The Blue Rapids Times from Blue Rapids, Kansas • 2

JURY FOUND HER INSANE. THE MARKETS. HE HAS DISAPPEARED. Blue Rapids Times DROWNED ODT THETRAINSMET Jane Toppan, a Nurse Suspected of Dozen Murders. BARNSTABLE, MASS.

(Special.) Miss Jane Toppan, a nurse, was found "not guilty by reason of insanity" of the murder by poisoning of Mrs. Mary D. Olbbs, of Catumet, on August 12, 1901, before a special sitting of the superior court here today. The time occupied In the trial was scarcely six hours. When the government presented Its evidence the sensational Incident appeared In the testimony of Dr.

Henry R. Stedman, of Boston, an alienist, who said that Jane Toppan told him In the presence o' other medical experts that she had caused the death of Mrs. Glbbs by giving her a poisonous dose of atrophine and morphine. When the defense puts Its medical experts on the witness stand, the contention of moral and mental Irresponsibility of the defendant was maintained. Miss Toppan was ordered committed to Taunton Insane asylum for life.

She will be taken there at once. While Miss Toppan was tried on the Indictment charging the murder of Mrs. Glbbs, she was charged also by the government with the deaths of Mr. Alden P. Davis and Mrs.

Gene-vlede D. Gordon, at Catumet. These deaths occurred within a short time of each other. In addition, the deaths of the following persons, who were nursed by Miss Toppan had been Inquired into. Israel D.

Dunlfam. of Cambridge, died May 211. 1895. nged S6 years. Mrs.

Dunham, his wife, died September 15, DOT. Mrs. Connors, died at Cambridge in 19O0. Mrs. Alden P.

Davis, died at Cambridge, July 4. llMI, aged years. Mrs. O. M.

Brigham. of Lowell, died August 29. aged C9 years. Florence N. Calkins, housekeeper for Mrs.

Brigham. died January 15, 1900. Mrs. Edna Banister, of Tunbridge, sister of Mrs. Brigham, died August 27, 1901.

BRIBERY SENSATION. Cleveland Alderman Flourishes $2,000 Which He Says Was a Bribe. CLEVELAND. Special.) During a meeting of the city council Monday night, Councilman Kohl held up over his head $2,000 In money, at the same time making the statement that It was a partial payment on what was to be a bribe of $5,000 to him for his efforts to introduce certain amendments unfavorable to the applications of the East Ohio Gas Company (natural gas) seeking admission to this city. There was the greatest excitement In the chamber when this statement was heard, and Mr.

Kohl turned the money over to the council clerk. Mayor Johnson, who was harged Dr. F. W. Daykln as being the man who was acting as a go-between and who gave Kohl the money.

At a late hour Dr. Daykln was closeted In the mayor's office with a number of city officials. The East Ohio Gas Company is a Standard Oil branch and wants a franchise to run pipes Into the city. At midnight Dr. Daykln was placed under arrest on the charge of bribery.

He Is locked up at central police headquarters. FOR DEFRAUDING A BANK. Baltimore Cotton Broker Convicted of Obtaining $25,000 Falsely. WASHINGTON. (Special.) John K.

Mesersniitli. the colton broker, who has been ontrial before Judge Ritchie In the criminal court for the last five clays, charged with obtaining $25,000 by means of false pretenses from the Merchants' National bnnk, was convicted Tuesday. Messersmlth was released under $10,000 bonds, pending decision on a motion for a new (rial. For many years Messersmlth was one of (he leading cotton brokers of Baltimore, and was also a member of the New York cotton exchange. The specific harge against him waB the alteration of an old and worthless bill of lading, upon which he obtained a credit of $25,000 from the bank.

Because She Rejected Him. OMAHA, NEB. (Special.) John H. Hartman, a city fireman at No. 1 engine house, sent in his resignation to the fire chief, went to the engine house early Tuesday morning and said good-by to his mates, and, stepping to the rear of the building, put a bullet through his head, dying an hour later.

Hartman told his companions that a lady friend had refused to accept his proffered offer of matrimony, and that he was going to leave the city. Colorado Town Threatened. SALIDA, COL. (Special.) A forest fire which has been raging for about i week near Chipeta mountain now threatens the mining camp of Marshall, twenty miles west of here. The high winds have increased the fires, and, shifting about, are now driving them directly toward Marshall.

