' NEWSIES OF OMAHA
IN NEW CLUB WILL
BE SELF GOVERNED
Move for Better Condition Led
by Men Once News
boys.
Omaha. Neb., July 12.—How to keep
the 400 newsboys of this city from
shooting craps, swearing, smoking and
forgetting to wash their hands and
faces at regular intervals has been a
problem that has agitated the mem
bers of the Childrens’ Home society for
many a month. At last it is believed
that a solution has been reached and
that from now on the one word, “sin,”
will be erased from the newsboys'
•calender.
Eight years ago there was an or
ganization for the welfare of the news
boys, but it died and since then the
youngsters have been permitted to Just
grow up and run wild. Now, however,
they are to be taken in hand and their
condition bettered.
Probation Officer Bernstein has in
terested a number of the business men
of the city and a club has been or
ganized with E. W. Dickson, a very
wealthy man: Rome Miller, proprietor
of the largest hotel in the city; J. M.
Cudahy, a packer; Rev. Father, a pas
tor who has always interested himself
in boys, and Judge Sutton, of the
Juvenile court, trustees.
The committee having charge of the
welfare of the boys is made up of Joe
Carroll, Tony Costenzo, Tony Monlco
and Sam Kalin, all of whom were once
newsboys, but who are now prosper
ous business men of the city.
A large room has been rented near
the business portion of the city. It
has been equipped with a small li
brary, tables where all kinds of games
ari permited to be played, tub and
shower baths.
The club will be self governed, of
ficered by the boys, but over its affairs
the committee of business men will
have general supervision, they feeling
that they should have the control, as
they are supplying the finances for its
maintenance.
Each boy Joining the club does so
free of charge. Each member is given
a numbered bad<”e for identification
and as a certificate of character.
If a complaint is filed against any
boy or if any boy becomes trouble
some, a report is made to the Juvenile
court, when Judge Sutfon will Investi
gate and take the necessary action.
NEBRASKA CITIES
IN BUSINESS WAR
Fremont Carries Her Grievance
Against Rival to Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Washington July 12.—A commercial
contest between three cities of Ne
braska was Instituted today before the
Interstate Commerce commission by
Fremont, Neb.
A complaint was Instituted by the
Fremont Commercial club against the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
company and several other Interstate
carriers alleging that the rates on coal
from points In Kansas, Missouri, Ark
ansas and Oklahoma to Fremont were
unreasonable, preferential and discrim
inatory, as compared with the rates for
the same points of origin to Omaha
and Lincoln, Neb.
The commission Is requested to ad
just the rates on an equitable basis.
WILL GET A FORTUNE
s IF HE ANSWERS RIGHT
Tecumseh, Neb., July 12.—Probate
Judge James Livingston has set Tues
day, August 9, as the time for hearing
the case of John Wilson, Jr., claimant
for the $30,000 estate of the late Judge
and Mrs. John Wilson, of this city.
Great interest centers upon the pro
ceedings. Wilson will be confront.-d by
10 questions specified in the will of
Judge Wilson. If he answers these cor
rer tly he will become the legal heir
of the estate.
INSANE MURDERESS
ROAMING AT LARGE
She Escapes From Institution
by Dropping Lightly From
a Window.
Pittsburg, Pa„ July 12.—An insane
murderess is at large in the vicinity
of Pittsburg today. During the break
fast hour at the Allegheny county
home in Woodville, a suburb, Isabella
Williamson dropped from a window on
the first floor and got away.
^ The woman shot and killed Robert
Winters in Allegheny nine years ago.
She was adjudged insane and ever since
has been regarded at the institution as
one of Its most dangerous Inmates.
The police throughout the country
have been notified of her escape, and
it is believed she will be captured be
fore nightfall.
