MISSOURI RIVER ABOVE
SIOUX CITY GETS COIN
Congressman Hubbard, After
Conference, Decides to Vote
for the Harbors Bill.
IT IS THE BEST IN YEARS
Aowsn Will Try to Get a Much Desired
Amendment Tacked On,
With the Senate's
Aid.
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4 ADMIRAL DAVIS. 4
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Washington, D. C., Feb. 5.—Congress
man Hubbard sags the rivers and har
bors committee is disposed to show
more liberality toward the Missouri riv
er in the future and he has decided to
vote for the bill this year. He reached
the decision, however, only after a con
ference with members of the commit
tee and a distinct understanding affect
fng die future.
• We get a specific appropriation for
the river above Sioux City, the first in
peveral years,” said Mr. Hubbard, "and
it indicates the right disposition. Chair
man Burton says the representatives
pave been desirious of getting an
amendmept to the measure which shall
provide that this year's appropriation
may be used for the maintenance of the
present protective works. This is the
provision made for the Mississippi and
It ought to be applied to the Missouri.
However, I will probably not attempt
to get the amendment inserted in the
house, because if it should be defeated
there the defeat, would be regarded by
a conference committee as an instruc
tion to oppose it in conference. Instead,
the senators are willing to undertake
to insert the amendment in the senate,
tend it will be likely to stay in."
The house today resumed consider
ation of the river and harbor bill.
House Hears Hepburn.
Congressman Hepburn addressed the
fnembers on the proposed deep water
way from Chicago to the gulf. He made
a reply to Clark of Montana, whom tie
said wanted to huild a waterway 4,000
•miles in extent between granite walls
'200 feet high. He had seen the Missis
sippi when five miles in extent, with
a volume of water that would defy
the puny efforts ot man to hold it.
He characterized the scheme as "Utop
ian and chimerical” and declared when
the proposed waterway from St. Louis
to Cairo should be eomnleted it would
have a velocity of from twenty to
twenty-five miles an hour.
"That would be admirable for down
stream navigation,” he said "but how
would vessels get up? We have spent
on improvements and waterways in
the United States $245,000,000 and of
this amount nearly $140,000,000 has
been spent on the Mississippi.” Hep
burn said the steamboat as a mode of
transportation was a thing of the past.
It was his belief that a double track
railroad would have a cheaper carrying
rapacity per mile than the Hennepin
fanal.
He was followed closely by the house
and gave notice of amendment to limit
the expenditure for the Missouri river
to the protection of its banks and chan
hel, but not for the improvement of the
tiavigation of the stream.
PAPER TRUST TO COME
UNDER PROBE ONCE MORE
Washington, D. O., Feb. 5.—Once
more the paper combinations are to be
placed upon the grill by the federal
government. The judiciary committee
«f the house will report favorably the
resolution of Representative Williams,
directing the commissioner of corpor
ations to make a thorough investiga
tion of these concerns.
The investigation will not only af
fect newspapers, which pay $226,000,
000 annually for the paper they con
pume, but book publishers and box
board, writing and other paper man
ufacturers, who consume at least $71,
000.000.0b0 worth of paDer.
The General Paper company, which
rontrols the entire market of the mid
dle and western states, was dissolved
recently, after a federal prosecution in
Minnesota. Prices at once dropped 30
per cent. Now, they have been ad
vanced again, the law being evaded
through the incorporation of a new
concern, the Kimberly-Clark company,
(n Wisconsin.
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INDIAN BILL AMENDED
BY SENATE COMMITTEE
Washington, D. C.. Feb. 5.—The sen
ate today began consideration of the
Indian bill, carrying more than $14,
1100,000. Many amendments were re
ported by the committee to the house
bill.
BURTON NOT TO CONTINUE
RIVER COMMITTEE HEAD,
Washington, D. C., Feb. 5.—Theodore
K. Burton, chairman of the rivers and
harbors committee, has announced to
his friends that he will not accept a
reappointment to his present chairman
ship in the next congress. Resentment
of the criticism to which he has been
subjected, and a feeling that his efforts
to systematize rivers and harbors ap
propriations have not been appreciated,
ure the causes of ills determination.
LOSES HIS LIFEf FOR
PICTURE OF MOTHER
Appleton, Wis., Feb. 5.—Perley Ba
ker, a young farmer, gave his life for
bis mother's picture.
