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THE SCBANTOK" TRUTH CIRCULATION SATURDAY, TRUTH AND TRIBUHE REPUBUCll 47.500 29TH YEAR. 12 PAGES SCRANTON, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 31, 1913. 12 PAGES ONE CENT. LACK OF NOURISHMENT CAUSES MORGAN'S DEATH; ETERNAL CITY SCENE OF CLOSE OF HIS CAREER MARKET EDITION Was Seized With Attack of Acute Indigestion While Making a J. Pierpont Morgan Money Needed Immediately for Relief of Ohio Flood Sufferers Trip Up the Nile and After He Recovered Somewhat Was Taken to Rome Began Saturday to Sink Into the Sleep of Death.

GREAT CONFUSION ABOUT HIS HOTEL IN ROME WHEN NEWS OF HIS DEATH WAS ANNOUNCED Reports to Governor Cox Show That Work of Rehabilitation I Progressing Rapidly Every Militiaman and Volunteer Who Can Be Secured Is At Work Cleaning Up. Art 5 DEATH TODAY OF JOSEPH H. LEW SIXTY FOUR BODIES IN MORGUE AT COLUMBUS; LIST OF DEAD AT HAMILTON PLACED AT 100 Death of Great Financier Did Not Cause Any Great Disturbance in New York Stock Market Universal Sorrow Was Expressed Over Great Leader of Banking World. Flags at Half'Mast in New York. B7 Hfury Wood, Kerne Correspondent of the lulled Irea.

ROME, March 31. J. Pierpont 'Morgan, the great American financier, dind at the Grand hotel here today, the actual time of his demise being given as ,12:05 p. m. Though many times a millionaire, lack of nourishment caused Mr.

Morgan's death. Was Prominent and Active in All Movements to Advance Interests of City. celved Indicated that cummunicatio t'Ol UM KL'S. March 31. Money is needed immediately for the relief of the Ohio flood sufferers.

Newspaper advices say already II, by rail and wire was being generally restored. Burial of the Hood victims Ti V' Parsing his sixty first birthdav last was In progress today. The Demi at Hamilton. HAMILTON. March 31 Thursday, Joseph H.

Levy, one of the One hundred dead and property damage aggregating 14.000,000 was most widely known business men in this end of the state, died suddenly this morning at 6:30 o'clock, at his home, 612 Vine street. organ passed away after a week of critical illues and he vvasj the official estimate today of the flood destruction here. Sixty bodies hav At his bedside were Mrs. Levy and been recovered. Many more were found today.

The number that wen his son. Herbert. Mr. Levy had been in ill health for some two months. down the river with the flood cannot About aix weeks ago.

he went to At lias been subscribed for this purpose. To date Coventor Cox has received $151. ooi) and has issued drafts fT IH5.00II additional. But far more than this is urgently needed. The governor's reports today show work of rehabilitation is progressing rupidly.

Kntirc communities are cleaning house, ami normal conditions are rupidly being restored. Major (ienernl Wood tins been placed in absolute charge of arrangements of the state by Secretary of War Harrison, lie was confident todny that be could control any minor epUleinica that may break out. Kvery militiaman and volunteer who could be secured was at work raking through slime and lilth. four and five feet, on Columbus' stricken West Side district today. This de I be estimated.

antic City to recuperate, but came Kuslneaa houses are being cleaned, tor we niosi part unconscious since last Wednesday. The last words he uttered were said on that day, when he aroused himself and asked that his legs be massaged, a treatment that before had relieved him when he. suffered from nervous disorders. Illness Tliat Irecetlcil Death. lner be denied that he was In a critl Early February, while Morgan making a irip up the Nile to his tausc of lclh.

excavations in a specially constructed 1 Morgan's death was directly due to boat, he was attacked by acute in lack of nourishment. Krorn last Sun digestion and lapsed into a state of day the doctors could not induce the back three weeks ago, and had been Subscriptions were opened today to confined to his home since that time. ward a fund of 1500,000 to loan small He suffered a stroke last night at property owners at low interest tmost precautions to guard anaiiist disease are being taken. All water is being boiled. The water mains were opened today.

