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* Liquor Dealers Before Grand ! FUND ESCAPE Gov. Higgins in Note to Legislature Says Law | Cannot Reach Them. $23,000 PAID OVER, ~ Jury Name Plank, Hender- son and Campbell, ee $ (Special to Tho Fivening World.) ALBANY, N, Y., Jon, 12—In a mem: randum sent to tho Lugislature to-day on the New York City excise bribery charges, Gov, Higgins had this to say: ‘I .am of the opinion ‘that the evi- @ence does not justify me in adopting the extraordinary course of requiting ‘the ‘Attorney-General to go before the Gand Jury of Albany County, or any other county, for the purpose of con- Gucting proceedings based on this pre- Gentment, but that I should receive the Same rather as calling attention to de. fects In existing laws, “The practice should be suppressed Of raising funds for the alleged pur- pose of corrupting or improperly in- fluencing public ofitials or Influencing Yegisiation or administration through through the agency of Irresponsible in- @ividuals or committees, ‘The expendi- ture of money from such a fund in the @Mtertainment or accommodation of public, oMcers should be strictly pro, thibited and punished, without evidence that’any such officer has been influenced ‘or has ben’ sought to be influenced in thie ‘oMolal action thereby,” Should Bo Punished, Committees on legislation and legisia- tive agents of Individuals of Individuals ‘or organizations should be required to f@ecount for funds received and dis- ureed by them, Expenditures from puoh funds, except for enunverated legit!- ‘Mate purposes,, should be punished, The sale or attempted sale of pretened political or personal influence with or over public oMcials should also be ae- verely punished, entirely independently 5 EXCISE | * nig LORD'S nV SHEPHERD | mo | \ E, Powers.) LET ME ADVISE ‘You YOUNG MEN To CHEW YouR FOOD WELL AND THOROUGHLY AND DRINK PLENTY OF ~* WATER BETWEEN MEALS SSS SS PLENTY. OF HAM SANOWIKHES cuear? Sealy been sourht to be exeroned over| MR. ROCKEFELLER ON SUNDAY SAID HE WEIGRED 200 POUNDS AND ‘WAS MR POWERS HAS ACCEPTED THE AMENDMENT. TWO BOY FOOTPADS ROB @ny such oficial. “T shall approve any proper bills that ome to me on the subject.'’’ “The evidence,' NOT THIN, Gov. Higgins .ve-| Ment of received entertainment oF Marks, ‘‘tonds to egtablish that the} favors from them, While one excise 123,000 fund collected by the Asssocia- | teasure was under disouasion last sea- sion he chanced to meet President Lin- Mion has in part bea expended by the | Ginger at the Ten Byek. and with hin Gommitteo at Albany and"elsdwhere, by ane othote talked: atjou! Various disreputable, if not iilegal, @ measure. may have smoked a cigar," sall Mr. Plank, “but that was the extent of methods, und in part diviled among |The ontertainment 0 fut a6 I Was oon. cerned.” ‘tho members of the committee, but nu ‘evidence was given ‘ending 40 eotab- Mgh that any public offcér received Or JEROME: CANNOT Cequested, or was offered’ anything of Yalue or personal advantage for per- forming or omitting to perform any oMcial act or with the express or im- _ ACT, THEY SAY Fritz Lindinger, whove testimony piled understanding that his ofMfolal yc-| taken by the Grand Jury concerning ex- ton or omission to act was to be in| clue graft was made public in Albany, @ny degree Influenced thereby, or that] refuwed to ‘talk to-day because he was ‘any official act wes Influenced by sail] warmed not to do so by District-Attor- onsmittee or its members.’ hey Jerome. Another Nigh ‘oficial tn Speaker Nixon of the Assembly hand-| the asrociation, however, sald; @4 down to-day the testimony given “Last year we raised a fund of a trifle by, members of the Liquor. Dealers’ As-| over $15,900 to be used to further the in- wodiation before the New, York County! terests of the organization, This money Grand Jury in the excise bribery case] Waa turned over to the Executive Com- treated by Gov. Higeins, mittee which was appointed by Fritz Frits’ Léndinger, President of the as-| Idndinger, On.that committee was P, @obiation last year, testified that $23,000| H, Goodwin, who then kept a saloon at twas raised by the association and that} Beach and Hudaon streets, 99,000 of it was paid to a Republican "Nine thousand dollars was turned leader named Goodwin “to make con-| er to him to be used as best he saw mections for dropping revocation cases fn the Btate Excise Department.” ‘The money, said Mr. ‘Lindinger, was taken to Albany ‘In- bills. and. thelr. equivalent. As a reault of the expendi- fit for our Interests, Goodwin made frequent trips to Albany, and on the laat one, just as the Legislature ad- journed, while coming home he caught cold and died. That was last April, “The $9,000 was néver dccounted for, Suro of $9,000 by Goodwin, a number of) Lu: we have no doubt that the money cases, he testified, were dropped. waa used to ithe best interests of the as- The remainder of the money raised | sociation, “Hvery year we raise a fund, but that by, the association, he sald, was used) 4 OTS! dilow that it Ie to be used for ¢0 entertain mombers of the Legislature, | Gyfemy ‘We coulanit, rely melt uriive He sald, he had fifteen or twenty of thom in charge at a tme, They went islators- with $15,000 to have the Ralnes law amended, “None of ws knows what Jerome is try- to pool-rooms and gambling-houses, He| ing to ‘drive at by getting such testl- Joaned ‘members ns high as $50, which| mony. Certainly he-cannot Indict any waa never paid back to him, He could| one as Goodwin is dead. “Dhe fund that we raised before this not remember the names of these mem-| on wag used to defeat Seth Low for ‘bers, Mayor,” $8,000 to Elect Them. es Mr, Lindinger turonér testied that |WITNESS AGAINST BLACK he paid $4,000 to a man named Hender- fon jn the Mc(iellan campaign of 1903. Campbell also got a part of it, The HAND HAS DISAPPEARED, money, he explained, went to the Demo-| Joy, yangonn, Complainant Against cratic Stato Committee to be used to elect mambers of the Legislature favors abje to the Liquor Dealers’ Aseociation, Jersey City Band, Cannot Be Found, Tho ten alleged Black Hand leaders M, F. Farley, another member of the who we! ’ " vere arrested by the Jersey (ity teen APA se pott Terome | police Inst week, wore to-day arraigned semblyMAN | hofore Judge Higgins in the First Crim- Plank, Chairman of the Excise Com- inal Court in that elty, The police mittee, at the Ten Eyck Hotel, Aibany, notified the Judge that they had been “The testimony was referred to the Assembly Judiciary Committee, imable to find Joseph Mangosa, the principal witness, who disappeared the Denial by Plank, day after the gang was arresied, Chairman Plank, of the Assembly fx. Mangoza's wife was in court, and she glee Committee, sald to-day that he had |declared that her husband went away ever met the commjttes from the |without a word of warning and that Liquor Dealers’ Aasociation by appoin' “FORLORN” Is a dismal word that re- minds one of a dark and dreary day—or of an ambl- tlous man out of a job, WORLD HELP WANTS cannot, drive away the rain, but they can bring sunshine into any home where the “bread-winner” of the family {s out of employment, READ THEM TO-DAY, 2 385,313 petitions awarded readers of WORLD ELP WANTS last lear, she believed he had met with foul play at the hans of the gang, Judge Hig- gins held seven of the ten for trial, . thers was no evidence against them, he other three were discharged, as ee FRANK CLATWORTHY’S WILL, Diapones of Katate of $200,000, All to Relatives, The will of Frank Clatworthy, who (ied at the Hotel Marie Antoinette Jan, isposes of an estate of $200,000, of which the widow gets $10,000 In cash | ar being distributed tn elghths among the brothers, sister and orphaned nieces of Mr, Glatworthy, nl a Ife Interest In one-third, the rest William Clatworthy, a brother, Hving ‘ut the Hotel Plaza, a named as ex- ecutor, and the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company trustee, The rest of the fam. ily lives at or near Taunton, England ee CULNS CAUSE SORH THROAT, Laxauye Mromo age tue world-wide get a man living at No, 118 Willoughby WOMAN ON HE STREET, |One Young Thief Twists Her Wrist