DEBATERS PAY FINES
AND GET OUT OF JAIL
Thomas and Taggart Plead
Guilty in Federal Court at
Kansas City.
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4- Kansas City, Jan. 2$.—In his decl- 4
4 Bion, Judge McPherson took occa- 4
4- aion (o say ho believed firms that 4
4 accepted rebates were us guilty as 4
-4 the defendants and the railroads: 4
4 that lie had never been able to 4
4 understand why they had not been 4
4- Indicted by the grand jury. He 4
4- would have liked, he said, to have 4
4 the members of these firms before 4
4- him today, with power to pass sert- 4
4 tence upott them. 4
4 ‘The railroads," declared Judge 4
4 McPherson, “are hounded to death 4
4- with rebate seekers. They are not 4
4 entirely to blame for ail the re- 4
4 bating that has been done.’1 4
Kansas City, Jan. 28.—George B.
Thomas, a freight broker, of New York
^ city, and B. B. Taggart, his clerk,
pleaded guilty In the United States dis
trict court here today to the charge o!
conspiring to pay rebates to shippers.
Judge Smith McPherson then fined
Thomas $7,080 and Taggart $4,000.
omitting the jail sentences previously
assessed. Both defendants were ir
court and after sentence was passed
checks covering the fines were tendered
to and accepted by the judge.
Thus ends the case against these
men. It was one of the most import
ant rebate cases ever tried in this
country The jail sentence, which was
omitted today', was the first sentence of
imprisonment ever passed for a similar
offense.
x uwmao' nmi matuiaiiiru cl uiuivt'iagu
office in New York city, represented
practically all the Important shippers
■on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
under contract to route their freight
from the East and to collect the over
charges in freight bills.
Thomas, with his clerk, Taggart, was
Indicted In December. 1905, Charged
with conspiring with Barton Brothers,
wholesale shoe merchants of Kansas
City, to pay rebates on the latter firm’s
shipments. In the trial of the case it
was brought out that Thomas had also
agreedlto secure rebates for other mer
chants. They were found guilty June
22, 1906.
Thomas was fined $6,000 and sen
fenced to serve four months in jail.
Taggart was fined $4,000 and sentenced
to serve three months in jail. This was
the first Jail sentence ever imposed in
this country for rebating.
An appeal was taken and the verdict
was reversed on the ground that the
lower court had failed to instruct the
jury on presumption of the innocence
of the defendants, a technical point.
At the time Thomas and Taggart
were found guilty, the following other
verdicts were also returned in the fed
eral court here, on charges of making
concessions, accepting and conspiring
to accept rebates: Swift & Co. and
Cudahy Packing company. $13,000: Ar~
> rnour Packing company. $15,000; Nelson
f Morris company, $15,000; Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railway, $S5,000.
The fines assessed against the pack
ing companies were affirmed April 29
last by the circuit court of appeals at
St. Paul. The Burlington case, which
also was appealed, is still pending.
BOMB IMPERILS
200 AT DINNER
Pittsburg, Pa., Jar.. 2$.—While a hun
dred guests, men and women, were eat
Sing In the grill room of tin; fashionable
Knickerbocker hotel, on (he north side,
and a hundred more were scattered in
the dining rooms, an Italian was trying
to explode a bomb containing throe pounds
of dynamite in the suhctllur. The man
was discovered by a Mg bulldog and tied,
but was seen and the police are round
ing up ail the Italians answering his de
scription.
Attached to the bomb was a long fuse,
reaching through the cellar window into
"a dark court. The bomb had beet* placed
close to the battery of boilers. Had it
exploded the boilers would have blown up
and the entire building beer; ; wrecked.
The police say In that event It would
have been barely possible for. a person
in the six-story building to have escaped
alive.
No motive is known for the attempt.
Although the black hand is very active
in this district. Henry Hagenach, the
manager of 'the Knickerbocker, has r*>
ceived no threats.
LAMBERT GOES TO
“PEN” FOR ASSAULT
ON FATHER SCHELL
l/nr.oln, Neb.. Jan. 2S. -Logan Lam
bert. a former saloonkeeper and alleged
••boot lesger” among the Indians on
the reservation In Thurston county,
must serve a sentence of one year in
the penitentiary for an assault on Fa
ther Joseph Schell, a. Catholic Driest j
This was ^he decision of the supreme ;
court yesterday.
