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Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI_LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , AUGUST 20, 1909 NUMBER 42
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Foreign.
Announcement of an amicable set
tlement of all pending questions that
have served to disturb the friendly re
lations between Japan and China will
be made officially within a short time
Arrangements of the differences relat
ing to the Antung-Mukden railway
probably will be contained in a note
to the powers.
Greece’s reply to the last Turkish
note regarding Crete has been com
municated to the pow'ers. Its terms
are conciliatory, and diplomats here
consider that it shouid be satisfactory
to the porte, to which it was delivered
soon. The note regrets that after
Greece’s previous assurances the
Turkish government still complains oi
the attitude of Greece in Rumelia and
Crete.
A delegation of thirty-nine business
men, representing the civic and com
mercial organizations of Tokto. Yoko
hama, Osaka and Magoya. sailed on
the steamer Minnesota for Seattle.
Ttiey will tour the United States as
guests of various chambers of - com
merce.
A dispatch from Portsmouth to the
London Daily Graphic says there is
much alarm there owing to the dis
covery thrice lately of supposed dyna
mite cartridges among coal shipped
to Portsmouth for the battleships.
The latest find of this character was
during the coaling of the cruiser Duke
of Edinburgh.
Oscar Malmros. American consul at
Rouen. France, is dangerously ill. ac
cording to a dispatch received at the
state department in Washington. Mr.
Malmros has been in the consular
service for many years, having been
appointed in 1865. He is from Minne
sota.
Madame Tt. F. Gayan. the wife of
the Argentine consul general at Buda
pest. In a sudd" fit (ft madness,
drowned two or her children in the
sea at Cirkvenca, Hungary, and was
restrained with difficulty from putting
an end to the life of her third child
and herself.
General.
Reese Huck. a prominent farmer,
was shot to death and four others
were probably fatally wounded, in a
feud fight growing out of a contro
versy over a dog, at Huntersville,
twelve miles from Charlotteville. N.
G.. on Sunday night.
George B. Turner, chief taxidermist
of the Smithsonian institute, has been
recalled from his vacation in order
that prompt attention may be given
to the eighty-two skins of African ani
mals that have been sent to Washing
ton by the Roosevelt party.
The navy officials opened bids on
two huge battleships soon to be con
structed.
The naval hoard of inquiry reaffirms
former verdict that Lieut, .las. N.
Sutton committed suicide.
The late dry and hot weather is
said to have cut down former esti
mates of the corn crop.
Walter Johnson takes issue with
the statement that General Howard
chose the battlefield of Gettysburg.
Naval officials are satisfied with the
bid on battleships, regarding the price
as reasonable.
Renewed talk is heard lately of the
appointment of Charles E. Magoon,
until lately governor general of Cuba,
as vice governor of the Philippines.
Mr. Magoon is not in office now. but
is recuperating in Europe.
Gustave Hering. sr.. a bookeeper.
shot and instantly killed his wile,
Louisa, probably fatally wounding his
son. Gustave Her'ng. Jr., and then
killed himself at Iheir home in Chi
cago.
Twenty casks and nine cases con
taining trophies of the hunt collected
by the Roosevelt expedition in South
Africa were hrought to New York on
the steamer Provincia from Mar
seilles.
Thirty persons were injured, at least
nine of them seriously, when a por
tion of Twelfth street bridge over the
Chicago river at. Chicago, which was
weakened by construction work, col
lapsed.
Governor Brown of Georgia signed
the recent act of the Georgia legis
lature which prohibits the use by
negro secret societies of the insiernia.
ritualistic work, grips, etc., of orders
composed of whites.
President Taft is preparing some
■yjeeches that he will deliver on his
wnithern and western jaunt.
Seventy-five work horses in the
t>arns of the Cropper Stable company
at Louisville. Kv., were cremated in n
$30,000 fire which destroyed the build
ings.
Four hundred skilled machinists .at
the Puget Sound navy yard were dis
charged. and 500 more were laid off.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitations to visit Mexico on October
IB next, when be will exchange visits
with President Diax of Mexico at El
Paso Cuidad Juaretf
The steamer Fred Swain, bound for
iaSalle. was totally destroyed six
miles north of Peoria. The passengers
were thrown into the river, but none
drowned.
Two men were killed in the flrxt
day of the automobile races on the
ladigrapofre speedway.