The farm house of John Gray, where
Baker was working, caught fire and
was destroyed. Baker assisted in get
ting the family out of the house and
then remembered he had left his
mother's picture in his room. Dashing
into the house, he ran to his room to
.secure the picture.
He had just reached the second floor
when the beams gave way and the floor
went down, carrying Baker with it into
the basement.
GERMANY FROWNS UPON
ARMAMENT LIMITATION
Paris, Feb. a.—In governmental clr-j
cles the outspoken opposition of Ger
many to the discussion of the limita-:
tion of armaments at the next peace
meeting at The Hague is considered
a death blow to any practical step in
that direction corning from the confer
ence.
Foreign Minister Pinchon and Pre
mier (Ternenceau, with whom Professor
De Martens has been conferring on the
subject <•? a program at the conference,
take this view.
MURDER OF Y. W. C. A.
WOMAN IS PROBED
Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 5.—After over
n year of anxious waiting, Nashville
people are flocking to the criminal court
In crowds to hear developments in the
Rosa Mangrum murder trial.
Dr. Herman Feist has been arraigned
on charge of murdering Mrs. Mangrum
while she was supposed to he on her
way to Chicago, by way of St. Louis.
Her body was found several weeks af
ter her disappearance, December 14,
1905, lying in the Ohio river at Cairo.
III.
Evidence has been produced by the
state to the effect that on the night of
Mrs. Mangrunt’s disappearance. Dr.
Feist hired a livery rig under an as
i sumed name and that when it was re
turned next day, there were evidences
of hard driving.
Mrs. Mangrum’s wddower is a barber.
She had been connected In an execu
tive capacity with the Young Women's
Christian association.
DIMPLES TO ORDER,
JUST GUT A MUSCLE,
THE TRICK IS DONE
<\nd of Course It Is an Actress
Who Has the First Artificial
One: Louise Barthey.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 5.—The time hai
rrrived when a dimple may be made
to order, like a spring hat or a tailor
made gown.
A young woman who knows all about
the matter and has the dimple to show
for it is Louise Barthey, playing- in
"The Tourists.”
Miss Bathey is pretty and ail she
lacked to make her prettiness absolute
ly complete was a dimple. She had
been a devotee of all the various kinds
of hygienic beautifying, for her com
plexion has been treated and massaged,
her hair kept beautifully glossy and
fluffy by electric brushing and frlction
Jng the scalp, her nails are perfect
shells of daintiness, and what else was
left except to buy a dimple? When the
Idea once presented Itself, she simply
had to have it.
Dr. Geo. Hill, who performed the
operation, says that, while it Is a bit
painful to get a dimple in one’s cheek,'
the whole matter is simply and easily
performed. The cutting of what is
known as the zygamaticus major
muscle, which has its origin at the
point of the cheekbone, produces the
desired effect.
RATTLESNAKE, PET OF
MAYOR, SCARES OTHERS
Comes When Atlantic City Ex
ecutive Calls and Rattles Joy
ously-—Girl Hysterical.
Atlantic City, N. J„ Feb. 6.—A five
foot rattlesnake has become the pet
pf Mayor Stoy and occupies luxurious
quarters in his private office. The
make has five rattles, which it shakes
joyously on the approach of Stoy,
Since its arrival several days ago the
pnake has had the run of the mayor’s
pffice, with the result that everyone
except the mayor has given the place
a wide berth.
The janitor refuses to clean the
^oom and the mayor s pretty typewriter
has been thrown into a state border
ing on hysteria.
The snake, which the mayor secured
pn a hunting trip in the south, has
learned to come to him at his call.
HANDS BABY TO BEAR
INSTEAD OF FATHER
Mother Mistakes Form in Dark
for That of Husband—Bruin
Treks to Mountains.
Aft on, Va„ Feb. 5.—The baby o\
Mrs. James Ingram, wife of a young
farmer, was carried away by a bear, to
which the mother handed it, last night.
It was agreed that her husband
should meet her at a fence near the
woods and take the child to a neigh
bor’s. The woman reached the fence
and saw a figure dimly outlined on the
other side. Believing it her husband,
she handed the child over.
To her amazement the figure disap
peared without a word, taking the baby.
Frantic, she called her husband, whom
ehe met coming towards the fence. The
tracks of an immense bear led toward
the mountains.
