Nebraska Newspapers

    DESERTIONS INCREASE
IN UNCLE SAM’S ARMY
White Soldiers’ Percentage oI
Disloyalty Greater Than
That of Negroes.
LENIENCY IS DECRIED
General Ainsworth Says the Authori
ties Should Not Be So Easy on
the Captured Run
aways.
Washington, Nov. 28.—Desertion is on
the increase in the United States army.
The annual report of the military sec-,
retary shows in the year ended June!
30. 6.258 desertions, or 7.4 for every 100
soldiers.
In 1905 the rate was only 6.8 and for
three years previous only 6.1. The rate’
of desertion in 1906 was the highest in
field artillery, 9.2 per cent.; cavalry
next with 7.8.
White soldiers showed a desertion av
erage- of 8.4 per cent., while negro sol
diers showed an average of only 2.3,
per cent. Twenty-five per cent, of the
desertions were in the first threes
■months of the deserters’ enlistment. Of
men who deserted in 1906, 813 have
been apprehended and 240 surrendered.
The total number of deserters con
victed, sentenced to confinement and. ;
dishonorably discharged is 628.
“The number ol' desert ions,” says :
General Ainsworth, “doubtless will bo j
decreased if tin* military authorities
cease to exercise the leniency with
which they have heretofore treated de
serters who have* been apprehended and
returned to military control.”
WCRM IN BOY’S EYE
REMOVED, SIGHT SAVED
Chicago. Nov. 28.—Seven-year-old
Taiwan! Behringer, .an orphan, was pre
vented from becoming blind by an op- |
oration, said to be the first of the kind
ever performed in tin United States,,
at the city policlinic hospital.
A worm, whh h slowly was eating its
way through the ball of the eye, was I
removed.
The Behringer boy’s home is on a
truck farm near Niles, Mich. Ho had
been in the habit of eating radishes and I
other truck, just as it came from the
garden, and it is supposed one of the*
radishes contained the bacillus of a I
tapeworm, which in some manner
lodged in the eye.
JAIL COURTSHIP TO
END IN MARRIAGE
Postville,, Nov. 2S.—“Promise me? !
.that if you a ? not ha u will be
my wife,” were the words spoken by a
boy prisoner in the Schuylkill county
jail six months ago to Miss Emma
Stephany, a fellow prisoner, with whom
he had fallen in Jove.
“1 promise,” said the girl.
True to her promise, Miss Stephany
was on hand at the jail door.
The male \ risoner was Nicholas Quin
ton, of Butler township, a young burg
lar, who was released from jail after
serving an eighteen-months’ sentence,
and who announced that he will bo
married at once to Miss Stephany, who
was recently acquitted of the murder of
her lover, James Frizzle, at York- ;
ville.
VETERAN POLICEMAN
PROVES TO BE WOMAN ’
—
Seville, Nov. 28.—An elderly police- •
man who has been in attendance on
^successive governors of this town for
the last thirty years, was badly injured
in a a street car aciuent here the other
day. He was taken to the hospital and
the doctors there discovered that the
“policeman” was a woman.
She went by the name of Fernandci
Yisson, and during the whole of her
long service no suspicion whatever was
aroused as to her sex. She is a French,
woman, born in Paris in 1835.
She says that she assumed her males
disguise when she was a girl and served
her time in the French army before
she emigrated to Spain, many year:/
back.
SON’S MURDER IS TOLD
MOTHER BY TELEPATHY
Milan, Nov. 28.—A strange case of
telepathy in connection with a murder
Is arousing much interest here.
A woman named Lazzaroni awoke
suddenly at 3 o’clock in the morning,
and calling her son John, who lives in
her house, told him that his younger
brother, Leopold, living in the outskirts
of the town, was dead. The mother j
Was deeply affected, hut John tried to
comfort her by ascribing her fears to
u bad dream.
At dawn, however, Leopold Lazzaroni,
a handsome, strong young man, the
owner of a dairy, was found dead at a
spot some distance from his dwelling.
After having made an examination of
the body the doctors affirmed that
Leopold had been murdered at 3 in the
morning.
EVE’S PICTURE BA -S
MARK TWAIN’S BOOK
Worcester. Mass., Nov. 28.—Mark
Twain's book, “Eve’s Diary,” has been
barred from the Charlton free public
library because a trustee was shocked
at a picture of Eve it contains.
