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CH, an Armed Force of GUARD FOR EMBASSY IS Report From Mexico City That Huerta Had Refused Such a Request of United States Believed to Have Been Inspired by Huerta For Effect Upon Mexican People—Villa Said 200 at Mexico City DEEMED UNNECESSARY to Have Admitted That Benton Was Shot Without Trial —Texas Governor Wants to Send His Rangers Across the Border But is Admonished by Bryan That He Would Be Usurping a Federal Responsibility-—Aeroplane Ar- rives For Rebels. Washington, Feb 26.—President Wil- son took the position today that for the TUnited States to send marines or arm- ed forces of any kind into Mexico with- out the consent of the governing au- thorities there would be an act of war. He declared emphatically that permis- sion to send such forces never had been | sought of either General Huerta or General Carranza, and indicated clear- | Iy that no request of that character| would be made in the near future. The president announced, too, that no change in ‘the policy of the American government toward Mexico had been decided upon. Many Unfounded Reports. The president had been asked par- ticularly about reports that American troops might be sent across the border to recover the body of William S. Ben- ton,' the British subject recently exe- | cuted at Juarez and concerning pub- | lished despatches that the United States contemplated sending parties to Mexico City to guard the American | embassy. One press despatch, saying General Huerta himself had stated today that he had refused permission to the Unit- ed States to send 200 marines to Mex- ico City, was shown t¢ President Wil- son, who said it was absolutely untrue that such a'request had been made. He | added that neither Charge O’Shaugh- | nessy nor anyone else had been au- thorized to discuss with the Huerta government the landing of American marines in Mexico. Embassy Guard Considered Unneces- sary. H Administration officials expressed the opinion that General Huerta probably inspired the statement about American | marines at tKis time merely for effect upon_the Mexican people, whom he hoped to impress with his antipathy to the American government, as it is well known that permission to land marines for legation suards has been freely accorded by Huerta fo other nations, including Great Britain and Germany. The president explained to inquirers that the talk of sending marines to Mexico had never got bevond they stages of mere discussion among m-{ ministration officials. He said that when Great Britain and Germany sent marines to Mexico City to guard their legations, though the United States was apprised in advance of the step and offered no objections, there was a patural disposition here to determine whether the American government siould take similar action. His infor- mation, he added, was that Mexico City was_quiet and that there was no dan- ger to foreigners, and when Charze O'Shaughnessy and Rear Admiral Fletcher were asked for their opinions | about an embassy guard, both advised | that such a step was not necessary. Would Invelve Recognition of Huerta. It was clearly realized by the ad- ministration here at the time the dis- cussion began that to ask the Huerta govarnment for permission to land ma- rines would involve a Tecognition of that government. In discussing the subject of sending armed forces into Mexico, the president showed familiarity with the precedents, pointing out that at the time of the Boxer rebellion the Chinese govern- ment had virtually invited the allied powers to protect thelr legations be- canse of tts own inability to do so. He referred to the fact that the landing of American marfnes In_ Nicaragua to protect a railroad was done with the permissfon of the Nicaraguan govern- ment. The president saw no parallel in Mexico to the situation that existed at the time of the Boxer outbreak. When it was suggested to him that President Buchanan in 8 message to congress had advocated sending troops into | northern Mexico to restore peace. Mr. Wilson said he had recently read the message and called attention to the failure of President Buchanan to point out any rule of jntrenational la wun- der which armed forees could be sent into another country without the lat- ter's permission unless it were an act of war. Ne Intention to Partition Mexico. The president views the general sit- wation in Mexico as far as the progress of the revolutien is concerned as little ehanged. Huerta's resources, he thinks, have been weakened, and he has learn- ed of an_undertone of dissatisfaction among Mexicans in the territory con- tolled by Huerta at the latter's arbi- ry eaction of funds. He indicated at he had inquired into varfous re- orts about American financial aid te ‘arransa, and was convinced that there was no barter in eoncessions between Carranza and American financiers. | VERGARA'S ARREST. Was Accemplished on Mexican Side— Was Witnessed by His Wif Laredo, Texas, Feb. 26.