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~ « Sustained Selling Effort To accomplish the best results in business sustained selling effort is \* needed, and this means steady adver- - Vising. R a oc % VOL. XXII-No. 141. A J MIL M APPC Mrs. Mary A. Morner, a Widow, Her Two Daughters and a Son Hacked to Pieces With a Hatchet and Battered With Balestick-Bodies of Three Women, | Almost Nude, Crushed Into Small Manure Pit On Farm Near Defreestville, a Hamlet In Rensselaer County--Police Scouring tlie Vicinity for Trace of Italian Farm Hand Who Is Suspected of Having Committed. the Crime. Albany, Dec. 14.--An entire fami- ly, Mrs. Mary A. Mornéer, a widow, her daughters, Edith, aged 20, and Blanche, aged 17, and a son, Arthur, aged 28 years, were murdered Tues- fay on the Morner farm. near De- Freestville, a hamlet it' Rensselaer county about five miles from Albany. The bodies of the three women wers discovered late last night near a gloomy cow barn where they had been so hacked with a hatchet and battered with a balestick that the murderer had been whle to crush all three of them into a small manurd pit on one side of the stable. A searching party this morning found the body of the son with the throat cut and otherwise mutilated under the barn floor 'the board of which had been ripped up and re- placed after the murderer had secret- ed his victim. .me police are searching for an Italian farm band, known as \Ed Dennis,\ who had been employed by * the Morners since last September. Little is known concerning him or the motive for the crime. Bodies Almost Naked. A bloodstained hatcher; and a four- foot balestick were found in the pit | - near the three bodies andi these the police believe the murderer first fell- ed and then mufilatel his victims. The three bodies were almost naked when fourd, the clothes having been ripped from them. What the gar- ments ‘reintlained were thoroughly bloodstaingl.' Mrs. Morner had re- ceived a blow from the hatchet on right of the head. gash in her skull which was fractur- ed in several places. There wore : many pruises on her body. Head Nearly Severed. The body of the elder girl, Edith, also was badly cut and bruised. Her head was nearly severed by a blow from the hatchet and there was a large hole in her left temple. One of her arms was broken, and when the body was found both arms were in front of her face, as though she had raised from for prot mtion. The younger girl's 'body was the least lacerated. Motive Seems glacking‘. Motive for the crime seems to be lacking. What money there was in the house before the nuurder» was ; found intact early today and all the furnishings appeared to be in tueir _ places. Indications, the authorities say, point to the murderer as being in- sane. A note found in one of the rooms of the house read: \Italian moat and American-made imported ffom Rome, Italy.\ Neighbors can in no way account for such an outbreak on the part of the suspected Italian as they siy he was quiet and attended strictly to bis own business. Mrs. Morner who was 5% years old and the two girls were never known to have hal a dis- pute with him since he was hired by thom last September. Found by Milk Dealer. The, discovery of the crime was brought about by Horatio Mould, a Renssalaor milk dealer, to whom Ar- thur Morner usually brought a sup- ply of milk every night. - Tuesigy night Morner failed to appear and Mould tuought he might be ill. When he filed to come last evening with the milk, however, Mould decided to investigite, and drove out to the Morner farm. _ Tue Neighbors Aroused. Arriving there avout 8 o'clock, Moulg went toward the house, which stands perhaps a hundred feat from the road. There was no light and regeated knockings failed to get a response. was wrong anl notide! Choster Os- trander, whose home is «directly across the rood from the Morner thouse. A hurried gearch of the pre- m.ses convinced O:trander that things were not as they should be snd he immediately notified Jesse Morner, apother son of the derid wo- rizn, whose farm is about two miles away. * Clue from Milk Can. When Jesse Morner arrived he, Mould decided something ; and the lanterns diseloged to Morner the almost naked body of his mother, face downward, in the pool of slime 'and refuge. Beneath her on the sile, was the body of his elder sister, and undep her was his other sister, al- most Hidden by the contents of the pit. Not a word was spoken, but the men drew back and removed their hats. Sheriff Is Notified. Goroner Strope 61 Troy was called, the sheriff