Altoona Tribune from Altoona, Pennsylvania • Page 1

fSxihnut. i i VOL. XXXV. No. 236.

ALTOONA. PA TUESDAY. DECEMBER TWELVE PAGES ONE CENT. A LITTLE PREMATURE. MRS TAFT CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.

to Democrats Choosing Successor PRESIDENT LEE MAKES HER DEAD PgODY FOUND Will Accompany President on His Next Speech Making Tour. Washington, December President Taft will leave Washington next Monday morning. December for New York, where, in the evening, ho will make the principal address at the closing- meeting of the Diamond Jubilee of the Methodist CONGRESS FORMALLY CONVENED Both Houses Assembledat the National Capitol Man Who Hadn't Resigned. Washington, D. C-, December 6.

Wkh (treat seriousness the democratic members of the senate went into caucus today to elect a successor to Senator Culberson, who has determined to resign as chairman of the caucus because of 111 health, A tentative program had been arranged by which Mr. Money, vice chairman, was to be elevated to tha leadership and was to decline bo-cause of disinclination to take upon ANOTHER SCANDAL TOJTjQNT Phoenix Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, Is a Million Short. IN CISTERN A DENIAL Episcopal church mission in Africa. This jubilee celebration was opened a year ago in Washington with an address by President Roosevelt. Bo-fore speaking at Carnegie hall.

President Taft will dine with the Rev. John Wesley Hill at the hitter's home. After spending the night in New First Conference Being He'd In Harrlsburg. dlarrisburg, December 6. Pennsylvania's first annual conference on charities and corrections wns opened tonight in this city with an attendance of over 200 men and women interested in methods of handling public charges, criminals, wayward aad delinquent children and insane.

Governor Edwin S. Stuart welcomed the visitors to Harrlsburg in a short address. In which ho outlined what this state has dono for charities and tho position it has taken in correctional methods. Mayor E. S.

Meals, of liarrlsburg, also delivered an address of welcome. To addresses were delivered during the evening, one writtou by Francis J. Torrence, of Pittsburg, president of the state board of charities, and the other by E. H. Nibecker, superintendent of he house of refuge, at Olen iMillls.

Mr. Torrenee's address was read 'by Secretary Bromley Wharton, of the state fooard of charities, and set forth tho fact that Penn himself such duties because of ill Sac indingof the Life of irgaret Doherty, a assar Student. Of Rumor That Brotherhood of Trainmen Are Preparing to Strike. health. Senator Bacon was then to bo selected as chairman.

Whh this Yesterday. program agreed upon. Senator Cul oik at 'tne nome ot ills urottier, berson's letter was read to the as Henry raft, the president ill go semblage and theii it was discovered to -New Haven, the morning COMMITTED SUICIDE THE SESSIONS BRIEF But Senator Pailey Put L'p First Fight of Season Bills Numerous in House. ot the Hth to attend a meeting of tho Yale corporation, of which he Is a fellow. There will bo a banquet in New Haven Tuesday night, and, leaving there at midnight, the president will return to Washington during the forenoon of 'Wednesday, tho 15th Inst.

PRESIDENT TO BLAME And Directors Censured for Per mitting Wrongs -President Mow Quite Sick. TELEGRAPHS MR. TAFT Declares the Strike Talk is Absurd and That the Trainmen Fully Realize This. This Act Due to Her Due to Mental Strain Overwork, Causing: to Abandon Her Studies. he had not resigned the chairmanship, but had merely stated his purpose of doing so.

Immediately all the well laid plans of the statesmen were upset and further action was post poned until definite action is taken by the Texas senator. The caucus elected Thomas V. Keller, of West Virginia, assistant doorkeeper, which position is equivalent to a democratic representative of the sergeant-at-arms on the floor of the senate. Mr. Keller has been in the employ of the senate for thirty years.

sylvania appropriates more, in pro Mrs. pros- Mrs. Taft and her sister, Laughlin, will accompany the ident 'to New York. portion to its population, than any other state for tho caro of unfortu MESSAGE TO BE HEARD TODAY LOANS TO STATE OFFICIALS WHAT MURDOCK HAS TO SAY nates. He gave figures showing he rise of such appropriations from a DABSHTEft OF A MINISTER BARRED BY little over $150,000 forty-nine years ago to the magnificent total voted by the legislature this year.

