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Washington business men advertise in The Post because it is the paper the people of Washington read. Weather--Rain to-4ay; to-mor- clearing freih to Brisk southerly winds. XO. FEBRUARY PAGES, Bomb Meant for Chief Justice Killed Another. EIGHTEEN PLOT VICTIMS Story of Reign of Terror in Colorado Mining: Region.

Harry Orchard, Alleged to Have Implicated Leaders of Western Federation in Steunenberg Murder, Once Employed as Detective by Operators--He Fled from Cripple Creek Under Charge of Causing an Explosion in Mine. Federation of In this city. He said that he feared, arrest becamse the charges made against him in tonnectlon with the Independence explosion, and had, therefore, changed his name to Hogpan. For a -time worked for various insurance tsotnpanies in this city, last August left Colorado, saying 'he was going to New York. When next heard, of he had been arrested' in Idaho, charged with the assassination of former Gov.

Steunen- berg. "Neville was artjESted 1 in Wyoming knd taken to Cripple Creek, but-no serious attempt was ever made to prtjse- cute him. Sheriff Bell, of Cripple Cifeoft. claims that Neville confessed to him that he and dynamited the station. It is said that Neville is now dead.

This latter statement the Times has been unable to verify. Boise, Idaho, Fet. is Insisted here, despite'Detective McParland's state- men in Denver, that Hiarry Orchard has made a confession or a statement accusing officers the "Western Miffera' Federation, as announced yesterday. Another Suspect Taken. Baker City, Feb.

Adams, alias Steve Dickinson, said to have been a member of the Western Federation of -Miners, who ig wanted by the authorities at Boise in connection with the Steunen- berg case; was arrested last night at Haines, and brought to Baker City and lodged in Jail. VANDERBILT TRUNKS OPENED. Feb. an interview ptibllshed here to-day, Detective James McParlaml refuses to verify the report that he secured a confession from Harry Orchard, who is charged with the murder of former Gov. Frank Steunenberg, at r.ildwcll.- Idaho.

December 30 last, impll- the officers of the Western Fedr i of Miners and many others in the i i he Claims to have ample i i i of i i He said: i not say or not Harry did make such confession as at- i i tu i XumerOus efforts were a to i i i a the man into saying i i ings a a i i but I refused to i i the investigation of Gov. death at the request of his personal i Gov. Gooding. and Gov. Good ing i a personally paid the expenses i i a tu my investigation.

Troke up "Molly Maguires." "I i it my as a citizen of Colo- a to uproot the sang, and. as such, I the work. These fellows thought a it was so long ago that had broken np the Maguires' that I must be in my dotage. They afraid of me. But there is a weak spot in every a especially such a one as a upon i the Western Federation was founded, and a weak spot 1 It will ost Haywood, and Pettibone.

and as a more, i lives." List of Assassinations. A I i a claims to have positive evidence a members of the Western Fede a i a and carried out the assassination of Let'ecti ve Lyte Gregory, i i i i in "West Denver two ago; of Martin Gleason, superin- the Horse, mine at Cripple Creek, who was thrown down a shaft; of A Collins, superintendent of the Smugr.tiler-Vrnon mine at Telluride. who was from ambushi of the killing of 'ourteen men in the explosion at the Independence depot, near Cripple Creek, ij, 1904: of the of Martin B. a who was killed last summer by explosion in i city, and of other murders. Bomb Meant for Judge.

The i i i i nf Walley is said, to have been a i a the nitroglycerm with which he was killed having been placed on a vacant lot through which Chief Just i a of the Supreme Court, was accustomed to pass, i the intention of i i i le a says: a Orchard, who is under arrest in I a charged i assassinating Sieiihenberg. and who has made confession charging the leaders "I t'iie a i of Miners with i i a i of dynamite outrages and was in the employ of le Cripple Creek i Owners' Associa- i a i i 1 during great i ,11 the i Creek district. This most i a fact will be used in the of t'ae accused labor leaders when i i are to trial in the courts of I a "The i facts have come to the Times from most reliable source and i been carefully verified: was a member of the Western l-'ederat ion of APiners and employed in lie i Creek i i when the famous i was ordered. In November. 190'tj.

approached conductor named Jones, on Florence and Cripple Creek a i a and introduced himself as a Mason. 'I am a member of the minors' i said Orchard, 'and last night I heard of the members of i a i to wre train- on nis road. 1 do not believe in such methods. a -I thought I would come to .1 ou of the plot. I picked- you out because you are a Employed by Mine Owners.

