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Show CONNECTICUT SURPRISE CONGRESSMAN THE PARROT ARD IS SCORED Iff COMMITTEE THE PHONOGRAPH By S. E. Kiser Express Train Crashed Into Train Loaded With Pilgrims on Their Way to a Shrine. Accident is Supposed to Have Been Due to a Misplaced Switch, the Cars Being Telescoped and Shattered to Matchwood. Tfudlea, Parts and Supplies tot both Whtelet & Wilson and Singer Machines SOLD ONLY BY SISViCEFt MACHINE SEWING CO. No. 97 North Academy Avenue, PltOVQ, UTAH John Jackson, Mgr. Buy Buggies Built in Provo at 5 So., WILL SOLVE CURRENCY PROBLEM BY THE 8enate Adopts Joint Resolution Creating Monetary Commission. Washington. The senate on Thursday adopted a Joint resolution reported by Mr. Aldrich from the committee on finance creating a commission to be called the national monetary commission, to be composed of nine senators to be appointed by the presiding officer of the senate, and nine by representatives to be appointed the speaker of the house, to Inquire into and report to congress at the earliest date practicable what changes are desirable or necessary in the monetary situation of the United States or in the laws relating to hanking and currency, and for this purpose the commission is authorized to sit during sessions or in the recess of congress at such times and places as they may deem desirable. Curb your well with Cement Tiling Liddiard has put cement tiling into these Provo wells: Bp.Wentz, Mr.Weeter, Dennis Davis, Henry Davis, Sarah Tidball, Mr. Hicks, Mr. Bruner, and L. Iloolbrook. 24-in- ch ANT DEPTH OF WATER Seventh West and Center Streets PROtO, UTAH Provo Meat and Packing . AH kinds of Fresh and Cared Meats ; Green and Fancy and Staple Groceries. (he dead was conducted with all possible haste. Special trains with doctors, priests and nurses were sent to Contich from Antwerp and Brussels. The accident Is supposed to have been due to a misplaced switch. The engineer and the fireman of the express tram were killed outright. 115 W. t 24-i- n. Antwerp. A railroad accident of unprecedented horror in the annals of train disasters occurred Belgian Thursday morning at Contich. a station six miles southeast of Antwerp, on the main line. An express train from Antwerp to Brussels crashed into a train loaded with pilgrims op their way to a local shrine. This train was standing on a siding. Several of its cars were telescoped and shattered to matchwood. The total number of dead Is placed at fifty and the wounded at over 100. Rescuers from Contich were at once on the scene, and the labor of succoring the injured and removing We handle tho Farmers Products, and pay CASH for all Fat Butcher Stock. Nos. 47 to 55 North Academy Avenue. Phone 39-2. No Reduction in Prices of Steel. New York. E. H. Gory, chairman of the board of directors of the United States steel corporation, has given At a out the following statement: meeting on Thursday of represents tives of the principal manufacturers of steel in this country the opinion was expressed by each one present that the prices of steel are reasonable and should not be reduced; that reduced prices would not increase purchases, and that most of their customers do not expect or desire any change. The opinion was unanimous that the meetings should be discontinued for the summer months, unless should deem it advisthe able to meet any time for reasons which do not now appear. Fullerton Elected Moderator. Kansas City. Rev., Dr. Baxter P. Fullerton of St. Louis was elected moderator of the Presbyterian church in the United States on Thursday to succeed Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts of Philadelphia. The first day of the general assembly of the church was characterized by a spirit of unity and which promises much for the results to be accomplished during the ten days the conference is to be in session. Rev. Fullerton was not opposed in his candidacy for the ol Washington. The conclusions the special committee which has been investigating the charges of Representative Lilley of Connecticut, that members of the house had been imin connection properly influenced with submarine torpedo boat lcgisla? tion, that Mr. Lilley had violated his obligations as a member and had acted in bad faith with the commit tee and in contempt of the house, were sustained on Wednesday by the house by a vote of 157 to 82. Five hours of the session were devoted to the case, four of which were consumed in reading the report. The Connecticut members Joined in voting against the resolution by which the houss adopted the conclusions of the committee as its own. Mr. Williams of de- Mississippi nounced Mr. Lilley as being guilty of treason, for which he said he should be expelled. It was a noticeable fact that the five members of the special committee, Messrs. Boutell, Olmstead, Stevens, Broussard and Howard, sat together throughout the proceedings, and that none of them submitted any remarks in connection with the report. TRAGIC ENDING OF EXCURSION. The Crawfords had a parrot and the Boldens had a phonograph, and a narrow hall separated them. Id rather be sentenced to occupy a cell in Bankers Row at the penitentiary