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Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
BELIEVES HARRY
THAW WAS
SANE
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 14.-Answering
the same hypothetical question in re-
sponse to which the alienist of the de-
fense declared Harry K. Thaw was suf-
fering from an unsound mind, and did
not know the nature or quality of his
act when he shot and killed Stanford
White, DR.. Austin Flint, the first ex-
pert called today by District Attorney
Jerome in rebuttal, declared 1t to be
his opinion that Thaw positively did
know the nature and quality of his act
and knew that the act was wrong.
When court adjourned Mr.. Delmas
had not begun his cross-examination of
DR.. Flint, who is the first of six alien
lists to be called by Mr.. Jerome.
After receiving DR.. Flint's answer to
Delmas' hypothetical question, Mr..
Jerome had read to the witness the
prosecutions hypothetical question,
which contained some $4,000 words and
which required one hour and eighteen
minutes in it's reading.
DR.. Flint again said without quail
fication that Thaw knew his act was
wrong and Is therefore liable for the
murder in the first degree under the
statutes of the state of New York.
| Mr.. Delmas Indicated that he would
cross-examine each expert searchingly.
Mr.. Jerome's sanguinary prophecy that
the taking of testimony would be con-
cluded by tomorrow has been abandoned
and those concerned in the case again
| look to April 1 as the earliest mo-
ment of closing the trial.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
Down Town District
Resembles Big
Lake
Boats Used to Carry
Guests from
Hotels
EntireVi Villages Destroyed
in West Virginia
and Ohio
Three Persons Drowned
at GAINESVILLE
Yesterday
Property Loss Will Be Millions, and
Tens of Thousands of People
Are Now Without ,
Homes
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
PITTSBURG, March 14.-Se-
rious flood conditions prevail to-
night in Pennsylvania, West Vir-
ginia and eastern Ohio.
At 10 o'clock the water reached
a stage of 34.o feet and was SO
feet at Market street.
= At the headwaters the rivers
are now stationary.
The crest of the food is expect
ed to reach here about midnight,
when IS feet will be recorded.
This stage is 13 feet above the
danger mark.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the
30-mile ice gorge broke and is
moving toward the city.
The immense gorge in the Clar-
ion river has also started down
stream.
Conditions in Pittsburg are the
worst ever reported.
The whole lower down town
district is under water.
Duquesne way, Pennsylvania
avenue and Liberty street, rum
ming parallel with the Allegheny
river, are submerged to a depth
of several feet.
Hundreds of business houses
loacted in this district are flooded.
In number of instances the
water is almost up to the second
floor.
The Gaiety, Belasco, Alvin and
Bijou theaters are surrounded
with water and will be unable to
open for several days.
The guests of the Colonial,
Lincoln and Anderson hotels are
either marooned or compelled to
use skiffs to and from the build
ings.
Trolley service between Pitts
burg and Allegheny was suspend
ed early today, and tonight at the
Pennsylvania depot are thousands
of excited people trying to board
trains for Allegheny and other
suburbs.
Trolley, elevated and telephone
service is demoralized in different
sections.
Within the last three hours
fourteen fatalities directly due to
the flood have occurred.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
MANY OHIO CITIES
SUFFER BIG LOSS;
THREE ARE DROWNED

BY Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, March 14.-Many
Ohio points are experiencing disas-
trous floods. Dispatches to the Asso-
ciated Press from many places tell of
swollen streams and of death, damage
and privation as result of the flood.
| At GAINESVILLE, where three persons
were drowned today, the Muskingun
river is rising tonight at the rate OF
one and half inches an hour and Is
near the high water mark of 1925
when the most disastrous floods known
in the section occurred.
Mayor Deacon tonight swore in a
large force of special policemen and
gave orders to confiscate the boats of
owners found charging excessive ferry
rates in the flooded districts.
In Springfield and vicinity more than
$500,000 damage has resulted to prop
erty and 200 families have been made
homeless by the sudden rise of the
Madison river and it's tributaries.
At Findlay flood conditions. which
have been serious for thirty-six hours
past, were eased off tonight when the
Blanchard river, which had reached
its highest point in several years and
has inundated a part of the city, began
falling.
The Muskingum, Scioto, Great and
Little Miamis from the north and the
Kanawha, Big Sandy and Licking from
the south have not only poured their
surplus into the Ohio, but they have
laid waste the farms and villages
along their banks. Breaks in the big
oil and natural gas pipe lines were
reported at number of points between
the West Virginia fields and the Ohio
towns depending on them. Marietta
reports cold and hunger because of
lack of gas and the breaking of the
pipe lines wrought much damage.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
SCHMITZ AND RUFF
RECEIVE NO COMFORT
FROM SUPREME COURT

