Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 11, 1912, Page 1

e 10 VOL. LIV.—NO. NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY. CIANUARY 11, 1912 The Bulletin's Cirqulition in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Girulation is the Largest in_Connect GARNFGIE CHUCKLES LIKE SCHOOLBOY Former Steel King Greatly Amused Over Deal in Which He Bested Rockefeller TESTIFIES AT THE STEEL TRUST INVESTIGATION Explains the Sale of His Steel Properties to J. Pierpont Mor- gan For $420,000,000—Knew of Existence of Pools But Left His Business to “His Young Men”—Never Received | Railroad Rebate But Had to Fight to Get Square Deal. | Jan. 101t does my| Didn't Know Pools Wers Unlawful. rnk that 1 got ahead of | Mr, Carnegie was asked about the ez, my fellow million- | gteel plate association and other poois ake Superior ore deal which lasted until 1904 Tmer ruler of the | the Carnegie company was a party in | n the United States,|{he late 90's. ie sald he knew of the us in testifying today before | existence of pools, but he did not know | ommittee of inquiry into the | that they were unlawful until many | tes Steel corporation. Mr.|vears afterward. nd to which ad fust told the committee | * | pever knew anything about the | eal with MMr. Rockefeller | details of those pools,” he said. 1| obtained control of Mr | know that such pools existed, but I left | s iron ore holdings in the | the business to my young men. I was | or_region at a rate of 15 oldings which when turn- abroad much of tne time. It I couldn't trust my young men, what could I have teel corporation later | done myselt? © part of assets valued at | was sentenced todeay Cabled Paragraphs Parls, Jan, 10.—The official returns of the census of France, taken last year, which have just been published, shew that the population Row num- bers 39,601,509, as compared with 39,- 252,245 at 'the last census ‘in 1906, showing an increase of 349,264, London, Jan. 10.—Nine hundred thousand’ coal miners are now vot- ing whether or not there shail be a national stoppage of tne coal mines in the United Kingdom. The ballot will occupy will probably be anmounced on Jan- uary 18. Berlin, Jan. 10.—Mrs, Viola Scott New York and Boston, the head of a psychological company, which has been operating in recent years in Ber- lin, St. Petersburg &nd Copenhagen, by the criminal court here to cighteén months’ impris- ment on a charge of obtaining mon by false pretenses. Manila, Jan. 10—Orders for the First battalion of the Iifteenth in- fantry regiment to leave for China rived here yesterday and the expe- dition was prepared immediately, Ma- jor James M. Arrasmith will be in command of the 500 enlisted men and fifteen officers with whom will be sent a detachment of the hospital corps and a machine gun platoon besides the field service wagon train. TELLS OF AFFECTION FOR GOVERNOR DENEEN Lorimer Blames Chicago Papers for Their Estrangement. s His Retirement frem Steel Business. | Asked about the option valuation of | Chuckled Like a Schoolboy. | $520,000,000 and the final disposition of 3 & " a school- | thesproperty to the steel corporation in gl ¢lo laughed like @ school- | 1501 for a much larger sum, Mr. Car- ! e aehjeved over his “fellow mil. | Negie related t%a history of his retire- | n s he spoke of Mr. Rocke. | ment from the steel business. sok eommittes into his| He said that Charles M. Schwab, then tenco and told of & New Years | President of the company came to him | Mrs. Carne o on the | with a message from J. Plerpont Mor- 1 Mrs. Rockefeller. an asking him if he desired to retire n enjoyable chit, but in | {7om business and how much he want- on 1 mever referred to|ed for his properties. | + and Mr. Carnegio | Sold Out to Morgan for $400,000,000. | ditors laughed *T told Mr. Schwab that it would e- | end entirely upon my pertpers” sald | N s Mr. Carnegie. “I was ready to go. | nquiry, which is 0 | Xiready I had become engaged in ardu- Camnegie | oug work trying to dispose of surplus | a to tell al new. | wealth and I was willing to retire. Mr. vertheless he was unable to SupDIY | gchwab said the partners were willing | a ) the commi { snd he went back to see Morgan, When | X t e never paid | he rcturned he said Morgan wanted a Dbooks of the Ca: ey - | figure. We went oter the estimate ard | efore Its absorption by | considered the former option of $220.