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FEDERAL JURY ACTS.
TOTES FIVE INDICTMENTS.
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Folhzc Investigation Into ihe Morse
Entanglement.
five ir.dsctments drawn up by Oliver E.
F.'.j:«.~, tr.A special assistant attorney of the
I>7»art:rer.i of Justice, were voted yesterday by
the :■ ml gr&r.d jury which is investigating
the 2'lorxe entanglement. Mr Pagan drew up
t h« indictments against John R. Walsh. He is
reported never to have had any indictment
draan up by him quashed.
Thre* of th« indictments are against Charles
\T. Morne and a former official of the National
B^nk of North 1 America for overcertification
ar.d | ■eatfssi of funds. Two of these are
jLjrainst Morse, one on each charge, and the
other is against his associate.
E. R. Thomas visited the District Attorney
yesterday, and it is said on good authority that
he told the District Attorney of certain things
:- relation to Morse at the time he and Alfred
H. Curtis went before the grand Jury to explain
tri» working of the Morse system in the National
Bank of North America
---. two indictments voted for yesterday —
or* for over-certification and one for misapplica
tion — are based on Mr. Morse's acts at the time
the Clearing: House began to take notice of the
Heiaze-Thomas-Morse coalition. When the
. ring House demanded Heinze's resignation
he refused until Morse had mad* 1 good a sum
cf money involved in some big: deal In which,
the two had been concerned.
Morse drew a check for 5600,000 on the North
America hank funds, which he gave to Helnze.
He deposited it in the Mercantile National Bank.
ani the amount was paid by the National Bank
cf North America, a man who was an official
of th*» bark at that time certifying: the check
»ith the aliegf^l understanding- that Morse was
to "rr.ake good" overnight
PENALTY FOR THESE CRIMES.
The penalty of overcertification is five years
er •.'■.. that for misapplication three to five
year?.
On February 21 E. B. Wire made out a note
SB the Knickerbocker Trust Company for $200/
000. and this was indorsed by Morse. The note
ufi« presented at the Knickerbocker and a check
given in return, which Morse is alleged to have
put in tha Bank of North America, which was to
pve the Knickerbocker the amount named in the
check.
While the federal grand jury was voting on
the indictments ex-Judge Wallace appeared in
behalf of the demurrer interposed to the fed
eral indictments against F. Augustus Helnze in
the United States District Court before Judge
Hoiseh. The?* 1 indictments charged improper
certification and misappropriation of the funds
c: the Mercantile National Bank while Heinze
■RBS it? president. Th* 1 government was repre
sented by United States Attorney Stimson, his
assistant. Sir. O'Brien, and Mr. Pagan.
ARGUE IN HEINZE CASE.
Th<* fifteen counts of the indictment against
Heinze for illegal certification were first dealt
nith by pi -Judge Wallace. It is not contended
by the government that Heinze himself certified
these checks for Otto Helnze & Co.. but that he
caused a clerk to do so. which the government
contends makes him responsible as. a principal.
Ex-Judge Wallace contended that under the sec
tion of the United States statutes governing the
crime there was no punishment provided for a
president of a haul for illegal certification when
fc<? did not perform the physical act himself. He
arrued. too. that the indictments failed to set
forth th* alleged illegal certification, which he
declared was a fata! defect, inasmuch as the d"
fendant could not intelligently prepare his de
: -
On the second fifteen counts of the indictment
a!i*?ir.g misappropriation of the funds of the
bank. ex-Judge Wallace maintained that them
was nothing 1 to show by what means the alleged
rnlEJLppTopriatlcm had been accomplished, and
That since the indictment failea' to charge by
v hat mear.s and for what purpose th« defendant
intended to misappropriate or convert the bank's
iz~i*. thf-re could be no offence under that par
licnlar statute. He arc • that the simple cer-
TiScation cf a check which ght really be an
—'• was not an offence unless it was
Ehotrn that the certification was done with in
ter* to Oetraad.
REPLY OF PROSECUTION.
Mr. Pagan replied that it was not necessary
that the wording of the certlacation be set forth
in full as Is the '•as* with a forged check, and
that the real issue was whether the taerthVa
tics did or did not create an obligation for the
bank. Judge Hough interrupted to ask if the
overcertification had not really caused an over
clrart of Otto Helnze & Co. Mr. Stimson replied
that th<? decisions all held that even an over
draft, made with bad intent, constituted a mis
appropriation.
