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The Washington times., 1906-05-27
MINISTER ASSAULTED
FOR PULPIT CRITICISM
Indiana Clergyman Objected to Z
Vaudeville, and He Was
Knocked Down.

JEFF'ERsoNvLLE. Ind. May "a
The Rev n W. RaIbridge was the VIC
tim OF an attack at Utica. eight miles
west Of this city. Last Thursday the
Odd Fellows OF this city attended the
fifty-fourth anniversary OF Utica Lodge.
Miss Irene Howard, thirteen years cid,
The Washington times., 1906-05-27
ROYAL PLATE STOLEN
FROM DANISH CASTLE
Valuable Collection Believed to Have
Been Sold to Wealthy Danes
in America.

BERLIN. May 26.-The discovery
made at Copenhagen that the custodian
OF the royal castle of Rosenberg. now
used as a museum for objects which
have been IN the possession OF the
Danish royal families during the last
three centuries. has stolen 200 pieces Of
the famous Flora Danica service. valued
The Washington times., 1906-05-27
BEWAREl

Beware OF tho man who looks at you
With an air Of vacant inquiry when
you are trying TO tell a funny story
Chicago News
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
MAYOR SCHMITZ TO BE
SPARED HUMILIATION
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-Mayor
Schmitz of San Francisco. who has
been indicted in that city for extortion
and who sailed from Hamburg on
November TO- on the Patricia, will
probably arrive here late this after
noon.
II Is said that out of consideration
for Mrs. Schmitz, who is travelling
with her husband Francis ]. Heney
and District Attorney Langdon of San
Francisco will spare the mayor the
humiliation of arrest on his arrival.
Schmitz does not know that he has
been indicted, the findings of the grand
jury having been made while the
Patricia was in mid-ocean. AS the
Patricia is not equipped with wire
less telegraph the first news Schmitz
will have of his indictment Will prob
ably be from the newspapers taken
aboard the steamer from the pilot at
Sandy Hook.
While it is not known what the
mayor may do when he learns that he
is charged with felony by the grand
jury, it is generally believed that he
will waive extradition and go at once
to San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
GILLETTE'S DEFENSE
MAY BE SUICIDE THEORY
By Associated Press.