ICE CREAM CONES ARE
SEIZED BY OFFICERS
New York, July 12.—The Ice cream
cone is the latest object of attack under
the pure food law of the federal gov
ernment. Today United States Marshal
H?i kel, with a force of deputies, vis
ited a North River steamship pier and
s>i/.ed 18 crates containing 672 boxes
of the cones. The cones were alleged
to be unfit for human consumption,
and their seizure was ordered by the
Vluted States district court.
ARKANSAS FORBIDS
NEGRO CELEBRATION
Little Rock, Ark, July 12.—A negro
ball, scheduled to take place here in i
'•celebration of Jack Johnson's victory
over James J. Jeffries," will not occur.
Chief of Police McMahon yesterday re
puted the negroes permission to hold
f the event.
The town of Van Buren, Ark., haa
prohibited the exhibition of the fight,
•pictures. ^
HOBOES RESCUE A
GIRL ENTICED BY
MARRIAGE PROMISE
Villain in Case Terrorizes His
Victim by Means of Knife
and Bad Looking
Pistol.
Belleville, Kan., July 12.—Rescued
from her captor by hoboes who were on
their way to the harvest fields and
taken In charge by the police here,
Beatrice Fanning, a 19-year-old girl,
who had been enticed from home on
promise of marriage, was started on
her way to her home in Toledo, Ohio,
last night. When she was taken into
custody here she was wearing men’s
clothing, which, she said, she had been
forced to wear after she attempted to
escape from her captor in East St.
Louis. From St. Louis to Belleville
she and the man, who she says was
Cameron Keener, 24 years old, a ma
chinist in Toledo, beat their way on
freight trains.
Keener, she told the police, carried
a razor, a knife and a revolver and
threatened to kill her if she tried to
escape or attempted to tell anyone of
her plight. From Kansas City to To
peka, Deli Mosher, a hobo, rode in the
same freight car with them, she says.
At Topeka she attempted to get away
from Keener, who choked her and beat
her. Mosher tried to defend her, but
Keener drove him away with a re
volver.
Told Troubles to Hoboes.
At Manhattan, Lewis Evans and two
other men, who were beating their way
to the harvest fields, got in the same
car with the couple. She managed to
tell Evans that she was a woman and
that she wanted to get away. Evans
told the other two men, and when
the party got off the freight car in the
Belleville yards Saturday night the
three men attacked Keener. He es
caped and the men took the girl to Mr.
Walker, city marshal
“Cameron boarded at our house, 631
Woodland avenue, In Toledo,” the girl
said. "We had been going together
since last January. We became en
gaged. Cameron said he wanted to be
married at the home of his mother,
Mrs. Kelly, in Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Finally he persuaded my parents and
me that everything would be all right
and Cameron and X left a month ago.
Didn’t Care If 8he Died.
"I soon round out tnat ne didn t in
tend to marry me. I tried to escape at
East St. Louis, 111., and he took my
clothes and burned them and gave me
some of his to wear. After we left St.
Louis we beat our way on freight
trains. I was afraid to tell anybody be
cause he said he would kill me. After
he beat me at Topeka, though, I didn't
care whether he killed me or not, so
I told.”
Bellville citizens furnished money
and clothing so that the girl could re
turn to her mother, who was notified
of her daughter’s trouble. The mother
asked that the girl be sent home at
once.
Toledo, Ohio, July 9.—On the pre
tense of taking her to visit his mother,
whom he said was sick in Colorado,
Keener enticed Beatrice Fanning. 19,
to make the trip with him. The couple
had been acquainted about one year
and the family supposed them to be en
gaged.
BIG RAILROAD GUTS
ITS WORKjNG FORCE
Pennsylvania Company Reduces
Number of Freight Crews on
Two Divisions.
Harrisburg, Pa., July 12.—The Penn
sylvania railroad company today re
duced the number of freight crews in
active service on both the Philadelphia
and middle divisions, and Is prepared
to reduce the time in the extensive
shops in this city.
