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Loup City Northwestern LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 25, 1909 VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 16 * A Boiling Down of the More impor * tant Events Here and There Congress. President Roosevelt transmitted to congress the report of the engineers who inspected the Panama canal. President-elect Taft announces he will call an extra session of congress to meet March 15. The naval ’bill carrying abont $136. 000,000 passed the senate after being considered three days. Senator Burkett made a speech protesting against “filibustering" in the matter of appropriations. Senator Brown will try to get provi sion in the army bill, permittihg the signal corps to sell the gas to private parties for ballooning. Senator Dixon of Montana provoked sharp criticism of naval methods in the senate when he referred to maga zine articles making special strictures upon construction at navy yards. He quoted an article as charging that ten or twelve members of the naval affairs committee of the senate had navy yards in their states. President Francis of the I^uisiana Purchanse Exposition company, be fore the house committee on appropri ations, urged a provision in the sun dry civii appropriation bill by which the government wo»!d re^nquish its claims to moneys in the treasury of the exposition company. The house passed the bill reducing the salary of the secretary of state to $8,000 a year. The bill admitting Ari zona and Ne* Mexico as separate states was also passed. By a vote of 173 to 117 the house passed the bill removing the bar to Senator Knox’s eligibility for the of fice of secretary of state. Chairman Goethals and General Counsel Rogers, of the Isthmian canal commission, and Capt. F. C. Boggs of the Washington office, appeared be fore the subcommittee of the house committee on appropriations, which is preparing the sundry civil bill. Col. Goethals explalqed the estimates for appropriations for 1910. Representative W. I. Smith of Iowa introduced a bill extending the time for the Central Railroad and Bridge company for one year to commence and three years to complete a gen eral traffic bridge across the Mis souri river at Council Bluffs. The minority of the house commit tee on ejections made an advance re port on the bill decreasing the salary of the secretary of state. It contends that the measure should be referred to the judiciary committee. Thomas F. Walsh, formerly of Colo rado, will have charge of the arrange ments for the inaugural ball. Judge Birdsall, who formerly was on the house judiciary committee, said he did not believe the ineligibility of Senator Knox could be cured by pass ing the bill which is now under con sideration. Judge Birdsall may vote against this bill when it comes up in the house. George M. Rommel, formerly of the Iowa State college, now with the de partment of agriculture, has arrived from South America having been there as one of the ten delegates, sent by this government to attend the con gress of scientific research at San tiago. Chile. Generai. President-elect Taft made a fare well address to his Cincinnati neigh bors at the. Chamber of Commerce. Horace G. Burt, president of the Great Western road, issued orders prohibiting smoking in the headquar ters building of the company. Office Edward Lowery of South Omaha was shot and killed by a Greek called “John,'' whom he had arrested. A bill prohibiting foreigners hold ing any property in Cuba, has been in troduced in the house at Havana, ac cording to a cable dispatch. United States Steel corporation an nounced that it will make such prices as will enable it to retain a fair share of the business. When Governor Stubbs signs the anti-liquor bill passed by both the house and senate Kansas will have a prohibition law which is absolutely “air tight,” even providing that phy sicians shall not prescribe liquor for the use of patients. The officials of the United States Steel corporation and subsidiary con cerns held a conference in New York to consider price cutting by the independents. The senate passed the postoffice ap propriation hill, carrying $232,000,000. A shanr colliquy between Senators La Follette and Penrose was a feature of the debate. R. Mead Shumway, the Nebraska murderer, was granted a stay of exe cution until March 5 by the supreme court, the announcement being made while he was preparing for the gal lows. Senator Brown of Nebraska has in serted in the Indian bill an appropria tion for continuance of the Genoa In dian school and also for two new buildings. The Blanco-Toral controversy in Spain 4s growing in bitterness President Roosevelt opened the con ference of North American nations to promote the conservation of natural resources bread. Tom G. Earnum of Cass county, Nebr., stockman and land owner, was killed instantly in a Missouri Pacific wreck at Union. President Roosevelt sent a special message to congress on the care of dependent children. Three hundred persons were burned to death in a theater at Acapulco, Mexico, Sunday. John Caseuba. a laborer at the Cud ahy packing plant in South Omaha, fell into a vat of boiling water and was almost cooked alive. He lived several hours. An unidentified man stabbed a num ber of women in Berlin, and the po lice