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YS THAW IS INSANE ;
'BACK TO MATTEAWAN
Justice Mills Rules Against tho
Slayer , but in Strongest Dc- '
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r'haw ! , His Mother and His Sister
All in a Collapsed Condition
on Hearing News.
Harry K. Thaw was Thursday ad-
Judged insane by Justice Mills in a-
decision handed down in the Supreme
at White Plains , N. Y . , and or-
dered to be sent back to the Mattea
wan State Asylum for the Criminal
Insane immediately.
The order of Justice Mills was turn-
ed over to the Westchester County au-
thorities by the Clerk of the Supreme
Court and Thaw himself , in the jail at
White Plains , was informed of the de-
cision. Arrangements were mads to
take him back to Matteawan Friday.
Decides Tliaiv Is In ! a.nc.
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Justice Mills' , decision was the
ctrongest against Thaw that has been
handed down by any Judge since the
two trials of the prisoner. His decis-
ion can be summed up as follows :
That the insanity that Harry K.
Thaw was afflicted with in June , 1906 ,
the date of the shooting of Stanford
White , was a chronic , delusive insan
ity , generally known as paranoia.
That Harry K. Thaw has not recov
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ered.That
That in paranoia recovery is very
doubtful.
That the release of Harry K. Thaw ,
now would be a danger to the public
peace and safety.
Justice Mills in his decision finds
that Thaw is now insane and unable
to'pvpperly care for himself. The de-
ci , on contained 3,000 words and thor-
/mghly covered the insanity hearing
that had been held before Justice Mills.
Thaw awaited the decision in his
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was plainly nervous and paced up and
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down almost unnerved. Arrangements
I had been made to let him know the
t decision as soon as it was made public
I by the clerk of the court. When he
learned his fate , Thaw stoppea in his
I nervous walk up and down the cell
and stood still. He did not seem tc
I comprehend what had been told him.
r Then , when he realized that he must
go back to Matteawan , he staggered
backward and fell upon the cell cot.
covered his face with his handa
and for a time could not be aroused.
Mrs. : Mary : Copley Thaw , the prison-
er's mother , and his sister , the former
L 4 Countess of Yarmouth , were almost
. ti . overcome at the news. Alice Thaw
tried to comfort her mother , but the
aged woman , who has battled so long
and so untiringly for her son , showed
plainly that the decision was a terrible
blow to her and she is near a collapse.
CHRONOLOGY OF THAW CASE.
June 25 , 1906 - Thaw shot and
killed Stanford White in the thea-
ter on the roof of Madison Square
Garden.
I Jan. 3 , 2907 Trial began.
Feb. 1 - - Jury completed.
' Feb. 7 - "Evelyn Xesbit Thaw ,
wife of defendant told the story
I of how she was attacked by White.
March 20 - Lunacy commission
appointed.
April 4-Commission pronounced
Thaw sane.
" April 10 - Case given to jury.
April 12 - Jury reported disagree-
ment and was discharged after
bavin been out forty-seven : hours
j and eight minutes. \
Jan. 6 , 19OS - Second trial began
with. , Martin W. Littleton as chief
l counsel. Insanity principal ground
'of defense in second trial.
! ' < ! , Jan. 10 - Jury completed.
1 ; Jan. 13 - Opening pleas made.
i Jan. 31-Case given to the jury. :
I Feb. 1 - Jury returns verdict of
not guilty on ground defendant was
"r' insane at time he shot White. Jus-
tice Dowling committed Thaw to
Matteawan asylum and the defend-
( ant was taken to the asylum : on the
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Thaw still insane and ordered him
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JUDGE CLARKSON FOUND.
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sawyer Discovered Making Buttons
at Sabula , Iowa.
Former Judge Joseph B. Clarkson ,
Jr. , of Kenosha , Wis. , who strangely
disappeared from his home on the
night of July 14 last , was found Fri-
day at Sab "la , - la. , working in a but
ton factory , under the name of John
Paul. He returned to his home with
Detective John J. Burns of Kenosha.
The finding of the man , while clear-
ing the question ! : of his whereabouts ,
has deepened the mystery of the men-
tal process that caused him to forget
his identity , forsake his home and
wander nfrout the country in search
of work as a common laborer.