On the middle division 26 crews will
be laid off on Monday. Orders were
given to store 24 engines In the middle
division, and 20 have already been
stored on the Philadelphia division. On
July 12 four preference crews will be re
stored. Reductions In the number of
engineers were made and firemen and
trainmen laid off.
The reductions are due to traffic con
ditions, It Is said, which do not warrant
the force carried lately.
MONEY FOR BEREAVED.
Paris, July 12.—The administrators of
the Carnegie Hero foundation today
awarded pensions varying from $40 to
$300 annually to widows and orphans of
policemen, firemen and other persons
who lost their lives In the performance
of heroic duty during the Paris floods
last spring.
JEFFRIES MAY SEEK
RETURN ENGAGEMENT
Los Angeles Rumor Is That He
Will Try to Get Negro to
Fight Again.
New York, July 12.—Jim Jeffries may
ask for a return match with jack John
son, Is the statement contained in a
Los Angeles dispatch received here to
day. The information, which is said
to come from reliable sources, says that
Jeffries Is credited with declaring that
he would insist on a return match with
Johnson within six months, following
his return from his hunting trip in the
mountains.
Jeffries, it is said, claims that if ho
can go Into the ring in as good condi
tion as he was a few days before the
fight at Reno he could defeat Johnson.
Sam Berger, manager for Jeffries, will
make a statement later.
SOLDIERS GUARD JAIL
TO PREVENT LYNCHING
Washington, July 12.—At the order of
Colonel Garrard, commander of Fort
Myer, cavalrymen last night guarded
the Alexandria county Jail on Fort
Myer Heights, where early yesterday
soldiers made an attempt to lynch Rob
ert Jackson, a negro confined for hav
ing stabbed Private Scott, Company I) ,
third field artillery, in an argument re
sulting from the Jeftries-Johnson prize
fight _
| ANTI-SALOON SLEUTH
IS LYNCHED BY MOB
Ohio Town Wrought to Fury by
the Unprovoked Murder of
Restaurant Man.
Newark, O.. July 12.—Carl Ethering
ion, 22 years old, employed Thursday
night by the state anti-saloon league
a blind tiger raider, was lynched here
at 10:30 o’clock last night, following a
day of almost continuous rioting. The
heavy doors of the Licking county Jail
were battered down and Etherington
was dragged from his cell. He was
shot, kicked and bruised before the
street was reached and the finish fol
lowed quickly.
Etherington, early In the evening,
confessed he killed William Howard,
proprietor of the "Last Chance” res
taurant and former chief of police, in
a raid of alleged "speak easles" during
the afternoon, and narrowly escaped
lynching at that time. When the news
from the hospital that Howard had died
passed over the city at ? o’clock, the
fury of the mob took definite form.
Large battering rams were directed
upon the doors of Licking county Jail,
and deputies were powerless. The
doors fell after nearly an hour’s attack.
Begs for His Life.
Crying piteously, Etherington, a
curly headed Kentuckian, who had
been serving as a strike breaker since
he was released from the marine serv
ice three months ago, was dragged
forth.
“I didn’t mean to do It,” he wailed.
His cries fell upon deaf ears.
Fearing that the mob spirit would
not be satisfied with one victim, Sheriff
Links immediately asked Adjutant Gen
eral Waybrecht for troops to protect the
six other dry raiders held at the city
prison in another section of the town.
A hurried guard was thrown out in
their defense.
Etherington’s last moments, while he
heard the mob battering down the
doors, were spent in praying and writ
ing a note to his parents, farmers re
siding near Wlllisburg, Ky.
“What will mother say when she
hears this?" he kept moaning to the
jailer.
Howard, it Is charged, did not resist
the detectives when they entered his
place on the outskirts of the city. He,
it is said, however, put his arms about
Etherington as If to hold him, where
upon the officer fired a bullet into his
head.
Striking Baltimore & Ohio railway
employes declare Etherington recently
came to Newark as a strike breaker and
the ill feeling growing out of the strike
has intensified that due to the raids to
day.
