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In His Statement
Find He Was Offer
ed Bribe,
WORK FOR GRAND JURY
Exonerate Members of House
From Wrongdoing.
IS EVEN BREAK ON WINTERS
Investigators Say Erie County
, Member's Testimony Contra
I dieted, But They Believe Con-
! versation Had Suspicious Ring.
i Recommend Laws to Punish
! Attempts to Interfere With
! Legislation By Means of Fake
t Telephone Calls.
Columbus, O., April 21. The com
mitteo named by tho house, to InVea
thjato the charges that attempts had
teen made to corrupt certain repre
sentatives during the consideration
of the Elson telephone merger bill In
the house, has completed Its labors.
Its report says In part:
Kb. oxaralnutlon of tho sworn testi
mony connects no member of tho
houso of representatives with any
Irregular or unlawful act In connec
tion with the Introduction, pendency
or passago of House Bill No. 231;
but tho record of the proceedings
does disclose positive and direct evi
dence tending to show that an un
successful attempt was made, In vio
lation of tho General Codo, to influ
ence the Honorable Howard W.
Pears, member of tho house from Al
len county, In his vote on tho Elson
bill so-called. From tho evidence It
further njipoars'tuat thero aro strong
corroborative circumstances support-is,-'
the aforesaid positive testimony,
and it is the opinion and Judgment
of Ihe committee that tho grand Jury
of Franklin county and tho prosecut
ing nttorney thereof will find amplo
evidence In the record of tho pro
ceedings to warrant and Justify a
vigorous Investigation of tho snme.
Testimony Is Contradictory.
Positive evidence Is disclosed by
tho testimony of Honorable Cyrus B.
Winters, momher of tho house from
Erlo county, that upon consideration
of tho withdrawal of his opposition
to tho Elson bill, and thereupon be
coming favorablo' thereto, ho would
rocolvo political Influence and sup
port In his caudidacy for tho ofllco
of secretary of stato or any other of
fice to which ho might aspire, or that
ho would receive political support for
anything that ho might want. This
evldonce, however, Is contradicted by
evidence equally as positive and di
rect, and by reason thoreof tho com
mittee Is unable to mako any finding
of fact, excepting that in tho conver
sation as recited by tho same mem
ber from Erie, and uncontradicted by
ny witness, It appears that tho sub
ject of tho passago of tho Elson bill
and tho candidacy for ofllco on tho
part of tho member from Erie were
lntormlnglod at tho same tlmo and
placo, and thus logically leaving an
lnforenco that tho motives and pur
poses of tho conversation detailed In
tho evtdonca by tho member from
Erlo wero to convince him that a
change of attltudo toward tho Elson
bill would be to his political advan
tage. We think that from tho weight
of tho evidence with respect to thlB
feature of tho Investigation this con
clusion. Is fairly deducible.
From tho testimony of tha Honor
Investigation
TRUTH
On Telephone Bill
VOTE ON ELSON BILL.
For AlBdorf, Cctono, Craw-
ford, Dean, Gllletto, Gotsball,
Huffman, Johnson, Lawyer, Ma-
ther, Mooney, Patterson, Shaffer,
Thompson 14.
Against IJader, Baker, Boatty,
Cameron, Clevenger, Cory, Du-
val, Keller, Kuhl, McKeo, Ma-
haffey, Mathews, Mcntlelson,
Pharo, rtathuurn, Tod, Tuttle,
"Williams, Yount 19.
able f Charles Dogenhart, memboi
from Hamilton county, it appears
that on the second legislative day
after the passago of the Elson bill
so-called, whllo waiting and watching
at his scat In tho houso for a proper
time to mako a motion for a recon
sideration of said bill, he was colled
from tho floor of tho house and de
tained therefrom with tho probable
design, purpose and motive of per
suading said Dcgenhart from making
any attempt to reconsider tho vote
taken on House Bill No. 231.
Fake Calls Were Frequent.
