THE NEWS Domestic It Is Mated that Theodore Roose velt Is expertod to exert all his In fluence to persuade Hughes to re linquish the Supreme Bench for the present and run again for governor next rail. Martin Van Buren Smith, a metal lurgical engineer of New York, was killed by falling out a hotel window et Heading, Pa. Mining Engineer J. L. Ames tramped 22 miles across a California dcBcrt to bring succor to six lost companions. San Francisco has raised $C,1S4, 755 of the $7,000,000 needed toward netting the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion. Mrs. Mnry A. Lavender, of Chica go, who sued Ilev. E. D. Crawford tor slander, was awarded $ 1 ,.). Gen. Frederick Funstoii, reported dangerously 111, Is now out of dimg'i". The Department of Justice refus ed a request of Charles V. Morse, who is serving a sentence In tho At lanta Penitentiary, for permission to attend his son's graduation from Yale I'nivi-rsl'y. President Taft slsiie'd the River and Harbor Mill, but Kent message to the Senate saying he considered the Rj-Rtem a bad one and would not sign another. Extradition of Porter Charlton to Italy to be tried for Killing his wife, formerly Mary Scott Castle, will be resisted on the ground that the youth la mentally unsound. On the other hand, the brother of the dead wom an, Capt. Henry Harrison Scott, of tho Coast Artillery, will do every thing In his power to secure young Charlton's extradition and his pun ishment In Italy. The Pennsylvania Prohibition State Convention nominated M. P. Lark In. of Scrantnn, Pa., for govern or by !t2 votes to 112 for H. T. Ames, of Wllllamsport, and 17 for D. Clar ence lilbboney, of Philadelphia. Miss Alma Naumann, of Milwau kee, is bequeathed $100,000 if she marries, but only the income of that sum If she remains single. William Hamilton, a prisoner In the Chicago House of Correction, Iras fallen heir to riches. Gen. Frederick Funston Is dan gerously ill of heart trouble at Leav enworth, Kan. Twelve women composed a Jury In a court of record at Hahns Peak, Cel. Guy R. Johnson, formerly vice president and general manager of the Alabama Coal and Iron Company, who shot himself at his home In Bir mingham, Ala., died of bis Injuries. Golden Rule Kohler, chief of po lice of Cleveland, O., was acquitted of charges of misconduct In office. Mr. and Mrs. Carl RItmiller. of Philadelphia, committed suicide by asphyxiation. The Drst bale of the cotton crop of 1910 weighs 416 pounds and sold for $375. The torpedo-boat destroyer Bur rows was launched at Philadelphia. It Is suggested that the celebration In honor of 100 years of peace be teon the I'nlted States and Canada be held here, In conjunction with the celebration of the Battle of North Point and the semicentennial of the Civil War. Gov. .ludsnn Ilartnan was nominat ed for the presidency and renominat ed for the governorship by tho Demo cratic St,ito Convention of Ohio. Four persons were fatally Injured when two cars leaped from a scenic railway and dropped CO feet at Coney Island. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and brldo registered at a Chicago hotel as Mr. ar.d Mrs. William Throop Rogers. Yale has conferred a degree of master of arts on Miss Jar.o Addams, of Hull Hc:i30, Chleago. Foreign irlnce Chun, resent of China, has order tho reincarnation of a Budd hist bUh priest in Tibet who lost bis head when be incurred the dis pleasure of the since deposed Dalai Lama. The German government, follow ing an Inquiry regarding American concessions In Asia Minor, suggests that the promoters reach an agree ment with the Bagdad Railway Com pany. The Premier of Ppaln announced .that the government s religious pro gram would bo carried out and the protest of the Vatican Ignored. . The Russian Council of the Em pire passed the Finnish bill on Its Urm. reading. The bill U bitterly op posed In Finland. Stanford Burton, an American dental surgeon practicing at Oxford, England, poisoned himself. Coloned Joso R. Pizarro was ap pointed Peruvian minister of war, ucoeedlng Gen. P. K. Munis, who, owing to 111 health, resigned when it loomed probable that the bound ary dispute between Peru and Ecua dor would be settled through arbi tration. The Grecian government has granted the demand of the Ruman ian foreign office In satisfaction of The International Congress of Cnamhcr of Commerce at London helved a resolution recommending the establishment of a permanent court of arbitral Justice. Tho I'nlted States battleships In diana. Massachusetts and lowa.