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1! 11 Cr. 3 , THE TRIBUNE :l-' V IT N N . 1 K. It 1 KiCil lilt, M i hHIVi M!sso.:iL Thi helv -sn tit the future will t Ir.own, pcibapi, h ft rare aud radium maiden. Thre'n ft wbola bunch f tia mining to be generous at the expense of somebody else. A Mil has boon Introduced st Wsh Inton providing for c't m money. No more fikhy lucre. It it in true that crinoline la going to )4 revived, 11 luiii-t li Cat golf ! fining out of fttnYn. At 4i one wish to jrew old grace fully la chiefly mado up of an earn est desire not to grow fat. One means of checking the spread of the dia.rce mania would be to put curb on the tasty marriage craze. Some mm display a total lack of Interest In a cat show who often have at up ail eight feeding the kilty. At least Japan must be credited with a resolute effort to keep looking at the silver lining of iia war cloud. It was not James Lane Allen, the novelist, who struck the ll.'SO.OOO til well in Texas. Too xnl to be true. J. D. Rockefeller Jr., says that If you live long enough you are bound to win, a remarkably profound state ment. The doings In Cripple Creek remind one of old times. But poor Bret Harte Isn't here to write them up properly. It Is Indignantly denied that Colom bia is eager to possess the pen with which the Panama Junta signed that canal treaty. When Dr. Hiilis predicts that In fifty years the women "will be" smarter than the men, doesn't be know that It Is no compliment? A Washington paper believe that Adam owned the first talking machine, but Adam never said ft word until Eve arrived and began it. , Africa is being ravaged by the "sleep irg tlckneas," the malady being even more acute there than it Is In the United States senate. Mrs. Laagtry found herself fascinat ed by the "splendid vice" and "un couth masculinity" of Chicago. Think ot that for a Jersey lily! The author of the song, "The Last Farewell." says he can't understand how Patti came to accept and ting it. I'erbapa ihe title pleased her. A bald-beaded man lu Missouri Is ruing for a divorce because bis. wife compelled him to sit on the front stoop all summer to keep the flies out ot the house As nsual at this time of year, the more one looks at the literature in the Christmas uiasatines the more one is rMsposed to admire the truly beautiful pictures. The whole number of pieces ot stamped pajer sold by the poatoffice 'ant year u 7.0:4.W2,795. This coun try pays a big stamp tax now without complaint. A New York preacher became the father of triplets a few days ago. If be can go oa preaching peace on earth now it will have to be admitted that lie's a wonder. There is renewed talk of shortening , the college course. Hut how can an e i pert football player succeed In doing in three year what he Is expected to do In tour years? It is with a sense of regret we note that 1-ady Coosuoce Mackcoxle hat come to hunt the Mexican wild bug instead of the American species, which we could spar to easily. Mrs. Ok'!' Hot-let says she is d'.s- gtiHted with America, and will in fit ture make her home tu Europe.. Him has not decided, however, to rcfuan to touch auy mure filthy American lucre. Commander Robert K. I'eary, who In June m-it begins his farewell tour to the north pole, says: "I shall not take my wife with me." Now, per haps Mrs. IVary wouldn't put it in just that way. The New York artit who left dlrec tlona in his will that one of his friends should look over his paintings and de stroy all the bad ones evidently picked out the right man. The friend tays that all of them are good. It has been practically decided that those wind shields and paced records will not be admitted as regular, but villi have to g.t into a clans by them selves. That's right, give Father Time a miwtre deal. Just u he gives every body feise. Possibly the teachers who advocate phonetic spelling are Inspired by th?lr failure to turn out good spellers with the present fad methods of teaching that branrh. In the old aayt or spell ir.g down aud ivaving oa head liter wre tew com plain la. SLAYS FAMILY CtCVELANO TATHEP; ENDS LIFE OF EACH MEMBER IN TURN. KILLS K!S MFE WHILE SHE SLftFS Thtn Catches Hit Aon and tends Bul let to Hit Brain- Over-comet Strug gles of 8 Vr-Old Daughter and Kills Her Youngest Child Mur dered Before He Awakeno. CLEVELAND .