was notified, and the Rensselaer police were told to be on the lookout for the missing farm- hand, his description 'being furnished them. . Under the direction of the coroner the bodies were removed from the erypt the murderer had improvised for them and laid on the frozen ground outside the barn, where they remained for several hours, covered only by rough blankets. By this tims other neighbors were on the scene and search was continu- ed for the body of Arthur Morner. The search revealed many things which indicated the method followed by the murderer. Where One Dropped. A small splash of blood a short distance from the entrance to the barn told where one of the victims had been struck down. A few feet from this, in a feed box, was part of a broken pack hair comb. Some 200 feet from the pit where the bodies lay, on the opposite side of the barn at the foot of a cow-stanchilon, was a large blovistain and a few strands ft cut a greatNof black hair, matted together by blood. \There is where one of the girls dropped,\ remarked one of the ge._nrunhers. Clothes Staffed Into Pail. In another part of the stable was found a man's watch. - Whether it belonged to the Italian or the missing son has not been determined. Thigk- ing they might find the body of Ar- thur Morner, the searchers dug deeper into the mire of the manure pit but succeeded only in bringing forth an old tin bucket stuffed full of the clothes which had been torn from the women. They apparently had been used to soak up the blood that flowed from the wounds. Coun- | trymen in pairs and threes with lan- terns covered every foot of the 90- ' acre farm owned by the Morners, searched in every nook and cranny of the barn and the 'house, and yet failed to find the body of the sup- poseily murdered Arthur - Morner. With the 'break of day the search was renewed. Last Seem of Victims. Tuesday noon, | doorway of her home and nodled a : greeting to Mrs. Ostrander, wife of ' one of the men who searched the | premises. - After that no sign of life §was seen about the place, with the exception of Tuesday night about 9 c'ctock when Mr. Ostrander Siw a light in the kitchen «of the 'house. It is supmosed by the authorities that the murderer was making ready to | escape. l The actual time of the murder is fized at between noon and 2 p. m. by lthe authorkries 'because of the milk lean in front of the barn door. On l\on of it was a strainer And the ! neighbors say the Morner family usually milked between these hours. House in Perfect Oraer. Everything in the house was in perfert order with the exception of the door leading from the kitchen to i the sitting room. This had been smashed open, splintering the wood- work and snapping off part of the lock. In the lattor room was found the note, which the police think was left by the murderer as he fled. John Schaller of Schenectaly, a brother of Mrs. Morner, reached the ing. He knew of no iil feeling, be said, between the family and the missing farmhand. Conrad Morner , died whout two years 280, leaving His 'iamily the farm and oonsiderable money. with Mould, Ostrander and Arthur . Fharp, another neighbor, equipped - themselves with lanteras andi began a systematic search of the house and barn. Nothing was discovered until the mon reached the side of the cow barn parallel with the road which passes by, not fifty fost away. Here a fleck of blood on the side of a milk can standing near the barn door fur- nished the first clue. Realizing that his mother and sis- ' ters hal 'been the victim of foul play the son thought of the manure pit as the only possible place for Hiding the 'hod'ies. . The Awful Find. The searchers hurriel to the pit and pried looso its board coverings. Two barge legs that had been held down by the planks jerked upwards, Remaining Body Found. Troy. Dec. 14.-The body of Ar- thur Mornor badly mutilated and with the throat cut was found ur- der another part of the barn finor at 9 o'clock this morning by Sheriff Cottrell's searchers. sTIMUHKLE Is ARANDONED. Berlin, Dec. 1t.- The 50,000 wo- men suit Riakors and 3,000 tafiors, who have 'been on s.rike in Berlin since November 23, to lay abandoned | the struggle which has been unsuc- | cewsful. The union leaders advised ; the workers to return to P*cir em- lpioyment for the nresent under the old terms and to renew their demand at a more favorable opportunity. ° \ | 3 $ No MOW nsion a THE JOHNSTOWN BICYCLE RIDERS BADLY BATTERED | HmaHT OF THE ORIGINAL 18 TEAMS REMAIN ON EQUAL TERMS. FIVE HAVE A FIGHTING CHANCE ' Sticcession of Accidents and Con- The last seen of elther of the two ' girls, 'Mrs. Morner or her son, was . | when the younger j girl, Blanche, appeared in the kitchon : scena of the crime early this morn-. sequent Delay Had Left Contest- ants Fourteen Miles Behind Record at Barly Hour Today-Saldow of . the German Team Strikes Beer ° Glass Dropped by Waiter and Is Picked Up Unconscious. {lew York, Dec. 14.