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ton Markets.
Killed by Electric Car.
Asheville, Special. As a result of
injuries sustained by being struck by
tm electric car on south Main street
Ve1inesJa3-, Mrs. James Foster, of
Lieeester township, died at Missior
hosptial. Mrs. Foster, who is G2
years of age, attempted to cross south
Main street just below Court square,
ami passing behind a wagon, stepped
direelly in front of the rapidly mov
ing car. Bat for the prompt action
and presence of mind of Mortorman
Naushton, who quickly reversed with
me hand while he reached over the
front of the car and lifted Mrs. Foster
lo one side, the old lady would prob
ably have been instantly killed. The
contact with the moving car, though
slight., threw her to the ground and
paused injuries which though not
deemed serious at the time, were suf
ficient, in view of Mrs. Foster's ad
vanced age, to justify her immediate
removal to the- Mission hospital,
where she received every possible at
tention. She failed, however, to rally
a;id died Friday morning, paralysis,
caused by the shock, being the direct
cause of death. Mrs. Foster was a
resident of New Found Creek, Leices
ter township about eight miles from
Asheville. She had lived iir'that lo
cality for IS years, during which long
period she had never, until last "Wed
nesday, left that immediate neighbor
hood. On "Wednesday, accompanied
by her son, she made her first visit
to Asheville, and her unfortunate
death may perhaps be in part at
tributed to the fact that until run
down, she had never before seen an
electric car, and probably miscalcu
lated the speed at which it was run
ning. There is no blame attached to
the mortorman. who made every effort
i "-1,1
10 avoia tne accident.
Governor Says Willmington.
Raleigh, Special. A letter was re
ceived recently by Governor Glenn
from ex-Governcr Heyward, asking
that North Carolina co-operate with
South Carolina in getting immigrants
to come South; and also asking that
ihe people of this state use their ef
forts towards making Charleston the
port of entry for immigrants coming
into the Southern States. Governor
Glenn in reply stated that he would
be very glad on behalf of the people
of North Carolina to aid in the mat
ter of getting, immigrants, of a de
sirable character, to come South, but
that Wilmington is the desirable port
of entry for immigrants coming to
North Carolina.
Crushed by a Belt.
Shelby, Special. Blaine Dellinger,
superintendent of the Vcrner Oil Mill
?t Lattimore, was caught in the main
belting of the engine one night last
"eek and was so badly injured that
death resulted in about three hours.
His remains were brought to Shelby
for burial. Mr. Dellinger was the
of J. P. Dillingcr, a prominent
citizen of Shelby, and proprietor of
the Yemer Oil" Mill. Ho attended
school at the A. & M. College a few
years ago.
$50 To Public Schools.
Prizes amounting to $50 in money
are to be awarded at the nest stale
fair to the public schools which shov
the best methods in teaching agricul
ture. The prizes are only for the pub
lic schools, the colleges and higher
institutions being excluded from' th$
contest.
Bought a Mill Site.
Fayetteville. Special. W. D. Mc
Neill, W. E. Kindley and S. H. Mac
Rae have purchased from Mr. Neil!
Black very valuable property at Man
chester. The purchase includes 129
acres tit land, the splendid water
power with five hundred horse al
l eady developed, on Lower Little river
at Manchester, a saw mill, planing
mill and several houses.
New Enterprises.
A whiskey distillery was chartered
ft Wadeshoro the Pee Dee Distill
ing Company, G. O. Fullenwider, P.
T. Bennett and W. T. Mills, to mak.
corn whiskey, the capital stock be
ing $3,000.
A charter is also granted the Peo
ple's Telephone Company, Taylors
vills. capital stock $20,000.
Comimssions are issued to the offi
cers of Company M, Third Infantry,
of the national guard at Sanford, as
follows: K. B. Griffin, captain; A.
W. Teague, first lieutenant; "William
Widdifield, second, lieutenant.
Big Fire at Fayetteville. v
Fayetteville, Special. The W, H.