Mrs. H. L. Carpenter, employed in
the library, picked up and scanned the
book before placing it on the circulating
shelves. Then she took the book to,
Trustee Frank O. Wakefield, who
looked at the etchings, which depicted,
Eve in all kinds of summery costumes.
One in particular, which showed Eve
In a recumbent position on a rock, en
gaged his attention, and decided him
to bar the book.
> MAN WITH THE ♦
♦ CHAMPION HARD NAME
♦ FOUND: WTYKSJ'TXZ. ♦
4- Milwaukee. Nov. 28.—“Wtyksjtxz.” 4
4- There you have the world ehamplon 4
4 hard name. When the man who wor- 4
4 ries through life under this burden 4
4 appeared before Ju<L«- Neelen in >
4- the district court the judge ad- ♦
4- journed court while a man was 4
4- found who could pronounce it. 4
4- When the pronunciation was finally 4
4- effected, the judge fined the posses- 4
4 sor of the ec gnoinen $5 and let him 4
♦ go. 4
POLICY HOLDER SAID
TO BE REALLY ALIVE
Ii Decatur. III., Nov. :'s. A sensation
avas caused here today by a statement
.from Chief of Police Albert that in
formation just come t«» him tending to
prove that J. Mont Shultz, who was
believed to have been accidentally
drowned October 26 in the river here
.was not drowned, but had left the
vountry.
It appeared that Shultz had taken
S»ff his ( lathing and gone into the river
ate at night to disentangle a fishing
Mine. All his money and clothing
seemed to have been left on the river
bank or at home.
It is now said he had money with
him and had procured other clothing,
deceiving even a friend at the river
with him.
Shultz is a prominent member of
several secret societies and had sev
eral thousand dollars life insurance.
TAFT STOPS*CRITICS
OF U. S. ENGINEERS
Washington. D. P.. Nov. 28.—Secre
tary Taft declined to listen to any re
flection on the integrity of the corps of
army engineers and by an emphatic in
terruption today changed the course of
the arguments being made to him by J.
Horace McFarland, president of the
American Civic association, of Phila
delphia, in opposition to the diversion
of the waters from Niagara river for
1 he creation of power and for transmis
sion of the power from Canada to the
United States.
McFarland had found fault with
statements alleged to have been made
in a newspaper interview by Captain
Charles \V. Kunz, of the corps engi
neers, who investigated for the war de
partment the applications of persons
and corporations for permits to divert
the water for power.
CUBA QUIET*AGA1N;
HEAR GCV. fvlAGOON
Havana, Nov. 28.—With the capture
yesterday at Cienfuegos of a band of
eight men, who took to the woods un
der ex-Chief of Police Ruis, the last
vestige of disorder in Cuba has disap
peared. Reports received by Governor
Magoon from all parts of the island
',;ho\v that perfect tranquillity prevails.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 26.—Secre
tary Taft received the following dis
patch today from Governor Magoon, of
Havana, under yesterday’s date:
“A band of eight men from Cienfuegos
was overhauled by a detachment of
rural guards under Captain Lauda.
They were taken into custody and dis
armed with difficulty.
ROCKEFELLER
CORPSE OF
DAUGHTER
Breaks Down and Sobs on the
Piar as French Liner Sails
Into View.
New York, Nov. 28.—Breaking dawn
and sobbing like a child in his grief,
John J). Rockefeller showed nothing of
(lie great world financier and Standard
Oil king but only his human heart,
while awaiting on the French Line pier
the arrival of the steamship La. Prov
ence, which brought from Europe the
body of his eldest daughter, Mrs,
Charles A. Strong who died recently in
France. As the richest man in Amer
ica spoke in broken utterances of his
great bereavement he presented a
sight pitiful in the extreme and one that
greatly affected all who witnessed his
emotion.
EONi MAN
WHO OFFERED JOB
TO A DUEL.
Divorced Nobieman’s Ire Is
Roused at Chance to Work
in New York Restaurant.
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My friend, Count de Cubsae ♦
♦ will call upon you to demand ♦
♦ reparation with arms for your ♦
♦“ insult. Castellane. ♦
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New York, Nov. 28.—Monsieur Mar
tin, proprietor of tne Cafe Martin, has
receiveu a cablegram from Paris chal
lenging him to a duel. It is from Count
Boni de Castellane.