- | atfor 600,000 Schwab had figures to show that since that was given—about two | and a half vears before—the pronarty had grown in value about §$100,000,000. He thought we ought to add that and I | agreed with him. Mr. Morgan accept- | ed that figure.” Never Received Railroad Rebates. unreasonable price. | When asked by Mr. Gardner about when his partner, H. | the statement made by Senator Oliver im for an option, for | that the Carnegle company received persons, on the - Carnegie | raliroad rebates, Mr. Carnegle - de- . he demanded $2,000,000 | clared of the intentions of the Tt's astonishing how suspected an owners and when: the deal | honest corporation can be, I never | h and he Jearned that the | recelyed, a rebae ba I know of in all New York were behind #the | my life” ¢ was syrprised Was Discriminated Against. Would Have Made. it $320,000000 for| 3r. Carnégie then related how He | Moorss. fcught the Pennsylvania. vailroad be- | cnown that the Moares were | C2USe of discrimination in rates against Telis of Sale of His Property. v artieularly emphatic in his to the sale of his United States Steel he behest of J. Pler- nd told the committee end gossip that he N g I ot o him, how he Interested the Vanderbilts | at option which T made on 2| 10y project to erect a competing road roegis, ‘T Sevir Yol to the east, and how the Vanderbilts | "y s e went “over to the enemy,” ending the | . profect. When you wave that vatuation of { Carnegie company,” asked Repre- | Induced Gould to Extend Wabash Road | Sterling, “did you consider | “When this fell through I went to | that the earning power of the concern | George Gould and told him that years stifled it? ago his father, Jay Gould, had told me Considered Price Justified, he would furnish me the money to buy Yak~ o Carnemie. and 711 |the Pennsylvania railrosd and would b why. T S Seeh k. put me in charge of it if I would devote RO B o AT all my time to it. I did not take the job. Then I sald to George Gould that inasmuch as his father had given me that epporiunity 1 wanted to give Jay 1 option of t did not include the | which we later X ympany 5. of | Gould’s son an opportunity, and T of- e ioi’] | fered to give him the Carnegie business 50,000 as an sarnest of | 1 he would run his raflroad into Pitts- 3 $1.000,000, my share of | PUTE: and 1t was at my suggestion that the Goulds went to Pittsburg with the Wabash railroad.” Frightened Pennsylvania Railroad. _ Mr, Carnegle said that instead of the Carnegie company having receiveda re- Lates he forced the Pennsylvania by threats to build competing roads to agree to give him rates as low as those glven competitors. was deposited to my ac- was in Burope. but the vever was raited ow,” he sal tion, “that Mr to do with it until 1 to here. That he was the Moores is romance d in Frick T PRESIDENT SUN TO | LEAD REVOLUTIONISTS SIXTY STRIKEBREAKERS DISCHARGED AT BOSTON. Wiil Endeavor to Inspire His Army in | Mayor Refuses to See Them When Attack on Peking. | They Call at His Office. { San Francisco, Jan, 10.—A cable| Boston, Jan. 10.—The addition of 65 | lished in the Chinese Free Press | freight clerks who had grievanc | wnder o Nanking date I their own to the ranks of the £.800 slatéd is as follows 15 tking longshoremen and the dis- | harge of 60 strikebreakers by the | Allan line stevedores wers the only | | Yat Sen, president, ap- | winted commander in chief of the ar- and possidly will lead army in at- | developments today of the strike which gainst Pe Wang Chun Wei { has serlously interfered with the for- fon as minister of | eitn sieamship service at this port affair | Discharged strikebreakers late in th Dr. Sun Yat Sen had some|day visited Mayor Fitzgerald to dis- experience, it 18 beileved by | cuss their troubles, claiming thew had here that in accepting the|not been properly treated by the | ary leadership he did so with the | 8 amship people, but the mayor re- his presemce would inspire | fused to see them hiw n time of battle About 8,500 ght handlers and | f;;;pm I-nn;‘(‘ ave mnifl to strike | when the district_assembly of (he CAT DECAPITATED Knights of Labor 1ssued the eall, b | BY GRANTVILLE MAN |the order was not efven today. I vag sald tonigat that overtures were Family Becomes Alarmed and He ls|Peing made quietly to bring about a cnference lookine to an sdjnstment to Be Examined. of the longshoremen’s difficult Ofticers | | There | port, Conn., the body Washington, Jan, 10.