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dan.
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"Did I understand you to say grill
_ _ _ room ? "
( "You did. That is where my wife
takes me when she wants to give me
A curtain lecture on smoking too many
cigars and remaining out after 10
9. m. " " ,
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Itencflt of the Sick.
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Any person suffering with backache
, curl u ; ! ry disorders or other signs of
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" - kidney complaint
" " ti- raga may feel the utmosl
a confidence in the fol-
{ lowing l i statemen'
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Pettypool , B apt i s J
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. . r"A ; weak back and
disordered condition
c. 1 _ of the kidneys an
- : , , , ; noyed me for some
years up to last fall
t' I often had to stop ) :
. , work and press mj
hands to my back
ltly limbs ached constantly and al
' night I could not sleep. The kidnej
secretions also passed } too frequently.
I got a box : of Doan's Kidney Pills
, .and they helped me quickly and per.
snanently. Further use brought a per-
-feet "
cure.
' Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bor.
< Foster-Milbum Co. , Buffalo. N. Y.
One on Grandma.
' "Grandma : , did 3'ou like that lemon
. .dro } ) ? "
" Ycs . dear : I liked it very much. "
' "Twvser didn't ; be spat it out twice. "
: - The ! Tatler.
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There Is more Catarrh in this section ol
the country than all other diseases put to-
.gether , and until the last few years was
-supposed . to be Incura l ( > . For a great many
: years doctors pronounced it a local disease
. and prescribed local remedies , and by con
stantly falling' to cure -with local treatment ,
, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional treatment
Hall's ' Catarrh Cure , manufactured by F. J
"Cbonoy & Co. , Toledo , Ohio , is the only con
stitutional cure on the market. It is , taken
Internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea-
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. They ofl > r
one hundred dollars for any case it fails tc
.cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
. .Addr s : F. J. CHENEY & CO. , Toledo , O.
Sold by : Dru.z&ists ; , 7 5c.
"Talce llaU's Family Pills for constipation
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Only an Excuse.
/ "The late Claus Speckles , " said a
. , " dSan Franciscan , "had one weakness of
jwhich he was a little ash med. HP
krould. ; not resist the appeal of a beg
gar. Yet he knew that the charity
; societies are right , and that most J'eg- )
.sars are impostors.
. " 'Ilave the moral courage of your
-convictions , * I said one day as I saw
him give a beggar * a. quarter. 'Send
these fellows to the charity specialists
for investigation. :
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" 'Moral : courage P ! Mr. Spreckles
.murmured. 'That is what we call on
-when we contemplate a mean action.
" 'A school teacher once told her
4 .class that the courage which makes us
do' what AVC think is right , regardless
-of the sneers of others , was moral
1 .courage , the best kind.
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" " 'Then , if : a boy has a box of
-candy , like me yesterday , " said a IsHl ,
" "and if he eats it all himself , with-
out giving ; any to people that
iiave no right \ to it how much
"they call him mean and stingy-that
there's moral courage , ain't it , teach-
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Knew the Game.
A young woman was in company
with : i university graduate , and natur-
ally the talk ran upon books. By and
4 > y there was a lull in the conversation ,
, Broken , presently by the young woman ,
who said : "What do you ; think of
Fielding , Mr. Smith ? "
"Oh , " was the answer/ / "fielding is
important of course ; but it isn't worth
znuch unless you have a good batting
-average. "
The amount of coal taken into London
each rear is well over 9,000,000 tons.
NOT DRUGS
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Food Did It.
After using laxative and cathartic
: medicines from childhood a case of
( Chronic and apparently incurable consti-
pation yielded to the scientific food ,
-Grape- nts , in a few days.
"From early childhood I suffered
. . with such terrible constipation that I
ibad to use laxatives continuously going
-from one drug to another and suffering
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more or less all the time.
"A prominent physician whom I con-
sulted told me the muscles of the diges-
tive , organs were partially paralyzed
.and conld not perform their work with-
-out hcl } > of some kind , so I have tried
.at different times about every laxative
. .and cathartic known , but found no help
-that was at all permanent. I had final
Iy berouie discouraged and had given
: jiiy case up as hopeless when I began to
use the pre-digested food Grape- Xuts.
