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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
SUBWAY TRAIN IN
UNDERGROUND FIRE.
Explosion Far Below Street in
New York Imperils Lives
of Trainmen.
FIREMEN BAFFLED IN
ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE
Dynamite Cartridges Exploded by
the Impact of a Col
lision.

New York, March 29.-There was a
heavy explosion in the subway tunnel
at One Hundred and Sixty eighth street
and Broadway today, where the tun-
mel is 120 feet below the surface of the
streets. Fire apparatus and extra po-
lice were summoned.
The explosion took place at a point
beyond that to which the trains are
run at present and near the American
League baseball park.
An uptown subway train, which had
been emptied of passengers at One and
Hundred and Fifty-seventh street, was
run to One Hundred and Sixty-eighth
street to be switched across to the
downtown tracks, got beyond the con-
troll o fthe motorman and ran ito pile
of construction material in the One
Hundred and Sixty-eighth street sta
ton. The cars jumped the tracks and
It was reported that some loose pow
der which was to be used in digging
the tunnel was ignited and exploded.
For some time it was not known wheth-
er OF not the train crew had escaped.
An attempt was made to operate an
elevator running thru a shaft from the
tunnel to the street, but it could not
be moved. Some Of the employees in
the tunnel ran thru the tube to the
One Hundred and Eighty first street
station and reached the surface at that
point.
The fremen passed the hose down
into the tunnel and fought the blaze Of
the burning cars.
It was reported that the conductor
and guards Of the train, and twenty-tive
laborers employed in the tunnel, had
escaped by the shaft at One Hundred
and Eighty-First street station.
The fremen made desperate efforts
to get out the burning cars, but failed,
as the tunnel was filed with smoke and
the fremen were driven back each time
they essayed to reach the scene.
The only way they had to reach the
fire was to lower hose thru the shaft
and pour water indiscriminately into
the tunnel below in the hope of flooding
the fire.
1t was ascertained that the train had
run against heavy bulkhead of pins,
which had been built across the tunnel
and that the wood was set on fire after
the collision. There were two explo-
sions and both were later said to have
been of dynamite cartridges used in
blasting. One occurred soon after the
collision the other much later.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
MRS. MAVERICK
:. /. CLEVER WITNESS
Displays Marked Capability for:
|. Avoiding Direct Answers
in Land Suit. .--....

Washington, March 29.-The testi-
mony of Mrs. Florence Maybrick in the
case Of her mother, Baroness Won
Roques, against David w. Armstrong
and others, involving valuable tracts Of
land in Virginia, West Virginia and
Kentucky, was finished today. -
Mrs. Maybrick displayed marked ca
pability for avoiding direct answers.
She declared, as to signing certain
papers brought to her in prison by Con-
sui Potter, that she was so imperfectly
Informed as to the communications that
passed between Mr.. Maybrick and her
mother that she signed without clear
knowledge. a..
The defendant produced letters pur-
mother, Mr.. Potter and others, before
and during her imprisonment, but she
declared her inability to identity hand
writing of sixteen years ago. -3..E.
"The impression of my mother IS
handwriting prior to my release,' she
said, lis too dim for me to identify
definitely any letter.
She would not state even to the best
of her knowledge and belief that the
letter was by her mother, saying that
a statement of that kind would be too
definite. ...-, .-.. -"
Council for the plaintiff objected to
a question whether Mrs. Maybrick had
received pardon from the British gov
eminent, but she nevertheless cautious
ly replied that she had papers in her
possession given hex by the British gov
eminent. Asked if she was willing to
produce them, Mrs. Maybrick responded
that they were not permitted to be pro-
duced except at the request Of the
American government.
Mrs. Maybrick detailed the circum-
stances under which she acquired an in
terest in the property in dispute, say
ing that at her marriage her mother
decided to her one-third of her porpety
in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia,
and later assigned the same in writing.
The deed and assignment, said Mrs.
Maybrick, had been confirmed repeated
ly by her mother up to the present day,
by word Of mouth.
".That," she said, els the agree.
ment that now exists between us, and
she smilingly left the stand.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
LAND OFFICE TO
Be INVESTIGATED
Hitchcock Will See About Theft
of Papers and Ask About
Favoritisn1. -.
New York Sun Special Service,