—$ mer’s second day as a the senate investigators of his election was replete with laughter. and politics. Mr. Lorimer’s relations with Edward Hines, the lumberman, who has been said to have obtained the former's election to the U 1 States were gone over at length Lorimer said he never asked 3r. Hines to work for him and in fact did not think Hines knew enough about pol tics to be trusted in such a capacity. The now famous message which Hines is said to have carried from Washingion to Governor Deneen to the effect that President T Ator. Penrose and e: anxious to s orimer e , was gone int enator Lorimer said the first he knew of such a mes- sage was when Hines delivered it When Senator Lorimer was relating his’ early relations with Governor De- neen and told of the break with him, he showed some emotlon, otherwise he was an imperturbable witness. “My friendship was something akin to affection for him,” he said, referring to the governor, “and when he went off with other men who were not my enator Lori- witness before friends politically, 1 still felt he fa- | vored me, 1 now, and 1 always will feel that he was for me, ‘although his Chicago friends, the newspapers, would not let him show it. Some of the Chicago papers havo' put in.f teen or twenty years trying to put nre out ‘of public ife.” When Mr. Hanecy read exiracts from Chicago papers, in which Senatar Lorimer was referred (o as having blonde curls and an innocent face,” and as being “a high 'brow,” the sen- ator Joined in the general laughter. Senator Lorimer’s testimony was shortened because Mr. Hanecy wanted to read into the record several polit]- cal articles from Chicago papers. Tha reading had not been finished when the committee took a recess until morrow. to- PEQUEATHS $1,000 IN MEMORY OF TWO DOGS, Boston Man Remembers Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, New York, Jan, 10.—The memory of two dogs is honored in the will of the lcte George Wales Boren of Boston, Wwhich was filed for probate here today by bequest of $1,000 to the Boston So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Mr. Boren's ate is valued 2. more than $500,000 and is filed here tecause he was formeriy.a resident of this efty. The wili leaves 3500 to the clety in memcry of his - “sister Grace's dog Scotty and $500 In mem- © of 3 William Benson's dog San- he bulk of the estate is distributed emong relatives and friends residing ir Bostcn. Mrs. Cornelia D. Hunting- ton of 41 Waverly street, Boston, is left $25,000; Mrs. Anna T. Howard of Ran- dolph, Mass., and Mary Ann Fall of Medford, Mass. are left $5,000 each are several bequests of $1.000 and less to charitable organizations. SAILOR HANGED HIMSELF TO MAST. Bridgeport Man's Body Found Frozen Stiff by Sohoorer’s Cook. ew York, Jan. 10.—The harbor po- ok from th soner Sarah and which arrived today from Bridge Andrew Lund- z of No. 1 Beeley street, Bridzeport a saflor, who hanged himself to the foremast during the gale Tuesday ternoon. William Porter, the c told the police that he had Lvndberg's body, frozen stiff, heavy rope about the neck and the fect just touching the deck. The schooner tried to make th 10, be s port vesterday. but %as unable io do so because of the heavy seas. Lundberg had been drink- ing heavily recently, the captain said. aced in a morgue here. TAFT HAS COLD AND three days and the result | " s *s of sirikchreakers . rontinue | CANCELS ENGAGEMENT. e Vinsted sarme. hove toduyicerd | working at. varlons docks which are | mied ame, Nere today aild | garded by private waichmen and the | No Alarm, However, Felt Over the r Bt here by New | Pouce. No confiict of any sort be- President's Condition. h [Bag_Jsouent, b Tor "L N | tween etrike sympathizers and the new | 2 oric state officers and left at thel.on braught fram New York hns heey | Washington, Jan President Taft | e SERE R > BUSEM o haNS Lgnavtan is ering from & eold and: tonight e T v R R i ‘s‘: = White House officials canc f Marmed his brother's family that they | STORM SINKS BARGE { bl ensnseige “’f:f’?}’;jfl’r‘; t the house and went to New Yo = B h y OFF BLOCK ISLAND | condition. aht the cold ;‘,’, 0 Will e huS'Dending an exshi- { | and remained in hix study in PR s e | Great Wave Carries Crew Overbolrd!ef\lll\o mansion. It was f:-]f‘ddmnigm the engagements: were recalled so he INCREASE IN SHOE . BRIy A e, | might cure tho cold without expesing PRICES NOT DISCUSSED | = Newpor, R T, Jam. 10.