Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 11, 1911, Page 1

it i 38 3 ¢ ta A rwich DRWICH, CONN., APRIL 11, 1911 PRICE_TWO CENTS NEW TRIAL FOR DANBURY HATTERS United States Circuit Court of Appeals Re- verses Judgment of $232,240.12 COURT ERRED IN DIRECTING VERDICT Reversal of Lower Court’s Decision Based on This Cir-~ cumstance—Case Based on Sherman Anti-Trust Law> Involving Claim of Boycott Against the Plaintiff— The Issue in Litigation for the Past Eight Years. mere fact that any individual defend- ant was a member of and contributed money to the treasury of the United Hatters' association made him princi- pal of any and all agents who might be employed by its officers in carrying New York, April 10—The long stand- ing controversy between the Danbury (Conn.) hatters and the union known s the United Hatters of North Amer- @, was brought up again today by a reversal of the judgment for $232.- 240.12 which Toewe & Co. of Danbu out the objects of the association, and btained as damages for the union's | responsible as principals if such agents alleged boycott in the hat manufac- | used illegal methods or caused illegal methods to be used in undertaking to carry out their objects. We cannot as- sent to this proposition. Something more must be shown, as for instanc that with the knowledge of the mem. bers unlawful means had been so fre- quently used with the express tacit approval of the association that its agents were warranted in assuming that they might use such unlawful means In the future, that the associa- tion and jts members would approve or tolerate such use whenever the end sought to he obtained might best be obtained.” Incompetent Evidence Admitted. The trial court admitted evidence of the payment of their dues to the union by defendants, after complaint was served. The court of appeals holds | that this was not competent either as showing ratification of acts of union agents or that their acts werc au- thorized at the time they were per- formed previous to their suit, Hearsay Testimony Admitted. The trial court also permitted a of the plaintiffs to testify turers' interstate_business. Verdict Was Dirscted by Court. ‘The United States circuit court of appeals took up the case on a writ of ertor: to review «the judgment of the cieuit court in Gonnecticut. In an opinion written by Judge Lacombe and cohcurred in by Judges Cox and Noves todas. the judgment is reversed. The verdict upon which the judgment was originally entered was practically di- rected by the court, which left to the Jury merely the matter of damages as the “only question with which they eould properly concern themselves.” The ju assessed the damages at $74,- 00w, which ameunt, in accordance with | the conspiracy provision of the Sher- man law—the court trebled. A New Trial Ordered. Setting aside the judgment, the court of appeals finds the lower court erred in directing the verdict. A new trial was directed. Of the facts, conceded by demurrer, which were refied upon in the former decision, Judge Lacombe says_ in his opinion it has been proved that the | ! salesman United yore petat) : e e domtiasoctation | (5S¢ customers told him that at some Dor. that the Ilatters wnioh undes | time prior they had been interviewed took to unlonize the factories and | Py some labor representative who told when the manufacturers refused to al- | them that unless they ceased to han. Tow this, a union war was declared. | dle the plalatifts’ goods they would get | into trouble with the union. The Plaintiff Held Out. eourt of appeals holds that this was Tn_ some instances the owners at ) improper hearsay testimony. first_refused fto unlonize their facto- | term. The quintette were convicted of rles he opinion.reads, “and mission- . " @ries purporting to represent thé com- Ci in Courts Since 1903. bination visited customers of recalci- | Danbury, Conn., April 10.—The de- trant owners in different state and | cision handed down today by the told them that unless they ceased to | United States circuit court of appeals handle their goods the associated un- [ in New York reversing the decision fons would refrain from patronizing | of the United States circuit court, in The plain the case held | which $232,340 damages were awarded the D. E. Loewe & Co. of this_city, againgt the United Hatters of North Ameriea, and remanding the case for a new trial, will further extend a case which has been in the courts since Strike at Danbury Factory, Thereupon o strike was called which took ali the union men out of plaintiff’s factory. Subsequently the | e i Missionaries representing themselves | 1903 and.which at its-close practically as coming on behal? of the United | Tesolved itsdlf into a_contest between Hatters, visited customers of plain- |[thé American Auii-Boycott associa iffe in oiher siates To some of these | {lon and the American Federation of | Labor. Factory Run as Open Shop. The history of the case dates back to 1901, when the union hatters em- they stated that unless the: cal any orders they had giv- ntiff's goods and would agree : buying goods from plain- pi scontin, tils in the Lure their (the customers) | = . . ployed by D. B, Loewe & Co. walked factories would be tied up and the| ju( “‘rhe factory up to that time had been run on the open shop plan and after the departure of the union men it was continued on a non-union basis. From 1901 until 1903, when the suit was