Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 8, 1910, Page 1

VOL. LIL—NO. 7 o PRICE TWO CENTS PINCHOT DISMI SSED BY TAFT President Declared Yesterday that Patience Had Ceased to be a Virtue THE OUTCOME OF INSUBORDINATION President, Thoroughly Aroused, Would Listen ¢o no Ad- vica that Pinchot’s Violation of Executive Orders be Overlooked—The Admin Washington, Jan. 7—Gifford Pinchot chief forester and intimate friend of heodore Roosevelt was dismissed rom the service of the United States ‘onight by President Taft for insubor- nation. ~ Associate Forester Overton W. Price and Assistant Law Officer \lexander C. Shaw, Pinchot's immedi- | ate assistants in the forestry bureau, sHowed their chief out of the govern- t's employ. Dignity of Office Attacked. Thoroughly indignant over the ac- | tion of Mr. Pinchot in inducing Sen- tor Dolliver of Iowa to read a letter | rom him in the senate yesterd: President Taft tvould listen to no ad- today that the forester’s viola- “ion_of executive orders be overlooked nding the inquiry scon to be un- aken by congress. He declared the gnity of the office he was chosen by e people to fill was being attacked nd he would pe unfaithful to his trust. ubmitted longer. Practically a Defi. Tart realizes fully what the dis- missal of Fovester Pinchot means in a al way. He had been convinced for some time that the so-cailed in- s and other critics of his ad- n sted the services of and practically were de- to relieve Pinchot of his atter’s letter of vesterdav few | nere doubt, was written with the direct | purpose of “putting it souarely up to President Ready for the Battle. sought to avoid the as Jong as he could, t declared today that patience had cased to be a virtue. He picked up the gage of battle thrown down by Pinchot by the hand of Senator he senate, and with the supporters he is ready which is certain to en- sident Most Tense Situation in Years. cal observers in Washington | ae that the situation created ty‘ today's development is the most tense of many years. What the outcome will be no one is willing to prohpesy. Cannon Loses First Fight With In- surgents. h house of representitives to- aker Cannon lost his first fight the insurgents, combining with ats they forced the adop- mendment to the Ballin- rquiry resolution, taking | speaker the power to appoint se members of the joint special » of investigation. The mar- gin of victory was a marrow one of three ‘but the insurgents and are jubllant tonight. The dism's: of Pinchot has lent fuel to the flame of their celebration and they e venturing on all manner of pre- dictions as is to happen in the future. | hree republic not classed as rgents. but professing their friend- #hip for Pinchot, voted with the in- surgents and democrats for the amendment which calls for the selec- tion of the house investigators by electton from the floor. These two Incidents, at the capitol nd White house, kept Washington in & pelitical ferment, all day. Long Special Session of Cabinet. The cabinet was in special session practically during the entire afternoon, | after the regular session of the morn- ng. Secretary Ballinger, cognizant P the action that was to be taken, remained away from the afternoon sit- ting. It was at the end of this spe- cial session tonight that the presi- dent made public the letter he wrote fo Mr Pinchot notifying him that | } dis usefulness as a public servant un- der the pressnt administration was at mn end. | Secrstary Wilson One of Chief Ac- | cusers. Secretary of _Agriculture Wilson, Pinchot's immediate superior, it ap- pears, was one of the forester's chief eccusars. He told President Taft that lie advised Mr. Pinchot not to send %4he lstter to Semator Dolliver and that | Pinchot told him he had such a let- ter in mind, and “could induce Sen- | mior Dolliver to read it” on the very Aay that President Taft's special mes- wage transmitting the attorney gen- =ral’s exoneration of Secretary Ballin- Zer was to be presented to the sen- ate. 4 It was this aceount of Pinchot's ap- parently calculated insubordination ~which sroused the president to keenest Sesentment. President’s Own Statement of the Case. | Mr. Taft in his letter accuses Pin- | «hot of having takén his stand against Secretary Ballinger wholly upe the idence adduced by L. R. Glavis and thout regard for the evidence on > other side om flle In the interior | epartment. The letter directing Sec- | retary Willson to dismiss the forester sforthwith was carefully framed dur- | ing the afternoom sitting of the cabi- et and was revised several times be- fore being finally made public. It is | the president’'s ¢wn statement of m-‘ Case | PRESIDENT TAFT'S LETTER | democ: Te Forester Pinchot Det: | Causes for Hil | President Tatts letter to Forester | Pinchot informing him of his dismissal | The White House, | Washington, Jan. 7. 1910. | Sir: The secretary of asriculturs informs me that on the 28th of Decem- ber your associate forester. Mr. Price, went to him and propsed to resign on the ground that he-had been engaged with Mr. Shaw, assistant Jaw officer, in | instigating the pubMcation in various newspapers and maguzines attacking the good name of Secrstary Ballinger | and the interior department and land office with corruption. The mecretay wrote a mote to thereupon Fou. under date of Dec. 29th. asking for Your recom: n premises. You aia .o?'.‘.?.