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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
SHOOTS HER HUSBAND
IN A PRISON CELL
Wife Fires the Fatal Shot Through
the Bars. s,
She Had Caused The Arrest OF Her
Husband Two Hours Before The
Tragedy On A Charge OF Aban-
donment-She Becomes Infatuated
When He Insists On, Her Prose-
cutting Him.

Chicago Especially Two hours
after she had caused the arrest of
her husband. Abraham Levy. a tai
lor, on a charge of abandonment.
Mrs. Esther Levy visited the cell
room of the Harrison Street Police
Station, and before the startled lock-
up-keeper had chance to interfere,
shot through the bars at Levy, in
fiicting fatal wound.
In the building at the time were
score or more of policemen. Mrs.
Levy had no difficulty In obtaining
permission to visit her husband. She
stood in the corridor of the cage,
talking in a low voice to the prison
err, who remained locked in his cell.
Suddenly she drew the revolver,
which she had concealed beneath her
jacket, and fired.
She was taken to the women's an
mex of the station, where she be-
came historical, and no explanation
for her attempt on her husband's
life could be secured. The victim
of the shooting was removed to
hospital in an unconscious condition
from a wound in the abdomen
When Mrs Levy secured the war
rant for her husbands arrest she
told the magistrate that Levy had
neglected his home for other women
and that she had to work as sales
woman to support their four chill
dren. A prisoner, who occupied the
cell with Levy, said Mrs. Levy be-
trayed no excitement in conversing
with Levy.
Are you coming back to me and
the children?" asked the visitor.
''No,' answered Levy; you put
me here and here will remain. You
tell your story to the Judge"
Mrs Levy then stepped back a
pace and drew her weapon. Levy
Jumped to one side of the cell in an
attempt to dodge the bullet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
STRIKE may WIPE
OUT TWO TOWNS
Steel Trust DismantIing Some BIZ
Tin Mills.
Over Five Thousand Employees At
bridgeport And Martins Ferry, o.,
Refuse To Return To Work
Mills To Be Moved To Other Lo-
calities In An Effort To Break Up
Unionism.

Pittsburg Especially The Ameri-
can Sheet and Tin Plate Company
part of the United States Steel Cor
poration, have began the shifting of
machinery from certain plants to
others, perhaps 100 miles distant,
thereby putting into action the
threat Of sometime ago to wipe out
the last trace of unionism in its
mills scattered through the coun-
try. The great tin mills at Bridge
port, o., and at Martins Ferry, o.,
are being boarded up and their
$500 employees left without work,
while the expensive machinery is be-
ing brought into Pennsylvania and
doned and formerly marked for the
scrap heap.
These two Ohio plants have adj
mittedly been the StrongholdS In
unionism of the strike which has
Wire Company's plants since the
night of June 80 last. The work
men there have been holding out the
longest, 5ut 1t was not decided until
some days ago to board the mills up
0uIlTGly anu take Tue MdCuIASIy "
other towns. The work of shifting
the machinery was begun, and the
hopes of more than 1900 families
i'll these two towns of a return to
work under any scale have been ex-
tinguished. Local officials at the
abandoned Ohio plants are quoted
as saying that the mills will not be
reopened inside of four years.
The Etna Standard plant. at
Bridgeport, O., which is being dis
mantled, has 20 mills, employing
$500 men when running. Much of
the machinery is being transported
to the smaller tin mills at Morgan
town, w. Va, which is but a 10-mill
affair and employs but 1900 men.
This will be enlarged to employ
5000 men. The Laughlin plant, at
Martins Ferry, O., which has %
mills and employs 5000 men, is be-
ing moved to South Connellsville,
Pa, to an old plant which has not
been running since 1905, and which
was officially marked for destruction
more than a year since This old
mill is to be fitted with the finest
machinery from the Laughlin mills
and its present six-mill capacity, with
500 men, to be increased to 80 mills
and to employ perhaps 1000 men.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
THESE CONsULs
ARE A Luxury
Their Salaries Far Exceed Theil
Returns.
Interesting Disclosures Made BY The
Annual Report OF The Auditor For
The State DEPARTMENTAL Bona,
In The Congo, The Salary And Ex-
penses Were $6,545 And Gross
Earnings Five Dollars.

