MISSOURI MOB HANGS NEGROES Race Feeling Intensified by an Anti-Negro Play and Mob in Wild Rage. SUSPECTED OF ASSAUL1 Governor Folk Rushing Troops to thi Scene and Is Determined That Mob Leaders Shall Be Punished fcr the Lynching. Springfield, Mo., April IT.—At 2:1< o’clock Sunday morning William Allen, a young negro was taken from the county jail here and lynched in the pub lic square by the same mob that two hours earlier had hanged Horace Dun can and James Copeland. The body of Allen later was burned to ashes as had been the bodies of the other negroes beneath the spot where they had been lynched. Following the dispatch of Duncan and Copeland someone suggested that Allen and Bus Cain, two other negroes known to be in the jail, should also be lynched. The mob, now bloodthirsty and wrought up to the highest pitch oi excitement, readily took up the cry and soon the charred bodies of a third victim lay beneath the statue of the goddess of liberty. Cain escaped. Allen and Cain were being held upon suspicion of having murdered O. P. Ruark, while Duncan and Copeland were accused of assaulting Mabel Ed mondson, a white domestic. Their work finally accomplished, the mob quietly dispersed. Crowds augmented by hun dreds of persons from surrounding towns, filled the streets yesterday, making threats of further vengeance. Several companies of state militia, or dered out by Governor Folk, together with 200 deputy sheriffs, patrol the streets. When the mob left the jail at mid night with Copeland and Duncan four teen prisoners escaped in the excite ment. Among them was Cain. But Al ien was there yet and the second mob found him hiding under a cot. He was dragged out, his hands were tied behind his back, a rope was put around his neck and he was marched down the street to the tower in the square. Hold Mock Trial. Two men climbed up the Iron stair way and stood upon the platform with Allen between them. One of these men, who held a lantern in his hand, faced the crowd below and, waving his hand toward the negro, said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Will Allen, the man who murdered old man Ituark. What shall we do with him?” "Hang him!" cried the crowd. "Throw him overboard!" "Can anyone identify this nigger?" asked the spokesman. “Hold up the lantern," someone shouted. The man put the lantern up so it shone into the face of the negro, and someone in the crowd said: "Yes, 1 identify him; hang him!" At this the crowd laughed. "Are you Will Allen'.'" asked the ora tor. "Yes, but I did not kill Ruark," he answered. "Well, who did?” “I only know what I heard, that Bus Cain killed him," the negro answered. "Make him spit it out! Make him confess!" the crowd shouted. The man with the lantern shouted again: "Is this nigger guilty? Yes 01 no.” Someone shouted "Yes" and others cried “No.” The mob was undecided. While the crowd was debating the second man on the platform began tying a rope to the iron railing. The Rope Breaks. The negro stood directly above the smouldering ash heap from which the smell of burning flesh arose. But ht stood erect while the man with the lantern harangued the mob and the crowd Jeered at the negro. In the meantime the rope had been placed about Allen’s neck and presently th« hangman caught the negro's ankles lifted him and threw him forward ovei the railing. Allen turned a somersault in the air and as the- rope became taut his neck cracked like a pistol shot. Tin rope broke and he fell into the bed o. coals on top of the other two negroes There he kicked and floundered arounc until another rope was brought, thrici fooped around the neck and he wat again suspended in midair. More boxes were brought, anothei big lire was kindled and soon tin swaying figure now dead fell into ia sending up an arrowy spray of Iiv> sparks. After that most of the met went home, but some men and boy; stayed by the tower all night and fee the tire. When daylight caine upon tin scene there remained only the black ened trunks and charred remains ol the three negroes. Springfield, Mo., April ! 7.—A mol Saturday night took two negroes from the county jail, hanged them to the electric tower in the center of the pub lic square and built a tire under them -is they hung. The negroes were Hor ace Duncan and James Copeland, both under 21 years of age. They were in jail charged with assaulting Mabel Ed mondson. a white girl, last Friday night. Fully 5,000 people went to tlie county jail about !» o'clock and with telephone poles and sledge hammers literally tore the jail to pieces. Final ly the two negro suspects were dragged from the jail and taken to the centei of the public square and hanged. It is fully a mile from the jail lo tht square and the mob inarched down om it' the principal streets of the town