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Show I nil EXTENSION OF ROAD GOES BOMB INTO EXPLOSION TO THE KAROS Of RECEIVER RUCK CHARGED HAND SOCIETY IN HI Declare Tbey Can Not Law Comply With Nine-hoat Present Time. RiHroads Senate Committee Appointed te vestigate Brownsville Affair Makes Its Report. of ur Amrt That Thay Hava Found It lo to Procura Competent Telegraph Operatora In Number and Want Mora Time. 8uf-fcle- Washington. Operating offlrlala of Tall road a from all parte of the country on Thursday were in attendance niKin the hearing given by the Inter-atatcommerce romiutaKlon upon e for an extension of time of law. going Into effect of the nine-hou- r Thirty-seveapplicatlnna were received by the commlaalon asking for the cxtenvlon. Two of them already bare been denied, thorn of the Georgia Southern ft Florida railway and the SL Joseph ft Grand Inland railway, because, in the opinion of the not did commission, the petitions show what. In the ternia of the act, would conatltule "good causes' fur The granting the relief requested. applications of the other thirty-livlines are being beard aa one case, because the petitions aro kubsiantial-lIdentical. All of them assert that they have found It Impossible to procure the servlcra of competent, efficient and dependable telegraph operators la such numbers as will enable them to comply with the provisions of the law; and that, even tr they could obtain the necessary operator, the enforced employment of no ninny additional men would lie a flnanclal hardship which the carriers ought not to be subjected to. y AFTER JEROMES SCALP. Worth, Tex. On petition the Mercantile Trust company of New York, trustee for a large number of State circuit bond holdi rs. United of the northMcCormick A. I. Judge ern dlsirct of Texas has appointed Judge T. J. Freeman of New Orleans receiver for the International ft Great Northern Railroad company and fixed his bond at fnO.Utio. Tbe petitioners allege that the railroad has defaulted In the payment of Interest to the extent or 9191, cao (in bonds; that It Is insolvent and unable to meet It open ellng expenses and obligations and to defray the costs of Improvements now under way. The railroad company, through Its general solicitor, filed Its consent to the appointment of a receiver. The International ft Great Northern is a Gould line, and recently underwent reorganisation, when Lroy T. Price waa supersi-deby Horace Clarke as general manager. The reporta of the Texas railroad commission show the road to have been In financial difficulties for over a year. FOrt Investigation Extended Over Two Sea sions of Congress, Nearly Evsry Ons of ths Men Dishonorably Discharged by President i Testifying J That tho shooting afWashington. fray at Brownsville, Tex., on tho night ot August 1906, was dons by soma negro soldiers of tha Twenty-fift- h 12-1- I . IN AUTO ACCIDENT. Infantry, and that tha taken before tbe aenale committee on military affalru falls- - to Identify tha guilty persona. Is the opinion of eight members of tbe committee. Four members of the committee voted against the decision, and one member did not vote. Tbe resolution declaring the guilt of the negroes was submitted by Senator Lodge, and was adopted after five resolutions by Senator Foraker, one by Senator Dupont and one by Senator Scott, all of which were offered aa substitutes, had been voted down. The vote on Tuesday was reached Queen Wllhelmina and Prince Henry after prolonged Investigation extendHave Narrow Escape. ing over two sessions of congress, and The Hague. Queen Wllhelmina and alter evidence had been taken coverPrince Henry, her husband, had a nar- ing thousands of pages. Practically row escape from aerious Injury In a every negro of the three companies carriage accident which occurred of Infantry dishonorably discharged near the palace on Wednesday. Tbe by President Roosevelt testified In his own behalf, while evidence In prince was driving the carriage in of the president wss given bysupport many a In sealed. was which her majesty army officers and citizens of Brownsnarrow part of tbe road an electric ville. Throughout the entire controcar, rolng at full speed, suddenly col- versy, which in many sections of tbe lided with the vehicle before the country had been made a political the aide has prince rould turn out. The impact waa very severe, and the cairiags been directed by Senator Foraker. In wn badly wrecked, three wheels be- the final vote In the committee, a maof the Republican members ing torn off. Fortunately, neither ths jority came to hla support. The Ohio senaHer waa hurt. nor the queen prince tor expressed himself as gratified at majesty was somewhat unnerved, but