Electric lights will be turned on tonight. Pontoon bridges are replacing coma in which he remained for patient to eat because of the lack of twenty four hours. He was rushed to functional vitality In the nerve ccn Cairo, where physicians and nurses tens. The refusal of throat muscles were in waiting. to do their dutv made it Impossible The eudden end of his Nile trip was for Morgan to swallow.

The doctors a great disappointment to Morgan, resorted to feeding by injection but Aboard the especially built boat vera expressed the fear that I. poMt of disease breeding tilth is from five hundred to six hundred sards wide, and more than ten miles Ions. structures completely swept away. The city hall Is still in use as morgue. A dozen bodies have not eighteen women friends of his daugh food as could be administered in ihn been Identified.

I'lood at Ciiit iniiutl. I'lXt'IXXATI. March 31 way would not keep him up long. It will all have to be removed before the district ciin be made habitable. Sixly cisht bodies have lu cn recovered, and all but on identified.

With the cemeteries at last accessible, arrangrmentn were made for wholesale burials today. Summary of Condition. Cincinnati was today in the ruthless grasp of the swollen Ohio river, higher i tie last nignt it was discovered that Morgan was not assimilating even the liquid diet, and then the doctors knew it was but a matter of hours until dr h. ter, Mrs. Satterlee, and the banker had counted on a leisurely river trip to last several weeks.

The boat was luxuriously equipped, and stocked for regal entertainment. The aged financier realized that it possibly would be his last trip to the Kgyptian excavations in which he had taken euch and more destructive than in forty 7.1 The crest of the flood is predicted no ne naa no illness, and suffered Hon tinned on Vnm Two) for today, a stage of 70 feet being the maximum expected. At 10 o'clock this deep interest, and when illness cut I short his tour, he grieved greatly. Kcports to Brigadier ticneral John C. Speaks, in command of all troops, received today can be summarized as morning the stage was 69.3 feet.

Flood stant, is rlfty feet. The high record NOTABLE CAREER in IbSl was 75. 7. tirotfry Stores SeUed. DAYTON, March 21.

Every grocery store in Dayton was today seized by military authorities following complaints that some dealers OF J. P. MORGAN were sellinir their goods at high prices. JOSEPn h. uevr.

Soldiers were placed on guard of follows: Zanesville Five hundred and forty six houses destroyed, loss of life small, conditions improving. IMqua Four acres of the city devastated, less than thirty dead; conditions improving. Marietta One hundred houses washed away. mont Property, loss IS.UOO.OOOi ftmr bodies recovered, food and medical supplies badly needed. i iallipolis I'lood three feet higher than ever before; hundreds of families homeless, but no loss of life.

At 7:30 o'clock today there were slxly four bodies, three of which had not been identified, in the Columbus each More, and rtllnf worker dis 1 etecbut seemed to rally, and tributed the supplies today. Records of all ariven out were kept, and the Born At Hartford, April i wss thought to be gaining when the second and what proved to be the fatal stroke came at 6:30 this grocers will be paid a reasonable price 1'rof. Basttanelli was summoned from Rome to attend the banker. Morgan already had engaged immediate passage to Naples aboard the liner aroma, and specialists from lierlin and Paris had been cabled to meet him. But Bastianelll vetoed the trip, knowing that his client was in a iriuch more eertous condition than was admitted.

Morgan was persuaded to remain in Egypt until March 10, when he sailed for Naples aboard the Nner Adriatic. Carried from Steaiuboat. liy that time he had recuperated ufliciemly to travel without especial lunger, but those who saw him when the Adriatic docked at Naples knew that be was a very sick man. "He, had to be carried from the steamship aboard the special train that was waiting to hurry him to Rome. Morgan was rushed to Kome as rapidly as possible, and Installed in a quiet suite in the Grand hotel, where Irs.