- (Special ) Honor TV. IVrby. machinist. !out 5, extor minuted Ma family Sunday by shoot ing his wife, hi three children and then himself. Tho crime Is believed to have been due to despondency over the Impoverished condition of the tam ily puree and the near approach of Christmas. The crimes were extraordinary in their thoroughness and evidently there was no mishap in their enactment. The wife was killed first while deep Ing at her husband's side in bed; two of the children were killed as they ran hither and thither through the hou&e in the darkness of early morn ing, endeavoring to escape their merci less parent. The third child was killed in Ita bed after its elder brother and sister had been killed. Derby had been down town as late as II o'clock Saturday night ostensibly shopping, but In alt probability getting ammunition for his revolver. When he got home his wife and be talked with a neighbor who had lieen calling, over the approaching festival. Derby seemed pale and nervous. Shortly af ter his arrival at home the neighbor left and the Derby family went to bed. The crime Is believed to have been committed about 4 o'clock Sunday morning. Mrs. Derby was shot, to! death in bed, two bullets having been fired Into ber forehead and a third, probably fired after the children had been exterminated, in the back ot the neck. Mrs. Derby probably was killed dur ing sleep. The expression on her face waa calm and peaceful. Two of her children, however, probably bad a struggle with their infuriated parent. becaure they had been awakened by the noise of the revolver being fired, and sought to escape him, but without avail. ' Harold's body was found lying in a pool ot blood In the kitchen and that of Alice in the dining room, with her face to the floor and a bullet in her breast Harold may have been chased by hi father, as there was evidence of flight in the manner in which the fur nishings of the kitchen were thrown about. From the location of the bul lets in his head, the boy evidently was caught by his father In a strong grasp and held while the weapon was placed against the tittle fellow's forehead and (he bullet fired Into his brain. Also there was evidences ot a struggle on Alice's part. The last of the children to die was Thomas, sged 5. He had remained In bed, probably stilt aeleep, and also re ceived bullets Into his head, dying in tantly. After the extraordinary crimes had been committed, the perpetrator of them went Into the bedroom where tis wife had tcn killed, and, tying down at her side, fired a bullet into his own brain, and died at his wife's side. A number of poolroom race checks were found about the house, showing that Derby had been trying bis luck on betting. The first knowledge of the crime waa communicated in a letter 'STitteu by Derby Saturday to a friend who lived not far away, and which waa sent him ty special delivery. The letter was to the effect that when It had been received the Derby family would be dead. When the friend hurried to the bouse all that had neon promised was teen to have been fulfilled. DIES AT 10S YEARS. Oldest Woman In Massachusetts Had Rcmarkablt Carter, WOftCESTEIL MAfSt. (Special.) Mrs. Honoretta War. I, nil of Webster U dead In the Worcester hospital for the Insane at the age of 1'Ij years 4 months and IX days. 8b was be lieved tn be the oliWt woman In Mu rhnpii and wsa a reiNi'.,l.l char acter. Horn In I'olaud Ausiut . ITS. she enjj)ed as a yo'ir.g woman Iwith wrallh and UkU poMtloti. I.ft a widow nearly sixty years ao with great wealth at ber command, she de voted herself to distributing her en tire f'rtiune to the poor. he bad liv- with a son at W l.M.