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VOL. LV.NO. 22 , " NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1913
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DEVELOPMENTS
Ex-President Corey Gives Direct Contradiction to
Testimony of Judge Elbert H. Gary
ADMITS HE RESIGNED
Declares There Was No III-Feeling However Representative
of J. P. Morgan Denies
of $25,000,000,000 Independent Moving Picture Con
cerns Admit Having Formed a Combine.
New York. Jan. 24. The participa
tion of subsidiaries of the " United
States Steel corporation in pools or
- ganized for the purpose of fixing prices
was known to Judge Elbert H. Gary,
chairman of the corporation, long1 be
fore he gave orders that the pools
should be abolished, according to Wil
liam E.'Corey, former president of the
corporation. Mr. Corey so testified to
day on cross examination in the hear
ings of the governfent suit to dissolve
the combination under the Sherman
anti-trust law.
Direct Contradiction of Gary.
The testimony preceded an acknow
ledgment by Mr. Corey that his resig
nation as president of the corporation
in 1910 was the sequel of a dispute
between himself and Judge Gary as to
who was chief in authority and that
. the finance committee of the corpora-
lion naa upheld. Judge Gary, it gave
direct contradiction to that of Chair
man Gary before the Stanley steel in
vestigating committee, which was to
the effect that, with the exception of
the "rail combination," which he said
did not fix prices, he had had no know
ledge of the existence of pools, and had
ordered them abolished as soon as they
had been brought to his attention. This
"was in the latter part of 1904.
Gary Attended Meetings.
Mr. Corey swore today that! Judge
Gary "knew about all the pools all the
time, because he attended some of the
meetings." While a meeting of the
plate and structural pool in 1902 or
1903" was the only one at which he
could distinctly remember that Judge
Gary was present, Mr. Corey said he
was sure that he was present at other
meetings.
"Are you sure that Judge Gary was
present at the structural meetin?"
asked C. A. Severance, attorney for the
corporation.
"Absolutely," answered Mr. Corey.
Was No III-Feeling.
Unable to shake the testimony of the
witness, Mr. Severance held a brief
conference with his associate counsel.
"You left the steel corporation with
come ill-feeling toward Judge Gary,
didn't you?" asked Mr. Severance.
"We were not always in accord, but
I don't think it was ill-feeling," replied
the witness. Mr. Corey then acknow
ledged that there "had been a question
as to who was chlf executive" and that
the finance committee had upheld
Judge Gary.
THE MONEY TRUST.
Denial That 180 Directors Control Re
sources of $25,000,000,000.
Washington. Jan. 24. Accepting as
tin argument a lengthy statement de
nying the existence of a money trust
and charging the co-operation among
financial Interests to the "weak bank
ing laws" framed by Henry P. Davison
of J. P. Morgan & company, the house
money trust committee today closed
for the time being its financial probe.
The statement of Mr. Davison, pre
sented by him as he left the witness
stand, was an analytical argument
toased on the tables and charts present-
ed to the committee "purporting to
THE DAMMING OF THE
CONNECTICUT RIVER.
Secretary Stimson Claims It as Vic
tory for Conservation.
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Washington, Jan. - 24. Anticipating
favorable congressional action upon the
bill reported from the senate com
merce committee to authorize the con
struction of a dam across the Con
necticut river above Windsor Locks,
Secretary Stimson today issued a state
ment which in effect claimed that ac-
tion as a substantial victory tor con
eervation and a substantial vindication
of the president's policy of insisting
upon compensation to government for
the allowance of valuable water power
privileges. '
Secretary Stimson referred to the
fact that army engineers have for
years resisted efforts to have the gov
ernment assume the expense of $5,500,
000 of improving the Connecticut river
bo as to permit navigation around the
rapids above Windsor Locks. Mr.
Stimson has negotiated an arrange
ment with a private company which is
to daf the river and, at an additional
expense of $470,000. construct a lock
and channel around the dam in the in
terests of navigation, without cost to
the government. Moreover, the com
pany is to divide with the government
all net profits derived from water pow
er above eight per cent, upon its actual
cash investment. The arrangement
will be recast at the end of a period of
twenty years and readjustments of the
division of profits will take place every
ten years thereafter until the termina
tion of the fifty year permit.
FITZHUGH EXPLAINS
HIS RESIGNATION
Says He Is Not in Accord with Pres
ent Grand Trunk PlanW
Boston, Jan. 24. In a statement ap
pearing today, E. H. Fitzhugh ex
plains his resignation from the pres
idency of the Central Vermont railroad
on the ground that he was not in
accord with the Grand Trunk Railway
company concerning the Central Ver
mont and Southern New England com
panies. The Grand Trunk ia a majority
stockholder of the Central Vermont
road. - ' "
UNCUT DIAMONDS
IN BALE OF RAGS
Sorters of Waste - Matter Find Gems
Worth Several Thousand.
