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THE DAILY FREE PRESS. VOLUME 5 CARBONDALE: ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. APRIL 9 1908 NUMBER 152 THE WORLD TELEGRAPH MftPPBWINOS OF TUB DftV IPS THIS AND FOREIGN ANTI-GAMBLING LAW DEFEATED ON IN NEW YORi; LEGISLATURE A TIE. CHANDLER SAVES THE DAY lut for the Lieutenant Vote on Parliamentary Motion, Measures Would Have Been Lot Rest of Session.

Albany, N. April Tote of 'Senator Owen Cassidy of Schuyler Republican, late Wednesday caused a tie vote of 25 to 25 and -defeated, for the time at least, the two Agnew-Hart bills, embodying the recommendation of Qov. Hughes, that the legal protection be abolished which, since 1895 has protected public gambling at race tracks, is a felony elsewhere in the state. Lieut. Gov.

Chanler; in the chair, by casting his vote to break the tie upon a parliamentary motion, which tout for him would resulted in killing the bills for the rest of the session, saved them for another vote discretion uoir 1 iu.tr;iu; Senator Agnew, at any time when'the order of business permits him to call up the matter. The dmportanoe of this bit of subsidiary procedure may prove to be very great and if by any means the friends of the bills can ga.in a yote from th? opposition and at the same time hold the 25 they had, they might yet pass the bills a.nd send them to the governor. Result In Doubt to Last. The vote came at the end of a day fo dramatic and intense that people have been about the capdtol for a generation say they remember nothing like it Until the vote -of Senator IWUcox, last on the list, was cast against the bills, the result was apparently In doubt, although tor three days the opposition has expressed con-' pdence that he would vote as he actually did. The most remarka.ble feature of the flay involved the mysterious abse.nce gf Senator FancJier of Cattaraugus.

was known to 'intend to support the bills and his vote was indispensi- ple to their passage. Messengers searched for him all the morning without result and the charge wes made by the supporters of the bills that his absence was involuntary and would prove to be the result-of a conspiracy. When a recess wa? teken at 2 o'clock he was still miss- Ing. He appeared at last when the was about half gone, with nothing: to say for publication, but a story fcbout his absence told privately was accepted by the supporters of the bill as confirming their suspicions, and in details convulsed'everybody who heard it. The gist of it was that he had outwitted those who have detained him, and as he puts it, "here I am in time to vote for the bills, as I have all along intended to do." Voters Changed at Last Moment.

Senator Cassidy, who the supporters of the bills hold responsible for their defeat, voted on two previous occasions dn their favor, although the friends of the measure admit that he has never pro-raised to support them on final passage. Until 11 o'clock Senator Grattan of Albany was declared to be in favor of the bills. At that time, after conferring with, leaders of the Albany county Republican organization, he to Agnew. and an- nounced that he would vote agains them. Senator Knapp of Clinton, until late In the morning, was regarded as prac tlcally certain to vote for the bills but about the same time he also an nounoed that he wo-uld vote agains them.

There was some doubt all daj as to- the vote of Senator Foelker Kings, but when the vote came ho to the position he had along taken in their favor. All of tie 50 members of the senate present, the only vacant sea being that of Senator Franchet Niagara Falls, who 'died recently. I teems to be generally agreed that he have supported the bills. BOY YOUTH HAD JUST BEEN RE LEASED FROM REFORMATORY. ALSO TRIED TO SHOOT HIS SISTER Gave as Reason for Act that Parent Had Kept Him in an Institution Most of His Life; New York, April his mother, Susan Ca.rlin, had.

sent him to va.rfous reformatory institutions, in which he was a prisoner for many years, Bernard Carlin. shot and in stantly killed her Wednesday at hei home in Qulncy street, Brooklyn Young Carlin had just been released from the reformatory at Napanoch where he served a sentence for steal' ing a a.nd wagon. He was arrested after the shooting. When Carlin was freed from the re formatory, the superintendent gave him $10 for a new start in life. He arrived-in Brooklyn Tuesday, bought a revolver and went to the apartments, where hds mother lived with his sister, Maj-y.

When his mother opened the door in answer to his knock, he thrust the revolver in her face and fired five bullets into her head before she sank to the floor. He then attempted to shoot 'his sister, but tiie revolver was empty. Her screams summoned a neighbor, who wrested the revolver from Carliu, who later escaped to street and fled. He was pursued and captured after a desperate straggle, in which he severely injured one of his He told the police that he killed his mother "because she was making me do bits all my life." Ha declared that she sent him 'to an orpha.n's asylum when' he was-16 months old and had kept him in some kind of an institution of his life. EASTER LILIES TO BE CHEAP.

