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Show = A REMINDER OF FRONTIER UFE) LABOR LEADERS CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT OF COUAT be Two Heavily Armed Masked Men Hold up Stage Between Likely and Alturas, Nevada. Large Sum of Goid Intended for Min-| ers is Taken, But Highwaymen Refrained From Molesting the Reno, Nev.—News reached the Jour mal Tuesday night from Likely, Nev., that the Likely and Alturas stage was held up by two masked men, who were heavily armed. They compelled the Wells-Fargo messenger to throw down the box containing, tis believed, a large sum of gold for the payroll at Alturas. The passengers were not molested. No description of the bandits could be given, as it was dark, and after securing the box the bandits slunk int othe woods. The sheriff at Alturas aud a posse Started in pursuit. have ceoretary Frank Morrison of that or- ganization, and John Mitchell of the executive council and former presiAmerica, to appear in court on Sep tember 8 next to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of the court’s injunction order The citation is based on a petition of the Buek Stove & Range company of St. Louis, which alleges that an or. der issued by Justice Gould forbidding a national boycott by the Ameriean Federation of Labor has been viojated by the public utterances and ad- dresses of the three labor leaders named. TROUSLES FOR AN ARISTOCRAT. Member of One of New York’s Oldest Families Threatens Mother With Death York.—John Van Rensselaer, Soldiers Had to be Paid. son of Mrs, John King Van Rensselaer, and a member of one of New York's Porto Cortez—It now develops that the delay in moving troops to suppress the uprising at different points oldest families, was taken into custody on Monday on a charge of attempted extortion. The arrest was in Honduras was due to the fact that made on advices from Chief of Polico the treasury of the government was absolutely empty. The soldiers το. fused to march until money and pro- Crowley of Newport, R. L, who re ceived a complaint from Mrs. Van visions were furnished them, and tu these desperate straits the govern ment was forced to dispose of its most valuable piece of property, name- ly, the Honduras Inter-Iceanic rail road, W. S. Valentine had the railroad under lease for a number of years under a contract to extend it from ocean to ocean, a contract that was guaranteed by prominent New York capitalists. When the contract was not fulfilled, the property was turned over to the It is now under. stood that it has reverted to the same interests that controlled it prior Rensselaer that her son had written a letter threatening her with bodily harm unless she provided him with funds. Van Rensselaer is 34 years old and married. Van Rensselaer is connected with a local brokerage house and when he returned to his home Monday night he was placed under arrest by detectives, who produced the letter alleged to have been written by Van Rensselaer to his mother, The detectives and Lieutenant Man- nion, before whom Van Rensselaer was brought in the police station, declared that the young man stated that he had written the letter. RUSSIAN ADMIRAL DEAD. to 1904. DEPUTIES AND MINERS CLASH. One Negro Killed and Two Officers Badly Injured. Birmingham, Ala—A clash between deputy sheriffs and negro miners in the Blue Grass region, twenty miler south of Birmingham, on the Birmingham mineral division of the Louisville & Nashville railway on Tuesday, ee in one negro being shot and Wounds Received in War With Japan Finally Prove Fatal. Badnahuelm, Germany.—Vice Ad- miral Rojestvensky, who commanded the ill-fated Russian fleet which was annihilated by the Japanese in the Sea of Japan in May, 1905, died here ‘place. When they had grabbed the moneytill and emptiedit, had finished Boylston Cooperstown, N. Y.—Henry Codman Potter, seventh Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of New York, died Tuesday night at the Fernle'gh, his summer home here, after an {lk ness of several weeks, aged 74 years. The bishop was unconscious all day, and the end, which came at 735 o'clock at night, was peaceful and quiet. Death was due primarily to embolism in the right leg, following 5 long attack of liver and stomach trou ach trouble, and the end had been foreseen for several days by the bishop's physician, Standard Oi! Appeais. Chicago.