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Show Mill WHO SHOT BLOWS OUT HIT HIS ONE SIX MEN FALL TO DAK'S DEATH AS RESULT BBIS OFFICERS BATTLE TOLL Of WRECKS Ill COURT ROOM Dropped From the Cage Over Tw Hundred Feet, the Bodies Being Mangled by Falling Timbers. Morris Hass, who Dramatic Climax in San Franciici Craft Cases When Attorney is Attacked by District Attorney Honoy Had Exposed H Aaaallant In th Court Room and tho Shooting Followed Wounded Man May Recover, Th San Francium canes had a dramatic ell uai on Friday, tho 13th, when Assist-o-J.t District Attorney Francla Henry, who haa been In charge of the prosecution during Its tortuous course of two yeara, was shot and seriously wounded In tho crowded court room by Morris Haas, an The shooting occurred during a brief recess In tho third trial of Abraham Ruef on tho charge ol bribery, which Is tow In Its eleventh week. Mr. Henry Is now resting easily In tho Lane hospital, and tho physlelana say that hla wound Is not fatal. Haas Is In tho city prison. Tho would-bnsjassln la a saloonkeeper, who waa drawn upon tho Jury panel In tho second trial of Kuef and who, after having been temporarily passed by both aides, was exposed In a dramatic manner by Mr. Henry as an and discharged from the Jury. Haas declared after the ahootlng that exHenry had ruined hla life by this posure, and that he had determined to kill him for that reason. Tho shooting came without warning, Haas having walked to within a few feet of the attorney, during a recess of tho court, and deliberately ihot tbo man be had threatened to HU, tho ball striking Just below tho Hans waa overpowered by icmple. officers and newspaper men, after a fan Francisco. bribery-graf- t brief but desperate struggle. THE LUST FOR GOLD. Fortune on Cornea to Grief. Party Searching a Vbr Isth-m- u New York. Baron F. B. von Teu-- I er, who arrived hero Thursday on the steamer Magdalena from West Indian g porta, told A thrilling story of A expedition In PanamA north of tho canal xone, which resulted In tbo death of three members of hi party. Tbo baron, with hls brother and three mining engineers, who left this city several months ago for the gold and anthracite fields In the part of the Isthmus, finally started with two Indian guides for the north from Colon, through wbst proved to be country Jealously held The by exceedingly hostile Indians. enIn a killed were midnight guides counter with aavageb, and fever was responsible for the death of one ol the engineers. The survivors returned gold-buntin- to the coast after Bevere Nine Ar Killed and Four Badly Hurt in Wyoming. While Eleven Ar Killed and a Scors Injured In Had Secreted a Small Pistol In His Twice and Although Shoo, Searched the Presence of the . Wsapon Was Overlocf-ed- hardships. ,ian Francisco. attempted to ssHassluate Francis J. lleney, on Hut unlay night committed suicide by shooting himself through the middle of hls forehead with a pistol tj had concealed about Ids person. Haas went to bed at 8 o'clock at tbs county Jull and covered up hla fuce was with A blunkct. At 8:40 a shot heard from hls cell, and when the guards entered It was found that be had rolled out of bed and was lying dead on the floor, with a bullet hole In slngle-sho- t hla for''ead. A In hls hand. 'as grasped Derlnge Hls leftlrouser leg was pulled op, and examination showed a mark on hls examination showed a mark on hls leg where the weapon had rested while concealed In hls left shoe. Haas wore gaiters with elastic sides, which made this possible. After be had shot Hcney, Haas was searched by Police Captain Duke, Detective Burns and a police officer. After be bad been taken to the county Jail he was searched again, but at neither time were hls shoes examined. Haas went to bed Friday night with hla shoes on and again Saturday night, and when asked why be did this, said that he would rather sleep with them on. Hls wife called on him during the day, but two officers were present during the Interview and they gay she could not psslb1y have slipped tbs weapon to him. HENEY MAY RECOVER. Almost Miraculous Etcapo of Other, Who Seemingly Woro Doomed Tragedy Was Result of Mott Peculiar Accident. Cheyenne, Wyo. Aa a result of the collision of two freight trains near Iloilo, eleven mile west of hero, nluo Inpersons are dead and four severely jured. Tbe dead: J. C. Schley, freight engineer: Martin Christensen, fireman; John Murphy, conductor: Clarence brake-maStitt, brakeman; C. W. Rodgers, J. C. Duncan, brakeman; three