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HER BODY FO s ' . / '-i'. <:. /" J > ?which leads him to believe that the young man has met the same late as the murdered woman?Paul Charlton was confined to his home this morning. A representative of the insular bureau ? * *1 XI* C? T , , KMl lilt- >> tti uri?oi uutni, wnric uuugc Charlton is law officer, this morning was sent to his home to comfort the father flf he missing young husband. ? State Department to Aid. Judge Charlton lias asked Secretary Knox to have the State Department, through its representatives in Italy, make an investigation into the Lake Como mjstery, and also to try to learn the whereabouts of his son. Porter Charlton, husband of the murdered woman. The department acted promptly on the request and has taken up the matter with the American embassy at Rome by cable. Confirmation of the report from Italy of the finding of the body of a young woman, supposed to be an America.!, in a trunk dragged from the bottom of Lake Como by fishermen, reached the State Department through a cablegram from American Consul Caughv at Milan. His .report contains few details and is merely corroborative of tne pres.s dispatches. Acting under orders from the State Department, Consul Caughy will make every effort to ascertain the whereabouts of Porter Charlton, and also to lea. 11 who LL. I ... ?.. \ J ,. ...... f/Mi ?-? ,? Iliuruviru lllff* w lit*, W UUU) w tl*? lUUilU in I^ake Como Thursday. Believes Son Is Slain. Paul Charlton, at his home this morning. said he had received no further news of his son, but that he has asked the State Department to obtain all information possible in regard to the tragrdy aI Como qmd to trace his son. Mr. Charlton returned yesterday from Atlantic City. He is of opinion that his son has met foul play and that it may be found that he, too, was murdered. He said his son was about twenty years old, and had been suffering from tuberculosis for some time. "He left Washington In and went to New York." said Mr. Charlton, "where he went to work in the foreign department of the National City Bank. While in New York he met Mrs. Mary Scott Castle, divorced wife of Neville Castle, an attorney of Ban Francisco. Mrs. Castle was about forty years old. '"Their marriage in Wilmington. Del.. March 12 last, was a surprise to me. I knew nothing of Mrs. Castle's antecedents. Several days after the wedding my son and his wife sailed for Genoa. Went Abroad for Health. "Porter had not been in health for ?pme time. His doctor had advised him to give up work and go abroad. He rented a villa near Lake Como in the Italian Alps, where lie intended to remain until next fall. "Only last Monday I received a letter from my son, in which he spoke of his wife in endearing terms. I do not believe l.e murdered her. I am inclined to believe that Mrs Charlton was murdered by a former admirer who followed them to Italy." Mr. Charlton said the maiden name oi his son's wife had been Scott and that she was the daughter of a Confederate soldier. Pretty Mary Scott Figured in Many Romantic Stories NEW YORK, June 11? Mrs. Mary Scott Castle Charlton, at one time prominent in s^an Francisco society, sister of Capt. Henry H. Scott of the l'nitcd States Army, and for a time an actress in New York and other cities, attracted notoriety last August when she shot William B. Craig, a lawyer, as lie was entering an elevator at the Waldorf-Astoria. The bullet was stopped bv a fountain pen in his pocket. She was arrested and held in the magistrate s court, but there was no prosecution. .tamea xor uimsft Beauty. Mrs. Charlton was thirty-seven year? old and as a young woman was famec for her beauty. Site was a daughter ?1 H. H. Scott. a prominent business mar of San Francisco, and her marriage tc Neville Castle, a prominent lawyer, was a society event in that city. They separated several years ago. Fas1 January Mr. Castle, who is the I 'niter States district attorney at Nome, ob tained a divorce. After the separation she went on thi stage and played in a vaudeville sketel on the Keith circuit a dozen years age She played small parts in other produc tions, but showed no marked talent. Her Attack on Craig. It was about ."> o'clock in the afternooi of August 15. last year, when she walket into the crowded corridor of the Waldorf Astoria and sought Mr. Craig, who wa then on his way to the rooms of th Rocky Mountain Club. Well gowned iti i neat tailor suit, there was notning to dis tinguish her from a hundred other worn en who were in the hot-d at that time. She stopped Mr. Craig as he was o his way to the elevator. He tiled to pul away from her. "I ll teach you to go hack on me, " ah said. She pulled a lEJ-caliber revolver, more o a toy than a weapon. Holding It again* the man's coat, she fired. The bullet ha so little force tiiat when it struck a four tain pen It glanced off and did no harm. Craig Made Complaint. Mr. Craig did not stop smoking hi cigarette. After going to the Tenderloii station to make a complaint he went t his home. Mrs. Castle, as she wras then, was liv in* in a rented apartment in the olonia Studios. No. :if) West ?7th street. Sh aid that she had known 3?r. Craig sine n UND IN TRUNK. I - "* < - ^Ifc-.