Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 11, 1910, Page 1

INSURGENTS™ CAUGUS IN GROUPS Debating the Desirabilty of an Early Move to Form a Battle Front to Meet Emergencies ALREADY BROAD BREACH WIDENING Every Indication that Hostile Acts will Continue with In- creasing Bitterness—Party Caucus to be Invoked Against “Insurgents” with the Aim of Compellicg them to Follow the Programme. Washington, Jan. 10.—The already first battle Wil occur, it is believed, a * | over the selection of the committeé by Proad breach between the “organiza-| i 'nouse to investigate the Ballinger- tion” republicans in the house of TeD- | pinchot embroglio, which ls several resentatives and the repudlican “In- |(ays in the future The hiouse repub- i - ibly to. | licans doubtiess old a caucus to e Tonignt e tidenca | choose @ committes and map out & B et ety Mostiie acts of ihe | prosramme, and here the ‘Insurgents, Taw_few dasa Souid. contimue with |t s predicted. will “nsh or cut bait consequent increasing bitterness. dozen Forming a Battle Front. the “insrgents” caucused tn Mtts groups of twos, threes and fours on the house fivor, in the cioak oms and the members' lobby, dls- assing the situation and debating the irability of an early meeting to form « bestle front to meet the onslaughts ~wchich are reported to be coming from the organization. Much secrecy was cbserved among them. No one would exy when a formal meeting will be held “Insurgents” Must Toe the Mark. It became known today that the par- caucus will be Invoked against the Insurgents” and_on every occasfon wher there are differences between the republican members that “insurgents’ will be made to follow the programme or be forced outside the pale of the party. The announcement did not dis- comcer: the recalcitrant republicans. They were free in their opinions that no compulsory measures by the organ- tzation would avail anything. If the test of regularity lies in fol- iowing the “machine” as several dom- they prefer to be irregular, The First Battle. The joint republican camcus Wed. mesda; ht is not expected to bring % Slisich ¢ & Tocus becauss it Dot thought that anything will be considered there excepting the election ©f @ new congressional committee. The “insurgents” sald privetely | today that they would not attend any caucus If they knew there was a pre- arranged plan to discredit them. STATEMENT BY INSURGENTS. THEIR AIM AND PURPOS‘E.’ “Unfair Attempt Made to Represent Us as Opposed to Taft.” Washington, Jan. 10.—A. defiant state- ment which stamps the attempt to read them out of the republican party as | “unfair and malicious,” and defines | Speaker Cannon's administration in the house of representatives as “the cli- max of autocratic control” was issued tonight after & meeting of the insur- gent republican members of the house. “In the effort to becloud the real is- ! | sue. an unfair and malicious attem sl | ebing made to represent us as opposed | to President Taft's administration and policies. There is not even a sem- | blance of truth in this accusation. ‘Without exception we are firm support- | ers of repubiican doctrines and Presi- dent Taft's administration. “We are banded together for a single | | purpose, and ne other. Our sole aim @s a body Is to restore to the house of Tepresentatives complete power of leg- | islation in accordance with the will of @ majority of Its members. “We are striving to destroy the sys- tem of autocratic control which has | reached its climax under the present: speaker.” ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE. Piea Agasinst Curtailment of Appro- priation for National Guard Encamp- ments. - ingten, Jan 1 Terming the ~: policy of economy ot ¢ Tatt tion 2 exi- which would not ve to be economy In the long run, Representa- tive Hay of Virginia pieaded against eartaiiment of the $1,350.000 appropria- Son for national guard ercampments while the srmy appropriation bill was efore the house today. Mr. Hay =eid the administration did mot Teally mesn to redues its expendi- fures permanently, but that If it did the economy ought not to be practiced Bt the expense of the citizen soldiery, upon whom the country would have 10 rely 4 it got into trouble. An amend- ment by Representative Mann of Ili- hois reduced the appropriation to $1.- 900,060 1n the interest of economy. It was opposed by Representatives Knapp ©f New York Prince of Illinots, Kahn of Caltfornia, Cralg of Alabama and Saizer of New York. The amendment was voted down and Mr. Mann called for a division. Only nine members supported it, but while the “mays~ were being counted Mr. Mann was on his feet counting the @emocrats who voted against his amendment. You democrats are always shouting economy,” he cried in derision, “but the unity you get to practice it the democrats on the flogr vote against it When the house adjourncd at 5.15 o'clock until tomorrow the reading of the army bill had almost been con- cluded. Tt had entirely escaped mmendment save by Representative Fah of Jows, who s in charge of the The reading of the army bill will be wompleted tomorrow and the measure | ~vill be put upon its passage. NEW YORK’'S RIVERSIDE DRIVE WAS MADE FOR ALL. Mayor Gayner lssues an Order That Aristocracy Won't Lik New York, Jan. 10.—With the cuit comment that New York's beautiful Riverside drive “was made for all and not & few” the mayor tonight issuel an order to his new park commission- Charles B. Stover® to take steps immediate resumption of the of the big public stages on roughfare. For a loug time wealthy residents along -rside drive successfully 9o- Jected to the presemee of the cumber- | ®ome electric stages in that exclusive district. MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE. Killed Real Estate Collector — Black Hand Man Sentenced Today. Albany. Y., Jan. 10.