Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 8, 1909, Page 1

VOL. GLADIATORS ON FLO Mmfly on Their Feetz, Many Sharp Conflicts Between Them . MESSRS. ALDRICH AND BEVERIDGE. Chamber a Mental Arena Over the Cotton Schedqie Two Votes Reached,One on Window Hollands, the Other on Process of Mercerization—Some of the Re- publicans Charged with A ¥ on, June T.—The senate ehiabor Swas’ tranmtormed. today. fhto a mental arena, and Senator Aldrich, leading thu conservatives, and Sena- tor Beveridge, heading the *progres- sives,” were the chief gladiators. Both of these senators wers frequently on their feet, and there were many sharp conficts een them. A Sehator Aldrich's Hopes Dnh;:. The session having begun with & vote on the recommendation of his committee for a duty of three cents square yard and twenty per cent. ad valorem on the fabric known as window hollands, Senator Aldrich was apparently somewhat encouragéd over the prospect _of making decided headway with the cotton schedule. His hopes, however, = fl{mmedt:o clr‘l,v ai intment, for. only a few mo- mente afterwards Mr. Beveridge took the floor, and before he finished had opened such a gap that the Rhode Is- Jand senator himself could not resist the opportunity to eater it. Mr. Bev- eridge hawing said that he was in- clined to support the recommend: tions of the finance commission, the admission led the chairman of the committee to say that he had not shown such inclination by his vote. The Indiana senator retorted, as- serting his right to follow .his con- science, rather than the leadership of any individual. Rhode Islander Never Favored Pro- hibitive Policy. From that time forward the two senators were engaged in joint de- bate much of the time during the day. Mr. Aldrich contended that while pro- hibitive tariffs were justified he had never favored a prohibitive policy. He predicted that in time the south would become the greatest manufacturer of the finer eg of cotton goods. An- swering this assertion, Senator Bacon declared that if even such should prove to be the case, he would not favor an Increase in the customs du- ti He believed that natural condi- tions in Georgia or the other southern states would prowe the best protection for the manufacturers. The Second Vote. About the middle of the afternoon the senate reached its second vote, which was on_a proposal by Senator Dolliver to strike out the committee's provision fixing a duty of one per cent. & square yard for the process of mer- cerization. The amemdment was lost Being Democrats. by the unusually close vote of 82 to 38. The narrowing of the margin was Que, however, to the absence of sena- tors rather than to the conversion of the “progressives” to the Aldrich standard. Attitude of Some Republicans Chal- lenged. It was after this vote that Senator Aldrich found occasion to again chal- lenge the attitude of some of the re- publican senators who are contending for lower duties, He charged them with playing the ‘part of “brigadlers’ for the democrats, and, €peaking of Senator Beveridge, declared that he had associated with the democrats so long that he was adopting their ideas. He characterizeq Mr. Beveridge as the leader of the opposition. Both Senators Beveridge and Cum- mins replied. The former said that he was simply standing on the republi- can platform and the latter said, that he had been so often charged with being a democrat that the charge did not worry him. Senator Bailey found cause for congratulation in the situa- tion because, as he said, he believed it would inure to the advantage of the democrats, Position of Secretary MacVeagh At- tacked. * During the day Senator Smith of Michigan found occasion to attack the position of Secretary MacVeagh as the mouthpiece of the administration an tariff situation. He intimated thuM not consider the second member oF the president’s cabinet a reliable leader on - this subject, be- cause of his former democratic pro- clivities, \ Progressive Refublicans Gain Conoes- sion. Later in the day the progressive re- publicans gained a concession from the finance committee in the removal of rubber goods from the cotton sched- ule, which will preclude the fmposition of & duty on such goods because of the cotton in them. t Dingley Rates Restored on Hosiery. The cotton schedule was completed at tonight's session of the senate, which lasted until 10.08 o'clogk. The. Dingley rates were restored on hosiery making g reduction of about twenty cents a dozen pairs from the rates in the house bill The woolen schedule will be taken up tomorrow. PORTO RICAN BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE of Without Amendment—Provisions the Bill—Adjourned to Thursday. ‘Washington, June T.—The house of representatives today passed the Por- to Rican bill without amendment, The bill provides that whenever the legis- lature shall fail to make the necessary sppropriations for the ensuing fiscal SE2r " hose of the current year shall ibe_considered ag in force and effect. It ‘also provides that hereafter all reports of an official character shall be made direct to an executive de- partment of the government of the United States to be designated by the esident and such department is au- rized to take jurisdiction of all matters pertaining to the island pos session. The house adjourned until Thursday. EXPELLED FROM HAYTIL Revolutionists Not Refuge There. Cape Haytian, June 7.