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TWO_CENTS AMERICANS KILL MEXICAN- SOLDIER| Condensed Telegrams, Orozco Opened Fire On U. S. Sentries When Ordered To Halt and Fire Was Returned VICTIM ADMITTED CULPABILITY BEFORE DEATH Incident Occurred On American Side, A Party Of Federal Soldiers Having Crossed Refuge In a Hut—Federal Commander Warned Against Repetition of Offence—Villa Assessing All Mexicans. Presidio, Texas, Dec. 1S8,—An American soldiers on the border two miles west of Presidio today resulted in the death of Luis Orozco, a federal regular from the army of Mercado. Fired First. Mexicans The Mexicans fired the first shots. Orozeo, who lived several hours, ad- mitted after being shot that he and his companion had crossed to the Ameri- can side with a note and that when | they were halted by the American sentries they fired. | pressed by the prompt action-of the As soon as the shooting across the border became known at United States | army headquarters, a warning was nt to the federal commander that it ust not be repeated. Americans Return the Fire. | Witnesses say the American soldiers were informed federal soldiers were hiding in a hut 300 yards from the river on the American side. When the Americans approached the hut to in- vestigate two Mexicans rushed out and started running toward the river. The patrol called to them to halt. The only answer was a shot from one | of the fleeing Mexicans. Then the Americans returned the fire and one of the federals dropped. The other continued firing as he ran. “MORE FAVORABLE.” Tonditions in Mexico So Regarded at Washington. Washington, Dec. 18—State depart- ment officials expressed the opinion to- @ay that conditions in Mexico were “more favorable.” No intimation was | given as to the nature of changes in the situation regarded as indicated jm- Eo\'ement. Much interest is mani- n ested here in the cyclonic disturbances the finances of Mexico, involving e failure of banks and the issue of eurrency without security regarded as substantial. The opinion was ex- pressed_in some, quarters that the Hu-. erta government-might receive finan- eial gupport from the large land and mine owners in northern Mexico, Who have heretofore been supposed to maintain an attitude of meutrality, but who may now adopt allegiance to the Huerta cause as a result of the con- fiscation of their properties by General Villa, the r 1 leader. VILLA’S POLICY. Proposes To Deal Harshly With All ex- | made today i : change of shots between Mexican and | Guaymas, resulted In a sharp skirmish General | low Hermosillo and retired after meet- | the trouble. the Texas Border and Taken the federal forces at with the insurgent.outposts. A fed- eral column of about 1,000 men as- saulted the hills at the rebel base be- ing a hot fire, Six Miti.-2-s Mexico €ity, P-¢ \-—Six of tke ringleaders of the mutiny of part of the garrison at Agumscalientcs have been executed by order of military The mutiny was Sup- Executed | government. officers and loyal troops, who sur- rounded the barracks and disarmed the mutineers. Failure to receive their pay is said to have been the cause of Moving to Save Central Bank. Mexico City, Dec 18—The repre- sentatives of the banks again met at the finance department today to work out of their plan to save the cen- tral bank and its dependencies in the states. There is little doubt that their plan will be adopted and that President Huerta will issue a decree making state bank notes legal tend- er. SOCIETY WOMAN BACKS AN ALLEGED MURDERER Believing Him Innocent, She Retains Counsel for Him, Toms River, N. J., Dec. 18.—Soclety people of the Lakewood colony re. mained in the supreme court until late tonight watching the first day’'s trial of Joseph Moriarty, alias Wil- liam J. Leehan, a stenographer, whose defense on the charge of murdering Mrs. Caroline C. Turner in 1911 is being supported by Mrs. Jasper Lynch, & wealthy woman for whom Moriarty once worked. Mrs. Lynch, believing in the prisoner’s innocence, has em- ployed counsel to argue his case. " /Fhe proseeition after calling. about a dozen witnesses, had not coneinded its case tonight. No one saw Mrs. Turner killed. She had been struck on the head with a ciub and found lying with her face into the dirt. Two physiclans testified today that death was due to suffocation, not to blows from the club as the authorities be- “1ieved at the time. Moriarty’s de- fense, it is understood, will be that a party of automobilists killed Mrs. Turner and carried her body into a patch of pine woods where it was discovered. Testimony was introduced today to Who Aid Huerta. Chihnahua. Mexico, Dee, 18.