Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

CZOLfiOSZ PLACED ON TRIAL Slayer of President McKinley Faces Jury In Buffalo Court. ASSASSIN GRIMLY Plea of “Guilty” Entered, But Chang ed By Order of the Court to “Not Guilty”—Jury Quickly Secured. Leon F. Czolgosz was placed on trial at Buffalo, N. Y., Monday morning, charged with the murder of President McKinley. He entered a plea of “guil ty,” which was subsequently changed to “not guilty," by direction of the court. All the events of the day indicated that the trial would be short. Court convened at 10 o’clock and within two hours eight jurors had been secured. Justice Truman C. White, one of the oldest and most experienced supreme court judges, was on the bench. Im mediately after the opening of the court, and after the prisoner had plead ed guilty, Justice Loran L. Lewis, se nior counsel for the defendant, an nounced that together with his col league, former Justice Robert C. Titus, and Mr. Canton E. Ladd, they were ready to act in behalf of the prisoner, “I thought it best," he said, “for my colleagues and myself that I should say nothing regarding our presence *<■ m MSi He u ij 1 i I 1 if BS u |H5 I. \ III I-' I 't&. v ; m ' ; I / ; ©ISiiiP. ■ (MSg ■ 1 lag -A- . ,, I, k ■ lin -.-; ■iiSili i Mmi ** sgfe&K ' < - ■■ v \> 4 y jS! m m W w ssig -1 wm i V;; :7 • . F ' ASSASSIN CZOLGOSZ. here as attorneys for the defendant. At the time my name was suggested 1 was out of the city and knew nothing of what was transpiring here with reference to the selection of counsel for the defendant. When the circum stances of my selection were told me I was extremely reluctant to accept. But the duty had been imposed and I considered it my duty, in all the cir cumstauces, to defend this man. “1 ask that no evidence be presented here that the court will not permit the acceptance of any evidence unless it would be accepted at the trial of the most meager criminal in the land." 1 am familiar with these circum stances,” said Justice White, in reply, “and I wish to say I will give you ev ery assurance that the prisoner will have a fair and impartial trial, and that during the progress of the trial he will receive such treatment as the law demands in any criminal case." The work of securing the jurors was then undertaken with a celerity that was amazing. , ,, The jury was as follows; Fred V. Lauer, plumber; Richard J. Garwood, afreet railway foreman; Henry W. Wendt, manufacturer; Silas Carmer, farmer; James S. Stygall, plumber; William Loton. farmer; Walter S. Ev orett, blacksmith; Benjamin J. Ralph, bank cashier; Samuel P. Waldo, farm er: Andrew J. Smith, dealer in butter and eggs; Joachim H. Mertens. shoe dealer, and Robert J. Adams, contrac tor. Before the day was over the jurors had listened to a description of the Temple of Music, where the crime oc curred, had seen photographs of the Interior of that structure and had been told by three surgeons what caused the death of the president and the ef fect of the assassin’s shot upon the va rious organs of the body. They had also learned why the fatal bullet had not been located. The presentation of the government’s case began shortly before 3 o’clock, when Assistant Dis trict Attorney Haller began, with much deliberation, to address the jury. He spoke very briefly: "We shall show,” said he, “that for some days prior to the shooting this defendant had premeditated the shoot ing of the president. He knew that on the 6th of September the president would receive the populace In the Tem pie of Music;that on that day he went to the exposition, got into line with the people and approached the presi dent; that he had a weapon concealed In his hand and as the president ex tended his hand in kindly greeting he fired the fatal shot. He fired two shots, in fact. One of them took effect in the abdomen and caused that mortal wound which resulted In the presi dent’s death. That, in brief, is the story we shall show you. Witnesses will tell you this story, and I am sure that when you have heard the evidence you will have no difficulty in reaching a verdict of murder in the first de gree.” The first witness, Samuel J. Fields, chief engineer of the Pan-American exposition, described the ground floor plan of the Temple of Music, and was followed by Perry A. Bliss, a photo grapher, who presented views of the interior of the building. The remain der of tho afternoon was taken up with the testimony of three physicians, two of whom had attended the president during his last days, while the other performed the autopsy. The testimony of Dr. „ __ Herman M. ,, n ter was of importance inasmuch as brought out the fact that the reason why the fatal bullet had not been lo* cated at the autopsy was because of the unwillingness of the president’s relatives to have the body further mu tilated by their Instruments. Dr. Myn ter and Dr. Mann, who followed him, both testified that the primary cause o f death was the gunshot wound in the stomach. One effect of this wound 'vas. they said, to cause the gangrene lo form in the pancreas, and the spot of poisoned tissue was as large as a silver dollar. The prisoner Cuoigosz during the morning evinced no interest whatever in the proceedings, but as the testi mony was introduced he paid more at tention to what was said and looked a t the various* witnesses closely. - JUDGE RELEASES ANARCHISTS. - No Legal Evidence Found Against the Minn Nine Men Held u.u I In „ rui.