—The Domini- can revolutlonists, who last week were driven over the frontier to Haptian territory, have been expelled by the Haytlan' government, and_ will leave here on June 14 for St Thomas. Speaking of his experiences today, General Camacho, the leader of the pdrty, said: “I was able in two days to get MIEtheLIZM men. In several encounters we ‘were successful against the government forces, but as soon as the men learned-that the movement was in favor of Vasquez—they had thought they were fighting for Jimi- riez—I was betrayed, and weehad to flee.” ADANA MASSACRE ARRESTS, 445 Moslems and 117 Others Held for Outbreaks of Last April. Constantinople, June 7.—An official telegram, received here today from Adana, Asfatic Turkey, says that 445 Moslemns and 117 non-Moslems have been arrested there in conmection with the rioting and massacres of April. Dominican Al- lowed to Ha fe Insurance Co. Officers Re- elected. New York, June 7.—At the annual election for the board of trustees of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, held today, William H. Portep, president of the Chemical National bank, was elected to succeed Charles D. Dickey, regigned. The other trus- tees whose terms were expiring were re-elected for terms of twe years. Club Attempts Mutual Member of Lamb's Suicide. Middletown, N. Y., June 7.—Clement Hopkins, formerly stage manager for Blariche' Walsh and a_member of the Lamb's club of New York, attemptel suicide tonight at_his country home in Montgemery, N. Y., while temporari- 1y deranged. He stabbed himself in the breast, penetrulnf his l\mf. The wound will probably prove fatal. Hop- kins had been ill for several weeks. Tragedy In a Department Stor, Springfield, Mo, June 7.—Suspecting his_wife had_made an appointment with Robert Sellers, a young business man, Walter W, Eddington today fol- hmrb‘:n: i coup'i“w:.\‘;:e' s ‘when e e Ing Lo- gether, m-two"mu into Sellers’ head. Sellers probably will dle. Ed- dingfon surrendered. = The shooting caused a Efie in the store. New York Cotton Exchange Officers. New York, 7.—George Br k & iy Mo e o g viee president, and James . [treasurer at the annual eleotior ‘New York ‘cotton exchange to- e R T i BRIG. GEN. FUNSTON IN PISTOL FIGHT WITH BURGLAR. Old Soldier in Bed Saw Man Step from Closet. Leavenworth, Kas., June 7.—Briga- dler General Frederick Funston, com- mandant of the army service schools at Fort Leavenworth, engaged in a.re- volver fight with a supposed burglar in his quarters at the post early today. The man escaped and General Funston was_unharmed. General Funston had gone to bed late. He lay awake in Dbed for an hour. Then a closet door opened and a man stepped forth. The general saw him and reached under his pillow for a revolver.” The intruder saw the motion and fired. The bullet plerced the mattress near the weneral, who leaped to his feet. He turned on the lights and fireq three shots as the man fled. “I believe he was a burglar,” said General Funston, “waiting untll I was asleep to rifie my pockets.” . VEILLETTE NOT A SUICIDE. 8. Medical Examiner H. Fuller of Hartford Changes Mind, Meriden, Conn., June 7.—The offi- cial statement made by Medical Ex- aminer H. §. Fuller of Hartford that Henry F. Veilette of this city commit- ted suiclde at the home of his flancee in Hartford Saturday, is retracted in a statement secured from Mr. Fuller by Veilette's father this evening. Mr. Veilette, Rev. A. Van Oppen and many other local people who knew the young man, were of the belief that there was a reasonable doubt that his death was @ self-inflicted one, so Mr. Veilette went to Hartford and Dr. Fuller changed his mind and was inclined to believe that the young man died of blood poisoning. The statement he signed wiich is now held by the father of the déceased and reads as follows: “Hartford, Conn., June 7, 1909. “To Whom It May Concern: “This 18 to certify that I have no possible proof that Henry Veilette came to his death by suicide or that he had any such intent. ‘H. S. FULLER. edical Examiner,” TORPEDO BOAT AGROUND. Winslow Fast in the Mud of Morehead City Harbor. Morehead City, N. C., June 7.—While on her way to sea from Beaufort, where she was towed when disabled yesterday, the torpedo poat Winslow, with the Massachusetts haval reserves aboard, ran aground in the harbor here today. The little boat I8 stuck so fast that all efforts to get her oft have so far proved unsuccessful. The Widely Known Insurance Manager Dead. Boston, June 7.—Charles W. Kellodg, eastern manager of the Firemen's Fund . Insurance —company of San Francisco, and widely known through- out the insugance world of the coun- try, is dead” at his home in Brook- line. Previous to his connection with the San Francisco company, Mr. Kel- logg was identifleq with several other large insurance companies in Phil, delphia and Hartford. He was seven. ty years old and leaves four sons. Gould Diverce Case Delayed. New York, June 7.—Thé suit for a separation 'brought by . Katherine Clemmons Gould against her husband, Howard Gould, was called fer trial in the supreme court today, but a hear- ing thereon was postpened until Wed- nesday. 3 Capital Steck Increased. Boston, June 7.-The capital stock of the Shannon Mining eompany was increased from $3,080,000 to §$3,200,000 today by & vote of stoskholders. t ” B OR OF SENATE| Covet s nwnce.’#t'gfi has secured Rostand’s *“Chantic] r America, Berlin, June 7.