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.. ' . . t ..... .' .......... ... : VOL. Lll. NO. 286 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1910 PRICE TWO CENTS V BELMONT ON THE WITNESS STAND - Millionaire Horse Owner, Chairman Jockey Club and Westchester Race Association SAYS HE HAS BEEN PERSECUTED Mr. Belmont the Only One of Three Prominent Men Identified with Racing Interests Whom the New York Legislature Graft Investigating Committee Has Been Able to Subpoena Keene and Whitney in Europe New York. Nv. 29. August J.irl Tnoiit. millionaire horse owner a.-iO hairman of the Jockey club and the WeatchcstT Racing association, took tha witness stand this afternoon and Stated to the legislative Investigation committee that he considered he had been persecuted. "And I want to pay," tie added with emphasis, "that the Rac ing association and the Jockey club fought the anti-race track bills fair ly." Unable to Subpoena Keens and Whit ney. Mr. Belmont Is the only one of a trio ef prominent men identified with rac ing whom the committee has been able to Bet on the witness stand to testify concerning the charge that a $500. 00U corruption fund was raised by tne rac lnt lntc-rsts to combat the Hart- Agnew law prohibiting bettinar on horse raes, which pawed Hie legislature in Ku:jioena8 for Mr. llelmont James K. Keene and Hurry Payne "VVhitnev have been out for weeks, si! having Keen mentioned as present at a conference at whl'h the slu-grd fund ts subscribed. f-srvU-e has not yet l"en obiained on Messrs. Keene and "Whitney, nd thir secretarieH. both ailed as witn-is today, testified that hcy were in Europe. Mr. Belmont Explains. The Jockey club. Mr. Helmont ex plained in his cptn:nn testimony today, la a close corporation of fifty members brought into being some ten years ago ly men Interested in the turf. He was ked by what authority the Jockey club had assessed $5,700 on the Coney Inland Jockey club, and replied that the money had not been paid aa the result of an assessment, but contributed in formally. '"There la no authority." he said, "that can be exercised by the Jockey eiob to influence payment of a fee by racing association for legal purposes; tat the associations, finding: that they were to be persecuted, combined and retained attorneys to fl?ht the legisla tion. Thfcs wms purely a voluntary matter and there was absolutely no compulsion whatsoever In having the snouey raised to retain lawyers." Considers It Persecution. "To what do you refer when you say fiersecutlon of racing?" he was asked. "Well, I may say that I was served with a tubooena by your committee in way that I'd call persecution. I had no notification of the fact that you wanted me. An attempt was made to serve me the cay before Thatikf-Kiving in a roundabout way by (ailing at tny office and saying that I was wanted en a very pressing business matter. That Is a reflection and it Is peixpcu t'on In that It mad the community think I was trying to evade -rvke. Subpoena Dodgers. "Now take Mr. Whitney. He is abroad arranging tii International polo rr.atch. His stable is abroad and his ln-.ret are there. You post him as a subpoena dodjr. 1 JUSTICE LAYS THE LASH UPON A WIFE-BEATER "Only One Kind of Punishment Fitting for Such Brutes as You." Wiikes-Barre. Nov. 29. Mrs. Albeit Cey, a small, frail woman. With black and blue cuts and bruises on her head Hid arms told Justice or" th Peace .7. C. llavc'en nf Swayersvitle thut her tinsband had beaten her. .She said her I'Ody bore the marks of blows. Being teaten wis rt unusual, she said, and ahe could stand It no loncer. Justice Has'den font a constable for Cry, who found the insure waving wi'h a heavy horsewhip in his band. "Take off your cent and gf t down cn your knees. There N m.iy niK-J. ind f punishment fitting fr wicli Wutea at you and yon nre K"'iir to itiji it." With that he laid on h.-urtily. Tune (and time vaia the whip !xi.-h.i ''a 1 on aiey's body a. ho writhed end begged for mercy. V. hen he jump'-il nt thu ''istic-e thrust hi'n cl iun :ig;ilu ;md thrashed him un'il lie was o it of breath. The justice then smt !ey home, with a wurniiiK that if h ever .ruck his wife k.sui. the punishment would be doubK'd. COLD WEATHER PREDICTED. Over Practically All District East of the Rockies. Washington, Nor. :,'!. f. j! 1 weather during the next few ilny over pmcti caily al dietrictj ent ot the Rocky fmuntains is predicted hr tho weather bureau on reports of vn extensive area of high barometric pressure over Alaska and the extreme northwest, rher temperatures are now the luw ey ,-.f the Feason. lairing the past twenty-fmtr hours much colder weather h prevailed in the hio valley, the gulf and touth Atlantic states, and there were trusts as far south aa north Florida. DIES RUNNING TO WORK. Late Breakfast Proves Fatal to a Boy Mill Hand. PhilnrVlr-bia, Nov. 29. Runring to refh his r'ace of employment' hefore the hour to begin work. Thomas Gold en. li years old, dropped from ex haustion yesterday and died a few minutes later of heart failure. The boy was employed at the Hob Bon mills. When he arose from breakfast he found he had only a few minutes to reach the mill, Ave blocks away. "I'll have to run!' he said to his mother, as he picked up his dinner pail and started. SUICIDE ON TOLSTOI'S GRAVE. Orisvinq Coachman Opens Vein, In censjlabfe for Count's Death. erlm, SjV. i A dispatch from Tasnay Foltana to the ?.Iorgen Post ays the coachman 'of th "-late Count J.eo Tolstoi, who assisted the author In Ms flight, visited his master's tomb Sunday and committed suicide by opening a vein in his arm with a kitchen knife. The man. who had en inconsnls hie siive Tolutoi'f ilea t h bif te dih before