C—
Q O r FOUR S A C K S OF CASH.
STEAMLR WRECKED TRAIN IS DYNAMITED
Bold Robbers Hold Up Train Cioso
to Pittsburg
Pittsburg, May 1.— T w o train-
robbers, who evidently boarded the
New York and St. Louis express, on lleven Hen Drown Oli Y iq iln i
the
Panhandle railroad o f the Penn
H tu n n iH ., May 0.
sought to be established by the gov-
In M o rs.
Washington. May « . - T h e Senate " “ “ Jf111 ° } Pro*‘ «»lu* and equipping sylvanla system, at the Union Sta­
today passed a bill prohibiting the buildings for Its ambassadors In Lu- tio n In this city, when that train left
at 10:50 tonight, ten minutes late,
einployment, within certain hours, of f ° P ean1 “ {>“ • '»
a aetback
children under 14 years of age in the i 0«1» *
,tbe a« nnte/ »h e re the dlp- overpowered the express messenger
District of Columbia, in any factory, toiw tlc bill was under consideration, and got away with four bags of cur
workshop, telegraph office, ristaurant Through a point of order by Culber- renoy, containing an amount o f
The rob
hotel, apartment house, saloon, pool ¡>on' T e" a- an amendment « the money an yet unknown.
or billiaVd-room, bowling alley, or in boua® blU appropriation *400.000 bery wan committed near W alker’s
transportation
or
distribution or f° r. aucb a , building at Paris was Station, a particularly lonely and is­ V u s s l Was H .a o .d
Outh With Big
olated spot In a rough section o f
transmission of merchandise or m es-, r 'c."®n.
C argo o f Lumber When Oslo
sages. No such child is permitted t o '
bU*
P »Med*Ka fte^ whl* b country about 11 mllea west of the
city.
work
for u/aorf*
btruck Htr.
work ar
at anv
any emnlnvmpnt
employment for
wages eu’ °8 lea on the lif®» character and
The train, one of the fastest on
during school hqurs, nor before 6 public services of the late Senators
Mallory and Bryan, of Florida, were the road, which Is not scheduled to
A. M., nor after 7 P. M.
stop between here and Steubenville,
The Senate also adopted a resolu­ delivered.
Amendments to the diplomatic O., wan brought to a sudden halt by
NEW PORT, Or., May 5 —Eleven of
tion offered by Foraker, of Ohio, di­
recting
the Interstate
Commerce bill were adopted Increasing the sal an emergency signal from the bell tbs officers and crew of the steam
cord, and when W illiam Laffcrty,
.Commission to inform the “
ate a£ ^ V * ™ a l ° f t o * Sa Wador the conductor, went forward to learn •chooner Minnie E. Kelton, lumber
rnh,ethr , ‘ V
ornmoditV l a u . e , ° f the , from *2000 to »3500; approprlat- the trouble he found N. Roshen, the laden, from Aberdeen, Wash., to San
Adams Express messenger, bound Francisco, were killed or drowned as
comnlied*u,Whm|
nerCM
Ae{ 1, 1908,
mna be<T
to enable
secretary
comphed w.th since
May
and, o ,n*
f" iU *15.000
te t0 protect
the the
property
and
if not, whether the non-compliance rights o f citizens o f the United and gagged In the express car an 1 a result of a gale Friday night. Tho
by the railroads has been due to any States in the navigation and use of so frightened that he could not give steamer in lying at anchor half wrecked,
any connected report of what had
agreement, arrangement or under­ the St. Johns river in case 6f any
happened. Except that both of the about a mile off shore, between Yaquina
standing between the railroad com­ litigation.
robbers were white, the express mes­ Heads and Cape Foulweather. Captain
panies and the authorities.
Washington, May 2.— A fter the senger is unable to give an Identi­ James McKenna r id nine of his crew
The conference report on the army
appropriation bill, carrying an aggre­ usual rollcall to demand the pres­ fication that would aid the secret were saved.
gate of $1)5,377,246, was adopted. This ence of a quorum, the house today service forces o f the railroad com­
Friday the Kelton ran into a atrong
amount was $3,463,000 more than the resumed consideration of the sundry panies and the city and county de­
hill carried when first passed by the civil appropriation bill disposing of tective force, all of whom have been head wind, which increased as the day
called out to work on the case.
proceeded, until by midnight is was
Senate.
lit paragraph by paragraph.