Sikes Lumber Company, among tho
most extensive operators in timber
and lumber in upper Cape Fear, lost
its entire large plant, which has been
burning all day, up to the afternoon.
The loss is estimated at $40,000, with
partial insurance, amount not yet
known. Dwellings surrounding the
plant were in danger, but were saved.
flOMH
GUROLINA
AFFAIR
VOL. XXIX, EITTSBORQ. CHATH A M
-20 YEARS FOR HARRISON
Judge Allen Fixes Bond at $3,000
and Harrison is Remanded to Jail
Until Bond Can Be Certified
Court Overrules Motion to Set
Aside Verdict and Arrest Judg
ment. Elizabeth City, Special The" jury
came in at 10 o'clock and returned a
verdict of guilty. Harrison dropped
his head at the jury's anouncement,
stricken with surprise and grief.
The court ordered him to jail for the
night, after the usual motion for an
appeal was made.
Court opened at 9:30 and ordered
the disposal of the case of the State
against Joshua Harrison: Governoi
Ay cock arose" and asked that the ver
dict be set aside on account of the ill
feeling and prejudice against the
prisoner and especially on account of
the outburst, of applause in the court
room. He jsaid that the wail of a
child lost in the nie-ht thrills thp
. cj
hearts of men with such a -passion
that reason is blinded and some one
must perhaps unjustly suffer. lie
said that they fled from the pass of
Currituck to get a fair trial here, but
that he found the Currituck had fol
lowed them and packed the
room; that Harrison had never seen
the boy m his life; and with a deer,
note of pathos inquired as to who
would tell his loyal friend Jarvis of
tne jury's verdict, and that his sis
ter had perjured herself. He deelar
ed that the verdict had brought limm
liation to the wife, disgrace tn the
children and hopelessness to the
grand children ot Harrison. He
wanted time in which the truth
could be discovered, free from passion
and prejudice. He referred to the
deplorable applause and to the wo
men who were the rjink of the ritv
breaking into applause; that the feel
ing ot tbe people broke into the jury
box and influenced them. No action
of his honor could take that influence
out he said, and he asked him to come
to the rescue . ot the law and set
aside the verdict.
Solicitor Ward spoke breifljy elo
quently, masterfully, in reply. Hi
asserted that the good people of this
county were the descendants of that
sturdy old English stock that land
ed on these shores two hundred o?
more years ago, that the case was of
such a nature as to arouse interest
and evoke a conflict of intellect,, said
that he thousht that the. iurv would
have brought in the same verdict if
he had not spoken to them at all. He
declared that he was sensative to th-?
charge of influencing the iurv -bv
promising upon a conviction the resto
ration ot the child to his mother s
arms within six months, and ve
hemently denied that he intended
any such thing. He referred pathet
ically to Mrs. Harrison, and then
warmly denied that he charged her
with perjury. "Perjury catches its
inspiration from a low, debased
source, but loyalty and love that
prompts a wife to swear for her hus
band, catches its inspiration from the
heavens. When her statement was
placed on the Great Book above, the
Recording Angel dropped a tear and
blotted it out."
Mr. Ward was followed by Mr.
Sawyer and Mr. Pruden, who present
ed able arguments as to why the
motion for setting aside the verdict
should be denied. Governor Aycock
again took the floor and reiferated
his belief that the jury had been in
fluenced by the public opinion and
passion and prejudice stating that ev
en refined, cultured women were clam
oring for a conviction, expressed by
their applause in court.
Judge Allen denied' the motion
Then followed a motion for an arrest
of judgment, during the argument
of which a number of alleged flaws
in the indietment were found by de
fendant's counsel. Judge Allen over
ruled the motion. The judge then
proceeded to pronounce the judgment.
The court, stated that if hfi had hsen
on the jury, there were a number' of
questions concerning which he would
have had some doubt3. Judge Allen
referred to the testimony of the Nor
folk witnesses. He stated that he
was not satisfied with the evidence of
the Norfolk witnesses, but these ques
tions were for the iurv to determine
v
and that they had found him guilty.
