Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 1, 1910, Page 1

300,000 GOAL MINERS QUIT WORK Not a Strike, Merely a Suspension Pending Arrangement of New Scale LITTLE PROBABILITY OF COAL SHORTAGE Miners Predict a Prompt Signing of Wage Scale—Opera- tors Maintain Mines will be Kept Closed from Sixty Days to Four Months—News of First Victory for Men Comes from Brazel, Ind. Three hundred thoysand organized miners in the bituminous coal fields of | that district late today it was an- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowsa, | nounced today that the operators Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ark- | would gran a wage, increase of five ansas quit work last Thursday night. | cents a ton to the miners and there The miners, members of the United | would be no strike, Aline Workers of America, declared the Encouraged by the concessions of walk-out was not a strike, but merely | the operators of the Brazil district, @ suspension of work pending an ar- | the members of the miners national rangement between themselves and the | executive board continued tonight be- operators of a wage secale for another | hind locked doors, discussing ways and vear, the old seale having expired | means of conducting the campaign for with the month of March, . a five cents a ton increase in wages The men demand an increase of pay | in all the others of the coal districts in some instances of five cents a ton |of the country. President T. L. Lewis and in other instances more, and cer- | said he was satisfied that the suspen- tain changes in working conditions. sion of work beginning tonight will Confidence was expressed by the |last only a few days and that the operators that there will be no general | miners will have little trouble in mak- coal famine, large supplies of fuel hav- | ing their new contracts with the oper- ing been secured in anticipation of | ators. - the walk-out. ‘When the executive board adjourns While the miners predicted the sus- | tonight the members at once will go pension would be cut short by a prompt | to their respective districts to assist =igning of wage scales, some of the|in directing the strikes. President operators maintained the mines might | Lewis will visit the Illinois field to- bhe kept closed for a month or SixXty | morrow. days or longer. i b Fhe comifiions in the various states | 1lineis Mines May Be Closed for Sixty wvere as follows: | Days. | St. Louis, March 81.—Nine hundred ions in Several States. 11linois nine hundred mines closed and 75.000 miners quite work at 5 p. : & joint conference -on wages called ext Monday in Chicago; operators say men demand increase of ten cents o ton, which wi mean an annual coal mines in Illinois closed down thig afternoon and tonight, and 75,000 min— ers stopped work. The mines will be closed until a new wage scale is sign- ed, the old agreement expiring at 5 o'clock today.’ ‘When the whistles blew at the end fnerease in expenses in Illinois_of| .o B r $14,000,000: possibility of. a~ four|Sf the oy shi{ the miners walked out monthe' shutdown: two months’ sup- | | ings were turned over to the pump men jand engineers, who will be the only to | Men at work tomorrow morninsg. . ! The mines will be closed for probably ply of coal on hand; no immediate coal famine to Chicago industries. Indiana—18,000 miners. ordered quit at midnight; conference arranged for next Wednesday at Terre Haute; | SiXty days, and possibly for four miners say shutdown will be short months, according to statements of lived. members of the operators’ executive committes. The Illinols miners declare have a fund of $718,000. No disorder is looked for, say the miners’ officials, unless the operators try to resume operations with non- union men, 3,000 Out in Colorado Fields. Denver, Col, March 31.;"’. is con- 4 B sidered certain that the 3,000 miners e o o rrestara | Of the northern Colorado coal fields cansas—Compri L i nterstate flelds, 35000 miners quit; | "0 Strike tomorrow. #arly settlement hoped for, but miners Quit Work Quietly. Pennsylvania—Approximately 40,000 men ordered to quit at midnight: tem- porary scale allowing a five cent run- of-mine a ton increase hoped to be reached by Saturday, settlement of the powder guettion-to be held in abey- ance. Towa—Every mine in Towa ordered viosed pending settlement of the wage & they mssere they have fund of $400,000 to| Kansas City, Mareh 21.