—Dominick Ferrar, who has been on trial here, harged with the murder of George ps, = estate _collector., was found guilty of murder in the first de- gree today He will be sentenced to- morro avith Vincent Leonardo, wh Degin Wednesday. Michas! Bernable, a New York de- Rective, testified at the trial that Fer- zar confessed to him that he was a member of & braneh of the Black Hand society known as “The Family of the Dead Bodies” and that the murder was committed under orders from the So- clety. se trial will NOT THE ELOPERS. Man and Woman Arrested at Kansas City Released. XKansas City, Mo, Jan. 10.—A man and a2 woman who were arrested here this_afterncon as_ they alighted from = train from Excelsior . Mo., a Springs. nearby health in the belief that were nnm& Janon, the Phil- heiress, Ferdinand Co- the waiter, -were released after taken to the = There they proved conclusively Were not the miesing couple.” Death of Father Patrick Healy. ‘Washington, Jan. 10.—The Rev. Fa- er Patrick Healy, president of Ferrar was indicted jointly | NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE I HARD HIT BY BEAR RAID. Losses as High as $4.80 a Bale—1,500,- |17 ¥ Cabled Paragraphs London, Jan. 10.—The German ship Mabel Reickmers, which has been on the overdue list for some time, ar- rived at Yokkaichi, Japan, yesterday. She occupied more than six months on the passage from Philadelphia and has been reinsured as overdue by Lioyds. Toklo, Jan. 10.—Rear Admiral Giles B, Harber, who Is succeeded by Rear Admiral Hubbard as commander of the Asiatlc squadron of the Pacific fleet, T. S. N, sailed for home today on the steamer Empress. During the stay at Yokohama the officers and men of the squadron were entertained lavishly. Their visit has not provoked any un- friendly utterance by the press. London, Jan. 10.—The second parlia- ment of King Edward's reign came to an end toda; ‘The ceremony of disso- lution was brief and formal. Four privy councilors attended at Buckinz- ham palace, where at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon the king signed the procla- mation dissolving the present and sum- moning a new parliament to meet on Feb. 15. With an hour the royal writs had been despatched from the crown office to every constituency of United Kingdom. ELOPING HEIRESS ARRESTED IN CHICAGD ROOMING HOUSE With Her Was Former Hotel Waiter— delphia Dec. 20 and Had Traveled Thousands of Miles in Effort to Escape Arrest—Funds Had Dwindled to $1.60. Chicago, Jan. 10.—Living as father and daughter, Roberta Buist De Jan ors old a Philadelphia el and Frederic Cohen, a former waiter at the Bellevue-Stratford eloped December 29 from Ph were found and arrested late today. They were discovered by d. in a rooming house at 68 perior street on the North S city. When_policemen entered the house, Miss De Janon was plaving with a pet dog which she took with her when she disappeared with Cohen, who 1s 43 years old and married. Co- hen was reading in an adjoining room. Mi _ .They Left Phi Hom, They were taken to the Chicazo ave- nue police station. Cohen at first pro- tested against arrest. He soon admit- ted his identity, however, and Miss De Janon, sobbing bitterly, pleaded with the police to restore her to her par- ents. Flight of Thousands of Miles. Cohen revealed to the officers the story of his flight with the girl from Philadelphia, thousands of miles through the United States and Canada. and iIn which a trip to England was interrupted at Halifax because the boat officers would not permit the presenee of Miss De Janon’s pet dog on the vessel At ieast, that was Cohen’s explanation of the abandonment of the sea voyace, which began at St. John, New Erun: 000 Bales Sold. New York Jan. 10.—Under pressure of enormous liquidation involving the sale of 500,000 bales, the New York \nge hard hit bear raid today with losses_as high as $4.50 e bale. Wil- liam P. Brown and Frank B. Hayne, credited with being among the leaders in the bull campaign which has taken profits of late estimated at $13,000,000 were on the floor of the exchange, ac- tive figures in one of the most exciting sessions in its history. May cotton, which has been as high ®@s 16.19 recently, dropped as low as 15.32; Merch touched 15.06 as-its low- est point, while July opened at 15.80, dropped to 15.32, ana closed @ point higher. May closed at 15.34, March at The bears fought hard and sold at an enormous scale, several _brokers selling 25,000 bales apiece. The bull | element, seeing the drift of things, took profits on a large lne of cotton, prob— ably with the idea of allowing the shorts to sell themselves into a hole, and the slump of 81 to 83 points re- sulted. NO FLOWERS AT THE YALE JUNIOR PROM. Committee This Year Will Rigidly En- force Plan Adopted. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 10.—After many attempts of previous committees, the promenade committee of the pres- ent junior clase at Yale has adopted & plan by which the ‘costly expense of flowers at the promenade for chaper- ones and partners will be mbolished. When the junfors eppHed today for tickets to the promenade they were forced to sign a pledge that they | would give no flowers and otherwise | were not allowed to obtain the tickets. | The rule applies this year to the play on Saturday night, chapel exercises, the concert, the junior ge; the prom- ! enade itself and all its festivities. It | is estimated that the saving to each | member attending the junior prom will everage about $15. The plan of the committee has carrfed dismay to the florists of the city, whose total sales during the promenade week have been estimated as high as several thousands of dollars. In past years the prom jcommitices have adopted for them- selves the “mo flowers” plan, but have been unable to emforce it’upon the clsass. POSTOFFICE DEFICIENCY. | Decrease of More Than One-third in | Quarter Ending Sept. 30. | _ Washington, Jan. 10.