Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 10, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 138 POWERS OF STATES TO FIX RATES Supreme Court Decides That 'Théy May E§téblish Them on Railroads Within Their Borders UNTIL SUCH TIME AS CONGRESS INTERVENES Important Decision Handed Down in Minnesota Cases After Fourteen Months Consideration—Minnesota Laws De- clared to be Confiscatory, However, in Case of Minneap- olis and St. Louis Road—Similar Cases from Other States Washington, June 9—The power . of the states to fix reasonable intrastate rates on interstate railroads, unil such time as congress shall choose to regulate these rates was upheld today by the supreme court of the United States in the Minnesota freight and ssenger rate cases. At the same time the court laid down far-reach- ing principles governing the valua- tion of railroad property for rate- making purposes and, according to these, held that the state of Minne- sota would confiscate the property of he Minneapolis and 8. Louis Railroad company by its freight and two cent passenger fare laws. Case Under Consideration 14 Months. It enjoined the state from enforcing these laws, as to this road for the resent. In the cases of the Northern *acific and Great Northern, however, the court held that these roads had failed to show that the rates were “un- reasonable” or confiscaory and con- gequently reversed the action of the United States district court for Min- nesota which had enjoined their en- forcement as both confiscatory and a burden of interstate commerce. The decision, regarded as one of the most important ever announced t the court, had been under considera- tion for fourteen months. Railroad commissions from eight states and the governors of ull the states filed brief: in support of the state in the recognizing that the principles volved affected them all Cases From Other States. Rate cases from Missouri, Arkansas, Oregon. Kentucky and West Virginia were not decided today but the points announced in the Minnesota cases ar regarded as governing them general- I These cases probably will be di posed of tomorrow when the court will hold another session as it will also do on Monday, June 16, the final day of adjournment for the term. The criticism of the apportionment of valpe between interstate and intra- state ‘husine: on a gross revenue basis and the apportionment of ex- penses by regarding intrastate freight business as two and a half times as expensive as interstate business was regarded here as favorable to the state of Missouri in its filght to uphold the validity of the maximum freight-and two cent passenger law enacted by it Each Case to Rest On lts Own Bottom. Similar confidence was inspired in advocates of the Arkansas state rate regulations but all recognize that the statement of the court that each case of alleged confiscation must rest on its own bottom might mean the setting de of the Missouri and Ar- sansas laws. The states of Oregon and Kentucky wt regarded as al- most certain to win their rate cases involving the validity of state freight rates because in each instance practi- cally the only objection to the laws was their reputed interference with in- terstate commerce. For a llke rea- son many believed that the West Vir- ginia two-cent passenger law would be upheld The decision was announced by Jus- tice Hughes and consisted of some 35,- 000 words. The court was unanimou with the possible exception of Justic McKenna, who merely “concurred in the results.” Considered in Two Parts. Justice Hughes considered the at tack upon the state rates in two parts, the one that placed an unlawful bur den on interstate commerce and the other that they were o low as to con- fiscate the property of the railroads. In closing the interstate commerce phase, he took it for granted that the state had the power to regulate rates between points within the state = of Minnesota on raflroads not crossing &tate llnes and so far from the bound- aries as not to compete with the citie of other states or otherwise affect terstate commerce. He next reached the conclusion that intrastate rates, whether on purely in- trastate railroads or interstate rail- road had not been regarded by the courts as being a direct regulation of imtersiate commerce, An Intricate Question. The most intricate argument