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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
NOG| AND
WIFE SUICIDES
Grief Over MonarCh's Death
Leads to Harikari.
SACRIFICE IN HIS HONOR.
The Couple Carried Out Carefully
Planned Pact After Attending
the Funeral Of Mutsu-
hito.

Tokio.-Gen. Count Maresuke Nogl,
supreme military councillor Of the en-
pire. and his wife, the Countess Nogi,
committed suicide in accordance with
the ancient japanese custom as a final
tribute to their departed Emperor and
friend, Mutsuhito.
The death by their own hands OF
the famous General and his wife was
as dramatic as it was sad. The Gen
eral cut his throat with short sword
and the Countess committed hari-kari.
Following the Samurai custom the
couple had carefully prepared their
plans for killing themselves and timed
them so that they could be coincideni
with the departure forever from Toxic
OF the dead Emperor.
General Nogi and the Countess had
attended the funeral services of
Mutsuhito at the palace here and ii
was expected that they would pro-
coed to Aoyama with the cortege. In
stead, however at the conclusion of
the ceremony at the palace they with
drew to theiE modest home in
Akasaka, a suburb of Toxic, and there
began their final preparations for
death.
First the General wrote a letter TO
his new Emperor. Yoshihito, which
later was found beside his body. Then
he draped in mourning portrait on
the wall of the late Emperor and at
terward he and his wife dressed them
selves in full Japanese costume and
drank a farewell cup of sake from cups
which had been presented 10 the Gen
eral by Mutsuhito.
Darkness had fallen and General
Nogi and the Countess sat and await
ed the signal they had agreed upon to
announce their leave-taking. This
was the booming of single gun in
the palace grounds at Toxic, which
was to let the people know that the
body of the Emperor was starting on
the funeral car for its last resting
place.
AS the boom of the gun resounded
through the clear, still night General
Nogi arose and grasping in his hand
a smut oNOlu pIuHStu ~ IllIO H4h
throat. while the Countess stabbed
herself through the body.
A student who resided in the Nogi
home heard the fall of the bodies and
rushed into the room. Lying upon the
floor were the hero of Port Arthur and
his wife. Both still were breathing,
but their spasmodic gasps showed
plainly that death was near. The stu
dent hurried for aid, but when he re-
turned with it both the General and
! the Countess were dead.
The tragedy created a profound sen
sation and expressions of sorrow were
heard on every hand.
I Those who knew General Nogi well
declared that his calmness in killing
| himself was the kind of stoicsm he al
ways had displayed, no matter what
/ crisis faced him.
1 General Count Nogi was a national
| hero in Japan. 1t was he who cap
/ tured Port Arthur from the Russians
| in 1904 and assured the success of his
! country in the battle of Mukden. The
Count was born at Hagi. in the Prov
ince of Choshu, in 1S49 and was the
eldest son of Maretsugu Nogi. a
samurai of the Choshu clan.
The Countess Nogi was a daughter
of Yuchi Sadaynki, a samurai of the
Kagosnima clan.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
WARM RECEPTION
FOR THE REBELS
Mexican Capital Fortified TO
Resist Zapatistas.
THE CITY AN ARMED CAMP.
Twelve Hundred Rurales and rive
Hundred State Police Adoed
To the Garrison OF
Infantry.

Mexico City - Twelve hundred
rurales and SEQ state police have been
brought into Mexico City 10 prepare
for the attack Emialino Zapata has
threatened to make on the capital.
These added to the garrison OF IN
fantry already here, give force oil
about 5000 men for the defense OF TINS
city. The rurales are patroling the
streets and the suburbs in mounted
SQUADS of 25 to 20 men, night and day
While the 50-odd church towers OF the
capital are posted with sentries TO
watch the streets and see that no
rioting starts.
An order has been issued forbidd'ng
groups of more than five persons TO
congregate at any point within the
city. and the mounted police have or
ders 10 ride down and dispense gath
eriugs of more than this number. a
searchlight has been installed on the
tower of the building occupied by the
Puerta de Vera Cruz the largest store
and the highest building in the city.
kIIedl DedIIS VI llelN IL Jill NAAAS 49, =
reflector wander at random over the
city all night, permitting sentries be
side the sea-chlight 10 see what is
going on in distant sections OF the
capital As was done a, the end OF
the Diaz regime, machine guns have
been posted on the roof OF the Banco
Nacional. the National Treasury, the
National Palace and Chapultepec, the
official residence Of the president.
Along the three suburbs, Tialpam,
Guadalupe and Tlainepantle, through
which Zapata has announced he will
make his attack, especially heavy
guards have been posted, and the bar
racks in each OF these small towns
have been provided with rapid fire
guns and extra supplies of rifles and
ammunition.
Zapata has assured foreigners that
their rights will be respected and
urges them TO fly the American flag
over their homes and places OF bust
ness, so that his raiders may know
whom to protect in case mobs attempt
violence toward any other than MeXi
cans.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
HOWARD GILL,
AVIATOR, DEAD
BaItimorean Killed in First Mid
Air Collision.
HIS CHEST CRUSHED IN,
Gill Attempted To Pass Under French
mans Monoplane, But Did Not
Allow Himself Enough
Room.

