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Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
GREAT LOSS OF
LIFE IN MADRID
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
MADRID, April S.-Four hundred
persons were killed or injured today by
the collapse of a new water reservoir
in course of construction.
The catastrophe caused a profound
sensation throughout the city. AS the
day passed indignation and excitement
increased, and serious disorders are
now feared, especially on the occasions
of the funerals of the victims, should
the authorities undertake to prevent
professions passing through the center
of the city.
Already incipient demonstrations are
in evidence, directed against those held
responsible for the disaster. Professions
of women carrying black flags are
parading the district in which the dis
aster occurred. A great crowd marched
to the center of the city and forced the
merchants to close their establishments
as sign of mourning. The markets
are all shut and business is entirely at
a standstill.
The work of recovering the dead and
injured is hampered by the enormous
crowds of angry women.
King Alfonso was shooting at Cara
banchet when he heard of the disaster
and Immediately repaired to the scene.
His arrival was the signal for ovations
from the crowds The king was deeply
moved and insisted upon personally
supervising the relief measures.
The structure which collapsed was a
huge quadrilateral, $50 by $50 meters,
built on arches. The disaster was due
to the weakness of the supporting pill
lars. AS the greater part of the debris
is under water, the work of extricating
the victims is most difficult. Up to
this time 100 bodies have been recover
ed. These were taken Immediately to
the cemetery in order to prevent dis
turbances.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
SEEK MEETING
WITH STRIKERS
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April Sin a final hope
of preventing a greater strike develop
ing out of the Montgomery Ward
troubles the Chicago Employers asso-
citation will seek a conference with the
union leaders.
A committee, headed by John V. Far
we'll jr., was appointed at a meeting
of employers this evening to arrange a
meeting with the officials conducting
the strike.
At the employers meeting over thirty
heads of large business concerns We're
present. John T. Pirie was chairman.
The meeting was hastened by the SER
ious outlook for a prolonged and des-
perate struggle unless action was taken
to prevent it.
The marked activity of employers
during the day was matched by the
alertness of the unions. Meetings were
called for tomorrow afternoon, at which
the union labor strength of Chicago will
be represented. Every local union of
teamsters will hold special meetings
and in addition a mass meeting of Of
ficials of all the unions, both affiliated
and non-afiliated with the Chicago
Federation of Labor, has been called.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09

