Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 17, 1910, Page 1

LIL—NO. 274 NORWICH, . CONN., THURSDAY,. NOVEMBER 17, 1910 B CALLS IT A FICTITIOUS REDUGTION View of Dr. Wiley, Chief of Chemistry Bu- reau of Department of Agriculture MERELY MARKET MANIPULATION Says Mr Wiley—Scheme of the Interests Which Put the Price Up, to Get Fresh Grip on Throats of Con- sumers—Secretary Wilson’s Opinion on the Sudden Abnormal Reduction in Prices of Meats. Wash reduct 1, Nov. 16.—The so-called | dictions of somewhat lower prices in the price of meats is u{meat and poultry comes the pleasing et, | report that Thanksgiving turkeys will deliberat: manipulation of mar ¥ cording to Dr. Harvey V y,|be cheap, compared with the prices chief of the bureau of dhemistry of the | they commanded last year. Local re- department of agriculture. tailers said this afternoon, however, Mo said here today | that they had vet to fel the big re- “The interests which manipulated | ductions said fo have been made by the prices upward temporarily have re- | Chicago meat packers. In New York, leased their hold on our throats for |they asserted, the decrease in cost of the purpose of getting a fresh grip. |food so far had been slight. The so-cailed reduction in meats is B i fletitfous. Its manipulation was delib- | No 50 Cent Butter This Winter. erate, just as the increase in prices But the general opinion was - that was unjust, unreasonable and uncalled | prices of meat, poultry and dairy pro- for by conditions prevailing through- | qducts would not be so high this winter it the country. The prices were fic- | vear ago, They would go up, no tious at the top notch beeause they | doubt, it was prophesied, but the con- were forced there arbitrarily by the|sumer would not be obliged to pay 50 interasts | cents a_pound for his butter as he did Developments will show that the in- | for a time last winter. The reason terests are after someone. 1t may bod given was that the country's grain sup some independ-nt movement they hope | ply this year had been greater than 1o drive from cov [ever, and, econsequently, the farmers Secretary Wilson said today that the | had ‘found it more economical to keep nounced reduction in prices was ab- | their grain for cattle raising. Result: normal. He said i: was due to the | Mor: butter and milk for the consumer fact that the drought in the caitie |and an increase in the supply of beef ralsin ad increased the cost | 4 wrmer with cattie on his| Why Turkeys Will Be Cheaper. lands must pay $35 2 ton for his DAy, | s for turkeys. one dealer in Wash- and raih . Uria he was Send- | ington Market declared that the rotail - < nd sheep to markel.|rico might fall as low as 25 cents be- oy 4 for the sudden tumble | fore pext Thursday. Last year it went R be & ; as high as 32 cents. The reason. he sie e mot all normal and | g.id, was that many turkeys had been ermanent.” declared | ghipped to New York from Texas, and Secretars Wilson “but 4 plentiful ¢orn | though thay were not of the highest Bpahnd plenty of grain will enable | grade, they were good enough for many o farmer to foed freely and we should | who Palked at high prices. The effect Gt & lower jeval of orices WEr | of this was to force down.the price of yrices are certain to come. provided |pigh grade turkey.meat from the west. b g sl . Uhe farmer| zlgo, “this vears supply was larser T i 1% B0, combi- | than'it had been for a long time. u | Roasting Chicken 22 Cents. The highest grades of poultry—that TURKEYS TO BE CHEAPER. is, the “Philadelphia” brands—were MAY BE 25 CENTS | qioted in Washington Market today at |two and three cemts lower than last Instead of 32 Cents as Last Year—New | vear. Roasting chickens sold at 2% York City Reports. cents as against 25, and just plain fowl” for fricasseeing sold for 20 as New York, Nov. 16.—Among the pre- i comparad with 22 cents. BIRDMEN DISCONCERTED FEDERAL OFFICERS SEIZED BY RARIFIED AIR.| STOCK OF ENGLISH FIRM Mhccarion iy o Interesting Flights Made from Den- | Alleged Evasion of Customs Dues— ver's Mile High Aviation Field. | Action to Recover $200,000. Disiver, ¢ Nov. 16.—Spectators at | | New York, Nov: 16.—The entire Tenvers igh a tion field wit #tock of Joseph Brooke & Co., an neased ating fizhts by Ralph | English woolen firm, which has main- tome, Arch Hoxsey and Walter . | tained a branch house in New York Frooking at Overland park today. city for a quarter of a century, was Iohnstone. without uttempting any- | seized by the government tonight, in thing like record breaking altituderose an actlon to recover $200,000 damages 1.500 feet. While Johnstone wus push- | “in _consequence of fraud and other H s machine skyward, Hoxsey safl- | wrongful act Alleged evasion of ed 209 fost helow him.. Trookins was |customs dues, disclosed by a former also darting to and fro across the field | employes of the firm, is the basis for E: iators wended twice. With the seizure of the goods it be- o flights Brookine left the | came known that the government ro- field and traveled in the direction of cently instituted suit against the firm e Mocky Moumihing a mile or|but being unable to serve the sum- . t testing the air currents,[mons in ‘the action because the know to vars greatly @s the | Brookses are at present in Hudders. |\ fleld, Fngland, United States Distriet titude, whi