BY Associated Press.
= SAN FRANCISCO, March IA =
+ The supreme court this afternoon =
= denied the application OF Mayor =
+ Schmitz and Abraham Ruef for =
4 writs of habeas corpus. :
= In the case of the mayor the !
+ merits of his application were not 4
+ dwelt on at all. The court held =
!. that his plea that he was unjustly !
+ held in custody on grand jury in +
+ dictments was made merely to =
4 make out a case of habeas corpus, 4
+ that his restraint was not actual, I
4 but technical, and that he became 4
i a nominal prisoner for the purpose I
4. of securing the writ. 4
+ The court cited a previous decis- 4
+ ion in a similar case in which 1t 4
]. was decided that hereafter the 4
+ court will make strict inquiry in =
4 this class of cases whether the al 4
!. legged imprisonment is actual or 7
4 voluntary, and If 1t is found to be 4
+ as in this case, a merely nominal !
+ restraint, voluntarily submitted to 4
+ for the purpose of making a case 4
4 of habeas corpus, the petition will !
i be summarily dismissed" 4
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
ROBBERS BEHEAD
SEVEN VICTIMS
Witnesses of Terrible Slaughter in
Russia Lose Their Reason
and One Dies in, Hos
pltal
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
YELISAvETGRAD, Russia, March
14.-An estate in this vicinity was at
tackled by robbers yesterday, who
bound and decapitated the proprietor,
five laborers and a woman.
Two witnesses OF the slaughter, a
soldier who hid in hay stack, and a
child, lost their reason. The soldier
subsequently died in a hospital. The
booty secured amounted to $1,000.
On the occasion of the funeral yes
terday of prominent reactionary who
was killed by revolutionists, an at
tempt was made to start anti-Jewish
eXcesSeS.
Rioters began beating Jews in the
streets and sacking the bazaar and
Jewish lodgings, but they were stopped
by the prompt Intervention of the
troops Several Jews were wounded,
one of whom died in a hospital.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
OF THE WORLD ARE
BARRED AT G0LDFIELD

BY Associated Press.
+ GOLDFIELD New, March IA =
+ At a largely attended meeting of :
= the mine owners and business men =
= of Goldfield tonight the following =
4 resolutions we're adopted: !
y whereas, Local conditions are Z
+ becoming intolerabe through con- I
Z slant and unreasonable agitation :
+ on the part of the leaders of an Z
4 organization known as the Indus !
+ trial Workers of the World; there !
:. fore be 1t
Z Resolved, That representing the !
i commercial and mining interests Z
I of Goldheld we hereby pledge our \
4 selves to absolutely refuse to em- !
= ploy any man in any capacity who !
4 is q member of the Industrial !
4 Workers of the World; and be 1t Z
4 further :
+ Resolved, That the mine owners 4
4 and other industries will recog- 4
i nize any miners union that is Z
4 independent of the Industrial <
!. Workers of the World in the Cold I
!. field mining district" I
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
THREE HUNGARIANS
LOSE THEIR LIVES AS
A RESULT OF FLOODS
Ry Associated Press.

GAINESVILLE, Ohio, March a.
Three Hungarians were drowned here
as the result of the flood this morning.
A score of foreigners were living in
house that was surrounded by the
Muskingum river overflow during the
night.
When they started to wade to land
they were caught In the current and
swept out into the river
Flood conditions throughout Musk
ingum county are unprecedented and
growing worse every hour. The Musk
ingum and Licking rivers are out Of
bounds in this city and more than a
hundred homes have been invaded by
the water. 1t is believed that 800
families will be homeless here by to-
morrow.
The high waters have crossed West
Main street to depth of four feet.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
TWO ENTIRE TOWNS
REPORTED TO HAVE
BEEN WASHED AWAY
By Associated Press.

