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8 21 "All the News That's Fit to "Print." THE WEATHER. Fair to-day; fair, cooler to-morrow; fresh west to northwest winds. -r VOL. LVI NO. 18,003.

NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1907. SIXTEEN, PAGES ONE CENT Xm Greater New Yerk. Fleewhere, Jtreer City, a4 Newark. TMO 1 Hi 11 if a -J-3 ii $281,000,000. ISSUE BY HARRIHAH ROADS n-rrtor Arrange fcr New Financing to Care for Floating Indebtedness.

BOTH STOCKS DECLINE $111000300 In Stock and Bonds to be Put Out at Once Other la? sues Later. New security Issues amounting to $281. 000,000. Including- stocks and bonds soon to be authorised but not to' be Issued at hle time, were provided for the Southern pacific and Union Pacific Railroads at yssterday'smeetlngs of the Director of tt two roads. The securities to toe lm-medisteir Issued are $86,000,000 additional cf Southern Paciric preferred siock nu $73,000,000 of Union Pclflo convertible 4 rer writ- bonds, me union x-acmc iuc.

oldrs. at a meeting- to be held June 16, will be called upon to authorise of additional common stock, of which 140.000.000 Is to do reserved against. in convertible lxnJs, and the balance referred In the treasury for future use, and ilso an Issue of $70,000,000 or more first maortsage bonds on miles oi road in the Union Pacific system which at present are unmortgaged. These new bonds tre to be held In the Union Pacific treas ury. Besides arranging for this new flnanc ins.

all of which is to cafe for floating in iebtedness incurred in new construction I sad in the acquisition of new property including a portion' of the stocks in other railroads, purchased last Fall, the Direc-tors of the -two roads decided yesterday to change the manner of the roads' dlvl dend payments from semi-annual to quar terly. In keeping with this decision there was declared a quarterly dividend- of 21 per cent, on Union Pacific common and a quarterly dividend of lfxi per cent. 1 so Southern Pacific common. If Stocks of Both, Roads Decline. The announcement of these' security iMues, the terms of which were not well understood In the Stfeet In the day, was followed by a violent decline in Union Pa eifle and by a smaller loss In Southern pacific Union Pacific, had been advancing In the morning, dropped from 140V, to 141.

and Southern Padflo from afti to 63. Then followed a rally of a point or more In each stock. Probably tnoved by the course which the stock market took upon the announcement of the plans which were decided upon at yesterday's meetings at the suggestion of Mr. Harrlman, be made this comment s-B left his office yesterday afternoon: It looks as If it was going to be like tut I thought I was doing; same, tlitcr most praiseworthy, that should is considered the greatest, man in New York and -congratulated by every Instead. I have been cussed aJl over the Street for handing out a lemon Instead of a melon." X.

R. Harrlman was, to all appearances, much the dictator of Union Paciflo affairs yesterday as at any time In the put Of th more prominent figures in ths Union and Southern Paclflo boards the only one 'present at yesterday's meeting besides Mr. Harrlman was II. Trick. It was believed, however, that the general plan of the financing announced yesterday was decided upon some time ago and that the action at yesterday's meeting was merely formal.

Apart from unfolding to the Directors the financial -plans, Mr. Harrlman at yesterdays meeting laid special stress on a tcport of Vice President Kxuttschnltt that Is the month of February 449 rails had broken, of which 179 were ninety-pound nfl that had been laid within five or months. Mr. Kruttschnltt In his letter tt Mr. Harrlman.

which was read at the board. meeting, urged Mr. Harrlman ts make a claim against the makers of the rails, and also suggested that Mr. Barrtman see seme of his frtands In the teti corporation, to have them turn out letter rails. Mr.

Harrlman added that ae oud make a claim upon the steel companies, but he said he thought Uttls attention would bo paid to it. la a statement Issued after the meeting, Mr. Harrlman described the nature of the floating Indebtedness of the two roads "4 fava an estimate of the earnings of the two systems for the current fiscal Tear, which will end June 30 next. Later la the day Mr. Harrlman supplemented this statement by some further details retarding the new financing.

He said: Te Reylaee Floatla Deb. "I to lay special stress on the wt that this financing will not disturb th money market for the reason that it jj to replace floating debt. The money already been borrowed, but it will sow be changed from a' temporary to "a Permanent form. For the same reason toe saw issues will not materially change he fixed Chars-a for the nmmn that lr Urest is now being paid on this floating i basbtsdnesa. Ths convertible bonds are to run for "j- years, are to he convertible for first ten years and after five years to be redeemable at 1024.