‘-# but on Jan. 4th 3o bad a comversation with him in which you said you wished to make a statzment which should be read in the senate at the same time that my mes- sage transmitting the record in the ‘Qiavis case reached there, and that you | Senator Dol nirodace s which is Certain to Follow—President’s Letter. | letter from the s proper appeal t | orainates. | over this matter in silence, it wo tration Ready for the Fight you. The secretary advised against such a course; but asked you for a Tecommendation as to accepting Price’s rasignation, in order that he might bring the matter to me, to whom, he told you, it must ultimately be- cause ' had considered the Glavis charges and had passed upon them. “Without further conference with the secretary,and before making a report to him, you succeeded in making pub- lic, by having It Tead in the senate, ou stating that you had sufficiently disciplined ' Messrs. Price and Shaw by reprimanding them and that vour recommendation would be that no further punishment was Te- | quired, and this ‘before that: recom- mendation was submitted to the sec- rotary and me, whose power end duty it was to determine, upon Price's ad- mission as to his complicity, what ac- tion should be taken with. respect to his resignation. “In order to understand the full pur- port of your letter in which you admit the complicity of Price and Shaw in the publications of the press, it should be said that the grayamen of the Gla- vis charges was that Secretary Ballin- ger and the others were all affected by a corrupt wish to patent thirty-three so-called Cunningham claims upon coal lands in Alske; that the question whether these claims were faudulent or not remained to be decided upon the evidence after both the United State: and the clatmants had been heard: that every patent as an executive act i3 completely within the Jjurisdiction of the president to direct the withholding of it in order that he himmelf may ex- amine the evidence as to the validity of the clatm. “These facts understood, the plain intimations in your letter are, first, that I had reached a wrong conclusion s to the good faith of Secretary Bal- linger and the officers of the land of- fice, although you and your subordi- natos had only seen the evidence of Glavis, the accuser, and had mever seen or read the evidence of those ac. cused or the records that they dis Closed which were submitted to me: and, second, that under these circum- stances, without the exploitation by Messrs. Shaw and Price, in the dally, M office, | Have aliowed certain fraudutent claims to be patented on coal Jands in Aluska, although the matter had been specifi- cally brought to the attention of the president by the Glavis charges. You solicited the opportunity to make such a declaration in congress for th pur— pose of offsetting, if possible, in the public mind. the president’s 'decision in the Glavis case, supported by the opinion of the attorney general, after a full exam#mtion by both, of the evi- dence adduced by the accuser, and the evidence on behalf of the accused, while the latter evidence you and your subordinates had nev.r seen. “You did this against the advice of of agriculture, without notifying him that you intended to do 50, and without conferring with me at Your letter was in effect an im- congress and the pub- lic to excuse in\ advance the gullt of your subordinates before I could act and against my decision in the Glavis case before the whole evidence on which that was based could be con- sidered. I should be glad to regard what has happened only as a personal reflection, all. | so that I could pass it over and take no official cognizance of it. But other and higher considerations must govern me. When the people of the United States elected me ident they placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of main- | taining that dignity and proper respoct for the office on the Moreover, rt of my sub- 1 were 1o pass be most demoralizing to the iscipline of the executive branch of the govern- ment. “By your own conduct you have de- stroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate of the government, and it therefore now becomes my duty to direct the secretary of agriculture to remove you from your office as the foreste: “Very sincerely yours, “WILLIAM H. TAFT. ifford Pinchot, ‘orester.” Hon, TAFT'S ORDER CARRIED OUT. ecretary Wilson Swift to Move—Per- emptory Dismissal Note. «~ Washington, Jan, 7—Secretary Wil- son was swift in carrying out the de- clsion of the president. He addressed to Gifford Pinchot, forester; Overton ‘W. Price. associated forester, and Al- bert C. Shaw, assistant law officer of the forestry bureau, letters substan- tially identical. That to Pinchot reads: “Sir—Py direction of the president, you are hereby removed from your of- fice as forester. You will deltver pos- session of your office affairs, belonging io the government, to Mr. Albert F. Potter, assistant forester, Respectfully, “JAMES WILSON, “Secretary of Agriculture.” Pinchot Has Nothing to Say at Present Mr. Pinochot received the letter of the president and Secretary Wilson's per- emptory note of dismissal tonight; but nothing in his demeanor indicated that he was surprised or distressed by eith- er. To an accompaniment of sounds of merriment floating from above tairs, where was & party of guests, Mr, Pinchot came d to meet the reporters, in evening smiling and undismayed. Asked if he would say anything for publication, he replied “It wiil suit me just as well if you will make for me just the simple state- ment: ‘1 have nothing to say. " Mr. Pinchot added he probably would say nothing tomorrow, but he would not say how long he would maintain his silence. The dismissal of the principal officers of the forest ser- vice will in no way defer or divert the congressional investigation. One of the subjects eagerly debated here to- night was the question whether the dimsissal will rob tne invest n of much of its public interest or will make it more sensatiohal than before. Friends of the administration hold the former view, and today urged it upon the president and cabinet officers as ar- sument again 3t the summary dismis- 5. ‘Cabled Paragraphs, Liverpool, Jan. 7.