Japanese laborers of the work train. The collision was caused by A freight train going east down Sherman bill losing control of Us air and running wild. The train was going sev, enty miles an hour when tbe crash freight came, which plied thirty-oncar In a mass, the car catching fire and a scene of terror ensuing. A chemical engine sent out from Cheyenne fought the fire, but It could only keep the flames from the engine' The bodies of seven have been recovered from the wreck and brought to Cheyenne and placed In a moigue. Eleven Dead and Score Injured. New Orleans. Eleven persons are1 known to be dead and a score or more are Injured as a result of a wreck Wednesday morning on the New Orleans A Northeastern railroad at Litfrom New tle Woods, twelve mile Orleans. Between Slidell and New Orleans tbe tracks of the New Orleans & Northeastern are used by the Great Northern, and It was a suburban train of this road from Covington that crashed Into the rear of A local Northeastern train from Hattiesburg, Miss., telescoping the four rear coaches. leturn." A Prosperity Dinner. New York- - A prospeilty dinner Is to be held at the Hotel Asior In this city on November 30, under the auspices of the Economic club. A symposium of tbe general outlook for business by authorities on the various departments of finance and Industry Is to be a prominent feature of tbe evening. Dr. Nlrholas Murray Butler has chosen of Columbia uuiverslty Conditions Necessary to Prosperity' while for hls Augustus theme, Thomas, the playwright, will deliver an address on High Tariff Prosper lt.v." Once Famous Man a Mental Wreck. New York. Prof. Mark W. Har rfhgton, formerly chief of the United States weather bureau, who myster lously dropped out of sight nearly ten years ago, has been found a hopeless mental wreck In the New Jersey asylum for the Insane at Morris Plains He has been an Inmate of the asylum since he was found wandering aimlessly about the streets of Trenton, more than a year ago. Such la hi; condition that he haa been unable to tell the asylum authorities anything about himself, Makes Partners of Creditors. Los Angeles. Fred Door, the New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles broker, who recently failed with liabilities aproxlmatlng half a million and assets totaling but a small portion of that amount, has evolved a plan of settlement whereby, he Is to resume business with hls creditors as hls business partners. He offers to pay In full all prior clalitis, amounting to About 10.000. and make a 25 jer cent payment In cash on his whole Indebtedness, the remainder to le settled from the profits of hls business after resumption. - Pittsburg. Six men were Instantly Inbilled, another waa dangerously jured and three others had narrow escapes In a mine rage accident late Monday at Ellsworth mine No. 1. located In Washington county. Tbe mine Is owned by the Ellsworth Coal company of this city. Three of the men killed were mining operators, the others being foreign miners. The three engineers, who had been employed by the company several yeara, had Just completed a survey of the mine preparatory po starting new entries, the six foreigners having assisted them. A heavy wooden beam was loaded into the cage and Its ends projected beyond tbe side, the men riding on the timber. All went well until they were within, seventy-fivfeet of tbe top of the shaft, when the projecting beam struck one of the planks of the shaft cribbing, displaced by expansion due to the cold, and moat of the men were dumped out ol the cage. Six, fell to the bottom, a distance of 225 feet, the heavy tlm-e I e ( era on top of them, and were crushed Wounded Prosecuting Attorney almost beyond recog niton. to Ground. Gain tinues Randolph, a drilling machine operaRan Francisco. The condition of tor, who was badly ' injured, although AN UNUSUAL SITUATION. Francis J. lleney is still most satisfac- almost unconscious from a blow on tory and the attending surgeons re bis head, caught a chain at the side Democrats Favor Increase in Duty, port that he Is tnaklug excellent pro- of the cage and clung to It until resWhile Republicans Object. In cued at the surface. gress on the road to recovery. Three of the foreigners were Washington. The Democratic memfact, it Is believed he will undoubted- thrown of the house ways and means bers with the first to the Impact haa ly recover. Although the bullet floor of the committee and reached cage sue tbe favoring an increase in the been located, embedded In the left face stunned and slightly bruised, but rate of duty, and the Republican memear In front of the Jaw, about aa Inch little the worse for their experience. bers assuming an attitude against a the surgeons have decided not to exprotective rate on barytes, an article tract It until Mr. Heney gains more 8TOLE NEARLY A MILLION. listed In Schedule A or the taiiff, was strength, as it has as yet given nc the uuusual situation which developed cause of trouble. Chicago Real Estate Man Confesses at Wednesday's hearing before the to Long List of Frauds. 