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WHOLE NUMBER 17,839. RICHMOND, VA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1908.
PRICE TWO CENTS
large: increase
F
House Votes to Appropriate
$400,000 for Necdy Con
federates and Widows.
STATE TO GIVE S250.000
TOAID WORK ON ROADS
Question o? Extension of Session
Now Agitating Both Branches.
Byrd Modifies R-, I\ & P.
Bills?The Rhea Re?
port Not Yet
Completed.
BY LEWIS II. MACHEN.
In lcglslatlve clrcles lt was a day
tt strenuous activity. A great number
of bllls wero passed by tho two housas,
and some of them will now go to the
Governor. Many more were reported
by the commlttccH. and a score or
two acore were lntroduced. In splte
of horolc efforts at three sesslons of
the House and two of the Senate, the
number of bllls on the calcndara re?
malns about the same as on Saturday.
Hxteunioii uf .ScmnIoii.
In the Senate the question of extend
Ing the session and asking the Gov?
ernor to call an extra session was
the subject of resolutlons, aa pre
dlrted ln yesterday'a roport in thls
eolumns. These resoiutiona will becon?
sldered to-day, nnd it la certaln that
strong representatlons will be made of
the Imposslblllty of flnlshlng the work
of tho session tn tho allutted period
of alxty days.
Just what will bo tho fatc of thfi
resolutlons cannot be stated, but lt
Ih generally oonceded that the re
malnder of the slxty-day period ls
wholly Insuftlclent for the dlspatch
of even the more Important buslness
now before tho General Assembly. The
hentlment for ttctendlng tho present
Hesslon. wlthout pay. appears to be
stronger In tho Senate than ln the
House. As lt will bo necessary to have
a three-flfths voto of the memberx
olected to each branch, lt ls more than
doubtful if such an extension will be
voted.
The proposltlon to have the Governor
call an extra session Eeems to meet
wlth greater favor. That method
would not call for so great a flnancial
fcucrlllce on the part of the members.
I ?>?, II | | III Idllil I A llll-llll IIM'll t.
The constltutlonal amendment pro?
vldlng for nlnety day sesslons, which
passed the House wlthout opposltloo.
was put on lts passage. A majorlty
of two to one voted for It, but lt failed
of tho constltutlonal vote owlng to the
small attendance of Senators. The
vote was reconslderod, and the reso?
lution will come up agaln to-day, and
it ls believed that it will be adopted.
The Senato last session adopted a
slmllar resolution by unanlmous vote.
But that was near tlps end of the ses?
sion, when the necesslty for longer
meetlngs was more apparent than lt
is now to some new members. It must
bc remembered, too. that there are cer?
taln persons and Interests that make
a speclalty of kllling by obstructlon
measures whlch could not bo killed if
tfme were allowed to conslder and vote
upon them. The short session Uj an
Ideal situation for thls class. and their
influence may now be thrown agalnst
the resolution. n
The Senate passed a large number
of bllls. chlefly local. except one In
relatlon to the care of the lnsane. and
two ln regard to schools.
In the House much work of Import?
ance was accomplished. Two hundred
and flfty thousand dollars was appro?
priated for State ald to roads, to be
expended condltlonally in those coun?
tles not avalling themselves of the
provislons of the AA'ithers-Lasslter law.
Four hundred thousand dollars wns
appropriated for penslons to needy
Confederate soldlers and indijjent
Widows of Confederate soldlers?an In?
crease of about *|100,000 over prevlous
appropriations. This blll caused the
most plcturesQue, not to say florld. de?
bate of tlie session. Tho bravery of
tho Confedorato soldlers, the heroisin
of their wlves and sweethearts. the
pathca of their falling away, as the
wlthered leaves of Autumn?those are
themes that cannot but carry great
welght. But the most eloquent pleas
could not avall agalnst the stern fact
of the State's llmited resources, and
the blll was adopted practlcally as it
came from the Finance Committee.
This is tho more remarkablo when lt
is consldered that about one-llfth of
tho Tlouso served in the Confederate
Army, and a large proportion of the
other members aro sons of Confederate
Veterans.
The House passed the bill for a re?
vision of the Code by threo persons,
to bo chosen by the General Assembly.
If tho Senate concura in thls actlon of
the House, there will be three respon?
sible posltlons to bo fllled, at a salary
of $5,000 each. The revision of 1887
was done by Messrs. Rlley, Staples and
Burks, all of whom woro afterward
elected to tho Supremo Court of Ap?
peals, whero thoy served wlth dls
tlnguished ablllty.
Tha bill for placlng a replica or
mo'dlficd copy of the Houdon statue of
George Washlngton ln Statuary Hall,
ln Washlngton, Avas also passed by tho
House. Conslderable complalnt .has
been made of the posslbillties for evll
lnvol.'od in the idea of the modlUetl
copy. but lt ls not believed that any
artist will venture to engraft uny ldeas
of his own upon a copy of thls famous
and noble masterpiece.
To-day is expected to be a stirrlng
one ln tho Leglslature. It ls possible
tl tt the Rheu Investlgatlng commlt
t60 may formuluto its report. It ls
thought that the Assembly will not
act upon this report until tho members
have had timo to road tho prlnted evl?
dence, whlch will not bo reudy until
poxt week.
ln the Senato tho propositlou to ro
jnovo tho licenso tux from doctors, and
In the Houso tho child-labor blll, are
expected to provoke warm dlsousslons,
SESSI0NS0FTW0 HOUSES
Both llrniii'lu'N IIiikII.v ul Work CohnIiI
erlug nml PiinnIiik HIIIn.
