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THE SUET; BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1908. SAYS "THANKS" TO BRAZIL BANKER-POET IS DEAD Edmund Clarence Stedman Expires Suddenly In New York. JNO. R.WALSH CONVICTED Found Guilty On 64 Counts Of Misapplying- Bank's Funds, SPEED FROM' MOTORITE A Success to Torpedo Boats, But Would Not Do For Snips. SIXTY FUNERALS LN A DAY II oyer own Bnriea Its Dead Without More Delay.

Boyertown, Jan. 18. This was another day of funerals in Boyertown, the scene of last Monday night's fire in which 173 persons lost their lives. It was an extremely sad day, even to the casual visitor who cams to town simply to see the ruins of the opera house. About 60 funerals took place, and so great was the demand for undertakers and hearses that additional assistance and vehicles had to be impressed into service from neighboring places.

There was no delay la the interments, as on yesterday, when funeral parties were compelled to wait at the cemeteries while the gravedlggers completed the graves. The relief committee had a delegation wait on the relatives of those to be buried, and arranged matters so that three burials could be made at one time. A sufficient number of men were thus on prosecuted for making loans upon. Thl circumstance was made the basi3 of Walsh's claim throughout the trial that the value of the securities had been established. The trial covered nine weeks andwa twice Interrupted by illness of Jurors.

Many Ballots Taken. From 4 to 10 ballots were taken by th Jury on each of the 150 counts In the Indictment. There was much discussion by tha jurors first on the question if intent. On this point more than 40 ballots wer taken. The result of, the first was 10 for conviction 2 jurors holding cut.

Influenced chiefly by sentiment. In the end It wa finally agreed that Walsh should be held, guilty, and the question of upon what counts he should be convicted, was takta up. Those upon which the conviction was based Involved nine distinct series of transactions. The- misapplication of approximately $1,000,000 was the act of which the Jury found the defcadant guilty. The maximum penalty of 10 year on each of the 54 counts relating jo this act would make It possible for Jude Anderson to impose a sentence of 543 yean la the penitentiary.

All but two of tlm transactions Involved in the finding the jury were memorandum note transactions. Included in those were seven loans, amounting to $630,000. to the Wisconsin and Michigan Railway Company. Two series of, transactions were bond sales by the Illinois Southern if the Chicago National Bank one of $23,000 and the other $0,000. In each case of bonii sale or the discounting of memorandum notes Walsh was found guilty of depositing the proceeds to his personal account and then paying it out to the railway companies.

Defense Greatly Disappointed. This afternoon the following statement was Issued by counsel for Walsh: "The result of this trial Is, of course, a disappointment to cs. In our opinion no case was made on tha evidence presented against Mr. Walsh, and he wss entitled to a verdict of not guilty-Tha Jury was made up of intelligent men, but they were farmers and altogether unfamiliar with transactions Involving business of the chara-rer brought in this triaL There was in the evidence no clear-cut issue presented as to the distinct transaction. Tha Jury was overwhelmed with a mass of unconnected transactions, extending over a dosen years before as well as during the period of the transaction complained in- the indictment.

Under this mass of evidence the issues of tha case were buried. So many transactions, each substantially colorless in itself and having no "just bearing upon the case, when admitted aa tending to prove evil Intent in the transaction charged, obviously have, from their very mass, influenced tha pury to an unjust conclusion. We ask a. suspension of public Judgment upon this case. We feel sure the public generally regard Mr.

Walsh aa innocent of these charges. In our Judjrment there Is nothing in this trial or its result to produce any change in that opinion, Mr. Walsh, heretofore, will continue to attend to his business affairs, and that ha will finally be vindicated we have no doubt," Wholesome Effect Clalmd. Assistant District Attorney Fletcher Dobyns said: "The prosecution was directed against Mr. Walsh's illegal acta and not toward the man.

The Government bad no animus In the matter, but was simply performing Its duty by enforcing tha law. I do not WIRELESS HOAX EXCITES THEM Paisengers On Steamer Told The Louisiana Is Blown Up. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. New York, Jan. 18.

Passengers on the Advance, of the Panama Steamship Company, which arrived today from Colon, were greatly excited by a wireless report picked up last night that the battleship Louisiana, now at Rio, had been blown up. Two messages were picked up, the first of which was: "Magazine of the battleship Louisiana exploded off Rio. All oa board lost." This naturally caused intense excitement, many of the passengers declaring it probably another Maine incident, with the Japanese at the bottom of it. While this was being discussed another wireless message was caught, saying: "Boilers of battleship Louisiana exploded off Rio, and all on board lost." When the Advance reached quarantine the passengers were relieved to learn that no news had been received in corroboration of the messages. Operator Maggard said that in hia opinion the messages had come from the coast of New Jersey, and seemd to proceed from the wireless station at Galilee.

The opinion was expressed that a practical Joker was attempting to have fun at the expense of the passengers on Incoming ocean vessels. MINERS' DELEGATES FLOCK IN John Mitchell Will Open Indianapolis Convention. Indianapolis, Jan. 18. The anthracite and bituminous coal miners' delegates to the nineteenth national convention of their union began arriving in this city this afternoon.

The convention, the last regular one oveT which President John Mitchell will preside as the miners' national leader, will open Tuesday morning. National Vice-President T. L. Lewis, who is one of the Ohio delegates, und T. J.

Smith, the Tennessee national board member, were the first to arrive. President Mitchell, who haa been at Excelsior Springs, two weeks, will arrive tomorrow or Monday morning. National Secretary-Treasurer W. B. Wilson, who represents the Fifteenth Pennsylvania district in Congress, will be here Monday from Washington.

By Monday night fully 1,000 delegates will be In the city, and It Is expected that 1,200 will be on hand when President Mitchell calls the convention to order. It Is understood that Mitchell 19 Improved In health and that it is his Intention to preside over at least the opening session and to deliver his address in person. Bituminous operators of the central competitive field will be here January 30, when they come for a conference looking to a resumption of the Joint conference relations that were disrupted two years ago. If an agreement Is reached at that conference, the wage-scale conference of miners and operators will follow. The national tellers are still counting ballots for national officers, cast by the unions in December.

They will not be ready to report before the latter part of next week. It is believed by of W. D. Ryan, of Illinois, that he has been elected national secretary-treasurer, though it is known that John Fahy, of the anthracite district, haa polled a large vote. John P.

White, of Iowa, haa been elected vice-pesident to succeed T. L. Lewis. There continues to be' optimism in the ranks of the supporters of T. L.

Lewis for president, and they believe he has been elected by 30,000 majority. Friends of W. B. Wilson also are claiming his election. FOR AN ASSET CURRENCY Bankers' Association Commission Formulates Bill.

Chicago, Jan. IS. The currency commission of the American Bankers Association met today and drafted an asset-currency measure, which is to be submitted to Congress soon. The bill is of the same general character ag the first Fowler bill. The commission consists of 15 members, and 9 were present today, they being James B.

