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THE JIOKJIDIG OREGOJTIAJf, THURSDAY, 31AKCH 7, 1907, S (Continued From First Page.) morning, a death In Justice Fitzger ald's family causing an abandonment of the Thursday sitting. 'Battling" Nelson in Court. "Battling" Nelson, the pusilist, this morning was the center of attraction in the courtroom. The pugilist occupied tlio entire attention of the spectators up to the time the defendant was called to the bar. Nelson was accom panied by his manager, William Nolan, and they occupied seats just behind the prisoner. TJiaw e-grain came to court laden with letters which continue to come to him from all quarters of the globe. Most f the letters are in praise of the de fendant, and he manifestly takes great satisfaction in reading them. Kver since the trial began Thaw has been making voluminous notes of the testimony. Tt is now said that he .spends his evenings in the Tombs transcribing these notes and arrang iast them for the use of his lawyers. It is said'that he will attempt to make Mr. Delmas sura up the case on the lines lie will lay down, based on this record of what he considers the weak points in the prosecution's case. Costs $15,000 for State's Experts. itr. Jerome' sent to Controller Metz for an emergency appropriation of $15,000 in cpeci&l revenue bonds to pay the expense of experts engaged by the state to tes tify as to the sanity of Harry Thaw on the night he shot Stanford White. in the trial of Albert T. Patrick for the murder of William Rice, the District Attorney obtained more than $50,000 to pay the expense of experts employed by the state. TEliLS OF HEK SOX'S TROUBLES '.Thaw's -Mother lielates Events Lending I p to His Marriage. NEW YORK, March . Mrs. William 1'h.iw was called to the stand im mediately after court assembled for the afternoon session. Clerk Penny had called the roll of the jury when Mr. Delmas whispered to him, and in a loud voice, the clerk commanded: "Mrs. William Thaw to the witness stand." Mis. Thaw appeared a moment later. She was still dressed in the same black frock in which she appeared the first day of the trial. With head erect and well thrown back, .she walked to the witness chair. She stopped at the corner of the jury box. and the court crier handed her the Bible, t'lerk Pfnny administered the oath, and as Mrs. Thaw took her place in the chair the court crier announced: "Harriet Copley Thaw." Harry Thaw was all interest. He sat facing his niothcr and seemed extremely nervous. He rested his cheek on his hand and bit his nails. Mrs. Tbaw repeated her name in response to a question by Mr. Delmas. speaking in a tone so low as hardly to be heard. Mr. Delmas stood Immediately to her left. Mrs. Thaw said that in the Fall and Winter of 1903 she was living in Pittsburg. Her son Harry came home, she said, on November 16 or 17. a day or two before hi brother Josin.h's wedding. "During the time your son Harry was at home, did you notice anything unnatural about his condition?" asked Mr. Delmas. Tlis l-"aoe 'Wore Despairing lxok. "I certainly did.1 repliedMrs. Thaw. "Will you please descriSe what took place?" "The day when he first eame to the door, there was a look of absent-mindedness on his face, a despairing look." Mrs. Thaw's two sons, other than the defendant. Edward and Josiah, sat just behind Harry during their mother's testi mony. "Did the impression of a change in your son grow on you?" asked Mr. Delmas. "His room was next to mine. Often in the night, I heard smothered sobs. Some times, when I was awake last at night. I would see a light under his door and ofter found him sitting up at 3 o'clock in the morning. He told me he could not sleep and there was no use going to bed. 1 asked him to tell me what the matter was. He said it waa impossible to tell me hin story." "Did he at any time, in answer to your questions, freely tell you the story?" "He told me freely one night, when I inpisted on it." - Mr. Jerome objected to the repetition of the. story until Mr. Delmas stated that the time at which It was told was covered by the testimony of the alienists as a period when Thaw was insane. Then -Mr. Jerome withdrew his objection and allowed the witness to give the purport of the conversation. Told Story of Girl's 'Wrong. "fie told me the story," said Mrs. Thaw, "but not definitely. He said his troubles were caused by something a wit keel man had done in New Tork, prob ably the wickedest man In New York. He said it had ruined his life and he never could he. happy. That was all I could pet from him lor a week." Mrs. Thaw said Harry seemed absorhed, it he was working with a. great problem. He was very fond of music end often he would leave the table and go into a parlor. Mrs. Thaw, as she told of her son's condition, almost broke down. "1 would hear loud music upon the piano, which would gradually grow softer nnd softer, and he would come back to the table as if nothing had happened. 