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Personal to River Men.

Charles Shaffer of this city has gone on
hunting trip to Aqua creek.
Capt. George Cook and Capt. Alfred
Richards have returned from Newport
News aboard the steamer Queen Anne
which they piloted here from Hampton
roads.
Mr.. Howard of St Marys county, Md, has
been appointed an assistant purser in the
service of the Maryland, Delaware and
Virginia Railway Company. and is assign.
ed to duty board the steamer Northumber-
land. on the Washington-Baltim route
William A. Moore. chief engineer of the
Washington and Potomac line, who was
at Newport News and Old Point for sew.
eral months past. has returned to his
home in this city.
Capt. r. Bailey Reed. master of the
steamer jamestown. has gone to Newport
News with his steamer and will remain
there while the boat is being overhauled
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HOLDS WIFE BLAMELEss.
But Wants 100000 for Alienation
of Her Affections,

NEW YORK, December 3.-John P.
Persch. the millionaire merchant who,
a short time ago, sued his pretty wife, H.
Gretchen Persch, for an absolute divorce.
yesterday filed suit against Frederick r.
Rohl, another wealthy man. for $780,
600 damages for alienation of his wife's
affections.
Carl Fischer Hansen, counsel for
Persch, stated yesterday, when he filed
the bill against Rohl that a business
partner of E. H. Hartman and two
prominent Wall street men would be
brought into the case; that powerful in
fuence had been exerted to quiet the
matter but that his client was determined
to make as big a social sensation as
possible.
In his charge Mr.. Persch holds his wife
to be blameless, because he alleges that
Roll so Influenced Mrs. Persch by his
false wicked and malicious misrepre-
sensations of me complainant" that her
mind was poisoned against her husband
and "she was induced by this defendant
to abandon her husband
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Violation of Gaming Law.

For several weeks since the duck hunt
ing season opened on the Potomac the
Maryland game wardens have been aware
that hunters were using big guns in shoot
ing birds, in violation of the law. These
guns are small cannon about ten or twelve
feet long and are mounted in the low of
hunting skiff. They use a pound of
shot and large charge of powder each
time fired, and in the hands of skillful
gunner will often bring down an entire
flock of birds.
AS these big guns give the birds but lit
tie chance to get away and are RESPONSE
BILE for the defamation of the birds. their
use is unlawful everywhere. A party Of
gunners last week. In which, it is stated
were two Washington men, went to Nan
jamoy creek to hunt, and they had big
gun with them. Sunday a party of
Charles county officials, headed by the
county game warden, made d raid on the
gunners and captured the entire party,
except one. They were taken before a
county magistrate, the gun was confis-
Gated and a fine imposed.
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Cut in Railroad Wages.

ELIZABETH, N. j.. December "A re-
duction in working time from ten to eight
hours. with corresponding cut in wages.
went into force at the Central railroad
shops here yesterday. This is in acord-
ance, it was said at the shops, with a
general policy of retrenchment adopted
by the railroad. The. Singer Manufacture
ing Company's big plant reopened yester-
day after being closed since Wednesday
evening. The Singer Company officials say
the closing of the factory was without
significance. they merely took advan-
tage of the fact that Thursday was holi-
day to give them an opportunity to over
haul machinery and clean UP by closing
down the extra days.
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Cornell Raises Medical Standard.

NEW YORK, December 3.-The faculty
of the Cornell University Medical College
announced yesterday that, after mature
elaboration, it had been decided that the
usual high school education, commonly
accepted as sufficient preparation for the
study Of medicine, is inadequate. The
great advances of recent years in all the
natural sciences have led to corresponding
advances in the practice of medicine and
surgery, and this has overburdened the
medical curriculum. as now in operation
for the average student, to such an ex-
tent that the present four-year course in
medicine is impossible, says the faculty.
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Piratical Destroyer Loose.

VICTORIA, B. c.. December "A run
away Russian destroyer, with a mutinous
crew, is on a piratical cruise in the sea
of Japan, according to reports brought
from Nagasaki by the steamer Monteagle
which arrived yesterday.
A German steamer reported at Nagasaki
having been intercepted fifty miles north
of Tsushima Islands by the destroyer.
whose seamen boarded the German
steamer and forcibly took a quantity of
coal. The destroyer is repoi led as hav-
ing escaped from Vladivostok.
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Prince George County Wedding.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md,
December ., 1907.