\ ~
I An amendment offered by Gaines
blowing a hard gale. The vessel con­
Washington, May 6.— By the over- j appropriating $10,000 to aid the
tinually shipped large volumes of water
AC C U SE S LE ISCH M AN .
whelming vote of 167 to 46. ami after ; Ladles Hermitage to care for and
and labored heavily in the sea. The
a two hours’ debate, the House today preserve the Hermitage, the home
again went on record against re-es- and tomb of Andrew Jackson, at No Attempt Made to Prosecute Turk rough weather continued until the ves
tablishment of the canteen in the Na- j Nashville, Tenn., was rejected on a
Who Muraered American,
sel reached a point eight miles south­
tiom l soldiers’ homes.
j point of order made by Tawney of
New York, May 1.— On board the west of Yaquina, when the deckload
With the exception of the adoption’ Minnesota,
of the conference report on the bill)
An amendment by Smith o f Louis- steamer Koenig Albert, which ar­ shifted and started the bulkhead of the
reorganizin" the Consular service, on iana appropriating $150,000 for con- rived here today, was the body of fireroom, and the vessel began filling
which the Democrats forced two roll tinuation of work on the St. Mich- Bernard Warkentln, president of the from the bunkers and engine-room to
calls, the sundry civil appropriation aels canal, Alaska, until the passage Kansan State bank, of Newton, Kas.,
bill was under consideration the en- o f the sundry civil bill, was agreed who was shot and killed near Dam­ the hold. The pumps proved unavailing
ascus early in April, whllo riding on against the inrush of water.
tire day. Little progress was made to without discussion.
Mr*. Warkentln
towards its completion.
The house, after a spirited and a railroad train.
When she had drifted north of Y a­
somewhat
acrimonious
debate, and her son Carl accompanied the quina Head the captain, seeing the
body.
Tuesday, May 6
passed the bill authorizing the ap­
The cable dispatches announcing hopelessness of hit vessel’s condition,
Washington. May 5__ Suggesting an pointment o f the president of an ad-
« mend ment excepting Idaho from states dltional member o f the Philippine the shooting, said that It was done ordered the craft abandoned, and di­
by a Syrian who occupied a compart­ rected that the lifeboat, which was
in which the Secretary of Agriculture commission.
The bill appropriating $2 5,000 for ment on the train adjoining that In large enongh to hold the entire crew,
may give permits for the exportation
which Mr. Warkentln was seated.
o f timber from forest reserves, Hey- the relief of the tornado sufferers in
be lowered. While engaged in clearing
burn, during the debate on the agricul­ the south was passed without lncl- The Syrian said he was examining
his revolver and that It went off by the lifeboat, the vessel suddenly shipped
tural appropriation bill in the Senate dent,
mistake. Ambassador Leishman, at a tremendous sea, which swept overboard
today, ridiculed a chart of the forestry
Constantinople, reported tha shoot­ the deckload of lumber, and with it
Friday, May I.
division which was swung on the wall
Washington, May 1.— The house ing to the state department. He said the after deckhouse, both boats and 11
of the Senate chamber, marked with
assurance had been given him that of the men. The lifeboat was pitched
statements as to the number of years spent all of today’s session in con­
the Syrian would be brought to Jus­ onto the floating lumber, one end hang­
tho forests in various parts of the coun­ sidering and passing, paragraph by
tice If the act proved to be one of ing at a sharp angle.
try would last. Mr. Heyburn read the paragraph, under suspension of the murder.
In climbing into the boat the men
names of officers of the American For­ rules, the sundry civil appropriation
Carl Warkentln said today that capsized her. They succeeded in right­
As the outcome of a deter­
estry Association, declaring that Mr. bill.
the
man
who
killed
his
father
was
a
Weyerhauser, the second vice-president, mined effort to strike from the bill Turkish Prince and that Mr. Ir is h ­ ing her again, and about seven sailors
owned or claimed more timber unlaw­ a restriction prohibiting the employ­ man told his mother that It would climbed in, leaving four others on the
fully obtained than any other man on ment of secret service employes in be lmposseble to prosecute him and wreckage. The captain ordered the
earth. The Senate adjourned with tho any detective work other than the advised her to say no more about the boat to pick these men up, but for some
reason the order was not obeyed. With­
agricultural bill still incomplete and guarding o f the president and the matter.
running
down
of
counterfeiters,
in a few minutes the lifeboat and the
the forestry question undisposed of.
From his remarks it was apparent wreckage with the unfortunates on
which was vigorously opposed by
that Mr. Warkentln was of the opin­ board, drifted away from the Kelton.
members
o
f
the
appropriations
com­
Washington, May 5__ A lively debate
ion that Mr. Leishman had not done
By this time the steamer had drifted
was kept up all day today in the House mittee, the limitation was agreed to all that he could, and he intimated
on the sundry civil appropriation bill. and the paragraph adopted in sub­ that charges would be lodged with close to shore, and Captain McKenna
let go his anohors in hopes they would
Kepeated efforts were made by Gaines stantially its original form.
Objection by democratic members the state department against the hold him off shore. Shortly afterward
o f Tennessee and Chaney of Indiana,
ambassador.
