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TIIAW TRIAL BEGINS. THE OREAt OHIO VALLEY FLOOD The Ohio basin embraces on area of 1!0 1,700 square miles, or 10 per cent of the (Trent Mississippi Valley. The valley Is divided Into Ave divisions, of which tlie Ohio and ItH trtbulnrlPH lire senond only to the Missouri twain, and Include a watershed of .'!5,000 square miles more than that of the Mississippi Itself alove the Mis souri River. Waters from fourteen States find their way to the Oulf of Mexico through the channel of the Ohio great drainage system. It stretches as far northeast as New Tork and an far south as le "ila, Alabama and Mis sissippi. At no point on the Ohio or the Mississippi In what Is HUNDREDS DIE IN WRECK. -, ro.t1 of the Vailed Hint Fare rerll of Itallwar Disasters. The people of the United States hare "new peril" to try their nerve and wrench their hearts. It is a peril of tlio new twentieth century the peril of rail road travel. Approximately fi0 passengers have ' been killed in the last few months in the most appalling aeries of railroad acci dent the. country, It is charged, ha ever . known, brought about by the desperate eCcrta of the railroad eompanfc-s to make more money. It has not been a question of signals and switches and regulations: it has been a question of hurrying tra'ns through the ilyer, the fast freight of gelling from ono end of the line to the other, so that they ran be started back ngain. Railroad employes have admitted on the stand that they disregarded signals -that they had to, to mako schedules. Twenty years ago persons traveled on railroad trains with comparative sfety. There were some accidents, but few men dreaded a trip by mil. Even ten years ago the peril was not great. In 18!7 oidy 222 passengers were killed. Hut look at the last four, months ! A total of WH) human beings, passengers on trains in the United States, were torn and man Hied, scalded and burned to death in railroad wrecks 22.) per cent more -deaths in four months tlmu in the whole of 1807. The slaughter of the toll of 1!K)7 began with torriblo mortality. The railroads are overworked, overcrowded and over capitalized. 1'arnings that should be de voted to improving and rep.onlshing the equipment and pitying for a better class of labor are diverted to dividends to keep up the value of watered stocks The accompanying tnble gives the worst f t lie recent railroad disasters. There were many more the country over where the casualties were One, two, or three. In- Date Killed. Jored Nov. 12 Wooilrlllo. Intl.. Unit!- mora & Ohio, collision.. 61 HO dept. 18 Dover, Okla., Hork Isl and, passenger train, through bridge S3 Oct. 28 Atlantic City, N. J., Wm .Tnrnfv Jk Rpaithora Electric, open draw.... 03 18 Hot. 20 Lawyers, Va., Hnuthern Hallway, Sum'l Npencer, President of Southern, among victims T Dec. 8 Danville, Va., Southern Hallway, pssnger and freight coIIIhIou 5 tc. 11 Vergennea, Vt., Rutland Hallway, passenger ami freight, collision 0 Iec. 23--iOndeilln, N. P., Milwau kee & Kt. Paul and Hie. Mario, collision 10 97 Is. 80 Terra Cotta. D. ('.. Ila- tlmoro & Ohio, collision. 53 00 Jn 9Vnllnnil Kan.. Itork Isl and, collision 33 (15 Jan. 13 iturnpy. N. M. nock Inland, open switch.... 5 8 Jan. 15 Wuldron. Mo., Hock Isl and, collision 8 Jan. 19 Ohspo. Minn., Ilreat Northern, rails spread., 8 Jan. 10 Kowlrr. hid., ltlit l'our. colliHloD 24 10 Ian. 10 Handford. tnd..I!lir Four. powder explosion 40 25 8WETTENHAM QUITS POST. Jamaica Governor Also Apologises for Letter to Davis. In London Friday it was announced on unquestionable authority that Gov. Swot teuhain had eeut au apology for his letter to Admiral Da via to the colonial secre tary, by whom It w a a transmitted through the foreign secretary to the State Department at Washington. and that Gov. Swetten ham bad also placed hia resignation in the hands of the co lonial secretary. It has been freely gov. bwbtteniiau. atated tlie Rritisn colonial and other government ollices that It was quite impossiblo for Sweltenham to .