At the home Of Mrs. Spring c. Beall,
near Richie. Prince George county. her
daughter. Miss Iva NJ. Beall, and Albert
B. Brown of Sea Pleasant were married
recently the ceremony being performed
by Rev. Mr.. Gaines. Miss Matilda Tur-
me- was Enaid-of-honor and Allie Beall at
tended the bridegroom. Misses Myrtl
Beall and Mildred Sansbury were flower
girls. The bridal party entered the room
preceded by M S. s. c. B all and Mrs
R. F. Brown. mothers of the bride and
groom, respectively. Miss Virgia Brown
played the wedding march. After the
ceremony a reception was held. Mr.. and
Mrs. Brown departed for Chamberlain e,
Pa, the home of the groom's sister. Mrs.
A. L. Shontz, where they will stay a
week.
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to load glass making sand for Alex

to load glass making sand for Alex
andria.
Memoranda: Scow Fanny is at, Mar
shall Hall loading wood for the dealers
here; schooner Mabel and Ruth is at Nor
folk loading coal for Edenton, \. c.,
and will load lumber at Edenton for
this city; barge Ellen S. Jennings is at
Alexandria unloading cargo of hard
coal: barges Roanoke, Kathleen Nell
vaine. Patapsco and p. R. R. 612 are at
Georgetown discharging cargoes Of
hard coal; scow Sea King is in Dogue
creek loading lumber for this city:
schooner Edith Verrall is at river
point loading for this city.
The barge r. S. McCracken is at Po
tomac creek, the Edward 5. Fay at
Cole landing and the barge PatuYent
in Nanjamoy creek loading railway
ties for the Philadelphia market. The
barge Donahue has completed loading
her cargo of ties at Somerset beach
and has sailed for New York. They
will probably be the last vessels to
load ties on the Potomac until next
spring unless the winter proves an
open one and no ice forms. 10:
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Fell in a Faint When Sentenced.

NEW YORK. December 3.-Nicola Ear
coma, shriveled little allan. tainted
yesterday when Judge Dixie. in Brookly-,
sentenced him to death. ITO death! To
death! screamed Zarcona, as sentence
was pronounced. Then he fell senseless
i.elatives in the rear of the courtroom
pushed forward repeating the cry ITO
death. to death!' Court officers hurried
the relatives out of the room and Ear
coma was carried into the pen He was
sent to Sing Sing to die in the electric
chair during the week beginning jan
uary 10. Zarcona shot and killed Frank
Farrilo June II last, following a dispute.
The men were in partnership and a Liffer-
ence of II cents in the adjustment of their
daily accounts resulted in the murder.
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Saved by a Boys Heroisn1.

EASTPoRT. December 3.-The bravery
of Willard Alfreds. the ten-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfreds of this village.
probably saved his mother and sister from
dangerous burns from a gasoline stove at
his home here yesterday. While the
mother was cooking supper the oil tank of
the stove caught fire. The flames spread
over the room and imperiled the lives Of
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Crawford's Appointment Revoked.

Upon the Recommendation OF Admiral
Dewey, Secretary Metcalf of the Navy
has evoked the appointment of Mr..
John w. Crawford as secretary to the
admiral of the navy. 1t is generally I'M
derstood that Mr.. H. c. Gauss will be ap-
pointed to the vacancy. Mr.. Gauss is now
private secretary to the Attorney General,
and acted in the same capacity to Mr..
Bonaparte while he was Secretary of the
Navy. The Office carries with it the rank
and pay Of a lieutenant of the navy, the
latter amounting to about $500.
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Plea for Nameless Convict.

AUSTIN, Tex. December 3.-Gov Camp
bell yesterday received letters from Ella
Wheeler Wilcox Of New York and a firm
of lawyers of that city recommending the
pardon of an ex-convict who escaped from
the Texas penitentiary fifteen years ago.
1t is stated in the letters that the man
is now in business in New York and that
he has wealth and influence. His name
is not given.
Gov. Campbell will not consider the ap-
plication for pa-don unless the ex-con-
vict's name Is given,
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the entire family. A second later, when
Mrs. Alfreds had tainted from excitement
and all her children except Willard stood
aghast with fear, the youngster threw his
coat about the stove and carried 1t out OF
doors. A moment later it exploded. Will
lard's hands were burned and his cloth
ing scorched from the fire, but he escaped
serious injury.
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In the chamber of deputies at Rome
Saturday, bill was introduced providing
for the appropriation, of $500 coo for the
erection Of mc2umept TO Qauts there.
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Oklahoma Starts Business.