Forgan, of Chicago Charles TL. Huttlg, of St. Louis Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland; Robert Wardrop, of Pittsburg; John L. Hamilton, of Hoopeston, Joseph T.

Talbert, of Chicago Luther Drake, of Omaha; SoL Wexler, of New Orleans, and Arthur Reynolds, of Des Moines. Fred E. Farnsworth, of New York, secretary of the association, also attended. The commission haa about the same membership as the one that recommended the first FOwer bill to Congress. It issued a statement tonight indorsing the following features of tha original Fowler bill: national bank la business for a year or more may take out for issue and circulation "national bank guaranteed credit notes," provided the Institution's surplus fund equals 23 per cent, of Its capital.

The amount of these credit notes may be equal to 40 per cent, of the national banknotes which the bank may have outstanding, but not mora thaa 25 per cent of Its capital. The treasurer of. United States would receive in January and July of each year a tax of 1 per cent, on the average amount of such credit notes In circulation. Besides the foregoing amount of special credit notes subject to a tax of 3 per cent, annually a national bank may also take for additional credit notes equal to 12 per cent, of its capital, but It shall pay on such extra Issues a special tax of 5 per cent, in two installments of 2y3 per cent, each semi-annually. The commission.

heard opinions from several outside experts. Prof. J. -Laurence Laughlin, head professor of political economy at the University of Chicago, gave the most extended exposition of banking theories and also took part in the general discussion. Members of the commission opposed the Aldrich bill and the present Fowler measure, standing by the report formulated in December, 1906, which was made the basis of the first Fowler bill.

The commission finally voted to repeat Its recommendations of 1906, which had the backing of the entire association membership. 40 MINERS FLEE -FROM FIRE Stumble Through Seven Miles Of Dark Tunnels To Safety. Monongahela, Jan. 18. Having escaped death by cremation, suffocation or being blown to pieces in a well-nigh miraculous manner, 40 men employed in the Catsburg mine of the Monongahela River Consolidated Ooal and Cbke Company made their way through the headings seven miles and finally reached the open air.

Without lights to guide them and given up as dead, the" men battled for five hours with fire, and when they -reached the surface their faces were blackened, clothes torn, and all w-ere severely bruised from stumbling in their flight for safety. Fortunately the mine contained very little gas. The mine was fired yesterday by a "blow-out" shot, and when the blaze was discovered, at 9 P. by the 40 men all escape through the Monongahela entry was cut off. Momentarily expecting an explosion, the miners started, panic-stricken, for the entry at Charleroi, seven miles away.

stumbled and fell in their hurry, only to Jump up again and continue the rush for safety. When the men reached the surface, at 2 A. a majority of them were sobbing like children. A large force Is bratticlng the part of the mine which caught fire, and it is believed the damage will be small. Admiral Evans Grateful, Though fee Had Rheumatism.

MINNESOTA OUT ROWS GEORGIA Much Money Changes Hands On The Result -Rio Papers Cartoon American Sailors. Copyright, 1908, by New York Herald Company. Special to the Baltimore Sun. Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 18.

The Rio weekly illustrated press is filled with friendly cartoons apropos of the American fleet's presence. One 6hows a girl asking a sailor what pleased him most. Hia reply Is "Matchlche." a dance popular in dance halls. There are cartoons also of Rear-Admiral Evans and Captains Yeeder and Osterhaus. The American Ambassador has communicated to Foreign Minister Bio Branco the following telegram from Secretary of State Root "I desire to expres3 my profound appreciation, as well as that of the American Government, for tha cordial hospitality with which the American fleet haa heen re-reived by the President and Government of Brazil.

It la agreeable to note that the same friendship which was so generously manifested toward ma In. 1900 continues unchanged and ia also manifested toward my countrymen in 1S08. The people of America will appreciate all the attentions shown Its sailors. Present my personal remembrances to Baron. Rio Branco.

President Roosevelt will telegraph direct to President Penna." The Minnesota's boat crew beat the Georgia's boat in a three-mile race today, In which $4,000 changed hands. Already $10,000 has been bat on the fight at Sandy Point between Seaman Eagan, of the Minnesota, and Seaman Neely, of the Ohio. The winner will fight Seaman Altiarie, of the Missouri, for tha championship of the navy. rive thousand men were ashore on. Sunday, a new record here.

All. tha fish and vegetables in.Ceneral Market were bought by the fleet, and there was a 24-hour famine for regular customers. The stock in the commissary department ia sufficient to last to Sandy Point. Admiral Evans has congratulated the committee of arrangements on the treatment- of the sailors ashore, and the petty officers have expressed their thanks. Admiral Evans took occasion to express appreciation of the magnificent reception accorded the fleet by the Government and people.

A serious attack of rheumatism, from which he suffered soon after leaving Port of Spain and which has persistently troubled him ever since, has prevented hi3 enjoyment of the many receptions and entertainments organized in honor of the visitors, but has in no wise lessened his appreciation of the efforts of the nation to make the sojourn here a pleasant and a memorable one. The Admiral is now anxious to press on to hla destination. All the vessels are shipshape and have taken on their supplies, awaiting only the signal from the flagship to weigh anchor and begin the third leg of the Journey to the Strait of Magellan, 2,500 miles or more. Punta Arenas, on the east coast of the Brunswick Peninsula, the most southerly town of any Importance of the world, will be the next stop. The Arethusa has arrived.

She sighted a derelict, bottom up, on January 17 In latitude 20" 45' longitude 39 56', and reports it as dangerous. Admiral Evans, notified of Captain PIlls-bury's appointment as chief of the Navigation Bureau, says this is gratifying to the fleet, because of his sea experience as chief of staff. The officers assume that Com mander Winslow preferred sea duty. An important advancement In policy Is expected from Captain Pillsbury In the direction of fleet efficiency. It Is hoped he will work to simplify navy yard administration.

Admiral Evans says he does not anticipate any difficulty in the passage of the Strait of Magellan by the fleet in regular column formation. The so-called dangers of the strait ha does not consider serious, and he believes the battleships under his command, with the accompanying flotilla of torpedo, boats, will make the tortuous trip without a jar. Midshipman F. H. Roberts, the executive officer of the destroyer Hopkins, which arrived here with the flotilla yesterday, was removed to the battleship Vermont today HE BEGAN AS A JOURNALIST Was Editor, War Correspondent And Studied Law Then Went Into Wall Street And Sold Stocks New York, Jan.

18. Edmund Clarence Stedman, banker, poet and critic, famous alike in the w-orld of "letters and finance, died today at tha home of his son, Arthur Stedman, in the Ben-Hut Apartments, 2643 Broadway, of heart disease, from which he had been a sufferer several years. Mr. Stedman was found dead in the library by his granddaughter, Miss Louise Stedman, and, while it was known that his health had Dot been good, his death at this time was unexpected. He had been down In the financial district Friday calling on old friends, although he was no longer interested la Wall street, and this afternoon he went out for a short walk about 2 o'clock.

