Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 24, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 21 The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other 1913 PRICE TWO CENTS TEXAS DEPARTMENT STORE IN RUINS Walls of a Department Was Crowded Store ‘Gollapsg'd “While - It With “Shoppers EIGHT PERSONS KILLED AND FIFTEEN INJURED Believed That All Bodies Have Been Recovered—Varying Es- timates as to Number of Dead—Ruins Take Fire and Add to Horror of Catastrophe—One Woman Begged Fire- men to Kill Her—ASpecial Sale Was in Progress. ¢ MeKinney, Texas, Jan. 23.—Eight persons were killed and fiftegn hurt here late today when the walls of a building occupled by a farming imple- ment firm fell and crashed into the department store of Cheever Brothers, causing that building to collapse. Fire broke out in the ruins and it was be- Jieved until late tonight that the death list was much larger. At midnight rescuers ceased working, being assured ihat no more bodies remained in the wreckage. Woman Says Store Was Filled. Mayor Finch, who took charge of the work of rescue, gave out a state- ment early tonight that he believed 35 men, women and children had per- ished. Vernice Graves, ome of the first to get out of the building after the collapse, said she was sure fifty per- sons had been entrapped. It was upon these estimates that statements of the jJarger death list were given out at first by the authorities. Number in Store Unknown. Efforts to get an accurate statement as to the number of persons in the store when the walls crashed in were unavailing. Vernie Graves, sald to be the only occupant of the store when the crash came, who escaped un- hurt, stated positively that fifty per- sons were in the place when the walls fell. Mayor Finch estimates the death dist at 35. Other ‘estimates are wide- Iy different. Smouldering ruins pre- Vented rescuers from digging far into the debris tonight. Adjoining Building Falls. Crackling of timbers and swaying of the building were quickly followed by the Collapse. Excitement attending the accident was increased by the fall- ing of a two story building adjoin- ing the department store. Rescue work was impeded by the lack of mechan- ical facilitigs and practically the en- tire population of McKinney joined in_fighting the fire and seagching. the ruins. Two Died After Rescle. Two persons reached'by the rescuers lived only a few minutes after they were taken from the ruins. An emer- gency hospital was hastily construct- ed in a nearby building. The Dead. The dead: Rosa Welch. Miss Katie Milliga: Miss Bessie Wade. Russell Height, 4 vears old. N. R. Presley, clerk. Mrs. Mary Stiff, clerk. Miss Eva Searey, clerk. Special Sale in Progress. A epecial sale ivas in progress and the store is said to have been crowd- ed_with shoppers. One of the victims, R. Presley, directed the firemen how to release him, although he could not see them. He was dead when they reached him. Begged te Be Killed. Mrs. Mary Stiff who was taken out alive but died within an hour, begged firemen to kill her as the flames were slowly cooking her to death. GOVERNOR HADLEY AT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Discusses Relations of Governmen? to Big Business. . New Haven, Conn., Jan. 23.—Govern. or Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri, one of the principal speakers at the an- nual banguet of the chamber of com- merce tonight, in speaking of the re- flations between the goyernment and big business” said inepart: “We have recently been furnished a_definite statement of wiat the pres- ident-elect of the United States re- rds as an ideal trust law. If that ‘daw should become effective in New Jersey, there would result the some- what striking contrast between the provision of the federal statute and the state statute upon the same ques- tion. “For instance,” he said, “under the proposed law which is ‘advocated by Governor Wilson, railroads or labor organizations would effect combina- tions with no danger of being called to account, except under the common “law of the state. So long as they lim- jted the effects of their combination to New Jersey they would be practi- cally exempt from lesal interference or prosecution. But if they should ex- tend their activities into interstate commerce, then they would become liable, not only to dissolution, but to Prosecution as well. “We should bring to an end the present unsatisfactory situation in which we find that our industrial sys- tem exists, half Jawful and half un- Jawful. I do not believe it should he overthrown and destroved, but I .o believe that the unlawful should be made to cease and conform itself to the laws that represent the moral judgment of ninety millions of people.” Other speakefs at the banquet were Count J. H. Von Bernstorff, the Ger- man ambaseador, and President W. W. ¥inley of the Southern Railroad com- pany. WILSON TO VISIT THE PANAMA CANAL. Declines to Spend Summer in House Where He Spent His Honeymoon. Trenton, N. J., Jam, 23.