- :-- \--r<M;JM-' \ v -4ltj& - ., \ |Br CAVfVE' r ca^av^ojc* a i they were children. While she would 1 not go into particulars, she said that his 1 conduct and speech to her demanded ( that she take the action she did. At that time she gave her business as a an insurance solicitor. When the case t came up in court she pleaded with Mr. \ Craig to drop the matter. "Will! Will!" she cried, "drop this for s the sake of your mother and my a mother." * Mr. Craig- would not stop the prosecution. however, and her brother, Capt. Henry H. Scott, who was stationed at Fort Montgomery. Ala., came here in J response to her appeal and obtained bail 1 for her. j; Her Conflicting Explanation. She made several sonflicting statements 'at the time. At one time she said that ! Mrs. Craig, who was a distant cousin. c had asked her to watch Mr. Craig, and ^ ! that while she was doing this she became ? | attracted to him. c' In the investigation that was made it 0 was learned that she had been for some ^ time in a sanitarium in this city. ! The charge against her was dismissed. s Mr. Craig appeared before the grand jury \ and said that he did not want to press s the charge as he did not believe that she p had intended to harm him. Nothing more was heard of Mrs. Castle 0 until January, when it was announced p | that her husband had obtained a divorce p j from her. He was living in Nome at i that time and she was said to be some- g i nrhoro In Panola I *f ill V^UUMUU J Marriage to Porter Charlton. Announcement was made in April that J 1 she had maarted Porter Charlton,- son I ot" Judge Pa'* Charlton, who Is con- i nected with the insular bureau of the r War Department. He had been a clerk r in the City National Bank at one time, j but had lived in Europe a large part of thp time in recent years. At that time he announced his mar- * { riage to Miss Mary Scott of Council 1 i Bluffs, and declared that his wife never * | knew Mrs. Mary Scott Castle. They were * married in Philadelphia March 12. c | It is reported from Naples that the i police are investigating the woman's t death on the theory that it is in some F way connected with the mystery sur- t rounding t lie deatli of Miss Esteile Reid a of New York, whose body was washed . ashore on the beach near that city April r &. Although the report was made to the t State Department in Washington that 1 the death of Miss Reid was accidental, ? the police have not ceased working on a the case, and relatives of the dead woman t were never satisfied that tiie mystery i had been solved. t Mother of Porter Charlton \ Sure He Did Not Kill Wife c t BALTIMORE, Aid.. Jure 11.?Mrs. Paul i ; Charlton tells of the romance which cul- t ! minated in the marriage of her stepson, c j Porter Charlton, to Mrs. Mary Scott Cas- * tie, nee Mary Scott, of San Francisco. j "The news that the woman found i?? me t trunk in !.ake Como was Mrs. PoCer \ ; Charlton came as a complete surprise to 1 me. Marriage Grieved Parents. "Porter married against the wishes of J iiis father," said Mrs. Charlton, "and we were deeply grieved to hear of it. He had only known Mis. Castie for about a month. i "It was a case of love at tirst.sight. He 1 ; married without telling us anything about it, and left fur Europe to accept a position with a bank at Hamburg. "He intended to go there in September, , and was slowly Journeying through Italy and Switzerland on ins honeymoon. He had only been married two months. 1 "I cannot realize that, anything has 1 i happened to Porter's wife, for we only . got a Utter from them last week, it was lull of beautiful description, not of the scenery, hut of his wife, with whom he ' is deeply infatuated. f Sure He Did Not Kill Wife. I "From the fact that lie is missing from 1 the hotel 1 can only believe that lie has 1 met with some foul play. j ' ' "Nothing could be more inconsistent, J s j both with Porter's disposition and his at| fection for his wife than to suppose that t the tact that lie is missing troin me , ' villa where they were staying is evidence ] i to show that she might have met with , | death at his hands. pi "I do not know of any one who could h ! have had any animus or ill feeling against ' j either of them, and am at a loss to ac- < - J count for the tragedy." Twenty-Seven and Spinster, j Says Marriage Certificate ! WILMINGTON, Del., June 11.?Mrs. ' 8 Mary Scott Charlton, whose body was e found Thursday in a trunk in a little I a lake near the village of Moltrasio. a rhort - distance from Como, was married in Wil" mington, March 1". this year, to Porter Charlton. The marriage ceremony was jj performed at Old Swedes Church by the vicar, Rev. Albert A. t lay. e So far as is known the couple were here jnerely long enough to lie married. It is presumed they left immediately after d the i-eremony. i- According to the marriage certificate, on file at the health office, the names of the contracting parties were given as Porter Charlton, aged twenty-five years, is and Mary Castle, aged twenty-seven. n Both gave New York city as their resiu dence. The ceremony was witnessed by Mrs. - Ellen G. Clay, wife of the vicar, who is il now with her husband in Seattle, and e a friend of Mrs. Clay's who wat Visiting e her at the time. ^4. I PACKERS ARE SUE! Rebating on Freight Charge: Is Alleged. BILL OF COMPLAINT FILEI Chicago Junction Railway Control! ed by Subsidiary Company. OTHER ROADS PAY TOLL TO r No Record With Interstate Com merce Commission?Other Stock Yard Benefits. On application of Attorney Genera Viekersham. William S. Kenyon, as istant to the Attorney General, is ex lected to file today in the United State ircuit court at Chicago a bill in eqult; gainst certain Chicago stockyard com mnies for alleged rebating on freigh barges. The bill of the Attorney General wai repared at the request of the inter tate commerce commission, which i he complainant in the proceeding. I 3 directed against the Union Stocl 'arcls and Transit Company, the Chi ago Junction Railway Company, ttv Chicago Junction Railways and Unioi Itock Yards Company, and Louis Pfael er & Sons. Allegations of Lawlessness. It is alleged in the bill that the track: ?f the Chicago Junction Railway Com iany are controlled by corporations sub idiary to the Union Stock Yards Com >anv. The railway company handle ill incoming and outgoing stock for th< 'nion Stock Yards at CJhicago. It is alleged that the live stock freigh s delivered to the Chicago Junctloi ailwav from all trunk lines enterini Chicago, and by it delivered to the I'nioi itock yards; that specific sums per ca Lie paid by the trunk line carriers fo his service, including the loading am inloading of s(oc.