The House of Delegates was called
to order at 10 o'clock hy Speaker Byrd,
and pruyor was offerod hy Ht, Rev.
iJContlnued on Third Page.)
MISTRIAL IN SNELL CASE
.Inry Innlili- in Agree An (o Will of tlie
Reeentrlc Mlllloiiiiiri-.
CLINTO.V,. ILL., February 17.?The
Jury In thc Snell $2,000,000 wlll case
tlils afternoon was dlscharged with?
out ngree-lng on a verdlct. Tho Jury
stood eight for breaking tho wlll
and four agalnst. The Jury was out
forty-slx hours. The case cannot be
hearel agaln beforo tho May' term of
court.
Tho suit to break the wlll of Colonel
Thomas Snell was brobght by the
aged and eccentric inlllonalrc's son.
RIchard Snell, president of the Cllnton
Bank. It has been rlfe wlth sensa
tlons, chlef of whlcli wero the "Snell
letters," wrltten by women and young
glrls to tho olel man, who wns wllllng
to pay lavlshly for bolng loved and
for being told so ln affectlonately
worded eplstles, ln whlch appeals for
money. nilngled wlth cxprcsslons of
enelcarment. Among the letters .were
some from the wife of a clergyman,
who not only expressed her own lov<;,
but told Snell that her daughter, six?
teen years old, would love hlm lf ho
would send her money, Letters from
thc glrl herself, bearlng out the prorn
Ises of tho mother, were lntroduced at
the trlal of the suit to break the will.
Whon Colonel Snell dled In June,
1007. ho loft an estate of $2,000,000. To
hls son RIchard he loft only an annulty
of $50 por year. To a grandnlece, Ma?
bel le Snoll MoNamara, he left property
valued at $25,000. and an annulty of
$1,000 per year. The rest of hls prop?
erty he left In trust, Interest to be
added each year to the prlnclpal, untll
twenty years after the death of hls
youngest grnndchlld, then but flvo
years of age.
Itlchard Snell ls trylng to break hls
father's wlll on the ground that thc
old man was Insano about women.
. WILL ACCEPT CRUISER
Nnvy oniclnls Greatly Plcnscd Wltll
Itun Mnde by thc North Cnrollua.
WASHINGTON. February 17.?The
ofllclal report of tho trlal of the new
armored crulser North Carolina off the
Virginia capes Saturday nlght confirms
the statement ln the press dlspatches
that sho avcraged approxlmately 22.1
knots tn her four-hour speed trlal. It
says tha*. the trlal was a very suc
cessful ono, although mado ln a heavy
sea.
Although the supposed speed made
by tho North Carolina is the best ever
made by an American armored crulser,
Engllsh bullt vessels of thc samo class
have made much better records, run?
ning up to twenty-four knots an hour
and ono ot them. the Duke of Edln
burgh. lt was estfmated, would make
27.75 knots.
Admiral Clover, president of tho
Board of Inspection ond Survey, and
the other members of the board, whlch
conducted the trlal, have returned to
Washlngton. The admiral says that
the speed made by the shlp ls the best
ever made by a vessel of tho armored
crulser class In thc Unlted States Navy.
He attrlbutes her good run to the faet
that plcked coal was used. that the
bearlngs were carefully adjusled, and
that n--ire lead was glven to the steam
valve of the hlgh-pressure cyllnder.
The aceeptance of the crulser by the
government ls now guaranteed.
SENATOR LATIMER VERY ILL
opi-riitluu on South CaroIIun Senateir
LrnvCN Condltlon Crltlcul.
WASHINGTON. February 17.?Fol?
lowlng an operatlon for a twlst of
the bowels, Senator Asbury C. Latimer.
of South Carolina, for llve terms a
member of the House of Reprcsenr.a
tlves. nnd slnce 1903 a member of tlu
Senate, ls dylng in a crltleal condl?
tlon to-nlght at the Provldence Hos?
pltal here.
Senator Latimer, who is flfty-seven
years of age, had not beon feellng well
for a woek. At mldnlght Saturday he
was suddenly taken worsc, and was
removed at once to the hospltal for
an operatlon foi- appendlcltls. It was
discovered when the Inclslon had been
made that the trouble was more grave
than expected, and thut the Intestlnes
were involved.
An operatlon was performed to-day.
and at Its concluslon lt was announced
that, though hope was felt for hls re
covery, tho outcome was by no means
certaln.
INDICTED MEN SURRENDER
Voorhees and CouiIiom Give Thcmaclvea
l li nnd Are llnlb-d.
NEW YORK, February 17.?Fostor
M. Voorhees. former Governor of New
Jersey. and Frank G. Combes, of 1'liil
adolphia, who were indlcted by the
grand jury last week on charges of
perjury, to-day surrenderad themselves
io tho district attorney. They wero
arraigned before Justice Dowllng ln
tho Suprome Court, and gavo bail in
the sum of $2,500 each. Tho indict
nient on charges of perjury agalnst
each of tho men grew out of an an?
nual report of the Bankers' Life In?
suranco Company, of thls clty, ln 1904.
At that tlme Voorhees was president
and secretary of tho company. This
report, which they signed, declared that
$20,000 of tho dlvldends of the company
wero not due the stockholders.
FIVE INJURED IN WRECK
Mlclilgnu Central Pflsscngei) Trnlu
TcIcBcopea Vurd Kngiiic.
BUFFALO, N.- Y., Februury 17.?Five
persons were Injured, one probably
fatally. when a Michigan Central pas?
senger train, running twonty-five miles
an hour, crashed into-and teloscoped
a New York Central yard englne at
Black Rock late last nlght.