—President- elect Wilson intends to visit the Pan- ama canal immediately after the ex- tra session lof congress adjourns, He told a delegation from Asheville, N. €., who came today to offer him a sum- mer home there that he was not mak- ing plans for next summer because he hoped to spend a part of it in the canal zone and could not guess at how long congress would he in session, The North Caroline callers were headed by National Committseman Josephus Danieis, whe brought phote- graphs of the heuse whieh the eitizens of Asheville offer the governor aad his family. It was in this house that Mr, and Mrs. Wilsen spent their heney- moon days. The delegation aise visit. ed Princeton, shewing Mrs. Wilsen the plans and photographs, Incidentally, after the delegation left, Mr. Daniels talked polities with Mr. Wilson for some time. Mz, Daniels frequently has been mentioned for a cabinet portfolio, havi; been imti- mately identified with the Wilsen cam- paign from pre-conventiea dawvs. The governor said, however, that the con- ference concerned chiefly the situation in states now deadlocked over the TUnited States senator. JFILIBUSTER OF THREE AND ONE-HALF HOURS of the Minority Requires Reading Journal in Full. Washington, - Jan. 28Tt the houoe stetty thecs and o half Sous today to approve its journal of yes- turday. Conducted by’ ity leader lann, an expert im ters, the friends of the Lincoln oriai pro- Ject forced the clerk to read the jour- nal in full for the first time in many vears. Mr. Mann conducted the filibuster, he said, "to teach the other side that- the minority is not to be trifled with.” German Aviator Killed. Berlin, Jan. 23.—Another fatal fly- ing accident occurred today during the military manoeuvres near , Prus- sia. Lieut. Otto Schelegel w: in- stantly kiled by falling to earth\from & copsiderable height TELEGRAMS TEND 'I-'O COMPROMISE CASTRO Indicate That He Ordered Shooting of Parades. New York, Jan. 23.—Copies of tele- &rams in the possession of the state department at Washington are be- lieved by the special board of inquiry ‘which passed upon the: question of admitting Cipriano Castro to this coun- try to show conclusively that Castro ordered the killing of Paredes, a rev- lutionary war general in Venezuela in 1907, according to developments to- day at Ells Island, where Castro is being detained pending an appeal of the special board’s decision to exclude the former Venezuelan president. Immigration officlals with copies of these telegrams tried to read them to Castro in his room today, but he would not listen to. them, He banged the door shut, locked it and sent for Har- old A. Content, of his counsel. The lawyer later gave out a statement de- claring that the telegrams ara not au- thenticated but even if it wils true that Castro ordered his enemy ghot he was gulity only of a political® of- fense. One of the telegrams, dated Febru- ary 13, 1907, is addressed to “General Louis Varels at Cuided Bolivar” and Teads: “You should give immediate or- ders to hoot Paredes and his officers. Advise me of receipt and fulfiliment.” It was signed “Cipriano Castro.” Another tglegram was from Varela to Castro d reads: “Received; immediately.” The third telegram was received from the American legation in Car- acas dated January 19, this year. It set forth that on April 16, 1909, the criminal court of Caracas issued an order for Castro’s detention whenever he should land in Venezuela to stand trial for the murder of Paredes. This telegram also refers to certain testi- mony before the court and to an opin- ion expressed by one man that Paredes wasg deliberately shot after his cap- ture. FRANKLIN ADMITS A SHIPPING POOL Furnishes House Committee with Mass of Information. Washington, Jan. 23.