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Show [ΠΠ BILL RAILWAY. HORROR HOUSEWRECKED. ΠΛΗΝ SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT [YNAMITERS ney General That From Death, a Boy Being the Only One Injured as Resuit of Explosion. Oakland.—An evident attempt was made upon the life of J. L. Gallagher, one of the main witnesses for the prosecution in the San Francisco bribery cases, at the home of William H . Schenck, his brother-in-law, in Oak jand, on Wednesday night, when a huge bomb placed in the porch ex ploded and tore away the whole front | | of the house. Gallagher was upstairs with his wife at the time, and Schenck was in a rear room with hris wife απὰ four children and Dr Guy Brown. All esraped but one boy, who was hit in the neck by a flying missile That none was killed was little short of a miracle Gallagher's hat was | pierced by a splinter, and taken away as a souvenir. The house was com pletely wrecked The report was heard all over Qak jand, and many windows in the neighborhood were broken and a post be fonging to the porch was hurled 100 feet away. Gallagher was a membei of the board of supervisors of San Francisco who confessed to receiving bribes He was chairman of the finance committee and, according to! his testimony, acted as an intermed iary between Abraham Ruef and the members of the board Bendigo Train Crashes Into Rear End of Ballarat Train, Fortyone People Being Killed. Wreckage Took Fire and Many of the Bodies Were Unrecognizable When Recovered—injured Rescued With Difficulty. provision is made applicable to car riers in the territories, the District of Columbia, the Panama canal zone and other possessions of the United States the rear of the Ballarat train. in equipment. This Five It is provided that in any action ears of the latter train were wrecked. brought under the provisions of the |The wreckage took fire and was -albill the injured employe shal] not be most completely consumed. held to have assumed the risk of his Many of the bodies were unrecog employment in any case where the violation by the carrier of any statute nizable when recovered The Bendigo train suffered but enacted for the safety of employes engines contributed to the injury or death of little daamge, but the twe the employe. Anycontract, rule, reg were piled up on top of the rear ulation or device to enable the carrier coaches of the other train. Terrible to exempt itself from liability under scenes followed, many of the injured the act is rendered void by a specific being caught in the wreckage and declaration to that end. Provision is were with difficulty rescued. It was made, however, that the carrier shall receive eredit for any contribution a long time before doctors and nurses made to the empleye or his family in arrived on the scene, and as a consesuffering prevailed the form of insurance, relief, benefit quence intense or indemnity. An action for the re among the injured. covery Of damages must be commenced within two years frdém the TRAPPED BY BRIGANDS. date of the causeof the suit. In his opinion the attorney general Russian Expeditionary Force in Perindicates that the bill is confined in sia Surrounded by Tribesmen. its scope to “commoncarriers byrailTiflis—An alarming report has just road,” as distinguished from the act declared unconstitutional by the su- been received here setting forth the preme court, which embraced “all critical situation of a small Russian ommon carriers engaged in interstate expeditionary force in Persia, which ommerce and foreign commerce.” is menaced by a vastly superior body fhe attorney general then shows of Persian brigands. The Russian WILL NOT WAR WITH CASTRO. through court decisions and constitutroops penetrated the frontier in the ional interpretations that this restric. Public Sentiment Not in Favor of tion does not make the act repugnant neighborhood of Belesuvar in pursuit comτ "ιο constitution, but is in line with of Kurdish brigands who had Punitive Measures Against Venetate statutes which have been upheld mitted depredations in Russian terrizuela. | tory. The. Russian commander of the in the highest tribunals. | Washington.—Administration offi | ferce has sent out a message demandcials have practically abandoned the AFTER THE EXPRESS COMPANIES | ing reinforcements of infantry, artilexpectation that the senate will at this lery and cavalry. The Persians, who Prohibiting Them From have been joined by a warlike tribe session of congress authorize the Injunction punitive Transporting Property on Franks. president to take measures of nomads, surround the Russians with against Venezuela for her refusal to} Chicago.