Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1909, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Avenue, | ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company, European Office: 3 Regent St.. London, England New York Office: Tribune Building. Chicago Office: First Nations) Bank Suilding. ‘ ‘The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition. is delivered’ by carriers within the city j at 50 cents per month. Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Main 2440. Collection ts made by carrier a: the end of each month. By mail, postage prepaid: Daily, Sunday incinded, one month, 60 cents, Daily, Sunday excepted, one month. nts, Saturday Star, $1 year. “Sunday Star. $1.50 year. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, Weather. Rain tonight and Saturday; warmer tonight and colder Sat- urday afternoon or ni DECLINES TO RETRACT PUTS ONUS ON OBALDIA Says Panama's President Made the Charge Objected To. CARES TO ADD NOTHING TO IT Letter Read From Cromwell Denying Interest in Any Concession on the Isthmus. —— As soon as he could get the floor today Representative Rainey (ill) read to the Jlouse the cablegram which he received trom Charles P. Taft yesterday, in which the brother of the next President denied that he has ever had any business asso- ation with William Nelson Cromwell, or any interest at any time in the Isthmus of Panama. In his message he asked Mr. Rainey to retract his statements regard- ing Mr. Taft, which he made in his speech Tuesday. Following is the text of Mr, Taft's ram to Mr. Rainey “Havana, January 27, 1909, epresentative Rainey, House ef Repre- tative: Washington. me you have been mislead into ring the sheer and absolute false- hoods concerning me you are reported to spoken yesterday. I have never had any businéss association of any kind description, past. present or prosp tive, v William Nelson Cromwell, ner interest of any kind or with any- present, past or pros ive, on hmus of Panama, and J confidently y your loyalty to the truth to re- «t what you said about me in the me high place where you made yourself re- sponsible for those misstatements. “CHARLES P. TAF’ Doesn’t Contradict Taft. Afier the reading of the cablegram Mr. Rainey said: I have not the slightest desire to con- trovert in any way the statement of Mr. Charles P. Taft, which has just been read. On the contrary, I congratulate him upon his absolute and complete re- pudiation of William Nelson Cromwell and his methods. It, however, does. not become necessary for me to retract any- thing I said in my speech. I do not de- sire to add anything to what I said nor to change it in any way. In order that what I said about Mr. Charles P. Taft may appear here in the Congressional Record, in connection with his telegram, I desire now to read from my speech of January 23, and I read now from the first column on page 1470 of the Con- gressional Record this session.” Mr. Rainey thei from the Record the extract referred to. It asserted that President Obaldia of Panama told some members of the general assembly that C. P. Taft was one of the men behind a cer- tain scheme. He continued: “The country will be glad to know that Mr. Taft's name is being used there with- out his consent. I desire to say in this connection that Mr. Taft could render a great service, and his denial will be of greater value, if he should without de! ddress a telegram to the general assem- bly of Panama denying his connection with the scheme I have described and repudiating Mr. Cromwell on the Isthmus of Panama with as much enthusiasm as/ he has in his telegram to me repudiated all connection with that gentleman. Newspaper Clippings Read. Mr. Rainey had read letter inted in newspapers from Randolph G. Ward of New York relieving Mr. Crom- well of responsibility for the attempt to also a obtain the much-criticised railroad fran- Mr Rainey said: “I e of Mr. Ward's er indicates he But does m Panama the pl but chise Go not acquaintance, is the prince of humorists. munity to Mr. Cromwell that gentleman any good.” Mr. Rainey had the report of interview with tary of W hharve# of New have not do clerk read the Yor also a an men- tioned in connection with the railroad and timber grants in Panama The troyble with all the lemen that they take particular pat deny 1 do news} men uy. said) Mr the floor made ines oper in Denial by Cromwell. When Mr. Rainey had finished the re: ing of the newspa articles which sent to th k Representative Lov ing of M huseits took the fl and after makt a remark concer ing the “sensa 1 ts with which ihe gentleman from Iilinvis regaled the House” reda@ the followin om William Nelson Cromwell, spe generally denying any « ifically and mnection on that gentleman's part, directly or indirectly, with any concessions in the republic of Panama. “Although the affairs of the Panama government are not properly a subject of consideration by the American Congre I wish to waive all technical ids at once that I] never have had and not now any interest ef any kind, direct or indirect, pres: n shativer concession, contr esition oF business