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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
ROWLEY SELECTED TO SUCCEED HAYES Resignation of Sergeant Fi- nally Read Before the Meeting of Police
 Board. TEN NEW OFFICERS
 PLACED ON FORCE Four Named to Start Duties To-day While Six Go
 On In Decem-
 Der.

At the meeting of the police commits sioners held last evening, which was an adjourned meeting from the last reg ular session, the resignation from Ser geant Michael Hayes, which has been rumored again and again during the past two months, was read and accepted by the commissioners. The sergeant went away on a western trip just after the Fourth of July on months leave of absence and failed to return to the force, At every meeting held by the board 1t has been expected that the formal resigation would appear, but 1t did not come up until last evening. It was sent in written and gave as the cause of leaving business interests.
 The board lost no time in appointing to succeed Hayes Patrolman George l.. Rowley of Station l. Rowley was ap- pointed a supernumerary in January Of 1891, and in the following year he was given regular duty on the force. He was appointed to grade A on la mary 20, 1895. and has since then been an efficient and capable officer. Ills ap- pointment was received with approval by his fellow members on the force. Rowley was born in sharon. this state, and Is forty three years of age. The appointment dates from to-dav
 Ten new appointments were made to the regular force from the 1istsof super numerarles, of which four will become effective to day, while the other six will be on duty from December IS next. The four who gon on to-day are Jomss J. Maloney, Joseph A. Brown, William E, Leddy and John J. Cain. The six whose appointments date from Decem- Der are Philip F. Reilly, John E. M Kinney F, A. Keeran, Thomas F. Me Cram, Francis A. McDermott and John A. Dwyer.
 The estimates for the coming year were gone over and approved for pres entation to the board of finance to-day but nothing on them was given out in advance of their presentation to that body The matter of increased salar'es in the police department was consider ed on the report of a special committee and the report in favor of asking fol an increase. This was not ineorporat- ed in the estimates, which will be sent in, however. A committee was appoint ed which will appear before the board of finance. to ask that the pay in the ! police department be Increased, and il this request Is granted the increase will | be determined In lump by the finance board, and afterward distributed by tht board of police commissioners. NJ amount will be specified by the police board when the request is presented
 Patrolman Patrick J. Brown wal raised from grade 10 to grade B. A let. ter was sent by the commissioners tC | the students who caused the arrest ot the negro Jasper Johnson, commenting them for their action. The following were made special constables at tn, request of various corporations: Jame' J. Reynolds, Martin Fazio, Robert Win inc and Thomas I. O'Connor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
STRIKE WEARS END Master Plumbers Declare Settlement Must Be
 Made at Once. COMPLAINTS THE CAUSE Journeymen Consider Com promise, But No De-
 cision Yet.
COMPLAINTS THE CAUSE

If anything is to be judged by the generally accepted rumor circulating about town yesterday, the strike of the timers and metal workers will come to head at once.
 A settlement would be agreeable news to the many customers of the plumbers whose furnace repairs and Kindred work have been held up for ten days. Many complaints are being received by the masters, one of whom declared last night that unless an of- fer of arbitration is advanced by the journeymen immediately the strike breakers with whom the committee has been in touch will be brought In to fill the places of the men out.
 K It is said that the better workers among the men are desirous of secur- ing compromise and of returning to work. A labor official last evening ad- mitted this condition, but said that the majority of the men continue to main tain that their demands are only fair and that they cannot accept less
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
U. S. CLERK HANDICAPPED
Charged With Embezzlemcnt of $3, GOO
 in Gold Certificates.

Boston, Oct. 9-The jury in the Unit ed States district court. which has been hearing the case of former Vault Clerk John W. Hastings, charged With the embezziement of s3,0o0 in gold certifi- cates from the United states suo-t.eas- ury in this city. came i1 late tonight and reported disagreement Judge Dodge thereupon ordered the discharge of the jury.
 A hortage of s3,OOO in a package of s1o0, 900 sent from the Boston sub-treas- ury to the treasury at Washington, and the fact that Hastings was the last to check off the package in the Boston office, led to his arrest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
CHINESE ENTHUSE
Like Taft's Sentiments Re- garding Open Door.
 Other Matters.

