KMIEI SUNK BY
JAPANESE WARSHIP
Two Russian Cruisers Off The Seal
Islands.
CAPTURE OF JAPANESE SEALERS.
The Trouble Over Japanese Seal Poach
ers Likely to Become Critical at Any
Time Crew of Japanese Sealing Ves
sels Attacks the Kussian Shore Patrol
at a Blockhouse.
Victoria, B. C., (By Cable).?Ac
cording to advices by the Empress
of Cbina, which arrived Tuesday, a
telegram to Japanese newspapers
front Vladivostok reports great ex
citement occasioned there by the re
port that the converted Russian
cruisers Sitka and Kellma, which
have been doing patrol duty at the
seal rookeries of Copper Island, were
sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the
neighborhood of the seal Islands.
Washington.?No confirmation of
the Victoria report that two Rus
sian converted cruisers had been
sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the
neighborhood of the seal islands can
be had at the State Department or
The Russian and Japanese Embassies
here. Unofficial reports are to the
effect that there has been friction
between the Russian guards patroll
ing the seal rookeries in the neigh
borhood of Copper Island and Japan
ese seal poachers similiar to the fric
tion which has arisen in the case
of our own seal islands, and the offi
cials would not be usrprised if blood
shed resulted off Copper Island as in
the case of the Pribilov Islands.
One report was that the crew of
a Japanese sealing vessel had at
tached the Russian shore patrol, fir
ming repeatedly at the blockhouse in
which the latter sought refuge. In
return the Russian cruisers have cap
tured several Japanese sealing ves
sels and hard feeling has resulted,
because the Japanese claim that they
were unlawfully seized outside of the
three-mile limit, and the fishermen
have called upon their own govern
ment for protection.
So the situation is regarded here
as one that might readily become
critical in case a Japanese warship
should fall in with a Russian cruiser
carrying off a prize of this kind.
TO KILT/ KING OK ITALY.
Two Suspected Italians From Tren
ton, Y. J.
Naples (By Cable).?What the pol
ice say was a most skillfully planned
plot to assassinate King Victor Em
manuel of Italy and the Duke and
Duchess of Aosta was nipped in the
bud here by the arrest of two Ital
ians, recent arrivals from Paterson, I
N. J.
The arrest was made by Italian
police upon cabled information from
New York detectives engaged on the
case for several weeks. One of the
men was to have slain the King and
Ihe other man was commissioned to
kill the Duke and Duchess.
It is declared that the details of
the assassination were all worked out
at a recent meeting of the "reds" in
Paterson. The New York police were
tipped off, but their "quarry" had
flown. The result was that the Ital
ian police took up the case, but did
not locate the men until Tuesday.
Neither of the prisoners will talk,
their lodging, at which they expect
to find evidence which may lead to
additional arrests in America.
Cuts His Wife's Tlioat.
Richmond, Va. (Special). ? Mrs.
Jas. Wilcher, 1G years of age, who
had been married two years, had her
throat cut from ear to ear by her
husband, whom she had left because
of his cruel treatment of her and
who committed tjie deed after futile
effort at reconciliation. The woman
was discovered at the home of her
husband by her mother, Mrs. S. J.
Woody, with whom she had been liv
ing since abandoning her husband's
home.
Ten Millions Involved.
Washington (Special).?The gov
ernment filed a brief in the Supreme
Court asking for the dimissal of the
gigantic suit brought against the
United States by the State of Kansas
to gain possession of the odd-num
bered sections of land adjoining the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroal
line, in Indian Territory, aggregating
in value $10,000,000.
One of Twins Dies At 1)1.
Amsterdam, "N. A*. (Special).?
Jacob Steen died at th? home of his
granddaughter here in his ninety-first
year. He and his brother Walter, of
Syracuse, who was at his bedside
when he passed away, were the old
est twins in the United States. The
Steens were born May 19. 1816, in
the town of Florida, a few miles from
here.
Building Trades' Strike.
Mobile, Ala. (Special).?All the
building contractors of Mobile Mon
day declared for the open-shop basis.