\ cars, yet no tariff i iled by the Junction Company for thi icrvice, nor is the charge included ii iny tariff uled by the trunk line carrier vith the interstate commerce commission It further is alleged that the Junctio lailway Company serves approximatel ioO industries in and about the stoc ards district of Chicago, and that al racks operated by the Junction Com tany are owned by the Stock Yards Com any. No Record With Commission. The complaint alleges that none of th harges made by the Junction railway o reight, either incoming or outgoing, i mblished or filed through the interstat ommerce commission, although the bul if the traffic is in interstate commerct "he Stock Yards Company advances t< he trunk line railroads all charges am wice each week collects from the con ignees the moneys it has advanced t he railroads for the transportation o tock from points outside the state of II inois to the stock yards. It is declared in the hill that two-third f the net earnings and revenue receivei iy the Junction Company inure to th icnefit of the Stock Yard Company. Louis Pfaelzer & Sons are engaged li reneral packing business near the site o he I "nion Stnk Yard Comnanv. The firr >urehases live stock at the stock yard ind also purchases live stock at point tutside the state of Illinois, which it ship ? *?I Tninrt cfAt11 rom points ui i*i" i'j uic . ...v.. ards on through bills of lading over th ines of the Junction Company in con lection with the original trunk line car iers. ^50,000 From Stock Yard Company It is alleged that Louis Pfaelzer i ians have entered Into a contract writ he Stock Yard Company, by which I vill pay to that firm $uO,0(K), full juarar.feed, "ostensibly for the purpos if encouraging, developing and retain ng at or near the stock yards in Chicag he business of said Louis Pfaelzer i Ions," and also increase the earnings c he junction Company by Increasing th imount of property transported by th function Company in interstate com nerce. The government further alleges tha ho payment of the $.">0,000 to Loui pfaelzer & Sons will constitute, in effect t rebate and an unlawful discriminatlor md will amount to the charging of a les 'relght tariff for the freight of Loui Dfaelzer & Sons, which it is the duty o he Junction Company to file with the In erstate commerce commission, thus con itituting a violation of what Is common! mown as the Elkins law. ? - - ' a - 1 il i il. Trie government tnereiore asns inai in lefendants he required to appear befor he circuit court to answer the charge n the bill of complaint; and that, mean ime, the defendants be restrained by th :ourt from carrying into effect any agree rent alleged to be in violation of law md that the Chicago Junction Compan je required to tile with the interstat ommerce commission tariffs for th ransportation of freight which it handle n interstate commerce. WHIPS GROWN DAUGHTER. lury Upholds Father Charged b; Girl With Assault. WAYNESB1TRG, Pa., June 11.?Th od as a corrective agent lias been lief egal as well as efficient by a Green ounty Jury, even though the recipien if the punishment be nineteen, prett; md a society belle. The jury whic! leard the case against Richard Ewarl who was charged by his nineteen-year dd daughter Bess with assault'and hat :ery, decided the accused was who!I; within his rights, and found him no guilty. The young woman testified her fathe whipped her because she went to skating rink. The girl has been liviii; with an uncle since the whipping. COLLEGE MAN ARRESTED. Raymond Wyley Charged With Rot bery in Los Angeles. I,()S A.MiKliES, Cnl.. June 11.?Ray nond Wyley, who was arrested her ast night on a charge of robbing house, and who says he is the son c leorge U. Wyley, connected with th Standard Underground Cable Compan of New York, claims also to be former athlete of the University c Pennsylvania. He said he had bee rendered reckless by a jilting admin Istered by the daughter of a forme Chicago judge, and apparently had bee drinking, when, in his stocking feet, li entered a house and was captured b the owner and taken to jail by f private watchman. Wyley came here three months ag from his home in Rutherford, N. J. H Is twenty-seven years old. He claim to have been on the staff of Gen. Woo in the Philippines, and Is master c several languages, including Spanlsl and had acted as interpreter at th American headquarters in the islands. Shortly after his arrest he sent message to M. P. Wyley, paymastt of the New York Bell Telephone Con puny, who, he said, was his brother. Henry Lake Slayton Dead. CHICAGO. 111., June ll.-Henry Lais Slayton, who as head of a lecture bt reau Is said to have brought out moi prominent lecturers and to have supei vised more concert and lecture tours tha any other man, is dead at his late horr here. Mr. Slayton has managed lectui tours for William Jennings Bryan, Sens tor Robert M. I.a Follette, Senator Bet jamin Tillman and other notables. fWAY TO G. 0. P. HARMONY s PROPER TARIFF LEGISLATION SUGGESTED AS MEANS. Board to Investigate and Point Out ) Errors Will Allay Discord, Says Cobb. "If the present Congress, which passed the Pavne hit I will meet the issue fairlv. and enact legislation creating the neces_ sary machinery to investigate and point out such inconsistencies and inequalities as exist in the Payne bill, and if this is done, as it readily can be, in a manner to ' command the confidence of the voters that they will he corrected when found, tlie discord and dissension in the republican party will be allayed." Thus