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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
VALJEAN JANUARY FREE.
Was Released From Leavenworth
Prison TODAY

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. July 10
William January, alias Charles w Ander-
son, for whose pardon $4,000 persons petit
TONED, was released from the federal prison
here to-day Anderson returned to Kansas
CITY, where he will engage in business.
Anderson was convicted eleven years ago
OF robbing an Oklahoma post office, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for three
years. He escaped two years later, and
went to Kansas City, assumed the name
of Anderson and married. In April, this
year, an ex-convict, who had known jan
uary in the penitentiary, notified the war
den of the mans whereabouts, and he was
arrested and taken back to Leavenworth.
Owing to the exemplary life Anderson had
led in Kansas City, his neighbors started a
movement for his release. The newspapers
took up the case with the result that a petit
ton, which Is said to have contained the
largest number of signatures ever appended
to an appeal for pardon, was forwarded
TO Washington. President Roosevelt upon
recommendation of Attorney General Bona
parte, granted pardon, effective at the ex-
piratfon of three months from the time of
his rearrest. January has proved a model
prisoner. He says he will seek to have his
restored, and, If successful, will
then ask the courts to change his name to
Anderson for the protection of his wife and
child
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
Flood Damage in Kansas.
Prince Will Wed Again.

PARIS July 19.-Prince Robert De
Broglie, whose marriage a year ago in Chi
cago with Miss Estelle Alexander an Amer
lean, was yesterday declared void by the
French courts. will, in a few days, formally
notify his father, at whose instance the
marriage was annulled, of his intention to
remarry Miss Alexander under the French
law. This notice will be served through g.
notary
Under the law passed during the last
session of the chamber of deputies, modify
ing marriage procedure in France, Prince
Roberts free to marry at the end of thirty
days unless his father interposes an objec-
ton If this step is taken, however Prince
Robert must personally appear In court
and request permission to marry, and this
the court must grant him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
OYSTER BAY IS DISTURBED
Horde Is Now Moving Toward Saga
more Hill.
GARDEN S.
EXECUTIVE
Crop Failure Feared If the Pest Is Not
Checked-Reserveso Of Paris Green.
Plans for Defense.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OYSTER BAY Long Island N. Y, July
19-Sagamore Hill is excited today over
the news that the malicious army worm is
again on the rampage and moving straight
for the Presidents fine farm Just outside
the village. Fearful that the pest will Gre
ate the havoc with his fertile fields that the
San Jose scale lid a couple Of years ago.
Mr. Roosevelt gave orders to his superin-
tendent, Noah Seaman, to be prepared to
spray the lawns with a solution Of paris
green.
The worm first made it's appearance this
year In Huntington, Long Island, few
days ago in large numbers. and did con-
siderable damage. Lawns that were seeded
last spring have been completely destroyed
and garden stuff, particularly the growing
corn, will be a total loss. Yesterday the
worms were in Glen Cove, little to the
north of this village, and as they invari-
ably travel in southerly direction the Presi-
dent is very much alarmed that his place
will be visited next.
Fourteen acres Of vegetation surrounding
the beautiful country seat Of Leonard j..
The worms descended upon the place
in hordes, and ate every blade of grass
clean down to the roots. The discov .ry
was made too late to protect their ravages,
and on Sunday the ground was completely
covered with the insects. An expert advised
spraying with solution of paris green,
one pound to go gallons of water. The
plan worked well, and the worms are now
under control.
Roosevelt Unnerved.
The worm does not eat the roots Of the
vegetation on which it feeds and conse-
Quently the lawns are ruined only for one
season. Unlike the seven-year locusts the
army worm alights only in spots and no
one can tell what its line of march will be,
except that it travels only in one direction.
All the fagmers hereabouts are on the
alert and If the spraying does not prove
efficacious they will dig deep trenches
around the infected territory and flood
them with kerosene oil. The plan worked
well here when the worms last visited the
north shore of Long Island nine years ago
At that time they descended upon the
Pratt property near by and in one day ate
I'D an entire field Of wheat, leaving the
field as bare If reaper had been driven
over it. Twenty-seven years ago there was
a visitation of the plague which is still
remembered. On one side of the Landing
road every bit Of vegetation wa eaten.
while that on the opposite Sc was left
untouched, the worms not crossing the
road at all. The worms come from the
west and are found in the east every nine
years. They are Matched from a beetle
known as the Ambrosia
AS soon as he heard that the worm was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
MAY DETER MANY CANDIDATES
Task Set for Railway Employees in
Proposed Examination

