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KING LAID LOW
BY ASSASSINS
Crown Prince Aso Murdered in
Streets of Portufal Capital.
A SHOCKING TRAGEDY
Carlos and His Family Were Out Riding in
Carriage When Deadly Volley Was
Fired from Ambush.
King Carlos of Portugal and the
crown prince, Luiz Philippe, were .as
sassinated in Lisbon Saturday after
noon at 5 o'clock. The king’s second
6on, the infant Manual, was slightly
wounded, but Queen Amelie, who
strove to save the crown prince’s life,
by throwing herself upon him, was
unhurt.
A band of men waiting, at the corner
tf the Prado dy Commercio and the
Rua do Arsenal, suddenly sprang to
ward the open carriage in which the
royal family were driving to the pal
ace, and, leveling carbines which they
concealed upon them, fired. The king
and crown prince, upon whom the at
tack was directed, were each shot
three times and they Jived only long
enough, to be carried to the marine
arsenal, near by, where they expired.
Almost at the first shot the king
fell back on the cushions, dying, and
at the same moment the crown prince
was seen to half rise and sink back
on the seat. Queen Amelie jumped up
and threw herself toward the crown
prince in an apparent effort to sav®
liis life at the cost of her own, but the
prince already had received his death
wound.
The royal family were returning
from Villa Vicos, where they had been
sojourning, and were on their way
from the railroad station to • the pal
ace. A strong guard was in attend
ance, because of tire recent uprisings
in the city, but the band of marauders
had selected the most advantageous
spot for the commission of their crime,
for they were concealed from the eyes
of the police until the carriage had
wheeled into a large square.
Before any of the guards were aware
of what was happening, the assassins
leaped to the carriage and instantly
a fusilade of shots rang out. In a mo
ment all was terrible confusion, the
king and crown prince being shot
down without the slightest chance to
save themselves. Police guards
sprang upon the regicides, the number
of whom is uncertain, and killed three
of them and captured three others.
One of these committed suicide after
being placed in prison.
The news of the assassination swept
through the city like fire, half the
populace is panic-stricken.
An examination of the wounds of
the king, who was already dead when
he reached the arsenal, showed that
three bullets had found their mark.
One wound was situated at the nape
of the neck, a second in the shoulder,
and the third, which was the fatal
wound, severed the carotid artery.
The crown prince, who was still
breathing, but who died almost imme
diately after admission to the arsenal,
had suffered three wounds in the head
and chest. Two bullets had struck
Prince Manuel, one on the lower jaw
and the other in the arm.
The cold-blooded murder has set a
thrill of horror throughout the coun
try, even among those who have been
working politically for , the establish
ment of a republic.
Though torn by internal dissensions,
the past few months, terrorized by acts
of crime and bloodshed, uprisings in
the streets, outrages with knife and
bomb, and always tearful lest these
signs of revolution would culminate
in some dreadful outburst of passion,
Portugal was not prepared for the blow
that fell so suddenly.
to later dispatches, a boy
king, wno henceforth will be known
as Manuel 11., is now the ruler of the
kingdom of Portugal, and the revolu
tion into which the instigators of the
bloody events of Saturday had hoped
to plunge the country has not yet, at
least, engulfed the nation.
Portugal is rated among the smaller
states of Europe, occupying most of
the western part of the Pyrenean pe
ninsula, on which Spain is located,
having Spain at the north and west
beyond natural boundaries of rivers
and mountains and having the Atlantic
ocean on all other sides. Its area is
slightly larger than that of the state
of Maine. Its colonial possessions in
Africa and Asia are nearly twenty-two
times as large as the kingdom.
Bad
CORTELYOU IS CRITICISED
For Manner in Which He Sent Reply to
Senate Inquiry.
The long delayed reply of Secretary
Cort'elyou to a senate resolution call
ing ifor information concerning the
operations of the treasury department
in connection with the recent financial
crisis, was laid before the senate on
Wednesday by the v ice president. The
document was not read, but a printed
copy of it was on the desk of each
senator, and nearly all of them at once
gave it his attention.
