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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-09
BUSY DAY IN CONGRESS.
CANAL, SANDOMINGO, SHIPPING
 BILL AND TARIFF

First Three Subjects Up i'm the Senate,
 the Latter in the House-President
 Sends Message Courting the Fullest
 Inquiry Into What Has Already Been
 Accomplished by the Government on
 the Canal
 Washington, Jan S.-The senate gave attention to-day to the Panama canal, the situation at Santo Domingo and the merchant shipping bill,
 The canal question came up in con- nection with a message from the pres- ident in which, among other things, he invited the closest scrutiny into all that had been done by the government in the isthmus of Panama. Mir. German made that utterance the text for q speech in which he criticized the sal aries paid for work in connection with the canal and urged congressional in- quiry. He said that the president was not so much to blame as congress for his assumption of control on the isth- mus and that the chief mistake had been made when congress released it's hold on canal affairs. MT Hale agreed with MT. German in urging an asser- tion of the rights of congress in con- nection with the canal and said that while congress had delegated the mat ter to the president, the latter practi- cally had referred the whole matter back to congress.
 The Dominican discussion arose on Mr Tillman's resolution making in. quiry of the president concerning the status of affairs in the island republic The resolution was made the basis of speech by MT. Rayner, which was his initial effort in the senate. He made an argument for non-interference by the United States in the affairs of other countries in the western hemisphere ex- cept in cases involving efforts to appro- priate territory and closed with plea for encouragement to the Russian Jews In their struggle for their rights in Rus sia, He had the closest attention both from the floor and the galleries and when he closed was warmly congratu- lated by many senators of both parties
 MT. Gallinger opened the debate on the merchant marine shipping bill pre- senting an extensive array of figures in support of that measure. He said that the entire cost of the proposed subsidy for the ten years contemplated would be about $40,000,0O0.
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PHYSICIAN TRIES SUICIDE
KNEW HE VAS MENTALLY UN-
 SOUND so WOULD END LIFE.

Graduate of Vanderbilt md Columbia
 Universities and Member of PrOmi-
 nent Nashville FamiIy--Leaves
 Statement Behind Explaining His
 Condition--Writes Few Words After
 Taking Poison--Leaves Body to Medi-
 cal school.
 New York, Jan. S.--Dr. R. W. steger, said to be graduate of Vanderbilt and Columbia universities and member of a family prominent in Nashville, Tenn, attempted suicide in the Audubon hotel at Broadway and Thirty-ninth street, last night by taking a mixture of chlo- roform and morphine. He was removed to Bellevue hospital to-day, where phy- sicians say he cannot ~ecover.
 Dr. Steger took the poison, after leav-, ing a note saying that he had suffered from suicidal and homicidal mania for years and that he could not bear the suffering longer
 His letter, addressed, Whom 1t may concern" follows:
 Sunday Jan. ', 1906, p. III.
 My name is Robert W. Steger and l am forty eight years old occupation, physician; place of birth, Alabama; cause of death, suicide by means of morphine and chloroform. I give my body to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of this city, for dissection. I am graduate of that school, class of 1893. I have not been mentally sound for several years, having suffered from frequent attacks of suicidal mania. These would sometimes take the form of homicidal mania and again a com bination of both. The attacks usually lasted two or three days, during which time it was impossible for me to sleep. The present attack has lasted three weeks. A continuance would be worse than death, so I feel justified in taking my life. This condition has caused me to do things for which l have been se- verely eensured. l trust my friends may now know that my mistakes have been of the head, and not of the heart.
 Robert w. Steger"
 Another message, probably written after the doctor had swallowed the poison and uncompleted because the morphine and chloroform began to take effect, was as follows:
 As I am sitting here in R 1T, as sane as I have been for three weeks, and ex- pecting to die in an hour, I want to say that the book of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde is none too strong. I also think -"
 The writing was firm at the begin ming of the message, but gradually be- came almost undecipherable near the and
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KEPT WOMAN A PRISONER
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST oF-
 FICIALS OF N. Y. CENTRAL.
Mrs. Landi, Whose Husband Was Killed Sunday by Train Backing Up on Platform, Declares She Was Held Not Sign Paper Releasing the Rail- road from q Claim of Damage.

