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INDIANAPOLIS JOUENAI lVKi:KLT nSTAllLISHED ISTi DAILY ESTABLISHED lfcO. t VOL. LIV, NO. 131. INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 100 1 TWELVE PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS. " ON RAILWAY TRAINS n'E CENTS. F OF SUICIDES IIS VICTIMS IK CITIES OF IIIANA LINED UP FOR FIGHI IN STATEG0MVENT10N Parker and Hearst Leaders in Con ference to Map Out Their Plans of Battle. NO JAPANESE Improvised Rope, Bullet and Poi son Means Employed by Men Who End Life. Reported to Have Hastily Evacu ated the Treaty Port Last Night. BANDITS READY TO LOOT TAGGART STANDS PAT 11 DEMOCRAT G ORCES EPIDEMIC ! SOOtl ILL' BE IN POSSESSION OFTHE min; COMERI fi mi Says Convention Will Adopt Unit ' Rule and Instructions for Judge Parker. HEARSTITHS PLAN A BOLT Provided the Regular Convention Defeats All Their Hopes Coup Planned for To-Night. With the gathering: of the Democratic clans for the state convention, which will be hrld Thursday in Tomlinson Hall, rumors of all ports of deals ami coups en gineered'by Hearst and Parker leaders are rife. Numerous conferences of the general officers and aids-de-camp of the rival forces were held yesterday and last night and the general plans of campaign to be followed by each side were outlined and the preliminary work started. With the Parker people, it 13 a fight for the npi'licatloii of the unit rule and the adoption of Instructions that will bind the Indiana delegation at St. Louis to the cause of Judge Parker as firmly as the New York delegation was bound by the action" of the Albany convention. The Hearst people are making the fight one to prevent instructions and. if at all possible, to prevent the application of the unit rule. National Committeeman Thomas Tag gart, who 13 regarded s:s the head and front of the Parker movement, would make no comment on the situation last evening oth er' than to say that as a result of the con vention the thirty delegates from Indiana to the national convention will be pledged to Parker. "I make that statement advisedly," he said, "after communicating with Demo cratic leaders in all parts of the State. The reports I have received show that a large majority of Indiana Democrats favor the nomination of Parker and believe accord ingly that the delegates from this State should be instructed for him." M. F. Dunlap, of Illinois, treasurer of the Democratic national committee, who is here to direct the Hearst forces in the closing days of the fight, last night dis claimed any knowledge of the Indiana sit uation. "I am here merely as a spectator," he de clared. "I am a stranger In Indiana, and how should I "know anything about the sit uation? Now if you want to know any thing about Illinois. I might be 'able to give you gome Information." DUNLAP IN CHARGE. . ' Mr. Dunlap's declarations to the contrary, it Is generally understood that he knows more about the Hearst programme and the probable strength his forces vw'M be able to muster than any other man now in In dianapolis. Callers at Hearst headquarters yesterday were informed that Mr. Dunlap must be consulted concerning any deals to be made, and the local managers said they had no information to give out concerning the situation. Intimating that any such in formation must, come from the Illinois leader. x Mr. Dunlap has been In close-consultation with his lieutenants for the last forty eight hours, and it was reported last night that as the first openymove in his fight an attempt had been made to call a meeting of the Marlon County Democratic Club for to-night and to get through the meeting resolutions denouncing the methods pur tuvd by Taggart ft al. In Marion county and tlt Seventh district, and calling on the Mat convention not to instruct the na tional delegates for Parker, or for any one eis. Mayor Holtzman. City Chairman Jamrs U Keach, Sterling R. Holt, John R. Wll , on. Henry Warrum, Michael Shea and sev- eral others were said to have undertaken this play and to have taken the rtrst steps toward bringing about the meeting. The Hearst pepl openly bidding for the assistance of all local Democrats who are antagonistic to Taggart and are advanc ing the argument that the movement is not one in Hearst's interest, but one against Taggart, who is seeking, they claim, to set himself up as the dictator of Indiana Dem ocratic politics. Tht Parker people said last night that they had learned