—General | ¥raneisco Villa, the rebel military chief, issued a notice from the state palace today that he would guarantee | the rights of all foreigners and all Mexicans who have given no support | to the Huerta government. He pro- vided for the severest penalties should | any of his soldiers attempt to loot | stores or violate the rights of non- | combatants. General Villa wished it to be known he was in every way in accord with the | wishes of the United States that the persons and property of. forelgners would be respected. At the same time i he said it would be his policy both in Chihuahua and during his campaign | southward to deal summarily with all people_who lend aid to General Hu- erta. He asserted the revolution had progressed to a point where its suc- cess and the downfall of the Huerta government was assured. | “It has been necessary to deal | promptly and perhaps harshly with | certain elements who have attempted to block the progr of the revolution” said General Villa, ‘“particularly in reference to the Spaniards, whom it was necessary to expel. This has brought about great hardships. In | the future the policy and the determi- nation of those who are leading the it against Huerta will be clearly Ee-atood. General Carranza and my- are in complete accord.” A wireless station is being installed in order to open -communication with Carranza’s headquarters at Hermosillo, Mexica. g MEXICANS HELD UP, Villa Assesses Them as They Prepare to Leave Chihuahua. P Paso. Texas, Dec. 16— More ref- ugees who arrived at the horder today Teported that before General Franeisco Villa, the rchel leader, allowed thelr train to start from Chihnahua City, JMexico, he exacted from. the Mexican | families sums ranginz from-$1,000 to | $5,000. Most of the refugees were | Americans and wealthy Mexicans who | had closed their places of business since the repel oceupation of the city. They said General Villa permitted those who had passes to board the train byt as it was about to leave he | personally appeared and ordered as. wessment. One Mexican merchant said he left the train to avold paying $6.000, but later decided to pay the de- mands rather than remain in Chihu- ahus. The Americans say they had been permitted to go unmolested. The only buginess fransacted in Chihuahua at present is that pertaining to the con- fiscation of property by the rebels, ac- cording to the refugees, George C, Carothers, United States consular agent at T, who 1s on & special mission to ses Villa, confer- red with some of the refugees. It is understood Mr. was sent to talk personally with in regard to the recent events in Chihualua, Rebel headquarters at Juarez today recelved advices that the federal troops now at Ofinaga will attempt soon to Ynterrupt comn between Juarez and Chih - rebels were convinced that by Gen- eral Mercado's fe ‘would to cut Villa off from “border, Wi came from Ojindge’; that .the federals were carrying several menths' pro- viglons across the United States bord- | NOT COMPETENT { tonight on the steamship Lusitania fo i show that Moriarty quarreled with his wife on the night of the murder, fled from the house when she called the police and that investigators of Mrs. Turner’'s death found near Moriarty's home the lid of a pasteboard box which the woman carried comtaining needle- work. The cover of the box was found at a spot where the prisoner is al- leged to have told witnesses he hid while the police were in his home. TO DO THE WORK. Reason Agqueduct Contract Was Not Awarded to Douglass. New York, Dec. 18—The alleged at tempt of a politician to extort $50,000 from Anthony C. Douglass, a tunnel contractor, as compensation’ for ob- iaining him a contract on the construc- tion of the Croton aqueduct, was the subject of further investigation today by the grand jury. Charles Strauss, chairman of the board of water supply, which had charge of the letting of the contracts, was before the jury for more than two | hours and was asked to explain why | Douglass, who was the lowest bidder, did not get the contract. Mr. Strauss testified that Douglass was not given | the contract because the board believed him not qualified to undertake the! work. . RECORD MAIL FROM THE FOREIGN PORTS. | St. Louis Brought Biggest Lot Ever| Garried on One Ship. New York, Dec. 18.—The last mails from Europe that will reach the far | west before Christmas arrived here late ibution from the local postoffic tomorrow morning. The St. Louis reached port todav with the biggest consibgnment of mail ever brought ta New York ou one ship. These two vessels, together with the St. Paul which arrived last Sunday, brought 16,611 sacks of packages and letters. Peary Provides Maps for Blind. New York, Dec. 18.