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CONCEDED EFFICIENCY- The efficiency of advertismg in The Republican is conceded by all who tise its columns. Try it and soe _ for yourself, vou. XXII-No. 189 n re nes MAY BET OUT F PRISON TUESOAY| - HABEAS CORPUS WRIT HAS BLEN ISSEED FOR MORTIMER | SCHIFFS VALET. , _._ dgmer Aorker wernt Bust t Grand Jury “m Investigate Case Nith a View to Determining if | Grounds Exist for: Indictments | Charging Conspiracy and Subordi- | nation _ of Perjury—Prisoners ; 'Case Already Before Two Courts. New York, Feb. 10.-District At- tomey Whitman took a hand today in the case of Foulke E. Brandt, the _ former valet to Mortimer Schiff, who is serving & thirty year sentence in state's prison for burglary, by pre- paring evidence to be submitted to the grand jury. The grand jury will investigate the case, Mr. Whitman said, with a view to determining if sronmis exist for indictments charg- ing conspiracy and subordination of perjury. - In' addition Brandt's case is al- | ready before two courts. f | A ree am The issu- ' ance of a writ of habeas corpus yey- ' terday by Justice Gerard will bring the prisoner tefore the supreme . court here next Tuesday morning. The writ was issued upon represen- tations of Martin F. Auberth, de- scribed in the papers as | Brandt's \next friend.\ These were that: Brandt's commitment was illegal be- cause it did not follow proper con- viction inasmuch as Blanit pleaded guilty to more serious. charges than he was guilty of. have the case reopened. Brandt has already served five years of his term at Clinton prison, Dannemora. - © l in the first degree, andi wast selitence ed to prison in April, 1907, by Judge Roswalsky for thirty years. He peti- tioned Governor Dix last month for a pardon, on the ground that he was sentenced to a long term for break- ing and entering Mr. Schiff's home in the night, a crime to which he says he was induced to plead guilty. though be dii not commit it. Gov- ernor Dix denied the petition and de- clined to reopen the case during his . term of office. STRIKERS® CHILDREN no or worces | pany of 150 children, selected from ;d3.y for the purpose of aiding the ' through, for the present, at least. The sécond 2¢- | and cheeks, but bright happy faces, tion was a notice filed upon Judge , 1609 children of Lawrence mill strik- Rosalaky, thé committing judge, that | ers passed through this motion would be made Tuesday t0 | forengon on their way to New York.: Brandt pleaded gullty to burglary | wil be assembled in 'one of the halls THE COMBES JOB District Attorney Whitman, who tinues to investigate the case, with the intention of bringing the facts before the grand jury. The public- ity which this occasioned brought Cisrence J. Shearn, Mirabeau I.. Towns and James W, Osborne, for- mer Assistant District Attorney, into the case to test the Brandt's sentefice and to inquire into its severity. © Petition to Justice Gerard. In his petition to Justice Gerard for the writ of habeas corpus Mr. Towns states that on \information and belief the prisoner, Brandt, is not detained by process or, mandate issued by any court of the United ment of a competent tribunal of civil or criminal jurisdiction.\ Warden Kaiser of Clanton prison, the district attorney of Clinton county, Attorney General Carmody and Dis- 'trict Attorney Whitman. On account of Mr. Whitman's attitude in the prisoner's favor a deputy attorney gegeral will represent the people. The next step in the proceedings will be the argument on the writ be- fore J istice Gerard at 10:30 o'clock & is returmable. If his parole is grant- ei Brandt will be rearraigned for pleading to a charge of unlawful en- try, which is a misdemeanor, or he will be tried for assault with intent dictment against him is pending. Two courses were decided upon by the lawyers for Bran lt. One was pus. mitting judge (Rosalsky) to open judgment in the case, and both plans ' were carried out, mnm an NOTED EDUCATOR BEAD. Chicago, Feb 10.-Ira W. Allen, widely known as an educator, here last night. For e'ghreen yea retired. He was a graduate of Ham-! ilton college, Clinton, N. Y. of Lake Forest university. He was $2 years old. h -. 22 gee Socal had urged the parole of Brandt, con- | The property was first offered in pare | legality - of ; 1 ° States or by virtue of a final judg- Copftes of the writ were served on . on Tuesday morning, when the paper ' to kill Mr. Schiff, for which an in-; the release by writ of habeds cor-, The other was to ask the com- he was head of the Allen academy ! here, which closed in 1892 when he two founded the Union Christian college | in Indiana and at one time was head | START FOR NEW YORK) YCUNGSTERS WILL APPEAR AT MEETINCS AND MAY MAKE STREET PARADE Efforts of Legislative Committee to Bring the Manufactrirers and: Op- erutives Together in a Satisfactory 'Scttlemont of Their Differences: Seems to Have Fallen Through- Guards Accompany Children,. Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 10 -A com- the families of striking textile work- ers, was forwarded to New York to- strikers. The young folks, it is said, will appear at meetings anl possi- bly in a street parade in New York. The children were assembled early in- the day in Franco-Belgian hall, the beadquarters of the Industrial Av of the World, and were es- corted to a train which left at 9 | o'clock.. | A féeling of uncertainty regarding the general strike situation prevailed here today. The legislative commit- tee which attempted to act as con- « clliators and bring both manufac» { turers and operatives together has failed up to the present time 10 ac- | complish its mission and it is the: general xmpresqion that the move- ment for a settlement - has fallen i Boston, Feb. 10..-With red noses city this Each child will be tagged with a pame and ad iresgs in New York and tomorrow it is expected that they in the east side. companied them. A dozen guards ac- PLA NI IS SOLD The Charles I. Combes job plant was sold in bankruptcy sale this | morning by Trustee Jerem'azh Wool of Gloversville to Harry Allen for $1,350. This with the mortgage of $252.60 on one of the Presses, would bring the sale price up to $1,602.60 cels, and then as there seemed to be no demand for the plant in this way, bids for the same in bulk were open- ed. The first bid was $500, male by John R. Walrath, the local printer. The offers came in slowly, advances were finally made to $1,350, Mr. Al- len's Kd, at which it was struck down. Aitorney Fayette E. Moyer, a % oton a THE JOHNSTOWN UNWILLING WITNESSES IN BATH TUB TRUST PROSECUTION | On the left is E. L Wayman, who is an unwilling governmen ness in the United States apvernment’s case against 'the Bath now on trial before a federal judge and jury in Detroit, Mich. man is a former Detroit man, having been an O0 Seamless Bathtub company, which falled some years ago. the government attorneys, he took the comm bathtub manufacturers into a trust. He is under $10 government witness, and his testimony is expecte est sensation of the case. On the right (upper) is Jo agent for the bureau of investigation, ernment's eviience against the alleged trust. country gathering convictions under the Sherman anti-trust law. - Below: Dtr Mahoney, vice president of the Cahill Iron Works of Tenn., one Of the large firms under indic case. Though a plea of nolle contendre bas he is present at the trial as one of the defendants. f 4 t wit- trust Way- ficer of the Detroit According to ® ission of organizing the 000 bail; as a d to provifie the great— \ seph -L. Darlings who secured most of the gov- | He traveled all 'over the the facts on which the government expects to secure ling is J. J. Chattanooga, tment in the bath tub trust - been entered for Mahoniey, 12m. DAILY REPUBLICAN SATURDAY FEB 10, 1912‘ ~ GQLD WAVE SWEEPS FCaAUSING -THE MERCURY TO DO | 1 twelve hours. { est weather in eight years.. | way traffic. COMMISSIONER WAD Albany, Feb. 10.-Commissioner Frank E. Wade of the State Prison conditions he found at a recent in- spection of police headquarters at Utica. He condemns the system of mingling tramps ani vagrants with other men under arrest. \The provision made for children under 16 years of ago,\ says Commis- sioner Wade in a report made pub- and unlawful. No accommodations representing a number of the credi- tors, gave notice that he would pro- test against the confirmation of the sale on the ground that confirmation is not usually given unless the prop- erty brings at least seventy-five per cent. of the inventory figures. Among those who were here this morning with the ilea of purchasing a few of the things if the sale was made in parcels, were Riggs & Hol- lenbeck, the Albany job printers. SWINNEY A WITNESS, St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 10.--The plaintiffs in the famous Kimmel in- | : surance Case were expected to play their trump card when court opened this morning by placing John Boone Swinney on the witness stand. The witness was expected to re- © peat his we'rd story of having seen George A. Kimmel murdered in an Oregon forest on August 14, during a hunt for treasure. - Accori- ' ing to the story he had told before the trial, he in turn killed Kimmel's slayer, to protect himself. Swinney, who is a confessed triin robber, ani an ex-convict, arrived in St. Louis the first day of the trial and has been in court every day. It has been ex- pected that he would remain on the \ stand throughout the day,. REED FOR TWO TERMS ONLY. Washington, - Feb. - 9.