brought, D. E, Loewe & Co. claim- ed that their business was being in- jured by a boycott, especially in the | Danbury Firm Lost Patrons. To others they stated that if they | ntinued business with the plaintiffs | (the missionaries) would call on own customers and endeavor to | their using their goods, i. e., i their preve the & offerad for sale by the per- [ west. Suit was brought against Mar- nterviewed. To others they stat- | tin Lawlor and 239 other members of “iiat unless they ceased fo deal in | the Hatters’ union, and damages of tirs goods they “would be boy- | $250,000 claimed. The complaint al- | be put the un- | leged that the alleged boycott as a | Some of the ¢ omers of | violation of the Sherman anl frust who were thus rviewed | law in that it was in restraint of in- 1 further purchases u!“ terstate commerce. et oSS S ] Hatters Backed by A. F. of L. igh \ " 2 | _The case was first brought to the Might Be Violation of Anti-Trust Law | iy “States district court, and the The owinion continues ihet “it i# | gyperior court of Fairfield county, but to inguire whether boveolss | wae not tried there, it being taken to this particular variety cf | (he supreme court of the United States rave notanlawiul, or Un- | on the question @s to whether the ai- statutos of smie paiticular | jogations made constituted a viola- lares that “f 1< s Shown | tion of the Sherman anti-trust law. Is combined to induce a | fp pephruary, 1908, the supreme court . e ot handed down a decision to the effect - R G s that ailegations constituted a violation of the law and in October, 1909, the jon of the She case was begun in the United States man an- circuit court at Hartford, and after ed in Taking Case from Ju a three month#' trial the jury found | 1ssing the points ra‘sed o for the plaintiffs, and Judge Platt Judge Lacombe sanys the assi awarded them damages of $222,000, jent of erro; vhich pheld, is which with costs brought it up to tton of the trial judge in taking the $232,640. That the American Federa- from the ju and “himself de- | tion of Labor was back of the hat- evers question. except the | ters was brought out in the trial of ht of damage the case at Hartford. of Uniawful Acts Must Be Hatters Carried Case Up. ! Shown. At the close of the case in Hart- Continumg the decision, Judge La- | ford the defendants carried the case be says | to the United States circuit court of | “It has been argued here that the i appeals of New York. FLEET TO VISIT FOUR COUNTRIES American Jackies Have Chance to See Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Germany. Philadeiphia, April 10. A\,.,..,..,,L.,l Washington, April 10.—The tenta- ment of the engagement of Mrs. Kate | tive itinerary’ of the second division Pelton kins, widow of the late Wil- | of the Atlantic fleet on its cruise in PHILADELPHIA ATTORNEY TO WED,WIDOW ELKINS. Announcement of the Engagement Made Yesterday. The | | turther appeals from Cabled Paragraphs Paris, April 10.—Hermann Guth- mann, sald to be an American bank employe, committed suicide by shoot- ing at the Hotel Continental. Frankfort - on - the - Main, Prussia, April 10.—The _dirigible balloon Deutschland II, with Count Zeppelin and several passengers, arrived here today from Baden-Baden. Lima, Peru, April 10.—A general strike of workingmen was begun here today in sympathy with the emploves of a’factory who are out as the result of a dispute of the management. Tokio, April 10.—It is roughly esti- mated that $3,000,000 wiil cover the property loss caused by the fire which Yesterday wiped out the Yoshiwari, that district of the capital where social license is permitted under municipal surveillance. Rome, April 10.—Two earth shocks were feit here today. The first occur- red early in the morning and the sec- ond, somewhat lighter, about noon. Some slight alarm was caused in the city, but in the prison there was con- siderabie panic, and the prisoners made two separate attempts to mutiny. These, however, were quickly sup- pressed. HOT WATER TREATMENT FOR EXCITABLE PATIENTS. a Tub One Hospital Inmate Kept for a Month, Poughieepsie, N. Y., April 10.—Wil- liam Cavert of Albany, who appeared before Judge Hasbrouck today -in ha- beas corpus proceedings to obtain his release from the Hudson River State hospito], told the court that patients were cruelly treated at the hospital by being forced to stay in tubs of hot water. “One man was kept in hot water for 2 month,” said Cavert. “He was forc- ed to sit there all day long with the water covered by a canvas fastened around the patient's neck. He was forced to eat his meals while he sat in the tub of hot water.” Dr. W, E. Merriman of the hospital staff said Cavert's statement was true, and explained that the water was heat- ed to 90 degrees and was a new cure for excitable patients. The new treat- ment, the doctor said, is a success. The doctor said it would be dangerous to allow Cavert at large. The court re- served delision. Cavert was at one time a bank clerk in Albany and has been in the insti- tution sonce 1901. GERMAN METHODISTS DECLARE FOR PEACE. Appointments Made at Annual Confer- ence in Philadelphi Philadelphia, April 10.—After adopt- ing resolutions favoring international | peace, the East German conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, in session here, adjourned today, to meet next year in Brooklyn. The resolutions praise President Taft's effotts to bring about an arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Bishop J. L. Nuelson of Cincinnati made these appointments among others for the ensuing year: East District—Henry H. Heck, su- perintendent, Brooklyn. Boston, Mass.