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Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the Globe—Latest Home and For
eign Items.
Judge Cochran at Clinton quashed
one count in the indictments against
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Magill. Attor
neys for the defendants asked for an
early trial of the cases.
France and Spain acted promptly
and in concert to meet the situation
in Morocco, both sending men-of-war
and France despatching troops from
Toulon. *
The American motor boat Dixie,
owned by Commodore E. J. Schroeder,
of the Auto Boat Club of America,
won the race for the international
marine motor cup in Southampton
water.
The breech-block of a hundred milli
meter gun was blown off on board the
French gunnery school ship Couronne
during target practice in Salins road
stead, and three persons were killed
and five wounded.
The French minister of public works
has approved the project of the de
partment of bridges and roads for the
construction of a canal to connect the
valley of the Rhone with the port of
Marseilles. The plan involves the
building of the biggest tunnel in the
world.
Three women were killed and two
other persons were injured when a
suburban trolley car struck an auto
mobile at Jackson, Mich.
Olga Lundell, 17-year-old Sac City,
la., girl, who has been a member of
the “Holy Jumpers” sect at the
Fountain house in Waukesha, Wis.,
for several months past, wras taken
from them by a court and ordered re
turned to her home.
F. W. Stevens, general solicitor for
the Pere Marquette railroad an
nounced that the Pere Marquette will
not contest Michigan’s recently enact
ed two-cent fare law.
Three Chinamen were killed and
seven wounded In the Chinese quarter
of Boston by members of a rival tong
from New York.
Fire which started in one of the
buildings of the Tomahawk, Wis.,
branch of the United States Leather
company laid the entire plant in ruins.
The loss is about $500,000.
Gen. Tremaine, formerly of Fort
Wayne, Ind., and recently of Mexico
City, was found dead in a rooming
-house at Torreon, Mexico.
The navy department rejected all
bids submitted for the construction of
a dry dock at Bremerton, on Puget
sound, because they were not within
the limit of the appropriation.
The license of the Southern railway
to do business in the state of Alabama
has been revoked, by action of Secre
tary of State Frank N. Julian.
A bill in equity which calls upon the
American Sugar Refining company to
give an accounting of its business for
the past four years was filed before
Chancellor Magie at Trenton, N. J.,
on behalf of George H. Earle, Jr., re
ceiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re
fining company, of Philadelphia.
Workmen excavating in Marysville,
N. B., uncovered 102 Spanish coins of
the eighteenth century. The money
is worth about $2,000.
It is reported in Paris that a secret
trial of the Wright brothers’ aeroplane
is about to take place in France as the
result of an arrangemeut with the
French government. The aeroplane
has been shipped from the United
States.
By the will of Miss Juiia Sands Bry
ant, daughter of William Cullen Bry
ant, the poet, filed at Mineola, L. I.,
one-half of her estate of $500,000 is left
. to her chum, Miss Anne Rebecca Fair
child. The rest goes to the niece and
nephew of Miss Bryant.
Edward L. Perw.ar, dty ticket agent
for the Cleveland & Pittsburg road fer
20 years, committed suicide at Steu
benville. O.
A launch went over the dam in the
Des Plaines river at Ottumwa and Mr.
and Mrs. William M. Powell, t’neir
son Hallie and Mrs. J. E. Stevens and
baby were drowned.
Charles B. Grubb, a wealthy resident
of Lancaster, Pa., received a black
hand letter demanding $10,000 on
pains of death.
Attorney E. F. Richardson, of Den
ver, disgusted with Clarence Darrow s
methods, has quit the Idaho cases.
Col. Henry E. S. Kellogg and Mrs.
Elizabeth Roshing Kellogg Henry
have been remarried at Ithaca, N. Y.,
after a separation of 28 years.
Dr. J. N. Thomas, traveling inspec
tor, has issued a favorable report on
conditions in Central America in ref
erence to yellow fever.
Henry Hillegas of Allentown, Pa.,
the great-great-great-grandson of Mi
chael Hillegas, the first treasurer of
the United States, received the first
specimen of the new $10 yellow
backed government gold certificates
that came to Allentown. A portrait
of his ancestor adorns the note.
