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-j Our he Found To-day in a Soft Spot" at the Gunness Farm. her dan in the I porta Is clearly apparent. --era cone, pall their money and The cu.i was a woman cnl letter of In 'crt 1 ly r'- f-! vi r- i Ujed the flails to Decoy. TV News correspond p.t Oinncss woman cuv of Cui with i v'a the mails. tt t'a of Gunness, at t'ii rata of four to ts y.

Ti.ete tame from every-She I 1 to hn ve a nelsrh- an ei f-T her which in -i irnotii puh- 1- A pi rr3, Mrs. G'jnness vf-rtisivnont- youiifit worn-it a l-: funi, ih-slres to i a rt wealth n. atrial' ny." Arswcrei Her Ad. err l-rnucM a fl'KMt of t'-i" i tli' a-lvertisemcnt :Jt.s w. ie i It nro 1 'cf -r the n.If i woman Kh ft, vir.keirpt i fr it ures.

l- 1 1 t--th. p.Ue 1 1 me known 1. TV.e 1-ttrs p. r.d pres- tfit itrarce i farm. I I marry i w- th of the r.

Tie r'-'S .1 ry t-J Fed rty- 1 f- 1-! i -i was a little' tin stove, the plaything- of IT DETAILS OF THE MULTI-fiRDER MYSTERY Evidence Tht the Woman Used Matrimonial Ads. to Decoy vith Money to Her HomeWEoIice, However, Think Sho Had a Graveyard for Persons Murdered in Chicago for Insurance Money -Possibility That Mrs; Gunness Was Met Burned and That She is Now on the Way to Europe' Tctal Victims May Number Twelve. Trim a Ftil Correspondent. May 6. The finding of six im me "jenr('iy morning, pro-i ar.othtr r.sat!on In the Gunness and the belief rrevalls thst the Gunness farm la a nr.j -)r rnUrc'er vie Ums without i In i arur i tin, that was a Plufhnrd In skirts.

That Cf.t ll to decoy numerous un- noon Just how many more graves he will have to open aa a aacrlnce to Cupid. The body found to-day wn uncovered In aoft spot about five feet from where four of the bodies were found yesterday. Sheriff Smutxer, who wa an undertaker before he entered politics, ia familiar with the human anatomy, and when his spade struck a human shoulder blade a few feet below the surface he knew that he had struck' another victim of the widow. The body apparently occupied a woodei lox- about nve feet The box was thin and had rottetf away, in ground. i Skeleton of a Man.

Slowly and carefully the sheriff and his assistant removed the earth from around the fleshless bones, and the skeleton of a man wa txpored. It was lying: face downward and had apparently been care lessly dumped Into the box, then covered. Among the debris that covered the body baby, perhaps of one of the Gunness children who died In last week's Are. After freeing the body SherlfT Smutxer covered it to await the arrival of Coroner Mack, who was to view the skeleton this afternoon. It will be placed in the shed nearby, where the rest of the bodies are.

Detached bones were also found today among a pile of stones. It was reported that more bodies had been unearthed, but this rumor proved to be untrue. Indicates-Two Victim. The finding of the man's body to-day may prove conclusively that two men who vinited the Gunness home about the same time a year ago are the victims. One.

of thorn was a young man, a stranger, who was known as the sweet Ueart of Jennie nnd was to have married her, but he disappeared. The other may be a Swede fron a town near Minne- a polls and who answered one of Mrs. Ounnejs's adv 1 1 tlsernen ts. lie came here and spent enteral days, durinsr which time he had a draft for $1,000 honored on a Minneapolis bonk. The money went to Mrs.

Gunness. SherLT Smutxer obtained tiu niife of the man from Cashier J. W. Ci urr packer, of the Laporte Saving's Dank, to-day. but both refuse to divulge it until It Is known whether the man Is missing.

Thinks Lamphere Knows. Fmith aJheres belief that r.ay Irr.phere. the local admirer of Mrs. Gunnees, know all about the wid ow's murderous career, but efforts to rce a confe-ion to-day Lam-phere Is to jro before the grand Jury ne.xt fpk. hnd Trosecutor Smith will attempt to ir.ilict him on five counts, one for mur- cer in earn me rases or airs.