tils, aa it waa apparent from tha outshe was able to walk to the palace. set that all of the Democratic memShortly afterward she left the palace bers were convinced that the negroes and went to the residence of her did the shooting. mother. In order to reassure her and BOUND FOR SIBERIA. prove that she had not been Injured. New York. An Italian bomb explosion similar la character to many which have taken place la this city within a year occurred In Broohlyn on Monday, when Peter Locatos music store In Morgan avenue was wrecked. Locato had received many Black Hand letters, but, having refused to pay for Immunity, hla atom waa first blown up last spring. In December last another bomb waa left on the slept and the windows and doors demolished. Since then he has received several letters demanding money, but has Ignored them, which resulted In the third mysterious attack. The lives of Locato, hla wife and bia three children, who occupied rooms in the rear of the store, were endangered by the last explosion, but they escaped with alight Injuries. A few months ago the body of an Italian was found in the atrect near Locato store. There was a bomb In the pocket of tbe dead man, and It was believed that he had been delegated to commit some outrage, had failed, and had been murdered by hla associates for hla failure to carry out hi Instructions. d PLEADS FOR MAIL 6UBSIDY. Senator Galllnger Declares Merchant Marina of United States Is In Bad Way. Washington. Speaking In favor of the passage of the ocean mall subsidy bill In the senate on Monday, Senator Galllnger reviewed conditions under which tbe merchant marine of this country la operating and cited many advantages that he believes will accrue to the commercial Interests of the United Statea if better mall serand other vice to South America The bill raises points ta established. no new Issue, Introduces no new prinIt leaves ciple, said Mr. Galllnger. existing and prosperous steamship service exactly as they are now, and without changing one iota the tried and approved methods of the present law. Increases the compensation on routes which sixteen years of experience have conclusively proved to be Inadequate the long, costly and Important routes to South America and Colonists Flocking to Country (he Orient, the routes where our lack of steamship service Is severest and Seen Only by Convicts. our need of such service most ImperSL Petersburg. The emigration to ative." Only eight of fifteen ships Siberia this year Is expected to as- that were plying across the Paciflo sume unprecedented proportions The ocean last March are left, he said. colonization department of tha miniso ; aartewltare. whose agtfita NED MORE OPERATORS. try throughout Russia have fl named their Enforcement of Nine-HoLaw Will preliminary Investigation of the situaProvlds Work for Many Men. tion and are preparing to cope with a rush of 16,000 homeseekera, has elabTopeka, Kans. Announcement waa orated, In cooperation with the minis- made at the general managers office try of rallroada, detailed plans for tbe of the Santa Fe on Monday that 486 transportation of colonials to their new operatora will he required on the new homes on apodal trains The system, the gulf lines expected to will be for- comply with the provisions of the fedbulk of the emigrant warded between March 2 and May eral nine-hou- r law to go Into effect 28, the last trainload leaving for the March 4. About sixty are required on east on June 28. Over 7.r00,000 acres the Eastern Grand division. The ofof land In all parts of Siberia have ficials do not know whether they will been surveyed and are In readiness bo able to get the requisite number of for the colonists. The land has been new men or not. divided Into 120,000 individual allotments. Charged With Slaying Hla Wealthy Brother. Confessed to Attempt to Wreck Train. New York Domlntclo Cells, brother Bedalla. Mo Walter W. Cox, a wood chopepr, whose home la at of Girolamo Chile, the wealthy ImFranklin Junetlon, Mo., rnnrened to porter who was found dying In his Pacific railroad officials office in West Broadway early Sunday Missouri Tuesday that he removed the rail and Girolamo Stephenson and Caesar from the track on the top of Ottervllls Blanchl have been held without ball hill on Friday night Inst, which re- to await an Investigation Into the sulted In the derailing of a freight cause of the old mans death. Celia train from St. Louis. Cox said he had was found unconscious and near Irtended tn wreck and rob the fast death by a policeman who had been s Missouri Pacific St. City called by Domlnlclo. Hla skull had train Nn. 4, which was due at Otter-vlll- been fractured by several blows from a few mlnntes