—Judge Kohlsaat in the | a numerous force, and their horsemen refer to arbitration the disputed United States cireut court issued an | have assumed the offensive. The send claims of American citizens and cor- injunction against the National, Amer- ing of Russian reinforcements is porations against that country. difficult by the ican, Wells-Fargo, United States and made particularly the papers in the case are before the | Adams Express companies restraining | flooded condition of the country. senate committee on foreign relations, them from issuing express franks and and ample time has been given for a from transporting property RACE WAR IN TENNESSEE. in interthorough consideration of the matter. state commerce in exchange for White Woman Uses Shotgun in Fight Public opinion as to the merits of the | franks. With Negroes. controversy has not developed to any The court declares that issuance of | | great extent, the officials say, a8 a Te-| franks by the companies is a violation | Memphis, Tenn.—Mrs. James sult of the publication of this corre- | of the interstate commerce law. FedWright of this city on Monday shot spondence, and for this reason the senate committee probably does not} feel justified in acting, Persons or | firms having commercial interests in| Venezuela which would be adversely affected by punitive measures : . have | urged that nothing be done, while no sentiment has developed in favor ot} drastic action. | eral District Attorney Sims regards | the decision of special importancefor | the reason that the cases against the | express companies depended largely | upon the construction placed upon the passes contained restriction against in the railroad rate law. The suits | were brought, Mr. Sims said, to settle questions growing out of the applica- and killed Leila Gordon, a negro woman. Mrs. Wright used a single-barreled shotgun. She then reloaded the weapon and started in pursuit of Mary Davis, another negro woman. She shot at her once after a chase ol nearly a block, but the charge went wild. tion of interstate commerce laws to | The homicide followed a desperate express companies. struggle between white and negro Gompers Says Labor Forced Little- women, in which Mrs, John Wright, a sister-in-law of Mrs. James Wright, field to Retire From Congress. who lives with her, received a bad New York.—That the resignation of beating at the hands of the Davis and Congressman Littlefield of Maine, Gordon women. A quarrel over the which was recently announced, was| children of the white woman being forced by the campaign made against stopped from playing with some negro by organized | children living in the vicinity led to him several years ago jabor was asserted on Thursday he| the fight. President Samuel Gompers, of the Advocate Fire and Sword. | Medicine Hat, Alberta—At the trial of the nine members of the sect | known as “Dreamers,” for burning | John Lehr’s home, south of here, the destimony revealed that members ot | the order had to obey the instruc-| tions of the leader who ordered his} followers to destroy Lehr’s home and slay his family at midnight because| Lehr refused to join the congrega- | Michael | American Federation of Labor. “When tion and was a_ heretic. Mr. Brost’s testimony was the most sen-| jabor made its protest against ittlefield he said he would be electHe said the members of sational. the sect believed in destroying all| ed to congress again,” said Mr. Gom.| who did not agree with them, and | pers, “and he was elected again, but || that he knew of acts of incendiarism his prestige began to decline and now | he ig to leave congress and retire to} committed by them private life.” President’s Son Takes Trip in a Bal- | Forty-two Bodies Found. loon. Melbourne, Australia.—Forty-two Washington —Theodore Roosevelt, the | bodies have been taken out of Jr., the president’s son, had his first wreck caused by the collision April | experience as an aeronaut on Wednes19 of two trains from Ballarat and day, ascending from the. navy yard Bendigo, respectively, at Braybrook jn this city at 1:40 o'clock in the Junction, about eight miles from Mel- | afternoon and landing four miles from bourne. It is believed that several Delaware City at 5:30 p. m., having traversed 135 miles in three hours others are still buried under the deand forty minutes. Accompanied by bris. The number of persons injured his fellow sky travelers, Captain is placed at eighty-six. Many of the Chandler, pilot, and Captain Fitzhugh victims had entered the Ballarat train Lee, the president’s aide, young at Braybrook and were just about set- | | Roosevelt returned to Washington tling in their seats when the crash | shortly after midnight. came. | May Call Extra Session. Albany.