declares President Cobb of the National Tariff Commission Association j in a letter Issued from the commission s _ headquarters in New York. Mr. Cobb goes on to predict: s Penalty for Failure. v "If this is not done the republican mem* bers of Congress will be left the difficult task of convincing their constituents that g they have faithfully and consistently _ carried out the platform on which they s were elected. And our efforts will have t to he directed to supporting President . Taft in his earnest effort to create an effective tariff board under legislative pro* visions entirely Inadequate in their scope p and temporary in their nature." n "The republican party is in control of both branches of Congress and is in position "to make pood' by giving us some progressive, constructive legislation. "The country believes that the republican platform means a revision of the tariff on the basis of reasonable and fair protection to our industries and labor * with reductions in all cases of excessive - protection and the elimination of all spe_ cial privileges. B Payne Bill Deficiencies. e "This result, in the opinion of a very t large proportion of the republican voters, & has not been fully accomplished by the it Payne bill, and the discussion as to * whether the hill is three-quarters right r and one-quarter wrong, or one-quarter 1 right and three-quarters wrong, is not s going to be very satisfying, especially as * with no facts or figures in existence to ,. 1? i it J1 * * i ?r me < laims me uiscussion can oniy s end in more discussion. "It is equally aside from the point to n discuss whether or not the Payne bill is y the best that can be expected under the k system of log-rolling and trading hereII tofore practiced in tariff leKislation. Oertainly no bill passed lby either party for 1- a generation indicates that better can be expected. "The investigations of our association clearly show that the country wants tariff questions carefully and scientifically e investigated by an independent and pern manent board or commission, and the s results of their work presented to Conp gress, as the basis for tariff legislation." ' DISPUTE OVER PAY FOR * HALF HOLIDAYS STILL ON 0 f - Men Say Several Employers Have s Yielded?Builders' League Ise su?s an Ultimatum. 1 ???? ^ No settlement has been reached in the s strike of the carpenters for a Saturday 8 half liolidav and an increase of nav to ? cover the time thus lost. e At the headquarters of the Brotheri hood of Carpentei-3 and Joiners in the Le Droit building the statement was made today that several employers have acceded to the demands of the organik zation and the journeymen have reh turned to work. t The Builders League, composed of emy ployers, at Its meeting yesterday afternoon decided that unless the strikers return to work within a reasonable Q time non-union workmen will he omit ployed in their places. I'p to the pres>f ent time, it was stated, no effort has e been made to get non-unionists, reports . to the contrary notwithsanding. A case of alleged intimidation was ret ported to the league. It was said an at8 tempt was made to causo members of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters s to leave their work and join the strikers, s It seems the amalgamated men arc satisfy tied with the terms of the employers and - with few exceptions are continuing at ~ work. James L. Parsons, president of the V' Builders' League, said the organization will take prompt steps to prevent further e interference with men who are employed, e Local 1.12, Brotherhood of Carpenters, at 8 its meeting last night elected officers as - follows: President, C. H. Adams; vice e president, John A. Barkley; secretary, Thomas G. Iglehart: financial secretary, 1 L. W. Matter; treasurer, G. H. F. Davis; y warden, \V. \V. Adamson; conductor. John 6 M. King. Owing to the lateness of the e hour the election of the remaining officers s went over to the next meeting. . ROYAL DECREE ISSUED. Spanish Constitution Affecting Re^ ligious Societies Is Amended. MADRID. June 11.?A royal decree 1sp sued today amends the constitution authorizlng the edifices of non-Catholic ree ligious societies to display the insignia * for public worship and other ceremonies. y Tite republican press demands that all h religions' he placed on an equal footing and tliat the state subvention of the - Catholic Church he withdrawn. Owing to the disposition of unauthory Ued religions orders to ignore ttie imt perial decree of May 31. whicli directed such orders not authorized by the conr eordat of 1871 or engaged in Industry to a seek immediately authorization under the ? law adopted in 1887, Premier Canaiejas instructed the provincial governors to compel an immediate compliance, under pain of the dissolution of tlie societies and the closing of their establishments. i- "GOING! GONE!" SAFE. Auctioneers, in Convention, Decide e to Continue Using Words. a CHICAGO, 111., June ll.-The famous 1 f * '/In in or' rrninff' trn no f\f ( lio anetionAm. V#V" U?? . ft'-inj,. mv ttu\.liuui:ci e will not be discarded. y At the annual meeting of the InternaH tional Association of Auctioneers the suglf gestlon was made that it would he more n dignified and give the profession more standing if a crusade were begun to do tr away with much of the lung-power pern suasion now used by experts to coax e the dollars from the tightly closed purse * As a first move it was suggested that "Going! going! gone!" be discarded. George Bergman of Cairo, III., protest0 ed, saying: "These three words are our |d best stock in trade. Without them wc if would just be salesmen and not auctjonl. eers. We must keep them." le A vote showed a large majority in favor of retaining the expression, a i >r i- Records for Twenty-Four Hours. The following were the readings of the thermometer and barometer at the weather bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning at 2 p.m. yesterday: :e Thermometer?June 10. 