Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 8, 1909, Page 1

GOV, LILLEY MORE COMFO RTABLE After a Restless Night Tuesday the Patient Slept Most of the Morning CONDITION BETTER THAN FOR 48 HOURS. - Dr. (,.'-rlvu who Arrived from Waterbury Wednesday Afternoon Considered His Patient’s Condition Much Better—The Doctor Remained with the Patient Wed- nesday Night—Restful Two Hours’ Sleep in Afternoon Hartford, Conn., April 7.—The ton- dition of Gov. George L, Lilley, who s 1ll at the executive mansion here, is much better tonight than it has beén for the past forty-eight houra, accord- ing to his attending physicians, Drs. Beach and Graves. ter a restless night the governor elept most of the morning and on awakening passed a comfortable afternoon. Dr, Graves Returned from Watecbury. Dr, Graves arrived from Waterbury _—_ MESSAGE FROM ROOSEVELT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Regarding the Work Being Done at Messina and Reggio- Rome, April 7.—Just before his de- parture last evening on the steamer Admiral, for Mombasa, ex-President Roosevelt wrote the following message to the American people: “Before leaving Messina 1 desire to say that [ am sure the American peo- ple do not realige the splendid work that is being done at Messina and Regglo with the lumber sent from the United States. I have visited the Am- erican camp and seen 250 houses al- ready completed and arrangements have been perfected for the rapid con- struction of 1,250 more. The whole work, which is under the general di- rection of Ambassador Griscom, has been organized and perfected by Lieut. ommander Belknap, with the assis ance af Lieutenant Buchanat, Ensign Wilcox and Spofford, Dr. Donelson, Paymaster Rogers, forty enlisted men of our navy, and a number of stal- wart American carpenters. “I wish to say 1 consider that the American people are d“pl{ indebted to euch and every one of these men. 1 cannot exaggerate the pleasure it gave me to see the officers and enlist- ed men of our navy adapting them- selves to strange and unexpected cir- cumstances and successfully perform- ing with ability and thorough good will this most difficult task. Our na- tion can well be proud of them.” TRIAL OF MRS. GEORGIA SAMPSON Father, Mother and Two Brothers on A Witness Stand. Lyons, N. Y. April 7.—The father f and mother and two brothers of Mrs. | Georgia Sampson, charged with the Xilling of her husband, Henry Samp- son, wera called to the witness stand tod District Attorney Gilbert to &hv nce on which the state is de- pending to convict Mrs. Georgia Samp- son of murder. The testimony of the four members of the Sampson family was listened to with interest by a | great throng that packed the court ;troom all day. A sad figure in the | court room was the widowed mother of | Harry Sampson, Mrs, George Sampsou, who will probably be called as @ wit- | ness tomorrow. * The defense scored several material | points today through the testimony of B the mmern of the Allyn family. It i was established, notably, that shortly before Harry Sampson staggered into the Allyn dining room and fell dead Mrs, Sampson was seen on lhe second floor of her home. ‘Through Mrs. Alivn the state’s attor- neys brought out the fact that Robert Manson of Niagara Falls had written } to Georgia inviting her and a triend, Miss Mildred Cervoss, to spend a few days in Niagara Falls. Harry quarrel- ed with his wife over the letter. Mrs. Sampson’s lawyers state that Manson had written asking Mrs. ampson to act @8 a chaperone. | A sensational bit of testimony was offered by John Ebert, a neighbor who declared that Harry Sampson had ! smokeless powder cartridges in his possession on the day of the shooting. The defense contends that this ex- plains why no powder marks were viri- ble on Sampson’s shirt. Carl Aliyn, a brother of Georgla, tes- tified that he had bufned the outer shirt that Harry had worn when he was shot and that the black shirt in the district attorney’'s ssesglon was probably another shirt of the dead mar. NATIONAL BOARD D. A, R. President-General Mrs. Donald Mec- Lean. Presided Over Yesterday's Moeting of National Board. Washington, April 7.—Mrs. Donald OMcLean, president-General of the Daughters of the #merican Revolution, arrived here today and presided over the final meeting of the national hoara prior to the convention which will meet here Apri] 19. Plans were per- fected for the convention and 876 new members were admitted to the society. More ihan $30.000 was reported in the ireasury, exciusive of the $200,000 bullding fund for the completion of Contigental Hall, the permanent mar- ble home here of the Daughte Mrs, McLean expressed the belief that Mrs. Matthew Scgtt, the adminis- tration candidate, will be elected as her successor to the presidency of the soclety. The “Insurgents” in the orfe it is said, have decided on Mrs, W1 liam C. Story, state regent of New York, as their candidate for president- general. \ P Much Wanted Chauffeur Arrested Te: New York, April 7.—Willlam Dar- ragh, a chauffeur for whoio a general alarm was issued by the New York police a week ago, in connection with the killing by his eutomeblle of Ing- vaard Trimble, the 13 year old son of R. D. Trimble, a well known Kentucky lawyer, has ‘been arrested in Fort ‘Worth, Texas, according to a telegram recelyrd by the police here today. The tel says that Darragh has admit- teé operating the autormobile which ran down young Trimble.and is willing to return to New York te stand trial. in Schooner for Wellman Arct tion. Christiensand, Norway, April 7.—A 300 ton schooner for the north pole ex- r‘um under Wi ‘Wellman was jaunched here ye . It wil be taken to Spitzbergea May. Groton.