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The Washington herald., 1908-04-09
POLICE TAKING CENSUS.
Population Of City, Number of Chill
dren, and DeIinQuents Recorded.

dFen, and DeIinQuents Recorded.
All available members OF the police
force were busily engaged yesterday in
taking the census Of the District. Every
section Of the city was visited by the
bluecoats IN their enumeration OF the
population.
The census by the police Is only for
the total number Of people. and is not
statistical. The number Of children In
the city is to be aseertalned. and the
number Of minors not attending school
is also TO be recorded.
it VIII be @ week before the figures are
1otaled up and the population of the
city ascertained-
The Washington herald., 1908-04-09
LECTURE AND SINGING.
Rev. DR.. HeaIy Talks About the
Celtic Language.

AT the meeting Of the Gaelic Society of
Washington in Carroll Institute, 9ls Tenth
street northwest, last nignt. Rev. DR.. P. J.
Heaiy spoke on the Celtic language sur
vivals in Gaul and Galatia in the late
Roman period. Miss Marguerite Curtis
played piano selections, including Brian
Boroimhe's March" and "Maolmordha
O'Reilly"
Miss Imogen Karns gave violin selec-
tons and Rev. 7. A. Buckley sang barry
tone solos. James Mooney, president
presided.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-09
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Washington Herald are based upon its
bona fide circulation-a circulation in
Washington larger by thousands than was
ever before attained by any morning
newspaper at the Capital Its books are
open.
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telephone an advertisement 20 The Wash
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cent word.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
TOBACCO WAR SPREADS.
Recent Fires in Dunkard Settlement
in Pennsylvania Alarm Growers.

Oxford, Pa.-Seven immense to-
bacco sheds burned this year,
two of them within the last week,
have convinced the tobacco raisers OF
Lancaster county that the night rid
ers of Kentucky have extended their
operations into this territory, and that
a fight to the finish is on.
In the domestic war against the
trust the Lancaster field is a most
powerful factor of the trusts, because
the tobacco raisers are Dunkards and
refused to form any agreement what
ever as to price. They insist upon
selling it whenever it suits them, and
by some tobacco men it is held that
they do more than any other agency
to thwart the efforts of the Kentucky
league which is trying to set the price
for the commodity. All the victims
of the seven fires are Dunkards.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Congressman Shoots Two.

Washington, ID. C.-In a desper.
ate ARRAY on a Pennsylvania avenue
car Friday night, a negro and a white
man were shot by Congressman Thos.
j. Helm of Alabama. Thomas Lum-
by, the negro. was shot in the head
and is in a critical condition. and
Thomas McCreary, a New York horse
trainer, is suffering from a wound in
the leg. The shooting of McCreary
was accidental. Mr., Hefin was ar.
rested and taken to the Sixth police
precinct station, where a charge of as
sault with intent to kill was placed
against him. Later he was released
on $1,000 bail.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
20 HURT when
TRAINS CRASH
DELIVER ORDERS, so TRAIN
BUSHES PAST.
CRASHES INTO FREIGHT TRAIN
Road Laid OF Night Photographer at
Burgin, Ky, and Day Operator
Did Not Report Until Blue
grass Special Passed.

Lexington, Ky.-Twenty persons
were injured. three fatally, in a
head-on collision between a passen-
ger train known as the Blue Grass
Special and a freight at Curdville
crossing. between Burgin and High
bridge, Tuesday. The night telegraph
operator at Burgin had been laid off,
the day operator had not reported for
duty, and the passenger train, which
passed Burgin Tuesday morning, did
not receive orders to stop.
The Blue Grass Special was en- route
to Lexington and Cincinnati. 1t is a
fast train and was making high speed
when it approached Burgin. 1t is said
that. the train dispatcher had expected
the day operator to reach Burgin be-
fore the passenger train arrived and
had prepared meeting orders which
would have averted the wreck. The
passenger engineer, however, saw no
signal at Burgin and took his train
past without stopping.
Both Making High Speed.
Meanwhile the freight train had
passed Highbridge. The engineer
knew that the Blue Grass Special was
coming, but he supposed that it was
behind time and would pass him at
Burgin. For this reason he was max
ing more than the usual speed, and
was unable to stop when he sighted
the passenger train at Curdville cross
ing.
The trains met with terrific force.
Both engines were practically demol-
ished. They rolled down a 35-foot en-
bankment, carrying several coaches
with them. A call was sen to Dan
vile and Burgin, and a corps of ply
sicians from each hurried to the scene
of the wreck. The injured were
brought to Lexington on a special
train.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
REJECTS IT, S. ENVOY
GERMAN GOVERNMENT DECLINES
. TO RECEIVE MINISTER.
HAD OFFENDED the EMPEROR
Diplomat Who Now Cannot Succeed
Tower Is Noted For Literary
Work.