LAWMAKER-SUICIDE’S
PAL GOES TO WAKE,
AND KILLS HIMSELI
John Bowd, Lifelong Friend of
Assemblyman Donahue,
Dies as He Did.
New York, Feb. 5.—John Boyd, aged
10, a lifelong friend of Assemblyman
William J. Donahue, who shot and
killed himself in a saloon In Brooklyn
Thursday, committed suicide early to
day under identically the same circum
stances, while on Ills way home from
attending ills friend's wake.
MARLBOROUGH PAIR
PART; NO COURT MOVE
London. Feb. 5.—The duke and duch
ess of Marlborough have arranged pri
vately a settlement of terms under
which each will have the care of the
children for a portion c-f the year. The
duchess will continue to make Sun
derland house her London home, while
the duke will have town headquarters
at a west end hotel, as ne has don*
- October last.
DRYDEN PULLS OUT OF
RACE FOR SENATOR
Gives Up Fight for Re-Election to
Millionaires’ Club From New
Jersey.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 5.—United
States Senator John F. Dryden. of New
Jersey, last night authorized the Asso
ciated Dress to announce that he had
withdrawn his name as a candidate for
re-election to the United States seu
ate.
The action was taken on the advice
of the senator's physicians, who warned
him of the danger to his health if he
persisted in attending the public meet
ing arranged at his request to be held
in Trenton today. It was Senator Dry
den's intention to address the republic
an members of the legislature and set
forth the reasons in his opinion why
he should be re-elected to the senate.
Following the senator's decision to
withdraw his name his physicians, Drs.
Edward J. Ill and Charles L. Ill, sent
the following telegram to the republic
an leaders In the New Jersey senate
and house of assembly.
"The condition of Senator J. F. Dry
den's health Is such, on account of the
long and severe strain under which he
has been, that we, Ids physicians, have
advised him that It Is ol Imperative
importance that he should not attend
the proposed conference at Trenton on
Monday.”
' Senator Dryden said he had hoped at
this meeting to be able to convince the
eight republicans who refused to be
bound by action of the party caucus
that their opposition to him is based
upon mistaken grounds. The speech
which the senator Intended to deliver
before the republican caucus at Tren
ton will be made public today.
' In explaining the senator’s withdraw
al from the senatorial race his private
secretary made the following state
ment :
' Senator Dryden concluded that a con
tinuance of the deadlock would tend to
Injure the party and the state. Ac
cordingly he today formally announced
his Intention to withdraw. Senator
Dryden is not dangerously ill. His con
dition is such, however, that his physi
cians and family consider It of vital
Importane that he should be relieved
at once of any further strain upon his
Strength and that complete rest from
nil cares Is absolutely necessary.
' Senator Dryden Is president of the
Prudential Insurance company, which
connection is said to be largely re
sponsible for the campaign against him.
Briggs Likely to Be Elected.
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 5—The announce
ment that United States Senator J. F.
Dryden has withdarwn as a candidate
for re-election has started the politi
cians to work and the indica
tions point to State Senator
Frank O. Briggs us Mr. Dry
den's successor. Mr. Briggs hast
authorized the statement that he is
a candidate and it is said he has re
ceived assurance- of support from a
majority of the republican legislators.
GIRL DEPUTY GETS
DESPERADO WHO HELD
UP A WHOLE TOWN
s Appointed to Office by Boy
Sheriff Who Bests Politi
cal Machine.
Albion, 111., Feb. 5.—Miss Bertha
Funkhouser, a young society girl of
this place, has been appointed deputy
by Charles Marshall, the youngest sher
iff in the state. He is 23.
The modest young deputy Is the
daughter of John Funkhouser, a re
publican politician of southern Illinois,
who served in the Spanlsh-American
war as lieutenant colonel of the Ninth
Illinois Volunteers. Her brother is a
military cadet at West Point, having
received the appointment from Con
gressman Chapman.
"I am wondering,” said the girl,
‘‘what that characteristic is the poli
ticians call ‘pull.’ I know no one ex
erted any influence on the sheriff in
my behalf. No. I can lay no claim
to the position on account of re
lationship. But you must remember
that the sheriff is a young man, single,
and probably his love for society
prompted him to choose a deputy from
the fair sex.”
The truth of the matter is Miss Funk
houser’s appointment came as a coup
on the part of the boy sheriff, who as
tounded the old politicians and let them
kno<v he knows how to play politics.
