Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 19, 1911, Page 1

VOL._LII—NO. 303 TAFT'S TACT HIS ACTION\_‘ NOT YET RATIFIED BY THE SENATE Senator Heyburn by Formal Objection Causes Postponement Until Today—Suggestion Made to Russia That a New ‘ Treaty Might be Desirable, But There Are Many Ob- stacles to Its Consummation—Russian Paper’s Outbreak = Washington, Dec. 18.—President Taft turned over to the Senate today the 1ask of compiling the abrogation of the treaty of 1832 with Russia because of alleged discriminations against Ameri- can citizens of Jewish faith. Ignoring the house of represcntatives, the presi- dent sent a message to the senate an- nouncing that last Fridey he caused notice to be forwards to St. Peters- burg that the United States desired the trealy to end Jan. 1, 1913. This riotification was cially handed to the representativestof the Russian government yesterday. Heyburn Causes Delay of Action. Mr. Taft asked the senate to ratify and give effect to his action. The for- eign _affairs committee of the senate voted unanimously to report a resolu- tion of ratification, couched in diplo- scatic terms, and Senator Lodge offered | it later in the senate. There was ev- | ery reason to believe thit te resolu- | tion_would be rushed through, inas- much as the senate committee, as an act of courtesy to the bouse, had de- cided that the lower branzh of con- gress should be asied to concur in the action. But Senator Heyburn :ho took the floor, protested vigorously against hasty action, as- serted his right under the rules and by formal objection postponed further consideration of the mattar until to- TmorTow. Resolution Expected to Go Through. Although it was evident that politics would enter into the debate tomorrow. the prediction was freely made that aii obstacles would be overcome and that before the senate adjourned the ~-m- mittee’s resolution would be put through as a substitute for the house resolution which proved objectionable 1o the Russian government. Chairman Sulzer of the house committee on for- eign affairs, author of the house reso- lution, said tonight that he believed the matter would be adjusted satisfac- <orily and that the abrogation of the treaty would be an accomplished fact Lefore congress recessed on Thursday for the holidays. Democrats to Claim the Credit. Democratic leaders both in the sen- ste and the house are determined to claim credit for the abrogation of the: treaty. Senators Culberson of Texas and Hitchcock of Nebraska, the latter a member of the foreign relations com- Iuittee, served preliminary notice to this effect in the senate today, and will be heard further tomorrow- Sen- ator Culberson accused President T: ot trying to strip the house of one of its prerogatives and asserted that the president was trying to “steal the Cemocratic thunder.” New 7Treaty Suggested to Russia. In his message to the senate Presi- dent Taft transmitted a copy of the letter which the American ambassador at St_Petersburg, Curtis Guild, trans- mitted to the Russian foreign office. In it was expressed the view of the Unit- ea States that the old tfeaty no longer T et ths political principles or commer- cial needs of the two nations and sbould be terminated. The American gcvernment, with marked courtesy, suggested furtner that It would be most agreeable to this <buntry if a rew treaty, along more modern .dines, could be negotiated to replace the old #nd obsolete Gocument. Small Chance for New Treaty. Despite this overture to the Russian government, state department officials Practically admitted tonight that there was little hope of negotiating a new treaty which would obviate the very things which were leading to the de- runciation of the old one. The United States, it was pointed out, would be treading upon dangerous ground If it tried to errange with Russia for a re- ctprocal agreement looking to wider 1atitude in the rights of the citizens of the two countries. Under the “most favored nation” clauses of the treaties the United States has with other pewers, any one of these could clalm and there would be no such thing as restriction of immigration. Tariff War Possible. State department officials do not be- b that the heavy trade be:-lvl'een the T'nited States and Russia will neces- sarily be jeopardized by the abrogation of the treaty, though a tariff war is rossible, and Russia would have the right to exclude American ships from any of her ports. % American Goods Used in Russ rding to the bureau of statistics, 'h':c\?:lue of, imports into the United States from Russia during the present calendar vear will amount to $14,000.