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PA e^B* > <*^ "*■* 7 1 kJKj**iii ■ fcz^r'^LjHßpr^^'"^^^' V CI LXVI....X O -21.7G7. 1906 GKADUATING CLASS OF SIBLEY COLLEGE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, CORNELL UNIVEKSITY. UPHOLDS MI-CENT LAW. GAS COMPANY TO APPEAL. Appellate Division Not Hampered by Federal Court's Decisions. The Consolidated CJas Company again had a Ktbaek yesterday in Its efforts to have con isuinerfs pay the £1 rate for illuminating gas, in epue of the law providing for BQ-eent charges, ■when In an opinion handed down by the Appel late Division of the Supreme Court, in two cases brought to test the validity of the SO-cent law, the law was upheld and decisions in favor of consumers ■were given. The two causes were those of Jacob Rich man against the Consoli dated, in which he had endeavored to prevent The company from cutting off his gas supply, er.d of Dr. Alexander R. Grossman on prac tically similar grounds. Justice Leventritt, in the Supreme Court, had denied a motion for a temporary injunction for TUehman. but in the case of Dr. Grossman, on a reargument, had granted a permanent injunc tion. The Consolidated appealed from the latter decision and was again beaten, ■while in the for mer Richman appealed, and the decision of Jus lice Leventritt was reversed and the Injunction prayed for was granted. Th»» tv.-o decisions, however, are not final, as the opinion of Justice Laughlln particularly Ftatea that the decisions are only given so that the Court of Appeals may finally decide the cases on th^ir merits. It is understood that an er-r^al will be taken at once by counsel for the Consolidated Ga* Company. John A. Garver. of counsel for the company, raid last night: The decisions only are active in the two par ti' ujar cases, and do not interfere in any way "* iih th*» opinion of Judge Lacombe in the United States Circuit Court declaring the $1 rate still prevailing. If any other consumers desire fee refuse to pay the 20 per cent they can do so. but or.ly by going through the same litigation as the two plaintiffs In the cases decided yesterday. Th«> decisions do not affect in any way any one but Dr. Grossman and Mr. Riehman. RIGHT TO REGULATE PRICE. Justice Laughlin wrote the opinion of the court, in which Presiding Justice O'Brien and Justice Patterson concurred. In speaking of th© CTTrpariv- Justice Laughlin says: In exercising public franchise and special privileges, it owes a duty to the public to fur- T.ish gns to the consumer at reasonable rates, which the Legislature may regulate and the courts may enforce. It is competent for the Leg islature to regulat* the price that the defendant may charge consumers provided it does not re quire it to supply gas at a rate that will not cdrr.it of reasonable profit, to the stockholders ■u*r.nn the actual value of the plant and property of the company. The justice says that the company may at ■ay time have recourse to the courts, if injus tice is done in this matter, and if after a judi cial investigation, its complaint should be sus tained it would be the duty of the court to de clare the law unconstitutional and void. In thi* ca?«=-. he says, both the Legislature and the ftate commission appear to have acted with due cV;i Oration, and after careful investigation of the »ssrr:ti2l facts. He continues: It !« a genera! rule of law that until a judicial extermination upon a final hearing a statute is presumed to be valid, and although its enforce ment max- be temporarily enjoined, its opera tion c&nrot be appended The practical effect of th*- rule is that until the statute is adjudged 'o b«- unconstitutional by a court of competent Jurisdiction the legal rate which consumers are '■ . ■'-■ to pay. and upon payment of which Uj*r ar** entitled to a continuation of the per- r '' r *-. I* that prescribed by the last enactment of tji* legislature, pending the decision of the QlKatSon a« to the constitutionality of the etat ■3t« Therefore th* company should not be per ttJttifl to coerce the consumers into paying the r * Tit*. *vstfoa Laujjhlin says that consumers who do r ''t r.Jsh to incur the enn »"*".**, expense or Jmard c* l-tlgration, may pay under protest, thus reserving the right to recover the excess. They •"flj be fully protected in this respect, he con tinues, by the provision made In the recent order «* the United States Circuit Court. The com- J*-~S\ '■'. it wishes to rii«k the penalty malar the ttatst* — "which very likely cannot be collected," fc« «■;.