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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
CONDEMNED MAN ROASTED.
Flames Leap From Joints Of Ohio
Murderer.

Columbus, Ohio-The e%lectrocution
OF Henry White convicted of the
murder of Marshal Basere at
prison here, was a horrible fasco.
Twice the electric current failed
to kill, while the condemned
man writhed in agoay. His swelling
muscles almost burst through the
straps that held him. When the third
shock went through his body a sheet
OF flame enveloped him and flames is-
sued from every joint of his body.
The current was continued several
seconds In spite of the flames, while
the odor OF scorching flesh filed the
death chamber. When it was turned
off the physicians pronounced the man
dead. He had literally been roasted to
death.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
WOMAN HELD WITHOUT BAIL.
Suspect Put Under Arrest In New
York City.

New York-Anna Messner, a..
oma of many aliases, was held
without bail on suspicion of compli-
city in the most diabolical crime in
the rapidly increasing list of fiendish
murders Of girls and children. !
This is the most horrible crime T
ever heard of. 1t is %sickening," de-
clared Coroner Hamburger after
he had examined the body of s.
year-old Katie Tieschler, which was
found dead in a basement not more
than 10 feet from her home.
Gaetano Rippolone and Giuseppe
Bonfanta, Italian cobblers, who lived
next door to the child's home, also
are held without bail.
The Messner woman formerly lived
with the Tieschlers. was evicted and
swore vengeance. She found new
quarters in the tenement, where tho
mutilated body later was discovered.
She was intimate with the cobblers.
The woman denied the charge.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
FORTY PASSENGERS DROWN.
Engine and Cars Fall Into River II
France.

Anglers, France-Forty passengers
in a third-class railroad car and the
engineer of the train were drowned in
a railroad accident three miles south
east of this town.
The locomotive Of a crowded local
train jumped the track when entering
the bridge over the River Loire at Les
Ponte de &c. The stone railing gave
way and the engine plunged into the
river, SO feet below, dragging down
with it it's tender and the baggage
and third-class cars. Fortunately, no
other cars went into the water, as the
coupling between the second and third
cars broke.
The conductor and firemen were the
only persons whose lives we're saved.
They escaped by swimming.
The third-class car was well filled
with passengers, but although part of
the roof was blown off by the confined
air as it sank, not a single passenger
extricated himself, and all were
drowned like rats in a trap.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
fine STANDARD
$29,240,0O0
JUDGE LANDS AT CHICAGO I'M.
POSES MAXIMUM PENALTY
ON OIL TRUST.
DECISION AROUSES INTEREST
Federal Courtroom Was Crowded
When Jurist Assembled Bench
None Of Defendants Leading
Attorneys Present.