Mr. Culberson Inquired of the vice
president whether the pamphlet con
tained all of the secretary’s communi
cation. The vice president said he had
not examined the report.
“I do not recall an instance,” said
Mr. Culberson, "in which a head of a
department of the government has an
swered a senate resolution in printed
form.”
“I will ask the senator from Massa
chusetts,” broke in Senator Tillman,
turning to Senator Lodge, ‘‘who is such
a stickler for senatorial dignity and
senatorial rights, to reply to this in
quiry.”
"I don’t know,” responded Mr. Lodge,
‘‘whether a cabinet officer ever sent
in a printed report of this kind as a
convenience, and I do not think it is a
matter of importance. The entire reply
will be printed tomorrow.”
Mr. Tillman retorted by declaring:
“The secretary of the treasury is as
suming the airs of a president beforo
he is elected to that office. The pres*
ident sends his message in this printed
form, but I have never known a cabinof
officer to assume to do this before.”
Mr. Culberson said that the fact of
which he complained was that the sec
retary of the treasury had printed his
argument and had it laid on the desks
of senators and had left the statement
of facts which accompanies it to be
printed afterward.
PRAYER OF CHAPLAIN APPLAUDED.
Wording Caused Handclapping and Laugh
ter on Floor of House.
The most unusual incident of ap
plauding the prayer of the chaplain
occurred in the house of representa
tives Wednesday. The chaplain bare
ly had concluded when handclapping
and laughter were heard from various
directions. The prayer ran:
“Good Lord, deliver us, we beseech
Thee, from the jingo, the demagogue,
the bigot and all other undesirable cit
izens, and give us instead the patriot,
the statesman, the broad-minded, gen
erous-hearted, manly man, that Thy
kingdom come and Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven, for Christ’s
sake. Amen.”
GLOVER GOE 3 TO GALLOWS.
Murderer of Young Woman Pays Death
Penalty at Augusta.
At Augusta, Ga., Friday morning,
Arthur P. Glover was hanged for the
murder of his sweetheart, Maude Dean.
He professed to forgive all those who
had anything to do with his conviction,
but said up to the last that he never
knew when he killed the girl.
Though the execution w r as private,
by order of the court there were about
100 people in the jail yard, wearing
badges of “special deputy.” Twenty
minutes after the drop fell Glover was
cut down.
SECOND MORSE BANK COLLAPSES
New Amsterdam National at New York
in Hands of Receiver.
The New Amsterdam National bank,
at New York, capitalized at $1,000,000,
was closed by the order of the comp
troller of the currency Wednesday
night, and National Bank Examiner
Charles A. Hanna was placed in
charge. The institution’s liabilities
are placed at $1,482,016, of which $2,-
065,272.49 are due depositors.
The New Amsterdam National was
formerly one of the chief institutes
in the chain of banks established by
Charles W, Morse.
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FIGURES OF GROSVENOR
Election “Statistician” Issues His Quad
rennial Prognostication Anent
Coming Campaign.
A Washington dispatch says: Gaa
eral Charles H. Grosvenor, ex-con
gressman, has recently given new
proof of his claim to the title “Old
Diggers.” He is the recognized sta
tistician of the republican party.
Though he is now out of congress,
he is still furnishing "statistics” to
show that the republican party will
be successful this year, and that Mr.
Bryan is facing hopeless and comfort
less defeat. If it proves true Mr. Bry
an can expect no sympathy from th®
general; he will be able to say “I
told you so.”
He has allowed Mr. Bryan 166 electo
ral votes. As the electoral college
will consists of 483 electors it will
require 242 to secure the presidency.
This means that Mr. Bryan will need
to win 76 from the states put down
by the general as solidly republican.
He says that Bryan cannot possibly
do it.
The states conceded to Mr. Bryan
and their 166 electoral votes are as
follows:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor
gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia.
The following states, with 250 elec
toral votes, are placed by General
Grosvenor in the republican column:
California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois,
lowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,
Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Vir
ginia, Wyoming, Connecticut, Minne
sota, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island,
Wisconsin.
