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4UM rr MfffiaaOb alt m WW f I M Ms H VOL. XjLVI. JfO. 14,200. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1906. TRICE FIVE CENTS. STO 6 COMPANY QUITS CALIFORNIA Startling News to the Insurance World. GERMANIA TO CLOSE OFFICES San Francisco Losses Have Influenced Action. NEW LAW HAS MUCH FORCE Demand of State for Detailed Report on Policies Declared Confisca tion Other Companies Like ly to Follow Example. SAN FRANCISCO. June 12. (Special.) The Germanla Insurance Company, of New York, will write no more insurance In this slate, will close all its offices and abandon California as an Insurance field. Telegrapnic instructions have been re ceived from tne home office to that effect and will be followed. Two reasons are given for this action. One, general in its scope. Is that of an ultra-conservative company not caring to risk any more of its capital In California losses. The other Is more specific, and eays the decision of the company was in fluenced by the Legislature and Insurance Commissioner Wolf. Startles Whole Community. The action of the Germanla Company is the talk of Insurance circles. When it was reported that the Eagle and some of the other smaller companies would quit California; there was little comment it was expected but when a company like the Germanla declared Itself in the same manner the entire commercial community of the city was startled. 1 The Germania is one of the strong com panies doing business In California, having assets of J7.COO.Oo6. and Is paying its losses as rapidly as they arj adjusted. Among Jnsura.'ice men the Germanla is noted for Its conservatism. It was thought prob able that the company had been fright ened out of the state by its recent losses. This was not fully admitted at the offices of the company, though it was conceded that the character of the loss and the manner in which it was incurred may have had its effect on the directorate. Cannot Comply With Law, "We can give no details of the com pany' action," said an official. "We have received telegraphic orders to close our agencies In this state and will proceed to do so at once. We cannot obey the request of the State Insurance Commis sioner, nor comply with the recent law enacted by your State Legislature, re quiring us to make a detailed report of the policies we have written in California. To do so would result in a practical con fiscation of our business. To give the name, number and amount of the policy, the location and description of the prop erty and the date of the expiration of each policy would be placing our entire business in tho hands of competitors. Our policy list represents the outlay of im mense sums of money, and it is the entire Block In tra.de of our agents. What mer chant would consent to give a list of his customers and the time they would want to order another stock of goods? "If we should put a stop to ail our work of adjustment and paying policyholders and devote all our time to complying with the Commissioner's request, we could not comply with it in the time specified." There is every likelihood that a num ber of companies will follow the example set by the Germanla. Smaller companies fee In it a precedent under which they may claim a reasonable excuse for quit ting the state, and on the other hand it may be the pioneer movement in what may develop into concerted action to se cure the repeal of the act at the next session. SEEKS RELIEF OF CONGRESS California Committee Proposes Two Methods to President. WASHINGTON. June 12. The House committee on appropriations will hear the California relief committee Thursday morning regarding the desire for Federal aid In restoration of San Francisco. No form of legislation has been Introduced and until the matter takes more definite shape in the way of a recommended pro posal none Is likely to be. Those who have canvassed the situation in the House say there will be difficulty In se curing any legislation for relief. Opposi tion to action of this kind is based on the fear of future bad results which may follow the establishment of a precedent of extending Government aid other than for the temporary relief of an afflicted and suffering community. The hearing was sought of the appropri ations committee, it Is understood, at the suggestion of President Roosevelt. The first proposition the delegates sub mitted to the President was to authorize the acceptance of the San Francisco bond Issue of $13,000,000 as security for addi tional National bank circulation in that city, and the other that the President request Congress to make a loan of $10. 