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The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
BURNS HIS $2l5 SAVINGS.
Miller Put Them in Furnace for safe
Keeping-Got Only Ashes.

KeePing-GOt Only Ashes.
BeIvidere.. n. J., Aug. r.-There is some
valuable dust blowing about the streets
of Belvldere to-day. The dust represents
$215 the savings Of George Auble, a miller.
employed by McMurtrie & Co.
Auble carried the money IN a wallet
which he took with him TO his work yes
terday morning For safe keeping he
placed the purse and money IN "A small
furnace that is used for steaming wheat
Later IN the day John Decker, another
empIoye Of the mill built a fire In the
furnace for the purpose of melting some
solder It was a good hot fire, too
At noon Mr. Auble went to get his
hoard and found the fire cracking away
merrily. The merriment Of the fire was
not in the least contagious Mr. Auble
did not even smile. Instead he tore
through the building for pail Of water,
which he dashed on the fire to the exas-
peration Of Decker, who wanted his SOL
der to remain soft.
Auble didn't heed him and frantically
raked the fire out all over the floor until
he came upon a curled up wad of some
thing which he tore apart with trembling
fingers. a handful of light gray ashes
sifted out 1t was all that was left of the
S2l5.
Mr. Auble was so dlsgusted that he
gathered up the ashes and scattered them
broadcast about the streets. He remarked
that IL was about time some one spent
something on the streets Of the town.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
PARAGRAPHS BY WIRE.

New York, Aug 1s.-Twenty-f ius-
tees Of the peacs Throughout the state fail 10
qualify and lose Office.
Amsterdam. " Y. Aug. N-Walter
Kruger. aged twenty years a six weaver in this
city, was drowned about noon to-day while bathing
II the schoharie River.
Utica. Aug 1S-Oneida Indians living
here are preparing an out-of-door rendition Of the
legend Of Hiawatha. The parts viii be taken by
Oneidas from the reservation.
New York, Aug 1S-Louise Simons.
aged thirty, left can Of oil standing on a stove
IN which she started a FIRE. In the explosion that
followed she vas fatally burned
Chicago. Aug. 1S-The Illinois Tax Re
form Association has fled suit to force the Inter
national Harvester Company to Tay back taxes
and penalties amounting TO more than Ss,75eOW.
Detroit, Aug. B-Miss Lee. of New,
York. niece Of ]. Pierpont Morgan fell through
hatchway yesterday on q boat at Port Huron
breaking her leg. she was making the trip 70 Du-
luth.
Caldwell, n. J.. Aug. 1S.-Nrs. George
ThorWald, Of Central avSue, who vas attacked
and roughly handled BY 4 man few nights ago
while walking along Bloomfield avenue. is dying 0f
nervous shock.
Mauch Chunk, Pa, Aug. IS-One wo-
man killed and two persons fatally injured this
afternoon by jumping from a trolley car that was
IN danger Of e0lliding with another ON Flag stan
Mountain, near here.
Hartford, Conn, Aug. lS.-Mrs. Mary l.
Riley, of 5 South Laurel street. broke OF a piece
OF a sewing machine needle in her finger nineteen
years ago, and to-day she tTipped and feIl IN
her chicken coop, the needle exuded from her body
New Sharon, Me-, Aug IS-Nieholas
Rogers. seventeen years old had both arms amp1-
tated recanfv and to-day be attracted attention 7
the main pOst-offce in successful efforts 20 SEND
home souvenir postals. He had the pencil in his
teeth.
New York. Aug 1S.-Holding that di-
vorce obtained by Lillian T. Wilson in New Jersey
in 1901 from Police Sergt. John W. Wilson is m
valid IN this State Justice Brady, in the Supreme
Court, ganied Wilson decree Of absolute divorce
yesterday.
Kingston. n. Y, Aug. 1S.-While bathing
in a creek about half a mis- hack CT the village
Of Marlborough Saturday afternoon, Eugene Bar
nell. aged fourteen years drowned. Miss An
nette Mcknight succeeded In yesoling Barneu's
companion.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
new INTEREST IN THE HAGUE
Lease of Life Taken by International
Peace Conference.
Russia's Efforts TO Have Congress
Come tONan Abrupt End Is Frus-
trated by other Nations.