8TIRRED UP SOME EXCITEMENT Former Representative committee. CWcaeo. Peter Van Vllssingen, a M. E. Rhoades, A. G. Nelson. S. M. Woman Make Two Unsuccessful At real estate dealer, for years classed Evans of North Carolina, and Charles tem-it- a to End Her Life. among the first of Chicagos prosper- J. Staples of Buffalo, spoke in favor of Reno, Nev. An unknown womar ous and reputable business men, on increasing the duty on crude barytes, made two unsuccessful attempts to Monday confessed to having obtained, and when Mr. Evans look up the argucommit suicide by jumping In front through forged deeds and notes, more ment, speaking of the barytes deposits of an interurban street car here Rat than 1700,000, and a few hours after In North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia urday night. The first time she threw hla arrest, on hls own urgent appeal and Tennessee, tbe members of the herself face downward In front of ar to be punished, waa sentenced, to the ways and means committee ..became f' sutbound car, rolled over on her back penitentiary. Tb arrest, the 'indict- Interested. ter feet protruding In the air, and ment, the confession and the senDriven to Death by Attempted Blackyelling that she wanted to die, waited tence were the work of less than four mail. tor the crash. The motorman threw hoars. Taken In the midst of busion the emergency brakes and stop ness from hls office desk, at 172 Wash-Into- n Chicago. J. Edwin Stein, the sup-- , street, shortly after the noon posed victim of alleged blackmailers, led the car a few feet from her. Twc hour. Van Vllssingen, a venerable who were arrested on men who were some distance away Wednesday, man, looking before the appeared worushed to the tracks, pulled the and In tears confessed that for committed suicide in a room at a court, man away and held her until the cat from deeighteen to twenty years he had prominent south side hotel. The tad passed. On ih-- return trip the been securing was 25 son ceased of a and a?e years money through the sale woman again attempted to throw her of documents, nd though he of David A. Stein of the wholesale self In front of the ear, but was pre hadforged back many of these spuri- clothing firm of Kdeihelmer, Stein & tented by the same two men, whe ous bought Instruments without detection, at company. The men arrested in the althrew her down and sat on her. least twenty-fivpeople would lose an leged blackmailing plot weie Charles of more than $700,000 Gertmum, Jacob Marooney and Joseph aggregate Girl Located. Missing through the paper which he has not Rankin. Their plan, according to Oakland, Cal. Edna Clark, the yet redeemed. story to the police, was to young Alameda art student, who hat Information about young Ste'a gather been missing from home and for whonr AFTER 8UGAR EFINERIES. and then to demand $50,000 of the the police of Oakland and San Fran cisco have been searching since Octo The Havemeyer and Elder Companies young man's father on pain of having scandalous stories spread. Young her 27, Is safe and well In Chicago. A Accused of Fraud. Steins suicide came as an unexpeeb letter was received Sunday by the New York. The United States ed and tragic sequel to the arrests. girl's mother, Anita Y. Mack, in this has brought six suits against city, In which the writer saya she Is the American in Land Grafting Sugar Refining com- Springs Sensation well. The letter states that the girl Case. an as- pany to recover forfeitures and cusIs working In Chicago-unde- r Fresno, Cal. United States Disliict sumed name. The letter waa turned toms receipts amounting to f3.G24.121 over to Captain of Detective Peter on sugar delivered at the Havemeyer Attorney Lawler created a sensation ton. who refuses to give out Its con and Elder refineries iq Brooklyn dur- In the federal court on Wednesday tents. ing the past six years. The govern- when he attempted to Introduce eviment alleges fraud