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BODY FOUND IN TRUNK.
Grewsome Security Left by Roomers
for Unpaid Room Rent.

New York, MAY IS. Three weeks
ago Mrs. Annie Sherer rented n of
her rooms to two unknown men. When
last Wednesday the rent was not
forthcoming. the dodgers, both Greeks,
told her that she was amply secured
by their well filled trunk. The follow
ing morning the men disappeared, and
Yesterday the trunk was broken open.
To the horror of Mrs. ShereT il was
found to contain the badly decomposed
body of a man believed 10 have been a
priest of the Greek church.
Later the body vas identified as
that of Rev. Father Kaspar Of the Ar
menian Apostolic church Of Hoboken,
n. j.
The police think Il possible that the
body was shipped here from Chicago
by express. and the authorities OF that
CITY have been ASKED to follow
clue, based on a meal ticket also found
in the trunk. Because of the condi-
ton OF the body, the manner of death
vas not Immediately apparent roi-
lowing an autopsy at the moreue TWO
men were arrested on suspicion.
Death Due TO Suffocstion.
The autopsy developed that the neck
had been broken, as had n arm.
Coroner's Physician Leblanc declared,
however. that death was due to SUMO
cation. The internal organs were con-
sssted. and Or. Leblanc gave II as his
opinion that the man was thrust into
the trunk while alive and the cover OF
the trunk held down until death. en-
sued. The condition of the organs
was found to be similar TO those In
cases OF asphyXiation.
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Criminal.

Four cracRsmen blew the safe Of the
Winnebaso City (Neb) bank, getting
away with money and securities worth
$4,000.
Carlo Clardi, who was convicted in
Ithaca. n. Y, of the murder of Luigi
Porzi on Nov. 80, 1904, was ]electrocu-
ted in Auburn prison.
Clyde Fitch, a negro, charged with
a~ssaulting a ten-year-old negro girl at
C~hickasha, /. T., was tried by a jury
of negroes and sentenced 10 the peni-
Tertiary for life.
Fearing that he was about to lose
his sanity. Herbert Sanders, a wealthy
retired farmer neal Charles City, Iowa,
committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid and paris green.
Edward Manning, proprietor Of a
restaurant at Portland, Mich, was
murdered while on his way home from
his establishment. He was shot in the
back. Robbery was evidently the mo-
tive of the crime.
A. A. McGehee shot and killed Geo.
Oyler, aged twenty-one, son OF a
prominent merchant at Southwest
City, Mo. Oyler had been keeping
company with McGehee's daughter
against the fathers wishes.
Ralph Beard, twenty-one years old,
committed suicide at Bonaparte, Iowa,
by shooting himself through the head
with a revolver. He told several OF his
young friends that he intended to kill
himself. but they thought he was jest
ing and made no effort TO stop him.
II. p. Axelberg, an expert account
ant, has just finished going over the
accounts OF Former Secretary Fred C..
Wells of the school board of Iron
River, and alleges that more than s4,-
900 was secured during the Wells re-
gime by forged orders and other
forms of crookedness and graft.
Two hundred Purdue students broke
up the performance in a circus side
show at Lafayette, Ind, and afterward
gathered TO make an assault on the big
show. A skirmish with circus en-
ployes followed, in which anumber Of
the students were badly battered up.
No serious injuries were reported.
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A passenger train crashed into a
traction car at Cincinnati. One man
was killed and two were seriously in
iured.
The Jermyn Breaker No. 2 OF Old
Forge was completely destroyed by fire
at Scranton. Pa. The loss is about
$4,000.
Mrs. ". V. Tyrell was instantly kill.
ed in Rice township, near Leon, Iowa,
by the upsetting of a buggy in which
she vas riding.
A terrific and destructive electrical
storm passed over Menominee, Mich,
doing considerable damage I'm the
country districts.
ditch near Hillsboro. Ga, and twenty
three persons were injured, none, it IS
reported, seriously.
While bear hunting near Neihart,
Mont. John G%ovander, a miner, was
accidentally shot by one of his COM
panions and probably fatally wounded.
Frank Ellgeyer OF Greenwood, Mich,
was struck in the eye with a pitch
fork, infiicting eve injuries. He is
in a critical condition at the hospital.
Two children Of John Goodlin were
~suffocated at Scott Haven, ear
Greensboro, A lamp left in the room
where the children were sleeping had
exploded, setting fire to the furnish
ings.
Five fatalities have occurred in
mines at Nesaunee, Mich, the past
fortnight. the latest being James Mar
ga and Frank Livere, killed by falling
ground in the Cambria property of the
Republic Iron and Steel company.
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4 REDUCTION IS DEMANDED
WHOLE QUESTION OF SLEEPING
CAR RATES WILL BE OPEN.
ED UP.

