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Or Wilson Elected.
DECLARES COMPANY
"OWNS" PENROSE
Vermont Audience Enthusiastic In
Their Cheers For Progres
sive Candidate.
ST, ALBANS, Vt Aug. 30. A
sharp attack on Senator Penrose and
John D. Archbold for their charges
against him in relation to the 1904
campaign contribution of the Stan
dard OIil was made here today by
Colonel uoosevelt on his second day
In Vermojnt.
The colonel, speaking to a throng
of B.OOJ in the public square, warned
Vernvntors that Standard Oil Is
trying to get either Taft or WU'jun
elected, considering them "safer"
than Roosevelt.
"The OH trust would own the
White House if it could," said Roose
velt "It already owns Senator Pen
rose and other statesmen of his
type. It owns Democrats as well
as Republicans. It wants to own
all the people, and will como pretty
near making It uncomfortable for
everybody if a stop is not put to its
manipulation."
Vermont To "Help."
The colonel exprossed the belief that
Vermont Is going to "help" put the
crooked corporations where they belong.
"They pro afraid of me, because thoy
know I can't bo bought," ho sald-aavi
agely.
"I'll give them a fair deal, but nothing
more, They know It. I feci that Ver
mont Is In sympathy with my fight."
"You bet we are," came a chorus of
voices.
"Good, we aro going to put this flght
through," rejoined the colonel.
"You're going to be the next President
all right," cried out an auditor.
Candidates Pledge.
At this a tremendous cheer went up.
Roosevelt grinned amicably.
"If I get in the White House you'll
find a different order of things," he pro
mised. Colonel Roosevelt announced his Inton
tlon of adhering to the line of speech
making of yesterday In attacking Pen
rose, Archbold, the Standard Oil, and
"the boss-ridden machines."
He Is appealing to Vermont to follow
the example of Its people In 1856, when
they broke away from the old Whig
party and aligned themselves with
Abraham Lincoln with the newly-organized
Republican party.
"Do as your forefathers did," la
Roosevelt's appeal. "Tear away the old
party fetters. Move along with the Pro
gressive party."
Makes Eight Speeches .
Declaring that the machine Republi
cans of the present day caro more for
defeating him than for electing their
own ticket, and asserting that "they
never did care for Mr. Taft except as
ft means of beating me," Colonel Roose
velt made the concluding speech of his
first day In Vermont "hero last night,
having covered 160 miles by automobile
and having made eight speeches during
the day.
The crowds that listened to the
former President were visibly Impressed.
His arraignment of Senator Penrose of
Pennsylvania was particularly ap
plauded. The colonel said he had met James R.
Garfield, who was a member of his cab
inet, and who had told him that at
the time the Standard Oil contribution
was supposed to have been made tho
Government had been Investigating the
oil company for eighteen months. Tho
suit was brought, he said, and the re
sult "at It was to show that whether
or not the oil corporation did contribute.
It had no Influence with his administra
tion. Colonel Roosevelt prophesied the pass
ing of the Republican party and referred
to President Taft "as the last of the
reactionaries."
"I want to say to you," he added,
"that there's only one iay to support
(Continued on Sixth Page.)
WEATHER REPORT.
tunu.ibi uii run Diavmcr.
Fair tonight. Saturday Increasing
cloudiness and warmer, probably fol
lowed by showers by night.
TEMPERATURES.
U S. BUREAU
AFFLECK'S.
8 a. m 62
9 a. m 67
10 a. m 73
11 a. m 74
12 Noon 71
1 p. m 72
2 p. m 73
8 a. m 70
9 a. m 73
10 a. m 72
11 a. m 77
12 Noon 80
1 p. m S3
2 p. m 86
TIDE TABLE.
Today High tide. 9:35 a. m. and 9:52
p. m. Low tide, 3:13 a. m. and 3:57 p. m.
Tomorrow High tide, 10.12 a m. and
10.29 p. m. Low tide, 4:20 a. m. and
4.23 p. m.
SUN TABLE.
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Away While En Route To
New Hampshire.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30. The sudden
death of Mrs. H. H. Rogers, widow of
the noted Standard Oil magnate, on a
dining car en route from Bretton
Woods, N. H., to this city was report
ed to the coroner's office today by Dr.
McCloud, of the Now York Central sys
tem. Mrs. Rogers was returning from a
stay In the woods to her home at 3
East Seventy-eighth street, this city.
Her son. Captain Rogers, was notified.
Mrs. Rogers, representatives of the
family stated, had been ill ever since
the death of her husband. She went to
Bretton Woods In the hope of getting
better but Instead became worse and
the doctors ordered her back to this
city. She left last night In the Bar
Harbor special over the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad and
died In the car Sunset shortly before
the train reacrcd this city.
