Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 22, 1910, Page 1

; FEBRUARY 22 . FIVE CARLOADS OF STRIKE-BREAKERS. Reached Philadelphia Late Last Night and Housed in Car Earpns— rrest of National Organ! Phfiadelphia, Feb, 21—Police officials @00k the initiative tonight in the strug- ®le going on between the striking car men and the oMclals of the Philadel- Rapid Transit company when arrested Clarence O. Pratt, the organizer of the Amalgamated Assscintion of Street Railway Emploves, charging him with “eonspiring to in- cite to riot.” The warrant was issuea by Magistrate Beaton, the committing ‘smagistrate at the Central station, on an afidavit sworn tp by Detective O'Connor. 1t was served on 23 he was leaving an automo- Bile n which Me attended today’s meet- ing of the union car mey. He was wp in City hall and held to Gwait a hearing tomorrow morning. Warrants for Other Labor Leaders. Tt is rumored that warrants have and Electric on a . warrant » Been issued for other labor leaders as = result of a conference held late to- between Bistrict Attorney Rotan, or of Public Safety Clay and TDagisirate Beaten. 200 Stats Fencibles on Duty. The police force was augmented to- pight by swearing In for riot duty of Stste Fencibles, an independent organization abeut 200 who are not affiliated with | g The national suard, but served during ithe Spanish-American war _Under the /@&reement with the city, under which [ fhey held their armory, they are oblig- @4 to perform police duty when called . They will do duty in their reg- unitorms armed with rifles and dmyonets. ‘Call for Outside Troops if Necessary © Plans are also being discussed to- 3‘ by the commanders of the three iments in the Philadelphia nation- @l guard in this city to mobilize thelr at a moment's notice. The wmayor is entitled to call upon these pe under a special act of assem- Governer Stuart and Adjutant al Thomas J. Stewart are in this iy tonight, and if necessary a call for outside troops can be made at any time. but this is not contemplated at present. Regular Police Force Enlarged. The regular force of 3,500 pelice and 2000 specials was also enlarged today By the swearing in of 66 park guards and 500 city employes of other de- Ppartments. - These men will begin du- ty tomorrow and assist the wornout en who have been on constant on every sireet car. Mounted Police Escort Strike Breakers Five carioads of _ strike breakers geschea here late tonight and were Jopdéd en trolley cars at the Pennsyl- vania rafirosd station in West Phila- @elphia and taken Yo car barns in that Bestisn. A large squad of mounted police escorted the cars and predented & threatened demonstration by a mob of several thousand which hiad assem- Trouble is. expected following ‘use of these men on the cars to- morrow of 700 Cars in Operation, Reports vary 2s to the number of cars in service today. The company claimed that 700 cars were in operation But the pickets watching all the car Barne reported at headquarters of the striking trolleymen that only 124 cars wwere in operation on all lines. They miso repcried that nine crews of strike Dreakers which left the Frankford $arns this morning deserted their cars. The company also asserted its abil- ity to operate even more cars provided there were sufficlent policemen to guard them. E _ ANl cars were withdrawn from the surface lines at six o'clock tonight. The company explained that it did not mrant to endanger the lives of its loyal employes Rumors of General Sympathetic Strike Rioting in the very heart of the bus- Jness section of the city, the attempted Surning of another car and many petty tacks by strike sympathizers the police officinls to. emlarge their force b: $ider calling eut the state militia. The mrrest of Leader Pratt caused a sen- Wation and resulted in renewed fumors of a gensral sympathetic strike of all the 100,000 union- men . in. this city. Smouldering Spark Again Breaks Into Flame. pened . favorably for the Rawid Transit company. The ‘heavy downpour vwhich began shortly after midpight deterrad those who.were the gingjeadsrs n vesterday's lawlessncss begipning their depredatioms early today. and at the sametime dampened the ardor of those,whose intentions were to boycott the ‘cars But 3s the day wore on anfl the sun @ppeared tho spark which had been mmouldering again broke into a flame. first_serious_disturbance of -the day occurred in the ceriter of the city in frent of the Reading terminal sta- tion at Twelfth and Market streets and within a stone’s throw of the Cen- ral police station. -As a car was pro- out Market street a small boy the trolley pole frém the wire, a bleck of cars. A pile of & material on the street fur- ed ammunition for the lawless ele- The dav and soon the standing cars were | @fled with bricks and other