—To enable ovi 500 blind persons to follow clomely a lecture given hy Rear Admiral Rober. E. Peary at the Museum of Natural History, a special map was construct- ed. The parts of the Arctic regions | already charted were given in relief ! lines and dots. Seventy-one Boy Scouts of Manhattan and Brooklyn vyolun- teered to escort the blind from their homes to the lecture hall and back. Wilsons Give Cabinet Dinner. ‘Washington, Dec. 18—The first cab- inet dinner under the present admin- istration was given by the president and Mrs, Wilson at the White House tonight. Covers were laid for fifty and the table decorations were war and enchantress carnations and malden hair fern Steamship Arrivals. Dec, 16.—Arrived, steamer Venice, York, Belvedere, New ‘ Cadiz, Dec, 18.-—Arrived, steamer Mpntevideo, New York for Genoa. tterdam, Dec. 18.—Arrived, steam- er Nieuew Amsterdam, New York. Liverpooi, Dee, 18.—Arrived, steamer Haverford, Philadelphia, Great Britain Won't Participate, Londen, Dee. 18—The cabinet to- night decided against efficial represen- tation of Great Britain at the Panama- Pacific exposition / | for forgery. i R | Remarkable Fact Disclosed in Report { Teport of the Western Ituel company | for | Howard to the directors, and again to SPly o, Vhione ARpISvILL Rome, Dec. 18.—The chamber of deputles by a vote of 362 to 90, ap- proved today the reply to the speech from the throme. Those who voted against approval were for the most part soclalists. Atlantic Rate War Coming. London, Dec. 18.—According to the Liverpool Journal of Commerce a severe Atlantic rate war is imminent. All, the British and continental lines are preparing to meet the Hamburg- American’s cut {n rates and there is a prospect (that the pooling agreement will not be renewed in January. Miss MacVane No Longer Shadowed. Rome, Dec, 18.—The Italian govern- ment has notified the American am- | bassador, Thomas Nelson Page, that Miss Dorothy A. MacVane, daughter of Professor Silas M. MacVane of Boston, has not been under police sur- veillance for several days, and that in accordance with instructions she will not be subjected to further sur- veillance. Cardinal’s Latest Will Not Found. Rome, Dec. 18.—The coffin_contain- ing the body of Cardinal Rampolla was closed today with the solemn ceremonial of the sacred college. A testament was found dated 1889, but intimates of the late cardinal profess to know of the existence of a will dated some years later. In fact, the cardinal left a small key with a label on which was written: “This opens the black case containing my last will” The case, however, has not been found. r TO SATISFY HORDE OF OFFICE-SEEKERS. Reason of Haste in Currency Bill, De- clares Bristow. 5 ‘Washington, Dec. 18.—With the dem- ocratic legislative machinery running smoothly, the administration currency bill today moved rapidly toward its final passage in the senate. The last of the opposition amendments to the measure was voted down and Senator Owen began the presemtation of the democratic amendments calculated to perfect the measure,which were adopt- ed without strenuous protest. Legislative leaders declared tonight the end of the currency fight was in sight. In the house, Speaker Clark and Majority Leader Underwood expressed the opinion that the measure would 2o to the president and be written into law by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. Mr. Underwood announced his intention ‘of offering an adjournment resolution which would give congress a holiday recess until Jan. 12, as soon as the bill was passed. Informal con- ferences on the measure, he said, al- ready had settled all but a few dis- puted points in the differences between the two houses. Senators Root, Bristow, Burton and Cummins attacked the democrats for the proposal that the employes of the ‘should be exempted from eivil ce requirements, “It is now apparent”” declared Sen- ator Bristow, “that the haste enforced on the consideration of this bill is not only proposed to quiet the financial un- rest in the country, but also to satisfy the horde of hungry office-seekers who have besieged the capltol for the past ten months. Opening up these positions to partisanship would force the federal reserve board to go Into politics whether it wanted to or not.” SCHMIDT’S STRANGE ANTICS IN GERMANY. of the Murderer. New York, Dec. 18.—Hans Schmidt s strange behavior here and in Germany was described today by witnesses for the defense at his trial. for murder. Schmidt's attorneys bent their efforts to proving that he was insane when he killed Anna Aumuller and had been insane for many years before. These were some of his acts the wit- nesses told about: ‘When a priest in Germany he often went about his duties bare-legged and clad only in his cassock. A clerical friend in Munich founc him one day naked in the bathtub, playing the violin. While serving as a priest at St Boniface’s church, New York, he per- formed baptisms contrary to rule and did not hesitate to improvise his own ritual, One witness declared that he neve: turned away a beggar. “The poor devils may need it,” he used to say when friends remonstrated with him for indiscriminate almsgiving. The defense presented a statemeni wade by an examiner in lunacy for the royal superior court of Munich, Germany, who said Schmidt was in- sane vhen he was arrested in Germany SOLD MORE COAL THAN IT BOUGHT. of Western Fuel Company. San Francisco, Dec. 18.