BUMD m IN FUNESl

STATE AUDITOR PRISONER

Retreat of Victims at Avon, Conn., ■Cut Off by Fire.

BLAZE FOLLOWED EXPLOSION

ladi&n* GoT«rnor Finds Dafloit of 1$45.000 in His Aooaunts.

TT»1. rail* Crublac a >oa.b»r of Halplaaa Victims Aron. Cows — Til* explosion of a fuse, followed hj a dr* in a building of Uw-ijlinsax Fuse CompaJij here, .ratuetl a' panic sasonc twentj e ploT^a in Use buildini and resulted tlie deatii gt seven and Injuries to twelve o-uers. There was no waj Of (-opine with the Canses- which spread with aach rapldltj that the escape of the T.rtims waa cor off. In all four tmildinc* were destroyed, the loss lug estimated at f IflUiOuO. There were sistj emp'ores In the plant. The dead are: H'lMtam Burke, forty ▼ears old. married: James Joyce, a thirty-dT'. married. Robert McCarthy, aged eighteen; James Wallace, w" , wife lives ir. Springfield. Mass.: Molly McCarthy. Miss J. Sullivan and Mrs. if. 8. Tucker The exact cause of the accident Is cot known, but the Accepted theory here la tbit In an effiwt to burn oot a kioppage In one of the machines James Joyce eaaagd an' explosion of a fuse with fee hot Iron he held In Ms band Thuae who were In the i and who came out of the place cofuLrtaa to tell about it say that the explosion was not a severe one. and ordinarily would not have caused a panic. Inflammable material near, however, was set on Are. and In a few •oomrr.ts the room was a masi flames There was a mad rush fos the doors and windows, and during the ♦ •ramble many were pushed back Into the bcildinga.- while others werp .rerely. barned. As one of the wails of the second largest building felt several bodies could be seen entangl'd In the mass of machinery In the basement and tn a abort time they were reduced to ashes. The body of a woman .wan seen near the edge of t£e fire, but tjie great heat frustrated all attC&pts to rescue It. A few rods from the group of burned Imildicg- are two small Sheds In which fuses and powder ara scored, but they c-eaped the Caines. It was supposed that the burned building* were either fireproof or equipped with automatic fire sprinklers, but on account of the bn min g of the -belting which works the pumps, the sprinklers were rendered useless There Is no fire department in the .town. ’ Superintendent HagseH .expressed the opinion that the great mess of tame which was <een immediately offer the cxplosioa was caused by the bumteg of the" reels on which the ‘fuses are wound. “There was no powder in the room When the fire broke out.'' be said, “and I attribute the loss of life principally to suffocation cant ed by the smoke and flames which filled the room almost inVanby."

MASJJE OF BOSTON DIES. Patrick A. Collins Passes Away at Hot Springs. Va. Boston. Mass.J-yThp death of Mayor Patrick A. Collinv at Hot Spring*. Va.. from acute gastritis, was announced here. „ The Mayor left here about a week ego for Hot Springs for a rest accompanied by bis eldest son, Paul Collins, and then was apparently In' good health. Mayor Collins was born Jn Fermoy. Ireland. March 12. IS44. and was brought to the Cnited States at the age of four. When be was twelve he went to work, devoting his evenings to the study of law. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School In 1871. He waa in the State Legislature from 18RS to 1871. He was in Congret* from 1883 to 1889. In 1803 b» was appointed Consul-General at London. England, where he served four rears. He was elector Mayor In 1902. He was Chairman of the National Democratic Coarentloa of l&s. For many years Mayor Collins devotedmucb time to the cause of home rule rSr Ireland. He was the first National President of the Irish Land league in this country.

