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Show FET LOGKEDA WEEK MENGES OFNOB ALIA HANGED)MURDERFOROF PRIEST THOMASDL CRDAN FPOUMECHEFJUST KLLNG SOME ONE ΠΠ 5 STRIBKEN DEAD IN FREIGHT CAR Slayer of Father Leo Heinrichs of Denver Dies Cursing the Priesthood. Cowardly Murder of Man and Giri at Culbertson, Montana, to be Canon City, Colo.—Calling down the Avenged by Law. maledictions of the Most High upon Former Comptroller of Equitable Life Assurance Society Drops In His Tracks. | τωο Americans Fall Victims to the Treachery of Guide in the FREE TRAVELER SUFFERS GREAT isiand of Negros. AGONIES ON TRIP FROM FLORI- ett, a government forester, and T. R. | Wakeley, a school teacher, who were murdered several weeks ago by tribesmen while on an expedition into the unexplored mountain regions of in Italian, “Long live Italy! Long live Were Called From Home at an Early Hour the Protestants!” Giuseppe Alia, the Their in murderer of Father Leo Heinrichs, was carried to the death trap exactly the Morning and Shot Down Because of. a Quarrel! Over Land. Was Involved in Big Financial Scan the extreme penalty for his Alia again assented, and said he was ready to die at any time. He further said he felt no sorrow whatever for . Great Falls.—Sixteen arrests have been made at Culbertson, in connec having killed Father Leo. He was certain that Father Leo was the man he tion with the claim jumping shooting affair that occurred there a few days ago. The shooting occurred over a squatter’s claim which had been locat ed by Walter Long, and later taken up by John A, Hayes, on the ground that | Long had abandoned the claim. Longs | and some of his friends warned Hayes to leave within twenty-four hours, ac cording to the evidence at the coro || ner's inquest, and when he returned they attacked the cabin in which he lived, killing Hayes and his 11l-yea: bullet through the chest. He lived about five minutes, and another bullet went through the cabin and struck his daughter Augusta, who died before a physician could reach the scene. The coroner’s jury found that the shooting was done by Milo Long, Walter Long, Charles B. Gamble, George D. Isbell, Tucker C. Moore, John L. Johnson and others unknown. It was believed there were about twenty in the party. Sheriff Small of Valley county, has placed these and ten others under arrest, and they are now in the county jail. There is a very bitter feeling over the affair, and further trouble is feared. on the side of his face. Alia said he had worked fer Father Leo in Portugal, and was sure that he had killed the right man. Alia said he did not believe there was a God, for if so he would not have permitted him to bein his present predicament. He said he found no fault with the law, but thas the priest did his family old daughter. At the inquest Mrs. Hayes positively identified Walter Long and his brother Milo as among the attacking party She said that the attacking part) came to the cabin at 1:30 in the morn ing. Hayes, who was-on the watcn with one or two of his neighbors, called out, asking what was wanted. The reply was a volley of shots. Hayes and his force replied with revolvers, but at the next round from the attacking party, Hayes received a had been searching for for many months and claimed that he recognized the priest as his tormentor by a scar SEVEN wrong in breaking up KILLED BY EXPLOSION. | | Ten Others Injured in Mine Horror in | Anthracite Fitids. i | Pottsville, | Were killed Wednesday | gas in the Pa—Seven mine workers and ten others injured by a terrific explosion of Williamstown colliery of | the Summit Branch Mining company in the lower part of the anthracite coal fields. The mine was wrecked and passed off without disturbance. Jose ter to the United States and acting president during the absence of Dy. Amador, was elected president. The supporters of Richardo Arias, who re cently withdrew his candidacy, decieed not to vote, and as a consequence no opponent to Senor Obaldia was pw in nomination. Notwithstanding this, a large nun. ber of voters registered their choice and demonstrated the overwhelming majority of Senor Obaldia’s supporters. From all parts of the republic news has been received here that the elec: tion was carried on in an orderly manner and that Senor Obaldia_ re ceived all the votes cast. Says the Farmer Will Reap First Benefit of Returning Prosperity. The explosion shook the entire colliery. The work of rescue was imme diately begun and when volunteers were called for almost every man at the workings offered his services, which meant a hazardous trip into the burning mine. Secretary Garfield MustDouble His Bond. Illinois Central