The flnano-? which we have announced will pro- fo ail our requirements for at least JTer. it includes provision for all Of the rnull anrl hnr. ing win be needed to care for the Kaliroa.il In payment the BaiUmore ft Ohio, purchased last That purchase, however, is aJ-wr provided for through the sale of Jmiea The reason we are to author-Rew tomnxtn stock aad to sell bonds instead of Issuing- a por- ot the preferred stock In the trees-r7 that stock cannot be issued, for than par, and It could not be pit ethe market at that price Just now. convertible bond Issue wlU be under-TRen and probably a formal under- ayndicate will be formed. I know.

wao wuu willing entire Issue, Tou cn a-ueaa who the man la. The Southern nc preferred stock Issue will not be Jewritten; that does no need to be. its upon the new comaertlble bonds ai ue Poetically at the same tim rtrvv th new. Southern Pacific Th Vnlon Paclflo books will May i The Proposed new raort-age bond t- aj. tuvt IOeVV UVUU a lh upmortgaxed lines.

w1U 1a- among other seeUona road. 0ron a Washington RaUroad. Ceatteel ea Fsiigw 3. KEMBLE WEDS MRS. LOVE.

Mrs. Love Got Divorce) from Second Husband Three Years Ago. Mrs. Minerva Lore, once the wife of Sidney Love of thfs city and Chicago, whom she divorced three years ago, was married on Wednesday night to William H. Kemble.

son of Clay Kemble, wealthy Phtladelphlan. Less than twelve hours later the couple, accompanied by Mrs. Kemble's S-year-oId son. sailed for a European honeymoon on the French liner La 8a vole The wedding ceremony was performed by Dr. Henry Marsh Warren, the hotel chaplain.

In Mrs. Love's apartments at the Hotel Wolcott, In the presence of a core of guests, although the marriage was only decided upon when Mr. Kemble learned that Mrs. Love intended to sail for Europe early yesterday. The couple met a year ago at a hotel at Narregannett Pier.

Her marriage to Mr. Kemble Is the for mer Mrs. Love's third matrimonial vent ure. As Miss Minerva Cool of Connlshe Ohio, she married a wealthy Phlladel phlan, who soon left her a widow. She was married soon afterward, In 189S, to Sidney C.

Loe. then Secretary of the Chi cago Horse Show Association. Mrs. Love got a divorce on July 30, 1904. Mr.

Kemble Is 27 years oW. a few years younger than hla wife. He is a son of Clay Kemble, and a grandson of William If, Kereble, for whom he was named. William 11. Kemble, was once State Treasurer cf Pennsylvania, and was President of the People's Bank of Philadelphia.

He was a member of the. Kemble- Wldener-Elklns triumvirate which built a Broadway line In this city, and died worth nearly $7,000,000. Clay Kemble Inherited $2,000,000, and has lived a life of leisure. He owns a beautiful country place at Ogontx. His son also received $300,000 or $400,000 from his grandfather and has 'never engaged In business.

PARENTS' ASHES IN CANAL. Diver Finds Slevers Urn That Had Been Given to the Son The police of the Klngsbrldge Station are looking for Herman Slevers, whose present address Is unknown, to return to him a copper urn from' the Fresh Pond Crematory containing the ashes of his dead father and mothe. The urn was picked out of the mud at the bottom of the Harlem Ship Canal yesterday, and for several hours supplied the police with a mystery as to what its contents might be. Even now they have no Idea how it got Into the water. The urn was found by Harry Paulson a diver, employed by the Consolidated Gas Company, and with visions of the wealth which he hoped It might contain he brought It to the surface, and turned it over to Policeman Klpp.

At the station Capt. Naughton ordered the top of the can pried off, and when he saw the ashes and the Inscription, Herman Slevers 8,400 R. LLV' he telephoned to the United States Crematory Company. From them he learned that the urn contained the ashes of Herman and Anna 81evers, and had rv dehvared to "Mies' Rose Hamil ton on March 9 of this year. Miss Hamilton, who Is a dressmaker.

was found at 108 West 137th Street last night. She remembered getting the ashes. which she said she had done at the request of Herman Slevers. a son. who was boarding with her parenta at the time.

She rave the urn to Slevers, she said, and did not know what he had done with It since; He left her home some time ago, and she does not know where he has gone. The records of the crematory company show that Herman 6levers died In Belle-vue Hospital on Nov. 24 of last year. He was 72 years old, and had been a tailor living at 612 Third Avenue. MRS.

BURDETTE BADLY HURT. Wlfo of the Humorist Knocked Down by a Policeman Her Arm Broken. Sftcial to Tht Krw York Tints. LOS ANGELES. May 0.

Mrs. Robert Burdette. wife of the humorist, lect urer, and preacher, who Is at present attached to the Temple Auditorium Baptist Church, was knocked down and severely Injured by a policeman here to-day. Her left arm was broken In three places. Mrs.

