Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 8, 1911, Page 1

_VOL. LIIL—NO. 298 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other BLOWING UP OF SPRINGFIELD TOWER McManigal Admits Doing It, Receiving $400 From _ McNamara For That and Milwaukee Job McMANIGAL BEFORE THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY James B. McNamara Alleged to Have Boasted That He Had Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars and the American Federation of Labor Behind Him—Detective McLaren Tells of the Trailing of McManigal Prior to His Arrest. Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 7.—“I've got hundreds of thousands of dollars and the Amerfcan Federation of Labor back of me. It took only $30,000 to <lear Vincent Altman of Clicago, and if they could not comvict him, they can’t convict me.” Caused McManigal to Confess. This boast, attributed today by De- ve Malcolm McLaren to James B. JMcNamara as the latter was being taken on a train from Detroit to Chi- cago, on the night of April 12 last, caused Ortie E. McManpigal, then also under arrest, to become angry with MeNamara for his independent state- ment, and was the first circumstance that led McManigal to break from his companion and eventually to confess his connection with various dynamit- ing explosions throughout the country. It also appears from McLaren that it as McManigal who damaged the ingfi Mass., municipal tower dynamite last spring, and that he received $400 for this job and an- other similar one. McManigal Before Federal Grand Jury. McManigal's real confession had 3 n saved for the trials of James B. d John J. McNamara, now under sentence, after their pleas. of life im- prisonment_and fifteen years, respect- vely, but this evidence as well as that which was gathered by the State was turned over today to the United States | The feddral grand jury | government. heard McManigal's story all day and will hear more of it tomorrow, laying the foundation for the inquiry into the alleged dynamiting conspiracies which has extended from cost to ceast in the last three years. Other Men Implicated. The McNamars were not brought be- fore the federal grand jury, and it may be that McManigal's story will be re- garded as sufficlent and the other two will be taken to San Quentin without interrogation here. Detalls of _what McManigal knows of the alleged con- spiracy were given to the grand jury today. That his story implicates other men in the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers became known from various sources, Paid Yor Twenty Jops. . McManigal alleges that persons oth- er than John J. McNamars, the secre- tary and treasurer, paid him for the twenty “jobs” of dynamiting which he says he cacried out after 1907. A ques- tion has been raised as to the compe- teney of testimomny by convicted fel- ons.” and 1t was considered unlikely that revelations by the McNamaras, if any, would befof consequence, because such testimony could mot be used in court against those indicted. McManigal Great Heip to Government. The testimony of MdManigal, how- ever, who has not yet been brought to trial, will be of great value to the gov- ernment’s investigators, and the state will not try Mm on the indictments against him until the federal authorl- ties are th Even then. it was =aid tonight bn good authori-y, District Attorned Fredericks will reccmmend bhis discharge on account of signal ser- vice rendered. McManigal Never Killed Anybody. “McManigal never killed anybody: in fact, he took good cara never to ez. danger human life,” Assistart District Attorney Ford said tonight Malcolm OlcLaren, the detective vwho arrested J. B. McNamara and McMuuigal, and has been in close co-ogeration with Oscar Lewler, the specially appointed prosecutor of the government investi- zation, stayed outside the grand jury hember today, waiting for McMan- gal. While thus waiting, McLaren fave a version, new in important de- talls, of the evidence a.d circum- stances which led to the arrest of M- Manigal and McNamara in Detroit, and how the thoughtlessness of Jamss B. McNamara on the journes from De- it to Chicago mave the detectives ground for persuading McManigal to confess. Several Heard McNama. The statements of McNamara were made, according to McLarea, in the presence of Detectives Guy Biddinger and William Reed of Chicago, Ray- mond Burns, a son of Willlam J. Burns, and OfcLaren himself. McLaren &ave the dates, hours and places of his shadowing of McManigal for a long period. When he confronted ifcMan- igel with the knowledge he /ad thus gned. the dynamiter de-ided td¥break m Lis companions and fell all h Springfield Job in April. i About the Tth or Sth of April last,” Meiaren said, “T plcked up MoManigal in bis home in Chicago. e had just farrived from Springfield, Mass., where i Te 5aid he had blown up the municipa; 1ower. He had stopped im Indianapolis and, he :ald, obtained $480 from J. J. McNamera for the Springfield job and “tbe