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HIS LYNCHERS.
WOUNDED TEN AND FOUR OF
THEM MAY DIE.
Killed Father of Man Who Killed His
Brother—Murderer Fought the Mob
to a Standstill—Had to Beat Him
to Death Before They Hanged Him.
Valdosta, Ga., Feb, 17.—Attacked by
• *anted' of lynchers yesterday just across
the Florida line, Jack Long, e white man,
fought his assailants desperately, wound-
ing ten of them, and foaling the others
to kill him in the fight. Long waa ao-
cused of killing James Sapp a wealthy
citizen A son of Sapp had killed a bro-
ther of Long and escaped.
Long saw the father of the elayer and
shot him to death, Long was arrested
and 60 men visited the prison and took
the prisoner out to hang him, A spec-
tator Bays Long fought the mob to a
standstill in the prieon, but was knock-
ed down with a club as he ran out of
the door. Then another fight ensued,
in which the combined strength of the
men was required to subdue the prisoner.
A start to a place four hundred yards
distant was made, but Long fought every
inch of the way, the path being marked
with splotches of blood.
It is said he was beaten to death be,
fore he was finally hanged.. Four of the
members of the mob were wounded so
badly that they may die.
CROSSING ACCIDENTS
•FIGURES USED BY SENATOR SCOTT
DISPUTED.
Senate Passes the Grain Distribution
Bili --Col, Davidson Gave No Reason
for Resigning=Provincial and Do-
minion Land Surveyors.
Ottawa despatch: In the Senate to-
day Hon. R. W. Scott, in reply to a
query'3rom Sennator Landry, stated that
Lieut.-Ool: °' yidson, lin resigning the
command 'ofhe Toronto Infantryy Bri-
gade, Oct. 10, 1907, gave no reason for
tendering his resignation.
Hon. x, W. Scott brought down a re-
turn showing aocodonnte at railroad eroas-
inggss. He said that there waa Consider-
able interest iu this question, owinng to
the Lsrtoaater bill, Ite called attention
to titefiret that statistics Showed that,
oontraay to general opinion, there were
more fatal accidents at rural highway
erosaings than at street or highway
crossings in thickly settled- portions of
dtrea, towns and pillages.
Senator Ferguson culled attention to
the fact that the figures given were for
accidents "at points where two railways
OPUS, and net of deaths at'fioints where
highwaye crossed railways.
In committee on the Dominion hand
aurveybill, Senator Kerr moved that the
Provincial crtificate and ten years'
practice should entitle a stu'voyor to a
Dominion certificate. Hon, Mr. Scott
asid the present system had been in
Sorge since 1879, and the Provinces had
declined to practise reciprocity in this
matter. The amendment was declared
lost, and progress was reported or the
bill.
The bill to enable the Government to
maks advances to enable settlers in the
west to obtain seed grain was intro-
duced by Hon. Mr, Scott and put
through all the stagea, It will bo as-
sented to by the Governor-General to-
morrow,
RUSH OF IMMIGRANTS.
Halifax Officials Expect Influx to Begin
Soon,
Halifax, Feb. 17.—Within a few weeks
the immigration officials expect that
intraiga-i me will be pouring into Hali-
te* at the rate of four or five thousand
a week, and if this keeps up duringthe
remaining months that European steam -
era are running her; it is expected that
an r+eoords for numbers landed at this
ppoortwill be broken. So far the member
project this season ie about the sane as
at this time lost season, for, although
immigration has fallen off very much
sines the first of the year, there was a
brig increase during November and Dec-
ember over the same months in the pre-
vious year.
, Arrivals in January and for the first
,week of February during 1907 were
much greater than during the same time
this year.• Only about seven thousand
immigranta have so far landed here this
season, but about the first of March it
le expected the rush will begin. Labor
aliti0pe are improving now, and seven
beans will be clocking cath
s,will mean an average of
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FED =INJUNCTION.
ers Receive heavy
€ts+
'meas,
New York, Feb. 17,,--jhgsid,:nt Pat-
rick II. McCormick, of tl local branch
of the Typographical Un (S, known as
Jackson
'x ai
u1 George �.• ?.
the Big i, :-.
and Vincent ,J. Costello union organizers,
to -day were fined 5230 cavi ,hind Sen-
tenced to twenty days' imprisonmsnt for
disobeying ant injunction obtained WAl
Typothetae of New York in 1
Thomas Bennett and William Anderson
were fined $100 on the sante charge. Sen.
tenet)was imposed by Justice Bischoff in
the Supreme Court.
