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The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25
ISABEL GOMEZ >
TRIED TO DIE
BY INK ROUTE

Isabel Gomez tried 10 commit suicide
this morning at her home. 2l9 Wickenden
street. by swallowing a bottle of ink.
She drank the fluid in front of her three
children, who gave the alarm, and she
was removed to the Rhode Island hospi-
tai
She will recover. Jealousy is said TO
have prompted the act.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25
CHICAGO GRAIN AND WHEAT

Chicago, June 2-The market opened
quiet. small business in wheat. also little
doing in corn. Bradstreets report wheat
available east Of Rockies, decrease IBIS
900 bushels: Canada. decrease, 1.077000
bushels; United States and Canada, de-
crease, 1886. 600 bushels. Anoat and ex-
ported. decrease 10000 bushels. World Is
decrease 1895 900 bushels. Corn in United
States decrease 1901 600 bushels. oats in
United States. decrease 602,OW bushels.
Futures were selling as follows:
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25
opIy one appoMo arINsNE,

That is LAXATIVE BROMo Quinine.
Similarly named remedies sometimes
deceive, The first and original Cold
Tablet is a WHITE PACKAGE with
black and red lettering, and bears the
signature OF Il. w. GROVE Csc.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25
LIVERPOOL COTTON

Liverpool, June 25.--The market opened
firm today The demand for spot cotton
was quiet. prices firm; 700 bales OF mid
dlings selling for III. or these $500 bales
were American. The receipts were 5000
bales. OF these 7400 bales were American.
Futurea were selling as follows:
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25
FINANCIAL
new YORK STOek MARKET

Reported for The News-Democrat over
the private wire OF LEWIS III. TAPPAN
& 90. Bankers and Brokers. Banigan
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25
Fire Record

Utica. N. Y. June &.-The plant OF the
Iitica Drop Forge and Tool company WAS
destroyed by ere tSiE morning. causing
loss OF t2ooOOO.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25

ED.-ExPERIENCED TWIST
er tenders on cotton yarn. either male or
female. Apply AT Ballou Yarn Co. 1S9
Charles street, City. j25-1w .
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25

FoUND-BosToN SCREW TAIL. 50
Alverson avenue. 125-3t
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-25

Eight rooms, all pinstered and nueiv
nnishcdj open plumbing, hath and see
tubs, cellar. PRICE REAsONABLH
Apply or address O. Exchange Place.
Providence.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
RATE HEARING IN MINNESOTA
Judge LOchren, at st, Paul, VIII De-
termine Right for Prelim-
mary Injunction.

ST. PAUL, Mimi. Sept. 3.-Judge William
I.ochren in the United States district court
TODAY began hearing the argument in the
matter of the application of the stockhold-
ers of the railroads operating in Minnesota
for temporary Injunction restraining the
state from attempting TO enforce the COM
modify rates contained in law passed oy
the legislature last winter. and the 2-cen'
Messenger rate law, and also the merchan-
disc rates ordered by the railroad commls-
sion last year.
The hearing today is an application for a
temporary injunction pending the maj
Judgment Some time ago Attorney General
n r Young entered a motion for the dis
r,issal of the suit as against him on the
ground that the suit was In fact against
tbe state and hence was in violation OF the
constitutional provision eXempting the state
from being sued without its consent. IN
motion Judge I.ochren denied and the case
roU, comes up on the question of the lssu-
ance Of the preliminary injunction. On TINS
hearing Il devolves upon the complainants
-, n,aEe out a prima facie case. At1da-
Wits were presented for the purpose OF
showing the court that the merits of the
case are such that they have reasonable
probability OF winning in the end. The
hearing now is on the suflcency of the
prima facie showing to entitle them TO
the preliminary injunction. The question OF
the right OF the state to regulate rates on
traffic is purely within the state involved
in these cases Is the same question which
is now being fought out in the courts In
other states.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
BUILD TORPEDO DESTRoYERs
Bids Opened at Navy Department for
Five Vessels of This
Class.

