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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIII., No. 262. ©IDT EOT THiRTY YEARS IH STATE rn LURED HIS AUNT FROM GER MANY, MURDERED HER AND WOUNDED HER DAUGHTER RECEIVED VERDICT CALMLY After the Sentence Was Prononneed His Aged Mother and Father Shook Hands With Him NEW YORK. —Gustave Eberhardt, on trial in Hackensack for the mur der of Ills aunt, Mrs. Ottlllle Eber hardt. whom he lured from Germany, together with her daughter. Miss Ot tille. for the purpose of robbery, was Wednesday sentenced to thirty years In state's prison at hard labor. This was done after Judges Parker and Demurest had conferred with Prosecutor Koester and Attorney Stagg, representing Eberhardt, had agreed to aeeept the equivalent of a plea of guilty of murder In the sec ond degree. Lawyer Stagg asked that sentence be postponed, aa he wished to present evidence showing Eber hardt's mental condition, and an in sane heredity. Judge Parker declined to allow any delay. He said he had been reluctant *o accept the plea of the prisoner as he fully believed that If the case had t*one to the Jury there would have been a verdict of guilty of murder In the first, degree. He could see noth ing, he said, that called for clemency, ami he Imposed the maximum sen tence of thirty years. Eberhardt stood up to receive his sentence and listened oalmly. His nged father and mother were in court and after sentence had been pro nonued, both went over and shook hands with him. Sheriff Brewster then took him back to jail, and he will be sent to the state prison at Trenton. Eberhardt persuaded his aunt to sell her property in Vienna. Austria, and come to New York with her daughter, sending her glowing descrip tiors of his own success and of the ease with which money could be made here. He was then employed as a clerk in a grocery store In Harlem. When his aunt and cousin arrlvod Eberhardt took them to the Adelphl hotel at Twenty-third street and Tenth avenue, where he had obtained a room for them. Mrs Eberhardt had between *2,500 art# $3,000 In rash, which she carried In the bosom of her dress. On July 18 Eberhardt told the two w omen he was going to take them for a trolley ride In the country. When they got Into New Jersey late In the evening Eberhardt took them to a lonely spot near Rochelle Park p.nd tried to kill them both. He shot Mrs Eberhardt to death and fired two shots at the young girl. One bullet was deflected by a ooraet steel, mak ing a slight flesh wound, and the other lodged in her hat. She ran and found refuge In a farm house. Eberhardt stripped the body of hla aunt, and possessed himself of her money, which he burled. He had been in biding for several days when caught. SANTO DOMINGAN KILLED PRIEST NEW YORK —Enrique de Lara, g 1* year old Santo Domingan youth •on of one of the weathleat merchant* In the Island, and pollened of un limited reaoureei for ihe gratification of hi* pleasures, confoned In pollc beadquartei last night to hi- lng she* Artnro Amende, the Santo Domtngsn prleit, who was found lying wounded In Central Park on September 14, and who died two day* later. NO VERDICT REACHED IN R. L. WILLIAMS CASE Jury out for Over Eighteen Hours. Mistrial Expect ed. UMMBRVILLK, Os.—The jury bai * j-"t for eighteen hours and no 4 of a verdict In the caee of L William, the white man charg ed with criminally aaaaulllng the nine year old daughter of Mr*. Hanson A mistrial Is expected. JAMES HAMILTON LOFTON DIED WEDNESDAY MORNING ATLANTA. C,a —James Hsmllton Lofton. iged 74 a pioneer dealer in re*] estate, died Wedneeday morning. U* leave* * wife and two son*. WANTED: Ml NAMED HASKELL, APPLY TjjEODORE ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON —W. C. Haskell, sealer of weights and measures for the Distrlot of Columbia, was hurriedly summoned to the white house this morning for a conference with the president. The object of this conference. It is understood. Is to unrav-T tin mysterv of the “Haskell" who is involved In the Standard Oil bribery charge In Ohio. Mr. Haskell would make no statement after the conference, but in timated that the president may do so later. Asked If he knew of any other Haskell who might