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Acwiy.'roHr xnoasana . Htri kj-rs are
, at Work'nt the I New "Scale of
, Wages and Further .Victories are
: Looked for before' the : tJlose of
the Day. '
XBy Leaned Wire to The -Times.)
New York, May n.The striking
4: longshoremen won a decisive victory
In Brooklyn and Jersey City today.
.. ' Michael Tarkl, the largest employ
lng stevedore In Jersey. City, went to
strike headquarters early today and
j , signed an agreement to pay the long
shoremen the new scale of 40 cento
, . an hour for day work and 60 cents
-t an hour for flight work and ; holl-
, nays, . "
' Jn Brooklyn, following the surren
der by fifteen firms of stevedores yes-
, terday. three- steamship companies
-, whose piers are In South Brooklyn,
. v surrendered today and signed agree
ments to pay the new scale,
'j Nearly 2,000 men have been rein
i'-i stated In Brooklyn at the new scale
, of wages and almost as many-In Jor-
-fsey City. , The strikers were confli
A "dent,: today ; that further' 'overture
for peace would come, ' from the
steamship lines In Manhattan before
-nightfall.- - , - s-
-V Strlkc-nreakors' VIn Kash. .
Scores of -strike-breakers who baa
' been slaving day and night since, the
' longshoremen's strike' began,, battlod
y - with tho armed ' private detectives
; stationed on the: White Star Line pier
- today lnnu effort to eaca & K
Weakened ,by long wofk, llttfe rest
Snd Improper food, they were-unable
r ' to batter down the line at the doors
of the pier, and thoy were driven
baclf into snbmission.i i . ,
Tho rush for liberty started when
one-of the strike-breakers, Angelo
I'hllllpo, collapsed " from overwork
, and was probably fatally hurt by the
; - 100-pound 'case which' he was carry
ing falling on him. ' - '
Phllllpo had worked ceaselessly for
six days and nights, with only a few
moments' of sleep sandwiched In. .
, :.:,: Just before the Codrte was due to
, sail, today, Philllpo's body, could do
no more, and he sank unconscious
under the case' ho was carrying. , '
fi During theexcitement the other
strike-breakers seized tho opportunity
; 'to escapo and rushed for the great
. .doorways. There was a short, sharp
flghtfin which tho hired guards boat
'- back.' tho weakened strike-breakers.
-Phjllfpo was sent .' to Bt, Vincent's
' Hospital,: where It was said that he
v had sustained a .fracture of the right
lea and-probably, fatal -internal lnju
'rh.."'u iii 'H i .
r THH LOCUST- APPHAK.. '
M.A COJfPKTITiV! PKlLL.
(i94 Special to The; Evening' Times.) ,
iliKjBurllngtoh, J. C; May 17. Farm--!
living a fewr miles oAth, of Bur
.fHinfrron'' hsvo ; .reported Mat .locusts
' have -put itf their appearance in that
section, usffldent ' : in i. number, 1. is
. tcared,to result in much damage. -k
A asiK fe. drill, in j Khlch, a
v largqfpct'oentnge of the enllstei li
bersii jlsSj$(f t Jii'f portlipalod,
and 'attended by a jargo aSrifl Kar of
iVMnctniarA Including' many,- ladles,
''Jv.jiJtMdSat if $ VLTh& night.
I if -.'Milan C'ikjln was I lolsuccess
v' Idf'cfcnAwAltor'aiitl waS pUtlJimed by
' the judges the- best' drilled man 'in
the company, and. -was awarded a
handsorae"vsolid gold -medal,): ta be
worn'Hintll at some future like event
'another proves -himself a. better sol
' dlor.' . ' 'm
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' tJUAnUATINQ CLASS WENT
1 ON BYMPATHETIP STRIKE.
' , (I?y Leased Wire to Tbe Times.) .:
1 Ottawa, Kns., May lWThe, members
of the hit: h school graduating class.
, lyal to one of Its. members, went on I
a striRo last nwht and refuse to al
low the common cement exercises to go
on until tho faculty .had .Issued, a di
ploma to a neglected member and had
allowed him to take his place on the
platform. ' .. '
DEATH OF A1-.I.E " .