'The week before Thanksgiving. I un oerstood more. 1 did not know the girl's name, I did not ask for it. I did not want to know it. but I did know that his condition hod something to do with a young girl. Vie had told me about the -wicked man In New York, but It was only later that 1 found out that this man had ruined a young girl. "After 1 found his condition was due to something which had been done to a young girl, I asked him why he should allow his life to be ruined. "Harry said the girl had been neglected by her mother, or that she had no mother, or this thing would not have happened. He said there was still a chance for her lo be sued. 1 can't recall all that he said. Burst Into Tears in Church. "On Thanksgiving day Harry and I were alone." Here Mrs. Thaw's voice failed. Her face flushed and her eyes filled with tears. Justice Fitzgerald asked if she could proceed. She nodded, but re mained silent. To relieve the tense situ ation. Justice Fitxgerald ordered that all of Mrs. Thaw's testimony up to this Hme be read to the jury by the stenog rapher. Mrs, Thaw's voice had been so low that her words could not be heard distinctly, even by the jury. "It was the first Thanksgiving in our larxe and beautiful new church." said Airs. Thaw, when she was able to resume. "Harry and I went to church and it was crowded that we had to sit well back under the gallery. Wheal the choir was .singing Kipling's 'Recessional.' 1 heard I lurry sob. Looking around, I saw tears THAW MOTHER WITNESS FOR HIM failing upon the programme. He was trembling all over, but I quieted him. "As we drove home, I asked him how he had come to forget himself. He said this dreadful thing had suddenly come over him and, if it had not happened, she might have been with us then." Mrs. Thaw told of Dr. Bingaman's having prescribed a nerve tonic for her son. After Harry once spoke of tho young woman, he often talked of her, said Mrs. Thaw. "When did you first learn who the young woman was?" asked Mr. Delmas. "I cannot recall exactly. I think it was in the Spring of 1904." "Do you recall the conversations you had with your son at that time?" Jerome Clearly Shows Hand. Mr. Jerome objected on the ground that there was nothing in the evidence to show that Thaw was insane at that time. The conversations, he declared, should be confined to the periods of insanity as testi fied to by the experts. Mr. Delmas replied that Dr. Wagner had testified that Thaw's insanity began in 1903, when he heard Evelyn's story. Mr. Jerome interrupted: '.'Are you in voking the rule which I pointed out yesterday." he asked, "that the presump tion of the defendant's insanity continues until otherwise proved?" "That is the rule of law which I In voked to cover the point I now wish to make," replied Mr. Delmas. Mr. Jerome now, for the first time since the trial began, mentioned publicly the possibility of a suspension of the trial for the appointment of a commission in lunacy. "We have testimony here," said he, "that this defendant was insane in July, 1903, insane in November, 1903, in sane on April 4, 3904, and insane June 25, 1906. Why does he not continue insane right down to the present time if the presumption Mr. Delmas cites is cor rect? And why should not this trial cease be suspended until the matter of the defendant's present state of mind can be inquired into?" Mr. Delmas rose to reply. "The question of a suspension of this trial is not before your honor for deter mination." he declared. "The presump tion which I have cited permits us to give the testimony which is under discus sion." Overruled After Long Argument. The argument was long, the attorneys taking sides opposite to those they took yesterday, when Mr. Jerome desired to obtain from Dr. Wagner testimony re garding conversations he had with Thaw in the Tombs during the last five visits he made to Thaw. Mr. Jerome argued that, while, as he claimed yesterday, insanity once' established is presumed to continue until it is shown that the con dition has disappeared, in this case Dr. Wagner's testimony was proof enough to overcome the presumption. He said the experts had testified that Thaw was in sane at periods from 1903 to 1905. The de fense, he said, wished the judge to rule that for three years Thaw was continu ously insane. "But now." he said, "after seven months in jail he sits here perfectly lucid and able to advise his counsel." If it were claimed that Thaw is insane now, Mr. Jerome said, it was only a mat ter of appointing a commission in lunacy and stopping the trial. Justice Fitzgerald interrupted to say that the matter of a commission was not before him and that he was simply pass ing on Mr. Delmas' objection. Justice Fitzgerald read from a decision covering the point, and sustained the objection, which allowed Mrs. Thaw to proceed with her narrative. Thaw Wants to Marry Girl. Mrs. Thaw then testified as to con versations with her son between Thanks giving. 