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"THREE KILLED IN WREK
Train Collides with Locomotive |
. in Snow Storn.
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ENGINEER FORGOT ABOUT TRAIN
| mittee military a
| two officers on
| screaming and
i building over the wet
pavement in front, and through a long |
A Searching Investigation Will Be
Made to Find Out Who Was to
Blame.
} Three trainmen are known to have |
been killed and 21 passengers injur-
ed, 19 seriously in a wreck on the
¥hiladelphia & Erie railroad at |
orns siding, 10 miles east of Corry, |
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The dead: Thomas Finn, engineer |
of the passenger train; home at Erie.
¥red Herman, fireman of the passen- |
ger train; home at Erie; buried under
engine. body horribly mutilated.
tA. Neil, fireman, buried under en-|
gine and body not recovered; home |
at Kane. |
Passenger train No. 4, running 45 |
miles an hour, collided head-on with |
a light engine. The smoker and day {
coach, which were filled with passen- |
gers, were telescoped, and women and |
children were byried under the wreck-
age in the cars. Conductor Morgan |
and the brakeman worked heroically |
and with axes cut several of the in- |
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jurcd from the wreckage. One Wwo-
an and three little children were |
Pe under seats and their cries!
were pitiful. Both wrecked engines |
were thrown several rods into a field.
A brakeman ran two and a half!
miles to the nearest telephone to get
assistance and .it was: 11. o'clock at
night before. a relief train arrived |
with doctors from Warren, Erie and |
Corry. After the doctors dressed |
some of the injured they went on their
way. . Maj.
of internal’ affairs of Pennsylvania, |
was on the train and worked heroical- |
ly.
When engineman Cavanaugh,
whose. locomotive, running wild,
crashed into passenger train No. 4.
was asked how he happened to be on
the main track he is alleged to have’
exclaimed: <I"forgot all about the
passenger train.” = .
it is.said that after a searching in- |
vestigation into the cause of the |
wreck the person responsible will be
prosecuted. © -
I. B. Brown, secretary |
TAKE CASH, LEAVE BONDS.
Rob Safe of Iron Company and Take
Funds Belonging to Church. :
Burglars entered the cfiice vf the
Ohio Iron and Steel company at |
Lowellville, O., and, drilling into the
gafe, used nitro-glycerin and exploded |
ft when a train was passing, wrecking |
g¢he safe and vault. i
They secured $600 belonging to the
company and $100 belonging to the:
Presbyterian church. 4
The burglars cxamined $100,000 of
registered bonds, but were careful not
to take any through fear of discovery.
Until recently the safe contained
mealy $1,000,000 in negotiable bonds
belonging to members of the company.
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PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR
A Trusted Artillery Officer and Two
: Students Arrested.
A plot to assassinate the Czar ef
Russia, at Tsarskoe-Selo has been dis-
covered there in the pick of time and
by mereest accident. : {
Several artillery officers, most |
trusted men, upon whom the Czar de- |
pends for his personal safety, are |
implicated. The chief conspirators |
are a student named Wassiljeff, the |
son of a professor in St.”Petersburg |
University, and another student |
named. Altonowski, the son of a high |
udge in this city. They. and the ar- |
illery officers have been arrested.
$350,000 Fire in Kansas City.
Fife in the retail quarter of Kansas
City, Mo., caused a loss of $350,000, |
destroving the three-story brick build-
fng of the Columbus. Buggy .Company
fn Walnut street; near Tenth; the ad-
oining building, occupied by the
imball Piano Cempany, and the
Hettinger Brothers’ Manufacturing
Company, and damaged the Commerce
building. ,
WABASH CHANGES PLANS.
Gould Interests Decide to Put Pitts-
burgh on .Branch.
The Gould lines will reach the tide-
water by way of Wheeling. Union-
town,. Pa., Cumberland and Baltimore,
instead of through Pittsburgh, as was
originally intended.
The hardest engineering problem
fnountains between. Cumberiand -and
Meyersdale. The purchase of the
George's Creek & Cumberland rail-
way provided an vutlet through the
arrows. 5
\ The road will then proceed up Wills
¢reek fo Kreigbaum and
through Barrelsville to Mt.