The message refers to Mr. Martin’s
recent cablegram to Count Boni de
Castellane, offering the divorced hus
band of Anna Gould $10,000 a year to
act as head waiter, now that his in
come is cut off.
Mr. Martin says he Is not sure
whether someone is trying to scare
him with a joke or Count Boni is really
.challenging him to a duel. Boni is tne
J>est duelist with the sword in France.
T never heard of <’ouni de Cubsa,”
pays Martin, “but if he wishes to see 1
me for any reason I shall receive him.” I
4 STORY OF AN APPENDIX 4
4 AND AN UNPAID BILL. 4
4 ♦
4 Waterloo, la,, Nov. 2S.—Harry 4
4 Wilson, who escaped from the 4
4 hospital when he heard an oper- 4
4 ation on him was to be made, 4
4 still has his appendix, as far as 4
4 known here, but the Western 4
4 Union Telegraph company is still 4
4 hunting for $2.50. This is the 4
4 amount of the bill for a message 4
,4 to Wilson's father, telling him of 4
4 the boy’s illness. Chief of Police 4
4 Sweitzer and Dr. L. K. Evans. 4
4 who had the patient in charge. 4
4 have been asked to pay the bill 4
4 and they refuse. It is believed 4
4 Wilson was shamming.
I
TAKES COFFIN ALONG
ON TRIP TO GERMANY
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 28.—Henrv Hu
rnin, of Sikesville, has left o.\ the steam
er Neckar for his oid home m Metelin.
'Germany. He was so weak from tuber
culosis that he had to be carried on
board.
With him he is taking a zinc lined
collin and embalming fluid, and he give
orders that if he died at sea he should
be buried in German soil. His hope is
that he will recover in the air ol his
native land. His wife accompanies him.
iLONE TRAIN ROBBER
CRIES “OH, MOTHER”
Bandit, Looting Second Train
in Same Pleice, Waxes Pa
thetic When Captured.
MAKES CREW HELP HIM
Early Bird Train Passengers Roused
from Sleep and Made to Dis
gorge, but Got Their
Money Back.
i !- insus City. Mo., Nov. 25’. -The rob
l)ei who held up the Alton train near
Glasgow. Mo., this morning, says his
name is Truehart and his home Is in1
California. He secured $2,000 besides
several watches, all of which was re
covered and returned to the passengers.
The engineer Identified Truehart us
the man who held up the Hock Island
train near Glasgow early this month.
Truehart said it was his brother.
The robbed train Is known as the
“Early Bird.” It left Kansas City at
0 o’clock Sunday night and was due at
Slater at 12:27 o’clock Monday morn
ing. At Sluter the robber, wearing a
mask over his eyes, boarded the train
and made fifteen passengers shell out.
When the train stopped ill Arm
strong on orders oltlcers bosfded tin
train and caught the robber red handed.
st. Bouts, Nov. 26.—Conductor Hcy
wood. who. singlehanded, overcame the
train robber on the Early liird, reached
Si. Hauls today, tic said the man ad
it.itted to him he had robbed the Hock
1st,,ml passenger train at almost the
same place about a month ago. Hey
wooil said the robber got the drop on
him and forced him to go through the
smoker while the passengers were be
ing robbed. The robber left the train
tit Glasgow, but immediately boarded
another car and again covered the con
doctor with his revolver while robbing]
p. spongers In the sleeper.
Heywood says the robber moment ar
il v turned away his eyes and that lie
seized the opportunity to jump on him i
and wrest away Ills revolver.
A passenger said:
“The robber was one of the nerviest I
Imaginable. He only ,r wea kened when
Heywood and a number of passengers
literally jumped on him. Then he
cried; ‘Oh. my mother.’ and gave in.
“The robber covered the trainmen
and negro porter in the chair car and
made them aid him rob the passen
gers" -__
Old Man of Great Wealth Sus.
pected of Being One Who
Assaults Them.
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Paris, Nov. 28.—For several night* I
past women have been brought inti; 1
police stations or hospitals suffering
from slight (lesh wounds on the neck, '
chest, arms and shoulders, in every
case it appeared from their statements
that the wounds had been inflicted by
an aged humpback of extremely ugly -
appearance.