Perhaps the most puzzling feature
of the case is that Judge Clarkson
visited the same places that he vis
ited eighteen years ago , after he had
disappeared from his home in Omaha ,
Neb. , and worked his way through the
farms and towns of Iowa , under the
assumed name of Doolittle. He , had
even applied for work at the very
farm where he had been given em-
ployment as a straggler almost two
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decades ago.
When found , Judge Clarkson was
busily engaged in cutting buttons , and
he had been so employed since July
" , O. He suddenly came to his senses
when informed that he was Judge
Clarkson , and said that he was happy
that he had been found.
.FIGHT POB THE PENNANTS.
Standing of Clubs in the Principal
Basi Ball Leagues.
KATIOXAl LEAGUE.
W. L. W. L.
Pittsburg .71 27 Philadel'a .45 53
Chicago . . .67 31 St. Louis . .40 56
New York .57 37 Brooklyn . .36 62
Cincinnati .48 50 Boston . . . .26 74
AHEBICAN LEAGUE.
W. L- W. L.
Detroit . . . .62 41 New York .49 53
Philadel'a .62 41 Chicago . . .48 54
Boston - 62 44 St. Louis . . .45 55
Cleveland .53 51 Wash'gton .31 73
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
W. L. W. L.
Minn'polis .66 50 St. Paul . . .56 58
Milw'kee . .64 51 Kan. City. .52 60
Louisville .60 55 Toledo , . . . .53 62
Columbus .58 58 Ind'polis . . .51 66
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Toboggan , Pat Ornus and Arvid
Ladd were killed and a score of crack
horses were injured by a fire which de-
stroyed fifty-five stalls at the driving
park at Tursa , Okla.
Not one of the American horses that
were among the starters in the events
at Sandoun Park , England , were win-
ners. H. P. Whitney , J. R. Keene and
Richard Croker were represented in the
entries.
At the Canadian , Athletic champion
ship meet Winnipeg - , George I-I.
Goulding , of Toronto , clipped nearly a
second off the world's best mark. His
record for the mile \vallc is C minutes
and 25 1-5 seconds.
There is a scarcity of. good steeple
chase horses throughout the country ,
and it is the exception to find new.
promising steeds. The races are filled
with old "has-beens , " and others on
the verge of breaking down. The fields
are of goodly size , as a rule in Cana. .
da , but there are no new horses , and
tbe same old names which have been
familiar for years are still doing du y.
DROWN IN ACCIDENT TO LAUNCH.
Craft Carrying1 Passengers at Sun-
day School Picnic Strlkfes .Piling.
Two bodies are lying at the Canton
police station in Baltimore , and two
others at the bottom of the Patapsco
river , while sixteen persons who were
their companions are alive and
thankful that they were not also
drowned , when a gasoline launch car-
rying them was wrecked. Mrs. Kath-
erine E. Brown , aged 60 years ; Frank
Pryor , aged 19 years , and twq chil-
dren lost their lives. Pryor was act-
ing as engineer of the launch. The
others were attending the annual pic-
nic of the Huntington Avenue Baptist
Church Sunday School. Twenty per-
sons had entered the launch for a
short trip on the river. The craft had
reached a point about a hundred
yards from shore , when it struck
some piling , the top of which was un
der water. The occupants were
thrown into the water , which at that
point is only about four feet deep.
Rescue parties at once put out from ;
shore and saved sixteen occupants of
the launch.
MURDER IN SOLDIERS' HOME.
Captain Oscar En.stmoml Slain by
, Another Veteran nt Dayton , O.
Captain Oscar Eastmond , of the Na-
tional Soldiers' Home in Dayton , 0. ,
was shot and killed by Edward
Leonard , another veteran. The
murdered man was Colonel of
the First North Carolina Infan-
try in the Civil War. He had
been superintendent of the home hotel
and was 69 years old. He leaves a
widow , who resides in New York City.
He also leaves an adopted son , who is
employed in the Cash Register Works.
Leonard , who is" said to have been
crazed with jealousy because of recent
appointments and promotions , also
shot Sergt. George W. Arnold , not fa
tally , and wounded Warren Wright , a
private.
SALMON CATCH PROVES IMMENSE
Fish So Many That Wa.shinsrton Can ;
neries Cannot Handle Them.
Countless thousands of salmon are
being permitted to ascend to their .
spawning grounds without hindrance
from fish traps , which have been lift-
ed , says : a dispatch from Bellingham ,
Wash. While the canneries are glutted
with fish , dozens of scows are along- I .
side loaded with salmon and tows are
coming in with long strings of fish- .