Jones immediately took Orchard to Scott nnd Sterling-, detectives for the Mine Owners' Association. repeated his story, and Scott and Sterling at Snce employed him as a detective to work for the i Owners' Association. He was i to attend the meetings of the i.ni-on and report dally. "Orchard continued in the employ of tht Owners' Association until June. 1904.

The day before the explosion which wrecked the Independence Station, he collected, some life insurance due him because of the death of a relatives, "Then came the vxploslon at the Independence Station, on June- 6. and Orchard disappeared. A mob took possession of Crtt-k and Vi-etor. and attempts were made to force confessions from many persons. A young man was suspended by his thumbs, and lie, finally agreed; to tell the name of the fiend who had caused th- explosion.

"When be lowered to the ground he said: 'Harry Orchard, did Escaped from Cripple Creek. "The pursuit of Orchard was taken up, being employed. Orchard and a companion named Neville, immediately after the Independence explosion, secured a. rig and drove out of Cripple Creek. They went across the country, avoiding fiie more important towns.

When they reached Greeley they disposed of their rig and took a train for Cheyenne, where Orchard received a considerable sum of money from friends in Colorado, and disappeared. He returned to Denver last April, and visited the headquarters- of the New York Customs Inspectors Never Before Thus Honored. Special to The Washington Post. New York, Feb. 20.

For the first time In tbe 'history of the Vanderbllt family, so far as the oldest customs officer's memory goes back, there was an inspection of Vanderbilt imported 1 finery on a pier of the metropolis to-day. The custom has been to bring dutiable stuff in bond, the inspection being made and the duty being paid at Newport. Uncle Sam had a fine staff of commercial agepts on the Hamburg-American Iine pier to-day When the company's s-te-amer Amerika berthed, and Mrs. Alfred G-wyrihe Vanderbilt, who was a passenger, was induced 1 to let 'the local inspectors examine her trunks. There were twenty- nine trunks, and all were stamped "in bond" immediate transs'h-lpmen-t to Newport.

"I wish you would give us a clvance to pass your goods," said Deputy Surveyor Bishop, of Gen. Clarkson's staff. "I want to show you that we -are very polite here, not nearly so bad as we are painted." "But I don't like so much publicity," said Mrs. Vanderbilt. "Everybody in New York wants to-- what shall I call it?" "Rubber?" sa.id an inspector who was near by, and Mrs.

Vanderbilt smiled as if the word just fitted itbe case. "Well, give us a trfal, Mrs. Vanderbilt," coaxed Mr. Bishop, and within five minutes half a. dozen customs inspectors were at work on the trunks.

Mrs. Vanderbilt produced two sheets of foolscap containing a. list, of furs, jewelry, and other articles which she purchased here, and whicb she did not want con-founded with what- 1 she bought abroad 1 "I did not think the examination Tap quite as as it is," said Mrs. Vanderbilt afterwa.r'Js, "I was led to be- Packers Secure Admission of His Letters to Moody. FLAT DENIAL BY GARFIELD Contradicts that He Gave Promise of Immunity.

lieve that the a awful." here were PEACE JJI HARD COAL FIELD Operators and Miners Said to Have Reached Agreement. President Gompers Pledges Full Support of Federation of Labor to Miners in Case of Need. Antique Furniture at Auction. The Xathan sale of furniture, books, rugs. wines.

elegant grandfathers' clocks. opens at Sloan's, 1407 to-day, with 201 on the catalogue. A fine mahogany-case hall clock, with Westminster and Whittlngton chimes, Js embraced in the sale. The wines and liquors of the Harriet Lane Johnston estate up Friday afternoon at 3 o'ciocjfc Special to The Washington Post. Pittsburg, Feb.