Cornwall, Ont., Jan, 24 TJneut dia
monds in a loosened bale of rags were
found by sorters of waste matter at
a paper company's -mill . here today.
Several rings were picked up also, A
local jeweler placed the value ef the
property at several thousand dollars.
The bale was one of a number that
arrived a few
days age from New
OF TRUST PROBING
BECAUSE OF A DISPUTE
That 180 Men Control Resources
show control of $25,000,000,000 of re
sources by ISO directors."
James J. Hill, railroad pioneer of the
northwest, followed Mr. Davison on
the stand. He was examined briefly as
to his affiliations with various banks
and railroads.
Robert Windsor of the firm of Kid
der, Peabody company and Gardner
XL. Lane of Lee -Higgmson & com
pany, both of Boston, were examined-
as to the participation of their con
cerns with J. P. Morgan & company,
the First National bank, the National
City bank and other New York finan
cial institutions in the marketing of
securities.
Francis L. Hine, president of the
National City bank of New York, was
the last witness before the committee.
MOVING PICTURE TRUST.
Testimony That Five Independent
Companies Combined.
New York, Jan. 24. Counsel for the
moving picture trust in the govern
ment's dissolution suit sought today
by examining a witness for the prose
cution to show that there exists a com
bination of independent film manufac
turers as much a trust as that which
the defendants, the Motion Picture
Patents company and its affiliations,
are charged with maintaining.
In reply to questions of George R.
Willis, a Baltimore lawyer, of counsel
for the defense, William W. Swanson,
an independent film manufacturer of
Chicago, nafed five independent com
panies which formed the Universal
Film company. "But we do not restrict
our customers to buying only from
us," he said.
"What was your principal reason for
forming the Universal Film com
pany?" asked counsel.
"To make money," said witness.
"And what was the second reason?"
"To make money?" again responded
Mr. Swanson. .
NATIONAL CASH REGISTER.
Two Law Points Raised, One Decided
Against Company.
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 24. Arguments
on points of law consumed almost the
entire day' of the trial of officials or
former officials of the National Cash
Register company here today.. Two of
these points were submitted ana one
decided. Judge Hollister ruled that
the defense would not be allowed to
introduce evidence that competing
companies used sales methods against
the National company similar to those
alleged to-Jiave been used by the Na
tional against competing companies.
The other point pertained to evidence
explaining the methods of the sales
manship school of the National com
pany. E. E. Mumford of Hartford, Conn.,
sales agent for the National company,
was in the act of explaining how he
was taught in this school to sell cash
registers when the government object
ed, the Jury was dismissed until Mon
day and arguments on the point heard.
Judge Hollister will render his decision
on the matter Monday.
STRIKE MAY BE
ENDED BY TONIGHTi
Garment Workers - May . Return to
Work Under Protocol.
New York, Jan. 24. Coincident with
an authoritative assurance that every
effort is being made to end the gar
ment workers' strike tomorrow night,
sending 150,000 idle men and women
back to their places Monday, Theodore
Roosevelt today made public a letter in
which he announced that the legisla
tive committee of the progressive party
will present to the state legislature
bills aimed to create minimum wage
boards in the garment trades. Colonel
Roosevelt's letter was written to Mi
chael Scheap, a progressive assembly
man. A promise of such boards is a fea
ture of the protocol agreed upon re
cently between waist and dress opera
tives and their employers and under
which thousands of strikers resumed
work. Today hundreds more of inde
pendent operatives who had refused to
return under this protocol announced
their intention of accepting its terms
tomorrow.
THE SALE OF FROZEN
t FRUIT IS FORBIDDEN
That Damaged by Frost in California
Unfit to Market.
"Washington. Jan. 24. In order to
protect consumers and to prevent the
flooding of the markets with oranges
and lemons declared to be unfit for
food, the federal hoard of food and
drug inspection today issued an or
der forbidding the sale in interstate
commerce of fruits damaged in the
recent freeze in California,
The order was issued after it had
been brought to the attention of the
board of food and drug inspection that
on account of the freeze, citrus fruit,
damaged by frost, was being placed
upon the market. From sixty to
eighty-live per cent, of the California
crop was estimated to have been In
jured. Citrus fruit Is Impaired In flavor
by freezing," declared the board In its
decision, and soon becomes dry and
unfit for food, but this deterioration
s apparent externally. The damage
is evinced at first by a more or less
bitter flavor, followed by a marked
decrease in sugar and especially in
acid content. , ,
Gen. Dia In Penitentiary,
Mexico City. Jan. 84. -General Felix
Diaz, who fomented tha revelation at
Vera Cruz several months ago and
was captured by the federal ferees, was
brought from the southern eity today
and lodged in the penitentiary here,
A BUI Desianed to Prohibit tha in
termarriage of negroes and whites.
Caucasians and Mongolians and Moa
gelians and nearnea in Kansas was
passed by the Lumua- pf rpresenta-
Condensed - Telegrams
American Aviator Killed.