HONOBED BT EMPRESS ,TVIth Wives of Other Americans President's Daughter Is Presented. Pekin. China.—Miss Alice Roosevelt and the wives of Minuter Bockbill and Sene tor Newlanda cad other ladies of Miss Boosev-It's party went to the Sommer palace and spent the night. The next day they were received In formal audience Jqr the Dowager Empress. Mrs. Bocshill was first presented to »b* Em pres- and she then Introduced Mlu Roosevelt sad the other ladies of the party. Tbs Empress moved among the visitors, rbatdfic Informally and presenting them with handsome gifts of bracelets arxl rings. This was fob lowed by. an Inspection of the grounds of the summer palace. The whole visit .was marked by absence of formality. Mtngariaia Seek LfbartiaA W<Jrk»e* in Hadapest bM***! the lower house of the Hungarian Diet, making druronration* In favor of nnl-

Enginegr Dies at Throttle. With his train traveling fifty miles aa hour. Merritt Turner, engine drtv- — tte Erin

Indianapolis. Ind. — David E. Sberrlck. twice elected Auditor of the State, .was arrested after being summarily superseded In office on the Governor's order for "betrayal of public trust.” and. Warren Bigler, of Wabash, accepted an appointment as his successor. The removal followed a long correspondence. in which She.Ttck admitted that he was unable to settle hia account with the Treasurer of Stain and virtually confessed that he had been continuously violating the law by loaning money belonging to the State for his personal profit. In a formal statement the Governor fays he has been investigating the conditions In the Auditor'! office since the last of August haring received information that Sherrick had not made the July settlement for fee State's funds, which had accumulated from January 1 to July L 190.1. He immediately asked for a settlement, which was

made.

. This amount was about 1235.000. In addition to this the Auditor in his statement to the Governor admitted that he was at that time chargeable wih State funds paid In since the Ju!> settlement, amounting to J145.197.80, for which he filed a schedule enumerating the assets he had with wMch to meet the amount -These items Included notes, stocks and securities amounting to J152.883.33. of which, according to the Governor's letter, only J37.355.01 could be realised on. At the time that his analysis of the assets submitted by Sherrick was made the Governor formally requested Sherrick to resign. The resignation was not forthcoming. The Governor requested that Sherrick tarn over to John F. Reed, the settlement clerk in the Auditor's office, the securities enumerated, and this was done. The Governor also demanded that settlement to the extent or $145,197.80 be made with the State, and again requested Sherrick to resign. At noon the requett had not been compiled with, and It was repeated. The Governor entered an executive order finding the existence of a vacancy and ap-

pointing Bigler.

Later Sherrick sent his resignation

to Governor Haniy. who accepted It and entered an order appointing Warren Bigler, of Wabash, to.the office of

State Auditor. Bigler awi-pled. The estimate of the deficit In Sher-

rick's accounts was made by the Governor on the assumption that $51,000

loaned . ..17 . ‘ ~ .

dorsed by W. 8. Wickard. had been secured on forged and worthless paper. Mr. Wickard declares they are genuine and perfectly good. W. S. Wickard is a son-in-law of Murry, and. as the financial agent of the lumber firm, signs all Its commercial paper. He declares that he went to the State House with a certified check to .take up the notes, hot found that Sherrick bad been removed from office. He asserts that he will file suit against the Gov-

ernor for libel.

Sberrick's bond on file In fee Secretary of State's office Is for $100,000. and was furnished by the American Surety Company. The bond for his second term was made December C. 1904. and filed January 12. 1903. ' It Is signed by Sherrick. the American Sure-,

N3W8T GLEANINGS. ! The Irish language is now being j taught In 3500 schools In Ireland. Belgium la making propagations to celebrate this year its diamond jubilee. In Cincinnati the women are beginning to take up the fad of going shopping without their hats. Shells filled with oil. Intended to calm a stormy sen when fired Into it. have been invented in France. “Codfish cheese" is the name given to a canned preparation of fresh cod. now put up In Newtoondland. The University of Paris has established a number of traveling scholarships for women students. The Kaiser has given orders that dancing is to be taught In all the military barracks in Germany. Buds Pestb has a street which co one will enter because of the abnormal death rate that has prevailed there. A few days ago a man In Baltimore was sentenced to two mouths in loll tor pounding fils horse on the head with a brick. Her. G. W. McPherson plana the budding of a great evangelistic hall, seating 3U00 persons. In New York

