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THE TALT EXPOSITOR, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1909. Hi OF A WEEK In CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST. MANNER POSSIBLE. AT HOME AND ABROAD Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. WASHINGTON VEW8. The senate voted to raise the house rate on print paper from two to four dollars a ton. William Lorlmer, the new senator from Illinois, was sworn into office and cast his first vote on the tariff schedule on paper. Wore than two hours and a half was taken up by the Taft cabinet dis cussing economy of administration in the government departments. President Taft sent a message to congress urging a tax on the undis tributed earnings of corporations. Senator Borah announced In the jsenate that he will vote, when the op portunity comes, to give self govern ment to the Philippines. PERSONAL. Henry George, Jr., is the guest of Count Leo Tolstoi at Yasnal -l'oliana. The count welcomed his visitor most cordially on account of his father, whose economic ideas ho admires greatly. Rev. U. G. Pierce, D. D., pastor of All Soul's Unitarian church of Wash ington, was designated by a senate resolution to act as chaplain until otherwise ordered. Former President Roosevelt in an article in the Outlook compared the rule of the corporations with that of a bloodthirsty mob. i Justice Mills in the New York su preme court postponed the hearing on Harry K. Thaw's application for re lease from the insane asylum at Mat teawan until July 6. Charles W. Morse, the convicted New York banker and former Vice king," was freed from Jail on a $125, 000 bond. Ralph Shull, a wealthy lumberman of Minneapolis, is going to the work house for five days for exceeding the automobile speed limit. Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, was entertained In elaborate fashion by the governor of Kyoto, Japan. He was driven to his hotel "in the gov ernor's carriage. Former Judge Abner Smith of Chi cago Is now librarian at the Jollet penitentiary, where he was sent for bank wrecking. Francis E. Leupp resigned as In dian commissioner and President Taft Appointed Robert G. Valentine to fill the place. GENERAL NEWS. Ten persons were killed and 40 In jured In a head-on collision of two trolley cars on the Chicago, Lake 1 Shore & South Bend railroad at Baileytown, Ind. The Jury In the case of Patrick Cal houn, the San Francisco millionaire, failed to agree and was discharged, the trial having lasted five months and one week. The police of the whole, world have been asked to aid in capturing Leon Ling, the Chinese slayer of Elsie Sigel, granddaughter of Gen. Franz , Slgel of New York. The race for big cars In the Crown Point (Ind.) events was won by Louis Chevrolet in a Bruick auto. Emil Tilley, who killed his father near Benton Harbor, Mich., said he fired to save himself and wife who had been attacked by his parent with a club. Mrs. Bruce Moore, wife of a farmer near Platte City, Mo., saw her hus band shot down in cold blood by George Johnson, a farm hand. Mr. and Mrs. N. Burnham, who were married in Plttsfleld, Mass., spent the first three hours of their honeymoon in a balloon. The main factory building of the G. B. Lewis Company, manufacturers of beekeepers supplies at Watertown, Wis., was destroyed by fire, causing $80,000 damage. The American branch of the Inter national Banking Company was opened In Peking. A man who gave the name of F. W. Marvin and believed to be the fifth man wanted for alleged connec tion with the Union Pacific mail rob bery near Omaha on May 22, has been arrested at Buhl, Idaho. Celebration of the twentieth anni versary of statehood was held In .Aberdeen. S. D. Edward Arnold, two years old, was playing in front of the house from which deputy sheriffs were evicting his parents In Far Rockaway, N. Y., when he was killed by an Ice wagon. Mrs. Howard Gould covered her face with her hands and sobbed when -witnesses at the trial of her separa tion suit told of her profanity and In toxication. An Erie passenger train was wrecked at Waverly N. Y., and sev eral passengers painfully Injured. Wilbur and Orvllle Wright were honored at a big fete in their home city, Payton, O. The United Norwegian Lutheran church. In convention at Des Moines, la, voted to raise $1,000,000 for a cele bration of their twenty-fifth anniver sary In 1814. The North American Skat league at its meeting in Milwaukee elected J Charles Elchhorn of Detroit president and selected Detroit as the next meet ing place. The Stanley G. Flagg