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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
COY. HUGHES SPEAKS ON STATE LEGISLATION
FAVORS f GOVERNMENT MORE RESPONSIVE TO SENTIMENT
 OF PEOPLE.

Would Give Chief Executive Power to
 Remove Dishonest or Incompetent
 Heads of Departments and Also COm-
 missioners-AnswerabI Only Before
 the Bar of Public Opinion--StrOngIy
 for Recount in New York City
 Election.
 New York, April 2S.-Addressing the Peoples Institute at Cooper Union to- night, Gov Charles E. Hughes, em- phaJically declared that the interests of the state demanded a government more directly responsible to the sen timent of the people, and with an ex- ecutive empowered to remove dishonest or incompetent heads of departments and commissioners, whose acts should be reviewable only before the bar of public opinion. Answerable only to the people such a governor would be chosen cautiously and when elected would have free hand 10 administer the af- fairs of the people in the interests of the public at large.
 Gov Hughes had been invited to dis cuss before the Institute matters con- corning state legislation.
 After saying that individual honesty was the foundation of proper public service, the governor continued:
 T recommend, and l now strongly favor, the passage of a recount bill for the recount of the voters cast in this city for mayor in 19O5 Nothing is more important than that our citizens should be assured that the man who Is elected gets the office.
 T have also favored form of ballot by which each voter shall express his preference with reference to each office. No candidate for minor office should be pulled through because of absorb ing interest in the head of ticket
 The best form of ballots puts par ties, candidates and voters respectively, upon the same footing, and it is not political wisdom to desire the contrary. I also favor full publicity with regard to election expenses and the improve ment and rigid enforcement of our cor rupt practices acts If the head of a department is incompetent or inefficient the governor should have the right to remove him, and should account to the people for the, manner in which he eX- ercises his power, and having the pow CT should be responsible for bringing the departments to the highest stand ard of efficiency.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
MARSHAL INSTANTLY KILLED.
Meets Writer of Anonymous Letter and
 Also His Death.


 Portsmouth, O., April 2S.-Arthur Rut- ter, marshal of New Boston, suburb, was shot and instantly killed last night by man whom he was about to arrest. The murderer escaped.
 Nellie Maple of New Boston had re- ceived an anonymous and offensive let ter suggesting that she meet the writer. She was to tie string on the gate post if she desired a meeting. Marshal Rut- ter planned to catch the writer of the letter by carrying out his suggestion. The man appeared at the appointed time and as the marshal stepped up to him the letter writer drew a revolver and fired.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
Small Fire on Meadow Street.

No. 12's chemical was called out to a still alarm of fire at PIG Meadow street last evening about 10 o'clock, Some rubbish in the hallway caught fire. A policeman on the beat noticed the flames and called the department. The fire was kuicqly extinguished without much damage.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
STROMBOLI IN ANGRY MOOS
Observation on Mount Aetnu Registers
 an Extraordinary Eruption.

Catania, Sicily, April 2S.--The royal observatory on Mount Etna registers an extraordinary eruption of the vol cano on the Island of stromboli The volcano is throwing out large quanti- ties of ashes and cinders, which are damaging vineyards in both Sicily and Calabria.
 Messlna April 28,-The stromboli vol cano is again in active eruption. An explosion so strong that the concussion broke a window here was felt to-day. The peasants were terror-stricken. The extent of the eruption is not known here, as the cable line with the Lipari Islands is interrupted. The only news received at Messina has been by means of signals.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DELAY.
Subsidiary oil Company Transfers
 Holdings to Another.

Subsidiary OH Company Transfers
 Holdings to Another.
 Lima, O., April 2S.-Following the ad- journment of the circuit court last week without passing upon suits brought by Attorney General Ellis against the three subsidiary companies of the Standard oil companyl there was recorded yesterday a transfer of i'm portant holdings by one of those com panies to another Big tank farms owned by the Buckeye Pipe Line com- pany were turned over to the Ohio Oil company, and according to the trans fe" papers a large consideration was in- volved. Attorney General Ellis is en- deavoring to oust these three concerns from the privilege of their own char ters.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
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AWAIT STRONG VEST WIND.
Army Officers Did Not start Balloon
 Trip YesterdRy.