000.000 to the National Red Cross with out Interest, to be paid back at some future time. The first plan was favored by the President, and he said that. If be bonds were approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, he thought the circula tlon could be secured without an act of Congress. He expressed the belief that the second plan would not be adopted by Congress and that a scheme of that character ought not to be considered for a moment. Senator Flint then suggested that a loan of $10,000,000 should be made to the San Francisco Clearing House, to be paid back In ten years with interest. This money would be used in providing suitable shelter for homeless citizens before next Winter. The money, it is suggested would be handled by the clearing-house banks of San Francisco on Just such se curity as they ordinarily would accept from patrons. Without committing himself, the Presi dent said he would present this plan to his Cabinet and that if it thought well of the. plan, he would send a message to Congress recommending that such ac tion be taken. Extra Session Adjourns. SACRAMENTO. Cal., June 12. The spe cial session of the California Legislature, convened by proclamation of the Governor on Saturday, June 2, to enact laws made necessary by the earthquake and fire of April 18, ended a few moments after noon today. As a result of the 11 days devoted to legislation, the Governor has received 65 bills passed by both Houses. Fifty of these await his approval and the others. Including a measure providing for a $500, OuO state building in San Francisco, which was signed this morning, have already become laws. Nearly all provide in vari ous ways for the assistance of San Fran cisco, though other places will share In the aid rendered. Incorporate to Collect Claims. SAN FRANCISCO, June 12. The San Francisco policyholders in the Traders' Insurance Company of Chicago have adopted the report of their advisory com mittee and have resolved to organize a corporation for the collection of their claims. This procedure was decided upon after the policyholders had been informed of the refusal of the receiver in Chicago to afford their committee any information whatever regarding the financial condi tion of the Traders Insurance Company or its stockholders. E HEARST'S CHIEF EUROPEAN AGENT CALLS ON NEBRASKAN. Appointment Is Made by Cable and Nothing Is Given Out Con cerning the Interview. CHICAGO, June 12. (Special.) The Ber lin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News cables tonight as follows: . William .R. Hearst's chief agent. In Eu rope arrived in Berlin to confer with William J. Bryan, two hours before the Nebraskan left for St. Petersburg last night. An appointment had been made by cable with the agent, who lives in London. Mr. Bryan did not disclose the nature of the interview, but the impres sion gathered by some of his friends who saw him was to the effect that he ex pected Mr. Hearst's representative to propose some sort of a compromise whereby the Bryan boom would not be allowed to clash with the Hearst propa ganda in New York. One version Is that Hearst's emissary attempted to Induce Bryan to decline the proposed big reception In New York In August. DCPONT ELECTED AT LAST Delaware Legislature Makes Him Senator, Democrats Not Voting. DOVER, Del.. June 12. The Delaware Legislature today elected Henry A. Du pont United States Senator for the term beginning March 3, 1905. His election was practically unanimous, as the Democratic members voted blanks and all the Repub lican members save one voted for Dupont. The exception was Senator Thomas C. Moore, of Kent County, who voted for J. Edward Addicks. The election of Colonel Dupont will be formally declared at the Joint session to be held tomorrow. Colonel Dupont is 6$ years old. and a na tive of Delaware. He is the head of the great powder works bearing his name, and Is very wealthy. He served throughout the War of the Rebellion, and was award ed a Congressional medal of honor for "most distinguished gallantry In action." He is a director of the Reading Railroad. Colonel Dupont is in Europe, and will not take his seat in the Senate until De cember. United States Senator Allee today re ceived the following telegram from Wash ington: "Telegram received. I am much pleased with the good news you send and heartily congratulate you upon the result which you have been so instrumental in bring ing about, and congratulate even more heartily the Republicans of Delaware. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Nominations in Michigan. DETROIT, June 12. Governor Fred M. Warner, Republican, was renominated to day without opposition at the first general primary election in this state. Patrick H. Kelly, of Detroit, was nominated without opposition for Lieutenant-Governor. The Democrats nominated Woodbrldge N. Fer ris, of Big Rapids, for Governor, and C. H. Kimmerle, of Cassopolis. for Lieuten ant-Governor. Under the primary election law enacted by the last Legislature the remaining candidates on the state tickets will be nominated at party conventions. The vote today was extremely light, prob ably not more than 10 per Cent of the nor mal. Nebraska Populists for Bryan. LINCOLN, Neb., June 12. State Chair man Otto W. Meyer, of the Populist central committee, for Nebraska, eaid to day at the conclusion of a committee meeting, that from reports made by com mitteemen, the party will favor the nomi nation, of Bryan for President. The state convention will be held in Lincoln Aucust 1. Niedringhaus Still Is Chief. ST. LOUIS, June 12. (Special.) Thomas K. Niedringhaus was re-elected chairman of the Republican State Committee, and Joseph McCoy secretary this afternoon. John Rothwell was chosen vice-chairman of the committee and Walter S. Dockey, of Kansas City, chairman of the execu tive committee. Cities Disagree on Union. PITTSBURG. June 12. While the City of Pittsburg returned a majority of over 25.000 today In favor of consolidation with Allegheny into a greater Pittsburg, Alle gheny opposed the movement with a majority of about 6300. The matter will now be taken up to the Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of the law. AT LOGGERHEADS ON THREE POINTS President's Hopeless Disa greements With Senate, on Legislation. WILL LOSE ON STATEHOOD Compromise Assured on Meat In spection Hopeless Deadlock on Canal Philippine Bill Doomed to Die in Committee. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 12. The President and the Senate are at loggerheads over three im portant pieces of - legislation now pend ing, the statehood bill, the Philippine tariff bill and the Panama canal bill, and) In addition there Is a difference of opin ion between the President and the Re publican leaders in the House over the Beveridge meat inspection amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill. The four topics alone will furnish subject matter for all the debate that can be crowded into the few remaining weeks of the session, but other topics will have to be disposed of, and it is reasonable to assume that some of these great fights will have to go over to the next session or be compromised. The President can not win them all. So far as the statehood bill Is con cerned, the President stands to lose, for the Senate and House leaders have agreed on a compromise admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory and leaving New Mexico and Arizona to choose between Joint statehood and remaining territories. Will Compromise, on Packers. Some sort of compromise Is looked for on the meat Inspection amendment. The suggestion of Senator Beveridge was slipped Into the bill by the Senate with out debate and without having any com prehensive explanation made ,of its pur poses and effects. It went in Just as many harmless amendments are attached to all appropriation bills. It was not un til the bill went back to the House that the people awoke to the importance of the amendment,- and then the fight be gam The packers got busy, their friends Instituted a campaign to tone down the amendment, and Beveridge get busy trying to work up friends for his amendment- The President heartily ap proves the amendment, in fact, was con sulted at the time it was being drawn, and he is very anxious that Congress shall legislate along Its lines. Whether this can be done remains to be seen, for many of the House leaders. Including Speaker Cannon, maintain that the Bev eridge amendment is too radical and should be altered. However, the expos ures made by Government Inspectors show a condition of affairs in the big packing-houses that cannot be tolerated, and practically every member of Con gress is in favor of some legislation that will guarantee cleanliness and sanitation in the preparation of meat products for the market There will certainly be legislation on the subject before adjournment. It may not be as radical as the President would like, but It will be an Improvement over the present ineffective laws. Deadlock on Canal Bill. - The two houses of Congress are dead locked over the Panama Canal bill. The Senate favors a sea-level canal;' the House stands with the President in favor of a lock canal. The Administration Is bringing its heaviest guns to bear to win this fight over the Senate, but the style of campaign is doing as much harm as good. Chairman Shonts and Chief Engi neer Stevens are