-wlth (00 middles from the Naval Acad emy on a practice cruise,, arrived at Plymouth, Eng. a Greek mob's attack upon a Ru manian steamer. The leaders of the Japanese So cialist party and six associates were arrested in Toklo on the charge of manufacturing Infernal machines. Genera) Mona's forces of 1,600 mea occupied San Vicente. Nicara gua, and Is reported as advancing upon Acoyapa. Capt. P. 8. Cody, the aviator, wlle making a flight at Aldersbot fell 100 feet and 'was seriously In jured. Emporor William arrived at Kiel for the annual yachting regatta. The King and Queen ot Bulgaria arrived at Paris and wore rbeotved with military honors. John K. Redmond, leadur of the Irish Parliamentary party, gve a dinner In London In honor of Wil liam Jennings Bryan. The International Congress of Chamber of Commerce accepted the Invitation to hold the meeting of 19 It In Boston. Several siieusurt-s were Introduced lu the Preach Parliament designed tg Increase the marriage and birth rate. Miss Helen Pot was married In Loudon to Montagu Eliot. A PITCHED BATTLE . ' . WITH DARING BANDITS Shoe Mannfactnrer and Police man Shot to Death. ROBBERS SNATCH $4,500 AND FLEE. Robbers Pump Lend Prom Magazine Revolvers, In Business Section Of Lynn, Mass., At Manufacturer And Lnw Officer Currying; Payroll Of Shoe Factory Mob Of 10,000 Pursue Highwaymen One Ends Life When Surrounded Another Shot In Four naccH- Third One, Wounded, Surrender. Lynn, Mass. (Special). Three Russian Poles, who had been living In New York, shot and killed Thomas A. Landregan, a wealthy shoe manu facturer, and Policeman James H. Carroll; seized a bag containing $4, fiOO, which Mr. Lnndregan was carry ing from tho Lynn National Bank to his factory, and then fled, firing right and left at tho pursuing crowd. Within two hours the police cap tured one of the bandits, killed a second, fatally wounded the third, and recovered the money. The Bhootlng occurred on Oxford Street, In the business centre. The three followed Carroll and Landre gnn from the bank. As they neared the Welch and Landregnn shoe fac tory the robbers stopped up behind them and without a word two open ed fire, while a third grabbed the bag. Landregan, riddled by seven bul letB from the 4 4-callbre automatic magazine revolvers the highwaymen carried, fell dying. Carroll, In whose body nine bullets were later found, lived less than an hour. Girl Saves Her Horse; Is Shot At. Pursued by a mob of citizens and police, the men ran toward High Rock. Standing In front of the resi dence of Charles H. Baker In Essex Street was a horse, all saddled. Miss Resale Baker, prominent In Boclety, was stepping out for her morning ride. A hostler was holding the horse. One of the bandits pointed a revolver at the hostler's head and seized the bridle. Miss Baker, calling to her mother to telephone the police, rushed up throw her arms around the horse's necK ana cnea: "Don't take my pet!" The man dropped the bridle, ran 10 feet, stopped and fired at her. The bullet whizzed by her head. Meantime the pursuers were almost on him. He fired several shots at them and rushed up over High Rock, dropping the bag of money. A Buttle In The Brush. Crossing a large field near the out skirts, he plunged Into the brush. Fifty officers and 600 hundred cltl zens surrounded the field. The offi cers began to beat the brush, firing and he returned the fire. Officers Moore and Lynch found the man hid Ing behind a bush, his Index finger shot off. They sprang upon him and disarmed him. Officers tlradv and Thompson, In the patrol wagon, overtook a second bandit on Boston Street. Ho opened fire. They Jumped from the wagon and fired. Ho dropped and lived but a few minutes. The third .bandit nearly reached the field. Police and citizens were close upon him. One of his bullets went through the coat of Officer Crowley. Suddenly he was seen to drop. It was thought that he had attempted suicide. Intcr the meul ral examination showed he must have been hit by one of the bullets fired at him. The wound Is In hi head. Ivankowskl Confesses. Several hours later the bandit cap tured In the brush made a confession at the police Btatton. He said through a Polish Interpreter that his name was Waslli Ivankowskl, that he and Andy Abson, the one now dy ing at the hospital, came to New York from Russian Poland two years ago; that they and the third man, whom he calls "Joe," had been trav eling about tho country, working at anything they could get In Boston, Pittsburg, New Yorif and Toronto, He gave his regular residence, as well as Andy 8, as New York. He said they came to Lynn a week ago and planned the hold-up. They came down from Boston by trolley, waited