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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
{. A. {. BILLS TUESDAY. FINAL ACTION OF HOUSE Governors Recommendation Concerning Commissions
 Doomed.

Hartford, May 2S.-The house will take up the bill relating to commis- sions to consider tic matter of consoli- dating the agricultural interests of the state next Tuesday, following action taken to-day making them the order of the day on that date. An adverse report to the governor's recommenda- tions in the matter will be submitted.
 The house disposed of many calendar matters before taking adjournment un- til Monday. Among the measures pas sed were the following: Making ap- propriations for the inspector general of gas and gas meters; resolution amending the act incorporating the Central Baptist church of Norwich; amending the act of'the district court at Power company; paying the expenses of the state delegation to the national prison congress; authorizing improve LlSAlt5 ob LiS rltCll 5 LlOlllo. lOI SOlUl0TSI amending the act of the distric court at Waterbury; concerning the term of county officers; concerning forest fire wardens and protection against fire; appropriating $5,OOO to complete monu- ment to the Connecticut soldiers at Andersonville; making portion of elec> tion day legal holiday; consolidating the town and city governments of New Britain and revising the charter of the city; concerning public commons and squares; amending the act relating to returns of railroad com panies.
 After passing them the house recon sidered action on the Canaan and Berk- shire Tramway company bill and re- lating to facilities to be furnished by railway companies.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
MRS. M'KINLEY'S
 DEATH AT HAND Physicians Give Up All Hope of Her Surviv-
 ing Shock.
NOT WELL FOR YEARS
After Husbands Tragic End Her Strength Gradu-
 ally Waned.

Canton, O., May 23-After a. consul tation this afternoon at the Mckinley home by Dr. E. o. Portman, the fam fly physician of Mrs. Mckinley and pr. J. D. Eyman, superintendent of the Massilon state hospital, statement was issued that there were no indica- tions that Mrs. Mckinley could long survive the attack of apoplexy from which she is suffering. The doctors say, however, that they think dissolu tion will not come for day or two. Mrs. Mckinley is in a comatose condi- tion tonight and it is said that there are no grounds for hope of better turn, It is announced tonight that Surgeon General Rixey, by special railway arrangements will reach here at 6:2S tomorrow morning instead Of 1O:1O
 Telegrams from all parts of the coun- try have been pouring in to Canton to- day and tonight inquiring as to Mrs. MeKinley's condition and eyincing widespread sorrow over the announce ment of her critical illness.
 Mrs Mckinley has been i'll nearly all winter, having suffered severe attack of grip some months ago, followed later by bronchitis The physicians say that In her weakened condition she was an easy victim to the disease with which she was stricken to-day. She Is near ing the sixtieth anniversary of her birth, and has long been In feeble health. Mrs Mckinley gave up knit ting recently. This was taken as an indication that her hold upon life was slight, as ever since the tragic death of her husband she had found solace in knitting slippers for friends and inval- ids. Of late Mrs. Mckinley has been obliged to keep close within doors, but before that she was in the habit of taking daily walks, and of riding to the cemetery with flowers to place up on the casket which contains the body of her late husband.
 Mrs. Mckinley was Ida Saxton, daughter of well-known bank pres ident of Canton, prior to her marriage to William Mckinley. The only two children born to the Mckinley house. hold were Ida, who was born in 1871, and died thirteen months later, and an- other daughter Katie, who lived to be only three and half years old. Mrs. McKinley's health was shattered about that time, and she never walked with out assistance.
 For several months following the death of President Mckinley her life was despaired Of The little strength that enabled her to survive a train of crushing sorrows has been waning re- gently. So rapidly has been her de- cline that her friends have been much alarmed about her for several months.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
DEVELOPMENTS OF MOMENT POLICE IN GOULD CASE
Lieut.. Peabody Searched Records for Marriage
 Certificate.

