POET ’GENE WARE
ASKS A PENSION
•"Ironquill” Promises to Give
His $ 12 a Month to a
Little Girl.
r
REQUEST IS IN PROSE
Former Official Who Used to Issue
Orders in Verse, Will Aid
a Soldier’s Sis
ter.
Washington, D. C., April 10.—Eugene
F. Ware, of Topeka, ‘‘Ironquill,” ex
commissioner of pensions, genius, ec
centric and litterateur, who used to is
sue general orders In verse in the pen
sion office, and who looked after the
interests of nearly 1,000,000 pensioners,
while he would not apply for the pen
sion that he had himself earned, has
changed his mind.
He has asked for a pension, and he
did it in plain prose.
It caused a sensation in the big pen
sion bureau when it was noised about
that Deputy Commissioner Davenport
had received in a personal letter from
the ex-commissioner an application for
a pension. Mr. Ware doesn’t believe in
the pension system, though he does be
lieve in pensions for really needy and
deserving soldiers. But he always drew
a line of distinction. His theory Is that
a man who served his country well,
and whom the country afterward
served so well that he does not need the
pension, ought not to ask it. Having
plenty of money of his own, he would
never join the army of pensioners.
But he has reformed. Under the new
pension law which gives a pension to
every honorably discharged soldier who
served ninety days, when he reaches 62
years of age, Mr. Ware is entitled to
412 a month. In applying for it he
wrote that he had never expected to
ask this pension, but that there was
a. little girl in Topeka whose brother
was a soldier in the Philippines, and
is her sole support.
"I am going to take this pension in
my own name, because I can’t get it in
her name,” he wrote, ’and turn it over
to her.”
Deputy Commissioner Davenport
promptly announced that this was the
best excuse he had yet observed for
Ware, to write some verse and said
he would at once send the letter back
to the ex-commissioner, with the re
■quest that the. application and the ex
planation be submitted in appropriate
rhyme and meter. Meanwhile there
will be no delay about approving the
pension.
Apropos of the new pension act, it is
stated that the unwillingness of a large
number of well to do pensioners to have
their namen published as such is re
sponsible for the withdrawal of the rule
making public lists of persons as they
are placed on the rolls. This informa
tion is now denied to the newspapers.
Many thousands of rich men draw pen
sions. and among the people applying
under the new act it is said the major
ity of new pensioners are of this class.
REJECTED FOUR
TIMES IN A WEEK
HE WEDS WIDOW
Grandfather, Aged 66, Is Finally
Wedded to a Great
Grandmother.
Freeland, Pa., April 10.—William
•Gower, a carpenter of this place, and
Mrs. Mary Strause were married at the
home of the bride's (daughter, Mrs. Wil
liam McClelland. "
The bridegroom is 66 and has sev
eral grandchildren, while the bride is
his senior by a few years and is a
great-grandmother. The bridegroom
lost his first wife a few months ago
in a drowning accident in the Lehigh
l iver, at Bethlehem, and last week sur
prised his friends by announcing his
intention to remarry.
He went courting in a business like
way, and in one week had proposed to
and was rejected by four widows re
siding in this place.
Rebuffed, but not discouraged, he
continued his search for a wife until
he met Mrs. Strause, who succumbed
to his blandishments.
ALTON PROFITS SCORED
BY STEAD, OF ILLINOIS
Springfield, 111., April 10.—Attorney
Stead, in an opinion submitted to Gov
ernor Deneen, expresses doubt as to
whether it is the province of Illinois
to proceed against E. H. Harrlman and
his associates for the alleged manipula
tion of the Chicago and Alton railroad
property. If the state should revoke
the company’s charter the loss would
fall upon the stockholders, the Harrl
man people already having disposed of
a large portion of their holdings. The
attorney general concludes, therefore,
that the best plan Would be for the
company itself to seek a remedy of the
situation, or even for one or more
stockholders to act. At the same time
Mr. Stead assures the governor, that
should he become convinced on further
investigation that state can relieve the
road's condition, he will make the nec
essary moves at once.
