MATCH APPLIED TO GIRL'S CORPSE Soaked With Oil and Stood l'p in Open Fireplace. HER BODY BURNDED LIKE A TORCH. Yonn Stenographer Slain I!y a Straiurler. Until heeler Wrnt T.. .Wept Of N (r Of Kmpluyiiieiit Anil Never Returned ClumeW Toi-wi In (inn ny Sin k tn I Ii-i-I:mhic l.emls To DlfM'OVcry tf Crime Albeit Wal tor. Wtii) I ii in 1 t.irU To His Apartment. Older Arrest New Taint Hide t'rimi'. New Ycrk (Special l. The body of Ruth Wheeler, the 16-year-old stenographer, who was lnred from her widowed mother ly a decoy of fer of employment, was found hud dled in a gunny pack on the fire escape outside the apartment of Al bert Welter, the man charged with her abduction. She had been stran gled with a short end of a three-elghts-lnch rope, hacked with a knife, burned beyond recognition In an open fireplace and thrust care lessly out of doors Uke mo much rub bish. Identification was only possible by 6hreds of clothing and fragments of Jewelry, but there was abundant evi dence of how the murder had been done. Around the neck were the charred fibers of manila burnt into the flesh. The apartment reeked with the odor of kerosene. There were oil stains in front of the new ly painted fireboard that hid an open grate. Fully dressed, the girl's clothing and hair had been saturated with kerosene, the fireboard had been removed and the body thrust up the chimney standing. When the match was touched to her she burned like a torch. Probably the murderer had hoped for an opportunity to remove the body under cover of night, but when the girl's disappearance raised such an uproar and he began to suspect he was shadowed, he had packed and fled In terror. Lined From Her Home. A neighbor living on the same floor of an adjoining house had no ticed the lumpy bundle outside his window and, thinking it refuse, had poked it off the fire-escape into the back yard with a broomhandle. The bundle moved obstinately and fell with a crash. His curiosity more than his suspicions aroused, the neighbor hurried downstairs for the Janitor to investigate. When the two men cut the strings that bound the sacking there rolled out before them the full horror of an atrocious murder. Both fled for the police. Ruth Wheeler was the youngest of three sisters bred by their moth er, a dressmaker, to self-support. Both the older sisters were steno graphers and Kuth had Just gradu ated from a business college, eager for employment and proud of her diploma. An employment agency for graduates is conducted by the college and Ruth called there often to look for a situation. Thursday morning she left home on her usual errand and never returned. The girl had been carefully brought up. She was never on the streets at night and her failure to come home for 24 hours without ex planation meant more than a ca price. The next morning her sisters, Pearl and Adelaide. In serious con cern, went to the college and learn ed that the following postcard had been turnpd over to her: "Dear Madam: Please call in ref erence to position as stenographer at resli't-nce of the secretary, (Signed) "A. Wolter, "122 East 10'. Street." ABOUT TO KILL FOUR CHILDREN Crazed Father Caught As He Was liaising Ax. Straus To Meet Roiwevelt. Washington. D. C. (Special). Oscar Straus, United States ambas sador to Constantinople, left that city March 8 on the Scorpion, of the Navy, for Cairo, Egypt, where he Is to have a long conference with ex Presldent Roowevelt. It was learned that Mr. Straus' trip wag In answer to a cable message from Colonel Roosevelt requesting the conference. Jn some quarters the visit is re garded with significance. Mr. Straus was secretary of commerce and la bor In the last four years of the Roonevelt administration, was al ways close to Mr. Roosevelt and is llkewlso a warm friend of President Taft. Pole Hud Icl I ll Offspring To An Isoliitcd Spot tine Child (Stood With Crucifix In Hnnil Waiting For WeiiMin To Devcend AVIirn Police Spring: On Parent Maniac rights Icsci-nH'ly. Hartford. Ct. Special) .-An In sane father was prevented from bucherlng his four little children, on the banks of the Connecticut River, by the timely arrival of the police. When located back of the bushes, his four boys were partly undressed and were lined in a row, the maniac father f.'