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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-11
MIDDLETOWN OIL CASE.
Standard Oil Agent Found Guilty-sen-
 fenced to Jail--AppeaIs.

Middletown, April 10,-Arguments in the case against John Boylan, the local Standard Oil agent, on the charge of selling an inferior and dangerous quail ity of oil, were heard this morning, and at the opening of court this afternoon the case was given to the Jury. The action against Boylan is the outgroWth of a suit brought against the Standard Oil company by Theodore White for ten thousand dollars damages as the result of an explosion of oil in lamp at his home in January, in wlich he was seriously burned and his daughter Goldie May, lost her life.
 The jury returned a verdict of guilty at three o'clock this afternoon, and Judge Case immediately sentenced Boylan to forty days in jail and fined him twenty-five dollars and costs. At torney Charles E. Perkins, Representing the defendant, filed notice of an appeal, and Boylan will be released on bail later in the afternoon.
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACTS
YALE ATHLETIC EXPENSES TO BE MATERIALLY REDUCED.

Free Tickets and Tutoring Bills to be
 EIiminated--PeriOd at Training Ta-
 bIe to be Shortened--Fewer Out-of-
 Town Games and Fewer Men to be
 Taken on Such Games--The Common
 Purse to Support the Four Major
 Sports.
 At meeting of the advisory commit tee on Yale athletics the report of the committee of the university council afd the faculty committee was gone over. Some very important changes were agreed upon, among them the shorten- ing of the period at the training table and the elimination of certain out-of- town games.
 No final settlement of all the matters under consideration has been reached. The advisory athletic committee has, however, taken definite action regard- ing certain points, following largely the report of the committee of the univer- sity council and in cooperation with the present faculty committee. Later action in some form regarding unset tied questions is expected. The points already covered are as follows:
 First, in the matter of games played After the present season two baseball games commonly played out of town will be dropped. One of these is the Andover game. Tn football no large out-of town game will be substituted for the game with Columbia A local game with smaller college will take it's place. A further limitation of out of-town football games is still under consideration.
 Second-The squads taken to out0of- town games will be greatly reduced, the number being limited to those whose services are likely to be needed, exclud- ing those formerly taken as a reward for practice. Fewer men are to be en- tered in winter track meets, and some of those meets have been omitted.
 Third-No student subscription will be taken for the benefit of the four ma ior sports They will be financed from their collective earnings out of a com mon purse. A season ticket transfer rable, but inscribed with the owners name, admitting to all home events, ex- cept championship games, will be of fered to the members of the university fer $5. The owner of such ticket, up on presentation and Identification, will be entitled to half-prioe ticket for all the championship games. This provis- ion is designed to relieve the students of what is really a burden to some, the
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WITNESS FROM PHILIPPINES
TESTIFTES IN BhHALF OF LAW-
 TER PATRICK.

Corporal Stanberry Declares That
 Jones Admitted to Him That He Tes-
 tified Falsely ut the Trial-AIso That
 Jones Said If He Were Sure He
 Would Get Only Light Sentence He
 Would Appear and Tell the Whole
 Truth.
 New York, April 1O.--In the hearing before Recorder Golf to determine whether Albert T. Patrick shall be giy- en a new trial for the Rice murder Cor poral Alexander B. Stanbepry, of the Thirteenth United States infantry, tes- tifIed to-day that Charles F. Jones, the valet of William Marsh Rice, had ad- mitted to him that he testified falsely In the trial of Albert T. Patrick, ex- pecting that the jury would discredit his testimony and allow Patrick to go free. Corporal Stanberry declared also that Jones had said that if he were sure that he would receive only slight sentence for perjury lie would come north and tell the whole truth"
 Stanberry was brought from the Phil ippines to give his evidence for Pat rick. stanberry testified that Jones was his roommate when he made the admissions
 District Attorney Jerome questioned Stanberry during this part of his evil dence After the soldier had said that previous to 1897 he had been employed by Rice, MT. Jerome asked:
 Did you believe that Jones murdered Rice?'
 No, sir"
 What led you to believe that Rice was not murdered?"
 "The life that Rice had previously led"
 You did not believe what Jones tes- tifed to?"
 1T did not"
 What did you think he testified in that trial for?"
 T did not know what to think. It did not seem that Jones was in his right mind.
 StanDefry Salu llldL JoHeS Hdu Iolu him that Captain Baker had said if he could get Patrick "Stuck on the murder of Rice" he (Jones) would go scot free. He said Jones told him he (Jones) lied and relied so that no jury would be- lieve his testimony, land he expected that he would not be believed and that Patrick would consequently go free. He told me afterwards that if only he could get a light sentence for perjury he would come up north and tell the whole truth
 John G. Blackman and Edward B. Mckenzie, two Texas witnesses, will appear for Patrick tomorrow.
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TUCKER PLEADS FOR MERCY.
Asks Massachusetts Governor to Change
 Sentence to Life Imprisonment.