by ASSOCldLSu 1893.
WHEELING, w. Va, March a.
Wheeling is in the midst of the worst
flood since 1884.
Tonight at o'clock the mark showed
A feet and rising four inches an hour,
with the expectation that the top notch
will be reached by Friday noon, at be-
tween 45 and 48 feet.
The trolley lines have suspended to-
day and there can be no resumption
of communication by railroad before
Sunday or Monday.
At Wheeling and surrounding towns
it is estimated that the flood has
wholly or partially submerged fully
5000 houses, and that nearly $4,000
people have been driven from their
homes or to upper floors.
The villages OF Majorsville and
Vicela, in the Wheeling Creek valley,
are reported to have been wiped out
by a sudden freshet early today.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
PASSENGER Station Hooded

By ASSOclated Press.
CINCINNATI, March 14.-Reports
from up-river points and various trlb-
utaries indicate a repetition OF the
flood of two months ago, when the
river exceeded all high water records
since 1884. The rise in this city will
necessitate abandoning the Grand
Central passenger station.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15

1-Gamblers tremble as prices drop.
2-Magnates bow before big stick.
S-Arsues against quashlng charges.
RS7ys preacher Is bound for Omaha
6-Enslne blows up; twelve hurt.
6-EdltorlaI. -
7-city news.
6-Sports.
s-southern California news.
10-Markets.
11-classlfled advertisements.
12-RalIroad news.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
Thousands Maroonsd
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
JoHNSTOwN, Pa, March H.
Johnstown's streets are being swept
by surging currents. The water lis
higher than at any time since the
great flood of 1889, when over $500
lives were lost. The loss win be i'm
mense. Thousands are marooned IN
their homes. The stage of water is
eighteen feet, foot higher than any
known record. Houses on high ground
are full of refugees.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
NEGROES HUNG IN
A PUBLIC SQUARE
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, March IA spe-
cial to the Picayune from Monroe, La,
says Flint Williams and Henry Gard
ner, two young negroes, were taken
from the city jail about 1 o'clock and
hanged in the court house square by a
party of about fifty men.
Gardner confessed to having entered
the room OF Miss Jessie Bumpus about
o'clock yesterday morning.
The whole affair was planned after
the capture and confession of the ne.
groes and was carried out without
hitch
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
SENATOR BURTON TO
REMAIN IN JAIL
BY Associated Press.

ABILENE, Kas., March 14.-In let
ter received here today from United
States Senator Burton, now serving a
six months sentence in the jail at IRON
ton, Mo-, he says he considers reliable
report from Washington that he must
stay in jail another month unless he
pays his fine of 5000.
He says THAI as he has no money and
does not want to borrow 1t, he probably
Will remain in Ironton until April 21.
His six months sentence would have
ended March 2l.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
THIRTY -MILE ICE GORGE NOW MOVING
RAPIDLY TOWARD PTTTSBURG; SCORE
OF FATALITIES; THOUSANDS HOMELESS
ITEMIzED DETAILS OF FLOOD

gorge thirty miles long moving toward Pitsburg.
Lower down district flooded the in
being up the second floor.
Four teaters surrounded though in the middle of great
lake.
Trolley service in many places entirely suspended.
fatalities reported Pttsburg alone.
Three drown at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where thousands
homeless
Three thousand houses submerged Wheeling W. Va.
entire towns reported washed away
Property loss in Pbg exceeds S0000OO and in the coke
region $2,0o00o0
Westinghouse works. employing 10000 hands, estimates loss
$50000,O00
Restaurants hotels Pttsbug filled with unable
Ito therh
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
MAKES STEER-TYING
SHOWS MISDEMEAN0RS

BY Associated Press
PHOENIX, March, 14-The legisla-
tive assembly today passed the Coun-
ell BILL making steer tying exhibitions
misdemeanors, punishable by fine or
imprisonment.
The Council bill providing new laws
for Incorporated cities was also passed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15

At midnight the Allegheny river had
reached a stage of 35.1 and was rising
a foot an hour. The sudden rise was
reported by the weather bureau to be
due to the breaking of the ice gorges
at Parker and Freeport.
With this rise a large portion of the
city is flooded Several newspapers
have been compelled to call upon their
contemporaries to assist them in get
ting out morning editions but the
press rooms are flooded and fire en-
gines have been called into service to
pump Easements in an effort to save
property loss.
At midnight the damage done by the
flood is estimated at $4,000. 900. Four
teen lives in various Pennsylvania
towns have been sacrificed and more
may be lost, as the water is steadily
rising.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
LOCAL

Douglas Dawson, former manager or
Hoegees, arrested on charge Of stealing
$l700.
Second attempt at suicide Is successful.
Buena Vista street bridge Is IA danger
Gus condition.
Sacramento delegation comes to learn
how Los Angeles does II,
Engine explodes injuring twelve per-
sons.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
Five Strikers kIIIed