—Armed with bulky packages contalning coples of rate agreements, shipping contracts and pooling arrangement data, A. S. Franklin, vice president of the In- ternational Mercantile Marine com- pany, today furnished the house ship- ping trust committee with practieaily ali the information it desired coneern- ing the north trans-Atlantic steamship trade. Mr. Franklin corroberated the testimony of other witnesses that the lines in &his trade operated under rate agreements and, in seme instances, pooling arrangements and put into the record a copy of the agreement ea- tered inte by most of the lines een- trolied by his eorporation, Declaring that it wouid be impes lfial:lgots 'fl‘lainfi?‘ efficient trams-At- r service without agreements, Mr. Frankijn saig the oaly way cemgress could impreve the situation weuld be to require copies of the agreements to be filed and held open te the pubiic, ay attempt te prescribe fixed rates, e insisted, would be ruinous en ac- eount of “tramp” competition with the regular lines and because such a prac- tice would give foreigners an advaa- tage over the American merchant aad producer. APPEAL OF ‘THE TAFT FACTION DISMISSED in the Contest Over the Kansas Electors. ‘Washington, Jan. 28—The final scene in the Kansas election case which em- braced a bifter contest over the plac- ing of Roosevelt electors on the re- publican ti last fall was enacted day when the supreme court, upon request of Representative Armsty of connsel for the Taft faction ,dismissed thefr appeal from the adverse declsion to his clients in the Kansas courts. inal Act Died During Performance. Brighton, Jan. 23.—Auguste Biens, the actor-musician who toyred for vears in America and England in The Broken Melody, died suddenly during a performance here tonizht. Annually 25,000 tons of aluminum are manufactured in North Carolina. Von Cabled Paragraphs Formidable Problem in Pai Paris, Jan. 23—The formidable prob- lem of finding accommodation for 120,- 000 people who are to be evicted from thelr dwellings owing to the sale of the antiquated fortifications of Paris te the olty authorities by the French Bov- ernment is now before the municip: gouncil of the French capital for sold- on. Disorders in Fu Kien. Amoy, China, Jan. 23.—The disor- derly elements in the province of Fu Kien have become so formidable that the authorities are unable to cope with them. In_ the neighborheod of Hinghwa traffic has become unsafe ex- cept for very strong parties, and these aredcompe“ed to keep to the principal roads. . Aviator Falls 240 Feet. Rheims, France, Jan. 23.—The well known French flying man, Charles Gaulard, was thrown to the ground from a height of 240 feet by the cap- sizing of his monoplane while making a flight today round the spires of the cathedral here. He was living when picked up, although in a critical con- dition. UNDERSTANDINGS REACHED AT FAMOUS GARY DINNERS Ex-President Corey Gives Damaging Evidence Against Steel Trust. New York, Jan. 238—William Ellis Gorey. former president of the United States Steel corporation, again a wit- ness today in the hearing of the gov- ernment suit to dissolve the corpora- tion under the Sherman anti-trust law, gave further testimony in support of the government charges that the cor- poration is a monopolistic combina- tion. He testified that “understand- ings” to maintain prices were reached at the famous “Gary dinners” given in New York by Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the corporation at which a large majority of the steel manu- facturers of the country were repre- sented. He gave testimony, the first given by any witness in the suit, it was said, as to the existence of an 'in- ternational armor plate pool in which the United States Steel corporation had participated. He confirmed in testimony the existence of a “plate and structural pool” and _declared - that Judge Gary had had knowledge of it. He declared that he himself -had siven orders for the closing down of Blast furnaces of the corporation for the purpose of maimtaining the price of pig iron. He said that steel rails sold lower to foreign consumers than to domestic and he furnished testimony intended to prove that the Tennessee Coal and Iron company was a compet- itor of the steel corporation in the rail market prior to its acquisition by the corporation. Mr. Corey, who resigned as presi- dent of the corporation in 1910, made it plainly evident in his testimony that he had in many respects clashed with Judge Gary and tHe members of the finance committee in matters of pol- icy. N GOVERNOR BALDWIN IN THE DEFENSE OF NEW HAVEN R. B. Declares Thers is Too Much Muckrak- ing Going on Just Now. - South Manchester, Conn., Jan. 23.