Miss Funkhouser’s first experience as
deputy was exciting. A drunken des
perado had held, up an entire village
at the muzzle of a shotgun, and fright
ened all the constables out of the baili
wick. The sheriff, accompanied by his j
deputy, rode to the scene, forced him
to surrender his gun, submit to th«
handcuffs, and brought the prisonei
back to the county bastil’
HAVE REAL RAFFLES,
SAY CHICAGO POLICE
Dhurch Lecturer Takes Off
Dress Suit and Sallies Forth
to Rob.
Chicago. Feb. 6.—A man, said by the
police to be a genuine ''Raffles,” was
captured while coming out of the shoe
store of A. C. Ltebrlck. He is Henry E.
Rice, a graduate of a Montreal college,
who came to Chicago three months ago
to engage in reform work.
He has given several lectures at
West Side churches and missions.
Shifts His Dress Suit.
I fn Rice's room two trunks of fine
clothing were found. Among the gar
ments was a dress suit which Rice
donned when he appeared before an
audience to deliver one of his ''uplift''
sermons.
On returning to nis room, it is al
leged by the police, he would change
the dress suit for a garb less conspicu
ous and then sally forth to rob.
SHOOTS HUSBAND AS
I THE JUDGE ADVISED
Chicago, Feb. 5.—Following the ad
vice, so she says, of a Chicago judge
"to shoot wife beaters.” Kate Hoffman
Calhoun, shot and probably fatally
wounded John Calhoun. The woman
says:
"Sure 1 shot him. Didn't the judge
i say a woman had a right to shoot a
I mar, if he brat h‘r°”
i
RAILROAD BLAMES THE
LIGHTNING FOR HORROR
Bolt Said to Have Caused Ex«
plosion of Powder In Big
Four Freight Car.
6TORM NEAR SANDFORD
testimony Introduced to Show Eleo>
trical Elements Were Really at
Work—Boston and Maine
Cuts Fare.
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4 GRAIN SHIPPERS 4
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4 Oklahoma City., Feb. 4—That 4
4 shippers of grulu over the Missouri, 4
4 Kansas and Texas since January, 4
4 1906, are entitled to rebates amount- 4
ting to thousands of dollurs, col- 4
lectod by the railroad under an ar- 4
4 bltrary 6 cent charge per 100 weight 4
4 on freight In foreign cars, turned 4
4 over to the Missouri, Kansas and 4
4 Texas, at Junction points Is the 4
4 chief development in the hearing 4
4 before Interstate Commerce Com- 4
4 mlssloner Prouty. 4
4 Another Interesting feature 4
4 brought out Is that It Is cheaper to 4
4 ship grain 800 miles to Chicago than 4
4 to (JatnesvUle, Tex., 140 miles. 4
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Terre Haute, Inch, Feb. \.—The In
diana railway commission has conclud
ed the Terre Haute sittings of the In
vestigation of the Sandford explosion
with no positive Information as to the
cause of the explosion of 600 kegs of
powder in a Big Four freight car. At
torneys for the railroad made plain
their purpose to attribute It to a stroke
of lightning.
President Mees, of Rose Polytechnic,
said If there had been an electrical
storm nearby the theory was tenable.
President Walsh, of the Terre Haute
board of public works, said he hap
pened to notice lightlning in the direc
tion of Sandford just before the explos
ion. No witnesses among those at
Sandford testified to seeing lightning.
Damage suits will be filed amounting
to $250,000. If the lightlning theory
shall be accepted the rnllrond will es
cape responsibility.
PASSENGER AND RATE
TARIFF RULES ISSUED
Washington, D. C.. Feb. 4.—The In
terstate Commerce commission promul
gated two tariff circulars containing
regulations governing the construction
and filing of freight and passenger tar
iffs and classifications effective March
1. It is provided that, a change In a
t. i'f shall be known as an amendment
anil shall be printed in the supplement
to the tariff which it amends. No rule
shall be Included, which in any way
or in any term authorizes substituting
for any rate named in the tariffs. Ev
ery carried shall publish, post and file
separate tariffs containing in plain and
specific form and terms ail of the ter
minal charges and allowances, together
with all other charges and rules which
In any way ihcrease or decrease the
amount to be paid on any shipment, as
stated in the regular tariff. If a car
rier refuses to participate in through
joint rates to or from its territory, the
commission will give early hearing and
render decision under the law, which
confers authority to establish through
routes and joint rates. Such complain
ing carriers may, the commission rules,
use such through rates over the lines of
the objecting carrier or carriers as may
have been lawfully published and filed,
pending a decision by the commission,
LOST MAYOR SEES
PICTURE IN PAPER
AND RETURNS HOME
Bloomington Rejoices When It?