3hlp on Way to New York With Large Cargo. New York, April lilies will be cheap this year and there will be an abundance here when the steamship Bermudian reaches here Monday. The Burmudian is carrying a record cargo of the blooms, for this year the crop has been good -and the buds plentiful and sturdy. One of the largest whose consignment will reach that the price wjill run from $3.50 per box of six dizen short- stemmed cuts, up to $7 for stems with a longer cut and containing from two to four blossoms per stem. Boat Probe Delayed.

Washington, April special committee of the house appointed to Investigate the charges made by Representative Ltlley of Connecticut against the methods pursued by the Electric Boat Co. to obtain legislation, will hear no mo-re testimony until next Tuesday. The committee, when it met Wednesday, learned through Chairman Boutell, that the continued illness of Mr. Olmstead's daughter prevented his attendance at this time and, owing to the further fact that desired time in which. to prepare evidence in its proper or- dar, an adjournemnt would be taken until the data mentioned, Alleged Night Riders Held.

Paducah, April left Wednesday for the lower part of Galloway county to arrest nine alleged night riders. The Weekly Ledser Thursday will demand the withdrawal of the roops. Sentiment is divided. J. H.

'eek and KelH Knlgjrt were held to he Lyon county grand jury, charged with, being in the night riders' raid in Eddyville and Dyersburg. They vere presented before the county udge and waived an examination. Son Strikes Down Father. Galesburg, 111., April Stodard struck his father, J. R.

Stoddard, over the "head with cult'vator handle, and the latter is 'lying at the point death. The son does not deny hitting his father. At the time the men wer in the yard. Their quarrel ended'in the son picking up the cultivator ban die and bringing it down on his fa ther's head. The old man.dropped ai if shot.

Stoddard lit a well-known farmer, living south of here. LANGDON SMITH DEAD. Well-Known Newspaper Man Dies New York of Erysipelas. New York, April Smith, newspaper man, war corr.e one of the best known special writers in New York, diec Wednesday night of malignant erysip elas at his home In Brooklyn, aged 50 years. During his journalistic ca rear of more than twenty years in New Mr.

Smith has been con nected with-the New York World, the Herald and the American. He served as war correspondent in Cuba during the Cuban and also throughout the war being present at the battles of Guan tanamo, El Caney and San Juan. More than a score of years ago Mr Smith was known as one of the mos expert telegraphers in the world Among telegraphers he was known from California to New York as "Den ver" Smith. As a poet Mr. Smith's known verses are "Bessie McCall' and "Evolution," the latter having a wide circulation when it appeared sev eral.years ago.

He was born in Ken tucky: CROWN PRINCE MAKES CHAIRS. Heir to German Throne Is Learnim Wood Turning. Berlin, April Prince Fred erick following the require ments of the House of Hohenzollern that each- prince shall be skilled in some tra.de, -is becoming an adept in wood turning. He surprised his suite Tuesday by ordering that a lathe he set up in one of hfs bedrooms, anc Wednesday he spent the morning turning, out chair legs. The prince worked at the machine in his shirt sleeves, and when the electricity failed -he summoned an adjutant to help him turn the lathe.

The adjutant also in his shirt sleeves and the two men alternated in driving the machine. (Emperor William is a cabinetmaker, his father was a bookbinder and his grandfather a turner. BOY TELLS OF CRIME WRITES TO UNCLE OF MOTHER AND SISTER'S MURDER. BODIES THROWN INTO MISSISSIPPI Father Threatened to Kill Son If He Ever Told of What Had Happened. New Orleans, April a.

letter received Wednesday by the New Orleans police, a double murder, which was committed on the river below New Orleans, has been covered up by the murky waters of the Mississippi for two years and has only been brought to light by the confession of a 12-year-old boy. The letter was written by George Edwards to his uncle at Marksville, La. The uncle immediately sent it to the New Orleans police. According to the ter the boy, with several young brothers, is now at a New Orleans orphan's home. He says that in June, his father, Lucien Edwards, came aboard the shanty boat on which his family were living tajjsp to task by his wife for being jshpt and killed her with a rifle.

When the eldest -daughter remonstrated with her father, she, too, was killed. 'Bo-tli bodies were then weighted down with stones and thrown into the river. The iboy who wrote to his uncle at Marksville, says his father told him he ever said anything about what he had done he would come back and kill him. Smothered -in -Wheat. Pana, 111., April Oronnds, 14 years old, and Frank Willburn, 18, were smothered to death in a wheat bin at Dunkle Wednesday, The boys were playing in the elevator and jumped into the iWn.