missiles. An attempt was made to arrest the Fingleader of the boys and this was the signal for a Vviolent outbreak, with. many thousands of the idlers who had gathered in the vicinity. Mad Rush to Seek Safety. * The street was filled with a surging crowd. many of whom were merely eurifosity seekers. when the three elec- trie patrols filled with police from the eity hall reached the scene. ‘In the meantime a wagon of the Philadelphia Elecaric comrpany had been raided and many incandescent lamp globes taken and used as missiles which exploded with pistol-lke reports. Workmen on “the roofs of searby buildings joined in t ‘g; ral bombardment’ The ex- lmmps startied t timid and he there was a mad to seek as the ory went upethat dyna- ite “was” being used to ‘up the | fra 2 of tHe An Hour’s Battie. 2 . of nearly an hoy n led in dri EEsEE st = the : scarcely e whol Independent Military Organization Who Se in'War With Spain.- er—Rioting in Heart of Lusiness Section—Serious Qutbreaks in ¥ill Cistricts. led | every expedient and to con-*| 3 Street. and Electric Railways William Maloney, said to be today a strikebreaker from New York, had his skull fractured with a brick and was removed to a hospital in a serious con- dition. Dynamite Caps Used. Dynamite caps were used by strike sympathizers in many sections of the city but did mot cause serious dam- age. At Fifth street and Lebigh ayenue. atter stopping a car with one of these explosives, the mob smashed the wood- work' and attempted to set the car on fire. A Squad of poHeemen with loaded revolyers dispersed the ‘mob, but not untll ‘Bdward Morgan, the conductor, had been badly beaten. Although five thousand persons ~were in #he crowd, only about five arrests were made. Shifting of Police Force. Feeling that many policemen were too sympathetic with the strikers and strike sympathizers in- their home lo- calities, o general shifting of the force was ordered tonight by tor of Public Safety Clay. West Philadelphia police will go to northeastern sections, while men from those aistricts will take places vacated Dy the West Philadelphians. It is also thought that similar orders will be given to the police in the downtown and northern sections. A Curious Incident. A curfous incident arising from strike occurred today when 'a man charged with robbing a jewelry store, who was being arrested by a polic man, was taken to the officer by & mob of strike sympathizers. When the prisoner attempted to escape the po- Heeman drew his Tevolver and shot him in the leg. Rioters in Bitter Temper. While the’da: done ‘to_the prop- erty of the Rapid it company te- day was net as great as that ef yes- the temper of the rioters was no less bitter. The extra . force of policemen seemed o have a Jeterrent effect on the strike sympathizers in many sections of the city. In-a statement issued t Meyor Reyburn said that the p ‘would be protected oven it the » of the state and city -had-to be. out. First Shot Fired at a The first shot at & was'fived dmel- 1ate t dental tc 2 seing held by the s cemen at- tempted to force the “back when o ‘matorman inte The officer drey. iiis revelver. ‘at themen but the bullet went: d no one was injured. . While meeting wis in progress iren grat which are used to.cover sewer outlets were torn up and placed on the tracks. Soom there was @ biock of cars and the crowd amused_itself by breaking all the windows. - The cars were il filed with passengers and of the riders were cut by fiyihg glwss. Oc- currences of this character were re- ported from nearly every section of the city, but only in one instance wus there an attempt te burn the cars. _pol PARLIAMENT OPENED, FINANCIAL MATTERS FIRST. Redmond Declares the Nationalists Will Not Support That Programme. London, Feb. 21.—King Edward this afternoon’ opened In state the third parliament of his reign. The reading of the spesch frem the throne occupled four minutes, in which the plan of the ministerial gn against the hous: | ot lords was outlined. | The-plivers in the game of politics | threw their cards upon the table in | the house of commwns today. The gov- ernment is without the allies necessary to carry legislation and the present Prospect is that the country ‘whl be stirred up by another gengral election within a few months. Premier Asquith announced that the financial legislation will e put ehead of the proposals to curb the power of the house of lords. John E. Redmone {the Irish leader, declared flatly that *he natlonalists would not suppor* that programme. The laberites are holding meeting to decide their course. They probably will follow in the footsteps of the Irish members. The government may be able to adopt the budget by the grace of the ocen- servatives, who possibly will -vote for it in_order to avert financial. chaos and keep the wheels of the empire turning. But the enactment of the budget will, as Mr. Redmond pointed out, leave.the winning cards in the hands of the lords, “who then ‘will be free to reject the bill for the reforma— tion of their house and force another electton. WOULD RUN GOVERNMENT BY BUSINESS M!