Executive Shows Up After
Four Days’ Absence.
Bloomington, 111., Feb. 4.—Blooming
ton’s lost mayor Is found. With Sweden
as his magnet, Mayor Alfred C5. Erick
son left home. After four days' ab
sence, apparently as sane as at any
time in his life, he created a fresh
sensation by his return to the city at
10 o’clock at night, coming from Chi
cago, where he boarded a fast train on
the Chicago and Alton.
He was alone and engaged n car
riage for his home. He was given a
joyous greeting by his waiting fam
ily.
He told a remarkable story of his
trip. He said lie was impelled by an
irresistible idea to go to his fatherland,
Sweden, and was unable to repress the
desire. He drew $4,000 of his private
junds from the bank, intending to use
this money on the trip. He met Aider
man Freez, who dissuaded him from
taking so much money, and he gave
$3,500 back to his son, retaining but
$500. He believed that this would be
ample. He accordingly left here for
Chicago, boarding the Pennsivania lim
ited that evening for New York city.
Back to Bloomington.
After inquiring about steamboats and
the time of leaving for the ocean voy
age he suddenly made up his mind that
he would not take the trip at this
time, but would defer it. After a stay
of but a few hours In New York he left
there for Chicago, reached that city
and then came home.
He went to the Olympic theater In
Chicago and was surprised to see his
picture In a paper being read by a man
sitting in front of him. He then re
ceived his first intimation that his ab
sence had created a sensation.
ROCKEFELLER BREAKS
LAW, NO FIRE ESCAPES
Cleveland, O., Feb. 4.—Building in
spector Vorce has Issued an order that
an outside fire escape he p'j ed on the
Rockefeller skyscraper hei* owned by
John D. Rockefeller.
The building code provides that there
must be at least two means of egress
from all buildings and that where ele
vators and stairway are side by side
an additional means of escape must be
provided.
The Rockefeller building does not
obey the law.
.FREEZE TO DEATH
IN TENEMENT HOUSE
Woman and Three Children Perish in
Grand Rapids—Another Se
verely Frozen.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb 5.—-A wom
an and two children were found frozen
to death yesterday afternoon In an up
Istairs tenement here, with a third child
'tat an adjoining roofs badly frozen but
alive.
The deail:
EMMA K LIVINGSTON, aged SO.
ALFRED T. LIVINGSTON, aged 7.
LINCOLN B. LIVINGSTON, aged &.
Badly frozen:
Helen Livingston, aged 10.
Miss Jennlo Livingston called at the
•csldence to pay a visit and found her
Sister, Miss Emma Livingston, and one
child dead in bed, one child dead on
-the floor and Helen In the adjoining
room badly frozen.
None of the family had been seen
since Thursday, when two of the chil
dren attended school. The children
'lived with Miss Livingston, who was
’their aunt. It Is supposed that after
“they retired Thursday night they be
came partially asphyxiated by coal gas
and the Are dying out were frozen to.
death.
CHILDREN TO RUN
THIS ODD VILLAGE
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 5.—The Sey
bert Institution for poor children, with
a 11,500,000 fund just available under
the will of Henry Seybert, who died In'
1883, will go Into the business of re
Itevlng poor children at the rate of
1,000 a year, first by an arrangement
with the Children’s Aid society to open
a children's bureau February 15 by
creating a model village, unlike any
thing on earth, on u 300-acre farm at
Meadowbrook, with cottuges for 300
poor children and school training fa
cilities; next by settling up a train
ing school for child savers.
Other branches of child-saving work
will be developed In the future as need
arises under the Seybert Institution,
created by the bachelor benefactor in
honor of his father and mother, Adam
and Marla Sarah Seybert. The full
text of the announcemtMs was handed
out today by •'-e trust,*\s of the Sey
bert Institution, all well-known citi
zens of Philadelphia.
Its model village for 300 will be the
first of Hh kind In the world. The aim
is that the life of the children shall
be us near ns possible like that of n
normal child In a family home In a
small community.
