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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22

uation has faced about. the low prices of
the railroad stocks putting them on a basis
to yield all the way up to per cent At
yesterdays closing prices one of the promi-
nent railroad stocks would yield IA per
cent. The short-time notes, therefore, are
temporarily in eclipse.
A prominent railroad man, with head
quarters in Washington, who came over
from New York today, told Star man
that the feeling among railroad officials is
very blue. They are exceedingly depressed
over the outlook in the present state of
public feeling, and many of the big men,
he said, feared that there is more trouble
ahead If the public pressure continues.
Considerable anxiety is said to exist in
New York lest Secretary Cortelyou may
some fine day make up his mind to require
the withdrawal of the $4,000, 600 of rail-
way, municipal and state bonds now used
as security for government deposits and
bank circulation, and the substitution there
for of government bonds. He has declared
that he entertains no present intention of
doing so, but the fact that he is no longer
accepting such securities and will in the
future insist upon government bonds being
put In. makes the financial world Scary.
In conversation with Star man on the
subject Secretary Cortelyou said he was
not contemplating such a course at present
and weuld do nothing precipitately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22
REVOLT Is SPREADING
TWENTY PERSONS KILLED AND
SCORES WERE WOUNDED.

BUCHAREST, Roumania. March 22.-The
agrarian revolt which at first was center
ed around Betesahni, has now spread over
practically the whole of Moldavia. The
telegraph and telephone lines have been
destroyed and marauding bands have made
some attempts to hold up trains.
A serious encounter between troops and
raiders has occurred at Blegesti in the
district of Bacau. The peasants attacked
the troops, who opened fire and routed the
raiders, killing fourteen of them.
At Negresti, in the district of Veslui, a
large estate belonging to NJ. Stoiceacu, late
liberal minister of agriculture. has been
sacked and burned.
In the district of Vasui alone yesterday
twenty peasants were killed and scores
were wounded.
The movement is really more agrarian
than anti-Semitic. The peasants are in re-
volt against the great farming trust which
has leased half the tillable land in Media
the trust happen to be Jews and most OF
their estates already have been sacked
Had it not been for the merciless exactions
of their agents, who ground the peasants
down to starvation wages, the revolt would
not have occurred. The Jews have suf-
fered more than any other people from
uprising because the majority of the shop
keepers are managers for Jews of farms in
Moldavia.
Further strong military achievements
went to Moldava today.
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= oxFoRD-cAMBRIDGE SPORTS.
Annual Games at London Attracted
Big Crowd

LONDON, March 22-The annual Oxford
Cambridge field sports took place at the
Queens Club here this afternoon in spring.
ike weather and with big crowd present.
No fewer than seven Rhodes scholars were
among the Oxonian competitors, including
f. M Young of South Dakota, in the long
and high jumps, both of which he won
last year. Albert NJ. Stevens of Yale. in
the hammer throw, for which he also COM
peted in 1906; W. E. Schutt of Cornell in
the half-mile run, which he just failed to
capture in 1905, and w. w. Thayer of
Harvard, who was in the second string of
Oxfords hammer throwers.
F. NJ. Young of South Dakota won the
long jump. Distance. % feet 4 inches
Stevens of Yale won the hammer throw.
Distance was 1876 feet inches.
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BURTON IS NOW FREE
Former Senator Released From
the lronton Jail.
WILL START A NEWSPAPER
He Has No Purpose of Revenge in
His Heart.
BRIMFUL OF LIFE AND HOPE
The Ex-senator Declares That He Will
Write History Of His
Own Case.
WILL START A NEWSPAPER
BRIMFUL OF LIFE AND HOPE