As Etherlngton mounted the block
ready to swing he was asked to make
a speech.
"I want to warn all young fellows not
to try to make a living the way I have
done—by strike breaking and taking
Jobs like this,” he declared. "I would
better have worked and I wouldn’t be
here now.”
Trouble Seems Over.
Although Adjutant Weybrecht and
members of his staff are here ready to
direct the bringing of state troops In
case of need, It Is not believed that
further trouble will follow the lynching
last night of Etherlngton.
The double tragedy and the part In
It that was played by 500 citizens of
this town has sobered the people. Ex
tra police guards and deputy sheriffs
are believed by General Weybrecht to
be sufficient to handle the situation.
RUM FOE MAkTnG
FIERCE THREATS
Columbus, O., July 12.—Announce
ment was made here today by Ed Hale,
who headed the detective force of the
Anti-Saloon league yesterday at New
ark In raiding the ‘soft drink” saloons
there, that he Is gathering an armed
force of 50 detectives here, and has se
cured warrants which he Intends to
serve on Mayor Atherton and Sheriff
Llnke, of Newark, this afternoon, for
not upholding the laws of Ohio aaid for
aiding the lynchers, and also on several
proprietors of "speak easles” for vio
lating the local option law of the state
In serving beer In a “dry" territory.
The detective says he will take his
men to Newark by train and mount
horses in the suburbs and ride Into
town with the warrants and serve them
If he has to shoot.
Secretary I.ong today received a tel
egram from Governor Harmon, who Is
at his summer home at Charlovoix,
Mich., stating that he will leave for Co
lumbus at once and take charge of the
situation at Newark. The governor is
expected some time tomorrow.
OLD WORLD FEUD ENDS
!N A GH|GAG0 KILLING
Sicilian Murdered, Presumably
as Result of Vendiller of
Long Standing.
Chicago, July 12.—A tragedy explain
able only on the theory of an old Sicil
ian feud was enacted here today.
Leonardo Balachla, 863 Gault court,
In the heart of the north aide Italian
district, was slain by a man who sud
denly approached while Balachla was
talking to a third person In front of
the Balachla home.
The murderer fired five bullets Into
his victim’s back. Although pursued
he escaped. Mrs. Balachla, mother of
five children, declared her husband had
received no threatening letters, and
ascribed the crime to a feud begun
in Sicily._ _
EAST IS IN FOR H0T~~
SPELL OF TWO DAYS
Washington, July 12.—For the next 36
hours at least there will be no break
In the heat wave over the eastern sec
tion of the country. Hot nights are
pi edlcted everywhere except In the lnlco
region. A cooler area now In the moun
tain states 1« moving eastward. Indica
tions arc the weather will continue gen
erally fair today and tomorrow
throughout the country.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Cincinnati, O.. July 12.—Because his
wife refused to return to him and their
home, Janies Catron, a teamster, fired
several bullets Into her body, inflicting
probably mortal injuries, and then sent
a bullet through his own brain at the
home of a friend of the couple, here to
day.
FIRE IN OHIO TOWN.
Hamilton. Ohio, July 12.—Fire early
today destroyed the Semier Milling
company plant, entailing a loss of 100,
000. The mill was stocked with wheat,
corn and other grain and is a total Jess.'
TEXAS MILLIONAIRE
TO WED A CASHIER
Judge Hill, Railroad Lawyer, to
Take Working Girl as Third
Wife.
San Antonio. Tex., July 11.—For the
third time, Judge E. P. Hill, millionaire
and former counsel of the Southern
Pacific Railroad company, will enter
matrimony, his bride being Miss Allola
Allen, until a few days ago one of the
cashiers of the St. Anthony hotel here.
The romance had Its Inception In the
hotel. Judge Hill being the first guest
when It opened a year and a half ago.
