The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1912, Page 1

liye MPs IS STRICKEN LIKE HIS FAT Jersey Powder Mill Blows Up, All New: York Quakes i She WRATHER—Rain To-night EDITION. - ( PRICE ONE CENT. j “ Circulation Books Open to All. mn “ Circulation Books Open to All.”* | . Conese: 12, ee NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1912. 18 PAGES 1 GREATER NEW YORK SHAKEN KLLSWOSPOTE s. EOEMUS Tom, erick Det Grant 1] EO | IKE FACTHEDG ' QVERAPRIL FOOL, | TELLS STORY OF ; | BY a 3 ae TENTRES SUCHE, LING HISBAD ~ FORGES GEN. GRANT TO Hits Employer's Brother on Trial for Murder Before PRICE ONE CENT. \ \! Two Men Blown to Death at VICTORY IS WON du Pont Plant in Wayne, ’ ; Passaic County, SAYS LEADER OF CUTS THROAT IN CELL.|SWEARS HE WAS CRUEL. i) BUILDINGS DISLODGED. Overcome by Tragic Result of | Forced Her. to Go Out and t 400 000 MINERS “Fun” in Sending Stewart Work After He Lost |" >, Shock Like Earthquake Breaks y Head With Hammer. Judge ‘Rosalsky. Commander of Department ‘of the > East Suddenly Abandons Work | = and Goes Away Afflicted on Fruitless Errand. "| His Job. | With Disease of Throat. Windows in Villages for | « ine | | \ All Over but Signing of New| an Apr root joke that already has| Mrs, Genevieve Nicodemus, the wil-| } Miles Around. Wage Agreement” White’s con me He ay see ell hone wy, ‘biwecebad ‘eek pe trial Mirees DEPARTURE KEPT SECRET A > i of another man. James J. Stewart, a| With the murder of her husband, Frank ‘a Four of the fourteen buildings of Firm Declaration. Oerna cre re erent? More. tn) Tc Nieceeaabacaast, “Ootaber, | was on AT GOVERNORS ISLAND Sound Beach, Conn, ts dead, hi: crushed with @ hammer. Roland | defe ull] the witfess stand to-day in her own before. Judge Rosalsky and a! the Du Pont black powder mills at Wayne, N. J., about nine miles west of Paterson, blew up shortly after 8 o'clock to-day with a jar that was felt within a radius of fifty miles. Charles Stoltz, superintendent, of the plant, and Charles Rysdick, an em- ployee, were killed, and William Spernow, the powder boss, was prob- ably mortally injured. Another man {s unaccounted for, but it has vot been determined that he is dead. Rysdick, who was in the powder press building, the first to go-up-was blown to atoms. He was: ‘en in the doorway “A STRIKELESS TRIUMPH” Hedges, hisformer friend and a fellow clerk, ts In @ critical condition in the jail at Greenwich, Conn., his tproat Jagged with the thin glass of an elec- Idle Army of Men Confident} ric tent sum, with which he tried to of Getting Demands Cele- brate “Eight-Hour Day.” commit suicide. Overcome with remose when he learned that his victim was dead, Hedges had aimost to be carried into a cell. Then, as soon as his ‘Jailer had locked the dogr end ‘turned away, INDIANAPOLAS, “April 11 — “tts ‘@i| Hedges sawed away at ‘his own throat over but signing the new wage, oon-| With @ bit of glass. His efforts at celf- quctessful. tracts, As a mitter of course the mv. estryction may prove The killing of Stewart occurred in.the Jury in General Sessions. She trem- bled violently as her counsel, Abraham Levy and Murray Simon, led her to the witness chair. "A court officer sup- ported her with an arm about her waist while she was sworn. The girl sat with her hands clpaped | in her lap and her eyes cast down, Her voice was barely audible in answering Queations. Stenographer /Fragk Beard was obliged to repeat her replies for}, the benefit’ of the Jury, which: could not make out her low, almost, husky murmurs, Now and then ‘she pulled a Joined Father in Civil War Cam paign When Thirteen and Was Wounded in Battle. Though all of the officers at the headquarters of the , of the Easton Governors Island are maintaining discreet silence it be \der of thé’départment, had quietly left the island on a four month's. ‘leave. “An affliction of the throat, said to be similar to that which |came known to-day that