The people are moving out, as there la no way to stop the fires or to protect that town. Father Runs Over Daughter. BELLEVILLE, I LL. (Special.) O. Deslitotlele, a prominent farmer, while driving a reaper Monday, ran over his 4-year-old daughter, Alma, who was playing In the field, killing her almost instantly.

The father is -razed by the accident. Big Roundhouse Burned. FRESNO, CAL. (Special.) The big roundhouse of the Southern Paclflo railroad and twelve locomotives were destroyed by fire Monday night. The loss Is estimated to be nearly GRAIN.

Kansas City. Wheat July, G9i4c; September, i8V4SG8c. Cash: No. 2 hard, 72c; No. 3 hard, 70V471V4c; No.

4 hard, 72c; No. 2 red, 73c; No. 3 red, I715 72c; No. 2 spring 72c. Corn July, b'MtbSc; September, 51c.

Cash: No. 2 mixed, 2c; No. 2 white, CGc; No. 3 white, C5c. Oats No.

2 white, 47V6c Rye No. 2, fitlc. Chicago. Wheat Cash No. 2 red, SOjfSlc; No.

3 red, 7880c; No. 2 hard, No. 3 hard, 7Gc. Corn Cash No. 2 mixed, C5'4c.

Oats--Cash No. 2 mixed, 42V4Sj'43c; No. 2 white. 48c. St.

Louis. Wheat No. 2 red, cash, elevator, 79c; on track, 80c for old and 75c for new; July, T2S 724c; September, 7114c; No. 2 hard, 7475V4c Corn No. 2, cash, Glc; on track, 62 5T2V4c; July, 0134c; September, 55Vic.

Oats No. 2, cash, 4394c; on track, 44V4c; July, 33c. LIVE STOCK. Kansas City. Cattle Native steers, Texas and Indian steers, Texas cows, native cows and heifers, Blockers and feeders.

bulls, calves. Hogs-Heavy, 7.75; paackeres, $7.403 77V; medium, light, $7.00 (37.50; yorkers, pigs, $6.45 (3710. Sheep Muttons, 4.005.30; lambs, range wethers, $4.00 43 4.05; ewes, South St. Joseph. Hogs Top, $7.75.

St. Louis. Cattle Texans. top, $5.30 natives, top, $7.80. Hogs Top, $7.75.

Chicago. Cattle Good to prime steers, 8.00; poor to medium, stockers and feeders, $3.50 (35.25; cows, heifers, $2.50 (S6.25; canners, bulls, $2.25 (85.50; calves, $2.50 GEO; Texas fed steers, Hogs Mixed and butchers', 7.60; good to choice heavy, rough heavy, $7.20 (37.40; light, bulk of sales, $7.307.60. Sheep Good to choice wethers, 5.00; fair to choice mixed, Western Bheep, native Iambs, clipped, $5.00 (36.75; Western lambs, spring lambs. $7.10. HORSES AND MULES.

Horses. Draft, good, $90 to $140; draft, 1.500 to 1,700 pounds, $155 to $175; chunks, good to choice, $80 to $130; chunks, common to fair, $50 to $70; drivers, good to fancy, $80 drivers, medium, $50 to $05; Southerners, good to choice, $15 to $C5; plugs, $10 to $15. Mules. 13'(fi 14 hands, fat and broken, $35 to $45; 14Mi hands, fat, good hair, $45 to $05: 1 4 1 5 hands, fat. $G5 to $S5; 15(01514 hands, fat, $90 to $120; hands, fat, $125 to $140.

HIDES AND PELTS. Green salted hides, Nos. 1 and 2, all around, 7c; bulls and stags, 7c; green, uncured, 1c per pound less, and part cured, 'c per pound less than cured; grubby kips, or glue stock, 4c; horse hides, dry butchers' hides, 16 pounds and up. 1415c; fallen, 16 pounds and up. 12V4(gl3c; under 16 pounclB, 11c: dry salt, 11c; dry glue.

7c; very badly grubby green or dry hides are classed as glue stock. Sheep pelts, 40(3 70c; dry flint, S9c per pound. Tallow, No. 1, 6c; No. 2, 5c.

Prairie hay, choice. $9ijn0; No. 1, No. 2. No.

3. $3.50 (94.50; No. 4 and packing hay, $3(3) 3.50. Timothy, choice. $11.750 12; No.

1, No. 2, lOcfMO; No. 3, $5 (3 8. Clover, No. 1, $7(3 7.60; No.

5, $6 clover mixed. No. 1, $S(39: No. 2. $i57.