"Although I had not expected this
food to help my trouble , to my great
surprise Grape-Nuts digested immedi
ately from the first and in a few days
'I was convinced that this was jusi
-what my system needed.
"The bowels performed their func
, tions regularly and. I am now complete
. s. ly and ! permanently cured of this awful
troubte.
" ' scientific food
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nust : &e E11 m t < .od. " "There's a Reason. "
RexiSiTbe Hand : to Wellville , " in
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ROOSEVELT PARTY GETS LIONS.
Three Killed by One Shot Apiece by
Ex-President.
Four lions are trophies of Theodore
Roosevelt's o-'unp in the Mau Hills near
Nairobi , British East Africa ; , and the
two hundred or more native followers
Joined with the American party in the
celebration of the unusually good luck.
The lions were bagged Friday , and Mr.
Roosevelt's mighty gun brought three
of them to earth , each on the first shot.
Thus one of the former President's
fondest ambitions has been realized ,
and he , is proud , too , that the fourth
of the jungle kings fell before the rifle
of his son KermIt , who , however , took
three shots to ' kill his quarry. Both
father and son are jubilant. It was
their first lion hunt and so magnificent
a kill was far beyond their expecta
tions but lions have been plentiful in
the hills for the last month , and the
English hunter , F. C. Selous. has been
out for several days laying plans for
their } extinction.
Mr. : Selous accompanied the former
President , who also was attended by
the usual retinue of beaters. As a rule
the beaters go into the jungle with con-
siderable trepidation , but as Mr. : Roose-
velts' reputation as a hunter had reach-
ed there t long before he arrived in per-
son the beaters on this occasion were
exceptionally enthusiastic. They seem-
ed ever eager to play a part in the first
hunt of the distinguished American.
GRAFT SENTENCES IN PITTSBURG I
Former Hank : President AnuuJJ
Seven Men : Sent to 1'ri.son Cell * .
Sentences were imposed in the Crimi
nal Court in Pittsburg Wednesday , by
Judge : Frazer on seven persons , convict-
ed within the last few weeks in the mu
nicipal graft : cases. The sentences fol
low : W. W. Ramsey , former National
bank president , convicted of bribery , one
year and six months' imprisonment and a
fine of $1,000. Capt. John F. j- Klein ,
councilman , two years and a fine of $1-
000 , on the bribery conviction , and one
year ; and six months on the conspiracy
conviction. Joseph C. Wasson and Will
iam Brand former councilmen , each one
year and six months and a fine of $500
for conspiracy. II. M. Bolger , bookkeep-
er , two years and a. fine of $500 for
bribery. Charles Colbert and John Col-
bert , convicted of attempting to bribe a
jury in the Ramsey bribery case , two
years and a fine of $500 each. A. A.
Vilsack former bank cashier , was not
sentenced to-day , and it is said will not
be till after he has testified in several
other cases which are likely to come up
soon.
STATE STRIKES AT RAILROADS.
Missouri : Attorney General Charges
Violation of Anti-Trust Law.
Attorney General Major has instituted
quo warranto proceedings in the Missouri
Supreme Court against sixteen railroads
doing business in fcie State , charging
them with violating the common law by
conspiring and agreeing to fix passenger
rates and with actually conspiring , fix-
ing nnd putting into effect a combination
of rates for the shipment of freight in
violation of the anti-trust laws of the
State. An alternative writ was made
returnable to the court en bane on June
1. This action is , according to the at-
torney general , the result of the rail-
roads attempting : to return to the 3-cent
passenger fare following Federal Judge
McPherson's decision that the passenger
and freight rate laws were confiscatory
and unconstitutional.
DR. MANUEL AMADOR DIES.
Fort at Paeifle End of Cnnnl Named
After Panama's First President.
Dr. Manuel Amador , first president of
the Republic of Panama , died at 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. IIe was 76 years : : old.
J. M. Dickinson , Secretary of War of
the United States , was informed of Dr.
Amador's death at a reception given by
Colonel Goethals Sunday night. "The
United States sympathizes deeply with
Panama , " said Secretary Dickinson , feel-
ingly. "Amador was an eminent states-
man and a true patriot. The United
States will honor his memory by naming
the main fortifications of the canal at the
Pacific end on Sosa Hall Fort Amador. "
President Amador leaves a widow , com-
paratively young , several children , and I
many grandchildren.
