The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1908, Page 1

(a NE-SWEP | DPEAA AQUGE As Audience Rate to Doors After Picture Machine Explosion, Floor Gave Way and Oil Lamps Set Fire to Place. Pa BOYERTOWN, rnoon that 14.—The Coroner estimated late this 180 lives | in the fire dis. jodes's aft Opera-House | \ Strangers from ou vere | among the four | in the pt struc ssible that the exact total of will nev as a search o ruins | to-day showed that only ashes remain of the bodies of many victims. So covered, ed é burning playhouse, and many | far 135 bodies have been re n the mad rush for safety or by leaping | are not expected to survive Bo scarcely | night’s v bout 2,500 population and there is little town that has not been afflicted by la n of fire. made at | burned theatre for those who perished. Tearful! ' throngs surround the scene and follow the efforts of the working force Although the ruins are still smouldering, search is being different paris of the with agonizing interest. Not far a doctors and A force of s} largely by c in varic ay, s homes, the injured are being attended by es, Who were hurried here from Reading and Pottstown. ice from Reading are on guard, as hundreds moved The tiosity have flocked here from stirrounding towns, about the fire area, ributed mostly fa addition to the Opera-House, the Farmers’ National Bank, Rahn's hardware store and the dwellings of George Rahn, Harry Pennypacker | and Alfred Seashard were burned. The monetary loss will amount to about $75,000. A majority of those killed were members of St. John’s Lutheran’ Church, of this place, or of the Sunday school, who were in the opera- house to witness a five-act tableaux, “The Scottish Reformation,” A moving picture show for the benefit of the chiliren was to have closed the entertainment. | For several months the Sunday school to cll pupils of St, John’s Lutheron Church | fiery sp! had been rehear machine. One of the young people on the pon the stage to escape tie ng of the moving pict ure | tion, was bel mae formatio! e Ve more excited than the othe " 3, Monroe, o jotion as if epel th by Mra, H motion as if to repel the audience, and the authoress, and when the cur in his excitement he overturned on: rese at § o'clock the opera: se was| the coal oil lamps tha oilights for the stage. ash into the aud torlum and exploc In an instant the stage front was ablaze and the frightened people surged toward the rear again. The yout!: actors fled from the stage and m aged to escape, clad in their stage ments, Men Beat Down Children, resentative citizens of > drama was well pr ce worked smoothly thronged with rep the borough. T sented, and the + fer an amateur production, Explosion Causes Panic. in which | gar- University The second part of the play the stude: and the Puritans marched to Leith to meet Queen Mary ad just been | ‘The crowd in the front of the auditor. reached. ‘The youne people toking part |jum fled to the rear as the flames from nad finished thelr » jthe stage edged toward them, ind the | were met to the drama a oF by a crowd from the Were shown by a moving pleture [frantic to escape from the 4 chi: This wa b 1 |burning picture machine in 1 eal ratin and a stricken, and n and chil out of the 1 flash | the | rear cries for help of thc Within the walls of the str, i tn the [22 heard above the fa nine (helena, | rar headway think-| dor th j hed to-] In the ma a young people who| floor gave away, play motioned to| persons to the and resuma their seats, | but the frightened spectators attempted | precipitat basement (Continued on Fourth Page.) ee IN THUNDEROUS TONES the people of a great nation have declared themselves—set- Uing beyond any peradventure of doubt the question: “Where Do Advertising Results Really Come From?” 1,405,032 Separate aaveltsene were sale in The World during the year 1907— j 292,747 More than were printed in the Herald or in ANY OTHER news- Paper on the face of the earth. THESE FIGURiS ARE CERTIFIED BY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS } | As the thor |) 'Thaw’s Counsel] Await More Important Witnesses ‘Trust Companies Lose Hundreds ot Millions Deposiis 150 Met Deathas Fire Trapped Throng in Opera- House { “Circulation Books Open to All.”