New York, May 29.-There were de- velopments of moment tonight in the investigation recently begun by Com- missioner Bingham to determine what, if any, part was played by certain members of the police department in the domestic troubles of MT. and Mrs. Howard Gould Tn papers served a few days ago upon counsel for her hus- band, indicating Mrs. Gould's purpose to institute suit for separate mainten- ance, 1t was alleged that there had been a conspiracy against the plaintiff in which high officers in the police de- partment were involved.
 Tonight Lieutenant William Frank Peabody, who, with Captain (formerly Inspector) William F. Mclaughlin, had been frequently mentioned in the case, met by appointment an official high in the police department, and, &C., cording to the latter, made a clear breast of his connection with the Gould affair. A stenographer was present, and the result of the interview was later made public by the representative of the police department.
 According to this man, Peabody ad- mitted that he had worked for several weeks on the Gould case, not only in this city, but in Washington and in Baltimore, and that he sent the tele- gram to Edward Sholes in this city on March 26 in which a woman named Harriet Lonsdale was reported married to a man named George Dawson.
 Commissioner Bingham has sought to determine the author of this message, which, it has been intimated, grew out of a search of marriage records through which it was sought to estab- fish that Mrs. Gould, while still Kath- erine Clemmons, the actress, had mar ried one George Dawson.
 In his statement as given out by the polio official, Peabody said he was cal led into the private office of Inspector Mclaughlin at police headquarters early in March last, when Mclaughlin told him to bring in'' Big Bill'' Hawley. Peabody said he went out to get Hawley but learned Hawley was out of town. Ten days later Hawley returned and Peabody said he asked Mclaughlin If Hawley was then want ed. Peabody said Mclaughlin told him not to bother about Hawley but to lo- cate Edward Sholes.
 Peabody later saw Sholes and told him that Inspector Mclaughlin wish ed to see him at police headduarters. Subsequently, Peabody said, McLaugh- lin, Hawley, Sholes and he went down to Delaney Nicolls office.
 Peabody said he took three days off and on March 23 under instructions from Mclaughlin and Nicoll and also under implicit directions from Sholes with the latter went to Washington and thence to Baltimore, Sholes stay ed in Washington and arranged to communicate with Peabody in Balti- more.
 While in Baltimore Peabody said he searched the records of the bureau of vital statistics in that city for the rec ord sholes had indicated to him as nearly as sholes could recall the names.
 The search resulted in Peabody send- ing to Sholes the following telegram on March 26:
 March 26, 19O7-Edward Sholes, 1SS East S4th street, New York city George Dawson and Harrlett Lonsdale, May 5, 1883. Can this be her
 FRANK PEABODY"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
.DRAY IGNORED IN
 TAP DAY CHOICES
Worlds Record vaulter Fails to Make a Senior
 Society.
CROWD IS SURPRISED
Three New Haven Men Make Bones and One
 Wolf's Head.

Yesterday was tap" day on the campus and in the afternoon fully 20OO students and their friends from all over the country assembled near the junior fence and watched the society men choose their successors from the class of 1908.
 Automobiles and carriages filled with sophomores and juniors with their par- ents and friends were spread from Lawrance hall around to Dwight hall where the veranda and roof were coy- cred with curious onlookers.
 At the windows of Durfee were seen the mothers, sisters and friends of those who expected to make the so- eieties
 Four New Haven boys were chosen by the societies, three by Skull and Bones and one by Wolf's Head. Lester Perrin, son of Professor Benadotte Perrin; Charles Seymour, son of Pro- lessor Seymour, and George H. ToWn- send, son of Judge William K. Town send, made Bones; Donald Porter, son of Joseph Porter of Whitney avenue, gaining Wolfis Head Seymour is slat- cd to be the next head of the Yale navy and Porter has been active in tho dramatic club. Townsend is assistant manager of the track team and will undoubtedly be advanced to manager next year
 lAs usual there were some surprises, where men who were considered sure of the societies were not chosen. The principal of these was Hack" Moves, the popular captain of the basketball team. who was reelected for the com ing year. and Walter Dray, who last Saturday broke the worlds record in the pole vault Philip H. Collins leader in the glee club, and H Beardsley, also, of the glee club, did not go. Ellis KEowles of Pensacola. Fla. the golf champion of the college, was among the disappointed, and Thomas Achilles of New York, president of the Yale Dra- matic association, did not get bid. Richard B. Bulkeley of Hartford. son; of Senator Morgan G. Bullzeley, was left out, Among the others who were thought certain choices and who did not go, were Albert T. spaulding of Santa Barbara. Cal, the Yale tennis cham pion; James H. Steinman, assignment editor of the "Yale Daily News" and William s. Van Rensselaer,. the all round good fellow of the junior class. But the greatest of all surprises was. the falling of Lewis Charles Everard of New Orleans, to be chosen. Everard is captain of the Gym" team and pres- ident of Phi Beta Kappa.
 The only junior who was seen to turn down society was Thomas M. Mar shall, 3d.. of Pittsburg, who declined a call to Wolf's Head He did not make either of the other societies
 The first Bones man chosen was Harold Stanley of Great Harrington, Mass, and when he was tapped the loud cheers filled the air. Then came James c. Thornton. who is sure to be the next manager of the baseball team. Among the other especially prominent men who went to Bones were Walter G.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
MEETING ON HOSPITAL.
First Public Hearing on Proposed
 Sites,