—The steamship ¢ompanies today agreed to an advance In west bound passenger Tates of at least 5 per cent. Cadiz, Spain, Jan. 7.—A hurricane today wrecked the village of La Linca, mear the Gibraltar boundary line in this province. Forty houses fell. Berne, Jan, 7.—The Marquis Cusani- Confalionerl. who for three years has held the post of Italian minister to Switzerland, has been notified of his Appointment as ambassador to the United States in succession to Baron Mayor des Planches. Rome, Jan. 7—No official action 100king ‘to the transfer of Ambassado- des Planches from Washington to Con stantinople is yet made known, but the transfer is” not unlikely. It has long been expected that the ambassa- dor's stay at Washington would be terminated early in the present year. Salgon, French Cochin China, Jan. 7.—Two hundred and fifty Chinese reg- ulars - who descrted, fleeing to Lao- kai, in the extreme north of French Indu China, refused to disarm and were only after a sanguinary en- The French Atlantic ‘wounded. fagoment on Wednesday. ost a captain killed and a numbert THE SECRET OF HIS POWER, SPEAKER CANNON A DESPOT Is Severely Arraigned by One of the Leading Insurgents. Washington, Jan. 7.—In advance sheets of Senator LaFollett’s publica- tion which reached Washington today, ‘Representative George W. Norris, of Nebraska, one of the leading republi- ‘can “insurgents” in the house, appears as the author of an article entitled “The Secret of His Power” in which e witterly arraisns Speaker Cannon despot. ‘Today, a8 far as the enactment of legislation is concerned” savs Mr. Norrls, “the house of representatives bears about the same relation to the national government as the appendix well recognized function. For all practical purposes our national gov- ernment, like Gaul of old, is divided into three parts: The senate, the president and the speaker. “That the speaker possesses a pow- er second qnly to the president, has Dbeen well understood by the people at large for eeveral years. That, by some mysterious power he controls the house of representatives as with a rod of iro: and at will moves its members like pawns about the political checker- b3 of national legislation, is known of all men. “The existence of this authority was leeg::ea by the country as a matter of t, and many people bdlieved that by some constitutional proyision Oor some enactment of statute he had been given the power that he had been exercising. Members of the house of representatives who first stood off in amazement amd wondered at the system of control, and then searched for the source of this power, soon discovered that the constitution and the statutes enacted thereunder had given to the speaker no authority whatever, but. that—ail the power he he obtained entirelv and ex- clusively from the rules of the house.” Mr. Norris recounts the efforts of the insurgents to change the rules, 2nd the fruitless results. In the opin- fion of the Nebraskan, the great pow- er of the speaker lies in his authority to select the committees of the house. $10,000 FOR THAW'S TRINKETS. Mementoes of Prisoner’s Boyhood Sold for Benefit of Creditors. Pittsburg, Jan. 7.—If Referee in Bankruptey Blair will allow, Alice Copley Thaw. sister of Harry Thaw, will_pay $10.000 for some cuff links, scarf pins, a cigar cutter and books said to have been Harry Thaw’s when he was a boy in Pittsburg. According to a petition of Roger O'Mara, acting as trustee of the es- tate of Thaw, requesting that Thaw's personal effects be sold for the ben fit of his creditors, this is the price offered by Miss Thaw for the trinkets of her brother. ‘The petition for the sale of Thaw personal property was filed yesterday. jonary Nelson Fears Another Box- er Uprising. Victoria, B. C., Jan. 7—Rev. J. D. Nelson, a missionary, arrived with his family from Lancho, Shensi province, China, by the steamer Shinmao Maru today. He said the general opinion in China is that another outbreak, proba- bly wore than the Boxer uprising, will occur. Mr. Nelson spent fifteen years in western China. He believes China is a slumbering volcano. Champagne and Wine Combine. Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 7.