in this phase of the controversy was made by the Justice in considering whether state rates on interstate carriers coul have such an indirect bearing on i terstate commerce as to execlude ktateg from imposing them, He r the cach - ed the conclusfon that this was a well known field in which the states could exercise fhelr authority until congr had seen fit to regulate the field ex clusively. Finally he arrived at the conclusion that congress in :all its rate-making legislation had expressiy provided that the regulations sheuld not extend to transportation wholly within a state. Justice Hughes reviewed decisions of the court from its very founda- tion. “Our system of government is a practical adjustment,” said he, “by which the national authority as con- ferred by the constitution is maintain- ed in its full scope without un- necessary loss of local efficiency. Where the subject is peculiarly one of local concern and from its nature be- longs to the class with which the state appropriately deals in making reasonable provision for local needs, it canrot be regarded as left to the unrestrained will of individuals cause congress has not acted, although it may have such a relation to inter- state commerce as to be within the reach of the federal powers. Congress May Intervene at Any Time. In such case, congress must be the Judge of the necessity of federal ac- tion. Its paramount authority always enables it to Intervene at its discre- tion. for the complete and effective government of that which has been committed to its care and for this purpose and to this extent In response to a conviction of natlonal need, to displace loeal laws by subsiituting laws of its own. GLEE IN MINNESOTA. State Will Collect Approximately $3,- 000,060 from Railroads. St. Payl, Minn., June 8.—Siate offi- cials and othe connected with the long drawn out Minnesota rate cusa tonight were elatead over the decision of the United Stdtes supreme court be- | n several nesota will pay into the mately $3,000,000 charges. The state legislature, taking cogniz- ance of the injunction proceedings brought to restrain Minnesota from putting into merchandist and commodity freight rates promulgated by the railroad and warehouse com- i v the two law- ! pass law requiring all roads to “‘keep books” covering all freight charges made and to file the same meonthly with the state. This was done to allow persons overcharged to collect the differenca should the state win. The reports de | manded began with June 1, 1909, and | since then the railroad and war:house commission has been receiving and | filing them. They cover every ship- | ment in the state since the date | named. | In order that shippers might not bs | hampered by annoying litigation, the 1909 legislature in arransing for re ports covering frieght pments di- rected that when the case was settled and if in favor of the state that the meney in controversy should be turn- ed over to the state and returned to persons overcharged. In order to 3e- cure reimbursement applications for overcharges must be made within a vear of the court’s findings. $ While this law covers only freight | charges, it claimed that the state | is in a position to exact the difference between two and three cents for pas- | sengers i¥ persons having paid such rates can produce receipts. When in- formed of the supreme court’s de- cision, Governor Eberthard said: “It is the best bit of news I _ha’e heard in a long time. It established what we have always contended: the right of the state to regulate within its confines.” % James J. Hill refused to discuss the decision of the supreme court tonight. Attorney General’s View of It. Washington, June 9.—Summarizing | the decision of the supreme court of | the United States in the Minnesota state rate case Attorney General Me- Reynolds tonight said: > “The eourt holds that congress, in the Interstaie commerce act, has not deprived the states of the right of fix- ing maximum intrastate rates. They still have that power. In contesting a rate fixed by the state on the ground that the rate is conflscatory, the de- cision says that the burden of proof of !