Notwithstanding his convictions as
to tile wisdom of immediate action, Mr.
Stead insists there is not the least
doubt that a civil remedy exists against
the "financiers who have wrecked this
prosperous railroad company and at
the expense of innocent stockholders
and bondholders have gathered to
themselves a harvest of millions of
dollars.”
PLOT (O WRECK TRAIN FAILS.
New York, April 10—"There is nothing
new In the discovery credited to Ellmore.
the Pittsburg cobbler, by which coal
ashes may be treated chemically so ns to
burn t»*.* a long period and give greater
heat than pure coal," said Leander Ham
mond, a carpenter.
Mr. Hammond claims that for a long
time he has been burning coal dust In his
Stoves at home after he had saturated 11
with a secret chemical.
As a result of his experiments, the car
penter says that he can make one ton ot
•coal dust so treated last a whole year lu
het-ilng an ordinary sized house.
RAILROAD FIREMEN
GET INCREASED PAY
Chicago, April 10—The agreement be
tween thirty-one railroads west of Chi
cago and the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen has been
signed.
The pay of firemen on all classes of
engines is to be increased 25 cents per
day of ten hours or less, 100 miles or
less, over the rate of pay in effect on
January 1, 1907. No change is made
in computing time, and the advances
lire not to apply to men working on a
basis of twelve and a half miles per
hour.
The rate of firemen in first class
yards is to be $2.25 per day of ten hours,
overtime pro rata. In all other yards
the rate is to be $2.15.
The minimum rate for firemen in the
passenger service on engines having
cylinders under 18 inches in diameter
is to be $2.25 per day of 100 miles or
less, and $2.50 on engines having 18
inch cylinders or over. An increase of
15 cents per day is given to firemen on
engines carrying a rate of $2.50 or
more.
In addition to the Increase of pay
the firemen are to be relieved of all
work in the cleaning of engines.
The increase granted to the firemen
is estimated to be about in the same
ratio as . that recently granted to the
conductors and trainmen.
TOWN OF EPILEPTICS
TO BE RUN BY STATE
Money Appropriated by Indiana
Legislature Being Used
in Preparation.
Newcastle, Ind., April 10.—Within two
months Superintendent Van Nuys, of
the state epileptic village, near this
city, will be ready to receive a limited
number of patients, but at first only
those persons will be accepted whose
affiliation is not so far advanced but
that they can do some work about the
village, and thus aid in developing the
institution.
The last legislature appropriated
$25,000, which is now available, and
furniture is being purchased for the
two buildings, which were completed
last fall.
It is estimtaed that fifty patients can
be cared for with the present facilities.
ABE RUEF FRAMES
LINE OF DEFENSE
San Francisco, April 10—The trial of
Abraham Ruef, on a charge of extor
tion, came up again today. The ex-boss
will present a contract In evidence as
the basis of his chief defense in the
case now before the court, and also on
the other indictments charging him
with extortion in the French restaurant
cases, showing that he was retained
as counsel for the men whom he is ac
cused of mulcting.
This contract will show, It is assert
ed by Ruef's attorneys, that he was
retained to act as counsel for the res
tauranteurs for two years at a nominal
salary of $5,000.
They will contend that the significant
detail of the conrtract Is that it was
made to extend beyond the life of the
administration of Mayor Schmitz, and
that this shows that the relations be
tween Ruef and the restaurant men
were the ordinary relations between an
attorney and his clients.
The prosecution declares it can prove
to the jury the political affinity between
Ruef and Schmitz was used as a club
over the heads of the restaurant keep
ers to force from them the $5,000
yearly “retainer."
PUERTO CORTEZ IS
REPORTED CAPTURED
Mobile, Ala., April 10.—A steamer
which Just arrived, brings news that
Puerto Cortez has fallen.
The information is contained in a
message received by the Thacker
Steamship company over the telephone
from New Orleans. News from the
seat of hostilities the past two weeks
has been obtained by mail or cable
from Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. All
cable messages are carried from Cortez
by boat to Puerto Barrios and require
about seven hours by sailboat.
