryan's speech. from Henry D. Clayton, of Alabnini. that he was Democracy's choice for the head of the national ticket. Aa the Democratic candidate emerget from the Capitol buildings on to the platform In company with Governor Sheldon, Mayor F W Brown and othera of the committee of arrangements a mighty cheer went up from the multitude which con tinued for several minutes. As soon as Mr. Bryan wa9 seated, National Chairman Norman E. Mack opened the exercises by calling upon Rev. Father John F. Nugent, of Den Moines, Iowa, to deliver pra: ?r. Up on Its conclusion Mr. Clayon. as ehairmnn of the committee on no tification, turning to Mr. Bryan made his notification speech. He called attention to the unani motii action of the Denver conven tion In making the nomination, and declnred that the Democratic party, "confident of the righteousness of its cause," was determined to rescue the Government "from the hands of the despollers, who have exploited it for the benefit of favoriti to the injury of the masses of t' people." The applause which gre utterance lasted for some t It broke out again with gr. tensity when shortly afterwi Clayton, looking Mr. Bryan squarely In the face and speaking In a voice that could be heard by nearly every one, said : "You have always refused to com promise with those who prostitute the functions of government for the lust of greed. It was your lofty statesmanship, your unwavering fidel ity, your Jeffersonlan standards of Democracy that Induced the repre sentatives of million of American freemen unanimously to choose you as their candidate for the highest office In the world." The letter of notification was no leas vigorous than Mr. Clayton's speech. Mr. Bryan received It with full appreciation of the Importance of its meaning. The great crowd at once settled Itself down to hear Mr. Bryan's words of acceptance. With a pleased countenance he surveyed his vaat audience and then began his remarks, but he had not proceeded for when he was interrupted by cheers, the de monstrations continuing at intervals throughout his speech. Mr. Kern delivered a short ad dress, and then ho and Mr. Bryah retired to the capltol building, where they held a public reception and the exercises were concluded. plain i this ie, but '.er In- ds Mr. SLID 4,000 FEET ON STRETCHER. Mun With Broken Leg Shot Down Mountain TO Save His Life. Seattle, Wash. (Special). With his leg broken In two places, John Anderson, of Little Falls, Oregon, was found on Mount St. Helen's, In Washington, last Wednesday, by a Seattle party of the Mazamas, a club of mountain climbers, who, to savj his life, carried him to the summit of the mountain at great risk to themselvea, and In an Improvised stretcher, made out of a sleeping bag, nlld him down the north side of the great peak, for 4,000 feet, to the Mazama -' camp, where he received medical attention. The injured man, tied to his rescu ers with ropes, went down the moun tain side at almoBt lightning speed. Physicians says that had not thlB ex pedient been followed Anderson would have died of his Injury. MKI Ti ll AT JAPAN. Lincoln, Neb. (Special). "Recog nizing that I am indebted for my nomination to the rank and file of our party, and that my election must come, if it comes at all, from the unpurchased and unpurchasable suf frage of the American people, 1 promise, If Intrusted with the re sponsibilities of this high office, to consecrate whatever ability I have to the one purpose of making this In fact a Government which the people rule a Government which will do Justice to all and offer to everyone the highest possible stimulus to great and persistent effort by assuring to each the enjoyment of hlB just soars of the proceeds of his toll, no mat ter In what part, of the vineyard he labors or to what occupation, profes sion or calling he dovotes himself." Thus spoke William J. Bryan Wed nesday afternoon In accepting the nomination aB the candidate of the Democratic party for the Presidency of the United States. Amid cheers and waving of flags Mr. Bryan wbb escorted from th.i Ll.icoln Hotel, through the streets of Lincoln to the Capitol grounds, where the formal notification took place. In the carriage with him was John W. Kern, of Indiana, the candidate for the Vice Presidency. It was no new experience for Nebraska's distinguished citizen, hav ing twice before been similarly hon ored by his party, but It was the first time that Mr. Bryan'B home town had been afforded the opportu nity of participating In the ceremon ies. Long before the time set for the exercises to begin the Capllol grounds had become packed with hu manity. It was a vertable sea of faces that met Mr. Bryan'B gaze as he stepped to the front of iho plat form and received the official word Count Oliuma's View Of The V. S. Navy In The Pacific. Tokio (By Cable). Count Okuma, In an Interview published by the Hochl, attributes the present naval expansion policy of the United States to the sudden