In
pursuance
of
the
minority
f
1
1
1
1
-
a squall shut out from view the lifeboat
supported by many other members, to
and the men on the wreckage. None
procure an appropriation for an investi­ buster, to unanimous consent defeat-
ted
the
passage
of
a
bill
for
the
of them was’ seen again until three of
W
ARSH
IP
BLOW
N
U
P.
gation looking to increased safety in
their bodies were picked up on the
mining, and they had about got Chair­ printing and distributing o f 100,000
copies
of
a
special
report
by
the
de­
beach Sunday.
man Tawney to the point where he
partment of agriculture, describing Powder Magazine Explodes, Killing
would consent to an appropriation of
240 Japanese.
diseases o f cattle.
$50,000 when Underwood objected, and
IS8UE 0100,000,000 BONDS.
Toklo, May 1.— Adm iral Yoshl-
Washington, May 1.— In the sen­
the proposition, for tho time at least,
ate today. Senator Davis, o f Arkan­ matsu, commander of the training
was dropped.
Harriman Wou'd Continue Union Pa­
The additions to the bill today were sas, moved to discharge the commit­ squadron, reports that an explosion
cific Work.
$100,000 for the military prlsou at Fort tee on the Judiciary from the fur­ occurred In the stern magazine of
Leavenworth, Kan., and $16,500 for an ther consideration o f his bill, “ for the cruiser Matsushima at 4:08
NEW YORK, May 5__ E. H. Harri­
addition to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.. or a the suppression o f trusts, pools and o’clock this morning while anchor­ man announced today that the stock­
combinations in trade.’’ He spoke ing at Makang, a harbor on the Pes­
total increase to date of $1,241,000.
The Matsushima holders of the Union Pacific Railroad
The three remaining hours of the ses­ for about two hours, reading much cadores Islands.
sion were taken up almost entirely by o f the time from a typewritten state­ Immediately sank until only tho Company will be asked at their meet­
a discussion of roll-calls, caused by a ment which he said he had prepared bridge was visible. Efforts at rescue ing at Salt Lake tomorrow to authorize
refusal of the House to take a recess at i In advance, “ that no intemperate by boats from the cruisers Hashidate an issue o f *100,000,000 of bonds. He
5 o ’clock as a result of a joke on the language might escape his lips on and Itsukushima continued until 9
m., saving the lives of 141 men, eaid that $50,000,000 of this amouot
part of some Republicans, who were this occasion,” n thing which he said
Including some officers. The m ajor­ will be reserved for issue under strictly
trying to hold the Democrats in the he had never done before.
During his speech he roundly de­ ity of the officers were saved, and at guaranteed provisions for construction
House until the time the Republican
caucus was scheduled to be held. In nounced the trusts, commended the the time of tho Adm iral’s report the and acquisition of new lines and ad­
this they were successful, the House president’s recent message outlining cadets numbered 58 out at a com­ ditions. Mr. Harriman’s statement fol­
lows:
finally at 7:47 P M. recessing until measures for relief, spoke of the re­ plement c f 300.
moval of the motto, "In God W e
The sons of Baron Chlnda, vice-
“ The financial requirements of the
11 :S5 A. M. tomorrow.
Trust” from the coins, and declarefl minister of the foreign office, and Union Pacific have been much exag
that John D. Rockefeller, the Stand­ of Prince Oyama, field marshal, are gerated. The maximum amount needed
M o n e l« ,. M a y 4 .
ard Oil Company and J. Plerpont among the cadets who It Is feared at this time to put the company in
WASHINGTON, May 4__ Tho Cana­ Morgan should be Indicted for trea­ are lost; also Captains Name, Yosh- funds does not exceed »25.000,000, but
dian international boundary treaty was son.
He also paid his respects to morl and Yashlro. The cause o f the we want to resume development and
ratified today by the Senate in execu­ the press.
explosion is unknown.
put our people to work. In so event,
tive session. It provides for the more
however, will over $50,000,000 of the
Thursday, Ap-i' 30.
complete definition and demarcation of
Washington, May 1.— Commander bonds be issued against properties now
the boundary between tho United
Washington, April 30.— Consider- Tanlguchl, the naval attache o f the owned. Instead of mortgaging new
States and Canada, but does not change stlon of the sundry civil appropria­ Japanese Embassy, said today that lines as constructed or acquired and
in any way the established, existing tion bill was resumed In the house the regular complement o f the Mat­ thne having separate mortgages on d if­
line.
today.