- 000, jpally in hides, akins and | wool. The value of exports from the | Tnited States to Russia during the vear is estimated at $24,000,000 show- ing a balance of $10,000,000 in favor of the United States. Russia also buys much American cotton in London and with this included the total value of American goods sent into the empire 1= estimated at $35.000,000, = balance of $21,000.000 in favor of the United Stetes. The American exports ‘are principally mannfactures of sagricul- tural machinery and cotton. New Treaty Problems. The state department, 1t is believed will soon endeavor to open negotia tions for a new treaty. It is difficult to forecast the shape that it will try to givs the srnbj:ct of the rights of trav- | cling residents. Some state depart ment officlals beHeve that the problem is onsolusble and that the oniv way that Russia-America commerce can be placed upon a treaty basis will be by entire omission from the new treaty of an article regulating the rights of citi- gzens in the matter of residence and travel. 2t P PRAISE FOR TAFT. Prominent New York Jews Disouss His Action. New Yo Dec. 18.—TLeaders of the recent on the ques- don Prasi@ent Taft's action 1 Oscar Strans, former ambassador to Torkey, said: ““The president handled the matter X B ™ at g | B e is only surprising that the action has Leen so long in coming, but it is most gratifying that the people have arisen almost ta a man in the demand that it be taken.” Louis Marshall, an attorney who hos been taking a leading part in the in- dignation meetings here, said: 2 “The last of the civil disabilities resting upon any part of the eitizen- ship of this country has be>n removef and the integrity of American citizen- ship once more asserted.” “LORDS OF AMERICA.” Russian Paper Refers to Powers of the Jewish Bankers. St. Petersburg, Dec. 18 —The Am: an ambassador, Curtis Guild, acting vnder instructions from the president of the United States, notified the Rus- sian foreign minister, M, Sazonoff, to- day, that the treaty of 1832 between | the United States and Russia would be abrogated on January 1, 13i3, in accordance with provision made Dy Article XIL It is peinted out in official circles that Russia has no cause to be dis- satisfied with this turn of affairs, Pres- ident Taft’s action, in view of the pre- viousiy contemplated procedure, being likeiy to increase his popularity here. The netification, it is added, was giv- <n with full right and tactfully made no mention of motives underlying the abrogation of the treaty, which leaves 1ull latitude for conducting new nego- tiations with the coatroversial elimi- nated. This feature of the situation has at- tracted attention and seems to be fully appreciated. The Russian government finds not the slightest grounds to ob- ject to the abrogation in such shape as it actually assumed in Ambassador Guild’s note, which is dated December 17. In a note dated December 18, the Russian foreign minister acknowledsos receipt of the notification and says that Russia takesWotice thereof. The Novoe Vremya tomerrow will say: “President.Taft has juciciously chos- en the best way out, to put an end to the scandalous Jewish agitation, which is dangerous to both countries. At the same time, the incident bears wit- ness that the Jewish bankers have be- come the real lords of America.” After dwelling on the sacrifice by the United States of the great and growing trade interests,” which the No- Voe Vremya says, will be felt “when the tariff war schedule is appiled and British_ and German manufacturers’ goods drive out American goods,” the .paper continues: “Commerce will be saerificed without gain to national honor. The menace of a great nation should not be ut- tered trifiingly, as the house of repre- sentatives did, out of caprice. Rus- sia_has not ylelded before a threat, | 2nd the situation leaves the agitators | shorn of their most valuable weapon. | The supreme shot has been fired; no other shot is left. The fate of future negotiations will show the agitators that unless Milukoff becomes prime minister of Russia the concessions which they demand cannot be obtain- | ed, especially with reference to Jews of Russian origin Great Interest in Austria. | Vienna, Dec. 18.—The Russo-Ameri- | can controversy is arousing great in- terest here ard the newspapers are publishing long despatches from Wash- ington on the subject. Tho general opirion In Austria is that Russia will be worsted in a commercial fight, es- pectally in view of the power of Amer. ican capital, GIRL TELLS OF DEATH OF MARGARET SCHWARTZ 3 Door Was Locked and Victim’s Hairi| and Dress Were Burnt. | New York, Dec. 18—The prosecu-:| tion of Harris & Blanck, proprietors | of the Triangle Waist company, who'| were on trial charged with manslaugh-'| ter for the death of Margaret | Schwartz, one of the 147 victims of; the fire in their factory, last March, rested today. \ Kate Alterman, a pretty Philadel- | phia girl, who was an employe of the waist company at the time of the fire, was an imporiaut witness for the states| today. She testified about the locked,| door on the ninth floor and how shel saw Margaret tugging at the door knoby in vain. * “My God! The door is locked!” thes | witness said she heard Margaret ex-i claim. 