TJiere is a ru- rcor here to-night (hat the anthracite operators have effected a settlement with the miners, and that i'here will be no strike among the anthracite men. This would leave the bitumino-us miners to light their battle alone. No confirmation or additional information is obtainable here to-night. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. The full strength of the American Federation of Labor was pledged to the cause of the miners of Pennsylvania and oth'er States in their impending strike by Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation, here to-day.

"I should not speak of a coal strike," he said. "I hope It will not come to that. The whole matter is in the hands of the officers of the TLTnited Mine Workers of America, and any expression should come from them. "For the Federation of Labor, however, I may say that it will support every reasonable demand of the miners in every possible way. We shall be glad to help them to avoid a strike, if possible.

If not, we shall certainly give them every aid in our power." Springfield, 111., Feb. At the annual convention of the Illinois district. United Mine Workers of America, to-day, State. Secretary-treasurer Ryan, in his annual report, saicl his advice to the miners In case of a strike this year was to refuse to ask or accept intervention by President Roosevelt or any other Ryan referred to statements-credited to President Dolan, of the Pittsburg district, to the effect that President Mitchell, President Hasklns, of Ohio, and Ryan had told Dolan they would be perfectly satisfied with a restoration of the present scale. Ryan said these 'statements were absolutely false.

TOOK ETHEK, LOST TEETH. Hospital Patiertt, However, Is Unable to Collect Damages. Special to The, Washington Post. Salem, F6b. 20.

In the Civil Court to-day the jury in the case of Andrew J. Johnson against the Kssex County Homoepathic Hospital returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. This was a question of compensation for the plaintiff for being allowed ttf swallow his false teeth while he was ujider tiie influence of ether. The plaintiff asserted that he -vent to the hospital to be operated upon i'or appendicitis; that he was placed under the influence of ether, and that the defendants did not administer the anesthetic "in a skillful and proper manner, but conducted themselves carelessly and unsklllfuUr that they failed to cause the fulse teeth which he had in his mouth- to. be taken out, and that while unconscious he swallowed them, and they became lodged and stuck in his throat.

Although this was on June 20, the floctor did not find 'he teeth until July 9 following, and in the meantime the plaintiff suffered great pain. Only Agreement, He Says, Was that Individual Names and Confidential Figures Should Be Respected in Certain Instances, and Insists that Faith Was Kept--Commissioner of Corporations First Witness Called by Government. Bffevr Furniture Sale To-day; commencing at 10:30 a. m. Beau- for the home.

1227 st. Chicago, Feb. Roosevelt's letter to Attorney General Moody, in which the President that the 'Department of Commerce and; Labor and the Department of Justice -were co-opar- atJng in proceedings against the packers, admitted in evidence to-day by Judge Humphrey at the trial of the immu'nity pleas of the packers, after a sharp contest. The court's decision that Mr. Roosevelt's letter was admissible evidence is regarded 'by the packers as an Important victory, and when it was achieved: they immediately rested their case.

District Attorney Morrison made a determined fight to prevent the letter goin-g to the jury, declaring' that it was a private communication Mr. Moody, and, therefore, had no weight. The court accepted the view of the packers that the letter was a public document. Garfield on the Stand. Commissioner c-f Corporations Garfleld took the stand to-day -and denied many of the statements made by the witnesses for the packers during the hearing of the immunity pleas now in progress.

Edward Morris, Edward Swift, and; Arthur Meeker, representatives, respectively, of the packing- firms of Nelson Morris Swift and Armour all testified that Commissioner Garfleld had told them that his department tad the power to compel information If they refused to give it willingly. Mr. Garfield to-day on the stand declared that he had never made such a statement. He also denied that he had ever promised immunity to the packers, saying that the only projection that lied been promised was, XfjlrAtto''. individuals givjtjg tonfldentlal figures.

Individual Figures Secret. This, he said', had been given them, and although the average of these confidential figures had been given in the report of the commissioner on the beef Industry, individuals had been respected ana names had-not been given. He also denied positively that he promised that all information would be regarded as confidential. He denied, too, that he had at any time said anything regarding an oath in connection with the investigation. Soon after court convened to-day Attorney John S.

