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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
.ALCER'S DEATH REVEALS
 SUM; LONG HELD SECRETS
REAL REASON MADE KNOWN WHY HE LEFT M'KINLEY'S
 CABINET.

Declared That the President Lacked
 BackbOne--Latter Embarrassed and
 Annoyed at Alleged Alliance With
 Governor Pingree--McMiIlan Accused
 of DishonorabIe Candidacy-Facts in
 an Interview Given in 1900 but Not
 to be Published Until His Death.
 Milwaukee, Jan. &-The Milwaukee Journal to-day prints an interview with General Russell A. Alger, obtain ed March 4, 1900, and not to be used until his death, in which he said he three times offered to resign as seere- tary of war in President McKinley's cabinet because of criticisms, but that President Mckinley replied each time that he would quit the presidency first. General Alger said that the resignation was later accepted because the presi- dent was 'embarrassed' and annoy ed' because of Alger's alleged alliance with Governor Plngree in plan to elect Alger to the United States sen ate, MeMillan having promised to give way to General Alger, after his (Mc- Millan's) term was up.
 General Alger said that Mckinley lacked backbone.
 After telling of the arrangement with Governor Pingree and other Michigan politicians, that he run for the senate to succeed James McNIillan, who agreed to withdraw in General Alger's favor at the end of his term, General Alger continues that on his return to Wash ington he was informed by newspa- per man that President Mckinley was annoyed because he (Alger) had form ed with a man hostile to the president (meaning Governor Pingree) an alli- ance against a firm supporter of the administration Senator McMillan).
 General Alger placed no credance on the report. Later, however when in New York he received a telegram from Vice President Hobart, asking him to run down to West End, Long Branch. There he was informed by MT, Hobart that the president was embarrassed be- cause General Alger had formed an all lance with Pingree.
 Continuing, General Alger said:
 Hobart and I said little or nothing about the matter, but when I returned to Washington I went to the president, and asked him why, inasmuch as had always dealt frankly and directly with him, he had not spoken to me, instead of troubling poor Hobart about the matter. asked the president if had really embarrassed him.
 Yes, he said, you have ennbarrass- ed me and I am annoyed
 T told him that I could readily re- lieve his embarrassment by resigning from his cabinet.
 e I have not asked you to resign he said; I shall never ask you to resign.
 But wrote out my resignation and sent it to the president. In the mean time McMillan had announced his can didacy for reelection to the senate, a most dishonorable thing to do, in view of his promise to me any many others. Before I had resigned as secretary of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
MIRO AAD WHIlt.
washington Says They Must Live Side
 by Side Forever.

Columbia, s. C., Jan. 24.-Booker T, Washington, president of the Tuskegee institute to-day addressed the first ngero race conference ever held in South Carolina.
 The first floor of Columbia theater was reserved for white people. Seats on the stage were several prominent white citizens, together with a large number of negro leaders from this and other states.
 Washington said in part: q was born here in the south; my early boy hood was spent in slavery here in the south, and there is no spot on earth so dear to me as the soil of our southern states where we both races for so many years have lived and toiled.
 "yTe of both races are to live here in the south side by side for all time, no matter what theories may be ad- vanced and emphasized. It is the ex- treme of folly and almost a crime for any individual, or group of individuals to pursue a course which will encour- age racial strife when two peoples are to remain together for all time"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
MUNICIPAL LIGHTING
 AND SUNDAY CLOSING
QUESTIONS DISCUSSED BY STATE
 MAYORS ASSOCIATION

Foster of Rockville Favors New Legis-
 IatiOn to Permit Cities to Purchase
 Existing Lighting Plants at Actual
 Valuation-Some Sentiment to Per-
 init Sunday Concerts and Picture
 Shows but Not Theatrical Acts.
 Willimantic, Jan. 24.-The midwinter meeting of the Connecticut Mayors as- ssociation held here to-day and at tended by mayors and ex-mayors from about a dozen cities in the state discussed at length the questions of municipal lighting and Sunday closing Mayor Dunn of this city presided.
 Mayor Foster of Rockville started the discussion on municipal lighting by stating that he favored securing, if possible, new legislation which would permit cities to purchase existing lighting plants at actual valuation. He said his city, Rockville, would try to get a special act. allowing the city to
 