Washington, D. C.--The German
government has declined to re-
ceive DR.. David Jayne Hill in the ca
pacity of American Ambassador to
succeed Charlemagne Tower, whose
resignation has been accepted to take
effect upon the qualification of his
successor.
DR.. Hill is at present American
Minister to The Hague and was for
merly First Assistant Secretary of
State under the administration of Sec
rotary Hay.
The objection to DR.. Hill Is n pure
ly personal to Emperor William, who
has simply caused it to be made
known that the American diplomat is
persona non grata to him. The reason
for the Emperor's objection is con-
nected with the visit to America sew
eral years ago Of his brother, Prince
Henry, the ranking admiral of the
German Navy. DR.. Hill at that time
was First Assistant Secretary of State
and necessarily was brought into of
fetal contact with the distinguished
foreign visitors. Just what he did or
did not do to give offense is not known
here.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
IS WILLING TO Die
sTEuNENBERG's ASSASSIN DE.
CliNES TO SEEK CLEMENCY.
ATTORNEY WILL PLEAD FOR AIM
Since Judge Recommended commu-
t~ation, Lawyer viii Appear Fdr
Slayer Of Former Governor.

Boise, Idaho-The state pardon
board will meet in regular SEES
sion and in order to take up
for consideration the matter Of re-
hitting sentence Of death pronounced
upon Harry Orchard as the self-con.
fessed murderer of former Gov. Frank
Steunenberg, it will be necessary that
an application for such clemency be
filed with the board. Orchard has re-
fused to apply personally for elem
ency.
In sentencing orchard Judge Wood
recommended to the board that the
death sentence of Orchard be remit
ted. The attorney general has given
an opinion that, under the laws of
Idaho, the pardon board can not act
upon Judge Woods recommendation
alone, that an a application must be
made to 1t in Orchards behalf.
Orchard Willing to Die.
Friday Frank T. Wyman, Orchards
attorney by virtue of appointment of
the court, visited Orchard in the pen
itentiary, explained the case to him
and urged him to make such applica-
ton and agree to appear before the
pardon board in person. Orchard EN-
phatically refused to do so. He said
that he had committed the crime and
felt that he should pay the full pen
atty.
Mr.. Wyman said: IF no n else
will make the proper application to
the board, l will make it myself. 1t
will be my duty as Orchards attor-
ney."
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Strike Situation Quiet.

Seattle, Wash.-No disquieting de-
velopments from the Treadwell
strike situation were received
here Friday. Gen. d. Fl. Brush of the
Vancouver barracks ordered Col.
Green with an infantry company and
Calling guns to proceed to Douglas
island from Fort w. H. Seward at
once on the request of United States
Marshal ]. M. Shoup, who sailed from
Seattle on the Dolphin at Juneau
Thursday night.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Chinese Patronage New Steamers.

Melbourne-A Chinese boycott of
japanese On account of the Tatsu
Maru incident has been widely
taken up by Chinese merchants
throughout Australia. At a meeting in
Sydney in support Of the boycott
movement, it was decided to patronize
a new line of steamers, which is be.
ing formed at Canton for trading be-
tween China, Australia and the Unit
ed States.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
A WAREHOUSE.
NIGHT RIDERS CAUSE $4,000,
BLAZE IN CONVICTION.
OIL IS USED TO START BLAZE
Six Homes Also Go Up In Smoke at;
Same Time--Resldents Flee to
Safety.