Chicago-The largest fine ever re-
corded in the history of criminal
jurisprudence was imposed in this city
by Judge X. M. Lands of the federal
court on the Standard Oil Co. of In.
diana when he taxed the giant cor
poration $780, 4 900 for rebating, the
maximum penalty under the law, on
the 1,462 counts of the indictment on
which that company was recently on.
victed of rebating.
The Judge also recommended that
a call be issued for a special grand
Jury to consider the other part to the
rebating operations of which the
Standard Oil Co. was found guilty. Il
is therefore probable that proceedings
will be commenced against the Chi
cage G. Alton Railroad Co. for the al.
legged commission Of similar offenses.
The reading of the opinion by Judge
Lands aroused almost as much inter-
Teller and other officials of the Stand
ard Oil Co. upon the witness stand.
The courtroom was crowded to its ut
most capacity and the United States
deputy marshals were compelled to
refuse admission to late comers.
The government was represented in
court by United States District At
torney Sims and by Assistant District
Attorney Wilkerson.
The only attorneys for the Standard
Oil present were Attorneys Eddy and
Martin, neither of whom bore a prom
inent part in the actual trial of the
case. Attorney Miller, leading conn
sci for the Standard, was in Europe,
and his chief assistant, Moritz Rosen-
than, was in New York. Only a few
of the lesser officials of the Standard
Oil Co. were in the courtroom.
Judge Lands began reading his de
cision at 10 o'clock and consumed ap.
proximately n hour before he an.
nounced the penalty.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
JAPS WATCHED
AT P|TTSBURG
MILITARY OFFICIALS STIRRED
TO ACTION, BUT REFUSE TO
DISCUSS CASE.
SUSPECT JAPS BEING SPIES
Many Applications for Work Have Of
Late Been Made by Japs In
the Steel Mill
District.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Military and gov
eminent officials have been stirred
to action by persistent reports during
the last week that Japanese spies are
at work In this district. Government
officials refuse to discuss the reports,
but 1t Is understood that two secret.
service operatives from Washington
have come to Pittsburg to shadow the
alleged spies.
The first reports that spies were at
work here came from Camp Lindsay,
at Upton, Pa, while the National
Guard of Pennsylvania was in an
nual encampment. 1t was claimed
a number of Japanese had sought
employment as servants in the Off
placed in the hands of the commander
showed good cause to suspect two Of
those who got employment.
Col. Rutledge of the 18th regiment
issued orders that no Japanese were
to be employed i'll camp.
Since the %guardsmen returned from
camp, three Japanese have applied for
employment in the Pittsburg mills
that produce armor plate and engines
for the American navy. Japanese stu
dents frequently are given employ
ment in these mills, but owing to the
suspicious aroused by the applicants
they were refused work.
1t is reported that a Japanese APP
piled for work at the Homestead steel
mills. He was refused employment.
The same day another Japanese
sought employment in the Westing-
house works, east of Pittsburg, ex-
pressing a desire to work on the
turbine engines, such as are supplied
from these works to the American
navy. He was refused.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
GOVERNOR DENIES CHARGES.
Folk Declares He Never Discussed
Political Ambitions.

Jefferson City, Mo.-In reply 70
former Police Commissioner F. F.
Rozelle, who was removed from
the Kansas City police board by Gov.
J. W. Folk, and who declared that this
action was taken to boost the gov
ernor's political prospects, the state
executive declares unqualifiedly that
Rozelle's statements are untrue.
Gov. Folk states that never had he
discussed his political ambitions with
Rozelle, but he had told the commits
sioner that If all the things he had
heard regarding Chief Of Police Hayes
were found to be true after investiga-
ton the chief should not be recommis
stoned.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09

cally no opposition IN case of an anti.
foreign outbreak. An organization
known as "The Secret League of
Young Korea" has been formed to
combat the Japanization of the coun-
try.
Conservative leaders have made
strong representations to Marquis Ito
and Foreign Minister Hayashi of ia
pan, begging them not to drive the
country to extremes.
Counter to American War Talk,
If, as is whispered in some circles,
the Korean excitement was fomented
by the Japanese government as a
means of turning the peoples atten.
ton from thoughts of war with the
United States, the matter has evident
ly gone farther than it's originators
intended. A mob attacked the palace
while the great seal was being
formally placed In the hands Of the
crown prince, who has now succeeded
the retiring emperor. The Japanese
police opened fire, and no one knows
how many fell before their volley.
Twenty-Five Japanese are reported
killed in the fight.
The native press prints a sensation.
al account of the reported suicide of
Prince vi at the Hague-a story as
yet unconfirmed-and rumors that the
Japanese intend to take the emperor
to Toxic at once have still further in
famed popular resentment against the
Mikado. The people regard the EN-.
peror as a martyr, and any attempt to
spirit him away will almost certainly
result in b%loodshed.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
MASSACRE OF ALL CHRISTIANS
IN MOROCCO THREAT.
ENED BY TRIBES.
EUROPEANS ARE IN FLIGHT
Twelve Killed in guthrie ak-Rlots at
Casa Blanca Follow Attack on
Harbor and Railway
Works.

Tangier, Morocco-The outbreak Of
a holy war, with the massacre of all
Europeans in MorJcco, is threatened.
At Casa Blanca, where the murder of
foreigners has already begun, British
and German steamships are taking off
refugees. Twenty thousand Mussul-
mans are encamped about Casa Blan-
ca and an attack Oh the town is likely
at any moment.
A new danger is threatening Euro
peans in Casa Blanca, according to in
formation arriving at this place, tho
Moors refusing to allow them to take
refuge on ships. 1t was stated that
the thousands of fanatical natives sur
rounding the town were indulging in
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.
James w. Ayers Accused of Stealing
Whisky.

