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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
COMMITTEE KNEW OF TT.
Two Weeks Ago Had Information Thnt
 Negro Wished to Confess.

Two Weeks Ago Had Information That
 Negro Wished to Confess.
 Washington March IT, Senator Over- man of North Dakota, who is a mem Der of the senate committee on tlili- tary affairs, which is Investigating the shooting up of the town of Browns vile, Texas, when shown the dispatch from Galveston, telling of the alleged confession of discharged negro sol- dier, said that the committee received information two weeks ago that a for mer member of the 25th infantry had expressed willingness to make a full confession if he could receive some as- surance from the government that he would be protected. Senator Cverman says that this information was for warded to Secretary Taft with the sug- gestion that it be investigated by the war department
 "All the discharged troops who tell the truth about the affair" said tho senator, Twill certainly be protected by the government"
 Neither the senate committee on nlil- itary affairs, nor the war department has received any official report regard ing the alleged confession of the dis charged negro soldier.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
RELIGION HALL FIRE
 10 BE INVESTIGATED
CORONER ASKS ASSISTANCE OF THE PROSECUTOR IN THE
 INQUIRY.

Many Conflicting Stories Reach the
 Former From Both Members of Up-
 ton SincIair's Colony and Outsiders
 Numerous Persons Declare the Fire
 Mysterious in It's OrIgin--COuld Not
 Have Been Discovered ut Once After
 It Started.
 Englewood, N. J., March 17-Coroner Lees has requested Prosecutor Koes- ter to assist him in the investigation and inquest which is to follow the de- struction by fire yesterday of Upton Sinclair's Helicon hall. The coroner has called a jury headed by Mayor Mcdonald Mackay, and the proceedings will probably begin on Thursdty. The death of Lester Briggs caused the in quest.
 Coroner Lees said to-day: 50 many conflicting stories have reached me from both members of the colony and outsiders, that I deem 1t my duty to go into the matter most fully and as- certain the facts, if that is possible, and because of that I have asked the prosecutor to be present and question the witnesses who will be called. have constables running down the stories that have been circulated, and the tellers will be summoned to testi- fy.
 Many persons declare the fire nlys- terious in it's origin, and the various rumors that arise out of those stories and conjectures will be sifted.
 That the fire was discovered imme- diately after 1t had started seems very unlikely. There were men in the building who reached it about O clock, and some of them are said to recall having heard peculiar noises below their rooms for some time before the fire broke out"
 Mrs. Grace McGowan Cook and Miss Alice McGowan, who were injured by leaping from the burning building, are still in a serious condition. The oth- CTS who were burned are doing well.
 The members of the colony seem in- clined to continue the experiment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
QUIET SUNDAY FOR YHAW
SLEEPS UNTIL LATE AND DOES
 NOT ATTEND CHAPEL,

Visited in the Afternoon by Laweyr
 O'ReiIIy - Former SchooImate at
 Wooster University in Ohio Sets
 Forth the Injustice of Stories Sent
 Out About the Accused When Att
 tending There--ColIege Escapades
 and Jokes Exaggerated Into Crimes.
 New York, March H.-Harry K. Thaw spent quiet Sunday in the Tombs. He slept until late, and then finished out the morning in reading the newspapers. He did not attend the services in the chapel.
 At o'clock this afternoon Lawyer Dan O'Reilly visited Thaw and helped prepare in duplicate a statement sent from Llewellyn GillilandSof of avn Vert, Ohio, in which the latter. denounees as an injustice the stories which he says were sent out last summer from Woos- ter, Ohio, where Thaw and he were schoolmates at the Wooster university.
 As Mir. O'Reilly was leaving the Tombs he gave out copies of the state- ment sent on by MT. Gilliland, who signed note to the effect that the in- teryiew was authentic.
 Mir, Gilliland says;
 "The college escapades of a man whose life is regarded as a success are looked upon by the world as good jokes; let the same man afterwards fall from grace, and those same pranks are regarded as crimes, and thus it is that the escapades of Harry Thaw, who is now undergoing trial in New York for the staying of Stanford White last summer on the roof of that architects most famous structure, are being depicted as criminal and that Thaw's career as such was begun while lad in knee trousers in his early col lege days at Wooster, O."
 MT. GiIliland, at considerable length, reviews Thaw's school life, pointing out that Thaw has been credited with many pranks in which he never par tlcipated, and that as matter of fact the prisoners life at Wooster was in every way praiseworthy
 It is now said to be definitely settled by the lawyers defending Thaw that there will be no cross-examination of the six experts retained by the state, all of whom pronounced as their opin- ion that Thaw's sanity, when he killed Stanford White, was established be- yond question by the facts presented to them in the district attorneys hypo- tactical question.
 This announcement was generally re- garded as victory for Dolphin M Del mas, the one lawyer for Thaw, who, it is said, insisted from the first that Jerome's experts should not be ques- toned at all by the defense.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
JOHN DLLLoN'S PROPHECY.
Irishmen May Yet See John Redmond
 Premier of Ireland.