While not admitting that the follow
ing states are in any sense doubtful,
General Grosvenor declares that any
gains in the democratic electroal vote
must be secured from these: Connecti
cut, Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New
York, North Dakota. Ohio, Rhode Isl
and and Wisconsin. These states have
137 electoral votes and out of this
number the democrats must secure the
required 76 to have a majority in th®
electoral college.
While contending that Mr. Bryan
cannot win the necessary 76 votes, this
statistician says:
“The long career cf Mr. Bryan as a
successful candidate has seemed t®
make it impossible to consider the
claims of anybody else. He is a vigor
ous candidate; he is an attractive can
didate; he is a tremendously successful
candidate in every way except getting
electoral votes.”
General Grosvenor kindly suggests
Judge George Gray of Delaware to the
consideration of the democratic party
as a man who can carry Minnesota,
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Ohio and Wisconsin if any democrat
can.
In making up election predictions,
interesting note may be made of the
prediction of Justus L. Johnson, pres
ident of the Swedish-American Repub
lican League of Illinois, who was in
Waslxington. Thursday. Mr. Johnson,
although a republican, declares it as
his belief that Governor John A. John
son of Minnesota can carry enough
states to give him forty-nine more
electoral votes than Bryan.
COMMISSION BEGINS WORK.
Probing of South Carolina Dispensary Af
fairs Begins in Columbia.
The commission to close out th®
affairs of the defunct South Carolina
dispensary met in Columbia Thurs
day to inspect books of creditors
whose claims aggregate $660,000. Th®
commission, sitting as a court, had
announced previously that some claims
were believed to be fraudulent, and
they would pay no claims until all
claimants presented books showing
narative of all transactions with th®
state,
MESSAGE IS CHAMPIONED
And Roosevelt Lauded By Three Leaders
in House of Representatives.
A Washington special says: Three
of the giants of the house of represen
tatives had their innings Monday.
Technically, the Indian appropriation
bill was under discussion, but legis
lation was relegated to the background
while national politics occupied the
stage.
The political debate was opened by
Mr. Townsend of Michigan, who, In a
prepared speech, claimed for the re
publican party credit for all national
legislation in the last fifty years of
vital Interest to the public.
In this he was vigorously disputed
by Mr. Cockran of New York, who,
afterward, launched into a discussion
of the president’s message of a few
days ago, his remarks frequently evok
ing applause on both sides of the
chamber. The president’s utterances
in that document, he declared, ware
such that neither party could Ignore,
for he had named the conditions for
which both must contend. He char
acterized President Roosvelt as the
only “crusader” in the republican par
ty, and said that he could not, in view
of his statements, with honor, again
accept the nomination for the presi
dency. Mr. Bryan also was a crusader
and he believed that with the presi
dent’s message as a guide, Mr. Bryan
would become the foreordained cham
pion of Iaw r and order.
Mr. Hepburn also defended the pres
ident’s message, and said that con
demnation of it had come only from
the great malefactors of the age “and
the gentleman from Ohio,” meaning
Foraker.
While the debate was on almost ev
ery seat on the floor and In the gal
leries were occupied.
JEROME LAMBASTS HARRY THRAW.
Likewise District Attorney Severely Scores
White in Summing Up.
A New York special says: William
Travers Jerome, representative of the
people, made a masterly plea Thurs
day that justice bo done in the case
of Harry Kendall Thaw.
Vindictiveness, sneers, insinuations
all were lacking; logic, analysis and a
calm consideration of the facts were
their substitutes.
It was no blind appeal for the ven
geance of the law that Mr. Jerome ad
dressed to the jury, but ever and al
ways there was the note of fairness,
even at times of mercy.
The year that has elapsed since the
first trial had wrought a wonderful
and startling change in the prosecutor.
No longer attempting, to shield the
name of Stanford White, he accepted
the story told by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
as true —all but the drugging—and he
made frank confession to the jury that
the velvet swings and mirrored rooms
of the studio houses described by the
girl were indeed a miserable reality.
No longer attacking Evelyn Thaw
as a skilled adventuress, Mr. Jerome
pleaded for the girl, because she never
had had a chance for any of the higher,
cleaner, sweeter things of life.
