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iSEf Newark <gpmmg ^tar |NJbl; ESTABLISHED 1832. _ NEWARK, N. J.t SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1913. FAIR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. 5II. 3. WARSHIPS GET RUSH ORDERS TO LATIN STATES Rumor of Wilson Pol icy Fans Revolu tionary Flame. UNCLE SAM, TAKING NO CHANCES, ACTS RAPIDLY ^ Naval Force to Protect Amer icans on Atlantic and Pa cific Sides. WASHINGTON, Feb, 8.—Prepara tions fdr rushing five United States men o’war to both coasts of Central America, to meet any emergency which .may arise from the brewing unrest there, went forward rapidly today. Belief by the professional revolu tionists that President Wilson will not adhere to the Taft policy of in terfering in affairs of Central Ameriean republics is today declared by many to be the reason for the unrest prevailing there. Many’ rumors of Incipient revolts and uprisings are being received here. The fact that four American warships have been ordered to Central American ports Is taken as significant. The gunboat Annapolis, with her crew of jackies augumented from the Bouth Dakota and Colorado, started last night from San Diego, Cal., for Amupala, Honduras, to Btand guard on the Pacific coast. The Nashville at New Orleans is making ready for sea and is expected to put out for Puerto Cortez, Hondu ras. on the Atlantic side, early Mon day morning. The cruiser Des Moines, now at Guantanamo, the Cuban naval sta tion, coaling, has been ordered to be at Blueflelds. Nicaragua, not later than February 15. The Denver, which has been stand ing by distressed Americans threat ened by attack from Mexican rebels at Acapulco, will put out from there In a day or two and drop down to Acajutla, Salvador. It Is practically decided that these four ships whose movement* were , tlteilted Upon late yesterday, after Washington had received reports of possible trouble in the Catin Repub lics. will be augmented by the gfin boat Tacoma, now at Boston. Final orders for her movement have not been issued, but are expected prob ably today. From Its confidential sources, in Central America, this government, especially Interested In preserving the peace among the ltttle republics, has been receiving ominous and spec lflutlve reports of juntas of deposed dictators ynd revolutionists meeting here and there, plotting to stir up trouble. Wliil" the presence of Amer ican warships would be principally i intended to provide refuge for. Amer- : leans and oilier foreign citizens, there! Is no doubt that' marines and blue- j jackets might be used in the interior; if a situation should arisq paralleling | that in Nicaragua in the recent rev- | olutlon, when American troops were I failed upon to open a railroad and J openly engage the rebels in battle. There has been sharp criticism in I Congress of this government’s' inter ference in the Nicaraguan revolution, | but it is said President Taft and Sec- ! ■ retury Knox are firmly convinced of! their right to use American forces1 for the protection of United States I citizens and property whenever a state of anarchy exists in Central I America or the established govern- I ments tail to do so. DENIES GUATEMALAN HEAD PLOTTED ARAUJO’S DEATH NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8.—Charges that the recent attempted assassina tion of President Araujo, of Salva dor, was the work of paid assassins sent from Guatemala City, where the plot to kill the Salvador executive was alleged to have been hatched, were denied today by aAngel Pena, Guatemalan consul at New Orleans. “Attempts to place the blame for this crime upon President Estrada Cabrera, of Guatemala, came from his enemies in this citv," declared Senor Pena. “Enemies in New Or- j leans of President Cabrera are work- ! In# Incessantly in their efforts to do I him harm." Boy Struck by Train; May Die| Betrayed by his crippled leg, 8-year old Morris Welnaier, of 582 Main street, East Orange, was strink by a passenger train of the Lackawanna railroad near the Halstead street crossing. East Orange, today. He was walking home from the East Orange public library, where he had gone to look at some of the chil dren's books. Instead of keeping on Main street, he went along the tracks. A west bound train thundered up hehind him and he could not escape quick enough from its path He was struck and hurled to one side. Unconscious when he was picked up, he was rushed in an auto mobile to the Gu-ange Memorial Hos pital. The physicians think he may have a fractured skull and Internal