Covington, Ky.-Night riders Wis
ited here Wednesday morning and
applied the torch to the i'm
mense tobacco warehouse Of r. S..
Hamilton & Co., when they eft the
warehouse with its half millior pounds
OF tobacco and six neighboring resi-
fences were In flames. The loss wilE
reach s15O,OOO.
All that Is known is that eight or
ten young farmers, strangers in the To-
cality, visited a nearby saloon In tho
evening and that later three men were
chased away from the Armstrong to-
pacco warehouse, a few blocks away.
Telephone wires in the vicinity Of
the Hamilton warehouse were cut, the
nearest fire alarm box put out of COM
MISSION, and just as the fire was dis.
covered a man was seen running away
from the warehouse, crossing a vacant.
lot to join two or three other men. all,
or whom then disappeared.
OIL was used to start the warehouse.
hre. So rapidly did the fire spread,
that the residents of the house adjoin-
ing the warehouse on Blackwell street
barely had time to escape.
City Auditor Gould and his family.
who lived next door to the warehouse.
saved nothing from their home. Had
Mrs. Gould not been awake at the time
or the fire the family probably would
have been burned to death.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
POSSE SEEKING
TRAIN ROBBERS
$1,000 OFFERED FOR CAPTURE OF
BANDITS WHO KILLED MES
SENGER AND GOT $4,000.
Head Of Oscar Bailey Nearly Severed
From Body by Brutal Bandits
Open safe and
Escape.

Newton, Kas.-A large posse is
In hot pursuit of two daring express
car bandits. following the murder Of
Oscar A. Bailey, a Wells, Fargo 4 Co.
express messenger, whose head mas
hacked nearly from his body as Santa
Fee train No. lis was entering Newton.
A sum said to exceed $4,000 was sto-
len from the safe. A reward of $1,000
has been offered for the bandits cap
ture by the express company.
Bailey's body, grim evidence of the
most brutal murder in the Wells-Fargo
annals of frontier depredations, was
found at 4 a. m. Sunday by Joseph
Stimmel, night agent at Newton. Re-
peated failed to elicit an an
swer from Bailey when the train
pulled into Newton station. With a
bar Stimmel sprung the heavy metal
door.
In a pool of blood Bailey's disfig-
ured body lay on the floor, his bat
tered features swathed in a o Car
sides and ceiling were clotted with
blood, evidence that he was beaten
tutO lioSlSibilits Ouly dltSi hC VI
fered stubborn resistance. Beside the
body lay the keys to both express
safes, while blood-soaked papers clut-
tered the floor.
Attacked While Sleeping.
Railroad officials advance the the
DRY that Messenger Bailey was at
tackled while asleep. Two men are
said to have taken part in the murder
and robbery, one an occupant of the
car, the other admitted from the blind
end after the messenger was rendered
unconscious.
Bailey's head was beaten to a pulp.
The back of the skull was crushed and
the %jawbone was broken, evidence of a
blow from the front. A blood-stained
Ratchet, the robbers weapon Of at
tack, was found on the right of way
near Wagner, a way station, east of
Newton.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Engaged In Research.

For two years, preceding, DR.. Hill
had been an American minister, first
accredited to Switzerland, and then to
The Hague. He was engaged in monu-
mental literary work, covering the en-
tire history Of the worlds diplomacy
and these two posts afforded excep-
tional advantages for the procure
ment of the great mass of material re-
quired for the work.
AS that task neared completion DR..
Hill found himself willing to abandon
the field for the higher diplomatic
post of Berlin, and the German For.
eign Office cordially responded to the
usual cautious overtures from the
State Department here as to his avail.
ability for appointment as Ambassa.
dor.
So Tuesdays decision Of the Ger
man Emperor has come as a complete
surprise to official Washington. 1t is.
nevertheless, final as far as DR.. Hill
is concerned, for the etiquette that
governs international relations does
not permit of any question of the right
OF a sovereign to interpose an objec-
tion to the reception of any official
who m to his post as ambassador.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
CANNON CHOICE
FOR PRESIDENT
ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS UNANI.
MoUSLY INDORSE HIM AT
SPRINGFIELD.
The SPEAKER IS EUL0ClZED
Deneen, Busse, Hopkins and culIom
Are Delegates at Large--For
the Revision Of the
Tariff.

Springfield. Ill.-The Republican
convention Thursday adopted a
platform which indorses the state
and national administrations, Speaker
Cannon for the presidency and advises
a revision in the tariff. The conven-
ton is entirely devoid of excitement.
Chairman Roy o. West called the
convention to order at 1890 o'clock
and introduced George Buckingham of
Danville as chairman. William o.
Nance of Chicago was made secretary.
The convention named Senators
Hopkins and Cullom, Gov. Deneen and
Mayor Busse of Chicago as delegates
at large, and Judge Hodson of 10
Daviess, Col. John r. Marshall Of
Cook, Charles G. Eckhart of Tuscola
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Police Seek Anarchists,

New York-Acting on information
obtained as the result of clews con-
tanned in letters found in the room
of Seelig Cohen or Silverstein, who
threw the bomb that mangled himself
and killed Ignatz Hilderbrand in
Union square Sunday, policemen at
tached to the Brooklyn detective bu.
Teau began a search for eight men
who are believed to have taken bombs
to the Union square meeting and
were only deferred from using them
by the alertness of the police follow.
ing the premature explosion of the
missile carried by Silverstein.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
SixtY.Eive Miners Entombed.