—Approxi- @raw on, é ... | mately 35.000 union coal miners quit Ohio—All miners ordered to quit; | work today in thée southwestern field, etate leader declaring it is not a strike | .omposed of the states of Missouri, but merely suspension: at Torain, | Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. ©hio, one steel plant shut down and The men went out quietly. They threw out of work 4,000 workmen, the | (.o 0" ordered from the miners’ head- tnanagers announcing a shortage of | quarters at Pittsburg (Kan.) yesterday o to quit. When the operators learned of this move last night, they request- ed the men to remove their tools up- he first victory by the men was con- tained in an announcement from ra- the center of the Indiana block 211, Ind a3 1s u; Foi "adtice: where 1t was = on leaving the shatts today. This was She s demand for a five cent in-| g ineers, firemen and pump men Erveme Wolkl Be. stERted. alcik e ot work, e Both miners and operators predict a long and determined fight. To Have Conference in Kentucky. Louisville, Ky., March 31.—Union coal miners of western Kentucky quit Ind., March 31.—News| work tonight pending an effort of ous coal miner’s first| their representstives *and the mine- r struggle for an increase | owners to reach a wage agreement for received late today by | the mext'two years. A conference to- officers of the United | day. was without result, but both mi- = from Brazil, the center | ners and operators have appointed block coal district. wage committees to confer tomorrow. secret conference ! The miners ask a six cents increase. NEWS FROM MININ_G CENTER. Favorable Report to Miners from Indianapolis. close At the NO MORE “FLOATING” OF OYSTERS. NEW HAVEN TROLLEYMEN ACCEPT WAGE SCALE. Old Rate was 211-2 Cents Per Hour—| Practice Ordered Stopped by Depart- New Rate 26 to 27. ment of Agriculture. March 31.—The ‘Washington, March 31.—Oysters Conr ] trolleymen’s | can no longer be fed—or, as the trade Haven members of the al wnion tonight voted to accept the|term goes, “floated in brackish water” wage increase offered by the Connecti- | —before they are offered for sale. The The old rate was 211-2| department of agriculture has ordered cents an hour and the new rate from(that the practice must stop at once. 26 to 27 cents. The matter of the| The order affects all the oyster trade number of hours to constitute a day’s| in the Tnited States and is of im- work was not definitely settled though | mense importance to dealers. it is expected that the men will ac-| Recently the department gave a cept the proposition made by the com- | hearing to the oyster men, who main- pany. tained that the quality of the oyster g = g - hiaid is improved by the floating process. NO LIQUOR DEALERS The department of agriculture, how- cut company. ever, holds that to float an oyster .'mY_AL S CONIM, after it js taken from its bed pro- Wppoljacs ‘ERvision SF Emmwwe Comrt X008 Mo e e s Sustains Supreme Council. fers a risk of typhoid. Opyster men v from the New Jersey beds came in an New York, March 31.—The appellate | organization two hundred strong to @ivision of the supreme court today Washington a few weeks ago to pro- sustained the rule of the supreme|test against the order, claiming that wouncil of the Royal Arcanum prohib- fling members enjoyihg benefit funds if engaged in the retail ligwor business or in the selling of intoxicating liquors @s a salesman. Grieved Over Death of Mother, Boy its enforcement would mean thei Tuin, Supreme Court to Remain in Session During Funeral of Justice Brewer. g ‘Washington, March 31.—Because of Shot Himself. the pressure of public business, the su- Brockton, Mass., March 31.