Iixon and Bastianelli were in constant attendance. Four nurses from the A nglro Amerlcan Nursery home were! in constant attendance, and a doctor 1 morning. For about half a. centuhv. Mr.

Levy 111 from the rellet tuna. Fsmliir! Krom Slian neetown. khaWNEKTOWN. March 31 had been identified with the business 17, 1837, He Became Dominant Figure in finance. THINGS HE ACCOMPLISHED nd progress of Sjcranton.

and few men were, better known. He had With the greatest rise In the history been treasurer of the Scranton board v. a rxmrnj (t'oatlaued on I'a are Twelver of i he Ohio r.ver sweeping oon on thw city, every preparation to avoid io. life and confine the damage morgue. The waters in central unio had receded and the battle against the mini and slime residue deposited in the Hood districts was In full swing.

It was reported that there were one No man of recent times has oceu is Pied a bigger place in American 11 VH.il I rUI of ihe waters to property alone being made thirtv six hours following or two other bodies in sigi't in wie wcrning from the noveniment weather bureau, an exodus which included, MASON'S PK IS DYNAMITED Hooded district, but that It would require several hoiins to get them out. Governor fox said that the situation was "well in hand" and that telegrams and telephone messages re every woni. ami child in the little, city of has been In progress. nistory than John Pierpont Morgan. He was in the banking business for more than half a cen during the latter years of nis life he was unquestionably the financial dictator of the United States.

When a panic seized 1H htreet in 1801. during the struggle for the control of the Northern Pacific railroad. It was Mr. Morgan who i and nurse were with him every moment. L'lxon and Bastlanelli ordered complete rest, and except for a brief afternoon drive with Mrs.

Hatterlee, Morgan did not stir from his room. Easter Sunday the financier was With the water rushing Into tha China vein of the Capouse colliery at CHANCELLOR DAY SAYSMORGAN DEATH IS CALAMITYTO COUNTRY uch a high rate that It gained tuna tome iu ine rescue. Again, when similar conditions nrevajie.) i ktricken with a recurrence of acute in feet on the pumps last night, the digestion, and was ordered to bed, He Fall of 1907. it was Mr. Morgan who ranton Coal company dynamited lust strength rapidly, and it could no SOLICITOR OF OLD FORGE ASKS AN ATTACHMENT FOR BURGESS REPP FOR ALLEGED CONTEMPT OF COURT Mason's dam near Keyeer Valley to saved tne situation.

Aside from these two incidents. Mr. Morgan probably ay, to present a further flooding of the worklnga. mrtTIM. will he chiefly remembered for the Mr.

and Mrs. William I ne took ln floating the United The work of letting the water out Mt Hale To of the dam waa started yesterday by Metlah, uf Park riacv. Carbondale, a I corporation. The violent decline in the securities of the steel ay of a pipe line. Today the walls were dynamited and the remainder trust during the depression of 1903 04, and the storm of criticism ih.i Attorney Johi II.

Homier, solicitor of old Korgc, vent before the court Valentine a daugh Mrs. street. of the water started into the Keyser deujrhur. flaaar To Mr. and Itoear.

of Jtccch tor. Bole To Mr. and Boyle, of 317 South broke forth from the thousands of alley creek and to Taylor where It "I have always regarded J. Pierpont Morgan as a great friend of the common people, and his death is a calamity to the country," said Chancellor James R. Day.

of Syracuse university, in an Interview with a Truth reporter at noon today, as he was preparing; to leave town. 'Mr. Morgan has been the ballast Mrs. William Webster avenue, investors in me united States and in Europe who put their money into business furnishes such secure wage for the great masses of the people. The steel Industry, which Mr.

Morgan has developed. Is not owned by two or three people who clip coupons. This business Is owned by 200,000 stockholders ln all parts of the world. In January, the business furnished employment to 22S.O00 working people, who got 14,210,000 In weekly wages. Today there Is an Increase both tn the number of people employed and the amount of wages paid.

