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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
CENTRAL WRECK INQUIRIES
STARTED YESTERDAY BU1 NEITHER IS CoNCL USITE.

Roads Superintendent of Motive Power
 Who Went to the Scene of the Wreck
 soon After it Occurred Declares the
 Cause a Mystery--Found No Broken
 Rail--Passenger Testifcs to the Same
 Train Latc--CoroDer's Jury Visits
 Scene.
 New York, Feb. 1S-Two official in vestigations of the disastrous wreck on the New York Central railroad Satur- day night, in which twenty-one pas sengers were killed and about 150 were injured. were begun in this city to-day One was the inquest before Coroner A.. F. Schwannecke and the other an in quiry by the state railroad commission Neither was conclusive. At the coro- ner's inquest Ira F. Mccormick, super intendent of motive power of the New York Central, who went to the scene of the wreck quickly, said the cause of 1t was mystery to him. He de- clared that he found no broken rail. The railroad commissioners were un- able to find the cause,
 J. M Haviland, salesman of White Plains, N. Y, and passenger on the wrecked train, was the first witness examined by the coroner. Assistant District Attorney Nathan A. Smyth questioned the witness. MT Haviland said that shortly before the cars were derailed he heard a sound as though something had struck the second car, and moment later felt jar
 1 Superintendent Mccormick said that two motors were attached to the wreck ed train, because each motor had lost 1 two of the contact shoes connecting with the third rail- Those on the right side of one and the left side of the oth- CT were gone. The two motors were so coupled together as to act as one. He said the running time of the train from New York to Wakefield, twelve and a half miles, was twenty-five minutes. Its schedule at the point where it was wrecked called for speed of very near a mile a minute. Each motor weighed ninety-six tons. He found the first motor on the rails and the second mo- tor off them. A Webber joint connect ing the rails for the purpose of the sig mai system was displaced by one inch near the point of derailment. The rail itself was unbroken. He did not know whether the spikes holding any of the rails to the tires had been broken, as the section men repaired the track be- fore he arrived The third rail was not broken at the point where the first in- dication of the accident was seen, but was knocked down further on. There was nothing n the condition of the track to cause the wreck. The, cause" " he said, lis an absolute mystery to me-" The train was six or seven min- utes late.
 At this point the witnesses were ex- cused until Tuesday morning The coroner's jury then went to the scene of the accident.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
YALE CORPORATION MEET
IMPORTANT NEW APPOINT
 MENTS AND PROMOTIONS.

Professors and Assistant Professors
 Chosen in Academicn1, in Shelf. and
 in the Divinity SchOoI--ProfessOr H.
 W. Farnam Granted Leave of Ab-
 sence for One Year--Messrs. Sargent,
 Heaton, McCIung. Everad ThompsA
 and Ogden Reid Committee to Super
 wise nuilding of New Swimming Pool
 Handsome Gifts Aeceetpd--Other
 Notes.
 The regular February meeting of the Yale corporation was held in this city yesterday There was a large attend- ance of members, including Secretary Taft from Washington and the govern or of the state.
 A large number of important new ap- pointments and promotions was an nounced. These included in tSie aoa- demical department the following: Olive Day, Ph. D., to be professor of economic history; Charles Hubbard Judd. Ph. D., professor of psychology and director of the psychological lab oratory; Albert c. Keller, professor of the science of society; Henry B.Wrlght, Ph. D., assistant professor of Roman history and Latin literature; Albert E. Curdy, Ph. D.. assistant professor of Branch; Rudolph schevill, assistant professor of Spanish.
 | New appointments are as follows: William F. Hooking, Ph. D., Univer- sity of California, to be assistant pro- lessor of philosophy; Josiah Royce, of Harvard university, to be lecturer in philosophy; Ellsworth Huntington. M. A., instructor in geography; Howard W. Church, B. A., instructor in Ger man; Clarence W. Mendel, B. A., in- structor in Latin; Max s. Mandel, in- structor in Russian.
 In the Divinity school Rev Marion L. Burton was appointed assistant profes- sor of theology for next year,
 In the Sheffield Scientific school Dr Frank Pell Underhill was promoted to an assistant professorship of physio- logical chemistry. There were in ad- dition to the above large number oi reappointments. Frederick E. Pierce who is to continue his work as instruc- tor in English ip the Sheffield Scientific school will also have charge of thf university debating interests and give course in the academical department in Augmentation.
 A leave of absence for next year was granted to Professor Henry W. Far. nam, of the department of economics
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
S1S0,OOO WORTH OF
 SECURITIES LOCATED
NEW FORK DETECTIVE AGENC1 FINDS PART OF WALKER'S
 STEALINGS.