J. M. O’Neil of Dallas, Tex., has in
vented a churn which, it is said, ex
tracts every particle of fat from milk,
increasing the quantity of butter and
leaving practically no buttermilk.
/ Cortlandt Parker, aged 89, nestorof
the New Jersey bar, died at his home
in Newark.
The United States government be
gan suit against the so-called powder
trust in the United States circuit
court at Wilmington, Del. The gov
ernment asks that the Dupont com
pany, of Delaware, be restrained from
exercising control over subsidiary
mmnutM
The foundation Btone of the Andrew
Carnegie palace of peace was laid at
Zorgvliet, near The Hague.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
accepted, it is said, an invitation to
visit Newport, R. L, August 15, as the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt at Beaulieu.
A Hungarian peasant at Neusandee
admitted murdering hi? daughter be
cause she was ugly and had no chance
of getting married. The . jury
found extenuating circumstances and
brought in a verdict of manslaughter.
The body of a white man, with a
gaping wound on the head, was found
in a freight car at Baltimore. The car
had been sent from Chicago.
Two attempts were made to wreck
a passenger train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton road at Midway,
two miles from Hamilton, 0.
A disastrous fire raged all night
along the foothills ten miles east of
Visalia, Cal. The territory devastated
amounts to 75 or 100 square miles.
Korean troops, enraged at the de
cree disbanding them, attacked the
Japanese in Seoul and about 100 men
were killed and wounded. The com
mander of one Korean regiment com
mitted suicide.
Another labor war broke out in
Lodz, Russia. Strikers destroyed prop
erty, barricaded the streets and gave
battle to the troops, 30 being killed or
wounded.
Four men lost their lives at San
Pedro, Cal., when 400 feet of the
trestle leading from the wharf of the
Pacific Wharf & Storage company col
lapsed.
The Pittsburg Cc-al company, whose
14,000 miners threatened to strike, in
vited them to a conference, offering
reparation if its agreements had been
violated.
Petriella, leader cf the Minnesota
iron mine strikers, advised them to
use guns to maintain theif right to
sell their labor where they could get
the best price.
Fred Magill and his young bride
were indicted at Clinton, 111., on the
charge of murdering Magill’s first
wife..
More than 50 families were driven
from their homes at Edgewater, N. J.,
by a fierce blaze which destroyed the
main refining .building of the Valve
line Oil company’s plant. The loss
was $200,000.
Katie Pritschler, eight years old,
was found murdered and mutilated in
New York, the case being similar to
two recent murders of women there.
Neil N. Hughes, senior clerk in the
Columbia, Tenn., post office, son of
ex-Postmaster A. M. Hughes, of Colum
bia, was arrested by United States
post office inspectors charged with
robbing the mails.
Marquette, Kan., on the Missouri
Pacific railway, was wrecked by a tor
nado.
Gov. Frank Frantz was nominated
by acclamation for governor of the
new state of Oklahoma by the Repub
,\ican state convention.
uarrett waish, a nrst-ciass fireman
belonging to the crew of the battle
ship Maine, was stabbed and killed,
.and Chief Master at Arms T. F. Mad
dox and Chief Baker J. Ackerman, of
the same ship, were wounded, the for
mer probably fatally, by Fred Gutier
rez, a “beach wagon” driver, in Phoe
bus, Va.
Serious agrarian disorders have
broken out in the government of Voro
nezh, Russia, where the peasants have
burned down 11 estates.
David Christie Murray, novelist and
playwright, died in London, aged 50
years.
With appropriate ceremonies the |
new cruiser California, recently com- j
pleted, was placed in commission at 1
Vallejo, Cal.
Several Koreans have been arrested \
in Honolulu charged with counter- !
feiting $10 gold pieces.
In convention at Exeter, the British j
Medical association has almost unani- j
mously supported a contention ad
vanced by a member that sick people
should be treated at public expense.
Aloise R. Garze. said to be a mem
ber of a wealthy family of bankers in
Mexico City, committed suicide in his
boarding house in Brooklyn, N. Y. He
was 28 years old.
Robert Stubbs, for years butler for
Levi P. Morton, has retired with a for
tune of $100,000 made from market
tips furnished by his employer.