New York, Jan. S.-Mrs. Pelgrino Landi, wife of the man who was killed yesterday by a train which backed over the New York Central platform, made a statement to-day that she was kept 9 prisoner at the New York Gen. tral depot for three hours yesterday with the connivance of the police, who, she says, prevented her brother from reaching her She claims she was held because she would not sign a paper releasing the railroad from claim of damages, and that she had to get a lawyer to secure her release. She claims that the railroad kept her hus- bands effects, and gave his body to an undertaken, and that she had difff- culty in getting the body from this undertaken. Her statement is as fol- lows:
 T was snatched by somebody from the cars just as my husband was struck. Then l fainted, and when I awoke I was in a room in the station. They kept saying my husband was only slightly hurt, and that it would be all right to sign the paper For three hours I was kept there, and the request was made again and again for my sig nature. I saw my brothers face through window near a door of the room, and I called to him to come to me. A policeman dragged him away. Then my father asked the police to make the railroad people release me, but the police paid no attention to him. They seemed to be working for the railroad. The railroad people also took the tickets we had to go to One Hun dred and Twenty street"
 At the offices of the New York Gen. tral an absolute denial of Mrs. Landis' allegations was made
 Mrs. Landi was cared for by em- ployes of the New York Central after the accident, it was said, as she was in a state of collapse
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Shipping News,

New York, Jan. S.-Steamer vader- land, Antwerp via Dover. for Naw York in communication by wireless tele- graph with the station at Siasconset, Mass, at 2:5$ D. m., when the vessel was 65 miles southeast of Nantucket lightship. The Vaderland will probably dock about 10:S0 a. m. tomorrow
 Lizard, Jan. 8. Passed: Steamer Zeeland, New York for Dover and Ant- werp.
 Glasgow, Jan. S.-Arrived: Steamer Columbia, New York va Neville.
 Havre, Jan. S.-Arrived: Steamer Bordeaux. New York.
 Havre, Jan. 6.-Sailed: Steamer La Savoie, New York; 7tA, Hudson, New York.
 Hamburg, Jan. 6.-Arrived: Steamer Pretoria, New York viz Dover.
 Bremen, Jan. 7.--Arrived: Steamer Bremen, New York via Plymouth and Cherbourg.
 Cherbourg, Jan. S.-Arrived: steam- CT Bluecher. New York via Plymouth for Hamburg (and procseded).
 Plume, Jan. 4.-Sailed: Steamer Sla- vonia, New York via Palermo, Naples and Gibraltar.
 Bremen, Jan. 6.-sailed; Steamer Neckar, New York
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Addieks and HallIngbOrg Love.

Washington, Jan, S.-Justice Mo- Kenna to-day delivered the opinion of the supreme court of the United States in the case of J. Edward Addicks and A. w. Hallinburg vs. the Cobre Grande Copper company favorable to the com pany. The case grew out of the pur- chase of the Cobre Copper company's mine in Sonora, Mexico by the Greene Consolidated Copper company. Addicks and Hallinborg are stockholders in the Cobre company, and they sought by in- junction to restrain the transfer of the property and of the funds of the com pany on deposit in a bank in Phoenix, Arizona.
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MRS. NORRIS HUSBAND
 ISSUES A STATEMENT
SEVERELY ARRAIGNS PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS
 WEES EXPULSION.

