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T h e R o u p e ll M y s t e r y By A u s t y n C H A P T E R V I.— (Continued.) The doctor and Emily Weldon contin ued to slowly promenade up and down the terrace. United by that secret bond of sympathy which ofttimes brings two natures together unconsciously, they ex perienced an Indefinable comfort in each other's society. A solitary figure, that of some worthy burgher of Paris, attracted, doubtless, to Villeneuve by the sensational reports in the newspapers, was the only living ob ject that was in view. Looking at him the doctor observed: “There is no gauging the depth of hu man curiosity.“ “ That is so. There have been several here since— ” and she glanced up to the darkened chamber above, with a shud der. “ They walk in and out as if they owned the place. He looks like a retired tradesman of some kind, lie is pretty cool for a trespasser. See. he has seat ed himself on the turf, and Is throwing bread to the swans,'' “ Don’t disturb him,” said the doctor. “ See with what care he spreads that red handkerchief over his knees. lie has tak en out some sandwiches, and is evidently enjoying them.” Miss Weldon again smiled. It was really quite ludicrous to watch the old gentleman from Paris. lie appeared to be totally oblivious of the presence of the people on the terrace. Having eaten his sandwich, he presently arose and threw the crumbs adhering to his hand kerchief to the expectant swans. The doctor laughed outright ; so loudly, indeed, as to apparently attract the attention of the old gentleman who. glancing but once in their direction with an indignant air, walked away and disappeared among the trees. A half hour more elapsed and still M. Cassagne did not Home. Hardly able to conceal his irritation at the delay, I»r. Mason at length retired to the library, where he busied himself in some scientific calculations in which he had been abrupt ly interrupted by the startling news of the murder of Mme. Roupell. For an hour he remained oblivious to all else save sines, cosines, tnngents, secants and cosecants. An abtru.se trigonometrical problem was before him, and to its solu tion he was devoting himself heart and soul, when suddenly he became aware of an obstruction of the light from the win dow. Looking up, to his intense annoy ance he perceived the inquisitive burgher from Paris, his nose flattened against the glass, staring vacuously into the gpartment. Anger was expressed in every feature of the physician's countenance as he threw' the French window wide open; but the worthy burgher did not seem to be at all disconcerted. On the contrary, ©vailing himself of the opportunity, be fore the doctor could stop him, he stepped over the low sill and entered the library. “ Sir, this unwarrantable intrusion at puch a moment— ” began the physician. “ May perhaps surprise you,” interrupt ed the burgher; “ but have you given or ders about the truffles?” The doctor stared with astonishment and stepped back two or three paces. “ You are,” he gasped, “ you cannot be Monsieur----- “ “ I am,” replied the burgher, an inde acribable twinkle in his eye, as he noted the doctor's amazement. “ I am the per son you are about to mention— Alfred Cassagne, the detective,” and with a pro found bow, he handed I)r. Mason his card. G r a n v i l l e tion from the bed caused him to gl*nee in that direction. He could hardly repress a cry of sur prise. He held his breath almost, so anx iously did he await the result of an ex periment that Casagne had put in opera tion. With his eyes closed and with his head raised very much after the style of a blind man reading from a raised-letter book, ihe detective was moving his fingers, soft and delicate as a young girl’s, over the cold, stiff body of the murdered wom an. Dr. Mason knew’ in an instant th.it he was about to depend upon his sense of »ouch to find the tiny wound tfcrf his e.\os had failed to detect. For over a minute the two ne«i remain ed in their relative positions. 'linen the Explosion o f the Deadly Black Damp voice of Cassagne was heard^ breaking Slays 4 0 0 Men and W recks the silence, which had grown sdznoet pain ful in its Intensity : T w o Coal Mines "1 am righr. Madame Rtapeil was stabbed In the hack.” voice singularly soft and gentle; his man ner that of a man entirely at ease, and of one who thoroughly understands his busi ness. He sat quite still in the easy chair to which Dr. Mason had motioned him on his arrival. It was not until the latter I had given him the outlines of the case I that he spoke at all. ami then he said : "W e will begin by premising a certain state of facts. Madame Roupell has been murdered. Who did it? Public opinion says your friend Van Lith. I always mis C H A P TE R V III. trust public opinion. 