-r for more tl an a score of years. Six years urn' she developed a mania for waTXInc by iilj.lt and by day. and eventually had to be put in tie Worcester boxpital under restraint. Farmer Clubbed to Death. GREELEY. NEU. (Special.) Chat Woodward, a well todo farmer living near here, wts clubbed to death fc'n!i;r day, aud Edward Hurloy is under ar rest, charned with the crime. Wood ward, while in a saloon, became In volved In a quarrel with Hurley's fate er. The two men stepped outsldd to settle It. and young Hurley followed Woodward's dead and hrulixd body was found a few moment's later. There were no witnesses to the tighL The oroDt-r will hold an Inguett. CAUGHT BY A "OUJCR." Mystery rf Thefta st Brown Unlvef s.ty Has Been Solved. ritOVIDKNt'K, It. lHwlal Poker 'la!nR niinuut slii.b'nls f Blown university hsx bnl to tho arrest of Ralph K. Bancroft, of Htoiieham Mass., on Ihe chiirn of larceny. lie was put on probation after the cann was heard, but has hern dismissed from the university. .Members of the faculty declare) that the card playing which involved Bancroft did not take place In tho college buildings, Kver since the college year opened Hlutlents who patronise lh swimming pool bad bet-n losing money and other valuables. In the most mysterious manner wallets tllsnpcared from the clothing. Suspicion narrowed down to Uancroft, but as ho had led au ex emplary life and was a leader In re liglous meetings. It was hardly thought that he could be the thief. Various traps were set, but none proved effective until Saturday after noon, when an electric bux.er was r!(;ged In the office. At the other end of the wire was a pocketbook. Bac- croft was left alone In the locker room and a few minutes later the alarm sounded. A marked bill, which had been placed In the pocketbook, is al leged to have been found In Bancroft's shoe. He confessed that he had per petrated the long rertoa of thefts, the proceeds of which ranged from small change up to $:r, and declares his looses at cards had drawn him into trouble. THE HUTCHINSON SATE. Arrlvet at Buffalo From Trip Through the Ice. M'FFALO. N. Y. (Special.) The steamer J. T. Hulehlnon, t aptain Smith, which left Detroit on Thursday for this port, arrived here Sunday un der ber own steam. The Hutchinson was on the rocks off Keweenaw point, ljike Superior. Her trip, a record breaking one through the ice to De troit, was resumed on Thursday, when she sailed from that port, aeeotnpanfed by two Ice breakers which convoyed her to clear water in I-ake Erie. During the voyage her own pumrs and two additional ones placed aboard at Detroit were kept constantly at work, four of her compartments be ing filled with water. She carries a cargo of 150,000 bushels of flaxseed. Every craft and plant with steam up gave her a hearty welcome as she en tered Buffalo harbor at 7 o'clock. DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RAISE. The Lackawanna Coal Wage Scale a Puxiler. WILKES BARE. PA. (Special.) The Delaware. Lackawanna Western Coal Company will pay Its employe 7 per cent advance on the sliding scale for December, and this is puxxling some of the mine workers, who do not know whether It meana a drop In the scale for the current month or not. Since the sliding scale went Into ef fect this company has computed the advance due the miners in advance of the official figures of Charles H. NellL and paid the men the Increase during the month it was earned. The other companies have waited and paid the increase in the following month after the official computation was made. 1,000 PASSENGERS IN PERIL. Grounded Steamer Finland In Danger ous Position, FLl'SHING, HOLLAND. (Special.) The Red Star line steamship Finland, which ieft Antwerp at noon Saturday ?-j7 New Y'ork aud later ran ashore near Nleuwensluls, lies tu a dangoruui position. The weather It foggy. The Finland has a thousand passen gers on board. The vessel waa going sixteen knots an hour when the grounded. An at tempt was made Sunday afternoon to float her. but it was unsuccessful. Later, lighters got alongside the Flo land and took out ber cargo. The ki U calm, with light win.ta. Shoots Wife and Himself. CHICAGO I Hpeclal W hile erased with Ihiuor Sunday, Frd Pflugradl, a machinist, shot and kilted his wifu and then committed suicide. Mrt. I'flu mailt was lying sick In bi with li'ir week old baby, when, without a word of warning, ber husband stag wred Into the room aud o-nvl fire. The woman was shot twice, lu the left fide, and lived but a few minutes. rfiiiKardl then shot hltiielf in the heart. ThJ child was uninjured. Boy Operator at Fault. DK8 MOINES. IA - (Special ) The coroner's Jury luvcatiKatlni: tho cause of the wreck on Him Milwaukee road near Adel last Sunday in which three lives were lout, baa fixed the renpoi.si blliiy. They held the wreck was duo to the rarelesxness of D. Sleutur. tho IT year-old