—The sink. | Himself by going over to the executive ik s e St oo SOk | cfices tomorrow end that he Mmiendea Bsot and Shos Manufacturers Aveid | Island during the storm yesterday and hat Topic. her crew's parrow escape became b2 known tonight with the arrival of Bd- | New York, Jan. Tv—Tnesease in {he | ®ard Oiken of Providence, captein of | grica of ahoes forscanten in. resen;| e barge, and hin four men. The wes from shoemaking centers! Sterling, with the harge Henry Endi- federal suit for dissolution of | Ot Was in tow of the Patfence, when | nited Shos Machinery company, | her crow discovered that she was were mattors avoided In today's con- | Jeaking so badly she must soon found- 1emtion of the National Assoctation of | ¢r. They were trying to- launch the Hoot and Shoe Manufacturers. The as- | lifebaat When a great wave smashed socintion based its action entirely up- | it aglinst the dsckhouse: and, reced- n the tnrifr, adopted resolutions of | INg carrled Captain Olsen and the Jgritest sgainst afforts for “free shoes.” | Men over the side. They were tossed g v further protec. { ¥y about 13 a suwot tumbling 5 gt anutaciurer, | #tas end drowning seemed certain, b : AmerEh s a hawser flung ovarhoard frem the | | Patience saved their- lives, Grasping | this the struggling men were pulled rd the tug in an exhausted con- $5000 Fire at Millstons. Milistone. Conn. Jan. 10.-The @welling house of Henpy Gapdner was | dition. destrored by fire tonight with a loss| The Sterling sank soon after her of $5.u06. The family was away at xhc]vrem was washed overboard, and now tme, and (he cause is not kmown, repts in $0 fathoms of water, to dispose of & large amount of cor- respondence during the day. Ice Jam Stops Machinery. Appleton, Wis,, Jan. 10.—An ice jam in the Fox river, shutting off the city's water supply, today caused the pension of manufacturing plant besides partially tving up the p the Wisconsin Light, Heat ur Co., which put the interurban rafiway line out.of commiss After the Tax Dodgers. Westport, Cenn., Jan. 16—The per- sonal tax collector stated tonight that all who did not-pay their personal tax by Saturday night wouid be arresied Monday. Steamship Arrivals. At Plymouth: Jan. 18, Kronprin- zeasln Cocilie, from New York. | | CHARLES S. Treasurer and Clerk of icut in Pr;pbfiion fo the Cit PRICE TWO ' CENTS Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce, | Condensed ieieg AMms | 5 Manufacturing, and Other Interests. = HOLBROOK, the Town of Norwich. To Drop Tile 0f Reverend MAY “WITHDRAW FROM THE MINISTRY.” | RICHESON EDMANDS STILL LOYAL | | Father of Condemn.d Man's Fiancee | Has Long Conference at Jail—Dis- | trict Attorney Advances New Theory | Boston, Jan. 10.—The formal um-l drawal from the Baptist ministry of | Rev. C, V wver of Avis Linnell, with the re- | | moval of the title “Reverend” is re-| | garded- as probable In the weeks that | | remain before the date set for his ex- | ecutten. Members of his former par- | ish Jn Cambridge have cxpressed the | belief that the condemngd clergyman | | w vountarily take action in the | | near tuture to sever relation with the denomination. Ecclesiastical Council Might Act. | Anecclesiastical council composed | of the Bagtist clergymen of Boston, | | Cambridge and vicinity might be ap- | | pointed to ‘act on the resignation if | i | | | presented, or it is said such a c | cil could ‘be called to take the inita- ive and remove Richeson “rom ministry without any action on part the his Attorney Lee Leaves Boston. Attorney John L. Lee, who has been | acting as counsel for Ricl left | | tonight for his home in Lyn , Va. | | end will not return to B until ans are completed for presenting a petiiicu to the governor and council for commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment. i TR 1 LATEST THEORY OF HOW 1 AVIS LINNELL WAS DUPED { Prosscutor Thinks Richeson Made Her | | Believe She Was Lawfully Wedded. | ‘ P courtroom Rev Boston, Ja scen . 10.—The of yesterday, in which Clarence V. T. Richeson pleaded guilty of murder and was sentenced to death for slaying Miss Avis Linnell, who, the district attorney now was his wife, had no ill effects upon the young minister, and today the jail physiclan reported him in nearly per- fect health. | It was reported that Richesor hau‘ suffered a collapse after his appear- ance before Judge Sanderson, but Dr, Lathrop, who has been his medical at- tendant, stated today that Richeson was in such good health that he would { cease his visits after today. | District_Attorney Pelletior sai | day that Miss Linnell was bu a wedding ring on her finger and tha believes. 1 1 {it was his opinlon that Richeson married her some time last summer or at least went through some c: mony which led the girl to believe | she vas hig wife. | A’corney John I, L for tne clergyman, made pr rations | today to leave for Lynchburg, Va. He will not return here until a peti- | tion for commuation is heard by Gov- ernor Foss. Mr. Lee declared today | that the petition would surely be pre- sented, although he did not know | when 1t would be sent to the state e mail of Foss on the Ricl uncing ed with let ase aUVOCAL tation, com- | | | | EDMANDS STILL LOYAL. } Father of Vislet to Stand by Richeson | to the End. Boston, Jan. 10.