Alfalfa. Straw. $3.75 (31.00. MAIL "CLERKS SUFFERED. One Killed and Four Injured In a Wreck in Iowa.

ST. PAUL, MINN. (Special.) A passenger train on (he Sioux City branch of (he Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis Omaha Railroad, due to arrive in St. Paul at 7:25 a.

jumped the track near Ashton, early Monday. Two trainmen were killed, five others seriously hurt and a number of passengers received minor injuries. The dead: C. J. Robinson, Sioux City, mall clerk.

Barrett, fireman, terribly scalded by escaping steam; died shortly after being taken from under engine. The injured: James Ersklne, St. Paul, mall clerk; hurt about back and head, serious. E. Weston, St.

Paul, mail clerk; badiy scalded by escaping steam, serious. C. H. Hall, St. Paul, mail clerk; hurt about back and head, serious.

U. S. Thompson. St. Paul, mall clerk; hurt about back and head, serious.

Engineer of train, name not ascertained, badly hurt, but will recover. The cause of the wreck is said to have been a misplaced switch. The train was running at a high rate of speed and when it left the track the mail cars and smoker piled up on top of the engine. The sleeping cars aUo left the track, but did not overturn. The injured mall clerks were brought to a St.

Paul hospital, while some of the others hurt were taken to Minneapolis for treatment. IIKIKF IIITM OF N1WH. The London hoard of trade has awarded a handsome piece of plate to Captain Freeman of the British steamer Roddam, in recognition of his gallantry at St. Pierro. Martinique when that town was destroyed.

Alban Vaughan Elliott, who served as a paymaster In the army from 1865 until 1SS0, Is dead at Florence, Italy, from heart trouble. He was a son of the late Dr. Samuel Elliott, an eminent oculist, and was born in New York city glxty-five years ago. U. BRICE Put.

BLtTB RAPIDS, tiH. Plerpont Morgan Is going to Italy. I.cok out for a mararoni trust. Burning question In Franc: What liall we do with our volcanic Islands? Only propose to blow a golden bubble, and thousands will subscribe for oap. Washington's "sweet girl graduate" of 1902 carries a caue.

Must be a sugar cane. Mark Twain has again retired forever from the public platform. This is about the sixth time. King Oscar of Sweden is writing his memoirs, but there is no immediate danger that he will lecture. Joseph Jefferson has played "Hip Van Winkle" more than 4,000 times, flaying it must seem like work now.

Every week as the summer advances the lawn mower pushes heavier; it is the nature of the machine. The alleged gigantic British shipping combination turns out to be nothing but an echo from this side of the water. Samuel L. Clemens, l.L. Is the way to write it now.

The gentleman, however, will continue to answer to Mark Twain. Many paupers have lived to he a hundred years old, but there Is no record of a millionaire having attained that age. William Sunday, the old-time hall-player, who Is now winning fame as an evangelist, has proved that there may be something In a name. Has that Nebraska banker who has been enjoined in three counties from marrying the woman of his choice never heard of St. Joe, across the lake? Andrew Carnegie lias been presented with the freedom of the Plumbers' Association of London.

We did not know that Mr. Carnegie was as rich as that. It Is in order to remind the young King of Spain that if he is going to restore the greatness of his kingdom be should not waste any time talking about it. Philanthropists who have recommended cold cureB to an ungrateful world are now busy telling about sure death remedies for the annual mosquito plague. Musolino, the notorious Italian baa been sentenced to prison for life.

Paradoxical as it may seem, this permits of the query. How long will lie stay there? There is a man at Hanlonton, whose name is August Vainklngel-Btemhausenklotzer, which seems altogether too long a surname for August or even June. Edgar Williams, a telegraph operator at Indianapolis, is a grandfather at the age of 39. This is another evidence of the arrival of the young man and s'renuosity. News is cabled from London that J.

Plerpont Morgan Is In good health. That being the case Independent sMp companies might as well get down the book and read the account of their finish. The fact that many of the raoBt die tinguished pickpockets of the world are present at the coronation ol King Edward adds a human Interest touch to the otherwise awe-inspiring program. A man has been sentenced to jail for one year for stealing a pair ol hoes worth $2. On this husis how long should a banker stay in Jail who baa been sentenced for stealing thou-sands of dollars? Somebody has discovered that ther are thirty distinct varieties of th kiss smacking their way around the world, and the enumeration does not appear to Include those on the Ella Wheeler Wllco list.