Iy ASSUCIdIeu Press.
BELGRADE. Servia. March 14.-In a.
conflict between the police and strik-
ers here today five of the strikers were
killed and twenty wounded. Further.
collisions were narrowly averted.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
sixty Houses Gone
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WHEELING, w. Va, March H.
The town of Majorsville, Marshall
county, community of sixty houses.
was entirely swept away by the waters
of the Big Wheeling creek. The peo-
pie fled to higher ground. Viola, an
other town, was partly destroyed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
Hundred Houses Inundated

by AsSOCIdItu FIBS5. " u
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, March IA
The flood damage in this vicinity is
already the most serious ever suffered
here One hundred houses have been
inundated in the southeastern part OF
the city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
COAST

Supreme court refuses to grant re-
quests of Schmitz and Ruef
Pomona man drops dead while sing
ing.
Reported at Seattle that island vol
cano on Peninsula OF Alaska has be-
come active.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
THE DAYS NEWS
FORECAST

For Southern California: Cloudy
Friday; light northeast winds, chang
Ing to west. Maximum temperature
In Los Angeles yesterday, 6s de-
srees; minimum, a. degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
River out Of Banks
BY Associated press.

LIMA, Ohio, March 14.-The heavy
d0wnpour Of rain In this section has
raised the ottawa river beyond its
bounds, the small waterway being un-
crest OF the OhiO's watershed. Fifty
families were forced to move out Of
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
EAsTERN

Worst fiood In years sweeps three
eastern states.
Railway magnates humbly bow be-
fore big stick at Washington.
Two negroes lynched in Louisiana.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15

their homes here last night. Pipe
lines have been unearthed and oil
plants are rendered useless by the
high waters.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
HERALD,S GREAT MINING EDITION

IN SUNDAY, MARCH H. The Herald will publish its
great mining edition, devoted detailed description
of the wonderful gold camps and cities of southern Ne
The issue will consist 100 beautifully printed pages
coored hundreds of specially prepared illustrations
and vast fund of information before coed printed
During the past month representatives of The have per
sonay travelled through southern Nevada visiting days at
time the cities of Goldheld Tonopah Rhyole Bullfroe
Searchgh and other weknown mining The results
visits embodied in the special edition of The Herald
which will be issued Sunday.
Agents requested to send in their orders today and all
advertisers requested have their copy advertise
edition in The Herald office not later than
afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
Rises a Foot an Hour

been besieged by persons unable t.
reach their homes.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16

A YANKToN paper has felt
called upon to criticise Senator
Kittredge for his vote upon the
admission of Senator SmoOt to a
seat in the senate. Senator Kilt
Yedge voted against the seating
Of Smoot, being one of only four
or five other republican senators
who thus voted, among those be-
ing Burrows, of Michigan and
Lafollette of Wisconsin. Senator
Kittredge won't need to make
suy apology to the people OF
South Dakota for his vote on
this ques ton, as the great ma,
1ority Of them heartily agree with
him, that uatil Utah keeps faith
with the United States and makes
an honest attempt to discounten.
ance polygamy, recognition as q
state should be refused to her.
The Norman church is q danger
Gus political machine ia the states
where it is strong, and it's infu'
ence in this direction should be
curbed.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16
went Fer.

Deacon Eden Libby Of Bridgton.
~, was a man of rugged virtues and
Accountable will. Some winters ago
while working In his wood lot he cut
- foot badly, but, bandaging the
wound roughly and putting snow into
- boot to stop the bleeding. contin-
~ at his work until nightfall. Sad
- relate, he took cold. and death re-
suited a few days later. A local char
ester named Farrar was clerk and gen.
OAl utility mar at the Cumberland
House In Bridgton village at that time
0n0 was accustomed to make note on
- hotel register from day to day Of
1oeal events-the weather, etc. In his
chronicle Of this sad event he wished
= indicate that Deacon Iibby's death
Was unnecessary. The following may
- see today on m Of the old regis.
IeD 1t the Cumberland House:
Deacon Eden Libby died today. He
- his foot badly. did not have the
Wound attended to and went to meet
God uncalled for"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16