Washington, May GA definite ef-
fort was begun yesterday before the
interstate commerce commission TO
secure to the public a reduction in the
rates charged by the Pullman compa~
nv for its sleeping car accommoda-
tons. This is the first time in the
history of the commission that a pro-
ceeding has been brought against the
Pullman company.
Three complaints were filed against
the Pullman company and various
Northwestern railroads that are made
c~o-defendants by George s. Lotus OF
St. Paul, Mimi.
Charges Are Unjust.
Mr.. LOTUS AYERS that. in the course
of his business, he is obliged TO travel
from st, Paul to various other points
and to use the accommodations of the
Pullman company. The charges for
the accommodation, he declares, are
unjust. unreasonable and excessive,
and he asks that the commission re-
duce them.
At the Offices of the commission the
complaints. which are brought under
the most recent act of congress on
the subject of rates. are regarded as
of importance in that they will open
up the whole question Of sleeping car
rates. not only on the lines mentioned
specifically in the complaint, but
throughout the country.
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EMPEROR MAKES REPLY.
Cares Not for Life IL Russia Has
Glory, Peace and Prosperity.

st. Petersburg. May &c. Emperor
Nicholas. in reply to the message Of
the council of the empire expressing
Its congratulations OF his escape from
death as a result of the recent terror
list plot. has telegrsphed to that body
as follows:
81 heartily thank the council of the
empire for the expression of its senti-
ments. | am convinced that the coun-
Gil will be of real assistance TO me in
its work. AS for my life, it is not
precious 10 me, provided Russia lives
in glory, peace and prosperity"
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People Talked About.

Miss Lulu CHASER, the actress. and
Ralph C. Herr, an actor, were married
Mt the Little Church Around the Cor
ner in New York.
Charles Frederick Cutler OF Morris
town, N. j., president OF the New York
Telephone company, died suddenly Of
heart disease az the Saranac Inn, Sar.
nae Lake.
John A. O'Keefe, one OF the best
known building contractors in the
West, died in Omaha of heart failure.
He built many hundred miles Of West
ern railroads.
Erysipelas caused the death OF DR..
Frank l.. James of st. Louis, who was
one Of the experts in the ''embalmed
beef" investigation during the Span
iBh-American a
Joseph III. Berry, n OF Detroit's
leading capitalists and a well known
varnisb manufacturer, is dead. He was
sixty-eight years old and had been
suffering from a complication Of dis
~
Arnold Moldauer, for twenty-five
years one OF the first violips in the
Boston symphony orchestra, and a
member Of the Adamowski quartet
from its organization, died in Boston
following an operation.
James X. Wood. United States dis
trict attorney, a prominent figure in
the Noyes-McKenzie cialm.jumping
scandals in Alaska, is dead at Nome.
Wood was the man from whom Rex
Beach drew his character OF Strive in
'The Spoilers"
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Domestic.

Homer Williams of Menominee,
Mich. caught a sturgeon in a pound
net that weighed 100 pounds and meas
ured six feet in length.
May Irwin, the coincidence, has ON
fded 10 her friends in New York that
she is about TO marry Kurt Eisfelt,
her manager for the last two seasons.
Fifty-two cadets were summarily
expelled from the Blees military acad-
emy al Fort Blees, near Macon. Mo-,
became of INSTRUMENTATION resulting
from the efforts of the authorities TO
break up secret societies.
Contracts were signed by the city
officials OF Menominee, Mich, and Vari-
GUS contractors whereby the city will
expend $4,000 for municipal i'm
provements, principally street work,
during the present season.
A request for an advance OF 10 per
cent in wages will be served on all
mill n In Rhode Island who have
not already signifed their intention
Of following the lead OF Fall River and
New Bedford in advancing wages.
Bishop Berry of the Methodist
church, president OF the Epworth
league, in a sermon in Philadelphia,
said Methodists must relax their disci-
pline and permit dancing and card
playing.
Maj. Edwin II. Conger. former Uni
ted States minister to Chine and am
bassador to Mexico during the early
part OF President Roosevelt's admin
istration, died at his home in Pasa-
dena. Cal. from acute intestinal
trouble. He was sixty-four years old.
The immigrant faces an increase in
steerage rates from Europe within six
weeks, when the United States law in
creasing the head tax from 81 to "a
for every alien entering the country
goes into effect.
Mayer Busse OF Chicago. In an at
tempt to "renovate" the "tenderloin"
district Of Chicago. made the most
sweeping change ever made in the 10.
| cal police department. He transferred
| the entire police force in the district
from captain down. embracing FAC
men.~to other parts Of the city and a..
pointed other meA.
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etery. which holds the body of her
husband, until the completion of the
national mausoleum on Monument
hill, when both baskets will be trans
ferred to receptacles in that tomb.
Condolences Pour In.
From numerous friends of the de-
ceased, Mrs. Barber last evening re-
Ceived kilograms of coincidence on the
death of her sister. Among them were
kilograms from President Roosevelt
and Vice President Fairbanks.
Mrs. McKinley's life Of almost sixty
years had been made familiar to the
nation by the fact that for over thirty
years she was an invalid.
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KILLS WIFE AND SELF.
Man Beats Wife to Death With Chair
and Cuts Own Throat.