Washington, March 29.-Secretary
Hitchcock is going to do little mild
shaking up Of dry bones in the general
land Office. He will have an investiga-
tion on small scale. It does not
promise to 90 far or develop much in
terest.
Mr.. Hitchcock's inquiry will be to
determine If any papers and records
have been stolen or destroyed. The
allegation has been made that Repre-
sentative Hermann Of Oregon, while
serving as commissioner of the general
land office, destroyed a number Of docu-
ments belonging to the government. It
conditions indicated by recent ex-
aminations made by special agents in
a number of western states.
Another feature Of the investigation
will be as to favoritism in making pro-
motions among the land office clerks.
It is asserted that young men have been
pushed ahead to The detriment Of the
older in the service and more deserving
Of promotion. A report has been called
for by Mr.. Hitchcock showing the eff
cheney Of each employee in the land
office. These figures will be compared
with the work Of those promoted.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29

Forty-six republican state senators
out of ffty-two met in caucus in the
senate chamber this afternoon on the
Horton capitol bill. After deliberat-
ing nearly an hour, they decided to pass
the bill over the veto Of Governor
Johnson.
Senator johnson of st. Peter asked to
be excused from voting and Senator
Naeseth did not vote. The rest
agreed to the proposition; but not un-
til after some plain talk. Senator
Jepson said he considered the ques-
ton a small one to make a party mat
ter. He also took occasion to say that
he disapproved Of the way the bill was
put thru the senate in the first place.
The caucus call was signed by one
senator from each congressional dis
trict, and the meeting was held after
the noon adjournment. It was strictly
executive, Senat or Brewer presiding.
Forty-two votes are needed to pass
the bill over the veto. The caucus as
sures this vote. 49,, - IL :. s.
It is understood that similar eau
Gus Of republican house members will
be attempted.
1t was proposed to take up the
primary election bills in the senate eau
Gus, but this was opposed as not a
| proper subject for caucus action.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
JURY TO
PROBE OIL TRUST
Investigation in Kansas Capital
Within Two Weeks-After
Railroads, Too.
New York Sun Special Service.

new 4Ork BUN 0pec1al 0eTV1ces
Kansas City, March 29.-The Stand
ard Oil company is to undergo grand
jury investigation by the federal gov
eminent. The inquiry is to be held in
Topeka, according to government Of
fetal here, within two weeks. Inciden-
tally, the railroads are to be dragged in.
A grand jury was drawn at the Kan
sas capital yesterday, ostensibly to look
after the regular criminal business, but
its. chief task, is to investigate. Stand
ard Oil methods. Great secrecy is main
tanned in regard to the matter. The
names Of the jurors will not be given
out. / ...- e.. 49,.
The department of commerce has had
secret service men in the oil country
gathering Information: One l question
dropped the price of crude oil almost
50 per cent without dropping the price
roads raised freight rates on crude oil
as soon as the trust opened it's pipe
line to Kansas City. The government
expects to show conspiracy in these
acts. .'.r--g
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
BOYS IN WHOLESALE
ROBBERY FOR CANDY

Chicago, March 29.-Ten boys of
Harvey, suburban town, have con-
fessed to the robbery of eighteen stores,
three churches, two schoolhouses and a
railway station. The plumber consisted
Of candy, gum and pennies, and it was
too free a distribution of the candy
at school that at last enabled the pc.
them a merry chase for months.
eve started it just for fun,' sobbed
one of the culprits, HsEbut when we got
in we could not stop. We just had to
80 right on stealing because there was
always some boy. that did not have
what he wanted.''
The boys, whose ages range from IL
lilies, Their hearty repentance, added
to the pleadings Of their parents, in
duced Judge Mack to release the pris:
oners on probation. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
BILLB0ARDS AT
CAPITAL CLOTHED
White Paper Protects the Neither
Limbs and Shapely Shoulders
of Ballet and Corset Ads.
By w. w. Jermane.

