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Vlht. (Touii'cr-Sonruai. When tired of tenant-hunting with placards, try a aa. You are just as apt to be paying too l'ttle as too much for that furnished room but wiii not know until you have answered a few want ads. A poor advertisement or one that is too small for its theme will not pay over-well even in a good medium; but a good and of ample size, will not pay at all' in a poor medium.

NEW SERIES NO. 13,915. LOUISVILLE, MORNING, PRICE JTIIIttiE CnSTS. iON TltAISs KJVE CEXTS. FEBRUARY 5, 1907.

12 PAGES. MANY WORKMEN RILLED IN MINE DEATH CLOSES EVENTFUL LIFE COTTON PRICES TO BE PROBED DECLARES THAW WAS INSANE throughout the country. The strike, which is for the eight-Hour work day and the closed shop, began last August. In declining the employers wrote: This strike, not of our seeking, ha been fought and won by our association. After six months of warfare, entailing enormous sacrifices of time and money, we have established in the lithographic trade the open shop, where equal opportunities are offered to all men.

fo- Tuesday and Wednesday: KcKT-Snow Tuesday; Wednesday louflv not 50 -snow Tuesday; not quite so S.a artiy c'oud5' and, Warm" (resh northeast winds, becoming va- risble' Tuesday; Wednesday THE LATEST. their alleged participation in the shooting up of the Texas town, were in attendance when the committee began its first sitting. They were not invited into the committee room as a whole, but were assigned to an unused end of a corridor near the room, and only a limited number were permitted to sit in the room during the proceedings. There was only one white man in the group of witnesses. The negroes while waiting to be called discussed political affairs, with an occasional reference to the probable length of the Inquiry, but because of agreement or for reasons best known to themselves the merits of the affair to be investigated and the probable result of the inquiry were tabooed as a subject of conversation.

a President's Appointments. the conditions of grief and sorrow under which the brain of this defendant gave way and drove him to this act. We will prove to you the existence of such conditions as would make a man as crazy as any man ever was. By his mother, his wife and by personal letters and letters that he wrote to the Society for the Prevention of Crime we will make it impossible for you to believe that this man's mind was sane." Mr. Gleason talked about an hour and a quarter.

Ho was expected to talk much longer, and would have done so had not the District Attorney interrupted with an objection that his talking was along lines that belonged to a summing up rather than to an opening speech. Justice Fitzgerald evidently took that view of it, though he made no positive ruling in the matter, and Mr. Gleason, evidently much disturbed, concluded shortly afterward. Mr. Garvan's Address.

RETURNS COME SLOWLY IN RUSSIAN ELECTIONS. St. Petersburg, Feb. 4. Count Hey-den, leader of the party of peaceful regeneration and Prof.

Kovalevsky, leader of the Democratic Reform party, were defeated to-dav for re-election to Parliament in the election of the land owners of Palcoff and Kharkov provinces respectively. The Count was defeated by a radical and the Professor was beaten by a member of the Oetob-orist party. M. Aniken, the group of terrorists' I tder in last Parliament, who was elei ed In the first stage of the balloting in oaratov province was disqualified by, administrative order. The results of the second stage of the peasant election are arriving with tantalizing slowness, owing to the inexperience of the officials engaged in handling the returns.

JOB GOES TO SECT TOM WALKER COBTELYOU DECIDES HE CAN HAVE LEXINGTONPOST-OFFICE. NTJMBEB OF "ALSO BANS'' WITH STBONG INDOBSEMENTS. nrm REPUBLICAN MACHINE JOLTED. Washington, Feb. 4.

Special. Postmaster General Corte'you to-night reached a decision upon the Lexington, post-office case and the notnina- tion of Tom L. Walker, secretary of the Kentucky Republican Ktate Central Committee, will be sent to the Senate this week. The case has attracted much interest all over the State and has been held up for several months, owing: to the desire of Cortelyou to hear all parties Interested and the ina- bil ty of the deuartment to a final decision. After carefully going over all the indorsements, Mr.