City

It is stated that the new pattern field guns for the British artillery are practically useksa for tlip rough work of Government revenue officials are v rkd because more Havana cigars on the market In this country than Is justified by the Havana tobacco crop. It appears that spies tn the form of nurses have been introduced erable numbers into the families of French officers by some unnamed European power. A German woman named. ICathe Schmidt wrote her name in a vlsltora' book of a hotel Just below the signature of the King of Saxony and nrosecuted for Use majesty.

| SLAYER HANGS HIMSELF Charles Hertijp After Cornmilinjj Murder Years Age, Takes His Life.

PROMINENT PEOPLE.

! Secretary Hay d< tested all unnecesI sary and wanton fitUebood. • King Edward Is to review the Scot- | tlsh Volunteers at Edinburgh. Elihn Root has his sense of bamor, I which gleams oat now and then, j It is said that Emperor William ha* ! a choice selection of American slang Prince Peter Kropotkin, the famous social reformer, now resides at Brom-

ley. England.

The Duke of Sutherland is perhaps the best locomotive engineer In the

British peerage.

| General Booth, head of the Salvation ! Army, has Just return*J to London

i after a 30.001) mile trip.

! Contrary to the g*neral opinion in ! Mexico and abroad. President Diaz is

| hot a multi-millionaire,

j Notwithstanding his seventy-five j years. Emperor Francis Joseph is still

J. H. Murry * Co., and in- i greatly addicted to the chase. “ Admiral Evans has been asked by the

crew of the battleship Missouri to assign a mule to the ship as mascot. The yearly allowance of the Mikado, which is at the same time that of the whole Imperial family, ts now 51.500.-

000.

Alphonse BertUlon. the inventor of the finger-print system of Identifying crimipals, is described as a quiet, mod-

est man.

By the retirement of Rear-Admiral Charles E. Clagk. the United States Navy loses another of Us veterans of

two wars.

Chief Justice Foliar, of the United States Supreme Court, was mistaken for an itinerant Germas musician at the Savoy Hole., London, recently. King Edward VII. has made Count Kutsura, Prime Minister of Japan, a member of the Orfer of the Bath, and

TUG HIT BY CANADIAN CRUISER.

Erie, Pa.—The fish tng W. J. McCarter. of the Keystone Fish Company's fleet, limped Into port with a big bole stove In her side by a shot from the Canadian cruiser Vigilant. Captain Frank Handy, of the McCarter, stated that as he was going after his nets about noon the Vigilant swooped down upon him before he was aware of her

presence and fired upon him.

The shot struck the tug near the 'ater line, wrecking the machinery used for pulling the nets. The McCarter hastily put for •books Al- - though In a leaking condlt!(ffc*fhc tug

managed to reach pork In safety.

Captain Handy, of fee tug boat said they were In American, waters when ■red upon, and to make' their position more secure they started to get further away aa there would be no doubt

of their being la American waters.

SPANISH ASSASSINS AT WORK.

Madrid. Spain.—While Scuores Ibaex and PaUares, Republican members f the’ Cortes, and a party of friends were leaving a meeting of the Republican Club at Valencia they were fired on from a cafe. Eight men were wounded and taken to‘the hospital Including Seoor Pal lares. Several arrests were made. The city was disquieted and trouble waa

feared.

The Gold Stock.

Including bullion in the Treasury the actual stock of gold money In the United States on September L 1906,

was JUri9.804.314.

V Steel T»de Active. There is no break In the activity of

kjcucu dj ourrric*, me Auieucau ouie-, ty Company, by Roscoe C. Hawkins. I resident vice-president, and Ernst V. Clark resident assistant secretary.

JUW.OOO* 1 aUw! and ’eras'fmnlSd by Epren < * 4cr the American Surety Comimny. y Bt MIch,el and 8t ‘ G ^

SPORTING BREVITIES.