Washington, March 29.-For long
time Washington has been the greatest
prude among American cities, and this
prudery has been best illustrated in it's
official attitude toward theatrical bill;
boards. There are several low-toned
vaudeville theaters here, and every bit
of paper which they put up for bill
board purposes is inspected by the city
authorities with a careful eye. Ballet
dancers, with abbreviated skirts, for
instance, are tabooed, and when the big
posters suggest anything Of this kind,
directions are given that all that part
Of the female figure, below the waist
sheets of white paper. ~
Recently, this prudery took the form of
forbidding the posting of an advertiser
ment calling attention to well-known
make Of American corset. The figure
was that of a female, rear view. She
outside dress. Her long skirts swept
the ground with a train, and folks be-
gan to wonder why the district commits
sioners had forbidden the figure to be
posted. There was no suggestion OF
neither limbs, nor was there anything
about the figure that was unlike corset
advertisements as one is accustomed to
magazines and in the department. stores.
tention to the fact that the retreating
lady of the advertisement showed q
small portion Of her shoulders and the
middle of her back, and the lower half
Of her arms, and presumably it is on
that account that she was placed on the
unfair list The figure, by the way,
possessed good deal Of artistic merit.
It was drawn by a French poster artist
of well-known ability.
Richmond, Va, is three hours distant
from Washington by rail, and it ap-
pears the city fathers there have de-
cided to "see the Washington city
fathers and 20 them one BETTER They
ordered the drygoods and notion stores
of Richmond to discontinue the exhibit
tion in the show windows Of ladies
stockings, stretched over forms show
ing the shape Of the neither limb to the
knee. The storekeepers set up howl,
but ultimately they were compelled to
yield, for the city threatened to set the
police on them. Following this start,
the Richmond officials ordered that a
well-known advertisement of q certain
brand Of Virginia cigarets be removed
from the public gaze. This ADVERTISE
ment showed a comedy shaped young
woman hanging by her knees from a
trapeze bar.
So, while Washington has for long
time been the chief prude among Amer.
lean cities, there is danger that she is
to lose this distinction in favor of the
capital Of the old confederacy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
STARVE
IN SOUTH SPAIN
Mob Tries to Storm Granaries,
and Failing, Burns the
Storehouses.

Madrid, March 29.-Thonsands Of
persons are reported to be starving in
Andalusia. A mob of hungry peas
ants triedto storm the army granaries
at Lebrija, twenty mine miles southwest
of Seville. Failing to capture these
storehouses the peasants set them on
fire.
Hundreds Of cattle are dying for lack
of pasture. Two thousand inhabitants
of village near Seville have gone to
the roadsides to beg. This also is the
frequent resource in other places in the
famine stricken districts
A socialist demonstration at the
funeral Of workman who was acct
dentaly killed led to serious disorders
yesterday, in the course Of which lieu
tenant and several members of the
municipal guard were wounded. Col
onel Elias, chief of police, had mar
row. escape from being killed by man
who fred two shots point blank at him,
| hut without hittin1 him
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
]! WOMAN
!. IN COLD BLOOD
Mob Chases and Surrounds Grand
Rapids, Wis.,, Slayer in
....-.. the Woods.
Special to The Journal,

special 20 Iue JouTnal,
Grand Rapids, Wis, March 29.-An
elstein, conducted by Justice Burton L.
Brown yesterday afternoon, brought out
facts which make her murder by
Abriham Kapseyke, one Of the cruelest
in the criminal annals Of Wood county.
The jury after listening to the evidence
returned a verdict that the woman came
to her death by a bullet fred from a
gun in the hands of Abriham Kapseyke.
The principal witness was George
woman, who was an eye witness to the
whole affair. He said that the murder
er went to his room and: unlocked his
trunk and took from the bottom an
article and placed it in his hip pocket,
and then took another article, which
ratified as tho it.. was box Of car
tridges, and placed that in his pocket
and then went to the rear Of the house
and seated himself on a box: When
with a pail in her hands to milk the
COWS, he struck her down with his left
arm and then drew his revolver and be-
gan firing at her. ~e
The first three bullets went astray,
but the fourth one entered her body
just above the ear severing the arteries,
causing immediate death. The boy
picked up cluD, out the murderer
turned about and pointed his gun at
him, compelling him to drop his club.
About this time the husband of the
murdered woman came out and he also
was turned back by the gun being
would be killed if he dared approach.
Then Kapseyke ran to the woods with
mob after him. = =
The case has been adjourned until
April 7. Many ugly threats are heard
against the criminal, but Sheriff Little
and his assistants are using every pre-
caution to avoid violence. Kapseyke
PAGES his cell like wild animal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
MICHIGAN AFTER
THE SALT TRUST
State Senate Will Look Into the
Combines Method-Junket
Provided For.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Lansing, Mich, March 29.-The SEN
ate has adopted a resolution to investi-
gate the transactions of the salt trust,
and for this purpose committee will
be sent to Chicago in a few days to pro-
cure evidence. It has recently dis
covered that salt was being shipped in
bulk from Manistee to Chicago, bar
relied after # leaving the Il state and
q higher price on the market *; than salt
relied in Chicago is said to bear the
mark of the Michigan inspector. whose
Investigations have resulted in legisla,
tive action. Senators Peek, Baird and
Kane were appointed a committee to
conduct the investigation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
WI TING FANG IS
IN PERIL At HOME
Former Chinese Envoy May Be
Compelled by Law to Commit
Suicide for Reforms.
New York Sun Special Service.