—A decision on the appeal of the Standard Oil company of Indiana from the fine of $29,440,000 imposed by Judge K. M. Landis nearly a year ago will be handed down by Jndges Grosseup, Baker and Seaman, whe reviewed the case in the United States court of appeals. The fine was the outcome of a trial which lasted six weeks, based on indictments charging the Standard Oil company of Indiana with having accepted rebates on shiyments of oi] from Whiting, Ind., to St. Louwls over the Chicago & Alton railroad, the foreign and the native press. La Patria on Sunday printed an ar ticle in which it proclaims the time ripe for a policy whose cry shall be “Mexico for the Mexicans.” Most of the tirade is directed against the “Yankees,” a term of con tempt used by Mexican editors in de scribing Americans. Among other things La Patria de clares that if Americans think the gov trnments of Argentine, Chile or Brazi more enlightened than that of Mex ico they should journey to those parts the sooner the better. After referring to the efforts on the part of foreigners against the pro posed new mining law restricting in corporations in Mexico, the pape says: “We repeat our attitude toward for eigners. We are not Boxers, but! CORPORATION CONTRIBUTIONS. patriots, and when we take a given direction, we take it not against for Will Not Be Accepted by National eigners, but for the benefit of Mexico.’ Republican Committee, Says Taft. SITUATION ΙΝ PERSIA. | killed and two Mexican bystanders were wounded. James Duncan, a colored bartender at the Harvey house, is under afrest for murder. It Modern Dick Turpin Uses Automo- bile to Commit Robberies. Chicago.—Edward Fake, alias Steb- bins, alleging himself to be the son of a rich San Francisco woman, and George Stafford of Louisville, Ky., were indicted on Mondayas. a consequence of spectacular robberies com- mitted with the assistance of a large red automobile The method of the two men Was to drive up to the home selected for their depredation, comport themselves as familiar callers and then escape with whatever loot they had been able to gather. Nail in Woman’s Shoe Causes Explosion in Powder Factory. Jersey City, N. J—Mrs. Josephine Faho was fatally burned in the powder and fireworks factory of John Fipipo, owing to a nail in her shoe striking @ Spark which ignited some powder. Her husband is employed in the place, and after taking him his luncheon she was walking about the building. The burned powder set fire to her dress and before Faho could peals for the Seventh district, the fa mous case of the government against the Standard Oil company of Indiana, in which the latter was fined $29,240,000 by Judge Landis in the district court, must be retried, The court of appeals differs with the trial court on three points, holding that Judge Landis excluded evidence for the Standard Oi! company of Indiana which should have been ad- from Danger of Shah’s Troops Being Driver | Hot Springs, Ark.—"“The |ed to murder the American foreman and his wife, was captured Friday at Toll Gate by a sheriff's posse, in Plumas county, after a sharp fight. Finding himself intercepted and his retreat cut off, Jules opened fire upon the posse with the rifle with which he had shot Antonio Liberatoes and Giovanni Puccini in the Western Pa eific camp. He was quickly surrounded and after many shots were exchanged, finding that he could not break through the cordon about him, surrendered to the officers. To pre vent a lynching the prisoner was hurried to Oroville and placed in jail. MULTI-MURDERER HANGED. mitted to show proper intent in the rate the company paid on cil; that he erred in considering each car lot a Frank separate offense, and fiat in imposing | court. a Negro, Makes Being Executed. Moundsville, W. Va—Frank Johnson, a negro, was hanged late Friday at the West Virginia penitentiary in this place for the murder of Mrs. Beulah Martin at Gypsy, W. Va., on March 3 last. The execution was without special incident, and death came nine minutes after the drop “It is strange doctrine,” says the opinion, “whereunder a million dollars corporation such as the defendant, the Standard Oil company of Indiana, may be fined twenty-nine times the amount of its capital stock in or der to punish a defendant not even un: der indictment. By this latter is meant the parent company, the Standard Oil company of New Jersey.” This decision, concurred in by national Johnson, Startling Confession Before the maximum fine for a first offense he abused the discretion vested in his tepublican committee will accept no contributions from corporations,” said Judge William H. Taft, presidential candidate of the Republican party, on Saturday, and in an interview he also referred to labor, prohi- fell. A sensational feature of John- son’s last day was a confession made to the chaplain of the prison, the Rev. H. B. Sanford, in which he said he had committed five murders during his career, “It is all right to hang Judges Baker and Seaman, was de livered here Wednesday by Judge Grosscup, who wrote the opinion. me; I deserve to be hanged,” he told The government has thirty days the clergyman who had come to him within which to file a petition for a re- to administer to his spiritual needs. | hearing, and it was announced Wed- Johnson then gave the names and ture, except as indicating that Rachin | bition and other questions. Mr. Taft | nesday afternoon that it will be filed eddresses, so far as he knew them, of said that not only would the law of Khanstill has the upper hand in Ta | the five persons he said he had within the allotted period. briz. || New York s.ate, providing for the killed. From Tabriz. | London.