4 p.m., 61'; X *- p m., G8; 12 midnight. .">7; June. 11, 4 e a.m., 57; 8 a.m.. .V*; 1-. noon. ti3; 2 p.m., r_ 65. Maximum, t'5 at 2 p.m. June 11; minimum. 57 at 0 a.m. June 11. " Barometer?4 p.m., 2J.05; is p.m., 29.91; 12 midnight, 29.87; 4 a.m.. 2h.N0; x a.m., 29.92: noon, 29.98 : 2 p.m., 29.95. t- Maximum temperature past twenty-four hours. 65; a year ago. 71. I ! NEW SENATE FACTOTUM CAUL D. LOEFFLER IS MASTER OF CEREMONIES. Started as Page?Now "Assistant Doorkeeper"?Will Announce Dignitaries. OF 9H JK.. CARI, D. IiOEFFIiRR. The Senate has a new master, of ceremonies in the person of Carl D. Loetfler. "A message from the President of the United States," lie announces, when one of the President s secretaries appears at the door of the chamber. ^'The members tf the Supreme Court of the United States," "The members of the House of Representatives," "The members of the diplomatic corps" and other dignitaries it will be his task to announce when the inaugural ceremonies are held at the Capitol, as these offbiais enter the Senate chamber to witness the inauguration of the Vice President-elect. Will Turn Back Time. To him falls the duty of turning back the speeding: hands of the Senate clocks in the dying hours of a congressional session. To him fall many other duties of importance in connection with the proper observance of the ceremonial customs and traditions of tlie upper house of Congress. The new master of ceremonies entered the service of the Senate as a page, being appointed from Pennsylvania in 1881). He is. however, largely the product of the District. Here he was educated?in the public schools, in the Spencerian Business College and in tlie College of Electrical Engineering of the George Washington University. Beginning as a page, he has received six promotions in the Senate's service? ail on merit. The latest-was his selection a couple of days ago as the master of ceremonies?officially "assistant doorkeeper." Son of White House Doorkeeper. Mr. Loeffler is the son of that Indian fighter who has been known to practically every man in public life for the last forty years?Maj. Charles Loeffler. Maj. Loeffler wore the blue uniform for four years during the civil war, and was appointed doorkeeper of the President by Gen. Grant. He held the station at the door of the office of the chief executive of the nation during the administrations from Grant to Roosevelt, inclusive, being recently placed on the retired list, gardneTsenTTo jail \ FISHER S ASSAILANT SAYS HE SHOT IN SELF-DEFENSE. Held to Await Result of Injuries of Wounded Man, Who Is in a Critical Condition. William H. Gardner, colored, who shot and dangerously wounded Harrison Fisher, also colored, on Christian Heurich's farm in Prince George county, Md., yesterday morning, was caught yesterday afternoon in a barn near Chillum. He admitted the shooting. This morning he was committed to jail at I'pper Marlboro, the county scat, to await the result of Fisher's injuries. Fisher, who is under treatment at Freedmen's Hospital, is in a critical condition. When the shooting was reported to the county authorities yesterday Deputy Sheriff T. N. Mohler, Constables Barr, Raybold, Payne and others went to the scene of the affair and began an investigation. They enlisted the services of twenty men employed on Mr. Heurich's farm and made a systematic search of the woods. No Resistance by Gardner. Constables Raybold and Payne saw flnnlnfr in tho flftprnnnn mtor u Ka rn and seek a hiding place in the structure. He offered no resistance when they placed him under arrest, however, and went with them to Hyattsville. Gardner declared that he tired the shot in selfdefense, being afraid lie would receive bodily injuries. After the prisoner had been placed behind the bars the officers made a thorough investigation of the shooting. They were told that Gardner and another farmhand had trouble j*sterday morning about a basin, and that Gardner waited at the foot of the stairs with a shotgun for the other man. Fisher, who was not involved in the trouble, the officers were i told, was the first man to descend the stairway after the trouble and he received the load of shot. The man for whom the shot was intended followed to the lower floor, but when he reached there Gardner had tied. Gardner's wife and two children, he says, reside at Leesburg, Va. SUICIDE ON LAKE VESSEL. Mail Supposed to Be Paul Hammer of Philadelphia Shoots Himself. CLjETVEIaANiD, Ohio, June 11.?A man believed to have been Paul Hammer of Philadelphia, Pa., committed suicide in his stateroom on the passenger steamer City of Erie as the boat was entering the harbor today. The dead man was about forty years old. He shot himself. No motive is known. He boarded the vessel at Buffalo. Papers and letters in his pocket gave a clue to Ills identity. On the body was found a sheet of papef 011 which was written "Alvin Hammer, :h;15 North Broad street. Philadelphia, Pa. Dear brother, farewell." This was signed "Paul." Martin V. B. Bachman Bead. Martin V. B. Bachman, a civil war veteran. aged seventy-two years, who has resided many years in the District, died today at his home" in Northeast Washington. The funeral will take place at 1?:30 o'clock Monday morning from St. John's Church. Services with military honors will be conducted at the grave at Arlington by Kit Carson Post, G. A. R. OPENED FOR SEITLEMENT OVER A MILLION ACRES ADDED TO PUBLIC DOMAIN. President Taft Approves Latest Measure Intended to Stop Emigration to Canada. By approving the latest step in the reclassification of the national forests and public lands today. President Taft increased the