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RIOT I NEW YORK

Whites and Blacks War forMore than an Hour

TWO FATALty INJURED

Scores Wounded with RazorsBrass Knuckles and Missiles

llenerveii from Dozen Police StationRequired to Quell Dlnturlmnco-Xcsrocs Drop Parts oC Chimneyfrom House Tops WhilePour Scalding Water from Win-dows Alleged Frillurc to Pny Bet

New York Aug light between anegro and a white MaR over the raewlt ofa baseball game played between whiteand negro teams on Olympia FleW Filthavenue between IMtii and 137th streetstoday led to a riot in which scores werehurt and two men injured so seriouslythat they may die It took the combinedefforts of reserves from a dozen policestations to quell the disturbance

As a result of over an hours bombardment from roots and windows along 198thstreet In the vicinity of Fifth avenue andhandtohand lighting with razors andbrass knuckles alongside streets linedwith negro tenements John McCue awhite man living at 2 East ISlth streetand Matthew Murtha also white of 3SSecond avenue lie in Harlem Hospitalwith fractured akuita Simon Mercano anegro of Ml West l th street is also inthe hospital with a badly gashed scalp

The Olympia a white team ami theHarlem colored ballplayers had a gameearly in the afternoon At the end ofthe pme a white maa claimed a wagerwhich he said a negro had made on theresult of the game and toot When thenegro refitted to pay the white maRstruck him

Hurl Bricks from RoofsThe negro whose name was not learned

by the police ran into a large apartmenthouse on the corner of 13tth street andFifth avenue acroes the street from theball growtde and rousing the negrotenants with stories of assaults he mndeIlls way to the roof The rest of thenegroes hi the house men and womenalike scrambled to the eaves and beganto hurl bricks from the chimneys on tilecrowd of white below

That was the signal for a general fusil-lade from the wi nw of aetutmeftthouses across the street nail frem a sfcftftepile on the conifer The whitesrush on the apurtmettt house en the corner battered in the front door and wentthrough the halls mauling ovary agrethat could be found They were repulsedwhen they tried to make their exit ontothe roof by Macks who stood at tile trapdoor with clubs and rods of htm

A Both SI ile lieenforcedThe noise of the fracas spread through

the netghborhod and quickened the eldfeud between whites aad bladEs into ageneral outbreak Reserve parties of teethraces hurried from all about to the seeMof the trouble and the streets filled witha struggling mass of fighters

The negroes on the roof of the cornerapartment house priea off a large sec-tion of a chimney and dropped it in themidst of the whites below The mass ofbrick hit McCue on the bead A mulattowoman Florence Gotdeborough 2C West125th street where she was arrested laterstood in the window of a list and pouredscalding water down on the attackersWhen that was exhausted she droppedkettles tea cups and pieces of furniture

FRENCH DIVORCES INCREASE

Cruelty Chief Cmisc for DesireDissolve Bonds

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In the statistics just issued by the min-istry of justice it is however neteworthythat by far the greatest proportion ofdivorces has linen granted on theof cruelty and the like

Thus those divorces amounted in lIStto 1477 and in Mi to M K In the lat-ter year the divorces granted on the ap-plication of husbands for breach of whatis called the Seventh Commandment were23W these on the petition of wives being1507 In 1SS4 they had been 246 and 17respectively Then whereas in MSI

owing to the condemnation ofone of the parties to an infamous penalty numbered in ttM they had risento 2SL

BOGUS DUCHESS CAUGHT

English GIrl Who Fleeced NewYorkers Arrested in Toronto

New York Aiujp 4 Bva Pox orStrangeways who palmed herself off onshopkeepers in this dty AS being adaughter of the Earl of Manchester wasarrested In Toronto today Chief Constable Graseett of Toronto sent thismessage to Inspector McCalTerty

Eva Strangeways alias Fox arrestedhere today Says she will come withoutwaiting for extradition papers

Miss Strangeways who is the daughterof a coastguard at Bridgeport England IB

wanted here for swindling shopkeepersA warrant for her arrest was issued onJuly 8 in the Jefferson Market PoliceCourt The complainant te SusanB Clarke a dressmaker of 20 East Thir-tythird stiwot She charges that theStrangeways girl secured from her townswaists hats and the like and uttered aworthless check for 298