after the freight a hammer and there were stain from acid on hla lips. train waa wrecked. la-su- aur-pris- e deter-mlnattoT- ir "It Am-erte- well-know- g Their ; . cock-fightin- In Behalf. Metropolitan Street Railway Wants District Attorney Removed. York. Twenty-twNew speclflc charges are made In a petition praying for thn removal of William T. Jerome as district attorney of the county of New York, whlrh was sent to Governor Hughes at Albany Thursday by a committee of stockholders of the PASS THE BILLION MARK. Metropolitan Street Hallway company K. William chairman. their through of Gold Coin and Bullion King. The petilkin alleged that Je- Vast Sums in tho United States. rome failed to properly prosecute and charges of alleged "jury fixing" Washington. The strength of the the giving of falae testimony In street United States treasury at the present railway cases; that the prosecution Uuua, was . commented , upon , la the or violation of the criminal law by house on Wednesday by Mr. Boutell the life inaurance companies of New of Illinois. He said he had Just been York, aa disclosed by the Armstrong Informed by Treasurer Treat that for committee, bad been dUyed; that an the first time the gold coin and bullion alleged rrlmlnal conspiracy to divert and the property of the Metropolitan In the United States had reached milone thousand of sum the New York of passed Street Hallway company into tho bands or a few men waa al- lion dollars, an event so extraordilowed by Mr. Jerome to go on and nary," he said, "that it will be chrone hundreda of stockholders robbed of icled and commented upon with finantheir money and thnt nn attempt waa In every and amazement made to punish men alleged to hnve cial center In the world; an event In connection committed other frauda which all citizens of our republic, with New York City Traction dealn. without regard to party affiliation, well contemplate with satlsfao may SerIn Art That They Japanese Deny and tlon pride." ious Flnanclal Difficulties. from Toklo. Special cablegrams Attack Crane and Mondell Bills. a New York and lindon published In Washington. Number one of the Toklo newspapera have created publication called "The Peoples Lobastonishment In financial circles be- by Bulletin," appeared Wednesday cause It Is evident that certain Influ- and contained an attack upon the ences have determined to misrepre- Crane and Mondell bills granting sent and exaggerate existing cond-- l rights of way and location for electrle tlons In Japan. These special cable- light and power purposes through pubgrams say that the decline of Japanlic lands. The executive committee ese securities la due to a financial of the peoples lobby has among Ua panic. The use of the word panic members Francis J. lleney. San Franaa repreaentlng the preaent alt nation cisco; Lincoln Steffens, New York No "panic" la entirely unwarranted. lien B. Lindsey. Denver; John Mitchexists In any direction. Thera have Indianapolis, and Mark Twain, ot recently been a number of failures, ell, York. New Its reached but tbe depression hat limit Anna Wanted No Title. New York. Mrs. Anna M. Weight Chief of Police Sheets Found Not man Walker of Philadelphia, one of Guilty. was In The the the richest women In America, Salt Lake City. Jury Frederick to on married Wednesday case of former Chief of io1lre Sheets, In SL Patricks cathedral. who has been on trial In the district C. Penfleld, ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. the Following court on the charge of hnvlng acceptrailed for Europe. The cereed a bribe of 8480 fur protecting the Penfleld was by Archbishop performed r mony McWhlr-tebunko men who robbed the were two witnesses brothers of 110,000 tn Salt Ijike Farley. There on September 19, 1900. declnred the Mr. Penfield wss formerly connected former police chief not guilty of the with a Hartford (Conn.) newspaper, crime, arter taking three ballots. It was vice consul to Ijondnn. United la asserted that the result of the trial States consul to Egypt and Is an auwill settle the entire matter, and that thor. Sheets will not be proacutcd further. Coal Miners Art Still Idls. Cannon Route Committee. Peoria, III. Despite reports to the com- contrary, Washington The promluent coal operatora demittee on ways and means of the clare the deadlock between the opera-lorhouse was on Thursday put to rout and miners of the northern, cennnd, by an overwhelming vote, or- tral and southern Illluola field had not dered out of the capital to the new been broken and that the operators house office building, a block away. were prepared to hold out until March Varloua members of the committee, 1, when the present agreement exDalzell, pires. Then the trial