Cortelyou has decided to recommend to the President Walker's appointment and the nomination will be sent to tho Sjnate to-morrow. Mr. Walker was strongly indorsed by the business interests of Lexington, and in addition had the support of R. P. Ernst, one of the President's so-called referees.

Stanley Mil war was backed by Internal Revenue Commissioner Yorkes and Minister Leslie Combs and bor3 -were a number of other appil- inf'Judlng T-H. Clay; D. lerrnan and Co.pt. B. M.

Howard. Zlm- Mr Clay had especially strong Indorsements, but the Postmaster General concluded that the weight was toward "Walker and his nomination, it i Another Fearful Disaster la West Virginia. Third Deadly ExplosionWith-in Two Vfeeks. Death List May Go As High As Thirty Men. SEVEN DEAD IN IOWA WRECK.

Elkins. W. Feb. 4. The third mine explosion in West Virginia within two weeks occurred to-day at the Davis Coal and Coke Company's mine, Xo.

25, at Thomas, near here, and twenty-five or thirty miners are said to have been killed. The disaster occurred shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. Late to-day the first rescuing party entered the mine. The bodies of six foreigners and one American were recovered at a distance of 100 feet from the shaft. Before further progress could be made a deadly wave of poisonous fumes enveloped tho rescuing party, which was composed of General Manager Ott, D.

M. Boyd, superintendent of Henry mine; Daniel Jones, mine boss; Arthur Stuart and John Jenkins. Before the rescuing party could reach the surface Jones died from suffocation. To-night efforts are being made to enter the mine again, but without success. The air fans were demolished by the explosion and the mine is full of dangerous afterdamp.

Nine Bodies Recovered. Up to 7 o'clock this evening nine ot the bodies were recovered. to the dangerous afterdamp and the lack of ventilation it was almost certain death for the rescuing parties to enter the drift, and several of these were brought out almost dead. When it is known that it is nearly a mile from the entrance of the heading of the drift, the dangerous condition can be realized. The bodies so far brought out were the first found.

It is supposed that those further from the entrance axe burned and mangled. Nearly all were Italians, Hungarians and Polanders. One of the bodies recovered was American. The mine can hardly be opened before morning. As most of the miners were foreigners, it is dif-' ficuit to obtain the names, as they are generally known by numbers.

Owing to the length of the drift the only i means at present to ventilate is by compressed air, and until that is ac-I complished the number of the dead will not be definitely knoum. Business at Thomas to-day was practically sus-! pended. SEVEN MINERS KILLED. Nortnwestern Coal Train Wrecked Near Des Moines. Des Moines.

Ia. Feb. 4. Seven persons, all miners, were killed, and twelve or more injured in a wreck of a coal train on the N'orthwcstern railway near thf corporation limits of Des Moines this evening. The dead: Peter Pilstrem.

Peter Exner. Olaf Anderson. Albert Olson. Carl Anderson, Samuel Drew. Andrew Lundquist.

Drew died after lie had been removed from the wreck. The accident was due to the car in the middle of the train leaving the track and ditching the cars behind it The train had on board about thirty miners, scattered in groups on different cars, and several passengers were in the caboose. The victims were all buried under tho wreckage and the coal, which later caught on flre, made the rescue work difficult. It Is feared that when the wreckage is fully cleared away other victims may be found. There is no possible hope that the men still In the mine are alive.

While the exact number of entombed men la not known at this time, the number la estimated at about thirty, and it is thought probably there might be more. SIMPLE ROBBERY, SAYS ARCHBISHOP FARLEY. Money From Church Property Sales Goes To Friends of the French. Cabinet. New York.

Feb. 4. Archbishop John I Farley, of New York, addressed a large ihcrlnn- nf Kniirhts of Columbus at Maditon Square Garden to-night on the church question in France. He said in part The papers of late have had excerpt from some of the Parisian anti-Clerical organs condemning the Knights of Co hmtbus for taking part in the Frenoh question. That is the lines: certificate of character you have received in many a day.