___ Chicago. The nine anarchists who have been under arrest in Chicago since the as sasslnation of President McKinley were given their freedom Monday morning. Judge Chetlain so ordering after the prosecution had admitted that there was no legal evidence against them. Emma Goldman was not a party to the proceedings. Her ease was set for a hearing Tuesday be fore Magistrate Prindiville, where she, as well as the nine men freed, is charg ed with conspiracy to murder Presi dent McKinley. The cases in the low er court with reference to the men are of course, nullified by the action of Judge Chetlain. Miss Goldman will also be set at liberty, as Justice Prin diville has agreed to take such action • . her the upper court f took • in case % as in the cases of the men. When the hearing on the writ of ha beas corpus began before Judge Chet land, the city prosecutor declared that he could no longer ask that the prison „„ eis h(5 e j,.]. ueiu. REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Dis course. Subject: The TMTethnrts Needed tn the Mod ern Obuvc.t—A Practical Gospel is Help* ful—Ministerial fanzines* Henouiicefl— Tho Church Needs No Apologies. tCopyriylit, ISot.j TV.'sutxoto.v, D. C.—Most encouraging to all Christian workers is this discourse of Dr. Tr.lmncre while denying tho Sunday accur acy of statistics which •represent audiences as ilimmishma; text. Hebrews x, 2.". “Nor forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.” have been merle in Startling statements religious many of the pulpits and in some newspaners. Tt is hear.l over and over again that church attendance in America is in decadence. I donv the statement hv presenting son-e hard facts. No one will dispute the fact that there are more churches in America than ever before, one denomination averaging two new churches every day nf the year. The law of demand and snpifiv is as inexorable in the kingdom of God as it is in the world. More churches supplied armies banka, more church privileges demanded. More more bankers More factories, more m-.n nfacturers. More shins, more importers. More churches, more attendants. In ail our cities within a few years churches have heen built large enough to swallow up two or three of the old-time churches. T cannot understand with what kind of arithmetic and slate pencil a man calculates when he comes- to the conclusion that church nttend.mee in America is in decadence Take the aggregate of the number of people who enter Die house of God now and compare it with the aygre pate of the peop’o who entered the house of God twenty-five years ago, and the present attendance is four to one. The facts ere most rxhilerating instead of being depressing. T'-at man who presents the opposite statistics must have bepp most unfortunate ’n his church acquaint ance. You arc not to argue adversely because here and there a church is Sometimes depleted. Churches have their entirely day. neigh merchandise will occupy a borhood and crowd out the churches and families ordinarily attendant upon them; cnrripfnnpq Vji-' terneeino strife. But there are no facts to overthrow the statement that I have made in regard to the increasing attend ance upon the house of God. Now. I am ready to admit, as every intelligent which man will admit, that there are churches have been depleted, and it is high time that a sermon be preached for the benefit of young men who are just entering the gospel ministry and for the warning of nrosnerous c hurches as to what are the o{ "Jf&ffftliP-tR ehandise crowd out a church, that cannot be helped, but under all other circum stances decadence in church attendance is the fault either of the church or of the pastor. Churches are often cleared of their au diences by the attempt to transplant the modes of the past into the present. The modes and methods of fifty to-day years than ago the are no more appropriate for modes propriate and for methods fifty of to-day hence. will Dr. be_ Kirk, ap years Mason. Dr. De Witt, Dr. McElroy, Dr. Dr. Vermiiyea and hundreds of other men iust as good as because they were they never lacked audiences, which they lived. were ahreast of the time in People will not be interested in what we say unless we unu.Lbthe spirit of the day in which we live. All the woebegon- who ish statistics are given bv those are trying in our time to work with the worn out machinery of the