Father SclieM was active tn prevent
ing the illegal sale of liquor to the In
dians and incurred the enmity of some
a ^ of the saloon men. In April, 1905. ai
v Dakota City, Father Schell while ir
the town in attendance at a trial. \va?
assaulted by Lambert, knocked dowr
and his jaw broken. Lambert was ar
rested, tried and the lower court sen
tenced him to a year in the peniten
tiary. He appealed on the ground that
the sentence was excessive, but the su
preme court yesterday affirmed thr
sentence.
Father Schell gained prominence by
hi3 activity in denouncing alleged land
frauds practiced against the Indians.
SIX SA1L0RSL0ST
BY THE WAYSIDE
Rio Janeiro. Jar:. 28.—The police 01
tin: riiy have gathered up six .sailors
from the American battleships under
Rear Admiral Evans who had cither
descried cr faffed to return on board
before their vessels had sailed from
here ibrce days ago. They will bo sent
after the fleet on a collier,
LEADER CAUGHT AND
KILLED: REVOLUTION
IN HAYTI AT END
Fort Au Prince, Hayti, Jan. 28.—The
revolution has# been suppressed. Jean
Jumeau, leader of the movement, was
captured at DIn.os. a little hamlet
close to CJQrsrtjfcrxb. lie was at once shot
ti death by tftb gavormneut troops that
made hilnrpnK-racr. Gonaives has been
occupied bv go-"v 11.ment forces
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4 movement for prohibition in the 4
4 various states probably will re- 4
4 ceive legislative encouragement 4
4 from congress. 4
4 A sub-committee of the Sen- 4
4 ate judiciary committee now is 4
4 seeking to make a constitutional 4
4 amendment to the existing fed- 4
4 oral statute limiting the alco- 4
4 holie liquor traffic between the 4
4 states. This sub-committee will 4
4 report the bill to the full com- 4
4 milteeand,through it, totheSen- 4
4 ate within a few weeks. As the 4
4 House is on record in favor of 4
4 the regulation of interstate II- 4
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TEACH FARMERS TO MAKE
DENATURED ALCOHOL
Washington, Jan. 28.—Dr. H. C.
Wiley, chief of the bureau of chem
istry of the department of agriculture,
reported to the House committee on
agriculture the results of experiments
conducted by the bureau to determine
the poisonous effect on the human nys
tem of such drugs as borax, benzoalc,
benzoate of soda, sulphate of copper,
sulphur dioxide, formaldehyde and
salicylic acid when contained in food
stuffs.
Dr. Wiley said that the expulsion
of those and kindred drugs from the
body is performed almost entirely by
the kidneys and that he is satisfied
the term of American life would be
lengthened if the use of such drugs in
foods were wholly discontinued. He
said he was convinced that kidney
disease, so prevalent among Americans,
is partly the result of constant intro
duction into the system of such pre
servative substances as benzoate ol
soda carried in foods.
jurious effects, Dr. Wiley told the coni
mittee of a discovery just made by hire
that salt solution is a perfect substi
tute for sulphur in the whitening anc
drying of fruit. He exhibited samples
of apples dried experimentally by the
bureau. The sulphured fruit was not
so white or tender as the salt cured.
The committee was informed by Dr
Wiley of plans to teach the farmers oi
the United States to make denatured
alcohol. Next August he proposes tc
erect a still at the bureau of chemistry
and operate it himself for two or three
months, producing denatured alcohol
daily from damaged fruit and vegetable
substances such as can be bought
cheaply in the market. He has irr’Ued
the agricultural colleges of each state
and territory to send representatives
to Washington to observe his still and
master the process of distillation.
“The law permitting the free dis
filiation of denatured alcohol," said
Dr. Wiley, “has not benefited the farm
ers of the country at all, for they dc
not know how to build a still or run
one. I propose to teach them through
the agricultural colleges if they warn
to learn. Denatured alcohol is an ex
cellent fuel and makes a fine light. As
it can be manufactured from farm
waste the farmers ought to avail them
selves of the new law permitting it to
be made without imposition of a rev
enue tax."