Burdette said to-night that the po liceman 'deliberately ran into her while she was trying to pass between some packing cases and the curb. I thought the man would yield a Dart of he narrow passage, but he squared his shoulders and I was knocked down by the Impact. He was exceedingly gruff and rude, and made no attempt to come to my assistance. He must have heard my screams, but he continued down the street. Mv chauffeur, who had our machine near by, came to my rescue." Chief of Police Kern has been unable to learn the identity of the policeman.

KILLED IN AUTO UPSET. W. Rickey Crushed to Death Under His Overturned Machine. Sftcial Thi New York TimtM. DOVER.

N. May 0. W. Rickey, pro prietor of a garage at East Orange, was crushed to death by the overturning of an automobile which he was taking- to Newton this afternoon. The accident happened at a turn of the road between Ledge wood and Landing and was caused by the skidding of the wheels of the machine as Rickey attempted to steer by two tank wagons of the Fordte Powder Com pany coming towara mm When tne wneeis si rnanl rail and shot jen the wheels slipped the car broke down a iweniy-root tiimlnv over and Lhe two occupants under It.

Rickey's companion managed to gei oui. oui iucwy iy wedged between a stone and the steering wheel of the overturned machine. ANADIAN BEAUTY A SUICIDE. Miss ClemovtShoote Herself A Sen ator's Granddaughter. ifteiol te T4 A'itk York Tim.

OTTAWA. May 9. Mfew Eileen Cleraow, 26 years old. daughter of the late Francis Clemow and granddaughter of the late Senator Clemow. was found, dead In bed to-day.

with a revolver lying- by her side. shot bad entered her mouth and passed through her head. The young- woman belonged to one of the best-known Canadian families, and was one of the most beautiful women In the country- For some time she had been In a disturbed state of mind, and a week ago attempted to poison herself, but doc tors ininiMim t-lrinow was very, talented, and at school and college was a brilliant student. Since leaving college she had pursued the Study puiiwijuj, iw oecame deeply Interested In the political progress of Canada, an operation a year and flir av UCI wjuu wvmtuv yniwunCTtt. After all.

rsHERS Sewreti ttoet saaae tae slshbeU fa neons DAGOITS BORN AND LOOT IN INDIA Rioting In Eastern Bengal -Brit ish Prepare for a Revblt in the Punjab. NATIVE LEADER DEPORTED Troops of All Arms Being Drafted Into Lahore All Meetings Prohibited. CALCUTTA. May 9. Serious rioting has broken out In Eastern Bengal.

A band of 2,000 Dacolts looted the Ba zaar at DewanganJ; burned down some adjacent villages, and also set fire to the town of Tarakanda. ten miles from Nasirabad, capital of the Mymunslngh District. A large number of the rioters were ar rested. LAHORE, May 9. Everything seems to point to the imminence of a native outbreak here, and the authorities are taking all the steps possible to suppress It by force of (arms.

The political unrest Is hourly assuming graver proportions. Bands of stalwart rustics, armed with bludgeons, who have been enlisted by the leaders of the sedition, are crowding into the native city. and troops of all arms and bodies of police, mounted and dismounted, are be ing drafted Into the City of Lahore from all parts of the province. The fortifications of Lahore have been subject to a special Inspection, and the artillerymen have been reinforced. The Lieutenant Governor of the Pun- Jab.

Sir Denzll Ibbetson, is taking active measures. He has issued a proclamation, prohibiting meetings of every kind and solemnly warning the public not to at tend any assemblage under pain of severe punishment. In addition the Lieutenant Governor! has struck at the root of the revolutionary movement by causing the arrest this afternoon of prominent lawyer, Lajpatral, who practiced in the umei Court of the Punjab, and who was the leader, financier, and organizer of most of the seditious demonstrations and rev olutionary riots' in tho Punjab. Immediately after being taken into custody Lajpatral was deported to an other province His arrest caused a pro found sensation among the Hindus, who hitherto had believed that the authorities would not dare to take such severe ac tion. Another revolutionary leader, for whoso arrest a warrant has heen issuea, re ceived an IntlmJtlon of the action taken by the authorities, escaped from Lanore, and Is now In hiding.

LAHORE. Friday. May 10. The swift display of military force, combined with the arrest of Lajpatral, appears to have paralyzed the seditious movement. TheJtroopB were out all night, but this city, which hitherto had been the scene of nightly excitement Inflammatory ora tory and noisy processions slopt in un broken stillness.

The streets were ut- terlv deserted. The determination or ine uoTfrnraem io uppress the revolutionary movement was not taken too soon. To-day is the anniversary of the beginning of the Indian Mutiny fifty years ago. and forbearance on the part of the authorities would have been Interpreted as a sign of weakness and timldttv. The sedition had spread wiueiv owinc to the preaching of Lajpatral amom; the Kikhs or tne recently lrrwraiea colonies of the Punjab, where fhe plague had de populated Immense districts.

