cl
ECCENTRIC FARMER KILLED
Large Sums of Money Found Along
Railrecad Track.
Snatched from -
PRESIDENT ON HIGH SEAS
his buggy seat by
Takes Voyage to Panama and
FOUR RAILROADS INDICTED
i Equal Number of Business Firms
Held for Rebating.
THE PROBE PRODUCES RESULTS
Grand Jury to Convene Again, When
More Sensational Disclosures
Here Are Expected.
the pilot of a flying locomotive, Cal-
Porto Rico on Warship. vin S. Harlan, a farmer living near
gee Baltimore, Md., was carried, dying,
for a mile and while his life ebbed
. . | in 1 s lit
O INSPECT PROGRESS OF WORK away his whole fortune of $20,000]
— poured from his pockets and was
5 : SC red ong the railroa tracks.
In Theory of the Law Executive Will attered along he a road racay
: , The dying man was discovered on
Not Be Out of This Country's the engine pilot when the train |
Jurisdiction. reached Cockeysville. After Har-
lan’s wounds had been dressed he |
: : . was put aboard the train and brought
Accompanied by his wife,
Assist- | {5 the city hospital here, where he
ant ' Secretary Latta and Surgeon died
General Rixey of the Navy, Presi- Harlan was driving across the |
dent Roosevelt began his trip to the | Northern Centra] railroad tracks near
isthmus of Panama. thereby breaking Ashland when his buggy was run
the unwritten rule observed by all| gown by a southbound rine
his predecessors, which forbids a Harlan was a Quaker and rather
D>. i : . quay t
President going beyond the terri- | eggentric. For years he had carried
torial limits of his country. In the
large quantities of money with him.
theory of the law, he will not be be | Jt is estimated that he had about
yond the limits of his country. The | $90000 in gold and notes in his
ship on which he travels, the bat- $20, h : id
buggy with him. While he and parts
tleship Louisiana, is a national ves-| of his buggy were being carried on
sel. 3 the pilot the money was scattered
Goodby, I am going down to see along the tracks
how the ditch is getting along,” | The stati : 3
J , ’ eg station agent at Ashland
shouted President Roosevelt as he :
gathered up over $4,000 in gold and
another railroad man fished a wad of |
$5,000 in notes out of a stream be-
side the tracks. A number of $10 |
and $20 sold pie were picked up.
stood on the after starboard deck of
the yacht Mayflower at the Wash-
ington navy yard as the vessel was
ieaving the dock.
The Louisiana will be convoyed to
and from the isthmus by the armor- HARRIMAN IS BUYING
ed cruisers Tennessee and Washing- ni
ton. Abroad the Louisiana is Lieu | He Places Orders for $21,000,000
tenant Frank Fvans, who will utilize
the wireless telegraph apparatus with
which the ship is equipped, for com-
Worth of Equipment.
Prompted by the congestion of!
municating with the White House at | traffic and the car shortage for this |
Washington whenever the President | Year the Harriman lines are making
desires it. In this way the public | Purchases of freight equipment for
will be accurately informed of the | 1907 on a grand scale. It was an- |
movements of the ships. Secretary |ounced yesterday that they now |
Loeb will give to the press dispatches | Dave orders in for $21,000,000 worth |
from the President, which may be | Of refrigerator, box, flat and gondola
received from time to time. } gars, all of which, it is expected, will
The President will spend four days | Pe delivered, before the season of
on {he isthmus. He will arrive at|he€avy traffic next year.
Colon Thursday, November 15, where | I'he total number of freight cars |
he is to be greeted aboard ship by | Ordered by them but not yet deliver- |
President Amador of Panama and |€d is 16,600. Of these 6,600 are ve- |
Mrs. Amador, Chairman Shouts and | frigerator cars. These will be of the
other officials of the Canal Commis- | Most modern type and will cost §i,-
sion. | 600 each. About 600 of them will be
After three days of sight seei=g | delivered before January 1, and the
Sunday will be spent quietly on the | rest have been promised at the rate
Isthmus and in the evening the party | °f 500 a month during the first five
will board the Louisiana for San | months of next year.