The interstate commerce commission ha c
run against a difficulty in its requirements
for employees who are to be selected for the
commission according to the ratings of ap-
pncants who take the prescribed examina-
ton to be held by the civil service commits
sion August l. The commission desired to
test the familiarity of these applicants with
railroad methods Of keeping accounts and
also to secure suggestions for improvements
of such methods.
Accordingly among other tests of the fit
ness of applicants the commission called
for thesis treating of the following:
Describe fully and in all the details Of
the process, the accounting system of some
railroad company with which you are famiI-
lar, naming the company, in case 1t can
be done without improperly, and in such
description show ali the errors in account
ing which are found to arise in practice
and the methods of testing the accounting
and detecting and correcting the errors.
Discuss fully the waya IN which evasion
of the interstate commerce law has been
attempted and the various entries in the
books and their records and memoranda"
This portion of the examination has at
tracted considerable attention among rail-
road employees who are the chief ones who
will probably apply for the positions under
the Interstate commerce commission and
the question has arisen to the effect
of taking such an examination upon their
present positions with railroad companies.
The positions pay from 81 800 up, and as
there will probably be thirty-five or forty
chosen out of the several thousand appli
cants, the hazard in standing the examina-
ton, in the opinion of some railroad men.
rather outweighs the chance of securing
the place.
1t is feared that this phase of the exami-
nation will deter many of the best men who
might otherwise apply for the places from
standing the examination. This matter has
peen widely discussed in railroad circles,
ana IT Is questionable whether, in view of
the manner in which the questions to
be asked, there will be as large number
OF applicants was expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
MAGILL DEATH MYSTERY.
Daughter Of Accused Man Makes
Statement on Prosecution.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 19.-Margaret
Magill daughter Of Fred H. Magill of Clin-
ton. ILL.,, has made an explicit statement
In regard to the matter of her father and
stepmother on the charge of numbering
the first Mrs. Magill. Miss Magill says the
prosecution Is all spite work on the part
of an aunt who has always hated the first
Mrs. Magill. Miss Magill says she and
Fay Graham had always been chums and
that Fay Graham and Margaret's mother
were the best of friends.
Miss Magill positively Identifies sthe let
tiers purporting to have been written by
her mother as being in her mothers hand
writing. 1t is learned that Miss Magill has
been kept apart from her parents by order
of States Attorney Miller of Illinois, al
though her father has frequently expressed
q wish to see her since his arrest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
FLOODS WORK HAVOC
CYCLONE AND CLoUDBURsT CAME
TOGETHER.

ST. JOSEPH, No., July ia tornado
st. Joseph and vicinity last night. Houses
were wrecked, street railway tracks torn
out and cellars flooded. The family of Dan
Tel Riordan, one mile east Of the city, had
remarkable escape from death. The resi-
dence. two stories in height, was torn from
the foundation and completely demolished.
Riordan, his wife and three children had
taken refuge in the basement. They were
buried under debris, but the wind lifted the
house bodily from the foundation and none
Of the heavy timbers fell on them.
Scores of houses were washed from their
foundation in the city by the rain, which
amounted to a cloudburst. Sewers could
not carry off the water, and raging tor
rents flowed through the outlying parts of
the city. In Brookdale, a low-lylng suburb.
many families were driven from their
homes by water which reached the windows
on the first floor. A dozen residences were
struck by lightning, but no fatalities are re-
ported. The home of Frederick Shoemaker,
storm. was struck by lightning twice and
several persons stunned. In the farming
sections east of the city crops were leveled
and the loss will be heavy.
Flood Damage in Kansas.
KANSAS CITY, July 19.-Further heavy
rains north of here last night caused the
Missouri river at Kansas City to continue
to rise, and the cellars in two dozen
wholesale houses in the west bottoms were
partially flooded this morning. Truck gar
dens at Quindaro, on the outskirts O. KAN
sas City, Kan, have been flooded, causing
damage estimated at $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
WRECK KILLED TWO.
Train Crew Misunderstood, With
Usual Result