nothlug of any attempt to call a meeting of the Marion County Dem ocratic Club, and insisted that it would not be possible for the Hearst people to bring about such a coup. MAY DOLT STATE CONVENTION. At one of the conferences of the Hearst leaders the question of bolting the state convention, in event the concntlon -adopts the unit rule and Parker instructions, was dlscue-sed at length. From Hearst sources. It was learned last evening that it had been agreed that a rump convention should b held in that contingency, provided there was a sufficient number of Hearst people here from the various congressional dis tricts to make a respectable showing. The Hearst supporter who gave out this tip added that there would undoubtedly be enough of their people here to hold a con vention almost as large as the Parker cou vention. Parker leaders who were informed of the plan of their opponents to organize a rump convention said last night that this was exactly what they had expected, as it was in line with the Hearst policy pursued in . the various county tights and in other States. The Hearst people came to the city In un expectedly large numbers yesterday, while comparatively few of the Parker people put In an appearance. Of the Parker peo ple National Committeeman Taggart ar rived in the city early in the day from .French Lick. State Chairman W. II. O'Brien, of Lawrenceburg, was here for a few hours in the forenoon, but left early In the afternoon for IUsing Sun. where the Fourth .district Democratic congressional convention will be held to-day. S. M. Rals ton, of Lebanon, came early in the day. Jstrict Chairman Joseph T. Fanning, Sec - rotary Reilly. of the state committee, and r.":r.eroua other local Democrats were about ct-ta headquarters and the Grand Hotel Czzlr.z the day and evening. IIEAR3T LEADERS HERE. Hearst people here In addition to rr. Dur.lap end Messrs. Henderson, Neal, : rrreci. Caldwell and Maines. Included JV'-s ZzTzr McCabe. of Wllllamsport: : Ccr.sreczman Joseph B. Cheadle, of :z7t: Ccnator Lew V. Ulrey. of Fort C-'.zcn Bsyd. of Greencastle; ..1 r-!::cr, f Evantville; C. W. - , zZ C."lvn; 0. IL Moon, of Port er, of Frankfort; A. F. y Cri-irmsa Fettl- of y Ci 'lmzn John Lisen-';--wztrr; Il-sjror Law " -1; IL U. Damrtt, . c2 Li. rz-j.. end rrr r r-r - - i : ' c -z5 r THE LATE SIR HENRY M. STANLEY. SIR HENRY I STAN LEY. FUNIS EXPLORER, DEAD OF PLEÖi-PNEÜiOl His . Illness Was Complicated by Heart Disease, and He Had Been Unconscious 'Over a Day. SKETCH OK HIS CAREER Attained -Distinction by His Ex plorations in Africa and as a. War Correspondent. LONDON. May 10.-Sir Henry M. Stan ley, the African explorer, is dead of pleuro pneumonia. He was attacked by pleurisy a fortnight ago at his London resilience. His illness was complicated by "chronic heart trouble and he had bcn in a semi-conscious condition since Sunday afternoon. Henry M. Stanley was born In Denbigh, Wales, In ISN). His parents, who were poor people, placed him at three years of age in the poorhouse of Asaph, where he remained until he was ten eara old. Here he re ceived an education, and being naturally bright was fitted to teach in a small par ish school. When he was fifteen years old he shipped aboard a vessel bound for New Orleans in the capacity, of cabin boy. In that city he was adopted by a merchant named Stanley, whose name he took, dis carding his baptismal name of John Row lands. His adopted father dying without making a will threw young Stanley. on his own resources. At this time the civil war was in progress. He enlisted in the Con federate army, and through the misfortunes of war 'was made a prisoner. He finally Joined the Federal service and was made a petty officer on a man-of-war. At the close of the war he went North and worked on different newspapers , in a reportorial rapacity until 1S57, when the New York Herald sent him with the Brit ish, army to Abyssinia as a special cor respondent. He did his work faithfully and after the trouble censed took a tour through Spain, writing letters as he went; Finally It beenme rumored that Dr. Livingstone,- th explorer, was dead.: as lie had not been heard from in two years, and the Herald again secured young Stanley's serv ices. He was tont out well equipped to Zanzibar on the east coast of Africa.- He reached this place early in January,. 