past times. Such men might just as well throw the furnaces out of our church basements and substi tute the foot stoves with which them our grand mothers used to carry to meet ing, and throw out our organs and our cornets and take the old fashioned tuning fork, striking it on the knee and then lift ing it to the car to catch the pitch of the hymn, and might as well throw out our modern platforms and modern pulpits and substitute the wineglass climb pulpit the up which the minister used to to dizzy height of Mont Blanc solitariness, the and then go in out of sight and shut (] oor after him. the The trouble begins away back in ^TroUionTnot foresters 0 f religion, for the sick and the aged and the infirm who have worn themselves out in the service o’f God. We have naval fough^on" , lan°d "for o°ur™country and sea aged when these men have become or crippled, and it is a shame that larger E’ 81 "” Jesus* Christ who have° the Lord. wm themselves out in battling for But lack of provision in that respect ^^e^t^hospit^ °for ricWnd apP ci and infirm ministers, When a man begins to ro down they Xtat?on. he iftha? fails? taSE encv j 3 t 0 elect him to a professorate in some theological seminary. There are grand exceptions to the rule, but it U of theological seminary is occupied being by some able minister of the gospel who, not teach others to preach himself, is set to ^ ow t0 ™ lch elocution ’ , In mor 1 " * ® ca . s ” “. f " °Z We want more wideawake, more able bodied, able-minded men more enthusias tic men, in our theological seminaries like Addison ana j n the professorates—men who could during the week Alexander, the theory of wrenching foach young men tL t"hunL 8 °and lightning P of Christian eloquence show them how. What would you think of a faculty of unsuccess “ ."foouRy^of 0 uZIITm train young lawyers? the' that theological It is often case sem {S£ i “^ f ,in S d bo^himTnd 0 d h «d twist him imt q a q t h e individual is gone of out of him, and he elects is only a poor professorate copy a n,an who to a ^Wewa^tiew d«d £oodin the evangels, theolori cal seminaries and more flaming preach T declare that a man who cannot cannot tefloh othera how t0 P General Assembly At a raeeting o{ the the United of the Presbyterian Church of States, a clergyman accustomed on the Sabbath to preach to an audience of two or three hundred people in an audience room that could hold 1.TO0 how was appointed reach tho to preach a sermon on to Cmuch forThe^isIbihrieroTmany Now, of The clergy in the audience. a yonng man coming out from such bedwarfing In fluences, how can he enter info the wants an J the woes and the svmuathie* of oeo- r>le wbo want on the Tzord’s day a ni raoti cal gospel that will help them all the week and help them forever? Young ministers are told they must preach Christ and Him crucified. Yes, but not as an abstraction. Many a minister lias preached Christ and Him crucified in such a wav that he preached 200 and from to an 200 nu- to dience of 500 down to fifty 100 nnd from 100 to fifty and from to twenty and on down until there was but little loft save the sexton, who was paid and to stay until the service was over lock up! There is a great deal of cant about Christ and Him crucified. It is not Christ and Him crucified as an abstrac plied tion, but all as an the omnipotent wants and sympathy of ap to woes our immortal nature, a Christ who will heln us in every domestic, social, financial, political, national struggle, a Christ for the parlor, a Christ for the nursery, a Christ for the kitchen, a Christ for the barn, a Christ for the street. n Christ for the’ store, a Christ for the banking house, a Christ for the factorv. a Christ for the Congressional assembly, a Christ for the court room, a Christ for everv frin 1 and’ evenr Oh, emerprpepy brethren and in ever'' the Christian oorturbatiqn. mmis* my somehow cet shoulder try. we must mm the under the burden of the people good on Tyord’s day and (rive them a efont lift, and we 'vm do it. We hay® it nb eur own wav. It ’s a great nib*, if. with the' floor clear and no intemmt'on. we can not during the course of an hour get our hvmn and our prayer or our sermon by the un der such momentum as we can, he’o of Co d. lift the daoVc. body, vri'nrf and souk c’ea v out of their sins, tempta tions end troubles. often I think that rrunistem 1 Jazincs^ empties the 'dmrch of auditors. Headers who are infeHictent through reading news papers ami bv *>ctive asso'nat’on in hrm* ners circles wdl rot on 4 he Sabbath sit and listen to platitude. T-Toar^rs will not come to sermons wh ? eh have in them important facts, no information, no sto ring power, en adantation. ro fire The new will not listen to the puinit dav under unless d ; at least on the subiec.t that s cussion. th*» pulpit knows more fhar ffap pew. Ministerial laziness has- cleared out many churches. Such ministers saunter around from parlor