Mr. Stimson said that it did not matter if the
fcarJc did have a pood loan In contemplation
trd the president had certified checks in antici
pation of that fact. It was to put an end to just
P'ach n-.ethods of banking- that the present laws
rt^ardins banking had been passed, he said. Ke
•aii that it ha.c been plainly the intention to
rut tha assets and credits of the bank at the
tfkposal cf Otto Heir.ze & Co.
Judge Hough pave coun.=el until Saturday to
present briefs.
E. B. THOMAS WITH JEROME.
The special county grand jury did not meet
yesterday, but District Attorney Jerome is said
to hare spent the afternoon In acquiring evi
dence to Jay before it. E. R. Thomas, who has
t»^n a "R-:tr.<&ss before the grand Jury, accom
pani^d by counsel, former Justice Davy, vis
ite<j Jerome •■ the afternoon and had a lons
coEfer^Tjre, after which the party, augmented
by Justice Do^iir.g:, went to a restaurant. The
btformadan sought by the District Attorney
concerned l letter written by Thomas to Morse
ibawis* that he had certain and definite knowl
*£ze cf transactions In the National Bank of
America. When Morse was before the
rrtnd jury, he is said to have denied any knowl-
Sips of th«-se transactions. A!fr«*d H. Curtis.
*'t;o had preceded him. hi said to hay* testified
■■B Morse had full knowledge of these transac
tion-, and ha was recalled to the grand Jury
tooir. where he is said to have repeated hi*
Serser testimony.
.Ell TALKS ABOUT MOUSE..
o>xtey M Oler, president of the American Ice
Concur and a former friend of Charles W.
Morse, baid yesterday that Mr. Morse bad turned
*€ahisi the Ice Trust last summer because the
director* had had the nerve not to do his bidding
te regard to certain issues at bonds. Mr. Oler
acknowledged he had at various times bor
/o*ed large sums of money from the various
y^njis whkh made up the Morse chain. When
««ked whether any of th« loans were outstand
i«?at the present time. Mr. Oltf refused to say.
It va« -umored that some Olsr loans in the
«a<£isal Bank of North America arere falling
t., , ai J thai Charles A. Hanna. the receiver,
ccttitetfJ •■ " t9Cd »•- t
ANTI-HOME Rl r LE Fl r ND.
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Money Asked by Peers to Defeat
Separation Movement.
Dublin, Feb. 11. — An appeal for a fund to
ir.aintu.in an anti-Home Rule campaign in Great
Britain has. been Issued. It is signed by Lord
Lansdowne. the Z>uke of Abercorn, the Marquis
of Londonderry, the Marquis of Ormonde, Vis
count Iveayh. Baron Ardilaun and other Irish
Unionist peers. The appeal says that the dan
ger to the cans? of union is imminent, and asks
for a large sura of money so that the methods
by which Home Rule, as advocated by Gladstone,
was defeated may be resumed.
MRS. HETTY GREEN SUED.
Former Lawyer* Ask -$10,000 Coun
sel — Defendant in Court.
[By Te>jrnu>h to The Tribune.]
Boston. Feb. 11. — ilrs. Hetty Green was de
fendant in the United States Circuit Court here
to-day in an action brought by Whipple, Sears
& Ogden, her former lawyers, for counsel fees
approximating $10,000. Mrs. Green was repre
sented by J. H. Casey, but she sat at his elbow.
and with loudly whispered suggestions and
remonstrances in undertones that could be heard
all over the courtroom managed the case her
self.
Mm Green does not deny the claim of her
ff lll«T lawyTs. Fhe slmpiy announced that if
phe owed them anything it was not so much as
$10,000. and that the burden of proof was on
them. Mrs. Green in a depopition said she chose
« igrder as her lawyer because he was a minis
ter's son, and she said, "I thought he would
never throw any poisonous spider web over
me.' 1
A COAL CELEBRATION.
Diseoxerij of Combustibility of An
thracite Commemorated.
[By Te:»RTar>h to The. Tribune.]
Wilkes-Barre, Perm., Feb. 11— Judge Jesse
Feils's successful burning of anthracite coal in
a grate, which trvnjc place JUFt one hundred
years ago, was celebrated here to-day under the
■ ll wall '■ of the Wyoming Valley Historical and
Geological Society and prominent citizens from
all over th» region were present to pay tribute
to Judge Fells as the man who really started
the gr-^at anthracite coal trade.
Flags were displayed on homes and business
places, but there was no general demonstration.
