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The Washington times., 1907-12-30
Youth of 20 Alone in
Station When Attack
Comes.
BlOOdhOundS on Trail
of Three Suspicious
Characters.

WHEELING, ". Va, Dec. 30
Robbers this morning murdered Ed
ward Hutchinson, a Baltimore and
Ohio railroad telegraph operator al
Welcome, 80 miles from here, rob
bed the safe in the station, and then
threw the young mans body into a
wareroom Of the building, which
they set afire.
Bloodhounds are on the trail Of
three suspicious characters who
were seen lurking around the sta
tion about midnight, and a posse Of
armed residents is hot on the trail
of the criminals, who may be sum
marily dealt with in the event Of
their capture.
Youth Alone in Station.
The crime IS supposed TO have been
committed about 1 o'clock this morn
ing when Hutchinson, who was but
twenty years old. was alone in the sta
ticn- II IS believed the young man was
asleep. and when suddenly aWakened
he resisted the Efforts OF the intruders
10 ranzack the safe containing q smau
sum of money and many hundreds Of
tickets.
Attention Of residents was first al
tracted 90 the lite station By flames
bursting from the building Volunteers
responded 20 the cries OF fire from those
nearby but the flames had gained such
headway thar it was impossible to gfr
10 the bunk room where the operator
was supposed 10 be ASLEEP.
The station and wars-oOm were de-
str0yed by the flames. the safe was
found open and the absence OF the tin
box containing the money and tickets
proved that IL had been robbed
His Skull Battered IN.
Upon examination OF the body OF the
operator it was discovered that he had
not only been shot. but his skull was
battered in and gag had been fas-
tened about his mouth TO prevent OUT
cries.
Immediately after the body was dis
covered a request was sent % the
MoundsviEe penitentiary FOR half a doz-
en- Of the famous blOOdhOunds. and they
were at once set upon the trail OF thu
murders robbers. and incendiaries
This IS the worst crime ever commit
ted in this section OF the State and
residents are IN high pitch OF excite
menC.
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
TO DRAG
BURNING PARENT
OUT Of FLAMES
Miss Becker Almost Un-
conscious When Help
Arrived.

Investigation for two days has failed
TO reveal the origin Of the fire which
early yesterday morning wrecked the
home Of Peter NJ Becker, at 1905
Eleventh street, caused the death OF his
wife and horribly burned his daughter.
Miss Edna Becker, who made heroic,
but fruitless attempts TO save her
mother from an awful death
AS the details Of the tragedy become
known bit by bit it evolves into one OF
the most pathetic and horrifying acci-
dents that has ever shocked Washing
ton Not until today have the members
of the stncken family been composed
to such an extent that they could ex-
plain the r,cidents connected with the
fire.
Father Ignorant Of Tragedy.
Mr.. Becker himself can throw no
light upon the natter inasmuch as ne
was in Baltimore at the time and knew
nothing Of the awful fate Of his wife
until he read an account of the fire
In a paper while en- route to Wash
ington.
According TO the story told by Miss
Becker and her young brother. Peter
who We're the only persons in the house
with the mother at the time, Mrs.
Becker. was accustomed 10 reading late,
and remained UP until past midnight
on this OccI sion. the other members
OF the family retiring.
About o'clock. for some reason
which viii never be known, she went
into the basement OF their home. A
moment later her little son heard her
screams. he rushed 10 Miss Becker's
room, and she. In her night robes.
dashed to the basement below. Peter
ran out the front door and began to
scream for help.
on arriving at the kitchen Miss
Becker says she found her mother
struggling and groping in the smoke
and flames, which were fast enveloping
the entire basement floor. She began
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Earthquake Is Registered
By Laibach Instrument

I.AIBACH, Austria, Dec 3O.-The sells
mograph recorded at $40 this morning
several heavy shocks OF earthquake, the
center Of the disturbance being about
500 miles westerly from the Observa-
tory.
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
Covert Gambols Like Lamb.

