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Show SUMS 10 CAST . LOOPHOLE OF FOB ESCAPE CALIFORNIA ' ML Court Upholds Validity of tho Oliver Grand Jury, Thua Sealing Fata ( of Schmitz, Ruef and Othera. Boat Built From Wreckage ia Used to Seek Assistance For Suffering Men Marooned on Island in . the Land of Fire. New York. The story of the wreck of the American bark Prussia, on bleak Staten Island, Terra del Fuego, 'the land of fire, la a tnrlliing one. Six of the crew have been landed here by the steamer from Montevideo. Four perished and three are in a hospital at Puntaa Arenas. The Prussia was owned in San Francisco and sailed from Norfolk, Va March 27, with a cargo of coal for San Francisco, On the night of June 19, which was atormy and bitterly cold, while Captain Johnson was trying to make the New Years island light, the bark went ashore and soon broke up. Eleven of the thirteen men in the crew succeeded in reaching a strip of sand, sheltered somewhat by overhanging rocks. At dawn it was discovered that Sabata, the Japanese cook, and Harry Hammond, a sailor, were missing. The strip of sand was narrow and huge cliffs barred and escape across the island. Captain Johnson soon died of exhaustion and was burled in the sand. The survivors had a few provisions and subsisted off these. Meantime a boat was laboriously built front the But fear that the proviswreckage. ions would not last led to two of the men, S. Irothin and Joseph Hosteth, trying to work across the mountains to obtain help. Prothln crawled back a few days later with his hands and feet badly frozen. Hosteth, he reported, had died from the cold. The food gave out and the men lived on shell fish. Eventually, after much danger, Mate John Hunter, Carpenter Carl Stark and Seaman Heine reached New Yorks island, In the frail boat, a distance of thirty miles. Lieutenant Del Gado, in charge of the light house there, rescued the suffering men on Staten island after much peril and delay. They were kindly nursed at the light house and then taken to Punta Arenas. San Francisco, Cal. The state supreme court on Monday rendered a decision upholding the validity of the Oliver grand jury. On this decision depended the fate of the indictments found subsequent to March last, which include those against Schmitz, Ruef and others. The attack was made on the grand jury by Williams M. Abbott of the United Railways, Frank G. Drum, John Martin and Eugene De Sabla of the San Francisco Ga's company, and other defendants, to test the validity of the Indictments charging them with bribery. They contended that In February last the names for a new grand jury were drawn, and that, while the Oliver Jury has not been discharged, Its powers lapsed with the first step taken to impanel its predecessor. Justice McFarland filed a dissenting opinion. ELKINS LAW STILL IN FORCE. Nothing of Importance Has Been Accomplished by Delegates to The Hague Conference. Prevailing Opinion is That Abaence of Results In Great Questions Ic Due to the Lack of Preparation by All the Countries Represented. The Hague. After having been In session more than three months, and with adjournment probably a month in the distance, it is recognized gener ally, and even by the most optimistic in the peace movement, that the second international peace conference has been and will be, at its conclusion, barren of results leading to perm a. nent measures of benefit to the peace of the world. Even the proposition for a future meeting of the conference, which was unanimously adopted on Saturday, has been so altered as to suppress its most Important part, namely, the periodicity of meetings, merely providing for the calling of a third conference, but establishing noth, lng with regard to the convening of the future conferences. The prevailing opinion, as expressed by one of the leading delegates, is that the absence of results in the conference on the great question was due to the lack of preparation by all the countries represented. This, he said, was especially striking in the case of the American delegation, whlcfi was supposed to have come here in complete accord with the countries. This accord, however, neither existed, nor had it been reached during the conference. Indeed, the chief result of the conference will be a growing feeling of diffidence on the part of the South Americans towara Washington, as, rightly or wrongly, they accuse the United States of having neglected them and of caring only for working in accord with Great Britain and Germany. insane. Wealthy Lumber Merchant Convicted of Manslaughter. Chicago, 111. Amasa C. Campbell, a wealthy lumber merchant of Antigo, Wis., who killed Dr. Benjamin F. Harris in the stock exchange building here last winter, and whose defense him guilty of manslaughter in Judge was the unwritten law, found mercy at the hands