telegraph M-rator at C!le, who falb-d to carry mil Ihe Instmr Hons of the dispatcher at Ws Moines lu the delivery of the orders. He Killed an Officer. BAN QCKN'TIN. CAU (Special. Burt Km was hanged Friday In (he state prison here for the murder of io puty Sheriff W. I. Ward, of Sar fi'.eso county. Ross, who bad been luniiitni of burglary in Sun Do-go. waa being brought to the ix-iiiteniur) by Ix p.ity Ward on a coast steamer At Port Hartford. Host struck the of (le.tr a mortal wound. H was con Vict ed and tenteuced to death. In; made a long fight for life, clalmlnx that bis intention was merely to st'io Ward. LAND FRAUDS WEALTHY REAL ESTATE MAN AR RESTED IN WASHINGTON. J. A. BFHSCH ACCUSED CF UH3 FRAUD Bribery Is the Charge Mads Said to Hvt Paid r0O to t Government Clerk Wanted Information as to Investigation of Land Frauds That la In Pregreas. WASHINGTON. (Special.) John A. ileweon, a wealthy San Kraticlci real tate operator charged by the ltitrior epaitment with beltiR the head ot the alleged land fiauda extending ovtr a ik'xen Western states and territories to which Secretary Hitchcock referred vigorously and at length in his an nual report, was arrested here Friday at the VVillard hotel by Secret Bervlce Officer John A. llurna just as ho preparing to leave the city for New York. The charge on which the arrest was made was bribery, it being alleged lu the affidavit of Mr. Burns and In the warrant that Benson bad patd 5'V to Woodford D. Harlan, formerly chiel of the special aervice division of the keueral land office and now a clerk in that office on March IS of this year, for the purpose of extracting from tlin Information regarding the Investiga tion of his operations at that tim be ing made by the land office. The warrant was Issued by foiled Slates Commissioner Auaon 8. Taylor and an soon as Benxon bad been ap- psehended by Officer Burnt he was taken before Commissioner Taylor. He wished to have a preliminary hear ing of bia case postponed and the date for such hearing waa fixed at Monday, December 2S. He gave bail for bis ap pearance on that date, when the gov ernment attorneys will ak to have him held for the grand Jury. The statement was made by tn of ficer of the government to-night that the information obtained regarding the alleged conspiracy Implicates a num ber of persons at present employed in the interior department at Washington and elsewhere. Numerous arrests are expected to follow that of Benson In short order, aud some employe who t J. Plerpont Morgan Stocks hat John Bull Yet, Johnny Morgan, h rink In'. tnty not be trrested wrlil lie dismissed from the service. It la said that Secre tary Hitchcock and the special attor neys In the rase have considered it absolutely necessary to th successful working out ot the rase that no action be taken with reference to any of tbe other alleged offenders until the prin cipals In the case bad been appre hended. The government attorneys, Mr. Ar thur B. 1'urli, who b tx-en the spe cial attorney for the Interior detri ment on the land frauds, and Mr. Oliver I'skIu, aoitarit attorney of (lie department of Justice, who has also kin t-mptoyed Oil tbe ruse, stated (n asking for a larxe bail bond for Ben son that be had bo n guilty of brib ery during hi present llt to Wah lligtou, since last Monday, aud In the Interior department Itself, notwith standing; that ho was fully awaie that bis connection with Ihe alUgrd frauds was known by the di'iartro-it. Tl aluteuient was made l.tcr that Secre tary Hitcbi'oek was so Inceiioed at the flugrancy of this alleged offxnse that he told the officers to have llensou arrested at once, although It had uol been planned to apprehend bliu at present. Cuts Hit Son Short, FORT WAYNE (Special.) The wfn of the late Judge James Cheney, who (tied Sunday, supisited to be tbe richest man In In-l.aua, was tiled for probate Friday afivrnunn. Tbe docu luwut la o Uiawu thai no Inkling of the value of bis estate la given. Tbe will loaves tuu tnllre cHate to his three daughters. Tbe hoii, Roswell W. Cheney, of 1 juils Hi. Is to recsive fl&.Oeu aud I'.O a month during bis life. Eat U of three sons lu law ia to iscclte 1 10, WO cash. rr r- as -v 1 x 1 f GIRLS LEAPED TO DEATH. Young Women Jumped From a Fifth Floor In Dsyton, O. DAYTON, O.