one at Milwaukee. i Shadowed in Chicago. “We shadowed him & went downtown Wwith his wife to Hibernlan bank. Our office hap- T told Mr. Burns thaf\If he wanted to get a good look at My nigal then was his chance. So Eurns went out and got @ good look at him. McManigal then went to the headquarters of the iron ‘workers' union and finally home. ! Saw McManigal Buy Pair of Shoes. “We trailed Mcylanigal and his wife ! the next day again as they walked fwmith their children, looking Into shop & windows. neighborhood for several days aud was uiraid his children, who had scen me, wight recognize me and call thelr fa- ihers attention o me. I saw McMani &=l buy a pelr of shoes which he is now wearing snd 1 rememrber he was after I arrested him when I #d him the size of the shoes he had on, how mueh he pald for them and was with himm when he b h Met MoNamara at Toledo. igal left home carryving a suit and 1 a train with him .to . keeping well away from his e next day as | pened to be right across the street, and | I had been fn McManigal's | down in the station for a tali. Me- Manigal pulled out a map which I saw | was of Detroit as I passed them. They | traced it over with a lead pencil, but | finally went to the Meyerhoff botel. J. | B. registered_as F. Caldwell and Mc- | Manigal as G. Foster. Got Instructions from Chicage. “I had received instructions to arrest 2. B. as soon as I had_located him, so called up Chicago on the long distance telephone for instructions end got Raymond Burns on ths other end. He told me to call in a half hour, and in the meantime got into communication | cver the telephone with his father, who | was in Boston. Raymond Burns came on from Chicago with Detectives Bid- | dinger and Reed. | Distrusted Toledo Police. ! ‘e stopped at a hotel on the op- posite side of tie street, but @s the police in Toledo were not in sympathy with us we were afraid to risk an ar- them on to the mext place. Followed On to Detroi “The next morning McMan left the hotel with J. B. M¢Namara. Mc- Manigal had a suit cag® and at the sta- J. B. got a sm grip from the stand. Tiey bought tickets for . The police offizers there were cur friends and we felt happy as we boarded a train that morning for De- troit. McManigal and McNamara sat five seats ahead of us in the same day We reached Detroit at noon |and they went to a hotel. We decided to make the arrests there. We did so and took them to the depot, buying | tickets for Chicago. | Shouted About Being Kidnapped. ! “J. B. kept shouting about being ‘kid- rapped” and finally attracted the atten- al | coach. {had to go back to the police station. | The next afternoon we worked hard trying to get them away, and finally McManigal, who had_ his money ‘in Chicago, persuaded McNamera they |would be better off in his home town. |and J. B. signed a waiver to proceed- |ings ‘in_ Detroit. “We left on the night of April 12 in a dv# #ing roem. Several paseball mag- 1/ des were on the train and they knew | the detectives with us. Naturnlly we {had to tell them who we had. We said they were ‘a couple of veges' whom we had taken for safe cracking. Jim McNamara’s Tongue Wags. “Later on James B. resented that re- mark, which he overheard, and said to me that he had enver blown up a safe or robbed one in his life, and that ev- ery doilar had been paid to him by the ‘man upstairs’ He got a bit talkative, {and sald: ““Tm another Vincent Altman. It took $30,000 to clear him, and I have got hundreds of thousands of dollars and the American Federation of Labor back of me. Clarence 8. Darrow will be my attorney. They did not convict Altman, and they mever can comvict us. You fellows dow't want me for no safe blowing. You want me for that Jjob in Los Angeles.” McManigal Gets Sore. “Here McManigal reached out from top berth and grabbed McNamara by the hair, saving: ‘Say, fellow, do you know what you are talking about? “*I know what I'm talking about, you pinhead,” J. B. answered, and Mc- Manigal dropped back with the re- mark: ‘Al right; if you do, go ahead. “MdManigal had nothing more to say. Along towards morning J. B took a different tack. Offered: Detectives $30,000. “‘All you fellows,’ he said to me, ‘have your price; now what is it? great deal, as there were a lot of us. ~J. B. finally offered 330,000 if we would let him off before reaching Chi- cago and give him 3§ hours to reach ‘the man upstairs’ of whom he had spoken. “ ‘Remember, I've got a lot of back- ing,’ he added, ‘and if you fellows don't | come across we'll get you, and vou, and you,’ and he pointed to each of us threateningly Worked on McManigal. “After we reached Chicago, Burns talked with McManigal and J. B. sep- arately, and I ‘tipped’ the chief that McManigal was the more likely of the two to ‘glve up,’ as he had a family, whe J. B. didn’t. Burns talked to McMahiga] all afternoon, giving him details- of how we had trailed his movements. “I had a Jong talk with McManigal, t00, and told him I had seen him say good-bye to his wife and children. 