The Hague, Aug. 1s.-lmmediately upon
the successful abandonment Of the arna-
ments problem at yesterdays session.
the peace conference took fresh lease
Of life.
II IS notorious that the Russian delega
ton desired that the conference should
end now. They have taken a wholly
inglorious part in its proceedings. and
are not In a position 10 render useful as
sistance 10 any project still under dis
cussion. The idea Of terminating the
assembly has been. however. peremp-
torily knocked in the head by Baron
Marschal Won Bieberstein. who. with the
support Of the American and English
delegations let Count Nelidof know that
although the Czar might have summoned
the conference. he could not disperse it.
Americans, English, ard Germans then
agreed on a scheme for the establishment
Of an international prize court. which re-
moves the objection hitherto taken Dy
France and other powers. The latter
maintained that the existence Of a prize
court predicated a state Of war. which
they hoped would be a condition so rare
" existing that the maintenance Of such
would not be justifiable
This better light, which has suddenly
come over affairs here. is largely due %
The untiring hopefulness and resourceful-
ness OF Mr.. Choate, assisted by his judi
cial expert, J. B. Scott, and sincerely by
England and Germany. with the addition
al invaluable backing OF Leon Bourgeois.
whom a great majority OF the delegates
wish TO see installed as the actual presi-
dent Of the conference.
The American scheme for a permanent
court viii come before the commission
Tuesday. when it will be modfsed by the
clause providing that q country cannot
be represented on the bench in a case in
which il is q litigant. This viii be
changed to provide that both disputant
countries may have judges in their own
case As this makes only two partissns
on a court where quorum is nine. and
the fun bench may be seventeen. il will
not seriously affect the independence OF
the tribunal. while il removes strong
sentiments Of objection among the minor
na1ionalities. who feared that their in
terests would not be sufficiently safe
guarded.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
ITEMS FROM ABROAD.

Harbin. Aug. 1S.-Sixteen deaths have
been reported from bubonic plague in Southern
ManchuTia
81. Petersburg, Aug. 1s-Quiet reigns
throughout Russia at tins time and it is not
expected the ministers VIII meet again until the
formal meeting in October
Rome. Aug. 1S.-AntiClericaI attacks con-
tinue here, and yesterday laborer insultsd Mgr
Gasperri, who Striving to call on Cardinal Merry
del Val. the papal secretary.
Berlin. Aug. IS Reformers. are worried
because statistical reports have revealed the fact
that there were HO00 fewer children born here dur
ing the past year than in lS76.
Vladivostok. Aug IS fficfals here are
preparing to entertain the officers Of the American
squadron. consisting Of the Raleigh Cincinnati
Colorado West Virginia and Maryland
Mexico City, Aug. 1S.-Twenty thousand
''Noskanos" from Western Russia are expected to
locate on tract Of $4,000 acres Of lard in Mexico.
negotiations for the purchase Of which are now IN
Ger way.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
SHAW URGES CONSERVATISM
Former Secretary Of Treasury Dis
cusses Financial Situation.
Ability OF Corporations 60 Pay Divi-
dends Not Measured by Mar
ket Price of stocks.

New York, Aug. 1S-The Hon. Leslie II
Shaw. formerly Secretary Of the Treas
ury. now president Of the Carnegie Trust
Company, was asked to-day what he
thought Of the financial and commercial
situation. Replying 70 the question he
said.
"Our farms produce more than $780,
Ooo0oO per annum. and the prospect is
good for an average crop. Our mines
yield more than 2500.0000o0. and our for
ests more than S,N0W0O0. and neither
Of these sources OF wealth has been ex-
hausted. The output OF our factories, in
other than food products, is approxi-
mately $l2o01o00G)1. and no fires have
been extinguished The railways earn
more than }6.00o.O0O000. and they are in
successful operation. The pay rolls Of
our factories and railways aggregate ap-
pToximately S3.5O0,0JOJ0. and the scale
of wages has not been reduced. In other
words the real sources OF the people S
wealth have not yet been affected, and
the ability OF industrial concerns to pay
dividends is not measured by the market
price OF their stock Logical reasons for
serious considerations are therefore want
ing Psychological reasons are never
wanting
If 1 judge correctly. the people Will
have exactly what they expect. If those
who have money in the banks withdraw
it and lock It up; II the banks refuse to
grant accommodations. and If the con-
suming public declines 10 place orders,
then we viii very soon witness the ef-
fects.
Let those who think that times of dis
aster follow each other at regular inter-
walls bear in mind that this country has
never yet experienced a period Of severe
depression that was not tTaceable 10
financial or economic agitation or legisIa-
tion and usually to both.
in 1898 the redemption Of greenbacks
in silver instead of gold was openly ad-
vocated; the party in power was under
promise to remove the protective tariff
from our industries, and the free coin
age OF silver at the ratio Of Is to was
ehampioned by prominent members of
both parties.
The country might have survived any
one OF these sources Of alarm, but il
could not survive all three. At this
time. no one questions our financial sys-
tenn, and the tariff will not be touched
for at least eighteen months.
Some check in the speed at which we
are going IS most desirable, and the
checking process has probably begun.
1t Will require a fair measure of
confidence and courage to prevent undue
retardment in our industries CAPITAL
cannot be forced into activity, but il can
be forced out Of activity. I have never
seen the time when universal sanity
was more essential to our well being "
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
POWERS PROTESTS IMMUNITY.
says Gov, BeekhaiB Has No Power
To Grant II 10 Taylor.