affair ty part Ne of Panama. + a -mall stock tn- terest In the lo ric Hight company of Panama Cit [ joined years ago, at the ¥ ama to encourag istry, the tions of w we ment so-called Morgan stated by me Lovering had read the rked that Mr. Rainey ed full of informa ion let a certain seu Mr. Rainey that di mped to Mr. Love after sor plied, “the is feet n and de- ne th tion M New York World. Not Coached by Newspapers. nen ering 1 Thereupon Mr. Rainey obtained two | minutes from Representative Hay of Virginia, in charge of the army Dill, and denied that he had secured any in- forma ion from the N “T desire to say,” said emphat'c manne t neither the New York World nor any othér newspaper has furnished me with any information what- ever on this subject, nor did I receive from any newspapers documents I printed in the Record, nor did any sist me in securing them. dence the New York World may have has net been reve to me. I cannot make this too strong. Mr. Lovering just previously had called the attention of the House to the resoly- tion introduced by Mr. Rainey looking to an investigation of the Panama canal deal, and had said that lie would do everything in his power to have such a resolution favorably considered by the douse. York World his im- [ ri nating product on the continent was that e. “In the mest | WATER GAS DEFENDED ‘Expert Considers Process | | Great Forward Stride. | | { LOVE BEFORE COMMITTEE; |Does Not Regard It as More Danger- | ous Than Coal Product. CITES SEVERAL ADVANTAGES More Light and Heat—Takes Issue | With Wiley Regarding. Use of { Incandescent Mantles. i i E. Barker, chairman of the board | of gas and electric light commissioners ot | Massachusetts, and Edward G. Love, a) Bas expert of the city of New York. were the principal witnesses before the House «strict committee today at its third hearing on the District Commissioner bill to limit to 10 per cent the amount of carbon monoxide in the fluminating sup- ply of the District of Columbia H Mr. ove was called by the Washington Gas Light Company. Mr. Baker appeared upon request of Chairman Smith ef ihe committee. | Mr. Love testified that for over thirty; | years he had been gas examiner of York city. The first water-gas plant in this country had been established 1874 at Phoenixville, Pa., he said, and the manufacture of water gas was then an entirely new departure in municipal illu- mination. ‘Two years later the Municipal Gas Com- pany of New York had taken up the new process. The success with which this company met was pronounced from the start. In a couple of years the concern | was making 530,000,000 cubic feet of the product. Great Forward Stride. ‘The introduction of this proces: said Mr. Love, “can be said to be the greatest forward stride in the manufacture of illuminating gas in the last century.” Mr. Love’ explained the difference be- tween water gas and coal gas, going into technical details. He said water gas had many advantages over coal gas. It burned, he said, with a bright. white, clean flame, giving as high as twenty-fiy to thirty candlepower. Before that, with exclusively coal gas, sixteen-candlepower Was about the best that could be had. The explosive qualities of coal and water gas were about the same, he said, |so there was nothing ta choose between the two in this regard. But the heating ; power of coal and water differed consid- | erably. «\ coal gas of sixteen-candlepower would give about 650 heat units per cubic foot. Carbureted water gas would give about 700 to 750 heat units. When, howevag,the proposition was determined by weight the reverse was the case. As gas was sold by the cubic foot, he considered that the |Standard in the détermination of heat | units. ! Dr. ew Love quoted from authorities on gas to siiow that water gas was not considered more dangerous to life than coal gas when the same precautions were taken with both. He remarked, in this connection, that water gas, uncarbureted, was odork and therefore @angerous: but that carbureted water gas smelled jjust as unpleasantly as coal gas. and |therefore gave just as much warning of leakage or incomplete combustion. He comsidered the use of coal and w |gas in coking ranges attended b: jabout the same amount of danger. Opinions of Ira Remsen. in 1883, Dr. Love said, Prof. Ira Rem- | sen. now president of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, had been retained by the board of | health of Brooklyn in an investigation of [the relative dangers in the use of coal! 