Janios Barry, Buffalo, ehglneer of
the yard englne, who sustalned a frac
tured 8kti.ll and internal Injurles, .will
probably dle.
HUSBAND WOULD NOT EAT
Voiiuk Wife, Dlahppolntcil, Jumpa Froni
Wlueiow, nnel Muy Dle.
NEW YORK, February 17.?Becauso
her husbanel of a few months returned
IuTme two hours late last nlght anel
thon rofusod to eat the supper she
had taken much palns to cook for
hlm, Mrs. Goorglne Clark leaped from
a wlndow ln her home to a paveel
court twelve foet bolow ln an effort to
take hor llfo. She ls at a hospltal and
ln a serious condltlon.
KILLED BY GAS EXPL0SI0N
One Man I.naea Hla Life ut Pntlavllle
nud Ani-tlu-r Fatally llurneil.
POTTSVILLE, VA., Fobruary 17.?
Jonus Sllcox. who wouhl have been
elected to tho school board of St. Clair
at to-morrow's electlon, was kllled
thls afternoon by an exploslon of gas
in tho Wuglo Hlll colllery of tho Phila?
delphla nnd Reading Coal nnd Iron
Company, nnd Thomas Wado was per
hnps fatallv burned. A shot brought
down a largo fall of coal und released
a body of gas, whlch was ignlted by
a mluor's lamp.
GREAT INDUSTRY
IS
A Prominent Oyster Planter
Says Business.Is in Dan?
ger of Destruction.
URGES BREAKING
OF BAYLOR SURVEY
Richmond Men Hear Discussion
dt Oyster Culture, and Manifest
Much Interest in Situation.
What State Should Do
to Remedy Present
Conditions.
Oyster culture was discussed at
length last nlght before Post A of the
Travelers' Protectlve Associatlon by
Mr. Rlchard Armstrong, of Hampton.
the members of the organlzation ask?
ing many questions and showlng great
Interest ln the conduct of the busl?
ness and the ateps recommended for
Its protectlon. Mr. Arni3trong warmly
advocated the breaklng of the Baylor
survey?a temporary provlsion whlch
was made slxteen years ago for the
beneflt of 4 the oyster buslness, but
whlch has now outgrown Its useful
ness, and whlch threatens to Impalr
serlously, if not to destroy utterly,
thls Industry ln A'lrglnla.
That the oyster question is of imme
dlate Importance to RIchmond buslness
men was shown by the speaker ln hls
statement that under proper condl?
tlon, tho Industry ln thls State should
have an annual pay roll of $7,000,000,
a sum equal to flve times that of the
Richmond Locomotlve Works when
running at full blast.
The expendlture of thls amount an
nually wlthln a radius of 150 mlles of
Richmond, and with Richmond as the
melropolls of the sectlon, was polnted
to an an Immediate and cogent reason
for local Interest ln a buslness which
the speaker consldered to be seriousl>
threatened. and whlch ho feared might
entirely dlsappear.
Vlrsrlnla Hoen Back.
Mr. Armstrong exhlbited a number
of charts and answered a great va?
riety of questions affecting the busi?
ness, explainlng at length the methods
of raising oysters and the hlstory of
the buslness, showlng a wide famlilar
lty wllh the laws of thls State and
other States, and declarlng that owing
to her present laws A'lrginia can no
longer compete wlth Connectlcut,
Rhode Island and Loulslana, and that
under laws passed by the last Legls?
lature. Maryland ls rapldly outstrip
plng Virginia as an oyster-producing
and shlpplng State.
At the instance of tho Vlrginla Leg?
lslature of 190:: a survey was made
of the oyster grounds known as the
Baylor survey. all the area within cer
tp.ln prescrlbed llnes, 230.000 acres,
more or less, belng declared publlc
lands. in whlch any porson might catch
oysters wlth tongs. The Speaker ex?
plained that the Virginia oystor. ex?
cept the klnd ralsed on tlio Eastern
Shore. ls a brackish wator oyster.
whose spawn Is best hatched about the
mouthSMOf rlvers, where the water is
nelther too salty nor too fresh. This
spawn floats on the surface of the
river until Its shell begins to form,
When it slnks. If it falis upon rock
bottom or other oyster shells. the
spawn takes hold, and ln two years'
time produces a well-slzed oyster. if
lt falls on niuil bottom or in too deep
water, it dles.
Mr. Armstrong exhlbited the plat of
the lower James Itiver, in which ther"
are about la.tiuo acres of publlc land
proteeted undor the Baylor survey.
Most of this ls shallow water, In which
there are large oyster deposits, a place
whlch has ln years past been the
breedlng ground for the bulk of the
suppiy of the A'lrginia ovsters, and
has, in fact. furnlshed seed to other
States. Uslng thls James Rlver plat as
an illustratlun of what ls golng on
in others rlvers, Mr. Armstrong said
that thousands of people, more tlian
half of whom are colored, are paying
the annual license fees and taking seed
from the ground. The regular plant?
ers take the seed or young oysters
by the boatload to tholr private
grounds ln tho creeks, and plant it
for a year or two ln water ln wh'loh
(Continued ou Second Page.)
ARE PREPARING FOR WAR
Turklsh Army Reserves Ilelug Rusheil
to Froutler?Appeals for Pence.
TIFLIS, Fobruary 17.?Reports have
been recelved here from Armenla that
all the P.edlfs, or Turklsh army re?
serve, In Aran, Mush and the other
vllayets of Asla Minor, have been
called to the colors, and nro proceed
ing rapldly for the froutler. At the
same tlme a league of all tho Turklsh
revolutlonary partles is Increaslng the
revoiutlonary ugltatlon. Appeals and
proclaraations are belng lssued requost
lng the populatlon to protest in every
way possible against the warlikc plan's
of the Sultan.