Injuries. This is the second accident on the Morris and Essex branch within twenty-four hours. Thomas J. Hyan, of East Orange, was killed last night in Orange WOMEN OPEN WAR ON COMMERCIALIZED VICE AT BIG MEETING Conference Will Be Held at Central M. E. Church Tomorrow. "Commercial Vice" will be the sub ject of a mass-meeting for women In the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Market street, near Mulberry, at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon The conference will be held under the auspices of the civic committee of the Contemporary Club. It will be followed by twenty other meetings for women in the public schools on the subject of "Social Hygiene." Mrs. Rose Livingston, a social worker In Chinatown, New York city, will be on* of the speakers tomor row. She will deal with the com. mercial aspect of vice. Dr. Henry J. F. Walhauser. chair man of the committee on social hy giene of the Board of Health, will discuss the "Commercialized Vice" in regard to the health of the commu nity. The Board of Health has been , studying this question for a year. Moral Aspect. The moral aspect of the subject j will be treated by the Rev. George ; P. Dougherty, pastor of St. Paul’s' Methodist Episcopal Church. While Mayor Haussling will be un- | able to attend the mass-meeting he j will be represented by his secretary, Wilson J. Vance. In its announcement of the meet ing the Contemporary Club says: "As every community is now con sidering questions of social hygiene in order to Improve them, the Con temporary plans a large mass-meet ing for the consideration of this sub ject, hoping that si! business women, teachers, industrial, social, church and philanthropic worker's, house wives and mothers will take this op portunity of hearing the subject pre sented in a sane and thoughtful way.” Work along civic lines has occu pied an Important place in the Con temporary program for 1912-13. Mrs. Henry Hollister Dawson is as sisted by a corps of ca- j pable sub-chairman, including Mrs. j <Continued on Fourth 1'bip.) REPORT OF GREAT BATTLE DOUBTED ,—-— Berlin FJdard Turks Wel-ej Routed, With I Loss of 15,000 Killed. -• . ... ; LONDON, Feb. 8.—A sensational ; report that the* Turks suffered a I crushing defeat at the hands of the ' Bulgarian troops in the Peninsula of j Gallipoli and lost 16,000 killed and 10,000 prisoners, which was published ] In Berlin this morning, received no confirmation or support from any other source today. It Is doubted here whether such a battle could have been fought and such a victory won without' Bulgar ian headquarters hastening officially to notify the world. A telegram received from the Bul garian capital this afternoon made no reference to any fighting. It mere ly mentioned the departure of King Ferdinand for the field. Montenegro, like all the rest of the belligerents in the Balkan war, is badly In need of funds. The govern ment at Cettinje is now trying to place a small short .term issue here, but the financiers have barred their doors and resolutely refuse to give any assistance which might prolong the fighting. Murder Charge Follows Autopsy A charge of murder was preferred by Captain Christie, of the Third precinct, against Charles Hanrlot, 24 years old, of 146 Oliver street, follow ing the autopsy of County Physician McKenzie on the body of Hugh Duffy, which showed that the latter died of a fractured skull. Hunriot was held by Judge Hahn in the Third Precinct Court without bail to await the action of the grand jury. He will probably be represented by United States Senator-elect William Hughes. Duffy died as he was being removed from the Third precinct to St. James’s Hospital. He had been locked up following a saloon brawl. At first the man’s injuries were thought to be slight, ■ but when he was put in a cell he was later found unconscious. STABLEMAN FALLS HEIR TO ESTATE OF $300,000 PORT DEPOSIT. Md„ Feb. 8 — George Todd, a stableman of this place, has fallen heir to *300.000 by j Hhe death of his grandfather, who I went West years ago. Todd was summoned to Wilmington, Del., yes terday and told of the fortune. When asked what he would do when he got his money, Todd said he would try to repay his friends for their kindness and would be gov rned by the advice of his business riends. LAST MESSAGE OF TAFT WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-President Taft today called a special meeting of the cabinet for next Monday to discuss his forthcoming message to Congress on the budget system. The President will lay a draft of the message before' his advisers. Commissioner, However, Will Probe Purcell’s Story Before Making Suspensions. NEW YORK, Feb.. 8.