When he returned to the house he went to library, and was found sitting in a chair by Miss Stedman when she entered the room about 4 o'clock. His cousin and physician, Dr. Thomas Stedman, was called and pronounced him dead. Members of his family asserted that the present financial trouble vhad no effect on Mr. Stedman, as he was In no way Involved in the market and had only the interest of an onlooker.

He had been devoting all his time to his literary work and was engaged on a book of reminiscences which was to be a history of Wali street for the last two generations. Mr. Stedman Is survived by one son and two sisters, Mrs- Nelson S. Easton, of this city, and Mrs. William Kip, of San Francisco.

His wife died three years ago and since that time lie has lived with his e.on. A Poet Of The First Hank. Edmund Clarence Stedman was, after the death of James Russell Lowell, accorded by many the primacy among living American poets and critics. He was known to Baltimoreans through delivering the Initiatory course of lectures on the Turn-bull foundation at the Johns Hopkins University. These lectures he repeated at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Born in Hartford, October 8, 1833, Mr. Stedman was the second eon of Col. Edmund Burke Stedman and great-grandson of Rev: Aaron Cleveland, a New England poet, and Elizabeth Clemantine Dodge, a woman of many gifts in beauty, conversation and especiaily In poetry. After the death of Colonel Stedman, when her boys were young, the widow married WilliAm B. Kinney, an editor and later Minister to Turin.

She became a warm friend of the Brownings, and has been universally beloved. Though Mr: Stedman was placed under the care of his greatunele, James Stedman, of Norwich, to be educated, he did not forget the lovely mother. When his collected poems were published In 1873 the book was "affectionately and reverently dedicated to my mother, In gratitude for whatever portion I Inherit of her own sweet gift of song." i He entered Yale in 1849, when he was 16 years old. He especially excelled in Greek and English composition, and in the Yale Literary Magazine took a first prize for a poem entitled "Westminster Abbey." Suspended, Bat Given Degree. In his third term he was suspended and did not return.

Long afterward, In 1871, Yale, proud of the achievements of her poet, restored him to the class of 1853 and gave him the degree of master of arts, which he also received from Dartmouth In 1873. In this class were many prominent men Andrew D. White, Wayne McVeagh, George W. Smalley, Prof. Charlton T.

Lewis and others. The youth found his way at Into Journalism, becoming editor of the Tribune at Norwich, when he was but 19. The next year, November 2, 1853, he married. Laura Hyde Woodworth. The year following he edited the Herald at Win-stead, and in 1856, eager to try his brain and hand in a larger sphere, removed, to New York city.

In 1859 he became a menVber of the Tribune staff. Later he was war correspondent of the New York World, continuing until 1S63. Meantime he studied law, and was for a time private secretary to Attorney-General Bates, in Washington. In 1864 Mr. Stedman was Interested in financing and constructing the first Pacific railroad, and the following year he went into Wall street as a banker and broker, becoming a member of the Stock Exchange and holding his seat there till 1900.

Ten years after going Into business he had reached pecuniary success, but through no fault of his own his wealth was swept away in 1883. His handsome home waa leased and a plainer one taken downtown. He recouped this heavy loss later. Literary Success His Aim. Mr.

Stedman's ambition, however, was always to secure success in literary lines, and to achieve this he was compelled to struggle hard for support. It was in 1859 that he made his first success in his poem, "Diamond Wedding," contributed to the Tribune. It was republished many times in this country and Europe, and created a genuine sensation. A certain Lieutenant Bartlett, of the United States Navy, detecting personal allosions in the poem to the recent marriage of his daughter to a wealthy Cuban, challenged Mr. Stedman to a duel, but the affair never took place.

A number of other poems followed soon afterward, all of which were more or less successful. Then feeling the pressure of necessity Mr. Stedman gave up Journalism and went into Wall street, where made a modest fortune, for himself, continuing his literary work in leisure 'moments. It was later that he achieved his greatest success as a literary critic in his "Victorian Poets," which placed him in the first rank of American writers. Among his poetic works are "Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic" (1860); "Alice of Monmouth, an Idyll of the Great War" (1864) "The Blameless Prince" (1869) 'Hawthorne and Other Poems' (1877) "Lyrics and Idylls" (1879), and "Poems Now First Collected" (1897).

Among his other work he edited 10 volumes of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. BIG FRAUD LN CAR TICKETS C. E. Tahler And Leo Lucas Ar- rested In Washing-ton. I Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Washington, Jan. 18. Charles E. Ta-bler, 31 years old, 212 West One Hundred and Forty-first street, New York, an engraver of the Hamilton Bank Note Company, and Leo Lucas, 32 years old, 1731 street northwest, thiscity, were arrested late this evening on' complaint of A. L.

Drummond, president of the Drummond Detective Agency of New He charged the two men with stealing $G00 worth of car tickets for the Washington Railway and Electric Company and $500 worth of certificates Issued by the United Cigar Company. The property was. recovered and the two men are held on a charge of grand larceny pending a further The Hamilton Bank Note Company, with offices at '88 Gold street, New York city, employed Tabler. It is alleged that after conspiring with several other men he took the car tickets and certificates, which his company engraved. Three men are being held in New York city on the same charge.

General Harries, of the railway company, stated today that his company was aware that a number of car tickets not regularly issued by his company were being used in this city. The first indication, of It appeared in November and the detective agency was notified. The arrests today resulted. WORKMEN GOT $216,764.05 Carnegie Relief Fund Distribution Reported. Pittsburg, Jan.

18. The sixth annual report of the Carnegie relief fund, applicable to employes of the Carnegie Steel Company and its nine constituent companies, was made public tonight. In 1907 it shows the distribution of $216,764.05. Beneficiaries are the workmen of the Carnegie Steel Company, H. C.

Frick Coke Company, Oliver Iron Mining Company, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, Union Railroad Company, Pittsburg Steamship Company, Pittsburg and Con-neaut Dock Company, National Mining Company and the Keystone Bridge Works. Since the relief fund was established, six years ago, there have been 8,954 beneficiaries, necessitating a distribution of $1,129,117.29. Surgeons In Command. We'll lire to Bee, no doubt, A stormy time at sea When bickeriuga break out And doctors disagree. Eousoa Post, TRIP WOULD COST MILLIONS Hudson Maxim, The Inventor, Discusses Its Qualities Lusitania Could Vot Carry Enough.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. New York, Jan. 18. -Hudson Maxim, the inventor of raotorite, the new propelling agent with which gratifying results have been obtained in experiments with torpedoes and torpedo boats. Is amused at the claims made for motorite In an article published here recently.

These results were claimed for it "A new torpedo that will hurl itself at a battleship's hull faster than a mile a minute. "A new submarine torpedo boat that will bore a path beneath the surface of the water at the rate of 60 miles an hour. "A new motive power motorite to propel the torpedo and the torpedo boat so powerfully that if necessary it will shoot them rocket-like out of the water. "This trinity of Inventions, evolved together, patented side by Hudson Maxim, will put at the disposal of the United States Government the most destructive engines of naval warfare possessed by any nation of the world." in addition, It was asserted that ft may even be expected to send a trans-Atlantic liner between New York and Southampton faster than the fastest trains move on the land." Of thi3 prediction Mr. Maxim said today It may be interesting to know about how much it would actually -cost to drive a trans-Atlantic liner with smokeless gunpowder.