He was satisfied that the evidence
was, to them sufficient to convict
him. "The judgment of the court is
that he be confined in the penitentiary
at Raleigh, for twenty years." The
sentence was pronounced at 11:40.
The motion for an appeal to the
Supreme Court and the question of
bond was taken up. The judge stat
ed that hejvould like to have, the ap
peals settled before he left the dis
trict, which would be on the 15th of
June. It was finally settled by the
court that both the State and the de
fense would be allowed 60 days each
in which to argue the appeal, which
will amount to 120 days. After con
siderable discussion as to the amount
of bail, the court fixed it at $3,000
and the prisoner was remanded to
jail until the necessary amount couid
be certified.
Story of the Crime.
It will be remembered that Kenneth
Beasley, 9-year-old son of State Sena
tor S. M. Beasley, mysteriously distp
peared during recess at the afternoon
session of the school he was attending
near his home at Poplar Branch,
Currituck county, this State, Monday,
swamps were thoroughly searched by
hundreds of people, in a systematic
manner being divided into companies
with captains of each party. Tho
search continued for two weeks or
more and, as is well known, no trace
of the lost child .was found,
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Sweep Through forests Along
1 Southwest Virginia
MUCH PROPERTY IS DESTROYED
.
Patrick County, Va.t Being Swept
and Already Much Property Loss
Has Kesulted-Conflagration, Which
Started Near Stuart, is Under No
Control Whatever in Spite of Ef
forts to Cut Down Timber and Con
fine It to Certain Limits.
Danville, Va., Special. A tremen
dous forest fire is sweeping the
county, of Patrick and heavy damage
to property has already resulted and
the lives of many are endangered.
The-fire started Friday night, it
appears, near Stuart, the county seat
of Patrick, and the terminus of the
Danville & Western Railroad, and
has been raging ever since. Latest re
ports are that the conflagration is
under no control whatever, though a
large number of citizens and farm
ers engaged in an effort to cut down
trees and confine the blaze to cer
tain limits.
From Stuart the fire has spread
southeast in the direction of Danville.
Sunday night it had reached Critz, a
distance of about 15 or 20 miles from
where it originated. The width of
the conflagration is about six miles.
About 30 farm houses have already
been burned and the occupants bare
ly escaped with their lives. At Pat
rick Springs, an aid established sum
mer result, four cottages located several-hundred
yards from the main
hotel were burned. The main hotel
is located in a valley with woods on
both sides. It is in an open space
and was saeci only by this enclosiut.
The spungs are located about two
miles from Shufi, the railroad station,
and several miles beyond Crit. As
yet no lives have been repodel losi,
but there have been many thrilling
escapes'. The valuable dwelling hous
es of W. N. Martin, a prominent
citizen, was destroyed together with
its contents. The occupants fled for
their lives and no effort was made to
save anything.
The scene of the origin of the fire
was on the plantation of the Stuart
Orchard Company, which had manv
acres cf apples and peach trees. Ail
of the fruit trees of this concern,
v.hich is the largest of its kind in
this section of the State, have been
burned.
Patrick county is a mountainous
country located about 60 miles south
west of Danville and is famous for
its timber lands, and as a fine fruit
growing section. Apples grown in
the county are shinned to all parts
of the world.
The fire is confined mostly to Bull
and No Business mountains. The
first named mountain was burned sev
eral years ago. No Business moun
tain is a srreat timber land and tha
loss in'' this respect" will be heavy.
In the area ot about lo bv six miles
already swept only a few farm houses
located in the valleys escaped destruc-
iion.
The Danville & Western a hranh
line of the Southern, is the only rail
way that runs through Patrick coun
ty. No damage is reported to have
been done to railroad property.