‘",IOD& Senator Aldrich Says $300,000,000 a Year Could Be Saved. ‘Washington, Feb. 21.—Senator Ald- rich said today that if permitted to do 50 he would undertake to run the gov- ernment of the United States for $300, { posal, but was a speech to the |senate on his Bil_providing for the |ereation of a commission %o reform the |business methods of the government. | | "He pleaded earnestly for the amu- |#hority, saying that present methods were obsolete and involved the annual |1oss of at least _$100.060,000 a year. At his instance the bill was so amended £5 solaeeide, that b senmeission be composed entirely of members of con- ek e . and repreéenta- ves. 3 Report of Death’ of Abdul Hamid Offi- cially Denied. Constantinepls, ‘Feb. 21—A that Abdul Hamid, the depased e it The. fact thas ¢ o % Ttan's two sons apd the harem : LA Saloniki to the the rumor. mmw t Alexandria, Ceitic, sfom Feb. 20: Caledonia, from ..3Paraar§pha : Galileo, from New York Feb. § for this port, is ashore near lere. Cannes, - France, Feb. 21.—Joseph Chamberiain, the British statesman, who is in feeble health, arrived here today. Fagal Feb, 23— The French steam- | sihip Madonns, from Napics Feb. 10 for New York, has arrived here with-ma- chingry out of orde Copenhagen, Feb. 21.—The British steamship Manchester ~Spinner, from Pensacola and Norfolk for this port, before reported ashore at Varberg, has been fioated. Poifit-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe Twenty thousahd sugar ca went on_strike today and all tural work has been stopped uation is serious. as the (roops police are insufficient to preserv among the strifers. The troubie be- gan yesterday, when 1000 went on Strike and set fire to five of the estates on which they had been employed. The Strikers have retused to accept an offer of an jncrease of 33 per cent. In wages. Fei and orde mi-official zette from that the mpde Cologne, Feb. 2h—A despatch to the Cologne Berlin says that it i3 true empress of Abyssinia has charges against the German phy: to King Menelik, Dr. Steinkuehie firming that the latter has mad tempts to poison the empero: ‘Steinkuehler was ordered to Addis-abeba and ghe German minister obtained permissfon to escort him to the frontier with guards from the Ger- man legation. OBITUARY. Rev. Father James O'Reilly Sheridan of Naugatuck. \ Naugatuck, Comn. Feh. 21—R: Father James O'Reilly Sheridan, pas- tor of St. Francis' Catholic church, died at his home here tonight after an iliness which had extended over the Egreater part of two years. Death was due to a general breaking down of the whole system. Father Sheridan was first taken 11l when he. suffered a stroke of paral-, ysis which rendered one of the arms useless for a time. He also.suffered from an injury to one of his knees which surgical treatment failed to en: tirely relieve. though in time he re- covered -the partial use of his arm and aid not publicly appear at the church though he continued to su- pervise the affairs of the parish, Two weeks ago his illness became acute and for the past two days his death was momentarily expected. _ This morning_he lapsed into unconscious- ness amd continued that way until death came shortly after five o'clock this afternoon. James O'Reilly Sheridan was born February 10, 1865, in County Longford Jrelanid, and came to this country in 186, was gradusted from Holy Cross college in 1875, studied theology at the Grand seminary, Montreal, and finished at St. Bonaventure's at Alle- y, N. Y. He was ordained by ishep Ryan of Buffalo, June 15, 1878, ‘and was for six years assistant at the Church of the Immaculate Conceptien Waterbury. In June, 1884, he went to Windsor Locks as pastor of St Ma- T¥'s Roman Catholic church, remain- ing in that parish twelve vears, dur. g whicy time, among other activities, he built 2 parochial achool, and in 1386, the Sscred Heart church in the town of Sumeld, and later St. Joseph's in Pogquonock. He began his Jabers in St Franciy® parish in 1886. Through his efforts = parochial school was estab- Mshed, and a $118,000 debt which was n ihe chureh, was wiped out Fore- ‘that a_divsion of the parish must come some time, he secured = house and lot at Union City, and when that part of St. Francis’ parish was set off as & separate parish under the name of St. Mary's, Father Sheridan turned aver the house and lot to the new parish. Father Sheridan celebrated the 25th anniversary of his entrance to the priesthood Janaary 15, 1903 He was one of four brothers, two of whom were priests. One of the broth- ers was Rev. Bernard Sheridan, pas- tor of & church in Middletown, a sec- ond was Rey. William Sheridan, who was in charge of a parish at Cornwail Bridge, and the third brother is living in Jreland, with a sister Bishop O'Reflly, the second bishop of the Hartford_dlocese. was an uncle, and the late Father Mughes of Hartford a cousin. The funeral services will be heid at 10.80 Thursday morning at St. Francis’ church. The officers of the mass have been ‘selected, but they will not be made known until later. CONGRESS. Washington, Feb. 21.