The police say they have other com-plainants against the woman such ashotelkeepers upon whom Miss Strangeways passel herself off as a duchesssomething of the sort

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WEATHER FORECAST

For the District of ColumbiaMaryland and Virginia Fairand slightly warmer today tomorrow increasing cloudinesslight variable winds

HERALD NEWS SUMMARY

Pages TELEGRAPHIC1 Race Riot in Tew York City1 Hartje Coachman Charges BriberyVardnman Still Claims Victory1 New York Crime Vave Unchecked

Landls Plans More Finos-S Many Southern States Dry1-R News of Maryland and Virginia

LOCALI Standard Oil Trust Flayed2Text of Papal Syllabus Out3 Two Mysterious Deaths2 Labor War Opens Today

1 Catholics Honor Two Saints10 Peace Monument UnveiledlIRe Mr Van Schaick Preaches

SPENDS MILLIONS FOR GEMS

King of Slam Credited with Purchases Amounting to 250OOOO

Berlin Aug King of Slam hasa generous taste for jewelry He is credited with having spent 2508000 for gemsand baubles in the course of his Europeantour which is now drawing to an endhere The agent of a London firm hasjust arrived with jewels valued jit J62SWO

which hig majesty bought In that city

YARDAMAN HAS HOPE

Williams Leads in SenateRace by 624 Votes

TWO COUNTIES NOT YET

Western Union Get Official Returnand Belief In that Minority Lenderin House haN Won by Close VoteChairman of Governor1

Refuses to Concede Dcfent

Jackson Miss Aug 4 The WesternUnion Telegraph Company has official returns from alt but two counties and fromone of those unoflicial making seventyseven counties reporting These show thefollowing vote for United States Senator

John Sharp Williams 8747June K Vardaman 6t7HTalc gives Williams a majority of 88-

4Itawamba County has not reported butit cannot change the result These figuresare accented as correct by the Wltttamsmen ned many Vardamen men How-ever a M wmaincptt chairman af Va

anfewicfc be says

MI do not by any means eoneede theelection of Mr Wimams

He admits the contest is close and de-

clares it will take tIN official count to de-

termine the resultNew Orleans Amx 4 Qov

not siren up bape of defeating Willlams for Senator and says he will Insist

aa ocial poont of the primaryYOW

Scott nominee for governor will alsoinsist on aa oOfcial count The Scott peo-ple are charging that the ballots in Alcorn County badly marked were countedfor Brewer The throwing out of one boxmight change the result of the electionfor Senator as well as governor

MOTHER PREVENTS WEDDING-

Girl Tells John Baut Over the Tele

phone that She Is Watched

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a grocer of Washington D C arrivedhere on the iW train tonight and afterhurriedly procuring a marriage license I

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from Rudolph Goddard the clerk in thecounty clerks office telephoned to a girlin Washington at the residence of DrPaul L Hogan a dentist of 513 Sixthstreet northwest to hasten to meet himand get married

According to his request she was toget the S oclock train but evidentlymissed it Again Baut telephoned butthe girl at the other end of the line answered that her mother was watchingher and that she could not get away

The next message which was receivedfrom the girl was Mother Is around atthe grocery store and I am ready anddressed Will come at once but at thelast moment BRut answered that theyhad better call it all off as it was thentoo late for them to get any one to marrythem He added however that he wojildarrange to have it occur later

At the residence of Dr Hogan last nightany knowledge of such an attemptedelopement was denied by the mother anddaughter Dr Hogan was out of thecity they otaim at the time the mes-

sage was supposed to have been sentand all were positive that no such mes-sage had been received over the telephonein his office

IOWA MAY FAVOR HUGHES

3Inn IK on TicketDes Moines Aug 4 Gov Hughes of

New York is receiving a Presidentialboom In Iowa from two classes Firstthose who sincerely believe him to be themost available candidate second thosewho believe that if Iowa should support Hughes New York might be glad torecipxecatc In the way of warming upto the candidacy of some Iowa man fatsecond place on the Republican ticket

Said a wellknown Iowa politician tonight If the Hughes people knew whata rich field awaited their cultivation inIowa they would not be long in gettingin touch with conditions here

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HARTJES COACHMAN

OFFERED A BRIBE

Madine Tells of Alleged Plotin Divorce Case

LEAVE CITY

Appears in Philadelphia butWill Return Home

Prominent Figure in Notorious Suitat Pitinburg Explains the AssaultCharge lie In Facing and Says lieWill Fight Case to End HI Sympathos Are with Mm Hnrtje WillSue City for Fnlne Imprisonment