Philadelphia, May 26. - Peter Nc
Ginnis, aged forty-eight years, and his
wife Bridget, aged thirty-eight years,
were found dead in their home in the
lower section of the city yesterday,
the man with his throat cut and his
wife with her skull crushed. The po-
lice say that McGinnis beat his wife to
death with a chair and later cut bis
throat. His body was found lying
across that of his wife. The couple
has not been seen by neighbors since
Tuesday. when they were guarreling.
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MUST GALL ANOTHER VENlRE.
Hard to Find Men Qualified to Act as
Jurors at Boise

Boise, May 26.-The second special
venire of talesmen in the S~teunenberg
murder case is proving barren of meR
qualified to act as jurors, and unless
the form shown by the first half
dozen of them is completely reversed
in the second half. another special
venire must be summoned. The first
half of this venire has yielded only
one man who actually qualified and
only one more man who may qualify.
The rest went down in succession Of
fixed opinion or bias of various forms.
Only twenty-siX of this venire remain
to be summoned, and on the assump
ton that all p~eremptory challenges
will be used, seven more jurors must
be found.
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attending physicians noted when dis
solution came.
There was no struggle-no pain.
Mrs. Mckinley I've knew of the ef-
forts made for days TO prolong her
life, nor of the solicitous hope against
hope of her sister and other relatives
for her recovery
At the Mckinley home when death
came, there were present Mr.. Cor
telyou. Mr.. and Mrs. Nj. c. Barber,
Mrs. Sarah Duncan. Mrs. Luther Day,
Justice and Mrs. William r. Day, Drs.
Portmann and RiXey and the nurses.
Vitality Was Wonderful.
Mrs. Mckinley lived hours longer
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WOULD PUT TRUST
OUT OF BUSINESS
GOVERNMENTS WAR ON STAND"
ARD OIL is OPENED UP IN
ST. PAUL.
HEARING ON THE EXCEPTIONS
KELLOGG DEFENDS POINTS MADE
IN TIE COMPLAINT OF THE
GOVERNMENT,

