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: i eT THE LAF JU IC Ne WORLD. ' MINSTER UNDER CLEVELANDPIOTS FLAMES SCORCH SHERIFF SWO.PS. | A MURDER SPELL G0 ON AS END OF FIVE PASSENGERS ON STHKEnS ANG KILLS HS WIFE STRIKEIS SOUGHT ON TRILLEY CAR ROUNDS UP Tot Reason Returns as He L.ooks on Victim’s Body, Gashed and Battered. HAS SUDDEN SEIZURE. Desire to Slay Whole Family": Comes on Him After Hold- ing Revival Service. FAIRMONT, W. Va., May 18—Tem- porarily insane, according to his own @tatement, Rev. S. A. . ffman, aged fifty years, a pr. ainent Methodist Epis- wopal clergyman, killed his wife early todey by cutting her throat. A mo- ment after the crime, he says, he re-| his senses and realized what he | Gone. He surrendered himself and gras \°-<ed up. | Rev. Coffman resides at Rosstown, (bout three miles from here, and is 6a charge of two or three local churches. His wife was a member of a promi- ment local family and was thirty-three| Years of age. During the past week or| two the Rev. Mr. Coffman hasbeen con- Ik ucting « series of revival services and) hhas been edding to the membership of | tthe churches under his .are. Yester- | Gay be finighed his revival end appeared do 8 well pleased with the result. | About midnight he and his wife were (@isoussing the services when he sud-| Genly seized a poker and beat her on the head. There was a struggle, during swhich Mrs. Coffman succeeded in escap- fing from the house to a garden at the| pean fhe wes followed closely, however, by fer husband, and when he caught up mith her another battle for her lite ‘toot | place before she was overpowered. | Coffman hed taken a knife with him, ‘and when he hed her powerless in his grasp he out her throat from ear to ear, causing instant death. According to a statement made by (Rev. Coffman when he looked on the! Hifeless body of his wife, his sanity was Mianediately. restored end he. realized | what he had done, He came here and Surrendered himself to the, police. The | minister says it had been his intention to kill not only his wife, but also his family and himself. BILLION DOLLAR CONGRESS BREAKS ALL BlG RECORDS : With Appropriations Heaviest | of Any Single Session, Deficit is Likely. WASHINGTON, May 18.—The sixtieth ‘Congress will have earned the title of a “Biliton-dollar Congress” at ‘ts first gession before adjournment is taken at the end of this week. It is estimated that the total apprepriations wilt reach | the enormous sum of $1,(28,000,000, which | fe eaid to be the largest amount ever | @ppropriated at a single session. The various items contributing to | make up this prldinious ae errente 52 as | follows: Sundry civil, $120,000,000; Pensions, $160,000,000; fortificat! 600,000; agriculture, $11,042,000; District of | ‘Columbia, $11,600,000; diplomat wular, $4,000,000; naval, $122, Gian, $4,000,000; urgent defi 000,000; public butldings, $25,000, eral defictency, $17,000,000; military ac. emy, new immigrant delphia, relief of cyclone sufferera in the south, &c., $1,500,000; permanent an- nual appropriation $154,000.00), These appropriations are for the fiscal year which begins July 1, 1908, It 1s too early to give anything Ike | an accurate estimate of the reve of the Government during that per of twelve months, but members of the | appropriation committees think they will run somewhere between $570,000, 000 and $990,000,000, Tais would mean a deficit of t $125,090,000 and — $175,000.000. Tawney, of the House © warned Congress lust week deficit w rea this prediction Is f now in the treasury will by June 30, 1909, ina’ end of this fiscal y deficit of between $0 AFFINITY WON ACTOR. Wite Gets 