(Junness fcnl hr three children and one for arson. Is sure he can rrove by circumstantial evidence that Lam- pi ere set Pre to the Gunness house la to seal th li; of the widow for ever, jimptire was seen in ih.e vicinity i I' Gunncsj home while the fire was st Hi was also known to l-i f'-ar rf the widow. The l.ai arcr.O ar. 1 two sisters living as Hs was Phctcjraphed. 1 t- otorap.iej by a score era this morning, 1 1 rl.el tobacco 1 refused to i n-wspaprr 1 ail net lr.

1 collected life Insurance. That Ray Lamphere, -whom she former ly employed. -was Infatuated with her. was discharged, and afterward axrested on charge of insanity on her complaint. That Andrew Hegeleln.

an Aberdeen (S. stockman, suddenly, appeared at the Gunness home and then disappeared. That the Gunness home was burned on April 27. and that Ray Lamphere was arrested the next day on a charge of murder. That' six bodies were dug 'up on the Gunness place, and that one of them was He'gelein's.

A All Had Been Murdered. An autopsy on the bodies. of (two men. one girl and two children unearthed. yes terday from three "soft spots" on the farm! was held at midnight.

All had been Those bodies that were' not dismembered" were "foUnd to' have small holes in the skulL; Following the 'midnight autopsy Sheriff Smutzer, Coroned Mack and the news paper men to-day began an examination of the Gunness 'house of mystery," and discovered three new sunken graves similar in every way to' those'from which the five" bodies were, dug yesterday. At daylight Smutzer set men to, work digging into these spots, lie said he would not be to And half 's dozen additional bodies. Trunks Shipped from Chicago. The sheriff also notified the Chicago police to be on the lookout for a gang In that city believed to be in the whole sale murder business for purposes of collecting' Insurance. The ganc is believed to have disposed of part of the bodies In Laporte.

On Satur day, April Zo, two daya. before her noma. was burned. Mrs. Gunness received by express from Chicago four large trunks.

What their contents were has not been learntd. Sheriff Smutser is conudent, however, that they contained bodies of murdered people shipped here from Chi cago. This leads the authorities to sispect that Mrs. Gunness conducted a "murder fence" to dispose of bodies of prsons murdered in Chicago for their, life ln- May be on Way to Norway. The belief Is growing in Laporte.

that Mrs. Gunness was not burned to death in the f.re nher home, but that the body supposed Yo be hers Is really that of another woman. The basis for this belief Vint the hei I of the body suppose! to be Mrs. GunncM'i is missing. The autopsy K-bl immediately aff-r the f.re tMt w- 'le tiio bv'a-1 was tp-r in 1 th of the mi i fl'ry" 1.

Zlv.y peri.s EDITION i u.iv.i ani coot.i:n. Nel pa 1.1 1 rru I 1 on ftf April, Inrfiira-clis s'ou A EIGHTEEN PAGES WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1908. EIGHTEEN ISSJTWO CENTS! A l.i.K NO U.T.iO 'I -a i is. I i Horrors of the Bender Family and the Holmes Crimes Eclipsed ori a Little Farm Near Laporte. victims of murder unearthed 3, AumaiM Skeleton of Man and Several Detached Bones! CORONER VIEWING BODIES AT GUNNESS FARM 4 to'' tell the authorities -what she -knows about' Gunness and her matrimonial ventures and their -results.

INCREASING IN Developments to Date In the Murder Mystery -Private Graveyard. ry ITrom a fitaff Correnpondent.J May 6. The horror of the Gunners home tragedy increases almost each spadeful of earth that' is lifted in the private graveyard of the "murder If Is now believed the total number of victims of Jealousy and the lust for gold will number at least twelve. When the home' of Mrs. Bella' Gunness, near 'this was "burned on Tuesday of last week, the woman and three children At least it is supposed the woman was burned, though many people think another body was' Tester day and to-day six bodies have been found1 buried in the yard, and bone indicate, there were other murders.

Facts In the; Case. Invektlgatlon to-day revealed these facts In the case: That Gunness married twice, both her husbands, Philip Gunness and' Max Sorenson. having died mysteriously. She n. i in, J'.

KNOWN AND SUPPOSED VICTIMS OF THE GUNNESS HOME HORROR MRS. BELLA PAULSON GUNNESS, the alleged multi-murderess." MYRTLE GUNNESS, age 11; LUCY GUNNESS, age 9. PHILIP GUNNESS, age 5. i MAX SORENSON, first husband of Mrs. Gunness.