—An effort is being made by financiers in New York city, according to reports re- ceived here from the grape regions of western New York, to consolidate all of the champagne and wine making establishments in the United States. J. Pierpont Morgan, it is said, is at the head of the proposed combination. $100,000 Fire in Binghamton. Binghamton, N. Y., Jan, 7—Fire did $100,000 damaige to the contents of the Binghamton Cold Storage company in this city tonight. In the building were stored butter, eges, cheese, apples, furs and other articles. The loss on the buildieg will amount to $25,000. Steamship Arrivals. At Hambur Jan. 6, Grant, from New York. President New York. Saybrook—-Mr. and Mrs. James Wil- lams have closed their cotiage on Obeck Heights for the winter and have gone to Columbia. | hand, have for weeks been declaring that ‘the president “would not dare to dismiss Pinchot,” that it “would cause a breach betwecn Taft and Roosevelt,” and_ that it would cause such a split in the republican party as has not been &£een in years. Friends of the president said tonight however, that the actual dismissal of Pinchot could add noth- ing to the embarrassment of the ad- ministration, in asmuch as all the am- munition of Pinchot and his partisans had already been directed against Seo- retary Ballinger, and through him against the president. Situation Considered Exceedingly Seri- ous. As_for a possible breach between Mr. Taft and ex-President Roosevelt, that subject is much debated, but any discussion of it obviously is entirely speculative. On the subject of a split in the party, all republicans here re- gard the situation as exceedingly seri- ‘ous. ‘Party leaders in the senate and house declare that the controversy and the summary action of the president are sure to lead to many harsh words in gongress. and to much bitterness of feeling throughout the country. They say, however, that the president could not’ with dignity have taken any cther for! Friends of Pinchot, on the other! course. does to the human body—it has no | At Havre: Jan. 7, La Touraine, from | | | | | The Paper Board Assoc Warder's Dog Spoiled Plans SCENTED TWO PRISONERS WHO WERE HIDING. MURDERER PROF. KARL HAU And Another Life Convict Attempted to Escape from German Jail During Thursday Night. Stuttgart, Germany, Jan. 7—Karl Hau, formeér professor of Roman law in George Washington university, ‘Washington, who is under a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of his mother-in-law, Frau Melitor, in 1906, made a vain attempt to escape from the jail at Bruchsal, Baden, last night. A ‘warder's dog upset the pris— onbrs plan. Hau, with another conviet, during the evening exercise in the jail yard, slipped unnoticed into a storeroom. Execution of Americans lllegal RESENTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES JUSTIFIED. MESSACE FROM MADRIZ, President of Nicaragua. Received at State Department—This May Mean Criminal Procedure Against Zelaya. ‘Washington, Jan. 7. — President Madriz of Nicaragua in a message re- ceived at the state department today declares that the resentment shown by the government and people of the United States because of the execution of Groce and Cannon, American citi- zens, was justified. Zelaya’s Deed lllegal. President Madriz, the message fur- ther sets forth, after personal investi- gation of the circumstances under TRUE WORDS ARE G0OOD WORDS We are receiving evidences that The Bulletin is appréciated nearly eves day in the year. It has been so long a regular visitor in some families that they do not know how to do without it. A New Bedford reader refers to this paper as “the dear oldl Bulletin—the best paper in New England,” reader at Hartford writes, and this is what it seems to be to her. Another “Although some of the most prominent newspapers In the country are published in this city, T am reliably in- formed that in the Hartford Public Library there are more calls for the Norwich Bulletin than for any other newspaper on flle there” The Bulletin is a family paper and that is the reason that its advertising space proves to be a paying investment. and buyers and the results to advertisers is alw: Business men should send for readers of The Bulletin should now subscribe. at the door for 12 cents a week. Its patrons are both readers aygreatistactory. a rate card; those who are not e paper is left daily Following Is @ summary of the news printed in the past week: Bulletin Saturday, ‘Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Jan. Thursday. Jan. Friday, Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 1 3 4 5 6 7 Total, Tetegraph 68 48 83 69 106 102 676 toty 1064 443 404 653 451 425 3440 Locai 155 140 119 153 121 127 815 Generni 841 255 202 231 224 196 1949 When the exercise period was oyer and the convicts returned to their eells the absence of Hau &nd his companion es- caped the attention of the keepers. Meantime the two men had. got pos- session of a wire ladder which they fixed against the twenty foot wall sur- Tounding the prison and awaited a moment propitious for their escape. Two hours passed until about 3 o'clock in the morning, whem a werder passed the spot where they were hiding. With him was his dog. The animal, when it came abreast of the nook where the prisoners were- secreted, scented Hau and his partner and barked furiously. The watchman quickly _investigated the antics of the dog and found the deserters, whom he covered with his revolver ‘and returned to their cells. As @ result of their attempt to escape, Hau and his companion are now under ‘double guard. ANOTHER PAPER ASSOCIATION INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY on Comp: ed Prominent Manufacturers. New York, Jan. 7.