('nnfiscalinn falls upon the railroad. The court found that the Minuvapohs | and St. Lo railroad had established that the rates affecting them were con- fiscatory, but that the Northern Pa- cific and Great Northern had failed in such proof.” REVENUE INCREASED BY UNDERWOOD BILL. Income Tax, is Claimed More Than Offset Loss of Tariff Revenue. ‘Washington, June 9—A table pre- {pared by the senate finance committee | showing comparative figures based on jthe Underwood Tariff bill and the present tariff law shows the average ad valorem rate in the proposed law to be 32.99 percent. as against 43.64 percent. under the Payne-Aldrich bill. The estimated loss of revenue through the augmented free list in the Underwood bill would be $24,718,- an import valuation of $102,- ,466. Revenue under the proposed bill, exclusive of the incofe tax, is es- {timated at $266,701,130 as compared with $304,216,694 under the present rates. With the income tax revenue | estimated at approzimately $80,000,- 000, the total revenue under the pro- |posed bili would, aggregate about 347,000,000. In the sundries schedule wherein i = !the democrats have added many arti- {cles not heretofore taxed or have in- creased rates on luxuries, the ad va- |lorem equivalent shows an increase lover the Payne-Aldrich rates from > |24 percent to 33.2 and the esti- |mated revenue from this schedule is raised from $27.000,000 to $60,000,000. | Wool revenues .it is estimated, will | decrease from $27,000.000 to $18,000,- 000. The sugar revenue would decrease |from $60,000,000 at the rate of $20.- 000,000 a year until sugar goes on the free list in three years. Majority members of the senate fi- {nance committee will meet tomorrow |to hear from the sub-committees, which have heen at work on the va- rious schedules of the hill and to | prepare the measure for the democra- {tle caucus next week. |THE SHERMAN LAW IS | HELD CONSTITUTIONAL. Supreme Court Passes on the Criminal Phase of Statute. | Washington, June 9—The constitu- tionality of the Sherman !law as a criminal stati§e was upheld |today by the United Statcs supreme lcourt. The court set aside the sen- |tences in the criminal suit against | the “turpentine trust’ on the ground ithat the trial judge had delivered an |erroneous instruction to the jury but rejected the contention of the de- {fendants that the “rule of reason” an- nounced irn the Standard Oil decision {made the forbidden acts so indefinite as to make the Sherman law as a crim- inal statute unconstitutional . ““The decision sustains the Sherman law” said Attorney General McRey- nolds tonight. A civil suit for the dissolution of the trust is still pending in th‘ lower courts. June Exercises at West Point. West Point, N. Y. June 0—The une Week"” ecxercises at the United States Military academy began today. The morning was taken up with an exhlbition of riding by the members of the graduating class., This even- Ing the entire battallon paraded, and the exercises of the first day ended tonight with a hop In Cullum Mem- orial hall, Mayor Bennstt of Asbury Park, N refused (o clone the heach on Su in answer Lo a protest by four pastors anti-trust | i i i i i | | tance not given. PRICE TWO CENTS Gahied_faragr'aphi ; Count Zeppelin Reaches Vienna. Vienna, Austria, June 9—Count Zep- pelin_arrived here today on board the dirigible airship Sachsen after a long trip from Baden-Baden, Germany. Rembrandt Sells For $200,000 Paris, June 9—Rembrandt's picture “Bathsheba” was bought today for $200,000 by Duveen at the sale of the collection of Baron Steengracht of The Hague. Hon. George Wyndham Dead. London, June 9—The Right Hon- orable George Wyndham, who was chief secretary for Ireland, from 1900 to .1905 in Arthur J. Balfour's con- servative cabinet, died today in Paris. Complain of U. S. Officials. Honolulu, June 9—Resolutions adopt- ed at a Japanese mass meceting held here tonight, ask the removal - of United States Immigration officials stationed here, accusing them of un- fairness and unnecessary harshness in lings with Japanese returning from visits to Japan. Suffragette Arson Squad Busy. | London, June 9—The “arson squad” ! of the militant suffragettes have once more become very active. Beside the | fire at the Hurst Park race course started last ' night, where the damage is estimdted at $70,000, they destroyed this morning a boat house on the river Lea at Walthamstow, northeast of London ,and also the grandstand. OPENING GAME TODAY FOR INTERNATIONAL CUP. American and English Polo Teams Clash at Meadowbrook. New York June 9.