-A badly bat- tered lot of riders wore pedalling | - P & w © cars go down the North Market street hill, one after another, inside of as , many minutes, and these de not all run past the Presbyterian church. the original 15 teams still wete ON | pneso things are, of course, not pleasant and such conditions are to be around 'the saucer track at Madison Square Garden today, but eight of equal terms for the big prize in the six-day bicycle race and five teams hud a fighiing chance. sion of accidents and consequent dée- lays had left the contestants at cight o'ciock, 14 foiles and 1 lap behind the record. The score at that hour was: Eight teams, laps; four teams, 1,561 miles, .5 laps. Calvin and Wiley, 1,561 miles, 4 laps. f Just after eight o'clock Karl Sal- dow of the German team struck a beer glass, dropped a moment before by a waiter. - Saldlow - was thrown against the inside fonce and picked up unconscious, - He soon revivied and it was said he would be able to continue. n Champion Kramer, with a hurt left shoulder, and John Bedell, whose right arm and shoulder were bruised during a sprint, are in the worst con- dtion so far as injuries go, but bot) took their regular turn when called wpon by their trainers. For a time, just before dawn A riot seemed imminent. For the third time since the race began the man-. agement ordered the garden cleared so that the accmulation of rubbish might be cleaned up. About 4606 out of the crowd of 3,000 refused to leavo, declaring that their admission entitled them to stay as long as they pleased. The special police called in city patrolmen to help them, but the latter refused to act. Then the spe- cials seized several of the crowd in the gallery and started to throw them out, but their friends rallied to their aid and rather than precipitate | a general fight the management. de- cided to let everybody stay. Eleven O'Clock Score. The 11 o'clock score, the 83rd hour, showed eight teams at 1,621 miles and four laps; four teams at 1,621 miles and 3 laps and Galvin and Wiley 1,611 miles and one lap. The record is 1,628 miles and 8 laps, made by Halstead and Lawrence. CHRISTMAS SHP ___ BREAKS RECORDS New York, Dec. 14.-The White Star liner Oceanic, in port this morn- ing from Southampton, Cherbourg and Queenstown, broke all records as an incoming Christmas ship. She had on board 5,616 sacks of mail and 230 bags of parcels post matter, making 5,846 sacks in all, This is the biggest batch uf - mail - ever brought to this country, the previous record having been held by the steamer St. Louis, which arrived De- cember 13, 1910, with 5,550 sacks. Among the passengers on the Ocean- ic were J. P. Morgan, Jr., and family and Anthony J. Drexel. BARNES DENIES THE ALLEGED INTERV;EW New - York, Dec. 14t—Wi11ialfim ? ' 43 crowded hours. ! velt was repeatedly Parnes, Jr., chairman of the Repub-: lican state committee, in a formal statement on the political situation last night declared that the federal \government should not lend itself to a Gestructive policy which points . directly to a commercial panic, and to the lonz-continued prostration of . ._bue'mess thereafter.\ He referred to the uncertainties shrouding the operations of the anti- trust law, and made the statement in connection with a formal denial of an interview in which he credf:ed hore yesterday as attacking both President Taft and Theodore : Rooseveit. 'xo such interview on the politi- cal situation was given by me,\ he Jeclared, \with the exception of the following paragraph: \* 'i believe that great principles of | ',governm-ent will be involved in the con ing campaign which will transeend in importance the po- litical fortune of any individual.\ \ INSURANCE MEN MEST. New York, Dec. tion of life insurance was the prin- cipal subject under discussion at the moeting of the Tife Insurarcs Presi- dents' arsociation here. DAILY REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1911 PROBABLE WEATHER | or snow in south portion to- night or Friday; #now in north por- tion late tonight or Friday;. mode- rate winds mostly northeast. a PRICE TWO CENTS _. sa cels o nav enamels JOHNSTOWN WANTS THE RAILROAD The report of the special committee on the proposed consent to the Little Falls & Johnstown Railroad company, to be made at tomorrow even- ing's meeting of the common council, is being awaited with great interest. Johnstown wants the railroad. 