1 described how he had kissed them, and | informed him there was a good chance | he mever would see them again as a | free man, and that it was his duty to | save them. MoManigal Makes Confession. “That night McManigal sent for Mr. Burns, and in the presence of a secre- tary gave a long statement. Phat was | how the confession was made, and, of course, the real details of it never have been made public. We had prepared | to have him tell it on the stand In the trial, but now the federal government can use it. Reckless, But Would Hurt Nobody. “I have been with him every night since last April, and brought him to Los Angeles. 1 have talked a great | deal with him. He is reckless, but nev- | er would hurt anybody. He took his | pay for the dynamiting jobs ana did What he was told to do. He was on the inside of all that happened and learned from J. B. how the whole thing was planned.” Next Arrest Will Be “Higher Up.” Absistant Disurict Attorney Ford dis- | discussed McManigal's revelations to night. “All that McLaren says 13 so,” sald, “for McoManigal corroborated all of it | _ Samuel L. Brown, chief investigator for the district attorney, sa'd today: “The next arrest in this case will be ‘higher up,” a man well known in the jabor world and it will take place saon.” Condemned at New Haven. New Maven, Cenn. Dac. T.—The |rest there and determined to follow | | tion of some police officers, so we all | “Blddinger told him it would take a he | G Rome, Dec. 7.—Cardinal Farley has decided to sail on the steamship | George Washington, which will arrive |in New York January 14. Lofidon, Dec 7.—Sir George Henry Lewis, senfor member of the firm of | Lewis & Lewis, solicitors, died here today. He was born in 1833, Delhi, India, Dec. 7.—The roar of an imperial salute of 101 guns weicomed the k‘ng-emperor amd Quean-atapress on their arrival here today from Bom- bay. Liverpool, Dec. 7.—The Cunard com- peny has decided to have the Lusi- tania sall in place of the Mauretania Yn Dec. 9 owing to the accident to the atter. ' London, Dec. 7.—The house of com- mons tonight passed the third read- ing of the naval prize bill. A mo- tion for zis rejection was defeated, 173 to 125. Queensto Dec. 7.—The White Star liner Oc ', which sailed from Queenstown today, carried 6,000 bags of malil, the largest ever carried by one steamer. Madrid, Dee. 7—King Alfonso hss received a letter from the Infanta Kulalia asking him to pardon her and ving she had acted in a mmoment of forgetfulness. Berlin, Dec. 7.—General Friedrich A. J. Von Bernhardi, one of the most not- ea German milftery writers of the present day and a cavalry tactician of the first order, will leave here scmor- 10w for America by way of Siberia and the far east. He expects to spend next summer In the United States. | MEN AND WOMEN { ESCAPED BY ROOF. | Fire Starts in Concord Moving Picture House and” Quickly Spreads. Concord, N. H, Dec- 7.—A hundred | men and women had to flee to the roof | of a burning factory and thence over adjoining roofs to escape from e fire vhich destroyed the Globe moving pic- ture theager and the Dux Toy company | building on School street today. Th theater had just been closed the matinee performence when fire broke out on the stage. « The three-story Erick block occupied by the theater was quickly consumed and the fire | spread to the building of the Dux Toy | company adjoining. Employes work- | ing on the third floor of the toy shop | found their escane by the stairs cut off. buk reached the ground safely, go- ing over roofs of neighboring struc | tures. Total loss $50,000 | WORLD'S CHAMPION STEER BRINGS 90 CENTS POUND. Only One This Price Surpassed on Previous Occasion. Chicago, Dec. 7.—Canadian success in taking first honors in sheep exhibits ai the international stock shew came to.an end today after years of triumph and American sheep raisers garnered most of the blue ribbons. Victor, the world's champion steer, owned by the Towa Agricultural col- lcge, was sold at anction today to the department store for 90 cents a. pound. Only once has this price been passed. The first year of the _exposition a Pittsburg company paid $1.25 & pound ]Inr Advancs, the prize winner of that | vear. | SEVEN FARMERS ON JURY TO TRY PACKERS. | Defense Will Begin Its Cross Examina- | tion of Jurymen Today. Chicago, Dec. 7.—Attorneys for the | sovernment late today tendered a ten- [Tative jury of twelve memn to counsel | for the indicted packers in United | States District Judge G. A. Carpen- ter's court after less than ten hours | of actual court sessions. Tomorrow counsel for the packers will begin cross | examination of the tentative jurors, seven of whom are farmers. Alleges Counterfeiters Caught. Foston, Dec. 7.—Ons aundred and ty-cne counterfeit half-dollare and $23.40 in real money were taken hy the police from three men arrested at | the North station tonight. The men who arc_Salvatore Ragonasl, aged 38, | Resario De Gloria, aged 37, and Con- stantino Corsentino, aged 30, all claim- ine to be mill operafives from Law- cnce, were turned over to the federa! uthoritl Wants Mother Kept in an Asylum. | New Haven, Dec. 7.