—Bills provid- 1R for a commission to investigate the business methods of the government and for the issuance of $30,000,000 of certificates of indebtedness in the in- terest of irrigation projects were dis- cussed by the senate today, but neith- er_measure was disposed of. Senator AMrich of the committee to | investigate business methods of the | government said it would effect an annual saving of $100,000,000. He de- clared that he would conduct the gov- ernment on $300,000,000 annually lesi it now costs. The house bill to require railroad companies to supply hand brakes, step- ladders, ctc., was passed\by Ui sen- ate. The/action of the hoise today as- an appropriation of $125,000 for P! the work of the immigration commission, this being -the full amount desired by the commission for that| purpose. A large number of local bills were passed by the house and further prog- Tess was miade upon the Indian appro- priation hill. Upon adjournment that measure had been about half complet- Both houses will be in session to- morrow. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. Carter, One of the Most Beau ful Americans in London Society. London, Feb. 21.—The engagement is announced of Miss Mildred Carter, daughter of John Ridgley Carter, for- merly first secrétary of the Ameérican embassy here and now minister to Ru- mania, to Viscount Acheson, late Heu- tenant in the Coldstream Guards and | | Democratic Chairman Conners Ready I INGTON, but could meet no man in : GEORGE WASH ‘Who could send dismay fo any h.i:ht::: fiel Freshmen Win | William Seyler 1l | 3apan. an and’ family lliam Jennings Bry niiy afpived at Santiago, where they our days. 8ystematic " ns sclence is proposed ih ‘schools of Nzy\' York state. 'A Merger of Various Woman Suffrage societies in New York is being organ-— fzed under the direction of the woman’s party. % in the Western /Railroad Companies arc malking efforts to prevent a reeurrence thfs spring of, labor troubies in - ihc mines of Indiatia and Tlinois. -Great Britain and France have asked China not to proceed with the Algun raflrond scheme without taking under consideration the wishes of Russia and p *The French Aereplane Constructors have decided jointly to send a lawyer to the United Stafes to defend French interests in the suits brought by the Wright brothers Mrs. Henry ‘F. :Dimock, president’ of the. George Washington Memorial as- sociation, announced in New York con- tributions, had been recelved sufficient 10 ansurs T enctibil of the.propaséd NEW PROVISIONS IN POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL Of Interest to Letter Carriers and Clerks in Charge of Sub-Stations— Rural Free Delivery Service. . (Special to The ‘Bulletin.) Washington, Feb. 21.—The postofice appropriation bill just reported to the ‘house contains a nuraber of new prq- visions of general interest. The ap- propriations for clerks and carriers are kept down to the lowest estimates pos- sible, and itis reported that an effort will be made to.increase these appro- priations. ~ 3 The _amount appropriated for letter - Gannon-Scrap.| Made Confession FIFTEEN MINWIES OF BLOODY |TO GHIEF OF POLICE WOODRUFF AND MUDDY FIGHTING. AND DETECTIVES. - TWO DUMMY énmns\ ATLANTIC CITY PIER TRAGEDY. Deceived the Sophomores — Three Thousand Pérsons Saw the Fight This Morning at Wesleyan. Officials Say They. Will Ask for Ver- diok, of Manslaughter Rather Than Middletown, Conn., Feb. 22.—The an—. nual cannen between | more and Torn!as ef Wanington ‘won igl ‘morning by tfls'h e ter fitteen mnutes of hard Oghting. By the rules governing the scrap the :hfelh‘ men must keep the cannom in eir pessessfon and on the cam; Tor ntleen minutes. o No Serious Injuries. This morning the freshmen brought two dummy cannons on the <campus and while the sophomeres were trying to secure them brought the real can- non on. The campus was deep with mud and the that followed was both an nu%ugmmw rious in; were 3,000 Spectators. ‘There was a bright moon shining and it is estimated that nearly 3,000 per- sons witnessed the scrap. | ATTACKED BY BULL WHILE FEEDING HIS STOCK Connecticut Farmer Received Probably Fatal Injuries. 3 Watertown, Conn., Feb. 21.