2 | “The last I saw of her she was oni her knees and her hair and dress were! hurning.” The witness’ account of the. fire was not shaken by cross eXamina- on. In outHning the defemce, Attorn Max Steur said that the door whi the state has tried to prove was locked had its key in the lock at the time/| end could easily have been opened if!l the girls had not been so compactlvl| before it. ! To Sell Drinks Without Profit. | Toledo, O., Dec. 18—Public dispen- sarles where érinks will be sold whth- | out profit; the state to furnish pure | alcehiol for medicinak or scientific gur- poses, and no liquor to be sold to minors, drunkards or keepers of 'dis- | reputable places, was advocated -at a | meeting of all the Protestant minis- | ters of the city today. Big Agrioultural Convention. Albany, N. Y. Dec. 18.—Plansj for a | t agricultural conventlon 'to be | feld tn albany January 16 to 19 were laid tonight at a meeting of regresen- tatives of the New York State Agricul- tural soclety, the New Yor State Breeders’ association, and 95! county and town fair societies. —_— Serious Epidemio of Meusles. Lynnbrook, L. I, Dec, 18.—A ve serious epidemic of measles Jias :..JZ en out here. More than eighity homes have been ntined and nut of 310 % ‘the Norwa.od school, have been strjcken with | in_the negative, Chis }q\x(e Cabled Paragraphs Zanzib Dec. 18.—The steamer IFuston, from Port Tampa, hence she sailed on Oct. 2, via Port Natal, for Yokohama, was totally lost at Juan de Nova on Nov. 31. The crew landed at Dares-Salem. Berlin, Dec. 18,—The alleged discov- ery of a British plot to blow up the raval harbor at Wilhelmshaven pub- lithed in the Rhenish Westphalian Ga- tte is resarded in official circles in the light of newspaper nonsense. Colombo, Ceylon, Dec. 18.—Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Har- vard university, who was recently op- erated on for appendicitis, is progress- ing, but the physicians in attendance say today that he is not yet out of danger. Havana, Dec. 18.—The newly ap- Doint American minister to Cuba, Arthur M. Beaupre, presented his cre- Gentials to President Gomez today. He was escorted to the palace by a squadron of cavalry and two compa- nies of artillery. London, Dec. 18.—Allan Ross Mc- Dougall, who hurled a brass-bound box a: David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, while he was leaving a women’s liberal meeting on Saturday evening, striking him on the face with the missile, was sentenced at the police court today to two months’ hard labor. London, Dec. 18.—Alfred W. Car- renter, proprietor and manager of the Charing Cross bank, who was arrested on April 25 last on a charge of ob- taining money through fraud and false pretenses, was found guilty at the Lon- don sessions at the Old Bailey today and sentenced to a term of two years’ imprisonment. GLADYS SOUTHWICK I8 = PUT UNDER RESTRAINT Letter Willimantic Girl Wrote Con- vinced Judge That She Is Bad. Hartford, Dec. 18.—Gladys South- ick, the 17 year old Willimantic girl, story Wednesday night resulted 5t of Willlam E. Baker, oth- ise known as the “St. Louls Kid,” s not the sort of a girl the authori- tiiouzht her to be when after hearing the story there was talk of arraigning Baker under the white slave statute, When the case against Baker was called in the police court Thurs- morning, he was charged with ch of thé peace. As he had the e slave statute in mind, Prosecut- ing Attorney Bdwin C. Dicikenson ask- ed to have the case continued to Sat- urday, and he told Judge Clark that there was a likeifiood that a more serious charge wouid be made against Baker. Whea the case was called Sat- urday, Baker was charged with hav- ing improper relations with the girl, Judge Clark let Baker off with a sen- tence of thirty days In jail. Tre girl had been held in custody, and, as thers was a feeling that she was a victim of circumstances and that she had a desire to do right, Judge Clark had about made up his mind to deliver her to the custody of an aunt ‘who Mves in Tolland, but the girl took advantage of the opportunity which she thought she had, and by it she con- vinced the judge that she was not en- titled to liberty. She came to think that she was to be given into the cus- tody of her aunt, and while she was iocked up she wrote a letter to a young man in Willimantic of what she ex- pected was to happen, and she invited him to call at the home of her aunt n Tolland to see her. She gave the letter to another woman, who was locked up, to mail for her, but Miss Carrie A. Gauthier, the probation ofi- cer, got; hold of it and turned it over to Judge Clark. The contents of the letter convinced Judge Clark that the gir] was a subject for restraint and he ccmmitted her to the House of the Good Shepherd instead of turning her over to the custody of her aunt. BAD TEMPER SHOWN IN NATIONAL HOUSE Little Accomplished Yesterday Save Display of HI Humor. Washingten, Dec. 18.