Iron works at Stowe, Pa., announced a ten per cent Increase In wages. A report was received In Tangier that the government troops had been defeated in a battle with insurgents under the leadership of Roghl. Pettinfo Galbo and Orazio Rumfola, alleged leaders of the "Black Hand" society, were arrested in Pittsburg. Engineer Davis of Kingston ' was killed at Mount Pocono, Pa., on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad by his head striking the plat form hood of a freight depot as he leaned from his cab. The Russian military transport In- gul has been wrecked in Turpsay bay, in the Black sea. The sixty-fifth annual meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy opened in Detroit with a large attend ance. The Michigan State Association of Letter Carriers met In yearly conven tion at Benton Harbor. Joe Matson, driving the Chalmers Detroit machine in the small car race at Crown Prolnt, Ind., won the con test in which 16 autos competed. Medals awarded by the nation, the state of Ohio and the city of Dayton were presented to the Wright broth ers for their aerial achievements. Testimony showing that Mrs. How ard Gould often was visited by Dustln Farnum, an actor, was given by wit nesses. The trial of Patrick Calhoun, the San Francisco millionaire charged with bribery, came to a close after six months. Albert Munro and his bride of a week were found dead at Williams port, Pa., and are believed to have been the victims of poisoned candy. James D. Hallen was placed on trial in New York charged with defrauding the Nicaraguan government by ship ping sawdust in boxes supposed to contain ammunition. Council for Broughton Brandenburg admitted that the signature attached to the article purported to have been written by Grover Cleveland was not genuine. Mrs. Emma Kaufmann, wife of a wealthy brewer of Flandreau, S. D., who was charged with killing her maid, was found guilty of battery and fined $100, which was paid. The Swedish consut in New York in a dispatch to the government em phasizes the unwisdom of Swedes emigrating to America, where, he de clares. times are bad at present. Bishop Bonacum and two priests were driven from Ulysses, Neb., by an angry mob when they went there to take charge of a church over which there has been a feud for several years. Great Britain has asked America not to press her claim for participation In the Hankow-Szechuen railroad loan of $27,500,000, which British, German and French bankers stand ready to take up. The French budget for 1910 was In troduced in the chamber of deputiei by Finance Minister Caillaux and shows a deficit of $21,000,000. Nine million dollars of this is charged tc the budget of 1911. While guarding the royal yacht on which the czar and the German em peror were holding a conference, a Russian torpedo boat fired upon a British steamer and wounded the en flncef. Charles F. Lelnlnger was killed and two other men shot by an actor who had been attacked by several persont at Fairfield, 111., because of his at tentions to one of the young women oi the town. Hearing of testimony in the case ol Private Klein, of a Chicago militia company, who killed Earl Nelson, t Kankakee boy with a bayonet, began at Paxton, 111. Thomas J. McCoy, former bankei and politician of Laporte, Ind., wai released from the state penitentiary where he served three years for em bezzlement. Levi Yoder, of Massilon, O., killed himself rather than. comply with th provisions of his mother's will, whlct required him to wear hooks and eyei instead of buttons on his clothes. Gov. Harmon and staff reviewed tht parade of the Ohio O. A. R. veteram on the closing day of their encamp ment at Newark. Ralph de Palma broke the automo bile speed record for 25 miles, makinf the distance In 23 minutes and 31 seconds at Readvllle, Mass. George C. White, William Kilgan non, and the latter's wife, Ellzabetl Kilgannon, pleaded guilty In th United States circuit court in Nevi York to Indictments chargtag then with smuggling. In a fire In a" five-story tenemen1 house in Cincinnati, the 100 panic stricken occupants were saved b) daring rescues by firemen., Fourteen hat manufacturing firms o' Connecticut were sued for $364,00( damages by the Amalgamated Ha' Manufacturers of New York, as a re suit of the recent strike. Servants and former employes oi Mrs. Howard Gould told of seeing hei frequently Intoxicated. The Illinois supreme court declared the state's primary election law un constitutional. , "Mother" Jones, who seeks a par don for a man who violated the neu trality laws, made an