will coine. If Jod by Messrs. Payne and strenuously objected to the removal, nothing Intervenes, and neither side but they had only a weak following, from their announced and their protewts availed them noth- recedes President John M. Walker rooms committee's The present ing. that the prospects aro declared has that in the dcidred order are speaker i a r suspension of work. general more commodious quarters may have Embezzling Pittsburg Brokers Get Hoosier Favor Cock Fights. Severe Sentence. the cock fight Washington. Convicted of embezzling of the member a of Pittsburg. the sentiment is who hua 400 shares of capital stock of the Indiana Humane society Sewer Pipe company, valued at written to President Roosevelt tn pro812.000. intrusted to their care, E. D. test against executive Interferenre n aa a feature of the Gartner and A. J. Harnack, with sentenced been have brokers, took which Manila carnival, place "A chance with the spur each to pay a fine of 20 and pne-hal- t Thursday. ! surely preferable lo the axe of the (he costs of prosecution and to serve chief," said the president's corre- one year and three months In the penHe had rend a news dis- itentiary. The severity of thd senspondent. from patch from the Philippines saying an tence caused a gasp of surprise were appeal had been sent to the White ihe spectators, and the prisoners dumbfounded. Uouse to have the pit abolished. o In- , d ROYALTY Brooklyn Man Who Had Refused to Pay for Immunity. j For-merl- loule-Kanxa- o Results in a Doubla Tragedy. Lamar. Mo. Lee Hart, a here, on Tuesday night shot and killed Mrs. Joseph Edwards, hla mother-in-law- . and seriously wounded the latters husband, and then committed suicide by lying nernsi the tiaek and letting the Si. I.mile ft San Francisco fast express run over hla body. Hart first fired two shots at Ms wife, following n family quarreL but she escaped with a slight flesh wound. Hart once served a penitentiary sentence. Family Quarrel coal-haul- er Couldnt Blufl Mine Manager. Sllverton. Colo -- W. 35. Kinney of Denver, manager of the Gold King mine. H. M. Soule, vice president of the company. Sheriff William Palm-quiand two of his deputies on Tuesday received Micro on each of which was sketched In a crude manner a skull and erossbones and containing a warning of swift and horrible death if they do not their activity In arresting and punisbinc ore thieves. Manager Kinney immediately ordered tho discharge of slx'v five Austrian, st Montenegran and Italian miners am ployed at the Gold King. Coin for Decision. New York. Just Ice Day in the New York supreme court set as'de the verdict of n Jury on Tuesday and fined twelve Jurymen $.vi each f0r d(,ciding the verdict by tbe flip of a coin. The case wa a suit brought against the New York City Hallway company for damages In causing the death of child. The Jury brought In a verdict In favor of the railway compsnv. One Jury Flipped Sioux Indians Win Out Washington. In an opinion by Justice Holmes, the supreme court of the United States has decided the case of the Slsseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indlanx vs. the United States favorably to the Indians. The Indians claimed a large sum of money growing out of a treaty with them In 1851, under which the government agreed to pay them for fifty years an annuity of 973,600. In addition to 8305,000 cash paid at the time. The payments were regularly made until the Sioux outr break in 1862, when payments were uspended. Gambling Drove Wife to Suicide. San Francisco. When the coroner's deputies entered the home of C. Leopold, a mining man. recently from Mexico, to prepare for the autopsy on the body of hla wife, who was found dead, presumably from natural causes, tney found a note Inside her corset showing that the had committed suicide. It declared that she had been driven to take her own life by the actions of her husband, who, she asserted. was spending all their money gambling In the rear of a cigar store on Fillmore street - Germany a Menace te Peace of World. Chicago. "Germany has become a menace to the peace of the world," declared Dr. Emil G. Hlrach at Sinai temple on Sunday. "That nation has lent a willing ear to the doctrine dehas nying the equality of men. So far root taken that pernicious doctrine nettled conviction that now It la a men of the nation among the strong In that country Juryman explainin' the jurys action, that even those born they said the Jury was tmpeleaxly divided, are not real Germans unless have Teutonic Mood In their veins and that one of the iwnihcrs of lb of selfish Jury was anxiuus to attend to hla mhe doctrine la the offspring nd ungodlv minds" business. YET FLOW STREETS OF USBGN THE ALTAR