.anding over them with the upllftpr' axe. A boy of four was to have been the first victim. The child wns standing beneath the shining blade with a crucifix in one hand, calmly Awaiting its fate. The other, under orders of the madman, were terrified spectators. The father was then taken to the police station and locked In a padded cell. He Is a Pole Valente Chongle. He had been dispossessed by his landlord and the occurrence made him desperate. Chongle was heard to tell his chil dren to prepare for their death, his original plan being to throw them into the river. Later ho changed his mind nnd decided to murder them first and then make away with their bodies In the swollen stream. Like sheep, he led the quartet, whose ages range from two to seven years, to the Isolated spot, where he was traced. I The officers who prevented the wholesale killing, said that their hearts failed them as they beheld the terrifying scene. Fearing that the madman would crush the skull of the boy he had before him should their presence be detected, they crept up from behind and overpowered Chongle, who fought desperately. The maniac disputed the right of the officers to Interfere with his plans for making away with his children, claiming that as their father he had a right to do with them as he pleased. DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS. President Nominates A Number Of Secretaries. Washington. D. C. (Special). The President sent to the Senate the following nominations In the diplo matic service: To Re Secretaries at Legations Richard C. Bundy, of Ohio, at Mon rovia, Liberia; Charles B. Curtis, of New York city, at Christlanla; Rich ard O. Marsh, of Illinois, at Panama; Arthur Orr, nl Evanston, 111., at Athens; Charles I). White, of Sum mit, N. J., at Havana. To Be Secretaries of Legations Richard general, Thomas E. Dabney, of New Orleans, at San Salvador, Salvador. To be second secretaries of em bassies, Guslave Seholle, of St. Paul. Minn., at Paris, and George T. Weit zel, of St. Louis, Mo., at Mexico City. To be third secretaries of embas sies, Perry Belden, of New York, at Berlin; Sheldon L. Crosby, of New York, at I,cndon; William Walker Smith, of Ohio, at Constantlnonle, and Willing Spencer, of Pennsylvan ia, at St. Petersburg. RIVERS OF LAVA FROM HIT. ETNA The Earth Trembling for Miles Around Volcano. TWELVE NEW CRATERS ARE OPEN. Panic-StrieKen People Praying for Protection. The Meteorological Station On The Mountain Side Destroyed And Several Villages In Danger From Fiery Streams Flowing; Toward Them Through Heavy Clouds Of Smoko (ireat Flushes Of Flame Come From The Craters A Ter rifying Spectacle. A GIRL'S HKROIC DEED. Snatched Three- Year-Old Niece From In Front Of Train. Falrmount, Ind. (Special). Run ning Into the face of death, Nettie Caskey, 15 years old. snatched her three-year-old niece. Martelle Cask ey. from in front of a locomotive on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Both children rolled down the bank as the train dashed by. Nettle had seen the baby trotting toward the approaching train and pursued her almost to the oncoming engine's pilot before she caught her in her arms and leaped aside. Engineer George Jardine was so upset by the incident that he could not continue bis run further than this city. Daniel Still Improves. Dayton, Fla. (Special). United States Senator John W. Daniel con tinued to show improvement, pulse, temperature and respiration being PREVIOUS GREAT ERUPTION'S. 1169 Catania and 15,000 Inhab itants destroyed. 1527 Two villages destroyed. 1C69 Catania and 20,000 In habitants destroyed. 1693 Large number of people killed. 1852 Great damage done to the surrounding country. 189 and 1886 Great damage to property. 1892 Eruption lasted six months. Little dam ape done, ashes 'falling within the crater. nearly normal. If the present gain continues, it Is expected to remove f"ery wi.ere, l" vn.agers are carry. ih iw.inr n m- i iri,.,ii MK Images in procession and lmn or. tub iitiT.j. jmeivu uvn LTULUIH IIHVB Catania, Sicily (Special). Mount Etna, whose eruptions In the past have wrought great destruction, is again In a violent state of activity. Pronounced movement within the crater and steadily increasing In volume. Fears are entertained as to the results, if the' eruption con tinues in Its present violent form. From Catania a correspondent motored in the direction of the mountains. Passing the village of Mascalucia. 12 miles in a direct line from the crater, a thick curtain of smoke was encountered, which en tirely concealed Etna. At Nlcolosl, 10 miles from the crater, the entire population had gathered in a square' to watch the volcano, which appear ed as a black phantom above. Now and then It was illuminated with flashes of light, appearing almost red. Higher up the rain of cinders be came thicker and extended like a veil across the mountain. Like Sounds Of Rattle. A deep roaring was hoard and detonations like the sound of artil lery following one another in quick succession, while the earth shook un der foot. One of the guides cried: "An earthquake," and could scarcely be Induced to continue. The hot cinders covered the ground like a thick car pet, rendering walking difficult. A peasant was encountered coming down. He said: "The fire is rushing down, burning everything. The lava Is like a red hot river." Proceeding a little further along, four colossal