It is impossible to get any com
munication to any of the points along
th.e scene of the fire. The first news
was brouffbt here bv thf rew and
passengers of a train arriving hera
f C . CT
in the afternoQn. No trains run on
the Danville & Western Saturday and
bundav. hence the telearanh offices
are closed. The fires on the burning
mountains illuminated this spctmn
for miles around, the blaze being
clearly seen by those on the train.
By Wire and Cable.
E. C. Fosburgh,"' of Norfolk, was
elected presieht of the North Carolina
Pine Association.
John C. Blair, Assistant United
States District Attorney for the
Western district of Virginia, died at
Wytheville.
The Seventh District Educational
Conference is in session at Wood
stock.
A student of the Univerity of Vir
ginia who was accused of cheating
was acquitted at a public trial, five
of the university's alumni sitting as
a court.
District Attorney Jerome submit
ted affidavits of alienists who con
sider Thaw insane, and asked for the
appointment of a lunacy commission.
Brig.-Gen. Theodore J. Wint of the
United States Army, died in Phila
delphia. Floods have isolated four States in
the Northwest, tied up "railroads in
California and cut a gap 80 miles
wide in a Utah railroad.
John Alexander Dowie, who was
buried Friday, left a posthumous ser-
. . j i i
mon threatening to return ana
""smite" his enemies.
J. D. Howbert, a Norfolk and Wes
tern official, admitted he was short
in his accounts.
Ambassador Bryce is going to Can
ada to study the problems at issue
between that country and the United
States. . : . , . ,.
FIRES
FOREST
COUNTY, HL C, THURSDAY. MARCH 28.
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED
Remains of White Man Tound on
Railroad T)rack Indicate Foul
Play.
Durham ,Special. The remains of
Fred Williams,' a white man, found
about two niiles out from Ilillsboro
Sunday morning, causes mystery in
that it is not known whether he was
killed by a train or murdered and
then placed on the track to cover the
crime. His head is badly mashed, but
there was no blood scattered about to
indicate that he was killed by a train.
The only- blood was a little that" ran
from the wounds on his head, and his
hands was folded across his breast,
something unusual' in cases of kill
ing by a train. The coroner 's jury
investigated the case and returned
a .non-committal verdict, simply say
ing that he died from wounds on the
head. Many believe that it is a 'ease
of murder, and a telephone message
from Hillsboro to : this correspondent
says that since the coroner's jury has
adjourned that some facts have been
discovered to show that Williams was
killed, it being stated that two men
and a woman were seen hiding in' a
cut near the point where the body
was found, this being a short while
before Williams should have reached
that point.
Treasurer of Junior Order Short in
His Accounts.
Concord, N. C, Special. Chief of
Police Boger has returned from War
Eagle, West Va., where he had gone
after L. C. Dry, who is charged with
embezzling funds of the Junior Order
of this city. He brought his man,
who is now in jail. Dry left hero
four months ago and "after he left
it leaked out that he had done away
with about $150 belonging to the
order. It seems thatJiis books had
not been examined for four or five
years and he being a mill operative
and not a bookkeeper was not familiar
with that kind of work. He bagan
an investigation to find out where-he,
stood and found that he was short.
The amount was a small fortune in
his eye and the fact unnerved him
so that he fled.
A Collision in Tunnel.
Asheville, Special. A collision
between a work train. No. 73 in the
west end of Swannanoa tunnel re
sulted in the slight .injury to several
trainmen. The derialment of two en
gines, damage to four cars and the
delay of passenger trains Nos. 21
and No. 11 from Salisbury. Accord
ing to the facts given out by the of
ficials of the road the work train was
backing up the mountain followed by
the first section of No. 73. The work
train stalled at the west end of the
tunnel and No. 73 ran into it. Both
engines were derailed and several
trainmen bruised and slightly injured
Millicious Prosecution.
Spencer, Special. Capt. A. L.
Pritchard, Conductor E. E. Tucker,
J. H. Banks, E. II. Benson and S. P.
Vaile, employes of the Southern Rail
way at Spencer, who were jailed at
Greensboro last week on the charge
of robbing freight cars in transit
were given a preliminary hearing at
Grenesboro Monday afternoon and
were acquitted of the charge. Cowt
ordered a record of malicious prose
cution and the matter was dropped.