—The most im- portant event of the year in interna- lional sport will be stuzed at Meadow- brook, L. I, temorrow afternoon, when the American and Enelish polo teams gallop out on the fleld for the initial game of the sixth match for the in- ternational polo challenge cup. *Play for this prize ranks sccond only to the races for the America's yvachting tro- phy, in competitions which have to date brought together representative amateur sportsmen of the United Statés and Great Britain. The polo authorities of the challeng- ing country have spent yast sums of money and devoted two years to pre- paring for the play &bout to begin. Fully aware of the preparations being made abroad, the American associa- tion has kept pace, with the result that an outlay amounting to close to $1,- 000,000 has been necessary before the opening contest. T England, the Duke of Westminster, prime mover in the efforts to recover the cup, is said personally te have contributed about $200,000 and secured $300,000 from fel- low polo enthusiasis throughout the British Empire. DISSOLUTION OF THE KODAK TRUST SOUGHT Charged by the Government with Be- ing a Monopoly. Buffajo, N. Y. June 9 Dissolution of the so-called Eastman Kodak trust was asked In a- civil anti-trust suit filed here today by order of Attorney General McReynolds. The government seeks the dissolution by receivership, if necessary of the.Eastman Kodak company of New Jersey and the East- man Kodak company of New York, which are charged with monopolizing the trade in photographic supplies in violation of the Sherman law. It is the aim of the government to obtain a division of the assets and business of the two companies con- trolling seventy-two per cent. of the business in the ited States, into such parts as will effectually destroy the alleged monopoly and restore full and free competitio The petition in equity asks for an injunction forbid- ding the fixing of re-sale prices of cameras, films and other patented photographic supplies. This marks the attorney general's first application of the recent decision of the United States supreme court denying patentees the right to fixe re-sale prices of retailers. Following are named as defendants: Eastman Kodak company of New Jersey, Eastman Kodak company of New York, George Eastman, Henry A. Strong, Walter S. Hubbell and Frank S. Noble, all of Rochester, N. Y. RATHSKELLER AS AN AID TO VICE Social Evil Considered at Convention of Police Chiefs. Washington, June 9.—Discussion of the social evil and its suppression fea- tured the first dayv’s session of the In- ternational Association of Police Chiefs which began its annual conventlon here today. In his welcoming address President Richard Syivester urged the members to do all in thefr power to aid the federal authorities in enforcing the “white slave” laws. The rathskeller, as it {8 conducted in many cities, was characterized by Maj. C. J. Kizer of Norfolk, Va., as the first step into the segregated ‘districts of vice, He declared such places should be subject to stringent state and mu- nicipal laws and offered a resolution to name a committee to frame a model statute regulating them. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Siasconsett, Mass, June 9.—Steamer | Pennsylvania, Hamburg for New York, signalled 340 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock 2.30 p. m. Tues- day. Steamer San{’ Anna, Marseilles for New York, signalled 385 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock 5 p, m. Tuesda: Steamer Oscar II, Copenhagen for ; New York, signalled, time and dis- Dock 1.30 p. m. Tues- | day. Cape Race, June 9.—Steamer Cym- rie, Liverpool for Roston: signalled | 220 mifles northeast at 11 a. m: ; Newport, R. I, June 9—Steamer Minnetonka, London for New York, signalled 192 miies cast of Sandy Hook at 1.30 p. m. Dock at 8 a. m. Thursday. New York, June 9—Steamer Berlin, | Genoa for New York, signalled 650 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. | Dock 8 a. m. Wednesday. Steamship Arrivals. ’ Naples, June 5.—Arrived, steamers Louisiana, New York; Taormina. New ! York. ! Southampton, June 9.—Arrived, | steamer Main, Baltimore for Bremen. Rotterdam, June 6.—Arrived, steam- er Campanello, New York. Glasgow, June B.