than have to move, said but it looks to me as if Crawford, wed have to get out. That phonograph is going to make a nervous wreck of me if I have to listen to it much longer. I'm glad," his wife replied, "that you are coming to your senses at last. If you had listened to me last spring we would be nicely settled somewhere else now and all this trouble would be over with. If you find it nerve-rackluwhen you are here for a few hours at night and in the morning, what do you think of the effect it has on me, being here all day? I heard of some new flats in a lovely neighborhood. If you like Ill go and look at them tomorrow." While the Crawfords were discussing the matter Belden was informing his wife that his endurance had about reached its limit. That parrot, he said, is going to make a raving maniac of me if I can't get away from it pretty soon. If I owned a flat building I wouldn't let a family with a parrot into it any more than I would think of admitting people who were stricken with the plague. By George, I wish there might be some way of getting rid of the n lisance without causing a general disturbance. There is a way, Henry, his wife answered, and Ive been seriously considering it, although I haven t wanted to say anything to you until I was sure about it, for I didnt want to be disappointed if it didn't happen to be possible. I have been inquiring about some new flats that are going to be very attractive, and If we wish to engage one of them now we can get it for just what we are paying here. Aside from the parrot, the new place will be much more desirable than this and cant you go over with me in the morning to take a look at it beiore to-da- y Seven Young People Drowned When Gasoline Launch Went Down. Clarendon, Ark. Seven prominent young society people were drowned Wednesday night when the tank of a gasoline launch, In which- they were going for a moonlight excursion, exOther ploded, wrecking the boat. members of the party were rescued with difficulty. The boat left Clarendon early in the evening, bearing a merry party, who had planned to go several miles down the river. When about five miles below Clarendon the starting down-towntank of the launch exploded, wreckBelden argued feebly against moving the boat and hurling the occu- ing, but at length permitted himself pants into the river, which, at this to be won over, and after he had seen point, more than fifty feet from shore, the new .flat he became enthusiastic. is very deep. Few could swim, and It will be just as well, he laid, some were stunned by the force of not to let the Crawfords know that the explosion, and went down before we intend to get away at least not swimmers in the party could make an until we are all ready to move. Theres no use having a quarrel with them if effort at rescue. we can avoid it. They would, of course, Careless Workmen Cause Accident. jump to the conclusion right off that Chicago. The retail furniture store we were trying to get away from them of John A. Colby & Sons was badly If they found out about our intenllon wrecked on Wednesday, one woman to go, for Ive spoken to several peofatally injured and several others ple about the parroL Crawfords all Slightly hurt by an explosion of gas. right, but his wife is a regular spitfire. Some Workmen who were making re- I dont want you to get into any bc g contest with her. Start the mapairs in the cellar left a lighted candle close to the gas meter, and a chine. Lets have a little music. A day or two later Mrs. Crawford terrific explosion followed. The windows of the building on the first, sec- met Mrs. Belden on the stairway. I suppose, said Mrs. Crawford, ond and third floors were blown out, the first floor was torn up and much you have no intention ot moving this furniture badly damaged. The dam- spring, have you? Well, replied the other lady, fuelage to store and contents is estimated at $5,000. ing a little guilty, we havent thought much about it. My husband hates Fatal Balloon Ascension. moving, so that Im always afraid to Rio Janeiro. A fatal balloon as mention the subject to him. I suppose tension was made here Wednesday well have to stay and make the best by Lieutenant Fonseca of the Brazil- of it here. Go way! Go way! Ce a move! ian army. The lieutenant came oui from France recently with a military yelled the parrot in Mrs. Crawfords balloon and completed his prepara- flat. When Crawford got home at night tions for his first ascension before the military school. Fonseca entered his wife said: I had hoped the Beldens might be the car and was completing his final of going, so that it would lt preparation's when a strong gust ol thinking be for us to do no, but necessary holdmen who were wind obliged the not. I had a talk with her theyre balto the let The guy go. ropes ing So we may as well deloon shot into the air a distance oi about it cide right away whether to ntay or 3,000 feet and suddenly fell, the lieu- PACKING E A Clevelanderhas invented an airship which he says will stay up for taonths. We dont wish to be critical, hut it does seem as if the most enthusiastic aeronaut would want to Come down to earth at least once in two or three