Miller, representing the packers, read 1 the letter of President Roosevelt to Attorney General Moody, which was authenticated some timtj ago by the Attorney General. Attorney General Moody, when in Chicago some time ago, admitted that' the letter had been written by the President, but claimed that the statement of collusion between the two departments was incorrect. Objected to Whenshe had finished 1 reading the letter, Mr. Miller offered! it ijj evidence. The district attorney objected.

"This letter is injmateriaV declared District Attorney Morrison. "It Is written by no person -who could bind the government. The President cannot bind the government more than any one else. He is the highest officer of the government, but still he is only an officer. The letter is not written under oath, and is merely hearsay.

If it is admitted into this case we could have the right to cross-examine the President upon it." "Yes, I suppose that is true," replied Judge Humphrey, "but foe is an offtcer whose.duty It is to enforce the District Attorney, Morrison still contended that the letter Immaterial, and a long legal argument as to the ad- missibilHy of the letter followed. Entitled to Great Credit. During the, argument Attorney Miller, turning to District Attorney Morrison, asked: "Can there be any doubt that t-he statement of Che President is admissible? It is a statement by the highest officer of the land made at the time the grand jury which found the in this case was an session. Is certainly entitled to admission and to great credit." "Jit -this letter is competent evidence, replied the district attorney, "it must be so 'by some rule of evidence, and I know of no rule making this letter any than any The fact that it is written by a high official gives no weight to adniissibllity -than if anybody else wrote the letter." "Yes. but -here is a letter, from the Chief Executive to the Attorney General on nis subject," said t'he court.

"Neither the Attorney General jior the President 'has 'ihe power to admit or take away the ipowers of the Uwlted States. T'he President is more a party to this lawsuit than the humplest citizen," replied the district attorney. "Is there no officer of the government who can -bind the government?" asked Judge Humphrey. Dutjf of Attorney General. know of no law giving- the President power to commence like this, and tbere is no evidence 'here i that he had anything to do -wit-h the starting of the suit.

TJiat Is the duty of the Attorney General." "Suppose this very question answered by the President had been asked of Mr. CONTINUED ON KLEVENTH The Palm To Florida, also AJken andf leaves Washington dally, except Sunday' 6-55 p. m. Electric lighted throughout Other trains to Florida and all other resorts for outijrgs. s.

Brown, G. Soutlwsrtt Hailwftjr. 706 Jfith St. THREE CENTS. PITTSBURG HAS UPSET Democratic Mayor Elected by a Large Majority.

WILL GOVERN GREATER CITY Allegheny toi Become Part of Pittsburg Before Oath of Is Taken--Election of Guthrie Due to Revolt Against Regular Republican Organiation'--Work and' Prayers of Allegheny Women Vain. Special to Tha Washington Post. Pitts-burg, freb. -W. Guthrie, Democrat, was to-day elacted the Hrst mayor of Greater Pittsburg over Alexander M.

Jenkinson, Republican; in one of the most spectacular elections ever held in Western Pennsylvania. To-night various estimates are given as to his majority. The lowest and most conservatives figures place it at 5,000, while the more enthusiastic believe that it will reach anywhere from 12,000 to 15,000. In Allegheny, Charles F. Kirsehler, Republican, was elected mayor over George B.

Logan, Democrat and good government candidate 1 by a majority of probably 4,000. When Allegheny becomes a part of Pittsjburg, as it will before Kirsehler takes his oath of office, he will known deputy mayor of OffcatiT Pittstmrg. Blov to the- Machine. The election of G-uthrie was a complete knockout to the Republican organisation. The result was merely an uprising of voters, who cast aside party lines to take the of the city but of the hands of the which has held them so long.

Jenkinson is millionaire cigar and stogie manufacturer. Hundreds of thousands of. dollars, it is alleged, were thrown into the city to elect him. When he was offered as a candidate a. reform element in'the party rebelled, and at the primaries put up W.

A. McGee independently. McGee's supporters claim that he received a ntejority of the v6tes at the primaries, but was counted ou't. The McGee Republicans refused to abide by the decision of, the primaries, and to-day cast their votes for the Democratic candidate, rather than longer be ruled by the regular organization. There is little doubt but it was the most vicious election in this end of the State.