-- (Special ) To es raixi death by suffixat Ion, twelvt girls Unped from the fifth story window s of the Canity building Friday. Heversl of t be in struck uHn the root aud sky lights of a onestory building below. The others were caught In ft net by D. Lambert, who, by breaking the force of their fall probably saved si lives. The flames originated In Hie baaenient of the building, and the dense smoke went up the elevator shsft, quickly filling the upper floors. Two of the glris are dying. The ethers are dangerously Injured, Mrs. Eddy Calla Dsntiat. NEW. YORK. (Special.) Rev. Dr. Jauiee M. Buckley, an able Methodist preaeher and editor of the Christian Advocate. Is fiercely attacking Chris tian Science and Its chief advocate, Mary Baker Eddy. He declares Mrs. Eddy does not practice what she preaches. As an Instance he relates that she had a toothache and Instead of bringing to bear her fundamental principles she sent out for a denlisL More than that, she was placed un der the influence of an anaesthetic so that no pain should be felt while the troublesome tooth was being extract ed. Dr. Buckley laid particular stress upon this story, saying It was authen tic and could cot be disproved. i Died of Starvation. ST. PACK. MINN. (Special.) Mrt, Geneva Flaherty, of Duluth. while on her way to Mansion, Wis., her broth ers borne, died on a Northern Psclflo train Friday as It was entering this city. The coroner's verdict was thst death was due to starvation and ex posure. Mrt. Flaherty was accom panied by four children, whose ages ranged from 15 months to 10 yesrs. Her husband Is In J Jilt at Dultith on a charge of non-support, and It wit while struggling against ill health and poverty to provide food for her chil dren that she starved herself to tucb an extent that death followed. Two Forgers Arrested. INDIANAPOLIS IND. (Special.) A. J. Carter and E. A. Benton have been arrested here charged with for gery. In Benton's valise was found a machine of the tort used in certifying checks a checkbook on the Indiana i-121 bttn thrinkln'. an' ttockt amt ail that t bttn National bank with several blanks torn out. pent and several rardt bearing the name of E. A. Benlon. represent ing the rhornlx Iron works, Hartford, Conn., were also found in the grip. It la claimed (he two men were work ing the old dual check forgery game, Ing Ihe old dual check forgery game, Peddler Suspected of Murder, WILLUMSIDRT. PA (Hp" ia! Edward Moyer. a peddler, has lwen r rented at Sunbury, upon suspicion of l aving murdered Clondetinln, the tele graph operator at I'.ruwu's tower. Sue 1'ivton was lino led to Moyer by a l.iKtimn named Robinson, who ilaiui that be met Mover at Jersey Shoio the dsy of th C'lcndennln mur iir, and Moyer said to Mill ill Ihd presence of others; "Today Is pay day on the railroad, and I am going to get koiixi of tlmt money Instoad ot Its going over the bar." Lynchers Fined "0 Each. BELLEVILLE. ILL I tip-rial ) In ttie circuit court here eleven of the m-ti Indicted for compltlcty In the lynching of the negro sehool teacher, David S. Wyatt. June 6, entered pleat o fKuilty to the charge of rioting and were earn fined t0 and cots. We'd rather walk than drive a burst afraid of the cars. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The lnion Il!y Mall Saturday morning publishes an uncoutmued statement that tUe British war office is preparing a s heme for the com pulsory military training of all males between the ages of IS and 21 years. 3 The Colorado world's fsir board hat accepted plans for a IS.noo state build Ing to be erectsd at the St. I .mil a e position tnd work on the ttructur will be begun at uuca. tr; tM:-u No Comparison. At chni wants to know who! w-.Ja be thought of a man that would have his pants made from 1 to M l-rhs lorgsr than hit legs and then go round holding them up to keep them fiom trailing In Ihe mud and CUh- H would probably be considered cray. Put where dors the comparison coma (nT We don't know of any women who do thus.