1111111 1 llllllllllNllll . Court in Lattimer Riot Trial Re- ceives Anonymdus Letter. HE HAS NO PERSONAL FEAR Juuge \Voodward Terms the \Vriter a Scoundrel and Coward and Says no Such Dishonorable llIeans Will Afl‘e‘cl His Judgment--Point for the Defense. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 9.——Before the trial of Sheriff Martin and his deputies was resumed yesterday Judge Wood- ward stated that he had received an anonymous letter making threats if he did not do certain things. The Judge said: “The man who wrote this will prob- ably hear what I have to say, and I want to tell him that he is a scoun- drel and a coward, and that no such dishonorable means will in any way af- fect my judgment. Cowardice and per- sonal fear are not a characteristic of the race from which I come.’ When court adjourned Monday night Judge Woodward held under advise- ment a question as to the admissibility of certain evidence given by John Cos- tello, a witness for the prosecution, and which _had been objected to by the de- fense. The objection of. the defense . was sustained. 9 . Costello was then recalled and asked to tell what he saw on the road from Farley’s Hotel to Lattimer. He said that he had seen eight wounded men lying along the road and three dead men. _ ' John Lynch, the next witness, testified that he was at West Hazelton when the strikers arrived, and that they were unarmed and orderly. He heard several threats against the strikers. One dep-- uty pointed his gun at a striker and said: “I could get a bead on that fel— low.” Another said: “I’ll get even _with the when we get to Lattimer.” Deputy Ferry, the witness said, told a man who was sympathizing with a .striker whose head was bleeding that if he did not shut up he would blow 1his head off. Evan Jones, the chief of police of West Hazlton, was the next witness called. He said that the strikers reached West Hazelton on the after— nooon of the shooting and there met the sheriff and the deputies. They car- ried a flag and talked rather loud, but they had no arms and made no disturb- ance of any kind. The sheriff told them that they could not march to Latti— ,mer and that they must go home, whereupon he (Jones) induced them to _goback and showed them how they could march by a side street. _ Herman Poettiger, of Hazelton, said that while at West Hazelton on the day of the shooting Deputy Henry Diehl tried to push him off the road, and when he objected Diehl drew his revolver, and, thrusting it under his nose, cried: “If you dont’ get off I’ll 'blow your brains out.”_ ‘ _'Diehl then went away. This Diehl is the man who is supposed to have gone to South Africa. The witness then pointed out several deputies whom he had seen at “rest Hazelton. Poettiger said he saw two deputies pull down the flag which the strikers were carrying. He saw a wounded striker in the hands of some deputies who were treating him roughly. They knocked him against the fences so forc- ibly that he fell to the ground. He saw no weapons of any kind among the strikers. he heard Thomas Hall say: “I would like. to get a pop at some of the “I also heard another say, Well, I’ll bet I'll drop six when we get over there.’ ” The afternoon session opened with Charles E. Rice, Chief Judge of the Pennsylvania Superior Court, occupy- ing a seat on the bench. The defense tried hard to break down Poettiger’s testimony regarding the treatment of wounded strikers by the deputies, but failed to do so. Poettiger made a very strong witness for the commonwealth. The foreigners near here will hold a mass-meeting to—night. They have posted the following notice throughout Edwardsville: “A mass-meeting of the Cl Edwardsville will be held in Pauksz- tis Hall Wednesday evening at 7.30 o’clock to protest against the action of Judge Stanley Woodward, Presiding Judge of Luzerne County, for allow— tizens of ing Sheriff Martin and his deputiesfi. charged with the high crime of murder, to go without bail. All lovers of law and order are invited to attend.” ‘ . ———'C‘ Fled Naked Froln Hotel Fire. Reading, Pa., Feb. 9.—Thc Mt. Ca1— mel House, a large four—story fro me structure at Mt. Carmel, Schuylkill County, was totally destroyed by fire ' yesterday morning. Seventy—five peo— ple- were cut off by the burning stair- way. Thrilling escapes were 111:1 ,e by leaping from windows and the bat . and by ropes and ladders. No one had time to dress. Baggage was 11 11led out of the windows. The fire originated in the bathroom, and is than “wt to be incendiary. Miss Sallie Dav ~. in de— . scending a rope, lost her grip and fell to the pavement and was fatally hurt. Othu‘s were also injured. The loss on the building and furniture will amount to $22,000, partially insured. Guests at the hotel will lose about $91,005) in personal effects on which there is no insurance. ‘ ”—— _ 'Now It’s a Stove Trust. Chicago.’ Feb. 9.—A s1 ove trust is the latest addition to the combinations of manufacturing interests. The infant wasborn Monday at Detrnu, Mich, and it already represents $10,01.0.,000 of invested capital. The primary aim of the promoters, it is said, is to raise prices on all kinds of C21?- Stu\(—S, ranges, heaters, etc. It is 51.111 11:1 ad- vanee will take effect Within. 51x13 -L. :13, :1 and the- first jump be at least 2:) per cent. .llcar Admiral Sicard Relieved. Washington, Feb. 9.—Rear—Ad1:1i:'rz.l Sicard hasvbeen relieved from corn- mand of the North Atlantic squadron temporarily on account of sickness. and the command has devolved upon Cap- tain William T. Sampson, command :5: the batttleship Iowa as the senior l. cer “present. Admiral Sicard is' ill with malaria fever. The change will make no change in the prearranged pio— gramme of the squadron. . As deputies boarded the car‘: IANOTHE‘R' nuance MYSTERY. l‘lm llutilated Body of a Man Found 111 East River, New York. . ‘ New York, Feb. 9.—The police of this .‘ity have another murder myster to inravel. which appears from the outset '10 be almost equal in horrible detail to :hat of the Guldensuppe murder. Yes— Lerday morning shortly after 10 o’clock Ehe mutilated and nude body of a man was found floating in the East River. Nearly the entire front portion of the head was missing, the only part of it left being the right ear and a small pertion of the back extending up as far as the lower part of the crown. l‘his‘portion of the head was covered with a thin growth of sandy 'colored hair. The left leg was missing from a. point just below the knee and the right leg was cut off above the hip. Both arms were missing. They had been cut off at the shoulders. The body had the appearance of hav- Tng been in the water at least a week and probably more. The cuts were so clean and smooth that _it precluded the possibility of the rmissing members having been taken off by the paddle wheels of a boat. That they were cut off the police are firmly of the belief, 1nd other marks about the body indi- cate that the man was murdered and iorribly butchered. The neck was undisturbed by the knife which had severed the other members, and around it was a regular mark about half an inch, which indi- 3ated that the man was first strangled with a rope. On the portion of the ‘eft leg remaining on the body are three sharp cuts about four inches long, which look like the slashes of a Knife, and nea1 them is a wound which ippeais to be a stab with a triangular Knife. From appearances, the man in life was about five feet eight inches tall, with broad shoulders and muscular oody. 011 this. the police based the opinion that the man had been a la— borer, and, from the nature of the pe- euliar stab wound on the leg, which "esembles that of a stilletto, it is thought that he was an Italian. In the Guldensuppe case the police r1ad oileloth and other things upon which to take up clews, but in the aresent instance, there is not a single Lrticle found upon which to work, ex— :ept the bare trunk of the murdered nan. All portions of the city inhabited by Ztalians will be carefully canvassed on the theory that it was the work of the Mafia or some organized band. It is coped that some rfiark may be found which may lead to the identification. MURDERESS CONFESSES. insane \Vith Jealousy, l'vIrs. Place Admits She DIurdcred Her Step-Daughter. New York, ' Feb. 9.—Mrs. Martha Place, who killed her step—daughter Monday, who tried to kill her husband, William IV. Place, Monday 1nd who then, turning on the gas in tier room, lay down as though she in- :ended to commit suicide, was well enough yesterday to be taken from St. lIary’s Hospital to her home on Han- :ock street, Brooklyn, by Police Cap- :ain Ennis, and confronted with the aody of her step-daughter. When she was led up to the body she fell upon her knees and cried: “My 30d! I did it.” The body of the slain girl lay on a oier near the window in the room in which she was murdered, when Mrs. Place was brought in. A sheet cov- ered the prostrate figure. Suddenly Captain Ennis stepped forward, and, vith a dexterous movement, drew the iheet clear of the still figure. The aody of the girl, clad in a night gown, vas revealed to view. Her face—hid- :ously scarred with burns from the mid—was turned toward the window. “Take me away! Take me away!” l/Irs. Place screamed, clasping