Have Not, However, Been Recovered-
 Some of the Securities Not Negotiable
 and These Who Purchased Them are
 RespOnsible-Fifty Thousand Dollars
 Worth of These Reported to Have
 Been Located and Seized in Broad
 Street Brokers Office.
 New York, Feb. 1S.-Norman T. Bail ey, assistant superintendent of de- tective agency in this city, admitted to-day that $1SOOOO worth of the se- curities stolen by William F. Walker, of the savings bank of New Britain Conn. had been located. He made it plain, however, that they had not been recovered. Most of them were negoti- able securities, said MT. Bailey. It is understood that some of the missing securities were not negotiable, and that the persons who purchased these from Walker were responsible. There was a report that $5O,OOO worth of such se- curities had been located in the office of a Broad street broker and seized by the detectives.
 There was another long conference to-day between the committee repre- senting the bank directors in this city, Noah Cornwall Rogers, their attorney, and Detective Bailey. E. H. Davison, of New Britain, president of the Amer ican Hosiery company, ilas been added to the committee of directors owing to the inability of State Senator Andrew Sloper one of the original members of the committee and brotner-in-law of the defaulting treasurer, to act.
 We believe Walker to be in New York city still," Mr. Bailey said after the conference. We are confident that we will get him. It will be only d question of time"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
GOOD DAY FOR DEFENSE
 IN THE TRIAL OF THAW
COUNSEL SUCCEED IN PLACING ACCUSED'S WILL BEFORE
 THE JURY.

Also Thaw's Own Story Told to AIien-
 ists of the Killing of Stanford White
 Thought His Act One of Providence
 His Will shows That He Feared for
 His Life-Fifty Thousand Dollars to
 Investigate His Death if Violent or
 SuspiciOus--Sum Left to he Used fin
 Securing Redress for Young Women
 From White.
 New York. Feb. 1S.-"T never wanted to shoot the creature. never wanted to kill him. I knew he was a foul creature, destroying the mothers and daughters of America, but I wanted through legal means to bring him to trial wanted to get him into court to bring him to justice. But Providence took charge of it; it was an act of Providence"
 This is Harry K. Thaw's own story of the killing of Stanford White. It was told by him to Dr. Britton D. Evans, the alienist last August in the Tombs To-day Dr. Evans repeated the prisoners words to the jury which is trying Thaw for his life.
 District Attorney Jerome fought hard last week against the introduction of this evidence. which the defense be- lleves is conclusive proof that Thaw did not know his act was wrong. Once the testlfying physicians had declared that in their opinion Thaw was in- sane at the time he made the statement to them. however, the rules of evidence permitted the introduction of the 2ris- oner's words.
 Tn further bulwarking their conten- ton that Thaw was insane when he killed stanford White, the defendants counsel succeeded to-day in placing before the jury the will executed by Thaw the night of his marriage in April, 1905, and a codlcil to the will ex- ecuted at the same time. Again MT, Jerome fought the evidence, but he sig nificantly withdrew his objections after Dr. Evans had given 1t as his expert opinion that Thaw was insane at the time he executed the will The fact that the district attorney seems dispos- ed to let in testimony of every charac- ter provided there is preliminary opinion from the witness that the man was of unsound mind at the time to which the testimony refers, WAS taken to-day as further indications that MT Jerome may at the psychological mo- mena if he deems his hand strong enough, demand the appointment of q commission to pass upon Thaw's state of mind at the present moment.
 The will and the codicil. as read to the jurors to-day, were offered in evil dence as cumulative testimony of Thaws mental unsoundness prior to the killing of White, In his will Thaw provided that his executors should set apart the sum of s5OOOO for the investi- eatlon of his death in case of a violent or suspicious end, and for the 2rosecu- ton of the persons suspected of having had a hand in his taking off. In the codicil Thaw left to lawyer in Pitts burg the sum of $,5O0 to be used in securing legal redress from Stanford White and one other person, whose name was not allowed to be read, for the benefit of four young women who'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
HOUSE UPHoLDs PRESIDENT
Conference Report on the Immigration
 Bill Passed.