A public hearing will be held this evening in the aldermanic chamber on the question of site for the contagious disease hospital for which the state re- gently authorized the issuance of bonds
 There is opposition to all the sites pro- posed, but the doctors and the members of the civic societies will be ready with their support. The sites to be talked over at the meeting are: At Beaver Ponds park, lot at the corner of Goffe and Crescent streets; lot in Jewell street, bounded on two sides by West river, and a lot in Derby avenue, near the Boulevard. All of these sites are proposed by Dr. Charles J. Foote and others. w. w. wilson and others put in petition to have the hospital To- cated at the junction of Congress and Davenport avenues. Alderman McKer- ness is to be chairman of the meeting.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
For Closer Relations.

Birmingham, Ala, May 28.-The gen. eral assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States to-day adopted the Charlotte articles of agree ment calling for closer relations of churches using the Presbyterian sys- tenn The vote stood 96 to 94.. The eff feet of the adoption of the articles is that the southern Presbyterian church will name twelve representatives to the council of reformed churches.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
SLASHED WIPES CHEEK
Thursday Evening COIOred Folks Dance
 Has Rude Interruption.

Has Rude Interruption.
 The Thursday evening dance of the colored people in the old Masonic tem- pie on Webster street was rudely dis turbed last evening by cutting af- fray. Maurice McNeil inflicted, either with razor or knife. very ugly wound in the left cheek of his wife, Mabel. No reason for the act is known, but jealousy is believed to have been the motive.
 Mabel McNeil was taken to Grace hospital. The wound, while not very serious, was very painful and required several stitches. It bled profusely for a time. O'Neil was arrested by Officers Ferdinandus and Fitzgerald, of the Dixwell avenue station, and held on a breach of the peace charge. The Me- Neils live at 5S Eaton street. Mrs. Mc- Neil is a waitress at Wilcox's restau- rant at Savin Rock.
 The police had quite chase to cap- ture the husband.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
AN HALLUCINATION.
Insane Man Declared Himself Husband
 of Alice Roosevelt.

Columbus, O., May 2S-James Frieze, who is confined in the sanitarlum here, applied to court to-day for his release. He declares that he is the rightful hus- band of Alice Roosevelt Longworth and that Nicholas Longworth is an inter- Upper and ought to be shot, He threat ems to kill Mayor Badger and all the city officers when he gets out
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
Policy Men Plead Guilty.

Hartford May 2S.-The five policy men who were rounded up by the po- lice a week ago were in court to-day. All pleaded guilty through their coun- sel, and the cases were disposed of as follows: Peter Malone, $10O and costs and sixty days in jail Julius Griebel, $1OO and costs; Thomas Toomey, $1OO and costs and thirty days in jail; Sam uel Kelly, s100 and costs, and James McGrath, $1OO and costs and sixty days in jail.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
Race Trouble Threatened.