Motorite Is only, a form of smokeless gunpowder. The Lusltania, for example, burns nearly 1,000 tons of coal a day at a cost of about $3,500 for each 24 hours. As it takes nearly five days for the run, about 5,000 tons of coal are required, at a cost of about $17,500 for the run. Could IVot Carry That Much Coal. "The coal-carrying capacity of the Lusi-tania is about 7,000 tons.

The total dis placement Of the vessel is 45.000 tnna nnr? she develops about 70,000 horsepower. If ner speea were to be doubled It would require more than eight times her present horsepower, or more than 500,000 horsepower. About 8,000 tons of coal a day would be needed, or 16,000 tons, costing about $56,000, for the two days' run. "It requires about 12 pounds of air to supply the oxygen to burn one pound of coal. Motorite, however, Is a chemical compound, consisting of 70 per cent, nitroglycerin and 30 per cent, guncotton, and carries its own oxygen for its combustion.

Consequently it requires much more motorite than it does coal to evaporate an equal quantity of water. Roughly, motorite will evaporate about one-fo'u rth as much water a pound as coal. But as the products of combustion of the motorite are combined with the steam to drive an engine, the quantity of combined steam and products of combustion produced by a pound of motorite is about one-third as great as that of the steam produced by the combustion of a pound of coal. It would therefore require three times as much motorite to drive the Lusltania across the ocean in a couple of days as it would coal. "The amount of coal required being tons, the quantity of motorite needed would be 48,000 tons.

Motorite costs about 200 times as much per ton as does the coal used by the Lusitania, so that the cost of motorite for the voyage would be the modest sum of $33,600,000. At least half a dozen Lusitanlas would be required to carry enough motorite to drive one and it would take 50 tons of pure gold tq, pay for the fuel for a single trip enough to buy five Lusitanlas. Where Its Value Lies. "Motorite is applicable only to 4the propulsion of torpedoes and of light torpedo boats, where enormous energy is required for a short run and where the cost is Immaterial. For example, it will cost from $25 to $50 for the motorite consumed every time a torpedo Is launched.

This cost Is not to be compared with 3ie cost of other means of propelling vessels through the water, but It Is to be compared with the cost of propelling projectiles In other words, with the cost of firing heavy guns. The torpedo is veritably a projectile. It costs $200 for the smokeless powder alone to fire a 12-Inch It costs from four to eight times as much for fuel to fire a 12-inch gun as to discharge aj single motorite torpedo. "Torpedo boats driven by motorite will also be in the nature of projectiles, and, though it may at times cost several thousand dollars for the short run in making an attack to sink a battleship, the expense will still be much less than the cost of ammunition to sink her with can-non fire, to say nothing of the injury received in return from the enemy's guns. "At all times, except when making the run of attack, the motorite torpedo boats will be "driven by other motive power for example, by gasoline engines.

It were to cost $10,000 to drive a torpedo boat at the speed of 60 miles an hour for two or three minutes, the cost is negligible compared with that of the battleship destroyed. "My system will enable the carrying of torpedoes of sufficient power to insure the destruction of a battleship when hit, while the motorite-drlven torpedo boat will be pretty sure of launching them where they will hit. The cost of the present Whitehead torpedo is about $5,000, and experience has proved that not more than one out of ten torpedoes launched ever strikes the vessel to which it is directed. Experience has further proved that out of all the hits made not more than one in six is fatal, so that on the average It would cost about $300,000 apiece to sink battleshipg with Whitehead torpedoes. Even this, however, is ridiculously cheap compared with the cost of the battleships themselves.

Still by my method battleships can be sunk at much less cost than this, as well as with far greater certainty." LORD' KELVIN EULOGIZED Noted Speakers At Memorial Sleeting In Washington, Washington, Jan. 18. Addresses eulogistic of the late Lord Kelvin, the British scientist, were delivered here tonight at a memorial meeting held at Hubbard Hall by Mr. Bryce, the British Ambassador, and others. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Washington Philosophical Society fend was largely attended.

ProfaArthur W. Webster, of Clark University spoke on "The Life and Work of Kelvin;" Prof. R. Woodward, president of the Carnegie Institution; discussed "Kelvin's Contribution to Geophysics Pr5f. Simon Newcomb spoke of his character and personality, while Ambassador Bryce devoted himself to personal reminiscences of Kelvin.

FOR TAFT AS INDIVIDUALS West "Virginia Indorsement TIas A String To It. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Parkersburgt Jan. 18. The Republican State Executive Committee last night selected Charleston as the place for holding the convention to nominate a State ticket, winning out over Parkersburg by a vote of 11 to 4.

Parkersburg won out over Wheeling by 10 to 5 for the convention to nominate delegates to the national convention. The convention at Parkersburg will be held on April 29 and the convention at Charleston on July 8. Secretary Taft was indorsed for President in executive session by those present, as individuals, and not as a committee, all signing the indorsement with the exception of two. MORE DISPENSARY ARRESTS They Result From Investigation Of WInding-Up Committee. Columbia, S.

Jan. 18. There were four additional arrests today as the result of the investigation being made by the winding-up committee of the old State dispensary. J. N.

Rawlinson and John Bell Towill, former directors, surrendered and were granted bond In the sum of $10,000 each. Joseph B. Wylle, also a former director, was arrested at Chester. W. O.

Tatum, former dispensary commissioner, came In and gave himself up also, his bond being fixed at Former Director L. W. Boykin, who 13 now in the swamps of this State on a hunting 4rip has been notified by members of his family that he is wanted under the warrant. The charge against all of these men is conspiracy to defraud the Stata JUROR WEEPS IN COURTROOM Haa Stood Out A Long Time Against The Verdict Motion For A Zfew Trial To Be Argued. Chicago, Jan.

IS. John R. Walsh, former president of the Chicago National Bank, which closed Its doors in December, 1905, waa found guilty today on 54 counts of the indictment charging misapplication of the bank's funds. The verdict was returned by a Jury In the Federal District Court here. Walsh was permitted to remain at liberty under tha $50,000 bond furnished by him after the indictment had been re turned against nlm one year ago to a day.

pending the hearing of argument on Janu ary 23 on a motion by his counsel for a new trial. The penalty fixed by the statutes for the offense of which the aged financier was convicted is imprisonment for not less than five years or more than 10 for each count upon which his guilt was established, mak ing a maximum sentence of 540 years pos sible, The reading of the verdict was followed by a scene intensely dramatic. When the jury was polled at the request of Attorney John S. Miller, of counsel for the defend ant, Elbert Palmer, a juryman from Harvard, was overcome by emotion and wept as he signified bis acquiescence in the finding. He sat with head bowed upon Lis hands during the preliminary proceedings and failed to rise, as the others had done, to reply to the interrogation by the clerk: as this and is this now your verdict? Had Held The Jury.

