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The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
CHILD VICTIMS OF
 FIRE NUMBER 165
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(Continued from First Page.1 cred about the blazing ruins or the schoolhouse, hundreds of parents fight ing frantically with the policemen anu firemen, who were busily engaged in saving the lives of the children caught in the burning building and doing thelr best to extinguish the fire.
 Among these latter men was Wallace Upton, who reached the building short ly after the front door had eaved Ill., and disclosed to the horror stricken crowd the awful scenes that had been enacted there. Just in front of Upeen eyes was his own ten year old daugh- ter. helpless in the crush. badly purh- ed and trampled upon, but still alive. The fire was close upon her, and If she could not be saved at once she could not be saved at all. Upton sprang to help her and with all his strength sought to tear her from the weight that was pressing her down. and from the flames which were creeping close. Although he worked with a des- HSAdA Ol utSpdll uio otiShohh unequal to the task. He fought on un- til his clothing was partly burned from him and the skin of his face and hands were scorched black Other men attempted to induce him to move but he refused until he saw that his girl was dead and that he could not save her life by sacrificing his own. He then withdrew from the school house. and although so seriously injured that he may die. fingered about the place for several hours, refusing to go to hos pital, or to seek medical attention.
 The flames spread with such terrific rapidity that within thirty minutes from the time the fro was discovered the schoolhouse was nothing but few blackened walls surrounding cellar filled with corpses and debris.
 The firemen dashed into the blazing wreckage and with rakes, forks. shov- els and their bare hands worked in the most frantic manner with the hope of saving few more lives. They were unsuccessful for none was taken alive from the ruins after the floors col lapsed.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
KANSAS ALL FOR TAFT
State Convention Instructs Delegates
 Firmly for Him.

Topeka, Kan, March 4.-The re- publican state convention met here to- day. It was a foregone conclusion that the four delegates to the na- tlonal convention to be selected would be instructed for Taft. United States Senators Chester l.. Long and Charles Curtis were sure of selection as two of the delegates.
 The resolutions are brief. They strongly indorse Secrtary Taft as the choice of Kansas for the Republican presidential nominee and instruct the delegates 10 stand by him on every preliminary test and on every ballot. The administration of President Roose- welt is enthusiastically approved The work and the records of Senators Long and Curtis and the congressional dele cations are also endorsed.
 There is no endorsement of state can didates or any attempt to outline a platform. This is left to the August primaries.
 The four delegates 10 be named are also Instructed for D. w. Mulivane for national committeeman.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
VOTE ON B. & M. CUT
Question of Accepting Wage Reduction
 Up This Week.

Boston, March 4.--The locomotive engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen of passenger and freight trains on the Boston and Maine rail road system win vote this week on the question of accepting per cent. wage reduction for four months, the present wage rate to be restored by July l.
 It wasrumored last week that gen. eral cut down of 10 per cent. would be made, similar to the reduction of the pay of salaried employees, and the re- suit was that President Futile, invit- ed the committees of the brotherhood to conference He told the commit tees frankly that business had fallen off and showed the reports of the road to the men in confidence. He said that number of passenger and freight trains would have to be taken off, throwing many men out of employment or temporary cut in wages would have to be made. It was finally de- clded that proposition to make a cut of five per cent. until July 1, should be submitted to a referendum vote of employees.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
PRIEST SUICIDES
New London Assistant Found Dead
 With Bullet Wound in Head.

New London. March 4.-Rev. William F. Dunworth assistant priest at St. Mary's Star of the Sea, Roman Cath ollie church was found dead in his room at the parochial residence to-day with bullet wound in his head, self infiict- ed according to the medical examiner MT. Dunworth it is believed by the medical examiner. was suffering from paronoia. He returned from a visit to his rarents at New Britain yester- day and walked the floor of his room most of the night, laboring under the belief it is stated that some one was prosecuting him. This morning the housekeeper went to his room with food, and when he did not appear la ter in the day made another visit to the room, and found him lying dead in bed The medical examiner was notified and after examination made his finding of suicide.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
PER DIEM COMMISSION
Appointed to Adjust Rates and Ar-
 range for Return of Cars.