GHOSTS IN YONKERS. Eight Columns of Them In the Extras, but not Otherwise Discoverable. A ghost story, an elghteen-karat mar row-bone rattler, was agitating Tonkers last night. It told how a bevy or viva- clous ghosts had descendedv on the old Copcutt mansion and were raistng noc turnal high Jinks and how the ordinary. rent-paying flesh-and-blood tenants had deserted the premises, leaving the spec tral souatters In solitary possession A Times reporter went up to interview the goblins.

It did look like a sure enough fine ghost story. At the Ton kers railway station newsboys were cry Ing "Uxtry! Uxtry: All about the ghosts! and selling eight columns on tne front page of a wondertui taie or a haunted house, told by a number or ac credited eye-witnesses," which thus began it nan hwn a Dooular belief for many years that the Copcutt mansion on Nep-perhan Avenue is haunted, and that oft-times, at the hour of midnight, the spirits of the departed assemble there in mys terious conclave. Then came a taie or strange sounus, uncanny Tappings, weira appearances. and the statement that eye witnesses declare that they encountered the spirit th idr Coocutt race to race, ana tnai thev heard him in a sepulchral voice pro nounce a. horn Die malediction upon tne building, which for a period of forty years was his earthly abode." But in the middle of tne second column the ghost storv became what might be described as story witHa.

purpose. The discoverer of all tho ghosts, it seemed, was f'rivate detective who uvea in tne nouse. fr. MutrhoH ran a boarding house on the side. One by one his boarders depart ed, he says, on account of the ghosts.

Then Mr. Hughes quit. And when he went, the ghosts went, loo. The Times reporter interviewed the resent occupant of the house. Marcel at acleJewslcl.

wno is acting as careiaxer for the present owner, St. Casimir Church. r. hosts! Bald tne caretaaer. Mon key business Is what I call It.

Tve been here tnree montns now. ana i never even heard a ghost. There has been a crowd hanging around here all day. rubbering over the fence, end staring at us until feel as though I living in a menagerie. ir I could catch hold of the fellow that started that story I would make a ghost of an ngnt." $1,200,000 FOR PRINCETON.

Big Gift Made for the Erection of Two Laboratories. fecial to TU Now York Timit. PRINCETON. N. J-.

May 9. Announce ment was made to-day that Princeton had received a gift of $1,200,000 for the erection and maintenance of two scientific laboratories. The names of the donors are being withheld at present, but may be announced later. The gift provtdea $400,000 for the erec tion of a physical science laboratory and $200,000 for Its equipment and mainte nance. Similar amounts will be appropriated for a biological and geological abormtorr.

Tnese ouiiainge wui probabl be started in the Summer, and when com pleted will fill a long-felt wexrt ef Pviace-ton's scientific department. BROOKLYN TRANSFER MAD. B. R. T.

Acquires a New System with Instructions to Make it Clear. The Brooklyn traveling- public was euf feting last night from what the alienists of Red Hook and Smoky Hollow described as The Willies." It was the first day's trial of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's new simpli fied transfer, system. For a long time the company has been losing money because of abuses of the transfer privilege. The B. R.

T. is not a i pmianmropic enterprise, ii naiea io lose the money, so It adopted the new system. It provides that a passenger, after pay lng his fare, can get. a transfer ticket, yel low In color, good for a ride on a connect ing line. On the' second car he can re.

celve In exchange for the yellow slip I green transfer ticket. Ho can receive no further transfer on the green ticket, ex ccpt by a special slip issued by the con ductor or transfer agent at certain points. This seemed simple enough. The company's own experts, however. and 'some borrowed from Manhattan put their heads together and proceeded to make the scheme clearer.

They prepared a set of Instructions to passengers, half a yard or bo long and of some literary merit, with which they might while away the time during the nightly bridge block. Somewhat longer Instructions were also Issued to the conductors, telling Just how simply and smoothly the system Could be worked. A rule followed by many of the con ductors yesterday was. when In doubt, to hand a passenger a green transfer. That put It up to the conductor of the next car and the passenger wouKl usually be thrown off.

In this way the passenger was got rid of and the company didn't lose any money. Passengers referred to the yellow trans fers as lemons and to the green or final transfer as" the twenty-three ticket. The passengers all agreed that this was the way it worked out. EVELYN THAW IN PITTSBURG Thought She Is Reconciling Mother wlth Mother-ln-Law. Special to Th New York Timet.

PITTSBURG, May 9 There Is every reason to believe that Mrs. Evelyn Nesblt Thaw is now in Pittsburg with her moth er-in-Iaw, Mrs. William Thaw, for the pur pose of effecting a reconciliation between the Thaw family and her mother, Mrs Charles J. Hoiman. Great secrecy sur-rounds her movements.

