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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
Woman Badly Injured.

Paris, Sept. 25--The railroad company
received a telegram from Evereaux an
rouncing the arrival there of seven of the
injured. The only one seriously hurt was
an unknown woman, who, however, in
sisted upon going on to Cherbourg. One
other passenger, suffering from a broken
leg was taken TO the hospital there.
The station master at Breval declares
that nO Americans were seriously injured
in the railroad wreck. Eight American
passengers sustained bruises, but they all
proceeded for CherbOurg.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
ENDORSEMENT OF TAFT
PLEASES OHIO CROWD

Columbus. O., Sept. 25.-A L Voreis.
manager for Secretary Taft gave out the
following statement today:
''The Endorsement of Secretary Taft by
the Nebraska Republican state conven-
ton is extremely gratifying. 1t is respon-
siVe to the overwhelming sentiment pre-
vailing not only in that state, but every
where While Kansas has Endorsed Taft
through its Republican state committee.
Nebraska is the first state to indorse
through a state convention and the Ne
braska convention is the first of any
state outside of favorite son states to
take action on the presidency"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
HEAVY LOSS CLAIMED.
Missouri Railroads Decide to Fiuht
TWo-Cent Law.

St Louis. Sept. 25.-AccOrding to com
piled statements made by officials of the
various railroads in the state the opera
ton Of the two-cent passenger law has
caused the railroads of Missouri to lose
sl,500,0o0 during the past three months
The law became effective in Missouri on
June II and. by agreement with Attorney
General Hedley, the railroads decided to
reduce their fares and test the law. I'M
til Oct. l.
1t was announced today that the trunk
lines have Joined to fight the further
enforcement of the law.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
COULD NOT GIVE BAIL.

Kansas City, No, Sept. 25-Captain Fla
vius ]. Tygard. aged q years, awaiting
trial on charge of misplacing the funds
of the Bates National bank of Butler, Mo.
was unable to furnish a bond of $1,000
in the federal court today and was order
ed sent to jail at Clinton, Mo.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
INFIRMARY BURNED.

Wapakoneta, O., Sept 25.-The county
infirmary was destroyed by fire TODAY All
of the forty-eight inmates escaped win
out injury. Several who did not hear fh..
alarm had to be carried out through the
flames. Loss, $4,000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
NAME EoR lie CHILp.

London. Sept 25-The Countess Mon
tignoso. ex-crown princess of Saxony,
and Signor Toselli, the singing master,
were married today at registry office
on the Strand, this city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
ST. Louis Man Hurt,

New York, Sept. ga private message
received in this city reported that one of
the injured was Robert S. Bookings, a
st. Louis capitalist.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26

You've got to be clean and fresh
IN print as well as in person If you
want business. A stale. crowded.
smeary al stands as much show of
favorable notice as does the man
who hasn't changed his shirt or col
lar in a week.-Profitable Advertis-
ing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
No Love for BuriIson.

Miss Julia Lord, secretary of the Wait
resS union Of which the murdered wo-
man was member, emphatically denied
that there was any ground for the state
ment that Mrs. COvington was in love
with Burilson
You cannot make it too strong in say
ing that that is a lie," she said. Mrs
COvington had confided in Miss Lord and
told her of her husbands cruelty but
Miss Lord would not discuss this
She told me that she hated her hus-
bands chum; 1 viii say that much on
the other hand" said Miss Lord AN
other young woman says that Mrs Cow
ington confided in her that she did not
love her husband"
Truman McCOmb, father of the dead
girl, who is engaged in the butcher BUSH
ness in Vernon, 3. C., was expected yes
terday, but did not arrive He will prob
ably reach the city today
The proprietress of the Kesewick house
told the police that the condition of the
room as she found il, after the depar-
ture of the COvtngtOns. showed no signs
of a struggle. This to the officers is a
sure sign that a struggle did not take
place. The bed clothing that was not
taken was carefully replaced across the
foot of the bed. Everything was in its
proper place.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
'PERJURER ON THE
WITNESS STAND
One Nugent, Called by the
Government, Seems to Have
Been Tempered With.
IMMUNITY PROMISED HIM
FATAL DEFECT IN THE MANS
STORY.