HERKIMER, n. Y, Nov. 22.-The
states case against Chester E. Gillette,
on trial for the murder of Grace Brown,
is nearing conclusion. 1t is not un-
likely that the prosecution will finish
the presentation of it's evidence be-
fore tomorrow evening.
The testimony yesterday was largely
taken up in tracing the trip of Gillette
and Miss Brown through the Adiron-
dacks that ended in the girls death.
Some testimony on the same line will
be given today and then will follow a
recital of the finding of the empty boat
in which the couple went out on Big
Moose lake the discovery of the girls
body in the water and Gillette's alleged
flight from the scene through the
woods.
clew to the probable defense of
Gillette was given in the letters of Miss
Brown, which were read in court yes
terday. In them she wrote several
times that death would soon remove her
from the path of her lover. 1t is be-
lieved the defense will seize upon this
as indicating that the girl contem-
plated suicide and that this will be
their explanation of her death.
The state. it is said has medical eX-
perts to show that the frequent allu-
sions to death and a desire to die in
Billy" Browns letters are common
symptoms of the condition the unfor-
tunate girl was in at the time.
The most important testimony of the
morning was that of Rev. Cuthbert
Frost of Lowville, who at Arrowhead
| on Friday overheard Gillette ask two
men if they had heard of tragedy at
Big Moose In which a young girl had
been drowned. The witness did not hear
the answer the men gave.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
COMMITTEE SAYS
FUNDS ARE INTACT
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICIALS
Ex0NERATED
Only a Small Amount Said to Be Miss
ing, and This, Il Is Expected,
Will Be Accounted
For
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22.-Owing
to the fact that wide publicity has
been given to charges that million
dollars of the relief fund contributed
to San Francisco has been diverted
or stolen; and owing to the further
fact that those who have sent money
to San Francisco are entitled to a
correct statement of conditions, the
California promotion committee has
sent out the following statement:
More than $6.0OOO00 contributed to
san Francisco came in small sums,
ranging from 10 cents up to thousands
of dollars. These sums came by mail
and express in all forms from postage
stamps and currency to money orders
and bank drafts. OF the entire amount
sent but two sums went astray,
one a package of currency contain
ing $1085.50 from Searchlight sent
through the Bank & Trust company
of Los Angeles by express, and the
other a package of 5000, sent by mail
from Baltimore.
THE finance committee of the citi-
zens relief committee of forty, after
ward incorporated as relief and Red
Cross funds consisting of twenty-one
prominent business men of San Fran
disco, received all funds and the books
of this committee were examined by
Gen. Bates, a representative of the
National Red Cross society sent from
Washington for that purpose, who de-
clared them kept under a system that
guaranteed their correctness.
"The Massachusetts association for
the refief of California sent COM
Hlittee to San Francisco to investigate
the methods of relief work which, on
it's return to Boston, made report
in detail covering every point of the
work in San Francisco. The forward
ing of the balance of the money is
in the hands of the Massachusetts, or
ganization.
James D. Hague of the New York
chamber of commerce committee for
the relief of San Francisco spent sew
eral weeks in San Francisco investi-
eating conditions. After his report
was made to the New York body the
funds, amounting to half a million
dollars. held by the New York COM
mittee, were ordered turned over ia
the San Francisco Relief corporation"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
MORE HOPE FOR
BOOKMAKERS
SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER
RESTRAINT
Cannot Accept Annexation Returns
from the City Until Suit for
Injunction Is Settled
in Court
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SACRAMENTO. Nov. 22.-"The re-
straining order of Judge N. p Conrey
of the superior court of Los Angeles
commanding Secretary of State Curry
to refrain from filing in his office any
ballots, returns or certificates of can
vass of votes of an election held in Los
Angeles November 12 upon the question
of the annexation of San Pedro to the
city of Los Angeles has been served on
Curry. UP to II o'clock today no such
returns from Los Angeles had been re-
ceived at the secretary's office"
With the arrival of the above tele-
gram in Los Angeles yesterday the
"bookles" of Ascot park who for the
past few days have been showing SOL
emn, faces once more donned their
"happy garb" and began to take inter-
est in life.
1t is now thought that the fight of
the management of Ascot park to tie
up the annexation election in litigation
until after the present racing season
has been successful.
When the suit for injunction was
filed Wednesday morning in the supe-
rior court and a temporary restraining
order was issued to prevent the city
clerk from sending the election certi-
ficates north, the representatives of
Ascot rejoiced in the thought that they
had succeeded in tieing up the annexa-
tion election until after the racing sea-
son had been through it's palmiest
days.
When they learned that the certifi-
Gates had already gone north they
again filed suit for injunction or order
to restrain the secretary of state from
fling the election certificates until the
injunction case here could be settled.
Not until yesterday afternoon, when
a telegram announced the service of the
restraining order in the north, did the
Ascotites feel easy.
1t is now virtually considered that
Ascot park will hold it's regular season
and that the election dispute will re-
main in it's mesh of red tape until some
time next spring.
In the meantime the county supervis-
ors are rejoicing that Ascot has been
taken off their hands, while City At
torney Mathews is summoning his
forces to attack the gamblers as soon
as the law gives him a chance.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
UNION employees
REFUSE OFFER
BY Associated Pross.

bV ASSOCldleu fTOSS.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Nov. 22.-The
five unions of cotton mill operati tives at
special meetings today voted by large
majorfties to reject an offer of five
per cent advance in wages and to go
out on strike next Monday morning
unless the demand for ten per cent
increase is granted before that time.
, Mayor Caughlin is endeavoring to
arrange conference between the man
ufacturers and representatives of the
textile council in order to prevent a
repetition of the business paralysis of
1905-06, when the mills were idle for
nearly six months.
Should a strike go into effect about
$4,000 operatives would be thrown out
of work and more than thirty corpora
tions operating seventy-fiVe mills
would be affected.
There was very little discussion at
the meetings tonight. The Weavers'
union by vote of 426 to 80 declared
in favor of a strike should the full ad-
vance not be granted. The slasher
tenders took the same position by a
vote of 20 to 3, the carders by IA to 10,
the loom fiXers by a vote of PA to 12
and the spinners by 127 to a.
The votes do not affect the seven
mills operated by the Fall River Iron
works.
The operatives ask that wages he
restored to the schedule paid previous
10 the reductions which were begun IN
1903, and which amounted to 221s per
cent. Last spring a partial restoration
was made, bringing the price of weav-
ing standard 1S-inch, Ga by GA, print
cloth, to 1880 cents per cut. The price
paid in 1903 was 21.7S cents, the
amount now asked.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
BEN TlLLMAN ASKED
TO CHANGE SUBJECT
BY Associa ted Press.

