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all dark inside, and 1t smelled wet,
and Nelsie was screaming as loud as

duU NeISle was screaming as lOu0 as
she could.
I'VE had to sit down pretty soon, for
the car was going fast, and 1t bumped
US into the walls and knocked US down.
We crawled over into a corner and
took hold of hands, and all the time
Nelste cried. cried, too, but after a
while my throat hurt so l couldn't.
"The car didn't stop after that. 1t
just kept going and going. If it'd
stopped l could have stamped my foot,
or somebody might have heard Nelsie
crying. After a long time got awful
hungry, and then l cried again. put
my arms around Nelsie then, and she
put her arms around me, and we both
cried more than ever.
After another long time I began
to feel thirsty, and when asked
Nelsde she said she was, too. But
there wasn't any water we could find,
even II the car did smell wet. We
crawled all around it, and then we
cried some more. A tear ran in my
mouth, and then l caught the other
tears with my tongue. l told Nelsie
to do it, but 1t made me thirstier.
mo; we didn't go to sleep at all.
I tried to once, but heard roar at
the other end of the car and l was
afraid to. After a while got sleepy
again, but heard the roar again and
l didn't dare to sleep. Nelsie heard
the roar, too.
AFTER a long, long time the car
began to go slower. Finally 1t stop
ped and somebody came to the door.
We stood up, and when the door
opened everything went round and
round. Then man picked me up in
his arms like my papa does and car
ried me out. Another man picked
Nelsie up, and pretty soon another
man brought soup in bowl.
"And them" Nelsie said, another
man took US away and a woman gave
US a bath, and the woman gave US
blue dresses, and she gave US shoes
and stockings, too. And she put a
pink ribbon in my hair, and q man
gave me something out of spoon,
and another man gave US flowers. and
pretty soon another man said would
have my baby again."
That's little Rosie. She's year
DID," explained Mary.
did you want your mammal" Mel
sic was asked.
"Yes." she answered slowly, "but I
wanted my baby most"
When the two children were missed
from home it was thought they might
have got on a car in the Buffalo yards
and been carried away. Chief Bull
Of the railroad police heard from
other children that two boys had
played joke on some little girls by
telling them there was something
good" in refrigerator car.
Chief Bull wired to Major F. H. G.
Shoefel of Scranton. head Of the
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resulting in harm to Americans In
Nicaragua.
The first telegram when translated
read:
1T is false that the revolutionista
are in control. Chontales, Acoyapa
San Ubaldo in our possession. Revo-
lutionists near Acoyapa in q very re-
duced number and with few supplies
Will soon DO defeavea IN same way
that revolutionary band which ap-
peared at Mombacho was destroyed at
Dscalantillo with the death OF its
chief, Talavera. The entire country
including the Atlantic coast, has sub.
mitted to the government authority
with the exception Of Bluellelds and
Rama"
The second read:
Government has given orders to
stop the antkAmerican manifestations
and has made more rigorous the cen.
sure Of the press in this particular
The government guarantees complete
safety to ali American citixens. You
will call to mind the cases Of Fowler
Cannon and. Pittman."
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BATHING PARTY
ENDED FATALLY
FOR ALL THREE
Two Midshipmen and a Wo-
man Were the Victims of
Accident.
BODIES FOUND NEAR WHERE
The SAILB0AT WAS ANCHORED
Woman Was Dressed in Bathing Suit
and Long Cloak When Found-No
Explanation as to How They Came
to Drown.

Washington, June 29.-The news. Of
the recovery of the bodies of Mid
shipmen 8. NJ. Mason and G. E. Thom-
as, and Mrs. Joseph Bowyer, who fail
ed to return to the naval academy at
Annapolis yesterday after leaving for
a sail, was reported today to Acting
Secretary of Navy Winthrop. The
bodies were recovered near the place
where the sailboat had been anchor
ed. No explanation was advanced as
to the manner in which they met
their death but 1t is supposed that
the party were bathing, Mrs. Bowyer
being dressed in a bathing suit and
q long cloak.
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WEALTHY PAIR
IN SUICIDE PACT
Unfounded Gossip and Finan-
cial Troubles Another Ex-
PLANTATION by Friends.

