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Show Cl AYFR flF PRIFQT omiLiiur STATE LOUISIANA , SHOT SENATOR Lii of Colorado at Leaat Under the 6lxty Days of Lift la Allowed the Convicted Man Aaaaaain Little Emotion When Convicted. Denver, Colo. Jut Dia-play- eighteen daya SCALDED WIFE AND CHILDREN. at death. la the court room, not three blocks Inhuman Act of Wisconsin Sentence Farmer fioiu the church where be committed Who Went Home Drunk. fils heinous crime, and within the Chicago. Tlio story comes from sound of the chimes, which he claimed Win., that Christian RasmusKenosha, drew him to that church, Alla received the Judgmeut delivered by a sen, a farmer, la alleged to have gone home In a drunken frenzy Monday Jury of bis peers. Stolid to the last, beating a large kettle of be simply nodded his head and whis- night, and to have water, gone to the room ocpered to the Interpreter, "Is there no cupied by hla aon, four years of age, appeal? Then his chin sauk upon hla and hla daughter, nine years old, and t breast and he made no further When the Jury had heeu polled deliberately poured tbe boiling water move-anen- Die Judge thanked them for having done their duty and expressed his approval of the verdict. Attorney Wlddlromhe, for the defendant, made a motion for a new trial and was granted five days In wMch to file papers. Under the laws f this state, Alla can not lie hanged within sixty days of the renderlug of the verdict AT MAGDALENA BAY. American War Vessels Complete 13c 000 Miles of Long Trip. San Diego, Cal. When the Americas battleship fleet under command of Xear Admiral Robley D. Evans steamInto Magdalena hay, passing ed through the rocky gateway marked by Sail rock on the north and Rodon-d- o point on the south, and dropped anchors behind the high peninsula's promontory which stretches a protecting arm down from the mainland and puikes Man o' War Cove the most sheltered harbor of the lower Pacific coast, the history making naval cruise ,aUi " Hoads leas TEau three Hampton tooths ago, practically came to aa end. Magdalena la the present naval base of the Pacific for American target work and battle practice drills, and by right of temporary ownership through government lease the vessels, If not the men of the fleet, may feel that they are again In home waters. THE CLARA NEVADA LOCATED. Vessel Went Down Eleven Yeara Ago and Sixty-fou- r People Perished. Alaska. James Juneau. CuTte, keeper of the lighthouse at Aldridge Bock, brings nows of the finding of the wreck of tbe Clara Nevada, which was lost In 1897, wilh sixty-fiv- e passengers on board. The purser was the only one ever found. The exaet location of the Nevadu'a bull baa been at mystery these eleven years, until the terrible winds of the last few daya exposed tbe remains of the craft to view. Many human hones have been picked up on the beach In thla vicinity. The Nevada la believed to have had a large amount of gold dust on board, aa several Klondiken were on the way out with their . first elean-ups- . Parties here are preparing to aearch for her treasure. In Wages for Cotton Operatives. Lowell, Mass Nearly 25.000 cotton operatives in seven latgo mills here were notified by notices posted during the noon luncheon hour on Thursday of a 10 per cent reduction In wages. Tho reduction la to be effective on March 30. The manufacturers ktate that the discouraging situation is without a parallel In many years, the whole colton manufacturing industry. north and aouth, being seriously It Is also staled that fur Impaired. thee curtailment of production may become necessary. over the children. Mrs. Rasmussen attempted to save the Uvea of the children and the man turned on her and poured the hot water over her as well. She fled from the bouse and sought aid of the neighbors, while the children went Into another bedroom, and, locking the door, bid themselves under the bed. Neighbors released them later and the children were given medical aid. Rasmussen hi In Jail. GRAND Murderer of Steunenberg Will Not Put up Fight for His Life. ed Thu strained REVIEW ON MAY I. at San Francisco to See Fighting Machines Washington A partial Itinerary for the battleship fleet, after finishing target practice at Magdalena bay, has been announced by the navy departr nient. It Includes visits to Cando (Coronado), Santa Barbara, San Pedro. Santa Crux and San Francisco, arriving at the latter place on May 6. The announcement aaya that the plana for the future movements of all vessels of both the Atlantic and Pa- cfflTBfiJU. flier ttS llETft TYfWfr San Francisco, have not as yet been made. The grand review of the ahtpa