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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
MOVEMENT FOR BETTER PAY
ENTHUSIASM OYER HAT LETTER
 CARRIERS CONVENTION
President of National Body Speaks at Stnte Convention fin New Britain- Compensation Not Increased in Thirty-eight Years--Positions Going Begging Because of Meagre Pay--- Election Of Officers.

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 New Britain, Feb. PA great deal of enthusiasm in the project for in- creased pay for letter carriers was worked up at the annual state conven- tion of the Letter Carriers association in this city to-day, the movement be- ing headed by J. D. Holland of Boston, president of the national association, who in an address after the evening banquet declared that the compensation for the carriers has not been increased for thirty-eight years, while the cost of living has increased to such an ex- tent that actually the men were work ing at decreased wages. He said that this condition of affairs made 1t diff ficult for the government to keep up the high standard of it's force, while in the west and in some places in the east positions went begging because of the meagre pay.
 There were about fifty delegates pres- ent when the convention opened, and President John McElroy of Bridgeport made his coming address, and Mayor Samuel Bassett extended the freedom of the city. The business was trans acted in executive session. Secretary John B! Gossman of Hartford in his report said there were 367 members in the state with twelve branches. South Manchester and Greenwich were the only offices not yet organized, and the former will have a branch very soon. The financial condition of the assoei- ation is satisfactory.
 President McElroy in his adress rec commended that the president of the rla- tional association be paid a salary in- stead of depending upon the donations from the national organization. He also recommended that no money be pand out by the national association for any purpose other than that pro- vided for in resolution which Is first admitted to the convention, referred to the executive board, and then referred back to the convention for endorse ment. Both recommendations were adopted.
 The following officers were chosen: President, George w. Murphy of Stam- ford; vice president, Thomas F. Me- Cam of Waterbury; secretary, John B. Gossman; treasurer, William H. Sey- mour of Meriden. The place of the next convention will be named by the officers. Tonight a banquet was held in Vega hall. Postmaster Ira E. Hicks of this city was toastmaster. Letters from all the senators and congressman from Connecticut were read. Each had been invited to attend the convention. Toasts were responded to by Mayor Bassett, L. Hoyt Pease of the Stanley works, Postmasters Allen of Middle town, John Mckinley of New London, and George Randall of Rockville, Thomas H. Kehoe of this city and Mir. Hall of Boston.
 The souvenir badge of the carriers was made of two keys with a mail bag pendant. It was given by a local firm.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
PRICE OF SHOES.
Hanan Urges It be Not Put Up to the
 Customer.

AA"n@" urges IL pc Not Put Up to the
 Customer.
 New York, Feb. 22-The first days session of tae annual convention of the National Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers here to-day was mark ed by the election of officers, the annual address of the president, and the adop- tion of reports from special committees. President John H. Hanan, in his ad- dress urged that economy in the trade be practiced in order that the increased price of leather and labor might not raise the price of shoes to the customer. The adoption of the uniform carton Was one of his suggestions in this con- nection. The standard carton is to be put into stores gradually so as not to- embarrass the retailers whose futures now vary in size.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
COURTS OPINION ASKED.
Agitation Against Pool-SeIling in New
 Hampshire CrystaIizes.

Concord, N. H., Feb. 22.-The agita- tion against holding the proposed run ming races at Salem and the accompa- nying pool-selling, which has been fos- tered by the New Hampshire Sunday School association, was crystallized to- day, when Governor John McLane and his council asked the supreme court of the state to render an opinion as to the right of the owners of the track to per- init or countenance pool-selling, book making and betting on races.
 It is estimated that $500,OO0 has been expended in building the track and beautifying the race grounds. Andrew Miller, of New York, is president of the club and o. H. P. Belmont and Harry Payne Whitney also of New York, are members of the board of stewards.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
RIGID INVESTIGATION
 INTO DEATH OF ROWE
NEW HAVEN MAN MAY HAVE BEEN THE VICTIM OF
 MURDER.

Found Dead on Amsterdam Avenue
 New York--Had Been to the Elm
 City and Collected a Large Sum or
 Money for Rent of Property Belong
 ing to Alexander Mason-This Money
 Turned Over to Mason but He Is Sus-
 piciOus of Foul Play.
 New York, Feb. 22.-Acting upon in- formation furnished by Assistant Unit ed States District Attorney Alexander Mason Coroner Hamburger tonight or dered a rigid investigation into the death of Charles B. Rowe, salesman of 115 Putnam street, New Haven, Conn.,, who was found dead in front or p61 Amsterdam avenue to-day Rowe looked after property owned by MT Mason, in New Haven, and Wednesday afternoon arrived in this city with seY- eral hundred dollars which ne had col lected in rentals and which he turned over to MT. Mason.
 MT. Mason declared the circumstances surrounding Rowe's death are sus- picious. He said he was told by the wife of the dead man that there were bruises on the body, which, he was led to believe was found in an alley way and not on the sidewalk. The report of the ambulance surgeon who viewed the body and declared that death was caused by heart disease, was entered on the blotter, and no further investiga- ton was made.
 Coroner Hamburger has ordered an autopsy to be held tomorrow.
 On another page of this paper will be found a further notice of the death of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
SENSATION IN NAPLES.
Son of Lady-in-Waiting to Queen
 Helena Commits Suicide.