81. Paul. May 26.-An important le-
aal battle in the governments war
against the Standard Oil monopoly
was fought yesterday in the United
States circuit court sitting in 81. faul.
The bill Of exceptions TO the govern
pent's complaint was argued before
he four Judges of the Eighth judicial
rircuit. the arguments lasting a little
'ess than tour hours. The judges,
Sanborn. Hook, Van Devanter and
dams. took the matter under advise
cent. and there was no intimation as
20 when their decision vii! be handed
down.
While yesterdays hearing did not
necessarily go 20 the merits OF the
governments case. 1t was important
- bearing on the future conduct OF
he case.
Trusts Contentious.
II the Standard Oil attorneys are
sustained in their contentious, issue
will be Joined on allegations in the
Complaint which have 10 do only with
.cts Of the Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey. which was organized in
1S99 as a holding company TO succeed
he Standard Oil trust agreement,
which was declared Illegal and under
which the alleged illegal business OF
he Standard Oil group were carried
n from 1882 TO 1899. Neither will is
ne be joined on alleged illegal acts
rior TO 1882 of the thirty-nine oil
ompanies which in 1882 entered into
the trust agreement.
Governments Contention.
On the other hand, il the court sus-
tains the governments contention that
issues in the case shall not be limit
ed to acts OF the Standard Oil Compa.
nv of New Jersey, organized in 1899,
but that it is pertinent to show the
entire history of the illegal business
methods by which the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey secured a mo
nopoly of commerce, in violation OF
the common law prior TO the enactment
Of the Sherman antitrust law and in
violation of that law since its enact
ment. the next step will be the taking
of testimony on all allegations set
forth in the complaint. Counsel for
the government set up that the n
spiracy in restraint of trade did not
begin with the organization of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
in 1899, but that the conspiracy
Had It's Inception
back in 1870: that the conspiracy has
been a continuing ~offense, and that
every overt act, including the organi-
zation Of the Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey. in furtherance of the
conspiracy, is a renewal of the con
spiracy as TO all of the parties.
The government was represented at
Yesterdays hearing by Frank b. kel-
logg of ST. Paul. who made the only
argument on behalf OF the govern
ment: c. B. Morrison of Chicago and
Milton p. Purdy, assistant attorney
general. The attorneys representing
the Standard Oil company were John
G. Johnson of Philadelphia and John
G.. Milburn of New York.
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Grafton, n. d., May 26. - Sheriff
Hankey started for Davenport, Wash,
with Mrs. Nellie Brueeld, who has
been acting quserly for some time and
who wal brought before the insanity
board and declared insane. Her hus
band is living in Davenport.
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KILLED BY A HARROW.

Bow Falls In Fit Under Teeth Of Ma.
chine He Is Driving.
Eldora, Iowa, May 25.-Orvis Hitler,
eighteen years old, vas ground TO
leath under a harrow on his fathers
farm. The boy was driving a harrow
in the field and suddenly fell in q fit,
TO which he was subject. The horses
dragged the disc harrow over the
body. mutilating ii terribly.
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Hall Of the Jury Has neen selected
and Sworn In.
San Francisco. May 26.-Six OF the
twelve jurors who will try Mayor Ku-
gene Schmitz or the charge of extort-
ing money from keepers OF French
restaurants have been finally select
ed and sworn, and the prospect is
that the Jury will be completed by
the middle of next week.
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STEVENS NOT FOR ". p.

Without Foundation.
New York, May 26.-The New York
Tribune says II has learned from an
authoritative source that the report
that the presidency Of the Northern
Pacific Railway company has been OF.
fered to John F. Stevens. until rscent
ly chief engineer Of the Panama canal
commission, is without foundation.
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Mount Airy. N. c., May 26.-In Car.
roll county, Virginia. in a section of
the Blue Ridge mountains, Rev. Jo
seph Easter, a Dunkard preacher, was
last night awakened. called out of the
house and assassinated by some con
cealed person.
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Iowa FARMER Killed.

Iowa City, Iowa, May 2S. - Elmer
Pratt. a prominent Young farmer of
Johnson county, shot and killed W. F.
Connell, also a farmer, whose land adj
joins the Pratt farm. The murder is
the result of an old feud.
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rhree kiued on ! BRIDGE.

Morristown. Ind, May 2S. = Three
men were caught on a railroad bridge
over Blue river and killed. They were
sitting on the bridge, looking down
into the stream when a fast passenger
train bore down on them.
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Run ps,an in the Yards.

winona, Mimi. May IS. = Andrew
Gszell was run down while picking up
coal droppings neal the depot of the
st. Paul railroad. One foot was badly
crushed and cut. Amputation OF the
foot at the ankle may be necessary.
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No REVOLUTION In saIvador.

New York, May 25.-The Associated
Press has received the following ca
blegram from President Ffgueros OF
Salvador: THE report published I'm
the United States that a revolution
had brokeny out here is absolutely
false. The whole country is quiet"
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From b Shores.

Frost. rain and hail have done con-
siderable damage 10 the fruit and field
crops in Southwestern Germany.
The French government has C
ceeded in sidetracking the bill which
has been pending before parliament to
Increase the duties on American oil
seeds.
Sir Joseph Fayron, physician ex.
traordinary 10 King Edward. is dead.
He was born in 1924, served in the
army throughout the Indian mutiny
and retired as surgeon general.
The German Atlantic Cable company
has received a concession from the
Spanish government for a third cable
from Emden TO New York, using Tene-
rife, Canary islands, as an intermedi-
ate station.
j. Pierpont Morgan has purchased
IN Paris for more than 81, 000, 900 the
great Hoentscbel collection OF carv-
ngs, statuary and furniture, consider
ed by experts the greatest assembiage
Of objects of the applied arts and
crafts in the world.
Alarmed owe the brown tail moth
throughout Nova Scotia and the dan,
ger to agricultural business through.
out the province should the pest be-
phi general. the provincial govern
Eent has offered a bounty Of 3 cents
for each specimen of the moth Sc
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Fall From Train Kills.