RAILWAY EMPLOYES BILL
INTRODUCED BY KNOX
Washington, Jan. 28.—A hill of tremend
ous importance to hundreds of thousand*
of railway employes throughout the coun
try has been introduced in the Senate b>
Senator Philander C. Knox, of Pennsyl
vania, and is now under consideration by
the judiciary committee of that body. This
bill is designed to take the place ol' the
employers’ liability bill, which was de
clared unconstitutional by the supreme
court of the United States.
The Knox bill makes all railroads en
gaged In interstate commerce liable tc
their employes for injury incurred in serv
ice, and to their heirs in the event of a
fatal accident. -The fellow’ servant doc
trine is overturned by the Knox bill and
the rule of contributory negligence is
greatly modified. Under Its terms the
merft fact that an employe is injured oi
killed through the negligence of a follow
employe does not relieve the employer
from responsibility. Nor does contribu
tory negligence bar an injured employe
from claiming damages. It merely lessens
the amount of damage in proportion to
the percentage of negligence contributed
Under the terms of this bill, no contract
of employment, insurance, relief benefit,
etc., can constitute a bar or defense to
ct.ny action brought to recover damages
for personal injuries or death. Mr. Knoa
Is looked upon as one of the great lawyers
of the country and it is believed that i«
nis bill he has met all of the objections
raised to the former law’ by the supreme
court. He believes that the railroad mer
deserves this greater consideration frorr
their employers, and he has stated thai
he proposes to urge this bill to a vote a*
the earliest feasible time. In discussing
his bill, Senator Knox said:
“I have draw’ll this bill with a view tc
meeting the objections of the supreme
court to the former law. Congress will be
obliged to take up this question, for the
men employed upon the railroads are en
titled to a more humane law than thai
now In effect. The bill I have drawn will.
I believe, prove effective, but I am not
irrevocably committed to its phraseology.
Personally, I will welcome all suggestions
bearing upon the subject, and I feel sura
that from this and other bills that will be
referred to the judiciary committee, the
committee will be able to report a bill
entirely satisfactory and that will stand
tho test of the courts.”
100 GUESTS ESCAPE IN
NIGHTIES; HOTEL BURNS
Pontiac, 111.. Jan. 28.—Early today
the Central hotel caught fire and was
entirely destroyed. A hundred or more
guests barely had time to make their
escape In their nightclothes, leaving
their personal effects and valuables.
One woman and one man jumped from
the second story windows and were
severely hurt. Loss $15,000.
Madison, 111., Jan. 25.—A mysterious
explosion in a hard coal stove started
a lire which destroyed the greater part
of two city blocks in the heart of the
business-section today. The loss ex
ceeds $100,000. Forty pcrsons#aro left
homeless.
AFRAID OF DUCKING,
PROMISES NOT TO SELL
ANY MORE TOBACCO
Dawson Springs. Kan.. Jan. 28.—A
band of 50 masked Night Riders late :
last night took possesion of the Arcadia !
hotel here, utter terrifying the guests '
ay "shooting up" the place, then took
John Heath, an independent tobacco 1
uyer, who was u guest, to the rivet j
nearby and upon threats of "ducking'*
made him promise noe to seil any more :
tobacco. 1
FREIGHT TRAFFIC
MUCH IMPROVED
IN MIDDLE WEST
Big Movement of Grain Is Put
ting Idle Cars and Men
Into Service.
Chicago, Jan. 28.—That freight truf
fle conditions are recovering from the
financial stringency was the statement
of special traffic managers and other
high railway officials today. The im
provement is said to be particularly no
ticeable in the traffic of the railroads of
the Middle West, where heavy grab
shipments, almost suspended while thS
stringency in the money market was at
its height, now are being made.
While statistics of all roads through
out the country last week showed that
320,000, or 14 per cent, of 2,200,000 freight
cars in service throughout the country
were standing idle, and, in consequence,
thousands of men had been thrown out
of work, railroad officials expressed the
belief that the crisis was passed and
that no further reductions of the num
ber of workmen would be necessary.
REDUCTION IN UNION
PACIFIC SHOP WORK
Omaha. jan. as.—xne reaucuon oi me
working hours of the Union Pacific
shopmen, which began last Monday Is
to be followed after today with a re
duction of working days from six to
five per week.