The church property confiscated by the French Government is worth S0.X.X at the lov.e.-t. am willing to take the re-i nv that very little, it any of that property will go into the exchequer ot France. It will go into tho pockets of friends of the Cabinet of that godless country. When I was. in France a few montlis ago I learned from unimpeachable authority that a single piece of property In Paris was sold for IS.OOO.OCO francs, and that the entire proceeds went into the iSckew rf a Uw'mcn.

This is the secret of the entire question. It is simpli hlgti- WTo-Sybthe French Cabinet Is split and fighting among themselves. Have patience a little while. Providence is i shaping our ends and that of the French Resolution Passed for Investigation of Exchange. Growers Want Square Deal, Says Mr.

Livingston. Jamestown Bi 1, Carrying $1,000,000, Passes House. BROWNSVILLE INQUIRY BEGINS Washington, Feb. 4. Special.

The House to-day passed in a modified form the original Livingston and Burleson resolutions providing that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is directed to investigate the cause of fluc- tuations in the price cf cotton with the particular object of ascertaining whether such fluctuations are caused by manipulations on the New York ani other cotton exchanges. Representative Richardson, of Alabama, who is a member of the subcommittee which reported the resolution, says the main object is to investigate those who bring about cotton fluctuations through dealings in futures. "For instance," says Mr. Richardson, "take spot cotton in the New York market at 10U; on the same day for future delivery it may be held at 9VJ. We want such discrepancies examined and explained.

"Of course cotton is usually not delivered at all. When there is a delivery It is de-gtail cotton, which tends to depress the market. I think it will be conclusively shown that the exchanges depress the price of cotton when they want to, and the result is the loss or millions to the growers. We were informed in the subcommittee that the present agitation has depressed seats from J25.C00 to $12,000, but I take It that If the cotton exchange is cleared they will again reach their original vaiue." For a Square Deal. Mr.

Loverlng. of Massachusetts. ex- plane(j th3t the solution was one ot simple inquiry. He said that It had been broadly drawn and was not intended to be specific In any way. "The cotton producers for thirty years have been struggling for a square deal In the marketing of cotton and cotton fabrics, and have been handicapped In their efforts by the obstruction, lnter- appealed to one of the great de- partments for relief, we were threat- ened with suit for libel and Imprisonment.

"A square deal Is all that is sought or intended in this investigation. It is In the Interest of every cotton producer and spinner and rotates to the marketing of the most valuable crop produced in this country." Mr. Meyer, of Louisiana, speaking in favor of the resolution, explained that while he did not altogether understand tho reasons which prompted It, he felt that as far as tho Interests of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange were concerned and its constituent patrons, both agricultural and commeroial, there was no objection to the resolution. He read a telegram from William jMason Smith, president of the N'ewi Orleans Cotton Exchange, as follows' jj "Exchange has nothing to plKr from any investigation. In fact, rati er welcomes such investigation." Mr.

Meyer urged that the $rc wers of cotton had benefited to of millions of dollars by malntalniig their interests In the operations ojfi the exchange, whose business methods were governed by the highest principles of integrity. Jamestown Wins Out The House passed a number of Important bills to-day, Including the Mc-Cumber Service Pension Bill, the Omnibus Lighthouse Bill, carrying and the Omnibus Revenue Cutter Bill. Members sought to get through with as much legislation as possible under suspension of the rulos. The House, by a vote of 110 to S5, concurred in the Senate amendments to the Urgent Deficiency Bill lending the Jamestown Exposition land safeguarding the loan by a Hen on Is intended to reach cases against tnose similar to the meat cases. The bill was laid aside to permit further consideration of Senator Carter's resolution aimed at the recent order of the Secretary of the Interior preventing the issue of land patents to entrymen until after an examination on the ground by a special agent.

Mr. Heyburn concluded the remarks he began several days ago, and Senator Newlands followed in defense of the secretary. The investigation by the Senate Committee on Military Affairs ot the Brownsville, affair was begun today. A score of negro soldiers of the Twenty-flfth Infantry, discharged from the army without honor because of Capt. G.