St. Louis, April 2S,-The balloon as- cer sion to have been made in St. Louis tonight by Captain Charles Chandler, United States signal corps, and J. c. Mccoy of New York city, was postpon- ed, 1t was decided to wait for a strong west wind, Captain Chandler and Mir. Mccoy desiring to try to land near Washington. Captain Chandler is test ing the adaptablity of balloons for use by the government in war.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
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TRIAL OF BLACK HAND SUSPECTS
District Attorney of wilkesbarre Con-
 tident of q Conviction.

uuent cI q COnVtcttOn.
 Wilkes-Barre Pa, April 2S.-The trial of the "Black hand" suspects will be re- sumed in court tomorrow and it is ex- pected that the case will go to the jury Wednesday or Thursday at the latest.
 Counsel for the defence, it is said, will attempt to prove alibis for the defend- ants.
 District attorney Salisburg, however, feels confident that there can be only one result-conviction. Speaking of the alleged Black Hand society the dis trict attorney in an interview to-day said:
 T am firmly convinced that there is a branch of the Black Hand society in this county. Il is an offshoot of the New York and Philadelphia organiza- tions."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
Edward Takes Tea With American.

Naples, April 2S.-King Edward, who is visiting the Vesuvian villages, to- day stopped at the villa owned by Harrison Davis, and American, with whom he took tea.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
FREQUENT SHOCKS.
POpulace of Southern Italy Fearful of
 . Disaster.

Naples, April 28.-Frequent slight shocks of earthquake were felt in Cal abria to-day. The populace of south ern Italy, especially in Calabria, is fearful lest there be a repetition of the earthquake disaster of 1905.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
EIGHT PERSONS PERISH,
Texas Village Totally Destroyed by
 StOrm-CrOps Suffer.

Fort Worth, Tex, April 2S.-One will lage is totally destroyed, extensive damage done to property and crops at other points, and eight lives are known to have been lost as a result of storm which was general over this state yes terday, and which at several points as- sumed the proportions of tornado, ac- cording to meagre reports received here last night.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
sixteen Bombs Found,

Odessa, April 2S,-sixteen bombs were discovered today in a villa which Gov. Kaulbars had rented for a summer residence.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29

New York, April 2S.-The opening of the out of-door construction season finds New York, both city and state, without apprehension of serious labor troubles. In the building trades espec- tally, prosperous and reassuring condi- ucns prevail. There is large and well met demand for both skilled and un- skilled labor, due to the extensive pro- yate construction projects now under way and the tunnels, railway terminals and other undertakings of a public or quasi-public nature, This eontentment is generally reflected in the manufactur- ing and industrial centers and beyond a few localized and sporadic strikes the labor situation is regarded as brighter than for many years
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
PEACE AND PLENTY OF
 WORK 10 MARK MAY DAY
PARTICULARLY BRIGHT OUT LOOK IN BUILDING TRADES
 THROUGHOUT COUNTRY.

Reports From Nearly All Sections Show Conditions to Be Much Better Than Year AgO---San Francisco m Exception--Large and Well Met De- mand for Skilled and UnskiIled La- Dor in New YOrk--Fewer Contentious Between Labor and Capital in New England Than for Many Years.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
HEIREss FEARS ASYLUM.
Woman With 100000 Says Rel
atlves Have Prosecuted Her.

New York-Miss Alice l. Stan
ton Smith of st. James, L. I, heir
ess to 100000. and a cousin of Mrs
Stanford White, has appealed to the
Society for the Prevention of Crime
for protection against relatives who
she says, are seeking to send her ia
IN insane asylum a fourth time.
For 10 years, Miss Smith alleges
she has been incarcerated at various
times by these relatives and ill-used
by keepers into whose hands they
have thrust her.
1T started 10 years ago, when I was
a slip Of a girl" said Miss Smith. ~
had just been bequeathed 100000 by
my mothers will. Since then my rela.
tives have left me no peace"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
MAG|LLS ARE
ACQUITTED
IN INSTRUCTIONS, JUDGE SAID
STATE DID NOT PROVE
CORPUS DELlCTi.
CHEERS GREET VERDICT
Crowd In Courtroom offered congrat-
uIatlons and the Jury Filed by
and Each Shook Hands
with Defendants.