An explosion in one of the mills of
the American Powder company, mak
ers of smokeless powder, near Avoca,
Pa., blew up the entire plant. J. M.
Hague, the superintendent, and James
Coolbaugh, an employe, were badly in
jured.
Objections have been filed at Clinton
to the administration of the John
Warner estate, charging Vespasian
Warner, the executor, with collusion
and fraud.
Police Commissioner Bingham, of
New York, is planning an internation
al detective bureau, which is to con
nect all the important cities of the
world.
Charles H. Moyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, was
released from the Boise, Idaho, jail on
a bond of $25,000, signed by Timothy
Reagan and Thomas J. Jones, of
Boise.
Mrs. A. Nichols, of Egg Harbor, N.
, J-. had a premonition that she would
die, and, despite the ‘fact that she was
apparently in good health, was found
dead in bed.
Fire in the Pittsburg municipal in
stitutions at Marshalsea destroyed two
buildings and caused the death of one
employe and the serious injury of sev
eral other persons.
The candidacy of William H. Taft,
secretary of war, for the Republican
nomination for president, was en
dorsed by the Ohio Republican state
committee by a vote of 15 to 6. The
endorsement carried with it a decla
ration that the Republicans of Ohio
are opposed “to the elimination from
public life of Senators Foraker and
Dick.”
Admirals Cowles, Capps and Holly
day will cooperate in an investigation
of the Pacific coast defenses and rec
ommend improvements which, it is
said, may include a naval station at
San Diego. Cal.
More than 500 descendants of John
athan Fairbanks, who came from
Sowerby, Yorksliire, England, in 1636,
and settled in Dedham, Mass., met
there to celebrate the sixth annual re
union of the Fairbanks family in
America.
Father Martogesstan, the Armenian
priest and former leader of the Ar
menian revolutionary Hunchakist
party, who was arrested as a result
of a police investigation following the
murder of H. S Tavshanjian, was in
dicted by the grand Jury in New York
on a charge of attempted robbery In
the second degree.
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Secret service men in California
captured 15 Chinese slave girls. They
will be deported.
Jimmy Britt obtained the decision
over Battling Nelson at San Francisco
after 20 rounds of hard fighting.
Father Martoogessian, the Armenian
priest who is accused of being leader
• in a blackmailing society, was indicted
four times in New York for attempted
robbery and extortion.
Patrolman Stephen S. Watson, of
New York, was found guilty of cow
ardice and was publicly degraded and
stripped of his shield.
The coroner’s jury at Colorado
Springs found that Miss Laura Mat
thews committed suicide, removing
! the suspicion that she was murdered
by A. R. Rumbaugh, who also killed
himself.
President Roosevelt conferred with
Gov. Curry, of New Mexico, and in
structed him to institute radical re
forms in the government of that terri
tory.
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, sent
personal emissaries to the iron range
to determine whether it is advisable to
send state troops there to control the
strikers. The striking ore handlers
at Duluth voted to return to work.
The executive board of district No.
5, United Mine Workers of America,
which embraces the Pittsburg district,
authorized President Patrick Feehan
to call a strike immediately of the
miners in that district, alleging that
the Pittsburg Coal company has been
violating the wage agreement repeat
edly.
Troops to the number of 7,000 men
have been sent to Belfast, Ireland, em
phasizing the fact that the authorities
are fully determined to grapple
promptly with rioting, whether on the
part of the striking dock laborers or
the mutinous police, who are demand
ing more pay because of the extra
work the strike entails.
On the pretext that they were dis
pleased with the harbor works, three
tribes raided Casablanca, one of the
chief seaports of Morocco, and mas
sacred the native guards and seven
Europeans.
Claude Heywood, aged 20 years, who
had been attending the naval academy
at Annapolis for the past two years,
and who was at home at Jackson,
Mich., on leave, was 'drowned at
Clark's lake.
S. M. Stephenson, of Menominee,
Mich., ex-congressman and multimil
lionaire lumberman, died at his home
as a result of a fall.
State Senator Bryon Newberry, fa
ther of the Iowa pure food law, who
was bitten on the ankle by a rattle
snake, is in a critical condition and
his recovery is doubtful.
tne pnysician in attendance upon
Adolphus Busch of St. Louis, who has
been seriously ill at his villa near
Schwalbach, Prussia, announced that
Mr. Busch was now out of danger and
improving gradually.