—Police Com missioner Waldo today took up the lead opened by the aldermanlc in vestigation of police graft, and began the investigation of charges made by James Purcell, a veteran gambler, against four captains now on the force. On the strength of Purcell’s unsupported story, said Waldo, he would do nothing, but if his investi gation corroborated the gambler’s charges he would suspend the ac cused officers. The pollqe captains Purcell charged ’wlffr recelvffijf tribute Tor protecting his gambling establishments are: Pat rick J. Cray, brother-in-law of Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany leader, and Captains Martens, Maude and Cochrane. Others he mentioned are no longer on the force. It was pointed out at police head quarters today that the police graft Purcell told about was levied during a long term of years and under vari» ous police commissioners. Purcell’s story was the most im portant told to the committee since it began Its inquiry itn'o police condi tions following the murder of Her man Rosenthal, shut down because he "squealed.” There was no session of the alder manic committee today, and it was not made known whether Purcell would be recalled to the stand on Monday. The aldermanlc committee is work ing hand-in-hand with the district at torney’s office, and as the police de partment and the district attorney are at daggers’ points neither is ac cepting the word of or cooperating with the other in any way. On Monday Captain Thomas Walsh, who recently* confessed to grafting and implicated Inspector Dennis Sweeney, is to go before the grand jury and tell his story. Both he and Sweeney are now under suspension. After the Walsh evidence is present ed Purcell will tell his tale to the grand jury and a big batch of indict ments is expected within ten days. Unable to Raise Lift of Bridge The usual conditions were reversed at the Bridge street bridge today. As a result hundreds of West Hud sontles are wearing. the smile that won’t wear off. Heretofore trouble has occurred at the span when It was impossible to drop the lift after a vessel had passed through. On each occasion traffic was tied up for a long time. It was Just about noon when the tugboat Christina Baird, with a scow in tow, hove in sight, southbound. The bridge engineer turned on the power, but the lift would not budge. Trolley passengers wondered at the delay. Finally the gates were thrown open and the cars allowed to cross. The "nose” of the Baird was close, to the bridge. The boat had to buck water to prevent a collision. Inves tigation disclosed a defect in the elec trical work. After a half hour’s work the mechanism was righted and the tug allowed to pass through. YEGGS HAD FAKE SAFE LIKE ONE THEY’D ROB NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—A safe of painted cardboard, to the eye an ex act reproduction of a real safe they planned to rifle, was prepared by burglars who broke into a First ave nue saloon early today. The real safe stood beneath an electric light, kept burning all night and in full view from the street. The artists who conceived the plan Intended to substitute the cardboard strong box for the steel one and then to blow the real safe unmolested in a dark corner of the saloon. Some thing frightened them away before they accomplished their purpose, for the proprietor today found that after breaking In the thieves had fled, leav ing their dummy safe behind them. i t CANAL COMMUTE ASKS MORE TIME TO MAKE REPORT 1913 Legislature Will Not Hear of Morris Abandonment. $5,000 APPROPRIATION HAS ALL BEEN SPENT And So Commission Must Now Ask for More Money to Carry on Its Work. That a full report by the special committee appointed to investigate the project of abandoning the Morris canal will not be mnde at this session of the Legislature was the decision reached at a meeting of the com mittee members today. The members agreed to present a preliminary re port In which they would ask for the revival of the appropriation granted them last year. Chairman Carlton Godfrey announ ced that an immense amount of work had been completed, but before a full report could be submitted, he said, there still remains much to be in vestigated. He added that he was Informed that Governor Wilson wish ed to complete this year’s legislative session before March 4, but other members were of the opinion that the present session would extend sev eral weeks beyond Inauguration day. The members agreed