At the headquarters of the Union Pa
cific it is stated that Omaha will not
be the only place affected; that there
soon will be a general reduction of the
mechanical force of the road along its
entire line. The reduction probably
will affect several thousand inen.
The World-Herald today quotes Vice
President Mohler as charging the re
duction to “Roosevelt’s mania for re
form.” indicating that his company
would work with a reduced force as
long as the president's activity against
corporations continues.
MILWAUKEE OFFICIAL
ON WAY TO JAPAN
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 28.-J. H. HUand,
vice president, and F. A. Miller, gen
eral passenger agent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad with
their wives, and H. H. Hiland, secretary
to his father, passed through Omaha in
their private car en route to San Fran
cisco, where they will take passage
for Japan. It is understood that the
object of the trip is a study of trade
conditions In the orient in the Inter
ests of the Milwaukee’s Pacific coast
extension.
HENEY GOES*AFTER
SENATOR FULTON
Portland, Ore., Jan. 28.—In the
Hall-Mays conspiracy case, F. J.
Heney. the prosecutor, endeavored
through ex-Unlted States Senator W.
W. Steiwer, to connect United States
Senator C. W. Fulton with the case.
According to the contention of the
prosecution. Fulton saw John Hall
and exacted a promise from Hall
that civil proceedings would be brought
against the Butte Creek Live Stock
and Lumber company, in eastern Ore
gon, instead or a criminal action
against the individual members of the
corporation. The prosecution contends
that Fulton wrote to Steiwer telling
his arrangement witli Hall, but this al
leged letter is not lri the possession
of the government.
Steiwer testified that Fulton had re
quested him to bring all the corres
pondence between them to Portland,
and that while here Fullon se
lected this particular letted and either
destroyed it or still has it in his pos
session.
George O. Brownell, former state
senator and republican leader, testified
that at u meeting at Salem between
Hail, Senator Fulton and himself in
1903, it was agreed that Brownell
should succeed Hall as United States
attorney and that ho bad the prom
ise of the late Senator Mitchell of
support in the race for the office. The
witness declared that he withdrew
from the field ir. favor of Hal), after
the latter had toid him that Inspector
Greene, of the interior department, was
looking into his record and that his
indictment would mean his political
death.
The famous Mitchcll-Fullerton let
ter to Brownell, assuring him of the
protection of both senators, was of
fered in evidence.
LABOR PLANS TO ERECT
FINE $1,000,000 TEMPLE
Washington. Jan. 28.— A commutes
of the National Temple of Labor asso
ciation, which has been organized to
raise a million dollar fund to construct
in Washington a magnificent temple
for labor organizations, called on Sec
retary Root and Assistant Secretary
Bacon at the state department to en
list their aid and service in the pro
ject. The purpose is to interest bus
iness mpn and representatives of or
ganized labor in joint efforts to mini
mize business losses and other social
ills “resulting from such crude agencies
as the strike, the boycott and the lock
out, and to secure a more general ap
plication of arbitration and community
of interests of capital and labor."
President Roosevelt. Vice President
Fairbanks, members of the cabinet, su
preme court, public officials generally
and prominent labor leaders and all
employes are being interested In the
project.
Secretary Root gave a letter of
hearty indorsement, and It la stated
that every member of the cabinet like
wise has approved the project except
ing Secretary Taft, who has not yet re
turned an answer to the appeal.
SUES FATHERINLAWr
FOR $ 1,600,000 FOR
ALIENATING WIFE’S LOVE
New York, Jan. 28,-Auiel Batonyi to
day began suit against Frank Work,
his fatherlnlaw. and two others, for
$1,500,000 for the alleged alienation of
affections of his wife.
KAISER BEGINS TO
CELEBRATE 60TH YEAR
Berlin, Jan. 28.—Ktnperur William
today inaugurated the celebrations in
connection with the beginning ot his
faith year, which will take place next
Monday, his birthday, by opening In
this city a unique exposition which has
been arranged iii Ills honor. This con
sists of a loan exhibition of 40 master
pieces of British art with a total value
of $3,500,000, at the Prussian Royal
Academy of Art. The pictures were
brought especially from lOngland with
the consent ot nrlvate owners.