Louisville, Ky, Aug. 1S.-Caleb Powers
issued a statement from his cell at
Georgetown last night, in which he saws
Gov. Beckham and Commonwealth At
torney Franklin have no power 10 grant
immunity 20 w. S. Taylor if he returns
to Kentucky 10 testify in the next trial
Of Powers, who is charged with compliei-
t. in the assassination Of William Goebel.
Powers suggests that If the governor
is sincere N lis offer Of protection 10 Tav-
lor, he further aeree to grant him a fun
pardon if KENTUCKY officers violate the
promise Of immunity and arrest the fDei-
tive governor should he return to Ken
ucky
He also asks that the same offer be
made TO Charles Finley, and saws thar
Wi:n the testimony of both men he will
be cleared on his next trial.
This statement was issued by Powers
in answer TO a letter sent to Gov. Beck
ham Thursday by Commonwealth Attor-
ney Franklin. iE which he asked the chief
executive TO cooperate with him IN his
offer of immunity to Taylor if he wouId
return to Kentucky.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
STRIKE DOES NOT MATERIALIzE
burlington Railroad Operators Decide
20 Await Further Orders.

Omaha, Aug. lS-The expected strike Of
telegraphers on the Burlington Railroad
has not materialized and the operators
have decided TO await the decision Of the
national officers before leaving their keys
and tying up the line
Saturday the Burlington operators were
on the verge of going on strike, but the
more conservative members Of the order
succeeded in staving of drastic action
until the national officers are heard from.
An answer TO the strike appeal is ex-
pected Monday.
Despite the reports that railroad OPERA
tors are handling commercial telegrams
in accordance with the orders of the
head of the union. that fact can be de-
MED Telegrams TO smaller towns in The
West, where only railroad men are work
ing, are not accepted by the operators.
and the business is completely tied up.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
MAY SEIZE TRUST REFINERIES
Government Expected to Take Dras-
tic Measures to Collect Fine.
Wall Street Figuring on Big Legal
Battle in Case Judge Landis'
Decision Is Sustained.

New York. Aug. 1s.-WhiIe the legal de-
partment Of the Standard Oil Company
is maintaining strict secrecy regarding
its plans in connection with the rebate
cases. Wall street has been busy specu-
lating on the probable action. both of the
company and the government, should the
appeal from the decision Of Judge Kene-
saw NJ. Lands be defeated. With the aid
Of some Of the leading legal minds Of
the financial district, conclusions have
been reached which appear TO be fraught
with trouble for the government in col
lecting the fine.
It is declared that as soon as the higher
court sustains Judge Landis-in event of
such acti0n-the government will proceed
TO levy on the rehneries and other prop
erty Of the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana. and that the rehneries there per
force VIII be closed down, as there Is no
intention on the part OF the government
10 operate them The real estate and
other assets Of the Indiana company,
while admittedly extensive, will be in
sufficient 10 liquidate the So, ,240.C00 fine,
1t IS believed, and to get its money the
government VIII institute a suit against
the parent company.
In entering upon this latter suit the
government viii contend that inasmUch
as the stock Of the Indiana company is
held wholly by the New Jersey company,
the former is In effect nothing but the
agent Of the latter, and on the theory that
the principal is liable for the acts Of its
agents the stockholders Of the New Jer-
sey company must pay the fine imposed
on the Indiana company.
The Standards answer 20 this. II IS
said. viii probably be that the govern
ment has no more right to proceed against
the stockholders Of the New Jersey COM
pany because the capital stock OF the
Indiana company Is centralized there
than il would have 10 proceed against
individual stockholders were the holdings
scattered. II viii claim that the Stand
ard Of New Jersey can only be penalized
20 the extent Of losing the equity it held
in the Indiana company.
II this argument were sustairsd by the
court, the government would gain nothing
by its suit. and the New Jersey corpor-
alton would continue in possession OF the
stock Of the smaller company. which.
however. without assets behind il. would
be worthless. The parent concern, incl
dentally, is capitalized for Sl00,000,090
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
BARON THREE DAYS IN Jail
Mrs. Conard Unable to Get Out Man
Whom Rival Had Arrested.
Young German Prisoner Insists He
Is Bearer OF a Real Title and
Cites His Pedigree.