—A Soloniki des h to the Frankfurter Zeit: Says t a 1ight lasting eleven hours has occurred on the Bulgo-Turkish frontier between Bulgarian and Turkish frontier guards. The casualties are not known, Madrid, June T.—Henry C. Ide, the new . American_minister "to Spain in succession to William M. Collier, ar- rived here today by automobile from Paris. The date for the presentation of - hiaf credentials (has not” vet Dean fixe | London, June 7.—E. H. Harriman ar- rived here today from.New York on his way to Paris. He said he had had a good trip across the Atlantic, ex- cepting for a few days of seasickness, angd that he was in better health than a year ago. Honolulu, June 7.—It is rumored that the striking Japanese on the Ewa, Wailue and Kahukuku sugar planta- tions voted yesterday to return to work today at the old scale. At the Bwd plantation 90 out of 1,500"strikers voted to continue the strike, the others f voring surrender. London, June 7.—The May statement of the board of trade shows an in- crease of $2,963,500 in imports and a decrease of $7,705,500 In exports. The principal increase in imports was in cottdn, and the exports decrease was in manufactured goo Zurich, June 7.—An automobile in which Mr. and Mrs. Bager of New York and two others were traveling over the road from Schwamendingen to Zurich fell over an embankment today and was _completely “demolished. Mrs. ‘Bager suffered injuries to the spine and a fractured clavicle and was re- moved to a hospital. The others es- caped with slight injuries. BOOM TIMES COMING IN IRON AND STEEL PLANTS. Will Be Here in_lts Fullness by Octo- ber Pittsburg, June 7.—From a canvas made today of the principal iron and steel manufacturers it is apparent that a wave of prosperity, equal to any experienced in this country, is about to take place. The recent stagnation in the iron aitd steel pusiness is described as the “little industrial rest” From a major- ity of the interviews secured here to- day the fear is expressed that wants in the iron and steel business will re- turn with such a rush as to cause con- gestion. The stcel and plate department of the National Tube company's works at Wheeling, W. Va, will begin op- erations tomorrow morning, double turn, giving employment to 4,500 men Tho have been idle since November, 07. Announcement was made today of the following orders: 165,000 tons steel rails, 2,000 freight ears, 500 steel pas- senger cars and 100 locomotives. It is also said that before long something may. be done to restore the price of steel produets. According to steel manufacturers of Pittsburg, boom times will be here in their fullness by October 1. BERMUDA PILOT BOAT WATCHING FOR THE RACERS. Leader of Motor Boats Should Arrive at Noon Today, the First of the Yachts at Sunset. Hamilton, Bermuda, June 7.—The storm of yesterday passed o this morning and the weather is now fair, with a light breeze and a moderate swell. The' pilot boat Guard will take up her position at daybreak tomorrow, two miles off St. David's Head, as the mark boat at the finish line for the sailing yacits ang motor boats which left Gravesend bay Saturday afternoon and are far along on the journey to Bermuda. Two representatives of the achting committee will take the time of the finish from St. David's light- house. The motor boats will be inspected at either Hamilton or St. George's, ac- cording to the port they elect to enter. The prospects are favorable for the arrival of the leader of the motor boats by noon tomorrow ang the leader of the yachts by. sunset. BROORLYN NAVY YARD -~ RESTAURANT DEDICATED Befors an Audience of 2000 Workmen and Their Fam New York, June 7.—The restaurant given the government employes of the Brooklyn navy yard by the New York and New Jersey section of the N tional Civic Federation, of which Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J. P. Mor- gan, is chairman, was dedicated to- night before an audience of 2,000 workingmen and their families and a sprinkling of other guests. Capt, J. B, Murdock, the new com- mandant of the navy yard, and Rear Admiral C. F. Goodrich, retired, the former commandant, testified to the appreciation of the government. * Miss Morgan and John Mitchell, the labor leader, who is also vice president of the Civic Federation, urged the men to make the most of the restaurant, as its “success would encourage similar ventures in other government estab- lishments. ARRIVED AT ROME To Partiéipate in Golden Jul the Amorican College. e of Rome, June 7.—Monsignor Falconio, the apostolic delegate at Washington; Monsignor Farley, archbishop of New York; Bishop McDonnell of Brooklyn, vishop Hoban of Scranton, Bishop M. J. Burke of St. Joseph, Bishop Keiley of Savannah, and the Rt. Rev. O. B. Cerrigan, auxiliary bishop of Balti- more, together with more than fifty alumni, including other prominent American prelates, have arrived to participate in the festivities in connec- tion with the golden jubilee of the American college at Rome. Tomorrow sqlemn pontificial mass for the deceased founders, benelactors and alumni of the college will be cele- brated by Archbishop Farley. Bishop Burke will preach the sermon. United Confederate Veterans' Reunion, Memphis, June 7.—With the stars and bars and the Star Spangled Ban- ner flapping in the soft breeze, and with the streets filled with thousands of visitors, the United . Confederate Veterans’ reunion began today.. The real business of the reunion will be- in tomorrow. ! Hebron.