1871. From there, with a company of natives and a year's provisions, he pushed on to VJlJi. which he reached on Oct. 28 of the same year, thus making a forced march thfough Jungle and marsh from the coast to Lake Tanganyika, a distance' of nearly 2,onq miles, in a little over six months. - Here he found LivingFtone And remained until February of the following year. Then Livingstone started on his fatal Journey, arid 'young Stanley returned to Europe. Ills exploits and his letters created a furore and he was sent by the Herald and the London Daily Telegraph on another trip to Africa. He went to Zanzibar again, reaching there In the fall of 1874. Here he learned of the death of Livingstone and resolved to follow in his footsteps.. He collected a company of natives and set out in a northwesterly direction to explore the region about Lake Victoria and "Nyanza. He experienced great trouble with the natives, and did, not reach his destination until February, 1S75. He found the largest body of fresh water on the- globe, the lake surveying 40.000 square miles. After exploring for some months in an effort to determine whether La-ke Albert Nyanza was connected with Lake Tanganyika, he was forced by the hostility of the natives to abandon, his search and return to Ujiji. Frcm here he Again started out. Intend ing' to descend a great river that Living ston declared to-be the-Nile. This trip took eight months and cost the lives of thirty five out of his ISO men." and was accom plished . only by. the greatest strife with grerft difficulties and privations. He final ly, reached a small settlement on the coast and from . there was taken. to St. Paul de Loando by a Portuguese vessel. From the latter place an English vessel took the par ty to Zanzibar again by way of thp Cape of Good Hope. Here Stanley left his men and returned to Kngland. reaching there in February.. 1ST. He wrote a book called "How I Found Livingston" that was pub lished f.t a guinea a copy and created a sensation. This brought him recognition immediately and he was placed in the first rank, cf African explorers. Hls-Tater expedition from Ocean was writ- (CONTINÜED ÖN PAGE" 27001. 6T) CULLOM MOT A CANDIDATE FOR THE VICE PRESIDENCY r Illinois - Republican Convention Will Not -Be Asked to Instruct ' for the Senator. DELEGATES GATHERING SPRINGFIELD, III.. May .-Senator Cul lom. who arrived, here to-day to attend the Republican state convention, to-night de-' nied emphatically the recently published story that his friends will ak the conven tion to Instruct for him for the vice presi dency. . . "There Is absolutely nothing In the story, so far as my information goes,", he paid; "I certaiuly am not to be regarded as a candidate for the vice presidency, and I do not think any of my friends will ask the conventlcn to instruct for me," Regarding the story that Senator Cul lom. Senator Hopkins and Speaker Cannon will endeavor to effect a compromise in the gubernatorial contest, the senator said: "The same story was printed in the news papers last summer. The first I knew of it was when I saw it In the papers. About that time I met Mr. Cannon and we ex changed, some comments about lt. I re merrber ' thaj I remarked I guessed we could put off that little Job until I got back from California, and he laughingly concurred with me. We have never d',s cvrsed the matter since." Or.ly a few of the convention delegates t-:ve crriYcL A number of candidates, t-.-?xtT, are here. Col. Frank O. Lowden. Ctr.tral Hamlin, L. Y. Sherman r : n II. nrrcc, candidates for Gov , -c In thta efternoon. Governor .rra t:3 Ccteuel Warner QUICK HANGS IX A JAIL Youpg Miami County Man Once Accused of Murder Was Impris oned for Horse Stealing. SHERIFF SHOOTS HIMSELF John C. Huffman Dies on Green County Farm Two Other Vic tims Drink Acid. Kerry Qu'ck. rem JaP, Hangin. Jchn C. Hüffmin. ihcrff Green Coaa'y, Shooting. Giorte Moore, BrazI, CatbDÜc cid. Jaccb Taylor, Terre Maite, Ca boüc cid. Fpial to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU, Ind.. May 9,-Ilanging to bar of his cell door in the Miami county Jail, the dead body of Henry Quick was found by the deputy sheriff about 5 o'clock this even ing, half an hour after tht? prisoner had been arrested for horse stealing. Quick had tied one handkerchief about his neck and fastened a second handkerchief to the Kar. Knotting the two together he jumped from his cot and slowly strangled as he swung from the cell door. Two j'ears ago Quick was arrested for horse stealing and before he was convicted and