—Judgs Burpee | in the erfor court here today found | that Mrs. Cornelia B. Isbell, aged S0, of Miifcrd, was of sufficiently sound | mind to be allowed her freedom and | need@ not be confired in ths slote asy- |lum for the insane at Maddietown. Mrs. Itbell's son of New Yerk, who is her conservator, opposed the releas- ing of is mother from tae institu- tion. Dropped Dead at G. A. R. Reunion. Roston, Dec. 7—While attending a gathering of Grand Army comrades at o hotol tonight, Capt. John R. Lake- man of Salem dropped dead of heart | failure. He was prominent a= an ora- ter in Grand Army and secret soclety cireles. In the oivil war he served | lin the Eighth Massachusetts regiment | and was one of the first in this state to enlist for the war. Brown Elected in Georgia. | Atlanta, Ga.. Dec. 7.—Unofficial re- turns from all the 146 counties of the state show that ex-Gov, J. M. Brown swept the state in the gubernatorial primaries today. The 84 2o atles give ex-Governor Brown 206 of the 368 elec- toral yotes. | | 1 | allied trades councils of this city at a | | 1aeeting tonight went on record as con- | demning the McNamaras and their ac- | tions #s a stain upon union labor. A committee will be appointed to draw up resolutions in reference to the mat. ‘ ter. o 3 UNION BOOKS TAKEN. i Federal Officials Gathering Evidence at Salt Lake City. Salt Lak Utah, Dec. 7.—Fed~ eral govermment officials hers today gathered In what may Lrove to be oral {=nd Gocumentary evidence for the |grand jury at Los Angeles, called to Investigaté tndustrial dynamiting. Dep- uty United States marshals tock pos- | | session of the books of iren workers’ |loeal union this aftermoon. | A summons to before the | grand jury wes se: on J. B. Mun- | #ey, the business agent of the union. | Munsey i= known to have been inti- mate with James B. McNamara and |Is =aid to have kept McNamara at his lh..w aftegnthe Times explosion at Loz Angeles City. ‘office of the state to its feminine ci FRIDAY, | Total Eyes of Jury CHORUS GIRLS’ COUNSEL STIRS UP_THE EMOTIONS. A HARROWING PICTURE S B Pleads for Innocent Girl Whose Life Was Dominated by One Many Years Her Senior—Defence in Stokes Case. New York, Dec. 7.—In picturing his client, Lilllan Graham, as an' innocent young girl whose life -early became dominated by & man many years her senior, Clark Jordan brought tears to the eyes of the jurors when he opened the case for the defemse today In the trial of Miss Graham and Ethel Con- rad, “the show girls” charged with at- tempting the life of W. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire. Miss Graham Hysterical. Miss Graham cried throughout the attorney’s address and became hyster- ical when it was finished. The emo- tion of her sister, Mrs. Singleton, was so great that she left the courtroom. Mrs. Andrews, another sister, and Miss Conrad were more composed, but both wept softly as Mr. Jordan described vividly how Stokes drove Miss Graham to attempt her own life, &s she avers. Girl Will Testify Today. Tomorrow It is expected that the girl will g0 on the stand and will tell the story herself. Mr. Jordan began by introducing & letter written by Miss Graham to Miss Conrad in which she told of her intention to end her life because of “thls men Stokes.” Lawyer’s Version of Shooting. “He made me suffer,” the letter con- tinued, “he is very cold-blooded and heartless, and refused a paltry $500." Taking the shooting, Mr. Jordan sald that “Mr. Stokes went to the girls’ apartment resolved to galn possession of his letters to Miss Graham at any cost.” He trled to choke Miss Gra- ham, he said, and “then she shot him.” Claims Shooting Was Justified. “She struggled and reached for her revolver,” he went on. “She doesn't know whether she had it or he had it when it went off, but she did every- thing in her power to protect herself. When the first people arrived on the sceno these girls were in the hall screaming ‘Police!” Did they want the police to help them shoot Mr. Stokes? Ne, gentlemen, they wanted protection. We ask you to acquit these girls be- cause the shooting wes justified.” Sister a Witness. ‘The defense put on as the first wit- ness Mrs. Andrews, who testified that her sister’s age wa- 23. Against this on the cross examination the prosecu- tion put’ in documentary evidence showing that Miss Graham’'s mother swore in a divorce suit that in 1886 “Lillan was two Years old,” making her 27 now. NO TRACE OF JEWELS OF MURDERED MAN. Negro Suspect Establishes Truth of His Story About Ring. New York, Dec. 7.