'Hie prefect of po Dr. Mason, in his agitation, dropped lice is not at all sure but Monsieur Cha- bot had a hand in it. I sometimes mis the penknife and the magnifying glass trust the prefect of police.” and rushed to the bedside. “ Where is the wound?” he ejaculated. "^ou mpian to imply that both may be M. Cassagne. cool, calm and collected, wrong?” inquired the doctor. \es. ami if I am right, it leaves us still held one tell-tale finger, which, like confronting two alternatives.” a living eye, had detected a slight in “ And they are?” equality in the surface of the flesh, firm “ Either that the unfortunate woman ly pressed down upon a spot no larger committed suicide while of unsound than a pin’s head. “ Take it easy, doctor,” he said, trail mind, or that the crime is the act of a third party to us at present unknown.' ing at the agitatiou of the physician, " I can dispose of the first of those sup "and if the magnifying glass is still un positions immediately,” said the doctor. broken, I will trouble you for It. The please, doctor. "Madame Roupell's mind was as sound penknife also, if you as yours or mine is at the present mo Now’,” after he had gently pushed back ment.” the flesh with the point of the kuife, “ look "Let us proceed to an examination of through the glass, and tell me what you the body. I have provided myself with a see.” written permit to break the seals,” said “ I see a rough, glistening surface.” the detective. "Lead the way, please.” "T ry it with the point of the penknife.” They entered the chamber of death. The doctor took the knife, and scraped Nothing had been disturbed since the visit upon the hard surface thus exposed to of the prefect. Alfred Cassagne took a view. rapid survey of the room. He advanced " I t is glass,’ he exclaimed. “ I haven’t to the bedside, and commenced a minute a doubt of it.” inspection of the body of the murdered “ It is the wound which caused death. woman. You see it has penetrated the lumbar re He carefully removed the bandages gion. Death has beeu caused by two from the wound in the head; lie turned things. Shock and internal bleeding. the body over so that the light from the Have you a small pair of pincers here? window fell full upon the face of the dead No? Well, then 1 must use ray fingers.” woman, revealing in the strong sunlight M. Cassagne having enlarged the open each line and shadow already showing ing of the wound by dictation, plunged in their marked change of the lineaments his finger and thumb into the orifice aud the inevitable approach of decay. Taking drew out, though not without much diffi out his penknife, Cassagne carefully re culty and after repeated failures, the moved one of the clots of blood which had broken piece of a small, sharpened glass accumulated near the entrance of the stiletto. Its withdrawal from the wound wound, and walking to the window ex was followed by a few’ drops of blood, amined it through a small magnifying which the doctor, who notwithstanding glass which lie took from his pocket. his professional experiences was greatly Presently he said : affected by the spectacle, was about to “ Doctor, look at that blood!” w’ ipe reverently away, when he was stop Dr. Mason took the magnifying glass ped by the detective. and the penknife and gazed steadfastly “ Don’t do that. That blood has a tale upon the little red gout. of Its own to tell. I wish to examine “ Do you see anything peculiar about it through the glass.” it?” asked Cassagne. “ Do you not no He took up some on the point of the tice an entire absence of natural crys knife, and tiie two men as before went to tallization?” the window. Notwithtsanding that it The doctor’s face turned pale as a had not been exposed to the outer air, sheet; his lips twitched nervously. the blood was strongly crystallized. “ This crime grows more horrible and “ One thing is proved, and almost con more mysterious than ever. It is impos clusively,” exclaimed Cassagne. " I t is sible to mistake your meaning. This the wound which caused her death. See wound was inflicted after death,” he ex how the blood is crystallized. Now to claimed. “ The blood Is certainly what discover the assassin. The prefect’s the we call in the profession ‘dead blood.’ ” ory is that Madame Roupell was sitting “ And is that not often the case where at her desk writing, when the crime was a wound Is Inflicted when a person is in committed. In support of that, he point* a corafttose condition?” to the scattered papers and the overturn “ It might be,” replied the physician. ed chair. Now notice which way the “ I have known the phenomenon of total chair has fallen.” suspension of the circulation in comatose “ It has fallen toward the desk,” said bodies.” Dr. Mason. “ And in such case, would blood flowing “ Precisely; and that proves to me that from a wound crystallize or not?” it was the murderer, not Madame Rou “ It is possible that it might crystallize pell, who was engaged in the examina somewhat, if the person wounded, while tion of the papers.” in a comatose condition, was young and “ Why?” healthy. In the case of an old and fee "Because, had Madame Roupell been ble woman, like Madame Roupell, I surprised from behind and stabbed, as we should consider it extremely doubtful. In now believe to be the case, she would the present instance, by moans of the have fallen forward, and the chair would C H A T T E R V II. Alfred Cassagne was the son of a glass, one can plainly discern that no have been thrown backward or away large contractor, who had accumulaled crystallization has taken place.” from the desk, not toward it. Madame “ In fact, that this wound was inflicted Roupell surprised this unknown person, a considerable fortune in the construction after the wound which produced either of those remarkable docks in the city of perhaps while he was rifling the contents Havre, which have helped to make that death or insensibility?” said the detec of her desk; springing to his feet he place the most important harbor of tive. overthrew the chair, drew his stiletto, France. He lost his father when a mere “ Exactly so.” replied the physician. and advanced toward her. She doubt child. His mother, dying when he was “ The question now is, where is that less turned to flee, too frightened to but twenty-two years of age, had left wound?” scream, aud he then stabbed her in the him amply provided for. But he had “ We will find it.” said Cassagne. “ Qive back.” never married. O f quite a studious turn mo your help here.” “ I see; and having no other weapon pf mind, he had devoted himself to “ W e had better look for a contusion than the stiletto, and that having been book», and might possibly have degener of some sort. Insensibility could be pro broken off short In the body, he fired at ated into a book worm, or have sunk so duced by a sharp blow on the back of the her to make sure of his work.” Jow a» to become an author, If an event head, or under the ear,” remarked Dr. (T o be continued.) bad not transpired which changed the Mason, ©hole current of his existeqee ‘ l am not of that opinion.” replied W i f e w it h n C o n sole nee. He awoke one morning to find that the Cassagne. “ I have already looked there. R lllik ip W hat’s the matter, W llll- cashier of a bank where he usually had a There is no swelling of any kind on the large balance, had absconded with the back of the bead, and as she Is dressed in kin? W llllk ln M atter enough. You know. funds of that institution. Where he had demi-tollette, it is easy to see that no Dine tim e ago I assigned all my prop tone. was equally a mystery to the police injury has been inflicted to the upper and the officers of the concern. Having part of the spinal cord.” erty to my wife, to— to keep It out considerable interest in the capture of the “ For what kind of wound «shall we o f the hands o f— o f t>eop!e I owe, you fugitive, Cassagne set about making In see.rch? It must be a small one. indeed, know. quiries on his own account. From these to escape the examination of so good a U ililkln— Yes. Inquiries he quietly deduced his own the surgeon as Monsieur Crolzct.” W llllk ln — Well. she’s taken the ories. and one morning, to the intense “ Cnfortunatel.v Monsieur Oroixet.” re money ami gone o ff— says she won’t astonishment of the chief of police, he en plied Cassagne, with a curious smile, “ is lered the presence of that functionary a surgeon only, lie is not a detective. live with me because I swindled my gnd stated bis opinion on the case very He is good at generalizations; he fails creditors. briefly. It was to the effect that the in particulars. The wound we must look j n u ll S eason fu r (lie llo b o. president of the bank and the cashier for. since you sound Monsieur Croizet’a ! 