-Roller Motilhly. Tha Lonely Crest City. The loneliest place Imaginable for young persons who are strsngett t It, ssyt Ihe New York World, It ft grett city, where thousands psst un heeding and bo familiar face 4a teen among them. 1-otuton hat teen of lain an effort to remedy (hit In a Guild ot Social Intercourse, which extends ft filetidly hand t educated men rA women w ho lead lives of more or lest dreary Isolation for want of acquaint ances. Army Comparisons, A study of statistics of the ti great armies of Europe Las thown Dr. V. Lowenthal that the German army It the healthiest. Tt Italian artrf ranks second and tbe BiUish third, but It it believed that the latter would be the healthiest were it not for the great prevalence of venereal affec tiona. Both tbe death rate and tha number of cases of sic.ness are great est in the French army. Dottnt Work Beth Wiye, "Tes." said the cynical manufactur er, "It is mighty easy to trade your reputation for money, but you're up against it when you try to trad back." Automobile Magalne. Women In Practice of Medicine. Vedlcine at a profession tor women la constantly growing In populsrlty In London. Women now holding medical degree tn Great Britain number morn than 60. Prevcnta Blow Holes. For producing steel casting fret) f-om blow holes, M. Meslaa advises adding an alloy of aluminum and cal cium to the mclten metal. He bat found that the combination ot these two metals absorbs all gasee preset L Paraguay Orangea. The Paraguayan orange la one ot the best on the market in Buenos Ay res and Montevideo, particularly those which are grown in the higher portions of the country, called tha Cordilleras, famous for their superior quality, awvetoest and flavor. About Equaliy Dangerous. It it curtout that one littlt pellet et lead la n maa't anatomy it consid ered to strong a proof of devotion to bit country whet be can 811 him self full of malaria or taJUytlc aclA for the same reason and aevvr fee no ticed. A Western Weelgrewee. Newcastle. Wyo, De. XL Them la n man ia this place who claims that no one need suffer with backache, as be has proven la Ms own case that It ran be completely and permanently cured. His name la 8. C. Hoist. ao4 be la ft stock ralaer and wooigrower. "I was shearing sheep at tbe tltna the first pain rame on." says Mr. Hoist. "I was to bad for two years after wards that I could hardly a't dowa, tnd when once down it was almost Im possible for me to get up tgaln. "I tried all th me.Jir lue I could hear of and several dorturt without help, not evn for a moment. 1 used Dodd a Kidney Pills and they mtde ft new man out of me. I felt as if there waa new blood in my veins. I am at stout la the back as n mule and can lift and work as hard at I pletse without an ache or pain In any part ot my body. "It Is now over a year since tfcy eured ma and I ran tty there la not a h-althier man in Wyumtug than I am, and before using Dodd'a Kidney Lola there wat not a more complete physi cal wreck In the wbole country than I wat," Some people lell everything thef know, and are not very talkative al hat. . Dentine Cannot be Cured. ty I-". I r i. eM m l -r w4 rrs s tie. f t -. Mr 1 ... t. m t tree f he , 4i th.l W .f . 'tto.-sl i e . lw-f.M I .. 4 if li. ..bA 1.,4,0. nf the 0, " i-- r,-f .f is. -..-i T.. t(!.i. 1. i. a(..4 r-vt h- r.-i'!tee i p b. ,:,.- irJ m It ! ,f i , t ..4, l-f- .. t I-.. rw.4.t 4 ftrt.M. II.. lhMill.ftu, , (4 t..t at ih't tt'-4 rf t.lt. -141 4 e". h."e l (V, 4-lr,'t 4 h 1-4)1 -f 1-4 4'. I'- S 4j Ut S -. (,.--.!., Uf) Svt 44, ti.4.h-4 Jt . .41 -f ,4 4 ,-r4 itV-.4. S 4 I iii H nut ll I'.il It,' ,r4 ..f 4hI (4-4 M MI4'iM4 i 4-,44 Vr 4i.rh. r.utt ( V rr4 4 114. t'-mlM ite 1 'I'S. Sn4 LU .If. -I.4I4. f' I. J. illp.Mil V-J lwill S-:s fc? t-i4eoif 4S4 t 4Ttt" 11. M4 tb4 S444. We have no aitloy use for two "I'll (ate It." If yoq dont get the blrf't tnd beat It's your own fault, ln'ftanro Stareb It fur tale everywhere and there It positively nothing to eusj It In quality or quantity. An optimist is a man who thinks his n-i.'hiors are almost as pood e him self. Defiance htarch la put up It cocewa In a ptckage, 10 ienu. One third more atarch for tbe taiue money. The bunco man s-'doiu aitcmpta to tai kie he fsimer who takes In sum mer boarders. Ton never hear any on complain about "Iieflatit-e Ptarrh." There I bona to equal it tn Qus'.lty, and quan tity. It ounces, 10 cents. Try It aow to aava your tuotty. Cf Interest te Women. The Medical Press and Circular tat esrned that, so long as k!rt bands are fsstecad round the waist, eurtsla nr still material should be worn. H. ' 1 1