—The news from Persia; | coming by different routes, is of αἱ rather onfusing and conflicting na | contributions, According to the Daily Mail special| publicity of campaign dispatch from Teheran, the political | be obeyed by the national Republican side of the revolt in Tabriz for the! committee, but the federal lay pro moment is ended, but danger stii| hibiting such contributions by corthreatens through the possibility σε! porations in connection with the electhe shah’s troops being overwhelmed | tion of president, vice-president, repand expelled from Tabriz by the revo- resentatives or senators, would be lutionists. A dispatch to the Daily obeyed without regard to any quesTelegraph from Teheran says that per. tion of validity that might arise in fect peace reigns there and Europeans respect to any provisions of that law. may safely venture in any part of the As to the right of a labor leader to city. For the time being, the disvotes of patch adds, the parliamentary party attempt to influence the has fully accepted the turning again members of the organization of which le is the head, Mr. Taft at first laughingly said that that was a question of propriety upon which he was not sufficiently informed to discuss. When asked as to his idea of the power of the leader of a labor organization to throw its vote to one party or another, he declared that, in his opinion, it could be predicted that there is no Teherans’ old life moves as of old. wil! be re-employed within the nex thirty days in the large factories and foundries of southern Illinois, which have been working short handed fol- ducer His Equitable Reward. uty sheriff named E. Dominges was Cal.—Exhausted on the Western Pacific, and attempt- Chicago.—By unanimous opinion of the United States circuit court of ap | Says Society Has Not Given the Pro Forty Injured in Collision. Bishop Potter Sinks to Rest. the question is being waged by will have resumed a normal tone by yowed yengeance on Duncan. Chicago.—Nearly forty persons were fnjured, some of them probably fatally and eleven so seriously that they had to be taken to hospitals, in a headon collision on Tuesday between two Aurora, Elgin & Chicago electric railroad cars at Lovedale station, four miles north of Aurora. The disaster occurred when the coaches were each running at a speed estimated at forty miles an hour. The crash when they eame together was terrific. The airbrakes on both cars failed to work, and the cars came together on a curve. inquiry into any genera] increase to ascertain whether the rates are reasonable and just, but any determinatien of suck an issue would not be forecasted by the commission itself. Chairman Knapp of the commissicn in an interview said: ‘Justification for increase in freight rates, if there is to be such au increase. may be found, if at all, only in the fact that the increased cost of operation and maintenance of railroads has reached a point where reasonable profit on money invested in them is | rot possible from the revenue they| now receive. In determining whether | rates are reasonable careful consid- | eration is mecessary of three factors | -that good wages are paid railroad employees; that present transportation facilities be kept on a satisfactory standard, and that newfacilities be provided to meet every increase in demand for them.” Mexico City.—The anti-foreign fight in Mexico is assuming large propor tions, and a bitter controversy over Washes Hands in Brother's Blood and Flagstaff, Ariz—As the result of a gun fight at Williams, a Mexican dep Marysville, want of food, his clothes in tatters and himself worn out from tramping the mountains for three days, seeking to evade his pursuers, Adolph File Petition for Rehearing. On its own initiative the com- | ations with a full foree. It is be lieved conditions in East St. Louis bis hands in his brother’s blood and and | mission probably would institute an | war, settled part of the city. The saloon is situated at the |them. lowing the financial depression of last Fear, according to data just made public by the East St. Louis Commercial club. More than 1,500 men were put back to work in this district last week, manylarge firms resuming oper- streets in Jamaica Plains, in a thickly wman was dead on the floor, another lay dying and a third was seriously in- jured. Mexican Editors. housands Find Employment. St. Louis.