to narlor under the name of pastoral visitation: and ro gad ding about through the village or the city cri errands of complete abound nothingness ciga^ ami and wran their brains a smoke them up and then on Saturday af ternoon nut a few crude thoughts together nnd on momiu* wonder tint the theme of Christ and Him crucified docs not hrin r ' a large audierme. and on Mou dnv sit down and write jeremiads fo* the religious newspapers about the decadence of church attendance. merely People will not go f o church as a matter of duty. There will not next Sabbath be a thousand peonfa in anv citv who will get up in the morninr and sav: “The BiWe says T must go to church. Tt -_lst my dutr to ^o to nburch: thorpfnre T will co to b people who co to church <m to church r cause thev like it, and the multitude of people who sfcav away from church stay away because thev do not like it. I am not speaking about the wav the world ought to b®: lam speaking about *he way the world is. Taking things are they are. the we must make the centripetal force of church mightier than the centrifugal. We must make our churches magnets to draw the people thereunto, so that a man will feel uneasy if h<* docs not go to church, saying: “X wish T had gone thi c morning. I wonder if I oan’t dress vet and get there in time. It is 11 o’clock; now they are singing. It is half-past II; now they will aye nrea chine. I wonder when tho folks be home to tell us what was said, what has been going on.” that When the impression is confirmed our churches, bv architecture, bv musm. bv sociality and by sermon, shall be made the most attractive places on earth, then we will veant twice as many churches as we have now. twice as large, and then they will not half accommodate the peo ple. Therefore, mv brother Oirlstian worker, if you and T find two illustrations for a religious subject, and the one is a Bible illustration and the other is outside th® Bible, I will take the latter because I want to be like my Master. Looking across to a hill, Christ saw the city of Jerusalem. about the Talking to the people example. He said; c un soieuity of Christian be careful. “The world is looking hill at you; be hid.” “A city that is set on a cannot While He was sneaking or the divine care of God’s children a bird flew past. He said, “Behold the ravens.” Then, look ing down into the valley, all covered at that season with flowers, He said, “Con sider the lilies.” workers, Oh, my brother Christian what is the use of our going away off in some obscure nart of history or op tha other side of the earth to get an illustra tion when the earth and the heavens are full of illustrations? to Oh, Christian workers, we have got freshen up. What is the use of our going back in the Christian classics to find an illustration of the victorious Christian deethbed when my personal friend. Al fred Cookman. a few years ago went away in as imperial grandeur as did Edward Pay son? Is it anv less an illustration to me and to you because I met him a few weeks be fore in front of Trinity Church, Broad way, and I said: “Cookman, you look as if you were working too hard?” Where in all the classics is there such a story as that of Cookman, when in hisz last moment he cried: “I am sweeping through tb® gates washed in the blood of the Lamb?’’ Oh, fellow Christian workers, what is the use of our being stale and obsolete and ancient when all around us are these evidences of God’s grace, God’s deliver ance, God’s mercy and God’s wisdom? We have got to freshen up in our sermons, freshen up in our songs, freshen up in our sieal, freshen up in our consecration, and if we do it. my brethren and sisters, we will no more have to coax people throw to come to church than if you corn on the ground you have to coax pigeons to come nnd eat it, no more than you would have to coax a tired horse to eat the oats you throw in his maneer. Yes, we muRt freshen up in our Sunday schools and in our prayer meetings and ii our pulpits. It is high time that the church of Go' stopped writing apologies for the church. Let the men who are on the outside, wh< despise religion, do write the the apologies. church, they L. any people have ft. not It want is free country. If need not a any man does not want the gospel, he peed not have it. It is a free country. But you gospel go out, oh, the people millions of of God. America and give the to who do want it. bring it is high time general we stop skirmishing I and on a Armageddon, engagement. want to live to see the all the ar mies of heaven and hell in battle array, for I know our Conqueror on the white horse will gain the day. Let the church of God be devoted to nothing else, but go right on to thrs conquest. When- Moses 1 with his ttrmy was trytmj tb oonquer tHc Ethiopians profane history in says it wats expected that he would go a roundabout way and come by the banks of the river,, as other armies had done. because 1 the straight route was infested with snakes, and bo army and no man had'dared to go across this serpent infest ed region. But Moses surprised them. He sent his men out to gather up ibises. T.ie ibis, is a bird celebrated for gathered serpent slaying, and 1 these ibises were they into crates and into, baskets, and were carried at the head of the army of Moses, and coming up to the serpent in fested region the crates were opened and the ibises flew forth, and the way was cleared, and the army of Moses inarched right on and came so unexpectedly on the Ethiopians that they flew in wild dismay. 