Miss Allen Is witty and is gifted with
a striking vocabulary. She made a
rapid conquest of the elderly judge,
who only recently obtained a divorce
form his second wife. His first wife
Is dead.
Not until Miss Allen left San Antonio
a week or so ago was there any inti
mation of the coming marriage. Miss
Allen and her chaperone, Mrs. H. D.
Matthews, have apartments at the King
Edward hotel In New York, and It is
understood Judge Hill will also be reg
istered there. Thoir honeymoon will be
at the Hotel Knickerbocker, followed
by a trip through Europe.
Judge Hill possesses Immense land
holding In Texas besides having a
large store of available cash.
In grunting his second wife a divorce
he also gave her a certified check for
$200,000. Miss Allen came here from
Chicago. She was employed in the
Auditorium hotel there. She is a na
tive of New York.
TAFT WITHDRAWS MORE
COAL LAND FROM ENTRY
Beverly, Mass., July 11.—Continuing
his policy of conservation, President
Taft last night signed orders with
drawing 35,073,164 acres of coal lands
from the public domain in the states of
North and South Dakota, Washington,
Utah, Colorado and the territory of
Arizona
Of the total withdrawals 20,698,469
acres are new, while 14,374,695 acres are
covered on confirmations and ratifica
tions under the new law, approved Juno
25, of withdrawals made during the last
four years of both Presidents Taft and
Roosevelt.
North and South Dakota are the two
o«.cktco aiicui,cu uy me new ft linuraft ;.ua.
From the public domain In North Da
kota the president has withdrawn from
settlement 17,828,182 acres of land be
lieved to contain workable coal. In
South Dakota the amount withdrawn
Is 2,870,287 acres.
Previous withdrawals confirmed by
the president are divided among the
several states as follows: Washington,
2,207,967 acres; Arizona, 161,280 acres;
Utah, 6,814,287 acres, and Colorado, 6,
191,161 acres.
WEALTHY GIRL GOES
ON TRAIL OF DENTIST
Miss Anheuser Brings Damage
Suite Against Brute Who
Attached Her Clothes.
Chicago, July 11.—Miss Nellie An
heuser, of the wealthy St. Louis fam
ily of that name, whose opera gowns
were attached by Dr. Robert Good, a
dentist during the grand opera season
here last year, filed suit for $1,000 dam
ages against the dentist here today.
Dr. Good, for dental work, charged
Miss Anheuser $500, or at the rate of
$25 an hour. She refused to pay, al
leging that the work was faulty and
had to be done over by another dentist.
Thereupon, the doctor attached Miss
Anheuser's gowns and the latter
missed a performance of the opera.
Yesterday the dentist’s case came up
in the municipal court, Miss Anheuser
having come from St. Louis to defend
the suit.
Counsel for the dentist took a non
suit after failing to get a delay, but
promptly filed another one similar to
the first. The suit for damages today
is an outgrowth of a doctor’s alleged
harrassing tactics.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER
Chicago, July 11.—The last rites of
the body of the late Chief Justice Ful
ler were performed here today. Inter
ment was at Graceland In a grave be
side that of his wife.
The funeral party, which arrived
from the east, followed the casket to
St. Jame’s church under escort of a
number of local delegations. All courts
were closed. Federal and state judges,
and representatives of the Bar asso
ciation attended the funeral In a body.
Flags were at half mast and at the
hour of the service 17-mlnute guns
boomed a salute.
SPANISH DEPUTY MAKES
AN INCENDIARY SPEECH
Madrid. July 11.—Pablo Iglesias, the
first socialist deputy to speak In the
eortes, created a sensation today by
a violent revolutionary speech about
the Barcelona riots. He proclaimed the
Innocence of Ferrara, and avowed that
Barcelona socialists who were affiliated
with the international organization
had precipitated disorders to stop tho
war in Mellila.
Iglesias declared that If Senor Mau
ra, the former conservative premier,
returned to power he will be assassin
ated.