—While feefling his stock late today, Henry Inesen. a farmer on Nova Scotia hill, was aitacked by a bull and received injuries that will probably prove fatal. Ineson was walking through the barn- vard ‘when the bull charged him, pin- ning him up against ghe side of the barn, one of the antmal's horns pierc- ing a lung and breaking several ribs. Ineson was rescued by his employes after a hard fight With the epraged an- imal. The farmer was taken to his home and jt is expected that the in- juries to his Jung will prove fatal. He is 50 years old. ~had given up al him. ~The it wae made presence Chiet. Woodruft, Detective Qeptain Whalen and Detec- tives Miller and Malseed. Admits He Was Alone With Miss Adams. According toWoodruft, Seyier elares that he did not murder. the gir, 'but admits that he was alone wvith her on the pler, as stated by Orvis Sevler and Atice “Adsms, sister of the dead ] Girl Either Jumped or Fell from Pier. Adthough the police officials refuse to make the confession public,: they said tonight that they would ask for @ verdict of manslaughter rather than one of murder in the firat_d ,_and it 4s understood thatthey believe Scy— ler's statement that the sirl _either jumped or fell from the pier. ~The of- ficials declarc that the details of tne mystery surrounding the girl's death will be e public at the coron inquest sdifor Wednesday night, when both Seyler and his brother are ex-— cted “to tell their versions of the . Manslaughter Charge._ _Following Seyler's confession, he was ailowed to see his wife and the twe Were left together in' the jail for two hours. The officials state that Seyler's admissions are sufficient to warrant his being held on the manslaughter charg~ gven if no more serious aecusaio is made. -~ SARDINES = FALSELY LABELLED. Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Boxes' Seized in Boston. Boston, Feb. 21 —Enough sardines to feed thousands of Lent-observing fam- ilies were seized under orders-of the pure food bureau of the United States department of agriculture here today, because, it is alléged, - the boxes are falsely labelled as'containing sardines put' -~ in olive oil. The authorities assert that there is no olive oil in the boxes. The sardines, of which there are nearly 250,000 boxes, are valued 00 and were shipped:here from Pembroke, M to Face the Music. New York, Feb, 21.—William~ J. Conners, chairman of the democratic state committee, fighting for his polit- ical life against those who are trying to oust him as chalrman, announced tonight that he stands ready to testify at Albany in the proposed investiga- tion of the charges that places on the supreme court beneh of the state have ?‘:(eexll“ “auctioned off” in Greater New or] Y 's New Laboratery of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. New Haven, Feb. 21.—The board of prominent officers of Yale®college and governing board of - the-Sheffield sci- entific school will share in the respon- sibility for the administration of the new laboratory of zoology and compar- ative anatomy to 'be erected on the Plerson-Sage square; the land which recently " was acquired by the college through the gift of $650,000 by Mrs, Russell Sage, was determined at thé corporation meeting. The laboratory, plans for which are being prepared, will be open to all departments of the university. Religious Institution for ' New York Workingmen to Be Opened. Neow York, Feb. 21.—A labor temple, peculiarly a’ religious institution for workingmien. 1s 1o be Openad on the East Side shortly by the Presbyterian department of church labar. A build- ing has been rénted for the purpose at $10,000 a year. Prominent among the features to be inaugurated will be a workingmen'’ mass meeting every Sunday afternoon. The buflding will be open-all day and every night. > Efforts Making to Obtain ‘Pardon fo | Rev. James R. Kaye. Peoria, Feb. 21.—Efforts are now be- ing made to obtain a pardon for Rev. James R Kaye, the minister of Lin- coln, Ill, who-was sent to the Peoria workhouse for a term of six months a week ago on the charge of having _llegally, in his posititon moulds of United States coins. ‘The petition is directed to President Taft and & number of nfluential ‘friends are working in his behalf. | Resigned from Yale ‘Observatory Di. rectorshi| New Haven, Conn. Feb. 21.—The resignation of Dr. Willlam L. Elkin from the directorship of the Yale ob- servatory was announced at the meet- ing of the corporation today. The res- fgmation, will sake: Berect At i chige of the college e a veteran of the South African war. Miss Cartef isone of the most beau- -and Popular Americans in stier the depart " her vatnee Y ure of her father ¥ Viscount Acheson 15 count of ‘the fourth Earl of He was born in 1877. . Found Dead in His Bed. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 21.