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| VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21. 190!) NUMBER 11
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f< A Coiling Dawn of the More Irapor- \
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Congress.
President Roosevelt sent a special
message to the house, vetoing the bill
to permit the construction of a dam
across the James river in Missouri.
The matter of increasing the presi
dent's salary to $100,000 a year was
Gbcussetf in the senate without defi
nite action.
Nebraska national bankers are said
11. be coming around to favor the pos
tal saving bank bill.
Mr. Tillman in another speech in
the senate made further denials and
explanations regarding his connec
tion with Oregon land deals.
Mr. Carter offered an amendment to
the postal savings bank bill, fixing the
rate of interest on deposits at 2 per
cent.
Senator Bacon declares is favor of a
■ bili providing for right of senate to de
^ mand papers of any department.
Senator Rurk< tt's bill to allow the
Fremont. Elkhorn and Missouri valley
railroad permission to change its
course was refused.
The authority of congress to direct
heads of executive departments ■ to
itr vend to the senate or house informa
r tion in thir possession was the subject
of an extended speech in the senate,
ki Senator Cummins of Iowa is going
to make his first fight and his first
speech in the senate, in behalf of
amendments to the postal savings
bank bill, which he considers abso
Ilutelv necessary if the measure is to
pa.s. He is determined to oppose the
measure unless the amendments are
adopted.
Objection was mane in tne nouse
to the use of the pension building for
the inauguration ball.
Opponents of a large river and har
bor appropriation contend the trea
sury is too low to stand it.
Senator Tillman says he will soon
expose the “'dark and crooked ways
of President Roosevelt.”
Senator Burkett introduced a bill
i previously presented to the house by
Representative Boyd, enabling the
Omaha Indians to protect from over
flow their tribal and allotted, lands
within the boundaries of any drainage
district in Nebraska. The lands
sought to be drained lie in Thurston
county.
Representative Hull has intro
duced a bill authorizing the president
to appoint one additional professor of
mathematics in the navy.
Congressman Hinshaw has return
ed from a visit to Panama. He re
grets that he was not in Washington
to cast his vote against the resolution
tabling that portion of the president's
message having reference to the
secret service. •
The house of representatives ap
pointed a special committee to inves
tigate secret service work in all. de
partments of the government.
Senate galleries were crowded to
listen to Senator Tillman reply to the
president’s charges against him in
connection with land grabs.
F
General.
GENERAL fin.
Thornton Kains, charged with aid
ing his brother. Captain Heins to kill
t\V. E. Annis was declared not guilty
by the jury after twenty-two hours’
consultation.
The order of hat manufacturers re
moving labels from all hats is the
cause of a strike which involves
thousands of workers.
A statement from Denver says Gen
eral Superintendent W. L. Park is to
become head of the operative depart
ment of ail Harriman lines, with
headquarters in Chicago.
Ten persons were killed in a wreck
on the Denver & Rio Grande.
At Denver John C. Beatty, aged G5,
of New York, said to he a wealthy
land owner was found dead in a
bath tub in which hot water was run
ning.
One man was killed and fourteen
persons injured iu a fire which de
stroyed Copeland hotel at Topeka,
Kas.
Mrs. Edward Pomery of Sidney,
Neb., gets half of big estate of John
R. Platt, late cf New York.
John W. Kern in a formal state
ment charges his defeat for senator
ship in Indiana to special interests
who are using the party for selfish
ends.
Prof. Abbot L. Lowell is recommend
ed by corporation for president of Har
vard as successor to Charles W. Eliot.
Nebraska landed more prizes than
any other state at the Corn Show,
with Iowa a close second.
Judge Anderson is to preside at the
retrial of the Standard Oil case.
Louis W. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railroad, will pay fare on his
own read hereafter when traveling in
Minnesota.
John F. Stevens, former engineer of
Panama canal, has been offered presi
dency of Colorado & Southern, recent
ly acquired by the Hill interests.
The New Cuban congress met.