appeal to Pres Ident Taft in the prisoner's behalf. A report by department of agricul ture experts says tuberculosis amon hogs in the United States Is Increas Ing. Senator Elkins declared his daugh ter, Miss Katherine, is going to Eu rope because of an affection of th heart and not to meet the duke o the Aoruzzl as has been reported. SIPPING WIVES; AMONG (MUSTS A MOST REMARKABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN LANSING TOWNSHIP. A NEW POPULAR PASTIME Sheriff Probing a Horse Stealing Charge Finds a Condition of Home Life That is Startling. Trading wives Is a pastime said to have been Indulged in by Lansing township citizens. Not entirely satis fied with his matrimonial ventures, and looking upon the wlte of an ac quaintance with envious eyes, one young farmer is said to have made a proposal to "swap" wives. There was a difference of opinion regarding the comparative value of the women, but after considerable "dickering" the deal was completed, one man giving an ax handle "to boot," according to information gained by the sheriff's de partment during a recent investiga tion. While probing a charge of horse stealing recently, a miniature grand Jury was conducted in Justice Crow ley's court at East Lansing at the suggestion of Sheriff Cline. Several witnesses were sworn during the se cret BesslCn and one of the women called to testify is said to have told of the wife trade. Other unusual acts by Lansing township citizens are said to have been divulged, and when the sheriff's force completes its probe, some inter esting developments are expected. Doing Real Auditing. Padding expense accounts la a form of petty grafting with which the state board of auditors has been greatly bothered and some men well known all over the state are said to have received notice that their ex pense vouchers contained items which the board would not allow. It is even said that some fclrcuit Judges have, by mistake or otherwise, turned in accounts which have been disal lowed. One means taken by the board to ascertain whether the state is secur ing value received Is through the work of a clerk whose business it is to ascertain what passenger trains have diners and parlor cars attached, and what are the rates of hotels. This makes it rather embarrassing for a state employe who turns in a bill for $3.50 a day for staying at a hotel which the board knows has no rate higher than $1.50, or for $1.23 for a meal on a diner when the train has no ration car attached. "We are not starting In to cause any trouble for any one," says one member of the board, "but we are not going to allow padded expense ac counts if we can help it, and this is a word of warning." A Prisoner's Hope. If the efforts now making in behalf of Dan Jones, who has been serving 25 years in the house of correction at Detroit, are successful, he will be released from prison, where he was sentenced for the alleged murder of his cousin. Bill Jones, at Fort Smith, Ark. Representative Cravens, of Ar kansas, Bays: "At the time of the con viction of Jones there was no appeal from the verdict of the United States court at Fort Smith, and Jones was sent to prison in spite of newly dis covered evidence that he was inno cent." Lunatic On a Rampage. An unknown farmer, aboqt 20 years old, who cannot speak a word of Eng lish, ran amuck with two revolvers in Bennington township Thursday even ing and was run down in Bath by a deputy sheriff In an automobile, after a desperate chase, and taken to Lan sing, where he is now in the lockup. Sheriff Watson received a telephone message that an apparently crazy man was shooting stock on the Hub bard farm. He dispatched Deputy Brown there in an automobile. When In sight of the place the officer count ed two dead calves and four dead sheep, the man's victims. He heard a wild whoop and In the distance spied his quarry. Then he began a mad chase after 'the man down the road in the car. The man proved to be a wonderful sprinter and several times fired his revolvers back at the auto. Finally the fugitive cut across the fields to Bath and the deputy had to abandon his auto and pursue on foot. There the man was cornered, but would not give In. He appears to be a Bohemian, but no one knows where he lives or can get a word out of him that they can understand. Man Cut In Two. Rutherford B. M. Matheson, aged 40, of Blaine, was run over and cut in two by a Pere Marquette train Thursday afternoon. The body was brought to a Port Huron morgue. He was identified by letters in his pocket. one being from Miss Carrie Cooley, 142 