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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
THAW JURY RAPIDLY
 NEARING COMPLETION
TITO MORE MEN SWORN IN, MAKING THE TOTAL
 NINE.

One Chosen During the Morning and
 the Other In the AfternOon-Fifty
 Talesmcn Examined Yesterday--Ad-
 ditional Panel of One Hundred Sum-
 moned-An of the Thaw Family in
 Court--Defendant Pleased at the
 Sight.
 New York, Jan 2S.-The jury which will try Harry K. Thaw for the killing of Stamford White is rapidly nearing completion. When court adjourned this evening nine men had been chos- en, one having been added during the morning session, and second just be- fore the hour of adjournment at 5 o'clock. It was expected tonight that the taking of testimony would be be- gun late Wednesday.
 Fifty talesnen were examined to-day, and so rapidly were the remaining members of the special panel disposed of at the morning session that at the noon recess orders were hurried from the court for the summoning of an ad- ditional 100 men, who. will report before Justice Fitzgerald tomorrow, This will make a total of 300 men thus far summoned. Of the original panel there remained tonight but thirty-five, and it was not considered that this num- Der would be sufficient out of which to select the three jurymen necessary to make up the trial complement of twelve.
 Of the fifty men examined to-day, forty three were excused upon doctors certificates, upon the ground that they had formed opinions which were too strong to be shaken by the testimony, because they knew Stanford White, or some important witness in the case, and for various other reasons sufficient to incapacitate a man for service in cases where the penalty may be death. Five talesmen were challenged per- emptorily the state leading in the ex- ercise of this privilege with three chal lenges, the defense exercising its rights in two instances.
 
 acceptable were Charles D. Newton, a retired railroad official who is perhaps sixty-five years of age, and Louis Haas, the New York representative of a Philadelphia wholesale candy company, who is not more than thirty years old. Tn accepting the latter Mir. Jerome liwelt for some time upon the question of reasonable doubt, questioning the talesn1an searchingly as to his ideas as to the difference between a reasonable doubt and a possible doubt Mir. Haas seemed to incline to the idea that a conviction for murder in the first de- gree should be voted only when such doubt as a man might feel in regard to some vital issue in his own life had been removed by the evidence. This seemed to satisfy the district attorney.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
HUNDRED AUTOMOBILES
 DESTROYED BY FIRE
GARAGE OF THE NEW YORK TRANSPORTATION COMP4AY
 GUITED.

Elaborate Device, Just Installed at
 Great Cost, Used in Charging Electric
 Vehicles Badly Damaged, Bringing
 Loss Up to Three Quarters of n NIil-
 liOn-Panic in Row of Tenement
 Houses Opposite the Blazing Garage.
 New York, Jan. 2S.-Loss roughly es- timated at three-quarters of a million dollars resulted from a fire which start ed just before midnight and burned out the garage of the New York Transport ation company at Eighth avenue and West Forty-ninth street.
 A rotary charging plant for electric vehicles recently installed at great cost by the owners of the garage was badly damaged if not ruined, and 100 auto- mobiles owned by private parties were rendered worthless.
 Nicholas Vandervoort, night watch man in the garage, was seen staggering from the building just before midnight, his clothing afire, and gasping for breath. He was followed through the big doors by a sheet of flame that ex- tended far out across Forty-ninth street. The man was picked up, and the fire, which enveloped him, was ex- tinguished by men passing in the street, while other ran to a nearby fire box and turned in an alarm.
 The firemen reached the scene to find the middle section of the car barns a furnace of flames. A second, third and fourth alarms were sent in, bringing Deputy Chief Binns and Commissioner Lantry to the scene.
 Hasty efforts were directed toward removing from the garage more than 200 electric, gasoline and other kinds of automobiles.
 Adjoining the garage was located the recently-installed rotary plant, an elab- crate device which was used in charg- ing electric vehicles of the New York Transportation company. The firemen tried to prevent the eastern trend of the fire and save this plant, but in an hour the rotary plant had been flooded, and electricians employed by the company said water would cause as much dam age as fire. This plant is housed in a big room, seventy-five by forty feet long, used for the purpose of charging vehicles.
 Fifteen minutes after the fire broke out series of explosions occurred, one of which blew out section of the roof.
 The fire spread during the first hour with rapidity, The car barns of the Metropolitan Street railway near by were threatened with destruction, and hundreds of cars were run out to places of safety.
 In a row of tenement houses opposite the garage there was a scene of panic, The police aided residents in the row in removing household effects. A ladder placed against the front of the garage was burned through about the middle and parted, dropping half a dozen firemen to the street. One man had an arm broken and second suffer- | ed fracture of leg.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
MAY HAVE 8 HIS EATHER, Some Light on Cause of Assassination
 of London Merchant.