Columbia, s. C., May 23.-As the re- suit of the killing of Clarence c. Glst, a prominent white citizen of Carlisle, by Arthur Davis, negro, serious race trouble is threatened in that town. A posse is hunting for Davis and militia and blood hounds have been ordered to the scene.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
Demand Presented to Numerous Manu-
 facturcrs in HOlyOke.


 Holyoke, Mass, May 28.-A demand for an eight-hour working day was presented to-day to the numerous pa- per manufacturers in this city by the paper makers. The manufacturers have not yet indicated what stand they will take. The mills, which number about thirty-five and employ about six thousand men, run day and night. and the men at present work in two tours of duty. They ask that the work be divided into three tours of eight hours each, without change in wages. The principal concern involved is the Amer ican Writing Paper company.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
Reac,uds Denth Benefit Action.

Boston, May 2S.-The installation of the new officers brought to a close to- day the thirtieth annual session of the supreme council of the Royal Arcanum. The last action of the council was to reseind the change in the laws, adopt ed yesterday, admitting new members with a death benefit of S1,500.
 Chinese Famine Broken.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
Meriden Druggist Drop. Dead.

Meriden, May 23.-Lucien M. Royce, aged about 70 years, manager of Ru- Ions pharmacy, on West Main street, this city, dropped dead of heart troub- les, in the store just before midnight tonight. He had been suffering from the disease for over thirty years. He leaves a widow and family in Hart ford.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
.o0O for Mondr schooI.

Northfeld Mass, May 23.-Wiliam R. Mooyd of the Mount Hermon school, announced tonight gift of $50,OO from the family of the late William B. Dodge of New York, to be used in erecting a dining hall. This gift makes the fifth building which has been presented to the school within year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
AT RoME's COLOSSEUM.
sunday school Workers Visit It-An
 Imposing Scene.

imposing scene.
 Rome, May 2S-The fifth internation- al Sunday school convention. which as- sembled here May IS, closed its sessions this evening.
 Over a thousand delegates to the convention visited the Colosseum this afternoon. A most imposing scene was witnessed when the visitors, standing bareheaded, offered up prayers and sang hymns, the crowning point being the recitation of stirring poem on the Colosseum written especially for the occasion by Rev. w. G. Mathams, of the Orkney Islands.
 w. N. Hartshorn, of Boston, Mass, was appointed secretary.
 No decision was arrived at regarding the place where the next convention is to be held, but it was regarded as likely that it would be in Tekio in 1910.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
New Minister to Denmark.

Washington, May 23-Dr Maurice F. Egan has accepted the post of minister to Denmark offered to him by Presi- dent Roosevelt. The date on which he will enter upon his duties will be de- termined by the state department. Dr. Egan is member of the faculty of the Catholic university in this city,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
FOR NEW BRITAIN.
MT. Townley Tells of ConsoIidated's
 Plans fin That City.

New Britain, May 23,-At a meeting before the railroad committee of the common council tonight Calvert Town ley, vice president of the Consolidated Railway company, announced that the company would spend in the neighbor- hood of $2O0.00O in improving the troll ley facilities in. this city and vicinity, including the double tracking of the line between New Britain and Hart ford, addition of new rolling stock and in other ways.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24

Washington, May 23,-The Red Cross has formally announced that it will no longer receive contributions of money or provisions for the relief of the Chi nese famine sufferers, the famine hay ing been broken by the ripening of the new crops.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL.

No Hope for Mrs. Mckinley, Developments in Gould Case. Chinese Famine Is Broken. Probing Equitable Life Company. Suspect Arrested in staffeldt Case. John Bell Guilty of Murder. Successor to Judge Wallace. General Kuroki at Harvard. Brownville Mayor Tells Story Fire Scare on the Teutonic. Sensation in the Russian Parliament. First Diet of Finland Meets.
 STATE. State Medical Society Chooses Officers. s20O,oO0 for New Britain Trolley. Governor Vetoes a Trolley Charter. Unfavorable Report on oyster Bill. Legislative Adjournment Set. Fayors Town Support of Insane. Meriden Druggist Drops Dead. Hartford Policy Men Plead Guilty. Excise Reports Are Heard.
 CITY. Train Hits Trolley Car. Finance Board Discusses Bond Issue. Yale Tap Day Brings Surprise. Collector Pocketed Some Payments. Ten Pass Milk Inspector Exams. May Not Have Fireworks. Farm Hand Accused of Theft. League Meeting Before Teachers Sign. Jewel Case Comes Back. Slashed Wife in Cheek. Railroad Commissioners Here. Farewell Banquet for Dr. Muteh.
 SPORTS. New Haven Loses Listless Game. Chicago Takes Third Game of Series. State League Baseball Meeting, Bad Day for Gravesend FaVorites. Officials for Yale Auto Races Metropolitan Golf Results. Golf at Local Country Club.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
ADJOURNMENT JUNE 1o.
House and Senate Concur in Fixing ses-
 sion's End.