Philadelphia Aug Mndlne thecoachman named In the famous divorcecase instituted against his wife by Augustus Hartje the millionaire Plttsburgpaper manufacturer disappeared Ironthe Western Pennsylvania city on Fri-day There was much mystery and a greatgoing and coming In Plttaburg The news-paper doposters had it that ho had beenbought out by Hartje for 10000 that hewas to get out of the way and give themillionaire a chance to make good onthe letters said to have boon found on-

Madlnes person when he was arrestedrecently There were also rumors of kidnapping and others of a like nature

But Madine turned up in Philadelphiaserenely He sent for reporters Imme-diately and he told a story that beatthem all a story of how he had pretendedto accept the Hartje offer had disappearedalmost as soon as ha was balled out andhad come as far away as he count andnot get out of the State to hide his in-

tention of giving the millionaire thedoublecross

Madine who apparently had no desireto hide himself was found in a Racestreet saloon He laughed when told ofthe reports sent out from Pittabwrg andsaid he was on a vacation

Not Bribed to FleeAsked who had suggested his departure

from Pittsburg Immediately after beingreleased on bail and on the eve of histrial on two charges larceny in hattieand assault and battery he became seri-ous for a moment and declared with allthe sincerity at his command that net aHving soul had suggested the plan tohim and that he had como away withoutthe knowledge of anybody

saM that not oven the attorney whoare lighting on eIther side of tHe big

know of his whereaboutsTheyve mudtj a whole let of mystery

abOut this lie and I Jastwanted to give them a chance for a littlemore theirs all

Madine was arrested list week chargedwith assault and battery on some trumpedup charge No sooner had he beenplaced behind lock and key than detec-tives acting for Augustus Hartje thepaper millionaire who has boon the prin-cipal figure in the divorce proceedingsinstituted ngalrit his wife served a warrant on him charging him with larcenyas bailee

They explained afterward that they hadhim arrested to get possession of lotionsupposed to be from Mrs Hartje incrimi-nating her and proving the charges uponwhich the manufacturer bases his suitThey said he had tried to sell them andthat they took this means to get themwithout expense They asserted Inci-dentally that they actually found theletters on him They were not produced

Hnrtje Attorney Go DullThen Madine was bailed out by one of

the Hartje attorneys What significancethis may have has yet to be determined

any Tate it gave the dopesters out inPittsburg a chance to make the storyabout the alleged bribery and they madethe most of it when it was found thatMadine had fled on Friday evening

It also was Intimated that the Hartjeforces had kidnapped the coachman Thiswas given as tho reason for balling himout Nobody was clear just what theobject of all this drama which rapidlywas assuming the aspect of an operabouffe could be

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Hartje has expressed a desire to reopenthe case which is now docketed for appeal It was presumed that he was actingwith the hope of Influencing the next juryand obtaining public sympathy

Madine said at first that his vacationin Philadelphia was to be augmented bya little run down to Washington Thatwas a steer as it afterward developedTrue to his instinct again he was try-ing to throw the reporters off the scent

Later he admitted that he was stillheart and soul with the Mrs Hartjeforces He came away he said to throwdust in the eyes of the husbands bigcoterie of lawyers and private detectivesHe said they had been offering him allkinds of inducements to declare the letters to have been found on hisperson genuine Failing In this theysought to get him out of the way so thatthese documents could be taken at morethan their face value

Indirectly Madine declared he had beenoffered almost every possible inducementto make himself scarce The offers hadrun up to 10000

Slips Out of TownThen he conceived the idea of slipping

out of town leaving the impression withthe Hartje crowd that he had accepted

bride He is supposed to have pocketed the retainer and when gets tohis destination picked as Australia toget the rest

But the coachman has decided all byhimself to work a surprise on thesesmoothtongued wily sleuths Pretending-to be taken in by their offers he gets outof town Instead of taking a train West

comes to Philadelphia for the vaca-tion Hell be back on the job Tuesdayjust in time for the hearing

Nadine said incidentally that his sym-pathies are and always will bo with MrsHartje He will stick to the fight andwill see her through it might be addedin passing that he expects to make moremoney in the end by playing what hecalls a square game Ill make more thisway he said

