Semi-weekly herald., 1908-11-16
1ree or four days, according to the

The booty was to have been a $4,000
life insurance policy which the mother
had taken out In favor OF her daughter
Miss Otis paid 800 down on the
murder contract today. and had fin
ished all preparations for carrying out
the deed. Then she was arrested and
discovered she had been bargaining
with two city detectives and the head
of private detective agency who
had been detailed to watch her and
learn the plot.
Miss Otis is an employe OF the
Kleine Optical company. Her mother
is Mrs. Sarah Otis, a widow 81 years
old.
RICHMOND. Ind. Nov. 13.-Robert
Mccoy, a paralytic, living on the out
skirts of Hollandsburg. Ohio, was fore
ed to lie helpless on his back and
gaze through his bed room window at
his daughter Alma. aged IL years, who
stood in the yard shrieking for help
while the flames of her burning cloth
ing were slowly cooking her to death
Mrs. Mccoy had gone to the home of
a neighbor. and while Alma was pre-
pairing to cook dinner for herself and
her helpless father her clothing caught
fire from the stove.
MUNCIE. Ind. Nov. 13.-Carrying
out an order that was contingent upon
the election of Republican president,
the Indiana Bridge company OF this
city has begun the fulfillmer. of q
contract for the manufacture NJ 100
tons of structural steels. This cen.
tract alone will tax the capacity OF
the plant and its several hundred men
for two months and another order fo-
500 tons, just received, viii keep lie
factory busy much longer. G. NJ Kim.
brough, president of the Indiana
Bridge company. although strong Re.
of Judge Taft. refused to display the
contingent orders until after the cleo
ton. holding that 1t was not rtgh- TO
influence the votes of the men in his
employ and others by that method
Now. however. he displays the copies
OF the orders.
SAGUACHE. Colo. Nov. 13.-Mark
G.. Woodruff, former register OF the
state land office. must answer to the
state of Colorado for defrauding the
state and embezzlement. Attorney
General w. II. Dickson filed the infor.
nation against Woodruff today The
| information is based on evidence Sc
cured by the attorney general before
Judge Charles A. Pike. sitting In the
Twelfth judicial district in chancery
in charge brought by the state ac
cusing Woodruff, George NJ. Davis of
Teller county and James L. Hurt OF
Custer county. Of conspiracy to de
fraud the state.
Judge Pike rendered his decision
yesterday and while he decided Hurt
was not guilty OF conspiracy, he did
declare that Woodruff was unquestion-
ably guilty. Hurt was discharged and
the state on his case failed to get be ok
the land 1t sought. Attorney General
Dickson, however. gave notice of ap
peal to the supreme court.
WASHINGTON. Nov 13.-Tobacco
and articles manufactured from to-
bacco, coming under schedule F of
the Dingley tariff law, are being con
sidered today at the public hearing
before the house committee on ways
/ and means. The total importations
of unmanufactured tobacco for the
year 1907 was valued at 20 mil
lions, giving the government revenue
| of twenty-six million which indicates
the Importance of this article. 1t is
thought the duty now levied gives gen
eral satisfaction and will not be
| changed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-That the
state should obtain at least half of the
millionaire's gold in the shape of dealt
duties and that the poor should be
freed from all taxation are two of the
statements contained in Andrew Car
negies latest book, which will soor
be published by Doubleday, Page
Co. and is entitled Problems of To
day: Wealth-Labor-So The
work is dedicated to President Roose
welt in the following terms:
Il dedicate this book to Theodor,
Roosevelt, good and great presi
dent, who has elevated the standard o
duty in both public and private life
foremost apostle of the square deal
for all classes of men; a true man o
the people and model citizen in ex
ample and precept."
Early in the book Mr. Carnegie give!
his views on the taxing of estates a
death. at is difficult" he says, st,
set bounds to the share of rich man.
estate which should go at his deatl
to the public through the agency o
the state and by all means such taxei
should be graduated, beginning a
nothing upon moderate sum to de
pendents and increasing rapidly al
the amounts swell, until of the mil
lionaire's board, as of Shylock's, a
least, the other half comes to tn,