—Joseph Roberts, the West Indian negro held for the al- leged murder of Isaac S. Vogel, con- vinced the police todey that his ac- count of the ring in his possession was true. The police thought at first that the ring was Vogel's. They also searched Roberts' flat without finding trace of the $10,000 worth of jewels Vogel is supposed to have had with bim when he was slain, but found rone. An autopsy of the slain gem dealer's body showed that a man of great strength dealt him two blows with a hammer. Death was due to a com- pound fracture of the skull. The phy- sicians took priuts of the dead man’s fingers to help the police in their search for the murderer. These finger prints will be compared with any that may be found on the clothing of & sus- pect. The police believe there was a struggle and hope that the victim left his assailant thus labeled. PORTER GOES MAD WHILE AT WORK. Slashes One G_irl With a Razor and Shoots Another in Head. New York, Dec. 7.—Tony Meggio, a porter, went mad at his work today, five stories up in a paper box factory ir Wooster street. Sixty young women who ltked him because of his mild and engaging demeanor were working atound him when the change came- Gne he slashed with a razor and an- other he shot in the head. Into the woodwork about the rest he sent the contents of two revolvers, whipped from his hip pockets, and with his lagt cartridge he killed himself. Tony’s viettms are Laura Sampino, 19 years old, her cheeks bear the siash- €s of his razor, and physicians say she will carry the maris for life, and Celia | Gebbart, 16. Miss Gebbart's wound is not believed to be mortal. The Trial of Sandford. PortJand, Me., Dec. 7.—T: was an- notnce-! today that if the federal grand | jury which reports tomorrow morn- Ing. finds an Indictment against Rev. Frank W. Sandford, the heal of the Holy Ghost and Us soclety at Shiloh, his trial for manslsughter will begin imumnediately. It is understood Sana- ford, whc has dismissed hls sttorney, wid make no defense. Gove-nor Foss Contributed" £5,500. Bostou, Dec. 7.—The ststemént cf the democratic state committee flled with tke secretary of stat: today by John F. McDonald, chairman of the committee, one minute be‘ora the ex- piration of the legal time limit, shows receipts of $18,286.08 in the recent m:mpal.fi:l,‘ expenditures Of $18,796.2S and liabilities of $5,040. Th: largest single contributor was Governor Foss, who gave $5,000. st Mayor Untrue to Party. Lima, O., Dec. 7.—Members of the soclalist party here have demanded the resignation of Mayor-elect Corbin N. St.ooi, Who the sochalist ticket this fall. Shook will not resign. The 1eason glven for asking for his re- 't%lm-qt is md ‘h; has not faunwetd e principles e party in his ef appointments. " . b . HER S Te Make Female Goveriors Possible. cellency, the governor of Callfornia,” may goon become a familiar tirls if a bill which the lowe housa of the legisl The meastire would open every elective today by unanimous | yote-finds its way to the sta‘ute books. | Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion A Denunciation of McNamaras BY BRANDED AS “RECREANT” AMERICAN FEDERATION. AWAIT INVESTIGATION Stater-ent Declares That Destruction of Life and Property Is Foreign to Labor Movement—Burns Denounced . ‘Washington, Deec. 7.—James B. and John J. McNamara are branded as “recreant to the good name and high iceals of labor,” and the satisfaction felt by organized labor that ths “eul- prits have 'n commensurately pun- isned for ir crime” 1is expressed in a_statement issued today by the Mc- Namara ways and means committee of the American Federation of Labor, aft- er a two days’' conference. Moreover, the statement vigorously condemns the McNamaras for their “inhumanity” and declares tha: organized labor should not be held “either legally or morally responsible for the crimes of an individual member.” Statement Not ned by Ryan. The labor leaders assert that they “wi!l welcome any, investigation which either federal or state courts may un- dertoke.” The statement s sfgned by every member of the McNamara com- mittee except ¥. M. Ryan, president of the Structural Iron Workers' union, with which the convicted Los Angeles dynamiters were prominently connected officially. Mr, Ryan returned to In- dianapolis eariy today. Gompe-s Vouches for Ryan. “Ead he remained, however,” said President Gompers. positively, “I_am sure that Mr. Ryan would have added his name. He was called back to In- dianapolis by pressure of business. He did not see tho statement, sentimenis Had No Knowledge of McNamaras’ Guilt. As to their knowledge of the crime to which the McNamaras confessed, the committee in their statemert as- sert: “We here and now, individually and collectively, declare that the first knowledge or intimation of their guilt was conveyed by the press in thelr confessions of guilt. “From tbe outset we assured all contributors and the public generally that we would publish an accounting of the moneys received, from whom re- ceived and to whom paid. A report in full will be made first to the execu- tive council cf the American Federa- tion of Labor at its meeting to be held at Washington January S, 1912." Further than this, Mr. Gompers would say nothing in