The position Of pacemaker was as
sumed by Mr.. Covert, who is noted as
an athlete. It is said that he would
leave the party at points along the
road, run ahead for half a mile, and
then return to see how the boys were
getting along.
The pilgrims took the Seventh street
road to Brightwood. thence to Silver
Spring. where the first stop was made,
and a supper Of pOtted-ham and sardine
sandwiches was eaten. They pushed on
10 Ashton, Md, which was reached at
10 o'clock Thursday night. After as
suring the natives that they were not
as bad as they appeared, lodging was
finally arranged at the home Of a Mr..
Abel. Lodging and breakfast for the
party OF three cost Sl.75, an evidence Of
the fact that they were not regarded as
millionaires in disguise.
Before reaching Ashton the pilgrims
were frequently held up by toll-gate
keepers and others along the road and
lanterns thrown in their faces. In each
instance however. they succeeded in
convincing the confiding natives that
they were all right.
Ashton was left at $50 O'clock Friday
morning. and Ellicot City. a distance of
sixteen miles. reached at 1:30 O'Clock
In the afternoon. Dinner was had there
without serious delay or comment.
The town constable however, who saw
the trio as they marched into the town
was not entirely satisfied that they
were straight goods, and remained close
10 the hotel until the postalites were
well on their way again.
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
GRADE DAMAGE AWARDS
APPROVED BY MORROW

Engineer Commissioner Morrow has
approved the Union Station grades dam
ages commission appraisement OF the
damages which have been done TO ths
premises . TO 81, on Mccullough street
northwest, by the changes in the grade
of the street caused by the new ter
minal.
The average damage TO the nine
houses IS placed by the commission Gs
$3.50.
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
HElNZE BANKRUPT CASE
IS POSTPONED FOR WEEK

NEW YORK, Dec. 30-The hearing
before Federal Judge Hough to dismiss
the n.Stion IN involuntary bankruptcy
proceedings against Otto Heinze & Co,
brokers, who suspended several months
ago, was adjourned today for one week.
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
THE WEATHER REPORT.

Steamers departing today for Euro
pean ports Will have fresh to brisk
southerIy shifting TO westerly, winds.
and rain to the Grand Banks.
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
SUICIDE FOUND IN OFFICE
AFTER ALL NIGHT SEARCH

BUFFALO. n. Y. Dec. S0-After
searching for him all night the body OF
George Werner. a prominent business
man, was found in the Office Of the
Werner Carriage Manufacturing Com
pany here early today. Werner had
committed suicide by .=taling illumi-
mating gas through a rubber tube at
tached TO Jet.
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
SHED OVER GRAVE
CONCEALS GROUP
FROM BIG CROWD
worn Statement Of
Witness Taken and
Body Reburied.

LONDON, Dec. 3O.-Thomas Charles
Druce's coffin contains human re-
mains.
1t was opened in Highgate Gene
terry today. and inside was found
the body of an aged, bearded man.
The features were unrecognizable,
but there is no doubt the corpse
was that of Druce himself.
Though George Hollamby Druce,
claimant to the title and estates Of
the dukedom Of Portland, says his
case is mistaken by the discovery,
it is generally considered that the
Investigation wrecks his hopes.
The perjury charge against Her
bert Druce, the elder Druce's son
by a second marriage, who Says he
saw his father in his coffin in 1864.
fifteen years before the fifth duke
of Portland died, of course falls to
the ground.
New Workers. Story False.
The story by Robert Caldwell. the
New Yorker who swore he engineered
a bogus funeral for DrUce and buried
200 pounds of lead in his coffin, is Uroved
absolutely untrue. Herbert Druce says
he will push the case against the lat
ter. who is under arrest in New York.
charged by the English authorities
with perjury. Similar accusations viii
probably be preferred against other wit
nesses who testified in George II.
Druce's civil suit and against Herbert
Druce in the perjury case.
1t was to lay a foundation for such
prosecutions that Herbert Druce much
against his win, finally permitted his
fathers grave to be opened.
Built Shed Over Grave.
The opening of the grave was begun
at s O'Clock in the morning. The dig
gers and witnesses were gathered in
an electric lighted shed built about the
Druce lot. Adjoining the shed was d
small private room provided for Dr.
Pepper, the physician chosen 10 open
the coffin and conduct the examination
The most extraordinary precautions
were taken 90 keep curiosity seekers at
a distance. Two hundred men guarded
the cemetery. keeping out every one
unless provided with permits to enter.
Herbert Druce, who was in charge,
refused 10 allow George Druce inside
the gate.
An hour and fOrty-hve minutes was
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Very, Very Tired Second Night.

Baltimore was reached at 5:15 o'clock.
each member OF the party being lame,
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The Washington times., 1907-12-30
Successful Business Men Demand the

best printing-that's why our clientele IS
so large. Globe Printing Co.. 18th and z
sts nw--Adv-
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
Frau Won Elbe Is De-
clared Sane and Com
petent to Give
Evidence.
Witness Says That Won
Moltke'S Mother-in-
Law Accused Wife
of Misconduct.

