MY IS MIMI CREEK
Nude Body Of Mrs. Woodill, Who Had Been Foully
Murdered, Found By Some Boys—Her Sup
posed Slayer Suicides.
St Michaels, Md., Special.—Pra>
tically the entire eastern shore of
Maryland was aroused and searching
Thursday night for one Emmett E.
or John T. Roberts, wanted in con
nection with the brutal murder of
Mrs. Edith May Woodill, wife of Gil
bert Woodill, an automobile dealer
of Los Angles, Cal., whose nude body
the skull crushed in from a blow ap
parently delivered from behind; the
face horribly disfigured, the entire '
body swollen from the effects of sev
eral days' immersion, and weighted
with an iron pot containing half a
dozen bricks was Wednesday dis
covered by boys who were crabbing
in Back creek, tributary of the Chop
tank river, not far from the home of
Mrs. Woodill's foster father, Capt.
Charles H. Thompson, a few muss
from here.
Roberts was with Mrs. Woodill
when she was seen for the last known
time, and he is accused of having
committed the murder. The motive
for the crime is at present a mystery.
The police of Baltimore and all other
cities to which Roberts might make
his way were asked to search for and
arrest him. He is said to be about
50 years old, five feet six inohes tall,
atout, smooth-shaven, with abundant
bushy hahr and a ruddy complexion.
He limps and wears a brace on one
leg. He claimed to be a magazine
writer and general corespondent of
newspapers.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodill came here
early this month, the latter with the
intention of spending the summer
with her foster-father. Her husband
remained only a few days, leaving it
is understood ; for Detroit, whence he
intended to return to Los Angeles,
From that time, Mrs. Woodill and
Roberts are said to have seen much
of each other. Last Saturday Mrs.
Woodill went to Eaton to have Bome
dental work done, and it had been ar
ranged that Roberts should meet her
at Royal Oak and return with her to
her home. Roberts missed the train
for Roval Oak and drove there, met
Mrs. Woodill and drove with her
back here to the landing where his
launch was moored. They entered
the launch and Mrs. Woodill was not
seen again alive, so far as has been
learned.
Since her disappearance Roberts
has made a trip to Baltimore, from
which point a letter was received by
Captain Thompson, ostensibly from
Mrs. Woodill, saying that she was in
that city and would shortly return.
Boberte remained in this Usighbor
hood until the finding of the body.
He had previously endeavored to ul
lay the growing uneasiness of Cap
tain Thompson in connection with his
foster-daughter's absence, and used
KATHARINE GOULD DENIES CHARGE OF IMMORALITY
New York, Special.—Katherine
Clemmens Gould wan called back to
the stand for a final ordeal Thursday
to explain away if possible the dam
aging testimony given by the wit
nesses for her husband in her snit
for separation and alimony of $250,-
000 a year.
It was a day of denials, beginning
with the reading of the deposition of
Dustio Farntun, the actor, who de
nied in toto all allegations of impro
per conduct with Mrs. Gould and end;
ing with Mr*. Gould's repeated de
nials of practically everything in
word or action attributed to her by
the witnesses for the other aide.
MRS. GOULD GETS DIVORCE AND $36,000 A YEAR
New York, Special.—After a trial
which lasted nearly three weeks,
Katherine Clemmons Gould obtained
a legal separation from her husband,
Howard Gould, third son of the late
Jay Gould, by a decision of Justice
Dowling in the Supreme Court Fri
day. With the exception of alimony,
her victory was complete, bnt in this
pbaae of the case the court deeided
TESTIMONY CONCLUDED IN GEORGIA RAILROAD CASE
Atlanta, Ga., Special.—With tbe
* testimony Friday afternoon of Gen
eral Manager Thomas K. Scott, of
the Georgia Railroad, the proceedings
before the board of arbitration in the
matter of tbe settlement of tbe ques
tions arising from the recent strik«
of white firemen of that road, reach
ed tbe argument stage.
General Manager Scott gave a de
tailed history of the differences bo
tween tbe firemen and tbe railroad,
offering in evidence many letters, tel
HORRIBLE CRIME OF A 12 YEAR OLD CALIFORNIAN
Modesto, CaL, Special.—Cecil Hop
* kins, 12 yean old, Friday confessed
that he shot and buried hit. brother,
Theodore, 6 years old, and bis state
ment strengthens the eoroner's belief
that the victim was buried alive on
the hill where his body was found
Thursday. Aa he told of the shoot
ing and consequent burial of his
brother, Cecil, ate candy -and appa
rently failed to realize the gravity of.
the letter referred to as evidence hi
support of hie contention that she
was all right and would aoon return.