shouting and firing pistols. Took Girl from Escort. Mabel Kdmoridson came here recent ly from Monett, Mo, to obtain em ployment. as a domestic servant. Last I’riday night she was riding in a bug gy with Cnarles Cooper, a young mmli ol' Springfield. In a secluded part of the city the coupie were held up by two negroes. The man was knocked unconscious and the girl dragged from the buggy and into the woods by the roadside and assaulted. The two ne groes lynched Saturday night were ■ uspeeded and arrested, but were only partially identified. Sheriff Horner tried to argue with the mob. but it was determined and hooted and insulted him. Jailer King was assaulted when iie refused to give up tlie keys. He finally gave the mob some keys, which were not for the Me i. roes' cells, however, and the mob was forced to smash in the iron bars. Sheriff Wilson Crane, of Polk county, was present and tried to induce the mob not to hang the negroes. 'file mob, besides wrecking the jail, ri lacked the sheriff's house, demolished the furniture and rendered the sheriff's wife unconscious by threats and do lour*. IOWA MINERS ARE TO GET MORE PAY Maks Concession as to Penalty, anc Operators Grant Higher Wages. Des Moines. Ia., April 17.—Miners ot the Joint scale committee agreed to the demands of the operators for penalty ii cases where miners send out coal mixed with dirt. With this concession the de mand for the increase in wages wai met by the operators, and the first dis trict scale was completed. The remaining three districts will without doubt, be negotiated when tht committee meets Monday. The term; have already been agreed upon. In the second district the miners will get 95 cents instead of 90. This district comprises Marion, Monroe, Wapello tine Mahaska counties. In the third district the price will be $1 instead of 95 cents This district comprises Polk and Jaspet counties. In the fourth district, com prising Boone and Webster counties, the price will be $1.10 instead of $1.05. 2,700 Return to Work. , Pittsburg, April 14.—The 1,200 miners of the Great Lakes Coal company at Kaylor, Pa., who struck yesterday, re turned to work today, the scale hav ing been signed. ’ Miners and operators of the Mercei and Butler county fields reached an agreement on the wage scale last night About 1,500 miners who had been or strike wall return to work immediately M. GORKY SYMPATHIZES WITH IDAHO MURDERERS Russian Revolutionists Sends Telegrarr to Men Charged With Murder of Ex-Governor Steunenberg. Mew York, April 17.—Maxim Gorky's fourth day in America was signalized by the sending of a telegram of sym pathy to W. D. Haywood and Charles Moyer, Western Federation miners, ii Jail at Caldwell, Idaho, on the charge of conspiracy to murder ex-Governoi Steunenberg, of Idaho, some time ago His action, it is feared by some o: his friends, will blight the prospect; of his w-ork here at the very outset. Gorky's telegram to Haywood anc Moyer is as follows: "Greetings to you, my brother social ists; courage. The day of Justice anc deliverance for the oppressed of all th< world is at hand. Ever fraternallj yours, Maxim Gorky.” A trusted agent of the Russian secrei police is in the city. Friends of Gork} have learned that he is here for the purpose of organizing an effective sys tem of espionage on Gorky and his twe fellow revolutionists, who are here tc raise funds for the cause of the Rus sian revolutionists. BIG BANKING SCHEME. Proposed Concern Is to Have a Capita! of $50,000,000 and Will Prevent Financial Stringencies. New York, April IT.—It is learned that a plan is under discussion among certain bankers in this city to estab lish a bank with a capital of $50,000,000 for the purpose of regulating money fates and preventing periods of money stringency and accompanying high rates of interest. The movement was given some impetus by the recent stringency in the money market. The name of the National City bank was mentioned in connection with the plan, and one suggestion was made that the stock of that bank be increased by $25,000,000 or $50,000,000 in order to give it a control of the financial situation in this city sufficient to prevent the recurrence of periods of extreme high rates for money. ' Another suggestion was that a trust company' be organized under the direc tion of the National City bank. Offi cials of the bank declared, however, , that they were not taking more than , a passing interest in the various plans. Some Views of Bankers. Some financial concerns which have taken an Interest in the movement as sert that such an institution might ex ercise considerable control over the for eign exchange situation to the extent of regulating Imports and exports of gold somewhat as does the Bank of England. A leading bank official, how ever, said