Washington. D. C. Especially. -
Some remarkable disclosures are
made in the annual report of the au.
ditor for the State Department Of
consular offices that cost thousand:
of dollars yearly and return merely
infinitesimal sums to the Treasury
of the United States. The report
shows that there are eighteen Offices
which report fees of less than $40. Al
the distant port of Bona, Congo
there was expended in salary and
expenses the sum of $6,545 last year
while the earnings of the consulate
China, where the consulate salary is
SLIGO. there was collected in fees
So; at Dardanelles, Turkey, 81 was
the total; Launceston, Tasmania, Sc;
Hardin, Manchuria, $3.50; Matag-
al2a. Nicaragua, SIS. The fees al
Tamatave, Madagascar, aggregated
So, although the consular salary and
contingent expenses reached a total
of $3,864.
It is pointed out that the existence
of these consular offices-is necessary
and that the representation they at
ford is essential to the United States
government. Some steps probably
will be taken, however, to place the
offices in question on a better basis
so far as financial returns are con-
cerned.
In his report the auditor suggests
legislation that will bring about re-
forms in. the manner of disposing OF
the estates of American citizens who
die abroad. There is at the present
time an absence Of legislation au-
thorizing anyone to collect debts due
to such estates prior to delievry by
the Treasury Department to the legal
representatives. 1t Is proposed to
invest the auditor of the State De-
partment with power in such matters.
Collections made by customs off,
GERS under the navigation, steamboat
inspection and immigration laws in
the fiscal year aggregated $4,487,-
012, the heaviest collections being
made at New York, with Boston and
Charlestown, Mass, second and
third in Importance.
In the consular field the heaviest
collections were at London, where
the fees totaled $101,434. Other
heavy collections reported were at
Liverpool, $27.498; Paris. $95,015;
Berlin. $36.494; Havana. $2S,050;
Yokohama, $2S,443. and Hamburg.
$25,112. All other offices reported
collections of fees under $4,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Murderer Hangs Himself.

Toronto. Ont. Especially Joseph
Hunter. proprietor of the Royal Ho-
tel at Bobcaygeon. who shot his wife
dead while she was in bed, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself to
the bars over the door of his cell
in the jail at Lindsay, Ont. A rope
was improvised from the sheets of
his bed. Hunter at his trial was
said to suffer from epileptic fits. and
the Judge adjourned the trial to al
low the defense to obtain more evil
dence.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
MORE BOMBS N
GAMBLERS WAR
Two Explosions Shake Center Ct
Chicago;
BOMBS EXPLODED lNTERMITTENTLY.
Buildings Occupied By Gambling
Clubs Are Wrecked And Windows
Broken For Blocks Around-War
Between Rival Syndicates OF
Gamblers Has Now Been Going On
For Two Years.

Chicago, Ill. Especially. - Two
bombs were exploded in downtown
buildings occupied by gambling
clubs. The bombs were the thirty
second and thirty-third that have
been hurled in gambling establish
ments within the last two years. No
one was injured, but many windows
were broken and store stocks were
damaged
The first bomb exploded soon aft
er o'clock in a building at $50
State Street. and the other followed
,15 minutes later in building near
La Sale and Madison Streets.
In the State Street building the
Empire Club, an alleged gambling or
ganization, has its quarters, while
Streets houses the Worth Jockey
Club, which keeps handbook on
horse races. N'
For two years a series of bombs
has been exploded internationally in
Chicago in gambling-houses. The
acts are said to be due to quarrel
between syndicates of gamblers who
operate in violation of the law.
The explosion in State Street
shook the heart of the city and win
dows in buildings within a radius of
a block were broken. The lower
floors of the five-story building were
occupied by tea store. The con-
cussion did most damage in the store
room on the first floor, scattering
stock over the floor and blowing out
plate glass windows in the front and
all the windows in the rear of the
structure.
Many buildings adjacent to the ex-
plosion we're damaged, including the
Chicago Automobile Club, the I'M
perial and the Inter-Ocean Hotels
and the Premier Theatre, a vande-
Vile house. The theatre was filled
with people when the bomb wastfired
The detonation frightened the audi
ence and men and women rushed
for the street. and no one was in
jured.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
POSTUM cHEwED UP MAIL.
Now Government is To Prosecute
Louisiana Jokers.