Seven hundred operatives at the
Empire and Klotz mills at Simpson,
Pa., have quit work, making the total
number of silk workers in the Lacka
wanna valley idle through their
strike 4,400.
The twenty-eighth child, a ten
pound boy, has arrived in the family
of Rev. Abraham C. Ruebush of Port
Lavaca, Tex. Mr. Ruebush is 65
years old and has been married
twice.
The Georgia house passed a prohi
bition bill that will make Georgia a
“dry” state after January 1, 1908.
The Des Moines-Kansas City limit
ed and Twin City-Chirago special on
the Chicago & Great Western railroad
crashed head-on near Marshalltown,
la. Harry Norton, a brakeman, was
seriously injured.
A bomb hurled against the dwelling
occupied by Joseph Bienni and family
in the Italian quarter of Philadelphia
did considerable damage to the build
ing and shattered windows a block
‘distant.
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw gave an
authoritative statement to the press
concerning her plans, declaring that
she has no present intention of re
turning to the stage but will devote
her energies to the study of music.
The stone arches which support
the bed of the Erie canal in Syracuse,
N. Y„ where it passes over Onondaga
creek, gave way and four canal boats
were drawn into the bed of the creek
beneath, 50 feet of the wall of the
three-story Empire flouring mill fell
into the water and several persons
narrowly escaped drowning.
Brig. Gen. Charles Francis Powell,
U. S. A., retired, died in St Paul.
Minn., aged 63 years.
Queen Wilhelmina has conferred
upon Andrew Carnegie the order of
Orange Nassau.
Four men we re killed when Missou
ri Pacific freight train No. 164 ran
away down Shannon hill in Atchison,
JCan., and struck the rear end of No.
154, also a freight, standing on the
track. Three of the dead men were
tramps
Fire destroyed three business blocks
in the village of Moravia, N. Y., en
tailing a loss of 325,000.
Four persons were killed, another
was fatally injured and ten others
were seriously hurt when the boiler
of an engine attached to a fast Illi
nois Central fruit train exploded near
Milan, Tenn.
Instead of being sold, horses which
are no longer available for use in the
service of the city of New York are
to be sent to a farm where they will
be cared for until they die.
Within half an hour after his son,
Henry, made an unsuccessful attempt
to commit suicide, Maj. Henry A.
Huntington, a retired American soh
dier, died at his home in Versailles,
France. He never regained conscious
ness after a brief interview with his
estranged son, which was followed by
the shooting down of the veteran’s
two sons and two daughters by their
brother.
Scientists who ascended Mount
Ranier found masses of living worms
deeply embedded in the solid ice of a
glacier.
Charles Bradley, 35 years old, met
death while stealing a ride on a Le
high Valley freight train at York, Pa.
His clothes ignited from a spark from
the locomotive. He fell between the
cars and was crushed.
William Shepard, an ex-soldier, shot
and mortally wounded Corporal Wil
liam L. Shulmen of Company K,
Twenty-second infantry, at Angle Is
land, Cal., and ended his own life with
a bullet from the same revolves.
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JOHNSON DEFINES RIGHTS1
MINNESOTA GOVERNOR ISSUES
STRIKE PROCLAMATION.
Order Gives Workmen Access to Pub
lic Roads, Out Forbids Tres
passing.
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St. Paul, Minn. — Gov. John A. i
Johnson has issued a proclamation
defining the rights of the contending
parties to the iron miners' strike and
warning all to preserve the peace. The
proclamation which was issued upon
the recommendation of the commis
sion which the governor sent to in
vestigate conditions on the iron range
embodies the agreement which the
commissioners made with the strikers
and the officials of the steel corpora
tion. It prohibits the marching of
large bodies of strikers and forbids
trespass upon private property. The
strikers are to be protected in their
right to peacefully assemble in their
halls and the public roads are to be
open to them in small groups. Both
Petriella and Acting President Ma
honey, on behalf of the strikers, agreed
to have their men keep strictly within
the limits laid down in the proclama
tion, and the peace officers were in
structed not to interfere with the
meetings of the strikers.