railway, of who the | with Mrs. Fish sailed for Europe Saturday. He said that while the crops will be in great volume this fall, and the re- sources of the railroads will be taxed to their capacity in removing them, it will be the farmer and not therailroud that will gain. Democratic Delegates Injured Automobile Accident. In an Kansas City—George Rush and John E. Egan, lawyers and members of the Tammanyhall, returning from the Democratic national convention at Denver to their homes in New York, were injured in an aytomobile accident here late Saturday. lefi arm Rush's was broken and Egan suf- fered the fracture of the bones of one foot. Their condition is not serious, and they will, it is said, be able to resume their journey soon. They were taken to a hospital for treat- ment. Chieago.—To save babies’ lives, the city council ¢f Chicago has made a special appropriation of $10,000. Intestinal diseases among infants, caused chiefly by the hot weather, have been of such frequent occur- rence in Chicago that, according tc reliable figures, the deaths of babies due to these complaints this year will lower ties, the comity existing between fed- eral courts should give way. the program fot Bankers’ association in this city has not yet been completed, the principa) speakers have been decided upon. Among these are Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university; B &. Walker, president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto, James B. Forgan, president of First National bank and the of Chicago. It has been decided to set apart separate days for the meetings of the trust company and savings bank sections. INDIAN OUTBREAK FEARED. Preferred “Suicide “to "Surrender Posse. Benton Harbor, to Mich.—August Gross, who Tuesday shot and fatally wounded James Kirk, an aged meat peddler, for no apparent reason, war found dead on the floor of his house when the posse, which had surround and the posse frequently exchanged shots. The body of Fred Gross, a half brother of August, was also found in the house by the officials. It is not yet known whether he was killed by shots from the posse or byhis brother, August, or whether he committed sui cide. Woman Mountaineer Falls to Death in Deep Chasm. Visalia, Cal—News of the second tragic death within a month among visitors spending their summer vaca tion high body uate climbing the mountains of the Sierras reached here, when tha of Miss Grace Barnett, a gradof the University of California and head of the art department in the Berkeley high school, was brought in after two days’ journey on ἃ pack mule, Miss Barnett fell over a preci- pice in Kings river canyon and was dashed to instant death in the chasm hundreds of feet below. A companion narrowly escaped the same fate. Hot Springs, Va—Arthur I. Vorsys, manager of the national campaign for the Republican party in Ohio, arrived at Hot Springs Wednesday, and had a long talk with Judge William H. Taft | “bumpers” ahead of him he decided to Bleep. of door. He entered it, States cavalry | found it cool and comfortable and so the Fifth United have been ordered sent to the Nav-, stretched himself on the was killed and two white men injured Tuesday in a pistol fight in Chinatown, the result of a quarrel among a group of Chinamen. A number o Chinese who had been playing cards, troops | inviting open Flagstaff, Ariz—Five more Two White Men Wounded and One Dead Chink the Result of a Lively Fusilade. | oes. When O'Connell purpose is, but that this is no pleas- | believed that another Tong war had broken out and everybody made three arrests, in The the police The white mén™ are not believed to be seriously jurd. in- Deniés That Japanese Want the Philippines, London.—Right Rev. William Aw- dry, Anglican bishop of South Tokio, in a long letter to the Times Tuesday morning repudiates the idea that the any aggressive inten- tions toward the United States or elsewhere. He says that he should not have given this question a moment’s thought but that the governor of the Bank of England, whom he personally met, was seriously anxious and full of questions on the subject. Bishop Aw- in a determination to elect the na- 100,000 at least.” Aged Farmer Found Hanging to Tree in Maryland. Dover, Del—William a well-to-do farmer, whose body was A. Williams, aged 60 years, Wednesday found hanging to a tree near Templeville, across the Maryland line, may have been murdered. A wound on the head appears to have been made by some blunt instrument and there are indications that he had struggled before death. In a pocket of the clothing was found a marriage license for himself and Elizabeth Walls. who is only 13 years old. he found Indians and stockmen on a range ad- He ‘says that with Japan powerful and China soon to become powerful, insistence upon the policy of mutual exclusion is certain to make effective the cry of “the fareast for far east- erners.” Count Penha-Garcia Pinked by Republican Adversary. Lisbon.