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Show ROAD GOES μη EXPLOSION CHARGED , TURNS UP AFTER ΠΠ} MAY YET FLOW Π Π S! PAIL y, {|| SOLDIERS GOULD |THE HANDS OF Rete IN STREETS OF LISBCY TO BLACK HAND SOCLETY FOURTEEN YEARS AT Tht ALTAR DD THE SHOOTING Railroad to Meet its Operating pensts and Costs of able | Senate Committee Appointed te In- | vestigate Brownsville Affair MakesIts Report. Investigation Extended Over Two Ses sions of Congress, Nearly Every One of the Men Dishonorably Discharged by President Testifying in Their Behalf. Washington.—That the shooting affray at Brownsville, Tex., on the night of August 12-13, 1906, was done by some negro soldiers of the Twentyfifth infantry, and that the testimony taken before the senate committee on military affairs fails to identify the guilty persons, is the opinion of eight members of the committee Four members of the committee voted against the decision, and one member did not vote. The resolution declaring the guilt of the negroes was submitted by Senator Lodge, and was adopted after five resolutions by Senator Foraker, one by Senator Dupont and one by Senator Scott, all of which were offered as substitutes, had been voted down The vote on Tuesday was ‘reathed after prolonged investigation extending over two sessions of congress, and after evidence had been taken covering thousands of pages Practically every negro of the three companies of infantry dishonorably discharged by President Roosevelt testified in his own behalf, while evidence in support of the president was given by many armyofficers and citizens of Brownsville. Throughout the entire controversy, which In many sections of the country had been made a political issue, the antiadministration side has been directed by Senator Forake In the final vote in the committee, a majority of the Republican members came to his support The Ohio sena cor expressed himself as gratified at this, as it was appa t trom the outset that all of the Democratic members were convinced that the negroes id the shooting is insolvent and Un- | Texas | Colonists FOR Flocking SIBERIA. to Country <--On petition of the Mercantile T1 ist company of New York, trustee for a large number of bondholders, United States Circuit Judge A. P. MeCormick of the northern district of Texas has appointed Judge T. J, Freeman of New Orleans receiver for the International & Great Northern Railroad company and fixed his bond $50,000. The petitioner allege that the railroad has defaulted in the payment of interest to the extent of $494,620 on bonds; that it is imsolvent and unable to meet its operating expenses and obligations and to defray the costa of improvements now under way The railroad company, through its general solicitor, filed its consent to the appointment of a re ceiver rhe Interngtional & Great Northern is a Gould line, and recently underwent reorganization, when Leroy T Price was superseded by Horace Clarke as general manager The reports of the Texas railroad commission show the road to have been in financial difficulties for over a year, ROYALTY IN AUTO ACCIDENT, Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry Have Narrow Escape. The Hague.—Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry, her husband, had a narrow escape from serious injury in a carriage accident which occurred rear the palace on Wednesday. The vrince was driving the carriage in which her majesty was seated. In a narrow part of the road an electric car, coing at full speed, suddenly collided with the vehicle before the prince could turn out The impact was very severe, and the cairiage was badly wrecked, three wheels beFortunately, neither the ing torn off Her qpeen nor the prince was hurt. Irajesty was somewhat unnerved, but she Was able to walk to the palace Shortly afterward she left the palace and went to the residence of her For- that she had not been injured, PASS THE BILLION MARK. divided into 120,000 individual allot- Confessed to Attempt to Wreck Train. Sedalia, Mo.—Walter W. Cox, a wood chopepr, whose home is at Franklin Junction, Mo., confessed to Missouri Pacific railroad officials Tuesday that he removed the _ rail from the track on the top of Otterville hill on Friday night last, which resulted in the derailing of a freight train from St. Louis. Cox said he had intended to wreck and rob the fast Missouri Pactfic St. Louis-Kansas City train No, 4, which was due at Otterville a few minutes after the freight train was wrecked Family Quarre! © Results in a Double Lamar, Tragedy. Mo.