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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
MURDERED ON HERWEDDINGDAY
Dependent Father Kills Daughter and
Then Commits Suicide.

BosToN, March 2e.-Joseph P. Townsend
killed his daughter, Pansy E. Townsend,
% years old, and then committed suicide
in their home, Is Woodville street, Everett
late this afternoon.
The young woman was to have been
married to Francis E. Perry of Fort Myers,
Fla. in the Peoples Temple here at 8 o'clock
tonight, and it is believed that the father,
who had been respondent over the APP
preaching wedding, became unbalanced
and took her life and his own.
Townsend was formerly mate OF a vessel
sailing out of Boston and came originally
from Baltimore. His daughter was employed
as a stenographer in a Boston music store.
She was a popular girl in Everett, was an
active worker in church circles and, as her
mother was dead, had charge of the home.
This afternoon Townsend sent his son
Joseph to East Boston IN an errapd in con-
n%ection with the wedding and when the boy
returned at 40 he found the father lying
dead on the parlor floor and his sister on a
couch. breathing family. He tried to revive
the girl with brandy, but failed to do so,
and before a doctor could reach the house
she died.
Townsend Ia thought to nave shot the
girl in the head with a 20 calibre rifle while
she lay alseep on the couch and then killed
himself with a revolver, both weapons being
found beside his body. On a table was this
note in the fathers handwriting.
AT $40 / have taken my daughters life
and my own. l do this rather than see her
the wife of Francis Perry"
So far as can be learned, Townsend bore
Perry no i'll will, but had spoken in tones Of
regret that his daughter was to marry and
leave home.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
WHO WROTE TO MARK TWAIN
Brooklyn Public Library Never Proposed
TO Lock Up TON sawyer"

About a report that the Brooklyn Public
Library had put tom Sawyer" and
~4Huckleberry Finn" on the restricted list
thereby withholding them from such read
ers as have not reached the age of discre-
ton, Mark Twain's secretary said last
night:
Along } last November, / think Mr..
Clemens received n letter from some one
connected with the library, it may have
been the librarian, which said that a meet
ing of the board of trustees of the institu-
ton was about to he held to discuss the
a%dvisability of placing the two volumes
on the restricted list so that children who
had not reached a certain degree OF ma
turity could not draw them, and asked the
authors opinion on the subject. Mr..
Clemens replied to this letter, but the cor
respondcnce was so purely personal in
character that he refuses absolutely to
discuss it and hopes the other gentleman
will do the same. We have heard of no
restriction being placed on the books, but
that is a matter of indifference to Mr.,
Clemens"
Frank p. Hill, the librarian, said last
night that so far as he knew no order had
been issued concerning these books and
that any one. regardless Of age or sex,
could draw out the books at pleasure. He
had had no correspondence on the subject
and had heard of none.
Two of the trustees said that nothing Of
the kind had come before the board.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
CANNON BLOCKS SUBSIDY BILL
ITS FRIENDS ASK HIM TO LET 1T
BE REPORTED. .
The House Committee Believed 10 stand
MINI IN Favor and Nine Opposed to Re-
porting the BilI-Its Burial I'm Com.
mlttee Is Attributed 10 the speaker.