be the man named by former Attorney General Monnett as having been concerned in the attempted bribe, the sealer of weieths and measures replied: "There is a preacher named Haskell, but of course he is eliminated. There is also another Haskell, whose full name I don't know, who resides In western Ohio. I know 1 nothing of him or his connections whatever. Mr. Haskell was formerly Uniu-d States marshal for the northen dis trict of Ohio, being appointed by President Harrison. He was retained by President Cleveland. He is generally understood to be of the Hanna rather than the Eoraker school ot republicanism. ROOSEVELT IS SILENT THUS FIR WASHINGTON.—President Roose velt was at his desk at about 10 (o’clock and took up the morning’s work. The telegram of William J. Bryan to the president regarding his Infor mation In the Haskell incident was one of the matters that occupied Mr. Boosevelt’s attention early in ths day. The president is preparing an an swer to Mr. Bryaß'a telegram, which will be somewhat lengthy and prob- Vibly will be made public late this afternoea. ONE HUNDRED AND TENWEREDROWNED ONLY TWENTY-SEVEN OUT OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN SAVED SURVIVORS BROUGHT BACK They Had To Build a Fire on the Shore With Kero sene To Keep from Freezing. WRANGLE, Alaska. —One hundred and ten out of a total of one hun dred and thirty-seven persons aboard j the cannery ship Star of Bengal were drowned Sunday afternoon when the, ! vessel was torn from the hold of protecting tugs and dashed ashore at Helm Point at the southeast end of : Coronation Island The news was brought by the tug Hattie Gage, Captain Parrer. which carried the survivors, 27 in all. The survivor*, bofore leaving Coronation Island, burled the bodies of fifteen white men on the beach. The cable ship Burnside, which left for the scpne of the wreck at midnight Monday, as Boon as the news waa received, returned Tues day evening with news that the Star of Bengal was a total wreck, only I the ends of masts showing above the :water. balTimorelohio BRIDGE COLLAPSED WTLMTNOTON. Dal.—The Eastern span of the Baltimore and Ohio bridge over the Susquehanna river at Perryvllle, Ml., collapsed Wednesday morning while an eastbound extra 'freight train from Baltimore to W!1 : mington was paaslng over It and the .locomotive and fifteen cars dashed In :to the river below Engineer Lynn and his fireman were drowned So far as can be learned at this time no other trainmen on the Ill fated section were Injured. The section of the bridge which gave way was being repaired at the time and this fact is thought te have been in a measure responsible for the accident. FRIGHTENED TO DEATH BY MAN FOLLOWING HER NEW YORK —Frightened by a strange man following her In Eighth avenue from the home of a sick friend Mrs Ella Conover, of 62! West 135th street, dropped helpless early Wednesday In front of a store at , Eighth avenue and died before an ambulance could be railed The wo man was 40 years old and suffered from S', op I*-), James Kellly wa» closing the store and with Policeman Maher carried the woman Inside. Bhe was barely able to speak and soon died. The man ran away when ate (sU. Local Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Thursday AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1908 COMMISSION IS AFTER FIGURES Prominent Atlanta Busi ness Men on Stand Wed nesday. Hinton Called. ATLANTA, Ga.—The interstate commerce commission resumed its session this morning in the federal court rooms of the custom house. Attorneys for the complainants continued the method of examining witnesses for the purpose of showing comparative prices of grain, lumber, cement, packing house products and other commodities, wages paid, ton nage, labor, traffic and other sta tistics for the past five or ten years. This examination was for the pur pose of showing comparative figures and prices before and at the time the I recent advance in freight rates into the sou.neast -was made effective, August 1. H L. Dunning and V. H. Kfiegs haber, both prominent Atlanta busi ness men, were examined in this con nection. Their testimony was to the effect i ..at the recent financial de pression had occasioned a general