department have been unable to secure a trace of him The bodies of fifty-two victims of the wrecked steamer Penguin have been recovered. Van Goodell. who killed Edna Ken nett of Lincoln, was found guilty of murder at Omaha. Real estate dealers and others who would invite foreign money to Ne braska propose to make mortgages exempt from taxation in fact, without causing holders the trouble of dodging the assessor. Secretary Garfield wants an addi tional $100,000 to prosecute land and timber thieves. The Western Base Ball league play ing season will open April 20 and close September 2S. Congressman Daniel L. D. Granger of Providence. R. I., who represented the First district of Rhode Island dur ing the fifty-eighth. fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses, died in Denver of heart failure. He was fifty-seven years old. The University of Missouri base ball team has prepared a schedule of eighteen games It will make a ten days' tour of Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas' late in April. Venezuela has revoked the decree prohibiting the traffic of small ves sels between Curacao and Venezuela. Congress must work overtime in order to finish bv March 4. Chiefly for rest and recreation, but Incidentally with the purpose of exam ining some of the Southern Paci:3c's new lines. E. H. Harriman left on an extended trip to the south and to Mexico. Washington. The sundry bill reported a few days ago provides for continuing the work on a large number of new public buildings in Nebraska, Iowa. South Dakota and Wyoming. The select committee appointed to investigate the wood pulp and paper situation recommended a reduction of the duty cn print paper to |2 a ton. The federal commission reports a saving of (500,000 yearly on the gov ernment's printing bills and shows that tons of books are printed and not distributed. In one day the senate passed the army and pension appropriation bills and forty-five other measures. An international conference for the conservation of natural resources will be called by the United States to meet at The Hague in September. In vitations will be issued to forty-live nations. The inward and outward movement of aliens for the twelve months, end ing with November, 1908, indicates that the emigration has been greater than immigration. Arrangements have been perfected for the great inaugural parade of March 4. The military show will be the most impressive since the grand review in 1865. when the armies of Grant and Sherman marched down Pennsylvania avenue. Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks are contemplating taking a trip around the world shortly after t.he adjournment of congress. They prob ably will take a steamer at San Fran cisco, visiting Hawaii and the Philip pine islands, then China and Japan and returning via Europe. Major General J. Franklin Bell, who will have command of the inaugural parade March 4, and his chief of staff. Brig. General John A. Johnston, are rounding out the details of the pageant. Field agents of the commission are still in California studying the foreign additions to the population Detailed information concerning the number of Japanese in this country, their occupation, and their relation? to communities in which they live has been collected for the federal govern ment during the past year by the im migration commission, created by congressional resolution in 1907. Personal Chief Geronimo was buried accord ing to the rites of the Apache tribe, tempered bya Christian minister. Congress has made it possible lor Knox to enter the cabinet. Secretary Wilson argued for a de natured alcohol plant at Lincoln. President-elect Taft was made a Mason at sight by the grand master of Ohio. Hilini Pasha has been appointed grand vizier of Turkey and has reor ganized the cabinet. Mr. Bryan is said to have offended democratic senators by an assault an the Carnegie pension fund for teach ers. King Alfonso has concluded his visit to the king of Porutgal and returned to Madrid. Iowa legislators are having a hard time paring appropriation estimates to fit income. President-elect Taft, enroute north from New Orleans, addressed great crowds at many points in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The death of Prof. Sait-'el Qac-'n, founder of the Nebraska Institute for the Blind, closes a remarkable life SOUTH OMAHA RIOTING INCITED BY A MASS MEETING. BING POLICEMAN’S DEATH A Number of People Wounded, the Torch Apolied to Buildings, and Much Damage Done. Omaha.