Show brothers bound and gagged by robbers chicago sept 11 A dispatch to tha record herald from elgin says bound gagged and tortured by fire by three bandits who sought to mako them reveal the hiding place of freaa use they thought concealed in tha house andrew and john fohren old and wealthy farmers living near spring lake twelve miles north of here are in a serious condition and it is feared that the shock and injuries may prove fatal to andrew tha elder of the two brothers andrew after the robbers had searched the house and taken managed to free himself from the thongs which bound him and started e cross the fields to secure help the soles of his feet were blistered however and before he had gone far he fainted and fell in a ditch theio ha lay until after daylight finally ho revived and made his way to a cheese factory where he gave the alarm but the bandits had gained a start ot several hours and could not be found the bandits appeared last night and when refused admittance battered la the door and overpowered the old men after a brief struggle they then searched the house and finding only concluded that a larger sum waa concealed somewhere they beat aad choked their victims and finally applied lighted papers to the soles of their feet to make ahem tell where tha supposed gold wae hidden after halt an hour of excruciating torture john fohren tainted from pain and the robbers left john was still unconscious when assistance arrived but revived and is in a less sirloin condition than his elder brother AUTONOMY TO universities czar seeks to reopen the great universities versi ties st petersburg sept 11 an iipp rial ukase was published yesterday morning granting a liberal measure of autonomy to the the elaboration of along the same lines this Is considered here as insuring tho opening of the september 14 and the resumption of the educational life of russia which has been at a standstill with all students and professors in the higher schools on strike since february the ukase places the election of rectors and deans of the universities who have hitherto been approved by the minister of education and were regarded as representatives of the bureaucratic reau cratic class in the hands of the professors thereby making these officials truly representatives of university life the duty of campaign that academic education follows a normal and orderly course is entrusted by the ukase to professional councils 10 which has been confirmed jurisdiction over offenses by students university inspectors who formerly considered as a sort of secret police are now responsible to the rectors and not to the ministry and a cause of many misunderstandings between the universities versi ties and the authorities has thereby been removed the fails to give the right of assembly or lo 10 grant the other political demands for which the students have been agitating but the placing ot the government of the university in the hands of the professors meets tho principal of the atu denia in relation to purely academic life in which the faculties and students ara thoroughly in sympathy with each other because of their common efforts to remedy the grievances KILLED BY HIS montana mining promoter has his head blown off butte mont sept 11 william frost a mining prom olem was killed today by his wife after he tried to cut her throat with a razor the woman blew his head from hla shoulders with two charges from a shotgun frost had been drinking heavily for weeks expedition A FAILURE attempted to reach the summit of tho himalayas berne switzerland sept 11 A tel agram as today from the swiss expedition alch Is attempting to reach the summit of the western himalayas saving that bache has been crushed by an ava and that the expedition is returning MONTHLY CROP BULLETIN washington sept 11 the monthly bulletin by the department of agriculture gives the condition to corn at spring ecat oats barley rye buckwheat flax 93 tobacco potatoes rice |