Port of SDain. Trinidad. Jan. 24.
Frank Boland, an American aviator '
from Rahway, N. J., was killed last
evening while flying here.
Protocols to Be Signed.
Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 24. The
protocols of the agreements between
Venezuela and France, which it is be
lieved -will settle existing differences,
are shortly to be signed.
Norwegian Cabinet Resigns.
Christiania, Norway, Jan. 24. The
Norwegian cabinet under the premier
ship of General J. K. M. Bratlie re
signed today owing to its defeat at the
general elections last October.
New French Premier III.
Paris, Jan. 24. Aristide Briand, the
new French premier, was seized with
syncope In the chamber of deputies
this evening. Medical attendance was
at hand and he quickly recovered.
London Comment on Knox's Reply.
London, Jan. 24. Secretary of State
Knox's reply to Sir Edward Grey on
the question of the Panama canal
tolls is found unsatisfactory by those
evening newspapers which comment on
it.
Wanted to Die in Italy.
Palermo. Sicily, Jan. 24. H. M. Pen-
halL, an American painter, believed to
be a citizen of San Francisco, commit
ted suicide here yesterday. In his
pockets were found visiting cards and
a note saying "I want to die in Italy."
Germany's Military Bill.
Berlin, Jan. 24. The admisBion that
the German government is preparing
a military bill which is to be intro
duced into the imperial parliament this
session is made today in the Nord
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the gov
ernment organ, in spite of the denial
made a few days ago.
Unable to Relieve Expedition.
Christiania, Norway, Jan. 24. The
Norwegian expedition sent to the re
lief of the German scientists reported
to be stranded and suffering terrible
privations in a remote part of Spitz -bergen,
left Advent bay, Spitzbergen,
on Monday. The expedition was forced
to return, as the water was found to
be open and communication overland
was impossible.
H,
J. HORN E GOES TO
BOSTON & MAINE.
A. R. Whaley of New York to Succeed
Him at New Haven.
Boston, Jan. 24. A. R. Whaley, who
has been holding an executive position
in connection with the operation of the
Grand Central terminal in New York,
was today made vice ' president in
charge of transportation of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road. Mr. Whaley is a native of Prov-
dence and succeeds H. J. Horn, who
has been transferred to the Boston ,&
Maine. '
IMPORTANT .CHANGE.
The Harriman Plan to Be Adopted by
the New Haven.-
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 24. The ap
pointment of Mr. Whaley to the charge
of operation of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, togethei
with the .transfer of Vice President
Horn to the Boston and Maine exclu
sively, mark's a very Important change
in the ' broad operating policy of the
New Haven company. What is known
as the "Harriman plan" of segregating
the New Haven railroad system into
large units of operation is now to be
adopted, and closer and 'more direct
personal oversight of the parts replace
centralized supervision by higher offi
cers of all parts of the steam road. The
policy is the outcome of criticism of
the centralized management of the ex
tensive and complicated railroad sys
tem, especially as expressed recently
by the Massachusetts railroad commis
sion. MAN
CALLED AWAY - '
BY FALSE MESSAGE
House Robbed While Wife and Daugh
ter Fought Henhouse Fire.
East Hartford. Conn., Jan. 24.
Charles Deraerough, who owns a farm
near here, received a telephone call
last night to the effect that his father
had been injured seriously and de
sired to see him at once at a Hartford
hospital. He hurriedly left for Hart
ford, where he found that his father
had not been in any of the hospitals.
Whele he was away from home, his
wife anrl daughter who had been left
alone, discovered the hen house afire.
They left the house unguarded to fight
the flames and when they returned
they discovered that someone had ran
sacked the house and stolen $300 in
cash.
SEVERAL RESTAURANTS
COMPELLED TO CLOSE
Hotels Also Handicapped by Strike of
3,000 Empires.
New York, Jan. 24. The strike of
the hotel employes spread today, and
nearly one-quarter of the more im
portant establishments are affected.
Some of the smaller restaurants were
forced to close and several hotel pro
prietors said that if the trouble con
tinued they might have to discon
tinue their dining room service. Near
ly three thousand waiters, cooks anrl
kitchen helpers are out.
The Hotel Workers' union made its
declaration of war this afternoon in
a statement reciting the strikers' de-
mands and declaring that unless they
were satisfied 20,000 employes would
quit work within three days. The
strikers ask for better sanitary con
ditions, better food supplies for their
personal use, abolition of fines, no dis
crimination against the union, in
creased wages and a re-adjustment of
hours of work.
Members of the Hotel Men's asso
ciation declared that they had met
the employes more than half way and
would resist further demand even if
they had to fill the strikers' places
with women and negroes.
Steamship Arrivals. ' "
Rotterdam, Jan. 23. Arrived, steam,
er Kursk, New York for Libau.