Mrs. Rogers was accompanied by two
trained nurses and as soon as the per
mission of the authorities was obtained
her bodv was taken to her city homo
here. She was fifty-three years old.
MOTORIST KILLED
ON WAY TO RACES
Sales Manager Meets Instant
Death When Car Turns
Turtle.
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-rJ. R. Balllnger,
aged twenty-five, sales manager for
tho Chicago branch of tho Stromber
Motor Devices Company, was Instantly
killed, and his brother, Leon, was seri
ously hurt when the machine In which
they were riding to the Elgin races
skidded and turned turtle at Bartlett,
III., a Chicago suburb, today.
Balllnger was one of the official
scorers last year.
Balllnger was driving the Lozler In
which Ralph Mulford won the 1910
Elgin Classic. The bursting of a front
tire while the machine was traveling at
a high rate of speed was the direct
cause of the accident.
STEPHENSON NOT
DYING IN WOODS
KSCANABA, Mich., Aug. SO. A mes
sage received today from Watson states
that the illness of Senator Stephenson of
Wisconsin has been greatly exaggerated
and that his condition is not critical.
The Senator Is suffering from a bad
cold and stomach trouble, according to
this message, and expects to continue
his Ashlngtrlp along the Escanaba river.
The message denies that the Senator
has any heart attack.
WIDOW OF OFFICER
NOIL CORPORATION
FIRES
TRAIN
ROGERS.
Away While Eating in Dining Car.
MIENS FOR
GOVERNMENT MEN
ORDERED QUASHFD
No Action Will Be Tal'en
Against Men Accused Of
Falsifying Vouchers.
Indictments returned several months
ago against former employes of tho
division of drainage Investigation of the
Department of Agriculture for certify
ing to alleged false vouchers against tho
United States, were quashed today by
Justice Gould, of tho District Supremo
Court, at the request of Assistant Uni
ted States Attorney James M. Proctor.
The Indictments In question wcro
against Charles G. Elliott, former chief
of the division of drainage Investiga
tion; Allanson D. Morehouse, assistant
to Mr. Elliott; Frank E. Singleton, an
accountant, and Ray P. Teele, another
accountant, formerly In Mr. Elliott's
division, but now with the Census Bu
reau. Violation of section 5138 of tho Revised
Statutes, as amended bv the act ap
proved May 30, 190S, was charged in the
Indictments, which covered 197 typewrit
ten pages.
Accusations against tho men resulted
from alleged Iregularitlea In connec
tion with the use of money appropriat
ed by Congress for the Department of
Agriculture for the lineal year 1910, for
work dc.no In 1909 without wanant ol
law. Tho charge was made that they
borrowed money to nay for the notk In
1909, and then placed the names of tho
parties from whom the money was ob
tained on the pay rolls In 1910 In order
that thoy might be repaid.
Derived No Benefit.
No allegation was made that any of
the Indicted men derived any financial
benefit from the transaction. In fact,
it was admitted by the Government
prosecutors that the violation In any
event was only technical.
The Secretary of Agrlculturo sum
marily dlrmlssed Elliott and Morehouse
and suspended Singleton on February "J,
and soon afterwards the papers In tho
case were forwarded to the Attorney
General, who, In turn, submitted them
to United States Attorney Clarence R.
Wilson.
Assistant United BtaU's Attorney Reg
inald S. Huidokoper took charge of the
Investigation on Febtuary 10, and pre
sented the evldenco to the grand jury
hat resulted In the Indictments being
returned.
The case was referred to the District
Attorney's office as a climax of the
charges and counter charges during the
first two weeks In February In con
nection with the Congressional Investi
gation of allegations that Government
reports oiu tho Florida Everglades had
been suppressed hy the Department of
Agriculture. It was claimed that Mr.
Elliott was the author of A certain ro
port that had bsen withheld by direct
orders from Secretary Wilson
Prosecution Denied.
J. O. Wright, formerly connected
with the department, but now em
ployed in Florida, made the original
charges against tho four men Indicted.
His accusations were directed particu
larly against Elliott, Morehouse and
Singleton, but the Inquiry Involved
Teele.
Counsel for the Indicted men had per
sistently urged a spetdy trial, declar
ing that a great Injustice had been
done their clients, but Justice Barnard
denied the motions.
American Guns Control Situ
ation Along
Coast.
"EVERYTHING QUIET,"
IS LATEST WORD
Denial Is Made That Fifty Marines
Were Killed and
Wounded.