working day and night to create sentiment in favor of a lock canal, but In this respect they are an tagonizing the Senate, and many un friendly comments are made because sub ordinate officials of the Government "are attempting to dictate to Congress what it shall do." A number of Senators are very angry over the manner In which Mr. Stevens, Mr. Shonts and others have urged the lock canal before committees of Congress, and are Inclined to vote against the President because of this in terference, if for no -other reason. If the Senate Is unable to force the House to accept a sea-level canal, it looks now as If the canal bill would go unacted upon and that Congress would adjourn leaving this problem to be solved at the next session, in case the President in the meantime does not take matters in his own hands and stipulate the style of canal to be built. No Hope for Philippine Bill. The President will lose his fight for the Philippine tariff bill. A majority of the Senate committee on Philippines is op posed to reducing the duty' on Philippine goods coming to this country, at least until after the expiration of the treaty with Spain in 1909, so the bill dies In committee. Senator Lodge, chairman of the committee, is extremely anxious to report and pass the bill; he Is just as much interested as the President him self, but he has not the votes. There was talk of asking the Senate to discharge the committee from consideration of the bill, but it is too late for such tactics at this session. The debate on this very question would lead to a filibuster, and the inevitable result would be to prevent action before adjournment. Dubois' Inconsistent Stand. The defeat of the Philippine bill ls generally credited to the efforts of Sona tor Dubois, of Idaho, for it was he who made the active fight and wrought up Democratic sentiment against it. It is true that he and, the Democrats placed themselves In a peculiar position in sup pressing a bill that tended in the direction of free trade, and with Mr. Dubois his position was doubly ludicrous. For the past three years he has been crying Mormonlsm and predicting all manner of dire things that will happen In the West if Mormon expansion is not checked. He has talked of driving the Mormons out of Idaho, against the encouragement of the beet sugar industry in the state because it brings in Mormons, and yet he votes against the Philippine bill because he says it will injure the beet sugar industry of the United States. He actually votes to protect the very Industry which he would crush out because it draws an undesir able class of citizens to his state. Mr. Dubois is the most outspoken of all op ponents of the Philippine bill, and he has refused to yield to the entreaties of Secretary Taft and others interested in its passage. The bill may be considered dead so far as the present session of Congress is concerned. Reduced Foreign Powtage Rate. WASHINGTON. June 12 The Postofflce Department has announrti that the Uni versal Postal Congress, recently In con vention at Rome. Italy, ordered a sub stantial reduction in letter postage by increasing the unit, of weight effective on and after October 1, 1907. For Great Britain and the United States the unit of weight was fixed at one ounce. Under the reduced rate, a letter to Great Britain will cost 6 cents for the first ounce and 3 cents for the second ounce, or 8 cents for two ounces. l:i other words, when the new ratr-hrcome effective a letter packet weighing- six ounces can be sent to Great Britain at the rate now charged for "a two-ounce packet." BACK TO OLD KENTUCKY SONS AND DAUGHTERS SWARM FROM" EVERY STATE. Louisville Overflows With Loyal Children for Home-Coming Week. Many Distinguished Men. LOUISVILLE, June 12. AH through the day and so late into the night that another day had come, Louisville re ceived the children of Kentucky, who are coming back for the great "Home coming Week." Promptly at noon today the great Armory on Walnut street was thrown open for the reception and reg istry of the visitors. Around the hall beneath the gaily decorated balconies swing 119 gilt signs, each one bearing the name of one of the counties of Ken tucky. Beneath the sign stood a table, which supported a register, in which the visi tors as they came wrote their names. Over each register presided a handsome young lady garbed in white, a native of the county whose name hung Just above her head. Many hundreds registered dur ing the afternoon, and tonight the crowd was larger than at any time during the day. The services c-f WP:om will be held at 11 o'edock tomorrow -morning. (Uover nor Beckham will make a short speech and the address of