; . .CHARLOTTE rnrsiCTAN.
';'.'-".."' - . " j congress of. Mothers were yesterday for Cannon frorrf beginning to the end.
(Special to The Evening Times.) ' 'given the freedom of Pasadena. ,Ar-iSeator Cullom thinks.' that .Cannon
Charlotte, N. C," May . nr. . Pirn- Hvlng In Pasadena from this city in-j would be: : the most appmpriattti "suc
mnns B. Jones, one of the able.it phy- the forenoon, the women .were met by'cessor to the president could have, ad
slclans of this, city, died at St. I'e-
ter's Hospital yesterday, of rheuma
tism. . ' '
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FRISCO IP ri f
IIIIUj III llljfl.lil lv v : :
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Office ttf Mayor.. Surrepdjr
AN INDICTMENT FOUND
Such, at Least, thcrport tt Is
Said That Not Only Schmits Bat
Four Officials f the United Railr
roods Have Been Indicted by'; the
Grand Jury.
(By. Leased Wire to: The Times.)
San Francisco,- Cal., May " IT.-
Charged by "Abe" Ruef before the
grand Jury with: receiving a bribe of
$B0,00a from 4be United Railroads
Company, Mayor Schmitc has' reltn-
quishod the. reins of San Francisco
government to a committee of seven,
representing the live- great commer
cial organizations of the ci(y. ' . ,
The capitulation .of the mayor Is
complwto. i He has transferred in writ
ing his authority, tantamount to a
power of attorney, - to the .following j
Dohermann, Percy T. Morgan, P.iW.
Van Slcklen, Louis E. Rosonfeld,
C. B. Beptley and Charles W Slack,
v Todnxhe details- of the plant of
tiift city's now eustodlans wUl.be made
publlcus x )ui - ,f '
Thisflt npB all tho troutlo In store
for Mayor Schmita. : Fpllowing Ruefs
story to-the grand Jury, which bared
all .details of ,blg bribery and boodle
(ylots, nnd,-it .la jlficlarcd.-acouKed the
iveatt: ouiciais oi puDIlc, service corno-"j
rations,; a movement .was started kq pf'the republican party in-Illinois, will
farce the mayor to resign 'nd U :. InJ receive, the, solid backing of 'the Illl
tall Frederlolr,: W,T'DoUi)rmann, Bf'-n(8 aelegatkin in theatipnat cohven-
prominent wnoiesaio merennnt, in tne
mayor's chair. It was reported today
tdatltfiif feVnnclI jijrri befores mljonfn-
nwuirBsuv'gni. vji'ieii a new in,jict-
ment against MayoVScWi.audttlso
'fndrotmepjs nprtBst four hjgji officials
ot tflo IjtoiJ IiUlryad3 Qowpany. V '
Over a flnndrcd Conversions. ;.
(Special' to' The- Evening TlmesA ; t
Stntesvill; Vt; May lf.-A vei?n-,ldw,TA 8Uch talk.
successful 'revival meeting hlch hasj Kenator Shelby. M,tCtillom," of ,1111
been: in progress about two weeks at nols, 'declared yesterday .he ..was , lined
Race' Street Methodist Church, 'con- . up In the movement designed te'ptac
ducted bv Rev. E. C: Glenn of Greens-
boro closed lABt night, and about one
hundred ot more have given - their 1
names as candidates for1 membership
In tho chnrch. - . .:: -"J i s
AN OVTIAU IU TK . .' f
CONGRESS OF MOTHERS.
"'):,; '. .in - 1 ' - ill j Representatives Prince and: Chapman.
' (By Leased. Wire to The Tlmes.); J of Illinois, both of whom declared on
Los Angeles, Cal.,, May. ;.17Three! Wednesday that the Illinois delcga)
hundred delegates of the National tloft to the convention would . vote solid
enrrltifres, automobiles and tallyhos. .