"It Is possible that the death of Mr. Morgan will have a reactive force of for his approval. He refused to sign It. The council then went into court to compel FCepp to approve of it. Meanwhile while the case was pending, the council in mettlng June 15, 191 a.

took up the tax levy ordinance and ratified It according to law. Solicitor Bonner then went before Judge H. M. Edwards, who had the case. Judga Edwards staled that the council's subsequent ratification cured the defect, and on i'ebruury 13 handed down an ouinion emptied into the Lackawanna river.

The'rush of water made but little difference la the river conditions at Taylor. Through numerous cave holes th water began pouring Into the China a ton. Rupi To Mr. and Mrs, Rogan, of 90S Aah street, i J. a daugh of the financial situation In this coun inese socurities.

nad been a thorn in Mr. Morgan's side, and his chief ambition in the years that followed was to see the steel securities ln such position in the market that his most bitter critics would be forced to con today with a petition praying that an attachment be Issued for illlam Repp, burgess of that borough, for alleged contempt of court. Judge II. M. Edwards took the petition under advisement.

The latest clash between the burgess on one side and Die council and solicitor on the other, bi'gan In 1911, when the council attempted to mise. J30.000 by taxation. On tober 16 that year the council in session fixed the tax levy for 1911 by motion. The ordinance wax forwarded to the burgess try, he aia. lie wna me vein of the colliery Saturday.

This is. ter. TBoaa To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Thomas, of Center street, Moosic.

a on. March 27. 1913. the low vein. The pumps were kept.i going night and day but their capacity I tC'ontlaurd oa l'e Two; I to that effect.

Burgess Kepp. however. was not sufficient to make any greai refuses to approve of the ordinance. headway last night, a nine MAKIUAUK. Brena Haarrln Ciouldzboto, Pa.

I being recorded this mors financier ever produced oy nniei He was always a foreslifhted man, and I presume he has arranged his affairs so that there will be no great confusion ln the financial world." "His great contributions to art." the chancellor went on, "and his great philanthropies made Mr, Morgan one of the moat worthy citizens of America. I am very much interested In ana in consequence tne solicitor wants the burgess placed in contempt. the present muckraking sentiment or cheap magazines and periodicals." Chancellor Day was the guest this morning of United States Marshal workers in that vein hay March 26, 1913. by Kev. Frederick, etalter, C.

H. Brown, of Moscow and pelled to quit. ittrs. Helen Hater, of Gouldsboro. rraat HMa In WlUtes iUarre.

COURT STENOGRAPH James M. Yeager. They have been close friends for more than a score of vears. res. 13.

l13. by Kev. c. E. Uutnrle.

S. Charles Frost of Minneapolis, FORMER ARCHBALD WOMEN IN THE OMAHA TORNADO ON A SALARY BASIl PANC0AST MINER DIES ON WAY TO LOCAL HOSPITAL Joseph Toate, of Back Red Row, Throop, was fatally Injured this morning while at work In the Pan coast colliery. The miner wai caught under a fall of rock receiving several fractured ribs besides internal Injuries. He died In the mine ambulance while being taken to the State hospital in this city. and Miss Jessie Wood, of Mr.

Morgan's career, because ne represents, as no man does excepting John U. Kockefeller, the big business of the country. "1 am a believer in big business, Wtlkea Barre. Vaa tllea Maaer In Dunmore. Chancellor Day Is one of the two men Ktnce the beginning the Methodist church who refused an election to the episcopacy.

He said this morning that his Interests lie in the advancement of Syracuse univer Court Stenographers H. H. Coston and V. V. Coston, beginning April 1.

The blind and foolish attempt to In March 31. 1913. by Rev. J. J.