1 KILLS FARMER HIMSELF. | cour | Mobs Attack Breakers and Cut Motor Box ara des in Front Trolley Wires While | | | Arbitrators Meet. CLEVELAND, May ar strike to-day. . crews were cars and in some men were attacked n Lakewood, a western | several places with unicipal Traction this morning that no further attempt would be made to operate cars in section until the Li a authorities guaranteed pro- tection its men and cars. Because Company anne ew tor of alleged discrimination’ against Lake- wood by the Municipal Traction Com- pany in tho matter of fare, it 1s claimed | that the authorities of the town make no effort to suppress lawless acts com- | mitted by strike sympathizers, The first attempt by the members of the State Hoard of Arbitration to-day the to bring about peace between Municipal Traction Company and the strikers resulted in a failure. President Dupont conferred with _mem- hop and Owens, of the Boa fn'fexard. to trike setvlempnt, an while hé agreed to arbitrate some points, he would not concede the one thing for which the men stand deter- minedly. “In no case will I arbitrat statement of the men at thi those now employed,” he said. stiok for the seniority of runs, how working getting President Dupont w [he would arbitrate po He replied that he would arbitrate no point unless the lawlessness ceased. Violence continued on the part of (Geo sympathizers. throughout th A car was held up at the corne: of Broadway and Central avenue. A brick was thrown, striking the conduc- tor in the head, ‘knocking him uncon- scious. His condition js serieus, but It {s thought he will recover. The motor- man was dragged from the car but was released when it was supposed by riot- |era that the conductor had been killed, A non-union motorman, while welk- ing to the Windemere barns to-dey, was attacked by a number of strike sympathizers and bedly beaten. Trol- {ey wires were out and obstructions placed on the car tracks at many points. ee NEW YORKERS LEAVE AUTO A FIRE WRECK ON LONG ISLAND (Special to The Eventna World.) WEST HAMPTON, L 1, May 18— A big Knox $6,000 touring oar, run by young and apparently inex- rienced men, wag destroyed by fire ere early to-day. The men occupy’ og it registered at the hotel as pet, Honty Sallen, Henry Lyoan, ‘and L es Rs pnyersa- Skcapanta of the auto Ine Hen std that they had borrowed It and Were not familiar with {ts operation. While passing through thf village, the machine suddenly stopped and, ne le the driver attempted to repair he failed to stop the machinery aay from the gasolene ignited the | r off which bad fallen into the ‘and goon the car was a mass flaines. If was so wrecked that the license, number could not be distin- gulaon: ‘The party returned to the city y train, Se WON'T USE GAS FIXTURE FOR COAT RACK AGAIN. Weering’s Clothing Tumed Key, | but Landiady Found Him Be- fore It Was Too Late. Carl Wiertng’s habit of hanging his ride in an ambulance to from Mrs, Margaret ng house at No. 416 street to-day. When lieved of illuminating gas night in appropriate of warm we Gebhardt f a lering fall of ga the gas fixture 1 hut and one shoe, open tation W and h whose anda he BACK -RESTING # Slender and Medium EMO SELF-REDUCIN! “MAKE STOUT WOME hips, and male Prince: Model No, 322, for tol Model No, 3 ino Corsets are sold in all goo! || Figure-Building,’* mailed free on request. 