Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-05
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

sreSSma1 MODuell yeSteTudy loI tue
purpose of determining a course con
cerning the bill to grant 800 acre
homesteads to settlers instead OF 1bc
acres. as at present. II was deter
mined to delegate to committee con
sisting of one senator or represents
tive from each arid state the duty ol
drawing up a bill which shall embody
the ideas contained in the Smoot, Dix
on and Mondell bills, introduced for
this purpose. Mr. Mondell. chairman
of the public lands committee, will
appoint a committee this week and
the bill il produces will probably be
tee. Representative Bonynge and
Cook attended the M eting.
CHICAGO. March 2.-George NJ.
Shippy. chief of the Chicago police de-
partment, today shot and instantly
killed an anarchist who had invaded
hfAAQome wounded the chief shot the
officials son. Harry, in the lung and
severely wounded the family coach
man. James Foley. Harry Shippy is
seriously hurt. Foley probably will re-
cover. and the chief was stabbed in
the hand, his wound being trivial.
The assailant entered Shlppy's res
idence while the chief and his son
were alone in one of the rooms. The
man handed Shippy letter which the
chief opened and began to read. AL
most Immediately the anarchist drew
revolver and fired at Harry Shippy.
The hoy fell to the floor and his faith
er grappled with the assailant Fo-
ley attracted by the shooting, rushed
to his employers aid. AS the servant
entered the room, the anarchist broke
from the chiefs grasp, aimed deliber-
ately, and shot Foley twice. Again
the chief closed with the man and the
latter turned on him with a knife.
Shippy then attempted to grasp the
weapon and received deep cut on the
hand. The police official then sue
ceeded in reaching his own revolver
and poured shot after shot into the
would-be assasins body. Every bullet
took effect and the anarchist fell to-
the floor dead.
The attack on the chief Is believed
to have been inspired by the recent
activity of the Chicago police follow
ing the killing of Father Leo Helm
richs,, the Roman Catholic priest who
was shot by an anarchist in Denver
while he was administering sacrament
to his slayer.
News of the shooting in Chief Ship
py's home reached the police depart
ment when n request was sent to a
nearby station for an ambulance
Every available detective in the city
has been placed upon the case. I'm
mediately following the tragedy in
Denver, efforts to trace the crime to
a conspiracy Matched in Chicago were
begun. The local police discovered
that society of Italians had been
formed here and had been issuing in
fammatory literature aimed at cler
icals and also that several local cler
gymen had received threatening let
ters. Yesterday while the funeral oil
Father Leo was being held in Pater
son, n j., details of police guarded
several Roman Catholic churches in
this city. Especial precautions were
taken in italian quarters, where Of
fcers in citizens clothes scrutinized
every worshipper as the congregations
entered Later the officers moved to
the affairs and stood guard over the
priests as they conducted the services.
PATERSON, N. j., March 2.-Ten
thousand persons yesterday looked
upon the face OF Rev. Father Leo
Heinrichs, o. f. NJ, at St Bonaven-
tura monastery, of which the muir
dered priest was for years the pastor.
The body lay in state from noon until
II o'clock last night, and during these
hours an unbroken procession Of
mourners passed the bier. So great
policemen was required to maintain
the formations in two lines that ex
tended for blocks. Through a success
sion of snow, sleet and rain storms
the Pensioners stood outside for
hours. patiently awaiting their turn.
There was no untoward demonstra-
tion. Because of failing health Faith
er Leo was transferred last Septem
ber to Denver. where at the chancel
rail of St Elizabeths church last sun
day he was shot and killed by an anar
chist, Giuseppe Alio. The funeral
took place this morning.
TAMPA, Fla, March 2.-The en-
tire northern section of this city was
destroyed by fire, which broke out in
a boarding house yesterday and ragged
uninterruptedly for four hours. The
area burned over covered 80 acres, or
eighteen and one-half city blocks, and
3OS buildings were destroyed with
total loss estimated at 100000. One
woman Is dead from excitement. The
burned section includes four large,
and one smaller cigar factory, numer-
ous restaurants, saloons, boarding
hnuuao and ovar oun dwalli-pg pccIl-