An Uprising of Armed Revolutionists In the Capital of Portugal Seems Property Destroyed Wee Owned by Texas Railroad la Insolvent and Unable to Meet Its Operating Ex- pansts and Costs of Improvements. MAY BLOOD PRIEST MURDERED Bound to Came. Fattier Heinrichs Shot and Killed He Was Administering Sacra meat in Denver Church. si The Murderer Waa an Italian Anar-chlst- , Who Waa Captured and Expressed No Remorse for Hla Diabolical Deed. Denver. Father Leo Heinrichs waa shot and killed when administering the sacrament at early mass In SL Elizabeth's Catholic church. Eleventh and Curtis streets, this city, 6 o'clock Sunday morning. Kneeling at the altar rail, between two women. Guarnacclo pressed 'the muzzle of a revolver against the body of the priest, after receiving from him the consecrated water, and shot tbe man of God through the heart Father Leo fell prone In front of the altar and died almost instantly. With an Inarticulate scream of triumph, which the communicants describe as the yell of a demon, the assassin sprang into the stale, and, waving the smoking gun about hla head, dashed to the church door. Guarnacclo waa captured by a policeman after a abort chase and placed In aolltary confinement at the city JalL He admitted to a policeman who Interviewed him that the priest whom he had killed waa a stranger to him, and In explanation of hla crime made the following statement: "I Just went over there because I have a grudge against all priests in general. They are all against the I went to the commuworkingman. nion rail because I could get a better shot I did not give a damn whether he waa a German prleat or any other kind of n priest They are all In the Gal-epp- e name class." Father Heinrichs waa widely known and greatly loved by hla parishioners. LEOPOLD AGAIN IN HOT WATER. Lisbon. The greatest precautions re being observed In Lisbon to Insure the maintenance of order. It I evident that the government fears an outbreak of some kind, but up to the preaent time no disturbances have been reported. The soldiers are being kept In their barracks. The political situation In which the government finds Itself today la extremely critical, and there la much uneasiness aa to the outcome. Tbe government la fairly caught between two fire, the renewal of the popular agitation for increased liberties on the one hand and the reactionary conspiracy on the other, and It seems to be trying to fight both at the same time. A prominent politician who was Involved with the reactionaries has been sent out of the country to the Azores. The government la considering a plan which Includes the elecpostponement of the general tions fixed for April, and In their tend to summon the parliament that was dissolved last year. The situation at Setubal la report ed to be critical and the gunboat Zaire has been dispatched to that port PERJURY CAUSED CONVICTION. Bohemian Fortune Teller May Yet Escape the Gallows. d Jerry Chicago. Elgh M. V. Viral, whose testimony more than any other persons served to convict the Bohemian fortune teller, Herman Bllllk, of the murder of six members of the Viral family, has. It la announced, recanted, and in an affidavit declares that the testimony was simply perjury. to bo Bllllk la under sentence hanged March 20. The supreme court last week affirmed the Judgment, destroying the man's last chance unless Governor Deneen shall Issue a par don. Not only does the Viral boy impugn hla own evidence, but he declares two of hla relative also lied. In the affidavit the boy states that all the vital part of the testimony he gave against Bllllk at the trial waa perjury that was taught him by a high police official and an assistant teen-year-ol- Annexation of Congo Free State a Difficult Problem to 8olve. Brussels. The situation in tbe matter of the annexation to Belgium of the Congo Free State la again assuming a disquieting aspect It la stated that King Leopold has taken back all hla fair promises and now demands that the special fund which waa to replace the crown domain be placed under hla control and not under that of parliament, aa It was originally 00 agreed. In addition, ha asks that be placed at hla disposal to carry out various projects. It la understood that the government is firmly restating these demands and la determined. If it becomes necessary, to resign, which, aa King. Leopold could not under such circumstances find any one to form a new ministry. It la pointed out, would mean elections that would be bound to result In the return of a majority moat hostile to the king. Tried to Sell Naval Secrets to Foi United 8tates Will Not Interfere In Manchurian Affairs. stated with Washington. It wa poaitlveneaa at the state department