—The annual 1909, read by President John L. the stockholders, informed them that on coal imported in that year from Australia the ‘“overrun” wa: $21,87 That is, during the year the company gold that much more coal than its books showed it had received. | The teport was read today to the jury which is trying President Howard and seven other officers and employes of the company for an alleged con- spiracy to defraud the government of customs duties on imported coal by a system of short weights which netted the company since 1904 some 500,000, n amount equal to half its capital stock. = David Norcross, secretary of the | company, was asked what this overrun | meant. o The books would show,” he said, that we had sold that: much mors coal than we bought.” To Announce the New Year. Washington, Dec, 18.—The naval ob- servatory has arranged to send a time slgnal to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new, It will be spread broadcast over both the Atlantie and the centinent by the navy's great radio station at Arling- ton, All ships and shore stations equipped with radio receiving appar- atus, and even amateurs, are asked to listen for this signal, The signal will begin at 11.55 p. m., 75th meri- dian time, December 31, Wireless Carries Voices 40 Miles. New York, Dec, 18—Voices were heard for forty miles by wireless tel- ephone and music five or six miles further, Julius Pehle, a wireless tel- egraph operator at Port Arthur, Texas, testified in the federal court here to- day in defense of Lee De Forest, Sam- uel y, Himer E. Burlingame and James Dunlop Smith, on trial for alleged misuse of the mails In pro- moting stock of the Radio Wireless | it is Demi Telephena company, lSpaakar*GIark Dsfehdg Tariff SAYS BUSINESS HOLDUP IS DUE |JUSTICE CULLEN RESENTS CRIT- TO PRUDENCE. ASSAILS REPUBLICANS Charges Them With Being “Calamity “Howlers”—Mann Calls Attention to the Number of Unemployed. Washington, Dec. 18.—Speaker Clark left his chair in the house today to challenge the patriotism of “calamity howling” republicans, after Minority Leader Mann had made a speech pic- turing the country in the throes of business and industrial depression as a result of democratic tariff legisla- tion. As the “greatest calamity howl- ers in America,” the Speaker present- ed Senator Root of New York, former Speaker Cannon, Chairman Hilles of the republican ~mnational committee, former Governor Hadley of Missouri and Representative Mann. Business Holdup Due to Prudence. igorously defending the new tariff law, Mr. Clark declared that If there had been any holdup of business it was simply because prudence was be- ing exercised. He sald the wish was the father of the thought with the republican leaders and suggested that it was strange that no one else had seen signs of falling prices. “These men,” continued Speaker Clark, “pro- pose to get into‘the newspapers every day, that the country is goifig to the dogs and business is going to the deuce and people that never thoufiht of a panic will begin to study about it. By all thinking men this will be con- sldered a monstrous and unpardonable performance.’ Men Unable to Find Work. Representative Mann had painted a gloomy picture -of the country under the democratic tariff and the threat of political control, of banking and currency. “Throughout the country today,” he said, “wherever men are congregated there is that quiet dis- cussion going on which, when cold weather strikes the country will end in a roar and a howl that will even penetrate the ears of the deaf states- men op the democratic side of the aisle. Men with wives and children, willing to work, who were at work three months ago, are now seeking the opportunity. The president could do much today towards reviving con- fidence if he would. The democratic sida of the house could do much but they are pursuing the fatuous policies which they have talked about on the stump so many ‘years. We are mnot justified in keepiig silerce on the sit- uation.” PRESIDENT TO TAKE A LONG VACATION. Will Probably S8eek A Quiet Spot On the Guif Coast. ‘Washington, Dec. 18.