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VOLUME XV. NO. SMU.
IN A
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S3cretary of (he Interior, James R. Garfield De
capitates Eighteen Employes in His
Department and Paecipitates a
War From All Corners.
Employes, Who were Given Positions by Senators and
Congressman, are Given Yellow Slips and Told to
"SJciddoo" Garfield Hears From the Political Backers
of the Employes and the Battle is on Expense of the
Department will be Reduced Several Thousands of
Dollars Annually.
Washington, May 2n. A furious
political .storm broke over Wash
ington yesterday wbieli has
no hearing on the presidency, ,1ns.
11. Gnrtiehl, .who was imatlo, soc
rotnry of tbo interior to shako np
that ponderous department is the
center of. tlii.s rf-hturhanec.
As a first Htqp towird inform he
discharged eighteen employes of
tbo land ofiicc for "incompeten
cy". They lieard from Mr. Oar
field Tuesday :ai tlio form' of yol
low telegraph forms, filled in
with the nearest approach to pro
fanity that tho ' telegraph compan
ies would transmit under a frank.
To Mr. Garfield's explanation
that tho discharged employes nre
"incompetent" the angry answer
is mat wiey were juii. 01 hiu imiu
office by Vico Prosndcnt Fniibanks'
sundry Fopalors and lessor slotos-niei),-
and things havo como to a
pretty .pass if a young,, tennis playing-
friend of the 'president who
nniwors to the name of "Jiininio''
is to 'be all0--'0"1 ' dial nib pcilitjenl
fenceiujw'-lo.zon. states, "
(Worst still, -Itr. Garfield, in tho
fitimp vof, reforn, has committed the
supromd sacrilege. He has interfer
ed with the "P. D.'" roll of tbo
Ecnnte, 'Aiflor congroH publicly
and .ostentatiously abdicated its
vvido' patroiingo powers over tho dc
parontu in favor of the civil scr
vicq thn "wnalo htealthilv created
thov "P. t." roll or which tho
puhl'c is Supposed to know noth
ing Thosn cnbnlihlio letters stand for
"per dipm," When u senator has
somebody on his hands, -who mast
ho eared for ho has that peison
DIGS UP THE BODY
OF HER MOTHER
In Hope bftBrlnging Her Back, a Grief Stricken Woman,
Who Could Find no Consolation, Endeavors to
Exhume the Body.
Rowling . Green, Ohio, May 23.
raHing"loudly to her dead mother
and digging frenzied strength
nt tho grave hi. a lonely .cemetery
at tbo m'ldnigllt hour, 'Mis. Gioen
fiold was Jouiid 'by, friends last
night. Her mother,' (Mrs. J. P.
Oates had been in an 'asylum for
a year, but a short time before her
death was token homo very iiiueli
improved i health. iSbo became
suddenly worse, however, and died.
Tbo da'ughtei;, Mrs. Greenfiold, was
very deeply a'fecli'd by her nioth
ei' death, and in hoi' grief, could
find no consolation.
At tho funeral, as tho pastor
was uttering' an oulogiuiu upon tho
deceased, tho daughter reason be
came dethroned nnd -sho created
stu'li i scene that friends had ,tp
take her away. When the remains
wm-Qr lyWhVcywl Heaver Creek
vometqry; 'Kvivt'jjitf h'e'ie, ho diiughi
tor fofVgh','ftho" Hoxjon as lie was
endeavoring to' ''ijililco tho body in
WILL MEET NEXT YEAR
IN YOUNGSTOWN
Toledo, 0., Moy 23. -Tho Anml
, 'gamut on" Associjition adjourned nf
tor; ro-olucting tlio old officers and
doViding to meet in YouiijjKtown
n'eft'S'ear. The scalo committco
wilhdJogiij conforonrps with innnn
fndufors in Toledo, Juno 4,
S POIJTIGAL
FULL DOZEN STATE
employed, ns extra help in one of
tbo departments at a per diem, In
lioulrast to tbo (permanent .posi
tions, filled thiougn'tlw civil wr
vice conunissuni; which piy nu an
nual salary.
Hut custom has mado tho "P.