1903. and Harry's departure for Europe in the Spring of 1904. "He told me the girl's name," said Mrs. Thaw. "Hj said she had been persuaded to go upon the stage, which was very bad for her " Harry returned to Pitts burg, she said, in November, 1904. "Did he speak to you again about the young girl?" asked Mr. Delmas. "There bad been a horrible scandal," said Mrs. Thaw, "or at least they made it out a scandal. I remember my ex pressing my disapproval of his coming home in the same ship with the girl. He explained it all to me. He was still of a mind to marry her." "You have said nothing before about his wanting to marry ' her," interrupted Mr. Delmas. "I must have forgotten it." replied Mrs. Thaw. "He told me in November. 1903, that he wanted to marry her, but that he had been frustrated." Mrs. Thaw said that in February, 1903, she and Harry took a trip south. "He then asked me to come on to New York and meet the young woman," continued Mrs. Thaw. "In March, I did so. Yes. it was not necessary that I give my con sent but I did." Mr. Jerome insisted that Mrs. Thaw give the entire conversation with her son as far as she recalled it. Past Must Be Closed Book. "After meeting the young woman." she resumed, "we returned to the hotel and Harry asked me if I had any objection to his marrying her. I told him it was not necessary for me to give my consent. He said he did not want to do anything against my . wishes. I said I was per fectly willing. I did afterwards make one condition it was not to prevent the marriage, but I told Harry if he married the girl and came to my house to live here in the East, her past life must be a closed book her past life in New York." "We will come to that presently," inter rupted Mr. Delmas. "We arranged that the woman should come to Pittsburg and we arranged for chaperonage, etc. When Harry came home tor the wedding, he seemed to be laboring under a great stress and feared that tiie wedding would be interfered with by the young woman's mother on account of the girl's minority." After a recess of 15 minutes, Mr. Delmas announced that his direct examination of Mrs. Thaw was concluded and Mr. Jerome began his cross-examination. He asked Mrs. Thaw if Fhe was not for a time after her husband's death a trustee under his will. Mr. Delmas at once objected. "This is not proper cross-examination." said he. "This matter was not gone into and I hardly can conceive that . it is the purpose of the District Attorney to at tempt to discredit the witness. Thaw's Income Moderate. Jdr. Jerome was profoundly respect ful in his attitude toward the defend ant's mother as he continued his cross examination. He asked the witness if she would kindly state what her son's income was subsequent to June. 1904. "I am not able to say exactly. It was certainly not what the newspa pers have said." "Was the income from his father's estate?" "It was from hie own estate inherit ed from his father." Mrs. Thaw said she could not give any figures, but would say that the in come was a "moderate one." A "When." asked Mr. Jerome in a low voice, "did the defendant first inform you of his relations with the young woman who became his wife?" Mr. Delmas objected. He said the question assumed what was not in the evidence. Mr. Jerome changed the form and asked: Told Nothing of Former Relations. "Did the defendant ever disclose to you the fact that he had sustained re lations with the young woman before she became his wife?" "He did not," said Mrs. Thaw firmly. "When your-son returned to Pitts burg in the Fall of 1903," asked Mr. Jerome, "he expressed a desire to you to marry Miss Nesbit?" "He did." "Did he ever express a fear that oth ers would prevent her from accepting him?" "He said she had told him it would be a very unsuitable match. I said if she came to me her past would be a closed book. The man's name was never mentioned in my presence." "1 did not understand, madame, what you said about this defendant's re marks to you about Miss Nesbit's moth er being of no help to him." "He said she would not help nim to raise the girl out of her condition." After one or two unimportant ques tions, Mr. Jerome closed his cross-examination. Wants to Tell of Heredity. "Is that all I am to say?" asked Mrs. Thaw. Mr. Delmas said there was noth ing more for her to say. "I wanted, if permissible, to say something about heredity,'-' said Mrs. Thaw, rising in her seat and speaking earnestly. In a low voice, Mr. Delmas explained that there