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a'"M FIRST NEWS SECTION General Staff Has Plan of Attack on Caracas Should Force Be Nee essary to Bring Castro to Terms. President Will Call on Congress to Decide Upon a Course of Action in the Vene* zuelan Tangle. By W. W. Jermane. Washington, Oct. 14. De called upon by Srobablyt -Congress 'will robabl be called upon by President oosevel to decide on the course of action to be taken by the United States in bringing the Venezuelan gov- SrnmenWt.oJterms. The report made by udge Calhoun on the result of his investigations recently in Venezue la will, it is said today, show that the New York and Bermudez Asphalt com pany has not received .inst treatment at the hands of the Venezuelan govern ment. Judge Calhoun is now in New York preparing his report, which will probably be submitted to the state de partment in two weeks. Secretary Boot said this afternoon that he hoped the Venezuelan imbroglio would be set tled by diplomacy and without force. Unquestionably this hope is felt by the entire administration, and yet theTe are many indications that the United States government expects that event ually the attitude assumed by Vene zuela toward property rights of Amer ican citizens will lead to the employ ment of force by this government. Army Flans for Attack. The general staff of the army has prepared a careful plan for an armed attack by land on Caracas. Military and naval officials are carefully watch ing every move made by the Venezuelan government and particular cognizance was taken of the fact that President Castro recently ordered from the Cro set company of France thirty field bat teries and six mounted batteries of ar tillery. One of the questions which is said to have received careful consideration at yesterd/p's cabinet meeting was the proposal ftf the French government for combination with the United States in securing- a settlement of the .claims of the two countries against Venezuela. Castro Js Bold*^ The president has decided go slow In this matter, as it is thoroly realized that Castro-does not intend to recede from his position, either a®ards this country or France,.ntateWcd1toffftBfcm is threatened and perhaps applied. President Eoosevelt does not care to take the responsibility of sending an armed force, either military or naval, against Venezuela without the full knowledge and consent of congress. And yet it is evident that the inter ests of American property owners in Venezuela will have to be protected and that the Venezuelan courts, being absolutely under the influence of Cas tro, cannot be relied upon to afford such protection. Judge Calhoun, it is1 belileved, will report that the courts of Venezuela were practically directed by Castro to render decisions adverse to the claims of the New York and Bermudez As phalt company. DID POISON KILL HIM, A YEAR AGO? Bemains of Mathias Harff of Has san Township May Be Disin terred by Authorities. Was Mathias Harff, who died nearly a year ago, poisonedf That question has been asked a num ber of times recently by residents in and around the Harff farm in the town of Hassan. Hennepin county. It has been asked by the administrator of the Harff estate and the solution of it is being eagerly sought by some of the relatives and friends. The question was asked of County Attorney Al J. Smith a few days ago and whether or not that official will be able to answer it remains to be seen. John Eussell, Jr., the administrator, went to the county attorney, stated his suspicions and the grounds for them and asked that the oody of Mathias Harff be disinterred and a post-mortem examination of the remains be made by the coroner. The matter is still in abeyance and it is probable that, if the body is taken from its grave, the estate or the relatives will have to pay the expenses of disinterment. Mathias Harff died nearly a year ago under somewhat peculiar circum stances. He was about 74 years old. H% was not well, but it was given out by his physician that he would live for at least a year. The family and friends had but fairly settled down to that idea when one morning they found him dead and from no apparent cause. He left a $1,000 life insurance policy and con siderable property. There was no will. The widow made no petition for letters of administration and finally, after sev eral months, one of the daughters made application in the probate court and John Eussell was soon after appointed administrator. Shortly after Mr. Harff's death ru