At Tiflis tho apprehenslon of hostili
ties has not abnted. The Russlan mlli
tary authorltles have ordered that all
horses In the Caucasus sultable for mlll?
tary purposes be registored. The doc
tors of Tiflis held a meetlng recently
and volunteerod their servicos in case
of war.
WAR SCARE IN RUSSIA
Siliiatlon 'J'akoii Serlously in AU Cir
elom Country IVohnbly Nol I'repureil.
ST. PETERSBURG, February 17.?
Tho alarmlst reports of the posslhillty
of hostllitles between Russla and Tur?
key, whlch have permeatod all strata
of Russlan society. have assumod the
proportlons of a verltablo war scare,
to whlch the sensallonnl press is do
votlng Its blggest head llnos.
The. situation is taken seiiously, not
only In mllltary clrcles, but also by
conservative politiclans. M. Guelikoli',
tho leader of tho majorlty ln tho Dunui
announced hls Intentlon' to:nlght of
raising at the next meetlng of the Com?
mission of National Defense tho ques?
tion of the nation's reudlness for war
Thls, he holieves',- is of.the most vltnl
Importance, in viow of tho news from
the Caucasus and all ports of Europe.
He also proposes to interpolnto tho
Mlnlster nf Conimunioatlohs ns to the
ablllty of the rallroads, pnrtlcularlv
ln Caucasus and Trans-Caucaslu to
transport troops qulckly to the south?
ern und south western frontlers.
Tho Duma, according to M, Guchkoff.
will be gullty of criminal negllgoncu
lf |t permlts the country agaln to bo
drawn Into war for whlch it ls wholly
unpreparod. Tho surest means to
avold a. rupture, he sald, is sorlous
.preparatloti for any evcntuaUty,
CAUTHORN'S PLEA SUSTAINED
Drs. Dreivry anel Prlddy lleitli Testlfy
Tliot He l? liisnnij.
rHpnrli-l fei Tho Tlmc-i*- Dlnpttlch.)
CMRISTIANSBURG, VA., February
y7.?Drs. W. F. Drcwry, of Petersburg,
and A. S, Prlddy, of Marlon, went on
tho star... ln behalf of tho defense and
statod that ln thelr oplnlon Frank
Cauthorn was lnsano now and tit the
tlme ho kllled Mrs. Ada Joncs, basing
thelr oplnlon on tho faet that ho was
tho son of Intoxlcatcd, reckloss and
Imtnoral parents, anel had beon rearod
under tho worst lnfluences; that he
was suffering from Juvenlle ele-mentla.
a form of dlseased mlnd whlch 1m
pelleel hlm to tho crlme, and that ho
did not havo sufflclent wlll power to
reslst tho temptatlon. Dr. Drcwry sald
tho man's lnsanlty, hc belleved, began
soveral years ago, and he thinks lt
wlll last a llfetime. He thought Cau?
thorn practically lncurable, and that
he should be locked up ln an lnsane
asylum. Ho has glven tho caso more
study and attention than lio has given
nny caso during his twenty-two years'
connectlon wlth the State hospltal.
There was a plalnly perceptlblo mur
nmr of dlsapproval on thc part of the
crowd when wltness sald ho regarded
the prisoner as being lnsane.
The court gavo sevon lnstructlons to
the Jury thls afternoon. and the argu?
ment began at 3:30 o'clock. Common
wealth's Attorney R. I. Roop opened
the case In a forty-flve mlriutes' speech,
ln whlch he contended that the law
presumed every man sane untll the
contrary was proven to thc satlsfac
tlon of the Jury. He reclted much of
tho cvldence to show that thc prisoner
know the nature and consoquences of
hls crlme, and had suftlclent wlll power
to restrain himself had he trled: that
tho .crlme was only the usual sequencn
of a'lustful lnfatuatlon for thc wlfc ot
another, and seelng lt Impossible for
him to possess her, shot her, anel that
he ought to receivo the extreme pen?
alty of the law.
W. H. Colhoun, for the defense, made
an able anel powerful plea for the
prisoner. He sald that ho had been
shown to be lnsane beyond all ques?
tlon, and that it would be lnhuman to
punlsh hlm. He contended that overy
act and thought of the prisoner in
connection wlth the deed was Irra
tlonal; no sane man would have done
as he did. i
Captain John R. Johnson will speak
for the defense to-morrow, and Com
monwealth's Attorney R. I. Roop wlll
close for the State. There Is consider?
able spcculatlon on the verdlct, some
expectlng acqulttal and some a hung
Jury.
1 SH00TONE: CHASE OTHER
Negroes Who Attnck Georgla Woman
I'urweil by CItlzc-ua.
SAVANNAJI. GA., February 17.?A
special to the Savannah Press from
Statesboro, Ga., to-day says that one
negro was shot and probably fatally
Injured and another ls being pursued
by a sherlff's posse, and wlll prob?
ably be 1,/nched it caught, as tho re?
sult of an attempted assault upon Mrs.
Matthew Howard, threo miles from
Statesboro.
Mrs. Howard escaped by running out
of tho house when the negroes ap?
peared, and her screams as they fol?
lowed her brought asslstance. J. D.
Smith, a neighbor, shot and wounded
the first negro twlce, and put hlm ln
a wagon and took hlm to the States?
boro jall.
SELF-DEFENSI HARGIS'S PLEA
Wlll Clnlm Thnt Hla Father Chokeel
Hlm nnel ICicked Out Teeth.
[Sppclal to The Tlmos-Dlspatch.]