At a meeting to-night Major Irving A. Steams.
one of the best known coal men of the region,
explained briefly the nature of the discovery and
Introduced Dr. John W. Jordan, of Philadelphia,
president of the Pennsylvania Historical So
ciety, who spoke on the value of such organiza
tions throughout the state. William Griffith, a
mining expert, spoke on tho importance of lease
PfeUsfs discovery and outlined the growth of the
industry since then. He said that the total ship
ment of coal from all the anthracite fields has
b^er. about 1.739.000.000 tons, and it is estimated
that there is about three and a half timf»s fs
much left for future use.
The Board of Trade will continue, the celebra
tion to-morrnw night with a big dinner, at
whi-'h prominent speakers will be heard.
TROUBLE OVER CHILD.
Scene in Grand Central Station
When Merchant Takes Boy.
Mrs. Louisa Drowns, whose husband, H. R.
Drowne, a woollen merchant, of No. 62 Leonard
lUeet. obtained a Dakota divorce from her two
years a?", was the centre of an exciting scene in
the Grand Central station yesterday when she
alighted from a Boston train with their ten-year
old son, whose custody the father demanded. The
child screamed and severai men in the crowd which
gathered acted threateningly toward th» husband.
The courts awarded the custody of the boy to Mr.
Drotin<\ but he will not stay at the schools to
which his father has sent him. lie has returned to
his mother whenever the opportunity has offered.
Mrs. Drvwaa received word on Monday that her
BOH bad run away from a school a:. New ton, Mass.,
and she found him at Matrick. a town fifteen miles
away, and brought him to New York. His father
finally took the boy away in a cab to his home at
No. 137 West 36th street. Mrs. Drowne is living
with her mother at No. -6 West 27th street.
IAUGHTEH WHEN LINCOLN DANCED.
Veteran Official's Eeniniscenses of the Presi
dent's Attempt in Ohio.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]
Cleveland, Feb. 11.— "I shall never forget the
only time Abraham Lincoln danced in Ohio,"
said Colonel Isaac H. Marrow, of Toledo, Chinese
inspector in Ohio, to-day. Then ha launched into
reminiscences of President Lincoln.
"I was commander of Governor Dennison's
Guards." (Harrow is eighty-three now and haa
■erved the government since the early 40's.)
"We arranged ■ ball for Lincoln, then just
elected and going to Washington. When he came
in he said to me'Tve never danced. I don't know
how. But I will lead the march if your wife will
lead with me.' She did. She came below his
phouldor. They circled fifteen times and it was
a sight that set the crowd laughing."
Marrow was Lincoln's aid in the White House,
for seven months.
TILLMAN HISSED IN CHLTICH
Larger Part of Binghamton Audience Goe3
Away During Attack on Negroes.
[By T<">(?raph to Ti. a Tribune.!
Hir.Rlnmton'. N. V . Feb. 11.-Hisses gr« Sen
tor Tillroan here las« night during a three hours'
addresa ... the Centenan Methodist Kpiscopal
Church The Senator met the hisses with '•'■■'■ '•"
mark: "■ wonder if the creature making that
«oun<i has any red blood in Its vein?." At various
point « of his address be made use at violent ex
pletlves, and «aoh outburst was marked by a num
ber of 'persons arising ar.d leaving the church,
until the larger part of th« audience had departed.
To-day ••!•<• is trouble hi church circles because
an attack on the negro was allowed in one of the
churches of this city.
CRITICISMS TO BE ANSWERED
Report of Admiral Converse To Be Published
Next Monday.
Washington. Feb. -Witt the a»ent of the
p-e^t-nt. Secretary Metcalf has decided to; give
«h« rmort of Admiral Converse upon American
n:.-al ■Ulna to the r-ress for publication in the news
uan'-rs of next Monday morning.
P Thls document was prepared to answer certain
fktfctan* directs against the structural feature
at the battleships, contained in recent magazine
[jublicat-on?. _
great CEAH SPRING WATZn.
-'ts Duxity haa made it Xumcu«."-Advi.
3IR. COXRIED OUT MAY 1
GATTI-CASAZZA CHOSEN.
Radical Changes in Metropolitan
Opera House.
Helnrich Conried has resigned from the Metro
politan Opera House, and his successor will he
Julio Gatti-Casazza. The latter has ' been di
rector of La. Scala. in Milan, and the change in
management was decided upon yesterday at the
meeting of the directors of the Metropolitan
Opera and Real Estate Company.
The Important change was explained in a
statement Issued from th* office of the directors.
HETXRICH CONHJED.
Director of the Metropolitan Opera House, who re
signed yesterday, to taka effect before May L
rFhotograph by Pach Brothers )
For a long time they have consistently denied
the rumors of a shake-up. This is the explana
tion:
The directors of the Conried Metropolitan
Opera Company announce, with great regret,
that Mr. Conried has Informed them of his In
ability, owing- to the state of his health, to con
tinue in charge of its affairs after the expira
tion of the present season, and of his conse
quent determination to retire as president and
director of the Conried Metropolitan Opera Com
pany not later than May 1. Until then, his
health permitting, he will remain in complete
charge and exercise authority as heretofore.
