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n THE Associated Press Exclusive Wire Argus Want Ads Always Brio Results SIXTY-FIRST YEAR. XO. 106. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1912. TWELVE PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS, R K SIiAM) ARGUS r FEW OF BOMB MEN TO TELL ALLJREPORT District Attorney Miller Intimates Surprise in Dynamite Cases. PLAN TRIALS IN APRIL Counsel for Defendants Holds Conference With Govern ment Prosecutor. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 17. The fact that for days the government has had a dictagraph in the office of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers here and has taken reports of conver sations of President Ryan and others In connection with the dynamite con spiracy, became known today. The government agents this afternoon, af ter h'-arlng the Iron workers' officials were aware of the dictagraph, entered Ryan's office and took out the instru ment, which had been attached to the cud of a drawer in a desk. Ryan de clared be was not aware bia conversa tions were being overheard. CONVEK3TIOXS TAKE. The Wires from the dictagraph were connected with a down town of fice and two stenographers recorded what waa said by Ryan and bis as sociates. It Is said the government bus reports of conversations between Rysn. Vice Presidents Jlockin and liutler and their attorneys. Indianapolis, Ind., Keb. 17. Intima tions'W'ere aid to have been received by the government that some of the defendants In the dynamite conspiracy cases were preparing "to tell all they know." The statements followed the govern ment's charges that 40,000 letters and telegrams taken from the Internation al Association of Bridge and Stnir- ' " tffmf Iron "Wort,6saxrti(j?tWrffi5l ixSr M. Ryan, the president, Herbert S. llockln, the second vice president, and members of the executive board and business agents conducted the dyna mite plots through the mail, pointed out "jobs" to be blow a up, and main tained a system of destruction against nonunion iron and steel contractors. Asked if any negotiations had been opened with him concerning the de fendant. United States District Attor ney Miller said: "I wouldn't be surprised If It Is shown soon that something like that had happened." W. N. Harding, counsel for Ryan and the international officials of the Iron workers, held a long conference with Mr. Miller, but It was not dis closed what was considered. The trials probably will be early In May. ai.i,k.i:d am;mkt ok jous. Ortle E. McManigal's confession of the dynamiting he did under the di rection of J. J. MrXamara is said by District Attorney Miller to be corrob orated by the letters embraced In the Indictment charging "unconsummated act of conspiracy." Ryan's (letter, written from New Vorl In April. 1910, Is cited in the In dictment as showing he instructed Henry V. Legleltner, now of Denver, to do certain "Jobs;" John T. Butler, the (first vice president of the union, to do "Jobs" at Buffalo and Roches ter, N. Y.; Hockia to do "jobs" at Cleveland, Detroit. Davenport, Iowa, and Cincinnati; Paul J. Morrln. St. Ixuis, to do a "job" at Mount Vernon, 111., and Frank C. Webb of New York to do "Jobs" at "Worcester, Mass. The indictments allege that the Job" at Mount Vernon, 111, was dyna mited on the night of April 19; that the Davenport "Job under construc tion ly the rompany referred to by Ryan. was dynamited on Jane 4; that the Peoria "Job" was dynamited on June that the Cleveland "job" was dynamited on June 22; that the Pitts burgh "Job" was dynamited on July 15; that a bridge was dynamited at Kansas City on Aug. 23. MrMAMGAL. THE STAR WITNESS. "The testimony of McManigal. of many witnesses from the cities in which the explosions occurred, and of members of crews of trains upon which explosives were carried will be found to dovetail exactly with the let ters atleged to show the unconsum mated acts." said Mr. Miller.-- "Be cause McManigal was the most active agent of the dynamiters, the govern ment will rely largely upon his testi mony for corroborative evidence at the trials. "Others not named In the Indict ment i are pointed to as having been connected with the pot and early de velopments may bring their Identity forward, but at present we are satis fied to try those against whom we are sure we have conclusive evidence." Concerning the letters quoted In the indictment Mr. Ryan said: "It la unfair for the government to draw conclusions that those letters trare written to promote crime. If b1: person reada all of them ho will Trie Weatlier Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, for Rock Island. Davenport, Mo line, and Vicinity. Generally cloudy tonight and Sun day, moderate temperature. The lowest temperature tonight will be about the freezing point. Temperature at 7 a. m, 29. High est yesterday 31, lowest last night 28. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 4 miles per hour. Precipitation none. Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 93, at 7 a. tn. 93. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENT8. (Trom noon today to noon tomorrow.) Son sets 5:37. rises 6:49; moon seta 5:04 p. m.; 12:44 a. nu, eastern time, new moon, passing the inn; 4:30 a. m, eastern time, all Jupiter's four princi pal satellites seen massed near the planet see that they Tefer only to legitimate means of inducing contractors to un ionize their work." OFFERS OF IMCNITY REFCSED. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 17. Olaf A. Tveitmoe, Anton Johannsen, and E. A. Clancy, the San Francisco labor lead ers. Indicted here by the federal grand Jury on a charge of conspiracy to transport dynamite, refused to testi fy when called before the Los Angeles county grand jury, which resumed its investigation of allegations growing out of the McXamara case. Tveitmoe was called into the grand Jury room first. The section of the civil code which grants a witness im munity from prosecution on any testi mony he may give before a grand jury was read to him, but he declined to testify. Johannsen and Clancy follow ed his example. "I have been bulldozed long enough by Los Angeles officials." said Johann sen. "I don't want immunity. All I want Is a square deal. They can't make me testify, and I won't" FH.HT EXTRADITION. New York, Feb. 17. Frank C. Webb and Patrick Farrell have decided to fight extradition to Indianapolis to an swer a dynamiting indictment. Both are now out on bail. WOMAN IS A BIGAMIST AT DEMAND OF HUBBY London, Feb. 17. A remarkable se quel has developed to the marriage between Horace Field Parshall of Mil- ford, N. iY., an American capltalisten-, gTneSw-w ho fs'chahmanof the Central London Tube railway, and Mrs. Debor- rah Jeffreys, which took place at Elt- ham registry office on May 8 last year. The. woman was arraigned at the Bow street police court on a charge of bigamy. She is a very attractive wo man and appeared before the magis trate in a handsome costume. In an swer to the charges, she said: "I am deeply sorry for what I have done. I would not have done it if my husband had not made me." In a formal statement made to the court, she declared that she first met Mr. Parshall In January. 1911, when she was presented as a widow. He af terward proposed marriage to her. Her husband, Herbert H. Jeffreys, from whom she was separated, urged her to marry Mr. Parshall for his money and threatened to kill her if she revealed to Mr. Parshall that she was a mar ried woman. Mr. Parshall afterward received an anonymous letter. In which his sup posed wife confessed what ehe had done. The marriage was annulled by the high court Craig Out of Contests. Detroit Mich., Feb. 17. Ralph Craig, famous sprinter of the University or Michigan, announced today he will not compete with the American team at the Olympic games In Stockholm next summer. Craig was expected to score heavily In the 100 and 200-mile dashes. He declared he cannot leave his posi tion for the length of time that the training and trip requires. French Marquis Is Morphine Fiend. Detroit Feb. 17. An alleged mor phine fiend in a local hospital has proved to be Marquis Robert Villa nauve, a French nobleman, who left home because his father frowned on his marriage. He was, It is said, a hero in the Boer war. His father Is said to have made a world-wide search for him. TEST OF WILSON CLARK STRENGTH Oklahoma City. Okla.. Feb. 17. One of the first testa of strength be tween aspirants in the democratic party for the presidential nomination from which definite results may be obtained. Is in progress throughout Oklahoma today. County conventions which will name delegates to next week's state convention are under way. Supporters of Champ Clark de clared they would have at least two thirds of the delegates selected, but Wilson's champions do not concede anything like that Clark managers today declared the state convention will send to Baltimore a solid dele gation Instructed for Clark. Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 17. Oklahoma county's 31 delegates to the democratic state convention are Instructed solidly for Clark. The delegate-at-large to the national con vention was Instructed for Clark. WETS BATTLE DRY ATTEMPT CongressCommittee Hears Arguments on State Liquor Shipments. W.C.T.U.HEAD IS THERE representative uartnomt in Stand With German-American Delegation. Washington, Feb. 17. "Wets" and "Drys" battled before the house and senate committee today over the ques tion of prohibiting the shipment - of liquor into states where its sale is bar red. THE Mrs. Lilliam M. Stevens, president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, appeared with leg islative representatives and officers of that organization. HtRTHOI.DT OPPOSES. A delegation of German-American men and women, led by Bartholdt of Missouri, opposed the legislation. PREPARING FOR A BIG WALKOUT IN ENGLAND London, Feb. 17. The acuteness of the crisis In the British coal trade is emphasized by the prohibitive rate of 94 per cent asked by the Lloyds on Insurance against a national strike. Both sides are making every prepara tion for war. Colliery owners are in suring not only the collieries, but pri vate residences, against damages. The military authorities also are making preliminary preparations. March 1 is the date fixed for a walkout of 800,000 miners. It is believed a strike will paralyze every Industry and send the cost of necessaries of life up to famine prices. KIMMEL'S FATHER HEARD IN IDENTITY MYSTERY St Louis, Feb. 17. Reading of the deposition of Henry T. Kimmel. father of George A. Kimmel, who disappeared in Arkansas City, Kan., in 1S98, closed the plaintiff's side In the Kimmel case. The father, who has not lived with his mile for 39 years, and has not been east of Chicago in that time, deposed that he was not dead, as the claimant Andrew J. White, had claimed, and "t he had not heard from any one who claimed to be his son. "Ripper Still Busy in South. Atlanta. Ga., Feb. 16. The 16th negreea to be murdered on the streets here in a little more than 12 months was found yesterday with her throat cut The negro population ia greatly aroused and attribute the murdera to a "jack the-ripper," I 1 y w wf WIRES OUT; ROAD BANDITS ESCAPE Unsuccessful Attempt to Hold Up Mail Train Near Lig gett, Indiana. ENGINE CREW FIRED ON Posses Scour Country All Night, But Fail to Get Trace of Gang, Thought Amateurs. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 17. Posses scouring the country found no traces this morning of the bandits who at tempted to hold up a Vandalla-New York-St. Louis mail train near Liggett, Ind., last night Because of delay In making up a special train to carry of ficers to the scene and the cutting of telegraph wires, the bandits obtained a big start on the officials. WORK OF AMATEURS. The sheriff believes the work was that of amateurs. One of the bandits fired four shots at the engine crew. but missed them. It is the opinion of HAND OF THE LAW trainmen that other members of the (gang were hidden in a deep cut through which the train had Just passed, and a plan to stop the train in the cut fail ed because of not knowing how to give the signal with the bellcord. NO EFFORT TO ENTER. Railroad officials say no effort was made to break into the cars, and as far as known nothing of any considerable value was being carried. DEATHS IN A DAY Duluth, Minn., Feb. 17. Athol Mor ton Miller, Jr., 38 is dead. He was a well known mining man. Mayville, Wis., Feb. 17. Former Congressman Barwlg 13 dead. He served three terms In congress. D0WLING CONSECRATED BISHOP NEXT TUESDAY Providence, R. L, Feb. 17. Arrange ments for the consecration of Rev. Austin Dowling, recently appointed Roman Catholic bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, have been tentatively complet ed. If papal notification arrives In time, the ceremony will take place Tuesday, March 1. In the cathedral St. Peter and St Paul here, of which Bishop Dowling has been pastor. Bishop Harklna of the Providence dio cese will act as consecrator. AVIATOR IN FALL 380 FEET; DEAD London, Feb. 17. Graham Gilmore, one of the best known British aviators was killed today by a fall with his aeroplane from a height of 380 feet He waa traveling at a rate of 60 miles an hour when the machine buckled up and dropped, CHOKE PROBE OFTJEARMY Retirement of Ainsworth is Believed End of Scandal AT HIS OWN REQUEST House Probably Will Not Now Go Into Controversy Involv ing General Wood. Washington, Feb. 17. The Ains worth incident which for a time promised a sensational court martial, la generally regarded today as closed. With Ainsworth on the retired list at his own request and proposed dis- cipllnary proceedings ' against him abandoned by the war department there was little thought that the for mer adjutant general's friends in con gress would make a further issue of the matter. HOISE INQIIRY OFF. The house had been expected to or der an inquiry into the Ainsworth Wood controversy, but such a possi bility now is remote. Legislative ac tion of yesterday by which the army appropriation