—For six hours Sunday at ternoou and evening the Greeks, the Austrians and the Roumanians ol South Omaha were at the mercy of a howling, half drunken mob, during which time at least twenty men and boys were more or less seriously in jured by beating or shooting. Prob ably fifty buildings, mostly boarding houses and retail business places be longing to men of the three national! ties, were gutted and damaged all of the way from demolished window fronts to almost complete destruction by fire, and in which practically every man, woman and child of the three nationalities, estimated at from 1,500 to 1,800. fled from the city. The desperate rioting immediately followed a great public mass meeting held early in the afternoon, called as a protest against the presence of the Greeks alone, following the murder of Police Officer Lowery the preceding Friday night. The. call, which was largely signed, also made other serious charges against the Greeks, tending to incriminate them of insults and outrages against respectable women. The meeting itself was largely attend ed by the better class of citizens ot the city, and in so far as the acts of that meeting would advise the follow ing criminal acts by the mob were not justified. But at the conclusion of the meeting several hundred rowdies, attracted by it. began a course of riot ing and crime, which at the beginning brought forth many encouraging cheers from the supposedly better I class of citizens, who rapidly melted away, however, as soon as they saw I the dangerous proceedings started. Soon the disreputable element was left alone to continue its terrorism, checked only by a small police force, until the arrival of Sheriff Brailey with a large force of deputies from Omaha. By that time darkness gave cover to the actions of the mob, and not until 9: f!0 p. m. was the situation gotten so under control that tut spo radic outbreaks followed. For six hours, with revolver and club and brickbat, with torch, with blow-s and abuse did the ruffians march from place to place, crushing in win dows, drinking the stolen liquors from wrecked saloons, stealing mer chandise, assaulting those whom the} sought, until the blood flowed from cruel wounds, in cue instance shoot ing a respectable groceryman through the leg. and in another dragging a ter ror-stricken youth, clad only in his underwear, from a street car, where he had sought refuge, and beating him still more. Fifty buildings have been more or less damaged and the property loss will mount into thou sands. BIG FLEET REACHES HOME. Squadron Now Lying Outside Capes Waiting to Come in. Fort Monroe.—The returning battle ship fleet reached the southern drill grounds, fifty miles off the Virginia capes, early Sunday and the battle ship Connecticut was in constant wire less comunication throughout the af ternoon. The fleet will remain on the drill grounds until 5 o’clock Monday morning getting under way at that hour in order to make the capes by 10 o'clock and begin passing the May flower at the Tail of the Horseshoe in Chesapeake bay one hour later. Adlai E. Stevenson III. Chicago, 111—Adlai E. Stevenson, former vice president of the I’nited States is ill at his home in Blooming ton. 111., according to reports received here. The activities of the recent campaign, in which he was defeated by his republican rival for the gover norship, is said to have proved a severe strain on his 74 years and he has. it is stated, visibly weakened during the last few weeks. Slayer of Cashier Is Taken. Pittsburg, Pa.—William Gallagher, who is alleged to be wanted at Troup, N. S., for murder and bank robbery, has been arrested at Greensburg, Pa. Gallagher is said to have gone into a bank at Truro last June, and when questioned as to a check for $28,000, which he had presented, shot the cashier and made off with the money, which had been counted out hud placed at the cashier's window. Well Known Banker Dead. New York.—Henry Seligman, inter national banker, at one time one of the best known financiers in the United States, and a man who played an important part in finance during the civil war. died at Frankfort-on the Main, Germany. Government Collects Fine. San Francisco.—The fine of $2,500 imposed upon Henry Lair by United States Circuit Judge Landies in Chi cago was collected in this city by United States Marshall Elliott. Nephew of President Killed. Cambridge, Mass.—Stewart Douglas Robinson, 19 years old. a nephew of President Roosevelt and a sophomore of Harvard college, fell from a six story window of Hampton hall, a dor mitory on Massachusetts avenue, and i was killed. THE UNFORTUNATE ORNAMENTS. “7«0* s-ncL.r S COLO^l-t Gov. Hadley of Missouri has caused consternation in gold lace circles of his state by decreeing that each member of his state shall ta*e a prac tice ride of sixty miles, to be covered in three days, in order to insure cred itable equestrianism by his colonels taking part in the inaugural parade in Washington.—News Item. HITS THE TOBiCCO TRUST COMMISSIONER SMITH WANTS IN VESTIGATION OF COMBINE. Relates America's History and Tells of Millions Controlled by Few Men. Washington.—in a report transmit ted to President Roosevelt Thursday night Herbert Knox Smith, commis sioner of corporations, presents some highly interesting history of the or ganization of the “tobacco combina tion.’’ which, in the magnitude of its business operations, is one of the greatest organizations in America. The report sets forth the rise of one of the great combinations of the coun try. In his letter of transmittal. Com missioner Smith says that it “deals with the history, from the standpoint of its organization, or the great toba co combination. Starting in 1890 as the American Tobacco Company, a manufacturer of cigarettes, with a capital of $25,000,000. the combination has now a net capitalization (exclud ing inter-companv holdings) of $316. 