—Edgar J. Doolittle, ex- mayor of Meriden, Mr. and Mrs. Hen- ry A. Dodlittle of Newark, N. J., and Miss Jane E. Doolittle of Wallingford, were in town ope day this week at Porter's hotel, all with the exception of Mrs. Doolittle, being children of the Rev.’ Edgar Doolittle, who was the pastor of the Cengregational church here years -xf: Each gave §5, to the Uorary. mut departed at 9.80 o'clock and AND TO YIELD UP HIS ORDINA- TION PAPERS, As an “Undesirable Member of Baptist Denomination”—His Book, “The Function of Raugi-n,'?mmi{u. ‘Chlcuo, June 7.—Prof; George B, er of the University of Chicazo, whose writings, denounced by some “as & bitter indictment of the Chirstian re- ligion before the bar of skepticism,” have harrowed the clergy of Chicago, was called upon today at'a meeting Baptist preachers of Chicago by Rev. Johnstone Myers, pastor of Immanuel Baptist church, to withdraw from the Baptist ministry and to yield up his ordination papers. The fire of criticism was directed chiefly at Professor Fos- ter’s. recent book, “The Function of Religion. Case Postponed a Week. This motion, was put before several of 250th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Founding of Norwich, July 5th and 6th -~ Are Homeless b ONE $300,000 FIRE AT PRESQUE ISLE e Wind- Carried Blazing Embers Quarter _of Mile—Railroad Station, Church and Masonic Hall in Ruins. Presque Isle, Me., June 7.—Fire swept one-quarter of this village to- night, burning one hundred dwelling Nouses, ten potato storehouses, the C: nadian Pacific railway. station, the Congregational church and Masonic hall. The aggregate loss is estimated at $300,000. The residences burned in- cluded some of the best in the vil- lage, although were of the poorer sort. Upwards of a thousand people are homeless. High Wind Prevailed. A high wind which prevailed all day is responsible largely for the fire. It carried blazing embers a distance of a quarter of a mile in many cases and the hundred preachers and laymen, gath- ered at the conference of the Baptist executive council, and only the objec- tion of one may, Prof. A. K. Parker, who, like Professor Foster, is an in- structor at the University of Chicago, prevented the eviction of the author of “The Function of Religion.” Pro- fesgor Parker prevented action by call- ing attention to a constitutional pro- vision preventing action without a week's deliberation. The case accord- ingly was postponed until June 14. “T want to_say mow that I'll be here next Monday to present the same mo- tion,” sald Dr. Myers. Effort to Eject Him_from Councils. It was after Professor Foster had been characterized as “an undesirable Baptist” apd as a teacher who woul dethrone the church and defy evolu tion that the effort to eject him from the councils of the denomination was made. After the meeting Professor Parker said that whatever action might be taken by the preachers would not affect Professor Foster's relations with the University of Chicago. “This conference has nothing to do with the ‘university,” he said. ~“Two- thirds of the unmiversity's trustees are Baptist laymen, but they could not vote to expel a member of the faculty with- out moral grounds.” MOLLIE RIDGE STRIPPED, TARRED AND FEATHERED, Then Thrown fato Pike Run—Man With Her Stripped and Flogged—Had Been Warned to Leave Town. Pittsburg, Pa., June 7.—Having been forcibly taken from a house in West Pike township near here early today by fifteen men_ Mollie Ridze was stripped of clothing, covered with tar and feathers and thrown into Pike Run, while H. O. Wright, found in the home of the yoman, was also stripped, beaten and thrown into the same stream, Today Wright and the woman ap- peareq before Justice of the Peace Mc- Kean at California, Pa., and made in- formation against J. F. Charles and Clifford Wright, brothers of the male victim, and Playford Wright, e cousin, The charge is aggravated assault and battery and maliclous mischief. War- rants were issued, but late tonight no arrests had been made. It is said the woman had been warned to leave the neighborhood a number of times and when she refused the drastic action of today resulted. Pittsburg, June 7.—At midnight five persons were arrested in connection with the tarring and feathering of Mollie Ridge and beating of H. O. Wright. All were held in $3,000 bail for a hearing ‘tomorrow before Justice McKean. SHRINERS AT LOUISVILLE. Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting—Grand Pageant Tonight. Louisville, Ky., June 7—Many Shrin- ers arrived today for the 35th annual meeting of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Thousands of persons in some ¢ affiliated with the order arrived from all parts of the cotntry and filled the streets and hotels with music and shouts. A portion of but one patrol, Syria of Cincinnati, is not yet on the scene, and wil] arrive in the morning in prep- aration for the grand pageant of to- morrow night, Today the nobles acquainted them- selves with one another and exchang- ed compliments on the beauty of their badges and equipment. An excursion up the Ohio river, drills by the boys and girls of the Masonic widows and orphans’ home and, other entertain- ments filled out the day. New Orleans and Toiedo seem alone in the field for the 1910 convention, while Rochester with an Invitation for 1811 has antedated all competitor's, Narragansett Pier anti-Gambling Ele- ment Win in Close Election. Narragansett Pier, R. L, June 7. The antl-gambling ‘element in this town won a close election here today, electing its entire ticket. It is ex- pected that sweeping action against the gambling in this town will be forthcoming soon. Telephone Operator Scalped by Elec- tric Fan Blades. New York, June 7.