Tbihaae
KIONAPERS REMOVED
10 PENNGILVANIA
James H. Boyle and Companion
Waive Extradition.
CROWD HOOTED AND JEERED
Will Use Blackmail Indictment If
Parties Are Not Convicted for
Sharon Offense.
Cleveland. —With hoots and jeers
ringing in their ears, James H. Boyle
and his wife, arrested here as the
kidnapers of little Wiiiie Whitln, of
Sharcn, Pa., were escorted by pclice
to an Erie train, just before it left
for Mercer, Pa.
This practically closes the case, so
far as Cleveland is concerned, as fur-
ther action will be taken by the
Pennsylvania authorities. However,
the Cleveland police have a club over
the heads of the Boyles in a joint
indictment returned, charging James
H. Boyle and Helene Boyle, alias
Faulkner, with blackmail This
eharge is based on the payment of
$10,000 ransom by J. P. Whitla for
the recovery of his son. Willie. This
indictment will be used by the local
officials in the event that the case
in Pennsylvania fails of conviction.
Sheriff William Chass, of Mercer
eounty, Pa., and Chief of Police Crane,
of Sharon, arrived and Immediately
began proceedi ings for the retur $1} of
the orisoners. The Cuyahoga coun
ty officials waived their rights to the
Boyles and the latter informed Chief
Kohler that they would not fight ex-
tradition to the Keystone State.
Instead of taking the prisoners to.[
Mercer, Pa., they were lodged in the
Allegheny county jail until the Mer-
cer county authorities shall want
them.
CLAIMS $15,000 REWARD
Man Who Tipped Police Off to Kid-
napers After Pennsylvania's offer.
Cleveland.—Patrick O'Reilly, pro-
prietor of the Ontaria street saloon
in which James H. Boyle and his
woman companion concealed them-
s8el-es after detectives searched their
apartments in The Granger hoping to
escape at night, and who gave the po-
lice information which led to their
capture, ‘prepared affidavits claiming
the $15,000 reward offered by the
Btate of Pennsylvania. The affi-
davits will be sent to Harrisburg.
It was O'Reilly who ‘drew from
Boyle and the woman arrested later
with the plumber, the story of their
desire to get out of Cleveland with-
out being seen by police. O’Reilly.
who had known Boyle for six years,
was surprised to note Boyle's ready
spending of money and drew him in-
to telling much that roused O’Reilly’s
suspicions. © The saloonkeeper Hn-
formed Police Captain Shattuck, who
with Detective Wood. made the ar-
rests in O’Reilly’s saloon. !
The police have given O’Reilly
eredit for the capture. He it was
who made possible identification of
the prisoner who was identified speed- |
ily by Willie Whitla as “Jonesy” the |
kidnaper.
WHITLA GETS BACK RANSOM
Money Paid for the Release of Little
Son Now Safe in Sharon
; * Bank.
Sharon, Pa.-——Guarded by seyeral
private detectives in plain clothes.
James P. Whitla, father of the an-|
ducted lad for whose ransom $10,009
was paid, returned home Margh 25.8 5
bringing with him the money which |
was recovered when James Boyle and | 2
his wife were arrested in Cleveland. |
The package of bills, still marked
as they were said to have ben when
paid to the abductors by Mr. Whitla, i
were taken to the safety deposit de-
partment of the Sharon Savings and
Trust Company which kept its doors
open until Mr. Whitla reached here |
about 9 o’clock at night. The money
was carefully placed in a safety de- |
posit hox to remain till if. may be
needed as evidence. in the kidnaping
trial.
MAY BE CHICAGO WOMAN
Would-Be : Relative Identifies Mrs.
Boyle in Cleveland.
Clevelond, O. — That the woman
identified by Willie Whitla as ane of
his kidnapers is Anna McDermott of |
Chicago, was declared by a man whe |
gays he is her uncle, a wealthy ves- |
sel owner of this city. This man |
saw the mysterious prisoner known
as the wife of James H. Boyle of |
Sharon, whom Willie declared carried
him away from the Sharon school
housé. He visited the police sta-
tion and unknown to the woman
watched her and heard her voice.
“She is the daughter of my half sis’
ter,” he told the police.