at the bank till Landregan ap peared, and then carried out the rob bery. He denied they were members of the gang of Letts, who terrorized Jamaica Plain, Boston, two years ago. The police do not believe his story. Pictures of them are being sent all oven the country. LONG SESSION OF SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS ADJOURNED Legislation of Unusual Importance Enact edA Great Rush of Work the Final Day. on RECORD OP CONGRESS. Main Rills Pussed. I Railroad bill. I Postal Savings Bystem. I Statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. I Publicity after elections of I campaign contributions. I Withdrawal of public lands by I I the President. I I Appropriation of $250,000 for- I the tariff board. I Bureau, of Mines and Mining. I I Use of improved safety appll- I ances by the railroads. I I Issue of $20,000,000 reclaina- I Hon (-rtincates. I Reorganization of tho llght- I house service. I Two new battleships. j Additional regulation ot the I "White Slave" traffic. j I Agricultural settlement on coal I lands. Main Rills Not Pussed. Federal Incorporation bill. j Seven bills covering the admin- lstratlon'8 conservation system. A bill to limit the Issue of In- I Junctions. j New form of government for Alaska. j Ship subsidy. j Bureau of Public Health. I Codification of postal laws, In- I creasing rates on second class I mall. Washington, D. C. (Special). Uncle Sara's big law factory, after a brief period, when all hands worked overtime, ending with a final day under double prcsure, was closed down until next December, with a remarkable record of work and all factions satisfied and claiming the greater part of the credit. The President's annual message covered the whole legislative field. Ills personal program contained about 18 measures, of which six passed. The Railroad Bill, the main issue of the session, as adopted bore practically no semblance of the origi nal Wickersham bill. The great bulk of the work was done in the last month and a very Important part during the last week. In the early half of tho session the House was not Industrious and the Senate did practically nothing at all. At the finish there was a crush of the work and double activity. A House Blown Vp. Petersburg, Va. (Special). The homo of Frank Brooks, a farmer of Dinwiddle County, eight miles from Petersburg, was destroyed by dyna mite and fire. The building was evidently set afire and the family barely escaped before -the house was blown to pieces by dynamite stored therein, which was exploded by the heat. The explosion Jarred houses for several miles around and de stroyed 'outbuilding on the Brooks' farm. The loss Is several thousand (.dollars. Farmer Killed Ry Train. Martinsburg, W. Va. (Special). William E. Mustetter, a well-known young farmer near North Mountain, this county, was fatally Injured while attempting to board a freight train on tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near his home. He foil beneath the wheels, and his arm and teg were ground to a pulp. He was rushed to a local hospital and the mangled limbs were amputated, but he died today without regain ing consciousness. He was unmar ried, and Is survived by his parents and reveral sisters and brothers. Bequeaths $17,000,000 To Family. Bethlehem, Pa. (Special). Under tho will of the late Ellsha P. Wilbur, financier, and once president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, an estate of $17,000,000 Is bequeathed to. his family. So far as Is known, there was no gift to a public or charitable Institution. Women Sit As Jurymen. Hahns Peak, Col. (Special). One of the first women Juries In a court of record In the United States was assembled In the County Court by Judge Morulng to pass upon the sanity of Elizabeth Hutchinson. Hahns Peak was almost wiped out by a recent fire and court could not locate enough eligible men In the town to make up the nocessary jury of six. The women were duly sworn, heard the evidence and adjudged Miss Hutchinson Insane. New Funn Of Referendum. Charleston, W. Va. (Special). Within a few day Governor 01 ass cock wMl appoint commissions of at least 0v members each, to draft bills to be submitted to members of the next Legislature before they assemble on primary election law, county local option law, publlo-aerv-Ice commission. Other commissions are likely to be named to draft bills for contemplated legislation. Tbe Goversor says that much batter laws 'would bo enacted If the Legislature bad the opportunity to analyze roeauurst thoroughly. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH A House bill amending the lmml gatlon laws to permit certain persons to complete their naturalization without being subjected to the delay generally Incident to the naturaliza tion process was passed by tbe Sen ate. Senator Smith secured the ac ceptance of an amendment to the Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill car rying an appropriation for an inves tigation Into the feasibility of drain ing the swamp lands In Maryland. A House bill authorizing the grant ing of papers of honorable discharge to minors who fcerved under assum ed names during tbe Civil War and the war with Spain, was passed by the Senate. A hill has been Introduced In Con gress providing for a monument to tho memory of' Hiram Crouk, sitid to be the last survivor ot the War of 1812, who died In 1905, aged 105 years. A Joint resolution passed tbe Sen ate extends two years tbe time dur ing which ex-Confederates may file claim for losses of personal proper ty after surrender. Senators Bacon, Guggenheim and Crawford were appointed as a com mittee to represent the Senate at the coming ceremonies In celebration of tbe Mexican Centennial. A delegation of miners called on the President and urged tbe appoint ment ot Dr. J. A. Holmes as the bead of the new Bureau ot Mines. Tho Senate adopted the Joint reso lution, which originated In the House, authorizing the appointment of a peace communion. - The conference report on the Pub lic Buildings Bill was agreed to by the House. Format complaints were submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion of recent advances In commu tation rates made by the railroads operating out t Mew fork lty. PORTER CHARLTON THE WIFE MURDERER Canght in New York Landing From Ship From Italy. HE MAKES A SIGNED CONFESSION Cnpt. Henry II. Scott, U. 8. A., Led To Meet The Incoming Liner By Premonition That Porter Charl. ton Was Aboard Prisoner Con fevoc That lie Killed His Wife With Mallet, Tossed nody And Trunk Into Lake Como Pennl less And Traveling Under Assum ed Nome. A HONEYMOON TRAGEDY. Mrs. Porter Charlton was a dnughter of H. H. Scott, a prorM nent Ban Francisco merchant. Became the wife of Neville W. Castle, a San Francisco attorney, on November 10, 1898. Four years later she left Castle and entered vaudeville. January 13, 1910, Castle ob tained divorce. Porter Charlton, a son of Judge Paul Charlton, of Wash ington, met Mrs. Castle at the capital. Married In Old Swedes' Church, Wilmington, Del., March 12, 1910. April 16 Mr. and Mrs. Charl ton sailed for Genoa to spend honeymoon In Italy. I Fishermen on Lake Como, Italy, found trunk containing I body of woman on Friday morn ing, June 10. Post-mortem examination dls- closed woman had been placed In I trunk alive, after blows had been I struck on her head. I Husband suspected of crime and arrested on arrival In New York. I New York (Special). The Lake Como murder mystery Is solved. Porter Charlton, ah American youth, of good family, sought by the police of two continents, was arrested In Hoboken, N. J shortly before noon as he stepped from the North Ger man Lloyd liner Princess Irene. In less than an hour he had confessed without tremor that In a fit of temper he beat his wife Into insensibility with a mallet Jammed her body In a trunk and sunk It In the waters of the Italian lake. She was Mary Scott Castre, of San Francisco, a woman eight years his senior, divorced wife of Neville H. Castle, a San Francisco lawyer, and beauty. Charlton Is only 21, and a son of Judge Paul Charlton, law officer of tbe Bureau ot Insular Affairs, at Washington, and a classmate of President -Taft's at Yale. The boy married Mrs. Castle In Philadelphia last spring over his parents' protests. Ill-mated and both ot erratic tem perament, they sailed for Italy for the honeymoon. Murder brought It to an end and her body was found In the lake by fishermen on June 10. Prisoner Goes To Pieces. Fleeing from Italy under an as sumed name, almost penniless and shabby of dress, Charlton, on land ing, ran straight Into, the arms of Capt. Honry Harrison Scott, U. S. A., the murdered wife's brother. He was taken to police headquarters at Hoboken, where, after a pitiable col lapse so spasmodic that It produced extreme nausea, he regained his composure and unflinchingly signed the confession. He is behind the bars In the Hoboken city Jail pend ing settlement of the complicated problem of extradition brought about by his arrest. Captain Scott's foresight, dlreoted so accurately that it falls little short ot a weird premonition, resulted In young Charlton s arrest. Stationed t Fort Wright, on Fishers