@nd on to Frostburg. The 1
be practically a straight line
Cumberland and Uniontown.
thence
The additional troops being sent to
,the Philipines will be in readiness
to deal with Japan in the event of
trouble in China.
| A proposal is before congress for
the rcduction of railroad fare to two
cents a mile on al: lines east of the
Mississippi river.
Express Company Loses $18,000.
Ti has developed that about $18,000
was taken from an express pouch
between Augusia, Ga.. and New York®
The Southern Express Company re-
ceived the package at Augusta; from
there it went to Columbia, S. C., and
ft arrived in Washington early Sun-
day morning. The Adams Express
Company then sent it to New York
and there the loss was discovered.
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Earthanake shocks caused buildings
to tremble and frightened inhabitant
fn Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.
l-cablegram © announcing
| cally at an end.
DRAGGED FROM WHITE
HOUSE
Officers Eject Woman Who Insisted on
Seeing President.
For insisting that si
President and decla
not leave the White House
til she had seen him,
Morris, a sister of Cons
of Towa, chairmun of the
duty there,
protesting. from the
and
underground corridor the whole width
of the White House
Eastern entrance to
are admitted to the
visitors
levees,
which
official
where she was bundled into a cab and |
Mrs. |
taken to the house of detention.
Morris resides with her husband, who
physician, on Massachusetts
avenue in the. most fashionable part
of the city. Mrs. Morris bore every
external indication of being a woman
of refinement and while she showed
some excitement when insisting on her
is a
| right to remain in the White House
office until she could see the Presi-
dent. no one could have mistaken her
for an ordinary crank or a dangerous
person.
Her husband, Dr. Morris, held a |
position in the army medical museum
| until recently, when he was removed
for striking a superior during an alter-
cation. It was for the purpose of re-
questing his reinstatement that she
sought the interview with the Presi- |
dent.
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MORALES CRUSHED
Five Generals, Including Rodriguez,
Fall in Battle in Santo Domingo.
After two days’ heavy fighting
against Santiago and Puerto Plata, |
the forces ‘of Gen. Demetrio Rodri-
guez were entirely routed, losing 120
men in killed and wounded here. Gens.
Rodriguez, Lico and Perez were kill-
ed. Among the Caceres forces, Gen. {*
Calderon |
Perdo Vanéga and Antonio
| were ‘killed.
American cruisers prohibited the
gunboat from bombarding, oI the fort
| from using artillery. The rey olution-
ary forces re-enibarkeéd on their gun-
boat in the harbor.
Mr. Joubert, the Dominican repre-
gentative at Washington, rec i
that
Gen.
| Rodreguez was killed at Puerto Plata:
| that the fighting there had
three days but that the couniry was |
quiet and it.was hoped the situation
would be soon cleared. Mr. Joubert
communicated this . information to
Secretary Root. 2 ’
Cable advices received at .the State
department from: San Domingo an-
nounce that the revolution is practi-
_The troops are Gis-
persing to their homes and the coun-
try is again becoming quiet.
SUITORS PAID $5 EACH
Failed to Get Introduction to Reputed |
Widow Worth $100,000.
J. C. Farrington, head of an alleged |
fraudulant matrimonial agency in New
Orleans, was arrested in New York.
He was indicted there for advertising:
alleged |
a $100,000:
a hus-
the matrimonial offer of an
creole widow who - owned
sugar plantation. and wanted
band. : :
The widow was described as
beautiful and hundreds of men
duction to the widpw.
. On complaint of- a man:
Velasco, Tex., and another
culted from the fee, Farrington
-
escaped from Louisiana.
Harper Must Pay Millions.
A verdict for $5,280.32
| cinnati, was affrmed in the
| States circuit court.
i age Harper wi
dragged |
muddy |
grounds to the!
eived a |
lasted |
very :
ans-
wered the offer, writing to the agency
at New -Orleans, which Farrington is
| said to. have condugted.
{ asked these correspondents to contrib-
ute a'$5 fee each to seciire ‘an intro-
The agency
from
from
Sinope, Pa., that.no introduction re-
was
arrested. He forfeited $1,500 ¢dsh and
against Ed-
ward. E. Harper, once vice president
of the Fidelity National bank of Cin-
United
Eighteen yuars
as convicted of causing
TWENTY-THREE PERISHED
Terrific Exolosion Followed by
Stifiing Gases.