When the body waa brought ashore
it waa so horribly swollen that Cap
tain Thompson could not, at first, be
lieve that it waa the body of Mrs.
Woodill, who is said to have weighed
only about 100 poonds. The identifi
cation waa made positive however,
by the dentist Mrs. Woodill had vis
ited professionally in Easton.
Investigations since made indicate
.that when Roberta and Mrs. Woodill
left here they went in the launoh to
a bungalow that is being built os
Roberts' small farm, near that of
Captain Thompson, and that in this
bungalow the maider was committed.
There were found s bloody sheet and
mattress and.portions of a woman's
clothes, partly burned. These have
be«n identified as having belonged to
Mr*. Woodill. There were also found
in the bungalow a pair of corduroy
U-ouseis in the pocket of which were
two letter#. One, believed to have
been from Mrs. Woodill and to have
some connection with the meeting at
Royal Oak.
Mrs. Woodill before her marriage
was given an excellent musical edu
cation in this country and Europe
and she is said to have sung in the
White House before the late Presi
dent McKinley. She was a beautiful
woman and highly attractive and waa
given a waan welcome by her many
friends in tnis locality when she re
turned with her husband the early
part of the month.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
J. Gage took a great deal of
"interest in Mrs. Woodill, and has vis
ited his young protege at Captain
Thompson's home.
The Mnrdsrer of Mrs. WoodUl Mur
ders Himself.
St. Michaels, Md., Special.—The
last tragic chapter in a story of crime
unparralleled in this section of the
country, was written in the half light
of an early summer's dawn Friday
when the man acoused of the heart
less murder of pretty little May
Thompson Woodill —a spectre-like
form fleeing in a skiff from a posse
of determined, relentless pursuers,
who had coronered him on the waters
of a narrtfw creek, then fired a bullet
crashing into his heart and fell a
lifeless lump into the bottom of the
boat, which he had hoped would
carry him to a landing place where
flight might be possible.
The mystery is deep as to the mo
tive, but it all points to the fact that
Emmet E. Roberts, who was really
Robert E. Eastman, committed the
terrible deed, and stayed about with
silence till the body was found and
he was known to have been with her
last. He then attempted to escape
but finding escape impossible took
his own life.
For two warm hours Mrs. Gould,
looking for the first time somewhat
uncomfortable in her smothering
black satin gown, answered the care
fully framed questions of her coun
sel, repudiating with a monotonous
flat denial all testimony and insinu
ations charging her with excessive
drinking, profanity or any other im
propriety. Chaffeurs, grooms, stable
men, shop keepers, laborers and other
servants and employes were alike
branded with the short and ugly
epithet. She never drank to exeesß,
never used profanf language, never
forgot her dignity as mistress of
Castle Gould,
that $36,000 a year was sufficient, ul
, though in her suit Mrs. Gould asked
for $2/50,000. She has been receiving
$25,000 a year from Mr. Gould, so
that the amount fixed by the court
is but a slight increase, compared
with the amount sued for.
As to l>ustin Farnbam, it was held
that her association with him came
after Mr. and Mrs. Gonld separated.
egrams and other documents to bear
out his verbal testimony, which was
directed to show the unjustness of
the demands of the firemen, from the
standpoint of the railroad. Mr. Scott
testified that negroes were competent
firemen. He declared the Georgyfc
Railroad had no reason to complain
of the service of the negro firemen
now in its employ. Some of these
bad served tbe road faithfully, be
testified, for years.
E. J. Poole, master mechanic of tbe
Seaboard Air Line, said there is no
trouble between firemen on that road
dae to race or color. \ -
the acts related. According to his
story, Cecil killed Theodore while
the parents were absent from borne
after the boys bad quarreled over
their loncheen. Cecil sq|d he drove i
his brother from the honse and shot
him. Fearing the consequences of j
his deed when the parents should re- (
turn, he dug * crave in the sand. ,
While digging the grave for the boy ]
Cecil said Theodore moaned and |
stretched his anna. | (
BIGGERS SET FREE
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Jury Holds That He Wis Insane at
the Time of Killlag Hood.
Charlotte, Special.—The jury .of
twelve freemen, the select body chos
en to pass upon the merits of the
ease of State against W. S. Biggers,
charged with the murder on the
morning of Tuesday, February 9, of
| J. Green Hood, reached a verdict Sat
, urday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock,
i their decision being that the defen
" dant was ''not guilty" of the crime
as charged.