of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets In the bay of San Francisco will take place on May 8. On the day of tha review all vessels will be full dressed and at night tho ahlpa will be Illuminated. Will Be Great Gathering President After the Bucket Shops. Roosevelt Washington. President has directed Herbert Knox Smith of the bpreau of corporations to Investigate the methods of stock trading, with a view to furnishing the baala of possible future legislation regulating such practices. The difficulty Is recognized of attempting federal regulation fur the transfer of stocka which will operate to eurtall purely gambling contracts, and at the same time work no hindrance to legitimate transfers, and It Is announced to be for the purpose of proceeding on sound princila being ples that the Investigation made. President Roosevelt haa declared himself to be decidedly in favor of eliminating stock gambling. NOT BE FRIED AG1 OF la Bloody Outbreak in Montana Francisco' The supreme court, iiiiiiiuus vote, has banded down a dni.-dodenying the application of la tbe Ban Francisco the Liibery graft cases for a rehearing, after a decision by the district court (,f si'peals in the case of former Mayor Eugeni: E. Schmitz, convicted of extortion in tlu--t French resaurant cases. AYltlium a dissenting vote among the cvru justices, the court sustained the appclMe court In ita decision that the liidici lin.iit upon which Schmlta waa cimvli-'iwas defective. In that It did nut aver that Schmitz waa mayor, waa a pothat Ruef. his ll lit I bus's, practically In control of the city, tnat as auch they were In a j unit mu to exercise power and undue lnfliiw.ee over the police commissioners, and that it did not ahow that Schmitz resorted to unlawful means In threatening to have liquor licenses Ban y mi Prison the Assistant Warden is Killed by Desperate Men. Man Who Stands In Shadow of tho Gallows Parted y Calm When Judge Wood 8at Date of Sentence for Wednesday. March 18. Caldwell, Idaho. In the district court herq on Tuesday, the assassin of Frank Stcunenberg, former governor of Idaho, Harry Orchard, whose startling confession made public In February, 1'j07, caused the arrest of Chailes If. Moyer and William p. Haywood, president and secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, and Ueorge Pettibone, honorary member of that organization, and tbe subsequent trials of the latter two. faced Judge Fremont Wood and pleaded guilty to the charge of murder In the first degree. There baa been a great deal of speculation aa to bow Orchard would conduct himself when arraigned at thla time. Juries In the trials of Haywood and Pettibone refused to believe bis tale of crimes committed at the Instigation of the officers of the federation. They were all freed. After that the opinion waa etxpresaed In would many quarters that Orchard take advanthge of every legal right he might have to obtain hla own release or a light sentence. The atand he took was a inrprlae to most every one and, hla attorney aaya, waa entirely voluntary on hla part and against the advice of many who had seen and talked with him. It la known that strong Influences have been at work the past few weeka to get the man to stand by the plea of "not guilty and stand trial. Judge Wood questioned Orchard aa to whether he fully understood the status of the case, what It meant for to plead guilty and if he understood that to plead guilty to the charges In the Indictment meant pleading guilty to the charge of first degree murder. Perfectly calm, with no Indication of any emotion in face or voice. Orchard answered that be bad gone over the matter thoroughly with bis attorney and had made up his mind definitely. Judge Wood allowed the plea to be changed and set tbe date for sentence for Wednesday, March IS. at 10 a. m. vygfc.wMMareirl The crime for which Orchard haa been held was committed on tha eve of December SO, 1905, when Frank Steunenberg was blown to eternity while passing through the gate leading to hla home In Caldwell by the explosion of a dr namlte bomb. Orchard was arrested two daya later and placed In the state penitentiary for aafe keeping. Early in February the news waa given out that he had made a confession which Implicated Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone and othera In the Steunenberg murder and In a series of most hop rible rrlmea in Colorado. The three men In Denver were arrested, brought to Idaho and Haywood and Icttlhone, after long delay, tried and acquitted The cast' against Moyer separately. waa afterwarda dismissed. 