This is the first time a heavy sentence
for violation of an injunction has been
imposed hi these courts against a labor
organization. The troubles grew out of
the strike in 1006 of Typographical
Union No. 6, commonly called "Bix
Six," for closed shop and an eight-
hour day. Soon after the strike the
officers of the Typothetae of the city of
New Yorlc, the employers' association,
against whom it was declared, complain-
ed that the strikers were prnctieing in-
timidation against their employees.
The union was enjoined from eontinn-
ing the practices rlarged, but the em-
ployers held that the nets of violence and
oppression continued, and asked that the
members of the union be punished. A
referee took testimony and the charges
led on his report. and recommendation
the sentences were imposed.
JAP WELCOME.
Will be Allowed to Join in Wel-
come to U. S. Fleet.
Los Angeles, Feb, 17.—The American-
Japanmee rnpliroa.chenent was the fea-
ture of the meeting of the fleet oomxnit-
tee in the courted'. clambers yesterday.
The Japanese offer to help entertain
Roar Admiral Evans and his bhiejackete
wee accepted in "the spirit in which it
was made.,'
The members of the committee consid-
ered that the voluntary, offer of the
Japaaneee was so extraordinarily mag-
mentmotts and praiseworthy that they
pawed a epecial resolution accepting the
offer.
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REV. DR PATTON, CHOSEN
Successor to Dr. Workman at Wesleyan
College,
Montreal deepatelr: At a tweeting of
the Board of Governors of Wesleyan
College„ Rev. Dr. Walter Id, Patton, of
Baldwin University, Kansas, was ap-
pointed successor to Rev. Dr. Workman,
in the chair of Oriental literature and.
Old Testament exegesis. Dr. Patton was
a former Montrealer, having hold the
chair in Wesleyan College in 1902, He
1s forty-five years of age, and was born
in Toronto. Ile was cdmcated at the
high School, Montreal, leaving it to go
into business in this city, and afterwards
in Chicago. Returning to Montreal, he
took up theological studies at Wesleyan
College, afterwards going to Europe,
where he studied Oriental iiiterature at
Leyden and I-leidelberg, Nib the last of
which he gnadeated with the degree of
Ph, D. IIe returned to Montreal to ob-
cupy a chair in Wesleyan College during
the years 1901 and 1902. In 100E he
took ministerial charge at Beacon's Falls,
Connecticut, at the same time assisting
Professor Sanders at Yale in Oriental
languages. In 1904 he was appointed to
the chair of Oriental literature in Bald-
win University, Kansas, which chair he
held up to his recent appointment to
Wesleyan College, He will assume his
new duties May 1 of this year.
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DARING BURGLARS CONVICTED.
Loot From Private Residences Amounted
to Hundreds of Dollars,
Montreal, Feb. 17.--'l'wo of the most
alert and daring burglars in the crim-
inal recorder of this city were convicted
by Judge Cloquet to -day in the Court
df Sessions. They are Frederick L. L,
Wegener, a German carpenter, and Rose
Freeman, to whom he declares he 10
married.
The catalogue of their crimes is not
yet complete; but to -day they were
format guilty of three chargee of burg-
lary, the most important and most
notorious of which war breaking into
the residence in MneOregor street of
Mr. James Crathern, and stealing
silver -plate valued at $1,200. The
other charges were of stealing b,.
,burglary $280 worth of silver from
private residerwes, They will be sem
fenced later.
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LIABLE TO 1,461 YEARS.
So Claims States Attorney in Otto
Hugo Case.