GUNNESS, the woman's second husband. ANDREW HELGELEIN, S. lured by matrimonial ad. JENNIE OLSON GUNNESS, adopted daughter, of Gunness. Two un Identified bodies of men unearthed in the yard of the Gunness Two bodies supposed to ba those, grown found under burled mattress In yard.

think Mrs. Gunness Is now on her way to c. The basement, and walla of the. burned Gunness home were examined to-day, and tappings disclosed several hollow places. Sheriff Smutser will probably -tear these down' to" hunt for further The startling revelations of the day have awakened Laporte people to a recollection of some of the strange occurrences at the Gunness home during the last year.

Last summer Mrs. Gunness reported 'to Chief of Police Cochran that a child had been murdered to the woods back of her house by a man and woman who had 7 driven past her home. 8howed Him an Empty Hole. The ofScer investigated, but could find do trace of the body, and dropped the case, but a week later Mrs. Gunness aent her little daughter to him to state that she could take to the spot where the supposed murdered child had been burled.

Cochran went with the girl ahd In. the woods she showed him an empty explaining that some one must have taken the body, Cochran now be lieves that Mrs." Gunness slew- the child and later 'burled it. 7 Mrs.1 Gunness has always been re garded as eccentric. If visitors called she the dogs on them. She waa frequently seen as late as 2 o'clock In 'the morning walking about her yard.

Developments indicate that people were lured to the Gunness home and killed for their or to obtain' Insurance" on their Uvea. Mrs. waa twice" married. Her first husband waa Max Soren-sori. He died under suspicious circum stances, as did her second husband," Jennie Olson, an 'adopted daughter, disappeared mysteriously.

Andrew. Helgeiein's -Disappearance. These facts were not recalled till yes when John Helgeleln arrived from Mansfield, S. DV to Investigate the disap pearance of his brother, Andrew Helge leln, a. wealthy, bachelor, who left Aber deen.

S. on January I to come to Ijl porte. John Helgeleln knew that his brother had been corresponding with. Mrs. Bella Gunness, of Laporte, having be come acquainted with her through a mat rimonial agency, and that he went to Laporte for the purpose of meeting her.

nd, if conditions were satisfactory. marrying her. After Helgeleln left Aberdeen 'nothing was heard from him, and this caused un easiness in the minds of relatives, par ticularly since he had drawn 13.000 from an Aberdeen bank after his arrival in Laporte. John Helgeleln wrote Mrs. Gunness regarding his brother and received a reply from her to the effect that he had gone to Norway on a pleasure trip from here.

This story did not satisfy Helgeleln entirely, but he began no Investigation until he tead In the papers, of the burning of the Guniv.sj andfthe death of Mrs. Gunness anad her three childre.n. Then he came to Laporte. arriving yes terday. Helgeiein's Body Unearthed.

Confident in the belief t) at his Lrother had not left 1-aporte, Helgeiein began an examination on the Gunnes farm, for thre had t-en rumors that ldies of peo- i p'e have ben bur-d In. the yard. Conversation with Jo'i n.ix."n, an em- plbye of Mrs. Gunness, who, barely caped from the burning house, brought to light that whenever Mrs. I Gunness had something to throw away.

refuse, etc," he had instructions to dump I It In "certain places. Clearing away this refuse showed depressions in the ground, and' so. Sheriff Smutxer set men at work to make excavations. In the first bole workmen came on sev- two those 'of children. The belief is that one.

of, these 'la the body of Jennie Gunness Olson, who was reared by Mrs. she was away at school. Leters Written In Norwegian. John Helgeleln' brought wlth him let ters which he had received from Mrs. Gunness regarding his brother and also letters which "Andrew Helgeleln received from Mrs.

Gunness before he to Laporte. In these she addressed hira as "the dearest friend In all the These letters, which -were written In Nor wegian, ar being translated and may play an important part In the case, At, the. time Andrew Helgeleln came to Laporte in January, Mrs. Gunness told her lawyer. M.

E. Lellter, that he $1,600 which he owed her. Prior to that time' Mrs. Gunness was try. Ing -to.

borrow money, saying' that she was unable to obtain what owing her In-the West, She made various 1m provements, spending about $1,500 about her. house. As Helgeleln drew from an Aberdeen bank. Mrs. Gunness Is supposed to have got it all.