BODIES ALL RECOVERED |
| Force of Explosion Shattered Timbers |
ard Mins Cars Blown Out of
Opening. |
Twenty-three miners in the Coal- |
shaft at Coaldale, W.
va. were r killed by an ex-
plosion. The explosion was of ter-
| rific force and caused intense excite-
ment throughout the surrounding |
country, many peopie believing an |
earthquake had necurred, |
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| dale company’s
Great crowds were attracted by the
disaster and a large rescuing party |
soon began work. They were unable
to accomplish anything until new fans |
were put into position to force the
gases ahead so the rescurers might |
enter the shaft. {
The bodies of all of the 23 miners
have been recovered. The bodies
were found by the rescuing parties |
| after several hours work. They were
carried from the shaft to a house ad-
| joining the big tipple at the mine en-
e
T
trance, where they were laid in a
row.
The big timbers for holding
| up the top
from the dr
a narrow
i trees on the
j cars were blow
| and wrecked ab
material, tools
| scattered about
were hurled |
going across |
1g down small
side. Mine
»f the opening
entrance and
i "appliances were
confusion. Four
Ht 3
Kiuedq.
of t
owned
= Cooper brothers,
Mill creek and
{ companies.
is considered one
in the field. |
operation is
BURTON AND DEPEW STICK
Both Deciare They Will Not Resign
from the United States Senate. |
United States Senator J. R. Burton
f Kamsas, i that he. would re-
sign his seat in the Senate as the re-
ult of his conviction in court on the
a
enied
g as an attorney before a de-
| partment in Washington in the inter-
(ests of a private corporation.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew de-
| olares that he will not resign from the
| United States Senate, and that he
| has no intention of doing so. The
| lenial resulted from questions as to |
| what cognizance he intended to as |
| of the agitation for his retirement as
|a restit of the exposure.of his deal- |
| ings with the ‘Equitable Life Assur- |
| ance society. |
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NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
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Senator Foraker introduced a bill |
providing that the citizens of Porto |
| Rico shall be citizens of the United
States. . y
Representative McCall (Mass.) in-
| troduced a resolution providing for an
nnual appropriation of $15,000.to be |
‘used by the President for. traveling |
{ expenses : -
A committee representing the tariff |
managers of the Eastern trunk lines
|asgpred the ‘inferstate commerce com-
| mission that the roads have indicated
ja desire to: step Tebating. wil
The Sendte in executive session con- |
| firmed the- following - nominatigns:
William R. Warnock, pension agent
tat Columbus, O.; Charles E. Hixson,
} pestmaster. at. Ieechburg, O. . -
| ~Senator. Teller reintroduced in the
| Senate a petition “signed ‘by’ Estes G.
| Rathbons praying a full investigation
{| of Ris conviction of acts. alleged: to
Have -bean committed while serving as
| director
11898.
Congress for a.large amount of legis-
| the failure-of the bank and served six; lation affecting various branches of
{
| years in prison.
vice president
| ure. Harper is,
{ general manager of the Union Iron &
Stee] Company. 3
KILLED 100 WORKMEN .
Commander Bombards
Avenge Dragoons Murder.
A telegram from Riga states
when the workmen and
closed in the Provadnik
manded to be libera ed so that they |
could obtain food Colonel Mevdel, ir
did not deliver
the dragoons wiic were
he would open fire Ww
utes.
C1
five
were
100 workmen
: and
ic ensued
the fire of tl
others had
murderers
Meydel, who
women to go 1
A deputation
of 40
Colonel Meydel d asked
leased. but they were
told that unless the ot
were delivered they would
! be hanged.
| Turks Conquered Revolution
| A return issued by the T
| thorities shows that 1,022
{ resulted from the fight
| donia between Turkish troops
| Bulgarian, Greek and Servian
casuail
The verdict he was
! ordered to pay grew out.of this fail-
and
Factory to
that |
women en-
finiore do
factory Ge- i,
was that of getting the line over the | charge of the troops, replied if they |
up the murderers of |
ecently slain |’
min-
1g in Mace |
and | 8L
revol- |
One re-establishes the
grade of mmodore and another au-
thorizes the construction of an armor-
i od cruiser to be called the: Constitu-
tion.- :
| the service.
