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Another New Yorker Charged
TALES OF HORROR
With
IV \’|f A P A fil IA
Conspiracy to Violate Laws.
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Return« of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
An Illinois legislator admits receiv
ing »1 ,000 to vote for Lorimer for U.
S. senator.
Fatten and his friends on the Chi
cago cotton exchange cleaned up 1320,.
000 in one day.
Witness« state conclusively that
Sw<>|>r, the St. Ix*ui» millionaire, was
killed by a violent poison.
One [x-rson was killed, two fatally
injured and about lf> others hurt in a
street car collision in Seattle.
British Democracy has fore«d the
Lords to pass the I Midget which was de
fraud last fall, anil expects further
triumph«.
Portland is much worked up over the
alleged carrlMsnesa of census takers.
It ia claimed that at least 30,000 per-
sons in the city were not counted.
Speaker Cannon declares ths minor
ity rules the house and that such rule
must be atop|>rd, even if it becom<-e
necessary to change the constitution.
niVARAUU/l
New York. May 2.- Another import-
ant arrest in th« Federal bucket shop
——-— —
crusade was made today when govern
ment officers arrested Frank Maier, of
the firm of Morrison A Maier, in his
office at No. 44 Broad street.
The specific charge against Maier is
conspiracy to violate the Federal law
against bucket shops.
It is sllegrd
Maier, in conjunction with Ixiuis Celia, Says Cruelties Eclipse Conditions in
Edward Altemus and H. D. Duryee,
Congo Mrn, Women and Boys
has been furnishing stolen quotations
Horribly Tortured.
to bucket ahop« all over the eastern
part of the United Slates.
The government agents at the same
time cut the telegraph wires leading
Washington. May 8. A letter writ
to all plac,* here and in New Jersey ten to the consul at Managua, Nica
suspected of being bucket shop«. Co ragua, by Narciso Arellane, a citizen
incidentally two special agents uf the „( Niaragua. detailing incidents of cru-
United States department of justice cities in the republic, has been for-
paid a visit to an office in the Lincoln warded here to Senor Castrillo, repre
Trust building, Jersey City, and arrest- sentative of the Estrada forces in
id Joseph Ik-cker, a telegrapher. Th«- Washington. In hia letter Mr. Arel-
police say Decker had in the office a .lane says:
«
stock ticker, from which he is alleged
••I think it I m -at you should know
to have copied quotations and sent these people are at their work again.
them |>racticaily all over the United They are torturing men and even boys
State«.
at Mandaimo ami at Granada. whi|>-
i ping them, suspending them from th«'
SLUSH FUND TALKED.
thumbs with cords, all this to wrench
out confessions from them as to who
Fetzer Will Tell Grand Jury About carried provisions to Calaxto Talaver
as’ guerillas beyond Mandaimo.
•200.000 Paid.
"I will cite as an example case the
Chicago, May 2. John C. Fetzer,
a z« . « w
fund ”
” of
of case 01
of Octavio ”
Marene«, . » a *
young
man
who «Ih ffiHi that a “•lush fund
our* m«n
about »200.000 was u~d In wtvancin, '¿’"¿7. * ^V_*?.« ",
"j Mandaimo, who was dealt 200 la«h«-s
legislation and city ordinance« drained
Irdiana
• •tifk a midnight on April 6, at
by the Chicago 4 W«-»torn I. ____
Railroad company, entered into con the jail at Granada. He is now at
ference with State’s Attorney Wayman the penitentiary in this town (Mana
today. Details were not made public. gua!, and as it is a matter of common
Neither the suit filed by the company ' knowldlgc you must have heard the
to recover »525.000 from Fetzer, out of »tory from another «-tree.
,
I Kev
Hatvss
"They
have al«oi
also Ftiir-rxaMi
burned nr«>iH-rfv
property
which the company alleges rctxer de-
and
wrought
damage
to
an
incalculable
fraud«-d it, nor the latter*« injunction
Citizen Ashamed of His Country
Informes American Consul.
A rich rancher of Elk City, Idaho,
has not ticen heard from since he went
hunting March 7, and two men who
went in search of him two weeks ago
«•cm« I
_ *
.
have .not returned.
in court in the near future.
Develop
President Taft, «[waking at Buffalo, ments, however, are exp»-ctrd when
a|M>logix«d to the state of New York Mr. Fetzer tells his story to the grand
and congratulated the entire nation up jury, especially summon«! to hear it I
on the appointment
of
Governor next Motxiay.