that the only' cure for such money evils as the New York market has recently' witnessed lay in the es tablishment of a central bank which shall be given the power of issue in times of emergency. It was ascertained today that a se ries of questions bearing upon this sub ject has been forwarded by the special currency committee of the New York state chamber of commerce to clearing house committees of the leading cities of the United States. The bankers are asked to notify the New York commit tee whether they believe that a cen tral note-issuing bank similar to those In France, Germany, Austro-Hungary' and many other countries in Europe and with branches in the leading cities and the power to rediscount for nation al banks and state banking institutions, but not for individuals, would be a better solution of the present currency problem than a plan permitting ail banks to issue notes against their re sources. RATTLESNAKE BLEW WHISTLE AND DIED Reptile Perforins Remarkable Feat, Arousing the Town by Prolonged Alarm. Martlnsburg, Ind., April IT.—Irvin Durnill. who runs the engine on the swamlli here, had a three-foot rattle snake. whose death occurred late yes terday. which blew the whistle of his engine for him. The whistle blew so long and hard that everybody In the town ran to the mill, thinking it was an alarm of lire. They found Durnill standing at the door of the engine room, apparently afraid to enter, while on the rope, at tached to the wnistle. the snake was wound, tooting as though It enjoyed it. The theory of the local zoologists Is that the snake crawled upon the boiler of the engine during the night to keep warm and that, when Durnill got up steam, it climbed the rope to escape the heat, 't.s weight being sufficient to blow the whistle. Somebody got a shotgun and killed the snake. VESUVIUS QUIET. Dispatches from Naples State Thai Lr.st Vestige of Eruption I3 Disappearing. Naples. April 17.—News from the re gion of Vesuvius continues to be satis factory. The sun is shining brightly this morning and the last vestige ol the eruption is disappearing from Naples. Reports from the villages and towns in the region of Vesuvius say that the people are gradually returning to theii pomes and the stores are being reop ened. FEARFUL EXPLOSION ON THE KEARSARGE Seven Killed in Target Practice on Battleship While in Caribbean Sea. WAS ON FRIDAY THE I3TH Tars Recall the Anniversary of Another Accident on the Missouri Which Occurred Two Years Ago on Friday, the 13th. Washington, D. C'., April 17.—Two years ago to a day later than the fatal Missouri disaster add as every sailor immediately recalled, on a Friday on the 13th of the month, six men were done to death in the forward turret of the battleship Kearsarge by one of these accidents which acquire addi tional terror for sailors because of their obscure origin and almost im possible of prevention. The Atlantic fleet, the strongest lighting flee* Apierica has ever owned, had lipeu for weeks engaged in the most severe drills in the waters of the Caribbean sea, culminating in the quarterly target practice. This practice was Just about concluding with most satisfactory results up to Friday and it was confidently expected at the department upon the basis of preliminary reports received, that all records would be broken in the matter of rapidity of lire and efflcency of the gunners. But Saturday, Just at the close of the week's work at the department, came the cablegram from Rear Admiral Evans, the commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, telling of a dreadful ac cident on one of his best ships, the Kearsarge. The cable came from Cai manera, a little cable station at the mouth of Guantanamo bay, indicating the Kearsarge itself had arrived at that place. A slight telegraphic error, requiring the consumption of some time to effect the deciphering of the mes sage, added to the anxiety of the of ficials as soon as they had made out the fact that a serious accident had occurred. Text of the Message. When the message was anally reduced | to form it read; Caimanera, April 14, 190C.—Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.: On April 13, about 3:15 p. m., shortly after comple tion of target practice of Kearsarge for^ ward turret while the powder was going below three sections of a 13-lnch charge of powder was ignited. Charges of pow der in other lift just below and one sec tion inside 13-inch remained intact. Cause not yet determined, nor accountability. Matter is being investigated. Lieut. Joseph W. Graeme, gun umpire, has been sent to the Maryland in a very critical state. The following have since died: LIEUT. JOSEPH W. GRAEME, gun umpire. LIEUT. HUGGINS, turret officer. PETER NORBERG, gunners’s mate. THEODORE NAOGELY, seaman. ANTON O. THORSON, ordinary Bea man. JULIUS A. KOESTER, turret captain, first class. ELLIS II. ATHEY, seaman. The following were dangerously injured, recovery doubtful: W. King, ordinary seaman. Will bury dead at Guantanamo. Vessel uninjured. Evan®, Commanding. Residence and Next of Kin. The residences and next of kin of the victims were as follows: NORBERG, PETER, gunner’s mate, third class; residence, Now York; next of kin, Margaret Norberg, mother, Sands vall, Sweden. NAOGELY, THEODORE, seaman; resi dence, Elizabeth, N. J.; next of kin, Louis Graff, guardian. Elizabeth. N. J. THORSON ANTON OLAUS, ordinary seaman; residence, New York city; next of kin, Elias Thorson, New York city. KOESTER. JULIUS ALFRED, turret ?aptain, first class; residence, Chicago, III.; next of kin, John Peterson, uncle, Chicago, 111. ATHEY. ELLIS HOMER, seaman: resi dence, Parkersburg. W. Va.; next of kin. W. E. Athey, father, Parkersburg, W. Va. The following were dangerously wounded by the acident and recovery Is doubtful: King, William, ordinary seaman: res idence. Appleton City, Mo.: next of kin, Mrs. Alice Cox, Appleton City, Mo. Message of Condolence. The following messages of condolence ivas telegraphed to the commander in ,*hief of the fleet, Admiral Evans, by Act ing Secretary Newberry: April 14, 190C.—Evans, Maine, Naval Sta tion. Caimanera: The department is deep ly grieved by the unfortunate accident on ooard the Kearsuge which occasioned the death and injury in the performance of luty of brave officers and men in the navy, and it extends its heartfelt sympathy to the injured and wishes for a speedy recov ery from their wounds. Spare no effort to case the sufferings of the injured in every possible manner, and show every honor to the dead. Newberry.' PROPOSED BY'STOCKMEN That Independent Commission Houses Be Established. Denver. Colo., April 17.—Independent commission houses to be owned and operated by the growers of live stock will be established at Kansas City. South Omaha, St. Joseph and Chicago as soon as the preliminaries can be ar ranged. Such was the decision of the joint committee appointed by the National Wool Growers' association and the American National Dive Stock associa tion at their recent meetings In this city, which committee met in this city yesterday. The plan Includes the for mation of a co-operative commission company with a capital stock of $100, 000, divided into shares of $10 each. None but bona tilde stockmen will be allowed to purchase stock, and they will be limited to titty shares. It was de cided that a committee should visit the various cities where it Is expected commission houses will be established to study conditions and report to the meeting of the executive committees of the various live stock associations scheduled to meet in this city on May 15. _ HARRIMAN IS MAD; WILL BUILD NEW LINE Stated He Will Construct Road from Kancas City to Dennison, Texas. Kansas City. April 17.—It ;.i reported on good authority that K. H. Harrnnan is to build a road from Kansas City through Indian Territory to Dennison. Texas. The strained relations between Har riinan and Yoalcum of the Hock Island Frisco Interests are said to be the chief reasons for Harriman’s move. Stuart K. Knott, former president of 1 the Kansan City Southern railway, who is said lo represent Harriman interests in the present project, declined today to discuss the matter. MILLIONAIRE IS AFRAID OF HIM Berkman, Who Shot H. G Frick, About to Leave Penitentiary. HAS BEEN IN 14 YEARS 6ecret Agents Will Watch the Convict and Keep the Millionaire Posted on His Actions Each Day. Pittsburg, Pa.. April 16.—After four teen years of confinement in the IN est em penitentiary at Pittsburg and the Allegheny county work house, Alexan der Berkman, anarchist and attempted murderer, will leave the latter institu tion on April 18 free to resume his rad ical social leadership, but not his at tacks on the life of H. C. Frick, if the millionaire can prevent it. The Pittsburg capitalist does not purpose to be ttie target of Berkman's bullets or knife thrusts a second time. If the fanatic attempts to curry out the murderous plot that failed four teen years ago he will lind serious dif ficulty in the way, for Mr. Frick con siders Berkman so dangerous an ene my that he has arranged with one of the most able detective agepcles in the country to shadow the ex-convict from the time he sets foot outside the prison door to the duy of his death—or the millionaire's. And Mr. Frick considers $10,000 a year a modest fee for this life insurance. Secret Agents to Watch Him. Berkman will never know more than a quasi freedom. He may move about unrestrained by law. He may go and come as he wishes. He may harangue his anarchistic mobs with the old war cry of Individualism. But