Mr. Tor- COLLECTOR LOEB Chicago, December 6. William I.ce. president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmeu. tonight sent a telegram to President 'Taft, assur ing the chief executive that reports Man Who Had Been in Customs Washington.

D. C. December Tho to houses of congress convened today for tie first regular session of the Sixty-first congress, but the day's proceedings were iu great part of a social nature and practically no business was transacted. Brief as was the senate's thirteen-minute session it was enlivened by an msuccesful effort on the pan of Senator Bailey to defeat the passage, of the usual resolution that the dai-h sessions begin at coon, suggesting that the senate should convene New ovi. December 6 Tho Phe, nix Insurance company, of Brooklyn, is under investigation for Irregulari.

ties which It is believed have Impair-ed its surplus at least amt to have- resulted in conditious which superintendent Hotchktss, ot tb-t stato insurance, department, laid he. tore tho district attorney today fo-Possible criminal action. It ia charg. ed that tho president has overdrawn, his salary, that ho has unloaded doubtful securities on tho company and that ho has used tho company's assets as collateral to secure his own WOULDN'T SHARE UP AS HE PROMISED Law Suit Growing; Out of American Millions Wedding European Nobility. a general railroad strike r.e without foundation.

The message follows: -ln order that yourself and the Service Since 186 Dismissed for' That Practice, may know the truth. I deem Fishklll Landing. N. December 6. The body of Margaret Doherty.

Vassar etuderu who disappeared yesterday, was found late today in the cistern of her father's home at Hughsonvlllc. Miss Doherty, who was the daughter of tho Rev. William 11. Doherty, wandered away from tho care of her friends yesterday morning. was known thai she had been forced to abandon her studies at Vassar because of mental strain due to overwork, and from the moment her absence was noted there was tha greatest anxiety for her safety.

The all night and day search uo to a sad end when a railroad detective found thu lifeless body of the girl in six feet of water at the Now York, December 6. "Not a man shall remain in this servieo who reuce paid a tribute to the charitable work -being done by the state department of health in its crusade against tuberculosis and stated that he welcomed tho aid and assistance which would be given to tho 'board of charities by a conference like that now assembling. He praised the efforts to advance the material and moral well beins of the thousands of immigrants who annually enter Pennsylvania. Mr. Nibockor's address was largely an oil! line of what it is hoped to accomplish at the conference and a statement of what the state is doing and how uniformity can bo of 'benefit to public charges in all classes of institutions.

The conference will last until Wednesday night and a number of prominent IVnnsylvani.ins will speak on topics pertinent to the conference. iceopts a tip from a passenger," said Collector I.oefo today, and in the next sentence dismissed Charles Nininio, customs inspector, who Jiad been jn tho service since 1SS0. "I am determined to break up that practice and 1 want tho public to it necessary to state that the press reports, indicating that a strike of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train meat and other affiliated organizations is threatened at this time as a result of the demands made for increased pay in the territory east of Chicago, are absolutely -without foundation. Whatever action is taken by the organization I represent, will depend entirely the individual expression, of the members through the geneva! committees for the railways in the territory. and be handled in the usual manner.

The demands of know' that not a cent need be paid any employe of this port for any ser Budapest, December 6 According to the newspaper, Hirlap, a syndicate of creditors is suing Trince Miguel, of Rraganza. who married Miss Anita Stewart, of New-York, at Tullock Castle. Dingwal1. Scotland. September 13 last, for Some eais ago, the paper says.

Prince Miguel was in financial difficulties, and syndicate advanced him a large sum. payable when he should make, a rich marriage. Tho claim is set up that following nego- lH)ttom of the cistern. Appearances vice the government, pays its agents indicated a carefully planned sui- to perform." added the collector cldc. Tho cover of tho cistern was The customs authorities learned in position.