—Another paper assoclation, formed by John H. Parks, who pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $4.090 for his conmection with the so- callbd fibre and manila pool, was in- dicted by the federal grand jury in New York today, charged with being an fllegal combination in restraint of trade, The federation is the Paper Board Association, comprising 140 prominent paper manufacturers who are indicted individually aside from the indictment returned against the assoclation as such. ' A fine or impris- ‘onment may pe imposed on conviction. “Today's Indictment is but one of many ramifications of the investiga- tion~ | the . government instituted against paper manufacturers. The con- viction of Parks brought about the dissolution of the Fibre and Manila association, whose members were fined 32,000 each and the action against ‘the Paper Board association is on similar lines. A third proceeding di- rected against news print paper man- ufacturers is mow before the grand Jury. Among the individuals named in the indictments are William Foulds, treas- urer, A. J. Straw, secretary, and W. E. Lydall, manager, Eastern Strawboard company; William C. Shaffner, secre- tary, New Haven Pulp and Board com— pany, and Andrew Tait, sécretary, Tait & Sons' Paper company, of Conhecti- cut. CLAIMED POWERS OF A SAINT. Elderly Man Believed He Could Restore His Daughter to Life. Newburg, N. Y., Jan. 7.—Confident that he could restore his _adopted daughter to life, Edwin Powell, an el- derly man. known here for his peculiar religious beliefs, delayed the burial of the girl, who died on New Year's day, until the authorities caused his arrest today for violating the health laws. Powell told his wife, when the girl succumbed to tuberculosis, that she need not worry, because he had the powers of a saint and before long she would be able to embrace her daughter again. He declined to call in an un- dertaker until compelled to do so today by _the health commissioner. Powell was discredited at Cornwall five years ago, when he announced that a Messiah would be born to his adopt- ed daughter. The child was born, but it turned out to be a girl. American to Instruct King of Siam in Farming. ‘Washington, Jan. 7.—Desiring _to learn something about ferming, the king of Siam turned to America for an instructor. That resulted in the ap- pointment of J. C. Barnett of Tallulah, La., who has just accepted the post of adviser to his majesty. Mr. Barnett will sail this week for Bangkok, mak— ing stops in Buropean and Asiatic countries en route to study methods and conditions. Arrived at the Siamese capital, he will immediately take up his duties as a sort of secretary of agriculture in the royal cabinet. The post is a very desirable one, the gal- ary beins 36,000 a vear. with ail ax. penses paid. |which g execution took place, de- ciared tne deed illegal. His Extradition May Be Demanded. This expression from: the president of Nicaragua may prove of great signifi- cance. ~ It is taken here to mean & possible demand upon Mexico, or upen some other country, If Zelaya should leave Mexico, for the extradition of the former president, by whose orders Groce and Cannon were__executed. There is a provision of the Nicaraguan constitution under which a president of that country may be prosecuted criminally for unlawful acts. Madriz's declaration of a belief that the exe— cution was illegal would seem, @c— cording to a view expressed here, to leave him no other recourse tham erim- inal procedure against Zelaya. Peace Terms Representative Drowned. Bluefields, Nicaragua, Jan. 7.—Gen- eral Pedro Andreas Fornos Diaz, who started out yesterday for Manasma. in order to treat with President Madriz, met with a tragic end last night on Greytown bar. The canoe in_which he was attempting to make a landi; was caught by & migantic wave am Dbroke amidships and Diaz disappearcd from view in the turbulent sea. COASTING ACCIDENT. Miss Ballard, Schoolteacher, Killed— Others Badly Hurt. New York, Jan. 7.—One girl was instantly killed, and two of her com- panions, a girl and a boy, were seri- ously injured in a coasting accident at White Plains tonight. The dead girl is Miss Mary Ballard, 19 years old, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., a schoolteacher in the Hillside school at White Plains. Mies Gladys E. Tabby, 20 years old, | of Niagara Falls, also & school teach- er, ‘was taken to the hospital suffer- ing from a possible fractured skull. Bdward C. Moran. who, with Robert Banks, was coasting with the girls, was badly cut and bruised. Walked Mile and a Half with Broken Neck. Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 7.—Feeling a Severe pain in his neck after falling off his wagon on his head, Henry Bel- cher, a teamster, walked a mile and a half today to the Cambridge relief hospital, where it was found his neck was broken. The doctors declared he could live but a short time. Body of D. O. Mills on Way to New York. San Francisco, Jan, funeral services at Milbrae the body .of D. O. Mills was placed in_a special train, which left for New York late today. The body was accompanied by Ogden Mills and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, son ‘and daughter of the deceased. New Haven Gets One of the New Post- office Sub-Agencies. ‘Washington, Jan. 7.—An order was signed today by Postmaster General Hitcheock establishing sub-agencies for the distribution of stamped en- velopes, newspaper wrappers apd pos- tal cards at a number of poStoffices. These postoffices inolude New Haven, Conn., and Providence, R. I . Mrs. Daniel O’'Mara Burned to Death. Utica, N. Y., Jan. 7.—Mrs. Daniel O'Mara, wife of a well-to-do mer- chant and undertaker in Florence, Oneida county, was burned to death ih a fire which destroyed their home and Mr. O'Mara’s general store today. A daughter, Miss Mollie, rescued her fa- ther, but both father and daughter are now seriously ill from the effeots of shock and exposure. The charred body of Mrs. O'Mara was taken from the ruins tonight. The origin of the fire is unknown. 2 Bob Sled Collided With Trolley Car. Newark, N. J., Jan. 7.