—Mary McNama- ra, a telephone opestor in the Jersey City offices of Swift & Co., the pack- ers, caught her pompadour today in the whirling blades of an electric fan, and was almost completely scalped. American Federation of Labor President Dead. Denver, June Max Morrls, 45 years old, fourth vice president of the American Federation of Labor, is dead at St. Joseph's ~hospital. He was a member of the lower house of the Cul- orado legislature for three terms. Vice Auto Coast to Coast Race. St. Louls, Mo, June ' 7.—The two Ford automobiles, the Shawmut and the Aome, which' are entered in the to coast race. left tonight for s City. The Fords and Shaw- the p m. - The Italia’ is coast Kan Acme at 10.05 die at 11 p. m. s the. conspiracy to wipe out the new fires started after the -first was well under way. Several Persons Hurt. * Several pefsons were reported in- jured in various ways during the fire, but there were no fatalities. Miss Ethel Scott was hurt'in an automo- bile collision while assisting the fire sufferers. She was thrown from her machine and badly cut and bruised. Area of Half Square Mile Burned. The burned section covers an area of half a square mile, including North ain_ street, Allen street, Third street, Blake street and South street to Main street, Insurance $150,000. The financial loss may exceed $300,- 000, but that figure is regarded as a reasonable estimate. The insurance Will not_exceed $150,000. KENTUCKY FEUD LEADER SHOT FROM AMBUSH Former Sheriff Callahan Not Expected to Live Through the Night. Jackson, Ky., June 7.—Reports re- ceived today from Crocketsville, the home of former Sheriff Callahan, are io the effect that the feud leader, who was shot from ambush early today, cannot survive until morning. Later developments regarding the shooting are that at least two assas- sins and probably more were cneaged lahan party. At/ the same Bifie the elder Callahan was fired on, another party attacked his son, Wilson Calla- han, who had gone to a barn about dayiight. The son was returning tq the house when a bullet fired by the unseen en- emy ploughed its way through his hair ard carried his hat twenty feet away. Stooping behind a. paling, he made a successful run for the house, while palings behind and in front of him- were splintered by bullets. The assassing were shooting from ambush in the woods two hundred yards away. He was unable to go to his father and the wife of the former sheriff went to her wounded husband’s assistance, SAN ANTONJO POLICEMAN DISARMED IN FIGHT With a_ Party at Railroad Station— Officer Later Resigned. San Antonio, Tex. June 3 Bennett, an attorney and brother- law of B. F. Yoakum, president of the Rock Island and Frisco railroad lines S Rush, a lawyer, and Charles Creeson,’ assistant United States ! trict attorney, were held justified today when arraigned in police court in dis- arming Eugene Wahrmund, a- police- man, at a railroad station last night, according to statements made in court today. Bennett and a party of friends had accompanied to the station Miss Bessle Yoakum, who was going to join her father in New York. Mr. Bennett was ordered to move his automobile anji his inability to do so resulted in an altercation with the policeman. In the melee, it is said. the officer's club was brought into play. He was finally disarmed. . Policeman Wahrmund re- signed toda; DETROIT BROKER A SUICIDE. Worried Over His Account With Fai Firm of Ennis & Sto~pani. Detroit, June 7.—After the suicide to- day in his home here of Adams M. Holden, of the brokerage house of Fred . Osborne & company, F, S. Osborne, its active head, told the Associated Press &his’ evening that the firm would suspend temporarily. “I cannot tell how I stand. T am going to suspend temporarily,” Mr. Osborne declared, He declined to’ say anything furthe Involved indirectly in both the sui cide of Mr. Holden, who came here a number of vears ago from Frankfort (IIL), and the @ecision of Mr. Osborne to suspend, is the failure last April in New York of Ennis & Stoppani, large brokerage house, whose affairs are now in process of liquidation there. F. S. Osborne & company carried a large Laccoum with Ennis & stoppani, and Mr. Osborne says that the fallure of that firm shook up the local house con- siderably. Mr, Holden is sald by members of his family to have worried about this account and to have been despondent. His sulcide today, however, was total- ly unexpected. Early this morning, he talked over the telephone with Mr. Os- borne and agreed to meet him at the office at 8.30 o'clock. Shortly after- wards Mr. Holden, fully dressed, went to his room, and shot himself through the mouth. 'Mr. Osborne declares that there was nothing in their telephone conversation to upset Mr. Holden and that he gave no indication then of, acute despondency. , Ablaze With Forest Fires. Toronto, June 7.—A special from St. John, N. B, says the ceatral portion of the provihce I8 fairly ablaze with forest fires. Many thousands o of valuable timber lands ha swept clean. Nothing but heav can avert wide destruction. damaged the hardware F. Avery & Sons’ plow factory $75.