J. Grammer Passes Away In Chicago. For Tears Notable Figure In Railway World. Captain of Ohio River Steamer at Eighteen, EXPONENT OF SQUARE DEAL Chicago, Feb. 4.

Special. Capt. George J. Grammer, vice president of the New York Central railway system and one of tho best-known men in the transportation world, died this afternoon at the Presbyterian Hospital, fol lowing an operation performed about ten days ago. The illness which result- i ed In his death dates back from his last I visit to New York City, after his pro- motion to the office of vice president of the Vanderbilt system railroads, about six weeks ago.

He was sum- moned to New York for a conference, and was stricken while attending meeting of the executive oilicers of the! system. He was brought home in his private car, but refused to follow the advice of physicians, who counseled rest. No definite arrangements have been made for the funeral, which will prob- ably be home. held in Evansville, his Steamer Captain At Eighteen. The career of Capt.

Grammer marks one of the most interesting chapters of railroad hj1. From captain of an Ohio-riv steamboat, at the ae of eighteen years, to the second officer of what has been termed the "greatest railroad system in the world," marks the compass of ills life. From the Atlantic to the Pacific he was known as the one man who had mastered the details of transportation from tin-, romantic days of rivalry among st on the great waterways of the country up to the time when railroads became the almost perfect means of transportation. From the time when he commanded the Ii' V. i.

1. long famous on the Ohio anCe 1iltuii. Iss nnl river.q nn the Tiandsnmel speediest craft afloat, through the dark days of the Civil War, when he served the Federal Government as a blockade- runner, to the close of his career, he retained the fluency of address that lias concealed a heart great enough to retain memories of the old negroes who worked for him as deckhands and stevedores on the river. A Stranger To System. Tho mental activity and physical endurance displayed in iho administration of the affairs of tho railroad desftite his sixty-three years of age- were remarkable.

Ho was to system. There was no para the methods employed in his oflicc. He knew no precedents, recognized no set rules or regulations, nor bowed to the dictates of influence. His decisions were Instantaneous, his purpose, Inflexible, and his indomitable, will has been known to change tho course of railroad history. It Is said that one of his first orders was that the word "private" should be removed from the olllce door.

So thorough was his knowledge of railroad trallic affairs that his word was accepted as law by tnose expected to oppose his decisions. Tiie Interstate Commerce Commission knew him a.s the exponent of the square deal. The shippers recognized him as an apostle of justice. Native of Ohio. Capt.

Grammer was born In 1S43 at Zanesville, where he was educated in public schools. After a connection of many years with steamboat interests along the lou'er Ohio river he became president of the Evansvlllo and Terro Haute railroad. Ho was manager for a time of the old Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern railroad, now a part of the Illinois Central system, and subsequently was made manager of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, with headquarters at Cleveland. His administration everywhere was of tho highest order, and his rise in the railway world was rapid and continuous. Last December, at the annual meeting of the New York Central lines, he was made vice president of the entire system, comprising 22,000 miles, but owing to illness he never assumed' active charge of the affairs of his new office.

EMPLOYERS' DECLARE THEY HAVE WON STRIKE. New York, Feb. 4. It was stated to- dav on behalf of the executive com mittee of the National Association of Employing Lithographers that it has declined a proposal oy iormer Mayor Seth Low, as chalrmari of the Con ciliation Committee or the National Civic Federation, suggesting that President 'Gompers, of the American Fed-oration of Labor, act as Intermediary to settle the strike of the lithographers i I His Brain Gave Way When He Saw White. Insanity In the Family, Says Attorney Gleason.

First Witnesses Examined In Famou3 Case. STATE'S TESTIMONY BRIEF. New York, Feb. 4. Special.