Hughe« to the Supreme court.
Fetzer alleges that a large portion
Negotiations for about 280 locom«.- of the money which the company seeks
to recover was spent in securing the
tivce and 5,000 to 6,000 freight ears,
paasHge of bill 777 at 8pringfi«-ld to
which the Harriman lines expected to
validate botids issued by the Chicago A
|>urchaac, are retarded Iwcausc of ina
Western Indiana, in securing from the
bility U> secure satisfactory terms.
common council of Chicago the vacat
Th«' Italiana Democratic convention ing of a street desired by the mail, and
has endonad John W. Kern for U. 8. in seeking to block an extension of
senator.
the Illinois Ccffiral in suburban Chi
The New York stock market ia de cago.
moralised, everyone trying to ad I to
RACE LINES BLOTTED OUT.
avoid loss.
Charles Wexler, eonfcsae«i murderer
"Jim Crow" Laws of Louisiana Are
of Mrs. Schultz at Gig Harbor, seeks a
Found to Be Badly Muddled.
second degree verdict.
New Orleans. May 2. “There are
Amid wild enthusiasm, San Fran
no negroes who are not persona of col-
cisco Ims inca» men aubacribed »4,000,.
or, l«ut there are persons of color who
000 for their 1916 fair.
are not negroes.’’
Ruth Bryan’s first husband. Leavett,
This a salient sentence in a decision
says her second marriage win lie il that has thrown the race laws of Louis
legal and that he will fight it.
ans into a state of chat*. All statute»
Rockefeller is diacouragid at the de ma«le and provided to k«-cp s«-|>aratc
lay in ««-curing a national charter for and distinct whites and negroes practi
cally are affected by the ruling of the
his great philanthropic project.
Louisiana Supreme court that octo
An insane young man agi-d 19 shot roons, quadroons and mulatto«« are not
and seriously wound«'«! three ¡«ersona negroes.
in New York and then committed sui
The court holds that wh«te the text
cide.
of the law merely says “negroes’’ it
Newspaper publishers in the East cannot lie applied to octoroons or other
M« a famine in paper unless congress persona of mix«d blood. It defines the
pass«-» the Mann bill removing the duty- negro as a member of the black or Af
rican race, having in hia veins no trace
on pulp and paper.
of Caucasian blo«d. Persons of lighter
A cod fishing schooner from San or darker skins than mulatto«« can
Francisco is reported lost with several evade the laws by demanding that the
memliers of her crew. She has been state prove they are negroes.
missing since last October.
Peary ia off for Europe on a lecture
tour.
A negro leader and 22 followers hnve
been arrested in Havana for inciting a
revolt.
R,-jM>rta place the damage by Chin-
«•«• mol* in recent riots at Changsha
at »2.000,000.
Lawyers of Reno. Nevada, seek to
disbar one of their number who adver
tise« a specialty of easy divorce«.
Foreign Ownership to Hinge on Re
ciprocal Rights Aroad.
'
Two hundred girls at Cornell college.
New York, are seriously ill from pto
maine poisoning caused by impure
milk.
Edward Keaton, age«I 110, living
near Natchez. La., was bitten by a
rattlesnake, but the doctors say h* will
recover.
A jury has been chosen to try F.
August Heinze, accuse«! of misspply-
ing funds of the Merchants bank, of
New York.
A hug«« Russian bear in the New
York Zoo turned on its keeper and
nearly tore him to piece« before be
was rc«cu<-d.
The heirs of Mr». Octavia Adelaide
M«*a, a rich New York woman, are
having a hard time finding her wraith,
which waa hidden about her house in
secret places known only to herself.
Vanrouver, B. C., May 2. The
zilian-Canada & General Trust
|>any, a British corporation, issued a '
writ in the Supreme court today to
compel James Dunsmuir an«! others,
until recently owners of the Dunsmuir
coal lamia and mines on Vanc>uver
island and the Dunsmuir prop,-rtire in
California, to comply with tern» of an
option given to the British corporation
for sale of the properties, Th«-««' prop-
erties were transferred recently to
William MacKenzie and D. Mann, pres
ident and vice president of the Cana- i
dian Northern Railway company, for
»1,000,000.
Panama Fair Fund Grow«.