Among the first bills to be introduced
will be one legalizing cock fighting ancf
one creating a national lottery.
Rev. J. H. Carmichael, a former Ne
braska preacher, killed himself at
Carthage, 111., leaving a letter admit
ting the murder of Browning.
The commander at Messina issues
orders to shoot looters.
An explosion in the Lick Branch
colliery, West Virginia, caused the
death of probably sixty men.
Depletion of government revenue is
the greatest barrier to systematic re
vision of the tariff.
1'nion Pacific announces fast, daily
local trains between Omaha and North
Platte, which wil relieve the Overland
Limited. *
One of the interesting measures to
be considered in the New York legis
lature is one proposing that the state
assume control of the police in all of
the cities of the state.
An ancient church in Switzerland
collapsed. Forty dead and sixty in
jured have been taken from the ruins.
Many deaths have marked the emi
gration of Richardson (Neb.) county
people who emigrated to Canada. It
is a great country for penumonia har
vests.
The Nebraska legislature recan
vassed the vote on the amendment
providing for four new supreme court
justices.
Rev. John H. Carmichael of Adair,
Mich., committed suicide at Carthage,
111., after writing a letter confessing
he killed Gideon Browning in the
church at Adair. Carmichael former
ly lived in Nebraska.
“Work, peace and progress” is de
clared to be the new motto of Tur
key.
The Irish universities act and th?
housing act passed by the British
Parliament are two measures that
will prove a great benefit to the peo
ple of the Eme rald Isle.
Search in the ruins ofC Messina are
occasionally rewarded by the finding
of living victims*.
Return of balmy weather permits
earthquake sufferers at Messina to
live in the open.
Governor Magoon received a hearty
welcome in his tour of Cuba.
The Illinois legislature has a dead
lock on that threatens serious possi
bilities.
Twenty-five men were killed by an
explosion of gas in the Loiter coal
mines at Ziegler, 111.
V. j;hington.
The president sent to the senate
the loHowing nominations of postmas
ters: Nebraska—George Young,
Cedar Bluffs; Benk \Y. Showalter,
Davenport: Spicer E. Ellis, Elmwood.
Representative Hinshaw made a re
quest upon the Agricultural depart
ment that one of the expert road
builders of the department. now op
erating in Nebraska be assigned to
the Fourth congressional district.
The senate committee on ''Sericul
ture authorized a favorable report on
the McCumber bill providing for the
inspection and grading of grains. Un
der this bill national inspection an-i
grading of grains is provided for and
the Department of Agriculture is au
thorized to fix definite grades.
The senate passed a bill permitting
the use of the pension office for the
inaugural ball in connection with the
inauguration of Mr. Taft. Senator
Scott, in charge of the measure, ex
plained that it contained the usual
provision lor special police, etc., “to
provide for the pickpockets and others
w ho come here on occasions of inau
gurations.”
Taking evidence in the suit to dis
solve the Standard Oil combine will
be finished in a day or two. Final argu
ments will be heard in St. Louis' in
April.
The military affairs committee of
the house authorized a favorable re
port on the bill granting the Chicago
& Northwestern railway the right to
change its right-of-way over the
abandoned Fort Niobrara military res
ervation, and giving said railway per
mission to construct a new bridge
across the Niobrara river in con
formity with the now right-of-way.
The Civil Service commission an
nounced examinations will be held this
spring for departmental service in
Washington at the following places;
in Nebraska and Iowa: Beatrice,
March 17; Crand Island, March 10,
~J. April 14; Lincoln, March 10, 30,
Aurll 14; Omaha, March 10, 27, April
14. In Iowa—Antes, March 10, April
14: Burlington, March 10, April 3;
Davenport, March 10, April 14; Des
Moines, March 10, April 13, 14; Du
buque, March 10, April 5, 14; Iowa
City, March 10, April 14; Mason City,
March 10, April 6, 14; Sioux City,
March 10, 26, April 14.