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IN CONGRESS
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4 LAFOLLETTE WOULD 4
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4 FRANKS FROM SENATORS. 4
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4 Washington, Jim. 27.— Sneator T-a- 4
4 Collette Introduced a bill to deprive 4
4 public officials serving under the 4
4 constitution and laws of the 4
4 United States of telephone and tele- 4
4 graph franks or passes. The hill 4
4 also undertakes to prevent dls- 4
4 crimination on the charges of In- 4
4 terstate telephone or telegraph lines 4
4 “nd provides for the preservation 4
4 of all messages for a period of six 4
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Washington, Jan. 27.—Senator Dol
iiver, of Itch's. Is working on a bill of
which It Is understood he has com
pleted a draft, which alms to establish
federal control of the capitalization of
railroads. The bill will be Introduced
as soon as possible.
The senator has spent many monthk
of study in preparation for Its molding.
He began on It soon after the adjourn
ment of the last session of congress,
when he took up his study of the com
pany laws of Massachusetts and of
various foreign countries. He has re
cently submitted the draft of the meas
ure to members of the Interstate Com
merce commission, which In its last
message to congress recommended
legislation of the kind.
Whether the senator will recommend
a valuation of the railroads by govern
ment authority. In order to establish a
datum plane of values from which to
proceed In the government control of
future capital Issues Is not known. It
Is known that some high authorities to
which the senator has submitted the
draft of his measure have assured
him that a valuation Is absolutely nec
essary In order to inaugurate the sys
tem properly.
xne geueiui tiifuiy ui me icgioiut.vi.
Is to provide that no capital shall be
Issued In excess of the actual needs of
the property for development and con
struction, and that when Issues are pro
posed they may not be legally made
until the Interstate Commerce commis
sion or some other duly constitutor of
the federal authority shall have exam
ined the proposal and given the neces
sary authority under the law.
PUSH ACTION AGAINST
THE HARVESTER TRUST
Washington, Jan. 27.—Senator Harts
brough, of North Dakota, endeavored
to have nullified the effect of a resolu
tion offered by him and adopted by
the Senate on December 17, 1906, direct
ing the department of commerce and
labor to Investigate the affairs of the
International Harvester company in
order, he said, that the department of
justice might proceed to prosecute the
company. He explained that relations
between the several departments makes
them desire to act In harmony.
The resolution called forth a storm
of protest, during which Senator Hans
brough declared that the International
Harvester company is taking a hand
In politics in North Dakota, and is try
ing to capture delegates who are to
represent that state in the republican
national convention.
“Not that alone," said Senator Hans
brough; "the edict, has gone forth from
this monopoly that I am to be defeated
for the Senate of the United States be
cause I had the temerity to offer a
resolution to investigate It.
“The political fortune of a man is
a grain of sand compared with the
injustice that may be wrought by an
Institution of this kind. I brought this
challenge, and am ready to meet i(.
If the people of my state desire to
have this monopoly control their state
they do not want me as their repre
sentative "
Senator Beveridge declared that this
statement of the activity of the "har
vester trust" was much more import
ant than'the resolution to stop the In
vestigation of the trust.
The resolution was, on motion of Sen
ator Fulton, of Oregon, referred to the
committee on agriculture.
MAGOON’S CALL*IS
NO MYSTERY
Washington, Jan. 27.—There is no
mystery whatever about the summons
of Governor Mugoon, of Cuba, to
Washington, according to the officials
of the war department. Public works
aggregating in cost many millions of
dollars are involved in the governor's
appearance here. Most Important of
these is the McGivney & Rokeby con
tract for the sewering and paving of
Havana, amounting to over $4,000,000.
These contractors were the successors
to Michael Dady in undertaking this
class of work in Havana, and like their
predecessor they have nad all sorts of
trouble with the Cuban government
during Its brief administration, and
Governor Magoon has been trying for
many months to effect a satisfactory
settlement of llielr claims.
TAWNEY WARNS AGAINST
BIG DEFICIT IN TREASURY
Washington. Jan. 27.—During consid
eration of the urgent deficiency appro
priation hill by the House a surprise
was sprung when Chairman Tawney,
of the appropriations committee,
warned the members t*hat the country
was confronted with the certainty of a
$100,000,000 deficit unless the estimates
for the next fiscal year should be cut
down materially. A discussion on tar
iff revision was injected into the pro
ceedings in which leaders on both sides
of the House tried to commit one an
other to a definite announcement as
to whether, if successful at the No
vember elections, there would be tariff
legislation.