He invariably offered money to thn ;
Women to allow him to draw blood from
them with a penknife, but the sight of
blood seemed to put him in h frenzy,
and he would proceed to slash them
about the neck, arms and breast.
Then he rushed off and apparently
changed his dress to avoid identifica
tion.
The police searching for him believq
he is an old man of great wealth, noted
for several years past for his eccentric
habits.
WEDS HIS NIECE
AT AGE OF 72
Middletown. Conn., Nov. 28—To thu ;
surprise of Deep River, one of its resi
dents, Robert Galvin, 72 years old, ha.' ■
taken it second wife. Site is only 3J
years old, and besides being his bride, .
is his niece.
When Mr. Galvin's first wife died
two years ago, he brought Katie Car- '
roll, of New York, his sister’s daughter
to keep house for him. Recently h<
said he thought it would be better il
they were doubly related, and the.v
came to Middletown Hist week, got :
marriage license and were married
They are adherents of the Catholic
church.
It Is still-1 relatives have taken step*
to have the marriage declared void. Mr
Galvin is worth -.flOO.OOn or more. A
state statute provides five years' ftp- <
prlsonment for the parties contracting
a marriage within tiie degree of con
sanguinity of himself and bride.
GROOM’S BROKEN R BS
m BAR TO WEDDING
Fort aWyne, Inti.. Nov. 28.—Thomas
Miller stood up to he married to Miss
l-eona Richards, at Auburn, with foui i
ribs broken, and when the vows were
exchanged and congratulations began 1
he swooned in ,-t paroxysm of pain. The '
family of the bride and several friends
were frightened, but medical attention
brought him relief.
II seems that he was to be married In
October, but had an accident while at
nis work in this city, being thrown
from his wagon. He was not well ,
enough to leave his bed for the post- |
poned date, Hut he determined that j
nothing should cause a second delay, ■
and he went to Auburn.
The travel caused him much pain,
but he stood up under the strain until
the knot was tied. He is now recov- '
ering and will bring his bride to Fort
Wayne.
FQPE PiUS RECEIVES
THE KING OF GREECE
Rome, Nov. 28.—After many contra- \
dietory reports it was finally decided 1
this morning that King George of
Greece will visit the pope. The king
leaves Italy tomorrow.
Tiie king, accompanied by ids daugh
ter. were driven to the Vatican in a
private carriage and was received with
royal honors by members of the papal
court. Tho pope welcomed the visitors
in the throne room. Tho audience lasted
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MISSING HEIR TO THE
FAIR ESTATE FOUND
New York, Nov. 2S. Frank Smith,
/ho long missing and much sought
brother of Mrs. (’buries L. Fair. who.
with her husband, was killed In an au
tomobile accident in France four years
igo. lias been in New Providence, N.
.1.. as the guest of F. A. Nelson. Ilia
I home is in Topeka, Kus.. and he came
here to get his share of the-estate left
by his sister.
The executors of the estate had no
trouble in finding the family of Mrs.
Fair, except the brother, Frank. He
left his home thirty-live years ago, to
seek his fortune In the west, lie be
• une a ranchman and hull puncher,
and continued to live so far away from
news centers that lie did not hear of his
«ister’s tragic death till a year ago.
Smith said he received many times
the amount paid to the other heirs, but
gave no figures. He is said to have ac
cepted $Jf>0,000 for his share, and tho
Huai papers were signed at a law office
in Newark. Mr. Smith left for Topeka
Sunday night.
NUN AS A WITNESS,
court in conven;
'estifies Behind Curtain ii
Case of Woodcutier Charged
With Stealing.
Vienna, Nov. 2S.—The criminal court
at Salzburg has been forced to hold a
sitting in a convent, owing to the re
fusal of a nun to give evidence in pub
lic.
A woodcutter in the service of the
« unvenl on the Nonnborg was on his
trial for stealing, and the evidence of
Sister (’destine, one of the nuns, was
material. She. however, refused to at
tend the court on the ground of her
vows, which forbade her to allow her
self to be seen by men.
An appeal to the archbishop of Salz
burg elicited the reply that only tho
pope himself could release the sister
from her vows, so arrangements were
made for her to be examined in the
convent.
The judge and the counsel were ac
eommodated in the visitors' room, while
Sister (Vh stine, supported by the ab
bess, took her place behind a curtain
so that she could be heard but not seen.