. Antwerp, Jan, 23. Arrived, steamer
Lake ChamBlain, St. John, N, B,
Liverpool, Jan, 24. Arrived, steam
er Arabic, Boston,
Fatras, Jan, 22Arrlved, steamer
Madonna, New Torts for Marseilles,
Barcelona, Jan, 21 Arrived, steamer
Montevideo, New York for Genoa,
Plymouth, Jan, g4 Arrived- gteam.
er geeland, New York for Antwerp
fllasgew, Jan. 24.-Arrived-: Steamer
Mongolian, Philadelphia via St, Johns,
pt, tf,
New Yerfe, Jan. S4- Arrived: Bteam
e Majestie, Southampton.
New Ye?k, Jan. 24-Arri'vedi SUamV.
gjaciBHRii, &a0p
Strikers Stone
Hotel Windows
FALSE ALARMS OF
RUNG IN
FIRE ALSO
A NIGHT OF DISORDERS
Persons Returning From Theaters
Forced Into Streets by Gangs of
Rowdies A Proprietor Threatened.
New York, Jan. 24.A series of dem
onstrations and disturbances occurred
in the hotel and restaurant district
of this city tonight when thousands of
striking waiters and sympathizers
overran some of the principal streets
and engaged in serious rioting.
The rioting followed successes by
several thousand hotel employes in
crippling the dining service in a num
ber of big hotels. Failing to tie up'
other hostelries and restaurants the
riotous elements carried on a war
fare of jostling patrons, turning in
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During the past week the following matter appeared in The Bulle
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Bulletin Telegraph Local Gonerxf Toial
Saturday, Jan. 18... 117 163 803 1083
Monday, .Jan. 20... 106 125 274 505
Tuesday, Jan. 21... , l u 110 215: 437
.Wednesday Jan. 22 . . . '87 " 97 1 25 309
Thursday, Jan. 23... 85 153 V 295 533
Friday, Jan. 24... .88 126 229 443
Totals- . . .f. 595 774 1941 3310
false alarms of fire, attacking waiters
who have not walked out and throw
ing bricks through windows.
Hotel Proprietor Threatened.
When the theatre audiences began
to pour forth on their way home the
disturbers were still overflowing the
sidewalks. Men and women in eve
ning clothes were forced into the
streets as gangs of Idlers swept down
upon them. Many fights resuld when
escorts retaliated with fists.
The life of one proprietor, James B.
Regan of the Hotel Knickerbocker, has
been threatened, he said tonight. Re
gan has thrown a guard of sixty spe
cial policemen, each man more than
six feet tali, around his hotel and has
announced nis intention of keeping
rioting waiters away from his doors.
Regan yesterday discharged his entire
force of waiters, they having threat
ened to strike, and hired men in their
places.
Stoned Hotel Windows.
At every police station in the hotel
district the reserves were prered for
a call at any moment and squad after
squad was sent forth to quell dis
turbances. In the course of the disorder 200
striking waiters stormed the Ritz
Carlton hotel and swung qpie of the
big revolving doors from its socket
in their rush. ' Others from vantage
points outside threw stones and suc
ceeded in breaking windows as high
as the sixth floor in the Carlton house
apartments where Police Commissioner
Waldo has rooms.
Probable Appeal to Sheriff.
Some of the hotel and restaurant
managers alarmed at the trend of the
night's events, said they anticipated
asking Sheriff Harburger to call out
his 1,600 deputies to put down the dis
turbers of the peace. The more agi
tated among them added that they
were considering a call on Governor
Sulzer for protection through the mil
itia. It was considered by most of
those chiefly concerned, however, that
the police were amply able to cope
with the situation.
Sheriff Harburger said he would call
his deputies out if it was found nec
essary and he was called upon to do
so.
DEMOCRATS HAVE HALF
OF SENATE MEMBERSHIP
Anxiously Watching Illinois, New
Hampshire, Wyoming, West Va.
' Washington, Jan. 24. Democratic
control of the next senate which be
came a certainty when John,K. Shields
was elected by the Tennessee legis
lature Thursday now rests at the min
imum strength of 48, exactly one-half
of the membership of the senate. Dem
ocratic leaders, disappointed in the re
cent loss of Senator Gardner's seat in
Maine are now hopefully, watching Il
linois, New Hampshire, West Virginia
and Wyoming, In the belief that a
democratic senator may be added to
the lists from som one of these
states.
GIRL ATTACKED IN ;
A LONELY SECTION.
Bristol Youtn Arrested and Unable to
Furnish S500 Bail,
Brlstel, eeen., Jan, 24ehlef ef
Poliee Beldea this afterneeq arrested
Arthu? " Heath, aged 19, charged wtl
assaulting Miss Susan Tipijel, p.ged 17.
Tne girl was walking aiene in a lone
ly seetion ef Bast Bristei, at time
af the alleged assault. Heath has been
locked up, being unable to furnish $500
bail. He will be eiven a hearing tv
merfSW. r . '
ercy Shown to
Seven Prisoners
TAFT GRANTS TWO PARDONS,
."'FIVE COMMUTATIONS
GIVEN CIVIL RIGHTS
Six Ex-Convicts Have Them Restored
by President Appeals of Nine Pris
oners For Clemency Were Denied.