—There was a violent scene sn the house of peers Tuesday during the consideration of the advance of | armed and excited over the proposed allotments, and are apparently on the verge of an uprising. It is thought a display of armed force is being Independence party, which will be held at Chicago Monday, July 27. While the eyes The Near Proxinity of Food Made His Hunger More Agonizing. of most politicians have been centered upon the Democratic national conven- | and the train moving. Concluding that these last few | ¢om- that he could not break down. mitteemen cf the Independence party have been appointed, the last state | thus represented being North Dakota New York.—While protecting by worries of tortures. her Sometimes the train stopped, and baby sister from a big Newfoundland | the imprisoned man could tell that dog which had attacked her, 8-year he was in a city or in country. Oftep ror and the pain, however, the child | been the challenge followed. Honolulu.—The lepers located on the island of Molokai have purchased a large quantity of daylight fireworks which will be used to salute the Atlanbattleship island. fleet as ten by the animal. Despite her ter | kept her body between the infant and the dog until a policeman had beaten | it passes the to guard against the possibility | scious of being alfve and of wonderBaltimore.—Five men are known to | ing why he continuedto live. O'Connell had a knife, and with it, have been drowned, and three women | and a man are believed to have met a | occasionally, he was able to obtain like fate, when a very severe wind | minute pieces of potato through the and rain storm passed over the harbor| wire mesh. These he sucked to their Boats Upset in Storm. over to to ques- William H. Taft, the presidential candidate of the Republican party, on Saturday, when questioned concerning the conduct of the coming campaign. That the campaign is to be conducted chiefly in the west is conceded by political Jeaders who have been here since the Democratic convention, ily. Arriving at his home he seized a hatchet and struck Sarah, his 16 year-old daughter, a glancing blow on the head, rendering her unconscious. At this juncture Helen appeared with the revolver, and as the irate man started upstairs with the avowed purpose of killing his wife, who was lying in bed with a baby, Helen shot him in the neck. He made a dash for the girl, who shot again, the bullet taking effect in the abdomen. ELEVEN WERE DROWNED. List of Rowboat Fatalities at Baltimore Increasing. Baltimore —The identification of one of the hats found near an overturned rowboat after the storm of Sunday night, during which five men are known to have been drowned, leads to the belief that the list of fatalities will total eleven instead of nine. It developed on Monday that William Kirwan and George Gardner, bearing cries for help, boarded a launch and headed for the row boat from which the cries came. In it they saw three women and three men. Before they could reach the row boat they sawit turn over, and when they came alongside all of the occupants had disappeared. One of the two women’s hats picked up by Kirwan and Gardner and by them turned over to the police, led later to its identifi- cation by William Preis, who stated that the party in the row boat was made up of Antone, Joseph and Mary Rader, Mary and Emma. Weider and Henry Douteusch, none of whom has since been heard from. Taft Busy Writing Speech of Acceptance. Hot Springs, Va.—Beginning the work of writing his speech of acceptanee of the presidential nomination, to be delivered in Cincinnati on July 28, Judge W. H. Taft Tuesday made a careful study and comparison of the Democratic and Republican platforms acopted by the recent conventions. Injunction. planks will receive the most attention, so much having been said on this subject, criticism from Democratic sources. having been ος the National Forest Renamed in Honor of Cleveland. Washington—San Jacinto National fcrest in California wil hereafter be known as the Cleveland National forest. It has been so rechristened by President Roosevelt, in honor of the late President Cieveland, under whose administration the first national for- ests were created. In 1897, in honor cf Washington’s 165th birthday annt- versary, and upon the recommenda- tion of the National Academy of Sciences, President Cleveland created thirteen national forests, containing atout 23,000,000 acres. The San Jacinto forest was one of the original thirteen so created. Mrs. BelleGunness Being Located by Country Detectives. La Porte, Ind.