columns of Hack smcke could be observed. Occasionally they were cut by flashes of fire, presenting an awe-lnsnlrine snec- tacle. Then the wind opened the clouds for a moment and a wide strip oi lire couia De seen in the distance, advancing with monstrous contor tions. It fell like a torrent from Mount Caprlolo, spreading out in the vaney Deiow. Houses Knveloped. The lava flow had already reach ed me vineyards above San Leo and Rinazzo, seven miles from the cra ter, and had buried a large number or peasants' nouses. It came in sev eral streams and united In one great mass about 20 feet in height and 1,500 feet wide. Its velocity was estimated at 3 to 4 feet a minute, varying according to the conditions of the ground. This mighty wall of lava was today not more than five miles from Bolpasso and Nicolosi. The metcrorological station on the mountain side has been destroy ed and the village of Borrello is In serious danger. The populace, terror-stricken, are flying from their homes. The earth shocks have reached about 50 in number, but there Is a continuous vibration and trembling for many miles around. Everywhere the villagers are carry- GRAFTER WORKED GAME FROM JAIL Dined An Insurance Man in Sing Sing. President Sewnrd, Of The Fidelity And Casualty Co. Of New York, Testifies He Went To The Prison. Where Man Named Brown Raid 'nig- Tim" Sullivan, The Tammany Chief, Would Kill Bill At Albany For 910,000, New York (Special). The name of Senator Tlmo,thy D. Sullivan, familiarly known as "Big Tim," fig ured briefly in the first Insurance Inquiry, but for the most pnrt, as at previous sessions, William Hotch kiss, the state superintendent of in surance, kept on sweeping cobwebs off alleged shady transactions at Albany In years gone by. Sullivan's name, which gave a tinge of modernity to the investiga tion, was brought In when George F. Seward, president of the Fidelity and Casualty Company, who testified that a representative of "Big Tim" offered In 1891 or 1892, to "put off" a bill objectionable to the company for a consideration of $10,000. Sullivan, who cameto New York from Albany, apparently doeg not like the charge seriously, Seward's testimony, he said, was mere hearsay and does not concern him. The bill became a law In 1892. The, source of trouble to the cas ualty companies lay in an amendment to the codification to limit the bus iness of the casualty company to one line. Mr. Seward testified that the "Tim Sullivan" who a man named Brown had representeed would rut off the bill for $10,000, was "Big Tim" Sullivan. "You mean 'Big Tim' Sullivan, the present senator?" asked Mr. Hotch klss. " 'Big Tim.' he said. I didn't know there was any other. He was per sistently active." Were Kager For Money. Mr. Seward spoke of the old days when, if he went to Albany and tried to speak to members of the Assembly to advocate a bill, some of them would say, "Is there any money in it?" "Can you give me any specific time at which you were aproached?" "Yes. I think it was about the time the casualty bill was before the House. A legislator met " "Who was he?" asked Mr. Hotch klss. interrupting. "His name was Goldberg, and I believe he was from Buffalo. He met me In the capitol building. 'What are you up here for?' he ask ed. I told him. He replied: 'I think there's money in that bill and I propose to have some.' " "For years." said Mr. Seward, "the insurance and casualty com panies have been harassed in every part of the country by insurance de partments and by 'strike bills' and by bills introduced by legislators who were not well Informed." Mr Seward told of an attempt to force him to pay $10,000 for killing a bill adversely affecting casualty companies. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH TWELVE PEOPLE DEAD IN FURNITURE FIRE RUINS fiirls at Factory Windows Fall Hack Into Flames. ONE WOMAN LEAPS 10 THE GROUND. Hero Loses Life In Attempt at Rescues. As GueHt Of Emperor William. Berlin (Special). It was learned from an official source that Colonel Roosevelt will arrive in Berlin on April 12. Ho will bo the personal guest of the Emperor for four days, during which ho will stopatthe royal palace. The statement that Colonel Roosevelt will arrive here on April 12 and go direct to the royal palace Is not quite understood. At the American Embassy It Is not known whetherr the ex-1'resldent will ar rive previous to that date, but It has been generally understood that he would arrive here on April 9, and would spend a couple of days with Ambassador Hill before going to the ualace. liny Claim Immunity. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). "Lem me go. I told yer all about these robberies, They're lettln' the graft era go when they confess." This was the unique plea of George Burrell, aged 11, one of the confessed mem bers of Juvenile band of robbers when arraigned before Magistrate Louis Alpern. Burrell failed to get the immunity bath and was held with two companions for Juvenile court. The boy confessed to eight robberies of dwellings committed within the past seven days. Conductor Injured I'nder Train. Keyser, W. Va. . (Special). Charles O. Miller, freight conductor on the Western Maryland Railroad, died at the Hoffman Hospital in Keyser, W. Va., from Injuries re ceived In an accident at West Vir ginia Junction. He was under a car on his train adjusting a brake rod when an engine moved the train, lie leaves a wife In Rldgeley. The device takes on or discharges mall safely, without danger of throwing the sacks under the wheels o derailing the truin. within two weeks. Doctor drown ing declared that Senator Daniel's faculties have been nearer normal than at any time for two weeks. Tlllmun Rapidly Improving. Atlanta (Special). United States Senator B. R. Tillman, of South Car olina, Is rapidly regaining his health. Saturday, for the first time since his recent Illness, the Senator, who is taking the rest cure at a sanatorium, took a short walk. He walked about a block from the sanatorium and back and was little fatigued with the exercise. llodjr Hurled !M Years Robbed. Forest Hill, La. (Special). The most unusual robbery In the history of this section of Louisiana was per petrated, when the body of E. D. Galnler was exhumod and gold teeth, a diamond ring, gold watch and cuff buttons were taken. The body wag sealed In a tomb here more than 30 years ago. ,n t Denies Validity Of Court. Washington, D. C. (Special). As the army court of Inquiry Investiga ting the Brownsville raid was in one of its closing sessions U. B. Marshall, counsel for the negro sol diers seeking restoration to the army, sprung a sensation by imply ing broadly that the court had been Improperly constructed by Secretary Dickinson, and that the recorder, Capt. Charles R. Rowland, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, had made no effort to produce any testimony fa vorable to the discharged soldiers. Skeleton In A Swamp. Rochester, N. Y. (Special). The discovery of a skeleton in a swamp on the farm of William Webster, about one mile northwest of the vil lage of Spencerport, disclosed the fact that a murder had been committed. The victim is thought to be Urbano Bcalabratta, an Italian, who has been missing since last March. Lo re mo Haird and Robert Webster dis covered the skeleton, lying face downward. There was a strap about the neck. Indicating foul play The county authorities are at work on the case. been opened up Help For Sufferers. Help for the people of the de vastated region is being organized nere. A detacbinent of soldiers and a large number of engineers and doctors have gone forward. The prefect of Catania, returning from the scence this evening, said: I have witnessed a spectacle of desolation and ruin which only those who saw the eruption of Ve suvius in 1906 can imagine. The present eruption can be compared to no other." To Vote On City Ownership. Detroit (Special). Petitions bear ing the signatures of 18,759 voters, were submitted to the Common Council calling for a popular vote on the question of municipal ownership of the street railway system. Under the law 14,200 names were necessary to require the Council to submit the question to a vote. Fire Follows Threats. Morganfield, Ky. (Spoclal). Fire supposed to have been of Incendiary origin destroyed business property here to the value of $200,000. Among the buildings burned are the Green River department store where the blaze started: the Ma sonic Temple, the Opera House, the new Baptist Church and parsonage and Che Bank of Union County. The department store managers say they had received several threatening let ters lately from the Black Hand. lUg Four Men Want Raise. Cincinnati (Special). A commit tee of the Big Four Railway con ductors and another of trainmen called on General Manager J. Q. Van Winkle and submitted requests for changes in 'working rule and a new scale of wages. The scales are al most Identical with those submitted by employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern to the officials of that road and rejected by them. Mr. Van Winkle laformed the commit teea he would consider the matter and give them hie answer in a day or two. The administration railroad bill largely amended was ordered fav orably reported by the House Com mittee on Interstate Commerce. The Senate struck out the provis-' Ion In the Appropriation Bill for a masseur at the baths In the Senate office building. The Pension Bill, carrying appro priations aggregating about $166, 000,000, was passed by the House. In a speech in the Senate, Mr. Owens urged the establishment of public health. Secretary Dickinson promulgated new rules to govern hazing at West