—All probability of the antiracetrack gambling bills being called up again in the senate before the close of the regular session disappeared Wednesday, when Senator Foelker of Kings, who voted for the bills, was excused on the ground of illness from further attendance. With Senator Foelker absent the friends of the bill could not hope to muster more| than twenty-four votes, against twen- | ty-five in opposition. It fs expected that Governor Hughes will call the legislature in extra session to meet about May 12 Attempt to Secure Thaw’s Release. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—The first step toward the release of H. SUPPLY MEASURE PASSED. Agricultural Appropriation Bill Car. ries $11,642,146. Washington—The senate committee Monday practically from the Matteawan asylum for the | completed consideration of the peninsane has been taken. James G. | sion papropriation bill. It will carry Graham of Newburg, of Thaw’s coun- | about $162,000,000, an increase of $12,sel, has made application to Justice | 600,000 over the house bill, having Morschauser at White Plains for an | been made to carry out the provisions | of the widows’ pension bill, which kas | been enacted. The house bill was | amended so as to eliminate the pro| vision for abolishing pension agencies aoe the country and consolidating | the work of the agencies under the | bureau in this city. Bubonic Plague in Venezuela. | Father John to be Prosecuted. San Francisco.—As the result of the Caracas, Venezuela.—The preva- | St. Petersburg.—The authorities of work of robbers operating in the Chi- lence and continuance of a suspicious | St. Petersburg have decided upon the nese section, two Chinese women, Ah || epidemic at La Guaira, which has prosecution of the leaders of the no- Fing and Lee Moy, lie near death, = caused a number of deaths, has de- torious Johannite sect, whose cided some steamship companies not to admit passengers from that port, richer. The men twisted insulated not to copper wire about the throats of the | while others have resolved Chinese women, bound their heads | have their vessels call there at all. iy covered from the police, are $700 | tightly together with the same ma-| This malady has been described as their | perniciows fever. Dr. Peraza, a local terial, tied them securely in beds with the same pliable binding physician, diagnosed the disease some For and then sealed their lips with a months ago as bubonic plague. this hea was at once thrown into jail. quick-drying cement to prevent out Monday, however, he was liberated. cries. Washington.—The McCall campaign publicity bill was unanimously recommended to the house for passage on Tuesday, by the committee on election on president, vice president and representatives in congress. Though introduced by a Republican, the report had the undivided support of the Democratic members of the committee and of the national publicity law organization. It was the subject of much spirited discussion in the com. mittee, and the action in recommending the bill for passage caused jubilation among the minority of the house and some surprise on the Republican side, the Republican chairman of the committee, Mr. Gaines (W. Va.), having recently expressed himself as opposed to some of the provisions of the measure, The bill provides that “all contribtuions hereafter made to political campaigns engaged in promotion of the election of representatives or delegates to the congress of the United States or of presidential electors at any election at which reprepresentatives or delegates shall be voted for shall be reported by such committees to the clerk of the house of represent atives.” The bill was so amended that any person may, in connection with such election, pay from his own private funds for the purpose of controlling or influencing in two or more states the result of an election at which representatives in congress are to be elected, all his traveling expenses. He may pay for stationery and postage and for telegraph and telephone service without being subject to the provisions of the act. TO PREVENT LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Newspaper Must Not Solicit Sale of intoxicants in Oklahoma. tuthrie, Okla—Half a dozen Okla homa, Missouri and Texas newspapers, together with numerous Kansag City, Chicago, Dallas and other wholesale liquor houses, brewing companies and distilling companies and local news stand agencies, are made defendants in a suit filed here on Tuesday in the district court by. Attorney General West in behalf of the state and under the direction of Governor Haskell, to restrain the newspapers from publishing advertisements solic. iting the sale of intoxicating liquors in this state, the liquor houses solicit: ing business in the staie, and re straining the newsdealers from the selling or placing of newspapers or magazines containing these advertise ments in view of the public. The State, in its petition, alleges that the newspaper defendants are guilty of violating the Oklahoma prohibition law on April 19 by printing such advertisements. SOLDIERS DID THE SHOOTING. Conclusion of Senator Warner garding Brownsville Affair. Washington.