sentenced to the Reformatory, from which place he had returned but two months ago, he attempted to commit suicide in jail. The sheriff had anticipated ai.other attempt to-day and had just sent his deputy to guard the young man when the dead body was found. Quick left a note to Daisy Bateman, 11 Delaware street, Wabash, Inviting her to come and view his corpse. He was charged with having tried to sell a horse and buggy which he had hired from a Wabash livery man. Four years ago. Quick, with his brother's wife, was charged with having murdered his brother by poisoning him. The woman was tried first and acquitted and the charge against Quick was then dismissed. It was alleged that the young woman was in love with Henry Quick, but she has since married another man. Quick was about twenty-two years of age and was a member of a respectable family. SHERIFF HUFFMAN TAKES HIS OIVN LIFE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMFIELD, Ind., May 9.-John C. Huffman, sheriff of Greene "county, com mitted suicide to-day by shooting himstlf through the head while at his farm, four miles south- of here. Circumstances indi cate that he had gone there for the purpose f,.?ndingr his Jife. as contrary to his usual custom he Hook- a. revolver with him when he started from home this morning. Ilia wife asked to go with him but he refused to take her, telling her she could go to morrow. Yesterdaj he settled a number of 'debts among his children. He had been acting queerly and had been very gloomy for a few weeks. He had considerable property but is supposed to have been heavily in debt, especially surety on notes and over his financial affairs he brooded much. ? It Is believed he was temporarily insane as he was slightly unbalanced a short time a few years ago and his father, brother and two sisters were at times deranged. He had been sheriff since Jan. 1. dividing the two-year term by aKreement with A. F. Wilson, with whom he tied in the general election of 1:m)2. BEREAVED LOVER AT LAST ENDS HIS LIFE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. fcRAIL, Ind., May 9. After three times attempting to end his sorrow by taking poison George Moore to-night swallowed a large quantity of carbolic acid which caused his death half an hour later. A year ago Moore's sweetheart. Miss Lizzie Lehr, died and the shock affected his brain. A few months ago he went to the gr?ve of his sweetheart and took a dose of morphine as he lay across the grave, but was found and resuscitated. He was thirty-one years of age. WAR VETERAN DIES IN PRESENCE OF WIFE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 9. Jacob Taylor, a. $75 a month pensioner, com mitted suicide this evening by 'swallowing ca'rbolic acid while his wife was in his presence. He had frequently threatened suicide and the family thought the threats were idle.. He had been drinking heavily. BRAVE GIRL RISKS LIFE TO SAVE BABY f ROM REUTH Blanche Keller Rescues Child Play ing on Railroad Tracks at Kokomo. BOTH HAVE A CLOSE CALL Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind.. May 9.-Da?hIng In front of a swiftly moving train, Miss Blanche Keller, at the risk of her own life, to-day snatched from the Jaws of death two-year-old Mary Dwyer. Miss Keller is a typesetter In one of the local newspaper offices, and the child is the daughter of John Dwyer. The baby had wandered from the hous? to the Elm itreet crossing of the L. E. & W. Railway, stepping on the track just ahead of a swift ly moving engine. Miss Keller, who was passing, saw the child's per.l and rushed to the rescue. She snatched the little one literally from under the wheels, and at the greatest risk of her own life. The wheels caught a portion of her dress and tore It off, but she escaped, neither the rescuer or rescued receiving any injury. MRS. POWELL ASKS FOR A SECOND TRIAL DOVER, Del., May 9. In the Kent county Court of Oyer and Terminer to-day counsel for Mrs. Mary A. Towtil, convicted Satur day evening of murder In the second degree in killing Estel! Albin. a motion for a new trial and arrest of Judgment was made. Court aunounccd that counsel would be al lowed four days in which to tile reasons iu support of a motion for a new trial, pcudlug which sentence was deferred. The P arterites Are Much Alarmed at the Great Showing of Hearst Strength. COLLISION, FIRE, PANIC ON ELEVATED RAILWAY Cars Derailed, but Held Tottering ,on Edge of Structure by Couplings. ONE