18—Meny acts of | mitted in connec-{ gas fixture in his room | he will return to | esterday afternoon | were and it] at tt had been turned by Week” THERE'S A “NEMO” for EVERY FIGURE, STOUT, SLENDER OR MEDIUM ful Back-Resting and the lissome Willow-Shape. Every Nemo Corset Does Something for You That No Other Corset Can Do. NEMO B ACK-RESTING CORSET Ne.381. Long sloping, clinging back STS YOUR BACK” model, for slender and medium figures; in sizes 18 to 26. short stout women; No. 318, same model, Wholesale Arrests and Show | | ot a Police Station in of Pistols Halts Port Wash- | Brooklyn. ington Trouble. Five passengers riding on the front PORT WASHINGTON, seat of an open Brooklyn Rapid Tran- | —Determi trouble |sit Company troliey car were scorched | to-day when the motor box suddenly ex-| have been ploded at Flushing and Clermont ave-|Fasker, Deputy nues, setting fire to the front of the|about one hun | car. eral Pinkerton ‘The car, No. 230, of the Flushing ave- |nue ne, and in charge of Motorman Schroeber and Conductor Williams, was spinning along through Flushing ave- nue, bound for New York, with every seat taken and many passengers cling- down on them, 4 bagging one hundred and ‘if tice of the I court, in 1 all to e Charles R. W. H Liberty where were held for ex The prisoners, who ‘ing to atraps, when in front of the Flushing avenue police station there was ‘an explosion like the bursting of a gun. |e "The metorman was blown backward, and as the oar sped on many of the passengers fell over each other in a|#00n spread throug! scramble to get to the street. Before | the car was stopped it had run nearly a block. ‘Agents for the B. R. T. were on hand quickly. Four of the passengers who were burned about the hands and face were hurried away. None of them had suffered serious hurts. Thomas Hegger, of No. 370 Oakland street, was so badly injured that he had to be carried from the car. Dr. Kearns came from Cumberland Street Hospital, and after Hegger’s wounds were dressed he was taken home, The police were unable to learn the names of the other passengers who were tn- fured. the street volvers walkir to shoot at th there was an fore the Justice had the hears y, practically the whole town out and the urt House best Only those haying business in the cc was concluded deputies had another jo! clearing the street around the court ————————— NO TARIFF REVISION AT THIS SESSION OF CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, May 18—The Repud- Iican ‘leaders in the House, through a majority of the Committee on Ways and Means, to-day served final nottee “No Tariff Revision at This Session.” Representative Champ Clark, of M sour!, moved in the committee an bus favorable report tariff reduction and tariff re: mostly introduced during the = Democratic members. The mo Gefeated by a solid yte of al publican members of —_—_>—____. Divorce for Mre. Doscher. { Justice Goff to-day signed an tnter- locutory decree of absolute divorce in favor of Viola Howe Doscher and against Frederick L. Doscher, of the Mitchell Vance Company, of No. 636 Broadway, on proof that he visited a faw hotel with a woman couple were married on 1, and lived at ‘Whitestone. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Bulletin: THE BUSINESS MAN’S TRAINS, | The man of affairs when he travels wants all the conven- fences of this club, He will either carry his business on the train | with him, or make his trip a recreation. In either case the Lim- | ited trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad meet his requirements. If he wishes to talk business en route, a drawing-room or state- room supplies the private office. If he wishes to finish up some left-over correspondence, there is a stenographer at his elbow to do his bidding without charge. If he wishes to keep in touch with the market, he has the stock reports; which are telegraphed | -to the train. Many business and professional men take advan- tage of these