As a result 1,500 men in the build
ing trades' refused to work. Only
one firm acceeded to the demand for
a closed shop.
New Hotel < "ollapses.
Long Beach, Cal., (Special).?The
new Bixby being erected on the beach
here caved in supposedly from weak
construction, and possibly a score of
men are burled in the ruins. The
buitding is of reinforced concrete.
The whole structure caved in with
out warning from )he basement to
the fourth floor, leaving but one wing
standing. Estimates of the number
of dead range from 10 to 25.
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.
Harry K. Thaw has engaged Del
phin M Del mas. a famous Calitornia
criminal lawyer, to defend him at
a fee, is it said, of $100,000. The
unwritten law will be the defense.
Josiah Dale, a farmer, was mur
dered in his buggy near Bellefonte.
Pa. His horse brought the vehicle
to the barn with his body hanging
from It.
J. R. Zimmerman pleaded guilty
to conspiracy to wreck a national
bank in Ohio and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years.
Alexander R. Chisolm. paying tel
ler of the First National Bank of Bir
mingham, Ala., who defaulted for
$100,000, was placed on trial.
Secretary Metcalf has finished an
investigation of the Japanese ques
tion in San Francisco and will soon
report to the President.
The National Congress on Cniforni
Divorce Laws has drafted a measure
to be submitted to the legislature of
all the States.
A freight broker, a railroad freight
agent and a grain dealer were arrest
ed in Kansas City and charged with
rebating.
President Tuttle, of the Boston
and Maine Railroad, declares rail
road rate legislation is a step to
ward socialism.
Ktuico Pavone shot and killed
Nunziato Legato In crowded Mott
Street, New York.
The president' of the New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company
secured an injunction from the court
at Frankfort, Ky., restraining the
State Commissioner from revoking
the company's license to do business
in the Kentnekv field
Frederick Schaffhauser, a civil en
gineer, was shot and fatally wounded
in the City Hall of Philadelphia by
Frederick Homberger, a pumping
station employe, who accused the en
gineer of wrecking his home.
Miss Nellie O'Reilly, an opera sing
er, was awarded $i 5,000 damages
in a breech of promise suit against
Dennis Sweeney, a wealthy resident
of Long Island.
An inspection of work on the
Panama Canal by the combined mer
cantile organizations of the Fnited
States is proposed.
Five incendiary night fires in the
heart of New York caused a panic
among thousands and death of a
woman from shock.
John Price Wetherill, of Philadel
phia, who amassed a fortune in?zine,
died in Philadelphia.
New York detectives found a child
who had been chained to a corncrib
for a year and a half.
The Standard Oil Company has
raised the pay of all employes from
5 to 10 per cent.
The special federal grand jury
convened in Minneapolis, Minn., to
examine into the alleged rebating
system in use by railroads, and re
turned 147 indictments. The mini
mum penalty in each case is $1,000
and the maximum $2,000.
In a shooting affair at Money,
Miss., L. J. Henderson, a prominent
merchant and planter, was instantly
killed by A. J. Money, a brother of
United States Senator Money. Money
was also shot, but is not seriously
wounded.
A powder magazine owned by the
E. I. Du Pont Company and situated
at Tinley Park, near Chicago, ex
ploded with such force that window
panes were broken in the home of
the Midlothian Club, three miles dis
tant.
A receiver was appointed in Al
bany for the North German -Fire In
surance Company of New York,
which was crippled by the San Fran
cisco fire.
Proceedings were instituted in
Scranton, Pa., against three railroad
companies for failing to have the re
quired safety appliances on trains.
Tulic Larrinaga, Unionist candi
date for commissioner, of Porto Rica
to the United States Congress, was
elected by a majority of 4 2,000.
Foreign.
Resolutions will shortly be intro
duced in the Reichstag calling for a
tariff with the United States upon the
expiration of the present agreement,
June 30, next.
Nansen, the Norwegian explorer,
praises Explorer Peary for his latest
achievement and expresses the belief
that the intrepid American will yet
reach the Pole.
Prince Albert of Flanders, heir
apparent to the Belgian throne and
nephew of King Leopold, was sworn
in as a member of the Belgian Senate
with imposing ceremony.