Philadelphia, March 4.--The exec utive committee of the American Rail- way association has appointed Presi- dents McCrea of the Pennsylvania; Lucius Futile of Boston and Maine railroad, w. w. Finley of Southern Railway, Marvin Hughitt of Chicago and Northwestern railroad and How ard Elliott of the Northern Pacific railroad, commission to adjust per diem rates and arrange a plan under which railroads may secure the re- turn to their own lines of freight cars. The executive committee of the railway association was authorized to appoint the committee at a meeting held in Chicago in February, but the personnel of the commission was not known until it was made public here to-day.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
NEW WORLD DISCOVERED
Planet or Satellite Seen at Kiel and
 Greenwich Obseryatorics.

Cambridge, March 4-The discov- cry of a new planet or satellite is an- nounced in cable dispatch received from the observatory at Kiel, Ger many, by the astronomers at the Har- ward observatory at Cambridge. The new body was observed on eight dif- ferent nights by the observer, Melotte. at Greenwich, England, and is visible in a large telescope.
 Its position on two different occs ssioos was given IS follows: On January 27 .59l6, Greenwich mean time, it was Tn right ascension hours. 46 minutes, 7.2 seconds; declination plus IS degrees 2 minutes 34 seconds. On Febrliarv os .47S2, Greenwich mean time, it was i'm right ascension s hours, 31 minutes 29 seconds, deelination plus 19 degrees 16 minutes, 13 seconds. The Harvard ,s- tronomers are inclined to the belief that the object is a satellite.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
FOUR MORE ORGAN RECTTALS.
Mir. Hedden of New York to be Heard
 in Woolsey Hall Monday.

The series of organ recitals by Pro- lessor Harry B. Jepson. '93, university organist, closed with the recital last Monday afternoon. This series will be followed by four recitals by other organists of note during successive weeks commencing Monday, March 23. The first of these recitals will be given by Warren R. Hedden. organist of the Church of the Incarnation, New York city, formerly of Trinity church, this city.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
LYMAN BEECHER LECTURES. First One Monday by President Faunce
 of Brown University.

The annual course of Lyman Beech CT lectures on Preaching, founded in 1871 by the late Henry w. Sage, is being given, commencing on Monday, by Rev. William H. P. Faunce. D. D., LL D., president of Brown university, on "The Educational Aim of the Min istry." The topics considered on the first three days of this week have been 'The Place of the Minister in Society" ''The Minister as Mediator" and "The Minister as Ethical Teacher" The course will be completed on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons of next week, the topics for considera- ton on these days being, respectively, "The Minister as Interpreter of the Bible" ''The Minister as Organizer of Educational Forces,' and "The Edu- cation of the Minister by His Task"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
THREATENING OF HUGHES
Scant Confirmation Given to Rumor of
 Plot Against Governor

Albany N. r., March 4-Rumors that Governor Hughes had received threat ening letters especially with reference to his attitude toward race track gambling, received scant confirmation to-day at the executive chamber Governor Hughes would not talk about it at all, beyond saying:
 Its a poor governor who doesn't receive threatening letters at times"
 The most definite rumor, which no one at the executive chamber would confirm, was to the effect that two New York city priests, friendly to him. had written him about threats against the governor which had been brought to their attention.
 There is good reason to believe that whatever threat of this kind has been received, has been turned over to the police commissioner of New York city.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
AXE OUT AT PRINCETON
Seventy-three Students, FlunkiDg Mid
 Years, Are Dropped.

Princeton, N. J., March 4.--An- nouncement was made to-day that seventy-three students have been dropped from the rolls of Princeton university owing to their failures in the recent mid-year examinations. The total number last year was fifty eight. The increase is said to be due to the higher standard required.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
OLDEST RESIDENT
Suggestion Made That Journal Courier Find True Holder
 of That Title.
MRS. BR0UGHT0N CLAIMS 1T
khe Was Married Sixty-five Years Ago, is Ninety-one and is Very
 Active To-day.