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= United States Senator A G. Foster, !
= vice president of the st. Paul & Ia !
= coma Lumber company, was sum- =
y moned TO appear at Boise last Fri ,
= day and left Tacoma Monday. The !
y order from the court which caused =
Y his appearance at the scene of the !
= BOrah trial also cited the eX-sen- =
y ator to bring with him all papers, 4
! letters, kilograms and even carbon :
= copies of all correspondence he pos =
4 sesses bearing upon the operations 7
\ of the Barber Lumber company &
4 Whether Senator Foster has pa =
4 pers of this character in his posses
y sion or not. and how. much, if at all,
y he is involved in the land manipula-
y tons for which Senator BOrah is be- 4
! ing tried, Will not develop until the 4
y trial has advanced. 1t is reported !
y that considerable Importance is at
= tached by the prosecution to the ap- Z
= pearance of Senator Foster
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
Statement of Expressman.

P. McDonough of Ills Sixth avenue is
the man who hauled the trunk He
took ii from the sidewalk near the
Kesewick house to the Galbraith dock.
where the steamer Florence K, ply
ing between Seattle and Eagle HarbOr.
lands
McDOnOugh's statement, while lacking
in some important details practically
clears up the mystery, so far as the
theories of the police department are con-
cerned. Chief Wappenstein and Sergeant
of Detectives Tenant are morally GER
tain that they are on the right track
and believe that they will ultimately
effect the capture of Covington and Bur
ilSOn.
Absence Of motive is a feature of the
case, which has not been clearly ex-
planned. The officers do not believe that
the woman's young husband was a fiend
or so thoroughly depraved as to be guilty
of misconduct intimated in stories
told them. 1t is not believed that he
tried to force the attentions OF his friend
on his young wife and that an estrange-
ment grew out of this condition of af-
fairs. Likewise they do not subscribe
to the belief that the young woman had
ceased to love her husband or that jeaI-
ously was the cause underlying the girls
death
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
RUSSIAN VIEW
OF TAFT'S TRIP
War With Japan Regarded as
One of RooSeveIt'S policies"
Russo American Pact.

St Petersburg, Sept. 25-Secretary Tafts
tour Of the world is being followed with
unusual interest here. The government
is taking measures to surround the jour
ney through Siberia and European Rus
STA with attenhops usually observed for
the rulers of states and the press is bus
lily specializing on the likelihood of a
usso-American convention, the object of
Mr.. Taft's visit to Russia being, it is
alleged, to negotiate an agreement be-
tween the United States and Russia
The conviction prevails here that war
between Japan and the United States is
inevitable in the distant future. The No
voc Nremya today published an article
entitled The New Worlds Power pic
turing the marvellous growth of Americl
as sea power during President Roose-
Yelts administration, warning Russian
diplomacy not to be caught unawares by
coming events and by adding:
New Era Opened.
"The day when the United States fleet
passes out of the Straits of Magellan and
moves proudly into the waters of the Pa
clfic will open a new era for the eastern
world. Official courtesies and the tenn
porary lull in war talk does not conceal
the fact that America is reaching out for
the mastery of the Pacific and already is
strong enough to attain it.
She entered the race for it in the
spring of 1903 when congress voted the
navy bill and the Panama bill both es-
sential to the object in view. Without
any noise except the ceaseless rumble of
the mighty nation succeeded
IN forging sea power already including
thiFty-five battleships and having its
docks crowded with many more war yes
sells. The American people are not lured
by the glamOr of mere display. Its pur-
poses are deeper. Kindred of England
the American creed is that commerce fol-
lows the flag. Her object is incompatible
with mere desire for trade in the far east.
England won the throne of the Atlantic
from Spain, Holland and France. Amer
lea is about to challenge her rival for the
throne of the Pacific"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26