Chicago Howard Gill, the daring
Baltimore aviator. was killed and Geo.
Mestach. of France was seriously in
jured in the first midair collision in
the history of aviation, which oc-
cursed at the Cicero field.
Gill had a premonition OF an acct
dent Just before he entered his ma
chine and started he called TO a
friend 10 throw him a heavy oil coat
which the man was wearing
I'm likely to bring back some
blood on this, said Gill with laugh
as he slipped it on.
The friend jokingly remarked
Gill is as safe in those machines
as if in bus on the ground
To this Gil replied
when you 60 up you never can
tell what shape you Will be in when
yon come down
Ten minutes later ellis mangled
body lay beneath the wreckage of his
machine.
The collision took place 10 feet in
the air. Both men and their machines
came down together The men fell
free of their seats and struck the
ground with terrific force. They
were scarcely so feet apart
Both men were picked up apparent.
IL dead. bu, Mestach afterward re,
covered consciousness. Gill never
did. He died while he was being
rushed TO a hospital His chest was
crushed in by the weight OF his en-
CINE. which fell upon him.
Death was due to broken neck.
Just what cause1 the accident could
not be definitely learned until Mestach
recovered consciousness and was able
to give d brief account Of what had
happened. There were many theories
bur his explanation seems the most
plausible
This is what he said: Il was going
at top speed IN my monoplane in an
effort TO win the race Looking be
hind, saw Howard Gill in his bplan5
turning around a pylon and rapidly
approaching me a few feet below.
5erkel my elevator. thinking to give
him amuIe space 10 clear beneath
From the cockpit OF my monoplane
was unable 10 get a good view of just
what was happening. but it seems that
Gill, driving straight ahead hit my
understructure This had the effect
of bouncing me of and plunging me
TO the ground For a few moments
was unconscious. When came to,
saw Gill lying in the wreckase of hi,
car not 80 feet away We had col
lided in midair, with the inevitable
result"
Gill was in a Wright bipane and
was circling a One-mile course. while
Mestach. in a Borel monoplane, was
participating in the 20-kilometrt
monoplane race
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
LAST Of ALIENS
RUN DOWN
Run Down and Arrested in Des
Moines, Iowa.
LAST OF GANG AT LARGE.
Both Men Worked In Iowa Under
Assumed Names-Thought They
Had Thrown Pursuers Of
the Scent.

Des Nome, Iowa.-Sidna Allen,
leader of the Allen clan which shot
up the Carroll County Courthouse at
Hillsville, Va, March IA, killing the
judge on the bench, the prosecutor,
the Sheriff a juror and a woman in
one of the most sensational tragedies
ever committed in a court of justice,
and his nephew. Wesley Edwards, are
manacled in cells at the city Jail as a
result of love affairs which led detec.
tives to them. Both have announced
their Willingness to return TO Virginia
without requisition.
Edwards, for the love of whom Miss
Maude Iroler of Mount Airy, Va, had
innocently led detectives to Des
Moines, was captured Saturday night
as he was returning to his boarding
house having worked all day with a
paving gang. Just as he boarded a
street car detectives and officers sur
rounded it. Edwards was trying TO
escape by crawling through the front
end of the car when the officers
caught him.
The arrest of Sidna Allen was af-
fected earlier in the day.
A visit by Edwards to Miss Iroler in
her Virginia home about a month ago
and the accidental loss of letter put
the detectives on the trail. The fugi-
tives had been in Des Moines since
April %. Allen, under the name Of
Tom Sayre. worked as a carpenter and
Edwards. who called himself Joe
Jackson, was employed with a city
paving gang.
Allen was arrested at the home OF
John Cameron, at Eleventh and Locust
streets, where he and his nephew had
been rooming, by Detectives w. G.
Baldwin. Lucas and G. o. Mundy, of
Roanoke. The arrest was made few
minutes after Miss Iroler had stepped
into the Cameron home to meet Ed
wards. whom she was to wed Satur-
day night. according to an arrange
ment concluded when he visited her
in Virginia.
Detective Lucas followed at her
heels. Allen was in an upper room.
When informed that visitors wanted
10 see him. he came down stairs. AS
he did so Detective Lucas covered him
with a revolver and called on him to
surrender.
Allen hesitated, then threw up his
hands, remarking, as he did so, Il
guess I'm your man. He was hand
cuffed and nlaced under a guard of
city detectives, while Colonel Baldwin
and Chief Kenny, of the local depart
ment went in search of Edwards, who
was said to be at work in the western
part of the city. Apparently Edwards
heard that his uncle had been cap
tured, because he was not to be found
until night.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
Parker and Companion Back
From Mount Mckinley.
Brooklyn Man Arrives at Seattle,
Wash, Meets Young Wife and Sees
His child for First Time-Will
Not Ascend Again.