'There are people who want it if it can run past somebody's else door, but Johnstown wants the railroad. It has been said that possibly one thousand persons were represented by those who appeared at the public hearing on Monday evening and offered «pbjections to the two routes, which it was then understood that the com- pany was considering. But Johnstown has a population of something over ten thousand, and while the other nine thousand would sympathize with those who consider that they would be afflicted if the tracks were laid fronting their doors, there is no doubt whatever that they would feel that | in this, as in other matters, the greatest good to the greatest number must decide the question, and would vote for the road. Every objection made at Monday evening's meeting was frem a purely personal standpoint. Not that the position taken by the objectors is to be wondered at in most instances, but nevertheless they were personal. Every man that spoke at the hearing admitted, in effect if not in so many words, that he wanted the railroad to come to Johnstown, with one exception, That one said that he was unalterably opposed to it if it fhad to run past the Presbyterian church, It is not the province of The Republican to The succes- | i agreement with the company that afW-ould in the main be satisfactory to 1,561 miles, 6 | | general is apt to be satisfied by splitting differences and giving and t’aking | of the Presbyterian church would be willing to shoulder the blame if the | in the controversy over the respective merits of the West Main street and - Amsterdam. With this end in view, the Chamber of Commerce of that city, \ ulation of nearly three times that of Johnstown, it can readily be seen that | gladly welcome it, and efforts should be put forth at once towards securing to secure it; as stated above, Amsterdam has already made efforts to secure criticise that utterance at this time, 'but only to say that if the apparent obstacles in the way of bringing the road up West Main street can not be overcome, the Presbyterian church would have company in its misery if the line ran through West Clinton avenue, for St. John's Episcopal church, and the United Presbyterian church, are so located that all the northbound cars on the interurban, local and Fonda lines pass them during their morn- ing and evening services. There is one time on Sunday morning when five deplored, but Capitol hill, Albany, and State street, Schenectady, each have churches and the railroad traffic there is much greater than it would ever. be here. Outside of the routes there is probably but little doubt of making an most persons. There are always some to find fault, but the public in in some details. The stockholders of the proposed road being local men would likely be inclined to meet modern requirements and ideas and agree to certain regulations regarding the removal of snow and the like that were not thought of when the other roads obtained their consents. The Republican has no inside information regarding the report that the committee is likely to make, and is glad to be able to say that this utterance is in no sense \inspired but it wonders whether the members railroad company should decide to cut out the city and join the interurban line at the White Sulphur Spring junction. The Republican takewo sides West Clinton avenue routes. It believes that the former is the natural gateway to the city from the west, and the one by which the road should enter. - But, it also believes that it is of prime importance to Johnstown that the road should come here, and that if this opportunity is not taken ad- vantage of it will Hever come again, and so it reaffirms what was said in the beginning, Johnstown wants the railroad. . Other places want it also. Read the following from last evening's issue of the Gloversville Leader: | ® It appears that some opposition has arisen on the part of some people in Johnstown to the entrance of the Little Falls & Johnstown Railroad com- pany into that city. It may develop that these objectors are objecting against something which might never materialize, and Johnstownians may have to make an unusual effort in order to get the railroad into their city. In conversation with a Leader representative today, a well known Glovers- ville man, who is in touch