—Robert D. nnlg: son of 3 ‘Mrs, . mison of Point. and Miss Fannle 7 &l Hariford were married £ ¥ Expedi. home of the bride adenrnoen. this afternoon and tonight sald that the governor after sleeping for two Yours late this afterroon woke up feel- ing more comfortable than at any time during the past twenty-four hours. In addition Dr. Graves said that he con- sidered his condition excellent at the present t'me as compared with that of the past forty-eight hours. ; Remained With Governor All Night. Dr. Graves will remain with the gov- ernor during the night. FORMER PRESIDENT CASTRO LANDS AT FORT DE FRANCE . Secures Apartments at Hotel lvanes— Is Greatly Wrought Up. Fort de France, April 7.—Cipriano Castro, the former president of Venez- uela, has taken up his residence, tem- porarily, at least, at this place. He arrived here last night on the French steamer Guadeloupe, which sailed from Bordesux on March 26, and he very unwillingly came ashore today, owing to the British government's refusal to permit him to disembark at Port of Spain, Trinidad. ‘As the port authorities here had re- cetved no communication from the French government with regard. to Senor Castor, they permitted him to land without opposition, considering him simply as a private individual. He was accompanied by his secretary, his wife and the other members of the party continuing on_their journey to La Guaira. Castro has taken apart- ments at the Hotel Ivanes, to which he withdrew immediately and denied himself to all visitors, The former president was greatly wrought up over the action of the British_government and when seen on board the Guadeloupe soon after the arrival of the vessel he expressed him- self as having been outraged by the treatment accorded him by the gov- ernments concerned in his interdic- tiol Castro does not disguise the fear that the unefpected intervention of the United States and Great Britain may let loose a veritable revolution at Caracas. PAYNE TARIFF BILL IN HOUSE. Advocates of Free Crude Oil and Its Products Win Signal Victory. Washington, April 7.—This was a bad day for the republican organiza- tion of the house. By a coalition be: tween some republican “insurgents and the democrats, the ways and means committee was bowled over and the advocates of free crude ofl and its products won a signal victory when an amendment by Mr. Morris of Ne- braska, placing the insignificant duty of 1 percentum ad valorem on those articles was adopted by a substantial majority. A decision of the chalrman that amendments could not be offered to the oil schedule other than by the one covered by the special rule of last Monday, and which provided for the removal of the countervailing duty on crude petroleum and applying an ad, valorem duty of 25 per cent., was over- turned, and not even a fervid appeal by the speaker in an endeavor to rally the republican forces was sufficient to stew the tide avowedly against the Standard Oil company. By a practl- cally unanimous ,voe the counser- vailing duty went out as the commit= tee had recommended. On all other propositions the com- mittee was sustained. The barley schedule ran the gauntlet without change. Tea and coffee were placed on the free list and the duty on bar- ytes increased from 75 cents a ton to 5170 a ton. A colloquy, at first humorous, but later developing into personalities, de- veloped between Mr. Stanley of Ken- tuck and Mr. Clark of Florida, and was _terminated only upon an objéction by Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana that it was against the dignity of the house. The bill was lajd aside and at 5.04 p. m. the house adjourned. Washington, April 7.— Onslaughts upon the senate committee on finance by prominent members of congress have become so vigorous since it be- came known that the work of insert- ing rates in the bill seon'to be report- ed has actually begun that therve is danger of revision belng decldedly of an upward trend, it is said, unless deaf ears are turned to importunate in- terests. In spite of these conditions, good progress is belng made and Senator Aldrich, the chairman, said today that he could predict that when the bill is reported it will be seen that the re- vision has been downward, especially upon the necessaries-of life. RUNAWAY EMPTY TROLLEY CAR Crashed Into Crowded Car Following Up a Steep Hill. Boston, Aprll T.—Breaking away from the car which was towing 1 up a steep hill in the Roslindale district today, an empty and disabled trolk car allp back rapidly and crashed into a following car, causing the serious injury of one man and painful hurts to about a dozen other persons. Henry W. Hodg® of Malden was taken to the elty hospital with a frac- tured skull, while the others were treated for cuts, sprains and bruises, and subsequently sent to their homes. The aceldent oecurred near the corner of Washington and Poplar streets, Both cars were badly smashed. Steamship Arrival At Havre, April §: Chicago, from New York. At Napies, April 6: Tinland, from New York via Ponia Delada and Ma- deira, At Genoa, April 7: Hamburg, from New York Horta, Ponta Delgada, Gibraltar and Naples. At Liverpool: April 7, Lusitania,from New York. 86 Degrees at Washington. ‘Washington, April 7.—This city to- day had its first heat prostration of the season, a woman being overcome on Pennsylvania~avenue. She socn re- covered. The street temperature at 1 o'clock today was %6 degrees, the offi- cial temperature at the same hour be- ing 81 - Cabled Paragraphs. Lisbon, April 7.--General S. C. de Sousa Telles, who was at one time minister of ‘war, bas succeeded in forming a new cabinet. Ajthoum official anncuncement has been it is.belicved that he will take the port- folio of war, that Senhor Bocage will pe foreign minister, and Senhor Branca minister of finance ‘Constantinople, April 7.