\i/znes Cut to 1905 Basis.
I 21 Pa.— The companies |
iron furnace in the Le- |
have decided to reduce
irpace men 10 per cent.
This reduction will apply to 3,000 or
4,000 worke The date of the re-
duction will prob ably vary with the
different companies. The proposed
reduction will.pnt wages back to the
level of 1905.
TWIN CITIES TO WED
high vallzy
wages of
Minnesota Lower House Passes Bill |
for Consolidation.
St. Paul, Minn.—Representatives
Kneeland, as joint authors, presented
a bill in the house of representatives |
to consolidate St. Paul and Minneap- |
®lis. The bill provi |
les for appoint- |
ment of a joint co ee to draw up |
—
a bill to be prese: to the 1911 leg-
fslatu The bil s passed un- |
der a suspension of the rules. |
wolsky
i ter Smith, a tin w
BATTLE WITH INDIANS
Three Bite the Dust and Die, While
Two Survivors of the Posse Are
Saved by Fiight.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—In a pitched
battle at Hickory Ground between a
posse of five officers and twenty
Creek, Indians of the Snake clan, Of-
ficers Edward Baum of Checotah,
Jerman Odam of Checotah and Frank
Swift of Muskogee, were killed. Frank
Jones and William Carr, other mem-
bers of the posse, escaped with in-
jury and fled to the settlement, where
the news of the battle was telephoned
to Sheriff Odom.
Governor Haskell has
the State troops.
The men had been sent to serve a
warrant on the Indian chief, charg-
ing him with inciting the Indians and
negroes to insurrection. This was
done in the hope that the arrest
would prevent any hostile action on
the part of the Indians.
When the men approached the
chief’s cabin about 6 o'clock, twenty
guns were leveled at them and two
officers fell dead when the first vol-
ley was fired. The others retreated.
Swift was wounded in the second vol-
ley. Deputy Sheriffs Carr and Frank
Jones escaped but went to Pierce, a
station a mile from Hickory Ground,
and telephoned Checkota. Deputy
Sheriffs Ransome and Patty of Me-
Intesh county, recruited a posse and
with twenty-one deputies started to-
ward Hickory Ground. Fifty men
have joined the posse at Muskogee.
Men are coming from all parts of the
surrounding counties. Further fight-
ing occurred later and it is reported
that three other deputies were killed.
Their names have not been learned.
It is said that Crief Crazy Snake
has called on his men to arm them-
selves and fight. There are more
than two hundred Indians besides
negroes in the Hickory Ground set-
tlement. The place is one. of the
wildest in Qklahomad.
Five companies of State militia,
under command of Colonel Roy Hoff-
man, marched against the redskins.
Crazy Snake is personally leading ‘the
band, which is entrenched in the
Hickory hills, seven miles from Hen-
ryetta.
called out
COAL OPERATORS DISAGREE
Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
Owners Battle Over Ship-
ping Rates.
Cleveland.—Coal operators of Ohio,
West Virginia and Pennsylvania fail-
ed to agree on a schedule for the
equalization of shipping rates to lake
ports for the three States in a meet-
ing here.
Ohio and Pennsylvania operators
held out for an advance in the differ-
ential. West Virginia operators op-
posed the plan. Accusations that
many West Virginia mines were oper-
ated by railroads and that indepen-
dent mine owners had secret shipping
agreements were made.
But one more attempt will be made
by the operators to.agree on the
rates. A meeting will be held in
New York. If an agreement is not
reached then, the matter will be put
into the hands of the interstate com-
merce ;eommission for..adjustment.
WAR CLOUDS DISPELLED
Seérvian Press Says Action Will Be
Everlasting Disgrace to Nation.
Vienna.-—A complete agreement has
been reached by the powers with re-
gard to the steps to be taken at Bel-
grade on the basis of the proposals
made by Sir Edwarl Grey, the British
foreign secretary, to Baron von Aeh-
rnehal, the Austro-Hungarian minis-
ter of foreign affairs, for the settle-
ment. of the giSisuiy betwetn Aus-
trian and Seryja.:
Belgrade. —The Starving newspapers
acknowledge that Servia has failed in
the contemtion8 against the action of
Austria-Hungary, and gccuse M. Is-
, the Russian "foreign minister,
of treachery. They declare that the
action of Russia in acknowledging
| the annexation of Bosnia and Herzeg-
! ovina by Austria is only a misfortune
for Servia, but an eystiassing disgrace
for mighty Russia.