Muzzlos of American rifles and ar
tillery aro being faced by Nlcaraguan
robels today in all principal ports
of tho turbulent republic. Tho
American troops aro in complete
control.
This was tho reassuring news in
dispatches rccoived today from naval
commanders , In Nicaragua. Presi
dent Taft was advised by tho Stato
Dopartment of tho hopeful outlook.
Interior Nlcaraguan cities, how
over, aro still in control of tho rov-
lutlonlsts, It Is reported. Managua,
the capital; Corlnto and Leon, tho
principal cities, aro reported quiet
Tho rebels have withdrawn from Co
rlnto, it is stated, but aro still
operating along tho railroad between
Managua and Corlnto.
More Maines On Way.
Approximately 1,000 bluejackets are
scattered today from tho capital to
Corlnto. About 1,000 more will be on
the ground early next week. The
cruiser California In en route today to
Panama to take on about 800 marines
from the transport Prairie, upon tho
latter's arrival at Panama from Phil
adelphia. Another detachment, of. marines la
due at Corlnto late next week on board
the cruiser Cleveland, which sails
September 1 from tho Maro Island Navy
Yard, California.
The gunboat Vlcksburg Ib alio headed
tuward Nicaragua, from Guayaquil,
Ecuador. Some fear for the Vlcksburg's
safety was had by a report that she
was disabled. The only damage re
ported, however, was a broken propeller
blade.
Re-cstabllshment of communication
Is the Initial endeavor of tho American
soldiers. Railroad and telegraph lines
aro being repaired, and the cruiser
Dcnvor is stationed at San Juan del
Sur, tho Nlcaraguan cable station. The
cruiser will relay messages from Corln
to, breaking the "news blockade" of
tho rebels, which even prevented Am
erican Minister Weltzel from com
municating with tho Stato Department
for several days.
British Act.
The British government today took
official cognizance of the rebellion In
Nlcttraguu. Tho British vice consul at
Matagalpa, through the British consul
at Managua, transmitted tho following
telegram to United States Minister
Weltzel:
"The present local authorities aro do
Ing all In their power to guarantee life
and property, but tho circumstances aro
very difficult. Certain elements, who are
well known for their rancor, hostility
and Idlocsyncracy have frequently ex
pressed evil IntcnUons against foreign
ers. Should this element gain control of
the revolution in the neighborhood of
Matagalpa, I believe tho lives and prop
erty of his British majesty's subjects
would be endangered."
The British foreign office at London
has also been informed of tho chaotic
conditions in Nicaragua, but, up to a
late hour this afternoon, had made no
representations to this Government.
The State Department here Is prepared
to reply to any representations which
(Continued on Second Pago.)
MOTHER ARRESTED
FOR KNIFING SON
Boy's
Language Led Her
Hurl Weapon, Is
Charge.
To
PASSAIC, N. J., Aug. 30. With a
wound In his right lung, Inflicted by his
mother, who hurled a carving knife
when he became abusive, Frank Garvey,
sixteen years' old, of Lakevlew, Is In a
dangerous condition In the Paterson
General Hospital. His mother was ar
rested by' the Paterson pollco, but pa
roled until this morning. Garvoy has
been Idle all summer.
As he was leaving her smull grocery
store his mother asked him to find work
instead of spending his time loafing. She
accused him of gambling and going
with a bad gang. He became angered
and answered her sharply. A quarrel
followed and It Is alleged Garvey swore
at her. His mother picked a knife from
the counter and hurled It at him as ho
rushed from tho storey
Garvey pulled the knife from his
back, leaving a wound about an Inch
wide along tho tight shoulder blade. He
collapsed as his mother, who became
hysterical, ran Into the street crying for
help. At the hospital It was said the
knife had pierced the lung tissues and
the wound is a serious cue.
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MRS. ALLEN FAILS TO
FIGHT CASE IN COURT
Heiress Accused of Fraud For
feits $5 Col
lateral. Instcd of making tho "fight to Jhe
finish." , of which she boasted several
weeks ago, when arrested on a charge
of "larcenv by trick" of a $1$ vanity set,
Mrs. Mary Hume Collins Alio, reputed
heiress to a $10,000 fortune, failed to
put In an appearance In the United
States branch of the Police Court today,
and forfeited 5 rather than face the
charge.
Young Mrs. Allen, when arrested on a
warrant sworn out at tho instigation of
Milton Baer, the Gcorgetpwn jeweler,
from whom she Is alleged to have ob
tained the vanity Bot fraudulently, was
released on the deposit of $25 as collat
eral for her appearance In the Police
Court on the day set for the trial. Fol
lowing a conference jn tne oiuce or As
sistant District Attorney S. McComas
Hawken a few minutes prldr to the time
set for the trial of the caso today. At
torney John Doyle Carmody, counsel for
the reputed heiress, reached an agree
ment with the prosecution whereby tho
young woman was given the alternative
of forfeiting a small fine or facing the
charge.