—Lees Hart, a_ coal- hauler here, on Tuesday night shot and killed Mrs. Joseph Edwards, his mother-in-law, and seriously wounded the latter's husband, and then committed suicide by lying across the track and letting the St. Louis & San Francisco fast express run over his body. Hart first fired two shots at bis wife, following a family quarrel, but she escaped with a slight flesh wound. Hart once served a penitentiary sentence. Colo—W. Z. Kinney of Denver, manager of the Gold “King mine, H. M. Soule, vice president of the company, Sheriff William Palmquist and two of his deputies on Tuesday received letters on each of which was sketched in a crude manner a skull and crossbones and containing a warning of swift and horrible death if they do not cease their activity in arresting and punishing ore thieves. Manager Kinney immediately ordered the discharge of sixty-five Austrian, Montenegran and Italian miners employed at the Gold King. Jury Flipped Coin for Decision. Vast Sums of Gold Coin and Bullion in the United States. The Murderer Was an Italian Anar- chist, Who Was Captured and Expressed No Remorse for His Diabolica! Deed. in the Capital of Portugal Seems MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED GREETED BY OLD FRIENDS. for Immunity. shot and killed when administering| the sacrament at early mass in St.) Elizabeth's Catholic ehurch, Eleventh | and Curtis streets, this city, 6 o'clock Sunday morning. With an inarticulate scream | triumph, which the communicants de- | scribe as the yell of a demon, the as-| sassin sprang into the aisle, and, wave ing the smoking gun about his head,| dashed to the church door. thor rooms in the rear of the store, were endangered by the last explosion, but they escaped with slight injuries. A, few months ago the body of an Italian was found in the street near Locato’s store. There was a bomb fn the pocket of the dead man, and it gated to commit some outrage, had failed, and had been murdered by his associates for his failure to carry out his instructions PLEADS FOR MAIL SUBSIDY. Guarnaccio was captured by a po-| liceman after a short chase and placed| Senator Gallinger Declares Merchant in solitary confinement at the city jail. He admitted to a policeman who| interviewed him that the priest whom he had killed was a stranger to him, | and in explanation of his crime made the following statement: “I just went over there because I | Qave a grudge against all priests in general. They are all against the vorkingman. I went to the communoien rail because I could get a better shot. I did not give a damn whether he was a Germanpriest or any other kind of a priest. They are all in the same class.” Father Heinrichs was widely known and greatly loved by his parishioners. LEOPOLD AGAIN IN HOT WATER. Anneaation of Congo Free State a Difficult Problem to Solve. Brussels.—Thesituation in the matter of the annexation to Belgium of the Congo Free State is again assuming a disquieting aspect. It is stated his fair promises and now demands that the special fund which was to replace the crown domain be placed un- Anna Wanted No Title. with a Hartford (Conn.) mewspaper, was vice consul to London, United States consul to Egypt and fs an au- doors demolished. Since then he has received several letters demanding money, but has ignored them, which of| was believed that he had been dele- United States Will Not Interfere in New York.—Mrs. Anna M. Weight- man Walker of Philadelphia, one of the richest women in America, was married on Wednesday to Frederick C, Penfield, in St. Patrick’s cathedral. following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs, Penfield sailed for Europe. The cereriony was performed by Archbishop There were two witnesses. Parley. Mr. Penfield was formerly connected MODERN ENOCH ARDEN TALE resulted in the third mysterious atKneeling at the al- tack. The lives of Locato, his wife two women, Gui- | and his three children, who occupied tar rail, between seppe Guarnaccio pressed the muzzle} of a revolver against the body of the) priest, after receiving from him the consecrated water, and Fhot the man of God through the heart. Father Leo) fell prone in front of the altar and) died almost instantly. Manchurian Affairs. Washington.—It was stated with positiveness at the state department on Saturday that no official reports or protests from any source have been received regarding Japanese commercial aggressiveness in Manchuria, Marine of United States is in Bad Way. Washington.