THE members of the Chicago
Press club entered a protest
against one or two of their mem
hers who invited w. D. Haywood
20 the club room. Henry Baker,
one of the members of the club
expressed his dissatisfaction as
follows:
SIT is an insult to the Press club"
declared Mr.. Baker, 'sthat Haywood
should be forced into association with
4. Here he is an outcast socially.
He escaped punishment for his mis-.
Deeds through q mere technicality,
and now comes here expecting to be
Honized. He came to the Press club
oday with a ecclesiastical smirk on his
face like he had done something noble
and stood around in an %expectant at.
titude expecting US to pat him on the
back and fall down and worship him
like some other people have done
Well. we didn't pat. He was Stunned
like he should be. And if he comes
into the club again we'll try to make
our disapproval . little more sppar
eut."
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16
A BAD hail storm in the Red
river country destroyed about
10000 acres of crops, Wednes-
day night in the vicinity OF Far.

WILBUR S. GLASS, of Water
town, who is an announced can
lidate for Congress, was calling
on Milbank friends Tuesday,
while on his way to Roberts
county. The primaries are not
until next June, but Glass has
been reading that fascinating
story that has been woven about
the early bird and the worm, and
If he doesn't get the nomination
It won't be because he didn't
catch time by the forelock. It's
considerable of a question if
Glass wouldn't be al improve
ment on what is supposed to re
present South Dakota in the
next congress.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16

The Sioux Falls Press, which
Has heretofore been classed as a
democratic paper, has recently
been purchased by Governor
Crawford and his friends as an
other organ for what is known as
the insurgent wing of the repub-
lican party. The way the insur-
gent machine is buying up and
establishing newspapers it looks
g if it was thought some news
paper support was absolutely
necessary. This last deal, how
ever, was q natural one, as the
Press under its recent manage.
ment would probably have sup
ported Bryan as a democratic
candidate aud this might have
initiated against it's support OF
Crawford.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16
hoxx 1, Clean Dirty Esss.

70 long as the hens do not wipe their
- before going on the nest to lay
- shall have dirty eggs once IN
SMILE. Don't send them to market
1afhout washing. A little warm viss'
- ~ In win remove the stains.
Cal 0uut mixed with salt and water
- made into good sised Jumps Will
1ouAd v0Ey useful - bank ~ Urea
1GAk
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16
Harvest work shoes, 81. SO. Nc.
COllum 4 Thirsk.
For Over sixty 4 ears

MRS. WINsLOW's SOOTHING SYRu
has been used for children teethtn0.
It sooths the child, softens the gumss
allays the pain, cures wind ocltc. q
is the best remedy for dtoErhoa
Twenty-Five cents . bottle.
Guaranteed under the food and
drugs act, June 30th, 1905. Serial
number 1905.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-16

Continued on next page.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-04-13

natural size and fly straight for pointe
who had come running up, until the dog
stood abashed and respected her mother
hood.
| "Oh, shame upon this woman. No
content with what she has already done,
she would take away the life of the ont
human being who came as an angel int<
the life of this girl on the downward
path, who told the girl that whatever
she might be in the eyes of sinful and
debauched world he knew her soul was
pure.
! PAYS TRIBUTE TO THAw.
"He said: Yes, know that your
soul is pure; know it was not your
fault; know you are an unfortunate
and betrayed girl; but come to me and l
will protect you. About your form I
will throw the strong arms of man. l
will fight the battles of life with you at
my side. No matter what others may
think of you, think you are an angel.
To me you are fairer than Rachel at the
well or Ruth in the fields.'"
Mr.. Delmas halted his address for a
few minutes at this point and sat down
to rest. Juror No. IL wiped his eyes
with handkerchief.
When he resumed Mr.. Delmas de-
clared there was documentary evidence
to prove that Evelyd Nesbit told Harry
Thaw the story of her downfall in Paris
in 1903. He began to quote at length
from the letters Thaw wrote from Paris
to his attorney, Mr.. Longfellow. These
letters make many references to the
girls life. The attorney next declared
that Thaw had no occasiod to lie to his
mother when he told her the story in
Pittsburg after his return from Europe.
In contrast to the mother of Evelyn
Nesbit, Mr.. Delmas pictured the mother
of Harry Thaw. He reviewed the testi-
mony she gave on the stand and pointed
to the the love and affection she displayed
for he son when he began to display
that restlessness which eliminated in
the tragedy. He spoke in eulogistic
terms of her noble character and of the
sacrifices she made to tighten the burden
and ease the pain of her heart-broken
boy.