From other testimony It appears
that pretended telephone calls were
mado uso of not Infrequently and for
purposes which appear obvious, and
In the Judgment of tho commlttco it
Is tho Imperative duty of the general
assembly to enact a statute making
It a penal offense to entice or decoy
any member of tho general assembly
while In session from the floor of
either branch, thereof with the intent
to Interfere In any irfanner with the
exercise of the lcglslatlvo functions.
It further appears from the testi
mony that tho companies operating
the telephone booths In thi! house of
representatives placo their own em
ployes In chargo of tho samo, and
thereby open the door for Improper
Influences to enter and effect what
ever object and purpose they may
havo; and In tho opinion of tho com
mittee somo change or regulation
proventlng the aforesaid condition is
obviously necessary.
While it is impossible to deny tho
right to petition the general nssem
bly to any citizen, and, therefore, im
possible to prevent tho assemblage of
citizen? interested in legislation nt
tho cni'ltol, yet Inasmuch as It is tho
existence of tho lobby so-called that
gives rise to tho complaints and crit
icisms that gather about a general
assembly during tho discussion of
Important bills, th,o samo should bo
restricted and limited to every ex
tont wltb.ln tho limit of the law, to
tho end that reason Instead of pas
Blon, Judgment instead of impulse, de
liberation Instead of hasto, should be
determining guides of tho legislator.
Lewis G. Bernard of Cincinnati vol
untarily went boforo the probo com
mlttco and, fitter accepting tho
statement of tho qommltteo that ho
was ret thereby Immunizing himself,
testlPcd. He made a completo donlal
of Mr. Winters' charges.
Washington, April 21. W. IL
Hearst called at the White House
and talked with President Taft lor
half an hour. Later ho set political
Washington guessing by handing out
a characteristic statement in which
ho damns Ittfosovelt and heaps a
large measure of pralso on President
Taft.
Wertz Out of Race.
Woostcr, O., April 21. Edwin B.
Wortz announced that ho woulcJ not
enter they raco for tho Democratic
Domination as candldato from tho
Seventeenth congressional district,
opposing W. A, Ashbroolt, who Is out
tor a third term.
HEARST CALLS
ON TAFT
MAUK TWAIN'S
ELSON TELEPHONE BILL
BEFEATEO
Columbus, O. April 21. By a voto
of 14 to 13, the senate defeatod tho
Elson bill, permitting telephone com
panies In Ohio to be merged, tho
passage of which In the house re
sulted In a legislative bribery Inves
tigation. Friends of the measure de
clared that up until tho voto they
fully expected It to pass. There was
a prolonged debate, tho central
thought of which was tho notoriety
which followed tho houso's action in
passing It. Messrs. Mather, Duval,
Patjerson, Yount, Mendelson, Bath
burn, Mathews and others participat
ed In tile, discussion. It had been
predicted that tho Hamilton county
delegation would support the meas
ure, but Senator Johnson was tho
only member of tho delegation who
did so. Beforo being killed, tho bill
was greatly weakened by amend
ments. Ono by Bathburn excluded
long dlstanco telephone companies
from tho merger privilege This was
a body blow for tho bill.
Flooded With Messages.
During tho day senators woro
flooded with telegrams nnd telephone
Newark, 0 April 21. Angcla, the
B-yearold daughter of L. A. Stare, a
wealthy cdntractor of this placo, is
missing, and her mother Is frantic
from grief, supposing tho Utile tot
has been kidnaped. Suspicion point
ed to a' band of gypsle3 encamped
weBt of tho town, and a thorough
search of tho camp will bo made.
Three Fishermen Drowned,
Atlantic City, April 21. Seven
men were plunfcwl Into tho roaring
sea off Hereforj Inlet by tho cap
sizing of a flshlm; boat, Threo were
drowned, whllo crows of tho govern
ment lifesaving srrvico rescued four
of tho men, who aro recovering at
lonely Hereford station.
Thermometers.
A mercurial thermometer will not
regtiter n lower tomperaturo than 23
beloT zero, while n spirit thermometer
will become sluggish at no below.
KIDNAPED
LATEST PICTUUU.
IN SENATE
messages sent In behalf of tho bill.