WASHINGTON Sept 3.-Bids were
opened at the Navy department today for
. struction of five torpedo boat de-
1nder the terms of the naval ap-
acts Of 1905 and 1901. The limit
st was fixed at $4,000 for each
no bidder was authorized to re-
acts for more than two
sense the designs of these new
ppear to be reactionary, for the
mas .um speed required is placed at
twcnty-eight knots per hour. whereas some
of the boats constructed several years ago
were obliged to show a trial speed of over
thirty knots. But the new boats are eN-
pected to be much more serviceable craft
than the early types. They represent sew
eral years experience in the hardest kind
of torpedo boat drills and cruises for our
own little fiotillas have made worlds rec
ords in long distance voyages, and their
commanders invariably reported in favor
of structural strength, stability and coal
endurance. as against the high speed. So
the efforts in this case has been to plan a
type of boat that will have great seagong
power on limited displacement of 100
tons.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
LATINS STILL DISSATISFIED
American Proposal Relative to Col
lection of Debts is Practically
Approved.

THE HAGUE. Sept 3.-The latest sug-
gestion of the American delegation to the
peace conference made to the Latin-Amer-
ican countries regarding the proposition to
establish a permanent international high
court of justice at The Hague, is that the
conference select fifteen TO twenty-five
electors who shall elect the judges.
Even this does not find favor with the
Latin-Americans, Senior Esteva. head of
the Mexican delegation, and DR.. Ruy Bar
boza. the leader of the delegates from
Brazil, showing special opposition to it.
Senior Esteva thinks the project does not
sufficiently guarantee the rights and SOW
ereignty of the countries represented.
General Porters proposal for the collec-
tion of contractural debts, which is a mod
ification OF the first American proposition
on the subject. and principally intended to
do away with the reservations made when
the first proposal was put to a vote, was
today practically unanimously approved by
the committee of examination.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN VESSELS
OLD OFFICERS REELECTED
Rural Letter Carriers, Aasocia,ion
Closes Successful Meet at
Grand Island.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb.. Sept s.-(Spe-
cial 1.-THE second annual meeting of tho
Rural Letter Carriers association of Ne
oraska came to close last evening at the
court house, a very successful meeting
having been held. The morning session
was taken up by preliminary organization.
addresses of welcome, etc. The visitol .
were entertained at dinner as the guests
of the city by the ladies of the Trinity
Methodist Episcopal church. f. II. Cum.
ningham past president. addressed the as
sembly on 'The Good of the Order" urR-
ing them all to get all rural carriers In
the state into the organization and that
there be a county organization in every
county. The present officers were re-
elected: S. r. Rowland of Juniata presi-
dent; Mr.. Helmck of Waco, secretary; Mr..
Talbot of Table Rock, vice president, and
c. b. Barber of Stromsburg, treasurer.
Mr. Talbot was elected delegate to the ma
tional convention. with Mrs. Ruth Keny on
Of York as alternate. York was chosen as
the place to hold the next convention.
The delegate to the national convention
was instructed to vote against old line in
surance for the rural carriers. Resolutions
felicitating the organization upon the i'm
provement of the service and expressing
thanks to the department at Washington
instrumental in securing an increase in
salary and thanking the senators OF Ne
braska for their assistance also thanking
the local authorities for their kind well
come and entertainment, were passed.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
MooRS DISPERSED BY FRENCH
Serious Engagement UBfavOrable 10
Tribesmen Takes Place Near
CasabIanca.

PARIS, Sept. 3.-Admiral Philibert,
cabling yesterday, reports that serious
engagement occurred on Sunday near Casa
blanca. when a large force of Moors OF the
Taddert and Mzab tribes was dispersed by
the French troops. The French cruisers
Gloire and Gueydon participated in the
action, firing sixty shells. -Four French
soldiers were wounded. The fanatics showed
extreme recklessness. but eventually re-
tired under repeated, sweeping charges of
the French and the terrific bombardment
of the artillery.
The lighting was started by the Arabs
attacking a reconnoitering party which
General Drude had sent out, and which
were reinforced by NE. companies of In
fantry and two batteries of artillery, and
spahis, Africans hussars and irregular
Algerian cavalry. The loss Of the Moors
is not known.
Tedala which the French cruiser Guey-
don bombarded, was used as supply
center by the Moors
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE HURT
Engineer Took Mountain Curve at
High Speed, KiIling Six
Outright.

ORANGEVILLE, Ont. Sept. "a Canad-
ian Pacific railway special train carrying
over 300 passengers bound for the Toronto
exhibition was wrecked this morning at
Horse Shoe Falls, nine miles south of here.
Six people were killed and over 25O injured.
The train left Orangeville at sl5. one
hour late. Half an hour later the loco
motive jumped the rails on the down grade
OF the horseshoe curve of the Caledon
mountain. Five crowded cars were piled
up on top of the locomotive.
At Orangeville every seat was flled and
people were standing in the aisles All
the cars were jammed together in the
fierce shock. Not less than 300 passengers
we're in the ears that left the rails. OF
these at least $50 were injured, many Of
them fatally, and six were killed outright.
The only explanation Of the disaster so
far is that the engineer was trying to make
up time and took the horseshoe curve at a
high speed.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
GERMANY'S GREAT PROGRESS
American Manufacturers Find Much
Advancement Made in
Machinery.