weeks. " A New York physician is said to have removed a human heart from the 8ody and repaired an injury without any harm resulting to the patient. Thafs nothing there are plenty of girls who can give their hearts to three or four men at one time. ild-in- not tenant being crushed to death. They've decided for us. her husWe will have to go; of Lives Endangered by band declared. so you may as well begin making arBlack Hand Outrage. office of moderator. But dont jet the Beldens New York. The refusal of a rangements. know anything about it. We may as Platt Case Ended. wealthy Italian physician to comply well leave on good Jpms with them if black-hanNew York. Mae C. Wood, whose with the demands of the we can. Hello, Pofiy! divorce from criminals for money resulted in en absolute suit for-aHello! Hello! Hello! Help. Help! C. dangering the lives of a hundred per Thomas Senator United States " screamed the parrot. Help! Platt of New York, has been on trial sons, when a bomb was exploded two weeks things next the During in the supreme court here for several the tenement house at 316 East Elev- were in the Crawford silent strangely to Tombs was committed the street on Fouf enth Wednesday. days, and Belden apartments, except for ocprison late Thursday, after Justice persons were Injured and the othet casional hammerings; then one mornOGorman had dismissed the com- occupants of the house rushed into two large vans backed up in front plaint in her action and ordered her the street in a panic, while doors and ing held in $5,000 bail on a charge of per- beams which had been twisted out of the building, and at last the secret jury. This sensational and dramatic by the explosion tumbled all around was out. The Beldens knew the Craw-ford- s were moving and the Crawfords climax to the Omaha womans suit them. knew the Beldens were off to a new against the aged senator came after a day in which the defense had athabitation. Both women sept in their Michigan is for Bryan. tacked the authenticity of the famous J. Bryan rooms, and the men, avoiding each Lansing, Mich. William letters. started avay, leaving the movhas been indorsed by the state Demo- other, ers to handle things as they pleased. Life Sentence for Murderess of Ruth cratic convention and the Michigan Miller. Belden had been sitting for ten mindelegation to the national convention Kansas City. Mrs. Sarah Morasch, instructed to vote for him under tho utes on the front steps of the new flat years, was on unit rule until he is nominated lot building, when he perceived coming aged forty-eigh- t Thursday found guilty of murder in the presidency. The instruction was up the street a man who seemed to the first degree by a jury in Kansas by unanimous vote of the convention be in a hurry. Hello, he said to himself a moCity, Kans., which- tried her on the and at no time during the sessions Ruth ment later, "its Crawford! charge of poisoning Mr to did the slightest 'bpposition Miller. The woman wil be sentenced When he reached the place where to life imprisonment. The little girl Bryan develop. For delegates at large Belden sat Crawford paused, making followto convention the the national died from the effects of eating poisno effort to conceal the fact that he oned candy, which the woman sent ing were chosen: John T. Winship, was surprised. Woodbridge N. Ferris, Charles II through the mails to the childs "Are. you moving in here? he sister, against whom Kimmerle, Edward Ryan. asked. she held a grudge. are you? Bank Robbery Still a Mystery. Yes, said Belden; Jurors in Ruef Case Failed to Agree. After Crawford had answered in the Salt Lake City. The grand Jury San Francisco. After being out for appointed by the United States court affirmative the two men looked at hours the jury In five weeks ago made a partial report each other silently for a moment. forty and one-hal- f the trial of Abraham Ruef, the for- of its investigation on Wednesday. Then a smile began to break over mer political boss of San Francisco The jury returned eight indictments. Belden'8 countenance and another upon the visage appertaining and the central figure in the bribery-graf- t The jurys report did not disclose to Crawford. to whom prosecution, against the public the result of the inquiry What do you say to a little walk wholesale Indictments were returned, into the robbery of the Utah National failed to agree upon a verdict and bank in January, when $106,250 was iround the corner? Belden suggested. I was just going to invite you, was discharged. The specific charge stolen from tfcs reserve chest. On against Rue? in the trial just closed this case the jury has been working said Crawford. was the offer of a bribe of $1,000 to They had not returned w en the than four 'weeks and has had women former Supervisor Jennings Phillips more and the vans arrived. Chicago to influence his vote favorably upon before it a large number of witnesses. Record-Herald- . 