—The house ad- Journed today without accomplishing any legislation after a brief display of bad temper on both sides of the cham- ber. It had been intended to take up various bills by unanimous consent Mr. Madden of Iilinois, objected te a democratic bill fixing the terms of court in West Virginia, and Mr. Bu- | chanan of Illineis retaliated by objec- tion te a republican measure of the | same character for Main. Mr. Bartheldt of Missouri, republi- can, was blocked in an effert for con- sent to address the house for twenty mirutes on an objection by Henry of Texas, democrat. Finally, on motion of Mr. Fitzgerald of New Yerk, dem- ocrat, with all the repuolicans voting the house adjourned until tomorrow. AWARDED $5,000 FOR BREACH OF PROMISE Jury Returns Verdict Against Attor- ney Who Wrote Love Poems. Hackensack, N, J., Dec. 18.—The love poems of Willlam De Lorenzo, a young attorney who is a member of the board of education, formed much of the evidence upon which a jury de- cided today_ that he must pay Emma Milani, his former stenographer, $5,000 because he broke his engagement with her. All Hackeusack had heard of it, the young woman contended, and she had arranged with a dressmaker to make her wedding gown in May. De x,nre?zn contended that he loved the yound woman, but that he was obliged to restrain his attentions because of ove for another girl whom he married Steamship Arrivals. At Rotterdam: Dec. 16, Lituania, from New York. At Christiansand: Dec. 17, United States, from New York, At Glasgow: Dec. 17, Columl from New York. i At Trleste: Dec. 17, Ivernia, from New York. At Marseilles: from New York, At Bremen: Dec. 17, Prinz Fried- rich Wilhelm, from New York. - Dee. 16, Sant’ Anna, Denied Padding Railroad Cost. ‘Washington, Deec. AMissabe and > today before the house steel trust in- vestigating committes the charge made H. Martz that he ordered the by C. radding of the cost of the railrcad In a report io the Minnesota rallroad ana ‘warehouse commiseion. Mr. (otton btrended the testimony of Martz as fulse in every particalar. Court Dinner Abandoned. and hoarseness. Th court Shimur. Tor Comorrow e SE doned omn account of the emperor's fll- 18.—Joseph B. Cotton, former attorney for the Duluth, orthern railroad, denied T Vienna, Dec. 18. Em»«: Francis Joseph is suffering from a cold The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in PLEASING TO RUSSIA Notice Served That United States Desires to Ter- « minate Treaty January 1, 1913 TWELVE KILLED IN WRECI(' IN E MINNESOTA. > "A REAR-END COLLISION Second Section of “Columbian Flyer” Crashes Into Rear of First Section The Injured Victims Number Twenty Odecss, Minn., Dec. 18.—Twelve are dead and nearly twenty are more or less seriously injured as the result of a silk train on the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul road, which was running as section No. 2 of the Colum- bian Flyer, dashing Into the real sleep- er of the flyer at the stauicn here early today. The engine of the silk special plowed for five feet into the sleeper, but the greatest loss of life was in the front end of ths sleeper, which was telescoped by the dining car just ahead. Two Bodies Cut to Pieces. Long after it was believed all the dead had been removed from the de- bris, wreckers late this afternoon found two bodies in the sleeper literally cut to pleces. Identification of these, it was stated tonight, is impossible, Sleeper Cut in Two. Aisthough both the diner and sleep- €v vere of steel, the former sheared the upper portion of the sleeper from the floor as if it had been cardboard. In some manner the diner's floor be- came elevated slightly above that of tha gleeper, at the impact, and with all the force of section No. 2's engine behind the sleepar wes cammel along for fully 25 feet, while the diner, as ‘a gigantic knife, cut away the upper structure, and did its work of destruc- tion. The Dead. The dead are: Dr. R, F, Whetson, Minneapolis. Mrs. R. F. Whetstone, Minneapolis. (Relatives question whether Mrs. Whetstone was on the train.) Mrs., R. M. C. Myer, Newcastle, Ind. Mrs. C. W. Barber, Terry, Mont. Mrs. J. F. Richards, Mobridge, S. D., wife of Supt. Richards of the Trans-Missourl Siope division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rall- road. Miss Bessie Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richards. Miss —— Petersen, Grean Bay, Wis. —— MeCone, Minneapolis, sleeping car conductor. Thomas. Alexander, Newark, N. J., cook in dining