would be noth ing more she could say. Mr. Delmas then stated that the de fense would call only two more wit nesses experts who would be re quested to answer a hypothetical ques tion covering the whole case from be ginning to end and embracing every fact which has the remotest bearing on the case. The two alienists to be called are Drs. Hammond and Jelllffe. Justice Fitzgerald announced that, owing to a death in his family, he would not hold court tomorrow. Ad journment was taken then until 13:30 Friday morning. EXPERT FINISHES TESTIMONY AVagner Says Thaw's Reason AYas Clouded on Day of Marriage. NEW YORK. March 6. Dr. Charles Wagner, who has been under cross-examination since Monday afternoon, was again called to the .stand in the Thaw trial this morning, and District Attorney Jerome began to ply him with questions regarding Thaw's will and codicil. Dr. Wagner said he believed that when Thaw wrote the section of the will providing for a fund for the prosecution of anyone who might take his life, his mind was clouded and he did not have as clear an idea of such matters as a man who was wholly sane, but enough to be able to appre ciate that the taking of a human life was a crime. "Doctor, when this defendant stood up to be married upon the same day that the will was signed, did he know what he was doing?" asked Jerome. "I don't think his mind was entirely clear." "Was it clear enough for him to under stand that he was getting married?" "Yes, he understood it." After questioning Dr. Wagner regard ing the letter written by Thaw in 1303 to Attorney Longfellow, Mr. Jerome sud denly asked: "Was there any period between 1903 and 1905 when this defendant was in full pos session of bis faculties?" Dr. Wagner hesitated a moment and then replied: "There are several months in that period of which I have no record. It is possible that there may have been re covery during that time." Reasoning In a Circle. Mr. Jerome took up a number of works by various authors on psychi atry and asked Dr. Wagner's opinion of the works and the writers. For half an hour this line of questioning was kept up. Dr. Wagner admitting that most of the authors noted were learned men. Following this Mr. Jerome returned to Thaw's letter. In explaining that a man might be insane and still have a working knowledge of many matters. Dr. Wagner said that in the institution of which he is super intendent he has a patient who, al though the most insane man he has ever seen, is a good shoemaker. One of this man's delusions, which affects him three or four times a day. ' is that people who are hundreds of miles away are eating something. that causes him nausea. After finishing . with his questions, based on Thaw's letters, Mr. Jerome asked Dr. Wagner: "Do you know a disease known as circular insanity?" "Yes." , "Is reasoning in a circle a sign of circular insanity?" ' "I don't Know what you mean by. reasoning in a circle." "The kind of reasoning you have been doing." Mr. Delmas objected and asked that the remarks be stricken out, accusing the District Attorney of making an inference that the witness was a vie- ( tim of circular insanity. Mr. Jerome settled the matter' by withdrawing the remark. Insane When He Fired Shorts. Mr. Jerome next took up the events upon the Madison Square Roof Garden the night Thaw shot and killed Stan ford. White. He asked the witness if the separate acts of the defendant that night indicated insanity. Dr. Wagner replied: "They indicate to me that the defen dant was insane. He may have had automatic knowledge as to firing the pistol and he may have had sufficient intelligence to know he was causing annoyance by blocking the way to the elevator after the tragedy, but these facts do not show he was sane." "Would your opinion as to the defen dant's condition be influenced if you knew that ho had taken a large amount of liquor that afternoon?" "I would want to know how much ho had taken." "Men who have been insane are still susceptible to liquor during lucid in tervals, are they not? There is noth ing in the disease which would make them immune to the effect of liquor, is there?" "Nothing that I know of." "Is there anything in the hypotheti cal question that enables you to tell whether the defendant was insane or drunk?" "There is nothing whatever In the question to indicate intoxication, much less to indicate insanity." Xo Evidence Thaw AVas Drunk. Dr. Wragner explained that the pallid face, slow and measured tread, the staring eyes and deliberation of the defendant at the time of the tragedy were not indications of alcoholism. Mr. Jerome then took each of the fact s as given in the hypothetical question and asked the witness if each one might not. have been the act of insanity. Dr. Wagner said there was no act that might not have been