BERLIN, Sept. 3.-Lieutenant Godfrey L.
Garden of the United states revenue cutter
service, who has been investigating the
principal Industrial centcrs of Belgium.
Switzerland and Germany with a party of
American manufacturers and professors,
proceeded to Magdeburg today. Among the
party are II. w. Leschen Of A. Lescheu &
Sons of st. Louis, clifford Egan Of j. a.
Fay, Egan & Goa of Cincinnati, l.. IL.
Weber of Kansas city Prof Clifford Cog
gins Of the University of Colorado and
Prof Raynor Allen Of the Massachusetts,
institute of technology.
The two principal conclusions reached are
the extraordinary PROSPERITY and extreme
industrial advancement of Germany. All
of the thirty-hve works visited were
crowded. some of them having orders for
years ahead At Mulhausen the Americans
found gas engines being constructed up to
5000 horsepower. Gas engines in America,
Lieutenant Garden said, are regarded as
being in an experimental stage, but all over
Europe gas engines had passed from ex-
perimental to fully practical use.
The Americans found that the Germans
made great use of waste steam In manners
unknown in America. Lieutenant Garden.
who visited $50 German works in 1903 as a
machinery expert for the ST. Louis ex-
position. was able to contrast what he saw
during his present visit with what he saw
four years ago. He said that the work.
shop efficiency here had increased almost
up to 100 per cent. the manufacturers every
whore having applied American methods OF
getting the highest capacity out OF tools
and machines. He found. however, that
the Germans employ fewer American
The feeling among the manufacturers of
machine tools, most of those now in use
having been made i'm Germany. although
the highest class American tools are still
imported.
the party was that the United States ex-
periences difficulty in beating Germany and
that the American superiority in systems
Of work and machinery of a few years ago
has well nigh been overcome
From Magdeburg the American party will
go to Hanover. where it will break up,
sailing for home on various steamers.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
ALTON INQUIRY POSTPONED
Judge lands Grants Request of Dis
trict Attorney Sims.
NEW TURN IN THE REBATE CASE
Situation Arose Compelling Adj
journmcnt of session of the
Grand Jury for Three
weeks.

CHICAGO. Sept. 3-Judge lands in the
United States district court today ordered
a postponement of the grand jury investi-
CATION OF the rebating charges against the
Chicago & Alton railroad growing out OF
the recent trial and conviction of the Stand
ard Oil company until September "a.
1t was generally believed that when
court opened today letter would be pre-
sented from Attorney General Bonaparte
settling the question of whether the De-
partrnent of Justice intended to prosecute
any action against the Chicago & Alton.
The company had claimed immunity, as
serting that it was promised by former
District Attorney Morrison that IL II aided
the government in good faith in the prose-
eution Of the Standard OIL company 1t
would be exempt. No such letter was, how
ever, presented in court either by Judge
Iandis or by District Attorney Sims. the
successor of District Attorney Morrison.
District Attorneys Remarks.
When the court opened today District At
torney Sims said:
"I am here if the court please, in the
matter of the grand jury investigation
and i'm that matter have to ask the court
or / wish to make a motion for post
ponement. In compliance with the sugges-
tion of the court made at the time OF the
convening of the present grand jury the
facts and circumstances in connection Win
the matter under investigation had peeh
submitted to the department and expected
to be able to report to the court TINS
morning its views and findings. Very re-
Gently, however. a situation has arisen
which. In my Judgment. makes it highly
H. 7 ba, m
department certain facts and circumstances
in addition to these already submitted.
For these reasons l request that further
action in the matter be postponed for three
or four weeks l regret the necessity for
asking the court for this postponement,
but It seems to me in view of what | know
in connection with the case to be unavoid-
able"
us the grand jury present." asked Judge
Lands.
Not now, your honor"
How much time do you want?"
81 think not less than three weeks. 1t
seems to me highly desirable that when the
matter is again called that we be able TO
take definite action on it. Three weeks
from today will be the 24th.'
you may inform the grand jury" said
Judge Landis, that they are az liberty to
take a recess until 10 o'clock on the
morning of September 24th."
After leaving the court room District At
torney 5ms declared that he intended to
submit certain facts to the attorney gen
eral and said that they had arisen within
few hours.
He said that he would go to Washing
ton within a short time to present person
ally to the attorney general his reasons
for asking the postponemcnt
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
AUGUST TRADE is LARGE
Government Has Surplus of over
Three Million Dollars
for August.

WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-The statement
of the government receipts and expendi-
lures shows that for the month of August.
lgO7. the total receipts were SIS ID, ,2Sl, and
the expenditures $54.S37, 80, which leaves a
surplus OF SS.5Ss. 49l.
The monthly circulation statement shows
that at the close OF business August 81 last
the total circulation of national bank notes
was 500 O6s .s2i. which is an increase for the
year OF Ss4. .Ols, and an Increase for the
month OF $3.50, ,4S5. The circulation based
on United States bonds amounted to $780,
945,sl7. an increase for the year Of III,
and an increase for the month OF 81 1872 627.
The amount Of the circulation secured by
lawful money was s47. .llO, 4O4 an increase for
the year OF 81 .ss7. SSl and a decrease for the
r>anth Of Sl.962l9
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
MARSHAL AND TRAMP SHOT
Doctor ON Way to Attend Injured Of
hcer Fatally Wounds
AsaaIIant.

PACIFIC, Mo, Sept. 3.-Great excitement
was caused here today by the shooting OF
Acting Marshal A. Kopf when he was
attempting to arrest Charles Anderson a
tramp, and the shooting of Anderson by
DR.. A. L. McNay. Anderson and three
other tramp companions got into quarrel.
Acting Marshal Kopf approached the
tramps TO stop the disorder and Ander-
son suddenly shot the officer and fed.
DR.. McNay was hurriedly summoned TO
attend Kopf, who was probably mortally
wounded. While driving to the spot DR..
McNay was intercepted by Anderson, who
ordered him TO give him the rig to escape
Dr. McNay shot Anderson, who will prob
ably die.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
WIRELESS AIDS POOL ROOMS
OutHt Used 10 secure Results frous
sheepsheRd Track SeiEed by
Authorities.

NEW YORK, Sept. IA wireless outnt.
which the police believe was used for trans
mittlng racing news to the pool rooms of
New York city. was seized in a cottage
near the sheepshead Bay race track yes
terday. Two men were arrested in the
department The fact that the race track
managers withhold racing news for a stated
period, In order TO make Il OF little value
20 poOlrooms, has led 10 many ingenious
schemes TO get the coveted information.
The wireless method was the latest A
cottage overlooking the track was hired
and experts, with the aid OF a powerful
telescope. collected such information as was
desired. AS the telephone and telegram
wires in the tracks vicinity were closely
guarded. the wireless system was resorted
TO by the pool room agents to get the news
through to the city
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
STANDARD FIGHTS FOR LIFE
Testimony at New FORK In Missouri
Case Involving Existence
of OH Company.

NEW YORK, Sept 3.-The taking Of tes-
timony in this city I'm the suit brought by
the United states government at st. Louis
last December to dissolve the Standard oil
company, under the provisions Of the Sher-
man antitrust law, was postponed today
until Thursday at the request OF counsel
for the defendant company. 1t was an
nounced that the adjournment of the hear
ing would really facilitate matters, mas
much as the opposing attorneys are in con-
sutation over various matters which could
best be handled tn their preliminary
stages at least out OF court.
The attorneys for the government were
ready TO proceed when former Judge
Franklin Ferriss of st. Louis, the special
examiner appointed by the federal court.
took the bench in the United states dis
trict court room today, but offered no oppo-
sition to the order of postponcment re-
quested by the defense. The principal
feature of the brief session today was the
making public of a partial list of witnesses
which indicated the Importance and the
wide scope of the testimony expected to
be taken here. Heading the list Is w. G'
Rockefeller, a director in most of the
seventy affiliated oil companies, named as
defendants in the governments suit, and
friend of former President Cleveland Mr..
BENEDICT was present today in answer to a
subpoena. while attorneys for the standard
Oil company. entered an appearance for
Mr. Rockefeller.
That the testimony desired by the gov
ernment will have to do largely with al
legged rebates and determinations in freight
rates is indicated by the number OF proml-
nent railroad officials included in the list
of witnesses Among these are Jenersoh
Justice, assistant controller of the PenhsN l.
yania railroad r. w. Downing, eN-con-
troller of the Pennsylvania lines; w. !,
McCulloch, auditor OF freight receipts Oh
the New York Central, and w. a. darris'
counsel OF the New York Central Waue
Hampton, general auditor of the STANDARD
Oil company of New Jersey, is under SUD
poena, as are c. NJ. Pratt and f. u
Rarstow, directors of the defendant com
panies: John =. Logan, formerly an OF
fcer of the Standard Oil company; w. T.
Howe. p. s. Trainor and Charles T. White'
all associated with the defendant COM
panies.
The governments interests this morning
were In the hands of Frank b. Kellogg OF
ST. Paul. Charles b. Morrison of Chicago
and I IT, Graves of the Department or
Justice at Washington. When the taking
of testimony is begun. on Thursday II Is
sa,d that fifteen or twenty special attor-
news may be present for the defendants
Aside from the seventy alleged Standard
Oil corporations named by the government
the individual defendants are John u
Rockefeller, william G.. Rockefeller henry
II. Rogers, John d. Archbold, Henry M
Flagler, Oliver II. Payne and Charles NJ
Pratt,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
OMAHA AFTER THE EAGLES
Convention mt Norfolk May Come 10
Nebraska Year After
Next.