car. Unidentified man, about 25 to 30 years old, a passenger. Two unidentified passengers found in sleeper. i . The Injured. Among the imured are the follow- ing: C. C. Cragin, New York. W. H. Swan, Toronto, Canada, Responsibility Not Fixed. Responsibility for the wreck has not been determined definitely, but is said to rest between the operator at Or- tonville Junction, the operator here, and the flagman of the flyer, Of all the occupants of the sleaper, but two escaped without injury. Immediately after the accident the uninjured has- tened to the work of rescue and many feats of heroism were performed. Bluejacket Does Good Work. G. ¥. Schuster, a bluejacket on the battleship West Virginia, on his way to his home in Toledo, Ohia, on fur- lough, was conspicuous in the work of rescue. I was dead for lack of sleep,” his seid, “and didn’t know anything of the wreck until amwakened by tHe sroans and screams. Then I got out and went to work.” “It was & terrible sight,” said Alpha LeBlanc, who was but slightly injured. “That sailor bey Sohuster dld wonders in getting the imjured and the bodies of the dead from the wreckage.” Injured Taken to Minneapolis. Nearly all of the injured were taken to Minneapolis, and many of them continued on to their . destinations. The bodies of the dead are being held here and will be sent to their destina tions as soon as werd can be heard from relatives. Due to Carelessnsss. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 18.—That carelessness by two operators and a flagman caused the wreck on the Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway at Odessa, today, was stated by J. H. Foster, assistant general superintend- ent of the road. TAFT TO SPEND TWO DAYS IN NEW YORK. Has Engagements Calculated to Keep Him Busy Most of Time. |@ Washington, Dec. 18.—President Taft will leave Washington &t no>n tomor- row for a two days' stay in New York and return to Washington on Thurs- day. A full programme has been ar- ranged for him. He is due in New York about 6 o'clock, and his first en- gagement with the Economic club at the Hotei Astor at 7 o'clock will glve him just about enough time to go to the home of his brother, Henry W. Taft, to change clothes. From the Fconomic dinner he will motor to Brookiyn to look in on the banquet of the New England soclety of Brooklyn and that of the Young Republican club. He wlll spend the night at his brother’s home. No engagements have been made for Wednesday morning, but it is proba- ble that political and other friends will drop in. After luncheon he will lay the cornerstone of a settlement house for the blind. At night he will attend banquets of the Automobile club of Amerioa and the Young Men’s Repub- lcan club of New York, and leave for Washington at midnight. More United ar Stores. New York, Dec. 18.—The United Cizar Stores company today announced plans for opening a number of new stores throughout the country. It was cxpluined that contracts and leases for the new places were closed prior to the decision by the supreme court in the Ame Tobacco case and the ing of was halted pending the divorce of the cigar stores com- pany from the American Tobacco eom- pany in pursuance of the supreme court’'s decree. — > Receivership - ‘For Railroad PLAN TO READJUST FINANCES OF THE WABASH. IN A FINANCIAL PLIGHT Road’s Bonded Indebtedn | iest Per Mile of Any Raniroad in Country—Goulds Now Control. the Heav- t. Louis, Dec. 18,—On the applica- of the Westinghouse Air Brake company, Judge Adams in the United States circuit court this afternoon ap- pointed Frederick J. Delano, Edward B. Proyor and W. T. Bixby receivers of the Wabash Railroad company. The receivers’ bond was fixed at $300,000 each, to be given in ten days. W. IH. Blodgett, who has been general coun- sel of the road, was apppinted counsel for the recelyers. F. J. Delano ir pres- ident of now and Mr. Pryor until recently a director. TO READJUST FINANCES. Receivership Part of Programme to \Get Road on Its Feet. New York, Dec. 18.—The appoint- ment of a receiver for the Wabash Railroad company is the sequence of __onnecticut in Proportion to th City’s Pop Condensed Telegrams The Snow is Five Feet Deep in the Limestone country, South Dakota. Fifty Half Clad Guests Were Carrisd fiem the Wellington hotel in Kansas City, Mo. The Cholera Epidemic in !taly ma- terially decreased the first week In December. ® i } Benjamin P. Galoup Was Shot and | K'iled in Huntingdon Pa., by a4 former admirer of his wife. Worris S. Markwood, while hunting ducks .near Burlington, N. J., was killed by his own gun. Deputy She: Benton_of Wad C., was murdered and his body place on the railroad track. ¢ ) People of Florida Yesterday present- ed to, the battleship bearing g their state’s name a silver service, | Kansas Has the Largest per capita wealth based upon