Washington, Jan. 24. Varied ap
peals for mercy for federal prisoners,
ranging from the call of dependent
families for support to the heroism of
convicts, excited the sympathy of
President Taft, who today granted two
pardons and five commutations of sen
tences. He restored the civil rights
of six ex-convicts and denied clemency
to nine prisoners. ,
Family Dependent Upon Him.
The dependency for support , of a
wife, child and aged, blind mother
moved the president to commute to fif
teen months in the penitentiary the
heavy sentences of Ferd Keller, 21
years old, convicted at Memphis of two
violations of the oleomargarine laws.
Under this modification of his two sen
tences, totaling eight and a half years'
imprisonment, he will be released
about Feb. 2. Fines aggregating $5,300
and costs are remitted by the presi
dent. '
Considered Sentence Excessive.
Humbert C. Davis, 21 years old, re
ceived a commutation to one year of
his five year sentence in the Elmira,
N. Y.. reformatory, imposed Sept. 18
last, for embezzling $1,000 of the funds'
of the Harriman National bank to as
sist him in obtaining a college educa
tion. The president, Judge Hough and
United States Attorney Wise of New
York regarded the sentence as exces
sive. Life Imperilled by Confinement.
Because Richard Hynes, critically ilL
was unable to pay the fine of $2,000
imposed by the federal court at Port
land, Ore., in 1908 for alleged conspir
acy to defraud the United States, the
president reduced the fine to $100. Last
July the president wiped out the 90
days' imprisonment of Hynes' sentence
because it was said confinement would
imperil his life.
Two Saved Woman's Life.
Jesse C. Smith and R. A. Luskey,
convicted in this city of petit larceny,
were pardoned unconditionally because
they saved the life of a drowning wom
an, the wife of one of the officers of
the Washington workhouse.
Helped Customs Authorities.
On the recommendation of Secretary
MacVeagh, the president pardoned F.
W. Libby, sentenced at Phoenix. Ariz.
Oct. 14 last to one year and to pay a
tine of $o00 tor smuggling opium. Lib
by voluntarily helped the customs au
thorities to detect opium smuggling on
tne Pacific coast.
The president's action in the other
cases related to minor offenses.
FAVORS COMMISSION
f FOR NEW ENGLAND
Governor Foss' Plan to Solve Trans
portation Problem.
.Boston, Jan. 24. The solution of
iNew England s transDortation nroh
lem is to be found, in the opinion of
Governor Foss, in the creation of a
New England transportation commis
sion,, made up of the chairmen of the
several state commissions; and state
representation on railroad directorates.
In a letter addressed to the New
England governors who are to meet
here for a transportation conference
tomorrow. Governor Foss sets forth
thiB plan. He admits that such a board
might not have any legal power, but
he says that no corporation would dare
to disregard its instructions. Among
other things he says:
"To the extent that New England
naturally stands apart from the rest
of the country we must inevitably
stand together. Our railroad problem
Is obviously one for New England to
deal with according to a common pol
icy. The fundamental difficulty in the
present situation Is that we have one
for New England to deal with ac
cording to a common policy. The fun
damental difficulty Jn the present sit
uation' is that we have one railroad
system covering-all New England
Whieh we are attempting to regulate
by six separate commissions,
-With both a share in the man
agement of the eempany by states dl
reeters and a centre! ef that man
agement by a special eommissten, I
think that we emild faee the future
with anntidenee that we had full con
trol of eur asatlaie' , ,
' Cabled Paragraphs
The Texas Legislature has passed a
bill condemning inaugural balls in that
state. . -
Edwin O. Gale,
the oldest Chicag
age of 81.
in., Point of residence
oan, died there at the
The Census Department reports that
the Indians are adopting names of
white men. '
Prince Adelbert, Third Son of the
kaiser, is seriously ill with pneumonia,
complicated by measles. ,
Car! Edsburg Was Awarded $220,000
damages against the Baldwin Locomo
tive works; In 1910 Edsburg lost both
legs in an accident.
t
Brother Bellandri, a monk of Flor
ence, Italy, is under arrest thcre.charg
ed. with stealing two Madonnas from
the Convent of St. Spirito.
The Dog Catcher of Trenton, N. J., is
paid more than the mayor. The dog
catcher is paid $1 for every dog he
captures.
Former Governor James Brady was
elected United States senator from
Idaho for the short term on joint bal
lot of the legislature yesterday.
A Plan of Life Insurance for its em
ployes yas put into force this week at
the silk plush, factory of the Sidney
Blumenthal company at Derby.
Thomas Campbell, Athlete, murdered
his wife in Pittsburg and then fatally
injured himself. He said Mrs. Camp
bell refused to pack his dinner bucket.