It seemed she raised It 'that Nimmo bad loaned a passenger on edge, allowing it to fall back into sufficient money to pay duly on at 2 o'clock. Mr. said he would like to see the senate hold -vght sessions in order that senators might devote the day to individual business. objection was offered when a similar resolution was introduced in the house. A joint committee was named by tvnh houses to wait upon 'he president to inform him that congress was in session and ready for an business he might wish to lay befor it.

The president's response will constitute his annua! message, the reading of which will consume practically "all of tomorrow's sessions of the two houses. The house session continued forty minutes, during which W. W. Mc-Cred'c. the n' representative from the Second Washington district, who Miccreds the Francis W.

ush-nia- was sworn in. The greater part of the session was ta'sen up by the roll call. Although only 341 members responded (o their names, almost, a full membership appeared on tho house floor and there were, few place over Jicr as she jumped to coss baggage aud a'terward gouo lo death below. There was no passe.iger's home to collect the uaijous cu resulted mar. i ri, An a.U tram employe on tram and ard deuces of foul play.

I loan. Miss Hnherfv accounts. Nor do tho directors escape their share ot censure. In a formal statement Issued t', nigh Mr. Hotchkiss says ho doe not behevo the capital of tho com-pany is impaired and that thus far' there is no evidence that Its securU' ties are not intact, but ho admit that tho present investigation is still uncompleted.

He says also that iu tho judgment of the insurance department "Tho -rectors -who have permitted President. Sheldon to do as ho has dono. an' equally responsible to tho public for the acts committed." Under the law the insurance do-partment is required t0 examine into the condition of all life insurance companies at least once iu cvery three years, lie advocated an in. crease- in the examining force in or. dor that all insurance corporations' other than life companies, mav amined at least once everv the years Mr.

Hotchkiss says the Phenix coni-r-anv, which is a tire, concern, nad not been examined for nearly twenty-two years, or since Mr. Sheldon became president. During- tho pat seventeen veari loans have been made to oftirr prince promised to recoup the svn BIG JAIL DELIVERY ALMOST SUCCEEDED Seven Prisoners Had Reached Yard of Bloomsbur? Jail hen Discovered. BELLWOOD BOROUGH. make her first jear at Vassar a creditable one.

She knew that her' father had abandoned a rich parish iTaking Measures to Annex Large men east of Chicago, canuot take proper form 'even for deliberate ac-! lion between the railway oflb'ia's and' their employes' before the early parti of 1910. i "All ibis falk about a strike of tl'oj dieate one-fifth of the dowrv. which as Prince Miguel declines to pay anything beyond the amount borrowed. in New Jersey to accept his small Section of the Town, charge in Hughsonville exiiresslv I The principal item of business be that his daughter might be near 1 fore the Bellwood borough council enough to Vassar to commute. Her 'last ovening was the presentation of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and affilia-cd 'organizations is absurd and the membership of the organization fully realizes' it." ambitious.

however, outran her a petition from citizens of lhat part strength and three weeks ago she! of tho town known as "the hill" to PILOT LUBKER MADE STATEMENT I BkKHtislnii'g, December tl An broke down. The thought that her be taken imo the borough. An ordi-indisposition had nullified her fath- nance containing the necessary pro-er's sacrifices for her so preyed on visions to grunt the request of poti- among them that did not have one fw York. December "Rumors of an impending strike," said Vice or more bills to These inelud ner muni ttiat the famtlv feared she i doners was presvnteu huh passed cd one by Representative Garner, of might attempt suicide and tried to first reading. The territory embrac-keep close watch on her.

led in the petition lies u-d the pres- aS l.an CharjC Of the; ho0l1 0f Railway Trainmen. today, Pennsylvania, for aji investigation Prairie When That Vessel i are P'vmature ana we believe were Sunday morning, when her father enr. borough line. Tho new line is was at church, furnished the chance described as starting on East Fourth by congress of the entire customs service, particularly in regard to sugar frauds recently brought" to attempt at a wholesale jail delivery in which seven prisoners. two of whom were serving; long term, suc-I ceeded in getting out'side the Coluni-j liia county jail, but were driven back Sheriff Knt and his son.

at the 'points of pistols, was made public to-jday in the court house hero when John Collarr. of Philadelphia, was arraigned, charged with conspiring in the attempt. Among the prisoners were John Zongrove. the chief witness in the Berwick Black Hand leases: John Kelly, of Danville, await tho state insurance department amoiur Went Aground. put out to influence the roads of the! north? west into granting the demands! of the Switchmen' I'nion of North! i i.zht; one by Representative Hitch street where it mteresects jioyios, following the former street lo Maple wnicti are the following: "To James F.