- 060, The operation- of the plant will ROt be interfered with, 'DWELLING an alliance opened its convention at the greater numberjrécord number of hs “Cordensed Telogranis | Admiral Uri Visited Niagara Falls as the guest of Wallace Nesbit. Australia Has Formally Offered to present a Dreadnought to England. \ The New York State German-Ameri- utfalo. Nine More Cases of Cholera were re- ported in St. Petersburg and a serious epidemic is feared. Papers Are Being lssued in Curacao permitting Dutch steamers to enter Venezyelan fports. Walter Wellman Expects to Leave Spitzbergen in his balloon for the North Pole on Aug. 1 The Council of the Empire in Russi has restored the appropriation for the navy which was rejected by the douma. The Countess of Aberdeen arrived from England and made two public ap- peals at New York for aid in the fight against tuberculosis. Police of the West One Hundredth street station, New York, arrested a odlums in the Broadway subway trains. A Number of Deacons Took Orders and ten were raised to priesthood by Bishop Greer In the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York. The Peruvian Government has can- celleg the exequatur of the Swedish consul general, at whose house insur- gents took refuge on May 2 Mrs. John Glaesser of St. Louis turned on the gas and killed herself and two children when her husband was arrested on a charge of embezzling’ $275. Mail Advices from Syria sa- that great destitution continues, refugees feaning to leave the towns, owing to the alleged treachery of the Turkish troops. MAYOR M'CLELLAN QUESTIONS YOUNG DUFFY. “Mugged” Brooklyn Boy Who Got Po- lice Commissioner Bingham Into Trouble. . New York, June 7.—George B. Duff; the Brooklyn youth over, whose arre: and photographing for the rogues™ gal- lery Justice Gaynor and Police Com- missioner Bingham are at odds, was questioned by Mayor MecClellan to in an effort to establish whether not any justification exists for pr serving in the police records the bo likeness, pedigree, measurements antecedents. The pastor of the church attended by Duffy, his father and mother, his employers, both ‘past and present, and a number of neighbors who have known or nd him al] his life, testified in «vw-ort of the claim advanced by Justice Gaynor that the boy was a victim of police persecution and that nothing in his character or conduct warranted the espionage to which he was being sub- Jected” by the police nor the retention of his photograph in the rogues’ gal- lery. He was represented as an honest boy, efficient in his work, steady in his religious observances and with an en- viable record as a life saver. The mayor was told that. Duffy refused a ! medal-efiered hizn by the Carneyie hero fund commission for saving two per- sons from @rowning. At the conclusion of the inquir; Mirabeau L. Tpwns, counsel for Duffy and for Justice'Gaynor, announced that an action for libel would be brought against the police commissioner. Mayor McClellan reserved decision ANNUAL MEETING MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Mrs. Mary Baker G, Eddy Not Able to | Attend—Officers Elected. Boston, June 7.—The board of di- rectors of the Mother church of Chris- tian Science late today elected Wil- liam P. McKenzie as president S phen A. Chase of Fall River, uwrer, and John V. Dittemore of Ne York: clerk, the laiter succeeding Wil- liam B. Johnson, who resigned. The following letter was from Mrs. Mary Baker G. Edd dressed to the hoard of directors “Beloved Students: I nk you for your kind invitation to be p nt at | the annual meeting of the Mother church on June 7, 1909. T will attend the meeting, but not in propria per- sona, Watch and pray that God di- rects your meetings and your lives, and your leader will the sure that they are blessed in their results “Lovingly yours, “MARY BAKER EDDY.” | Bookkeeper at Merchants National Bank, New Haven, Arrested. New Haven, Conn., June 7.—Freder ick H. Brigham of Wi Haven, bookkeeperaat the Merchants N al bank on State street, was arrested tonight, charged with the alleged em- bezzlement of $5,000. e officials of the bank, in going over the books, dis- covered several discrepancies and sent an officer to Brigham's home in West Haven and he was brought to the bank. On his being unable to satis factorily explain the entries in his books he was placed under arrest and is being held under $10,000 bonds. The officials of the bank refuse to make {a positive statement. but it is under- stood that the shortage will amount to at least $40,000. Brigham is forty-seven ye: married and has been in the e of the bank for 18 year: s old, iploy Eleven Bodies Ponchartrain. fandeville. La., June 7—Up t9 T o'clock tonight eleven bodies had been recovered from Lake Ponchartrain at the scene of yestérday's disastrous collapse of a small on which scores of excursionists had crowded to board the steamer Margaret to re- turn to New Orleans. As far as can be er persons are mi: Efforts to Obtain Freedom for Mrs. Helen Boyle. Pittsburg, June 7.—It Is said here night that William I. McDermott of hicago, brother of Mrs. Helen Boyle, now serving twenty-five years in the penitentiary for complicity in the ab- duction of Willle Whitla of Sharon, Pa., will arrive here tomorrow to de- cide on what course is the best to adopt in the effort to obtain freedom for his sister. B. and O. Strike Violence. Pittsburg, Juie 7.