Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 23, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 253 ONLY FIVE RESCUES ARE THUS FAR REPORTED Rescued Men Suffering From Effects of Gas and Unable to Impart Any Information—Cause of Explosion Unknown —Superintendent of Mine Among Those Imprisoned— Rescue Crews and Cars Start For Scene of Disaster.. er, Col, Oc and 280 minuers w at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The en- tombed men inciude General Superin- ank McDermott of the mine ral other American miners. The cause of the explosion is un- tehdent and se know Rescuing Crews on Way. : uncertain as statement came from El Paso today that the worlk of No. 2 mine are con- nected by a tunnel with Mine No. 5, while an airshaft is said to furnish an- other means of exit. Immediate relief work was under- en Trinidad before midnight. Rescue Cars Ordered to Scene. J. C. Rober! al mine rese 1e s R at those points. though tonizht he is making arrange- gents for his c it is probable his cars will with a special train at Trin- ad tom w morning in order to asten the arrival of federal rescuers. Rescue of Five Miners. Bv 10 o'clock tonight ‘the rescuers had penetrated more than 100 feet into the mourth of the mine and had reach- ed five of the cntombed miners who were alive. Thev bad suffered much from zas and were in no condition to 1ell wkat happeend at the time of the tely upon being explosion. Immed ought to the given into the cave of,phygicians, many of whom have arrived here from near- _PRICE_TWO CENTS ° Cabled Paragraphs French Cruiser Ordered to Mexico. Paris, Oct. 22. ment today ordered the armore: er Conde o proceed to the Mexican coast to protect French interests. Situation has Serious Aspect LONDON COMMENT ON MEXICAN The French Sylvia Pankhurst Released. London, Oct. 22.—Sylvia Pankhurst was released under license today from She is much enfeebled in consequence of a hunger strike of a week's duration. Holloway jail. and emaciated + British Naval Adviser for China. Peking, Oct. 22—The Chinese gov- ernment has decided to appoint a Brit- officer as naval adviser to The officer Rear Admiral Arthur Henry WASHINGTON RETICENT Officials Decline the Chinese Britain’s Attitude—Diaz Defies Hu- erta and Starts Campaign. Another Chinese Loan. —A Peking despatch egraph says that the binet has decided to open negotiations with the five power group 0,000,000, This is to be London, Oct, to the Daily Tel ‘Washington, Oct. 22.—State depart- ment officials today declined to discuss in any way the Ambassador Page in London in resps to_Great Britain’s attitude in Mex It was evident that in whatever is passing between Great Britain and the tates on the latest phase of the Mexican situation the utmost se- crecy is to be observed. House there was positively no infor- ilable, and Secretary Bry spent the entire day working on foreign matters, dis extreme reticence about the subject. No Further Conferences Until jpects to convict Mr for . loan of used for irdus s, curred on a slope deep within the mine. orIEduNtusl urhoses From conditions which have been met since digging believed that s- been found cuers progress rter of the mine. "Cause of Explosion Unknown. of this city —Between 230 e entombed by an explosion in Mine No, 2 of the Stag Canon Fue! company at Dawson, N, M., German-American Association. —Preliminary for the formation of a German-American economic associa- tion, devoted to the cultivation of the the two countries in the business and economic pol: ®robable that were taken tod; At the White to show bette toward the c relations of organized a where rescuers are bein e advices received up to 9.45 tonight were that ouly five miners had been taken alive from the upper level T > reports stated that most of the v ft were employed below the nd level, where the shaft was ed with debris resulting’ from the cared for and | Morgan Thanks French Government. lled today a Diplomats g accompani rench foreign of- needed. “The major declared that it was conjecture concerning the possil of life, and that none of the mine offi- on the ground would conferences. likely to occur until after Oct. 26, date of the Mexi. S, expression of polic the United States nce, and thanked the foreign min- ister for the military honors rendered by the French government to his fath- ected from immediately after cials or rescuers care to make any statement so constructed as to per- ble danger from ounts from Dawson and Raton ! the mine w to the possibility of [ mit