—Believ- | preme court will remain in session #ng that hi® mother’s constant care for | throughout Monday without taking an him during a two vears’ jliness had | gdjournment, as had been intended, out hastened her death by apoplexy Wed- | of respect to the memory of the late nesday, Frederick B. Hall, 18 years| pgsociate Justice Brewer. This be- ©ld, son of Samuel W. Hall, today kill- | casne known positively tonight. The ed himself by shooting at his home in | gecision was reached after consulta- North Easten. The boy was just re—|tion with Mrs. Brewer, who agreed that eovering from an atiack of nervous|per late husband would have wished rostration when his mother died. a course to be pursued under ex- lother and son will be buried together. | jsting circumstances. Strike Situation at Philadelphia Un- changed. Philadelphia, March 31.—Upon the arrival here today of John Mitchell, bor ler, several conferences :vh:rehlwld SRh e of ae adjust- | that he was one of the two men who ment of the strike against the Phila- | captured Jefferson Davis in Georgia delphia Rapid Transit company. At a|forty-five years ago, John Wolen, aged jate hour tonight, however, leaders of | 70 years, was released from the city the street carmen and officials of the | jail today on suspended sentence. He Rapid Transit company united in de- | was convicted of “boot legging.” His claring the situation unchanged. discharge shows that he served in Company E, Seventh Pennsylvania fi-vl!:y, during the war. Sentence Suspended for Captured Jeff Davis. Seattle, Wash., March 31.—Because his discharge from the army shows President Taft Finds General Bell Resting Easily. rashington, March 31, — President m‘tzu&;‘unu on General J. Fran] 3in Bell, chief of staff, to inquire about the egondition of the officer, who was injured in .an _auiomobile accident some days ago. The president found General Bell resting easily and well on the road to recovery. Professor Agassiz’s Body Sent to Bos- New York Pastor Attacks Socialism. eepsie, N. Y., March 31.—The Rev. J. Wesley Hill, pastor of Metro- politan temple, New York city, attack- ed socialism in his address tonight.at the meeting of the board cf home mis- sion and church extensions of the New York M. E. conference at Trinity church. Dr. Hill termed ism atheism. He said: “We are hearing tor. from some qul.r;;rs :tr Chnhfiit&k s0- N arch 31.—Professor | cialism. We could just as wei of s ::shmuxht ashore and [ Christian anarchy or Christian athe- Bost. The fu-|ism. I am sick of the ‘pussy-footed’ s M'hclfizo:‘:‘ chap- | preachers who have been drawn into =l, Sufiday this unholy alliance.” between the miners and operators of | Man Who | | | | {les here are on strike today, and it is Cabled Paragraphs. Bombay, March 31.—Twenty-five women and children were burned to death in a fire that today destroyed the state cotton warehouse at Bhil- wara, in the district of Rajputana. Loéndon, March 31.—The Rev. Harry Drew, rector of Hawarden since 1904, died today. He was curate of Hawar- den 188-93 and served as first warden of St. De Inools Hostel and library, founded by Mr. Gladstone for the pro- motion of sacred study. London, March 31.—Myra Kelly (Mrs. Allan MacNaughton), the American educator and author, died yesterday at Torquay, where she had been stopping with her husband. Mrs. MacNaughton had been in ill health for a long time. Her American address was Old Ches- ter Village, Orange Mountains, New Jersey. CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY IN POSTOFFICE ROBBERY . Tate Attempted to Commit Sui e—Robbers Put Up at Tate R dence. o. Baltimore, March 31.—O. B. Tate of Richmond, Va., attempted to commit | suicide by drinking carbolic acid last night at the home of his sister, Mr: Lizzie Moorehead, in southwest Balti- more. He probably will recover. Tate was visited late this afternoon by Postoffice Inspector Hooten and lo- cal detectives and was placed under arrest after Hooten had rigidly ques- tioned kim concerning the Richmond | postoffice robbery. | Tate denied any connection with the affair, declaring that he left Richmond the day before the Tobbery occurred: Finally, under the fire of cross ques- tioning, he broke down and refused to answer further questions. According to Major Hooten, Tate ad- mitted that he knew the men under arrest cl with the robbery. He said he boarded with the men in Rich- mond and knew that they were well supplie@ with trunks. Richmond, Va., March 31.