Lyman place, Detroit. The writer said that she preferred Detroit to the country and hoped to be allowed to see Matheson in the near future. Matheson had no relatives in Blaine, but was well known and had many friends. William Gardner, a farmer, reported to the police that two men with whom he had become acquainted at a Grand Rapids saloon, had robbed him of a sum of money, and then locked him In a box car. He says that he cut his way out of the car with a Jackknlfe. . Miss Fleda Hart, a teacher, received the greatest number of votes In the contest held in Bath, Mich., to choose a representative at the centennial cele bration to be held In July at Bath, England. The citizens of that city pay ail the expenses of a'young woman from every town named Bath In the world, to attend the celebration. The M. A. C Trouble. There will be no strike on the part of the senior class at the Agricultural college because of the expulsion of students for various offenses. There had been threats made that If the ex pulsions were not withdrawn and the students reinstated, the whole class would boycott the commencement ex ercises, thus bringing down on the college much unwelcome notoriety. The principal development in the trouble was the arrest of two students charged with the theft of a large number of cartridges from the col lege armory. Some 20,000 cartridges disappeared from the armory, and though the college authorities were very much worked up over the mat ter, they refused to start any criminal prosecutions on account therof. Saturday, however, warrants were issued for Fay Dockery and J. E Brand, charging them with larceny. The complaint on which the warrants were Issued was signed by one of the deputy sheriffs who investigated the theft. When arraigned in Justice court both boys pleaded guilty, giving the excuse that they had "done it for fun." They were fined $15 and $11.75 costs each and discharged. Dockery is from Traverse City and Brand from Corunna. In Pitiable Condition. Frank J. Shields, who had been missing from his home In Muskegon four days, was found wandering about the woods In the northern part of the county Monday night. His clothing was in rags and he was In a pitiable condition from hunger and exhaustion. Sheriff Nelson and a posse and many of Shields' relatives and friends have conducted a systematic search of the county 6ince the man, being affected by a recent severe illness, wandered away from his home. His family, who had Just .about given up hope of ever seeing him alive again, have nsked that he be kept under sur veillance until his sanity can be do termincd. MICHIGAN BREVITIES. The horse show at the Michigan State fair will this year surpass all previous exhibits. One day of the Rochester home-com ing will be set apart for the celebra tion of the local fire department, which was organized 19 years ago. The grand lodge of Masons of Michigan laid the cornerstone of the new federal building In Niles Friday. It was for this building that Congress man Hamilton obtained an appropri ation of $00,000. The Jury in the case of Corporal John Gibson, charged with killing Sergt. John McManus, at Fort Brady, at the Soo, after being out 28 hours, announced that they were unable to agree, and there will be a new trial. Because Marshal Adams, of Read ing, locked him up without a warrant on suspicion of knowing something of the disappearance of Miss Carrie Hug gett, Cleveland R. Slausen, a minor, has brought suit for $2,000 damages against the officer. Mrs. Mae Butler Deaman, the wo man charged with attempting to poi son her young son by sending him strychnine through the mall, was ac quitted by a Jury in Hersey Friday. The woman had been In Jail since March 2. The Jury was out Just 15 minutes. Four persons who had been released on probation by Judge Mayne, of Traverse City, after being convicted of different offenses, presented such good reports that the Judge announced that at least 25 per cent of the peo ple now in prison should be at liberty under that system. A tombstone bearing a portrait of his prlze-winnJng horse, Earl W., will be erected over the grave of Dr. A. E. McBeth, late president of the Battle Creek council and a prominent horse man. McBeth died of brain trouble following an exciting experience at the Lansing circuit races a few days ago. The Jury in the case of Mrs. Cbra Hart, of Clinton county, against Ira Butterfield, a wealthy Shiawassee county farmer, returned a verdict of no cause of action. The woman sued for $5,000 damages, claiming that the defendant attempted to