Mile. Benevsky, daughter of a Rus
sian ex-governor general, has been
sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
for participation in a plot to kill
General Dubassoff.
Gerard A. Lowther, the British
minister at Tangier, is mentioned as
the possible successor of Sir Morti
mer Durand as ambassador of Great
Britian at Washington.
The socialists in the French parlia
ment having been assured that the
government will firmly enforce the
separation law. have decided to sup
port the ministry.
The police of Naples arrested two
Italians just arrived from Paterson,
N. J., and claim to have thus upset
a conspiracy to assassinate the King.
President Castro of Venezula is
] demented and reported to be gra
j dually sinking.
M. uriana, r rencn minister or
public worship, announced in the
Chamber of Deputies that the gov
ernment would give the clericals
another year for reflection, and that
.the churches would not be closed
next month.
Prince Albert, of Flanders, nephew
of King Leopold, has been declared
successor of the King as sovereign
of the Congo Independent State.
Karl Hau, of Washington, D. C..
is still held in London on charge of
murdering his wife's mother, Frau
Molitor, at Baden-Baden.
Count Castellane's creditors are
trying their utmost to prevent the
granting of a divorce until their case
is settled.
James M. James, of New York,
who is studying trades unionism in
Russia, was arrested in St. Peters
burg.
FIFTY PEOPLE KILLED
IN RAILROAD COLLISION
The Immigrants Had Embarked at
Baltimore, Md.
CREMATED IN THE BURNING CARS.
Somebody'ii Blunder Caused a Disas
trous Wreck on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Near Woodville. Ind.
? A Freight Crashes Into the Immi
grant Train.
Chicago, (Special).?Fifty persons
are known to have been trapped and
burned to death and 80 others seri
ously injured in a head-on collision
early Monday near Woodville, lud.,
18 miles front Chicago, in which a
Baltimore and Ohio immigrant train
was smashed by a fast freight train.
The wreck resulted from the lack
of proper signals on the tlrst section
of the immigrant train, the Baltimore
and Ohio officials say.
All but ona of the six cars on the
passenger train were burned, and
all but six of the bodies were in
cinerated.
Besides the Immigrants, the casual
ties included Frank Rennerman, pas
senger engineer, and Albert Cullers,
passenger fireman, killed and Sam
Mose, passenger conductor; William
Snyder, baggageman, and Anthony
Burke, freight engineer, injured.
1 illrut II Bi'Voml Bceogllllloll.
One hundred and sixtv-flve passen
gers were on the train. Ot these 50
were either killed outright or were
burned to death in a fire that broke
out in the wreckage immediately af
ter the collision. The names of all
the dead will probably never be
known, as 45 of the bodies wera con
sumed in flames or were so badly
burned that identification will he out
of the question.
Thirty-eight people were injured,
and several of these will die. Eighty
others escaped unhurt, hut lost nearly
all their baggage and clothing. The
disaster was caused by a blunder of
some employe of the railroad com
pany, but just where the blame lies
has not as yet been determined.
The passenger train, which was
loaded with Russians. Servians and
Poles, all of them recent arrivals and
bound for Chicago or places in the
Northwest, was the second section
of a through train from Baltimore.
Somebody Blundered.
The engineer of the freight, train
No. 96, on instructions received at
McCool, Ind., waited at a siding at
Babcock, Ind., to allow the immi
grant train to pass. One report is that
the engineer of the freight train had
not been informed that the passenger
train was running in two sections:
the other is that the first section of
the passenger train carried no lights
or signals of any kind indicating that
a second section was close behind:
As soon as the first section of the
immigrant train had passed the
switch at Babcock, the freight, in
charge of Engineer Burke and Con
ductor Meste, started eastward. A
light snow was falling, which in
creased the darkness of the early
morning, and as the freight was
rounding a sharp curve just west
of Woodville the second section of the
immigration train came in sight a
short distance away, tearing toward
Chicago at the rate of forty miles
an hour. The two trains came to
gether with unslackened speed, and
in the crash six passenger coaches
and several freight cars were knock
ed into kindling wood, and, together
with the locomotives, went rolling
down the 10-foot embankment.