—John J. uun:"ngwm:- g o p emlieer te vs, was Sound desd in bed at his home hers late today when neighbors, alarmed at it phusiice, brke- 3 the doors. ' The ner pronounced death disease. A son and placed on the emeritus iist. -| World’s Record for Wall Scaling Brok: en. 3 Hartford, Feb. 21—At the ninth an- | nual meet ‘of the Second division. na- val militia, held In the First ent armory hers tonight, the world’s rec- took -the event 4-5 5. Molders Join Bethishem Steel Strikers. hmmqn;m Feb. 21.-Four The Administration Ship Subsidy Bill g ‘Washington, Feb. 21.—The admin % istratiawship subsidy bill reached the house today through the filing of the report of the committee on merchant marine and fisheries which had favor- ably acted upon it. The minority was _granted_ten days in which to file & report against the bill. Barre Granite Strike Officially Ended. —The strike ?;l: more than five thousand ers ended officially. ment to the effect it thy el them v carriers in offices already established is $31,000,000 and it is proyided that the totel number of carriers in the service June 30th, 1911, shall not ex— ceed 30,000, which is a'new provision. The raitway mail clerks are allowed & small sum for their daily expenses, which is the first time this provision has been in an appropriation bill, al- though a fight bas been made for it every session for some years.. The al- lowance is limited to 75 vents a day, after 12 hours from’the time of hegin ning’ their initial Tun, and the swm: of $250,000 is_appropriated for this pur- pose. A report as to the workings of this provisior\ must be made to con- 55 nexi December. The greatest disappointment to the Mice ment and to the clerks the section relating to clerks in charge of sub-stations. Most of these ke’ recefve $1,200 a vear, and-a spe- fort was this yedr to raise to $1,300.. The bill, however, pro- for -only ‘the & ‘a8 iast year, namely,”630. The et _recommended a rajse for *of these clerks, and an amendment will be proposed ‘on the floor of the ‘house to brirg this about. - ‘That*an_effort will be e {6 re- the rural free delivery ser- vice' put i on a better basis is evidenced By a section which reads as Tollow, ; “The pestmaster 'general -shalf re- quire from carriers, rural delivery ser— vice, a return of the number, APPrOX] mate - weight of unmaflable packages carried by them, and the compensa- tion receivéd therefor. for a period of three ‘months, beginning July 1, 1910, and shall report the result of s in- quiry to congress mat: later than Dec. 0, 1910; and pravided further, that the postoffice departmeny shall investigate and report to congress not later than Dec. 10, 1910, its conclusion as to the advisability of the transferring of the rural delivery seryice and the . star Toute service to ome bureau, its con- clusion as to the advisability of & <classification of the rural delivery ser- vice, taking into consideration mileage, \cMimatic conditions, conditions of roads, the Joeal cost of animals and feed, and any other facts which bear on a re- organization and improvement of this CHANCES ARE MUCH IN MR. TILLMAN'S FAVOR. on of Senator from South Garo- lina Centinues to Improve. Condi ‘Waghington, Feb. 21.—The continued improvement in the condition of Sena- tor B. R. Tilman of South Carolina has inspired renewed hope of ultimate recovery from his present serious ill- ness. In the opinion of his physicians the chances are, now much I his favor. 4t . There has been some abatement of the paralysis and today he regained the limited use of his right arm and leg. = The aj 2 has markedly less: ened and he 1s now able to speak. The change for the better is said to be most remarkable and is attributable to the senator's temperate life, strong physique and generally good congition. The favorable developments ifi Nis 11l- ness are considered very exceptional. He is responding admirably to the medical treatment and it is safd the power of speech may entirely be re- gained. Appeal. from Supreme Court Decision in Thaw Case. New York, Feb 21, —Attornby Gen eral O'Malley appéaled tonight fro the recent order of Supreme ('dllfi Jastice Tompkins appointing “'l*,‘« Vanamee referee to take evidbnel n the application of Mrs, Mary Thaw for the transfer of her son, Harr Thaw, from Matteawan state haspital to another Imsane asylum. - The ap- peal will bo heard * the appellate di- ‘vision of the second department. The 'taking of evidence before the referee &lll be stayed until the question of e validity of Justice Tompkins' or- der is determined by the appellate 0i- visfon. Death of Well. Known New York.Man 3 About. Town. X New York, Feb. 21.