CHICAGO, Nov. Ex-senator Ben
Tillman, who is to lecture in Orchestra
hall next Tuesday evening for the
benefit of the Chicago Union hospital.
will be asked to eschew all mention of
the race problem and the lynching
question.
This action was decided upon yester-
day in connection with the wishes of
Mayor Dunno and prominent colored
people of Chicago.
Tillmans subject will be "Shall the
United States annex Cuba?" 1t was
originally intended that the subject
should be the race problem. Senator
Tillman will be guarded by police while
here
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
ASK CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE
By AssociateG Press.

By Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-The negro
pastors and other leaders of their race
here have determined to hold a mass
meeting at Cooper Union on December
l, at which distinguished white and
colored men are to speak and sentiment
is to be created favorable to congress
making a full investigation of the dis
missai from the army of the negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry.
A large delegation of ministers, with
lawyers who have been retained on be-
half of the negro soldiers, is to visit
President Roosevelt on Monday at
Washington and urge him to reopen the
case.
Gilchrist Steward, acting on behalf
of the Constitutional league, left yes
terday for Reno, Oklahoma, where the
soldiers are being discharged, for the
purpose of securing evidence from them
which is to be used in efforts to have
the president reopen the case.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
TWO KILLED;
MANY INJURED
ORIENTAL LIMITED WRECKED
BY SPREADING RAILS
In Accident at DahIen, N. D., Engineer
and Fireman Meet Death. and
Seventeen Are More
or Less Hurt
ey Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
LAKOTA, N. d.. Nov. 22.-By the
spreading of rails the Oriental limited
Great Northern transcontinental pas
senger train, which left st. Paul for
the west at t0:S0 Wednesday morning
was wrecked at Dohen early today
A. y. Comfort engineer, of Grand
Forks. N. D., and Peter Morrison, q
fireman of Minot. who was being car
ried free, were killed.
Seven or more persons were more or
less seriously injured.
They are;
John Kint, Devils Lake, l-ckbone
sprained.
Albert Mayors. United States soldier,
back hurt.
S. A. Stark, United States soldier,
hand badly cut,
w. A. Doggett, Minot, N. D., back
injured.
F. e. McCurdy Gilroy, Cal, face
bruised.
Mrs. F. NJ. McCurdy, Giroy, Cal,
arm and shoulder injured
J. Wintergreen, San Francisco, leg
and hand injured.
Mrs. j. Wintergreen, San Francisco,
ankle badly spralned, shoulder and
neck injured and bad cut on head.
Mrs. f. d. Lindsay, Mansfield, Ohio,
head injured.
The train was running at high rate
of speed when the track spread and
every car left the track.
The engine went to the north side of
the track and the tender to the south
The mail and baggage cars shot out
into field. but remained upright. The
smoker was derailed, but none of the
passengers in 1t were injured.
Nearly all the injured were in the
day coach and tourist cars. The latter
went down a siX-foot embankment and
turned on it's side. The passengers
were taken out through the windows.
Sixteen children and twenty women
were removed in this manner and as
many men.
The employees of the dining car were
severely scalded by flying lye.
Engineer Comfort was still sitting in
his seat in the cab when found. He
was gazing straight ahead and appar-
emily had not moved. The running
board of the engine had severed. his
body.
The accident happened shortly before
O'Clock this morning, and the train
when it left Lakota shortly before that
time passed through here at sixty
miles an hour
Shortly after 1 O'Clock a train was
made up here and brought back many
of the injured, who were made COM
Portable at a hotel. The rest were
brought in later this morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
SHOOTS MAN WHO
STOLE HER IDEAS
BY Associated Press.