—A decrease of | more than one-third in the deficiency | | of the postoffice department s shown | for ‘the quarter ended Septemmer 30, | 1809, as compared with the correspond- | Ing ‘quarter of the previous vear. As | the deficiency for the entire fiscal year ended June 30 last, was approximately | 17,000,000, the saving for the first | auarter of this year is highly gratify- ing to the officials, It is indicated by the report that the average dllily cost of the entire postal service Is a little more than $620,000, while the revenues of the department are about $563,000 a day. The decrease of the deficiency for the quarter, as compared with: the same quarter’ last year, was from $9,687,513 to $6,183,597. BLOOMINGTON WITHOUT GAS. Explosion at Union Gas and Electrio Co. Plant—Loss $50,000. - Bloomington IIl, Jan. 10.—An ex- plosion today wrecked the water gas plant of the Union Gas and Electric company, hurling portions of the build- ing far away, breaking windows over gn the west dide of the city ‘and wiii- ing three men and seriously foir ‘othera. - “The cosl s plant and retainers escaped serious damage. The eity is without gas tonight and may be | for several days. The buiflding caught fire after the explosion. The loss is $50,000. Steamship Arrivals. | Fred Always Proved Himself a Gentle- wick: but the police believe that he planned to leave the boat at Halifax to elude detectives, Only $1.60 in Ready Money. Cohen and Miss De Janon reached Chicago on_ Thursday and rented a room in a boarding house owned by Mrs. Frank Perrin. Cohen Introduced the girl as his dauehter Alice. He identified himself as Robert King and said he was a barber just arrived from Montreal in search of work. Identified by Newspaper Pictures. The girl when questioned by the officers at the police station after she had admitted her ldentity, said that she and Cohen reached Chicago with only $1.60 and that she gave Cohen a ‘bracelet and necklace with which he planned to procure money to live o Rhelr apprenension followed a report | to the police in the afternoon by Mrs. Perrin, who had seen pictures of the eloping pair in the newspapers and suspected that her new boarders were the missing Philadelphia elopers. Cohen is locked up tonight at the Chicago avenue station. He said he would waive extradition papers. The Philadelphia police were advised to come to Chicago for the prisoner. Miss De Janon and her dog were taken to the woman’s department of the Harri- son street police station. The Route Taken to Avoid Capture Cohen vehemently denled that an: harm had come to Miss De Janon since | she fled with him from her home. He outlined the route taken to evade cap- ture. They went from Philadelphia to New York city on December 29, r maining there only a few hours. Thence they went by train to Montreal where they took train for St. John, N, B. There they boarded a steamer for England. At Halifax they aban- doned the sea voyage and went to Boston by rail. From Boston they came to Chicago, convinced that no one had any idea of their wherea- bouts. Police Find Several Letters. In the possession of Miss De Janon the police found several letters, some addressed to her parents and one writ- ten to her by Cohen, dated Dec. 14. In this the waiter begged the girl to think twice before eloping with him. A letter written by Miss De Janon to her father, Ferdinand De Janon, @ broker, of 21 East Twenty-first street, New York city, which she had not vet mailed, was also found. In this it was revealéd that the girl may have been contemplating suiclde. She asks Co- hen's wife In it to forgive her for coaxing her husband to go away with her so that she would not have to w tend a private school at Bryn Mawg, where she was to have been sent on Jan. man, The letter reads: “Saturday, “My Dear Father:— “I cant’ tell you how much grieved I am to have caused you and grandpa 50 much worriment and trouble; but I went away because I did not want to £0 out to that school, nor dld I want to stay in Philadelphia. As I could not o myself, I persuaded Fred to go with me, as he has always been so kind and good to me; but before leaving he swore over mamma's grave that he would never wrong me in any way and that he would treat me as though I were his daughter. He has proved himself a gentleman, for he has kept all of his promises, and I can only speak in the highest terms for him, for he is a good hearted man. It is all nonsense for them to say I was In love with him, for that is not so. 1 only cared for him as a dear old friend. If we are caught I am going to kil my- self, as I could not bear to go back again. Please, papa, dear, take ‘Toot- sey’ (meaning her pét fox terrier) and always keep her with you. “Be kind and good to her apd take the best care of her. Now pleasc grant that one favor. Please forgive mo try to think kindly of me, and also rs. Cohen to please forgive me. did not realize what trouble this would bring when I coaxed her d t0 go away with me. - Please prosecute Fred. Be thankful m for the beautiful way ha has daughtor. I was ail my Jan. 9, 1910. the | De Janon Pleads to Be Taken | a flight extending for | Election Today EVERYBODY GLAD THAT THE CAMPAIGN 1S OVER. FOUR CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR = First Ballot Under New City Charter —Issues Involved Have Been Almost Entirely Personal—Libel Suits On. Boston, Jan. 10.