Gomeira football team bogan their

season's work at Ithaca. -N. Y.

“Battling'' Nelson'won a lightweight fight from Jimmie Britt at San Fran-

cisco. Cal.

Morning Star paced In 2.04U In a race at Pittsburg, Pa., equalling the amateur record. Hamburg Belle won for the second year In succession the Flight Stakes at Kboepsbead Bsy. Nathan Straus won the free for al! pacing race at the Hartford (Conn.) Grand Circuit meeting. The United States Marine Corps won the regimental skirmish match on ranges at Sea Girt, N. J. W. B. Jennings' Proper won the Omnium Handicap, and T. J. Gnynor 1 ! Whimsical won the Golden rod Stake st Sfaeepihead Bay. Mrs. W. E. Pouch, a former woman lawn tennis champion of the United States, won her match in the tournament at Nyack, N. T. Atigiola. a Western trotter from Galesburg, III., won the $10,000 Charter Oak Stake race at the Hartford (Conn.) Grand Circuit meeting. A post mortem examination made at Hartford, Confi.. showed that the noted trotting mare Sadie Mac died of acute dllltatlon of the heart. S. D. Barnes defeated Devareux Emmett 4 up and 3 to play In the final for the chief cup In the golf tournament at Stock bridge. Mata. In the lawn ■ tennis tournament at Southampton Karl Behr. champion of Yale, defeated E. W. Leonard, a former title holder, by 6-L 4-C. 0-3. Matt Downey, of 'Boston, won the five m!ie amateur national championship at the closing bicycle races at Madison Square Garden. •New York

City.

Myopia detested Dedham for the

PERSONAL GOSSIP. **r. Edmugd J. James U President of 'the University of Illinois. Tlie Duke of Argyll Is a man of very varied Interests and distinctions Senator John W. Danielf of Virginia, Is editing the memoirs of General Jnbal A. Early. • James J. Hill. President of the Great Northern Railway Company, is sixty-

seven years old.

' John 0. Packard, n pioneer miner of Utah, is the donor ot Salt Lake City's

now public library.

John W. Alexander received $175,000 for Ills mural paintings for the Carne-

gie institute at Pittsburg.

Dr. Henrfch C. Loonhnrdt recently supplied almost the whole city of Tona-

wanda. N. 1', with young tree*

Lord Templemore. who lately celebrated his eighty-fourth -birthday, is

••ratheri' of the Hocoe cf Lord:!.

Buric N. Roark Is (he pleasing name of the dean.of the deositmcht of pedagogy. State College of Kentucky. John Philippi, a horticulturist of Loxli, Cal., has perfected a new fruit from the peach and the nectarine. E. H. R. Green, of Dallas. Texas, son of Mrs. Hetty Green, of New Y'ork. has adopted automnbUlcg as s pastime. Benjamin F. Hobbs, the oldest armorer in the service of the United States, died recently it -Springfield.

Mass.

H. P.- Malian, a Boer colonel, who served in the South African War. Is conductor on a street car line in Kan-

sas City, Mo.

I[U . , Mayor Rose, of Kansas City.^Kan.. r.ight ‘ la » requested owners of vacant lots

John Paul, chief steward .

fersou Democratic Clufi in New York, enjoys she rare distinction of being grandfather and a grandson at U

same time.