The message also says Ceiba, Hon
duras, is in the Nicaraguan’s hands.
Advices received today from Com
mander William F. Fullman, of the
United States gunboat Marietta, via
the steamer Columbia, just arrived,
say Ceiba was taken on the evening
af April 3 by the Nicaraguan armies.
Ceiba was taken without a shot and
then the Nicaraguan forces left for
Puerto Cortez on board the gunboat
Ometaphe, a gasoline launch and small
gunboat. They proceeded to Cortez by
Marietta to protect American interests.
It had been agreed between Estrada
and Fullam that Puerto Cortez should
not be bombarded.
POET KNEW IDENTITY;
BUT NOT WAY HOME
Berlin, April 10.—The Deutsche Zel
tung. a daily paper here, relates an
amusing incident about Gottfried Kel
ler, the well known German poet.
While celebrating with several friends
the success of one of his books. Keller
suggested “just one more glass" until
he was not so very clear as to his way
home.
As he walked along without paying
much attention to grace of motion or
to the straightness of the path, Keller
thought it was taking too long to get
home. Meeting a little boy, he asked:
"Say, little man, do you know where
Gottfried Keller, the poet, lives?”
The youngster, recognizing the poet
from pictures in newspapers answered
Joyfully:
"Why, you are Herr Gottfried Kel
ler.”
"I am not asking you W'ho I am,
but where I live," the poet responded.
BOY KILLS EX-PRESIDENT.
City of Mexico, April 10.—General
Manuel Lizadro Barrillas, ex-president
of Guatemala, was assassinated here as
he sat in a street car. As the car
stopped a young man a little over 17
years old, climbed aboard, and rushing
to the general stabbed him twice,
the first blow severing the juglar vein,
the second cutting his face. The gen
eral died instantly.
The assassin was captured. He
gave his name as Jose Estrada, and
his home at Ocos, Guatemala. Mem
bers of the Guatemala colony here
think Estrada was a paid assassin.
WEDS HIS SUPPOSED
. WIFE AS SHE DIES
Mrs. Thomas O’Brien Nods
Faint Assent to Priest in
Hospital.
FATHER IN EXPLANATION
Thirteen Year* Ago Each Believed
That the Mere Marriage
License Was
Enough.
, St. Louis, April 9.—With none but
the sisters as witnesses, Mary Main
was married to Thomas O’Brien in the
little chapel of St. Mary’s hospital, East
St. Louis. Seven hours later, at 2
o’clock yesterday morning, the same
sisters saw her die, with her husband
holding her hand at the bedside. To
day she will be burled from St. Henry a
church.
Mary Main was Mrs. O’Brien to the
man, to the w'orld and in the eyes of
all but the law. For thirteen years
they had believed themselves married,
and O’Brien was proud of her and their
seven children.
O’Brien Is a railroad laborer and lives
in a little cottage on the shore of the
Cahokie creek, near the Relay station,
East. St. Louis, He i» 47 years old; his
.Wife was ten years younger.
Thirteen years ago, both unfamiliar
with customs and conventionalities, ob
tained a marriage license. To them thr
license was the equivalent of a mar
riage certificate.
VVITC PCVUIIICB III!
Mrs. O’Brien became so 111 one month
ago she went to St. Mary’s hospital,
suffering from necrosis. Her bones be
came like lime and day by day her
condition grew worse.
O’Brien went to his priest, Father
Wlemer, of St. Henry’s church, and told
him of his sorrow.
"She Is a good woman, father,” hr
said; "a good mother to the children
and It seems hard I have to lose her.’1
The priest consoled him. Then the
conversation changed to church affairs,
and presently the priest knew and un
derstood that O'Brien had never been
married, though he thought he was.
“What?” asked O'Brien, "the mother
of my children not my wife?” That
cannot be. Of course she’s my wife.”
He was made to understand and
vowed he would marry her as soon as
possible.