—With a clear under- are almost wholly personal, the voters of Boston to the number of probably a hundred thousand Will decide tomorrow on the question of placing the admin- istration of the city in the hands -of one of four well known candidasss for the next four years, under the pro- visions of the new city chanter. The Four Candidates. These four candidates, as they ap- pear on the ballot, are Nathaniel H. Taylor, an editorial writer; James J. Storrow, a former school committee- » and banker; John F. Fitzgerald, former mayor and an editor, and | George A. Hibbard, the present mayor and a taliior. A new city council of nine members will also be elected, a member of the school committee chosen and the H- | cense question decided for another year. Heavy Vote Expected. As good weather is predicted and as the 113,000 registered voters have been canvassed, buttonholed and politically urged as never before, it is confident- Iy expected that the vote will be the | heaviest on record. Campaign Dates from 1907. The present campaign dates from the day after the last election in Decem- ber, 1907, when Mr. Fitzgerald, who had just been defeated, announced that he would egain be a candidate, while his _successful opponent, Mayor Hib— bard, salg he would serve but one term. Since then there has been an inv tigation into the Fitzgerald admini tration by ‘the finance commission, which severely criticized many of his acts, while several city officials under him'are now serving jail sentences. Legislature Takes a Hand. Last spring the legislature took a hand in the political game by devising a new city oharter which provided for the continuance of the finance com- mission but gave the people a chance to decide between one of the two plans. | In November the voters registered a preference for plan 2, which gives the mayor & four year term, and turned the campaign into a non-partisan af- fair. Many Candidates Dropped Out. Half a dozen candidates sprang into the political arena, but in the eleven weeks -of strenuous campalgning all but four dropped out of the race. Fight is Between Fitzgerald and Stor- row. Close political observers and the bet- ting public agreed today that the fight tomorrow is between Storrow and Fitz- gerald. These two candldates have fought each other with nearly every weapon known to political science and tonight ended their campaign with whirlwind tours through every one of the twenty-five wards of the city. Even money between the two found many takers today. | Animo: Bring on Libel Sui Animosities stirred up during the last days have brought on libel suits, demands for criminal prosecution of newspaper proprietors and much acri- monious controversy. Mr. Hibbard has been the only candidate to bring na- tional politics into the fight, Mr. Stor— row and Mr. Fitzgerald having had the support of both democratic and repub- Hean workers. Close of Contest Welcomed. ‘While the campaign has been excit- | ing, it has been somewhat wearisome | from 1its lack of variety in the issues, and candidates, spellbinders, workers and voters welcomed the close of the contest tonight. | CAN TAKE ROOF OFF IN SUMMER, NEW YORK’S NEW PLAYHOUSE. | Globe Theater Opened Last Night—It Seats 2,000. New York, Jan, 10.—New York had another new theater added to its al- | ready long list of places of dramatic musement tonight with the opening of he Globe theater at Broadway and duction of the musical comedy, “The 0ld Town,” by George Ade and Gustav Luders. The Globe is the latest development in theater construction and conspicu- ous among its features is a roof that | may be made lidless in summer to keep i’ the auditorium cool. It seats about 2,000. ‘ fault. Good bye, dear papa and grand- pa. “ROBERTA.” Philadelphia Detectives Start for Chi- cago. Philadelphia, Jan. 10.—Central Office Detectives Emanuel and Scanlan left onight for Chicago. They will reach there Tuesday night. Robert Buist, the girl's millionaire grandfather, who had completed prep- arations for her adoption the day be- fore she disappeared, denied himself to all interviewers, but his close as- | sociates say that he sticks to the dec- laration which he made today. that Tie will fully forgive the girl, but will bend every effort to have Colien prose- cuted. Miss De Janon of a Poetic Nature. Chicago, Jan. 10.—When the effects of Miss De Janon were examined to- night forty-two letters were found. Forty of them were written to Cohen and two to her father, one on Jan, 3 and the other on Jan. 5. That the girl was of a poetic nature was _demonstrated by several notes handed to Cohen at the Bellevue- Stratford by Miss De Janon. One she handed him while he was waiting on the table for her in the hotel dining room ende “Love days, love days, dear old golden love days, Kissing and hugging and quarreling, But always sure to make up right away, You were my king, ‘the waiter man, 1 was your bashful little girl, “You put down on paper T love you s0, When e were a couple of kids.” Tn describing her elopement fonight Miss De Janon verified what Cohen had told the police and added: “When T asked him to go away with me I told him that I had never been allowed to play like other children and that 1 had been neglected. You see, one that lives in brownstone fronts on