He added incidentally that he would suethe city for false Imprisonment as soon

be on Tuesday He says he will sueHartje too He will charge the million-aire and the city police force with entering into a conspiracy

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ASSASSINS FAIL TO APPEAR-

A P Marked by IlnncliaklMtSpend Uneventful Night nnd DayOrange N J Aug 4 Willie not relax-

ing any of the precautions which ho hasfollowed since his life was threatened bythe Hunchaklst Society Armon P Aleondoomed by the blackmailers to die spenta restful day at his residence at SO Ar-

lington avenue East OrangeMidnight the time set for his death

should he fail to pay the sum demandedpassed quietly In aristocratic Arlingtonavenue A policeman who has guardedMr AJeons house against visits of Ar-

menian sharpshooters or bombthrowershad to take refuge from the rain duringthe night but this was the only incidentto relieve the monotony of his vigil

Today with a policeman near by andthe faithful revolvers bull dog and otheraccouterments handy the Aleons sat ontheir front porch and enjoyed themselvesas much as any one can who has beennotified that his days are to be ended ata designated time However as longthe murders of fellowArmenians are notcleared up Mr Aleon will not relax hisvigilance and will have a gun and a po-

liceman handy for any emergency

THOUSANDS GREET HAYWOOD

Acquitted Man and Ills AttorneyClarence Dnrrorr Speak

Denver Aug thousand cJTeorlng

people headed by a labor union receptioncommittee of 180 and a hand of 1W unionmusicians met W D Haywood tonight-at the union station and escorted him tothe Albany Hotel where Haywood hiscounsel Mr Darrow and others spoke

Haywood would have been hero a daysooner but could not get Pullman accom-

modations at Salt Lake It had boon an-

nounced that ho would arrive at 3 p mand at that hour there were 20000 peopleat the station but they were disappoint-ed His train was not due until 1130 p-

in and was an hour late

SLAYER GOES TO TOMBS

Frank Wnrnerw Skull Not Fractured Ai at First Supposed

New York Aug Warner whoon July 2 killed Esther Norlfng on WestFortysecond street and a few hours laterkilled John C Wilson in Waverly placewill be sent to the Tombs tomorrow

It was at first thought that Warnersskull was fractured when he was struckdown by a truckman with a belehookafter the shooting of Wilson The doc-

tors have found that Warner now is allright

HUGE WALL OF ROCK FALLS

Fifteen Men in Danger but Only

One Killed and One Injured

Victims Stopped to Get Their GoatsWhen 3In s of Stone Dropped

Into Bicavatlon

Jersey City Aug 4 The wvst wall of adeep tunnel shaft used by the Leekawanna Railroad as a construction basefor soring a fourtrack tube through Ber-gen Hill in Jersey City gave way at 2

oclock this morning A mass of solidrock ninety feet high from pitmouth torim pitched forward and piled up In thegreat hole

There ere fifteen rock drillers and sand-hogs cutting their way westward in anarrow tunnel almost directly under thewest wall

The only warning they had was an In-

stants grinding of the huge mass of stonebut it left them time enough to drop theirtools and rush fighting and clawing witheaoh other to the far end of the Incom-plete tunnel

Thirteen of them escaped by crawlingthrough a rabbit burrow of a hole into another construction shaft two blocks awaybut Anton KwaitkovskI and Piotro Tuliostopped to gut their coats Kwaltkovskiis there yet crushed under thousands ot

of rock which will take the engi-neers a day or two to pierce

Pietro they took out this afternoon aft-er a surgeon had crawled into a holethe diggers made for him and cut hisright leg oft fourteen hours after ablock of stone as big as a house had pinned it down Pietro hits a chance to livewith the one leg he has left but if hedoes pull through it wilt be from sheer

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things in a hurry seldom warm to ad-

miration over a plain sand hog butman who is game enough to stretch outan arm and help the hydraulic drill torescue himself after suffering agonies fora whole night as Pietro did has as DigJohn Dorsey put it good stuff in him

WANT VIGILANCE COMMITTEES

Speakers at Labor Sleeting Denounce Crime Reign

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pointed a committee to see Acting MayorMcGowan and ask him to instruct thesheriff to call on his deputies if neces-sary to aid the police In protecting women and little girls or to use any othermeans he might have to aid the policeAn appeal is to be made to Gov Hughes-in case Mr McGowan fails to act