Wheat Production in Argentina, Aus
tralia and New (Zealand this season
is one-third greater than in the pre
vious season, totalling 321,000,000 bush
els. Professor W. R. Webb, of Bellbuckle,
Tenn., ' independent democrat, was
elected United States senator yester
day for the term ending March 4
next.
The House of Representatives of
South Carolina has called on congress
to repeal the 15th amendment to the
constitution, which grants suffrage to
negroes.
Electrocution Was Substituted for
hanging as the official form of capital
punishment in Vermont when Governor
Fletcher signed a bill to this eftect
yesterday.
Rev. Eben Burt Parsons, D. D., for
more than 20 years secretary of the
faculty and registrar of Williams col
lege died at Williamstown, Mass., aged
78 years.
Marquis de la Baga Inclan, represent
ative of Spain to the Panama-Pacific
exposition at San Francisco, was pre
sented to President Taft yesterday by
the Spanish minister.
After Robbing the State Ban(k of
Mounds, Okla., yesterday and locking
Cashier C. T. Brown in the looted
vaults, three masked men escaped with
$3,500 in currency and silver.
Gustav Carl Luders, one of the best
known composers of comic opera' and
musical comedy in America, died sud
denly of apoplexy yesterday while
calling on friends in New York.
The Number of Judges of the Rhode
Island superior court will be increased
from six to seven when an act which
1 passed the general assembly yesterday
receives the signature of Governor
Pothier.
One Fireman Was Drowned and ten
were overcome while fighting a fire
at the plant of the Condie-Neale Glass
Co., at St. Louis yesterday. The police
beiieve the fire was started by bur
glars. Vice President-elect Thomas B. Mar
shall and Mrs. Marshall have deter
mined not to take a house in Washing
ton, but will live in a hotel during
their four years' residence there after
March 4.
Representative Stanley of Kentucky
yesterday introduced a resolution au
thorizing the war department to ex
pend $1,000,000 for food and subsist
ence for the sufferers from the floods
in the Ohio valley.
Mrs. Margaret Zane Witcher, of Salt
Lake City, yesterday delivered the vote
of the "Utah electors to the president
of the senate. She was the first wo
man to appear among the messengers
coming in frsrhj the various states.
Captain Stetphen C. Morrison,
thought to have been the last surviv
ing son of a revolutionary war sol
dier, died yesterday at Brunswick,
Maine. He was the son of Moses Mor
rison, a soldier in Washington's army.
Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor, today
asked the house judiciary committee
to postpone action on the workmen's
compensation bill until railroad broth
erhood employes opposed to it could
be heard.
Federal Judge Holt has postponed
for one week his decision on the writ
of habeas corpus in the case of Ed
ward F. Mylius. the Belgian journal
ist; ordered deported for conviction in
England on the charge of HbelHng
King George Y.
The Telegraphers on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad have
been unable to come to an agreement
with' General Manager Pollock on the
matter of a new wage and time sched
tile, it is understood, and have appealed
to Vice President II. J. Horn.
Search Yesterday of the Ruins of
the two buildings at McKinney, Tex.,
which collapsed Thursday and then
burned, confirmed the estimate that
there were eight lives lost in the catas
trophe. Mrs. Belle Williams, one of
the 14 injured, is likely to die.
A Bill to Provide Means whereby
persons whose land has been con
demned by the Southern New Eng
land railway may collect damages as
soon as the appraisers have fixed the
amount was introduced in the Rhode
Island legislature yesterday.
Otto Aversi. Charles Becker's chauf
feur the night Herman Rosenthal was
murdered in New York, is under ar
rest at Paterson, N. J., with two -companions,
pending an investigation by
in pojice into tne deatti of Louis
Payne, a farmer of Butler, N. J.
Feur Men Were Injured, on.? serious
ly, when a staging on which they were
working at the new ehuwh edifice at
Meriden for St. Mary's Jfcian Cath
olio parish, fell yesterday dropping
them 2S feet to the ground. The most
seriously hurt was Paul Maestrlno, a
hed-earrier.
. Steamers Reported by Wireless.
Cape Bai-e, Jan. 24. Steajper Monto
uma. Antwere for Sr. John: N. B 10S
miles southeast at 8.34) a, to,
GALLED CROWD ILL
Commander of Turkish Army Was Upbraiding Dem
onstrators When Bullet Ended His Remark
OFFICIALLY TERMED "REGRETTABLE INCIDENT
Official Version of the Affair Issued Last Night Nazim's Scl
dierly Character Made Him Respected by His Opponents
Unionists Say They They Bore Him No 111 Will
Young Turks Determined Not to Cede Adrianople.
Constantinople, Jan. 24 Nazim
Pasha,' the commander of the Turkish
army, received his death wound while
expostulating with a crowd of demon
strators for having become embroiled
in a conflict at the grand vizierate. The
ofliciaPversion of the affray which is
termed
regrettable incident" was
issued tonight.