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TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
On account of the decision upholding
the section of the New York State in
surance laws prohibiting a company from
doing more : than $150,000,000 of new
business in one year , the New York Life
Insurance Company vill dismiss on May
31 about 1,000 of its agents. This step
is likely to be followed by the withdraw-
al of some of the foreign agencies , but
an effort will be made to have the law re
pealed.
Since the insurance department of the
State of Iowa has been barring certain
Minnesota insurance companies from do-
ing business in that State , Senator M. L.
Fosseen , Minneapolis , offered a retalia-
tory measure , under which the companies
from Iowa will not be granted licenses
in Minnesota under similar conditions.
The bill applies to all States which make
regulations that would exclude Minnesota
companies. .
By an order of the interior depart-
ment , about 3,000,000 acres of land in
the counties along the eastern border of
Wyoming are to be thrown open at once
to homesteaders , who will be allowed to
take either 1GO or 3LTJ acres. The land s
cannot be irrigated and will be of use , <
therefore for dry farming only. Those
who take the full 320 acres entries must i
make an attempt to cultivate the land , " ]
while those who go in on the smaller ]
holdings will not be compelled by the
law to do so.
The business life of London was all
agog over the opening of the new depart-
ment store of the American , merchant ,
Selfridge , formerly of Chicago , who bold-
ly advertised his intention of showing
the Britishers how the Yankee does things
in that line. Immense throngs of people
crowded the big store owing to attractions
offered , but at the same time the leading
London houses in dry goods accepted the !
challenge by inserting big advertisements ,
in the papers and also drawing crowds. . ]
Hitherto they had not used the daily pa
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HEPBUnr l.AW UPHELD
BUT ROADS NOT HURT
Supreme Court Finds f Commodities
Clause Good , but Takes Away
Its Effect.
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COAL LINES NOT TO SUFFER
Government Interpretation Held to
Be : All Wrong and Things Will
Go On as Before.
The railroads won a unique and sub-
stantial victory Monday when the
United States Supreme Court , through
Justice White , handed down a deci-
sion declaring the "commodities
clause" of the Hepburn act constitu-
tional , but placing an interpretation
upon it which will not compel the car-
riers to part with their coal proper-
ties.
ties.The
The decision , however , in the case
of the Lehigh Valley and the Dela-
ware , Lackawanna and Western roads
at least , requires a divorcement of
their coal properties. The victory was
unique , because the arguments of the
Attorney General in favor of the
clause , as well as the arguments of the
railroad attorneys against the clause ,
were lost efforts so far as the Su
preme Court was concerned.
The decision upholds the constitu-
tionality of the clause , but declares
that its interpretation by fie govern-
ment under which it was endeavoring
to compel the railroads to part with
their coal lands , is a false interpreta-
tion. Therefore , were the arguments
of the railroad lawyers combatting the
government's interpretation useless.
Both the government and the railroads
were , so to speak , "barking up tho
wrong tree. "
The decision , however , does not in-
dicate that the court would view with
hostility an amendment by Congress to
the commodities clause prohibiting
common carriers from owning the , se-
curities of corporations whose com
modities they transport.
Robs Law of Its Effect.
The effect of the Supreme Court's
pronouncement is to make : abortive the
purpose for which 'the commodities
clause was incorporated in the Hep-
burn amendment , for it makes : it pos-
sible for the railroads to do by indi-
rection what they cannot do directly
namely , own coal mines and transport
the products therefrom. In order to
do this , however , it becomes necessary
for a railroad company either to or-
ganize a subsidiary company which
shall be the legal owner of the mines ,
or in the event of the railroad com-
pany's owning its mines direct , then
it will become necessary for it to dis-
pose in good faith of the output of the
mines before it transports the same.
In other words , the decision places
the seal of approval upon the commodi -
ties clause , but insists that it does not
mean that a railroad company may
not own stock in ' another company
which controls coal mines the product
of which the railroad company trans-
ports to market , nor does it mean that '
if such a railroad company owns its
mines direct , it cannot transport their
product , provided it first parts with
it before it becomes interstate traffic. I
The decision , therefore , practically
gives the approval of the highest tribI I
unal in the land to the method which
is now being pursued by all western ,
coal owning roads and by the majority
of the eastern coal owning roads , of
mining and selling the products of
their mines. i
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COREY PLANS COPPER COMBINE.