1RONTON, Mo-, March 22-Joseph Ralph
Burton, who until his conviction in the
federal courts was United States senator
from Kansas, was this morning released
from the county jail here, having COM
p1eted his sentence Of six months imposed
when he was found guilty of violating a
federal statute by appearing before a
governmental department as the paid rep
resentative of an alleged "get-rich-auick"
concern OF St. Louis.
Burton entered the jail October % 1904
His release today Is due to the law, which
provides for deduction from sentence
for good behavior. Burton's sentence also
included a, fine of $500, and the statute
under which he was convicted debars him
from ever holding an Office of trust or
remuneration under the federal govern
ment. The fine, which has not been paid,
will be held over him as civil Judgment.
His First Statement.
Upon leaving the Jail Burton gave out the
following signed statement:
This Is the first signed statement | have
made for publication since the day 1 was
indicted. The impression has gone out that
l propose to live for revenge. This is a mis-
take l have no such purpose. The wrongs
done TO me are the wrongs of Others Ven
geance Is thought to be noble only by the
lgnoble. Vengeance is mine sayeth the
Lord Is the philosophy to which 1 have al
ways subscribed in the past and to which
l shall adhere in the future. am a thou
sand times more solicitous that 1 shall
not wrong another than 1 am concerned
about the wrongs others have done, or NAV
do, to me. In saying this, however. do no,
pretend to have more than two cheeks. Nor
do l think that 1t Is wrong to rebuke n.y.
pocrisy.
Full Of Hope.
Il return to my home at Abilene brim-
full of life and hope. Only my body has
been in Jail. My mind has been at all times
free; sustained with the knowledge that
am innocent. l shall take up my life
work with malice toward none, and charity
for ALL 1 shall talk and write. With peu
and tongue l shall stand for policies and
principles that 1 believe will make for the
good and oppose such as I think are bad,
1t is bad policies that make bad men and
bad government; while true policies make
good men and good government. Ny fight
shall be against measures rather than
against men.
Il shall have charge Of a newspaper, I'M
less there is fraud order issued against it
before can arrange for it's publication. 1t
will reflect my ideas. 1t is to be one of the
agencies of the work I hope to do l shall
talk when am not writing, and shall write
when l am not talking. The history of nv
case, already prepared, win appear in serial
form first in the paper.
History Of His Case.
"The story will not be sensational; it will
be truthful. interviewer with the history
and a necessary part of it, will be a dis
cussion Of certain conditions in our iegisla-
tive, administrative and judicial govern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22
DRASTIC RACE LEGISLATION.
Arkansas Scion Would Make It I'm
lawful to Emplov Neoroes

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March Ex-senator
Mcknight introduced a bill in the senate
yesterday making it unlawful for negroes
to wait upon or serve white persons as DOR
tiers on trains as BARRIERS or as walters in
restaurants or hotels, and equally unlawful
for white servants to wait upon negroes.
Senator Mcknight made a strong plea for
the measure, denying that the prime object
was to prevent negroes from serving white
people.
1T is to prevent negroes from taking
White women about the waist and helping
them off the trains,'' he said why, my
wife is afraid to come to town alone be-
cause she Is waited upon by these blacks -
The bill was read a second time and re
ferred to the committee on agriculture.
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SULICE DESTROYED.
Fate of Inhabitants Unknown-Four-
teen Peasants Killed.

VIENNA, March 22.-Accordng to the
news received today in Budapest from Mol
davia, the peasant movement in Roumania
Is spreading. The town of Dorogoi has
been sacked and burned by the peasants.
The inhabitants were compelled to flee for
their lives.
At Cucuteni, where many Hungarians
live, fight occurred between the Hunga-
rian and Roumanian inhabitants. Four hun
garians are reported killed and thirty
wounded.
Fourteen peasants were killed in coll
lision with troops at Belgestie, while in
Fokshanu the people are in revolt against
the authorities.
The village of Suffice was destroyed by
peasant rioters. The fate Of the inhabitants
is not known.
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CHIEF OF BUREAU.
Civil Engineer r. c. Hollyday Ordered
-: Here for That Position.

+ 1t was officially announced at the Navy
Department today that Civil Engineer r.
&c. Hollyday has been detached from the
navy yard, New York, where he has been
on duty since January. 1903. and ordered
to this city for duty as chief of the bureau
of yards and docks. at the Navy Depart
ment with the rank Of rear admiral He
succeeds as chief of the bureau Civil Engi-
neer Harry H. Rousseau, who has been
appointed member of the isthmian canal
commission. -
Rear Admiral Hollyday is a native Of
Maryland, and entered the navy as civil
engineer In March, 1894.
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Y. N. c. A. DISTRICT MEETING.
Third Biennial Conference Opens a
Hagerstown Tonight.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, March 22.-Many
Of the more than one hundred delegates ex-
pected have already ~rrived to attend the
third biennial conference of the Young
Mems Christian Association of Maryland
and the District of Columbia, which opens
this evening and will continue for three
days.
E. w. Hearne of Washington Is a member
of the general committee. The delegates
will be entertained at supper tonight by the
Women's Auxiliary Of the Railroad Y. NJ.
c. A, Hagerstown. Interstate Secretary G.
F. Tibbitts and, his assistant. c. H. Nuttle,
are among the early arrivals from Wash
ington.
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EREMoN WINS.
he Has an Easy Victory in the Grand
National