Wolverhampton, England, March IT, Speaking at an Irish demonstration here to-day John Dillon asked the young men to sit at the feet of Generals Botha and Delarey. He said the South African people had conquered their conquerors. Both was now a minister of the crown (being premier and min ister of native affairs of the Trans vaaD, and that Irishmen might see the time when John Redmond would be the premier of Ireland. He said that he believed that nthe victory of the Boers the Irish policy had been vindicated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
ALLEGED CONFESSION IN
 THE BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR
DISCHARGED NEGRO SOLDIER TELLS STORY TO TWo GAL-
 WESTON REPORTERS.

According to Him the Outrage was
 No Premeditated-The Result of nm
 Injury Done One of the Soldiers bv
 White Man About Half m Hour
 Before the shooting Upr of the
 Town Occurred--Negro Got His RiHe
 to Go Out and XIII His AssaiIant and
 Others Joined Him to Wipe Out Old
 Scores.
 Galveston, Tex, March 17-The Gal- weston News to-day printed the slleg- ed confession of dicharged negro sol- dier in explanation of the midnight riot of negro soldiers of the Twenty-afth infantry who "shot up" Brownsville, Texas, on August IS, 1906. The News story says a statement was made by one of the discharged negro soldiers to two reporters, and that after seven months of investigation by the author ities of the United States what ap- pears to be the true version of the riot has come to light. The discharged sol dier admits that he participated in the riot. This man has been living in Gal weston since he and many others of the Twenty-ffth infantry were dis charged without honor by order of President Roosevelt from the military service.
 According to the alleged statement the outrage was not premeditated but was the result of an alleged injury done one of the soldiers by a white man in Brownville about half an hour before the riot started. The negro, the story says was struck by the white man at a resort in Brownsville. The negro re- turning to the barracks, seized his rife and announced that he was going to kill his assailant. Several other soi- dierS promptly volunteered to go along to wipe out old scores against white citizens on account of injuries they had suffered. They returned to the barracks after committing the assault on the town, and many soldiers assist ed in the hurried cleaning of the guns for the inspection which followed soon after the shooting ceased.
 According to the alleged confession, the soldiers from only one company of the Twenty infantry participate ed in the riot, although nearly an en- tire battalion, later discharged, knew the soldiers who had done the shoot ing.
 Many of the negroes belonging to this battalion enlisted in Galveston during the summer of 1905, and return ed to the city after being discharged. The returned soldiers, 1t is said, were advised by negro politicians to avoid newspaper men, but two reporters fin- ally procured the alleged confession through the fact that the negro con oluded that they were United States secret service detectives and let the se- cret out.
 The man who talked to the reporters said his name was D. c. Gray. and that he was formerly private in Go. B of the Twenty-fifth infantry.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
HOW A MULE STARTED WAR
DETAILS OF NEGOTIATIONS BE- TWEEN NICARAGUA-HONDURAS.

Troops of Stealing the Animal From
 SenOr SalgadO, Who Lives in Hon-
 duran Territory--Other Questions In- jected Into the Dispute and Hostili-
 ties Are Precipitated.
 Washington, March T.-One mule--a mule belonging to Senor Ireneo Salgado was the chief object of dispute be- tween Nicaragua and Honduras when they began the quarrel which finally ended in the war that Is threatening the peace of all Central America, ac- cording to the official communications exchanged by the ministers of foreign affairs for the two republics, copies of which communications have been re- ceived in Washington.
 The controversy began when Senor Augusta c. Coello, the Honduran min ister for foreign affairs, wrote a note to Senor Jose D. Gemaz, the Nicara- guan minister for foreign affairs, on January 26, protesting against the theft of mule from Ireneo Salgado by thir- ty-five NicNraguan cavalrymen, who were charged with entering Honduran territory.
 In reply. Senor Gamez said the Nic- araguans did not quite enter Honduras, although they passed near to the little town of Los Manos in that republic. The taking of the mule was not denied, but Senor Gamez insisted in his letter that Salgado was not Honduran citi- zen, but a Nicaraguan, who had to leave that country because of the part he played In revolution two years be- fore. Consequently Nicaragua main tained that Honduras had no right to fly to the defense of Salgados mule.
 This note brought a spirited reply from Honduras the minister for for eign affairs, announcing that Ireneo Salgado, the Nicaraguan refugee, was living in Tegucigalpa, engaged in trade | there, while a man by the same name, most reputable and respected farmer, a Honduran of unquestioned citizen ship, lived at Los Manos and owned the much-rnooted mule.
 Nicaragua replied that it was true | that Colonel Juan I. Rocha, who com manded party of cavalrymen, took a mule near Las Manos, but reiterated that the animal was not taken in Hon. duran territory. Dispatches grew long CT as the controversy waxed warmer. Other questions arose. Then the arbi- tration tribunal was opened and finally the break came when President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, withdrew his member of the board of arbitration, and war be- tween Honduras and Nicaragua actual ly began.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
WITH GREAT DISPLAY,
New American Minister to Italy Driven
 to the Guirinal.