Commissioner T. D. O'Brien stated
that he believed the crisis had now
been passed on the iron range, and
that trouble which was threatened be
cause of over-zealous peace officers
had been averted.
Duluth, Minn. — All is quiet in
tue Hibbing and Eveleth districts
on the range, and there has not been a
sign of violence as yet. Between 75
and 80 per cent, of the usual night
shifts were at work Thursday night,
and there were fully 25 per cent, more
men working at Eveleth Friday morn
ing than Thursday. About the same
increase is reported by the independ
ent companies.
NEW COUNSEL FOR THAW.
Martin W. Littleton Chosen to Suc
ceed Delmas in Murder Defense.
New York. — Martin W. Littleton,
former president of the borrough
of Brooklyn and a lawyer and or
ator of wide reputation, will be chief
counsel for Harry K. Thaw when the
wealthy young Pittsburger again
faces a jury to answer the charge of
killing Stanford White. Thaw an
nounced the selection of Mr. Littleton
aft* a conference with his mother
and his wife. It is said that Mr. Lit
tleton’s fee will be $25,000.
As chief counsel for Thaw Mr. Lit
tleton will succeed Delphin M. Del
mas, the San Francisco lawyer who
assumed charge of the defense soon
after the opening of Thaw's first trial,
which resulted in a disagreement of
the jury. He is regarded as an able
trial lawyer. It was Littleton who
made the speech in the last national
Democratic convention at St. Louis
nominating Alton B. Parker for the
presidency.
Worms Found in a Glacier.
Tacoma, Wash.—In their ascent of
Mount Ranier, Prof. John B. Flett, of
this city, and Prof. Cowles and a sci
entific party from Chicago, discovered
in the ice of Urania glacier millions
of small worms. The discovery aston
ished the scientists, who could hardly
believe their eyes until they had cut
into the hard ice and removed some
of the worms for microscopic exam
ination. The worms were about an
inch in length and the size of a hair
and presented a wriggling, squirming
mass in the solid ice.
Missouri Pacific Indicted.
Jefferson City, Mo.—Seven indict
ments against the Missouri Pacific
Railway company for failure to oper
ate trains on the Bagnell branch,
running from Jefferson City to Bag
nell, Mo., were made public here.
Three Killed on French Ship.
Toulon.—The breech-block of a
hundred millimeter gun was blown off
Friday on board the gunnery school
ship Couronne during target practice
in Salins roadstead, and three persons
were killed and five wounded.
. Fatal Strike Riots in Lodz.
Lodz.—This city is again the scene
of a strike movement, accompanied by
violence, disorder and death. The
troops have encountered the strikers
in the center of the town and some 30
men have been killed or wounded in
this fight alone. •
New Cruiser in Commiesion.
Vallejo, Cal.—With appropriate cere
monies the new cruiser California, re
cently completed, was placed in com
mission Thursday. Capt. Thomas S.
Phelps will command the cruiser.
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TROOPS TO MOROCCO.
France and Spain Are Acting Prompt
ly in Concert.
Paris.—The French and Spanish
governments are acting in concert
and with great promptness to meet
the situation that has arisen in Mo
rocco. A warship of each of these
powers is now in the harbor of Casa
blanca, and three French and one
Spanish men-of-war are on the way to
Morocco.
France has proposed to Spain the
immediate landing of French and
Spanish troops at Casablanca, and in
anticipation of a favorable reply has
prepared three transports at Toulon to
convey 2.500 men and 300 horses to
Morocco. What further steps. If any,
are contemplated have not been made
public. Slight delay and embarrass
ment in meeting the situation are
caused by the absence of Premier
Clemenceau, who is at Karlsbad tak
ing the cure.
A dispatch received here from
Oran, Algeria,, reports that the State
bank at Tangier has been pillaged and
that a British consular employe has
been captured between Tangier and
Elksare. There is no confirmation of
this news from Tangier.
Madrid. — The government an
nounces that in addition to the cruis
er Infanta Isabel, which already
has arrived at Tangier, the crusier
Don Alvaro de Bazan, now at Las
Palmas, has been ordered to the Mo
roccan coast.