ern Pacific, salt Lake and Banning
companies.
IF the whole slough is dredged there
will be plenty Of room for everybody
but II the plans Of the three corpora
tions are adopted there will be no room
for any but themselves. San Pedro
harbor will be tied up tighter than any
other large seaport i'm the country and
shipping Of all kinds will be at the
mercy of the railroads"
Strongly Oppose Plans
John T. Gaffey, DR.. r. W. Hin and
others who have large property hold
ings at san Pedro and Wilmington are
outspoken in their condemnation of the
railroads for trying. as they term 1t,
to steal the privileges of a free harbor,
which were granted to the people of
Southern California after one of the
greatest fights ever waged in the con-
gress of the United states.
According to DIR. Hill, the old South
western Lumber company owns 300 feet
frontage on the west side at San Pedro,
which 1t desires to sell. This property,
the doctor says, would be a good pur-
chase for the Los Angeles chamber OF
commerce. 1t may be acquired at a
reasonable figure, he says, and would
serve q good purpose If held as
"whlp" over the heads of the cor
porations.
what commerce there is at present
at San Pedro is being ruined by the
corporations" said DR.. Hill. "Dockage
and truckage is so high that independ-
ent steamship lines will find it difficult
to compete with the railroads. If the
proposed harbor lines are approved 1t
will be all up with San Pedro, 1 am
afraid"
AS an example of the exorbitant rates
charged by the corporations doing busi-
ness at San Pedro, it is said 1t cost
Mr. Gaffey higher price to get freight
few weeks ago from San Francisco
by water than it would have cost by
rail- The goods, however, were loaded
at San Francisco and carried 500 miles
100 per cent cheaper by sea, it is said,
than the regular railroad price. but
the over-charge was accounted for in
the dockage and truckage after the
consignment arrived at San Pedro.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
ON TRAIL OF THE
SICILIAN' s SLAYER.
POLICE THINK THEY KNOW THE
GUILTY MAN
Pietro Torturiti Is Accused Of the
Brutal Murder Of Bisagio ViIardo
In San Francisco
Recently
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April s-Tht
police tonight are eagerly searching FOL
Pietro Torturiti, a slcilian, who is ac
cused by them Of being the murderer
of Biagglo Vilardo, whose dismemberet
remains were found on the street a few
nights ago. Torturitfs pretty younf
wife is in Jail on suspicion OF having
been implicated in the horrible crime
and bit by bit the detectives are OBJ
tanning from her reluctant lips the de.
tails of the butchery Of the unfortunate
vilardo.
/. Mrs. Torturiti was found by the de-
tectives just after dawn, when she was
returning from an all-night visit tc
some place that she refuses to divulge
The police believe that she was coming
back from the hiding place of hei
husband.
Capt. Burnett and all the detectives
are certain that the woman partici-
pated in the plot They believe that she
used her comeiness to lure Vilardo to
leave his former lodgings at no Mont
gomery avenue that her husband might
carry out his diabolical conspiracy.
ut was the work of a secret Sicilian
order" the police assert.
Besides the woman, four others have
been arrested and are held in the tanks
at the city prison. They are Rosirio
Domino, Frippo, F'retita, Salvatore
Maranda and Sam Possofirimi. All of
these are Sicilians and were identified
in some manner with the Jose Bro
gardo case.
Vilardo was butchered in the front
room Of the lower floor of the little
house at 7361hA Green street, not much
over block from where the mutilated
trunk was found. The murdered man
had lived there with Torturiti and his
comely young Italian wife.
When Possofrimi was arrested he
made statement that contradicts en-
tirely the woman's story told to Cap
tain Burnett.
81 saw Pletro and his wife Thursday
night" he declared.
at saw my husband at IL o'clock
Wednesday night-never since then
asserted Mrs Torturiti.
In the home of the Torturiti's was a
woman's apron stained with blood.
1t was said tonight that Chief Dinan
is in possession of information that
Torturiti had announced that he would
kill Vilardo when he got him to Green
street because he had been too atten-
tive to Mrs. Torturiti.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
DENVER CITIZEN JUMPS
FROM STEAMER AT SEA
George Wilder browns Himself After
Writing of His Intention
to Relatives
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, April S-Dispatches
received here from Key West today
brought the news that George Wilder,
who disappeared from his home in this
city about two weeks ago, had com
mitted suicide by jumping into the sea
from the steamer Concha, on which he
sailed from Galveston on Wednesday
last
Before going away Mr.. Wilder re-
corded deeds transferring valuable real
estate in this city to his step-daughtcrs.
At Galveston on April he wrote let
ters to these women, as we'll as Mr..
Lee, announcing his intention to sail
on the concha and drown himself at
sea.
He mailed these letters on Wednes-
day, shortly before boarding the
steamer concha. They were received
here yesterday. Immediately telegrams
were sent to all points along the gulf
directing agents TO use every means
TO signal the steamer. Efforts were
also made to send messages TO the
steamer by wireless telegraphy. All
efforts however. were unavailing and
Wilder was in fact already dead when
these precautions were taken s.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
CLERGY REBEL
AGAINST STATE
RUSSIAN CHURCH COMPLAINS
OF AUT0CRACY
Ayers That Il Has Been Used as a
Political Machine With Which
to Stir Up Class
Hatred
BY Associated Prass