boulevards is not always happy. standing of the issues involved, which | “The Woit,” Forty-sixth stre¢f and the premier pro- | Round-Up of Counterfeiters IGNACIO LUPO, “THE WOLF” And a Fugitive from Italian Justice I Among the Gang Captured—Secret Service Men Jubilant. New York, ! and Giuseppe Morello, who, the police say, was the brains of | the plgt which ended In the assassina. | tion of Lieut. Petrosino In Palermo, Sicily, were arraigned in the United | States distriet court today with four- | ;teen of their alleged confederates, v-lux‘ar;nd with wholesale counterfeit- | ing. , | “This is the blggest roundup of counterfeiters in history af the coun- try,” sald Assistant District Attorney Smith. “T ask that the court hoid the principals in $15,000 each and thelr | @accomplices in $5,000 each. | Turned Out $50,000 in Bad Bills. ! “Lupo has been convicted of murder in Ttaly and sentenced to 18 years there. He is a fugitive from justic Morello has also been convicted of for- gery in Italy and semtenced there to ed out $50,000 in spurious Dills. Judge Hough egreed with the district | attorney as to the importance of the | case and fixed the ball at the amount | requested. Alleged Leaders in Custody. Secret service men unearthed head- quiirters of a eounterfeiting gang last November In an abandoned farmhouse | near Highland Hills, N. Y., where J. Pierpont Morgan has his place, on the Hudson, and piates, en- graver's tools and many counterfeit $2 bills were dug up. Twos and fives were the specialty of the gans. Twenty arrests followed the raid on { the plant, but all the time the detec- tives knéw they were only landing | small fry. They wanted Lupo and Mo- ! rello, the alleged leaders. Lupo and | Morello were both arrested last might at Bath Beach, Brooklyn, but no par- ticylar significance popularly at- tached to the st. Both men had afien been up befors, but i never has been possible to convict them, An Unimpeachable Case. This time the secret service men ara confident they have an unimpeachable | case. And yet there remains one thing | that puzzles and annoys them. Of the {350,000 they know has been manufac- tured in the last six months they have only recovered $2,000. They think the Test must be burfed. Four Secured Bail. Four of the minor prisoners suc- ceeded tonight in finding $5,000 bail ench were released. Th b and E otners spent the night in the Tombs. NEW YORK TAX VALUATIONS, CARNEGIE DOES NOT HEAD LIST, But the Widow of the Late John S. Kennedy Does. New York, Jan. 10.—Not Mr. Carne- | gie and his millions in steel, but a wom- |an with millions left by Her husbana heads the list of personal tax assess- ments made public in New York today. She is Mrs, Emma B. Kennedy, widow | of the late John S. Kennedy, who left $26,000,00 to charity when he died re- cently; and she must pay taxes on per- sonal property valued at $6,000.000. Mr. Carnegie, who topped the list last year, i3 tied this year for second place with Mrs. Russell Sage at $5,000,000. John D. Rockefeller comes third with personal property assessed at_$2,500,- 1000, and in fourth place are Florence | Amsinck and Bessie McLeod Leggett, | each assessed for $1,000,000. William K. Vanderbilt is listed for a similar sum, Willlam K. Vanderbilt, Jr., for half that sum. Colonel John J. Astor and J. P. Mor- £an must pay on personal property as- | sessed at $400.000. Charles M. Schwab | is down for $250,000. Jacob H. Schiff for $200,000, and August Belmont and Thomas F. Ryan for $100,000 each. New York gains approximately $27,% 000,000 on its legal debt limit as indi- cated bp the increased values annolne- ed today. The borrowing capacity as heretofore fixed bv law was about $55,- 000,000, but the assessed valuation of real estate Is $6,600,187,322, as against | $6.333.177,804 last year, an increase of |1 $267,009,518. As city’s borrowing | capacity is equal to 10 par cent. of the | assessed valuation of real estate, the | debt margin will be ralsed about $27,- 000,000. Last year the increase in as- sessed valunation was only about $100,- | €00,000 and only about $10,000,000 was | added to the city’s borrowing capacity. PASSED AS A MAN FOR 35 YEARS. She Now Finds the Wearing of a Skirt Most Awkward. Montreal, Jan. 10.—The warden of the jail discovered today that a-person committed last week under the name William Dubers, 65 vears of age, is a woman. She admitted having mas- queraded as a man for . thirty-five years, most of the time gaining her | livelihood as @ deckhand on lumber | barges. “Willlam” s now in the In- | firmary of the jall, wearing a skirt, | whichshe finds most awkward. 150 Cases of Human Hal and China. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 10.—Five big -cases containing human hair from Ja- pan and China were received at the | warehouse of the surveyor of the port of Louisville today, consigned to a lo- | cal hair importer.” One hundred and fifty more cases are expected tomor- row, The hair comes through the port free of duty. The present con- gitnment is to be shipped to New or! | from Japan Auto Collided With Street Car. Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. 10—Willlam M. Garner and Frank and Harold George were killed and two others were in- jured. one seriously, when the auto- mobile in which they were riding col- lided with a street car on the Peach Tree road here today. The automo- bile was wrecked and the street car badly- damaged. Garner was an In- spector for the Western & Atlantic railroad and recently was discharged from a local hospital after recoverify from @ railroad accident. J. S. Braley Displaced as President. Cleveland. Ohio, Jan. 10.