1C. on meet will June The again jury an electric railroad franchise. Hundreds d The New York teachers who prefer decline the offer of a free trip to Europe to study ftie school systems there, with salaries paid in full while they are away, because they are too high and mighty to travel second-class- , should cheerfully be allowed to stay at home. (o "After getting married and unmarried a few times some rich folks actually get tired of the sport, says the Washington Post. This may be So, but, remarks the Baltimore American, it is impossible to see that recent examples give any grounds for such a conclusion. four-year-ol- REAL ONE Crowning Glory of an Evening Life of Rev. Mr. Brough. In SHOOTS MAN FDR MOOSE. the Something had to be done. Rev. Mr, Brough had been pastor of Hardens-burchurch for 25 years, and the anniversary was to be properly celebrated. Hardensburg was a small place. The church was small and the people twere poor, but after much consultation it was decided to give the aged couple a surprise donation party. It was a real donation party, with a barrel of flour, a sack of yams, a side of bacon, a ham and all the other luxuries of Hardensburg life. And, as a crowning feature, Deacon Rogers, who had just introduced electric lights into 'the village, had the parsonage wired as a gift to the church, and agreed to turn on the lights on the evening of the donation. To make it all complete he left the that the parson without knowledge wiring was finished and Installed a switch on the outer wall by which every light in the house could be thrown on at once. Then, In the dusk of a hot autumn evening the members of the Hardensburg church brought their gifts to the minister's door. The parsonage was dark. Not even candle glimmered from the window. Parson Brough and his wife had the good habit of sitting quietly in tho dark on such evenings, resting their eyes and discussing the affairs of the day. Cautiously, quietly, the supplies were carried lo the foot of the front steps; quietly the parishioners were arranged In a semi circle In front of the parlor windows, and then, in the darkness. Deacon Rogers swiftly tiptoed up to the switch, and with a quick turn threw on every light In the house. The surprise was a grand success. cume a From the parson's sitting-rooquick gasp and an exclamation of dismay. The callers, waiting outside, had a glimpse of two well known forms scurrying away through the glaring light, from room to room, vainly seeking a place of retreat. And in the parlor, beside two Btlll rocking easy chairs, stood four battered shoes stockand two pairs of neatly-darneings. Rev. Mr. Brough had been completely surprised. ? Poli-i-lco!- PROVO MEAT and A g Submarine Boat Scandal Is Held to Be Baseless and Lilley Is Denounced as a Traitor by Williams. SURELY Great Men Not Arithmet'clans. In a recent trial a San Francisco Judge made arithmetic a test of mental soundness. But if this test had been applied to certain great men they would have been declared Imbeciles. Dean Stanley, eminent author and divine, for one, would have been set down as hopeless had he been judged by his Incapacity to do a sum in simple addition or multiplication, Had Keble, writer of famous hymns, depended upon his arithmetic Oxford would not long have known him. When bursar he found, to his horror, that certain accounts came out nearly $10,000 to the bad. In vain did the learned and pious men of the college go over the figures with him. Not until an expert was summoned was it discovered that Keble, in casting up a column, had added the date of the year to the colleges debts. Minnesota Sportsman Tries Hard Atone for Fatal Mistake. ta To walk many Bralnerd, Minn. miles to give himself up for manslaughter, ride In the cars from 3:45 in the morning to noon, appear before a district judge during the noon hour, plead guilty, and be sentenced and start for the reformatory at 1:20 p. m., Is the fate of Charles Wingren, who shot Peter Larson, mistaking him for a moose, east of Rapid river, back from Peaudette. Wingren, who is a young homesteader wlo recently married a widow with six children, was trailing a moose In one of the most sparsely settled regions of Koochiching county, and, seeing an object he supposed was the moose, fired two shots, the second of which penetrated Larsons bowels. He died before medical aid reached him. Wingren left at once alone for International Falls and gave himself up. In company with Sheriff Walsh and County Attorney Stanton he came to Brain-erand, having telegraphed to Judge MeClenehan, found him awaiting them while the train stopped here for dinner. The (rain remains from 12:10 to 1:20, and in that time Wingren had pleaded guilty and the party left at once foe St. Cloud. Mr. Stanton went on to St. Paul and will lay the matter before the board of pardons at once, and hopes to have Wingren released, as there was no question but that It was an accident, and the fact that the country was practically uninhabited renders the carelessness more excusable. d COACHMAN, THEN A BANKER. Cousin of Lord Roberts Falls Heir to $150,000 Toledo, O. Estate. Through tho financial entanglements of the Dorr Street Savings bank, which closed its doors recently, It has leaked out here that Ernest Roberts, of tho defunct bank, Is no other than a cousin of Lord Roberts, the war lord and idol of the English people, and that It wns through his