A statement from Taft that there
will be no more cabinet announce
ments until March 4th gives the out
side cabinet makers full swing and a
clear field on guessing.
As shown by the annual report of
the commissioner of immigration for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 190S,
the work of the bureau was in many
respects the most comprehensive and
interesting ever performed. During
the year there was a decrease of 39
per cent in immigration.
Personal.
Ex-senator Dietrich of Nebraska
favors a postal savings bill.
Dr. George E. Howard of Nebraska
university contends that divorces are
a good thing.
Tributes' hvere paid by the house of
representatives to the memory of the
late United States Senator Redfielcl
Proctor of Vermont.
Eighteen hundred people in Cleve
land, O., pledge themselves to live for
one week “as Jesus would.”
T. B. Hord, the most extensive cat
tle feeder in the world, striken with
paralysis at his home in Central City
Nebraska.
The supreme state court refuses to
grant a rehearing to Captain A. G.
Fisher of Chadron, Neb., who was dis
barred from practicing law for a
year.
DAYS OF TOLERANCE
PRESIDENT-ELECT TAFT DIS
CUSSES RELIGIOUS WORK.
WARM PRAISE FOR Y. M. C. A.
Believes the Association Has Brought
About More Tolerance Than All
Other Agencies.
Augusta, Ga.—Inutroduced to a big
audience of men, comprising the negro
Young Men’s Christian association
of this city, Sunday, as the "most
popular and conspicuous citizen of the
United States. America’s great states
man, our uncrowned king, for whom
we wish a successful administration,”
President-elect Taft discussed the
Christian uplift of tile Young Men’s
Christian association work.
Dr. Walker, known as “Black Spurg
eon” who introduced Mr. Taft, said the
negroes of Georgia, owned 1,000,000
acres of land in the state and paid
taxes on $20,000,000 worth of prop
erty.
This report Mr. Taft regarded as
most encouraging: It gave him an il
lustration for the oft expressed be
lief that the race question must he
settled by the negroes themselves be
coming indispensable to the commun
ity in which they lived. This meant
industry, edupation and thrift, ac
quired by constant individual effort.
He dwelt at length upon the advan
tage of Young Men’s Christian asso
ciation work to bring out this end and
illustrated his point by, picturing the
temptations and depression of Ameri
cans in the Philippines and the help
which the association is rendering
there to afford wholesome ways of en
tertainment for the leisure hours. ,
It was his belief that the Young
Men's Christian association had
brought about in this country more tol
erance between the various religious
denominations. As an example of this
lie gave a detailed account of the situ
ation in which the government found
itself with regard to the friar lands in
the Philippines. Concurrence, he said.
I had been obtained front a body of
clergymen, representing the various
' denominations that no protest would
be made-by them when the govern
ment should take up with the pope
I the negotiations necessary to acquire
i title to these-lands. Their purchase
for $7,000,000 he said, had saved what
would have been a bloody revolution
in the Philippines, which would have
cost the country millions more and
many lives.
"Forty years ago,” he said, “it would
have been impossible to have obtained
this concurrence. There would have
arisen among the denominations an
j objection to it, on the ground that i'
was a recognition of the Roman Cath
olic church contrary to our tra
ditions.”
After he had described the Young
Men’s Christian association work of
the Isthmus of Panama, where four
clubs are running, each under the
direction of an experienced Young
Men’s Christian association secretary,
paid by the government, where ten or
a dozen ministers are also employed
by the government with a plan en
dorsed to establish two or three more
clubs, Mr. Taft remarked: "It is
possible we will be charged with hav
ing filched that money from the
public treasury. But if we have, we
have accomplished a good work with
it.
TRIPLE i RAGEDY IN SEATTLE.
W. L. Seeley Kills Wife and Daughter
and Commits Suicide.
Seattle, Wash.—W. L. Seeley, an at
torney and former national bank ex
aminer for Illinois under Comptroller
of the Currency Kckles. his wife, Mrs.