—More than 15,000 men is claimed Dominges attempted to arrest Duncan in a saloon for a previous disturbance, The two injured will recover. Duncan is an ex-soldier who recently returned from the Philip pine, and has borne a good character, The brother of the dead man washed Shooting and made their escape, one Has Not ceived no official information con. firming the proposed increase of If the rates made by Efforts of Foreigners Against the Pro- | treight rates. The Court of Appeals Differs With the Jules, the Italian who last Tuesday the railways are made the subject of posed Mining Laws Restricting |πfellow Trial Court on Three Points—Gov- (shot down and killed two complaint to the commission that | countrymen at a construction camp corporations is Resented by ernment Has Thirty Days to body, of course, would investigate | sulted from injuries received by Admiral Rojestvensky in the battle of Swears Vengeance. Boston.—Three men armed with heavy calibre revolvers, dashed into a crowded Jamaica Plains barroom ten minutes before closing time TuesWay night and, yelling “Hands πρ, hands up,” began shooting up the Eluded Pursuers for Three Days, But Finally Succumbed After Fierce Battle. Interstate | Newspapers Taking Hand in Kati. | Famous Case in Which Company Foreign Fight, Which is Assum- _ near Was Fined $29,240,000 by Judge Washington——The interstate coming Large Proportions. Landis Sent Back for Trial. ;meree commission has thus far re | to ancient customs and standards, and Bad Men in Boston. corner of Washington Commerce Commission Sunday night from heart trouble. It is believed that the heart affection re- illed and two deputies seriously the Sea of Japan. Sinovi Petrovitch Rojestvensky was wounded, The deputies were guarding the hill’ overlooking the mining town about 60 years of age, and for many until they saw armed negroes coming years bore the reputation of being one of the most cool-headed and scientifie along the road. The deputies called naval officers in the Russian service, to the negroes to stop, but they οἵ. He was Admiral Alexieff’s second in fered fight. Two of the negroes raisea command of the Russian squadron in their guns with precision. The deputhe far east in the Russo-Japanese ties appeared to pick out one man for aim and he wasliterally filled with fead. Says Been Advised of Any Change. Washington—In the Buck Stova and Range case, Justice Sanderson of the district supreme court on Monday summoned Samue! Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, New and Knapp | HONDURAS LOSES RAILROAD, government in 1904, | Chairman dent of the United Mine Workers of Passengers. Treasury Was Empty Investigated. = IS C0.DQUBLE MURDERER CAPTURED BY POSSE WINS ON APPEAL OF FREIGHT RATES AUAINST YANKEES Alleged Violation of Injunction in the Buck Stove and Range Case to ---- ᾿ STANDARD OWL MEXICANS {ΠΤ} Πιο καὶ so-called class of the American electorate whose votes would be deliv: ered by its leaders. BRYAN TALKS TO TEACHERS. the end of August. Fairview, Lineoln, Neb.—Declaring that society has not given to the producer his equitable reward, and that the administration of the government should be changed to remedy this condition, William J. Bryan, from the lawn of his home, on Saturday delivered one of the most important utter- Mysterious Murder. New York.—A strange murder casa developed Sunday when officials of Hackensack, N. J., examining the body of Mrs. Otelia Eberhard, which was found lying on the railroad track near Coalberg, N. J., discovered bul let wounds. A passing train had cut the body in two. Otelia Eberhard, a daughter of the dead Woman, was wounded three times by bullets and dragged herself a mile to an isolated farmhouse. The police are hunting for August Eberhard, a nephewof the murdered woman. ' Six Meet Death in Auto ances in the last several years. The occasion was the visit of several hundred teachers and students of the Fre- mont (Neb.) normal school... After shaking hands with the visitors, Mr. Bryan was introduced by Professor W. H. Clemmons, principal of the school. Accident. Warsaw, Ind.