— Speaking tonight before the twelfth annual banquet of the Manchester Business Men’s association, Governor Simeon E. Baldwin said there was too much “muckraking” going on just now in-regard to President Mellen of the New Haven road. He declared: “It looks to me as if influences khostile to the trade of New England were moy- ing in underground cuirents to para- lyze or dismember New England's railroad system, and as if many a New Bnglander has been ca-ried away by these currents without knowing whence they come and avithout realiz- ing what they mean.” ‘The governor’s address was well re- cetved by the 225 diners. Among the other speakers were Judge E. L. Smith of Hartford and Mayor Louis R. Che- ey of Hartford, the latter a native of this town. J. FINLEY SHEPARD ONE OF DIRECTORS Elected to Board of Railroad on the Gould_Sygjem. New York, Jan. 23.—Changes of im- portance were effected at a meeting today of the St Louis, Iron Moun- tain and Southern Railway company’s directors. A number of temporary di- rectors who were elected last spring, pending the execution of the com- pany’s $200,000,000 mortgage, were droppea and new directors represent- ing prominent banking interests were elected in their stead. The board as now oonstituted con- sists of George J. Gould, chairman; B. F. Bush, president; Finley J.»Shepard, assistant to the president; James Sprayer, Edgar J. Marston, . T. Jef- fery, E. C. Simmons and O, L, Gar- rison of £. Yeuls: J. G. Metcaife, Al- bert 1 Wiggin, Jay Gould, E. G. Moer. ritt and C, A. Pratt. Mr, Pratt is the only member of the board chosen last spring 1o be reslected, George J. Gould wes elected chairman of the execu- tive committee. The ‘St, Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern read is controlled by the Mis- souri Paeific, and with the latter read forms the baekbone of the Gould sys- ‘tem now in the way of enlargement. FOR BIBLE INSTRUCTION. Plan te Dismiss Scheels Half Day a Week for That Purpese, Dayton, 9. Jan._ 83.—Acting mupon recommendations eof the Internatiomal Sunday Sehool asseciation, the council of evangelical churches, now in session here, is conmsidering a plan for the es- ta‘ggfs!:meat of week day schaols for o insizuction, "One plan presen s for the public schofls 5 sm'i:g their scholars a half day each week so that they may be sent to their re- spective churches for religlons Instruc- ion, R’ Bouglas Fraser of To: ada, will be elected g;eqlflenti - W, R. pected, to succeed Dayton. Steamship Arrivals. 3 Marseilles, Jan. 20.—Arrived, Can- ada, New Yo . Gibraltar, Jan. 22.—Arrived, steamer Pannonia, New York for Naples. Angra, Jan. 23. ed, Germanta, New York for Marseilles. ) Havre, Jan. 23.—Arrived, La Prov- engen. Ne‘: York. 5 eenstown, an. 23 —Arrived, steamer Arabic, Boston for Liverpool. Kaples, Jan. 23.—Arrived, Adriatic, New York. Gan- t'ls ex- Funk of An Effort Was Made by G Fosg vesterday to obtain the services of Colonel Joseph F. Scott, superin- tendent ug the New York prison com- mission, in reorganizi the prison system of Mundmmum ¥ Killed During I]emunst'ratiun TURKISH COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF SHOT DEAD. i RETURNED THE FIRE Nazim Pasha’s Aide-de-Camp Had Fired on Young Turkish Leader—A Crisis in Turkish Affairs. Constantinople, Jan. 33 —Nazim Pasha, the former war minister and commander of the Turkish army, was shot dead during demonstrations here tonight. Killed by Return Fire. Enver Bey and Talaat Bey had given explicit orders that no blood should be shed. But Nazim Pasha’s aide de camp fired from a window of the porte at Enver Bey and his companion and they returned the fire. Their bullets killed Nazim Pasha himself. In spite of this tragedy, there was no disturbance of order elsewhere. Resignation of Cabinet. A crisis in Turkish affairs came to- day with dramatic suddenness. The ‘Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population. Big Traffic in Stolen Stamps DISCOVERED BY POSTOFFICE INSPECTORS. ARE SOLD BY BROKERS Latter Buy Them from Persons Who Steal Them from cmployers—Three Indictments in New York. ‘Washington, Jan. «23.