BETHLEHEM, Pa, July 1s-In head
on collision on the New Jersey Central
railroad today between east and west
bound freight trains fireman was killed
and an engineer was injured so badly that
he died a half hour later. The wreck oc-
CURED at Freemansburg. three miles from
here and Is said to have been caused
by one crew misunderstanding the dis
patchers orders at Mauch Chunk Harry
J. Miller of Mauch Chunk, aged twenty
five years, fireman on the west-bound
train was crushed between the engine and
tender and was roasted to death by es-
Gaping steam. l. d. Miller of Phillipsburg,
n. j., engineer of the east-bound train,
jumped and sustained such serious inju-
ries that he died while being taken to a
hospital. Five other trainmen had mar
row escapes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
K|MbALL SAYS JAIL
FOR HANDBOOK MEN
Judge Is on Record as Favoring
Severest Penalty.
SYLVESTER GIVES SUPPORT
Active Police Campaign Against
Gambling on Races.
UP TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Assistant Awaits Return of MI. Baker
Before Committing Office to Policy
Regarding Practice of Allowing
Forfeiture Of Collateral.
HANDBOOKS MUST GO
THE LAWS DEMAND.

Section 500. Pool selling,
etc.-It shall be unlawful for
any person or association of
persons iii the cities of Wash
ington and Georgetown, in the
District of Columbia. or with
in said District within one
mile of the boundaries of said
cities, to bet, gamble or make
books or pools on the result of
any trotting race or running
race OF horses, or boat race,
or race OF any kind. or on any
election or any contest of any
kind, or game of base ball.
Any person or association OF
persons violating the provisions
of this section shall be fined
not exceeding $500 or be i'm
prisOned not more than ninety
days, or both.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
DAMAGING TO THE PRISONER
Lieut.. Molitor Tells of Finding Poison
in Handbag.
THE INTERVIEW IN THE PRISON
Statement From the Accused - Pa
thetic Recital of Wife's Death
Failed to Move Him.

KARLSRUHE, July 19.-The third day OF
the trial of Karl Hau, who is accused of
the murder of his mother-in-law, Frau
Molitor. at Baden-Baden, the 9Th Of last
November, brought climax of dramatic
interest at the morning session.
Testimony was given by the sisters and
brothers of Hau's wife, who has committed
suicide since the Incarceration of her hus-
band, and the letters she wrote just before
taking her life, together with the statement
made by Hau after his last interview with
his wife in jail, June 7, were read in court
Lieut.. Molitor, who Is stationed at Metz,
swore he suspected Hau Immediately he
heard of the murder of his mother. His
explanation of the dispatch sent to Frau
Molitor by Hau from Paris was that his
mother, as Hau knew, was easily agitated
and excited over bad news. The accused
therefore sent the message saying her
daughter Olga was dangerously Ill, in the
hope that its receipt would cause a stroke
of apopleXy.
Describing his talks with the late Mrs.
Hau, his sister, after her return from
London, the lieutenant said his sisters first
theory was that some enemy of Hau's had
killed her mother in order to throw
picion on her husband. 1t fell to the lieu
tenant to explain to HIS sister all the cir
cumstances of the case pointing to the
guilt of her husband, and this recital, he
said, finally convinced her that Karl was
the murderer.
Hau Took the Funds.
She broke down completely and groveled
on the floor in her struggle against convic-
ton, but finally yield I'd to the evidence
At her request the lieutenant cabled to
Washington asking If hi: sisters patrimony
of $4,000 was still in the Union Trust
Company. The answer he received was
that Hau had drawn all this money. Mrs.
Hau said her husband. had repeatedly as
sured her that this money was still intact
In the trust company. After his sister be-
came convinced that her husband was
guilty she sent q cablegram to her hus-
bands counsel in London saying she was
no longer able to maintain his innocence.
,, The lieutenant next described his trip to
Zurich to take possession of the papers left
by his sister after her suicide. He found
poison In her handbag. and assumed that
waters Of the lake. where she met her
death otherwise he could not explain the
suddenness of her ending as Lima Molitor
was an excellent swimmer.
She left a letter addressed to the police
saying the reasons for her act were easy
to guess-her mother had been murdered
and her husband, the man she had lived
above all else In the world, was said to be
the murderer Death is bitter" the I'M
fortunate woman wrote, because of my
little daughter"
Hysterical Attack.
DR.. Dietz, counsel for Hau, then asked the
court to rePd letter which Mrs. Hau had
written him from Zurich regarding her last
interview with her husband, which took
place in prison June z Mrs. Hau wrote this
interview was rather unsatisfa DRY and ex-
Continued on Second Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
Shopping by Mail.