bill was amended to provide for consolidation of the sev eral warring bureaus in the war de partment was an attempt by the house to wipe out much of the friction that has existed bo long. WOOD TO BE SUPREME. Whether the senate will agree to the consolidation, which would make the chief of staff of the army, now General Wood, absolutely supreme, is problematical at this time. COMMITTEE SIMMONS AINSWORTH, Ainsworth was subpoenaed today to appear Monday before the house com mittee on war department expendl tures. His appearance is desired pri marily in connection with the -hearing of Paymaster Ray's case, but commit teemen say the inquiry is likely to be extended to include the Wood-Alns worth controversy and the entire con duct of the war department FORMER BANK CASHIER IS TAKEN AS A VAGRANT San Francisco, Feb. 17. Sheriff Wood of Jackson, Mich, telegraphed the police today asking them to hold Harry J. Mallon, arrested here yester day on a charge of vagrancy. Wood did not name the charge. Mallon for merly was cashier of a bank at Mu nlch, Mich. He will be held pending instructions from Michigan. Murderer Gets Life Term. Milwaukee, Wis., . Feb. 17. John Nagel, convicted of the murder of Stephen Berger, was today sentenced to the state prison at Waupun for life. ANOTHER PENNSY WRECK; 5 KILLED Limited, Its Engineer Blinded by a Fog, Crashes Into a Work Train. TWO ARE BURNED TO CRISP Baggageman Is Only One Injured on the Passenger Cars Take Fire. Larwill, Ind., Feb. 17. The Pennsylvania limited, westbound, corresponding to the eastbound train wrecked at Warriors' Ridge Thurs day, crashed Into a work train here today. Five men of the work train were killed and 11 others injured. FOG IS THE CAUSE. The baggageman .was the only person aboard the limited injured The wreck was due to fog, which prevented the engineer of the limit ed seeing the signals of the other train. The wreckage caught fire and two of the dead were burned almost beyond recognition. IXJIRED MAY DIE. Two or three of the Injured may die. The' dead, all employes of Fort Wayne, Ind., are: E. C. STUMP. F. SPOLTMAN. A. BAILEY. FRANK WIGGINS. , V. DOBBERKAY. Three cars of the work train burned, but the limited being steel, was not In jured. TAVENNER AGAIN IX WRECK. Washington, Feb. 17. Among the passengers on the Pennsylvania lim ited that collided with a work train at Larwill, Ind., today, was Clyde H. Tavenner, newspaper man and assist ant sergeant-at-arms of the house. He was taking the body of his moth er, who was killed in the wreck of the Pennsylvania limited at Hunting don, Pa., Thursday, to Cordova, III., for burial. Tavenner, who was In the Hunt ingdon wreck, telegraphed here he again had escaped uninjured. YUAN CUTS OFF QUEUE; rlAo rnMlOt run Un. oU IMi Peking, Feb. 17. President-elect Yuan Shi Kai of . the-- republic ef China .had his queue cut off yesterday in order to signify his acceptance of republican customs as well as consti tutions. He had courteously retained his qi-eue while he was carrying negotia tions with the Imperial clans for the abduction of the throne and the es tablishment of the republic. The same consideration prompted him to express the wish that there should be no public rejoicings over his elec tion as president of the new republic. In an interview Yuan Shi Kai said: 'Owing to lack of experience the re publican government will make many errors. Having been elected presi dent of the republic, I will under take the task." Yuan said he had a great admira tion for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who had shown himself a true patriot. Yuan is determined not to go to Nanking and is endeavoring to per suade the Nanking assembly that his presence there is not necessary, at the same time pointing out the dan gerous possibility of the monarchical party endeavoring to reestablish It self in power. He also told them of the threaten ing situation In Manchuria, where foreign intervention Is probable if control is relaxed. There is also dan ger, he considers, of anarchy in the northern provinces, and the Manchu troops are difficult to control The princes of the imperial court are beseeching Yuan Shi Kai not to leave Peking, fearing something will happen to the court which trusts only to him for its safety and fulfill ments of the pledges given by tbe re publicans. Farmer Held as a Lunatic. Princeton, N. J., Feb. 17. Mrs. G rover Cleveland caused , the arrest of William Lahey, a local farmer. who will be examined as to his men tal condition. Lahey's wife, who sells garden truck to many of the prominent residents of the college colony, recently told Mrs. Cleveland tliat Lahey had repeatedly threaten ed to kill her and their