—According to inforration received by Sheriff Smulzer, Mrs. Belle Gunness was discovered Monday in two cities, Portland, Me., and Rockford, Mich. The county commissioners decline to authorize the expenditure of any more money for running down worthless clues. The commissioners have about reached the conclusion of Sheriff Smulzer, Coroner Mack, Prosecutor Smith and fhe doctors who conducted the autcpsy that Mrs. Gunness lost her life in the fire which destroyed her home. Climate of Panama is Not Fit for Soldiers. Washington—General Elliot, mander of the marine corps, conference with Secretary of comat a War Wright, urged that the marines now and then in Panama be brought back to this were endeavoring to reach Fort Me swallowed in little bites. When he Henry, when one of them, Peter Diet- | was not spearing at potatoes he was county as soon as possible, on ac count of the climatic conditions on the isthmus. It is necessary, in the opinion of the officials here, to maintain a force there of not exceeding ..v of the 12000 now there. Secretary Wright will confer with the navy department. rich, terrified by the storm, while at-| tempting to leap overboard, upset the | entirely forms, and, worst ofall, by the splash of water gushing from water tanks. a kind of stupor, he was dimly con- now here, was in communication with the fiagship Connecticut Tuesday by wireless. The Kahuku wireless sta- Hot Springs, Va—“I am willing to turn the campaign my management, except as tions of general policy,” said by the voices of passengers on plat- | leagues of track. Generally, though in of this city. Bight men in a rowboat | Taft to Leave Campaign in Hands of Managers. men running over the top of his car, of| A large piece, which on its ex- tion Tuesday night caught a message sent hy the cruiser Washington. he was tortured by the sound of brake- the animal into submission. Then the | Sometimes, for hours, there would little girl was rushed away to a hosbe nothing but the roar of the train pital, where her wounds were treated lumbering, with eeterpijlar slowness and where every effort will be made | it seemed to O'Connell, over endless hydrophobia developing. Even Hawaiian Lepers Wil! Salute the Fleet. O’Connell’s recollection of his long | held daylight again is a blur relieved Risked Life to Save Sister. to fight a due! and acceptance. Alfonso Costa, the Republican leader, charged it was impossible to probe these scandals to the bottom so long ministers who had Water, there was none. , and horrible ride before he finally be- old Rose Eisenberg was terribly bit- as certain the train might make a run of a few return trom Europe of William R. | hungry. 3 Hearst all will be ready. O'Connell began to lose track of The Independence party leaders say time from that on. There was not a they will put a full ticket fn the field ray of light in the car, all the food and will also try 10 have a_ state | there was, raw potatoes, was on the ticket in every state in the Union. | other side of a stout wire partition In thirty-cight states national Polhamus expressed his intention of killing all the members of his fam- treat public questions at greater length and will not be forthcoming for several weeks after the ceremony ef notifying the candidate. has taken place. New York.—Preparations are well under way for the “national conventhe dren Monday, but was himself probably fatally shot by his eldest daughter, Helen, postmistress of this place. ten minutes in its delivery. The speech of acceptance also will be sbort. The letter of acceptance will National Convention of Independence Party to Be Held in Chicago, July 27. of ed to murder his wife and four chil- su brief that it will not require over HEARST PARTY CONVENTION. tion Del Monte, N. J—Enraged by fam ily troubles, Amos Polhamus attempt- ful and unmistakable terms. Senator Warner’s notification speech will be made to prevent an outbreak. money to the members of the royal house, which resulted in a challenge compromised in the past were sitting as judges. He named Count Penha. Garcia as such a minister, whereupon Sisters. bench in respect to the process of the injunction, and the two parties having adopted planks on‘that subject which are liable to play an important part in the campaign. Taft will declare his position on this question in force- days, the Independence party leaders hours, perhaps a day, he lay down and have been completing their plans for slept