At the hospital, Thursday afternoon,
the woman lay still as death. Her
cheeks were as white as the pillowk
upon which she rested. She was con
scious, but could scarcely raise a finger.
An attendant placed a rolling table
beneath the cot and quietly moved hen
into the chapel and withdrew. The!
candles upon the altar twinkled.
Priest Reads Ceremony.
Father Wlemer stood before O'Brien,
who stood beside his wife's cot and
read the ceremony, that had been de
layed Just thirteen years. Mrs. O’Brien
could hardly nod an assent to the ques
tions.
The priest and sisters withdrew and
Mrs. O’Brien was wheeled back Into the
ward.
Presently she closed her eyes and
dropped Into a sleep. As she Blept the
nurses noticed a more peaceful expres
sion than they had seen before.
O’Brien and his oldest daughter re^
malned at the wife’s cotside through
the remainder of the evening and Into
the night. Occasionally the physician
took the hand from the husband's clasp
long enough to feel the pulse.
At 2 o’clock yesterday morning, he
felt for the pulse, placed the hand back
gently In the husband's and shook his
head.
SALVATION GIRL
BEATS INSULTER
WITH TAMBORINE
Saloon Patron Offers Her $50
to Say Nothing and She
Runs Away.
St. Louis, Mo., April 9.—Isabelle
Woodcock, a 16-year-old worker In the
American Salvation army, complains
to the police that a man embracetj
her in the saloon of "Cuddy Mack.”
She says:
"I was holding out my tambourine
to one of the men when someone threw
his arms about me from behind and
held me. The other men laughed and
I he bartender seemed to think It was
a good joke. None of the men offered
to help me.
"I didn't scream, but I put forth al.
my strength and wrenched loose from
the man. Then I began to beat him
off with my tambourine. I struck him
in the face several times. He was cut
by the sharp bells on the edge, I think.
The man followed me as I backed to
ward the door and seized the tam
bourine. I jerked it loose from him
and several of the bells came off In
his hand. I am pretty sure his hand
was cut. too.
"AH of the men crowded around me
They didn’t stop until I had backed
to the door and out Into the street.
Then one of them who had been drink
ing with the man who attacked me^
rushed up with a roll of bills in his
hand.
" ‘There’s $50 for you if you don’t
say anything about this,’ he said.
"I pushed him away, but he held
out the bills again and told me I could
have all of them If kept quiet. I
wouldn’t listen to him.”
NO BATHS IN TElT
YEARS, IS SENTENCED
Cleveland, O., April 9.—Judge Fielder,
In police court, sentenced a man to
a year and a half of cleanliness.
John Artl, arrested for neglecting
his four small children, hasn't taken
a bath in ten years, Humane officer
Poole told the judge.
"I have arrested him on almost every
minor charge,” the officer said, "and
have tried for ten years to make him
keep clean.”
“Unwashed for ten years, eh?” com
manded the court. "I’ll fix him so he
won't be dirty for a long time. I shall
send you to tfie workhouse with in
structions to the superintendent to keep
you there eighteen months and put you
to light labor and have you scrubbed
i twice a day during your incarcera-;
j lion.” i
I PITTSBURG WARNED
IT MAY BE RUINED
Pittsburg, Pa., April 10.—Pittsburg Is
in danger of devastation some day by'
a flood similar to that which laid wastel
Johnstown. Thousands of lives and
millions of dollars' worth of property
will be lost, according to a report made
public by J. W. Arras, of the United
States engineer corps.
Mr. \rras, who has charge of build
ing dams In the Ohio and Allegheny!
rivers, has Investigated conditions hertp
and his report to the government!
sounds a warning of the disaster which
he declares Is sure to come.
In the March freshet, says Mr. Arms,
the Monongahela predominated. Should
the Allegheny take the lead—and there
Is no reason why it should not—the low
wooden bridges would be washed from
their foundations and the entire mass
smashed against the Pennsylvania rail
road bridge.