TAKEN FROM “HOLY JUMPERS.”
Iowa Girl Convert Is Ordered Re
turned to Her Home.
Waukesha. Wis.—Olga Lundell, the
17-year-old Sac City, la., girl, who
has been a member of the “Holy
Jumpers” sect at the Fountain house
in this city for several months past,
and whose mother came here to se
cure her release, was Friday evening,
on the order of Court Commissioner
Hemlock, given in custody of the
sheriff of Waukesha county, who was
ordered to take the girl to her home,
despite the fact that she testified on
the stand that she desired to remain
with the “Jumpers,” that being “the
Lord’s wish.”
The courtroom was crowded to suf
focation and the order of the court
was received with great shouts of ap
proval by the citizens who heard the
verdict.
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THREE WOMEN ARE KILLED.
Trolley Car and Automobile Collide at
Jackson, Mich.
Jackson, Mich.—Three women were
killed and two other persons were in
jured when a suburban trolley car
struck an automobile here Friday
night. The dead and injured all be
long in this city.
The ,dead are Mrs. Levi Palmer,
Miss Bernice Oliver and Mrs. Pulver.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver were injured.
t New Attack on Sugar Trust.
Trenton, N. J.—A bill in equity
which calls upon the American Re
fining company to give an accounting
of its business for the past four years
was filed before Chancellor Magie
Friday on behalf of George Earle,
Jr., receiver of the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining company, of Philadel
phia. The suit, it is said, is the only
one of the kind ever filed in this
country and the step taken by the
receiver of the Pennsylvania company
may be the means of opening an en
tire new field for investigating the
trusts.
Banker Dies in Swimming Pool.
Philadelphia.—Edmund R. Watson,
president of the Northern National
bank and treasurer of the Henry Hess
Brewing company, met death Thurs
day in the swimming pool of the Co
lumbia club.
Morton’s Butler Quits with $100,000.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—Robert Stubbs,
for years butler in the home of Levi P.
Morton, has retired from his position
with a fortune of $100,(100, and has re
turned to England, his native country,
to live.
Massacre in Morocco.
Tangier.—On the pretext that they
were displeased with the harbor,
works, three tribes Wednesday raided
Casablanca, one of the chief seaports
of Morocco, .and massacred the native
guards and seven Europeans.
Naval Cadet Is Drowned.
Jackson, Mich.—Claude Heywood,
aged 20 years, who had been attend
ing the naval academy at Annapolis
for the past two. years, and who was
at home here on leave, was drowned
Wednesday at Clark’s lake.
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GRAND JURY HOLDS EX-BANKER
AND WIFE FOR MURDER.
CONSPIRACY IS ALLEGED
State Now Contends That First
Spouse of Clinton Man Was
Smothered—Defense Wants
Quick Trial.
Clinton, 111. — Fred M. Magill and
his second wife, Faye Graham Ma
gill, must stand trial on the charge
of murdering Pet Magill. The special
grand jury which has been investigat
ing the death of Magill's first wife re
turned indictments ajainst both de
fendants in Judge W. G. Cochrane’s
court Friday. Magill and his wife were
excluded from the court while the
grand jurors made their presentation.
The indictment against each of the
defendants contains six counts. They
charge that Mrs. Pet Magill came to
her death: 1. By the administration
of strychnine. 2. By the administra
tion of arsenic. 3. By being smother
ed with a quilt. 4. By a suicide com
pact, with the advice and counsel of
the defendants. 5. By poison with
chloroform. 6. By some means un
known to the state.
Counts Are Specific.
Each of the indictments covers nine
typewritten pages and the two are
indentical in their charges. The three
counts charging the administration of
poison specify two drams of strych
nine and two drams of white arsenic,
respectively, reported to have been
given to Mrs. Pet Magill in a mixture
of half a pint of beer and chloroform
in large quantities and administered
through the victim’s nose.
The count covering the smothering
clause charges each defendant with
exerting “a mortal pressure” and “of
choking and strangling” the victim
with a blanket.
The count on the suicide compact
charges that Pet Magill was “persuad
ed” to take chloroform.