Ray Lamphere's Jealousy. During the time that Helgelein admitted Intimacy with Mrs. Gunness be- be knows something about tnis case. Lamphere wore Helgeiein's fur-lined coat after Helgelein had. disappeared, and also displayed a (run In a barber shop, saying he was after somebody: Joseph Max son, the employe of Mrs.

Contir sd cn Pas Eight. AFGHANS ROUTED BY BRITiSH THDDPS Hundreds Killed in Two Days' Battle at Khyber Pass. NATIVES SH0W COURAGE Indian Soldiers Make Bold Charge and Hand-to-Hand Fighting Followa Trouble Prpbably Ended. LONDONV' My hundred Afghans were killed and as many more wounded in Sunday's and Monday's fighting with Gen. Sir Jarnes WUIcock's British fire at the west entrance to Khyber pass, according to' an official report from Peshawar, India.

The native Indian troops in the English service showed the greatest gallantry, the report says, charging desperately up the precipitous slope upon which the Afghans clung, cutting them down hand to hand and finally dislodging the entire force above the Michnikandach blockhouse, around which the fiercest fighting centered. The Afghans resisted but the natives paid no attention to the volleys with which they swept the slope. Reinforcements from the rear Joined the Afghan Una as it was breaking, however, and for a time there seemed danger that the Sepoys would be driven nacK ward down slope. Reinforced by Fusileers. Strengthened by the Munster at the very crisis of the fight, the British force finally began to forge ahead alow- BARBER'S BOY ATTEMPTS WHOLESALE.

MURDER. MAN AND WIFE MAY DIE i-. His Paper Contract. WASHlVRTflV. U'tTh tmhll.htn Quaness.

i but disappeared In Sep- of newspapers appeared to-day before the temper, lsoe. un gin was about seven- I House committee investigating the wood teen years old at the time she left Mrs. I PulP Prirt paper question. Frank Gunness said ah had 'gon to Loa- An-1 r' puou.ner 01 me I State Journal, of Topeka. was the geles.

to attend a fir8t 2I. that when the Last. week, Leo. Arthur Ostrander, I combination of the papermakers was sister of -Miss Olson, came to Laporte to I formed the publishers were told not to learn the whereabouts 'of her 'sister. I Set excited as it would result In their v-.

benefit In the end. His contract for pa- I per at that time, he said, was tl.34 a garaingner since ana was supposed to I hljndred pounds at the mill. This con-have-left TnnrU for rllforAly Vnlhlnr i tract; he said, ran from September. I to September, USDS. When the contract developed 'then, 'but' she 'said that she expired he wan unable to renew it at I that nrlee.

The beat fla-nr h. -nn A WEATHER INDICATIONS. UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU. jlndlanapolla. Mar 1909.

I Temperature- May 1907. May JSOS. a. in .49 I 7 a. m.

11 ru 61 12 p. m. 1 2 p. C3 Barotnatar 7 a. rn.

nu v. P- 2J.7J Forecast for Illinois: Fhowers this afternoon and posaibly to-nignt; cooler In itrtme south portion to-night; Thursday genertUly fair. Forecast fr Ohio: Kaln to-night and prob ably Thursday; cooler to-nlghi In sou(h-eat I portion. Statlon. Local Korecaat local forecast for Indianapolis and vl- Weather tn Other Cities was I Bismarck.

X. D. I 1 here Ray Lamphere, who Is accused of I chuiao, id I i setting fife to the Gunness house, worked v'oo'. at the Gunness house and lived there. He Da.

K.nia. tty. M-. fore the arrival of Helgeleln, but saidluttie Hock. Ark.

I I xm Anaeles. Cal. afterward that she turned -him down. Mobile. Ala Sheriff.

Smutzer and Prosecutor Smith New -yorkN'- Y. advanced the theory that this caused Jealousy on' the xart of lamphere and Ore! led him finally to set fire to the house. As Lamphere was at the house during sn Antonio. it. Francisco, Cal.

the time Helgelein was there and when St. LmiH, Mo I St. l'aui. he disappeared, the officers are confident l. 7 10 "i 3 A MOLLYCODDLE ROOSTEH.

He Becomes Mother cf 12 Chicks Only to be Dispossessed by a Hen. ST, May The mollycoddle rooster, of Maplewixkd. I now a mother. lie hatched twelve Plymouth Kock chicks out of fifteen eggs on which he has been sitting three weeks, and I Inordinately pifoud of th achievement. But he was not alrowrd to enjoy the pleasure of motherhood.