346,821. It has absorbed about 250 separate concerns. Its history also presents important features of stock manipulation. The financial transactions centering around the organization of the Consolidated Tobacco Company in 1901 are especial ly noteworthy. At that time a small body of directors and stockholders in the combination believed that the profits of the combination could be greatly increased in the immediate future. They organized the Consoli dated Tobacco Company and offered its bonds in exchange for the common stock of the American and the Con tinental, in order thus to secure for themselves most of the increased profits about to accrue. “The profits accruing to the com mon stock of the American and the Continental, after its acquisition by the Consolidated, increased greatly; and the small body of men controling the last-named company—so small, in fact, that six of them held a majority of its stock and thus controlled the en tire combination—became entitled to millions of dollars which, had it not been for the Consolidated transaction, would have gone to the original com mon-stock holders. “The conduct of this group of men is a proper subject for criticism, how ever, because they could foresee much better than outside stockholders the large profits about to accrue. They occupied a fiduciary relation to the outside stockholders, and should have shared with them equally the special knowledge acquired by their posi tion.’” Senators Would Protect Pacific. Washington.—One-half of the United States navy should be kept on the Pa cific coast at all times is the opinion of the senate. An amendment to the naval bill was agreed to Tuesday night providing that in the discretion of the president one-half of the navy shall be kept in Pacific waters, so far as practicable. The president already has the au thority to so divide the fleet, but the amendment amounts to an expression of congress in favor of such. Mrs. Lemp Gets a Divorce. St. Louis. — A decree of divorce with alimony of $6,000 a year and the custody of her son was awarded Mrs. William J. Lemp, Jr., by Judge Hitchcock in the circuit court Thursday. The derision fol lowed a sensational trial which lasted more than a week and closed Tuesday last. Driscoll Defeats Attell. New York.—Although no decision was given, the majority of spectators at the fight between Abe Attell, feath erweight champion of the world, and Jem Driscoll, champion of England, Friday night the spectators believed Driscoll had the best of it. Bloodhounds Trail Bank Robbers. El Paso, Tex.—Robbers blew open the vault of the state bank at Kilgore, rex., early Friday and escaped with |3,400. Bloodhounds have been put on their trail. SMOOTH THE PATH FOR KNOX. House Finally Settles the Constitu tional Question. Washington.—The controversy over the legislative appropriation bill, in connection with the much discussed salary of the secretary of state, involv ing the eligibility of Senator Knox for that office, was settled in the house of representatives Thursday when the bill was sent to conference and the committee authorized to consider the salary provision as if in disagreement. This gives the committee power to re duce the pay from $12,000 to $8,000, its former figure. The Republicans were caught napping when a resolution by Mr. Fitzgerald was adopted disagree ing to the senate amendments creating the office of under-secretary and fourth assistant secretary of state. The post office bill, carrying appro priations of over $232,000,000 was passed by the senate after a stormy debate during which Senator Penrose, in charge of the measure, made an angry assault upon Senator La Follette who had entered into a general criti cism of senate committees of what he termed their unwarranted delay in re porting great appropriation bills. URGES WAR PREPARATIONS. Gen. Bell Says America’s Prospects for Conflict Are Increasing. Albany, N. Y. — Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff, U. S. A., addressing the member of the Nation al Guard association of the state of New York at its annual dinner Wednes day night, declared that in his judgment the prospects of war in the future are greater than they have been in the past. “I am no glutton for war,” said Gen. Bell, "but if war must come 1 want to see my country as well pre pared as it is possible to be.” Gen. Bell discussed the lack of mili tary policy in the United States and the need of preparation for war. "I hope our country may never be in volved in trouble,” he said, “but in a time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is gratifying to know that such preparation is being made. In my judgment our prospects of trouble in the future are greater than they have been in the past.” GERONIMO DIES AT FORT SILL. Noted Redskin Leader Passes Away in Prison in Oklahoma. Lawton, Ohio. — Geronimo, the noted Indian chief, died Wednesday at Fort Sill, where he had been con fined as a prisoner of war for a num ber of years. Geronimo died at the hospital at the Fort Sill army post, where he had been held for several years as a prisoner of war. He died of pneumonia after two days’ illness. Geronimo was buried in the Indian cemetery near the fort Thursday. The funeral was conducted by Christian missionaries, the decedent having pro fessed religion three years ago. Geronimo was the war chief of the Apaches. He was captured with his band at Skelton canyon, Arizona. 22 years ago, having surrendered to Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who, with his soldiers, had pursued him for months. 