—Illegal traf- ficking the country over in stolen postage stamps, aggregating _several millions of dollars annually, has just been disclosed by postoffice inspectors whose investizations were reported !o- day to Postmaster General Hitchegpc! They involved so-called stamp bfok- ers and confidential emploves of large business concerns throughout the United States. g Stolen Stamps Bought and Sold. Through confessions secured by the inspectors from gome of the brokers whose operations were investigated, it was learned that stamps of all classes and denominations stolen by burglars from p.stoffices and embezzled by em- January 25th--BURNS’ DAY [} MY HEART IS IN THE BIGHLANDS My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing of the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go. Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birthplace of valor, the country of worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands forever I love. Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow; Farewell to the straths and green valleys below; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods; Farewell to the torrents and land-pouring floods. My hearts’ in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart is in the Highlands a-chasing the deef; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart is in the Highlands wherever I go. —ROBERT BURNS. TaE grand vizier, Kiamil Pasha, and the Ottoman cabinet resigned, and Mah- moud Shefket Pasha, formerly minister of war and commander of the consti- tutional army, which enthroned Meh- med V, as sultan, was appointed grand vizter, Yesterday the grand council, repre- senting the intellect and wealth of the nation, pronounced in favor of peace almost- at any price. Today a vast crowd drawn from all classes of the proletariat declared for war rather than peage without Adrianople, And beeause the erowd was backed by gen. eral public opinien, the government surrendered amd relinquished office, malking way fer the same men whom the popular mevement brought to the top aftet the revelutiens of 1908 and 1909, - Official Statement, The resignation of the eabinet was announeed in the following - effieial statement; “The deeision of Kiamil Pasha’s statement, taken in respemse to the note handed to the Turkish gevern-< meat by the Burepean pewers to aban- don the fortress of Adriameple and part of the isiands in the Aegean sea, 3nd the conyoeation of am extraer- dinary assembly of the grand coungil of the Ottoman empire tq which the cablnet's decision was _submitted—a course conirary to the prescriptions of the constitutipnal charter and vio- lating the sacred Tights of the people —roused the indignation of the. Turk- ish pation with tire rgg:\;.‘ at the eople. made & dcmenstration before Fre sunlime porte and hrought about the resignation of the go¥ r Fhe council of ministers mef short- before noon tp give fnal shape Lo t%e note accepting the proposals o the powers. About three o'clock peo- e £rom 21l quarters began to gather & ot of the gate fo the Grand izierate. Fnver Bey, one of the lead. ers'of thé Yonng Turks, who was iden- tiagd with the campaign in Tflp)o:l{, and Nadje Bey, a promiment Unlonist, arrived about this time-and were dep- uted to inform the cabinet that it must ref from the Viz- jerate and announced that he held the resignation of Kiamil Pasha, which he was taking to the palace. This was e with tremendous cheering, Which was frantically renewed and an. hour and a half later when he Te- ed with an irade appointing Mah-, fnoud-Shefket Pasha, grand vizier. Indignant Over Surrender of Adrian- ople. While awaiting the return of Enver (Conti Enver Bey soon lssugd ued on Page Seve: l) ployes from great business houses and manufacturing est@blishments were purchased and resold by the brokers at prices far below their face value. Sold Below Face Value. The postal laws make a crime pun- ishable by imprisonpment to sell any stamp issued by the government for less than its face value. Investiga- tions disclosed the fact that, in addi- tion to selling the stamps for less than they could have been purchased from the government, the brokers knew that, the stamps were stolen when they purchased them. Inquiries showed that brokers in some instances entered into a conspiracy with employes of business