the secret agents of the wealthy autocrat Berkman selected as his foe will be ever on his trial. Hia every move, his every word, his least sin ister design, will go ticking over the wires almost simultaneously with his change of place or mind. It is to be a duel of anarchy and wealth. And it will be fought to the death of one of the combatants—Berkman or Frick. On July 23, 1802, Berkman forced his way into the offices of the Carnegie Steel company in Pittsburg and at tacked H. C. Frick, the chairman. Ttie "red” aimed three shots at the capi talist from a distance of four feet. Two bullets entered Frick’s throat, and the third went astray. When Frick and his office assistants fell upon the assailant he pulled a knife and stabbed the steel man three times in the back. After the anarchist's arrest he pro tested that his only regret was his failure to kill Frick. He Insisted that the plot was his own and that his en mity against the steel magnate was excited by Frick’s stand In the Home stead strike. Husband of Emma Goldman. It was later proved that Berkman was the agent of a general anarchistic conspiracy against the Carnegie man. He pleaded guilty to a charge of at tempted homicide and was sentenced to twenty-two years In the peniten tiary and one year in the Allegheny county workhouse for carrying con cealed weapons. Berkman’s orderly behavior secured his release from the Western penitentiary nine years be fore his full time, and his year in the workhouse will terminate on April 18. In the spring of 1900 Emma Gold man. the reputed wife of Berkman, and certain of his anarchistic friends and sympathizers made a spectacular at tempt to rescue the convict from the penitentiary. Their accomplices purchased a house in Allegheny across the street from the prison and dug a 266-foot tunnel under the street and cellar of the prison hos pital to the stone yard where Berkman worked. The earlh from the subter ranean passage was concealed in the cellar of the house, and the noise of toe tunneling was drowned by the day long piano playing of a woman In the plot. It was her unceasing singing and playing from morning to night that excited suspicions. The police raided the house to find the conspirators gone, but the tunnel completed. Berkman might have made Ills escape if his peculiar actions in sounding the ground of the prison yard and his frequent feints of illness so as to be placed in the hospital un der which the tunnel ran had not caused the authorities to confine him aloseiy. LAW IS GEfSROUS. Recorder Goff Says, However, Tha. Labor Must Not Resort to Violence. New York. April iti.—Recorder Goft In sentencing Frank Hawkins to the penitentiary tor one year, spoke at some length of strike violence. Raw - kins, who is an iron worker, was con victed of assaulting Samuel Anderson on February 22. Hawkins, with other iron workers, had ciult work on one of the Post & McCord contracts, and Anderson had been employed to take one of the strikers’ places. Anderson was met by a crowd of strikers and beaten. In passing sentence Recorder Goff said: "I wish to say just a word to you, Hawkins, and if it could only reach men associated with you it would be a great benefit to this community. The law gives you and every workingman the right to organize for the betterment of your condition: the right to sell your labor to the highest bidder: the right to refuse to labor for any one that you don't like; the right to withhold your work except ou conditions that are agreeable to you. The law even goes so far as to extend to you the right to persuade other men to adopt tlie same course; hut when men repre senting organized labor step over the Very broad and generous provisions of law and use violence as an argument to enforce their views for their fel low men. then the law is violated, and not only the rights of th • individual are trampled upon, but the peace and safety of the community are In dan ger." TRY FOR PASS ON ANDES Copenhagen, April 18.—Two young Swedish engineers named Schemuroerr and Forgeiius have started on an ex pedition into the interior of Peru, the government of which has granted them *6,250. The expedition is expected to be finished wlthi.i three months. The party Intends to search for a pass over the Andes through which the railway [tunned to (onnect the Amazon river with the Pacific ocean can be lal I Three Peruvian expeditions hav> searched In vain for such a pass. Tin two Swedish eng neers will be arc on panted by twenty Indians. GORKY IS SURF. REFORMS WILL COME Russian Novelist Says He and His Fol lowers Are Not Anarchists— Talented Wife. New York. April 16.