—The latest clue followed by the police in pursuit of the thieves who plundered the post- office here is said to lead direct tg the residence of O. B. Tate on South Syca- | more street. A stranger engaged a room at the Tate home last Monday evening about 9 o’clock, looked over the premises, selected his room with care and secluded himself in it. Later a wagon arrived bearing a trunk heavily roped, a wooden box and a large valise. ‘The stranger had these placed in his room. Some time during the night the lodger vanished. He has not returned to the Tate home. At 8 o'clock the next morning a wag- on driven by a negro reached the house. In it sat a thin man who wore eye— glasses. The spectacled stranger pro- duced. a roll of bills, paid thé rent of the room, loaded the luggage on ‘the wagon, looked at his watch and said to the negro: “Do you think you can make #? You have only thirty min- utes.” He referred to the train about leav- ing Richmond for the north. New Haven Carpenters Have Been Granted Demands. New Haven, Conn.,, March 31.—An| agreement was signed late today by the master carpenters and their em- ployes whereby the latter wiil geceive 45 cents an hour and a Saturday half holiday the year around. The men have been formerly getting 41 5-8 cents an hour. The new wage scale will not go into effect until May 1st. ‘The agreement is for two years. Negro Porter Awarded $1,000 Dam- ages. New York, March 21.—George W.! Grifin, a negro porter, was awarded | $1,000 'damages for i a manufacturer, by a jury in the su- preme court here today. Strike of American Tobacco Employes. Louisville, Ky., March 31.—More than three thousand white and negro men. women and children employed in the Amenican Tobacco company’s stemmer- said that their ranks will be swelled tomorrow by the addition of 2,000 em- ployes of the plug tobacco factories and 2,600 employes of the cigar fac- | tories. The stemmers demand a high- er scale. Twice today the mpolice were called upon to keep the strikers and their fol- lowers orderly. Ten arrests were made. PROFESSOR MACMILLAN - LECTURES ON ARCTIC REGION. Given Under Auspices of Norwich Ru- ral Association at Theater. | A place of ever-moving, grindlng.! crushing ice sending out at a distance a sound like a railroad train or like escaping steam when heard nearer, was the way Prof. Donald B. MaecMil- lan, Commander Peary’s aide, deserib- ed the North pole in a lecture given on Thursday evening in Broadway ; theater under the auspices of the Norwich Rural association. For over« two hours Professor MacMillan held his good sized audiemge entranced with his illustrated lectuse on the subject, With Peary in the Arctic, though he said at the outset he was to tell only of the small part he played in placing another man at the goal of his ambi- tion. The lecturer was introduced by Dr. F. P. Guiliver, president of the Rural associatign. Professor MacMillan gave a thrilling recital of Arctic experi- ences, showing that it is a hero's task | to Dbrave the uttermost north. His views were of rare beauty and mag- nificently illustrated every point to which the interest of his - audience could reach. The secret of Commander Peary’s success, he said, lay in knowing why he had failed before and in being bet- ter preparec than ever. The lecturer made no cirect refetence to Dr. Cook, but let slip one sentence which might have been taken as a veiled reference to the doctor. In speaking of the Arctic night which drives men crazy, he said. “Some people have gone mad.” As to Mat Hensen, he said that the reason the negro went to’the pole was because he was of more use to Commander Peary than Borup, Martin and MacMillan al' put together, being practically as good as an Eskimo for Arctic work. He was enthusiastically applauded at the close of his instructive and rarely entertaining lecture. POLICE BUSINESS DURING PAST MONTH Total of Seventy-eight Arrests Made, of Whom 42 Went to Jail—Six Took Appeals. During the month of March the po- lice ‘made 78 arrests for the following reasons: Intoxication 40, breach of the peace 24, theft arsen, ringing false alarm, two each; injury to private property 4,vagrancy 5, burglary, non- support, vl}l&tion of liquor law, com- tempt of court, insane, being incorri ible, seduction, keeping disorderly ouse, sleeping out, defrauding restau- mnlti. and indecent exposure, one eac] | Watson thought the bill excessive and | ing in the house, offered an opportunity | Mr, Sherley of Kentucky, explained at | the house naval committee, {all amendments except that one had Fieres. Ternado i ‘ In Austria IMMENSE DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE RESULTS. TRAIN BLOWN FROM TRACK Four Perkins Killed and 18 Injured— Steamships in Harbor of Trieste Drag Anchors—Snow With Gale. . Trieste, Austria, March 31.