The sister then underwent an exami
nation and cross-examination, and on
her evidence the man was condemned
to two months' imprisonment.
The anti-clerical papers here protest
against evidence given in this way be
ing admissible.
PRIEST USES PINS,
CATCHES WIRELESS
Cleveland, O., Nov. 28.—Aceidentally
Father Odenbach, head of St. Igna
tius college here, has discovered a
method whereby he can Intercept wire
less telegraph messages by means of
the copper roof on the college, some
steel pins and the lead from an ordi
nary pencil.
While listening to the sounder con
nected with tin* eeronograph on the top
of the college, by which lightning is re
corded. Father odenbach. who had sub
stituted the lead pencil and pins for the
usual expensive coherer in the Instru
ment, heard the sounder tick off some
Morse code.
Investigation showed that he had In
lorcepted messages received at the
L.Marke Wireless Telegraph company’s
station here from the Detroit office.
'ssueof I 907 Will Bear Names
of Cities and States in Which
They Are Sold.
i
Washington, D. C„ Nov. 28.—Postage
stamps of the issue of 1907 put on
sale at the G.000 presidential postofflees
will bear on their face the name of the:
state and city in which the postofflee j
Is situated.
The chief reason for this innovation
Is said in the postofflee department to
be the belief that it will help do away
with the big postofflee robberies and
make it much easier to trace criminals.
The postofflee robbery in Chicago a
few years ago is a good example of the
•use with which stolen postage stamps
•an be disposed of, for no trace of tin*
perpetrators was ever discovered, al
lhough nearly $100,000 worth of stamps
were stolen, and these mostly of small
icnominations.
Another rtason for the change is to
•nable tin* post office? department to de
termine tin* amount of business done
by the different pnsioffiees and to pre
vent padding through stamps sold at
mine offices to residents who do busi
ness in adjoining cities.
WOMAN COMBATS FIRE
WITH HAND GRENADES
—
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 28.--Cool and i
•olleeted, Emma Jeffries, a pretty i
poung woman employed as assistant |
station agent and telegraph operator at
Wynnewood, on the Pensylvunia, rail
road, proved herself a heroine when fire
was discovered in a small baggage
nouse opposite the station.
Calling E. B. Krundmker, a medical
student of the university of Pennsyl
vania, to her aid, Miss Jeffries stood
iside while the man was chopping
lown the door with an emergency ax.
When an entrance was effected she
crushed K rum baker aside and rushed
Into the blazing shed.
With several hand grenades Miss Jef
fries tried to extinguish the I lames. She
battled single-handed for some time,
md then, finding her efforts futile, sent
i call to the Ardmore and Nitrberth
fire companies.
CHINESE WARNED BY
AMERICAN CONSUL
Hong Kong, Nov. 28. -Advices from
'anton report anti-missionary feeiing
n Kienchow, .vhero property has been
pillaged. The American consul has
inked the viceroy to enforce the pre
lection of missionaries and property.
NEW YORiT’e’xCHANGE.
Chicago, Nov. 28.—New York ex
change, 5 cents discount to 5 .v.its pre
mium
SELL GIRLS TO
PURCHASE FOOD
Starving Russian Peasants Dis.
pose of Mere Children to
the Mohammedans.
—
DISTRESS GROWS ACUTE
Reactionary Element Aroused by thf
Impending Jewish Reformb—
Czar Nicholas Gets
Protests.
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4 MASSACRE OF THE 4
4 JEWS TO BE STARTED. 4
4 4j
4 St. Petersburg, Nov. 27.— 4
4 'Phioats of the* reactionary par- 4*
4- Lies that Jewish massacres will 4
* he started If the rights of the *
4 Jews are enlarged are steadily 4
4 becoming more definite. The 4
4 central council of the League of 4
4 Russian People, claiming to 4
4 represent 30,000,000, has Issued 4
4 a declaration disclaiming re- 4
4 sponsibillty for tho "outrages 4
4 which may result from tho just 4*
4 Indignation produced by the on- 4
4 largomont of Jewish rights.” 41
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St. Petersburg, Nov. 27 Reports from'
the famine districts of Russia, show
that the distress is steadily growing)
ucuto. The peasants In the government
of Kazan have been driven to despera
tion and are selling their daughters into
slavery to the Mohammedans of tho
Caucasus.