Berlin Feb- 17.—"The accused has in-
curred lines amounting to 52,000,000, or,
in default, 1,461 years and two months'
imprisonment," declared the State's at.
torney in the criminal division of the
Berlin County Court, in the case against
Otto Hugo, for breach of the law of
August, 1904, prohibiting the sale of
non -Prussian lottery tickets within Prus-
sian territory.
The court, however, decided that as
the circulars had all been issued in two
days and thus technically only two of-
fences committed, a fine of 5376, or, in
default, 100 days' infprisomnent, would
teach the defendant a lesson,
The State's Attorney entered an Ob-
jection to the court's reading of the
law.
NEW YORK TO PARIS.
First Automobile Starts on Overland
Journey.
New York, Feb. 17.—Three automobil-
lsts in a big foreign car started to-
day on a 22,000 -mole overland journey
from Lew York to Paris. The start
was made from the Pulitzer building.
the first stage of the 'o
and s g journey will
be completed at Philadelphia. From the
Pennsylvania city the autonobiliets will
strike out straight across the continent,
The oeoupants of the car are Eugene D,
,`,The Maurice Drocghe and Max
:
, regtilarly; organized New
Paris ram with, „aleree French,
One tenon, one German. . pd' one Am-
erican entrants, will be etted at 11
a, m, to -morrow. The route will be
across the continent, through Canaa, to
tat
Alaska, across Bering' Strait and o
to the French capital.
THE THIRD DEGREE
Trial of Percy Bowin For Murder
of a Detroit Woman.
Detroit, Feb, 17.—Tho trial of Percy
Bonin, the 18 -yeas -old Canadian boy,
charged with the murder of Mrs, Welch,
has been set for 1'elt, 24, but \fr, Ken-
nedy, llossin's attorney, says he cannot
be ready before the March term of the
lteeordei's Court. Judge Phelan said
that if'woes:tory the trial would be post-
poned until Murch, as he would insist
upon every opportunity being given the
young man to prove hie innocence. The
judge over -ruled Mr, Kennedy's motion
to quash the information against Bonin
on the grounds that he had been induced
to plead guilty lin the Police Court by
Captain of Detectives McDonnell. Nr.
Kennedy violently assailed officials of
the police department, accusing then of
taking advantage of Bowin's youth and
Ignorance of legal mattere 30 an effort to
railroad him to prison,
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WAS A BIGAMIST.'
WOMAN MURDERED IN CINCINNATI
HAD TWO HUSBANDS.
Letter Found Among Her Belongings
Written to Her by Man in Texas
Who Had Married Her Knowing
Her to be Booth's Wife.
Cincinnati, Feb. 17,—Mrs, Madeline
A. Booth, who was chopped to death
With it ha ehet in the home of Dr.
Hoppe, was a bigamist, fleeing from the
math of her Mistimed, James 11. Booth,
a former Toronto eontracto•, This was
brought out at the inquest to -day, when
letters found in the woman's , effects
were read. One letter signed T. J. De-
wier, and written from .Millers Grove,
Te-xna, August 10, 100(1, is n confession
of wrol dour� The letter is addressed
to Mrs. Madeline A, Dotter, and the
writer calls her "Dear wife," In Ode let-
ter Devior says that liooth haat tracked
him to Minneapolis, and had him ar-
rested, but that he ("seeped from the po-
lice there, end had just landed in
Texas.
He urged the woman to flee to Mexi-
co with him. "Madejine," he writes,
"you know that they can sentence you
to anywhere from five to fifIeen years
in Canada, and not leas than three years
in Minnesota, and I den't know what
they would do to me if they caught me
again, for they know Hint I knew you
were the wife of J. 13. Booth whey we
were married. and I suppose they would
hang me." The unordered woman se-
aretly secured a divorce from Booth
here three weeks ago, The police ns yet
have no definite clue to the noarder.
Neither have they been able to locate
either Bootle or Devier.