The scenes of disorder during the day were unparalleled: Roger O'Mara, the former head of the detective bureau, was called upon, and wholesale arrests were made wherever disorder occurred. Jails Full of Suspects. Every suspicious pers.cn who was accused of trying to vote illegally was arrested. By noon the different station houses and the county jail were filled with those who had been caught in the act of voting illegally or of assisting some one else to do some 'crooked work. Over in Allegheny matters were very warm all day.

The women kept the churches open, and about 2QO of them spent a busy day working for George 13. Logan, the good-government candidate, against Charles F. Kirsehler. The women took turns praying in the churches and running autos up and dowoi side streets gathering i the lazy voters and dragging them to the pells. There is no doubt but the work of the Allegheny women, who were among the best and most Influential of the North Side, cut down the Kirsehler vote greatly, but at that it was a landslide." SPLIT TIP IN PHILADELPHIA.

Reformers Who Swept City for Mayor Each Other. Philadelphia, Feb. municipal elections were held to-day throughout Pennsylvania. Ideal -weather prevailed, and a heavy vote was cast In many localities. Tfc'ladelphla elected two seventeen select and fourteen common councllmen, twelve school directors in each-of the forty-three words, 'constables.

FIorlda'B Famonn Trains, Y. "FJa. Special," p. "Fla, W. Indian 3:45 p.

via Penn. Coast 1-ine. 662, Pa. aye. ard division election officers.

Outsida tf several small dlstrubances in wards where there were spirited contests there was very little disorder reported. There were, however. Quite a number of arrests made for illegal voting. In some of the wards the City Party and Lincoln party organizations, which swept the city last November, -were split and were fighting each other, with the nelp of factions from (he old Republican ordganization or the Democrats. A feature of the election was the candidacy of fifty women In various wards for the position of district school director.

Nearly all the women were on the reform tickets, and a large percentage of them) were elected. Scranton, Feb. Benjamin Dtmmlck, Republican, "wap elected mayor of this city by a majority of about 2,000 over John Gibbons, present mayor is DOPE DRAWN FROM BARREL "Force of Life" Woman Says Water Was Sent as Medicine. Supposed to Be of Four Different Strengths, and Was Bottled by a Boy. What "Money Refunded" Meant.

New York, Fe'b. method of sending Force of Life remedies' to patients was taken up to-day at the hearing of the Force of Life Chemical Company on a charge of conspiracy Jo defraud through use of the mails. Mrs. Nellie U. Wallington, -who -was employed by the Force of Life Company, predecessor of the company now examined, was recalled to the witness stand.

In reply to questions by Assistant United States District Attorney Hotighton, she said that the liquid medicines were taken from the Force of Life barrel, which she said she was inclined to believe contained! water. The liquid remedy was supposed to have four strengths, she testified', and -when taken from the barrel the bottles, after being filled, were labeled pccordingly. A boy did up the bottles after taking the remedy from the Force ox Life barrel, the witness said, andi then they were' turned over to a 'ycung woman, who forwarded the remedy to the patients. persons sent for samples of.the Force laife medicine, what did they receive?" asked Mr. HVighton.

"They all received what was known as replied Mrs, Waltlngton. Some of the company's index cards on which were kept records of patients were put into" eviderica, and Mr. Houghton asked what the- blank meant which appeared in some cases after the words "money The vritnemu said 1 that it meant' that not get any money The defense objected 'to this testimony, and the objection was sustained. JEtrs. -Walllngton was still on the witness stand when the hearing adjourned until' next Monday.

KILLED BY DYE IN TBOUSEES. Workman at Wheeling Succumbed, in Agony to Blood Poisoning. Special to The WasBlngton Post. Wheeling, W. Feb.

B. Walker, aged thirty-eight, a tool diesser, died in tne North Wheeling Hospital this morning of blood poisoning, cauaed by contact dye of a pair of cheap trousers. His skin was abraded and poisoned, and he died in agony after the doctors had ex-. hausted every means In their, power, to save him. BRITISH SOLDIEBS Five, Off icers and a Company of Native Troops Wiped Out.

linden, Feb. 'A. dispatch has reached -the government reporting that five British, officers and a company, of native troops have been killed by fanatics near Sokoto, in Northern A dispatch from Lagos, Africa, reports that a punitive expedition haa been sent OUt. DEATH BLOW AT NIGHT Rich Italian Found on Street with His Throat Cut. POLICE ABE WITHOUT CLEW Proceeding on Theory that Murder Was the Work of Some Secret Society, Which Had a Grudge Against Victim.