—Arrived, stecamer Cameronia, New Yor] Parisian, Bos- ton, Naples, June B8-—Arrived, steamer Ivernia, New Yerk, 4 Liverpsol, June 5 —Arrived, steamer Tunistan, Montreal, Antwerp, June 8. -Arvived, Lapland, New Yerk. Plymeuth, June §. Kronprinz Wilhelm, Bremen. steamer Arrived, steamer New York for | Rev. James I. T. Ceelidae, oldest liv- ing graduate of Harvard, is dying of Pneumonia at Cambridge. l BULGARIANS HOLD KEY { May Dennls, alias Lillian Linton, who | Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Allies Prepare for War Again —_— SITUATION IN THE BALKANS GROWS WORSE. All Depends on Their Answer to Servian | Note—Bulgaria Believed to Be Lack- ing in the Sinews of War. London, June 10—With both sidel[ stubbornly refusing to make the slightest concession war between the Balkan states is hourly becoming more imminent. If Bulgaria sends a nega- tive reply to the Servian note—and ! nothing irdicates that she will answer | otherwise—Servia and Greece will| prociaim the annexation of the occu- | pied Macedonian territories, thereby | establishing a definite casus belli. One Fopeful Feature. The only hopeful feature of the sit- ion consists in the belief that Bul- garia is lacking the sinews of war S ia and Greece are not only better situated in this respect but also occu- py superior strategical positions, These facts probably account for the calmness with which Servia aparent- 1y regards the prospects of war. PREPARING FOR WAR. Hespitals Are Being Reopened in An- ticipation of Hostilities. Belgrade, June 9—General Radomir Putnik, chief of the general staff of the Servian army, arrived hree today by special train to attend the war council which will be held under the presidency of the king. The Bulgarian reply to the Servian note respecting a revision of the treaty of alliance, which it is believed will be in the negative, is expected at an early date. Preparations for war continue and the hospitals are being reopened. WARNS SCHOOLBOYS AGAINST HYPOCRISY. Colonel Roosevelt Addresses Students at a Pottstown School. Pottstown, Pa., June 9.—Former President Theodore Rosevelt address- ed the students of the Hill school hers today, taking for his theme “Training in Good citizenship.” The address was given by the direction of the Civ club and is one of a series dedicated to the late Dr. John Meigs. The crowd that greeted Coolnel Roosevelt upon his arrival was so dense that special officers were de-~ tailed to escort him from the railroai station to the school. In his address Mr. Roosevelt em . phasized the need of developing effi- ciency. “Adding to the name of the scheol as you go out into life will be Your best test of efficienc: declared the colonel. “The first essential is efficiency, then decency and straight- forwardness. If there is one attitude abhor it is the attitude of hypocrisv. There is a stoop in the intellectual and moral shoulders of hundreds of men of admirable purpose; such men are those who have excellent purposes and no power to achiev DR. FRIEDMANN TO TURN OVER VACCINE. Applies for Permission to Use Hip Treatment in New York. New York, June 9.—Dr. Friedrich Franz Friedmann has turned over to the health authorities here a specimen of his turtle vaccine which he claims as a cure for tuberculosis and with 1t made a request for permission to ad- minister his treatmenf to patients in this city. This 4nnouncement was made today by Health Commissioner Lederle. At the present time Dr. Friedmann is barred from making use of the vac- cine here because of a resolution pass- ed by the board of health ten days ago against the use of living bacterial or- ganisms in the inoculation of human beings for the treatment of disease un- til a specimen of the culture and d=- tails as to the methods of its use had been submitted. This resolution did not allude specifically to the Fried- mann vaccine. The board will pass on the efficacy of the Berlin physiclan’s vaccine be- fore upon his application for permis- slon to practice with it. SUFFRAGETTE CONFESSES SETTING HOUSE AFIRE Servant Girl Was on Trial for Crime at Doncaster. Doncaster, England, June 9.