Hartford, May 2S.-The first indica- tion of the approach of adjournment came in the house to-day when MT. Banks, chairman of the judiciary com nlittee, offered the following resolution:
 Resolved, That the business of this session of the general assembly shall be substantially completed on or before Friday, June A. and on Wednesday,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
Arnold Moldaner Dead.

Boston, May 23.-Arnold Moldauer, for twenty-two years one of the first violins in the Boston Symphony orches- tra and a member of the Adamowski quartette from its orginzation, died to- day following an operation.
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WEATHER RECORD.
Washlngton. Mav 2a. 1s07.

n.
 Forecast for Friday and Saturday:--
 For Eastern New York: Partly cloudy Friday, and Saturday probably showers in south portion; light to fresh north winds.
 day. and Saturday probably showers in extreme south portion; light to fresh variable winds, becoming northerly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
Body Found in Pond.

Moosup, May 2S,-The body of Will liam Thompson, of Holyoke, Mass, was found in the Almyville pond, above the dam this afternoon by some boys who were fishing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
PROBING EQUITABLE.
Grand Jury Looking into ~Year End"
 Transactions.


 New York, May 2S-The special grand jury, to-day continued its inves- tigation into the affairs of the Equita- ble Life Assurance society. A number of witnesses were examined at length. They were J. J. Hannaur confidential man of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,. Henry R. Winthrop, financial manager and treas urer of the Equitable; Nelson Olcott, assistant cashier of the National Bank of Commerce; George w. Benton, of the Mercantile Trust company; F. w. Fuller, treasurer of the Equitable Trust company, and two bookkepers of the Equitable Life.
 The investigation concerned the "year-end" transactions of the com pa1ly,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
Mhisker Advances.

Cincinnati. May 2S.-The price of whiskey was advanced two cents a gal lon in the market here to-day, selling on basis of S1.Sl per gallon.
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MIR. STEVENS BACK.

silent in Regard to Reported Offer from
 Great Northern.
 Engineer John F. Stevens, formerly the Panama commissioner, returned to New Haven last night after a trip to New York. At the New Haven House where he is stopping he could not be seen in regard to the report that he had been offered the presidency of the Northern Pacific by MT. Hill
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-04-18
Joe Mitchell Chapple in Panama.

The National Magazine for April
goes from the ten to fifteen cent
class. 1t contains "The Truth About
Panama." from the pen of the first
magazine editor who 'had the spunk
to personally visit Panama" This is
the big feature of the numhar.
1t may we'll be guessed that this
distinction belongs to Joe Mitchell
CFapple, the editor of the National
Magazine, who has way of his own
of doing thing~...
At Che outset of this article is il
Illustrated with 100 handsome views,
showing every detail of the work be-
ing done in digging the great ditch,
and which takes sixty-fve pages in
the National, Mr.. Chapple says, his
trip was undertaken on a sudden i'm
pulse in answer to a challenge given
by a public official. The decision to
make the trip was sudden one and
was promptly executed, for, he
adds, the only way to go. is to go.
1t is a great story that the Nation
FL publishes, and it is one that will be
read with wide-spreaded interest
throughout the country. The Ma
tional should be in the hands Of every
person interested in this great pro.
ject Of the American natien; because
it is the iAost complete and thorough
account of the great enterprise that
has appeared in any magazine at any
time.