mors of poisoning began to be heard. Mr. Eussell stated to the county attor ney that he had, after a fashion, in vestigated these rumors and that, in his opinion, the facts warranted an of ficial examination. OUR ARMY READY FOR VENEZUELAN INVASION Journal Special Service. Louisville, Ky., Oct. played a snappy game. New York Herald S*eolal Service. Journal Speoial Service. v. U3SS THAN CENT ON DOLLAE. Boston, Oct. 14.Less than one cent on the dollar is the' amount the credi tors of Burnett, Cummings & Co., who failed on May 27 for $1,714,368, will receive on their claims, according to the report of the trustee in bankrupt cy, Joshua M. Sears, which is nearly ready for petition to the United States, court, the value of all the assets be ing tfut a few hundred dollars. The creditors for the most part are banks and railroad companies. The company controlled a number of unprofitable street railroad enterprises. Blind School Team in a Football Game SfgL. *ss Eleven from Kentucky Puts up& Snappy Contest Against Players Superior in Weight, Also in Vision. 14.Tho the\ the footbal lappy ga teaiin of the Kentucky Institute for the Blind was defeated today by the Cres cent Hill football team by a score of 25 to 0. The Crescent Hill team is composed of strong players and out weigns the blind boys. Notwithstand ing these handicaps, however, the blind team put up a good exhibition, the stars being Captain Elwood, Snort, who played full, and Baxter Coodert, right guard. Professor Gregory^ who is athletic in structor at the institute and devised a game of baseball for blind boys, which is now in use in various institutions Henry Irving Died of a Broken Heart London, Oct. 14.Sir Henry Irving died of a broken heart over the loss of the Lyceum theater in this city, which had passed out of his hands on account of persistent financial misfortunes, to become a second rate music hall. His death has shocked and saddened all Britain. To the last the veteran trage dian remained in English estimation the noblest figure on the Anglo-Saxon stage. Irving felt that he belonged as much to the United States as to Great Brit ain. He had planned, indeed, that his farewell tour thru the United States in 1906 should be his real farewell to the atrical life. His frequent trips to the United States and the unusual honors Veteran Tragedian Crushed in Spirit and Broken in '---_. Health by Loss of Theater and Fortune. -"Y""' 1 -I--T IIUIH 1 IDflNEDS LEAP IFBOM FIRE PERIL Flames Trap Throng in Grand stand and Sweep Acres at Ohio Fire. Bucyrus, Ohio, Oct. 14.While the county fair was in progress this after noon, a gasoline stove used by a con cessioner under the grandstand ex ploded and within two minutes the big building was a mass of flames. Peo ple in the grandstand, interested the race that was in progress, were unconscious of their danger until smoke and flames began to creep from the floor at their feet. A panic ensued in which the one exit from the stand was blocked. The only way to safety was to leap to the track in front of the stand. A drop of fifteen feet made this dangerous. In the excitement, women and chil dren leaped, falling upon each other. Many were injured by the fall and others badly burned. Hundreds of people were burned and bruised, though no fatalities are re ported. Half of the exhibits were ruined, while those in the buildings that were saved were damaged by be ing ruthlessly torn from their places. In half an hour many buildings, small and Teat, were transformed into a sea of flames. m.RM\WtMJ,M.X%V&M\WW^^^ By Publishers' Press. 'III thruout the country, has slightly modi fied the rules of football. The game, however, is practically like that played by "seeing" boys. The same kind of signals are used and the ball is put into pla.ee in the same way. Professor Greggory says that with a little more practice his men will im prove their team work till it is as ac curate as it was last season, when they defeated several strong teams. They go into the sport as enthusiastically as though blessed with vision, but will have no roughness or brutality about it. They work by the sound of their mates, aided by ,the shouts of these in the crowd, who invariably help out the blind' boys. accorded him there always gratified his countrymen, who "regarded''him as an eminent missionary jn the cause of An glo-American fraternity. Many of his warmest personal friends in the United States were Chicagoans. He laved Chi cago and liked to play there. It will grieve Henry