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| Congressman Champ Clark of. Mis- |
{ souri kept the house of representa-
| tives. in an uproar by a characteristic
| speech on the Philippine tariff bill.
of officers of the United
Stateg! army. are rearranged in.a bill
| introduced by Senator Scott... Among
| the changes are: General, $35,500;
eutenant general, $11,000; major
n | 500; colonel, $3,500; lieutenant col-
onel,. $3,000; major, $2,625.
Governor Lie has cabled from
i ypon the . unanimous
of the Consolidated
the commission by
fi five years the
which ° the
be used
courts.
»duced in the
Representative
in the
$100,000 for the
building at
Knox also
$2,000 to the
Brethren in
for damage to
sult of its oc-
ng the war.
official report is-
1ast case of yel-
from Hav-
According to an
| utionary bands during 19905. Alto- |
| gether 119 encount took place in were
the vilayets of Saloni tir and
| Uskub, in which the
| 520 men killed and 2
| addition the troops
| prisoners. TY t
| and 145 woun
!
f Mis
| cae of 60 years ago.
| blown
| vorce trial at Wooster,
| attracted much attention, has
zensral of posts in Cuba in |
The navy department has petitioned |
al, $7,500; brigadier general, $5,- |
H to legalize
Mobile & Ohio and | W&S convicted each time.
i | under sentence to life imprisonment
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~ FAMINE, IN JAPAN
Poor Classes Are Forced to Subsist on
Shrubs, Roots and Bark.
Thousands are starving in
Japan on account of the famine there,
according to advices received by the
Impress of Japan.
North
steamer
A gov- |
ernment report says Miyaga, Fukushi- |
ma and Iwate provinces, with a popu- |
lation of 2,821,557, are confronted by
{he worst famine since the
So great is the clamity in Miyaga
| that famine investigators report that
«the sentence of death has been pass-
ed on one-third of the people of the
pxovince.” Already thousands in
these three provinces are obliged to
eat shrubs, roots and bark of trees
to sustain life, and a million people
are in extreme condition.
The misery arising from the famine
is indescribable. Committees of for-
eign residents have been formed to
arrange systematic relief.
TORNADO IN SOUTH
in Albany, Ga.. Wrecked
and Many Killed.
A tornado of terrible force passed
over Albany, Ga., spreading ruin over
portions of a dozen blocks. Several
persons are dead, others may die and
many are hurt.
Buildings
The known dead are Ben Jones, a |
machinist, and Jake Johnson, a 9-
year-old boy. Among those fatally
hurt are Luta Gladden, Jesse Davis,
Annie Davis and Jessie Woodall.
The list is incomplete. Hundrgds
of negroes are homeless and many
have lost their household effects. The
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
is the principal sufferer, its destroy-
ed buildings and machinery
worth $60,000. The total loss will
exceed $150,000. The Southern Bei:
Telephone Company's lines: were
down.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
Death of Charles H. Edwards at |
New Haven, Conn. is still shrouded
| in mystery, although A. Maxcy Hiller
is held in custody by the coroner.
The majority of the 6,000 members
unions in New York City struck.
They demanded an increase in wages
from $4.50 to $5 a day.
Rev. D.
rt io J ‘has been elected superintendent of the
ceiving compensation for [yest Virginia Reform school, to suc-
teed O. E. Darnell, resigned.. Mrs.
George Batson of Pruntytown, suc-
ceeds Mrs. Darnell as matron
Four men blew open the Spargur-
deadly |
| vinces is still critical.
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lof the housesmiths’ and bridgenen’s |
S. Hammond of Weston, |
Mulitt bank at Bainbridge, O., during’
the night, but failed to get to the
money in the safe, apparently being
frightened by the explosion.
Three regiments of United States
infantry, two batteries of artillery and
under
San Francisco for
one squadron of cavalry are
orders to leave
the Philippines during this month.