Minot. S. D—With a pi*c> of the green veil he used thirty years ago to strangle pretty Lixzte Brombacbar. near Youngstown. Ohio, tied aroumt his neck, and a paper containing UU confession of the murder for which he permitted an Innocent soul to be tthothered, out on the gallon’s pinned to his breast, the dead body of Charles Herzig, a modern Eugen,- Aram. wa« found hanging fr«ffi a tree in a se-

cluded rsvlne near this town

After thirty years of torment, dreading discovery every moment of ail that terrible period of time, and haunted nlgbtiy by the face of his victim distorted by his strangiing clutches. Herzig In his confession says bn was beginning to overcome hi* conscience when Inexorable fate threw in his path a magazine containing the story of the crime, and the hanging of Charles Stere ling, a supposed tramp, for It. The story emphasized what was at the time regarded as the one redeeming feature lu the character of the condemned man Sterling had denied hi* identity to his mother when she visited him In

the death cell In order that she might i ... b» .p.™i ,h, pain »»d dUera. , „■ “ ' U “ C J2.” all * re " " tendant upon his conviction and d.-ath. ! tlJeIn J 1 ® playgrounds.

Kerxig for the first time realized that j . Jolln Pal*, chief steward of the Jef-

the blood of two Innocent person* was i on his head- The fortitude displayed by Sterling, who was a young man of good family, so impressed him that the agony be had endured for years returned with renewed force, and he

could suffer It no longer.

A few days- ago he left the bouse of Frank Byer. a farmer here, with whom he had been employed. He walked Into the wood* a few miles away. sud. choosing the most lonely and dismal spo. he coaid find, he ended his miserable life. Before be started on bis way to death Herzig wrote his confession. He addressed it to Byer and placed It in a soiled envelope on the table in his room, where he was sure it would be found when search for him was begun. On the outside of the envelope was a piece of paper containing the following ■When my lifeless body Is found notify my motber. Mrs. Catherine Herxie. Girard. Ohio. The inclosed letter wilt reveal my Identity, and the awfu! secret of my wretched life. I coaid en-

dure it '

In telling of ids terrible crime Herzig related all th- details. Following Is the text sf his letter: “Dear Mr- Byer—In early seventies, Charles Sterling, a supposed tramp, was tried for the murdet of Lizzie Brombacher. residing near Youngstown. Ohio. The trial resalted In his conviction on purely circumstantial evidence and he was hanged. Charles Sterling was an innocent man. “I am guilty of the murder of that young girl, and I have paid the penalty In a wretched, haunted life for many years. Her face, distorted by the strangiing clutches of my then powerful bands, made stronger by the power of brutal beast passion, haunts me. and for years nightly has that face appeared at my bedside until now I am a physical and mental wreck, who can only find relief in death, which will

soon be mine.

"At the time I murdered tbU girl I was twenty, a few weeks before committing the crime I removed with my

Miss Ida Ryan, of the graduating

family - from Lockport.'N~X. to Girard.- of 1 Maaaachuaetta Institute of Ohio, where I brtlevc my mother still Te^noloo^ hat won the prize jpven

my mother still

lives, although I have not heard from

her tor years.' .

"I visited Youngstown one week prior to the murder with the hope of securing employment and with a number of other men. Sterling being In the crowd, went to Poland for work two days before the woman was killed. *T was standing in a secreted place along the roadside when the girl came along unaccompanied. The devil must nave taken possession of me. I grabbed her by the arm and puilcd. her Into a cluster of bushes. She refused to yield to my desires, and. clutching her by the throat I strangled her to death, while I accomplished my

purpose.

"I left the body where It had died and where It was later found. Sterling passed the scene of the murder In a: search for me while I was committing the awfnl crime. “I found him later and persuaded him to change shirts With me by offer* ing him twenty-fire cents In money. He accepted the offer. There were blood stains on the shirt from that innocent girl, and they proved one of the strongest circumstances In the chain of evidence against Sterling. I waa not eeen in the vicinity of the spot where the murder was committed. “Sterling waa arrested shortly after the crime. I fled. "My real name ia Charles Hetslg. I will endeavor to die in some place where my body will never be found, bat If It should be. notify ray mother. I make tbls confession that the grave of Charles Sterling may no longer be looked upon as that ot a murderer." — .4 : - Plot of Murder Discovered. Advices from Belgrade said that a’ plot far a general rising tn Macedonia and the murder of King Peter aqd Prince Ferdinand had been discovered.