Birmingham, Ala, June 29.-The
suicides Of the society matron. Mrs.
w. p. G. Harding, wife of the presi-
dent of the First National bank, and
Of Guy r. johnson, q prominent busi-
ness and clubman have caused much
gossip. johnson shot and fatally
wounded himself last night half an
hour after the suicide of Mrs. Hard
ing. He died early this morning.
Both Mrs. Harding and Mr.. Johnson
were prominent socially, and the two
families were known to be quite in
innate. Mrs. Harding, who was the
wife of the president of the First Ma
tional bank Of Birmingham, was one
Of the most beautiful women in the
south and very popular socially. Mr..
Johnson only short time ago re-
tired from the vice presidency of the
Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron
company, and was prominent in club
and society circles.
According to the best Information.
Mrs. Harding shot herself with pis-
tol about o'clock yesterday after
noon at her beautiful home in Glen
Iris, after having sent children and
60TVdulb away lIOul lliC uOilIcs IL 10
stated.
Say johnson Called Up.
One rumor has 1t that Mr.. johnson
called up the Harding home shortly
before the act was committed and was
told that Mrs. Harding was dead At
any rate. before 6 o'clock he went to
his home. In 1roquois street, and shot
himself just below the heart.
The thory that suicide pact ex-
listed received color from a statement
by Roy Jones, chauffeur for johnson.
who said that on Wednesday he car
ried a package from Mr.. Johnson to
Mrs. Harding, and that the package
aroused his suspicious. When neigh
bors rushed into the room where Mrs.
Harding had taken her own life. a
package which gave evidence Of hav-
ing been opened but a short time be-
fore. was lying on the bed. This
package had contained pistol.
1t is said that johnson told his
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ROOSEVELT SUED
FOR 100000
Mrs. Won Claussen Does Sensa.
tional Stunt to Get News
paper Notoriety.

New York, June ga big bundle
Of papers purporting to be the COM
plant in suit for $1,0O0,000 damages
against Theodore Roosevelt, Robert
Bacon, American ambassador to
France Charles Graves, American
minister to. Sweden And his wife, is
in the county courts office awaiting
disposition The bundle was thrown
into the Office today by Mrs. Ida NJ.
Won Claussen after the clerks refusal
to file the papers because of Irregular
tiles.
The attempted suit is an outgrowth
Of the refusal Of Minister Graves to
present Mrs. Won Claussen at the court
of the late King Oscar Of Sweden in
1907. The complaint begins by alleg-
ing that she had to come to the United
States to procure an honest lawyer to
plead for justice for her, IL the United
States Of America has laws capable
to protect her; II not, then the legis-
lature must be appealed to.
So far, Mrs. Won Claussen says she
has been unable to find such lawyer.
The complaint continues:
II therefore file In the supreme
court this complaint and institute a
suit for slander, malice and revenge
to recover $1,000,000. The
gross insult and slander I received
in Sweden, Of which the world has
cognizance, is laid directly to the fore
going conspirators."
MRS. Won Claussen has figured con-
spicuously in the newspapers ever
since her return from Sweden. She
says King Oscar gave his photograph
and invited her to visit him.
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RATE
CASE DECIDED
BY COMMISSION
Rates From Eastern Points
to Inter r-mountain Points
Gut in Half.
SPOKANE FORMERLY PAID
FREIGHT TO PACIFIC AND BACK
Railroads Had Charged Freight to
Pacific Terminals but Dropped the
Freight at Local Points on the West.
ern Haul