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, April s.-The re-
volt against the tyranny Of the church
administration is attracting immense
attention. The clergy are now speak
ing their sentiments quite as openly on
religion as are Liberals in the political
field. The intimate connection between
the movements for the regeneration OF
the church and the reorganization OF
the state is set forth In strong let
ter printed this morning and ascribed
TO "a high ecclesiastic," in which the
writer says:
"The church as living idea is in
extricably bound up with Russian life
and when the Russian public realized
that they could not longer exist with
out breaking the shaches of the bu-
reaucracy the church awoke from 200
years of lethargy and the first murmur
was that It was the universal right of
every thinking Russian to do his task
with freedom"
The letter further declares that for
wears the clergy were held so closely
in the vice of obedience not to an idea
hut to the dictates of one man who
virtually said: IL am the church"
that they had become automatics to
register his DEGREES, and now, with the
prospect of liberty before them, they
are hardly capable Of raising their
voices.
In cities. it is added, there have been
many instances where the church has
been used as a political machine tc
stir up hatred and strife between the
various classes of the population, this
referring especially to the recent incite-
ment of the ignorant against the in
telligent.
The writer halls the day when the
church, treed from state control, will
devote itself to religion and not tc
politics.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
FIFTEEN MEN INDICTED
FOR PUBLIC LAND FRAUDS
Prominent Residents Of oregon and
Washington Among the
Accused
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
PORTLAND, or, April s.-The fed
eral grand jury this afternoon indicted
fifteen we'll known men Of oregon and
washington. Among them are the fol-
lowing:
state Senator r. A. Booth, manager
Of the Booth Kelly Lumber company;
his brother, Henry ]. Booth, receiver
Of the Roseburg land office; Frank d,
Alley Of Roseburg. abstractor; A. r.
and Edward r. Downs. Seattle timber
men; Rev. Stephen w. Turnell, Rose
burg minister; Edward Singleton,
brother-in-law to the Booths; Willard
o. Jones' a Portland timberman; T. s..
Potter, formerly clerk in the law office
OF f. P. Mays; II. L. Sisser Of Seattle;
Daniel Clark, an ex-soldler; G. b.
Zachary, Col. d. G. Barnard and
Charles A. Watson of Fossil, Wheeler
county.
They are charged with conspiracy
to defraud the government of a por-
tion Of Its public lands.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
METHOD|STS IN
HEATED DEBATE
MISS G0ULD'S NAME CAUSES
GREAT UPR0AR
Announcement Of Gift From Carnegie
to Superannuated Preachers Is
Interrupted by Stormy Scene
Between Members
BY Associated Press.


MELROSE, Mass, April S.-The con-
ditonal pledge by Andrew Carnegie to
give $1,000,000 to the fund for super
animated preachers was announced to
the New England Methodist conference
here today by the Rev. DR.. James
Boyd Brady, field agent of the Preach
ers' Aid society, who was appointed last
year to raise a fund for this purpose.
DR.. Brady reported that Mr.. Carnegie
had promised to give the last million
dollars of fund of $25,0O0,O00 to be
raised by the society.
There was an unexpected Interrupt
tion to DIR. Brady's report. Il am en-
gagged to Miss Helen Could" said DIR.
Brady, and then he paused. There was
a stir at the press table. Several men
rose quickly and one started to leave,
when he was stopped by DR.. Brady's
next words-"to meet her and discuss
the needs of our work."
Before the sentence was completed
Dr. John Galbraith, Boston, a member
of the conference, addressed the chair,
saying that he hoped that no reporter
would mention the name of the woman
to whom DIR. Brady had referred.
There were evidences Of suppressed
excitement in the room. DR.. Brady
turned to DR.. Galbraith and said, with
some heat: ''I consider that a personal
insult"
The last word was drowned in an
uproar in which cries of stop, stop!"
were heard from different parts of the
room A moment later the moderator's S
efforts brought quiet and DR.. Brady
completed his report.
Immediately afterward the confer
ence board of stewards presented a re-
port which in effect was the legisla-
ton of DR.. Brady out of office. The
report contained a recommendation
that no field agent be hired by the
conference next year. The report was
promptly accepted
DR.. Brady was appointed field agent
last year to raise money to make good
the loss sustained by the defalcation
of Willard S. Allen, secretary of the
Preachers Aid society, discovered III
1903, amounting to $4,000. DIR. Brady
in taking up the work announced that
not only did he propose to make uI
the loss sustained by the society, but
to raise much larger amount, which,
in his report today, he placed at $685.
900, 900.
After the incident DR.. Brady said;
1T was an ignoble, unbrotherly, un-
necessary and impertinent insult, and
it was directed at myself and the re-
porters. Notwithstanding the action
of the conference shall continue my
work of raising money and expect tc
secure the fund of S25 600 O0O''
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
Mayors Brother Gets Berth

BY Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April S.-Herbert
Schmitz, the brother of Mayor Schmitz,
who was removed from his position as
president of the board of public works
and was later a candidate for chief Of
police, has been appointed to the posi-
tion of secretary of the board of park
commissioners.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
Italian Admiral Visits us

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April s.-Admiral
f. Grenet of the Italian navy has ar
rived here from the Orient on the liner
Manchuria, on the way to his home
In Naples. He has been in command
of the Asiatic division of the Italian
fleet. His sea term has expired.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
ssttleship Minnesota Launched