MEETING OF TEACHERS.
Boston. July 11.—Having settled their
business affairs yesterday the teachers
attending the National Educational as
sociation convention took up the final
work of the session today with a dozen
department meetings this afternoon,
goodbye excursions In the afternoon
and tho concluding meetings this eve
ning. _ _ _
WILL PROE GRAFT.
New York, July 11.—To probe the
charges of legislative corruption, the
outgrowth of the Allds trial at Albany
and the Hotchkiss Insurance Investi
gation here, the members of the legis
lative special committee met today to
organize, select counsel and map out
a program for their Investigation.
ST. LOUIS MAN CHOSEN.
Saratoga, N. Y„ July 11.—Rev. Dr.
W. G. Williamson, of St. Louis, was
elected president of the Baptist Young
People’s Union of America today. Phil
adelphia was recommended lor the con
I ventlon in 1911.
TITLED WOMAN IS
KILLED IN A FALL
FROM HER AIRSHIP
Approach of Other Aeronauts
Seems to Confuse Her, and
She Drops to the
Ground.
Bethany Plain, Rhelms, July 11.—
Baroness Do I.a Roche, the first
French woman aeroplanist, was fatally
Injured here this afternoon by falling
from a height of 50 metres.
Baroness De La Roche had flown
around the field once at a height of 80
metres, when suddenly In front of the
applauding tribunes she appeared to be
come frightened and confused at the
approach of two other aeroplanes.
She started to descend, but while still
50 metres from the ground lost con
trol of the machine. The aeroplane
turned over and fell like a log. Tho
baroness' legs and arms were brok
en. Her mangled body was removed
from the wreckage and conveyed to the
hospital, where she Is lying. At the
hospital It was found that her skull
was fractured.
This Is the second fatal accident at
this meeting, VVachter having been
killed last Friday.
Much Discussed Woman.
The performances of Baroness De La
Roche, on a Volson machine have been
much talked of in Paris. This acci
dent was not her first. On January 4
last she was seriously Injured at tho
Chalone aviation Held. In circling tho
course she made a wide turn and
crashed Into a tree, being unable to
elevate her machine quickly enough to
dodge It. She fell from a height of 20
feet and was taken to the military
hospital unconscious. Her right shoul
der was dislocated and internal In
juries were feared, but she recovered
soon.
In February last the French Aero
club gave Baroness De La Roche an air
pilot's license for her feat In flying four
times around the aviation course at
Heliopolis, a distance of 12 miles.
Pioneer of Aviation.
The baroness was one of the pioneers
of aviation. She had also driven motor
boats In races and automobiles at ex
hibitions, and as soon as flying be
came practicable she learned to man
age the planes. There are several oth
er women aviators in Paris.
wnne momentarily conscious the
baroness explained that the rush of air
from a motor passing over her head
had frightened her, whereupon she cut
the Ignition and lost control of the
machine.
Two aviators broke the records for
150 kilometres at the meeting here
today. Hubert Latham covered the
distance In two hours, one minute and
six seconds and afterward the Belgian
Olleslager did It In one hour, 63 min
utes, 20 seconds.
CURTISS MAKES A GOOD
FLIGHT OVER THE OCEAN
Atlantic City, N. J., July 11.—Glenn
Curtiss made a 10-mlnute exhibition
flight here before noon today, covering
eight miles along the board walk.
He left the ground at 10:20 o'clock
near one of the ocean piers In the cen
tral section of the city, swung up to
the inlet over the flve-mlle course and
then, after a beautiful turn, shaped his
course down the board walk to Vent
nor. Returning up the board walk he
made a perfect landing ut the starting
point.
Signals that Curtiss would go aloft
were set at it o'clock and a great crowd
was on the beach and board walk to
see the flight.
Aviator Brookins In a Wright bi
plane, failed in his first attempt to
leave the ground a half hour after
Curtiss made his flight.
