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
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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
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