Irving's admiT ers to learn that despite the fortune earn'ed in his long career, he died a comparatively poor man. He has sunk vast sums in the elaborate but unsuc cessful production of "Faust," "Corio lanus," "Bobespierrc"*and "Dante," and it was the run of bad luck which these plays encountered that caused him to fail in his tour two years ago to America. Neither his .spirit nor his health survived his humiliation!. surv City of Mexico, Oct. 14.John Alex ander Dowie left this city yesterday afternoon, going to Tampico. A sen sational report published to the effect that Dr. Dowie on his way to the Na tional railway station suffered another stroke of paralysis is indignantly de nied by his friends. The clerk of the Palace hotel, where the doctor has been staving, says the rumor is incorrect, saying the only ground for the rumor is that the horse behind which the doctor was riding, slipped on the pavement and lamed himself. The doctor took another -car riage and proceeded on his way. The doctor and his party are reported to have departed in first-class health and "spirits. BEELL TO WRESTLE COLLINS. Calumet, Mich., Oct. 14.Arrange- ments have been completed for a wrest ling match between Joe Collins, cham pion of Canada, and Fred Beell, cham pion heavyweight of Wisconsin, to take place at the Kerredge theater, Han cock, Oct. 21. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 15,* 1965. BAEERS BEGET JNMSEMENT OF SHIP SUBSIDIES "Vf Admit They Have No Business Touching on SubjectOther t. Things They Shunned., CULLOM'S PL^CE ON COMMITTEE SECURE Mackenzie Will Not Sumbit Esti mates on Needed Biver and Harbor Work. -4*he"iaw of gapm! Cullom's There $Mie out froj thisr effort will* be U* DOIlE'S HORSE NOT BOWIE, ILL "Prophet" Not Paralyzed* but His Steed Is Lame .Be- cause of a Fall. fllinois SU By W. W. Jermane. i Washington, Oct. 14.Those* mem bers of the American Bankers' asso ciation who are still in town are saying that a mistake was made yesterday, when, the convention being in the hub bub immediately preceding adjourn ment, a resolution favoring ship sub sidy legislation was introduced and adopted. The bankers of the., country are not experts on the subsidy^ question, and probably very few of them have any sort of exact information concerning it. Some of the bankers are now saying that it waa an act of questionable pro priety to force on their gathering a snap vote on a matter ox this kind. Fortunately the declaration will do no harm, for the circumstances under which it was brought about Trill pre vent its having any effect on congress or the country. It is probable that the incident was chiefly due to the fact that Secretary Shaw, in a speech to the bankers the day before, advocated the subsidy and followed the speech with a reception to the bankers at bis home. Perhaps the bankers who presented 1)he resolu tion felt thai It would be lair to indorse the secretary^ speech-by a~ resolution as an act of reciprocity^ Other Belter .Topics. MLJ If, however, hj& convention was to let itself be hoaxed on .public questions of ^general interest outside the Danking specialty, it is'^obvioxts as" One of them pointed out today,Jthat there were sev eral topics on whifh it could have ex pressed itself with* more propriety and profit than on ship.subsidies. Among these topics are the misuse of insurance funds, the, occupation of se,ats in dummy, nrect6rates, and the close connection that has existed be tween some of the great insurance om Eanies and certain trust and banking ouses of New York for purposes of speculation in insuranoeofunas. These subjects come within the pur view of banking, and would have- been, topics of legitimate Inquiry or resolu tion- Ship subsidies lucre so more to d% with banking ihjin -&ev have with By Publishers' Press. Secure. 5 inutfce, report sent the effect that an when congress meets to retire Senator Cullonl from his place as chairman of the committee, on foreign relations. Cullom will hold that place by right- of seniority as long as he remains the Senate and that" body is controlled, by republicans, and neither Lodge nor Beveridge wants to unseat him. In attempting such a thing they would war aginst all precedents estab lished, for more than a century and having all the force of law, and would also do something that might imperil their own chairmanships in future years. The entire story is without foundation. It is also untrue that the president turned Cullom down in refusing to ap oint Lieutenant Governor