1866. LUNATIC 8CARES BANKERS. Threatens to With Nitre-Glyceri- Blow Up Omaha Bank and Lands In Jail. Omaha, Nob. A bold attempt waa made Tuesday morning to rob tho Merchants Naiional bank at Thirand Farnnui street by a man, teenth Ruef May Ba Granted Ball. who, although at first thought to be San Franrlsro. Following the set- a desperate criminal, Is now believed ting at liberty upon ball aggregating by the police to lie a lunatic. 3345,000 of former Mayor Eugene EL The nuin. who gave Ills namet aa l Schmitz Tuesday evening, after being L. Fee. formerly of Rockford, III., conflat'd for nine months In the coun- walked Into the bunk soon after it ty Jail, the preliminary steps were opened and menacing taken Wednesday for the release of Luther Drake with a Ixittle which ho denitroglycerine, Abraham Ruef. Immediate advantage said contained Mr. cash. manded Drake, was taken of the admission of Assistbelieving Tor the moment that ant District Attorney Francis J. Ho- though hla life and those of his fellow ofney in the voluminous affidavit filed ficials nnd employees of the bank by him that Ruef had been twice Inmight be in Imminent d.inger. condicted on every charge against hint, ferred calmly with the would be robw ith the excel tfun of half a dozen ber until other olticiuls called the pocharges on which he was Indicted lice and the nun was luiv n Into cusseparately. tody. Tests hy tin- - police scotti to show that the contents of the bottle Fifteen Thousand Homeless. were harmle.-Manila. Fire destroyed 2,000 naTried to Kill King Haakon. tive shacks In the Snmpioulll district Christiania. A Swede, apparently of Manila, on the evening of March 8. The damage Is estimated at lion.poo. Insane, fusillad' d the royal castle here lie fired It la believed that the fire started with a rifle at imon fioni a spark from a railroad locomo- altogether a do .on bullets, several of tive, which caueh't on thatched roof. which crashed ihnr:h the windows The high wind drove the flames and embedded themseive in the In The nan Only native terlor walls!vof ihe cislle. through tho district si led hv the police and was prompt were and there were shacks burned, disarmed. At ihe station he Fifteen thousand declnred tha it was ,id:cc bo casualties. bis intention to homeless natives are being cared for kill Kin-- : ll:il;n. lb- - st:!'. had forty In the churches by the police. There or fifty car'iidg.-- in pockets. The Is no danger of any starvation or sufwere and not at the king quctu castle. fering among the refugees. Lumbermen Protest. Protests against a faWashington. vorable report on the senate reso'u-tio- n directing the attorney general or the United Stales to Institute suits to vecovcr title to several hundred thousand acres of lands originally granted to railroad companies and especially the Oregon A California Railway company, when those companies have failed to observe the conditions under which the grants were Issued, have been made to the house committee on public lands by western lumbermen, lawyers and railroad representatives. Saya Schema is Socialistic. Both Candidates Hava Been RequestO. . Columbus, Myron ed to Withdraw. T. Herrick delivered an address beAfter considering night riders red- - ini Orleans. New on fore the Ohio legislature Thursday that about 9,000 fraudu- Tuesday liic.hf. shot s "Guarantee of Rank Depositors, In re- the charge lent votes were cast In the recent of them. It is belb-v- i ply to W. J. Rryan. Declaring that Democratic for lieutenant whipped five othciR. primary the guaranteeing of bank deposits la state cen- possesion of the Iowa Democratic the governor, InIt tbe In weakens that acciallsllc a combaa committee tral appointed negro rahins in ihe p: centive for Individual initiative along to request both the successful these, John Scruggs, mittee unconan is and It that lines, proper stitutional proposition and unjust, for and defeated Candidates to withdraw three rhlldiwi au.l a mer Governor Herrick appealed to and allow the committee to appoint a were struck by bii'lei hla hearers not to Jeopardize the best nominee for lieutenant governor. Tho probably facl'y wound loleresta ot the state of Ohio by the charges of fraud were filed by J. J. hen took h- the piker the defeated candidate, who hanks of passam ot such a law. iPalley, by Paul they whipped them. Tn-id- sy. Temi Warden Is Fearfully Wounded, Bu Manages to Draw Gun and Shoot Hio Assailants, Who Wore Armed With Pen Knives. al mine-owner- mine-owner- a. at the patient. Wilfleya Caaa In Hands of Committee. Washington. The special commit tee appointed by Speaker Cannon to determine whether there la sufficient ground for the impeachment of Leb-beu- s R. Wllfley, Judge of the United States court for China at Shanghai, who stands