that a full re port could not be rendered in that time. The meeting was held . In the office of the commission In the Prudential building. Commissioner Fred G. Stic.kel, Jr., who is also secretary, read the resolution upon which the 1912 Legislature appointed the com mission, and the other members agreed with him that it would be im possible to carry out the work pre scribed before the end of the present session of the Legislature. Chairman Godfrey declared that, in addition to the work accomplished, It would be necessary for the commis "slon to advise as to what uBe the lund should be put In the event of the canal being abandoned. Other ques i ‘ions he expected should be answered were: What is the land worth? What should the State receive for its por Commlssioners John R. Reilly and Colonel William Llbbey. coincided with the chairman. The appropria tion granted by the Legislature was $5,009, but this has been used up. Bills amounting to $1,316.73 have been paid, but there still remains more than $900 indebtedness. The commis sioners, in a letter to the chairman of the Senate appropriation conplit tee, ask that the balance of $3,616 be revived. It was intimated that much more than this sum would be neces sary before the work can be com pleted. •It would be just like taking a ’flyer,' as the saying *«oes," declared Commissioner Reilly, "to make any guesses as to the value of theff prop erty. The Lehigh Valley railroad and the Morris Canal and Banking Com pany have the figures; they know; and it is up to the State to And out also. We should also find out what property ’ has been diverted by the railroad company and just how it was diverted." HOTHOUSE RUINED BY SUFFRAGETTES Militants Destroy Plants in Kew Gardens—Delay Tel egrams by Cutting Wires. LONDON, Feb. 8.—Militant suffra gettes destroyed -many valuable plants and did other damage, reach ing a total of *9,000, in the hothouses of the Kew Horticultural Gardens during the early hours of this morn ing. Thus they developed another part of their plan of campaign to force the government to give the vote to women. The window-smashing raids contin ued In London today. Two immense windows in an establishment in Ox ford street, which has heretofore been immune because of the proprietor's contributions to the women's funds were broken during the early morn ihg hours. The pbstal authorities today Issued a notice that there would be delay on ail telegrams to the north of England, as the result of the cutting of the telegraph wires in the provinces by the suffragettes yesterday. Tumulty Faces Gamera Brigade WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—President elect Wilson’s secretary, Joseph P. Tumulty, today Inspected the White House offices. He brought a personal message of greeting from the Presi dent-elect to Mr. Taft, and said he expected to keep the personnel of the White House office force intact for several months, at least. Mr. Tumulty’s tour of inspection closed with a march into the ranks of a battery of cameras and moving picture machines. U. S. MOVES TO KILL MONOPOLY IN SHOE MACHINERY Third Suit to Break Trust Begun in Trenton. , • SAY UNITED CO. FOUGHT COMPETITORS ILLEGALLY Manufacturers Were Forced, It Is Charged, to Use Its Ma chines Exclusively. TRENTON. N. J.. Feb. 8.—The Federal government made Its third anti-trust move against the United Shoe Machinery Company In a civil suit filed here today, charging the so-called trust with wielding an al leged monopolistic power and unfair trade tactics to force the Keighley Company—a competitor—Into an un lawful contract for the leasing, sale and fixing the price of an "lnseam trimming machine.” The United States District Court here was asked to terminate the con tract under which the Keighley Com pany gave the United Company the exclusive right to lease to shoe manu facturers the "lnseam trimming ma chine,” the patent of which is held by the Keighley Company. The ef fect of the agreement is declared to be “to perpetuate and extend a mo nopoly of the shoe machinery in dustry in the United Shoe Machinery Company of New Jersey." Following are the defendants to the suit: United Shoe Machinery Company, Boston: Keighley Com pany. Inc., Vineland, N. J.: Sidney W. Winslow, Orleans, Mass.,; Ed ward P. Hurd, Newton, Mass.; Charles Percy Keighley, William Bot tomley Keighley and Charles Keigh ley, of Vineland, N. J. The government's petition is a se vere arraignment of the "trust’s al leged unfair practices. The vigorous enforcement of its methods is declar ed to have driven practically