7,000 Killed by Earthauake. Teheran. Persia.—It is now believed that fully 7,000 persons lost their lives in the earthquake in the province of Luristan, western Persia. Sixty vil lages were destroyed. The province of Luristan is very mountainous and sparsely settled. It is about 300 miles southwest of Tehe ran and the only communication with the Persian capital is by courier. Kills California Racing. Sacramento, Cal—Gov. Gillett signed the W7alker-Otis anti-race track gam bling bill. The bill becomes operative 60 days after the governor’s signature is attached. This means that the Emeryville and Santa Anita tracks will not be able to finish their present ses sion. Ends Her Life with Fire. Beloit, Wis.—Mrs. George M. Allen, wife of a prominent man, set fire to her clothing Thursday while insane and died soon afterwards of the bums. EMERGENCY BILL APPROPRIATES $9,971,625 FOR IMPROVEMENTS. AIDS WESTERN STREAMS Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan Rivers to Be Surveyed—House Slaps at Roosevelt by Continuing Lim itations on Secret Service. V\ ashington.—Chairman Burton of the house committee on rivers and harbors Friday introduced the emer gency and maintenance bill for water ways improvements which carries a total appropriation of $9,971,625. It provides for a large number of surveys, for the maintenance of im provements previously authorized, and for continuing the operation of gov ernment dredges and other works. The president is requested to open negotiations with Great Britain for a treaty for securing the maintenance of ample water levels for the uses of navigation in the great lakes by the construction of such controlling and remedial works in the connecting riv ers and channels of the lakes as may be agreed upon. The secretary of war is also author ized to fix a just and reasonable com pensation to be paid for the use of water and water power now or here after owned in the St. Mary s river by tbe United States. Six hundred thousand dollars is ap propriated for examinations and sur veys, contingencies and incidental re pairs for rivers and harbors for which there is no special appropriation. Among the most important waterways for which preliminary surveys and ex aminations are provided, aside from the inland intracoastal waterway along the Atlantic and gulf coasts are: The Chicago and Rock rivers, Illi nois; the harbors and rivers at or near Chicago, including Chicago har bor, the Chicago river. Calumet har bor, the Grand and the Little Calumet rivers. Lake Calumet and the Lake Shore from the mouth of the Chicago river to the city of Gary, Ind.. for the purpose of reporting a plan for a com plete systematic and broad improve ment of the harbor facilities for Chi cago and adjacent territory. Other surveys are: The Wabash river. Illinois; the Des Moines. Cedar and Iowa rivers. Iowa: the Marquette and Muskegon harbors: the Pigeon river and the Livingstone channel of the Detroit river, Michigan; the Mis sissippi river between St. Paul and Minneapolis; and reservoirs at the headwaters of the river, the Minne sota river and reservoirs at its head waters, the Rainy river and the Du luth (Minn.) and Superior (Wis.) harbors; Ashtabula and Lorain har bors, the Maumee river at and above Toledo, and a survey of the Ohio river with a view to the selection of sites for the additional locks and dams be tween locks No. 8 and No. 25 and for the preparation of plans. No single channel or improvement is to be allotted more than $50,000 out of the appropriation for emergen cies. The bill repeals the act that authorizes the Mount Carmel Develop ment Company to draw water from the Wabash river in Wabash county, 111., and authorizes the secretary of war to grant lesases for the use of the water created by the government dam at Mount Carmel. Two more disputes between the president and congress were revived when the house committee on appro priations reported the sundry civil ap propriation bill. One was in regard to the limitation of the use of the secret service of the treasury department. The other was the appropriation for the examination of accounts of railroads, under section 20 of the Hepburn rate law. The house, despite the president’s special message, decided to keep up the limitation of the use of the secret service. Mr. Roosevelt declared such action an aid to criminals. SAYS INDIANA IS BANKRUPT. Governor in Message to Legislature Points to $400,000 Deficit. Indianapolis, Ind.—Gov. Marshall sent a special message to the legisla ture late Friday afternoon informing that body that the state treas ury is bankrupt and there is not enough money in the treasury to pay the state expenses longer than March. No more money is coming in until | June 1, when the county treasurers will make their semi-annual settle ments. The deficit will be about $400, 000. The governor asks the legisla ture to pass a law to require ".he coun ty treasurers to pay in the state's share of the taxes before that, to meet the state’s expenses. The governor says unless the money is forthcoming , the state institutions will have to close or the state must borrow money to pay expenses. It is said the money for use during the present six months was anticipated and used in the preceding Six months, and that this action ac counts for the deficit. Austria Will Declare War. London.