Attorney Wise obtained a writ of at- v’ over at- | tachment today. The writ was served ted 1 t before. proved some- | by United States Marshal Henkel up- g at firsi } on Robert C. Herron, manager of the i ‘ (ing | Lusiness, which is conducted at No. aft t that he could nof|§40 Broadway. met a e off round until| The stock is valued ‘at almost the § b in the power mu-h more | amount of the damages claimed by the an is mecessary in lower altitudes | zovernment g ] the hirdmen noticed this | Pater Redling, until receritly a clerk ifter mditions, and tiey are|in the firm's employ, gave the infor- tous 1o test the climing capacities | mation on which the government act- el machines agaimst the rarified | ed. Special agents were detailed to 1 ntain ge-tions. investizate his story, and, according ‘V’v Mr. Wige, o)(:nnnslmn verified his charges that the company had for VERDICT RENDERED years cheated the government by un- AFTER THIRTY-SIX YEARS | dervaluation of goods and false in- - ek | Voices. Suit Aaainst Mutual Life Insurance | The parent house of the company is at Bradford, England, and the mem- Co.—Company Paye $15,050. bers of the firm reside abroad. R L, P kg e | KILLED IN MOTOR CAR UPSET. :‘:_',‘:'L” i s fodalADY | George N. Root of Lenox Dead and His Jury in the supreme court i Brother Seriously Hurt. dscar Adler glove manulacture = Lo insured his life for $5.000, died i Letiox, . Ma Nox. 16—George i bt = ¢ refused to pay | Root, treasursr’ of the Lenox Savings polics to Adoioh and Dueniel Golde | PANK, was - instantly killed, and his schmidt and David Bararach, the hen. | Prother, Willis E. Root, was seriously efciaries. contending that Adler com- |injured early today when the automo- suitted sufeide. The heneficiaries sued | Plle in which they were returning to “nd telee thelr compiint wae fis. | Lenox from Pittsfield skidded on an icy L B el time - $he Jeaied | T0ad and was overturned. Miss Flor- e . 1 il Om the |€nce Mahanna, who was soon to have - e the Bt company loat | P?en married to George N. Root, was 16 tike 1t aled. The case |in the automobile, but was unhurt. - - Tmore for @ new | George N. Root was 33 years-old and had always lived in Lenox. He was formerly ‘a nharmacist, but for more than a vear had been freasurer of the local savings bank. vesutted in a amount t of $25,000,000 to Three Daughters and a Grandson. Redlands, Cal ! the late George S. Myers, a millionaire tobacco man of St.” Louis, who died here on Aug. 29, was filed for probate DELAWARE BRIBERY CONTEST. Democratic Candidate for Congres Bring Corruption Charge. * The will of W ington, Del. Nov. 16, Fx-Attor- | oy’ ney General Robert (. White, dems Th tate, said to he we L . e estate, = e worth $23,000.- Cratic candidate for representative inigno, goos to his three daughters, Mrs. ongress at the recent election in this | john' 8. Cravens, Passdena: Mrs. Bob e mmnounced todas his intention | Mvers Babcock, Colorado Springs, and a0 hia re | Mrs. Herbert Coppell, Tenafly, N. J. iiaim ¥ Heald. ‘Tt s stated that|cmsren, O 0 O nason.c George Myers the contest will be based on charge . o bribery and corruption : W S hite Das Tetaiei Thomas 1 | Widely Known Linguist Dropped Dead. Tiavard and Willarg Sanlabury of thie! Cincinnati, O, Nov. 16.—As he as as general counsel and also will | ratain speciml eounsel at Washington, Fia will serve formal notice of conf on Representative Heald soon after t preparing to go to the Hebrew Union college here to recaive a degree of doc- tor of divinity, Dr. Ephraim Feldman, 0 years lad, dropped dead at his home legnl proelamation of the latier's eloc- today. The deceased came from Rus- tion shall be issued by Governor Pen.|sia about twenty-five vears ago and mevill. was widely known as a linguist and — authority upon Jewish questions. Ha had been head professor of the depart- ment of Talmud in the Hebrew Union college for many POPULATION OF INDIANA. Recent Census Gives State 2,700,000; Increase of 7.3 Per cent. | Population of San Francisco 416,912, f 6. —The Washington, 5 Washiggton, Nov. 16.—The popula- | ion of the stite of indiana T 2700 %56, | on of San irancisco is 416,912, ac- ording tn statistics of e (hie. |cording 1o the statistics of the thir- feenth ceusus made public today, This | 1S€nth census mad-. public tonight 3 an increuse of 184414 G .8 per|This is an increase of 14,130, or 14 went, over 5516485 in 1500 The in. | Ber cent. over 842,782 ‘in. 1906 cremse from 1850 tu 1300 cus 405 S or 143 per cent Baseball Candidate. R O L Didn'e some one allude to. Tom H illy as a baseball candidate? 1f he In Dull Chicago. It was as a representative ings are auil_and ahnormal he « champions. Tom when (here te no jurs iwibing scundal | made o home ron this to be probo - Chilaze Record-Herald. britain Herald, ~ 4 { Cabled Paragraphs - Paris, Nov. 16.—Th> river which has overflown it banks at many places and done considerably damage in the lower parts of the city, fell slightly today. Seine, Helsingfors, Fintand, Nov. 16.—The University of Helsingfors has invited Prof. Charles McLean Andrews of Yale, the historian, to deliver a series of lec- tures at the university in colonial history. April bn London, Nov. 16.—Scientists here re- port that the depths of the Pacific ocean are in a -state of upheaval. Heavy earth shocks have been recorde: during the last two days, apparently in regions north of New Zealand. 