The suggestion has been made to the Journal Courier by Dr. Charles II. Howland of POS sherman avenue that an effort be made to obtain as com plete Pnd accurate list as possible of those residents of New Haven or Vii cinity who are eighty or more years of age. Dr. Rowland urges that such a list would undoubtedly prove of great Interest to the older people of the city and many of the younger genera lions as well.
 It is safe te say that the Chapman evangelists, recently here, held no moro touching and effective meeting than that for the aged in Calvary Baptist church, and one of the pleas antest features of that pleasant ser vice with it's social side, when the old people turned to speak each to his or her pew-neighbor, to exchange word or two of greeting and narrate a bit of personal experience. Many of them expressed the wish that they might see more of each other and talk over the good old times. But they do not know each others names and ad- dresses. Some they saw were old friends of younger days, from whom they have drifted apart.
 The suggestion seems a good one, and the Journal-Courier this morn ing prints Dr. Howland's letter as follows:
 New Haven, March 2, 1908. Editor Journal Courier:
 Dear sir: noticed in this morning edition of your paper an account of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the we'd ding of Mir and Mrs. Isaac Banks Nichols of Greenfield IIill Fairfield. Their many years of married life and their great ages, eighty-four and eighty-three, respectively, greatly in- terests me, and the more so as my wife's mother, Mrs. Sarah S. Brough- ton, widow of Henry w. Broughton, now deceased nearly ten years. was also married sixty-five years ago, March first Mrs. Broughton is near ing her ninety-first birthday, and is in fairly good health, being able to go up and down stairs and all about the house. Mrs. Broughton, who makes her home with us, says she didn't be- lieve there can be another person in New Haven or Connecticut, as old as she Is. Mrs. Broughton has been res ddent of New Haven siXtynine years.
 If those interested would send in to the Journal-Courier the names and ages of those persons eighty or more years old, the list would prove very Interesting to the aged ones as well as to many others. Our aged people would feel greatly honored and, and whom ought we to honor more2
 Very truly,
 CHAS. H. ROWLAND.
 This paper will be pleased to re- reive communications from it's readers in this regard. It would be an inter esting fact at least to find out who is New Haven's oldest resident. Is Mrs. Broughton right in her supposition that she may claim that title at nine- tv-one?
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
BOWLING TOURNAMENT.

Rochester. N. r., March 4-Opening day marks in all classes were surpass- cd to-day in the second days rolling at the tournament of the National Bowl ing association. The Asteroids of Utica rolled al total of 2,795 In inc five men team event, establishing the record score of the present tourney. The OLeary's of Chicago rolled 2.5s0 and Schwartz Unknowns of Niagara Falls had 259O in the five men class. |. Whaley and Whaley of Toronto, had the high total in the two men class, with 1.0Sl.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
THREE INITIATED.
Degree Team of Hillhouse Works on
 New Candidatcs.

Hillhouse council, Royal Arcanum, held it's regular meeting last night. The first degree was worked on three candidates by the following degree team; Regent A. E. Echmark, Vice. Regent John w. Hut, Orator A. H. Babcock, Past Regent A. oswald Pall- man, Guide E. l.. Bradley, Kneeling Brother M. s. Wadhams and Elector J. J. Padlman.
 The degree teams of the state are in a competition for a cup offered by Grand Regent Hoyt, of South Nor walk
 After the degrees had been worked speeches were made by Grand Regent Hoyt Grand Regent J. J. Carr, of Philip Sheridan council, and Grand Regent Sullivan, of Beacon Hill coun- cil
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
LECTURES ON WATERLOO.
Prof. Wheeler Delivers His Famous
 Address on Napoleon's Defeat.

Prof. Arthur N. Wheeler of the his tory department in Yale delivered his lecture on Waterloo" last night at Lampson lyceum under the auspices of Phi Beta Kappa. Prof. Wheeler has delivered the lecture for many years and large crowd always shows the appreciation of it.
 Prof. Wheeler in his lecture attacks the Duke of Wellington and shows what other circumstances were re- sponsible for the defeat of the French. Last night he paid his customary great tribute to Napoleon.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
DOORS MUST OPEN OUTWARD.

Springfield, H., March 4,--Secretary Egan of the Illinois state board of health tonight sent orders to all city county and town officers to close all schools, both public and private, that are not provided with doors that open outwards, and with open fire escapes and to keep them closed until needed safety devices are installed.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
PAINT CLUB HAS
 FINE CANVASES
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Continued from First Page) the finest he has yet exhibited, in color, in certainty of handling and in dignity of conception. It is one of the notable portraits of the exhibition. MT. Max Defiant exhibits three in- teresting canyases, in which his tre- mendous sense of tone and envelope quite overcome a slight brutality in the conception and handling.
 In concluding we must still mention an excellent decoration by MT Theo- dore Diedrickson of The Good Ship Hector"-a good New Haven subject from colonial times.
 The excellent exhibition of water colors, pastels and black and ewhite will be reviewed at later date.
 II. M. l..
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
STATE cI.nsEs rrs c.s1r

Harrisburg Pa, March 4-Den,,fy- Attorney General Cunningham closed the opening speech for the common- wealth in tine capitol contract trial this evening having spoken for eight hours. He closed with strong declara ton that the state had proved it's case of conspiracy.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
WILL OF MARGARET pLATT

The will of Margaret Platt was filed with John l.. Gilson, the clerk of the Probate court yesterday afternoon. The estate which is a small one is, with the exception of two small be- quests of sl00 each, left to niece, Sarah Stiles Platt, who is also named executrix.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
HELD FOR BEGGING.