of a jury, which found Windes court on Tuesday. Accompanying the verdict was a recommendation by the jury that the punishment be fixed at one year in the penitentiary, the minimum penalty allowed by law. Robert Fulton Day Observed. Started Fight; Got Worst of It. Norfolk, Va. Elaborate and beautiEugene, Ore. Charles Crowley was ful ceremonies marked Mondays ob- shot and killed Saturday at Marcola, servance of Robert Fulton day," at sixteen miles east of here, by Bert Of the Nunn. The shooting grew out of a the Jamestown exposition. quarrel over Nunns testimony against many historical events commemorated by the tercentennial, none has been of the proprietress of a resort at the was instrumental in havgreater importance and deeper signi- place.theNunn woman convicted, and when ficance than the celebration of the ing the parties to the case returned to practical application of Robert Fultons Marcola from Eugene, Crowley, who is invention to the needs of the world. n at While the exercises were under the alleged to have been a hanger-oa the with resort, and picked quarrel direction of the exposition officials, thrashed by Nunn. At the conthe Robert Fulton Monument associa- was clusion of the fight Ctowiey started tion participated. shooting. Prosecution Reveals Its Charges Against Senator Borah of Idaho. Boise, Idaho. The government has revealed its charges in the case of United States Senator Borah, charged with timber land fraud. The jury was completed at the morning session on Tuesday, and during the afternoon Judge M. C. Burch of Detroit, Mich., special assltant to the attorney general, made the opening statement of the prosecution. He arraigned the late Governor Frank Steunenberg as the central figure In the alleged conspiracy by which it Is claimed that more than 17,000 acres of virgin forest lands, thick with towering pines, came fraudulently into the possession of the Barber Lumber company, a Wisconsin corporation a operating plant in. this city. Mr. Burch connected Senator Borah with the land transactions only as attorney, first for Steunenberg, and then for the lumber concern. He declared that Senator Borah interested himself in all matters having an outward bearing on the lands claimed by dummy entrymen, turned over to dummy trustees and by them deeded over to the Barber company. Minnesota is For State's Fighting Rights. St. Paul Attorney General Young on Tuesday obtained from the county court a writ of mandamus directed against the Northern Pacific Railroad company to compel it to comply with the commodity rate law, whose operation was enjoined by Judge Lochren of the United States court The railroad officials probably will ask Lochren for an order citing Judge Attorney General Young for contempt of the United States court If the attorney general is declared in contempt a writ of habeas corpus will be Issued and the matter taken to the United States supreme court for a final decision, as to the states right to regulate rates. Insane Mother' Buffalo. Awful Crime. Mrs. Bertha Mund, aged 27 years, strangled her three children, Christopher, aged 8 years; Helen, aged 2. and Freda, aged 8 months, to death at their home in Clinton street. After committing the deed, she went to the Pennsylvania railroad yards, where her husband, Frederick Mund, is employed as a member of a wrecking crew, and informed him of her action. Mrs. Mund was placed under arrest. The woman has been ill with nervous trouble, and undoubtedly was Iitin-America- n son-in-la- BRAKE REFUSED TO WORK; MINERS DASHED TO DEATH: UNTIL SHE DIES E F, Hepburn Act is Amendatory in the Opinion of the Court. Denver. In an opinion announced Monday by tho United States circuit court of appeals sitting In Denver, the Judgment of the district court for Minnesota against the Great Northern railway In the rebate cases was pracThe circuit court tically affirmed. holds that the Hepburn act is an amendatory and not a repealing act, that In so far as it repeals or reproduces portions of the Elldns act It continues them In force and makes no break In the law, and that In so far as It omits or changes provisions of the. Elkins act, It repeals them. The act of granting rebates was admitted by tho Great Northern Railroad company at the trial, and the only question presented by the railway company was whether or not the Elkins act of 1903, making It an offense and fixing punishment for granting rebates, was repealed by the Hepburn act of 1906 In such a way that thereafter there could be no prosecution or punishment of offenses committed ROOSEVELT PLANNING TRIP. prior to the repeal. The district court ruled against this contention of the Will Sail Down the Mississippi From Keokuk to Memphis. railway company, and hence the appeal to the circuit court of appeals. Washington. While the preparations for President Roosevelts