with the situation, said: \It must be remembered that the city of Amsterdam has taken the po- sition that the road should not enter Johnstown, but that it should feed in the early part of the summer, gave the question consideration and took the matter up with the valley towns as against Johnstown. It is likely that when the matter comes before the public service commission, Amsterdam will follow up its past efforts by raising every objection to the entrance of the line into Johnstown and will endeavor to secure a more direct con- 4 nection with Amsterdam. - When it is considered that Amsterdam has a pop- the arguments of the 'Carpet City' might have considerable weight. \On the other hand, Gloversville is and will continue to be a terminus of the trolley road between Gloversville and Schenectady, and it seems very natural that a western connection should terminate on the east at Gloverg- ville rather than at Johnstown. If Johnstownians are not anxious about having the proposed trolley line terminate in that city, Gloversville will its termination in Gloversville. As several of the stockholders in the new company are Gloversville men, that fact ought to have considerable weight. \To sum up the situation: If Johnstown does not want the Little Falls & Johnstown Railroad to come in, Gloversville does, and will make an effort the trolley and will probably continue to do so with renewed vigor if Johns- town is not up and awake to the situation.\ 1 WESTERN GOVERNORS HOMEWARD BOUND COL. ROOSEVELT LUSTILY CHEERED Boston, Dec. 14.-A crowd of a STOKES TRA IS NEARING A CLOSE MAY HAVE CASE BY ADJOURNING TIME. TO-MORROW. JURY % THE DEFENSE MAY ANISH TOBAY Will Attempt to Convince Jury That Girls Did NotShoot Until Stokes Fired Twice at Ethel Conrad, and That: Hotel Proprietor Ruined Miss Graham in Her Early 'Teens. New York, Dec. 14.-The trial of the \shooting show girls\ hurried its to dnish their sumining up in time adjournment tomorrow. Lillian Gra- ham and her friend, Ethel Conrad, and W. E. D. Stokes, the middle-aged millionaire, they shot have complet- ed their testimony. If Mrs. Stella Singleton, Miss Graham's sister, was able to testify the defense planned to put her on the stand today. Mrs. Singleton had been confined to the house since Tuesday, when she tot- in a long faint, unable to endure the strain of the exciting trial. The attorneys for the defense said would finish their final argument to- day, leaving tomorrow for the prose- cution and Justi¢e Marcus' charge to the jury. The defense will try to drive home in the minds of the jury- men these main contentions. , aat the two girls did not shoot Stokes until he had throttled Miss Graham and fired twice at Miss Con- rad. oe That Stokes came to their gpart- ment on the night of June 7 lagt, un- invited, and started the trouble by demanding letters he had written to | Miss Graham. That Stokes' record showed him capable of such a deed. That he practically made Miss Graham when she was still in her 'teens, a prisoner on his stock farm at Lexington and 'before she left forced to éign a state- ment exonerating him from any blame for what happened \to her there. That he fuined Miss: Gra- ham's life, and made improper ad- vances to Miss Gonrad. That Stokes had failed to make restitution of $500 out of $1,700 Miss Graham had given him to invest for her. Although both sides would Hike to examine Stokes a little further, his condition would prevent his appear- ance in court for at least two weeks; and the attorneys have decided to close the trial without faking any more of his testimony. Stokes' phy- sician spent nearly the whole night at the bedside and said, this morning that the millionaire had passed a very bad night and that his condi- tion was critical. AMERICAN SCOUTS KILL 42 MOROS Lanao, Mindanao, P. I., Dec. 14.-- Forty-two Moro outlaws were killed I hers this week in an engagement vith a detachment of American scouts. There were no fatalities on the American side. 'The battle oc- curred in connection with the cam- paign for suppressing organized brigandage among the Moros. The disarmament of the entire Moro population of Mindanao and: Jolo was ordered by the American military authorities three months ag ~, following a number of murder- ous attacks on Americans. Since that time the troops 'have been ac- tively engaged in carrying out the order. Most of the chiefs gave up their. weapons pe¥Meably, but there has been a series of sharp engage ments with bandits. among the Americans have been few. TEN PERSONS ARE STILL ABOARD SHIP Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 14.