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| NOW ONE CENT ,„ cmt of *m Y i ork - yot LXX...N 0 23,068. r ~.£2Z: ft^S.. NEW-YOjRK, WEDNESDAY, JANTARV li>, 1010.-FOURTEEN PAGES. * PRICE ONE CENT '" "* - J^S- J 77o a ?BgP l^ B NEW AIR RECORDS GLENS {'■ CVfiTISS CAPTURES THREE. Taulhm Fails in Daring Flight far New Height Mark— An Aviator Injured. SUMMARY_OF_THE DAY. runn H /*._+;*■ in« Curtiss bi miles *n hour. . , V \ Glenn H. Curtis., n « Curt... machine, broke the world's record for time consumed in getting into the air by .scending in 6 2-5 seconds. Glenn H. Curtis*. in « Curtiss ma chine, broke the. world's record for short distance covered in run before leaving ground, rising at 98 feet. Louis "Paulhan. in a Bleriot mono p!.n». failed in an attempt at the world's height record, rising only 40: feet. * Uoi« Paulhan, in a Bleriot mono plane, carried a passenger twice .round the field, a distance of three a nd a quarter mile*. Edgar S. Smith, aviator, was struck on the head by the propeller of his Lai—lay machine and seriously in jured. Los Angeles, Jan. 11. — Glenn H. Curtis?, the American aviator, who was eclipsed by Louis Paulhans spectacular feats on the first day of the aviation meet yesterday, defeated his French rival for the honors of to-day. Paulhan again won the plaudits of the immense throng with daring and spectacular flights, while the less theat rical American reaped more substantial honors. Curtiss established a new world's record for speed for aeroplanes earning a passenger, flying fifty-five miles an hour with hi? manager. M. Fancuilli beside him. He also set two other less important record?:. Not to be outdone, Paulhan took up me of his mechanicians and flew three miles, but failed to equal the speed set by tfaa in his biplane. Th«; flights of four aeroplanes in the. air at the same time, breasting a stiff •nind that sported dangerously with the delicate craft, furnished the thirty thou ?and spectators an exciting finale to an aftfrnoon that promised to be rather tame. CALIFORNIA AVIATOR HURT. The first serious accident of the meet occurred to-day, when Edgar Smith, a California:^ who built an aeroplane sim ilar to Langley'e, while .tuning up . his machine for his first attempt at flight «imlw<^ -down i by the metal blades of 'ho propeller. His head "was severely gashed and hie left arm was broken. . At the nog-inning of to-day's pro gramme Paulhan seemed again to have monopolized all the honors of the day. Thrice he drove one of his big Farman biplane? around the course in the stiff ■wind blowing in from the sea. Then in a tiny Bl*riot monoplane that looked like a gigantic horsefly he grave the throng the first thrill of th* day by repeatedly sweeping over the grand ttand and daringly manoeuvring in a ><md that threatened every moment to ■reck his craft. The flight of Paulhan in his Bl^riot machine was the first for the light v *iert monoplane in this country. Be sides the Curtiss biplanes, which are BWT* emiM beside the great Farman n.afhine. the monoplane looked puny and unable to raise a man in a calm, :nijrh leps to withstand an eighteen-mile v in<i. Y*t. after an abortive attempt by MisearoL one of the French aviators, Paulhan sp»d twice around the field on it. although he never rose higher than • Mr..!) feet. THE DAREDEVIL PAULHAX. Shrl*k« of frightened women rose as th** tiny machine, tossed by fierce gusts <' wind, rolled and careened in the air. Kv«>ry moment seemed to be fraught *it h lea danger that when th*-- flight v as safely over and the monoplane had landed far across the field an immense fish of relief went up from the crowd. Paulhan, frankly delighted by the tretn«ndoiu applause his performance brought out his Farman and quickly dirappeared from the view of th* fpr-f-tators far to the northward, ••spr^ariiig later over the trees of a r'arby ranch. He flew back over the rran<jstan"dJ Several limes Paulhan flew "across tats" or charged directly upon the crowd in the grandstand, only to turn sharply when within a few feet of it *;.d sweep gracefully along before the thousands of spectators. His flight of **i miles lasted 21 minutes and 12 seconds. * Curtiss remained silently at work. «lad in oily clothes, old cap and shoos. ■* spent his time tuning up his eight rylinder motor on the biplane with ■tech be yon the international cup at Rbeitna CCBTISS OX RECORD FLIGHT. When the fourth flight of Paulhan o*ed Curtiss's mechanicians trundled •he machine to the starting point. With loutajjy preliminary, « " ii rt i .