BERLIN, Dec. 3O.-Prof. Schweninger,
the late Prince Bismarcks physician,
gave the testimony at the Won Moltke-
Harden libel trial turn favorable 20
the accused editor today.
Concerning Frau Won Elbe. whose
testimony against her divorced husband,
Won Moltke, has been attacked by sew
eral witnessed FOR the prosecution.
Schweninger declared I'm deposition
read in court that he always considered
the woman mentally sound. he did not
think she ever suffered from illusions,
but believed all the damaging charges
she made against Won MOltke.
He related hearing the kaiser's sis
ter. the Princess OF SAKE AIeiningen. eX-
press her sorrow that such dcgener-
acy'' as Won Moltke's should Occur In
high circles"
Heard immortality Rumors.
He heard rumors Of Prince zu EUIen-
berg's alleged immortality. he added. as
long ago as the time Of Prince Bis
marck.
The deposition said the professor was
astonished, however, that Harden s
writings would have created so great a
furore, inasmuch es he Snoerstood them
to be political rather than personal in
] significance.
Then a number OF witnesses took the
! stand TO attack Frau Won Elbe. He
! former companion. Fraulein Mai, SAID
/ Frau Won Elbe was &C PRECIOUS. eNcit
able, and unreasonably oua~relsome
/ Won Moltke suffered grew +, the wit
ness added. from his vile conduct.
Guilty of ImPToPrieties.
/ Frau Won Dem Marvgitz said F'ral
Won Elbe's mother told the former tha
her daughter was 'fH advised and un
| trustworthy" Baroness Won SwaseI
asserted that Frau Won El5e vas guilt
| of various improprieties t-fOre hei
marriage to Won Moitke. Similar ac
| cusations were made by Counties.
Dauckelmana.
| Harden was so III that he was hardly
| able 10 hold up m5 head during to
DAYS proceedings, and. either frou
| weakness or discouragemeut at tht
! piling up Of testimony against him
/ appeared much depressed MOltke ap
! pears TO gain strength and cheerful
/ ness constantly as the hearing pro
/ crosses.
The Washington times., 1907-12-30
TEMPERATTRE.
SUN TABLE.
TIDE TABLE.

Sun sets today. y........................ 4:4
Sun rises tomorrow. T;1S
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12
TWELVE ARE KILLED IN WRECK
ROCK ISLAND PASSENGER TRAIN
JUMPED THE TRACK.
Baggage and Mail Cars Were TeIe-
scoped and the Smoking Car was
Demolshed-The Injured are
IL in Number.

Waterloo, Iowa. Twelve per-
sons were killed and II others injured
in the wreck of an express train on
the Chicago Rock Island e. Pacific
railroad at Norris, Ia, Friday. The
express train, northbound, jumped the
track while going at full speed and
crashed into freight train standing
on the siding. The dead:
p. b. Oliver Waterloo, Ia.
VIII Goodman, Waterloo.
John n. Watson, Waterloo.
c. l.. Landphere, Shellrock, la.
w. Ray Johnson, Dixie, la.
B. P. Christy, Minneapolis
Lepovan Toja, Hammond, Ind.
w. II. Myers, baggageman.
Four unidentified men.
The injured will all probably re-
cover.
The injured were brought to Water
loo hospital
All of the dead and injured were in
the smoking car, which was immedi-
ately behind the baggage and mail car.
The smoking car was demolished.
The northbound express was ten
minutes late at Norris, where the
freight train was waiting The ex-
press came along at terrific speed in
an effort to make up time. Just as
the locomotive of the passenger train
was about to pass the freight locomo-
tive the trucks of the former left the
track and the moving engine crashed
into the engine of the freight, wreck
ing both locomotives and telescoping
the baggage and mail cars and de-
molishing the smoking car.
The passengers in the two day
coaches following the smoking car es-
capped with a violent shaking up
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12
No Quarrel with Time.