Bu i ui "1 shortly , before nooh
fvt n il "e about the city.
werp
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Photographs of three society .wo
men who are "taking ', part in the
1 1 . ' ' v . ' i
ACtors- una r ir. , incu .
high- road to success. In tho .tapper
left is photograph of Mm. John A.
Drake, who has charge of a popular
booth;, on wp!H?i'' Wght is a: photei
gcaph of Miss 1 Rose Stahl, Who I
Working hard to make, the Fund
Pair sncccas, and: below, on. f the
right is-a photograph M Miss Mando
Knowlton, . and . oi uie assuiani nt
Mrs. Prako'S booth.
CANNON'S DOOM
, Wi PRESIDENT
S'.rV
P3jk. Leased WlrO to The Times.)
Washington. -May, It "Uncle Joe
Cannon,"' according to" the war. horses
tlon next Vear fo Boad the nresldeatlal
ticket,. The Cannon boom for'presl-
dlmtt theee admirers, of ha, speaker de-
, j ,L ' '-
cla.rfiiha JHfh -
'pcrlment. a4 there is ho sropplng' the
tMts In .tilfj favor. - Friends and support
brs of, f'tpjpsj J" scout jcjrltfi great
emphasis the Idea that he is In league
with the 'reactionary forces, -and
hiqn of -farrfei m Mie republican party
Speaker Cannon-? at the head or, the
ticket" to succeed president Roosevelt
nd ,,nutron5fh4l" an,!a A11'.119
speaker could be termed a reaction
ary." 1 (,!C'i':.V
0.m . f.11s,m ' vt. ',,I.U4 , .1..
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with the iresl(tent. said he was ! In
''sympathy with the views expressed by
eIfPVes tne movement to put. Mm at
the nemi or me ticket is steadily gain'
lng grotinO.' . r - , ' ...
:. Ia,
,vy : erim Reiidrt on its
Tn. Chariotte ,4srinnt Has Been
J Acted i 'ib5!:; Eighy-Kive Presby
'Jleon ) ffprned-f Ovor to a Special
Comtniff ee'by the Assi'mbly.
(By.; Leased' Wire to The Times )
Birmingham, AIsL May n. The fore
noon, SBficlon' of the general assembly
qf tlio Southern Prcsbyierlnn Churetl
was cane' to ordor uy Dr. Mceili Ma
I Kay, of Fdrt' Bmfth. Ark. Shortly at
tr hl8 Modefator Howcrton took the
ehalr and road, i the standing comhilt
tees and the chalnrien of the most lm
portnnt committees.
The. -prenentAUoit of the elphty-nvc
reports from nresbyt cries on the Charj
Iatt- aCTccmnnt provoked Immedlatetv
lively niuinimt as to tho method of
proeeduro;' Pr. J, 8. Lyons, Dr. F.. BL
GlaRfepw; Ir. Tnon,lBml. and Pr. Me-
vheotera leading' the discussion. Pend
ing discussion, greetings were received
from: thn Cwrq norland Presbyterian
firfvnArni iitflflointilV In lieftfiinn ni Tlvoil..
.The) report, of the theological sernt-
nnry at, icin(nij was also presented.
. Thk. presbytery renorts on the Char.
lotte agreemmit were finally placed in
vuarKB,.;. ui. . q i-oniinuiee con?.
slating of a minister and layman; 'from
eachVgytmd, with special Instructions
to report ' n- the' constitutionality of
the agreement).:' '-
Texaikan, :. Ark., Atlantic City,
Loulpv)ll nnd Denver "bonster olubs'
ttnded Invitations for the. next as
sembiy. . Among? the overtures present
ed : teda:- was 4on froht ; the .' foreign
mission board ssklnu that bantism be
reftjsed 7hosantrtsgsn:
IMdwM..ptM'1tyUnX'fW;.':
Aj permanent committee:!' on. temper
ance la asked for by several presby
teries. The Tuscaloora, AI. presbyr
tery asks for further aid for BtiUmas
: Institute for the education - of negro
ministers and white evangelists to b
placed. In the negro evangeltstle ,tle)d.