LEXINGTON. KY., February 17.?In
the defense of Beech Hargis for the
murder of his father, Judge James
Hargis, the expenses wlll be pald out
of the $50,000, which Is the boy's share
of hls father's large estate.
When Judge James P. Adams con
vened tho Breathltt County Clrcult
Court at Jackson to-day, tho Hargis
e.ase was the most Important matter
awaiting actlon. lt is expected that
Beeeh Hargis wlll be promptly in
dictoel, and if thls Is done, hls trlal
for the murder of hls father will at
once begln. The defoiise wlll be self
defense, and will clalm that Hargls's
father choked the young man and
klcked out several teeth beforo the
son flred.
PUT TIE 0N TRACK
Dlschnrgcd Employe Arrested on Sus
plclon of Attempt lng te> Wreck Tralu.
AMERICUS, GA., February 17.?An
attempt was mado hero late to-day
to wreck the northbound Central train.
A crosstlo was placed ln Muckalee
Creek trestle at the end of a sharp
curve. The traln had slowed down,
and tho englne struck tho tlo at re?
duced speed, without being dorailed.
The chlef of police went with a
posse to the scene, and arrested John
Hoelgos, a dlscharged sectlon hand.
Hodgos denied placlng tho tle, but ls
sald to have admltted ho knew it was
there before thc englne struck lt.
SELLS ITS COAL LANDS
Louisvllle and Nashvllle Dlapoacd of Its
Inlereata (u Indlvlduul Stocklioldera.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, February 17_
Pursuant wlth tho provisions of the
Hepburn act agalnst transportation of
coal in which the carrler has an In?
terest. announcement was mado to
day that thc Louisvllle and Nashvllle
Rallroad Company has dlsposed of its
holdings in the Louisvllle Property
Company to lndlvldtial Louisvllle and
Nashvllle stookholders.
Tho rallroad, as the Property Com?
pany, bought thousands of acrots of
coal lands ln S'outheastern Kentucky
and bullt spur tracks to thom. Tho
lands wero leasoel to coal companies.
?
BURN WAGON AND TOBACCO
Nlghl Rlders Pny Mall io ihe Onrn of
v. McKlnuey,
HOPKINSVIDLE, IvY., February 17.
?"Nlght Rlders" late last nlght vislted
the farm of V. McKlnuoy, In tho north?
ern pnrt ut' Christlan coupty, bvoke
open hls tobacco barn aiul rolled out
two wagons, heavlly loaded wlth to?
bacco. Under one of the wagons thev
started a flro whlch destroyed tho
wagon and coiitenls. Thoy placed ln
tho othor wagon tlynamito, which, how?
ever, fallod to explodo.
?--1 ?.
DEATH FROM YELLOW FEVER
?-?
Third lhiRluee-i' Ilnvla Dle* of DUense,
Hut Prlelmrd la Dolng Well.
GALVKSTON. TEXAS, Fobruary 17.
_Third En'glneer Wllllam Davis, ouo
of tlio two mon suffering train yellow
tovor on tho steamer Crispln ln Gal
voston Roads, threo mllos from tlio
elty, diod early to-day. Third" Offi?
cer Prliharil, tlie other fevor patient,
wns reported to-nlght as slightly im?
provlng. _ , ,
Tho stcnnior Crispln camo from Ma.
nos a polnt about 800 or 1)00 mllos up
the Amas-on Rlver, ln Brazll, vla Parn.
All precautlons aro bolng taken to
avold uny spreatj of tho disease, (
TRE ALDRICH BLLL
Secret of Democratic Agree
ment Will Unite Republl?
cans In Its Support.
ONE MEMBER ADMITS
THAT ALL WERE BOUND
This Done, the Majority of Cur?
rency Committee Force Ad
journment That They May
Confer and Map Out
Their Course?Party
Whip to Crack.
Tlmcs-Dlapatch ttureau,
Mun.ir>y Bulldlng,
AVnshlngton, D. C? Feb. 17.
That thn Aldrlch currency blll will
pass tho House ls to-day tho bellef
of many men who thought last week
that there was llttlo or no chifnce of
lts gettlng through tho lower branch
of the Congress. The change ln Re?
publlcan sentiment appears tn have
been cffected through Democratlc mls
takes In generalshlp moro than
through any other means.
In short. the Aldrlch blll, according
to present Inrllcatlons, will ho whipped
through the Houso of Representatives
us a partlsan measure. The votes
agalnst It will be east by the Demo?
crats excluslvely, whlle the Republl?
cans will east all whlch will be east
for it?enough to put it on the statute
books.
The bellef that tho Democrats had
agreed to support the so-called AA'il
liams currency blll appears to have
caused the Republlcans to declde to
unito In support of the Aldrlch blll,
whlch ls now pending ln tho Senate,
and wll] be passed by that body ln
about ten days or two weeks. AA'hen
the Committee on Banklng and Cur?
rency adjourned thls mornlng it was
understood that lt was for the purpose
of allowing the majorlty members of
the committee to confer. It ls well
known that tho object of their con?
ferencc ls to agreo on a Hne of pro?
cedure, and it Is loarncd thn ma?
jority of the committee favors unlting
to support the Aldrich bill.
Someliodj- Tnlkeil.
Had not the Democrats allowed the
lmpression to get out that they had
bound themselves to support tho Wil?
liams blll, there would probably not
have been the slightest chanco of the
passage of the Aldrlch blll. Mr. Wll?
llams. tho minorlty leader, appeared be?
fore the Democratlc members of the
Banklng and Currency Committee some
tlme ago, and discussed wlth them tho
features of hls proposed blll. The
measure dld not meet the vlews of
the minorlty members, wlth ono excep
tlon. but lt was agreed that they
should not opposo, but unite wlth the
minorlty members of the Flnance Com?
mittee of the Senate In the support of
the measure, ln order to present a
solld front to tho country, though
havlng tho right to amend. It appears
that there was an understandlng that
tho dc-tail-; of thls agreemont were to
bo kopt secret. Somebody gave them
to tho press last week.