Juan, Puerto Rico, where the vessel] When all have been received the
is scheduled to arrive Thursday, No-| I Harriman lines will own a total of
vember 22. { 7,950 refrigerator cars. Heretofore
At San Juan elaborate preparations they have use d annually 4,000 to 5,-|
have been made for the reception of | 000 belonging to the Armour Car
the President. He will remain there | ines Company.
one day, leaving Friday, November Ra
23, for Washington, where the nr INDICTMENTS IN TUBE CASE
is scheduled to arrive November 27. | a
—_—l | Federal Grand Jury Recommends
RANGERS ARE ATTACKED | Three: Man. Be Held,
—_— As a result of the investigation oil
Mexicans Lose Four Men Killed and [the charges made by Frank I.
Others Wounded and Captured. | mett that the Shelby Tube Company |
Four Texas rangers sent to Rio adh Greenville, Pa., furnished defective |
Grande City to quell turbulent politi- | tubes for boilers lo be used in the |
a ._.. | construction of United States batile-
cal conditions there and fhyestigate ships and cruisers, the federal grand
the assassination of District Jud ge) fury at Pittsburg recommended that |
Welch were ambushed by a body of | A. J. Dunn and others of the Shelby
Company be indicted on a charge of
armed Mexicans. The rangers were | ti} t {ef 1 United
asleep in camp wher awakened by a| CODnSpPiracy to deiraud the nite
A pitched battle en- | States government. Emmett and
volley of shots.
sued and four of the attacking party |
were killed, one fatally wounded and | eS Of the Shelby company,
two captured The rangers escaped | IY indicted with Dunn. They were!
unscathed. 2 { largely respomsible for the investiga: |
Gov. Lanham ordered a company of | HOLL
cavalry te Starr county and a special | The recommendation to indict con- |
train carried the troops on a fast tained 30 counts and covered a per-
run. It is charged by one faction |10d of three years, or from December
yoda s 3 i 17, 1902./¢ ¢ ary 5
that Judge Welch was murdered by | 17, 1902, 10 Januar; 1 1905.
a hired assassin, and that the ambus- | testimony of 24 witnesses was taken,
cade of the rangers was instigated covering the ;
by the same faction. | ing of the tubes.
BACK To PRISON FOR LIFE
| government inspector at the plant
{ were taken surreptitiously and used
1 in marking material which had failed |
Pr Convicted of Wife ‘
gacher, Once : 2 | to pass the tests. United States At-
Murder, Was Paroled and | torney J. W. Dunkle was authorized |
Wrecked Another's Home. to secure a bench warrant for Dunn,
Emmett and Close.
TO SUCCEED
W. E. Hinshaw, a former clergy-!
man, who was convicted in 1895 of
wife murder, and was sentenced to]
prison for life, but was paroled in!
1905, was brought before Gov. Han-! indiana Man will Be Chairman of
iy of Indiana, on a charge of wreck- Republican Committee
ing the home of Sheriff-elect George | : 2 2 2
Freeman, of Wabash county, Ind. ! Harry New, of Indiana, it has been
After hearing the evidence the | definitely settled, will succeed Post-
governor, acting under authority | Master General Cortelyou as chairman
NEW CORTELYOU
vested in him, ordered the return of | i of the Republican National committee |
Hinshaw to Michigan City prison for | When Mr. Cortelyou retires in Janu-
life. | ary.
| Tt is understocd that
CHANGE | Shaw will remain at the
Secretary
head of the
ANOTHER CABINET
eT | Treasury until March 4, when Mr.
Secretary of Interior Hitchcock Will | Cortelyou will take his place, Secre-
Be Succeeded by James R. | tary Hitchcock quits the Interior De-
, | partment at the same time. The
Garfield. | shifting about of other cabinet offi-
Another Cabinet change and conse- | cars will take place early in Decem- |
quent promotions were announced at | ber, when Aftorney General Moody | (
| will be minated for the
Em- |
| Charles L. Close, at one time employ- |
were joint- |
The |
manufacture and stamp- |
Emmett alleged in |
| his testimony that the stamps of the |
Eleven indictments were handed
| to Judge Il.ochren in the United
States district court at Minneapolis,
| covering the giving of rebates by
railroads and the receiving
{ of the same by grain firms and in-
dividuals. The corporations against
which the indictments returned, as
given by Assistant District Attor-
neys Ewart and Dickie, who have had
charge of the cases, are:
The Great Northern Railroad Com-
pany, four indictments and about 75
| counts.
The Chicago, St.
& Omaha railroad,
and 50 counts.
Wisconsin Central railway,
| certain
Paul,
one
Minneapolis
indietment
one in-
dictment, 17 counts.