—For the first time sifice the inauguration of the Baltimore ang Ohio inachinisty' strike violence Wax experlenced at Newcastle, Pa., to- day. Two men who arrived at that place today from New York were be- lieved to be strike breakers and were set upon by strike sympathizers. Both men were taken to a hospital. Middletown. ~Thomas F. Drennan, of Mr. and Mrs. John Drennan, thood at the w FATAL FIRS Miss Lena Schoonmaker, 19 Years Old, bly Crushed in Flatiron Building ONE OF PARTY OF NEW YORK VISITORS Ten Girls, Chaperoned by a Daughter of Judge Alton B. Parker had Been Brought Down the Hudson to See the Sights of the Metropolis—Elevator Boy Held in $5,000 Bail for Inquest. New York, June 7.—On her first visit to New York ahd her first ride in an Miss Lena Schoonmaker, 19 years old, one of a partg of sightseers chaperoned by Mrs. Charles M. Hall, a daughter of Judge Alton B. Parker, was horribly crushed to death today, when her head was caught beneath the floor of the elevator and the sixth floor of the Flatiron building. Ten Girls on Sightseeing Trip. Mrs, Hall had taken a fancy to the girl, who was In her employ at King- ston. N. Y., and brought her down the Hudson today with nine other girls, to see the city. Mr. Hall, who is rector of Holy Cross Episcopal church in Kingston, met them here. Fell in Faint Near Car Door. Four of the girls with Mrs. Hall went shopping and visitcd a shoe store on the ecighth floor of the Flatiron building. When they started to descend in the elevator Lena gave a nervous little scream and fell forward in & faint, with her bead near the door of the car. The other girls, who had« been chaffing her for her fears, hent forward in solicitude, and the operator, who had seen a signal light burning on the sixth floor for a stop, as he dropped silently and swiftly down, thew over the controlling lever. The car stopped with a savage bounce and started up again, As it dig so the head of the prostrate girl rolled over the edge of the car, and before it could ba brought to a stop the protruding ledge of the sixth floor caught and crushed her skull, broke her neck and crushed in her chest. She died instantly. Elevator Boy Arrested. The elevator boy lowered ‘the car-to the ground floor, where a policeman was called and he was placed under arrest on a technical charge of homicide. Ar- raigned before the coroner, he was held in, $5,000 bail for the inquest. BALLOCN INDIANA BREAKS AMZRICAN ENDURANCE RECORD. That Is if She Is Not Disqualified for Touching Earth. Indianapolis, June 7 Indiana did not disqualify itself by touching carth, it broke the American endurance record which has stood for a year at 44 hours. Starting in_the national distance race of the Aero Club of Amerlca from Indianapolis, Satur- noon, two reports have i re- ceived from the Indiana. The first one was that it touched the earth in Ten- nessee, took on water and proceeded south. If this be true, the balloon is disqualificd under the rules of the In- ternational Aeronautic Federation. A second despatch, signed by the pilot, Carl Fisher, and the alde, G. L. Bum- baugh says that they dropped down near enough to earth to let down a line and draw up a bucket of water, thereafter rising for further travel Undef the latter conditions the Ind ana is not disqualified and has broke the endurance record. It is not possible, according to avai able information, that the Indjana broke the distance record of $52 miles, for it had not room enough, The last of the six balloons entered in the distanee race from which a def- inite_landing report was received Is the St. Louls TII, which dropped at Kelso, Tenn., having covered about 340 miles. A, B, Lambert was the pilot and H. ¥ Homeywell aife. The other balloons landed as follows, the appro> imate distances being given: The New York, A. Holland Forbes, pilot, landed rinth, Miss., covering 375 ‘miles 3 and 10 minutes, The University City, of St. Louls, traveled 340 miles, landing at Blaches, Tenn,; time, 25 hours 24 minutes. Thé Hoosier, Captain Baldwin pilot, travieded 240 miles, landing at Green- brier, Tenn. The Cleveland landed _at Columbus, Ind., 40 mile hours 55 minutes, TWELVE DANBURY HAT SHOPS OPEN ON THE OPEN SHOP PLAN. Relative to If the balloon Conferences Being Held Ten Others. Cann., June 7.—The con- the national officers, board of the United nd Rev. Fathers Kennedy and Meserve, relative to a local settlement of the hatters’ strike, was still in ses- sion at a late hour tongiht. Twelve of the twenty-two shops will open to- morrow on the open shop plan, and it is with reference td the other ten that the present conference js being held Danbury, ference betwen the executive Hatters These ten have agreed to open their factories on the open shop plan for ninety days, an attempt to be made in the interim to settle all trouble with their employes by arbitration. If the conference accepts the ninety days plan it will be placed before the local unions, who will then vote as to whether they will return to work or not. PATHICKTS COUNSEL MUST TELL. Jerome Says Lawyer Under Life Sen- tence Has No Other Chan New York, June 7.—District Attorney Jerome sald today that no governor would ever free Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Willlam Marsh Rice, unless Patrick permits his counsel at the time of his arrest to tell what Patrick told him about the case. Pagrick's_counsel was Magistrate Frederick House and he refused to ATLANTA BOY VICTIM 3 OF MIMIC HANGING. Almest Dead Result of Attempt to Re-enact Moving Picture Execution. Atlanta, Ga., June 7.