accused of misconduct in office by Lorln S. Andrews and other American lawyers resident In Shanghai, on Monday heard arguments and took the case under advisement. The the committee has not announced probable date of its report on the nature of Us findings and recommendation. Rivers on Rampage. Galliopolla, O. Heavy rainfall haa again started all the rivers In this section to rising, and the Indications are for a disastrous flood. The Great Kanawha and Poca rivers are booming. and thousands of dollars worth of timber haa been lost near Spencer, W Vs. Tbe flour mill situated on Mill Many creek was washed away. houses are flooded and many people have had narrow escapes. The Ohio feet at this place river was forty-si- x on Monday, heavy rains having fallen during the previous day. ilgn Cost Eighty Lives. The report of the Ion on the collapse of ridge. In which eighty , was presented to par-adaThe commission collapse was due to Ign and that the parts which first gave way r chorda In the anchor ear tho main pier. The chorda that failed waa Szlapke. the designing HVmbI KbIiIm Mh- - DING FHE BESF SAFE ROBBERS In a Pitched Battle with Bandits New Jersey Poeee Kills One and Captures Another. a Bed-rickto- Deer Lodge, MonL Warden Frank Conley of the Montana state penitentiary waa fearfully wounded and hla first assistant warden, John Robinson, waa killed, when three life convicts, George Rock, W. II. Hayes and another whose name la not given, made a dash for liberty In the penitentiary on Sunday. Robinson's throat waa cut from ear to ear and the Jugular vein was severed. Conleys throat waa gashed, and he was stabbed jieveral withheld. times in the shoulder and groin before he was able to draw his revolver VICTORY FOR FRANCE. and shoot two of the assailants down. Defeat Tribesmen in a Battle Which Rock waa shot twice through the lungs, and Hayes three tlmea through Lasted All Day. the abdomen. Both are badly woundcomParis. General d'Ajnade, la believed they will recover. mander of the French forces In Mo- ed, but it on the prison authorities The attack rocco, according to official advices rea subsequent effort to escape haa, ceived here, haa followed up hla pre- and In his campaign according to the prison authorities, vious advantages been long planned by Rock and against the warring tribesmen by InBoth Hayea, who were cellmates. Mad-raka-s. on the flicting a decisive defeat were armed with pen knives, the the Mzaba and a force of Mu-l- blades of which were sharpened like Hand's adherents, who came to razors. The men had been brought the assistance of the tribesmen. The to the office for trial for infraction of battle lasted from 6 oclock In the the rules, when they attacked the two morning until 7 oclock In the eveni- officer. ng. The enemy suffered enormous LOOK FOR BETTER TIMES. losses, abandoning everything In their headlong flight The French 1 oases Improvement In Varioue Noted were very alight, considering the seBranchea of Business. verity of the combat and the nature New York City. Signs from the of the ground. general business world of the aireat of the shrinkage following the finanPITTSBURGERS STARVING. cial crisis are discernible in more In Meantime Mayor and City Council than one direction, and the alight Improvements reported the past week Cannot Agree on Relief Measures. give a hope that the corner haa been Give me the authority turned Pittsburg. toward! steady betterment to Isaue the bonds and I will nee that The action of the securities market the money la raised. The Buffering however, does not reflect full confiof tbe people for the necessities of dence In the Immediate progress of life and the position the city la In for The mixed conditions Improvement meeting thla need make It lmpera-tir- e In the field where the Improvement la that no time be lost In quarreling moat shown help to explain this specover how we shall go about It ulative attitude. The decision of the Despite thla statement by Mayor Amalgamated Copper company to reQuthrie, the council on Monday night ap me production In the Montana minrefused to Issue bonds to the amount ing camps was heralded as a positive M 7g0sp00.for street repaving, It be- evidence of betterment in that trade. state of the market, however, haa ing proposed to have the city do the The been unsteady, the yielding of copper work, dividing It among the citys prices being attributed to the prosunemployed. pect of the increased output from the resumption In Montana. Bailey Makes' Great Speech. Reduction of the surplus of freight Washington. Senator Joseph M. cars on railroads makes an encouragBailey of Texas, a member of the ing Item In the