A large crowd was present and the
men were given an ovation at the
conclusion of the trial. They return
ed to Spencer.
Kills His Brother-in-Law.
Selma, Special. Saturday evening
about three o'clock Richard Cook
shot and killed Gray Roberts at the
home of Cook. It seems that Cook
was abusing his wife who , was a
sister of young Roberts, and her
brother interfered to protect wher,
whereupon Cook picekd up his gun
and Roberts managed to pet it away
from him and set.it down; but as
soon as he set it down Cook grabbed
it again and shot Roberts in the stom
ach or abdomen as the result of which
he died about three hours later. "A
later report says that Cook gave him
self up to "an officer.
Fisherman Drowned.
Kinston, N; C, Special Carl King,
a negro man, was drowned in Con
tentnea river, near Grif ton bridge,
Thursday evening while "skiniing"
for shad. King had a "strike" and
started to "prize," when his boat
turend over and though he was a
good swimmer he lost his life. " Par
ties who saw the accident went to his
assistance, but could not save him.
They got his body, however, and
pulled up the net found the shad still
in it.
Death, of Two Prominent Men.
Wilmington, Special. Robert "S.
Collins, secretary and treasurer of the
Cape Fear Machine Works and, a
prominent young business man died
Monday evening after an illness of a
week with typhoid and pneumonia.
Dr. A. J. Jones, a prominent physi
cian of Kenansville, N. C, died Mon
day at his home, he was 63 years of
age. He had. been in the active
practice of bis profession 40 years
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OPPOSE INSANITY CHARGE
Attorneys Tor Thaw Deny His
Being Insane at Present
SHARP FIGHT ON JEROME'S MOVE
This With One: From Thaw's Mothar
Supplement Unanimous Opinion of
Defense Attorneys in Regard to
, District Attorney's Suggestion!
Looking to Appointment of Lunacy
' . Commission.
New York, Special. The attor
neys for Harry K. Thaw filed answer
to the 'suggestion made by District
Attorney Jerome to Justice Fitzger
ald that Thaw is- mentally incapable
of understanding the nature of the
proceedings against him and is a sub
ject", for a commission in : lunacy
rather than for, a ; jury which holds
only the power of liberty or death".
Supplementing ; their own unanimous
opinion, that Thaw does understand
the nature of the proceedings against
him and daily advises intelligently
with his counsel, the lawyers have
filed affidavits from 'the medical ex
perts employed by the defense aifl a
farther affidavit by Mrs. William
Thaw, the mother of the defendant.
Mrs. Thaw, however, does not address
hereself to the question immediately
at issue. She takes advantage of the
opportunity, she declares, to state
that in the direct line of descent for
four" generation there has been no
taint of insanity or epilepsy in the
prisoner's family. . She resents the
"malicious "misrepresentation and
gross exaggeration ' ' on the subject.
The principal affidavit made in
Thaw's behalf is signed Delphin M.
Delmas, attaches to his personal state
ment a score or more of letters antt
notes he has received from Thaw
during the progress of the trial.
These writings of the defendant, Mr.
Delmas declares, clearly indicate his
grasp of the proceedings and have
contained from time to time valuable
suggestions as to the course of tha
defense.
Turnpike Co. in Receivers Hands.
Norfolk, Special. The Consolidat
ed Turnpice Company, owning a large
majority of the county toll roads and
bridges in Norfolk county, under a
suit brought by Arthur Depue of New
York, holding $120,000 of the com
pany's $180,000 bond issue, has been
placed in the hands of H. L. Page,
receiver. The remainder of the com
pany's bonds are held principally in
New York. The paralleling of the
company's toll roads by trolly irfs,
thus reducing toll collection ; the high
cost of improvement material and
high labor are assigned as the causes
of the failure.
Kept the Lamp Burning.