Hanna, Wyo.-The bodies of only
five of 70 miners killed in the two ex-
plosions in mine No. 1 of the Union
Pacific Coal Co. Saturday night have
been recovered. The widest excite
ment prevailed in Hanna and at the
mine, where hundreds are congregat.
ed, including widows, children and
other relatives of the victims. Men
and women are running about wiring
ing their bands and crying, while
many children, separated from their
mothers in the panic that prevailed,
are sobbing and crying with fear.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
BREWERS FOR OPEN SHOP.
Negotiations With Union Are Called
or and New Men Are Sought.

st. Louis, Mo.-The brewers and
the striking workmen affiliated
with the International Union of Brew
cry Workers were unable to agree on
terms OF a settlement of the contro-
versy after individual and joint con-
fercnce Wednesday. and as a result
all negotiations are off. The brewers.
eclared an open shop, the union.
men have declared a boycott and
plans are being formulated under the,
direction OF International Secretary
Joseph Proebstle for launching the
locals into the beer deliver business.
in st. Louis.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Iowa Bankers Threatened.

Ottumwa. Ia.-Dr. A. o. Cover
and Frank Llewelyn, two of the
directors of the Farmers and
Drovers' State bank of Seymour.
closed by a state examiner recently
when Cashier Leroy Ware was found
short 100000 in his accounts, re-
ceived threatening letters yesterday,
presumably from miners who lost
their savings in the bank failure. The.
men are threatened with death unless
all depositors are paid in full in four
days.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
LOOMS GOING TO JAPAN.
President Selects Him for Commits.
sioner General to Toxic Exposition.

Washington, D. C.-The president
has decided to appoint former
Assistant Secretary of State Francis
B. Loomis to the position of Commits
sioner General of the United States
to the Toxic Exposition of 1912. The
place will pay $4,000 a year and will
be created as soon as Congress pass
es the bill appropriating $500, 900 for
our participation in the Japanese
show.
LOOMS resigned from the State
Department Immediately following his
controversy with Herbert w. Bowen,
United States Minister to Venezuela,
The President upheld him in the Bow
en- %squabble.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
NIGHT RIDERS SHOOT NEGRO.
Taken From Room at Midnight and
Fired at When He Fails to Run.

Hopkinsville, Ky.-At Golden Pond
village, in Trigg county, shortly
after midnight Tuesday morning,
a band of rs night riders raided
the servants quarters at the village
hotel and forced Tom Weaver, an aged
negro, to accompany them to the out
skirts of town. They then command
ed him TO run, and when he did not
readily comply, shot him. He was
found in a dying condition at daylight.
No cause for the outrage is known,
except that Weaver was employed by
an association tobacco house.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
BoNl TO FOLLOW WIFE.
Count, Coming to See Children. Has
Rooms Reserved In New York.

New York-That the affairs of
line Gould may be still further
complicated became a possibility
thursday, when a rumor gained cur
rency that Count Boni de Castellane
was preparing to follow her to New
York. 1t was said hat he had cabled
to one of the larger hotels here to re-
serve for him a suite of six rooms.
and that he would be here to occupy
1t within the next two weeks. The.
ostensible object of the counts com
ing to New York is to see his chill.
dren, which the divorce decree grant
ed his former wife permitted.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Springtown Robbers CAUGHT.

Neosho, Mo.-Two of the bank
robbers who on the night OF
March 20 attempted to blow open the
safe of the Springtown (Ark.) bank
were captured here Friday afternoon
by local officers. They were camped
near town and when surrounded by
the officers attempted to throw away
their tools. but were caught in the
act. They gave their names as Harry
Black and Jim Wrer.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Mine Workers Not to strike.