KILLED, FIVE HURT Passengers Leaped from Windows and Braved Dangers of the Third Rail. NEW YORK, May 9. A rear-end colli sion between two trains on the Third-avenue elevated between Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh streets this afternoon killed Motorman Cornell, of the rear train, and seriously injured five passengers. Fire ap paratus wa.s summoned and the firemen took the Injured down on ladders. The acci dent occurred at one of the busiest times in the afternoon and traffic on elevated and surface line was blocked. The traftis were on the south-bound .track. The first car of the rear train smashed itf way three-quarters of a length through the rear car of the second train and the exposed wiring set fire to the wreckage. The fire added to the panic. Tassengers leaped through the shattered windows, braving dangers of the third rail, and until firemen and policemen arrived in tense excitement prevailed. With such force did the rear train ram the one in front that the cars were lifted from the tracks and then settled down with a crash. Tottering on the edge of the elevated structure two cars hung out over the side nt an angle of about forty-five degrees, but the coupling hold and they were soon propped up by the fireman. So great was the force of the collision that the cars could not be drawn apart, and it was necessary to chop them to pieces. When the firemen arrived the passengers, many of whom were women, were running about wildly on the elevated structure or were struggling to pret out of the cars. Sev eral were injured by leaping from the win dows. The first train had been held up by repairs at Fifty-sixth street and was at a standstill when the accident occurred. FOUR MEN DROWNED IN THE BIG SANDY LOUISA, Ky., May 9. Four men were drowned while attempting to cross Big Sandy river, near Zelda, ten miles north of Louisa. A small boat containing these and two other men capsized. Those who lost their lives were: Wert Lambert, aged nine teen; Dayton Stewart, aged twenty-seven; Allen Hicks, ajred twenty-four; Phil Locke, aged twenty-three. The men had been at work on the new Norfolk & Western Rail road, on the West Virginia side of the river, and were returning to their homes. E TO PROTECT ' GIRLS ATW0RLD'S FAIR Women of the Local W. C. T. U. Bodies Prepare to Fight Crim inals at St. Louis. TO GIVE EMPLOYMENT A movement to counteract the Influence of an organization discovered in St. Louis formed to lure young girls there during the world's fair has been .undertaken by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Marion county.. At the regular annual convention and normal institute, now being held at the People's Congregational Church, Mrs. Ada L. Leek yesterday was appointed chairman, with power to select her own committee, to create an organiza tion to be known as the Girls Protective Association and Employment Bureau. It will be the object of this association to offset the influence of any attempts like the one mentioned by the St. Louis police by furnishing employment at home for all girls who respond to the criminals' adver tisements. Where the girls insist on be lieving the' attractive offers from the world s fair city the Protective Association will then inform Mrs. G. B. Ingalls. the national representative of the W. C. T. U. at St. Louis, who will co-operate with her local organization in an attempt to secure employment for all Indiana girls, who are strangers, and secure them employment in good Christian homes. Mrs. Leek thought last night that she would be able to ap point her committee this afternoon and that steps would be taken at once to form a permanent organization. Ye.t rday niornlnj? was taken up with the reports of. the officers and from the va tlous department superintendent, of which there are forty-two in the county. The aft ernoon session was devoted to a literary programme. IICE HOW B EF0RECIT Y COUNCIL Is Considered Among the Best of Its Kind in Any American City in Every Feature. ITS PROVISIONS DEFINITE Drawn by Committee that Worked Long and Hard Creates Office of Smoke Inspector. Introduced and referred to the commit tee on public safety and comfort at the special meeting of the City Council last night, the new building ordinance, which revises the city's code of building laws, promises to be quickly ratified and passed. The -attitude of , the councilmeji last night when the ordinance was received was toward