Rome, March 17.-At noon to-day three gorgeous, gala Berlins with out riders and hunkeys, and the court mas ters of ceremonies, Duke Cito and Count Tazzoni, went to the Del Drago palace, and conveyed Lloyd c. GTis- com, the new United States ambassa- dor, and the personnel of the embassy to the Quirinal. Arriving there the par ty was met by Count Gianotti, the pre- feet of the palace, who introduced the ambassador to Victor Emmanuel Aft CT Mir. Griscom had presented his cre- dentials the king conversed with him cordially for half an hour, speaking English His majesty exhibited great interest in economic and political con- ditions in the United States, and ex- pressed pleasure at the approaching visit to Rome of Mrs. Douglas Robin son, sister of President Cleveland. MT. Griscom presented the members of the embassy staff to the king.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
LOST AT SEA.
Hamburg-AmerIcan Liner Sights the
 SIxuld--Abandoned by Crew.

Hamburg-AmerIcan Liner Sights the
 SIxuld--Abandoned by Crew.
 New York, March 17-The loss at sea of the Norwegian steamer skuld while bound from Philadelphia to Rotterdam, was reported to-day by the officers of the steamer Bosnia of the Hamburg American line, which ar rived to-day from Hamburg. The Bos- mia sighted the Skuld lying on her beam S end in latitude ALA north, and longitude 54.10 east, about 150 miles south of the island of Miquelon on March 13. Her crew had evidently abandoned her and 1t was believed by the Bosnia's officers tbat they were taken off by some vessel which sighted her before the Bosnia. It is believed that the Skuld was upset during one of the heavy gales reported by steam CTS during the last two weeks. As she is a freight steamer running on no line, but picking up freights wherever they offer, it is believed that she carried no passengers.
 The position of the derelict is in the pathway of the transatlantic liners, and is regarded as dangerous to the steamers crossing the ocean.
 The skuld is of 1,132 tons, is 265 feet in length, halls from Tonsberg, Nor- way, and is owned by Otto Thoresen.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
GREAT DAMAGE CAUSED.
Explosion of 25O Pounds of Dynamite
 on Cincinnati Hospital Site.

Cincinnati, O., March T.-By the ex- plosion of 25O pounds of dynamite in a shack on the site of the new city hospital in Avondale, a residence quar- ter, early to-day, enormous damage was done to nearby residences and buildings People all over the city and suburbs were awakened by the concus- sion. All glass within half a mile was broken, neighboring store fronts were blown out, sewers disconnected and chimneys shaken down. The German Old Mems home and the Jewish hospi- tai, the largest buildings near the ex- pIosion both suffered seiously
 The cause of the explosion is un- known, but number of men recently discharged by the hospital contractors are said to have made threats.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
NOT TO BOOM TAFT.

Denial of Published Statements Re-
 garding White House Conference
 Washington, March 17-Secretary Loeb tonight denied published state- ments that the White house conference yesterday in which Governor Deneen and Attorney General Stead participant ed, was for the purpose of promoting the candidacy of Secretary Taft for the presidency. The story originated, it is said, from the fact that Secretary Taft and his brother, Charles P. Taft, of Cincinnati, called at the executive office while the president was in con ference with the Illinois officials and were introduced to the presidents visi- tors. The only reference made to poli- tics during the conference was that the president asked Governor Deneen re- garding the mayority fight in Chicago.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
TERRIBLE MASSACRE OF JEWS.
Roumanfan Town Totally Destroyed
 Jewish Population Ruined.