Seattle, Sept 25.-The commissioners of
King county will today offer a reward
of $500 for the arrest of the murderer
Of Agnes A1cCOmbs COvington, the vic
tim of the foul trunk murder perpe-
trated in this county recently; Governor
Mead will be asked to offer a reward
of 81 900 on behalf of the state, and there
is talk of a citizens fund being raised
to aid in the search for Frank Coving-
ton. the husband of the woman, who,
with Charles BurilsOn. his chum. is miss
ing.
Mayor Moore today personally in
struCted Chief of Police Wappenstein to
capture his men, no matter what the cost
may be.
The final link in the chain by which
the police hope to connect Frank Cow
lngtOn, the husband. and Charles BuriI-
son, with the murder, was forged when
Sergeant Of Detectives Charles Tenant
yesterday found the expressman who
hauled the trunk from the Kesewick
house, at Stewart and Ninth streets
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
Could Not Remember.
Was Told to Tell the Trl

Prosecutor Rush demanded to know of
the witness If any officer of the govern
ment had ever asked him to swear false
ly. Nugent replied that he had always
been told to tell nothing but the truth.
Mr.. Rush said be had never heard of MI
gents connection with the Pritchard com
plant and desired time to look into the
ton
At this junction the proceedings were
adjourned until tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
HUSBAND AND HIS
CHUh SUSPECTED
Seattle Police Hope to Run to
Earth MurdererS of Mrs. Az
mes McCombS Covington.
COUNTY OFFERS A REWARD
BOTH MEN ONCE RESIDED IN
PORTLAND.

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= ing Telegram Will say today that 4
+ Frank COvington and Charles Buril- y
\ son, wanted by the authorities in Sc 4
! attic in connection with the murder y
= Of Mrs. Agnes McCOmbs CoVingtOn, =
J. resided in this city for time about )
y a year ago. They had rooms in a y
! downtown lodging house, where their =
= alleged actions with young girls of y
> tender years forced the proprietor to 4
4 demand that they quit the premises. \
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19

ried up to a certain point. The day
chosen was the 18th of December,
but the funeral of the 18th furnished
an outline for the incidents. The
Freemasons, the representatives OF
the patriotic societies, and other citi-
zens assembled at the east side
of the mansion, and moved in process
sion to the old vault by the same
path, and as nearly as possible in
the order, taken by the procession
of century ago. Here dirge was
played by the band, Bishop Ran
dolph, of the southern diocese of
Virginia, read a prayer, an octette
from the Grand Lodge of the District
of Columbia sang hymn, and the
Grand Master of Masons for Colorado
delivered an address. Then the pro-
cession moved to the present tomb.
The Grand Masters of the thirteen
original States stood in line in front
of the tomb, faced by a semicircle
of the Grand Masters of other States
and foreign Jurisdictions, while the
Grand Lodge of Virginia formed
in circle around the tomb. holding
hands. The Grand Master of Vir-
ginia called for tributes. first from
the original thirteen States, and then
from the East, West, North and
South, respectively. After brief re-
sponses. the Masonic dignitaries re-
turned to the east side of the man
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19

sion, where the whole assemblage lis
tened to an address by President Nc
Kinlay, who received his initiation
into the Masonic order during the
Civil War, in Virginia, and only
few miles from the lodge in which
Washington had presided as master.
The evening was spent in memorial
banquets in Washington, George
town and Alexandria, where the Wis
iting Freemasons were entertained
by the local lodges About fifty for
eign lodges attended by delegation.
1t was hoped at first that the Prince
of Wales would come among the
British visitors, but he was reluct-
antly obliged to decline.
George Washington became an en-
tered apprentice at the lodge in
Fredericksburg. virginia-No. a.
on November 4, 1852, passed to the
second degree on March 8, 1853, and
was made master Mason on August
A, 1853 When the Washington
Lodge of Alexandria was organized,
in 1888, he was one of it's charter
members, and was elected worship
full master at once.-Harper's Week
Iy.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19

marched toward the tomb and
formed their lines; the clergy, the
Freemasons. and the citizens de-
scended to the vault, and the burial
service of the Protestant Episcopal
Church was performed The in
fantry and cavalry each fired a vol
ley, eleven pieces of artillery on the
river-bank sent forth a roar, and
the ceremony was concluded.
When the project for a centen-
NAL commemoration first took shape
it was proposed to re-enact this en-
tire scene, even to the extreme of
having catafalque borne to the site
of the old tomb; but against that
feature loud protest was raised,
on the ground that it would turn a
solemn memorial service into a mere
theatrical show. 1t was decided to
give the ceremonies a symbolical
rather than an initiative character.
though the reproduction was car
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
Q KILLED, ii INJURED
rs Boiler BURSTS
Ontario 6 Western Locomotive
Blows Up Near Luzon, N. Y.
FEEDER PIPES HAD FROZEN
Train Thinning 10 Miles an Hour
When the Cars Seemed to Strike
Obstruction - Coaches Ditched
on the Rebound.