- s motioned to n>ncuil]i to get in the machine. Sitting '•' hind his manager, «'urtiss gave the v ''M to an assistant. A popping like au tomatic- artillery, and the flight thai ea ed the speed record for carrying : ' passenger began. Describing a wide '<rcle j n front of the grandstand, Cur *■ flew with Fancuilli at various angles *o ike Hind and landed almost at the Parting point. Lieutenant Paul Beck, of the army ■Ml corps, one of the judges, figured "<« speed at 6£ miles an hour. When 'he record breaking figures were an- ' ' jn. r-«] the crowd shouted and screamed, **He automobile sirens shrieked. Hats v *re thrown into the air to be blown i>8 .' by the wind. I'aulhan standing by his biplane on »■• ather side of the field gaw the per «»rinancc through binoculars. These he "Topped suddenly and gesticulating as "■ Sttled off instruct to his crew of fcechaiiiciang. mad« them hurry to get . Continued ..n *etond pa;*. ' r^&KK^^&£^^^^^^^^^^3Bf3^^^E^^^M^SE^Kßß&f!l^^^^ i^^B^&£fS^* * "■*-•-• PLOT TO KILL A KING. Lisbon Conspiracy Discovered fo .Assassinate Manuel. Lisbon. Jan. 11.- In connection with the firing l>y sentries on a group of men who were prowling around the Necepsi drtiles Palace two nights ago and the arrest of a number of Republicans, the police announced to-day that they have discovered a widespread revolutionary consptracv. Additional arrests have been made of the men supposed to be the ringleaders, and the police have seized large quantities of explosives, arms, masks and disguises. Several of thoc r j n the hands of the authorities have confessed that they are members of secret societies banded together in a plot to overturn the gov ernment. Their exact plans have not l>een revealed, but the Lisbon newspa pers declare that these included the as sassination of King Manuel. The plot was unearthed as a sequence of the murder at Caseaes, not far from Lisbon, of one of the revolutionists, who, while attempting to steal a quantity of cartridges at the custom house, which were intended for the revolutionists, was slain ny his fellow conspirators on the ground of treachery. 'THE CURSE OF DRESS' Didn't Trouble Reformer When House Burned. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.] Pittsburg, Jan. 11. — Dr. Jane Blanch ard, one -of the best known advocates of dress reform in Western Pennsylvania, was compelled to race a mile through snow drifts clad only in a thin night gown last night, when her country home near Pittsburg was burned. Her feet were badly frostbitten. Among manuscripts destroyed in the fire was one on "The Curse of Dress," which Dr. Blanchard had prepared to deliver on an extended lecture tour. "I will start on my lecture tour on "The Curse of Dress' as soon as I can get a dress to put on," said Mrs. Blanchard this afternoon. DIAMONDS IN SNOW. Thrown Away by Boys, Pitts burg Street Cleaning Halts. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.] Pittsburg. Jan. 11— Boys broke into the private office of W. B. Merrill, man ager of the Alvin Theatre, on Saturday night while he and his wife were with the audience. They stole Mrs. Merrill's diamonds, valued at $1,200, and her purse, containing $7 .">O. Not knowing what to do with the diamonds, the boys, who were arrested to-day, say they threw them into some snowdrifts. Twenty detectives and about three hun dred citizens turned over the sno-w in that part of the city to-day, but the diamonds are still missing. The police ordered that the city clean ers leave the snow in that part of the city undisturbed. However, the dia monds were found in a gutter later and turned over to their owner. The boys admit they spent the $7 50. six arrests have boon made. MR. DICKINSON TO CUBANS. Advised Them to Help Elect a Demo crat After a. Second Term for Taft. Havana. Jan. 11.— The American Secre tary of War, Jacob M. Dickinson, made no speeches on his visit to Cuba. In a con versation, however, at a breakfast given at the plantation of Ramon Pelayo, near Aguacate, the host remarked that he hoped Secretary Dickinson would favor free trade between Cuba and the Ignited States. The Secretary Jocularly replied that alter President Taft had served a second term Sefior Pelayo had better come to the United States and help him elect a Democratic President. MRS. HUNT WEDS H. E. COLE. Both Recently Divorced. Married Se cretly in Jacksonville. Jacksonville, Fla., .lan. 11. - < 'on<;i<lcrah> piir was created here to-day when it be came known that Mrs. .larvis Hunt, a horsewoman of Chicago, and Horace E. Cole, a wealthy <"hicagoan. both recently divorced, were wedded in Jacksonville on January 7. The ceremony was performed in the County Judge's ofn>e by a deputy. Mr and Mrs. Cole are now living In the fashionable suburb of Riverside, where Mrs. <'Ole to-day said that the ceremony had been performed. Mrs. <'o\f recently obtained a divorce quietly in Wheaton, 111., a suburb of Chi cago, and took her two children with her to Chicago. Later Mrs. Cole No. 1 sued for divorce, alleging unfaithfulness. The present Mrs. < "Ole is said to have sent her children recently to the Massachusetts home of her former husband's parents. MANKIND 60,000 YEARS OLD Professor Davis, of Harvard. Says We Have Been Here That Long. I By Tolrpraph to The Tribune. J Boston, Jan. 11.