NEW BILLS INTRODUCED
IN THE HOUSE
Washington. Jan. 27.—Among the
bills and resolutions introduced in the
House were the following:
Dawes, Ohio, providing for the pay
ment of a pension of $30 a month to
every veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars.
Thomas, North Carolina, making the
police powers of the state applicable to
interstate shipments of intoxicants im
mediately upon the crossing of a state
line instead of not until arriving at
destination.
Thomas, North Carolina, to prevent
the issuance .of federal liquor licenses
In prohibition territory.
JAPS SKETCH HONOLULU COAST
Honolulu, Jan. 27.—Japanese have
been discovered sketching Honolulu's
coast line lrotn the heights behind
Honolulu.
LI3BONSTILL IS "A
QUITE EXCITED
Lisbon. Jan. 27.—The transmission of
the following dispatch was permitted
by the authorities after due censor
I ship:
I "Lisbon is filled today with disturb
ing rumors, but there huve been no
new developments in the abortive at
tempt of two nights ago to overthrow
the government. The police have vis
ited all the fiewspaper offices and for
bidden the publication of anything con
cerning the men arrested. The pris
oners are incarcerated in th.; fortress
' of San Julia.
ORIENT WILL WIPE
OUT OCCIDENT IF IT
DOESN’T LOOK OUT
Scheme of Regulating Marriage
Must Be Developed,
Says Professor.
Washington, Jan. 25.—“Unless west
ern nations develop a scheme of reg
ulating marriage so that the Increase
of population shall come from the bet
ter Instead of the worse elements of so
ciety, western civilization In time will
be unable to stand against the pres
sure of the older races of the East,”
was one of the striking declarations
with which Professor C, W. A. Vedltz,
sociologist and statistician, addressed
ft meeting of prominent society women.
"Unless systematic Ingenuity and
conscious control of the race's increase
are soon Introduced, western civiliza
tion will presently be wiped off the
map,” continually Professor Vedltz.
Compared to the blind and Instinctive
movement for race preservation, the
forces that now work for the improve
ment of race and the triumph of west
ern civilization are now so few and un
important. that unless government
steps In to regulate marriage and re
pioductlon, that the most dire results
cannot but follow."
Professor Vedltz presented census
and vital statistics of various countries.
"Sooner or later conflict between the
white race and the darker races must
come," he said. “Numerically the white
race Is weak; It must be equipped with
miriic\;iuai ouiauvihj •* •» *• - - “ ■ >* "
The final test Is that of brute force.
We must meet numbers with quality;
and we are not equipping ourselves to
do this successfully. Our self-com
placency In assuming entire superiority
Is mistaken. Moral nr.d physical cour
age, economy, thrift, industry, honesty,
tenacity of purpose, amenability to dis
cipline, cleanliness, temperance and ra
tional habits In dress and food, are
elements of the first importance In de
velopment of national character. Have
we more of them than people of the
Mongolian stocks? We are getting
ready to realize that we have not.
“The silent invasion of the Occident
by the oriental people has been going
on for a long time; we nre just uwak
enlng to It. The overstocked countries
of the East are sending their surpluses
to us. They are reaching out for the
opportunities that English and Ameri
cans have been expecting to control. In
future—the opportunities of America,
of Canada, of South America, Africa,
Australia, of Siberia. We have no
longer a monopoly of the effective
weapons against numbers; they are as
well equipped as we. Unless we adopt
a process of selection that will make us
strong against greater numbers we
must fall."
CHICAGO POLICEMEN
CLUB “UNEMPLOYED”
Chicago. Jan. 25.—Preparation for a
possible clash between police and “un
employed" commenced in earnest today.
Police were massed In downtown sta
tions in anticipation of trouble.
Last r.ight thousands of copies of cir
culars telling unemployed to meet at
2 o'clock or. the Lake front and from
there inarch to the city hall and de
mand work were distributed In saloons
and in the lodging house district.
Chief of Police Shlppy has repeatedly
declared to the managers of the parade
that It would not be permitted. The
fact that this was the coldest day of
the winter aided the police greatly in
keeping the people on the move.