the assessed valu- ation of any state in the Union, George Wi Cooke, Lecturer at the Jsoston School of Science, suggests that the women be aliowed to pro- pose. T Colyer Van and Storage com- pany’s bullding at Los Angeles, Cal, was destroyed by fire yestcrday. The loss is $150,000. Theodore Roosevelt Delivsred an ‘dress before the Labor Temple in York on The Church's Duty Toward tte Working People. The Clothiers’ Association in New York adopted resolutions favoring the g the appointment here about two weeks ago at a meeting of directors to re- adjust the finances of the road, waich for several months past had been the subject of grave concern to the road security holders. To Get the Wabash on Its Feet. adogtion of the arbitration treaties | with England and France. | Opposition Has Developed to the | Hay plan of army reorganization, as | it would mean less pay and slower rromotion for enmlisted men. | The receivership is said to be of en- [ . G . rs. Ani C. Gifford, Aged 17, a tirely friendly nature and to have been | bride of three months, udgnum in the outcome of the committee’s delib- | Now. York that she had forged her erations as to the best possible way of | ;ccent employer's name to checks. placing the Wabsst:j on' H.‘;‘nhe:l(. This | committee consisted o nslow S The Health of Emperor Francis Jo- Plerce (chairman), Eawin . Hawley, | sont ot oatmohomperor Francis Jo. Robert Goelet, Alvin W. Krech and | upeasiness. He is.said to be sufferiug General Thomas H. Hubbard, of whom | from a severe cold and rheumatism, the last four were elected directors | at the meeting. These four men are also directors of the Equitable Trust | company, trustees of the railroad’s | $40,000,000 first refunding and exten- sion 4 per cent. morigage bonds, the semi-anmyal interest on which fx due | anuary next. s .amounts 0 | “Fabulous Capi ization of corpora- $800,000, and it was the company’s 1ack | tj,ns” s the txlgxble with bunlnefi:, ac- |of funds to provide for Its payment|cording to F. W. Kelsay, a business that precipitatod ths presegt situation, | man and economic student of Orange, it is understood. INT. Protective Committee for Bonds. Immediately after the receipt here of | | the news of the receivership, the an- | Origen destroyed the old Dr. Emerson | e by Somsition [ mansion in Millis, Mass., carly yester- for these bonds was made. The com. | 08y, causing a loss that will exceea Fifteen United States Torpedo Boat destroyers have been ordered from the Charleston navy yard to join the At- lantic fleet at New York and New- pert. A Fire Believed to be of incendiary mittee requires the holders of these bonds, the announcement says, to de- posit them with the Equitable Trust company of New York, which has been appointed depositary. Arrangements have been made with the bankers to advance to the committee the funds necessary to_enable it to advance to depositors of bonds the interest ma- turing January 1, 1912, in' case the same should not be paid by the com- pany. Total Bonded De’'t Over $114,000,000. The compand’s total bonded . debt amounts to over $114,000,000, and is railroad in the country. Besides being burdened by these heavy fixed charges the company a few years ago became imvolved in heavy obligations in the purchase of ~ the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal. Goulds in Control. George Gould and the Gould estate are credited with control of the Wa- bash system. Recently the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was appoint- ed the company's fiscal. agent, some- What to the surprise of Wall street, No public statement was forthcoming the Equitable Trust company interests into the directorate, but It is assumed in Wall street that Mr. Gould acqui- esced in this arrangement. POLISH MINER KILLS THREE WITH REVOLVER. Resented Action of Neighbors in Shel- tering His Abused Daughter. Cannonsburg, Pa;, Dec. 18.—John Ricorick, a Polish miner, snoot and killed Michael Novac and his wife to- right, Mary Novac, with whom he boarded, and Frank Stevanjo, a fellow ‘Toarder. Ha then.shot himself and is_in a hospital dying. Ricorick, who is about 45 years of | age, rented rooms in the upper part | of the Novac house, whefl his 20 year old daughter, Toniyo kept house for him. everal days aro the daughter is sald to have appealed to the Novacs for protection from her father’s crulety, and tonight the reason for Ricorick’s shooting of the Novacs is said to be because they sheltered his daughter. Ricorick bought the revolver on his | way home from the mines tonight. As | he entered the house he stopped at the Novac apartments before going to his own rooms. His daugheer was visit- appeared on the threshold she scream- ed and fled out a rear door. Ricorick shot at the girl as she ran, and the bullet clipped the door casing at the side of her head The daughter escaped her father's fury, but he almest immediately turn- ed the revolver on the Novacs and Stevanjo, who were seated abouta ta- ‘le. One after the other fell before the gun of th> Infurated man. Before the police arrived, however, Ricorick had shot himself. Banker Morse in Bad Shape. ‘Washington, Dec. 18.