Action will be brought in the Marion
County Circuit Court against Daniel
EB. Storms, Secretary of State of In-
diana, to compel him to vacate office.
demand of
He refused to resign on
the Governor.
At the annual meeting of the Pacific |
Express Company all the officers and
directors were re-elected except that
F. A. Delano was made a director to
| replace Joseph Ramsey, Jr.
Maj. Elmore F. Taggart, whose di-
ordered to the Philippines.
Winifred Marshall,
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| corpus proceedings.
presented to incriminate him.
rebates.
nial.
Dr. 8. M,
0Q., recently
been
He will
| sail from San Francisco on March 5.
charged with
the killing of Deputy Sheriff Thomas |
| Hardy last October, was released from |
jail at Cumberland, Md., on habeas
No.evidence was
The Pabst Brewing Company of
Milwaukee, Wis., Nas ‘filed its answer
in the Government case, wherein the
| company is, charged with receiving
The answer, is a general de-
. King of Alliance, oO.
committed suicide while lying in bed
by shooting himself through the head.
Dr. King several months ago sued
Letters found
of the dead
man indicate that reconciliation was
his wife for divorce.
among the belongings
about to be effected.
Bristol, Pa., were
| the swamping of a rowboat
cued.
Wedding Day Announced.
The President and Mrs.
Alice Roosevelt to
Nicholas Longworth of
William Smith and Philip Jones of
drowned in the
| Delaware river late Monday night by ee
near | Twenty-five Killed and Many Wound-
| Burlington Island. Samuel Bell, also f i :
of Bristol, clung to the boat until res-
] Roosevelt | 10-day
announced that the wedding of Miss
Representative
| out a train at Orloff, has been hanged.
REBFLS STRONG IN BALTIC | bgt rot
Several Attempts Are Made To
Wreck a Military Train.
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NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
Shook Hands
With Thousands at White House.
Washington enjoyed 2a beautiful
New Year's day without war or rum-
ors of war. The placidity of the round
: of réceptions and calling was in strik-
WITTE’'S MOTIVES IMPUGNED
Reform Will Not Be Abandoned by
Premier, Though *‘Reds” Are
Defeated.
situation in the Baltic pro-
The military
| at Reval, Mitau and Riga are adopt-
ing the most energetic measures. A
statipnmaster, who refused to send
The
| The insurgents made several attempts
| to de.ail a military train between
| Libau and Hazenfoth. *
Arrests of extremists in St. Peters-
{ burg continue. An editor and others
| charged with . distributing revolution-
ary literature among the soldiers have
| been detained by the police.
The “Molva” (Russ) says that
{| Count Solsky’s commission has de-
| cided to change the council of state
! into an upper house consisting of 100
| members, 50 of whom will be appoint-
{ed and 50 elected.
The “Slovo,” the conservative or-
| gan, which recently turned upon
| Count Witte, delivers a broadside, not |
| only impugning the motives of the
| premier in the present war against
the “reds,” but openly attacking the
records of members of the cabinet. |
It says:
«Witte is a good deal of a broker |
| and something of a journalist, but at
heart he is a political gambler and
| lacks the ring ©f sincerity. No gov-
| ernment without honesty can inspire |
confidence.
| The government's strongly worded
| announcement that it proposes to
| pursue to the bitter end the policy of
| putting down the “reds,” following on
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the. heels of the crushing: of the re-
volt at Moscow, demonstrates the
confidence of Premier Witte’s govern- |
ment that it has the ability to com-
plete the task it has undertaken. The
main cause of this confidence is the
| fidelity displayed by the troops.
Despite the rigorous, ruthless fash-
lion in which the war against the |
| “Reds” is conducted the government |
{is taking every opportunity by word |
| and act to try to prove to the “pub- |
lice that the represssion of the revo- |
| lutionists aoes not involve the aband- |
| onment of ‘the: reform program, but |
eh the new regime may be realized.
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M'CALL RESIGNS
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| Board of Trustees Reduce Number of |
Vice Presidents. |
John A. McCall resigned the presi- |
dency of the New Yori Life Insurance !