on Saturday that no official reporta or protests from any source have been received regarding Japanese commercial aggressiveness in Manchuria, and from the nature of the situation none la expected. It also la asserted that the American government has no Intention of addressing Japan or any other power on the subject at this time, or when the battleship fleet reaches Its destination. "Black Hand" Assassins Threaten to Blow Up Powder Magazine. New York. In a letter signed "Black Hand" and addressed to Commander Braunarueter, In charge o! the United States naval magazine at Iona Island, the threat has been mad that the enormous stores of amokelen powder on the Island will be blown up unless the married men discharged from employment on the Island January 1, 1908, be put back to work at once. There are three million pounds of smokeless powder and other explosives stored In the numerous maga states attorney. SPY IMPRISONED FOR LIFE. 850,-000,9- elgn Power and Got Caught. Toulon, France. Charles B. Ullmo, an ensign In the French nary, arrested at Toulon on October 25 on the charge of being a spy, ha been found of attemptguilty by a court-martiing to sell naval secrets to a foreign power and sentenced to life imprisonment in a fortress and to be degraded from hla rank. Tho court decided unanimously that Ensign Ullmo had abstracted military documents InChief Kills of volving the security of the state and Negro Runs Amuck and had communicated them to a foreign Police. power with the view of selling them. Fayetteville, N. C. Chief of Police He had not, however, actually disIn waa shot dead Benton of this city of the paper. front of hla home Uere Sunday, Jpat posed out. let after the churches had been Denounces Husband as Murderer. by a negro, Sam Murchison, crazed . Angeles. Lon Following a heated with drink. The man alo shot two which took place In their quarrel negroes a few minutes before he shot room at the Hotel Catalina, Mrs. EL the chief. Murchison was captured Frasier denounced her husband aa a an hour after the shooting and placed In JalL He la suffering with a wound murderer and surrendered him into th In the thigh Indicted by Chief Ben- hands of the police. According to tons non, who. Just after the woman, Frazier committed a murhla father was shot, seized the dead der hr Indianapolis four years ago. officer's pistol and pursued the mur- The detectives who were called In derer. A crowd gathered and tried during the disturbance handcuffed to take Murchison from the officer Frazier and took him to JalL All efand lynch him, hnt the prisoner was forts to secure details of the alleged landed in a cell after a hard struggle. crime have been unavailing. Crime of Insane Woman. Denver. The bodies of Mrs. Mary EL Nixon, aged 60; her daughter. Mrs E. N. Canter, aged 35, and the son of the latter were found lying In the cottage which had been their home In this city. Each had a sponge tied over the mouth and nose, and death evidently resulted from chloroform or ether. Mrs. Canter la known to have been mentally deranged. and the police believe she was the prime author of the deed. The three had been dead a week when the bodies were discovered by nigh bora. One Killed, Fifteen Injured. colCambridge, O. In a rear-enlision Rose Clancy was killed outright and fifteen Injured, fire it la thought fatally. Among the latter were Motorman Robert Allison. Conductor McCullen and Catherine Clan-cey- , slater of Rose Clancey. The In cerurban car had Just rounded a curve and gone onto a short trestle. A city air waa but a few feet behind and both cars were traveling at a good peed. The trolley of the interurbaa aliped and the rear car smashed Intc the one forward d lines. Blood Poisoning Caused by Licking Poetage Stamps. New York. For the second time In two years Miss Myra Silvervale of Norfolk, Conn., la In a Norfolk hospital Buffering from a disease of the tongue, which la said to have been contracted through contact with poetage stamps while she was engaged e. aa an assistant In the Norfolk The disease la exceedingly painful, and the hospital surgeons are at a loss to account for it, but believe it lo be the result ot poisoning. post-offic- All for Love of an Actress. Brin-nle- r, Philadelphia. Frederick J. who says he Is a sou of William Brlnnler, a former law partner of Alton B. Parker of New York, and Uvea In Kingston, N. Y, attempted suicide In a hotel here Sunday by ahootlng himself. Brlnnler, who la about 24 years old, came here a week ago and registered at a hotel largely patronized by theatrical people. He told the detectives he followed an actress here and that she left Saturday with her company. Brlnnler Is In a critical condition. |