At the new home of Mrs. William Thaw In Beechwood Boulevard It Is impossible to get either a confirmation er a denial of Evelvn's presence. Strangers are warned away, and the telephone has leen dlsconnectr-d. Intimate friends of Mrs. William Thaw have been intormed that.

although she will be In the city for a couple of days, 6he will not be at home to any social caiiers. LEFT $1,500 ON FERRYBOAT. Henry Lackman Didn't Walt to Get to Race Track to Lose Hi Monejr. Henry Lackman of 218 St. Ann's Ave hue.

the Bronx, went to East Thirty Ifth Street Station last night and reported he had lost a package containing $1,000 on the ferryboat Hudson on the trip from the Thirty-fourth Street Ferry to Long Island City early In the afternoon, and he asked the police to help him locate the money. The police said they would. Lackman explained that he had taken bundle of $3, $10, $20 and $r0 bills along with him to the races, and on the ferry. boat he took a paper from his pocket to read, laying the package of money on the seat alongside He got off the boat and had gone two blocks before he remem bered the money. He went back and found the ferryboat still In the slip, but the money was gone.

Lackman said he had plenty more money, and went out to bet some of it on tne horses. Somebody else put It on Roseben," said the Lieutenant on the desk. TRIES TO DROWN? CANT SINK. 300-Pound German Leaps Into the Water, but Floata Like Cork. Discovering- yesterday afternoon, after repeated efforts to drown himself, that he floated like a cork, an obese German, bent on suicide, decided to try to end it all by some other method than that of immersion.

His efforts at suicide In Atlantic Basin moved the dock loungers to unfeeling mirth. The unhappy Teuton, who appeared to weigh about 300 pounds, walked to the end of the Porto Rico Line pier, and, with a last look around. Jumped into the water. It's all over," he said, as he took the But It was not the end. Coming up from the dive, the fat man floated face upward.

Again and again he tried to dive under the surface, but his body merely rolled over, and the end of each attempt found him floating his face upward; He was trying for the fifth time to sink. when William Walsh Jumped in, tied a rope around him, and hauled him ashore. He was taken into a boiler room near by, where he was dried out. While the watchman was deciding what to do with him, the German slipped out and disappeared. The non-slnkable was recognized as a woraer in a neax-oy brewery.

CALLS PRESIDENT UNFAIR. Bryan Severely Criticises Undesirable Citizen Letter. Special to Tkt Nrm York Times. LINCOLN, May 9. In an editorial relating to the President's reference to Moyer and Haywood as undesirable citi zens Mr.

Bryan will say In his paper tomorrow: It la not fair for President Roosevelt to take the stand and testify against the character of the men on trial where conviction Involves the death pen alty. He does not confront the accused In court and Is not subject to cross-examina tion, and his letter Is likely to have more weight with any Roosevelt Republicans who may be accepted on the Jury than all the testimony which the defendant can introduce to show a good reputation. No one should try to excuse the ac cused If the 'evidence shows that they committed murder, and no one should want to convict them unless the evi dence does establish their guilt. Until the evidence Is in. the public generally will withhold Judgment.

If the friends of Moyer and Haywood demand their acquittal regardless of the evidence they deserve criticism; If they attempt to Influence the court and Jury they should be censured, but. Wing private eitixens. their offense not so grave as tnat well aa hli great Influence, should re strain him from using language, whether Intentionally or through indiscretion, that Is calculated to prevent, a fair trial." MIMTES TO ASS CRT PARK via Pennsylvania Railroad. b-1nnina next Panday. May 11.

Fast express train to Loag Branca and lotnt rieeeeai. iBcreaaea par lor car service, see aew time tablea-Adr. PETE HE BULLDOG GETS A YICTIM Chews a Navy Department Clerk on the White House Grounds. IS THE PRESIDENTS GUARD Kept Only to Deter Reporters and Sec retaries of the Interior Falls In Hli Job. fecial to Tkt Nea York Times.

WASHINGTON, May 9. Pete, the bull dog, President Roosevelt's prized bull terrier and special commissioner to keep suspicious characters, newspaper corre spondents; and Incessant Secretaries of the Interior out of the White House grounds, chewed up at. unoffending Gov ernment clerk' to-day after giving him a run through the grounds that rivaled the famous chase of Pete after Ambassador Jusserand. The clerk was John T. Thomas, em ployed in the Navy Department, and living at 1,215 Street.

Northwest. He was bitten painfully, and was placed at once under the treatment of Dr. Joseph M. Keller of 1.510 II Street, who cauterized the wound. All this happtned at about 9 o'clock In the morning.

Pete was not officially on duty, his patrol of the White House grounds being a night one. Since he was put on dijty a few nights ago. Secretary Garfield has not Deert there at night, and the newspaper correspondents who -have had to go to the Executive Offices after dark have been chosen from among the fleetest runners In the press gallery. No one who was not champion of his class at college has been sent to the White House In quest of information of interest to the public. Hence Pete had not yet bagged a vlctlmand both he and the President have become somewhat grouchy over his ill success.