Washington, March 29.-Wu Ting
Fang, the former Chinese ambassador,
whose humor won popularity for him
in America, has fallen upon evil times
in his native land. He is charged with
having deceived the empress dowager
as to the real condition Of the Hankow-
Canton railroad, whose affairs he adj
ministers, and even with having en-
riched himself out of the revenues of
the road.
His accuser is Huang Chang Men,
a censor whose duties are to keep a
sharp watch on all officials, and infor-
nation reached Washington today that
Huang Chang Men has filed long
memorial with the empress dowager,
which has been referred to.Wu for an
answer. Should the charges be sus-
tanned, he may be disgraced or receive
an order to swallow gold leaf, and that
would mean death.
From what is known Of the affair
here, it is believed the charges against
WI are the direct result Of his efforts
to introduce western progress into the
empire. The censors, for the most part,
ere trying to hold China back, and they
resent activity by reformers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
PARIS IS OPTIMISTIC
But Reports that Japan May Force
Harsh Terms on Russia.

Paris, March 29.-The official view
relative to peace is now strongly optim-
istic. Peace is regarded as not far
distant. This view is not due to exact
information, but to settled conviction
that peace is the only logical outcome
ever, the foreign office refuses to cred
it the various reports that France is
taking a hand in the negotiations or
preliminaries and specifically denies the
report from northern capital that Rus
STA has asked Foreign Minister Del
casse to act as intermediary.
'Grand-Stand Play" Predicted.
Another repotr prominently displayed
in the Echo de Paris, today, says the
United States is about to make stcoup
de theater in initiating peace.
This likewise is not credited in high
quarters, as letters just received from
Ambassador Mccormick say Russia has
over. Mr.. Mccormick g departure from
st. Petersburg tonight is regarded in
diplomatic quarters here as indicating
that there is no imminence that the
United States will play a decisive role.
On the contrary the general view is
that Japanese official opinion is pessi-
mistic.
This indicates that the preliminaries
have not made appreciable progress or
else that Japan does not intend to in
terrupt her successful campaign.
It is even intimated in high quar-
tiers that it makes no difference when
st. Petersburg decides to ask for
peace, as it will remain for Toxic to
accept or reject it.
Therefore it is maintained the peace
situation has shifted from ST. Peters
burg to Toxic, which now holds the
key to the peace question.
Japan May Be Severe.
Altho official information is lacking,
it is asserted in well-informed quar-
tiers that Japan has permitted Russia
to learn that the peace conditions will
be severely rigorous and will not be
responsive to the recent sentimental
plea to japan s magnanimity. In par
ficular it is said that Japan IS indem-
nifty figure is 100000, 900, and that
| this stupendous sum has proved SO
staggering to Russian dinlomacy that
it is the chief cause why the peace pre-
l - fz5z5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
FORTY SKELETONS
... FOUND In A CAVE