Up to the time when Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Hawken announced to
the court that Mrs. Allen had for
feited the $5 agreed upon, friends of
the young women and those Interest
ed In the case felt uro that she
would make a fight for exoneration.
Counsel for the young woman ex
plained that lijs client had suffered
great embarrassment through the
notoriety she received In the case
and was 111 as n, result..
LAKE STEAMER SUNK,
IS MICHIGAN REPORT
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Lakeland Went
Down.
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According to reports reaching here to-
day, the passenger steamer Lakeland,
bound up from Port Huron, has sunk
off Whlteflsh Point. No details of the
accident have boon obtained.
School Officials Will
Be Paid Tomorrow
Officials and clerks ot the District
schools and janitors of the school build
ings will be given their checks for
Autrust tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock.
The first of each month Is pay day
among tho officials, clerks and janitors,
but as the first falls on Sunday this
time It was decided to pay off tomorrow
In order that employes could bavo the
pay for Labor Day.
rhotoj by Harrli & Ewlng.
HUGH S. GIBSON.
Charge d'Affaircs at Havana.
OF SOUTH ASSUMES
SEBIOUS ASPECTS
U. S. Advises? Cuba And Pan
ama Our Diplomats Must
Be Respected.
In tho insistence upon Integrity of
Governmental Ideals ,two members of
tho diplomatic corps of the United
States have become Involved in diffi
culties In two Latin-American countries,
which have assumed grave aspects.
In each case this Government has
lost no time In supporting the envoy,
and as n result hns Bent ultimatums to
Cuba and Panama.
Cuba has replied to the ultimatum
demanding that adequate punishment
bo meted out to Enrique Maza, a news
paper reporter, who assaulted Hugh a
uiDson, American charge d'affaires a'
Havana, by assuring the State depart
ment that "justice would bo dotu, In the
case."
The assault was the outgrowth of tha
successful efforts of Mr. Gibson to col
l?cL tne cla,m f J557.0OO due Hugh
Iiellly, an American contractor, who
constructed tho Clcnrue?os watcrworKs
Maza Is now out on ball in the sum of
$50o. The Cuban people of the radical
type have been Inflamed to fury by tho
radical newspapers of Havana, and
grave complications are threatened.
Mr. Gibson In a personal telegram to
Acting Secretary ot the State, Hunting
ton Wilson, today Indicated that he Is
unruffled by tho course of hostile events
when he wired "AH serene."
The Cuban press proclaim Maza as
an avenger of InsultB to Cuba, and laud
his "gallant conduct." The newspa
pers for the most nart. demand that Mr.
Gibson be recalled. Such action Is not
even contemplated bv this Government.
Certain ofllclals of the State Depart
ment are frank to sav that the out
bursts of so-called "patriotic fury" on
the part of some Cubans Iridlcates a
species of unclvlllzatlon.
In the case of Panama where II. Per
clvnl Dolge Is United States minister,
the circumstances are in many respects
similar. The diplomat In view of the
high-handed manner In which the po
lice of Panama City treated American
sailors and cltizons. demanded that tho
chief of police, Quljano, and his assist
ant. Captain Dclaossa, be dismissed.
Mjuijana resignea ana nca tne country,
i President Arosemena refuses to dismiss
the latter.
According to Americans In Panama,
the police there hold to the theory that
the only way to deal with sailors and
others who become Intoxicated Is to
I shoot them. in several instances
Americans have been killed while cele
bratlng. The most flagrant violation of
humane law occurred on the night of
T..1.. A tithnn nmfetnl imo.tf.on failln.a
were attacked by the Panama pollco
nna one man win iuueu.
The action of Minister Dodge Is a di
rect result of this episode. Huntington
Wilson has warned tho government of
Panama that control must bo exercised
over the Panama police and that cruel-
4ta. nnA VivntnllHaa In whlrli Amprlonn
I Knlrilpm and sailors have been subjected
I njust cease He also upholds Minister
retirement of Captain Delaossa.
Neighbors Object To
Chief Inspector's Cats
Neighbors of John C. Haley, chief
Inspector of tho District Health Depart
ment, who charged him several weeks
ago with maintaining a nuisance In 'mt
he kept a cage containing twent ve
cats, brought a similar charge- as . ust
tho District employe again today.