Whil Other Snatches Purse Containing $40—' Both Lads Are Well Dressed, Two bold footpads in knickerbockers held up and robbed Mrs, Robert G, Sherman, wife of a New York business street, Brooklyn, eecuring a purse con- taining $0, yesterday evening, ‘The holdup was reported to the Brooklyn Volice Headquarters to-day, Mrs. Sherman desccibes the bandits as ap- parently schoolboys of thirteen or four- teen years, but the sureness of the young highwaymen’s methods makes the police think they are practiced at the art of atealing, Mre, Sherman was on Willoughby COULD LOSES ee avenue, between Cumberland street and Canton avenue, when the two boy bandits came toward her, “Both ap- Deared to be tall and thin, and wore short trousers, and Mys, Sherman was unprepared for any attack, On reach- Ing her one of the boys selsed and wrung her wrist with @ jiu-jitsu move- ment that rendered her helpless, while the second youth snatched her gold wire purse, containing $40 and took to hie heels, the other boy following. Mrs, Sherman, as soon as she was released. started in pursuit of the rob- bers, but they soon out-distanoed her And disappeared, She described both boys as being very well dressed, MORSE DROPPED GARDEN SUIT AS BANK OFFICER Julry Gives a Verdict to Jersey National Bank of North America man Who Presents Evidence! that Plants Were Sent to: Georgian Court On Order, NEWARK, N. J, Jan, 12.—The jury! Fails to Re-Elect Him Vice- President at Meeting of Di: rectors Held To-Day, At a meeting of the directors of the in the sult of ex-Park Commissioner | National Bank of North America this Frederick W. Kelsey, of Orange, afternoon, Charles W. Morse, who fig- against George J: Gould, of New York, ‘ured so prominently ‘in the Morse-Dodge gave a verdict for $787 and costs In divorce scandal favor of the plaintiff to-day, Mr, Kel- sey sued for $934.25 for plants alleged to have been ordered for Georgian f° topping Mr, Morse's name as one | Court, Mr, Gould's summer home at | the two Vive-Presidents of the bank, Lakewood, N, J. | Henry Chapin, jr, was re-eected | Vice-President. Before i} . the Morse- It waa claimed that Mr. Gould ordered Dodge troub'es, Mr, Morse made the $200 worth of umbrella plant and five! bank ‘hig headquarters, Afterward he carloads of rhododendrons, but only paid | OPencd offices in Exchange place, but $104,25 for the umbrella plants, The rho-/ for some time past he has been in dodendrong remained In a car on a sid-| |ing at Georgian Court and were finally! arrive, sold for a small sum, | William A, Hamilton, who has charge) of Mr, Gould's country seat, testified that the plants in dispute had not been | ordered by Mr. Gould, but the plaintiff produced letters and telegrams to show | that the contrary was true, and the | Jury decided tn his favor, The case was tried before Chief Justice Gummere, Mr, Gould did not appear in court, — |\546 GUNS TAKEN AT PORT ARTHUR, Gen, Nomt Reports Big Capture of | Armas and Ammunition at Sure | rendered City, TOKIO, Jan, 12—Gen, Nogi reports that the Japanese captured at Port Ar- thur 546 guns, 82,670 shells, 39,000 kilos of powder and 2,266,800 rounds of rifle " ial id) a hd Could be Je. b n ee ee ee a ee ne ee Qurope, His name was on the passen Ger list of the Lucania, but he did not He remained in Queenstown, Richard L, Edwards, President of the Bank, sald, in speaking of the incident: "The Board of Directors Mocided that the bank should have only one Vice- Presilent, and Mr, Chapin was re. elected,”” In reply to the question as to whether Mr, Mors had resigned, Mr, Edwards sald: “No, he did not," Further than these few words nothing fis to the exact reason for dropping Mr, Morse's name, ', Morse {8 still a director in the Da . He was re-elected last week at ing of the stockholders, a —_— YEOMANS GETS OFFICE, Roosevelt Namen town Man Inter. | ntnte Commissioner, WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-—The Presl- dent to-day sent to the Senate the nom! 1 Towa, to be Interstate Commerce Com- misaloner, ol on of James D, Yeomans, of Was not re-elected as) Vice-President, No