—Moses Grant Ed- mands, father of Miss Volet Edmands, who was to have married Richeson on | October ‘31, will stand by the pastor | to the end. For more than an nom’!‘ | { | togay he talked matters over with | cotysel for the prisoner. cugh | non ‘iof the parties would discuss the nature-of the conference, it Is under 160d that Edmand the defense, was Mr. Lee leav ht, and was arrangin on fo ommutation ¢ to_death 10 jmp: which will be filec accounts . Vir cause i FAVORS COMMUTATION. Richesan Loy One Councilor Who Would Spare His Life. I Bositon, Jan; 10.—Counéilior John Quinp. of Bestop -Wak yesterday ap- Uncovers His his ministerial | ¢ Gonfederates M'MANIGAL GIVES MOST IMPORT- ANT EVIDENCE. FATHER ALSO A WITNESS Identity of Persons Gther Than Mc- Namaras Who Assisted Him in Va- rious-Cities Exposed by McManigal. Indianapolis, Jan. 10. pertant evidence y government’s investis namite conspiracy The mos in- the on of - the ‘dy- been presented io the federal grand jury today. The points in which the iine of inquiry was directed were said tc_pertain to the complicity of men olher than those already convicted or indicted and to have raised questions as to who handed Ortie McManigal u envelope containing $165 in Chicago o few days after he had blown up part of a railroad bridge at Clinton, la., on 'eb. 16, 1908. Who Was With Him at Boston and Springfield? Who met him in Boston 3 bim where to put the dy Iy destroyed & new « on March 27, 1909, an secuently went with him pringfield, Mass., whe t of th id showed amite which era house Tom Boston McMantzal ings At New York, Jersey City and Peoria. { =Who met him in New York city in Septeraber, 1909, and escorted him t Hoboken J, where he attempted tut failed to blow up a viaduct Who met him in Jersey City, N. I, su§ 9, 1910, and pointed out a viaduct | Which was to be blown up? Who met McManigal in F and took him about town to some iron a freigh McManlgal afterward b it Companions Other Than McNamaras. persons who met Iiim at varlous ia according to McManigal, wer oifers than the McNamara brothers. Much of his testimony has been cor- roborated by witnesses who were calied upon to testify as to having seen him al the time and at the pla e - toned. - James McManigal is sald to have confirmed his son’s story about visiting Tiffin to get fresh suppiies of explosives. cManigal’s Father a Witness. McManigal and his father, James F. McManigal, of Tiffin, O., in who: stores of explosives were kept nes v be carried wherever was to be done, w jury almost all day McNamaras Many Miles Distant. The government detectives who are asgisting United States W are said to have i this inquiry hat many of the one hundred o xplosions directed against ‘open shop’ emplovers in the last five years ceurred in cities at wh 1 james B. and Jo ar dista hat, therefore, assistance in thes rom others than t at, without r informa- oeally. MeManiga]l conld hardly McManigal Received Assistance. ve & et s men, but government is v sesking corroborative evidence if hé iracing of men from @ and Toledn who visited Ti algo believed to have been taken ¢ the grand jury in the examina- McManigal's father. d in his conf ance.and the BOSTON LABOR MEN. Four Leave for Indianapolis sponse to Summonses. in Re- Boston, Ja men le labor 10—Fo ai for Indian- this city tonig is in Tesp summonses 10 ppear before the fed med sherift Sea- E has served in the lower “ranch of the legislature and was beginning his second year as a member of the governor's council. He is the only councilor who has declared himself in favor of commutation for Richagon. . 1 A Water Famine in St. Louis is a: | saming & serious aspect All Grades of Refined Sugar were ten cents a hundrea pounds | The decided th: that state Supreme Court of Wisconsin ncome tax law of is legal Representative Humphrey of Wash- ington derounced the democrats aband, Dick to Dick investi- for g the Marcus H. Cartwright, one of known bookmakers on the the Amer- an turf, is dead at Chicago of heart | 5 | Thomas H Rooney, uncle of Mre. | William K. Var man Oelrich, ¢ vesterday of he 1 Mrs. Her- Franclsco at San | Captain Charles B. Dahlgren, o re- red naval officer, gied in Trenton, | I, yesterd: Captain Dahlgren a son of Admir: 7 I Dahlg The New York, New Tartford railroad station at Plantsville was broken into some time during sesday and several slot machines ri- | Fifty Families, Mostly Women