LIVERPOOL, March 22-The Grand Ma
tional steeplechase Of 5000 sovereigns, for
five-year- olds and upward. about miles
and $50 yards, was run at the Liverpool
spring meeting today and won by Stanley
Towards Eremon. Tom West was second
and Patlander third. Twenty-three horses
started.
Eremon made all the running and won by
six lengths.
The betting previous to the start was 8
to 1 against Eremon, 100 to against Tom
West and SO to l against Patlander
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Carried Twenty-Five Passengers.

There were twenty-five passengers on I'M
car. a majority of them girls on their way
to business. The car stopped at the rail-
road crossing and the conductor ran ahead
as usual, but apparently did not see the ap-
proa ching train. The view up the track Is
somewhat obscured by nearby buildings
Just after the car passed under the gates
and out on the crossing the gateman sighted
the approa ching train and lowered his gate
I'M. the car was already on the track En-
gineer Smith of the train says that he did
not see the street car until he was WITHIN
seyenty-five feet of 1t. He instantly applied
his brakes. but the distance was too short
TO stop the train. 1t struck the car, which
had stopped in the middle. splitting IT In
two and throwing the wreckage nifty ieet
away against q trolley pole. A Few OF the
passengers sighted the oncoming train Just
before the collision occurred and tried 10
escape through the rear door. There was
not time enough, however, and they were
hurled into heap amid the wreckage
Smith was taken from the wreck with ms
skull fractured and otAer Injuries about ms
head. which will prove fatal. MISS Martn
has severe internal injuries Inc injured
sustained cuts and bruises.
William Small, mentioned In the speclai
dispatch, is stated to be William r. small,
an attorney with offices at 92I F street
northwest Yesterday afternoon Mr. Smaii.
who resides on Euclid street northwest
near 18TH left for Denver, Col, where, II
over the field and possibly locating for the
practice of his profession. NO wore ha.
30, raceived at his office this afternoon as
To the extent of Mr. Smalls injuries. =
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scourge Of Spotted Fever.
..taI Dfspsfch 10 The Star.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. March 1.-THE
scourge of spotted fever in Castalia, In Erie
county, is spreading and the people of the
town are in a panic. Peter Hooker, aged
thirty-two, died today Of the disease, his
death making eleven deaths within the past
two weeks. Erma Mickle, aged four years,
is dying of the disease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22
TYPEwRITINa CHAMPIONSHIP.
Chicago Woman Won Honors for the
Third Time.

CHICAGO, March 22.-Miss Rose L.
Fritz two-time winner of the national
championship typewriting contest, at the
Coliseum last night won the championship
for the third time. winning permanently
the silver cup offered and breaking the
worlds record for copying dictation from
shorthand notes.
The record she established last night was
2, 40 words in thirty minutes. This is 200
words better than her last record, which
was made year ago at the contest held at
Madison Square Garden, New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22
FORMER REPRESENTATIVE DEAD
Demise Of Frederick J. Halterman at
PHILADELPHIA Today.

PHILADELPHIA, March 22.-Frederick
j. Halterman, a member of the Fifty fourth
Congress from the third Pennsylvania dis
trict. died at his home here today. He
was born in Germany and was seventy-five
years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22

Frederick Halterman of Philadelphia, Pa.
was born In Vegesack, on the Weser part
OF the old Hanse town of Bremen Ger
many, October %. 1881. He received his
education In the High School of Bremen
and emigrated to Philadelphia in Septem-
Der, 1S49 He engaged in the grocery busi-
ness soon after his arrival and did not re-
tire until 1891. He was elected a member
OF the select council from the twelfth ward
in 1880 for term of three years and was
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
republican.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22