the day will then be delivered by Henry Watterson. Ex-Governor David R. Francis, of Missouri, will respond for the returning Kentuckians. Among the distinguished guests who arrived during the day were United States Senator McCreary. ex-Governor David R. Francis, of Missouri; Adlai E. Stevenson, formerly Vice-President of the United States; General Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff of the United States Army; former Governor Thomas T. Crittenden and former Governor Preston H. Leslie, of Montana. Governor Hoch, of Kansas, is expected tomorrow -morning. Thou sands of visitors have already arrived. Thousands more are coming tomorrow. TWENTY HOUSES WRECKED Tornado Tears Track h rough Geor gia Town Two Persons Injured. TIFTON. Ga.. June 12. A tornado swept over this town late this after noon, destroying more than 50 houses. Two persons were seriously injured and many others slightly hurt. No reports have been received from the outlying country. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum. temperature, 67; minimum temperature, 55. Precipitation, .06 Inch. TODAY'S Showers, follower by fair and warmer weather. Westerly winds. Foreign. Storm brewing: in Russian Parliament about duplicity regarding executions. Page 4. Splendid entertainment in London In honor of the Longworths. Page 2. Great ovation to Ellen Terry at Jubilee benefit. Page 4. National. House debates rate bill and' returns It to conference.. Page 3. Senate acts on cattle In transit bill. Page 3. Agreement on statehood going through. Page 3. President and) Senate at loggerheads on Im portant measures. Page 1. Colvtlle Indian graft approved by House. fage la. Debate on meat Inspection In Heuse. Page 4. Politics. Hearst sends emissary to confer with Bryan. Page 1. Dupont elected Senator in Delaware. Page 1 Domestic. Big life Insurance company withdraws from California- Page 1. Home-coming week, in Kentucky. Page 4. Wife of millionaire accused of manslaughter. Page 2. Great fire on Baltimore water-front. Page 2. Tobacco trust officials may be imprisoned lor contempt, rage &. Maryland mob nearly beats negro to death. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Local wheat market on export basis. Page 13 Drouth reports stimulate prices at Chicago. Page 13. Strong interests under stock market. Page 13 jwoston wool marKei inactive. Fage 13. Consul Laid law's report filed at Washing ton. Page 12. Business men want another flreboat. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Three of the nonunion crew of the ship Johan Poulsen wounded In an attack made on the forecastle of the vessel, led. It Is charged by the -police, by the walking delegate of th union. Page 1. Commercial Club now plans to build eight story structure. ' Page 9. Director Wittenberg says he will not take back one word of his remarks about ' Director Williams. Page 8. Pioneers are .coming to Portland for reunion. Page 7. Delegation of Klamath Falls business men visits this city. . Page 8. Wiranen given three years in penitentiary ior mansiauKoicr. i v. Episcopalians will choose successor to Bishop Morris. Page & Assessors of eight counties agree to value railroads at i.kh a mile on main lines and $10,000 on branches. Page p. E Buildings are Toppled Over and Nearly Every Pane ot Glass in Town Smashed. LOSS IS PUT AT $200,000 Denizens of the Xegro Quarter in an Agony of Fear, But the Reser vation Indians Are Ap parently Indifferent. HAVRE. Mont., June 12. Havre and Fort Assinibolne were struck by a hurri cane this afternoon that did damage esti mated at $200,000. Buildings were toppled over without warning when the cyclone struck and not a structure In the path of the terrific wind escaped damage. Several persons were injured, but up to a late hour this evening no fatalities were re ported. The fierce wind carried rain with it, which fact precluded the possibility of damage by fire. Men and women were swept from their feet by the hurricane and for several minutes It was courting injury to venture outside. Later the wind subsided some and the work of rescue commenced. Window Glass Demolished. An earthquake could not have more completely demolished the glass In the city. There was scarcely a whole pane of glass In the downtown district and residences also suffered severely. The Havre Hotel lost 280 window lights and many other buildings were similarly treated. Pandemonium reigned for a time after the hurrrlcane struck. Women were hysterical and even the men feared to venture from their houses. To remain in side was equally as dangerous, for the cyclone threatened momentarily to de molish even the strongest structures. Stories Torn Off