New York, Aug. 1S-The young Baron
Christian Won M0ltz continues 10 languish
in Ludlow street Jail. and the dearest
girl in the world" who, according TO the
baron, is Mrs. Anita Conard, is scurrying
about town and sending frantic cable
grams abroad in an effort to raise the 500
necessary TO get him out of pawn.
The baron has been the guest Of the
county for three days now. and all ef-
forts on the part Of pretty. dark-eyed
Mrs Conard 10 raise the 500 have been
without avail. Darling Anita, TO again
quote the baron feels that she is more
or less responsible for the Imprisonment
of the young German. and is doing every
thing that she can 10 make his durance
comfortable and as short as possible She
called at the Ludlow street Jail yester-
day afternoon in an electric hanson. ac-
companied by her maid. but she did not
see the baron on account Of the heartless
rule that no visitors be admitted on Sat
urday.
Mrs. Russell. who is thirty-eight, and
the widow OF Capt Russell. OF Rough
Rider fame, has not visited the baron
since his Incarceration. She keeps much
to her apartment In the Fairmount,
116th street and Amsterdam avenue. and.
denying herself to all callers. IS trying
10 forget how near she came to becoming
q baroness. According TO the baron, the
thirty-eight was the only thing that stood
between Mrs. Russell and the baroness
ship allowing. Of course, that anita had
not appeared on the scene.
The baron, with tears in his eyes, stated
that he is real baron, the only surviving
son OF Baron Christian Won Moltz. He
says that his mother was the divorced
wife of rich Hamburg merchant Of the
name Of Yonwiller. and that he was
born in 1881 at the German Legation at
Vienna. where his father was at that
time military attache. He says Count
Wedel. another sttache was his god
father The "Wer lists" says that Count
Carl Won Wedel, at present senior brevet
adjutant general of the Kaiser's Uhlans.
was attached 10 the Vienna Legation from
1873 to 1857.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
BEATS SHIMOSE POWDER
United States Has Explosive Supe-
riOr to japanese Product.
Dunnite, I'm Sandy Hook Tests,
Smashes Strongest Armor-plate.
Shells Very Destructive.

New York Aug 1S.-The experiments
at the Sandy Hook proving grounds. with
dunnite. the high explosive invented by
Mai. Dunn. Of the Ordnance Corps, L. S.
a, have proved that the United States
possesses in dunnite the secret of an ex-
plosive perhaps more powerful and de-
struetIve than any other explosive ever
invented
Dunnite. army officers say, is more
powerful than shimose. the explosive
with which the japanese did suck terrific
execution in the naval battles CT Port
Arthur and vladivostok and in the Sea
Of Japan. Shimose ordnance officers say
the explosive is a compound Of picric
acid the secret Of which is known 10 the
ordnance officers of all the first-class
powers. On the other hand, the secret OF
dunnite is in the exiusive possession OF
the United States government.
IN the recent tests Of dunnite at Sandy
Hook it IS said that the very best five
and six inch armor plates that could be
obtained were used as targets. The result
of every shot was the same. The armOr
plate was smashed into thousands OF
small pieces, il is said, BY the impact
III i-iPdSe VI uuili'lNS II alSc al tldL
is necessary to accomplish the destruc-
ton Of the target. Penetration is not
necessary, the impact being such that the
aTmOT is shattered into countless pieces.
The dropping of a dUnnite shell on the
deck of a battle ship. it is said by many
ordnance officers, would mean the i'm
mediate sinking Of that ship. not by
penetration of its vital parts, but simply
by racking the vessel until her seams
opened and the thrush of water sent her
TO the bottom. This, it is said by SOME
ordnance officers, was the way that the
Japanese put the Russian ships out og
commission. They would drop the shi-
nose shells on the decks, and the de-
structive shimOse did the rest.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
PLEASURE SEEKERS IN PANIC.
Cigarette Smoker Fires BIeaehers and
Causes $4,000 Loss.

Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. 1S.-A match
used in lighting a cigarette caused. a
$1,000 fire this afternoon at steepIechase
Island. a resort. controlled by George c.
Tilyou. Of Coney Island. who sustained a
personal loss of $50oG0. The fire caused a
panic among 10000 pleasure seekers, but
no one was seriously injured.
At 9;45, when 5000 people were assem-
bled in the station and inciosed athletic
field waiting for the opening Of the ex-
hibition baseball game between the Chi
cago Nationals and James H. O'Rourke S
Brdgeports. Of the Connecticut League. q
cigarette smoker in the bleachers care
lessly dropped q lighted match under
the structure. Dry grass caught fire and
there was a volume Of smoke, which gave
way TO a flame which soon enyeIoped
the bleachers. The crowd rushed out and
the flames ate their way to the grand
stand 10 the west. There were 5000 per-
sons in the grand stand. and there was
a mad rush TO get out Several women
were trampled upon. but none was in
jured seriously.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
W. GOULD BROKAW ENGAGED.
Marriage 10 Miss Mary Norris Blair
Announced for September.

Syracuse, n. Y, Aug. 1S-Mr. and Mrs
Joseph Allen Blair. of New York an
nounced to-day the engagement of their
daughter Miss Mary Morris Blair TO
William Gould Brokaw. of New York
The wedding viii take place in Septem-
ber, in Grace Church. New York. OF at
the country home Of Miss BIair's par-
ents, in Chlttenango. Mr.. Brokaw will
take his bride on a honeymoon trip
through Europe in a touring car. now be-
ing constructed.
A breach Of promise suit that caused a
stir about two years ago was that in
which Mrs. Katherine Poillon sued vii
liam Gould Brokaw for a large sum. It
was threatened that unless a settlement
was made some hieh-tension love letters,
alleged 70 have been written 10 Mrs
Poillon by Brok7w, would be published.
The suit was finally settled by the pay
ment of $3.50 to the plaintiff.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
RAID TELEGRAPH SCHOOL.
strikers Garry or Instruments from
Possible Rivals.

Pittsburg Aug. H.-A genuine sensation
in the telegraphers' strike happened last
midnight, when delegation Of strikers.
who have been looking about for strike
breakers. stumbled on telegraphers'
school, located in the Newsboys Home.
on Grant street In large room a score
.of young men were being taught how 10
telegraph by several well-known opera
tors of the city.
There was panic when the strikers
swooped down on the students. The men
who were teaching sought to escape.
while the students merely stared. The
strikers, after cOnfscating the instru-
ments the students We're learning on. left
There are threats of bringing suit against
them for taking the instruments.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
BUYS ROWLAND INSTRUMENTS.
Postal Company Gets Machines that
Write Automatically.
Washington Herald

Spec-li 70 Inc washington Herald.
Baltimore. Aug. 1S.-The Postal Tele-
graph Company has recently purchased
in this city a number Of the Rowland
telegraph machines. They are made here
by local company formed to manufac-
ture and sell these instruments. which
are an invention Of the late Prof. Henry
B. Rowland, Of Johns Hopkins University.
The destination Of the machines lust
bought VIII not be disclosed.
Cities TO which they are TO be sent at
once are believed to be Philadelphia. New
York, Chicago, Pittsburg. and st. Louis.
One of these instruments is already in
use between Boston and New York, and
is said 10 give excellent service.
The Rowland machine is intricate but
It is said that any intelligent person
either man or w0man-can learn TO oper-
ate It IN few days. II is supplied with
a keyboard Ike a typewriter The mes
sage to be sent is ticked off at one end
on these keys and is reproduced auto
matically in writing at the other end.
The receiving end requires no operas tor.
his IS one Of the chief labor-saving de-
vices or the instrument
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
HAVANA TORN BY POLITICS.
Celebration of Revolution Anniversary
To-day StirS Rival Factions.

Havana. Aug. IS.-PoIiucal circles have
been rent asunder by the proposed meet
ing tomorrow night 10 commemorate the
beginning of the revolution OF last year.
The meeting was planned by the SUD-
p0rters of Alfredo Zayas, wheTeupon Joss
Miguel Gomez the rival Liberal eandi-
date for the Presidency, said he would
not participate. Since then politicians
have been excitedly discussing the pro-
priety OF the meeting. The Zayasists
planned to invite Gov. MagoOn. but did
not because the impOssibility of his at
tending such an affair was pointed out 10
them.
Not since the revolution itself has
Havana been so excited politically.
Therefore the meeting promises to be in.
teresting.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-19
vsndaIia Flyer saved from Wreck.

st. Louis. Aug. 1S.-Train No. II Of the
alia-Pennsylvania flyer, through fast
mail from New York. narrowly escaped
being wrecked on arrival at East st.
Louis early to-day A crew Of passing
switch engine discovered ties piled on
the track, and barely had time to re-
move them, saving many passengers
lives.