Washington. D.. G. (spscial). =
A practical joke with an oppossum
as the chief factor, is likely to get
some prominent people into trouble
with the United States Government.
On the night of October Is last a
party of about twenty-five we'll
known people of Leesville, La, plac-
ed an oppossum in the package bin
of the local postoffice The next
morning the postmaster's subordi-
mates opened the bin and found the
oppossum. The mail in the bin had
been chewed to fragments by the ami
NAL The names of the jokers have
been obtained by the department and
action against them will be instituted
In the near future.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
) EIudcd inspectors 5 Years.

San Francisco Especially George
D. CLANCY, who was arrested in
Philadelphia short time ago after
eluiing p"stoflicc inspectors, for eight
years. pleaded guilty in the United
States District Court of having used
the mails for fraudulent purposes.
Eight years ago. in company with
James Ewing, CLANCY organized the
Standard Oil Investment and Pro-
noting Company This was broken
Up BY postoiilcc inspectors. who de-
clared that 1t was fraudulent con-
Germ.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Killed By His Invention.

Laporte. Ind. Especially - Harry
May, an inventor. who came recent
ly from New York, was killed by an
accidental explosion of secret wa
ter-proofing compound used in the
manufacture of artificial stone. Ell
mer E., Harding, owner of cement
block works, and to whom May had
sold the patent, was severely burned,
but will recover.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
THAw LOSES APPEAL.
Highest State Court Affirms Commit.
.nent To Matteawan.

Albany. N. Y. Especially Harry
K. Thaw's. contention that he was
Illegally committed to the Matteawan
State Hospital for the Criminal In.
sane, following his acquittal on the
charge of numbering Stanford White
in New York City, was oyerruled by
the Court of Appeals.
The Court affirmed the Appellate
Division. second department, which
upheld a decision of Supreme Court
Justice Mills, of White Plains. dis
missing a writ of habeas corpus and
refusing to order Thaw's release from
Matteawan. There was no opinion
the Court taking the opinions of JUS
tees jerks and Rich. of the Appel
late Division.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH

The Prince and Princess Kuni, OF
Japan. have communicated their
thanks to the American people for
the generous hospitality which they
received while in this country.
Justin Luton, of Nashville, Tenn.
seems to have the best chance OF
succeeding to the vacancy In the SUI
preme Court caused by tho death OF
Justice Peckham.
Clarence Norment has been APP
pointed chairman of the Committee
to raise Washington's allotment OF
the Aviation Meet Guarantee Fund.
Major Andrew 8. Rowan, who car
ried Miles message to Garcia at the
outbreak of the Spanish War. is to
go on the retired list.
Lieutenant Commander Louis r.
de Steigner will succeed Commander
Robert L. Russell as Inspector of the
Fifth Lighthouse district, with head
quarters in Baltimore.
With the aid of the Cuban director
of posts the Postoffice Department
has succeeded in holding the sale
of Cuban National Lottery tickets
to minimum.
Receipts from internal revenue re-
ported today reached $S9l.677, q
Jump of over a half million dollars
over the corresponding date last
year.
The trend of modernism was de-
nounced in a resolution adopted by
the Presbyterian Synod of Baltimore.
at its session in Washington.
The loss sustained by the First
National Bank of Mineral Point,
Wis, from forged paper and embez-
element amounts to $457.000.
Mrs. William B. Short, the show
girl who was shot by her husbanq
in Washington. Is recovering FROM
her wound.
Mrs. Van Deman, wife of an Army
officer. is the first woman to make
an ascension in an aeroplane.
Senior DIR. Don Rololfo Espinosa.
minister from Nicaragua to the UNI
ted States. has resigned.
The seven-year sentence of Thomas
w Harvey, connected with the
wrecked Enterprise National Bank,
of Allegheny, Pa. has been commute
ed to three years.
]. E. Chilberg, president OF the
Alaska-Yuko Exposition, accidentlly
threw his wife's diamonds out of a
railroad car window.
A committee of postofice super
intendents is in session studying
plans to improve the registry system.
A new record in gunnery was
made by the Eighteenth Company.
Coast ARTILLERY, stationed at Fort
Schuyler.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Foreign