San Francis«'©, May 2. Numerous
subscriptions, ranging in nmount from
»10 to »25,000, an«l aggregating in all
»64 ,820, were receive, I by the finance
committee of the Panama Pacific Inter
national exp«wition today and the grand
total of the fund on hand waa swelled
to »4,166,320.
Small subscriptions with a few of
larger proportions amounte«! to »39,820
for the day when notire was received
from th« Life Underwriters, associa
tion of San Francisco that the directors
hivl voted an investment of »25,000.
Gigantic Chicago Ossi Involves One
Hundred Million Dollars.
Chicago, April 30. —Unification of
the Chicago elevated railroads.regarded
as the first c«s«ntial step toward a per
fect transportation service, was today
said to be in sight. A gigantic deal,
involving a capitalization of »100,000,-
<HK), may be consummated and the plan
put into operation August 1.
Henry A. Blair, who successfully re-
organize«! the Chicago Railways com
pany, ia the financier who hopes to
merge the e lev a tel roads.
Representing a syndicate of New
York bankers with unlimited resource«,
he has submitted a definite offer to the
elevated railroad officials to buy the
properties, either paying cash to stock
holders in return for a deposit of their
stock, or giving them securities in the
new corporation equsl to the par value
of their holdings.
So far, the directors «if all companies
have agrcetl that the plan ia a fair one,
the hitch being in the price offered by
Mr. Blair and that which th«' directors
think they ought to get.
While Mr.
Blair has not announced what his cash
offer s, he admittcii that it waa a good
deal more than the present value of the
stock of the different compani«*.
The capitalization of the elevated
roads in stocks and bonds, equipment,
notes and other outstanding obliga
tions, is a little more than »100,000,•
000.
FREIGHT RATES GO UP.
Transcontinental Roads Plan to Meet
Increased Expenses.
Washington, April 30. Freight tar
iffs showing considerable increase over
the pres«-nt rat«-e from Western terri
tory to the Atlantic scalioard will be
fikil with the Interstate Commerce
commission to liecome effective June 1.
This ia the first step taken by the
railro.d. indicating a,pur|K.K.- general
ly P> IncrMM f-n iglit rates throughout
the niuntry to meet increased operat
ing expense«.
Already tariff schcdulca have bt-en
filed for Western roads increasing th«'
rate for the transportation of wool
from Minneapoli* and St. I’aul to New
York and other Atlantic scalioard
points. The present rat«' on wool from
Minneapolis to New York is 59 cents
per hundred pounds. Umier the new
tariff the rate will 1« 64 cents a hun
dred pours!», an increase of nearly 20
I«er cent.
An increase air,.« has been made in
the freight rate on live hogs between
the Twin Cities and Chicago of 2j
cents a hundred pounds.
This ia an
increase of about 12 per cent over the
present rate. While no tariff haa been
filed with the commission increasing
the rate on wheat products from Chi
cago to the Eastern territory, it s<-cms
likely the rate on hog products from
Chicago to Eastern point, will be in
creased.
The tariffs already filed with the
commiaaion are for all the roads in
Western Freight aaaociation territory,
and the rates will become effective
simultaneously on all of them.
Fearing Law. Buckstshops Close.
JAPAN MAKES LAND LAW.
BUYERS WANT WEALTH.
The bridge of th« Milwaukee rna«l
over the Yakima river was destruye,!
by a washout and an engine and five Britist Corporation Contests With
cars of lumber went into the river.
Railroad for Property.
About fifty acre« of ground, piled 25
feet high with luml«er in the yards of
the Humbird Lumber company at Sand
Point, Idaho, were »wept by fire, des
troying aliout »300,000 worth of lum
ber.
It ,*
I!..
vu.af
lav
out I.r
of mind.
It
is the
rest 1 ! lay
■ tr«-M on. I ’am aaharnid that »uch
cruelties should be commit teed by men
who profess to I m - Christiana and are
Nicaraguans. Such ferocity is rnor<
t! Work of
.I k than human I- ii g-<.‘
“We wish the State department an«I
the American public to tw aiijuaintcl
with these facta, as It might help mat
ter« a bit. It is a real shame that
such work ia going on with your war
ship« a few miles off Gorin to harbor,
when just a wuni from Admiral Kim
ball would stop this devil’s work.
Should the American admiral send an
other mission to investigate, he will
discl<*e a situation of things unparal-
leled, even in the Cong,« Free State.”