Major-Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, the comman- — um - crease in wages won by the eoft Dleok alik A. about * h & moment before the explosion, but not miners will be followed by the roan store of hiv elder Brother, Rotett SOW- | ciéaer sou 8 paler peeenae | the lingering illness and final death of his father, Gen. Ulysses S. A trcdmvent of Mia jumper was found (Of &8 Increase to the anthracite minere| early’ tocday while odvan ana {2tgoe at the throat.” ” 4 aaah» |is the cause for Gen, Grant's sudden departure from his duties. half a mile from the plant. It ts belleved | Without a srugaie i is Hedwes were getting out thelr delivery | T@L@8 HOW SHE rae MET THE wy | It was learned from good authority to-day that Gen. Grant had \ at least a ton of giant powder exploded, is was the statement of John P.| wagons preparatory to thelr morning MAN SHE KILLED. failed : a and there {s not a building In Wayne or | White, Presldent of the United Mine|trips, Hedges handed Stewart a wrench |: “I- first met. Frank Nieodemus when age pach algal geting pation Bewyey orb he a the nearby town of Mountain View that | Workers of America, when he returned] and told him hia brother Robert wanted |I was out walking with. some ohild: yield to treatment. A short time ago his physician gave imperative orders | t is not badiy damaged. Windows were | to nis office to-day after tte conferences |!t In a hurry. Stewart took the wrench | wnose mothe al eee cae that he should seek rest and absolute quiet. hie 7 blown out of every structure tn these | with the mine workers at-Cleveland, | and ran half @ biock to the store, to Pere ceaeronse: se 66k ——_—<—<—— it be conservetiom: | twe villages and scores of buildings! That the soft coal miners will yote| find the door locked and no one in the | lO! brought him up to me on the beg sid with } were shifted on their foundations or | almost unanimously in fav@r of the new | >ullding. street ahd introduced him. He asked | that Gen, Grant is a very sick man | | hud their walls cracked and cellings| wage proposition on April 10 was Mr.| STEWART COULDN'T SEE THE|™*¢,!° 0 oUt with him and I said my tr aatare "inpeeitign eat po shaken down. White's prediction. JOKE ON HIM. folks wouldn't allow my sisters and my- nature imperative enough to fores when the explosion occurred, He was MINERS. to the barn and asked Hedges what he ask my father.” i pin pic Dart. ’ blown high In the alr and was dead| “Naturally we are feeling pretty|/meant by sending him on the errand. 14 he make love to you?” asked A MERE DONOR ee “twa wie Asetnog. me) BOENOCE. ; Gen, Tasker H. Bliss is’ temporagiiy When his body struck the ground amid |£00d over the increase in wages for a|Hedges laughed bolaterously. The |r. Levy. iE ae & heap of debris, Both Spernow's lega| term of two years obtained by arbitra-|APril Fool joke he had played on his | In command of the Department of the East pending Grant’s retura. a | When Gen. Grant went away and where he is at present are matters which the i —_——>— al al Tee girl's bosom futtered. Her eyes filled, The lids closed and she ~ 4 buried her beautiful head, Havemeyer Building Owners|Court Orders That in Twenty He sald he loved me very much," Cees ret ngttausht he loved me.! — Say Construction Itself Days No Unlicensed Beast Shall Eat Washing. other man, whose name has not been| Continued, “and we will go into the|funny to him, Ste take learned, suffered a broken leg and {Conference with the anthracite operat-|® Joke, according to thigh. ' tke at Philadelphia with absolute con- witaeee . .