Prince Albert l.eo|iold, lieir to the
Belgian throne, arrived at Autwerp
on his return from the Congo, and
was given an ovation.
In an address at Shawnee, Okl.,
Chairman Yoakum, of the Hock Island
said railroads and farmers should co
operate.
The navy department has decided
that David Williams, a mess attend
ant on tlie battleship Vermont shall
be surrendered to the Massachusetts
authorities.
No postal savings bank legislation
can be expected of the next con
gress.
After, five months of strict prohibi
tion, liquor selling and gambling were
temporarily resumed in Wichita. Has.
While driving to church at Frisbee
station. Mo., five children of H. A.
Hyde, a farmer, were killed by St.
Louis and San Francisco train No. 811.
which struck the wagon on a crossing I
a mile east of the Hyde home.
President Gomez has selected a
new cabinet for Venezuela.
Members of the Omaha Grain ex
change are inclined to dismiss as uu- ,
true stories of damage done to corn
and wheat in Nebraska by th« recent '
hot wave.
A boy of 18 was drowned in the :
Niagara whirlpool after making a I
desperate fight for life.
Allen Newton, aged 21. of Helena. ■
Mont., drew No. 1 in the Spokane re- j
servation land drawing. David C. !
Rubl, of Ord. Nebr., drew No. 11.
Nine are dead and fifty injured in '
a head-on collision on the Denver & i
Hio Grande near Hasted. Col. Mistak- '
iug the headlight of au engine on a '
switcli for a section of another train j
was the cause of the accident.
The department of agriculture has
issued a report showing the crop con- ,
ditions of foreign lands; with indica- 1
lions (hat they are least favorable in |
the central part, of Europ.v
The comptroller of the currency is
compiling a list of national banks i
with affiliated state institutions.
Governor A. C. Shallenberger of Ne
braska and many Nebraskans and ex
Nebraskans. took part in the celebra
tion of their state’s day at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifie exposition.
Secretary Nagle says taking of the
census will not cost as much as ex
pected.
Ohio republicans are looking about
for -t strong man to run for governor.
American cities are pronounced
twenty-five years behind progressive
Germany in a bulletin issued by the
committee on congestion of population
in New York.
A number of Nebraskans and lowans
were successful in the land drawing^
at Spokane.
Already, the office of the commis
! sioner of iuternal revenue is beginning j
| '<> bestir itself in preparation for the I
| collection of the new' corporation tax.
The first work to be done is to draw
up blanks and prepare regulations.
Many buildings were ruined by the
earthquake shocks in Japan.
Arthur Hale Smith, third son of
Joseph Smith, who founded the Mor
mon church, died at Montrose, la.,
where he was attending the conven
tion of Hatter Day Saints
Washington.
Treasury officials are much gratified !
over the receipts of the bureau of in
terna! revenue, for the month of July
—the first month of the new fiscal
year—which shows an increase of
$9;:9.S2<; over July of last year. The
receipts during July. 1909. were $22.
968.642. and during July. 1908. $22,
020.:: 14. In the view of the officials,
this increase augurs well for the gen
eral prosperity of the country.
President Taft may ride in the big
white house automobile in the floral
automobile parade to be held here
tiiis fall under the auspices of the
Washington chamber of commerce.
Several cabinet officers will appear in
their own cars. There will he three
section to the parade, a governmental,
a floral and a commercial.
Minn interest was rrihnuesteu in
Washington by interior development
officials in reports from Denver. Colo.,
that a hearing in Seattle. Wash., next
month will disclose prooT of gigantic
frauds in connection with coal lands I
in Alaska.
Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska,
author of the income tax amendment,
believes that the legislatures of three
fourths of the‘states wiil indorse the
measure. Since Alabama leads the al
phabetical list of states lie regards its
indorsement of the measure as an
omen of success. Ratification by a
majority of both houses of the legis
latures of three-fourths of the states
is necessary for ihe constitutional
amendment which will admit of the
tax.
Rules governing the Philippine
tariff act were sent to customs of
ficers.
Personal.
Mayor . msse announced the appoint
incut of I.eroy T. Stewarc'. superio-.
tendent of eity delivery of mails in
the Chicago postofflce. as chief of
police to succeed George M. Shippy.
resigned.
President Taft may meet in New Or
leans on his visit there about Novem
ber 1 President Obaldia of Panama
and President Gomez of Cuba.