—Clemente Vergara, the Texas ranchman, was *| Mexican policy, | president for urging { canal, ing animels among the horses ridden by the federal troopers. It was established, said Hill, that Vergara was seized along the Mex- ican bank of the river, and not on the island about which a question has arisen whether it is Mexican or Amer- ican territory. Mrs. Vergara witnessed the assault on her husband. According. to Hill, Vergara had been told by fed- eral soldiers that Captain Rodriguez wished to settle with him for seven stolen horses and accompanied by his | nephew he crossed the river. The soldiers knocked Vergara un- | conscious and with the distracted wite watching from_ the other bank, took him away to Hidalgo. The boy ran and hid in the brush. Mrs, Vergara visited her husband in jail the following day and dressed his” wounds, Hill said. On Saturday he was taken from the prison, sup- posedly to be transferred to Piedras Negras. Later the body was seen hanging. Two days ago the body dis- | appeared and a newly made graye In | the Hidalgo cemetery was noticed by several Mexicans who since have told the Neuvo Laredo police. Consul Garrett tonigfit said he was convinced by the federals’ attitude that it would have been dangerous for him fo search for the body in the cem- etery. He told Captain Rodriguez that he would securc orders for the re- moval of the hody. That no mistake could have been made in the identity of the man han ed is assured, it is said, by the iden- tification of the body by half a dozen persons. Vergara was well known throughout that section. ~ Carranza Hears from Bryan. Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, Feb. The_constitutionalist commander-in- chief, General Venustiano Carranza, received tonight a communication from Secretary of State: Bryan regarding the death recently at Juarez of W. S. Benton, a British subject. i NO COURTMARTIAL. Vilia Said to Have Admitted Benton Was Shot Without Trial. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 26.—A new ver- sion of how William S. Benton met his death at Juarez, essentially differing from the official account given out by General Villa, and believed by Benton’s friends and countrymen to be authen- tic, has reacned here. Americans and others interested in the incident have never ceased their efforts to learn the precise circumstances under whicn Benton died, and they have now ob- tained an account of the affair, in a large measure based on admissions by Viila himself, which they believe to be correct, cxcept for the latter's claim 3 | that Benton had admitted he meant to, do him harm. They believe Villa him- (Continued on Page Eight) MAYOR OPPOSES ; MANUAL TRAINING. Defies School Committee by Removing the Paraphernalia. Newburyport, Mass.,, Feb. 26—Mayor Hiram H. Landford's helief that man- ual training should not be taught in the publis schools was put into practi- cal effect today when the mayor sent a dray to the quarters occupied by this department and had all its working paraphernalia removed and placed in storage in city hall. He anneunced that he would refuse to sanction bills for maintenance of the manual train- ing course after March 1. Attorneys for the school committee will file a petition in the supreme court tomorrow asking for a writ of manda- mus to compel the mayor to furnish quarters for the sehoel. Under his interpretation of a recent law Mayor Landford submitted to the city ceuncil a detailed budget of pre posed school expenses making no pra- vision for the manual training school, It is his eontention that he has the power in this way to abolish the scheel. POLICY ASSAILED Senator Foraker Creates Enthusiasm at Harmony Mecting. Colwmbus, 6. Feb, 26.—Asserting that democratic rule in state and na- tion is a failure ,and charging that the so-called “political machine which has been established I Ohio by Gov- ernor James M. Cox” is a menace to free government, Ohio republicans and some progressives gathered here 10- day af a “harmony banquet. A demonstration took place when former United States Senator Jaseph B. Foraker was called to the speaker’s stand. He assafied President Wilson's terming it “a pusil- lanimous policy” and criticised the that American ships pay tolls through the Panama A WINSTED PASTOR assaulted by Mexican lederal soldiers on the Mexican side of the Rie Grands and imprisoned at Hidalgo February 18. TFwo days later he was hanged from a tree three miles from that city and the body left uncared for until two days age, whem it was secretly removed. This was established to the satis< faction of 'S. J. Hill, ‘brother-in-law of Vergara, who went to Hidalgo to- FIGHTS FOR BEQUEST. Deprived Him of $1,800, the Housekeeper Getting It. ‘Winsted, Conn., Feh. 26.