Island, off New London, Ct., Captain Scott obtained hurried leave of absence and went to Hoboken to scan the passengers of Incoming liners. Three Hoboken detectives aided him. Hit Her With Manet. In his signed confession Charl ton declared that no one else had had a hand In the death of bis wife. It was the old Btory of Incompatibil ity and high tempers. After he had told his story In a rambling way Chief of Police Hayes condensed it Into a typewritten statement which he asked the prisoner to sign. It was written on regular court blanks used for depositions. His confession follows: "My name Is Porter Charlton. I live at 204 West Fifty-fifth Street. New York. I am In twenty-one years old, was born in Omaha, Neb., and am a bank clerk. My wife and I lived happily together, but she bad an uncontrollable temper and so had I. "On the night of the murder she had the worst outbreak of temper I ever saw. I told her to keep quiet or I would make her keep quiet. Then she had another outbreak. I took up a wooden mallet, with which I had been repairing a table, and hit her on tbe bead and body two or three times. At midnight I put tbe body In a trunk, dragging it to Uie lake and threw It In. "I spent the night at Moltraslo. Then I went to Como and then to Genoa and boarded the Princess Irene, of the North German Lloyd line. (Signed) "Porter Charlton." UNITED STATES SENATOR GORE REFUSED BIG SUM Says Money Was offered Him For His Influence. The Oklahoma Senator's Statement Causes A Sensation In The Senate. Says He Wns Approached lly A Representative Of J. F. Mc.Mur ray, Of Oklahoma, With A Sug gestion That The Money Would Bo Available If He Prevented Legislation Affecting Attorneys' Fees In Land Cases. Washington, D. C. (Special). Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, dis closed in the Senate what he In terpreted as an effort to bribe him In connection with legislation affect ing the fortune In attorney's fees claimed by J. F. McMurray, of Okla homa, for services rendered to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations in land and town-site cases. The charge created a sensation In the Senate, which later extended to tho House. The latter body In con sequence sent back to conference the General Deficiency Bill, which car ried an Item relating to contracts between the Indians and their attorneys. As the result of the denouement. Senator Gore finally Involved a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, a member of the House Committee on Indian Affairs, two former senators one from Nebraska and the other from Kan sas but whose names were not made public In debate. In response to a suggestion by Senator Bailey that he should name the Senate member of the Indian Affairs Committee, Mr. Gore de murred, but declared that he would welcome an Investigation of the charges so that the whole matter might be brought out before a body which would be authorized to deal with . his allegation. It Is not Im probable that such an Investigation will be ordered. IXTO WHITE-HOT METAL. 915,000,000 In Fake Cures. Boston (Special). Over 115,000,. 000 Is annually poured into tbe cof fers of those who exploit and adver tise "take" consumption cures,, ac cording Lp a statement Issued by tbe National. Association for the Study and Prevention ot Tuberculosis. The eport stated that for this vast sum, victims receive nothing In return. but are often permanently injured. and In many cases deprived of the chance for a real cure. Memorial Arch At Valley Forge. Washington, D. C. (Special). A bill authorising the erection of an arch at Valley Forge, Pa., In com memoration of the suffering of tbe American Army under Washington there during the Revolutionary War, passed the Senate. The bill originat ed In the House. As It passed that body It appropriated $60,000 and provided for two arches to be nam ed for George Washington and Baron Steuben, but the Senate amendod It so as to require the erection ot only one arch, 'but Increasing th Impropriation to $100,000. Body Of Steelworker Consumed Be fore Eyes Of Companions. Pittsburg (Special). John Mitch ell, a steel worker at the West Penn steel plant at Brackenrldge, was sud denly precipitated Into a soaking pit containing a white hot Ingot and be fore his horrified and helpless mill mates the body was consumed by the metal Into which it slowly sunk. Mitchell was at work at the soak ing pits where the steel Ingots are treated. Standing on the door of one which was covered he gave the signal for the opening of another pit. Through mistake, the wrong lever was pulled and Mitchell fell 