1 London, Nov. nnouncement s made in haval circles today that early in 1911 a British flotilla of submarines will be sent to Hong Kong and perma- nently stationed there. Other flotillas of the same craft will be sent later to Gibraltar and other stations. Berlin, Nov. 16.—The third game in the chess match for the world's cham- pionship between Emanuel Lasker and D. Janowski ended in a draw today. The game was twice adjourned and eighty moves were played. The score now stands: Lasker 1, drawn 2. INTERNATIONAL WATER JUMP AT NEW YORK HORSE SHOW | First Prize to England; France Sec- ond; England Third; United Stat Fourth. New York, Nov. 16.—Twenty-three officers in uniform, from five armies, mounted on the best chargers their nations could send to the National Horse show here. pranced by the judges at Madison Square garden to- night, and when the awards were gi en out, firsy place and $130 in prize money ‘went to Harmcay, a bay ridden by Col. P. A. Kenna, V.C. British army, and second piace and $75 prize monmey to Phoenix Park, o chestnut gelding, ridden by Lieut. I Martin, Fourteenth United States | cavalr- " Jrance was third. { In the championship class ness horses over 14 hands, 2 inches, jhigh and not exceeding 15 hands, | Judze William H. Moore's Whitewall Ariel and Vesta took first prize. Third for har- went to Lady Dilham and Starlight from the Avondale farm at Housa- tonie, M. The star event of the night, the in- ternational water jump, for office uniform, did not come off until night. Harriet IL, a bay mare rid- by 1 Geofirey Brooks, took st for England; second yent to Oka, a bay mare, ridden by Lieutenant Mal- larme of France, and third to Lieuten- ant Thornt England with Gab; and fourth to the United States, rey | resented by Col. George M. Dunn, with Samar. MORE CHOLERA FROM ITALY i AT PORT OF NEW YORK Two Dead and Nine Sick on Ship from Naples. New York, Nov. 16.—Two deaths at sea from what, undoubtedly. was cholera, occurred in_the - steerage of the steamship San Giorsio, which ar- rived at this port teday from Naple: The vessel also had nine sick steer- age passengers aboard when she reached Quarantine. The San Giorgio is one of the firs vessels to arrive from Naples sinc the cholera embargo against that city was raised. The vessel at Quarantine for aminations in the cases assengers. The o of victims, one a child of two v dled November 12. and the chlld’s mother, who died | morning, wae buried at sea man just before the ship entéred port. A preliminary bacteriological exam- ination today confirmed the diagnosis of cholera in the case of the child. All the steerage passenzers cxcept the have heen transferred to Hoff- man island for observatiotn. The ail- ing went to Swinburne island for treatment. The crew will be examined tomorrow and the vessel will be d infected. was detained bacteriological of the the ex- sick os two who the this tiie wo- INDICTED CHICAGO PACKERS May Not Get Their Cases Out of the Hands of Judge Landis. Chicago, Nov. 16. ecutors moved today ed Chicago p: out of the ha when —Government pros- to prevent indict- tiing their cases of Judge Kenesaw filed an_answer to ges that Judge Lan- 1 as a special United States general against the packers Landis the attorney in_1895. Swift. Bdward _Swift, = Swift, Irancis A. Fowler, ard Tilden, J-Ogden Meeker, 'l s and whom are indict violate the Sherman anti-trust law, are namea in the answer thur ward Mor Arguments will b heard by Judge Landis tomorrow. KILLING TREES. ' Now Disease Which Attacks Chest- nuts—No Known Remedy. The season of active employment in the park department is drawing to a | close, says the Waterbury Republican and the men are cleaning up the parks preparatory to their practical deser- tion during the winter season. Supt. George . Walker said that he had a force of men in each of the city parks going through the ground, cutting off the deadwood on the trees and cutting @own all discased and decayed trees. Because of the spraying process most of the trees are in excellent shape, but in Chase park there have been d covered several chestnut trees which have been attacked by a new and deadly parasite for which there is no remedy known to forest The trees attagked by it are doomed and the sooner they are cut down and burned the better. for tiis is the only way to check the spread of the parasite. It has but recently - its_appareanc in this city, and i o city parks it has made no progress, owing to the vigilance of the park superintendent. Tt is different. however. through the woods over toward Middiebury, where many trees have been attacked and are now dead or dving. The parasite girdles the bark on the tree and when the girdling is completed the tree dies. The forestry stations are send- ing out warnings of this new disease and are striving to find the best way to_fight it. Superintendent Walker said that he planted the flower beds in_all the parks, about 12.000 bulbs being used in the parks and on the green. There are tulips, hyacinihs and daffodils in great varlety The appearance of the temporary pumping station just on the edge of the park does fiot add to tiie pleasure of the park $uperintendent of others interested in the appearance of the park. Sounds Gool. ngressman Tom Reilly! That - = Dishonest Hotel Clerk