BY Associated Press.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, April s.
The battleship Minnesota was success
fully launched at the plant of the New
port News Shipbuilding and Drydock
company today. The vessel was
christened by Miss Rose Marie schal-
Ter, daughter Of State Senator Schaller
Of Hastings, Mimi.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
Thrown Into Boiling Tank

By Associated Press.
PEKIN, ILL.,, April S.-Jerry Hardick,
Joseph Byers and George Wagner, en-
ployed as cattle feeders at the Ameri-
can distillery here, were scalded to
death early today. The men were
working on top of a tank of hot dis
tillery feed when the boards gave way
precipitating them into the boiling
mass underneath.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
FIGHT FOR FREE
HARBOR RESUMED
fcontInued frnm pnrn nne.l


railroads and the Banning company
are the instigators Of the newly
launched scheme. They advocate the
filling in of the center of the inner
harbor at Wilmington, so as to leave
room for a 1OOO-foot channel to be
dredged around It. This work they
want done at the governments ex-
pense, and they are the ones that will
reap the benefit from It.
The plans for the dredging Of the
inner harbor at Wilmington, as out
lined by the late Captain Myler, which
were recommended by a number of the
greatest engineering experts in the fed
eral service, provided that the entire
Wilmington slough be deepened This
would admit of the building of a large
number of slips, or piers, so that under
present conditions Il would be impos-
corporate interests, to gobble up the
entire harbor.
May Dictate Commerce
The Southern Pacific, Salt Lake and
the Banning companies now practically
control all of the frontage on the west
and east sides of San Pedro. If their
proposed plan is adopted by the gov
ernment for the further Improvement
oi the harbor, which means the dredg-
ing of the Wilmington slough, then, 1t
Is said, they will be in absolute control
of the inner and outer harbors, and
will be able to dictate the commerce
of the port.
while there are many persons own
ing large strips of property along the
front at Wilmington, which might be
accessible by piers extended out into
the water" said one man yesterday
there will be little chance left for
them if the center of the slough is
filed up and turned over to the South
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
Japanese Minister still Sick

BY Associated Ffess,
WASHINGTON, April S,-Mr Taxa
hira, the Japanese minister, expects to
leave Washington for New York this
evening to consult the physician who
brought him through severe attack
of appendicitis last winter. The minis
ter has not been well man for several
weeks.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09

Notice 70 Holders Of Herald Photo Coupons
Holders OF Herald photo coupons on Barnett
4 Sons studio wishing sttings on Sunday
must make engagement several days IN ad
vance: All coupons p'slsf hs presented before
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12

Some day you viii get a bad scare
when you feel pain in your bowels,
and fear appendicitis. Safety lies ii
DIR. Kings New Life Pills. sure cure,
for all bowel and stomach diseases,
such as headache, billiousness. costive-
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Bros. City drug store. only IS cts. Try
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
PERSONAL ! SOCIAL EVENTS.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE
SOCIAL WORLD.
Brief Items of General Interest
To You And Your
Friends.

Miss Rosalie Magruder. daughter Of
Judge and Mrs. ID. X. Magruder. has
returned from Bryn Mawr where she has
been teaching the past year.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Abbott spent
Sunday in Washington with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. A. b. McManus
Miss Kathryn Numbers. of New York,
is visiting Miss Viola Clancy.
Miss Agnes Saffell, of Washington. is
spending the week with Miss Blanche
Martin.
Mr.. Harry W. Willing. of St. Johns
College. spent Sunday with his parents,
MIR. and Mrs. Jno. W. Willing. at Nan,i-
coke.
Mrs. Fullam. wife of Commander w.
F. Fullam. IT, s. NJ, is visiting relative S
at Centreville, Md.
MIR and Mrs. Louis T. Clark. of Eli
colt City, have been visiting friends here.
Paymaster Chester G.. Mayor, u s.
N, has been visiting the family of Prof.
S. ]. Brown, Naval Academy.
Mr.. Francis o. White, Jr.. made a
business trip to Baltimore today.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
Oatarrh Cannot Be Cured.

with LOCAL APPLICATION, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional
disease, and in order to cure II you mus
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Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack medi'
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finn
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
POOO FOR WOMEN
WHO Cannot BE CURED.