—Unless Servia disarms by February 27. Austria will declare war and rush a big army across the fron tier. This became known Friday through the receipt of the details of the note recently 'sent to Bel grade. World Conservators to Meet. Washington. — President Roosevelt announced Friday that a call would be issued for a world's conference on the conservation of resources at The Hague next September. INDICTMENTS FOR EDITORS trand jury acts in canal li bel CASE. New York World and Indianapolis News Chiefs Charged with Vili fying President and Others. Washington.—Bench warrants were issued Wednesday for the arrest of Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb M. Van Hamm and Robert H. Lyman of New York, proprietor and editors of the New Y'ork World, and for Delevan Smith and Charles R. Williams, owners of the Indianapolis News, for criminal libel in connection with the publica tion in those newspapers of charges of irregularities in the purchase by the United States government of the Pana ma canal property from the French owners. The indictments on which the war rants were based were returned by the United States grand jury sitting in this city and the warrants were issued later by the clerk of criminal court No. 1. The warrants are directed against all five of the natural defend ants of the two newspapers. The summons requires 'he corporate de fendant (the Press Publishing Com pany) of New York to appear in court forthwith to answer to indictment. Theodore Roosevelt. William H. Taft, Elihu Root, J. Pierpont Morgan. Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson and William Nelson Cromwell are named in the indictments as the persons al leged to have been villified by the stories appearing in the two newspa pers. Copies of the summons and of the indictment were served Wednesday evening upon the Press Publishing Company by services on Otto Carmi chael, its agent in this jurisdiction. The certified copies will be filed with United States Commissioner John R. Shields, in New York, who will issue w-arrants for the arrest of the natural defendants of the New Y'ork World who will be brought before him to show cause why they should not be extradicted to this jurisdiction for trial. Indianapolis, Ind.—Delavin Smith. Charles R. Williams, owners of the In dianapolis News, who were indicted by the federal grand jury in Washing ton Wednesday, announced that they will contest extradition to the District of Columbia for trial on the ground that it was committed in Indianapolis, the place of the publication of the News. BOMB TERRORIST NABBED. Plot to Abduct Kansas City Merchant Is Roiled. Kansas City, Mo. — He’d at bay by a revolver and a dynamite bomb in the hands of a determined stranger who obtained entrance to his home Tuesday, Lawrence M. Jones, president of the Jones Bros. Dry Goods Company, and one of the wealthiest merchants in the city, was given the alternative of death upon failure to hand over $7,000. He overpowered the man in a desperate struggle after his wife and son had also been brought to face death at the hands of the blackmailer. In the arrest of the man, who gave his name as C. H. Garnett of Omaha, the police believe a well laid plot to extort money from several wealthy men has been bared. Following the confession of the prisoner, a house in a lonely spot in Independence was explored and found to have been pre pared as a prison for the man’s in tended victims. Secret closets were found in which heavy chains, fastened to rings in the walls, were found, along with strong padlocks and bars. Garnett said that the house had been rented and the prison like features Installed so that his victims might be held until he hai obtained what money possible and made his escape. MURDERER OF GIRL CONFESSES. William Gagle Tells of Luring Child from Home and Slaying Her. Chicago. — William Gagle arrested on charges of having attacked two South Chicago girls, confessed to the police Tuesday that he killed lit tle Lizzie Schrader of Gary, Ind., more tJKn a year ago, while she was carry ing lunch to her father. The confession was made to Capt. Halpin of the South Chicago police station, Chief of Police Rimbacb of Hammond and Chief of Police Martin of Gary, Ind. The theory that Gagle was the murderer of the little girl whose dismembered body was found in the woods near Tolleston, Ind., was suggested by Gagle himself, who. while being examined in regard to the at tack on his two latest victims, jumped from his chair and shouted: “I attacked those girls, but I never killed Lizzie Schrader.” The death, of the Schrader girl had not been mentioned. Grand Duk: Dies Suddenly. St. Petersburg.—Grand Duke Valdi mir Alexandrovitch died here Wednes day evening. Death was caused by asthma. Yes terday the grand duke participated in a military parade here. U. S. Soldier Commits Suicide. Vallejo, Cal.—Sergt. W. H. Dawson of the United States marine corps, at the Mare Island navy yards, commit ted suicide Friday by shooting himself. Disappointment in love was the cause. He enlisted from Forest. Ind. Arrested for Phone Abuse. Bismarck, N. I).—Former Adjt. Gen. T. H. Poole is under arrest, charged with using improper language to wom en while talking o*'3r the tele phone.