—Carl Rodemeyer. Bridgeport, Mass.—Georgs Wiegand. Hartford, Conn.—G. J. Woerz. Lawrence, Mass.—E. W. Pigelow. New Haven, Conn.—Paul Loescher. West District—Henry Mueller, su- perintendent, Hoboken, N. J. FURTHER DELAY IN TRUST DECISIONS Supreme Court Still Deliberating on Tobacco and Oil Cases. Washington, April 10.—By reason of the failure of the Supreme court of the United States to announce to- day its decislons in either the Stand- ard Oil or the Tobacco “dissolution suits,” another week, at least, must pass before the outcome of these cases will be known. Neither was any case decided today which touched in any way the open controversy in the big corporation cases. Among other business by the court was the restoration of the Missouri two-cent fare cases to the docket for a second argument and the assignment of the West Virginia two-cent fare case for argument on October 10 next, or as soon thereafter as possible. THREE CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE | One of Them Attempted to Start a | Fire h Kerosene. Lethbridge, Alberta, April 10.—A fire which destroyed the home of Oran Brooks, a homesteader, on the United States boundary line 35 miles east of Coutts, today, burned to death three children, Mrs. Brooks and her baby were so badly burned that they also may die. The oldest Brooks boy, aged 12, at- tempted to start a fire in & stove with kerosene oil, and an explosion result- | ed. > $102,000 CONTRIBUTED FOR CHINESE SUFFERERS People of United States Have Re- sponded Quite Generously. April 10. that New York, nounced today 10.—It was an. in_response to $20,000 has been sent through The Christian Herald auspices to the mis- Mam I Flkins, Jr., of Philadelphia, to | the Baltic sea during May and June William Delaware Neilson, 8. promi- | provides for visits to Denmark, Swe- nent a b and society man of | Gen, Russia and Germany, the navy | s cit made today. No date | department announced today. One port | r the wedding. | in each of these countries will be vis- | whe husband was a ! ited. AR i . Elking, thes Phila- | All four divisions of the battleship | ou magnate, and who be- | fleet probably will cruise in Mediter- | wine vears agy, js o | ranean waters during October, Novem- | United States Sep- | ber and December t. ¢ Charles N, Felton of California. “It is expected that these foreign | oo her hood Mrs, Elking has | cruises,” reads the department’s mem ben spending much of her time | orandum, “will add greatly to the pop- | wbroad with her father and in Califor. | ular interest in naval lifs and stimu- miz. At present she s staying with | Jate enlistments of men of high char- friends in this city {acter. Under this plan, men enlisting anioe - | for four vears have a reasonable pros- BUT SIX VOTES FOR | pect of visiting most of the countries WOMAN SUFFRAGE. | °f lorthern und southern Kurope, and attle For It in the Massachu- setts Senate. April 10.—A last cffort to ebtain favorable consideration by the | legislature this year on woman suf- frage failed in the senate today, only #ix mewnbers voting in favor of vom - an suffrage bill, while there were 31| Mathew Bywell, who embeszled $2,000 votes against it The house defeated TOM the Empress hotal in this city e wame bill last weele by @ large ma- | While he was employed as accountant Jority. s | and who recently was arrested in_New Orleans, where he was acting as Y. M. C. A. secretary, pleaded guilty today Soston, April 10— The emgagemnent | S0 WAs sentenced to two years in the of Amory A. Lawrence, & wealthy mer- | Penitentiar: ehant of this city, and Mrs. Thoraas | Clay Dugsn of New York was an- | nouncsd here today. Mre, Dugan I Darmstadt, Germany, April 16 the niece and adopted daughter of | Prince Henry of Prussia was a pas- Charles B. Amory of Commonwealth | senger today with August Euler in a geopne. Me Jawrence fs o brother of | new aeroplane invented by fhe Grana William Layr of Wassa- | Duke of Hesse. The muchine is re- Me is a Widowe poried to be remarkably 5 ins, Willsar trac of forme: detriment to the general training of the fleet, since, under the system, training can be carried out at sea and | while cruising abroad as effectively as in home waters.” Two Years for Embezzles Victoria, C., April 10—Edward Boston Merchant to Wed. Prince Henry Takes a Fly. this plan “can be carried out without | N sionary relief committee. This makes $102,000 which has been contributed by people all over the United States and sent to aid in the relief of victims of the famine. Steamship Arrivals. York. Naples: York. April 9, Cincinnati, from Society Belle Flies in Aeroplane. ‘Washington, April 10.—Another Washington society belle made her first flight in an aeroplane today, when China _another { Williams Left FEDERAL COMMANDER MAYOT HAS IT ALL BURNED. CYANIDE IN THE FLOUR English Veteran of Boer War Now Leading Williams’ Band of Filibus- terers—Rehels Need Ammunition. Mexicali, Mexico, April 10.