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 3.-The ninth an
nual convention OF the grand aerie. Fra
ternal Order OF Eagles, convened here to-
day with an attendance of upwards of 200
delegates from every state and from Can
ada, and a total gathering of more than
1900 visitors. Responses TO addresses OF
welcome by Governor Swanson and Mayor
Riddck of Norfolk were made by Theodore
A. Bell Of California and Del Carey Smith
of Spokane, Wash.
Grand Worthy Vice President Theodore
A. Bell OF California and S. B. wadsworth
OF Council Bluffs, Ia, are candidates for
president.
Seattle will secure the 1903 convention and
Omaha is being doomed for the 1909 conven-
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
Upton WENT THROUGH STORM
His Party Had Lively Experience OF
/ SOuthsen when SquHII En-
dangered Boat.

LONDON, Sept a-Sir Thomas Upton
and a party Of guests have arrived at
Southampton on the steam yacht Erin.
Upton left Belfast last Thursday for Dub
lin, and his nonarrival at the latter port
had given rise to rumors that he had
steamed for the United States. Sir Thomas
and his guests had a lively experience Off
Southsea. They had boarded the schooner
yacht Ceylon and were at luncheon when
a storm arose, which caused the boat to
heel dangerously Dishes, chairs, etc, were
thrown about and smashed. The party re-
turned to the Erin as soon as the squall
abated
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
"MAN WITH WRY NECK" DEAD
Peculiar Character in Brooklyn Kills
Himself without Giving Rea-
son for Deed.

NEW YORK. Sept s-James A. Lewis.
a civil engineer known locally as the man
with the wTy neck" shot and killed him
self yesterday in his room in Brooklyn.
He gave himself his peculiar nickname in
a strange personal which he had published
in a daily paper last June. Lewis was an
enigma to all who met him, never speaking
OF his family or antecedents except 10 hint
that his father had been murdered and his
mother and himself maligned by the agents
OF some secret society whose enmity his
father had incurred. II is believed that
the man was insane.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
RIoTING SERIOUS IN ANTWERP
Police Fire Upon Disturbers and Many
Persons Are Badly wounded
as Result.

ANTWERP, Sept. 3.-The violence of the
locked out dock laborers and OF those who
went on strike in sympathy with them
increased to serious proportions today, when
at least dozen persons, including strike
breakers and members of the crews of the
steamers, were attacked and badly
wounded. The police charged repeatedly,
firing their revolvers at the rioters, who
dispersed only to reassemble. Troops are
ordered to mobilize tomorrow and gather
ings of more than five persons are for
bdden.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-09-04
BAR TICKET TAKING LEAD
Lancaster Republicans Interested
Most In Outcome of District
JudEeshiD Fight.
(FrOm a Stan Correspondent.'

LINCOLN, iNeb,. Sept. S-(speciaI Tele-
gram.J-There is little excitement in Lin
coin over the primary, the chief element
Of interest occurring, over the bar ticket.
friends of opposing candidates being at the
polls and making an effort to secure sup
port for their candidates. At o'clock. IN
one of the best populated precincts twenty
nine ballots were cast being an indication
OF the vote over the city.