? | K NEW YORK, | THAW’S NURSE AT MONT TUESDAY, | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | JANUARY 14, 1908. Fair and colder to-night; Wednesday eee FINALY RESULTS EDITIGN J PRICE ONE CENT. JARLO K SWEARS HE WAS IRRATIONAL S100 QUO DEMAND ‘TAKE JUROR OUT FOR WIFE'S LOVE FUR REMARK AT IN AFFINITY SUIT Builer S Weeks a |GETS HIM. IN New R Figure With Affidavits. (Sp WHITE affinity Tee Butle © returned he horse rown out ut bi er aw t would uz to for On anothe pond TAFT NO PLAT rin his affidavi ays Hay Read nd Sues Him. JAIL, ’ with Mrs. Butle HIS LUNCHEON “Three Judge Rosalsky Removes Mar r, | railed by Sleuths to Restaurant, | a TOO.) atter a jury had been chosen and some tes! ewis taken in the accused of il- POWERS PUTS OVER ANOTHER AT COUD Pal New Orleans Star ae te Sec | ond Race Mae fie», Fletcher. on (Special to The Evening World.) | RACE T 2 ORLEANS, |Jon, Another chill, dreary day was e 3 i a BS server » for racegoers at the fai ochelle Fashionables) cca; restatre mae eee ei tal served ur ‘ell Spiced ; At Gettlene, tang | EroUAS, and once more attention was in Case Well Spice irt_ of General Sessions, to-<¢ i: i x oeerenri in\Case Well’ Spice iil ialetriniidile tatlarnoonmeane|(called toy tenm tact that 1 jury will be pic! and the ease} stand does t at all fit in with the area inti rs have been book w as from a business nd when pier T TO LEAVE CABINET JUST NOW. uilenated refuses to re- Panrtien imed to-morrow © jure it in teh vicinity of r was heard to n the restaurant I answered the uify the juror who e absolved Ur PARTY ait } y Haase leas CaS tra\yae of All Alle right, d This Attorne: Palmierl, who i shange ecution. He repo to th Judge Rosalsky 1 that the remark was sufficier ‘WFELET OUT AS. FRSEPABATIO s Was trailed to a res- the Criminal | Courts Building during the lunch hour. lof the Crescent City remark to a questions ail made it—al- any iston to de ged Abuse | in Was Failure to Penctrien Invite Her. William P. Brainin, of the firm of Frank Goldston & Co., at Ne jreene street, manufacturers of women’s wear- ritten by ing apparel, was arrested to-day by serts that |Deputy Sheriff Terry in an action rip South | brought by his wife, Tillie, for sepaca- wife met ion on the ground of alleged cru she wasland tai to support her and t why she} four-year-old son twhile! phe order for Brainin’s arrest was Mr. Hay | sued by Justice Davis, of the Supri the plea that Brainin » go to Washington, D. his wife took any pre ail was fixed dQ with | ny infatu- ut Brat Brainin set forth in [havior to, her she learned that he habit of taking out | wo reputation incertain qu. n oof this an * dings against m, whi n supplied and was not locked up her afdavit tht she and the defendant were mar- D him: bod! ried five years ago, and they lived affidavit, Gay [manny until last April, when (BS¥inin Mr Butle to assoctate w young men y only aim in life seemed to be o¢ Butler*saye wnat at known as “spc and who being out with! spe nt all their spare time in “gambling aid: “I am going and carousing with common nas often as pos uve on Jan. that tt she said, his bee to lunch a ie Went into rom time to HINGTON, J. WW t a Uy i 1a L i. und at i friends, H ond abou ‘| v at home with- H ‘ ‘ tho anything in ne house o eat or nomination ae Presiannt fh nk, and without any money to buy —_—-> She said this was thee last straw, and LOSE BUY Inameled Ware oy color, | gle decked fo me for # operation, | muy by the name REBANSLY, The Ware (She Wants. 5 a week for her support nat Ere ear and that of her boy, : ; | Lucas, famesha, climatic conditions prevailing this sea- son. A, Cella, who is here the meeting Jockey Club, of which he is ope of teh largest stock. )holders, declares that ovements will be made to make th fortable place for winter racing, beful if the le this winter but it improvements ean y the track wus still ng out [but the bad spots around H turn and in the straight rm S ish were not obliterated |gramme was dectdedly ordi point jof avality, the only rec ture ut it being that it have opportunity » a great number of horses, most of the races having filled almost to the | limit, Before the running the first race , W. Walden sold to © 1 field the two-yeur-old Ha Sister Adeline, for a re- fo Lar 10 (Hei nd; Sto 1 and’ 2 to 1 fee, Inte Mis lana, Miss [sat Maie, Helen’ i Chent, m1 land De THIRD RACE-—Purse $400; for four- and ard uey Land even, Powers), 15 ime—Li7. Cu Perkins, Lady ble, Rose of Pink. ran. #400; four. elling; Six fur 1 to 4 and out, won head; ven, second; Black Mantilla, 109 Tres Jc an 14 SKATERS LOST IN PARIS LANE AS ICE BREAKS Together in Bois de Bou- logne—Sixteen Rescued. vhich was thin, ro they were yrecipitated into the water Every effort lo rescue the skaters was + made, and sixteen of the young ~ople are accounted for, Fourteen are still missing, and it ts feared that they have bean drowned, Anna Scott, | « Throng of Thirty Go Down| , COUNT'S GUESTS ~ AT VANDER WEDDING HERE Arrive | To-Day, Bringing Greetings | of LTD Nobility. | Sees ‘DIDN’T BRING PRESENTS. leeochenyis Relatives These Are io Be Given to the | Count on His Return Home | After Wedding. 