—James S. Braley, Jr, promoter of the deal by which '3 B. Morgan & Co. took co: trol of the United States Telephone company and subsidiary corporations, was displaced as president of the company at a meeting of the direc- fors today and Fraak L Davis. pres ident of the Citizens’ Telephone com- pany of Columbus, Ohio, was elected in his stead £ix years. He Is an habitual criminal. | I sivle for the report cubled from Rome country | | | § | the Teport of | dows to effect an entrance. PRICE _TWO CENTS Condensed Telegrams President Taft Attended the Critten- den memorial services at Foundry Methodist Episcopal church. L. W. Gondaker Told in Spokane, Wash., of how, with an Alaskan grub- stake, he won his way to riches, Raymond Duncan Was Held for a in New York on the charge of allowing his boy to go barelegged. A Far-Reaching Programme has been arranged for the convention of the Natlonal Civic federation, which meets on Jan. 17. The Venezuelan Government has con- ferred the order of the Bust of Bolivar on John Barrett, director of the inter- national bureau of republics. Prison Commissioner Henry Solomon of New York advocates surgery for the Jan. 10.—Ignacio Lupo, | convict to gvercome obstuclés which bar ‘his way to a successful life. The French Government’s Reply to Secretary Knox's note comcerning the neutralization of the Manchurian rail- way will be determinea by the attitude of Russia,fier ally. It is Reported at Managua that a split has occurred in the ranks of the Nicaraguan revolutionists and it js be- Meved that one faction will reject the overtures of the other. The Russian Foreign Office has is- sued a statement embodying the mem- orandum of the United States govern- ment bearing on the neutralization of the Manchurian railways. Mildred, Countess Pasolini, now at her father's home in Chattaonogh, Tenn., charges her husband with being respon- that she eloped with a dashing young Irishman named Cole: Former Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and a party of relatives passcd turough Chicago en toute to Washington to mfer over legislation for more Ifheral laws concerning the holding of lands in the Sandwich Isiands. The Speculative World is Awaiting the spectal eommitt appointed by the New York stock ex change to investigaie the recent nipulation of Rock Island stock. report™ls due on Wednesd JEWELER HELMAN CLAIMED HE WAS POISONED By His Stepdaughter—Was Found Dy- ing in Hotel. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 10.—Eme Sellsberry, supposed to be on a train nearing New Orleans, is wanted by the police as a witness in the mysterlous death of W. H. Helman, a jeweler, who was found unconscious in a room wl hotel today and died soon afterward, evidently of poison Telagrams were sent to Memphis and New Orle them to detain the woman. The o ner will not give his verct in the case untll'a chemicel anelysis of Hel- man’s =omach. is eompicted, Helman retnrne night from Chicago. At the hotcl he sent to the bar for whiskey. A cham. bermaid found him lying on the floor in his room today. He did not resuin consclousness before he died. hut the coroner found in the room two letters, One was addressed to the chlef of po lice and the other to a friend. In both he accused Effie Selisberry of having admintstered poison to him in coffee which he drank in & restaurant in Chl- cago yesterday. He said that the woman was with him on the train re- turning to Terre Haute and that she remained on It bound for New Or- eans. Effie Sellsberry is a stepdaughter of Helman. “He was aivorced from her mother, who lived in North Dakota. The theory of the police is that Hecl- man was demented. It does not ap- pear plausible, they say. that he could have swallowed poison in Chicago yes- terday and still have been able to reach this city before it took effect. ARREST OF LEADER OF ROPE LADDER BAND. Silver and Other Valuables Found in His Harlem Flat. Gold, New York, Jan. 10.—George Maddox, 2ald by the police to be leader of tha “rope ladder band,” who worked daily in a gymnasium to keep in proper physical trim, was arrested today at his flat in Harlem. The police took 33,000 in valuables from trunks and closets, three revolvers, a crucible and :':verlf ingots of gold and silver. Mad- x was held for the grand jury in $10.000 bail. ey “Well,” he sald to the detact while waiting to be arraigned, “1 led you fellows a merry chase, anyway.” According to the police Maddox w. a daring and methodical worker. He would hitch his rope to & chimney ana lower himself down to untocked. wi He fis 24 years old and sald to be of good fam- ily. He was ruined by stock specula- tion, it is also sald ZERO IN WEST VIRGINIA. Shortage of Gas and Coal—Much Suf- fering—No Relief in Sight. Parkersburg, W. Va.. Jan. 10.—There is much suffering af Flizabeth, the county seat of Wirt county, resulting from a shortage of gas and coal, with Do immediate relief in sizht. Judge Hunter H. Moss was compelied to ad- Journ the winter term of clrenit court today. It has heen impossible to got coal shipped in and the supply will not last over one day more. rd weather prevails. To Hold Stock in Other Strest R way Companies Boston, Jan. 10.—A law permitting the Boston eiovated railway to hold stock in other street railway compn- nies through the incorporation of the Boston Railway Holding comnuny corporation stmilar tn e Boston 1tal road Holding compan mend- ed by the jnint bo: d and Boston transit commissioners, in a re- port to the The joint commission r. ports against tunnels and additional subways connecting the Park street station with the South terminal sta- tion is favored. Acquitted of Murder of “Plum Blos- som. New York, Jan. 10—Lau Tang and Lau Shang were acquiticd tonight of w Kum. the “Plum Blossom” of Chinatown. who was stab- bed to death in her rooms last August, Both the defendants proved alibis. Harvard Total Enroliment €,308. Cambridge, Mass, Jan 10.