Washington, June 29.-Decisions
were handed down today by the in
terstate commerce commission, coun-
try-wide in importance. They affect
freight rates, both classes and COM
modify, on all trans-continental lines
operating between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. The decisions are Of
what popularity are known as the Pa
cillc coast cases, heard last autumn
by the commission on it's six weeks
trip to the Pacific. coast and inter-
mountain territories.
In every instance reductions of the
existing rates complained of were
made and in some instances they
amounted to nearly fifty per cent.
The commission found, through ito
inquiry. 4 remarkable rate situation
existing on the Pacific coast, and an
even more remarkable one in inter-
mountain territory. This is notably
true Of rates to and from Spokane,
and Reno, New.
Au0 0pOhouo Idt6 C6D0 uA8 OC0u
before the commission in one form or
another for several years. The ship
pers Of that city complained insistent-
.ly Of the rates charged by the rail-
roads on freight classes and COM
modities from eastern points Of orr
gin, because they were required to
pay Pacific coast terminal rates, plus
the local rates. back to Spokane and
from those terminals, although the
freight was discharged at Spokane
by the railroads on the western trip.
Substantially the same state Of fact
exists at Reno and other Nevada
points, which. had to psy rates to San
Francisco and return. These local
rates in most instances amounted to
two-afths or more Of the entire rate
from tho eastern points Of origin to
the Pacific coast terminals. No COM
plant was made in any of the cases
Of rates Of the eastern lines between
the Atlantic points and Mississippi
river transfers and all Of the reduce
tions ordered by the commission af-
fected rates from the Mississippi river
and Missouri river transfer points to
the Pacific coast terminal and the
inter-mountain territorial points.
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out the Manchus and all other for
eign devils, it's members believe the
perfect triangle will be formed, and
universal peace will follow. Another
name Of the society 10 Thiantihui, or
"Heaven-E Earth League" -.
Its avowed object, 70 to sssk more
light. or ming" bat ming was also
the name Of the previous dynasty,
and this ambiguous phrase never
concealed the fact that it, object was
solely political. 'S''
Terror Rules Secret Bands.
Membership may be said to bs
compulsory, for when any one il like
ly to be Of service to the society the
local of1cials-after the manner Of
silver's black spot teseod him q
paper bearing their seal. He is warn
ed to present himself for imitation,
and threatened with murder II he
should reveal the message. II he
shows signs Of hesitation he 10 at
tracted to the lodge by ruse. and
once. he takes the oath. terror ever
afterward prevents him breaking It.
Subscriptions are largely raised by
levies on the keepers Of gambling
dens, and the society ID always we'll
provided with money. Members
swear to help each other in every
way and doubtful characters become
members with the object Of pursuing
vendettas. receiving aid in smuggling
and otherwise evading tho law. One
Of the four lodge officials is an ex-
ecutioner, and instances are known Of
intruders-or drafts Of wind" a.
they are called-being promptly kill
er for approaching meetingS.
Such vast organization might
we'll turn the world upside down, but
It is only one of the many kindred
societies. In addition, there are
countless guilds Of merchants, and
even Of thieves and beggars, which
are in reality powerful secret socie-
ties.
"Reformers" in Control
1t was the American exclusion
treaty. proposed In 1906, that gave
the chief impetus to the federation of
societies, which has since increased
30 rapidly. Trade guilds combined
to boycott foreign goods. and new
antiforeign societies sprang up every
where. Then the reformers took over
the control Of the government. and
ucCO ~ w O4AA OLA WVSAOA400 tO60CuOTs
Many efforts have been made by
the central government to stem the
tide. A reward Of $4,000, payable on
delivery. was offered for DR.. Sun Vat
Sens head. and an effort was made
to "kidnap" him In London. Leaders
Of the Aikwohui society were. con-
demned to death, and the society was
ordered to be dissolved. Endeavors
we're made to throw dust in the eyes
Of Europeans by explaining that the
boxers were really only an associa-
ton Of gymnasts, and that there was
nothing to fear.
But although the government could
threaten, it could not execute its
threats. Arms have been smuggled
across the Russian frontier. and gun
running has been common ON the
north coast. Only few months ago
a Chinese warship captured a Jap
anese vessel filled with rifles and am
munition.
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want to endorse they may do so with.
out embarrassment. It was the
strongest thing the Democratic state
convention in Ohio did.
The P0mefene Nomination.
Tho other strong thing the conven-.
ton did was to insist on the nomina-
ton Of Atlee Pomerene Of Canton for
lieutenant governor. Pomerene took
the Bryan idea of the senatorial en-
dorsement proposition. His delega-
tton from Stark county cast its solid
vote for the endorsement Of q candi-
date for United States senator. Pom
creme had also landed Tom L. John
son in his speech. He was the only
orator In the convention who once
mentioned the name Of William Jen-
nings Bryan. There was not q Bryan
picture in the convention hall. It
was not Bryan convention. But
Pomerene was dragged onto the ticket
without his consent. 1t showed that
matter as one in which the state
alone was interested.
The fact that Pomerene took the
Bryan side was not held up against
him. Bryan got q jolt in the endorse
ment matter, but the nomination Of
Pomerene was intended to show that
there was nothing personal about it.
The Democrats of Ohio had decided
to hold an Ohio convention without
dictation from Lincoln, Neb., and
they did it. Mr.. Bryan will not like
II.
For the convention was composed
largely Of politicians. You know the
Bronson primary law was framed to
put the politicians out Of business.
which is probably why they were all
there. The governor and his lieuten-
ants controlled all the big delegations
except Cuyahoga and controlled all
of the other delegations that were
bossed by a commanding politician in
any one county, and they delivered
for him. Whether they represented
the will of the rank and file Of the
party will develop later. Just now
Governor Harmon is in the saddle.
Harmon has decided to try some
practical politics on the people in
the place of the ideals that have been
put forward by Mr.. Bryan. Just
which the voters of the party will
like best remains to be seen. But the
Democrats put their best foot forward
at Dayton. They nominated ticket
in which there is much strength at
the top and much weakness in the
middle and at the bottom.
Humor in the Platform.
The platform Is calculated largely
as a vote-catcher. This, however, 10
not regarded in the Democratic mind
as being especially important. It
sounds good and they will just let it
go at that. There is a good deal Of
latent humor in the convention dec
laration on the control Of public utili-
ties, since the public utilities bill that
would have given the people Of the
state just what the Democratic con-
vention now declares they ought to
have was beaten by Democratic votes.
The governors own mouthpiece, Sem
ator Alsdorf. made the chief speech
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Plans for the Conference at
Beverly Are Now Being
!. Arranged.
SENATOR LODGE WILL ACCOMPANY
FORMER PRESIDENT TO meeting
Governor Hughes May Be q Partici.
pant in the Conference, but This 10
Not Certain-Roosevelt at Cam.
bridge and Taft at Beverly Today. /