Vatican Gallery Sash.
Rome. — The pope inaugurated a
new vaticap picture gallery’ on the
ground floot. of the palace, near the
Belvidere - court yard. = The gallery
comprises six balls, * in’ which ‘are
aathered the vatican’s collection from
hirteenth century, inereased ‘by
3 ions from the Late¥an™palace.
The cost of carrying out the work
was mere than $60,000. His holiness
was in good spirits and looked well
Summary Punishment.
Pueblo, Mex.—According to advices
received here from the town of Jeh-
uitzingo, this State, the recent muni-
cipal riots there resulted in nine per-
| scns being killed and 30 wounded.
Immediately following the authorities
caused the arrest of 11 of the chief
participants and executed them with-
out trial. Many other citizens were
banished. from the town,
Marines Restored.
Washington.—The last remaining
vestige of the Roosevelt order taking
maries off the battleships and cruisers
of the United States navy was swept
away when President Taft directed
that an order be issued restoring the
marines to exactly the same duties
that they performed prior to their be-
ing order ashore.
Salvation Army for Russia.
St. Petersburg.—General William
Booth commander-in-chief of the Sal-
vation Army, is at present in St. Pe-
tersburg and is negotiating with the
government for permission to estab-
lish a branch of the Salvation Army
in Russia. He is being strongly op-
posed by the holy synod.
Shot Without Provocation.
Without the slightest warning, Wal-
, was perhaps
igner at Follans-
fatally shot by a fore
bee, W. V.
ABDUCTORS IDENTIFIED
BY WILLIE WHITLA
Recognizes His Captors at: Once
and Greets Them.
TAKEN BEFORE THE GRAND JURY
Charge of Blackmail- Based Upon
Receiving $10,000 for the Ran-
som of Stolen Boy.
Cleveland, 0.—Willie Whitla identi-
fied the man and woman held on sus-
picion- by the Cleveland police as the
persons who kidnaped him from the
schocl at Sharon, Pa. and ‘held him
for the $10,000 ransom, which was
paid by his father, Attorney J. P.
Whitla.
Willie said the man, who gave the
name of James H. Boyle, was the one
who took him from school and carried
him through a tbrtuous route to
Cleveland, then to Ashtabula, then
back to this city and placed him in
‘the house in the East End, where he
was held until the money was paid.
Willie also declared that the woman
was the one who cared for him at the
house where he was retained, and who
acted the part of a nurse. oyle said
the. woman was his wife. he de-
clared, soon after her arrest, that her
identification would cause a sensation
in Sharon. When the identification
was completed, Mr. Whitla would say
nothing regarding the woman. He
said he knew Boyle slightly.
Grand Jury Hears Story.
Immediately after Willie Whitla
had seen the man and woman at the
Central police station, they were tak-
en to the county court house and there
appeared before the grand jury. They
were cxamined for the purpose of aid-
ing the jury in its attempt to find an
indictment against the two prisoners.
The charge, under the laws of Ohio,
against the man ana woman, if an
indictment is found will be blackmail.
This is based upon the payment of
the $19,000 ransom by Mr. Whitla.
As Boyle and hig wife are held by
the police on suspicion only, an. in-
dictment will afford a mreang of plac-
ing them under arrest formally. Then
they can be held indefinitely.
Immediately after leaving = the
grand jury room, Mr. and Mrs. Whit-
la, Willie and the janitor of the Shar-
on school which Willie.attended, left
for Sharon.
As the prisoners had not waived
extradition they were held here for |
two or three days until the necessary
papers for their removal. to Sharon
can be arranged between the gover-
nors of Ohio and Pennsylvania.,
ARCHITECT TO BE TRIED
Judge Severs Huston’s Case from
That of Sanderson et Al.
Harrisburg, Pa.—The case: of Con-
tractor Jchn H. Sanderson, ex-Auditor
General W. P. Snyder and ex-Super-
intendent of Public Grounds and
Buildings Shumaker were severed by
Judge Kunkle from that of Architect
Joseph M. Huston in the Capitol con-
tract conspiracy case and continued
indefinitely.