children. Mrs. Cleveland thought for the safety of the family, the farmer should be put In prison or in an asylum. RUBER OFFICIAL; ROAD PUSHES ON Denver, Feb. 17. As a result of new financing arrangements just completed by the Denver, Laramie tc Northwest ern Railroad company, construction v.ork will be resumed within a few days and the line completed to Scott, Colo, 44 miles north of Greeley, the present terminus of the road. Charles Cott Johnson will remain as president and W. E. Green will con tinue as 1ce president; N. T. Guern sey, Des Moines, Iowa, Is made chair man of tbe board of directors; F. A. Bridge, Madison, Wis, will become second vice president; and Otto Hu ber. Rock Island, 111-, will become 1 treasurer. FINDS SUGAR TRUST; BUT A CURE? NONE That's Tone of Report of the Hardwick Com mittee KEEPS QUOTATIONS UP Doctrine of Government Regu lation of Prices Discouraged Promoters Are Hit. Washington. Feb. 17. The Hard wick "sugar trust" Investigating com mittee unanimously reported to the house today that a sugar trust exists, but makes no recommendation as to how the alleged trust snail be dealt with. EXTENT NOT FIXED. The committee expresses a belief . the monopoly keeps the price of sugar up, but makes no attempt to fix accur ately the extent to "which reasonable prices that might exist under compet itive conditions are exceeded. The. report severely condemns the original promoters of the sugar trust but de scribes the 19,000 present owners of ' stock as "innocent purchasers" of profitable stock unloaded on them by those who organized the trust BEET MEN NOT TOGETHER, The report does not find that there is any combination between beet su gar manufacturers that would af fect prices on beets. The com mittee charges the American Sugar Refining company has re peatedly violated the Sherman law and declares that' no movements up to the present have made any effort to enforce the penal provisions of the Sherman law. The report discourages the doctrine of government regulation j5 prices. MENHT ATTACKS WA1X STREET. Representative Henry today attack ed the money power In Wall street and demanded an inquiry into "black hand methods of financial Mafia of this country." He counseled thor oughly going to investigation before congress accepted the Aldrlch plan of currency reform. He assumed "no ef fective investigation can be made into the ramification of currency legis lation, trusts and Interstate com merce corporations until congress understands the methods of an tnsl- ' dious and almost supreme money pow er." IIOUSON BITTERLY ARRAIGNED. Washington, Feb. 17. Bitter person al attacks were made in the house to day on Representative Hobson by Hay and Fitzgerald for his criticism of the army reorganization scheme. Remarks inserted in the congressional record, but not uttered on the floor, directed against these two members, formed the basis of the attack. Hay charged tbe Alabamaian acted in a "cowardly way," and Fitzgerald declared Hob son devolved more time to tbe Chau tauqua lecture platform than to at tending sessions of tbe house. W1CKERSHAM PLEASED. St Louis, Feb. 17. Attorney Gen eral Wickersbam here today was much pleased that "congress has wakened up,' and discovered there is a sugar trust He says he made that discov ery seven months ago and then enter ed suit against the trust LOW HEELS ORDERED; 14 WOMEN LEAVE JOBS Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 17.- Fourteen women clerks and stenog raphers of a local publishing com pany resigned because of an order Is sued by P. V. Collins, head of the concern, that they either buy new phoea or have the heels on their pres ent ones cut down one inch by next Monday. The girls left rather than obey, declaring the order was an In fringement on personal liberty and an attempt to dictate office style. The order was issued as tbe result of Miss Rose Burkhardt catching ber heel and falling last Monday. Mr. Collins says he is thinking of open ing a war on tight fitting gowns in connection with office work. 59 PER CENT OF STUDENT BODY FOUND DEFECTIVE Madlson,Wls., Feb. 17. That 59 per cent of tbe boys who entered the Uni versity of Wisconsin last September had round shoulders, 30 per cent had defective eyesight and that they were not aware, Is shown by statistics just compiled. Tbe statistics show a marked increase In physical defective ness of students entering the univer sity the last four years, and remark-' able increase of flatfoot among fresh men. Daughter's Death Causes Suicide. Hancock, Mich, Feb. 17. Grief over the death of his only daughter resulted in the suicide of Joseph Czura, a citi zen of Fulton, near here, whose body waa found banging to a bedpost. 1 1 i