making all p-'ssible haste in the consideration of the measure in order that It may be put In force at once. To this end the committee to which It was referred called a meeting for this evening, when it will begin its examination of the volumin ous document and seek to report it back to the Council before the end of the week. The committee includes Lew W. Cooper, Wil liam A. Rhodes, Albert E. Uhl, James B. Murray, James F. Sullivan, Daniel Linus, Albert E. Cottey and Andrew IL Wahl, the last three being appointed by Tresident Blllingsley last night. The new building ordinance was drawn up by a committee, organized at the suggestion of Building Inspector George W. Stanley, who was elected president of the committee and who has been untiring In his efforts to make the ordinarfre the best in the country. The committee comprised besides Mr. -Stanley, Fire Chief C. E. Coots, representing the Board of Safety; City Attorney Henry Warrum, J. II. Biningsley, president of the City Council; C. C. Pierson, of the Builders Exchange; W. P. Jungclaus, of tne Con tractors' Association; Oscar D. Bohlen, P. C. Itubush and Louis II. Gibson, represent ing the architects; T. M. Goodloe, of the underwriters, and Factory Inspector D. H. McAbee. Growing from the agitation for better buiidlng laws which followed the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, the ordinance on which the committee .has put its best ef forts In twenty-eight meetings, each lasting three hours and a half, and nuch outside study is probably one of the best in the country. It embodies the best features of the building ordinances of the larger cities of the United States, and yet in many re spects differs from any ordinance now in effect. The problem has been worked out from a local point of view. The feature of the new ordinance is Its provisions for the protection of life and limb especially in regard to theaters and places of public gathering.?, where fire pro tection is essential. In this respect the committee has practically gone, the limit (CONTINUED ON PAGEl, COL. 2.) RUSHES JOrHIS MOTHER Other Harvey; Takes Too Much Morphine, Calls for "Ella" and Is Saved from Death. DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE Disappointed in- love and tired of life, Other Harvey, a paperhanger, twenty-six years old, yesterday swallowed 25 cents' worth of morphine and staggered up two flights of stairs to his mother's rooms in a building at Washington and East streets, and fell across his bed in a half-stupor. His mother, Mrs. Annie Harvey, wa ab sent from the room at the time, but-was startled by the screams of a friend who en tered the room In search of her. She hur ried to the bedside, where the son, aroused for a moment, said: "Good-bye, mother, I'm gone," and again relapsed into uncon sciousness. Dr. Harvey, of the City Dis pensary, succeeded in saving the young man's life after heroic treatment. But for the large quantity of poison taken Harvey would have died before assistance could have reached him. Afterward he refused to talk, save to remark that he had "had enough of this sort of thing." During the time h was unconscious he continually called for "Ella" to come, saying "I want Ella." Mr. . Harvey says that her son is indus trious and has no bad habits. He has been calling on a young woman employed at the Armstrong laundry. Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, after giving his mother the money he had earned during the day, he went to the laundry where the girl is em ployed ami was not een aRain until found almost dead from the effects of the drug he had taken. Mrs. Harvey said: "It must have Leen some foolishness over a prirl, for no one lived together any happier thau we tutt." NEW BUILDING DA r JURORS HESITATE WHEN BE Ohio County Men's Opposition to Capital Punishment Delays Gillespie Trial. JURY NOT YET COMPLETE Two Important Witnesses in Mur der Case Are Missincr from Rising Sun. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RISING SUN, Ind.. May 9.