Townsend o f Michigan o f­ sushima was about 335 men and that ferent divisions, it is deemed best to
Senator Lodge today introduced a fered an amendment Increasing from on her cruise she had about 50 provide in one mortgage for future ex­
bill appropriating »400.000 for the pur­ *50,000 to *350.000 the appropria­ cadets aboard, making a total of tensions and new lines. The meeting
chase of a building in Paris to be used tion for enforcement by the Inter­ 416. His cablegram, he said, Indi­ is a preliminary step to put the com­
as the American legation. A provision state commerce commission of that cates that about 175 were saved, pany in a position to take advantage
for the purchase of the building had clause of the Hepburn act directing which would make the loss of offi­ o f the favorable opportunities to raise
been stricken out of the diplomatic and the commission to eause to be made cers and men about 240.
additional capital to the beet advan­
consular appropriation bill on the point examinations of the accounts of In­
tage.’ ’
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terstate
railroad
to
determine
wheth­
that it was not general legislation.
Strikers Attack Funeral.
Senator Fulton today proposed an er that law Is being violated and to
Evans to Join Fleet.
Seattle, Wash., May 1.— Bringing
nmendment to the sundry civil bill, au­ make public the result o f such ex­
PASO ROBLES. Cal., May 5__ Ad­
A fter a debate lasting word of the arrest of Treadwell of
thorizing the Secretary of the Interior aminations.
to contract for the care of the Alaaka four hours the amendment was 30 strikers for breaking up a fun­ miral Evans will leave today for either
eral and attempting to make away Monterey or Santa Cruz to rejoin his
insane, this amendment being in the in agreed to.
The usual point of no quorum was with thq corpse, the steamship Dol­
terest of Dr. H. W. Coe’s sanitarium.
raised when the house reconvened phin arrived In port this morning. A fleet. He will do this over the stern
WASHINGTON, May 4__ The House today on the motion providing that popular young man among the protest of Surgeon MacDonald, who has
completely overran the committee on the house go Into committee of the strikebreakers was accidently killed treated him since his arrival here. De­
appropriations in connection with sev­ whole for further consideration of recently. The funeral procession ex­ spite the fact that the admiral claims
eral items in the sundry civil bill. the sundry civil appropriation bill tended for many blocks, making a to feel “ fine as silk,’ ’ Surgeon Mac­
The formidable showing of the strike­ Donald fears that the change from ab­
When the measure was laid aside for under the five minute rule.
the day, * *250,000 had been added to the doors were locked and the roll called breakers. Notwithstanding this dis­ solute quiet of Paso Robles to constant
play, the strikers attacked the pro­ excitement that must necessarily fol­
sum recommended by the committee, on the motion, which prevailed.
which included *100,000 for gauging
Washington, April 30.— The Pres­ cession in force and nearly captured low hit rejoining the fleet, and the* many
receptions awaiting him, will eause a
the
body.
the streams and determining the water ident today signed the Fulton land-
relapse.
supply of the United States; an in­ grant resolution.
crease of *50 000 in the appropriation
Improve Upper Columb'a.
. .
The house public lands committee
Rict^ Copper Deposit#
for testing structural materials, and, today discussed Mondell’a patent
Washington, May 15.— The army
A1
AAA
- _
--- A ;
-
a a a I
14 a
A n.l i _
_
. . .
• •
#100.000
in i testing
coal, 11
lignite,
and j Jand-grant
resolution,
which
was in- engineer board has submitted Its re­
SANTA FE, N. M., May 5— Eastern
othcr fuels. These changes were not tended to follow the Fulton resolu­
port on improvement o f the Upper New Mexico, and Roosevelt County in
accomplished, however, without a pro­ tion.
In view of the bad faith of
longed debate, in which the committee the lumbermen, the committee was Columbia river between Bridgeport particular, is excited over the discovery
found itself practically alone.
overwhelmingly opposed to reporting and K ettle Falls, recommending an of a deposit of copper which may rival
the measure, especially If the same appropriation of »175.000. Of this that of Michigan or Montana. A few
amount »76.000 is to be expended
Saturday, May 2.
end can be accomplished, without
for the construction o f a plant and days ago, while drilling a well for water
Washington, May 2.— The policy legislation.
the balance to defray the cost of on a homestead claim 10 miles south
labor. No dredging Is necessary, but of the town of La Lande, the drill pene­
Pastry and Ices for Panama.
Coast People Barquet Together.
many boulders will have to be re­ trated a vein of native property of
Washington, May 6— The California
Washington, May 7__ Official an- moved from the rapids. No appro­ peculiar richness. The news spread
State Association and the Society of the nonnement has been made that arrange­ priation can be secured until next rapidly, and within 24 hours after the
discovery had become known. 400 claims
Oregon Country, composed of Pacific ments hsve been perfected to furnish session, as there will be no river and were staked out in the immediate v i­
harbor bill this year.
Coast people temporarily living in pies, pastry, rolls and ice cream to em­
cinity. The rush is still on.