of the leas such explosio According to Major Kinney for the explosion I it is believed it will not be known un- til_the miners who are alf ‘a mile sen rescued and tell their far none of the men rescued ®ad been able to approach of the workin wouid have D through another shaft, that none of the other entombed mi ers have been able to mak out of the mine leads,to the belief that all have been cut off from every means through France on the way to America for burial. DISHONEST OPERATIONS IN MINING importance ation in Mexico were xcept the arrival of General , which John Lind promptly cabled to the state department with- out comment. More Warships Coming. The despatch of warship: 3 nce, Germany, Great No developments of the internal situ 1ing any of the men alive, while a ssed hope that most of the mbed men would be found alive. f was based on the fact that INDUSTRY Mining Congress Wants Congress to Protect Minority Stockholders. airshaft or s within the mine whic Philadelphia, offered By Norman of V by men from the night shift and shboring® mines, Appeals for help of experienced miners and the surrounding ps shortly after 6 o'clock, and they were expected to reach Dawson way with the de zovernment for a fr h the Mexican problem. annual convent dishonest ope: financially the congres: as favoring the insti- al state laws to minority holders, by making directors more de Air Supply Chief Concern. DIAZ DEFIANT, within the mine now the chief concern of the rescuer: who believe they will be able to reach the interior of the mine by tomorrow night at least. In the relief camps situated several the entrance to Mine No. and children The miners went on record SR tiitlon of unive uperintendent of fed- tions in the Rocky fountain division, began immediate preparations to leave for Daweon to- night with the rescue car. He also telegraphed Pittsburg, Kansas and iprings, Wyo., for the rescue Remains at Vera Cruz and Makes a Campaign Speech. Vera Cruz, Diaz, in defiance of the intim government B Tamplco aboard the steamer Corce laws a felony, punishable by are gathered the v of the entombed miners. families arve cheered by the knowleds Superintendent among the main body tombed and have mine tendent’s resources in suc Relief parties from near! constantly arviving, and by temorrow morning the Dawson wili be well into the hundreds, all equipped with the latest apparatus for combatting gases and other evils of mine explosions. Rescue Work by Shifts. Tonight the rescue work is proceed- As one group of work- ers Is driven back for air, another takes its place, so that the work i That system is to be until the last of the have been caught in the explosion will have been found, It pledges lation neces: effect and support legis- io put such laws be impossible for Mr. Rob- erts to reach Dawson witlshis cars and crew until almost noon tomorrow, least tempo remain at Ve t is unwilling to admit McDermott of miners en- contidence, investigate s of a trip to the capital tomorrow to go ahead of all a disaster. ye $roperly place 1 v towns are be $roperly placed and the offenders hrought to justice, arn L0 Hiavep ht he s liknl aboard a Mexi orders from the ca he will be left no choice. General Diaz was to have been noti- fied on the o1 It | ment’s wishes, but the captain of the gunboat Zaragoza, who s the middle of the night, Vidaurrazaga, secretary to the mini ter of war, to whom the mission had been entrusted. lost 1 captaln for the Zaragoza ital are altered rescuers in IN GATUN LAKE. Four Hours Consumed in Lifting from Sea Level. . 22.—Three dredges and els, numbering in all were lifted together from to the surface of Gatun lake e Gatun locks today. operation consumed about four hours, was named urface, the men were the - Corcovado owing to | agent of the government attempted to | induce General Diaz voyage to Ta men® known the difficulty experienced in maoeuver- ing so many craft at one time into a The general would TWENTY-THREE INDICTED FOR GRAFT IN ST. LOUIS | City Officials Had Contracts with City in Violation of Law. St. Louis, Oc The indictment today of twenty-three former official of Fast St Louis, Ills, on charg growing out of an investigation of al leged municipal Iirregularities, wa: racterized by State's Attorne: W, dictments to be returned by the grand | 1er comptrollers, two former heads for of city departments, tweive former al- dermen and the present chief of de- a_part of th | #pring, being gucceeded by Mavor mberiin, who was elected on a reform platform. Among the allegations supported by | ence intreduced before the zrand | Jury were the following: That Tast St Louls was more than 2200.000 in debt That during the Lambert adminfs- tration warranis w igsued for large @< of meney for the payment of cily efficials who had conpiracts with the city in violation of the I LYNCH CONFIRMED AS LABOR COMMISSIONER Presidant of 1. T, U, Lands an $3,000 Plum in New York. Atbany, N. T, Oect. 22.