—While the examination of a servant girl charged with an attempt to set fire to Westfleld house, was proceeding today, was wanted by the police in- connec- | tion with the Xew Garden suffragette outrages last February, caused a sen- sation by entering the court and ac- knowledging that it was she who had tried to burn the house. The servant girl was diecharged and Miss Dennis was arrested. Harry Johngon. a young newspaper man im- plleated in the same case, was commit- ted for trial. Goethals' Canal Prediction. New York, June 9.—“By January 1, 1815, anything that floats can pass | through the Panama canal between the | declared Colonel George W. Goethals, chief en- gineer of the canal zone, who arrived here topight on the steamer Pastores from Colon. | New Minister to Cuba. Havana, June 9.—It was officially an- nounced tonight that Arthur M. Beau- pre haz been relleved as American minister to Cuba. It was announced at | the White House on May 6 that Wil- | liam E. Gonzales of Columbia, S. C. would be named as minister to Cuba to succeed Mr. Beaupre. Lawyer Gibson Has Blood Poison, Newburgh, N. Y., June 9.—Burton W. Gibson, concerning whose guilt or in- nocence of murder two juries were un- able to reach a verdict, is suffering wifh blooq polsoning in jall at Goshen. The infectlon staried at the ankle and his left leg is conslderably swollen. All Ready for Polo Match. Westbury N, Y., June 9.—REverything Is in readiness for the firsi game to merrow afternoon on the Meadowbrook fleld of the pelo match between reamy representing the United BStates and Emglang for possession of th& inter- natienal pelo cup, which is aew held in this couners President Wilsen Yesterday Gave the final sitiing for the pertrait whieh M, lwuis Theadare Dube of Paris has been warking upen fer seme time. The por- trait is life sized and is to be exhibitsd next spring in the Paris salen Oondensed Teieorams (|nfanf’s Jeath of Edward Stockwell onn., wae destroyed by The loss is estimated The Dwolling in Bloomfield, (- fire yesterday. at $5,000. Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary was Yesterday made a grand officer of the Legion of Honor Ly President Poin- care of France. Juan Manuel Diaz, an Alleged Huer- ta spy, wag courtmartialed at' Colom- bia, Mexic® yesterday and immediate- iy shot to death. 1 An Even 100 Persons committed sui- cide in Maine the past year as shown by the annua! report of the state reg- istrar of vital statistics. AELS i Charles Durant Hearst Elbert Hub- bard Sague Maines, now an infant of Poughkeepsie, awill get $20.000 if he lives until he is 21 years old. Capt. John S, Brewer, at one time champion wing shot of the world, was found dead vesterday In his lodging place in Hammonton, N. J. Hartley J. Howard Has Been d charged from the state police force by Supt. Thomas F. Egan “for the bene and efficiency of the service,” Great Damage Was Done by a heavy st at Binghamton, N. Y. Sunday night. Corn, beans, potatoes and to- matoes were cut to the ground. Annie MacAntee, Six Years Old, of Due to Spite NEEDLES AND POISON FOUND IN ITS STOMACH. THEORY OF DETECTIVES Believed That Poison Was Admin tered by Person With a Grudge— Victim Was Ill With the Measles. New York, June 9.—Mystery devel- oped tonight in the sudden death to- day of Anna Sorensen, nine months old, who had been ill with measles at Woodhaven, Long Island. An autopsy revealed the presence of poison in the infant’s stomach, and two needles were found, one in the liver and the other in the abdomen. 3 Probably Done for-Spit Detectives advance the theory that some one with a grudge against the family entered the sick sroom during a quarter hour that the infant was left unattended and administered . the polson, Needles in Body a Week. Philadelphia, died from inflammation of the stomach, caused by eating rub- EN‘ from the center of a league base- all. Fruit and Vegetable Growers throughout the Grand Rapids section of Michigan report considerable dam- age as the result of Sunday night's frost. Miss Elldh Lamotte, Chief of the Baltimore tuberculosis nurses, has ob- tained leave of absence to leave for London to join the militant suffra- gettes. Over a Thousand Buffalo Teamsters, members of the newly organized team- sters’ union, went on strike yesterday for an increase of wages averaging $3 a week. Mrs. Hannah Miller, 50 Years Old, wife of George Miller, of Lancaster, a Buffalo suburb, was shot and killed by an unknown man in her home yester- day. The man escaped. Difficulty in Securing Enlistments for the army is becoming so grave that an appeal