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laden barges. It is proving an impos
sibility to handle the catch. The price
of sockeyes has fallen to 10 cents each.
CROWD SEES LAND DRAWING.
Conr d'Alene Lottery for Homesteads
Operated llY U. S. at Spokane.
Although the crowds of land seekers
were not so large as during the filing
of applications for registration on the
Coeur d'Alene , Spokane and Flathead
reservations , several thousand people
were present Monday when the draw
ing began. Each of the 105,000 per-
sons who applied for Coeur d'Alene
lands has one chance in 333 ; of the
100,000 applicants for Spokane lands ,
one in 400' may win , and of the 87,000 I
for Flathead land one in fifteen , has a
I chance.
Mere Man In'ot a Dish-washer.
Dishwashing is not a part of the
duties of a husband , Police Judge Mc-
Gannon ruled in , Cleveland. Harry
Cohen was in court charged with beat
ing his wife. Cohen said his wife
started the fight when he refused to
wash the dishes and clean up the
house. He said he did not beat her , '
but only defended himself. Judge Mc-
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LOST MILLIONS BY ONE SPREE ,
Death of Robert Womack , Gold Dis-
coverer , Recalls His Career.
With the death Tuesday of Robert
Womack , discoverer of gold in the
Cripple Creek district , the career of a
man who lost millions by one spree
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In 1891 Womack dug a prospect
hole in what is now known as the El
Paso lode of the Gold King property.
A few days later he struck the bo
nanza lode. He could not stand pros-
perity. Coming to Colorado Springs
he went on a spree and sold his bo-
nanza for SoOO. Then , crazed with
drink and success , Womack jumpe'd
on his broncho and rode tnrough the
streets \ , brandishing his six-shooter
and proclaiming his sec ; : et. The next
few days saw one of the greatest
rushes to the scene of his discovery
that the West has ever known.
When Womack sobered up , two or
three days later , he returned to the
district , only to find that the . best
mining property had been located by
others. He staked out a few claims ,
and soon he was compelled to go to
work for day wages.
FIRE LOSS AT SUMMER RESORT.
Thirt ' -six Bnildin .s , Including ; ;
Three HoteiV ; Are Destroyed.
A loss estimated at $1,000,000 was
caused by the fire which swept thirty-
six buildings from the main street of
the summer resort town of Monticello
N. Y. .
Three hotels filled with summer
guests , mainly from New York City ,
were destroyed. They were the Rock-
well House , the largest hotel in Sulli-
van County ; the Palatine Hotel -and
the Bolsum House. All the guests es
caped with most of their personal ef
fects. The Monticello House was not
burned. The Union National Bank ,
two newspaper offices and every store
but one in the town were destroyed.
The further spread of the flame was
prevented by the use of dynamite.
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United States Senator G. H. Clay , of
Georgia , has been re-elected by the
Georgia Legislature. His term will ex-
pire in 1915.
President Taft's faith in the corpora-
tion tax measure is unshaken. He will
accept no substitute for the measure
and will not modify it.
The women suffragists of Colorado
are to make an effort to send one of
their own sex to Congress two years
hence. They are agreed that Mrs. Sa
rah Platt Decker is to be the candi-
date.
The Democratic congressional com-
mittee , one year in advance of the us-
ual time for such action , has elected
officers and mapped out the course for
capturing the House in the next con-
gressional elections.
Speaker Cannon has decided that if
he threw down all the insurgents in
the matter of committee assignments
it would have the effect of reviving the
opposition to pannonism : and the House
rules. For that reason : the heads of
two or three of the insurgent leaders
will be laid on the blocks , while the
others vill be permitted to retain the
I assignments they held in the former
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SALT LAKE OCCUPIED BY G. A. R.
Veterans Rule City xand Tourists
Augment Large Crowds.
Occupation of the city of Salt Lake
by the Grand Army of the Republic
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I where. On the pro-
gram it was the
first day of the
forty - third en-
campment. Edgar
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coMM.vxi > KuLiLS. : : . Allen ,
in-chief of the Sons of Veterans , was
one of the early arrivals. He was ten-
dered a reception by his organization
Monday evening. The first formal
gathering was that of the Union ex-
prisoners of war , who met in the Fed-
eration of Labor hall at 10 o'clock.