Naples, Feb. 22.-Prince Pignatelli Strongoli. aged nineteen years, son of a lady-in-waiting to Queen Helena, committed suicide to-day by shooting himself. He was to have been married in few hours to a daughter of the duke of Cerigliano. He left letter to his father saying he killed himself because he was skeptical about life, and another letter to his fiancee saying she would have been unhappy with him. The affair has caused great sensa- tion, both families being among the most aristocratic in Naples.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
Sbinn,ng Novvs

New York, Feb. 22-Arrived: Hellig- olav, Copenhagen; Algeria, Naples Sailed: La Bretagne, Havre
 Siaseonset, Mass, Feb 22-Steamer Cedric Liverpool and Queenstown for New York in communication by wire- less telegraph, 100 miles east of Man. tucket lightship.
 Gibraltar, Feb. 22-Passed: Steamer Perugia, New York for Marseilles, Ma pies, etc.
 Gibraltar. Feb. 22-Arrived: Steamer Arabic, New York via Funchal for Ma pies, etc
 Havre, Feb. 2g-Arrived: Steamer La Savoie, New Yofk.
 Queenstown, Feb. 22-Sailed: Steam CTS Merton, Philadelphia; Teutonic, New York
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
SPEAKS TO NEWSBoYS.
Governor of Massachusetts Urges Them
 to Follow Golden Rule.

Boston, Feb. Ex-Governor Curtis Guild, jr,, went to the headquarters of the Boston Newslboys union to-day and talked to the boys about George Wash ington. Several hundred lads were crowded into the hall, where the exer- cises were held, and the governor was repeatedly applauded during his brief remarks. After sketching the career of Washington, the governor proceeded to draw lessons from Washington's life. He urged the boys to follow the gold en rule.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
TALE INSTR UCTOR WINS
William KehOe Defeated in Two
 Straight Falls.

Waterbury, Feb. 22.-Before crowd which packed every bit of space in the Simonsville A. c. rooms Edward O'Con- nell wrestling instructor at Yale uni versity, defeated William Kehoe to- night in two straight falls. The match lasted exactly thirty-seven minutes O'Connell gained the first fall in thirty five minutes and the second in the sur- prisingly short time of two minutes Kehoe took O'Connelrs punishment with great gameness during the first thirty-tive minutes, but in the second fall he yielded to O'Connell's first hold. Both falls were gained by the use of a half-Nelson.
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WILL Nor ACCEPT BALFoUR.
Duke of Devonshire Provokes Debat.
 on Fiscal Question.

London, Feb. 22.-In the house of lords to-day the Duke of Devonshire provoked a debate on the fiscal ques- ton, in opening which he announced that he and his friends would opose to the bepst of their ability the proposals made by the unionist leader The duke added that he remained unionist, but would not accept a leadership which involved him with the opinions express ed by former Premier Balfour and Jo- seph Chamberlain.
 Former Foreign Secretary Lansdowne defended the policy of MT. Balfour, while Lord Goschen, the former. chan cellor of the exchequer, associated him self with the Duke of Devonshire in re- pudiating it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
ATTEL GETS DECISION
Walsh Goes Limit of Fifteen Round
 Contest.

Chelsea, Mass, Feb. 22.--Although lacking an effective punch, Abe Attell of San Francisco, successfully defend- ed his title to the American feather weight championship by gaining a de- cision over Jimmy Walsh, of Newton, Mass, in fifteen-round contest before the Lincoln Athletic club tonight. Both boys were strong at the finish, but Walsh was badly cut up about the face, while Attell was without a scratch.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
Will Plead Guilty.

Waterbury, Feb. 22.-When the trials of Edward Leonard and Joseph Cenes- ky, who are charged with murder in the first degree as a result of the mur- der of Farmer Lockwood last April, are begun in the superior court here next week, the men will plead guilty of mur- der in the second degree.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
THE CARRINGToN PUBLISHING co.
FIRE IN STATE STREET.
Blaze Causes $500 Damage in Cap shop
 Over Brooks S Company.