As noted by every one who follow
» ed the trend of this great legal bat
i tie whose results held within it the
' freedom if not the life of Biggers,
| the plea of insanity was the entire
( issue. It was not that insanity for
( which the asylums are built and
t maintained, but that termed various
, ly emotional insanity, brain storm,
; and the like, but in this cose termed
"eonfusional" insanity.
The ease was fought before the
( bar with the utmost tact aud unlimit
( ed talent and legal force. No stone,
( as it wese, was left unrurned. It was
I plead that the man hud suffered a
, wrong and that his financial straits
( had preyed upon his mind till men
( tal confusion had brought him to the
) stage of not being conscious of the
t enormity of the deed which he ©o»-
templated and actually committed.
( At the first vote of the jury 10
stood for acquittal, one for murder
I in the first and one for murder in tin
( second degree.
The jury had the case just four
I honrs when it became unanimous.
, The case had taken 11 days in its
course.
1
r Shepard the Slayer of Holt
Durham, N. C., Special.—Solomon
r Shepard, tlie negro of mysterious
I action, has confessed that he killed
_ Engiueer Holt near Durham last De
( cember sad that he had no assistant.
This startling turn in the dreadful
affair came Saturday night when Dr.
, N. M. Johnson went into the jail to
attend a sick prisoner. Shepard had
, spent the day reading the Bible and
, getting religion. Why he took •
, notion to unburden himself to the
t doctor, is not known, but he did and
, said that he slew the engineer that
, night without the aid of anyone,
i The negro tells a reasonable story,
j There never has been any large num
i ber of peoplo who did not believe that
Engineer Holt met death meant for
, another man. The wanton use of a
; shotgun was commonly called a Reu
l ben fcarbee characteristic, but nobody
, ever found the motive whereby Reu
| ben Bsrbee became the assassin of
, Fred Holt. The brothers of the dead
man believed that their kinsman had
. been murdered by mistake and the
; negro says so.
Suspicion for this crime has been
, resting on Reuben Rarbee who ia now
i in jail awaiting trial.
| It seems that Shepard had been
. put off the train. In hia rage he
i secured a shot gun and went to kill
the brakeman who put him off. Not
finding his man he fired a random
shot, a* he says, to scare somebody.
- This shot put out the life of a popu
lar and most valuable engineer.
Joe Brown la Governor.
Atlanta, Ga., Special.—Joseph M.
Brown, SOD of "Joe" Brown, one of
Georgia's war-time Governors, took
office Saturday amid ceremonies of
Jeffersonian simplicity.
Governor Brown's address was
brief. At its conclusion Governor
Smith banded Governor Brown the
seal of the State of Georgia and the
ceremony was complete.
Governor Smith's last official act
Saturday waa the signing of 15 par
dons. Those set free • included six
murderers and three persons eonvict
ed of vlolationg the prohibition laws.
Firemen Lot* Case.
Atlanta, Ga., Special.—Tb« Geor
gia Railroad strike arbitration board
Saturday night decided against the
seniority of white firemen over ne
groes. The arbitrators, however,
placed a premium on intelligence
among firemen, which it ia believed
will ultimately result in the gradual
elimination of all except the most ex
pert negro firemen.
From Chicago to Charleston.
Winston-Salem, Special.—The of
ficial announcement Saturday by the
Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk and
Western that the Winston-Balem
Southbound Railroad would be posh
ed to completion within the next 18
months is received with great satis
faction here. The movement for this
through litfe from Chicago to Charles
ton, with the Twin City aa a prom
inent junction point, was begun about
tlu-ee year* ago, CoL F, H Fries and
Mr. Henry E. Fries, of this city, be
ing among the leaden in the enter
prise. Henry E. Fries is now presi
dent.
Exonerates Man Convicted of Mnrder
Palatka, Fla., Special. When
James Kelly and D. M. Davidson
were seteneed to lifif' imprisonment
for mnrder, Kelly said: "I accept
the verdict of the jury, bat as for i
D. M. Davidson, he i* as innooent of |
this crime as any man in the hearing!
of my voice." The men were eon- (
victed of the murder of W. C. Sel- ]
lore, a night watchman of the Atlas- (
tie Coast Line Railroad three yean .
ago at High Springs, Fla. ;
i 'iyririaMrft if. i
COTTON CONDITIONS
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, An Acreage Abandonment off
Seven Per Cent
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THE NATIONAL GINNERS' REPORT
I
The Average Condition Up to June
24 Waa 75.6, the Oondtiion in
North Carolina Being 77—The
Acreage Abandoned in North
i Carolina ia 4 Per Cent.