—Speaking in favor of the passage of the ocean mail subsidy bill in the senate on Monday, Senator Gallinger reviewed conditions under which the merchant marine of this country is operating and cited many advantages that he believes will accrue to the commercial interests of the United States if better mail service to South America and other points is established. “The bill raises no newissue, introduces no new principle,” said Mr. Gallinger. “It leaves existing and prosperous steamship services exactly as they are now, and without changing one iota the tried and approved methods of the present law, increases the compensation on routes which sixteen years of experience have conclusively proved to be inadequate—the long, costly and important routes fo South America and the Orient, the routes where our lack of steamship service is severest and our need of such service most imperative.” Only eight of fifteen ships that were plying across the Pacific SPY IMPRISONED FOR LIFE. ocean last March are left, he said. NEED MORE OPERATORS. Tried to Sell Naval Secrets to For : eign Power and Got Caught. Enforcement of Nine-Hour Law Will Provide Work for Many Men. Toulon, France.—Charles B. Ullmo, an ensign in the French navy, arrested at Toulon on October 25 on the charge of being a spy, has been found guilty by a court-martial of attempt| ing to sell naval secrets to a foreign power and sentenced to life imprisonment in a fortress and to be degraded from his rank. The court decided unanimously that Ensign Ulmo had abstracted military documents involving the security of the state and had communicated them to a foreign power with the view of selling them He had not, however, actually disposed of the papers. Topeka, Kans.—Announcement was made at the general manager's office of the Santa Fe on Monday that 486 newoperators will be required on the system, the gulf lines expected to comply with the provisions of the federal nine-hour law to go into effect March 4, About sixty are required on the Eastern Grand division. The officials do not know whether they will be able to get the requisite number of new men Charged or not, With Slaying His Wealthy Brother. Denounces Husband as Murderer. New York—Dominicio Cella, brother of Girolamo Cella, the wealthy importer who was found dying in his Crime of Insane Woman. Peoria, lJl.—Despite reports to the Denver.—The bodies of Mrs. Mary contrary, prominent coal operators de- E. Nixon, aged 60; her daughter, Mrs. clare the deadlock between the opera- E. N. Canter, aged 35, and the 12iors and miners of the northern, cen- | year-old son of the latter were found ral and southern Illinois field had not lying in the cottage which had been and Girolamo Stephenson and Caesar Bianchi have been held without bail to await an investigation into the cause of the old man’s death. Cella was found unconscious and near death by a policeman who had been called by Dominicio. His skull had been fractured by several blows from | She Embezzling Pittsburg Brokers Get and death evidently resulted from chloroform or ether. Mrs. Canter is known to have been mentally deranged, and the police believe she was the prime author of the deed. The three had been dead a week when the bodies were discovered by nighbors. the skull by reason of the fact that Sioux Indians Win Out. | came up. Suspicion pointed to Ridge, the partner, and Sheriff Shackelford, Washington.—In an opinion by Justice Holmes, the supreme court of of Atchison county, went to Kansas of Sioux Indians vs. the United States favorably to the Indians. The Indians skeleton was found, but Ridge’s at- “Black Hand” Assassins Threaten to Blow Up Powder Magazine. New York.—In a letter signed “Black Hand” and addressed to Commander Braumsrueter, in charge of the United States naval magazine at City and placed. him under arrest. the United States has decided the case The warrant was issued by Justice of the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands | Proud, of the township in which the torney took a change of venue and the case was sent to Fairfax. Here, December 26, 1895, the -preliminary claimed a large sum of money grow- Iona island, the threat has been mad that the enormous stores of smokeless powder on the island will be blown up examination was had before Justice Blevius and Justice to pay them for fifty years an annuity Wilson. unless the married More paid at the time. The payments were | but only 13 were examined. regularly made until the Sioux outRidge proved that he had spent break in 1862, when payments were the night previous to Funk's disapsuspended. pearance at Quitman and came back Gambling Drove Wife to Suicide. [1ο Skidmore on a train that arrived Blood Poisoning Caused shortly after Funk had started. As San Francisco.