Senator Burton was prosecuted on the
charge of violating section 1882 of the Re
vised Statutes, which prohibits senators and
representatives from receiving compensa-
ton for services rendered before any of the
government departments in any matter in
which the government is interested He
was specifically charged with having &C
copied fee of $500 month for five months
from the Rialto Grain and Securities Com
pany of ST. Louis for services rendered that
company in combating an effort by the
Post Office Department to issue an order
denying that concern the use of the mails
Senator Burton was convicted before the
United States circuit court for the eastern
district of Missouri. The Supreme Court re-
versed this decision. because 1t was made to
appear that the money was paid in Wash
ington and not in ST. Louis, where the case
was tried. There was another trial, and he
was again convicted. This time the Su-
preme Court of Nhe United States upheld
the decision Of the lower body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22

NEW YORK, March 22.-The Thaw jury
was brought before Justice Fitzgerald in the
supreme court today and told they need not
attend the trial again until next Wednes-
day morning. In the meantime Justice Fitz-
gerald said he would receive affidavits from
the defense In answer 10 the suggestion of
District Attorney Jerome that Harry K
Thaw, on trial for the murder of Stanford
White Is at present in a condition of mental
unsoundness which makes him incapable of
advising his counsel or of understanding
the proceedings against him.
Justice Fitzgerald has designated tomor-
row afternoon at 2 o'clock as the time for
the defense to present It's affidavits in the
clerks office. He stated today that the dis
trict attorney might have until Monday to
make response to the showing of the de-
Tense.
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ALL AGREE THAT
THAW WAS CRAZY
Six Out of Seven AIienists Say
That He Will Probably
Not Recover.
OTHER KNOW S HE WON'T
Defendant Much Surprised Today
When All His Family Came
to Court.
EFFORT TO PROVE HIM SANE
Counsel Will strenuously Endeavor to
Show That Thaw is Entirely
Capable of Looking After
His Interests in
Court.
EFFORT TO PROVE HIM SANE

Seven alienists now agree that
Thaw is insane. Six of them say he
will probably never recover, and the
other is sure he won't. This is the
substance OF what they all say in
their affidavit:
From my personal observations
in court during the trial | am of the
opinion that the defendant is now
and for some time past has been
suffering from a form of mental dis
ease known among men skilled in
mental diseases as paranoia. 1t is
my opinion, based on what has been
enumerated. that when the defend
ant killed Stanford White he was
then suffering from the mental dis
ease commonly known as paranoia,
but that his then mental state was
such that he knew the nature and
the quality of the act that he was
doing and that it was wrong, name
ly, that he then and there knew that
he was discharging into the body of
Stanford White a loaded revolver !;
that it was Stanford White into
whose body he was discharging a
loaded revolver, and that he then
and there knew that such discharge
was likely to produce death, and
that he then and there knew that
such an act on his part was against
the current morality OF this state
and in violation OF the law
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ment that, think, have escaped the atten-
ton of the average citizen.
Il will not now go further into my case
nor my plans and purposes. The first state
ment will be made on Saturday evening to
my home people; then there will be more
to follow. (Signed j. r. BURTON"
Accompanied by Mrs. Burton and his
niece, Miss Dorothy Mitchell, Burton de-
parted for st. Louis en- route to Abilene,
Kan.
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form them by Monday evening or Tues
day morning.
After the jury had retired Justice Fltz-
gerald said that on yesterday Mr. Hart
ridge had attempted to be heard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22
Two Fatally Injured.

DETROIT, Mich, March 22.-Two people
were fatally injured and nine others. all
girls, were more or less seriously hurt to-
day when a southbound 14th avenue street
car was struck at the 14th avenue crossing
by a Michigan Central railway train. The
fatally injured:
James c. Smith, aged fifty-fve years, l1S
McGraw avenue.
Miss Charlotte Martin, Mason City, Mich.
The less seriously injured:
Miss Ruth Holland.
Miss Maud Hughes.
Miss Lola Jeffroys.
Miss Jessie Larkins.
Miss Costello.
Miss Mary Elcome.
Miss Kate OConnor.
Miss Snyder.
Miss kneeland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22
Able to Advise.