—Jackson Gour- aud, “frst nighter” and m: ut towh, dfed at his home here to -om an acute wtiack df tonsilitis, {ollowed v blood poisoming. Mr. ra. Gouraud were Ngnown for thelr lavish and unique emtertainments. The latter was formerly Miss Aimee Crocker, daughter of the lte . B, €rocker, of San Franciwco. She was Mrs, Henry Gillig, widow of e former co of ' the it Yacht club, IRRI’I WE her-a few years ago. < Injunction in Diverce Procesdings. .~ New York, Feb, 21.—An injunction/| was granted in the supreme coirt here -today restraining Mrs. Grace Herbert Sigmanhelm Wahl, the. divorced xica G nheim, from bringing in ¥ilinois to con- number of| Dty decisions, prem niinistration of peared in the fe tribunals in mory in the union. tion.. The importanc other cases. Th won a complete ‘Washington, Web, 2 the United States su- court today passed on the. ad- Many state laws w declared unconstitutional, upheld, and various laws of the United States were given State Railroad Cases cases decided exceeded »° — "<E. TWO CENTS 'S, SUPREME GOURT D Final Interpr FOUR PER CENT, GROSS EARNINGS T GISIONS eté.tion @iven to Various Laws the United States. Importance of the State Railroad Cases Decided Exceec All Other Cases—State of Minnesota Won Comple Victory Over Two:. Railroad Systems and Becon Fossessed of $800,000 in Back Faxes. —1In more.‘than Justice as 1t had ap- deral courts and state e than half the states er more wi a gnal interpreta- Y Mont fmpor- tance. e of the state railroad that of any he state of Minnesota Northern Ralway company victory over the Great, and the Chicago, Great Western Rallway com- pany, which ha attempts to levy earnings tax. on The- state of wise won a vict 4n that state, w d resisted the state’s a four per cent. gross them. South Carolina like- ory over the railroads hen court adopted the view of the supreme court that the Jaw requiring railroads to pay alty of $50 for failure to adfus ninety days clai applied only to pen- t within ms for lessened losses interstate traffic - The state of Kansas came out vic torious Missour] the instal in, its cific jon litigation against the Railroad company for of separate passenger trains on a branci roa Kansas, to the Kansa line. It was {n this case annpunced the doctrine wh grevail'in every state, that ev passenger train was oporated ut the raflroad was under form such, service as tatned its charter Unconstitutional Law The state of Alabama levy on corporations deckurs tutional. = Rallroads brought th 10 the supreme court Georgla lost In moat of it in the effort to levy Rallroad and Bankin, erty and franchise ta ter exemptions. What Minnesota’s Victory St. Paul, Minn., Feb of the wiefory won by today of the United States sur the. four, per ¢ case, Attornes Simpson said “This victory mean becomes posseswed of taxes well as revenve of $300,000. “It is the the state has AS “A Frenchman Acec . of PI Chicago, ¥eb. Gross of Chicay mund Rostand from the “Merc ville ‘two_play DENOUNCED ‘M. ROSTAND LITERARY THIEF” used by Chicago Man lagiarizing. 21—Samuel Eberly g0, who accuses Kd- of having ‘plagiarized hant Prince of Corn- s—*“Cyrano de Berwe- rac” and “Chantecler”—sent a cabl gram todav to deno the French academy cing M. Rostand as a “literary thief?” and demanding an Investigation of M. Rostand’s right to be a member of that organization. Mr. Gross ask: ing Of three men be appointed hear the evidence Rostand and h s that a court consist- to M its submitted im¥elf and to by let -decigion as to the authorship of the plays be final, A manuscript Prince of Cornyille” was copy of the “Merchant Jeft at the Porte St. Martin theater, in Paris 1889, according to Mr. Gross. e says that the play London in 1896, and that M Rostand ‘may have ot places. - was it at either of these CHARGES AGAINST SO-CALLED Sti Philadelphia, States _atforney trade, he asked polistic control supply Judgés Grey, Feb. the Dnited States five ‘hours today, nolds, special assistant to the nd pleaded by some railroads of stock peting raflroads and coal e declared a violation of the provis- fons of the Bherman anti-trust law. ANTHRACITE COAL TRUST Coal-Carrying Roads n a Position to Trade. 1.—Standing circuit _court James McR United recited the in for c general, alleged Iniquities of the so-called an- thracite coal trust and charged seven of the nine coal-carrying rail- roads entering the hard-coal fields of Pennsylvania are in a position to stifle On behalf of the gover the court to junction to break up the alleged mono- that ment, issue an in of the domestic fuel that - acquisition in com- companies Buffington and Lan- nig, who are sitting In the case, gave unusually close attention to the case. THE NINA REPORTED FOUND. WASHINGTON INVESTIGATING Naval Tug Said ; Ashore on Newport New; reported at Fort ing naval tug NI the coa; of Virgint to Have Been Driven Virginia Coast. Va., Feb, 21.