Victoria, B. G., March 29.-News was
from Vancouver island coast Of the dis
covery by prospectors of cave on the
seashore between Quatsino sound and
San Joseph bay, at the north end Of
Vancouver island, in which forty skele-
tons were found.
The prospectors found most Of the
skeletons intact. 1t is possible that the
caye was a burial place Of an Indian
tribe, once numerous IN that district.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
DEC0Y COUPLE FOOLS
FATHER OF EL0PlNG GIRL
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Norfolk, Neb., March ga clever
ruse in which a decoy couple fed across
the Missouri river, while the really
clipping ones were retreating and being
married, fooled the father of Miss Fan
ME Richardson, aged Is, who was close
on the trail Of his daughter and his
prospective, but unwelcome son-in-law,
bud reservation.
skibinsky, who is 20, had been a
schoolteacher in the district where his
bride went to school. Love grew out
of arithmetic and spelling, and the
elopement followed.
Richardson, after pursuing the wrong
couple across the river, returned almost
frantic.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
JAPS ARE WARNED TO BE WARY OF MEDIATOR @Ta
THE CAR TELLS JAPAN TERMS HE CAN'T ACCEP@
OIL SOAKED GIFT
TO BE RETAINED
Rockefeller's Hundred Thousand,
Already Half Expended, Will
Not Be Spurned.

Boston, March 29.-The gift Of $780,
900 from John D. Rockefeller to the
American board Of foreign missions of
the Congregational church will be re-
tanned. In fact, nearly one-half the
money has already been used.
The retention Of the money was made
certain when the prudential committee
voted to accept the report Of a subcom-
mittee to which had been referred the
United Protests of twenty-seven Con-
gregational clergymen Of Boston and
vicinity to the acceptance on the ground
that Standard Oil money is tainted.
The subcommittee, composed Of Presi
dent Samuel B. Capen of the American
board, Rev. John III. Dennison, and
Professor Edward G. Moore Of Harvard,
reported unanimously that the protest
report by. the prudential committee was
nearly unanimous.
Report Accepted.
The American board of commission
ers for foreign missions announced to-
day that its prudential committee had
accepted a report Of the subcommit-
tee, recommending the acceptance of
the Rockefeller gift, but that final ac-
tion had been postponed for two weeks.
The report Of the subcommittee, in
the language of a statement issued by
the board today, 's.was received and
accepted as expressing the unanimous
Judgment of the prudential committee
and the executive officers and was to
the effect that the committee could not
accede to the protest Of those who OBJ
jecsttsed to the acceptance Of the gift.
was offered by Mr.. Rockefeller and
unanimously accepted by the pruden-
tial committee on Feb. IA last. It says
that in accepting the gift the commit
tee followed the universal custom Of
the church in the past Gin receiving
upon it's affairs the gifts of all who were
moved to lay them thereon.
.,.&@ No Character Study.
The report holds that the acceptance
involves no expression of opinion on the
part of the committee as to the charac-
ter Of the givers and to intercept a gift
made to others in order to express an
opinion seems unwarrantable.
The reason for deferring final action
is given as follows; ..ota 49,
requested delay, the committee will hold
IWeeks.' r.: II h.. q
Summing up the arguments OF the
different protestants, the report says
Ithey practically declare that the donor
of this gift is believed to be identis
lied in a conspicuous way. with a great
I evil in this country, and that therefore
the board should refuse the gift in q
conspicuous way, thus striking blow
at the evil. t.. >-- ..s.%
"We feel,' says the report on this
point, "that the protestants have other
ways of making their views known
and that the blow should not be struck
at the expense Of the people in the
| non Christian world.'' ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29
FURRY IN COAL STOCK.

Pittsburg, March 29.-There was an
other furry in the preferred stock of the
Pittsburg Coal company today. Prices
broke from 691s at the opening to "a, but,
with good buying, the market quickly rail-
lied. At o'clock 6SA was 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-29

Senator Horton came to my office
and showed me the bill he after
wards introduced in the senate.
told him ! cared little who appointed
the subordinate help in the capitol.
But ! was not ready to say was in
sympathy with the bill. ! suggested a
conference between the auditor, gov
ernor, author Of the bill, chairman Of
finance in the senate and chairman
OF appropriations In the house. He
told me he would introduce the bill,
but have the proposed conference be.
fore any action was taken. That con.
ference was never held, so far as !
know. l never told Senator Horton,
or any one else, the capitol commits
sion were the proper custodIans. The
bill as received 1t from the IegisIa-
ture was not the original Horton bill,
but simply provided that the capitol
commission be in charge Of the new
capitol during my term. The views
| expressed In my veto message were
not Inconsistent with what | have
said to Senator Horton, or to any one
else.
Governor John A. johnson.