D." roll the most permanent thing
!li Washington. Tho favored ones
who w?euro a placo theVo without
the embarrassing ordeal of a civic
service examination are tbo aristoc
rats of tho' government service, bo
fore wlionl even' autocratic bureau
beads and chief clerks tremble.
The-o "P. D." favorites every
one are tho protege of a powerful
senator, have been accustomed to
do as little work as they pleased
to bo absent when it seemed good
to them or when their senntora
needed them and to generally swag
ger through tbo departments, tbo
envied of all beholders. When
minors of n. hake up, ran through
the interior dnpuriment the ''P.
I)," , clerks gmili'il supercilious,
Syniplffliy" on "the unfortunates who
had won to their position. in tho
regular way, through a civil sor
vieo examination. No shako up,
no reform, could touch tbo sacros
anct senatorial roll.
But when tbe ax fell thud; six
sacred heads fiom tho "P. D."
list fell into (lie basket. Ono
was that of a woman 'placed on
that roll at the request of Vico
President Fairbanks himself. An
other has been Employed at the
command of T. C. Piatt of Now
York. The other four hail simi-
Jar exciusos for drawing their ie&
diem.
tho earth, ami another weno en-
sued. l'Tienus auu aujuiiv-' i'"s
tho young woman homo and a
wotcli was kept 'over her a
Uito in tbo evening sho esQaped
them, and seizing a spade, evident
ly ran the dirUuico to the ceme
tery, for her searchers sus-pectiug
where she bad gone, hurried to the
placo and there- found her" digging
at her mother's grave. Sho had
completed nn excavation which it
took the sexton several hours to
nuike, and was hacking nwny nt
Itho rough iiox which contained tbo
casket and the remains of her
dead mother, crying loudly lor tho
doparted ono to come back. It was
with difficnlty that tho grief, fren-
.ied ' woman was taken away. Tt
was necessary to placo .hor m the
I custody of tho olllcials nnd sho
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vill bo sent to tno asylum recouuy
occupied by hor mother. Tt is
foaied that hor reason ' gouo for
all time.
ODD FELLOWS WILL MEET
AT PUT-IN-BAY Iti 1908
Stoubenvillo, O.J Muy 23. -Tho
Grand Lodgo of Odd Follows moots
at Pnt-In-Bay, May 1(1 to 18, noxt
year. Springfield luodo a bid Xor-
it. ,
Charters .were granted fo-fayon-teon
Robecilis lodges and six' sub-orduintes.
MAllION. OHIO, TIIUItSDAY EVENING,
A'ico Presidenc Fairbanks suffer
ed si double loss indeed. Cnpt.
W. lv. Ellis, wlio was carried on
tbo ioIIh as a file and briefing
ojeik because bo was a handy iiian
politically, in Indiana, was ono of
thoso who received a jellow dis
charge slip. Ho was bustling about
among his fellow clerks-, collecting
evidenco fromi them an to bis rom
jMjtoncy and shaking a wise head
over predictions ns to what Mr.
Fairbanks would do with this ma
terial in tbe coming tilt -with Mr.
".Tliiimio" Garfield.
All ithe discharged ones com
municated immediately with their
backers and most of them received
reassuring, words that just as soon
ns several senators found timo to
lend to tho young Mr. Garfield
things would be adjusted 'ii a sat
isfactory manner. For Mr. Gar
field must ask appropriations of
congress, for one thing, and the
proVulonl,, who will havo sonio woik
for that body to do this winter
is to have notice served on him
that while it may he all r'gbt to
talk about rcfonn, men who' vote
for his measuies will expect to
have their henchmen protected from
tbo tuibridled plunges of tbe secre
tary of tbo interior through tho
political landscape.
This row is just a promise of
moio to come, for Secietary Gar
field ha.si only started to clean
hone. In tho recording division
of the land office alone ho expects
to reduce the force from soventy
five to about Unity. Ho is showing
a most unholy knowledge of inti
mate thing- deep down in these oh-
scurc divisions under him. Em
ploye nro bogihn.'ng to lcmcmber
with alarm, Hint Mr. Garfield, ns
a member of tbe Keep commission
that investJgalud thi'tdcnarLuienU
)ihfiwed.grear zenT in finding out
inside affairs 'in tbo interior de
pa rtmelit.