Imprisoned And Cremated.
Fire broke out almost immediately
in the wreckage, and although a
number of injured were saved by
desperate efforts of the crew and
survivors, the greater part of those
who were pinned down in the debris
were burned to death.
MURDERED AND HOME ROBBED.
Woman Found With Her Thoat Cut
And Head Battered.
Stafford Springs, Ot., (Special).?
Mrs. Henry Williams, about 50 years
old. was found murdered in her
home, near here. Robbery, appar
ently, was the motive, and the mur
derer is believed to be a tramp. The
body of Mrs. Williams was found
lying near a stove on the floor of the
kitchen of her house, with the throat
cut, head battered and a towel twist
ed around the neck. Near the body
lay a knife and a club.
The woman died after a hard
struggle with her assailant, who, it
is thought, struck her down with a
club and then cut her throat, after
which the towel was wound about
her neck.
Following the murder the man
made a systematic search for money,
for the house was thoroughly ran
sacked and a trunk in an upstairs
room was broken open and about
$100 in money taken from it. Part
of the money, later, was found on
the lawn in front of the house.
The husband of the murdered
woman, who had been away from
home, discovered the body.
Curzon Humor Unfounded.
London (By Cable).?In connec
tion with the rumors from America
that Lord Curzon, the ex-Viceroy of
India, is to succeed Sir Mortimer
Durand as Ambassador of Great
Britain at Washington, the Foreign
Office here says there is absolutely
no foundation for the reports.
The Currency Problem.
Washington (Special).?The cur
rency committee of the American
Bankers' Association, appointed in
pursuance to a resolution adopted at
the St. Louis meeting, will assemble
here this week to discuss a plan for
a more elastic hanking currency. The
committee will consider various
propositions. It is expected that
Secretary Shaw and Comptroller of
the Currency Ridgely wilt address
the meeting before the final adjourn
ment.
THE SAGE MILLIONS
WILL GO TO THE POOH
Not For The Churches, But Worthy
Individuals.
THE WIDOW TO KEEP BUT LITTLE.
Mrs. Russell Sagr to Distribute the
Eighty Millions Bequeathed Her
by Her Husband Says Endowed
Churches Are Indifferent and Negli
gent Annoyed By Letters.
New York, (Special).?Mrs. Bus
sell Sage will give away the bulk of
the fortune of about $St),000,000 be
queathed to her by her late husband
to individuals whom she considers
worthy. It will not bo given to en
down churches nor to those who write
begging letters.
"1 shall keep only sufficient of the
fortune left to me by my husband
to live quietly and comfortably," Mrs.
Sage said Monday.
"The fact that churches are endow
ed put them beyond the necessity of
work, thus making them Indifferent
and negligent along the lines where
Christian institutions should do the
most good. I mean to give to those
individuals whom I think worthy.
When I have left only enough to live
comfortably perhaps I may not be
annoyed by persons indelicate enough
to beg for help, as I am now.
"I wish to help men and women
of the higher or lower walks of life
who, through no fault of their own,
are so unfortunate as to need assis
tance and too proud to ask. Such
persons I deem it a pleasure, a privi
lege and duty to aid. Persons who
were faithful and kind to Mr. Sage
will be remembered, as I know he
wished me to do so. In all my plans
I am carrying out his desires, I am
certain."
Mrs. Sage said that she will do all
she can, however, for struggling
churches and institutions devoted to
the care of the needy and sick.
She declared that she intended to
buy a home for a clerk in a railroad
office who was kind to Mr. Sage. The
bodies of her paternal grandparents,
now burled on a farm near Troy, will
be removed to a cemetery in that
eitv, and the burial-place of her ma
ternal grandparents, in Sag Harbor,
L. I? will be cared for.
THE STUDENTS LEAVE
Centenary College Forced To
Close I ts Doors.
New Orleans, La.,(Special).?Cen
tenary College, at Jackson, La., lias
closed its doors permanently In con
sequence of the feuds in the faculty,
the resignation of its president, who
is still lying in a critical condition
from wounds inflicted by a professor
of physics in a fight, and the with
drawal of all its students.