Ruddy, Roy Van Bllen, of Rochester. N. V. and Miss Sarah Alice Malitr. of Blake will be placed on a salary basis ln 1 jure big business is not tne service oi.

stead of being paid at a per diem, or American people. No form of slty. There are now 3,600 students. ly streit. Uunmore.

the Two sisters of John Carroll, a well known resident of Main street. Arch bald, had thrilling experiences in the day rate for their services. In formal order; made today by the courl UKATHS. H. H.

Conlon and W. D. Coston arl tornado a week ago. in Omaha, Xeb. They are Mrs.

Hugh McManus and Mrs. Murphy, who left Archibald for the West years Mrs. had a terrifying experience, her home being blown to atoms, burying her In the ruins. She was reacued after considerable, diffi Jaeetalaot In Scran ton. March K.

Mrs. Mary Jacquinot, of Harmony place. The funeral will be W. R1IRHNFLL appointed official stenographers of thf. court, and the order reads "in place of the per diem compensation heretofore paid, the salary of each of said TO DROP OTHER CASES AGAINST GRAUMAN, THE CONVICTED NOTE MAN PLASTERERS GET ADVANCE OF FORTY CENTS A DAY held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock with services ln Ht.

Paul's rhitrrh. In. wa a a vvw official stenographer! is fixed at $3,000, terment In Cathedral cemetery. culty, tne rescuers locating her In the cellar of the home amidst the pile of I debris, home of the heavy timbers I of the house had fallen in such a way I teismcll In Clark's Summit, LI AT BEST I March 30, 1912, Mrs. Ermlna Cap well, aged sixty nine years.

as to protect her from the limns of debris thut piled Inlo the eclair with payable monthly from April 1, 1913. Nineteen untried cases of forgery Tnls aiPlntn'ent i n.ade under provisions of the act of May 1, 1907. and false pretense against William which act shall hereafter govern the Urauman. former note broker and loan work and compensation of said stenog agent, who is now serving a three 1 raphers. subect to the direction of aml a half years' sentence In the pen! I TIT" i' J16 An agreement was entered Into today between representative.

of the INnrftj ln Carbondale. March 30. 1913, William F. Murphy, of Middle ty cents a day. No agreements the rollapM) of the building, and was have yet not Injured.

Mrs McManus was alone plasterers and the contractors of the at reel, aged twenty seven yeara. Maxwell In Jermyn. Pa, March 30 wun me Drlcklayer and the The funeral of teorxe W. Bushnell, for a number of years prominent in In the house when the tornado came. Mrs.

Murphy escaped any Iniiiries. city which will prevent the strike p91S. Henry Maxwell aged thirty. which was scheduled for tomorrow. II.

M. Edwa'rds, K. C. Newcomb and DUt expected that they will strike tomorrow, when their present rA.n,.nr only slight damage resulting to her The plasterers have accepted the offer home. or nrty nve cents an hour made re James J.

O'Neill. The court stenographer's bill for 1912 Including "earnings of the Costons Air. i.arron, who was much worried cently by the contractors. Their de rney are not seeking any increase ln wages, their demands being for changed working conditions. Including the Saturday half holiday, double over tlm asfety of his sisters, because of their homes being located in the heart of the zone, touched by the tor and such other help as required, wj mand was for sixty cents an hour, the present rate being fifty cents an hour.

ihree yeara Keller In Scranton, March 29. 13. Mrs. Hester Keller, ag ad eighty, our years, of North Lincoln avenue" Leaser In Pa, March 30, 912, John Lunney. the flve.year old oo of.

Mr. and Mrs. George Lunney North Bromley avenue. Murray In Scranton, March 31, 1913, inet Murray, aed 32 years, former 0.837.90. A part of the agreement provides nado, received a letter from Mrs, Murphy Saturday.

that ir business conditions warrant it, the plasterers shall have their scale THK WfcATHKU. Increased to sixty cents an hour be local political life, besides being a pioneer resident or tbi city, was held this afternoon at 2:30 ''clock from his residence, 423 Wyoming avenue. The attendance Included a number of Scranton's old residents, many of whom had been active In various business and social circles with the deceased. Rev. tlri tn W.