— Professor William Mor ris Davis, the Harvard geologist, in a lec ture at the Lowell Institute to-day fixed th«» time of man's existence, on earth at from ♦jt»,(ifi*> to 100,000 years. "Man has been present on the earth for the greater portion of the time required for the disposition of the stratified rocks," he taid. "The earliest forms of life yet dis covered are already -.veil developed. Ani mal life has been 'he development from the simple forms to the ore complex with a constant increase of intelligence and with. the extinction of whole species, like the flying lizards and other prehistoric ani mals. "Man '.s not a , ■pedal creation, but a logical sequence in the process of evolu tion. The theory of naYiira! selection is now proved to he vvron."?. Man has not developed by the survival of th- fittest." WOMAN'S BILL IN ILLINOIS. Grants Them, the Right to Vote at Pri mary Elections. Springfield. 111.. Jan. Mrs-. Catherine W'augh IfoCvlloea, a Chicago justice of the peace and chairman of the legislative committee. of the Illinois Suffrage Associa tion, effected the introduction of a bill In the stale legislature to-day >. ranting women the. right to vote at primary elec tions, and at all elections held under th, proposed commission form of municipal government. ■■llikH." the stylish eyeglass. Bislght or Torio Pebbles. Spencer's. 31 Maiden Lane -/.uvt. STIRS UP WALDORF HOTEL ANNOYS A HUNGRY MAN. So He Drives Indian Clubs Through JVindotc Into Dining Roovr. Henry Westerburg. of No. 441 Pacific street. Brooklyn, took a walk on Fifth avenue yesterday afternoon. Walking induces hunger, and when walking is in dulged in, as it was by Westerburg, in the vain search for employment after tour profitless months, it seldom leads to the pleasantest alleviation of the pangs of the superinduced hunger. So, when Westerburg's peregrinations led him to the Waldorf and he got a good look at the crowds inside eating their fill, he was overcome by rage and let fly a pair of Indian clubs he was carry ing. "I was hungry," he told Magistrate Kernoohan afterward, "and It made me angry to see so many people eating when T had nothing."' If Westerburg felt that an unsympa thetic world had been neglecting him he had no reason to complain of a contin uance of such neglect. The clubs flew straight and true through the windows, sailed along over the tables, three rows of them, and struck the floor with a sound like bursting bombs. Westerburg stopped being a nonentity right then. The crowd in the dining room was in an uproar, and, as he stood in fasci nated silence looking at the havoc he had wrought, half a dozen of the hotel's footmen, in gorgeous livery, rushed upon him, while house detectives assured the startled diners that the trouble wasn't made by an anarchist. The footman who reached Westerhurg first turned him over to a house detec tive. Thence he went along by easy stages and the Tenderloin police station patrol v agon to the Jefferson Market court. Magistrate Kernochan wasn't as severe in his aspect as he might have been. He even smiled a little, and said he was sorry; but he held Westerburg for trial on a charge of malicious mischief, and, as bail was out of the question, the hungry one soon reached a cell. He hadn't been there long when a waiter from a nearby restaurant appeared •with a tray filled with steaming dishes. "Compliments of de Judge," said the waiter. Westerburg said, about ten minutes later, that lie had lost his ap petite. The thing that puzzled the police, the Waldorf and Magistrate Kernochan was Westerburg's possession of a pair of brand new Indian clubs that looked as if real money had been paid for them just a little while l>efore their polished surfaces were scratched by the passage through the. Waldorf's window. But Westerburg explained that. "Your honor," he said, "I have been out of work for four months. I am a carpenter, and a good one, too, but I cannot seem to find employment. I tried to get a job shovelling snow when the storm hit town, but they wouldn't even let me do that. I used to be a pretty good club swinger and I thought I might go around and give exhibitions in the bnck rooms of saloons. I walked the bridge from Brooklyn this morning to save carfare and bought that pair of Indian clubs and had to go without breakfast because they took my last cent. "I tried to give ?in exhibition in a saloon over m First avenue, but I guess I had lost my skill, for they laughed at me and put me out without even giving me a bite to eat. As I passed that hotel 1 looked in and saw nil those people eat ing there. "I was hungry, and It made me angry to sec so many people eating when I had nothing. I stood and looked at