-otitlnue in office not only because of the incident involving the withdrawal of the American warships from Kingston hot also on account of the protests against hia conduct received from the inhabitants from Kingston. All Aroond tUa Oloba. The Japanese budget for the next fiscal rear, which the government expects to vrccut coon, provides an expenditure of 611,000,000 yen (about 303,000,000). The control of fhe New Orleans Item n afternoon daily for the past thirty years, baa passed to the bands of J. N Thompson, former publisher of the Nor- fo! (Va.) Dispatch. Tae sentence of W. C. Anderson, the ,ubeMling teller of the First National tank of Kansas City, waa reduced by Judge Wofford from four yean U two fears and nine month. Known as the "danger line" a high as at Cincinnati, where no great Impediment to transortatlon or Incon venience to resident Is occasioned until the 50-foot stage Is reached. At othor jsilnts the danger line varies from 22 feet at Pittsburg to 4." at Cairo, 111., and Vlcks burg. Miss., to Hi feet at New Orleans. Although the highest known stage at Cincinnati in 71 feet Inch In 1S.S4, the M Mississippi and Missouri floods of RHffl forced the water to a height of 82 feet at Arkansas City, Ark., W feet at New Orleans and 100 foot at Melville, Jjoulslana. The shaded portion of the center of the map indicate the flooded region. fjjg anajaxssasMasanmrnssananaiaMi 'mk --a c 'Win" llw-i W- m im pJm - J ill itil HV)is 5 v kilt's yMr nsiiaaaaiM i iimii - CANAL BID IS HELD UP. I'nleaa (Hirer (eta Partner lulled Slatra M it y 1 the Work. The bid of Oliver & Hangs to complete the -Hiustructiun of the Panama canal for 0.73 per cent of tlie cost has been rejected so f'ir as Anson M. Rang of New York Is concerned. Rut If Mr, Oliver can eiiter into a satisfactory iirrangetueut with some other contractor, who is linanv dully responsible, ho will be given the contract, it Is said. Some of the Washington correspondents seem to think that the government will build the canal Itself without subletting any portion of tho work to contractors. While doubt was expressed as to the ad visability of pursuing the contract plan any further, It was virtually decided to advertise again for bids, although not in the belief that any of them would prove acceptable. The chief purpose in rend- vertising Is to afford Mr. Oliver an op portunity to enlist new liiiauclal backing and submit another bid. W. J, Oliver of Tennessee and the wilderness, is t lie largest employer of negro labor' In the world. Ho has forty contracts now on hand, which Include tun neling Lookout mountain, damming the Tennessee river and thrusting railroads through Louisiana cypress swamps. If his hid Is successful he will go down to Panama with an npuy of 5,000 southern negroes who have long heeu in his employ, organised like uu army, with a trained supeiinteiideut at the head of each di vision. It wns Intimated that Mr. Oliver might arrange to co-operate with McArthur & Gillespie. It is known that the linnuelal credentials submitted by Mr. Oliver and the McArthur syndicate have been found satisfactory, and the statement is made that a compromise proposal will be con sidered, provided Oliver succeeds In mak ing a satisfactory arrangement with Mc Arthur & Gillespie. The Oliver & Rangs Lid was tl.7. per cent, while tho McAr-thur-Gillcspie bid was 12.50 per cent. Knrelun t'ouiiueree Convention. The lirst untioual convention for the extension of foreign commerce of the I'uited States was in ucasion three daya at Washington. . Every State in the l'n ion was represented, aud the move ment was started by the New Y.