—Hassan Fehmi Effendi, editor of the liberal newspaper Serbesti, was shot and kill- ed by an unknown man as he was en- tering his office today. A government officer accompanying the editor was wounded. The crime is believed to be political. The Serbesti has been carry- ing on a campaign against the com- mittee of union and progress. INDUSTRY OF MAKING OIL AND FERTILIZER FROM FISH. Bills Affecting This Industry Heard by Committee onsPublic Health and Safety in Supreme Court Room, Hartford. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hertford, April 7.—The five bills af- fecting the manufacture of fish oil and guano on the shores of Long Island Sound, the special conditions in Nian- tic being the point at issue, were final- ly heard by the joint committee on public health and safety this afternoon in the supreme court room. ‘The large attendance at the hearing would have filled the regular room of the committee several times over. The various bills concerned fish oil and Buano companies, the transportation of garbage, the restrictions of the fish business and that of the Bridgeport By-Products company in the shore towns and the creation of shore sani- tary districts. The Cronin, Arnold and Gadbols bills were grouped apd heard rst. No one appeared to favor the Cronin bill, which provides that where a fish oil ‘and guand businass exists it may be continued, and that measure was laid_aside. The second measurc provides for the transportation of garbage, which has to do with the business of the Bridge- port By-Products company, a subsi- diary company of the Standard Oil company, and Attorney A. M. Marsh of Bridgeport gave mnotice of appear- ance in its favor. The third and fourth concerned the restriction of both kinds or business, one referring to Waterford, Bast Lyme and Old Lyme, and the other a gen- eral measure. Attorney Anson T. Mc- Cook of Hartford gave notice of ap- pearance in favor of that. Regarding the measure relating to transportation of garbage, Mr. Marsh said that he had no evidence to put in, but would later argue the proposi- tion of referring this measure to the judiciary committee, as it concerned appeals from the decision of town au- thorities and was really a legal mat- ter. There was some little confusion as to how the committee should proceed, the corporation attorneys meanwhile chuckling over the discomfiture of the opposition attorneys over the prospect of being obliged to put in evidence in opposition when nonme in support had been heard. Major H. A. Hull of New London appeared for the Niantic Men- haden Oil and Guano company, and after some colloquy between the attor- neys and the committes ft was at length decided to go ahead with the opposition's testimony. Dr. P’ H. Dart, the East Lyme health officer, told of ‘the conditions at the fish works last summer Many com- plaints were made, and he and County Health Officer Brown visited the plant and found very serfous conditions, which were not {9 he wholly account- ed for by the company officials’ ex- planation that a lot of fish had been accidentally liberated. They came to belleve that elther lack of care or lack of facilities to handlg the large amountof fish efist- ed. Ddad fish were strewn all about and the stench was awful. Four or five weeks later the health officers agaln visited the factory and found lit- tle improvement. After the issuance of an jyjuretior there was some Im- provement.” The odor came not only from fish floating about, but also from the fishworks as well. In answer to'the questions of Dr. Sedgwick of the committee, Dr. Dart said that the fish factory had been there but seven or eight years, and there were cottages in that vicinity long ere that. Witn®s had a_ great many com- plaints from residents and non-resi- dents, and had found many patients ill as a result of the stench. On cross examination Major Hull tried to get Dr. Dart to admit that there hal been 4 fish mill in that gen- eral vicinity for a long time back and failed. Dr. Dart sald there had been no factory there previous to_seven or elght years ago since 1850. He admit- ted having been told that there was an accident- there last summer and had never known of a similar accident. Major Hull's line of questioning was to show that the accident and weather conditions made conditions so bad. and that when a northwest wind came the bad conditions ended, but he made lit- tle headway, for Dr. Dart sald that after zhinnrtherly wind the conditions again bycame bad, owine to fresh oozings from the fish works. He re- fused to admit that the company had spent $10,000 to do the things the health officers suggested they should do_to improve conditions. Major Hull insisted that Dr. Dart made a written detafled statement as to new machinery and appliances and other improvements and he finally ad - mitted that a letter which was ex- hibited was his, but was written to the county health officer and not presented to the company at the conference. F had made these suggestions to Mr. Brown because he might not be able to be at the conference. Dr. Dart's official court in suppress- ing the nuisance was gone into, from the time that on Aug. 5th he ordered the closing of the works on through the Injunction period to the time when Juige Shumway settled the matter bty recommending that the company clean up——until Dr. Fhillips, the senate chai: .. man, called a halt in detailed cross questioning and asked for further evi- dence. John Coroley of Crescent Beach fol- lowed with the statement that the stench last summer seriously inter- fered with his ice cream business. He is t&o miles and a half from the fish mill, but was annoyed by a mcst de- testable stin Jehn Manwaring <f Plack Point sald he had noted the bad odor for several seasons past. J. V. Beckwith of Bast Lyme said they didn't want a garbage reduction plant in town; they had one stink mill. George Hill of Fast Lyme told of the refusal last summer of the town's ccmmission to permit the erection of a warbage