Washington, held a joint concert and ployes on the Panama Canal. I t is ex­
Feed for the Fleet.-
Fxveess Robbers in Toll«.
banquet tonight in commemoration of pected that with the advent of these
Washington.
May
1.— Prepara­
the visit of the battleship fleet to the necessaries of life on the isthmus, con [ tions for furnishing food supplies In
LAREDO, Tex.. May 5— The men
Pacific Coast. John Barrett, director strnction will progress to a speedy ter­ large quantities for the use of the who robbed the Wells-Fargo Express
o f the Bureau of American Republics, mination. The eommissarv department Atlantic battleship fleet on its wsy
presided. Representatives Hawley, El­ of the canal administration has estab­ around the world, were opened at Company of #03.000 on the Mexican
lis and Cushman were specially invited lished a big bakery at Cristobal, and it the navy department today.
These Central Railway, are in jail here, and
guests, and made speeches appropriate is from this bakery that pie«, pastries, supplies are to be loaded aboard both men have confessed. They are
to the occasion. About 250 people were rolls and the like will be furnished to the auxiliaries at Mare Island and Luis Cutting, chief clerk in the gen­
hotels, messes and employes in general. Puget Sound. Among the Items are eral offices o f the express company, and
present.
1,500.000 pounds o f flour, more
than 1,210,000 pounds of frozen Rodolfo Alvarez, alias Rodrigues, the
Crantat Watarwavs Fund.
Wants Postal Savings Pankt.
Washington, May « — The Senate
Washington. May 7.— President Roose­ meats, large amounts o f sausages, express messenger, who disappeared in
Agna Calientes. The money was found
potatoes re g tables and fruit.
committee on commerce today adopted velt today expressed to Senator Carter,
by the police in Cutting’s rooms.
the report of its aubcommittee, which of the committee on postofflees and post
Blamasa Revolt.
revised the Newlanda waterways bill. roads, his earnest desire to see a poetal
Know Reaches West.
Paris, May 1.— The Temps today
savings
bank
hill
become
a
law
at
this
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. May S.- -Tbe fall
This report fixes the appropriation at
publishes a special dispatch from Bat
*10.000.000, and authorizes the issuanre session. Senator Carter told the Presi tambang. a town o f Slam, In the of snow which began here last night
o f bond« when the “ waterways fnnd” dent that he thought the bill which had French sphere o f Influence, saying and continued today was the beeriest
inches of enow
falls below #5.000.000, in order to keep been favorably reported to the Senate that the town Is at the mercy o f the sines November.
the fnnd np to that amount. The foil would be taken up by that body at an natives, who have risen In revolt had fallen up to this afternoon. The
committee expects to hold frequent early date, and that it wonld pass both and are threatening the European precipitation is general throughout
The troops are InauO- Wyoming, and is o f great benefit to tho
meetings with a view to reporting the houses and become a law without seri­ residents.
clent to inanre protection.
farmers and stockmen.
ous oppoeitioa.
measure as aarly as possible.
Burlington Express Wrecked i t
Butte, Mentone.
CAPTAIN AND NINI MIN SAVED MAIL CAI IS BlDLY SHATTERED
Engineer Killed and Fireman Terribly
beeidet.— VobaDly Vengeful
Work o f Hoboes.
Butte, Mont., May 2.— Eastbound
Burlington train No. fl, due in Butte
at 11:30 o'clock tonight, was dyna
mited about a m ile west o f the
Northern Pacific station at 11:37
o'clock.
The explosion caused the
first or helper engine to leave the
rails, but It plowed along for a few
hundred feet without turning over.
The eecond engine crashed Into the
bank south o f the track a few car-
lengths from where the explosion
occurred.
Every person o n 't h e train has
been accounted for excepting Engi­
neer Bussey, o f the second engine,
who Is supposed to be burled under
his locomotive.
Carl Mange
who
was riding on the blind baggage,
had to be taken from the mass of
timbers under which he was burled.
His arm and leg were broken.
Fireman George Hhle, o f the eecond
engine, was badly scalded.
Both were hurried to the hospital
In the police patrol, which wae at
the scene of the wreck, as quickly
as possible after the men were re­
ceived In the city. Locom otive No.
2100, In charge o f Engineer Bussy
and Fireman Ehle, is lying on Its
side south of the track.
The mall ear, which was right be­
hind It, was hurled on Its side and
badly wrecked. A cold storage fish
car was next to the mall car, and It
was smashed Into kindling wood
Follow ing the fish car was the ex­
press car. Only the front trucks of
the express car left the rails. The
baggage car also remained on the
track.