—Colonel Mayot, commander of the federal forces'near here, today burned all the provisions abandoned Stanley Will- iams’ flibustering American band aft- er the fight of Saturday. Food Dosed with Cyanid According to survivors of the lat- ter force, Mayot's suspicion that the food was poisoned was well founded. One guerilla said_enough cyanide had been mixed with the flour to have kill- ed the entire federal army. Stack Restored to Cudahy Ranch. Both Colonel Mayot and General Sa- linas, the latter in command of the guerilla garrison here, returned to-the Cudahy ranch-the stock stolen by Wil- liams’ raiders. Part of the stock was abandoned after Saturday’s fight and the rest brought here. English Veteran Succeeded Williams. Capt. John Price, an English vet- eran of the Boer war, has taken com- mand of Williams’ band. $20,000 For Delivery of Ammunition. New Orleans, April 10—Twenty thou- sand dollars will be pald for the de- livery in Mexico, at a point between El Paso and Chihuahua, of a consign- | ment of $70,000 worth of ammunition | for the Mxeican revolutionists. New Orleans Man Appealed To. A New Orleans business man today was appealed to by a_member of the revolutionary junta to devise some way of guaranteeing the delivery of the biz shipment of ammunition said to be waiting on_railroad side tracks in Pennsylvani Federals Lost Thirteen. Mexicali, Mexico, April 10.—Colonel Mayot, commanding the Mexican fed- erals around Mexicali, gave out today the number of his dead in Saturday's battle as thirteen. Vincente Zpul- veeda, the line rider, who was among Saturday’s federal Wounded, died to- ay. More Troops Needed to Patrol Border El Paso, Texas, April 10.—Insurrec- tos have been reported at San Igna- clo, forty miles_east of Juarez, and at Columbus, N. M., 70 miles west. Customs Collector Sharpe telegraphed the treasury department today, ask- ing for more troops to patrol the bor- der west of Columbus. It is rumored that four machine guns, five hundred thousand Mauser, and five hundred thousand rounds of rifle ammunition have#oeen smuggled across the border west of Columbus. The shipment is said to have been bill ed as mining machinery to the “Am- erican Mining company,” at lonely point near Hachita, N. M. Residents of Juarez still expect an attack by the Maderista army. SEVEN-YEAR TERMS FOR BLACK HAND LEADERS Drastic Treatment Meted Out by Com- mon Pleas Court at Newark. Newark, N. J, April 10.—Seven years at hard labor in state’s prison was the sentence meted out to each of four leaders of a Black Hand band in the common pleas court here to- day. A fifth prisoner, a wealthy Ital- ian, was sentenced to a three years' term. The quintétte were convisted of drugging and robbing two men, large- 1y on the testimony of a woman con- federate, who turned state's evidence. A woman with her baby in her arms directed a stream of profanity and abuse in Italian at the presiding judge after sentence had been pronounced. She explained to the sheriff, who re- moved her from the court room, that she was the wife of one of the prison- ers and thought that her husband had been too severely punished, “DRIFTWOOD MANOR” SOLD FOR $50,100. Country Estate of Banker Robin Auc- tioned Off to Satisfy a Lien. New York, April 10.—“Driftwood Manor,” the country estate of Joseph G. Robin, the fallen banker, was sold today at’auction from the courthouse steps at Riverhead, L. I, to satisfy a mechanic’s lien of $4,000. The prop- erty fetched $50,100, of which $45,000 is represented by two mortgages held by corporations in-which, it is alleged, Robin held the controlling interest. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, April 10.— Senator Brandggee introduced in the senate this afternoon petitions from the fol- lowing grange organizations, all of them “in opposition to the Canadian treaty: Burritc grange of New .Britain, Lebanon, Mystic, Chester, East Lyme, Wichita of Warren, Woodbridge, Unity of Deep River, Watertown, Farmill River of Huntington, Senezt of Wood- stock, Newington, Coventry, Easton, First grange of Killing] Degsett of Middletown, Colebroo Kent, Columbia, Plyinouth, Konomoc of Wa- terford, East Canaan. Canterbury, She- tucket of Scotland, Wamanesa of Gay- lordsville, Woodstoek of North Wood- stock, New Canaan, Glastonbury, Col- chester Ledyard. o LT BoRde: s foni (pi12 alzo presented one in favor of the | grt Marseilles: April 7. Madonna, Setton ale o L e | from New e Eien = % Also resolutions adopted by the fol- At L 1z 3 . e e ke x post: mwell of North ont Ghristiansand: April 9, Hellig | Cornwell, Rock Rimmon of Beacon ¥ W ARFIT D, Caledonia: i Falls, New Canaan of New Canaan, Lot @ from | Silker Lake of _Sharon, Wichita of Xuples: April 10, Huropa, from | Warren, Nortn Stouington of North Stonington and Canterbury of Canter- bury. Also resolutions adopted by the Cian-na-Gael of Danbury protesting against the enactment of any arbitra- tion treaty with Great Britain. Also resolutions adopted by a public meet- ing of citizens in Meriden, demanding that the United States troops be wlith- drawn from the Mexican borde: Miss Leonora Rizero, daughter of the Cuban minister, went aloft with Jan- nus, the aviator, in a Rex Smith bi- plane. They Tose to about 150 fees and encircled Potomac Pari several imes. P Carri Leavenworth, Ka ports that' Mrs. Carrie_ Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher, died today are untrue. Doctors at ths local sani- tarium at which Mrs. Natlon is a pa- tient said this evening that her health is better than at any previous time since her arrival and they expect her complete recovery soon Representative Noble Suffers Relapse. Hartford. Conn., April 10.