COMPANY'S NEW NAME.
The Corded Metropolitan Opera Company,
while continuing Its corporate entity, will
change Its title and will henceforth be known
under the name of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany. It has leased the Metropolitan Opera
House for a term of five year?, beginning June
1 l?08.^ It has engaged, with the approval of
the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Com
pany, Julio Gatti-Casazza, manager of La
Scala in Milan; as general manager, and Andreas
Dippel as administrative manager. The tradi
tional system of having the manager share In
the profits will be abolished. The managers
will receive a fixed salary .and neither they
nor any other employe will have any financial
interest in the affairs of the company.
Any profits realized will be used for the estab
lishment of an endowment or pension fund or
for some similar purpose for the advancement of
the Metropolitan Opera House as an art institu
tion The customary annual performance for
the benefit of the manager will be abolished, and
there will be instead one or two benefit perform
ances each year, the entire proceeds of which
will be devoted to the fund for endowment or
pensions, etc.
MAHLER ALSO ENGAGED.
Gustav Mahier. until recently general musical
r of the Court Opera in Vienna, and Mr.
■mi. musical director of La Scala in Milan.
have been engaged as joint musical directors.
\\ a a n deeply regret f hat Mr. Courted*! i!!ne«3
compels his retirement. We hope that relief
from th» strenuous and exhausting work, to
v. llch he ha.-- bo devotedly and efficiently given
his great abilities for the last five years will
completely restore his health. We shall take
on to give more formal esf.rf-p.sion to our
rspect for his accom; ts and our appre
ciatlon of his work.
GATTI-CASAZZA'S RECORD.
As to his successors, Mr. Gatti-Casazza is a
gentleman of the highest standing, profession
ally and personally, and of thorough musical
and general culture. For nearly ten years he
has been in entire charge of La Bcala la Milan,
where he has done admirable work as general
manager and stage director. La Scala Is the
foremost -opera house in Italy, one of the oldest
in the world, and the dignity of its artistic tra
ditions is second to none. Under Mr. Gatti-
Casazza's management it has been distinguished
by the catholicity of its repertory, cultivating
equally the classical operas and the works of
modern French, Italian and German composers.
The qualifications of all the candidates have
been carefully and conscientiously examined, and
we are convinced that Mr. Gatti-Casazza will
amply justify the selection which has intrusted
him with this much coveted position.
PRAISE FOR HERB DIPPEL.
-Mr. Gatti-Casazza's assistant will be Herr
Dippel, already of the Metropolitan Opera House,
long known to and liked by the New York pub
lic as a sterling artist of remarkable musical
ability and vast experience, tactful, resourceful,
enjoying universal esteem and sympathy as an
artist and a gentleman.
We consider ourselves particularly fortunate
in having secured the co-operation as equal and
joint musical directors of the famous conductors,
Messrs. Mahler and To* anini, a combination
which no opera house in the world can match.
Our contracts with the great artists who form
the ensemble at the Metropolitan Opera are, of
course, not affected by the change in manage
ment.
We are sure that the public will be pleased to
learn that the Metropolitan Opera House, which
has become an art institution of world- wide
prestige, will henceforth be administered without
any thought to pecuniary benefit. If any season
results in a surplus, such surplus will be devoted
to the establishment of an endowment or pen
tion fund or to some similar purpose for the ad
vancement of operatic art.
In assuming the lease of the Metropolitan
< >pera House for another term of five years, we
wish to testify to our gratitude and high respect
for the directors of the Metropolitan Opera and
Real Estate Company and to the sense of in
debtedness which we, ii: common with ail lovers
of opera, feel for what they, as representing the
founders and owners of that famous hou.-e. have
done to establish and promote the cause of oper
atic art in New York. They have stood by it
when giving opera la New York meant loss and
disappointment, and it Is primarily to their sup
port, to their wisdom and foresight, to the dura
ble foundation which they have laid and the
high standard which they have set, that the
credit Is due for' having made the Metropolitan
Opera House what it now Is universally con
ceded to be, the "blue ribbon" of the operatic
world.