—The scnate tonight unanimously confirmed Gov- or Glynn's nomination of James M ch of Syracuse, president of the ‘mternational Typographical union,: as | etate labor commissioner and then ' both houges of the legislature adjourn. | November 10, | The senats twics rejected Governor | ed until Monday evening, Eulzer's nomination of John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine | Workers of America, for the position. ! After the second rejcction Governor Rulzer nominated Lyneh, The nom- ination was never reported from the =enate finance committee in order to withhold minor appointments in the department from Sulzer, . The position of laber commissioner pave $5,000 a vear, Lyneh will take up his Guties immediately. His res- {=mation as president of the Interna- tional ‘Typegraphieal union will be eubmitted soon, He will be succeeded by James W, Dunean, vice presilent of fhe orzanization, A BISHOP FOR THE SOUTHERN NEGROES Episcopal Convention Defers Action on Project. for Three Years. New York, Oct. 22—The general con ventlon of 'the Protestant Fpiscopal church, postponed today for three years wetion on the question of giving the negross of the south a bishop to rep- resent them direetly in the house of bishops. The entira problem was referred, hy & viva vece vote, to a joint commi: and bishops which the next general con- vention in 1918, The commission will consist of five bishops, live Preshyters and five lay- men. P not consider this, but came ashore at 11 o'clock in the mornin moment of his landing he has profe: ed his intention of continuing the po- even although These dredges and auxiliary craft are destined to form part of the dredging fleet in the Cule- That part of the cut Cucaracha | proper position. | he BIDS CALLED FOR ON STATE'S BOND bra cut section. is_blocked by the slide is filling with water slowly. depth of thirteen feet was attalned this | Authorized by the General Assemblies just before the admiral’s of 1911 and 1913. have futile Huerta-Blanquet ticket. from the balcony few hundred who gathered to greet him, despite po- : The work of trenching and blasting | ndoned as useless and the | have resorted to Roberts has filed workingmen Treasurer Baward publie notice that sealed proposal Dbe received by him | til November 10 for the purchase of any part of four million has been al t the capitol un- | 11 Diaz reiterated his purpose of continuing the | same time membe which had come here were convinced tl south end of the | this section | [ ers into the the whole or When_the water bh as the forerunmer of other in- | dollars of under date of ink July 1, of four per of the committee to welcome him from the Pacific entrance will be lifted locks and set uly 1, 1911 and matur- the Pacific | work excavating the slide. presidential hose Indicted today include an ex- | ayor, a former city treasurer, two |nually, 3 7 o These bonds were authorized by ‘the genefal assembly in 1911 and amended June 6, 1913, They issued for general meet the needs of the state” Robents calls fact that the bonded debt of the state at present amounts SULZER GREETED BY GREAT CROWDS. Deposed Governor Starts paign for the Assembly. £t T huzoged “GRAVE MISUNDERSTANDING.” London Press Regards Existing Situ- Lambert, | 5 4 ation as Serious. who retired from the mayoralty last | 22—The London news- re only just awakening to the bility of an embroilment the United to $3,064,000, 22-—William Sulzer | resuit in his s assemblyman { which he hopes will to public office | in the state legislature in’ the Sixth trict, where he is issue, a total of $7,064,000. BRISTOL WATER CO. VOTES TO SELL OuT heretofore hay hington and New respondefits the government Uniteq States through the Press not having heen Mall Gazett idate on the ive ticket, he attacked Charles i and the court of impeach- | ment which removed him from the o Everywhere . | A number of lette | Simplifies the Process of City Obtain- | ing the Plant. | The meeting halls he visited cotid nof derstanding = between | made open-air addresses and on At one place they cheered him - | twenty minutes before allowing him to over the half million ma referendum vote, | the property he removed maents of ‘danger in the situatiom which strong feelings of the Atlantic.” Sulzer reiterated many of the asser- L { tiong contalned in his statement issued in Albany after the impeachment court voted for his removal. Myery night during the campalgn, he , he would ask Murphy given question which he would request Murphy te answer. A COAL SCHOONER IN COLLISION. sludes the po ceedings. The a vear in which ompany {oday pre sibility of long legal pr city has a | bers of the Fed ! missiona CRITICISES GOVERNMENT. WOMAN REPRESENTS Britain’s Recognition of Huerta. STATE OF OREGON are expressed t can situation Appears. in Washington to Adjust a of Claims. Four of Crew of Five Drowned Sydney Harbor. private secretary ernor of Oregon, and a lawyer, appear- | ed in Washington today a8 the repre- sentative of the executive department of Oregon to adjust claims involving school and swamp lands and to close up other cases that have been pend- ing in Washington. first women ever sent to the capital as the official representative of a state, Ao e il Steamers Reported by Wireless. Cape Race, Oct. 22.—Steamer Stam- palia, Naples for New York, signalled st of Sandy ITook at 10.50 Dock € a. m. Sunday . to the gov- | Newfoundland schooner Annie Roberts | was sunk in collision with the Domin- company’s channel harbor here tonight, and four of the schooner’s crew of five | were drowned. According _to steamer’s officers, the steering a when it w and hopes that it will be promptly co! The Graphic government’s Huerta and say recognition | is in Andov She is one of the the accounts of the a .moment our friendship with Washington. | afid fearing: he | department | his report, he ather wobbly course and sion was im- owed down I seen a coll minent the Wabara was Train Mangles Small Child. three year old Henry Mex shed into the 1,320 miles eq mer, ramming her sel sank at o The steamer’s launched, but was rescued just in time to be northbound was mangled almost hey recognition, death being Instantaneous. child ‘had wandered —_— Steamship Arrivals. Guglielno, Naples for New York, sig miles east Dock 8 a m. F Cape Race, N. F., Oct Philadelphia, York, signalled 1,77¢ miles east of San- 4dy Hook at 3.30 p. m. It is supposed the } others wemt down with the schooner, The Wabana | terjor Jones, he s was bound Southampto | cause reseniment in Dock 8.30 a, m | not deny the facts pre: Old Valley Hotel Burned. New Britain, Conn., Oct. alley hotel on the Farmington road, a landmark in this vicinity for years, was burned to the ground tonight. The origin of the fire is_not known. { otel had not been occupled for some It was owned hy “Jack” Rivers, Whe ix now serving 4 term in the stzte The loss will probably not ex. ceed $3,000, Steaer Nackar, Bremen for 22 —The old Palermo, Boston Sandy Hook at Dock 8£.20 a. New York, 22.—Arrived, Pannonia, New York. Themistocles, Porto Rico’'s New Gevernor. Wishington, x The senate to- | tion of Ar- thur Yeager of Kentucky, to be gov- ernor of Porte Rico er Lacenia, 22— Arrived, Ruthenia, Montreal . Testimony by June’s Husband SON-IN-LAW OF MRS. EATON ON THE STAND MUCH TALK OF POISON Describes a Conversation Between June and Her Mother Three Days Before Admiral’s Death. Plymouth, Mass., Oct. dence with which the pro: Jennie May her husband, Admiral Joseph G. Haton, was practically concluded today when the {%zxmn of the murder o government rested its case. It is ome further testimony may be offered in rebuttal but for the next three or four days at least the defense ill take the lead in the court witnesses desired by the not be ready in the morn- 12, court adjourned umtil tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock when the de- fense will begin, June’s Husband Testifies. t of the evidence given for the ution today had to do with statements said to have been made by the defendant in letters and in con- versation reganding the admiral's al- lezed habit of dabbling with poisons and his alleged susceptibility where vomen were concerned. The las alph. P. Keyes, b older daugh- June, testified that he once heard Eaton tell his wife that the ad- 1 had put away more than 100 men on his ship at one time by means of poison. % June Says Admiral Hinted at Murder. Keyves said that the versation. referred to t place on the night of Wednesday, March 5, three days hefore the death of the admiral. According to the witness Eaton e to his home In