Columbus, O.-"There will be no,
strike Of the mine workers Of
Ohio on April 1 because the opera
tors have not signed the scale, but
there will likely be a suspension of
work for ten days or two weeks, but
not longer, because the matter will
be adjusted by that time" said Secre-
tary-Treasurer G. w. Savage of the
United Mine Workers Thursday.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Gillette Pays Death Penalty.

Auburn, n. Y.-At Auburn state
prison at 6:14 o'clock Monday norm
ing, Chester Gillette died for the muir
der of his sweetheart, Billy Brown,
of South Otselic, at Big Moose lake
on July II, 1906. After the execution,
Mrs. Gillette made a statement in
which she said her son admitted kill
ing the girl. but insisted he did not
strike her with the oar.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
What Congress is Doing

Determination to conduct a flibus-
ter on all occasions where opportunity
presented itself in order to force the
republicans to action on an employers
liability bill and other measures that
are deemed necessary of enactment
vas announced by Mr.. Williams of
Mississippi in the house of representa-
tives Tuesday during the considera-
ton Of the agricultural bill. He said
he had waited to see some evidences
Of an intention to transact business
which the people were demanding;
but finding none had reached the con
clusion that the time was ripe to force
the hand of the republican party. The
democrats cheered the announcement.
The senate committee on inter-
oceanic canals Tuesday authorized a
favorable report on a bill directing the
secretary of the treasury to pay $780,
900 to Yardmaster Banton of the Pan
m railroad, who is permanently Grip
pied by reason of injuries sustained
by him on the isthmus about two years
ago. President Roosevelt referred to
the necessity of such an appropriation
in his message of Jan. 81, in which he
said of Banton: HE is now helpless
to support his wife and his three lit
tie boys" Banton is a native of Iowa.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Joliet Firebuus Held.

Joliet, Ill.-A fourth attempt to
destroy property of anti-saloon
men in the liquor val being
waged here was made when a firebug
set fire to the Illinois Match Com
pany's plant, causing $4,000 damage.
Arrests of suspects followed and they
are beng held pending an investiga-
ton.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Ascending Tax Collector Arrested.

New Orleans, La.-Ferdinand Du-.
genhefer, formerly tax collector Of
the Third district Of New Orleans.
who disappeared about a year ago,
was arrested at his home Wednes--
day. 1t is alleged that Dugenhefer-
was short in his accounts about $751;
600. Considerable surprise was Great
ed here when it was learned yester-
day that he had been at his home in,
this city since last Thursday.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Starves Self to Death,

Santa Monica, Cal.--Unwilling to
live longer when assured he would
neve see his wife again, be-
of blindness, Rev. Cephas M.
Baird, a retired Lutheran. refused all
food and slowly starved himself. to
death.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Accountant Dies in Jail Cell.

Little Rock, Ark.-T. c. Cunning, a
former well-known accountant, and
during the early SOS private secre-
tary to Rudolph Fisk, receiver of
thethe old Little Rock & Memphis
railroad, died in the city Jail.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
pyinu with Hiccouohs.

Pottsville. Pa.-Charles Trough, a
former member of the Pottsville bor-
ough council, has been hiccoughing
continually for the last week and is
believed to be in a dying condition.
His vitality has been Slapped by the
malady.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Texas Denies RehearInc

Austin, Tex.-The supreme court
of Texas Wednesday overruled the
motion of the Waters-Pierce OIL
Company for u rehearing of the custer
suit. This IN the last step the com
pany can take in the state. courts.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Sheriff Slain in Fiuht.

Denver, Cola dispatch from
Billings, Mont, Tuesday says Sheriff
Webb Of Yellowstone county was
killed Tuesday morning in a desperate
battle with horse thieves. Details are
lacking.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Cuts Own Throat: Dies.

Columbia, T~a.-Frank Schaeffer was;
found dead, with his throat cut, iii a.,
room of a hotel here. A bloody trails
in the o showed that he had?
hacked his throat while standing over
a wash bowl and had evidently leanedy
owe the vessel until exhaustion CON-
PEELED him to lie on Che bed.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
campbeIl.Hannerman Worse.

London--The condition Of Premier.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is!
more serious Thursday. His weak
ness was accentuated during We'd
nesday to such an extent that at
times he failed to recognize the per.
sons gathered around his bedside.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-04-03
Injured Man a Suicide.

T%aylorville, M.--Ernest Myers, "a
years old, Of Buckhart township,
shot and killed himself Monday night
while crazed from a crushed skull re-
ceived in a runaway accident.