The railroads carried a heavy pas-
senger traffic into Salt Lake with few
mishaps. The veterans and members
of affiliated organizations were out-
numbered by the tourists and sight-
seers. Arrivals Sunday were esti-
mated at 6,000. All who came : were
accommodated without difficulty , and
there was still a large number of
rooms upon which to draw.
Two camp fires , one at Assembly
Hall in Temple square and the other
at the armory , were attended by the
Grand Army members Monday night.
A local celebration , the entrance of
the wizard of the Wasatch and his
satellites , was a brilliant outdoor spec-
tacle at 9 o'clocland : throughout the
evening. Commander Nevius of the
Grand Army of the Republic , his staff
and officers of allied organizations met
the visitors at a reception under the
auspices of the women's committee in
the Commercial Club parlors. '
WOMAN FOR PRESIDENCY.
Chicago Settlement Leader Wanted
as Chief Executive.
"Jane Addams of Chicago , future
President of the United States , " will
be the slogan before many months
have passed , according to the advo-
cates of equal suffrage. Boston has
been chosen as the starting point of
the startling and novel campaign by
which the women hope to gain pres-
tige , if not actually a president.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell says . that
no better candidate could be found
than the Chicago woman , and her
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I MISS JANE ADDA\IS.l
I opinion is ' shared by Boston suffra
gettes , who are preparing to work with
might and main for the election of
Miss Addams. "A woman President
would be quite as competent to attend
to the national duties as a man , " says
I Miss Blackwell. "There have been
women rulers of countries before
now , and many of them stand out in
history as notable for their good judg-
ment and strong , intelligent minds. "
When interviewed at Hull House in
Chicago Miss Addams treated the
whole matter as a joke.
SHOOTS JUROR ; KILLS SELF.
Stranger Wounds Hotel Man Who
Helped in Sentencing Him.
Daniel A. Fenton was shot and fa-
tally injured on West Main street in
Middletown , N. Y. , at 2 o'clock Tues-
day afternoon. Fenton , who conduct-
ed the Hotel Elberton , left his hotel
about 2 o'clock. He was followed by
a stranger , who tapped him on the
shoulder and made a remark. Fenton
looked at the stranger , turned and fied.
The stranger fired a revolver from his
pocket , but missed the fleeing man.
He then took up the pursuit and fired
two more shots. Fenton fell to the
sidewalk and the stranger , after look
ing at Fenton closely , fired a bullet
through his own brain. The stranger
did not regain consciousness. On the
way to the hospital Fenton said : "It
was McSorley. I sat upon a jury that
sent him to prison for a long term. "
Fenton has conducted hotels in San
Francisco and Chicago.
Skirt as Bank Burns tvitli ? GOO.
Mrs. Charles Hart , wife of a retired
contractor , concealed $600 in $10 bills
in a skirt hanging in a closet of her
home in New York. In closing the
door she ignited a parlor match on
the sill that set fire to the skirt and <
I tonsumed the $600.
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TAFT TEI 0 ? : : 13,000 MES.
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President Outlines Itinerary for Fo3
Visit to West and South.
President Taft has made public a
tentative outline of the trip he wilt . ; .
take through the South and West this *
fall. The big trip will be a swing :
around practically the entire United ' .
States , embracing a journey approx
imating 13.00Q miles-as long as the \
cruise of the battleship fleet from
Hampton roads , through the Straits ot
Magellan to San Francisco Bay.
The President , accompanied by Sec
retary Fred W. Carpenter , Captain
Archibald ] W. Butt , his military aid ;
several White Hoiicc : attaches , aid rer-
haps a guest or two for various parts
of the trip , will travel in a private-
car attached for the greater part of
the time to regular trains , but run-
ning "special" frequently. It will be
a "White House on wheels. " The
President will start from Boston on
Sept. 15 , his fifty-second birthday.
Following is the itinerary as out.
lined :
Sept. 15 - Boston. _ .
Sept. 16-Chicago. , : .
Sept. 17 - Madison and Portage , Wis. ;
Winona , Minn.
Sept. Minneapolis , Minn. .
Sept. 20 - DCS Moines : , Iowa ; Omaha
Sept. 21-Denver , Colo.
. Sept. 22 - Colorado Springs and Pueb-
lo , Colo.
Sept. 23-Glenwood Springs and Mon-
trose , Colo. .
Sept. 24-Salt Lake City Utah.