Kate M. Seeley, a member of the na
tional society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and his daught
er, Mi3s Rene Seeley, a student at the
University of Washington and a mem
ber of the Delta Gamma society, were
found dead in a bath room of their
home in the fashionable Capitol Hill
district Sunday.
The victims had been dead since the
previous Thursday. The women, each
cf whom wa3 clad in night robes, had
been murdered by being struck on the
head, evidently with a hammer. There
was no mark of violence on >Seeley.
That Seeley killed his wife's daughter
while insane over financial worries
and then committed suicide is the
theory of the coroner and the police.
Mr. Bryan Will not Attend.
Tampa, Fla.—Word was received
from W. J. Bryan, that he would not
attend the inauguration of President
Gomez in Cuba, hut instead would exl
tend his vi3it in Tampa until that
time.
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Cuba to Rule Itself.
Havana.—January 28. at noon the
Cnuban people will come Into their
own for the second time at the hands*
of the American government.
Iroquois Theater Cases.
Chicago.—It was made public here
that after five years of litigation set
tlements had been made in the cases
of thirty of the deaths caused by the
Iroquois theater fire. It is stated that
$750 a case is to be paid by one of
the firms responsible for the fire in
the theater, prosecutions against the
company in these cases having been
withdrawn from court. In one instance
a man who lost his wife and three
children in the fire, received $750 for
each death. Many other suits against
firms are still pending.
PHOTOGRAPHS PROM RECENT QUAKE IN ITALY. I
The Upper Picture Shows Soldiers Carrying Injured Victims from the Ruins
and the Lower a Camp of the Injured and Homeless.
FIRE RAZES TOPEKA HOTEL
ONE MAN KILLED IN BURNING
OF COPELAND HOUSE.
Was One of Oldest Fostelries in Kan
sas and Rallying Point of
Politicians.
Topeka, Kan.—With walls black
ened by smoke, bulging to the danger
point and threatening to cave in at
any time on an interior of utter ruin,
all that remains of the Copeland hotel,
the rallying point of the Republican
party of Kansas fc years, is. a mere
hulk cf a building, the result of a fire
Thursday.
The body of Isaac E. Lambert, ex
T'nited States district attorney for
Kansas, was found in the ruins Thurs
day night with the head, arms and
legs burned off. The body was found
in the northeast corner of the build
ing. Lambert's room was on the
fourth floor directly above. Fourteen
of the guests were more or less seri
ously hurt.
The hotel is a complete loss, esti
mated at $120,000. Insurance was car
ried to the amount of $41,000. The
porticos are intact and the front of
the. building was not burned out. But
inside is complete ruin, all four of the
floors have caved in. An attempt was
made* last night to wreck the walls
with a stream of water, but it proved
fruitless.
The Copeland hotel was of brick
construction, four stories in height. It
was situated at the corner of Ninth
and Kansas avenues, one block from
the state capitol, and was one of the
oldest hotels In Kansas. It had a
roomy lobby and wide hallways, and was
plentifully supplied with fire escapes.
The main stairway, however, was
built around the elevator, and the
flames shooting up the shaft soon
shut off this means of escape. The
fire started shortly after four o'clock
in or near the kitchen, apparently
from escaping gas. The flames had
gained great headway when discov
ered and when the fire apparatus first
arrived the rear stairway had been
cut off as a means of escape.
Must Pay Fare on His Own Road.
Minneapolis. Minn.—Louis W. Hill,
president of the Great Northern rail
way, will pay on his own road here
after when traveling in Minnesota. He
informed Gov. Johnson Thursday that
he would accept appointment as a
member of the state highway commis
sion, and his name was sent to the
senate Friday. The attorney general
has ruled that persons holding any
kind of state position are absolutely
barred from accepting free transpor
tation, even if they are railroad of
ficials.
Noted Russian Admiral Dead.
St. Petersburg—The death is an
nounced of Vice-Admiral Rojestven
sky, who was in command of the Rus
sian fleet in May, 1905, when it was
practically annihilated by the Japan
ese in the battle of the Sea of Japan.