 Mayor Thayer of Norwich suggested that Rockville take over the plant un- der the existing statute. He said that as long as the present system prevails in the legislature no help could be ex- pected from that source. He described the operation of the municipal plant at Norwich and gave figures to show that the charges to consumers was 'consid erably less than formerly. He added that the plant was on a paying basis. Continuing he said that the only way to secure legislation was to keep agi- tating the subject until the general public demanded that changes be made. AS it is now, those who go be- fore the committee on cities and bor- oughs find a room full of prominent attorneys in behalf of the corporations to oppose any charges in the law. He thought it would be unwse to try to get the law repealed, but suggested that amendments be asked for, cover ing the vital points. ExMayor Bas- sett of New Britain said. that he thought that the agitation kept the gas and electric light companies from rais- ing the prices, They had no grievances in New Britain.
 Mayor Foster said that fifteen years ago the plant in Rockville was placed in the market at $6O,OO0 and now $S5O, 900 was wanted for the same property.
 Ex-Mayor Harbison of Hartford sug- gested that | committee be appointed
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
P AISES PLUTOCRAT AND
 ATTACKS LABOR UNI]NS
HEAD OF SYRACUSE UNlVER- SITY STRIKES AT PRESIDENT
 ROOSEVELT.

Without Mentioning Names He Bitterly
 Arraigns the Men Who Are Attempt
 ing to Regulate Trusts and Corpora
 tiOns and the Accumulation of Wealth
 Declares People Will Have to Pay
 in the End--BelittIes Labor and
 Lauds Brains.
 New York, Jan. 24.-The fourteenth annual dinner of the Manufacturers club of Brooklyn was held at the Union League club in Brooklyn tonight There were about 400 present. The principal speaker of the evening was Chancellor Day, of Syracuse university. Chancellor Day said, in part:
 No individual can use such capital or furnish the executive ability for such achievements as the times now demand Men must be incorporated and money massed into thousands of millions for such purposes. And it IS folly to expect to reverse it. And the man who is shouting himself hoarse over trusts and corporations and swollen fortunes will take his place in history with the men who smashed Arkwright's loom and Whitney's cot ton gin, and the pamphleteers who rid iculed George Stephensons locomotive
 But we are told that there is no disposition to destroy the great forms of business, but just an attempt to regulate them. It makes little differ ence whether you destroy them by di- rect enactment or regulate them to death. We do not want to destroy the present form of corporate business, but we will discredit them and embarrass them by every law we can invent; we will make a public sentiment that will encourage every man who attempts to mulct them; we will SOW dragons teeth of hate, in every corporation plant, among the workingmen; We will brand every corporation, aggregation of capl- tai and corporate wealth as an octopus or a criminal corporation; we will talk of predatory wealth. silly jingle of words; we will urge upon careless thinking people that wealth is grinding IHeIH anu LudL COIpOIdllOH IS SyllOlly = nous with tyranny, oppression and gigantic theft-thrift and theft mean ing the same thing; and then we will smite upon our breasts enthusiastically and say: 'Ah, no, we do not oppose the natural and proportionate methods of the twentieth century. We want to regulate them only
 But as long as the people are taught, wicketdly taught, by the agitators of various types that corporations have for their purpose the robbing of the people and the oppression of the poor, business will be obstructed and the peo- pie will suffer a severe penalty for their folly.
 Such attacks, persistent and unrea- soning, are not only destructive. but the people have to pay for the damage. They pay it in increased price of the commodity if not in decreased wage. They are paying for the riotous at- tacks of the coal-mine agitators of a few years ago; they will pay for every strike and lawsuit and for the millions now being expended and lost in har- assing all forms of business with the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
EARIBOCAKE CLAUSE.
Insurance Company Loses Test Case in
 San Francisco.