—Charles Sherman King, of Fort Wayne, Ind., his wife and two daughters; Carl Timmins, the chauffeur, and Miss Fayme Bradshaw Murderer Suicides Rather Than Face Mob. Portland, Ore—David Conelli, chef at the Arlington club in this city, | Sunday night shot to death Mrs. Dolly | were killed in an automobile accident | Sharp and a man whose name has not by being struck by a train on the ;yet been learned. Conelli was purPennsylvania railroad. The party wag sued to his own room, some fifteen or in Mr. King’s automobile and was σο. twenty squares distant, by a howling ing from Fort Wayne to Lake Wawa- mob of several hundred men and boys. see to spend Sunday. Mr. King was Once in his room, Conelli turned the agent for the Prudential Life Insur. |key in the face of his pursuers and before they forced their way in he ance company, and formerly was a member of the Indiana legislature blew his own brains out. The cause of the tragedy has not been ascerfrom Wabash county. tained. | Two Important Decisions. -- | Open House on Warships. Helena, Mont—The supreme court| Honolulu—The Atlantic battleship on Saturday handed down eight | opinions, ‘he chief in importance being fleet kept open house on Saturday, and those declaring unconstitutional the || throngs of visitors crowded the decks law prohibiting the wearing of secret ||}of the big fighting machines from until sunset. The society emblems and insignia by non.- | early morning members, and denying a writ of man- | launches from the fleet and the harbor date to compel the state prison board | boats were busy throughout the day to award the contract for the keeping | bearing the guests of the fleet back of prisoners to a Butte firm which | and forth, and the foreign population of the city turned out in swarms to had made a low bid. The board took inspect the ships, Japanese, Chinese | over the institution and appointed a | Philippine islanders, Hawaiians, and | warden to conduct it in the nameof | many other nationalities being promi- | put out the flames she became uncon- the state. | scious, -— | nent in the crowds of sightseers | Discovery Probably Prevented a Seri- | Brakes Failed to Work. Chinaman Leaves Fortune for Erecous Accident ! Chicago—Bight persons ;were setion of Church. Philadelphia—Discovery by work. | verely injured and a number of othmen in the basement of Philadelphia's Philadelphia —Through the bequest ers suffered minor injuries in an acof Lee Chit, who was murdered in the great city hall that a pier supporting | cident on the Jackson Park branch a portion of the seven-story wall on | of the Southside Elevated railroad. A Chinese quarter here on July 14, by train of three cars crashed against the east side of the building had been| George Lee, the first regular church building to be established by Chinese weakened and threatened to collapse, | the bumpers at the terminus of the in this country will be erected in this caused the employment of a big force road, tearing loose the front trucks City of the motor car and allowing the city. At the funeral of the murdered of men to brace up the pier for ] car to slide over the bumpers offic | man on Monday, the Rev. Dr. Charles Architect Powell and other ; about ten feet. Catherine Jasmecka Zasholes eulogized Chit απὰ said: declare that the early discovery of the| 17 years of age, was the most seridangerous condition of the pier has | ‘He has left in his wilk & large sum ously hurt. The accident ts believed | of moneyfor the purpose of establish- prevented the likelihood of a serious to have been caused by the failure of | accident. | the brakes to work. ing a Chinese Baptist church in this WILL INCREASE CAPITAL. Falls Into Deep Well; Crawls Out Unhurt. Standard Oil Company Will Have | Gaffey, S. C—Sunday afternoon, Total Capital Stock of $600,000,Walter Saratt, a 5-year-old boy, fell 000.00. into a well seventy-five feet deep, the water a depth of-ten feet, and climbed out in ten minutes. The well is walled with rock, excepting three feet at the Chicago.—Following closely the decision of the United States court of, appeals reversing the decision of | Judge Landis in the Standard Oil case, | the Daily News of Wednesday says: | top, having no steps. To his father, who arrived just as Walter emerged “Bankers who have close affiliations | from the well, the boy said he was not with the Standard Oil company state | hurt, but as soon as he found his head that that organization will soon an- | was bleeding he began to cry. His nounce an increase in the capital stock | head had a gash to the bone. of $100,000,000 by $500,000,000, mak- | right arm and leg were sprained, His ing a total capital stock of 9600: Wireless Telegraph Station. 