westMURDERED BY HER HUSBAND. i ern trip have not been completed, the Police Identify Body Found in Trunk program has been sufficiently arranged to make it certain that the tour will at South Alio, Washington. Soattls. The rinlice have positively be one of the most spectacular ever Identified the body of tho dead wo- undertaken by him. He will leave man found stuffed in a trunk cast upon here next Sunday, and will be absent the beach at South Alki Monday morn- from the seat of government until the 23d or 24th of October. The trip has ing as that of Mrs, Agnes Trueman dedlca-tioMcCombs Covington, 17 years old. three distinctive objects: The the mausoleum at of McKinley to woman The had been strangled death. She was the wife of Frank Cov- Canton, O.; the inspection of the Mississippi river with a view of arousing ington, for several months employed Interest in the ship channel from its as a salesman by the Kilshelmer mouth to Keokuk, la., and the Great Liquor company, 1115 First avenue, Lakes, and the securing of a period of Seattle. Cotlngton Is missing and the recreation for the chief executive bepolice are looking for hint. Acquaint- fore the beginning of the duties of the ances say they have not seen him for winter. a week. The body In. the trunk had Incidentally there will be some been dead at least a week. speeches on the return journey, which will deal with current Issues. Could Not Have Participated in the CYCLONE HITS FAIR GROUNDS. Goebel Killing. MarNew York. Captain Cassius Many Pennsylvanians Injured While shall Sanford, only son of the late John on Pleasure Bent. Sanford of Covington, Ky., who was Pa. A wind storm of Pottsvllle, referred to In the affidavit of Mrs. Lulu cyclonic force late Saturday afternoon Williams Clark, In Sunday newspastruck the fair grounds at Heglns, In pers, as "John Sanford, and as havthe western part of Schuylkill county, GoeGovernor been when ing present bel of Kentucky was killed, has Issued where the Heglns Grange was holda positive denial of all her statement ing its annual county fair and blew upon which He denies knowing the woman and down the grandstand, declares that at the time of the kill- were seated several hundred persons. ing of Governor Goebel he was in the A half hundred were injured, five of them probably fatally. Other buildings Philippine islands on business. on the ground were also blown down. Six People Injured in Trolley Car Was Quick With Gun. Accident near Los Angeles. Wash. A special from Spokane, Ia)s Angeles, Cal. A Hollywood Wallace, Idaho, says: W. F. Cramer trolley car, leaving thts city shortly fell dead on the floor of a saloon in before midnight Monday, collided Osburn Sunday morning, a charge of with a worK, train In Hollywood, wMle lead from a shotgun entering his open running at the rate of twenty miles an mouth. The slayer, Captain A. P. hour, demolishing the whole front of Horton, proved "quicker la the use o! the car and severely injuring five pas- firearms than Cramer, who was reachsengers and the motorman. The lack ing for his pistol. Horton, after notiof & headlight on the work train Is fying the sheriffs office of the tragedy, said to have been responsible for the lathered his face and shaved himself accident. Three women and three in the room where the body lay and awaited the arrival of the sheriff. The men were among the injured. coroner jury returned a verdict of Not in With Standard Oil Company. Boston. John D. Archbold, of the Convention Ends in Free Fight. Standard Oil company, comes out in York. The Hoboken, N. J., New an open letter, denying any connecDemocratic city convention developed tion of Urban H. Broughton, the presiInto a between two factions, in dent it the Utah Consolidated com- which fight used their fists, chairs delegates of Henry R. Rog- and other pany, and objects. The police tried with Oil the Standard ers, company, to stop the fight, but were outnumpast, present or future. Mr. Archbold bered. After the fight the delegates also objects to the newspaper Stories held separate conventions on the same con fleeting the affairs of the Standard stage and named two sets of city Oil company with those of the Amalga-tickets. The trouble started over the iter Copper company and says that efforts of adherents of Patrick J. Grift ere Is no change of leadership of fin, who aspires to be leader of the f tandard Oil affairs and no such party In the city, to defeat Maurice J. fiange is contemplated. Stock and his supporters. GOVERNMENTS SIDE OF CASE. HI TORTURE Of GRAFTERS UPON BLEAK ISLE Four of the Crew of an American Bark Perish and Others Endure Horrible Sufferings. HU Ml WTO E If Regards Philippines as Gateway to . the Orient, and an Aid in Maintaining the Open Door Policy. a A Story That Comes From Chicago Which Reads Like the Doings Washington Admiral Dewey strong of