regard to the de fense fund money. McNamaras’ Grimes Not Condoned. “Organized labor of America,” the statement_continues, “has no desire to condone the erimes of the McNamaras, It joins in the satisfaection that the majesty of the law has been main- talned and the culprits commensurate- Iy punished for their crime.” The statem.ent says, however: “And yet It is an awful commentary upen existing conditions when any- one rmwan among all tha, millions of workers can bring himself o the frame of mind that the only means to secure | justice for Jabor s in violence, out- {rage and murder. Organized Labor Not Responsible. “It 1s cruelly unjust to hold the men of the labor movement either legally or morally responsible for the crimes cf an individvral member. o ch mcra' code c¢r legal responsibility is placed upon any uther association of men in cur country. “In so far as we have the right to speak, in the name of organized labor, Wwe welcome any investization whic either federal or state courts may un- dertake. The sessions of the conven- tion of the American Federation of Labor are held with open doors that all may see and hear what 15 being said and done, The books, accounts, are open to any competent authority who may desire to make a study or an Investigation of them. The Lesson of the Crime. mon with all our people” the com- mitiee affirms, “are grieved beyond ex- pression in words at the loss of life snd the destruction of property, not only in the case under discussion but in any other case which way have oc- curre. We are hurt and humfiiated to think any men connected with the labor movement should have been guil- ty of elther. The lesson this grave crime teaches, however, wlil have its salutary effect. It will Jdemonstrate now, more than over, the inhumanity as well as the futility of resorting to violence In the effort to right wrongs or to attain rights.” Detective Burns Condemned. The committee criticises the napping” of the McNamaras, they “were arrested in Russian styie, not American.” In the method of a rest they find “high banded irregula and tyrannical lawlessness” and J. Burns, the detective In the case, severely 'arraigned. W |1s its condemnation of viclence on hear- ing of the Los Angeles disaster, it is contended. nce Foreign 1o Labor Movement. he universal condemnation of a murderous deed in Jabor circles ought to be a fact so far beyond question, the statement proceeds, ‘8o easlly as- certeined from accessible records, that no man with any regard for his repu- tation for veracity could deny it Violence, brutality, destruction of life and property are forelgn to the aims and methods of organized labor of America and no interest is more se- verely injured by the employment of such methods than that of the work- ers organized in the laber movement Union Men Are Loyal Americans. “Therefore, quite apart from the spirit of humanitarianism and justice woich prompts the activities of the crganized labor movement, policy and hopea for s cegss forbid the resort to violence. American labor move- ment and its men are loval Ameri- cans, and seek to obtain the abolish- ment of wrongs and the attainments of their rights within the law. ‘The statement is signed by Samuel Gomyers, president of the federation and chairman of the committee: Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation and the committee, and six of the sev- en remaining members of the commit- tee. : Steamship Arrivals. Dee. 6, Perugia, from Dee. 2, Patris, from New but 1 am | sure he is in hearty accord with its | and correspondence of the federation | “The men of organized labor in cem- | Organized labor properly &xpraned’ Condensed Telegrams Chairman Sulzer of the House For- eign Affairs comumittee says he will {‘;;z\'a Russia has vlo!-(l.d the treaty of The Plot of Ground at the northwest corner of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, New York, has been sold for $1,000,000. i | New Counterfeit Twenty Dolla gold certlficate, a photograph produc. tion, has been discovered by secret ser- vice officials. President Taft Will Participate in the John Wanamaker 50th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia on the af- ternoon of Dec. 30. Franci | Cushing’s Island, in Casco bay, and the | Ottawa hotel, on_that island, died yes- terday of heart disease. The Suffragettes Made Another at- tempt yesterday to preach their doc- trines on Wall street,, New York, and this time were unmolested. Nine Stores and Two Fotels at Boonton, N, J,, in the heart of the bus. iness district, were burned yesterday with a loss of about $80,000, There is an Extrordinary Demand 1n the south and ‘east, characteristic of the Christmas holiday season,for quar- ter and half dollars of the 1911 issue. Premier Asquith Announced in the house of commons that the government would try to pass & home rule bill for Ireland during the present parliament. Physical Valuation of All Railroad property in the United States is pro- osed in