"Would It withstand the attack?" he
asks. "No man can tell. It Is a pon-i
derous structure, splendidly propor
tioned and substantially built. How
ever, what It will do seems immaterial,
for, whether It stands and holds the
gorge ora fals before it. It will In either
ease divert the Irresistible, oncoming
tide toward the mainland, where tho
damage to physical property would be
enormous and lives by the thousands
would be sacrificed, since there would
be Insufficient warning to enable the
unsuspecting to withdraw to places of
safety.”
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HEIRESS WHO RUNS
AWAY, HOME AGAIN,
DUETO A TRICK
Guardian Kidnaps Miss McClan
ahan From Train, Taking
Her to New Canaan.
Stamford, Conn., April 10.—Mias Giles
Gamble McClanahan, the eccentric
heiress of William McClanahan, of
New York, who ran away from the
McClanahan homestead In New Ca
naan, accompanied by her nurse, Miss
Annie Phillips, and Lillian Richter, of
No. 317 East Eighty-sixth street, New
York, and Dora Zeeth, of New Canaan,
two girl friends, has been taken back
to New Canaan.
Just as soon as Miss McClanahan
and her friends got to New York they
called on Attorney ttl. A. Herold, of No.
196 Broadway. Miss McClanahan asked
the lawyer to do something to rid her
of the restraint under which she was
held. She desired to have control of
her estate and said she was competent
to manage It.
Attorney Herold called Dr. C. II.
Scovtlle, her conservator, by telephone,
and the physician went to New York,
where he had a long Interview with
Mr. Herold. After the Interview Dr.
Scovllle employed detectives to locate
Miss McClanahan. They found her and
arranged with the nurse to take Miss
McClanahan on a trip Into Connecticut.
Miss McClanahan and the nurse
boarded an express train at the Grand
Central station late last night. Dr.
Scovllle, who was on the train, kept
his eyes on Miss McClanahan and just
as soon as the train crossed the New
York state line he took a seat near
her. ,
At Stamford, the New Canaan
branch train was on a siding waiting
to pull out. and before Miss McClana
han realized what was happening she
was hustled aboard It and taken to
New Canaan. She Is now being held
under strict guard. Dr. Scovllle, It Is
understood, will apply to the probate
court for her commitment to a sani
tarium.
MILLIONAIRE KILLS
HIS WIFE'S CREDIT,
PRINTS A NOTICE
John E. Dean Proposes to Curb
Extravagance and Avoid
Future Spite Suits.
Chicago, April 10.—The following ad
vertisement has appeared in the news
papers:
"Notice—All merchants, traders, man
ufacturers, Jewelers, dressmakers, mil
liners, dealers in any line. Including
hotel keepers, are notifled not to sell
or deliver any goods in their line to any
person for which they may expect me
to pay the bill, without my written con
sent, as I shall decline to do so.
"John E. Dean.”
Mrs. John E. Dean, wife of a mil
lionaire resident of the Metropoie hotel
and a leader in exclusive society, stunds
today without any more credit than the
wife of an humble $1,000 clerk.
If Mr. Dean’s effort has been success
ful. her name has been stricken from
the creditors’ list of every State street
department store and canceled by Jew
elers, iiorists, dressmakers and millin
ers.
Her husband has accomplished this
through the "want ad" column, level
ing Mrs. Dean and his two daughters.
Misses Marlon and Evelyn, with the
wife of the man who warns creditors
that "this day my wife, having left my
bed and board, etc.”
High society sat up in astonishment
at the notice flaunted through the
newspapers.
No More Spite Suits.
Mr. Dean, a retired real estate man,
apparently does not Intend to "have
any more suits against him like that
for a $1,000 fur Jacket bought by Mrs.
Dean at a State street department
store, and for which she refused to
pay.
While the whole family is denied
credit In this remarkable notice, the
warning is believed to apply only to the
wife.