the Comanche Indians. ly resents the proposition that has been discussed in a more or less academic way to surrender the Philippines, which, of all men, he was a leading factor in bringing under the Amei lean flag. In an interview, the admiral sets out the reasons which impel him to insist upon the retention of the islands. The strong point of his argument is not based upon the military or naval Importance of the islands, but upon the great value, present and to prospective, of the Philippines America In the extension of our trade with the orient, The admiral says: "Abandon the Philippines? I dont believe our country will ever do that. Certainly it should not, because It has altogether too much at stake. It Is only our control over the Philippines that makes It possible for us to Insist upon' the open door in the east, toward which our diplomacy has been directed for years. We want our share of the enormous commerce of the east and we cant keep the door open for it unless we hold the islands. Why did Spain for 200 years dominate the commerce of the orient? Just because she had the bay and harbor of Manila as a great commercial and naval base. That base can be just as useful to us commercially as it was to Spain. For ten years every strong European nation has been trying to get a foothold for commercial and naval purposes in the far east. Through the fortunes of war the United States obtained the best position possible, giving us superior commercial advantages over the nations. What sort of a common sense would It be for us to give up such a position? Suppose we should dispose of the Philippines and Japan should acquire them. See how the Islands stretch along the coast. Here are the Philippines and Formosa. If Japan had them she could command every gateway to the orient and the United States would be completely shut out Every one concedes that the orient is the future great field for the principal commercial operations of the world. We ought to be the leaders, but we must at least have a share in the enterprise, and in order to do so we must maintain the position we have occupied. I think it is plain that we must have a commercial base such as Manila, and then in order to protect our commerce we must have a naval base, and at g bay such a base is being developed." Su-bi- MORE FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. i General Drude Resumes Offensive and Burns Moorish Camps. Casablanca. for the Negotiations cessation of hostilities having failed, General Drude on Sunday resumed the offensive and burned the Moorish camps at Sidl Brahim, south of Casablanca, and dispersed the tribesmen, who offered but little resistance. These operations were chiefly notable for a brilliant forced march of the French troops, who covered forty kilometers Inside of twelve hours. The expedition, consisting of 2,000 Infantry, with a detail of cavalry, artillery and native auxiliaries, left camp holbefore dawn and formed Into-twlow squares, one behind the other. In some this formation they marched distance under the cover of darkness and unobserved by the tribesmen. A came up at heavy morning sea-fodaybreak and forced a half hours halt, during which shots fired by the advance guards gave the alarm to the enemy. Elijah Dowie Killed Crippled and Aged Woman in an Endeavor to "Drive out in Devils," and Failed "Resurrection Scene. Former Followers of Chicago. Five persons, members of the sect of Parhamltes, are under arrest in Zion City, accused of torturing to death Mrs. Letitia Greenhaulgh, 64 years old, a cripple for twenty years, in order to show belief in the religion they profess. Those arrested are Walter and Jen. nie Greenhaulgh, the son and daughter of the woman: Harold Mitchell, Mrs. Harold Mitchell and Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Greenhaulgh had been for twenty years an invalid, suffering from paralysis and rheumatism. The sect of Parhamltes was founded about a year ago by Cljas. F. Parham and numbers about 200 persons. Its members originally belonged to Dow-ie- s church, and they believe In the gift of tongues, and especially in diabolical It is their theory that profession. sickness is the evidence of the possession by the body by evil spirits. The condition of Mrs. Greenhaulgh convinced her son and daughter and the three persons arrested with them, that she must be possessed of the devil, and they determined to-- exorcise the evil spirit. The five knelt by the bedside, and after prayer, commenced their work. The arms of Mrs. Greenhaulgh, stiffened by rheumatism, were jerked and twisted about In order that the devil might be driven out. The cries of the aged woman were consid ered to be those of an evil spirit and were greeted with triumphant shouts. After a course of this violent treat ment Mrs. Greenhaulgh not only became so weak that she