CHARGED WITH THEFT OF $800 % FROM A GUEST. ARRESTED IN WASHINGTON Sherman K. Hill, Lately Employed at the Atlantic Hotel Young Woman Held With Him. in Bridgeport— ‘Washington, Nov. 16—At the request of Eugene Birmingham, chief of police of Bridgeport, Conn,, the local police today arrested Sherman K. Hill, who had ‘been employed ms a cierk at the Atlantic hotel in that cit; Hill is charged with the theft of $1,000 and when taken into custody $793 was found on his person. Accompanied by Mrs. Pearl Dayton. . He was accompanied by a young wo- man who gave her name as Mrs. Pear] Dayton. The police are also holding the woman, though they believe she had nothing to do with the alleged theft, She surrendered to the police $50, which she said Hill had given to her on the way to this city. Hill Taok $1,000. Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 16.—Sher- man K. Hiil. who was arrested in Washington, D. C., tonight for the al- leged theft of $1,000 from the safe of the Atlantic hotel, has been employed here as clerk for the past three months, coming from New York. His home fs in ‘Portsmouth, N. H. . Mrs, Cora Dayton, who was arrested with Hill, is the daughter of F. Haddon Staults of this city, ©Of the $1,000 tak- en $200 belonged fo the proprietor of the hotel, John Callahan, and $800 to a guest who had it placed in the hotel safe overnight for safe keeping. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PAID FOR A CUP OF TEA Wealthy Chicagoan Shows His Ap- preciation of Charity Enterprise to Help Little Cripples. N 16.—One thousand dollars was paid for a cup of tee last night in Chicago. The mark was set at the charity bazaar at Orchestra hall, the proceeds of which —810,000 at a rough estimate—will be for the Chicago, benefit of the Home for Destitute Crippled Children. Thomas Griffin, wealthy manufac- turer, of Chicago, stepved into the tea room conducted by Mrs. Graeme Stewart and fwo dozen pretty debu- tantes, last night and ordered a cup of tea. Griffin took a sniff. “Gkeat) isn't it?’ comménted the younz woman who served-it. “Yes, indeed. Then M Stewart, supervisor of the tea room, came along. Mr. Griffin drained the then put the cup down, out.a check. T want to pay for my tea.” last drop, and handed Mrs. Stewart took the check and scrutinized it. “One thousand dollars?” she-asked. “Never mind the change,” said M Griffin. ONCE MORE HEADS NATIONAL W. C. T. U. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens Rechosen at the Baltimore Session. Md., Nov. 16.—Mrs. Lil- lian M. N. Stevens of Portland, Me. was_enthusiastically and unanimously re-clected president of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance -union at the annual convention of the un- ion_here today. Mrs. Stevens re-appointed Miss An- na “A. Gordon of Evanston, IIl, vice president at large. Her appointment was promptly ratified. The use of “third degree” methods in extracting confessions from persons Baltimore, ace d of crime was condemned in a resolution offered by Mrs. Hester T. Griffith of Los Angeles, Cal and adopted by the convention. Those in authority everywhere are urged to bring about its imme abolishment. The reading of departmental re- ports was resumed. The passage of the postal savings bills by congress was commended in the report of the depgrtment on school savings banks. There have been active efforts made by this department, the report said, to get laws enacted that will favor and oblige teaching of thrift in the public schools in several of the states, Mas- sachusetts, ew York and Pennsyl- vania were said to be the most for- ward in this regard. MORE CENSUS PADDING. THREE ENUMERATORS JAILED. How the Increases for Great Falls, Mont., Were Obtained. W tion dec in shington, Nov. { Great Fall: se of 952 1800. Director Durand in a statement said that the Great Falls returns as orig- inally received showed a total of 23,324, or_$376 more than the corract count. The director attributes the attempted padding to three out of twelve enu- merators of the city, 60 per cent. of whose returns he said wera fraudulent, The three men were arraigned and two of them sent to jail for twenty-four hours each and fined $150 each, while the third was in prison for forty-eight hours and fined $200. H> says that the increases were obtained largely by tak- ing the names of transient vi the city which were placed hands of the enumerators by individual 16.—The popula- Mont., is 13,948, a compared’ with 14,390 how a dscrease from the figures of 1900 amounting to 982, but Mr. Durand contends that as there was fraud in the 1900 census there has been an actual growth. Increase of 206 Per Cent. in Popula- tion. ‘Washington, Nov. statistics of the thirteenth census wers made public this afternoon for the fol- lowing California cities: Oakland 150.- 1174, an increase of £3,214 or 124.3 per cent., campared with 66,960 in 1900. Berkeley 40,434, an increase of 27.200 or 206 per cent,, compared with 13,214 in 1900. Alameda compared with 16,464 1 No Duty on Soldiers’ Ménument. unds good, anyway. Middletown 16.—Population | New England Demurrage Rules ARPLIED IN PROPER SPIRIT, WILL BE A BENEFIT. FORMAL REPORT MADE By Interstate Commerce Commi ion— Less Inconvenience To, and Payment ' of Less Charges by Shippers. ‘Washington, Nov. 16.