In weighing ship- dence In the case of the government FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. ments. against S. C. LIUIs to prove that the defendant, aftm building lllrty-fiv- e first The of the suits was for Body of Man Found Beslds Railroad miles of fencing surrounding 30,000 and was filed with the courts Track at White Fish, Mont. on October 18. and the other were acres of government land and also hls Great Falls, Mont. A special to the filed October 28. The own holdings, spent thousands of dolfiling of the Tribune from White Fish says that action was lars In an attempt to secure the entire from knowlkept public the body of Thomas Holland has been edge until after the election, but was acreage by Illegally locating hls lound by an engine crew, lying beside made known on Monday. The Amer upon the property. The evithe track, with a hole In the side ol ' lean Sugar Refining company has filed dence was unearthed only two days nl8 head. Foul play is suspected, but a denial of the charges. ago, although Lillis was Indicted three Two of the suits were brought for years ago for inclosing ne may have been hit by a passing government train. The man is not known here, the forfeiture of all, importations of lands. The property Is In the Cantua delivered the at and Havemeyer ne having enme from Chicago. He sugar about fifty miles southwest Elder refinery for a period of but two district, was a blacksmith by trade. of this city. years, owing to the' statute of limitations, although the first action alleges MONTANAN HONORED. Fell From Skyscraper. fraudulent weighing for six years. New York. Harvey W. Wattcson, Senator Dixon Will Preside at Taft a lawyer and. younger son of Henry John D. Will a Story Unfold. Dinner. of the Louisville New York. John D. Rockefeller Is Watterson, tfitor Missoula, Mont. Senator Joseph M. Courier Journal, plunged to hls death to on witness the go stand from the nineteenth floor of hls Dixon of Montana haa been selected expected office to preside at the formal dinner to be when the hearing In the government's building at 37 Wall street late Weddissolve com-janStandard the to Oil afternoon. given at the New Willard. Washing suit Is Hls body shot and tell the story nesday for 110 feet and landed on downward ton, on Saturday, November 28, In of that resumed, Is said It gigantic corporation. honor of William II. Taft and James that Mr. Rockefeller wll be a the roof of a building adwilling at which Chairman witness, and that for some time S. Sherman, Almost every bone was joining. he Hitchcock will also be a guest of has been desirous of clearing up cer broken and the head erusned and death was practically Instantaneous. honor. Covers will be laid for seventy-f- tain matters concerning the rompany ive, the list of guests including At the office of the Standard Oil com- While there were no eye witnesses to political notables and newspaper cor- pany It was stated that the company the tragedy, evidently It was entirely accidental. respondents. will subpoena Mr. Rockefeller. Con- - y ten-stor- y Former Governor of Montana la Seriously III. Helena, Mont. Former Governor R. B. Smith of Montana Is critically 111 with uraemic poisonings in the Kallspqll hospital, and little hopes ol ola recovery are entertained. He was a member of tbe constitutional convention, waa United States district first adattorney under Cleveland ministration, and was governor of Montana four years, taking office January 1, 1901. He Is a native of Kentucky. but came to Montana In the tarly days of tbe state. CAN VER8U8 CANNON. Whlaky More Deadly Than Big Said Commodore Foote, Man is Killed. N 1862, In Oklahoma Lsadt to BeRace War Is Imminent Soldier of Civil Civil War Again Discovered. Washington. General Corbin called rt the White House on Monday with a man, who, he declared, was the real bona fide youngest soldier of the civil war. Hls name was Gilbert Van Corbin who, 7andt, of Cincinnati, said, waa a drummer boy at the age cf ten years In the Ninth Ohio regisaid Corbin, Van Zandt. ment. "was the youngest soldier In the war. He served through the war. Incidentally I waa the youngest officer In thl regiment at the same time." Youngest Okla. Five persons Okmulgee, were killed and ten other wounded Sunday afternoon In a fight between Jim Deckard, a negro desperado, and local officers. Th$ disturbance began at the St Louis 'A San Francisco railroad sta tlon when Jim Deckard engaged In a fight with an Indian boy, Steve Crayton, and