—President ‘Wilgon will take a three weeks' vaca- tion immediately after he signs the currency bill, which is expected to be on Monday or Tuesday. Where he will go has not yet been announced, though it is said he and his, family will select a quiet spot on the coast of the gulf of Mexico near New Orleans. It will be the longest absence of the president from the capital since he was inaugu- rated. The president has been suffering from an attack of grippe for nearly two weeks, but the announcement of his intended vacation was made some time before he became ill. His physi. clan had advised a halt in the presi- dent’s labors, which have been con- tinued without any material interrup- tion for practically a year. SUFFRAGETTES ATTEMPT TO BLOW OUT WALL OF JAIL Two Bombs Placed Near Location of Militants’ Cells. London, Dec. 18.—An attempt, attri- buted to suffragettes, was made to- night to blow up part of the southeast wall of Holloway jail by the explosion of two bombs. The part of the wall attacked was near the cells in which suffragettes are usually confined. Miss Rachel Peace, undergoing a term of 18 months’ imprisonment for arson, is the only suffragette now in the jail. It is alleged she has been subjected to forcible feeding, and at recent militant meetings angry refer- ences were made to her treatment, ! coupled with threats of revenge. The explosion did not damage the jail, but the surrounding high wall was so badly damaged that it will need re- building. No arrests have been made. A FOURTH TRIAL FOR DR. B. C, HYDE. Three Trials on Murder Charge Have Been Without Result. Kansas City, Dec, 18.—Dr. B. Clarke Hyde will face trial a fourth time on the charge of murdering Col. Thomas H. Swope, according to an announce- ment from the office of Floyd Jacobs, county prosecutor. ‘When the third Hyde trial ended | last fail in a jury disagreement, Jan. | 6 next was set for the fourth triai The prosecutor found difficulty in cov- ering the expense of the last trial, and for a time it was understood that a fourth trial was a matter of doubt. I The county court today gave definite assurance that It would pay the cost of a fourth trial. The employment of high salaried ex- | perts to testify and the long drawn out session formed the heavy expense in ! the last trial. SIGNS TREATY WITH THE NETHERLANDS Secretary Bryan’s Peace Plan Accepted by European Nation. Waehington,' Dec. 18-—Secretary Bryan and Chevalier Van Rappard, Netherlande’ minister, today signed a treatgeproviding that any question be- tween the United States and The Neth ds which cannot be settled by diplomacy, shall be submitted for investigation to an international com- mission of five members. The period of investigation is fixed at one year, although it may be shortened. This is the first treaty between the United Btates and a Buropean nation, ?}ed on tmm.ry Bryan’'s peace plan, imilar ies have been negotiated with five Central American nations and ned to sign one with the tomorrow. in courts, Cecilation is the Largest in Connecticut in Blames Jury in Thaw Gase ICISMS OF COURT. IS NOT REACTIONARY It is Stationary, he Says, but Should Be So—Takes dents Roosevelt and Taft. Issue with ex-Presi- Albany, N, Y., Dec. 18—Criticisms of made by both former Presi- dents Taft and Roosevelt was termed ‘‘unjustified” tonight by Chief Justice Edgar M. Cullen of the New York state court of appeals, The justice will re- tire on January 1 under the age law and his remarks were made at a ban- quet given him by the Albany County Bar association. Technicalities, red tape and an imperfect jury system, he declared, were responsite for many miscarriages of justice for which the bench was held responsible. In this connection he called attention to the Thaw case, saying ‘“whole responsi- bility for the miscarriage of justice in this case was due_to the action of the Jury.”. Criticisms of Courts Unjustified. Judge Cullen declared he favored the appointment rather than the elec- tion of judges. The principles for which judges act rather than their individual characters have been criti- cized, he said, in bringing the names of the two former presidents into his remarks. These criticisms have been greatly fostered by the public addresses of the two living ex-presidents of this coun- try, both of wyhom I have the honor of knowing ayd both of whom, in their personal characters, I highly respect,” he declared. “I resent their criticism, not because I believe that courts, more than any other human institution, should be exempt from criticism, but because I think in both cases the criticism is unjustified.” Roosevelt’s Charge Unfounded. Colonel Roosevelt frequently has us>3 what is known as the “Ives” case to illustrate what he contends was usur- pation of power by the New York state court of appeals. This charge, Judge Cullen said, “was wholly un- founded.” In a recent address before the Amer- ican Bar association, Mr, Taft asserted that law breakers feared federal courts more than state courts, “because law and justice® more certainly prevail there than buncombe and mere senti- ment.” “I think it is not necessary for the proper praise of thé federal judiciary to induige in asperstons on the state judiciary,” Judge Cullen remarked in discussing the former president’s re- marks. Court Not Reactionary. “That the court is reactionary I deny” he concluded. “That it is stationary I admit. I assert that if it were other- wise it would usurp power not con- fined to it.” NO RECEIVERSHIP FOR THE BOSTON & MAINE. New Haven Directors Hope to Extri- cate It from Its Predicament. New York, Dec. 18.