—“The new uni- form demurrage rules, applied in a proper spirit, will result in less incon- venience to, and in the payment of less demurrage charges by, the shippers of New England than under the old regu- lations,” announced the interstate com- merce commission today in its formal report on the New England demurrage rules. Demurrage Officer for This Territory. The counsek for the shippers and for the railroads already have compromised their differences by agreeing that for six months after Dec. 1 next the frec time for holding cars carrying lumber and forest produces, coal, grain and grain products be extended from forty- eight to saventy-two hours and that on all other cars the free time shall be the uniform forty-eight hours basis. Meantime the commission is to deter- mine what commodities, if any, should e given a longer free time than the forty-eight hour standard. The commission suggested to the New England roads the name of a de- murrage officer for the territory who is to construe the rules and anforce them, pass on doubtful questions and Teport to the commission on the work- ing of the rules. The railroads have mot upor: the suggestion. Commissioner Lane Wrote the Report. The report of the commission, wi ten by Commissioner Lane, points out ihat, in the main,'New England should be able to operate under the same de murrage code which prevails in other parts of the United States and Canada: that the business of a railroad is transportation, not storage, and that detention of a car by a particular ship per for a longer time than necessary fur loading or unloading diminishes the road's efficiency and prejudices every other shipper. 1f, under tha peculiar conditions of New England, their application results vet acted in undue hardship, the rules will be medifie ATTACKS THE INTEGRITY OF THE NATIONAL GRANGE. Charge of Attempt to Throttle Progres- sive Legislation. Atlantic City, N. J. Nov. 16— Charges that national grange, Patrong of Husbandry, is being run by -aclique of standpatters who are attempting to throttle progressive leg- islation and are discrediting, betraying and defeating a strong constructive leadership and using the funds of the organization recklessly were: made at the first session of the powerful farm- ers’ organization here today, M. S. Godfrey of Olean, that George P. Hampton of and J. W. Helma of Adrian, Mich., the recognized leaders of the insurgents in the organization, had caused to be printed articles attacking the integrity of the grange and its leaders. He pre- sented a resolution which incorporated tha charges and callea for the enlarge- ment of the committee on cl grievances to incluge every voting member of the national grange to in- vestigat> the attacks made by Helme | and Hampton and asked these two men or any others who believed such charges to be true to present them to- gether with proofs in writing to the convention. The resolution aleo raquired these proofs to be submitted on or before Nov. 21. Insurgents claim this move will keep the present administration in power because of the number of their follow- ers. This, they say, demonstrates that a state with a membership of 70,000, as Pennsylvania_has, should be given representation in proportior. which would ' allow the insurgents to take control from the standpatters, who, the insurgents claim, are backed by western states whose membership still in the hundreds but who are en- titled to equal vote on.the questions to be discussed by the convention. COUNT DE BEAUFORT HAS ADDED FINANCIAL TROUBLE. | Fourth Claim Since Open Rupture With Rich Father-in-Law. inancial _trou to the domestic Chicago, Nov. 16.—] Dbles were added toda; difficulties of Count John Von Mourl de Beaufort, when the National City bank of Chicazo filed suit against him for $257 which he is said to have over- drawn. This is the fourth claim made in the courts against De Beaufort since open rupture with M. H. Killgal- his rich father-in-law, a week go. * The banks' suit was filed only a short time after a claim had been filed for $72.50. In addition to these suits have been filed by a book publishing con- cern, which claims De Beaufort owed for a number of volumes on eitquette, and a second haberdasher, who asks pay for a number of fancy waistcoats worn by the count. De Beaufort avoided process servers in the first of these actions until terday, when a municipal court bailiff who camped outside his door in a down | itown hotel for five hours managed to reach him. SWAM THE EAST RIVER TO PAY AN ELECTION BET.| John Gear Was Certain Stimson Would Be Next Governor. dawn of the early morning—it ims and | | i | | Il | ! | | | | i i | | pany New York, Nov. 16.—~In the cold gray | Shot Herself i about the coldest morning this fall John Gear, who thought that Henry L. Stimson would be elected governor of ew York, took off his clothes, put on a bathing suit and jumped into the ic Kast river today. With a rowboat fol- lowing close behind, he swam across the river to Randall's Island, carrying out the provisions of an election bet. A crowd watched and cheered his Dlacky performarie. Funeral of U. S. Senator Clay. Marietia, Ua., Nov 16.—Funeral services for the la U. 8. Senator o . g S Clay of Georgia! were held h “Washington, Nov. 16—The tr this| Bii.fh\)ul'l in the Marietta Methe degartment has raled o &dmit frés | dist church. Business was Suspended | of “quty from Frénce & soldiers moR- |for the day in Marieta, Me Clas s ument for Spencer, Muse Bome for many years. 