them for a and I got angrier and angrier, and finally my arm came up and I threw the clubs through the win dow without half knowing what I was doing." POOR LO IN COURT. Red Men Fill Up and Start Back for the Plains, but in Vain. Two full-blooded Sioux Indians, Swift Deer, fifty-six years old. and Eagle Klk. also fifty-six, of the Moje Hotel, at 14th Ftreet ;nnl K«>urth avenue, were arrested on a charge of intoxication by Policeman Ixnahan at Kldridge street and the Bowery yesterday, and brought before Magistrate Jlerrman in the night court last night, l.fnahan said that the two aborigines were etaggering along the Bowery arm in arm ■wh«-n he sa* them. When he got them to the station house lye "ound that there was a general alarm out for them. They had disappeared from their hotel yesterday morning Harold Brunswick, who uses the Indians, ■with two others, in :; vaudeville turn, ap pearfd in court and told the magistrate, that the pair had bought a quantity of •whiskey and had left the hotel baying they" were going to walk back to their reserva tion in South Dakita. Me promised to take care of them, and Magistrate Mrrrtnan dls charged them with a reprimand. GOT HIS $50,000 BACK. Honest Maid Saved Wager To Be Put on Jeffries-Johnson Fight. Edward Uealey, Chief of Polio* of San Jose. Cal., arrived in New York last Mon day night with $T>o,'X)<>. which he said had been given to him to plaoe on the Jeffries- Johnson hght at the highest prevailing Odds. The money, he said, belonged to fcf. T Mills, president of the Mills Manufact uring Company, of San hYanclsco, and "Matt" TrSrkin. a California sporting man. YeMi-rilny morning he went to the Dis trict Attorney's office to call on Ills friend. Detective FitzHlmmons, forgetting that he had left the money under the mattress o( his U»d In the Albany Hotel, where he was ■taying. After meeting the detective he. re membered about the money and he ami l'itzsimnions hurried to the hotel. Accord ing to the Han Jose chief and Robert Mur phy, the, hotel proprietor. Mary O'Neill, <i maid, had found the money while cleaning the room, ami they fray she returned it 10 Mr. I lea ley as he and Detective Fltzslm mons entered the hotel bedroom. Mr. Mur phy exhibited a large roll of big hills ct the hotel last night, saying that it was the re covered $50,000. The maid got a s' oo bill for her honesty, he said. JOHN F. FTTZGEJRALD. Klected Mayor of Boston yesterday. KING MENELEK DEAD? Latest Report Says He Ex pired on December 23. Rome. Jan. 11. — The "Osservatore Ro mano" prints a dispatch frcm Harrar, a town of Southeastern Abyssinia, saying tt Is reported that King Menelek died on December 23. and that the n»ws was con cealed in order to avoid internal troubles. Menelek has for the last two years been one of the mysteries of the East. On no subject have the newspapers been compelled oftener to contradict themselves. "Negus Menelek at Deaths Door" ran a headline on October 30. 1908. Prince Lidj Jeassu, the heir apparent, was anointed and Ras Te??ama, the Viceroy, was confirmed as Recent. Then definite information ceased. GERM AS POLE PARTY. Expedition Preparing Under Prince Henrifs Direction. Berlin. Jan. It.— An expedition is fit ting out to proceed to Cross Bay, Spitz bergen. early in the spring, to arrange for the starting place of the German Arctic exploring party, which later in the year will try to reach the North Pole in a dirigible balloon. Prince Henry is superintending the preparations. ILLINOIS TROOPS OUT. Triple Lynching Feared at Vienna, F allotting Murder. Spring-field, 111., Jan. 11.— Governor Charles S. Deneen. to-night,', to . prevent the lynch ing: of three negroes at. Vienna. 111., ordered four companies of militia to go at once to Vienna. ... Sheriff Math's of Johnson- County re ported that a mob was forming at El Do rado and at Harrisburg to go to Vienna on a freight train. At Vienna it was planned, so the Sheriff reported, to mob the jail ami lynch, if possible, three ne groes said to be guilty of shooting Allen Clark, a rural mail carrier, last Saturday night on a train between Vienna and Har rishurg. Josie and Harry Taborn and Al exander Jenkins are th* men held for the shooting. Governor Deneen telegraphed immediate ly to the superintendent of the Cairo di vision of the Big Four ordering him not to transport any crowd of persons such as described by Sheriff Mathis. Vienna, 111.. J.-in. 11— The mobs that formed at Xl Dorado and Hanisburg to night to lynch three negroes in jail here, charged with murdering Allen Clark, a rural carrier, were frustrated when they could not get a train to bring them to this c'ty. PRAISES PIN (HOT. Gar field on Ex-Forester and Roosevelt Policies. [By TelrKraph to The Trtbunr. ) Cleveland. Jan. 11.