The death of Vice-Admiral Rojest
vensky, which occurred in St. Peters
burg Thursday, was due to neuralgia
of the heart.
Try to Tamper With Jury?
Pittsburg, Pa.—George W. Worley,
brother-in-law of J. B. F. Rinehart, ac
cused of wrecking the Farmers’ &
Drovers’ National bank of Waynes
burg, Pa., whose case was being de
liberated upon by a jury Thursday
night, and James L. Smith, a promi
nent business man of Waynesburg,
were arrested by United States secret
service operatives on a charge of at
tempting to tamper with a jury. It is
alleged they attempted to reach one
of the jurors in the Rinehart case, but
it is understood were unsuccessful.
TEN KILLED IN COLLISION.
Terrible Accident on the Rio Grande
at Dotsero, Col.
Glenwood Springs, Col.—In a col
lision between Denver & Rio Grande
passenger train Xo. 5, west-bound, and
east-bound freight train Xo. 66 at
Dotsero Friday night at least ten per
sons were killed and a number of
others injured.
As scon as word reached "here that
a wreck had occurred, a train was
made up and all available doctors and
nurses in the city were pressed into
service and carried to the scene of the
accident.
Meager details of the w’reck are to
I he effect that the freight train was at
tempting to take a siding on orders to
let the passenger train pass, but had
only partially run off the main line
when the passenger train came tear
ing along and crashed into it.
The chair car of the passenger was
torn in two and one tourist car tele
scoped. The passenger train was well
filled with passengers.
STRIKE OF HAT MAKERS BEGINS.
Quit Because Manufacturers Quit Use
of the Union Label.
Xew York.—A general strike of hat
makers, that may involve some 25,
000 workers, was inaugurated in the
hat manufacturing centers of the coun
try Friday as the result of a deci
sion of the Associated Hat Manufac
turers to discontinue the use of the
union label in the factories represent
ed in the association.
Reports from various places re
ceived here Friday night indicate that
the hatters in this vicinity, including
those in the factories in Xew York,
Xew Jersey and Connecticut, have gen
erally obeyed the order to strike.
There were no signs of disorder any
where, the hat makers peacefully re
tiring from the factories when the or
der to quit work was received.
AMERICAN GIRL WEDS A PEER.
Miss Beatrice Mills Becomes the
Countess of Granard.
New York.—Miss Jane Beatrice Mills,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills,
and granddaughter of the well-known
financier, D. O. Mills, was married to
the eighth earl of Granard Thursday,
thus becoming a British peeress.
The marriage took place at 3:30 in
the afternoon at the city home of the
bride’s parents. The ceremony was
performed by Bishop Thomas J. Cu
sack of St. Stephen's Roman Catholic
church, in the presence of 250 rela
tives and guests. The gifts to the
bride were said to be worth about
$500,000 and included a check for
$100,000 from her father.
Turkey Accepts Austria’s Offer.
Constantinople.—Through the sug
gestion of his majesty, Sultan Abdul
Hamid I., the Turkish government has
accepted the Austro-Hungarian offer
of £2,500,000 Turkish ($10,800,000)
indemnity for the annexation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, thus remov
ing every possibility of war.
Two Engines Fall Into River.
Vancouver, B. C.—Brief news of an
accident on the Canadian Pacific rail
road reached Vancouver Friday after
noon. Two locomotives and four cars
are believed to have jumped into the
river near Spuzzum. Engineers Fos
ter and Kinzaden were killed.
Former Iowa Solon Dead.
Fort Dodge, la.—Former State Sena
tor Thomas D. Healey died Friday
evening of pneumonia. Ho was borif
near Lansing, la., ana sioved to Fort
Dodge in 1883.
WATER POWER IS IN DANGER
SO SAYS PRESIDENT IN VETOING
A BILL FOR A DAM.
Considers Himself Bound to Prevent
Monopoly of Public Resources
If He Can.