“The purchase of an expensive fur
garment by Mrs. Dean and other pur
chases which were charged to Mr. Dean
led him to publish the notice,” said
Mrs. Dean-Wood. "It virtually applies
to Mrs. Dean alone, as I and my sis
ters have independent allowances. The
notice was adopted by our father as
the best means of curbing general ex
travagance and of bringing all charge
accounts to his notice."
COMES TO A (1RIEVIOUS FINISH
New York, April 10.—A venerable dea
con of Bloomfield Center, N. J., got off
a trolley car there last night.
Miss Dolly Gray, who seemed to be
in Joyous spirits, danced up to the dea
con, took some fancy steps and kicked
off his high hat.
Then the dazzling blonde kicked off
the hats of several "dear old men" as
she called them.
A policeman arrested Dolly and her
hair turned color in a single night, but
not gray.
Short black hair bristles were on her
head when the wig was removed.
SON-IN-LAW TEACHES
WIFE TO DRINK; SHE
CANNOT STOP, NOW
Girl’s Mother Charges Young
Husband With Causing
Chronic Intoxication.
FAIR DRUNKARD IS RICH
New York Police Judge Commits Her;
to Catholic Retreat in
the Hope of Effect
ing a Cure.
Ne-w York, April 9.—Mrs. Annie
Clark, 39, wife of Frank B. Clark, a
cracker manufacturer, waa arraigned
in police court on charge of habitual
drunkenness and committed to the
House of the Good Shepherd until
April 10, in the hope of curing her.
Mrs. Clark, fashionably gowned, went
to court in her handsome turnout es
corted by Court Officer Hatton, who
served the warrant. Her arrest was
made oil charge preferred by the pro-!
bation officer, Miss Annie Virginia
Roonve, at the solicitation of Mrs.
Clark's mother, Mrs. Nevens.
Mrs. Nevens blames her son-in-law
for her daughter’s fondness for liquor.
She said they were married' eleven
years ago and that hie left her in
March, 1906. Since then, Mrs, Nevens
said her daughter's addiction to drink
had increased. Mrs. Nevens went to
live at 250 Penn street, and it was
then she decided to appeal for Mrs.
Clark's commitment.
Mrs. Clark stood ereet before the
bar while the charge waa read and
then In a clear, even tone said:
"Who Is It that makes complaint
ngainst me? I protest. While it may
be taken for granted that I am an
habitual drunkard, or addicted to the
constant use of liquor, It seems to me
that a police magistrate has no right
under the law to send me to an insti
tution, or to punish men lti any way,
on the charge that has been-made.
“The court must understand,” she
continued, “that I am not a vagrant;|
that I have no family; that I am de-i
pendent on nobody for support, and
that the use of liquor Is a privilege of,
which I can avail myself and the law1
does not deny me that privilege.”
.fudge Higginbotham was amazed at
Mrs Clark's argument and seemed puz
zled as to what action to take, when
the woman's mother entered the court
room and pleaded with the magistrate
to send her daughter to some Institu
tion to bp treated for alcoholism.
Mrs. Clark renewed her argument
when her mother had finished, but the
magistrate committed her to the House
of the Good Shepherd.
HUSBAND OF CLOAK
MODEL GETS DIVORCE
New Haven, Conn., April 9.—Judge
Shumway of the superior court,
granted a divorce to Edwin Kenneth
Norton, of Riverside drive, New York
city. Judge Shumway finds that the
claim of Norton of Improper conduct
on the part of his wife Is true, and he
Hustalns the charge, In which George
Jenkins, of Hartford, la named as co
respondent.
The pair eloped in 1905, while Norton
was a student at Yale, Josephine Blr
ney, the bride, being a cloak model.
When Norton's father learned of the
wedding he sent his son to Europe.
Edwin Norton, of New York city,
president of the tin plate trust, put
detectives on the track of his son’s
wife. They shadowed her to Hartford,
where she had gone to work, and saw
her with George Jenkins, who was
named us corespondent.
ADMITS “DAUGHTER”
IS REALLY HIS WIFE
Head of Marriage Swindle With
2,000 Victims Would Save
Her From Court.