-k board of trade and transiMirtatlou. The tariff, ship subsidy nnd other ierfinent plutis were discussed, and addresses were made by Secretary Root and tho President. Filipino Kranehlae Falla. The report of the Filipluo commission for the last fiscal year saya that peace aud order prevail except in Samar and lyle. I'uder a limited franchise the na tives have elected governors in twenty nine of the thirty-eight provinces. It ap pears that these electioua, though orderly in form, w ere attended with much ex citement, aud many had to be protested and annulled because of fraud, intimida tion and bribery. Gov. Gen. Ide says that if there has been error it has been in the granting of a larger measure of self-government than tht natives were prepared for. mii i rr" -' 7?ir I SHEA CASE WAS COSTLY. DUuitreeiiient of TO,000 Jorr Majr Knit Prosecution. It is claimed in Chicago that prepara tions for a new trial in the Shea con spiracy case will begin at once. The $70,IHM jury in the celebrated case failed to reach an agreement nnd was discharged after deliberating for fifty-four hours, with the ballot 7 to 5 for acquittal. The defendants, while claiming they are anxious for a new trial, do not believe tlie case will ever be prosecuted by the Stato because of the greut expense to rijrve; WlMStisk' ( which the county has been put already and to the difficulty in securing another jury. KAISER A VICTOR. t'oloulal roller of Natloaal Bstaa alon Indorsed. Emperor William's policy of colonial extension aud national growth won sweeping victory in the general election of members of the new Reichstag at Ror- 1 in. The radicals, the conservatives and the national lils-ruls who voted for the government's measure when tho Reichstag was dissolved lec. 13, r.SXI, materially increased their representation at the ex pense of the socialists and the clericals, 1 he socialists will lose seventeen or eighteen seats. The result Is a complete justification of the colonial policy advocated by Chancel lor Von Rulow aud 1 1 err lleruburg. The chancellor's apiwal to Gorman patriotism was answered by an avalanche of vote which approves of the expenditure ot auf flcleut sums of money and ot the uh of euough soldiers to maintain the nation's position In world politics. Major Charles R. Krauthoff of the sub nlktence department, U. 8. A., baa been authorised by the American National Red Cicsa Society to purchase 000,000 pound of flour to be used in China amonj the famine suOorera. fj j -..la .Jvi .: IV 4 t. fnr.x j WORK OF ? j I CONGRESS j The Senate Tuesday passed the com promise Koraker resolution authorialnfl I lio Committee on Militnry AITuirs to In vestlgate the fncts of the affray at Hrownsville without questioning the le gality or justice of nny art of the Presi dent in relation ther Mo. Several substi tute measures were voted down. One by Stnator Mallory, declaring that the I'res- Idint had authority for his course, was tabled by a vote of 4.1 to 22. .Another, hv Senator MeCumher. sim)ly providing for an Investigation with referenee'to the President, was tabled by a viva voce vote. A third, by senator I uiurrson, sim ply indorsing the President's nction and pioviding for no investigation, was tnUleri hv a roll call vote of 4i to Senator Si:tiierliind oc-upied tho first three hours with a speech defnnding the ri;;ht of Kr":l Siniiot to a pent in the Senate, 1 li" Itrownsville ilebnte then followed. The House unused the diplomatic and consular appropriation hill, which carries over $ ', I M M , MM , and the military academy appro priation bill, carryiug fl.Plo.tS.'t. Dorin? the consideration of tlie diplomatic bill, speeches were undo by Representative Sherley of Kentucky on the "treaty-mak ing power;" Representative Slnyden ot Texas, who urged a more liberal recog nition ot the South in diplomatic appoint ments. The Senate Wednesday accepted tht House j.roposition to increase the salaries " t"-r - " of Senators, members and territorial dele- on an opaque sheet of glass, but the gates to ST..") annually, und those of curious had waited hours to see tlint the Vice President, Speaker of the IIo-.Hfl shadow and they were satisfied, and cabinet memiiers to $12.HH). by aj Thaw came to his trial -for the mur- voM of WJ to 21. Amendments confining jer of Stanford White on the roof of the Increase to cabinet officers mid tho Ma(1son square Garden on the night priding officers of the Senate and House . rf June lni)Iif)nnIrc .MSidrrosevel't S Prisoner believed that White was seek his views in advocacy of ship subsidy in ing to separate him from his wife, the a special message. Senator P.everi.lge beautiful Evelyn Nesbtt Thaw, the art began an extended address in support of 1st model. Emotional Insanity Is tho his pending bill prohibiting interstate defense offered to save the young Titts coinmerce in articles the product of child bur(? youtu from the eot.tl.