—Rev. Bur- ton E. Case of Middlebury lost his ap- peal from the probate court today in ‘ort to set aside an $1,800 bequest Codicil day with United States Consul Gar- rett to investigate the death of the American. They returned to Neuvo Laredo latc soldiers at Hidglgo. miss- an eff in the will of the late ¥. J. Viets of Winsted, a Jury in the superior court bringing in a verdict against Mr, Case, Twelve days before Mr. Viets died he made a codicil to his will giving $1,500 to his housekeeper, ‘heffer. The sum had y been bequeathed to Mrs. Case. The jury was out less than half an hour. The Eugenic Marriage Idea is incor- porated in a bill introduced yesterday by Assemblyman Tudor of New York. Thoflulatm’s cl}mon in'Norwie; |sflwble That of Any Other and Its WON'T SEND MARINES INTO MEXICO United States Has Not Asked Permission to Have Cabled_ Paragraphs $1,000,000 for Cuban Capitol. Havana, Feb, 26.—The Cuban sen- ate today passed a bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the erection of a Cuban capitol bullding, German Duel Ends Fatally. Metz, Germany, Feb. 26—Lieutenant Haage of the 98{h Infantry regiment, stationed here, was killed today in & duel with Lieut. Von La Valette Saint George, of the same regiment. Suffragettes Burn Another Church. Dunbar, Scotland, Feb. 26—An son squad” of militant suffragettes to day burned to the ground the histor: Parish church of the village of White- kirk near here. A large quantity of suffrage literature was left strewn about the scene, The church contained many relics. The Campania in Collision, Liverpool, Feb. 26—Entering _the Mersey tonight on her trip from New York, the Cunard iine steamer Cam- pania_collided with a dredger. It is not known whether the Campania sus- tained any injury, but her propeiler made a great hole in the dredger. No lives were lost on the smaller boat as a result of the collision, New York Pastor Called to London. London, Feb, 26.—An invitation was forwarded by cable today to the Rev. Dr, John Henry Jowett, pastor of the Fifth _Avenue Presbyterian church in New York, to assume the pastorate of the Union Chapel in Islangton. Dr. Jowett left the Carr Lane Congre- gational church in Birmingham . in January, 1911, to assume his present pastorate. WORCESTER MAN DEAD IN “WILDS” OF PARIS. Had Hired a Guide to Show Him the City’s Underworld. Paris, Feb. 26.—The police here are investigating the death of an American who is belleved to have been Henry Collett of Worcester, Mass., and who left New York some time 4go as a passenger on ihe steamer Cleveland for a cruise around the world. T'he body of the man was found to- day in & small hotel in the Rue Aux Ours, a low quarter of Paris. It was i¥ing on the floor with a bullet in the | head and a heavy revolver by its side. | Two empty whiskey bottles were on a table near by. In the pockets of the dead man was| a letter bearing the name “Henry Col- lett, Worcester, Mass.” and seven | francs in silver and a few sous. No pocketbook or banknotes were found | on the body. The man came to the hotel Tuesday night with a chance acquaintance, an unemployed cierk named Kugene Du- bols, whom he had engaged near the Lyons railway station on his arrival from Marseilles, where he is said to have left the tourist steamer, Dubois said he was hired to show the man the city. 3 To the landlord of the hotel Dubois said his empioyer was always drinking and that he bad been put out of an- other hotel in the center Of the eHy and came to the Rue Aux Ours because | he wanted to see the underworld. The man returned alone to the hotel Wednesday night. Repeated knockings on his door today remained unanswer- ed, and thelandiord at noon called the | police who forced the door and found | the body. HARTFORD LANDMARK WIPED OUT BY FLAMES. The Auditorium Burned Down, Entail- ing Loss of Over $100,000. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 26—Close on | | the heels of Saturday’s $300,000 fire | | which ~ destroyed the union railroad | station came another fire today which | burned down the old Auditorium in | Asylum street, several stores and a | moving picture theatrs, entailing an estimated loss of $100,000. The Allyn house, one of the city’s leading hotels, | nearly adjoining, was damaged by smoke and water to the extent of $ 000. The loss to the Auditorium build- ing and stores is covered by $75,000 insurance. The origin of the blaze had not been definitely determined tonight, but it started in the store of G. W. Fuller & company. The blaze spread with great | rapidity and three algrms brought out | nearly the entire fire fighting appara- tus of the city. As in Saturday’s fire, | the firemen were delayed by the heavy snow in the streets. Coming at the noon hour, the fire; drew a great erowd of spectators,which eftectually jammed the streets for | blocks around and made difficult work | for the firemen. The walls of the | building toppled over into the street | when the fire was burning most briskly and several -firemen had narrow es- capes from injury. Three firemen were hurt, ons having his leg broken. The Auditorfum was one of the city’s landmarks and for many years was the scene of famous political conventions, A GREATER FLOW OF THE SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD. Taft Speaks Optimistio Vein Before Emanuel Brotherhood. ew Yeork, Feb, 26—“There is a greater flow of the spirit of brother- hoed through all human beings th there was a generation age,” said former President William Taft at the fenth anniversary of the Emanuel Brotherheod, ebserved here tenight at Temple Emanuel, “We see it in the larger tolerance the different religious denominations have fer each ether and we ses it in the sense of responsibility of those who have been fortunate in aceumu- lating wealth,” he explained. Charge Against Sulzer Withdrawn. New York, Feb. 26.—The charge that ‘William Sulzer, former governar, and John A. Hemnessy, who was his ‘graft | | Investigator, were in league with tho | state highway department to favor cer- | | tain -asphalt contractors as against | others was withdrawn here today at a hearing before James Osborne, | Governor Glynn’s investigator. Henry | A. Rubino, attorney for the Warner- | ! Quinlan Asphait company, anpounced | | he was unabie to substantiate the allc- | gation. | Smallpox at Portland, | Portland, Conn., Feb. 26.—A number of cases. of supposed chickenpox in | this town have proved to be smallpox, | according to a diagnosis today by ‘Health Officer Potter. Nine persons in the family of Fred Thompson have been ill with fhe supposed chicken- pox.- A four year old boy in the fam- ily was so ill today that Dr. Potter | was called and then the true nature of the disease was learned. A strict quarantine was at once established. | gambler, will be electrocuted during in 16 Momhs BECKER AND WIFE HAVE HAPPY | TELLS THE STORY OF HER MAR- 'REUNION. TAKEN TO THE TOMBS|A BRIDE Former Police Lieutenant Leaves the | Three Months Later Domestic Infeli- Death Cell—Demonstration by Other Prisoners—Gunmen Sentenced. New York, Feb. 26.—After a trip from Ossini: accompanied by his wife, Charles cker, the.former lie: tenant of the New York police de- partment, was lodged in cell in the Tombs tonight. He was placed in cell No. 117, three doors from the ong he occupied before he was taken to Sing Sing on October 30, 1912, to be ex- ecuted for the part he is alleged to have played in the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler. First Kiss in 16 Months. Mrs. Becker arrived at Sing Sing prison early in the afternoon with a bundle of her husband’s clothing un- der her arg. She did not know at the time that Becker’s attorney, Joseph A. Shay, had received from the court of appeals the order reversing the cenviction of her husband. When Shay and two deputy sheriffs arrived at the prison with another order signed by Supreme Court Justice Bijur au- thorizing the release of Becker from the death house, the former policeman and his wife were sitting in the war-' den’s office. Their chairs were close together. Once the waroen and the guards turned their backs, “That's the first time I have kissed my wife in sixteen months, ald Becker afterwards. Shouts by Other Prisoners. As Becker, his attorney, his wife and the deputies guarding him step- ped from the door of the prison, a “trusty” working almost ~opposite waved his hand toward the long gray stone building, within whose walls nearly every convict in the prison had been locked up for the night. Immediately there was a shout from the barred windows that was heard all the way to the railroad station, nearly a mile away. As Becker en- tered ‘a sleigh and was driven past the row of cell windows, another roar went up. ! On the way to the station Becke: expressed regret that he had not had time to say goodbye to all the other inmates of the death house. 