When the measure came up for ac
tion Lieutenant Governor Treadway
ordered that no telephone messages
bo received during the dobaJe and no
one In tho senate he called to the
telephone. His order was prompted
by tho revelation In tho house that
when tho vote was being taken thero
members were summoned from their
seats by lobbyists at tho telephones.
Tho scuate acceded to tho request
of the houso for a conference on tho
tax limit proposition, and Senators
Clevenger, Mendelson and Alsdorf
were appointed members for tho sen
ate. Tho houso refused to concur In the
scnatoaniendments to tho general
appropriation measure, nnd It will
also be sent to conference.
Tho houso passed tho senate bill
appropriating $150,000 for tho cele
bration of tho Perry Victory centen
nial at Put-In-Bay Island, Lnko Erie,
in 1013. A bill Is now pending la
congress asklug for a $1250,000 appro
priation. Other states will Join in
tho celebration.
Now York, April 21. Frank n.
Hoffstot, president of tho Pressed
Steel Car company, whoso lawyers
havo been fighting to prevent his ex
tradition to Pittsburg, whoro ho Is
under Indictment In connection with
tho bribery scandals, was arrested
nt tho criminal courts building as a
fugitive from Justice.
Musician's Wife Seeks Dlvorco.
Cincinnati, O., April 21. Mrs. Vas
sella asks for a dlvorco from Band
master Vassella of Atlantic City. Sho
chargea nonsupport. Tho .plaintiff
was Edna Egan, daughter of a local
millionaire. Tho romantic courtship
and marrlago was tho result of a
summer flirtation.
North and South America. '
The area of South America is slight
ly greater than that of North America,
ON TRAIN
LAWYERS' SCRAP
ENLIVENS TRIAL
Hyde's Pond Almost Revoked
as Result.
FERJURY CHARGES PROMISED
Trouble Arose Over Losing of Grand
Jury Notes and Finding of 8ame
by Woman Who Turned Them
0er to Defense Contain Evidence
of Dr. Haines, Who Teotlfied That
No Cyanide of Potassium Was
Found In Colonel Swope's Viscera.
Kansas City, April 21. A stormy
courtroom scene, in which many law
yorj addressed the court at the samo
time, bandied charges of unfair play
among themselves, tho bond of Dr.
B. C. Hyde being almost revoked,
and attorneys for tho defense threat
ening upon certain conditions to at
tempt Impeachment of state witness
es, marked the Hyde murder trial.
Tho trouble all rose becauso an at
tache) of Prosecutor Conkllng's office
lost the grand Jury's notes of the tes
timony of Dr. Walter S. Halne3 and
42 other state witnesses. A woman
found the notes and gave them to
Frank P. Walsh, chief counsel for
Dr. Hyde. These notes, according to
Mr. Walsh, contain statements of Dr.
Haines that no cyanide of potash
was found In tho viscera of Colonel
Swopc, and that not enough poison
was found in Chrisman Swopo's vis
cera to causo death.
"If Dr. Haines swears on the wit
ness stand to any alleged facts other
than theso ho will be prosecuted tor
porjury," said Mr. Walsh. Perjury is
a capital offense In a murder case.
Miss Pearl Keller, who attended
Colonel Swopo In his last Illness,
took the stand after tho upheaval In
tho court. Sho told about and acted
out, In part, the entire scene In tho
Lmillionalre's death chamber. Colonel
Swopo was unablo to speak during, a
part of his illness. When attorneys
asked Miss Keller about his actions
during this period sho was forced to
explain them In pantomime.
Miss Keller started to tell of the
typhoid epidemic In tho Swope home.
Tho defenso objected, contending"
this was Immaterial to tho death of
Colonel Swope. The court held that
It would not admit any of this testi
mony until tho state showed a con
nection.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
CHICAGO Cattle: Beeves. S3 6003 SO;
Texns steers, J4 7500 "0; western steers,
(4 9O0G 75; stockcrs and feeders, $3 750
G 40; cons und heifers. J2 7007 20.