reason was Biven steamer Kearsary SUGAR SHIP -—18 STRANDED Indus Goes on Bar Near Where: Drumelzier Was Wrecked. The British freighter Indus, bound from Havana and Cardenas for this port with a cargo of ‘sugar, went ashore on the Fire Island Bar in the fog early, to-day, he is. now lying in an casy position a short distance from where the Drumelsier grounded two weeks ago, and there is an excellent chance of her getting off on ‘the rising tide, The life-savera do not: believe she is in any danger now, but say her position would be @ perilous one apould wind and sea rise, (At present there is an, easy sea running and the wind {s/light, It was very early this morning when the fog was at its heaviest that the Indus grounded, She immediately sent Up signals of distress, but these were not seen from the shore. The tooting of her fog horn, however, soon reached the patrots of the Fire Island, Oak Bench and Point o' Woods stations and the crowa fired their guns to let those on the Indus know that they were cog- nilgant of her predicament, The lfe-savers offered to: take any- body. off the steamer, but no one cared to leave, After arranging with the cap- tain to sound his hotn three times if ho ‘wanted further assistance, the life savers pulled back to their stations. They immediately notified the agents of the steamer and the latter sent a tug of the Merritt-Chapman Wrecking Com- pany to the scene. The tug is now standing by the steamer, Capt. Kydd told the life-savers that he would jettigon part of the cargo and make an effort to get off, About 100 tons of sugar were thrown overboard, but she still stuck fast, The Indus has no passengers, She is 850 feet long and {8s owned by John Morse & Co., of London, She is a new Veosel, having been bullt in Glasgow only @ little over a year ago, Her crew numbers twenty-five men, co OBEY AMERICAN BARK AGROUND AT NASSAU, NABBAU, New Providunce, Jan, 12— The American bark Rebecca Crowell, Capt. Dow, {s nsiors twenty miles east | of Nassau. | The Rebecca Crowell arrived at San Juan, Porto Rico, from New York on| Dee, 5, She is of 491 cons register, was bulit at East Boston in 1873, hails trom Boston and js owned by Capt, Dow, her commander. —o-— SCHOONER RUNS ON LEDGE IN STORM. BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Me., Jan, 12, Two lobster fishermen, co in tor day. reported a lumber-laden sohooner on a@ ledge off this harbor, The small here to-inventigate, A thick snowstorm: prevented a view af the waneal from shore jmanites.o, |deegates were opp ; but iy the pedtnyy was forced on Joonvention for Congress, but subses has gone out from | A GOOD NAME Another Idaho Politi cian WhoThinks They Are Quite Right Now, WASHINGTON, Jan, 12.—The defense in the Senator Smoot Investigation be- fore the Renate. Committee jon. Privi- logos and Elections to-day called to the ftand F, H, Holahelmer, a. practiting Jawyer of Pocotello, Idaho, . He lived In Utah about ‘twenty years before go: Ing to Idaho, about two years;ago, | ‘H6 belongs ‘to’ the Ebiscipal Church and said he always had been a Demo- crat eatept for a time"in Utah, when, in common with all Gentiles, he bb- longed \to the Liberal’ party, The examination of Mr, Holehelmer was confined almost entirely to. politl cal conditjoné in Idaho, Ho was o member of the Inst Panera asp vention which adopted an ant!-Mor! plank and Weed on the Redolutions | Committee, He declared that he had opposed & plank “for the extermination of poly! amy and polygamous cohabitation and) the separation of church’ and State" on | the grounds that no plank of that char- | woter wad needed as there had. been no) plural, marlagev-ln the State elnce the | tiv Withess sald ‘a majority’ of the to the plank, the convention bo‘ause iv was under. epod ‘that former senstor Hviiteld, who had been indorsed for Governor, had minde a pledge to'the National Con- vention that 't should be adopted, Afterward he Was nominaced by the 6 uently dediined’ to run on: the ticket | tose je the party, leaders proposed to. alen directed Aj Chua these lead ness called thelr plan a ‘came palgn