reduction plant. = George P. Eaton of New Haven, a cottager, told of the der and the scum on the water and introduced a record of days on which he was spebially an- noyed. Selectmen Harvey, Beckwith ana Maynard of East Lyme told of the troubles of their town with this fish factory in some detail Mrs, Knott and Mrs. Taft, New York ladies’ who are cottagers at Black Point, added some color to the hearing with. thelr appearance before the com.: mittee and told graphically of the cenditions at the shore. ‘There's al- m-manmmfi-uhq.' Miners’ Demands Connecticut Al Refused MEETING OF COMMITTEES HELD AT PHILADELPHIA. MINERS WILL NOT STRIKE Propositisn to Continue Wage Agree- ment for Another Three Years Sub- mitted by Operators to Be Acted On. Philadelphia, Pa, April 7—At a meeting held here today between com- mittees representing the coal opera- tors and the officials of the United Mine Workers of America, represent- ing the anthracite workers of Penn- sylvania, to consider demands made by the miners, the operators refused all the demands and submitted instead a proposition to extend the wage agree- ment brought about by the anthracite strike commission for another term of three years, Another Conference Today. In order that the proposition be laid before the officers of the mine work- ers’ organization of three anthracite districts who are now in this city, the conference adjourned to meet again to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. May Appeal to President Taft. The wage agreement which the op- erators seek to have renewed expired March 31, The miners, however, pend- ing the outcome of the conferences, are working under its terms. The agreement does not provide for recognition of the miners' union and this; it is said, Is the bone of conten- tion, as the operators absolutely refuse to recognize the union. ' It is said that should the operators absolutely refuse to make any concessions and insist upon the offer to renew the anthracite strike commission's award, the miners will appeal to President Taft for the appointment of a_commission to in- vestigate the conditions controlling the mining and selling of hard coal- No Strike to Be Declared. It is also' said that if the confer- ence comes to an end without an agreement being reached, the miners will not declare a strike, but will leave it to the operators, if they see fit to do so, to declare a lockout. eration,” said Mrs. Knott, a hand- some brunette in a large Japanese blue hat, “and we suffer much at Black Point. It is' impossible to bathe. I have been a cottager there for five or six years, We found conditions worse last “year. “I "have' been a cottager there two years,” said Mrs, Taft, whose relation to a certain gentleman wasn't stated, “and we have found the bathing very unpleasant. One must wash one’s suil at the pump after coming out of the water in order to get rid of a most dis- agreeable odor. The same conditions have prevailed ever since I first came to Black Point.” ¥ A. W. Francis of New York, a cot- tager, told of his experiences at some length. He has spent four months a summer for seven years past at Black Point and likened the situation there to that of a man who had taken castor ofl and left some on his moustache. It might not be dangerous, but it was very unpleasant. . County Health Officer A. M. Brown told of his connection_with the, affair of last summer at some length, He detailed the course of the complaint of Dr. Dart after it reached him and its results, saying in addition that the company had agreed to better condi- tions there during the winter and put in improvements which would make it possible for the works to be oper- ated this summer with no inconveni- ence to anybody. He is now waiting to see whether this has been done or not and if it hasn't he will close the plant again. He saw no need for further legisla tion and is perfectly able to handl the situation with the’ laws we hav In answer to Mr. McCook's question he said that he favored no change in the law as to garbage transportation and the establishment of garbage re- duction plants. In closing Mr. McCook put in a large number of postcards, represent- ing a post card vote, which he stated figured up 124 to 24 against the fish, oil and guano company, and the By- Products company. When he asked for these favoring East Lyme's con- tention to rise a large number of people from East Lyme and Niantic and shore cottagers stood up, In opening for his company, Mr. Marsh put T. B. Ford on the stand to tell of the conditions connected with the Bridgeport By-Products company in Bridgeport. Mr. Ford owns $300.000 worth of real estate lockted about 1,000 feet from the By-Products company’s plant and has sold many lots there and never has known of a complaint about the garbage plant since the completion of a new sewer. There was an old sewer of but a mile and a quarter in length, which was in very bad shape, but the substitution of a new sewer changed matters so as to do away with all odogs. Ex-Alderman George W. Jackman told of the conditions under which the old sewer existed and of his agency in the establishment of a new one, which has done away with all complaints, Answering W. H. Honiss, a Niantic cottager, Mr. Jackman said he would not say that the existence of this plant added to the value of property in its vicinity, but that actually it didn't injure it a particle. President Livingstone of the By- Products company sald that the rea- son why the company wished to move from Bridgeport to Bast Lyme was to have a plant able to handle the gar- bage of Bridgeport, New Haven, Hart- ford and Waterbury. They use salt water and the new location would give them both rail and water transporta- tion and was a most advantageous one. He told of the company’s process with a view to showing that there were no disagreeable