N. D. Kitchell. his owner, was afraid he wcul I Injure the chickensjin moving awkwardly among them a fear which waa increased by the rooster' desire to exhihlt his brood to tlw others In tne barnyard and took all I twelve away from h'ni, placing them In the charge of a -hen. The rooster could not apprised.

Wh-nevr Kltchell walked away the btrd rvtuined to his attack upon the hen that bud dispossessed htm. Immediately Ktlcheil struck on a happy experiment. He put out fifteen inor crirs f-jr the rooster to if This subterfuge had the desired effect, and Mr, Mollycoddle Is again on ti.e Job. LftHDIS TELLS DDE WEDS THEY HUE FOOLISH PEOPLE ACTIVITY IN, POLITICS WILL KILL THEIR BUSINESS. TART SPEECH IN THE HOUSE The ladUnapoa News Bureau, 4 tVyatt Building.

WSinNGTON-. May Land's led, ihe fight in the House this afternoon to obtain a provision In the sundry civil appropriation bill prohibiting the maintenance of canteens In national soldiers' homes. In concluding a long speech he said: "I believe- this entire proposition is born of the desire of the men who manufacture beer to find a market for it. It is a notorious fact tlit one-half of the saloons of the country are ly. At Kargalt village the Afghans made 'TKth thHr Po! being I to force the saloon into every community their last stand.

KlghOng from the cov- 1 where there is the slightest chance to er of the native huts, they resisted so I estabiis it. I resent tne Insolence with stubbornly that the British were forced Hlf.brTers nien .1 tntS ronnlrv nttirvt In i- tha i. to settle down to something like a siege, j.uct upon people i and into communities It waa here that the fiercest fighting where instinct tells us. and common sense I but the British discipline and destruction the overwhelming sentiment against the wrought by the machine gitna at length satoon which we must recognize in this won nrt tha Afirh.n retrea.t beeam a i or nnea lu ney i uare cnaiiengea It. rout, in aeieacea iorce Droae into smau parties and scattered In every direction.

Gen. Sir James "Wtllcocks believes that BLACK HAIID AGEHT USES KlllfE Oil FIVE PEOPLE Will Reap the Whirlwind. hostilities are definitely ended. No men-J y'" "7 a a tlon ia made of British losses. 4 battle.

They invited and challenged it by attempting to dictate politics, local. State and national, in every part of the land. They have Invited and challenged It by studied, open, wilful, deliberate! violation of the laws. Their conduct has been imprudent, brasen and defiant. Thev have sown "the wind and will have no one to blame but themselves If thev reuD the whirlwind In all Its fury.

i see in the dally print that they have succeeded In securing a grant to estab lish a bar In the new union station here at "Washington, that splendid building which would never hav been construct ed but for the assistance voted by the American Congress. This shows the short-8ightednee of those gentlemen who call themselves friends of personal lib erty. Will Close Every Saloon. 'They should be wis enough to know that that grant will be of short dirra tlon. In ray Judgment no district appro- priatlons bill will ever again pass this NEW TORK, May A sixteen-year-1 House that does not carry a provision old boy known xnly as CarmeUo.

and em- sounding the death knell to that bar that ployed in a barber arsop in BrookIn, tg to established at the gateway to eral gunny sacks, which on being opened I early to-day cut the throats of his em-I this splendidcapital city. I would utter j.i iptoyer. Antonio reraso. Airs, i'eraao and I u.ncuiuvivu wuj v. i I rriends or personal liberty, and say thai nude man.

Mr. Helgeleln Identified th. 'I' that very grant is likely to precipitate a 1 Faruo arjartment at ivi Jniton street. I contest on this noor. under tnia dome.

body as that of his brother. I i that ill not' only prohibit the sale of in I i K. mori.i hiu 1 toilcatlng llouors In the union station, FounMore Bodies Found. I thrM barbers are serious, but probably clos forever every saloon within the I mbs I AAn Tls ass AT tA I llaf liT nT 'nlnm tiln Excavation of the second soft clae. I no xatai.

ine noy escapea. ine poiiw I thwirv tht hn, w- ut .,.1.1 Itepresentatlve Tirrell. of Massachu- brought to light four bodies, the first be-I of a Black Hand gang. setts, offered the amendment to keep the tag that of young person, the second I I who was in the chair, held this amend- that middle-aged man and Mother IttUbl HAIbtU I lib MM. debaTon the VmendrnVnttwo hmirff but the HnulA refnari In limit rvansas tOltor Tells Committee ADOUt I the time.