Man of Exemplary Habits and Not Known to Have an Enemy. Special to The Washington Post. New York, Feb. Policeman Martin Owendorf, of the Bath Beach- station, was patrolling his beat along Eighty-fifth street, in the Vicinity of Twentieth avenue, at an early hour yesterday he discovered what he at first supposed- was the form of an Intoxicated -man. A -closer examination revealed the fact that the man was dead.

The body was lying face downward. Owen- dorf, with his njght 'stick, turned the over, to find 1 that the man's throat had been cut from ear to ear. The body was removed in. the, patrol wagon to the Bath Beach station-house, -where it was identified as Abele Ciampo, thirty-five years of age, of 2136 Blgsbty- flfth street. Victim a Wealthy Tailor.

Ciampo was- a wealthy tailor. His place of business was at 1932 Bath avenue, where he. received business visits from the section's-most exclusive residents. Cla.mpo a little over a year ago married little Maria Romeo, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Salvatore Homeo, a wholesale fruit dealer, with a store on West street. Not a single cloud; shadowed their lives.

Ciampo, as far as could 'be learned 1 had not an enemy. He was sober, industrious, and devoted to his wife, who is soon to become a mother. He left bis shop, according to the- police of the Bath station, at about 9 o'clock. Monday night. From there he went to a barbertehop conducted by Tony Lunas, at 2335 Bath avenue.

Movements -Not Traced! Shortly he left for home. Ha was found nearly three hours later. From the time he. left the barber's until his still warm body was found by the policemen, his movements have not been traced. Detective Tony Vachris, ok the Brooklyn headquarters, examined' the body more closely at the station and found a number of stab wounds.

Vachris, who has cleared up many such mysteries, is. of the opinion that Ciampo's death is the outcome of a long-standing grudge, held some secret society. Residents of the Bath Beach and Ben- soahurst sections are much alarmed over the murder: There is some talk of organizing a vigilance committee for the" protection of the residents' of the section. 'Capt. Summers, of the Bath Beach station, assisted by his detectives and Detective Vachris, is working hard to bring the murderers to justice: Mrs.

Ciampo has not yet been told of her husband's death. Cnmlvnl, Conventlo.B Hall, Saturday. p. m. See Sporting Page of to-morrow for complete Bst of en' "PLEASE DON'T," SAID BJ60.

Violinist Who Eloped with Princess Chimay Landed in Ne-vr York. Special to The Washington' New Tor-kv Feb. the passengers who arrived -here to-day ort the Amerika was Rigo, husband of the Princess Chimay, whose elopement him was the sensation of two continents. He is something of a violinist and has been, engaged for a tour of this opening at the Colonial Theater. Rlgo, who wag down on the passenger Hst as "Herr Rigij Janiezi." la short and heavily built, and fierce mustache covers a large part of his face- Asked what had become of the Princess Chjmay, Rigo said: "Please don't.

It was a sad affair." Palm Limited To Florida, also Aiken and Augusta, leaves Washington dally, except Sunday 6:66 P- m. Electric 11 gnted throughout. Other high-class- trains tp Florida and all resorts' for winder outings. s. G.

Southern.SaiVway^ 706 I5DEX TO ID-DAY'S ISSUE. PART ONE. 1--Murder Plot Disclosures. Packers WJn on President's Letter. City Election in Fittstourg.

Midnight Crime In New York. Mother Drowns Children and Herself. 2--Convention at Odds on Divorce. Big Apartment House Planned. 3--Moroccan Situation Gloomy.

Gr--svenor May Be Defeated. 4--Senate and the Railways. Debate on Pure Food Bill. 5--Representative Blackburn's Denial. Points About Rate Bill.

6--Editorial Comment. Death Recalls a Royal Romance. Talks with Hotel Guests. 8--Racing and Sports. 9--News of Virginia and Maryland.

10--Financial and Commercial, li--Lawyer Patrick's Fight for Life. About Asylum Inquiry. PART TWO. 1--Hungarian Diet Yields. Green on Trial for Postal Fraud.