Shanghai, Oct. s.-The comment of the Chinese press, officials and people on the visit to Shanghai of War Sec retary Taft is most enthusiastic.
 The general feeling of the Chinese on the utterances If Mir. Taft may be summarized as follows:
 "The United States will not sell the Philippine Islands. an assurance which Is welcomed as 1t means that there will be no extension of Japanese in- fluence and a continuance of American influence in the far east
 "The Chinese desire to interpret MT. Tafts statement reiterating that the United States favors the open door policy in China as being unofficial, but at the same time made on high author ity and indicating that the United States will support it in China and maintain the policy in Manchuria, the only place where the open door is threatened.
 MT. Taft's endorsement of the Unit ed States court for China, over which Judge Wilhey presides, is looked upon as meaning a continuance of the new era of justice and as demonstrating that the United States is really inter- ested in China, as shown by the acts which follow her assurances on the subject.
 'The enthusiastic welcome accorded to MT Taft here atones for the boy. colt of American goods and demon strates China's friendship for America
 ''The assurances given in regard tt fair treatment of the emigration ques- ton are accepted in good faith.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
FOR STEALING BOOKS
Sophmore at Yale Caught In the Malley
 Store.

Thomas Rufus Tracy, a member of the sophomore class at Yale in the academic department, was arrested yesterday afternoon in the Edward Malley company store and Is held for court this morning on four counts of theft. The arrest was made by Detec- tive Sergeant Dennehy. Tracy, whose home is in Whitney Point, New York, was caught in the store in the act, it is said, of stealing books and a pile of books which he had with him were found to be the property of the Ed ward Malley and the Judd companies. The books were not text books, but included among the subject volume on Longfellow by Charles Eliot Nor ton, "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khay- yan," and Charles Dickens Cricket on the Hearth" The other books were of the same type and some were hand some works. There was also included an october magazine. The student rooms in Lawrence hall. Other counts may be brought against him than the four which were entered last night.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
HOLD NIGHT COURT
Man Charged With Stealing Artists Shirt the
 Prisoner.
HE WORE THE GARMENT
Bound Over to the Superior Court by Deputy
 Judge Munson.

Arrested for stealing shirt and sun dry other articles of clothing from the home of L. B. Brown at Mount Car mel, Luigi Longobardi was bound over to the superior court at an evening session of the Hamden town court.
 Mr. Brown, who is an artist, has a home on the Brewster place at Mount Carmel, but this summer he and his family spent most of the time away. On three different occasions the house was broken into and among the things taken each time was wearing apparel
 Detective Webb was engaged by MT, Brown to work on the case and see who was doing the breaking Into his house and yesterday afternoon met Longobardi on the street and recogniz- ed fine quality blue shirt of pecu- liar pattern which he had oh. He got Detective James Ward of the regular service to detain the man until MT. Brown could be brought to Identify s property. Mir Brown said that not only the shirt belonged to him, but the shoes which the man had on, also, and the officer took his prisoner to Ham, den.
 There, following the custom recently started in New York, night court was held in the town hall, with Deputy Judge Edgar w. Munson on the benech Charges of burglary on three counts were made against Longobardi and af- ter a brief statement of the case by Prosecuting Attorney Charles F. Clark, Judge Munson bound the man over to the higher court under $1,000 bonds.
 The charge against Longobardi is burglary instead of theft, as the house he broke into was unoccupied at the time. It is said that several other houses in the vicinity were entered dur inc the summer
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
COTTON MEN ORGANIZE
Formation at Atlanta of an Interna-
 tional Association.

Atlanta, Ga Oct 9.-The information al conference of cotton srirners and growers this afternoon decided to form 7 permanent organization, which will include not only the associations now affiliated, but also the continental Spin- ner's association of Europe, and the Sea Island Cotton Growers asaocntion
 The first meeting of the new worl l. wide organiza ion may possibly De held in Paris next year. as the International Cotton Spinnefs' association of Europe meets there, and Herr KutTier of Vienna stated this afternoon that delegates from all organizations will be invited to attend.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
MANY SALARIES TO BE INCREASED If Sums Asked by Health Board Are Approved By
 Financial Board
 for 1908. HEALTH OFFICER
 WANTS $500 MORE Clerk and Milk and Food Inspectors In the List Large Bacteriologi-
 cal Raise.