public domain available to homestead entry to 1.lvj.S1<? acres and increased the national forests 1181 .OtH acres. lne proclamation wliicli t!ic President signed today eliminated 11.105 acres from! the Gunnison forest, 5.04O acres from the Cochetopa firest, and 45.4SO acres from ; the t'ncorr.pahgre forest, all in Colorado. All these lands will he available to settlers. The reclassification is the government's hope of stemming the tide of emigration from the I'nited States to the Canadian northwest. With more than a million acres now available for homestead entry, it is claimed there will be no need of settlers going over the border to gain the advantages of a virgin homestead. Secretary Ba'.linger also made some additions to the lands available for. homesteads today, when he designated n~5.ixm acres in Wyoming and nearly 4,0 >? acres in Colorado as available. The settlers on tlte Minivoka irrigation project in Idaho have managed their mainenariee of the irrigation sublaterals so badly that Secretary Itallinger has directed the reclamation service to do the work and charge it to the settlers. The settlers have been notified that unless they ray the bill tliey will get no water. 10 SUE THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSED TO GRANT THE RIGHT TO INVENTORS. Four Bills Ordered to Be Favorably Reported by the Senate Committee on Patents. A hill giving inventors the right to sue the I'nted States government in the Court of Claims for any damages resulting from the use of their inventions by the government was ordered favorably reported yesterday from the Senate committee on patents. Three other bills were taken up at the meeting, which was held In the office of Chairman Brown, and ordered favoVably reported, as follows: H. R. 2X??r?, which provides for the repeal of a part of the statutes relating to the filing of caveats. The commissioner of patents reported to the committee that the privilege of filing caveats and their annual renewal has permitted the extension of the lives of patents to a much longer period than seventeen years. It was the intention of Congress under the "caveat" provision to give inventors, before they applied for patents, an opportunity of completing their invention and at the same time establish proof of priority in case others have applied for a similar patent. H. R. 1K8M5, which provides that the commissioner of patents may require a number of drawings or photographs of an invention for which application has been made for a patent. H. R. iil481, which authorizes the commissioner of patents to issue a certificate of correction in conformity with the records of the patent office whenever a patent does not so conform. Such certificates are now issued by the commissioner. but they have no authorization in law. This bill will validate them. DESPERATE FIGHTING ll(l NICARAGUA IS REPORTED Revolutionists Said to Have Been Repulsed in Attack on Nandaine After Long Struggle. RIVAS, Nicaragua, June 11.?A body of revolutionists yesterday attacked Nan-J daine, between Rivas and Granada, and] cut the telegraph wires. After eight hours' fighting, however, the government troops forced them to withdraw. The revolutionary party who attacked the town of Nandaine yesterday was led by Jersam Saonz and Laureano Hurtado. Friends of the government are advising President Madriz to adopt sterner measures for the suppression of the rebellion. Some of those who participated in yesterday's raid are said to have been captured and subsequently liberated no less than three times. Consul Olivares, at Managua, reports to inc oiaie ueparimeni inai me revolutionists raptured the town of Nandine yesterday, but no mention is made of its recapture by the government forces, as reported in the Rivas dispatch. The telegram says that the supporters of Estrada caused an uprising at Rivas in favor of the revolution, but it was unsuccessful. Rumors are current of further uprisings thorughout the country, and the statement is made that Madriz is making wholesale arrests at Managua and Granada of revolutionary sympathizers. The consul reports that exchange has increased to 1,2iK> per cent, or $1paper money $1 one of gold. TO BE KEPT ON PUBLIC VIEW. Copy of the Half Moon Presented to Palisades Commission. NEW YORK, June 11.?The HudsonFulton celebration commission decided yesterday to give the Half Moon to the commissioners of the palisades interstate park commission to he held in perpetual trust for the people of New York state. The little ship, which is a reproduction of Henry Hudson's craft, was presented to the Hudson-Fulton commission by the people of the Netherlands. Under the terms of the transfer the vessel is to be kept floating in the Hudson whenever pranicaDir, unu is m ne open 10 visitors under suitable regulations. TRAIN WRECK IN TURKEY. Collapse of a Bridge on Line Near Constantinople. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 11.-An express on the Oriental railroad was wrecked near Lule Burgas, about fifty miles east of here, today, through the collapse of a bridge. Several cars plunged into the water, and it Is feared that there were many casualties. A special train carrying physicians and nurses was sent out from here to the scene. Hill Climbing Postponed. WILKESBARRE. Pa.. June 11.?The national automobile hill climb which was scheduled for today lias been postponed until Monday. A heavy rain which fell last night put the course up tiie mountain side in such had condition that it was deemed too dangerous for fast running. SUICIDEJS^ CHOICE Embezzler Shoots Himself While Detectives Wait. CROSSED SEA WITH LOOT Young Belgian Wanted by Police of Brussels Ends Chase in New York. NKW YORK, June 11.?"Request the New York police to arrest Felitien Buisset of Brussels," was a cable message received last Thursday by Pierre Malt. Belgian consul in Xew York. The incs sage added that Bui wet was wanted in Brussels to answer a charge of emhez7,11 rig 500,<too francs. The consul called at police headquarters and requested that the polio? look for Buisset. who. lie said, was twenty-three years old and about live feet seven inches tall, with auburn hair parted in tlr? middle. Inspector Russell assigned Detectives Armstrong: and .