000,000. Boise, Ida—Rev. G. G. Haley, of “There will be a decrease from the | Payette, who has established a wireearnings for the fiscal year of about | less telegraph station at that place, $40,000,000 to the organization’s sur- |has been able to communicate with plus. It was given out that the large | the station at Portland. The mes increase in aapital is a diplomatic | sage was somewhat indistinct on acmove in order that the dividends may |count of the weather and another not look so large.” | trial will soon be made. Dr. Haley | built his own instrument, which is GIRL BEHEADED FOR MURDER, not of the De Forest type, but is |patterned after those used in the Took Life of Her Lover and Pays | Ravy. Penalty as in Days of Old. "America’s Champion Rifle Team Will Freiberg, Saxony.—Grete Beier, the | 18-year-old, daughter of the mayor of Be Honored. Washington.—Signal honors awa the American rifle team upon its return from the Olympia games in London, where it has vanquished teams from all the leading shooting coun- Freiberg, was beheaded some time between dark and dawn, on Wednesday, in punishment for the murder of the man to whom she was engaged to be married. The king of Saxony had refused a pardon. The personality of this young gir? and her thoughtfully arranged murder of her fiance, a civil engineer named international inPreffler, attracted terest. The social position of her family was very good and she beeame engeged to Herr Preffler, a rich young professional man. At her trial she admitted that she visited her flance’s house one evening, gave cyanide of potassium in a drink she mixed for him, and then, to make sure of his death, shot him in the mouth with his own revolver. MINERS FAIL TO AGREE. Western Federation Officially Repu- diates Industrial Workers of the World. Denver.—The Western Federation of Miners on Wednesday officially repudiated the Industrial Workers of the World by adopting n amendment .to its constitution striking out the words “mining department of the Industria? Workers of the World” whenever they appear and inserting in lieu thereof “Western Federation of Miners.” Tuesday the organization went On on record as favoring industrial unionism, and though Wednesday's action might seem to be opposed to that policy, in reality it is not so, as many members in the convention declared that the In dustrial Workers of the World had become so disorganized and filled with factions that it no longer represents industrial unionism | tries. It is expected that the team | will reach New York on Saturday, July 25. Assistant Secretary of War Oliver, president of the national board | for promotion of rifle practice, has ap| pointed a committee from that ward to act with a similar committee from the National Rifle association as a ;committee of reception. | Cleveland, collieries down every which gutter water f into the reservoirs went to waste are impounded in avenue was turned that no water The plain that all their and s breweries « the ty beer the inhabitants using them to water down the mountain side Thirteen More Bodies Hanna. Recovered at Hanna, Wyo.—Thirteen bodies were recovered from the ill-fated No. 1 mine of the Union Pacific Coal company late Friday, and were brought to the surface by the force of veteran miners that has been slowly pushing a brattice down the east slope since last Saturday. The bodies were found in a group at the mouth of No. 2 entry, and are those of members of one of the searching parties that entered the mine immediately after the first explosion of March 29. Steel Magnate Expects Prosperity ir Year, New York.—W. E. Corey, president of the United States steel corporation arrived here Friday from Europe. Mr. Corey said that by next spring he expects to see a return of practically normal conditions in the business world 1 believe we have seen the low price of the raw ma terials,” contir Mr. Corey. This applies kegs which roll Closed. about $500,000. The run upon the bank started in a small way two months ago, when two smaller banks failed here. The bank could not realize upon Its securities, and as a result it was decided to close the doors com- ining villages Bank The assets and italized at $100,000. liabilities are each estimated to be Long Drought is Broken. Pottsville, Pa——A heavy rainstorm which passed over this section Wednesday night broke a jong drought and will permit of the resumption of work at manycollieries, which have been idle for lack of water. At the Ohio, Cleveland, O.—Owing to a run that | gradually depleted its vaults of currency the Farmers and Merchants’ Banking company at No. 3837 West Twenty-fifth street failed to open its doors Friday. The bank was cap- particu I th t ea stee heir products lowest point rhe t movement shouid be toward the formerlev = |