and { Tex., ye: 'd. from north Texas | A Lake Shore Spscial Crashed into | a freight train at Dunkirk, N. Y., dur- | ing a snowstorm, Both cngines were olished and several of the crew were injured, Braintree, Mass. Lost One of ndmarks in an early morning il s Arnold. Guy T. Tripp of Boston was ted chairman of the b Westir g company The Home of William H. Hill, a Bos maged $10,000 by fire yesterday. Mr Hill, seriousiy ill, was taken from her Mrs. Nancy Hall of Lancaster, O, harged with having put poison in th For the First Time in Several Years no passer v freight steamer. & At Providence from New York, rday. The westerly gale prevent- ed the daily suilings from New Yorl night Welves in the Country Surrounding Kansas City,~Mo., have become such menace 1o voung and poultry nized measures have several localities for | been Gov. Foss Wil Sub tive ) the execu- puncil the petition for commuta- tion to life imprisonment of the death sentence of Silas N. Phelps of Monroe Bridge, in time for the council to act pon it mext week. A Curtailment Will Go into effect at n the Alice mills in Woonsocket, i the Millville milis at Mill- Mass., of the United States Rub- company. The mills will be oper | The Body of Viadius Busecki, a 7 vear old Polish boy, was found in the Concord river at Lowell, Mags., yes- terday. The boy had wandered from home two n the ays ago and wa e of the river. last seen Six Thousand Dollars was the price paid W. H. Pichenor of Ocomone- Wis. for the four weeks old bull calf of Dolly Dimple, the prize cow of F. Lothrop Ames’ collection at Lang- v farms, North Easton, Mass. Five Persons, onc man and f dren, were burned to death vester- fire which destroyed the re ph Desrochers and an_adjoining 'hos du Sacre Coeur, P, re Dame The Ohio Law Making it a criminal fenwe for an employer or his agent lismiss an employe for refusel to resign from a labor organization, & pheld in a decislon of Judge Gor- | man of the common pleas court at| Cineinnati | A Warehouse at ontalning a crop 0f shade-grown to- bacco, 2 dwelling house and smaller bulldings on the tobacco farm of Cull- man Brothers of New York were burn- ed to the ground yesterday. The loss is placed between 325,000 and $30,000, | Simsbury, Conn., | While the Body of Maria Boyle, | who through thrift hed saved St domestic $5,000, lay in St. Raphael's hospital, New Haven, y ay, & sister and a rephew wers before the probate court | contesting for its possession in order that it might be given burial by either, William McDonald of Haverhill, a re- cently . irged convict, hroke into postoflice at Georgetown, Mass., at an early hour yesterday and founa | wailing for him four officers, who clapped handcuffs onto him before he | had even touched the safe, They had been tipped off. = | The Body of Finsearonne Resario, ' condemned to death for the murder of his friend, Salvatore Magro, whom | he cut to pieces with a hatchet and | then packed the pjeces in a box, was | found in his cell at Beaver, Cal, yes- of poison, the nature of which and the y’s Population MILLIONS IN RUINS BEYOND REACH Vaults Containing Stocks, Bonds and Securities Buried Under Tons of Ice and Debris SHAKY WALLS MENACE ADJACENT PROPERTY Occupants of Sixteen Story Building Opposite Equitable i Ruins, Ordered to Vacate as a Precautionary Measure —Bodies of Battalion Chief Walsh and William Campion Not Yet Recovered—Special Guards to Prevent Looting. New York, Z Jan. 10.—More than, Half a Billion of Securities. §30.000,000 in stocks and . bonds was| ' Tecovered from one of the smaller | Just What the value is of the seourle vaults_in the burned Equitable' Lite| €8 Yet imprisoned is mere. guess nee society building late today, | WOrk. It is known that the Bquitie will p Wo wee bly be a week—per or longér—before the securities are close to $300,000,000 1 those of the Harriman estate, in Vaults of the saclety aad. the | the vaults of the Mercantile Safe Do Mercant ife Deposit company give| POSiL company, are understood to ap- up their half-billion or more'in secur- |'ProXimate 00,000, It 1aalu: sl b rer- examination: of ., the | that F. Ryan-has approxi- gau e shrouded buflding, swept on | Mately $100,000,000 in securities there; v fire, showed more conclus. | the-Gould estate a’nearly similar sum, ively today that the vaults were still | HOWever, tha Mercantile Safe Deposit Hite ot company refuses to give out any list of those having boxes, and, further- May Not Open Safes for Weeks. | inore, it has no knowledge Of the In the opinion of those who have|amounts its clients stored away. So inspected the