They immediately sank down into -the grain. Later a search was made for them'and their dead bodies were -found in the bin. HIT BY TRAIN; MOURNERS DIE FOUR WOMEN AND DRIVER ARE KILLED WHILE RETURNING FROM FUNERAL. CARRIAGE WAS CUT IN TWO Cars Proceeded After Accident, Leav ing Occupants of Other Carriages to Extricate Victims from the Wreckage. Chicago, April women oc cupants of -a carriage weve killed and the driver was fatally in jured Wednesday afternoon when th vehicle was struck by an.

electrics train on the Chicago, Aurora Elgin rai road, near a western suburb of Chicago'. The carriage was one a number that were returning from funeral. The driver died a few hour later at a hospital, to which, he had been taken. The dead are: Mrs. F.

Rohloff, G5 years an her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Paul Rohloff 29 years old; Mrs. Charles Dressel Mrs. Minnie Rothoff, 35 years old, ana Frank Newman. All were residents of Chicago.

Th carriage was cut in two and the rea portion was seevral h.undrer feet along 'the tracks before the train could be stopped. The train pro ceeded after the accident and the first notice of the occurrence was re ceived from W-heaton, several milr. further west, when an official of in railroad company telephoned to Hay wood asking that ambulances be sen to the scene. When the undertaken arrived the occupants of the otl.it; carriages were caring for Newmai and endeavoring to extricate the man gled, bodies from the wrecked cai riage. Mrs.

.1. Rohloff, another-daughter-in law of Mrs. F. Rohloff, who was ir of the carriages, fainted at sight of the bodies and narrowly escaped death through failing upon th charged third rail. The wrecked car riage was the second dn line, one al ready having crossed the tracks.

Th driver ie thought to have driven onto the right of way in the belief tha he had time to cross, since the ap proaching train was plainly visible from the point where the accident oc eurred. ROY SAFE IN FRANCE. No Law Exists Whereby He Can Be Turned Over to America. Paris, April ministry of jus tice, to which the foreign office turned over the request of the United. States for the extradition of Paul E.

Roy, a Frenchman, who married an American womfcn known as Glacla Galla, and who has been accused by.his wtife oi killing her brother at Newington, has decided that no law exists in this country under which Roy can 'be given over to the American authorities. The of justice declares that it would bs a violation of France's principles, which is not to deliver a citizen charged with crime in a foreign country, but it rules that Roy can be prosecuted in France. Negro Kidnaps Deputy Sheriff. Anniston, April C. West, a white man, who was acting- as a special deputy sheriff, was kidnaped JjViJHam Cunningham, a negro, whom he attempting to arrest, near Lincoln, county, Jjt said that while west was reading the warrant to the negro, the latter seized the deputy's revolver and marched him toward the Coosa river, 'osses have been organised and bloodhounds placed on the trail of the ne- Well.Known Attorney Dies Suddenly.

Milwaukee, April Quarles, one of the best) known attorneys in the state, died suddenly Wednesday night, after an attack of heart disease. He was a brother of former United States Senator Quarles of this city. Deserters Stole Schooner. Honolulu, April party of deserting soldiers from the barracks lere stole a schooner, The Lady, and started for the south seas, but were oft Waimea. The schooner be a totaJ loss.

The soldiers were arrested on the chargs of piracy. Poeae Chasing Burglar. Columbus, April Watson and a posse is pursuing a burglar, who early Wednesday morning shot and killed Policeman Charles Miller this city. During, the night several esidences were robbed and one of lie burglars was caught as he' was joarding a train, by Policeman Miller. The burglar drew a revolver and shot the officer atid escaped in the darkness.

Sing Sing Convict Captured. New York, April enjoyed a taste of liberty, Joseph JLasala, a. convict, is on his way back to Sing Sing. Heavily manacled and in the custody of two keepers, Lasala accepted the situation philosophically, declaring that he went back to prison with better grace now that the purpose of his escape, to visit his wife and infant son, had been accomplished. Canadian Officer Arrested.

Winnipeg, April Wright, a Canadian customs officer at Emerson, was arrested at "HANDS ACROSS THE SEA." Noyes, Wednesday at the point of a revolver by a United States immigrant officer on a charge of having smuggled into the United States May French, who had been deniefl admission to the United States two weeks ago. 'Herbert Wright is a son of Mayor Wright of Emerson. He was taken to Crookston, for trial. There is m-uch bitter feeling between the otfiicdals of the two governments at Emerson and Noyes. CONGRESSIONAL FROM THE WIRES.

President Roosevelt has written a letter to the attorney general, instructing him to proceed against the railroads of the south which do not furnish equal accommodations for ne- groes in the "Jim Crow" cars that they do in the coaches provided for Bernard Carlin, 24 years old, who swore two years ago when he was sent to jail for robbery, that he would some day kill his whole family because they had ban-doned Mm, carried out his fiendish vow when he returned to hit? home, 587 Quincy street, Brooklyn, shot and killed his mother as she opened the door to him. Floyd Grounds, 14, and Frank Willburn, 18, were smothered to death in a wheat bin at Dunkle, 111. They were playing in the elevator when they jumped in the bin and were pulled down in the grain. It was five minutes before any one knew the boys were in. the bin.