per formed by a sane man. "A sane man can do anything he likes," said the witness, "provided he has the capacity. An insane man is often impelled to do things which he cannot help." "You mean an irresistible impulse?" "Yea" "That is all." Dr. Wagner started to explain, but was stopped by Mr. Jerome's repeating: "that is all, ijoctor." Mr. Delmas asked but-one question upon re-dircct cross-examination. "Doctor, after this long cross-examination, do you desire in any way to change your statement that in your opinion this defendant when he shot Standford White did not know that his act was wrong?" "Not in any way." answered Dr. Wasner. The lunch recess was ordered. HUGE PROFITS IDE Light Turned on Prudential Life Insurance. SURPLUS PAID BYJNSURED New Jersey Committee Proposes Limit to Capital and Profits. Dry den's Company Pays 219 Per Cent Dividend. TRENTON, N. J., March 6. Senator Hilley today presented to the Senate, the report of the special committee appointed last year to investigate the subject of life insurance in New Jersey. He also of fered seven bills, drafts of which were embodied in the report, to carry out the con.mittee's recommendations. By far the greater part of the report is devoted to the Prudential Insurance Com pany of America, the largest of the four companies under investigation. ' Princi pal among the recommendations is one that a bill be enacted limiting the amount of capital stock which any life insurance company may have to J2,O00,O0O and the dividends which may be paid thereon from future earnings, so long as the company continues to conduct the participating life insurance business, to 10 per cent- upon the stock; "and providing that upon the dissolution of th company the stockhold ers of the company-sKall have, out of the ultimate distribution of assets, not more than $2 for $1 of the face value of -their shares. This bill provides, however, that where accumulations greater than that amount already have taken place, as, claimed in the case of the Prudential, the stockholders shall not be deprived of their rights thereto. Among other recommen dations are the following: Must Choose In September. That after January 1, 190S, no domestic company shall write both participating and . nonparticipating policies; all stock companies to elect on or before Septem ber 1 of this year whether they shall con duct a participating or nonparticipating policy after the 1st day of January, and that annual accounting be made to policy-holders by classes of the portion of the surplus belonging to them and the setting aside of such a portion as part of the surplus to their credit. The committee reports that, upon the whole, it found that the companies under investigation have been carefully admin istered, their funds well invested, and the salaries of their officers not so high as to require restrictive legislation. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company was found to be a purely mutual company, and to have shown a steady growth. The report contains an extended review of the Prudential from the time of its organization in 1S7.1 under the name of the Widows' and Orphans' Friendly So ciety, with a capital of J25.000. until the present, when it has a capital stock of J2.000.tnj0 and a surplus of $1S,5,000. The report says: Profits Belong to Insured. If the story of the stockholders be correct, the surplus of this company in law belongs to them. The present surplus of $18,5.SO.t"Oo affords $204 for each dollar of the 91,O0O contributed to the enterprise, and tbl v in addition to annual dividends of J2OO.O0O, or 210 per cent paid for many years past. The truth Is that this vast accumulation of money, now amounting to more than S125.O00. 000, was all contributed by, and in ethics all belongs to. the policyholders, after a fair de duction for the expenses of operation and Just and liberal return to' the promoters of the enterprise. It has been stated that at the present rate of progress this surplus Is likely to be at the end of 1907 J23.C00.000 and at the end of 1D08 $28,000,000. This money ought, in some way, lo be assured to the policyholders, ex cept auch part as justly now belongs to the holders of the stock. Rather than allow this accumulation to go on for the benefit of the stockholders, we would favor the repeal of the charter of the corporation and a reorganization of it under the scneral law. It is in . place of this extreme measure that the committee prepared the bill limiting the amount of capital stock of any insurance company to $2,000,000 and restricting the profits of stockholders. RYAN OFFERS WAGE SCALE aiincrs' Pay May Depend on Price of Copper. BUTTE, Mont., March 6. At the special meeting of the Miners' Union today tho report of the committee which met with John