prem an opinion re- | a correct estimate of value is, out pt nforced by the revelation today he question the sm Its have ke iy treasure safe—and that th | Paint on Vaults Badly Blisteréd. ilts have kept their It was: said at George Gould's of- that (h ntents w fices today that Mr. Gold had felt it at all uried as they are un- wbout the securities, but der_pundreds of tons of ice and debr te had received assurances that t e a matter of weeks be would be no damage. or loss. t e advisable to open them, | Mercanctile Safe Deposit com- Sicoidl Guacds. ot Balldimi. igsued a statement saying that s " e 1l was everything. in the vaults iy oo jmedn {ime securities vari- | safe, but that in some piaces the paint ion 1o & bitlion am'e, from half @ | on the vaults had not even. been Dlis- ;"‘ - " "‘.“L””’ Wi "‘“u —’“‘l'”"\ No More Bodies Found. nd day and n they will patrol itted structure continued to- the overed sidewalks (o hold its dead. Search in the s i person en- | bullding" is hazardous and s thia: Bulldtas no further trace had been found to- . | of the body Battalion Chief _Millions in Stocks and Bonds. William Walsh. = Nor_ had the:body Ihe smaller vaults of the Mercan- | of William Campion, chief of the Mer= tile Trust company were the ones| cuntile guards, been recovered, "al< reached today. As soon as it was| though it is partly in sight, n they could be entered fifty clerks despatched from the Bankers Walle Regarded Dangerous. Trust company, a few blocks awa: iger to nearby property from the remove thither the securities as | shaky walls of the ruined: bullding they were taken out. Between $50,- | was officlaily recognized late today 000,000 and $70,000.000 in stocks and | by the fir department, which ordered bonds were thus quickly transferred |n sixteen-stery+office building across withont incide The Bankers Trust | the narrow company owns the Mercantile Trust. ith of Cedar street from the Equiteble structure vagated, PACKERS HAD IMPORTANT DATA DESTROYED AFTER USE Accountant for Armour & Co. Damaging Testimony. Gives ).—Methods rs on trial before Ur District Judge G. A, Car for criminal violatious of the herman law, in” computing the uni- form test cost of slaughtered animals which the government contends the basis used in fixing the margiu of profit_and selling cost of fresh meat wer Henry F, M er ountent in the employmen of Armour & Co. He said that after the Injunction issued by Judge Gross- ip in 1902, the insiructions mploy- revealed today by m by his regal the items used in figuring the test cost were communicated o him verbally and thatthe sheets containing the data were always destroyed after six months. The cost of killing, he said was increased from §1 a head to $2.75 a head in 22 years. During the great railroad strike in 1894, the killing cost, he said, went to $3.50 a head. He said that two methods were used in_figuring the test cost of the ani- mils. One he described as the “mem- srandum” or “red” cost, and the other as_the “last’ real test cc The government ‘memorandum” ¢ the one which all the members of the alleged packers' combination used to fix margin of profit and the seiling cost of fresh meat. The witness explained that the cred- it allowance for certain fats had been decreased from $2.15 to $3 a hundred pounds within three years. MUNIFICENTLY REWARDED FOR AIDING GOVERNMENT. Joseph L. Payne Given $50,000 for Evi. dence and Peter Redling $25,000. Washington, the Treasury Jan, 10. acVeagh awarded sggregate of $75,000 today to two formers in customs frauds cases seph L. Payne will be give the evidence he contrib Duveen art c and will_receive § Bradford lining In the Duveen cases th recovered $1,180.000 by civil and $90,000 in fines by criminal -Secretary of e NEGRO HOLDS A » POSSE AT BAY But Resort to One-Pound Gun Caused Him to Surrender. Y.,. Jan. 10.—William negro, considered insane, flled his father, Turner Twiman, at Rochester, N. Twiman, a | thelr home in Scottsville, a little' vi lagé twelve miles southwest of R shester, this morning, and shot dead W deputy sheriff, -seriously wounded hree other deputies and slightly wounded Sheriff Harley Hamil, the 11| VETERANS. POISONED: BY leaders of a posse who endeavored to get into the TW%iman house, in which the black had barricaded himself. Twimen held ~ the constantly grow- ing force of besiegers at bay from 10« m. until pounder, I the local 4+ p. m, when a one- rried to the sceme from armory, with a squad of aval militia and national gusrdsmen, reached the scene. The sheriff then sent a message to lwiman by John A. Alexander, a ne- @ro furmer