assault her in her home in 1907. The case has been In the courts ever since. The Cooper tragedy. In which Mrs. Emma Cooper was thought to have killed her husband and three children and then herself, was recalled In Cad illac when Ira Cooper, administrator of the estate, petitioned the probate court for permission to sell the property. The estate will probably be divided equally among the heirs. Mrs. Hannah Tunnsmore, CO, who conducted a rooming house in Grand Rapids, killed herself while despond ent because of a recent separation from her husband by turning on the gas In the bathroom. She had re moved the top of the Jet to insure" a large flow of the gas. Mrs. Tunns more had her household goods packed and intended leaving for Liberty vllle, Ind., to live with her son. Crooks and hoboes are becoming numerous In- Big Rapids, and officers attribute the fact to Mecosta county being an oasis among the dry coun ties. Sheriff Henderson has put a bunch of them to work on the court house grounds. They were sentenced to serve periods varying from 5 to 25 days in an effort to break up the gang, who are troublesome and are supposed to have been Implicated In an attempted hold-up. Though Rep. Verdier quotes from the house and senate Journals to show that the MacKay free lunch bill was given immediate effect. Speaker Camp bell has enrolled copies of the bill which show the immediate effect clause missing, and Gov. Warner says it was. not on the bill he signed. With this doubt in mind the attorney gen eral says the bill will not take effect until the 90-day limit has expired. Because competent workmen could not be secured, the pure food factory at Oxford is closed down for an In definite period. However, it Is hoped sufficient workmen will be secured soon. Fifteen Were Kilted. According to the latest information from Chesterton, Ind., 15 men were killed and at least a dozen men and women Injured In a head-on collision Saturday night between two heavy cars of the South Shore Electric rail way, at Samuel's Crossing, Ind., a few miles from Chesterton. The accident occurred shortly after 9 o'clock. A westbound car was coming at high speed down a long hill, which is formed by the elevated structure un der which the Lake Shore railroad tracks pass. The car was well filled! At the foot of the hill It met an east bound car, also going at a terrific speed. The cars were burled in each other and smashed and splintered, whllo their occupants were crushed In the wreckage. The motorman of the westbound car was killed, while the motorman of the eastbound car put on his brakes and Jumped. The passengers were farmers and residents of Porter and Michigan City. It was hours before all the bodies could be extricated. The injured were taken to farmhouses, and rushed on special cars to South Bend and nearby towns. Reyes Abandons Office. Advices received from Cartagena, Colombia, confirm previous reports that Gen. Rafael Reyes, president of Colombia, has abandoned office and sailed for Europe. He embarked on a small fruit steamer at Santa Mart a last Sunday, according to the infor mation received at Cartagena Monday night. It is believed the steamer Is one of the Elder-Dempster line, bound direct for Southampton. The Cartagena advices state that the president's trip to Europe Is known and approved by Gen. , Jorge Holguin. the president-designate, and the ministry, and that it Is Gen. Reyes's intention to return for the meeting of congress on July 20, if a majority cf his countrymen so desire, or In case of a disturbance of the peace, which is considered a remote possibility. MICHIGAN ITEMS. Roger Huntington and Fern Valkman, of Waterloo. la., were passengers on a Michigan Central train Wednesday. They stopped over one train in Kala mazoo and were married by Rev. D. C. Osborne. The young man had pro posed while the train was running Into the city and the couple' decided to waste no time. Thirty men of Co. L, of Ann Arbor, Thursday afternoon, ambushed Troop A, of Detroit, which was marchins overland to the Kalamazoo encamp ment of the G. A. R., and according to the umpire of the 6ham battle al most wiped out the Detroiters. The cavalry camped in Ann Arbor Thurs day night. THE MARKETS. Detroit. Cattle Dryfed teer and heifers. 6i6.25; steers and heifers. 1.000 to 1.200. 14.7505.25: steers anl heifers. POO to 1,000, $4 04.75; irran steers and heifers that are fat. 600 ta 700. 1464.50; choice fat cows. $4.25; pood fat cows. $3.750 4; common cown, $3U3.25; canners. 