Palmer wa largely responsible for the long deliberation of the Jury. So Insistent was he that Walsh should be acquitted that he forced his fellow-jurors to take separate ballots on every one of the 150 counts in the indictment. "He ia such an old man more than 70 years," is said to have been the constant plea of Palmer. "He was technically guilty, but none of his depositors lost, and what Is the use of sending an old man to prison?" he is quoted as having urged upon the other Jurors time after time. He 13 said to have wept at times In the jury room as he begged the others to consider the age of the defend ant and have compassion.

Walsh, the subject of his compassion, appeared less moved by the result of the long trial than almost anybody else concerned. Appealed to for an expression of opinion he saia: "The fight has just begun. I have nothing further to say." Out VearIy 36 Honrs. The verdict was the result of nearly 36 nours' deliberation on the part joz the jurors. After the retirement at 3 P.

M. Thursday there was no Indication that a decision was near until about 2 o'clock this morning. when a request for pen and paper was followed by the announcement that a verdict had been reached. -Is, however, was all that was positively known untu the an nouncement was made In court. Defendant Seemingly Unconcerned.

The aged defendant arrived In the courtroom 10 minutes before the jury entered and sat chatting with his attorneys and personal friends at the table he occupied through the long trial. He seemed In the best of spirits and looked more unconcerned than any of his attorneys. From appearances he and his attorneys were confident of an acquittal. Suddenly the door opened and Judge Anderson, looking pale and worn, proceeded to the bench. Several minutes later, after a bailiff had held a whispered consultation with him, the jury was brought in.

As the Jurors took their seat3 all la the courtroom moved forward to advantageous positions. Walsh leaned forward and eagerly scanned the faces of the Jurors. They appeared unmoved, with the exception of Palmer, and his state of mind was noted by Walsh and his attorneys. A moment later the verdict was read by the clerk. Walsh jgat motionless and the crowd was hushed with suppressed excitement.

After the reading of the verdict and the moving for a new trial the defendant arose and was Immediately surrounded by scores of friends, who pressed forward to shake his hand and speak a word of sympathy. He received each with a smile. "Have you anything to say In regard to the verdict?" he was asked. "Not a word," he replied with dignity. A few minutes later he left the courtroom with his attorneys and disappeared in the crowd that thronged the corridors.

May Go To Supreme Court. Attorney John S. Miller said: "We will be busy the next few days preparing our arguments for a new trial. If this Is denied we will appeal the case to the highest court In the land." The emotion shown by" Juror Palmer upon the polling of the jury caused a flutter of excitement among the spectators. As the juror sank into hi3 chair, burying his face In his hands.

Attorney Miller rose to his feet and demanded that the juror be further questioned. "Mr. Palmer, is this your verdict?" asked Judge Anderson. "Answer me." Palmer nodded his "head weakly and made a reply Inaudible to any but the Court. "I suggest," said Attorney Miller, "that Mr.

Palmer be required to repeat his answer. "That is not necessary," replied Judge Anderson. "He has answered 'yes." "One of my associates," said Miller, "understood him to say something else. It is suggested to me that the Juror said he would have to say 'yes. "That Is the eame thing," replied the Court.

"Any juror understands that when he signs a verdict and has agreed to It he has to Bay that he did so." Later the Judge expressed to the jurors his appreciation of their long service as Jurors, congratulated them upon the manner In which they had attended to their duties and declared that he felt confident that they had reached their conclusion without Influences from outside. He then discharged them. The jurors remained In their seats until adjournment of court. When he had spoken his final word3 to the Jurors Judge Anderson turned to Mr. Miller and asked whether he had any motions to make.

"If the Court please, we desire to enter a motion for a new trial," be replied. "You may note your motion now and file formal application for It later. I will hear arguments on the motion one Veek from next Tuesday." Charges Against Walsh. The charge against Walsh grew out of the closing In 1005 of the Chicago National Bank, of which Walsh was president, and Its allied institutions the Home Savings Bank and the Equitable Trust Company. Walsh was accused of having lent funds of the Chicago National Bank and lta allied institutions, aggregating $16,000,000, on fictitious and insufficiently secured notes to nearly a score of struggling enterprises which he had founded and practically owned.

Many of the notes. It developed at the trial, were signed without authority In the names of employes of Walsh. Directors of the Chicago National Bank testified that they were not consulted by Walsh as to the making of the loan3 and knew nothing of them. Twenty-six of the notes were described aa "memorandum" notes, end they formed one of the chief features of the triaL They represented more than $2,000,000. Methods of concealment employed In carrying the transactions on the books of the bank and alleged misrepresentations made In reports to the national bank examiners kept the latter in ignorance of the true condition of the bank's finances and the nature of their securities for several years prior to the closing of the Institution.

The defense took the ground that all the Walsh enterprises were built up to aave and protect original loans by Walsh in good faith. The claim was also made that Walsh did not hold the controlling interest In the corporations which profited by the loans, but that the Chicago National Bank held it, Walsh being only a trustee and a conservator of the bank's Interests. Walsh was on the stand two days. He admitted nearly all of the transactions charged, but clung to the defense that all he did was for the good of the bank he headed, and that all of the loans proved good and no one lost anything. In substantiation of the latter claim the defense offered evidence that since the closing of the banks Walsh had bought back the collateral taken from him by the clearing-house 1 banks, amounting to $7,000,000, giving in payment a note for the eame amonat, payable In five years.

The collateral released, Walsh was able to go ahead with the building of his railroads. Another fact brought out was that the Associated Banks of Chicago took a prorata share of the $7,000,000 loan negotiated by Walsh for the redemption of his securities, and that these banks today hold the stocks and bonds which Walsh wasy Jiand to look after the Interments and enougn ministers to conduct the tuneral services. Many of the dead were taken to churches, where services were held. The churches were crowded, and as soon as one funeral cortege departed another party of mourn-er would enter the edifice. The great feasts for which the Pennsylvania Germans are noted as giving on funeral occasions were dispensed with in every household which lost a member in the fire.

One of the saddest funerals of the day was that of the six Moyer girls, three of them sisters and the other three cousins. There were several double funerals of husband and wife, and among others buried was Dr. Frank Brun-ner, a former State Senator and one of the best-known men in Berks county. A large force of men was put tq work today in the ruins to remove the ashes and other stuff. It will be taken Cemetery, where it will be sifted for Jewelry and other articles' of value, after which the ashes will be hurled in a trench alongside of.

that which will contain the unknown dead. All the churches have announced that there will be no regular services tomorrow. The entire day will be given over to the funerals and the work of getting together the broken congregations and the shattered Sunday-school classes. Two more bodies were identified today, leaving 25 bodies unclaimed. Twenty-six" persons are missing, of whom 17 are women.