Medford to see e on that Wednesday and as_the latter had left for Assinippi to visi her mother, Mr aton remained in 1 until June returned home that night. In the conversation which en- sued ren the mother and d: ed that he heard June st had a talk with the inippi and that he told cular con- dmiral in | her he was zoing to Burope soon. June also said, according to her husband’s testimony, that the admiral asked her ether 1 cared if h mother and husband were put out of the w “I'll_have to go down_and look ter him s comment In reply as Keyes heard it, Frequently Spoke of Poison Fears. K to Assinipp! the next morni admiral died on the following mornine. The prosecution that the. first dose of poison w to the admiral on Thursday Further evidence as to Mrs. Taton's alleged fear of the admiral’s poison- ing her was given by Mr. Keves along the lines of testimony of previous wit- He said Mr{ Haton declared the admiral punctured her arm a hypodermic needle while she and that one of her front teeth loose bacause the admiral had in- omething into her jaw. ross examination Keyes said that ad heard Mrs. Eaton make such remarks as these frequently and mnot merely on 1 testified that Mrs, Katon went g. The aturday one oc ion mentioned, death. | Questions Regarding Child Disallowed. The district attorney’s attempt to ask questions ahout the parentage of a child adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Keyes was frustrated by Chief Just Ailken aid, “I am not going to allow e of the attorneys to question t parentage of the child born in Washington.” The district atforney said that he wished to show by his question_that of the child in the K s objectionable to the the ho miral he had remonstrat hout The judge, however, clined to allow the witness to ar ‘At the conclusion of the testimony the prosecution put in several exhib- | its, amonz them the will of Admiral | Baton is gives the bu of hi. property to Mrs. Eaton. In the event of her death, everything is to o to her younger daughter, Dorothy, with the exception of a bequest of $5.000 | to June Keves Mrs. Eaton’s Letters Read. leged to have ! bee written by Mrs. ton at various | times, in which the admiral was pie- tured as an insane man with o mania for poisoning, were read by the pros- ecution FACTS SUPPRESSED AT WASHINGTON. | Criticisms of Conditions Among In- dians Not Published. . Y. Oct. Mem- ndian ery attorn. & triba pent the d ng the five civilized homa, were stirr to- that the department to publisk ers who mdition tribes of O ad, who js ttendi omk coilference of Iri ns ard Other Dependent ¥ T 1 rmati today and with it a nsure from the acting s retary of the interior. Commissioner Moorehead is a wide- Iy known archaeologist whose home r, Mass He investigated conditions in ' Oklahoma by directio of the board of Indiun commissiones aid tonight, that the ht refuse to publish 1 2,000 copies printed ind cireulated at private expense Four other members of the board here and $¢ommissioner Moore- d ai their 5 report at tonight onference, hut ref iment Acti Secretary of the In id, refused to print the report on' the ground that it was 4 critleism of congress and would mgress. He did ar I ihe National Emancipation Exposcition. New York Oct. 22—The National Emancifhtion exposition in commem- oration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the emancipation come 1o delegat by Congressmun Herman A. Metz, who eulogized the Progress of the negro race Condensed Telegrams President Wilson let it be known plainly vesterday that he purposed to be exclusive for the remainder of the week. What United States sccret service men said was an_excellent counter- feiter’s outfit was found in the woods near Tiogh, La. Loans Amounting® to nearly $30,- 000,000 will be necessary to meet the deficit in the Austrian budget for the first half of-1914. Rev. Edwin J. Gleason, S. J., pro- fessor of philosophy at Loyola uni versity and lecturer on legal eth died at Chicago vesterday. The Kaiser has Ordered moving pictures instailed on all German war- ships to - enter keep them from excesses while in port. Lindley M. Garrison, war, accompanied by and his secretary left New Panama yesterc Caolon. A Dividend of Twenty-One Percent on the preferred stock of the Vul- con Detinning company will be paid to st kholders of record Nov. 6 on Nov. 20. Samuel Suter Charged that seven s of the Hill Military wdemy tarred and f Henry Morgenthau, of New York, newly * appointed ambassador to rkey, said good-bye to Presiden®) He will