—When the coroner’s he worked all that day ft was shown deputies entered the home of C. Leo- | to have been impossible that he could pold, a mining man, recently from have committed the deed. Mexico, to prepare for the autupsy on A year or two after this Mrs. Funk the body of his wife, who was found they found a note inside her corset showing that she had committed suicide. It declared that she had been driven to take her own life by the actions of her husband, who, she asserted, was spending all their money gambling in the rear of a cigar store on Germany a Menace to Peace of World. Severe Sentence. New York.—Justice Day in the Chicago.—“Germany has become a New York supreme court set aside the Pittsburg.—Convicted of embezzling menace to the peace of the world,” verdict of a jury on Tuesday and fined {00 shares of capital stock of the Amdeclared Dr. Emil G. Hirsch at Sinai twelve jurymen $50 each for deciding erican Sewer Pipe company, valued at temple on Sunday. “That nation has the verdict by the flip of a coin. The $12,000, intrusted to their σατο, ΚΕ. Ὁ. lent a willing ear to the doctring decase was a suit brought against the | cartuer and A. J. Harnack, wellnying the equality of men. So far has New York City Railway company for known brokers, have been sentenced cey, sister of Rose Clancey. The indamages in causing the death of a | terurban car had just rounded a curve that pernicious doctrine taken root each to pay a fine of $250 and one-half child. The jury brought in a verdict and gone onto a short trestle. A city that now it is a settled conviction in favor of the railway company. One the costs of prosecution and to serve car was but a few feet behind and among the strong men of the nation ene year and three months in the penjuryman explaining the jury’s action, both cars were traveling at a good that even those born in that country The severity of the sensaid the jury was hopelessiy divided, | itentiary. speed. The trolley of the interurbar are not real Germans unless they 3 of the τ nce caused a gasp of surprise from and that one of the member sliped and the rear car smashed inte have Teutonic blood in their veins. he spectators, and the prisoners were jury was anxious to attend to his The doctrine is the offspring of selfish jthe one forward | dumbfounded. ‘and ungodly minds business. by the discharged by Licking Postage Stamps. New York.—For the second time in two years Miss Myra Silvervale of Norfolk, Conn., is in a Norfolk hospital suffering from a disease of the tongue, which is said to have been was married to James Gibbs of Skidmore and they still reside at that place. As indicated men from employment on the island Jan. uary 1, 1908, be put back to work at once. There are three million pounds of smokeless powder and other explosives stored in the numerous maga zines. of $73,600, in addition to $305,000 cash | than 60 witnesses had been summoned, Fillmore stréet. One Killed, Fifteen Injured. Cambridge, O.—In a rear-end col‘Wsion Rose Clancy was killed outright and fifteen injured, five it is thought fatally. Among the latter were Motorman Robert Allison, Conductor McCullen and Catherine Clan- Felt That She Was Confronted by One from Another World. one cheek bone was higher than the other. The suspicion was aroused that a hammer and there were stains from | Jacob Funk had been murdered, and | the question of finding the murderer acid on his lips. been broken and ‘that the operators their home in this city. Each had a were prepared to hold out until March sponge tied over the mouth and nose, dead, presumably from natural causes, 1, when the present agreement expires. Then the trial will come, if vothing intervenes, and neither side ecedes from their announced deternination. President, John M. Walker has declared that the prospects are r a general suspension of work. Los Angeles.—Following a heated quarrel which took place in_ their room at the Hotel Catalina, Mrs. E. Frazier denounced her husband as a murderer and surrendered himinto the hands of the police. According to the woman, Frazier committed a murder in Indianapolis four years ago. The detectives who were called in during the disturbance handcuffed Frazier and took him to jail. All efforts to secure details of the alleged crime have been unavailing. office in West Broadway early Sunday and from the nature of the situation ; ing out of a treaty with them in 1851, none is expected. It also is asserted under which the government agreed that the American government has no intention of addressing Japan or any other power on the subject at this time, or when the battleship ‘fleet reaches its destination. Bound to Come. Lisbon.