San Francisco, Jan. 24-The earth quake clause upon which many of the insurance companies based their re- fusal to pay the full amount on losses arising from the April 1906, disaster, was considered not sufficient from ex- emption by the jury which heard the evidence in the case of Thomas Der gin, against the Commercial Union As surance company of London. The yer dict was rendered to-day before Judge Whitson in the circuit court, and judg- ment was in favor of the plaintiff for $6,77S.
 The case was regarded as a test of the earthquake clause, and of the right of the companies for exemption.
 Judge Whitson in his charge to the jury gave rather strong endorsement to the exemption feature of the earth quake clause, directing the jury that If it found that the fire originated from the earthquake, even remotely, the judgment should be for the defendant companies
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
SWETTENHAN PLACED IN
 WORSE LIGHT THAN EVER
NUMEROUS CASES TO JUSTIFY
 THE ACTION OF ADMIRAL DAVIS.

secretary of Navy MetcaIf Shows No
 Mercy for Jamaica's Governor and
 Issues Statement Recalling the Land-
 Ing of American Tars at Port os
 Spain, Trinidad, in 1S95-Goyernor os
 That Island Most GratefuI-An un-
 pleasant Contrast for swettenham.
 Washington, Jan. 24. < President Roosevelt tonight received a cable gram from the Most Rev. Dr. Enos Nuttall, lord archbishop of the West Indies and chairman of the Kingston relief committee, rendering his thanks for the prompt visit of the American Warships under Rear Admiral Davis. The message is as follows:
 We all appreciate deeply American sympathy in our distress, and the prompts visit of your men of war for our succor. Happily the supply of food vailahle for relief committee is sufficient. After meeting the cost of this, our next great want will be the means for making small houses hab- itable. All our people are behaving splendidly"
 The receipts in this city to-day of the official full text of the correspond- ence between Rear Admiral Davis and Governor Swettenham of Jamaica. which did not differ from the conmun- icat1ons transmitted by the Associated Press last Sunday night, caused the naval officials to again study the sit- uation to see if Admiral Davis had in any way transgressed the bounds of propriety on his visit to Kingston. They not only found a precedent for ms landing men from his ships to pre- serve order, strangely enough in the case of another British island in the West Indies, but also saw nothing in the whole affair to warrant the letter addressed to him by Governor Swet- tenham. Secretary Mstcalf, therefore, late this afternoon gave out the follow ing statement on the subject:
 The department has received the full text of the correspondence between Rear Admiral Davis, commanding the squadron of naval vessels which rel gently visited Kingston, Jamaica, after the earthquake, and Sir Alexander Swettenham, governor of Jamaica.
 From this correspondence 1t
 pears that Admiral Davis land
 party for the purpose of guardinG ssecuslng the archives of 'ae AmA
 consulate, and another y of
 men for the purpose of ing the wreckage. Later, up se earnest entreaty oy the colonia, s etary and the inspector of police, who spoke for the governor (the governor being aib- sent from the city, and at the Kings ton house, some three miles distanD fifty men were landed under arms from the Indiana to overawe an aIleg- ed mutiny at the penitentiary, contain ing five or six hundred prisoners.
 Admiral Davis then proceeded by carriage to visit the governor at Kings house, and found him living with his family in tents, and was accompanied back to the city by the governor. That same afternoon upon request of the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
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BURAED 70 HI GROUND.
GreenIeaf Athletic Club House mad Its
 Furniture n Total Loss.


 Furniture Total Loss.
 Shortly after 12 o'clock this morning fire broke out in the Greenleaf Athletic club house on Spring street. Alling- town, and the building was completely consumed in about an hour and a quarter.
 The house, which was a three-story wooden building, was situated close to the West river An engineer on a switch engine nearby noticed small blaze inside the building and rang in the alarm on the New Haven side of the river Nos. 1, and Il and truck No. 2 responded. They spent their ef- forts in saving the bridge. It was about thirty minutes before the ar rival of the west Haven Hook and Ladder company and engine company, the department having been informed that the fire was on the New Haven side. As there was no hope of saving the club house they also worked to save the nrid$e.
 The club house, two pianos and some furniture are the total loss The build ing itself was not of much account. It had previous to being used as club house been kept to store boats, and was also at one time used as an oyster house. The cause of the fire IS un- known
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
STATE BUSINESS MEN MEET
EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION HELD
 HERE YESTERDAY.