My using typewriters to record
luiul patents whoro handwriting has
been used sinco Washington's timo
by abolishing useless buienus, con
solhlatjig divisions and genernllv
overhauling things tbo secretary
wilt probably succeed in reducing
tlio pay roll by many thousands of
dollats, and making tho senate and
tho house correspondingly infuriat
ed . .For it is tlio foundation of all
political principles to increase the
number of jobs as often ns may
ho put to never abolish one.
MISS SHONTS TO WED A
TITLED FRENCHMAN
iPar'n, M'ay 211. The, mnrriago
of Miss Theodora Shouts, daughter
of, a'icoilnro Shouts, former head
o Mio Pjnlama canal commission
nifd, jlukeiUo Chnulnoi-s, will bo
eojbbfnled lii this city, early in
Jjtiio. "J
GIRL BURNS THE
i BfJNDS FROM HER ARMS
'Huevnis, ,o., May 2.1. -Clara
JiihranJ wnt captured in her room
iir a biiaixlihg houso by two mask-
'Gracious ki,
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1 mon who Iftniml niul gagged hor
mill robbed I lip bonne. Tim civl
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Tier
fiiiallv hnrned tho bonds from
anus wtlli tlio flniuu of a lamp,
fnpn which ilu had knocked thn
chimney and gac the ifhiutu
COREY WILL REMAIN AT
HEAD OF STEEL TRUST
Pittsburg:. Pa., May 2.'1. -Referring
to i-lhe story that Willl'ini
(Vney woftld shortly retire fiom
tbo R-Jefllj 'rust and President
Dinkey ofcllie Carnegie Steel com
rniny wonul siioceed him, Dinkey
said' todays. ''In mv opinion Co icy
will remniif,- in I lie picsideuey for
u long tunc i come. "
MRS. M'KINLEY
PARALYZED
She is Unconscious and Her
Recovery From the Stroke
is not; Expected.
Canton, 0., May 23. Mrs
Mc-
Kinley, widow of tho lato presi
dent McKinloy, sustained a stroke
of paralysis today and is uncon
scious at hot homo in this city. It
is believed sho cannot survive. Sur
geon General ltixoy, tho family
physician, when her husband was
president, has. ben summoned from
Washington.
CHURCH
DISCIPLINE
Will be Applied to Presby
terian"MIni'slers Who Tte-""
marry Divorced Persons
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Columbus, )., May 23. -Tbo'
Prcsbyteiian Geuernl Assembly to
day adopted .ihilJ .declaration on
divorce and icinarringu.
"We iippiiixo of tho recommeu
latitui of the inter-church confer
ence, that nunisteiy should lofuso
to marry divoiced prisons, ccepr
thoinnocciit p.uty in a case whcio
a divorce has heen granted on
ivriptiiuil gionuds, nor then r.jitil
issurcd that perioil of one year
has elapsed tioiintho date of the
lecision allowing "tho divorce. A
minister who ipurforins the lunr
riagi'rt of diunveil'porson.s, foibid
ileu ly the liurch, 1 is wibject to
church discipline.
JUDGE IIARGIS
GOES TREE.
Lexington, .Ky., May
23. Tho jury returned a
vordct of "not guilty" in
tho Hargis murder trial,
tliis morning, after deliber
ating ono hour.
w
Theodore, If you oln'tboln' In ploaooet off tho eprlngboardl" i
Dm ling in Ott Moine RogliUr and Ltfdor.
MAY 2JJ, 1907.
CIGARETTE
TO BLAME
Metropolitan Hotel Fire
Caused by One of the
Pesky Things.
IHica, New Yoik, May 21), -A
lighted cigiuelte, tossed into tho
cellar of tho Metropolitan hotel,
caused a blaze this morning, sost
mg tlio lives of two pcisoii3 and
imperriled n. half hundreil guests,
who slid down iopes to safety or
were lu'cucd by tbe firemen, i
Tbo dead: Annie Sullivan. n''cl
IOrt a chambermaid; Gcorgo A.
.joines, oi i union, a guest.
Several of the. rescued aro at a
hospital in a critical condition from
burns or suffocation.