A fight occurred between the police
and a column of the "unemployed" at
State and Madison streets In which
several men were beaten.
A portion of the crowd formed an
other column at Clark street and
Jackson boulevard and again was
charged by the police. Several men
were clubbed and the crowd scattered.
Dr. Reitman, who led the second de
tachment, was placed under arrest af
ter being somewhat^roughly handled.
ODD BURIAL REQUEST
IN SPINSTER’S WILL
Greenwich, Conn.. Jan. 25.—Peculiar
provisions are made In the will of
Surah E. Scofield, a spinster. After the
Initial request that she shall be burled
from the Church of the Transfiguration
In New York, with "a low celebration
of the holy communion, if the Rev. Dr.
Houghton, the pastor, shall see fit,"
and interred In Stamford, with the Rev.
Mr. Brathwaite, rector of Saint An
drews’s church, to say prayers over her
body. The will stipulates the kind of
coffin in which she shall be buried.
This, it Is requested, shall be "plain
and inexpensive, covered with purple
cloth and white canton flannel, the
woolly side out, that my resting place
may look warm and comfortable, not
shiny, cold and costly.” The number of
carriages at the funeral is limited to
two, as “the living need the money, not
the dead. The expense must, if pos
sible, be less than $100.”
CLAIMS GEN.^STOESSEL
MADE MONEY BY
SELLING LUXURIES
St. Petersburg, Jan. 25.—Testimony
showing the straits of the civil popu
latlon at Port Arthur during the siege
was given at the courtmartial oi
lieutenant General Stoessel by Colone
Vershinin, who was civil commtssionei
«f that place, and who fathered the
charges against General Stoessel thal
he reaped a harvest by selling eggf
and milk and other luxuries to the sic!
during the siege.
According to Colonel Vershinin men
existence was a luxury for civilians
Provisions were enormously expensive
A cow cost *800, a pig *500, eggs *
each and other things correspondingly
He testified that Mrne. Stoessel hat
a large herd of cnttle and a flock o
chickens and charged exorbltan
prices.
Shortly before the surrender, he tes
tifled, she summoned a merchant ant
attempted to dispose of these, the sup
position being that she had an inklin;
of the coming surrender.
ROCKWELL CITY MAN
CHOSEN 'PHONE OFFICEF
Chicago, Jan. 25.—At a final meetin;
today of the international independent
telephone convention, the lullowing ol
ficers were elected: President, A. C
Undemuth. Richmond, I nd.: vice presi
dents, P. C, Hoiilvoglt, Rockwell City
la. and K. B, Either, Grand Rapid’
Mlth.: secretary. J. B. Ware. Gran
Rapids, Midi.: treasurer, Hanford Sav
age. ‘.'hnmpaif ". III.
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$1,000,000 FIRE
AT PORTLAND, ME.
Portland. Me., Jan. 27.—The Portland
city hall, containing the municipal and
county offices and the departments ot
the police, In which were the supreme.
Judicial and municipal courts, was com
pletely ruined by fire early today which
endangered many Uvea and destroyed
valuable records, dating back over a
century. The monetary loss is esti
mated at over a $1,000,000, but this sum
will not cover the loss of papers and
documents destroyed.
That there were no fatalities Is re
markable, as there were more than 700
persons attending the western Maine
Knights of Pythias jubilee gathered In
the auditorium when the flames were
discovered. Only a few persons were
hurt, Chief Engineer Melville Eldridge
being the only one known to be serious
ly injured.
The fire was caused by crossed wires.
BALTIMORE HIT BY
ANOTHER BIG FIRE
Baltimore, Md„ Jan. 27.—The big
gest Are that has visited Baltimors
since the calamity that made the city
world-famous resulted In the death of
three firemen and the Injury of ten
more, among the latter being George
Horton, chief of the department. The
damage Is estimated at from $400,000
to $500,000.
Starting some time after midnight
on the third floor of the building on
the southeast corner of Holiday and
Saratoga streets, occupied by the J.