Some of the speakers at todays meeting advocated the formation of vigilancecommittees to protect women and girlsand punish offenders

James Wallace of the Asphalt Work-ers Union a negro said he saw a lynch-ing down South and he didnt wantlynching to become an institution In thiscity but unless conditions became im-proved he expected to see it

Several delegates attacked the policebut attempts to blame city officials

were shut off

TO RESENTENCE MURDERER

Court Refuses to Grant New Trial toNew Jersey Slayer

Flemington N J Aug ESchuyler convicted of the murder of

Riley at Clifton last January willbe resentenced to be hanged by SupremeCourt Judge Reed tomorrow afternoon

Schuylers execution was set for June28 but his attorneys presented the caseto the Court of Errors and Appeals nnd astay was granted The court refused togrant a new trial and now Schuylerhopes to secure a commutation of thesentence to life Imprisonment

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FINDINGS IN REPORT ON PETROLEUM

Original investment Standard Oil 75000000Yearly net earnings 1903 to 1905 68 per centTotal dividends paid between 1882 and 1906 551922904WatersPierce Oil Company capital stock 400000 profits-

in 1898 256 per cent in 1904 over 670 per centThe Standard has consistently used its power to raise the price

of oil during tile last ten years not only absolutely but also rela-

tively to the cost of crudehistory of this great industry is a history of the persist

ent use of the worst industrial methods the exaction of exorbitantprices from the consumer

Its domination has not been acquired or maintained by its superior efficiency but rather by unfair competition and by methodseconomically and morally unjustifiable-

It is clear that the domestic consumer has been compelled topay an exorbitant tribute to the oil monopoly

The costs of the present independent concerns in the oil in-

dustry plus a normal rate of profit are less the costs of theStandard plus its extortiopate profits

Without railroad discrimination and unfair methods of competition the Standard could never have maintained its great proportion of the oilbusiness in the United States while at the sametime extorting such immense profits from the American consumer

The claim of the Standard that its control of the business isdue to the ability to maintain low prices because of superior effi-

ciency is a complete misrepresentation of the facts

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Death of Sophia Heckler is

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NEW YORK POLICE HELPLESS

Unable to Get Any Clew to Strangein

Home Were Followed by Findingof Girls Body In Basement KilledAnd Then Thrown Into Cellar

New York Aug 4The cue of SapWa

Heckler the lUte servant girl whosebody was found la the cellar of HarryMacks hotvt at 3 East Stetysecondstreet at 11 odaek Saturday ntgfrt

seven hours after Usa apartments shows

her had been Oed and set is acombination mystery against which thepolice made little headway today Fivedetectives worked at It all day

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about it aa ICoroners Physician Lefcane made an

autopsy on the body of the Heckler girl

in the morgue yesterday He found thatboth jaws both cheekbones the skull

the neck and a rib lead been broken and

that the girl had died oT cerebral hemor-

rhage Dr Lehane did not see hew awomen could be battered in tide fashionfrom a fall down a tenstep flight of

stairsCoroner Shrady agreed with Mm that

Sophia Heckler nit have beatenand perhaps killed before she wits thrownInto the cellar

STUDENTS BRAVE DEED

Helps Save Two Women nndNearly Overcome liy Waves

Sfwcfel to The Wsshfostoa heraldNorfolk Va Aug 4 Morrison Ghiselta

a student at Washington and Lee University and son of Rev Dr CharlesGhiselin of Shepherdstown W Vasaved one and perhaps three lives at Vir-

ginia Beach this afternoon Hearingfaint and despairing cries for holp fromfar out over the water he pulled off hiscoat and struck boldly out to the rescue

In their last struggles to keep alicewas a man and two women far out be-

yond their depths The elder of the twowomen had become unconscious and theother while retaining her mental facul-ties was perfectly helpless Thealthough he wore a lifepreserver wasfagged out They word still rapidly drift-ing into deeper water

Taking hold of the younger of the twowomen young Ghiselin struck out forthe shore It was a hard pull but hegot there with the woman whom he lawrescued He was going out again butrelieved of a part of his burden the manheld on to the other woman and wasmaking a little headway toward shorewith her when met by other assistance

It required much work to revive themThe brave rescue was witnessed by hundreds and young Ghiselin was lustilycheered when the work was over