EXCITING
MAN HUNT
Eight of the Thirteen Escap
ed Toledo Prisoners Have
Been Captured.
Toledo, May 2.'!. After a scries
of exciting mnii bunts, eight of, tbo
thirteen prhoncra who escaped
from the workhouno yesterday have
been captured. Two weie taken nt
the Air Lino .1 miction, three at
Wnuseon nnd threo lat Sylvan u.
At Sylvtiuia a jiosso fought with
the I'fcaped iirisonere. Ono pris
oner was (shot in tho hip, another
hud,. Jus head, split-, opjju,. w,iUia-
liuiici, anil onoi.iiur cseapca wan a
bullet Jn his leg.
ROYAL
FAMILY
Sought to be Annihilated by
the Anarchists Plotting
Against the Czar.
St. ,1'eter.sburg, May 3.'!. -Who
sensal'tninl declaration that re
cently discovered plot against czar
leally contemplated tho destruction
of whole palace at Tsarkoye Sole
and killing sill members of tho
ll'iynl family nl once, was mado
today in Novoo Vreyinn. Tho con
spirators had succeeded in entering
tbo imperial service and plan laid
to distribute n number of powerful
ml final machines throughout tin
giant structure and. by exploding
all, dcntioy tho entire palaco and
all occupants. Letters found show
that several American anarchists
in in tho United .States are in-
oh I'd.
GIRL THE VICTIM OF
TWO REVOLTING CRIMES
Assaulted by Some Unknown Man and Then Murdered
Body Yet Warm When Found and a Posse Starts
in Search of the Fiend but is Unable
to Locate Him.
New York, May 23. In bright
sunlight Wednesday nfternoon, Amelia
Charlotto Staffelilt, tlfteen years old,
daughter of a well-to-do farmer, was
Htruck il)wn unit assaultod by an
unknown man In an open field at
Klmliurst, Queens borough, and then
stabbed to death. TJio body, still
warm, was dlscovtf.eil by Joseph Un
file, Jr., of AVInfleld. h. I.
.Miss Staffelilt, tho youngest ot ten
children, lived with her parents In n
pleasant farmhouse 1111 Shell road.
Sho had earned a tidy sum of money
this spring picking dandelions, and
was gathering tho (lowers when hist
soon. Tho weapon employed In tho
murder was tho kitchen knife which
slip had usd to sever the crowns
from tho roots of the wild flowers.
Tho body when found by Joseph
Engle, a farm hand, was halt stripped
of clothing nnd liore tho evidence of
revolting assault, and the struggle
which the girl had made. Two
wounds In tho throat told how the
murder was done.
Word of the outrage spread quickly
through the farming section, whoro
tho girl's rather, William Staffelilt.
a well-to-do farmer, lives. Later,
united In a determined posse, 200
neighbors searched or the murdeier.
but without avail.
Tho girl was seen entering a pas
ture lot on Baxter avenue, Kim
Hurst, by Joseph Engle, who was en
gaged In hauling fertilizer in tho
vicinity. Rnglo afterward saw the
girl at work picking dandelions. Ho
found the body at 4 o'clock. k
j:i)Ie says thM-h-w'anStfWftS--'
FIXED
SCHEDULE
For Transportation by the
Standard's Pipe Lines
Sought in Circuit Court.
I'indlay, U., May 2.t.-Argu-n'ents
weio heard today beloio the
circuit -iiii L in the case of Ohio
against tbo Buckeyu Pipe Lino com
pany in -nimdniiius, to compel the
company to establish 11 fixed sched
ule for rates, for transportation as
common carriers, mid to compel tho
company to cease unlawful dis
crimination between producers.
Tho chi"f contention of the,
Standard attorneys, was that iio
demand has been made nor not ice
served upon Ilium . Assistant At
torney (leneral llarrihon slated
thai the law in itself win a notice
and no formal demand was 110
cessarv. PRAY FOR DEATH
AT THE SAME HOUR
Bluff ton, Ohio, May 23. -Mr.
mil Mrs. John Kenton of this place
.lie both calmly awaiting death and
hope tbo Almighty will hco fit to
carry them off at the muiio time.
o that their wish for a double fu
neral will be realized. Mr. Kenton
is S3 years old and his wife '-s six
ycnv his junior. They have boon
sick for Mimo time and lmo made
all preparations for death.