Pierce, during- the period when he was Sll npri it. I Amorioa. AYe haVe' nothing to da with 1 New York. December 6 F. .1.

I.ub- cock. Nebraska, for the establishment of postal savings banks; one by Representative Manu, Illinois, for avenue, then north to an alley between Fifth and Sixth street, along ihe allev to Lock street, thence at an she sought. Slipping from the house she disappeared and rhe earnest efforts of niany searching parties Tailed to find her until lato today. The distracted parents were inconsolable tonight when the sad news was broken to them. tendent of insurance, loans aggregating federal reaulation of the "white ketv who -was the pilot in charge off rhe auxiliary cruiser Prairie, when; she ran arroimd last Delaware City, today made his first "To Isaac Vandornool during n.

'ave traffic." and another' by period when ho was chief tha' movement and hae troubles enough "of our 'own without entering: into any others. Our 'proposals ha not et beeu subaiiced to the management of thei eastern railroads'a'nd we have no rea-! son to suppose that they will bo re-1 fused 'w hen' they are submitted. It I i Ma-n for the free admission or wood pulp, and one by' 'Representative of insurance companies, loans af.n-,-. -statement- for publication. He refused 1 ing trial fjr larceny.

I uey had filed off an iron bar and had made their way to the yard of the jail before they were discovered. gating- Hamilton. Michigan, to grain state hood to New Mexico and Arizona. To Robert 11. Hunter dnrins- to say whether or not the lights at that- point xvere properly lighted, "but stated: period he was first deputy superintendent of insurance, loans no s-ecret that we have long fe! There were the customer- crowds in the galleries of the two' houses STANDING OF CREWS.

"I- feei -that 1 ing $00,040.77. the of tne 1 'TV 1 A f.l, -Hii tor them was deferred two "To William II. Buckler duri re, Those of the Middle and Pittsburg CASHIER OF BANK IS UNDER ARREST Robert D. Muir Locked l'p Last at New Haven, in Default of Bail. period he was third demitv siinei-in.

reache caused a pause aid the usual scenes attending an opeuing day of congress were' 're-enacted on the floors. The leaders of the majority and the minority were there and conversed amiably, all of the bitterness engendered by the tariff fight of last summer ap tendent of insuranco, loans aggreffi. ing Stil.OUO. angle to logaii street, thence to an alley between Third and Fourth, and on the alley to the old borough line on Logan street. The residence of I).

M. Peters on Second street, beyond the hill is left outside, but all other properties in the area between that and J. A. Williamson's are includod. Tho red tape necessary to complete the annex will be unwound as speedily as possible and the borough will soon have a large increase in its population.

By a 1 h-v limits of the town and of the borough will be the same. The ordinance regulating license of hawkers and peddlers and the curfew ordinance passed second reading. Other than consideration of the above, the business was of routine importance. Members Bentley. Williams, Shanor, Wilson and were 'present.

The burgess reported Divisions at Altoona Today. Following is the standing of middle division crews after a. Cabins 16, 21, 20, loft, 240, 101, 22. 2:. ill.

27. no, 8o. hi. It was announced tonight that nt. is-s.

voujumnvitT vi ine rrairie. -is no way to blame. He wa? in supreme command at the time of tiie accident, but he took orduv. from me as far as navigation was con meeting- of the board of directors held today, President Sheldon wk for A. tfio president and general manager of the New York said "The company is on the most friendly terms with its employes at present." In other well-infcrmed quarters, it was said tonight that in view of the fact that the railroads have long contemplated an increase in their own removed from office and that In his stead, K.