At noon, Tex Brookins succeeded In
going aloft. Curtiss in his swift ma
chine followed and both gave exhibi
tions of fancy flying over the ocean.
Brookins almost turned his machine
on Its ends making short circles In
little over 100 feet between the two
big ocean piers. Curtiss first swung
out to sea and then drove In until
he was only a few yards above the
beach, where he darted and swung In
sharp rises and drops.
Brookins was In the air about 10
minutes and Curtiss, five minutes. Both
aviators declared the air currents per
fect for flying and announced their In- i
tention of making trials for the altl- i
tude record later. i
WIFE SLAYEfTmAY
GO WHOLLY FREE ;
New York. July' 11.—A further ad- i
journment today of the hearing of Por- :
ter Charlton In the court of oyer and i
terminer, In Jersey City, to August 1
11 seems to forecast an early ending of i
the case. The papers demanding Chari- I
ton’s extradition to Italy to stand trial i
for killing his wife, Mrs. Mary Scott- :
Castle-Charlton, at Lake Como, have
not been received, and unless the state
department at Washington takes some
action within the next few weeks,
Charlton will be discharged from the
custody of the Jersey court.
Charlton Is held on a 60-day warrant
and the time will expire on August 22.
Should Italy demand Charlton's ex
tradition the state department will re
ject the demand unless Italy agrees In
future to turn over to the United States •
all Italians who have committed crimes "
in this country and then fled to Italy.
This, Italy, it Is understood, will de
cline to do.
PHILADELPHIA MAYOR IS
FAVORABLE TO PICTURES
Philadelphia, July 11.—A commutes
from various civic organizations of inis
city, which called on Mayor Reyburn
today to protest against the production
In Philadelphia of moving pictures of
the Reno fight, left the city hall with
but slight encouragement that the
mayor would prohibit the pictures.
The mayor said later: "I think the
whole thing is a nightmare. I have
had no request for permission to show
the pictures, and why should I make
an announcement now?"
The committee which visited the
mayor was composed of seven prom
inent women and a half dozen men, In
cluding one negro lawyer.
TRACT ION LITIGATION
IS ALMOST CONCLUDED
New York, July 11.—The settlement of -
the long litigation which has involved
the Metropolitan Traction systems for
three years, was virtually concluded ,
today, when Judge Laeoinbe in the
United States circuit court directed
William W. Ladd, receiver of the New
York City Railway company, to accept
the offer of $5.500,000 In settlement of
the suits brought against the Metro
politan Securities company and others.
An early termination of the receiver
ship Is looked for.
TERRIBLE ACT OF
A JEALOUS WOMAN,
Shoots Husband and Daughter,
Then Ends Her Own Life
With Carbolic Acid.
Chicago, July 9.—Mrs. Henry Mul
saw, goaded to desperation by the al
leged brutality and unfaithfulness of.
her husband, a street car conductor,:
today shot and fatally wounded thei
latter and their 8-year-old daughter,!
and then killed herself by taking car
bolic acid.
Mrs. Mulsaw planned her act care
fully. She borrowed a revolver from
her father, explaining that she needed
It for protection when her husband
worked at night. Then she wrote let
ters to her parents, to her motherln
law and to the public. In these she.
declared she had been a good and
faithful wife, but that Mulsaw spent
his spare time with other women and
often beat her.
Mulsaw Is alleged to have been with,
another woman until 4 o’clock this
morning when ho returned to his home.
According to the police, he began
abusing his wife, seizing her by the
flair and kicking her. She then drew
the revolver and shot him In the abdo
men. He fell to the floor, and she sent
another bullet Into his back. She then
went to her bedroom and fired a bullet
Into the body of her little daughter.
Satisfied that both were dead, she
completed the tragedy by taking the
poison. That she kissed her child,
after this act Is shown by the marks
of acid on the child's face.