The general theory o f the explo­
sion Is that the dynamite was placed
directly on the rails, but It Is Impos­
sible to say whether a tim e fuse or
some sort of percussion cap was at­
tached to the explosive. Those who
saw the flash agree R came from the
south side of the track.
The dynamiting Is believed by the
officers to be the work ot some hobo
seeking revenge for being ejected
from a train.
Express Messenger J. B. Valentine
was seriously bruised, being badly
cut by a flyin g grenade. His escape
from death In his car Is considered
miraculous.
The force o f the explosion wss
terrific.
According to the crew of
the first engine the engine was lifted
bodily off the track.
f H jr r
Ite h
A U
TR U LY
T O B J C ID A B L X
W h i c h l a t e r e li e s B a 4 e w e 4
w i t h E le c t r ic B a t t e r ie s .
When it comes to a consideration ot
those who are well-heeled to protect
themselves against enemies, do not for­
get the electrical fishes that run In the
■ea. Nature hoe endowed these deni­
zens o t the deep with batteries which
come In right handily In overcoming
foes or those o f their finny neighbors
upon which they prey.
Probably tbs most dangerous Is the
torpedo, a fish of the same family and
appearance as the rays The torpedo
is a dlsk-llke creature, frequently at­
taining a length o f five feet and a
weight of 200 pounds. They abound on
the Atlantic coast and sometimes fish­
ermen who make them captive In their
nets are very sorry for I t Recklessly
handled, the torpedoes quickly wreak
vengeance on their captors. The shock
they give Is tremendons and strong
men who have fallen tbelr victims have
often been knocked down and paralyzed
for a considerable time.
In the fresh water, particularly the
marshes end sluggish streams, o f Brazil
and Guiana, there la to be found the
electric eel. This fellow is very like
the common eel which Is found In our
own American waters as to general
looks The difference— the presence
within It of the natural electric battery
— Is ■ tremendous one. though. This,
says Dr. R. W. Shutfeldt In the Scien­
tific American, consists at two pairs of
peculiarly constituted bodies, passing
between the skin and the muscles,
longitudinally, In the region of the tall
— one pair being next to the beck, and
the other along the anal fin. Upward
of 280 cells make up the structure of
one o f these organa, and they all re­
ceive a very generous nerve supply.
Now, when one comes to know that
an eel of this species may attain ■
length o f fully six feet and posses«# the
power of voluntarily giving a shock
with Its battery at any Instant, then It
will at once be appreciated what a truly
formidable creature this flab really I a
Moreover, it having a smooth. Unless
hack, the body for Its entire length be­
ing of a dull brownish color shove. It
becomes quite difficult to eee It In the
water where It lies, especially i f the
latter be stirred up snd made muddy.
It Is then that this moat powerful of all
electrical fishes becomes the most dan­
gerous both to man and beast. Violent
shocks and discharges can be given by
It, at will, both as a means of offense
as well as defense, and these often re­
peated until Its enemy or prey Is dis­
abled or stunned; or, what has often
happened, sinks Into the water to be
drowned.
Examination of one of these electri­
cal organs baa shown that In action It
la very much like a galvanic battery,
with the anterior extremity positive,
the poe.erlor negative, and the current
only discharged at the point of contact
with an object. This has been proved
to be ao powerful when complete that
chemical compounds are decomposed by
It, and steel needles magnetized.
SH IE LD E D BIQ SIN N E R S.
Attorney Jerom e Charged With Fa­
voring High Financiers.
New York, May 2.— Before Com­
missioner Hand, who Is hearing evi­
dence on charges against District A t­
torney
Jerome,
Franklin
Pierce,
counsel for the complainants, today
called for the evidence taken by a
grand Jury In the W a ll and Cortland
street ferries cases, In which Thog.
F. Ryan and H. H. Vreeland testi­
fied.
“ W e contend,” said Mr. Pierce,
"th at Mr. Jerome could have gone
before the grand jury with the evi­
dence that he had and secured in­
dictments.
Instead he called Mr.
Ryan before the grand jury and fo r­
ever barred the road to prosecution.’’
Mr. Jerome agreed to submit the
evidence privately to the Commis­
sioner, with the understanding that
Mr. Pierce shall not be allowed to
read It.
Mr. Pierce asked for an adJo*rn-
ment until Monday, when he prom­
ised to take up Mr. Jerome’s Investi­
gation o f the American Ice Company.
He said Mr. Jerome Investigated the
company for half a day and then
turned
the Investigation against
three or four small Independent Ice
companies that the American Ice Co.
wanted to smash, and that he ad­
vised that Indictments be returned
against them.
Seek Aid From Japan.
Pekin. May 2.— Japan Is facing a
serious situation as a result o f the
boycott arising from the Tatsu Maru
Incident, and is seeking the support
of Great Britain to put a stop to the
boycott by Joint representations. The
Japanese authorities here attribute
the growth of the movement to the
native press, which Is without con­
trol and which has been conducting
a campaign to make generally known
the Chinese side o f the Incident.