Norfolk, Special. Striken with pa
ralysis and scarcely able to move
Captain Fimerson, keeper of the
White Shoals lighthouse in the James
river, stuck to his post until relief
came. Although striken early in the
night he kept the light burning. His
feeble cries for help could not be
heard. He hung out a distress sig
nal when daylight . came. That was
seen in the afternoon by a party of
excursionists from , Smithfield. He
would not leave the lighthouse until
relief came. Captain Fimerson s
home is in Portsmouth. It is believed
that he will recover. ; ' '
Shot in Drunken Row.
Clifton, Special. Bud Cupples and
Lute Brooks became involved in a
drunken row at Cerro Gordo Satur
day and Cupples shot Brooks just be
low the heart with a 42-caliber Der
ringer. At last reports little hope
was held ot for the recovery of
Brooks, -'
Timber Land Deal.
Dickson, Special. A deal was con
sumated by which George Eleazer,,a
lumberman of this vicinity, gets pos
session of a large tract of timber; in
the Fifth Civil District, known as the
Hall lands. The timber is" very valu
able and will at once be manufactur
ed into merchantable lumber.
Negroes Suspected of Murder.
Norfolk, Special. Charged ; with
being implicated in the probable mur
der of Charles F. Ferguson, the New
soms postmaster and business man
whose body, with pockets picked, was
found in a lane here early Sunday
morning, Thomas Tynes and Lee 1
Johnson,tw6 negroes, have been ar
rested. The prisoners were seen com
ing from the-lane and on their perr
sons keys and eyeglasses supposed to
have been the property of the dead
man were found.
New Steamship Line Savannah to
Norfolk.
Savannah, Ga., Special Announce
ment is made here by the Merchants'
and Mariners' Transportation xom
pany that beginning April 23, a
line of steamers will be put on be
tween Savannah and Norfolk and
Baltimore and Norfolk. This will be
on account of the Jamestown Expo
sition. A 40-hour trip between Sa
TRnnab aacl Norfolk will be maJe,
1907
NO. 33.
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- Washington. -
Secretary Taft ordered the literal
enforcement of the eight-hour law on
all Government contracts.
President Roosevelt issued orders
for the exclusion of Japanese labor
ers from the United States and the
dismissal of the suits against the San
Francisco School Board.
The President modified his recent
orders withdrawing coal lands from
entry, ordering the opening of about
28,000,000 acres onv which the Geo
logical Survey had reported.
i Secretary Cortelyou took further
action for relief of the money mar
ket, the principal feature being an
offer to.redeem $25,000,000 four per
cent. Government bonds.
Secretary Cortelyou announced
that the retirement of currency pro
vided for under last fall's order
would be postponed.
The Bureau of Ordnance has com
pleted plans for a torpedo factory at
Newport, R. I.
After the Isthmian Canal Commis
sion reorganizes the seven members
will probably all live i:i t'.uv vrir.al
zone.
Mrs. Mary Manning, wif of the
late Representative Van H. Manning,
of Mississippi, died at Washington,
First Assistant Postmaster-General
Hitchcock allowed fifty addition
al clerks for the New. York Postofilce.
, OUR ; ADOPTED ISLANDS.
' Belief is growing in Cuba' tlrat
there will be an uprising of negroes
in the island.
The Philippine Government has
voted $1,834,000 for the construc
tion of hydraulic works and for-
drainage works at Manila. "
Mrs. S. N. Castle,an early mission
ary in the Hawaiian Islands, died at
Honolulu at the age of ninety.
La Discusion, of Havana, indorsed
the suggestion regarding an Ameri
can protectorate for Cuba.
Cuban Liberals are excited over the
apparent majority . in the Election
Law Commission in favor of allowing
foreigners to vote in municipal elec
tions. Consul Baehr thinks that the 183
central factories in Cuba will reach a
total sugar production of a million
and a half of tons, provided they
have good weather for the cane har
vest. y .
DOMESTIC.