—More students are studying at Harvard this year than last, figures made public today show. . The total enrollment in the university is 6,308—12 more than in_1909. In the college it is 2,265, a gain of 27 and in i professional sl 1,177, an increase of 59. There are instructors. Radcliffe has 469 to Terre Faute last’ ON LOS ANGELES AVIATION FIELD Daring French Aviator in Sensational Manoeuvres in Farq man Biplane—Wild Cheers Followed His Movements —Glenn Curtiss Opened the Meet with Flight in New Monoplane—Aeroplanes Aviation Fleld, Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 10.—Making a sudden and dra- matic appearance today while the 20,- 000 spectators were watching the slow flight of two dirigible balloons at Avia~ tion Park, Louis Paulhan threw the| great throng into a frenzy of enthusi- | asw by a spectacular flight of 81-2 minutes in a Farman biplane and added 1o the feat two other flights of 10 min- utes 2 seconds, and 29 minutes 2 sec- onds, | Shaking Down Machin The first day of the aviation mect | was given over Lo preliminary trials and flights Lo give asronauts and avi- ators a chance to shake down their | ruachines. Curtiss gave an cxhibition | in & mew and untried machine in| whnch Clifford Harmon afterwards made some short tights, Charles E. Willard in the Curtiss No. 1 also made | u sucessful flight, and several times | nabonshuc Lincoln Beachy | nded in two small dirigtbies and | manoucvred their craft, but nothing to | theill_the crowd occurred until Paul- | han swept iuto the air, swept around the course and over the grandstund several times. | Frenchman Suddenly Appeared. Beachy shue were piloting | their dir the e when | the daring nian sud- denly out of a gully h the | grandstand, circled the times, wont out across country. back over the grandstund and alighted | in the center of the field. { In two later flights Paulhan gave a | remarkable exhibition of control over | his machine, sefuly maldng sharp | turns, dippiny almost {0 the ground and scattering a group of frightencd offi- cers and skimming over the grandstand ‘ew fect above the heads of the 5. Ascending, descending, and { Anaily appr from the rear the | tent which 1 his aeroplane, he | alighted within 100 feet of its entrance. Paulhan was cheered madly. Men | shouted themselves hoarse, while wom- | en applauded and waved handkerchiefs, Panlhan danced gayly info.his tent. ‘Thousands of Spectators. Throughout the movning hours train atfer train brought spectators. Mean- time fully a thousand automobiles were parked At the course. Glenn Curtiss in New Monoplane. At 1 o'clock Glenn Curtiss opened the PAULHAN'S REMARKABLE FLYING Throws Twenty Thousand Spectators Into a Frenzy of Enthusiasm | short preliminary han's tent down into the gully, which was hidden from view. Just when | Knabenshue and Beachy were passine | over the grandstand on the return, and When every neck was craned buckward there was a sudden shout and out of the gully shot Paulhan, the motor of his machine humming at a tremendous and Dirigibles Tried Out. \ international meet with & new plane, never before used. Leaving the ground in front of the grandstand, the craft rose g ade a short flight up ~the cours: d and alighted at th distance, L urlongs, mono- was covered in 38.03 s , the gr est height reached being fifty feet machine was under entire control Curtiss was loudly cheered Willard’s Motor Gi Next Charles F. Willa Curtiss acroplane flight to circle the officlal ¢ irifle more than amile length. Rising to a h feet, he mantained this half the distance had been Then his motor gave out and he He was in the air 1 minute 3 seconds, - After a readjustment of the motor he arose again and com pleted the course. Curtiss, using the machine with which he had made the previous flight, cir cled the field, an estimated distance of one and one-eight miles, in 151 His maximum altitude 200 feet Beachy and Knabenshue in Dirigibles. Lincoln Beachy and Roy Jineben shue appeared with their dirigible bal loons, sailing directly over the grand stand at a helght of 200 feet against & SHiff brecze and returning at high speed, wih the wind at their backs. The fral cigar shaped balloor under the control of the pilots, who descended to earth without a jar Out of the Gully Shot Paulhan. Before this time the crowd bad sun to inquire for Paulhan. “We c not do_anything with the Frenchm ve Out 1 appeared { Afte attempt which and a half ght of s altitude he £afd Richard Ferrls, master of ce monies. “He pays no attention to reg ulations or to the course laid out for the flights. I would not be surprised to see him appear suddenly on his ma chine through the top. of his tent That was almost what Paulhan aid. « spectators were watciing the the dirigibles, & Farman bi« was taken quietly from Paul rate. RAILROAD CDNFERENCZ AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Negotiations On Looking to a Settle- ment Out of Court. Washington, Jan. Negotiations have begun iookin settlement “out of court” of the government’s suit for the dissolution of the merger of the #6-called Harriman lines, brought un- der the provisions of the Sherman anti- trust law. Rumors of such negotla- tions have been current for some time past. Today they took concrete form at a_ conference at the White House granted by President Taft at the so- licitation of the railroad officials. Tt can be stated authoritatively that no decision of any sort was reached. It was sald that today's meeting was the first of @ serles to be held to de- termine upon what ground, If any, the representatives of the Harriman lines and the government can for adjustment of the situatic WAKEFIELD SCHOOLS CLOSED. meet n Discovery of Case of Smallpox in 13 Year Old Girl. Wakefield, Mass, Jan. 10.