—"America America! America! I have been wait ing and longing to see this wonderful country, and now one of the desires of my life Is fulfilled,’’ spoke Maxima Gorky, author and revolutionist, as the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse came Into sight of Long Island early Tuesday morning. With him was his wife, a woman of unusually attractive presence, seem ingly more French thnn Russian, who as Mine. Andreeva gained wide fame on the Russian stage. She assumed an air of protection over her husband and pleaded earnestly that he might be ex cused from receiving the deputations that had come aboard to bid him wel come, or to make a statement to the newspaper men until sufficient • time had passed to enable him to recover from the fatigue of the voyage. But he changed his mind and In a vehement statement bitterly attacked the Rus sian government and Count Witte. Tall and raw boned, with a face of marked strength, the revolutionist wore an air of timidity when first encoun tered that fitted 111 with his general ap pearance. Quite devoid of self-con sciousness, It was only with dlfllculty that he could be persuaded to talk about himself or his work. When the vessel had docked nnd Gorky started to leave the pier he walked Into the midst of thousands shouting, cheering, frantic Russians, whose enthusiasm over their champion, ns they proclaimed him, was so great that a squad of police was necessary to clear a path to allow of the exit of him and his party. Then the throng had to be forcibly persuaded to refrain from unharnessing the horses and 'dragging the carriage through the streets to the ferry. Gorky wears a reddish mustache that droops over his lip, but does not hide the rapidly exchanging expressions of his large, Arm mouth. His brows are In a continual frown and set low over a pair of keen gray eyes that look straight at one without a waver. He has a strongly marked sense of humor that was In evidence when he saw the Insistence of the attempts to gain an Interview, which he finally granted. “We are not anarchists—the people Interested In this movement of which I am a small part," said Gorky. "We are seeking reforms that must and will come, yhe Russian government of to day Is nothing less than anarchy and Its members anarchists. There Is no law, no order; It Is anarchy pure and simple under the guise of organized government, In which those who are not absolutely debased are kept In en tire Ignorance of the true condition of affairs In our distressed country.” Gorky speaks five variations of the Russian tongue and understands, al though to no great extent. French and German. His wife speaks, Russian, German. French, Italian and English, and In the absence of his secretary does much of the Interpreting, which in the Interview was done by Americans who had come to meet him. Before he con sented to be questioned the author, whose Illness Is due to his Imprison ment for political offenses last year, wrote In his own hand a statement of which the following is a literal transla tion, made by his son: "I apologize many times to the press of free America that I cannot speak for publication now. I am fatigued, and overwhelmed by the grandeur of the ocean. T Bhall take a rest and then In two or three days I shall be delighted to receive representatives of the press. I once more beg to be excused and give heartiest thanks for the wonderful wel come I have received." VESUVIUS IsTn MORE PLACID MOOD prof. Matteucci Climbed Far Up the Mountain at Risk of His Life to Investigate. Naples, Anril 16.—All news received here this morning Is encouraging. For the first time since Tuesday the sun Is shining all over Naples, al though above the city the usual gray clouds are discernible, but the fall of ashes has almost entirely ceased. AsheH, however, continued to fall through the night, adding several Inches to the accumulation in the streets. Nearly (1,000 people are empjoyed In clearing the roofs arid main thorough fares. Professor Mattucei, director of the royal observatory on Ml. Vesuvius, to duy climbed up Vesuvius to a point a long way above the conservatory, at the Imminent risk of his Mfe, and as certained that unless conditions change radically there will be no further dis charge of lava nt present. He believes by the end of Saturday the end or the disturbance is near. King Victor Emmunucl and Queen Helena expect to return to Rome to day. MONEY MAKES CHANGE Tor First Time in History of New York City Good Friday Was Got Ob served as Holiday. New York. April II!.—For ttie ilrst time In many years Good Friday was not observed us a holiday in New York today. All the city departments were in operation and the stock exchange was open for business us usual. In both of these instances money was re sponsible for the change in the city's tradition. The city's corporation coun cil having decided that department heads had no power to allow per diem men pay i mit an Idiot to This Country— Goldfogle Says Insinuations Constitute a Lie. Washington, D. C.. April 14—On the vote to expunge the language of Hopkins the vote stood: Ayes, 165; nays, 91. Washington, April 16.