•& -rr3.v •::.and payment at the old rate, *-*2<J it may bring ration at law. PRIVATE ACTION HOT BARRED. The Justice ires In detail the circumstances fc? tfc* pres«;:t case-, and considered the bill in *T~ty brought in ttie federal court. He says it i? t-» b* ohaarwd thai no consumer of gas, ex- c «?i ;h<e cJty of Hew York, was made n. party l <> t/ie rat; in ihs federal court. He aide that cf ty^rt* the city doos not represent private Vistsssniti, <-r.j canr.ot appear for them In the ' >.nLr.fO c» lt»ir<l p***- i^-^. »»,■ -unjU^ NEW-YORK, THURSDAY. JUNE 21. 1906.-FOURTEEN PAGES .-^™. < WgiV^ tte 7?JOr FOIJAJWS MURDER. Police Rescue Italian from Fury of a Mob. The prompt arrival of the reserves yesterday evening prevented a crowd of two thousand frenzied Hebrews from tearing Giuseppi Yaco bocci. of Xo. 11l Mott street, from Patrolmen Staublg and Quinlan and beating him to death. He had fatally fitabhed Abraham Koslowitz, of No. 31 Norfolk street. As it was. a riot started on the arrival of the police ana ••ontinued to rage about the store of Rosebers & Heinelln. at No 18 Norfolk, street, in which the Italian and his captors had taken refuge. Surrounded by the reserves in a hollow square, the prisoner was taken to the Eldridge street station and locked up. His victim was hur ried to Gouverneur Hospital, where he died half an hour later. A charge of homicide was then entered against the Italian. TIPS LAUNCH; FOUR SIXK.- Carelessness of Member of Fishing Party Costs LAvcs. Philadelphia, June 20. — A man's carelessness ln stepping on the side of a launch ln which there was a party of six resulted in the drown ing of four men late this afternoon in the Dela ware River, opposite the extreme northern part of the city. The other two occupants of the little craft had a narrow escape from death. The drowned men are John Zwald, John S. MrCann, John Hannigan and Charles E. Keenan. A dozen men had gathered early in the day at the Hobo Boat Club, near the scene of the accident, and parties of six took turns in going out ln the launch to the middle of th« river to fish. The four men above named, with Patrick Dunn and Lewis Jones, went out late in the afternoon. They had no sooner anchored than Keenan stepped on the side of the launch, cap sizing it- One of the men in the boathnuse who was looking at the party through field glasses saw the craft turn over and quickly gave the alarm. Two men in skiffs at once set out to the rescue, but it took them some time to reach the cap sized boat, as the river at that point is wide. Four of the men had already gone down, but Dunn was picked up while clinging to the keel of the launch, and Jones was picked up in an exhausted condition as he was swimming ashore. The two pkiffs remained in the wieinfty for some time in the hope of finding tne bodies -if the drowned men. but they did not come to the surface. TO CALL EXTRA SESSIOX. Legislation While Governor Pattison Was Unconscious May Be Void. [By T«l««rarh to The Tribunal Columbus, Ohio, June 20.— 1t was announced to-day that Acting Governor Harris has de cided to call an extra session of the Legislature if the liquor interests of the state succeed in knocking out the Alken high liquor tax law, as they are planning to do. He realizes that a decision from the Supreme Court Invalidating that law would render void most of the im portant legislation enacted by the last Legis lature, as It was passed between March 21 and April 16, during which time the late Governor Pattison lay unconscious, according to the state ment of his physicians. A< ting Governor Harris is fully In accord with the temperance views of his predecessor. If a ■pa iaJ session of the Legislature la held, he will not hesitate to use his influence as acting Gov ernor to force the re-enactment of all legisla tion the validity of which is questioned. NIGHT CABINET MEETING. President and Five of His Advisers in Conference. Washington. June 20.