conditions surrownding it. He was questioned at some length by the committee and described the situation at Hast Lyme, where he said the unfavorable sentiment was chang- ing. C. M. Shea of the Shea Fertilizer company at the navy yard, made an earnest speech in favor of the protec- tion of the fish oil and guano business, in opening for the Menhaden com- pany’s side of the matter, saying that a properly conducted plant should not be annoying o anybody. There had never been a complaint about his plant. Capt, E. F. Wilcox of Mystic, who runs a fish factory there, told of how pleasantly he got along with his neigh- bors. On the menhaden industry the lobster industry depends for balt, the captain said. He thought cutting oft the menhaden industry would extermi. nate the lobster business in Connec- ticut. Other witnesses included Col. J. P. Brown, secretary of the state board of agriculture and Representative Jo- doin of Sprague and Chadwick of Sa- em. Argoments will be made to the com- mittee by counsel later on. N General Assembly EXECUTIVE POWERS EMERGENCY. AN LIEUT. GOV. WEEKS TO ACT During I1capacity of Governor Lilloy— Action of the Two Houses—Commit- tee Reports—Bills Passed. \ Hartford, April 7—The senate wes called to order at 11.146 by Lieutenant Governor Weeks. Prayer by Senator Luther. Reports of Committees. v Agriculture—Unfavorable on biil concerning payment of bounties on hawks, concerning bounty on foxes. Bills rejected. Judiciary—Unffavorable on bill con- cerning the support of minors com- mitted to institutions, and on {he bill corcerning the commitment of females, Bills rejected. Cities and Boroughs—Favorable on substitate ~resolution amending the charter of the borough of New Ca- naan; concerning the election of offi- cials in New Haven. Calendar. Excise—Unfavorable on bill provid- ing that appeals by taxpayers from the decision of county commissioners in granting licenses shall vachte the li- cense. Bill rejected. Calendar, Passed—Appropriating for board of children in county homes as follows Tolland _ county, $2,000: Windham county, $2,000; appropriating $10,600 for the Memorial hospital of New London; authorizing the borough >f Jewett 'City to furnish electric light outside the limits of the borough. Referred to Commiitee on Appropri: - tions—Bill increasing the salaries of officers of the C. N. G. incoln Memorial, The committee on capitol furniture and grounds reported favorably on the erection. of a monument to Abraham Lincoln and moved that it be referred | Res to the committee on appropriations. So referred. Incapacity of Gover-cr. By action of the two houses Lieuter ant Governor Weeks was empowered to act during incapacity of Governor Lilley. Resolution passed under sus- pension of the rules transferring au- thority, upon request of executive or state secretary. Adjourned to Thursday. THE HOUSE. The house was called to order at 1115 by Speaker Banks. On the speaker's desk was a handsome bou- quet labeled “Easter Greetings, from ‘Souvenir Taylor.” The Rev. Franklin Countryman, the house chaplain, of- fered prayer. From the Calendar. Bills Passed—Concerning fishing in Williams pond, Lebanon; prohibiting trapping with’ scented bait and provi.- ing a penalty; concerning fees for j:unting licensea; concerning wéights and measures at counters; senate bill No. 81, amending an act concerning forest fire wardens and protection of forests. Tabled—These matters were tabled to retain their places on the calendar: Resolution incorporating _ the Riliard ccmpany; concePning marked or Aoul ballots on the licente question: con- cerning close season for Hungarian partridge and other game. Foot of Calendar—Amending an act concerning dogs. Narcotic Drugs. The following amendment to the act concerning the sale of narcetic drugs was adcpted: Section two of chapter 127 of the public acts of 1905 is hereby amended by striking out in the first lire theren? the word “knowinglyv.” s~ that said seotion as amended shall read as fol- : Every person who shall violaie of the provisions of this act shall be fined not less than twenty-five dni- lars nor more than fifty dollars. City, police, town and borough courts hav- ing eriminal jurisdiction, where estah- lished, and justices of the peace in towns where such courts do not exis shall have jurisdiction to hear and d +termine prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this act and te im- pose penaltles therefor. River and Harbor Commission. The resolution raising a commission to investigate ard report concerniny the improvement of rivers and har- bors within the state was on the cal- endar for action today, but was re- committed. Mr. Higgins of Winchester inquired of Mr. Chandler of Rocky Hill if it was intended to make the commission a permanent one. Mr. Chandler repliel that it was. Mr. Higgins sald.that in that case he would surely oppose the passage of the resolution.” He thougkt the state is now overburdened with commissions. Mr. Burnes of Greenwich thought he. saw a debate of considerable propor- tions in sight, and said that in view of the late hour and light attendance tne matter ought to be tabled. Later, on motfon of Mr. Chandler, the resolution was recommitted to the committee on railroads. Adjourned. INQUIRY COMPLETED. Investigation of Trading Methods in New York Financial Distri New York, April 7—The committee appointed by Governor Hughes to in- vestigate methods of stock and com- modities trading in the New York financial district has completed its in- quiry and will_hold no more hearings of any kind. Tts report consists of about 15000 words and will be ready for submission proba¥ly about April 24. The document will not contain any sensational recommencations, accord ing to statements made in connection with the investigation, in well informed quarters in Wall street today. The