The last count alleges that Pet Ma
gill came to her death “in some way
and manner and by some means, in
struments, weapons, poisons or deadly
drugs unknown to the jury," and that
the defendants, “willfully and with
malice aforethought did deprive said
Pet Magill of her life.”
Magills Win a Point.
Clinton, 111.—Judge Cochran Friday
sustained a motion to quash the sixth
count of both indictments against
Fred Magill and his wife. He over
ruled the motion to quash the other
indictments, holding that they were
good.
The defense immediately filed a mo
tion to consolidate the two cases, so
that both husband and wife should be
tried together, and the court took this
under advisement. The defense then
asked that the cases be set for trial as
speedily as possible, and Judge Coch
ran announced that November 9 would
be the earliest possible date, but after
considerable argument on this sub
ject, the judge adjourned court until
Saturday morning, by which time he
will decide whether the trials shall be
gin next week or in November. The
defendants were then arraigned and
pleaded not guilty.
OHIO IS PLEDGED TO TAFT,
His Candidacy Indorsed by Repub
lican State Committee.
Columbus, O.—The candidacy of
William H. Taft, secretary of war, for
the Republican nomination for presi
dent, was indorsed by the Republican
state committee Tuesday by a vote of
15 to 6. The indorsement carried with
it a declaration that the Republicans
of Ohio are opposed “to the elimina
tion from public life of Senators For
aker and Dick.”
Although beaten by a decisive vote
in all the preliminary contests, the ad
herents of Senator Foraker in the
committee refused to accept the olive
branch extended by the Taft support
ers, and when the resolution, as
amended, was finally adopted no ef
fort was made to make the action of
the committee unanimous.
WON’T FIGHT LOW FARE LAW.
Pere Marquette to Accept the New
Michigan Statute.
Detroit, Mich. — F. W. Stevens,
general solicitor for the Fere Mar
quette railroad, has sent a letter to C.
L. Glasgow, state commissioner of
railroads, announcing in behalf of Re
ceiver Harmon and the road’s stock
holders that the Pere Marquette will
not contest the recently enacted two
cent fare law. The law goes into ef
fect September 28.
Mr. Stevens says in his letter that
the desire to abide by the public sen
timent in Michigan in favor of a two
cent rate outweighs the “well-ground
ed belief of the management that such
a rate is unreasonably low in Michi
gan where applied practically to all
roads without reference to passenger
earnings or territory reached.”
Telephone Strike Is Lost.
San Francisco.—The telephone op
erators, who have been out on strike
since May 2, will return to work un
der the same conditions prevailing
when they walked out. The strike
was declared off Friday.
Noted Boston Clergyman Dies.
Boston.—Rev. Charles A. Crane, D.
D., pastor of the People’s temple, and
one of the best-known Methodist cler
gymen in New England, died suddenly
of heart disease at his home here
Ijriday night.
S. M. Stephenson, of Michigan, Dies.
Menominee, Mich.—S. M. Stephen
son, of this city, ex-congressman and
multimillionaire lumberman, died at
tiis home here Wednesday afternoon
is a result of a fall sustained sev
3ral days ago.
Snake Bite tJiy Kill Iowan.
Waterloo, la.—State Senator Bryon
Newberry, father of the Iowa pure
Food law, who was bitten on the ankle
t>y a rattlesnake Tuesday, is in a crit
ical condition and his recovery is
loubtfoL
MANY KILLED ON RAILROADS
I GHOCKING FIGURES IN COM
| MERCE COMMISSION’S REPORT.
Deaths for Three Months in Train
Accidents Number 421 and In
jured Nearly 5,000.
Washington. — Shocking railroad
accidents, involving great loss of
life and property, occurred during the
three months ending March 31st, in
the United States, according to acci
dent bulletin No. 23, issued Wednes
day by the interstate commerce com
mission. While the number of lives
lost and the number injured are some
what less than during the previous
three months, the record yet is appall
ing.
The bulletin shows that the total
number of casualties to passengers
and to employes while on duty, during
the three months, was 20,563, as com
pared with 20,944 reported in the pre
ceding three months—a decrease of
381. The total number of passengers
and employes killed in train accidents
was 421, and the number of injured
4,920,C3 less in the number killed and
20 less in the number injured, as com
pared with the record of the preceding
three months.