Boston, April 10.-A plea for mercy and a request that the sentence of death now hanging over him oe com muted to life Imprisonment were em- bodied in a letter to Governor Guild written by Charles l.. Tucker, the con victed murderer of Mabel Page. The letter was conveyed to the executive offices to-day by Rev. Robert Walker, chaplain of the Middlesex county jail where Tucker is confined.
 Tucket, at the outset, asserts his in- nocence of the crime of which he stands convicted and for which he has been sentenced to death by electrocution during the week of June 10. In closing young Tucker wrote;
 T do not ask anything but a fair chance at your hands. My case will soon come before you. My life will be in your power and pray and implore you that you carefully consider the evil denee and see that justice is done me- I ask only that my sentence be changed to life imprisonment, because time will show my innocence.
 "Very faithfully yours,
 Charles L. Tucker"
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VESUVIUS DISPLAYS
 RENEWED ACTIVITY
STREAM OF LAVA STARTS ANEW AND REACHES TORRE
 ANNUNZIATA.

At Four O'Clock This Morning (NapIes
 Time) Dispatch from That City Re-
 ports Diminition in the Fall of Red
 Volcanic Sand --- Epidemic of Eye
 Trouble Breaks Out and Many Are
 Threatened With Blindness -- Five
 Hundred Perish in District Between
 Ottajans and San Giuseppe.
 Naples, April 1O-The volcano is re- srnling activity, especially at Cercola The stream of lava which started anew in the direction of Tore Annunziata reached the cemetery of that town and tfen turned in the direction of Pompeii,
 Naples, April 11-4 a, m.)-There has been a considerable diminution in the fall of red volcaaic sand since mid night.
 Signor Matteucci, the director of the observatory on Mount Vesuvius, states that new small craters and Assures which have opened at several points, are likely to contribute to a diminution of the eruption, as they afford more numerous outlets.
 The ashes and cinders which fill the air are causing an epidemic of eye trouble, and many people in the worst affected districts are threatened with blindness.
 5:3O a. m.--A great eruption of sand is observed on the east side of the main crater. This is worse than ashes, as 1t is heavier The election of ashes seems to have diminished.
 Fresh shocks of earthquake are being felt, especially in the direction of Otta- jano, somma and Nola Fortunately the great amount of ashes on the ground seems to have enumerated the telluric action of the shocks.
 Another part of the main cone of the volcano has fallen in, causing a great discharge of red hot stones, flame and bsmoke
 Rome, April IDA &ispatch from Ma pies to the Tribuna reports that five hundred persons have perished ain the district between Ottajano and San Gui- scope.
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PROFESSORS WIDOWS
Will be Pensioned Under Terms of s1O,-
 100000 Carnegie Gift.

New York, April 1o.-Announcement that the widows of college professors may be pensioned under the terms ot the $1O,OOO,OOO gift of Andrew Carnegie to the Carnegie foundation was made to-day by the trustees of the founda> ton. A pension not to exceed one-half the pension of a professor may be paid to his widow, but it will be required that she must have been the wife of a professor during ten years of his active services. The pension is to cease on her remarriage.
 It was also announced to-day that no pension shall be given to a professor who retired from active service before April IS, 1905.
 This was the date upon which Mr. Carnegie established the pension fund.
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RUSSIAN CABINET CRISIS.
Rumors of Complete Reorganization
 Current in St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg, April 1O. Rumors of a complete reorganization of the cabi- net are everywhere current tonight. Many well informed persons believe that the fight between Premier Witte and Interior Minister Durnovo will re- suit in the retirement of both, but that no change will take place until the pending loan negotiations have been concluded. Finance Minister Shipoff and Minister of Commerce Fedoroff also are said to be slated to go. M. Yermolof. former minister of agricul- ture, who holds extremely liberal views, is regarded as the most likely to be ap- pointed as Count Witte's successor in the premiership.
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NEW BRITAIN ELECTION
George M. Landers Elected--Was on
 Both Tickets.