Over Brooks & Company.
 About $500 damage was caused by fire shortly before o'clock last evening in the hat and cap manufacturing estab- lishment of Zilbershes & Abenstein on the fourth floor of the building occupied by Brooks & Go. at State and Chapel streets. The fire was discovered by Car Starter Donahue, who sent in a still alarm to chemical No. 1 at 6::35. Upon the arrival of the department bell alarm was turned in from box 26, call Ing four companies to the scene. The nre was extinguished with chemicals. Considerable of the woodwork of the building was destroyed, and quite it. tie stock.
 Coming at rush hour, the hold-up Of the trolley cars caused little in- convenience, but this was soon obyi- ated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
MIsoUoTED, SAYS MITCHELL.
Did Not Say There Would be Strike in
 Some Districts and Not Others.

New York, Feb. 22.-President John Mitchell. of the United Mine Workers, returned here from Pittsburg this morning, reaching the headquarters or the miners scale committee in the Ash land house, Manhattan, in time Tor breakfast.
 After breakfast, during which he read the newspaper reports or the ln- teryiews he gave in Pittsburg recent ly. MT. Mitchell declared that these re- ports were entirely misleading, and that he had not been correctly quot led.
 q never told anybody" he said, that there would be a strike in some dis tricts and not in others. l uniformly continued to say in Pittsburg what said here that I was not in a position to say anything concerning the situa- tion for publication"
 President Mitchell said that the an- fhracite scale committee would consid- CT the demands 1t will make still fur Hher, at hte Ashland house, and that he will be with the committee. It was hoped, he said, that the committees deliberations upon the demands would be finished by this afternoon.
 MT. Mitchell will meet Harry A. Tay- Tor, the largest soft coal operator in Illinois, this afternoon at the Waldorf Astoria, for talk, presumably con- corning the reported combinations of illinois and Ohio bituminous operators against the Pennsylvania soft coal men.
 President Mitchell couldn't say to- day whether the scale committee de- mands would be presented to the an- thracite operators tomorrow or not. It was certain, though 1t was hopd, he said that the demands would be com pletely formulated to-day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
MILES, BRo4HER,s CASE.
Not Requested to Resign as National
 Bank Examiner.

Washington, Feb, 22.-Daniel c. Miles, a brother of Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, and for some years one of the national bank examiners for Mas sachusetts, who because of the failure to be assigned to any recent duty has been practically dropped from the ser vice, has forwarded to the comptroller of the currency petitions looking to his retention as an examiner. Comptrol- Ter Ridgely, however, has not taken any action in the matter. It is not true, he said, that MT. Miles had been re- quested to resign as was reported, He simply had not been re-assigned to any duty in his district.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
shayne's Remains Sent North.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 22,-The remains of c. c. Shayne, the New York manu- facturer, who died of heart disease here on Wednesday evening, were sent to New York to-day, accompanied by Mrs Shayne.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
CHINESE COURT NERVOUS
Possibility of an Anti-Dynastic Rising
 TO-mOrrOyy.

London, Feb. 2S.-The correspondent of the Tribune at Pekin says: "The court is nervous over the possibility of trouble February A. The president of the Chinese foreign board appreciates the possibility of an anti-dynastic ris- ing. The German legation tonight doubled it's sentries on account of the posting of anti-foreign placards at Tien Tsin."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
HOUSE WOULD NOT ADJOURN
Went on With Business Despite Wash.
 ingtOn's Birthday.

Washington, Feb. 22.-The house of representatives refused to adjourn in celebration of Washington's birthday, and it's members participated in gen eraI field day of debate on the army ap- propriation bill.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
DENIED BY MAYOR RICE.
Refuted Testimony of Miss GaiIlard at
 Patrick Hearing.

Houston, Tex, Feb. 22.-Mayor H. Baldwin Rice said last night that, so far as the testimony of Miss Gaillard in the Patrick case in New York yester- day referred to him, it was untrue in every detail. He stated that he was not acquainted with Charles F. Jones, and never, to his knowledge, had seen him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
Princeton Defeats Yale.

Princeton, Feb. 21.-Princeton defeat ed Yale at basketball tonight by the Icore of 21 to IA.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23
T. ". LAWSON OVERCOME
UNABLE TO SPEAK AT BANQUET
 IN PEORIA.