Memphis, Tenn., Special.—The re
port of the National Ginners' Asso
ciation gives the average condition
1 of cotton up to June 24, as 75.6.
> There has been an abandonment of
i acreage of 7 per cent according to
' the report, making the total acreage
. 9.8 less than last year.
Detailed report by States:
, Alabama, condtiion 70; acreage
, abandoned 14 per cent; crop very
grassy in nearly all sections; plant
i small and from two to four weeks
late.
, * Arkusas, condition 76; acreago
i abandcued 4 per cent; crop very
i good in west and north; very grassy
i and small elsewhere; boll weevil in
24 counties worse than last season,
i some of the fields being abandoned on
i account of them, j
Florida, condition 90; very little
loss in acreage; most sections good.
I Georgia, condition 79; acreage
• abandoned 5 per cent; crop grassy;
I most sections not all chopped yet;
plant generally small and from one
> to three weeks late; some complaints
, of lice aud black rot.
i Louisiana, condition 56; acreage
abandoned 13 per cent; some sections
in Very good shape but so many wee
vils they are destroying all the
squares as fast as they form; much
cotton being abandoned or planted in
sage only on this account; many re
port nothing will be made in their
sections.
Mississippi, conditions 61; acreage
abandoned 14 per cent; plant genera
ally small; poor stands and graisy.
| Missouri, condition 56; very little
| loss in acreage; crops late but good,
i North Carolina, condition 77; acre
i age abandoned 4 per cent; crops
[ grassy in most sections and from f
; to weeks late.
Oklahoma, condition 90; gcreag
, abandoned 1 per cent; reports Iron.
. nearly all sections very good,
t South Carolina, condition 78; acre
■ age ultondoned 4 per cent; some few
i sections report good couditions but
. most of them report fields grassy and
r not all ohopped yet, plant small and
. from two to three weeks late.
> Tenneasee, condition 77; acreage
I abandoned 7 per cent; plant small
[ and grassy.
i Texas, condition 80; acreage aban
doned 5 per cent; principally in the
dry section where rains came too
late; condition north and east Texas
best in but weevils are report
ed more numerous than usual and
this fine prospect may be changed in
a very short time.
South Texas had plenty of rain,
plant generally small aud from four
to six weeka late. Weevils reported
. in..Jazgcu numbers doing damage al
ready. West Texas still very dry ex
cept four counties, some places have
had no rain in six months. Wifli
plenty of rain this section will pro
duce from 50 to 60 per cent of a
crop.
Mr. R. L. Royster Drowned.
Columbia, 8. C., Special.— Mr. Ar
thur L. Royster, chief clerk for Su
perintendent IL A. Williams of the
Southern, and one of the most cap
able and promising young railroad
men in this section, met a tragic and
extremely sad death while out swim
ming and boating in the Columbia ca
nal about 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing by drowning. His body has not
yet been recovered.
Mr. Royster was a popular club
man and waa very popular through
out the city generally, being of quiet
and retiring disposition and of many
manly characteristics. His fellow
workmen at the union Btation, from
heads of departments on down to the
youngest clerks, are grieved and
shocked over his death, as if they had
lost a brother, for Mr. Royster was
most popular with those closest to
him.
Dies Under His Anto.
Columbia, S. C., Kj>ecial.—William
G. Rudd, a traveling salesman for
the Durst-Andrews Company, was
killed Monday in an automobile
which was struck by the Seaboard
vestibuled train at Salak, four miles
west of Greenwood. One of the eye
witnesses, Mrs. Malone, saw Mr.
Rudd stop the automobile on the '
crossing. He jumped out, but on the 1
wrong side and in front of the mov- 1
ing train, which struck the automo- 1
bile and threw it on him. He was '
picked up and carried to Abbeville, j
but died on the way. Mr. Rudd leaves
a widow. No children survive % J
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Alleged Members Black Hand Band
Bound Over.
Toledo, O, Special.—At the can
clnsion of the preliminary hearing c
here Monday Salvatore and Sebas- t
tine Lima and Salvatore Rikeo, three'
members of the alleged Black Hand e
band, recently arrested, were bound t
over to the Federal grand jury. The
bond of Salvatore Lama was increas- .
ed to $6,000 and that of the others j
to $5,000 each. They will probably
have to remain in MM county jail.