Under «late of April 10 from Mana
gua. a sutwequent note to the Ameri
can consul al Managua from Arellane
states that the author has received
reliable information of 17 case« in
which men have b«*en hung up by their
thumbs. He giv«*« the name« of 17
victims and the name of one man who
wiu shot and two who were la««h«-d.
Another document detailing th«*,- al
leged cruelties and mentioning specific
instance« of insults to women by offi
cers, alleging in one case that a wo
man was shot because she resisted a
government officer who tried to kiaa
her, has been submitted to th«- Slate
department by Senor Castrillo.
«wit
CITY ROADS MAY MERGE.
Tok io. May 3. The law relating to
foreigner«' right of ownership of land
waa promulgated Oxi ay.
It provides that foreigners domiciled
or resident in Japan, and foreign juri
dical persons registered therein, shall
enjoy the right of ownership in land.
provid«<d always that in th«- countries
to which they belong such right is ex-
tended to Japanese juridicial persons.
The law is applicable only to fore
igners belonging to countries d,-«igna-
ted by imperial ordinance.
In the districts of Hokkaido, For
mosa, Karafu and districts ncceaaary
for national defence, foreigners are de
barred from land ownership.
In case a foreigner or foreign juri
dical [M-rson owning land cases to be
capable of enjoying right of ownership
such land shall accrue to the fiacua,
unless he dia[>o«es of it within a per
il«! of one year.
Washington. April SO. Results al
ready have been accomplished by th«'
crusade of the department of justice
against the bucket shop business, tn
»«Idition to the offices >iffrct«i| by th«-
indictment against a number of princi
pals, scores of houses in the Middle
West have closed their doors and oth
ers ar« expect««! to follow. Should the
efforts of the department towards
breaking up the business entirely prove
unavailing by prosecution under exist
ing Isws, it is said that new legislation
will be asked of congress.
Taft Starts on Trip.
Washington, April 30.
President
Taft left Washington at 7 o’clock last
night fur Buffalo, his first stop on a
seven-day trip.
From Buffalo the
president goes to Pittsburg, then to
Cincinnati. St. Louis and back home,
reaching here May 6.
There have
been many predictions as to the line
the president’s speech«» will take on
the trip. He haa given no hint himself
of what he will say, but it is signifi
cant that he is carrying with him a
full set of figures on the operation of
Five Fall Far, Unhurt.
Pasadena, Cal., May 3.- Mr. and the Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
Mrs. F. E. Wolfarth, their two child
Court Nips Thaw Plan.
ren an,! R. Tobey, of Covina, were
New
York, April 30. — Harry K.
hurled down a 200-foot precipice today
end though they fell on a pile of rocks Thaw, who killed Stanford While,
not one of the party were hurt.
The must remain in the Matteawan insane
skidding of the automobile in which asylum. The appellate division of the
they were riding up Seville llill Supreme court in Brooklyn handed
caused the accident.
Wolfarth. who down a decision today which seta
waa driving, tried to round a sharp aside the appointment by Justice
curve in the trail skirting the crest of Tompkins, of the Supreme court, of a
the hill and the car went over the <-dg«- referree to take testimony bearing on
The court
of an alm«*t perpendicular precipice, Thaw’s [Krnsible transfer.
holds that Matteawan is the proper
The automobile waa demolished,
place for Thaw.
Long Island Shaken Up.
New York. May S.
Hempstead.
Mineola. Garden City and other towns
Beri-Beri Kills Italians.
of Ix>ng Island shook for 45 seconds
Ran Francisco, May 2. Antonio this afternesm on the dot of 3 o’clock.
Ranieri, the first white victim In this Crockery on the ahelvre and windows
city to succumb to beri beri, died to- in their sashes rattled loudly. Persona
day. Two Chinese have died from the on their feet felt the tremor sharply,
effreta of this unusual disease, hut An earthquake waa not thought of. l»ut
Ranieri is the first Caucasian here to inatant and numerous telephone in
suffer a fatal attack of the Oriental quirie« failed to bring news of any ex
malady.
i plosion.
McCredie’s Bill is Favored.
Washington, April 30. Representa
tive McCredie today had a hearing be
fore the judiciary committee in order
to present argumenta in support of his .
bill authorizing the state« of Oregon ’
am! Washington to adjust differences ‘
vrtvr the boundary line where it follows 1
the Columbia river. After his hearing I
the committee assured him '.he bill I
would tw favorably rep»>rtc«i next week, j
PAULHAN VICTOR
IN AIRSHIP RACE
Frenchman Wins Prize of $50,-
000 by Long Flight.