18 feet to the bottom of the pit,' alighting on the Ingot. HOUSE VOTES $20,000,000. Passes Bill To Issue Notes For Reclamation. Washington, D. C. (Special). By a vote ot 255 to 20 the House passed a bill providing for the Issuance of certificates of Indebtedness to tho amount of $20, 000, COO to provide a fund for tho completion of reclama tion projects already begun The measure now will go to the Senato, where Its passage Is assured. No Cnuse For War, Snys Brnyan. Edinburgh (Special). The local Peace Arbitration Society held a great meeting, at which William Jen nings Bryan delivered an address. During the course of his remarks Mr. Bryan expressed his conviction that there was no cause for war between the United States and Japan and that the scare had been raised to Justify tho building of more war ships. Leaves 930,000 To Employe. Pittsburg (Special). For faithful services to her employer from the time she began to work In his candy store, when but a young girl. Miss Minnie M. Elchor has been rewarded with a legacy cf $60,000, half his estate, left to her by tbe will of Charles Elssner. Elasner operated several candy stores and Miss Elcher had been advanced to the post of manager of all of thorn. Fatally Wounds Himself. Birmingham, Ala. (Special). Guv R. Johnson, former president of tbe Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company, shot and fatally In jured himself at his home here. The shot was fired with suicidal Intent and physlcans say 1' Is Impossible for htm to recover. After having shot himself Mr. Johnson In a statement attributed bis act to business re verses. Across Continent In T7 Days. San Francisco (Special). Lower ing all records for the walk across the Continent, Jack Eldredge, aged 26 years, arrived here after covering 4,000 miles In 77 days. Eldredgo's performance won him a purse of $2,. 000 offered by the Boston Athletic Club for any one covering the 4,000 miles within 100 days. The record for the distance had been held by Edward Payson Weston, who walked the 4,000 miles In 105 days last year. Princess Feodora Dead. Karlsruhe (Special). Princess Feodora of richleswlg-Holsteln, the youngest sister of Empress Auguste Victoria, died suddenly from heart failure. The princess was born July 8, 1874. She never married. She bad written several volumes of verses and was an artist of merit. Owing to the death ot her sister, the Empress has cancelled all her social engagements for the near 'future and her expected visit to Kiel for the yachting regatta. Mrs. A. F. Gorman Dead. Washington. D. C. (Special), Mrs. Arthur P. Oorman, widow ot United States Senator -Gorman, died at her resldenoa lu this city, 1028 Vermont Avenue. Mrs. Gorman had been critically 111 tor weeks, and her death had been expected for some time. Her iUth began to fall soon attr Senator Oortoan's death aad for more than a year ha had been 111. Mrs. Gorman died of can cer. She underwent a operation by Dr. Kinney a yar ago. but even this could not st r life. DIRIGIBLE PASSENGER SERVICE INAUGURATED Count Zeppelin's Craft Carries Twenty People. 300 MILES AT RAILROAD TRAIN SPEED. Twenty Passengers Carried On, Schedule Time, Making The Dis tance, 300 Miles, In Nine Hours. The Dirigible Easily Bent The Ex press Train Time Between Mann helm And Dusseldorf Zeppelin's Dramatic Career. Dusseldorf, Germany (Special). The first regular airship passenger service was Inaugurated here, when , Count Zeppelin's great craft, the Deutschland, carrying 20 passengers. successfully made the first scheduled ii ip irom rneartensnaren- to mis city, a distance of 300 miles. In nine hours. Count Zennelln demonstrated the advantage of an air route In the section of the country traversed. The Deutschland cut the railroad time one-third between Mannheim and Dusseldorf. coverlnsr the dis tance In four hours, whereas the railway express time Is six hours. The weather was perfect, and tho motors worked faultlessly. Tho averaco time maintainor! tnr fh complete course was approximately 33 miles an hour, but between Fried rlchschafen and Stuttgart tho 124 miles was covered at an everage rate Of 41 miles nn hntir Tlx hut speed tor a single hour was 43 liuies. Count Zennelln when the Deutschland rose at Frled richshafen at 3 o'clock A. M. and sailed away on the trip that was to mark an epoch In aviation Tho passengers were some of tho di rectors of tho Steamship Company and the German Airship stock Company, Joint owners i ma aingiDie, and guests. They occupied the mahneanv wollnH .nA carpeted cabin, situated between the gondolas, and from the windows of which they