Official Version of Affair.
When the demonstrators, it says,
headed by Enver Bey, one of the lead
ers of the Young Turk party penetrat
ed the grand vizierate in an attempt
to enter the council chamber, they
were stopped by Fafiz Bey, aide-decamp
to the grand vizier who, drawing
his revolver ,lired a shot at them. The
aide-de-camp of Nazim Pasha also
fired at the crowd, his bullet striking
Mehmed Nedjif, one of the demon
strators. The demonstrators there
upon replied and Nazim's aide-decamp
was istantly killed.
Nazim Upbraided Crowd.
Nazim Pasha, who was iri the council
chamber heard the shots and rushed
outside. Facing the demonstrators he
upbraided them, calling them ill-mannered
curs. While he was speaking a
bullet cut short his remarks and he
fell dead.
A secret police agent and an attend
ant of the Sheik- Ul-Islam, head of
the Mohammedan clergy.also was kill
ed. Claim It Was Unavoidable. ,
The leading unionists of Constanti
nople declare that the shooting of Na
zim was unpremeditiated and much re
gretted but under the circumstances
unavoidable. They say that the union
ists bore no ill will toward Nazim,
whose open and soldierly character
made him respected even by hi3 po
litical opponents. The fact that a no
torious enemy of the committee of
union and progress like Kechad Pasha,
the late minister of the interior, was
allowed to go scathk-ss, it is argued,
proved that the demonstrators desired
to avoid bloodshed.
Old Ministers Return Home.
All the old ministers were set at
liberty today and permitted to return
to their homes.
Fafiz Bey, the aide-de-camp of the
former grand vizier and who lired the
first shot in yesterday's affray, was
a companion of Major Tahar, who
started the mutiny at Monaslir last
summer which led to the resignation
cf the cabinet of Said Pasha.
The views held in official circles with
regard to the situation between Turk
ey and the Balkan allies may be set
forth as follows:
Does Not Desire to Resume Hostilities.
The Turkish government dues not
desire a resumption of hostilities but
the European powers are even less an
xious to witness a renewal of the war
owing to the danger of possible com
plications in Europe. Turkey realizes
her condition of financial penury, but
this condition is chronic to her and
means always can be found for keep
ing afloat.
On the other hand from a military
standpoint Turkey is in a better con
dition than ever to wage war with
advantage, especially as the govern
ment, believes the forces of the allies
are near the point of exhaustion
Will Fight to Save Adrianople.
Nevertheless the Porte would pre
fer to avoid further bloodshed if this is
honorably possible and the main
tenance and possession of Adrianople
by the allies is not insisted on.
Official circles are confident that no
coercive pressure by the powers need
be apprehended or threats of isolated
action by Russia taken very seriously
owing to the possibility of such ac
tion bringing about European compli
cations. Under these circumstances
it is felt here that the allies may come
to realize that Adrianople is not in
dispensable to their well being and es
pecially when they observe that it is
the determination of the entire nation
to fight" rather than to surrender the
holy city.
SITUATION MUCH MIXED.
Some of Delegates of Allies Are for
Immediate Resumption of War.
London, Jan. 24. Some days must
elapse before the situation arising from
the revolution in Constantinople be
comes clear. As tar as may be judged
there is no intention on the part of
the new Turkish government to force
matters or to resume hostilities if any
reasonable compromise wih the Bal-'
kan allies is possible.
A despatch received here from Con
stantinople tonight says the council
of ministers sat today to discuss the
reply they will make to the note of
the powers and that it is believed this
reply, while insisting on the retention
of Adrianople by Turkey, will point
to u nursaay s demonstration as a real
manifestation of the national will.
The new government is finding dif
ficulty in filling the post of foreign
minister. The portfolio has been of
fered, several of the Turkish ambas
sadors abroad, but thus far all of them
have declined to enter the cabinet. Un
til the ministry is completed bv the
appointment of a sheik-ul-islam and a
IOCy!Kn minister it is probable that no
deKnite steps will be taken. Develop
ments in the situation are awaited
throughout Europe with the greatest
concern in view of the fact that a dan
ger might arise through active inter
vention by Russia.
The Balkan delegates to the peace
conference in London show no de
sire for precipitate action. They have
accepted the advice of the ambassa
dors of the cowers to await the reply
of the new Turkish government to the
ambassadors' note before, forming any
resolutions as to their future proced
ure. Opinion among the delegates with
rcprii in tne situation Is much di
vided. Boms of them maintain that It
is useless to wait longer In view of
what has happened-at Constantinople,
Which is considered eloquent proof of
the attitude the new ministry intends
i" ""-. uintra or tnem on thn cnn.
irary take the view, tiiat 14 J Jauioa, -
"
- MANNERED GUP.
id
it
sible for Enver Bey, on & white horn
and like another Boulajiger, to ba
taken seriously.