Bristol, Va.-Jomes w. Ayres,
aged 81, a son of General Rufus
Ayres, M Of the wealthiest men in
Virginia, is under arrest at Big Stone
Gap on a charge of breaking into the
offices Of the Southern Express Co..
and stealing whisky.
Shortly after the arrest it became
known that Gen. Ayres would ask for
a commission Of lunacy. This was
corroborated by the arrival of DR..
A. s. Priddy, superintendent of the
Southwestern State Hospital for the
Insane at Marion.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
PET MAGILL
NOT POISONED
HE WILL NOW PROCEED ON
SUICIDE PACT.
SUICIDE BELIEF IS GROWING
Faye Magill Says, Our Only Crime
Was Marrying Too Soon After
Pets Death."-Is Very
Happy.

Clinton. Il.-The report of the med.
ical expert who made an analysis Of
the stomach of Mrs. Pet Magill was
received in Clinton and delivered to
Prosecuting Attorney Miller. He put
it in his pocket and at first refused
to tell what the contents of 1t were.
Mr.. Miller announced the medical
experts declared in their report that
Mrs. Magill died from chloroform poi
soning. No trace of strychnine was
found, but only a trace of arsenic.
THE theory the state will go on
now is that there was a suicide pact
between Mr.. and Mrs. Magill," said
Miller, land that she carried out her
part of the agreement"
The belief is growing here that Mrs.
Magill did commit suicide.
The analysis was made by Drs.
Adolph Gehrman and John Wesen Of
the Columbus laboratory of Chicago.
DR.. George p. Edmonson, mayor OF
Clinton, went to Chicago and brought
the report back with him. Soon after
he arrived he said to Richard Lemon,
attorney for Mr.. and Mrs. Magill:
You have nothing to fear from the
report Of the experts"
Mr.. Lemon inferred from this that
no poison other than chloroform and
a trace of arsenic was found in the
stomach. The defense admits arsenic
may have been found, but that it came
from the embalming fluid.
Parents Talk Freely.
This bride of a month, arrested for
murder before her honeymoon had
waned, is deeply in love with her hus-
band. Her cell is upon the north side
of the Jail. Her husband, Fred Magill,
is in a cell almost directly opposite,
upon the south side of the Jail.
Standing inside the grated doors
of their cells, they can see each other
and talk to each other, but they can
not reach out and touch ever their fin.
ger tips.
They stand that way and talk to
each other nearly all day." said Mrs.
Campbell, wife Of the sheriff. 81
never saw a m s. much in love
with a man as Faye is with Magill.
She worships him"
The young wife looks much better
than any of her pictures that have
been printed in the papers. They were
from photographs made a year or SO
age and show her wearing glasses
There is a serious look, too, that is
not f1attering.
THE only crime we committed, II
we committed any, was in marrying
too soon. But it was love that i'm
PEELED us, and surely love is no crime.
is it?" and she laughed a hearty laugh
that hadn't a note of care in it. She
would say nothing more.
The father and mother or Mrs. Faye
Graham Magill talked freely about
their daughters case. They live in
cottage with a broad, shaded lawn
Mr.. Graham is in the real estate and
insurance business.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
IS ENJOINED.
City Needs Lighting Plant Less Than
Some Other improvements.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Papers have been
prepared in a suit to enjoin the city
from erecting a proposed 81, 900, 900
electric light plant, to compete with
the present private corporation, the
ground for the Injunction being that
the city needs to invest 81, 500, 900 in
bridges, viaducts, schools and other
necessary Improvements.
TIC erect the city light plant, as pro-
posed. will mean an indefinite defer
ring OF the other improvements, as the
city is now too near its bonG limit to
build both the light plant and the
bridges, viaducts and schools.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09