-Arriv- ing in Columbus from Pittsburgh at 1:15 this morning, the western gov- ernors, now homeward bound, were thousand cheering persons gave an enthusiastic send off to Colonel The- odore Roosevelt at the South Termi- nal station here today when the for- | . sombrero and waved his was | - : QUIGLEY SALE IS | peared before the board of health fast evening and after hearing him \ stated this morning that the 14.-Conserva- ' President | j Day of the Equitable L'fe Assurance j officer and plumbing inspector were society was the principal speaker. mer president left for New - York, bringing to a close a Boston visit of Colonel Roose- cheered, - the cheer leaders calling for the vocal demonstrations for \Roosevelt the next president.\ as they characteriz- ed the colonel. Although Colonet Roosevelt dil not make any reply to the cheers of the crowd and their calls for a speech he smiled beamingly, doffed his black hand - in seeming appreciation of the denion- stration. greeted by a reception committee and a program providing entertain- ment for every minute of the fow hours they had arranged to spend here as Ohio capital's guests. \The city's reception committee conducted the guesis to automobiles' and in them to the office of Governor Judson Harmon in the state house where for a half hour the chief ex- ecutives of the wesiern states chat- ited with the governor of Ohio and other state officials. The program for the remainder of the day calls for a visit to the Ohio | State university to ve followed by dinguer at a downtown ho'el at which Governor Harmon will act as toast- master. TO DESTROY ALL TO BE POSTPONED. Attorney John T. Morrison | ap- the board agreed to postpone the sale of John Quigley's property, for the satisfaction of a judgment of $100, for thirty days. Sheriff Vill sale would certainly take place on Janu- | ary 17, unless the judgment was pre- i Sliw.e Lazansky plans to destroy some viously satisfied. time in January all statements of ex- A contract was ensered into with ipenses of candidates and political Albany, Dec. 14.-~-Secretary of John Webb for a five years' lease of committees, filed up to Jenuary 1, ; the dumping grounds. A tree was ordered removed from the banks of the Cayadutta creek, near the coal sheds. and the reports of the health 1910, under the Corrupt Practices zet. The law provides that all state- ments, vouchers, reports and ac- counts required by the act shall be preserved for fifteen months after received. the elections to which they relate. EXPENSE ACCOUNTS. | Gibraleir, Dec. 14.-Ten of the | male passengers of the Delhi which | was stranded yesterday off Cape 'Spartel on the Moroccan coast are still on board. They ani the crow will, it is expected, be landed in the ecourse of the day by merns of the Rocket apparatus. | to the turbulence of the sea. The stern of the liner has shifted further . eshore and the vessel is badly strain- ed and Thaking a considerable amount of water. wear Admiral Christopher Cra- dock of the British Atlantic fleet has laken charge of the salvage opera- tions on shore. All the members of the royal par- ty comprising the princess royal, the . puke of Fife and their two daugh- | ters are repofrteil to 'be well this m-orning, although they are much ex- hausted. HYDE JUROR BACK. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 14.-Harry Waldron, the juror whose disappear- ' ance last Sunday night blocked the progress of the second trial of Dr. B. © Clarke Hyde, charged with the mur- der of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, re- turned to his home today pale ani emacipated after four days of wan- dering over Kansas. He was brought to court by Mrs. Waldron and at once went into a conference with Judge Fertoificld. Had Throttled Miss Graham and | close today. 'The attorneys expected | to let the jury have the case before | tered out Of the court room and fell | that barring unforseen delays they . The casualties | It is impossible for life saving ' boats to approach the wreck owing - , physician, Jw is fn ~ 4 10 BEEN PROBE FEDERAL GRAND BODY IS PRE - PARED TO START IN- VESTIGATING. ho of Ts Inquiry Into the Allegod Conspiracy by Which More Than One Hundred - Structures Were Blown Up and In . Which Explosives Were Carried into at Least Seventeen of th United States, Is Inaugurated at Indianapolis, Indians, Today. > Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 14.