The college was the oldest In
Louisiana, having been founded in
1825 as the Louisiana State College.
It failed, and soon afterward passed
into the hands of the Methodists,
who named it Centenary College, in
honor of the centennial of Method
ism.
The college was prosperous in its
earlier days and among its distin
guished graduates were Jefferson
Davis, president of the Southern Con
federacy; Judah P. Benjamin, sec
retary of State of the Confederacy,
and most of the prominent Methodist
clergymen of the Southwest. Bis
hop Keener was for many years its
president.
The building will probably be used
as an annex for the overflow of the
State insane asylum, which is also
situated at Jackson, near the college.
A Sad Double Tragedy.
Hatboro, Pa., (Special).?After
stabbing his wife nine times with an
awl, leaving her in a dying condi
tion at her home, at Fulmer. a small
village near here, Walter Yerkes
committed suicide byshooting himself
In the head with a .32 calibre revol
ver. The double tragedy occurred
a few moments after the family had
left the breakfast table, and was wit
nessed by several children of the
couple. The fact that Walter Yerkes
is the son of Squire Joseph B.
Yerkes, of this place, was sufficient
to turn the entire populace out in
order to learn the details of the
crime.
Shot llis Sweetheart.
Carlisle, Pa. (Special).?Clarence
Ilgenfitz, aged 20 years, shot his
sweetheart, Mary Kutz, and then
committed suicide. The shooting oc
curred at Drytown, near here. Ilgen
fitz had been paying attention to the
girl for several months, but because
they were first cousins, Miss Kutz
refused to marry him. Ilgenfitz lay
in wait for the girl and her grand
mother as they were returning home
from church. As they passed he shot
the girl twice, one bullet entering
her head back of the ear and an
other entering her left thigh.
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.
The currency committees of the
American Bankers' Association and
the New York Chamber of Commerce
agreed on notes based on a bank's
credit for emergency currency.
Secretary Root has accepted an in
vitation to attend the dedication of
a window to the late John Hay in a
Philadelphia synagogue.
While visiting at the Navy Depart
ment Senator Cullom, of Illinois, was
attacked with dizziness and nausea.
Rear Admiral Brownson is to suc
ceed Rear Admiral Converse as chief
of the Bureau of Navigation.
Attorney General Moody has issued
a circular calling for a strict enforce
ment of the Kight-hour Daw.
President Roosevelt will present
a gold medal to Major George F.
Shields for saving a wounded Philip
pino from between the firing lines.
Friction between the Russians and
Japanese In Manchuria is continuous.
DERAIL MAIL GAR WITH ROMAS
Revolutionists First Kill the Gen
darmes and I'laee Sentinels.
Rognow, Russian Portland, (By
Cable). The Cossacks have thus far
been unsuccessful In their pursuit
of tha revolutionist tialn robbers
numbering a hundred well-armed
men, who at 9 o'clock P. M.. sur
rounded this station, threw three
bombs at the mail car of a train
while engines were being changed,
derailed the car, robbed it and iled
with a sum of money now said to
amount to $650,000,
Laid Tlielr Plans Well.
The station-master declares the
revolutionists hid in the neighbor
ing forests and were excellently dis
ciplined. their commander giving
orders through bugle signals. When
the robbery was completed the revo
lutionists transported their booty to
two wagons and marched off In mili
tary order, singing Socialistic songs.
Eye-witnesses confirm the state
ment that the revolutionists were
hidden in the neighboring woods,
and when the train stopped the men.
armed with rifles, sprang up on all
sides.
Shot The Gendarmes.
yuu'Kly executing tue orders con
veyed by the bugle, the gendarmes
standing in front of the station were
shot and killed, and the revolutionists
placed sentinels at all the approaches
aud cut the telegraph wires.
While some of them overpowered
the trainmen other attacked the es
corts of the mail car.
Of the three bombs thrown, two
exploded with terrific force, blowing
the cars into matchwood, killing five
soldiers and mortally wounding 11
others.
Marching Off In Military Order.