her 1ands. The woman, reeling and faint, was led into another room. There she nade this statement to Police Captain Ennis: “I admit that I killed my stepdaugh- :er and that I struck my husband with :he axe. I choked my daughter and ntended to kill the man. That’s all l’ve got to say. I won’t tell why I vanted to kill them. " When Mrs. Martha Place was 'arrlgn- ed in the Gates Avenue Police Court in :he afternoon she cried widly: “I did I, I did it!” and thne dropped to the loor unconscious. She was carried to in adjoining room where she was re- rived with much difficulty. She was held by Magistrate Worth on three :harges—murder in the first degree; fe- lonious asault; and attempted suicide. Immediately after she was taken back :0 the. Ralph avenue station, where an- . other attempt was made to get a de- railed statement from her. All she voud say at the station house was that she wanted her adopted 5011 brought to the Hancok stret houseand that her ausband had refused to do so. That, the said, was the cause of most of the 'amily trouble. Killed by Earthquakes. Constantinople, Turkey, Feb. Earthquake shocks continue to be felt it Ballikesr, Asia Minor, and in its vi— zinity. About 4,000 people have been rendered homeless, some 3,000 houses, l0 mosques and 15 khans have been nore or less destroyed and 120 persons lave been killed ‘or injured. 9.— Tax on Bachelors. Trenton, N. J., Feb. 9.—Mr. \Veller, if Mercer, introduced in the Assembly vesterday a bill providing an annual tax of $2 on every bachelor in the State. Amid laughter the Speaker re- ferred the bill to the Committee on State Asylums. NEWS IN BRlEF. Eleven people were burned in a the 11 Albany yesterday; two of them seri- iusly. Two more incendiary fires, making seven in all, have terrorized the people if VVilkesbarre, Pa. Senor Sagasta again comes out in the Liberal of Madrid with the statement that there is absolutely no cause for a War. The Pairpont Silverware Manufactur- ng Company, employing 1,000 hands at .New Bedford, Mass, has failed for :500,000. Twenty-five persons, who returned rom Alaska on thesteamer Novo Mon- lay, were disgusted at their experience 11 the Klondike. ' Honolulu advices report that Mrs. Emma Watson, only daughter of Claus ' Spreckles, will bring suit in that coun- ry against her father for the recovery 1f property worth $1, 500, 000, which just 1“ er her. marriage she deeded back to 11111. ' . . . . . ' evening. . TE-Oops'roa kLofioth-z. Two Companies‘Will Be Sent. to--Preser,ver . Order in Dyes and Skaguay. . . Washington, Feb. 9.—-At the Cabinet meeting yesterday it was decided to send two companies of troops .to Dyea and Skaguay, Alaska, immediately to preserve order and protect life and property. Advices to the Government state that the rush to the gold ’fields has attracted hundreds of the lawless element, and that troops are necessary at once to prevent trouble. To Aid Canadian Miners. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 9,—An important conference was held here between gov- ernmentalrepresentatives of the Toron- to, Montreal and Vancouver Boards‘ of Trade, with the object in view of de- vising methods to assist Canadian min- ers entering the Yukon by way of Tai- ya and Skaguay to pass the American customs. In order to obviate the. ne- cessity of these miners recrossing the basses to Skaguay or Taiya to secure a refunding of the duty,~as provided by the Washington regulations issued last week, the Canadian_customs officer at Tagish will pay to the miners the amounts of duty with which they have been charged and then collect these sums from the American customs of- ficers at the port of entry. Shipment of Miner’s Outfits. San Francisco, Cal, Feb. 9.—The Treasury Department has advised the Collector of the Port to the effect that 'shipments of miners’ outfits from the United States to Victoria in American vessels for trans-shipment to Alaska in British bottoms would violate the laws regulating the coasting trade. This matter has been decided by the Fed- eral courts in similar cases. The Laurm‘la for .Alaska. Seattle, XVale, Feb. 9.——The Boston and Alaska Transportation Company announces that they have purchased in New York the steamship Laurada, which was, until her seizure by'the Government recently, engaged in fili- bustering between New York and Cuba. - The Laurada will be placed on the Alaska run from this city. - ‘ Canada \Von’t; Admit Troops. Ottawa, 0111., Feb. 9.