sail No- on yesterda; vember 1 for I Do dying at his home in Brookl result of taking four tablets of hich- loride of mercury in mistake for a headache remedy. From Far Off Australia, Miss Edith Graham arrived yesterday in for the 5 a world-wide ‘Washington, to or Seventh Day Adventis' crusade of mission work George R. Park robbed Theodor s house ter Bay, pl at Mine . Y. ,and was sentenced to ar in the county jail. After He Had Been ,Dead” phyxiation for more than hour udeau guilty life by artificial breathing. Daniel and Evaristo Madero, broth- ers of the . Pre: been arre that city to the revolutionar Edwin Bywater, Caretaker of M\it. Highy reservoir Middletown, who served in the navy during the Civil war and also in the army died at his 1y after a long illn home yeste 5. President Wilson Yesterday Princeton University’s Graduate college and the Grover (Cleveland Memorial tower, which is included in the arc buildin itectural sci were dec The “Deadly Bacilli” which a would- be blackmailer sent to Mrs. Juli Rosenwald and to Mrs. Steel, of Chicago, chemic analysl; Warren Eaton, a Negro accused of n insulting remark to Mon- at Monroce s taken from morning by a mc to a telegraph pole Negotiations Have Been Closed by 3 for the pur- land and min- an chase of ex ing propert trict of We to approximate the New River d 0,000,000, Charles F.*Murphy, Tammany lead- er( yesterday departed from his cr tom of silence long that 'ward . Mc 1, democratic candidate for mayor, had paid him for his nomination to the supreme court { bench It is Expected that at a meeti the state. fish and game commission to be held next Tuesday, John M. Crampton of New Haven will be chosen supe 00 s and oth- | ¥ here discussing | { the man's attentions portions of | roclama- | tion by Abraham Lincoln, was apened | here tonight with an address of wel- | I'yson. There Will be no Amalgamation of | he republican parly with the pro- party: adopts [ gressives until the olde 1 of the doctrines of the progressive accordi o Hiram W. Johnson, pro = Ia t fall. Alexander Dambrowski pleaded guilty in the ecriminal superior court | at Litchafield. vesterday cond de gree murder and prisonment for life. killed George Thatcher at New Mil ford last May. Rev. Charles R. Brown, dean of the | inity school of Yale un en mode r on tk Muscowit 1 10t the woman dea iimself. Both were lice declare the wo! had Rev. John C. Brodt, pastor of the Third United Presbyterian church at St. Louis, was released in the court when eld, on a charge preferred by a sixteen year old hoy. The judge said he would not of criminal correc his vreliminary h n yesterd aring w believe the hoy under oath In Consequence of the Many re- quests made upon the War department for the loun of government propert cspecially army tenis, Secretary Gar rison has called on Judge Advocate General Crowder to state anew the law that no government property may be loaned, withoul a special act of congre Miss Emma Clarke of Richmont, I'Va. and Dr. Geors fessor of chemisiry at Clark college Warcester, Muss., wer rimony by 1 Chester, Ta, an quncle of the at the home of Mrs. Hariwell ayior @ slster of the bride in New Britain yesterday. rin the crews and on the steamship ather- ohn - Doe,” warrants the hutler who o landscape gardener of New Rochelle, was brought back to signed the urgent deficiency bill carrying ex- emptions from the civil service of deputy United States marshals and deputy collectors of internal revenue. rginia, at a price said ough to deny rinfendenigat a salary of vear to sucWed Jumes W. sive candidate for vice president, d to jm- | t and The Bulletin’s '_Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Uther Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population OVER 200 COAL MINERS ENTOMBED Shaft in a Mine at Dawson, N. M., Blocked by Debris as Result of an Explosion Try to Prevent an Indictmem THAW'S COUNSEL NOW ACTIVE IN NEW YORK . JUDGE'S CHARGE USED District Attorney Furnished a Copy of It in Which Thaw is Declared Insane and “Criminally Irresponsible.” New York, Oct. 22.