Middletown, N. 1.-TWO men were
blown to pieces; a third is fatally
hurt and twelve passengers were in
jured by the bursting of the boiler
of locomotive of the Ontario and
Western road just south of Luzon,
Sullivan County. The engine was
drawing No. 8 train, one of the finest
on the road, and was making forty
miles an hour when suddenly there
was a terrible roar and the sound of
ripping and tearing of iron. The
train of cars rammed the wreck. and
four of them left the rails. When
the steam cleared away there was
nothing but scrap iron left of the
locomotive. One hundred feet away
in field vas the shattered body of
Martin Mullen, the fireman. Fifty
feet from Mullen's body the engineer,
William Gadwood, was lying uncon-
scious and fatally hurt.
There was third man riding in
the cab of the locomotive and he was
blown into many fragments. He is
believed to have been J. D. Valquette,
an engineer off duty, who was going
to his home in Cadosia The cause
of the strange accident is said to have
been the freezing of the pipes be-
tween the tank and the boiler. This
caused the boiler to become over
heated and when the cold water was
finally turned on the explosion result
ed None of the passengers were
seriously injured, and they were at
tended by Dr.. Percy Deadly, of the
LOOMS Sanitarium, Liberty, who was
on the train.
The train left New York and
reached here on time. There were
fifty passengers on the train. In less
than an hour dispatches were re-
ceived here from Luzon that the train
was wrecked, and calls for relief
train accompanied the news. With
out delay a train was made up here,
with physicians and wrecking crew,
and started at high speed for the
scene of the accident The distance
was thirty-three miles, but it was
covered in record time. When the
relief train came up with the wreck
four of the cars were ditched.
The passengers were all out of the
cars. Those who were not injured
were standing about helplessly in the
cold. Beside the track the conduc-
tor, Charles e. Doell, and the bag
gagemaster. Peter Reilly, were found
painfully injured. The physicians
found Doell was suffering from a
broken shoulder bone and internal
injuries, and Reilly probably had a
permanent back injury
Officials of the road began at once
an investigation of the wreck. They
learned from the passengers that the
train was bowling along at forty
miles an hour on level stretch of
road, and that there was not the
slightest suggestion of there being
anything wrong. Suddenly there was
heard what the passengers described
as a horrible roar" and the cars
seemed to be thrown upon one an
other. They seemed to strike an OBJ
struction and rebound. 1t was in
the rebound that four of the coaches
were ditched
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
whose permission the above
is reproduced.
WASHINGTON IN WALL STREET

Sublime, where traffic's pillows beat
A nations wealth about his feet,
He stands; upon the surging street
He looks benignly down.
He hears the distant, wall-hid sea,
The silver chime of Trinity,
And, voicing passion, grief or glee,
Our million-throated town.
And, up and down, our tasks we ply
With rapid step and needless eye,
Alert alone to sell and buy;
But when the day goes dim,
When evening brings its sweet release
From toll and care, when tumults cease,
When twilight crowns his brow with peace,
The children come to him.
Rejoicing, free, in careless, grace
They climb the massey granite base;
Unawed, they view that noble face,
They swarm the brazen knees
Whose polished surface now denies
The gray of age that artists prize;
But more than art is all that lies
In love of such as these.
What matters race, or hue, or creed?
Though born to wealth or born to need,
Or sprung. of poor plebeian seed
Or proud patrician stem,
From lowly hut or lordly hall
BY these his land shall rise or fall
His hand outstretched above them all,
Their father blesses them.
Arthur Guiterman, in YOUTH Com
panion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
EX-GOVERNOR HIGGINS DEAD.
He Had Been Ill Since Retiring From
Office.