out-of-town readers Of The Star
may shop with any Of WashInston's
leading stores by mall. Look over
today's Star and order some article
by mall from any Of the following
stores having advertisements Of bar
gains In today's paper, and who will
guarantee satisfaction to any out
of-town person ordering by mall:
WOODWARD & LoTHRoP
PALAIS ROYAL
GoIDENBERGS
LANSeURGH & BRO.
HEIGHT & co.
S. KAHN, SONS & co.
WIN. HAHN & co.
PARKER, BRIDGET & co.
SAkS & COMPANY
CHARLES KAUFMAN
-. & w. EISEMAA
MERIT & MERTZ
BON MARCHE
KINGS PALACE
FAMILY SHOE STORE
MAYER & CO.
EISEMAN BROS.
Pick out some bargain advertised
today and send for It at once. 1t Is
easy and perfectly safe. Try It, and
mention The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
w1LK1Ns-w1LsoN MARRIAGE.
Westerner Will Marry a Washington
Girl.

Special Dispatch to The Star
PITTSBURG, July 19.-Capt. ]. d. Will
kins. member Of an old Pittsburg family,
passed through Pittsburg en- route to
Washington to marry the granddaughter
of civil war veteran. Capt. Wilkins halls
from Oklahoma, where he has been sta
TONED for number of years with the
United States artillery. He has been in
the service for upward Of twenty-five
years. The bride to be is Miss Gladys Will
son.
Capt. Wilkins has secured a two months
leave or absence and with his bride will
tour the eastern states. He is q direct
descendant Of Judge Wilkins, after whom
the town of Williamsburg was named. The
family Is wealthy. Miss Wilson's acouaint-
ance with Capt Wilkins began years ago
when he was in Washington on official
business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
8, PURE FOOD CONGRESS.
Topics Discussed at Yesterdays Ses-
sion at Jamestown.

NORFOLK, Va, July 19.-Further dis
cussions bearing on uniform standards,
state and federal. and other important sub
jects. were features at today's session of
the national pure food congress at the
jamestown exposition.
The program of the day includes ad-
dresses by State Dairy. Food and Oil Com
missioner A. F. Hit Of Boise, Idaho; Dr.
M. A. Scovell, director Kentucky agricul-
tural experimental station; J. Q. Emery and
DR.. Richard Fischer Of the Wisconsin dairy
and food commission: Miss Alice Lakey OF
Crawford, N. j., chairman food investiga-
ton committee National Consumers
League, and J. B. Noble, state dairy and
food commissioner Of Connecticut.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
Pedlar Palmer Sentenced.