Washington. Feb. 1S.-Under suspen- sion of the rules the house to-day adopted the conference report on the immigration bill, although the demo- crats generally made party issue against the passport provision as well as to that requiring increased air space in vessels.
 The house refused to suspend the rules and pass the bill recommended by the interstate commerce committee as a substitute for the so-called La Fo- lette bill limiting employment on rail- roads to sixteen hours, the democrats voting solidly against the substitute.
 MT Overstreet of Indiana asked that general debate terminate on the post office appropriation bill at o'clock to- morrow afternoon, which was agreed to and at $40 p. m. the house adjourn ed until il o'clock tomorrow morning
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
e1,OOO MEN BENEFITED.
Raise in Wages Announced by H. c.
 Prick Coke Company.

Connellsville, Pa, Feb. 1S.-An ad- ance in wages that will directly affect 21,0OO men, and mean the paying out annually in the Connellsville region of nearly $1,5OOOOO more than hitherto, was announced to-day by the H. c, Prick Coke company. The new scale becomes effective March 1. It provides for an increase of. F 1-2 per cent for mining, 10 per cent. for drawing coke and 15 cents a day to drivers, rope riders. cagers and track layers, with proportionate raise for other classes of labor. The advance announced by the Prick company will, it is said, be followed by every other coke company in the Connellsyille, lower Connellsville and Greensburg regions, and over 6O,- 900 workmen will be benefited The mine coke worker is now making more than the bookkeepers and high class clerks.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
KNOCKING TRAGEDY.
Indiana Mother Kills Children and Then
 Suicides.

Connersville, Ind. Feb. 1S.--Mrs. J. S. Mundell to-day killed her two daugh- ters, aged four years and seven months respectively. and then committed sui eide. She was alone in the house with the children and when MT. Mundell re- turned home for luncheon he found the house locked and the blinds drawn In q bedroom side by side on bed with their threats cut were the woman and two children. MT. Mundell was thirty five years old. Mir Mundell says his wife was in perfect health apparently and he knew no cause for the act.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
MR. PINoHoT,s SALARY

Senate Increases It From SS,50O to
 s5,OOO.
 washington. Feb. 1S.-As the result of more than five hours consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill to-day the senate increased from $S,500 to $5,O00 the salary of Clifford Pinchot, chief of the bureau of forestry. The debate was devoted mostly to the meth- ods of administration and general pol icy of the forest servic eand at times broadened to include the public land question generally.
 Practically no progress was made on the agricultural bill.
 The, senate will meet at il o'clock tomorrow morning and thereafter.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
PURCHASE OF NORTHAMPTON
Approval Of Bay State Commissioners
 Asked by Consolidated.

Boston, Feb. 1S-The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company to-day petitioned the railroad commis- sioners for approval of the terms of its purchase of the New Haven and North ampton company. The price for the franchise and property was $9S4,00O.
 The New Haven road also Detitioned for approval of the sale of the Berk- shire Railroad company, the price to be paid, $t,SS7.725 and the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad company. the price to be $191. 7O0
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
LIFE SAY IFS MISSING.
Crew of Gayhead, Mass., Station Fail to
 Return.

Vineyard Haven, Mass, Feb. 1S.-The residents of Gayhead were anxious to- night regarding the safety of Captain Calhoun, and the crew of the Gayhcad life saving station. who started for No Mans Land, an island five miles south of the station, at a. m. to-day, and had not returned up to a late hour to- night The life savers, who numbered seven men, were ordered to No Mans Land to remove a body, supposed to be that of one of the victims of the Larchmont disaster.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
SERVANTS HELD As WITNESSES
will Testify at Inquest Into Mrs.
 Binge's Death.