some more. When he awakened the Chicago convention, and with the the train was still moving and he was sume fresh burdens. of Her Mother, Self and mede on his record while tion hall in Denver plosion will form the word “Welcome,” has been placed in a position of vantage. The refrigerator ship Glacier, to do it,” he said, «ne claims that the Democrats will carry Ohio this fall awoke dry declares his conviction that the ean ticket an old-time majority next required anything and Japanese sincerely hope that the United States will keep a tight hold onthe Philippine islands for many years. The financial situation, he says, does not lead Japan to desire to as- tie “If * floor slept. The car had a refrigerator inajo Indian reservation under Colonel | Hunter, who will go north (ο {36 stalled at one end, and, except for a gateway partitioned off by heavy wire Chin Lee country. Various rumors screening, was otherwise full of potaare prevalent relative to what their | ure trip is indicated by the fact that | himself locked in, the car pitch dark a battery of gatling guns and forage | entered a restaurant and shortly af- | for a two months’ campaign are taken | terwards began a quarrel. They tan ‘along. A year ago troops were orὉ into the street, firing. At first '¢ was ' dered to return after penetrating the b ORKKOR on conditions in Ohio. Mr. Vorys expects that Ohio will give the RepubliNovember. Hetraveled Navajos Apparently Upon the Verge | He looked about and found a_ reof an Uprising. | frigerator car full of potatoes with an SHOOTING IN CHINATOWN. Japanese have tional, state and legislative ticket by Denver.—Though severs Chinamen disappeared. the season. principally on the cars, and about the A short time ago he decided to leave killed Everett and Wakeley and | guides. The only excuse given there, so went to a freight yard and He Ayhao for murdering the party inquired about train schedules. his liking that he felt like killing some learned that a train to | would leave in three hours. In the one.” meantime, with a night ride on the was recently ordered by court. Justice Wright held that the order of the appellate tribunal Tuesday, following a special appeal, did not operate as a stay of execution, and said he was forced to hold that that order required that a supersedeas bond be given to perfect the appeal. He said that as a stay of proceedings would jeopardize the rights of the par- with an then five by was were unable to locate Mr. Jordan. Philadelphia.—One Chinaman machinist, brought up at Jackthe other guides he drugged the en- sonville, Fla., where’ he found steady tire party with the fumes from 8 employment and a climate that apvlant, Ayhao and some followers pealed to him. tice before the Interior department ployed to disseminate information concerning the causes and prevention the coming meeting of the American Everett and Wakeley. “Avhao, it was explained, planned the murder while acting as one of the self south for the native guides who were conducting by easy stages, the two white men into the interior ‘trucks of freight of the island. While gambling with first of the year joining the reservation on the south. The Indians are reported heavily has cemented all Republicans in Ohio Bankers to Meet in Denver. process O'Connell is a iron constitution and a roving dispo sition. Last winter, work being slack in his native Brooklyn, he betook him- 8 carpenter working nearby, was struck by a bullet. After the firing ceased the fighting der to carry to the district court of appears the case of the disbarred at torneys whose reinstatement to prac reach the startling total of 31,414 One hundred physicians will be em of summer sickness among infants. the food nor water. Compared to that experience, they say, his typhoid is merely an episode. country half way to Chin Lee. The | ROIS “ndians became hostile and several were killed. Since then trouble has arisen over the water holes between Expects Big Majority for Taft in Ohio. Fighting to Save Babies. ex: by the two murdered men. Luauckily, we at length succeeded in securing guides who were acquainted with | Ayhao, the leader of the murderers, | and who took us to the last camp of street ran for shelter. Bullets flew thick and fast, and Abraham Dunham, for $164.00, instead of $82.000, in or- New York.—It will be the farmer of the United States and not the capital- ; ed it last night, forced an entrance ist who will reap the first and great- Gross had shot himself during the est benefit of the tide of returning night. Kirk is still alive but in a crit prosperity, is the opinion of Stuyve.| fecal condition. During the night Gross sant Fish, former president and Equitable, Washington.