The ages of tho girls sold range from
12 to 17, and the prices realized are $50
to $75.
The announcement of the impending
Jewish reforms has aroused, as ex
jrctet . the opposition of the reaction
ary elements. Telegrams of protest are
reaching tin* emperor and Premier
Stolypln from ali parts of the empire.
The party of legal order, which for
inulat- d the extreme right of the con- |
stitutionallst. parties at the last elec
tions. has joined In the campaign of
the openly reactionary leagues. M.
Stolypln lias received a dispatch from
tin* headquarters of the organization
nt Kiev, concluding as follows:
"The < xtension of the lights of the'
Jew- will drive the patriotic Russian
pcnplo to criminal measures."
KQV\L PAUPER, SAYS
HOSE PASTOR STOKES
OF MISS MOROSINI.
New York, Nov. 27.—Miss Giulia
Moresini’n declaration that she spent
$200,000 a year In dress has called forth
u spirited reply from Mrs. Hose Pastor1
Stokes, who brands the young woman
of wealth as a moral pauper and says
she . uin talers fortunes while thousands
of her fi How beings starve.
"It Is because such women ns Miss
Moroslnl never think what the things
cost that the women of the working
cla s are compi lied to think constant
ly what the things cost. That rude j
awakening Is bound to come to all id
us some day, perhaps at a greater cost
than we (. u afford, unless such women
Who spend great wealth which they
never have done anything to earn, he*
gin to think of the deep Injustice un- I
derlylng our economic and social con* j
dlllnns.
"Why do not women who live on thS
sweat of other women's brows ever
think of the Injustice of their position?
"Miss Moroslnl says: T never would
wear anything Imitation.’
"It may be a mark of good taste to
wear nothing Imitation, hut It Is a mark
of far better taste and culture to de
fire to be nothing Imitation.
"The women of Miss Moroslni’s class
may not be aware of the fact that they
are paupers, hut they are. A pauper i\
pne who, either from Inability or un
willingness to support himself, Is sup
ported at the expense of the communi
ty. The truer pauper of the two, It
Seems to me, Is he who can hut is un
willing to support himself, and is
thrown upon the shoulders of the com*
enmity.”
TRIAL MARRIAGE IS
DEFENSE OF ACTOR
Evansville, Inch, Nov. 27.—Mrs. Elsie
Clews Parsons' new nook advocating
trial marriage; was pleaded ns a de
fense in the city court by William A.
Young, the hero of a melodrama whd
enticed away from home pretty Anna
Kerns. 15 years old, of Owensboro, Ky„
and was arrested with her here in d
hotel.
The actor was asked by Judge Win
frey if tie would marry the girl and i
thus gain his freedom. Young replied
that he had not lived with her long i
enough to know If he liked her.
He said he believed in Mrs. Parsons
theories about marriage and would ndt
yet accept the girt for a wife. Judgu
Winfrey rose up behind his desk and
thundered:
‘‘Miserable and impracticable as tht
book is. Its scheme of marital laxity
docs not cover a criminal of yout
stripe. There is no book that has ever
been written which excused a man foi
ruining the life of a young girl, i hold
you under $1,000 bond to the grand
jury.”
THREE MESUIELD FOR
WRECK IN INDIANA
Valparaiso, In<l., Nov. 27.—Coroner
Carson today rendered a verdict on tho
recent wreck of the immigrant train on
the Baltimoie and Ohio at Woodville. j
A list of names of sixty-one dead la
given. Frank Gelnauer, engineer of
tin- first section of the immigrant train; :
Samuel J. Moste, conductor, and Daniel 1
Woodward, head brakeman of th<j
freight which collided with the second
section of the immigrant, are held re- j
sponsible. The railroad company is not
censured. The three men named have
been arrested. j
YEARNS FOfTjOB AS
CHICAGO’S PRESSAGENT
- I
Chicago, Nov. 26.—A man has been found j
who is willing to act as Chicago's $10,000 j
a year press agent. lie is F. W. Lucas,
and he lives in Bellevue, ivy.
Mayor Dunne and City Statistician Hugo
Grosser, who conceived the idea of a city :
press agent, had begun to believe no one 1
wanted the job, for no applications had
been made until the following letter from i
Lucas was received yesterday:
BACK IN WASHINGTON.