LONDON, July 19.-"Pedlar' Palmer, the
tnshsh pugilist, has been sentenced to five
years penal servitude for having caused
the death of Robert Choat, a gashouse
stoker of Deptford.
Choat's body was found in a railroad car
from EPSON after the races. Palmer is al
legged 10 have struck Choat several blows
because he refused TO stop singing when
requested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19

Judge Ivory G.. Kimball of the
United States branch OF the Police
Court says he will impose Jail SEN
fences upon men convicted of max
ing handbooks on the races; Mai.
Richard Sylvester, superintendent of
the police department, says he will
exert his best efforts to arrest every
person engaged in the business, and
Prosecuting Attorney Given
has increased the amount of bond TO
be required in handbook cases to
$1,000. These are the encouraging
developments today in the answer
to the demand that the most popular
and practically open form OF gam
bling in the District shall cease. Mr..
Given, in the absence of District At
torney Baker, whose assistant he
is, declines to discuss the future pol
icy of his office toward the practice
of allowing the forfeiture of collat-
eral by the men charged with vio-
lating the law against pool selling.
The arrest OF one man yesterday is
followed today by his demand for
jury trial, which means weeks of de
lay. Meanwhile the making of hand
books continues, but with the assist
ance OF Judge kimball and Mai.
Sylvester and the cooperation OF
the district attorneys Office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19

ST. PETERSBURG, July 19.-Nothing is
known here of the report published in a
London newspaper yesterday in the shape
of a dispatch from Vienna (and also cabled
to the United States that wholesale mas
sacre of Jews had occurred at Skonitz in
Russian Poland, near the Austrian frontier
Furthermore, in reply to a query, the cor
respondent at Warsaw of the Russian tele-
graph agency declares there has been no
anti-Jeytsh outbreak in the Polish prov
inceS Of Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
VIEWS OF FOREIGNERS.
Speculation Rife as to Origin of the
Abdication Idea.

TOXIC, July 19.-Speculation is rife
among foreigners here as to the origin of
the idea of pressing the abdication OF the
Emperor of Korea. 1t is definitely known,
however, that Marquis Ito was only a silent
spectator of the event, and that the idea
originated with the premier, Marquis Salon
H. strongly supported by the ministers OF
agriculture and justice. both of whom
are strongly In favor of life of exile in
Japan for the retired emperor
Some thought that blood must be shed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
Ethiopia On Fire.

GLASGOW. July ia fire was discov-
cred today on board the Anchor Line steam
ship Ethiopia, now in this port. 1t started
in the forepeak. The vessel sustained 81 500
damages before the flames were extin-
guished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19
The Handbook Will Go.

In statement to a Star reporter today
At the Police Court, Judge Ivory G. Kim
ball declares against the bandbooks OF the
city. and announces that his policy has
been and is to send the convicted book
makers to jail Judge Kimbau takes the
same view as that taken by Mai Sylvester
IN his statement IN Wednesdays Star, de-
claring that fines are no punishment to the
handbook men.
MY policy. "a announced from the bench
on more than one OCCASION" said Judge
Kimball. has been to send persons con-
victed of making handbooks on the races
10 jail; and l have not changed my mind
or my policy up to the present time. That
policy ! have carried out in all the hand
book cases which have been brought be-
fore me: and 1 announce now that. when
the evidence in handbook cases brought
before me is strong enough to convict the
defendants, I shall most certainly give the
bookmaker absolute jail sentence.
Jail Sentences Needed.
I'm the Mattern case which was tried be-
fore me. | announced my policy from the
months. In my report 10 the President OF
the United States, through the Attorney
General when an application for a pardon
was made, l stated that thought jail SEN
fences were necessary in the handbook
cases A fine is merely a license fee for
those men, whether they be hackers or
runners If the runners are caught the
packers pay the fine"
How about the evils of the handbooks
ard the extent to which they flourish: do
you want to say anything about the the
Judge was asked.
mo. everybody knows that" replied the
judge.
Prosecuting Attorney Ralph Given, at the
Police Court. still refuses to state what the
future policy % the prosecutor will be- as
10 the handbook cases, whether the de-
PENDANTS will still be allowed to forfeit COL
lateral on first offeuses or whether they will
be forced to trial. Mr.. Given says District
Attorney Baker is out of the city on a
short trip and that he does not care to say
ANYTHING until that official returns.
Meanwhile the police have presented an
other defendant to the Police Court for
trial. The defendant is Bert Myers, a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-19

abroad the President carefully examined
his farm. but found no trace of It.
Its the only thing that | ever knew the
president TO be afraid Of" remarked
Superintendent Seaman, who accompanied
him.