Beverly, Mass, June 29.-President
Taft and former President Roosevelt
will meet at Burgess Point tomorrow
afternoon. While no Official an-
nouncement of the conference had
been made. it is known that the de-
tails are being arranged. Whether
Gov. Hughes, who is at Cambridge
today, will participate In tomorrow's
meeting Is not certain. It is UNDER
stood that Senator Lodge, who 10 to
entertain Col. Roosevelt at his home
IN Nahant tonight, will accompany his
guest to Beverly tomorrow.
President Taft arrived at his sum.
mer home at $3.50 o'clock this fore
noon.
Cambridge. Mass. June 29.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Harvard 80. at the
annual commencement luncheon of
the Harvard Alumni association In
Memorial hall today. participated with
his fellow classmates in the celebra-
tion OF the thirtieth anniversary of
their graduation. Cambridge held
many noted persons within its bor-
ders today. With Col. Roosevelt at
Harvard where Gov. Hughes Of New
York and ]. P. Morgan, both of whom,
1t was understood, were to be given
honorary degrees. For q brief period.
also President Taft was in Cambridge
as the train on which he was Journey
ing from Washington to Beverly
passed through section of the uni
versity city.
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BRo>'s$ JURY
HAs>&S>''!eREED
Twentyfour Ballots With
Eight to -Four for Convic.
tion Result.

Chicago. June 2s.-The jury in
Judge w. H. McSurely's division Of
the criminal court that heard the
case against Lee O'Neil, the Illinois
legislative minority leader charged
with bribing Representative Charles
A. White to vote Tor Lorimer for Unit
ed States senator, disagreed and vot-
ed mo verdict" today.
The jury took twenty-four ballots.
standing to 4 for conviction through
out.
States Attorney Wayman declared
to the reporters that the Browne case
offered the most fragrant case Of jury
fixing he had ever known.
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POWERFUL SECRET s0CEI||EEs 0E DE- CHINA CHINA
ARE PLANNING TO ESTABLISH 4 REPUBLIC

/. London. June 29.-China is on the
eve OF q civil war which promises to
wipe out the present dynasty. In d.
splomattc circles the authorities on
the Chinese question are all of the
Sopinion that the uprisings in the pro-
svinces of Hupeh and Human in April
and May and the riots in Changsha
are but the first signs Of a storm
which soon 10 to spread over the en-
pire and carry death and destruction
In IT. wake.
For ten years the numerous and
3owerful secret societies. in China
lave been preparing for this rebel
lion. Large importations Of arms
1--we been made and vast army of
men have been drilling secretly. 1t
. the avowed purpose of the organ
l4eers Of the rebellion to overthrow
s3he present form Of government and
aDtsblish a republic, modelled after
NE United States.
Threaten Tartar Manchus.
s Although the Tartar Manchus have
1Aigned at Peking for six centuries,
sabsy still are regarded as foreigners
fl the Chinese. and innumerable ef-
trts have been made to drive them
NOM the country. Concerted action
Ns never achieved, however, and It
y 3Ss not until DIR. Sun Vat Sen, the
Of the revolution, began to
I'm his plans for Welding the peo-
VI into nation ana establishing q
4 lnese republic after the model of
United States that the dynasty
Ia seriously threatened. II the an
1pations Of Europeans in China
s correct, he has now perfected his
eSSparations for overthrowing the dy-
AA1ty and sweeping the whole posse
soNmandarins and ofiicials out Of ex-
slbtance.
st 10 by meane of the vast organiza-
stt9l Of secret societies, with which
GG4na is honeycombed from Mukden
Canton, that he has conducted his
apaign. Every Chinese rebellion
ads riot for the last 600 years has
ln inspired and aided by one of
SkAt6s societies, and they are all
sAnd interest. All are violently anti
sJ6estic and all are equally antifor-
Would Open Her Ports.
Yum Vat Sen has declared his
at161ntion Of throwing every port open
ssllhe world when he becomes presi-
Of the Chinese republic of which
q feAms. But the watchword of the
DQe1es is China for the Chinese, +"
Sthe recent riots In Munan prove
ANY general movement will at
imperil the lives Of Europeans
s&1So country.
sS$ eatest of all the secret societies
3AA Sanhohu, or Triad. of which
M hun Vat Sen is believed to be the
center" Some authorities es-
N A. its members at 100000, but
2S insist 1t includes at least 1O,-
Il 10 Of the 50,O0O.000 adult males
6ina. It's power reaches as far
H. yerpool, San Francisco. and Sgd
And no delinquent member is
SSsfe from it's emissaries.
WI SNAs founded in 1874. and it's
4 signifies. Three United" re-
=. to heaven, earth and man.
these three have united to drive
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HORRIBLE PLIGHT
OF YOUNG GIRLS
Locked in Car by Boys, They
are 68 Hours Without
Food.