—Under a decision by Justice Wright of the District Supreme Upanimously Chosen Chief Executive eourt on Tuesday, Secretary Garfield jis required to furnish personal bond of the Panama Republic. Domingo de Obaldia, formerly minis- Armstrong committee that Jordan ap- The explosion occurred in Νο, 1 shaft of the colliery and is believed tc have been caused by one of the men lifting the gauze of his safety lamp just after an explosion of a shot which OBALDIA IS PRESIDENT. Panama.—The presidential election throughout the isthmus of Panama The son plain his financial mangement of the been The doctors agree he will not die us into the mountains of the interior because he came to themafter a sevenof the island, along the route traveled dayride in a freight car, with neither was overcome with grief. It was in the course of the Armstrong committee insurance investigation that Mr. Jordan’s name came prominently before the public. It was brought out then that Comptroller Jordan had secured loans aggregating $685,000 for himself and James W Alexander, former president of the Equitable, from the Mercantile Trust | company, and that these loans had | been covered up in the books of the | company. This $685,000 came to be known as the “yellow dog” fund. A desire was expressed by the pear before the committee which has tient of whomit is proud. He is ChesEverett and Wakeley, which we ter A. O'Connell of Bath Beach, 21 found near their last camp in the | years old and ill with typhoid fever in Bayaual mountains. At first our a virulent form. guides were apparently afraid to lead fore, and a messenger overtook the young man on the street and informed him of his father’s death. telegram, New York.—The medical staff of the received here: Lincoln hospital, the Bronx, has a pa“Am returning with the remains of stances. Mr. Jordan had left his son Frank B. Jordan, only a moment be set on fire, brought down a iarge body of coal. following New York.—Thomas J. Jordan, for merly comptroller of the Equitable Life Assurance society, dropped dead of heart disease Tuesday in the Wall Street station of the subway. His death was attended by tragic circum. but re covered, after a difficult and danger- ments. crime. IS DELIRIOUS WHEN RESCUED | Tortured by Thirst and Hunger—Tan1 . | talized by Sounds of Voices and Water on Fearful Sevenous search, Lieutenant Ahern tells | Day Journey. of the finding of the bodies in the the island of Negros, have been dal and Under Numerous Indict- at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday, and paid Bravely Uses Revolver to Save Lives DA TO NEW YORK. Manila.—The bodies of H. D. Ever- the Roman priesthood, and shouting Victims GIRL SHOOTS FATHER Wild ATTEMPTS MURDER boat. He and three others were! drowned. The finding of an empty) row boat leads to the belief that foar others were drowned. | Forest Fires Raging Portland, Me—With in Maine. series moisture, lying in a half delirium on the floor. The car in which O'Connell was locked got to Jersey City in the morning, seven days after he had entered it. O'Connell did not know where he was nor care. He was aroused by the beat of waves and the sensationof sailing and knew that his car had been Thaw Case Goes Over Until September Term. οἵ | put aboard a boat. Long afterward, in White Plains, N. Y.—Proceedings all | the dark, men entered his car with an Harry K. Thaw’s application for a@ along the Maine coast, and raging also | lanterns. at various inland points, the situation |; The men were. freight handlers at jury trial to determine his mental conis somewhat alarming. There have 'the Hudson river freight yard. They diton were Tuesday adjourned until been no rains for more than a month, | were astonished at the apparition on the September term of the supreme court of Westchester county. This arand under the scorching heat of the the floor of the car. rangemen was entered into before last two weeks the undergrowth in O'Connell told his story four days the Maine forests has become dry as Judge Mills by Thaw’s counsel and tinder. Thousands of acres of wild after he reached the Lincoln hospital ,)District Attorney Jerome of New O'Connell says that he is not gving land have been burned over. The loss }York. In the meantime Thaw will of timber in the Kineer regions alone ; to die—that he is going to live to get remain in the custody of Sheriff Chanis estimated at over $190,000, and the to Bath Beach, and that then he will ler of Dutchess county, and will stay fire in that district is uncontrolled. stay there fin the jail] at Poughkeepsie. dangerous forest fires a last globule of scattered |