Within the limits of three hours and a half of actual work to-day the people's case against Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White was presented and the counsel for the prisoner outlined the defense that would be offered. It was contended that Thaw-was insane when he shot the architect on the night of June 25, 1906. on Madison Square roof garden; that he had been mentally unbalanced for two years before that time and that the shooting of Stanford White was the result of Thaw's insanity coupled with the state of mind resulting from the stress of circumstances In which he had lived since he married Evelyn Nesbit, Law7er Gleason, who made the opening address for the defense, told the jury that it would be proved that there had been insanity in Thaw's family on both the paternal and the maternal sides and that the insanity from which tho defendant suffered was therefore hereditary. He declared that the condition of Thaw's brain had always been such that given certain conditions of stress insanity was the natural result.

These conditions, he asserted, came with his marriage to Evelyn Xes-bit and the events that followed it. He "Saw White Glowering." "We will show you." said Mr. Gleason, "that the defendant on the night of the shooting first saw White glowering at him and then became convinced that it would be an act of Providence for him to kill the architect. Acting on the prompting, he walked over as coolly as he might go to speak to a friend and shot that man. He did not regard the act as wrong.

He concluded that it was God's providence and was not wrong. We say that upon the evidence it would be impossible for you to say that at the time Thaw shot White he was sane beyond a reasonable doubt" There was also more than a suggestion that an effort would be made to beIleved his fe and tna ot hls wlfe to be in danger from White. Evidence will be offered, Mr. Gleason said, to show that the defendant had carried a revolver for a long time before the shooting. And in this connection, the defense will doubtless make use of a statement mado by one of the witnesses for the prosecution.

This was one of the men who caught and held Thaw just after he had done the shooting. He testified to-day that Thaw-had said to his wife: "All right, dearie, but I have possibly saved your life." Mr. Gleason also appealed to the Jury to consider the evidence that would be offered and then ask themselves whether they would not have done the same thing. Evelyn Thaw To Testify. Counsel announced that Evelyn Nes-bit Thaw would be put on the stand to tell some of -he occurrences that preyed on her husband's mind until they drove him insane.

He did not go into particulars regarding these occurrences, but he said that when in 1903 Harry Thaw asked the chorus girl to marry him she declined. She had recently been subjected to a surgical operation, said Mr. Gleason, and the reason that she gave for refusing Thaw when he first asked her hand had something to do with Stanford White. "I do not regard it as part of my duty at this time," said Mr. Gleason, "to go into details.

Evelyn Nes-bit Thaw will tell you her own story." Mr. Gleason disclaimed any intention to invoke the operation of "higher or unwritten law" in the case, saying: "We do not claim any higher or other law than the law of the State of New York." At no time did he evince the least notion of dodging the fact that Thaw slew White. Both he and Mr. Delmas, who cross-examined witnesses on the part of the defense, repeatedly used the word homicide and referred to the "killing of White by the defendant." They merely contend, in Mr. Gleason's words, that "he acted without malice and premeditation and in the belief of self-defense." "His Brain Gave Way." "When the defendant killed Stanford White," Mr.

Gleason said again, "he did not know that the act was wrong, because he was suffering from a condition of brain that prevented him from tnowtaff It We will prove to you expected, win accordingly be con- frcnce aml manipulation of the cotton firmed within a few days. exchanges." said Mr. Livingston, of In recommending the appointment of Georgia. "We have begged for relief, Walker the department has again but our appeals were treated with si-demonstrated its independence of the contempt. We have been threat-group supposed to be all powerful in ened and laughed at.

and recently when direction of the President. At-General Bonaparte yesterday By toreey o406 Unw the Court of tie Lnuea ernment to intervene in the case Gov the Illinois Central Railroad cUanr United StaleS C'TCU Court, in Tennessee, regarding the con-" tionality of the Employers' passed by Congress, which was subject of an adverse decision by 7udEe Evans, of Louisville. The case vill be heard April S. Tie actual trial of the Thaw case be. yesterday in New York.