—Immediately After adoption of the Journal today trouble broke out In the house over certain paragraphs which appear In the speech of Hopkins, as printed In this morning’s Record, and to which Gardner of Massachusetts seriously objected. Gardner presented a resolution strik ing from the record certain reflections on motives prompting the passage of the bill through the house by Bennett of New York authorizing the admis sion of Fannie Diner, "a pronounced Idiot, which Hopkins says In his speech was prompted by the steamship companies.” Hopkins further animadverted on the part played by Goldfogle of New York In supporting the bill. Goldfogle ob jected to the following remarks of Hopkins: "So completely was the house de ceived that my friend Goldfogle want ed to extend the resolution to cover all such cases and let In all idiots.” Goldfogle In a speech bristling with nnger said the gentleman from Ken tucky (Hopkina) had “meanly mis represented” him; that he had taken advantage of the right given by the house to "extend hla remarks In the record.” and had Inserted In the record Insinuations that were "unqualifiedly false.” The house broke Into confusion over this statement and the speaker rapped loudly for order. Goldfogle Insisted as he took his seat; "It was the meanest speech I have ever heard.” WENT IN A HOBO, CAME OUT A DANDY Bold Trick Turned by Crook, but Fact That He Took a Bath Disproves Tramp Theory. New Tor*-, April 16.—About 5 p. m. yesterday a hobo entered the Mott Haven apartment house and asked the elevator boy If Mr. Lovejoy, a wealthy buyer for a dry goods firm, was at home. The boy took the man up to the seventh floor where the Lovejoya live and left him there. When the elevator returned an hour later, a well dressed, smooth-shaven man entered the car. The man carried a bundle un der his arm. and nfter he left the boy found a dirty collar and necktie on the seat in the car. Mr. and Mrs. Lovejoy were down town. When they returned late In the evening they found that the doors of their Hat had been opened by a jimmy. A tubful of dirty water and a soiled towel showed that someone had taken u bath. A further search showed that some underclothing, a suit of clothes, an over coat, silk hat. cane, new shoes were missing. Besides some Jewelry, pieces of bric-a-brac and bottles of perfumery were gone. IT IS HELD NOT TO BE A TRUST 'owa City and Des Moines Paving Brick Concerns Win Case Brought by Taxpayers. Iowa City. Ia.. April 16.—Judge By jngton today handed down a decision in favor of Iowa City and against Frank Sanders, who represented a number of taxpayers. The plaintiffs were seeking an In junction to prevent the city council from carrying out a contract with War ren Bros., of Des Moines, which called for about $60,000 worth of brick pav ing on Iowa avenue, the main boule vard of the city. Sanders alleged that Warren Bros, were a trust and that competition was Impossible If their bltullthtc paving material is specified solely in the con tract. as is the case. Judge Bylngton found for the city and Warren Bros., under the su preme court decision, and the city will pave as per contract. TILLMAN FILES CHARGES | Endeavors to Prevent Confirmation of Barr.es Because of Action in Mrs. d orris* Ejectment Case. Washington, April 14.—Senator Tillman today filed formal charges with the sub committee considering the nomination of Benjamin F. Barnes for assistant secre tary to the president to be postmaster of Washington and protested against his con firmation. The charges relate to the expulsion of Mrs. Minor Morris from the executive offices and assert inhuman and brutal treatment of the woman and allege Barnes made a false statement about the case. GOV’T SELLS COAL Now Zealand Mines and Distribute Fuel Under a New Ar rangement. Wellington, New Zealand, April 16.— The government of New Zealand has started in business as dealer In coal, having established agencies for the re tail distribution of state mined coal. TO BALLOON 1,000 MILES Chicago. April 14.—William Mettery. the Chicago aeronaut who narrowly escaped death recently in making a descent, now says he will try to make an air line trli to Chicago from New York in a race for a prize of $3,*X)0. "I can't tell you much about the details of the affair," said the aeronaut. "All ? know is that two representatives of tlw New York Areo club called on me and signed a contract and will start for New ■ Y'ork next Wednesday. "The race probably will be begun th« I following Sunday, and I hope to make t!» ' trip though the clouds to Chicago "