--Senator Reed of Missourt will introduce a re- ' solution next Monday providing for a died constitutional amendment to bar any rg man from holding the office of presi- dent of the United States more than terms of four years each, the | filling of an unexpired term to be re- He | garded as a full term. New York,. Feb. 10.-All grades of refined sugar were advanced ten cents a hundred pounds today. o 18%98,. 'are made for girls under 16 years of age. Whenever such girls are detain- - ed, they must either be mingled with the women Or kept in the matron's private room. The separation from adults both of boys and girls is not. segregation as is required by the penal law. \The city of Utica should prowde a place for the detention of children apart from its city jail. Utica re- mains alone among the larger cities of the state in retaining the de- moralizing and degrading surround- ings formerly imposed upon children arrested or otherwise detained. Butf- falo, Albany, Troy and Rochester 'have detention quarters for children separate from police stations, in con- nection with children societies.\ 'ERLLIANT BRAZL STATESMAN DEAD Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 10.=- Baron Do Rio Branco, minister of scores UTIGA PRISON commission severely criticises the | lic today, \is inadequate, degrading | [THE BUSSBHHER Trenton, N. J.. Feb. 10.-Shortly after midnight George J. Kerr, who has spent eleven years in the state's , prison here for his part in the mur- der of Jennie Bosschieter, the Pater- son mill girl, stepped out of the prison doors, was met by a party of friends and whisked away in an auto- mobile. His destination was sail to be Paterson, but that he did not in- tend to remain in that city, Kerr ' was dressed in a new suit of tailor- : made clothes and sat waiting in his cell until the stroke of milnight. He was released five minutes later, Kerr is fifty-two years old and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Andrew J. Campbell, Walter McAl- lister and William A. Death were sentenced to thirty years each andi aro still working out their terms though several efforts have been made to bring about their releases through the board of pardons. Jennie - Bosschieter - was - given driaks which contained drugs and following an assault it was discover- ed that the girl was dead. Her body was found on a roadway with the head crushed in. nnn GOVERNOR AN ARDENT 0UTD00R ENTHUSIAST MURDER RECALLED Te ¥ a PROBABLE WEATHER - out entire country. ing cloudiness. winds. Fair and continued cold throughs . Sunday increase | . Moderate variable © _- lass en ca & RICE TWO rnms' u THE ENTIRE GflfUNIRY w - SOME RECORD BREAKING STUNTS. Sections—Northern Part of State Completely Cut Off- from Refit, 'of | . Fassengers Suffer | Severely Un- able to Secure Food or Warmth tL New York, Feb. 10. —-—The ' 'wave from the west arrived in New.] | York today on the wings of a twenty | mile wind and within twelve hours 10 two degrees below zero This was ‘ a drop of thirty degrees within ~ The temperature ‘1'9- mained stationary for four hours | During the forenoon there was not a cloud in the sky. > \4 Railway Tmfiiexcrip‘p'led. olf Rochesier, Feb.. ~10. —Rochester and vicinity is experiencing the cold4> Last % below zero. tram 16 to 20 below zero, with the | ' thickest ice on small lakes in mem- ory of the oldest inhabitants. Train Service Abandoned. Syracuse, Feb. -The most se- vere storm in the most severe winter within the memory of the oldest res- idents of central New York. broke | at midn ght last night and continue; today The, northern part. of the state is enmpietely cut off from this | section by the storm. Train service . ~awbandoned. The north. camp all night in the train. way from Oswego to this city hai‘ a similar experience the night before | last. The train due here from Wa-} tertown at 9:45 o'clock last night; appears to have been lost. It was , at Richland at 11 o'clock, but has not been heard from since leaving that station. A blind'ng wind and snow storm here and the thermometers register from 6 to 10 below zero. Record Broken at Watertown. Watertown, Feb. 10.-Last night was the coldest of the winter in Wa- tering 22% below zero. The coldest mometers in various parts of the city and surrounding sections regis- tered as low as 32 early this morn- ing. Train schedules are more or | less demoralized on account of in- ability to maintain steam pressure 1 and by the snow which was sifted on- to the tracks by the strong wind. Printer Found Frozen. Chicago Feb. 10.-Gustay Meister, a printer, was foun i frozen to death Albany, Feb. 10.