London, Jan. 28.-It now seems doubt ful whether the mystery surrounding the killing of William Whiteley, the weIl-known Westbourne Grove mer- chant on January "A, ever will be un- travelled. According to the latest de- velopments, it is thought that there may be some truth in the story told by Horace George Rayner, who shot Whiteley, regarding his parentage. Rayner's reputed father has at last come forward with a statement, through his solicitor, to the press, in which he declares that the murderer has no right to any name other than that of his mother a spinster named Emily Tur- ner, who is now dead.
 It appears that some thirty years ago Whiteley and the elder Rayner, who were then intimate friends, were both paying attention to two sisters, Emily and Louise Turner, the latter being an assistant at Whiteley's emporium. Two children were alleged to have been born to Emily, who, however, subsequently, confessed, with regard to the first child, that Rayner was not it's father. On this account Rayner virtually repudiat- ed being the father of the second child, though he accepted the responsibility of percentage as regarding this particular child. It was this alleged son who shot and killed Whiteley.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
POPE M0DIFIES STAND
 ON CHURCH IN FRANCE
YIELDS TO THE ADVICE TEN DERED BY FIVE FRENCH
 PRELATES

To Issue New Instructions Under Which.
 it is Believed, it VIII be Possible to
 Organize Public Worship Under the
 Supplementary Church and State
 Separation Law of M. Briand--Mem-
 bers of French Epicopate Called to
 Attend Another Meeting
 Paris, Jan. 28.-It is learned from an ecclesiastical source that as a result of the advice rendered to the pope at Rome, January 25, by five French pre- lates, including Bishops Houchett and Dadolle, the pontiff changed his atti- tude toward the church and state sep- aration question in France and will issue new instructions under which it is believed it will be possible to or ganize public worship under the sup- elementary church and state seDara- tion law introduced by M. Briand, the minister of education.
 Cardinal Richard. archbishop of Paris, has sent telegraps to the menl- bers of the French episcopate request ing them to attend another meeting here. IA preliminary assemblage of bishops, at which thirty were present, took place to-day, at the residence of M. Denlys- Cochin, where tn ecardinal has made his headquarters since he was compelled. to leave the episcopal palace.
 The decision reached at the meeting of the French episcopate which was held at the Chateau de la Muetta res gently, after having received the ap- proval of the pope, were read before the assemblage of bishops at the res- idence of M. Denys-Cochin and sub-8 sequently made public.
 The general tenor of these decisions was forecasted in these dispatches on January IS. They voice unfinching protest against the laws recently pass ed in Branch regarding respect for the Catholic heiriachy, the inviolability of church property and religious liberty. Thex set forth the intention of the episcopate of carrying on public wor- ship for as long as possible, but en- deavoring, in the meanwhile, to organ ize worship until the terms of the law of 1907, under which an administra- tive compact with local authorities re- garding the use of church land is per missible. The decisions declare the righ tof the church, however, to insert in these compacts certain guarantees regarding the clergy tenure of office, which are set forth in tte decisions.
 The bishops propose, among other things to lease. churches from the mayors of the various communes for terms of years, in some cases speci- fled at eighteen. They insist that these leases contain provision permitting their transference from one priest to another. Another clause in the Sro- posed compact provides that no priest shall occupy church without the consent of his bishop.
 Should this proposal be accepted by the government it would appear, at first sight to offer a feasible solution of the conflict between church and state. NM
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
DRrDEA,s sBNA oK1AL FIGHT
To Meet Men Who object to Him Next
 Monday.