New York, Feb. 1S.-Three women and an old colored man, all employed as servants in the Wallau house at 6S East Eightieth street. were taken be- fore Coroner Acritelli to-day by a county detective and held in $l0O0 bail each as witnesses for the inquest into Mrs. Binges death next Wednesday. Bail was furnished by friend of the Wallau family. The witnesses are Martha Meyer, waitress; Hannah O'Keefe, a laundress; Bertha Kuckup, q cook, and Thomas Woodson, who at tended to the furnace in the Binge house. Mrs. Wallau is held for the death of her mother through poison ing,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
neginning of Fight With Standard.

Marietta. O.. Feb. 1S,-The Pure Oil company, said to be the only compet- ing buyer of crude oil the Standard Oil company has, announced an advance of ten cents a barrel on all oil outside the Oil City purchasing department. The advance includes all grades. It is be- lieved to be the beginning of fight with the Standard and is eX2ected to precipitate much drilling in this field
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
RenuIultion for oil Magnnte.

Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 1S.-ReGui- sition was received here to-day from the governor of Texas for H. Clay Pierce of St, Louis, president of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, who is wanted in Austin, Texas, on the charge of making false affldavits, Governor Folk will have a hearing on requisition tomorrow
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
GOING TO ASIA MINOR.
Cornell Men to Explore the Unmapped
 Regions.

Ithaca, N. Y Feb. 1S--Professor J. R. S. Ste1Tett of Cornell announced to- day that he would lead a party of Cornell explorers into the unmapped regions of Asia Minor this spring. An drew Carnegie, Jacob H. Schiff and w. K. Vanderbilt are among the financial bacers of the project,
 B. B. Charles, J. B. Wrench and A.. T. Olmstead, students under Professor Staerrett's direction, will make maps showing the location of cities now lost in the desert, but which were prosper ous in early historic and prehistoric times. The party will Lay founda- tion for future archaeological research,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
Rubber Production of Philippines,

Washington, Feb. 1S.-The senate to- day agreed to a resolution presented by MT. Carmack for Mr. Morgan. directing the chief of the bureau of insular af- fairs to make an investigation and re- port on the rubber producing capacity of the Philippine islands.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
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MRs. ooHAS GETS DIVORCE.
Verdict In Suit Against George Conan,

Verdict In Suit Against George Conan, the Actor.
 New, York, Feb. 1S.-Grace Ethelia Conan, wife of George M. Conan, the actor, got from a jury in the supreme court to-day verdict entitling her to a decree of absolute divorce.
 Mrs. Conan, known on the stage as Ethel Levy, testified that she was mar riel in Atlantic City July 10, 1899.
 She charged her husband with hay ing visited a house in Chicago and re- mained there all night.
 George Silver, E. J. Watson and Frank c. Amberg, belonging to the company in which Conan was playing, made affidavits that they accompanied him to tn eChicago house.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
Harvard Baseball Candidates.

Cambridge, Mass, Feb, 1S.-Candi- dates for the Harvard Baseball team were called out to-day for their first practice of the season in the baseball cage. Eight members of last years team were among those who responded to the call Al Castle, pitcher of last years team, who is now graduate, assisted Head Coach Pieper in work ing the squad.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
Ix-GoV. HIGGINS WILL.
Charitable Requests of s,OOO-Estate
 of Fourteen to sitxeen Million.

Clean, N. Y, Feb. 1S.--The will of the late ex-Governor Frank w. Higgins was admitted to probate to-day. Be- quests of public and charitable char acter amounting to about $1S00O are provided for. Requests are also made to the testator's rector, personal friends and employees and servants.
 Trusts are created for the benefit of the testator's wife and children, and his wife is made the sole residuary le- gatee.
 The executors are Frank L. Bartlett, N. V. " Franchot who with his son. in-law, Frank Sullivan Smith, are named as trustees under the will
 No mention is made of the value of the estate, but it is estimated to be between $140OC,OOO and $16,O00,OO0.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
kilIed rhnwinr ont prnnmlte.

London, Ky. Feb. 1S.--Five men en- ployed by the Louisville and Nashville railroad laying a doubl etrack at tun- nel No. 6. north of Hazel Patch, were killed to-day by the explosion of one hundred sticks of dynamite which they were thawing around fire,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
CALIFORNIA WITHOUT CHANGE.