—Counsel for Harry K. Thaw began a fight today to prevent indictment in New York county by the grand jury which will begin tomorrow to consider the cir- cumstances surrounding Thaw’s es- cape from Matteawan. Attorney Gen- eral Carmody will be present for a least part of the proccedings. Judge Seabury’s Charge. Willard Olmsted of Thaw's coun- sel, went to the district attorney’s of- fice with a copy of Judge Seabury’s charge to the grand jury when that body heard Thdw as a witness against John N. Anhut. In that charge Jus- tice Seabury alluded to Thaw as a man who “has been adjudged so in- sane as to be citminally irresponsible’” and instructed the jury not to ask him to sign any waiver of Immunity. nor insist upon his answering any duestion the answer to which might in any way tend to implicate him in any unlawful transaction. Judge May Be Asked for Decision. Mr. Olmsted requested that Justice™ Seabury’s charge be called to the at- tention of the grand jury in the new proceedings and that. Justice Gave- gan be advised of it. He 1s sitting in that court ‘now. It is probable the justice will be asked to decide whether any further proceedings against Thaw in New York are legal. Jeroms to Have Charge of Case. +* William Travers Jerome has been designated by the attorney genmeral to take charge of the case GUEST OF PRESIDENT, Function Attended by Many High Offi- cials of Brazil. Rio Janeria, Oct. 22—Colonel Roose- velt devoted the morning hours today - to a visit to the supreme count and a breukfast at the Cattete Palace given in his honor by President Marshall ITermes Fonseca. Colonel Roosevelt sat at the right of the president, and thae American_ambassador, Edwin V. Mor- gan, at his left. The breakfast was at- tended by the cabinet ministers, the presidents of the senate and the cham ber of deputies, the judges of the su- preme court, the mayor of Rio Janeiro and members of the municipal councfl and various other public officials. Mrs, Roosevelt and Miss Margaret Roosevelt, accompanied by several members of the party, paid a visit to Pao de Assucar, the ascent of the mountain being made by. aerial rafl- wa TO INVESTIGATE THE TYPHOID EPIDEMIC, Caused Death of Four Visitors at Perry Celebration, Providence, Oct. 22—The United States public health service will prob- ably investigate the epidemiic of ty- phoid fever which caused four deaths among the state party which went to the Perry celebration at Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Secretary Swarts of the state board of health sent for information bearing on the matter to Surgeon Gen- eral Blue of the public health service tonight, with a request for co-opera- tion. The Rhode Island officials want to find out whether the disease was con- tracted at Buffalo, N. Y., or Sandusky, Ohio, where the party stopped over night. COAL OPERATORS NOT . IN ANY COMBINATION, Deny That They Have Sought to Re- strain Coal Trade. Philadelphia, Oct. 22.—Denials that they are parties to any alleged com- bination in restraint of the anthracite coal trade were filed In United States “here today by five of the anies mentioned In the gov- s suit to dissolve the so-called “hard coal trust.” The answers filed today to the suit brought by Attorney General McReynolds on September 2 were by the Reading company, the Philadelphia dnd Reading railroad, and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company, the Wilmington and Northern company and the Lehigh and o New Iongland Rallroad company. NEW YORK BANKER IS ACCUSED OF CONTEMPT, Refused to Present in Court Cheoks Drawn by Dressmaker. refused o F. White, pro- unfted in mat- ov. IR 115 B, Pollard of ride i ;a.n:{z!mnon of amendments will bs- on, Oct. 22—Henry Whitn e of the banking house of Mun- C'o. of New York w summoned - to pear in the United States t court nex sday and show . why he should not be adjudged contempt "of court. Judge Dodge the summons on the petition of federal grand jury, Tt is alleged Munroe refused to present to the d jury on request checks in h on ‘drawn by Mary A. Dolan, losfon . dressmaker, who is under indlctment on a charge of smuggling | goods from Paris. FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE PHILIPPINES, Three Scouts Killed by Tribesmen— Captain McElderry Wounded. Manila, Oct, 23.—Serious fighting has ocerred and still continues at Talipao, in Mindanao, between the tribesmen and the Philtppines scouts, So far as reported five scouts have been killed and eight wounded. Captain Harry McEiderry of the Thirteenth company of scouts iy among the wounded. The fighting began yesterday morn- ing, the companies engaged being the 13th, 16th, 21st, 24th and 21st. Experts to Tinker Currency Bill. ‘Washington, ,Oct. 22—Plans for se- curing the ald of experts to frame pro- Pposed amendments to the administra- tlon currency bill were made today hy the senate banking and currency com- niittee, Hearings on the bill witl bhe cloved formally Saturday and thea