Huston is to stand trial alone, but
‘because of the severance and conse-
quent necessity for rearrangement of
his defense the Court granted a post-
ponement of his trial from April 5 to
April 13.
The severance was granted to San-
derson because it was showfi that he
cannot stand the strain of a trial with-
out fatal result, and to the others
because of the condition of Shumak-
er’s health and the disadvantage to
which they would be put by Sander-
son being cut off from them.
FOUR KILLED, FIVE HURT
Workmen Meet Death in Ruins of
Chicago Butterine Plant.
Chicago:—Four men were killed, five
were seriously -injuredsand‘a dozen
others narrowly escaped injury here
when a part of a 35-foot brick wall,
left, standing after a fire a month
ago, which destroyed the butterine
plant of Swift & Co.;- crashed down
upon them without warning.’
The men were working in the ruins
of the Darling & Co. fertilizing plant,
which was partly destroyed by fire
January 6. They were laying foun-
dations for a new building
from: the wall of the buttgrine plant
when the wall fell, burying. the vic-
tims in tons of brick. It ig thought
that the wind blew: the wall over.
Admiral Beresford Retires.
London. — Admiral Lord Charles
Beresford, commander of the channel
fleet, hauled down his flag at Ports-
mouth March 24, thus bringing to an
end 50 -years of active service. He
was given a rousing sendoff by some
10,000 enthusiastic friends and admir-
ers, who. had gathered arcund the
dock yard:gates. The admiral is now
a free lance, and it is expected that
he will take an active part in the
agitation for a big navy. :
es
Wabash Orders Cars. :
The Wabash-Pittshurg Terminal
Railway placed an order with the
Standard Steel Car Company..for 500
steel freight two-hopper cars, the ap-
proximate cost of which Will be
about $500,000. ‘The contract calls
for early delivery.
Bondits Raid Pullman.
Denver, Col.—Two highwaymen en-
tered a sleeping car in the Denver &
Rio Grande yards at West Denver,
held up six of the seven passengers,
the conductor and porter, and got
| away with about four hundred dollars
| in cash.
The only woman passenger,
| Mrs, N. R. Hussey of Booth Bay Har-
bor, Me., was not molested. The
robbers then marched the passengers,
conductor and porter Into a compart-
ment at one end of the car, closed the
door and escaped.
few feet
HAVOC WROUGHT BY STORM
Havy Damage Is Done in Denver.
Twelve Persons Killed and
Many Hurt.
Denver, Col—Eight inches of wet
clinging snow, following several
hours of steady rain, did damage in
Denver estimated at from $200,000 to
$300,000, and cut off wire communi-
cation with the outsice world for
many hours. Every wire of the
Western Union and the Postal Tele-
graph Companies and every toll line
of the telephone company was carried
down by the heavy snow, along with
hundreds of poles. The city’s fire
alarm system was almost destroyed,
6,000 telephone wires in Denver were
rendered useless and hundreds of
trees in the parks and along the bou-
levards were damaged.
Dallas, Tex.—Twelve persons were
killed and a score injured by a tor-
nado that swept over the northwesern
part of Wise county. Several small
towns were visited by the storm, but
none was destroyed, although each
suffered serious damage.
Starting at Crafton, in the north-
eastern part of the county, the storm
passed to the north of Decatur, the
county seat, and struck several small
settlements, of which Slidell is the
center.
MINERS APPEAL TO TAFT
Executive Board Instructed to Conduct
Negotiations Looking to Peace.
Scranton, Pa.—A resolution to ask
President Taft to appoint a commis-
sion to arbitrate differences was
adopted by the miners’ convention
and referred to the executive boards
to put it into effect at their discretion.
Reaffirming the demands already
presented to the operators, the min-
ers voted to remain at work after
April 1 until the district executive
boards of the hard coal fields of
Pennsylvania continue their efforts to
gtt an agreement satisfactory to the
men. The miners were instructed by
the convention to continue at work
until such time as they are otherwise
notified by the official representatives
of the three anthracite districts, and
the executive boards were instructed
to negotiate an agreement upon such
basis as the boards in their judgment
believe the conditions warrant.