The climax came, however, when
Mr. Jerome denounced both Thaw and
White in one breath and classed them
as “two degenerates quarreling over
a woman.” And the woman, the pros
ecutor declared, knew no more—had
been taught no more by the world—
than to play one against the other
until In jealous rage, in blindest rage,
in vengeance of “an undeniably gross
wrong done to his wife,” Harry Thaw
6hot and killed the architect.
SENATORIAL DEADLOCK UNBROKEN.
«*
Allen Gains Four Votes on Ballot in Ken
tucky Legislature.
John R. Allen of Lexington, Ky.,
gained four more votes in the joint ses
sion of th Kentucky legislature at
Frankfort for United States senator
Wednesday. The ballot resulted: Beck
ham 57, B'ddley 57, Allen 7, J. J. C.
Mayor 1. hus th deadlock remains
unbroken.
THAW IS ACQUITTED.
Freed of Murder Charge But Ordered to
Insane Asylum by Judge-Curtain
Falls on Ma!cd rus Case.
A New York special says: Adjudged
not guilty of the murder of Stanford
White by reason of insanity, at the
time the fatal shots were fired, Harry
Kendall Thaw Saturday was held by
the court to be a dangerous lunatic and
was whirled away to the state hospi
tal for the criminal insane at Mattea
wan.
It was quick transition from the din
gy little cell in the Tombs, which
had been the young man’s home for
more than eighteen months, to the
white-bedded wards of the big asylum
tucked away on the snow-covered slop
ing banks of the Hudson river, 50
miles above the city.
The verdict came after twenty-five
hours of waiting and when every one
connected with the case had abandon
ed all hope of an agreement ever being
reached in this or any other trial.
Four hours after the foreman’s lips
had frarped the words “not uilty” with
an accompanying insanity clause, Thaw
protesting he was sane, was on his
way to Matteawan. A little after night
fall lie had be r n received in the in
stitution under commitment papers,
which directed his detention “until dis
charged by due course of law.”
Scarcely an hour later the members
of the Thaw family were in conference
with their lawyers as to the advisabil
ity of applying for a writ of habeas
corpus. Thaw was greatly enraged
over being committed to the asylum
and argued strenuously for the appli
cation to be made. It was finally de
cided to defer this action at least a
week.
After deliberating twenty-five hours,
the jury brought in a verdict of “not
guilty” at 12:45 Saturday afternoon.
The verdict was arrived at on th®
ground that Thaw was insane at the
time the deed was committed.
Although practically cleared of tho
charge of murder, Thaw is not yet a
free man.
On the recommendation of Justice
lowling he was taken to the insane
sylum at Matteawan as a dangerous
•orson and one whose malady is likely
> recur at any moment.
This noted case may be summed up
:ronologically as follows:
Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit were
carried in Pittsburg on April 23, 1905.
)n June 25, 1906, Thaw killed Stan
ord White on the Madison Square roof
arden, and on June 28 he was indict
d. In January following the first
rial began. Ten days were required
br the jury to return a disagreement.
The trial cost the county of New York
J 100,000. The cost to the Thaw fam
ly is estimated to have been $400,000.
The testimony of alienists brought the
igure to this great total.
The enitre second trial occupied but
seventeen days, five of which were tak
en up with the selection of a jury. The
prosecution had but few witnesses and
made out its case in four and a half
hours. The defense brought witnesses
from several European centers, from
the Pacific coast of America and from
a number of other cities. The cost to
the county will hardly exceed $25,000,
while the cost to the Thaw family
will ba equally as much as that of the
first trial. The case may justly be
referred to as the “million dollar mur
der trial.”
FIVE VICTIMS OF HOLOCAUST.
Burning of Rooming House in Kansas City
Rcs alts in Fatalities.
Five persons were burned to death
and twelve others Injured in a fire in
a three story rooming house in Kan
sas City Saturday morning.
The fire started from an explosion of
natural gas in the basement. The
flames and dense smoke spread quick
ly throughout the building and before
an alarm cou d be given all means of
escape by the ordinary exits had been
shut off. The five persons who lost
their lives were asleep on the third
floor.