Suspected of murdering 18 of their own children, the anarcnist, Molina, and" Francesca Herrara, with whom he has lived for 29 years, have been arrested at Seville, Spain, on a charge of wholesale infanticide. A mob made a desperate attempt to lynch them when they were arrested a.nd the police saved their lives. "The 26 delegates from Wisconsin to the Republican national convention will go instructed to work for the nomination of Senator Robert M. La Follette. In spite of the efforts of his enemies to defeat him, he won in all parts of the state and the people of Wisconsin showed that he is their choice for the presidency.

The state supreme court is to consider whether Mrs. John Warner, stepmother of Pension Commissioner Vespasian Warner, is a negress and, if so, whether it has anything to do with the devision of the property of the jgtate of the richest men in John Lang, land James Smith, both of Houston, are believed to have been drowned during a squall on Galveston Bay. Both are missing and relief parties in motor boats find no sign of boat or missing men. French D. Walton, former chief clerk and cashier for the Wheeling Lake Erie railroad at Wheeling, W.

was arrested at Columbus, on a warrant from the Wheeling jolice department, charging him with embezzlement of $22,000 from the Wheeling Lake Erie railroad. Harriman fleht with the helps-Dodge syndicate for use of mountain pass in construction of Mex- can line to the coast. Slain as She Lies in Bed. Kokomo, April Fairy was shot instantly tilled here Wednesday by Worley Os- orn, a discarded suitor. Osborn en- ared the Miller.home and killed llae as she lay in bed.

Osborn fled and has not been captured. Carmi Bank Carmt, April Albion Na- onal bank of Albion, capital 00, owned by Albion and Carmi men, opened for business Wednesday, 'homas B. Mitchell of Albion Is presi- ent and Sam A. Ziegler, formerly of arm), is cashier. By a vote 8 to 7, houise mittee on pOBtofflceg and post roadr Wednesday virtually tabled tie ocean: mail subsidy bill.

Tha bill as introduced in raised 1 second- class mail vessels, carryine Unite! States to South America, I Philippines, Japan, China and tralia; to the schedule of pay for first-class vessels, an increase from. $2 to $4 per mile. The bill passed by the senate similarly raised the pay for second-class and third-class vessels, an extreme increase from $1 to $4. In the house committee Wednesday, after vigorous debate, a motion, to substitute the house bill for the- senate bill failed by the vote stated. It is now understood committee will take no further action on either, bill.

Wednesday's session of the house will go, down a.s one of the stormiest in its history. The sum total of the day's proceedings was the adoption of several additional rules to further check the Democratic filibuster and the passing of the two resolutions Introduced by Speaker Ca.nnon calling on the department of justice and the department of commerce and labor for certain regarding the so- called paper trust. There were nine roll calls during the day, five of them on the rules. The Democrats exhausted their resources before they were made to feel that the Republicans by sheer force of numbers had them beaten at every point. The debate brought all 1ho leaders of the house to the Tlic Democrats were a.gain charged with making the special rules necessary by reason of their filibuster, while tho Democrats reasserted' that they at last were causing the majority to enact legislation.

By a vote of 257 to nothing, ilia house Wednesday sustained President Roosevelt's veto ol the nitt transferring Commander William mot White from the retired to thn active list of the navy. The president gave as a reason for his action that the transfer woiilil be for the bctrt interests of the service. Representative Scott of KSSIKKX introduced a bill requiring every common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad to maintain its road bed, tracks, bridges, ties, in a safe and serviceable condition. Under the bill the Interstate commerce commission is empowered to enforce Its provisions. Roosevelt to Attend Dedication.

Washington, April Wednesday accepted an invitation extended him by John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of American Republics, to attend 'parly in May the laying of the cornerstone of the new building for the bureau, to. wards the construction of which Andrew Carnegie contributed $750,000. Two Soldiers Slain at Palace. Lisbon. April soldiers were assassinated Wednesday while standing ryjar the Necessldales palace.

The soldiers, who wore civilian clothes, were shot and killrd by a small group of men who suddenly sprang at thon? with drawn revolvers. By trie time the police rer.ched the scene the assassins had Helie's Cousin to Poor Farm. Omaha, April Henry Loul" de Ginzberg, who says he is a cousin Count Boni de Casteliane and Helie de Sagan, has been sont to th" county hospital and placed in a cliaritr' ward. The county authorities were able until Wednesday to learn his re; identity. Baron de assrrt that he lost $3,000,000 as a result ct the Boer war..