DEATH SENTENCE FOR 22
Russian Military Tribunal Passes on
Political Prisoners.
St. Petersburg.—Twenty-two death
‘gentences passed upon political pris-
‘oners were confirmed by the supreme
military court. Fifteen of these were
convicted of an attempt to escape
from the Irkutsk prison when a pris-
on guard was killed.
At the first trial the court martial
acquitted eight of 16, but the su-
preme court set aside the verdict. One
of the number, a woman, escaped.
The other prisoners, whose sentences
were confirmed were convicted of be-
ing implicated in a shooting affray
at Irbit, in which a policeman was
killed.
COKE SITUATION BETTER
Several Hundred Addition Ovens Are
Placed in Operation,
Connellsville, Pa.—There was a
slight improvement in conditions in
the Connellsville and lower Connells-
ville coke regions last week, several
hundred additional ovens being placed
in operation. The total production
for both regions, however, fell off
1,500 toms, while aggregate shipments
increased 20 cars. Less stock was
piled up at the independent market
ovens than for several weeks. and
hence there was no increase in the
visible supply of coke at such plants.
About 1,000 cars of unconsigned coke
are still on tracks.
CANADA WILL HELP
Will Build British Dreadnought, but
Control Warship.
Ottawa, Ont.—The Canadian Gov-
ernment will offer naval assistance
to Great Brttain. The sentiment
among the Canadian Ministers is that
the Dominion should build a dread-
nought, or possibly two of them, and
control their movement, probably us-
ing them in the training of a naval
militia.
Should war break out these vessels
would be placed at the disposal of ike
British naval authorities.
To Open Coal Road. :
New York.—It was announced here
that the official opening of the Vir
ginia railway, H. H. Rogers’ new coal
road, will take place on April 3, when
the first trainload of coal to .be
brought from Deepwater, W. Va., will
arrive at the terminal at Sewalls
Point, near Norfolk. Mr. Rogers
will take a party of friends to Nor-
folk to witness the opening. The
road is 443 miles in length and has
cost” approximately $40,000,000.
Kidnaping Pictures Under Ban.
Detroit, Mich.—All moving picture
shows in this city and the theaters
which show motion pictures were no-
tified by the police that they would
not be permitted to show any scenes
hereafter of the kidnaping of chil-
dren. The order is an outgrowth of
the stealing of Willie Whitla and the
publicity which it has been given.
Brownsville Court Is Named.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary of
War Dickinson announced the retired
army officers’ court of inquiry to in-
vestigate the discharge of the battal-
ion of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, col-
ored, at Brownsville, in 1906, as pro-
vided by the Foraker resolution. The
officers follow. Lieutenant General
S. B. M. Young, Major General J. P.
Saeger, Brigadier General Theodore
Schwam, Brigadier General Butler D.
Price and Brigadier neral John M.
Wilson.
Tm 5 ES et re rece
SUSPECTED KIDNAPERS
CAUGHT IN CLEVELAND
Officers Arrest Mau and Woman
With Money in Their Possession.
$9,790 FOUND ON WOMAN
Shots by Officer Bring Man to Man
to Standstill When He
Started to Run.
Cleveland, O.—In the arrest here
of a man and woman haying $9,790
in their possession, the police believe
they have captured the kidnapers of
Willie Whitla.- In fact, the woman
in the case, who is somewhat befud-
dled, admitted that she had been re-
sponsible for the kidnaping. ‘When
placed in custody at the Central po-
lice station she said to Captain Nor-
man Shattuck:
“I am the one who planned the
whole thing. There will be trouble
for me and h—— in Sharon.’
Beneath the woman's skirt was
found $9,790. All of it but $40 was
bound in packages with the original
slips, placed on the money when
Whitla took it from the bank, still
around it.
Captain Shattuck and Detective
Frank Wood made the arrest in the
East End of the city. When near
the police station the man broke
away from Detective Wood and ran
toward an alley. The policeman
fired two shots from his revolver into
the air and the man stopped. The
woman made no attempt to escape.