Mr. Conried la nearly- fifty-three years old, a
native of Bielitz, Austria, where his father was
a manufacturer. He received a classical educa
tion, early trine an interest in studies bear
lag on his future career. In 1572 he made his
lirst public appears •-. speaking the prologue
at the opening of the R^sidenz Theatre in
Vienna. Soon afterward he became a member
of the company of the Burg Theatre in the Aus
trian capital. Mr. Coasted came to this city in
1H77 to take charge of the old Germania The
atre. Since then he has had charge or 1 the
Thalia Theatre, the Irving Place Theatre and
was connected with the Casino. In Hun Mr.
Ccr.rieil was cliojen to succeed Maurice Grau an
Lumber of the .Metropolitan Opera House.
3IAY ABSORB ORIENTAL
HIXGES OX BANK REPORT.
Wall Street Trust Company Plans
to Take Over Suspended Institution.
Negotiations arq under way for th*> takinir
over of the suspended Oriental Bank by one of
the large Wall Street trust companies poon. Sev
eral conferences have been held this week, and,
providing the report of the state bank examin
ers shows the capital and sarptu* of the sus
pended institution are Intact, the merger will in
all probability go through.
Depositors in the Oriental Bank wii! hall thte
news with delight, as \t means that the liquida
tion of the bank will be avoided and the de
posits, which amounted to $4.4K.".53T 35 when
the bank suspended on January 20. will coon be
released. 6. S. Leonard, the state bank exam
iner in charge of the Oriental, will report this
week to Clark Williams, State Superintendent
of Banking, the exact condition of the bank
when it stopped business, and on this report the
merger depends. The report, It is understood,
will be highly favorable to the Oriental.
At a meeting of the directors of the Oriental
last week a committee was appointed to devise
a plan of rehabilitating the bank, and this com
mittee, after several meetings, decided that th»
best thing to do from the point of view of
stockholders and depositors alike would be to
merge the bank with some strong- financial in
stitution. A plan of consolidation waa therefor*
formulated and presented to the president of
the trust company in question, who at once laid
it informally before his directors. The board
will take up the question formally as soon as the
report of the State Banking Department is
available. \
One of the officers of the Oriental Bank said
he understood the special committee of directors
named last week had a plan under consideration
to merge the bank with some other institution
and added that he sincerely hoped It would go
through, as it would be a fine thing for the
bank's depositors, whose money was now tied up.
The Oriental, of which Hough Kelly la presi
dent. Is understood to be In the best condition
of those banks which have suspended during or
since the panic. Its capital stock is $7f>o.oo»\
and It had a surplus of $7SB,SIOSB when it
closed its doors. It owed the Clearing Hou.-e
$1 .751.3." 1 28 for outstanding loan certificates.
Its demand loans were tVS. its time
loans $772,041 2O and its bills discounted £'..140.
335.":{. It owned stocks and bonds worth ?42f>,
43<i0.~., real estate value at $03,100 and had cash
on hand amounting to $1>0,457 30.
The bank, of course, has lost heavily in de
posits since last summer. In its statement of
November, lOOfi. it showed deposit? of $13,347.
800. These had dropped to $11,054,083 on Au
gust 22 last, and wfre further reduced by the
panic, so that on December 19. the date of the
la?t call for the condition of state banka. the
Oriental reported deposits of only $5.">6»>,240 SO.
The bank, however, has an excellent class of
commercial business, and. as one banker said
last nigrht. Is "an acquisition of which any lar?e
financial institution might be justly proud."
In the statement which President Kelly is
sued when the Oriental closed its doors last
month, he said:
■'The directors regret that the disquiet of the
depositors should be the reason for the closing
linwn of an absolutely solvent institution, the
b^k value of whose stock is to-day above $'JOO
a share, and they trust that the near future
may disclose a means of resumir.gr business on a
satisfactory basis."
TO PROSECUTE ICE TRUST.
Governor Designates Jackson to
Bring Action Here.
\By T»!errarh to The Tribune 1
Albany, Feb. 11. — Governor Hughes designated
to-night the Attorney General, in per3on or hy
deputy, to bring action against tlie American
Ice Company before th* grand Jury now attend
big the. Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court
in New York County. The Attorney General has
assured the Governor that he has evidence of
the commission of a crime. District Attorney
Jerome has refused to bring criminal action on
the evidence presented by the Attorney G*»n
eraL
■\Vith tho papers of designation there waa
made public correspondence in which the Attor
ney General called to the Governor's attention
papers and documents in his department, the
result of the investigation of his predecessor and
himself. These, including contracts and records,
the Attorney General assured the Governor, fur
nished evidence of the creation of a monopoly or
-ire trust."