houses io buy at low prices upon all the stamps the cleris could steal from their employers. Three Men Indicted. The first of a series of indlctments resulting from the investigations was handed down sealed in New York yes- | terday, The men indicted were Rich. ard Fredericks, irving N, (Izzy) Sevel and ~ John Franlk, trict Attorney Whitman heg infermed the postoffies gepartment that other indictments will follow, Frauds Diseovered in Many Citles, Stamp frauds against the gevern- ent and varieus business concerns aggregating hundreds ef thousands of dollars annuaily have beem umearthed in New York city alone, while illegal trafiicking in stamps in Boston, Phila- gelghia, Baltimore, Pitisburs, Chicago, adianapolis, St. lLouis, Alinneapolis, incinnati, New Orleams, Kansas City, exsve: Ban Francisco, Seattle, Port- re., and many Sther cities has reached lirge proportions, Twenty Brokers in New York. In New ¥ork approximately twenty so-called brokers make a business of purchasing postage stamps at a dis- count ranging from 50 cents to 90 cents g2 dollar And selling them tq mer~ ants as prices varying from 95 cents to 99 cents on a dollar. The stamps, it is sald, are obtalned Jargely from office boys and confidéntial employes who embezzle them from their em- ployers. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Siasconset, Mass., Jan. 23.—Steamer Cincinnati, Naptes for New York, 438 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock late Friday or 8.30 a. m. Sat- urday. Steamer Prinz Oskar, Hamburg for Philadelphia, 815 mites east of Del- aware breakwater at noon. People in a live town never boast of | their cemetery. Ct;ndensed Teiegrams The Plant of the Vineland, N. J., Grape Juice company was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,000. The Deadlock in the Vote for United States senator continued unbroken in the New Hampshire legislature yester- day. B o ures in the Earth caused by mine caves, have caused many residents of ‘Wilkes-Barre to remove their belong- ings to the street. The Discussion of the transportation problems of New England next Satur- day by the governors of the six states will be behind closed doors. It Will Cost the federal government $20,000 to investigate the condition of the Crow Indians in Montana as pro- posed in a resolution adopted by the senate. Rev. Jonathan K. Fuller, a well known Congregational clergyman, and former chaplain of the Vermont state prison, committed suicide yesterday by shooting. A Live Ten-Months Old Baby was washed ashore from the wreck of the steamship Veronese off Portugal. More than 44 people are believed to have been lost. Colorado Women are purchasing stock in the concerns that employ them in order to evade the law which forbids them to work more than eight hours a’ day. Telegraph Operators of the Cincin- nati Southern ra‘yway and the Ala- bama Great Southern railway have voted to strike, unless increase in wages are granted. At a Mass Meeting of the students of the University of Maine college of law yesterday, President Aley an- nounced the gift of $20,000 from D. D. Stewart of St. Albans. War to the Knife on the Anti-Saloon League of America was declared by the National Liquor Dealers’ associa- tion, which has completed its annual convention at Washington. Equal Suffragists were sucoessful in | having a joint resolution providing for the submission of the question to the | voters introduced in the lower hou | of the Towa legislature yesterda A New Style Bat its appearance at Palm F ! suit consists of a short topping | above the knees and instead of tizhts | as formerly, bloomers will be worn. | _Margaret A. Litter, three vears old, | died at South Manchester yesterday of | ptomaine poisoning. She was taken ill Wednesday just after supper at | which frankforts were the chief dish. Resources of the Maine state of arbitration and conciliation were put to th yesterday in an effort to settle the strike of engineers and firemen on the Bangor & Aroos- took railroad A Resolve. Providing for an amend- ment to the constitution which, if ac- cepted by the voters, would prevent postmasters from serving in the legis- lature, was presented in the Maine | | nouse’ yesterday i Strike found at one of the rday, when anagement | 0 walters ¢ York hotel Knickerboc the Hotel | discharged every one of the 2 and 'k boys in its employ | President Taft