'June is me favorite month.” said were in collusion, and that the cashier, praises so highly, must be no larger than ' whom most people believed to be by that a pencil point. Have you never heard of j • poetical bolsi, as he scribbled an time safely In America, that Mecca for the Venetian stiletto?” . on the hn k o f a tomato can label. European rogues, would be found hiding “ No, I cannot say that I have,” an | • T a in 't mine,” sighed Sandy Pikes, in the president's own private residence. swered Dr. Mmaon. ¡ubriously. " I always have to go The chief of police had laughed at first; “ It is an instrument made of tough but Alfred Cassagne was permitted to ened glass, no thicker than a knitting 1 refooted troo dat month. •Barefooted? Why, how is that, proceed. It was known he was a g^ntle- needle. When plunged into a victim, it ©ian of fortune; and men of means are can be broken short off in the flesh which j 1?” ©ever snubbed very badly anywhere. closes around it. so that It is hard to tell 'W hy, you see people throw all deir Very soon, moreover, the official grew how death supervenes. Many such deaths I shoes at de June brides.” perious. By a system of logical deduc have undoubtedly been charged to apo tion from circumstances already known. plexy. and other cause«.” H e M a d e It. Cassagne established his theory on a basis said the fa ir maid. “ I* th# “ Is it possible?” ejaculated the physi to ingenious as to excite the chief’s warm* cian. blng in the world.” •e: admiration. Subsequent search dis you believe It," rejoined the “ Not only possible but more than prob covered that the state of things Caasagne in In the parlor »e u e . “ I am bad believed to exist In theory, was really able. Let us instantly begin our search for such a weapon. There will not be a j ban love." [true. |o you figure that out?” ijuer- f Alfred Cassagne might now possibly drop of blood visible. I>eath generally bare been forty years of age. though wh«»n ensues from internal hemorrhage, unless air party o f the prelude, [ not disguised, owing to his smoothly the stiletto reaches the heart, when, of nufacturer,” explained th « y. coune. the victim die« instantly. Turn shaven face, he sppear^d to be younger. eater than the thing be manu- 1 He was rather above the middle height, her over on her fact,” said tba detective. and I make love. See?” “ She may have been wounded in the and though somewhat narrow across the •hnulden, the great depth of hie ch*a? back.” A F e llo w -F e e lin g . Tbia was done, and they carefully ex t ©isdc ample ameuds for thie deficiency. "Y o u were very lenient with that . Ills hair wa§ cut very short to peiffnit of amined that portion of the body. For the j bis more readily w ir in g the various wigs first time I>r. Mason’s blind fnith in the conductor," nald the first ;-a»e n g e r . •’O !” replied the other, "w e n» all 11*- by which he frequently concealed his iden- skill of the man lie had employed began He little 1 ble to make mistakes." Itity . His mouth was well cut, the llpa to show signs of wavering. resources. Itb in and somewhat pursed together, as knew i aseagne’s marvelous •’ A h i perhaps you w e r« a cood«.-tor [ la often the habit with men who paae The doctor had left the body and wss j yourself once." Ksiuch time in thinking. His nose wae standing over by the window, again ex •No. s ir; I'm a weather forecastac.” I larg* ’ and very prominent. His hands amining -he blood on the penkn ?e through -C a th o lic Standard and 1 ‘onas. t ©&d fast KLi., and rather delicat* His the magnify.ng g.aas A slight excA aa HUNDREDS ARE DEAD End Cernes Si d d en ly to M in ers In W est V irgin ia. ONLV FIVc ESCAPE W ITH LIVES Monongah, W. Va., I'ec. 7.— Tliat not less than 400 miners were killed by an explosion of black damp in mines No. fi and No. 8 of Coal company, of place yesterday, the Consolidated B altim ore, is at this now conceded by those who take the most hopeful and most conservative view of the disaster. F ive badly injured men made their way to the surface. Of the victim s six dead been taken from bodies had m ine No. 6 at m id night and t>5 more were piled up in tiie entry aw aiting com pletion of facil • ties for bringing them to tiie surface. From m ine No. 8 at the same hour, 14 bodies had been rem oved and a number of others are ready to be brought out as Boon as arrangements can be com pleted. There is much speculation as to the cause of the explosion, hut the most generally accepted theory is that it re sulted from black damp, scientifically known as methane. I t is believed that a m iner attem pted to set off a blast, which blew out and ignited an accum ulation of this deadly gas, and that this in turn ignited tiie coal duet, a highly inllam inahle substance found in greater or less quantities in all W