demonstrations as though preparing
for an attack.
Trouble began here with the ar
rival of the chiefs of the Chaouia
tribe with a demand on the Bashaw
for the immediate suspension of har-
Dor work. To the Bashaw's reply that
operations were being carried on with
the Sultan's consent, the chiefs an.
swered that the Sultan's authority
was no longer recognized, in view of
his compliance with the Christians
orders.
Tribesmen Invade City.
An invasion of the city by the
tribes followed afterward. The
harbor and railway works were at
tackled and two guardians of the port,
six French residents, three Spaniards
and one Italian were killed in. the
fighting. Numerous shops and dwell
ing houses were pillaged, while
mounted men drove through the
streets preaching a holy war and COM
handing all Mussulmans to leave
town, as the tribes were about to ex-
terminate all Jews and Christians.
When the French consul called OF
the Bashaw and demanded the assist
ance of native soldiers to suppress
the disorders and recover the bodies
of the dead Europeans, the official
evaded his request, but eventually fur
nished an escort for the recovery Of
the bodies. The Frenchmen were un-
able to restrain their anger when they
saw the corpses, and after their ex-
p%ressions of resentment, the Moorish
soldiers threatened to fire on them,
forcing them to flee to the harbor
and take refuge on the ships, after a
narrow escape from the pursuing
crowd.
While the French forces in Moroc-
co are sufficient to prevent a general
massacre throughout the country,
grave fear is felt for Europeans in re-
mote localities.
The French cruiser Galilee has ar
rived at Casa Blanca. The command
er has ordered the Bashaw to protect
Europeans, on penalty of his own
head.
Two of these massacre victims
were burned alive and the rest hor-
ribly tortured.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Horse eaIks; Gun Kills Hunter.

Spring Valley, Ill.-Telforo TIM, a
prominent Italian citizen of Ladd, was
killed while returning home IN a bug.
gy from hunting. The horse baked,
throwing him against the muzzle of a
double -barreled shotgun, both bar
rels Of which We're discharged. and
cutting his body almost in two.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Pope suspends Pilarimaqes.

Rome-Pope Plus has directed the
suspension of the first of the jubilee
pilgrimages to Rome, notably OF two
which were about to start from
France. The date when pilgrimages
will be received will in the future be
decided by circumstances.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Secretary Wilson m.

Portland, Ore.--Secretary of Agri.
culture Wilson, who is here, is i'll at
his hotel, and declines to see anyone.
Casper Wilson, the secretary's son,
said that his father contracted a SO.
we're cold on his trip from Puget
Sound to Portland, and that he had
passed a restless night.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Canon Kills Three.

Toulon, France-Three lives we're
lost and several persons were in
jured in an accident on the French
training ship Courenne. A cannon
broke loose during a practice drill and
caused a calamity.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Anna Gould Denies Enaauemen..

New York-A dispatch from Par
Is quotes Madame Anna Gould
as denying recently published reports
that she was engaged and would soon
marry again. II am not engaged and
not likely to be-" she said. THE story
is entirely untrue"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
jealousy Leads to shootlno.

Lincoln, Neb.-Joseph Knaael, a
Havelock machinist, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Mrs. Elsie Par,
sons at her home in Northeast Lincoln
and then suicided. Jealousy is sup.
posed to have led to the shooting.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Killed While Stealing Ride

York, Pa.-Charles Bradley, IS
years old, was killed while stealing a
ride on a Lehigh Valley freight train.
His clothes ignited from a spark from
the locomotive. He fell between the
cars and was crushed.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Tonque Disabled: Horn siI.n+

Warsaw, Ind.--Prof. W. H. Mer-
shou, a widely known cornet player,
who has had charge OF the music
schccl at Winona Lake. broke a nerve
In his tongue and is unable to play.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Rogers Reported We'll.

New York-H. H. Rogers. after a.
weeks rest at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. U. H. Broughton. at Great
Neck, is declared to be completely re-
covered from the prostration suffered
a week ago.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Road to Inaugurate Low Rate.

Raleigh, N. C.-President W.. A.
Barber. of the Carolina & Northwest
ern railroad, telegraphed Governor
Glenn from New York that his road
would put the 2A-cent rate into eff
feet August 8.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Autos Blamed fer Sore Thro.ts.

Sag Harbor, N. Y.-Physicians here
are perplexed by an epidemic OF sore
throat. They believe, however, that
IT may have resulted from the dust
raised by automobiles. More than 200
persons have been attacked by the
malady.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Iaft at JopIIn Auaust 2e.