 Jewish Population Ruined. New York, March TIA Jewish morn ing paper tonight received the follow ing cablegram from Podihilo near Jas sy, Roumania:
 Terrible massacre since last Thurs day. Town totally destroyed. All Jew ish population are ruined and houses pillaged. We ask help. Marcus Getzel,
 ''Elias Solomon.
 "Shje sterberg." The names signed to the eablegran are said to be those of leading mer- chants of Podihilo. It is place of about 5000 inhabitants, 4,OOO of whom are Jews. Podihilo is only about thir- ty miles from Kishineff, which is in Bessarabia, across the Russian from tier.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
GIFT OF FIFTY MILLION
 ID CITY OF NEW YORK
REPORT THAT JOHN D. ROOKIE TELLER PROPOSES TO MAKE
 ONE SOON.

Partly for Education and Partly for
 Charity-COnferred With His Son at
 Lakewood, N. J., Recently on the
 Subject of His WilI-DOcument, 1t is
 Said, Will Astonish the World
 Quarter of Billion to be Left for
 The Purpose Cited Above.
 New York, March 17.-According to a member of John D. Rockefeller, jr. s, Bible class, and who is also a personal friend of John D. Rockefeller, and In a position to know of his affairs, the latter proposes soon to make prince ly gift to the city of New York It will amount to at least $500OO,0 900. It will be partly charitable, and partly educational.
 This man informed a reporter that when MT. Rockefeller was contewing with his son at Lakewood, N. J., fortnight ago, the meeting was not TOT the purpose of discussing any immedi- ate gift, but was on the subject Of MT RocKefeller's will, which document the oil king was then completing with the aid of his son and his lawyers. It IS said that this document will astonish the world when it is made public. It will, it is declared, donate no less than $250,000, 900 for charitable and educa- tional purposes, and it will be so be- slowed that the benefit therefrom will be almost petrpetual.
 The manner in which these bequests will be bestowed is said to be mainly educational and charitable. While there are some contributions for reli- gious purposes, it is stated that Mir. Rockefeller does not think it necessary to extend any great financial aid to churches. To his manner of thinking, the churches are growing stronger and stronger and there is no danger that they will ever need any great financial assistance from one man.
 Mr. Rockefeller, however, is said to be much in favor of the growth of edu- cation, and to the furtheranee of this end he has done much in his will. He believes that education will make this country the greatest in the world, and that every cent contributed toward that object will help to make better citizens and better Christians.
 As to the charitable bequests, it was said some time ago that MT. Rockefel- Ter had in mind building model tene- ments for the poor, such as have been erected in some European cities.
 In his will, it is said, MT. Rockefel- Ter has provided these three things bequests for religious purposes, though not of large sums; liberal be- quests for education, and what are de- scrfbed as princely bequeasts for char itable purposes. It is said that there is scarcely man, woman or child that will not benefit in some way by these prospective donations.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
ABYSSINIAN AFFAIRS.
American Consul General VIII Advise
 Legation.

Addis Abeba, Abyssinia, Saturday, Feb 25.-Frank R. Mowerer, the Unit ed States consul general, has left here for Washington to consult with his government concerning Abyssinian af- fairs. It is believed he will recommend the establishment of a legation instead of a consulate general.
 A special French mission is arriving and will confer with King Menelik on a railway building project. If the con- ference is successful and the railway is built it will bring the capital within twelve days of Paris and will result in foreign investments for the develop ment of the country, which the lack of transportation facilities has hitherto retarded.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
CARNEGIE HERO MEDALS.
FIRsT DISTRIBUTION UNDER
 FUND TO BE MADE TO-DAY.