-Governor Dix in coming an ardent out loor enthusiast. Turing his recent stay at La'te foreign affairs in the Brazilian cabi- tes past nine. He was stricken sud- denly ill on the evening of February 5, with uraemia and the attack was so severe that he never rallied. Baron Do Rio Branco was proba- bly the most brilliant statesman in Brazil. At the time of his death he years as minister of foreign affairs. U patriotic motives as he had been ad- vised on several occasions by his phy- fclans to resign on account of his condition of health. Baron Do Rio Branco took a considerable share in the great welcome given to the Am- erican floet when it visited Brazil in 1908. - Pea\ ==\ meer net, died this morning at tem | had served continuously for ten He continued in office from purely | Geoige he took long tramps o'er the snow-covered roads and - was quent'y seen skimming down the to- boggan slide and across the frozen lake. With Commander De Kay, his mili- tary secretary, the governor walks from the executive mansion to the and return almost daily anl he frequently is seen skating on the lake at the Country club. An hour's spin in his automobile nearly every afternoon in the bracing winter air ds also alding in restoring the execu- tive to health. General Sir Robert S. S. Baden- Powell, who is to address a conven- tion of boy scouts oun Monday. will be the guest of the governor and Mrs. Dix at the executive mansion Sunday night. me we w wer an effort to regain his health is be- | fre- on a sidewalk today. The tempera- ture has hovered around the zero [mark daring the list twenty-four tours, but, acrordirng to the vsather | bureau, warmer weather is due. . Re- ; cords show tha' Jainuiry just passel was the coliest Chicago has experi- enced in thirty-Ave years. CARNEGIE HAS A COLD. New York, Feb. 10.-It became known today that Anirew Carnegie is confined to his Fifth Avenue home by 'a severe cold. His physician has erdered him fo taneel all engage ments and remain induvors until fully recovered. The fllness is not, how- ever, regarded as serious. Paris. Peh. 9.- Abbe Charles Loy- son, known throughout the world as Fear, after a few days' illnes‘s. =~ is raging in this city and all about : members of the exchange have been Pere Hyacinthe, aied yesterday in his I ~IVIOLET LFONARD- corso paiver regan to tend | | Railway Traffic Crippled in Many + \_ the World-Trains Stalled , and i had sent the mercury scurrying down -] 1 and the local weather bureau an- | nounced that it would hover. near . ] the zero mark all day and tonight. witness in the mysterious bomb case, night the thermometer touched nine | who is supposed to know something. A west wind, | spout the efemies of Mrs. Grace Taye» sleet before it, crippled street rail- lor, alias Walker, victim of an in- Reports from up the | fernat machine, . Genesee valley show temperature of 1 been identified as Miss Mary Curie, | & runaway Baltimore, Md., girl. tie ONE OF WIINESSES IN \BOMB\ MYSTERY Miss “Violet Leonard,\ who is & Miss Leonard has- | NTTORNEY FORO IAE - lon the Rome, Watertown & Ogdens York Mercantile: Exchange, an Or- | burg, the only railroad line between | ganization of butter and egg mon, | this city and the north, has been | control prices and is & conspiracy in storm has been | || restraint of trade are expectol by the raging north of here practically all | public prosecutor of the week. No attempt has been l members of the exchange arbitrarily made since yesterday afternoon to | fixed prices for the four hundred operate the trains to or from the | members of the organization. Tyrone Power and his \Servant fn ' these two men each day visited sev- the House\ company were on a train\ eral places of business of\ certain bound for Oswego, which became ' members of thehfilnae made \real stalled in a drift at New Haven last or pretended\ ing night and the company was forced to | 8 A train load of passengers on the P able. 'our EPISCOPAL tertown, the official mercury regis- | previous to this was 18 below. Ther- |. 1 000 members and includes among its BUTTER AND FGG MEN: New York Fq'o. 10. ——“Jolm Doe” proceedings that have been institut- ed by Assistant District? Attorney } Ford to ascertain whether the Now | to show that two The prosecutor said. tolay that ries as to the tate of the egg and butter market. | After. this inquiry a list of prices was osted on the exchange. The prose» cutors says thayt the exchange bY those methods has crushed out com- petition and that by the arrangement the members are able to buy eggs ' and butter at the lowest possible prices in the “flush season\ and store them and to sell them in the winter months at the- highest prices obtain- } warrants for the four hundred s asked for by Mr. Ford. CLERGYMEN RESIGN New York, Fob. -tv.