Schools to Honor Washington. Senator Patterson Halts the Law. 4--The Legal Record. YEBKES FORTUNE DWIlfDLES. May Be Nearer Six Million Than Fifteen Million Dollars.

Chicago, Feb. reports have reached! the ears of Chicago financiers that the reputed $15,000,000 estate of the late Charles T. Yerkes is fictitious. That it will not aggregate more than is a report credited by Chicago bankers who have had occasion to make an Investigation of the former traction promoter's holdings. Crowns Her Three Young Children and Herself.

TRAGEDY ON A STEAMBOAT Note Left in Stateroom Explains Disappearance of Party. Mrs. John W. Waters, of Brooklyn, Mentally Deranged, Throws Her Children from Sound Steamer and Jumps After Them--Wife of General Manager of Insurance Bureau of the National Manufacturers' Association. Special to The Washington Poet.

New York, Feb. JWhn W. Waters, of 279 Kingston avenue, Brooklyn, and her three children, two g4ris and boy, Che eldest four and the youngest six months old. took passage on the Sound steamer Plymouth for Fall River on Monday afternoon. Before the -boar arrived at Newport th-ls morning thp 1 stateroom they had occupied yraa found Sm-ce the death of Mr.

Yerkes much of empty. Notes found in the room show the supposed values of traction stocks in Chicago and London are declared to have dwindled in an enormous degree. This situation has placed 1 in jeopardy the gigantic New York hospital project which the late traction king had provided for In his will. That the estate of Mr. Yerkes could not truthfully be quoted at $15,000,000 -was admitted last night by Attorney Clarence Knight, who represented Mr.

Ysrkes during the closing years of his life, and -who drew the will disposing of his property. "There never was any authorization for the statement that the Yerkes estate would amount to $05,000,000," he said. "There was nothing in the will to indicate that such was the aggregate value of the estate. As to whether the estate will amount to more or less than $15,000,000, I have nothing to say." EXPLOSION KILLS SOLDIERS. Serious of Life in British Barracks at Khartoum.

London, Fe'b. -The Evening News this evening -a dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, announcing that a great explosion has occurred art the BritMi barracks ill Khartoum. Considerable loss of life and much dam- age are reported. DENOUNCE CROWE VERDICT Omaha Business Men Term It a Travesty on Justice. Comnircial Club Says Jury's Action Should Be Condemned by Every Law-abiding Citizen.

Omaha, Feb. executive committee the Commercial Clulv of Omaha, -the leading commercial organization of the" city, to-day adopted resolutions denouncing- the recent acquittal of Pat Crowe of the -charge of robbing E. A. Cudany In connection wi-fch the kidnap- beyond a doubt that some time during the rright t'he mother had carried out a pur- conceived apparently before she took the boat, and 'had taken the -lives of Tier three little ones and then her own. Mrs.

Waters apparently -had thrown overboard her three children and then jumped after them. Nobody knows when t'he awful tragedy occurred, for no one on the boat appears to have seen them after "they went to the stateroom. According -to one dispatch from Fall River, it was some time after 1 o'clock fhat the stateroom was found, empty with their clothes strewn about -the room. Then the 'notes were found which indicated rhe tragedy. Mind Evidently Unbalanced.

Mrs. Waters had been in ill health ever the birth, of her second child two years ago. Her actions were at times strange, and 'her final desperate deed can only be ascribed to an unbalanced mind. When, Mrs. Waters left her home with, the children Monday she said she was going to take them to a photographer's.

That, was the last seen of Her by any thslt knew her. Tier i John Waters, general manager thr i ance bureau of the National Manufacturers' Association, spent A sleepless night looking for his missing family. He av- rlved at his office, at 170 Broadway, early this morning, to be met there with a message from the steamship 'company telling him of the notes found in the stateroom indicating that the woman was his It was the first news he had that they had even taken passage on the boat. When Waters received the telegram and realized that his little family had been wiped off the earth, he was like a man suddenly paralyzed. He left later Fall River, because more out of kindness to him than anything else, the steamship people held out just the faintest hope that possibly the mother and her children had escaped attention in had got ashore at Newport.