all com petitors from the shoe machinery In dustry, giving the 826,000,000 United Company control of more than 99 per cent, of the trade. The big cor poration- la desaritoed. by the govern ment as follows in the bill: Threatened Competitor*. "By misrepresentation and threats It deprives its competitors of ti.clr customers. It has threatened its com petitors that it will use its enormous resources and powers to take away their customers. By threats it has prevented competing concerns from entering the business. It has given rebates to shoe manufacturers to in duce them to use exclusively its ma chines. It has discontinued the sale to shoe manufacturers of aH the most important machines and unlawfully devised and put Into leases and licenses unreasonable and oppressive provisions, which agreements shoe manufacturers are compelled to exe cute in order to obtain machinery with which to equip their factories." The company is accused of acquir ing patents for valuable Inventions and not using them for long periods. Persons assigning patents to the “trust” are alleged to have been re quired to agree to transfer for a specified time all their future patents or Invention of shoe machinery To destroy the competition of the Keighley concern, the United Com pany is charged with employing alleged unfair methods to make it difficult for Its competitor to conduct its business successfully. Exclusive Rights to Lease. The petition points out that the contract gives the United Company exclusive right to put out on lease all the “inseam trimmipg machines” owned or controlled or hereafter made or acquired by the Keighley company. The two corporations agree not to encourage any other person or corporation to enter into business in connection with “inseam trimming machines" except in ac cordance with the terms of the con tract. While the Keighley company retains the right to sell the machines the contract prohibits it from ac cepting a price less than $650. The Keighley company is required under the agreement to pay $200 to the United company for every rapid in seam trimming machine it sells. The petition is signed by Attorney tleneral Wickersham. James A. Fow ler. assistant to the attorney-gen eral; William S. Gregg, special as sistant, and John B. Vreeland, United States attorney at Trenton. The contract was entered into only last September. There is pending at Boston a civil suit for .the dissolu tion of the United Shoe Machinery Company, and one count of indict ments returned against its officers for the alleged violation of the Sherman law. The United States Supreme Court recently dismissed other in dictments tiled against the same de fendants. Boss Kills Three Negro Laborers EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feh.S.—Allen Von Be.hren, 23 years old, assistant superlntenlant of a wood working plant owned by his father, B. F. Von Behren. shot and killed three negro laborers early today. He had had trouble with them earlier and said they threatened to kill him. The dead are Walter Wash ington. John and Henry Gordon. Von Behren was arrested. Pays Million, at 58, for Freedom to Wed Girl, 21 ^- ■ ■ —- - ■ - - r- |ir, Mins Mabel Moredock. MISS MABEL MOREDOCK, of JefTerson, Pa., is to become the bride of Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, a wealthy coal mine owner and banker of Johnstown, who Is nearly three times her age, and has been married twice before. It cost Mr. Thompson 81,000,000 to divorce his second wife. He obtained his final decree on January 20 and made a cash settlement of that amount. Mr. Thompson is 58 years old; his bride-to-be is 21. FEAR FOR LIFE OF GIRL HIT BY TRAIN Miss Bubar Probably Won't Survive Accident That Killed Lover and Sister. a Sta* rorre»tn>ndr«*.J TRENTON. N. J.. Feb. 8.—Sarah Bubar. the young woman who was seriously Injured last night at Roelofs, Pa., in the accident that cost the life of her sister Anna and Bernard^ Pagenbaum, still remains in an un conscious condition at Mercer Hos pital. Physicians at the hospital are apprehensive thht the injuries to the girl will prove fatal. The Injured girl immediately upon arriving at the hospital last night was put upon the operating table ana the surgeon's hasty action is thought to have prolonged her life. Pagenbaum and Anna were sweet hearts. He met the two girls by ap pointment at the station, having re ceived a message that they would ar rive from Philadelphia on a train reaching Roloefs at 7 o'clock. After their arrival the girls stood chatting with the youth on the station plat form. Then they started to cross the tracks, this being necessary to reach Stony Hill, two miles distant, where the Misses Bubar lived. The three were so much interested In their conversation that they did not hear the roar of the Royal Blue until too late to get out of its way. The train was halted after the ac cident and the unconscious Sarah was lifted aboard and brought to the Mercer Hospital. The Royal Blue express two weeks ago sldeswiped a freight train at Yardley. Pa., near the scene of last night's tragedy, and several persons were injured. Sneeze Wave Sweeps Crowd CHICAGO. Feb. 8.