Nine IN Favor and Nine Opposed to Re
porting the BilI-Its Burial I'm Com.
mittee Is Attributed 10 the Speaker.
WASHINGTON, March 2e.-Representatives
Littlefeld Of Maine and Greene of Massa-
chusetts had q conference with the Speaker
to-day with reference to the Shipping bill.
At a meeting Of the New England Republi-
ANS Of the House held last. Saturday Mr..
Littlefeld and Mr.. Greene, who are men,
bers Of the House Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries, were appointed a
committee to treat with the Speaker and
If possible, induce him to look with favor
upon the subsidy measure, which has passed
the Senate and for the last two months has
been ~pigeonholed in the House committee.
Although neither OF these conferees would
say what Speaker Cannon said to him 1t is
known that they did not succeed in bring
ing him to the belief that the measure was
a desirable one and should pass at this
session of Congress.
Mr.. Cannon has been opposed to subsidy
legislation ever since he has peer Speaker,
and the fact that the measure has never
beer reported to the House is attributed by
its fri0nds to his a~ntagonism. Although the
committee voted several days ago to grant
hearings on the measure, it is we'll known
that the committee as at present consti-
tuted is not favorable TO the bill, at least
not at this session of Congress, which,
with Speaker Cannon at its head and Rep
resentative Tawney as chairman OF the
Committee on Appropriations, is seeking
TO keep down the expenditures.
A semi-official poll of the committee
shows nine members in favor Of the Senate
bill and nine opposed to it, which would
defeat a motion for a favorable report.
Included in the nine accredited with look
ing favorably upon the measure is Repre-
sentative McDermott Dem, N. j.. While
it is generally understood that he will vote
for the measure, no one is known to be
authorized to say definitely that he will.
The remaining Democrats are bitterly
opposed to the bill, and the Republicans
Of the committee who are classed against
1t are Representatives Wilson of Illinois,
Watson of Indiana, Birdsell of Iowa and
Hinshaw Of Nebraska. While the friends Of
the measure are still hopeful, they admit
that the outlook is not bright.
The rumor has been In circulation for
several days that a compromise W
Speaker Cannon and the Senate has been
suggested on the questions of subsidy and
statehood. This statement is to the effect
that the Senate will recede on the State
hood bill to the extent Of reinstating the
Foraker amendment, which will enable
Arizona and New Mexico to vote separately
on the question Of iointure, il the Speaker
will relent in his opposition TO the Shipping
bill and permit it to come out Of the com
mittee and reach a vote in the House.
There are some who believe that in the
end this sort Of compromise may be brought
about.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
MURDERED TWO SISTERS.
Mexican Attacks Texas Girls Who Were
Driving on Public o

KE~NEDY, Texas, March 2s.-Two young
women, both daughters of Alex. McHamey,
a well to do farmer, were riding in a buggy
along the public road five miles west of here
last evening when they were attacked by a
young Mexican. He climbed into the buggy
from the rear and cut the throat of one ofthe
girls. The horse started to run and the
Mexican drew a pistol and shot the other girl
through the head.
A little boy who was in the buggy with the
girls escaped being murdered by the horse
running away. The Mexican fired several
shots at him. A posse of officers and citi-
zens are searching for the Mexican.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
SCULPTOR WINS MISS LEFEVRE.
Denver Girl 10 We'd Sisnor Guanci, Protege
OF German Crown Prince.

Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN.
BERLIN, March 28.-The betrothal is an
nounced of Miss Frederick, daughter of
Judge Lefevre Of Denver, Col, who is
studying music here, and Signor s.. Guanci,
a talented young sculptor whom the Crown
Prince of Germany accidentally met in a
cafe when he was visiting Florence and
whom the Prince brought to Berlin to ex-
ecute a commission. Signor Guanci has
been taken up by Rheinhold Begas, the
well known German sculptor, in whose
studio he is working.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
TRAIN DROPS THROUGH TREsTLE
Ten WOrkmen Killed and Fifteen Injured
on Chicago and NOrthwe stern.

CASPER, Wyo., March Pa work train
on a branch of the Chicago and North
western road dropped through a trestle
near Natrona late last night. killing ten
men and ~injuring fifteen.
OF the lead Charles Mol and d. c. Blue
were section foremen and the others were
foreigners and laborers. The track was
covered with water at the point and the
train was proceeding cautiously. Tn
engine passed over the culvert in safety,
but the weight Of the locomotive so weak
ened the structure that the first car follow
ing went through, followed by the others.
The caboose, in which the section men
were riding sank in the mud, and the
bodies, were buried. Nine Of them have
been recovered.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
DRUNKEN MAN BLOCKS TRAINS.
Chased by six Policemen Over the Ele-
waited Tracks.