The Shah of Persia has made Em pcror iV'illlam a present of a decora tlon forth $5,000. This will be sufficient to enable the emperor to have the rooms occupied by the shah cleaned up after be leaves. They are Just beginning over In China to bury I.I Hung Chang, and it Is expected that they will be at it for several weeks. Evidently the Chinese don't believe in turning from a man just because he happens to be dead. By getting married in Chicago Ploter Hybarczyk and Maryanna Btaaszynska, Holeslaw Werbaachow slcl and Jozefa Czajkowsky, and Anton Brzcywskl and Anna Jozijusku have succeeded in simplifying matters a little, anyway.

It la safe to say that the surviving residents of Martinique are not par tlcilarly interested in the quest of the scientists who are trying to find whnt Is Inside of Mount Pelee. The fceneral Impression is that there Isn'' much left to discover. The Prcldnit of a rhlln.lelpl.hl Trnat Company la Wnnleil. PHILADELPHIA. (Special.) As a result of the assignment of the nlted States Trust Company, the police are looking for Henry R.

Melknwell, lis president, a member of the New York bar, to arrest him on Information sworn to by Charles 1.. Brown, assignee, charging him with larceny of its securities, and embezzlement of Its funds to the value of $50,000. It Is believed, however, that McDowell Is already on his way to Europe. McDowell was elected president of the campany about six months ago. There were 10.000 shares of stock at a par value of $25.

The first thing McDowell did, it Is said, was to secure the authorization of 10.000 additional shares with a face value of $250,000. which were given to him for negotiation. In addition to this, when he was made president there were entrusted to him securities to the value of $50,000. To meet the expenses of (he concern notes were given. Thesa matured within the last few clays and the amount necessary to pay them could not be found by the treasurer.

A meeting of the officers was called and an aslgnment was made to Charles Brown. Mr. Brown, upon Investigation, demanded a return of the securities, but was informed that McDowell bad left New York for Boston. Further inquiries have led him to the belief that the missing president has taken a steamer from New York. The authorities of Boston and New York have been requested to arrest McDowell and they have all steamers In port searched.

IT IS FOR PANAMA. The Senate Votes In Favor of the Short Ifmitf Cnmil. WASHINGTON. (Special.) An Isthmian canal, while not yet absolutely assured. Is nearer to construction than it ever has been.

The Senate Friday, by a majority of eight votes, adopted the Spooner substitute for the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill, the vote on the substitute being 42 to 34. After two amendments to the measure had been adopted, one providing for a commission to supervise the construction of the canal and the other providing for the Issuance of $130,000,000 of 2 per cent gold bonds to raise money wl(h which to construct the waterway, It was passed by a vote of 67 to 6. The vote on the canal bill showed eight majority In favor of'the Spooner amendment. This amendment Is In the nature of a substitute for the House bill, and authorizes the president to acquire the Panama route. The House bill provides for what Is known as the Nicaragua route, and thus both houses are on diametrically opposite sides of the question.

The bill now goes Into conference, the ultimate outcome of which, It Is predicted, will be a resolution to turn the whole matter over to the President, with authority to select the most feasible route, but leaving him unlnstructed, contrary to the provisions of the Spooner amendment. POSTMISTRESS A SUICIDE. Hangs Herself Because of Shortage In Her Accounts. RICHMOND. VA.

(Special.) Mrs. E. G. Scott, overburdened by the knowledge that there was a shortage of $300 or $400 In her accounts as postmistress of the village of prospect and that a postofllce inspector from Washington would expose it by examination Monday, hung herself Sunday night on her front porch. Mrs.

Scott was an English woman of culture. Her husbnud is a merchant at Prospect, a supervisor of Prince Edward county and prominent In Republican politics. About 10 o'clock when Scott was asleep Mrs. Sc ott procured a small rope, climbed upon a chair, fastened the rope to a rafter and then kicked the chair away. An hour later she was found dangling in the moonlight by some negroes who were passing.

She was cut down but she was dead. She left a note saying she was short in her accounts anil asking her husband to make the amount good, BIG FIRE AT CREED. A Property l.ou of Suataliieo In a Colorado City. CREEDE, COLO. (Special.) The second terrible fire in the history of Creede occurred Thursday morning, and as a result fully $200,000 worth of property has been burned, two lives are believed to have been lost and many persons were Injured.