 New Britain, April 1o.-George M. Landers was elected mayor in the city election held here to-day. He ran on both the republican and democratic tickets, receiving about 75 per cent. of the total registered vote of the city. Loren D. Penfield, who was chosen town clerk, also ran on both tickets and went in with about the same large vote as Landers. The offices of collector, treasurer and auditor were secured by republicans, as follows: Collector, H. M. Steele; treasurer, F. w. Clark; au- ditor, H. l.. Curtis. The election gives the republicans a majority of two in the board of aldermen, there being four republicans and two democrats. The election to-day was the first held since the consolidation of town and city. It was quiet.
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THE DISASTER IN NIPPLES.
Twelve Killed by Collapse of the Mt.
 Olivet0 Market

Naples, April 11.-When morning broke to-day the outlook was promis- ing for an amelioratlon of the condi- tiOns consequent upon the activity of Mount Vesuvius. The hopefulness Of the populace, however, was short-lived, and the Neopolitans were plunged into a condition bordering on frenzy by the collapse of the Mount Oliveto market, which covered a plot of ground 500 feet square, the structure falling upon 200 or more persons, of whom twelve were killed, two mortally injured, twenty four dangerously hurt and 100 less se- riously injured. Several of the dead were crushed and mangled beyond rec ognition.
 The flow of lava from the volcano, which had almost ceased during the night, recommended early to-day, and the fall of volcanic ejecta in the Vesu- vian communes has been enormous. It Is feared that the weight of ashes on roofs will cause the collapse of many more buildings both here and in the towns and villages nearer the volcano
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Shipping News.

New York, April 1O-Arrived: stamer q ermania, Naples. Sailed Steamers Graf Waldersee, Hamburg via Dover; Kronprinz Wilhelm, Bremen via Ply mouth and Cherbourg; Carmania, Liver pool via Queenstown; Pannonia, Naples, Trieste and Fiume.
 Sable Island, N. &, April 16.-Steana- CT Majestic, Liverpool and Queenstown for New York, in communication with the Marconi station at 1 p. nn., when 160 miles south. Will probably dock about S:30 Thursday.
 Glasgow, April 10.-Arrived: Steamer Furnessia, New York via Neville.
 Genoa, April 5.-Arrived: Steamer Nord America. New York Naples.
 Antwerp, April 10.-Arrived: Steamer Finland. New York via Dover.
 Naples, April 10.-Arrived Steamer Romanic Genoa and Palermo for Ponta del Gada and Boston.
 Liverpool, April 10.-Sailed: Steamer Caronia, New York for Queenstown.
 Brow Head, April 10.-Steamer Teu- tonic, New York for Queenstown and Liverpool, in communication by wire less telegraph at 9:30 D. m., 120 miles west; will reach Queenstown tomorrow morning at o'clock.
 St. Michaels, April 10.-Passed: Steamers Barbarossa. New York for Gibraltar Naples and Genoa; Moltkes Naples and Genoa for New York.
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STRUGGLED GOODS FROM
 THE BATTLESHIP OREGON
VALUABLE SILKS, MANF CURIOS AND EXTENSIVE CHINA
 SETS SEIZED.

Custom House Officials Pursuing Their
 Inquiry and Expect to Make Other
 fiscations--Treasury Department
 at Washington Orders Investigation
 No Decision Yet as to Whether
 Guilty Persons Will be Proceeded
 Against.
 San Francisco, April 1O.-smuggled goods of considerable value, which were brought to this city on the battleship Oregon, were seized by the United States government inspectors to-day at a local freight shed. Among the goods seized were pieces of valuable silk, many curios and expensive china sets, along with high-priced specimens of ivory.
 The custom house officials are pursu- ing their inquiry and expect to make other seizures. They have sent tele- grams to many places asking that sus- picious packages be intercepted and held until an investigation of their con- tents can be made.
 Washington, April 10.-The treasury officials have ordered an investigation of the reported seizure of goods brought to San Francisco on the battleship Ore- gon, which has just returned from the Orient. As soon as a report is received a determination will be reached wheth- CT to proceed against the offending per- sons or whether to let the matter rest with the mere seizure of the goods.
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ROADS IN 4 COMBINE.
Evidence That by Agreement They Di-
 vide Bituminous Coal Traffic.