The revolutionists then ransacked
the mail car. transferred the bank
notes, gold an.l silver to their own
bags, and, unfolding the red ttag,
formed up a military order, marched
out of the station, entered wagons,
which were in waiting in the forest,
and drove off.
It was not until three hours later
that a detachment of Cossacks, hur
riedly sent for. appeared on the scene
and started in pursuit of the revolu
tionists.
Rogow Is now occupied by troops.
Tried To Catch A Bomb.
The railroad station was practically
destroyed by the revolutionists, who
poured in regular volleys, the walls
being pitted by hundreds of bullet
marks. One of the mail clerks en
deavored to catch the first bomb
thrown at the car, but it exploded
and tore off both his arms.
The authorities officially admit the
loss of only $14,000 In cash besides
the unknown contents of the register
ed letters.
The wounded men have been sent
to Warsaw by special train.
DEATHS IN TENEMENT PANIC
Mother and Four Children Die In
The Flames.
New York (Special).?Penned in
by fire, four children and one woman
were burned to death in a tene
ment-house fire on the East Side.
When finally the blaze had been ex
tinguished and the firemen could
penetrate the building the bodies
of the victims, charred beyond pos
sibility of recognition, were found in
the ruins.
The fire started on the second floor
of the five-story tenement at 36G
Madison Street. The building is the
oldest type of tenement-house con
struction, with narrow halls and
stairs and lots of seasoned wood work.
Beginning in some rubbish near the
stairs, the fire spread rapidly through
the hall and was soon licking Its way
through the upper floor.
Most of the IS families in the
building were at supper, and there
was the wildest kind of excitement.
Policemen were on the scene immedi
ately. and as soon as the firemen ar
rived helped them in carrying women
and children from the npper floors
down the fire escapes and ladders.
More than 50 women were taken
down the fire escapes by firemen.
When the firemen arrived on the
scene almost every window of the
building was crowded with women
and children calling for assistance.
The fire in the lower floors had filled
the halls and stairways with smoke
and cut off the means of escape.
The fire was very hot, and there
were many heroic, rescues in the few
minutes during which the people
were being taken from the building.
When the firemen had rescued every
one they possibly could they turned
a deluge of water into the upper
floors, but a half hour made little
headway in extinguishing the flames.
When finally they had the fire out
the; search for victims was under
taken.
She Founil Tile Leak.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).?Miss
Catherine Keener, aged 21 years,
was awakened by the odor of gas.
She lighted a match to investigate.
The explosion which followed blew
away one side of the house, and
Miss Keener received burns from
which she died.
Mas Yot Resigned.
Washington (Special). ? Senor
Montagna. the Charge of the Italian
Embassy here, while at the State De
partment Thursday denied the story
that Ambassador Mayor Des Planches
had resigned, and stnted that he ex
pected the Ambassador to return to'
this country next month and resume
his connection with the Embassy.
Slo< iim Tablet Found.
New York (Special).- The bronze
tablet which was stolen from the Slo
cum memorial monument in the Old
Lutheran Cemetery, in Middle Vil
lage, has been found. It is lying in
a Brooklyn junk shop, smashed to
fragments by the thieves, who sold
it to the junk dealer for $14. The
tablet was valued at $4.">n and pur
chased by subscription and placed on
the monument, whicli was erected to
commemorate the Sk>cum disaster,
which cost nearly a thousand lives.
DUEL 10 DEATH S
WITH II BURGLAR
Wealthy Pittsburger Killed in His
Own House
THE MANY CRIMES ALARM CITY.
Henry Firth Smith Shot to Heath by
Burglar He Surprised in the Act of
Bobbing His Father's House Evi
dence of a Desperate Battle Before
the Burglar Got Away.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).?Henry
Firth Smith, 25 years old, son of
Jos. Smith, a prominent and wealthy
business man of this city, was
shot twice and almost Instantly killed
at 4 o'clock Sunday morning by a
burglar whom he surprised in the
dining-room of his father's residence,
in the east end section of the city.