Congressman Hlnsliaw. in a speech
printed in the Record made a defense
of the new tariff.
The state department announced
the ap|M)intment of Oz.ro C. Gould of
Minnesota, who has been a student
interpretator at Tokio, to be vice
j consul general at Seoul. Korea
l’nemies of Senator La Follette in
Wisconsin are maneuvering to beat
him for re-election.
Dr. C. D. Oakford. editor nf the
Deerfield (Kansas) News, was banged
in effigy by the citizens of that place,
because in so article be appealed to
the people of the United States to en
ter their protest against President
Taft's shaking bands wife "fifce bloody
butcher D3sv of Mexico "
SEVEN DEAD IN DI9T
AT LEAST TEN MORE ARE FAT
ALLY WOUNDED.
OFFICERS USE THEIR WAGES
Men Gather at Pressed Steel Car
Works and Suddenly Make Con
certed-Attack Upon the Gates.
Pittsburg. Pa.—One state trooper,
one deputy sheriff and three foreign
ers were shot and killed Sunday night
in a wild riot at the Pressed Steel
Oar plant in Scnoenville. whose em
ployes are now on strike. At least a
score of persons were seriously
wounded, ten fatally. The rioting fol
lowed a da}- of quiet and broke with
out warning.
At midnight the following partial
list of dead and injured was made up
from reports from the morgue, hos
pital and several physicians' offices:
Dead:—John L. Williams, state
trooper: Harry Exler, deputy sheriff;
three foreigners.
Fatally injured:—John C. Smith,
state trooper; Luceeian Jones, state
trooper; seven foreigners.
While the riot lasted, mounted state
troopers galloped indiscriminately
through the streets with riot maces
drawn, cracking the heads of all per
sons loitering in the vicinity of the
mill. Deputy sheriffs and troopers
broke in the df»or3 of houses suspect- ,
ed of being the retreat of the strikers,
and wholesale arrests ewre made.
From 0:3o to 11:30 scores of persons
were arrested and placed in box car
jails in the mill yards.
During the early stages of the riot
ing women were conspicuous. Some
of them were armed and others effect
ively used clubs and stones. These
women, all toreigners, insane with
rage, were mainly responsible lor in
citing the men to extreme measures.
Shortly before 9:30 o’clock a mob
of men gathered about the Schoenville
entrance to the Pressed Steel Car
works and without warning made a
concerted attack upon the big swing
ing gates of the stockade. The at
tack was resisted by state troopers
and deputy sheriffs, who used riot
maces. In the melee Harry Exler, a
deputy sheriff, aged r>0 years, was
shot and instantly killed by a bullet
tired, it is said, by an alleged strike
sympathizer.
In an effort to arrest the man picked
out of the crowd as the one who did
the shooting. State Trooper Smith
was instantly killed by a revolver bul
let. Two other Troopers on foot were
also shot, falling into the arms of
their comrades.
For the first time since the incep
tion of the strike the state troopers
opened volley fire on the mob. Six
strikers fell at the first round. The
members of the mol) then opened fire
with rifles. Two mounted troopers
dropped from their horses fatally shot.
They were taken to - the Ohio Valley
hospital in a dying condition.
As an ambulance made its way from
the car plant to the hospital carrying
wounded troopers the vehicle was at
tacked and the driver forced to flee
for his life. The frightened team of
horses attached to the ambulance
plunged wildly in and about the
crowd. Two men were trampled un
der the horses' hoofs. The ambulance
was finally driven to the hospital by
a detachment of troopers.
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
Heart of Business Portion of Decatur.
III., Destroyed.
Decatur, 111.—The tire which started
at l o'clock Sunday morning in the
Hoorehouse & Wells hardware store
on East Main street was not under
control until 4 o'clock in the after
noon. The loss is estimated at $1,000,
000. with insurance ahout 80 per cent
of that amount. Following the fire,
the worst in the history of the city
Decatur faced a water famine. It be
came necessary to shut off the resi
dence district, the supply of water in
tbe reservoir heing down to seven
feet.
Scandal in Prison Fund.
Pittsburg. — Discovery has been
made, it is alleged, of a deficit of $S2,
0()0 by a board of auditors appointed,
to fix the financial status of the West
ern Pennsylvania penitentiary.
Trainmen Rob Cars.