A drunken man standing on the Third
avenue elevated structure at Fifty-frst
street and making speeches and waving
his hat brought a crowd about 8 O'Clock
last night and at last put the railway
schedule out OF business by lodging about
the tracks. Six policemen went up and
chased him south. He had a lead Of two
blocks when they got on a s~outhbound
train that was proceeding cautiously for
fear OF hitting him. He skipped to the north
track and they ran by. He was attempting
to climb over the side and down a pillar
TO the street when a train hand nabbed him.
He says he is Thomas johnson Of Bronx
Park,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
Won BUELOW MAY RESIGN.
German Chancellor Having Trouble Over
Colonial Affairs.
Special Gable Despatch TO The SUN.

Special Gable Despatch 10 The sun.
VIENNA, March 26.-It is reported that
the resignation of Chancellor Won Bdlow
is impending. 1t is stated that his desire
to retire is entirely attributable to colonial
affairs and to differences with Prince
Hohenlohe- Langenberg, head Of the colonial
department of the Ministry Of Foreign
Affairs, who aspires to be appointed Sec
rotary Of State for the Colonies 1t Is
learned from another source that the trouble
is ascribed to the failure of the German
policy at Algeciras
1t is reported that Prince Hohenlohe-
Langenberg will succeed Prince Won Bulow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
MAN DIDN'T HURRY Up.
Motorman Was Mistaken, So Car Rar
Down and Killed Sheylin.

A man supposed from papers in his
pockets to be Patrick Shevlin, about 60
years old, Of 1891 Third avenue, was run
over and killed by a %northbound Kings
bridge electric car at Amsterdam avenue
and 156th street yesterday. The motor
was locked up.
Haokett says he saw the man crossing
the avenue. He began ringing his gong
and supposed the man would hurry up
or wait until the car had passed. The car
was not going fast, but the man did not
pay any attention, Before the motorman
could stop the man was under the fender.
He wa dragged out dead.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
REAL SHOOTING on THE STAGE.
Clarence Heritage Fires Three shots at
Charles f.. Graham in Syracuse

SYRACUSE, March 2O.-In a quarrel fol-
lowing the production Of Arizona" at the
Bastable Theatre tonight Charles f.
Graham, who plays the part of Sergeant
Keller, was shot at three times, he says,
by Clarence Heritage, leading nan of the
mpan but only one bullet took effect.
The first shot caused a slight abrasion of
the right cheek. the second passed between
the left arm and side and the third struck
the back Of the left hand and was found
between the thumb joint and wrist. 1t was
cut out at st. Joseph's Hopital.
Graham is said to have taken offence
at his treatment at the hands OF Heritage
during the performance and demonstrated
with him at the close. This resulted in
the shooting. Heritage was arrested,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
DANIEL p. SuOCk'S BODY.
old Time Dry Goods Merchant May he
Buried In the POtter's Field.

No one has claimed the body of Daniel P
Smock, which has been at the Morgue
since February 20. Smock died at Bellevue
Hospital as the result Of exposure. He
was found on the street.
A man who called at the Morgue yester-
day to look at the body said that Smock
was once senior partner in the dry goods
firm of Smock, Brown 4 Bibby of Duane
street, which failed in 1872. He was IS
years old, the visitor said, and for the last
six wears was a familiar figure around the
Mills Hotel in BleeCker street.
Unless some one takes charge Of the body
1t will be sent to the potter's field next
Thursday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
IRELAND'S VISIT TO THE POPE.
Likely 10 Lead to His Becoming a Car.
dinal, Says q Friend.

Special cable Despatch 10 THE Sun.
ROME. March 20. One of the few Cardinals
who is friendly to Archbishop Ireland
says that the latter's coming visit to Rome
is for the sole purpose of seeing the Pope
and is not connected with the trouble in
his diocese, which is never referred to at the
Vatican. His Holiness is looking forward
to the visit, which, however, is not in the
lesat likely to lead to the Archbishop being
created a Cardinal.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
NAB WOMAN FOR TRUNK MURDER
She Admits Helping Dispose or the Body
SAYS Another Gave Poison.