—This year of grace may pass into history, as the year of the Big Sneeze, taking rank with the “year of the Big Wind.’ Precisely at 10:30 o'clock this fore noon there was a chorus of sneezes on the first floor of the wholesale drug house of Peter \ an Schaaek & Sons Company, at 116-118 W est Lake street. At 10:32 the wave of sneezes spread over the second floor, until presently 126 employees, hatless, coat less and ker-chewing explosively reached the street. Two hundred and twenty-five bags of sulphur were on fire in the base ment. Crowds rushed to the scene, but re tired. sneezing. The fumes spread to adjoining buildings, and their occu pants emerged on the street, red nosed. red-eyed and sneezing. Firemen rushed into the basement, but quickly retreated sneezing and dragging out twelve of their number who had been overcome by the fumes. CALL PLUMBER BANKRUPT [From a Staff Corrrmpoiidrmt-] TRENTON, N. J„ Feb. 8.—An in voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the Federal Court today against Caradog P. Morgan, a plumb ing contractor, of Maland Park, Bergen county. The Thatcher Fur pace Company and others are the petitioning creditors, who allege Mor gan’s three claims are upwards of tSOff* and that Morgan is insolvent. EAST ORANGE P. 0. STAIN IS CLOSED Postal Inspector Issues Order and Books Are Now Be ing Examined. On the order of Postal Inspector Charles E. Entemann postal sub-sta tion No. 3 conducted by Charles Kolodin, at 120 Main street, East Or ange, was Closed yesterday, and the books are being examined today by officials of the United States District Court. No arrests have been ordered. The case first came to the attention of the postal officials on Wednesday, when T. H. Armine, of 157 Grove street south. East Orange, called at the postofflce with a money order for 513, which he said had been partlv burned in his pocket when a match became ignited. He asked for a dupli cate, but none could be granted with out application being made to Wash ington. Postmaster Benjamin Hilton looked up the stubs from the sub-station, but was unable to find any cor responding with the order presented by Mr. Armine. An investigation was decided upon, but delayed. Then came a request on Thursday from Christobal. Panama, asking for advice on a money order for *2.25, ;n accordance with the rules of that country that advice must be given before payment was made. Yesterday Mr Hilton decided on an Investigation, and to conduct it sent to Jersey City for an inspector, Mr Entermann being sent to East Or ange. Before h« arrived Mr Kolodin had turned in from his office *74 «9 which he said represented the busi ness for Thursday. The inspector went to the station end after an interview with Mr. Kol odin the latter turned over *135.53 to complete the receipts for Thurs day. Mr. Kolodin is bonded by a company in Baltimore. 39 Middies Dropped ANNAPOLIS. Md . Feb. 8.—An nouncement was made at the Naval Academy today that the resignations of thirty-nine midshipmen had been called for as a result of the recent semi-annual mental examinations in which that number failed. Thirty four of these are members of the fourth or "plebe” class. Two of the youths found unsatisfactory are first class men who would have graduated in June. The remaining three belong to the third class. Big Crowd Sees Hold-Up CHICAGO. Feb. 8.