— Oifford Pinchofs dis missal as Chief Forester by President Taft is d*»rlared only an incident in a long strug gle for the retention of the Roosevelt pol icies, by James R. <Tarfleld, ex-Socretary of th<- Interior, writing over his own signature In a l^cal newspaper to-day. He assorts the conservation policy is the most vital single policy of the Roosevelt programme. In part Mr. (larfield writes: I cannot (jorbear a personal expression regarding the Roosevelt policies, it js be cause one of the men who have stood nearest Roosevelt in the working out of those policies has only recently left public life. I refer to <Hfford Pinchot. There is DO man in our country to-day ■uho has done more for equality of oppor tunity, for the rights of the great masses of the people of this country, for the fight against special privilege; and his separa tion from the public service is one of the greatest losses that we have suffered. But, fortunately, it does not mean that his work for every one of these policies will cease in any particular. It merely means that it will he done in another way, that he and the rest of the people who have joined In the fight for carrying on the Roosevelt policies are engaged In a fight which iH not for the day, or one year, or two years, but for generations to come. The policies that were Initiated are the policies that must control if \v«> are to be what this nation ought to be in the future. It means that all right minded men ami women mus4 recognize that the things that are worth srhUe are the things that look to the future, that look to the individual betterment of the people of our country, and that they cannot be gained in a short time, by a short fight, by tveakhearted ness. "ADOPTED FAMILY' SURPRISED Girl Says She Is Secret Wife of Aged Sea Captain. I By TeL'grai.h to The Tribune. ) Baltimore, Jan. 11.— To the surprise of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Ryan and Miss Flor ence Mansfield, the nearest friends of Captain John A. Burgess, a retired sea captain and Confederate officer, who died suddenly last week, leaving an estate of over $125,0tX>. a seventeen-year-old girl who lived In the neighborhood, but whose name lj> withheld until she files her claim, de clares she was secretly married to the captain some time ago. Captain Burgess's wife died eighteen months ago. H did not like to live alone In his house, and took the Ryans as boarders. Miss Mans field helped him In his confectionery store. He called the three his "adopted family. ■ and said he intended to leave them the' homo and store. No will can be found. THE SEABOARD FLORIDA LIMITED, hi. i ' ■!'''" lr » to Florida. Electric : • ■'• ''• all Pullmans. VJaiP. It: ami Sea board Air bine, - Ofiice 11S3 li' way.- Ad vt. FITZGERALD WINS HAS tAU PLURALITY IN BOSTON FIGHT. StorroWj Nearest Competitor, to Ask Recount- Hibhard's Vote Onlif lSin. Roston. Jan 11.— Boston t.wlnv, in th* first non-partisan election held under her new charter, elected ex-Mayor John F. Fitzgerald to fill the Mayors chair again, this time for a four-year term, giving him 47,172 votes and a plurality ot 1.414 over his nearest opponent, James J. Stor row. banker, former president of the Chamber of Commerce and former chair man of the school board, who received 45,757. The most remarkable feature of the election to many was the small vote of 1,816 given the present Mayor, George A. Hibbard. who received 38,000 votes two years ago, being elected on a "reform' ticket over Fitzgerald. The fourth May oralty aspirant. Nathaniel EL Taylor, found only 613 supporters. While the foregoing figures were those announced at City Hall, Mr. Storrow's campaign manager had other returns. and on these based a statement, given out early in the evening, that while he acknowledged the election of Fitzgerald by an apparent plurality of 291 votes, he would ask for a recount. The city went for license by a major ity of 27.122, the vote being: Yes, 54,094; no, 26,972 Last year the majority for license was 11.988. John F. Fi jzgerald's comment on the result of the election was brief. He said: "Mr. Storrow deserved to be de feated for the methods that he* used. I thank the citizens of Boston for their confidence in me. It will not be mis placed." Mr. Storrow declined to make any statement aside from expressing a de termination to ask for a recount. Governor Eh p n S. Draper said: "I understand that ex-Mayor John F. Fitzgerald has been re-elected Ma>or of Boston. The contest has apparently been a close one. The Republican lead ers of Boston and the commonwealth have been entirely frank. I have no further comment to maKe." A NOTEWORTHY CAMPAIGN. The campaign, noteworthy in many ways, was easily Boston's greatest. A record total vote, 90,12.1. more than 84 per cent of the total registration, was cast. The largest previous vote was cast in 1905. when Mr. Fitzgerald was first elected mayor, the total vote then