—Calling attention to the Grand Army button he wore on the lapel of his coat and insisting that he had no prejudice against negro soldiers, some of whom he claimed as comrades, Senator Warner of Missouri, in the senate on Tuesday, de- clared his conviction that the town of Brownsville, Texas, had been shot up by negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry in 1906. Mr. Warner quoted extensively from the testimony taken in the Brownsville case and presented an argument to sustain his belief in the guilt of the negro soldiers. LABOR TROUBLE IN CANADA. Will Increase Pensions. Strang'e Women and Stole Jewels. their assailants, their tracks complete- | Demand for Italian Postoffices in Washington.—The agricultural apDiscuss Legislative Program. propriation bill, which was reported Washington.—At a meeting of the to the senate on Monday by the committee on agriculture, carries a sum Republican steering committee in the the legislative not so great as has been voted in pre- senate on Tuesday. vious years—$11,642,146, an increase program was discussed, bvt no deof $133,340 over the amount of the cision was reached to add any importbill as it was passed by the house. ant measures to those destined for enThe senate committee recommended actment at the present session of eonan appropriation of $10,000 for co-oper- regress. In regard to currency legislaation between the department of agri- tion it was stated that if the house culture and the reclamation service in passed a bill providing for a commisdemonstrating the feasibility of crop sion to investigate financial matters production on lands under the latter the senate would immediately upon reservice. Another item of $10,000 was ceipt of the measure vote to add the recommended for the purpose of se- Aldrich currency bill, with a view of whole subject into concuring hardy forage plants from Si- putting the ference, beria for use on the northern portion of the great plains area. K. Thaw |On pensions on order directing the superintendent of the asylum to permit Thaw to sign a formal application for a writ of habeas corpus. The order was granted, and when Thaw has made the application he will probably be brought betore a justice for a hearing. | Four Lives Known to Have Been Lost All Campaign Contributions for Elec- ed to Clerk of the House. Melbourne, Australia—Two trains from Ballarat and Bendigo, respective ly, collided late at night at Braybook Junction, about eight miles from Melbourne, forty-one persons being killed and sixty injured. The Bendigo train, with two heavy engines, crashed into or insuffelency ΠΝ TURKEY ACCEDES: ΤΗΠΡ FROM HOMES. BY FLOOD REQUEST OF ITALY tion of Congressmen to be Report- Was Washington.—President Roosevelt on Wednesday signed the employers hability bill upon receiving an opin ion from Attorney General Bonaparte that the measure was constitutional. The bill. makes railroads or other common carriers, while engaged in interstate commerce, liable for the injury or death of an employe if the injury or death results in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents or employes of suca carriers or by reason of any defect House Completely Wrecked and FamEscape Measure Not Repugnant to Constitution. Attempt Made to Assassinate Main Witness in the San Francisco Bribery Cases. ily Have Narrow IN AUSTRAL First Received Assurance From Attor- CAMPAGHPUBLICITY BILL FAVORED BY COMMITTEE Canadian Pacific Posts Open Shop No- lent, and the designations of the apostles, and they are to be thoroughly investigated. Fort Worth, Tex.—Another rise of three feet in Clear and West Fork forced thousands of persons to flee from their homes in East Fort Worth Fleet Was About to Depart for Turkey When Official Communication Arrived Which Puts an End to Talk of War. on Saturday. So far as known four persons have lost their lives. The rise was so rapid that people were obliged to leave their furniture and personal effects. At least 3,000 persons have been rendered homeless, Rome.