STOCKTON, Cal, March 26.-Mrs Emma
Mcvichar, alias La Deux, who was last
seen with the man whose body was found
damned in a trunk, was arrested to-day
at Antioch. She took her arrest coolly.
She said that carbolio acid had been given
to McVichar by Joe Miller, an acquaintance
of his. She asserts that her only part in the
crime was to help pack the body into the
trunk.
The police believe her story to be entirely
false, as there was no trace of acid on the
mouth of the lead man. He was killed by
blows on the head before the body was
put in the trunk. The woman has had three
husbands and she was actually living with
one at jackson while she pretended to be
the legal wife OF Mcyichar at jamestown.
Her absences from each place were plausibly
explained.
for money, as McVichar had drawn $500
back wa ges.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
sTOW4HAY VANISHES AT SEA.
They Think on the Caracas That He Jumped
Overheard 10 Avoid Arrest.

The Red d liner CARACAS had a stowaway
on board when she left San Juan, but when
she arrived here yesterday he was nowhere
to be found. The officers are afraid that
he found out that his presence had been
reported to the police here by wireless and
that he had jumped overheard to end his
troubles, as he had often threatened TO do.
was about 20 years old and called himself
Martin Christensen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
Convict Kills Guard and Is Killed.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, March 26.-James
W. Wood, a guard at the pe%nitentiary here,
was killed this morning by Sunny Ander-
son, a negro convict. The other guards
Their shot the negro dead. The negro
attacked Wood with a shoemaker's knife
Just after the ~convicts had been called to
breakfast
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
THREE DEATHS on CUNARDER
A Steward and n steerage Passenger Com
mitted Suicide.

The Cunarder Slavonia, which arrived yes
terday from Mediterranean ports with 81
cabin and 2 ,o35 steerage passengers, reported
three deaths on the trip over.
Pal Edelstein, a steward from Budapest,
was missing on the morning of March II,
lust after the ship left Gibraltar. He was
said to have acted strangely for some time.
1t is thought hat he Jumped overheard.
In the afternoon of the same day Franz
Svet, a steerage passenger, committed sui
eide. He became insane shortly after the
steamer left Trieste and was confined to the
ships hospital. There he hanged himself:
On March 81 Anna Spear, a four-year-old
child, died of natural causes and was buried
at sea.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
Fire Blocks subway Track.

S%outhbound traffic in the subway was
held up fifteen minutes late last night by
a tiny blaze at the Columbus Circle station.
There was q short circuit in the third rail
Of the ~southbound track which set ere
TO the wooden guard. Power was shut
of and the blaze burned itself out.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
MANN GORKY COMING HERE.
Russian Novelist and Revolutionary Leader
Plans American Trip.
Special Gable Despatch to THE

Special Gable Despatch 10 THE Sun.
LONDON, March 28.-Maxim Gorky, the
Russian novelist, who took a prominent
part in the revolutionary movement, Is
now at Montreux, Switzerland. He will
shortly start for the United States,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
FIRE WIPES OUT WRANGEL.
Alaskan Mining Town Sends Out an Appeal
for Aid.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.-John j.
Boyoe, United States Attorney at Juneau,
Alaska, telegraphs:
"Wrangel, Alaska, burned. All mer-
chandise lost except one store Custom
house saved. Loss slC0 900. Speedy aid
uandod "
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
400 Russian Soldiers Come Here to Settle

Among the passengers on the steamship
Ryndam, in last night from ~Boulogne, are
400 Russian soldiers whose term of service
has expired and who have come here to
settle.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27

there are sleeping cars for 81. Louis and Cincinnati
with perfect service. Leave New York every day
al .60 p. NJ. via New York Central Lines No
excess iare,-AdV.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27

DEWEYS RICH l. PORT WINE
Taken with a Raw Egg Is very strengthening
Il. T. Dewey q Sons Co., iSs Fulton ST., New York
-Acr,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27

ATLANTA. BIRMINGHAM. MEMPHIS.
Through sleeping car VIA p, X. u. and Scsboard
Ar Line. Inquire 1853 BroadwA1-Ad
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27
Continued on Second Pape.