—The affairs of the Boston and Maine Rallroad com- pany were discussed at today’s meet- ing of the executive committee of the New York, New Haven and Hartford raflroad. New Haven has a control- ing interest in Boston and Maine, which has $27,000,000 of one year six per cent. notes falling due in the com- ing year, $10,000,000 in February and the balance in June. Chairman Elliott declined to say what progress, if any, was belng made toward meeting these obligations. He deprecated all rumors of receiversnip and intimated that with a little more time the New Haven directors hoped to extricate the Boston and Maine from its present situation, Steamers Reported by Wireless. Lizard, Dec. 18.—Steamer Olympic, New York for Plymouth and South- ampton, signalled 431 miles west at 9.40 a. m. Due Plymouth 7 a. m, Fri- day. Queenstown, Dec. 18.—Steamer Cel- tic, New York for Queenstown and Liverpool, signalled 210 miles west at 9.45 a. m. Due Queenstown 11 p. m. Fastnet, Dec. 17.—Steamer Ivernia, New York for Queenstown and Liv- erpool, signalled 451 miles west at midnight. Due Queenstown 9 a. m. Friday. New York, Dec. 18.—Steamer Na- poli, Naples for New York, signalled 445 miles east of Sandy Hook at 8 a. m. Dock late Friday or 830 a. m. Saturday. Sable Island, N. 8., Dec. 18.—Steam- er Pisa, Hamburg for Boston, sig- nalled 390 miles east of Boston at noon. Steamer Michigan, Antwerp for Bos- ton, signalled at noon. Distance not given, New York, Dec. 15.—Steamer Czar, Libau for Halifax and New York, sig- nalled 1,270 miles east of Sandy ook at_noon. Siasconett, Mass., Dec. 18—Steamer Prinzess Irene Genoa, for New York, signalled 193 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock at Sable Island, N. 8., Dec. 18—Steamer Amertka, Hamburg for New York, signalled at § p. m. No position given Dock late Saturday or 8.30 a. m. Zelaya Undecided When to Sail. New York, Dec. 18.—Jose Santos Zelaya, former president of Nicaragua, has not yet decided when he will leave this country. He is a guest at a New York hotel where it was stated at his apartments tonight that he had set no date for sailing. His secretary, Zelaya said, had not received the mes- sage from Washington at the instance of the state department today, asking when he planned to start for Bar- celona, Municipal “Health Centers.” New York, Dec. 18.—Munielpal “health centers,” primarily to prevent sickness rather than cure, were recom- mended to the board of estimate to- day by a committee that has been in- Vestigating the city’s hospital system. , The “health centers” would teach citi- zens how to keep well, Calde’s Dismissal Approved. ‘Washington, Dec, 18.—President Wil- son today approved the sentenca of dismissal imposed by general court martial in the Philippines case on Cap- tain H. Calde, 18th infantry, who was ezzlement of funds belonging to or- lzations in his regiments ]c)onvicted of charges involving em- 8.30 a. m. Friday.| Cabled Paragraphs There Were 206 Automobiles_ stolen in New York to date this year, of which 164 have been recovered. Woman Suffrage was favored by the New Hampshire state grange yester- day by a vote of 113 to 61. Harvard University and the Univer- sity of Chile are considering an annual exchange of professors and students.. Mrs. Margaret Farrell was burned to death at Woonsocket, R. L, yesterday a.sfithe result of pouring kerosene on a fire. Will Davis Haye: gragdson of Jef- ferson Davis, and Miss Elizabeth Mc- Euen Davis, were married at Colorado Springs. Junius S. Morgan, son of the New York financier, has been unanimously elected president of the Del Phic at Harvard. A Memorial Window has been erect- ed in the church of the Messiah Rhinebeck, N. Y., by the widow of John Jacob Astor. Owing To The Condition of his health Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has concluded not to be a candidate for re-election. Perkins Carpenter, Aged 80, a town charge was burned to death yesterday in a small cottage at the New Hart- ford Almshouse. J. M. Davis, general superintendent of the Southern Pacific, has resigned to become general manager of an eastern railway. b Sty 7 Mrs. Frank Etheridge of Thomaston was taken from an afternoon train at New Britain, and died a few minutes later in the station. More Than Three Million Bushels of grain is held for shipment from Port- land, Maine. The greater portion of it will be sent to Burope. A Jury To Try the white