It was evldent as soon ns tho House
Committee on Banklng and Currency
met thls mornlng that much Interest
had been created among tho Republl?
cans by tho announcement of the
Democratlc agreement.
Democratlc members wero questloned
very closely regnrdlng tho statement
that they had caucused on the AVI1
Ilams bill, and wore bound to support
It. All tho minorlty members present,
wlth ono exceptlon, asserted. that they
dld not understand that they wero
bound to support tho measure ln ques?
tion. 'The one referred to sald It was
hls understandlng that the Democrats
were pledged to stand by tho Wllllams
blll. After some further discusslon, a
motion was made by a Republlcan
member that tho commlttoe adjourn
until Wednesday morning, In order to
glve the majorlty of tho committee
time to confer. Ono of the Democrats
agreed to voto for the motlon If the
latter clause Avore stricken out. Thls
portlon was wlthdrawn, and the com?
mittee adjourned.
Forced Support, of Alilrlob Blll.
It Is tho belief of the Democrats of
tho committee that tho Republlcans of
tho Houso will now be compelled to
support the Aldrlch blll, sinco they
have the lmpression that tho Demo?
crats aro pledged to support tho Wll?
llams blll.
A member of the committee, a Demo?
crat, told The Tlmes-Dlspatoh corre
spondent thls afternoon, that lt would
havo been nbsolutoly Impossible for
the Uepublicans to have passed elther
the Aldrlch bill or the Fowler blll had
they not formed the ldea that the
Democrats were bound to voto for the
bill whlch bears the namo of Mr. AA'll
llnms. lt has boen sald that there
were almost onough Republlcans In tho
Houso of Representatives opposed to
the Aldrlch blll to Insuro Its defeut.
But tho whlp ls expected to crack, and
a fairly unanlinous Republlcan line-up
for tho measure la expected to be the
result. Tho further result will bo tho
enactment of tlie Aldrlch blll into law.
It ls a pecullar fact In connection
wlth tliis blll that lt does not appear
to have any enthuslastlc frlends,
though a majorlty of tho Senate will
undoubtediy vote for lt, and It looks
now as though a majorlty of the mem?
bers of thn Houso of Representatives
would do llkewlse.
PLEA FOR TURNER'S LIFE
Clnliiieil Thal He Killed IIls AVIfe Bc
eiiuNo of Hls Love For ller.
LEXINGTON', KY., Fobruary 17.?On
the plea thal Edward Turner, con
demned wlfO-murderor, had been reur
ed ln a godless comnuinlty, seventy
tlve cltlzonts of Rrcuthltt county, Ky.,
havo sent letters und pi'tltlons to C,ov
onuir pattoraon, oi' Tennessoe, pleadlng
for a commutatlon of tlu- death sen?
tence of Turner, who formerly llved
iu Bretithltt county, Turner is sen
tencud io liang on Fobruary HIst,
The plea <>!' tho petltlonorH Is that
TuriiiM', brought up tn a godless ciiin
munlly, never had an opporlunlty to
know right from W.rontSi thut hls pa?
rents illt'd when lie was vory young;
that the wlckoduess of hls wli'o un
? bulancoil his mind, nnd that ho killed
hor, not bocause he hutod her, but bo
kcauuo ho loved hor, ,
IMPRISONED IN MINE
T*venty-F.lBi-t Men Caught In C'olllery,
lmt Belleved lo He Alive.
POTTHVILLE. PA., February 17.?
Twonty-elght mlners woro Imprisonce'
Iti tho Midvalley C'olllery, near Mount
Carmol, thls mornlng by tho breaklns
of a dam of water, which hael formei!
ln a elrlft, whlch hael causeel a rush oi
iiui'l lnto a gangway whero the mer
woro at work. All day long a partj
of rescuers endeavored to reach the
entombed men, anel shortly after i
o'clock to-nlght they wero glven en
couragcment by sounds of dlgglng fron
the Inslde. Later a shot was alsi
heard, Indlcatlng that the mon wen
at work to effect tholr own rescue am
also glvlng assurance that tho alr l.
good.
Among the men entombed are a nura
ber of experlenced mlners, and lt 1:
belleved thnt lt wlll bo possible te
effect tho rescue of all the mon unles:
somo of them should have met deatl
by beln-J smothereel ln the rush of mut
when the elam broke through the gang?
way. Seven of thc number aro Ameri?
cans. Tha other entombed men art
forelgners.
Tho work of roscuo ls under thc
dlrectlon of Mlne Inspector James A.
O'Donnell, of the fourteenth distrlct.
asslsted by Inspector B. I. Evans, of
thc flfteenth distrlct. O'Donnell hns n
force of 100 men working under hlm,
anel they are taklng thelr turn3 ln
regular relays of two hours' work and
four hours' rest.
The nolso of men working with plcks
Inslde gave tho rescucrs great cn
couragoment, .anel lt ls bellovod that
the majority of tho entombed mer. are
allve, although lt ls scarcely possible
that all of them wero fortunate enough
to havo escaped the great rush of rrrucl
whon tho dam broke.
Great crowds of people have gath?
ered around the mouth of the slopo
and havo announced thelr Intentlon oi
ronialnlng during tho entiro nlght
They Includo thei families of tho en?
tombed men.