1 2 (fj) 2.25; rholca heavy bulls. $4(7' 4.25; fair to rood bo lognas, bulls, $3.7504; stock bulls, $3.50; choice feeding steers, 800 to 1.000. $4.25(4.75; fair feeding: steers. 800 to 1.000. $44.25: choice stockers. 600 to 700. $404.25; fair stockers. 601 to 700. $3.603.75; stock heifers. $3.50 04; milkers, large, young, medium age. $40045; common milkers, $25(530. Veal calves Market steady; bet. $f 07.60; others. $406.50; milch cows and springers, steady. Kheep and lambs Market steady: best lambs. $7; fair to Rood lambs. $5 05.50; light to common lambs, $4(? $4.60; spring lambs, $7.50fJ 8.50: fair to good sheep, $4 04.50; culls and com mon. $2.50 to $3.25. Hogs Market 6c to 10c higher for good grades; grasfers and pigs stead, ltange of nrlces: Light to good butch ers. $7.7608: pigs, $6.75: Hunt yorkers, $707.50; Krassers, $707.50; staffs, 1-2 off. East Buffalo Cattle The market was about steady on .the best dry-fed kind and from 10c to 15c lower on all other kind. Stockers and feeder steady. Fresh cows and springers $3 to $5 per head lower; best export steers. $8.7507; best 1.200 to 1.300-lb. shipping steers. $fi.5O06.8O; best 1.000 to 1.100-lb. shipping steers. $6Q6.I0: light butcher steers. $5.5005.75; best fat cows, $4.75i5: fnlr to good $4ffD 4.25: trimmers. $2.5003; best fat heif ers. $5.75?6: llpht fat heifers $4.5005; best feeding steers, $4.6004.75; best stockers, $4.2504.50; common stockers, $3..r.O(3!4: beit bulls. $4.7505; bolo.arna bulls $404.50; best fresh cows and sprln'gerr. $40C0; medium, $30040; common. 250SO. Hogs Market rtrong; heavy. 8.10: one fnncv lond. $S.20: beFt york ers. $7.60C?7.$;: llrrht. 7 5007.60; pigs. $707.10: rouvh. $B. 7506. 85. Sheep Marlcc-t steady; best snrlns? lambo, $S.75fr'!: fair to good. $7f?.r.0; culls. $5.5O0..".O: yearlings. $7f7.50; wethers. f5..iO0: ewes. $4.5004.75. Calves stee.ly: best. $7.50ff 7.75; fair to good $6.5007; heavy. $405. Grain, Kte. Detroit. Wheat Cash No. 2 red, $1.49: .li ly opened "4c higher at $1.16 V4, dropped to $1.15i and advanced to $1.16i: September opened at $1.104, lost He and advanced to $1,104; De cember opened nt $1.11, declined to $1.104 and advanced to $1.11; No. 3 red. $1.46: No. 1 white. $1.49. Corn Cash No. 3. 76 He; No. 3 yel low. 1 car at 77 Vic, 1 at 77c, closing at 774 c. Oats Cash No. 3 white, lc asked; September, 45c. Hve Cash No. 5. 2c. penn Cash. $2.65; October. $2.05. Cloverseed Prime October, $6.85; March. 100 bags at $7. Feed In 100-lh sacks. Jobbing lots: Bran. $29; coarse middlings. $30; fine, middlings. $31; cracked corn, $32; coarse cornmenl. $31; corn and oat chon. $30 tier ton. Flour Best Michigan patent. $7.10; ordinary natent. $6.05; straight. $6.86; clear, $6.70: pure rye, $5 per bbl. in wood. Jobbing lots. Joseph McDonald, arrested In Port Huron for complicity In a recent hold up case there, Monday was sentenced to spend from two to 15 years In the Ionia reformatory. Leonard Hults, of Vermontvllle, pleaded guilty to deserting his wife and family, and was sentenced to from one to three years, with the recom mendation of two. In Jackson prison. This was Hults' second offense. He was given the alternative of furnish ing a bond of 12.000 to guarantee that he would support his family, but he was unable to get a surety. LOVED CONVERTED CHINAMAN MISS ELSIE SIGEL, VICTIM OF CHINAMAN WHOM SHE CONVERTED. BODY FOUND IN A TRUNK Young Lady Had Associated With the Mongolian and a Horror Is the Re suit of It. The body of Miss Elsie Slgel, the 20-year-old daughter of Paul Slgel, a clerk employed in the New York board of health, and a son of Gen. Franz Slgel, the late civil war veteran and former comptroller of the city of New .York, was found Saturday evening crammed Into a trunk in the room occupied by a young educated Chinaman of the Sunday school type at 782 Eighth avenue. It was so badly decomposed as to be unrecognizable, but a locket and bracelet found upon it were identified by Mrs. Sigel as the property of her daughter. The Chinaman disappeared from his lodg ing place a week ago, and it was the coroner's opinion that the body had been in the trunk fully that length of time. William L. Leon, the young China man who occupied the room, was well known in missionary circles in the city. He was frequently seen with Miss Sigel. Miss Sigel disappeared from her home, June 9. Around the neck of the young wo man was a spangle, apparently a col lege or high school pin, bearing the initials E. C. S. Mr. Sigel examined this spangle first and said that he could not recall that his daughter had ever had one like it. Then he looked at the body and went away declaring