Delay Caused by Dissatisfaction of the
 Commission With Designs Submitted
 --Sfxty-three Persons In the United
 Medals of Gold, silver and Bronze
 Names of the Heroes.
 Pittsburg, March 1.-The first distri- button of hero medals will be made to- morrow by the Carnegie hero fund commission. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be given to sixty-three per- sons in different parts of the United States and Canada. At the last meet ing of the commission, January 16, eighteen other medals were awarded but these will be distributed later.
 It is announced that the reason the medals were not awarded sooner was because the commission was not sat- isfied with the designs submitted.
 Following are the names of those securing IHeudlS'
 Gold medals-Harris G. Giddings, Lawrence A. Hanlon and Petetr Lam caster, all of Milwaukee, Wis; Captain Mark Costo, Pleasantville, N. J.
 Silver medals-Ella M Goldman (wid- owl, Coney Island, N. r., Nels Greger- sen, Frederick Bouchie, Marius Nielsen and Joseph M. Shute, all of Atlantic Ct;;+,. A-af rIoI,,o,,ic+ Holly Raooh N. J.; Lewis J. Johnson, Anglesea, N. J.; Carolina s. Gismondi (widow), Mount Pleasant, Pa; William Watkins, Edwardsville, Pa; Cora F. Davis (wid- oW), Sherodsville, O.; Wade H. Plum mer, Lamar s. C.; Michael A. Doyle, Quebec, Canada; Maude A. Titus, New ark, N. J.; Michael P. O'Brien, New York; Miss B. Cora Williams, Eliza beth, Pa.; Lucy E. Ernst, Philadelphia, Walter H. Murchback, Elyria; Timothy F. Heagerty. Ashtabula, O.. Rufus X. Combs, Midway, Ky, Elsie c. Plant, Appleton, Wis; Alexander Cameron, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada; Sarah A. Marshall (widow), New Ken sington, Pa; Ernstine F. Atwood, Melrose, Mass.
 Bronze medals-Louis A. Bauman, jr., Pittsburg; Lavinia Steele, Des Moines, Ia; Nettie stuchel (widow), Fayette county, Pa; William Gilmer, Charleroi Pa; Harry E. Moore, Ali ance, O.; John M. Delo, oil City, Pa.; Theresa McNally, Lauralton Hall, Milford, Conn. Daniel J. Curtin, Man haitian college, New York city; William l., Wolff, Camden, N. J., Richard x, Hughes, Bangor, Pa; Edward H, Campbell, Buena Vista, Pa. William ]. Wild, Cleveland, O.; Charles A. Swenson, Brooklyn N. Y.; Edward Murray, Pittsburg, Pa; Samuel M. De Sherbinin, Langham, Canada: Arthur Simon, Wabash, Ind; Henry J. schil- Ter, Sandusky, O.; William c. Stillwell, Albion, Mich; William J. Darst, Chica- go Clifford Snyder, LaGrange, Ill.,; Charles Crabbe, Avalon, Va; Anne M. Cunningham, Savannah, Ga.; William c. Brune, Sandusky, O.; Arthur J.. Gottschalk, Lancaster, N. r.; George F. Russell, Hoboken, N. J.; Arthur A. Ross, Lakeviiew, Foxboro, Mass. Rob- ert W. Simpson, AsRtabula, O.; Mich ael Sasso, Ashtabula, O.; John J. Healy, United States immigration ser vice, Ellis Island, N. Y; John J, Riley, New York city; ora B. McCann (wid- owl, Portland, Me; Lucy D. Leighton, (widow), Lawrence, Mas; Irving w. Church, Wentwortht Military academy, Lexington, Mo; John M. Parks, Ketch- um, Idaho; Leroy Mccoy, Ketchum, Idaho; Wallace o. MePhetters, Ketch- um, Idaho.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
STEAMSHIP RATE VAR.
Its Renewal With the Cunard Lin.
 Very Likely.

London, March F,-Herr Ballin, direc- tor-general of the Humburg American steamship line, who has been here at- tending the shipping conference, said in an interview to-day there was every likelihood of a renewal of the rate war for the North Atlantic trade with the Cunard line. The next fortnight, he said, probably would see a decision one way or the other. Herr Ballin declar- ed the German lines had a working agreement with the White Star line and that all possibility of friction owing to the removal of that line to South amption had not been obviated.
 MT. Ballin left to-day for Hamburg on board the White Star line steamer Baltic.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
Fortune for a Hostler.

Atlantic City, N. J., March IT, Charles Clegg, an Atlantic City hostler, was informed to-day that he had fallen heir to fortune of $1OO,OOO or more by the death of his father in England. A law firm of England asked the police department to find Clegg. Clegg promptly quit work and prepared to go to England.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18
CUT PRINCE's EAR OFF.
Then the Prince Shot Russian Captain
 T...ce.

St. Petersburg, March 17--A shooting affray took place to-day in the dining hall of the Grand Hotel de Europe be- tween Prince Nikaridze, a marshal of the nobility from Kutais, and Captain Kosloff, of the East Siberia sharp shooters. In the midst of a spirited argument concerning the autonomy of the Caucasus Prince Nikaridze made a dlsparaging remark about Russian mill itary prestige Thereupon Captain Kos loff drew his sabre and cut off the princess ear. Reaching into his pocket the price pulled a revolver and taking aim fire, twice, the bullets penetrating the neck and breast of the captain. IA surgeon was called in and sewed on the prince's severed ear, Captain Kos .off's wounds are dangerous,