—The greatest precautfons | are being observed in Lisbon to insure the maintenance of order. It ts evident that the government fears an outbreak of some kind, but up to the present time no disturbances have Body Thought to Have Been His Had been reported. The soldiers are be Been identified and Buried by ing kept in their barracks. Relatives — Alleged Slayer The political situation in which the Proves Alibi. government finds itself today is extremely critical, and there is much Fairfax, Mo—When Jacob A. Funk uneasiness as to the outcome. The alighted from a train at Skidmore, government is fairly caught between Nodaway county, and greeted and was two fires, the renewal of the popular recognized by his old friends he was agitation for increased liberties om as one who arose from the dead, and| the Ν one hand and the reactionary concould also have enacted the part of spiracy on the other, and it seems Enoch Arden, for the “Philip Ray” to be trying to fight both at the same and his wife still reside in the town. time. A prominent politician who He could even have done something was involved with the reactionaries more startling than this. He could has been sent out of the country have been taken to the cemetery and to the Azores. The government is been shown the grave in which his considering a plan which includes the body was supposed to have been laid postponement of the general elecmore than a dozen years ago. He did tions fixed for April, and in their not do this, but left on the first train stead to summon the parliament that for Maryville, where he suddenly apwas dissolved last year “peared before his sister, Mrs. D. S. The situation at Setubal is reportHolmes, who felt that she was coned to be critical and the gunboat fronted by one from another world. Zaire has been dispatched to that The story that forms the basis of port. these surprises and complications is a somewhat peculiar one, dating back PERJURY CAUSED CONVICTION. 14 years. Im the spring of 1894 Jacob A. Funk, 34 years old, and Frank Bohemian Fortune Teller May Yet Ridge, who was a few years younger, Escape the Gallows. were farming on shares near SkidChicago.— Eighteen-year-old Jerry more. Early in April Funk left home in a rickety road cart, ostensibly for M. V. Vzral; whose testimony more ‘he purpose of buying seed potatoes. than any other person’s served to He did not return, and after many convict the Bohemian fortune teller, Herman Billik, of the murder of six Gays his friends decided that he had left the country, or that he had been members of the Vzral family, bas, it a 1 killed. A search revealed nothing, and| is announced, recanted, and in an afin August Ridge disposed of his share | fidavit declares that the testimony was simply perjury. of the crop to the mother of the miss Billik is under sentence to be ingeman and went to Kansas City. More than a year passed, and early hanged March 20, The supreme court last week affirmed the judgment, dein December, 1895, fragments of a hu stroying the man’s last chance unless man body were found hanging to a tree in a ravine in Atchison county, Governor Deneen shall issue @ parabout six miles west of Skidmore. don Not only does the Vzral boy imOther bones, an old valise and some ugn his own evidence, but he depieces of clothing were found on the ground nearby. Attention was at clares two of his relatives also lied. once directed to the disappearance of In the affidavit the boy states that Funk, and some of his relatives were all the vital part of the testimony sure that the body was his. His aged | he gave against Billik at the trial father said that he could recognize | was perjury that was taught him by a high police official and an assistant | state’s attorney. New York.—An Italian bomb explo sion similar in character to many which have taken place in this city within a year occurred in Brooklyn on Monday, when Peter Locato’s music store in Morgan avenue was wrecked. Laocato had received many so-called Black Hand letters, but, having refused to pay for intmunity, his store was first blown up last spring. In December last another bomb was Denver —Father Leo Heinrichs was left on the steps and the windows and Washington—The strength of the der his control and not under that of United States treasury at the present parliament, as it was | time was commented upon in the agreed. In addition, he asks that $50,house on Wednesday by Mr. Boutell 000,000 be placed at his disposal to | of [linois. He said he had just been carry out various projects. informed by Treasurer