could not use her limbs, but became incapable of making any motions. Then her neck was twisted, and for some time this treatment was kept up. The tortured woman, whose screams were not heard by neighbors because of the fact, that one of the healers held his hand over her mouth, finally; died from the effects of the rough treatment she was subjected to. After that, according to Greenhaulgh, Mrs. Smith became the leafier In a resurrebtlon scene. In this efforts wrere made to restore the dead woman to life. When these had failed, the announcement of her death was made. The case is to be fully investigated by the authorities of Lake county, in which Zion City is situated. Heavily Loaded Cage Drops 700 Feet in Shaft of Michigan Mine and of Victims Are Mashed j Bodies to a Pulp. ' Negaunee, Mich. By a cage plung- ing 700 feet down the shaft of thw Jones & Laughlin Steel mine, eleven, men were killed and seven fatally inThe cage with its human jured. was being lowered on its first freight trip of the day, when the brak suddenly failed to hold. The other men sprang to the assistance of the-onat the brake wheel, but their efforts did not avail, and the wire cable continued to unreel from the drum like a thread from a bobbin. The cage shot down a couple of hundred feet before a kink in the too rapidly paying out cable caused it to part and from that point the cage had a. sheer drop to the bottom of the shaft. The safety catches with which is was equipped failed to operate. The surging of the cable in its mad flight tore out a part of the side of the engine house and ripped out several of the sheaves in and about the shaft house. Workmen at the bottom of the mine immediately set about the task of removing the dead. The bodies lay la one pile, a mass of lifeless flesh and blood. The bones of the bodies were so shattered that the men when they fell were piled on top of each other like so many pelts of leather. Seven were found still alive. CHINA BREAKING CHAINS. imperial Edict as to Establishment of Parliament. An imperial edict was isPeking. sued Friday authorizing 'Prince Pu Lun, who was Chinese envoy at the St. Louis exposition, and Sun Chi Anai. in the grand council, to frame resolutions for the establishment of a council of deliberation to aid the government so that the foundation may be laid for a parliament. The dowager empress says that ia the establishment of a representative government for China the opinions of all must he considered, and though the upper and lower houses are foundations of administration, the throne is unable to establish, them in China at present. Both Chang Chi Tung and Yuaa Shi Kai, since coming to Peking on their appointment as grand councilors, have urged the establishment of a conrestitutional form of government, calling the fact that this reform has been promised and that China and all the rest of the world expect to see it carried out. Memorials to the throne from the highest officials throughout China continue to reach Peking In large numbers, urging the throne to grant China a constitutional government. CANNERS WANT MORE TIME. of an Accident in Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Two unknown men and one woman were killed and a dozen others narrowly escaped death in the collapse of the Dohan Shoe companys four-stor- y building on Central avenue, near Sixth street market, Saturday. The building was one of the oldest in the retail section of the city, and was undergoing repairs, a new front being added and other impovements made. Shortly before noon, without warn ing, the front of the building fell for ward into the street, leaving only th rear sections standing. An unknowi man, passing on the sidewalk, was stricken down, being dead when reached, while a woman within three feet of him was uninjured. A second man apparently a laborer, was found dead In the ruins, as was Mrs. Mary Daley, who lived on the second floor. Object to Enforcement of Food Smct Drug Act on October 1. Washington. Canners of food were oefore the board of food and drug inspection on Wednesday, protesting against the regulation for the enforcement of the food and drug act which provides that the rales in regard to labels shall go in effect after Oct. 1 next. The regulation provides that after that date the principal label or can shall state the substance of the product and the name of the place of manufacture.. This regulation has been extended from time to time and canners now want a further extension. Canners represented at the hearing asserted that they had a half a million dollars worth of labels on hand, which will be worthless If the regulation becomes effective at this time. These concerns declared the law to be confiscatory. The board will submit its recommendations to the secretary of agriculture. Official Account of Exptosion. The official report