Yesterday presented | to Captain Josephus S. Cecil of the Eighteenth United States Infantry the | medal of honor voted to him by con- | gress for gaflantry in actlon in the Philippines in March, 1806 . Commodore Decatur Fortner, a South | | | Carolina state repre 1S in- in"v)duced a bill in th ature pro- { hibiting white teachers from teach- 1 ing in negro schools and negro teach- | ers from teaching in white schools. | Fifty Fishermen, more than half of the male population of Little Sturgeon, Wis., were swept out in’Lake Michi- | san "when a large ice floe on which ;lhey were fishing cracked and floated | away from shore. All were regcued. | prResolved, That the Attituds of the Uniteq States in desiring to exempt American coastwise trade from -Pana- ma canal tolls is justified,” is the ques- | tion on which Yale, Princeton and Har- | vard will hold their annual triangular | debate. Clarke H. Johnson, associate justice { of peace of the Rhode Island supreme court, was unanimously elected chief justice by the general assembly in grand committee yesterday. He suc- | ceds Eduard C. DuBois, who recently retired. & Three Carloads of Barley were seized by federal authorities at Chicago un- der a court order charging violation of the pure food laws. The grain is what | is known commercially as “feed bar- ley.” It is supposed to be placed on the market solely for stock food. Frank Delano, Aged 10, was drowned | and Bessie Vannah and Annite Delano, | aged 15 and 12, respectively, nearly lost their own lives in a br and | nearly sucecessful attempt to save him after he had skated Into e hole in the ice on Medonai river at Waldboro, Me. | Candidates Whe Are Becoming act- | ive in the Chicage aldermanic cam-~ | paisn were warned by Health Comm sioner Geerge B, Young against head- shaking and kissing of bables on ac- | count of the prevalence in the city of | gearlet fever, diphtheria and small- | POX. | | Government Clerks culture exercises cen driving a pen or peoundir ing machine have meore erful grips than the brawny werkers in stone quarries, according to-a series of tests made by Gordon Law, physical diree- tor of the Washington' ¥. 3. C. A. 1ese physical t mainly in | typewrit- Pr. Stewart Paton, specialist on mental hygiene at Princeton university, warned against picking up the baby whenit pries, in an address before the Menta] Hygiene Conference at Chicago. He said this was the first step toward making this same child, grown to man- hood, a mental defective, possibly an imbecile. New Haven Investigation. New York, Jan. Among the wit- nesses who responded to subpoenas to the grand jury investigation of the N. Y, N. H. & H. R. R. today were H. K. Dugan, President Mellen’s sec- retary, J. S. Murdock, vice president of the New England Southern railway, W. C. Bliss of the public service com- mission of Rhode Island, A. E. Clark, secretary of the New Haven railroad, Nicholas Kinsella, President Chamber- lin's secretary, and E. C. Rich, general solieltor-of the Boston and Maine rail- road | point, which, in the words of the ex- | only become a just ground for Reply Sent to Great Britain SECRETARY KNOX ANSWERS BRITISH PROTEST. NO DISCRIMINATION Claims Sir Edward Grey Admits Right of United States to Grant Subsidies —A Special Commission Suggested. Washington, ~ Jan. _23.—Secretary Knox’s reply’ to the British protest against the exemption of American coastwise shipping from Panama canal tolls assures the British government that domestic. coastwise trade will not be permitted to extend operations into foreign competitive fields and that in- creased tolls will not be laid on foreign to shipping o balance the remission American ships. If Great PEritain not satisfied on these points, America proposes a special commission of ad- Jjustment. ' Protest Was Prematurs, Secretary Knox begins his note, which was delivered to the British forelgn office through Mr. Laughlin, the American eharge at London, by the flat statement that he cannot asree with the British interpretation of the canal treaties, so far as they limlt t freedom of action of America or in- fringe British treaty rights. Pointing out that the Grey note was issued without consideration of the presi- dent’s toll proclamation, the secretary states that Sir Edward deals chiefly with the possibilities of what the pres- ident. might do under the canal ac whereas the proclamation