may be made to congress by the secreta of war to amena the existing enlistment laws. The Comptroller of the Currency yesterday issued a call for a statement of the condition of all national banks of the United States at the close of business on Wednesday, June 4. A Snow Squall Lasting Five Minutes and covering the ground with a thick, white mantle, was experienced at ‘Westbrook, a suburb of Poruand, Me., shortly before moon yesterday. Producers in the United States were recetving for their staple crops 28 per cent. less on June 1 than at the same time last year, 5.1 per cent. less than in 1911 and 9.2 less than in 1910. The Coldest Weather Ever Recorded during June in the Middle Atlantic and New England states, the Ohio val- ley and the Great Lakes region was re- ported yesterday to the weather bu- reau. Snow Fell for a Short Time on the streets of Montreal yesterday, while the temperature ranged from 35 de- grees in positions exposed to the cold wind prevailing, to 556 in the sheltered spots. The Boston Express on the New Ha- ven road, westbound, met with a slight accident near the Washington street viaduct at South Norwalk yesterday afternoon at 4.40 o'clock and traffic on the main iine was held up for tweo hours. Women’s Feet Are All Wrong, and they’ve got to be corrected, in the opin- ion of the Young Woman's Christian association of LaCrosse, Wis.,, and Miss Amanda Clement, physical director of that institution, has started out to do the job. Nathaniel Green, a Negro who crim- inally assaulted a white woman at Washington on Christmas night, went to his death on the 1ffold yesterday, the first man to payv the death penalty for such a crime in the Dfstrict of Columbia. The Cleveland Police and a Posse of several score of men are searching for a man who early yesterday attacked Helen Leperoski, 3, daughter of Josenh Leperoski, and used the child’'s body as a shleld when Leperoski attempted to shoot him, Edward Friedman, Designer of fancy gowns and publisher of a New York fashion magazine, was sent to jeil for five days by the federal district court for defrauding the government of du- ties through the undervaluation of a trunk of imported gowns. Three Santa Cruz, Cal, High Schol students, who, clad only in bathing suits, gailed ot into Monterey bay on Saturday in a canvas noe which they had built in the school’s manual traiu- ing department, have not returned and it is belleved they are drowned. The Decision of the New York su- preme court Justice Chester declaring illegal the appointment by Governor Sulzer of John Mitchell ag state labor commissioner was affirmed by the ap- pellate division vesterday “as a matter of law and not as a matter of discre- tion.” The Establishment of a Nationa! sanitarium for sick members is one of the chief matters to be decided by the annual convention of the hotel and restaurant employes’ international alll ance and the barkeepers’ international league of America, which opened at Denver yesterday. Condemnation of Union Label Paper as of inferior to those of non-union paper and a declaration that graduates of linotype schools were incompetent were features of the reports presented at the fourth annual convention of the New England Typographical union, which opened at Waterbury yesterday. An Unidentified Organizer of the Tn- dustrinl Workers of the World was stoned to death at Wil@n Creek, Wash., on Saturday during a pltched battle between several members of tha Industrtal Workers of the World and [tallan laborers employed by the Creat Nbrthern railroad, whom they hail trled to persunade to quit work. 8ons of Zion Convention, Hartford, Conn,, Jime 8.—At the con-~ ventlon of the Order of Sons of Zien hLiere today these afficers were elected: President, Joseph Barrendeff, New York: vice presidents, Jaceb Steahl of B Kklyn, Joshua Strayregren of New Yeork; seeretarv, J. Ish-Kishor, New York; counseller, Max Perimann, It is the opigion of the coroner that the needles had been in the body of the Infant at least a week. TO EXTEND WELCOME TO A BRAZILIAN MINISTER Secretary Bryan and Three Naval Yachts Prepare to Meet Him. ‘Washington, June 9.