Tho former charge against Inspoctor
Haley was dismissed. On motion of
counsel for the inspector Prosecuting
Attorney Schuldt. of the Police Couit.
today postponed the hearing of tho case
Indefinitely.
Indictment Charges Him
With "Planting" Of Dy-
namite Charge.
THREE OTHER MEN
ARE SUSPECTED
Suicide of Pitman First Move. To
Draw Attention of Grand
Jury.
BOSTON, Aug, 30. William M.
Wood, president of tho American
Woolon Company, one of the largwt
woolen manufacturers in tho Uni.ted
States, and tho moat prominent fig
ure in the recent big textile strike
In Lawrence, was arrested on an in
dictment warrant today charging
him with conspiracy to plant the
dynamite that was found in Law
rence at tho time of tho strike for
the purposo of discrediting the causo
of the strikers. Detectives have
been searching for Wood for two
days. His attorney arranged for
his appearance at the district attor
ney's office today.
Three Others Indicted.
The arrest of Wood caused a tremen
dous sensation in textile and paper busi
ness circles. "Wood was the most promi
nent of four men Indicted by a special
Suffolk county grand jury in connection
with tho planting of 'tho dynamite In
Lawrence.
Wood lives with his wife and threo
children at Andover. His Boston offi
ces at S2 Devonshlro street.
The Indictment of Wood and tho thrco
other men, two of whom are prominent
In tho textile world, followed the sui-'
clde of E. TV. Pitman, a big mill builder
and an Andovor neighbor of Wood, who
was also in the dynamite conspiracy,
it is declared, and whose admissions to
District Attorney Pelletler led to tho
grand Jury Investigation.
Rather than appear before the grand
Jury on Tuesday, in response to a sum
mons, and tell what he knew about
Wood and his other friends in the con
sniracv Pitman ended his life by firing
a bullet into his brain.
Mr. Pellltler got the Information for
the indictments of "the men higher up"
from Pitman and from John J. Breen,
the Lawrence undertaker who was lined
$500 In tho Salem court for placing the
dynamite where it was found.
Made Rapid Progress.
Wood's rise was rapid and remarkablp
His employers readily recognized hlu
great e'vcutlve ability. After becoming
superintendent and 'active head of sev
eral mills at Lawrence, "Wood married u
daughter of the man who had made a
fortune out of a medicine he patented.
As a witness In a civil suit last winter
Wood testified that he didn't know how
many automobiles he owned.
The third man said to have been In.
dieted with Wood and Collins is re
ported to be president of a big New
England mill. It Is understood that he i
Is unable to appear to answer to tho
reported indictment at this time, but
that, through counsel, he has made ar
rangements to surrender himself at the
earliest opportunity.
Wood was In New York when indicted,
and, in response to a long-distance tele
phone call from District Attorney Pel
letter, expressed willingness to como
back Immediately to answer the con
spiracy Indictment.
Denies His Guilt.
After he had been released on ball
Wood made the following statement:
"I am greatly surprised by the action
of the grand jury. I cannot conceive
what Information could have been pre
sented to the Jurors which In any way
connected me with the So-called
dynamite plot. I certainly had no con
nection with It, and this fact will bo
fullv established at the proper time
to the satisfaction of tho public and
even the district attorney. Beyond that
I have nothing to say."
Wood Indictment May
Help Labor Leaders Held
On Charges of Murder
LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug 30. That
the indictment in Boston of William M.
Wood, head of tho American Woolen
Company, for conspiracy In connection
with th "planting" of dynamlto during
the recent mill strike here, will have a.
decided effect on the oomlng trials for
murder cf the strlko leaders, Joseph J.
Ettor and Alturo Glovannlttl, Mas ad
mitted by friends and foes of the ac
cused here today.
The men have been in Jail a'Aaltlng
trial on a murder charge since Januaiy
19. Their lawyers and members of tho
Industrial Workers of tho Wond havu
alleged thnt they have been "Jobbed."
and thp: the woman for whose killing
thev are lipid, Annie Loplzzo, a striker,
was In reality slain by a bullet fired by
a policeman in quelling the riot.
Wood bus been the artlvo force behind
their prosecution, and the dynamite do
velopmeiitr have directed attention to
the prosecutions of innocents made by
the leadsrs,
Their trial Is set for next month, and
the prosecution had planned to show
that tho riot, during which tho Loplzzo
woman wns slain, was Intigr.ved by
speeches mado by them.
Mcuonegal Appointed.
Announcement was made toduy of tho
appolntriiiit of A. R McGonegal. in
spector plumbing of the District, ns
a member of the committee on improve-
rntiuH in vanuary appliances of the
American Society of Plumbing Inspec
tors. ' . .