members_of- the committee refuse to discuss the report or to give any hint as to the tenor of the recommenda- tions they intend making, but some of the members of the governing commit. tee of the stock exchange who have been befors the committee on several occasions said today that the disclo- sures of the investigation would be found not to be adverse to theex- changes to declare that such changes in the laws as might be recommended would not be radical in their nature. The committee is expected, as ong re- form, to recommend legislation to sto;, the abuse of advertising by vendors of worthless securitles. BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK. The Blackwater Rammed by Steam- ship Hero—The Crew Saved. London, April 7—The British torpe- do Toat destroyer Rlackwater was sunk at midnight last night off Dungeness, by a collision with the British steam- ship Hero. The crew of the Black- water were saved. The Hero had her bows stove n. Cordensed Japan Has Asked China to recon- sider her proposals regarding Man- churia. Baron Ivan -Sacken, prominent in social circle St, Petersburg, shot and killed himself. Police Deputy Woods announced that boxing and wrestling classes for New York policemen will be started. Lima, Who Betrayed his associates in the Portuguese revolutionary plot of 1908, was murdered at Lisbon. Leaving Notes Telling of a Suicide pact, Herman Bartlett and Belva Pugh Jjoined hands and jumped into the Mis- sissippi river at Alexandrilla, Mo. In Pleading for the Dissolution of the Standard Oil company, Frank B. Kellogg declared that the trusts will check all enterprises unless curbed. Governor Hughes Dismissed Charges against Colonel Morris of the Ninth regiment, made by Lieutenant Dilkes of the same command. Commissioner Bingham announced the crusade against automobile speed- ers had resulted in a marked decrease in reckless driving in New York. The French Government has decided to collect a duty of $120 on balloons landing in France, and will hold aero. nauts until they can give satisfactor; explanations, John W. Warrington Was Sworn in at Cincinnati s associate circuit judge of the federal court of appeals of the Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mich- igan’ district. The United States Circuit Court of peals has dissolved the injunction which prevented Alabama enforcing its laws reducing railroad passenger and freight rates. Comptroller Metx and the Citizens' union each started an, Inquiry int¢ the expenditure of about $8,500,000 by the New York water supply board when work has hardly begun. CONNECTICUT PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. iver of Third Avenue Recad in New York Before Committee on Judiciary at Hartford in Opposition. Hartford, Conn., April W. Whitridge of New York, r the Third ..venue rallway in New York city, appeared before the committee on’the judiciary at the capitol in op- position to the measure which would creaté a public utilities commission such as at present exists in New York. H- stated that the New York mis- sfon had spent in a little more than one year $1,324,000 of the people's money and in his opinion had dore lit- tle good. He was asked what sort of experts the commission hired and he stated that he had only had contact with on and he was so entirely Incompetent that he refused to have anything fur- ther to do with him. “The commission| is choked with he stated. Experiences With Public Service Com- mission. In alluding to the Third Avenuc road he said: “I thought when I too) it over that I was going to get a goin concern, but T fund most of it gone already.” He.told of some of his ex- periences with the public service com- misslon and in one Instance received an order to repair and put in a_certain condition ten cars per day. This he claimed was a physical impossibility as the company did not have t enough in its repair shops for number of cars, The commission had asked him what he could do and told them and promptly an order wa issued for him to do that. He thoughr that the commission had such great powers that they had actually c regard their orders as a sort esis and that if they ordered more cars there would be more cars. “The public service commission has complished no good on any of t Tines of my system, which covers ahoe three hurdred miles of -trcet,” he said. “I do mot think that the valuation of road as shown by the amount of stock out bears any relation to the fixing of rates of fare charged by it “Five inexperfenced men control one of the most intricate com- n- mercial systems ever known to m kind, and never will be able to do he sald. “I think that such a measure is detrimental to mankind, as it crus out individualism.” Chronic Attack of Bad Maragement. asked Ralph O. Wells of Hartford Mr. Whitridge what had been sibie for the bad financial con the Third Avepue line. Mr. Whitridge remarked” to. the committee: “That's a large order” He answered the tion briefly by saving that and corruption and the fact a system of transfers h: up that the fares on the roads in New York were not really more thargihres cents in place of the five cents charged were the prinaipal causes. I think. In fact, that the road had been suffe from a chronie attack of bad manage- ment.” Mr. Whitridge thought it a good idea re the issuance of securities p s of a commission explained that it s not the stoc ers who make the howl when < fails to pay, but it is the public, which does not own a share of the stoc that makes the most noise and is the most indignant. Remarks by Charles J. Donahue. Mr. Whitridge was followed by Charles J. Donahue, president of the State Federation of Labor, who stated that organized labor throughout the state is arraved against the measur as the power of the state shaltid no be placed in_the hands of a few men exercise. He citad former