Buildings. The two top stories of the Havre Com mercial Company's building, a concrete affair, were picked up by the wind and deposited on an adjoining, lot. The lower floor, used as a store, remained intact, but 11 clerks, most of them women, nar rowly escaped being buried In the debris. ' Telegraph wires ate "Sown", and" com-" munlcation with the outride world is practically paralyzed. ' In the quarter of the city occupied by the colored residents a panic prevailed. Many negroes believed that the end of the world was at hand and scores pros trated themselves upon the ground In supplication. Indifference of Indians. Contrasted with the fright of the colored population was the stoical demeanor of the Indians from the Assinibolne reserva tion near this place. The redskins hud dled In a group near the post trader's store, wound their blankets about them more tightly and weathered the hurricane without a murmur or exclamation of fear. Locomotives in the railroad yard3 sounded signal of distress when the fire tower was demolished by the wind. A score of railroad employes hastened to the scene and rescued several men from the ruins. Damage at Fort Assinibolne. Meager news accounts from Fort Assini bolne tell of great destruction wrought there by the tornado. The large commis sary building, together with the Adju tant's office, stables of the troopers and several barracks went down. Captain Boniface and seven troopers had a narrow escape from drowning. In going to the rescue of a family which had been cut off by the flood, everal thousand feet of the track of the Great Northern Railway west of Assiniboine have been washed out. It is impossible to establish communica tion with Harlem and Chinook, and it is thought likely that perhaps the track lying between those points has been washed out. Flood Endangers Lives. .Engineers report that the territory be tween Havre and Glasgow resembles a sea. Fears are expressed for the safety of residents in the vicinity of Harlem and Chinook, in view of the breaks in the irri gation reservoirs. A report tonight states that both of the reservoirs at Fort Assinibolne have burst and that the quarters of the soldiers are being flooded. Four troops of the Second Cavalry and four companies of the Second Infantry are stationed there. Cold Rain Killed Many Sheep. . PENDLETON, Or.. June 12. (Special.) As a result of the recent flood and the cold rain going with It. Umatilla County sheepmen assert that fully 1500 sheep have died. All of the loss came from the moun tain ranges, where the sheep are being herded. Three thousand sheep are' now being held in Pendleton, having been refused shipment East until an inspector could reach here and pass upon their freedom from disease. The band Is the property of Oxam & Blcknell. of Chicago, who have already shipped 75,000 head of sheep from Oregon this season, besides 25,000 head from Montana. They are bound for Chi cago markets. OFFER TO SELL DECISION i Illinois Supreme Court Cites Lawyer for Contempt. SPRINGFIELD, June 12. The mys tery surrounding the secret session Tuesday night of the Supreme Court was cleared when Justice Scott cited Hardy' N. Bradford, of Flora, 111., for contempt of court, and Richards Reaugh, of Louisville, III., to appear CYGLQN SIR KES HAVRE VERY Friday morning and show hy he should not be disbarred from the practice of law. Both men were attorneys In the "Uncle ,Billy" Hudleston will case, of Clay County, out of which the present proceedings grew. William P. Hudleston bequeathed his fortune of $100,000 to Ewing College, a Baptist institution at Swing. Frank lin County: the Hudleston Orphans' Home at E wing, and the American Bap tist Missionary Union, of Boston. Rel atives broke the will, and the bene ficiaries appealed. The accused attor neys are said to have offered to obtain a favorable decision in the Supreme Court for $10,000. TURN AGAINST MITCHELL Miners Federation Joined by 100, 000 Eastern. Coalminers. DENVER. Colo., June 12. (Special.) Great interest centered in the application of the coalminers of the Eastern States for membership in the Western Federa tion of Miners, at the convention today. These men are now members of the Uni ted Mineworkers of America, most of them being employed in the bituminous regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, al though a few come from the anthracite districts, and all made individual applica tions. This is done to emphasize their disapproval of the policy of President John' Mitchell and the United Minework ers, who have failed to secure the vic tories promised when negotiations were begun with the operators months ago. Over lOO.Ouo individual applications for