Travelled Half Away Across the Con-
 tinent but Found it Impossible to
 Keep His gagement-ApoIogize
 Gracefully to a Great Audience and
 Referred it to the Newspapers for
 What He Would Have Said.
 Peoria, IL, Feb. 22-After travelling half way across the country to accept an invitation to speak at the Creve Occur club banquet to-day as chief speaker of the evening, Thomas w. Lawson of Boston was overcome by the length of the programme ahead of him and surrendered to the lateness of the hour.
 He apologized gracefully to an au- dience which had packed the Coliseum to hear him, but which showed evidence of needing sleep at midnight, and re- ferred them to the newspapers, to whicsl he had given copies of his speech, for the message he had come to de- liver.
 The Associated Press last night sent out in advance the following synopsis of what MT. Lawson was to say:
 Mir. Lawson in his address took up the subject of the insurance companies and the system" with review of the political upheaval in various parts of the United States. He said in part:
 Chicago arose and surprised the world by turning out the organized grafters and political parties, and pro claiming for municipal ownership. Now I am no municipal ownershipist, but the fact that the people of the greatest city in your state found vent for their feelings in municipal ownership means nothing more than that the people spoke and in impressive terms. If 1t had not been municipal ownership it would have been something else, which only meant that they had begun to feel the fetters.
 Next came Philadelphia, where the people arose between night and morn ing and marched the streets in lawful mobs and drove out of their strongholds the most snugly entrenched band of political grafters this country has ever seen, drove then into exile and dis grace as though they had been group of mice pursued by an army of ele- plants.
 Soon came an overturn in Florida, notoriously boss-ridden by the Flaglers and Standard oil clique, when one man, a fearless citizen, Napoleon Broward, rose out of the ranks of the people, and in his begrimmed tugboat overalls stumped the state and was elected gov- ernor for four years
 Tn New York, the fearless Jerome, turned down by each and all the dif- ferent political parties, was elected with thousands of votes to spare.
 "In Wisconsin you know what La Toilette is doing with the people at his back.
 "These are but few instances of how, during the last twenty-one months the people have shown the spirit that is in them.
 MT. Lawson referred to the failure of the DevIin properties in Kansas, and to the peculations of Bank President Bigelow of Milwaukee. as system representatives, who stubbed their toes while speculating with other peoples money, in the game of heads I win; tails you lose" In this way MT. Law son led up to the exposition of his financial views, which are familiar to the reading public.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-23

Exceptional Interest shown-Mr. Knox Says He Does Not Expect Interstate Commerce Commission to Do More Than Consider the Measure as Afford- ing Light on the Question of Court Reyfew--DetaiIs of the Bill.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-10
BUSINESS CONCLUDED.
Chemists Elect officers and Adjourn
Sine Die.

The final session of the twenty-third an
nual convention Of the Association of the
Official Agricultural Chemists Of the De-
partment of Agriculture took place yester-
day afternoon in the University Hall of
George Washington University. 1t was ex-
pected that the sessions would not be con-
c1uded until today. but after the committee
on nominations had reported the officers to
serve during the ensuing year the delegates
soon finished their works
The nominations reported by the commit
tee and later Endorsed by the convention
were: President, ]. p. Street Of New Jer
sey; vice president, Harry Snyder of Min
nesota; secretary, Harvey w. Wiley, Wash
ington D. c..
Messrs B. B. Ross Of Alabama and B.
L. Hartwell of Rhode Island were named as
members Of the executive committee.
committee to take action on the address
of the president was also named as follows:
F. w. Woll r. J. Davidson, G. L. Pennsy
A. M. Peter, B. B. Ross, L. L. Van Slyke
and A. L. Winton.
In the closing hours of the convention DR..
Harvey Wiley made a short address upon
Definitions of Plant Food" after which
resolutions were adopted thanking the Sec
rotary and assistant secretary Of agricul-
ture for the interest they had taken In the
work Of the chemists. The president of
George Washington University was thanked
for the use Of University Hall and the man
agement of the Cosmos Club for courtesies
extended. The convention did not choose
the place of meeting for next year. leaving
1t to the members of the executive commit
tee to decide later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-10
RECEPTION AT CHURCH.
Greetings Exchanged at Mt. Pleasant
Conversational.

A reception in celebration OF the twentieth
anniversary of the founding of the Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church was given
last evening at the church. Rev. NJ. Ross
Fishburn. the pastor; Mrs. Fishburn and
other ladies of the church were in the re-
ceiving line in the green parlor
Services in the main auditorium were be-
gun shortly before o O'Clock. Rev. DIR.
Samuel Newman, formerly pastor of the
First Congregational Church, made a brief
address, speaking of the early work of the
Mount Pleasant Church. He commented
upon the small beginning, and told in detail
of the upbuilding that had gone steadily
forward since the start.
Rev. Mr.. Fishburn referred to the call he
received to work in the Mount Pleasant
section. He told Of his duties with Rev.
DR.. Newman at the First Congregational
Church and of his transfer to the Mount
Pleasant congregation.
Rev. DR.. T. A Jones Of Philadelphia made
an address, among other things saying:
Let us look for a moment to the Chris
tan Of tomorrow. The past Is behind. The
future Is before US. We must have prog
ress, and 1t must be progress along progress
sive lines
The meeting was closed with the benedic
ton by Prof. J. w. Chickering of Gallaudet
College.
Later a buffet luncheon was served.