Company, and ‘Alexander E. Orr was |
appointed in his place at the salary
of $50,000 a year. (Mr. McCall's sal- |
ary was $100,000, The board of trus- |
tees
|
also cut down the number of
second vice. presidents, so that here- |
after there .will be but two of these!
officers instead of three. 3
Mr. McCall, who has for 14 years
held the office which he resigned, |
sent a letter to the trustees in which |
he stated his errors probably segmed }
greater to him than his critics, but he |
vas comforted to think ‘of the com | Misses His: Mark
| pany’s unprecedenied achievements,
and to know no officer or trustee had
profited improperly at the policy hold-
er's expense. i
VICTIM OF “CANNIBALS °
Dr. Stewart, of Nigerian Government,
Eaten by Natives.
The steamer Olenda of the Elder
Dempster line, brought to Liverpool a
story of cannibalism in Nigeria, of.
which Dr. Stewart, of the Southern
Nigerian government was the vietim.
The doctor accompanied an expedition
to the interior, missed the main Toad
and ran into the village of a hostile
tribe. : 88 % L
The carriers returning found Dr.
Stewart’s bicycle and later parts of
his body. Investigation showed - that
the body had been horribly mutilated
and there was undoubted evidence
that it had been partially eaten.
PUERTO PLATA ATTACKED
ed in Fight.
The State department has received
| the following dispatch from Puerto
| Plata:
|
| Revolution broke
out here late
(January 2): = Gen. Rodriguez
fought his way into the town and
then retired. No fewer than 25 have
: Cincinnati, | been killed and many were wounded.
will take place Saturday, February | Gen. Caceres is
holding the” fort.
17, at 12 o’clock ncon in the east room ! pighting continues.
of the White House.
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BANKERS INDICTED
The troops under command of Gen:
Rodriguez are those of the fugitive
president of Santo Domingo, Morales.
| The revolutionists retired to prepare
Bills Returned Against Former Trust | for a fresh attack on Puerto Plata.
Company Officials.
The grand jury, which has
been
| portion of the town has declared in
favor of Morales, and Rodriguez has
| He ran upstairs to
| law.
ing contrast with the tensity of the
holiday two years ago, when Russia
and Japan were on the verge of
hostilities, and 12 months ago, when
the brilliant assemblage at the Presi-
dent’s reception thrilled with the first
news of the fall of Port Arthur.
As usual, everyone in the morning
went to the White House, where the
President, fresh from the outing at
Mrs. Roosevelt's farm, «Plain Deal-
ing,” in Virginia, shook the hands of
more than 9,000 persons, beginning
with Lady ladislaus Hengelmuller
von Hengervar, the Austrian ambas-
sador and acting dean of the diplo-
matic corps, attired in a rich mag*
var dress, and ending with a plain
American citizen, who brought up the
rear of the procession, which stretch-
ed blocks from the portals of the
White House.
Released from the duty of extending
greetings to the President and wives
of meinbgrs of the cabinet, official-
dom spent the rest of the day receiv-
ing or being received. All the cabi-
net members, with the exception of
Attorney General Moody, who is a
bachelor, kept open house. The call-
ing was limited almost entirely to
men.
JILTED LOVER SLAYS FAMILY.
Breaks Into House and Kills Sweet-
heart, Sister, Mother and Himself.
Matthew Styver, infatuated with
Pearl Wheaton, daughter of S. N.
Wheaton, a wealthy farmer, broke
into a window of the Wheaton home,
| near Caledonia, Minn., shot and killed
the girl and then fatally wounded her
sister Ruth, her mother and himself.
Styer is a dental scudent at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota. Pearl Wheaton
had refused to marry him. : :
Ruth Wheaton, with ‘a revolver,
tried to protect the family. Styer
wrested the revolver from her and
shot her twice through the breast. He
then turned upon Mrs. Wheaton,
shooting her in the throat ‘and arm.
Pearl’s room.
Breaking in the door he shot her
through the heart, and then shot him-
self.” The only other immate of the
house, a child escaped by leaping
through the window Styer had brok-
en.
a NEW YORK LEGISLATURE
Governor Higgins Advises Passage of
Strict Insurance Law.