Iast year's appropriation car riea a provision proniomng tne rule or beer or intoxicating lijuors in the House. REPORT THAT KACKLEY HAS GONE TD AUSTRALIA ABLE TO SERVE CAPIAS. waa never, able, to learn from Mrs. Gun- et malting a new contract was Sl.fG PRIFWn5 RFrCIVC Wfl WdRn i 1 I at mill I lr. -H nr.ln, I HIWW I I k-W k.

I k. IIU OVIIW uco. tt suicr- wma crp( LUill I I.wma.m V. A .1 V. 1 1 discount for cash, but the last five years the prices been net SHERIFF FEARS HE MAY NOT BE It is feared In the eherifTs ol3ce that there will no iservice.

by that office, of a grand Jury capias for the arrest of Thomas It. Kackley, former second vice- president and general manager of the At las Engine Works, now -under Indictment on a bribery charge in the county fraud cases. The rear Is the result of a report that the former Atlas man left the Pacific There have been reports of all kinds since the indictment against ivack'ey was handed down three weeks ago, and, it has been Bald that Kackley whs on his way re that he was In that would stay In California, until he cotild learn the outcome of the first county fmx.A t- r-4 1 nam In C-itilh v.i.n, cuuwi I America anA other thinsra of tna nd p. tn. May Clearing and cooler to- hi friends snd attorneys here have stead- niaht: Tbureday fair and cooler.

I lastly denied all Knowledge ci ivacKiey nlght; Thursday generally fair end cooler. The following table shows the srat of the weather tn other citlea at a. celved from him. sent from Barbara, saying he would start home In few ilars. hat was tw-3 weens ago and has not been' heard from since that tfme.

Wife In Chicago. The report that came to the sheriff's office to-day wps that friends had en Mrs. Kackley In Chicago last wek. bivl that sha had -told them at thst time that Par Te mp.Was.in. I her husband was on his waj to Australia, 3ft 41 1 -IA I 2B.M :s.s2 S' ai.i'j i'i M) :v.ts i i i- 'h KS TJ 44 4- 6-1 4-1 4 4 4- 4h Cloudy Who the friends were who are said to S' "leor I seen ilrs.

iCackh la not known. Kred C.ardner, of the Atkins iw 3 loudjr T.nrb. whoro Kacklev sent the la 42 lear I I 1 1 V. lltldv eilltj will in1, kiii tlear of Katkiev's coing to Australia was un- foundod. "1 think tlmt In lne tim-, some -Uni-ly of these days.

Kackley will fhuw 1inly lire." said Mr. tiardner. "Where he t'liiilv now. we have i word, and I do i'louil 1 loti'iy Pain leHT IMCldy l'lr ea t'i-udy In 1't. K.iln W.

T. IiLTTHn. Kectioa Director. Hourly Terrp-rsture. know of anv one here who has hear.l of him Milli tne telegram at.n;t two aO." Interested In Indiarapclis.

Mr. G.trdher sM that Mr. K.ivk!-.-y has not di-'poael of all of his and other investnients here that l.e still heavily liit'-testd In lu a tn i i- ci.il -wa y. On it f. jf Mr.

iliirdij- r. r. ii.a no wo'o-1 Attorney lif-: rv l.e in i- 1 1 1 a 1 IE II ML -MiMEim: Cannon and Rcccbvclt Zl Signs cf Getting on Legislativo MUCH Elder -Stateimen Younger Members Are Disposed io Fight for President's The IndUaapoIIs New, rjures-i, 41 Wjsit WASlllXGTONi- May Speaker to the White inim, evening has feiulted in a letter r-standing between the Mouse, it was tlie flrst'time the -had called at the M'hite House controversy over the legislative pi -j ia'i started. The outcona of the cor, it was said to-day authoritatively. 1 an honest effort on the part of the I ltepublican leaders to put through i v-Ihlng the I'realdent Wiints amendments to the Sherman i an-1 the h.m1 savings Km The Veaker was not pr irt-l m.