-The trial of the famous Gillespie murder case is now under way. Court convened at 9 o'clock this morning, and each side stated that it was ready for trial. Prosecuting Attorney Theodore J. Wilbur, Harry It. McMullen. CasBlus W. McMullen and Henry M. Spaan represent the state, and the defendanis are represented by Attornej-s Francis M. Grif fith, of Vevay, Ind., and John It. Coles and his daughter. Miss Cynthia Coles, of this city. It is currently reported that a prom inent criminal attorney of Cincinnati, O., will be added to the defense to-morrow. The entire day was taken up in the exam ination of jurors. When court adjourned to-night the fol lowing eleven jurors had been accepted: George Hanna, Jacob Meyers, J. D. French, W. J. Powell, Albert Pate, David Bailey, David B. Gibson. Ira Peasly, George Rieman. James Elder, jr., -and James Hul bert. AIL are farmers, residing in Ohio county, except Hulbert, who Is a lumber man. Having exhausted the special venire of fifty, as well as the regular jury of twelve, another special venire of thirty names was issued. As some of the eleven now In the box are subject to challenge U is thought that the Jury will not be com! pleted in time for the beginning of testi mony until to-morrow afternoon. Of the fifty-one excused from jury duty to-day most of them were opposed to hanging women, and twenty of them to capital pun ishment for either men or women: Two important witnesses for the state are absent. Robert Gillespie, a brother of the defendant, left over a week airo and is visiting relatives at Marshfield. O. He avs he is going to California. The prosecu tion states that it would prove by him that the defendant had threatened his sis ter repeatedly. Another important witness is George Grace, of Cincinnati, who has recently secured a position in Pittsburg Grace formerly resided in Rising Sun and was a friend of the defendant. It is thought that Grace will yet be secured to testify. As it has been decided to try all of the four defendants together much dif ficulty is experienced in getting a Jury Two of the defendants are women and most of thoso examined to-day were op posed to hanging women. The defendants were present in court all day. James Gillespie appeared to take greater interest in the proceedings than either of the other defendants. He is bright and cheerful and says to his friends that he has no fear but that he, as well as his co-defendants, will be acquitted of the crime for which they are being tried While there has been no testimony as yrt the general feeling is that a conviction will bei secured or the Jury will fail to agree It is said the State has secured some very damaging evidence, and. on the other hand, it is reported that the defendants' evidence has been greatly strengthened re cently. ' Judge Downey is using every precaution to. have a fair and Impartial trial of the case. The .Jurors are not permitted to sep arate or talk together about the case or to others, and are kept under the watchful care of trusted bailiffs constantly. The deep interest in the case, which was somewhat allayed, has again been brought to the front, and large crowds are present during the trial. FELL INTO TANK OF OIL AND DROWNED Fate of Harvey Bradley, Field Manager for a Texas Com pany. BATSON. Tex.. May 9. Harvey Bradley. Arid manager for Price & Rradley. fell in a tank of oil to-day and was drowned. He had gone to the top of the tank, which was a 1,200-barrel settling tank, and It is sup posed he became overpowered by gas and fell in. The body sank to the bottom ami holes were cut in the tank to let the oil escape so men could go into it and secure the body. WOMAN AND CHILDREN DROWN IN KANSAS MILAN. Kan.. May 9. While fording Chikaska river, one mile north of here, a wagon containing W. Hanlan, wife and five children was overturned. The woman and three children were drown d. Mr. Han lan rescued two children after teveral hours' effort. The .tidies of the four drowned have not bitn recovered. VOME MAY AGED Three Thousand Camped Outside the City Watching Opportunity to Pillage the Place. AID FOR K URO PAT KIN Russia to.. Send 100,000 More Trops to Manchuria as Soon as Possible. CHKC-FOO, May 1 0 rncncra ar rltiiiR tn.dn)- front A leu-Cliwnntr, mnj that the Hiiftlnn force yrolmtily evnc utttcit that plnre during the night. I.OXnoV, May 10 The Tokio corre spondent of the Dully Chronicle tari that ir,OtiO JluMftlnn are retiring; front !lea-ClMvnii? to Llao-Yans. MIA-IIAI-KW.V May 3 The- evne nntlnn of UiiC1ihhiik rnntlnnrt, The Kun!nii authorities hnvr promised to leave n. sufflejent renr Runnl to pre vent pillujtlnK by the Chinese linnditl who are In the vicinity and awnltliig an opportunity to Ret Into the city. S1IAX-IIAI-KYVAN, May 0 A mer chant here who im In n. position to have trustworthy information has lu formed a correspondent of the