being 0:2.094. of which Fitzgerald re ceived 44,171. Mr. Fitzgerald won his victory to-day in s. ' c of the fact that not one of the daily newspapers of the city advocated hLs election. He based his campaign on a plea for vindication, his previous term in office having been conspicuous for the exposure by the Finance Commis sion of graft among a number of his subordinates in City Hall. Like Mr. Storrow, he is a Democrat in national politics and has been a Democratic also heretofore in local politics. Mr. Storrow, who resigned the pres idency of the Chamber of Commerce to enter the campaign, made a tremendous right to gain the chief executorship of the city, promising the citizens a pro gressive, business administration. He was unable to overcome, however, the work of the powerful personal following of Mr. Fitzgerald. HARVARD ATHLETE ASSAULTER With one or two exceptions the battle of the ballots was conducted in orderly fashion. One man was arrested in Ward S, the stronghold of Martin Lo masney, one of Fitzgerald's chief lieu tenants, charged with repeating. His defence was that the election officers had confused him with hi? son. Earlier in the day, in the same ward, Ernest E. Smith, a former Harvard athlete and one of Storrow's workers, was assaulted by an unknown man, who fractured Smith's nose in two places. Brass knuckles, hidden by an automobile glove, were used by his assailant. Smith told the police. Mr. Storrow appeared at Police Head quarters at S a. m. and prevailed on the police to send additional officers to the Ward S polling booths. Later Mr. Stor row was ordered off the sidewalk near the polling booth of Precinct 1 by Fitz gerald supporters, who said that he and his friends were obstructing the passage of voters. He obeyed without protest ing. THE LIE PASSED IN WARD 8. Another incident in the Ward 8 battle ground was a clash between Mr. Storrow am! John I. Fitzgerald, warden of Pre cinct •>, where it is said a challenged voter was allowed to deposit his ballot in spite of a protest from the storrow worker. The lie was passed between the warden and Mr. Storrow, but no blows were struck at this polling booth. Mr. Storrow felt no ill effect to-day of the attack which was made on him and half a dozen of his workers in Ward 13, South Boston, last night. The Citizens Municipal League and the Good Government Association se cured the election of nearly all their can didates for places in the new City Coun cil. Two indorsed by the James M. Cur ley faction were elected. The nine men elected are Walter L. Collins, Matthew Hale and John J. Attridge, for three years; Thomas J. Kenny. Walter Ballen tync :: 111«11 11«11 1 « 1 Jauit s ML Curley, for two >'.u^. and Frederick J. Brand. Daniel J. Mc- Donald and Timothy J. Buckley, fur 0M \ ear. The legislative department has Lien cut down to a single council of nine inemliers. The feteyoi elected to-day will have a tour-year term, but the vot ers have the right to recall him at the end of two years If a majority of them think he has been unfaithful to his trust, in which case a new election is to be held. John F Fitzgerald, or ' H.mey Fitzger ald.'" as he wax f.untliarlv c.tlle.l on ac count of his ability as a "nn\, r . «s born in the Koston tenement district in 1563. In IS9- M' Fltnfarald trtrawn * mem ber «'f the Boston Common Council. The next yanl li" was elected to the Stai. s.-u ate. serving two years u o wan a niemt-M of Congress from 1595 to 1901. Inelualve, Hiul Mayor of Boston from i«»iih tl , hhi:. M omi is in I'oivhPMe, H.- married in 1181 joaenhlM Marj Beaaoa, of South Ac tun. tfaaa, HALF MILLION LOSS. Ohio River Flood Sweeps Everything in Its Path. Evansvlllp, Ind.. Jan. 11.— Damage conservatively estimated in excess of S.VIfJ.OOO lias already resulted from the rapid ice movement out of the lower Ohio Rlvr. The most important single loss reported f>-day is from Branden burg. Ky., wherf the towb>at Leader, an SO-fon vessel owned in Cincinnati. was destroyed by the heavy ice. The "Wolf Cre°k gorge, nearly sixty miles long, which broke last Monday, is speeding down the river, cirting down everything in its path. Behind the gorge for a distance of se\eral miles the river has risen twenty fen or more. Pittsburg. Jan. 11. — The higher tem perature has caused an alamin? condi tion of the ice gorge in the Allegheny River at Freeport, thirty niles from this city. Melvin B. Snnim«r=. of the Weather Bureau, was dispatched to the scene to-night on orders from Washing ton. He will make .in investigation with a view to dynamiting. The melting snow and ice along the watershed back of the gorge make the situation more serious hourly *nd mer chants in stores in the d<>wrtown sec tion began to remove their wares to upper stories to-night. CUT OUT MIDDLEMEN. Better than Striking, Wisconsin Unions Thinl:. La Crosse, Wis., Jan. 11.