Wymore, Neb. — Following the dis
charge at this place on Sunday of
thirteen trainmen in the employ of the
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy rail
road on charges of persistent rifling
of freight cars, comes the statement
that further discharges are to be
made.
Captain Selvert's Sentence Commuted
Washington.—In the case of Capt.
Herman A. Selvert. Ninth cavalry,
charged as post quartern],aster at
Camp McGrath, Batangas. P. I., with
falsifying his accounts, embezzle
ment. etc., and sentenced by court
martial to be dismissed from the ser
vice and to pay a fine of $1,000. sen
tence has been commuted.
Great Conflagration in Mexico.
.Mexico City. — Fire Sunday night
destroyed property in the business
(enter of Monterey to tbe value of
about fl.&OO.OOO. Tbe whole- business
section of the city was threatened, but
escaped destruction largely because
there was no wind. The lire started
in the establishment owned by the
son-in-law of General Trevino, com
munder of the Monterey military zone,
and the opponent of Genenel Reyes
and it was first thought flat h was
the worfi of political matron-ten tn. but
defecfiTv w.irffrg was the eatrat
BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING.
WHAT THE COMING TRIP OF PRE SIDENT TAFT MAY DO FOR THE
GREAT WEST.
40 FLEA PEORIA BOAT FIRE
PASSENGERS AND CREW ESCAPE
FROM BLAZING STEAMER.
Women and Children in Panic—Ves
sel Totally Destroyed—Two
Are Injured.
Peoriu. Ill—Although not fully re
covered from their fright all of the
25 passengers, who with the crew' of
15, had a close call for their lives
when the steamer Fred Swain burned
to the water’s edge Friday afternoon
off Averyville. have left for their
homes. Of the two persons Injured
only one was in a serious condition
and it is regarded as marvelous that
none met death.
The injured a»f. .loseph Casrider,
Paducah, Ky., engineer, seriously
burned about the face and body, and
Charles Reicheberger. Peoria, right
arm broken. The loss is estimated at
$35,000. $30,000 of which is on the ves
sel. Several of the passengers lost
all their personal belongings.
The escapes from the burning ves
sel were almost miraculous. The ma
jority of the passengers were women
and children and once the fire was
discovered issuing from a state
room on the second deck panic
reigned. To add to the horror, the
ropes supporting the immense gang
plank which had been lowered to en
able those aboard to board the score
of row boats that had hurriedly been
put out from shore, burned, letting
about fifteen persons, including sever
al women and children. Into the wa
ter. Tom Powers, saloonkeeper of
this city, and E. A. Caron of
Worcester, Mass., both of whom were
on the plank In an effort to quiet the
panic-stricken people, each saved the
lives of two children, half carrying
and half swimming with the little
tots on their back and shoulders to
old tree stumps, to await the arrival
of rescuers.
The fire was discovered by Mrs.
Eugene Furbish, cabin girl, on open
ing the door of a stateroom. She at
once spread the alarm but all efforts
to subdue the flames proved fruitless,
the fire spreading with alarming ra
pidity. Capt. Swain, on realizing that
all hopes for the vessel were gone
ordered Pilot Martin Huston to
beach the boat and instructed his
crew to deal out life preservers.
TWO KILLED IN AUTO RACE
Machine Dashes Through Fence as It
Travels at High Speed in
Indianapolis Contest.
Indianapolis, Iml.—Two lives Were
lost and two records broken during
the inauguration of the Indianapolis
Motor speedway. William A. Bourque
of Springfield. Mass., driver of the
Knox car in the 250-mlle race, and
Harry Holcomb of Grandvillc. Mass.,
his mechanician, were killed when
their machine dashed through a fence.
Barney Oldfield, driving a high
powered Ben)!, covered a mile In
0:48 1-10, breaking De Palma’s mark
of 0:51. and Gottis Chevrolet In a
Buick negotiated ten miles in the
marvellous time of 8:65 4-10, cutting
Oldfield's time of 9:12—both of these
are new American track marks.
Robert Burman won the 25G-mile
race, the contest that cost Bourque
and Holeomb their lives.
Storm Fright Kills Woman.
Pittsburg. Pa.—One woman died of
fright, a panic occurred In a street
car, which was struck by lightning,
and a house roof was ripped off while
the inhabitants lay in bed, during a
violent electrical storm In this city
Friday.