1T am especially sorry,” he said, “that I was unable to say a word or two to the four gunmen. Wouldn't Live in New York. “And I want tp take this opportu- nity_to that 1 didn't really mean What T said yesterday about ZOINE back in the police department and clean- ing up the gunmen in New York. I wouldn't go back on the force for all the money in the world. There is nothing that could induce me to' live in New York after I am finally freed— for I am confident that 1 will be. I want to get away-from the city. My greatest sorrows and my greatest tri- | umphs have been in New York. But I} didn’t get a square deal. “Whitman on the Level.” “I see that District Attorney Whit- man 1s quoted as saying that he plans to have me brought to trial again within the next six weeks. I hope he does it sooner than that. I do not fear the district attorney, I believe him to be a just man. If he, personally, and no one else, prosecutes the case against mie, I know the thing will be done right. Whitman is on the level I can say no more than that.” Gunmen to Die April 13th. Albany, N. Y. Feb. 26. Blood,” “Lefty Louie,” “W and “Dago Frank” the four gunmen Jjointly convicted ‘with former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the the week beginning April 13. The date was fixed by the court of appeals to- day, Must Stand Trial Ag: District Attorney Whitman today declared positively that he would seek to put Becker on trial again for the murder of Herman Rosenthal. He was, he said, preparing the people’s case against the ex-police lleutenant, and would move for a new trial in elther April or May, but was unable to fix the exact date at this time. INDUSTRY ANNOYED THE SUMMER VISITORS. Court Enjoins Rockpert Granite Com- pany at Cape Ann. Boston, Feb. 26—The harsh notses of granite grinding machines no long- er will aisturb the summer visitors on Cape Ann, for the ehildren of the late General Eenjamin ¥, Butler today ob- tained from the supreme court a re- straining order against the Roekport Granite company, of whieh their fa- ther was one of the incorporators. The Butlers have spent their sum- mers at Bayview, near Reckport, for many years, but Teeently the seven nding machines at the granite quar- Ties have been operated, according te the court, “in sueh an unreasamable manner as to interfere with reasonable enjoyment of life” Steamship Arrivals. Genea, Feb, 21—Steamer Taermina, W ¥ork Prinzess - Algiers, Pob. 25—Steamer Jrene, New ¥ork for Naples. Glasgow, Feb. 36.—Steamer Sicilian, Bostorn. Havre, Feb. 25.—Steamer La Savoie, | New York. | Feb. 26.—Steamer Alaunia, | Boston. i Fishguard, Peb. 26.—Steamer Cam- pania, New York for Liverpool. Nes York, Feb. 26.—Steamer VQI'OA; . N. 8. Feb. %6.—S(eamer An- | a, Liverpool, and sailed for Boston. No Agreement With Miners. Philadeiphia, Feb. 26.—Unable to reach an agréement on a new wage scale to take the place of the present one_which expires March 31, the joint conference of operators and miners from western Pennsylvania, Ohio, In- diana and Illinois’ today ' adjourned sine die. It was announced that this action does not necessarily mean a strike, as it was polnted out that five weeks remaln for the two sides o get together fn anotherreffort to reach an New Harvard Professor. London, Feh. 26—The Rev. Dr. K sopp Lake, professor of eatly Christian literature and New Testament exegesis in the University of Leiden, has been appointed professor of early Christian- ity at Harvard university, agreement. > P. A. B. Widener of Philadelphia, has acquis the famous Morosini Helmers, said to be the finest specimen of its Kind, for $89,000 from a firm New York Art dealers. s | TMrs. Bt the Lar gest in C 5 Witness Stand| o o sen i of 85 years. RIED LIFE. AT AGE OF 15 city Began—Remained ‘for Children's Sake—Still Loved Her Husband. Little Valley, N. Y., Feb. 26. —Swear- ing In no witnesses in rebuttal, the de- fense late today rested its case against the charge of murder on which Mrs. Cynthia Buffum is being tried. Justice Charles H. Brown will charge the jury tomorrow afternoon. Mrs, Buffum's attorney closed his proof early this afternoon, calling but four witnesses. From them he elicited further statements that Willis Buffum, the alleged poison victim, before his death had threatened the life of his ‘wife and himself. Dr. Willlam Lesie of Phoenix, N. Y. testifled that twelve vears ago Wil Buffum came to him for treatment, and on leaving said: Trouble Began Three Marri; “I guess I will set rid of the whole family.” Mrs. Buffum, in her direct examina- tion sald that she had been