The chairmen of the. moat Important
committees appointed aretas foUowst:
Bills and Overtures.' Pr. . , A'b- '
I Halt, ' Nashville; JudiclaV ; Dr". Egbert
smith, Kentucky; Foreign Correspond?
i ence, on.' rnomas- mcttae.-. rKapsarj
j Foreign Missions, Dr. OlusseU Cecil;
Vlrgmia: Home Mlslsons.' Rev.cW J
Alexander, Louisiana, M j TnnllcJttlon,
Rev. Ncal Anderson, Alabama: "Minis
terlal Education, BrJ M.i . IX";. fiardlh,
Kentucky; Colored f' Evatigellsatio
Rev. D. Clay Lilly, South s Carolina;
Theological Seminary, vW. " C. Camp
bell, Virginia: Assembly Home " -and
Schools. Rev. J. B. Mark; . Atlanta
Women's ' Societies, Jf Joseph" Rennie,
Virglnta; Narratives? Frank-Wa Lewis,,
Bible Cause. James . P.,' Smith, .' Vir
ginia. 4;-;''-"'-
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i ; The Northern Assembly j:i ;j'
By Leased Wire ttf? The Times.)
. Qbhimbus, O., May if .Despite: the
tact that the generaliProsbyterian A
rembly began Its sessions 'Thursday
with the transaction!, of some business
and . considerable . preliminary Work,
the formal opening. did not take plaoe
until this morning when the, assembly
was. welcomed to th city by Governor
Harris and Mayor Banger. .
The work of the assembly proper be
gan at 10 o'clock, with - the. presenta
tion of reports by -various standing
committees. At the meeting of woman-s
board of home missions the work. in
Mexico '-was discussed by MissHMary
Rassell; Alaska by Mrs. E. 0 Camp
bell; Cuba by Rev. James- McAllister,
and the Indians by Revv F. 8. Hern-
The general assembly elected as Its
moderator for this year ( Rev. ,W.- H.
Robertson, Philadelphia, no opposition
at all being made to hlra. Ir.' Charles
Manton, of Parts, Texas, . wap, named
as vice moderator, - , .
SEATS' GO UOWN WITH V ...
,'..:-; '' HUNDREDS. OF VEOPLB.
V;. '-. . -;-4i -iwi-ff .4
' ( Tty, Leased Wire to The Tlrnn.) . ;
' Clay City, Indk,' May 17Uurlng
a circus performance her last night,
k -section of seat gave way., nreclpl-,
Uting 250 persons to ' tha ground.
About twenty vpeopl .were - Injured;
flv seriously $ For a tints the audl
ence was on the -verge of a panlci ."v;
CmZBNS OF APEX WILL
i . : votk rii;tAij cauoij tax.
Superlhtendettf 'Joyner and Captain
Duckett went to Apex yesterday after
noon, and-spoke,' there, last: night . In
the' lnteresfe of the-i local tax .election
which is to be. held there In the peat
few days.' Indications point to th
elrtctloa-belns carried, by. substantial
majority., as the people of. Apex, have
mi Intention ?bf iltnrrlnir: behlad-ln
the greattedacatlonal iiA-mnit which
1
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as by mor OF
it
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flage JccklteSa Bridge
4 MV-XPC'ASim-
usa nssjnj i rain
:
PiltUTDBE
J;':-, j'.f . ii ..V, jf r.:'-':" v?
Three Men jtillWl Outright and Three
'Destroyed-..-' ' and j
OtliMr;
Rain
. FroUjsht!by tfib FoK-fhf the Dyna-
(Ry Leased W,lm to The Tlmrs.)
CJiattanooga, Tofttt. May -17.
Three mert kiled outrfeht, two others
seriously Injured ,and three badly In
iJurody & addition to the crashing of
tho. Southern Railway freight engine
No)' 30C and eleven cars through a
brlIgo into Chattanooga creek, the
destruction, or. a pile driver of the
K,"ftf: -fcf.&c. h. Railroad, a half dozen
cabin cars Or tho same road, and the
partial destruction of threo residences
is .the record of" death and do'struc
thn following in tho wake of a pre-
jhjature explosion of a- blast On the
Stevenson extension' of tho Southern
HallWaY, near the mouth of the tun
nel CthroUgh Lookout Mountain, at
p::;ieioek yesterday afternoon.