be was ltscov- It was absurd, lie added, to expect Mr. Whitney to charter a special steamer to come over to testify about "some mythical dinner that was print ed in the newspapers and some mythi cal sum that was raised whose very size makes it ridiculous." Chairman Bruce interrupted to say that it was on record that James R. Keene left this country after the com mittee issued a subpoena for him and after he knew the committee wanted him. As to Mr. Whitney, he said, it was not established when he sailed. Fund Raised to Protect Racing. "Tell me all you know about what funds were raised and how," asked Judge Bruce. '"I can't tell yon how much," said Mr. Belmont, "but the acta of the associa tion are public property and open to inspection, and the funds were raised pro rata among the various racing as sociations." The witness admitted that there were several conferences held by the men Interested in racing. "At one of these," he said, "a purse was made up to pro tect the racing association, but every thing waH open and well understood." "Who was- the custodian of these funds?" "Sometimes I was," replied Mr. Bel mont. Metropolitan Jockey Club President Testifies, Former State Senator William H. Reynolds followed Mr. Belmont on the stand. He is president of the Metro politan Jockey club and he gave a de tailed list of the amounts contributed by the Metropolitan to the Jockey club. In all, he said, $32.93 had been con tributed from August, 1907, to May. 1909, all subscribed by the association In a legitimate manner and not by in dividuals. "Were you ever approached by any member of the legislature saying that it would be wise for your association to raiae a fund?" he was asked. "I was not," he replied. Milk Dealers' Case Legislation. When 'Mt. Reynolds left the stand the committee suddenly and unheralded took up the activity of the Milk Deal ers Protective association. An em ploye of the Mutual Milk and Cream company, members of the associsdon, testified that he went to Albany in connection with legislation in April, 1909. . "It was a can Question," lie ex plained. "What do you mean?" "Assemblyman Scott," he testified, "had a bill we didn't like. We wanted the old bill to remain. We saw Sena tor Richards, who drafted the original bill, to see what he could do." "What happened with regard to the bill?" "The old bin remained the same." A!l lau.arhed t this, including the witness, who added that representa- tives of various milk companies -went with him to Albany. HAND NEARLY BITTEN OFF BY AN ANGEL FISH Fisherman Almost. Bled to Death Be fore Port Was Reached. Boston, Nov. 29. Favored1 by a gale of wind. Captain Nelson of tha fishing schooner Reliance was able to land Thomas Key, a member of his crew, here today before the sailor bled ta death from a wound made by a bite of a fish. Yesterday, while the Reli ance was on the Georges bank, an an gel iish, a species of shark, which had heen caught in a trawl, bit Key's right hand, the sharp teeth almost severing it at the wrist. Captain Nelson set all sail for Bos ton, and when a physician went on board at T wharf. Key was in a state of collapse, due to loss of blood. Tha fisherman will recover. OHIO DOCTOR ARRESTED. Charged With Selling Liquor in Viola tion of Law. Oxford. Ohio, Nov. 29. Dr. H. SI. Moore, druggist and vice president of tiie Farmers' State and Savings' bank, va3 arrested today on a warrant sworn out by Dr. Guy P. Benton, presi dent of Miami university, charging Dr. Mooro with selling liquor in violation of the law. It is charged that Dr. Moore sold liquor which was consumed at a card IKirty held by live students in the col h.ge dormitory. Dr. Moor is an hon or graduate of Miami and for eight years was medical director of the uni versity. OFF FOR THE ANTARCTIC. British South Polar Expdeition Sails From New Zealand. Christchurih, New Zealand, Nov. 29. The ship Terra Nova, bearing the British South Polar expedition un der the command of Capt. Robert F. Scott, sailed from Port Chalmers for the Antarctic today. The Terra Nova sailed from Lon don on June 1st last and gradually worked her way south. Captain Scott, who joined the ves sel in New Zealand, hopes to reach the South pole in December of 1911.. SHOT DEAD IN A CHASE. Toledo Policeman Kills Unknown Moving Pioture Firebug. Toledo, O., Nov. 28. After he had broken into and Bet fire to a moving picture theater in the residence dis trict of the city, an unidentified man was shot.and almost instantly killed by Patrolman Carl G. Cruse early this morning, after the policeman had ex changed several shots with the stran ger during a chase of nearly a block. The fir was extinguished a few min utes later with trifling damage. Steamship Arrivals." At London: Nov. 28, Minnetonka, from New York. At Libau: Nov. 22, Birma, from New York. At Genoa: Nov. 25. 7'vtcca Degli Ab ruzzi. from New York: l.ui3inii;j from Nw York. Cabled Paragraphs Lisbon, Nov. 39. The medical officer of Madeira reports an -epidemic of Asiatic cholera at Funchal, the capital of the island. London, Nov. 29. Florencio L. Do minguez, the Argentine minister to Great Britain, died today. He had held the post since 1901. London, Nov. 29. The mayor of Gravesend gave a luncheon today for Rear Admiral Murdock and the officers of the third division of the Atlantic fleet at the town hall. The Hague. Nov. 29. Parliament has adopted a bill granting state protec tion to foreign patents on pajrment of a small fee. Until now foreign inven tions have not been protected. Berlin, Nov. 29. Play was resumed today in the eighth game of the cham pionship chess match between D. Ja nowskl and Kmanuel Lasker. This game was adjourned Monday evening, when Janowski seemed to have a win ning chance, but in the play today Lasker equalized matters and when a second adjournment was declared it was expected a draw would eventually result. The score: Lasker 4, Janowski 0. drawn 3. TRIAL OF HATTIE LEBLANC ON CHARGE OF MURDER Question of What Constitutes a "Dy ing Declaration" the Feature. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 29. The question of what constitutes a "dy ing declaration" overlaid all others t the second day of the trial today of name t-eiianc, the cape Breton girl, charged with the murder of her em ployer, Clarence F. Glover, a Waltham laundryman. As a matter of fact, there was no trial at all today, for the lurv filed in and filed out, with the witnesses after tnem, so that the district attorney and the defendant's counsel might sub stantiate to the satisfaction of JNidee Bond that Glover was In "extremis mortis" when he declared that Hattie LeBlanc shot him. Lawyer M. M. Johnson for the de fense objected to the introduction of any such statement or even a refer ence to it by the prosecution. Judge Bond listened- all day to the evidence of those who stood around Glover in his last hours in Dr. Cous en's private hospital, a few yards from the laundry. Nearly all these witness es were positive that Glover had ac cused Hattie LeBlanc. but many of them said he hesitated in making such a declaration and that others tes tified that he continually asked the doctors to operate upon him, remark ing that unless they did so ha was gone. District Attorney Higgins admitted that he was surprised when Judge Bond at the opening of the session to day decided not to admit this "dying declaration" until he heard the evi dence to substantiate it. But in the afternoon, when Judge Bond announc ed that there should be no reference to the statement in the opening of the case to the Jury, the district attorney jumped to his feet and declared that unless this statement of Glover's were allowed to go to the jury, the case of the prosecution would be very weak and that it must rely upon circum stantial evidence to prove its accusa tions against the girl. The pleadings of the district attor ney were so vehement that Judge Bond said he would withdraw his de cision and would render two decisions tomorrow first, whether the govern ment should be allowed to refer to the declaration, and, second, whether it should be admitted as evidence. Lo intense is the public interest in the case that more than a thousand men and women waited about the courtroom In a pouring rain before the opening of the afternoon session. When the doors were opened there was a rush for the courtroom, and after ev ery seat had been taken the officers hud their hands full in pushing back the remainder of the crowd. It has been many years since such a hearing as that of today -has pre ceded the taking of evidence in a murder trial in this state, aftd many members of the bar expressed great interest in the decision to be announc- ! ed by Judge Bond tomorrow. j $30,000 FIRE AT HARTFORD, ! NOS. 61 AND 63 ASYLUM ST. Eastern Paper Box Co. and Clothing Company Damaged. Hartford, Nov. 29. Fire in a four story brick building at Nos. 61 and 63 Asylum street tonight, damaged the building and the business of the oc cupants to the extent of $30,000. The fire started on the top floor occupied by the Eastern Paper Box company, gutting the two upper stories and dam aging tha stock .jal the Gseley cloth ing company on .he first Eloer arsfl the M. P. Pembers Sons company oifr the second floor, mostly by water. The building is owned by the estate of Erastus Collins. The cause of the fire is not known. While the fire "was in progress, Mrs. Ruth Willard, living in an Jadjoining building,- was frightened ' by firmen passing through a hallway and suffered a stroke of paralysis. She is in a critical condition. , NO. 313 A HOODOO, WOULDN'T LIVE IN HOUSE Unless City Authorities Changed the Number Family's Misfortune. New Haven,- Conn., Nov. 29. Be cause his house was numbered J13, Captain Harvey Barney of No. 313 Lenox street, Fair Haven, today asked permission from the city authorities to change the number. Five jrears ago the house was numbered 293 Center streeet, and w'hen the street name was changed the number was also chang ed. During the five years since the change. Captain Barney, who is 80 years old, says that five members of his family -have died, the last his wife, who was burned to death, and he at tributes the deaths to the number of the house. Permission was given the captain to change the number to 315. TO DIVIDE MILLS MONEY. Steps Taken by Wirs. Whitelaw Reid and Brother. San Francisco, Nov. 29. Ogden Mills and Mrs. Elizabeth Mills Reid, wife of Whitelaw Reid. American ambas sador to England, filed a petition in the nrf bate court here yesterday, ask ing for partial distribution of the es tate of their lather, D. O. Mills, who died in San Mateo last January. The California holdings of the estate are about $2,200,000. Their father-s will made Ogden Mills and Mrs. Reid the executors, and the entire property was bequeathed to ihein, share and ehara alike. Anna Velinsky Adjudged Insane. - New York, Nov. -29. Anna'Vollnsky, a. young woman recently arrested on a charge of making threats against Ja cob H. Schiff, "the banker, . was re ported to be insane today by Charles W.. Dayton, a referee. Justice Guy of the supreme court approved the re port and ordered Mis Volinsky secf to hotpltal for tha mean Retires After Forty Years OF HONORABLE SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY. ADVENTURE AND CAMPAIGNS Major General Elliott Commanded the Marine" Battalion on the March to Pekirt Saw Much Foreign Service. Washington, Nov. 