Sault Ste, Marie, Ont, Feb, 11.—The
Boothe, as well rte the nnmeroue trou-
bles which have filled their wexided life,
are well known in the Soo, and the news
from Cincinnati will cause no little sur-
prise. The Cienodian Soo polies state
that the couple were wedded in Toronto
a number of y000ra ago, following en ad-
vertisement placed in a Toronto paper
by Mrs, Booth. This was llooth's sec-
ond voyage on the metrinnonial sea and
apparently it wars not a happy one. The
couple frequently quanl•elled once
Booth's children 1\v hie former wife, and
these troubles led them occasionally in-
to the police nrurt. Disputes over their
property in the Sao 1101 not ten<I to
make mutters better, and about a year
and a half ago they separated, Mrs.
Booth leaving the Sc,,oIt is said by
the .pollee that there has been trouble
between them since that time.
Mrs. Booth owned a lionise in the Soo
near the stone school in the west end,
and Booth also owns considerable pro-
perty in the city. For sometime Booth
has been engaged on contosct work In
the Northwest, and left the Roe for
that place abort a week or 00 ago. Sines
then, >1 letter has arrived from him
darted at Caspar, Sask.. and referring to
certain supplies required in his eontruet
work.
CARS FOR WOMEN ONLY,
Innovation Proposed by the London
County Council.
London, Feb. 17. ---Cars for women
only will probably be ram on lines con-
trolled by the London County Council
at rush hours:;, liming the morning
there are always wild struggles to board
the cars at many suburban terminals,
and in order that women and girls may
be able to avoid this fight for places
the innovation is proposed.
An olficinl said London will be the
first city to have special tramway oars
for women. The crush at Tooting for
Broadway, for instnrce, between seven
and eight in the morning is almost wick-
ed. I have sten y oma, girls on the wary
to the city have their hats almost torn
off and thein hair disau,u;_. as well as
their dresses cowered with mud from
dirty booty.
COMPANIES WARNED.
Compliance With Provisions of New Act
Compulsory.
14y the new Companies Act, which
erne trap force ou July 1 last, the 3181-
lowfngnt,art ctsrespweree repealed:
Aa ctong cheese and butter -
making toesociation nd companies.
II act respeetiI - e'operatire associa-
\n: act respecting beltpbolent°;C provi-
dent and outer societies,
An act to provide forethe incorporation
of cc -operative cold storage aaaoeititione.,,
All compauiaal' therefore, incorporated'
under any of the above statutes are
now within the provisions of the Com-
pnniee Adt, and= ora obliged to make
annual returns to the Provincial Sure.
tary's Department,
The department hes distributed forme
to all companies, of which the names
and addresses could be obtained, but
there aro many companies impossible to
be reached.
Such companies should therefore apply
to the deportment for forms and cone
pieto and file theta at the earliest possi-
ble date, thus avoiding the heavy
penalties imposed by the act for failure
to comply with Its provisions in this
respect.
AGAINST USURERS.
Report That Warrant Has Been
Issued For Money Lender.
Montreal, Feb. 17.—The first result of
the renewed crusade against newers in
this city is the issuing of a warrant for
the attest of C. E. Campbell, a well-
known money lender, who, it is alleged,'
has violated the criminal law relating
to usury. /Settee has been taken by
Col. Hubbard; noting under instruetrcna
from the Attroaey-Gsncral, end it is
stated that Campbell has left the city.
MRS, MACDONALD ACQUITTED.
Found Not Guilty of Shooting Webster
Guerin at Chicago.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 17.—Mrs, Dora Mc-
Donald, who has been on trial here since
January 20 on the charge of murdering
Webster Guerin, was acquitted by a jury
M the Criminal Court to -night. The
verdict was reached after six and a half
hours.
The defendant, who is the widow of
Michael C. McDonald, formerly a poli-
tical leader in Chicago, received the
verdict without apparent emotion, Web-
ater Guerin was shot and killed in his
studio in the Omaha building, LaSalle
and Van Buren streets, February 21,
1907, Mfrs, McDonald was alone with
him when the tragedy occurred, and
was uunediatcly arrested and charged
with the murder. The shock of the
tragedy proved disastrous to McDon-
ald, and he died Angust 9, 1907, after
au illness of several weeks,
It developed at the trial just eonohtd-
ed, that Guerin and Aire, lora McDon-
ald had been more or leas intimate for
almost ten years, their relations having
begun when Guerin was leas than sev-
enteen yeas old, Tho State asserted
that Guerin had attempted to dissolve
these relations, and that the woman
shot hire In a jealous rage,
FRAUD ON GRAND TRUNK,
James B. Lehoman Has Charge of
Smuggling Chinese Against Him.