beat him Into Insensibility with a rock. Friends of Grayson notified the police, and when Policeman Klaber went to the atatlon, Deckard fled to hls house nearby, barricaded himself In, and, when Klaber approached, Deckard shot and killed him. Sheriff Robinson gathered a posse In a few minutes and hurried to the cene. Part of this posse was made up of a group of negroes, whom the sheriff commissioned as deputies. As the posse approached the house Deck ard opened fire with A rifle, firing as rapidly as he could load hla weapon Sheriff Robinson fell first, Instantly Then killed. the two Chapman brothers, negro deputies, were slain Deckard'a house was surrounded by a frenzied mob of armed men. Fire waa set to a house just north of Deckards, volleya were poured Into Deckard'a house and he was shot down. He was seen to roll over on the floor, strike a match and set fire to his own house, which was soon roaring furnace In which hla body was baked. Deckard evidently had a large quantity of ammunition stored In bis house, for many cartridges exploded while the house was burning. Governor Haskell, at Guthrie, was notified of the battle and of the bad feeling betwen whites and negroes that had grown out of It and threatened a race riot. The governor at once orderd the militia company at Muskogee to prepare to go to Okmul gee, and a special train was made ready to carry the troops, the gov ernor remaining at hls office to keep In touch with the situation. News of the preparation to send militia here had a good effect on the disorderly element of both races, and at 7 o'clock Sunday night the crowd had dispersed and further trouble la not expected. wh-- mod ore Occurrtnc lief That and Governor Orders Out the State Militia. CuB Cun Foot,, with his gtinima, "Mi. we on lh Tennessee, 1 M In charge the pro. visioning of one of l he boat a, and it was my duty to see that nrerg. n; e Defends the Principle of the Trust. Wealth does not Berkeley, Cal. mean happiness," declared Charles M. Schwab In a lecture before the students of the University of California. of the IJe defended the principles trust and said it had come to stay. "I have occupied palatial residences In New York and Boston, Bald Schwab, and thought at the time I waa en joying myself, but I know now that n!y the clang of steam hammers and the blowing of actory whistles means I believe In high real happiness. wages, but 1 demand hard work lh Four Men Killed by Negro and Ten Other; Injured Before Blaci Louisiana. T opplle were constantly on hand. At that time it waa the general belief that the man behind the gun could not be expected to g0 successfully ni0 a sea fight unit, be had plenty of whisky to keep hls courage twice a day every seaman fa the service received a regular whisky ra tlon, furnished by the United States up-s- government On our boat were 200 sailor, ho every morning at Tl and every after noon at five would line up on deck while the allowance was dealt out The liquor stood In a huge tin can. arid beside the can waa a wooden frame In which were set 20 little measures called tola. Each tot mo tained about three swallows. Ai the men filed slowly past the cans the tou .were filled with a dipper, and each man drank hls share. One noon our whisky gave out More waa ordered, but the time came for the evening ration, and still the expected supply had failed to ar rive. This caused trouble. The boys had been known to take abort rations of beans and bacon without grumbling, but to do without think; was another thing. Row over to the flagship and bor row whisky enough for the evening ration, waa the order given me. S with our great tin can In of our boat, and four met to row, I started for the commodore vessel, the Black Hawk. As we came alongside her In th dusk, she loomed high above ou heads; and, glancing up, we found ourselves directly under the muitl of a cannon. The loan of whisky vi readily granted, and soon our can va filled and lowered carefully Into th , boat. As I dropped to my place an Mind Unbalanced by Drugs. the order to pull away, from gave Denver, Colo. Entertaining the be- the deck of tbe Black llav hie lief that others may have been impll oun overhead, came a voice: rated In the plot to dynamite Mrs. man! Genevieve Chandler Phipps besides I looked up. There,, gazing do Mrs. Allen F. Read, the home of the at me. stood the commander of woman whose life was placed In lm Commodore Foote. 