So It was In no good humor that Pete planted himself on the sward and began to eye malevolently the clerks hurrying through the grounds on their way to the War, State and Navy Building Just across the way. But he could find no excuse for exercising his constabulary authority. It is a singular fact, and one worthy of study by psychologists, that Government clerks do not resemble newspaper men In appearances and only the most intellect. ual and handsome Government clerks re semble Secretary Garfield. There was no possibility of Pete's making a mistake.

Last of the lot came Mr. Thomas. He is handsome and Intellectual, and It is good while since Pete has seen Secretary Garfield. Pete could not mistake him for a newspaper man, but he felt that here was his He edged forward and eyed Thomas narrowl. Just as the clerk passed the White House he looked at his watch and saw that he was a minute late.

He hurriedly leaped forward, and this ap pearance of haste settled It in Pete mind. He barked and Jumped. Thomas saw him coming, remembered in a flash the fate of M. Jusserand, and fled for his life. Eyewitnesses say that for a few seconds Thomas got up a speed that would have mad a Jackrabbit retire from business in disgust.

The White House policeman started in pursuit, yell lng to Pete such deterrent watchwords as. Hold on, Pete Good dog. como back here That Isn't Garfield, you chump," and all others, but all In vain. Thomas, in the course of hlB flight, rec ollected some stories he had heard about he way in which frightened peasants have managed to delay pursuing wolves In Russia. Accordingly he cast his brand new Spring hat behind him to engage Pete's attention until he could escape.

Mr. Thomas said to-night that bulldogs cannot be Jollied as easily as Russian wolves, and that he doubts the wolf story, anyhow. Finally Thomas succeeded in reaching friendly tree, and was swarming up it when Pete got him. Pete also held him. The White House police force arrived in a body, forty strong, for the pur nose.

Of removing reie icciu uwu Thomas's right leg. fifteen minutes later they were still at it. but at 9:30 jfr. i.a i Thomas nmpea mi" ment with one trouser leg on and the other missing. Mr Thomas was asked about It to night.

I have been told," he said. that It Is a distinction to be bitten by tne rlpnfs dog. but I would prefer not to bo the centre of so much Interest. My physician assures me that no trouble will follow." Mr. Thomas also said the dog did not seem to be very Dai it is ine consensus of opinion among those who saw Pete that it not mad." he was at f.

To-nlxht Pete was not on duty, and it is said that he hz been chained up as a punishment for his er ror in laenuty. io-niB-roamed the White House grounds without let or hindrance and sang college glees. Mr. Oartieio ajso DIES IN THE CIRCUS RING. Tramp Rider's End Cornea aa He Shows His Skill on Horseback.

An old man sfiepped np to John D'Alma, proprietor of lD Alma's Pony Circus, which Is now exhibiting In the Bronx, on Wednesday night and asked for something to eat. Let me work to earn It." the old man begged. "I ca ride for you If you'll let me. Ifs been my trade. My name Is John Morrisey.

Never mind my address, the ring's been my home for years, and ifa good enough D'Alma sent Morrisey to the cook tent and later to a bunk for the night. Yesterday morning. Just before the daily parade, they gave the old man a pony and asked him to show what he could do. His eyes glistened, and with unexpected grace he sprang' to the horse's back. To the surprise of th scores of neighborhood small boys who gathered about the ring, and even of th performers themselves.

Morrisey went through feat after feat. The shabby old man became transfigured on tae norms. iuuw he laughed aloud as the other performer applauded hi riding. But suddenly Morrisey flung- a hand Into the air. struggled an Instant a If trying' to retain his balance on the back of the running horse, and then he pitched headlong Into the ring.

Twice tried to speak and then fell back. Tne whA waa summoned to tne ring tnafieured on the horse. Beverat time -declared that the man had died almost ta- Nothlnr ksii about th Id circa rider, aad kas aaT wa caM to the Monro. TRUSTS HAPPYBONAPARTE. That's All ths News He Has, Says the Secretary WASHINGTON, May P.

Any trust news? was asked Attorney General Bonaparte aa he was leaving the Whit House to-day after a talk with the President. "No, not a thing." replied Mr. Bona parte. "The trusts, you know, are-re joicing over the languor of the Depart ment of Justice," he added smilingly. WIRELESS-PROPELLED SHIPS.

Sir Hugh Bell Thinks They Will Be Run by Power from Niagara. LONDON. May 6. Sir Hugh Bell, pre siding at a meeting to-day ot th Iron and Steel Institute, suggested that a century hence a ship with hardly any machinery or crew would speed across the Atlantic propelled by electric force gen erated by th Falls of Niagara and trans mitted to the vessel wirelessly. Such 'a forecast, the speaker declared.

was no more Incredible than the developments of the past century. THE OCTOPUS CAN GO FAR. Inspectors Calculate the Submarine Can Cruise 1,000 Miles. Special to Tkt New York Times. NEWPORT, May 9.