— What amounted to a Cabinet meeting was held at the While House to-night. There were five members of the Cab inet in conference with the President—Secre taries Root. Taft and Bonaparte, Postmaster General Cortelyou and Attorney General Moody. The occasion for the night meeting was ex plained to be the consideration of public busi ness. Beyond this and the statement that noth 111* unusual had happened, nothing was made public regarding the conference. Th* members of the Cabinet remained with th« President about two hours, the meeting end i'j" after 11 o'clock. It is believed that qutf, t'liTr , incidental to the adjournment of congress were considered. President Roosevelt expects to 1-av- Washington soon after the session ends. LARGEST GRADUATING CLASS OF ANY COLLEGE. GIANT SEES PRESIDENT. A WHITE HOUSE VISITOR. Machnoxv Cordially Received, but His Wife Is Skeptical [From The TTibune Bureau.) Washington, June 20. — President Roosevelt shook hands this afternoon with Feodor Alexio vitch Machnow. the Russian 9-foot 3-inch giant. Machnow arrived in town at 4 p. m.. aceom-» panied by his wife, a woman of ordinary size; "Parson" Davis, an interpreter, a physician and a troop of newspaper men, who had accompa nied the party from New York, where the human shot tower is under engagement to ex hibit his length on the vaudeville stage. The President greeted Machnow cordially and chat ted with "Parson" Davis for several minutes about politics, pugilism and various topics. When Feodor left the President's office he dis played a smile about a yard across, and he started to give his wite an account of the re ception. Mrs. Machnow soon changed his joy to doubt, and then to outspoken suspicion. She had refused to go into the office when she ar rived, but stood out on the front steps, scowling gloomily. "The President is not here," she exclaimed. "If the President was inside this house you would see soldiers, many, many soldiers, on guard. They are fooling us." "But the President of the United States docs not need a guard of soldiers," explained the in terpreter. "This man in here," continued Mrs. Machnow, with increasing anger, "this man with the eye glasses, cannot be the President, for his picture is not on the money." Mrs. Machnow had seen pictures of the Presi dent on the way from New York. Finally she was induced to enter Secretary Loeb's office, where her husband and the party had been es corted to wait for the President to finish a con ference he was holding with Secretary Root. But she did not linger there l r 'n^. After a few whispered words to her husband she stalked gloomily out of the office and again took up her position on the front Bteps. "Mrs. Machnow pays she is going back to New- York right away," said the interpreter. "She says she does not like Washington, and refuses to sta^ 1 over to se» Congress. She has been in a very bad humor all day ' "Weil, lot her go," su^osted one of the party. "We can get along without the lady if slie does not wish to remain " "But if she goep the giant will go, too. When she crooks her finger, he follows, and don't you forget it." said the interpreter. The giant, his wife and the interpreter left Washington on an early even'ng train for New York, in spite of all efforts made by the managers of the show to detain them. "Parson" Da\is and his friends remained for a few hours longer, to call at the newspaper offices to get the "item" in with its proper frills. WANT TO LYNCH MRS. KAUFMAN. Woman Accused of Killing Servant Taken Away from Crowd in Carriage. Sioux Falls, S. D., June — Mrs. Emma Kauf man, wife of a wealthy Sioux Falls brewer, was brought into court to-day for the closing of her preliminary hearing on a charge of having caused the death of Miss Agnes Polrels, her ser vant. Mrs. Kaufman was hissed when she went Into the courtroom, and when she came out an angry demonstration was made and cries of "Lynch her:" were heard. As a result of the hearing. Mrs. Kaufman was held on a charge of murder. The case will be called for trial in November. Miss Polrels, who was seventeen years old, died on June 1. and was buried at ParkßTon, S. D. The body was later exhumed, and was found to bear forty-five sep arate wounds. Mrs. Kaufman, after court adjourned, had taken refuge in a carriage, and while the crowd was packed closely around one of the double doors of the courthouse the carriage escaped by dashing at full speed from another door. The crowd, as soon as the carriage was seen hasten ing away, followed it for a short distance, giving vent to shouts and derisive cries until the vehicle v, as out of sight. It was several hours before the excitement died down and people dis persed. SUIT AGAINST MR. PLATT DISMISSED. (By Telegraph '■' The Tribune.] Omaha, June 20.