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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.