facilities. If he wishes to forget business and take a mental rest, he can do it in a luxurious manner, surrounded by tasteful appoint- ments and all the things that his club supplies for satisfying the inner man. There are books to browse in, periodicals to skim over, and beyond the wide plate windows an ever changing | picture of nature in all manner of environment. This is restful and engaging. The quartette of Limiteds, led by the “Pennsylvania Spe- | clal? (18 hours between New York and Chicago), the famous “Pennsylvania Limited” (the pioneer of the L to Chi- cago), the “Chicago Limited” (evening train to Chicago), and the “St. Louis Limited” (afternoon train to the Southwest), are all expressly equipped for the use of the business man and the traveller for pleasure. A telephone call of 1032 Madison will bring all information and the necessary tickets, if desired. te TORBAY: MAY 18, “NEMO WEEK” MERICAN women haye common sense; they can’t be fooled much or often. The over- whelming success of ‘* Nemo Week” proves that Madame America knows a rank imi when she sees it, and refuses to be duped. © extend our thanks to the thousands of alert onorable merchants, all over the country, hearty co-operation made this year’s “* Nemo a valuable object-lesson to their customers notable trade event as well, the famous Nemo Self-Reducing corset that never had a rival NDER and MEDIUM FIGURES: the wonder- SELE- REDUCING For Stout Figures 53.50 hip effect. The back steels cannot turn and dig your flesh G CORSETS Bring health, comfort and style with perfect by SLENDER ‘The new Flatning-Back models r c both « Bac eto stout figures: rt $ Seale ey 00 | No. 320, same model, 1 stores throughout the world. Ask your dealer. Write us for bool KOPS BROS., Mfrs., Cor. 4th Avenue and 12th Street, with Flatni with Flatni » ‘Hygienic New York. Hall fr Samara clet bEER 1908. TERS PIANOS ‘Qld Established (1845) and xeliable.” | The new style A, Waters Upright, price only $250, is a magnificent instrument ani excels in fine tone many fancy priced pianos that cost double that amount.) In the Waters you secure a piano of the highest | possible artistic excelience with an old established} name and great reputation, but you do not have to! pay a fancy price. The new Waters 3-Year System of payments! gives you three years’ time on a piano without interest. Stool, tuning and delivery free, Send Postal for Catalogue. | Horace Waters @ Co. | 134 Fifth Ave., near 18th Street., THREE _127 W. 42d St., near Broadway. | STQRES| Harlem Branch (Open Evenings): ) 254 W. 125th St., near 8th Ave. B. Altman & Cor HOUSEHOLD LINENS IN THE QUALITIES BEST ADAPTED FOR USE IN SUMMER HOMES, HOTELS, CLUBS AND YACHTS, COMPRISING LINEN DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS AND NAPKINS, LINEN SHEETS AND PILLOW CASES, HEMMED AND HEMSTITCHED LINEN HUCK TOWELS, BATH TOWELS, KITCHEN AND PANTRY TOWELING, AT VERY MODERATE PRICES. COMMENCING ON TUESDAY, LINEN DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS EACH $2.40, 3.00, 4.00 & 5.25 DINNER NAPKINS TO MATCH PER DOZ., $3.75 & 5.25 HEMSTITCHED LINEN SHEETS PER PAIR, $3.50, 4.50 & 5.50 HEMSTITCHED LINEN PILLOW CASES “$1.25, 1.50 & 1.80 HEMMED LINEN HUCK TOWELS PER DOZ, $2.40 & 2.75 HEMMED BATH TOWELS $3.00 & 3.50 WOMEN'S BATISTE AND LACE NECKWEAR WILL BE ON SALE TUESDAY, MAY 19th, AT MUCH BELOW THE ORDINARY PRICES: TOCKS . : . EACH, 35c ETON COLLARS OF BATISTE AND LACE 50c, 68c. & 95c. EACH LACE INCLUDING STYLES TO 68c. & 95¢. EACH ‘ JABOTS OF BATISTE AND LACE, MATCH COLLARS Shi, ite, A SALE OF WOMEN'S MUSLIN UNDERGARMENTS (CLOSELY-FITIING), WiLL B= HELD ON TUESDAY, AS FOLLOWS: NAINSOOK