—Repre- sentative John H. Noble of Old Lyme, who was operated upon at the Hart- ford hespital, March 29, for appendi- citis, suffered a-relapse tonight, and while his condition is not considered necessarily critical, it is serious. Mr. Noble was taken ill while at the cap- nglland was removed to the hos- pital. The Union Carpenters of New Ca- naam, being refused their demand of $3.50 a day, an increase of 50 cents, vesterday went out on strike, stopping constriietion work on many buildings. |Death Claims Poisoned Food| Tom L. Johnson CLEVELAND'S EX-MAYOR PASSED AWAY LAST EVENING. HAD BEEN ILL OVER A YEAR Lived to See Three-Cent Fares Es- tablished at Cleveland—Four Times ‘Mayor and Twice in Congress. Cleveland, Apri} 10.—Tom L. John- son, twice ' congressman from _the Twenty-first Ohio district, four times mayor of Cleveland, champion of three cent street railway fare and prominent advocate of the single tax theories of the late Henry George. died in h apartments in the Whitehall ‘at 8.45 o'clock tonight, after a long iliness. Death was caused by cirrhosis of the liver. He was 55 years old. Had Been Il Over a Yea Mr. Johnson had been ill for more than a year, but his condition was not thought scrious until he suffered a ro- lapse on Wednesday, March 15. Ho had been gaining strength ever since he came home after spending the sum- mer on Nantucket Island. On Satur day night, March 11, he left his apart- ments and attended 2 banquet at the Nisi Prius club, an_ organization of Cleveland lawyers. He remained there until 2 a. m. Sunday, and when he re- turned to his home he complained of not feeiing well. Took to His Bed March 15. The following Wednesday his condi- tion was such that he was obliged to 80 to bed. From that day to the time of his death his condition was grave, though several times he rallied amaz- ingly. Although he realized he did not have long to live, he was cheerful and optimistic to the end. Called Himself “a Stormy Petrel.” Tom L. Johnson once raferred to himself in a public address as “a stormy petrel,” and this metaphor ac curately described him and his career. From the time he entered the offices of a Louisville street railway company at the age of 15 until his defeat for a fifth term as mayor of Cleveland on Nov. 2, 1909, he was in the stress of some storm, political or financial, and he often said that it was thus that he most enjoyed himself. A Native of Kentucky. Johnson was_born in Georgetown, Ky., July 18, 1 He was christened Thomas Loftin, but he always preferred to call himself Tom L., and so he was known from boyhood. He started to work in a Louisville traction offic when still a youth secured suffici backing and bought a controlling in- terest in the Indianapolis street rail- ways. Elected to Congress in 1891. In the ’80s, with his brother Albert, he came to Cleveland and became in- terested in the streat car systems here and assisted in a partial consolidation of them. H¢ bécame a director in the Cleveland Electric Railways company and in 1891 was elected a member of congress from the Twenty-first O district, serving two terms as a “sin taxer.” When he was defeated as a candidate for a third term he went to New York, disposing of his street car interests in Cleveland and acquiring control of tha Nassau street railway line in Brooklyn. Proposed Three Cent Fares in Detroit. While engaged in husiness in Cleve- land he sold his Indianapolis traction holdings and acquired control of the Detroit car lines, and it was then that he first proposed three cent fares. The citizens of Detroit, however, rejected proposal that they buy his road and establish_that rate of fare and he retired from Detroit. In Steel Manufacturing Business. ‘He also entered into the steel manu- facturing business at Johnstown. Pa., Moxham, Pa., and Lorain, O. These interests’ he successlvely dispesed of, and when in 1900 he sold his Brooklyn traction line he was left free of busi- ness cares. He returned to Cleveland and in April, 1901, was elected mayor of Cleveland on 'a platform which promised universal three cent car fares. Three Cent Fares Not a Success. After a fight with ths street car company which lasted until 1908 and through four elections, in each of which he was triumphant, the Cleve land traction lines passed into the hands of the Municipal Traction com- pany. After six months’ trial of opera- tion at threa cents the people at a ref- rendum election voted out the fran- chise and the municipal company pass- ed into the hands of a receiver, where it remained until Februar: 10. Defeated for Re-election in 1909. One more attempt was made Dy Johnson to obtain the passage of the three cent grants, but his proposals were rejected at an election held Aug. 3, 1909. Hijs own dafeat followed three months later, and on Jan. 1, 1910, he surrendered the reins of office to the present mayor, Herman C. Baehr. Three Cent Fares at Last Established. Two months later three cent fare was established as the result of Mr. Johnson's efforts. A Candidate for Governor. In 1903, while Mr. Johnson was mayor of Cleveland, he was nominated for governor by the democrats of Ohio, but was unsuccessful at the elec- tion. i Besides his wife, Mr. Johnuson is vived by one son, Loftin, and a dav ter, Mrs. Bessie Mariani. End Was Peaceful. ed awav so quiet- that his death a ed from the ur- p. m., felt the uncons pulse, and two moments an- ced he