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SHOWS HIS SICK WIFE
PICTURES OF COFFINS
Philadelphia, Pa., Keb. 5.—To be
shown photographs of tombstones and
coffins while she was very sick, Mrs.
Jennie L. Taylor testified In the Cam
den Chancery court, was part of tho
alleged Inhuman conduct on the part
of her husband, Joseph L. Taylor, who
owns several stores and Is worth con
siderable money.
Mrs. Taylor asks for alimony. Her
husband has filed a cross suit, alleging
desertion. Vice Chancellor Learning
said the Question at Issue was whether
the woman was Justified in the deser
tion.
Mrs. Taylor testified that he offered
her $1,200 to get a divorce, and that she
found a letter In his desk, which read:
“Dear Joe, I have had no letter from
you for a week. Do you mean to say
you have kissed no one but me?”
The witness said she was compelled
to give up this letter, which she found
In his desk, under threats of being
killed. She said her husband had told
her that he would put her under the
ground six feet.
SPANKS WIFE WITH
SLIPPER, IS FINED
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 6.—August M.'
Thorson, a box maker, was fined $100
and costs In police court for spanking
his wife.
"I will let you off only this time,”
said Judge Kemley In passing sentence.
"A repetition of the offense will cost
you $200. I want it distinctly under-'
stood that inen cannot spank their
wives In Kansas City without paying
the penalty.”
Mrs. Thorson told Judge Remley that ,
this was the second time her husband
had spanked her during the two years' !
of their married life.
"He gave me $5 Saturday morning,”'
testified Mrs. Thorson, “and later when>
1 was not looking slipped the bill out
of my purse and went downtown. When
he returned his breath smelled of liquor
and he had but $2.50 left. When I pro
tested he laid me over his knee and
spanked me hard with a slipper.”
OLEO WAGONS HALTED
ON STREETS, IN PURE
FOOD CRUSADE.
Thousand Pounds Seized by
Revenue Officers Because Cus
tomers’ Orders Are Lacking.
_
St. Hoiiis, Feb. 6.—Thu seizure of
large quantities of oleomargarine was
begun by internal revenue officers and
more than 1,000 pounds confiscated.
Delivery wagon* of dealers are being
slopped in all parts of the cities and
when packages of •'oleo." whether
marked or unmarked, are found the
driver is asked to produce orders show
j lng that the customer has distinctly or
I dered oleo.
If such orders are not shown the oleo
' is seized.
The seizures are being made under
nil old law which makes illegal the re
moval of oleo in small packages from
the original tax paid packages.
t SUES FOR EVERY ♦
-y TIME AN ENGINE ♦
♦ CROSSED HIS FARM. ♦
♦ Appleton, AVIs,, Feb. z.—Henry X
4 Miller, a farmer, has begun 2,140 4
4 suits against the Chicago and 4
4 Northwestern for $21,400, or $10 for 4
4 every locomotive that has crossed 4
4 his farm since he advised the rail- 4
4 -road company to construct a eul- 4
4 vert and crossing at the point where 4
4 the railroad crosses his farm. The 4
I 4 complaints in those cases till about 4
I 4 COO typewritten 1 ages. 4
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TWELVE MEN WHO WILL
TRY HARRY K. THAW
, New York, Feb. 4.—The Thaw jury
as' completed Friday follow*;
Foreman—Denting B. Smith, 65y re
tired manufacturer, married.
No. 2—George F. Pfaff, 64, hardware
dealer, married.
No. 3—Charles H. Fecke, 45, ship
ping agent, married.
No. 4—Oscar A. Pink, 46, salesmaiv
married.
No. 5—Henry G. Harney, 50, plau»
dealer, married.
No. 6—Harry C. Brearley, 35s adver
tising agent, married.
No. 7—Malcolm S. Frazier, 40> sales
| man. married.
No. 8—Charles D. Newton, 66, re
tired railway official, married.
No. 8—Wilbur S. Steele, 60, manu
facturer, married.
No. 10—John 8. Denee, 38, railway
freight agent, unmarried.
No. 11—Joseph B. Bolton, 57, clerk^
married.
No. 12—Bernard Gerstman, 36, man-'
nfacturers' agent, married.
The selection of the twelfth Juror*
came as a complete surprise at the endi
of a long and tedious day—the eighth
of the trial—and immediately after th®|
last of the trial panel had been sworn
in. Justice Fitzgerald adjourned court
until 10:10 o'clock Monday.