week's summary. Infinance committee, which reported roads upon earnings of railroads are the Aldrich currency bill, on Monday so severe, however, as to bring into future dividend returns and held the attention of hie colleagues question even In the case of the weaker com and visitors who crowded the gallerthe meeting of fixed charges. ies of the senate for over two hours panlei, The struggles to be met In the readwith a speech In opposition to that of wages In the carrying out measure. When he concluded hla ad- justment of economics la viewed with disquiet dress. he was greeted by a storm of applause, and senators from both Decision of Court Regarded aa Vichides of the chamber aa well as many tory for Mina Owners. members of the house crowded about Reno, Nev. Judge Farrington ol him to extend their congratulations. the United States district court haa handed down hla decision In the ami kis Slept Thirty-thre- e Days. Los Angeles, Cal. Physicians and brought by the owners of the Mer medical students in almost every sec- gen mines of Goldfield against the intion of the southwest are taking a Miners union, granting a blanket la Thla miners. the junction against deep interest In the long sleep of Mra. an unqualified victory for the Beulah Hawkins, who, on Monday lout, The Injunction coven pracfinished thirty-thre- e days of a stupor tically all the grounds of relief asked which exhibits all the physical ap- for by the Consolidated Mines compearances of a sound sleep. During pany and enjoins the miners from visiting hours at the county hospital, every act which by any atretch of conwhere Mrs. Hawklna la confined, there struction might be construed as Inla a continual stream of persona to imical to the Interests of the look GEF Camden, N. J. A pitched battle between farmers and three robbers, In which two of the later were wounded, followed tho daring robbery early Saturday of the postoffice at Pedrlcktown and Bridgeport, about thirty miles aouth of this city. Two of the men were captured, but the third succeeded in eluding the farmers. The robbers first appeared at jiioM-eutio- r, Iter firing the ehnt which brought 'death to Father Francis Lu Hdn riche, at the altar of St. Elizabeth's Catholic church, while In the act of administering the holy aacrament, Cufaeppe All, an alleged but not proven anarchist, braid hie doom, the Jury returning a verdict of guilty of narder In the first degree and Using CITY FARMERS OF FRISCO Denied by the Supreme Court. Self-confess- political in Democratic clrcb-- s wax responsible for the killing (f Democratic Slate - was shut D. S. Kemp of ttliH ci v. and killed by t:. F. Hyde, a young poa litical and buxine ler of tills suction. The men quarreled about the recent Demoeraiic primary lor lieutenant-governrlu which J. J. Ilailey ami I'aul I.'iiiitireiwmt competed, with the result that Ilailey, the defeated candidate, tiled a prole!, charging fraud, with the Democratic slate central this committee. Hyde, In controversy. Is alleged to havu called Kemp a ll.ir. I.&ier tlie men met on the street and In a pistol duel Kemp was killed, while Hyde escaped uninjured. OF SCHMITZ proi?cuton's Petition for a Rehearing cf the Bribery and Graft Cases Quarrel With Young Politician Over Political Situat on Results in the Death of Senator-elec- t Kemp. I a. if DOWN IK STREE1 FLEA No Escape for the Italian Anarchist Who Murdered Father Heinrichs Ainire, at the Altar of His Church. situation EUGENE E Emma Goldman Not Wanted In Chicago. Goldman, pro Chicago. Emma pounder of the doctrine of anarchy, did not make a public address In Chicago Sunday, aa It had been her announced Intention to da Strict orders issued by the police during the week to owners and managers of public halls left her without a place In which to hold a meeting. To guard against a surprise, however, police were detailed to watch all gatherings of social associates and anarchists. No attempt waa made by Mias Goldman ot violate the police Injunction against public speaking. Wealthy Horseman Is Killed. Kaneae City. David Waldo, a known well horseman, wealthy throughout the United States, and who formerly owned a race track here, was killed near Independence, Mo., In a runaway accident Sunday night. His body was found late at night lying in the road where It had been thrown from a wrecked buggy, which lay nearby. He was a graduate of Washington and Lee University In Virginia, and father of Jed and William Waldo, who were famous Jockeys a few yeara ago. War Between China and Japan Not Looked For. Toklo. It la bellevedi that It Is entirely Improbable that Japan will make any effort to retake the Tatan or send