GUTHRIE, Okla, December 3.-Oklaho-
mas first legislature convened here yes
terday in the temporary state capitol.
Great interest was manifested in the SEES
sion, which was devoted to organization.
Gov. Haskell will deliver his me ssage to-
day. The democrats are in entire control
Fire destroyed the machine shops owned
by the Littleton Tool Company at Little
ton, w. Va.
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Mr.. Gallinger's New Bill.

There would now be street railway con-
nections with the Union station said
Senator Hansbrough this afternoon, eff
the friends Of Senator Gallnger's bill
had only agreed to my Just ideas on the
question and consented to compel the rail-
way companies to do what they ought to
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Just what the provisions of his new
bill are going to be. Senator Ga!lnger Is
unable to state at present. He said this
morning that he had not yet had chance
to confer with some of the railway OFF,
Gals whom he wishes to see before final y
drafting the measure. There will prob
ably, however, be little change from last
years bill.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
ALTON PROFITS SCORED
BY STEAD, OF ILLINOIS

Springfield, Ill.,, April 10.-Attorney
Stead, in an opinion submitted to Gov
ernor Deneen. expresses doubt as to
whether it is the province of Illinois
to proceed against L. H. Hartman and
his associates for the alleged manipula-
ton Of the Chicago and Alton railroad
property. If the state should revoke
the company's charter the loss would
fall upon the stockholders. the Harri-
mar people already having disposed of
a large portion of their holdings. The
attorney general concludes, therefore,
that the best plan would be for the
company itself to seek a remedy of the
situation, or even for one or more
stockholders to act. AT the same time
Mr.. Stead assures the governor, that
should ne become convinced on further
investigation that state can relieve the
roads condition. he will make the nee
essary moves at once.
Notwithstanding his convictions as
to the wisdom Of Immediate action, Mr..
Stead insists there is not the least
doubt h a a civil remedy exists against
the ~"inanciers who have wrecked this
prosperous railroad company and at
the expense Of innocent stockholders
and bondholders have gathered to
tt amselves a harvest of millions of
dOllarS.'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
ABE RUFF FRAMES
LINE OF DEFENSE

San Francisco, April 1o-The trial of
Abraham Ruef, on a charge of extor-
ton, came up again today. The ex-boss
will present a contract in evidence as
the basis of his chief defense in the
case now before the court, and also on
the other indictments charging him
with extortion in the French restaurant
cases, showing that he was retained
as counsel for the men whom he is ac-
cused of mufcting.
This contract will show, it is assert
ed by Ruef's attorneys. that he was
retained TO act as counsel for the res
tauranteurs for two years at q nominal
salary of 81, 900.
They will contend that the significant
detail of the contract is that it was
made to extend beyond the life of the
administration of Mayor Schnlitz. and
that this shows that the relations be-
tween Ruef and the restaurant men
We're the ordinary relations between an
attorney II his clients.
The prosecution declares it can prove
to the jury the political affinity between
Ruef and Schmitz was used as q club
over the heads of the restaurant keep
ers to force from them the IS. 900,
YEARLY "ratainerh
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
PUERTO CORTEz is
REPORTED CAPTURED.

Mobile, Ala. April 1o.-A steamer
which just arrived, brings news that
Puerto Cortez has fallen.
The information is contained in a.
message received by the Thacker
Steamship company over the telephone
from New Orleans. News from the
seat of hostilities the past two weeks
has been obtained by mail or cable.
from Puerto Barrios. Guatemala. All
cable messages are carried from Cortez
by boat to Puerto Barrios and require
about seven hours by sailboat.
The message also says Ceiba. Hon.
duras, is in he icaraguan's hands.
Advices received today from Com
mander William F. Pullman, of the.
United States gunboat Marietta. via
the steamer Columbia, just arrived
say Ceiba was taken on the eveninp.
Of April 8 by the N~icaraguan armies.
Ceiba was taken without a shot and
then the Nicaraguan forces left for.
Puerto Cortez on board the gunboat
Ometaphe, a gasoline launch and small.
gunboat. They proceeded to Cortez by-
Marietta to protect American interests.
1t had been agreed between Estrada
and Fullam that Puerto Cortez should!
not be bombarded.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
MURDERESS SAVED
FROM THE GALLONS
BY GOVERNOR FOLK
'Aggie Myers and Her Lover,
Frank Hoffman, Get Life
Sentences.