The estimates presented by the board of health for the consideration of the board of finance as the amount needed to run that department during the year of 1908 were filed yesterday with the city clerk, and call for to- tai of $2S.5OO. This is $S,2oO more than was granted to that department last year by the finance board. There is request for an increase in the pay of Health Officer Wright of $500, the board asking $2,50O as the salary for that position, which at present Is being paid $2,000 For the clerk of the board an increase of $500 has been put in to raise him from $1,200 to $1,500. The salary of the plumbing inspector will be raised $500 If the plans of the board are approved, as it has put in a request for S1,500 in this office also. The four sanitary inspec- tors, according to the schedule pre- scnted, are to remain the same, there being S4000 asked for their compen- sation. The milk and food inspector is to have S200 more, which will raise him to $1,20O, and the second to him will also go up $200 to $1,000 Medi- cal inspectors of schools is down for the same as that granted last year, namely $l,200; removing garbage will be kept at the same figure, which is $11,00O; contagious diseases Is held worthy of $500, which was received last year, and bacteriological work goes up from $500 last year to $1,5Oo. There Is also something quite new at the end of the list, namely, a request for $500 for a nurse for the public schools.
 Among the most notable of the raises in 8the amounts asked for arc in the increase of S500 which Is asked to raise the salary of tie health officer, and the increase in the account for bactericlogical work, This has been increased this year $500 over the sum asked for last year, showing large increase in the expenditure for that department. The pay offered in that 1 uepdiIheHl Hds peeH VeTy LOW, pr Archibald McNeil, who was there un- til couple of years ago, receiving for many years between $700 and $500 a ! year. It seems probable that the sal ary for the. new man who took up the work of the department after Dr. Me Neils resignation, will be considerably in excess of the sum which the city was paying In former years, If the en. tire sum asked for by the department is granted this year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
MILD SENTENCE
Judge Surprised at Verdict But Inn
 poses Penalty.

Bridgeport Oct. 9,-John Bunes, of Greenwich, was found guilty to-day by a jury in the superior criminal court on a charge of criminal assault on Susie Mike, aged six of Greenwich.
 When the verdict was announced Judge Wheeler expressed surprise, say ing that the evidence hardly warranted conviction on the charge Were the court convinced of the prisoners guilt, he said a severe sentence would have been imposed Under the conditions however, he would impose mild sem tenee, and then announced the penalty as from seven to ten years in state prison.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
STORMS IN FRANCE
Heavy Damage to Ships and Other
 Property.

Paris, Oct. 9.-Contmuous heavy rains have caused serious floods in many parts of France. Up to the pres ent few deaths have been reported, but fears are entertained that the casual ty list will grow. The damage has been heavy. The principal rivers to overflow their banks are the Rhone, the Loire and the Tarn.
 A cyclone descended on the Rivirea and several ships were driven ashore.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
NEWS SUNNI AIRY.
GENERAL.

 StandardOil Methods Unfolded Sweden Impatient for Race. Lusitania Is Almost Victor. Germany Is in Need of Money. Chinese Enthuse Over Tafts Visit. Roosevelt Still in Camp. Ed. System Opposed at Tufts Railroad Collision Near Fitchburg
 STATE. Winsted Man Sentenced. Miss Mellen Christens Vessel. Rescued from Yawl at Stonington. Woman's Body Found Near Stamford. Adyentlsts' Convention at Waterbury. Coal Dealers to View Coal Lands. Womens Club at Stamford. Baptists Will Hold State Meetings. Boy Strangled in Bridgeport. Naugatuck in Trouble Over Schoolhouse
 CITY. Students Go on Rampage Again. No Increase for School Teachers. Rowley to Succeed Hayes. Student Caught Stealing Books. Girl Bitten by Big Dog. Italian Entered Hamden Studio. No Appointments Considered Yet
 SPORTS. Yale Scores Three Times on S. T. S. Brooklyn Nymph's Fast Time. Cubs Win Midst Sparkling Playing. One Western Woman Left in Tourney General Wall Wins Kentucky Futurity Princeton Rolls Up Score of 53. Harvard Scored Against By Bates Detroit Succumbs to Chances Cubs.
 EVENTS TO-DAY. Annual Meeting of Choral Union The Quicksands" at the Hyperion. Big Vaudeville Attraction at Polls. Great Express Robbery" at New Haven Shall We Forgive Her" at Bijou.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
GERMANY NEEDS MONEY.