MOmNHy.
 Trenton, N. J., Jan. 2S.-United States Senator Dryden came to Trenton to- day, following his letter to the repub- lican members of the legislature in which he asked for a conference in or der to meet the objections that had been made to his reelection. MT. Dry den had a conference with Senator Hillery and Assemblyman Barber, the republican leaders in the two houses, and as a result a conference was ar ranged for next Monday afternoon. All of the republicans who have voted against MT. Dryden's reelection prob- ably will be present. MT. Dryden'S idea is to have his opponents explain why they object to his reelection, and then meet these objections in his own way.
 There continues to be good deal of talk of other names in connection with the senatorship. Among those men, tioued are Governor Stokes, former Governor Griggs, Justice Pitney, State Senator Bradley and State Treasurer Frank o. Briggs. None of these men, however, has come out as candidate, It has been expressed in anti-Dryden circles that Mir. Dryden would eventu- ally withdraw. This is secuted by his supporters,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
NOVEL CONTENTION
Claim of Lawyers in Attempt to Quash
 Santa Fe Indictments

Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 2S.-In at- tempting to secure the quashing of two indictments, containing sixty-eight counts, against the Santa Fs Railway company, recently returned by the fed- eral grand jury, attorneys for the rail road company to-day set up claim which, if it should be sustained by the court, would prove of far-reaching con- sequences.
 They asserted that for sixty days last year, between June 30 and August 30, the country was without any interstate commerce law whatever. They argued that by the passage of the Hepburn law all existing laws were annullled, and by the suspension of the operation of the former act for sixty days the country was deprived of any interstate com merce law for that period. Judge Wollborn took the matter under advise- ment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
BUFFALO FIREMEN MISSING,
BURIED BENEATH TONS OF ICE-
 COATED DEBRIS.

Three Believed to Have Perished--
 Seventeen Others Injured-Carried
 Down by Falling Roof While Fight-
 ing Fire--Half Million Dollars Dam-
 age-Many Firms Involved.
 Buffalo, N. Y, Jan. 28.-Buried under tons of ice-coated debris of the eight story Seneca building at 1O1-1O9 Seneca street, destroyed by fire to-day, three firemen tonight probably are dead or so badly injured that they will die be- fore aid can reach them. About twen- ty firemen, including the three missing men, were on the roof of the Haywood building, the first structure to the east of the Seneca, fighting a spread of the flames, when two thick walls of the Seneca building collapsed. Tons of bricks from the crumbling walls crash ed down upon the roof of the Haywood structure, crushing the roof. and carry ing floor after floor into the basement, Not one of the twenty men escaped without some injury, but half of them were able tc fight their way out, and to give aid to their less fortunate com rades. Gangs of men were at once put to work clearing away the wreckage, and rescuing the imprisoned f1remen. By noon all but three of their number had been released and hurried to hos pitals. All of them were painfully in- jured, and were covered with a thick coating of ice which formed rapidly on everything from the spray of the nus merous streams playing upon the ruins. It was said tonight that none of the injured will die. The rescuers worked in relays all afternoon but no trace of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
oL1VAR WILL MAXI coon.
Tells Taft He Will Meet Requirements
 For Panama Contract.

Washington, Jan. z8.-William J. Oli- ver of Knoxville, Tenn, who was the lowest bidder in connection with the contract for the completion of the Pan anna canal to-day notified Secretary Taft that he would complete his con- tract within the ten days allowed him, He assured the secretary that he was about to associate with him one or more responsible contractors whom he was satisfied beforehand would be satisfac- tory to the secretary and to the presi- dent.
 In speaking of the matter to-day Sec retary Taft said that the contract would surely be given to MT. Oliver if, as stated, the parties he intends asso- ciating with him prove their responsi- bility.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
EARRT 1HAW,, DEyEcT1vE.
O'Mara, of Pittsburg, Leaves That City
 to Attend Trial.