—The fiercest tornado in years, accompanied by a heavy snow, has caused immense «damage and loss of life in southern Austria. Train Down Embankment. A passenger train was blown off the rails near Muggia and rolled down an embankment, killing four persons and injuring eighteen. Shipping Threatened. Steamship navigation has been sus- pended and great damage done in the new harbor. Several steamers of the Austrian Lloyd line dragged their an- chci s tion. and narrowly escaped destruc- Several Deaths at Vienna. Vienna, March 31.—This city is suf- fering greatly from a heavy snowstorm which has extended over a conside“abile part of the country. Several deaths are reported, and the tramways, tele- graph and telephone services are near- 1y at a standstill. 1,100 FISHERMEN PERISHED OFF JAPANESE COAST. Details of Tempest Brought by Steamer Tamha Maru. Victoria, B. C., March 31.—Details of the great storm of March 13 on the Japanese coast, in which more than 1.100 fishermen perished, were brought by the steamer Tamha Maru today. The tempest was most severe off Chiba and Ibaragi prefectures and the official report, which gave the loss as 84 vessels and 1,100 men, is generally believed to be too conservative. The wreck of 34 fishing vessels from Choshi, Chiba prefecture, and 14 from other villages, which took out 600 men, have geen found by patrols and news of similar disaster was brought from Mito, in Ibaragi, where vessels con- taining 400 men were missing. ‘When tHe hurricane broke 120 fishing vessels attempted to make their way into Choshi hafbor for refuge, but nearly all were capsized. Few bodies were recovered. . The Japanese cruiser Takachihe was hurried to the scene and found eleven fishing boats with the fishermen all frozen to death and numbers of drift- ing bodies. Telegrams from several villages re- port the drifting ashore of wrecked boats laden with dead crews. WANTED $1,000 PER DAY AWARDED BUT $10. S an sl For Services as Referee in a New York Litigation C. New York, March 31.—D. Cady Her- rick’s fee of $9,000 for nine days’ serv- ices as referee in the Eleventh avenue litigation between the city and the New York Central railroad was cut to $90 today by Archibald Watson, the corporation counsel. Mr, Herrick had already been paid by the railroad, which then sent a bill to the city. Mr, 1 offered to compromise at $5,000. The railroad refused, whereupon the cor- poration counsel cut the bill to the §10 2 day allowed by the law. Senator Root Continugs Speech in De- fense of Railroad Bill. ‘Washington, March 31.—Senator Root continued but did not conclude his speech on the administration railroad bill in the senate today. He defended the merger and traffic agreements pro- visions of the measure. There was further discussion df the proposed amendment of the Cwnmins employers Mability law but the senate took no action upon it. The naval appropriation bill pend- to members to discuss various subjects. considerable length his resolution to permit a majority of the house to bring before it at any time, & bill which might be pending in a commit- tee. Mr. Padgett of Tennessee and Mr. Gregg of Texas, minority members of each de- livered a speech in favor of a ohe bat- tleship a year policy. Objection being made to an increase by the senate to the extent of $25,000 of the appropriation under which the state department may encourage. trade relations, the diplomatic bill was sent back to conference by the house after been agreed to. Both houses tomorrow. Farmer Killed Automobilist. Roswell, N. M., March 31.—Sylvanus Johneon, a wealthy citizen of Roswell, is dead from the effecis of a blow on the head from a wrench hurled at Johnson’s chauffeur a week ago by an unknown farmer. While speeding near Roswell, Johnson’s automobile fright- ened a team of mules being driven by a young farmer and the latter threw | his wrench at the chauffeur. The wrench struck Johnson, who sank back in his seat unconscious and with a crushed skull. The farmer escaped. ‘will be in session again Diplomas Awarded at Carli Carlisle, Pa., March 31.