—As the result of an attempt on the part of youthful playmates to re-enact a hanging scene witnessed in a moving picture whow, Gerard Willlams, & years old, lies at the point of death.' Gerard and his brother, two years older, were playing in their grandmother's yard with one of their little neighbors when the tempt to carry out the hanging vas made. Gerard, being the smallest, ' was selected as the subject, and, about his slender neck a leather strap was fastened. Climbing on top of a coal house, the strap was made fast to & Ihmb of & nearby tree and Gerard was “let down.” The playmates became frightened and ran toward the hou where they informed their grandmot of_what they had done. When taken down the dittle boy was blue in the face, every muscle was rigid and he was unconscious. After four physicians had worked with, him for two hours the littie fellow regained consciousness and it was announced that"he had an even chance for recove ery. 4 CLERK STOLE $35,000 Baltimore City Money Taken frem the Register’y Offige. Baltimore, Md., June T.—Willlam F. 'ns, a formdr clerk in the city reg- s office, was today placed on trial in_the criminal court here on three i indictments, charging larceny of city moneys. There are altogether thirty- flve indictments pending against Downs accusing him of having stolen $35,000. The total alleged defalcation was $67,000 Downs, who ls 23 years of age and married, was & $000 clerk in the regis- ter's bffice. He was khown as & b= eral spender, the owner of a race horse and the financlal backer of several pugllists. One of his duties at office was to deposit received there at various banks, and it is alleged that he abstracted money during a period of many months. 500 HURT IN CRACOW. Powder Explosion Caused by Lighying Wrecked Forty Houses, London, June 7.—A despatch re- ceived here from Cracow, in Austrian Poland, =ays that five hundred nersons were wounded by the explosion of an army powder magazine there Satur- day night. Three soldiers were killed, forty houses were wrecked and hun- dreds of other houses damaged, and many of the wounded are seriously hurt. The magazine, which near the railroad station. was struck by lightning and exploded. Several thousand pounds of powder “went off" and 1600 projectiles ware scattered among a big crowd of ~~ople who had assembled at the station awaiting train. The local hospltals are crowdes with the wounded. was situate SLAIN ON WAY TO COURT. Going to Be Tried for Murder, is Shet Dead in Corridor. &t Louls, June 7.—Frederick Mohrla, who killed Samuel Young in North St. Louls several weeks ago, was assas- sinated in the corridor of the criminal court buflding today by William Kane, state what Pdtrick told him at the time, on the ground that the communi- cation was privileged a former deupty under Young. The shooting occurred as Mohrle w being taken to court to stand trial for The district attornev’- comment to- the death of Young and is the culmi- day was made in view of the statement of J. T. Milliken, Patrick’s brother-in- law, that he could continue the fight to liberate Patrick from Sing Sing. EX-SECRETARY BACON Accepts the Ambassadorship to France —Declined at Fi Paris, June 7.—Private advices re- ceived here from Washington say that Robert Bacon, ex-secretary of state, has accepted the ambassadorship to France and that he will succeed Henry ‘White gt the eng of the year. Accord- ing to these advices, Mr. Bacon, when he was first offered the post. declined to accept it, preferring that Mr. White should be retained as ambassador, but, finding that President Taft had re- solved In_any event to replace Am- bassador White, he finally agreed to accept the position RABIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. pulitea aa Outbreak of the Di Many Se Harrisburg, Pa, June 7.—Not Iu yqars have re been $0 many cases rables as e been reported to phe stats livest safitary boar® Twen- ty-five bonmlh, and townships are under quarantine us a result of these reports. They are In all sections of the state. v Steamship Arrivals. At Glasgow: June 6, Caledonia, from N'A': 1‘:1° s June 7. Arabic, fr ver 5 une , from New Yok nation of a bitter political feud Mohrle had asserted ahortly after the Young shooting that the “gang” had threatened to “get him,” but fol- lowing the directions of the “gang” he refused to reveal the identit~ of th men who had threatened him, saying he could take care of himself. YALE STUDENTS FINED. Participat in a Disturbance on a Trolley Car, New Haven, June 7.—Four young men who participated in a_disturbance ' on a trolley car in West Haven early yesterday were fined $5 and $10 each, with costs, in the town court there (o~ day. They pleaded guilty under ficti= tious names and no evids was put . in. It was sald afterwards that two of 1 the defendants were academic sopho- mores at Yale and the other two wera ex-students who eame up from New York for Saturday's game. Neither the S defendants nor the trolleymen who were concerned showed any signs ot hard usage. n and a Half in Be- quests, Warwick, R. L, June stitutions and izations will receive $383,000 and viduals will get $1,015200 under the will of Mrs. Henry G. Russell of Prov~ idence, R, I, which was filed for bate here today. 1'pwards of inatitytions, all located In il benefit. Half of Mrs, ble library oes to Brown Nearly a Mi ublic ‘- piscopal church orgati- ndi-