BN NNSUUI1II q I@IFsa'
NEW YORK, Nov. ga well dressed
woman shot and wounded three men
at Fifty-ninth street and Madison ave-
nue. this afternoon.
One of the men was a doctor who
was said to have been attending her.
The woman was arrested.
TO bystanders the woman who did
the shooting declared she was Ophelia
Snyder of 1856 Amsterdam avenue.
The doctor who was shot was Fred
Berhoff, SO East Fifty-eighth street.
He is believed to be fatally wounded
Otto Droege. a lawyer of Park row,
was wounded in the groin. The third
mas was not badly hurt
Miss Snyder said she meant to kill
DR. Berhoff and had been following
him for several days "I brought some
ideas from Paris and he stole them.
she said.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
NEGRO TROOPS
To TELL STORY
SYMPATHIZERS CELIEVE THEM
INNOCENT
Men Ordered Dismissed from the Ser
vice by President to Be Taken
to Chicago, Philadelphia
and New York
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 22--The three
companies of negro troops discharged
from the United States army by order
of President Roosevelt will be taken to
Chicago. Philadelphia and New York,
according to a plan announced here to-
day. The movement is said to have
been started by the citizens of the
three cities.
According to this plan the former
soldiers will be clothed and cared for
by the committees and employment
eventually found, and plans have been
made so that any person who is inter-
ested in the case and who desires to
hear the soldiers side of the story will
have access to the men.
At present the soldiers are at Fort
Reno
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
CALlF0RNlANS TO FIGURE
IN THAW MURDER CASE
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK. Nov. EFT was Off
cially stated today that District Attor-
ney Jerome and counsel for Larry K.
Thaw, who is now in the Tombs prison
awaiting trial on q charge of having
murdered Stanford White, will apply
to the court for a commission to take
testimony bearing on the Thaw case
from a number of persons in the west,
several of whom are I'm California.
These dispositions are known as IN
terrogatory examinations"
A representative of the district at
torney. It was explained, would be
present to cross-examine the witnesses.
In this way there will be no trouble
about the admission Of the depositions
as evidence when Thaw is placed on
trial
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
Passengers Become seasick

BY AsSOcIateU PTtSS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ga north
west wind with velocity of 80 miles
an hour, swept over this city last night
and today. Shipping was considerably
disturbed, although no great damage
has been reported. Several vessels were
taken from their moorings at the
wharves along the city front and an
chored in the stream. Travelling on the
ferry boats was very rough and a few
passengers became sick on their trips
across the bay.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
OIL PRODUCERS FAIL
TO SECURE CONTRACTS
Rv Assoclnted Press.

BV Nss0cIntod Prcss.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Nov. 22.-
After an all-day session the directors
of the Independent OIL Producers
agency have failed to get their price
for oil
Late tonight an adjournment was
taken and Il was announced that no
new contract had been made
Apparently the maner Is I'm state
as unsettled as ever The meeting to-
day was called after an unsuccessful
session last week. 1t Is understood that
the best bid made at the meetings was
from the Associated for % cents.
The majority of the producers have
set upon 30 cents for the new contract
price and unless this price is offered
there will be no new contracts made.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
DAMAGE WILL
Be 100000
CONTINUED from Page one)

gales off Cape Flattery, and when the
craft appeared here for customs entry
they were so weak that they could not
attend to the duties required.
During the storm off Vancouver ISL
and coast on November 16 Charles
Gillemont, an able seaman, fell from
the rigging to the deck and was washed
into the sea beyond recovery.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
Steam BARGE Sinks

BY ASSociated Press.
TORONTO, Ont, Nov, 22.-The steam
barge Resolution, from Erie, Pa. TO
Toronto, sprang a leak here early to-
day and sank. The crew put off in two
boats. One containing five men reached
the shore safely while the second was
swamped, her six occupants being
drowned.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
FIGHT STARTS WHILE
VESSEL is FOGBOUME
BY Associated Press,

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 22.-The
steamer Haverford from Liverpool fog
bound inside the Delaware breakwateI
since Sunday, reached her wharf to-
day. While the big vessel was fog
bound on Tuesday night, free-for-al
fight broke out among her 500 steerage
passengers, Stewards who tried to
quell the excitement were roughly
handled and panic prevailed until
six of the ringleaders were arrested
and placed in irons. They were turned
over to the United States authorities
here.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
Potash Syndicate Meets

BY Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 22.-The potash syn
dicate met here today and took action
looking to an advance in potash
prices I'm the United States upon the
expiration next February of existing
contracts with American firms.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
Steamer LurIine Sinks
BY Associated Press.