drop in prices on all commodities. Chairman E. H. Hinton, of the Southeastern Freight Association, was then called to the stand. He was cross-examined by Judge W. D. Weakley, representing the Alabama railroad commission. The interchange of questions threatened a recurrence of Tuesday's tilt between the two gentlemen, but this critical period was finally passed without any harsh words being spok en on either side. Augustans Return Messrs. John E. Murphey and \V A. Smith, who went to Atlanta to present the side of the Augusta wholesale grocers In the hearing on Increased rates on grain, meal, meats and flour, now In progress before the Inter-state eommmerce commission have return ed to the city. Their claims were presented to the commission and a hearing will be given later. The argu ments now being presented to the commission requests that body to permanently restrain the railroads from putting on an advance of two cents per nundred on the products named above and the different i».l question as regards Augusta is not being considered. Augusta would be one of the points affected by the advance if the roads were allowed to fmt on the increa ■, but merchants here did not object to It provided It was made general and that the differential basts bo es tablished. It is yet a question of doubt as to whether the differential rate will be allowed, or whether the roads will be allowed to put on the Increase. When Messrs Smith and Murphey left Atlanta all the evidence of the part of the merchants and different commercial bodies of the state had been presented to the commission. The railroads are now putting in their olalms for the advance. Nearly all the larger cities In Georgia were re presented through coinmerleal organi nations, except Augusta. SHERMAN BEGINS FRIDAY NEW YORK —The first speech of this campaign that Congressman James 8. Sherman candidate for vice president on the republican tirke , will make In New York city, will bo Friday nooh REGISTRARS MEETING The Board of registrars, composed ol Col. M. P. Carroll, Mr George H Conklin and Mr. Ft W. Harrow, began work Tue day on the registration list to get it In readiness for the fall election. The board will be at th-- work about a week. WOMAN ARREYrue l.leut Hritt arrested Annie Wilson Wednesday nw,-ntng for fighting In Hrtdwell’s Bottom. The woman's face war beaten up considerably. GERALDINE BRUCE, DIVORCEE oe & ije SHOTABOUISOUC CHICKENS Geraldine Brace, the di vorced wife of H. A. Emelke, who was shot in a row over some Plymouth Rock chickens at Congers, N. Y. Emelke sometime ago brought suit for fifty thousand dollars against Griffith Scott, a million aire of Havcrstaw for alienating the affections of his wife, who was a Florodora girl. BRYAN ASKED ROOSEVELT TO DROVE INSINUATIONS Knew That the Republican Party Win Aided By the Trust, and Fails to See Where Dem ocrats Are • Benefited. COLUMBUS, O.—" Bryan's message to Roost veil calls upon Roosevelt to make good lie insinuation that the Standard Oil company Is backing :n-- national democratic campaign," said Frank 8. Monneft, ex attorney general of Ohio last night "For, If tint be true, not only tn; self but thousand.* of others would not be content to let trapped by any such alliance. We do know that John I) Arnhhnld ot the Standard Oil company; Du pout of fh< Powder Co anil Reg .,nd Rockefeller have In en allied her' tonni with the republican pari, tin furnished He money to elect Mc- Kinley and Hoot'tnell, ami If there has been a dlvorc*' without a'lmont, we would like to have tins rceord of the decree Up to date | have seen noth ; lug that warrant* iii<- assumption thu 1 I the democratic party has been award -d the custody of these children of I the trust. "There woo'd have been no doubt ;s 'o the Identity of h's- nlmo-d bribers, and there would have hewn no doubt as to tie truth of fslxll of the statements made by Charles It. Squire in Smith W Bennett and my self, had Judge John A, Hlianek, pres ent candidate for a third term on the Mute supreme bench, not trsnteti th request of the Standard Oil attorneys -Larry Neal and Ham II TUP r to compel me to stop taking depositions that would have completely dostd u,i this whole affair "I never saw