'Head of Steel Corporation Said to
Have Strong Support.
William E. Corey president of thp UnI-
ted 1 States Steel Corporation is trying to
form : a big combination of the copper in-
terests ' of the country with a view to
regulating ] production eliminating disas- 1
trous 1 competition and introducing econo- '
mies ] in operation. Mr. Corey's efforts
are said not only to have the support of
Henry H. Rogers and the Amalgamated E
Copper and United Metals : Selling Com-
panies ] , but of strong independent inter-
ests. ( Mr. Corey and his friends recently t
gathered together fortyof the leading
copper men of the country and submitted
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his ' plan to them. Practically all of them
favored j the idea but many of them doubt- l
ed ' whether such a combination could be a J
successfully carried out. The plan , how t
ever , has made some progress. no
OWN WORK HIS DEATH TRAP. J
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Eng-Inccl. DrovFiicd in Tunnel . . .
paniou Escapes.
A. H. Dcinrick. an electrical engineer ,
in i charge of all electrical and power con- \
struction under the Salt River
valley re-
clamation project was drowned in the
sluicing tunnel ) , 000 feet long , near Phoet
nix , Ariz. A. L. Harris , assistant to G.
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L. . Smith , in charge of construction at i
Rozvelt was through the
swept tunnel I
with Demrick , but emerged in the river
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TWENTY HURT IN TRAIN CRASH. :
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Others Injured in Collision. C
Great Northern passenger train No 3 , f.J >
known as the Flyer , west bound , ran into
a light engine at Delano , Minn. Two
day coaches were burned and about twen-
ty passengers more or less seriously in0
jured. Engineer Andrew W. Watson of n
St. Paul , of the passenger : train , was (
probably [ fatally hurt and is in St. Mary' 11
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LAKE SAILORS ON STRIKE.
Labor Trouble Will Make 1OOOO
Seamen Idle - Shirs in Port. *
Traffic on the great lakes , so far as the
boats controlled by the Lake Carriers'
Association are concerned , was tied up
completely < Saturday when more than 1- '
000 members of the Lake Seamen's un-
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ions at various ports went on a strike.
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In Chicago about 200 sailors quit their
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jobs. The remainder of the men on
strike are scattered throughout the differ
ent ports along the lakes. Victor A.
Olander < ! , general secretary of , the Lake
Seamen's Union , said that as soon as the
sirike gets in full swing 10,000 seamen
will be affected. Of this number there
are about 5,000 sailors , 3,000 marine
firemen and 1.200 cooks. The marine , ( > n-
gineers , numbering about 1,050 have been
on strike for some time. Their strike is : !
independent of that of the Lake Seamen's .
Union and they are not affiliated with
the latter organization. There are sixty-
three firms in the Lake Carriers' Asso-
ciation , which controls about 500 vessels
/Itogether. Of this number there are
About seventy vessels in operation.
SURGLAR : STOPS FIRE ; CAUGHT.
"Waits to Pnt Out Flames He Started
and Comes to Grief.
To aare the lives of eight persons who
wave asleep in the house , most of them
voraen , Carroll Higgins , a confessed bur-
gkr , turned fireman in the home of Rev.
Jacob J. Bernthal in St. Louis , and at
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the risk of capture remained to extinguish
the blaze. While taicing silverware from
the sideboard in the dining-room of the
clergyman's home a candle the burglar
held in his hand set fire ' to draperies
hanging near by. Higgins tore down the
blazing draperies with his hands , blister-
ing the skin , but prevented the fire from
spreading. When all was over he went
through the apartments of each sleeping
member of the family and helped himself
to silverware and jewelry. "When the
fire started I could have 'ducked' right
there , but I knew if I did those women
asleep up stairs would probably be burne <
to : death or hurt , so I stuck , " Higgins said
after/his arrest. "Every minute I ex-
pected them to smell the smoke and come
downstairs , but they didn't.
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MINE EXPLOSION INJURES SEVEN
Use [ of Forbidden Powder Leads ! to a
Panic in a. Coal Pit.