that it was not that of his daughter. The police, however, insisted on send ing the spangle and a bracelet to Mr. Sigel's home and having the mother of the girl examine it. She Identilied both articles. According to the story which Mr. Sigel told the police bis daughter gave no warning when she left home on June 9. On the 12th, however, he received a telegram from Washington bearing his daughter's name. This telegram, so the police say, read as follows: "Will be h"me Sunday evening. Don't worry. Elsie." Both Mr. Sigel's wife and her daughter were Interested In mission ary wcrk among the Chinese. It was through work of this sort that Miss Slgel met Leon. The police said that there was a picture of the missing Chinaman in the Sigel home. One or two persons informed the detectives that they had seen Miss Sigel with the Chinaman at the theater about a week ago. Her letters to "Dearest LIm," to gether with affectionate or Imploring notes from another white woman who 6igned herself "Nellie," and packets of picture postcards from a dozen white women, were found In the room of the Chinaman. ' Some of the letters were undated. Others went back to the spring of 1907. Still others had been written within a few weeks. All of them were signed simply Elsie, but they contain ed allusions that left no doubt as to Identity of the girl who wrote them. A few of the longer ones reproached Leung Llm for coldness toward a girl that loved him, but many held no hint that she doubted the Chinaman's af fection. On the contrary, they glowed warmly with assurances of her own devotion. There was not a word or a sylla ble In one of them which might point the way to understanding how Elsie Sigel came to her death In the low ceiled grimy room above the chop guey shop. The police heads studied these let ters for hours, then, under straight orders from Commissioner Bingham, refused to allow them to be printed. Take Jt any way you like, said one In authority at headquarters, It was not a pleasant story and no reason ap peared why Elsie Sigel's letters to the queueless mlssloner should be spread In public. It was sufficient to say that she was In love with the yellow man and that their intimacy had been close. Speedy solution cf the mystery of the revolting death of Elsie Sigel is looked for as a result of the arrest of two Chinamen believed to be Ixon Ling, or William Lfon, as he was also known, and Chung Sin, his associate, the first at Schenectady and the other near Amsterdam, N. Y., Monday. Ray Lamphere Dying. In response to a letter from her brother. Hay Lamphere, Mrs. Flnley hurried to the Michigan City,, Ind., prison xto see the prisoner notorious through his association with Mrs. Oun ness, the arch-murdress, for the burning of whose home Lamphere was sent to the penitentiary. Lamphere In his letter said he re cently had suffered four hemorrhages and believed death was imminent. This belief was confirmed in the mind of Mrs. Flnley by the refusal of the prison authorities to allow her to visit her brother in the hospital ward. Despite her pleadings the deputy warden was obdurate, replying: "Lam phere Is extremely low and cannot see any one." Buy German Guns. While viewing with disfavor the ac tion of the Cuban government in con tracting for arms and ammunition with a German firm, without open competition, thus shutting out Am erican bidders, it Is said that no di rect demand has been made by the state department to have the contract held up. 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WERE BOTH OF MIXED BLOOD Points of Resemblance Between Eng lishman and Cowboy, at the. Latter Understood It. "The countess de Pourtalea was s New York Lorillard," said a New York tobacconist. "So on both sides, of course, she has blue blood. Yet she la without false pride. "At a recent tobacco men's conven tion a director told me of a remark the countess made in Biarritz to ar arrogant Englishman. "This fellow boasted of his ancestry. The countess said that sort of talk wouldn't be understood in the wild west. She said an Englishman said: to a Texas cowboy once: "'I have Tudor blood in my vein on the maternal side and through my father's family I am a Flantaganet "Ts that so?' said tho cowboy, brightening with keen interest. 'Mr blood's a leetle mixed, too. My grand father was a Jersey tenderfoot and my grandmother a Digger Indian squaw. We're both half-breeds, stranger. Come and liquor up!'" Cincinnati Enquirer. NERVE. "Excuse me, can I speak to your typewriter a moment?" 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