The fire occurred In what is known as Upper Creede, and that part of town is in ruins, making sixty families home-lees. The names of the missing are William Stewart and Frits Zlnt. The fire started In a vacant building formerly occupied as a saloou, and Is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. One hole block on 'Main street la destroyed. Tht new Happy Thought mill, which cost $225,000, was saved only with the utmost difficulty.

BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The Junior Order of the United American Mechanics at Milwaukee decided to meet next year In San Francisco. The convention also reaffirmed all the acts of the last national council board of officers, whic 1b a decided vic tory for the administration forces. George B. Bowers, of Pennsylvania, was elected national councilor.

Some men are of volcanic: origin, but they are not the ones who shout off their mouths. FIREMEN HELP POLICE TO CAPTURE A MURDERER. HE HAD TAKEN REFUGE IN A CELLAR Cellar Was Flooded and He Was Forced Upstairs Riddled With Bullets When He Appeared at Window He Had Killed an Officer Who Came to Arrest Him. JEFFERSON CITY, Special.) One of the worst shooting affairs ever witnessed in this part of Iowa took place early Monday, resulting from an attempt to arrest Horace Shlpman on a peace warrant. For some breach of the peace a warrant was sworn out for Shipman and placed In the hands of Marshal John Swearlngen for service.

Dr. O. II. Grlmmell. Shipman's family physician, went ahead of the marshal to attempt to have Shlpman surrender peaceably.

Shlpman agreed to this, but when Swearlngen and Deputy Sheriff Fred Kendall appeared In the door he warned them not to come In under penalty of death. Swearingen, undaunted, started to pull his revolver for the purpose of entering, and Ship-man fired a load of shot, striking the marshal In the lower part of the race and killing him Instantly. Dr. Grlmmell and the deputy beat a retreat leaving the body of the marshal upon the porch. Sheriff Anderson Immediately went to the scene of the shooting, deputized a dozen citizens to assist him.

Hundreds of people gathered near Ship-man's home and for three hours watched the battle. Five hundred shots were poured Into the large two-story house. Shipman replying from windows, rellarway and door. The fire company was called; James May vol unteered to stick a hose In the cellar and drown him out. May accomplished his work, but Shipman fired upon him from the cellar, causing him to retreat.

The water, however, had the desired effect, driving Shlpman from the cellar. Oniy a high wind from a direction that would have carried the flanios to town prevented the building from being fired. About 11 o'clock Shipman appeared at a window and fifty shots were fired at him. It then became quiet inside, and Shipman's body was found on the floor, full of bullets. HE DEFENDED THE ARMY.

As a Result. One Man Is Dead and Three Are Wounded. KNOXVII.LE, TEXN. (Special.) An attack upon the American army In the Philippines, made at a garden party here Sunday night, started a desperate fight which may cost four lives. One man is dead, and three others.

Including the traducer of the soldiers, and a discharged regular, recently returned from Manila, who defended the name of the military, are probably fatally wounded. The dead John Kennedy, aged 43. The Injured: Alonzo Barger. stabbed twenty times; cannot recover. Charles Hoblis.

badly cut about the face, neck and breast. Lincoln Monday, stabbed; jugular vein almost severed. Monday, who served three years In the archipelago as a member of the Ninth Infantry and who is a survivor of the massacre of Company at Balanga. Samar, gave Harper the lie when the latter declared that, "two-thirds of the American soldiers who went to the Philippines were hoodlums and the other third were cowards and bullies." In the fight that followed. Hobbs and Kennedy took the part of liarger.

All fought with pocket knives, until Monday, weak from the loss of blood, sank to the ground. Then one of his friends in the crowd handed him a revolver and he shot Kennedy dead Monday then shot at Barger and Hoblis, but failed to hit either. Confesses to a 8hootlng. NACOGDOCHES. TEXAS.

(Special.) Mayfleld Elliott, a young man, surrendered to the sheriff Monday saying he had shot and killed G. C. Mr-Kinney and fatally wounded It. J. Mc- Call.

It Is said (here had been trouble among the men for some time and Elliott had warned the others not to come to his place. Monday morning Elliott unexpectedly came upon the two men on his land and the shooting followed. Negroes to Be Admitted. DENVER. COLO.

(Special.) W. 11. Hartshorn, chairman of the program committee of the tenth International Sunday sc hool convention which meets here this week met with the colored people at Zion's Iiaptist churc Sunday and the question of seating or colored delegates was amicably settled. The colored delegates will enter the convention on the same footing as the white delegates. Crunk at th Whlto limine.