Berlin, Oct. 9.-Rumors are in cir culation here that the empire is soon to raise a new loan. The Tageblatt, in it's issue of to-day, shows that the various credits already authorized, but not realized, amount to $35,500,- 00O The paper says it is informed in official quarters that the government is trying to postpone loan until aft CT the new year and possibly until next April. In the meanwhile it will raise money to meet pressing wants at the Aeichbank upon treasury bills
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
ENTERS PAINTERS STUDIO
Local Italian Held for Hamden
 Burglaries.

Luigi Longobardi, an Italian of 6s2 Grand avenue, was arrested yesterday by Detective Ward of the local staff on three counts of burglary of the studio of John H. I. Downs, painter, of Hamden Ut is alleged that three times during the summer he entered Downs bouse and stole clothes, paint ing implements and materials and oth- CT goods The arrested man Is 22 years of age.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
IMPATIENT FOR RAGE
Sweden Waiting for New York Yacht
 Clubs Acceptance.

Stockholm, Oct. 9.-The reply of the New York Yacht club to the Swedish challenge to sa series of races for the Americas cuP is expected here tomorrow. Swedish sailmakers all ready are engaged to work on the challenger, and from all parts of the country come requests to be allowed to participate in the subscription to meet the cost Of the challenger, and over-subscriptIon is expected before November 10.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
MUCH OPPOSITION
Congregationalists Against Plan of
 Uniting With Other Churches.

Cleveland, Oct. 9.--A decided oppo- sition to the detailed plan of uniting with the Methodist Protestants and United Brethren churches developed at to-day's session of the national Congregational council A committee of twenty one under the chairmanship of Rev Dr. Nehemiah Boynton of Boston, sitting as a court, heard argu- ments for and against the plan of amalgamation.
 The Congregationalists believe in the individuallsm of the various churches and insist upon this, while the Methodist Protestants and United Brethren want the churches governed by district conferences, and these in turn to be controlled by the national conference.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
BROUGHT TO LOCAL HOSPITAL.

Mrs. Ivan Mott. the young woman in Torrington, where she was visiting on Tuesday, was brought to the New Haven hospital yesterday afternoon for treatment Three bullet wounds are in the left chest. tna arm and the shoulder. Mrs. Mott lives in Berlin. Sha is not expected to die as the result of the shooting.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
PROF. KLEIN LECTURES.

Boston, Oct. 9.-The sixty-ninth an- nual course of lectures of the Lowell Institute was opened tonight by M. LAbus Felix Klein, professor at the Institute Catholique of Paris, who gave the first of a series of four lectures on "The Politic- Religious Crisis in France" The opening lecture was up- on "The Church and the Third Repub- lic," and was delivered before a dis tinguished audience in Huntington hall, Massachusetts Institute of Tech nologys
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
RAILROAD INVESTIGATION
To Probe Relations of Consolidated and the Boston and Maine.

Washington, Oct 9.-Asslstant Attor- hey General Purdy left to-day for Bps ton. where, it is understood. he will eonfer with the United States district attorney of that district regarding the investigation now being conducted as 10 the relations of tho New York. New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston X Maine railroads.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
n1rrEn 1N NEcK nY bod.

Louisa Carvota, a young school girl bf SS Lafayette place, was bitten by a large dog owned by Morris Hopper of s5 Lafayette place yesterday afternoon. ghe dog is a large ons and bit the girl badly in the neck. It was no. ex- 9ected that there would be any serious results from the bite. however, ---I-.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
GENERAL PORTER SPEAKS
Hague Approves the Proposition Con
 corning Contractual Debts.

The Hague, Oct. 9.-The discussion of the report of James Brown scctt (American) on the proposed interna- tional high court of justice began to- day. Amoug the speakers was Dr Ruy Barbosa (BraziD, who emphatically re- sented the allegation that he was in any way antagonistic to the United States. The discussion was adjourned until tomorrow.
 The committee on maritime war to- day, after brief but appropriate speech by General Horace Porter (American), approved the proposition on the subject of contractual debts, the vote standing 3S to in it's favor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
CANADA FEARS COMPETITION.

