Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-06-30
INDIANS RAID RANCHERS
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
KILLED By BAND OF YAQUis.
Murderer Hoch Reprieved-Distriet
Attorney Jerome Will Probe Equit.
able Affairs-President Aequits
Morton of Rebate Wrongs.

h Morton Of Rebate Wrongs.
! "A despatch from Tucson Ariz., says
; that at least twelve ranchers and sew
1 eral women and children have met
death from band Of a hundred va
qui Indians raiding the country along
5 the San Miguel river in the Ures dis
trict of Sonora, and a rescue party
, composed largely of American miners
, has gone out. 1t is thought that fully
twenty Indians were killed The saw
/, ages carried off their dead and wound
ed. Five Yaquis. taken just outside
Lachumeta, and thought to have par
ticipated in the massacres. were i'm
mediately hanged.
Gov Deneen granted a reprieve un-
til July 2S at Springfield ILL.,. Thurs
day, June 22, to Johann Hoch, sem
fenced to hang Friday, June 23, for
the murder of his wife The reprieve
was granted in order that the case
may be taken to supreme court jus.
tice for writ of supersedeas.
Following the publication of the re-
port of Superintendent of Insurance
Hendricks on the affairs of the Equi-'
table Life Assurance society, District
Attorney Jerome of New York has
asked Recorder Goff of the general
sessions court, and Justice Davy OF
the criminal branch of the supreme
court to continue the June term OF
their courts pending his investigation
of the Equitable affairs. This Will
be done although it is said to be the
first time in the history of the courts
that any case has been considered suf-
ficiently grave to keep the courts open
through vacation time. Coy. Higgins
will cooperate with the district at
torney in any action he may take
against the Equitable. The governor
declares that the insurance laws of
the state are the least important OF
the statutes violated and that the old
law prohibiting stealing is the one
which should be first enforced. Au-
gust Belmont has resigned as di-
rector of the Equitable society.
/ President Roosevelt has given
certificate of character to Paul Nor
ton. his secretary of the navy and
chairman of the board of directors of
| the Equitable Life Assurance society,
/ and has refused to permit his prosecu-
ton by the government on criminal
charge of having granted secret re-
bates to the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company while traffic manager OF the
| Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
road company This action on the
part of the President and Attorney
General Moody is in direct conflict
with the vigorously expressed opinlon
of Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati, Tor,
mer attorney general of the United
states and Frederick N. Judson. of ST.
| Louis, who were employed as speciai
counsel by the department of justice
| to Investigate the rebate cases ana
recommend a course of procedure.
The president has caused to be given
out the documents in the Sante re
| rebate cases and relating also to the
withdrawal of the special counsel OF
the department of justice. Messrs
Harmon, and Judson. The matter Is
reviewed and the administrators part
| touched upon and defended in a long
letter addressed to Mr.. Morton by the
president under date of June IL. In
this letter the president says that not
a shred of testimony personally i'm
nlicates Morton and that he need not
nav further heed to the accusations
against him. He explains that Morton
warned his subordinates to OBEY the
law and was in ignorance OF the eA"
listence of the rebates; also that at tnc
| time when Morton test1fed as 10 INC
Atchison, Topeka and Sante re pla
tises. the interstate commerce law, ~
dead letter.
| The Lake County, O., coroner is this
weel, investigating at Painesyille. the
wreck of the Twentieth Century limit
ed at Mentor Wednesday June Fl, by
/ which a score of people were killed
and others injured. The verdict Is
expected TO place the responsibility
upon an employe Of the Lake Shore
ming at the rate of sixty miles an
hour and ran into an open switch al
Mentor. the engineer having no oppor-
tunitv to stop the train after he first
saw the red light The company mas
offered a reward of $4,000 for the ar"
rest of persons responsible for the
wreck. An extra hour has been add
ed to the Twentieth Century trans
l1S-hour schedule between New YORK
and Chicago, by the orders OF fresl
dent Newman of the New York Central
and Hudson River railroad, with the
object of gradually bringing the time
of this flyer back to twenty hours, as
before. None of the railroad ofhclals,
however. ascribes the wreck to exces-
siye speed. Their theory is that the
switch was thrown and locked and the
switch light extinguished by some per-
son. either a maniac or some one
seeking revenge A careful exafhiha
tion of the switch showed that u
was in perfect condition. detectives
are working on the case Trainmen
are of the opinion that the engineer OF
the Twentieth Century was deceived
by the light of a switch just beyond
the omen switch, the light of which is
said to have been out. The sWltch
was all right As minutes before tns
wreck when the east-bound Chcago
and Boston train passed through.
quantity of first-class mail matter
from the west for eastern points, was
DESTROYED by the fire which consumer
portions of the wreck.
President Roosevelt goes to MS
home in oyster Bay, L. l., this week
after attending the Harvard COM
mencement exercises at Cambridge as
the guest of Bishop William Lawrence.
During the heated season his summer
home at Sycamore hill will become the
temporary seat of government.
Attorney General Moody has placed
the matter of carrying out the presl-
ident's directions TO prosecute certaIn
railroad corporations including the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road Co. for giving rebates under the
direction of Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Purdy.
William F. wilkins. who, since the
creation of the Office of chief assistant
fire marshal of Philadelphia in 1901
has held that position. was summarily
removed Tuesday. June %. by Director
Tootter of the department of public