Philadelphia, Pa., April S.—"James
Marshall,” the marriage swindler, head
of the great "Mrs. Edith Ross Society,"
marriage syndicate, which has probably
2,000 victims, has at last acknowledged
that Mrs. Ross is not his daughter,
Tenie, but is in reality his lawful wife.
She was Varlna Spies, of St. Louis,
and became the wife of Ross five years
ago. Marshall was Induced to make
his confession only after he had been,
assured that oy doing so he would save
"Tenie” trouble in the courts.
"My real name is James Mathias Wil
liams," he said, "and 1 was born in
New York city in 1854. When I was
a young fellow I worked as a Western
Union telegraph operator In the old
Philadelphia office and in Atiantie City.
Then 1 went west.
"In 1902 I married Varlna Christian
Spies in a little German Lutheran
church in St. Louis. My wife is the
woman known as Mrs. Ross, and has
also been known as my daughter Tenie.
We lived in. Rochester, N. Y., for a time
and have lived In several other cities.”
Marshall, or Williams, refused to tell
of any other marriages, but the detect
ives expect to connect him with at
least twenty matrimonial affairs. The
worthless gold mine was one of the
properties used by Williams to back up ,
his claim to wealth.
KENISONGETS 24
YEARS, KILLING EDITOR
Scotts Bluffs, Neb., April 9.—Judge
Grime yesterday overruled a motion for
a new trial, and E. S. Kenison, who
was convicted of murder in the second
degree, for killing S. It Cox, received
a sentence of twenty-four years in the
penitentiary. Kenison broke down and
wept when he received his sentence.
BANK LOOTED TEnT
DAYS AFTER OPENING
Chicago, April 9.—In the trial of ex
Judge Abner Smith and other officials
of the defunct Bank of America, Clar
ence S. Darrow testified today that the
bank was "looted" by F. E. Groeltnan
and Abner Smith within ten days from
the date the institution was open for
business.
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARP?
GRAFT CAPITOL’S FLOORS
Harrisburg, Pa., April 9.—How Hus-t
(on, the half-million dollar architect*
und Sanderson, the capitol "trimmer,’0
worked together for the "trimming” off
the $13,000,000 state capitol, long be-j
fore the "trimming" was authorized,!
Is a feature of the testimony before|
the legislative Investigating commit-)
tee. !
Linder oath, C. A. Hamilton, repre-'
sen ling tin manufacturer* of parquetry)
flooring, told how he was Introduce*
to Sanderson by Huston, and the sub-1
Jeet discussed a year before the "trlm-i
tilings" schedule of 1904 was adver-f
Used. 1
His testimony refuted Huat.on's as-i
sortlon that be had not talked to Sand
erson about the capitol Job before that
proposals were advertised In L904. I
Fulhermore he recited how hbs com
pany was to "get It In the neck*" howj
tlie parquetry Hom ing had been warpe*
by excessive heat, Intimating that ltj
was part of the plan to "freeze out’’)
his concern. j
Huston also gave Instructions to that
■linker of the Moravian mosaic tiles forj
Sanderson’s benefit, protecting tha
"trimmer" In his bid of $2.25 “per foot"!
tor tiles which were sold for $1.03. )
Fraud in Glasa,
Fraud practiced by Sanderson In sub-)
stltutlng Beaver county’made glass for
Imported baccarat and lacquer for "mer
curial gold finish” on the chandeliers
was a third feature, and once again the)
fake In the “Baccarat” glass, for which)
Sanderson collected $133,770.69, was ex-)
posed. W. Bond Thomas, general man-)
ager for the Tiffany studios, of New)
York, was the witness. He swore that)
the Tiffany furnaces are the sole pro
prietors of the favrllle glass, which won
supposed to bo used for capitol chan-)
dellers. Although favrllle was specified*
there was not a panel of that glass Ini
the building.
Mr. Thomas said that the process of)
manufacturing favrllle glass was secret)
and the name patented.