—It was said at ihe department of justice late today that no action had yet taken on Morse's application for 4 commutation of sentence. It is likely that the mat- ter will be determined by Wednesday, for Attorney General will leave on that day for Officials here seem Impressed with the gravity of the comvicted banker's physical condition. LaFollette’s Coming Tour. ‘Was] Dec. 19—It was an- nounced to) t that Senator LaFol- lette would also carry his campalgn into Michigan, IlMnois and Indiana. The citles in which he will speak have not yet been determined, but the follo' Ml’blvo homl i anuary 1 and 2; lmll. January 3, 4 and §5; l‘nd&n‘, Jan. 6. Contract for Confederate Memorial. Rishmond, Va., Dec. 18.—It was an- :hm ml;lh:hthaca.m\?& contract for e erection of the erate memo- rial institute, known as the a the Battle Abbey, < Lfiw one of the heaviest per mile of any | from Mr. Gould about the entrance of | ing with the Novacs, and as her father | | 823,000, New York City will use nearly half |a milljon Clristmas trees this year, |and the “ultimate” consumer will pay | for them 3250,000, or an average of 50 | cents a tree. Archbishop John Ireland will have |completed fifty years of his priest- hood next Thursday, but the venerable prelate will not permit any general | public observance. The Government Hospital on the Fort Peck reservation near Popular, wag destroyed by fire yester- The Inmates were taken safely The Movement of the Revolutionary veterans in Cuba for the exclusion from public office of &1l men formerly hostile to the cause of “Free Cuba” has not yet run its course. | The War Department has ordered | that the firing of the big mortars at ‘ll}or'. Totten, N. Y., be stopped In case | reports from observers show damage | from the first shots. Constitutionality of the “full act of Indiana, regulating the of crews on freight, passenger | size | and mall trains was upheld yesterday | by the supreme court. | John B. Fleming, a mealullurgist and | mill designer of national reputation, died at Reno, Nev., yesterday from in- juries resulting from & fall of forty feet from a hotel roof there. Alberto Randegger, Composer, Con- duotor and professor of singing, died at London Sunday. He was a knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy. e married Louise Baldwin of Boston, Mass, in 18987, | Dr. Edith M. Hall has resigned her position as instructor in archeology at Mount Holyoke college, to become as- | sistant curator of the Mediterranean section of the University of Penmeyl- vania Muserm. Fearing a Possible Outbreak of small- pox at Brown university, President Faunce &t chapel yesterday told the students that he wanted them all to be vaccinated before they return from the Christmas vacatfon. | _For Having Written Letters to Post- master Morgan of New York, threat- ening his life and demanding $200, Willlam B, Pettus, alias Russell, was | sentenced yesterday to four years® im- prisonment in the federal penitentiary | at Atlanta. Herman 'K. Wagner, a young Phila- delphia chauffeur, was indicted yes- | terday for manslaughter by the grand jury in connection with the death of Gilbert Mallette of Providence, who ‘was run down by an automobile driv- en by Wagner. The Massachusetts Delegation that | recently dedicated the soldiers’ monu- ment at Petersburg, Va., sent a large brass clock yesterday to the A. P, Hill camp of Confederate veterans, in rec- oguition of the hospitalities extended the northern visitors. Nine Jurors Ready for Packers. Chicago, Dec. 15.—Two additional Jurors were obtained today to try the ten Chicago meat packers under in- dictment for alleged violation of the criminal section of the Sherman anti- trust law in the United States digtrict court. Wher the hour of adjournment was reached, nine jurors had been ac- cepted by both sides. Persian Situation Grave. London, Dee, 19.