The fight between church and
state Is increasing in France. The
Archbishop of Toulouse is trying tc
rally Catholic voters in support OF
candidates committed to the defense
of church interests.
The French court, in the case OF
Count Castellane against his former
wife, rebukes both the Count and
the Princess for their disa greement
In the matter of schooling their chill
dren.
Mrs. Chaplin, suffragette at Ber-
mondsey, England, smashed a bottle
of corrosive sublimate upon a ballot
box at bye election and severely
burned several of the election Of
ficials.
The loss Of confidential drawings
In connection with the construction
OF a British Dreadnought has arous-
ed suspicion that the German govern
ment has them.
A man and a woman claiming to
be Count and Countess Gubata were
arrested in Paris charged with OBJ
tanning $4,000 worth of jewels by
fraud.
The Mexican government will ad-
vance 100000 to alleviate the
suffering caused by the corn famine
among the poorer classes.
The American hospital built and
equipped In Paris through the gen.
erosity Of the American colony was
formally opened.
The assassin of Prince Ito of Japan
has been identified as Inehan Angan.
former editor of a newspaper at
Seoul, Korea.
Japan will try to have removed the
clause of the treaty with the United
States which prevents immigration to
America.
The Korean Patriotic League is
sued at Honolulu circular glorify-
ing the assassination of Marquis Ito
as a patriotic act. The Japanese
government issued a statement de-
claring there would be no change
in the policy toward Korea.
President Gomez. of Cuba, accept
ed the resignation of Secretary OF
State velez and Secretary Of Sani-
! tation DuQue.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
IN TIE WORLD OF FINANc;

More gold exports but of small di-
mensions
Pig iron output has reached ban
ner figures. being now at the rate
of 100000 year.
Atchison came forward with a big
report for September. There was a
gain of $s07.981 in gross earnings
and $228.547 in met.
A Philadelphia director of United
States Steel. tells his friends that
next year the colnmon stock will sell
above the preferred.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Editors Double Crime.

independence, Kan. Especially -
Samuel Marine, formerly editor of
the Tyro Herald. shot and killed
his wife and then committed suicide
at his wife's home. The two quar-
relied over the possession of their
child and Marine attempted to take
it away from the mothers home.
Mrs Marine had her husband ar
rested After his release on bail he
went to her apartments and fired
the fatal shots.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
No Hair Cuts In oberammergau

Munich Especially. "A peculiar
order. without precedent even among
the practically all-powerful mayors
of German towns, was issued by the
burgomaster of Oberammergau 1t
forbids all actors in the great pas
sion Play" to have their hair cut
or even trimmed until after Septem-
Der rs, 1910. The mayor sets forth
that it is necessary that the hirsute
appearance of the actors may con-
form strictly to the demands of the
play, to be given between May IL
and September IS. 1910.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
walsh Allowed Freedom.

Chicago Especially The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals
handed down decision denying the
governments petition for the i'm
mediate remanding of John r.
Walsh to the custody of the United
States marshal for committal to the
penitentiary The decision rules,
however, that while Walsh will be
allowed his personal liberty, the gov
eminent will be permitted the keep
Walsh under constant surveillance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Pupils To Erect Monument.