—The grad- uating class of the United States In- dian school at Carlisle received their diplomas .today from the hands of the commissioner of Indian affairs, Robert G. Valentine. Mr. Valentine in pre- senting the diplomas expressed the be- lief that the Indian had reached a pe- riod in his development where some- thing corresponding to a creed, show- ing the right road to progress in the future, should be formulated. Dissarment Proceedings Brought. New York, March 31.—Disbarment proceedings have been against Meyer Prinstein, at one e champion amateur broad jumper of the world and a e of Syracuse university. The appellate division ordered y that a referee be appointed. It is aleged that Prinstein refused to return $200 deposited with him as a trustee, claiming it instead as his fee. Six Miners Killed at Wilburton, Okla. Wilburton, Okla., March 31.—Six mine were killed here today by en explosion in the Great Western Coal and Coke company’s mine No. 2. The wntitlsug::edmhzv;beenzhore- sult of a t going prematurely. ‘The bodies. were recovered. The state mine inspectdr and his aides have be- gun an investigation. Condensed Telegrar 22 years, of Cleve- fasting for forty- Card Osek, Aged land, 0. dicd atter five days, ly Per Cent, of of the South are shut productio. The Boycott Against Butter which spreadi has been raised i ice in Germany, s . % Joseph Blink, of Sharon, Va. died €rom the heat, the first victim of the warm weather. the cotton mills down to curtail Suburban Electric Car motormen of Pittsburg are carrying repeating rifles to prevent holdups. It Was Again Reported by way of Aden, Arabia, that p’o“n. 'mneuk of Abyssinia was dead. Rev. W. B. Kedaho Speare, a mis- sionary, was killed in the fighting of Cape Pdlmas, Liberia, 2 The Miners’ Federation of Great Britain voted” to accept the terms of the South Wales operators. Ten Chicago Chinamen were indicted for drugging and mistreating Mary Mulshar, aged eighteen wears. The Arrival of William H.ana Noah Marker makes 38 bankers in the feder- al prison at Leavensworth, Kan, An Earthquake Shock in Java or Japan i indicated a mumber of seismographs in the United States. The Senate Confirmed the nomina- tions of the five men who are to con- stitute the new customs court of aj peal : Democrats in the House threaten to denounce the failure of Representative Gaines to report the publicity cam- paign bill. One Thousand Corpora’ g failed to make returns to the inter: revenue bureau under the tariff provision im- posing an income tax. President Taft Has Accepted an in- vitation to atlend the launching >f the new dreadnought Florida, at the New York navy yard, on May 12. Speaker Cannon Appointed a com- mittee to investigate charges reflecting on the house membership in connec- tion with ship subsidy legislation. Representative Sims Introduced a resolution in thé house prohibiting the election of any standing or spacial committees of the house by a secret callot in caucus, President Taft Referred to the eivil service commission the question whether chief deputy IU/nited States marshals are included within the oper- ations of the sivil service law. Ferdinand von Stumm, Third secte- tary of the German embassy, and Miss Constamre Hoyt, daughter of Coun- sellor Hoyt. of the state department, were married at the Hoyt residence. President Ta?t attended the wedding. NEW YORK HARBOR PILOTS ON STRIKE. Should a Tie-up of Traffic Result, Food Markets Would Suffer. New York, April 1.