Minneapolis & St. Louis railway
{one indictment, five counts.
The indictments against the rail-
roads charge the giving of rebates,
| under the head of receiving re-
| bates the following true bills were
| returned:
W. P. Devereaux
Caull-Dinsmore Company,
| polis; Ames-Brooks Company,
{ luth; Duluth Milling Cominy.
| Besides the corporations, indict-
ments were rturned against 11 in-
dividual officers of the
ed, but United States Attorney
Houpt said he would not consent to
| the names being given out for pub-
| lication, owing to the fact that no
service had yet. been: obtained on
them.
The general offense alleged in the
railroad indictments is the absorp-
tion of grain elevation charges.
Company, Mec-
Minnea-
Du-
After the bunch of indictments had
been given out to the court the |
jurors were excused for the term and
toid to convene again in St. Paul.
That a further and more searching
investigation intc the rebate ques-
tion will be made is not denied by
Assistant United States District At-
tonery Ewart, and further revelations
are expected to be made at the next
sitting of the grand Jury
MAN HURLED 900 FEET
| Fifty Tons of Powder Explode in
Dupont Warehouse.
explosion of 50 tons of
powder in of the Dupont
warehouses at
was killed, the
and buildings
around.
man who could have ex-
By the
black one
Powder Company's
| Dupont, Ill, one man
| warehouse demolished
| damaged for miles
| The only
{ plaine d the explosion was Charles
Steffenhagen, a teamster, who was
| loading powder into his wagon from
the warehouse. His body was blown
900 feet over a grove of trees and
| was picked up several hours later
terribly mutilated.
{ Debris from the wrecked ware-
| house nearly tore away the roof of
{a dynamite warehouse 100 feet dis-
| tant. T he dynamite did not explode.
FIVE DEAD IN FIRE
Tragedy of New York Tenement
Death Traps Again Repeated.
In a fire In an Eastside five-story
temement house on Madison street,
New Yark, ‘one woman and her four
children were suffocated. The fam-
| ily, named Ginsberg, cceupied apart-
ments on an upper floor and their
| escape was ‘cut off by the smoke and
| flames in the lower part of the build- |
| ing. |
More. than 50 women were taken |
down the fire escapes by firemen
On the third floor firemen found
the bodies of three children on the |
stairs, where they had been overcome
by the smoke In one of the, flats |
on that {floor they also found the |
| body of the woman and the fourth
! child, who also had been suffocated.
The King of Annam.
I. The King of Annam, having tor-
i tured seven of his wives to death
{and shot a few of the princes of the
{ blood, has announced his desire to
| pay a visit to Paris, where, he under- |
stands his royal! co usin, the King of
Cambodia, has been having a most
the White House. Ethan Allen he ach. supreme i hilarious 2a pleasant time ely. In
i : 5 Eni rnin | court bpenc | Spite of 115 majesty 8 elaporate pre-
ay ar mean parations for insuricg quiet at his
and will be succeeded by James Ru- To Honor Ohio Soldiers. j court during his trip 0 the Prono
dolph Garfleld of Ohio, at present, Survivors of tke Nineteenth O. v. | copie), howewr the Tae press
Commissioner of Corporations in the I. have inauguarated a movement, ! Siyor gly obleciing 0 J 2% propose
Department of Commerce and Labor. | which will be brought before the | Visit, and the Prono Zovermp io
The appointment of Attorney Gen-| State Legislature in 1908, looking to- joven onslieying ! ne aves hi NY a
eral Moody to the Supreme Bench was | ward the erection of a monument to | Assuming, Sarect Sho ¥i50n 9 t
also announced. | Ohio troops that participated in the | remnant of the Annuamese court.
Herbert Knox Smith. Assistant three days’ battle at Stone River, | rir
Commissioner of Corporations, a very Tenn. during the Civil War. Ohio | Killed by a Burglar.
able man, will take the place made | troops were ini a majority on the! Fepry Firth Smith, 25 years old,
vacant by the promotion of Garfield. | Northern side. was shot and almost instantly killed
$8,000 Worth of Gems Stolen.
Must Answer Fraud Charge.