According to eye-Witttesses; the
Southern Railway freiBt train which
1b. known as first No. . 1$ wa on the
eastern" approach ot the bridge Just a
second" prOylous; to the' hurting of a
iw-n. v rftguiufi v ui ctt . lvaib ; vu tun
bmg&'W&nmi-ft 'thtraii..j,The
engine eMttj',iwnt1(r0a
Into the ereeki-ompletely -atllhg the
streaia jafewjuiaWjIehj, nginoer.
McMahoo who war ou on the run
hlhjg boftrd Hlde f he boiler' of itho
engine, managed Ho J6mp o the. aafe
Side' of ' .the l bridge as ;1t Crashed )
through The: negro fireman, is up-
posed to have Jumped into the creek
'The dead; 'Xty''-.
M'illlam Hydw. residence "' Alton
Parki fireman of N. (D. & St. L. pile
W river. . V r v
i.Cllnt Schafer, Dickson, Tenn.. en'
glneer of the pile driver. '
Henry Fitzgerald negro fireman on
Southern Railway,
The seriously Injured:
r Chris Costa,. Greek laborer.
-Tfandell : Brothers, skull crushed,
may die.
Chris Goorge, Greek laborer.
Yaadell Brothers, skull crushed.
Injured: ( I ;
Samuel P. McMahqn, Tnscambla,
engineer Southern Railway, ' ribs
broken, bruised.' about hedi( t , ; Hi
Styles John, Greek laborer; bruised
about head and body.
Peter John, Greek laborer, bruised
about head and legs, i;? rr'
Hocks were hurled. In every diree-
Wpn, some going Into the -midst of
gangs of laborers and others striking
houses 600 yards away. The man
who touched ' oft the blast has dis
appeared. - ; ... " ..' . ' "
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COLUMBIA WILL ROW '
i ' . V AGAINST ANNAPOLIS.
By .Leased WIreVo The Times.)
New York. May: If. The Columbia
Varsity crew left this morning for Am
napolls, where they wlll-jrow tUe An
napolis crew tomorrow.' : The Colum
bia, men slnee thehr-defeat of Harvard
last Saturday 'are confident ' they will
beat, the1 middles. - .
Jsf '4''" (.'lt 1
(By.'Leased -Wlr to The Times.) ' -Deg
Moines,' la MajT' If .Two
more tragedies were "added to' the
Suicide Ciab list yet(Wirday,when two
.women "both said"; to bsr'menibetB of
the.tsiub;' ehded-'theif- lives, M Both
took, carbolic, acrd at 8,o,clock, in fthO
mortilnlfc'" ahd both-'are .' deaoi. ! The
list 6 victims Of the clttb how. num
ber eight, it Miss Lid Golden; daugh
of, a farmer near iTJagler,: Iowa,
awaUowedr the- poison. -( Saei wati de-
kpotfdettt. i Mitt' Katta Keasler-took
the same poison at the same.'bbur in.
loa 'Cny.-NotOrrety' over a lawsuit
wn's givieit aHhercatiBe. C
- FltzRimmom to Fight Negro., ,
f (Btf Prised' Wir-t Ttte Tildes 1
"New. YftrkV: May lTj-Bv Sttssim-
inews) today lsssedra ehallenge -te? fight
Jek Joknsonn the- negro. tr.v " t -1, U
EXPLOSION 1VII4T
ANTI-TIIEODOIIE
?iM'i'i?y ,ri-.:'J..i:i-.;;. f,,, jf;, ---;2
iPIBLOM
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GoDveoliOQ
THIS PORTENDS
I'Pr:
If This Convention Lines Vp Soljdly
Against the Administration,, the
President's Plan for Contro,f the
National . Convention Will be
Kaoeked fnto a Cocked Hat.
.'.,... - "
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, May 17. Oa June
18, 1 and 20, In Denver, will be
held a convention of 2,000 delegates.
which csuld be accurately described
as the trans-Mississippi Anti-Roose
velt Convention.