5 Head. of Union Veteran Legion Dead. Steamship Arrivals. Columbus, 007 Nov. 16 —Capt. Na- | At Plomouth: Nov. 16 Majestio than Mumshowér, national command- | from Néw Yuri. . er o the Unioin Vetetar legion. died | A1 Glaszow: Nov. 15, i from at rutestaptchosgital today, New York, - . R » MBS s | tion authorities. —— Condensid Telegrams Commodore Edmund B. Underwood has retived after 40 vears in the navy. William Raabe, 1 notétl German entist is dead at Brunswick, Germa Jdulius J. Exaer. professor of art in the academy of iine Arts at Copens hagen; is dead. 7 Charles W. Needham Was Appointed an examiner of the interstate com- merce commission. Secretary Meyer Will Ask Congress to limit the term of commandant of marines to four years. X Rev. Dr. T. Nevett Steele has bicn nominated for the presidency of the Maryland society of New York. The Interstate Commerce Comm sion has decided to take up the ques- tion of the status of tup lines. Morris Klyman Was Arcested in London, charged with forgery as book- keeper for Goldstein Dros, of New ork. Commander Robert Platt, U. S. N., retired, lies in a serious condition as the result of an attack of cerebral em- bolism. President Taft Has Written to for- mer Forester Pinchot, authorizing him to file a brief in the Cunningham land patent case, Large Bequests to the Congregation- :’: Chu(rch are made in the will of Miss Carrie P. Underwood of St Johnsburg, W. \ Robin T. Cooper, charged with the murder of former Iinited States Sen- ator Edward W. Carmack of Tennes- see was given a verdict of not guilty. The National Mu N ipal League in session in Buffalo, N. Y. ~elected offi- cers and heard reports on various matters concerning municipal govern- ment. Aviator Efimoff, Director of the Rus- sian miliary aeroplane squad at Se- bastopol, is planning a flight of army aviators' from Sebastopol to St. Pe- tersburg. No Changes Were Made in the dif- s between grades as applied to on eries contract at the meeting of the revisioff committee of the New York cotton exchange Wednesday. The Fourth Di can battleship fleet ar France, and:the firsy division, inciuds ng the Connecticut. Rear Admiral Schroeder’s flagship, arrived off Jing- land. vision of the ived at Ameni- Brest, The Bible Was Barred from the lic schools of Chicago by a majority decision of the supreme court sizned by the churchmen. The minority re- port being signed by non-chu among the justices. men During the Recent New York cam- paign Colonel Roosevelt wrote Lord Northeliff, provrictor of the London Times, that he had no intention of being a cardidate for the presidenc: in 1812, or ever again 4 The British Parliament Reassembied but the political crisis over the house of lords veto bill continues. King George, it is said, objects ta 4 disso- lution ‘of parliament _until the house of lords has an epportunity to answer ves or no with regard to the veto bill. AN ARMY OF COMMUTERS LODGE COMPLAINTS Against the Pennsylvania Railroad and Its Subsidiary Lines. New York, Nov. 16.—An’army of commuters from suburban New York was represented by numerots delega- tions at the Waidorf-Astoria today | when the Interstato comum -ree commis- | sion began hearinzs on against recent advance faves by railroads enter city. Compluints vania railroad and were chi-fly 1 sioner J. M. the hearin, inst its_subsidiary reard today by Com Harlan John R. Wood, traffic managet of the Pennsylvania, contended under ey nation that advances in rzies in specific instance named and which w umed to be taken as typical wer stified by the wuch greater fre- quency of ‘trains, reduction of running time and terminal and other improve- ments which made for convenience and CHINESE IN ANGRY PROTEST. Say Ears and Thumbs Are Cut *Frisco Hookworm Tests. in San Francisco, Nov. 16.—Iudignation in Chinatown has reached a white heat over the most recent form of ex- amination required by the immigra Tt is a test for hook worm and the Chinese regard it as so humiliating that they have telegraphed protests to their minister in' Wash- ngton and are threateming reprisals i the form of a general boycott against American good The examination con ough tests. The cars.- it is alleged, are pier and the thumbs cut for se. The Chinese insist that quired to strip for the phys icians like prisoners and are subjected to other humiliation ts of thor- s OR $750. Brought S, necticut Company. v, 16.—Joseph Curran dict of $750 by a jury court here today’ for being detained by an employe of the. Connecticut company. Curran was ar- rested last Februare by Master Me- ic Charles E. Thomas of the com- who claimed that Curran. was smoking on a trolle: car. He brought Curran to Waterbury and to the pol station, where he was released. - MRS. ANNA BURGTOFF DEAD. After Husband Last Monday. VERDICT F Trolley ~ Passenger Against Con Waterbury, ) was given a ve in_the superior New York, Noy. 16.