was dead. In addition to Johnson, Loftin Johnson and Mrs. Elizabeth Mariani and James Tyler, the dead man's faithful valet, those in the apartment when death came were the following intimate friends: C. M. Bates of Tremton, N. J. City olicitor Baker, B. Dupont, W. I Mrs, Hill and C. W. I Unconscious All Day. From early morning Mr. Johnson had been unconscious, with the excep- tion of a brief interval about 6.30 a. m., when, as his wife, daughter and son were bending over his bedside, he roused from his stupor sufficiently to open his eves, smile faintly and whis- per “Hello.” That was the last word uttered by him, for he at once re- lapsed into unconsclousness May Be Buried in Brooklyn. Funeral arrangements had not been completed late tonight, but the burial will probably be in Greenwood ceme- tery, Brooklyn, N. Y, where Mr, John- son had long owned a lot beside the one in which Henry George is buried. Tt js said that Afr. Johnson accompa- nied Mr. George when the latter ! Condensed "liglégrams A Momevent Has Been Started to organize the Campfire Girls of Amer- ica. A Bill to Establish a National Uni- yersity has been introduced by Senator Borah. ¥ House Democrats Have Decided on an order of legislation for the extra session. Consul Felix S, Johnson Reports a shortage in the canning industry of Canada. Representative Stanley Will Push his resolutions for an investigation of the steel trust. Ransom Young, Who Has Voted for nineteen presidents, died at Haxzleton, Pa., aged 108 years. A Squadron of American Warships will be invited to visit Kizsl during re- gatta week, June 1 George Prentiss Butler, a New York financier, dropped dead of heart disease in a hotel in London. Arthur B, Pease, a Lawyer and club- man, ¢ Chicago, committed suicide with cyanide of potassium. | Professor Andrews of Amherst de- clared swearing to be as necessary as {any other form of language. President Taft Has Assured uneasy democratic house leaders that he has no idea of proroguing congress. Limantour, Mexican Minister of Fi- nance, says no-person has been named by the government to arrange terms of peace. The Archaeological Exhibition of the Italian jubilze was opened at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome by the king and queen. ndications Point to a Stormy Ses- sion of congress, both parties being split and each faction being of aggres- sive spirit. Navy Department Reports on the re- cent battleship practice in the Chesa- peake shows noteworthy improvement in gunnery. Twenty Thousand Wine Growers held a meeting at Troys, France, to t against the proposed law of delimitation. T. H. Milier of the Cotton Firm of stezl-Adiller & Co., of Aberdeen, Miss., was found gulity of circulating bosus bills of lading. Senor Manuel de Zamacona, who succeeds De la Barra as Mexican am- bassador to the United States, has ar- rived in New York. The Mexican Authorities Are Mining the approaches of Chihuahua and put- ting up defenses to prevent Madero from taking the city. Judge Sanborn of the Federal Court in MinneSota decided that the state law reducing passenger and freight rates was unconstitutional. ‘The Audubon Society Ciaims that the increased cost of living is, 1o a considerable extent, die to the exter- mination of crop pest destrosing birds. The First Squadron of the Atlantic flaet completed its battle practice on the southern drill grounds and the ships dispersed to their home navy | vards. The Turkish Parliament Confirmed the government's action in awarding contracts for the construction of threa battleships to Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Limited, of London. In the Trial of the Camorrist at Viterbo, Italy, Genano Ascrittere testi- fied that his observations of De Angelis’ action convinced him that h2 was one of the murderers of Cuoccolo. President Taft Received in the East room of the White House vesterday students from the New Bedford, Mass., high school and a delegation from the academy at Fryeburg, Me., with Sena- tor T in a Decision t that the so- clausge in the The Customs Court sterday held in effe alled “favored maticr xisting commercial treaties with Eng- land. France and Germany does not restrict the United States in effecting the proposed reciprocity agreement with Canada. FIFTY-FOUR BODIES BROUGHT TO SURFACE. { Nine of Those | Mine Horribl Ban la., April 10.—Only 54 bod- of the 128 victims known to have shed in the Pratt City Consolidat- ed coal mine d been brought out up to 9 o'clock tonight Sixteen other bodies are at the bottom of the pit and will be brought to the surface tonight. There was considerable delay in the rescue work because of the change in the air supply ordered by Mine Inspec- tor_Hillhouse. Nine bodies brought up today were horribly mutilated. The rails of the track wers twisted, and mine cars had been hurled some distance. Tt 18 be- lieved that the center of the explosion Saturday morning was at this point. The accident resulted from careless handling of powder, bringing it in con- tact with an exposed lamp. Mine offi- cials maintain there were men in the mine, although there were rumors Taken from Banner Mutilated. today that ten or fifteen corpses in addition to this number might be found. | REFUSES TO DRAW LINE ON NEGRO GIRLS. Can Enjoy Dormitory Privileges at Cornel! University. April 10.