According. to the poet we are speed.
ing forever down the ringing grooves
Of change, and this is nowhere more
apparent than in the alterations in the
popular taste for the better, every
thing considered. A writer in the
New York Evening Post, in alluding
to this matter, says that those who
occupy the benches in the public
parks on summer afternoon to listen
to the band are no longer satisfied
with the Star Spangled Banner and
a medley from the comic operas, but
must have selections from Wagner
they may not be averse to a little of
Richard Straus thrown in, we sup
pose, by way of dessert in the musical
feast. There is a like fastidiousness
in regard to painting, due to the in
f1uence of the museum of fine arts and
picture exhibitions Chromos, even
when they are copies of celebrated
paintings, have lost their vogue, and
the fashion for fruit and flower pieces
is going out, while marines" repre-
renting heart-rending shipwrecks,
Lave been superseded, it is somewhat
aatirically observed, by Waves with
cotton wool crests and a splash of
moonlight which discloses nothing be-
cause it is so suggestive" A change
in the taste of literature is also ap-
parent in the demand for short stories
in dialect to replace the old-fashioned
serial novels Continued works of fic-
tion in the monthly magazines still
have their admirers, though the ma
jority of readers no longer like bloody
tales of the frontier type or long
drawn out sensational narratives of
unhappy brides and ghostly visitants.
Instead they prefer story concern
ing the fair settlement worker who
lives among the poor and perhaps
makes romantic marriage, or ac-
counts of automobile adventures in
which the heroine has many lucky es
capes from perils of various kinds
In sermons, too, the ministers keep
abreast of the times in short dis
courses, treating the topics of the
hour as they bear on moral and reli-
gious life, and do not model their SER
mons after the fathers, who too often
had sleepy congregations. What was
fine enough in the departed days, that
we hear so much praise about, says
Boston Budget. is not adapted to the
present. With Tennyson, we hold it
we'll good things should pass, and
with the changes of time we need not
ton of progress.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12
CAVALRYMEN ARE vIcToRS.
They Win the Dryden Trophy on the
Rifle Range at Sea Girt, N. J.

Sea Girt n. 1.-The $1,000 Dry
den trophy and $3.50 cash, the
most coveted prize offered at the New
Jersey Rifle association tournament
was won Friday in an exciting finish
by the United States cavalry team,
which scored 1,001 points. The next
highest score was made by the Massa-
chusetts team with 977. The second
prize is 500. The Maryland marks
men surprised the field by taking third
place with 976 points, defeating New
Jersey by five points. The third prize
is $50. The Jerseymen's 971 is tied
by the army infantrymen, but the
regulars did not shoot so well by three
points on the 1,000-yard targets and so
had to take fifth place. The marine
corps was sixth with 954 and the Dis
trict of Columbia team seventh with
935.
The prize was first given in 1903 by
Senator John F. Dryden, of New Jer-
sey, for teams of eight which should
make the best score in the shots at
200, 600 and 1000 yards with United
States service rifles and with any ma
chine-loaded ammunition of American
manufacture. Members of a winning
team any year are barred from par
ticipating the next year. Seven teams
competed for the trophy this year.
in the thousand yards competition
Massachusetts and Maryland contest
ed for second place and the $100 cash
prize. When Sergeant c. ]. Jeffers, of
the Bay State team, came up for his
last shot he had to hit the target or
have his team third. He made bulls
eye.
The Massachusetts team had the
misfortune Friday to lose one of it's
most experienced shots, Private j. e.
Burns. He was called to Lowell by
the accidental shooting of his brother.
Massachusetts had no substitute and
was about to withdraw from the match
when Col. John Caswell, Massachu-
setts state inspector of small arms
practice, chanced to come to the
range. He was at once put in the
breach.
Sergeant NJ. l.. Brown, New Jersey,
Second troop, won the offhand match,
at 200 yards, by score of As. ]. A.
DietZ, of New York, was second, with
46 and Private Marcy, marine corps,
third with 81.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
The Volume of Trade Is Satisfactory
and in Many Sections Exceeds
that of Last Year.

New York.-R. G. Dun & Co. Is
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Aside from some conservatism in
preparing for remote requirements,
directly due to stringency in the
money market, the volume of business
is satisfactory. Trade exceeds even
the activity of last year in many sec
tions, and as the crops are secured
there is demand for goods at lead
ing jobbing markets that makes the
outlook bright for fall Wholesale
dry goods sales are nearly concluded
at the south and merchants are now
hurrying shipments forward to meet
the autumn retail demand that is
about to open.
Prices of farm staples have risen
to an unusual position for this season,
but this is caused by large foreign
needs rather than any reductions in
domestic yield and the increased
amount of money paid to the farmers
will benefit all departments of trade
and industry. The weeks resplts are
somewhat irregular because of the
holiday and interruption to tele-
graphic communication, but complete
reports for August indicate that the
month compared most favorably with
1906 in almost every department ex-
cept the market for securities.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12
Can Cut Our Duties in Two.