The unidentified bodies will be interred tomorrow. Sixty citizens will act as pall-, bearers and 12 hearses will bear the bodies to the cemetery. Sympathy From French President. Harrlsburg, Jan. 18.

'Governor Stuart received the following telegram today from Secretary of State Root, which the Governor repeated to the Chief Burgess of Boyertown "His Excellency, the Governor of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, "The President has received and appropriately acknowledged the following telegram from the President of the French Republic: 'Paris Eltsee. tt tp0 jis Excellency Monsieur Roosevelt, President of tlie United Staes of America, Washington: 'I hear with keen emotion of the tragic accident which occurred at the Boyertown theatre. I beg your Excellency to accept my sincere condolence and the expression of my grieving sympathy with the families of the victims. A. Faixiekks, "'President of the French Republic "ELIJI0- ROOT, "Secretary of State." NOTABLES ONLY MEMBERS Jfeir Club To Build- A $2,000,000 Home And lOO-Mile Boulevard.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Chattanooga, Jan. 18. The Interstate Club was formally launched tonight with the opening of the clubrOoms. It embraces most of the famous men of the country, Senator J.

C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, being president. Vv. J.

Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles W. Fairbanks and Admiral George Dewey are on the honary list. Among the Vice-presidents are Elihu Root, Perry Belmont, Ariosto A. Wiley, Joseph G. Cannon, Charles A.

Towne, Robert J. Lowe, Nicholas Longworth, William H. Tart, Leslie M. Shaw and Melville E. Stone.

The club has purchased as a game preserve 22,000 acres of land on Walden's Ridge, overlooking the Tennessee river, and work has already commenced to improve the grounds. A $2,000,000 clubhouse, with a 100-mile automobile boulevard, will be constructed among other features. June 25 a banquet will be given, to which Charles W. Fairbanks, William J. Bryan, Justice Brewer, Admiral Schley, George Dewey, Richmond P.

Hobson, Senator Scott, of West Virginia; Speaker Cannon and others have accepted invitations. RAISULI FOR ABD-EL-AZIZ Moroccan Bandit Declares Against Southern Sultan. Tangier, Morocco, Jan. 18. The bandit Raisull, presiding at a gathering of the Ben Iarous, Fahs and Anjeras tribes, and Marabout Mulai Abd-el-Salem, Governor of Morocco city, yesterday announced that they would refuse to recognize Mulai Hafid as Sultan, claiming that Abd-el-Aziz is still the rightful ruler, according to the Koran.

Such also is Raisuli's answer to Mulai Hafid's letter demanding an act of homage. Raisull has counseled the tribesmen not to follow Mulai Hafid. DIES TRYING TO AVOID BEARS Bronx Zoo Workman Killed In Beaver Pond. New York, Jan. 18.

In an attempt to avoid death in a pit of bears today, Joseph Maher, a gardner at the Bronx leaped from a falling tree Into a beaver pond and was Instantly killed. Maher was pruning a tree between the bear inclosure and the heaver wind. The roots of the tree had been eaten away by the beavers, and when he reached the top it gave way. xne iau-tnrr trnnfc' ewfivp-d toward the bear Dit and the gardner tried to swing himself clear oS the branches into the pona adjoining, dux his head stmck the edge of the tank breaking his neck. TO FIGHT LOWER RATES Railroad -Officials Criticise Tennessee Politicians.

Nashville, Jan. 18. -On supposedly reliable Information It is stated that the railroads of Tennessee will fight yesterday's order of the Railroad Commission reducing passenger fares from 3 to 2Y2 cents a mile after April 1. Railroad officials generally attribute the order and the agita-. tion of the rate reduction to politics and assert that politicians to gain public favor make the railroads suffer.

They further contend that the enforcement of the order will have a bad effect upon the rallf6ad interests of the South, and that the cry for more roads for undeveloped communities will be strangled by the politicians In their efforts to retain office. Officials of the roads declare that any effort to enforce the recent order of the Railroad Commission will be contested in the courts. MILLION HAULED SEVEN MILES Guarded By Two Mounted Men In Transit Through Streets. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. New York, Jan.

18'. The longest haul of $1,000,000 that New York has known took place today when a truckload of money, guarded by two mounted policemen, was carried from the office of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, in Broadway, to the main office of the Hamilton Bank, in One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, a distance of more than seven miles. The money was stowed away in the vaults of, the bank to be used Monday, when the bank, which closed its doors In October, will reopen. It included $43,000 in coin and $892,000 in bills. ASK FOR A CO-RECEIVER Depositors Of Suspended Atlanta Bank, Petition Court.

Atlanta, Jan. 18. A petition was filed in the State Superior Court by six depositors of the suspended Neal Bank asking that a co-receiver with the Central Bank and Trust Company be appointed, and alleging that this Institution, as a member of the Atlanta Clearing-House Association, is attempting to make Itself a preferred creditor. The petition says that $170,000 collateral notes are held by the Trust Company of Georgia as security for a balance due the clearing house, and asks that these notes be turned ever to the receiver and distrib-t uted to creditors without preference. believe there Is an error In the case, and I am confident that the verdict will stand.

In my opinion the verdict will have a far- reaching- and wholesome effect. It will be a lesson to men in high positions who use sacred trust funds for their own personal benefit. Ia these days of high finance soma such substantial warning i needed. The result Bhows that tha Government enforces the law against tha powerful and rich as well as against tha poor man who violates the statutes." William B. Bidgely.

United States Comptroller, who reached Chicago today, declared that the Government was well pleased. "At last one of this kind or banker has been found guilty," eald Mr. Ridgely. "The result will have a beneficial effect on the entire country and tha banking practice of tha entire country. "Of course we are all sorry for Mr.

Walsh sorry that he should ba tha victim of the conditions but we cannot ba moved by such considerations as that. Ha was guilty and the Jury bo found. "I congratulate the Government on tha work of the Dlrtrict Attorney's office. It was a tedious, difficult case, and tha representatives of tha Government have behaved admirably throughout. "The trial was uniformly fair and I at not believe that there can be found any grounds for a new trial that will be taken seriously by tha court," DESCRIBES HIS OWN DEATH Man, Said To.

Be 3Iarylander, Writes As Poison Worts. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. New York, Jan. 19. Dying from laudanum, Samuel R.

Wingfield, of Company Seventy-first Retrlment, and said to be a member of an old and respected Maryland family, sat la hia room at 222 Lexington avenue this efternoon and recorded his last earthly impressions as the poison worked. His progress toward death was shown In the writing which, steady in the opening sentences, finally became an Illegible scrawl. The letter waa addressed to Arthur Lager-loc, brother of MIs3 Emma Lagerloff, who conducts the house where Wingfield lived. "I only started this about two minutes after taking one ounce of It said. "I know that It Is taking quick effect.

Good-by, as the pupils of my eyes are getting very small. Then followed reference1! to other matters and a little further on Jt continued: "I am pretty well gone. I will live but a few minutes longer. Pray for me, dear friends. I am a sinner, but I know God loves me, and I ask your prayers.