wife of Charlie Wing, a Chinese, for his mur- der, was completed in Judge McDon- ald’s court at Chicago, yesterday. Experts In The nal Corps at the the, successful bomb dropping by the Spanish aviators with keen interest. Owing To A Doctor’s Failure to recognize diphtheria germs in a patient 23 attendants of the Fordham Hospital in New York have been quarantined. Milo March Of Goshen, Ind., and now a senior at Princeton University, was chosen yesterday as the Indiana recip- ient of the Rhodes scholarship at Ox- ford University, Engiand. Dr. William C. Bertrum, of the staff of St. Luke’s Hospital at Newburgh, N. Y, is dead from blood poisoning, resulting from pricking his finger witl a needle during an operation. An Official Statement from the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road is to the effect that the loss suf- fered in the fire at the Derby railroad station would not exceed $6,000. William R. George, founder of the George Junior Republic in Freevilie, was condemned by the New York State Board of Charitles because of alleged relations with girls in his institution. The Committee On Life Saving ap- pliances appointed by the International Congress on Bafety at Sea have agreed upon their recommendations which will be submitted to the congress early in January. Edward F. Hitchcock, who was held in jail at Hudson Falls, N. Y., on a charge of murdering his brother-in- law, Henry Norton, on a farm near there, recently, hanged himself yester- day in his cell. He made a rope of bed clothing. A Sweeping Declaration in favor of government ownership of telephone and telegraph lines and an assertion that the Postal Service now is self- supporting for the first time since 1883 are features of the annual report of Postmaster General Burleson. Raymond Harroun, Jr., ten year old son of Raymond Harroun, winner of the first 500 mile automobile race held at the Indianapolis motor speedway in 1911, died at a hospital at Indianapolis yesterday, the result of internal in- jurles received when he was struck by an automobile. A Man Who Registered as Thomas Smith, Boston, at a Twenty-seventh street hotel, New York, Wednesday night, was found dead in his room yesterday. A vein in one of his legs had burst. Letters and papérs bore the name of David W. Lonergan of the Writers Club, Boston. Fernald M. Eldridge was released yesterday from the county jail at Augusta, Me., where he had been held on suspicion since December 7, when the bodies of his parents, Mr. and Mrs W. B. Eldridge, were found in th pertly burned home at West Gardiner The verdict of a coroner's jury was that both deaths were due to suffocation. Captain _Louis Lane of the power schooner Polar Bear, which is frozen in the Arctic Ocean near Flaxman Is- { land, arived at Seattle from Valdez by | steamer yesterday, accompanted by Eben Draper of Boston, son of Ex- Governor Draper of Massachusetts, | Dunbar Lockwood, also of Boston, and Will T. Hudson, 2 newspaper photogra- | pher. | | _Under Instructions from Secretary | Garrison, Major Boggs. chief purchas- ing agent of the Panama Canal com- mission, wes in conference yesterday { with officials of the department of jus- tice regarding the charges that John . | Burke, manager of the comm { department of the Panama collected commissions on made for the raflroad 3 SCHMIDT WOUNDS GIRL _ AND KILLS HIMSELF. Youth Resented Girl's Refusal to Elope with Him. New York, Dec. 18.—Annle Meyer, a 17-year old Brooklyn girl, refused to elope with Joseph Schmidt, aged 20, tonight and Schmidt shot her in the face and then sent a bullet into his head, dying instantly. Th girl's jaw was broken. She will recover. The two had been close friends for several months, according to the police and Schmidt’s jealous had been aroused because other youths paid the girl attention. ‘The tragedy tonight was enacted in the street a few blocks from the girl's home. President Hadley Oxford Lecturer. London, Dec. 18-—Arthur T, Hadley, president of Yale university, has been appeinted lecturer on American his- tory at Oxford university for 1914, purchases | Proportion to the City’s Population war department heard the report of | | Gard Games for the Legislators INQUIRY ABOUT THEM AT NEW HAVEN HEARING. WERE ALLOWED TO WIN Money Came Easy to Statesmen In Game of Railroad Employes—News- papermen Carried on the Payroll. Boston, Dec, 18.—Further explana- tlon of some of the payments made by the New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad to newspapermen and former legislators was sought at the hearing before the public service com- mission. Testimony that he was employed by the New Haven company to read ail legislation in search of “jokers” affect- ing the rallroad was given by John J. Gartland, a real estate dealer and for- mer member of the legislature. It re- quired an expert, he said, to detect the hidden meanings in some of the bills. 