Charity Taft Upset jo Dory.
Salem, Mass,—C barley Taft, the
president's son, and an engineer from
the president's yacht Sylph, were up
set ha Che tad's dory off Saturn awd
1 received a
LOEB TO SUE UNION HEAD
Editor of Publication in Which “Audit
Story" Appeared. Will Explain
Stillings Matter.
Washington. — William Loeb, Jr.,
| c ollector of the port of New
: York and former secretary to the
j president of the United' States.
, lias threatened to sue Samuel De
; Nedrey, editor of a local trade's union
i paper. In a letter to De Nedrey Col
lector Loeb vigorously protests against
i an article recently published in the
[ paper stating that Mr. Loeb contem
i plates appointing Charles A. Still
I ings, former public printer, to a posi
i tion of trust in the New York cus
I toms service, and which concluded
j with the question: "Who was at the
| head of the audit system?"
It is understood Mr. Loeb took of
fense at what he believes to be a
veiled insinuation that he was inter
ested in the audit system which was
inaugurated at the government print
j *n& office by Mr. Stillings, and which,
j ultimately, was responsible primarily
! for the resignation of Mr. Stillings as
| public printer.
Mr. De Nedrey says he was absent
j from the city when the article ap
i peared in his paper, and does not
i kI>ow how it got into print. In the
i next issue of his paper he says there
j WH1 be an explanation, which, in his
1 opinion, will satisfy Mr. Loeb. "If it
I does not," he added, “I shall govern
j myself according to the eircum
1 stances.”
j At the time of Mr. Stillings’ dis
j missal as public printer Mr. De Ned
I rey took an active part editorially in
i discussing conditions at the big print
j cry. He knows of no basis, he says,
for an allegation that Mr. Loeb was
connected with the audit system, and
sees no reason to criticise him for his
attitude toward organized labor.
1 TO FREE RICH WOMAN THIEF
Deneen and Pardon Board Asked to
Liberate Mrs. Romadka—Was a
Millionaire’s Wife.
Chicago.—After two years’ impris
onment in the penitentairy at Joliet,
Mrs. Evelyn C. Romadka, perpetrator
of a string of daring burglaries and
former wife of Charles L. Romadka.
a multi-millionaire manufacturer of
Milwaukee, probably will be released
next month.
Another chapter was added to the
story of the weird life of Mrs. Ro
madka, which is even more fantastic
than that of Hornung's Action charac
ter ''Raffles,” when it became known
that friends of her girlhood days, of
Fond du Lac and Oshkosh. Wis.. had
petitioned Gov. Deneen and the Illi
nois board of pardons asking for the
liberation of the former school-teacher
and millionaire's wife.
Undaunted by the wealthy Romadka
family s refusal to assist in gaining
the release of the woman, whose
prison conAnement lias undermined
her health, her aged father, P. J.
Caine, who owns a large rubber plan
tation in Mexico, has declared he will
spend bis entire fortune in his daugh
ter’s behalf.
Jack Johnson Sues Hotel Owner.
Ralt Lake City. — Jack Johnson,
the heavyweight pugilist, entered
suit against local hotel proprietor
for $25,000 damages alleging he was
shut out of the hotel after he had en
gaged accommodations there because
he is a negro.
To Meet in San Antonio.
Denver, Col.—San Antonio, Tex.,
was selected as the plaee for next
year’s meeting and Col. Ike T. Pryor
of San Antonio was decided upon by
the executive committee as the choice
for president of the Trans-Mississip
pi Commercial congress.
*sa«o for Jspeo and China.
Tokyo.—Anetmeement of an amic
able settlement at all pending ques
tions whWh have served to disturb
tho frtmAty mMIsh between ktpia
(Ml C»T*« vrfn be srodo soon.
'‘SUnON SLEWSELFi
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"EITHER COMMITTED SUICIDE OR
ACCIDENTALLY TOOK OWN
LIFE" IS VERDICT.
HIS RIVALS ARE EXONERATED
Inquiry Court Decides That Lieutenant
Was to Blame for Own Death—
Mother Will Ask Congress to
Start New Probe.
Washington.—That Lieut. James
Sutton of the United States raarine
corps killed himself accidentally or
with suicidal intent is the finding of
the court of inquiry which has been
approved by Acting Secretary Win
throp of the navy and so far as the
department is concerned the ease is
closed.