ol Washington. the accident to the Japanese battleship Kashlma has been supplemented by a cabled account from the Japanese navy department. A new projectile had been rammed and the charges were placed in position for the third had not been fire, but the breech-blocclosed, when the said charge, catching fire from the back flare, set on fire the charge for the fourth projectile, which was at the back of the gun. The projectile remained in the loading men were killed position. Forty-twby he explosion. Auto and Electric Car Collide. Denver, Colo. Seven persons were injured, three perhaps fatally, as a re suit of a collision between an automobile and an electric car on the outskirts of this city Friday night. The party, which included several Chicago people, had been on a sight-seein- g tour and was returning to the city.- - The car was running along at a good speed, when an electric car loomed up, coming directly across the path of the automobile. The chauffeur expected the car to slow up, and evidently the motorman depended on the automobile to slacken its speed. Californians Alarmed by Quake. Wrecked Fishermen in Distress. Cal. An earthSan SenBernardino, States Wash. United Seattle, ator S. H. Piles has telegraphed di- quake shock that brought residents of rect to President Roosevelt asking the this city into the streets in alarm and executive to send a revenue cutter to caused disarrangements in many houseBristol Bay to rescue the crew of 160 holds, was experienced here Thurswhite fishermen and 200 Chinese Bald day evening. The direction of the to have been wrecked there when the shock was from southeast to northfishing boat John Currier went ashore west, and was preceded by a rumbling on the rocks on August 9. A party noise. There seemed to be a succeswas gotten away to sv. d word of the sion of shocks, terminating with a distress of nearly 400 men to appeal snap that caused fear and trembling for aid. The men had supplies suffici- among those here who suffered in the ent to last them for thirty days, but San Francisco disaster. In the mountains the shock was most severe. that time has expired. Fare Law Knocked Out. fare Harrisburg, Pa. The at the recent session of the Pennsylvania legislature was adjudged Invalid, unconstitutional and void in its application to the Susquehanna River & Western Railway company in an opinion rendered Friday at Bloomfield by Judge Shull, of the Perry county court. The law, he declared in his decree, is in derogation of the Pennsylvania constitution. He quotes figures of the earnings to show that the enforcement of the rate ordained by the act would be confiscatory. g King of Siam is Blowing Himself in Germany.-- Homburg, Germany. King of Siam on Saturday invited all Homburg to join in celebrating his birthday. Champagne and red and white wines of other descriptions were served at the Kurhaus without any limit. It is presumed that the celebration of his birthday will cost $250,000, as the managers of the Kurhaus have been hastily gathering in wines by the carload from the neighboring cities. It is estimated that the king of Siam has already spent $1,500,000 in Germany alone. Chula-longkor- n Driving Out the Trusts. Vicksburg, Miss. Chancellor Hicks late Saturday afternoon declared the Gulf Compress company, which conin the compresses trols thirty-on- e south, sixteen of which are located in Mississippi, an illegal trust, and gave the corporation one year in which to wind up its business in the state and withdraw. He denied the application lor a receiver. This decision is a victory for District Attorney James D. Thomas, who less than a week ago a receiver declared a combine in restraint of trade. filed the suit asking that be appointed and that it be BUILDING COLLAPSED. Three Are Killed as the Result k o Gave Stolen Money to Church. Nashville, Tenn. The mystery of the disappearance here last October of the two packages containing from the car of the Southern Express company was explained Friday in the arrest of J. L. Smith, who confessed Five thousand dollars of the money was found, finder his direction, buried under his house. Smith took the package while making repairs on the car. He is an active member of a local church and his recent liberal contributions attracted attention of detectives Two-Ce- Police, and Passengers Fight. San Francisco. There were numerous riots in the southern and mission districts Friday night as a result of an attempt by the police to enforce the ordinance designed to prevent the g of street cars. When the police tried to carry out orders the passengers were not aware of the purpose, and those who were perched on top of the cars refused to vacate their positions. In several cases the police were required to use force and fightThese disturbances ocing resulted. curred at a dozen p faces. over-crowdin- |