Declares She Was Seized From Behind
 in the White House Waiting Room
 and MaItreated--Her Only Thought
 to Do GOOd--Intimates that His Dis-
 missaI From Government Service was
 Due to Trouble With Representative
 Hull Over the Fathers Will.
 Washington, Jan. 8.--Dr. Minor Mor- ris, whose wife was elected from the White House last Thursday, tonight gave out a public statement in which he severely arraigned those responsible for her removal, denouncing the impo- sition of fine in her case as adding to her humiliation, and replies to the statement of her brother, Representa- tive Hull, of Iowa, regarding the will anl codicil of her father. The state- ment is addressed: "To Whom it May Concern" and begins as follows:
 "A woman of the highest culture, of the rarest attatinments, who has devot- ed her life to her home, her family and her ideals, whose only thought has been to do good, and who has always considered others before herself, wife and mother, has been seized from be- hind, in the waiting room of the White House, and maltreated, with a brutal ity which humanity would revolt at seeing 1t accorded to it's lowest type. The details of this sickening thing, un- nameable, are now known to the whole country
 Dr. Morris alleges that an effort was made to hold Mrs Morris at the house of detention until his arrival two days later, to make it appear that she was friendless and insane" He said that the physicians sent to examine her manifested their indignation, and that as 1t became dangerous to press the insane charge, she stands to-day re- corded as the disturher of the peace to the extent of five dollars"
 Dr. Morris says her suffering will not have been in vain If the larger pur- poses of truth and justice are strength ened in the community"
 His wife did not scream he says, un- til the violent seizure by secret service men surprised her with the command to come ons The statement makes sarcastic allusions to Assistant Secre- tary Barnes, who, it says, after order ing her removal, tried to defend him self. Dr. Morris says that the mental and physical bruises which Mrs. Morris sustained would be dreadful in any en- vironment, but at the portals of the na- tional residence of executive authority the pain is intensified a thousand times.
 The question of the disputed will is then taken up and the expressions giv- en out by Representative Hull in re- cent interviews denounced as forgetful of the most sacred relationships of life lin the hour of her crucihxion." The statement alleges that while the testa- tor, Mrs. Morris father said, T owe no debts," a debt of almost the entire es- tate was put through court, and that a demand for the removal from the war T ---, =
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GERMAN WHITE BOOK.
Contains No Sensational Developments
 fin Moroccan Affair.


 fin Moroccan Affair.
 Paris, Jan. S.-The German pamphlet, or White Book, on Morocco, issued to- day in Berlin, receives prominent at tention here The prevailing comment of the officials and newspapers is that the publication does not contain sensa- tional developments and does not ma- teri2lly change the presentation of the subject in the French Yellow Book. It is particularly noted that Germany has no French dispatches on which to base her claims, the German thesis being maintained by dispatches from Count Won Tattenbaeh-Ashfold and other German agents, who naturally present. ed the French intentions towards Mor- occo in an unfavorable light. Count Won Tattenbaoh- Ashold's dispatch giv- ing the sultans declarations against France discloses the perfidy which France had long suspected. It is the sultan's interpretation of the French designs to which Germany takes excep- tion, as the book fails to show that Frances own agents declared 1t to be the intention of France to make Moroc- co another Tunis. The strong language used against M. Delcasse Is considered to be purely retrospective, since M. Delcasse's retirement inaugurated a new policy of conciliation toward Ger many. On the whole, the book is re- ceived calmly and rather sarcastically, some newspapers calling it harmless libretto,' coming too late to affect the deliberations at Algeciras.
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PROBABLY FATAL ASSAULT.
Negro Fractures Ansonia Bartender's
 Skull and Then Rifles Draw.

Ansonia, Jan. 8.-Harry Butcher, a bartender in the saloon of Harry Cores on Water street, was assaulted, possi- ply fatally, by a negro, who, when ar rested tonight in Derby, gave the name of Walter Nelson, aged twenty four He struck zucher with bill Hard cue, fracturing his skull and then he riled the cash drawer of s13. During the afternoon DTS. w. H. Conk- lin and Bacon of New Haven came here and trephined zucher's skull, to remove blood clots, which were caus- ing partial paralysis. zucher's condi- tion tonight is low
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CHILDREN FATALLY BURNED.
Their Clothes Catch Fire From Con-
 tact With a Stove.

New London, Jan. 8.-Whlle left alone in their home in this city to-day, Lillie, aged six years, and Catherine, aged eight, the children of Mir. and Mrs Michael Mosni were probably fatally burned. The children were struggling helplessly with their blazing clothing when a passer-by who broke in through window and extinguished the flames. The mother of the children, who was at work in the neighborhood, was summoned, and in trying to put out the flames that had ignited a mat tress, was badly burned about the neck and arms.
 The children were taken to the Me- morial hospital. The youngest child was burned on every part of the body and the physicians believe that the eyesight was destroyed. There were evidences of internal burns from inha- lation.
 The oldest child was less seriously burned but is not likely to recover. The children's clothes probably caught fire by contact with a stove which stood in the room.
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First Presbyterian Church in Havana.