est V irgin ia mines. H ow ever, a ll exp la nations of the cause up to this tim e are necessarily speculative. O nly a thor ough investigation after the mine is re opened w ill disclose the cause, if it is . ver a-certaiiied. The explosion affect ed lioth mines, and so far as now know n appears to have done aliout as much damage in one as in the other. it has not been established in which mine it originated. Three of the liv in g men, while unable to give any detailed report of the disas ter, state that im m ediately back of them, when they began their frantic struggle for liberty, there was a large number of men engaged in a sim ilar struggle, w h ile s till further back in the workings there was a larger number of whom they know nothing. it is the opinion of the m ine officials and others fam ilia r w ith m ining that these men had not penetrated the m ine as far as had the m ajority of the day shift, when the explosion occurred, and that they headed for and reached the main en trance liefore the heavy cave-in that now blockades the entrance not more than a few hundred feet from the en trance. H E L D IN PEO NAG E. G rave C h arge B rought Against S ervice C om m is-ion er. Civil New Orleans, La., Dec. 7.— That John A very M cllhenn y, member of the United States c iv i! service commission, holds more than 1,000 ignorant foreign ers in a state of peonage, and that bru ta lity and crueltry are practiced to force these people to remain on A very island, 1.« , where the M cllhenn y interests operate vast oyster canning and tobacco manufacturing properties, is the charge brought tiy Stephen Jozca, special com missioner of the Austro-Hungarian gov ernment, to which nationality most of the alleged peons lielong. The stories of peonge in certain sec tions of the South recently were railed to th estten tion ol the Austro-Hungarian government, and official warning was given intending emigrants of the dang ers ahead of them . M r. Jozca who is assistant secretary of the ixiuisiana state hoard of im m igration was sent to A v ery Island by K m ile Hoehn tire Austro- Hungarian consul in New Orleans fo l low ing com plaints made by one of the im m igrants who escaped the M cllh en ny guards. C o -o p e ra te M ore Closely W ashington, Dec. 7.— To effect a closer tie between the departm ent of commerce and labor and the com m er cial bodies of th's country, a conference was held today in the office of Secre tary Straus. Besides Secretary Root and M r. Straus, w h o initiated the movement for the conference, there were present delegates from the <ham- bers of commerce, boards of trade and other organizat ions of New Y ork, C h i cago, St. Louis, fienver. Galveston, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and other cities. R A IL R O A D i R E P L Y . Say N ew lu m b e r Rate is N ot E xces sive as Is C h arged . HURT SMALL STORES W ashington, Dec. 6.— The In te r-' state Commerce com mission teday re ceived the answers o f the Harriman roads, the Astoria & Colum bia H irer p o lo U.ief Q nnnpctlnn and the Bellingham l a y * British Co-1 UCI* rU JI OUJ,gB»UUII. lumhia roads to the com plaint recently __________ tiled by the lumbermen of Oregon and Washington against the new rates on lumber from the Pacific coast to in ter ior points. The answers are along sim ila r lines. Each road denies that there was any P ostm aster Ge -al Inform ed That unlawful agreement in fixin g the new T im e Is N ot Ripe fo r Postal rates, and as specifically denies that Country M erch an ts O ppose P ar- CANNON IS A G A IN )! M EASURE there is any agreement between the Savings Banks, Either. H ill and Harrim an systems under which the Northwest is parceled out, Mr. H ill to control Washington and W ashington, Dec. 5.— The «nergetic Mr. Harriman Oregon. wotk of Postmaster General M s/et for In defense of the recent increase, the extension of the parcels post and they allege that the old lumber rate the etsablishm ent of a p stai savings was extrem ely low and non-compensa lan k is destired to com e to naught in tory, made at a tim e when the Pacific , this session of congress. The postmas Northwest was undeveloped and lum ter general has thrown his whole heart bermen needed a low rate in order to j into this m ovement, and it has been reach out into com petitive territory. | heartily indorsed hv various postal o r Since then, they allege, the lumber I ganizations and by some other bodies business has assumed enormous prepor-1 throughout the eountiy. But Speaker tions, yielding a handsome income to 1 Cannon 1ms broadly intim ated to M r. those engaged in it, and the cost of i Meyer that he does not consider the transportation has correspondingly in- | tim e ripe for either projrct to be enact creased, rendering it necessary for rail-1 ed into law. roads to get a higher rate for handling The paicels post extension, the lumber. speaker has told M r. M eyer, w ill not receive the consideration of congress P E T IT IO N C O N G R E S S . during this session, nor w ill the postal savings bank proposition, according to Rivers and H arbors Convention Wants the inform ation imparted to Mr. Meyer Canals Constructed by the speaker. The speaker says that Washington. Dec. 0.