Judge Taft decision to the effect that the right the stockholder is paramount to tpat of the employe In s where walges are reduced. Hp sald that organized labor desires to remain on the same footing that it now enjoys with respect to_the public service comporations. ‘He showed how the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law had harmed the hatters of this state and resulted in the property of some having been under attachment for two years or more. He characterized the statement that the commission would be a non-parti- san one as being a mere dream He sald that the public service cor- porations are easier to treat with by organized labor than are the business men of the state. Opinion of George M. Wallace. G=orge M, Wallace of Wallingford 02pos~d the meusure on the ground that the_state has already 56 commis- ions of “different. characters, and tha* o create one more would certainly, not be providing a panacea and would not accomplish its _purpose. He quoted Mr. Wells and Stiles Judson, who fay- ored the measure, and said that if the legislature was as corrupt and incom- petent to handle business as they sald, “how are vou golng to get a moral sewer/to spout Spring water.” He said further: “T think it is a scheme to abol'sh about one-fifth of the powers of the legislature. They cannot abol- ish the legislature all at once; but thini that they can do so step by step, and Telegrams ITORNADG TORE THR Mal'ly Peg_'sons Injured by Falling Parts of © Buildings, One Man Killed. SIXTY MILE WIND IN NEW YORK CITY Resulting in Much Damage Pilgrim Congregational Avenue—Eight Persons Buffalo, N. Y., Aprfl 7.—From 3 o'clock until 5 this afternoon the wind tore through the streets of Buffalo the rate of 72 miles an hour. One man was killed and many people were i jured by parts of buildings detached by the force of the wind and hurled pugh the air. The whole front of the ,Oppenheim-Collins dry soods store was blown in and many pl & windows on Main strect were tered, Lake Waters Lashed Into Foam. Out on the lake the water was lash- cd into a foaming, tumbling mass, and | the big ice fleld that stretched as far as Dunkirk, was broken up and forced inte the Buffalo creek and the Blackwell canal were sent out of many after their banks and flooded. ~ Shortly the b st were thi o'elock J. J. H. Brown ets and W, le broke from llam H, their moorings at the breakwater and were blown Michigan in th aground et. and at the foot A dredge got jammed sank. Man Instantly Killed. Peter Maribito, a Polish farmer, w blown from a hayrack to the t. A broken plec wreck of his w killing him of timb n pl r trom ed his almost Instantly aph and telephone service in al] tions is demoralized and commu- nichtion with Canada was cut off. EIGHT PERSONS KILLED. Wind Reached Velocity of 70 Miles an wag killed by lightning near Jonla jas night and Ray Miller was killed at Brighton tod en he was struck by a roof that had been blown off by the wind $50,000 Damage to Property. The damage to roofs, chimneys, plate glass ete., will prob: $50,000 in Detroit and Michi n it wind velocity reached seventy mile an heur. IN CHICAGO Scores of Plate Gl Windows Broken —Wires We1t Down Rapidly. Chicago, east of Chi went down cording t ing, W. V " cast of thai point. In Chicago several persons suffe Melegraph far wi April x0 4 burg as Pitt nie ted every wire te injuries from toppling fences loosened signboards. Scores of pla glass windows were broken. Samuel Holland, an elevated railroad conduc tor, was i on the roof of a box anntsecar on the Metropolitan elevated road The car roof was lifted by the gale a carried in a horizontal position ke aeroplane more than a hundred feet, Ho'land was none the worse for his ax. perience. HIGH GALE IN NEW YORK CITY Pilgrim Congregational Church Steep’e Blown Down—Cther Damage. New York. Aprll 7.—The high gale which prevailed to the west and nor-h of New York city today. oo with telegraph ¢ h line attained its full for he at o'ciock tonight, when the wind rea a velocity of sixty miles an hour. Sev- oral persons were hurt and much dam age and discomfort resulted. A low areq over the Great Lakes this morn- ing of the wind to the west was the explanation of the local wez ther bureau for the circumstance The day was a muggy one, the temper- ature reaching 74 degrees. This was the highest officially recorded for first week In April except on April 4, 1892, when the mercury went to -9 de. grees. Farly in the affernoon the wingd began to blow hard, raising clouds ot ing and the s dust, shattering panes of glass and breaking loose signs. Two Persons Badly Hurt. Two pers 5 ! woman and a child, were badly hurt by being blown off their feet and dashed against | objects in the street. Cunarder Unable to, Dock. The_Conard line steamship Caronin, fiom Liverpog), which arrived tonig could not befth, hut was ! anchor_at juarantine owing to the {gale. The wind wrought considerable damnage in the suburbs, Part of the steeple of the Pi | congregational chu t One Hundrod and Twenty-first street and Madison avenue was blown into Madison ave- nue today by the gale DOZEN HOUSES DEMOLISHED Ind—Havoc in Cities. In Wabash, Other Wabash, Ind., April The only T nado Wabash has known in twenty- five years injured twenty persons last night and did damage amountin 1 thousands of dollars. A dozen houses were demolished \ Peru, Ind, April A tornado last ¥t is the of this is one of the steps. tering wedge in the abolition town system.” Other Speakers. Other speakers were E. I. Atwater of en- the New Haven, K. C. Patterson of Tor- rington. a_member of the State Grange, who said“that he Lad yet to fiud granger in favor of the measure; ward Griswold of Guilford, who op- posed it on the ground of centraliza- tion of power; John J. O'Neil of Bridgeport, who stated that organized labor is opposed to government by commission, and a number of others. N of | Hour in Detroit, Detroit, Mich., April 7.