Bull, l. pastor of the Klrst 1'resbyterlan church, oirt cluted. He rend a passage of the Scriptures and prayer. A number of floral pieces were in evidence about the casket. The honorary pallbearers were: Hon.

11. A. Knapp, It. J. Matthews, V.

K. Tracy, K. T. Sweet, John Hale and Edward" Merrilleld. Interment was made In Imnmore cemetery.

Fair tonight and Tuesday cool ly of Dunmore. Funeral Wednesday The atorm from the Northwe u.i.e iur eunuays and holidays, and minor chaijgea in present agreements. The signing up of the plasterers, and the hoped for amicable settlement of the demands of the masons and bricklayers will mean peace in the building trades tomorrow, most of the other trades working under old agreements or having entered Inlo new agreements recently. ginning April 1, 1914. A clause in the new agreement provides that there shall be no sympathy strikes timing at clock from Cusick POWELL SEATED AS FREELAND COUNCILMAN moved rapidly to the lake region chapel.

Interment in Mt. Carmel cani tery. tentlary. will not be tried. District Attorney 0.

J. Heedy announced today. Joseph Levy, prosecutor In five of the cases, died today, but that, Mr. Reedy said, was not the controlling factor In the cases. Mr.

Reedy stated that the remaining caxes Hgalnst Grauniaik will remain standi against him. but will never be tried. He ald the same eourw had been followed In the Trap pi black hand cases and In other Instances where a multiplicity of indictment stood against one The ill not be "pigeon holed" as nol prosed, but will hemaln open, so as to always be standing Orauman when he Is released from the penitentiary. The prosecutors besides Joseph Levy, ere Israel Roth, D. J.

Davis, A. L. Sthlller and A. Rlitu. Excepting 11.

J. Davis, who is a city detective, the proaecutors slli lost money through protested notes Which Oratu nvan la alleged to have ferM with. Xk namas of money borrower called against any member or members of the masters' association with taewery In Marshbrook. Benton township March 29, 1813. Mrs.

Emily C. Lowery, aged, 66 years. Funeral Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. In and the Kast with increasing cloudiness through Sunday and rain In this vicinity towards even Ing. The center of this storm is moving out through the St, Lawrence valley, this morning, and general rain prevails la thla mo tlon.

Shippers Forecast. Temperatures tonigiht will rang erment In Clifford. Susquehanna ounty. raVUIUATKM. Nomination of candidates for the mine workers' organization Oistrlct 1 will close April 1.

A large number YVILKKfl HARE. March 31. Judga Strauss handed down a short opinion Saturday confirming the report of Attorney John It. Sharplesa in the election contest of Frank OTion rieil, councilman rrom the First ward of Kieela ul. in which Aubrey Powell is seated as in pises of Mr.

u'lJonnell. There were three cod.ncllmanle out the matter being first brought to the attention of the conference committee. This Is a new clause which the contractors are insisting upon being parts of all agreements. The plasterers work eight hours a day, receive their pay every two weeks, are paid time and one half for overtime and double time for work done on Sunday and holidays. There are about 100 plasterers In the city Home Oiinutiml Fl.NKHAI.S.

nu funerai of James II. Uettints of locals have already been heard from. A candidate must have the en from 36 to 46 degrees, This for morn Kire at 11 o'clock yesterday dorsement of two locals before his cast will not appear on tne znao on the lnff did considerable Idamaxe li o) ill CJrovs street, Dunmore. will take, place tomorrow morning. Burial Will be made In Mt.

Carmel ctme uty name ran go on the official ballot. less freeslntT temperature home of John Vocnlfh, at fill Quay most dr the present officers will have tlctpated. ticlpab venue, when clothfs hanging near irum remand, iwa or wnicn re wen snare in weixn: paipon the stove caught uiuiu in ine nanus of mi cuuru I 25 X. 1.. 1 i 1 i.i jj i laLssfl UJLj.