— 1n the District Court here to day the 525.000 suit for damages filed by Mac C. Wood, a former clerk In the Fostofflce Department nt Washington, against Senator Thomas C. Plan, of New York, and the United States Express Com pany, was dismissed for want of prosecution. Miss Wood sin-.] for services alleged to have been per formed for Senator Plait and the express company In luoMngr after matters of Interest to them in the Poetoftice Department. EQUINOX— EQUINOX— EQUINOX—EQUINOX Sparkling Lttfeta Water Quen.lifca Thiret.— AJvt. SLAIN GOING TO CHURCH WOMAN DIES IX AUTO. Husband Collapses After Identifica tion — Croud Threatens. While on her way to the Church of the Sacred Heart, in West C>lst street, last night Mrs. Kate Buckfelder. sixty- two years old, of No. 731 Elev enth avenue, was run over by an automobile at Tenth avenue and 51st street and so badly in jured that she died while being taken to Roose \elt Hospital in the machine that ran her down. The automobile was driven by Bert Smalling. manager of automobiles for the Hurd Realty Company. Smalling says he was running the machine at s»n exceedingly slow rate of speed and thought that the woman was surely out of the way. He leaped from the automobile, frightened by the menacing crowd that assembled as if Ti«' a rid* sought safety in a nearby drug store, where he was found hy " Patrolmen O'Rourke and Bayer, of the West 47th street police station. Escorted to the automobile, in which Mrs. Buckfelder had been placed. Small ing. accompanied by the two patrolmen, put on full speed ami started for the hospital. The run was quickly made, but Mrs. Buokfelder died on the way. SmaHlng was locked up on a charge of homi cide. Alexander C. Young, attorney for the Trans-River Automobile Company, which owns the machine-, appeared to bail him our. Mr. Young was told that he would have to find a magistrate before bail could be accepted, and left tho station in search of one. The husband of tho unfortunate woman heard of the accident nearly two hours after it had happened. As Mrs. Burkfelder had not returned home he went to thf police station to look at the body. He collapsed when he found that tho d< a«l woman was his wife. MISS PAULINE HALL HURT Comic Opera Stars I*cg Broken in Yonkerg Runaway. Mis* Pauline Hall, the well known comic opera star, sustained a fracture of her left leg and was badly bruised and shaken up in a run away accident in Tonkers yesterday afternoon. Her sister. Miss A- Hall, was also bruised, but h»r daughter and a gir! friend escaped injury by Jumping;. Near the Mosbolu Hotel the team ran into a telephone polo, throwing Miss Hall and her sister to the ground. The two pirls had jumped just before. A few moments later two men in an automobile took the party to their home. HURT IX RUXAWAV. Au to Frigh tens Horse — Carriage Upset — Occupants Hurled Out. Frightened by a passing automobile, a high spirited horse, drawing Mrs. George O. Starr, of South Columbus avenue, Mount Vernon, and Mrs. M. N. L/itson, of New York, dashed along the Post Road at Pelham Manor last night. The carriage struck the curb and the women were hurled to the ground. Both of Mrs. Starr's legs were broken and she was internally Injured. Jim. Litson's skull was fractured. The accident happened midway between Bon nie Brae, the home of J. L. Reynolds, and the Little Red Church. Mrs. Starr was driving, and when the horse took fright she clung to the reins and did her utmost to keep the animal going straight, but the front wheels of the vehicle struck the curb and It upset. Mrs. Starr was removed to her home in an ambulance and Mrs. Liitson was taken to the Mount Vernon Hospi tal. Both are ln critical condition. Mrs. Starr Is the niece of George O. Starr, manager of the Baraum & Bailey circus. SLEEPING SICKNESS IN LONDON. Lieutenant Tulloch, Investigator, Dies from Inoculation- London, June 20. — Lieutenant Tulloch, who accompanied the Royal Society's Commission to Uganda to investigate the sleeping sickness, and contracted the disease while dissecting an in ocula'ed rat. died to-day in London. MUTINY ON CONVICT FAEM. Four Persons Killed at Angola, La.. New Orleans Hears. New Orleans. June 30 —Dispatches from Angoi.