Anxious to Remove One More.
District Attorney Jerome who Is con
tending f«w the removal of one of the
men now In the Jury b®x, but who has,
failed to gain the consent of the de
fendant's counsel to a change, was
still reluctant as court adjourned to be-,
gin the actual proceedings without a.
further opportunity to plead with
Thaw’s attorney. At his request, there
fore, Justice Fitzgerald ordered all
talesmen, who have not been examined
to he In court Monday morning ready
for Jury service In case they are needed.
Mr. Jerome then announced that If
there should tie no change In the sit
uation In the meantime the state would
proceed to place all Its direct testimony
before the Jury at the Monday morn
ing session. The defense was notified
(o be in readiness to proceed by Mon
day afternoon.
EXPLOSION IN THEATER
RUINS TRADE CENTER
Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 4.—Eight build
ings in the center ofl the business dis
trict were either destroyed or badly
damaged by fire today; loss, £1,000,000.
The Grand opera house block, con
taining five stores, and the D>uncan
building, occupied by three stores and
z pool room, were destroyed; the Papk
hotel, Columbus hotel, Undtod Tele
phone company building. Security
Trust building. Bijou theater, Roshon’s
photograph studio, the College block,
the Harrisburg Gas company building,
buildings occupied by the Harrisburg
Cycle and Typewriter company, the
Philadelphia and Albany dentists and
E. G. Hoover, Jeweler, were damaged.
The lire started from an explosion In
the Grand theater.
COUNCIL SAYS GRIP
IS SPREAO BY KISSING
Atlantic City, Feb. 4.—Health, Officer
Bomers says kissing anil grip go hand
In hand, and In order to prevent the
spread of Influenza has Issued a state
ment warning the public against oscu
lation.
Dr, Somers holds that 9 per cent, of
all kisses are laden with genmsy partic
ularly grip germs, and that lit is not
possible to sterilize kisses, therefore he
Issues the following:
"In view of the rapid spread of grip
throughout the city, and in view of the
known fact that osculation, commonly
described as kissing, is the most fruit
ful agent of the propagation of the grip
germ, it is advised that temperance and
moderation in respect to said practice
be more generally observed.”
Chief Inspector Beck and the board
of health is backing Dr. Somers up in
his attack on kissing, and the council
will be asked for an appropriation to
have the warning printed and displayed
In railroad stations and public places In
general.
WILL BLEED ATHLETE
TO SAVE GIRL’S LIFE
Vale Six-Footer’s Life Fluid to
Be Infused as Foe to
Typhoid.
Now York. Feb. 4.—Heroic measures
Were decided on today to save the Ufa
of Miss Ellen B. Platt, daughter of
Frank H. Platt, granddaughter of Sen
ator Platt, who is 111 with typhoid,
fever.
By the transfusion of blood from a
healthy person it is hoped to conquer
the disease.
A Yale athletic chum of the girl’s
brother has volunteered for the service.
This young man is a giant in strength,
six feet tall and In perfect condition,
the physicians say, to make him an
ideal subject for the unusual sacrifice.
♦ CHRISTIANITY HELD til
♦ MISAPPLIED IN FIGHT -Mi
> AGAINST CANTEEN. 4f
4 -*■!
4 Washington, D. C., Feb. 1.—Pres- ,.
4 tdent Roosevelt gave a hearty «►
4 greeting to a committee of the - -
4 Woman's Army Canteen club, of -»
4 'Washington, working for the re-es- - ►
4 tabllshment of the canteen In the - ►
4 army. The committee was accom- - -
4 panied by Representative Kahn, of - ►
4 California. The members of the - -
4 committee told the president that - h
4 they intend to organize branch - >,
4 clubs throughout the country which - -
4 would take up the crusade. The - >
4 president is understood to have ex- - s
4 pressed his approval of the work. «
4 The women told the president they . »'
4 considered the anti-canteen war ■»
4 “misapplied Christianity ^ ^ ^. »
WOMAN HElITaS
A BABY BURNER
Des Moines, la., Feb. 4.—Mrs. Fred
West, proprietor of a baby farm, was
arrested today on a charge of murder
in the first degree, it being alleged she
put an infant to death by means of
laudanum because of its blindness.
Affidavits were filed in which it la
i charged thal the bodies of a number
i of infants born in Mrs. West’s homa
I were burned In a furnace