Ottawa, Ont, Oct. 9.-The Canadian manufacturers of pulp and paper wait ed on the government to-day and asked for the prohibition of the export of wood pulp. Sir Wilfrld Laurier said that the matter would be taken Into consideration. Their chief argument Is that American paper manufacturers will be compelled to establish mills in Canada if deprived of Canadian pulp wood
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
Continued on Second Page.)
WEATHER RECORD.

Washington, Oct. 9.-FoHecast for Thursday and Fridayi-
 For New England: Rain and slightly warmer Thursday; Friday fair, increas- ing south winds.
 For Eastern New York: Fair and warmer Thursday, followed by rain in the afternoon or by night; Friday fair, fresh, probably brisk, south winds.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
LoCAL MEATHRR REPoRT.

-'-'i U s wsathss Hurssa.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-10

grass was crushed down into the earth, as
If some one had been dragging a long or a
coil of rope through it; and this kind of trail
seemed to lead into, a thick bed of tall reeds
ON the edge of one of the deepest and gloomiest
pools.
'Snake, sar!" whispered Sam, with face
as bright as if he had just met his Oldest and
dearest friend.
waved him back, saying:
No shoot, .sar. S'pose you no kill snake
fust shot ?-neber see. him again.. Me glib him
settled wild dis land he fourished the long,
heavy club which he carried in his brawny
hand). 'S''pose he too strong for me-den
you make shoot"
So saying, he went forward into the reeds,
stepping as cautiously as if treading on eggs,
with his club uplifted to strike.
All at once he stopped short, and Marsden,
peerlng from behind his shoulder, saw on the
ground huge speckled mass very much like
thick rope coiled round and round;
But second glance showed Marsden, right
in the centre. Of all the successive rings, the
fat, shining, lozenge-shaped head of the great
python" snake!
wake him little Bit"
Down came his club on the serpent's head
with thump, like thrasher's fail; but in
his eagerness he struck somewhat aside, and
instead of killing the snake outright, only gave
IT. very severe bruise.
Instantly the. vast bulk rearedsitself up with
sharp, angry hiss, and before poor Sam could
draw back, the terrible coils were around his
body.
But the snake. half-stunned by the blow,
had not the full command of its strength, and
before 1T could crush Sam in its folds, Mars
den fired both barrels into the scaly body,
The. coil relaxed, and instantly Sans club
(Which he had never let go) came crashing
down upon the hideous head once more. This
time the blow was mortal: The snake writhed
for moment, and then lay dead
Me hab de live pound now" cried Sam
grinning.
- "And I'll have the snake" said Lieutenant
Marsden.
And he kept his word; for the stuffed skin.
fully seventeen feet in length, adorned his
day after.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-10

from the long rank grass in which he stood
waist-deep; nor did he ever feel quite safe untn
he had left the last thicket good way be-
hind.
Altogether, the Big Bayou was not at all
the kind of place where one would have ex
psected to meet any one, who had anywhere
else to go; and still less could one have
thought that brisk young officer of the
British Navy, setting foot on shore for the
first time after a two months cruise, would
turn his back upon the breezy hills and beau
tlful plantations to march straight off into this
dreary swamp.
This, however, was just what Lieutenant
Alfred Marsden, of the Britannia, had done;
and here he was, tramping through the gloom
lest part of the morass with his double-bar
relied rifle on his shoulder, and ''Black Sam, u
the boldest and most skillful among the negro
hunters of the island, following close at his
heels.
"This looks likely place for big snakes
SAM" said Marsden, glancing keen1y round
him. 81 hope we shan't meet with any Of
them"
me hope meet dem berry much, sar," re-
piled Sam, with broad grin.
"Why, are you so fond of snakes then?
hate them like poison"
No No, fond Of snake, sar, but berry fond Oh
dc gubberment reward for ebbery big snake
killed. Five pound big lump money for poor
black man. Hal see dere!"
The last words were spoken in a whisper
while Sam, stepping in front of the lieutenant
made sign to him to remain perfectly still.
For some distance ahead of them the long