6 greetings of the Hungar | Beart and the blessings of th non parents and patriarchs of the palatialy, Szechenyl estates of Hungary, but| pus the wedding presents, Count Lad z henyl's guests arrived to-day on| ‘on Pringessin Cer | They are en old Hun- bridegroom's garian Embassy Rerlin, and who ter to Copenhagen. With s | Grincess Caramen Chimay, of Belgium, | Stefin Saechenyi; Co: Antor they » fell on left the 0! Ladzio, w k and embr: followed tount Garbed for Winter. nets were garved for win everity of had exacted fur Count Denes nh coat which cover is shoes. He Is a medium: Ps nuilt, pleasant faced ¢ decidedly demo perso sir is dark bro. to hi agreeable per: | Stefan 1s tall } . with just He ts reserved little part In the co! up the bay, y, slender but a polishe on the re he did not best man he said in # all news to ni ent English and typical interview But T guess it Only Woman Relative. Countess Sz enyi he only wom Szechenyi ar anderbilt, 1s ta distinguis Sh and puzzle Mrs. nc | more or less th for Mrs, O'Shaughnessey is a daughter o. | are, but ( were not inclined to make a big splu (Continued on Second Page) j Witnesses from Virg Hiss = Broke From Sick Room Against Doc- tor’s Orders While Temperature Was at 104 and Wrote Let- ters, _ Only to Destroy, ‘BOYHOOD TUTOR SWEARS HE WAS INSANE A? A SCHOOL. Jerome Forces Prisoner to Openly Waive Priv. ilege of Confidential Relations with Physi-+ cians ~Alienists as Witnesses Describe Taint of Insanity in Family. Counsel for Harry K. Thaw, in his second trial for the murder of Stanford White, asked for an adjournmen on nearly an hour n the Crime conducted nd a_half before the regular hour of conel inal Branch of the Supreme Cou trial is being where Justice Dowling. as Mr. I California before The reason was, ittleton explair that certain important nia, and other States had failed to arrive in time for the counsel to present lich the defense relied {in its regular sequence. laid the foundation of a for He started Harry his sickly He took the slayer of Stanford White through his early school- Martin W. I of ins atten, Brick by I ‘trefully with the wrought defense his client. physician who had Thaw in infaney.! days and through a cert range experience in Europe in 1897 when Tl was a young man, and, by he brought the testimony forward to the night of the roof en K 1906, Ution of t J ry, some of Jerome's frequent interruptions and ceitain witnesses from Thaw’s lawyers were of te They made a ear their fabric of hereditary There were breaks in the co arising from District-Attorney and some of them from the failure of wroad to reach New York on time. ible to show good results for their Stone frame vork uy ngenital insanity Most of them »bjections, y Jerome were offered in an effort ing on the diffusion of insanity defense proposes to resent testimony tou Thaw’s erratic actions in his college days nd during his wanderings over Europe before he met Evelyn Nesbit. his will properly pava the way for the stories of his wife and his ther and for the testimony of his experts. The trial was suddenly adjourned until to-morrow in order to permit unsel for defense to await the expecte al of important witnesses, “Brainstorm” Expert in Court. d she was a middle-aged Britton G nded the cro: mina- when th Dr Evans. of “Brains from is one of t nose Nursed Thaw at Monte Carlo. : The next witness was Miss Amy Goa aK Mateo, ¢ is an 4 inn £ mid She sald 2 1 as a trained and. 8 an bse 1 1 1 been em- I 1 tals and instt- Her appearance on the stand court | calling lent of rankford, Pa r, Was once confined | le was acquainted Harry Thaw He had © was admitted to naw I was taken m with which he was connec nD 7 vxamined her in 18M to test her room an, He was iil \ ; W m Vat did you find to be the condi (i i ani beds ed any fur the defend. nature of Miss Taw 1 nt Jerome asked Dr. Chase the age of Harriett Alloe Thaw when he first saw i Then omployear “tor—Price Mitohell.”* ice Dowllng at Mr. Littles re