married ‘when 15 years old. than three months after the wedding, she said, her husband her of infidelity, and continued to repeat the charges throughout their married life, partic- ularly when Buffum was under the in- fluence of liquor. She denied that she had any infatustion for Ernest Frahm, her alleged accomplice, or that he had ever suggest~d they live together after Months After ‘getting rid of her husband. Remained for Children’s Sake. Under cross-examination Mrs. Buf- fum never wavered in her general di nial of her alleged confession, which, private detectives. When your husband made those vile | versity. charges against you, Special Prosecu tor Cole asked her, “did you love him “I @id. I didn’t lke them. to have the children hear them. I in- tended to leave him several times with my babies, but there were the chil- dren.’ Still Loved Husband. “And you imsist that you loved your husband as much during his illness and as much during your relations with Ernest Frahm as you did in early mar- riage ™ asked Mr. Cole. “I did,” she said-slowly and earnest- 1y, “I did. I say that with truth’ “ A CASE OF EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF” Passenger’s Description of Conditions After Steamboat Collision, Philadelphia, Feb, 26.—Clarence H. Davids of Yonkers, N. Y., 2 passenger on the steamship Monroe which was sunk in a collision with the Nantucket was a witness today in the trial of Captain Berry of the latter vessel and testified that so far as he could ob- sel “it was every man for him- self” after the Monroe was rammed and began to sink. He admitted, how- ever, that he did not know when he jumped into the sea that lifeboats had been launched from the Monroe and that many persons were picked up by them. Davids was saved by a boat from the Nantucket. Adolph Doehler, chief wireless oper- ator of the Nantucket, and five mem- bers of its crew also were examined today. Doehler testified he was read- ing a book until a few minutes before the collision .and that he had heard messages exchanged between the Mon- roe and her sister ship, the Hamilton. He said theSe messages related to the Weather and the position of the ships and he did not think it necessary to repeat them to his captain. The hearing was adjourned until March 9. ALLEGED BUNCO WORKERS ARRESTED. Separated Philadelphia Woman From $48,000 Four Years Ago. New York, Feb. 26.—“Paper Collar Joe” Gray and Michael Shea, out on bail under indictments charging them with working the wire tapping game, were arrested here today on a charge of swindling a Philadelphia woman out of $48,000 four years ago. They were found by s Philadelphia detective in the district attorney’s office, where they were waiting to give evidence against Dominick Riley, a former po- lice captain, who is to be tried for bribery in connection with the wire tapping swindles here, MISS ALMA GLUCK TO WED VIOLINIST. to Take Place at Next June. Marriage Londen Kansas €ity, Mo., Feb. 26.—Miss Al- ma Gluck, the prima donna, teday an nouneed that she is engaged to marry Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist and protege of the late Joseph Fels. ‘balist is mow teuring Russia. Miss Gluck said the marriage prebably would be in June at the Fels home in Lendon. OBITUARY. Alanson 8. Hall. Colorade Springs, Coi, ¥Feb. 36.— After a Jong iliness Alanson S, Hall, mulil-milligaire and for many_ ears rominent in South American affairs, ied today at his home at Breadmoor, Col. Mr. Hall was for several yvears American censul at Resario, Argentine Repnblic. He was bora December 31, 1843 Admiral Krantz. Toulon. France, Feb. 26.—Vice Ad- mirgl Jules Francois Emile Krants, minfster of marine in three cabinets, died here today. He was 83 years old. Steamers Reported By Wireless Lizard, Feb. 26.—Steamer St. Louis, New York for Southampton, signalied 600 miles west at 8$.45 p. m. Due Piy- mouth 7.30 a. m. Saturday. e Race, X. F, Feb. 26.—Steamer Cincinnati, Genoa for New York, sig- nalled 1200 miles east of Sandy Hook gt 75 pom. Dock 830 a m. 3on- £3 ks vania legislature, himself in a sanitarfum at Pittsburgh, yesterday. He was 39 years old. she said, had been forced from her by | cause of world peace, has been asked T hated | a collaborator with Neal Dow in the { way Conductors. | s | private wel ekl bt e Véilliam W. Ulerich, a member of he Pennsylvania Frank G. Clemons, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Clemons died at Ansonia yesterday after a two months’ {liness. “The Snow Fall in Columbia, S. C. and vicinity a total of 1.7 inches, surpassing all records of the local weather bureau. Putnam Griswold, American