Regester Sons company, plumbers'
supplies, it spread so rapidly that a
general alarm followed almost Imme
diately on the first one sent in. A gale
from the northwest spread the fire
Vapidly, and this and very cold weath
er made the work of the firemen more
than ordinarily difficult,
CAPITALISTS FORM
BOOTBLACK CONCERN
New York. Jan. 27.—An indication of
the important part that nickels and
dimes of the public play In the every
day life of this metropolis Is the leas
ing of the bootblacking privilege In the
new twin McAdoo terminal buildings
on Cortland street for 12 years at a
rental aggregating $124,000. This in at
the rate df $10,333 a year.
To handle the apparently tnsignifi
cant job of shining the shoes of tho
permanent and transient population of
this immense ouildlng, a corporation
called the Hudson Terminal BootblaCk
ing company has been formed. Tho
names of the men who are putting up
money have not been made public, but
they are capitalists who have figured
In deals involving millions.
CHICAGO SOCIETY
WOMAN TIRES OF
HER “MATINEE IDOL”
Chicago, Jan. 27—Friends of Mrs.
"Walter Newton Jones, 4342 Drexel
boulevard, learned today that she Is
contemplating divorce proceedings
against her actor husband, a matinee
idol and stage "tramp’' of repute, who
is no.v in New York with the Jones
Deyo Vaudeville company. A suit for
absolute divorce is expected to bo tiled
next week.
The complainant i3 wealthy and has
been prominent in Chicago society. Sho
attained much notoriety In the pro
ceedings which attended the, trial when
she obtained a divorce from her former
husband a New York broker. The fol
lowing yetir she married Walter Jones.
HEIRS OF GEORGE
WASHINGTON WILL
, GET $1,000,000
Weatherford, Tex., Jan. 27.—Ths
Brazelton family of this city, heirs of
George Washington, first president of
the United States, will soon recelvo
oart of an estate of 40,000 acres, valued
at $1,000,000 In the Clermont district.
Ohio, according to messages received
here from Washington, D. C.
There are three Brazelton brothers
here, J. W. Brazelton, a banker; B. F.
Brazelton. a physician, and B. tf*. Bras
elton, a farmer. A Georgia relative
also will receive share In, the estate.
Washington, having no children, left
the estate to his nephew. General Na
thaniel Greene and nis niece, Hannah
Greene. Jacob Brazelton, grandfather
of the Texas heirs, married Hannah
Greene. _ _
MILLIONAIRE TO SUE
WIFE FOR DIVORCE
New York, Jan. 27.—Alfred E. Diet
erich. whose wife went away about the
same time that Harry S. Brenehley, a
poor English horse trainer, disappeared,
is about to start divorce proceedings.
"It is about the only way out of the
mess," said Mr. DleteGch, who is a mil
lionaire.
The mother of Mrs. Dieterich has re
turned from Paris, where she made a
vain appeal to her daughter to return.
She Is Mrs. Albert Young, and the scan
dal has so affected her that she Is In
poor health.
Mr. Dieterich has been devoted to his
wife, and it would not surprise hia
friends if even at this late day lie would
welcome her shoujd she decide to corns
back to New York and her little girl.
Since Mrs. Young's return to New
York, ways and means of taking Mrs.
Dieterich's $8,000,000 from her control
have been discussed, but no way has
been found. The money is hers abso
lutely, and no action restraining hei
from doing as she pleases would hold. *
according to those consulted In the mat
ter.
NATIONAL LIVE STOSK
ASSOCIATION MEETING
Denver, Jan. 27.— H. A. Jastro, ol
Bakersfield. Cal., was unanimously
elected president of the American Na
! tlonal Live Stock association at th«
close of Its 11th annual convention, suc
ceeding Murdo MacKenzie, of Trinidad
Colo., who had served two terms and
declined a re-election.
Other officers were elected as follows:
First vice president—Murdo MacKen
[ zie.
Executive committee—II. C. Wallace
and A. Sykes, Iowa; H. S. Boice and
, J. M. Coburn, Missouri; Robert Tay
’ lor and W. G. Comstock, Nebraska.
1 Los Angeles was selected as the plac*
for the convention next year.
A resolution was adopted asking con
gress to establish a minimum rate of
20 miles an hour for stock trains ex
ctpt where physical conditions pre ’ent
President MacKenzie announced las
i evening he notified President Roosevol
- by wire that the iibsoi lutinn had itv
do'sed his plan of inhrinitralion if
regard to tne public land