Washington. — President Roose
velt Friday sent a special mes
sage to the house with his veto
of the bill providing for the construc
tion of a dam across James river, in
Srone county, Missouri, the purpose of
the dam being to get water to create
electric power. He declared that the
movement to secure control of the
water power of the country is still in
its infancy, but that "unless it is con
trolled the history of the oil industry
will be repeated in the hydro-electric
power industry, with results far more
oppressive and disastrous for the peo
ple.
"It is true,” he added, “that the
great bulk of our potential water pow
er is as yet undeveloped, but the sites
which are now controlled by combina
tions are those which offer the great
est advantages and therefore hold a
stategic position.” He says that “the
bill gives to the grantee a valuable
privilege, which by its very nature
is monopolistic, and docs uot contain
the conditions essential to protect the
public interest.”
“I consider myself bound,” he con
tinues, “as far as exercise of my ex
ecutive power will allow, to do for the
people, in prevention of monopoly of
their resources, what I believe they
would do for themselves if they were
in a position to act.”
The message was received at the
close of the day and was received in
differently. After its reading it was
Referred to the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce.
CARMICHAEL WAS INSANE.
Examination of Brain Reveals Evi
dence of Acute Mania.
Detroit, Mich. — The brain of
Rev. John H. Carmichael, who
killed Gideon Browning in the Rattle
Run church and committed suicide at
Carthage, 111., was examined by four
physicians here last night. At the
conclusion of the autopsy, the physi
cians stated that they had found un
mistakable evidence of insanity. The
doctors who held the post-mortem ex
amhiation were County Physician
William J. Stapleton, E. B. Smith, C.
B. Ray and Arthur W. Kipp.
"We find that Rev. Mr. Carmichael
had been a sufferer from acute mania,"
said the physicians. “The blood ves
sels of the brain were all congested.
There was an adhesion of tire cover
ings of the brain to the cranium
which showed an anaemia of the right
side of the brain, and we found granu
lations of the superior, posterior sur
face of the cerebrum. It is evident
that Mr. Carmichael had suffered sev
eral attacks of acute inflammation of
the brain.”
PANIC IN NEW ITALIAN QUAKE.
Several Severe Shocks Felt in Num
ber of Cities.
Rome.—A slight earthquake was ex
perienced throughout Lombardy, Vene
tia and Tuscany. No damage was
done, and no one was injured, but ow
ing to the general uneasiness result
ing from the recent visitations in
Calabria and Sicily, the people for a
moment were thrown into a condition
bordering on panic. According to the
records of the observatories, and es
pecially the establishments maintained
at Florence by the Jesuit Fathers, ihe
center of "the disturbance was near
Leimbaeh, Saxony. The -quake was
strongest in Italy at Treviso, 16 miles
north of Venice. Riesi, the birthplace
of the present pope, is located in this
territory. The first reports that came
into Rome were alarming, and people
feared a repetition of the ealastrophe
of December 2S; but prompt use of the
telegraph soon brought out the fact
that the shocks had not been severe,
and that no damage or loss of life re
suited.
Freed from Russian Pr son.
New York. — After having passed
a year in a Russian prison lyider
suspicion in connection with a
Russian murder, Adolph Fischer of
170 Jefferson avenue, Chicago, is now
on his way home. Fischer, who re
turned from Libau on the Russian
steamer Estonia, went to St. Peters
burg about a year ago on business. He
was arrested and imprisoned in one of
the smaller Russian cities and was not
allowed to write letters. Finally infor
mation of his plight reached the Amer
ican ambassador, who secured his re
lease. Fischer was ordered to leave
the country, but before complying be
gan a suit for $75,000 for false impris
onment.
Presidents’ Widows Honored.
Washington.—By unanimous vote
the house of representatives Friday
granted the franking privilege to Mrs.
Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Grover
Cleveland.
Kills His Wife and Himself.
Alliance, O.—Albert Lazinwood, 50
years old, a farmer who lived near
Bergholz, shot and killed his wife, 55
years old, and then himself on the
road near Annapolis. Jealousy is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Bars Out All Lobbyists.