—Mrs. Anna Burg- torf, who killed her husband. Dr. Theodore R. Burgtorf, last Monday and then turned the weapoh against herself, died of her wounds this afternoon, She would not be operated on and would have refused a physician if it had been permitted. For years the woman had suffered from @an excruciatingly pain- ful facinl disease, and when she re- solved that she could stand it no long- er she tried to take her husband with her. may have seliish, sald, “bnt 1 lovea so § bear 1 D ¥ Nov lui—Repoite today Thai Osc Opel, the Mexican slaver of Palice Chief Temple, was arreste casha, bt efficers refused aMrm or deny (e report over tie tels cuhiene. who is conducting Murdering Her | she couldn’t | | TWO PERSONS ASPHYXIATED | tempt was TOLSTOl N UEAD AS REPORTED - ‘By Correspondents of Various Russ” Newspapers and Press Agencies CRISIS OF THE DISEASE PASSEL / A Message This Morning to a St. Petersburg Neyg; ‘paper Said That the Count Was Living and That His Temperature Had Fallen From 103.64 to 99.5— Reports From Astapova Have Been Conflicting. Temperature 104 at One Time. Only the day before, according to the doctors, Tolstoi’s. temperature was 104 and he was ip a delirious state. On Wednesday the “attending physicians confirmed the original diagnosis, but added that the _inflammation was Spreading and that the condition of the patient was critical, although not hope- less. His temperature during the night rosé to 103.64 and he had an attack of bleeding from the lungs. Some.tims later it was reported that Ins tem- | perattire had fallen'to 98.6. Then came the report of his death, and finally & message from Astapova that he had successfully passed the crisis of the Qisease. St. Petersburg, Nov. 17.—The report of the death of Count Leo Tolstoi at Astapova was received here last night by the various newspapers and agen- ces. The Novos Vremya's Moscow correspondent first telegraphed that Tolstoi was dead, but at an early hour this_morning he sent a further des- pateh saying that a message had been received from Astapova that Tolsto was living and that the crisis of the disease had been. passed. 5 At 415 oclock this morning the ‘Vestnik News agency reported that th death of Tolstoi was not confirmed. Conflicting Reports. The reports emanating from Asta- pova, where Tolstol has been lying with high fever for Lwo days, have been| Cridie Hke Beon! Passsts conflicting throughout. The officia e ay oy lagnosis as given by the attending| St. Petérsburg, Nov. 17— c Phenicians Tutsday night was that | to the Novoe Yoremive idsted; Mosti ring from an inflam- | Nov. 17, 2.45 a. m. says B e hawes fope. of tho left | “A message has been received from lung, but that no immediate ‘lz\nficv‘i\!sl&\px_ i !:‘l(\g:hpg‘»l;;: s Ui e & i otion 2 t | the crisis sed an e, S P hon and his tem. | temperature of the patient late laat time was said to be good and his tem- perature was practicaily normal. night was 99.6.” IMPROVEMENT OF BOSTON TRANSPORTATION WAYS Expenditure of About Fifteen Million Dollars Involved. RIOT ON FIFTH AVENUE, BRICKS THROWN AT TAXICABS. Mob Dispersed by Mounted Police Re- serves—Little Damage Done. Gew York, Nov. 16.—The attempt by | Boston, Nov. 16.—The first step in Dack of the strike of the chauffewrs | ject for t iniprovement of local lod to a riot today alons Fifth avenue | iransportation . facilities — undertaken near the entrance to Central park. A |for many years and involving the ex- crowd of several hundred strikers and | penditure of about $15.000,000, was sympathizers attacked a taxicab which | tken today by the Hoston & Maine was being driven by a strikcbreaker, |and New York, New Haven & Harts Bricks and_ stones were thrown, but |ford railroad companies. The two before much damagze Lad been 'done i companics addressed a petition 1o the police. reserves galloped up and dis- | legislature for authority to acquire Persed the crowd. The rioters then |the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynmn Tharched on the taxieabs stationed in,|railroad upon such terms as may be approved Dby the Massachusetts board of railroad commissioners. The com= pany whose control is sought operatesy a narrow gauge line between East Boston and Lynn with a branch line i Winthrop, the connection with Bos~ ton_proper being made by ferty hoats, front of the Plaza, Savoy and Nether-| lands hotels and drove them aws Most of the taxicabs which were driv- en by strikebreakers today were guard- ed by policemen, 1,200 of whom were detailed on strike duty. It is said that many ef the men will return to work ) ke The petitic r asks that au- rrow, aithough the strike has not| The petition further S T iy settled. The strikers | thority be given to widen the gauge demand a “closed shop” ment of the road, to_extend it on the north t with the Portland division 1of the Boston & Maine, and to mak.;. = la connection by tunnel between Eas! IN A LODGING HOUSE. | 1 i{on and the South statfon in this | city, trains in this tunnel to be oper- |ated by electricit to conne James Gray and Mrs. Liewsliyn Clasp- closed. Gray_was ed and both windows ed in Each Other's Arms. Timothy . es. vice president of the New York, New Haven & Hart- ew Philadeiphia. Ohio. ford and the Boston & Maine roads, | Claspea in each other's arms t said {odax that under the =proposed jes of James Gray, 50 years Dlan it will be possible to carry pe Mrs. Jack Llewellyn, 41 year: sengers from New York to Bar Har= found in a lodging house he | Bor_through Toston, Without {ransfer, | Asphyxiation was the cause of L L by Eheinewirouts: g Tled with natur 3 the room being filled ywith natu s | &3, from 2 gmall g ave.