During tho day women and chil?
dren were gathered about tho mine
havlng rushed there from thelr homec
at tho flrst alarm of tho dlsaster. The.v
could not be prevalled upon to gc
home, but lnslsted upon remaln lng
about tho mouth of tho slope. Aftoi
tho rapplng was heard from tho en?
tombed men these fear-strlcken one;
were gro/itly reassured, and many oi
them returned to thelr homes, whlle
others bullt bontires wlth tho Inten?
tlon of camplng out during thc nlght
The mlners about the colliery were
formed lnto a tempotary police force
but later In the afternoon a siiuad ol
State constabulary appeared on thc
scene and performed excellent servlce
koeplug the crowd back.
DOCTOR'S TERRIBLE MISTAKE
Took C'orronlvc Subllmntc for IJromidc
Hut Antldotea Saved Him.
f Speclal to Tho Tlmes-Dispatch.]
SUFFOLK. VA., Fobruary 17.?Aftet
havlng accldentally swallowed enougl
polson to klll twenty men, Dr. Job G
Holland, of Holland, Va., stlll llves
and hls physlcans believe the dangoi
polnt ls passed.
Dr. Holland about 3 o'cloc.c thli
mornlng went. to hls lahoratory. in
tending to tako a bromidc to rellevc
insomnia. lnstead of tho bromhJe. hc
reached a bottle contalnlng blchloridc
of morcury, or corroslvo subllmate.
and swallowed seven and one-half
grains. One-twenty-flfth of ono graln
ls an adult's elose.
Tho physlcan roallzed Ills mistake
almost lnstantly and notlfled hls wife.
Antldotes were applied and doctors
from Holland were soon at hls beelslde.
Dr. Franklln Plerce, who llves near by,
reached hlm in a very short perlod.
Dr. Holland ls one of the weaUhtest
and most promlnent physlcans of the
county. _^^
WILL TRY RIPPEY TO-DAY
Negro Cluirged Wlth Illglnvny Robbery
nnei Asanult la luellctcil.
[Speclal to Tbe Times-Dlspatch.]
TAZEWELL, VA., February 17.?
Four lndictments were returned by the
grand Jury to-day?one for hlghway
robbery aiid three for orlminal assault
?agalnst Walter Rlppey, tho negro
who was rushed here to jall Friday
to prevent a lynchlng. As soon as the
lndictments were found preparatlons
wero immediately begun for tlie trlal,
whlch ls set for to-morrow mornlng.
No trouble ls antlcipated ln securlng
a jury. Thls Ls the flrst case In whlch
R. O. Crockett, the newly-electod Com
niouwealtli's iiltorner, wlll olllciate, and
lils record of havlng secured the ovi
den'ce and prepared hls case on such
short notlco Is highly commended, The
crowds from Pocahontas, whoro tlie
crlmo was coinmltted, are very order
ly and no trouble is expected.
COMPANY IN3G00D'SHAPE
Iltiukera' Life llna Not Goue Ont of Bual
nosu, na lSrroneoiisly Hcporteel.
NEW YORK, February 17.?The
Bankers' Life Insuranco Compaily, two
former olllcial.s of whlch were recent?
ly Indlcted for perjury, has, accord?
lng to an ofllcial statement made to
day, assets of $1,400,000 and a surplus
to pollcy-holders, as certlflod by the
lnsurance Denartment on July 1st last,
of $123,876;
In a news Item of February 13tn
It was erroneously stated that the
company had gone out of business
somo tlme ago. As a matter of faet,
the company has been in active liusl?
noss coutlnuously slnce Its organlza?
tlon ln 1S0S. The lndictments recently
returned are personal to former oftl
clals, who severed their rohutons wlth
tho nianagenient aeveral years ago,
FROM TRAIN T0 DEATH
Kbb Loo, lu Attentiitlng to Allght, Falla
Under WhcelH und la (.'rushed.
IS'peelal lo Tho Times-Dlspatch.]
BRISTOL THNN., February 17.?
Robort 11. Lee, known us "Ehb".Lee, a
well known briokluyor, of thls olty,
was kllled thls afternoon by Nor?
folk and Western train No. 11. as it
was onterlng tlie Union passenger sta?
tlon here.
Lee wns a passenger on the train.
and, as it pulled lnto tho statlon, ho
lunipi'il off. Btrlklng thp ground In
stoad nf tho enel of tho platform. He
was thrown under the wheels aiul botb
legs wero cut off. Ha ilied two hours
lator. lle leaves a wife and two chil?
dren.
WHOLE TOWN SHAKEN ll*
HY MXPI.OSIO.X OF DVNAMITr,
MANCHJ3STBR, N, Y., February 17.
?Two-tnirds of the housos ln this
vlllagc have broken wlndows to-day,
owlng to the aocldental explo.ilon of
about twehty-flve pounds ot dynamlte
lu the contre of the town, whleh
American Telephopo and Telegraph
Company employes woro Ihuwlng out.
Houses ahd stores for two mllos away
fell the |ar. Bulldings near at hand
woro deitiollsheil und glass was broken
ln largo nuantltlOH overy where.*- No
ono wus hurt.
.-m .
Injured Golng to. Flre.
PITT.SHUl'G, PA.. Fobruary 17.?Five
flromon woro sorlously injured to-day,
when a Itoaa carriago attaehecl to No.
13 Englno Compnny overturned whlle
rospouUlng tu uu ?tlurui.
Bailcd on Charge of Grand
Larceny, Grand Jury Brings
in Another Indictment.
VIGOROUS DENIAL AS
TO THE O'BRIEN NOTES
Counsel for the Accused Issuc?