Philadelphia, April 1O.-That the bi- luminous coal traffic is divided among six railroad companies was developed to-day at the first hearing of the inter state commerce commission held here for the purpose of determining whether the railroad companies are interested, directly or indirectly, in the oil or coal which is transported over their lines.
 Through witnesses it was brought ouf that the Pennsylvania railroad, the Reading company, the Beech Creek di- vision of the New York Central rail- road, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Ches- apeake and Ohio and the Norfolk and Western railroad companies are mem bers of the Tidewater Bituminous Coal Traffic association, which was organ ized in 1896. The members of the asso- citation, it was shown, have an agree ment by fhich each is allotted a certain percentage of the soft-coal tonnage.
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EARL, yorh oN EArE BILL.
Mir. Bailey Makes Notable Speech on
 the Measure.

the Measure.
 Washington, April 1O-For more than four hours to-day MT. Bailey held the undivided attention of the senate with speech in reply to MT. Spooner and MT. Knox, and just before it's conclu- sion there was a significant suggestion from MT. Hale indicating the possibil- ity of an understanding and an early vote on the railroad-rate bill The day was one of the most notable in the re- cent history of the senate. Very few senators were absent and every seat in the galleries was filled.
 MT. Bailey set out with the end in view of establishing the soundness of his contention that congress has power to deny to the inferior United States courts the right to suspend the orders ot the interstate commerce commission pending the final decision of cases aris- ing under the proposed law. This he undertook to do by citing innumerable deisions of the courts and quoting many authorities.
 MT. Hale announced his willingness to accept the anti-suspension amend ment and expressed confidence that if Mir Bailey would, on the other hand, agree to q broad court review, there would te comparatively little difficulty in reaching an agreement on the bill In response MT. Bailey said that he did not believe that review by the courts could be denied under the con- stitution.
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Yesternnr,s Baseball enmes.

At Ithaca-Cornell 10, Dartmouth O.
 At Buffalo CE. L) 1, Gin cinnati (N. L) 0.
 At Princeton-Boston (N. L) 8, Princeton 0. Batteries-Young, Linda man and Needham; Doyle and Cooney.
 At Louisville-Boston Americans 9, l IonisYiles 2.
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President After the Packers.

Chicago, April 10.-The Chronicle to- morrow will say; President Roosevelt has once more taken hand in the prosecution of the packers, and the re- suit is apparent in the resumption of activity on the part of local federal officials. It has been announced that the effort to punish the packers as in- dividuals is to be renewed with vigor."
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Election Expenses of Representatives.

Washington, April 1O.-It was deci- ded to-day that the house committee on the election of president, yice-presi- dent and members of congress would meet at sometime in the near future and vote on the Mccall bill requiring a statement of the election expenses of members of the house of representa- tives to be led with the clerk of the house after each election
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bud to Aetivlty of ereat sun spot.

London, April 11-AmOng the inter- esting opinions of scientists on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is one from Professor Belar of Laibach, an authority on seismic disturbances, who, in a telegram to the Daily Mail, attrib- utes the eruption to the activity Of a great sun spot,
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Action to Compel Former Legislative
 Agent to Make Restitution.

New York, April 10-In an effort to recover money which passed through the hands of Andrew c. Fields, legis- lative agent of the Mutual Life, the company to-day brought suit against him. His counsel, H. P. Volte, accept ed service in his behalf, and ten min utes later put in an appearance tn the supreme court. It is understood John B. Stanchfeld will be associated with MT. Volte in the defence of the ac- ton, which is for an accounting and restitution.
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eermnn chaneelIor Lenves ni. bed.

Berlin, April 10.-ChancelIor von Bue- low left his bed to-day and sat in a chair in his garden. Professor Ben vers says he will restore the chancellor to perfect health if he does not trans act any business for period, the length of which will depend upon the rapidity of his recovery.
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AssAUIrrD OMAN oy TRAIN
New YosIk Citizens Make Desperate At-
 tempt to Lynch Negro.