\1illmore to the case, -...er working for twenty-four hours they legrfied yesterday morning that Buisset itad arrived in New York June h on Lai Savoie of the trench line. They made a round of the hotels and late in the afternoon learned ?>uisset was stopping at the Hotel Brevoort, sth street and 5th avenue. Found Buisset in Room. The detectives went to the hotel and Millmore waited outside while Armstrong went in. Armstrong learned Buisset occupied room No. 04 on the third lloor, and was in the room at that moment. The detective went to a telephone booth in tiie lobby and asked Buisset to come downstairs, as he was wanted at the long distance phone. Buisset soon appeared without hat or coat. The hotel clerk pointed him out to Armstropg. The detective approached tiie Belgian, who greeted him affably. "I've come to arrest you at the request of the Belgian consul," said Armstrong, quietly. "He says you stole 5u<MHt > j francs." Tlniccnt t ti i'ii i ./I nolo a tirl sttu vPfl lilit i quickly recovered his nerve and asked if he could not go to his room and get his hat and coat. The permission was given and Armstrong started toward the stairway, Just as they reached the first step Armstrong turned and be koned to Millmore. Sent Bullet Through Temple. His back was turned to his prisoner only a moment, but that was long enough for Buisset to put himself beyond reach of the authorities. He drew a pistol almost small enough to hide in one's closed hand, yet carrying a large bullet, and shot himself in the right temple. He died today at St. Vincent s Hospital. After the detectives had sent Buisset to the hospital they searched his rooms. Iri the coat he had just taken off was found a new bank book showing that Tuesday he had deposited $4?.40O with the Savoy Trust Company, 52t) Broadway. Another pocket held a new check book. A check had been drawn for $10,4KM) in favor of Jean H. Freymann. of -15 West ictnh atrppt iiBcni in the United States for the Genuine Imported Swiss Chocolate Company, with offices at <X> University place. A note*for $10,000 for four months at 5 per cent, signed by Freymann, was resting in the check book. Lying on the bureau were a Swiss watch, a diamond ring, estimated to be worth $2,.tOO, and three other rings, in a purse was $700. Sealed Package in Safe. The detectives learned Buisset had a sealed package in the hotel safe. This was opened and was found to contain a check for $,">0,000, drawn by the International Bank of Brussels in favor of one F. Van Zeebroeck and payable at the office of Hallgarten & Co., 5 Nassau street. New York. On the back this check was indorsed: ' Pay to the order of Felicien Buisset. F. Van Zeebroeck." In this envelope was also a letter signed by Chief of Police Doitsfortt of Brussels, which set forth that Buisset was "a good boy" and was deserving of any attention that could be shown to him. The police learned that Buisset had brought to this country a letter of credit, payable at the National Park Hank, for $50,000. On Monday lie cashed the letter, receiving a certified cheek for $ 40,000 and $1,000 cash. This was the money he deposited with the Savoy Trust Company. It and the International Hank eheck made up the amount lie had stolen. KNEW OF NO SHIP LOBBY. Newspaper Men Testify Before the Olcott Committee. A number of Washington newspaper nen testified yesterday before the Olcott committee, which is investigating the ship subsidy question and the charges of lobbying on that subject. All of them declared that they knew of no lobby or press bureau in Washington either for or against shipping legislation of any kind. Andrew S. Furusetli of San Francisco president and secretary of seamen's organizations of the Pacific coast, testified as to wage conditions in shipping at various ports. I. E. Moses, a real estate agent in Seattle, Wash., argued the importance of a merchant marine. Moses has just returned from a South American trip. He testified that the American flag was a rarity on the high seas, and that while the steamship service between Huenos Aires and Europe was good, that between Huenos Aires and the 1'nited States was uncertain. Gustav Schwab and EmiJ Boas, managers of foreign steamship companies operating out of New York, will be subpoenaed to testify Monday, and former Gov. Herrick of Ohio, president of the Merchant Marine l.eague of the 1'nited States, is expected to appear the following week. HELD AS MURDER SUSPECT. "D?l 1 A *. TUT~ V, A _ : T_ Jtuiiuc nixcst xu.au aiiswciiug iua dian Head Description.* Because ho is said to answer the description of a man wanted for the alleged murder of a colored man at Indian Head yesterday George Hawkins, colored, was placed under arrest this morning by Policemen Armstrong and Forney of the fourth precinct. * The local police received word from tlie Maryland authorities to look out for the murderer, and, it is stated, the description of the assailant answered that of Hawkins, so the officers went to his place of employment on .'Id street southwest today and arrepted him. A sheriff from Maryland is expected to arrive in this city late this afternoon to see Hawkins. The man for whom the Maryland sheriff is looking is alleged to have killed Joe Johnson in a tight Tuesday evening by striking him on the head with a beer bottle. SLAIN BT BRIGANDS. Eighty Chinese Otter Hunters Are ! Murdered and Robbed. VICTORIA, B. C.. June 11.?Eighty > Chinese otter hunters were slaughtered by brigands near Manchuli, on the Russian-Chinese frontier, May 19, according to advices received here today. The Chinese had taken a thousand ot- ( ter skins when the brigands attacked \ them, killing most of the hunters and j making away with the stock of skins. ? 