basso, died yesterday in a private sanitarium at New York. He was operated on for appendicitis on Feb. 10. A Fine of $10 and costs was assess. ed against Miss Mary Lindsay, the suffragette, who horsewhipped = Lord le a week ago. The Canadian Harbor Commission made public yesterduy plans for the expenditure of $15,000,000 to tmprove the shipping facilities of Montreal, A Bill Was Introduced In the New Jersey legislature providing that bich- loride and all other poisons be sold in coffin-shaped tablets. A 12 sur{ Building to cost $1,200,000 is soon to be erected in West Forty- Ninth street, New York, for League of Political Education. Professor A. L. Bean of the Sheffield Scientific school, Yale, has _accepted the call to the presidency of the col- lege of Hawail, at Honolulu. A Bill in the New York legislature fixes the lability for damages done by intoxicated persons upon those furnishing or Purchasing the liquor. Attorney General McReynolds held yesterday that Cuban sugar is entitled to a reduction of 20 per cent. under all other tariff rates under the new law. Alfred Noyes, the English poet, who is in this country lecturing in the to Jjoin the faculty of Princeton uni- Miss Amanda M. May, 80 vears old, campaign which made Maine a “dry” state, died at her home at Whittier, Cal, ‘Wegnesday. y Miss Florence Brewster, an employe of a shoe company in n, was killed-under the wheels of a railroad train at the East Foxboro, Mass., sta- tion yesterday. Robert B. Dixon, of Easton, Md. ears old, shook hands with President lson, completing a record of having greeted every president since William. Henry Harrison. J. N. Johnson and W. G. Cels, who pleaded guilty to robbing the Bank of Logansport, La., of $6,000 several ‘weeks ago, were sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary. Representative Winslow, of Massa chusetts, received permission from the post office department to allow rural mail carriers to scatter grain along their routes for dyving birds. of Interstate Commerce ner C. A. Prouty, explained yesterday that he had been asked to accept a non-partisan nomination for Tnited States senator from Vermont. A Bill to Restore to the aective list of the navy Captain Washington I Chambers, retired by the so-called plucking board, was introduced yester_ day by Senmator McCumber, by re- quest. A Fire Which broks out yesterday in the St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary at Montreal, a state institution, destroy- ed the hospital annex and did exten- llvotdamlgo to the surgical depart- men A Bill Providing for a constitution- al amendment giving the vote to wo- men was favorably reported to the Massachusetts senate by the commit- tee on constitutional amendmants yes- terday. Four Persons Are in the State Prison at Wethersfleld under sentence of death and three of them look to the supreme court of errors which comes ln‘ ‘ll‘uesda)’. March 3, to give them new trials, A Bill Ordering the equipment of all public telephones with sanitary de- vices for meuthpleces, was favor- ably reported by the Massachusetts legislative committes on public health vesterday, The Passage of a Law regllll—t% the hours and working conditions cooks, nurse maids and other domestic servants was advoeated at a meeting of the state industrial eommission at Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. John H. Streng has resigned the ehair of New Testament interpre- tatien in the Rochester Theological seminary and accepted s eall to the pastorate of Eutaw Place Baptist church, Baltimore. Demand For a General Increase in Zim- | Wages has been made to the Northern Pacific by the conducters and train- men through the Brotherheod of Rail- way Trainmen apd the Order of Rail- An Aviation €orps will be formed in connection with the Maine State val militia if the recommendation of Lieutenant €ommander Reuben K. Dyer meets with the approval of Ad- jutant General YLaidlaw. of 41,800 Babies in New ave been saved in the last © cooperating public and e associations, accord- ing to ihe seventh annual report of the New York Milk committee. A Brightly Lighted Gas Buoy, be- lieved to have broken adrift from Southwest Ledge off Cape Sable, was brought into Boston yi by the fishing schooner Pontiac, which picked it up forty miles south of Cape Sable. Joseph W. Folk, solicitor of the state department and former governor of Aissouri, has been offered and ‘prob. ably will a¢cept the new post chief counsel for the interstate commission at a salary of $10006 u vear. Leaves of Absence were granted A Jury at Bridgeport yesterday by brought Kx & verdict for the defendant | the past office department yesterday to in the $2,000 suit of R. Harold Cox of | all tiird and fourth class Mianus, against the New York Stamford Rail company. €laimed his automebile truck -was struck by a trolley: car ‘last” October. & | to enable them to‘attend the Cox | convention of the Na#o) League of P rs, at 17, 18, and 1% Wife Changed HIS MARITAL HAPPINESS ENDED LAST AUGUST. 