—It was Monroe that the miss- ina has been found on where she was driven’ by the severe storm which it was thought had sent her to the bot- tom of the Atlantic. ‘Washihgton, Feb. 21 est was shown Jay stranded on Virginia coast. men_who were left Norfolk Feb Gifts to City of to Hospi the late Mathias to gen. million day, ment fund and at - $609,000. score of emplov of the estate nices,. ‘grand ews, all In trust. Changes in Ba Provided for in Bill Fob. Wi b on, Y day. . It would barise &' volant jent ts to the employers’ Iability concurrent grantivx~ such cases to st: ramd providing that of infured parties who set afoot to ascertain the ty report, which, in some quai ed to renew hope that the thirty-two aboard-fier when she ruarg 6 were alive TEN MILLION DOLLAR Eimire, N. Y., Feb. 21.—By the will of posing of an estate v the city of Elmira recelved his magnificent art gallery with an endow- Ten thousand dollars glven to Yale university, five thousand dollars to,the Skull and Bones society of Yale, and thirty thousand dollars to the Arnol, Ogden hospital of this city. A score of churches in the city and a, from $250 to $1.000 each in nieces and grand inkruptoy proceedings are provided for in & ®ill favorably acted upon b: the house committee on judlclary. to- Intense intes by the navy depar ment in the report from Newport News that the Nina had not gone down, but the beach along the Tnauiries were at once uth of the ters, tend- TESTATE. Eimira, Yale College, and Churohes. Hollenback Arnol, dis- lued at from five dollars, ‘probated t his home, valued in all in e and attendants get The residue among the neph- divided nkruotcy Proceedings 21, —Changes in permit any person (o ary bankrupt. Amend- law jurisdiction n ate and federal courts 1 cases of \deaths THE AULD-ROBNETT CQURTMARTIA Reasons for Reopening the plained by Paymaster Auld's Burlington, Vi, Feb. 21 song for Tepopening the goutrtmart ro explai Joseph Auld, 4 newspaper put this eity and father of P who was recently tried that at the Chriestown nav charges growing out of a sault on Dr. Fdward Cowle 1ap. of Boston. Joseph A “The' vexatious questl trial and double punis &le offense should be settled ®iad that it is to be aps highest authority “The contention wa both the Auld and the The Auld case was fin satisfactorily that I did not t Decessary to press the mait At the same time I bel Bhuuld be settied for ail tiis Washington, Feb. 1 tlon- of the precedents partment hus conviic that thers can be no ground test by counsel for Past Assista goon Robnett againal tie the eourtmartial in h this ¢ the plea that punishment in vie previously adminl navy department Boston, Feb assignment for Paymaster ( Auld and Asststant Surgeon Robnett were tonight Charlestown navy vard partment in Washingto Auld is ordered to procesd to in Burlington, Vt. thece to a ther assignment, Tt 1 1, officlally that his assig on one of the battleships lantic flest. Surgeon R dered to return to duty y gansett Bay nave BRI TWO UNITED STATES CRU UNFIT TO GO T Have Besn Filed Navy Department Protests have begun | suit, the executor might continue the action, siso were favorably reportéd Dropoed Dead ip Jury Box. New York, Feb, 31.—Henry mer, a Brookiy Qead in the juky up to_answer to HDW “Present, Brun- m merchant, 'dropped ox today as he stood ‘hie name at roll call. turned as to 1l in ‘e heap on the elay Vallejo,, Cal, ¥eb, engineering officer of the cr 1and has filed a protest department against send to sea for target ctioe It is similar to t engineer of the Wes gard to that vessel, would be cndangered ships to ses, with their its present dondition. T it s said, have been dorsed by the commanc the two cruirers and er in chief of the fleet a to Washington - ri Yale Appointments and F - Announced New York, Feb, 21 and promotions announc poration mecting hi « today. includes the follo In" the colle ¥ now of ¥ a8 app $natrugtor > ¥ Fairchild investiga political hool Chancellor assistant economy In the Henry N, MeCracker MeCracken N un: ity, was promoted to a ant professorship of of absence for two mo ed to Professor Owen to t of botanists at Brussels Butte Mining Operations to E sumed Butte, Mont./ Feb. 21 fMclally ‘stated that the mining tigns in this district whic) ecoun 4 dispu suméd during the from Colorado and plied by the Western ther side would conf however, Not in Favor of Administration Bodton, ¥ nihilation of coastwls ter transportation x result from the passage of the istration's raflway regulatior pending in_congress, according renolition adopted unanimous) By the trausportation cominittee Boston chamber of commerce New Haven Architect Dead New Haye R. Brown, of the firm of I Beren, architects, d! at bis In West Haven today from @ breakdow due to old age. Among the bulldings designed by Mr. Brown are the cowrt house, Second regiment armery, ané the Y. M.-G, A, buliding in his city He o 30 years old [