Cleveland Especially. A monu-
ment. the gift of the school children
of the United States, will be erected
in Lake View Cemetery to the men,
ory of 165 children who lost their
lives in the burning of the Collin
wood school building March, 1908.
A penny collection for this purpose
amounted to $1,000. The village
council of Collinwood added $500
to the fund.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS TOWN.
Damage At Santo Rosa, Mexico, EST
mated At $5,OOO.OOO.

Mexico City Especially The town
of Santa Rosa, in the State of Ia
basco, was inundated by tidal wave.
The loss of life is not known, but
is believed to be large.
The property loss is estimated at
$5,0O0.0O0.
For a time the streets and public
gardens were under three feet OF
water, trees were uprooted and crops
washed out The Usumacinta River,
on the 1Guatemalan border, overflow
ed its banks in the vicinity of jail
apa and San Juan Baustista. flooding
these towns.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Edward Z. Goodwin Dead.

Louisville Especially. = Edward
Livingston Goodwin. formerly sec
ond vice president of the Standard
Oil Company, personal and bust
ness associate of John D., Rockefel-
Ter and head of Louisville indus
try. died. aged "a years. He came
to Louisville from New York, after
entering the oil business in Pittsburg
in 1862
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Leg Broken Nv Wave.

New York Especially The steam
er New Amsterdam, which just ar
rived here, had stormy weather most
of the passage. On Thursday an
enormous sea which boarded the
ship burst open an iron door and
broke the leg of seaman, at the
same time slightly injuring young
woman passenger. A large purse
was collected by the passengers for
the injured seaman.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Pennsy,s Increased Ea,nings.

Philadelphia Especially The re-
port of the Pennsylvania Railroad for
the month OF September, 1909. COM
pared with the same period in 1908.
shows an increase in the gross earn
ings of $1.T55,300 and an increase
in net earnings. of $4,000. The
lines west of Pittsburg and Erie for
the same period show an increase in
gross revenue OF $1,S26,500 and an
increase in net revenue of $S67,40O.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Says Women Favor Polygamy.

San Francisco Especially. = The
women are more anxious for poly
gamy than the men are," said Bish-
op Spalding, of Utah, at conclava
of the Episcopal diocese in this city.
The Bishop went on to say that poly
gamy in Utah has more recruits
among the women than among the
men, and that so long as woman, suf-
frage prevailed in that state 1t would
be utterly impossible to establish
laws that would result in the abo-
lition of polygamy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
students Killed On railroad.

Huntingdon. Pa. Especially While
walking on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road tracks just west of here Charles
S. Dieber, of Bedford, and VIM. E.
Wibler, of Indiana County, both
students OF the Juniata College, of
this city. were run down and instant
ly killed Young Wibler's body was
hurled over 200 feet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Chinese Students AS Indemnity.

Washington. D. c. Especially -
The Chinese Government has sent
forty-seven students to enter Amer
lean colleges and universities. In
compliance with the understanding
with the United States regarding the
disposition of the indemnity remit
ted by this Government.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Epidemic In Military school.

Atlanta. Ga. Especially - Forty
students of the Georgia Military
Academy. near this city. were rush
ed to the city suffering from an ILL
ness which has attacked the school
in epidemic form. They were dis
tributed among several hospitals
The nature of their illness has not
been learned
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
One KilIed; Four Badly Hurt.

Pittsburg Especially. One man
Was killed and four others were seri-
ously injured when a train on a
mountain tramroad belonging to the
Tri-State Lumber Company ran away
and went over an embankment at
Dunbar, near here. The five men
were employees of the concern.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-05
Herb Doctor Held For Murder.

Fall River, Mass. Especially. -
Professor" Frank Hill. an herb doc
tor. of this city, was held without
bail for the grand jury for the muir
der of Miss Amelia st. Jean, of
Woonsockct, r. L.. whose dismem-
bered body was found in sections
along the Bulger Marsh, in the adj
Joining town of Tiverton. R. l., two
weeks ago.