"I am of the opinion." said Attorney General
Jackson, in part, in the letter toj Governor
Hughe?, "that the public interest requires that
I present, and that It Is my duty as Attorney
General (because of the refusal of Mr. Jerome
io act, as above s*«t forth) to present the docu-
mentary matter transmitted to him to the grand
jury and to ask it to investigate the alleged vio
lation of the laws of this state, as set forth in
my letter to Mr. Jerome"
This same evidence waa submitted by the At
torney General to District Attorney Jerome. H!a
assistant, Mr. Smyth, took it under advisement,
reporting later that the documentary matter did
not chow any violations of the law. Thereupon
the Attorney Qenera!, repeating his assurance
ttu'X these documents constituted evidence of
crime on the part of officers and agents of the
American Ice Company, asked that he be desig
nate to bring criminal action. The Governor's
action, on the assurance of the chief la woffic^r
of tho state that crime had been committed
the District Attorney would not take offi
cial notice of. was the only one possible.
In view of the repeated talk of charges against
District Attorney Jerome in connection with his
failure to prosecute alleged traction and ir.sur
anee malefactors, softie persons here sea* to at
tacn significance to the Governor's designation
of the Attorney General. The Governor's view
was that ho could do nothing else when that
official a.-sured him ho had evidence of the com
mission of crime. Notwithstanding this, there
Is comment about the Attorney Generals will
ingness to prosecute the Ice Trust people on evi
dence which Jerome would not handle.
When seen at his home las* night Wesley M. Olsr,
president of the American Ice Company, said:
-This is the same old thing that has been brought
out from time to time for three years. There is no
foundation for the proposed action that I know of.
I have not had time to consider the matter, having
just heard or it to-night. If the suit la brought we
will simply defend it, that's all."
VETERAN DREXEL EMPLOYE A SUICIDE
Philadelphia. Feb. 11.— William 11. 7IIIBSI for
forty-seven years in ths employ of the banking
house of Drexel <& Co. and for many years teller
in the institution.' committed suicide to-day at his
home hi Germantown by swallowing carbolic acid.
Mr. ZJnser was a sufferer from melancholia,
itroutrlit on by financial difficulties which he ex
perienced about a year age and which were '■•'-
lowed by the severance of his connection with lbs
banking 1 house, lie nus sistyVour years old. ana
began his career as an office boy with the Drexela.
GIRL HOLDS THE ALAMO.
Without Food or Drink, Defies Au
thorities to Oust Her.
fßy TeleßTaoh to Th» Tribune. 1
Ban Antonio, Tex., Feb. Without food and
water for twenty-four hours. Miss Adlre Deza
vaJa. a young woman of good family, is spending
her second night alone in the famed Alamo de
fying: a sheriff and hla deputies to Beize the
property.
Miss I>zavala was formerly president of th»
Daughters of the Republic, which society split
Into two factions, each seeking to gain control
of the old mansion where Bowie fought and
died. The controversy reached the courts and
Miss Dezavala haa so far frustrated an injunc
tion to dispossess her of her fortress. She de
clares she will starve to death before surrender
ing it.
Friend* while admlrlr.gr her spirit fear the
results, and are trying to smtyrg'.e food to her.
WOMEN ASSAIL HOUSE.
London Police Repel "Suffragettes"
— Forty Arrested.
London. Feb. 11.— A band of militant delegates
from the Parliament of Woman Suffragists.
which is now In session in London, made a
vigorous assault on the House of Commons thia
afternoon. Their attempt to rush the doers of
the lobby, however, was frustrated by the
watchful police, who had a sharp skirmish with
the shrieking women, forty of whom were ar
rested for disorderly conduct. The attacking
party was trying to deliver fee the House of
Commons a resolution protesting against the
"unconstitutional action of the government in
refusing a vote to women taxpayers.'*
The delegates hid themselves in furniture
vans near th*.-. buildings, and were thus enabled
to get close to the point of attack before being
discovered.
LOSES SCALP IX FALL.
Contractor Almost Skinned in II
Six Story Tumble.
George Monroe, an electrical contractor of
Dawson street. The Bronx, is in St. Gregory's
Hospital on Gold street with the scalp stripped
from the entire right side of his head as the re
sult of a fall from the sixth floor of the new
building at No. 142 Fulton street on Monday
evening.
Monroe struck on his bead in 8 pi!^ of
bags and escaped fracturing his skull. The
heavy bags tore not onl> the skin from fh<» right
side of his head, but also most of his eyelid
and the right ear. A record trip was made to
the hospital and Monroe will recover.
JAPANESE LOAN IX PARIS.
Statements at Bank and t2mkaat§
Lend Color to Report.