.Centerville, Iowa, May 20. - Roy
Caster, son of Daniel H. Caster of this
city, was killed yesterday by falling
from a freight train on which he was
a brakeman.
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NINETEEN MARKED FOR DEATH,
Guilty of Completely in Attempt on
Life of President Cabrera.

Guatemala City, May 26-The court
martial that has been in session here
for three days trying persons charged
with completely in the attempt made
on the life Of President Cabrera in
this city on April 20, yesterday hand
ed down sentences of death in the
cases of nineteen Of the prisoners
These findings have created intense
excitement and popular feeling is sc
high that the carrying out of the sen
fences is doubtful.
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Two Die In Collision.

Grand Rapids, Mich, May 26.-Two
men lost their lives In a head-on COLI
sion on the Grand Rapids, Grand Ha-
ven & Muskegon Intcrurban line at
Celery Farm.
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GARY TO GET BIG PLANT.
Steel Corporation May Desert South
CHICAGO for New Location,

Chicago, May 26.-The Illinois Steel
company, employing more than 1000
men. supporting 10000 persons, and
operating a plant valued at between
$50, 0OO, 600 and $4,000, 900. may aban.
don South Chicago and become alb
sorbed in the mammoth steel plant in
process OF construction at Gary, Ind.
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Devaststes Wide Section.

AT Gibble Springs twenty or thirty
houses were wrecked. Two persons
were killed and a score injured. three
OF them fatally. The tornado devas-
tated a section OF growing land about
two miles wide.
At Emory four persons were killed
and many were injured and crippled,
some of whom will die. A large num-
Der of negroes were hurt. The ri
and cotton crops in the path OF the
storm were completely pulled up.
One OF the most severe rain and
electrical storms for many years
swept over North Texas. causing much
da nage to property. Three persons
were killed by lightning and several
we're injured. some OF them fatally.
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wsEckEas ARE Fooled.
Motorman Sees Rock on Track and
Fiaos Train.

rags tTdtU.
Booone. Iowa, May 2S.-An attempt
was made to wreck a fast train ON
the North-W Western road near here. A
rock weighing half a ton had been
loosened from a blum n thrown d.
rectly across the tracks. An interur-
ban line runs parallel with the tracks
ut this point, and Charles Cheney a
motorman, discovered the obstacle.
lie tagged the train in time TO pre-
vent a disastrous collision.
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DEATH COMES TO
MRS. M'MNLEY
WIDOW or MARTYRED PREst.
DENT PASSES AWAY PEACE.
FULLY.
10 Bt LAID BESIDE HUSBAND
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS
WILL ATTEND FUNERAL GER
EMoNIES.
BIZ LAID BESIDE HUSBAND

Canton, Ohio, May rs. Mrs. vii
liam Mckinley died yesterday after
at 1908. The transition from life
to death was so peaceful and gradual
that 1t was with difficulty that the
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than we expected" said the secretary.
Her vitality was wonderful" said
DR.. PortmaDn. II was by Secretary
Cortelyou hat the announcement OF
the demise was given TO the public.
As this was flashed over the land. VIII
liam Mckinley post and George ID.
Harter post, G. A. r.. were forming in
line. and TO the strains OF The March
Religiosa" went TO the First Methodist
Episcopal church TO listen TO the an
nual memorial address. which was
given by DR.. Buxton, Mrs. McKinley's
pastor.
Dr.. Buxton will have charge OF the
funeral services, which are 10 be sim
pie. They will be held at the Mckin-
ley home at 2 o'clock Wednesday aft
noon.
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TEXAS HAS
Storm Causes Much Destruction Of
Property and Crops,

TTUpeTty dHu CTops.
Fort Worth, Tex, May pa lorna
do swept a portion of Texas yesterday.
killing twelve persons and iniuring
scores. Many buildings were wrecked
and great damage was done to crops.
At Wills Point the tornado cut a
path 200 yards in width through the
entire town. Three persons were kin
ed and six seriously injured. The tor
nado came from the southwest, carry
ing with it portions of buildings and
other debris as If it were whirling
leaves. Dead horses, cattle and fowls
are scattered through the path of the
storm