has entirel changed the situation. The First Objection. Taking up the three objections made by the British government, Secretary XKnox fist discusses that which ap- plies to the exemption from tolls o the government vessels of ¥an; This he declares to be a great complete surprise to the United States, which always had aaserted without challenge that the status of the coun- tries immediately concerned by reason of their poiitical relation to the terri- tory in which the canal was to be con- structed was different from that of all other countries. He does not belleve therefore, that the British government intended to propose arbitration of this question. The Second Objection. In regard to a second British objec- tion, that the Panama canal act might be fhoueht to conter the presi- and .dent the power to disor! in the use of the canal in favor of all ablfm belonging to the United States and its citizens, even in the forslzn trads, by granting them reduced tolls, the mnote quotes from the memorandum attached to the camal act by the president, when it was signed, .as follows: “It is therefore unnecessary to dis- cuas the policy of such discrimination until the question may arise in the exercise of the president's discretion.” Question Has Net Yet Arisen. As no question has yet arisen on thi; isting_arbitration treaty, "it may mnot have been possible to aettte by diplo- macy,” the note holds that the sug- gestion of arbitration is premeture. Be- fore passing from that stage of the question, Secretary Knox emphaticaily discleims entertaining any doubt as to the right to exempt American warships and other government vessels from tolls, as they Mire a pert of the govern- ment’s protective system, and ft is not understood that Great Britain chal- lenges the right of the United States to protect the canal or to require an explanation of what relatfon the move- ment of a particular vessel through the canal has to its protection. Not a Discrimination. Thus clearing away ail non-relevant objections, the note proceeds to dis- cuss the British assertion that the ex- emption of United States coastwise vessels from tolls is a discrimination against British vessels. Mr. Knox re calls Sir Edward Grey’s admission of the risht of the, Unfted States to grant subsidies to its shipping gemerally or to any particular branches, and al- though,this is “a form of subsidy” to exempt. the coastwise shipping from tolls, he regards it as objectionable, as throwing an unfair share of the burden of up-keep in the canal on for- eign shipping. Poseession of Power Not Cause of Action. Summarizing the British objections and commenting upon them, Secretary Knox does not deny that congress has the power through the president to violate the terms of the Hay-Paunce- fote treaty In its aspect as a rule o municipal law. That, he says, wou com- plaint in the event that thHe power w used agamst British shipping. ‘Tt the improper exercise of this powe and not its possession” h alone can give rise to an international cause of action, remarks the secreta: Only_when complaint made Great Eritain that British vessels ac- | tualty have been subjected to unequal treatment or unequitable tolls, Secre- tary Knox asserts, can the question ba raised whether the United States Is bound by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty to collect tolls from American vessels and whether Britigh vessels are enti- tled to equal treatment. OBITUARY. Goorge &. Reynolds of Brooklyn. New York, Jan, 23 —George G. Rey- nelds, dean of the Brooklyn bar and former supreme court justice, dlsd at his_heme In\Brooklyn today, from in- juries sustnte"d from a fall down- Stairs last nisht, Mr, Reynolds was nearly 03 veays old and was the oldest living graddate of Weslayan unfversity, being a member of the alass of 1841, William QGaston Hamliton. New Yerk, jan, 28 —Willlam Gaston Hamilten, pniy surviving grandson of Alexander Hamilten, died at his rosi- dence in Gramerey Pari today, in his 83d pear, Phree ghildren survive him, among them William Piersen Hamil- ton, whe married Juliet Pi Mor. us of J, Pierpent Morgun and Helen M. Hhinel , wife of th Rev. Philip Merger Rhimelander, Epis copal bishap Teania, Edward M, Mawsh of Bridgeport Bridgeport, Ounn., Fan. - M. Marsh, 31 gflnfitl ent Bridgeport, resident g’e am&mfi “‘He’ Wouni was > was praminent- i the Bouth Comgre~ ~ Ty