(. (.ll!llr labor. An nrgut deficiency aPPKWia- WheB Just,eo ntzgipnld took hIs The pension" a ropHaUon' biU afforded v. (.poitunity for .speeches by Mr . Ilnyes of California favoring tlie exclu sion of Japanese coolies: by Mr. Gros venor of Ohio on the tariff and by Mr. Crumpncker of Indiana and Mr. Taylor of Ohio on pension legislation. Without reaching the pension appropriation bil' tinder the five-minute rule, I lit? House ad jouined. The Senate, upon assembling 1 liars day, was notified of the suddon death of Senator Russell A. Alger of Michigan, and after passiug appropriate resolutions a mark of respect, immediately ad journed. Tho House passed the pension appropriation bill, currying a total of $1:58.000.000. An amendment ottered n.v Mr. Dnlzell restoring the number of pen sion agencies to eighteen wns defeated bv a vote of ."S to 114, anil one by (tar- diner of Michigan to abolish all agencies nnd centralize the payment of pensions In Washington was adopted without, a di- ision. A message from tlie President Was read relative to insurance, nnd at 2 :.'!0. out ot respect to the memory of the late Senator Alger of Michigan, th. House adjourned. Resolutions to check naval officers from 'lighting a tire under senators and mem bers to compel the enactment of the naval ptrsonnel bill at this session were pre sented in the Senate Friday by Senator Utile. The urgent deficiency appropria tion bill, willi an amendment granting n loan of $1,000,000 to the Jamestown exposition, was passed. Pension bills wen thin discussed. The Mouse passed a number of bills of a local nature, includ ing' :t private pension bills. 1 lie agri cultural appropriation bill va then taken up, and Representative Kami ot I alifor nin addressed tlie House on fire insur time companies and their relation to the San Francisco earthquake. 1 lie ques tion of tlie free seed distribution occupied he remainder of tho day. Tlie Senate was in session only for a little more than an hour Saturday, tho early adjournment being tnkeii to permit attendance on the. itinera i oi uie m -- ator Alger. A tew tuns i iihi" miii'- .,!,... u-i.re oassed. and Senator Hales res nlotu.ii fur an inquiry into the personal i..i.....u ..iiinlfnsteil bv naval olncers in Hi. nnvv nersonnel bill was referred I-: tl.a I 'onini tlee oil .MlVlll .VI1U11S. i 1 lease spent the greater part ot tno on., debating the agricultural appropriation bill Action on tlie question of tlie live .i:. .. si.... ,.f ,b. bv a vote of il to II!) v.ns postponed until .Monday. 1 no Seiuite bill incorporating lite iuteruatioii- ii I Sundav School Ass.s-littioil or .im-r- icl was passed. . 1 He liver ami imi il; was reported. . N.ll..iuil tupltal Note. Tho President nominated Richard A i:lltii..er of Seattle, Wash., ti be com missioner of the. general land ollice, to M.,.....,l W. A. Richards, who is lo retire March 1. The bill appropriating $1,000,000 as a loan to the Jauieslowu exposition wast added as a rider to the urgent deficiency bill by liie Senate appropriations com mittee. Petitions from the. National Easiness League of Chicago protesting against tho Lotiue bill carrying amendmeuts to the consular relorm act, and asking a revision ,..,,1 nf certain parts of the land laws were presented to tlie Senate by .senator Cullotu. w w w..ml-otlichillv announced that ItrU. Oon. William S. McCaskey, com .minding the department of Texas, will lit 11 is. muted to the grade of major gen- oral on the statutory retirement on April it of Major Gen. James I', atle, com niandiug the Atlantic division at York. New A is'litioii for a writ of certiorari wan i.Heived bv the clerk of the Supreme Court in the case of Edward Ij. Flick in-er. und'-r sentence in Ohio to seven years' tiupt isoumeirt on tho charge of coa-K-M-iiii to wreck the Gallon National bflnk. R. J. Psrtello, confidential ageut of the Ti.wiMiit-v lleiairtment at Uerlin. tier many, will he retired Feb. 1 "for the .,! of the service." It is