viewed the scenery as the aerial car swept along. Count Zeppelin steered for the greater part of the distance. The route was via Stuttgart. Mannheim and Cologne to Dussol aorr. it had been orefullv marked out In advance for the guidance ot the pilot and was followed exactly. n-nM80 alr Btlrrms and tho Deutschland made her . way un hampered thrnncrh . - . sunshine. "l ur'eul The hour and minutes nf th nrnK. able passing of the various po'nts had been bulletined ahead so that not only the people of the cities on the line, who filled the streets, ln- the Inhabitants nf alt th mt ate villages turned out and cheered eiiiHusiasucaiiy ns tne immense torpedo-like structure with its whist ling screws drovo over their hends at a height of between 200 and 300 feet. Tho Deutschland swung gently In to her landing here at noon, and tho multitude surrounding the landing had been gaily decorated In honor of tho event. The promoters of the enterprise and their guests wore en tertained at a public dinner. Regular trips will be made and many tickets already havo boon (soM for the first few days at from 2.ri to $50 each. SLAYS TENANT AND WOMAN. ' Farmer Also Wounds Tho Tenant's Mother And Then Surrenders. Jackson, Ky. (Special)., Asbury Splcer. a well-to-do farmer of Breathitt County, and onpo a promi nent figure in the Hargls feud, shot and killed Asbury Fugato, n, tenant on Splcer's arm, and Dennle John son, a woman, and woundod Fugate's mother. The killing occurrod In the coun try nnd the first known of it wns when Splcer telephoned that he had killed Fugate and shot Fugnte s mother and was coming to Jackson to give himself up. Splcer telephoned to Sheriff Hud son that he would come to town and surrender, but the latter left at once for Jett's Creek, tho scene of the tragedy. Later It was reported that Mrs. Fugate will recover from her wounds, but that Asbury Fugate and a woman, Dennle Johnson, who was a member of tho Fugate household, were both dead. Many Entombed In Mine. Halifax, N. S. (Special). Follow ing a mlno explosion In tho Chlgnec to coal mines ot the Maritime Coal and Power Company, It was reported that many members of tho night shift were entombed. Searching partlos who tried to penotrate Into the mlno were driven back by gas, and It will be impossible to search the lower levels until the fire la extinguished. Beautiful Girl SulcUlo. Covington, Ky. (Spoclal). Miss Nellie Rye, 19 years old, considered the moBt beautiful girl in Covington, committed suicide by drinking car bolic acid. Sho sent a child to a neighboring bousn for tno acid and at once diank It, running to her mother later and tolling her what sho had done. Warrnnt For Charlton. London (Spoclal). A warrant was lssuod In London for the arrest of Porter Charlton, whose wlfo, Mary Scott Castlo Charlton, was murdered and her body thrown Into Lake Como, after having been placod In a trunk. Tho Itssuanco of a war rant followed a request made by tho Italian government, which holds the opinion that Charlton is In hiding In England. They do net believe ho has sailed tor tbe United States. 144-Venr Term For Absentee Rome (Special). -Tho notorious Sicilian brigand, Fallla Mulone, who scaped tbe officers of tho law four years ago and He'd from Italy, was tried In contumacy at Porugla and after being found guilty of murder, blackmail and other crimes, was sentenced to 144 years In prison, This, of course, Is equivalent to a life term. Mulnne smiled for the United States In lttOS it was learned, and no trace of him has ever been found by tho detectives thero. PENNSYLVANIA Railway Kqunll7.es Wages. Reading. The new schelulo ot wages agreed to between the A4. Justment Committees of the Brother, hood of Railroad Trainmen and th Order of Railway Conductors, anij General Manager Dice, of the Read. Ing Railway Company, was mad public here. It gives some of the men In. creases from 6 to 20 per cent. Onlj a few as high as the latter flgura according to the different classifies; tlons. Some get no advance. Tht result Is a general equalization oi wages. Conferences have been held dur. Ing the past three weeks with Gen eral Manager Dice and the various division superintendents. The demands that have been ask ed by the brotherhoods are In lln with those made on other Eastern railroads. The Reading has never paid Its employees as much as a num. ber ot the larger trunk lines, but the trainmen considered that con. dltlons have changed during tin past five years, and believe that the company Is able to pay as much at the rest. With the Philadelphia & Reading Central Railroad of Now