29. After forty years of honorable service, filled with adventure and campaigns in foreign parts. Major General George F. Elliott, commandant of marines, will be retir ed tomorrow on account of age. Promoted for Gallantry. General Elliott is a native of Ala bama, and entered the Marine corps in 187. In 1885 he was a lieutenant of marines when a battalion was landed to protect the isthmus and conserve American Interests during the fierce revolution resulting In the burning of Panama. He saw service on the North Atlantic squadron during the Spanish war, and was advanced three numbers for gallantry in the engagement at Guantanamo. A year later he was ia the Philippines, and as a major led the second battalion of marines in the battle of Novaleta, earning the per sonal commendation of the secretary of the navy and of the military com mander in the Philippines. Present at Boxer Uprisings. It was only natural that Major El liott should play a part in the repres sion of the Boxer uprisings in China, and he commanded the marine battal ion on that unprecedented military feat the march to Pekln which re sulted in the relief of legationers. He became commandant of marines in February, 1903, and has been station ed in Washington since that date. MANY VOLUNTEERS JOIN MAREDO REBEL FORCES. Revolt in Southern Mexico . More Seri ous Than in the North. Washington, Nov. 29. Gustavo A Madero, brother of the leader of the revolution in Mexico, who is here rep resenting the interests of the revolu tionists,, issued a statement tonight declaring that only skirmishes have taken place thus far with government troops, that large bodies of volunteers are constantly augmenting- the revolu tionist forces in Chihuahua, Durango and neighboring states, and that the revolt in Yucatan, Campaehe and southern Mexico is even more serious than in the north. "Nearly 9,000 prisoners were in the prisons in Mexico City yesterday," said the statement, "and there have recent ly been many secret executions, sev eral of them young army officers whose loyalty was under suspicion. "General Diaz is reported in inside circles to be prostrated and to hava threatened to dismiss Senor Coclo, the minister of war, because of the mag nitude which the revolution has as sumed. " STALE EGGS AND FISH FOR SECRETARY CHURCHILL. Riotous Scenes at Colchester, Where Home Secretary Spoke. Colchester, England, Nov. 29. Riot ous cenes attended the appearance 'here tonight of Winston Spencer Churchill, the home secretary. Thou sands congregated In the streets, jeer ing and shouting. Many gathered aroun d Ofr Churchill's carriage, at which they threw fish, egigs and other missiles. Many of the windows m the liberal headquarters were smashed. A large draft of police was sent out to patrol the streets, the authorities fear ing counter demonstrations. Reaamg, England, Nov. 29. Mr. As quith's meeting tonight 'was disturbed frequently by suffragist sympathizers, the majority of whom were thrown out. PISTOL BATTLE, IDAHO FUGITIVE KILLED And a Guard of the Idoho Peniten tiary Fatally Injured., Burns, Oregon, Nov. 29. Arthur Fisher, a fugitive from the Idaho pen itentiary, was- killed and Danaed W. Ackley, a penitentiary guard, was fatally injured in a pistal battle here today. Fisher had been rearrested by Sheriff Richardson, and Ackley had come from Boise to take him back to prison. Richardson and Ackley were placing Irons on Fisher, when he caught Ackley's revolver from its hol ster and fired at Richardson. The bul let missed, and Richardson shot Fish er, killing him In the melee Ackley was hit by a stray foullet and probably will die. . Parties Accused of Customs Frauds Offer to Compromise. "Washington, Nov. 29. After a con ference lasting throughout the day be tween Secretary MacVeagh, Collector Loeb of New York, Attorney General Wickersham and other officials of the New Y'ork customs, no decision was reached as to the action of the govern ment with reference to the customs frauds in woolen and linings at the port of New York. The frauds are said to reach into hundreds of thousands of -dollars, which have been lost to the government through undervalua tions. The conference will be resumed tomorrow. Those who are accused of having defrauded the government are said to have offered to compromise, provided there is no prosecution. Portrait of Julia Ward Howe in Fan euil Hall Collection. Boston, Nov. 29. A memorial paint ing of the late Julia Ward Howe will be added to the portrait collection in Faneuil hall, according to plans just perfected at a public meeting. The painting is to cost $3,000 and the mon ey is to be raised by subscription. Mayor Fitzgerald has been made chair man of the committee to have charge of the matter. John W. Elliott, , son-in-law of Mrs. Howe, has been com missioned to execute the painting. Seattle Manager of United Wireless Telegraph Co. Arrested. Seattle, Wash.,, Nov. 28. Robert II. Armstrong, local manager of the Unit ed Wireless Teltgraph company, was arrested today and furnished a $50u bond for his appearance in' New Yerk on January 30, to, testify in the gov ernment's case against CoL C. C. Wil son, president of the wireless company, who ia accuse of 1 uainr the United State mails to defraud. . j . .' White Slaver Sentenced. Portland, Ore., Nov. 29 David West man, convicted of' engaging- in the white flave traffic, was sentenced in the federal- -ourt todiy to live years" iniprjaonmatit- Irish Unionists' Message of Oof i POLITICIANS OF ALL PARTIES NERVE RACKED. HOME RULE A MENACE It Will Bring , to Ireland Not Peace, But the Sword Heavy Political Guns in Action Last Night. London, Nov. 29. The politicians of all parties are straining every nerve to