-After' weeks of preliminary work and preb- :2 ing by government agents in many parts of the country where explo« sions have taken place, the federal, grand jury was ready to begin heye> today its investigation 'of an alleged.. . nation-wide conspiracy by which ¥ blown «p and in which dynamite,. }] more than - 100 - structures, nitro-glycerine and other explosives were carried into at least 17 states,./ A detailed list of 100. explosions in structures erected by firms em- ploying non-union workmen, as fur- ~ @i nished to the government by the Na- tional Erectors' association, was pre- pared for the grand jury. ~ 'The list, beginning with explosions .@ of structural works in Massachuseits g; ang Connecticut in the summer of 1905, cites the damage dond up un- til October 16, 1911, and points out, - as~ indicating participation by oth-. ers than John J. and James B. Mc- Namara and Ortie E. McMan igal, that crimeg of this nature were per- pelrated in 17 states. sions began two years prior to the employment by the McNamarazs of McManigal, who, according to _ his | confession, blew up his first building in Detroit in June, 1907, \with twen- ty sticks of dynamite,\ and they ex- tend into the present year. several months after the arrest of the Namaras. 4 f There were two explosions in.: 1905, eight in 190p, eight in 1907, - twenty-six in 1908, twenty in 19909, -. twenty-five in 1910 and thirteen in ° i911. ~ They occurred in Ohio,\ ana, Hlinol#, Michigan, Pennsylvania, / New York, New Jersey, . etts, Connecticut, Maryland, Wiscon- } Washington and California. Obi The expld- /A Me- ., \ | sip, Missouri, lowa, Nebraska, Utah, . «$ with twenty beads -the list in the @ number of, explosions sylvania, fiew \York Missouri come next. After the arrest of the McNama- ras, explosions took place at Mount Vernon, New York and at Cleveland. i The last attempted explosion is. re-. corded in the list as having taken place on October 16, this year, ne&rt : Santa Barbara, Cal., at a bridge erected three years 2g0. was found nedr the bridge just be- fore the special train bearing Presi- dent Taft passed over it. After the explosions of the year ju preceding, the National Erec- tors' association in May, 1906, was °.; formed by contractors, who in pur- suance of a plan to maintain an Illinois, Peop-. ;: j 'Indiane | aud. \$ 5 Dynamite® \ \open shop\ employed detectives A9 investigate the dynamiting. The announcement that W. Griffin, chief of police of Kansas City, Mo., would arrive here late to- day, prepared to testify concerning various explosions in Kansas City, . ® drew attention to the important part which the confession of McManigal is to play in the probe. | Details of the blowing up of five structures in ' Kansas City-on December 24, 1908; April 29, 1909; June 26, 1909; Au- gust 23, 1910, and December 30, 1909-which resulted in the partial~ 3 wre€king of viaducts, buildings and derricks, under construction by firms employing' non-union men are in the ‘ -s hands of the government investiga~ ~~ 4 Bearing on these McManigal ° tors. in his confession quoted at least one of the dates, saying: ' \On August 23 I pulled off the Mc- Clintic-Marshall job at Kansas City. I did not see J. J.| McNamara, al- though he was in town at the time. From Kangas City I went to Peoria, IIl. J. J. McNamara returned to In- dianapolis on August 29th or 30th, 1909, at which time he paid me for ~ I told © doing the Kansas City job. him about the bad luck I had had on the Peoria and Kansas City jobs and he gave me h ; back the clocks that did not go off.\ The clocks referred to by McMani- gal were the alarm clocks ased by him to regulate the time for the ig- nition of 'the fuses. Attached to the winding key of each alarm was a small sheet of\ copper, so adjusted that when the alarm was released the copper in turning joined two electric wires which thus created a current and caused the spark that exploded the dynamite or nitro- glycerine. MAKE THE WOMEN SERVE IN ARMY Dusseldorf, Germany, Dec. 14.-- The introduction of obligatory aaili- tary service for women was proposed at a meeting today of the Patriot Women's conference, by Hefr Wet- zel, professor of the medical academy at Dusseldorf. The lecturer, who is a well known suggested that women should 'be enrolled in the military hospital transport provisioning and clothing services and should be mobilized with the other auxiliary troops in case of war. The proposition has been taken up enthus.astically by the suffragettes as it is regarded by them as eliminating any argument against the granting of the franchise to women. -E.) about not getting °-