4 Paid for a Weekly Letter. George H. Sargent, a newspaper re- porter, testified that he received money from the railroad in return for a week- ly letter which he mailed to news- papers in small towns. John A. Alarby, who described him- self as a “legislative messenger” em- vloyed by the railroad, said that he re- celved $750 a year in 1912 and 1913 for following legislation at the statehouse. He denied ever speaking to members of the legislature and explained thal nis duties merely required him to at- tend all commitiee hearings. Queried About Card Games. Information regarding card games alleged to have been conducted by em- ployes of the New Haven company at a hotel here and at which members of the legislature were said to have been allowed to win large sums of money, was sought from Henry E. Bowden, another “messenger,” by Arthur D. Hill, attorney for a Boston newspaper. Bowden denied that he conducted any card games in which legislators habit- ually participated, When asked to give the commission all facts in regard to card games in which members of the legislature took part, Bowden declined on the ground that the answer might incriminate bim. Boston Newspapermen Under Pay. Donald C. McDonald testified that payments were made to him as treas- urer on practical policies and were not personal. He denied that he had ren- dered to the New Haven anything that might be called “services.” Michael E. Hennessy, statehouse re- porter for a Bostori newspaper, sald that the $300 he received from the road was for preparation of articles for newspapers entirely aj from his regular duties. John Buchanan, for- merly connected with a Boston news- paper but now an advertising agent, sald the money he received was for advertising, not for services. UNIONS TO WITHDRAW MONEY FROM THE BANKS. Believe it is Beilng Used to Crush Out the Working People. Indlanapolis, Ind, Dec. $—As an aft- ermath of the recent labor trouble and strikes here it was announced today that officers -of intetrnational unions having headquarters in this city have decided to withdraw from Indianapolis banks on January 1 all funds of the in- ternational organizations that it la possible to withdraw at that time. The deposits amount to between $4,000,000 and $5000,000. The money is divided among a number of institutions and it is sald the withdrawal will not me- riously affect any one bank. A statement by the officers 13 “We have reason to believe that said moneys ure being used by the merchants, manufacturers and team owners of Indianapolis to destroy an@ crush out the working people.” PRESIDENT TO ACT IN CARABOA MATTER. Navy and Army Secretaries Frame Report on Case. ‘Waghington, Dec, 18—Investigation of the travesties upon the administra- tion’s Philippines policy at the annual dinner of the Military Order of Caraboa will result in some actlon by the president. Secretary Garrison and Secretary Daniels joined today in framing a re- port to President Wilson upon the imn- cidents of the dinner and afterwards Secretary Garrison discussed the sub- ject with the president. Later it was announced that some action would be taken “emanating the Whits House.” In the meantime neither of secretaries will make any state- ment, OBITUARY. Rev. Thomas K. Abbott. Dublin, Dec. 18—The Rev. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, librarian of Trinity college, Dublin, and a noted scholar and writer on scriptural and philo- sophical subjects, died today. He was born in 1829, Suffragist Distributes Violets. Paris, Dec. 18.—A beautiful woman laden with violets, styling herself “Lady fan Glemdworth, pacific suffragette” entered the lobby of the chamber of deputies this afternoon and gave flowers to those deputies willing 1o add their names to her “one million signature” ~ petition for woman's suf- frage. “Accept these violets,” . she eaid, “they wil make you forget the violence of my misguided sisters.” Miners to Have Mwre Time. Calumet, Mich., Dec, 18—The mining companies in the copper strike district today decided to give the men until the first of the year to return to work. After that date the vacancies will be filled with outside men, it was an- nounced. The original time limit set by the operators would have expired tomorrow, but business men, for the o!d employes to remain here, interceded to extend the time. Japs Resent Immigration Bill. London, Dee. 18—The Tokio corre- spondent of the Times says there are ready signs of resentment at the osed immigration legislation of the nited States but the government 4« precates the popular excitement and is anxious that there should be no neces. sity for a formal protest in view of Japan's mflc to n-nm-.u in the S e e

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