The woman appears to be well ed-
ucated and is refined in manner. She
says she spent 15 years of her life
in a convent in Pennsylvania, but de-
nies that she has ever been in trou-
ble before. Both the man and woman
deny that they know the name of
the other. They admit they are not
man and wife. According to the po-
lice, they were intoxicated when
placed in custody. Due to their con-
dition, they were not questioned close-
ly by the police and were locked in
separate cells. Both will be ar-
raigned in police court on the charge
of abduction, according to Detective
Wood.
THREATENS TAFT'S LIFE
“polish Voter” Says He'll Kill Can-
non and Whitlock Also.
Toledo.—A writer signing himself
“Polish Voter” has written a letter
to Speaker Cannon threatening the
lives of President Taft, Speaker Can-
non and Mayor Brand Whitlock of’
Toledo.
The letter was sent to Mayor Whit-
lock by Speaker Cannon. The writ
er complains about the hard times,
declares that his relatives in Rus-
sia have killed three bad men, and
announces that he will kill Taft,
Cannon and Whitlock. He makes
Cannon an unusually generous prop-
osition in giving him a year in which
to reform before death.
TWENTY-YEAR SENTENCE
Negro Given Maximum Penalty for
Shooting Wife.
Pittsburg.— Twenty years in the
penitentiary, the maximum sentence,
was imposed on Robert Smith of ElN-
zabeth, by Judge Francis J. O’Con-
ner when a jury found the prisoner
guilty of murder in the second degree.
This was Smith’s second trial. He
was convicted of murder in the first
degree, but secured a new trial. He
shot his wife on the streets of Eliza-
beth July 5.
PROTEST AGAINST FREE ORE
Iron Men Meet and Resolve to Mem-
orialize Congress on the Subject.
Youngstown, O.—Independent pig
iron manufacturers who met in
Cleveland adopted a formal protest
against the free admission of iron
ore and reduction of iron and steel
scrap duty from $4 to 50 cents. A
memorial to this effect is now being
prepared to send to congress.
Practically all independent blast
furnacemen west of the Allegheny
mountains are behind the movement.
Reward for Kidnapers.
Harrisburg, Pa.—Governor Stuart
issued a proclamation offering a re-
ward of $15,000 for the arrest and
conviction of the Whitla kidnapers.
The proclamation says:
“By virtue of the authority contain-
ed in a concurrent resolution of the
Senate and House of Representatives,
approved the 22d day of March, A. D.
1909, and in pursuance thereof, I, Ed-
win S. Stuart, Governor of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania, do here-
by offer a reward of $15,000 for the
apprehension and conviction of the
party or parties who abducted William
Whitla of the county of Mercer, State
of Pennsylvania.”
Will Fight Reduction.
Chicago.—At a meeting of lumber-
‘men it was decided to send a com-
mittee of 10 to Washington to fight
the Payne bill, which contemplates a
revision of the lumber duties. Dele-
gates from other States will join the
Chicagoans in Washington. The
lumbermen declare that the Payne
bill discriminates against the West,
‘North and South, in favor of the East.
Three Indiana Counties Dry.
Indianapolis.—Montigomery, Green
and Benton counties voted dry in
county option elections. This makes
57 of the 22 counties of Indiana dry,
35 by county option elections and 22
by remonitrances.
$500,000 for Summer Home.
Washington.—A bill was introduced
by Representative Taylor, of Colo-
rado, appropriating $300,000 for the
construction of a summer home for
the President at Glenwood Springs,
in that State.
OKLAHOMA FIGHTS TRUSTS
Co-Operative Association Will Bulld
Packing Houses and Han-
dle Grains.
Oklahoma City, Okla. — Asserting
that the time has come for the people
of Oklahoma to fight to rid themselves
of the so-called trusts, which they as-
sert control the output of grain and
cattle of Oklahoma and make practic-
ally their own price, an experimental
co-operative company, known as the
Grain and Stock Growers’ Associa-
tion, has been organized by a branch
of the Farmers’ union in Oklahoma.
The headquarters for the new asso-
ciation will be at Enid and J. Y. Cal-
lahan, formerly Oklahoma’s territorial
delegate to congress, has been elected
to head the organization. The new
enterprise will have the direct Back-
ing of the Farmers’ union.
association will, it is stated, erect. a
packing plant. To finance the plant
the association will accummulate a
fund of about $500,000. Shares in it
will be sold at $1 each and no person
may own more than one share.