The crime, following a little more
than a week after the murder of
James A. McMllien, another wealthy
business man of this section, has
aroused the city, and, with a num
ber of holdups by highwaymen dur
ing the past fortnight, city olllclals
have been importuned for 150 more
policemen to suppress the wave of
crime.
That a desperate battle took place
between young Smith and the burg
lar is erident from the disordered
condition of the dining-room and
kitchen of the Smith home. In ad
dition to the two bullets which were
found to have entered Smith's body,
five other balls were found lodged
in the floors and walls of the two
rooms. Three cartridges of Smith's
revolver had been discharged.
Neighbors adjacent to the Smith
home heard the shots and ran to
their windows, but say they saw no
one running from the house. Hun
dreds of dollars' worth of silver
plate had been gathered together by
the burglar, who apparently had been
In the house sometime before being
heard by young Smith.
The young man's father and
mother were awakened by the sounds
of the shots, and rushed down stairs,
to find their son on the kitchen floor,
with two bullet holes in his body.
The entire police and detective
forcos are working on the case, but
so far no clue has been discovered.
Every policeman in the East End
distj-lct reported in civilian clothes
Superintendent of Police MrQuaide
issued an order that any person act
ing in the lenr.t suspicious manner
was to be sent to the police station
for examination.
Another holdup was reported to
the police Sunday. Miss Isabelle
Livingston, sister of the chief ord
nance officer of this city, was held
tip by a negro near her home, which
is a short distance from the Smith
residence. The negro held a revol- m
ver at her head until he took her
purse and then disappeared.
SUICIDE COSTS THREE LIVES.
A Girl, Disappointed In Love, Turns
On Gas.
Chicago, III., (Special).?Because
she had been disappointed in a love
affair, .yoysia Mars!, aged 17, under
took to kill herself by turning on the
gas in a room at the German Hospital.
In the dormitory with her were three
other girls. Two of them are dead
and the other dying as a result of
I inhaling the gas fumos. The girl
I who desired to die will recover.
At the Larrabee Police Station her
lover is held prisoner pending a rigid
investigation of the entire alfair.
All the girls were employed at the
hospital. At night they attended a
party and returned late, letting them
selves into the dormttory with a
night key.
The Marsi girl had met her faith
less lover at the party, and it is sup
posed she was so discouraged after
an interview with him that she deter
mined to end her life. She is yet
in such condition that she cannot give
a connected story of the tragedy. Ear
ly in the morning other attendants at
the hospital smeiled gas and finally
broke into the room. Two of the
girls were then dead and Miss. Lotri
was beyond resuscitation. By hard
work Miss Marsi v.as partially re
vived and admitted that she had
closed all the windows, locked the
doors and turned on the gas with
the Intention of killing herself. She
had hoped the other girls would be
awakened by the smell of gas in
time to escape.
Highwayman Holds I'p Train.
Kansas City (Special).?A lone ,
robber, heavily masked, boarded the
rear sleeper of the castbound combi
nation Chicago and Alton-Rock Is
land Cantfornia Limited train known
as No. 44, between Stater and Glas
gow, Mo., shortly after midnight,
robbed several passengers and escap
ed in the darkness.
Typhoid Ascribed To Oysters.
Middletown, Ct., (Special).?An
other case of typhoid fever making
six in all. has developed at Wesleyan
University. The victim is John C.
Day, of Paterson. N. J., catcher on
the Wcsiyan baseball taem. The out
break is thought to have been due
to oysters eaten by the students.
Killed On Tile Track.
Alexandria, Va. (Special).?Wil
liam A. Fuller, 4 4 years old, of
Washington, who was employed as a
car inspector in the Union freight
yards here, was instantly killed by
a Southern Railway engine a mile
north of this city. He was terribly
mangled.
K1NA\( :AL WOULD.
The Rockefeller contingent are re
ported to be buying Northern Pacific.
It is denied that United States
Steel will dismantle its Homestead
armor plate plant.
American tobacco declared the
regular quarterly dividend of 2 ^4 ,
on the common and an extra dividend
of 7 V4 per cent.
It seemed to be the consensus of
opinion among leading conservative!
bankers that there is to be no big i
bull market just yet.