crowd into a few weeks the work which in ordinary elections is spread over weeks or months. Nearly all the heavy guns were in action tonight. Issues Narrowing Down. The issues are narrowing down dai ly. The conservatives make much of the menace of home rule. They pro claim that the plan of the liberals for the reform of the house of lords means a single chamber government and put to the front their new policy -of ref erendum Lansdowne's Scheme a Snare. ' There is great fervor among the lib erals, a feature being the sudden re forming zeal on the part of the lords, who claim that Lansdowne's referen dum scheme is a snare because the parties would be unequally yoked to gether under it, that conservative measures would alwTays sail smoothly through the house of lords, while the referendum would be invoked only for liberal bills which were distasteful to the peers. Moreover they estimate the cost of each appeal to the people at ?10,000,000. Defiant Message to Home Rulers. The Irish unionists sent a message of defiance to home rules, to Mr. Bal four's meeting and deputations from the Nonconformists' Unionist associa tion of England and six hundred min isters of non-Episcopal churches in Ireland have addressed Mr. Balfour in opposition to home rule. Not Peace but the Sword. At the Albert hall meeting the read ing of the message from the Irish unionists caused much enthusiasm. "In all solemnity." said the message, "we now declare that home rule will bring Ireland not peace but the sword. If an Irish parliament is set up the un ionists .of the south allied with the men of .Ulster will not acknowledge its authority. They will neither obey its decrees nor pay its taxes." Balfour Favors the Referendum. Mr. Balfour pronounced strongly in favor of the referendum as the best method of settling deadlocks between the two houses without retjuiring the reform of the house of lords and said it could be carried into effect before the house of lords was reformed. This he declared to be Lansdowne's plan. The cost of a referendum, he said, would be nearer $1,000,000 than the estimate of the liberals' $10,000,000. He conclude?-b7- fi )clarlrig that the cabinet was governed by its noisiest members, who were governed by John Redmond, why was governed by Pat rick Ford. "Don't trust the puppets who are performing their parts on the stage," admonished Mr. Balfour. "Don't trust the Irish wire pullers. Don't trust the American paymaster who calls for a tune. Trust alone the sound pudgment and enlightened pa triotism of the people of this coun try." J. H. Seaverns, who was a member of parliament for the Brixton division of Lambeth in 1906 and who was at one time a resident of Boston, has be come the liberal candidate in the same constituency against Davidson Dal ziel, unionist, once a resident of New York. Defection from Liberal Party. Lord Joicey, who was created a peer by the liberals, has announced his de fection from that party because of its failure to provide for the defense of the country and for its alliance with the socialists. It is stated that sev eral other liberal peers are tending in the same direction. ! PUT-AND-CALL BROKERS BARRED AFTER DEC. 1ST. Will Not Be Allowed to Use Foyer of the Stock Exchange. New York, Nov. 29. Under a rule promulgated today by the stock ex change so-called put-and-call brokers who for years have made the foyer of the exchange their trading headquar ters will practically Ibe barred from that room after Dec. 1.: The new rule provides that persons who are not members of tho exchange will he per mitted to enter the foyer only for in terviews with members, and must re tire as soon as this business is con cluded. Although intended as a smoking room for exchange members, there are two stock tickers in the foyer, and they have been utilized "by the put-and-call traders. Offensive actions by some of these brokers are said to have caused the closing of the room to them. Passing of Historic Old Steamboat, Mary Powell. Kingston, N. Y., Nov. 29. After 50 years of service as a passenger car rier on the Hudson, the historic old steamboat Mary Powell is to be re tired at the close of the 1911 river sea son. The Mary Powell in years gone by was one of the fastest boats afloat and was called the "Queen of the Hudson." Fitting ceremonies will mark her retirement. Elihu Root's New York Residence Sold for $350,000. New York, Nov. 29. Senator Elihu Root today sold his handsome resi dence, at the southwest corner of Park avenue and Seventy-first street to a New Yorker whose name was not made public, at a price said to be be tween $325,000 and $350,00tt. Senator Root is living in the house now, but his political duties mad it of little use to liim. Driven to Harbor by Heavy North easter. Boston, Nov. 29. A northeasterly storm with heavy rain, which swept the New England coast all day, con tinued tonight and forced the many vessels driven to harbor during the past few days by the storm off shore to remain at am-iior. No marine dis asters had been reported up lo to night, t Love Affair and Attempted Suicide, , Woodbury, Conn., tVov. 29. -While working at the -pawer house of the lo cal electric light company here today Frederick IC Hill. 22 years old, son of the electrician of the plant, attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head with a . revolver. . Hill was given aid by a local physician and taken to a Watetlbury hospital. The cause of the attempted .suicide is said to ha.vebceu, despondency over a love ..