Point. Major General J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the Army, was badly Injured, and Mrs. Herbert J. Slocum, wife of Major Slocum, of the Seventh Calvary, was almost instantly killed in a collision of their automobile with a trolley car on the Tenally town road. Secretary Meyer returned to Wash ington from a week's visit to Aiken and Charleston, much improved in health. While in Charleston the Sec retary made an inspection of the new naval drydock. Secretary Bollinger temporarily withdrew 56,659 acres of public lands from all forms of disposition in aid of proposed legislation affect ing the disposal of water-power sites on the public domain. Hearings will be given during the week of April 11 on the proposed legislation to remove the tax on oleo margarine under a decision of the House Committee 6n Agriculture. The legislative, executive and Judl clal appropriation bill wag reported to tne senate, it carries 134.034.. 357, a net Increase of $195,562 over the bill as It passed the House. A lar.e delegation - representing Interests along the Csnauiar border called on Socretary Knox and appeal ed to htm to avert a tariff war with Canada. Bills to simplify the laws govern ing the equipment of motor boats were introduced in both houses of Congress. Sworn statements were filed by President Gomperg, of the Federa tion of Labor, to substantiate his charges against the United States Steel Corporation. A bill to reimburse the 61.131 depositors In the old Freedman's Saving and Trust Company wag fa vorably reported .to the Senate. Major Sylvester, Washington's chief or police thinks it a good idea to let the women have hatpins as weapons of defense. The Senate began consideration of a bill providing for a codification of laws relating to the judiciary. The Supreme Court Justice to whom the task will be assigned of figuring out the portion of the Vir ginia debt that West Virginia should pay will have a difficult problem in arithmetic. ' The military academy appropria tion bill, carrying $1,866,649, was passed by the Senate. The Naval Appropriation bill car rying $129,037,602 was reported to the House. gervlceg were held in the House of Representative in memory of the late Congressman Robert C. Davr. ot Louisiana. Benzine Explosion Spreads Flames Through Fish Furniture Co. Fac tory, In Chlrndo, Trapping Em ployes On Upper Floors Rescuers Unable To Ascend The Stairways Tottering Walls Halt The Senrrh For The IOst Find Dead Cluspcd In Each Other's Arm. Chicago (Special). Search of the wreckage for the remaining bodies of those who lost their lives in the Fish Furniture Company fire here was dlscontinned, owing to danger from tottering wall, but not until after 12 of the dead had been re covered and 11 of these identified. While earlier 1 estimates placed the number of victims trapped on the fourth and fifth' floors of the building as high as 20, later and more thorough Investigation Indi cates that there were but 16. Two ot these escaped, which leaves but two more to be acounted for. Leo Stoeckel, a clerk of the Fish Company, who, by accident, is said to have started the fire, told his story to Fire Attorney Frank Hogan this afternoon. Although Stoeckel Is admittedly more unfortunate than culpable, Attorney Hogan says he will bring some charge against the young man to insure his attendance at the inquest. Stoeckel was brought before the fire attorney with his hand, which had been burned, swathed in band ages. He appeard heart-broken. "About 8.45 o'clock A. M.," Stoeckel said. "Mr. Mitchell, who Is a member of the firm, gave me three pocket cigar lighters and told me to go to the finishing room, on the fourth floor, and fill them with benzine. I had filled two of the lighters out of the five-gallon can and was working on the third when there was an explosion. "A sheet of flame almost blinded me. 1 did not fully regain my senses until 1 had reached the street. The lighters contained a contrivance to make a spark, but whether I ig nited one of thm on not I don't know. I either dropped the can of benzine when the flame shot up in front of me or it was blown out of my hand." Ten women and girls, it is said, were at work on the sixth floor when the explosion occured. The spread of the flames was almost Instantan eous, and when the girls rushed to the stairways they found escape cut off. They next turned to the front of the building, smashing In the windows. Horrified spectators in the street saw one of the girls step to tihe window . ledee and heard her scream for help. Then she jumped. Falling on the awning over the front entrance ot the store, she lay un conscious until Dr. Wm. I. Kinsley, crawling out on the canopy, lifted her up. She was taken at once to St. Luke's Hospital, only a few 'blocks away, but died soon after ward. Dr. Kinsley suffered