The Memphis -Charter bill passed
the House at Nashville, Tenn. It
abolishes the city government of
Memphis and gives Governor Patter
son the power to apDoint new city
officials. It has passed the Senate.
Five Massachusetts physicians of
standing, alter six years of experi
ments, declared the human soul to be
a material substance, weighing from
half an ounce to one ounce.
William H. Tanner, who disap
peared from Lenox, Mass., seventeen
years ago, revealed his presence in
Chicago, 111.
The Standard Oil Company ad
vanced the price of all oils in Ohio
ten cents a barrel, the new price be
ing $1.78.
Withdrawals of steamera from Bos
ton were announced by the Leyland
Line in that city.
Indeterminate prison terms have
been given Gotef and Gnadtus
Gnastus at Terre Haute, Ind., two
blackmailers.
Mrs. Mary Eno Depue, said to be
heiress to $2,000,000, escaped from a
sanatorium in Stamford, Conn., to
which her relatives wished to have
her legally committed.
William J. Bryan visited at Boston
to keep a lecture engagement.- He
was received by Governor Guild at
the State House, and addressed both
the Senate and the House. After his
lecture Mr. Bryan addressed students
of Harvard University at Cambridge.
Nine little Japanese girls were ad
mitted into the Redding Primary
School in San Francisco.-
Wireless messages were trans
mitted from Point Loma, Cal., to
Washington and Pensacola, Fla.
Dr, Austin Flint, in answer, dur
ing the Thaw trial in New York City,
to a hyppthetical question containing
15.000 words and embodying Mr.
Jerome's summary of the testimony,
declared It his opinion that Thaw
knew the nature of his act when he
killed Stanford White.
The 3ury disagreed in the case in
New .York City against the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad,
which was charged with having paid
rebates to the Sugar Trust.
. FOREIGN.
.Nicaragua has seized more than a
thousand rifles aboard a steamship
destined for Honduras.
. A fatal case .of yellow fever oc
curred near Paraje Nuevo, Mexico.
The Diet of the Duchy of Bruns
wick has decided to elect a regent,
excluding the Duke of Cumberland
and his son.
. The Appropriation Committee of
the German Reichstag approved the
bill authorizing the issue of $87,500,
000 in treasury bonds.
It was reported at Shanghai that a
Wesleyan mission near Ning-Po had
been destroyed and the missionaries
killed.
Restrictions on Japanese passports
are believed by some Japanese law
yers to be unconstitutional and have
caused irritation.
Lord Curzon was elected chancel
lor of Oxford University, defeating
Lord Roseberry by 1111 to 480.
Anti-Hebrew riots occurred in Yel
isavetgrad, Russia, but were checked
by the intervention of the troops. ,
The taking of bodies from the hulk
of the battleship Iena at Toulon,
France, was completed, 103 being re
covered. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain,
says that the Government will prob
ably lease the naval arsenal at Ferrol
to a foreign company.
Russian robbers cut off the heads
of six men and one woman. A soldier
and a . child who saw the butchery
w$nt jnad, .
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1 THREE GRAFT SCANDALS
Revelations at San Francisco,
Harrisburg. and Albany.
Testimony Showing How Huge Sums
.Were Divided by iloodlcrs
Wealthy Men Involvedr-
San Francisco, Cal. Abe Ruef, the
political boss of San Francisco, when
he learned that he had been indicted
on seventy-two counts in the gigantU
bribe scandal, offered to confess if
promised immunity. Theoffer was
made to Detective Burns, who is
guarding him in the San Francisco
Hotel: ,
In all the amount of money in
volved in the disclosures will reach
$1,000,000. Of this sum nearly one
half was given up by the city rail
roarls for franchises. One telephone
company, it is asserted, paid $200,
000, and another just half that sum.
Two Supervisors confessed as soon
as they -appeared before . the Grand
Jury and the others soon followed
their example. As told to the Jury,
the railroad f und jof $450,000 wa9
so divided that Ruefl got $175,000,
while the shares of the Supervisors
ran from $15,000 down to S400C
ep.ch. The Supervisors got $3000
each from one telephone company
and $750 from a gas company.