D. Ryan, managing director of the Amalgamated Copper Company, several days ago, was accepted and the commit tee was given extended power toward bringing about an agreement between the miners and the employing companies con cerning the new scale of wages. It is understood that Mr. Ryan had of fered a scale dependent upon the price of copper for the next five years, with 14 per day as the maximum wages for underground minors as long as copper shall remain at above IS cents per pound. The scale provided $3.60 as the minimum if the red metal shall fall below 18 cents per pound. There was some discussion at the meet ing relative to tho demands of the smel termen for a higher wage schedule and the committee was instructed to meet with a committee from the Mill and Smel termen's Union at an early date to agree upon some plan of adjustment which may o O STUBBORN coughs and colds are dangerous because the irritated membranes get no rest, hence can not recuperate. Robbed of their power of resistance, they are unable to throw off .germs of bronchitis, pneumonia or .consumption. Scoff's Emulsion soothes and heals the affected membranes with glycerine, restores the tissues and builds up the blood with cod liver oil, strengthens the nervous system with hypophosphite. Scoff 'jr Emulsion will break up and cure the most stubborn cold. ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c AND $1.00. WHITELAGUE Its Extermination Is Prevention. There are a great - many articles now appearing in print on the subject of con sumption, whose ravages are on the in crease, not only in America, but also in Europe. That there should be a systematic and determined warfare against this awful disease is now becoming evident to all persons having at heart the welfare of the human race. A well-known physician, who has made tuberculosis a study for a number of years, states most emphatically that the majority of cases of consumption origin ate in a neglected cold or cough. This causes inflammation and weakening of the lungs, and renders them liable to the attacks of the tubercle germ, which at present is very prevalent. He also states that the new soluble form of pine is probably the most powerful, active agent ever known for the quick relief of acute and chronic colds and for healing and stimulating the lungs and bronchial tubes. Inquiry at a leading druggist's elicited the information that the pine product above referred to is known as Concen trated oil of pine, and the formula for its use is as follows: One-half ounce of concentrated oil of pine: two ounces of glycerine, half pint of whiskey; mix and shake thoroughly and use in tablespoon doses every four hours. The Concentrated oil of pine comes put up for medicinal use only in half-ounce vials, enclosed in round air-tight screw top cases, which protect it from atmos pheric changes and retain all the original ozone. It should not be confused with some patent medicines that are put out under similar names and style of pack age. These, owing to their impurities and the fact that they are not soluble, are liable to produce permanent kidney dis orders. be on a basis acceptable to the large com panies. TIED UP BY LEGAL POINTS Iroqnois Theater Trial Blocked From Reaching Jury. DANVILLB, 111., March 6. The trial of Will J. Davis, charged with manslaughter on account of the fire in the Iroquois Theater in Chicago in 190S. is now at a standstill so far as evidence is concerned and promises to be tied up in the courts indefinitely on legal points. When these points have -been passed to the court, more of vital importance will be submitted. The defense offers to admit the facts. The prosecution denies its right to do so. Counsel representing the state said it would be shown that the theater was in complete when opened and unfinished at the time of the lire and that Mr. Davis knowingly violated the ordinances relat ing to safety in public playhouses. - The defense moved that the prosecu tion be required to introduce the ordin ance in question, the theory being that, should the court hold the ordinance in valid, there would have been no law for Davis to violate. The court set Friday for hearing the argument. JUNGLE DOES NOT ATTRACT Pigmy Sot Ready lo Return to Ills Congo Home". NEW YORK. March 6. Ota 3cnga. the Congo pygmy, who has been living in the Howard orphan asylum, Brook lyn, since ho was taken from the mon key liouse in the Bronx Zoo last Sep' tember, through the efforts of the negro clergymen of New York, refused to go back to the Jungle yesterday. . Professor S. P. Verner. who brought him to this country and turned him over to the park authorities until such time as he should return to Africa, started for the Congo yesterday with an American exploring expedition. Be fore he started he called on Ota