The test of the submarines to-day was to determine the cruising radius of the Octopus, and that was accomplished by a thirty-mile run In Narragansett Bat, from which, by taking the amount of gasoline consumed and the capacity of the tanks, was computed the distance the craft can travel by the use of the entire capacity of Its tanks. The boat made about a nine-knot speed. and from the data obtained it Is estimated that the cruising radius is nearly 1,000 miles. j. PUT FILIPINO CHIEFS OUT.

Four of Them Entered a Hotel Dining Room Barefooted. Special to Tt NewyYork Times. NORFOLK. May 0. Scantily clad in native costumes.5 barefooted, and ornamented with hundreds of Jingling bells, four Filipino chiefs created a small-sized stampede In the cafi of the Montlcello Hotel this evening, when they entered and were served with dinner.

Guests arose and left in a hurry. In a few minutes Proprietor Consolvo arrived and caused the removal of the Filipinos. i GUARD STRANGELY KILLED. His Mutilated -Body Found on Ele vated Tracks In Brooklyn. The police at Headquarters In Brooklyn are trying to Hnd out how Keunen Wlnno.

a guard on the Fifth Avenue Ele vated, was killed. Winne body was ais covered, mutilated, on the track of the elevated near the Sixteenth Street Bta tion last night. Persons on the street saw blood dripping from the structure and notified a policeman, who in turn notified the officials of th B. R. T.

How Wlnne, who was on duty last nisrht. and who should have been on a train, came upon the tracks. Is what the police are endeavoring to solve. They do not believe it possible that the guard could have fallen from the platform of his train, and fear that he may have been thrown off a moving train In a fight ONE KILLED. SIXTY HURT.

Passenger Train on the Burlington Road Leavea Track In Chicago. CHICAGO, May 9. A woman was killed and sixty persons were Injured to-day in a. wreck on the Chicago. Burlington Si Quincy Railroad at -the crossing at Ham lin Avenue, in the southwestern part of the city.

The woman was killed was Mrs. Mary Miller, widow of Thomas Miller, formerly Freight Traffic Manager of the Burlington Road. Mr, Miller died eight een months ago. Only a few of those Injured were se riously hurt, and It is not thought that more than one of these will die. The possible victim Is Katharine Morans.

who suffered Internal Injuries and whose spine was hurt. ii The train was No. 114, which runs be tween Aurora, 111., and Chicago. It consisted to-day ot four cars, all well filled with passengers. The.

cause of the accident ts not known, but it is believed to have been the spreading of the rails. The train was running at! about forty miles an I hour, when the locomotive left the rails, ran along the roadbed for seventy- five feet, and then rolled down a slight embankment, carrying with It the first passenger coach. The other cars left the rails, but did not tumble over. Mrs. Miller was accompanied by her three daughters Mrs.

George Morton and thej Misses Elisabeth i and Sarah Miller. Mrs. Morton escaped with slight Injuries, bull each of her sister had a leg broken. SMOKE KNOCKS OUT FIREMEN. One Fall Through a Roof Badly Hurt.

and Is Ine firemen were overcome by smoke and one fireman was Injured last night In a fir which threatened to destroy the old five-story brownston building at 104 Chambers Street. Five th firemen were taaen io ine rxuaaon oirw niiw. All ot them will recover. Th damage to thej property of those who occupy th building will amount to $30,000. The in lured ftreman was John J.

Nichols of iTrnck 10. The firemen overcome by smoke were William Smith, Lieut. Potter, Patrick O'Brien, John Foote, Second Bat talion Chief GaJvln, Richard Hardy. Wal ter! Bagley. Andrew Carroll, and Patrick Griffin.

Th last four wer all taken to the Hudson Street Hospital. With th exception of O'Brien, all of th fireman belong to Engine Company No. 29. O'Brien Is from Truck 27. i John F.

Nichols wss working with sev eral other firemen on th roof. They had chopped a hole through the roof and wer pouring water down upon' the fire ween the roof gave way beneath Nichols, a shdwer of spark shot high into the air through the spot where he disappeared. There was a skylight near, and th firemen ran to this. Tbey could not see Nichols onr account of the dense smoke. The smoke lifted for a moment and the firemen in the glare of the flames saw Nietoi lying unconscious and bleeding only a few feet away from the blase.

The firemen reached Into the- opening with their hooka and eaught thera in the clothing of Nichols, who was drawn to the roof again. SUU unconscious, he was lowered to the street on a rope and carried to the hospitai. Real aetata- carefully and tea e.atnety as-prateed. 3d. Morcentbas.

4k S3 Uawiy. NO HAYWOOD JUROR OUT OF THE PANEL One Talesman Says Effort Was Made by Socialists to Influence Him. ROOSEVELT LETTER COUNTS The Undesirable Citizen Character Izatlon la Put Forward as a Possible lafluence. fecial to Tkt Nrm York Timet. BOISE, Idaho, May 9.