—Three naval *hts steamed down the Potomac for Hampton Roads today bearing Secre- tary Bryan and a distinguished party to welcome to American shores Dr. Lauro Muller, Brazilian minister of foreign affairs, who will enter the Vir- ginia. capes tomorrow aboard one of his country’s battleships. Dr. comes to,repay a visit made to Brazil in 1906 by Senator Root, then secretary of war. President Wilson sent Secretary Tumulty as his personal representa- tive with the party, which includes Senator Root, Brazilian Ambassador Da Gama and members of the staff here, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, Brigadier Geperal Erasmus M. Weaver, chief of the coast artil- lery; Dudley Field Malone, third as- sistant secretary of state; John Bar- rett of the Pan-American Union; Jose C. Rodrigues, editor Journal Do Com- mercio, Rio de Janeiro, and Lieuten- ant Commander R. C. Bulmer, U. S. N, and Captain Le Vert Voleman, U. 8. A. who will act as aides to Dr. Muller ;iu.ring his three weeks in this coun- ry. The government vachts will reach Hampton Roads early tomorrow. The Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes, on which Dr. Muller is steaming towards the Chesapeake, will be met on the high seas by a receiving division of the Atlantic fleet and escorted into Ar;w‘rim;n waters amid the booming of salutes. FORT GEORGE IS IN ASHES. -Flames Wipe Out Every Resort in Par. adise Park, New York. New York, June 9-—Fort George park, one of the largest amusement places inside the ecity limits, and against the existence of which there have been many protests, located be- tween Fort George and Audubon ave- nues, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The park with its dozens of merry-go-rounds and other enticing and money making devices was swept from end to end with flames, whicl for- some time, threatened to spre: to a number of apartment houses on the Heights, and to the Isabella Hel- math, a home for aged people, which stands between 119th and 129th streets and Audubon and Amsterdam avenues, Again and again the fences around the place caught fire from the showers of sparks blown by the brisk northwest wind. Paradise park, as the place was alse known, owned by Schenck Brothers, also proprietors of Palisade park, across the Hudson river, was complets- ly wiped out. The damage was esti~ mated at $100,000. Four alarms were turned im. CAMPAIGN HAT PREVAILS, White Cloth Helmet Omitted from New Army Regulations, Washington, June 9.-—The American campaign hat has prevailed over all competitors as the legal headgear for soldiers in the tropi as well as for those in temperate climes, and the new army uniforms accentuate that fact by omiting any provision for the issue of helmets to the troops. American soldiers sent to the Philip- pines in the early days of the Ameri- can occupancy were equipped with white cloth helmets as well as the campaign hat, but the soldiers would have none of the former except on pa- rade, where it was worn under com- pulgion. Twenty-gix thousand of thesae helmets lay for yvears in the army de- pots, but any hope that they might finally be issued disappeared when the secretary of war decided that a white helmet could not well be worn with a khaki umniform, so they were ordered sold. \ POISONED BY TOY BALLOON, Year-Old Child Dies After Chewing the Fragments of Colored Bladder, New York, June 9.—Annie Sorenson, | one’ year old, died this morning at 6 o'clock at her home, No. 615 Gehrardi avenue, Woodhaven, from the potson | which was in the coloring matter of a | toy balloon. Yesterday the child and | her brother were left at home with a | servant gfrl. When the parents reach- | ed home in the early evening they found Annie very ill, ard it was learn- ed that the child had heen chewing the fragments of a burst balloon. Dr. Porter of Brooklyr was summon- ed. and he used a stomach pump and extracted the contents of the stomach, as there appeared to be something there which caused trouble. The mouth and throat appeared to be red, as if burned. There was also a trace of red matter in the fluid brought up by the pump. E To Make Voluntary Appearance. Charleston, W. Va, June 9.—An agreement was made tonight between counsel for the United Mine Workers af and the office of Federal District Attorney Harold A. Ritz wheredy the nineteen officials of the will appear volumtarily in open Triday. No summonses will be issued ontil after that time. Declaring Their Foed Was Unfit te eat, 50 prigeners st Aubuwrm. N Y, prison refused to work