The 129th session of the New York
legislature began January 3d. In his
message Governor Higgins urged the
necessity of a drastic life insurance
Other measures recommended
included a mortgage tax law, and
electoral reform. ;
Senator Bracketf introduced a
resolution demanding, the resignation
of Chauncey -M. Depew from the
United States Senate on the ground of
disclosures in the Equitable investl-
gation. = The resolution was with-
drawn. for the time being. -
EAGLE ATTACKS HUNTER .
the Bird Starts
Battle, and Man is Worsted. i
While hunting in the woods near
Arlington, O., Carl Stevenson was at-
|'tacked by an eagle and a bitter fight
| ensued. The bird scratched the man
| about the body, tore out his left eye
{and left him unconscious.
| His family was alarmed at his non-
| appearance and 32 searching party
| found him. He says he shot at the
| bird; missing it, and had mot time to -
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| John H. Atkinson Dead. -
i John H. Atkinson, sole. surviving
| nember of Virginia's delegation to
the Republican nominating: convention
in 1856, died at his home in New
“Cumberland, W. Va. Mr. Atkinson
was born in Ohio in 1803, and when
| 7 years old located at New Cumber-
{ land. He was active in the events of _
ithe Civil war, but for many years had
{lived a retired life.
SCHOOLS LOST MILLIONS
| Shortage in Superintendent’s Accounts
| Covering 18 Years’ Speculations.
| The report of the
"Company on the defaications of N. C.
| Dougherty, the former city superin-
! tendent of schools at Peoria, Ill, who
|is now serving an intermediate sent-
| ence, shows a shortage for seven
years of $541,408.50. The audit com-
| pany gave out the opinion that the
| total shortage for 18 years would fall
i slightly short of $1,000,000.
The report holds the board and its
officers responsible for all shortage
| which cannot be collected from
| Dougherty and the Peoria National
bank, of which the latter was presi-
| ‘dent. It declares that the bank is 1i-
{ able for every cent.
investigating the affairs of the Mary- | announced that if his campaign is|
1and Trust Company, of
| of the former officials.
president,
under a bond of $10,000.
two have not been
{ names are withheld by the
| attorneys office.
. Howard Must Serve Term.
The supreme court of the United
of the
Kentucky court of appeals ig refusing | located near
irance of | a new irial in the case of James B.
State of Kentucky.
was tried three times in the | aged 16, all dead.
and the daughter, had been murdered
A single barrelled shot
and the
States affirmed the decision
Howard vs. the
Howard
circuit
Kentucky,
ing Governor William
i Kentucky, 6 on January 30,
court of Franklin
Goebel,
1909,
State’s | they were
county,
on the charge of murder-
of | gun lying near his
and | fact that hit head was almost entire-
He is now i 1y blown off, showed how Barnum had p
Baltimore, | successful he will proclaim himself a
returned presentments against three
One of them,
Henry J. Bowdoin, who was the vice
was arrested and released |
candidate for the presidency of San-
| to Domingo.
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them from
while
and toy houses
attempting
windows
| rebels.
Michigan Farm House Tragedy.
Rochester, Mich,
|
| with an ax.
corpse
| met-his end.
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ten. Caceres is the temporary presi- |
den. of the republic and the people of |
The other | Puerto Plata showed their hostility to
arrested and un- | his soldiers by firing on
til they are taken into custody, their r
to repulse the | Japan and that 101
Neighbors broke into the farmhouse
of Clarence A. Barnum, who recently
and
| found Barnum, his wife, his daughter | whether there
| Louise, aged 23, and his son, Clinton, 1a combination or agreement between
The wife, the son ! the Pennsylvania railway system, the
! 101 BURNED TO DEATH
1 BE
Explosion Sets Fire to Mine at AKita,
in Japan.
A dispatch from Tokio to the L.on-
| don Daily Telegraph says that. on
| January 4 an explosion set fire to a
| mine at Akita on the main island of
persons were
i
| burned to death
Railroad Investiaation.
Representative Reeders of Kansas,
introduced a resolution in the Hwuse
| requesting ' the Attorney General to
| investigate and report to the House
exists or has existed
| Norfolk and Western, the Baltimore
and Ohio, the Baltimore and Ohio
Southern and the Chesapeake and
| Ohio, or any or more of these com-
anies, in viclation of the anti-trust
aw.
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