Buffalo. June 29.-Both feeling re-
covered from the effects Of their jour-
ney of sixty-eight hours from this city
to the Secaucus. N. J. terminal of the
Lacakawanna railroad. locked in a
refrigerator car without food and
drink, 10-year-old Mary Moni and
S-year-old Nelsie Beforko got back
home.
Again and again they were forced
to repeat to family and friends the
story of. their terrible experience.
Mary is the daughter of Frank Mont
and Nelsie the child of Joseph Befor-
ko. both laborers on the Lackawanna
in Buffalo. They live in the same
house. near the roads Main street
yards. The children started for school
and met two boys, who told them
there were bananas in a refrigerator
car in the yards. They went thither.
What happened then was told by Mary
as follows:
Locked IN Car.
"Nelsie and climbed in a car that
the boys showed US. Then one of the
boys laughed and banged the door.
was awful scared, and Nelsie began
to cry. The boys didn't come back, mad
stamped my foot on the floor so they
would hear, but nothing happened un-
til an engine bumped into us.
II stamped my foot again. but I
didn't have my shoes on. and guess
they didn't hear. Pretty soon the car
started, and then I cried, too. 1t was
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BODIES RECOVERED

Licking River In Kentucky Is Giving
Up Its Dead.
salyersyille, KY. June. 29.-six
bodies were recovered from the Lick
ing river today following the cloud
burst along its head waters. It Is
reported that many other lives have
been lost. Twenty-six houses were
washed away. Licking is above the
flood stage,
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THE EPREi.|;RF|SH
STORY OF SEASON
Shark Thirty-six Feet Long
and Weighing Fifteen Tons
Captured.

Seattle, June 29.-After a seven
hours struggle the combined crews
Of two 30-horse-power gasoline fish
ing boats Good Partner and Pioneer
II. captured a man-eating shark thir-
ty-six feet long. Weighing about fifteen
tons in the straits Of San Juan Del
Fuca between Port Crescent and Port
Angels. The capture was made Sun
day. In the sharks belly they found
pieces Of bones and piece of a kodak
plate.
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. = s,s y . . .
THE WEATHER. .
North Dakota-Partly cloudy
tonight and Thursday. Cooler. i
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Continued on page 81
Evening journal., 1910-12-19
PINTSCH GAS
CAUSED BLOW-UP

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK. Dec. 19-Fire Chief
Croker, after a careful investigation
Of the Explosion here this morning,
said thN It was due to pintsch gas
and that dynamite was Not a fac
tor.
have examined the men who were
at work when the disaster happen
ed" he said. "and have found that the
gas explosion was entirely RESPONSE
BILE. There is a three-lnch pipe laid
alongside Of the tracks here, which
is used to fill the tanks of the Pull
man cars which are side-tracked out
side OF the building. A crew per
mitted some ears TO overrun their dis
tance to-day and the Sformer car
smashed the pipe. The flow Of gas
poured into the depot. Instead OF
shutting of the gas at the tank the
workmen tried TO fix the break Wher
mixed with air pintsch gas is far more
powerful as an explosive than dyna'
mite. One of the workmen trying L
twist out the broken length OF pipe
dropped his wrench on the third rail
There was a short circuit and th'
sparks ignited the gas and caused th'
explosion