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WILL CAM LEON LING
Chief McOaffary Feels Reasonably
Certain That Elsie Sigel's Murderer
Will Be Apprehended.
New York, Special. lnspector
McCafferty, chief of the New York
detective bureau, has given cut
the first authentic statement on
the murder of Elsie Sigel that has
been made by the police since the
discovery of the giri's on June
18 in a trunk in the bedroom of Leon
Ling, an Americanized Chinaman, in
an Eighth avenue chop suey restau
rant.
"We shall catch the murderer,"
the inspector said. "Delay does not
altar that although it chafes us. The
whole country is one vast rat-trap
with every exit guarded.
"The girl was killed between 10
o'clock in the morning and noon of
June 9 and wo believe Leon Ling is
the man who did it with Chung Sing,
his intimate, and possibly others, as
possible accomplices. We have Chung
Sing From his room in Eighth aven
ue, Xieon Ling was thought to have
gocae straight to Washington and there
sent the 'Don't worry' telegram sign
ed 'Elsie' received on the night of
the murder by the Sigel family.
It is definitely and clearly estab
lished that the trunk was carted
from the Eighth avenue' house in
which the body was found to a
Chinese laundry at No. 370 West 126
street and thence to Newark, N. J.,
whence it was returned to the room
of Leon Ling, where it was discover
ed. It hns been shown, too, that
Ling was personally busied in mov
ing the trunk about.
It seems clear that to have been at
the various places mentioned Ling
could not have spared the time for a
trip to Washington. Those receiving
him and the trunk all showed sus
picious forkuowledge of his coming.
"No other murder that I can rc
membei has attracted such wide in
terest or such enthusiastic co-oper
ation on the part of police of other
cities. All the forces of the country
are working as one great machine.
Wo haw fifty men of our own in the
citios of the East.
' The only possible ship on which
Leon, could have left the country is
due to arrive in Yokohama July 3.
She will be watched."
All the Chinese laundries in the
city, which are operated by four com
panies in the name of individual man
agers, received notices in Chinese
warning employes that they must
have nothing to do with white women
beyond business over the counter, on
pain of dismissal.
Brandenburg Oat and In.
New Special. Although
Broughton Brandenburg was acquit
ted here Tuesday of the charge of
grand larceny in connection with the
sale of an alleged spurious letter of
Grover Clevelund to The New York
Times he had only a few minutes of
freedom. Before leaving the court
room, he was re-arrested and will be
taken to St. Louis next week for trial
on a charge of fraudulently enticing
from the child's parents his stepson,
The minimum penalty for this offense
in Missouri is 20 years' imprison
ment. The author was taken back to
the tombs in 1 efifrutl of !^.GOTTTjai 1, to
await the arrival of the Missouri of
ficers.
After Train Robbers.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Special.—De
tective Draper, of Spokane, with a
pack of bloodhounds ,has traced the
Canadian-Pacific train bundits that
held up an express train last week at
Kamloops into an old mining tunnel
at Red Gulch, 6 miles east of Ash
eroft, British Columbia. Detective
Draper has sent for help, as the two
men trapped are heavily armed and
show fight.
One of the robbers was killed by
Constable Rucker Tuesday. He wore
clothes bought in Spokane.
0. H. Hix Appointed General Manag
er Seaboard Air Line.
Baf limore, Special.—C. H. Hix has
been appointed general manager, and
C. R. ( apps, freight tralHc manager
of the Seaboard Air Line with head
quarters in Portsmouth, Va. These
important changes in the organiza
tion, as anr.ciir.ced officially, follow
the recent resignations of W. A. Gar
rett, and L. Sevier, both of their
offices having been abolished.
Royster's Body Recovered.
Columbia, S. C., Special.—After
two days of hard work,, dragging
»nd diving in the canal, the body of
Arthur L. Royster was discov
ered about 8 o'clock Tuesday night
it the Gervais street gates of the
:anal, having passed almost the en
ire length of the canal, nearly three
niles, since he was drowned Monday
norning. The body was - taken to
Oxford on the early morning Sea
ward train \\ ednesday, accompanied
>y his brother, Tom, who arrived
ruesday morning, a delegation of
dasons and a company of friends and
'fHce associates.
Judge Overrules Motion.