Pittsburg, Jan. 2S-Detective Roger o'Mara, formerly superintendent of po- lice, who was engaged by Harry K. Thaw immediately following the mur- der of Stamford White. will leave this city tomorrow for New York to at tend the Thaw trial. O'Mara refuses emphatically to discuss the purpose of his trip or confirm the report that he will take with him eight witnesses of importance to the defense
 Persistent rumars are in circulation here that Dr. c. c. Wiley and Dr. Hen " A. Hutchinson, superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at Pixmont, Penn, a sub urb of this city, will leave for New York this week, where both of them will be called as expert witnesses to provethat Harry K. Thaw was not re- sponsible when he shot White.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
BURTON CRITICISM.
Missouri House Declares Hnrbors and
 Rivers Appropriations Unfair.

Jefferson City, Mo, Jan. 2S.--The house this afternoon adopted resolu- tion severely censuring Chairman Bur- ton of the congressional rivers and harbors committee, on the ground that he virtually ignored the Mississippi river in recommending appropriations for harbors in his district, The resolu- tion declared "the rivers and harbors bill as prepared by Chairman Burton is distribution of money unfair to the four million people of Missouri" It was provided that a copy of the reso- lution be telegraphed to Chairman Bur ton.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
FINANCIAL LEGISLATION
Chairman of House Committee Has Not
 Given Up Hope.

New York, Jan 2S.-James R, Branch, secretary of the American Bankers as- sociation, said to-day
 T have just communicated with Charles N. Fowler, chairman of the committee of banking and currency of the house of representatives, in refer ence to the report printed that he had given up hopes of financial legislation at the present session of congress. Mir. Fowler emphatically denies the authen- ticity of this statement and informs me that he thinks the chances brighter for house bill No. 23,017 becoming law than ever before.
 "The clearing houses of Chicago, St. Louis, Savannah and Norfolk and the Washington board of trade have just passed resolutions unanimously endors- ing the bill"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
WAS 4 FAAMER's DA UGHTER
Identity of Young Woman Who sni-
 cided With Young Man.

Camden, N. J., Jan. 2S- body oi the young woman who is believed to have entered into a suicide pact and who with male companion was kill ed by an electric train on the Penn sylvania railroad near here on Sunday, was tonight identified as that of Wil- helmina Lacey of Iona, a small vil- lage short distance below Glouces- ter. The young woman's father is a farmer. Snyder drove the girl to the railroad station at Iona on Friday. She said she was going to Camden. Where she went is not known, but on Saturday the authorities have learned, she alighted from train at Glouces- ter in the evening The girl was ac- companied by three men whose iden- tity has not yet been established. Neither has it been determined whether the man who was killed on the railroad with the young woman, was one of the three who were seen with her at Gloucester. His body has not been recovered.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
SENATOR ALGER AT REST
DISTINCTLY 4 sOEDIER'S FU-
 NERAL FOR WAR VETERAN.

Grand Army Burial Ritual Eyemplified
 ut the Tomb-Taps Sounded by Major
 EIderISin, Veteran of the Mexican
 and Civil Wars-One of McKinlsy's
 Favorlte Hymns Sung.
 Detroit, Mich.. Jan. 2S.-It was dis tinctly a soldiers funeral that was held to-day over the body of the late United States Senator Russell Alex ander Alger, who died suddenly on Thursday in Washington. Delegations were present from the national con- gress, the state legislature and from the city government of Detroit.
 Upon the flag which covered the casket, as 1t was borne from his late home to the hearse, was laid the little worn bible that General Alger had carried through the civil war. And at the mausoleum senators, clergy and frienes stepped aside to accord to the deceased soldiers comrades of the civil war the honor of saying the last words of respect and affection in the ritual of the Grand Army of the Re- public.
 The formal services were held at ? o'clock at the Alger home on Fort street. The casket rested at the rear of the main hall, which was banked with flowers from floor 10 ceiling
 The services consisted of prayer, Scripture reading and benediction.
 The choir of the Fort street church sang the hymn Lead Kindly Light. The procession from the late senator s residence to Elmwood cemetery was led by d military escort consisting of the Seventh regiment United States infantry and the First regiment Mich igan National Guard, with Lieutenant Governor P. H. Kelley and the mili- tary staff of Governor Warner, who Is confined to his hme by illness. Thou sands of people lined the sidewalks as the procession passed
 The c. A. R. burial ritual was ex- emplified at the tomb by Fairbanks post and taps were sounded by Ma for James D. Elderkin, veteran of the Mexican and civil wars. Major Elderkin's notes were taken up and echoed by buglars of both the reg ulars and the National Guards and the obsequies closed with three volleys from firing squad.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
RUNNING kLEC1RfC TRAINS.
Central Takes Step Toward Relieving
 Situation at Grand Central.