Havana, Jan. S.-The cornerstone of the Presbyterian church, the first Protestant edifice to be erected in Havana, was laid to-day in the pres ence of a throng of Cubans and Ameri- cans The edifice is made possible through an unsolicited gift of $25,OO0 by Mrs. Tracy McGregor, of Detroit, with $1O,OOO from the Home Mission society of New York.
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FORGED STOCK CERTIFICATES.
One of the Norfolk & Western Roads
 Received.

Boston, Jan. 8.-The stock brokerage firm of Allen Arnold & Go. notified a private detective agency to-day that enc of the forged 100 shares certificates of Norfolk and Western railroad stock, the discovery of which has caused an investigation in New York, was receiv- ed by the firm from a Cleveland house in the regular order of Business. The certificates which, if genuine, would represent a market value of $8,600 re- mained in the safe of Allen Arnold & CG, for four months, and the fact that it was a forgery was not known until New York brokerage firm had consult- ed the transfer agents in New York. Several other forged certificates have been located, 1t IS stated, and every ef- fort is being made to learn the extent of the forgeries and detect the forgers.
 New York, Jan. 8.-Investigation in- to the counterfeiting of stock of the Norfolk and Western railroad, was con- tinued in this city to-day, but officials interested were unable to estimate the amount of the fraud tonight. The New York stock exchange has request ed that banking houses throughout the country examine their holdings to as- certain if there are any fraudulent Norfolk and Western certificates among them. A number of the holders of the stock called at the Guaranty Trust company to-day for the purpose of hav- ing their stock examined, but no addi- tional commercials were discovered.
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Merlden Man pies of Croup.

Meriden, Jan. S.-William H. Baldwin died at his home here this evening aft CT an illness of less than week. Mem braneous croup, complicated with pneu- monia, caused death. MT. Baldwin was a staunch republican. He was a mem Der of the board of public works and of the board of assessors at the time of his death. He leaves a widow and one child.
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Favors Return of Canteen.

Chicago, Jan. S.-Rev. George D. Rogers, pastor of the First Baptist church of Highland park, H., suburb of this city, near the large military post of Fort Sheridan, published letter in the Evening Post to-day in which he declares himself without reserve in fla vor of the re-establishment of the army canteen,
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CHILD VICTIM OF EXPLOSION
Overturned Lamp Sets House Afire---
 Little One Dies of Burns

Middletown, Jan, S.-The explosion of an oil lamp in the house of Theodore White, 9S Hill street, this evening, caused the death of his three year old daughter, Goldie May. White, with his son Clarence, aged five years, and his daughter, Goldie, were sitting at the supper table, when the boy, rising from his chair, accidentally struck his head against bracket lamp on the wall, overturning 1t, and setting the house on fire. White, with his clothes blazing, picked up the two children and started for the door. In some man. her he lost his hold of the little girl, ana she was left in the burning room. She was later taken out by the fire man, but was so severely burned that she died two hour afterwards. White s burns were not serious. The damage to the house by the blaze was slight.
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President Confirms pi.mIssaI.

Washington, Jan. S.-The president has confirmed the sentence of dismissal in the case of First Lieutenant David A. Snyder, Sixth infantry, who was tried by court martial in the Philippine islands in October last, and convicted of charges of borrowing money from an enlisted man ad failig to pay the same.
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DECISION FOR EQUITABLE
Suit for Receiver and Division of Sur
 plus Dismissed.

New York, Jan. S-Judge Hazel, of the United States circuit court has de- cided against J. Wilcox Brown of Ma ryland, complainant against the Eauit- able Life Assurance society in a. suit for the appointment of a receiver for the Equitable and division of the sur- plus of the society among the policy holders. MT Brown was insured for $25,0O0 in the society. Judge Hazel in his decision says that the complain ant has no legal capacity to bring suit, and that no cause of action is stated in the bill. The demurrer of the soci- ety is sustained with costs, and the bill is dismissed.
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FRANK SHERRIE GOES 10 DEATH WITHOUT WORD MOST SUCCESSFUL HANGING EYER HELD AT STATE
 PRISON