tempt to Lynch Negro.
 New York, April 1O.-Infuriated by a brutal assault by a negro tonight on Miss Isabel Oliver, a resident of Ala bama, passengers on a Ninth avenue elevated train made a desperate at tempt to lynch the negro, who was only rescued when policeman fought his way into the car and held the crowd at bay with his revolver. Miss Oliver was hanging on a strap in the center of the car, when the negro lurched against her, and, on her requesting him to be more careful, cursed her and then struck her in the face, splitting her nose, blackening both her eyes and knocking her down. Instantly fully fifty men rushed on the negro, raining blows on him and shouting Lynch him!' The negro managed to defend himself until a station was reached, when a policeman boarded the car and after hard fight dragged his prisoner out. The negro was taken to the sta- tion house followed by a mob of several hundred men, who were only held back by the pistol of the policeman. In the station house Miss Oliver sprang at the prisoner and attempted to stab him with a hat pin, but was disarmed The prisoner was a West Indian negro, who gave the name of Albert TrOtt.
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APPOINTMENTS MADE
 BY M. E. CONFERENCE
ONLY TOUR CHANGES IN NEW
 HATEN CHURCHES.
c. s. Gray Comes to Howard Avenue, W. B. Pauner to St. Andrews, E. c. Carpenter to summerneId and W. F. sIaght to westviIIe--w. H. Lawrence Goes to Hamden PIains--Bethany to be Supplied.

Goes to Hamden PIains--Bethany to
 be Supplied.
 New York, April 10.-The New York East conference at the closing session last night adopted a resolution request ing the pope and King Leopold of Bel gium to stop the abuse of natives in the Congo. The following cablegram was prepared and sent at the sugges- tion of Bishop McCabe:
 The New York East conference of the Methodist Episcopal church re- quest his holiness the pope to take into consideration the reports of the grievous oppression in the administra- tion of the Congo Free State, and to use his potent influence to secure an effective remedy of the same"
 The following changes in appoint ments were announced in the New Ha- ven and New York districts and the conference adjourned:
 New Haven-Hamden Plains, w. H. Lawrence; Howard avenue, c. S. Gray; St. Andrews, w. B. Pauner, Summer field, E. c. Carpenter; Westvile, w. E. Slaght, Bethany, to be supplied Beth- lehem A. c, Eggleston; Bloomfield, A. l.. Christie; Copper Hill, J. A. Osborne; East Village and Stevenson, w. II. Harris; Essex, J, II. Knott; Great Hill, to be supplied; Higganum and West Haddam, H. O. Gilman; Kensington, J. R. Rollins; Meriden, Trinity, J. F. Wagner; Middledeld, W, s. Manship; Naugatuck, c, s, Ball; North Canton and Washington Hill, F. J. Curtis; Pleasant Valley, J. R. Dickson; Rocky Hill and West Rocky Hill, A. A. Lan- caster; Seymour, II. D. Trinkhaus; Wa terbury, St. Pauls, M. o. Lepley; Windsor Locks, l.. w. Holmes.
 New York district Connecticut; Bantam, Woodside and Warren, J B, Smith; Bethel, L. M. Lounsbury; Cornwall Bridge and Ellsworth, c. A. Pickett; Easton, M. w. Beckwith; Litchdeld, R. r. shinn; New Canaan c. E. Benedict; New Milford, H. K. Patchin; Nichols, B. c. Miller; Nor walk, F. D. Torrey; Bedding, H. Q. Judd; Round Hill, B. c. Dahms; Rox- bury F. V. Bartley; Stamford. B. M Tipple, assistant, Frank Ream, Step ney and Long Hill, B, E. Case; West Bedding, John w. Mace.
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Transraars Record output of eold.

London, April 1O.--The output of the Transvaal gold mines for March was 44S,72S ounces, valued at s9,S24,O75, which constitutes a new record. being 12,129 ounces over the previous highest monthly output.
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STOLE seo,o FROM COMPANY
Treasurer of Wichita Stock Yards Con-
 cern Arrested.

Wichita, Kas., April 1O.-Edward Blackburn, treasurer of the Wichita stockyards company, was arrested this afternoon on the charge of embedding twenty thousand dollars from the com- pany
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President Sends Condolences.

Washington, April 1O.-The president has sent by cable a message of condo lence to the King of Italy upon the hay oc and loss of life resulting from the eruption of Mount YesuYius,
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"SLEEPING SfCKNESsD
Contracted by British Officer Sent to
 Africa to Investigate.

London, April 11,--A dispatch from Entebbe, Uganda, to the Daily Mail stated that Lieutenant Tullock, accom- panying the Royal society's commission to investigate the sleeping sickness, !" contracted the disease while dissecting an inoculated rat. He has been sent to England and it is feared that he can- not recover.