Statement Dcclaring There Was
No Agreement That Notes
Should Not Be Dis
counted?Correctcd
His Testimony.
NEW TORK, February 17.?The legaV
entanglemeuts of Charles A\'. Morse,
former. banker and promoter, aro mul
tlplylng, A third Indictment. alleglng
perjury by Mr. Morse durlng an ex?
amination before tho grand jury, was
found by tho speclal grand Jury to?
day a short tlme nfter he had ap*
peared In court to answer tho two In
dlctmcnts found against him last week,
charglng hlm wlth grand larceny. .\r
rangements wero mado to-nlght to
have hlm appear to-morrow before
Justlco A'Ictor J. Dowllng, of the crim?
inal branch of rhe Supremo Court, to
plead to the perjury Indictment. An?
other turn In the case to-day was the
servlng on Phlllp J. Brltt, counsel for
Mr. Morse, of summons ln two actlon.i
brought against tho former banker.
Tho complalnts ln theso suits have not
yet been liled, but it was explained
that thoy relate to stock transactlons
whlch occurred somo tlme ago.
The TCarceuy Ohnrge.
Mr. Morse, the former banker. or
ganlzer of the Amerlcan lce Company
and tho $120,000,000 Consolidated
Steamshlp Company, pleaded not gull?
ty before Justlce Dowllng to-day to tha
two charges of grand larceny. A 'hear?
lng on tho case was set for next Mon?
day.
Tho charges against Morse are based.
on a check transactlon growlng out <>J
the saloby Morse of a block of stoclc
of the National Bank of North Amer?
lca to Morgan J. O'Brien. former chlef
justice of the Appellate Dlvlslon of
the Supremo Court of thls State. Mr.
O'Brien gave Morse a note for $100,
000 ln part payment for the stock, wlth
the understandlng that the note was
not to bo dlscounted. It ls alleged
that Morso discounted the note at tho
Mercantlle Natlonal Bank of thls ol'.y,
recelved a check made payable tb Mv.
O'Brien, Indorsed the check "Morgan
J. O'Brien, per C. AA'. Morse." and de
poslted it to hls own account in the
Natlonal Bank of North Amerlca.
AA'hen he wns arraigned in court to?
day, Morse's counsel Informed the Jus?
tlce that Morse dld not know what tho
speclflc charges against hlm were and
that the dlstrlct attorney had refused
permission for his counsel to ex
amlna the mlnutes of the grand jury
whlch lndlcted Morso on the grand
larceny charges. Counsel sald also
that ho should apply to the court for
authorlty to examine tho mlnutes and
had asked for two weeks' postpone
ment to frame hls appllcation. As?
slstant Dlstrlct Attorney Kresel argued
successfully that ono week was enough
time to allow Morse's counsel, who sald
ho would declde ln the mcantlme
whether to change or withdraw
Morso's ploa.
Statement Made by Counsel.
After hls return to hls offlco Mr.
Morse's attorney, Phllip J. Brltt. made
a statement concernlng the transactlon
upon which tho larceny Indlctnients
rest. IIo said:
"The statement that there was a
wrltten agreement between Mr.
Morso and Mr. O'Brien that the'
notes should not be dlscounted is
false. Thero was an agreement
that the notes should bo renewed
for a period of threo years, but
thero was no agreement that tho
notes should not be dlscounted. If
the notes were to be continued for
a period of three years, and were
not to be dlscounted durlng that
period, lt would practlcally make
them worth less ns securily tu b.0
converted ln case of need durlng
that tlme.
"What Mr. Morso did make hlm?
self responsible for was that If the
notes passed out of hls hands dur?
lng tho period in whlch ha said
that the notes should be renewed.
he would be responsible to see that
thoy should be renewed no matter
ln whose hands they happened to
bo at that tlme. AVith thls under?
standlng of the agreement there
can bo no question as to tho fair
ness of Mr. Morse's actlon ln get?
tlng the notes dlscblinted.
"If tho check wlth whlch the .
dlscounted note was paid was made
out ln tho name of Mr. O'Brien. to
whom wus the money due? To Mr.
Morso, of course. It was in pay?
ment for stock dollverod by Mr.
Morso that the notes were made.
So, lf the check in payment for
tho note wus mado out technically
in tho namo of Mr. O'Brien. whose
-namo was on tho note, It was real?
ly mennt for Mr. Morso. to whom
the note had beon asslgned. There
are a lot of facts in connection
wlth thls caso whlch havo not yet
como out, and whlch will put an
entirely different aspect on lt than,
has so far appeared from what
luts been published ubout it."
Mr. Brltt suld ho did not yet know
whether he would Interposo a de
nutrrer to the Indletments. His legal
actlon wOuld depend upon a grand
jury mlnutes, for which he Intendod
to apply. ^
Charge of Perjury.
Tho perjury Indictment, It wa?
lenrnod, ls based upon a loan obtaln?
ed last September hy E. R. Thomas
from the Bank of North Ainerlca, of
whlch Morse wus thon vlce-presldent.
In tostlfying boforo tho speclal gnintl
Jury, Thomas told about the loan,
whlch was ono of $50,000. Alfred H>
Curtls, then presldont of tha bank, ul?<?
testlfled to the fact that the loan was
made.
Mr. Morso. who had been beforo the
grand Jury, was roculled, aml asked lf
such a Umu had been made,
It is alleged that ln> denled that the
money luul beei: loajied to Thomat,
elther on hls racommondatlon or wlth?
out It. Thomas was agaln summoned,
and thls tlme, lt is further alleged.
produced a letter whlch Morso wrot*
cecommoiullus tho loan. Luter Mr.