I ask my mother, sisters and all to pray for me. Good-by." Ill health and poverty evidently drox-a Wingfield to take hla life. He was SO years old, and for the last five weeks had been employed by the New ork Tele phone Company, in Day street. For th last two weeks, however, he haa teen ill and confined to hia room. Mi3 Lagcrloff went to Wingfield's.

room late this afternoon to inquire after hi health. The door was open and he lay dead in bed. At hia side was a bottle which had contained laudanum, and fold ed on a chair was his i. Dr. Wall was called from Bellevue He-pital, but said the young man bad been dead about two hours.

The letter was on a table, and, apart from the record of tha effects of the poison, it eaid, I am compelled to free you from expenses. I ant sorry to throw myself upon you as I have. Remember me In your prayers a3 long as you live. "My idea wag to co to a hotel out of tha city, but as my money has given out entire ly I can do no better." At the armory of the Seventy-first Regi ment Jt waa said that Wingfield has not been there for the last two drills, having sent word that he was ilL GLASSWORKERS' WAGES FIXED They Agree To A Reduction Of 2T Per Cent. Cleveland, Jan.

IS. According to plass- workera who returned today from Buffalo, where a meeting with a committee of em ployers was held, the wages for all tha glassworkers in the country for the corning month were settled. The employers presented reports of sales in the month from all over the country. The total of sales, divided by the number of workers, gave the wage per month. per man.

that was adopted. Meetings will be held every month to fix wages for the next month on the oasis. The wages are 27 per cent, lower than they were a year ago. The union em ployes, however, agreed to the reduction. with the belief that lower prices to the consumer would increase the demand end boom business.

The agreement between the union and tha manufacturers to establish this tdld-ing-scale system of wages was the rock on which tha union at one time threatened to split. The cutters and flattened feared that It would mean a cut of 50 GO per cent, in their wages. About l.OOTl of them broke away from the union and refused to be bound by the terms. Their strike against the union is still on. THE RHYME OF LIFE If life be as a fiame that death doth kill.

Burn, little candle lit for me. With a pure fiame, that I may rightly sea To word my song, and utterly God's plan fulfill If life be as a Cower that blooms and dies. Forbid the cunning frost that slays With Judas kis9 and trust love betrays Forever may iny song of praise Untainted rise. If life be as a voyage, foul or fair. Oh, bid me not my banners furl For adverse gale, or waves In angry whirl, Till I have found the Gates of And anchored there.

Charles Wan-cn Stoddard TO STOP B. AND M. MERGER Bill Filed With The Clerk Of The Massachusetts House. Boston. Jan.

18. A bill nnon which the leading opponents of the proposed merger of the Boston and Maine Railroad with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad base their contentions was filed with the clerk of the House todav. Tt snvsi in Its first section "It shall be unlawful for the New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, owning, leasing or operating a railroad wholly or in Dart in this fnmmnn. wealth, directly or indirectly to control or attempt to control the Boston and Maine Kanroaa, or to acquire or hold or control, Or to be In auv tea finannlall-ir ni liona. ficially Interested, directly or indirectly, in ny siock or tne Boston and Maine Rail road.

The second section orders that- th TCa Haven road, If It now directly or Indirectly owns or nas nnanciai interest in any of the stock of the Boston and Maine Railroad, terminate such ownership before July 1 1909. Other sections make It unlawful tn a director or other officer or an employe of the New Haven road to hold offim in ra employed by or act for the Boston and Maine-road also for any person or persons, corporation, association or trust, who holds or controls a dominatine interest in th New Haven road, directly or indirectly to acquire a controlling Interest In Boston ana Maine stocs, or to attempt to do so. The penalty for violating is a fine of not less than $5,000, nor more than $50,000, or imprisonment for not more than three years, or both such fine and imprisonment HARVESTER TRUST FINED Was Convicted On Statement Of Its Own President. Topeka, Jan. 18.

Judge Dana, in the Shawnee County District Court, today assessed a fine of $12,600 against the International TTarvoctoi- which was found guilty on 43 counts oC viumuug mo Kansas Anti-Trust law. The maximum fine is $1,000 a count and the minimum $100. The company obtained a stay of execution for 60 days to prepare a caucus for the Supreme Court. The criminal ciiJt to-bo fiiai by Attorney-General C. C.

'Coleman, who uumenueu wai tne narvester company was being operated In violation of the anti-trust laws. The specific charge was that implement dealers In Topeka were compelled to sign a contract to handle no other harvesting machinery save that made by the International company, and that the schedule of prices was not to be violated. Conviction was almost entirely upon the admission of a statement by Cyrus McCor-mick, president of the company, at a meeting of implement dealers in Kansas City, when he told of the formation of the company and its M. TWAIN ON RECEIVERSHIPS He Writes Permanent Ones Are Costlier Than A Harem. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

New York, Jan. 18. Mark Twain, in a characteristic letter addressed to his fellow-depositors in the Knickerbocker Trust Company, has indorsed the Satterlee plan of resumption, as follows "Time is very short. "Mr. Grover Cleveland, a depositor, has approved the Satterlee plan for resumption, and it seems to me that that plan ought to be satisfactory to every other depositor, and that the plan is safe and wise.

If we accept it we shall lose no part of our money; If we do not, the Knickerbocker will be turned over to a permanent receivership. I have already tried a permanent receivership and I did not like the result. "It costs more to keep a permanent receivership than it does to keep a harem. Anybody who has had an experience in these matters will Indorse this statement. In a long time a very long time we got some of our money, but it was not enough to keep a harem with.

All the depositors said so and were disappointed, and there was much regret. If we accept the Satterlee plan, and do it immediately, it will be well for us if we refuse, we invite and insure a shrinkage, which the patients will not find I have not been invited to say these things, still it has seemed worth while to say them. Very respectfully yours, Mask Twain." The temporary receivership of the Knickerbocker Trust Company was extended another two weeks today by Supreme Court Justice Clark. Counsel for the depositors' committees and the stckholder asked for further time to secure depositors' assents to the plan for resumption of business. Assents aggregating nearly $35,000,000, representing 85 per cent, of the depositors, have already been obtained.

KNOXVLLLE FOR TEMPERANCE Abstainers Claim Seven Of The Eleven Aldermen. Knoxville, Jan. 18. In the city election held here today Capt. John M.

Brooks, Democrat, was elected Mayor, John Flenniken chairman and William Brakebill and R. B. Ragsdale associate members of the Board of Public Works, i The last two named are members of the Citizen's Reform party, which thus keeps control ef the police and fire departments. Enforcement of temperance laws was the maT Issue and the reformers claim 7 of the irviaermen. NEAR ENTOMBED MINERS Three Imprisoned Since December 4 May Be Released Shortly.

Ely, Nevi," Jan. 18. Solid ground was reached last night in the Alpha shaft in the level, where three miners have been entombed since December 4. Timbers which had fallen from above were wedged in the jshaft, holding back the debris and leaving an opening large enoueh for rescuers to crawl through. They descended on a ladder to a point 760 feet below the mouth or the snait, but" the ladder broke, and further exploration was stopped.