Boston.—The Massachusetts senate,
without debate, adopted Friday a rec
ommendation presented by the com
mittee on rules, excluding legislative
agents and counsel from the senate
chamber and corridors.
T. J. HAINS SET FREE
FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER
IN KILLING OF ANNIS.
CROWD CHEERS VERDICT
Defendant, Overjoyed, Carries News to
His Brother in Jail, Who Prob
ably Never Will Be
Tried.
Flushing, X. Y.—After reviewing the
jvidence for 22 hours and taking 15
jallots before all were agreed, the jury
n the trial of Thornton Jenkins Hains
Friday afternoon found the prisoner
lot guilty as a principal with his \
brother, Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., in
the killing of William E. Annis.
For the second time in his life
Thornton Hains has been found not
guilty of the charge of murder, he
having been acquitted of murder in
shooting a companion named Edward
W. Hannigan in an open boat in
Hampton roads 17 years ago.
Thornton Hains had an affecting
greeting with Capt. Hains in the Long
Island jail, where he hurried in a mo
tor car after the verdict to bring his
brother the news. Old Gen. Hains and
his wife, who had been anxiously
waiting to learn the verdict in the
Hotel Astor, in Manhattan, siuce the
jury went out at five o’clock Thursday
night, heard the news from their son
Thornton J. Hains.
Thornton, who telephoned his parents
is soon as he left the courtroom. Mrs.
Hains nearly fainted from joy at the
news.
Rarely in any court of law has such
a demonstration been witnessed as
that which occurred when the jury
made known its verdict, which came
like a thunderbolt. The packed court- j
room of spectators rose as one man
and cheered and applauded with such
mighty vigor that the gavel falls of
Justice Crane on his desk could not be
heard.
On.cials of the district attorney's of
fice in Queens county are quoted as
faying that the verdict in this case
probably means that Capt. Mains will
never be brought to trial and that he
will be surrendered into the care of
nis family or the federal government.
“Under this verdict it is perfectly
safe ^pr any person who is ingenious
enough to frame up a defense to go
out and kill. Private vengeance seems
to have taken precedence over the peo
ple's law," was the only comment that
Prosecutor Darrin had to make.
HORROR IN HUNGARIAN MINE.
Scores of Men Killed by an Explosion
and rire.
Veszprim, Hungary.—In an explo
sion of fire-damp in the Auka coal
mine here Thursday, which was fol
lowed by a dust explosion and fire,
240 men were entombed.
Sixteen living miners and the bodies
of 45 dead persons thus far have been
brought out of the pit.
The fire has been held to one lo
cality and it is hoped that the re
mainder of the entombed miners will
be rescued alive.
The town of Veszprim lies 60
miles southeast of Ituda Pest and has
i population of some 15,000, composed
mostly of Magyars.
Shively Is Indiana Senator.
Indianapolis, Ind.—B. F. Shively-was
chosen on the twentieth ballot for
United States senator in the caucus of
:he Democratic members of the legis
lature after many weary hours of bal
loting.
John Worth Kern, recent candidate
tor vice-president on the Democratic
ticket, made a gallant fight and led in
ihe early balloting. Once be gave the
field a scare, when on the third ballot
he jumped to 32 votes.
Portuguese Mob Fights Troops.
Oporto.—The distress in the port
wine growing regions arising from a
crisis in the wine trade culminated
! Friday in rioting. At Regoa the troops
that were preserving order were fired
on by an infuriated mob and replied
with a bayonet charge.
Found Dead in Bath Tub.
Denver, Col.—John C. Beatty, aged
63, of Mount Vernon. N. Y., said to bo
a wealthy land owner, was found
dead in a bath tub into which hot
water was running Friday. The body
had evidently been in the water since
midnight.
Quakes ir South Africa.
Cape Town.—Several earthquakes
have occurred recently in various parts
of South Africa. One was felt Fri
day at Johannesburg, but no damage
was done.
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