Seattle, Wash.-Prof. Herschell G.
Parker of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Bel
more Browne of Tacoma, who came
within 300 feet of reaching the summit
of Mount Mckinley last June, have
returned from Alaska. Prof Parker
was greeted at the pier by Mrs. Par
ker, a bride of a little more than a
year, who had come from Brooklyn to
meet MIN. He hastened to Tacoma on
the first interurban car to see for the
first time his child, baby of few
months, born during his absence in
Alaska.
Prof. Parker and Mr. Browne left
Seward February 3, reaching the foot
Of Mount Mckinley April %. On their
previous expedition they attempted to
ascend the mountain from the south
side, but this time they crossed the
Alaska range about twenty miles east
of Mount Mckinley. They went up
Muldrow glacier, taking the route Sc
lected by Tom Lloyd and his party of
explorers when they assembled the
mountain in 1910.
At an altitude of 10000 feet the Par
ker-Browne party relayed supplies with
dog teams from the camp below. Aft
er remaining at this altitude several
days and unable to Proceed higher be-
cause of a severe storm they decided
to await more favorable conditions and
dropped back to an altitude of 5000
feet.
The party set out again June 5, 60
ing up the northeast ridge and Null
drow glacier. The route selected was
narrow and hazardous and the ridge
steep, but the explorers were able TO
reach an altitude of 10000 feet before
being driven back by the severe cold
and binding snow blown by high
gale from peak to peak.
On the third attempt an altitude of
20,100 feet was reached There, with
only three days provisions left, they
were unable to withstand the cold and
gave up hope of reaching the summit.
Prof Parker in explaining the Sc
we're cold on the mountain said that
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
AUTOS TO CONVICT SELVES
Los Angeles City Council Considers
Placing Automatic Device on
Machines.

Los Angeles, Cal. = Automobile
speeders in Los Angeles will convict
themselves if the city council passes
an ordinance recommended by the po-
lice commission.
The commission vGnts all automo-
biles equipped with a speed detecting
device consisting Of three lights,
white, green and red When a car is
going eight miles an hour the white
will show, fifteen miles the green, and
twenty miles, the speed limit, the red
When a car is going twenty to thirty
miles an hour both the white and
green lights will appear. and if It is
going more than thirty miles an hour
all three lights will fash the tidings
to the policeman on the corner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
Race Hatred Flaming.

Cumming, Ga.-Race hatred was in.
tensifed here and further bloodshed is
imminent because of the burning of
the store of w. ]. Duice, supposedly
by negroes in retaliation for the lynch
ing here of Ed Collins, negro impli-
Gated with Ernest Cox. confessed slay-
er of young white woman. The
burning of the store obviously was the
work of incendiaries and bloodhounds
have been put on their tran. in the
event of capture a lynching seems
certain.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
TELL OF HARD CLIMB
CHX DREH or me H/HG

at a height of $1,000 feet June Is it
was 10 degrees below zero.
Il found that pemmican, the special
food used by arctic explorers and
made of beef, tallow ard raisins, is Of
no value at the high attitudes" said
Prof. Parker we were soon affiict-
ed with severe cases of indigestion, as
the food was too heavy, and We were
unable to use a large part of our
rations ! found that at an altitude
of 1900 feet could not smoke with
out experiencing severe dizziness,
while Mr. Browne seemed able to
smoke at any height. About the cold
est weather we experienced was at
1900 feet, when the temperature fell
TO &c below zero
Both Prof. Parker and Mr. Browne
said they had made their last attempt
to reach the top of Mount Mckinley.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
KILLS WIFE IN PITY; FREED
Austrian Jury Acquits Man Who Shot
consumptive Spouse to End Her
Sufferlngs.