-a flair. Condensed Telegrams Rev. M. A Starr was found dead worn heart disease in his home in Philadelphia. . f , - Rev. Beverly EHison Warner dropped dead from heart disease in his home in New Orleans. The Trial of Joseph Wendlina, ac cused of the murder of 8 year ofd Al ma Kellner, began in Louisville, Ky. Rear Admiral Vreeland and officers of American Atlantic fleet visited the arsenal dockyard at Cherbourg,Franco. Edward Lawton of Hartford, Ct., is reported killed and two Americans wounded in a battle at Parral, Mex ico. The French Government has asked parliament to appropriate ' 8,000,000 francs for sufferers from tke Paris floods. A Complaint Was Filed by inde pendent milk shippers against New England roads, charging discrimina tion in favor of the chartered car ser vice. George Frederick Seward, for seven teen years the president of the Fidel ity and Casualty company, died in New York. Death was due to harden ing of the arteries. The Trial of L. C. Delaney, charged with giving a bribe to State Senator Bilbo to influence his vote in choosing a senatorial candidate, was resumed in Yazoo City, Miss. A Conference Vas Held of Lawyers representing the big railroads with the interstate commerce commission on the long and short haul clause in the interstate commerce law. The Supreme Court was asked to re view the trial of Frederick A. Hyde and John H. Schneider, convicted of conspiracy, with John A. Benson and Henry P. Dimond, to defraud the gov ernment out of lands in California and Oregon. Clarence A. Walters, a partner of John.F. Brigg & Sons, woolen import ers, with offices in New York, was ar rested by a United States marshal. charged with effecting the entry of a case of woolen cloth at less than its true value. The Massachusetts Democratic state committee received $42,548 during the past year and spent $36,419 m the re cent campaign, according to the sworn statement of the committee filed with the secretary of state yesterday. The largest contributor was Gov.-efect Eu gene N. Foss, who gave the committee 534,918. Representatives of the Striking Gar ment Workers of the clothing firm in volved and of the Chicago common council designated at a peace com mittee will meet today in an effort to terminate the strike, which already cost -approximately $5,000,000 in wages, tT.&OO.OOiO in business, and has affected 15,000 families. Judge Holt of the United States dis trict court in Bu&'alo yesterday grant ed an appeal from tije decision recent ly rendered adjudicating "bankrupt In voluntary proceedings, the fcierricK- Curtis company, aeroplane manufac turers, of Hammondsport, N. Y. The motion for appeal charged numerous errors in the statement of the com parly's financial status. NO REPORT AT PRESENT By Commission Appointed to Look Into Control of Railroad Securities. Washington, Nov. 29. The commis sion appointed by President Taft to inquire into the character of legisla tion for the control of stock and bond issues by railroads will have no report to make for some time. The hearings opened by the commission m Wash ington yesterday are for trie purpose of securing the views and opinions of federal and state authorities before any general plan for federal control is taken up. . President Hadley of ale university said at the conclusion of today's hear ing, at which Massachusetts state com missioners appeared, that it will take some time for the members of the com mission to sift out and make accessible the information that is beinsr secured. During'liis visit to Eurone President Hadley procured much valuable infor mation, but a great oart of it is in documentary form and only now is be ing received by the commission. Correspondence is being carried o:i with state authorities, railroad officials and leading writers on railroad and economic subjects to get before the commission their views of federal reg ulation of the issuance of securities. INQUIRY INTO PROPOSED FREIGHT RATE INCREASES. Arguments for Eastern Cases Will Be Heard Dec. 9. Washing ton, Nov. 29. Five expert witnesses for the shippers testified to day before the interstate commerce commission in its investigation of the proposed rate-increases, and upon ad journing until tomorrow the commis sion announced that the arguments for the eastern and western increase cases, consolidated, would he heard here Dec. 9. Today's testimony tended to show that the proposed increases, which the roads claim will involve a net addi tional revenue of $27,000,000' in the official classification territory, extend ing from New England to the Mis sissippi river and north of the Ohio and Potonias rivers, were unjust and unfairly distributed. J. J. GALLAGHER INDICTED. Charged With Assault With Intent to Kill Mayor Gaynor. New York, Nov. 29. James J. Gal lagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor last June, was indicted today Iby the grand jury in Hudson county, New Jersey, charged with assault with intent to kill on the mayor and William Ed wards, street cleaning commissioner. Another charge placed against Galla gher was that of carrying- concealed weapons. Gallagher has been held in jail since his attack on the ' mayor, awaiting the result of the Injuries which he inflicted. ; Fined $10 for Display of Offensive Poster. New York, Nov. 29. Riclwird Morris, a theatrical manager, was fined ten dollars in police court today for vio lation of an ancient ordinance which prohibits the display of posters de pleting any act which could be'i-lasH-ed as criminal. -The fljn- wta paid under protest. , and Morris' counsel gave notice that he would appeal. The poster in. question depicted a woman ia the act . of stabbing a-man. ' Wendling Jury Completed. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 29. The jury which will t.