— Alleging that at the high cost of living laboring men are unable to make ordinary living ex penses, the La Crosse Trades and Labor Council announces that it has purchased a carload of flour to retail to union mem bers at the wholesale price Other necessr, rios will be purchased and sold in the same way. This plan was adopted in preference to striking for higher wage?. GOING TO PITTSBURG' Then lVear a Nose Apron to Keep Out "Pogonip." Pittsburgr. Jan. 11.— Henry Pennywitt. the weather forecaster h<*re. not only dis penses forecasts, but accompanies them with health hints. He came out to-day with a new and rather startling one, to the effect that Pittsburg air was super charged with "pogonip." He urged that persons while outdoors should hang « ver their mouths and nostrils little aprons of cheesecloth. "Pogonip," Mr. Pennywitt explains, is Indian for "white death." and 's caused by inhaling foe: which has congealed into ice. He first learned of the disease when stationed on the Utah and Nevada plateaus, where the Indians dread it. It develops a form of pneumonia, which is usually fatal. HE 'TOOK A CHANCE.' Aged Engineer Ran Past Sig nals, Killing Tico. Erie, Perm.. Jan. 11.— J. C. Butler, en gineer of the fast westbound Lake Shore Railroad passenger train Hat -•'. was held responsible to-day for a wreck at North East, Perm , last Friday, when two men were killed. Butler is sixty-three years old, and has been in the employ of the railroad for more than forty years. He tol.l the coroner's jury, with tears streaming down his face, that he "took a chance" and ran past his signals, knowing they were out of order owing to the blizzard. He thought the track ahead was clear. The jury was so affected by the old man's statement that the foreman re fused to sign the verdict. RIZK TRIAL ABROAD West Wdboktn Murder Case To Be Heard in Constantinople The trial of a man charged with mur der in West Hohoken is to be held in Constantinople. The prisoner is Ximma Rizk, a Syrian, who was traced to and arrested in Alexandria. Egypt. The Sul tan refused to extradite him, as the Turkish authorities assume the right to try all Turkish subjects arrested in Tur key. Prosecutor Garven, of Hudson County. X J.. is arranging to send a dozen wit neaaes to Constantinople, at the expense of Favur Brothers. Syrian bankers, of No. 63 Washington street. Manhattan, who offered a reward for the capture of the fugitive and employed the detectives who ran down Rizk after having pursued him for almost two years. The murder arose from a dispute over a silk mill in West Hoboken. The credit ors took possession and Joseph Couri was put in charge. On the night of January 29. 1907, a number of Syrians— Rizk is al leged to have been one of them — invaded the mill and endeavored to take forcible possession. Couri resisted and was shot. Rizk was jointly indicted with seven others. The seven were captured, tried and acquitted. It was intimated that Rizk, who had eluded arrest, did the shooting. MARRIED IN A SNOWDRIFT. A Novel Experience, Especially in Virginia. Winchester. Va.. Jan. 11.— The novel ex perience of being married in a snowdrift belongs to Thomas Stlckley. a prominent young fanner, and Miss Florence Merkley. of New Market. Mr. Stlckley and his bride-to-be started to drive to a minister's home in Mount Jack son. Snowdrift after snowdrift was en countered. The horses became exhausted and the vehicle finally came to a stop in a five foot drift. leaving Mi.-- Merkley. ■tiektey made his way on foot to the home of the. Rev. Henry Ditzler. who returned and married the couple on the road. A WARRANT FOR GALLAGHER. San Francisco. Jan. 11.— Judge W. I. J, aw lor issued a bench warrant to-day for James 1. Gallagher, formerly chairman of the Schmltz Board of Supervisors and chief witness for the graft prosecution. Gallagher disappeared shortly after the. second trial of Tatrick Calhoun. of the United Railways, began several months ago. MAILLARD'S VANILLA CHOCOLATE. It's unusually fine flavor and smoothness make it a favorite everywhere with all. - AdVU . — NOW ONE CENT In City «f »w York. JenmrCUyuad HobokM. FIGHT IN HOUSE SOURCE OF FEAR REFORM PROGRAMME OBSCURED BY IT Norris Says Insurgents Will Follow President — Speaker Issues Denial. [From The Tribuna Bureau. 1 . "Washington. Jan. 11. — Thoughtful mem bers of Congress are somewhat appre hensive at the bitterness which i* being developed in the fight between the- regu lar Republicans and the Insurgents In the House. They feel that in the end th« level headed men In both factions will j?et together on a definite legislative pro gramme, but they point out that th« controversy is now obscuring In the pub lic mind the real reforms of the Taft ad ministration and that much valuable time Is being frittered away In unseemly quarrelling. . The regulars in Congresa take the position that as the question who is to be Speaker during the 62d Congress will not arise until a ■•-•»..