Jersey and the Pennsylvania making settle, mcnts with the trainmen, the Broth, erhood ot Railroad Trainmen an4 the Order of Railways Conductor! will have successfully completed thi movement started last Fall for bet. ter wages on all of the railroad east of Chicago and north of the Chesapeake & Ohio. The engineers nnd firemen of th Reading are now presenting their Remands to the officials. Worry Causes Suicide. Media. "I drank this acid. Do you think it will hurt me?" asked Mrs. Ellen C. Eagle, of Lansdowne, after she had swallowed the con tents of a vial of carbolic acid on1 the street. She wns taken to a hos pital, where she died from the effects of the drug. Worry over the illness of her eld sst daughter, Miss My Eagle, who is 111 with typhoid fever, is assigned as a cause of tho suicide. Mrs. Eagla was the wlfo of Louis J. Eagle, tire marshal of Lansdowne, and a lead ing citizen of that borough. Her son saw her with the vial to her lips and dashed it from her hands, but did not discover her at tempt in time, as she had swallowed the drug when he reached her. Tries To Kill Woman. Easton. Edward Derr, 55 years old, cut the throat of his daughter-in-law and then hl own, at hli home on West Street, tals city. A woman eyewitness ot th tragedy says that the daughter-in-law told her that Derr had made a proposition to her which she in dignantly rejected, and when sh threatened to tell her husband, Dorr's son, the old man went to the kitchen, secured a butcherknlfe and committed the double deed. Both are in the hospital, where, it Is said, the man will pull through, but there are doubts as to the re covery of-the woman. Mother Dies Trying To Save Son. Reading. A double drowning, in which a mother gave up her life In an effort to save that of her young son, occurred at Molltown, near u.?- ,Jacob 0rl- ,llne yars old, while playing at the edge of an aban cloned quarry filled with water, fell In. His companions raised an alarm and the mother of the boy responded. Without hesitation she Jumped Into' 20 feet of water and seized the boy. Tho frantic mother then made a desperate effort to clutch the sides of the quarry, hut the rough stones cut her hands and, with a desparlng cry, she sank with her son in her arms. .Two Hang On Hume Gallows. Norristown. "Nick" Maringo and Frank Chlcarine were hanged hers on the same gallows for the murdei in August, 1909, of George A. John eon, an aged cobbler, whom thej attacked for money he was sup posed to have hidden In his shop. John Ballon, who was also to have been hanged for participa tion In the crime, was granted a respite by Governor Stuart until October In order that his case may be passed upon by the State Supreme Court. Tbe action of the governor was not told to the other condemned men and not until the march to the gal lows began did they know that Bal lon was not to share their fate. Felix Falre. 18 years old, who ac companied the men on their raid on Johnson's home, is serving a sen tence for his share In tbe crime. He was convicted of second degree murder. Man And Wife Suicide. Philadelphia. Carl Rltmuller, aged 64 years, and bis wlfo, Freda, aged 52 years, were found lying dead In their home, in tbe northern sec tion of this city. The bodies were In different rooms, each of which was fillod with gas. The police be lieve that the couple ended their lives because of 111 health. Shock Causes Lineman's Death. ' Bethlehem. Working high up In the air on a telephone pole, engaged In constructing a new line, Willis Mosser was shocked by electrlcty. at Slogfried, the force of the electrio current catapulting blm through the air to the ground below, causln' Instant death. aa,000 Loss By Fire. Vork. The National Roofing Com pany's plant at Cly. this county, about 10 miles from Vork, was part ly destroyed by fire. The property was valuod at $45, 000, and the loss will amount to about $80,000. E. K. Emlgh, of EmlKsvlllof Is pres ident, ot the company. The other olitcers are W, A. Keyworth and John Sprenkle. J. T. Kopp was the manager until a few days ago. B. A O. Trains Crash. ' 'Johnstown. Meeting head-on at t sharp curve between Paint CreoH and FouUvllle Stations, on tho. Somerset and Can Aria branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Ratdroad, two freight trains crashed together. One man was killed and 10 others wer ' hurt. The Injured were brought to -this city. Three of the injured will die, U is reported. All those hart were, railroad employes. i The wreck. It Is said, was the re4 suit of a misunderstanding of orders,
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