—President Schurman of Cornell university today brought to an end the controversy { which has been in prosvess for a few j weeks over admitting negro women students to Sage collese dormitory. In a statement issued to Mrs. G. S. Mar- tin of the women's advisory council he says that all negro women students are to be admitted to the privileges of the women's dormitories if they request admission. Ithaca, N. Y. OBITUARY. Prof. John C. Freeman. Topeka, Kas., April 10.—Prof. C. Freeman, who had been at the head rtment of English of the ¢ Wisconsin since 1878, oday at the home of his son. 0 a leave of absence owing to Professor Freeman was fo < United States don- sul at Copenhagen He has b bought hiz burial 1ot in Cgeenwood and purchased an adjoining bt. Body May Lie in State. A movement was on foot tonight to e the former mayor's body le in tc in cither Cleveland’s new foderal building, or in the Central armory. TWENTY G0 DOWN WITH IROQUOIS A Score of Lives Lost by Foundering of Small Wooden Steamer CAPSIZED WHEN STRUCK BY A GALE Sixteen of the Dead Were Passengers—Purser Among the Victims and List of the Passengers May Never be Obtained—Steamer Had Been Out of Port But Fifteen Minutes When She Went Down. Victoria, B. C., April lieved that twenty lives were lost when the little wooden steamer Iroquois, plying betwen Svdney, Vancouver Is- land, and the islands of the Gulf of | Georgia, capsized soon after leaving | Sydney ' today. Steamer’s Purser Among the Dead. The purser, who had a record of fares collected, is among the dead, and it is not probable that the exact num- ber that perished will ever be known. Tour passengers and seven members of the crew were rescued, and four of the crew and probably sixteen passen- bers were drowned. 16.—It is be- tore off the house and the mea covered with wreckage, amid W men and women struggled for thel# lives. Of the bodies which drifted ashore many had on life belts. Captain and Mate Saved. A number of launches put off, bug were unable to get near the wreck. The first of the survivors to be landed was Captain Sears of the wrecked boat, who with Mate Bizer and two Indians belonging to the crew wers tewed ashore. Only 15 Minutes Out of Port. The Iroquois foundered fifteen mime i o utes after leaving Sydney. Her carge Partial List of the Victims. shifted, she. Hated %7 m:n," ) Tollowing is a part list of the|around as If about to return o POFly dead: | partly righted hersell. went on her D. N. Davidson; ———— Briden; | beam ends and, apparently filled with Mrs. Houston and child. | water, foundered comparatively Crew—A. Olsen, fireman; Herbert | shallo er. Her engines blew up Hartnell, steward; A. G. Munroe, pur- | as she san ser; Chinese cool Similar Disaster on March 24th. Today’s disaster was in_ so; spects similar to the 10ss of the er Sechelt with 26 liv Head on March 24. The Se 5 wooden steamer of almost the sime speed and_dimensions as the Iroquois, was struck by a gale, rolled over on her side and went down in a few min- | | Wreckage Scattered Along Coast. | Wreckage is scattered along the coast of Vancouver Island and Indiae are patrolling the shore. Beechy | Captain Sears, the enginecer, and tWo Y| deckhands who landed at Armsteemg fime | Point, were within 300 yarde of @ swamped lifeboat whose occupmate were drowned, but were unable 0 reach them. utes. Only one body from the Secchelt Efforts of Rescuers Checkmated. was found. | A rescue party set out from # Purser's Body on Bale of Hay. | ii u launch and was within sight o ashore upon life buoys in the last| proke and the rescuers were powerless, S reer Munrocs body wasy found | 00 Bassenser, trving to reach inwd on a piece of Wwreckage, was Wurled against the rocks at Cosl Tsland snd, losing his hold on the wreckage, was drown Three Washed Ashors Alive. The mate and two others were washe ed up on Mary Island, whero Indisng found them shivering on the rocks. encircled with a life belt and floating on a bale of ha; Survivors Seen Clinging to Wreck. When the Iroquois foundered part of the upper works were left sbove @a- | ter, and persons ashore could see the | survivors clinging to that portion of TO DETERMINE WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 18, New Hampshire Courts May Have to Pass Upon the Question. Boston, April 10—An amendment which is likely to bring the question of what the Christian Sclenne relig- fon is squarely before the courts is to be made to the papers filed by counsel for the plaintiffs in the suit brought in th perior court of Merrimack eoun- ty, New Hampshire, by the son_and adopted #on of Mrs. Mary Baker Fddy OBJECTIONABLE PROVISION IN ARIZONA CONSTITUTION. President Taft Frowns on the Idea of Recalling Judges. Washington, April 10.—Although President Taft might be unwilling to disapprove the constitution of Arizona on account of its provision for the re- call of judges, he is secking to find a way by which that provision may be | stricken out by the people of Arizona thomselves. 