Decatur, Ill.-Acting under instruc-
lions from Judge Cochran, the jury re-
turned a verdict, acquitting Frederick
Magill and his wife, Faye Graham Ma
gill, Of the charge of numbering Mrs.
Pet Magill, the first wife Of Magill. In
his instructions to the jurors, the
Judge said the state had failed to
prove the corpus deficit. The verdict
was greeted with cheers, despite the
efforts of the court to maintain order.
The crowd in the courtroom hurried
forward and offered congratulations
to the Magills. The jury afterwards
filed by and each shook hands with
the defendants.
May 81 last Mrs. Pet Magill was
found dead at her home in Clinton,
Ill. A post-mortem examination held
six weeks after her death showed that
she had been suffocated by chloro-
form. On July s in Denver, Cal, Fred
erick Magill, her husband, and Miss
Faye Graham, a young woman who
had been a close friend of Mrs. Ma
gill, were married.
Arrested In San Diego.
Four days later in San Diego, Cal,
Magill and his second wife were ar
rested on the charge Of numbering the
first Mrs. Magill. They were brought
back to Clinton and secured a change
of to this city. In the trial the
state claimed that Magill and Miss
Graham, by their conduct, had driven
Mrs. Magill to suicide and were there
fore guilty of murder.
The defense introduced letters writ
ten by Mrs. Magill shortly before her
death, in which she complained OF
vulnerable headaches" and con
slant "nagging" of her husbands rela-
tives.
Witnesses also testified that Mrs.
Magill had often talked of committing
suicide. In a letter to her husband,
written the day before her death, Mrs.
Magill asked him to marry Faye Ora
ham in case anything should happen
to her.
Magill was employed in a bank at
Clinton, Ill.,, the chief owner Of which
is Vaspasian Warner, United States
commissioner Of pensions.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
SHOOT SOUVENIR HUNTERS.
Indiana Governor So instructs Militia
at Fontanet.

Fontanet, Ind.-Col. Alfred I. Du
pont, vice president of the Dupont
Powder Co., accompanied by General
Superintendent Connable, arrived
here and began an investigation as ia
the cause of the disaster in which AZ
persons are known to have been killed
and several hundred injured.
The search for the remaining sl1
bodies around the scene of the pow,
der mill explosion vas continued
Many parts Of bodies we're found
by digging into the dust around
tho boiler house, but all were horribly
mangled. Relatives of some of the
dead asked that the bodies be moi
searched for, but the coroner believer
the work should be carried on.
Gov. Hanly has instructed Major
. erschner that any person found dig
ging in the ruins for souvenirs should
be arrested, and IL an attempt at es
cape is made, the offender should bs
shot.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
TO ADJUST TARIFF
TAFT TELLS FILlPiNos CONGRESS
WILL TAKE ACTION.
OPENING OF the new ASSEMBLY
Advancement Toward Self.
Government.

Manila, P. with impressive
ceremonies and a significant speech
by Secretary of War Taft, the first
Philippine assembly was opened.
President Roosevelt has sent me
to convey to all Fflipinos his congrat-
ulations upon this, another step in the
enlargement OF selt-government," said
the secretary. Ellis message Is In
tended for every assemblyman, IRE
spective Of his views in the electoral
campaign. 1t assumes loyalty and
does not assume that he may not have
the wish to peaceably bring about a
transfer Of sovereignty, but 1t assumes
that while the present government
endures he will uphold its authority.
1.-THE National Administrators
avowed policy under President Nc
Kinley and President Roosevelt has
been and is to safeguard the inter-
ests and welfare of the Filipinos, and
by the spread of general primary and
industrial education and the practice
of partial political control to fit the
people to maintain a stable govern
ment. AS this policy of extending
control continues it must logically re-
suit in ending the sovereignty of the
United States unless both peoples
agree to retain the bond, owing to
mutually beneficial trade relations.
None can anticipate the period or
process Of political preparations.
During my last visit, l was Of the
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
VOTE DEAD men
TO WIN DUMA
RUSSIAN NOBILITY FEARS PRO.
GREssjvEs AND ENGINEERS
BIG ELECTION FRAUDS.
20 PER CENT ARE CORPSES
Many Of the Aristocracy Are Reaction
aries Only on the Land Cues
tion--May Vote for constitu.
tional Democrats.