slight burns. Later it was learned the girl's name was Emma Llchtensteln. She was 20 years old and was employed as a filing clerk. Death was due to Internal Injuries received in her fall. Soon after Miss Llchtensteln's des perate leap a crash as of the floors falling was heard and the faces at the window disappeared. Dr. Kinsley graphically described his experience, as follows: "I was nearby when the fire start ed, and when I reached the scene the sight fairly made my hair stand on end. The floors of the building were a mass of flames. Smoke in great, clouds was rolling out of the windows. I cried 'Something must be done! Something must be dope!' But, like' many others, there I was, so stricken by the stfeht of the faces half revealed in the sixth-story win dows that I could scarcely move. The girls were shouting 'For Gods sake, send us help!' and others were crying for the firemen to raise the ladders. I tried to get up the front stairways, but at the third floor a gust of flame burnt me about the face and hands, and the next thing I knew 1 was back in the street again. Again the cries of the poor girls trapped in the upper story came to my ears, and I saw one of the girls throw up ber bands and plunge out of the window. "Her body crashed against the canopy over the front end of the store. Scarcely knowing what I did, I ran up the stairway to the first floor, crawled out of the window and then carried her down a ladder which a fireman had raised." NEW MAIL TAK1XU "l)KVICE. Post Office Department Approves Iowa Man's Invention. Washington, D. C. (Special). BLy a device Invented by an Iowa man and approved by the Postmas ter General, mail will be taken upon moving trains and delivered at many places, where fast trains do not stop. The adoption of the device marks an important step In the movement to equip all railroad lines with it. HERO FAILED TO SAVE WIFE. Detroit (Special). Despite the fact that John Jacksonrof Port Hur on, had been awarded a Carnegie meaai ror naving saved 14 lives, he wag unable to rescue his own wife from drowning In the Black River. The woman had been ill for two weeks and during the nurse's ab sence from the room, ran to the riv er and jumped in. Jackson follow ed and succeeded in grasping his wife by the wrist, but could not re tain bit hold. The water wag 20 feet deep. To Simplify Motor Boat Laws. Washington, D. C. (Special). Billg to simplify the laws governing the equipment ot motor boats were introduced In both houses of Con gress. The billg follow recommenda tions made at the Detroit conference of motor boat associations In Janu ary, and the recent conference of motor boat builders at New York. Bricks and building blocks of fair quality are made in several of the smaller English cities by mixing the residue from garbage fnntneratlng furtuica with aulck-lime and water. BATTLE WITH MAD MAN . ON AJU 0, TRAIN Conductor nnd Porter of Royal Iilne Limited Dead. J. II. Bet liea, Who Boarded B. & O. Train In Baltimore, Kills Con ductor O. E. Well man And Porter Samuel Williams. Soon After Crossing The Susquehanna De fies Police And Firemen Of Wil mington, Del., In A Two Hours' Battle For Possession Of Train Wilmington. Del. (Special). In a battle on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Limited, north bound, which began between New ark, Del., and Wilmington at 5 o'clock nnd ended at the Delaware Avenue Station here, three men, In cluding the one who started all the trouble, were killed, two were seri ously Injured and others were grazed by bullets. The tragedy wns an outcome of a quarrel between Bethca, a passenger who boarded the train at Washing ton, and Williams, the porter in the buffet smoking car Mercury. Bethea, who had been drinking, shot the porter through the heart, killing him instantly. Conductor Wellman heard tho shot, and, running back, remonstrated with tho passenger, who still held the smoking weapon. Although the negro was dead, Be thea fired a second shot, the bullet entering the victim's stomach. Then, without a word, he turned and shot Wellman, who fell dead. The bul-l let had passed through his right arm, which he had thrown up to pro tect himself, and into his heart. Barricades Himself In. ( The passengers, in a mad rush to safety, ran back into the car in the rear, while Bethea rushed into a compartment of the car, barricaded himself in and threatened to kill the first person who aproached. i By this time the train reached the station here at 5.17 o'clock andj a hurry call was sent to the police station. Police Captain Kane and Evans, Sergeant Kelleher and a' squad of patrolmen, reinforced by park guards and a posse of train men and citizens, rushed to the scene. Bethea was called upon to surrender, but he only opened the door of his fortress for enough to poke an automatic revolver through