—A white light swung at midnight from the roof of the Battery Park building, on the southernmost tip of the island of Manhattan. and two blasts—one long and one short—from the whistle of a chartered tug, notified the masters and pllots of New York harbor that a strike of the American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots iz on this morning against four trunk lines, and one manufacturing company operating marine service. . On acknowledging the signal from aloft the tug immediatelv left to no- tify the men at their various stations that negotiations had' failed and that the resignations they had sent in pre- viously became immediately effective. About 150 pilots, as many masters, and half that number of tugs are involved in the walk-out, . In addi- tion to thke railroads involved, the pi- lots and masters employed by Ar- buckle Brothers’ sugar refinery, which owns a small fleet of tugs of its own, have also walked out. Four hundred cooks, flremen and deckhands, less certain of their ground, discussed the situation last night and decided to hold their jobs for the present. In a statement issued last night, the com- panies said that they had received ap- plications for work from 1,000 men in Albany, Boston and this city, and that their boats would run as usual, wheth- er the masters left them or not. The strike affects the frelght traffic of the harbor only. A general tie-up of all tugs and lighters in the waters about New York harbor would indeed be a very serious situation and one that would immedi- ately make itself felt in the food mar- kets. The four railroads affected are the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Lehigh Val- ley. The New York Central, the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Erie reached private understandings, the terms of which are not given out, late this afternoon. - PINCHOT IN COPENHAGEN. Seeking Own Initiative. Roosevelt On Copenhagen, March 31.—Gifford Pin- chot, the former chief forester of the United States, arrived here tonight. He is a sguest at the Britlsh legation, where he is visiting his sister, Lady Johnstone, wife of Sir Alan Johnstone, the British minister to Denmark, Mr. Pinchot, when seen goon after his arrival, refused to discuss pplitics, but he informed the correspondent that he intended to study Danish agricul- 'ture, especially the co-operative sys- tem and the Danish forest administra- tion. He admitted that he expects to meet Colonel Roosevelt here in Co) - hagen or London, but he was silent when questioned whether he had been summoned to a conference with the ex-president or was seeking a meeting with Colonel Roosevelt on hig own in- itiative, to discuss with him the for- estry questions. OBITUARY. T. B. Taylor. ‘Washington, March 31.—T. B. Taylor, had served continuously in the court of claims ever since its organ- ization in 1855 first as messenger, upon the recommendation of Jefferson Da- vis, then a United States senator, and since 1863 as bailiff, died at his home here today, aged 90 years. Mr. Taylor ;-nn.‘-uv.atxln'G-"nmuY‘ a. Requisition for J. Armour. New York, March uisition for the extradition of J. Ogden Armour of chle:o who was recently indicted by the,Hudesop county, N. J., frand jury, for cemepiracy in controll- ing the prices of meat products, was filed with Fort at Trenton, N. J., today by Prosecutor Garven of Jersey City, Wanton Murder | tion room te the right of the / At Springfield MASKED BURGLAR SHOT SCREAM- ING GIRL. ANOTHER YOUNG WOMAN WOUNDED Intruder Appeared While, Party Was Solving Picture Puzzle—Victim W. Guest for the Night. Springfield, Mass., March 31.—Miss Martha B. Blackstone, 25 Elliott strect, daughter of C, J, Blackstone, was mur- dered by a masked burglar in the home of Mrs. Sarah J. Dow, Round Hill, at eight o'clock this evening. Miss Harriet Dow, daughter of the house, was shot in the head and removed to Springfield hospital in a dying cons ditlon. The murderer escaped. The police have no description of the man except the one Mrs. Dow and her daughter, Mi: Lucy, were able to give. The poli ay that in a general way the crime resembles those of the man who terrorized the city last fall. The description given by the frightened women is: Description of Murderer. The man was about five feet ten inches; wore dark clothes and a black slouched hat; had a dark cloth about the lower part of the face, about 21 or 22 years old. The murder was a most wanton one, Mrs, Dow, her two daughters and Miss Blackstone, who was a guest for the night, were seated # the living room of the home about a small table, solv- ing a picture puzzle. Demanded Money. The first -Intimation thex had §f an intruder was a demand for money from the diniag room, just in the