— A com m ittee w ith the talk of tariff revision preva of 50 of the delegates to the recent con lent. and w ith the financial condition vention at Memphis of the 1-akeg-to- of the country in not too satisfactory the-G ulf Deep W aterways association, condition, he does not think it would led by President W . K . Kavanaugh, he w ise for congress to institute inno called on V ice President Fairbanks and vations which might result in extraor Speaker Cannon at the capitol yester dinary expense, especially as the postal day and presented to each a mem orial servie-e has never paid for itself. The extension of the parcels post has adopted by the convention praying the support of eortgress to the project for a aroused the most bitter opposition from ship canal from the great lakes to the the small town merchants, who have G u lf of M exico and another through liecn beseiging the speaker w ith peti the Atlantic Coast states and recom tions not to permit congress to take any mending an annual appropriation of step which would facilitate the exten $50,000 000 for harbors and waterways sion o f the m ail order business in the The meichants are im provem ents, as proposed by the rural districts. geneiaI ly aggrieved over the extension Rivets and Harbors congress. In receiving the m em orial, the vice of the rural free delivery. They also maintain that it has Injur president said he would take great pleasure in presenting it to the senate ed th eir business by facilitating the and in refetring it to the proper com proc‘ 8S of pmchasing by mall from m ittee at the earliest possible moment. houses in the large cities, which offer M r. Cannon greeted the com m ittee a far greater variety, do business for cordially and at once went to the point cash and sell at considerably lower hv asking whether the mem orial re prices than the h eal merchants can commended a bond issue for the p ro ipiote. Just where the opposition to the posed expense. Mr. Malone ol the com mittee replied that, w h ile some of postal savings banks comes from is not the delegates to the convention expect known, but it is believed to emanate ed eueh a recommendation to be made, chiefly from the same sources, and also from tiie bankers of the sm aller towns. it had been om itted. The farm eis are now obliged to go to town to make their deposits or to draw U N IT IN G A G A IN S T J A P A N . cash, but if the rural postal service placed these conveniences at th eit doors European Bankers Anxious to Secu re they w ould have s till less ixteasion to Lion 's Share o f Loan vis it th eir local m etropolis. Pekin, D ec.fi.— Several foreign Irank- ing firms are in active com petition for O PEN W ATERW AYS. the Chinese loan which it waa planned to make to secure m oney to meet the expenses of the Chinese adm inistration National Rivera a id H aarbora C on g re s s Wants Im provem ent. of Manchuria. T his money was to be spent, among other things, for the con W ashington, Dec. 5.— Prom inent offi struction of modern government build cials of the iintlonal government, gov ings and to raise the nucleus o f a mod ernors of states, representatives o f for ern arm y in Manchuria, to consist u lti eign powers, members of the senate ami m ately of one arm y corps. Th e viceroy house of representatives and leaders in proposed recently that this loan be a ll walks of c iv il life in Ainei ica partic ipated yesterday in the opening o f the raised. The attitude taken by Japan in the c invention o f the National Rivers and m atter of loans and concessions in Harbors congre-s. Nearly 2,000 dele Manchuria, namely, that she must be gates, representing every state in the a partner in anything that ¡ h done, I ihh union, were present. It was not e x resulted in a coalition of the European pected that any definite or concrete ao- money lenders against her. These tion in promotion of the projects advo firms make special objection to the cated by the congress w ill tie taken, fact that Japan should be With a bor but it is hoped that the work of the rower from and a lender to China. congrevs w ill so Impress the national congress, now in session, ns to induce it to make adequate appropriations for Plague Nearly Beaten. Han Francisco, Dec. fi.