Vienna.-Public opinion in Austria
is divided over the verdict at Loeben
in the case of Viennese clerk named
Haas, who killed his consumptiye wife
to end her continued sufferings. Haas
shot his wife in a railway carriage
passing through a tunnel, and then
attempted suicide. The wife died i'm
mediately, but the husband was only
slightly hurt. The jury acquitted him
of murder, but founu Haas guilty OF
carrying a revolver without a license
He was fined SITS, and on payment
was released.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
MINING EXPERTS CONVENE.
Explosives Will Be Tested Near
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pittsburgh. Pa.-Mining and explo-
ave experts from the principal coun-
tries of the world assembled here for
the first session of the International
Mine Experiment Conference, which is
to continue eight days. under the d.
rection of the United States Bureau of
Mines. A feature of the days pro-
gram~was the visit of the delegates to
the government experiment mine at
Bruceton. Pa.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
HAS OWN ORGANISE

you owned it if you saw it-and
nice, comfortable automobile. Archer
works at the aforementioned labO'
rious task to delight the musical soul
OF Henry Clay Frick, multimilionaire
Plttsburg steel magnate. whose sum
mer home is at Prides crossing, near
Beverly Farms, Mass.
Every day at two p. N. the phone
rings in the Gibson house and the
organist motors over to the FricR
mansion. There in the music hall, the
silent, gruff money giant sits waiting
for his daily, music. While the nimble
fingers of Organist Gibson rip out peal
after peal of stuff that dead men
Wrote-the kind that no one could see
any merit in while the composer was
alive-Henry Clay F'rick, the tips Of
his strong fingers Joined listens in
silence.
After particularly weird success
sion of crashes and thunders from
the costly organ the millionaire's coun'
tenance loses its former expression oil
Wrapt interest. He leans forward un
easily as the music bursts in glo
rious finishing flare.
Play 'Dearie!" he commands.
Then the 100000 organ sends forth
the strains of that popular ballad
ladies' and gentlemen" strains that the
common .nstalment, go-as-you-pleas'
house piano used to know before
every began doing it."
Usually a few repetitions of thu
above ballad are enough to allow
fresh start on the previous heay!
stun. And so the hour of musl'
passes.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
IGNORE STRIKE ORDER.
Steam Engineers Oppose Plan Pro-
posed BY Haywood

st. Paul, Minn-The International
Union of Steam Engineers, in conven-
ton here, refused to take cognizance
of general strike as proposed by Will
liam r. Haywood, of the Industrial
Workers of the World, September so.
as protest against the incarceration
in Lawrence, Mass, of Joseph Ettor
and Arthur Giovannitti, who led the
textile workers strike in that city last
winter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
PLANE FALLS; TURKS GET
Italian 6ird-Man Made Prisoner Ir
Hostile Territory.

Tripoli.-The Turks, who on several
occasions have tried vainly to snug
gle into Tripoli an aeroplane for scout
ing purposes. are at last in possession
o. a machine through mishap of Cap
tain Moizo, of the Italian Army Cap
tain Moizo was making a flight from
Zouara tQ-TripoIi when the motor OF
his msc e stopped and he was
obliged to~descend in a hostile coun-
try. He was made prisoner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
NEGROES REST is COSTLY
City Pays SIS Day That Negro ain
vader of White District" May Be
Free From Annoyance.

St Louis.-To insure peaceful sleep
to R. A. Hudlin, a negro, and his fam
lily, this city is spending SIS a day, or
$3.50 a month, to guard his home from
possible attack by whites who resent
what they term a negro invasion" in
their residential district. The guard
ing by policemen began early in May
and if it is continued until Septem-
Der Is the city will have spent $1,000.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20

Washington.-John c. Hoffman, an
alleged old-time counterfeiter, who,
since 1883 has served FIVE terms in
prison, is under arrest at Mobile Ala,
charged with circulating bad silver
dollars. Secret Service records indi.
cate that the man has had varied
career as a eounterfeiter and was re.
leased from the Atlanta penitentiary
last March While in the Eastern
penitentiary, in Philadelphia, in 1902
Secret Service officials declare Hoff
man taught convicts to make coun
terfeit coin.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
THREE KILLED; FIFTY INJURED.
A Tornados Terrible Sweep Near
Syracuse. N. Y.