rise of the Japanese to the Importance of a world power. The Interview says In part: "Judging from the fragmentary speeches of President Roosevelt as they have been transmitted here, It la not difficult to infer that the aug mentation of the United States Navy in the Pacific is directed at Japan." Count Okuma doubts, however, that the views and ideas of President Roosevelt will long continue to gov ern public opinion in America. Mushroom Grower Poisoned. South Norwalk, Ct. (Special). John Ungvary, an Austrian botanist, who has been raising mushrooms here, with his whole family, is near death, as the result of eating toad stools. Ungvary himself picked the vegetables from his beds, his chef prepared them, and within a half hour after they were eaten doctors wore working desperately to save the lives of the whole family. They are not yet out of dunger. Kliuki Contract Spilt. Washington (Special) Awards for supplying 750,000 yards of cotton khaki at Philadelphia for the War Department were made. Two New York firms presented bids on July 10, but neither was entirely satlsfac ton. so the department split the con tract, awarding to the John II. Meyer Company the privilege of furnishing 875,000 yards at 20 cents a yard and lothe Otto Goetze Company a contract for furnishing 250,000 yards at .248 and 125,000 yaids at .252. V. 8. Plug Shot Down. Washington I Special) .The flag of the United States Conaulute at Ta brlz, Persia, has been shot down by loyalists, acccordlng to a dispatch re ceived at the State Department from American Consul Doty, at that place The Consul also reporta that u man standing near the door of the con sular office was wounded. The shoot log Is supposed to have been an in cldent of the disturbances which have been going on at Tabriz for some time, and in both cases to have been accidental FINANCIAL Southern Pacific, nt 91, was not only at the highest price in 1908 but the top price It ever reached. President Dudley Evans, of the Wells-Fargo ExpreBB Company, says that net earnings for the year end ed July 81 were about 14,000,000. This compares with net earnings for the previous fiscal year of 14.378, 904, equal to 68.72 per cent, on the capital slock. Gross earnings of the American Railways Company for the fiscal year ending June 30 were 12,987,437. compared with 2, 855, 320 In the previous year. The company had a comfortable surplus after meeting all fixed charges and the G per cent, dividend on Its stock. Thirteen railroads In the flrBt week of August show an average de crease of nearly 9 per cent. In gross earnings. C. M. Schwab gave out another optlmlBtlc interview. His interests are now chiefly centered in steel. For the 750 railroads which ha "e made reports for May to the Inter state Commerce Commission the por tion of total revenue derived from freight was 66.83 per cent., and from passengers only 24.49 per cent. Revenue from other sources was over 8 per cent. William Post, cashier of the Central National, Philadelphia, Is one of the real students of banking. In talking of the money situation he said he didn't look for any strin gency this year. However, Mr. Post said that in tho past he had seen the surplus reserve of New York banks drop at the rate of 16,000, 000 a week for several weeks in succession, so that the present big surplus could easily be wiped out it general business suddenly became brisk. England's birth rate Is 28 to the 1,000. IRA 0. SAWS VOICE HUSHEO FOREVER The Breatest Singer of Revival Hymns Dead. WAS MOODY'S CHIEF COWORKER. Afler Fire Years of Blindneia He Passes Away at ills Home, In Brooklyn An Interesting Story of His Useful Life His Lore for the Organ Which He Always Took With Him. New York (Special). Ira D. Sankey, the singing evangelist, who was for many years coworker with the late Dwight L. Moody, died Thursday night at his home In Brooklyn aged 68 years. Five years ago he was stricken with blindness, and since that time he had lived in retirement In Brooklyn. He received a large income ft im his publications and had acquired a con siderable estate. Mr. Sankey was born In the little town of Edlnborough, Pa., on Au gust 28, 1840. His father, uavld Sankey, served his State at :e time as a member of the Senate 1 .ien young Sankey was 17 year? - age his parents moved to tin ..earby city of Newcastle, where t i young man became interested In religious work. He, got to be class leader In the Methodist Episcopal Church there and later leader of the choir. Tho work of the Young Men's Chris tian Association of Newcastle alBO attracted him und he was for a num ber of years president of the asso ciation branch in that place. When the sounds of civil strife were first beard In the clamorous days of 1861 young Sankey forgot all else but his country and enlisted In tho Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry. His subse quent cureer proved that he could fight for his country as well aB sing to the glory of his God. Joined With