Charles W. Norton, of Chicago, ac- Some time in the evening presum- |
cused of using the mails to promote | ably while the family was at dinner, |
a fraudulent scheme, was held to the | a “sneak thief entered the
federal grand jury by United States | of Robert Dey in James street,
Commissioner Foote. Norton must | most fashionable res 1
answer to the charge of obtaining | fare of Syracuse, N. Y. and looted
15,000 shares of mining stock through | a jewel box of diamonds and jewel-
fraud. | ry valued at $8,000.
ADVANCE FOR MANY MEN Railroad Men Get Advance.
a | Employes of the Pennsylvania Rail-
More Branches of the Standard Oil | road, numbering 179,458, w I Tose
| fully 2,000,000 per year additiona
Increase Wa . | fully $12, ’ i 2
Company aren a. Jos | pay through the action of the Board
A '5 and 19 per cont advance in the | of Directors authorizing a general
wages of all employes of the refining | 1g per cent. advance, effective {rem
applying to all per-
receiving
branch of the Standard Oil Company | December 1 and
was announced at Lima, O. The ad-| manent servants
vance affects immediately 900 em-| $200 per mont
ployes of the Solar Refinery in Lima, | mn iT
and the army of employes at Welker, B. H. Harriman has secured
Wood county, O.; in Oil City, Pa.;|trol of the Illinois’ Ceniral
Whiting, Ind.; Bayonne, N. J.; Deon- mpleting his plans fou
ver, and Charleston, S. C. ! Atlantic to the Pacific.
con-
residence |
the |
residence thorough- |
less than |
railroad, |
railroad from |
at 4 o'clock Sunday
desperate battle with a burglar whom
| he discovered in the home of his
father, Joseph IF. Smith, at
and St. Clair Streets, East
burg. Eight shots were
the fight and the entire
hood was aroused, but the
leaving his smoking revolver
managed to escape unseen.
neighbor-
murderer,
behind,
Increases His Majority.
returns from all the coun-
the Eighteenth, Iliinois dis-
give Joseph Cannon, reaker
National House of Representa-
plurali of 10,088.
larger than his
ago.
Cannon
Official
ties in
| trict,
| of the
| tives, a
2.000
DDE
plurality four
| At Marietta, O. dge Jones
| the record for hearing divorce
| when Sarah Flanagan was
divorce from Thon 1
minutes from the
cases
s Flanagan 14
time the case open-
-i ed.
railroads nam- jp Washington
morning in a |
Elgin |
End, Pitts- |
fired during |
This is |
broke |
anted a |
HOW CONGRESS WILL STAND
Democrats Captured a Few Districts |
from Republicans.
The following table shows the num-
ber of congressmen elected by the
Republicans and Democrats:
States. Rep. Dem.
Alabamm ...5...0 0.0 Sa, 9
Arkansas ........ ee 2? 7
California .......o...- ee 8 .
Colorado ...........x.... . 3 .
Connecticut ............ wD |
Delaware, .... J. 00.0... 1 .--
Flordda ...i......... a... .- 3
Georgia ........ Yevsiaani ve = 11
ldabo' ............. = . 1 .
1llinois San ni heise 19 6
Indiana .,...........5%:. ar 3 4
Iowa ...... ........ . . 10 1
Kansas ........... sei 8 .-
Kentucky . nid 7
Louisiana silo 1
Maine |. ........... serine 2 oo
Mafviand .............. es 3 3
Massachusetts .......... . 11 3
Michigan +*........... aa 12 a
Minnesota .......... EA 1
Mississippi .............. a 8
Missouri |... .cverepune i dre 12
Montana ...... Simi tee od ve
Nebraska .......... , « 5 1
Nevada... ....... sin at IE 1
New Hampshire ......... S02 .-
New Jersey o..........0.. 6 4
New York ............ ess 2D 2
North Carolina: ......... A 10
North Dakota .......... . 2 .
Ohig. ~.............. 0A 17 4
Oregon... ...L.. cou. 2 “e
Pennsylvania '........ crite ub 6
Rhode Island ............. 1 1
South Carolina. .:......... 7
Sonth ‘Dakotla .........., . 2 rt
Temessee 0... a2 8
Texus .... ox. 0b ‘ A 16
Uiah ol... 0.0. ite 1 oe
Vermont: ............ . iii 2 i
Vircinia ........... irene 1 9
sales. 3 u.,
Weaost. Virginia... 10... b
Wisconsin ...... le sa... 18 2
Wyoming o.oo ann 1 :
Totals... eens 223 162
The Democrats lost four and
gained 31 congressmen as follows:
Jllinois 5, Indiana 3, Towa 1, Mary-
land 1, Minnesota 1, Missouri 6, Ne-
braska 1, New Jersey 3, New York 1
North Carolina 1, Ohio 3, Pennsyl-
vania 5. Republicans gained 1 in
Maryland and West Virginia, and 2
in Kentucky, making the net Demo-
cratic gain of 27.