Paris, Feb. 11.— The report si again current In
banking circles that the Japanese government
is trying to fl"at a loan In Paris through the
Banque de Paris et dea Pays- Bas. An
of this bank said to-day that a commission
sent by it to Japan had just returned, but fur
ther than this he would make no statement.
The Japenese embassy declined to confirm or
deny the report, but It was Intimated that a
statement might bo given out to-morrow.
FORTS AT VLADIVOSTOK.
Russia Preparing to Spend Six
'Million Dollars on the Stronghold.
St. Petersburg. Feb. 11. — The Ministry of War
ia preparing plans for the speedy eesrveasissi of
Vladivostok Into a first class fortress, involving
an expenditure of about |&80*;68t CosnaMftasi
of the work within three years is held to b*» im
perative. In order that Russia may not be
caught napping as at Port Arthur in <■
future trouble with Japan. Sixty engineering
officers will be employed on the work. Russian
strategy in any future war with Japan wi'.l de
pend on the ability of Vladivostok to hold out
for a year without assistance.
The mobilization pians worked out by the Gen
eral Staff contemplate the concentration of
troops on the line of Lake Baikal ar.'i tl.e
abandonment of the intervening parts si Hbsita
and Manchuria until the army Si strong enough
to assume the offensive successfully.
VALPA RAISO'S WELCOME.
Government's Preparations to Greet
Fleet.
Santiago de Chili. Feb. 11 — Great prepara
tions are being made for greeting the American
fleft of warships as It passes Valparaiso SSI
Friday. The President of the republic ar.d
Mme. Montr will leave here to-morrow for Val
paraiso and will be accompanied by a large
number of government officials and their wives.
Special trains will carry thousands into that
city, who are anxious to 6ee the parade of the
American ships. A dinner will be ajpu on
board the training ship General B.iqu» dano by
the President to the representative* of r
eign countries, their families and othrr guests,
and from that vessel the Proeident and h'.3
friends will review the fleet, which, it Is ex
pected, will pasa between the Baquedano and
the cruls-T Chacabuco, now accompanying the
Americana up the coast.
WIDOWS TO CHASE CUPID.
Fifty-seven Varieties Will Be at
John Donovans Benefit Ball.
Y.<rkville will hold the record for extraordi
nary entertainments after February 21. the night
of the benefit ball for John Donovan, the blind
musician. One hundred widows, grass, merry,
plain and other varieties, have been invited to
the dance as gu«->«tg of Mr. Donovan. Yorkville
bachelors have almost cornered the available
supply of tickets and Cupid is swearing in a
corps of ■pedal deputies.
More than this. Donovan, who is known
throughout the length and breadth of Harlem
and Yorkville as the "accomplished accordion
and concertina concertiat," will Rquefze out
music between "Luatige Wltwe" waltzes and
charge nothing extra. It hi expected that the
marriage license bureau in th« City Ha 1 .! was
be crowded with widows an. l bachelors after the
concertina cavortings at Turn Hall. Lexington
avenue and sail street, on Febru»«- «•
PRICE THREE CENTS.
TAFT WIWER 18 OHIO.
I'R.K TIC. ILLY r\OPPOSED
Supreme Court Decision Left No
Chance for I- raker Men.
[By T»>(r-\7 ta Tfc« TrfiTiae.!
Columbus. Ohi'>. Feb. It — Final return* from
all counties in Ohio, in which a '•■'■•raheT
Presidential contest rapjel in state- wide pri
marip* tr»-day. assure Secretary Taft cf OIi!o - »
forty- ■ vote? in the national ccnveatfoa. For
aker was d^f^ated in Knox. County and in th»
21st District fight in Cleveland, the latter has
only nor-*' of splitting the Taft delegation. Tha .
net result of the primaries waa four dVlegates
at-Urge and twenty-two district delegates to
the national convention in Chicago and a list
of delegates to the state convention, to be heel
on March 3. which will ha unanimously hi Sec
retary Taft's favor. Hardin County held no
primaries.
No opposition worth mer.tlomne; eeveloeesl
during? the day. The Supreme Court destroyed
all chances of success by the Foraker element
in Cuyahosra County by declartc«f that the Tart
county committee was th« only valid organisa
tion of Hi kind in that county, and the selection
of delegate-? there went by default, no tlckat
beinsr placed in the field against' the Taft can
didates.
KNOX OPPOSITION* FUTILE.