Montreal, Feb. I7.—James B. Leh-
neman, who for—some time was bartend-
er at the Russell Hotel; St. Janna greet,
was arrested yesterday afternoon in
Boston on a charge of manipulating
Grand 'bunk Railway tickets to an
extent which entails the lass of several
thousand dollars to the company. The
schemes by which the tickets were
bought, sold, exchanged, and otherwise
manipulated are alleged to have been
formulatecl fn November of last year.
Leluemnn was the man who, with
Goodman Phillips, engineered the Chin•
nee smuggling expedition, in which the
yacht Fritz was used, and they were to
have appeared for sentence in a short
time. -Meanwhile Lehneman is out on
two thousand dollars cash bail, He will
be brought back here for sentence.
NATIONALIZING BRITISH ROADS.
The Question Brought Up in House of
Commons.
London, Feb. 17.—The house of Com-
mons this evening debated the question
of the nationalization of the railways,
on the motion of a private member. Tho
discussion drew from Mr, Lloyd -George,
president of the Board of Trade, a
statement on behalf of the Government
that the time had come for an enquiry
into the whole subject, He thought the
companies, on the whole, had done their
best for tloe public, but were run rather
too much by swells.
This statement was greeted with
loud cheers and laughter by the Lib-
erals and Laborites, It was evident
throughout the. discussion that there
01015 a considerable hods of opinion in
favor of nationalization,
TRAMPLED TO DEATH.
Mrs, S. Mahan, of Sidney, Man,, Killed
by a Vicious Horse.
Carberry, flan., Feb. 17. --Mrs S.
Mahan, wife. of a prominent resident of
Sidney, flan„ was trampled to death by
a vicious horse which she had attempt-
ed to feed in the stable at her ltua-
bond's farm. The woman wars found
unconscious in the stall beside the ani-
mal by o1rs. MrElrca, a neighbor, who
lifted he away and ran for assistance.
It is believed the woman must have re-
gained consciousness and again wander-
ed into the stall. When she was finally
taken out she was so badly mangled
that she lived only a few minutes. She
leaves n family of four small children.
SAYS FRANCE STEALS MELINITE,
Turpin, the Inventor, to Begin Damage
Suit for at Million,
Paris, Feb. 17,—The Journal says that
Turpin, the inventor of the high explo-
sive known as melinite, will sue the Gov.
eminent, alleging that it robbed him of
his invention. He asks damages to the
amount of $1,000,000.
His charge is that the Government, in
conjiumtion with certain manufacturers,
has been -furnishing melinitc to Russia,
Japaut,Spain, Brazil and Venezuela.
DOUMAAND FINLAND
Her Reia'ions With Russia to be
Discussed in Parliament.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 17.—The rela-
lions between Russia and the Grand
Duchy of Finland, which for a long time
have been the subject of serious discus-
sion in the higher• audmiobsirative circles
of the Empire and the Grand Duchy,
will now be raised in the Douma by the
Octohorists, who have decided to attack
as a salient point, the absence of control
by M. Stolypin, the Russian Premier,
over the reports of the Finnish Secretary
of State to the Emperor,
demand the
ownershipre of Vibe g dising trict ct be restored
to Russia, and that measures to crush
the national aspirations of Finland be
adopted.
TO COLLECT PENALTY,
Suit Against Recorder Dupuis, of Mont-
real, for Occupying Seat.
Montreal Feb. 17.—Mr, Joseph 'Lan•
ouette, saddler, of this city, acting
through Mr. Arthur Boauohesne, has en-
tered action in the Superior Court to
have Recorder Dupuis condemned to
pay the sum of $43,000 as a penalty of
$1,000 per day, incurred by hint for hav-
ing eat in the Legislature for a period
of 43 days, during which he ie. alleged to
have been disqualifiedthrough having
entered into contracts with the Govern-
ment.