0 church of God, you arc not to march to a roundabout way, but to go straight forward, depending upon winged influ ences to clear the way. Hosts of the liv ing God, inarch on. march on! Church attendance,, large now, is going to bo larger yet. The sky is glad brightening for the boy in every direction. I am and girl five years old • I think they may see the millennium. The wheel of Chris tian progress has never made one revolu tion backward. The world moves, tha kingdom advances. All nations will yet salute the standards of Prince Immanuel. To Him be glory in the church throughout all ages. Ament PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Sultan of Turkey is something of a theoretical soldier. It is said that M. C. D. Borden has in his New York library probably the only complete set of Stevenson in ex istence.. Austin Dobson, the poet, who has been an employe of the London Board of Trade for forty-five years, has re signed. upon a pension. Former President Grover Cleveland has consented to deliver the oration on Founder’s Day of the Carnegie Insti tute, in Fittsburg, on November 7. Senator Clark's Parisian home is one of the handsomest in that city and generally regarded as only second to that of the former Queen Isabella of Spain. M. de Bloch is acquiring a museum In Lucerne, whose special object is to illustrate by diagrams, maps and oth er objects the wastefulness of modern scientific war. General Miles was asked the other day what It was that, in his opinion, most made for popularity in an army officer. Ills reply was. “Never to omit to return a salute.” —JAhiv W. Gatpji, the steel wirejnag nate, is something of a uiusicKiii; amuses himself a great deal by play ing the violin, and has composed a number of little songs without words for that instrument. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has agreed to pay all the expenses of a department of anthropology at the University of California, which will be devote^ es pecially to the study of Indians on the Pacific Coast. The cost will ho about $50,000 a year. Cecil Rhodes has a hobby apart from politics. He has a wonderfully com prehensive collection of dook books, many of them being copies of ancient manuscripts owned by the British Mu seum, while others are originals of great value because they cannot ho duplicate" SPORTING BREVITIES, The $20,000 trot between the Abbot and Cresceus has been declared off. A. Featherstone will race in Cali fornia the coming season, and O'Con nor will ride for him. ■Competitors in the automobile en durance run to Rochester want anoth er similar trip to Buffalo. The Rancocas yearlings, the proper ly of Mrs. Lillian Barnes Allen, have been sold at Coney Island. John A. McKerron has won the Bos ton Challenge Cup race for trotters at Glenvllle, Ohio; best time, 2.11. The international cricket match, which was to have been played at Philadelphia, has been declared off. “Jimmie” Michaels has defeated “Harry” Elites iu a fifteen mile motor paced cycle race at New York City. The Automobile Club of America abandoned its endurance run from Buffalo to New York City at Roches ter. Dissatisfaction is growing among the professional racing cyclists at the treatment they are receiving at the hands of the race meet promoters. Frank L. Kramer w'on the five mile professional championship race on the Velodrome track at Hartford, Conn., and becomes the champion, having eighty points to his credit, against sixty-six for Major Taylor. Maurice Vlgnea ix, the French bil liard champion, is still in good form despite Ids age, and he has recently expressed his willingness to play George Slossou for $10,000 a side it the American champion will go t« Paris to play. John A. Kennedy, who has been coach for the Yale crews for the past two years, has returned from a tom of several weeks in England, studying the styles of oarsmanship there foi the benefit of the Yale men. Kenne dy was sent to England by the boat ing officials at Yale. DONS TO ROOSEVELT. Spaniards Designate Our Country as "Defender of Oppressed People.” The nationalists of the Basque prov inces in (Spain have sent a message ,o President Roosevelt congratulating him upon his accession and expressing their best wishes for the welfare of the United States as the “defender of oppressed people."