Jumps Bridge to Death. Frederick W. Haealng. a retired dry goods merchant committed suicide by Jumping from the Washington Bridge, New York City.

FEMININE FANCIES.

Empress Haruko of Japan is fifty-six

years old.

Ex-Empress Eugenie is seventy-nine years old and quite active. Mrs. Louisa Manning has Just celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday. The Empress Dowager of China la thoughtful of her subordinates. Queen Alexandra of England la, like many women. 111 at ease on the rosTbe widow of Jefferson Davis lives on the seventh. floor of a quiet New

York hotel.

Mrs. Belva Lockwood had an Important part In settling the Cherokee

claims case.

Queen Alexandra's laces, llnent and silks are perfumed in a simple and de-

lightful manner.

No one woman In American society Is more talked of Just now than Mrs.

Clarence Mackay.

Miss Anna Morgan, daughter of J. Plerpont Morgan. Is a healthy, happy and hearty young American woman. Mrs. Stoessrl. wife of General StoesseL of Port Arthur fame, recently paid $120,000 for -a house In 8f. Petersburg. Frau Prielle, who at one time was the most popular of all the actresses attached to the Royal Opera House, Buda Pesth, has gone mad. When Qneen Wilhelmlnu made a recent visit to an Amsterdam church, the pastor admonished the congregation not to rise when the Qneen entered. Co antes* Lonyay's collection, which Is to be sold soon In Parts, includes a veil presented her by the city of Bros sels on her marriage to Rudolph of

AMERICAN TUG RIDDLED Thirty Shots Hit Fishing Crslt Out ol Bounds in Lake Erie.

Erie. Pn.—"Am(rienus never surrender," shouted Captain Nets Patel, o: the fishing tug Harry G. Barnhnrst. fi the commander of ihe Canadian gunboat Vigilant. In middle Lake Erie. In response to a signal fe stop or the boat

would be fired upon

His reply was answrrod' by shots from the gunboat, and thereupon started a chase that tasted a!most.an hour before the Barnhnrst. the largest

by the Boston Society of Architects for the best architectural design submitted

by a graduate.

THE NATIONAL GAME. Toledo hat signed catcher G. C. Land, late of the Paducah Club. The Albany Club haa signed pitcher Kjoh, of a Buffalo suburb. The Utica Club has signed outfielder Milton Carr, of the Rome team. Providence has released outfieldBall to make room for Dick Haney. Cleveland has purchased third baseman Louis Bar beau from Columbus. Infielder Charles Babb and pitcher Mitchell have been released by Brook-

lyn.

MgMger McGraw says that Claude -RfBott^rill be a star pitcher next sea-

son. ’

Benlbach modestly attribute* a large share of his success to Frank Chance's coaching. Louisville's star catcher. Alfred Shaw, has been purchased by Boston, In addition to oatflelder Clay. Dave Fultz la going to begin the practice of law this fall and win play no more professional baseball. President Ebbetts says there will be a National League dub In Brooklyn next season and be will be at the bead

of it

The latest captures by the Chicago Americana are reported as being pitcher Reagan and sacond baseman Niles,

of Birmingham.

The Boston Americana hare fourteen pitchers booked for next season and should be able to select six first-class men from the bonch. . The Chlfslp Americans have seven

s pitchers on thi

first-class pitchers on the pay roll in Al truck. Owens. Walsh. Smith, Patter-

son. White end Callahan.