—At least cight persons lost the es in the rm that visited De*roit and Michi- | an last night and Anthony | Kaup, a saloon Ka barber, and Adam of W dotte, ‘attempted oss_the Detroit river In & rowboat from Wyandotte to Canada this rnoon in a fifty-mile | ale to settle a wager, and all three were drowned when their boats cap- sized. At Jennings, three men, Bernard Carlhon, Charles Jacobson and Joim | Torrey, were caught under a falling 1 and killed Killed by Lightning. Benjamin Heller, eight years old, obliged to | and Discomfort—Steeple of Church Blown Into Madison Killed by the Storm in Mich- igan—Severe Gale at Chicago—Cold Wave Following right destroyed four factories and sev- eral school * buildings and wrecked many small structures here. Tcledo, 0., April T.—Many men w thrown out of work, thousands of dol lars of damage done and many pers slightly injured by a hurricane t sited Toledo and its vieinity todu The wind attained a velocity of six: nine miles an hour in this city. Ti roof of the Massillon Bridge compan 180x40 feet, was ripped off and h into a tleld and 300 men will be out | #n ployment unti] the damage can b repaired. Pedestrians were injured by falling signs, parts of roofs, chimneys, limbs of trees and many women were thrown down by the wind. COLD WAVE FOLLOWS STORMS. ial Warning of Frosts Which Will Reach Gulf State: Washington, April 7.—Warning of a cold wave, with frost, that is expected to reach down Into the Gulf states, was given today In a special forecast insued by Willis L. Moore, chief of the weath- | er bureau. The forecast Indicates ror - | paratively cool weather for several days In the eastern half of the United States, “with frost in the middle and r ‘Mississipp! and Ohlo valleys ana lake region, and thence over the | miadle Atlantic states and New ®ng- | 1and_states.” “Frost” ndds the forecast, “is-Wkely to occur also in the Imterior of the | Guif and South Atlantic states.” Spe ‘3‘5.000 FIRE IN NEW YORK, | EL RAILWAY REPAIR SHOPS, | Three Alarms Sent In — Warehouses and Apartments Threatened. | New York, April 7—The high winds | here tonight' are blamed for a $125,000 fire which destroyed the repair shop of the Second Avenue elevated raliway at the corner of Second avenue and One ndred and _Twenty-eighth street, e to the Harlem river. A large sign which hung at the east end of the bop was blown down shortly before 10 o'clock this evening and in falll dislodged several electric wires, one of which dropped intg & barrel of oki. Tn- stantly there was an explosion which blew a section of the roof off the build- ing, and a moment later the end of the | stricture was A mass of flames. | Fanned by the wind, the blase | culckly swept across the elevateq rall- structure and threatened to road lam‘vnd to the warehouses and apart- ment buildings near by. Three alarms were turned in, calling ont a Inrge farce of firemen and three fireboats. which threw streams from the river front as far into the burning buflding ms they could reach, After an hour's fight the firemen cceeded in confining che blaze to the pair shop. Several cars were badly maged and trafic over the Second avenue lines was at & standstill for aboat three hours. THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. sses of People on Our Modern Da Just Two Clai Streets The: Springfield, Mass . Ladd of Sturbridge, past the state grange addressing a west- ern Massachusetts grange rally in this city “today on the subject of good roads, said relative to the dangers of the automobile tha “In these modern | days there are just two classes of people on our streets, the quick and the dead—and unless you are mighty quick you are pretty sure to be dead.” PERSIA HELD RESPONSIBLE. Notified That She Must Protect Ameri~ can Citizens in That Country. Washington, April 7.-The Persian government has been notified by the state deuartment that the TUnited States will hold Persia_responsible for the protection of American citizens at Tabriz and other places in Persia, where disorder exists. There are many an_missfonaries and teachors In This notice was sent through the American diplomatic representa- tives at Teheran. sIX IC,E HOUSES BURNED. 400,000 Tons of the Maine Product Destroyed. Bast Waterboro, Me., April 7.— 1y 400,000 tons of ice, stored in six ice houses along the Bartiett river, were destroyed by a fire tonight, which practically cleaned out th plant own- ed by the E, W. Clark Tce company. The damage estimated at $30,000, The fire is believed to have been in- cendiary ' | Brother and Sister Killed by Falling | Tree. Plattsburg, N. Y. April Miss | a Bldred, aged 23, and her brother, | Warren Eildred, aged 18, were killed ate today by the falling of a tree a mile north of this city. They were ving to thelr home in Chasy when & violent gust of wind snapped a large tree, toppling it on top of them and killing them instantl Widow Outraged and Murdered. ¥ , Pa., April 7.—Mrs. Minnie M, Young, widay of Henry D. Young, who ived with her son, Delmar J. Young, was outraged and murdered tonight, Her son found her body hidden beneath a pile of old carpet in the nellar of his house. BEdward nger, wao been seen near the hous sted on suspicion | | Balloon Trials Ended Disastrously 8 o, Italy L balloon Ttalia’é tris astrously. After munoeuvring for some time at a helght of 1.200 feet, the sn | gine broke down and the bailoon de- | scended precipitately. It was badly |1I'ULRR\\| but the aeronauts were not | hurt Three Men Killed by Nitro-Glycerine. Huntington. . Va., April Thres men were killed when one hundred quarts of nulro-‘lyc!rlna exnloded In the construction camp of Boxley & Carpenter at Blue Sulphur thie even. ing. A hm‘ blast In nllu structien set off the OUGH BUFFALC 2L ey