membership were received today and were referred to the executive committee for action. The Federation virtually re-elected Charles H. Moyer president and William D. Haywood secretary-treasurer, by mak ing no nominations for these offices, ac cording to the constitution, the incum bents, who are in Jail in Idaho, awaiting trial on the charge of murdering ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, will hold over until their successors are elected. C. E. Mahoney. of Butte, was elected vice-president. The following members of the executive committee were elected. Dis trict No. 1, Marion W. Moor, of McCabe, A T.; district No. 2, L. J. Simpkins, of Wardner, Idaho; district No. 3, J. C. Low ney, of Butte; district No. 4, Frank Schjnelzer, of Silverton, Colo.; district No. 5, James Kirwin, of Terry, S. D.; district No. 6, Ernest Mills, of Vancouver, B. C. ; district No. 7, 9. J. Brown, of Platte River, Mo. J. C. Williams, of California, was a candidate for re-election as vice president, but Mahoney beat him almost two to one. Denver was selected as the place for holding the next annual convention. The convention will adjourn finally tomorrow, after electing delegates to the annual con vention of the Industrial Workers of the World to be held in Chicago next Sum mer. A resolution was adopted ordering all unions affiliating with the Federation to withdraw from the Montana State Feder ation of Labor, which has Its charter from the American Federation of Labor. Building Tied Vp in St. Louis. ST. LOUI3. June 12. More than 6000 union men affiliated with the Building Trades Council are out as a result of the strike inaugurated yesterday, and build ing operations nww aw confined to struc. tures where the stone and brickwork has been completed and to frame houses. where it Is not necessary to employ stone masons or bricklayers. Labor Leader Completes Sentence. W'FIELD, Kan.. June 12. -X. E. Cland, formerly a national vice-president of the American Federation of La bor, was released from the county Jail today, having completed a sentence of olx months for assaulting a nonunion ma chinist during the Santa Fe machinists' strike. FEEDS PAP TO FAVORITE Rich Perquisite Given by Pennsyl vania Road to Berwldn-White. PHILADELPHIA, June 12. The Ber-wind-Wnite Coal iMnlng Company was the Issue before the Interstate Commerce Commislson when it resumed its Investi gation today into the relations of railroads to coal and oil interests. Probably the most Important fact brought out was that the coal company is allowed 7 cents a ton by the railroad company for handling its cars on the Harlsmus pier. This allow ance gives the coal company about $17,000 a month for this service. The work is performed, however, by Pennsylvania crews with railroad locomo tives, for which the coal company makes monthly settlement with the railroad, the amount of the monthly bill being some thing over $700. It developed through the testimony ef Frederick MacOwen, treasurer of the com pany, that during a period when cars were scarce E. J. Berwind made arrange ments with the Pennsylvania Railroad by which his company secured 1000 Individual cars, several hundred of which had been in the service of the railroad. MacOwen stated the history of the Berwind-White Company and explained the lease of the Harsimus pier. Invite Presidents to Testify. PHILADELPHIA, June 12. The presi dents of the big coalcarrying railroads will be given an opportunity to appear voluntarily before the Interstate Com merce Commission and make any state ment they may desire. Commissioner Cockrell said today that Invitations would be extended to the presidents of the Penn sylvania, B. & O., the Norfolk & Western, the Chesapeake & Ohio and the New York Central railroads to appear before the Commission. No subpenas will be issued. "You cannot condemn a man without a hearing," said Commissioner Cockrell. FLIES TO ARMS OF CHURCH Josephine Terranova Released and Will Enter Catholic Institution. NEW YORK. June 12. Josephine Ter ranova was released from the Tombs prison today, and will not be further prosecuted. Josephine Terranova was driven from the Tombs to the residence of Arch bishop Farley. Soon after her arrival she was kneeling before the private al tar in the archbishop's residenoe, and a little later a mission worker left the residence with a bundle containing the personal effects which the girl had -with, her during her confinement In the Tombs. Mr. Palmieri, the young woman's at torney, later announced that when Jose phone leaves the city she will enter a Catholic Institution, Her destination was not disclosed. Tremblor Cracks Buildings. NOGALES, Ariz., June 12. An