This afternoon Mine McAfee descended to within 30 feet of the level, where he found solid ground. It is now believed the men will-be re leased within 86 hours. One of the entombed men is said to have lost his mind over the receipt ota letter announcing the death of his mother. SEABOARD TRAINS COLLIDE Engineer And Fireman Killed And 20 Passengers Slightly Hurt. Raleigh, N.

Jan. IS. In a head-on collision at Cameron, 61 miles south of Raleigh, between a Seaboard Air Line freight and northbound fast passenger train No. 84 early today two men were killed and 20 Injured, none seriously. En gineer E.

H. Vaughan and nemp Town-send, a negro fireman, both of the passenger train, and from Raleigh, were killed. The collision Is attributed to trouble With the on the extra freight and to complicated train orders, with no blame upon the dispatcher. The freight had Instructions to meet the passenger at Southern Pines, the orders being received before it reached Cameron. The airbrakes failed to work, the train got behind time, and while trying to get Into the siding at Cameron it was struck by the passenger train.

Engineer Vaughan died after reaching here. TWO FAMILIES CHLOROFORMED Thieves Ransack Two Apartments And Get $2,000 In Plunder. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. New York, Jan. IS.

Two families, 14 persons in all, were chloroformed in East Twenty-first street Thursday morning by burglars, who got away with cash, Jewelry and silverware to the value of $2,000. The families were those of Herman Graubner, 328 East Twenty-first street, and James Bergin, 332 East Twenty-first Graubner, had his savings, amounting to $1,650. sewed up in the lining of his waistcoat. The waistcoat was taken from the foot of the bed "and cut open. His gold watch, worth $73, was also taken.

Graubner, his' wife, and five children were affected by the drug, but Mrs. Graubner was the first to -awake, and she gave the alarm. An examination of the rooms showed that the burglars had evidently" climbed up -a rear fire-escape. The other persons chloroformed were the family of Edward J. Bergin, manager for M.

W. Kellogg 143 Liberty street. As In the case of the Graubners, the thieves had made their way up a fire-escape and entered through a window of the kitchen. Then they invaded the three sleeping rooms in turn and applied the chloroform to the nostrils of the sleepers. They took $14 from a pocket of Mr.

Ber-gln's clothing and watches and rings valued at $125. The place was thoroughly ransacked. COTTON MILLS TO CURTAIL Southern Spinners Vote To Shut Down amis. Charlotte, N. Jan.

18. At a Joint session here today of the Southern Bof and hard yarn spinners and the North Carolina cotton manufacturers resolutions were adopted by which the spinners of the South pledge themselves to chut down their mills 30 days, beginning February 1, or curtail production 50 per cent, during February and March. The soft yam men, hard yarn spinners and State manufacturers held separate meetings In the morning, and the Joint session, at which time the resolution outlined was unanimously adopted, waa held this afternoon. A large majority of the spindles of the South were represented at the meeting. TWO MEN FALL SO FEET One Instantly Killed, The Other Dies In An Hour.

New Britain, Jan. 18. By a fall of 60 feet from a staging at the new plant of the New Britain Gas Company today, Thoxias J. Kelley, aged 23 yearB. a boiler-maker, was killed, and William McAvoy, a helper, aged 27 years, received Injuries from which he la an hour.

Kelley's home was in Camden, N. and McAvoy came from Providence, R. a year aso. wun a. iracturea leg.

Assistant Jfaymas-ter F. E. McMillen, of the Virginia, has been transferred from that vessel to the Truxtun. RUSSIAN FOLLOWS THE FLEET But The Navy Department Does Not Care It He Does. St.

Petersburg, Jan. 18. The importance attached by the Russian- Admiralty to the lessons to be learned by the voyage of the American battleship fleet is shown by the fact that a Russian naval officer, Commander Alexis Diatchkoff, is following, the fleet, traveling from port to port by whatever means he can obtain. The Commander adopted this course, It is declared here, only after his repeated requests'' for permission to Join the ships had been refused. It has been reported that Diatchkoff suc-reeded in getting on one of the warships at Rio, and the incident has been a source of some friction between the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Admiralty.

When Baron Rosen, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, was Instructed to ask for a permit for Diatchkoff to Join Admiral Evans, he declined, knowing it would be unfavorably received at Washington. Thereupon the Russian Admiralty, after further correspondence with the Foreign Office, Instructed Diatchkoff to apply personally to Secretary Metcalf. This, it la said, the officer did, but In vain. He was thereupon ordered to follow the fleet as closely as he could, making use of private steamers. "Was To Be Naval Attache.

New York, Jan. 8. Commander Alexia Diatchkoff arrived In New York from Europe on the steamer Oceanic December 12, and It was then announced that he was to succeed Captain Nebolsln as Russian naval attache at-Washington. This change evidently did not take place, because Captain Nebolsin Is still at Washington and Commander Diatchkoff Is at Rio Janeiro. He arrived there January 9, according to a dispatch from Rio Janeiro, to witness the arrival of the fleet.

Commander Diatchkoff Is said to have commanded the Russian cruiser Gromoboi during the Russo-Japanese War. In September last a report was published in London that Russia was looking out for a coaling station near the entrance to the Panama canal, and, with the desire of farthering this purpose, it was declared, Captain Nebolsin was to be transferred from Washington to Rio Janeiro. The Russian Forejgh Office was questioned concerning the report that Russia was seeking land for a coaling station in the Caribbean, but would not give It emphatic denial. No Permits Applied. For.

Washington, Jan. 18. It was stated at the Navy Department today that no application had been received from any of the foreign embassies legations In Washington for permission for any naval experts to accompany the battleship fleet. This statement covers the case of Commander Diatchkoff. It was known to the Navy Department that, because of the novelty of this cruise.

Intense interest was felt in foreign Admiralties, and naval officers everywhere were charged to obtain all information possible respecting the movements of the ships. It was particularly desired to know how their machinery stood the tests. Therefore the Navy Department was not surprised to learn that some vessels of other navies had found It convenient to drop In at some of the ports in South America about the time the American fleet was due there. It was known that the Russian naval officers were particularly interested and that, having no naval attache at the various ports where the fleet was to touch, the Russian Admiralty had adopted this plan of dispatching a naval officer to observe for himself and report upon the developments of the cruise. Admiral Evans was acquainted with the fact that such an officer was traveling on parallel lines with his fleet.

While the Bhips were at Rio access was freely accorded to the public, and the officials at the Navy Department were not surprised to learn that the Russian commander was received aboard the battleships with other officials. No sinister purpose is attached to this method of gathering information, and it is said that there is no disposition on the part of pur naval officers to withhold it from friendly nations. Thi3 is particularly true in the case of Russia, which is understood to be constructing a navy to take the place of that destroyed in the war with Japan, and which Is In great need of any information as to vital defects ia the plan of existing warbhig 1 1- 'f 1.