Jefferson City. Mo-, April 1.-THE SEN
fences Of death imposed upon Mrs. Ag-
gle Myers, Of Kansas City, and Frank
Hoffman, Of Higginsville, Mo-, con-
victed Of having murdered the wom-
ans husband, Clarence Myers, in 1904.
have been committed by Governor Folk
to Imprisonment for life.
They will at once be brought to the
state p~enitentiary here. Mrs. Myers
is confined in the Clay county Jail in
Liberty. and Hoffman is confined in
the Kansas City Jail.
The appeal Of the case Of Mrs. Myers
to the supreme court Of the United
States will now be dismissed by her at
torneys. In a message to the secretary
of state relative to the action in COM
muting the sentence Governor Folk
states that he believes public morals
will be better conserved by committing
the sentence of Mrs. Myers to life i'm
prisonment h a by hanging her.
In the case Of her accomplice. Frank
Hoffman, he said similar facts to those
IN the Meyers case exist, and for that
reason he also committed Hottman's
sentence to life imprisonment.
The MYERS murder was particularly
brutal. While Mrs. Myers jabbed her
her lover, beat his head to q pulp with
q billiard cue. The woman left the rear
door of her home unlocked so Hoffman
could enter at night. Myers Was at.
tackled In bed, II killed while at
tempting to resist. after he had risen.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
SHIPPERS SCORE IN
RATE HEARING CASE

Topeka. kAs Npcti fl-fN4riAs THIS
s~seas1hs here Thursday eeencss tee IL.
terststc 1ea3usre~ c~ugAtntSSsoa relating
TO thV ailsSea Discrimination on rates
on WhSat from interior points - the
gutf IN favor OF Kansas city. It Was
Scoasht oUt thst the railroads aae ora
basis OF valuation and AN entirely air
feseHt basis 10 determine what would
ne Il proper compensatory Income when
freight rates ARE ia be made.
~ f. Helm, attorney FOR the COM
plainants. the Farmers. Merchants
asked leave 10 submit in evidence the
sworn statements of the railroads re-
gardiag the value OF their lines in Kan
sas. These were the statements tiled
by the railroads with the state board
of railroad assessors and were the basis
for this board making the assessments
on Kansas railroad property. The rail
o attorneys made a hard fight
laSs,ins, the Introduction OF this evil
dence, but the commission decided to
a 1t. The statements showed that
the railroads We're valued at only about
5000 per mile.
The railroad attorneys were forced
to admit that these valuations We're
not high enough, Notwithstanding the
fact the statements were sworn to as
the real and actual value OF the rail-
road property. James NJ. Nation. state
auditor. was called to the stand TO
prove hat the statements submitted
in evidence were correct copies of the
statements filed by the railroads In the
auditors office TO- taxation,
Commissioners Prouty and Clark
seemed to be surprised by this evil
dence.
The commission ordered the state
ments OF the railroads submitted for
taxation be made a part of the rec
ordS Of the case.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
POET GENE WARE
ASKS A PENSION
REQUEST IS IN PROSE
Former Official Who used to iasue
Orders IN Verse, Will Ala
a Soldiers SIS
ter.

Washington, -, G. April lo.-Eugene
l.. Ware, OF Topeka. "lronQuil!.' es-
commissioner OF pensions, genius. &c
centric and l~itterateur. who used 70 Is
sue general orders In verse in the PEN
sion office. and who looked after The
interests OF nearly 1000, 900 pensioners.
while he would not apply for the PEN
sion that he had himself earned, has
changed his mind.
He has asked for n pension. and he
did it in plain prose.
1t caused u sensation In the big pen
sion bureau When 1t was noised about
that Deputy Commissioner Davenport
received in II personal letter from
the eN-commissioner an application for
Il pension. MIR. Ware doesn't believe in
the pension system, though he does be
lieve In pensions for really needy II
deserving soldiers. But he always drew
a line of distinction. His theory is that
a ma who served his country We'll,
and whom the country afterward
served so we'll thai he does not need the
pension, ought not to ask it. Having
plenty of money of his own, he would
never join h. army OF pensioners.
But he has reformed. Unde the new
pension law which gives a pension to
every honorably discharged eoldier who
Serve ninety days, when he reaches 60
years of age, MI. Ware is entitled to
ST. a month. In applying for 1T he
wrote that he had never expected to
ask this pension, but that there was
a little girl in Topeka whose brother
was a soldier in the Philippines. and
is her ole support.
II am going to take this pension in
my own name because l can't get 1t in
her name" he wrote, and turn it over
to her"
Deputy Commissioners Davenport
promptly announced that this was the
best excuse he had yet observed for
Ware to write some verse and said
he would at once send the letter back
to the eX-commissioner, with the re-
quest thai the application and the ex-
PLANTATION be submitted in appropriate
rhyme and meter. Meanwhile there
Will be no delay about approving the
pension.
Apropos of the new pension act, 1t is
stated that the unwillingness of a large
number of well to do pensioners to have
their names published as such is re-
sponsible for the withdrawal of the rule
making public lists of persons as they
are placed on the rolls. This informa-
ton is now denied to the
Many thousands of rich men draw pen
s!ons. and among the people applying
ur er the new act 1T is said the major
tty>of new pensioners are of this class.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
MILLIONAIRE KILLS
HIS WIFE'S CREDIT,
PRINTS A NOTICE
John e. Dean Proposes to Curb
Extravaganza and Avoid
Future Spite Suits.