Clinord Hartridge of Thaw's counsel
stated today that the atfidavits 10 be pre-
scented in Thaw's behalf would be made by
his attorneys and the various alienists who
nave appeared for the defense These affi-
davits merely will state that Thaw at pres
ent is able 10 advise his counsel and fully
understands the proceedings against him
That is all the law requires US to saw. >"
said the attorney. 1t is not a question as
to whether he is of unsound mind at all;
the only question at issue is whether or
not he understands the proceedings agaIns,
him. We claim We can produce oyerwhelm-
Ing proof that he does. We will also sub
writings
When Judge Fitzgerald took his place on
the bench today all the members of the
Thaw family We're seated in the court room
and when Harry Thaw was called 10 the
bar he seemed surprised and delighted to
find them present. They had all been ex.
cluded ever since the taking of testimony
was hegun. The prisoner bowed to each
member of the family group in turn, and
they all smiled back 10 him confidently.
Delmas and Gleason Absent.
OF Thaws attorneys neither Mr.. Delmas
nor Mr. Gleason was present. 1t was gen.
orally understood the proceeding was 10
be but a formal adjournment of court until
Justice Fitzgerald has had time to satisfy
his conscience as to whether or no. q ooA,
mission in lunacy shall be ordered
AS the court session was formally opened
District Attorney Jerome suggested that
the jury be excused until Tuesday morning
next Justice Fitzgerald thought wednes-
day would be early enough, he so informed
the jurors and they Immediately withdrew
Justice Fitzgerald then told the attorneys
that If he desired a hearing In the matter
Of the proposed commission he would in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22
Was Westbound.


Tae Limited was westbound and was ap-
preaching the city at the rate of about
forty-five miles hour. Suddenly the train
jumped, swerved and was thrown from the
tracks. and suddenly the engineer had
clamped on the emergency brakes, the APP
plication of which was the cause of a ma
jority of the injuries. The engine was
thrown from the tracks clear across to the
adjoining tracks and was separated from
its train. On landing on the other tracks
the impetus caused it to strike with con-
siderable force, and 1t was thrown on its
side.
While In this disabled condition the bag
gage car, the library and the Pullman
Wlstaria went beyond the point where 1t
lay, and, following the course of the en-
CINE, they, too, left the tracks and were
also overturned. Three Pullman cars re-
manned on the tracks.
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History Of His Case.

''The story will not be sensational; it will
be truthful. interviewer with the history
and a necessary part of it, will be dis
cussion of certain conditions in our legisla-
tive, administrative and judicial govern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-22
LIMITED IS WRECKED
Several Westinghouse in Ac-
Cident Near Pittsburg.
TRACKS TAMPERED WITH
Fast Train Between New York and
Chicago Ditched.
II INJURED NEAR DETROIT
Train Ran Into Street Car, Hurting a
Number of Children on Their
Way to School. -
II INJURED NEAR DETROIT
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
PlTTSBURG, Pa, March 22.-The Chi
cago Limited, one of the Pennsylvania
roads fast trains from New York to Chi
cago, was wrecked at Stewart, seventeen
miles from Pittsburg, at 332 o'clock this
morning. The locomotive and three cars
were derailed and one was burned.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland was
on the train, but was not seriously hurt
Evidence is at hand, according to Off
GERS of the company. that the tracks had
been tempered with. Whether a deliberate
attempt was made to wreck the train is
question that the company is now trying
to answer by thorough examination of the
tracks, cars and locomotive. Among the
injured are:
Engineer w. NJ. Gettemy, taken to AL
toona; fireman of limited, whose name was
not ascertained taken to Altoona; ROLAND
c. Webster, assistant district attorney of
Toledo bruised right leg; Mayor Tom
L. Johnson of Cleveland. Ohio, suffered
from shock: J. Snyder, patentee of the new
steel Pullman car, OF New York, slight
bruises; the Rev. T. s. McWilliams, pastor
Of Calvary Presbyterian Church, Cleveland.
Ohio, badly shaken up Others are: Will
liam Small, attorney of Washington, d. C;
Miss Lou Heneket. Washington, d. c.:
Mrs. G. A. Wood, Washington, d. c.;
Capt. w. H. Cook, Toledo, Ohio; ]. b.
Morris, Toledo, Ohio; E L. Roy, secretary
of 10 npian stock wards Chicago. Il A
Watts of the United Railroads, San Fran
cisco, CAL; E. F. Coffin, Washington, d.
c.; Mr.. Flowle, chief engineer of the Penn
sylvania railroad: Chester Wells OF the
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