Cnlves J8 7508 50, Sheep nnd Lambs
Native sheep, (4 5008 30; western, $5 00
08 30; natlvo lambs, $7 7507 80; west
era. JS 00010 00; yeirllngs, $7 2508 75.
Hous Light. JS 8509 20; mixed, JS 850
9 20; heay. $8 8509 23; rough, JS S5S
9 86; pUs, JS 0009 15. Wheat No. 2
rod, $1 0HJ.61 0SVS- Corn No. 2, 570
57&C Oats No. 2, 41041?Jc.
EAST BUFFALO Cattle: Export cat
tle, J8 OO0S 60; shipping steers, $7 750
8 00; butcher cattle, $7 2307 50; heifers,"
$5 6007 60; fat cows, Jl OO0iS 00; bulls,
41 2500 75; milkers anil springers, $30 00
005 00. Cilvia $0 0009 50. Sheep nnd
1,-imbs Mixed sheep, J7 0007 60; weth
ers, J7 oOfffS 00; owes, J$ 5007 00; lambs,
J7 OD03'33; "rcarllnsri. JS 0003 50. Hogs
Heavies, 13 509 65; mediums, 59 600
9 CO; Yorkers, $9 5003 CO; piss, $9 50;
roughs, JS 4008 50; stags, J7 5008 00.
PITTSBURG Cattle; Choice, 53 230
8 30; prime, J7 DO0S 20: tidy butchers,
J7, 00Q7 40; heifers, J4 6000 75; cows,
bulls ami stags, J3 6000 50; fresh cows,
J25 00000 00. Calves Veal, JC 0009 00.
Sheep and Lambs Prime wethers, $7 50
07 70; good mixed, J7 1007 40; lambs,
JC 0009 25; spring Iambs, JS 00012 00.
Hogs Heavy hogs, J9 3509 40; mediums,
J9 4009 13; heavy Yorkers, J9 4009 45;
light Yorkeis and pigs, J9 40.
CLEVELAND Cattle: Choice steers,
(7 0007 50; heifers, J5 5O0C SO; fat cons,
13 0005 50; bulls, J I 50 0G 25; milkers
and springers, J30 OO0C5 00. Calves
JS 75 down. Sheep nnd Lambs Mixed
sheep, JC 6007 25; ewes, J6 5007 00;
best sheep, J7 73; lambs, J5 0009 00.
Hogs Ileal leu, J9 20; mediums, J3 200
9 25; Yorkers. J9 23; pigs, J9 2009 23;
roughs, J8 2308 60; stags, J7 75.
CINCINNATI Wheat: No. 2 red, Jl 07
01 10. Corn No. 2 mixed, 59060c.
Oats No. 2 mfxed, 42042HC Rye No.
2, 82031a. Lard J12 90. Bulk Meats
Jll 00. Bicon J15 23. Cattle J2 7507 63.
Bheep J4 0006 65. Lambs JC 5008 CO.
Hos-J7 2503 15.
TOLEDOWheat, Jl 06M; corn, 57iioj
oati, 44o; r), 78o ; oloverseed, J6 80.
Envy.
"Don't you think envy Is a terrible
thlng7" said the earnest girl.
"No," answered Miss Crtyenne; "uot
If It's tho envy of somo ono else for
something you possess." Washington
Star.
Both Live and Learn.
"A man lives nnd learns." remarked
tho husband, with some bitterness.
"Well, the school of experience
doesn't bar co-eds," retorted his wlfo.
MllwaukPfl JwirneL
sIMs
ON
Seven Men Shot In Notorious
Bloody
McKees Rocks Officers Have Hands Full When Attempt Is
Made To Check Oratory Of Foreigner Who Was
Haranguing Men Formerly Employed In Pressed
Steel Car Plant-Wounded Man Swims Ohio Only
To Be Nabbed On Other Side
Pittsburg, Arrll 21. Township
constables and strikers at McKees
Rocks fought a battle In which seven
persons were Injured, three of them'
probably fatally.
The dying aro: Constable M. J.
Daniels, shot through abdomen and
chest; Joe Blernot, Hungarian strik
er, ehot several times by the consta
bles; and an unknown striker, who
refuses to give his name. The trio
Is at the Ohio Valley hospital, the
last named two being under arrest.