New York, Jan. 2S-The New York Central to-day began to operate thirty trains on it's Harlem division with null tiple unit controlled electric cars be- tween the Lexington avenue temporary station and its Grand Central station at Wakefield. This is step in the di- rection of relieving the situation at the Grand Central station, and it is expect ed to improve the service.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
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ROBERT F. ASGrER SAFE
Father of Yale Instructor Reports to
 U. S. Consul in Jamaica.

Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 2S.-The heaviest earthquake shock since the one which devastated Kingston on January 14 occurred here at 4:30 o'clock this morning. No particular damage is re- ported as result.
 It was announced here to-day that a special commission to investigate the situation at Kingston in behalf of Eng fish insurance companies sailed from Bristol last Saturday, The purpose of the commission is to ascertain the facts concerning the confagratlon which fol- lowed the earthquake shock, with the view either of arranging a compromise with the insurers or preparing evidence with which to combat threatened legal proceedings.
 Acting upon instructions from the Washington government, Captain John s. Battle, of the Eleventh infantry ar rived here to-day on board the steamer Oteri from Santiago with more than a hundred army tents from Guantanamo. Governo" Swettenham, who refused Rear~Admiral Davis offer of the same tents few days after the earthquake and fire, has now graciously and grate- fully accepted the loan of them.
 Albert E. Angler, who was reported missing following the earthquake, is safe, having reported himself to the American consul several days ago. Daniel White Comstock, an American tourist, who was seriously injured at a danger and progressing satisfactorily.
 Albert E. Angler is the father of Ros-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
TELhPHONE PROBLEM.
Legislative Committee of Business Men
 Appoint sub Committee.

Bridgeport, Jan. 2S.-At meeting of the legislative committee of the State Business Mems association held at the rooms of the Algonquin club in this city to-day resolution was adopted that a subcommittee be appointed by the choir to investigate the telephone conditions with relation to the South ern New England Telephone company and independent interests and report back to the general committee. The committee appointed comprises N. S.. Allen, of Hartford; F. H. Johnstone, of New Britain, and George E. Barber. of Derby.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
Mempbis Bnnker Suicides.

Battle Creek, Mich, Jan. 2S.--Charles W. Scholte. aged sixty-three, a capi- talist and banker of Memphis, Tenn, committed suicide here to-day at the Battle Creek sanitarium, where he was being treated for a nervous trouble His wife discovered his body in a bath room, shawl strap around his neck showing that he had choked himself to death
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
CarIsbad springs Endangered.

Vienna, Jan. 2S.-The famous springs at Carlsbad, in Bohemia, are said to be threatened as a result of mining operations which are being conducted in the neighborhood. A commission which was appointed to; examine into the matter and report on the effect of these mining operations on the springs, has declared that the operations should come to an end. Geologists have now been called on to give expert opinions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
California Without Change.

From Washington via Washington Sunset route, in personally-conducted excursion sleeping cars, Berth $50. Also best equipment in high-class stan- dard service. Office Southern Railway, 22S Washington street; Southern Paci- fc, 170 Washington street, Boston.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
Accents Carnegie Gift.

Washington Jan. 2S.-The supervis- ory committee of the international bu- reau of the American Republics to- day adopted resolution accepting Andrew Carnegie's gift of $75O,O0O for the erection of a permanent home for the bureau in this city.