They hold the Viceroy o f Canton
chiefly responsible.
Expect Great Western Business.
Omaha, Neb., May 2.— One hun­
dred and forty-eight big locomotives
are being hurried to the Harriman
lines as fast as the Brooks Locomo­
tive W orks of Dunkirk, N. Y.. can
turn them out. W. J. Smith, Install­
ing engineer for this concern. Is in
Omaha today consulting with W. B.
McKeen, Jr., superintendent o f mo­
tive power and machinery o f the
Union Pacific.
Mr Smith declares
the railroads are looking for an Im­
mense business this year, and are
demanding the locomotives be d eliv­
ered as rapidly as possible.
Evens' Weight Increasing.
Paso Robles Hot Springs, Cal., May
2.— Rear-Adm iral Evans was weigh­
ed this morning and both he and Dr.
McDonald were Immensely pleased
when a decided Increase was shown.
The present plan Is for the Rear A d ­
miral to leave Paso Robles H ot
Springs on the morning o f May 5,
joining the Connecticut at Santa
Cruz. A private car w ill be placed
at the disposal o f Rear Adm iral
Evans snd party. In which to make
the run o f over 100 mllea.
Mlaa Cecilia Loftus doea not confine
her Imitations to the stage. She has
made some “ Imitations of pictures'' to
go In Oliver Herford’s “The Simple Jog-
raphy,” a Joyous travesty on school
geographies.
Marlon
Crawford's
“ Zoroaster.”
which has been called one of the beat
oriental novels ever written, and "Msr-
zlo’s Crucifix” have juat been issued In
a single volume.
Another announce­
ment le that of a new edition of his
little book on “The Novel.”
“The Black Bag” la now the leading
best teller. Miss Ellen Glasgow’s "The
Ancient Law” le second ; “The Shuttle'’
Is th ird ; “ The Weavers,” by Sir Gilbert
Parker, is fourth; “The Lady of the
Decoration” la fifth, and the last to be
quoted Is De Morgan's “ Somehow
Good.”
George Wyndham, the ez-chief secre­
tary for Ireland, has written a book on
Sir Walter Scott As a man, more than
m author, Mr. Wyndham extols the
good Sir Walter. “ A man so brave, so
kind, so sensible that he encoumges
oar manhood and knocks the nonsense
out o f ns all.”
It Is an Interesting fact that the
Spanish men of letters count on the
sale o f tbelr work a great deal more
In South America than In Spain. Peres
aaldos, the “ Spanish Dickens,” and one
of the most popular Spanish writers,
sells In South America half a dozen
copies of every book to every one he
■ells In 8paln.
Dr. Haydn Brown, who has written
the new book for married women to be
published soon under the title o f “The
W ife: Her Book,” Is ■ London medi­
cal man. Some ten years ago he start­
ed a new movement In favor of home
health study by contributing a series
of articles to several popular periodi­
cals. Later he publjshed “The Se­
cret e f Good Health,” which had an
enormous sale.
At last Thomas Hardy has completed
his prodigious Napoleonic drama, "The
Dynasts." a work which has engaged bis
attention to the exclusion of all else for
years. Whatever may be thought of the
lasting qualities of this work. It will re­
main one o f the wonders of English lit­
erature If only by reason of Its size,
while the Intellectual vigor to which It
testifies must command respect. It Is
In three parts (the first part was pub­
lished four years ago and the second
part In 19011) snd contains nineteen acts
snd 130 scenes, while the number of
characters runs Into hundreds. Judged
by actual bulk and the scale on which
Its characters sre projected, by the
complexity snd variety of Its setting
and plot. It It perhaps the greatest d r»
me known to letters.
H U C e e trtk e tU e s .
Snow in N ew Y ork.
Missionary— Do you ever contribute
Buffalo. May 2.— Seven Inches o f money for the heathen In foreign landa,
■now fell here yesterday. Today the sir? Millionaire—Ob. y e » Both o f my
inn shown end the enow Is rapidly
disappearing.
At
Jamestown the daughter* married foreign
depth was reperted at 1# laches.
C U L T IV A T E D
P L A IT S
I* M s s S h o a l* P I — » » s e e trmm g a f t k
T i a v W o a l t r e lie v e H la a .
We rarely realize how he Ip leas mat»
has rendered the plants he cultivate*
by the centuries of protection from
their weed enemies that be has give*
them, aaya the American Botanist An
experiment that well illustrates this
point wae made on one of the govern­
ment farms some time ago. A field
about one acre In extent upon which
wheat bad been grown for forty year*
In succession, was not harvested, but
allowed to stand and shed Its seeds as
it would.