relationship with the family that tho Toledo banker Rob-eit- s came Into a big bequest. Roberts came to Toledo 12 years ago, sought and found employment as hostler In Ballards livery stable on Lawrence avenue, now conducted by Steve Brown. Roberts was a quiet, unassuming young fellow, and his docility and timidity made him the butt of the rough jests and sports of the barn men. Later he left the Brown livery and became a private coachman for a family in Colllugwuod avenue. While under their employment he received news that he had fallen heir to or $150,000. He told his employers his secret, and they have kept the same faithfully until now. Roberts invested his money in Toledo real estate and in the Dorr street bank. Mr. Roberts is reticent on the subject of his inheritance, but he Is assured that the 30,000 already received is but a small portion of the vast fortune now held In the guardianship of the English chancellor. Roberts refuses to makes any statement as to why he left home. 30,-00- 0, WHALE RAIN OVER TOWN. Done For. With Eddie Foy, said a tragedian, "I made, the other Sunday, an excursion into the country. The country, fresh and green, was beautiful in the April sunshine. An old man and hl3 daughter, a girl of 18, had a little booth where you threw baseballs at dolls, getting a cigar for every hit. "Foy throws phenomenally well, and he had soon won 30 cigars. These he presented with a courtly bow to the young girl. Thanks, said she, smiling prettily, they'll do for father. "Last Sunday Foy anl I mado the same excursion again. The booth stood in the same spot, but now the girl was running it alone. " Ah, said Foy, they've done for Dynamite Is Used with Disastrous fect on Stranded Carcass. Ef- Seaside, Ore. After having unsucto use the cessfully attempted strength of the ocean tide and four teams of horses to remove the decaying body of an enormous whale that had washed up on the beach In front of the city late the other afternoon, and having been baffled In his efforts to cremate the giant carcass, Marshal Llndsley tiled dynamite. The effect, however, astonished everybody. Instead of blowlna the great hulk out to sea, the explosive distributed the carrion over the city, and In the end the offensive chunks had to be burned piecemeal. One large piece fell upon the roof oi father.' a summer cottage, deslroyed the chimney, soaked the rear end of the building In sperm oil, and scattered all To Catch Cockroaches. A florist has discovered by accident over the yanL So oily was the substance that persons walking in the a new way to catch cockroaches. A afterward found their shoes were yard pint fruit Jar containing a scrap of bacon happened to be left over night soaked In It. A chunk about the size in one of his greenhouses. Next morn- of an ordinary sofa requlied the efforts of four hoises to drag It from the cening a dozen or more cockroaches were ter of a street. vainly trying to climb tho slippery sides of the glass jar. The florist has SHOE ON FERN IN COAL. succeeded in ridding his establishment of these repulsive creatures, which Modern Shoes Seem to Have Beei formerly ate such high priced plants Worn in Carboniferous Period. as orchids and gardenias. It is necessary to paste a piece of Wilkesbarre, Pa. An imprint expaper on the outside of the jar so of a shoe, and upon a actly that the Insects can get sufficient foot- slab oilike that all in anthracite coal, ferns, hold to climb up into the trap. In the been taken from the Maltby colhas original case the label of the manuliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Comfacturer supplied (his need. pany near here, and is now in pos session of Assistant Manager Frederick M. Chase of this city. Devotes Life to Good Works. It looks exactly as if, in the carbonMrs. Charles M. Alexander, an English woman of birth and fortune, I3 the iferous period, a man wearing a modleader of a band of women who are ern bulldog toe shoe had stepped upon aiding a monster evangelical crusade a fern in a forest and left an imprint in Philadelphia. Unlike many women of his shoe, and that it has been preserved for ages. of wealth, she prefers a life of sacThe sole Is about an inch thick, the rifice and endeavor to the whirl of social gayety. She is accompanied by place for .the Instep Is there, and the her husband In her visit to the United heel is about twice as thick as the States, and intends to remain here sole. The whole thing Is an exact and unique reproduction. some months. Taking No Chances. A farmer who took much pride in the looks of his fattening pigs once purchased a pair from a neighbor. Upon delivery at the U3ual age of eight weeks, they seemed to him rather small. he reEying them dubiously, Guess I had betmarked, dryly; ter keep the cat shut up for a few Youth's Companion. days. Live Lizards Sealed in Log. Altoona, Pa. Two lhe lizards were found in the heart of an oak log, split by Joseph MeClosky cl Bellwood. One was black and whits spotted, the other yellow. The log was a large one, having been cut from a tree probably 50 years old. How the lizards became imprisoned, and how their existence was maintained are equally full-grow- |