The present House is composed of
250 Republicans and 136 Democrats.
Maine has already elected four Re-
publicans, Oregon two and Vermont
two.
WEST VIRGINIA
Nearly Complete Returns
Republican Majority.
Nearly complete returns from
counties in West Virginia place
aggregate Republican majorities
Congress at 20,219, as follows:
First district, Hubbard, 4,108; Se-
cond district, Sturgiss, 3,401; Third,
Gaines, 4,085; Fourth, Woodyard. 2,-
863; Fifth, Hughe 5,762.
The Republicans elected 60 mem-
bers of the House of Delegates. the
Democrats 25 and one member from
Barbour county in doubt. Fourteen
Republicans are elected to the Sen-
ate and 2 Democrats. There are 12
holdover Republican Senators and 2
Democrats. This makes the Legisla-
ture on joint ballot: Republicans,
86; Democrats, 29; doubtful, 1.
Increase
all
the
for
The contest was for State Senate
in the Eighth (Charleston) district,
where Colcord wins by six majority
over Littlepage.
ILLINOIS.
Illinois Republicans wvill have a ma-
jority of at least 65 in the next Leg-
islature, exceeding the most sanguine
expectations of the party managers.
The overwhelming Republican victory
| makes easy sailing for Senator Shel-
| by M. Cullom, who is absolutely cer-
tain of re-election.
PUERTO RICO.
The Unionist party scored an over-
| whelming victory at the polls, carry-
| ing all the seven districts of the is-
| land. The Republicans are left with-
out representation in the next House
of Delegates. In the last election ihe
| Unionists carried five districts and
| the Republicans two.
|
i
|
|
INDIANA.
the latest
| According to returns re-
| ceived throughout the State Indiana
| went Republican by about 30,000. The
| Democrats gained two congressmen,
| one from the Eighth and one from the
| Zovonth districts. The latest re-
turns, partly official and unofficial,
complete, show that the Republicans
elected nine Congressmen and the
Democrats four.
INDIAN QUEERS ELECTION
Disappears With Ballots and Count |
Depends on His Capture.
Tom Bigfoot, an Indian runner, to
| whom the election ballots and
turns of the Wonder Mining dis-
trict, Nevada, were given, has dis-
| appeared and depuiy sheriffs are
scouring the country 60 miles east of
| Reno for him.
re-
Upon the returns rests the fate of
the candidates for judge in the Sec-
ond district and of several Churchill
| county candidates. 1t is believed the
| Indian was intercepted and robbed of |
jhe returns and that he fled to the |
jis through fear of prosecution.
| Apple Crop is 36,120,000 Barrels.
{ The apple crop in the United
| Sintes has just been estimated at |
|
i
|
|
barrels more than the 1505 crop. The |
estimated crop in
4,900,000 barrels or
{| barrels than
other state.
crop equals the
Virginia, West
and Tennessee combi
equally distributed to
| the state would give ha
each person.
York state is
by 1,000,000
any |
ted New York |
Maryland, |
Kentucky, |
and
t
!
36,120,000 barrels. This is 12,625, 000 |
New |
larger |
the
The
production in
estima
if |
people of |
a barrel to |
BiG BUILDING COLLAPSES
Nine Men Killed and Nine Others
Injured in the Crash.
| SUPPORTS REMOVED TOO SOON
Long Beach, Cal., the Scene of Dis-
aster, Due, It Is Said, to Hasty
Construction.
Five stories or the central wing of
the new $750,000 Bixby Hotel collaps-
ed at Long Beach, Cal, carrying nine
workmen to death in the tons of
tangled wreckage.
About 150 artisans and laborers:
were scattered through the structure
at the moment it fell and of these
100 were carried down in the ruins,
nine being severely hurt. Thirteen
men on the contractors’ rolls are un-
accounted for, but are probably safe.
None of the injured will die
The dead are: R. M. Perkins, Carl-
ton Brashear, A. Bensenso, Albert
Hartle, I.. M. Philips and four un-
‘identified workmen.
"The injured are: E. P. Watson, F.