St. Petersburg-In every province
in Russia not only are living men be-
ing robbed of the votes they have a
legal right to, but dead men are being
illegally included in the electoral reg
istration lists. The dead men are
being marshaled by the thousands for
the purpose of supplying the de-
ticiencies of the electoral law of last
July. That law was drawn up in the
calculation that no single progressive
candidate could possibly be returned
to the new duma.
But lately it has become plain that
many mobiles are ~reactionaries only on
the land and local government ques-
tons, and that they have no bias at
all against personal liberty, reformed
Justice, free speech and the other
planks of the progressive program.
They might vote, the government be-
gan to suspect, for the constitutional
democrats, which the b~ureaucrats
hate and dread ever more than they
hate and dread the avowed revolution
lists.
Clue from Last Election.
To avoid this peril, it was essential
to find some magic more potent than
the new electoral law. The last cleo
lions CAV the clue. The government
province of Bessarabia was the n
Russian province which returned only
"Black Hundred" members to the Sec
ond duma. 1t accomplished shat be-
cause the police ingeniously insert
ed in the electors list some $4,000
dead citizens. This system of fraud,
which worked so well in n province,
is now being applied by the govern
ment all over the empire.
The dead mems elections are pro-
ducing a good deal of what the Ger
mans call 'gallows humor." in Kursk,
for instance, the police struck out
seventy living voters as dead. They
then forgot what they had done, and
imagining that the seventy were real
ly dead, ~reinstated them in the voting
lists, in the happy assurance that all
dead men vote for the government.
The governments calculation is
that it's re-enforcements from the
grave will destroy the last chance OF
an opposition victory.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
BOY STARTS PRAIRIE FIRE.
Wilkin County, Mimi, Is Being Swept
by Destructive Blaze.

st. Paul, Minn.-A special to the
says that a prairie fire is raging in the
northeastern part of Wilkin county,
Minnesota, and that three farms have
already been wiped out. The damage
thus far is estimated at $4,000
The fire was started on the farm of
Charles Funsdsoeck by a boy playing
with matches. All the buildings on
that farm were soon destroyed.
Thus far the progress of the fire has
not been checked, but farmers in the
vicinity are blowing up the country
in an attempt to stop the flames.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
KILLED AND
600 INJURED
EXPLOSION IN DUPONT PLANT At
FoNTANET, IND. DESTROYS
NEARLY ALL OF TOWN.
VICTIMS ARE TORN INTO BITS
Explosion Heard sixty Miles Away,
and In Many Places Walls Are
Cracked, Windows Shattered,
Residents In Panic.

Terre Haute, Ind.-The largo
mills and storehouses Of the Du-
pont Powder Company at Fontanet, 16
miles from here, blew up at 9:15 Tues
day morning, wrecking the town, kill
ing over half the employees at the mills
and resulting in the death of many
men, women and children In the vii
lage.
With 40 bodies recovered up to
noon, and with one train load of in
jured brought to the hospitals here,
the work of rescue is going valiantly
on.
That the death list will grow to num-
Der over 100 persons is the belief of
the rescuel j.
The severe shock of the explosion
was felt here and for a distance of 60
miles in a circle about the village.
At Charlottesville, S5 miles away,
the electric light office building wat
wrecked, the walls cracking and the
marble floor sinking at least an inch.
Employees in the Somerville building
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
HEINzE GIVES UP
TO DEVOTE WHOLE TIME TO BAT.
TIE OVER COPPER. ,
HIS STOCK IS RETAINED BY FIRM
Brothers, Caught In Crash, Issue q
Statement Accepting
Suspension.