—Turkey has acceded to the Italian demand for Italian postoffices in Turkish territory in order to avoid a naval demonstration in her waters. Turkey has communicated officially to the Italian government that it does not object to Italy establishing postoffices in the Turkish cities where the other powers have like institutions. Furthermore, the porte has practically acknowledged the other Italian claims in the matter of the right of Italians freely to purchase property in Turkish territory and with regard to coast navigation. As a result of these concessions the Italian government has issued orders to the fleet that was about to depart for Turkey to remain in Italian waters, and the incident is regarded as closed. Constantinople—The difficulty with Italy regarding the opening of postoffices has been arranged. The Turkish government has recognized Italy’s right to the same treatment in this respect as is enjoyed by the other powers, and no furt! r objection will be raised to the estavlishment of Italian postoffices in five cities in which postoffices of the other powers already exist, Paris.—Discussing the Italian demands on Turkey, the Eclair says that the real meaning of the incident is that dark days are ahead for the sultan on account of the Macedonian and other vexing questions. The paper foresees the working out of the historic law that is slowly pushing the Turks into Asia. Memorial Services in the House. Washington.—Memorial services were conducted on Sunday in tne house of representatives for the late Representative George W. Smith of Illinois. It is the first time in two weeks the proceedings were opened with prayer, the house during that period having principally been in con- tinuous session. Those who paid tribute to Mr. Smith’s memory were Messrs. Thistlewood, Rodenberg, Chapman, Louder and Graff (ΠΙ.), Russell (Mo.), Chaney Steenerson (Minn.). (Ind.) and Burned to Death in Jail. Seneca, Kan.—James Lally, charged with murder, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the jail here early Saturday. When the fire was discovered the sheriff found Lally unconscious in his cell and carried him out. He is believed to have set fire to his bed with suicidal intent. Lally was awaiting trial on the charge of having killed Herbert Jordan, a newspaper man and former secretary to former Governor W. J. Bailey of Kansas, in Sabetha the night of February 14. and all streams are still rising. road service is badly crippled. Rail- North Fort Worth is isolated and 500 houses are submerged. Mineral City, near Weatherford, is under water, and Cleburne, south of here, on the Santa Fe, is surrounded by the flood. Engneer Long and his fireman were found dead under their engine. Their train left the track in a washout a mile north of Cle burne. The fiood sufferers have been provided with shelter. Crops over a large area have been destroyed, and the estimated loss will reach over half a million dollars. OUTRAGES IN MANCHURIA. Neither Russian Nor Jap Prospects Rights of European Residents. London.—A, correspondent of the Reuter News agency, writing of conditions in Harbin and Mukden, says: “During a recent tour in Manchuria I visited Harbin. A remarkable state of affairs exists there. The Russian town is governed and dominated by a private railway company, the Chinese Eastern Railway company, the chairman of which styles himself the ‘eivil governor.’ The government the company is not regarded as satisfactory. Neither life nor property is safe, and it is as much as a man’s life is worth to venture out after dark.” “One of the chief things which strikes the visitor to Mukden and south Manchuria is that the Japanese who are pouring into that country are not by any means of the right class During the war the Chinese and oth ers looked on the Japanese as their saviors and welcomed them; but later experiences have changed all that. In the streets one sees many Japanese drunk and disorderly, and their behavior to Europeans is often ove of open insult.” Much Money in New York Banks. New York.—Growing ease and ple- {ποτα of funds in the New York money market was the marked feature ot the financial situation last week. With the mid-monthly disbursement of dividends a one and one-quarter per cent interest rate was found necessary to effect the placing of funds on call, and ninety-day loans fell below 2 per cent. The beginning of exports of gold was the natural consequence of this condition, and a call from the United States treasury for the return of an installment of government depesits is not expected to have any material effect in stiffening money Tates. REWARDS ROUGH RIDER. President Appoints One of Heroes of San Juan as Marshal. Horsethief Captured. Salt Lake City—After hiding for two years in the “Hole-in-the-Wall” country, thirty miles west of Green River, Emery county, Utah, Oscar E. Wells, alias Lorell Gruell, an alleged Oregon horsethief, was captured on Saturday by Deputy SSeriff Axel Η. Steele of Salt Lake, Sheriff Pace of Emery county and Sheriff Robert Odell of Vale, Ore. He was brought to Salt Lake and later departed in custody of Sheriff Odell for Oregon, to stand trial for his alleged crimes. Landed in Jail Before He Had Committed Any Crime. San Francisco.