-y Joseph Wendling. on the charge of murdering oight year old Alma Kellner, was completed today and the hearing of evidence will hegin to morrow. The trial-bids fair to progress rajjitUy, , ' NO GENERAL PENSION LEGISLATION Is Expected' At The. Coming Short Session Of The Sixty-First Congress MANY PRIVATE BILLS PENDING It is Not Believed that the Pension Appropriation Bill Will Exceed $145,003,000 Important Bill Before the Senate Concerning Widows Who Married Soldiers After June 27, 1910 No Tariff Legislation'. Washington, Nov. 29. No general legislation is expected at the comins? pension legislation i expected at next ant measure now before congress, do signed to remove the restriction which has kept many widows of soldiers off the pension rolls, is upon tho senate calendar: but Senator McCumber, the chairman of the senate pensions com mittee, and other members of the com mittee are not in favor of further con sideration of the bill during the Sixty first congress. ' Barred from Receiving Pensions. Widows who married soldiers after June 27, 1890, are now barred from re ceiving pensions. The Ibill before the senate is to remove this restriction and permit any soldier's widow to receive the benefits of the pension system. This w;ould add approximately $20, 000,000 to the pneslon rolls, according to estimates made by pension officials, and the wisdom of the removal of the restriction is seriously questioned. Thousands of Private Bills. Thousands of private pension bills are pending before the two houses of congress. All of these measures that have been passed upon and approved by the committee will be submitted for passage, and members of the sen ate committee, expect that from 2.500 to .3,000 such bills will be passed. Most of these are to increase pensions.w-here the general law does not give suffi cient authority. The pension appropriation bill will not exceeed $145,000,00, it is believed. For the present fiscal year the appro priation is about $155,000,000, and for the last year the pension expendi tures were in excess of $162,000,000. NO TARIFF LEGISLATION THE COMING SESSION, Declares Senator Hale No Combina tion of "Insurgents" With Democrats. ' Washington, Nov. 29. Senator Eu gene Hale of Maine, republican leader of the senate by virtue of his position as chairman of the party caucus and of the senate committee on appropria tions, ' foresees little of accomplish ment in the coming short session of congress. Beyond the -passage of the usual appropriation bills and possibly of an apportionment measure and one providing an ocean mail bounty, he beHeves no Important business will be transacted. REPORT OF CONNECTICUT STATE COMPTROLLER. $8,054,S41.06 Received and $6,940,703.48 Expended in Year Ending Sept. 30. Hartford, Conn., Nov. 29. The re port of State Comptroller Thomas D. Bradstreet for the year ending Sept. 30, shows that $8,054,941.06 were received and $6,940,703.48 were expended. The receipts for the year were $2,437,0-37.10 i eater than for the vear 1909 and the expenditures $1,059,824.76 greater than those of a year ago. The balance, of civil list funds in the treasury is given as $1,164,847, an increase of $1,104, 15i.94 in 1909. The net debt of the state Is $3,144,253, an Increase of $1, 130,845.06. Automobile fees during the year brought in $159,174.11. The inheritance tax was $439,849.67, while the tax on steam railroads was $1.'542.329.45. The tax on- savings banks was $398,407.08 and on mutual life insurance companies $406,716.21. The eeneral assembly cost $4 5,668.68 and judicial expenses $621,4SS.14, and the highway commissioner expended $1, 200,945. S6. Special commissions cost the state $731,1X2.09 and the national guard $291,904.29 and common school $743,429.11. The sum of $908,628.64 was exnended for humane institutions, and bridges and ferries cost $231, S01. 43. The state police department cost $n..f ib.4U and $195,691.85 was expended by the tuberculosis commission. The state board of mediation and arbitration ex pended but $100.49. This is the small est sum expended by the board since 190-1, when the expense was $10$.30. The executive offices- cost 569.923.38, a sum which exceeds by about $11,000 the. cost for any one year since 1901. - WRIGHT BROTHERS SUE CLAUDE GRAHAME-WHITE. Alleged Infringements of Patent Rights for Heavier Than Air Machine. New York, Not. 29. 'Claude Gra- hame-White, the English aviator, was served today in a suit instituted, in the United States circuit court by the Wright company in which infringement of patent rights for a heavier tnan air machine ,is alleged and an injunction sought. The complaint asserts that before importing and using the machine m this country Grahame-White knew that the federal courts had sustained tho Wright patent in the cases against Louis Paulhan and the Horring-Curtiss company and Glenn. H. Curtiss. Mrs. Weston Loses Claim to Her Hus band's Estate. Lacrosse, Wis., Nov. 29. The claim of Mrs. Mattie A. Weston of An Sable, Mich., to the estate of Clinton H. Wes ton, a wealthy lumberman of this city, was disposed of today when a record was discovered in the office of the clrk jof court of this county showing that Weston had obtained a divorce from his wife in 1879. Mrs. Weston claims that this was the fire knowledge she had that a divorce had ever been granted. She and her husband have been living apaft a number of years. In, Lacrosse Weston was known as a single man. . ........ Fire Destroyed 2,000 Pounds Nitro- " Glycerine." t Gkry, ind., Nov. 29. Fire i" the Hi-, tra.tor building of the Aetna .Powder company's dynamite and iiitro-glyser-ine' mill near here today destroyed 2, 0CD pounds of nitre-glycerine and fot a time threatened the entire town of Aetna. The tire .started when tha Chemicals used In making nitro-glyser-ine -were mixed in wrong proportions. In the face of possible death, practical 1V eyery man in Aetna responded when the alarm of fire was turned in. and confined the Humes to the one build- What Victorious Democrats Will Do. "The democratic party," he said to day, "has captured the house of rep resentatives by a great majority, and has almost captured tho senate, and with the country apparently behind that psirty, it will, I have no doubt, insist .upon' taking its natural respon sibilities. ' ' "Should an expiring congress, in its last days, undertake, by any deathobd: action, to rob the victorious party o its natural inheritance, it will toe re sisted to the utmost, and nothing will follow but a protracted struggle which will shut out certain Important meas ures which otherwise may perhaps carry in both houses." No Tariff Legislation. Mr. Hale was emphatic in his decla ration that there would be no tarift legislation in the coming session. The senator went so far as to express the conviction that while the president may suggest a general programme; he will not try to force it on congress. Mr. Hale made it clear that he was not speaking for the president, nor in any way forecasting the probable atti tude of the chief executive. , The question of an extra session, he said, was "most improbable." Defeated Party Will Gat Together Again. Mr. Hale declared he did not look forward to a combination ol the so called insurgent force with the dem ocratic party, "either now or here after." He stated that (ha fully expect ed to see the republican party in con gress get together again and present a united front to the majority. Inci dentally, he ' referred to the insurgent leaders as men of "conviction and nat ural force of character." " 'Whom the Lord loveth, He chas teneth,' " said the senator, "and tt defeats of 1910 will do the party good. It must bear its reverses and make tha best of It. Painful as it all is, it must submit to ita temporary reverses and defeats and must bear up as well as it may, under even such calamities aa the reoulse of Roosevelt and the la mentable overthrow of Beverldige." i, Mr. Hale declared he had little feap of any long continuance of democratic! ascendency in politics. RepnbrAean policies, under President Taft's lead ership, he eaid, , "would ariumph again." FOREIGN STEAMSHIP OWNERS ; CONTROL AMERICAN SHIPPING. Further Testimony Before Congres sional Investigating Committee. New York, Nov. 29. Testimony that steamship companies which are owned abroad absolutely control American.? shipping and have spent money freely to foster feeling against an American marine w-as offered today before tfce congressional committee holding ses eions here to investigate charges tha a steamship lobby was maintained at Washington. William H. Douglas, who formerly represented a New York diSJ trict in congress, was the witness who made these statements, "As conditions are now," Mr. Doug las testified, "the American merchant is handicapped. The foreign steam ship owners make a rate at Hamburg, London and Paris that controls the ex port shipment of an article to this country. Even if the American should charter a steamer for his own freight, he would not be able to obtain addi tional freight to make up a cargo." Similar conditions govern trade be tween the United States and South America, Mr. Douglas said, as all the lines plying between the two countries are owned abroad, and foreign steam ship companies, he asserted, had epent money freely to Influence sentiment against American shipping-. "How?" he was asked. "By preparing articles for the news papers, w'hich were widely distributed, and the employment of agents." "While you were a member of con--gress did you ever know Oi money be-f ing spent there by agents to influence; legislation, through the giving of din ners or anything elee?" "I think there was." "Did you ever meet the agents W know them?" . "I hardly think they would want to know me." Mr. Douglas added that although for eign companies had used whatever in fluence they -possessed-in sh.ipimj leg islation and had paid men' to represent them in Washington, he believed that,' strictly speaking, they had ret violated! any law. And Iris testimony, he saldj should be taken as facts rather than criticisms. , ""CANDY BANDIT" INDICTED On Two Charges of Murder and Three of Highway Robiiory. Chicago, Nov.. 29. Lr-lgh RhodnS. ttia( "candy bandit," so called because of) his confession to East t. Louis poliirnh that he followed a life of crime to sup-! ply his young bride with candy and flowers, today was indicted by the Cook county grand jury on two charges ot murder and three of highway robbery.. The killings charged were those of Dr. William Micaelis. Aug. 5, and An ton Helbig, Aug. 7. His trial has been set for next week. Death of Rev. Sylvester Scovel. Wooster, O.. Nov. 29. The Rev. Syl vester F Scovel, president of th American branch of the International Peace society and former president of Wooster university, died at Ms homn here tonight. Dr. Schovel succumbed to an attack of pneumonia which. ha contracted, on Thanksgiving day.- He was 75 years old. Dr Scovel was born in .Harrison county. Ohio, in 1835. He entered the Presbyterian ministry ami served -as pastor in. churches in Jeffer-. son, Ind., Springfield, .Ohio, and Pitts burg, before being elected, aa head. of; the university hera. ,. The Los Angelas Dynamiting Outrage, ' - Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 29. The Ill ness of three jurors prevented the aea sion today of -the special grand Jury investigating the Los Angeles dynamiting- outrages and the return ot trie ported Indiotmonts. It 1 believed ttiat iTidictnieiitfl will ' ih vote4 tomornr againat Cour euapeot - . . ,. n