Backed up by over a third of CEN
tury of remarkable and uniform cures,
a record such as no other remedy for
the diseases and weaknesses peculiar to
women ever attained, the proprietors OF
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feel fully warranted in Offering to pay $500
in legal money of the United States, for
any case of L,eucorrhea, Female Weak
ness, Prolapsus, or Falling OF Womb
which they cannot cure. All they ask
is a fair and reasonable trial OF their
means of cure.
IL took two bottles OF your Favortte Prescr1p-
ton and two Of the Golden Medical Diseov-
erv' and am feeling weiin writes Mrs. Dan
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medicine was cured. You may publish this or
use il in any way you think best, as cannot
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FREE. DR. Pierce's Common Sense Med
ical Adviser is sent free on receipt OF
stamps TO pay expense of mailing only.
Send Fl one-cent stamps for the book IN
paper covers, or 81 stamps for the cloth
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Buffalo, n. ".
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
SNAPSHOTS.

ArtleSs women are seldom heartless.
Never Judge a woman'S appearance
by her looks.
Trouble never troubles al man who
IS always smiling.
Too many workingmen make spe-
aA.ty OF working others.
"A doctor who knows his business is
~ advocate OF tight lacing.
Few books will bring tears to a
MANS eyes like a volume of smoke.
--Goldcn silence is often imore to the
Po.h than a sllver-tongued Grafton.
Many a man works his friends SO
that he may be in a position to play the
races.
With the exception of airships things
afe higher now than they were 10 years
ago.
There isn't very much hope for the
man who has reached the age of 30 and
1881 more or less of a crank.
Its an easy matter for a Judge to
7@oe an order restraining a woman from
talking, but what's the use i?
"A woman who cTiticises a wax hg'
MS n a show window doesn't seem &c
seaA-e that she herself is nothing but
shay.
-ltIs a difficult task TO convince a
mother that there is a gnl on earth good
enough 10 become the wife of her only
son.
It's a poor rule that won't work our
way.
Many a man would rather be on the
level than climb upward.
before a girl reaches the age of Is
she gets used TO having her heart broken
The fellow who can't look you il
me eye will lie TO you over the telephone
The man who does everything :
woman tells him to do naturally make:
tool Of himself.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
Governor Delivered Diplomas

Governor Warield delivered an adj
dress and conferred the diplomas upon
the four graduates of the Springfield
State Hospital Training School for
Nurses Saturday.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
Mr.. Shafer.Improved.

Word was received here this morning
from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltl-
more, by the relatives of Mr.. George ii.
Shaier, Chief Clerk lin the Land Com
missioners' office. that his condition is
much improved.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
Niece of German.

Mrs c. Lewis, 90 years old. niece
of Senator German. of Maryland. drop
ped dead on Saturday night on the
boardwalk at Atlantic City.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
of Local Trains {:
,sItjmors & Annapolis Short Line R.R
.rsedule in effect May nth. r9o5.
a..i-. q rstss-,sv.
Arrive Il An.apsll.


.4t.ttouai train will leave Annapolis AT
+, a. and baltimore HOO 2. M on ss'ui'
-4lt szsaay gfaiEs
,..,,e Annapolis 3. % and 8. 40 a. m, o. ~
''' ne. :. ltimore 500 aud 1905 a. M, 300
saf1 go q. IA.
..,... baltimore % and 10 8 a. m, ~ and
y p I annapolis 800 and II Us a. m. 6 60 and
GOWN /. WILSON BROWN.
%. 4 n Ant Manager.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12

one hour train Annapolis to Washington at
"a g. ttturning Washington To Annapolis 100 p
"a ana o cop. IN. arriving Annapolis d.uo.
AS minute and one hour train TO and nom
Baltimore.
~ All trains over this road to leave from
W. e. SLAUGHTER
Traffic Manager.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
FeIdmeyer RrotAass
Outing Club Dance.

Don't forget the dance given by the
Arundel Outing Club, Monday June goth
at Bouchers. on-the-Spa. Prof Schreyer'
Music. Ticket 25c. m7oew
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-12
Annapolis, Washington & BALTIC. 4. R.

Time schedule in Edect February 6,l9O5.
Trains leave for Annapolis Junction connect
ius a ulenton aud the Junction with trains
br baltimore aud Washington, and other
points as follows