In the confessions made relativo
to the actual taking'of money by the
Supervisors it was not brought out
that Mayor Schmitz has direct con
nection with the deals made with the
members of the Board of Supervisors.
In the majority of cases Ruef-dealt
with one mac, who passed the money
out to his associates.
First, and most important was the
deal by which the United Railroads
got an overhead trolley franchise.
Ruef demanded $450,000 to carry
through the transaction. This money
was drawn iu installments calculated
to be small enough to divert sus
picion After glyi.usr $8", 000 to the Super
visors and $85,000 for a person Ruef
insisted must be taken care of, but
who mav never have received the
riwney. S2S0.000 was left to be di
vifl't between Schmitz and Ruef.
Tho corruption surroundiug the
franchise granted to the Home Tele
phone Comuany was even worse.
Another transaction was the prize
fight boodle of $20,000. Tames Coff
roth. Willus Britt, Morris Levy and
Eddie Graney, known as the "fight
trust," each subscribed $5000 to se
cure the exclusive privilege of prize
fight permits for 1906. -
GOT $90,718 FOR
WORK COSTING $2060.
Harrisburg, Pa. The ' Capitol in
vestigating committee resumed its in
quiry into the cost of the new State
Capitol. The testimony showed that
John H. Sanderson & Co., of Phila
delphia, contractors for furnishing
the Capitol, were paid by the State
X90.74S.40 for the rostrums in the
Senate and House caucus rooms.
The sub-contractor sfor this work
testified that he was paid $2060 by
Sanderson for these rostrums. The
testimony of the same sub-contractor
showed that Sanderson's profit on the
finished woodwork in fourteen other
rooms in the building amounted to
$126,645. 00.
Murray Gibson, who was an un
successful bidder against Sanderson
for the contract for decorating and
painting the building, testified that
there was a difference of $1.99 Yz'
cents a foot in favor of the State in
his bid and that of Sanderson's, and
that if the State had accepted his bid
it would have saved more than $600,
000 on this item alone and he (Gib
son) would have made a nice profit.
JACKSON DEMANDS $11',161
ALLEGED CANAL GRAFT.
Albany, N. Y: Colossal 'graft con
nected with the $101,000,000 barge
canal work has occurred, according
to Attorney-General Jackson. As a
result, he has demanded that the
New York, Ontario and Western Rail
road Company refund the State treas
ury $117,161, which the Attorney
General claims the last State canal
board decided to pay the company
without warrant of law for a brldgd
of the company, displaced by the big
canal in Oneida County.
mt. Jackson says the improvement
of the canal necessitated the' altera
tion of the railway and the rebuild
ing of the bridge across Wood Creek,
antf that it was the duty of the rail
road company to do the work at its
own expense, the State being under
no legal obligation to pay any part of
the cost.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH DEAD.
Suddenly Loses Strength After Par
tially Recovering From Operation.
Boston. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
died at his home in Mount Vernon
street, aged seventy.
Some weeks ago Mr. Aldrich un
derwent an operation at the Homoeo
pathic Hospital in this city, and al
though for a time his convalescence
was extremely slow the past two
weeks have been so promising that
the patient was removed to his home.
It was thought the change would
prove beneficial, although it was rec
ognized that his condition was still
serious.
Early next day Mr. Aldrich sud
denly became worse and gradually
lost his strength. He died about 5
o'clock.
ACCUSES A GOVERNOR.
Says South Dakota Executive is Im
plicated in Land Frauds.
Washington, D. C. Representa
tive Mann, of IUinois, has. publicly
charged the Governor of South Da
kota. Coe I. Crawford, with being
guilty of a premeditated scheme to
defraud the Government of public
lands and with evading punishment
through political influence. Mr.
Mann presents affidavits of agents of
the Interior Department and others
ineupport of 13 charges.