5 Mother Would Go Away and Leave Them Half Dressed—Merchant, Ac- cused of Wife Murden on Stand Chicago, Feb, 26.—W. wealthy merchant, — led to her a young married couple than one mar- ried nine years until last August when "‘I‘eh:r:nt to Brantford, Ont” he said. we = Wera introduced teo Fred Wanted Her Freedom, “From that time I noticed Mrs. Ei- lis became altogatner different, She bald little attention to me. At the Dlace where we wers staying, Caul well's seat was changed to our table. g;rm; a-xm., ':lx: directed all her 'versation to and he only to Mrs. Ellis, pone “T told Mrs. Ellis that it didn’t leok right for her to be constantly in the company of this man. She said she wanted her freedom and would have it Neglected the Children, “One night on ret! she sald that I ought to run m‘:‘?’au women. “She became entirely changed t» me. She would not kiss me :oodnfit. She always had been fond of our 2~ dren, but after awhile she would g> away and leave them half dressed. Went to Chicago for Rest. *Last October she said she needed & rest and wanted to go to CI . She said she would go to a hom I said I @id not think that the proper thing for a woman to do." Ellis will continue on the-stand to- morrow morning. FOR INVESTIGATION OF LEAK IN SENATE, News of the Executive Sessions is Fil- tering Out. ‘Washingt Feb. 36—Publietty nmm-fi'*minu;:‘m..ffi the senmate, it develo; wfl. has so aroused some members of body that resolution has been introduced and referred to the committee on rules directing the committes on foreign re- dations to conduct an investigation into the sources from which executive in- Publication of incidents in the de- bate on the general abritration treatiex last week precipitated discussion which gave rise to the resolution, which was introduced In a subsequent executive session by Senator Kern of Indiana. During discussion of the resolutio: senators were accused of violating their oaths in revealing executive af- fairs, and one senator proposed that a law be enacted which would make it a penal offense for anyone to publish facts relating to maiters held secret ATy o suggestion ted debate behind closed doors, many sen- -z_orrh‘ leorau'gy op)] - g-such sction, e suggestion not pass beyend the stage of discuasion. TO LIMIT SCOPE OF TRADE COMMISSION Amendment to Make It an Advisory and Investigating Body, ‘Washington, Feb. senate and house committees were | turned today toward perfecting as soon as possible ,the administration’s anti- trust legislative programme. The sen- ate committee on interstate commercs held its first hearing on the proposed bill to create an interstate trade com- mission and ameniments to Nmit the #cope of that commission to make it a purely advisory and in: b tted by Senator New- lands, chairman of the committee, chamber of commerce of the States discussed the proposed sion before the senate terstate commerce ttees with relation to legisla- tion to regulate holding companies, federal control of railroad securities and shortening of judicial procedurs under the Sherman anti-trust law, FIRE IN THE HOUSE OF GOOD SHEPHERD. Girls in Hartford Institution March Out Without Confusion. Hartford, Conn., Feh. 36.—One hun. dred and fifty girls at the House of =, ‘imfd stn;:p ?: buudtn.. mars| m the + while a small fire raged in the attic. A five hed siarted in a clothes closet from an unknewn cause, but was discovered in time by the mother lor an/s two sisters, who fought the suc~ cessfully until the arrival of the fire- men. The fire was quickly subdued with a monetary loas of 3200, “The girls marched from the bullding in perfeot order, Minister Carden Delayed. @Galveston, Tex., Feh. m—a- Bt ish eruiser Essex, on which Lionel ©arden, British minister to Mexico, is sail for this port enroute to Wash- ngton, was delayed at Vera Crus. This informgtion eame to the British con- | sulate late today in a eablegram from | Vera Cruz. Hartford Loses Biscuit Goncern. Hariford, Comn., Feb 26—t was learned today that the Jocal braneh ef the Natianal Biscuit company will be closed this week and trwvul 10 New Yark, in accordance with the annoumc- ed poliey of the concern to centraltze its business. Thirty persons were em- Hi branch, ployed at the Haptford Sherifis Must Pay Own Premiums.