Moody. It was not until 1870 that Mr. Sankey met Dwight L. Moody. In that year Mr. Sankey went as a dole gate of the Young Men's Christian Association to the international con vention of the association, held In Indianapolis. There they met for tho first time the two young men v. hose names were destined to be bo famously linked. They were fast friends from the very first, and about six months afterward the two men became associated in the evan gelistic work that became so suc cessful. Their first preaching was done in Chicago. The Moody and h I , ; . I . .. IftlJ cauaey services uegun wuu a uaii hour of song by those assembled, after which Mr. Moody would preach a short sermon. He would then call upon Mr. Sankey to sing some hymns apropoB of the theme upon which he had preached. The magnetic per sonality of the singer, his full, round voice and the heartrending simplicity of the hymns usually sung by Mr. Sankey rarely failed to make a deep Impression on his hearers. In 1871 the two friends went to Great Britain and started the first series of memorable Moody and San key evangelistic campaigns there. The songs of Philip Phillips, the first "singing evangelist," of P. P. Bliss and Sankey's own compositions made up the greater part of the hymnal that he. drew upon during those first years of evangelistic work In Chicago and Great Britain. On a little organ that Mr. Sankey car ried with him wherever he went in those early days he composed his hymns and played his own accora-i paniments at all the meetings. Loved That Little Organ. Mr. Sankey kept that little organ till the day of hlB death. It was his greatest pleasure and recreation after he was stricken with blindness to be led into his library and to the little bench before the keyboard, where he would spend happy hours playing the beloved old tunes and singing the dear, well-knowu old hymns. For nearly 40 years this little or gan was his constant companion. He carried it all over the earth. No other musical instrument played so Important a part In the religious history of the world. Uuder the In spired touch of Mr. Sankey It led the singing In little Western towns, where only a few were gathered, and It led 20,000 voices In Agri cultural Hall in London. Next to the members of his family he loved the little organ more than"anythlng else he possessed. Battered It Is by many mllea of traveling; the yel low ivory keys are worn thin aa u wafer, yet only Mr. Sankey's fingers touched them. On this he composed all the songs that added to his fame. And not only did Mr. Sankey com pose his own songs on this organ; not only did he use It In nearly all the meetings lu which he took so prominent a part, but on it he tried the songs of others, which were In cluded with his own in the books that he edited song books that havi had a circulation exceeding that of any publication with life exception of the Bible. Mr. Sankey played on this organ long before ho dreamed of becoming an evangelist. He always loved mu sic, and be could not remember when he did not sing. He bought the or gan not long after he returned from the Civil War, and he composed 500 Gospel hymns upon It. Fourteen Hurt In Itiiiiuuuy. Corry, Pa. (Special). Fourteen persons were injured, Mrs. Hilda Ab bott seriously, In a runaway accident. The entire party was returning In one vehicle from a picrtlc. when the driver lost control of his horses, und they dashed wildly down a steep hill. In the darkness they collided with another team, upsetting thi wagon, bruising or cutting every oc cupant. The runaway horses were killed and the wagon demolished, in An Ecuador Jail. Pittsburg (Special). Jose Carlo, Becker once a resident of Pittsburg, veteran of half a dozen revolutions In Central and South America and soldier of fortune, hus written to Mayor George W. Guthrie, of Pitts burg, that he Is held as a prlsone. of war In Ybarra, Ecuador, In tlm of peace, and asking his aid In se curing his release. He says a rail road official In Guayaquil who owe. htm $650 Is responsible for hta ar rest. Mayor Guthrie will take it the case and present the appeal foi aid to the State Department. INSANE MAN MURDERERS SON AND DAUGHTER Religious Fanatic Dotepttates Boy With An Ax Los Angeles, Cal. (Special). Driven Insane by religious mania, R. J. Dufty, 60 years of age, attacked and killed tils son and daughter with an axe and then cut his own throat with a razor, Inflicting fatal injuries. The tragedy occurred lu the extreme northwestern part of the city. Dufty lived at the home of his son, Fred Dufty. He had been on the verge of violent Insanity, It Is said, for weeks, as a result of religious enthu siasm. Wednesday night he attend ed a religious meatlng and worked himself Into a frenzy. When he arose he was suddenly selr.ed with a desire to kill. Secur ing a sharp bluded axe he stealth ily entered the bedroom of his son while the latter lay asleep. He crept close to the aide of the bed and rais ing the