-St. George's, the largest Protestant - Episcopal church in New York, finds itself sud- denly ealled upon to obtain four clergymen to fill vacancies caused by the resignation of its entire pulpit staff. The parish bas more than 5,- suprorters J. P. Morgan and a score of other millionaires and notables. DEMOCRATS CRIPPLE - REPRESEN TATIVES VOTE m ‘ MWE FOLLOWS BLOW AT THE Hm Chairman Hay's Amendment. Adoptet Fic opposxtion from the Repnblinan D4 the cavalry reg.ments in the ar ilt is provided that the officers \Ot: i cavalry or other branvghee of - f cavairy was authonzed while | standing the fact that it was not ' that 'the army, 18 implied.” ith. I the reduction in cavalryferce w t wonna he -NTOYS must? ABOLISH FIVE REG-IM'ENTS OF CAVALRY. \In the Interest of Kconomy\--+ Present Strength of the army is Thirty Regiments of Inland: and . Fitteen of Oaralry—flyubhmm Will Kight Against Any. Beauties}!- Washington; Feb. 10. -After bitter ol ' bers -of the military arrears Wmmi tee the House has voted to reduce from fifteen to ten. Tne efect this amendment on the army upma- prigtion bill would be the mMistering | out of service of 3.980 entisied abolished regiments shall be ret and absorbed into Otagr regiments T‘he abohtion of five regiment: Houge was in commitiee of the who 'The ~fight to retain the strength of the cavalry firm 7 renewed when the army bin , upon its final passage in the Iii) % proper. < Representative Hay, cha man of the military affairs comi @ | tee, proposed the change, not ¥ ried in the bill as it came from 6 mittee. The ° Democratic _ pretence economy responsible. tor .. «immendment proposed . by ° KP. The Virginia, representative a Ca . alfy, and desgite 'the opbysmq the Feynbliian sife the, Demo \ fg}} into fine Aid voted for the olition of five regiments. T’hw' was viva vote, as the ' steam roller. was \in excellent wq ing order. .Only a few. that at; Lemocratic House cane“, m f pretence of, economy, Fofedl tint battleships shall Be authorized at present session of Centres fe ° In defence of this sfashing ot the 3 army Mr. Hay asserted that in the 'British army tne cavalry is equal to:§ only about one-sixth of the infantry.'f in the army of the United States, he said, the cavalry is whout half the, strength of the infantry, a prepay“ tion which the chairman: of the « tary affairs committee considered tub large. It was estimated by Chairman Hay that the immediate saving fr p be $4,376,253. Representatives Prince of minois. Kahn of Galifornia, Butler of renn- slyvania, [Anthony of Kansas and B other Republicans attacked , the. Hz} i amendment in the strongest terms,. The present strength of the army is thirty regiments of infantry and %% fifteen of cavalry. The Hay. amend» $ ment, if retained in the fAikal draft - 3 of the army appropriation bill, \3 1 would become effective On July 1, /% 1912. . The Republican members of the House also were unsuccessful - in <. their efforts to obtain an increased: \ appropriation for the purchase -of. aeroplanes. - Representative Prince offered an amendment to increase the appropriation from $75,000 to $125,« 000, but the Democrats voted it Howa. Representative , Manu, the: minority leader, nude an urgent plea. for a more liberal allowante for - aeroplanes, declaring that thie feat» ure of the appropriation bill, abdve < # all others, should not be subJeeted to the Democratic pruning knife. He - said it was the most important ac-. B C RS- »e Nerious strain on account of the vast amount of work connected with the parish is given as the cause of the res znation of the Rev. Dr. Hugh ' Birckheid, the rector. Of his assis- tanis, the Rev. Gerali Cunningham, senior curate, will- take a church at 'W a; pingers Falls, near Poughkeep- sie; the Rev. George E. Norton will accept a call to St. Louis and the Rev. Robert McKay will also go to a westepn charge. 'Dr. Birckhead has recently been considering three of- 'another from Pittsburg and a third from the Emmanuel church of Balti- more. He will probably accept the latter. THEATRICAL MAX DEAD. ew York, Feb. 9.--\Ted\ Marks, thoatrical world died rvesterday after several weeks' illness. - Cirrhosis of the liver was the cause «f death. fers-one from a Cincinnati church, | one of the best known figures in the ' tion Congress coul1 take to improve >< | the efficiency of the army. The Unit- | ed States, he added, was behind other 'nations in the use of the acroplan® | for war purposes and should reduce other expenditures if necessary to in-. crease its aerial force. The majority, however, was obdu- rate and stood by the chairman of the committee. om DOCK TMPROVEMENT IN THE WINDY CITY, Chicago,. Feb. 10. -Docks to cost $5,000,000 are soon to be built by the city, a start to the realization Of the harbor plans. The common council committes on harbors, rivers and bridges unans» imously decided upon this yesterday. Although the entire council - must approve the action, it is said therg is no opposition to the plan and that it will pass. 11