W. Schultel, Alexander Bavay, George
Parker, F. H. Imlay, H. G. Rinabarge,
J. J. Walsh, —— Nicholas, fell five
full stories, sprained ankle, and
Alexander Zozay.
Immediately after the collapse of
the structure hundreds of bystanders
lent aid in the rescue. =
Company H, Seventh Regiment,
National Guard, was called out and
lines were thrown about the build-
ing, all but rescuers being excluded.
Pitiful seenes were enacted among
the throngs who stood outside the
lines waiting for news. An aged
mother sat all day long on the bluff
overlooking the hotel weeping and
watching for the body of her son.
JAPS AND RUSSIANS DISAGREE
Breaks out on
and in Manchuria.
It is reported that there has been
flerce fighting between Japanese and
Russians on the island of Saghalien,
which was divided between the two
countries by the treaty of Ports-
mouth. As a result of the trouble
the Russian transport Kolyman was
sunk and it is believed that a large
number of lives were lost.
Ever since the division of the
land there has been ill-feeling be-
tween the representatives of the two
nations and all that was needed was
the slightest aggression on the part
of either side. This is said to have
come when the Russians tried to
land troops. The Japanese warned
them that there would be trobule,
but the Russians paid no attention
to them.
According to advices received from
Vladivostok there is constant fric-
tion. between the Russian and Jap-
anese in Manchuria. The Japanese,
according to the newspapers of
Vladivostok, are continually pressing
northward in Manchuria with the ap-
parent intention of establishing them-
selves in the hinterland of Vladivos-
tok, where ther presence would con-
stitute a serious menace to the for-
tress in the event of the possibility
of the resnnpiion of hostilities.
CREAT FIRE AT CANTON, CHINA
Five Hundred Houses Destroyed, hut
White Settlement Is Safe.
A message from Canton, China, re-
ports that a fire is raging on the
riverside opposite the European quar-
ter on the Island of Shameen. A
strong wind is blowing and more than
five hundred houses, including all the
restaurants and gambling houses,
have been destroyed.
The European settlement is not in
danger. Marines from foreign war-
ships have been landed and are heroi-
cally combatting * the flames. No
lives have been lost. The damage
already exceeds $1,000,000.
destroyed fhe
building in
which is occupied by
Sheer Company, one
hardware firms in
Pennsylvania, and J. Scott Inglis, a
carpet and furniture dealer. The to-
tal loss is estimated at $200,000.
BUTCHERED IN HER HOME
Robbery Follows the Work of a
Brutal Murderer.
Henry Williams, about 50
vears old, was found murdered in her
home near Stafford Springs, Conn.
Robbery apparently was the motive
and the murderer is believed to be a
tramp. The body was found lying
near a stove on the floor of the kit-
chen of her house with the throat
cut, head Dbaittered and a towel
twisted around the neck.
Following the murder the house
was ransacked and a trunk broken
open and about $100 in money taken
from it. Part of this money later
was found on the lawn in front of the
house.
The husband of the murdered wo-
man, who had been away from home,
discovered the body.
Judge Melvin Dies at Wheeling.
John Thayer Melvin of the First
Judicial district of West Virginia died
Trouble Sakalien
is-
Carter and
Scranton, Pa.;
the Foote &
of the largest
Northeastern
Fire
Kennedy
Xlrs.
at Wheeling, W. Va. The deceased
was a veteran of the civil war and
was well known throughout West Vir-
| ginia as a lawyer and jurist.
President Will Meet Chiefs.
President Roosevelt has approved
the arrangements made by Col.
Rodgers of the Sixth cavalry for the
settlement of the grievances of the
Ute Indians. He has instructed the
officials of the war department to iIn-
{| form the Indian chiefs that he will
give them an audience at the White
House on his return from Panama.
was seriously
Charles Lawhead
sinbbed in a saloon fight at Akron,
0., over politics. The police are
looking for George Emlir.
COLORED TROOPS IN DISGRACE
President Dismisses Entire
of 25th Regiment.
Unprecedented in the history of the
army of the United States is the ac-
tion of the President, just announced,
in dismissing in disgrace from the
army an entire f the
Battalion
attalion of
Twenty-fifth Regiment, which was
concerned in the disorder at Fort
Brown, Tex., last August, because the
soldiers as a body refused to assist
officers in fixing the responsibility
upon those guilty of the murder of a
citizen and the wounding of the Chief
of Police. The argument is that as
they all stood together in shielding
the guilty all should stand together
when the penalty falls.