-t. Ijß., say that ln a mutiny at the state convict farm there to-day four p«r«on§ were killed ATTACK OX BU HAMARA. Attempt to Murder Pretender to Moroccan Throne. Melilla. June 20— Adherents of the Sultan of Morocco last night unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Bu Hamara, the Pretender, while he was sleeping in his tent. Several of the Pre tender's guards were killed and others were wounded. THIEF CHOKES VICTIM. Patrolman Captures Alleged Robber Who Made Off icith $800. Patrolman Benkler, of the Traffic Squad, yesterday afternoon prevented the escape of an alleged robber who had choked a young woman cashier in a mercantile house and stolen $200 from her. Joseph Frey, of Xo. 349 East 19th street, was arrested. ■ 'h The hold-up took place in fhe building at Xo. Pit Spring street, where the firm of Wilinsky & Mezeritzky occupy the fourth floor for th« manufacture of silk articles. Rebecca Osch- lar.sky. a girl of nineteen, employed as book keeper, was sent to the Germania Bank shortly before 3 o'clock to draw $201 for use in the company's office. Upon her return from the bank a man fol- j lowed her upstairs, and when she was half way j up the third flight of stairs overtook her. grasped I her about the waist and snatched the package of money from her hand. Before she could scream the man thrust the money into his pocket I and caught the girl by the throat. He choked her almost into Insensibility, then dropped her and ran. stumbling anil falling down the last flight of stairs. He got up and Quickly ran j around the corner and south in Mercer street. The girl followed him down the stairs. 1 and her | screams attracted the attention of Benkler. who I saw Frey go into the back room of a building at ; Spring and Mercer streets. Benkler followed. j and after a search found Frey curled up under ! a bench in the corner. Frey was taken imme- j diately back to the place where Miss Oschlansky i is employed, and she identified him as the rob- ! ber. No money was found on Frey, who says he ! dropped it. The police say a second party, a I confederate of Frey. got the money. COR X ELLS GRA DI A TES. __ — — — — — I Young Men Whose Abilities Are in j Demand from Employers. The Sibley senior class, whose picture is pub lished on this page, is the graduating class of the j largest college in Cornell University, and the on» ; which has done most to make the name of Cor nel! respected in the world of practical affairs. \ Th» remarkable thing about these young men is . that they will not have to look for employment, | many of them having received half a dozen tempt- j ing offers from rival technical firms, which vie ; with one another to obtain graduates, and visit the college each year In the spring to lay the at- j tractions of the positions they desire filled before \ the prospective graduates in their most inviting aspect. GEM THEFT OF $20,000. — — — — — I i 11. 11. Meyer's Jexcelry Taken from ! Room at Club. A mysterious robbery of §20,00") In jewelry ! from one of the guests at the Century Country ' Club, on the outskirts of White Plains, was re ported to Chief of Police Harmon at White j Plains yesterday, and he has all his detectives i working on the case. The Jewels belonged to ! H. H. Meyer, of the banking house of Seligman • & Meyer, of Broadway, who is spending th» sum- I mer in the clubhouse. They had been carefully j locked in a drawer in a chiffonier in Mr. Meyer's | room by his valet, and the key had been placed | in another drawer, according to the report made I to the White Plains police. \ The burglar unlocked the drawer and took the Jewelry, among which were sixteen diamond and \ pearl stickpins. He relocked the drawer an,l i replaced the key in the drawer where it had ' been hidden. The police look upon the robbery j as an "inside** Job. ; » YALE ALUMNI FUND. $75,000. New Haven. June 20.— 1t is announced that the ] alumni fund to be presented to Yale University • this year will be BMM Last year it was V*>'»» v . i and next year it probably will be raised to lIOO.COO. DEWEY'S PURE GRAPE JUICE. Absolutely free from any preservatives H. T. Dewey & Sons Co., 138 Fulton St.. New York. I Advt. PRICE THREE CENTS. PACKERS DENOUNCED. MR. LODGE OX MEAT BILL. Says Beef and Oil Trusts Are Greatest Promoters of Anarchy. "I have no sympathy whatsver with tho socialistic movements that are going ori to take possession of all sorts cf business and all so-calied public utilities, whether munici pal, state or nationa 1 . I believe the move ment, if successful, means the destruction of the government which we reverenca and love and which it has taken us a hundred years to build up. But I say. and I say it in all ssnouness, that these packers in Chicago and these owners of the Standard Oil have done more to advance socialism and anarchism and unrest and agitation than all the so cialist agitators who stand to-day between the ocean?." HENBY CABOT LODGE. [Frcm The Tribune Bureau.] Washington, June ••.