Chicago, April 1o.-The following adj
vertisement has appeared in the news
papers:
'.Notice-All merchants, traders, man
u~facturers, jewellers, dressmakers, mil
liners, dealers in any line, including
hotel keepers, are notified not to sell
or deliver any goods in their line to any
person for which they may expect me
to pay the bill. without my written con-
sent, as l shall decline to do SO.
John E. Dean"
Mrs. John E. Dean. wife Of a mil
lionaire resident of the MetropoIe hotel
and a leader in exclusive society, stands
today without any more credit than the
wife of an humble 81. 900 clerk.
If Mr.. Deans effort has been success
full. her name has beer stricken from
the creditors list of every State street
department store and Cancelled by jew
elers. florists, dressmakers and millin-
erS.
Her husband has accomplished this
through the want ad" column. level
ing Mrs. Dean and his two daughters,
Misses Marion and Evelyn, with the
wife of the man who warns creditors
that this day my wife, having left my
bed and board, ETC."
High society sat up in establishment
at the notice 1aunted through the
newspapers.
Mr.. Dean, a retired real estate man.
apparently does not intend to have
n more suits against him like that
for a $1,000 fur Jacket bought by Mrs.
Dean at a State street department
store, and for which she refused to
pay.
While the whole family is denied
| credit In this remarkable notice. the
warning is believed to apply only to the
Wife.
"The purchase of an expensive fur
garment by Mrs. Dean and other pur-
chases which were charged to Mr.. Dean
led him to publish the notice., said
Mrs. Dean-Wood. lit virtually applies
to Mrs. Dean alone, as l and my sis
tiers have Independent allowances. The
notice was adopted by our father as
the best e of curbing general ex-
travagance and of bringing all charge
accounts to his notice"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
.HE|RESS Who RUNS
AWAY, HOME AGAIN,
DUE TO A TRICK
Guardian Kidnaps Miss McClan.
ahan From Train, Taking
Her to New Canaan.

Stamford. Conn, April 1o.-Miss Giles
Gamble McClanahan. the eccentric
heiress of William Mechanism, of
New York, who ran away from the
Mechanism homestead in New Ca
man., accompanied by her nurse. Miss
No. BIT East Eighty-sixth street. New
York. and Dora Teeth, Of New Canaan,
wv girl friends, has been taken back
to New Canaan.
Just as soon as Miss McClanahan
and her friends got to New York they
called on Attorney H. A. Herold, of No.
1876 Broadway. Miss McClanahan asked
the lawyer to do something to rid her
OF the restraint under which she was
held. She desired to have control of
her estate and said she was competent
to manage 1T.
Attorney Herold called DR.. c. II.
Scoville, her conservator, by telephone,
and the physician went to New York,
where he had a long interview with
Mr.. Herold. After the interview DIR.
Scoville employed detectives to locate
Miss McClanahan. They found her and
arranged with the nurse to take Miss
McClanahan on a trip into Connecticut
Miss Mechanism and the nurse
boarded an express train at the Grand
Central station late last night. DR..
Scoville, who was on the train, kept
his eyes On Miss McClanahan and just
as soon as the train crossed the New
York state line he took a seat near
her.
At Stamford, the New Canaan
branch train was on a siding waiting
to pull out. and before Miss McClana-
han realized what was happening she
was hustled aboard it and taken to
New Canaan. She is now being held
under strict guard. DR.. Scoville, it is
understood, will apply to the probate
court for her commitment to a sani-
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