COMBINATION ‘U.1S, $1.90, 2.50 & 2.90. LAWN PRINCESSE SLIPS, $4.75, 6.00 & 7.85; ALSO MUSLIN BOUDOIK JACKETS $4.75 & 7.75. B4th. Street, 35th Street an® Sth Avenue. fs tK eg. Tr ie Mok Special Sale | French & Domestic Lingerie. Sale have rarely, if ever i goods. The garment We quote for the Impor “The Linen Store” We telieve the een duplicated, e y and perfect in every Way Vv alues, ofte follows: French Gowns. include all t her high or low ck. (Regular Price 2.75 4.75 10.00 $1.85 3,00 French Urawers, oe | both lace and em- 2.50 2.75 Ling: ¢ French Petticoats, Jj At 3.00, $2.00 3:50 4.25 Regular Price Prench Chemi:es. At 7$ 100 1.50 2,00 | Regular Pric © 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.75 | French Sets, Consisting of three piecss— Chemise, Gown and Drawers. At 6.73 8.75 9.75 13.50 1.75 2.28 Regular Price French Corset Cove: 1,00 1.50 2.00 1.50 2.50 2,00 2.75 3.50 | Regular Price 10.50 12,09 12.50 18.00 proportionate reductions. are more moderate in prica, isually attractive. nents in all the above line: roods in ma Opposite 5th Ave. & 34th St, Waldorf-Ascoria Stern To-morrow Brothers , Clearing Sale of Embroideries Batiste, Nainsook, Swiss and Cambric Edgings and Flouncings, ~~ in strips of 2 to 44 yds, Value Swiss Flouncings, 27 in, wide, Value Also a collection of Unmade at 18c, 23c, 29c, 35c, 45c yd, 35c to $1.25 Yard at 75c, 89c, $1.10 Yd. 95c to $1.65 Yard Embroidered Robes, $6.50, 10.25, 14.25, 16.50 Actual V: alue $12.50 to 22.50 Jewelry Dep’t Exceptional Values Sterling Silver Card Case and Purse, in artistic etched designs, leather lined, German Silver Chain Mesh with etched frames, Rhinestone Brooches, sterlin in Horseshoes, reset s and a lial Value $7.50, at $5.75 Value $7.00, 4,98 Sle, UM 9c, $1.25, 1.35 Circles, Bags, at Values $2.00, 2.50 and 3.00 ¥ High Grade Silk Parasols Greatly Below Regular Prices Plain Taffeta Silks, Black and White, Half Tones and Striped Changeable Silks, with Natural $1.05 and Imported Novelty Handles. Values $3.00 to 3.75 Embroidered Scalloped Edge Taffeta and Floral Silks, also Embroidered at 2.95 Linons, Values $3.75 to 4.50 Extra Quality Taffeta S White Stripes with Ni Bi Black and rders, Value $5.00, at 3.75 Special Offering of. Summer Blankets & Comfortables { Single Size, Blankets { Three-quar { Double Size, Comfortables, (Double Figured Silkoline both sid Fancy Silk and Printed I with plain silk borders, , Also U Steamer Rugs, Fancy and Tartan Plaids, Plain Natural Wool Vicunas, Pair $3.15, 4.25, 4.95 ter Size, * 3.65, 5.25, 5.85 re, us 4.30, 5.35, 6.25 Size) Jes, at $1.25 Jotted Swiss Centres at 3.85 nusual Values in at $2.95 at 4.75 West Twenty-third Street i at AITKEN, SON & CO. | ‘BABIES’ AND CHILDREN'S DEPT. SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE, Beginning Tuesday, May 19th. SHORT COATS, LINGERIE AND SILK, DRESSES, PIQUE AND NAINSOOK, AT THE FOLLOWING REDUCTIONS: Former Prices, oe 00 To $30.00 8.00 " - asco it $35.00 $60.00 ALL ARE HAND EMBROIDERED OR TRIMMED WITH REAL LACE, (MODELS—ONLY ONE OF EACH STYLE.) HATS AND BONNETS, straw ano LINGERIE: $ 7.50 FORMER Prices. $15.00 to $20.00 $12.50 $18.00 $30.00 (MODELS—ONLY ONE OF EACH STYLE) THIRD FLOOR. TUFSDAY, MAY 19TH English Cheviots Fancy IN CREAM ONLY, Superior Values $1.50, $1.75 yard, Sale SATIN TAFFETA RIBBON, 642 Inches wide, MOIRE RIBBON, colors: grades, 46 inches wide. 73 of Ribbons Yard (40 On rene “(25 Pink, Blue, Green, Cardinal, Lavender, White and Black. Send after any arti be missing. |A World “Lost & Found’’ Ad. £8) RRMA A GS, cemaremiocruza san C6 a Trace cle of value that may HOW? BY USING

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