The police found the woman dead.
At the hospital It was said that the
father and daughter could not live.
COAL STRIKE MEDIATION
SUDDENLY CALLED OFF
Kansas City, July 9.—Negotiations
between the coal operators and coal
miners of the southwest were declared
aff temporarily by the operators today,
because Alexander Howatt, represent
ing the miners In Kansas, ordered the
firemen and engineers at the mines In
his district to quit work In sympathy
with the miners.
The operators contend that this ac
tion was a violation of an existing con
tract, which provides that when the
miners have quit work pending the re
newal of a wage contract, the engineers
'.nd firemen at the mines must remain
it work to keep the mines free from
water.
Thomas L. Lewis, of Indianapolis,
will return here tomorrow and con
tinue his efforts to settle the difference*
between the operators and miners.
SHARP QUAKE SHOWN
BY THE SEISMOGRAPH
Indications Are That Severe
Shock Occurred at Not
Distant Point.
Washington, July 9.—A severe earth
quake shock, continuing from 12:01 to
12:03 this morning, was recorded at
he Georgetown University observa
:ory. The preliminary tremors began
it 11:58 o'clock, an$ were followed 3
nlnutes later by the heaviest shock,
rhe tremors died away at 12:14. Tho
Jbservers at the university say the
■arthquake probably was - not more
han 1,600 miles distant. The chief
notion was east and west and was the'
leavlest recorded slnoe ’\nuaryl.
Cleveland, Ohio, July 9.—An earth
quake apparently nearer and of great
>r Intensity than any other within the
ast six months was recorded at the.
3t. Ignatius College observatory last
light. The preliminary tremors be
fan at 10:55 and the vibrations con
tnued until 11:21. It la estimated that
he disturbance was centered about
.,600 to 2,000 miles distant. The wave
notion was east and west.
DISCOUNT RATE NOT~
REDUCED IN LONDON
London, July 9.—American and
ontlnental Inquiries for gold have ef
ectually barred all prospect of an im
nediate reduction in the bank rate,
rhe directors of the Bank of England
his morning decided to maintain the
1 per cent rate, although dealing on
hat baBls at the present rate of ex
hange represents a loss.
The engagement of 92,000,000 of
'ape gold for Germany reported this
nornlng Is generally accepted as cor
ed, and the recent releasing of bonds
iere should enable New York to taka
:onslderable gold. There soon will be
n the neighborhood of $3,760,000 avail
ible In the open market and at least
l portion Is expected to be purchased
or New York.
LANGFORD READY TO
PUT UP RGHJ MONEY
lis Manager Wires Acceptance
of Johnson’s Demand for
Big Side Bet.
New York, July 9.—Joe Woodman,
nanager of Sam Langford, telegraphed
lere today that he had accepted the
>ffer of Jack Johnson to meet Lang
'ord for a 920,000 side bet, and asks
hat Johnson post his forfeit for the
natch on his arrival here Monday.
Woodman wires that he will tele
graph a deposit to bind Langford’s end
is soon as he learns Johnson's money
s up.
FLIGHTS ARE DUE.
Atlantic City, N. J., July 9.—With
'avorable weather conditions Glenn H.
'urtlss and Charles K. Hamilton, who
lave been giving exhibition aeroplane
lights on the beach here this week,
lope to be able to go after the altitudi
•ecord today.
CROPS IN’BAD SHAPE.
Louisville, Ky., July 9.—With cloud
lursts and droughts spotting the Ken
ucky map and a surplus of rain In
rennessee and southern Indiana, the
rop situation has reached an acme
itage. Too wet or too dry weather has
lot only out the product of the truck
gardens and small fruit farms a full
>0 peT cent, but has wrought untold
fcunage to the staples—corn, wheat and
obacco.
Of the 1,000.000 horse power which
he rivers of Minnesota are estimate*!
o be capable of producing, less tham
me- third has been made available.