The national administration knows
what is going on, and is fighting at
every point In the effort ito secure
control: of ' the convention. It is
realized that If - this convention, in
Its discussions and resolutions, by
substantially unanimous expression
lines up against the administration.
the 'president's plans for. control of
the national convention In 1908; for
nomination of Taft.and for perpetua
tlon of Roosevelt policies, will have
received a blow far more severe than
any yet delivered. f
: Governor Henry A. Buchtel, ;, Of
Colorado, called the convention, In
pursuance of a resolution . adopted
by the Colorado legislature last , win
ter. " That resolatlon - wasJ adopted
by the same legislature which elected
Simon Guggenheim to, ; be ' United
States senator. " Ouggenhulm is
member of the famous Guggenheim
family that ' controls ;the -Bmelter
trnM. Jtt is'Alleged that tha. jUust,
In league with the powerful business
interests of the inter-mountain coun
try, is interested1 in the movement,
j" i'The Cnufof hev Matter, r,
r At te: bdttomVbf ,,thV troAblef is
the policy of activei persistent war
fare On big Interests that have been
charged; with getting--' -special ad'
Vantages out of the pHblie lands. At
the1 same time, the policy of hedging
off forest reserves has been carried
to a point ; widely regarded as ex
treme. The forest reserve policy is
not Popular In the west: It is
charged that an empire bigger than
Prance is bow laid oft in forest re
serves. Senator Clark of Montana
charges that - the administration of
forest reserves and of other public
lands Is driving the American immi
gration' to Canada.
In short, land fraud prosecutions
have alienated the big Interests, and
the forest' reserve policy with the
restriction.-of public land entries
and alienated many of the plain peo
ple of the west. By skilful handling
of these elements it is hoped at the
Denver convention to get the west
squarely on record as opposing the
administration.
Forester Gilford Pinchot, whom
the western senators described last
winter as the "feudal lord of a do
main larger than France, and more
absolute ruler of it than the car Is
of Russia" will go, and will make
Trojan efforts to stem the tide of
opposition to himself and the presi
dent It Is expected that . Commis
sioner Bellinger of the general land
office will address the gathering and
that many other representatives of
the administration Iwil take par ,
QUEST FOR EDWARDS,
HISS SCOTT IS GONE
.H.-4.llnf '
(By Leased Wine to The Times.)
Washington, D. C, May 17.-Central
office detectives are stilt scouring the
city: for, Colonel Charles A; Edwards,
a welt -known newspaper correnpond
ent and secretary of the democratic
congressional campaign ' committee,
who they charge, stabbed Senor Al
elandro.Carlaod.t -an ' attache of the
Peruvian legation ' earlyt ; Thursday
morning: as a result of rtvalrly over a
young Woman named Louise Bcott.' ' "
The search for ? Colonel Edwards
by vtha . detectives :. continued all : last
night' and wHl?- be f ' preseeuted ' ' with
vigor today, the 'police apparently.-l-
Ins4etrtMnea to gOvto ihe bttom of.
the affair and prosecute, even if Mr.
Garland fails to make a complaint.
The whereabouts ot. MIsst Scott, re
mains a mystery. It is Believed-," how
ever that, after reaching the De Soto,
she .packed up her. belongings and left'
town;, r,- "V. I . t "
llEfiLtsit:
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,'. V-'-- ' - ' ' ;. "'.'" -'-:'."' ') ".,:'!&. . '
Rnef Says He "Gave-the Mayor Fifty ,
' Tholislind" Dollars Atf Mis fciose H'f ;
V bf ""tiim'l8loir. Rue Sinks "feeieatj ti t j.
the' ' Wright of His VghAiae And .' '
Gnnt.' II
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
San Francisco, Cal., Mayr17. Abram :.
Ruers latest confession to 'the grand v
jury Is that he'sold fhe overhead trol-,
ley privileges f San Francisco to Pat-
rick Calhoun for 1200,900" In cold cash.