President Roosevelt Returns from Hig|
Trip to Panama Much Impressed
With the Work.
Washington, D. (\, Nov. 28.—Com-*
pletlng a remarkable trip to Panama/,
during which In* traveled several thou
sand miles by sea and visited not only)
{the isthmus, but Porto Rico as well,,
and voicing his thorough enjoyment of;
tlu* entire voyage, President Roosevelt!
returned to Washington.
The trip up the Potomac on the
yacht Mayflower, to which he and hlsf
party were transferred from the Louis-,
ian.i at Piny point, was made without!
special incident. As the Mayflower)
pulled into the dock at tlie rear of the:
office <»f the commandant of the navy:
fvar i Miss Kthel Roosevelt, the presi-'
dent's daughter, and Miss Hagner, Mrs/
Roosevelt's secretary, were awaiting to
greet the party. Miss Roosevelt rushed!
:m board as soon as the gang plank!
was laid and affectionately greeted her'
father and mother.
There were also at the dock to wel
come the president Captain McCoy, TJ,!
S. A., and Lieutenant Commander Key,
of the marine corps, the president’^
aides; the commandant and other of-,
liclals of the navy yard and the Uru-J
guayian charge d’affaires.
The president landed within ten min-;
utes after the arrival of the Mayflower.#
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
To those who met him he stated that he,
had a delightful trip and that he was!
feeling line.
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt iin-'
mediately proceeded to the White
House. As the president alighted from!
Ills carriage he shook hands with all*
the attaches and others waiting on the;
portico.
Speaking of his trip the president’
said: “We had a very pleasant, very!
<‘n Joy able time, and I am deeply irn->
pressed with the United States navy,j
(with Panama and with Porto Rico.”
The Panama canal, It was stated by'
the president, will be a subject of a
special message, and consequently on'
that subject the president will say J
nothing at this time.
BLACK HAND FLOT
INVOLVES YOUNG BOYS
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. US.—Two boys of/
the tender age of 10 are languishing'
in the Penn avenue police station un-j
til further Investigation can be made'
into their alleged participation in the
Polish Black Hand conspiracy which
was revealed recently. These lads are)
Robert Straub and Fred Carr, and their
homes are on Ridge street. "
The warning letter which Grocer]
John Droozenski, of Brereton avenue,
received from the Polish Black Hand'
informed him that ho must put a pack
age of $300 under a certain plank in,
the Thirty-third street steps which
lead from Grant boulevard. Instead of
this, however, Inspector R. H. Robin-'
son fixed up a dummy package, put iti
at the designated spot and assigned)
Policeman A. J. Schulze to watch for,
developments.
Schulze saw two small boys approach*
the “deadly” spot, when It was near 9j
o’clock at night, and he nabbed them)
when one was crawling under the*
steps. With good American names andf
combining that fact with their ages, it
was pretty evident that they could not
have written a letter in Polish.
The boys claimed they had been giv-1
en the letter by an older boy, of whoso
identity they could give little better
than hazy descriptions. The police de
rided to hold them until they could'
look further into the matter.
GLAD IN SHIRT AND A
SMILE, NOT MUCH
SHIRT, HE FIGHTS.
Music Teacher, Claiming to B«
Carusc, Starts Things at
Midnight in Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 28.—Singing at
the top of his voice and clad only in1
svhut passengers said embraced a
short nightshirt and a pleasant smile,
Henry Steinertz, who said he lived at
13 Jefferson street, was taken to the
city hospital shortly after midnight af
ter fighting like a demon to board the
Car.
Rain was pouring in torrents. He de
clared that he was Caruso, the tenor.
The car was backed in from a fashion
able neighborhood to the City hospital,
where attendants stated that Steinertz
was suffering from somnambulism.
When aroused he disclaimed all knowl
edge of what had happened.
Steinertz, the police say, is a music
teacher, having lately been a victim of
piisfortune.
FIRE TAKES CHILD’S LIFE
Little Five-Year-Old Girl Victim of an
Awful Accident.
Pierce, S. !>., Nov. 28.—Her clothing
afire from contact with a bonfire which
her sister had built, the 5-year-old
daughter of Fred l.uebe, north of town,
ran as far as she could toward home
and then succumbed to the terrible in
jury. She lived but a short time after
being picked up by her sister, who tied
after her. The clothing of the child
wus entirely consumed.