'and water gas. Prof. Remsen had reported | that no conclusions could be drawn along the line. as statistics were not sufficiently comprehensive. ‘The danger was with respect to the lescape of elther gas. As both had an equally bad odor he could not see that the use of water gas should be frowned upon disproportionately to the use of coal ter just Remsen reported, howev that j the fatal effects of water gas noted in a shorter period than of coal gas. He did not. however, onsider the use of water gas as danger- | vis under preper conditions Love quoted other authorities whose jons were along the same line as those Prof. Remsen | Dr. Love filed with the committes a | of testimony taken at the hearings | fore the manufactures committee of | Massachusetts legislature when the limiting the amount of carbon mon- in gas used in the state to 10 per s up for repeal. mmittee had the law oxide cent The from Prof. Franklane w | received profe: listry at the Roval College in London. saying that water gas con!d| |be used with safety and that he was sor-| iry that he could not use that illuminating | produet in his London home instead of the straight coal gas product which was furnished. ; | Takes Issue With Opposition. | Opposing the proposition advanced by |experts of the burcau of chemistry that |the use of water-gas was limited or for- | ifdden fn France. Dr. Love quoted Prof. Adolph Wertz of Paris as saying the rea. | son water-gas was not used as an illumi- letter | economic antl other conditions were not | favorable | Dr. Love took issue with Dr. Wiley's argument that the candlepower of a gas did not matter these days, in view of the | general use of incandescent mantles. He insisted that in the city of New York not 20 per cent of gas consumers used in- ndescent mantles. 1 have only one in my house, I am med to say," smile. h he said, “is still the age flat-tla burner and we must | plans accordingly. | In reply to questions by Representative | added Dr. Love, with of the jay our | Sims of Tennessee, Dr. Love admitted |that straight coal gas could be enriched | by the use of oils and naphiha to twent | or twenty-five or almost any other candle- | power, but insisted that it would be |smoky under such conditions. With the carbon monoxide limit at 10 per cent it would be impossible for the Washington jas Light Company to use any water gas at all. He called the attention at this point lthe fact that of fifty gas manufactur who some years ago opposed the repeal , lof the carbon monoxide limiting law | thirty-one were now using a water gas containing a high percentage of that product. Committee Is Drawn In. Love ocasioned considerable amuse- ment by announcing that he had pre- pared a list of the various cities and towns which were represented by mem- bers of the House District committee. He had found that out of the nineteen} members three came from cities where a straight water gas was used, nine. f Jcities where a mixture of coal gas an Dr. two from used, coal gas communities, one from a natural gas district and four from towns that had water gas was no gas companies at all. “T think that is interesting.” remart ed Representative J. Hampton Moo of Pennsylvania. “Can't you give 1 the names of those benighted member: Dr. Love said he could. ‘The fi name he called off his list was that of Representative Sims of Tennessee. Mem bers and spectators both laughed at thi for Mr. Sims has the reputation of ha’ ing asked tan times as many questions during the gas inquiry as all the rest of the committee members. put together. He admitted. offhand, that Linden Tenn., his home city, had no gas plan but sald he was just as happy over it and just as much interested in the gas question in Washington. ‘This afternoon the committee r sumed its session, Dr. Love continuing his testimony Alfred Fonshall of New York and John MclIiheny of Ph phia. consulting engineer of the W ington Gas Light Company, will fol! him. Representative Taylor of Ohio. Rep- resentative Sims of Tennessee and Rep- resentative Murphy were the only three out of the nineteen members of the Dis- trict committee to be present for most of the time today. Representative Hamp- ton Moore dropped in late and remained until the committee adjourned at noon. The others did not show up at all ee BRITAIN’S BIGGEST FIGHTER. Battleship Vanguard to Be Launched on February 22. LONDON, January 29.—The Vanguard, the seventh vessel of the Dreadnougt class, is to be launched at Barrow on February 22. In connection with her construction several records are expected | to be broken. The keel of the Vanguard was laid down on April 1 of last year, and the contract calls for her completion two years from that date. If this is accomplished it will be the first time that a private firm hi built a battleship in that time. for be- sides building the hull the contractors supplying the guns, nd machine for the ship. The Vanguard will b sides be the heaviest and most modernly equipped of ships of her class. ler ht will be about 16, lauching wei length between perpendiculars, length over beam, displacement, tons nower, 25,000; Kit over Dreadnought, 650 tons; exces over the latter vessels of that tons. and her cost will be upw $9,000,000. pe TRIAL OF WILLIAM GOW. Threshing Out Affairs of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn. NEW YORK. January 29. — Arthur Campbell, former cashier of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn, continued his testi- mony today in the trial of William Gow, formarly a director of that bank. who is charged with grand larceny in the con- duct of the affairs of, the institution. Campbell was indicted jointly with Gow, but turned state's evidence. Campbell said that in September, 107, before the financial panic called the attention of tne directors to the fact. the bank was $17# 0 short of the reserve fund of 15 p cent of the deposits required by the lav a teoreeaned STIRLING DIVORCE CASE. Mrs. Atherton Tells Her Story to the Court. {DINBURGH, January 29.