Charles N Haskell in my life, and the only evidence 1 have ihut he was implicated In the iitiemp in bribe me wits In the statement of Charles It Squire, of Co-veland. vht-n he called upon me and said thiil lie proposition hat! been made with the Authority of F. 11. Squire, Frank Rockefeller tnd ('. \ llaskdl, now governor of Oklahoma." OKLiOiTIN WIPED BFETHE IP OKLAHOMA CITY If whs r -port cd ht-rt las- night that King fisher, a town of 3,01)0 people, was wiped off the map lasi night by a storm. No particulars can I a learned, it* nil the wires are down. ii Tinii DIED WEDNESDAY NKW YOHW. A It; *ll pfMbml f»n<* of Harr Ttoaw’M ehl<*f coun?*<*lk>rtf f»nd n prominent youri# lawyer, dl< d of piieijjiionlt ;t♦ hIM Runiruor horn* u» Babylon, I*. I. foday, H»* had boon if! for about two wwkK. Mr. Peabody wan a native of New York and prominent uocittily an well um la legal circ.ua. DAILY AND SUNDAY SO.OO PER YEAR. THEMESEUT PRESTISE 111 PACIFIC TOKIO. -That maritime* enterprise will bo the life of the empire and that the Japanese must keep progress with the United States it' it wants to main tain its prestige in the Paoilie, was the gist of a statement today iasueu through the columns of the Hoohi oy fount Okurmi, one of Japan’s fore most economic students. Commenting upon the reported ut terance of President Roosevelt, that America is the future world power of the Pacific ocean, the count declares that the United States does not pos sess a sufficient number of ships to consummate supremacy; neither, says he, art* tin? American seamen the same {cartels navigators that the Ja panese are. Japan, looking to the future, is mak ing extensive Improvements In the Yokohama harbor. The entire scheme of Improvements will not be com pleted until 1912. Plans are In a tentative state for other work along the 10,000 mile coast line of Japan. SPRINGFIELD RIOT TESTIMOSY REID Al>c Reymcyer’s Testi mony, Before the Mili tary Tribune, Was Read Tuesday. SPRINGFIELD, Ills. Abe Reymey cr’s testimony given before tin* mili tary tribunal which on August 18-20 investigated the rare riots and lvneh ing of colored men hen* August I I and 1T». was read by Assistant Stale's Atlorue* W ynne at He,*, mover's trial Tuesday. While he denies entering the house of William Dnunegun, the colored man lynched on the night of August ir», or oi usslHlipg In the lynch ing or the leading of lie* mob. he admits Millie’.; to the mob »>t I’v »uiy second et to ' cone* on” though he sets he does not know why he did ho, and that In witnessed tin* lynching party. The bio( <1 .stained shirt which Roy mayor wore on the night of tli * lynching of Dmmegmt and which was taken off him at the jail was ad mlttcd in evidence. MILITARY PRISM son (sits TRIAL LEAVENWORTH, Kan. Major John H. Ht.oiie, chief surgeon the military prison, In under arrest In his quarters In Riverside avonuc, Fori I/’ttVfnworth. Ho is awaiting court ! martial, I Major Hlavens cm mi* hero in May to tako up tin* work of commandant of tho military prlHon. Major Htone cam© in AiiKUHt. Major Hlaveris wan not plmi »*d with tho conditions around tho prison honpltai, and or dered Major Htone to "t U-nn up” cor* tain places and pul in a ro w system of water 11 It ration Major Stone nak ed Major Hla vena to kindly reduce it, to writ lug. When Major Htone re* turtied it) tho hoHpltul after luncheon, Ih< was ordered to report to the corn* ; mnndaiit’a office and it in wild that a • Hub ccjnent interview between the I two majors ended In Major Hlavons grabbing Major Stone and throwing him out of hia office, brrakfa6t food co. breaks CHICAGO The FggoHi-c Unreal 1 comps , manufacturer* of cereal pr» ducts, haw been placed in t||c* hands ! of a committee of creditors. Liabilities are s(}J P i,o(o* area* arc valued pi the company at $1,500,000 and by the creditors at equal, the indebtedness. Hie Danger of Mediocrity The real Satan that people have lo fight Is not wickedness, bill mediocrity, Thai Is th*< grant enemy, the rial tempter, There Is usually u vitality arid vigor In downright wlckt duetts which goes a long way in its extenuation. This l» recognised Instinctively In Hit admiration we always accord to the (lashing vllllans and the bore dom with