——The Dominion Government has decided not to permit the United States Government to send troops through Canadian territory into the Yukon country along with the pro- posed relief expedition. It is generally believed here that the expedition has been abandoned. THE QUEEN’S SPEECH. No Allusion to ”the Situation in the Far East-"Hope for Ireland. London, Feb. 9.—-The fourth session of the fourteenth Parliament of Queen Victoria and the twenty- -sixth of the United Kingdom was poened, by commision, ate " o clock yesterday, with ':he customary ceremonies. Two things are made plain in the Queen’s speech, which was read in the chamber of the House «of Lords. One is "that the Er etc) 11 qustion is not settled, and that thezo me no negotiations in sight the .u.co1ne of 11 hieh can be foreshadowed; the second is that there will surely be some legislation for Ire land passed in the coming session. The speech opens with the stereo- typed declarations that Great Britain’s 1el.‘.tions with the othel poweis con- ‘tin 1'1e f1 ienle It continues: ' “ The question of an autonomous "gov- :1111mcnt £01 the island of Crete has oc- cupied the attention of the powers. The difficulty of arranging a unanimous agreement on some points has unduly protracted the deliberations, but I hope that these obstacles will before long be surmounted." The speech then enumerated the van rious measures that will be introduced in Parliament, the first being a “sys- tEni of local government for Ireland. substantially similar to that estab- lished in Great Britain.” ‘hereafter follow measures for increasing the strength and efficiency of the army, creating n1unicipaities in London, and other measures of internal legislation. "Don’t you," feel more like working 1t some times than at others?” inquir- sd the young woman. “Yes,” he replied; “I do. \Vhen I 1m riding in a railway car, where I :an’t possibly find a pen, pencil or pa- )er or anybody to talk business to, I get to feeling so industrious that it nakes me Star. Saving Lives. Doctors declare that cancerous growth. cannot be cured. 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BATES’ 42 WATER STREET, You can find as fine an assortment of Manuela] 1 llllllllflll Wall As can be found' in any Yard' 1n the 7 State. . Look it'.over_and get" ‘ prices before geing = elsewhere. _ low Ribbons, llow Tollel Articles, low Gloves. IUSN] 'FAIRFIELD COUNTY’S GREATEST . sronfi. Tun LAsm Cam. __ 0N.'__. Winona decreases. V \ marked down of our Winter Jackets. and Women’s coats, at less than Half Price. a Saturday, February 5th, we will have the final If you have not bought a Winter Jacket, or if your Jacket is a rougli‘ one,you can afford to buy a nice,smooth KerseyJacket,’ which is the leading cloth this season, both for Men Blankets We have a. hundred Blankets left. 011 all above one dollargve will take 25 ‘per cent. off. $1.19 ones 25 per-cent. oil, 890 $2.00 “ 25 “ “ “ $1.50. $3.00 M 25 u 0 c; 2: $2.20 $4.00 “ 25 “ “ “ $3.00. Ladies and childrens Leggings, 25c,. 75c and 980. Skirts Umbrella. flounce, lace and Hamburg trimmed, 980 to $3.00. Kitchen Dept 3 qt... granite iron sauce pan, 100. 4 “ “ “ milk pan, 10c. Long handle flesh forks, 20. Large Oyster broilers, 100. “ Wire strainers, 50. 3 qt. granite iron tea or coffee pot, 25 cents. English Po'rcelaine 'Warranted not to craze. Cups and saucers, 410 set. Tea plates, 50 each. Breakfast plates, 6c each. Dinner plates, 70 each. , Vegetable dishes, 120 each. Covered dishes, 350 each. Bowls, 50 each. Worsted Hoods, 25c, 39c and 50c. Fascinators, 25c, 39c, 500 and .50. P Corset Covers The new blouse Corset covers and low neck, for evening wear, 49c, 59c and 750. Skating caps, 25c and 390. Empire Gowns ,Lace and Hamburg trimmed, over twenty-five different styles, 980. Separate Skirts . 15 black cheviot skirts that have been $5.00 all season, $3.50. 10 plaid skirts that have been $5.00 until now, $3.50. Hamburgs and Laces A fortunate purchase of Manufac- turer’s samples and short lengths of Hamburg edgeing, enables us to oifer Saturday, over 5,000 yds. at 50 cents on the dollar. The lot Comprises all the season’s importation and the styles and cloths are among the best. made. 500 pieces, French Valenciennés and Oriental laces in white and butter colored, our spring and summer im- portations, will be displayed this Week at very attractive prices. Jackets Beaver and Rough Jackets, 95 and and $6 ones, $2.50. Boucle Jackets, $12 and $14. 98 ones, $8. Beaver and Kerseys, Silk Lined. $8.50 and $10 ones, 85. - Children’ 3 Jackets, $5 and $6. ones, sizes, 4, 6, and 8, $2. 50. Imported Kerseys, Braided and Silk Lined. $18. 75 and $20 ones, 810. Children’s Jackets, $8 and $10 ones, sizes 8, 10 and 12, $5., r111: 13031011310113. 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