the chink and begin to fire. Chief of police Black, who had also reached the scene of hostilities, dodged just as a bullet whizzed by his head. The South Carolina man must have had at least 100 cartridges, for he held the poBse of several hun dred men at bay and also held up the train from 6.17 o'clock until 6.35, and travel over the road was stopped. Every now and then the police opened fire at the car until all of the windows were riddled. After an hour the police saw they would be unable to drive the man from cover, and a call was sent to the Water Witch Fire Company, near by, for Us engine. Tho ap paratus responded on the run. A high pressure hose was attached to a water plug, and, with the firemen behind a barricade of boards and trucks, a stream was played upon the window of the compartment in which Bethea was. Bethea ."red a fusllade at the fire men, the police all the while calling upon him to surender. In a few minutes, drenched with water, he staggered to the platform, and again the police shouted to. him to hold up his hands. Without a word and with an air of bravado, be leveled his automatic revolver at the police and several shots rang out in quick ' succession. Murderer Himself Shot Down. Just as he fired the "last shot Police Captain Evans, who had secur ed a shotgun, fired. A load of shot struck the murderer in the face, but still he continued to blaze away. Patrolman Bougbman then fired with a pistol, and the bullet struck Beth ea In the right arm. He tried to fire again, but Sergeant Kelleher fired and at the same time sprang upon the man. Several other police men started to shoot, but the crowd yelled "Don't kill him!" The shot gun and the bullets from the police men's revolvers had already done their work, however, for Just aa Bethea was taken bold of by the police he fell dead into the arms of one of them. m Two Women In A Duel. Nashville, Tenn. (Special). News reached here of a duel be tween two women at Kingston, Tenn., Sunday night. Just after church services, Rosa Cowen and Nellie Taylor quarreled over the af fections of a man. Both drew knives. When ethers attempted to prevent the women from fighting, it is said, the man about whom the altercation started Interfered, and with leveled revolver ordered the women to be allowed to fight It out. The duel continued until the throats of both had been cut and Rosa Cow en lay dead. Nellie Taylor is not expected to live. Trouble In Santo Domingo, Washington, D. C. (Special). The Navy Department ordered the gunboat Paducah, now at Havana, to proceed to Santo Domingo. The sit uation there Is politically disturbed, and It la deemed wise to have an American warship convenient in case the trouble becomes moro acute. Mother Of Sixteen War Veterans. Moundsville, W. Va. (Special). Mrs. Sarah Brandon, aged 109, of this city, holds the United States rc- -cord as the mother of the largo at number of Civil War soldiers. No less than 16 of her boyg served In the battles of that war, 14 on the Union side and two with the Con federates, while her total family was 23. Her 23 children are also the parents of large families. Tho old est, Hiram, is 89 years old, .while the youngest, Evan Brandon, 'is 72 years, ' , Messenger Steals $20,000. . New York (Special). A trusted, messenger boy who is said to have recently robbed the Carnegie Trust Company of between $20,000 and $30,000 and then eloped with a Jer sey City girl 1 being brought back to New York by detectives. The girl Is with him. The couple. It Is asserted, went South and finally to Los Angeles, where detectives trap ped them. Robert Smith, second vice president of the company, aald today: "I do not care to discus the matter until I have talked with, the president. I may have somei thing to ay later." , , COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade and ' Market Reports. R. G. Dun & Co.'a Weekly Review of Trade says: In spite of a number of abnormal, puzzling and disturbing develop ments the volume of business it large and steadily expanding as the spring season opens and - weather conditions improve. The expansion noted in iron and steel continues chiefly In finished materials. There are intimations that the volume of new business in these lines has been exaggerated, but it is evident never, theless that a very considerable ton nage Is being placed, and Inquiries now pending afford much encourage ment. The railroads are replenish ing old equipment, and activity in tho structural division Is a promi nent feature of the situation. It Is estimated that buying from the lat ter source Is at the rate of 100,000 tons monthly in the more important contracts, but cutting of prices sug gests that there is sharp competition among fabricating mills. Bradstreet'g says: Trade Irregularity Is still mani fest, but reports as a whole show a