warships to Canton waters. While war Is considered moat Improbable, the naval base at Sasebo la extremely active. It Is announced that a part of the first squadron will leave port March 14. The armored cruiser Chlyoda suddenly left port Bunds night Coaling la proceeding rapidly, a number of torpedo boat destroyers haring already coaled shortly after midnight and stole a team from a livery stable. They then went to the postofflee, blew open the aafe and stole 250 In money and a lamps. The force of the explosion wrecked the building and the place took fire. The robbers then fled with the team, the police exchanging shots with the robbers at the edge uf town. Shortly after 8 o'clock two men carrying a third were seen at and within a short time a score of farmers, well armed, gave chase and soon had them penned In the woods nearby. Both aides opened fire. One of the robbers fell and the second threw up hla hands and surrendered. The third man held his ground for some time, but fled further Into the We-non&- h wooda. The wounded man and the one who surrendered were taken Into custody and locked up In the Woodbury Jail. One of the men, William McCoy, had hla face literally riddled with buckshot. OUTCOME OF TONG BATTLE. sd Wealthy Boston Chinamen Eight of His Countrymen to Hang. Boston, Warry Charles, one of the wealthiest and most Influential Chinamen of Boston, and eight of hla countrymen, claimed to be notorious hat chet men, were found guilty by a jury In the superior court on Saturday of murder In the first degree on four counts alleging the killing of four Chinamen in Boston, August 8 of last year. A tenth defendant, Yee Wata, who had also been on trial on tbe same charges died suddenly In hi cell last Tuesday, while the trial waa n progress. Early In the evening on Friday, Aug. 2, 1907, a number of strange Chinese suddenly appeared In Oxford place, in the heart of the Chinese quarter of Boston, and when signal waa given, began firing from revolvers of heavy calibre upon scores of Chinese merchants and laundrymen who were lazily lolling about Over forty shots were fired, and when the polio appeared they found three Chinamen dead and a dozen othera seriously wounded, one of whom died. Shoy Tong, one of the principal government witnesses, testified that Warry Charles, president of the Hip Sin Tong; had lnstl tnted the killing. HUGHE8 THE BANNER BEARER. New York Republican State Commit tee Endoraee the Governor for President. New York. Governor Charles BL Hughes was formally indorsed as New York's candidate for the presidency by the Republican state committee at the meeting here. Resolutions endorsing him which were presented by H. William former Congressman Douglass, who represents the home district of the governor In the committee, were adopted unanimously and without discussion. The committee decided upon April 11 as the time and Carnegie hall, New York, as the place for holding the state convention which will elect to the national convention at Chicago, nominate presidential electors and elect a new state committee. President Favors Aldrich Bill. President Roosevelt Washington. Is lining up his friends In the senate whose position regarding the Aldrich bill is not certain to vote for the bill; not that he regards It as perfect, but he believes It is the only measure that can be passed this session and In h his opinion It Is better to have the Saturbill than no legislation. day he conferred with a number of senators. northwestern Including Bourne, Dixon, Piles, Borah, Flint and several others, and It was to them that he made known his views. - Al-rlc- No Room for Anarchists. Francisco. Acting under the orders of the chief of police, policemen stationed at Walton's pavilion Carl afternoon arrested Sunday of Coxey, ofi Coxey Brown, army fame, and himself a noted Socialist He Is being held on a charge of disturbing the peace. He was making an alleged inflammatory speech to a crowd of about a thousand at tbe time ol the arrest. The police have orders to bring In any persons who display nny anarchistic tendencies or make public speeches of an anarchistic nature. San son-in-la- Towboat Goes Over Dam. Pittsburg. Three lives were lost when the towboat Stella Moren with two flats of coal went over Na 2 dam on the Monongahela at Port Perry. Pa. and tank In twenty feet of water. The .Stella Moren was about to enter the lock when the strong current due to the high water swung It around, and before it could be controlled the vessel and the flats were swept over the dam and completely wrecked. One man was caught between the lock wall and the boat and crushed to death, while two othera drowned. |