—A daring day light hold-up here today, witnessed by a score of pasdersby, netted two robbers $2,000. The victim was Nor ris Nieman and the money was to pay employees of Abe Nelson, a liquor wholesaler. The robbery, at the point of a pistol required but a few seconds. The crowd stood gap ing for a moment and then gave chase, but the bandits escaped. ! Rush to Vessel's Aid WASHINGTON, Feb. H—'The navy tus Patapsco Is steaming from Guan tanamo, Cuba, to Cape -Haitlen, <>n the north coast of Haiti to rescue the schooner Pendleton, aground there and in danger of going to pieces with a valuable cargo. The distressed vessel is owned by Pen dleton Brothers, New York. Advertise In the STAR for quick results. DEADLY WEAPONS I F BY SLAYER IN JAIL i Steels Sharpened io-J Razor Edge 1 aken from Loponio. FOUND GUILTY, IS NOW KEPT IN SOLITARY CELC - M First Time in Many Years Es« sex Murderer Has Been So Guarded. _ Hi Salvatore Loponio, convicted taut night of the murder of Policeman John J. McGovern, is today confined m a separate cell block at the county Jail, having been placed there la»t night by Warden Richard McOuin ness after he had been care folly searched Tor weapons with which he might harm himself or others. This is the first time in many years that a murderer after conviction has been placed in what practically amounts to solitary confinement, ant this method was taken because th» jail officials regard Loponio as a highly dangerous man. Made His Own Weapon*. Less than two weeks ago in % search of his ceil, two dangerous weapons, which Loponio had o,m. Structed by tearing the steel pieces out of the arches of a pair of shoe* and sharpening them on the stone of Ms cell floor to the keenness of razors, were discovered and taken away from. him. These weapons were about five inches in length and sufficient!* heavy to have cut a person's throat at a single gash. They were found concealed in the mattress in Lo pomo's cell, and he would give no reason for constructing them. Since cl'oily haS bee“ Watched r«y a Troahlf..Ma|wr. '' arden McGutaness said today that Loponio had been a trouble-maker ever since he has been in jail, and for several day* preceding the die covery Of the hand-made weapons particularly quarrelsome ith the outer prisoners in the where he mss confined. He seemed to be trying to pidSf^ ouanwi. so the warden statedTpaJk* ticularly with Rocherort and Over ton. the two prisoners who gave such damaging testimony against him on his trial. tlt”i made romPlaftrt to Freeholder Richard F. Mattia. of the jail committee, saying that the food was not fit to eat. Warden McGuin ness had Mr. Mattia talk with the other prisoners and found that ths complaint was absolutely without | foundation. Bitter Ajratnirt Nephew. Lopon’o has at all times been very b tier against Crescenso Lombard* his nephew, and RafTaele Berlingiere. who first, told of his shooting Mc Govern. and the two boys have always been separated from him a> the county Jail. After last Tuesday’ when it became known that Overton and Rochefort would testify agamgt him, Loponio was moved from the cell he had occupied on the tier with them and placed in one of the t,v„ cells originally designed for con demned murderers. Last night, after returning to jgfl after his conviction, he was placed in another cell temporarily, and the mattresses, pillows and other furs!* ture taken from his old cell, which was then searched in every nook and cranny for possible weapons. A new mattress and pillows were then given, h’m and orders given the guard that he was to be watched continually. The other prisoners in nearby celts, who are separated from Loponio by an iron grating, were also ordered not to talk to him. This vigil will ha kept up until Loponio is removed to ; Trenton to enter the death-house. He Fares the Jnrj. Tt was Just ten minutes after • i o'clock when word came that the I jury had agreed. Judge William P. Martin was waiting for the verdict | in his chambers and at once sent for ! Loponio, w ho was brought into ths ! room between Court Attendants Mc Manus and Schneider, who towered ! far over the short and thin, dark ; faced little Italian. The wait while his fate had been in the hands of the Jury had told on j Loponio and he was visibly nervous | as he scanned the faces of the Jury i men. "There Is No C.od," He Hays, | As Foreman Nolan, after the usual : questions of the clerk, Thomas Mc ! Lelland. pronounced the words | ‘guilty of murder in the first d« ! gree." Loponio half raised his hands j in appeal and cried in Italian, "There • is no God.” Mr. Teeple, Loponio's counsel, said today that he would at once apply for a new trial for him. WILSON ASKED TO TALK NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—The Grover | Woodrow Wilson to speak at the i meeting in the Chamber of Cozxuo|bvo ! building on March 18 to celebrate the 76th anniversary of Cleveland’s birth. 'If Mr. Wilson can be present at the j celebration it will probably be his BLIND MEN COOL AT FIRE NEW YORK, Feb, While a Hr* was burning briskly In the cellar (It | their institution fifty blind working on the upper floors of five-story building occupied by tfe New York Association for the