1 saluted. mediate Jeopardy, Is now guarded man, what have you got hi night and day to prevent any repeti- thatYoung can? tion of the attempt to blackmail her Whisky, sir. by persons who may have Inspired the I thought so. Then after crime, or who may have been directly implicated In the plot. It Is Young man!" pause; Mrs. Read's mind has been unI saluted again. balanced by drugs. "Ixrok up here. I looi;ed. What do you see? Radical Quarantine Measures. "A cannon, sir. Austin, Texas. Governor Campbell What does that cannon mein! has issued a quarantine proclamation Now this questioning made me effective Saturday, declaring a rtgid cidedly uncomfortable, and I scarcel quarantine against persons Infected knew how to reply. But hla eyes dor liable to be Infected with smallpox, emanded an answer. "It means dvaiv cholera, typhoid bubonic sad destruction, sir, I ventured. fever, plague or other communlable diseases, He down over the guard r either within or without the state of tnd bent out hls frreflngr stretched Texas. This Is a radical departure can In toward the my boat as thoug from any previous quarantine ever Iswh1, sued by a state, and while It 1b not he were taking aim at It, while cannon the to he the other pointed expressly mentioned. It is understood other communicable diseases means mouth directly over my head. "Yoon tuberculosis. man, this cannon here does meat It discharge-Montanans to Have Greater Railway death and destruction. Yf shot that weighs 64 pound Accommodationi, there of whisky can In that you, Great Falls, Mont. In order to are more dpath and d carrying compete with the new Milwaukee ex structlon to our own soldier bo; tension, which will be 250 mile; than this big gun will ever carry shorter than the North Coast or Over anybody." land limited routes,' the Burlington I waited. ' That's alC said will put its tracks in excellent condi"remember It." tion and put on another through I saluted again, and we rose train from Chicago to the coast, acBut I remembered cording to reports received here with- away. I0'1' in the past few days. The proposed only a boy then, but many train will in all probability be put or In the years that followed I before the first of the year. Jusl bered the true words our commodo. what route the new train will be rue spoke that day. over is not yet decided. The Nine Tailor Saw. Searching for Wayward Son. he was a cutter at J The tailor Reno, Nev. Dr. Archibald McCul week sighed as he looked about lough, a prominent New York an luxurious apartment. Philadelphia physician, haa come tc "She refused me," he said. Nevada with his wife and children tc ' start a search for hls missing son Because she didn't love me? ta Ha about Martin, who has been unheard of foi cause of that old saw man. two years. The McCoulloughs say nine tailors to make a they will institute a careful quest of And that saw Is A mistake. the mining camps of the state, hop-In- corruption of Nine tellers niar to find a trace that will lead to man.' It doesn't signify that taJ torovery f their relative. Mar are effeminate. JJ1' It Blmply how J n Cullough, allowed to come west mankind la liable to err. to ewe hls tendency to grow wild tin "The toll of a bell in the olden or after rcachlc's was called a teller, and In the time the church bells tolled nine Henc Dispatcher Not Held Re'-- 1 for for every man' funeral. man-Ia mark Train WreT saying, 'Nine tellers eorruP we have Plains, Mont. our stupidity man make a an Saturday eevnfng discharged fop that Into, 'Nine tailors to mer Chief Dispatcher E. M. tailors nine It takes Ringer h? hls preliminary hearing Oc- - man.' tober 12. Ringer was charged with The cutter sighed. Involuntary manslaughter This rank error," he connec tlon with the Olive wreck on the me to bachelorhood." be-lle- hui Want Tariff Revision. Washington. An Immediate revision of the tariff schedules affneting articles that are alleged to be sold by American manufacturers In foreign markets at lower prices than In this country was urged In behalf of the Interests of the American farmers by former Governor N. J. Rachelder of New Hampshire, national master, In his annual address on Wednesday beThr ' uve. fore the National Grange Patrons of case had been under raent since the hearing, h. J advise. Husbandry. Mr. Bachelder also made a strong plea for postal savings the other dispatcher, and OperS banks, parcels post and highway ,hrlr ,rlaI In the -- . Justlcer St uTbii ,rwNZa'r " Formic Acid as Med.le!"';(,gl,l ,, Is coming r In Germany and England B for tuberculosis Hnd kidney Formic acid |