If all the German exporters can ar
range to do their own valuing at our
custom houses they cannot only Sc
cure a reduction in duty amounting
to 20 per cent, but they can cut our
ad valorem duties in two by merely
cutting in two the actual value of their
goods. Not only can the German ex-
porters do this, but all European ex-
porters can do it, for, of course, II is
our purpose to apply the new customs
regulation to imports from all favored
nations. II this Is the situation which
actually confronts our customs depart
ment 1t is quite in order to suggest
that congress shall take some action
to prevent such wholesale notification
of the tariff rules enumerated In the
Dingley law.-Sioux City Journal
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12

William Warner of Great Barring
ton, Mass; Albert G. Herpin of Tren.
ton, n. j., and Joseph Root of Erie,
Pa, are to engage in struggle for
the nonsoporfic championship of the
United States. Warner has not slept
a wink, so he says, for the past so
years; the Trenton man says he has
not closed his eyes for the IA years
Immediately preceding. Mr. Root has
a 25-year record as an anti-Rip Van
Wrinkle.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12
MAY BE MOVING TOO FAST.
Governor Cummins Seems to Be in a
Hurry to Count Chickens.

Have the Iowa Republicans already
elected their delegates-at-large to the
National Convention of 1908? Is A.
B. Cummins among the number elect
cd? 1t would seem So, for Governor
Cummins has lately announced his in
tention to see to it personally that a
pledge of immediate tariff revision is
incorporated in the platform. We had
not heard that a state convention had
been held in Iowa and that Mr.. Cum
Minis had been chosen one of the
delegates for next year. Is not the
governor then counting his chickens
before they are hatched? May not the
Republicans of Iowa decide not to
thus honor man whose mania for
tariff ripping and for political mis-
chief in general has been so fruitful
of dissension and trouble? There was
some question in 1904 as to including
Cummins among the delegates-at-
large, but 'in the interest of harmony"
the objectors acquiesced. How far
harmony was thereby promoted was
shown last year in the vindictive atti-
tude of the Cummins faction and in
the heavy falling off in the Republi-
can vote of that year. 1t proved to be
a harmony that did not harmonize
Possibly the time has arrived for diff
ferent tactics In that event Cummins
may not be in position to personally
direct the action of the Republican ma
tional convention on the question of
tariff revision.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12

Reciprocal Tariff Reformer: Ger
many threatens to shut out our ex-
ports with her high maximum tariff
To avert that disaster we must make
tariff concessions that will satisfy Ger
man."
Thomas Jefferson: I'VE must do
nothing of the sort. Let me repeat
what I wrote on that subject in 1898:
Where nation imposes high duties
on our productions or prohibits them
altogether, it may be proper for us
to do the same by theirs; first bur-
dening those productions which they
bring here in competition with our
own of the same kind, selecting next
such manufactures as we take from
them in greatest quantity and which
at the same time we could the soonest
furnish to ourselves or obtain from
other countries; imposing on them
duties lighter at first, but heavier and
heavier afterward, as other channels
of supply open. Such duties having
the effect of indirect encouragement
to domestic manufactures of the same
kind, may induce the manufacturer to
come himself into the states, where
cheaper subsistence, equal laws and
a vent for his wares, free of duty,
may insure him the highest profits
from his skill and industry. :.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-12
Printers Are Interested.

Some apprehension is expressed re-
garding the effect of the German
agreement upon the printing and pub
fishing business. The Engraver and
Electrotyper of August l raises the
question whether the export price"
provision may not be so manipulated
as to allow the Germans to do a great
deal more in the way of composition
and plate casting for the American
market than they have ever before
done. A large amount of English
typesetting is done in Germany al.
ready, and the 25 per cent. duty has
not kept out the competition of plates
cast from type set at about one-third
the wages paid to American compost
tors. Now that German chambers of
commerce are to fix values for ex-
port, will not the German printers,
electrotypers and engravers, produc-
ing articles for export only, be able to
get in under low valuation and thus
take the bread out of the mouths of
American workmen? This might be
worth looking into by the Interna-
tional Typographical union and by the
organizations of stereotypers and elec-
trotypers. Some years ago it was found
that plates ready for the press were
coming in as scrap metal and pay
ing less than one-tenth the duty pre-
scribed for imported printing plates.
big Six took up the matter and stop
ped the fraud. The German agreement
also will bear investigation.