—At the hear- ing of Capt. Stirling's petition for divorce Mrs. Atherton described gn the witness stand her attempts to © separate Northland and Mrs. Stirling after the latter's return from America. On one occasion she found Mrs. Stirling sitting on Northland’s knee in a private room of a restaurant. Witness induced Mrs. Stirling to accompany her to Amberly, but Northland followed her that night and spent a long time with Mrg. Stirling against witness’ protests. pee Suicide of American at London. LONDON, January 29.-An American named George Scott, who was formerly connected with Barnum & Bailey's cir- cus, committed suicide this morning in a Covent Garden hote! by shooting himselt while in bed. —__+—__ ——- Bulgaria Disbanding Border Guard: CONSTANTINOPLE, January governor of the vilayet of Adrianople has telegraplied the minister of the in- terior that Bulgaria is disbanding the reservists recently concentrated ‘on the Turkish frontier. Lord The; HAS CERTAIN DISADVANTAGES . iy) THE NEW GASTRONOMY. FLAGS AT HALF MAST Arrival of the Venezia With Consul Cheney’s Remains. GREAT THRONG WAITING Pier Draped in Black and the Na- tional Colors. SOME HITCH IN ARRANGEMENT No Representative of the Govern- ment or Relatives of the Deceased on Hand to Meet the Vessel. Special Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK, January 2.—The steamer | Venezia of the e line arrived in port this morning with all her flags flying at half-mast, for in her’ hold she held the bodies of Dr. Aurthr S. Cheney, late American consul at Messina, and of Dr. Cheney's wife. The steamship swung slowly into her berth at the foot of Ham- flton avenue, South Brooklyn, where a | great throng of people were wa'ting in the | the the inclosed pier, somber symbols of death “h bore the Ines of black drapery, hiding post and bare woodwork. At intervals the black was relieved by bosses of Old Glory. pck. There The liner arvived at 9:50-0'¢ ) their severe outlines, were low- of the pler, ¢ There had been some hiteh in the ar- rangements, it was sald, and no repre- sentatives of the United States govern- ment were present gn the picr when the Vene 4 put in de hment of ma- rines from yard, told of as a guard of he d not yet arrived, nor were the latives of the Chene there. Dr B. HO Chene of New Hy n, PD Cheney's father, and Austin P. of Chicago, the brother of the sul, arrived late with them | Harold G. Cheney n of the qrne was killed. Col, Lovell Jerome, resenting the customs department, was Ithe only person official Tife. Hight: French s of Dr. Cheney to their shoulders Iked slowly with it to a bier erected at the end of the pi: ilors then transferred the cof- Cheney to a bier beside th: of her husband ! When the relatives of the Cheneys rived they were accompanied by ¢. on hand representing ilors lifted the coffin and fin of M jan intimate friend of the cons [visited Lom and his wife in summer. Prominent Italians, ng them the Italian consul of the port and Presi- dent of the Italian chamber of commerce, went to the pier soon after the news went forth that the Venezia was in doc | ‘The coffins were conveyed over the river j to South Ferry, where they were met by | meraber: twenty-two Italian societies, | who edcorted them to the Grand Centr: station. There they were placed on board a train bound for New Haven. Sa INCENDIARY FIRE AT BOYDS. Livery Stable and Barn Destroyed. Town Seeking Culprits. Special Dispatch to The Star. BOYDS, Md., January 20.—Fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, de- stroyed a livery stable and barn used iby B. oe , a merchant, and owned, |by James E. Williams. The loss. only partially covered by insurance, is esti- mated at about $2,000. Hicks had two horses, several vehicles and a quantity of corn and hay stored on the ground floor of the building. A carriage | belonging to D. F. Davis of Frederick was on the second floor. These, with the en- \ structure, were a total loss. dence that the fire was probabiy the of incendiaries has aroused the This is the eighth or ninth fire town. attributed to such’ origin in the past two years. Efforts bloodhounds to trace the fire fiends. are to be made today ta get It was nee on the pier as ropes were made ready and the two rough and ur namented coffins, with not even a flag to’ red frem the deck of the ship to the flcor | | is expected that it will go hard with them if caught. But for the absence of wind night the entire town might hate en burned, as there was a quantity of gasoline and oil in the building adjoining the one destroyed. eae eeees SSS PERSIAN REBELS VICTORIOUS. |Chase Three Generals From the Field and Route Their Troops. ST. PETERSBURG, Januar A dis- Paich from ‘Teheran to the Russ says that risings recently took place in the province of Osalem and Karganerud and that the inhabitants expelled the gov- ernors. The shah ordered Gen. Liakhoff. the Russian commander of the Persian troops in Teheran, to send a repressive expedition. and one started for the dis- turbed districts in command of three generals and well provided with artillery. A messenger, the Russ’ correspondent says, has just arrived at Teheran with the news that the expedition has been completely routed and that the three generals abandoned their men and took to flight. eee FEW SAW EXECUTION. Dave Edwards Hanged in Chatta- nooga for Murder of J. W. Davis. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., January 29.— At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Dave Edwards was hanged in the county jail here for the murder of J. W. Davis. His neck was broken by the fall. crowd surged about the prison. but few were permitted to witness the execution. On the scaffold Edwards spoke of the man he had murdered, saying: “If Davis is in that part of eternity where the si: ful go, I have no doubt but that I will be with him in a few minutes. Davis went out of this life much as ] am going. He had little time to prepare for the future world.” Se DISLOCATED NECK LAUGHING. Serious Sequel to Joke at Pittsburg, but Surgeon Relieved Woman. PITTSBURG, January -Dislocating her neck because of immoderate laughter at a joke told by a guest. Mrs. William Giesey suffered intense agony last night till arrival@of a surgeon, who re- Heved her sufferings and replaced the dislocated member. ij Mr. and Mrs. Giesey were entertaining guests. One of them told a joke at which Mrs. Gie: began to laugh. She becafhe hysterical and was unable to stop. when suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her neck and soon her face turned black. A surgeon hastily summoned soon pull- ed the neck back into place. MT. RAINIER TO INCORPORATE. Plans of the New Municipality in Maryland. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., January 29. The committee of six, appointed by Chai man Nalley at a public meeting early this month to incorporate Mount Rainier and Brentwood, is r to report. Aspublic meeting will be he!d next week to receive the report. It is learned that the com- mittee will explain that there is property of an ssed valuation of about $850,- 000 in the proposed community to be in- cluded in the municipality and that the average residential assessment is about $1,200. It is-said the committee will recommend securing a charter restricting a municipa. tax in excess of 20 cents on each $lw of the assessed valuation; that nothing be attempted in the way of sewage or water systems, but that in Heu thereof a free municipal scavénger service be main- tained; that the charter contain ample sanitary regulations and provide for tne creation of a municipal health officer, whose duty it shall be to enforce strict observance of said laws; that out of the municipal tax an adequate system of street lamps be maintained; that all funds received from the county in the way of rebate on the road tax be applied to the pair of the present highways, and that the mayor or some other municipal officer be given magisterial powers and authority to punish for all infractions of municipal regulations. ——___-—___ Big Land Sale in Texas. BIG SPRINGS, Tex., January 29.— Probably the biggest land sale ever re- cored in this section of the state was con: cluded when R. L. Slaughter, representing C. ©. Slaughter, land owner and cattle man, whose home is in Dallas, sold the “Long S$" ranch. comprising 200,000 acre: to lowa capitalists. It is said the coi sideration was approximately $3,000,C00. é ALL | 4 A large} Commissioners Submit Plans | | to Congress init) TWO NEW BUILDINGS 'TO BE WIDELY | i | Maryland in 1,000-Acre Tracts Is Recommended. Practical measures for carrying out at the recomniendations of the jail mmission, composed of Justice W. P.| ,Siaffora. John “Joy Edson and. Robert! | V. LaDow, made in its recent report to | Congress, were recommended to Congre today by the Commissioners. The legi lation recommended follows in general lines that suggested by the- penal com-} | mission. | | In general follows: | That to the $85,000 recently appropri lated for the construction of an additional building at the workhouse $15,000 be add- ed and the entire sum of $100,000 be used, |as suggested by the jail commisston, for} the purchase of two tracts of 1,000 acres} each and the erection thereon of tempo- rary structures for the accommodation | of prisoners while engaged In building the permanent structures. | That these two tracts of land be pur-| ‘chased in either Maryland or Virginia. jand not in the District of Columbia, as no such amount of land is available in the District. { That $10,000 be appropriated for the| preparation of plans for the reformatory | and the workhouse to be built on the two tracts of land. | That an adult probation system be e: \tablished in the District, in accordance with the recommendations of the jail com-! | mission. once the recommendations are as] Early Action Urged. Commissioner Macfarland L today | that the Commissioners hoped