A doiihlo casket has boon built
and practically all arrangements
mado for tbo funeral.
Years ago, hecuuo of tho love
they entertained for ono another,
tbe idea that they could both die
Ht tho ."."ino timo bmimo firmly
impressed upon them. They have
lived in tjns section all their lives
and nre highly respected citions.
BRYAN COUNCILMAN
JS UNDER ARREST
Bryan, O., Mny 23. Baniol P.
Bnxtor, a member of council, has
been indicted for alleged complic
ity in tv p'0'' by which bis houso
was burned, yents ago, for insur
ance .Bnxtor is ill in Detroit.
Tho indiotmont is based . on tho
confession by Jack Pago, tbo aged
firebug, now in tho Ohio .ponitenti
ary.
PMCE TWO CENXB
-. .'U-J r, !.t.JSS3
Ins tho lot In which tho girl had
been about three-quarters ot an hour
before he found the body. Tlio man
was go far away that ho did not rec
ognize him. This man, Hngle says,
must have passed close to tho girl or
her body.
"jJnglo last evening In passfhg the
spot where ho lost saw her alive, no
ticed wliat appeared to him to be a
bundlo of clothing. Investigation
disclosed tho body. The weapon lay
near. It had been driven twlco Into
tho neck nnd apparently almost Ha
full length.
Now York, May 23--The polico
have m far failed to solvo tho mys
tery oil tho anurdor of Amelia Staf
felilt. siged lo, who was choked and
stubbed to death in a field near
her homo in Klmliurst, Long Isl
and, yesterday, after being as
saulted. Tho iolice arc trying to
trace all cnombers of a gang of
Italian workmen employed near
by.
Th. men who found tbe body say
they saw a man, evidently a for
eigner, .ninning from tho field. A
neighbor woman says sho saw two
Italians washing stains from their
hands nt her well.
The girl had evidently fought
hard. In addit'ton to tho stabs
there are linger marks on tho
throat and bruises on tho nrms and
body. Near tho body was tho knife
the girl had used in cutting dan
delions, but tho jHdico aro not uro
"Li!i ."i1 wounds wero mado. jvitli-i
7 Ills! WCMJ'OIl.
PARKLERS
ARE GONE
Diamond Broker Disappears
and with Him $250,600
Worth of Gems.
New Yik, May 23. The polico
niv M.'nrchiiig lor .1. K. Boeckj, a
dirni mid hroker, alleged to havo
vnnished with gems worth .$2o0,000
winch gem meifhanls hud entrusted
to him to sell to wealthy flionts
ho claimed to have. Boeck camo
to this country at tho timo of tho
St. Imis exposition from Ch-'ma
where he had lived for years and
was ncmiiuntud with many million
aiies. The jiolico beliovo ho has
f It'll the count 1 y and all foreign
ports are being wutehed. ' '
TRUST
TO BLAME
Leading Journals Say Infer
ior Rails are Made and
Sold by the Steel Trust.
New Yoik,. M'ay 23. -That the
hteel trust is deliberately auaking
rails of nu inferior iptality and is
theieby hugely responsible for tho
incieaso of ra ditnul accidents, ig
tlio tchiirge brought by tbo Scici?ti
fio Ameiicnn, tin Railway Oasotto
and loihur publications of, a techni
cal ('Imiacter. .' ., ,
Avoiding ito tiro Rnllway Oa?pito
tho 'trust has? ' shown "Aiv.,;)ittQr.
l..l' Irf.l' l.kftk .- 1. 3111- t i lir. . . rt J .
and "a criminal willingness" ito 1
mako bad rails. Summing up, tho
Railway (la.etto declares, that tbo
"trust knowingly makes rails
which break and kill people" r.
MURDERER HENRY WHITE
URANTED A REPRIEVE
Columbus." 0., May 23. -Governor
Harris, Thursday, granted a
vapricvo to Henry White, of Le
banon, undor sentence to bo elec
trocuted, May 20 until Juno 28,
to give timo to apply to tho, su
ipremo court for leave to filo rf
potition in orrnr. , t
White shot. and killed tho villaca
I marshal,
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