a bill presented in the house y Representative Esch of Wisconsin, A Readjustment of the Traffic_ar- rangemenis between the New York Central and the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Railroad’ companies is forecasted. | Lafe Heidel, an Old Time Minstrel |and friend and entertainer of actors, artists and authors, is dead at his home in Rochester, N. Y, from pneumonia, at the age of 62. | Secretary of Agriculture Wilson de- |clares in his annual report that cold storage has raised the cost of living by increasing the annual price level of butter and eggs. While Skating Across Pleasant Pond yesterday to go to work in Litchfield, Me., Weiland Toothacker, aged 5S, broke through thin ice in the middle of the pond and was drowned. John W. Knight, Head of the defunct cotton firm of Knight, Yancey & C which failed for several million dollars, was placed on trial at Huntsville, Ala., charged with using fraudulent bills of lading. After More Than 44 Years of active service, Colonel Robert H. Patterson of the Coast Artillery corps has been placed upon the retired lst of the army, having reached the age of 64 years. George E. Wallace, a Builder, for- | merly a farmer near Rochester, N. H., fiied a voluntary petition in bankruptey in New York yesterday, listing his lia- bilities at $588,500' and his assets at nothing. Max Glass W Arrested at New York yesterday, charged with shipping | glandered horses to New Jersey for consumption as food, in violation of the | pure food law. He was held in $1,500 bail for trial. It Was Announced VYesterday that Senator Joseph W. Bailey, who will re- tire from the United Stafes service on | March 4, has taken up horse trotting | again. He has bought a string of light | harness horses. | Oscar W. Undsrwood of Alabam: majority leader of the house, was in. dorsed as a candidate for the demo- cratic presidential nomination by the Alabama delegation In congress at a | meeting held yesterday. | A Quarrel in a Palmer, Mass., lodg- | Ing house yesterday resulted in the | death of George Cattsmitt, a German, and in the district court a plea of not | Eullty of murder was entered by Paul Carrendi, an Italian. | . An Appeal from the Persian people | to the congress of the United Stat | for ald and sympathy in their contro- | versy with Russla, threatening their independence, was read yesterday in | the house of representatives. | Al the Operating Heads of the al- | Hed Btandard Oil subsidiaries fn Ohio have been summoned to New York. Complete reorganization of all subsi- diaries is forecasted, with many re- ductions in the working force. 1 | Nearly 2,500,000 Acres of Land in Idaho, withdrawn from entry about a year ago for coel land elassification purposes, were restored by order of | President Taft, on the recommendation | of Secretary of the Interior Fisher, | Thirty-eight Hundred Striking shop- men of the Ilinols Central lines at a mass meeting in Chicago yesterday condemned the McNamara = brothers | and declared that death should have | been the penalty allotted to them. A Bill Was Introduced by Represent- | ative Roberts of Nevada to prevent any rallroad engaged in interstate com- | merce from owning or vontrolling ves- sels engaged in trade through the Panama canal after its completion. Mine Rescue Work Under the Bureau of mines was classed with Panama ca- ral labor and other hazardous occups. tions for which the government should pay compensation for injuries fn a bill passed by the house of representatives. The Safe at the Tremont, Mass., postoffice was blown open by burglars ahout 2 o’clock vesterday morning, and after securing $50 to $60 in money and stamps vaiued at from 3200 to $300, they made thelr escape in an automo- bile. After His Wife and Four Children, whose lves it is alleged he had threat- ened, had left him and gone to the home of Mrs. Lapham’s Yather last night, Elmer Lapham, 37, a_farmer shot his horse and then kilied himself. at Rumford Falls, Me. John. Schiniski, Aged 11 Years, has admitted to the authoritles’ at Unfon- ville, Conn., that it was he who placed an obstruction on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rallroad tracks in that town on Thanksgiving day in an attempt to wreek a train. The Land at Bristol, R. I, on which King Phillip, the famous I war- rior, was killed in a battle by tain Benjamin Church and his men, passed out of the possession of the Church [ heirs vesterday, when It was &urehu- i ed by Judge ldge of Oak Bluffs, 1 Cushing, Principal owner of | PRICE TWO CENTS to th ' City’s Population Ninth Floor Door Closed FIREMAN TELLS OF NEW YORK | FIRE HORROR, SURVIVORS ON STAND Evidenoe That Waste and Rags Wers on Floor in Quantities—Mansiaugh- ter Trial of Messrs. Harris & Blanck | Now York, Dec. 7.