Examination ef talesmen for the selection of a jury to try Will la D. Haywood, Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Federation of Miner, for the murder of Gov. Frank Steunan-berg began promptly on the opening of the district court here this morning, and almost Immediately there was disclose I an effort on the part of som of the So delist sympathiser of the defendant to reach men In the county who might be summoned to serve as Juror. It was through a campaign of education by meahs of Socialist and labor union news- papers that the attempt was made. The second talesman examined told of having received numerous copies of Th Appeal to Reason, the radical Socialist organ, edited by Eugene V.

Debs In Chicago, and of The Idaho Unionist, th local paper established a few days ago and ed ited In part by some of th attorneys for. the defense. The paper had been ent him through the mails and also thrown Into his yard by men who packed them about the country on horseback and dis tributed them gratis. The talesman swore that they had be- gun coming to him after he was summoned for Jury duty at this term of court and that he had not subscribed for any of them. He said he had read them for a while, until he got tired of them, and since then bai paid no attention to thenu The day closed with the adjournment un til Monday afternoon to give tim to summon a special venire, the panel hav ing been exhausted.

So Excitement la the' City. The lack of excitement in Boise over the trial was clearly manifested by the attendance at court this morning. The doors of th court room were not openel until a few minute before 10 o'clock, and then only a dozen men were waiting to get In, om of them were talesmen. As the session progressed the room filled up, but there waa never a crowd. It Is a big rectangular room about 43 feet wide by 70 long, with bare plastered walls devoid of attempt at decoration, and furnished With hard wooden benches.

Ilk the pews of an old-fashioned country church. Across the centre of the eastern end the bench of the Judge runs, with th- clerk at his left and the Jury directly hi front of him. The Jury box is simply a. double row of. big oak armchairs, carefully bolted down to prevent unseemly, tipping back by bored Jurors.

An iron rail runs In front of each row of chairs, a resting place for tired feet, and besld each choir there stands a thoughtful recognition of the prevailing- tobacco habit of the men of Idaho In th shspe of a substantial blue-and-whlte receptrcle. Immediately In front of the Jury thera are tables to accommodate the attorney for the prosecution and defense, with the stenographers. Flocks of newspaper men from outside Boise have bee a assigned to seats along the rail and Just Inside tha bar. One striking difference xrui a New York court room during a sensational murder trial was the absenc of a sympathy suuad. The women of thU State either lack the morbid curiosity possessed by their slaters In New York, or all have opinion of such character re garding Haywood and Moyer that they do not care to go to court even to the defendant.

Haywood' Family Present. Except for his counsel, th only friends of Haywood who were present wer hi. wife and two daughters. Mra Haywood, who has lived a pathetically crippled ex istence since the birth of her youngest daughter nine years ago, was brought Into the court room In a wheel chair, accompanied by the nurse who la always with her. Her elder daughter, a young woman of 16, sat beside her throughout th morning session, with the little irl sitting most of the time in the lap of the nurse.

They gave the closest attention to tho proceedings, and seemed even more Inter? ested In the attitude of the prospective Juror than Haywood himself. At th afternoon session they wer not present. The selection of th Jurors In Idaho fol low the California procedure. As soon as court opened Judge Wood heard excuses from the men who did not want to serve, and let a few of them ge. They were the only ones who made th request, and each gave his reasons, the proepect of serious damage to his busi ness, or a question or health.

his own or that ot some cf hi family. Then th clerk read th name ot twelve men, and -they took their seats in the box. At one Mr, Hawley of th prosecution began the examination of the man In seat number one. But when be had fin ished with that talesman. Instead of tha defense having Its turn at the examination Hawley went on with the next.

In this fashion th prosecution examined th whole twelve, and as fast as a man waa challenged for cause and excused a maa took bis place. Occasionally th defense resisted a challenge, and then It had op portunity to make a further examination of the talesman. But it did not begin examination on its own account until th prosecution bad found twelve men satisfactorily to sit In th box. Each, aid 1 entitled to ten peremptory challenges. But these will not be exercised until both aid have passed for causa" Bareheaded Talesaaesu It was a bardheaded, self-poseeased locking set of men who responded to th call of the Clerk.

Most of lhen were dressed la such fashion that an Easterner, im acquainted with this country and seeing them for the first tUme, would have pat them all down as ranchmen and farm er. The broad-brimmed sort felt hat Invariably associated with cowboy pictures formed a part of the attire of nearly every one of them, and three or four wor th turned tip overall much tangled by men accustomed to the saddle. They aU were ra nlddle Ufe or beyond. in i Kf-M ill I- 4 Ml f- I i I i-? 1 1 4 i tl i- i i. i 1 i i i -r..

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