¢ Burnford, an employee, was in lence that they will not hold out je men were separated and went to s fay of some red hot debris and |@éainst higher wages for thelr men|the store, where Hedges 18 aald to have| gobc agaie ee mone broke into Violated Law. was badly cut and burned. When he|4lso. It will be a strike! triumph [renewed the quarrel, attacking Stewart Looking ‘heh and fi te hi fot up and ran off he seemed to have| throughout the coal industry. eral times. Each time he was ri ngering her bis uN : wedding ring, th ‘ra Largest, of Course, to Chicago been frightened out of his wits and| “Not the least important aspect of|strained by bystandérs. In one of the codemu Raspedelice Henleys Mrank) pie Mxth aven is called “a! A plague of goats is upon Homewood Best, raved for several hours afterward. Ale|this victory in the bituminous fleld tajattacks he {# sald to have seized a Perrin ge. s fred Qvinn, another employee, was also |the rehabiittation of the central com. |heavy shovel and tried to brain Stewart, soit Spek Blam, “ald the defendant, ‘that couuagtng nua "i ult age In rk, Brooklyn. These rest Institution, but He Has No | interest” said nn ee cut and bruised by falling debris, {petitive fleld conference between the| The men were alone in the store at Si tras e antd: | (He Mrpaerge Count teaeay. ny the) Maver identiel: commenition.» wheesi yous SUP g . ” * ‘ ‘ ply gol fay to visit with ; FOUR EXPLOSIONS IN QUICK|™°” and their employers, This means |7.30 o'clock, but several customers who| ‘The nnecrta Rune cite Bo T did." |meyer Real Estate Company, owner of| your home the same se paying rent, Voice in Its Affairs. of his family 1 de net hellovetieae { and two of his ribs were broken, An-|tion for the bituminous miners,” he |¢™ployer's brother appeared irresistibly officers at Governors £ the and are keeping secret. They only admit to-day that Gen, Great wone away on leave, r simplification of adjusiment of our mu- | had been in and out declare Hedges was ; the Havemeyer Building on Chure! adjoin Bath Junction, which is popu- Gen. Grant would care to have aay i SUCCESSION. tual problems in the future making angry threats against Stewart, [0g tether witnessed by her motier| street, between Dey and Cortlandt jateq exclusively by Itallans and goats, = publicity given to this fact.” \ The four buildings destroyed~ were] Mr. White pointed ont that the soft |vowing to “have his life's blood.” st i streets, The company asks that the Ins wventy allan goat owners were in| CHICAGO, April 1.—"John D, Rocke-| Adjt.-Gen. Andrews said when h built of sheetiron and timber. They |coul diggers have now reached “a doi-jart was leaning over a barrel just as| REFUSED TO TAKE A TRIP WITH |terborough Rapid ‘Transit Company be, ‘ourt to-day on summons | feller has nothing to do with the Uni-;@bout Gen. Grant's absence: | were a corning mill, a wheel mil!, aliar a ton” after years of effow: The| Andrew Seward entered. WITH HIM BEFORE MARRIAGE, |enjoined from running trains and oid Mtg te Stee oe ne tan lwemain, Ok Caen Gis saeeay: One 0 when Gen, Grant. finishing mill and a powder press. Large! proposed new waxe agreement provides| He saw Hedgow pick up a hammer| he said Nicodemus asked her, before |@ulred to tear down its siructure in/served by Pollc@nan Loeffler of the) versity 0 “ 3 hat [returned from an inspection tour of the { quantities of explosives were in all four lfor an increase of five cents a ton for|and steal up behind Stewart, dealing| their marriage, to make @ trip to hie|front of the Havemeyer Building, | Bath Beach station, Property owners in| not speak for him In the counsels that) goithern posts he was very tired as. } buildings. Scarcely # second intervened screened coal, of three centa for un-|him a crushing blow on the back of-the| mother's home ta Boston, The complaint declares that the ele-| Homewood and Lefferts Park had im-|take place there. His only connection !tne trip nad deen a hard one. ‘Travel between the four explosion: screened coal id of 5,26 per cent. for|head. Stewart staggered for a moment| “But I sald no," testified the giri,| vated company's structure deprives the | plored Loeffier to find some way of!is that he 1s the largest donor. lng through the South means much, — The big jar