—T. C. Diffenbacher is confined in the city prison pending investigation. There is no specific charge against him. Diffenbacher admits that he is a “wire tapper,” and has beaten the pool rooms out of large sums of money, but he claims that the business is a legitimate one. Washington—The president has nominated Guy Murchie of Boston to be United States marshal of Massae.usetts. Murchie served with the rough riders in the Cuban campaign. €'ace the war he has been prominent jn the state militia, and was appointed on the staff of Governor Guild last year as an alde de camp, with the rank of captain. In February, 1907, President Roosevelt officiated as. father for his child. god- Tobacco Trust Will Take Its Chances. New York.—There is absolutely no foundation whatever for a report that the American Tobacco company is about to be voluntarily dissolved, ac- cording to a statement made on Saturday by Caleb C. Dula, vice president of the company. Mr. Dula’s statement was made after the return to this city of James B. Duke, after a visit to California. Mr. Duke declared that the He said: “I came to California for. investigation of the company’s affairs my health, but frankly 1 would have by the government kas resulted in aone a job here if the opportunity had showing “unmistakably that the compresented itself.” He has committed pany has not in any respect violated no offense against the law since com- the anti-trust law,” or any other law, ing here. Caucus on Currency Bill. Two Men Killed and Two Wounded in Winnipeg.—The Canadian Pacific railway on Tuesday posted an open shop notice in all shops operated by the company from Fort William to Vancouver. Four thousand mechanics Pistol Duel. publican leaders of the house which Warrensburg, Mo—James Ryan, chief of police, and Byron Hall, son had been tentatively called for Tuesday evening, was postponed on account of the delay in reporting the sundry civil appropriation bill. It is are affected. At the same time me- chanics in the shops from Fort. William to Montreal abrogated an agreement with the company preparatory to joining the other shopmen in a federation of allegiance to fight the open shop rule of the company. Shot at President of Guatemala. Guatemala City, Guatemala—An attempt was made on the life of President Estrada Cabrera in this city national palace to give an audience to the recently appointed American min- Dozens of men and women who sur- ister, Mr. Heinke, when students fired round the supposed saint have as- at him. The students were immedi- sumed such sacrilegious titles as the Holy Ghost, the Virgin, Mary Magda- Causing Naval Demonstration tice, Four Thousand Being Affected. ρτᾶς- Monday, but the attempt was not suctices have brought the name of cessful. The president was on his Father John of Kronstadt into evil re- way from his private residence to the pute in the eyes of all Russians, excepting possibly the lowest classes. Turkish Territory Came Near and 3,000 Persons Made Homeless by High Waters. ately surrounded by loyal troops and made prisoners. The situation at pres- ent is under the control of the military element of J. E. Hall, α near Warrensburg, James E. wounded farmer, were killed Basham and Sunday night living and Robert Polin a_ pistol duel in the corridor of the Estes hotel. The three officers were attempting to take an automatic revolver from Hall, when he shot all three. The officers returned the fire and Hall was shot twice. Steamer Collides With Float. New York—The steamer North Star of the Maine steamship line, was seriously damaged in a collision with a loaded car float in Hell Gate Saturday night, while bound in from Portland, Me., with between eighty and 100 passengers on board. A big hole was stove in the steamer’s side, but she was able to proceed to her dock under her own steam. None of the crew or passengers were injured. The collision resulted from a congestion of trafic passage. in the narrow, tide swept Washington—The caucus of Re considered desirable that this bill shall have immediate attention when reported, and that no other measure, such as a financial or currency bill, should be brought in even by a Republican caucus in advance of this important supply measure. Secretary of the Interior Approves Segregation of Twin Falls Lands.. Washington —The commissioner of the general land office on Saturday last notified Senator Borah that he had recommended to the secretary of the interior for approval idaho segregation lists covering 80,000 acres of land in the south side Twin Falls irrigation project being conducted under the Carey land act. The recommendation οἱ the commissioner usually ie equivalent to approval of such lists, and this is expected will be the case in the Idaho lists. |