▼
Flies
Half
the
Length
of England,
Mak ■ng Trip from London to
Manchester with One Stop.
London, April 28. The Frenchman,
Louis Paulhan, whose efforts have fre
quently been crowned with victory, to
day won the greatest race in the hi*
tory of mankind and »50,000 when he
flew into Manchester at 5:30 o’clock
thi« morning, having traveled by aero
plane from lx>ndon, a distance by rail
way of 186 miles, with only a single
overnight stop at Lichfield.
His competitor in the contest, Gra
ham White, the English aviator, after
making a successful new start at
Reade, where he made his first landing,
decemb-d at Polesworth and no advice«
have yet reached London of his having
resumi'd his flight.
White, a few days ago attempted
the trip, but was compelled to decend
at Lichflfield after covering 115 miles.
Paulhan then appeared on the scene
and the two aviators made hasty pre
parations fur the flight, each striving
to be first at the start. Paulhan stole
the march on the Englishman and as-
cend«fi from Hendon at 5:20 p. m.
yesterday.
White, who was sleeping peacefully
at the time he waa apprised of thia
fact, made a quick start from Park
Royal at 6:30 p. m.
Paulhan flying
high and fast covered 117 miles before
he landed, making that distance in
two hours and 50 minutes.
He <!e-
scended at Lichfield at 8:10 p. m., and
reascended at 4:08 a. m. to complete
the journey. White succeeded in reach
ing Reade, a distance of about 60
miles, descending on account of dark
ness at 7:55 p. m.
He managt-d to
ov«:rcome some of the handicap by
starting again on the long journey to
Manchester at 2:50 a. m. He land«d,
h«>wever, at Polesworth, which is about
60 miles from Manchester.
The struggle for the coveted prize
took a dramatic turn last night when
Paulhan stole a march on hia English
rival. Graham White, which plait'd
him 20 miles ahead of the race when
darkness compelled him to alight for
the night. This forenoon the weather
was favorable, but owing to the heavy
work of preparing the machine, it waa
aup|s«ed th«' start would lie deferred
until Thursday. The two aviators had
met Carly and discussed plans, express
ing hope that they would meet each
other in Manchester.
Late in the day White, tired from
his heavy labors, returned to his hotel
and went to sleep, intending to start
tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile the
xptH-tators at Hendtui were surprised to
see Paulhan, after trying his rngine,
take farewell of his wife, who tied a
large map of the rout« around hia
waist, and take his Beat in the aero
plane.
Word that the Frenchman had start-
id quickly reachtd Park Royal. Rush
ing into While’s room, his friends
awakened him. White sprang to hia
fret, flew downstaris, jum|>ed into a
m«»tor car and made for the garage at
full sjietd, and within 20 minutes waa
sailing around the gasometer at Kensal
Green in the first stage of what will
certainly lie the most exciting contest
ever held in Great Britain.
While passing over Bletchley, 18
miles south of London, 70 minutes b»«-
hin«i Paulhan, he was flying consider
ably higher than the Frenchman and
seemed to be making faster time and
taking a straighter course.
The news of the race spread like
magic in the towns and villages along
th«- railway, which the aviators fol
lowed closely, Paulhan being followed
by a special train steaming rapidly
northward. The p«*ople gathered ev
erywhere to get a view of the novel
sight The sun went down and the
cloudlcsa sky gave the spectators an
opportunity to watch the aviators as
they flew at varying heights.
Anarchists Dog Roosevelt.
Faris, April 28. Great relief com«*
tonight to the French government with
the eloae of the visit of ex-President
Roosevelt, for it is reported to-have
been considerably alarmed for hi»
aafrty. According to an evening news
paper, the police were advisetl from
Naples that the American anarchist»
were following him and a m«»t rigor
ous surveilance has been instituted
here. The ex-preaident has been ac
companied everywhere by two inspec
tors of the anarchist brigade in plain
clothe«.
500 Miners Are Entombed.
Txirxion, April 28. — Five hundred
miners were entomb««! t>day at the
Tyn y-Bcdu colliery in Wales as a re
sult of the breaking down of the cage
machinery. The managers are endeav
oring to make connection with th«
miners through another shaft half a
mile distant