Counsel for the Suttons intimated
however, after the court's decision
had become definitely known, that
they were far from satisfied with the
verdict, and that they probably would
| take the issues involved to congress
with a view of having a full hearing
of the case by a committee of that
body.
In part the court says:
"Lieut. Sutton is directly and solely
responsible for his own death, which
was self-inflicted, either intentionally
or in an effort to shoot one or the
persons restraining him. and his death
was not caused by any other injury
whatever."
The court also finds: That Lieut.
Utley failed in his duty as senior of
ficer present, under article 266, United
States navy regulations, 1909, in per
mitting Lieut. Sutton to run away and
arm himself instead of calling on
those present for assistance and fol
lowing Lieut. Sutton, preventing his
arming himself, by force if necessary,
and turning him over to the custody
of the officer of the day.
That Lieut. Bevan. officer of the
guard, failed in his duty as officer of
the guard in not disarming Lieut.
Sutton by force, while in front of liis
(Sutton's) tent.
That Lieut. Willing, the officer of
the day, failed in his duty as officer
of the day in not immediately assist
ing by force in helping to disarm
Lieut. Sutton when he arrived on the
scene before the fatal shot was
fired.
That the charges of wilful murder
and conspiracy to conceal it. made by
the complainant, Mrs. Sutton, mother
of Lieut. SuttOD, are purely imaginary
and unsupported by even a shadow of
evidence, truth or reason.
The court recommends, however,
that in view of the youth and decided
inexperience of Lieuts. Utley, Willing
and Bevan at the time, and of the al
together unusual conditions of excite
ment, threats and danger during the
aforementioned fray, that no further
proceedings be taken.
The fbport is signed by J. Hood,
commander United States navy, presi
dent of the board, and Henry Leonard,
major, United States marine corps,
BILLION FOR ROCKEFELLER
Amount Represents His Fortune at
End of Ten Years—Powerless
to Prevent It.
New York.—Think how you would
feel if you knew you would be the
world's first billionaire at the end of
the next ten years: that you are pow
erless to prevent the growth of your
own wealth even though you have
given away $130,000,000. This is the
fate that awaits John D. Rockefeller
at the end of the next ten years.
Standard Oil stock sold at 712
Wednesday, the highest price it has
reached since the panic- of 1907. The
stock has risen 322 points from the
low ebb of 390, at which it sold on
November 4, 1907. Like a snowball
rolling down hill. Rockefeller's wealth
is steadily growing and growing and
he is as powerless to stop it even if
he hajJ the wishes as he would be to
check the revolution of the planets.
The enormous, inconceivable accu
mulation of wealth of the mild-man
nered. inscrutable sphinx of millions
has gone steadily on despite the fact
that a short time ago an estimate of
his public charities placed them at
the stupendous total of $130,000,000.
The latest approximately accurate
estimates available place his fortune
in 1905 at. least $550,000,000. in
1900 it was $400,000,000. This is an
increase for the five years of $150,000.
000. At this ratio the Rockefeller for
tune is to-day about $700,000,000. in
1914 still at the same latio of in
crease. it will be about $850,000,000,
and in 1919, when the oil king reaches
his eightieth year, it will have reached
the stupendous, brain-giddying total
of $1,000,000,000 — an inconceivable
sum.
Offers Taft 20,000 Cherry Trees.
Tokyo. — Mayor Ozaki of Tokyo
has offered 20,000 cherry trees as
a gift to President Taft to plant in
the new park on the banks or the Po
tomac river, Washington.
Oil Magnate Dies on Train.
New York —Frank Barstow, a direc
tor of the Standard Oil Company and
multi-millionaire, died suddenly in a
berth aboard a New York Centra!
train, near Utica, N. Y., Friday, while
returning to bis borne in Fast Orange,
N. J„ from an outtng at the Thonsand
Islands.
KrHe Wife in Police ttrtioo.
Wilkvsterre. Pa.—Gewg* F. Marfrm
of Atlanta. Ga_, shot aid killed his
wife la the oAee of the- chffcf of po
tto* ia fbto «4y Friday
MILLION BOGUS MONEY SEIZED
BROTHERS HELD FOR A GIGANTIC
COUNTERFEITING PLOT.
Mexican Pesos Are Reproduced—Ker»«
tucky Authorities and Secret
Service Secure Confession.