which we contemplate the virtues of the Sunday school hero. It is not, as the moralists of an older day would have de clared, bt cause the human lu-itrl naturally Inclines to sin. Wit ad mire the vtlllnn In spite of his wickedness because he Is "up ami tlolfig and wt lose Init-rt-si In Ihe virtuous young min not at ad be came he is virtuous, but becaure lie Is anemic. As Hie liynm has It— , "'Tin life, not death, for wnb'h wt pant; More life, and fuller, that we want " Vigorous dashing, timing, conquering virtue ban nothing lo fear from the mou attractlvi vice —Will B. Wilder. You Can Reach More People in One Day Through The Herald Than You Can Talk to in a Year. FRANK 111. PERRINS MTSJIIIOBCE PROMINENT NEW YORKER SUING HIS WIFE FOR DI VORCE AFTER BEING MARRIED THIRTY ONE YEARS MINISTER CO-RESPONDENT Alleges Indiscretion Was Committed By His Wife Thirteen Years Ago NLU YORK Frank W. Burkina, a prominent members or the New York Athletic Club, where ho also lives is lima Ills wife, Neill.) F. Perkins,' to whom he has been married thirty one veins, for a divorce, Mr. Perkins I'iises tils suit on an alleged ludlsore lion committed by Ids wire over thl>- teen years ago, the fact of which hav > only Just come to lilh knowledge. He minion an co-respondent a minister, Urn Rev. Thomas Newton Owen. , Mr. Owens Prominent Mr. Owens, who Is at present resld IriK on I of the state, Is a college man, possessing the master of arts degree, lie was described by Home one who knows him wel.l, as being "a magni ficent specimen of a man, with thoughts and tile uh clear, clean and pure as crystal water," In the summer of 1893 the Per itlma s wen- staying at their summer home in Long Island. One day to ward the end of June, Mrs. Porkltts made a trip to Itnckaway Park. She was att rai led by a meeting which was being held in the opt n air and which was heir, conducted by the Hot. Newton Owen, who wu. then a then logical student. According to the evidence given bo fore the referee, Mrs. Borklns l> ounte aeiptalnled with the young stn •lent, who was Invited to her home. The acqmitntniici grew Into friend ship with Mr Owen, Iroqtient visitor to tin Perkins lionu . Be,ardor Star Witness In the sniuteer of 1895, It was te, Htbd. Mrs Bin ,1 11 h amt her daughter returned to steers cottage p Am in ■ Long Island Another hoarder in t)j boil: <• WHO Gttv ll up ': . Ml u; s t M principal witne a itir Mr !’-rl;l:w ail it Is solely, atmo t, oil Ids evidea; 1 • Unit the court will lie ivi- mimoii'l 1 In the referee to dissolve tin mu rlHgo. Dempsey t< i,tile d thill one night, lifter retiring lie hail occasion In ;o down stafrs to a ertaln room in tie bouse for I tie purpose (if getting ; glass et water t rying thi door es the room lie found ll licked. His tn I'litmn was nilraeted, however, by a rav ot light pi airing through tie key. bole arid (here by the tight of an oil '•'nip. l-e saw Aire I*. rk(its and Oweu together, Kopt Silent Marty Years Demi sey ti Rifled that he spied on Mrs Perk In* and the young clergy •nun for a w "k Tlpm came the ques tion wltii him uh to what tils duty v.'hh Should lie inform the husband, or remain silent. For 13 years ho In Id his peace, hut was then corn pelted to tell his story by order of the court In reply to a finest toil as in why Ip did not Inform Perkins of ivhal he had Been, Dempsey sun! ho was afraid Hint had he done so, Per kins would have killed the pair, A large number of witnesses* were ' munlr.ed on both sides, but despite the denial of both Mrs. Perkins and sir. Owen, the referee has decided .'.gainst them. MATCH FACTORY BLOWN UP MEXICO CITY A dlsnatch rrorn Merida says that the largo I&lporvenlr match factory at that place, owned by Nicolai Camara Lujan, was Ifiown up with dynamite and destroyed. Thu loan was' $J 00,000. The act was committed by a work man who wan dissatisfied because hi* wage* had been reduced. Hit* body wan blown to piece© In the explosion. TO CONTEST PARKMAN WILL HORTON, Man* The will of Georg * F Hark man, who letr about $8,000,000, will he contested by hi* cousin, Francis Parkman, of New York, The testator left the hulk of his estate to the city of Ronton for the Improvement and maintenac© of the common and parka.