'The president looks with | disfavor on the proposition for the re- call of judges. against the executor of Mrs. Bddy's To Chairman Ilood of the house | will and officers of the First Chureh committee_on territories and Repre- | of Christ, Sclentist, of Bosion sentative Houston of Tennessee the | Former United States Sena president outlined a scheme today to|liam E. Chandler of New Hampshire, solve the problem. The president’s | chief counsel for the next proposal was that the constitution | week will file a further amendment to pending before congress be adopted | his bill, attacking the validity of the and that later the people of Arizona, | residuary clavse of the wil on the under the constitutional power, propose | ground —that it 1s “uncertain” Mr, an amendment to jhe constitution per- | Chandler sald that the ground to be offi- | taken would be that dy left her property of the Christian Scir one knows exactly what the ¢Thristian Science religion is, so that unless this matter i determined by the courts the residuary clause, he contends, is void because of uncertainty. A hearing in the case is expected af Concord, N. H., some time next wesk. | winpsor coupre OVERCOME BY GAS Both Reported in a Serious Condition at Hartford Hospital. hereas Mrs, Ed- for the promotion nce religion, no mitting the recall/to apply to all cers now mentioned except jud Representative IMood offercd a ot ter-proposal. He showed the president a proposed amendment to enabling act providing for the admission of ! Arizona which would obviate the ne- cessity of executive approval of Ari- zona’s constitution and maka congress alone pass upon it THE TEXAS TO AGAIN BECOME A TARGET. Monitor Tallahassee to Bombard Her With 12-Inch Guns. San Mar ‘Washington, the days of | 5 18 o '~ | Windsor, Conn., April 10.—Suftering SaT e tatiicanip e ‘wilt be"'the | from poisoning fiom illuminating gas, target for another ordnance test on| B ¢ Meyer, o8 years old, and W% April 19, which will probably consign | Wife, 58 years old, were taken to the her to the junk heap. The monitor Hartford hospital late tods; - Tallahassee will hombard the oid ship | A ever & ;-zl.ld to h;- in a serious with 12-inch guns fired from varying condition. The fallure of the milkman ranges to obtain technical data for the | o1 his arrival this morning at theie ranges to Sbtain technical daa 17 € | home at Wilson station o arouss them led him to call their daughter-in-law, who found them both overcoms by gas which was escaping from a stove. Mrw, The experiment will be hield in Ches- | apeake bay, where the Sun Marcos n lies In the 'mud as a result of the f 8 pmadice Bre L Meyer was lying on the floor of of the battleship New Hampshire 2 hor - the racent ordnance test. All the v hallway SncSuLEvesias w 5 It is gupposed that in able material, including her guns, be removed from the old vessel before the second experiment is held. i dressing sack worn 1 | ers on the stove. | over them all day and NO INVESTIGATION OF their removal to the hospital, RAILROAD INCREASES. e —— — Massachusetts Senate Kills Order [ WATEST MOVE IN COX PERJURY CASE, Passed by House. 0 Government Asked to Elect Wileh 1n. ril 10.—The reported Boston, A cent increases in mileage on some par dictment is to Be Pressed. of the New Yo Haven Hartford railroad Cinciunat, DM 10—An olsstil will_not be investig to be made to have Prosecutor Henry lature. The senate today, without de- | T. Tunt elect upon which indictment bate, rejected the order for such ho will try e B, Cox on the investigation passed by the house last | charge of perjury. Attorney Darby for week Cox filed motions late today to that efe The railway commission aiready has | fect. begun an_investigation in the matter | Tt iz said the defense will argue to determine whether the distances be- | that when the prosecutor elects ome of tween staiions are correctly computed | the two indictments now regarded as v the railroad company for the pur- | valid, the attorneys fc= Cox will 2688 pose of collecting mileage fares, dismissal of the remaining Indictments R e There will be no hearing on Darby's FALLING BALL OF FIRE. motion nntil after the supreme comrt has decided the quo warranio matter, which wiil come up at Columbus to« morrow. Rumblings Heard in Sicily and At- mosphere Charged With Electricity. RECIPROCITY RESOLUTION INTRODUCED IN HOUSE, ‘ A Representative Prouty Enumerates Ars ticles to Go on Free List. Messina, April 10. this evening in variou, loud rumblings wer flash of lightning was al an electrical condition of the phere. - No_earthshocks were record- ed, and it is belleved that the distur ance was caused by the fall 3 ball of fire About ‘Washington, April 10.—A joint reso« lution “to equalize bensfits of reeie procity between agricultural and man- ufacturing sections of the countrs. and requesting the esident to open negotiations with Canada to obtain & supplemental reciprocity contract, was introduced in the hous: today by Rep= resentative Preuty of lowa It would place on the fres lists ail meuis and packers' products, wheat, flour, rye flour, oatmeal, farm imple- | ments, farm engines and other me- — e | chinery, cutlory and lumber products, Senator MoLean Wil Attend. (Special to The Bulletin) WashMngton, April 10. —Senater Mces Lean will attend a dinner 8t | White House on the 15th mat, given. tie presidsnt in honor of the elected members of the senatt Rear Admiral Ward Takes Command. Washington, April 10.—Rear Admiral | Aaron Ward today raised the battleship Minnesota as er of the third division of the Atlanti t relievinz Rear Admiral® Joseph B. Murdock. who on May 19 will be- come commander i chict of the Asi- atic fleer Professor Drowned While Canoeing. | ‘Washington, April 10. is Gold- bach, a professor in Latin, Greek and English at Georgatown university, was | darowned in the Potom here today, | while canoeing with two dents. The canoe capsized as Goldbach was reachi-