An explosion of powder 2,000 feet un
der ground in the Arona mine of the Key-
stone Coal Company , at Arona. Pa. , seri-
ously injured seven miners and caused a
panic among 200 others. The men were
riding into the mine on a train of elecr :
trie cars for the day's work , when the ex-
plosion took place. All fled toward the
entrance. Finding there was no evi-
dence of gas. someof the men returned
and attended the injured men , who were
taken ; to - a hospital at Greensburg. Ful-
miuite was used in the mine and the use
of . powder was forbidden by the company.
It is believed a can of five pounds was
being smuggled into the mine and was
ignited by a spark from the trolley.
ASKS $15,000 ; GIVEN $20,000.
\Voman Awarded Bis Damages in
Suit Asrainst Ferry Company.
Although she only asked $ lf > ,000 for
he loss of a foot a jury in Philadelphia
gave : Mrs. Jennie Amos $20,000 damages
in her suit against the Delaware River
Ferry Company. The woman was a pas-
enger on a ferry boat which docked at
Kaighn's Point. Camden. There was no
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gang : plank provided for the passengers
and as she was about to step from the
boat to the wharf the boat gave a jolt ,
throwing her forward. Her left foot was
caught between the boat and the planking
of the slip and crushed.
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Ex-Secretary Metcalf Runs Bank.
Victor H. Metcalf , fprmer Secreta * ? :
of the Navy , has > assumed the active man -
agement of the Union Savings Bank , ' in
Oakland , Cal. He has been Jected'ice
president and general manager of the
bank. _
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Expenditures for Month of April I
$3,000,000 Larger than Receipts.
The monthly statement of the public ,
debt sbows that at the close of business
April 30 the debt , less \ casb in the
treasury , amounted to 1,025,983.825. .
which is an increase for the mouth of
3207303. : The total cash in the treas
ury is 1,725,479,434 , against whicji
there are demanci liabilities outstand-
ing amounting to 1,448,045,599 , which
leaves a cash balance on hand of $277-
433,835. The government receipts for
April were 52,075,974 and expendi-
tures 55,050,020.
The monthly coinage statement shows
the total coinage executed during April
agregatcs $31,8 ; 1,61Llof which $30-
041,000 was gold , 1172.00 silver and
38,014 minor coins. The monthly cir
culation statement shows national bank
notes outstanding $ 087,048.227 , a de
crease for the year of $10,237,471 and
an increase for the month of $3,001,612.
WINS SUIT AND HIS SON.
J. S. , Cabanne Granted Divorce and
Custody of Recently ; Stolen Day.
James Shepard Cabanne Jr. has ob-
tained a divorce from Mrs. Minnie Leon-
ard Cabanne Brandenburg and was
granted the custody of their son. whom
Broughton Brandenburg of New York
recently took to San Francisco.- . Ca-
banne has returned from the Western
city , where he regained possession of the
boy. The divorce case was on the default
docket and no defense was offered. The
prayer of the plaintiff alleged desertion.
Mrs. Cabanne has asserted that she ob-
tained a divorce from her former husband
in British Honduras before she was mar-
ried to Brandenburg.
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On a wager of ) $ 300 Charles Lambie ,
St. Paul , agreed to walk to Seattle , 1-
912 miles , in ninety days.
"Eddie" Dugan. the jockey , is back in
New York after having failed to procure
in England a jockey's license.
The French Prix de Palaisair- was
won by W. K. Vanderbilt's Northeast.
Nash Turner's Pillard was second.
At' Leicester. Eng. , the Gadby 2-year-
old plate of 103 sovereigns , distance five
furlongs , was won by Midhurst.
For the seventeen minutes tussling it
took Frank Gotch to upset Mahmout , the
terrible Turk , -twice , the champion re
ceived a total of 14,088.05.
George Demsey , of Columbus , was
given the decision over Hugh McMahon
of St. Paul in a six-round boxing con-
test. The contest took place at Colum-
bus.
bus.At
At Nottingham , England the Little-
john plate of 200 sovereigns for 2-year-
olds , distance four furlongs , was won by
H. P. Whitney's Oversight , ridden by
J. H. Martin.
As a result of the efforts of a number
of prominent Yale and Princeton alumni
it appears probable that the 'varsity
crews ' of these two universities will meet
in a dual regatta on Carnegie Lake.