—The Teherin cor- respondent of the Times, commenting on _tha national ocouncil's refusal to yleld, says that the situation is ex- tremely grave. Some change in Per- sian sowereignty, he adds, seems in- evitable. General Reyes’ Son Arrested. ¥l Paso, Tex, Dec. 18,—It 18 report- Reves, PRICE TWO CENTS tion Finger Prints On Door Panel CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE AGAINST DONATO. NEAR ITALIAN'S ROOM Son and Brother of Victims Resents Suspicions Directed Against Him— State Offers Reward for Murderer . Y., Dec, 18,—The Rennselaer authorities foday discovered o which removes from their minds all doubt as to the gullt of Kd ward Donato, the missing Itallan farm Land, who is thought to have mur dered Mrs. Mary Morn. nd her son A-thup and daughters, Edith anu Blanche, in the barn at their home in De Freestville a week ago tOmorrow Today fbheriff Cottrell and bis deputies found bloody fingerprints on a door ranel and on a banister opposite Do nato’s room in the Mornor house Accuse Surviving Sen. Jes Morner, the only survivor of the family, whén told by the ofcials today that many people suspectod him smplicity in the crime, sald: “Is it Micted as I hiave t bad enough to be without being s cted of hav hand in kiliing my mother and sisters?™ Two Bankbooks Found. He offered to permit the officers to search his hquse for evidence aguinst him, but they refused to do so. He then accompanied them to the barn helped them tear up the 100 of clothing worn by the two bankbooks which w miss aind which it was thought the slay ere found in the house each in Albany banks. Donato Got Between $200 and $300. Sheriff Cottrell said tonight he be ed Donato teok between $200 and om the house before he made arture. The sheriff has ascer tained that the Morners always had pienty of money about them, but on $60, which was sedreted in a bed, could be found. The women's pocketbooks been have not were missing and trought to light. Will Look Over Suspeots. Sherift-elect Snell, two deputies and vard McCarn, the latter a nelghbe the Morners, and who knows Dor to well, will go to Pittsfleld and N Adams tomorrow morning to have a lcok at the two suspects under arrest in those places. ADMITS SHOOTING OFF TOP OF FARMER'S HEAD Portland Man Says Farmer Was Abusing His Wife Huntington, Pa., Dec. 18.—Frank M Calhoun of Portland, Oregon, con fessed tonight that he called Ben jamin P. Galloup, a former Kansas farmer, to the latter's door Saturday night and blew off the to pof his head with a shotgun, He says he shot Galloup because Mrs. Galloup wak be ing abused and because he feared for his own life. « Galloup, who I8 sixty vears of mge is still alive in the hospital, although part of his skull and brain have been entirely shot awiy. Physiclans say he may survive. until the arrival of son from Kansas. The old man #0ld his farm two years ago, and, adswering a matrimonial ad vertisement, came here and married ilin wife had been married twice be fore, By her first. husband, a man named Walls, she had ten children nine of whom are still alive, “alhoun, who is 62 years old, left n wife in Portland and came here short ly after Galloup's marriage, and took up biw residence in the latter's home as o boarder, Galloup, who resented the boarder's attention to his wife, compelled him to leave, and hs took up his abode with one of Mrs. Gub- loup’s married daughte Gecrge Walls, 17 years old, a step son of Galloup’s, and Mrs. Gailoup are beln derained in the case, . The gun used by Calhoun is sald to have been the property of young Walls. STATE OFFERS $2,000 A REWARD FOR MURDERER A Total of $3,000 Offered for Slayer of Morner Family. Albany, N. Y., Dec, 18.-—Governor Dix issued a proclamation today of- fering a reward of $2,000 for the arrest and conviction of the person or per sons who murdered Mrs. Mary A. Morner and her three children, ¥dith, Blanche and Arthur, at Defreestville, Rensselaer county, last Tuesday. The Rensselner county officials have oftered $1,000 for the apprehension of the murderer. “I feel very keenly,” said the gov- ernor tonight, “that such an atroclous erime—the murder of an entire family —could be committed 8o near the cap itol and am anxious to do all in my power to accomplish the apprehension of the murderer. For that reason 1 have issued a proclamation offering & reward of $2,000 for the arrest conviction of the slayer, “I would offer a larger reward if it were in_my power, but 1 have been advised by Attorney General Carmody that $2,000 is the maximum amount his that can be offered.” DRUGGISTS MAY THROW OUT PUBLIC TELEPHONES. Dissatisfied With Commission Allowed by Telephone Company. New York, Dee. 18—The druggists’ association of Greater New York have selected 4 woman to lead an effort to compel the New York Telephone com pany to sllow drug stores thirty per cent, of the earnings on pay station telephones. With the iIntroduction of sutomatio instruments the company recently reduced the commission to ten rr cent, The druggists declare that they are pot given thirty per cent. the Instruments will be barred from over 500 stores. Mra. Josephine T Reeder, the wife of a druggist, has been chosen to the drugstore owners’ petit{on to the telephone com - pany. OBITUARY. Ex-Mayor George W. Gardner. Cleveland, O." Deo 18.—George W Gardner, former mayor of Clevelund, and once a business partner of John D. Rockefeller, died at the home of hix daughter, at Daytom after short {llness. 869 w.