From Washington via Washington Sunset route in personally conducted excursion sleeping cars, berth $S. 50 Also best equipment in high class standard service. Office Southern Rail way, 22S Washington St., Southern Pa cifc, 17O Washington street, Boston.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
First Anto Show on Pacific.

San Francisco, Feb. 1S,--The first au- tomoblle show ever held on the Pacific coast opened tonight in the Coliseum, The display of automobiles includes cars of every kind and size. There was an automobile parade through the bus mess streets to-day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
Coal Mine Disaster.

Monterey, MdNieo, Feb. 19.-A dis patch to the News from Las Esperan- gas Coahuila, says that thirty-nine men are known to be dead and twelve in- iured as a result of an explosion of gas in the coal mine at that 2laee.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
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CHARITY LoSES.
Judge Paxson's Desire to Leave $1,-
 5O0,O0O Mlscarries.


 5O0,O0O Mlscarries.
 Philadelphia, Feb. 1S.-Judge Penrose, in the orphans court, to-day declared invalid clause in the will of the late ex-Chief Justice Paxson of the state supreme court, bequeathing $1,5OO,OOO to charity. The will provided that $1oO,- 900 be set aside for the founding of an agricultural school for boys. After the death of the widow the residuary es- tate was to be applied to the same charity.
 Mrs. Paxson died shortly after her husband. Two nephews contested the will, which was properly drawn, but Judge Ponrose held that the bequeast failed because the document had not been witnessed by two persons as re- ouired under the act of 1855. Edward E. and Henry D. Paxson are the chief beneficiaries under the decision.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
Wife of Professor CIemence Dies Sud-
 denly.

New Milford Feb. 1S.-Mrs. Edwin G. CIemence, wife Of Prof. Clemence of the Ingleside seminary, a girls school, suffered heart failure this afternoon, went into convulsions and died. She was about thirty-five years old and had been apparently in fairly good health.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19
Coes insane over TIhalv Trial.

Madison, Wis, Feb. 1S,-Violently insane over the Thaw trial, John Ter dolph talks only of the Thaw trial and says he has $tOO,0oo to help out Evelyn and sHarry,"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-19

Aka wa-chis La-ra rah kata Iluk kut la a-wawi EE-chas- -tair-ius- An Eisuts keats Ahwas- taht -kippauchu La-lerri- -wirulSu- kait- la taha
 Sut La-rah- -kattuss ik
 Pah-uus-Tut Tsup-paht Lik-kuuts kirri -kohki- i-suu pii-karus,
 Ah Put-tosle Uttee- -kacha- -chix-ll -Chah- rix,
 taka-lar-ixis Kitsa-la seet-ah- -l1ilah -kata-laf-
 chah-rix Koo -ruk -utskl -oo -kahwi- -hurekt s-tahkeets-rah- haru . La-ra-chup paht-iku id-iiluku-
 lukuuh rel-lais
 -karaku- kolla-har Et-ketts kushis Lukkits Kah tit The translation of the above is as fol- lows:
 FEED.
 Grape fruit au rhum
 Clear Green Turtle Celery Olives Almonds
 DeVilled Lobster Supreme of Capon aux truffles
 French Peas
 Indian Punch
 Broiled Bear Steak
 Chilled Sweets
 Tomatoes en surprise
 Fancy Ices Cheese Coffee After the feast was at an end the Ruling Chief, with uplifted hand, bade the warriors to be quiet and listen to the Long Ttalk as the Pipe of Peace was passed around. The responses were as follows: The Pipe of Peace-Ruling Chief, Young Man Not Afraid of His Fire Water, Tribesman Osborn. First tal1-"The Tribe"-Chief Hadley, Yale Indian. Second talk-"The Falling Waters" Midnight Ride of Pol Roger)-Chief Reed Indian n-at-Large Third talk-"Thc Pale Face"-a Great White Father-Chief Taft. Tie fourth talk was to have been on 'Pocahontas" (Our Squaws, God Bless Them), by Chief Waller, Mohicaas, but
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-28

Via southern Railway. Effective May %
and continuing each Saturday and Sunday
until October 6, low rate round-trip tickets
will be sold to Bluemont, Harrisonburg,
Warrenton, Somerset and intermediate points
good until following Monday.
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