—Three grammar schools were closed today as a result of the discovery of a case of smallpox in a 13 year old girl, Mary Halloran, who was at the wake of Mrs. Ambrose N. Leblanc a_weelk ago. Mrs. Leblanc's infant is also stricken and altogether forty persons who attended the obsequies and who live In the more thickly settled part of the town were airectly | exposed to the _contagion. which was brought, it s sald. by a d recent- uest from Lawrence, who "Y ;’l‘d the disease. The board of health tonight voted to build immediatelv a Desthouse. and a free vaccination clinic will be held daily at the town hall Both houses where the sickness has developed have been quarantined. WITHOUT A DISSENTING VOICE Senate Adopts Joint Resolution Provid- ing for Ballinger-Pinéhot Inquiry. Washington, Jan. 10.—The adoption by the senpte without u dissenting vaice nf the joint resolution introduced by Senator jones providing for an in- vestigation of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy was the chief feature of interest of the proceedings today. The wsenate measure was pussed as a sub- stitnte for the house measure dealing With (he same subject and adoptcd last Friday. An amendment was adopted providing that the house members of the investigating committee xhall be electad by the house, which is' in ac- cordance with th vote on the house question last Friday. Late King Leopold’ $4,000,000. Jan. 10.—The inheritanc of Princesscs Louise. Stephanie and Clementine, the daughters of the late King Leopold, is now estimated at about $4,000,000. It is announced that Princess Louise pald off her creditors in part. ‘Whi Slave Traffic Man Sentenced. Pittsburg, Jan. 10.—James Lubrane, a young Italian charged with being en- gaged in the white slave traffic, was arraigned, pleaded guilty, and was septenced, all in five minutes, In crim- inal_court today, upon the testimony of Mamle Lebrarn, a voung Italian girl. He was sentenced to elghteen months’ imprisonment. Daughters Get Brussels, of Dodge Lectures. Jan. 10.—The lectures university on “Responsi- bilities of Citizenship” was delivered by Gov. Charles E. Hughes of New York ‘:! mmn lyceum tonight. Gov- ernor spoke tor on “Po- K night DR. COOK OWES HIS STENOGRAPHER $80. ns Attachment Miss Rose Weber Obt Against Any Available Funds New York, Jan Dr, Fre k, erstwhile Arcti went away without paying 10, derlck rer, rgpher, according to Miss Rose We ber, who obtained an attachment day any avallable funds the doctor ve left behind Miss Webber made amdavit that Dr. Cook owes her 380 and Interest, and that she does not know where he In. She stated that she was employed ns stenographer and confidential secre tary for eight days while Dr. Cook was living at one of New York's largess hotels. SUGAR TRUST EMPLOYES SENT TO PENITENTIARY, Four Men Who Were Convioted of Fraud in Weighing. an, 10.—Four formes American Sugar Re fining company, ¢onvicted of fraud in welghing, were sentenced to one yeaw imprisonment each by Judge Mart(y In the United States circuit court here today. The men given this term were Thomas K. Hehoe, Edward A. Hoyle Patrick-J. Hennessey and John ™ Coyle. The quartette were checker the docks of the sugar company wil llamsbure. JOHN R. EARLY REALLY A LEPER De: on Rendared by Society of Medi- cal Jurisprudence Committee. New upon whose s been divided according to nizht by a_spec Bociaty of Medienl The decision of th Y Jan, 10.—Jc medical men n reality a fsion rendered of isprudence. rk. R. Ear have a to committee the fal commit tee 1s in* direct opposition to the views held by Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley of this city, an eminent skin dlseass expert who has npfoned Rarly's cause throughout the controversy, maintats ing that the former soldier was im properly isolated at Washington and was the subject of unjust persecu tio) Early came to the city not long ago from Washington In & box car. Se tions of Earlv's skin were shown at the meeting tonight, and under the mi croscope bacllli were revealed, which the physicians present said Indicated leprosy. K. of C. Directors Call on President Taft. Washington, Jan, 10.—President Tafy today received thé board of directors of the Knlghts of Columbus, which | in_quarterly session here. The prest dent apoke of his personal contagt with the organization and its members in the Philippines. while he was governor there and expressed gratification the growth and success of the order Dead Postoffice Robber Identified Fennessee Dutch.” Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 10.—One of the postoffice robbers who was killed by the boy Saule was identified todas a8 “Tennessce Duteh,” a notirfous cracksman who rocently escaped fron federal _authorities and had been sought all over the country. The other dead man was partly {dentified am Walter Rexte Dr. Henry Daniel Shonts Dead. Chicago, Jan. 10.—Dr. Henry Daniel Bhonts, father of Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough-Metro- politan company of New York and of the Chicago & Alton railrond died st ome today after & lingering i~