—Three boye and a girl, out of & of ten, were badly injured tonight when a bob sled o wiieh they were coastingcollded with a trolley car. Walter Hateh, 11 years old, Fred Beck, 12, and Mildred Lynch 12 each had an arm broken, 7.—After brief | Condensed Telégmms President Taft Has Bought a fine strong saddle horse, The British Government has pledged | $100,000 ToF the Seort expedition (o the south pol Firc Destroyed the Plant of the Mun - cle Glass company at Muncle, Ind loss $65,000. President Taft is Still Lookin, ward to & trip to Alaska late ih coming spring. for- the An Experiment is to Be Made on the New York docks with automatic sugar weighing scales. The Steamer Norse Prince, from New York for Capetown, was burned off Ascension Island. Reports Have Been Rceived in New Orleans that plans are on foot for th retnancing of- Guatemala. President Taft Sent to the Senate the nomination of Captain Charles K. Vreeland, of the navy, to be a rear ad- miral. The Standard Oil Company being interested in the Milk which is being investigated in Yorkc. denied Trust, New Representative Mann Introduced @ number of bills bearing upon legisla- tion in the interest of railroad em- ployes. Four Men Held Up a Bank in Wil- liamsburg, N. Y., and shot a brother of the proprietor. Two of the robbers were captured. Miss C. A. Drayton of New York and William Phillips, secretary of the Unit- ed States embassy in London, are to be married there. Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, one of the founders of the Daughters of the Am- ‘erican Revolution, died suddenly in New York, from apoplexy. Charles H. Ackert resigned as vice proesident of the Southern Railroad and pecame connected with the Hawley rallroads in the same capacity. The House Chmmittee on foreign af- Yairs laid aside the measures demand- ing the arrest and punishment of for- mer President Zelaya of Nicrargua. Tne Battleship Idaho, which left the Philadelphla navy yard Thursday, for Sandy Hook, is aground in the Dela- ware river about 25 miles below Phila- delphia. Queen Wilhelmina Gave a Banguet | at the palace at The Hague in honor of General Stewart Woodford, president of the Hudson-Fulton celebration com- | mission, | : | __Rev. Ernest T. Lyons, minister to Li- beria, was in Washington to urge his | movement for the financing by the | United States government of the Libe- | ran debt. e Russian Foreign Office has as vet | taken no action on the memorandum | presented by the U. §. wovernment rel ative to the neutralization of the Man- ehurian railroads. A Committes of the c presented to Presidont paper containin charges of illegal conduct Steel corporation. Federation of | Taft too Ainst The Austrian Steamer Irene, at Ven- | ice from Galveston and Norfolk, and the British steamer Elswick Manog, from Tyne, were in collision, and Irenc was slightly damaged. | entensed by a | b har Herbert Titlow Was London eourt to eight mont At labor for defrauding s bey of New Haven ing himself as Sir Claud Cambboll the British diplomatic se ot Because United Staf¥s Minister Fox | at Guayaquil. Ecuador, notified the for- : Clem minister that the sanitary eondl- tions were bad, the nadorean press says the notice constitutes a menace { against South American wutonomy. A Collision Between French and Turkish troops near Fehiba, Tunis, on the Tripoli frontier, during which shots were exchanged, has caused France to | make representation against the ad- | vance of Turkish troops In that terri- tory. REDHOT SHOT FIRED AT EACH OTHER FOR WEEKS, ipal Contest—All lssues Except Personal Hpnesty Thrown Aside—Alleged Cri al Li Boston, Jan. 7.—The political ther- mometer in the municipal contest near- ed the white heat stage today, with all other issues except that of personal honesty thrown aside. All four of the candidates for mayor are speaking or trying to speak a dozen or more times a day and nearly all have gone as far as possible In hurling innuendoes at each other. In fact, several politicians who have felt the sting of the political whip have sought the courts fn an ef- fort to obtain writs for alleged criminal libel. ‘The local paper.: contain little else than politics, both in the news and advertising columns. If there are any voters who ha not been reached elther by personal solicitation, rallies, letters or the im- mense headlines in the papers, they must be deaf, blind or out of town, and with every public automobile engaged |and several hundred motor cars se- cured it is expected that a vote well up to 80 per cent. of the registration of 113,000 will be polled. Two of the candidates, James J. | Storrow and former M or John F. Fitzgerald, have organized biz political machines which have brought into the work thousands of people. House to house calls have been made throughout the city and thousands of letters have been sent out. Mr. Fitz- gerald spoke at twenty-four rallies to. night, while Mr. Storrow attended more than a dozen meetings. Boston Municipal Mayor George A. Hibbard has not been quite so active, but he neverthe— less made a round of the wards tonight and where his voice did not carry his supporters gave him a hearty welcome. Nathaniel H. Taylor, the fourth can- didate, has been less strenuous in his pursuit of the voters than his oppo- nents, vet he, t00, was active tonight and will probably be heard from more and more as eleotion day approaches. Mr. Storrow and Mr. Fitzgerald have been the two principal actors on the political stage and both have fired hot shot at each other for nearly eleven weeks. Rach has charged that the other was using money to further his own Interests, while Mr. Fitzgerald to- day alleged that his opponent had pur- chased the support of papers in New York. A recent chrnge in the owner- ship of a local .per is said to have been one of tne results of the cam- paign. Banana Crop Ruined by Gale. Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Jan. 7. —A violent gale today devastated the entire jsland of Gran Canaria, destroy- ing many houses and ruining banana and Walter Winterbottom, 16 years |and other crops. The damage is esti- 0ld, had his scalp laid open. I p. M=% TRAPPED IN HIS TUNNEL Burrower of Ludlow Street Found Last Night After Thirty-8ix Hours’ Hard Work FINKELSTEIN’S LIFE CRUSHED OUT Lying Flat on His Face, Under Middle of the Street, IHis Hands Pointing 1 oward Unattainable Wealth in Bank Vaults, the Searchers Found a Crushed, Miry Semb- lance of a Man—Left a Wife and Five Children. New York, Jan. 7.—Finkelstein, the burrower of Ludlow street, was found trapped In his tunnel tonight like a rabbit in its warren. Workmen had been digging thirty-six hours to find him. His Life Crushed Out. Nothing more miserably futile was ever seen In New York. There he lay, under the middle of the street, a crush- ed, miry semblance of a man, his fac in the dirt, his two hands stretched out before him, pointed toward the unat- tainable millions In the vaults of the East Side branch of the Fourteenth Street bank and the diamonds in the window of the jewelry shop next door. Wife and Children Saw Body Uncov- ered. His wife and their five children saw the first stroke of the pick which un- covered his shoes. They had been ‘watching the laborers in the t ch all night and all day. Sarah, the eldest child, was hard eved and defiant. “My papa was an honest man,” she sald, doggedly. “He does not dig for any- hting. He went down into the cellar and fell in a hole. Sarah is 11. Her mother, not less loyal but wiser, rocked to and'fro, weping silently, and would neither be comforted nor ask for help. Collapse of Finkelstein’s Dream. Isaac Finkelstein was a good natured, easy going house painter. He nothing about driving tunnels, He had only the rudest tools, no timber to shore up the roofs and walls of his knew | burrow, no burglars kit to b through the concrete and steel walls ¢ the bank vaults, no adequate ldes o the elaborate precautions constantly on watoh Inside those walls against b no revolver for the ever possible crl —nothing but his guilty d na the dream collupsed. What ingenuity he had was tasked to the uttermost keep his gecret from his wife. 1t migl have been better if he had told be That is all there is of Finkelstein and his territying tunnel. It would eb lud crous if It were not so pitiful Influenced by Moving Pictures. Finkelstein was & patron of the Bas¥ Side moving picture theaters,and man and many a successful bank robbery had he seen flashed briefly on the whits sheet by the calclum light. The things may have worked on agination of the easy & ous painter, with five ch mpe port. If thoy did he must have thought ry time he looked out of his garret window, for behind him, om the dead wall of the banik, flared t legend “Deposits $10,000,000,” and craning his neck a little he could the dlamonds of Zirinsky, the jews glittering in the window fe b liantly lighted little shop. But nobody | knows what Finkelstein thought, un | less tt be Isidor Garbus, his brother | in-law, who reported his diseappser ance fo the police yesterdmy dor lived in the same tenement with Fink- elstein, but though he is detained ns & witness, there is no proof that he had gullty knowledge of the tunnel STARTLING STATEMENT BY MRS. 0. H. P. BELMONT. General Sympathetic Strike of All New York Women Workers. New York, Jan. 7.—Mrs. O, H, P. Belmont, who is champloning the cause of the girl shirtwaist strikers in New York, came out with a rather startling statement today. advocating a gencral ‘sympathetic strike of all women work- ers in the city. “The situation is now at a stage, she said, “where the strikers need aid more than ever before. 1 believe that | a day should be appointed when every | mtr worker In New York city would walk out; and force the demands of the shirtwaist strikers to be accepted. avery girl, whether she s employed in a shop, works as a stenographer, or is employed in any other capacity, ought to help the striking shirtwaist makers.” WALL STREET WAS WILDLY CONFUSED Over Rumor That J. P, Morgan Was Dying. New York, Jan. 7.—A rumor that J. Morgan was dying threw Wall street into wild confusion today, until it could be run dowr The doors of the Morgan offices were closed for an hour during the funeral of E. H. Robinson, a member of the firm of Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, and until an officlal explanation w | forthcoming there was Increasing e: citement and a wharp selling move- ment. WOOD ALCOHOL TRAGEDY. New York Barber and a Woman Found | Dead in Same Room. New York, Jan. 7.—Wood alcohol brought a_sordid end tonight to Wil- | liam H. Miller, a barber, and a wom- an known to the police simply as F tha. A second woman, » Mrs. Stras: was taken to a hospital. “She will dle. In an East Side flat Miller was found dead on a couch. Hertha lay dead on the floor. In an adjoining room Mrs. Strasser was breathing faintly. A glass and a bottle with the dregs of the wood aleohol explained the tragedy. Consolidated Stock Exchange By-Laws Amended. New York, Jan. 7.