Delegates Unable to Agree on Telephone
 Laws and Matter Is Left to LegIsIa-
 tive Committce-saIary Increase for
 Postal Clerks Favored - Insurance
 Also Comes Up for Consideration
 Officers Elected for Ensuing Year.
 After discussing all the latter part of the afternoon Snthe stand the as- sociation would take in regard to tell ephone laws. the 155 delegates to the Sth annual meeting of the State Bus mess Mems association left the decision of the matter to the legislative com mittee. This committee consists of 0. G. Agard of Torrington, A. M Cooper of Bridgeport, E. H. Johnson of New Britain, ID. | Atwater of New Haven, A. R. James of Danbury, w. F. AL len of Hartford, G. F. Hughes of Wa \ terbury, George E. Barber of Derby and B. Fl. Peck of Bridgeport.
 The delegates were about evenly 'di- yided on the matter of favoring an other company to compete with the s. N. F. Telephone company. As gen. eral thing the business men from the larger towns and the cities did not wish to be put to the expense to main tain two telephones. They contended that the Southern New England com pany was doing the best that it could, and was lowering rates as fast as pos- sible, and when improvements were found necessary the company could be compelled to make them The mem bers from the smaller towns held out strongly for allowing a competitor to enter the field. A deadlock ensued, and the matter was finally left to the com mittee as stated.
 The association voted to favor the increase of salary for clerks in the post office. They held that that was the only way to keep efficient men in the service, and that this would tend to needed improvement of the service.
 Representative N. Burton Rogers of Danbury introduced motion asking that the association favor uniform charges for gas in the city of Dan- bury. On motion of President Pagter of the local association this was ex- tended to include the New Haven Elec- tric Light company. The motion was then passed,
 Between and o'clock in the after noon the delegates adjourned from Steinerts atheneum, where the time had been previously spent, to a banquet at the Tontine. There was a very jolly time at the feast. Songs were sung in chorus with a vim, and joking abound ed. After the banquet business was resumed, the meeting remaining at the banquet hall for the rest of the ses- sion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
oLONfL BLAKE 4 SUICIDE.
Man Who Formed Irish Brigade t,
 Flight With Boers.

New York, Jan. 24.-CoL John F. Y. Blake, who organized an Irish brigade for volunteer service in the Boer army in the war against Breat Britain, com mitted suicide to-day in a Harlem boarding house by inhaling illuminat- ing gas. Blake has been featuring in several night schools recently, but he has not been prosperous, and yesterday he told the landlady of the boarding house where he had lived for several months that he was very much discour- aged over his prospects for the future.
 Prior to the Boer war Colonel Blake was a mining engineer in South Africa. He was about fifty years old. Colonel Blake is survived by a widow, who lives at Fall River, Mass.
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MRS " II. KAMA DEAD.
Wife of Dr. Kenna of Olive Street suc-
 cumbs to Burns.

VNAAG OA ASAs AANhhaA VI OlAVC GNICEG SuC~
 cumbs to Burns
 Mrs. Kenna, wife of Dr. w. M. Kenna, of 145 Olive street, died at 11:3O o'clock last night from burns at the home of MT. and Mrs John 0. Clark, of Foun- tain street, Westville. Dr. and Mrs. Kenna were guests of MT. and Mrs. Clark Wednesday evening. Owing to the sudden drop in temperature and the long distance home the doctor and his wife decided to stay at the Clarks' over night, Just before retiring Mrs kenna passed by a gas stove in her bedroom the folds of her night robes being caught and ignited. In a twinkling, it seemed, she was enveloped in flames and shockingly burned. Dr. Kenna did all that was humanly possible to stif1e the flames but succeeded only after badly burning himself and when it was too late Mrs Kenna's condition was critical from the start, and when Drs. Carmalt, Luby and Reilly were called in for consultation they held out no hopes.
 Mrs. Kenna was formerly Miss Jane Dillon, daughter of the late Michael Dillon, of Cedar street. She was a young woman of charming personality and possessed 8 peculiarly sweet and artistic temperament. Before her mar riage she was widely known as a most gifted elocutionist and reader, and in q short, bright and successful career be- fore the public she won a host of de- voted friends and admirers. Mrs. Kenna had never ceased to grieve over the loss of her little child. The blow seemed to crush her and undermi le the highly sensitive and nervous vitality that seemed to be her strength. The news of her untimely death carries the sincerest sorrow to the hearts of all who had ever the good fortune to know her friendship and unselfish devotion to all that was good and just.
 At her bedside when she passed away were the immediate members of her family. She leaves a brother, B. J. Dillon, of New York;, and three sisters, Mrs. John F. McHugh, Miss Cecelia Dillon and Miss Mary Dillon, of this city.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
MARSHALL FIELD ESTATE.
The Executors Estimate Its Value at
 S75,OOO.OOO.