Asheville, N. C., Special.—"l do
ot find anything wrong whatever in j
he manner in which this grand jury 
'as drawn, summoned and empan- j
led," spoke Judge Newman from t
lie bench in United States District i
hurt Tuesday morning in referring
> the motion of defendants in t|ie .
'iret National Bank of Asheville j,
Jnspiracy and embezzlement cases to r
uash the bill of indictment. .
.ASk'Jk.uj—.. Ufa? s u,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Items of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAT
live Items Covering Events of Mora
or Leaa Interest at Homo ul
Abroad.
At the meeting of druggists it
Greensboro, N. C., last week, 33 ap
plicants were licensed to practice
pharmacy.
Wm. J. Bryan, Jr., was married on
Thursday to Miss Helen Virginia
Berger, a Milwaukee heiress.
The students under the direction
of Prof. 1L Pettit, of the Michigan
Agricultural college have planned
a war for the extermination of tha
mosquito. There are three expe»
dients, drainage of stagnant pools,
whore practical; stocking with sua
fish which devour the mosquito 'lar
vae, and the application of coal oil,
where neither of the other modes ia
practical. Their undertaking at first
is for tha area of nine miles every
way from the college.
It is proposed to erect a $25,00®
monument to Senator Carmack at
Nushville, Tenn. A commission au«
thorixed by the legislature has select*
ed the site. . ' '
Charles Dilson and wife and a 13
year old daughter, who took refuga
in a storm cellar during one of the
late Texas cyclones, were found and
rescued, more dead than alive, after
two weeks. They had a limited sup
ply of raw potatoes, but were with
out food for about a week and with
out water for two days. They wiil
survive however.
The Fayetteville celebration on
Monday was attended by probably
10,000 people, and one in attendanca
says, he did not see an intoxicated
man.
At a Sunday school picnic, near
Sparta, Ga., last week, a thunder
storm camd up suddenly, and light
ning struck a tree under which six
teen children had gathered for pro
tection from the rain, shocking each
severely. Many were strangely af
fected, the outlines of the tree ap
pearing as if photographed on tha
bodies of several of the children. No
fatalities resulted, but several of tha
children were in a serious condition.
v Seventeen men were killed and 18
injured in the Lackawanna coal and
coke explosion at Wehrum, l'a., last
Wednesday.
One million five hundred thousand
dollars in gold in the form of dust
and nuggets is soon to be one of thf
lights at the Yukon Exposition.
Near Olympia, Ga., eleven bridf
builders took refuge in a signal tov
er, from a severe storm last week
Lightning struck the wires leading
to the tower and nine men were mora
or less injured. One a negro man,
was fatally injured. The lightning
did a number of curious feats, such
as melting a watch chain without in
juring the watch, tearing and rip
ping under' garments, tearing onea
shirt to shreds, while some of th#
men had blisters burned on them, y
Pittsburg, Pa., had a SIOO,OOO fire
last Monday. The Michigan furni
ture company's six story building
and several smaller buildings were de
stroyed. y
The Mauritania, which lias been
lowering the time across the Atlanti#
has now gotten the time from New
York to London including train from
landing to the city, down to five days
and 8 hours.
Mrs. Herman Wadsworth, of Ches
ter, Naw York, has accomplished a
voluntary task of surpassing Mr.
Roosevelt's riding test. She rode 153
miles in 10 hours, using eight dif
ferent horses.
The Baptist Ministers conference
of Chicago, on last Monday struclc
from its roll the name of Prof. Geo.
Burman Foster, of the University of
Chicago, for publishing a book de
nying the divinity of Christ.
Ten persons were killed and 40
wounded near South Bend, Indiana,
last Sunday in a head-on collision
of trains, said to have been caused
by lack of obedience to orders on tha
part of one of those killed.
Washington News Notes.
To a delegation from Wilmington,
N. C., President Taft last Thursday
promised to visit their city on his re
turn from the West next fall.
Senator Overman and others have
expressed the opinion that Congress
will adjourn by July 15. (
( ongresß on the nick of time has—
appropriated $10,000,000 for taking
the census of the nation.
Judge Connor called at the White
House and in person thanked Presi
dent Taft for his appointment to tha
Eastern Judgeship.
Foreign Affairs. ,
The government of Spain has ask
sd pf Cuba to share part of her nat
ional debt, incurred on account of
-üba. Cuba declines to do so. Both
governments couch their oommuniea*
ions in the most friendly and n
ipectful terms.
The German reiehstag has adopted
policies so at varianee with Chaneel*
or von Buelow's declarations as te
ender the aituatiaa rerjr eritkaL