Sept. 27-Butte and Helena Mont.
Sept. 2S - Spokane , Wash. . ,
Sept. 29 - North Yakima and Seattle ; "
Wash. ; Alaska-Yukon exposition.
Oct. Portland , Ore. . '
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Oct. 4-Sacramento , Cal.
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Oct. Oakland. . Berkeley , and Sao.
Francisco , Cal.
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Oct. 11 - Los Angeles , Cal. " '
Oct. 14-Grand canyon , Ariz. .
Oct. Albuquerque , N. M. : . " '
Oct. 16 - El Paso , Texas ; meeting witlS
President Diaz. I
Oct. 17-San Antonio , Texas.
Oct. IS - Corpus Christi , Texas. . '
Oct. 23-Houston and Dallas , Texas. r
Oct. 25-St. Louis , Mo. , and East . St
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Oct. 26-Cairo , Ill. ; Hickman , Ky.
Oct. 27 - Memphis , Tenn. , and Helenn .
Ark.
Oct. 2S-Vicksburg , Miss. ( ,
Qct. 29-New Orleans , waterways con
vention.
Nov. 1-Jackson , Miss. :
Nov. 2-Columbus , Miss. : , and EIrming-
ham , Ala.
Nov. 4 - Macon and Savannah , Ga. .
Nov. 5-Charleston , S. C. . , - .
Nov. 6-Augusta , Ga. : ? : : . ' '
Nov. 8-Columbia , S. C. . %
Nov. 9-Wilmington , N. C. ; - t-- :
Nov. 10-Richmond , Va. ' f
Nov. 10-Washington , D. C.'f ' . ' " . - 1.-- .
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Nov. 21-Washington , D. C.
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Then he will start putting the finish-
ing touches on his annual message.
SLAYERS OF PETROSINO TRACED' .
Two Men Now Under Arrest at Co- . -
lumbus in Italy at Time.
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Inspector Oldfield in his report to- , t
the Postmaster General states that An- . : " ' :
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tonio Marrfesi and Cologero Vicarlo
both of Dennison , 0. , who are in jail . - ' .
at Columbus awaiting action by tha
grand jury , were in Sicily at the time . : R
of the murder of Lieut. Petrosino , the !
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New York detective. He says they re--
turned to the United States after the/ ,
assassination and furnished the theory " .
I that if the New York police should co , . .
operate with the postal inspectors It Is
possible that connection can be traced
between them and the society of the- , . .t-
"Blackhanders" who are believed to-
have murdered the New York police '
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lieutenant. * - . - '
Nineteen money orders , each for $1- . : ,
000 , and one for $ SO have been traced' . " ' !
to Italy for the fund to protect from i ;
justice the slayers of Petrosino. Tho- ; J" '
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money was sent by Camilla Nunzleog-
Lima , who is supposed to be either the- . . ' . J
sister or wife of Salvatore , the head
of the organized society at Marion , O.
REISDEB100 FAMILIES HOMELESS . -
Plames Cause Heavy Damage in. .
South Chicago , HI.
More : than 100 families were made--v
homeless , scores of remarkable rescues.
of panic-stricken women and children
in imminent danger of being burned
to death or suffocated were made by
policemen and firemen and property
valued at $50,000 was destroyed by-
flames that swept through a score of . ,
frame dwellings in Superior and Buf ;
falo avenues , near 86th street , South
Chicago , Ill. , Tuesday. : Reports that . .
six persons were killed were pro- . '
nounced unfounded. The fire , starting ,
from an unknown cause on a rear
' porch of a building in Superior ave . , : tr
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nue , spread so rapidly that many of
I the residents only had time to flee ?
I to the street in night clothing. ' - ' q. . < . .
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Uo pr ; Cholera : Cure Is Found. '
J. H. Mercer , government live stock _
sanitary inspector , is proving the effi-
ciency of serum treatment of hogs for
cholera prevention. : He is making
tests at the Kansas City stock yards
and has given the serum and anti-
cholera treatment to animals which " " .
are alive and well ; , notwithstanding
they were kept in the same pen with t
hogs that were given cholera vinia
and afterward died. ,
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AYiricr Famine Endangers Crop .
The drought throughout eastern. "
Pennsylvania is becoming so severe-
. . .
that unless rain comes soon the crops :
will be ruined. Springs and wells are
drying up. Water may be hauled to
operate the ' collieries. f : '
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