Sherman of to the interstate commerce com mission in succession to Governor Fifer, resigned. Man From Pacific Coast. The president knew of Mfer's pro- {ongdbefore ose retirement several months ago, it came to the attention of Cullom or any Hlinois politicians. He then decided to fill the vacancy, when it should^ occur, by naming some man from the Pacific coast. He had already arranged to do this before Cullom called this week to request the appointment of Sherman, and had been in correspond- e'n'ce with the man he had picked" out. The situation was explained to Cullom, who is entirely satisfied. The president is not dissatisfied with CullonrB management of the Santo Do mingo treaty. Cullom has favored that Britain's Sheltering rn London, Oct. 15.The correspondent of the Times at Copenhagen wires that a *tory is reported there to ,the effect that Great Britain has renewed a ATTHE SLEUTHS Absconder, With Express Com pany's Hundred Thousand, Writes to Newspapers. Special to The Journal. Continued on 6th Page, 5th Column, -''George Cunliffe, Pittsburg, Pa. Chicago, Oct. 14.George E. Ctinliffe, the absconding Adams Express agent, who disappeared with $100,000, has written a letter to a Chicago newspaper in which he "guys" the press and po lice for failing to catch him. He laughs at the stories to the eftect that he had heen seen in St. Paul and Minneapolis. The letter, which is written on station ery of the Morton House, Grand Bapids, Mich., is as follows: "Grand Bapids, Mich., Oct. 12, 1905. Sitting tonight in tho lobby of the Morton House, I am amused at the antics of the detectives thruout the country, especially your chief of police1 of Chicago. I have read today's Her ald and American. I am possibly .in Chicago, and I may be in St. Paul or Minneapolis, but you will see from this letter I am in neither place, and when you get this I will not be here. It amuses me to see how bright your brightest of bright detectives are. But they are only human, and not mind readers. Of course I will not be here when you get this letter. mQUARDEIXWXUR ''S:\ViArms Over Normay MAY BE NORWAY'S ROYAL FAMILY New Photograph of Prince Christian of Denmark, His Wife and Oldest Daughter. jfl&tf V'-vS pledge to Norway that in the** event that Prince Charles of Demaatk is made king ohe new natien-^i^ tyill ^S 5 86 PAGESPRICE FIVE CENTS. i &X& se a lan I^^Iin EuBSian aggression. BLANCHE EATfe i, STOPS A PASIC With Robert Hilliard, She Quells Turmoil Over Fire on the Stage. Journal Special Serrloe. Pittsburg, Oct. 14.Blanche "Bates forgot she was ''The (Girl Insurance President Sits in $2,000 Chair at a $6,000 Desk on 4 $12,000 Rug, in His Office. svw^& Like McCall, He Sticks to His Post, Tho Loud Demands Be Made for Resignations ot Insurance Chiefs. NORTH DAKOTA AROUSED Grand Forks, N. D., Oct U~- A convention of New York Life policyholders in this county has been called for Oct. 25 to select three delegates to attend a state convention of policyholders to he held here Nov. 3, that convention to select five delegates to attend a national convention to he held in New York city at the call of Thomas W. Lawson of Boston. Journal Speoial Service. New York, Oct. 14.According to the statement of a corporation lawyer of high standing, it is a most disagree able task to obtain access to President McCurdy's private office^ since the Armstrong investigation committee be- Eife. agai 1 st to probe the. affairs of the Mutual ~f This lawyer, who wished to see Mr. McCurdy on a matter of extreme impor tance to those whom he represented,, after subjecting himself to many hu miliations and annoyances, finally got into the president's own office, where he found Mr. McCnrdy sitting in a mag ruficent chair in the center of a won derfnl rug, with his feet resting an elaborate cushion. Near-by was exquisitely ornamented gilt table.