Charley Comiskey announced that he
had chosen Catcher Billy ; Sullivan as
manager ; for the White Sox this season , to
succeed Fielder Jones. This action was
generally expected and was : what Chicago .
fans wanted.
H. O. Messier and G. R. Schubert of
Milwaukee , are arranging for a seven .
nights' ; heel and toe walking match , the
contest to be open to the world. The rac-
ing Iioura will be three each evening , nnd I
eight houJ3 on the last r : . - . . .
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Children Among : Fire Victim In .
Crowded Xew York Tenement.
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Eight persons five of them children
were burned to death and fourteen others <
were injured , some of them fatally , in art I i '
incendiary fire in a five-story tenement at
37 Spring street , New York , occupied by
twenty Italian families , early Friday. , . ift ! ! ( t
The blaze followed a demand by members
of so-called : "black hand" society for
the payment of $1,000 blackmail. It
spread through the building iwth start- "
ling rapidity , as the hallways were soak- ti I
ed with kerosene oil by the blackmail-
ers. In a panic which followed the alarm
the tenants fought their way down the .
fire escapes or jumped from tiie windows , I
while babies were thrown from windows
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into the arms of policemen on the side-
walk. Six injured , three of whom are
children , are not expected to recover. Ja
cob Bruck , the proprietor of a grocery
store on the mail floor of the building
received on April 18 a letter readings : .f
"We demand $ , OOO or- death. Bring itr ; " ,
in Mott street. Petrosino is dead but !
the black hand lives.-Black Hand So- . .
ciety' . ' On Monday la'st Bruck ret eived "
another letter written in a similar strain.
He turned both letters over to the po-
lice. '
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J. HAZEN HYDE SENTENCED. _
Former Equitable Life Official Or I :
dered to Jail and Pay 10O. . -
James Hazen : : Hyde , of New York , for ; "
merly vice president of the Equitable " 4r
Life Assurance Society , and his chaufIeurw' , .
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Lawdice , were sentenced in Paris in de- ,
fault , Mr. Hyde to one month's imprison- " I
ment and to pay a fine of $100 , and Lad-
wice to a month's imprisonment and to i
pay $30. They were charged with run-
ning into a public taxicab last October
and injuring a passenger. The complain- ' ,
ants asserted that after the accident Lad- ,
wice sped away. Under a law passed last : ' : j' '
July flight after an accident is a special
offense. At present Mr. Hyde is on an. y.
automobile trip in the Riviera. r
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IMPORTS SHOW PROSPERITY. ,
Gems Valued at $2,418,242 and
Autos Worth S15CG2 Entered. : .
According to the figures of the New
York customs office the luxuries imported1
into this country during April indicate a
return of prosperity. Diamonds , pearls
and other precious stones aggregating an
appraised value of 2418242.14 were im
ported through this port. This is six
times the quantity imported during the
same month last year and is more , by
nearly $500,000 , than the value of the
precious stones imported during April of.
1007. In the same month 172 automo- , '
biles of the appraised value of 215,602.57 '
were imported.
OHIO COAL MAN .KILLS HIMSELF. . : - . . '
Head ol Company Dies ' by Owa ' . . .
Hand from Grief and Worry.
Gilbert D. Preston , president of the In - $ ,
terstate : : Coal and Coke Company , shot
and killed himself in the bathroom of his
home in Columbus. For twenty years
Preston was connected with the Johnson'
Coal Mining Company and later with the
Loraine Coal and Dock Company. With ,
other local men he formed the Interstate
Company. Worry over business affairs .
and grief for his young daughter , who
died suddenly a year ago , are held re-
sponsible for his suicide.
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CRAZED : BY : THOUGHT OF LOSS.
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Sight of 3Iemorinl : Card Drive
Mother : to Murder and Snlcide.
Driven insane apparently by the sight '
of a memorial card which she had or-
dered for her daughter Elsie , who died
about a month ago. Mrs. Bernard Rister
of Stafford Springs , Conn. beat Charles
E. Emory of T > oston. who had called to . ± .
deliver the ca : 'ds , on the head with &a : ; :
ax. inflicting serious wounds ; shot and
killed her 2-year-old son Bernard , and . :
ihen took her own life by sending a buJ . , ' 'J < '
let through her heart.
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