still further improvement, due to the advance of the spring season. i Improvement In weather, and coin-' cidentally in trade reports, is most' manifest in the agricultural sections1 of the West, Northwest and South-: west, while the reports from tho East and parts of the South show the development of spring business retarded by the lingering of winter. However, the unsettled labor out look in many lines of industry, the effect of high prices as limiting de mand or, as in the case of cotton goods, Inducing curtailment of pro-, ductlon, and the tendency to await' judicial decisions in several impor tant cases are all laid stress upon.1 On balance, there is little disposition to deny that trade is considerably better than a year ago, a period also of waiting trade, and far in excess of this time twj years ago, but the rate of progress Is slower than san guine expectations had led to expect. Wholesale Markets. New York Wheat Spot unset tled; No. red, 126 c. c. I. f. and nominal f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 North ern Duluth, 12514 opening naviga tion'; No. 2 hard winter nominal. Corn Spot steady; steamer. 65c. and No. 4, 63, both eleva tor export basis; export No. 2, 65 f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 elevator, 68 export basis. Oats Spot steady; mixed, 26 32 lbs. nominal; natural white, 26 (n 32 lbs., 6052c; clipped white, 34 42 lbs., 51 54. - Philadelphia. Wheat quiet; con tract grade, March, 121 123c. Corn Dull and c. lower; March and April, 66 66c Oats Dull, c. lower; No. 2 white natural, 53c. Butter Steady; extra Western creamery, 34 c; do., nearby prints, 35. Eggs Quiet but steady; Pennsyl vania and other nearby firsts, free cases, 23c. at mark; do., current re ceipts. In returnable cases, 22 at mark; Western firsts, free cases, 23 at mark; do., current receipts, free cases, 22 at mark. Cheese Firm: New York full creams, choice, 17 c; do., fair to good, 16 17. . Live Poultry Firm; fowls, 18 19c; old roosters, 13 13; chick ens, 1920; ducks, 17 19; geese, 1416. Baltimore. Wheat Receipts, 6,. 134 bushels, Including 2,523 South ern; shipments from elevators, 5, 004; stock In elevators, 656,974 Several hundred bushels of Southern sold at 1.12 and 1.17 per bu. by sample. The market for Southern opened quiet; No. 2 red spot, 121c; May 1.20. in the absence of buslnest prices were more or less nominal and soft and the market eased off. Settling prices were: No. 2 red Western, 121c; No. 2 red, 1.20; No. 3 red, 1.16; steamer No. 2 red, 1.13; steamer No. 2 red Western, 1.14. Corn Spot, 6465c.i April, 6565; May, 6767. Oats We quote, per bu.: Whltf No, 2, as to weight, 51 c. sales: No. 3, as to weight, 6051; No. 4, as to weight, 4747. Mixed No. 2, 4950; No. 3, 4849. Hay Quote per ton: No. 1 timo thy. $'.I.5022.00; No. 2 timothy, $20. 5C 21.00; No. 3. $18.00 19.50; choice clover mixed, $21.00; 'o. 1 cloter mixed, $20.60; No. 2 clover mixed. $19.00 20.00; No. 1 clover, $20.50 21.00; No. 2 clover, 1S.00 19.00. Straw Quote, per ton: Straight rye straw, fair to choice, $15.00; straight rye, No. 2, $14.00; tangled rye (blocks), $10.00 10.50; wheat, blocks, fair to choice, $7.50 8.00; oat. good to Drlme. $9.00 10.00. Butter The market is unchanged end steady, with tke demand for de sirable stock about equal to the of ferings. We quote, per lb.: Cream ery, fancy. 3232c; creamery, choice, 80 31; creamery, good, 28 29; creamery, Imitation, 21023; creamery, prints, 30 33. Ecgs We quote, per dozen: Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby firsts, 21c; Western firsts, 21; West Virginia firsts, 21; Southern firsts, 20: guinea eggs, 11; duck eggs, 32. Live Poultry Quote, per lb.: Chickens, old hens, heavy, 17c; do.; small to medium, 18; do., old roosters, 10 11; do., voung, good to choice. 20 21; do., winter, 2 lbs. and under, 23 25: do.. - young, rough and staggy, IS 16; ducks, Inrge, 1820; do., small. 17; do., Muscovy and mongrel, 16 17. Live Stock. Chicago. Cattle Market 10 higher; steeni. $6.108.65; cows. $4.75(36.60; heifers, $48.76; bulls. $5.2506.25; calves, $3 10.60; stockorg and feeders, $4.40 Hogs Market steady to 6o. high er; choice heavy, $10.75 10.86; butchers', $10.70 10.80; light mixed, $10.50 10.60; choice light. $10.60 10.70; packing. $10.65 10.75; pigs, $10.2510.60; bulk of sales, $10.65 10.75. Pittsburg, r. Cattle Supply light; choice, . $7.76 7.90; prime, $7.607.90. , .-. . Sheep Supply light; prime, $8.25 8.60; culls and common, $3.60 (.60; lambs, $7.010. I Veal calves, $10 10.50.. i Hogs Receipts light; prime hear lea and mediums, $11.10; heavy Yorkers, $11.05011. 10; light York erg. $10.0ll; pigs, $10.75 10.90; roughs. $10 10.60. The Koh-i-noor diamond originally weighed 800 karats, but by succes sive cutting, bag been reduced to 10 karats.
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