Chicago, Jan. 24-The executors of the estate of Marshall Field to-day filed in the pribate court their inven- tory of the estate. In the document which gives a detailed account of the personal and real property, the par value of stocks and bonds are given but no statement is made show ing the present cash value of the se- curities. For this reason it is impos- sible to make an accurate estimate of the value of the estate, but counsel for the executors place the total value of the property described at $75,oO0, ,OOO. tche exact value of the estate will not be known until the official report of the appraisers has been completed.
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND NEGRt
Bishops Decide en It's Duty Toward the
 Race.

Race.
 Washington, Jan. 24- A conference of bishops of the Episcopal church of the United States. after being in ex- ecutive session in this city for two days, tonight decided on a plan as to the church's duty toward the negro race, as regards education and evan gelization." The following resolution was unanimously adopted:
 Resolved, That instructions in the fundamentals of Christian morality is the foremost need among the negroes of our day; that the medication of these principles is a prime duty and responsibility of the church, and that in the present necessity the negro cIer- gy should be supplemented by evan gelists, catechists, teacherers, visitors and subordinate ministers. who shall give their attention to teaching right eousness and that the schools related to the American Church Institute for Negroes, are and of right ought to be the natural sources for the supply and training of men for this work"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
LONDON STARTLED BY CRIME
ASSASSINATION OF WM WHITL- LY, 4 PRoMINLT IMMIGRANT.

Shot in His Great Department Store by Young Man Claiming to be His Son Latter Turns Weapon Upon Him. self Infiicting Perhaps Mortal Wound
 -Victim's Name a Household Word in England.
 London, Jan. 24-A dramatic tragedy startled London to-day when William Whiteley, one of the most unique, and, at the same tinie, one of the most prominent figures in the business world, was shot dead in his store by q youth claiming to be his son. The as sassin then attempted to blow out his own brains.
 The name of Whiteley has become a household word in England, owing to the enormous department store in Lon- don run by company of which MT. Whiteley was president, and which was i the pioneer in such enterprises. The crime occurred shortly after mid day. An unknown young man was ac- corded an interview with MT. Whiteley in the latter's private office, where the two men remained closeted for a few minutes. As MT Whiteley emerged from his office, it was observed that the young man was following, and im- portuning him, MT. Whiteley was wav- ing his visitor off, and threatening to call the police. Suddenly the young man whipped out a revolver, and fired two shots point blank at MT. White ley. Tho bullets lodged in MT. White- ley's head, and he fell dead Before the assassin could be secured he turn- cd his weapon upon himself, and in- flicted what is believed to be a mor- tai wound
 The personality of the assassin, and oped in much mystery. He gave the name of Cecil Whiteley, but relatives of William Whiteley disclaim all knowledge of him. The police found nn papers or other written matter on his person to lead to the establishment of his identity but they discovered his place of residence, and learned that he never had called himself Whiteley there. The clothing of the young man bore the initials "H. P" The police are of the opinion that the motive for this crime, when discovered, will show that there was present none of the ele- ments of revenge for personal injury, but rather that the attack upon MT. Whiteley was the result of a fancied grievance.
 The following penciled statement was found on MT. Whitely's assailant;
 "To all whom it may concern:
 "William Whiteley is my father This two-fold tragedy is due to his refusal of a request which is perfectly reasonable %* R. I. F."
 There was only 8 small sum of mon ey in the mans pockets, and other in- dications that he had come to the end of his resources, This suggests that the crime may have been the outcome of the mans poverty,