Associ ated I'resa that at Port Arthur there Is only coal sufriclent to last the war ships four weeks, and that the food supply there will feed elfcht thousand men for three months only. SEOl L, Mny f The Jnpnnese consul at Gen-San telegraphs that n force o! Russians, number unknown, neenm pnnled by Mnnchurlan mounted ban dits, crossed the Vnlu, far above AVIJti ndvnnced southeast and occupied Chang; -J Iii, 1QO miles west of Song. Jin, 31 ny S. LONDOX, May lovTlie Dally Tele. Krnph'M Seonl correspondent snysi "It is believed here that a. portion of tli Russian Vladivostok fleet hits beer succettsf ully shut out and is now it the Sen of Japan trying to evade tin Japanese.' JAPANESE SAID TO HAl'BT OCCUPIED DALNY LONDON, May 10.-The Daily Telegraph'! Tokio correspondent, telegraphing undei date of May 9, says: The Japanese have re quested the United States government to in quire into the fate of forty men who wen missing after the blocking of Port Arthur It is believed that several of them were cap turcd. It Is reiterated that the JapaneM have occupied Dalny. I learn from trust worthy sources that the Russians in thi battle . of , the Ya'.u lost over forty gur.s enormous quantities of war material horses, carts,, ammunition and equipment The correspondent of the Chronicle a1 Tokio says that Chinese bmdlts hive do stroyed the road to Tatki-Chia and to Hal Cheng. Taski-Chla is the junction for thi Nieu-Chwang branch of the Port Arthur Mukden route, and Hai-Cheng Is farthe: north on the main line. The Russisns are making a new rood. Th correspondent adds that bandits have at tacked and cut other parts of the railroad and points out that the capture of Dalr.j will enable the Japanese to cut off Port Ar thur's electric supply. In the absence of further stirring nowi from the seat of war th Ixndon new spa, pers are discussing the probable cour5? events. The balance of opinion inclines ti the belief that General Kuroki will rucceo in overtaking the Russians between Feng Wang-Cheng and Liao-Yang and will com pel them to fight at a disadvantage. It it argued that it will be Imjrosyible for Gen eral Kuropatkin. depending on a slendes line of railroad and with his army eneum bored with baggage, to make his retiremen speedy enough to enable him to choose hu own ground for battle. On the other hand it Is argued thnt apart from Lieutenan General Zassalitch's error In giving batth on the Yalu against the orders of Gen eral Kuropatkin, the latter', plan remalnj unchanged and that once away from th mountainous country will be much In hi; favor. The question of the possibility of the Jap -anese finding a weak spot in the def nse o Port 'Arthur is also much debated, and It L believed in Fome quarters that they will i peat the tactics employed in the war wit China and attempt an assault throuRh lh western defenses which are known to l the weakest. Dispatches from Shanghai Fay that 'th Tartar general at Mukden ha declined ti obey Vicerdy Alexlcff s order that the Chi nese evacuate Mukden. ONLY SMALL FORCE AT NIEU-CHWANG CHE-FOO, May ?. 11 p. m.Adices her from Nieu-Chwang say the Russians ar maintaining only a small force at tha place. Chinese carts are not n lie wed t leave Nieu-Chwang as they are wanted fot use in the removal of Ilusian effect. Th exportation from Nieu-Chwang of beni cakes and other produce is not res-tricteil and a number of steamships are going thtn for cargoes. Nothing further has been heard of th Japanese transports which were seen ro cently near K?.i-C'hau. The Russians are commandeering c-itt' on the west tide of the l.lao river, and th Chine. ar? indignant at thi proeou-e Might hundred cattle have been seen at Via Kow. A Japanese rpy ha h-en discovered a Nieu-Chwang. He was approached Russians, who pulled at his ejueue.. whl I came off. He was taken prisoner, but M'' rcquently escaped with the help of surr. Chinese who distracted the attention o the Russians. The dynamo connected with the mines a Nieu-Chwanz ha? not been removed. RETREAT ORDERED BY GEN. KUROPATKIN PARIS, May 9 The correspondent at St Petersburg of the Kcho de Pari.- te-legraph as follows: "General Kuropatkin has .r derod a general retreat, and no doubt In tends to avoid a battle until h has suf!l clent forces. He uctualiy had at his dis P.jal not more than IüO.'mi men. oxclusiv of the garrison at Port Arthur, which con slsts of 3i ... and, the garrion at Nleu Chwuii. of lo.'vUX A general uho kr.owi