understood Secretary Sha.v believes Mr. Partello get his name in the uewspaMrs too orien, Tim President and Mrs. Roosevelt en im-ImhhhI ut a diuuer and musicule iu honor of the Secretary of Commerce and l-.hor and Mrs. Straus. Other guest in r uded Assistant Seere:ary of War and Mrs. Oliver, Assistant Secretary of the Nnvv and Mrs. Newberry, lien, and Mrs. J. Frankliu Roll, Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Long worth, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Curtis and Mr. and Mrs. MILLIONAIRE CHARGED WITH MURDERING WHITE. Oaa of the Most Remarkable Trials la the Crlmtaal Hlstorr of New York Rennlt Watched far Kot. bias la Two Continents. The great Thaw trial Is on In New York. The fight to save Hapr Ken dall Thaw from death In the fleet rlc chair for the alaylng of Architect Stan ford White began Wednesday morning before Justice Fitzgerald. The drawing of the Jury to try the young rittsburg millionaire, began with the opening of court, ljmg before the hour Ret for the trial, rowds flocked to the Crltmiml Court! building and filled the rotunda. An hour before the trial bepan the crowd wns driven Into the street ntid every entrance guarded by police. Only talesmen and reporters were allowed to enter tlie courtroom. The trial over shndowed the Molinemix anil Patrick trials. Over 200 newspaper men made application for admission to report the trial. No spectators were allowed in the trial room. There were correspond ents from Purls, I.ondnn and Rcrlin and on the lower lloor of the building cable and telegraph oilices were In Stalled. Outside, crowds waited to p.-t n glimpse of tlie prisoner ns he pu-isnl - .,, ., -at I. court and Harry Thaw had been brought from the prisoners' pen to his seat beside the counsel table, a trial was begun that will remain perhaps forever on the pages of criminal his tory In New York without a parallel. All tho elements of n tragedy are woven In the warrj and woof of his case. All the characters of tho stage world and of the g:iy Eohemiii of a great city; a titled sister, n countess; SCENE III THE COURT ROOM WHEN EARRY K. THAW In the foreground is shown D. M. Dclnins, the lawyer engaged to save the life of Stanford White's slayer; sitting facing him is District Attorney Jerome; to the rear of Mr. Delinas and a little to his left is the defendant; back of him sits his mother; at her left is her daughter, the Countess of Yarmouth, who came from England to aid her brother; on her right is Evelyn Neshit Thaw, wife of the defendant, whose beauty incited the enmity of the two men that led to the shooting in Madison Square Garden. n beautiful model known all over tlie world; a famous architect whoso love of youth and beauty brought him vio lent death, ami n youthful spendthrift IIARIIY K. TIIAW. millionaire play leading parts in this trage-Jr that had for its ending the snooting of Stanford White by Hurry Thaw on the crowded nuil gaily-lighted roof of Madison Square Garden. No mystery veils this remarkable case. Thaw killed his man where all might see, and held the smoking revolver In bis band until an otflivr took him by the arm. In the Thaw party were Mrs. Wil liam Thaw, mother of Hurry Thaw; f Mrs. Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, the artist- model wife; the Countess of Yarmouth, the titled sister of tnt defendant ; Mrs. George Carnegie, a sister ot Thaw, and Miss May McKenrle, a chorus girl friend ot Evelyn Ntwblt Thaw. The party was accompanied by Edward Tbaw, a brother of Thaw, and George Ctrnejrte. i pi pM I a ' v" fife) ri'rt , :;.;0s i I - Js&r-A ' ' t Van?) - Sis " "ft V EVELYN NESRIT TIIAW. SHONTS QUITS CANAL POST. H'r-mHm , , 1rJirzrnX ot xew Work op many I r Theodore P. Sbonts, chairman of the J " aTATF I Ffill A fl IDFT Isthmian canal commission, has resigned LLUlOL1 LKLo J to become president cf the Interborough- T T , Metropolitan Com- pany of New York, vice August Rel mont. Sbonts is to get $50,000 a year. It was learned authoritatively that headquarters will be removed from Wash ington to the isth mus and t hat a high-f.alaried chair man to serve in that cispacity alone will not bo