The Atlanta Club has engaged as manager for next year the noted manager. Billy Smith, of the champion Macon. Booth Atlantic League. Clob. Nichols, of the Philadelphia Nationals, still has the freest, e

meat of any pitcher in the

best built tug' ... _ out of tbls port, crossed the line and made off borne with cargo and crew. One man fainted lu the excitement and two or three arc said to have bad blood streaming down their face* from flying splinters. Thirty shots struck the Bamhurs: in the chase and the Canadians worked desperately to overhaul the boat, but failed. The upper part of the Borohurst was shot away, and fifteen shots left unmistakable signs of great damage. The men consider themselves fortnnate In making their e»cape without any greater bodily harm, for after the first two rounds from the Vigilant they say they h»ard shouts of "Kill them." "Sink the Yankees." coming from the Canadian. Capt. Fasel says be was aware that he was close to the line, bflt could not have been more than four or five miles out In the Canadian water when the Vigilant appeared. His position became apparent also, and he started to run. The Canadians then made signals for him t> stop or they would Are. He refused to obey, and the fishermen in the crew cut their lines and nets to

save the boat

Every man on the boat was ordered to keep under cover when the firing began, but two men wUg stuck their bends above the sides of Jbe tug received splinters in the face. The Canadians were shooting to damage the tng as much as they could, and managed to tear off almost all of the upper part of the boat. When tbe Barnhurst reached port the boat was heavily listed and will have to undergo extensive repairs. This makes the fourth American vessel fired upon within a week by the Vigilant. The Bertha Cockrell was captured and taken to Port Dover; the W. J. S^pCarter was fired upon twite, but escaped with a large bole knocked in her side, and the F. C. Oggel, of the Keystone Fish Company's fleet, jras captured and taken to Port Dover, where she is being held pending a settlement The Grace M. was fired upon two months ago by the Vigilant while fishing In Canadian waters. For five or six years the fishermen of Erie have been engaged In a game of hide and seek, which, on one or two occasions, has developed Into actual warfare with the Canadian authorities. Erie is tbe centre of the fishing industry on Lake Erie. From that port about a score of steam fishing vessels and as many sailboats go ont dally for whlteflsh and herring. Because of the wholesale methods pursued, the wbltefish, most valuable of lake fishes, has become comparatively scarce In recent years, especially on the American side of the lake. Efforts of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission to restock the waters by tbe yearly release of millions' of spawn have met with poor success. Consequently the Erie fishermen frequently take long chances In following the objects of their dally pursuit Into forbid-

den waters.

Usually when a fisherman is captured there is an immediate appeal to Washington. D. C. Never yet has It been effective, for obvious reasons, although on one occasion, at least, tbe Canadian courts released tbe captured * the ground that it was taken

BURGLAR SHOOTS VICTIM Mrs. W. C Morrell Attacked in H«r House at Greenwich, Conn.

Several years ago a fish tug in mand of one Chris Schau. a daring skipper, fell afoul of the Canadian patrot and a real naval battle followed, in which the Canadian used hia little cannon freely and Scfaau'a brave men replied b°t*J for twenty minutes or note with shotguns. The fishermen escaped.

HELD UP IN HIS' AUTO. Kindly Highwaymen Left the Victim . Twenty Cents For Ferry Fare. Newark. N. J.—The police here were asked to look ont for three highwaymen. who had held np and robbed Thomas H. O’Grady, of 141 West 100th street New York City, on the Plant load near the Hackensack Bridge. O'Grady was driving his automobile n his way from Middletown to tala home when the highwaymen attacked him. While two of them held him the third went through his pockets and took $6. They left him twenty cents to pay hia way across the ferry. O'Grady rode rapidly to Jersey City, and notified the police.

CYCLONE WRECKS TOWN. Woman Killed and Several Hurt at Burwell, Neb. Omaha. Neb.—A cyclone struck Barren. Neb., tearing np the town. Mrs. R. B. McKinney is known to be dead. Six were badly Injured and other* slightly so. Heavy damage throughout the the country was feared. Telegraph and telephone wires' were down.

Quiet Restored In Yokohama. Under military occupation quiet w restored in Yokohama. Japan.