cf Scotisville, with whem Twiman had always been friendly, hat if he would surrender he would be protected from violence, but that if he persisted in defying the officers he house would be shot to pleces a message ided the negro a once, and he walked out of the house, ing his hands over his head, Offi- cers placed him in an automobile and hurried him into the county jail im this ecity Twiman has been feared by the people because it is $aid he has shown nimself ir drinking liquc sponsible, . He specially atter not strong phys= ically, but an excellent shot, hav- ing developed skill as a hunter, He as been he ) handhng 28 carelessly, and it was due to a good sized posse feared to oach the, barricaded house aft- discovered that he had Killed bis father. SOLDIERS’ HOME HNSH. o the | Several Fell from Their Chairs After i Partaking of It. | Leavenworth, Kan, Jan, 10.—More tuan 150 veterans of the Nutio 1- | diers' home, near the city, are serjou: |1y ill of ptomaine poisoning, resulting cutions. The recoveries in the Brad- | from eating hash served to them ford lining c prosecutad in New o regular meal today. A number of Yor! »ston, Philadeiphta, Cleveland |the men ‘are dangerously ill and are snd Chicago, amounts to between |in the hospital. Nearly 1,500 men $460,000 and $300,000. Tha treasury department has a fund of $100,000 to be used as awards for information in customs frands. Almost all of the remaining $27 availohle the cnrrent feca posed of i granted dv were belng served in the dining roim and several of them fell from their chairs. Others began to show signs of illness and the phvaicians and nurses twere called. The suffering vet- erans were given emetics and many soon were revived. When the Cause of | the iliness was learned the hash was thrown out. terday. He had_torn a strip from a | CHAIRMAN STANLEY T vetefans were abou tonight and e e e | ISSUES SUBPOENAS. | ome said hone of them would die. An f R o3 {invesiigation of ¢he poisoning will be | That Miss “Lucy Lambert, 22, of [ w: ¢ Officials to |2V Westford, Mass, died Samuzasy aignt | Wil Compel Steal Trus cial started at once, Tho sources of the ptomaines in the hash has not been Produce Documents. method of administering has not yet R 7 | been determined, was the report made by Medical Examiner Buckley .to Dis- learned. Washington, Jan. 10. — Intimate books and papers of the United States CENSUS DEPARTMENT triet Attorney Higgine. The woman gave birth to a child a few days before fier death, Following His Recent Refusal of a | pass extended by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railrond, Repre- sintative James P. Reid, the socialist legislator, introduced @ bill in the Rhode Island house yesterday prohib- | = public service corporations trom n es to any paid public offi- ng for a fine of $500 Found Dead in Barn. Seouthbury, Conn., Jan. 10.—Samue Kalston, 70 years old, superintendent | ot J. D. Conney’s farm, was found dead in a stock barn on the farm today from Peart disease. In the past two years | Be has lost two sons, one by drowning and the other by kydrophobis following | the bite Of a dos. - He leaves a widow | aad four children. | them. Steel corporation are to be examined by the government. Chajrman Stanley of the house “steel trust” Investigat- ing committee tonightissued subpoenas duces .tecum for 2l the documents, which thus far the steel corporation had mot produced, although the com- mittee expressed its desire to examine The subpoenas are sarved direotly on J. J. Farrell as president of the T'nited States Stee! corporation, but there is no disposition on the part of ittee to force him to take the To Abolish Phosphorus Matches. Washington, Jan. 10.—The abolition of white phosphorus matches from the Amerfcan market and the substitution of matches made from a substange harmiess to the workers in the man- ufacuiring plants was urged before the house committee on ways and meant today. DROPS 1,100 CLERKS. Reduction of Appropriation Will Result in Delaying the Work. ‘Washington, Jan. 10.—The discharge of 1,100 clerks from the census office today because of the lack of funds has 50 crippled the thirteenth decennial census . work, according 0 & report from Director Durand to Sectetary of Commerce and Labor Nagel, that it will he impossible to complete & num- her of important subjects by Juna- 30, tie date set by law for the publication ot all the results. The cause of the reductions in force was the recent action of mu in appropriating a deficlency instead of $1,000,000 as. ¥ the census office, mtin- 'EJ%"&%A rer: ik g 4 o TP >