named. This TIIKO. P. SHONTS. being admitted, it follows that John F. Stevens, the engineer in charge of the construction of the canal, would not be made subordinate to another ollicitil on the isthmus. There have been stories of disagree ment between Secretary Taft and Shouts and it has been said that the President has not been satisfied with him. Still, thes-e stories have alwavs been denied at the White House and in the War Depart ment, where it bus been consistently held that Shouts was in perfect accord with tlie President and Taft. When Mr. Shouts went to Washington it is declared ho did not nt all realize that tlie actual control over the digging of the Panama canal bad been officially placed iu the hands of the Secretary of War. Out of this misunderstanding of ollicial status there grew a social tempest which has bubbled up more or less in ev ery ." o'clock tea (lot in Washington. Kuuaua Indomra 1'nriile Synleiu. The annual report of the Kansas State penitentiary takes a strong stand in favor of the parole system, which has been under c-;periaio!:t for two or throe years. The ollicers say tlint pcrsous discharged in this way are kept iu restraint and strengthened iu a manner that aids them to become gisid citzens. Few persons vio late their parole and few are afterward returned for new crimes. On the other hand, two or three term persons are gen erally found to be those who have been discharged without restraint. Warden Huskell says that the parole law has passed the experimental stage ami that of l.'K icrsons thus released ouly thirty live violated their promise. The peniten tiary was run at a net profit of $074, Plti in two years. It cost 83 5 cents a day to feed each prisoner, owing to the quantity of food raised on the farm. The annuil report of the civil service commission suyt that the practice of levying political assessments on govern ment employes has been discontinued, but thinks that public servant are still far too active in silitlcs. The commis sion held t'kNil kinds of examinations for various positions, and of the 84.191 per sons who competed in the educational testa, 50,113 passed. Including the non educational tests, l,t.t4 persons were examined, of whom l)r,0X passed, and 41.877 were appointed. The decrease of A.0'.MI In the number examined is thought to reflect the prosperous condition if the country. Gov. Ansel of South Carolina, In his inaugural, urged the abolition of the State dispensary and the outlawing of bucket shops. Gov. George E. Chamberlain, in his message snt to the Oregon Legislature, urges tlie enactment of a law crealiug a Slate railway commission. Five hills calling for a 2-cent fare were introduced in the Legislature at Dos Moines, Iowa. Three hills also were sent in calling for the enactment of a primary law. The lower house in Missouri at Jeffer son City passed a bill taxing undivided) WAS PLACED ON TRIAL. profits in excess of 50 per cent of the capital stock of corporations, other than railroads. Tho lower house of the Legislature at Little Rock, Ark., defeated tho Senate resolution commending President Rsse- BTANTOHD WHITE. veil's action in discharging the negro battalion on account of the Rrownsvill riot. A bill was introduced iu the up;ir house of the Legislature at Lincoln, Neb., designed to prevent the practice of tipping and making persons or cor porations employing waiters or servants who may demand or accept a tip guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine. New bills in the Wisconsin Assembly provide for a repeal of the mortgage tax ation law, a railroad co-employe law, a jail penalty of six mouths for autoisla who refuse to stop on motion of a horse man, the establishment of a binding-twine plant at the State prison at a cost of $100,000. Joseph W. Railoy was re-elected to the United States Senate by the Texas Legislature. He received a total vote of 108 in the two branches, which balloted separately, against 45 for all his oppo nents. The fight to prevent Bailey from serving another term Is not Interrupted by tho result, but will be nroatcntad a vigoroaar as before. ) riasawtai lalterson. f