Syracuse, n. Y.-Three persons were
killed and fifty injured by q tornado
which worked a 10-mile trail OF de-
struction across the northern part of
Onondaga county. The property loss
is estimated at $25O,00O The black,
funnel-shaped cloud first appeared
near Long Branch, a pleasure resort
10 miles from this city. About 400 per-
sons We're there, and a panic followed
when building after building toppled
over, and two massive interurban
trolley cars were hurled into ditch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
PRESIDENT TAFT is SIS.
Celebrates Day AS The Guest Of His
Aunt Della.

Millbury, Mass.-Miss Della Torrey
gave a party Sunday in honor of her
nephew, "Wilr Taft. The President
was So years old, and he was the guest
of honor. but Mrs. Taft, Miss Helen
Taft and C. P. Taft, the Presidents
brother, and Mrs. C. P. Taft were
present. Aunt" Della had plenty Of
apple pie such as the President was
fond Of when he went to school in
Millbury, but there were many. other
things to accompany perfectly good
birthday party.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
FIND AGED REFUSES RICHES
Jersey City Man Leaves an Estate of
2oo,ooo-Nurse and Neighbour
Get Much Wealth.

Jersey City, N. J,-Former neigh
bors of Michael Kiley. an aged recluse
who occupied ramshackle house on
Bright street here for many years,
were surprised to learn that the old
man had died possessed Of a fortune
which the appraisers estimate at $780,
600. Of this total $4,000 goes to Mrs.
Margaret Jones, who took care OF
Kiley in his last illness. A big share
of the residue goes to Mrs. Catherine
DAILY, neighbor.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
A BRIDES SUICIDE.
Sight Of Husbands ManaIed Body
Drives Her Mad.

Trois Pistoles, Que.-Mrs.. Arsene
Quellette, bride OF a few months.
cut her throat with a table knife and
lived but a few minutes after the man
gled body of her husband was brought
home. Quellette and a companion
Alfred Gagnon, were killed when their
carriage was struck by an Inter-Co-
ionial Railway train at a grade cross
ing.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
on a steamship, which plies between |

on a steamship, which plies between
Boston and Halifax. He had arranged
to wed in New York, Monday, but the
ship was late in reaching oston ard
the groom could not get to New York
in time for the ceremony.
1t was then arranged by telegraph
that Miss Marks should come to Bos-
ton and the couple be married Tues
day night She missed the train and
McCready, still single, sailed with the
ship, after leaving word that he would
try to be on hand when his steamer
again returns to this port
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
CUPID PUT TO HARD TESTS
First the Man and Then the woman
Is Late for the Marriage
Ceremony.

Boston, Mass.-Twice in two Gays
the wedding of Leo F. McCready 0!
Halifax and Miss katherine Marks OF
Miami Fla, has been postponed
Monday the ceremony could not DE
held because the bridegroom did not
appear. Tuesday it was the bride VINO
was missing. McCready is an officer
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
70 POISONED BY ToApsTooLs.
Fungi Gathered And Eaten In Mistake
For Mushrooms.

New York-Twelye persons We're
poisoned at a mushroom party given in
the home OF Daniel Faunbauer. Faun-
bauer and his neighbor John Conan
taEga, who eat most of the mush-
rooms, which turned out TO be toad
stools, are in St Johns Hospital, in
Long Island City. and it is said their
condition is serious.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
URGE WAR ON GAMBLERS.
Kansas Women Threaten To Horse
whip Them.

Larned, Kan. - Horsewhips and
clubs are the weapons the Women's
Antigambing Association of Larned,
members of which threatened to use
them upon the city's gamblers if they
60 not leave the home-loving husbands
OF this town alone. Following futile
efforts by the police to rid the town of
the gamesters, the women met and
issued an. ultimatum that they intend
ed to take the law into their own
hands.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
PASTORS WIFE A SUICIDE.
Mrs. II. c. Stone Ends Life by Taking
Poison.

Philsdelphia-Mrs II. c. Stone, wife
Of Rev. II. c. Stone, curate of Holy
Trinity Memorial Church, ended her
life in her apartments in West Phila-
delphia by taking poison. Worry at
the illness of her husband, who left
the city last Friday in an effort to re-
cover his health, is believed TO have
caused her to commit suicide.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
MOTORCYCLE VICTIM.
Ernest Poindexter Killed and His
Companion Injured.

Columbus, Ga,-Ernest Poindexter,
aged "a, was instantly killed and Geo.
Crawford, aged %. injured when a
motorcycle they were riding dashed
into a dray. The motorcycle was GO
ing about 40 miles an hour. A shaft
of the wagon penetrated Poindexter's
breast.