clean, N. Y.-Frank Wayland Hig-
gins died after his long fight against
complication of organic troubles
which all but Frustrated him in the
closing months of his term as Gov
ernor.
Frank Wayland Higgins was the
thirty-eighth Governor under the New
York State Constitution. He was
born in Rushford, Allegany County
August IS, 1856. His father was Or
rim T. Higgins, and his grandfather
was DR.. Timothy Higgins, pioneer
of Allegany County. He was edu-
Gated in the Rushford Academy and
in the Riverview Academy, Pough-
keepsie, from which he was gradu-
ated in 1878. Then he took COM
mercial course in business college.
He Travelled over the country for sew
eral months and when nineteen years
old began his business career in Stan
ton, Mich.
In 1897 the former Governor re-
turned to New York State and made
his home in Olean, taking over the
management of a wholesale and re-
tail grocery business under the firm
name of Higgins, Blodgett & Co. He
was elected Governor in 1904.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
Feminine Notes.

A fashion magazine says the girl
of 1907 is tall and slim.
Four-ifths of the operatives in the
Japanese mills are women.
A lady scientist has started for
Java in search Of the missing link.
Marie Corelli has stirred up an
awful row by proclaiming that most
of her sex are unfit to vote, because
they paint and wear false frizzes.
Five women were chosen as county
treasurers in Idaho at the recent
election and seventeen women az
county superintendent Of schools.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
-FOUR PERSONS KILLED.
Long Island City Train Crashes Into
a Funeral Procession.

Long Island City, N. Y.-Four per.
sons, three of them women, were al
most instantly killed, and fifth was
FATALLY injured when a train bound
from Far Rockaway to Long Island
CITY crashed into one of the carriages
OF funeral procession which had
Just left Calvary Cemetery. The dead !:
Elliott Terwilliger, forty years old,
Jersey City; Mrs. Nellie Terwilliger,
thirty-five years old, his wife; Mrs.
Sarah Halliday, thirty years old, sis
ter of Mrs. Terwilliger; Mrs. Mary
Duffy thirty-seyen years old, sister
Of Mrs. Terwilliger.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
FARMERS BURN HOUSES.
Grave Conditions Prevail in Canada
Because of Fuel Famine.

st. Paul, MINI. from
the Canadian border just north of the
North Dakota boundary show that a
grave condition prevails there owing
to the fuel famine and the blockade
of railroads. Three families of new
settlers have merged their effects into
one household while the homes of the
remaining two are being torn down
and burned to keep the families from
freezing. The plan has been adopted
by scores of farm families. Where
grain was not shipped it is being
burned as fuel. Thirty-one dead
bodies frozen in homestead shacks
or on the prairies have been
brought into the various towns of the
Northwest, and it is expected that the
list will be swelled to half a hundred
by the time the snow disappears.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
Silver Plate From the Wooden Case
Which Inclosed the Leaden
Coffin of George Washington.

This plate was found among the
debris in the old tomb at Mount YER
non when Gen. Washington's casket
was removed to the new tomb. 1t
was attached to the outer wooden
case, which was SO decayed that the
plate fell off and was not observed
until the coffin ha1 been inclosed in
new cedar case and placed in the
tomb. 1t was purchased from the
undertaken by Mr.. w. F. Havemeyer,
of New York, who now owns it, and
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19
MISSING BANKER $500, 900 SHY.
Walker Looted New Britain Bank
and Church Funds.

Hartford, Conn,-It was discov-
cred that William F. Walker. treasu-
rer of the Savings Bank OF New Brit
ain, who disappeared, is heavy de-
faulter.
The shortage in the savings bank
is at least 100000 and perhaps
more. Besides, the permanent fund
of the Connecticut Baptist Conven-
ton, Of which Mr.. Walker is treasu-
rer, has at least in part disappeared.
The trustees of the bank include
some of the wealthiest men in New
Britain, and they have given public
assurance that no depositor shall lose
a cent, no matter what may be the
amount of Treasurer Walkers defal-
cation.