New York-In a statement is.
sued by Otto Heinze & Co..
whose %manipulations in United Cop.
per caused the 1000, 900 failure of
Gross & Kleeburg, 1t was announced
that Arthur p. Heinze had been
dropped from the firm, and that IL
would refuse to pay any obligations
which It did not consider just and
legal. Rather than submit to any
unjust demands" the statement con-
%tinues, "the firm prefers to be Temporal
rlly suspended from the privileges of
the Stock Exchange"
Following the statement, which
proved a startler in Wall street, came
the official announcement from F. Au.
gustus Heinze that he had sent in his
resignation as president Of the Mer.
camille Bank, and that in future he
would devote his entire time to what
promises to be the greatest copper
fight In the History of the country.
This is interpreted to mean that f.
Augustus Heinze will endeavor to pull
his brothers from8 the crash they
brought about in their endeavors to
corner United Copper and wage to
final issue the battle that the copper
magnate has long conducted against
H. H. Rogers and the Amalgamated
interests. This is the statement ia.
sued by the firm.
Arthur P. Heinze is no longer a
member Of the firm Of Otto Heinze G.
Co. The firm Of Otto Heinze G. Co.
feels itself perfectly solvent, and will
meet and pay al. it's just and legal oh.
legations. 1t, however, refuses to pay
obligations which it does not consider
legal or just, until a proper adjudica.
ton OF the matter has been made.
Rather than submit to such unjust
demands, 1t prefers to permit itself to
temporarily be suspended from the
privileges of the Stock Exchange"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
FINISHED 1,ooo-MILE WALK.
Dan o'Leary Walks One Mile an Hour
for 1000 Consecutive Hours.

Cincinnati-Dan OLeary. the worlds
famous long-distance walker, finished
his 1,000-mile walk at Norwood Inn
in this city, He has walked one mile
during each hour for 1000 consecutive
hours and, although he is nearly 65
years old, he at no time during this
test of his strength has shown any
signs of faltering.
This is one of the most remarkable
walks witnessed in America, and the
medical world has been intensely in
terested as to the outcome. 1t is said
that the International tuberculosis
Association persuaded O'Leary to at
tempt the walk and that he is to re-
ceive $1,000 for accomplishing the
feat.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
BLAME FINALLY PLACED.
Gen. crozIer Says Company B, Twenty.
Fifth Infantry, Did 1t.

Neutrality-suspicious. for the shoot
ing in Brownsville, Tex, last year,
which resulted in the killing Of one
man, the manning of another, and dis
missal from the army, without honor,
of a whole battalion Of colored SOL
diers, has been placed upon Company
B of the Twenty-fifth infantry. accord
ing to the report of Brig. Gen. William
Crozier. chief of ordnance. His con-
illusions. he says, we're reached after
a technical investigation to identify
the rifles from which the bullets had
been fired.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
Butte Bank Shuts Doors.

Butte, Mont.-The State Savings
Bank, doing a general banking bust
ness, has closed its doors. The
New York correspondents of the
institution are the Mercantile Nationa'
Bank and the Van Norden Trust Com
pany. 1t was established in 1891 with
a paid up capital of $500, 900. The de
posts are $4,750, 900. NJ. S. Largely is
president and f. Augustus Heinze ia
a director. The Heinze crash in New
York is responsible for the failure.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
Was Murdered and Robbed.

Pittsburg--The body of an unknown
man, an American, vas found in a
dark court of a Wylie avenue saloon,
with several stab wounds above the
heart. The pockets of the mans cloth
ing had been ransacked. Three Ital.
tans and a woman, whom the police
believe have some knowledge of the
crime, are under arrest. The identity
of the dead man has not been estab-
lished.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-10-25
ROSE FRITZ STILL CHAMPION.
Her New Record for One Hour Is
5,619 Words.

New York-Miss Rose l.. Fritz OF
this city successfully defended her
title of champion typewriter at the
National Business show at Madison
Square Garden, defeating Paul Hunter
of Chicago, from whom she won the
championship three years ago.
Her record for one hour copying
from manuscript was 5,619 words,
which, with 81 errors, each n Of
which counted five words off, gave her
a net score Of 5,214, or an average Of
81 words a minute, one word a minute
better than her previous record.