bY Aa9UDIultU I7TthS.
PORTLAND, Ore. Nov 22.-The
river steamer Lurline was sunk in a
collision with the towboat Cascade in
the river off Rainier early today. The
Lurline carried several passengers
who, with the crew, escaped in their
night clothing onto the deck of the Cas-
cade which stood by to render assist
ance.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
GOVERNOR'S WIFE
ALMOST PENNILESS
FRIENDS ASSIST WIDOW OF
JOHN P. ALTGELD
Case Now Being Tried in the Circuit
Court viii Decide the Owner
ship of What Is Left
of the Estate
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-The Record
Herald today says:
Possession of one of the principal
skyscraper office buildings in Chicago
and the interests of Mrs. Emma Ait
geld the widow of former Governor
John p. Altgeld and indirectly the
memory of the former chief executive
of Illinois, are involved i'm litigation
now pending I'm the circuit court, which
promises to become a cause celebre.
Through the proceedings already OF
record in the suit runs the story of the
futile attempt of one man who mad
won the highest honor in the gift of his
state to combat the combined influ-
ence of powerful interests in his hght
to recoup his vanished fortune, OF his
steadfast adherence at the cost OF rail-
ure to regain his financial standing to
the principles which had brought him
absolute bankruptcy, and of his death
at last with his estate wiped out, his
home mortgaged and his widow de-
pendent on the kindly Offices of his
friends to put her beyond absolute
penury.
Would I'"cot Monument
At the approaching session of the
Illinois Legislature appeal Will be made
by friends of John p. Altgeld for an
appropriation for a public monument
to his memory. Besides the legacy of
a life full of achievement the only
monument remaining now to the mem
ory of the governor is the long pend
ing suit which represents all that is
left of the extensive interests he con-
troled in his lifetime.
The Unity building, 79 Dearborn
street, erected by former Governor Alt
geld in 1892 at a cost of about $S00,O0O,
now valued at something in excess of
81, ,00O, 900 and yielding an annual rental
of more than S40,000 is the property at
issue.
In it's erection and maintenance as
business enterprise the former governor
put all OF his financial resources, his
energy and his ambition for wealth.
Before his death he saw it slipping
from his grasp and despite his des-
perate efforts to retain control at his
death his only interest which passed to
his widow and now lends to the pend
ing suit that which redeems it from a
mere dry foreclosure, was an equity of
redemption in the stock of the COM
pany which he formed to exploit his
venture.
The sole legatee of the former gov
ernor when he died, March 12, 1902,
in Joliet, few hours after he had ad-
dressed a monster audience there, was
his widow, and her only tangible in
heritance was the equity in the stock
which her husband had hypothecated
in one last desperate effort to save his
holdings.
Former Governor Altgeld died, as far
as is known. absolutely without prop
erty, but after his death letters of adj
ministration were taken out by Quincy
e. Browning who had been associated
with him in business indirectly.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-23
Rarae slnks, seven DROWN

SANDUsKY, o.. Nov. 22.-The barge
Athens, in tow of the steamer Pratt,
went down in Lake Erie in the storm
last night. The captain and six of the
men Were probably drowned
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-20
PUBLIC LIBRARY IS
OFFICIALLY OPENED
THOUSANDS OF PERSONS VIEW
NEW QUARTERS
All Pleased With Arraneement-Out-
door Reading Room Is Center of
Observation-Disclosures Lummis Is
Granted Leave of Absence

The library was officially opened yes
terday afternoon by an informal recep-
tion between the hours of 2 and 5
O'Clock, at which several thousand
persons were present.
No program was arranged. the entire
library staff acting as a reception COM
mittee. Visitors were shown every de-
partment of the new quarters in the
Homer Laughlin annex on South Hill
street. The patrons of the library eX-
pressed themselves well pleased with
the new rooms and the manner of ar
rangement.
The outdoor reading room on the roof
garden was a center of attraction. This
is said to be the first reading room of
the kind in the country and is consid-
cred one of the best features of the
library. The flowers and potted plants
that will decorate this roof garden have
not all been placed but hundreds of rose
bushes, heliotropes, geraniums and
climbing plants have already been used
and convert the roof into a Veritable
bower
Librarian Lummis has been granted a
three weeks leave of absence by the
library board and will pass the time In
the desert among the Indians. Mr.. Lum-
mis- has been threatened with pneu-
monia and has been advised by his ply
sician to give up the cares of his Office
for a time