W. T. Gray, fromerly an-' ditor of the Continental Insurancn Lubker has been a piiot on the the parently having been forgotten, the time being least. Resolutions of respect for memory of Senator Johasou. North Dakota: Representatives river for twenty years ant udiv of company, -was elected president.

excellent reputation. r- lt'S. 2i.i, 112. 12. UT.

217, 247. Special Cabins after U.40 a. 2o7. 204, 202, 2uti. 201.

Extra Engineers Clark. Turbett, Briuser, Kauffman. Moer, Alberts, Burley. Extra Firemen Laird. Grumbley, Grove, Cameron, Runk.

Extra Conductors Sarvis, Watts, Miller. Exira Flagmen Weston, Fultz, Bol New Haven. December 0 Charged with the embezzlement of of the funds of the People's Bank and Trust company. Robert D. Muir.

cashier of the bank, was arrested tonight and locked up in default of bail. Muir. it is alleged. CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIRS. Greenwich.

Decemher fi rates, they are not in a position to George P. Sheldon, president of the Phenix Insurance company, of Brook- Arnioud and Lassiter. who died during the recess, were adopted, and as a farther mark of resnee. the two houses adjourned unt'l neon tomorrow, the senate at 12: and the house at 12:40 p. m.

Former Mexican Ambassador Com inn t'Cat too orusQuely a request tor an increase for wages from their lIllTll'liO fifr $24.20 fines and licenses collected in is critically ill at home th to laiK it Over. took 13.000. but the officials of the I November p.oyes Balance cau in treasury Mexico City, December tl Enriau -Maples, here and his friends fear that ho may. not recover. Ha oanK ootainea securities irom mm to the value of iwas $1,032.03.

Bills aggregate! The various committees made their ill to talk or even hear of C. Creel, formerly Mexican ambassador to the United States and now governor of Chihuahua, will leave usual reports Mexico City tomorrow night for Wsahington, where he goes on a ste-l cial mission for the 'Mexican govern-1 ment in regard to Central American I affairs. This fact was admitted bv i THERE WAS NO OUTBREAK BY MEN Governor Harmon, of Ohio, Had Lvidently Been Misinformed as to the Situation. CAUSING TROUBLE Also Ca uses Much Suffering Among Unsheltered Stock in the est. officers at the foreign office tonight.

It Muir is 42 years old and has a wife and two children here. He came here from Port Jervis, N. where he was cashier of a bank but his early training was in a Lincoln. National bank. While in Nebraska, he was appointed an assistant bank examiner by the federal government.

Mtiir's alleged defalcations were discovered in October, while he was away on a vacation. He was induced to return and the shortage was made good by the directors of the bank. The arrest tonight was at the instigation of the state banking There, is no doubt that Mr. Creel goes I linger. Extra Brakemeu Woomer.

Gaff, Simonton. Dickson, Schenck, Jackson, Elder, Gearhart. The Vacancies. Extra Engineer wanted for 210, 2)0. Extra Fireman wanted for 202.

Extra ComluctiT wanted for 247. Extra Flagman wantej for 247. Extra Krakeman wanted for 219. Pittsburg Division Crews. Following is the standing of Pittsburg division crews after 4 a.

Preferred Pool Crews ISO, 024, isi, 5io, D77. son. Pool Crews 013, 16, 131, 3ti3, 223, 734. Altoona-Coneuiaugh Crews 370. on an errand directly connected with the situation.

It is known in Mexico City that the Mexican government has received a -Mr. Sheldon is suffering from mv carditis an inflammation of tho-muscular tissues of the heart. Rod and Gun Club Elects Governors. The AHoona Rod ana Gun club last evening held its fourteenth annual meeting at the club houso at membership was well represented and participated in tho election of a board of governors for tho en- -suing year. Tho following were chos-en; John Schenk, J.

S. Stier, J. Charles, Thomas House. John KM-letts, Henry Doerr, Ed. Kottman, AV'il-liam Bell ami William Tho governors will hoid a meeting in the near future and effect an organization by the election of officers.