- from next December. It is idle to spend any time on this subject now. The anti-Cannon men. on the other hand, believe they see a psychological moment to gain support in Congress and in the country at large, and so they ar* delivering their preachments with re newed vigor. It was learned to-night that Represen tative Xorrif.. of Nebraska, one of th» leaders of the insurgents, had written several letters to President Taft, In which he insisted that all of the Insurgents were ready and willing to accept Mr. Taft as leader of the party and to assist him in carrying through his legislative pro gramme. DELAY? PINCHOT MATTER. So bitter Is the warfare and so uncer tain the outcome of the conflict that even the Ballinser-Pinchot investiga tion, so keenly desired by the President. is being obstructed. The Jones resolu tion, which has passed the Senate, still lies on the Speaker's table. N'r> Repub lican caucus has been called for the purpose "of electing members of the investigating committee and. no other plans have been made which promise an immediate consideration of one of . the most important matters before Con gress. The days are being spent in skirmish ing, in testing strength, in gathering recruits and in waiting for some new development in the struggle for party control. The effect on the country is being "studied by both sides, the in- . surgents thinking mainly of themselves, while the organization pretends to think not so much of its own predicament as of the Republican party. *'*.\i An effort to take away from Speaker. Cannon : the power to determine what part of the recent message of the Pres ident should go to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and what part to the Judiciary Com mittee was defeated in the House to-day. A rule providing for the reference was reported early in the proceeding by Chairman Payne of the Committee on Ways and Means, and after lying on the table for a time was called up for con sideration. A vigorous protest against the resolution was made by Mr. Under wood, of Alabama, acting as minority floor leader. THE ISSUE INVOLVED. \ "The day ha? come when members 'of the House must stand responsible fc-r legislation in this House," declared th»» Alabama member. "The ' whole issue for which we have been fighting for the V last month is involved. It is whether , the Speaker shall control the House or the House shall control the Speaker." Mr. Underwood asserted that the House itself should have some voice in selecting th? committees to which busi ness should be referred. He said the country expected the members to be re- * sponsible and did not want the Speaker to direct their legislation. Representative Galnes. of "West Vir ginia, in reply declared that the House already had the power in the dally regu lar order of business to seek a change of reference. The resolution as passed carried * committee amendment providing that "so much of the message as relates to the judiciary" be referred to the Ju diciary Committee and "so much of the message as relates to Interstate com merce" be referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Thus the Speaker would have the power to determine to : which committee should go the part of the message relating to the proposed United States court of commerce and the section relating to the federal incorporation of corporations doing an interstate business. Representative Garrett. of Tennessee. offered an amendment specifically re ferring the section relating to federal charters to the Committee on Judiciary. Mr. Payne said provision for such ref erence already was made by the resolu tion. The Garrett amendment was lost, and then the resolution itself was agreed to by a viva voce vote. MR. CANNON'S DENIAL. Those timid Republican regulars and cautious insurgents who hoped that th«» internecine warfare might be closed by an announcement from Mr. Cannon that he would not again aspire to the Speak ership were thrust back into the battle ranks to-day. when the Speaker tittered a positive denial that he contemplated such an announcement. "The regular recurrence of th: imagi native story that I am to withdraw from the Speakership and retire from Con gress does not demand daily denials from me. if I denied every 'hot air* story that Is printed l would have time for little else. However. I will say positively that I will not retire from Congress until my constituents tail to give me a ma jority. When that time comes I will re tire gracefully, I hope. My worst en emies have never accused me of cow ardice, but if I retired under flre both my friends and my en-mies would b« justifled in not only calling me a coward, but a poltroon." There can be little <iuestion that