Show suicide recalls the big scandals of de lessels lessees Les sees paris july 17 emale arton one of principals in the old panama canal was found dead in his apartments this morning under circumstances indicating suicide anon was sentenced in 1896 to eight sears imprisonment tor complicity with baron de reinach and dr cor nellus herz in the frauds of the panama canal company arton was the intermediary between baron de reinach and the incriminated french deputies that is between the briber and the bribed arton wrote the checks and had book on chose stubs was recorded record sd the guilt of about politicians he alone possessed the secrets of the bribery when the crash came in 1892 arton disappeared and with him went about of the funds of the french dynamite society with which arton was associated in his absence be was sentenced on the bharga oa trying to bribe a deputy to five years imprisonment and to twenty years imprisonment for bis connection with the french dynamite society arton was finally captured in london and lakan to france but was pardoned i 1899 de reinach committed suicide and dr herz after seeking retugio in england died there in 1898 ROAL ARCANUM DISCORD new york july 17 representatives of twenty nine councils 0 the royal arcanum in new jersey including nearly all the organizations of the order in the counties of essex union passaic Pas hudson and bergen have formed a permanent organization ith the idea of opposing the new aate schedule adopted at atlantic city by the supreme council A resolution was adopted without a dissenting vote demanding that the grand council of new jersey petition the supreme council to convene reconvene re before october 1 the date on which the new rates go into effect and abandon that schedule A committee of fit gesn will be appointed to carry on the fight la advocating a return to the old rate schedule it was generally agreed y the dissenters that to strengthen the finances an additional assessment at the old rates might be made at stated periods such as one each guarter under this plan of would be raised the first year with increasing amounts as the membership increases la future years ROOSEVEL TS DOINGS oyster bay L I 1 july 17 president os evelt devoted himself practically today to the transaction of executive business forwarded to to from washington and to recreation extradition OF san francisco july 16 district at torney lewis F byington still believes that the extradition of george D col lans can be accomplished without the presence of witnesses at the hearing in the courts of british columbia and for this reason has sent no one to victoria to testify against the fugitive lawyer detective thomas will arrive in victoria tomorrow gabson will appear at the trial on wednesday armed with the testimony of the witnesses to the alleged perjury he will present these proofs and then the governor of british columbia for the person of the runaway attorney it the canadian court asks for the witnesses and insists on their presence gabson will telegraph instantly to district attorney byington and the latter will send them northward on the first train it the fight promises to be a hard and complicated one the district attorney will probably go to victoria himself many lawyers of this city express the opinion that collins will escape extradition |