—Survivors of the Asch building fire and the firemen who fought it gave a circumstantial eccount today of the horrors which attended the’ conflagration when placed on the |#tand at the trial for manslaughter of | Istac Harris and Max Blanck, proprie- tcrs of the Triangle Walst company, in whose lofts the fire started. Waste and Rags on Floor. | While the prosecution obtained con- siderable evidence us to quantitich of waste and rags on the floor of the cut ting room, where many of the girls who Icst thelr’ lives were at work, the de- fense brought out by cross examination of the firemen that in most instance the dead bodies they found were som distance from the exits, which are al- leged to have been insufficient, Fireman Says Door Was Closed. Fireman Rinehart, the first to re: the ninth floor, on the Washing Place wide of the building, said found gough left of the doc h he indi cate it™ad been closed, but t the uearest of nine or ten bodies he saw was about eight or ten feet from the deor. Fireman Jacob ‘Well, Jr., testi fled to finding eleven bodies on the ninth floor, the nearest of which was | teen feef from the door. | Waste Removed Two Menthe Previous Louls Levy, a dealer in rags, testl- fied he purchased rags and waste from the defendants at the time of the fire but that Jan. 16, over two months prior to the fire, was the last date upon which he had removed any of the waste from the lofts. At that time he took out 2,262 pounds, he said, mostly from the “eighth floor. He took no sweepings, he sald, only rags from un- der the cutting tables. BODY OF SENATOR EMBALMED ON TRAIN, Undertakers Worked in Extra Baggage Car as Train Spesded On. Baltimore, Deo. 7.—A most unusual case of embalming took o today when the body of J. Hea* Tochrane, late state senator from the Twenty- fourth district of Pennsylvania, was embalmed a train golng from this city to Willlamsport. The body of Mr, Cochrane reached here this morning by steamer from Rosegill, Va., where he dled. As there was not a sufficlent Interval to pre- pare the body for burial before train time, an extra.baggage car was at- tached to the rear of the train for the use of the undertakers, and they began their work as the trein pulled out. Senator Cochrane was & warm friend ot tha late President Cleveland and wielded & powerful influence in the democratic party in Pennsylvania dur- ing the Cleveland regime. WOMAN SECRETED A RING IN MER CHEEK Stolen Gem Dropped Out After She Had Talked Four Hours. St. Louis, Dec. 7.—After Mrs. Jule Lamters Allen had talked to Detective Allender four hours today, s diamond | ring valued at $500 dropped from her lips, She bad been holding it between ber check and her back teeth. Mrs, Allen confessed then, according to Al- lende~, that she stole the ring in Kan- sas City. She was arrested on a tei- egram from Kansas City. Long prec- tice as & saxophone player, wLa co fided to Allender, gave her the mus- cular power and dexterity to keep the ring concealed in her mouth, GOMPERS DENOUNCED BY SOCIALIST MAYOR McNamara Affair May Destroy Fed- eration of Labor. Boston, Dec. 7~"The McNamara affair is golng to roact altogether fa- voratly upon so because It means either the demolition of the American Federation of Labor, or, what 1s more likely, its capture by soclalismn, and its consequent revolu- tionizing 88 to mims end metho(s,” sald Rev. Dr. G. R. Lunn, socialiat mayor-elect of Schenectady, N. Y., at & lecturs in Ford ball tonifiht. The speaker made a sweeping criti- cism of Samuel Gompers, o Ameri- can Federation of Labor, President Taft's message and the Russian treaty. Richmond Has Highest Death Rate. Washington, Dee. 7~Ascording to nsus bureau wtatistics, the highest ortality in 1910 among the G0 great cities shown was that of Richmond, Va., with a rate of 226 per 1,000 of population; followed by Memphis. Tenn., with 21.4, New Orleans, La. with 218, Lowell, Mass, with 15.7, Wash ington, D, O, with 19.6, Birmingham, Ala,, with 19.5, Albany, Y, with 1 Paltimore, Md., with 1! Atlanta, ¢ Nashville, Tenn., with 18. with 184, and Pittsburg, Baky Named for Ida Lewis. Newport, R. I, Dec. T—~In memory of the late Ida Lewis, heroine of Lima Rock light, the first baby over born on the little rosk was christened with her name !ofllz. The child s the daughter of and Mrs, Edward Eausen, keepers of the Mght, and hor arrival brings the total population of the rock to seven. en eame hera gr,‘m £cotland lightship o sucveed Lia wis. Princess Patrfoia Arrives. Hallfax, N. 8., Dec. 8~The Princess Patricia, daughter of Duke of Con- naught, arrtved hero this morning on the steamer ress of Indla, which docked here at 1.30 a. m. The princess will procesd to Ottawa by the regular train at eight o'clock this morning. To Establish Municipal lce Plant. Lewiston, Me., Dec. 7.—Taking ad- vantage of an act passed by the last legislature, Lewiston's olty government voied tonight to establish a municipal ice plant. The buflding in view for a storage house has & capacity of 1,500 tons. Dr. A. St. John Chambre, rector of St. Anne’s Episcopal church, Lowell, Mass., was found dead in bed yester- day morning, after a brief illness. An- gina pec Wwas the cause of desth,