that he coul.i force Die Hou to i i -out the President's program. He i unruly mavnty to dsi with snd i I it. The liepublicuns. ns shown 1 lt night's conference, are still tn rn i- on proposal currency h-sislation, it realized that uny effort to put i i -i i-i suc-li an act ns th I -dent desires will meet with opposition from some of the Will Depend on Senate. The extent to which the lloue act on the President's recomti i-tlons will unquestionably depend In f-.

measure on the attitude of the -r uiirr any en vi ance that the-hols of the. rr'v-i y. program will not be carried (' -House will be wlltinir to praoi everything po throucit polint al t. The elder btf.tesmen in the S-nat a i t. -t In a happy frame of.

mind over the sitlon of the Hoim to aurrp-mier nin, ly to tlie Whito House. It la to. that the so-called youns.t.prs In tH- S'-a-ate-are disposed to fi'hl for the nil i of the whole of the President's with the possible exception the to the Sherman law. cumstances the Senate will toon i-i real seat of Interest in the eve-u House does decide- to open the Uoors to the President's propram. But, "Nick" was There.

Members of ConxTe.s are l.iugh:n? ht Senator Jonathan Hourne, of Oregon. t' original second elective termer. Lat Senator Bourne sent out lfti-n tior.s to members of fconrens to ivi- his apartments Sunday night to c-m-; tho state of the Pnlun with r.p,:t i.j renomination of President r-l:" the Chicago convention. The an ample supply of ids famoti clk-m -ri lia.n. for the dt-Iectatlon of his piopa.

Po far as can be learned tlie Invited guest to show up was Jtepresrnt i-five Nicholas Ixmgworth. of Ohio. (In President's son-in-law. What 7-pr. tlve Longworth.

who la an urdont of Secretary Taft. was doir at: the Hourne confab has not yt brm explained. What Does This Mean? Political prophets who aro predkl n. uiira term lor president itoosevelt s.t up avjd took notice yesterday when Pres -lent Pooeevelt sent a message to Cornrf-n dated 1310." The message consisted only of a letter of transn.Mt.'U of a document from Secretary of Htato Hoot relating to a prison confi-t For some unexplnlned n-ason th clerks Of the House foritot to read imc date line In reporting the to ti. House, and the mistaken date lino una not caught until It readied the et.Mi-v- raphers.

The mistake was tlie talk i Capitol whfn the ltepublican currency conference was In prfgress last tiil.t. SHOT THREE AND HIMSELF. Horseman Killed Man and Two Women and Committed Suicide. WASHINGTON CL May I'ert Pevaney, pe forty-three, wlilte, a v.tll- known horseman, last niisht sliot nnd killed LIda Btal, age twenty-two, a coj. ored girl, and shot her mother In th rtomon, Indicting a probably fatal wound.

He then mn across town to the bun of Bllas Shackelford, where hn took i t-f- ue. IUjfuKiiiK to come out. went In after hltn and was shot Hint 1 y-d by Devaney. Kater Tevaney suicide, it Is believed lievaney was Ii- aane. Following the.

rhootlng of th two worn- Company Fourth Kemment. Ohio National Ouaril. waa called, perm I iv-ln? been given by Governor Harris. Tho ofjlcers surrounde-1 the barn and t) rat-enetl to burn it. Final! persona ver f-t tir to the barn door and there saw rorin uooY.

noer cover, remove 1 It. Later haveney'ii body was found. a STILL UP AGREEMENT. Operators and Miners Trying to Get Together on Wage Question. fFpeclal Tha lis Nc -TEHRK HAUTE.

May 6. The joint scale committee of the Indiana -ri and operators resumed its session morning. The on the r.i- had received Inst from entifn In secre session pi! ii v. r. day as to seveiul disputed lie contract, and tli-y were ty.t.

an agrrmtit woul-l he iv: iif-i At tne same time' mirers wci- tructed to report back to tii on i -i hi afternoon the re -p-t U.i T- timatum rer-elved fiuin the i it.ij the tornmntee. CORNSTALKS CLOCKED Il'A'I Washed on Railway Tricks fr; f' k' 1 I a 1 1 i-cr I I a Nearby Field. fperinl to Tlie In'hai. i MATTOON. 111..

r' y-" i pa8engi-r train on the the Illinois Central ay 1 to-day for more than f) t.oj: -ir IhU cay, by r. n. i i aer'tpa the tr.uk:-. t.f.u si ft a i.y I i' -i tht rf'i men to remove Comb for Hi c. An A.