Greenwich. Conn.—A marked man, probably a burglar, broke Into the bouse of Mr*. Antoinette Morrell, the daughter of Edmuiui 0. Converse, early In Ibe moruin#. knocked out a, linree maid pith the butt of a pistol, and shot Mr* Morrell’ In the Jaw, disfiguring her for !tfe Within an hour Johu Brown, a hostler. who has been making lore to the Morrell cook, waa arrested, charged • ith the crime. The local police began looking for another man who was supposed to be in on the Job. Edmund C. Converse own* a big country estate at Stanwich, a few. miles from Greenwich. Hi* daughter. Mrs. Morrell, who ha* been separated from her husband for a year and half, ha* been living tn a bouse on Ida estate. Of late Mi. Converse has been altering hia mansion. He closed it. went to live In Sirs. Morrell'* house, and rented for her tbe Anderson farmhouse. on tbe Boston road, Jujt over the Cos Cob'line from Greenwich. This is a Urge, old fashioned place, set bnqk from tfie road and in rather a lonely situation. Mrs. Morrell lived there with Mr*. Plalsted. a companion, and four female servants. A gardener and a coachman lived in the him, a little apart from the home. Tilere were no men in the bonse at nlgbt • Isabelle Burns, a family servant, was roused by the sound of some in her room working at the fastening of her window, which opens on the roof of a hack piazza. Supposing something was the matter with the children she sat upright and saw a man fumbling with the c&tch. Mias Bnm* screamed at tbe top of her voice. The man whirled, flashed in her face a little electric searchlight, find cracked her over, the head with the bntt of a revolver. She raised her hand* to defend her head, when be struck her again, breaking one of her finger*. Then he turned and started down the hall toward the staircase. Pandemonium broke loose in tbe house. Mrs. Plaisted. who slept on tbe second Boor, toward the front of'the bons* was the first out of her room. As Mr*. Ptainted, running by instinct toward the children's room, popped her head above the stairs she almost ran into tbe burglar. He fired straight at

her.

It was n complete miss, but she fell on her face from the fright of it. Jnst back of her, and entfieg off approach from tbe staircase, came Mrs. Morrell.. The burglar raised his gun and fired straight Into her face. He was so. close that the powdei marked her law. She fell, and as she fell he gave her the bntt of the pistol on the bead. The burglar hurdled over her. ran down the staircase, through tbe bouse, tnd banged oat of the -kitchen door. The maids, who slept in tbe back part of the house, say thry beard a voice saying: "Quick! Beat it," and the sonnd of buggy wheels. c Mrs. Morrell was lying In the dim light of the hall, bleeding terribly. Miss Bums, the nurse, had tbe forethought to get to the telephone, and tall np Deputy Sheriff Bitch, who represents the police force ot Greenwich nd Cos Cob. and a doctor. Ritfb, .realizing that the burglar would try to get ont of the region aa quickly as he could, telephoned to officers along the line of the New York. New Haven and Hartford for three four stations up and down, .telling them to get to the railroad and arrest any early morning passenger whose clothes were wet. It was raining heavily at tbe time. He sent Jack Creamer, hit depnty, to hold down the Greenwich station. At 4-20 a small. Inoffensive and very wet man plodded through the dark and wet to tbe station and aat down on a bench, ns though walling for the early train. Creamer looked him over, drew his gun and put him under airest. He was taken to the town Jail, protecting loudly. The police searched him and found two suspicions facts. The first waa that he was drenched to the suspenders. He had been traveling without regard to the rain. The second wac that he carried on his person a letter from Kate Tierney, the MOrrell cook. It was not an incriminating document, simply n love letter with a Uttle gossip, but it established at once his connection with the Morrell home. He gave tala name as John BrovM. a hostler, and that was tbe name on the lore letter.

FALLS THROUGH TRESTLE.

through a trestle near Head c station. Severn! passengers were Injured, but none were killed.. Tbe engine. mall*- car arid a combination . freight and baggage car, which comprised the forward part of tbe train, left the rails. The passenger cars were not derailed. _

Two Die In Tire. Two persons were horned to death In a fire which destroyed the summer home of William Thompson st Hare many Grove. N. H. Tfie victims of the fire were William Thompson and Mrs. Lydia Thurston. The cause of the fire has not beoo ascertained.