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CHINESE LEADER ARRESTED

Mock Duck Tnken on Suspicion ofKnowing About Shooting

Boston Mass Aug Duck onoof the New York leaders of the notoriousHip Sing Tong Society was arrested byspecial officers of the Boston police lastnight on suspicion that he was con-

cerned III the murderous deeds whichmembers of his society committed inChinatown Friday night

Another arrest making the total ofChinamen now In custody seven was thatof Wong Now who runs a laundry onShawmut avenue All will be arraignedAugust 13 on a charge of murderpolice believe that the murders of Friday night were a sequel to the shootingand hatchet affrays in New York andPhiladelphia a few weeks ago

It Is generally believed that in thePhiladelphia battle the werefrom Boston and the same suspicion ex-

ists with regard to the night after There-fore the police take it that the Highbinders of those cities were returning thecall This theory Is supported by thefact that of the Chinamen arrested inconnection with the shooting Fridaynight only one of them has been identi-fied as having lived in Boston

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FIFTY DIE IIi WRECK

Part of French ExcursionTrain Falls in River

WORK OF RESCUE DIFFICULT

Bridge Gives Away After Locora-oj e Leaves RnII Occupants ofPassenger Coach Drormed Bodiesof TiTcntyflfe Victims RecoveredDriver Ingrulfed with Engine

Aag 4 A train which left An-

gers at n tItle seaming for Pliers wasderailed at Post Ce and betweenand lilLy passengers wore killed WhsaUse train left Angers it was almost fillas is usual hi the ease of local trainsSundays in Prance At Pyramyde aH theleats were occupied

Just as the train entered upon a bridgespanning an arm of the River Loire atPont de Ce a cracking grind-ing sound was heard and the locomotiveleft the rails at the first ansh and Ute

baggage car and Ute first passenger cartell into Use river and all their occu-pants numbering between forty andfifty were idllt ntyffve bodieshave been recovered

The driver was ingulfed with the en-

gine The fireman bad a miraculousThe work of rescue is very dUn

cult as there are no houses within a mileand there are few boats The current ofthe river runs strong at this point

The passengers were nearly alt labor-ers in the stone quarries around Angersand their families who were out for aholiday A large porportfon of the vic-

tims were children The passenger car-te deeply imbedded In the river which istwelve feet deep

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Pint Wheel Makes Auto Unmanage-able and It Crashes Against

Pole tvltli Fatal Result

Bridgeport Conn Aug 4 Peter Henderor thirtytwo years old of this citywas Instantly killed and William Mallory twontyelght also of this city waspainfully through the bursting ofthe left OR an automobile at431 oclock this afternoon The suddenflattening of the tire causefl the car tobecame unmanageable and to plungeagainst a trolley pole

Mallory and Henderar had been out Inthe car for a ride and were racing fromWestport with another roadster The twocars struck a sharp turn in Southport atthe some time cars were going ata high rate of when a tire burston the car driven by Mallory The carbarely missed trolley pole and ransquarely Into another

Henderer was thrown squarely againstthe pole his head wns crushed and allthe ribs in his left side were broken Thecar turned over throwing Mallory tothe road and painfully bruising him Theother car did not stop

Medical Examiner Donaldson of Pairfield was called and placed Mallory underarrest on the nominal charge of recklessdriving Mallory wag summoned to ap-

pear before Coroner Doten tomorrowirorning and was then allowed to go onhis own recognizance The car Is a com-

plete wreck

GIRL AND HIMSELF

Jealous of Ills Brother Fred Kenncrfton Enacts Double Tragedy

Portsmouth N H Aug 4 Actuated byJealousy of his brother Fred Kennersonaged thirtyeight years of Newmarketyesterday afternoon shot Rose Kennistonfifteen years old and then killed himself

The tragedy occurred on the Durhamroad where the girl met Kennerson byappointment The girl lived until 3

oclock whlft Kenneraon died about twohours hend of her The affair was de-liberately planned on the pan of Kennor

Transport Forced to ReturnSan Francisco Aug 4 The army trans-

port Warren arrived In tow Shesoiled yesterday for Manila wheneighty miles out her steam tubes devel-oped so much weakness that the chiefengineer refused to go farther The tubespermitted salt water to mix