He . swore on his oath ' that out of '.
this bribe moneys he had paid Mayor
Schmita 150.000 for bis ffictar sanction ,
to the secret sale. -'He confessed that -
he had given $100,000 to the fuperv!s
ors as payment for. tbelr votes: in pass
lng the ordinance-legalising what be
and Mayor Schmits had" done. f ':':u:-.:-'
Pale and "broken, he : was scarcely '
able to tell his story upon the witness
stand. His voice "broke when he con-
f eased to ; the 'compact I with r' Mayor a
Schmits. His eyes were swollen With " '.
teaTs as hs told how Tlrey ti Ford. '
of the United. Railroads,1 had paid him '
the money out of his: own. hands, for
Tlrey J"ord had - always - been 1 Ruefs
close friend, and- It burned his soul W -bring
this man to a sure Indictment :
for his " crime. - V' ' 1, '.
When" ha had finished J with the
United - Railways he nearly t fell : from- .
his Chair. Four " granA Jurors - rtiahed
to help. him and .held ;hlm, until ha - -
could . regain sufficient,, strength -'to
standalone. ' - "J'i'.c
"My Qod," said Grand ,, Juror-ties e ,
Coffln, thts Is awful.' I never want to
pass through another hour lffe this," -
;,!.. ma. screngtd, ione. ,:
Euef stood in ths' grand Jury room
for ten minutes before he could trust
himself to walk to the street.- To test
ify further was Impossible,'-his strength ,
was gone, and further racking meant '
couapse.
But proud as ever, Ruef. walked oat
Into the halt front whers 'sat the news ' -paper
men, giving ' no sign of the tor. '
tures of the hour, within the. grand Jury
chamber" He smiled ths.. same .smlls
that ever made interviewing him sj .
pleasure, and nodded -cheerfully to v,
those he knew there," He got Into this
automobile quickly and' rode away
with Detective Burns' and Elisor Big-. '
gy. 1 Only when ' outiof sight -' did : hs
lean back In the tohneau-. and close
his eyes as though trying to hide from :t
his sight the memory of the. day. ' And
the, gcand Jury, adjourned a Short time -afterward.
The members walked' sol- , '
emnly from the chamber without "ths
usual jesting to. the halLv' Th awful 7
spectacle of a powerful man's break- ' '
lng down before their eyes had on-1
nerved them. ,
Kuef will appear again today. s -"Please
don't ask u any questions,"
said Some of ths, grand Jurors.': Ruefs .'
confession implicated Patrick Cal
houn and Tirey Ford. It also involved ' '
although to a lesser degree William '
Abbott, who. Is a member of Tirey
Ford's legal staff. ' . i
The confession was complete as .to :
details. It outlined every step taken
from the time the first money was paid ' .
to Ruef by Ford until the last pay
ment had been placed In James , L.
Gallagher's hands ' to be distributed (
among the. supervisors. t . . . "
THE; BAPTISTS
OUtlfPllCE
(By Leased Wire teXThe times.) , v
Richmond.. Va- May. It. The South-
ern Baptist Generals convention, which .
opened , its sessions here-lSst night re-; :
opened this mbrnlngr at-1 9:80 o'clock, '.
Harry A Pollard, flirst vles-presldetit, .
presiding.--i FTre' thouaaWlw delegates
attendeds. The raomlagf Was spent in
hearing th reports of:tb' borne mis-
slon, foreign mission and Sunday .
school boards, all of . which "showed
increased accompjlshment over '- last :
Jsx,-k-''ir-''.?t!fi r
Rev.'! Goode,. president Of the Vir- .
glnia Baptist Aaoseiattom colored,-was '
Invited to address the convention. He
acknowledged the great aid of - white
Bftpttsts-1" evaneHMK' Work among ,
hl racej ai-'hromlseV, hearty co-op-ertioa.i
Thar Rev. Dnv, t. B. Haw
theme. addreaeedn th' gathering ,' on .
Some things on which It behooves
Baptists of this generation to put su
preme -emphaslsr . There- waa much
complaint of the bad accoustlcs of ths
Mew auditorium and many 'left ' tho
hail because they were unable to hear. ,
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