In addition to this one of the attack-
ling fctt-lUersivas hit by a train as
ho was escaping from the pursuing
mob and knocked over the bank. He
Is thought to have fallen into the
river, but no trace of him could be
found In tbe darkness. A farmer
named Hannan was shot through tbe
hand and two unknown foreigners
were carried away by their friends,
apparently badly Injured, but their
names could not bo learned.
Fought at Bloody Angle.
The battle occurred In the now no
torious bloody angle, where so much
rioting and bloodshed occurred In the
last strike, and where the Victor
bank was looted and two employes
killed somo weeks ago. There had
been a mass meeting held by Indus
trial Workers of th World bn a
nearby Indian mound, and about 250
of thp foreign-speaking workmen on
their way back stopped at "bloody
angle" to talk matters over. One
leader wab haranguing his fellow
workmen In an unknown tongue and
was getting wildly excited when
Chief of Police Silvers of Sloe town
ship, with Constable Daniels, came
up to tho crowd and ordered it to
disperse.
The sreavp shouted somethlnu "
Birmingham, Ala., April 21. Twenty-five
men are dead In tho Mulga
mlna' of the Birmingham Coal and
Iron company as the result of an ex
plosion. The explosion was of such
forco that the flames shot to a great
height from tho mouth of the shaft.
Thd rescuing parties are. enxpuntcr-
Columbus, O., April 21. Senator
Sheiman Deaton of Champaign coun
ty, who was attacked Monday by ap
pendicitis, was operated upon at a
local hospital. Peritonitis has set In
nnd tho senator's condition Is report
ed as being critical.
THIS AND THAT
Harry Dreyfus, 14, of Tiffin, O.,
picked up a llvo wire from the street
and fell dead when tho heavy voltage
went through his body.
B3K I Bl.Ii Bi 3 4 HI i fl
IN NINE EXPLOSION
t
C01ITION THREATENED
Hill
CONSTABLES
Angle
ho Jumpeu' from the perch on wlilch
he had been standing, and thero was
a spit of flamo from the crowd and
Daniels fell, shot through the body.
Three bullets passed- through the
clothing of Chief Silvers, but none
hurt him. The mob, after Its first
Ore of perhaps a dozen shot3, made
a rush for tho prostrate constable,
bit Chief Silvers, standing over Dan
iels, began to shoot. Daniels roso to
one arm and lent his flro, whllo four
other constables who had been In tho
next square came tunning up, shoot
ing as they camo.
After exhausting their ammunition
the strikers hurled rocks at tho offi
cers, and were only- conquered after
there were no more rocks to throw.
The man who refuses to give his
name was shot by Chief Silvers after
a chase across the Ohio river In a
rowboat, the foreigner swimming tho
entiro distance.- As he scrambled up
the opposite bank, Silvers arose In
the boat and ordered him to halt,
which he did. When dragged Into
tho boat It was discovered that he
had been seriously wounded In tbe
battle.
HOFFSTOT
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Buffalo. N. ?., April 21. The po
lice of several cities are looking for
a man who rohhud J. H. Cramblett, a
piano salesman ci Coshocton, "O., of
$2 000, on a Lackawanna railroad
train between Huffalo and Scranton.
ing great difficulty In their efforts to
reach tho entombed men, ,
h
Mayor tlaynor La3 Issued a Tlecrue
Gat all "keep off tho grass" signs
ahall be removed from Nevr York
5arks and the children be permitted
ro23D and clav on tho srit.l.
C.eveland, 0 April 21. Mayor
Herman C. Bathr has receive a let
ter signed "Mnfla" r.nd written In rod
Ink, demanding $5,000 on pain of
dci.lh. The money was to be put In
the hollow stump of a treo in Wood
land Hills park. This letter Is slmt
la11 In character to those received
somo time ago by 'Former Governor
Myron T. Hcrrick and Georgo H.
Wtuthlngton. Untied States Marshal
Henry DavU asserted his intention
of having the matter investigated.
ARRESTED
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