The elaogos aro that Mr, Dupuis
bousk for $25 islands in the township
of Godnnancheeter and timber limits at
French River, jointly with the Union
ling & Paper Company, for the sum of
$25,884,
TURKEY WITHDRAWS.
Troubles of Persian Border at an End
for the Present.
St. Petersburg Feb. 17.—The with-
drawal of Turkish troop* from the Per-
sian territory to the west of Tabriz, on
well aa the more conciliatory spirit
shown at Constantinople, Is regarded
here as obviating the necessity for the
present of taking further precautionary
treasures on the Turkish and Persian
frontiers, and it le probable that the
despatch of troops from the interior of
Russia to the Caucasus will be abandon-
ed pending further developments. The
statements that Russia was concentrat-
ing a force of sixty thousand mon lbr a
military demonstration against Turkey
can be dismissed.
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KAISER'S SON IN PARIS.
First Official Visit of German Prince
Since aye.
Paris, Feb. 17.—Prince Eitel Freder-
ick, second son of Emperor William
of Germany, who arrived here last night,
accompanied by the members of his
suite from Lisbon, where he represent-
ed Germany at the funeral eervicea of
the late King and Crown Prince of Por-
tugal, left Paris thio afternoon for Ber-
lin. This is the first time since the
Franoo#>russian war that a member of
the royal house of Prussia has come to
Paris other than in a private capac-
ity.
It is generally believed that the
Prince's visit will have a good influence
on the relations between France and
Germany.
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MUSICIAN'S SAD ENDING.
Inhaled Gas While He Played His
Violin.
New York, Feb. 17.—With a gas tube
in bis mouth and inhaling gas while he
played his violin, Morris Schwartz cow•
mated suicide to -day at his home in
First street. He was found by Mrs. Ab-
raham Broeckmaui, pais landlady, with his
violin bow in his right hand, and his in-
strument, beloved above all other things
in life, laying across his knee and clasp-,
ed firmly in hie left hand,
The young mon had ambition for a
musical career. He had taken lessons
on the violin and had displayed trues
of genuine talent. The neighbors hoard
hien playing sweet nnls1c for hours to-
day, but the strains finally, died away,
and then the suicide was discovered.
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DON'T BOLT OUT OF BED.
You Should Rest Wakefully for Twenty
Minutes First,
Paris, Feb. 17,—The French Academy
of Sciences to -day listened sympathetic-
ally to an address by Dr. Savary, who
warned lois hearers against the dangers
of rising immediately upon awakening
from sleep, He said the strenuous busi-
ness man who bolts out of bed to his
bath tub the moment he opens his eyes
in the morning renders himself liable to
a number of ailments, including madness.
It was absolutely necessary, Dr. Savary
declared, to rest wakefully In bed for
twenty minutes before getting op.
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NEW JAP LOAN.
Effort Being Made to Float It in
Paris.
Paris, Feb. 17.—The report is again
current in banking circles that the Jap-
anese Government 10 trying to float a
loan in Paris through tete Banque de
Paris, at Des Pays -Bas. An official :of
this bank said to -day that a commission
sent by it to Japan, had just returned,
but further thanthis he would make no
statement. The Japanese Embassy de-
clined to confine or deny the report, but
it was intimated that a statement rela-
tive to this matter night be given out
to-morow.
FIREMEN FIGHT
Blazing Ice Floes in East [fiver
N. Y.
New Yorl:, Feb. 17. --The ice I'M, in
f:;t I Fiver were tut fife this
wd e l rennin,; nn I:uld f o n d
of over a bloc: along the where.,: to
the 0hurda'd Oil Conupatiy a Astral 011
works, s, branch at the foot of North l2lh
rued North 13111 streets Williamsburg,
when 300,000 gallons of ease naphtha
gasolene and kerosene stored ready far
shipment mere licked up in sheets of
flame. Clusters of refining tank
crude oil vats and the great gas Lulls
of the Brooklyn union Ctrs Company,
all in the immediate uemily of the ,
fin, made the work of the firemen as
ticklish as that of any storming party
at Port Arthur, "and it was only Lite
quirt: noel: of the oil company in
emptying •the threatening tanks tint
prevented a emelt greater spaced or
the flumes,
Before the mea of the fire oras defined
by the hard work of the firemen three
buildings and a wharf had been cousum-
sd and, the loss to the Standard Oil Com-
pany was roughly put tut beftteeu 2.10,-
000 and 5300,000,
DOWIE'S WIDOW
Aspires to Wear the Mantle of Elijah
at Zion City.