weapon aloft brought It down with terrific force across the neck of the son. The blow was delivered with such tremendous force that the head of the victim was severed com pletely from the body. With a maniacal shout Dufty rush ed from the house and down tho atreet, waving his bloody weapon. Reaching the house at 451 Northwest Lake Avenue, where his wife and daughter resided, he opened the front door and entered. Mrs Ada Lacom, l he daughter, with her mother, was In a rear room. Proceeding cautious ly to this room, the murderer opened the connecting doors. Mrs. Lacom stood with her back to him. With out a word of warning he swung the axe high in t lie air and cleft his daughter's skull. Her whole head was crushed in from the blow. Mrs. Dufty fled through a rear door, closely pursued by the maniac striking at her with the axe. The woman succeeding in eluding him, but not before she had received a severe gash on the elbow from the axe swing by Dulty as he chased her. Mrs. Dufty's cries finally at tracted the attention of neighbors, who came to her aid. Dufty then walked to the street, where he drew a razor from hlB pock et and slashed his own throat, in flicting frightful wounds which will doubtless cause his death. Several weeks ago Dufty went to the Evergreen Cemetery and purchas ed a lot, explaining that he wanted It for himself, son and daughter. Three days ago he purchased a cof fin for himself. Fred Dufty, the son, was 2 4 year. of age, and unmarried. He was an automobile machinist. The daughter lived with her bus band, Ferdinand Lacom, a painter, and their six-year-old daughter. Mrs Dufty and her husband had been divorced, and she had gone to the home of her daughter to nurse her though approaching confinement. Before entering the Lacom home Dufty concealed his axe in a sack which he carried. Tne old man sat nervously fingering the sack, while the women proceeded to prepare breakfast. Suddenly he got up, drew the axe from the sack and attacked them. si.ooo.ooo Opera House. Berlin (Special). The great Peo ple's Opern House, where the highest grade productions are to be given at prices within the reuch of tin masseB, .Is to cost $4,000,000. It ll expected that Parliament will grant half of the needed amount and Ber Un the other half, the latter receiving a quid pro quo In the proprietorship of tlie present opera house. The new temple of music will be situated on the Potsdamerstrasse. The best seatt will cost 87 cents and tho cheapest 12 V4 cents. Brains Sputtered On Wife. Washington, D. C. (Special). Col- man Brez, an employe of the Agri- ultural Department, while riding on a scenic railway at Chesapeake Beach, Md., leaned out and was struck by a post. His urains weie spauereu over the car In which his wife anil children also were riding, and death was Instantaneous. Brez was boi n in Russia and was appointed to the Agricultural Department from th District of Columbia. ESn&Ombed Miners Saved. Mexico City (Special). Six of the 18 miners who were entombed In the Santa Gertrubls mine near Par- huca, Hlbalgo, were rescued alive. The men became Imprisoned five dais ago by a cave-In. Twelve are still below ground und tappings on J pipe Indicate that some of them are yet alive. Rescuing parties ure wont- lug In short shifts boring throug.. a wall of solid rock. Devoured n- 14 on a. Mexico City, Mexico (Special ). -Two hungry mountain lions entered the hut of Herculano Flores, In the village of ledcza De Cabnllo, rtn Jallsoo, and killed the wnolo lamiiy, consisting of Fiona and his wife ' two children. The cries of the vic tims attracted the vli.ugurs and w. animals were driven off. but not until they had devoured the two children. Little Reward For His Crime. Spokane, Wash. (Special). The highwayman who held up a Northern Pacific train Friday night near Trent secured about SB, according to F. E. McMillan, post olllce inspector who arrived In Spokane on the tii"1 train following the hold-up. Growth Of Cigarette Habit. Washington (Special). Govern ment statistics Just Issued show " enormous growth of the cigarette habit In the United States dining the last year when t.5, 402, 336,1 13 "paper pipe" were smoked. Counting tie number of men and boy smokers a' 25,000,000 this g4vea an average per smoker of 2,216, and when it i 0R' sidured that there are thousands of smokers who use tobacco in some other form It brings the average for the cigarette smoker up very high Twenty May He Lost Rocheater (Special). --In a colli sion at 11.30 o'clock, between i'B steamer Titaula anr" the steamer KJngston, the Tltanlt was sunk ' tho entrance to Charlotte Harbor, Lake Ontario, five miles from here. Ti.ere were 40 passengers on the t w tanla. The number of drowned l uncertain. One report Is tbat iV lersnnB were drowned. Great Britain and the UnM States have concluded a latlsfnctory agreement for the seaiou of 1 regarding the New'oundland Hubert Lot.
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