WASHINGTON. (Special.) Cary J. McAllister, of 45 Crawford street, Newark, N. called at the White House Thursday afternoon and subsequently was arrested and held for examination as (o his nun In I condition. Ho was armed Willi a revolver which he said he wanted to use on a mesmerist who he said was ready to kill him.

He Is 2(1 yeai'B old. He said his troubles followed bis rejection by a Newark girl. FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND 29 IN JURED IN MINNESOTA. THE SWITCH HAD BEEN TURNED One rnMenger Train Waiting for Another to Pi The Thrown Switch Sent the Moving Train to Meet the Waiting One In Heacl-I ucl Collision Fire Followed the Wreck. STAPLES, MINN.

(Special.) A headend collirlon occurred at Tower Lake siding, two miles west of here, on the Northern Pacific, at 1:45 Saturday morning, between No. 7 passenger, west bound, and No. 8 passenger, east bound. Engineer Scott, of No. 7 took the siding, expecting No.

8, which had the right of way, to pass. The latter, believing everything clear, came along at a high rate of speed. The switch, however, had In some way not yet explained, been turned, and No. 8 dashed Into the waiting train. Five persons were killed and twenty-nine Injured.

The dead: Engineer Walter Scott, not found, supposed to be In wreckage. Express Messenger F. Mueller. Flrema.i George Rasmussen. Conduc tor John Noble.

Dan Kennedy, section laborer, Gladstone, N. D. Injured: Henry Green, Minneapolis; back bruised. Fireman H. K.

Montgomery; leg crushed. Charles Delamor, residence unknown; arm fractured. Claude It. Black, Concord, N. wrist cut.

F. F. McUrlde, mall clerk, St. Paul; head cut and arm sprained. W.

F. Haggard, express messenger, St. Paul; leg bruised. J. Elmer Nelson, Cooperstown; head bruised.

Andrew Munser, Cooperstown; forehead cut. William Krause, Ionia, leg bruised. Felix Simmons, Fargo; side and arm bruised. Henry Snlppenhelm, Bards, bruised. Charles Nadetzke, Delmore, bruised, Ed Belcher, Blue Earth City; contusion of shoulder and elbow.

Mrs. E. G. Haye, Spiritwood, N. D.

leg bruised. E. Keck, St. Paul; badly shaken up. Engineer E.

E. Schultze; both legs broken and otherwise badly bruised. Harry Zlmmer, Hammond, in-Jurned Internally; probably die. Fred M. Taylor, Batavla, arm and side bruised.

A. J. Kirkpatrick, Batavla, bruised. II. Gaver, Minneapolis, back sprained.

Samuel C. Feltis, La Moure, N. bruised. Oliver Resnlck, St. Cloud; hip bruised.

F. F. Wilcox, Panora, bruised over right eye. George Brean, Watena; bruised on L. A.

Kennedy, Winnipeg; Injury to abdomen; slight. G. C. Bellows, French Creek, band bruised. I.

L. Gordon, Chicago; bock sprained. F. O. Rout ha, New York; knee sprained, Nellie D.

Sanford, residence unknown; bruised. S. B. Moore, Buffalo; bruised. IL'ad brnkeman on train No.

8, arm bruised and head cut. The wreck caught fire, but the passengers formed a bucket brigade and kept the flames under control for a time, but the work was given up, and four coaches and three or four mall, express and baggage cars were burned. BUFFALO SURGEON SHOT. Iixlanlly Killed During Souffle With His Wife. BUFFALO, N.

Y. (Special.) Dr. Jacob F. Meyer, one of the best known citizens In this city, was shot through the heart Saturday and Instantly killed. His wife, who was the first person to inform the police of the shooting of her husband, Is at an Eust side police station in a highly hysterical condition.

No charge has been preferred against Mrs. Meyer, and the police say she Is being kept under surveillance because of her nervous condition, Mrs. Meyer rushed Into the police station and Informed the desk sergeant that her husband had been shot. She carried a small handbag and said the revolver with which her husband was shot was In It. Mrs.

Meyer has made several disconnected statements about the shooting, referring to a scuffle between herself and her husband, WASHINGTON. "(Special.) Senators Allison Hale and Cockrell and Representatives Cannon, Hemmlngway and McKae, the sennte and house conferees on the urgent deficiency bill, have reached an ngreement as to lie amount of the appropriations for the changes that are to be made at the White House, and Thursday had a conference with the president. Many Important alterations In the building are provided for, and It Is expected that these will be completed by December 1. The amount to be appropriated Is $300, OoO..