of purification of Idaho homes, Ce eae ee YOUNG ‘LEADER: OF THE - ROOF TANK GANG CAUGHT, John Kelly, When Found Had a Mag Filled with Stolen . ‘|, “Articles, In the arreat to-day "with the goods on him! of John Kelly, of'No, 480 West Tifty-third street,‘id tie’ yasement of a @hop at No, 785: Seventh avenue, Mi boie of, the West Forty-seventh Uineg the londes, of the "Root any a a band o¢ juvenile thieves ani burglars on: weat aide, with quarters under a water ae root in Went Pitty-thl ‘eet, ott owe m, snemnbere ' of hi of, the: ti ane rrested two monthe ago and are | M Pow in the he of Hatuge, bit Kelly, the. Jeader, was not captured at. that or Burglary Despite Confession of Another Man. Richard Gamble. of No, 151 West member of the iment, whom tho police #8Y| fore the Grand Jury tony they atrested’ by mistake (on two.) vo; {gation into the’ D charges of burglary, was to-day M+) vorce suandal, The rf dicted by the Grand Jury, despite the! under subpoena tar #0 4 eonfeaston of Albert Shertenlieb, "l80| expected to ive his. t under arrest, that, he committed the| days ago, P burglanes for which Gamble was &r-). Accompanying Juste ; The case of Gamble and, Shertentleb Is remarkable one, t striking resemblance to each other, and fare abott the same height and build, Tho detectives say that those who have {dentified Gamble as a ‘thief have un- made’ an eryor, The men bear a whon the two Ca ei mbe 1) ea te Bret ie innocence. “He saya that |}ment proceodings she nis identification by, tho.servants of the /first hushand, Charles rer “Loan establish a know I ata'innogent and | to, wet me out, of here, ee WOMAN NINETY: YEARS OLD “VICTIM OF DELUSIONS. | clive, <,Sonmers! about I don't rH, Gare as 8 id jot) Une ‘proba: Re iM fon Mrs, time, Ce Ga eat ald ihe was under sixteen yeary any ‘was tumnied over 0 she Cli.’ ciren's Soolety, ae ia) i bites fn in, to take Cot ij 4 i at aie ti ei Physicians extimate that no less {hin 50,000. peopleare Hh from:the grip th Chicago. . In New York cond worss. It is a heyday season for the doctors and undertakers, | i Chicago is in. the grip of the\grid.' In hundreds of Yamiti talk vy! rang.ng rom the househo!d of Mayor, Harrison, the: city head himse f are bedPidden with stvere. attacks of thedread epidemic, to the most humble laborer Edgar L, Fureman, for the Supreme Court, was a Soho Little, hit; ta were followed by. Ing all the books of th of Fursman, Little @ Bol Little was also, e: tr Jury, ns were the clerks District-Attorney J, ond that Hoularly anxious. to: sare brought tO-/of Justice Fursmal see thelr mistake! ror irs, Charles W. aworn he wi ver with the diyoree ‘pap wult, Justice for Mrs, Mots inj dissolution of the tira Little Bohwakak Justice Furamah had'y , lO In This Country 00 Years, but Told | arrested for larcen: Magistrate Ommen She Only ‘Two Days Ago. “I'm fourscore years an’ ten, an’ I didn't know my way, an’ they took bi i {n for that,” complained Mary Garvin, {n Jefferson Market Police: Court to- SHOCK KILLS A day when Pollcemayi: Conboy. of the 4 Weat Thirtleth street station, arralgned| her before Magistrhte Ommen. Conboy | Mas Touches found her wandering Madison Square, ‘not knowing whieh! 4 despatch Feats old" naked | the death of a the Mug-strate, Interested in the aged|there from touc! a8 ry t retullatod by hayin arrestid for perjury, already been An A triot-Attorney al of evidence, ws is on velver, , This la the wom Ne " “T arn, Your Honor, and I came over from Irdand two days ago to live with pS within } son Jimm! ‘Where. does Jimmy live?!’ “Hitteenth street and jd the woman, ‘4 know where that, is," tlon officer: MI well and inet hen | Won. omeor wet to ead: | ton. officer. While she was look! James Garvin, of Not ae Bast Sintieth into, court and: wajd tha in atte that only two t whe had gd Mr. he 500,000 GRIP Vi ing , Worl | gtuart, ‘i ¢ First avenue,’| Company, of thie ate en bus, the maiudy Nas made Chicago a sneezing, suffering grip hospital. Mt is estimated that no tess thai 50,000. to-aay’ sufferers jrom. the d'sease. 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