The pa e's case was closed in three hours State Ud ahalf, and Mr. Gleason, of counsel defense, made his opening state- Best He contended that the defendant vas insane at the time he shot Stanford mite. Evelyn N--sbit Thaw is expected to be the principal witness at today's session. Loyalists of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Bowling Green have Mired an order of the Fiscal Court lowing them to hold divine services In tie courthouse. It is said a suit Tin be filed to secure possession of teir old church building.

i blizzard which came from the Northwest swept over the western and etatral portions of Kentucky, snow fcHng to the depth of several incb.es md piling up, in some places, aeveral feet The temperature fell rapidly and 'Bock Is suffering. The effect cf a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday will be that th! widow of Potter Palmer, of Chicago, must pay Sew Tork City a transfer tax on the full relue of over four thousand shares of railroad stock. Capt George J. Grammer. vice presi-test of tie New York Central railway fystem, and long prominent in the transportation world, died yesterday in CWcago following an operation performed about ten days previously.

lie fight over the Lexington post- Esstership was settled last night, when 5CTf Cortelyou announced that the tmminatidr. of William Walker, secre--tuy of the Republican State Commlt-' he, would be sent to the Senate. Tie body of an unknown man was found in the ruins of a boarding-house irhich burned at Mayfleld, and evidence lis been found to show that the man vis murdered before being burned. An investigation is in progress. The House yesterday passed in a Wdified form the original resolution Jrovidicg for an investigation by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor of the methods in vogue at the various torura exchanges.

The President may abandon his proposed visit to the colored people's fair Columbus, as a result of pro-tens he has received charging that the iSair is more or less of a gambling imposition. Justice Day, of the Supreme Court of tlie United States, yesterday announced a aiverse opinion to the city of Chicago in the case of that munlcipallty 8inst D. 0. Hills, regarding the price of gas. The Supreme Court, in a decision kanded down yesterday, ordered that lie taking of testimony in the Sheriff Salpp case be begun with all convenient speed at Chattanooga.

A score of negro soldiers were pres-M at the Capitol yesterday to testify tt the investigation by the Senate Committee on Military Affairs into the Brcwnsville affair. By order of court, the Henderson awt railway will be sold at public Utttion to satisfy a mortgage given to former owner. The upset price is The House has passed Representa-jf Ollie James' bill permitted the jkoshters of American Revolution drinking fountain at Paducah. Jk "a explosion yesterday at the coal mines, at Thomas, Tuck- county, w. about thirty men foreigners, were killed.

Panama Construction Company, to finance the Panama canal "fact, yesterday filed articles of Albany. X. Y. Seen miners were killed and twelve Persons injured in a wreck of a Moto1111 Dear the clty limits of Des la. last evening.

3heblU for a loan of $1,000,000 to the estown Exposition Company has IreESa 1216 House and now goes to the coldest weathpr i a 1 lite i opam. xiu.il l. everywhere i in- The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: To be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sixth district of Missouri, Chas. G. Burton, of Missouri.

To be Register of Land Office, Lawrence N. Houston, at Guthrie, Okla. Postmasters were appointed for Kentucky as follows: C.ippar. Taylor county, Lydia B. Johnson, vice E.

A. Walker. resigned: Builitt county. Wm. K.

Ashby, vice T. J. Ramsey, resigned; Day, Harlan county, Wm. E. Cornett, vice J.

S. Lewis, resigned; Himpar, Knox county. Anderson P. Wilson, vice Jos. Lifotd.

resigned; Ingle, Pulaski county, Wm. Z. Roy. vice J. W.

Ingle, resigned; Meadowlawn, Jefferson county, Maud Carman, vice L. M. Spencer, resigned; Mystic. Breckenridge county, George R. Cox, vice L.

C. Varbeil, resigned; No-lin, Hardin county, Oscar H. Hodges, vice W. H. Hodges, resigned.

Brief Notes. Limestone and gTanite combined Is considered the best material for the building of a road, according to a report issued by the Agricultural Department. One of the most important matters in road-building has been the formation of a good top surface that will hold together well. It has been found that by the proper combination of common rocks it is possible to get a much better wearing surface than by the use of a single sort of rock, and materia! that is very unsatisfactory when used alone may be very valuable when used In combination with something else. It has taken a good (leal of what "practical" farmers and some statesmen would call "fancy science" to develop the facts.