Treat that for It is understood that the governthe first time the gold coin and bullion | ment is firmly resisting these de in the United States had reached and mands and is determined, if it bepassed the sum of one thousand mil- comes necessary, to resign, which, as lion dollars, “an event so extraordi- King Leopold could not under such nary,” he said, “that it will be chron- circumstances find any one to form a icled and commented upon with sur- new ministry, it is pointed out, would mean elections that would be bound | prise and amazement in every finanto result in the return of a majority | cial center in the world;, an event | most hostile to the king. which all citizens of our republic, | without regard to party affiliation, Negro Runs Amuck and Kills Chief of | nay well contemplate with satisfac | Police. tion and pride." Fayetteville, N. C—Chief of Police ' 1 Benton of this city was shot dead in Attack Crane and: Mondell Bills. front of his home uere Sunday, just a of one Washington.—Number after the churches had been let out. publication called “The People’s LobWednesday by a negro, Sam Murchison, crazed appeared by Bulletin,” with drink. The man also shot two and contained an attack upon the granting negroes a few minutes before he shot bills Crane and Mondell the chief Murchison was captured | rights of way and location for electric an hour after the shooting and placed light and power purposes through pub- In jail. He is suffering with a wound | The executive committee in the thigh inflicted by Chief Ben- | lic lands. of the people’s lobby has among its ton’s 16-year-old son, who, just after members Francis J. Heney, San Fran- his father was shot, seized the dead ciseo; Lincoln Steffens, New York; officer’s pistol and pursued the murA crowd gathered and tried Ben B. Lindsey, Denver; John Mitch- derer. ell, Indianapolis, and Mark Twain, of to take Murchison from the officers and lynch him, but the prisoner was New York. landed in a cell after a hard struggle. Coal Miners Are still Idle. Couldn’t Blufi Mine Manager, Silverton, ment in Denver Church. that King Leopold has taken back all merly Seen Only by Convicts. ments to Pay He Was Administering Sacra- prove St. Petersburg.—The emigration to Siberia this year is expected to assume unprecedented proportions, The colonization department of the ministry of agriculture, whose agents throughout Russia have finished their preliminary investigation of the situation and are preparing to cope with a rush of 16,000 homeseekers, has elaborated, in co-operation with the ministry of railroads, detailed plans for the transportation of colonists το their new homes on special trains The bulk of the emigrants will be forwarded between March 2 and May 28, the last trainioad leaving for the east on June 28. Over 7,500,000 acres of land in all parts of Siberia have been surveyed and are in readiness for the colonists. The land has been An Uprising of Armed Revolutionists Brooklyn Man Who Had Refused Father Heinrichs Shot and Killed as Imorovements, mother, in order to reassure her and BOUND Property Destroyed Was Owned by € Ex- contracted through contact with postage stamps while she was engaged as an assistant in the Norfolk postOffice. The disease is exceedingly painful, and the hospital surgeons are at a loss to account"or it, but belleve it to be the result of poisoning. testininy brought out in the trial of Ridge, some mystery seems to be connected with Funk. Since his return he talks freely, only he refuses to explain why he left so suddenly, merely saying that he “had a cause for it.” He also re- All for Love of an Actress. fuses to tell Where he has been and Philadelphia.—Frederick J. Brinnier, who says he is a son of William Brinnier, a former law partner of Al- what he has been doing. It in some way came out that he had been living in Iowa for the last six years, and it ton B. Parker of New York, and lives is apparent that he has been prosper- in Kingston, N. Y., attempted suicide ous. His reticence extends not only to his warmest friends, but ot his nearest relatives. | The fact being fully established by| his return that the body found hanging in Atchison county was not that | of Funk, the question as to who it was who was hanged or who committed suicide, is being asked. | | in a hotel here Sunday by shooting himself. Brinnier, who is about 24 years old, came here a week ago and registered at a hate) largely patronized by theatrical people. He told the detectives he followed an actress here and that she left Saturday with her company. Brinnier is in a criti. eal condition |