@The door was lock- “ BRONX BANK OFFICER | | ARRESTED LAST NIGHT. the superintendent of a mine HH Klon- ke, Obio, and Alr. Ll e | Charged With Forging a Certificate of ntified her body. Gray husband later i Gray | ed and leavgs a widow | | wag also m Stock—Bank Not Injured. Charles A, Bel= 3 even .childrel New:York, Nov. 16 s e - ling, vice president of the Bronx Na= ATTEMPT TO SHOOT UP tional bank of this city, war airested tonigint, charged with forging a cer~ A LOUISIANA TOWN |tificate’ of stock which purported to —— | represent 25 shares’ of Jtock in hin le Started Over Shooting a Elind | hank, valued at $200 each. The com= H i | plainant is John Bambey, manager of it { the, Bronx ranch of the inickerbocks 8 t. Lo New. 16.—Following | er Trust company, who made affidas R e A e AnWINE | that Belling had &old him the certifi= . hiaot 1y the.town | cates and accepted $3,000 in part pay- | ment. of Ol City. the capital of the Cad ent g : e f i is i " The Belling years old and married. B e e e { He was arvested as he vas leaving the el e Siind | bank and charged with grand Jarceny lor shot Tom Hickey. an alleged bIMd | 0G % orzery. Shortly afterward Fred tiger operator, while MoK ey i guns | A. Wursbach, president of' the bank, g e e hts were fired, but | issued a stafement in whicH he said s s e i - | because national bank The leaders were a sted. Hickey - - ek their i E L Hicke | 0d to lend or 1ecelve money on thel will dio. " He will b the third oil field | €0 o lsnd oF, Seqhe Mendy, n oG sEaRGsilledstnsbettoyml Lores i not prosecute, as it was not the party Senth { injured. Belling, he said, had no_ac- cess to the securities, cash or collat- eral of the bank. NO PRELIMINARY HEARING In the Famous Schenk Poisoning Case at Wheeling, W. Va. WILL BE SENTENCED TODAY. Mrs. Frank Averill Found Guilty of Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 16.—There Manslaughter. will be no preliminary hearing in t case of Mrs. laura Farnsworth . Schenk, charged with atempting o | sverifl, s been on trial hera for poison her husband, John O. Schenk, fthe past week for the murder of her and the famous case will have its fivst [pucpand was today found guilty of airing before the snecial session of the | mansiaughter after the jury had delib- grand jury fixed for Friday to take up |erated four hours. Mrs. "Averill will the matter. probably be sentenced tomorrow. It was stated today that a Pittshurs | * When the vordict was announced she detective agency employed by the de- lhroke down and wept and as she was j fense has been discharged from the |jeq out of the court room by the sheriff case. The matter will probably come |ghe sobbed “Oh! My baby! My baby!™ on for a hearing at the present term |Afrs Averill has a three vear old of criminal court, in the event that|gdaughte Mrs. Schenk is held by the special | Jrank Averill was shot at his home, three miles outside of this city, on the night of Oct. 20. Shortly aft o'clocks that night Averill crawled to the front door of the house of a neigh- bor, Frank P. Wells, bleeding from a hotgun wound. One of his first state- ments was that his wife had shot him. He was removed to a local hospital, where he died the following day. M Averill was arrested after her hus- band’s death. The defense held that the shooting was accidental. grand jury on Iriday United States Not Likely to Annex Panama. Pandma, Nov, 16.—President Taft to- night effectu: disposed of the report that the U tes was likely to apnex Panama. dinn ver in his honor by Pres Arosemena inc attended by 200 prominent officis diplomats and merchants, TPaft aroused the sreatest enthusi when he declared that the Ame people would feel utterly dishonored in annexingsPanama unless some conduct § by the Panama peoule left no other course. This contingency Mr. Taft was sure, would never arise. ident FIFTY FAMILIES HOMELESS. Montreal Water Service Proves Defec- five at Crucial Moment. - Montreal, Nov. 16.—Fifty families' were made homeless and $300,000 worth of property destroved by a fire af the north end last night. It was bitterly cold and nearly noon_before: the half-naked sufferers were housed, The water service failed again. The last time it failad there was great loss of life. Great indignation is manifest against the city government. Andrew Carnegie 756 Years Old. Pittsburz, Nov. 1f- Andrew Car- negie will celebrate lis i5th hirth this week by making a gift to the Car- negie Technology schools in Pittshurg of three and one-half miilion of dol- lars, of which $1,500.600 will he put at once into buildings and 2quipment and $2,000,000 will be forthcominz as en- dowment. M rnesic has previ- 1,000,000 Intends to Cut Wages Thirty Per Cent i 1o ~The Tmperial Window vhich 18 ua Qergoing an edict uf the tederal court, 5 stalémnent 19day; il explanation of reports that it jntended to et wages of the work- Death of William K. Thorne in Pau, Franc ; New York Nov. 16— Word was r cetved here touight of the death oy heart disease of. William K. Thoraethe 560 of Alrs. Einiy Thothe, & dkughter ot Commodore Vanderbilt, the founder of the family, st Fau, France. Mr, Thorne had uot lived in this colun for nearly 16 years. urg Quidatl men. thiete per cont. as 1 resnlt of the il Uifnes impost . The cutis by Despite the face that it aliost hr the fability of coul Aelds ‘covering more hand slass e tories fo , h companies uriug machines,