Washington-The announcement Is
made that among the dates fixed for
addresses by Secretary Taft during
his western tour are the following:
Joplin, Mo-, August 26; Oklahoma
City, Okla, August "a.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
kina Of Slam Discusses His IIIs,

Berlin-The king of Siam received
his physicians and discussed his all.
ment, which chiefly concerns his mai
esty's digestive organs, after which
the king went out to see Berlin with
Gen. Won Kessel, who had been as
signed to escort his majesty.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Alabama Revokes Charter.

Montgomery. ALIAS a result OF
litigation brought by the Southern
railroad against the new Alabama
laws, that company's franchise has
been formally revoked under the out
law statutes"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Old Feud Ends In KlHInq.

Hopkinsville, Ky.-Renewing an
old quarrel. Ephraim Alsbrooke at
tackled James Cunning with a moving
blade, and Dunning fred two loads Of
squirrel shot into Alsbrooke's breast,
killing him instantly.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Found Dead In HIs shantv.

Litchfield, Hl.-Charles J. johnson.
As years old, was found dead on the
floor Of his shanty in the eastern part
OF Montgomery county, where he lived
alone. 1t is believed that his death
was caused by the excessive heat.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Posse Kills Negro Wife SLAYER.

West Chester, Pa.--George Thomas,
a negro who shot his wife here and
then fed, was traced to a barn near
here by a posse, and shots were ex-
changed. Thomas was found dead in
the haymow with a bullet hole In his
temple.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Ends Life to Escape TroubIea.

Findlay, O.-Suffering with heart
trouble; rheumatism and several other
ailments, his wife and two children
sick with typhoid fever, Ezra E. Cuff
fall, Of Fostoria, took arsenic and
died.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Mother and pauuhters Drown.

Durango, Col.-Mrs. Francisco Mar
quez and two daughters, both under 10
years of age, were drowned at a ford
in the San Juan river. ear Arboles,
by the ~overturning Of their wagon.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Claim Meat Contains Borax.

Washington-A shipment of deviled
ham from the United States has been
held up by the authorities at Buenos
Ayres because 1t is alleged the meat
contains borax. The matter is being
Investigated,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Powder Company chanaes Hands.

Kenosha, Wis.-Deeds have been
filed here for the transfer Of all the
property owned by the ~so-called pow
der trust at Pleasant Prairie to the
Lafin-Rsnd Powder company.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Lake Erie and Ohio River
Canal Survey Completed

length, III feet in width and Is feet
deep. A special line of boats will be
constructed for this traffic.
' The canal will follow the natural
waterway as nearly as possible. 1t
will connect with Lake Erie at a point
a few miles west of Ashtabula, turn
southward through Creek Valleys, the
Mahoning river and Beaver creek, and
join the Ohio river at Beaver, Pa,
about 80 miles northwest of Pitts
burg.
The canal will pass through Youngs-
town, O.; Newcastle and Beaver, Pa,
and by meal of the Ohio and Monon-
gohela rivers will touch scores of fur
naces and other industrial plants and
coal fields along the route for a dis
lance of over IFS miles from Lake
Erie.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Gives 5000, 900 to London charItIes.

London-Howard Paul, the Ameri-
a entertainer, who died here in De-
cember, 1905, whose will has been in
litigation, bequeathed about 100000
TO London charities.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09
Hiteman, Ia., eusIness Houses Rurn.

Abba, lathe plant of the Hite-
man Supply company, at Hiteman. la
and seven other business buildings
were burned. The total loss is $4,000.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-08-09

Cleveland, o., Aug. Sit is an
nounced that the surveys for the pro-
posed canal from Lake Erie to the
Ohio river have been completed. Land
for the right of way is now being
rapidly acquired, and active digging
on the waterway will, it is stated, be-
gin early next spring.
When the big undertaking is COM
pleted 1t will be possible for lake YES
sells to carry iron ore direct from Lake
Superior to furnaces in the Pittsburg
district and to send coal from the
western Pennsylvania mines to upper
lake ports.
1t will require about six years to
complete the task and an expenditure
of no less than SIS, 1000, 900. The pro-
posed canal will be 1873 miles in