“Favrllle glass can be obtained only)
from Tiffany7” asked Mr. Scarlet.
“Yes, sir," replied the witness. ;
"Did you ever sell any to the Penn
sylvania Bronze company or to John H.
Sanderson?"
“We did not," said Mr. Thomas. :
"Is there any favrllle glass In this)
building?"
"There Is none."
Mr. Thomas said that Baccarat glass!
Is manufactured In northern France. He)
was asked If It could be obtained In
America, and he replied that there Is al
Baccarat glass agency In New York.
The Chandeliers.
"Can It be used for chandeliers, for
lighting fixtures?" asked Attorney Scar
let, to refute the defense of Sanderson's!
brother-in-law, Pedro G. Salom, whoJ
trying to excuso the fake, declared that ft
Baccarat glass was a type, and the lm- j
ported glass was utilized only for table-*
ware. Said Mr. Thomas: |
"It can be used." !
COREY LEASE IS
MADE OUT TO READ
“MR. AND MRS.”
Owner of the House Stipulates
That Contract Shall Be j
So Worded. ]
New York, April 9.—It became aH .
most certain today that William Corey;
president of the United States Steel
corporation will marry before many
months.
An agent, acting for Mr. Corey,
leased, for a year, the home of Mrs.
James Martin, 803 Fifth avenue. Be
fore Mis. Martin would grant the leas*
however, she demanded it be made out
for Mr. and Mrs. Corey. The fact that
Mr. Corey's agent willingly met this i
restriction Is taken us a sure Indlca- ,
tion that Mr. Corey will take another
wife before moving Into the MarUn
house.
Meanwhile, Mnbelte Gilman Is living j
In the Paris chateau.
TEACHER CURES GUM
HARITJjYOVERDOSE
Mixes Quinine and Compels)
the Boys to Chew for
Hours.
Racine. Wts.. April 9.—Principal Ed-!
gar S. Martin, of the McMynn school*
lilt upon a novel plan to stop the gum- 1
chewing habit among the pupils of that
upper grades. It was heroic treatment,
but Mr. Martin, believes It has worked
a permanent cure.
He stood a dozen of the biggest boys
in. the class in a row. in the presence of]
the entire school, furnished each with]
a quid of gum and compelled them toi
stand thus all day. chewing vigorously.]
When noon came the cnewers, al-l
though their jaws began to ache, were]
jubilant and defiant, declaring that they!
would stick it out to the end and chew]
as long as the principal desired them toi
io so.
But during the interim the principal]
conceived an addition to his scheme.)
which eventually brought the recaloi-j
trants to terms. After recess they were]
Invited to help themselves to a fresh)
supply of gum.
A dozen mouths were opened and a*,
dozen faces were wreathed In smiles in,
anticipation of the succulent mouthful!
The jaws set with a snap and the smilesj
of satisfaction disappeared. Each looked
at his neighbor, and found there the
same expression that his own counten
ance wore. For the wily principal had
smeared a large quantity of very bitter!
quinine upon the gum supply during^
the noon recess.
“BRAINSTORM” IS
THE LATEST DRINIC1
Wilmington. Del., April 9.—Have you)
had one yet? No? Well, according toi
"Pat” Dougherty, its inventor, you had,]
better try one. “Pat" twirled a long!
spoon In one and as he handed ft over)
the bar he exclaimed: ■
"There isn't a headache In ft. It’s.]
just 15 cents—that's all." !
Further inquiry developed the fact]
that "Put" originated the name fori
the new concoction while it was “seV.j
ting.” “Sore of a sizzler,” ho mussed.;
"a regular 'brain storm.’ ”
According to "Pat” it i» made of|
Irish whisky. bcncKlictine. vermouth
and a dash of orange bitters. A lump'
of ice Is udde 1 and in the words of the.
inventor, it Is "allowed to Thaw.” ’
Those who are acquainted with the^
ingredients are of the opinion that ai
few drinks will dispel the theory of!
those who contend that there ia xiO)
such thing as a "brain storm." I
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