Louisville. Ky. — Secret service
men are investigating a report
that two women aided John C. and
Marlon Roberts, brothers and son*
o' a former Louisville judge, who
are held in jail as perpetrators of
what is called the most daring coun
terfeiting plot ever attempted. Dream*
ol wealth centered in a brass-bound
trunk containing $1,000,000 in counter
feit Mexican pesos were shattered for
the brothers when Deputy United
States Marshal William Biaydes ar
rested John Roberts in Shelby county
with the money in his possession.
Since the hour of the first arrest
there has been unraveled in the cus
tom house of Louisville and in Cen
tral police station a remarkable tale
of attempted financial buccaneering*
that rivals some of the boldest ex
ploits in the making of spurious cur
rency.
John Roberts, sitting in the office
of the secret service bureau, coolly
said that he would plead guilty at the
October term of the federal court and
seemed resigned about spending a ma
jority of his years in the prison at
Atlanta, Ga. He had only wanted to
get rich, he said.
it was through Marion Roberts that
the counterfeiters were apprehended
and their plan to defraud Mexicans of
$1,000.1)00 exposed. Marion Roberts
some days ago offered a Louisville
broker high commission to dispose of
some Mexican money for him. The
broker notified Chief of Police J. H.
Haager, who at once enlisted secret
service men and the trap to catch
Marion Roberts waa successfully
sprung. Since Marion Roberts’ arrest
the police learned from him the infor
mation which led to the descent upon
his brother at Simpsonville.
When Blaydes confronted John Rob
erts in the hamlet of Shelby county
the chief counterfeiter admitted that
he was behind the plan to dispose or
the imitation 100-pesos notes through
the broker. He showed Blaydes the
trunk, which with Roberts was brought
to Louisville. Roberts said that had a
perforating machine and a device to
number the bills reached him when
he had expected them he would have
| been in Mexico a week ago.
Will Koenig, a printer, has also
been arrested in connection with the
case Roberts is in jail under a $la,
000 federal bond.
GREEK FLAG IS SHOT DOWN
Marines from Russian, French and
British Ships Remove Emblem
Which Caused War Scare.
Canea, Island of Crete. — A well
directed shot fired by one of
the parties of bluejackets landed
from the international squadron an
chored in Canea harbor brought
down the flagstaff of the Canea fort
and with it the Greek flag that has
threatened to bring about war be
tween Turkey and Greece.
A combined landing party com
posed of detachments from the ships
of the four protecting powers was
sent ashore before sunrise and the
task of removing the Hellenic em
blem was carried out in a few min
utes without any attempt at interfer
ence on the part of the islanders.
Most of the bluejackets then returned
to their ships, but small detachments
representing each of the four powers
were left behind in occupation of the
bastion of the fortress to prevent any
attempt on the part of the Cretans
to raise another Hag.
Cretan gendarmes have been post
ed throughout Canea to maintain or
der.
RAGING OCEAN IS CHEATED
Life-Savers Rescue Seven from Strand
ed Ship—One Man Still Adrift
on a Raft.
New York.—The raging sea was
cheated of seven human lives as
its prey when the gallant Long Island
life savers rescued seven of the crew
from the stranded schooner Arlington
ofT Long Beach and added another vic
tory to their long list of battles
against the ocean's fury.
The eighth member of the crew.
Madden Pierson, a Swede, put off
from the schooner on a raft with the
hope or reaching shore with a line,
was swept out to sea by the tide and
lost sight of.
MANY KILLED IN_A~ WRECK
Great Loss of Life Follows Crash of
Trains on Railroad in
Chile.
Santiago, Chile.—A terrible dis,nsT»r
occurred when two irnais came into
collision 30 miles north of Santiago.
Many persons were killed or in
jured. Both trains were complete!v
destroyed. The monetary loss will
reach $150,000.
Russian Train Robbers Get $15,000.
Kislovodsk, Russia —A band of 15
revolutionists have perpetrated a suc
cessful train robbery near here, as a
result of which they are $15.WW
rieher. One of the robbers »a«
wounded, but his companions carrier!
him away. A sergeant of gendarme*
was mortally hurt.
More Troop* for Mococeo.
Madrid—Five thousand troops Wt
GaHeta have been ptaeed on a war
footing and probably will be seat t»
Ceuta. Mdrocro.