earth quake occurred at Guaymas. Mex.. yes terday, about noon. Several buildings were cracked, but nobody waa Injured. ' ATTACK SAILORS ABOARD THE SHIP Three Non-Union Men Are Wounded. ASSAILANTS ALL MAKE ESCAPE Crew of Ship Johan Poulsen the Victims. FIGHT ON FORECASTLE Captain Levison Gets His Rifle and Attacking Party, Said to Be Led by Union Walking Delegate, Flees. THREE SAILORS WOCXDED. Three sailors were seriously In jured in an attack on the hip Johan Poulsen by union sailors last night. Walter Later, a sailor, was shot In the head, causing; a se vere scalp wound, and Joseph Shoess, a sailor, was shot twice through the left arm. Two boatloads of union men boarded the vessel while the crew was sleeping and without warn ing began shooting the defenseless nonunion men. Olsen, a third sailor of the ship, was hurt by having his face smashed in by a rock. Captain Levison succeeded In driving the at tacking party from his ship at the muzzle of a rlfie. A riot call was turned in by Night Watchman Francis and a wagonload of policemen was sent by Captain Bruin to quell the battle. All members of the attacking party escaped before the police ar rived. In an attack on the ship Johan Poulsen at the dock of the Inman Poulsen Mill, supposedly by union sailors, at 10 o'clock last night, two nonunion sailors were wounded and another was .badly hurt by- having his face crushed in by a rock in the hands of one of the attacking party. Trouble between union and nonunion forces Is supposed to have been the cause of a broody battle which occurred. Two boatloads of men, said to have been led by the walking delegate of the sail ors' union, boarded the vessel -while the crew of six men were in their beds, and the captain was on the wharf, and with revolvers and stones attacked the fore castle in which the men were sleeping. Attacked While Sleeping. As Walter Lafer, a seaman, rose In his bed to find out the cause of the commo tion, one of the attacking party with a curse fired at the half-reclining man. The bullet pierced the top of the sailor's head, inflicting a bad scalp wound. Another of the attacking party then assaulted the unconscious man with the butt of his re volver dislocating his shoulder. Joseph Shoess, another sailor of the Johan Poulsen, as he was pulling on his trousers, was shot twice through the left arm and was knocked down and kicked almost Into Insensibility. Leav ing the two men for dead, the invaders attacked John Olsen, another member of the. crew, and with a rock smashed In the side of his face. Olsen was not badly enough hurt to be taken to the hospital. Captain Alms Rifle. Hearing the firing below. Captain H. Levison rushed on board and descended to his cabin for a rifle. WhHo below the attacking party, which is said to have consisted of about 14 men, clambered to the 1 wharf, some of them ascending to the ships' bridge. As the captain came from below a revolver was placed befora his face and he was ordered to clamber from the ship. He raised his rifle, whila his opponent stood threatening and or dered him to get off himself. The fel low scampered. Turning his gun on the others of the attacking party he threat ened to shoot unless they got off the ship. From his exposed position on tha bridge of the ship he could easily hava been Bhot, but only one bullet was firedi in his direction, and that went wide of the mark. Turns in Riot Call. Thomas W. Francis, night watchman and special policeman for the Inman Poulsen mill, heard the shooting while making his rounds and ran to the ship as the attacking party was climbing to tha wharf. He was stopped by the crowd of sailors, but pulled his own revolver, with which-he threatened to shoot unless he was given a passage through the crowd. He was not molested. V ..ile the angry men stood threatening, Francis hurried to the mill office, where he telephoned to police headquarters that a riot was taking place and assistance was needed. Captain Hruin hurriedly called all avail able policemen, and with the wagon filled with Policemen Wanless, Ogg, Holtz, Tlchnor. Parker and Isaacs, he dispatched, them to the mill on the run. By tha time the policemen arrived the attacking party had vanished, some In boats and others through the alleyways. Detectives Vaughn and Hellyer -were later sent to the mill to work In tracing down tha assailants. Captain Levison says that ha recognized one of the attacking party as the walking delegate of the Sailors' Union. Taken to Hospital. Lafer and Shoess, the wounded men. were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where they will probably recover. The Johan Poulsen arrived from San Fran- (Concluded on Page 2.) A,