Representative James' bill, granting permission to the Daughters of the American Revolution to erect a drinking fountain near the customhouse in Paducah, has passed the House and Senate, and was this morning signed by the President. Representative Stanley, of the Second Kentucky district, has gone to Nich-olasvllle to visit his sister, who is seriously ill in that city. Representative Hopkins has gone to Kentucky. MURDER MAY HAVE PRECEDED THE FIRE CHARRED BODT OF UNKNOWN MAN FOUND IN RUINS. EVIDENCE TO SHOW STRANGER WAS NOT BURNED TO DEATH.

INVESTIGATION IN PROGRESS. Mavficld. Feb. 4. Special.

Knough evidence, showing that the un known man found in the ruins of a hoarding-house, was murdered. been secured to warrant a rigid Investigation into the causes of his death and the authorities have been working all day trying to solve the mystery. The man Is said to have reached Mayfleld on the local passenger train, at 5:12 o'clock yesterday afternoon and a runner from the boarding-house said his name was Doyle, and that he came from Indiana to visit a sister living In the county. This Is all that is known positively. The man went to the boarding-house, which is located on Broadway, near the depot, and is owned by Allen Usher.

Last night, at o'clock, tire was discovered In the house. Shortly after the flre started, Albert Brown appeared at one of the windows. Escape was cut off and he Jumped. Brown fell on his head and is now in a serious condition. A large crowd was watching the tire, but left by midnight, thinking all the excitement was over.

About 2 o'clock this morning just before the flre department left, and while they were examining the building and other things, which had fallen during the flre, they found the head of a man, partly covered up in a bed mattress, that had fallen from the second story. The man's legs and arms were burned off and his face and body were so charred that It was impossible to rec ognize him. All kinds of rumors were afloat early this morning. An Investigation began and has been going on all day, but no reliable clew has been obtained as to who the man was or whether he was foully dealt with or not. Rumors are to the effect that the man was murdered and left dead In his room.

the people and a searching investigation Is going on which will last for another day or so. Epidemic Diminishing. Chicago. Feb. 4.

The epidemic ot scarlet fever was to-day declared by the Health Department to be rapidly diminishing. The cases reported since 3 o'clock Saturday morning numbered only 136. One week ago they were running twice as high as that In twen. ty-four hours. I I i The prosecution had its case in within two hours.

It was all very simple, Mr. Garvan made a ten-minute talk, describing the murder, and declared that it would be proved that it was a deliberate, malicious, premeditated taking of life. "We shall ask for a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree," he concluded. Lawrence G. White, the slain man's son, was the first witness.

He told of (Concluded On 2d Page, 6tli Column.) GOEBEIS SALARY AS GOVERNOR JUST PAD CHECK SENT ESTATE FOB TEHEE DAYS OF SERVICE. ACCOUNT OVER SEVEN YEARS OLD SETTLED BY STATE. OVERLOOKED BY EXECUTOR. Frankfort. Feb.

4. Special. The per diem of the late William Goe-bel, for the legislative session of 1900 and his salary as Governor of Kentucky for three days, was paid only to-day. seven years and one day after the day of his death. State Auditor Hager issued warrants to cover the service, aggregating J27C.73, and Treasurer Bos-worth mailed a check for that amount to Arthur Goebel.

executor of the estate of his brother. Tho delay in collecting the money was due to an oversight upon the part of the executor until he began to settle up the estate. On January 20, 1900. ten days before he fell tho victim of an assassin, Senator Goebel had Clerk Claude Desha, of -the "Senate, issue a warrant or voucher to him for $162.60, the amount then due him, and, when he was shot, the check of the State for that amount, was found in one of his pockets. It was turned over to the executor, together with other papers, and was laiter destroyed in a fire at the business house of Lowry Goebel.

in Cincinnati. For this amount a duplicate check was issued. Of tho remaining J114.15 die. eleven days per diem was due at SI per day; one additional day, January 1900, on which Senator Goebel sat as president pro tem. of the Senate, $5.

and three days as Governor at $18.05 per day, making $54.15, makes up the total. The matter was brought to the attention of the Auditor by William Cromwell, this city, who was assistant clerk of the Senate at tho 1900 session, and with whom the executor took it up. Claude Desha, tho chief clerk, having since died. It is most unusual for a claim against the State to remain so long unpaid. BAILEY DICTATING COMMITTEE'S POLICY.