with the penal commission that the legislation | | would be enacted at this session of Con- gress, in view of the pressing need for! it set fort in the President's message and , the report of the penal commission. | Under that report the courts waqpld have | | power to place upon probation, under the supervision of probation officers. | salaried and volunteer, any convict. ex-| cept in cases of treason, murder, rape, arson or kidnaping. Prisoners convicted of penitentiary offenses and not placed upon probation would be sent to a federal penitentiary, presumably at Atlanta. Prisoners of the workhouse type and | not placed upon probation, would be sent; to the proposed workhouse, and other offenders believed to be capable of refor- mation would be sent to the reformatory. Each of the latter institutions would be placed, the Commissioner said, upon a tract of not less than a thousand acres, | the two tracts to be widely separated | from each other, and be selected either | in Maryland or Virginia, since tracts of | that size could not be had at a reasonable price in the District of Columbia. It is) believed by the Commissioners that suit- able tracts can be had at a very low price within easy access of Washington. | The penal commission recommended that temporary structures be erected upon | these tracts and that the offenders be | put to work improving them. The penal | | commission estimated that $160,000 would | provide the tracts of land required and | | | | the temporary structures, and expressed the hope that they might be ready for oc- cupancy before the first of July. The object, said the Commissioner, is to re- move the disgraceful conditions at_ the | jail, and to improve the condition of the | workhouse convicts. | H Present Bids Held Up. | Commissioner Macfarland said that the iCommissioners have held up the ids vhich they received last summer for the lexpenditure of the $83.000 apprepriation for an administration wing in the pre: ent workhouse, with the consent of Con. gress, until Congress shalt act upon the new proposition, and that the Commis- sioners had recommended that that ap- propriation be made available by Congress for the new proposition. so that only the | remainder of the $100,000 estimated: by | the penal commission would have to newly appropriated. Besides this, the | |penal commission recommended and the | |Commissioners indorsed the proposition that £10,000 be appropriated.for the prep: | gration of plans and the preliminary wor for a permanent reformatory and tor permanent workhouse. and the workhouse are tu be under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Commissioner Mac- | farland said that he believed that y Jenactment of this legislation would mean | a great step forward in the treatment of its criminal Copies Ordered Printed. | a The reformatory | At the request of Senator Gallinger, | chairman of the District of Columbia | committee, the Senate today ordered | printed 1,000 additional copies of the re- port of the Commissioners appointed by | the President to investigate the condition of the local workhouse and other penal Institutions of the District of Columbi In making the request Mr. Gallinger | said: | “If the suggestions contained in th report are adopted by Congress condi- | tions existing in the District of Columpbie that area reproach to civilization will be remedied.”” eee | STRUNG UP TO A TREE. | _ . | ay | Sheriff's Posse Rescues Negro When | the Wire Broke. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January 29.—A negro answering the description of one who brutally attempted to criminally assault Mrs. Jessie Holland near here | was captured by angry neighbors , last | night and strung up to a tree with al telephone wire. The wire broke, and a|5 second attempt was being made to hang | the negro when a sheriff's posse scatter- ed the crowd. German Warship Departs for Home. PENSACOLA, Fla., January 29.—After | a stay of three weeks in this port the, German warship Freya weighed anchor and started on her return voyage. The| first stop will be at Bermuda, where she will coal. The customary salutes between the warship and the forts were exchanged as she passed out the harbor entrance. age eR AS Emma Goldman Acquitted. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., January The trial of Emma Goldman, the anar-/ | chist lecturer, and Dr. Ben Beitman, her manager, charged with calling an unlaw- 9. | ful meeting, was held yesterday. The defendants were acquitted by the jury upon peremptory instructions by the! court. REFORM REPORT STORM | of Chicago. | egraph wires. GRIPS WEST High Winds and Heavy Snow: in Mississippi Valley. BIG BLIZZARD IN lOWA One to Be Reformatory and One Gale Blows Seventy-Four Miles an tee : Workhouse. | Hour in Kansas City. SEPARATE TELEGRAPH WIRES ARE DOWN |Purchase of Lands in Virginia or | Trains Stalled and Whereabouts Un- known—Many Points Cut Off From Communication. CHICAGO, January .