Chicago, Feb. 17.—The Tribune to -day
say Mrs, Janie Dowle aspires to her
late husband's place as 'head of the
Christian Catholic Claude, and bcliei cs
she is :Destined to bring the warring
factious at Zion togethee.
4t tier home, near :Muskegon, she ds
making plans to induce the formerfol-
lowers of the late John Alexander
Dobe to tally to her standard, accost-
ing to statements mala at Waukegan,
Ill., yesterday. She hopes to tune up
her husband's projects, if elle secures
tl, desired pnsit'on. She made a nerret
visit to Zion City or•.T» esdty, it is said,
wills this end in view, it being her f5i•at
apyoearuwe there in many months, She
conferred with Dr. Askin, who is secre-
tary of a new movement, which propos,
es to call Overseer Bryant back front
Anstralia to lead the people.
ODD DECOCTION.
Man Imbibes Brewed Cigarette
Tobacco.
Buffalo, Feb. 17. ---When the devotion
of his son Joseph to nicotine included the,'
drinking of a. potion, brewed of tobacco'
and hot water, Joln A, Stahel, 117 Oak
street, caused the arrest of the youth, on
a charge of insanity, yesterday. Ile i.s
held by tlm-Penrl street police, pending
on examination by Dr. Fowler, police
physician.
Insomnia, induced by excessive cigar -
clic smoking, has undermined the con-
stitutioi and caused the ruin of his son,
ua:mating to the story of the distracted
father. "Hints nt suicide have driven his
mother frantic," said Mr, Stahel yester
day. "'.When Joe goes to bed he leaves
cigarettes and matches on n. chair. and
wakes op every hour during the night to
smoke. lie curses every physician we
bring to examine him, and will not work;
He seems to.be.in a doped conditiorall
the time, rad we fear that his mind bl
giving way. 'When we summoned the
police to -day the was lying in a semi-
comatose condition on the bed...Of.'afe
helms been drinking a fluid vvbich he
makes of hot water and "cigarette
tobacco"
PROMPT POSTY.
DELIVERY OF FAREWELL LETTER
SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE,
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Ncw York, Feb, 17.—Greco Ewing is
only 24 years old, but she is tired of it,
all The only reason that she did not
die to -day is that the mails were de-
livered promptly- in the neighborhood
in which she has lived,
She made all arrangements; tied her yy
effects up in separate parcels, marked I
ripen the parcels the mulles of persons
to whom she wanted them to go, and
then, sitting beside a table, she re-
moved the tube from n reading lnnlp,
placed the tube in her mouth ; and
turned on the gas,
She had just lensed into unamseious-
iw.s when a policeman, followed by 10
frantic woman, broke in 'the door, An
ambulance was called from Roosevelt
hospital and Dr. Cartwell- resuscitated
.Grace haring.
Grace Ewing, whose occupation was
typewriter sometimes and dreasme-
krr when there was no other work. lad
P room at No. 211 West 42nd street, Be-
fore making preparations for her death
she wrote a letter to -clay to Mrs. 3, 1'.
Coombs of No. 308 West 15th street: \
in which she enclosed a dollar hill
"It is my hast dollar she wrote,
"and I want you to lore it. 33rfore,
yol get it, though, I will have passed
away. The struggle is too 'touch for
•
are."
She dropped the letter #t}. aloe,
Coombs in -a bpx about 11 o'clerele this
morning and it was delivered ;to ltcs,
Coombs about 1 o'oloel: in the• Mien'
noon. lire, Cooties started deism to
her friend's house, on'tho way nscet-
iu}+ Policeman Hudson, whom she
asked. to go with her. They arrived
just in time.