Charge Made By Bepresentative In Vigorous Speech To Fellow Legislators. Austin. Feb. 4. In a lengthy-address before the special legislative committee appointed to investigate the charges preferred against United States Senator J.

W. Bailey, Representative Cocke, who preferred the charges, today asserted that a large majority of the committee are opposing the Investigation; that with tlie exception of several members who are aiding him, the committee desires no inquiry, and that Uie committee's policy, its operations, are being dictated by Senator Railey. Besides the address of Mr. Cocke today's session of the committee developed nothing of importance. A sub committee will leave in a few days for St.

Louis and Eastern points to take testimony and conclude the investigation. OFFICERS OF MILITIA WILL GET WARM WELCOME. Meet In Frankfort To Discuss Good of the Service and Plan Improvements. Frankfort, Feb. 4.

Special. State Guard officers to the number of about sixty will assemble in the State Senate chamber to-morrow at noon in response to a call sent out some weeks ago by Adjt. Gen. Lawrence. The purpose of the meeting is to effect a closer organization among the officers and far discussion as to betterment of the sav-eral organizations.

The officers will be welcomed to Frankfort by Mayor Hume, and a response will be made by one of the Colonels of the guard. Adjt. Gen. Lawrence will preside at the opening meeting and the Second regiment band will enliven the occasion with music. It is expected that out of the two days' meeting will grow a State Guard association which will' result in much genera) good to the guard.

the Democratic districts. His selection, I it is thought, will stir up the machine Republicans almost as much as the ap pointment of Petty in Shelbyville and Woods in Louisville. PRESIDENT MAY PASS COLUMBUS BY COLORED FAIR ASSERTED TO BE GAMBLING PROPOSITION. GAMES OF CHANCE FLOURISHED UNDER FAIRBANKS' NOSE. TYLER WRITES A PROTEST.

Washington. Feb. 4. Special. The President has been asked by a number of Republican politicians not to visit Columbus, to attend the fair given by the Colored Educational and Agricultural Association.

Many of the President's advisers assert that if he pays hoed to the advice he will merely serve as an attraction to bring a large crowd for gamblers to fleece. This charge is being vigorously denied by the promotors of tho fair, who claim that their organization a representative body of men. and all stories derogatorj- to the enterprise have been started and spread by their enemies. Whether the gambling features arc to flourish at the fair this year cannot, of course, be predicted with certainty from this distance, but the fact remains that the President is now very seriously considering the advisability of passing Columbus by on his trip to Mich- igan, and the stories he has been told nboiit the fair mav be set down nc tha reason. Vice President Fairbanks was the guest of honor at the affair last year, and as soon as the crowd gathered to hear the distinguished guest, a number 'the gross receipts.

of gambling booths started in full I The Senate occupied the first two swing. Craps, chuckaluck, hierony- hours of its session to-day in perfect-mous and wheels of fortune speedily i ing the House bill permitting the Gov-separated the members of the throng I eminent to take an appeal on points of from their money, and It Is said after law in certain criminal cases. The bill the gamblers got all the spoils they could, the fair was abandoned. Among those who have written the President urging him to abandon his proposed visit is Ralph Tyler, the recently-mentioned candidate for the Sur-veyorship of the port of Cincinnati. DRIVER OF BRICK WAGON KILLED AT CROSSING.

Evansville. Feb. 4. Special. While crossing the tracks of the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad, near the city to-day, with a load of brick, Albert Heubner was struck by a passenger train and Instantly killed..