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OIL TRUST FLAYED

IN HOIS REPORT

Misrepresentation and ShortMeasure Charged

PRICE IS INCREASING

Methods Eesult in Over a HalfBillion in Dividends

Unfair Dealings and Railroad Dis-crimination Says Report AloneEnable Monopoly to Exact TributeIrons People Business in hands ofIndependent Companies Would lie

That the Standard OH Company hasenormous profits tar above the fig-

ure of reasonable commercial returnthat It is steadily increasing prices andthat lt that It has beneAted the

a bald misrepresentation ofare among the charges embraced

a report showing the Prices andProfits of the Petroleum Industry justforwarded to President Roosevelt by Com-mission of Corporations Herbert KnoxSmith

In his titter ef traaamlttal to the Prosth Coramlssfener of Corporations

severely arraigns the Standard Amongother thing says

repeatedly claimeds redaeed tin price rf oil thatf U

and that only a eemMmuian likeStandard have famfehee oil at

0 a prices that nave prevailedgash coo of date te approved

y this reportStandart fa csnafaumiy Used itspower t raise tH price of oil oaring the

also to the cast of crude oiLIt that the resultaf this Standards domination has been

te increase the prices of oil paid by theewwmar said correspondingly tothe punt received by tbs

It is not true to say that only such Pgrist combination can oil at thePricos which have been

Five Hundred Million DividendsThe total dividend paid by the Standard front Iffl to ISW were WL9SS9ii 50

The dividend however were much lessthan the total ICiact informalon aa to tneso earning Is available only21L2H to the

mehietre an aggregatetor thfis years of about flHWfcWSI butfrom these Harare the earnings for theOther six years may be estimated withsome degree of correctness and It is sub-stantially certain that the net earningsof the Standard from 3SS5 to JIll were atleast 799403680 and possibly much more

These enormous profits have beenbased on an investment worth at thetime of its original acquisition not morethan 73 oeOW

the rate of profit on thecapitalbmttoa has Increased greatly FromM to 1SW the net earnings averagedabout 15 on the capital stock ortrust certificates outstanding while theaverage net earnings for the period from1903 to IMS were about S per cent yearly

Standard Responsible for PriceCommissioner Smith declares that the

Standard te responsible for the course ofthe prices of petroleum and Its productsduring the last twentyflve years Hesays In short it may be said that thegreet decrease in prices which took placeIn the period front IKS to 1874 was due tocompetitive conditions while the muchsmaller decrease that took place from 1874

to the present under the domination ofthe Standard ba been due to conditionsover which the Standard had no controland has been more than offset by increase In the value of the byproduuand cannot be placed in any way to thecredit of the Standard OH Company Inconcluding his letter to the President con-cerning the Standard tb Commissionerof Corporations says

Its domination has not been acquired-or maintained by its superior efficiencybut rather by unfair competition and bymethods economically and morally unjus-tifiable The Standard has superior eff-iciency in running its own business it liesan equal effldency in destroying the busi-ness of competitors It keeps to itself thrprofits of the first and adds to these themonopoly profits secured by the secondThe history of this great industry is ahistory of the persistent use of the worstindustrial methods the exaction of

prices from the consumer andthe securing of excessive profits for thesmall group of men who over a longseries of years have thus dominated thebusiness

Find Profits ExcessiveThe investigation of prices of petroleum-

in the United States according to the report of Commissioner Smith shows twoconspicuous facts

1 There has been a very marked In-

crease in the margin between the priceof crude oil and the prices of its leadingfinished products iu the United Statsduring the past ten years This increasein margin Is only in small part attributable to increase in costs of conducting-the business Although since the tintwhen the Standard OH Company firstsecured a large proportion of the busi-

ness about 1874 there has been a materialdecrease in the margin between the prictof crude oil and the price of illuminating-oil the Standard 011 Company can claimno credit for this decrease The marginin the domestic trade is greater todaythan it would be under free competition

2 The profits of the Standard Oil Com-pany particularly on its domestic business are altogether excessive and th yhave been higher during recent yearsthan formerly

The year 1903 marks the culmination ofthe profits of the Standard on Its

business and on its total domestic anjforeign business as well The inthracitjcoal of 1002 caused a shortage offuel which led to an increased consump-tion of illuminating oil for fuel purposesduring the winter of 180208 The priceof Hluninatlng oil rest greatly at thistime and drew the prices of other products with it

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