No Hitch or Delay in the Proceedings---
 Last Words of Doomed Man Uttered
 Before Midnight When He Declared
 His Innocence of the Murder of Mrs.
 Kulas--Makes will Leaving $11O and
 Few Trinkets to Sisters.
 Hartford, Jan. 9.-Frank Sherrie was hanged at the state prison at Wethers- field shortly after midnight for the murder of Mrs. Kulas. The drop fell af 12;O6 and at 1922 sherrie was off, cially pronounced dead. The body was cut down three minutes later
 Speaking of the execution Warden Garvin said It was the most successful one which has ever taken place at the institution. There was no hitch or de- lay in the proceedings. Without a word Sherrie walked to his place on the scaffold He made no farewell speech, and his last words were those uttered before midnight when he de- clared his innocence of the crime of which he had been convicted.
 The body will be buried this morning in the prison graveyard.
 One of the last things which Sherrie  did was to make will leaving to his two sisters in Russia his estate, which consisted of $110 in cash, a watch and several trinkets
 Those who were present to witness the execution were the prison directors, B. A. Fuller, of Suffield. W. O. Burr of Hartford, w. c. Reynolds of East Haddam, Thomas D. Wells of Hart ford, w. H. Hall of Willington, Sheriff A. P. Dickinson of Holland county, C.. s. Green of the Rockville Journal, rep resentatives of the Hartford papers and the prison officials.
 Sherrie was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Kulas by the Holland county superior court at Rockville, May 4, and the murder was committed four months previous to that date. The evil dence against Sherrie was made con elusive by the finding of number of tlinkets among his effects at his board- ing place in this city soon after the crime took place. It was shown at the trial that Sherrie had no money for days beforethe murder, while at the time of his arrest he had a roll of bills and money, which Mrs. Kuas was known to have had. and which was missed after the murder. Sherrie kill ed the woman by striking her on the head with a hammer as she was wash ing dishes. He then robbed the house. It was a coincidence that Mrs. Ship pier who kept Polish boarding house here was murdered last fall in the same manner Sherrie had boarded with Mrs. Shippler and afterwards went to Mrs. Kulas' place to board, but at the time of the Kulas murder he lived in Hartford. The motive for both murders was robbery No one saw the crime in the Kulas house, but several persons in the village identified ShSerrie as the man they had seen on that afternoon, and who had left town on an early evening trolley car Sher- rles defense was general denial, and after his conviction his counsel carried the case to the supreme court of errors on the ground of errors, but new trial Was refused.
 Sherrie was to have been put to death on October 31, but respite was granted by Governor Roberts on the request of Nicolas Lodygensky, the Russian consul general at New York
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In the House.

Washington, Jan S.-With over four hdurs devoted to the District of Co lumbia there was left but a half hour to be devoted by the house to-day to tariff discussion This was utilized by MT. Sullivan of Massachusetts who spoke strongly for tariff revision from the democratic standpoint.
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Harvard Baseball Nine Begins Practice.

Cambridge, Jan, S.-The first squad of the Harvard baseball nine began prac- tiee to-day in the cage on Soldiers field under the direction of Coach Paul Co., burn and Captain Stephenson. The work for the next two months will be light, but considerable attention will be paid to the batting.
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15O Killed or Wounded.

Turks Island, Bahama, British West Indies, Jan. S.-Advices brought here yesterday by the steamer Cherokee from Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, dated January 6, say the recent fighting near that port was very sharp, of the 800 men engaged on both sides 150 being killed or wounded.
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LIST OF POLICY HOLDERS
Bill Providing That Insured Shall Have
 Access at All Times.

Boston, Jan, S-A bill providing that policy holders in life insurance compan- ies shall have access at all time to the list of policyholders in said companies was filed in the Massachusetts house to-day.
 An investigation of companies or in dividuals, receiving deposits or savings, but not being surrounded by the same restrictions and the same system of control as saving banks, was provided for under an order also introduced.
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LaiOie to Captain Cleveland.

Cleveland, Jan. S.-Napoleon Lejoie to-day signed a contract to manage, captain and play second base for the Cleveland American league team for the season of 1906.