came just as @ train Of! 44, japor and “dead work” about the|and Hedges sought to repeat the biow,| ‘that I wouldn't even think of asking|tenante of the Havemeyer Building of | keeping the Bath Junction goats in Bath| This statement was made by Harry | night travel and poor train connections. the Greenwood Lake division of the} mines, but Seward disarmed him. 0 d alr which are thelr lawful | Junction, {Pratt Judson, President of the Univer-/on his return he thought he would take, Grle Railroad was discharging passen+| Conditions and wages iffer slightly| Robert Stewart was summoned) His rey cen AUGD > SURE Phe -epeid be eee tenants aro subjected The goats were kept locked up injeity, on the witness stand to-day in the | rest, 1 believe he went to the South. wers at the Wayne depot, half a mile |in the various districta, but the “basing |brother did not appear to be badly in-| Into the intimate heart-rending details | to discomfort and annoyance by notse of Bath Junction all through the winter, (damage suit of | Mine Hather Mercy | Mrs. Potter Palmer, his sister-in-law, , from the powder works, All the, win |poin:" for the contracts im all will be|jured, and after upbratding both men| of her life at home with Nicodemus she| the trains, Another co:plaint is that {With the first warm days of spring |againat Dean Marion Talbot, which At /hao @ cottage near Tampa, Fi. We dows on the side: of the cars toward /a 4 ton, for fighting while he was away he sent | went with the utmost particularity, Shs| grease, dust, oll and snow from the|they were turned loose, ravenous and|torney Francis A. Walker for the de |have heard ocoasionally from him slimes the powder plant were smashed and (he) PHILADELPHIA, April 1.—Four hun: |his brother to Dr. Austin's office, where | told of his admitting to her that he was| elevated atructure have fallen or been oll ax lions. ‘They invaded the resl-|fenso says is in reality an attack UPOR)he went away, but indirectly. All te, ation was badly damaged. Several lareq thousand coal miners quit work to- | three stitches were taken !n the wound, | out of work, and telling her that she|thrown on the Havemeyer premises, | dential districts to the south, consumed | the university. reports we had seid thet; be. wensia ! passengers were thrown from the steP8laay in the anthracite flelds of Pennsyl-|James J. was then sent to Robert's| must go to work, as she did. A Mtation in front of the Havemeyer |iiedges, shrubbery, flower beds and| Some of the questions asked of Presl- tjoying his rest. His whereabouts have, of the cars, but none was hurt. vania and in the “central competitive| home, on High View avenue. He did} Nicodemus, learning she was ikely to| butiding, it is charged, has become un- mats and in some insta te | dent Pudson were not been made public for the reasen Reports from Wayne bent ae ding | field" of the bituminous portion of the}not regard his condition a ous, but} become a mother, treated her brutally | safe. Another allegation is that the | washing off the lines In back yard Has John D. Traghatelige the _ that he would be overburdened with hot @ man, woman or child StAndin¥) naustry, Officially the movement is alin a few minutes complained of severe| so that she became very ii, Her mother |combined, causes have prevented the In- | Magintrate Naumer, questioned the | nection with the University a +} He has a tremendous correspon- ve “suspension” of work, and whevher it| pains, He was put to bed and’died at 10! left their home and went to the home in’ rent. income that Would na- | various goat ownera arraigned before| cago’” “No, but he is, the largest outside of army mattere=tien’ (Continued on Second Page.) 1s to develop into a widespread strike |o'clock, His skull was fractured at the! of another daughter, Mrs, Patterson, |ttrally have come to the building own- | him to-day. None of them had permits | donor.’ replied | tesnenl | basin Itriends of his father, historians and eas - |depends upon the outcome of the voting | base of the brain. and left word that ehe would not setusg|ers through the gencral rise in realty |to maintain goats, He advised all to| | ‘Ia he ¢ member 0 Grand Army men. art Sat vs in the union ranks and of conferences! ORDERED TO DO DOUBLE WORK | to her own house a0 long as Frank Nic- | values In that vicinity jwet such permits and to keep thelr! “witty, ne any mentber on the board |, "D0 you thins Gen. Gren " ’ begween the men and the employ AS PUNISHMENT. odemus was there, It is set up that the original con-|sroats confined to thelr own premises.| representing him?” "No." back In a month?" was asked. i Ss Da within the next ten days 4 Mrs. Nicodem' h struction of the elevated was contrary | An adjournment was taken for twen- | “"}{ay he any control of the conduct of} “I can say nothing definite about rl oo : Believing his brother might possibly Nicodemus, with trembling voice At the expiration of th Sey oe a uity?’ No (that! gala, Col Anarewe: Anthracite men are more apprehensive told of going to work for a di jto law, as the owners of the Have-|ty days he expiration of that, nbers of the faculty No, Jon't ve fooled or cajoled | (ian thelr bliuminous brethren as to] Have been at fault and not thinking the 5 © dressmaker | ae and were not compensated fur|time the goat owners will havo to ap-| Major Truby, the surgeon of the pest, ‘ But sieving that there. is any ultimate outcome. ‘This condition ia|WOUNd werious, Robert Stewart ordered | near her home, All of her | eneges at that time. It 1s also com-| pear with permits and proof that thelr] nt Judson testified to-day that] said that he had not treated Gem. inte oe apaper on earth that even | predicated on the fact that thére 1s no|Hedses to take his delivery »wagon and | ® OO om eee hat the station Was enlarged | oats have not been wandering around|Miss Kather Merey, who ts 4 former|/Grant for any tines. So far a8 he other newspar 5 make his morning rounds for ordera,|#he gave to Frank. The next week she | Plaines student, was dismissed from the univers | knew there was nothing to show that. approaches, a8 an advertising medium, deflnite agreement immediately in sight, for the coal men, whereas the bitumt- nous conference at Cleveland adjourned fi : ority « i Hlomewood and Lefferts Park, mn i ‘As a puntehment he told Hedges he|S&¥¢ him # and the next week 44,:0,|‘n 194 without authority of law mew cll Sh |sity ‘because her reliability for truth-|ine General waa on sick leave, would have to cover James Stewart's|COMPLAINED BECAUSE SHE| eae wali as jfulness was not such as made her a de-| Coot” venton of Gen, Grant's staf | ‘ ed y rable student,” : | the men's representatives had | Toute. ONLY EARNED $5 A WEEK. / ARMS BY AEROPLANES lees a ter tek eeee srnr in oree, vitae Morey is suing Miss Marion Tal-|#afd that the General was on & leave! ” , e ew ly all thelr demands | "Then maybe you will quit skylarking| “He sald to me after that,” sobbed pririieriaitiie eee ot Yl vot, dean of women at the university, |of three months, ‘ except for increased wages and on this|around the store when I'm not there,” |the girl, gently, "You have got to thority of the President's neutrality |P"" sid) damages for alleged slander |LeO LIRE OF SOLDIER anes, point modified their terms considerably, | Stewart told his clerk, * give up this Job! And I said, ‘What {Pes lamation land charges that her character has been NTH YEAR. Y ork or 300,000 MORE MEN AFFECTED BY| After James Stewart died oMcers went|do you want me to do, Frank?’ Two Flying Craft Seized by Ameri-| Simultaneously came reports from | assailed by the dean of women. Prest- THIRTEE! % MINE TIE-UP, in pursuit of Hedges and found him in| “ ‘Why,’ he sald ‘If you will do what nying Cran s ; [American officers in Texas anserting |dent Judson's appearance on the stand| Gen, Grant ‘has led tha life of # Bole AS TO ADVERTISING: ‘The union men are to take a refer. lila delivery wawpn in Riverside, Helt want you to do you can make a jot) can Customs Men Believed In- |detinite knowledge that Orozco, al- followed number of character wit-| dier since his thirteenth year when Be. 497,183 World Ade. Last Month— | endum ballot at once as to whether the [Was lucked up, charged with murder, |more than 45 a week. It's a shame for tended for Smuggling. though heavily backed with money, In |nessen whe queationed Miss Mercy’a! way with his father's command i 64468 More Than the Herald modified terms for a new wage agree-| Hedges Is twenty-seven years old and)a big, husky girl ike you not to be) noe ‘ Jalmost out of ammunition, due to the for y E Vieksqure ond was woundea by @ GREE 18264 More Than ALL THE 5 | ment are to be accepted, and there ts nowly married, James Stewart was!oarning any more money than that.| WASHINGTO! That an at-|exteneive Aghting of the past ten days] |e par near Witt pitied, | federate bullet during one of the ‘ eet THER New York Morn- | a general feeling that the result of the | thirty. |" What do you want me to do, F tempt will be m musale Torreon, Toeday American staritiard Spenser's Wik Uefore the Southern stronghold, Sines ing and Sunday Newsp ballot will be a return to work, | 7 asked lim. ‘Do you want me to go| id munitions of war aeros tt “ling the line began to NPORR. Bah , Lis graduation from West Polnt in 18% Ine ane EOGRTHER, putcome of the voting in| Stak Ks ¢ May Close Friday, » Gan you|vorder in oeroplanes, wiving th Hers carrying the mushs | Spencer of New York und hie has been a regular fioer ot tats 4 compe! id"*—com-| phe Guveruing Committee of the ‘ore mot that way yon | toms secret service an monition. Only smail lots | leaves an est ned at hal army and has risen throug! ‘ AS TO CIRCULATION: (ng Pennaylvania, Indlana and Ill-| grog, Exchange nas been petitioned by | eek. “Sa ghee eA Pom ers 1e6 | wore dixgovered, War Department of to his will, whic was tied | Ceysive stages of promotion to his press The World's circulation, Mori Will dopend also the basts for new | in4 fgioor members of the exchange to|'ng,’ and then” receive: War Department to-|cials think that the two aeroplanes . His wife, Carotine 8. spen- | Sot" ye a Ph oe bi seals in other sections of the . ings and Sundays in New York country where the present agreements |°!ose for the day, and it te expected City, exceeds that of’ the Herald, | (o'iot expire until May I, or later, |that that body will act favorably on the os $100,000 and an income from for life. Each of ved $100, | o Paso reported | w. > be used for «|cer, uso reported | were to be used for mun and ammuni- [eer Peon oe SMM Here the girl lost all seif controt ana| day. Sieever ent for a minute cr more, Sey-|to Gen, Wood toduy thar two French/tion running, though it is possible|t Frederick Dent Grant was 4 St. Louls on May 30, 1860, The frat 8 Times, Sun and Tribune COM- | Sothern and Southwestern mines and (petition, which was put in circulation| Spal of the Jurors showed thoir emotion |aeroplanes of the latest ani most ex-|Oroxco intends to use them in the slege | Me ants Was BONCAt ion 8 years of his ife were spemt st a BINED. the comparatively few in the Rocky |to-dey on the floor of the exchange and/ wy furtively wiping away tears of sym. | pensive type have been held up by thelof Torreon to foree the surrender of mallding ‘Turkish Bathe, barracks in Detroit and Stich 10 Facts—Beware of Theories! |‘ Mountain States ero afected by this|in a few hours it had the signatures of Sana American custoins euthorities, It was Federal Gens, Aubert and Herute by A eee eg nggent ts WtabuR OL AMAT calcaeted ae, ail the ergkera, (Continued pn Gerong . [eeliaved that the seropiqnes were dea. dropping bombesin Brod SOR ith: nate a <0 SERRE came meptinet i afte Mild iho, AES wae note eae emer 8 meg ee ee econ