rear. They looked up to see a masked man framed in the dark doorway, fhreat- enening them with a revolver. Mrs Dow retained her composure and re- plied: “We have no money,” but Miss Blackstone In fright jumped to her feet and ran screaming into a recep- Hving room. The burglar sald: “If you want to be kflled, keep on sereaming.” and fired as he spoke, the bullet en- tering Mise Blackstone's left breast. Death was instantaneotis. The mur- derer, hardly pausing to see his vic- tim fall, turned his revolver on the group, shooting Miss Harriet Dow in the head. 3 ‘The murderer then ran to the front door, leaped over the plazza railing and disappeared. The police have no clue as to the identity of the murder- er, . - Theory of Police. The four women were alone in the house and the murderer must have possessed this knowledge. theory of the police that the man en- tered the house while the family was at dinner and concealed himself In & closat of the room he entered thought the time was right. A Dow distinctly remembers locked all the windows and about seven po'clock and. the found all the locks turned end dows fasi Marks were found om the side on the house under a shel- tered window that lead to the bellef that he entered in this manmner. ¥oot- prints plainly visible in the soft earth, after his escape, showed that he ran as an athlete runs, on the balls of his feet. ‘The women are certain that but two shots were fired, and a much battered bit of lead, which may have been the bullet that wounded Miss Dow, was picked up by an officer. A bullet hole that cannot be accounted for was found in the wall. The shot that kill- ed Miss Biackstone must have been fired at verv cloce ' range, for the breast was powder burned, Both Miss Blackstone and Miss Dow were teachers the Jefferson avenue school, * Miss katone was 29, years old and Miss Dow about 30. $25,469,670 COMMON STOCK Te Be Sold by Western Maryland Road for Construction of New Link. Baltimore, March 31.—At a special meeting here today the stoekholders of the Western Maryland railvoad ne- ratified the action of the board of d!- rectors in authorizing the sale at 350 a share of the $25,469,8670 unisswed common stock ef the comy y. The proceeds ‘will be used for the construc< tion of the extension from Cum'borl- land, Md.,, to New Haven, Pa, mliles, which will connect the Wests) Maryland with the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, a subsidiary of the New York Central. One effect of this arrangement will be to make Baltimore a t 2l the middle west division of the Van- derbilt system. President Bush estimates that the new link wHi be ready for operation in about eighteen months. WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEFEATED In Annual Fight in Lower Branch of Massachusetts Legisiature. Boston, March $1.—The advovates of woman suffrage lost their annual fight in the lower branch of the today by a vote that varied but o from that of last year, P The question came on the s - tution of the bill out o word “male” from the 1 provision regarding for the - verse report of a committes. The de- bate consumed the (mr of the sessions and the galleries packed. The vote was 47 to 148, with five pairs, compared with last yvear's vote of 4& to 160, with eleven pairs. . e totad membership of the house is . Taft May Attend National . Farmers’ Reunion. ‘Washington, March 31. — President Teft will attend the col of the National Farmers’ union in . Louis the first week in May lrdl;e cglrl\ aru—’ range hiw engagements to low do ‘lo, Secretary Wilson of th.t.fln- of agriculture also is gotng. The secretary with Speaker Cannon and President C. 8. Barrett of the Farmers’ union took Jumech with the president at the White today. Speaker Cannon said he was oo - gress conld not have adjonrned in fime to permit him to attend the congress. Steamship Arrivals. At Genoa, March 20: Europa, from New York. » At Leghorn, March 27: Perugia, from New York. At Gemoa, March 31: Celtic,, I'vem New York. ¥ At Bremen, March 31: Darmstad, from New York. Head of Quaker Community Suscumbe Sabbath Day Lake, Me, March Sister Aurelia G. Mace, h%‘d Shaker community here, night, aged 30. Sister Aurelia was author of several books l')‘ many poems. 2