6IXBYISNOW CHIEF Succeeds Gen. Marshall at * Head of Engineer Corps. TO RETIRE DECEMBER. 1913 Has Rendered Efficient Service on Important Projects at Chicago and Other Points. r*. EffiaSBS VIlP^iaWk ?S \h. * :.n7^-V I? ?;, LjfHI^^Bfc.;:> ^B*\V 1 - ?9 nwnM^HMHm^ *^V*'^'V/ 4 nHi?. gk\. w ii.i.i \m h. bix'/7 Brig. Gen. William H. Bixby, Corps o' Engineers. today succeeded Brig. Gen. William L. Marshall, retired, as chief of engineers of the army. The change was effected with no special ceremonies beyond calls from the officials and employes <>f the bureau to take leave of the retiring official and to pay their respects to his successor. Lieut. Col. Edward Burr, formerly stationed at Boston, will he the principal assistant to the new chief of engineers, having relieved /'..I W \~ II.I...I ..? that , .HI.... C.O Ik. v '??. i . * - ii iiimh < >1 i i >n i win' v. * ' i ? v? hot has been transferred to duty at Boston. Gen. Bixby was born at Charlostown. Mass.. in December, 1*4!>, and will be retired for age in Derember, IMld. lie was one of tlie star graduates at the i'nited States Military Academy in the class" of June. is?:!, and was accordingly appointed to the Corps of engineers. Important Engineering Work. He reached the grade of colonel In February. IPO*. and was the senior officer of that grade at the time of his appointment to the head of the corps. During his thirty-seven years* active connection with the army he has rendered efficient service in connection witli many important engineering projects at Chicago. Detroit and St. I.ouis and in southern and western states, in lss~ he made a special study of the effect on buildings, etc., of the earthquake at Chareston, S. C., in that year. As an engineer expert he was chosen to accompany the special congressional commission on an inspection tour of the principal waterways of Europe. He also attended the maneuvers of the French army several years ago as the representative of the I'nited States Army. For many years he has been prominently identified with the improvement of the Mississippi river and was recently stationed at St. coins as division engineer of the western division and as president of the Mississippi river commission. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the National Geographic Society and the Washington Academy of Silences, etc. SIGHS OF EARLY CLOSE HOUSE WRESTLING WITH APPROPRIATION BILLS. River and Harbor Bill Disposed Of. No Autos for Vice President and Speaker. All day yesterday tiie House wrestled with conference reports. This, according to precedent, furnishes the best evidence in the world that the session is drawing to a close. L'nloss l here should l>e an unexpected tie-up on the railroad hill there is 110 reason. House leaders say, why Congress should not he ahle to adjourn by June ^5. At tlie very worst the session will be wound up, it is confidently predicted by the last day of the month. Bills From Conference. The conference report 011 the river and harbor bill was adopted by the House yesterday, after Chairman Alexander jf New York and Representative laiwretice of Massachusetts had explained several matters, exactly as agreed to by the Senate the day before. The conference report on the legislative executive and judicial hill was taken up and all items agreed to, with the exception of the two paragraphs appropriating ifl'.rsMt each tor ilte maintenance of the government automobiles used by the Vice .President and the Speaker. There was a small attendance in the House at the time. This corporal's guard, however, sat down hard on the proposition, particularly as the democrats and insurgents in attendance greatly outnumbered the regular republicans. So the measure was returned to conference with just these two small items in dispute. Putty in Gun Cracks. The conference report on the naval appropriation bill called by Representative Foss of Illinois, chairman of the House committee on naval affairs, resulted in some rather lively debate and the registering by Representative Hughes of New Jersey of some serious charges against the Bethlehem Steel Company. Mr. Hughes asserted that there have been deliberate attempts at the Bethlehem Steel Company's plant to deceive the government in the manufacture of Rio irioiu <Vv?* Ro i t louhinc ullil t 11 ?a f niiiti H 11 ; I r? 1 ?wm* in,'-, ?? % MIVII were employed to putty up cracks and hide other defects in the puns so that the ordnance might pass Inspection. lie wasn't ahle to say whether if had passed inspection or not, but hinted that there would be an investigation to find out. The Senate amendment providing that one of the great 117,000-ton battleships appropriated for in the measure must he built at the Brooklyn navy yard was adopted. The Senate amendment abolishing the bureau of equipment was disagreed to. The bill was returned to eonfereiiee. Dr. William H. Seaman Dead. Dr. William H. Seaman, principal examiner of the United States patent office. died this morning, in the seventythird year of his age. The funeral will he held from the residence, 14U4 lltli street, at 3:30 o'clock Monday afteraoon. The interment will be private. Miss Osgood Retains Golf Title. PHILADELPHIA. June 11.?For the third time in the five years the event has aeen held Miss Fanny C. Osgood of the Country Club, Brookline, Mass.. today von the championship of the Woman's Eastern Golf Association on t'-ie course ? if the Huntingdon Valley Country Cluk it Noble. I