In Knox County the opposition to Taft had
brought an "independent" ticket into the field,
th» independents, howover. being all ?*'>rahssf
men. The Taft candidates won easily, the vet-s
b»ir.g about four to one in -•" favor. Actual
voting for delegates to the state convention we»
carried on in only thirty- out of the total at
eighty-eight counties in the BUM the Taft dels
gates in fifty-two counties having no opposition
their name* were simply certified as having
been elected. No vote beir.ar taken In Harrlin.
it was the general belief that the vote woulii
'be caat in thirty-six counties, bat the failure off
the Foraker men to bring out an opposition
ticket in Cuyahopa County reduced the number
by one.
Congress primaries were held hi the 4th. 3th»
Sth. greater part of the sth. 9th. 12th. 14th. 15th.
16th. : -th and Xta districts, and in small por
tions of. the Tth and 13th.
In «!tl but the two last, wherein the Totln?
to-day — . - in too limited «a territory to be de
cisive, the Taft people wo without opposition.
In the 3th. Srh and 16th districts candidate*
for Conaress were nominated directly a: the>
primaries.
REGULAR CONVENTION CHOSEN.
It was the original intention to select dele
pates to the National Convention in the same
manner, but later it was decided, in order to
avoid all chance of future complications, to
name the delegates at a regular district con
vention.
In the Bth District Congress primaries w^r«
not held in one county Hardia the result
there cannot possibly override the vote in the)
remainder of the district, and the two delegates
to the Chicago convention are certain for Tart.
The following statement was isaued to-night by
Arthur I. Vorys. the manager of th* Taft Presi
dential campaign:
Ohio is for Taft. The result at the primaries
to-day completes the* demonstration. Every*
county (except on . with seven delegates) now
has selected its delegates to the state conven
tion. Every county has selected Taft delegates.
The state convention will be unanimously for
Taft. for every one of the aIS delegates is for
and i 3 instructed for Taft. This unanimity also
demonstrates that every one of the forty-six
delegates to the national convention win t*» for
Taft.
The twenty-one '-:--:-• conventions,
each of which will select two delegates to th^
national convention, will be held some tir ihtm
month. Cal!3 have, been issued for all but six
of these conventions, and the dates "<■=" all 1
the way from February 13 to February 23 Del
egates to eleven cf these conventions wera
chosen at the primaries held to-day. Primaries
for the other conventions will be held later.
CUYAHOGA LINE X)I.ID.
Wanker** Defeat Complete, Follow
ing Supreme Court Decision.
Clevevland. Feb. 11. — A solid Taft delegation
of sixty-three from this city and Cuiahom
County to the state Republican convention to be
held in Columbus'. March 3. vra* chosen in th*»
Republican primaries held here to-day. Ther»
■were contests by Foraker followers in about
73 of the 23 1 ) precincts, but in no Instance «a:»
the senior Senator's followers stronsr enough i*»
name a delegate. The d^le^ates selected w;r«
those nominated by the "resmlar" Republican
county executive committee, upon whom a 2311 C
for control was rrside by the Forakprlted.
The "regular" committee waa decidedly pro—
Taft and followers of the Senator placed an op
position committee in the field. This committ-«
also nominated candidates for d-le^atea. Both)
committees bid for recognition before the county
board of elections. The Foraker committee m.i
favored. The fight was carried t.> the Supreme
Court by the "regular" committee and only late
to-day did the highest court render a d»cisrfoei
which recognized the "regular" commJtte*.
The 21st District •-'•-'■ will nomia*i* %
Congressional candidate on February 13. Ttsa>
dore E. Burton la the only nam- sow mentioned.
EXPLOSION KILLS KIKE.
Result of Thawing Dynamite at
Factory Scar Montreal.
Montreal. Fes 11.— Kseja has reached here
that nine men have been killed by an explosion
In the Standard Explosive Works at v.ividieeaV
a summer resort, some twenty-five miles from
here. The men were thawing out dj^.amit-?.
The works manufacture high explosives. Tie
names of th* men killed are Menard. r>i:r.l>«*rry,
Rozon. Rousseau. Cayvan. Tiinnier. Robiltard.
Lauzon and Legault.
FOUND AFTER HUNT OF TEN YEARS.
t
Eapp. Charged with Arson in Germany. At
tempted Suicide When Captured.
Philadelphia. Feb. 12.— Karl Pjaeavwhewat arrest
•d In Rochester, Perm.. yesterday after » search of
ten yeara, which took detectives ißteetaaei around
the world, was arraigned here to-day and held far
a further hearing. In the mean time the German
authorities will Institute extradition proceedings 4;
Washinjton.
Rapp after his arrest attempted suicide by cut
ting his throat. He w accasett of satuag lire to a
factory and dwelling in Ko«sw*tn. Germany, :a
May, IPJa After tho fire he came to America.
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