—To prevent any attempt at “matching orders or ms nipulating a market,” the governors the Consolidated = stock exchan, amended the by-laws of the exchange today by adding to a section the words: “But all bids or offers, in lots ex- ceeding one hundred sharcs, must be filled by accepting any part of such bld or offer in hundred share lots The change is in line with the rec- ommendations made by the Wall street investigating committee appointed by Governor Hughes. Sudden Death of Rev. Dr. William Rogers Richards. New York, Jan. 7.—The Rev. Dr. William Rogers Richards, pastor of tho Brick Presbyterian church in this city since 1902, died suddenly at his home today, Dr. Richards had held pastor- ates at Bath, Me.. and at Plainfield N, J. He was widely known as an author of religious works, His widow, three daughters and two sons survive him. Dr. Richards was born in Bos- ton Dee. 20. 1863. New Four Masted Shooner Ashore. Rockland, Me., Jan. 7.—Meeting mis- hap within six weeks of her launching, the four masted schooner Willlam ¥ Burnham, owned by the Benedict Manson Marine company of New Ha- ven. Conn., went aground at Tennants harbor today, but was refloated tonight She was bound from Rockport —for Nassau, N. P., laden with ice, and wi resume her voyage tomorrow, prob- ably. Eggs 70 Cents a Dozen in New York. New York, Jan. 7.—There is almost @ dearth of eggs In New York. So few strictly fresh eggs are reaching the market that it is almost impossible to get them at any price. The top retail price for the best eggs ranged today from 60 to 70 cents a dozen. The top wholesale price was 50 cents a dozen for the best. of $7,500 Each New York, Jan. 7.—Mary K. Webber and Katherine Schwartz, two Chicago dressmakers, indicted with twenty- seven’ others in connection with the “sleeper trunk” smuggling cases, paid fines of $7,500 each afier entering pleas of gullty in the United States circuit court here today. s | trees repres HARRY A. RHEINSTROM MARRIES EDNA LOFTUS in an Automobile te Get Marriage License. Pair Fled Cancinnati, Jan. 7.—Afte many vicissitudes, 'including lunecy charges preferred by his mother, Harry Rheinstrom, son of the late Abrahem Rheinstrom, milllonaire distiller, was married today to Edna Loftus of New York, divorced wife of “Winnje” O'Con. nor, a_jockey. Young Rheinstrom and Miss Loftus eame to Cincinnatl & week ago with the intention of marrying. When the young man’s mother learned of the af Tair she Immediatoly had her son ar rested and committed to a saniteriur on a charge of lunacy. Miss Loftus tempted to get her sweetheart reles by habeas corpus and.she was arreste on a charge of lojtering. This latie charge was later digmissed Today, on a second attempt, Mi Loftus procurcd the release of her lover on a writ of habeas corpus an the pair fled in an automobile marriage license, The clei | license at Covington, but one | cured at Independence, Ky hours later they were mar magistrate In Covington, after a cold_ride. After the ceremony the bridegroom declared their i to return to Ohio, because again to come within the of the courts of that state 2,000 CHERRY TREES, | The Gift of Tokio 8o the City of Wash the i ington, Have Arrived | . Washington, Jan. Two thousa | sapanese chetry trees, th ft of the | corporation of Tokio to Mrs. Taft ana lthe city of Washington, arrived here today. As soon as the weather | | vornble “these trees will be set Potom that ¥ by Mr n varieties. nds of par na P the drl in this jnaugurate | number of different ) pari a ore few of the trees will be plant At White House grounds and put parks. LIGHTBODY HOTEL BURNED. John McDade, Who Had Run It Sinew Civil War, Dead in Fire. Manchester, O., Jan. The Light body hotel, the oldest ¢ rent of its kind on the Ohio ri burned here today. John M 5 otor, who was ye 1 conducted the hous ) was burned to deatl Hospital Student Nurse Crushed t Death in Elevator Trenton, N. J Miss May Coombs, 21 yeir ige, & student nurse at Mercer hoxy was kil today in one of the clevators at that institution. She was taking an unoc cupled roller on the elevator an unwittingly turned the wheel whic controls the power beyond the point at which the elovator Ia stopped. Tho car started upward as she was en |deavoring ta pull the cot through the doorway and\ her head was caught be tween the elevator and the side of the shaft and her skull crushed Planning a World-Wide Trust in the Nitrate Industry. Christiania, Jan. 7.—It is_report that J. Pierpont Morgan of New York and the Deutsche bank of Berlin age planning & world-wide trust in the nitrate industry with a capital of $200,000,000. It 1s understood that the syndicate intends to purchase all the saltpetre mines in Chile as well as he [nitrate works in Norway, in which | $20,000,000 are fnvested. r Chicage to Be Placed in Re serve. Jan. 7.—The cruiser at the Philadelphiu rom Annapolis und The » the | Crui Philadelphia, Chicago arrived | navy vard today | will” be placed in reserve. will _be distributed among warships at the yard. other | First Carload of 1910 Vegetables. Mobilo, Ala., Jan. 7—The first c load of 1910 spring vegetables for the north passed through here today frem the Guif Coast truok gardens, bound for Pittsburg. The car carrted rad- ishes, turnips, lettuce, Mme. Barrios to Return to Guatemala. New Orleans, Jan. 7.—Mme. Barsios, widow of a former president of G temala, who entered an almshouse on New Year's day, has been prevailed on by friends to return to her native country. She will recelve & pension, |