Benga and told him he would take him back to Africa if he wished to go. The pygmy, who is learning the Eng lish language, wants to become quali fied as a missionary before ke returns, and told Professor Verner so. The Baptist Ministers' Association of New York, it is stated, intends to send Ota to the Virginia seminary at Lynch burg as soon as he gets a good hold on the English language. It is thought it will take about eight years to make a good missionary out of Ota. ' Los Angeles Xow Headquarters. LOS ANGELES. March 6. The Wells Fargo Express Company has made changes m its southwestern district and is today establishing general headquarters in Los Angeles for the new division of the Southwest. San Francisco has hitherto been headquarters for the territory ready ing from there south to Guaymas. Mexico, and east to Albuquerque and El Paso. The new district, with Los Angeles as headquarters, includes Southern Califor nia. State of Sonora, Mexico, and Arizona. John S. Mills is superintendent of the new division. Train Plunges Down Bank. WARREN. Pa.. March 6. Train No. 33. on the Western 'ew York & Pennsyl vania division of the Pennsylvania Rail road, plunged over a 25-foot embankment near Irvington tonight and nine persons were injured, none fatally. Two cars were thrown from the rails and down an embankment into a pond of water. Shaw Heads Trust Company. NEW YORK. March 6. Leslie M. Shaw, whose resignation as Secretary of I IF YOU THE BEST $3 HAT IN THE WORLD SEE THAT IT HAS THIS LABEL, 50,000 SOLD, NOT ONE RETURNED BEN SELLING LEADING the Treasury went into effect Monday, took up yesterday his duties as president of the Carnegie Trust Company. Secre tary Shaw found little time yesterday for his work. He spent most of the day receiving those who called to wish him well in his new undertaking. It is the purpose of Secretary Shaw to reside for a time at the Fifth-Avenue Ho tel, where he will be joined by his fam ily a week hence. Kills Wife and Man. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 8. Mrs. Fred Sohwomeyer and William Gill died today from bullet wounds inflicted by the woman's husband at Ben Davis. Schwomeyer had started from his home for Indianapolis, but missed a car and re turned home. He found his wife and Gill together. Gill was shot five times and the woman once. Schwomeyer states that his home had been ruined. The men had for years been close friends. Case Against Penrose Complete. SAX ANTONIO, Tex.. March 6.-The prosecution in the Penrose courtmartial rested Its case today. A number of the discharged Brownsville soldiers will 'be summoned to testify in behalf of the de fense. T T w r T T ft ON THE CORNER FIRST AND ALDER STREETS. ' Prompt service, attendants neatly garbed, courteous and obliging; sur roundings sunny and pleasant. This market is a miniature "Spotless Town,1 everybody "busy as bees" but good-natured. What's to pay? Read: Choice Brisket Beef 4 Beef Necks to Boil. 4 Beef to Stew. . 4 Beef Kidnej's : 5 Oxtails, per pound. 5 Pigs' Feet .; 5 Corned Beef 6f? Veal Shanks, broth Beef Sh 'lder Roast . 7 Pot Boast Beef . . ., 7? Beef Sh'lder Steak 7 Best Round Steak 8? Rump Roast Beef. S Hamburger Steak . . 8 Veal for Stewing. . 8 Beef Tripe ... . , 8 Pork Hocks ........ 8 Pork Mix 'd Sausage 10fi Breast of Veal 10 Beef Brains . 10 Loin Steak 10 Rolled Rib Roast. . 10 Sh lder Roast Veal. 10 inn HAKKI WUUU 1V1 AKrvJt, 1 LU. Special Prices Given to CORNER FIRST WANT HATTER (Established 1879.) Cures Whlla You Slip. " Whooping-Cough, Croup, Bronchitis, Coughs, Diphtheria, Catarrh. Confidence can be placed in a rem edy, which for a quarter of a century has earnediunquahfied praise. Restful nights are assured at once. Cresoleae is a Boon to Asthmatics All Druggists Smit iosal for 4t- scrtfCive bciklct. Cresolftne Antiseptic Throat Tablets for the irritated throat, of ybur druggist or from us. 10c. in stamps. The Vapo-GresofcM C&, 180 Fattoi St. N. Y. 1 REATHES there the man with soul so dead) Who never to himself hath said, "This is my own, my native land? MEATS THATBEAR THE STAMP OF SAM'S APPROVAL HOME PRODUCT S-GOVERNMENT-IK-' SPECTED NO FOREIGN BEEFS OREGON-RAISED OREGON-KILLED 0REG0N-DREST ! - AND NOT AN OUNCE OF "BULL BEEF" OR GERM-RIDDEN MEATS AT ""V f. w-"v II i tr l i. Sirloin bteak Xisio Oman x ui leniuube. J-yo . Fancv Porterhouse Steak 12i, Fancy "T "-Bone . ": Steak .12i7 Beef Rib Steak . . .1212- , Veal Rump Roast. .12i, Leg Roast of Veal. 12?, Rib Roast of Veal. . 121 j Kib Veal Cutlets .l2i,? Legs of Pork 12 Leaf Lard 12io4? Pickle Pork 12i; Side Pork ........ 121- Pork Sh'lder Roast.l2i;e Pork Chops 12U Lorn Roast Veal. . . 15; Loin ,Veal Cutlets. 15 Pork Loin Roast.. . 15J Pork Steak . .... . . 15 Hams 17 Breakfast Bacon. ..171-, Hotels and Restaurants. AND ALDER STS.