—Rain, snow, sleet and a high wind, which reached a maximum of seventy-four miles at’ Kan- sas City, created climatic chaos in the middle west today Trains were delayed and telegraph wires prostrated in every direction, particularly west of St. Louis and north The barometer in the office of the local weather bureau stood at nly .25 higher than the lowest ever re- | corded here. Although middle west in the clutches of a gale which property damage in various sections, and, as in Iowa, took on the guise of a bliz- zard, disaster predicted in the present The most serious damage early dispatches was at where the roof of the opera blown against a freight train standing a the was wrought some no such was reported or Instance. in reported Lamonte, M house was block away, Injuring two persons. Curious Look of Weather Map. The weather map issued today was in ppearance almost without precedent. The bars, indicating points of equal air pressure, wound like « lojgided spiral over the middle west, centering at Chicago. where the gule was expected to break later in the day and where the barometer stood at 2J, and extending as far west as Omaha, where the barometer reading was -S higher. West, south and north of Omaha the map was a blank. Wires were down in every direction and reports were missing. West of Chicago it was possible for only four states and territories—California, Ni vada, New Mexico and Arizona to get in their reports, which was accomplished by using unaffected wires: south along the Mexican berder, The wind blew seventy miles an hour at Springfield, Mo.; forty-six at St. Louls, fifty-eight at Omaha, thirty-six miles at Des Moines and Detroit and forty-eight at Galveston. At the time these reports were received the velocity in Chicago was only eight miles. ss The route of the storm traveling from Kansas, where it started yesterday, and moving toward Lake Michigan, apparent- ly justified the p1 tion of a gale be- fore sundown, ac mipanied by snow and a sharp fall in temperature. The demoralized cpndition of telegraph wires was attributed generally to slect. The general offices Of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad for many hours were unable to learn the whereabouts of trains stalled or delayed in a blizzard in Iowa. High Winds and Heavy Snow. Communication with the most impor points in the northwest was impossible for many* Scores of telegrapi poles and miles of wire in many sections hours. | were borne down and rendered useless. winds and a heavy snowfall put most out of business where were not broken down. Between Chicago and St. Paul direct communica- tion for Between Chicazo and Milwaukee poles by the dozen were High the ¥ they Se hours. reported down. The telegraph service of railroads, in- eluding the Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago. Rock Island and_ Pacific, Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Pa nd the Burli lines west of the Mississippi river almost hopelessly crippled It we pied that m trains li been abandoned in northern Jowa. Wash- outs were prted numerous im that sec- tion: M liown, Ta., rey reports that central lowa is in the grasp of one of ghe worst blizzards in recent years. At Marshall- town there is no electric light service, and have been abandoned. The 1 telephone systems are de- De reported a blizzard west of there. inches of snow fell during the nt, and drifted many feet deep into the cuts, delaying or stalling trains. Weather Reports Meager. The usual telegrams to the weather bureau here were incomplete, owing to the curtailment of telegraphic facilities. The Canadian and American northwest and most o. the country west of the Mis- souri river failed to report. Scattered re- ports from Dubuque, Davenport, Kansas City. Springfield, IIL, and Peoria showed rain or snow In Chicago street cats and elevated railroad trains moved with caution be- cause of the dense fog and misty rain. West of Kansas City all wire service had practically 1 in the eariy hours of the day Between Kansas City and Omaha communication existed. Mes- nd Omaha were sages between Chicago ade necessary by subject to long delays numerous relays. "The storm ha 1 affected all wires iin- partially. Repairers and other em- ployes of the telegraph companies worked vigorously, but ineffectualiy, during the morning. he storm had been confined for the er part to western and northern t Communication to southern and eastern points was much less dis- turbed. 2 : The Northwestern and the Burlington roads, while admitting some trouble the weather stated that they ving no serious difficulties with At the Rock Island gen- eral offices, however, the railroad wires in Iowa were reported lost and the whereabouts of se 1 trains unknown because of the loss of telegraphic coin munication. re Snowstorm in Michigan. DETROIT, Mich., January 29.—A se- vere snowstorm, which is general ail over lower Michigan, today, is caus- ing mugh trouble to telephone and tel- ‘The snow is heavy, how- ever, and not drifting, so that rail- rouds have suffered little delay. , In Grand Rapids all of the street cars were entirely tied up during the morning by the snow. eighteen inches having fallen. . In other cities of the Istate also, including Detroit, there waa > a]