The next year a fair crop of wheat
come np, bat the weeds were gaining
the ascendency, and by the fourth sea-
eon ell the wheat bad disappeared from
the field and the weeds held full sway.
I f man should suddenly disappear from
the earth It le certain that his cnltl-
vated crops would soon follow him.
And yet these very plants held their
own against their competitors before
man took them under bis cere. The
reason they can no longer persist In the
fees of competition Is not Slone because
they have grown weaker, but lu a
measure because the weeds have grown
stronger. In protecting bis croisi man
has constantly killed out the weak and
least persistent weeds, and only thosw
were left to perpetuate tbelr kind that
were able to elude man. One species,
the self-heal
(prnnella
vulgaris),
which ordinarily grows a foot or more
high, baa produced a variety so low
that It is able to thrive on a closely
mowed lawn. Darwin never considered
the lawn mower as one of the factors
of evolution, but undoubtedly tble
Yankee Invention has played Its part
in the great struggle.
A count based on negligence In an
action by an administrator to recover
damages for the death of his intestate
Is not supported by proof of a willful
and wanton wrong resulting In tbs
death of plaintiff’s Intestate, accord­
ing to the decision of the Alabama Su­
preme Court In Louisville A N. K. Co.n-
pany v. Perkins, 44 Southern Reporter,
« 02 .
The decision o f the Pennsylvania Su­
preme Court In Cole V. El wood Power
Company, 65 Atlantic Reporter, 678.
that a complete carbon copy of a writ­
ing la admlaalbla In evidence without
notice to produce the original, was no­
ticed some time ago In these column»
The doctrine announced In this ca­
n o * receives further support In the de­
cision by the Supreme Court of MFnue-
aota In the case of International Har­
vester Company v. Elfstrom, 112 North­
western Reporter, 252.
Though It Is generally held that a
person extradited for one offense can­
not be tried for another offense com­
mitted prior to hie extradition, uuleaa
ha be given time to return to the conn-
try from which he was extradited, the
Supreme Court of California In Kx
parte Collins, 90 Pacific Reporter, 827.
bolds that this rule does not apply with
reference to a crime committed by a
person after his extradition. For such
crime he may be tried without being
given an opportunity to return to the
country from which be was extradited.
Where a purchaser Is Induced to en­
ter Into a contract of purchase by a
fraudulent representation that s com­
bination or trust Is about to be formed
for the purpose of controlling the sale
of articles of the nature of thorn- par-
chased, and that such trust will In­
crease the price of such articles after
a given time, this Is sufficient to pre­
vent a recovery for the purchaser's re­
fusal to take the articles contract«!
for, according to the decision of tbw
Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Stand­
ard Interlock Elevator Company v.
Wilson, 67 Atlantic Reporter, 4»«.
In United State« v. Battle, 154 Fed­
eral Reporter, 540, Judge Speer, of tlie
United States Circuit Court, Western
District of Georgia, Southern Division,
held that a crime committed on ground
acquired by the United State*, and
ceded to It by the State'of Georgia for
the purpoaé of a federal building, wee
within the exclusive Jurisdiction of
tbs United States courts. He held that
the State has authority to cedr the
ground to the United States, and where
It does so the only power which can
exercise jurisdiction over such terri­
tory to punish crimes committed there­
on la the United States, even though
the State has retained the right to ex­
ercise Its process on the territory ced­
ed.
»
T am in g
tha
T able«.
When E. L. Godkln was editor of the
New York Evening Post be w h s s o i >-
posed by many to lack a sense of hu­
mor. But those In his employ who
stood close to him knew better. One
morning he sent for bis young city
editor.
“ Last night,” said Mr. Godkln. “ I
rend In the Poet an account of the sui­
cide of a boy. Your news paragraph
reported the motive that the hoy was
being resisted at home In a premature
Inclination to marry. Mr. Blnnk. cn-i
you Imagine how that father felt when
you accused him. for what was no
doubt done In a sense of loving duty,
of being the cause of tha death of hie
-hi Id 7"
The young city editor stammered an
apology.
“Thank you for your explanation.”
said Godkln. “ But," he went on In a
more decided tone, " If anything like
that ever happens again, I give yon
fair warning, sir, that I will leave this
paper! I will not work for a paper
that — vs things so cru el!"—Success
Magazine.
H o n o ra b le
Y osth .
“ Here, you, z lr !” cried Miss Rozley's
angry papa, “ how dare yon show your
face here again?”
’’ Well,” replied young Nervey, “ I
might have worn a mask, of course, hnt
that would have been deceitful."— Phil­
adelphia Press.
A man who keeps the sheriff behind
him, end never allows the doctora te
m u seat him. Is Belag very wall.