Imagined She Was Unhappy. Mrs. Waters was thirty-two years oM and frail looking. She was the daughter of Capt. James Brady, a prominent politician of Fall River and now collector of the port there.

She and her husband ping of the -latter's son in 1900. were married there nine years ago. They The resolutions declare the verdict "a lived in Providence for some years. There travesty on justice," and say: "The Commercial Club, representing as it does the commercial interests of this city, desires to say to the world -i their eldest child, Helen, was born. Four years ago they moved to Chicago, where Mr.

Waters became the secretary of a fin insurance company. The other children a-t large, that the verd'ict of the jury can Dor ri there were Dorothy, aged two, and only be denounced as a most iwiliful and deliberate miscarriage of justice and should be condemned by every law-abiding citizen." Council Bluffs, Iowa, Feb. Crowe was to-day released on a bond for $1,500 signed by his brother. John Crowe, and the latter's wife, and Joseph Nanset, a wealthy farmer of this county. Crowe's trial on a charge of holding street cars has been put over until March.

SHOT TO DEATH BY A POSSE. Negro Accused of Assault Tried to Escape from His Captors. Andulusa, Feb. r.cgro named Pedigree was shot to death by a posse here to-day. Pedigree forced an entrance to the home of a prominent white citizen the outskirts of the town last night and assaulted a young woman.

To-day a posse located him and he was identified by his victim. The started to jail with the r-egro, when the prisoner broke away and began to run, and he was shot. NEW PHASE OF OIL INQUIRY. Postal Authorities Will Look into Delivery of Company's Mail. St.

Louis, Feb. into Standard Oil Company methods' in Missouri was not continued to-day. Attorney General Hadley says that he is determined to press inquiry as to why certain mall addressed to the Standard Oil Company at St. Louis had been received by the Waters-Pierce. Company.

The postal authorities will make an investigation of the matter. BANDITS COLLECT RANSOM. Notwithstanding Payment of 1 Ranchman Is Still Held. El Paso, Feb. bandits who kidnapped Colt.

Robert Hannigan, the Demlng (N. Mex.) ranchman from a stage near Silver N. are alleged to have collected 52,000 ransom money to date, tl.OOO from the colonel and $1.00 from his son. Tet they still hold him. John, the baby, who was six months old.

The Waters family moved here from Chicago four or live mouths ago. After moving here Mrs. Waters imagined a she was pnhappy. At times she expressed a to return to Chicago. Her husband i a her to th Brisiol Sanitarium, at Bristol, R.

for a ment. She returned from there somewhat 1-etter, but began to have fits of melancholia. Two weeks ago she took the two eldest children and went for a visit at her father's home in- Fall River. She returned from there last Wednesday. Seemed Cheerful at Home.

The Waterses keep two maids. Maggie and Cornelia, both colored. According to their story, on Monday morning Mi's. Waters, after her husband left for business, F-iid a she was going to a taken of the children. Abo'it 31 o'clock she left the house aione and two hours.

She returned about lunfji time. Vs. Waters seemed happier than said Maggie, the nurse, to-day. he kissed the children she carne omo and ordered lunch. WhiJo she was eating lunch with the children, she suddenly said: 'I don't know whether I'll go or Then, just as they finished lunch, she kissed the children again and jumped up from the table.

'I guess we'll after a and' surprise Mr. Wa.tera,' said. Then she told me to dress baby and Cornelia to dress Dorothy." the children were being dressed 'Irs. Waters packed a hand bag and ked for a piece of clothesline. Ouo of servants asked- for what she wanted and she replied she wanted it to tie some groceries.

She got the clothes. and put It in the bag. At about 1:30 and children started out. The chiMren left their toys, with which they iad been playing on the floor. were there to-day, with the colored girls rying over them.

Maggie carried the baby to the car tn ofiont of the houre. i Helen, with curly j-ellow hair, a slip of a girl, walked by her mother's and the mother attack ttigm in their retreat In'Mogollon Mountain, lest they kill fjcarrieij Dorothy. From the gicture drawn the prisoner. I by the two colored girls of this leave- I by Advice Concerning Wills Is gladly furnished by trust dept- of Union Trust 1414 st. this sub- iect furnlsbedi gratis on application.

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