The total number of collisions and
derailments in the quarter was 3,991
(2,078 collisions and 1,913 derail
i ments), of which 323 collisions and
229 derailments affected passenger
trains. The damage to cars, engines
and roadway by these accidents
amounted to $3,636,110.
The number of employes killed in
coupling accidents in this quarter
shows a diminution of 25 per cent, as
compared with the quarter last pre
ceding or with that of one year ago.
The other principal items in the pres
ent record show no important changes
as compared with the last preceding
quarter, which was marked by large
aggregates of both killed and injured.
However, the number of passengers
reported killed in train accidents—126
—is 30 per cent, smaller, but the rec
ord includes two collisions and two de
railments, killing a total of 82 persons.
BIGGEST TUNNEL IN WORLD.
France Will Build It for Rhone-Mar
seilles Canal.
Paris. — The ministers of public
works has approved the project
of. the department of bridges and
roads for the construction of a canal
to connect the valley of the Rhone
with the port of Marseilles. As the
hills separating the Rhone from Mar
seilles are too high to be surmounted
by locks the project involves a tunnel
seven kilometers in length at a cost
of $6,900,000. This tunnel measured
by the amount of dirt excavated will
be the largest in the world.
The width of the canal (permitting
two barges to pass at any point) to
gether with the towpaths on either
side will be 66 feet and the height will
be 42 feet. It will thus involve the ex
cavation of 2,186,000 cubic meters,
against 1,058,400 in the case of the
famous railroad tunnel at Simplon
which is 21.6 kilometers in length but
only 24 feet wide and 18 feet high.
The total cost of the Marseilles-Rlione
canal will be $15,200,000.
MISS MATTHEWS A SUICIDE.
Verdict of Coroner’s Jury in Colorado
Springs Tragedy.
Colorado Springs, Col.—All su3
plcion against Amos R. Rumbaugh
as the slayer of Miss Laura Matthews
was removed through the verdict of
the coroner's jury Wednesday after
noon.
The verdict reads:
“We, the jury, empaneled to inquire
into the cause of death of Laura
Matthews, find that she came to her
death from gunshot wounds inflicted
with suicidal intent.”
An inquest was held later over the
remains of Amos R. Rumbaugh, who
shot himself through the head Tues
day afternoon. The verdict was that
he came to his death by his own hand.
Suspicion for a time pointed to Rum
baugh as having caused xhe death of
Miss Matthews, because of his appar
ent infatuation for the young woman
and his failure to appear at the in
quest as a witness.
THIRD VICTIM OF STRANGLER.
Little Girl Killed and Shockingly Mu
tilated in New York.
New York.—“The graveyard,” as the
foreign-populated neighborhood on
First avenue, between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets, is known locally,
gave up Thursday a fresh crime, rival
ing in atrocity the mysterious butcher
ies of last week. The latest discov
ered victim was an eight-year-old girl,
and, like the two young women mur
dered, she had been shockingly mis
treated before death and the body mu
tilated when life was extinct She was; V
Katie Pritschler, daughter of a res
taurant waiter. She disappeared a
week ago and was killed that night. A
ribjjon placed about the throat and
drawn so tightly that it cut the flesh
showed how she died.
Dry Dock Bids All Rejected.
Washington.—The navy department
Friday rejected all bids submitted for
the construction of a dry dock at
Bremerton, on Puget sound, because
they were not within the limit of the
appropriation. The lowest bid sub
mitted approximated the entire
amount available for the construction
of the dock, leaving nothing with
which to purchase a caisson, pumping
and other necessary appliances, which
would cost about $350,000. The de
partment will refer the matter to con
gress.
Tornado Wrecks Kansas Town.
Wichita, Kan.—The division office
of the Missouri Pacific railway has
been notified from Geneseo that a tor
cado wrecked Marquette, a station
east of Geneseo in McPherson couuty.
All wires are down.
Bad Hail Storm in Michigan.
Detroit, Mich.—There was a serious
bail and windstorm in central Michl- \
gan late Thursday. Corn and oats and *
fruit were badly damaged. Around
Oakley, Chesaning and Orion the loss
aggregates $100,000. #