—The Chicago meat packers received in the Senate to-day the sever est denunciation to which they have, probably, ever been subjected. The speaker was Senator Lodge, and the occasion the calling up of tho Agricultural bill, of which the meat inspection, provision is an amendment. Speaking to a full chamber and galleries well filled, despite tha heat. Senator Lodge delivered his remarks quiet ly and forcefully, weighing every word. Mr. Lodge declared himself in accord with th» chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee, Mr. Proctor, am! with the author of the original inspection amendment. Mr. Deveridge. in their conviction that the cost of inspection should be paid by the packers, and thru the inspection tags which the government la to affix to canned meat products should he . ted. "People do not like to are their food tampered with in order to increase profits already huge. and to be made the sport of mere insensate greed for money," said Mr. Lodge. "The people be lieve, and believe rightly, that these men should be made to obey the law. I declare now that the one thing more important than who pays tha> tax is that these men should be put on the same* basis as other American citizens who have their goods Inspected and sent nut to the whole world with the government stamp upon them. I an* not asking that they be persecuted or hunted down. I am asking that they have the Justice which they would deny to others, but which th-» In Congrers are bound to give to all Americans alike." Ri f--rrir.g to c-ir>iiiti.->ns a _ -he presenSj agitntion Mr. Lodge said: What has been the history of that group of men .who run these packing establishments? It has been a history of utter defiance of law and! public opinion. It is only the other day that •^ey were convicted of violating the Elkins law *M connection with the Burlington & Quincy road. They barely escaped another charge under th<» immunity decision. It is less than a year since Sulzbcrger. if that is the name, was fined $-'.".. for a violation of the law. They have been going on for years in that way. with, a coarse defiance of public opinion and of the law. Mr. Lodge expressed some trepidation about suggesting that the amendment passed by th» House be changed, because he had learned from the press that it ha.l been "passed by the Hous* and approved by the President." but said h» would take advantage of that much discussed instrument, the Constitution, which provides that measures must have the approval of both House and Senate, a.s well as of the Execu tive. He declared Uiar he hoped the House amendment was substantially sound, but that as he had learned on excellent authority that the measure first reported by the House Com mittee v.a.i worthless to accomplish the purposes • sought, and had been Informed on excellent au thority in the House that the amendments put in by the committee had been added merely to satisfy the President and to "srveeten" the sub stitute, he was in grave doubt. Representative Wadsworth. who had used In the House tha words quoted by Mr. Lodge, was in the Senate chamber throughout the Senator's speech. SATS LABELS SHOULD BE DATED. With regard to the necessity of dating th« government labels, Mr. Lodge said: The packers say that canned articles of food, are Just as good five years after they are canned as they were at the moment of canning If they like them that way, let them eat them that way. nobody objects: but l do contend, and this is the spirit of all our pure food legislation, that tha public hast a right to know exactly what it la buying. If canned meat five years old is juat as good as meat which has been canned five months, it cannot hurt the business of these tender creatures who are doing this packing for us to have the fact known. People will be just as ready to buy their excellent ftve-year-old can*