In addition they argue the Young
Turks who lost power owing to the ab
solute unpreparednesa of the country
under their regime in the war wi .h,
Italy, cannot now have the support of
g, majority of the people of the na
tion as the same unpreparedness fur
which they were responsible, has bat n
further demonstrated to exist la tha
war with the Balkan allies.
Naturally the Young Turks some of
the delegates say have worked bard
to regain power. Their activity hits
been especially marked in the army,
but it is not believed that the bu k
of the army is ready to support then
and these delegates think it not impos
sible that a. counter-revolution will
undo whatever was achieved by tie
Young Turks Thursday.
Those of the delegates who do not
think it wise to wait longer say thf.y
consider it a pity to let the presei't
unique opportunity pass without giving
Turkey a blow, taking advantage of
the confusion ensuing by reason of tta
revolution in Constantinople.
As a whole, however, the allies in
tend, if possible, to wait for Turkey s
reply to the powers, and if it is un
satisfactory to .. present an ultimatum
to the Turkish llegates demanding a
categorical answer concerning tha die
position of Adrianople and the Aegean
islands. Falling to obtain satiHfactioa
the armistice then will be denounce i
ana hostilities resumed.
The Turkish delegation toniprht sti I
was without instructions from Con
stantinople. Rumor of Sultan's Dethronement.
London, Jan. 24. A rumor was cur
rent in London, Paris and Berlin to
night to the effect that the sultan rC
Turkey had been dethroned and re
public proclaimed. There was no con
firmation of the rumor anywhere an i
it was generally discredited in officii 1
circles. .
WILL NOT DISTURB THT
BUSINESS PROSPERITY
Chairman Underwood Says Democrats
Have No Such Intention.
Washington. Jan. 24. Chairman Un
derwood of the house committee on
ways and means announced emphat-
ically at the tariff hearing today that
there was no intention of cutting th-
rates of duty so low along competi
tive lines as to ruin the business in
terests of the country. He took ex
ception to intimations he attributed
to republican members that the dem-i
ocratic majority of the committee pur
posed to make rates that would dls i
turb business prosperity.
'S deny that there is any such inten .
tion," he said, following remarks o!
Representative Payne, ranking repub
lican member of the committee.
The committee which heard the tes .
timony of many manufacturers an5
importers on the flax, hemp and juit
schedules of the tariff was not dis
posed to question the competitive char
acter and luxury classification ot man,-'
of the laces, embroideries and oth
articles in the schedule. Mr. Under wood
took occasion to agree as to soma
of them that their competitive statuu
seemed to have been sustained, whicb
Is in favor of approximately the same
rates on many items.
The entire schedule is one of th
most profitable in the whole tarifS
scheme and produced last year mora
than $49,000,000 of revenue with dutiea
averaging above 45 per cent, ad val
orem. Some of these articles will be
reduced to stimulate competition and
bring revenue.
WILSON SHOPS WITH
WIFE IN NEW YORK
Earlier in , Day Has Consultation with
Philadelphia Dentist.
New York, Jan. 24. To obtain rest
and diversion from the strain of his
official duties, President-elect Wilson,
came to New York for the week-end
today. t He went shopping with Mrs.
Wilson' most of the afternoon and vis
ited a half dozen stores without be
ing generally recognized. Tonight the
governor was the guest of a close
friend at the theatre. He had no po
litical engagements, he said.
It is very probable that the pre-ident-elect
will visit the metropolis ev
e ryweek-end before his inauguration,
as his friends have cautioned him
against overwork. Earlier in the day
the governor had gone to Philadelphia
to visit a dentist. He left there for
New York at noon and will not be
back in his office at the state house
before Monday. Though he gave tus
plans for the week end in detail to
the correspondents so as to be acces
sible to them he asked that informa
tion as to his where'souts be withheld
from the public so he could be free
from political .burdens for a spell.
TALBOT RE-ELECTED
TO HEAD THE OWL3
Ferdinand De Soto of Hartford a Su
preme Trustee.
South Bend, Ind., Jan. 24. John W.
Talbot of South Bend was elected pres
ident of the supreme lodge of the Or
der of Owls" at the annual meeting of
fourth degree members today. Mr.
Talbot founded the order. The other
supreme lodge officers elected include:-
Rodney C. Burris, Memphis. naat
president;- George Lauterer, Chicago, i
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vice px Qaiucut.; jui , . x. vi unipacicer.
South Bend, treasurer.
Ferdinand De Soto, Hartford, Conn,
was chosen as trustee.
Darrow Jury Still Incomplete.
Los Angeles, Jan. 24. Four addition
al Jurors were sworn today for tha
second trial of Clarence S. Darrow on
the charjre of having bribed a Juror In
th MeNamara case, leavinar hut twn
plaeon to ha filled. Shortly before ad-
jeuvnmeat ier m aay the special
vnlr of 75 men summoned today j
fnrhttTTatftrf BnH tha 1 r : u 1 want mr . -n .
ill Monday.
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