A lunch was served during the evening but later tho club will enjoy a bear feast tench Ted by the hunters just returned from a hunt in Clearfiuld county. The Mercy Hospital. The building committee of tho Mercy Hospital association kst evening held a meeting at the residence of W. S. Lee, Seventh avenue and Thirteenth street, for tho purpose of discussing matters pertaining lo the remodeling and rebuilding of the Orner property for hospital purposes.

The plans were gone over thoroughly aud several bids were considered but. the letting of the contract was deferred until another meeting. The committee is composed of W. S. Lee, John Dughi, John Schenk, W.

J. Heinsliug, A. Ableson and T. D. Hughes, and just as soon as the committee lets the contract a meeting of the board of trustees will be held and the action confirmed and work started with a view of having the institution opened by-early spring.

reply to the letter sent by Foreign Minister Mariscal to the United Charleston. "VV. December 6 Topeka. December A drifting snowstorm that is sweeping over Kansas and Oklxhonia and rvart in a telegram to Governor dasseock States government outlining a plan tk)vercor Harmon, of Ohio, toniiht states that he has been informed that lor me pucnui seiuemeni oi iae Texas tonight, is causing much stif-caragnan problem, but the foreign of-; ferlng among unsheltered -took lice refuses to divulge its contents a Many telephone, telegraph and' ra-'t- sorno of the steel null strikers and strike sympathizers at Bridgeport, The Huston Jury Wheel. Harrisburg, Decemljor tj.

The names of seventy-two men from whom will be chosen the Huston jury on have planned to congregate on Upper heeling- island, on the West irg1nia side of the Ohio river, and open fire cn the Ohio militia, now stationed at uiu ju ieiereuce iu me road companies have lost wire con-! 700. note- nections. No auempt is made to run' Crew 204. It is believed that Governor Creel I trains on scheduled time. Street car Derrv Crews 014.

Toy, 3W. 430, is going to the United States to servh-p was demoralized in Topeka i 637. state ciearly the attitude of the Mex- tonight. Manv cars snent a half hourj Youngwood Crews 038. 181.

ican government in this affair. climbing a un-hill block. '438. January 17. were draw from the jury wheel today.

Most of tliem are residents of the county outside of J64, Bridgeport. Governor Glasscock took up the re Cambria and Clearfield Crews 208. tort witn SneriC Clemens, of Wheel 30T. leg. who started an investigation.

The commanding officers of the First and Y. M. I. ELECTION. POVERTY AND FAMILY PRIDE THIS AVIATOR WAS KILLED Second infantry, AVest Virginia Na tional Guard, were ordered to be Police Station New.

Frank Hastings was accorded hearing in police court yesterday afternoon betore Mayor Hoyer, presiding as committing magistrate. lie was charged wiih being drunk, 'Jisor-derly, resisting and profanity and Was fined $tH and default servo ixty days in jail. Cloyd Snoath charge 1 ready to move on short notice. Adjutant General Buriew today the expostulations of his niechaii ician, patched up a defective part of with a similar offense also received the machine, by binding it with com-! a fine of or sixty days in jail. WAS HISJISST FLIGHT Accident Appears to Have About Ninety Members Nomination and Election Last Evening.

About ninety members of the Columbus council, No. 120. Young Men's Institute, attended the sessions held in tbdr hall last evening when the nomination and election of the officers to serve during the year was the work of the meeting. The dele-gates to the district council and the chairman of the visiting committee will be elected later. The results of Herman Reed, charged with beius granted permission for Ohio troops to travel on the West Virginia side of the river when convenient in going to aad from Bridgeport.

Sheriff Clemens, of Ohio, this county, wired Governor Glasscock tonight hat all was quiet on the West Vir-iinia side and there was no danger an outbreak as feared by Governor Harmon, of Ohio. IS PLEA OF DEFENSE In Case of Miss Virginia Wardlaw, Charged With Murder of Mrs. O. W. N.

Snead. drunk and with disorderly conluol and profanity in the city prison, wag fined or thirty days in jail. K. Cummings, charged with being drunk and iisordorly, was fined $4 or seventy-two hours in the city prison. on them.

