Semi-weekly herald., 1908-05-28
section Of the city known as rasle

1 'iA''h nun Alitii HOl1ts. ana tne pow
er plant OF the Dallas Street Railwa
company under water, cutting off a
| light and electrical current
GUTHIE. Okla. May 25.-Au Yves
Guthrie is inundated with from seve
to ten feet OF water rushing throug
( the streets. Residents of lowlands
fearing a recurrence of the 1897 floods
when seven or eight people in the va
ley lost their lives, began leaving thei
homes last night and as far as possible
transported their household effect,
no one has been drowned, but at nooi
the river is twenty feet higher thar
normal and has spread over the wild.
valley for miles and property loss vii
be great, crops of all kinds beinl
washed out.
SALISBURY Mo, May 25.-Rev
Father Joseph F. Lubeley, aged g.
years. pastor OF st. Joseph's Catholi,
church of Salisbury. was stabbed twice
with a pocket knife, and perhaps ia
tally injured in church yesterday
morning by Joseph schuette. pros
porous farmer living near here, who
become suddenly demented.
The stabbing occurred in view OF
400 worshipers. many of them women
The injured man was taken to a
nearby residence. where his wounds
were attended to by physicians. His
condition today is critical.
Immediately after Father Lubeley
finished high mass he started to leave
ihe altar. He was rushed upon sud
denly from behind by Schuette, who
stabbed him twice, telling him.
81. LOUIS, May 25.-Rev. Father
+. Lubeley who was brought to st.
Mary's inflrmary after having been
stabbed by Joseph Schultz immediate
ly following church services at Sails
bury, Mo, yesterday, is reported by
his attendants today as resting com
tortably He is being kept as quiet
as possible, and unless unlocked for
complications arise 1t is believed he
will recover.
PouGHKEEPSIE, May 25.-Harry
X. Thaw is doomed to return to an
asylum. Firmly entangled in a net of
Insanity the evidence by which his at
torneys induced a jury TO save him
from the electric chair, the Young mil.
lionaire found it impossible TO unwind
the mass of proof which he himself
wove. Justic Moschauser, in an opin-
ion handed down this morning, holds
that Thaw was legally committed to
The asylum at Mattewan and that the
evidence brought forward in the re-
cent babeas corpus hearing indicates
that Stanford Whites slayer is in
sane. The justice declares in his opin-
ion that for the present IL would be
unsafe to permit Thaw to be free
Thaw's lawyers will at once apply to
the court for permission to place Thaw
in some other institution than the
Mattewan asylum, and, by stipulation
with the district attorney that the
prisoner be kept in Jail here until
Justice Morschauser renders a deci-
sion. The justice is holding court at
White Plains this week and viii not
be able TO hear the application before
next week.
CHICAGO, May 25.-In a collision
between a heavy touring automobile
and one of the large motors on the
Indiana avenue street car line yester-
day afternoon, Orson c. Barthomew, a
wealthy mining operator and broker.
formerly of Leadville, Colo, was in
stantly killed His brother. Hemma
Bartholomew, aged 50 years, and Miss
Margaret Hawkins, a guest of the
brothers, was so fearfully injured that
their recovery is doubtful
WASHINGTON, May 25.-The trial
of CASTOR G. Philip, the millionaire
clubman of New York and Washing.
ton and scion OF prominent family,
who, year ago, shoi and killed Frank
X. Maciboy. cab driver, was begun
today before Justice Joe Barnard.
Vigorous efforts made by counsel for
the young clubman TO substantiate his
plea of self-defense and sensation tes-
timony will be brought out by the
prosecutor.
SILVERTON. May 25.-Nines com
posed OF boarders of the Bell house
and the Rodgers house played ball
here yesterday. the game resulting in
a score of 4 to IA in favor of the
Rodgers crowd.
The Mancos basketball team arrived
last evening and will play the home
team this afternoon at the ball
grounds.
DENVER, May 25.-Shot through
the head by Howard Lemonds, a cow
boy, 20 years old. from Frederick
okla, James j. Rosengren, porter
in the Columbia hotel, Seventeenth
and Market streets, was instantly kill
ed yesterday about noon.
Startled by the shot, Albert Smith
acting elevator pilot, rushed to LIE
mond's room ON the fourth floor, ther.
TO find the dead body OF RosengreI
lying in a pool OF blood at the foo
of the bed. The men had quarreled
He called me a name no man woul,