In the handling of Oklahoma grain
the association proposes to build a
co-operative elevator at every grain
shipping station in the state and to
sell its grain for export.
MORE GRAFT INDICTMENTS
Six Men Held on Testimony Produced
Before Grand Jury.
Pittsburg.—Four indictments
against six persons, one of them a
prominent banker, and two of them
councilmen whose names - have not
been heretofore been mentioned in the
published graft testimony, were re-¢
turned by the grand jury which has
been conducting the investigation.
The men indicted are:
Frank A. Griffin, vice president and
director of the Columbia National
bank, charged with perjury.
Dr. William H. Weber, select coun-
cilman.
Dallas C. Gyers, manufacturer.
John F. Klein, common councilman.
The three last named are charged
jointly with conspiracy to bribe coun-
cilmen to vacate South Seventh
street.
Charles Stewart, select councilman,
charged with having solicited a bribe
of $2,500 from the German National
bank
Henry L. Bolger, saloon keeper,
charged with aiding and abetting the
solicitation of a bribe.
GETS ALMOST TO POLE
Lieutenant Shackleford and Party Re-
turn After Near-Successful Trip.
London.—Lieutenant BE. H. Shackle-
ton, of the British navy, commander
of the Antartic expedition which re-
turned on the barkentine Nimrod to
Invercargill, New Zealand, although
he did not achieve his object, suc-
ceeded in getting within 111 miles of
the pole.
The Nimrod expedition left Eng-
land in July, 19G7, and after reach-
ing the ice fields and making the
most elaborate preparations, the main
expedition started on the sledge jour-
ney, which occupied 126 days and
traveled 1,708 miles southward. The
explorers reached latitude 88.23 and
longtitude 162 East, which was esti-
mated at 111 miles from the pole.
ROOSEVELT STARTS JOURNEY
Great Throng Bids a Noisy Farewell
to Former President and
His Son.
New York.—Waving farewell with
his black slouch hat, his smiling face
beaming in the morning sun as he
stood on the captain’s bridge of the
steamship Hamburg, ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt, now America’s
most distinguished private citizen,
sailed away on the 23d for his long-
planned African “safari.” He left
his native shores amid the cheers of
thousands of persons that swarmed
the Hamburg-American line pier, the
whistles of countless river craft and
the thunderous reveberations of the
ex-president’s salue of 13 guns from
Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth.
Wool Market.
Boston.—In the absence of heavy
domestic stocks, local wool transac-
tions are confined to the foreign prod-
uct, while in both lines the demand
exceeds the supply. Dealers are
eagerly awaiting the arrival of the
new clip and advices from the West
show an advance to 23 cents for Mon-
tana and Dakota wool on the sheep’s
back. Very little of the old stock
is available and transactions are con-
fined to small lots. There is a
steady demand for pulled wool at
firmer prices for all grades. The
leading domestic quotations range as
follows: Domestic wools: Ohio and
Pennsylvania. fleeces: XX, 34@35c;
X, 32@33c, No. 1 washed, 38@39c;
No. 2, washed, 38@39¢
Pig Iron by Electricity.
Ottawa, Ont.—The first electric fur
nace in the world for the production
of pig iron on 2 commercial scale
has been installed at ILudvika, Nor-
way. Dr. Haanel, director of ‘mines,
was informed of this. The installa-
tion. will include {wo high pressure
furances, 2,500-horsepower each, and
two steel furnaces, 600- ‘horsepower
each, and all the furnaces will be: sup-
plied with two phase current.
Kerosene was first used for light.
ing purposes in 1826.
Shortest Bill Presented.
Washington.—Representative Coud-
rey, of Missouri, has just introduced
what is probably the shortest bill so
far presented during the present ses-
sion of congress, yet if enacted into
law, it would probably attract more
attention than the Sherman anti-trust
law. After the enactment clause the
entire bill is as follows: “That from
and after the passage of this act all
corporations shall pay a license tax
of 1-10 of one per cent om their cap-
ital.”
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