Dewlr's Scotoh-the whlskey OF great eye anc
unouestioned purity.-AdT.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1906-03-29
By Way of
Dug Out Pass
Railroad SUI veyors Sur
veying a Line by Way
of Dug Out Pass
Near Cortez.

f. WALTZ of Cortez, was ia Eu-
reka last week, and while there in
formed Sentinel reporter that
within the past two weeks there
hive been two surveying parties
in his neigkborIiood running lines
through Dug Out Pass and into
Lander county He said the sur
veyors were thought t.. belong to
the Western Pacific corps and
their presence has again set the
people of that section to guessing
what route the new railroad will
take through Nevada.
In conversation with Mr.. WALTZ
the Sentinel learned that going
through Dug Out Pass the West
ern Pacific would save 100 or
more miles by cutting out the big
bend that has to be rounded to get
to Winnemucca in Humboldt
county. This would make the
route from Elko along the Hum
boldt to Palisade, thence south
following the Eureka & Palisade
to Mineral Station, about so miles
north of Eureka. From mineral
the lines strike westerly through
the Cortez country and out Dug
Out Pass into the Grass Valley
country in Lander county.
We have been informed by
parties who have arrived from the
Grass Valley country. that while
some surveyors have been in that
section by way of the Dug Out
Pass, it is not known whom they
represent or what they propose
doing. One party tells US that he
heard the surveyors were working
for Kansas City people, but aside
from that nobody knows what road
they represent.-[ED.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1906-03-29
Change in the Reg
istratiOn Law.

The law relating to the registra-
ton of voters WAS very materially
amended by the last Nevada legis-
lature, and it behooves all voters
to familiarize themselves with the
new law. According to the pro-
visions of the new statute only a
little more than two months inter-
pose until the registry books for
the coming election must be open
ed. Instead of being opened the
first day OF July, as formerly, the
books this year mu be %, ened
the first day of June. Heretofore
the date of closing has been the
21st Of October; this year the date
is set for the 9th day of Septem-
ber-over a month earlier than
usual.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1906-03-29
Van DuZer LO-
Gated.
He Drops Into Carson an d
Renews Aqcuaintances.

Thursday morning Congress-
man Van Duzer dropped into this
city like man failing from ba-
loon. The Appeal like many of
the State papers has wondered
where he twas at" ank while speak
ing of an angel he fell into the
center of the tent.
Van arrived with his big smile,
his glad hand and his checkered
vest. He renewed acquaintances
all along the line, talked some
politics, looked over the stock
board, but did not come around to
the newspapers Offices and square
himself with the readers or the
newspaper man. His treatment
in the East looks good, as he car
ries the usual amount of flesh and
the wear and tear of the strenuous
life at the Capital does not furrow
his face with its cares. In fact he
seems to be very much the same
gentleman who talked good things
before the election.
He did not state to the editor
his intentions or his next move on
the big map of states. We do not
know whether he intends remain
ing in the State or taking up his
duties at Washington, bat the Ap-
peal columns are open to him to
make any explanation he cares to
and clear himself of the charges
that are being made in the papers
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. -
Carson Appeal.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1906-03-29
Cared Consumption.

Mrs B. w. Evans. Clearwater. Kan,
writes, My husband lay sick for three
months. The doctors SAID he had quick
consun ption. We procured n bottle of
Ballsrd's Horehouud Syrup, and il
cured him. That was six yaars ago and
since then we have alwa,s kept a bottle
in the house. We cannot do without it.
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