-i^ir""|ant*r-nupo There were no papers, books or other lij evidences of work upon the gilt tablo. -J*. H, Mr. McCurdy has in his suite a $2,000, chair, a $6,000 desk or writing table, and a $12,000 rug, but whether the fur-.,y| nishings i he lawyer saw were those-!! identical articles he was unable to say- How to Bun Guards. **i ^rTe^eZ-^He asks the elevator man^ The ordina: President McCu from the Golden West" and Bob Hilliard mo mentarily laid aside the role of "The Stranger" and outlaw, on the stage of. the Belasco theater this afternoon as they gave an impromptu performance of fighting the flames, 'therew saving the theater from disaster anT'tJi au dience of 2,000 from panic. During the third act when the two lovers met in the "gsrl's" Toom, in the light of an oil lamp, and the outlaw lover begged for a kiss, the struggle which "ensued resulted' in overturning the lamp and setting fire to the rug. Hilliard at once seized the lamp and carried it to the wings. Eeturning, he rolled up the burning rug, stamped out the fire as best he could, and hurled it back to join the demolished lamp. But a woman cried "Fire." Then scores rushed from their seats and a stampede was imminent. Miss Bates rushed to the footlights and cried: "Turn on every light in an injtant." The electrician obeyed and the 'audience became calm. II, ..II. erso who tries to seV. dy goes thru this ex**"" rdy is, that functionary^ fers him to the head elevator man starter, who stands in the main halLl" The latter-refers the inquirer to the**1?: Muttflft JWf^s^irrifernfcalaon bureau onr tfee s3o*. The funetionary usually di$f therV'^l the visitor from his de-I sire to see the president by taking hinul to some sub-officer of the .company. 'If' the visitor refuses to be diverted, he is told that the president is not in. la the case of the newspaper men they are all taken from the information bureau to the publicity department, and that is as far as they get. McOurdy Like a King. Those who have passed the many gray-coated guards with which Mr. Mc Curdy keeps himself" surrounded in the Mutual Life building, and the bul warks of red tape behind which he shields himself, say that he carries out his king-like character In his speech. He invariably refers to the Mutual at "my company," to its trustees aB "my trustees," to its officers as "my offi- cers.*' It was noticed that when he was testifying under oath on the Wit ness stand, that he spoke of the actuary of the Mutual as "my actuary.'' But nobody, so far as is known, ever heard Mr. McCurdy refer to the Mutual's assets as "mine," tho he has been known to speak of the policyholders as "my policyholders." Mr. McCurdy is said to be fond of. mystery and surrounding his comings and goings with the secrecy which monarchs sometimes find necessary. For this reason he often uses the lit tle private elevator which runs from the inner office to that of A. C. Fields on the ground floor of the building. The street entranee to Mr. Fields' of fice looks like the side door of a saloon. Standing by McOall. Vw York Herald 8pecial Berrloe. Directors of the New York life In surance company have decided to stand by John A. McCall, the president of the company. No official action has yet been taken to that effect, but the an nouncement may be accepted as none the less authorative that a large ma jority of the board has informally re solved to sustain Mr. McCall in his position, despite tremendous pressure brought to bear upon them for his removal in the form of letters from the policyholders and resolutions of vari ous organizations, demanding his with drawal from the presidency. a Disapproved by Directors. This decision on the part of the di rectors does not mean that all of them approve or even condone some of the acts of the McCall administration re cently made public thru the inquiry. Many members of the board have pro fessed surprise and deep regret to learn of the diversion of money paid to the republican campaign funds on the sole responsibility of Mr. McCall and Mr. Perkins. Nor do they approve of the methods employed in devoting large sums to the influencing of legislation, thru Judge Hamilton, nor of the lax system, or lack of system, whereby Judge Hamilton has been permitted to hold hundreds of thousands of dollars without making any proper accounting therefor. Never Reaped Personally. _~j| Members of the board, however, maintain that while Mr. McCall may have been guilty of errors of .judg ment and sins of omission, there has been no scintilla of evidence to show that he has in any way profited by be ing the head of the company*. As re gards the political contributions, the directors are inclined to dismiss the incident as an error of judgment on the part of Mr. McCall, In the matter of the maintenance of a bureau for the suppression of un friendly legislation and the expendi ture tor that purpose of vast sums with out vouchers or-.detailed accountings, the board is content to take the view that,altho the system may be per nicious, Mr. McCall did not originate it and did the best he could with con ditions as he found them. They believe I I Continued on 2d Page, 6th Column***