— The sanitary the im provem ent of the rivers and har- caui|iaign that ia being prosecuted by liors of the country. It is the desire of the delegates to the Federal authorities In co-operation w ith tiie lixaal health hoard for the secure such action by the congress of eradication of the plague in San Fran the United Sta'es as w ill promote the cisco is proving effective. There ha- trade and commerce of Am erica. I t is lieen a most decided im provem ent in not a special project that the congress the situation. Only one death from has in view , hut the adoption of a pol plague has ocenrred in the past eight, icy by the governm ent looking to the days, w h ile the average numlier of extension of (h e transportation facili cases reported weekly has decreased ties of the U n ited States. over 75 per cent as a result ol the cam paign of sanitation inaugurated by the W ill Cor.v ct F ord. United Slates marine hospital corps. Han Francisco, Dec. 5.— “ Thr graft prosecution w ill go right ahead. Ford R oosevelt O rd e rs T ro o p s w ill be tried again in due tim e. There W ashington, Dec. fi. — President w ill lie no let-u p ,” said Francis J. Roosevelt last night instructed General lie n e y yesterday in com menting npon Fnnston to dispatch a sufficient force the acquittal o f T irey L. Ford on the of regulars to G oldfield, N ev., to con charge of having bribed ex-Hupervisor Mr. H aney’s state trol the situation there. Th is action Jennings P h illip s . was taken upon receipt ol a telegraphic ment was echosd by Rudolph Hpreckles request from the governor of Nevada. and W illia n J. Bums. The acquittal The troops w ill proceed from San Fran o f Ford was due to the failure of the cisco and the strength of the expedition prosecution to place Kuef on the stand. is left to the judgm ent of General Fun- This was the statement made ty nearly ston. G oldfield is aliont 14 hours by every m em ber of the jury. rail from Han Francisco. S c h m P r Pleads N ot Guilty. Han Francisco, Dec. 5. — Former Canal D ig ge rs Beat R eco rd . W ashington, Dec. 6 — C o'on el Ooe- M ayor Eugene Hchinitx pleaded not thals, ch ief engineer c f the Panama g u ilty to tw o charges of bribetaking canal, cabled the canal officers In th is ' yesterday before Superior Judge Dunn«, city today that a ll records were again i The firat case was relative to the over- broken for the month ol Novem ber in head trolley deal, the i omlpalnt aver- the m atter of excavation on tiie is th ring that he accepted from Tirey L- mus. T h e total amount of earth re Ford and Abraham Rnef $50,000. The moved during that month was 1,8.39,- second wa« a ga- deal. In »h ie h he is 486 cubic yards as against 389,407 accused of taking a bribe of $3,250 fre m Frank Drum and Abraham Ruef. The cubic yards in Novem ber, 1906. caaea went over for two weeks. Maintains State Rights. R aleigh , N. C., Dec. 7 — The State Supreme court in a decision handed down last night reversed Judge I/mg, o f the Superior court, in the matter of the $.¡0,000 fine imposed on the Southern R ailw ay company for selling passenger tickets at a rate in excess of 2 ‘4 cents, the state rate. A t the earn* tim e the decision affirms the act of the T w o States E xclude Provident. court and the constitutionality of the New Y ork, I)«c . 6.— It was officially legislative act prescribing punishment announced Isst night that word had of agents and any officials of the r e d . been sent by E. K. Rittcnhonse, com missioner o f insurance for the state of T w o Ship* Reach Peru. Colorado, and Otto Kelsey, N ew York Callao, Peru, Dec. 7.— The A m e iic n state superintendent of insurance, to Provident Havings L ife Assurance cruisers Washington and Tennessee, the _______ which have arrived, will remain a society to ce*ae the transaction and so- week, taking on coal. The health con- licitation of anv new business In these ditions aboard th . ship, are « c l i e n t , two state. T ro o p s fo r G olcfi*W W ashington, !>ec. 5. —■ President Roosevelt yesterday issued order* to have Federal troops in readiness to aid in restoring order at Goldfield, Nevada. T hlr action was taken npon repre-enta^ to n from Governor S parti, of that that the miners at Goldfield are state, ....... . . . . is ÜM OM in ! ataat« miiitiai. • h,c‘‘ hM no , U U