At an evidence, however, of his in-
tention to be fair to the colored
troops the President has accompan-
ied this action by amr order which
may amount to the court-martial of
a white army officer of high grade
who was charged with having cast
slurs upon the colored troops.
FATAL EXPERIMENT
Native of Ecuador Opens Brake and
Causes Death and Injuries.
Seven persons were killed and nine
injured at Mocha, a station on the
Quito railroad, owing to natives med-
dling with the brake of a car. On
the arrival of a train at Mocha, a vil-
lage station opened a week ago by
the American company which is
building the road, the cars were sur-
rounded by a group of natives belong-
ing to the neighborhood, who inspect-
ed the passenger car with great in-
terest. 4
Suddenly one of the natives, without
knowing what he was doing, opened
the brake and the car, which’ had
been detached, ran back at a high
rate of speed about a mile, overturned
and was erushed to pieces, killing or
injuripg all the passengers.
Stensland and Hering Sentenced.
Paul O. Stensland, formerly presi-
dent of the failed Milwaukee Avenue
State bank, and Henry W. Hering,
cashier of the same institution, were
sentenced by Judge Pinkeney, of
Chicago to indeterminate ‘erms in the
penitentiary for embezzlement and
forgery. The sentence may run any-
where from one to 10 years. The
sentence given Stensland is coneur-
rent with the one given several weeks
ago. .
Dynamite Wrecks a Tipple.
A desperate attempt was made to
wreck the tipple of the Elm Grove
coal works, six miles east of Wheel-
ing, W. Va. A stick of dynamite
was placed in the stove in the scale
house directly under the tipple. The
scale house was blown to pieces and
the underpinning of the : tipple
wrecked. The explosion occurred be-
fore the non-union men went to work
and no one was injured.
Missouri.
Unofficial returns from 105 of the
114 counties in Missouri show that
the Democratic state ticket has won
by a majority of probably 6,000. In
the legislature the Democrats will
have a majority of 30 on joint ballot
at the session which opens in Janu-
ary.
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS
Jet Hicks, a negro, was lynched at
Sale City, Ga., for the murder of John
Akridge.
Prince Albert, of Flanders, nephew
of King Leopold, of Belgium, was
officially declared successor of the
king as soverign of the Congo Free
State.
Mrs. Thomas Stanley, a bride of
three days, was burned to death at
her home near Moody, Va. She faint-
ed and fell into an open fireplace
in the absence of her husband.
The balloon Milano, which was sent
up from the Milan International Ex-
position, has arrived at Aix-Les-
Bains, after having traveled over
Mount Blanc.
The large band of os Indians that
has been on a rampag from the
reservation in Utah up hres Wy-
oming and Montana is being marched
peacefully into Fort Meade, South
Dakota.
Albert B. Wrenn, assistant agent
at the Southern Express Company, at
Tampa, Fla., was stabbed to death
by HH. W. Day, a mail route contrac-
tor. The men auarreled regarding
the placing of mail Wagons at the
depot.
Complete returns from 65 of the
67 counties in Pennsylvania show
that there were 489,215 votes polled
for Edwin S. Stuart, the Republican
candidate for governor, against 433,-
586 for Lewis Emery, Jr., the fusion
candidate, thus giving Stuart a plur-
ality of, 55,629:
Acting Secretary of the Treasury
Keep slated that a shortage of $61,500
had been found in the St. Louis sub-
treasury, but when the shortage oc-
curred or who is responsible for it
he deciined to state, saying the mat-
ter was under investigation by treas-
ury officials in conjunction with those
of the department of justice.
Robbers Kill Priests.
A dispatch received from Moscow
says a band of masked robbers raid-
od the Loukianoff monastery Sunday
ight, killed the abbott general, the
> ior and a monk, despoiled the chap-
el of saered objects and got away
with a large sum of money.
Robber ‘Escapes.
A lone robber, heavily masked,
boarded the rear sleeper of the east
bound combination Chicago & Alton-
Rock Island California limited train
between Slater and Glasgow, Mo.,
shortly after midnight, robbed three
passengers of $65 and escaped in the
darkness.
Greek Band Kills Bulgarians.
A Greek band has killed 25 Bulgar-
ians and burned many houses at the
town of Caradjova, near Serres
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