"When I found that John Wardlaw, Princeton '77. was Miss Wardlaw's brother, she implored me in her cell to seek help from his friends. she sobbed. Met it tie known that a sister of John Ward-law was sent to jail accused of a crime Mrs. Henry S.

Kane told the poiice today that Miss Wardlaw called at her house in answer to an advertisement and inquired a to the terms of the rent and whether the house had a good sized bath-tub. She wished, Been Mainly Due to the Inexperience of Inventor. last night's election is as follows: President. David P. Butler: first vice president, Joseph C.

Kncpper; second vice president, John Callag-han; recording secretary, Wise: corresponding secretary. Joseph C. mon twine. The aeroplane sailed off' gracefully, amid the cheers of the spectators, amid the cheers of the seemed to be fulfilled, when, after go ing 2ou metres and gradually rising, the aviator attempted to make a turn too sharply, and the machine tipped over in the twinkling of an eye. Fernandez was hurled headlong to the ground.

striking with terrific force, with the wreck of his aeroplane "on top of him. Willing handa lifted the mass of debris and the aviator was found crushed beneath the motor, his head having been driven into the soft earth by the impact. The victim -was a strikingly handsome man, well known in Nice, where he was a fashionable ladies' talor. He took tip aviation quite recently, devoting all of his time to it. lie was convinced that his machine, which Tesembled tooth the Wright and New York, December 6.

"Poverty A Statement. The father of 1eo Smith, the youth who was yesterday sent to the house of refuge at Glenn Mills, by direction of tho court, called at the Tribune office last evening and said that his son had not stolen a team from the C.orstich livery stable, but that it had been paid for. Kane said, to move ia at night auj insisted that none of the Kans O'Donnell; financial secretary. Albert and family pride have been the reasons for it all," said Franklin Fort, family should visit the house after J. Bradley, treasurer, James Mc Don-she had been given possession.

Tbcinell: marshal. Edwin J. Behe; inside What Gompers Advocates. 'New- York. December 6.

great federation of the seamen of the vhole world," was urged tonight oy Samuel Gompers. speaking to 1,500 ailors and longshoremen. Who gathered at Cooper Union to discuss plans action with the International Shipping federation of Owners. iMr. Gompers justified the Great strike.

If the men lost, he -aid might expect to see Japanese aud Chinese take their places. Resolutions were adopted deplor-ng the present "Enslavrd condition the men of the sea" and looking TOor" effective organization of all men. today in defense of his client. Miss Virginia Wardlaw. who is qt held at police think this information signifi Nice.

France, December C. Antonio Fernandez, an aviator, met death today, while flying for the first time in an aeroplane of his own invention at the new aerodrome, near the mouth of the Var. Although Fernandez took his machine to Rheims during Aviation Week there, difficulties in starting always prevented an actual flight until today. he accident appears to Slave been due mainly to the inexperience and recklessness of the aviator, impatient at the delay and not heeding Eaet Orange, X. charged with the murder of her niece, Mrs.

Ocey W. H. Snead. "You can get some iJea sentinel, William J. Farrell; outside sentinel, Maurice D.

Bcslett; members', of ex-acutive committee. Charles M. Fasick. Thomas F. O'Hara, Clifton L.

dill. Joseph A. Bailey and James P. Behe: members of house committee, F. P.

iBarnacle, Thomas F. O'Hara ami James -M. Stephens; medical examiner. Dr. F.

Otberbeiu. Cold Weather at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, December C. Yesterday was the coldest, day in Jat Angeles in thirty-two years. The temperature to 41 degrees. In many places orchardists fought frost cant, in view of the fact that Mrs.

Snead's bodv was found in a half-filled bathtub. Nothing further has yet been learned of the whereabouts of Fletcher Snead, the -missing husband, or Mrs. Martin, Miss Wardlaw's sister and the mother of Mrs. Suead. of the fierce pride of these southern women when I tell you that from last Tuesday until Saturday, Miss Ward-law's sister and mother lived on loaves of bread until help a6 forced Curtiss machines, was absolutely su wita smudge fires.

perior to any other..