William Brown, who did not give any address, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Officer Charboneau of Dixwell avenue for begging. Brown was striking passersby for dimes.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
AUDERMANIC MEETINGS.

The aldermanic claims committee will meet in the city hall tomorrow evening.
 The sewers and squares committee of the board of aldermen meets to- morrow night in the city hall.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
DINNER FOR DIR. F. K. ROOT.

DTNNI1IN IT N7Ft N7tN' I9' M ftVVI'
 A dinner was given by the Doctors at the Old Heidelberg in honor of Dr. Edward K. Root, who read paper on "Blood Pressure yesterday after noon at the Yale Medical school. Many of the leading doctors of the city were present, among whom were the president and secretary of the association, Drs. McCabe and F. Reed Whittemore. After the dinner ended the doctors adjourned to the Union League club.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
COMPENSATION BOARD TONIGHT

The board of compensation meets tonight, and its session will be in the nature of a public hearing. Some action will probably be taken on the Lighthouse road question.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05

BOARD OF FINANCE TONIGHT.
 The board of finance meets in the city hall this evening. Most of the bills for February will be passed upon at this time.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
Week of slSrch 2. Gll|espie's Drug Store
 Prices.

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 oz. .... .s Gillespie's Antiseptic Skin Soap
 Per cake .....-.........-.. ] Glllespie's Syrup Honey and Tar
 for Coughs .......... :: Gillespie's Cherry Compound. for Gillespie's Special Prescription, No.
 55, for coughs ................. :: Gillespies Pile Ointment ...... :: Gillespie's Witch Hazel Ointment. .; Gillespie's Liver Pills in 100s.... ! Gillespie's Lilac Cold Cream. ID. Gillespie's Lilac Cold Cream, 21-lb.
 tlns ..... ..-............,. .t Gillespies Lilac Cold Cream, trial
 size jars. ................... ] Gillespie's Benzoin and Almond Lo-
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The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05
very truly,
 CHAS. IL. ROWLAND.

This paper will be pleased to re- reive communications from it's readers in this regard. It would be an inter esting fact at least to find out who is New Haven's oldest resident. Is Mrs. Broughton right in her supposition that she may claim that title at nine- ty-one?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-01-30

An interesting side issue is the question of
the attitude and even of the continued exist
cnce Of the Hughes State League, of which
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-01-30

The nominal balance available In the Unit
ed States Treasury at the beginning of the
weeks business was less than 81, 100000 That
there was any balance at all was due to what
the Associated Press dispatches call "a quiet
readjustment Of other items of the balance
Sheet
This readjustment was made by 'cutting
down balances to the credit of disbursing off
GERS and thereby diminishing their power 10
draw without notice on the cash in the Treas
ury."
The receipts of the Treasury are falling Off,
partly because brewers, distillers and others
who buy revenue stamps, for which thew
must pay cash. find it hard to get currency,
and partly because Of tendency to postpone
paying duties on bonded imports. The les
sening of receipts is expected to continue for
some months.
With tagging receipts and a balance which
is mere bookkeeping the Treasury might be
supposed to be IN a bad way Nothing Of
the sort. 1t has $25O,000,00O out on deposit
paying no interest to the Government but
earning not less than $1,5000OO month for
the banks
With quarter of billion dollars deposit
ed and available at moment s notice the
Government is borrowing another $15O,OOO.
900. In the case of the $50,000O00 of Pan
anna bonds it is merely anticipating provision
Tor payments which must some time be made
But the $1OOO0O,OO0 Of short-term certificates
are loan of doubtful legality, made bv the
Treasury not to meet extraordinary expendi-
lures, as the law under which they are issued
prescribes, but to provide currency.
If the entire $10O,000,OOO are issued only
$250OO,O00 of cash will be paid into the
Treasury for them. The other $75OOO,O0O
remain as deposit in the subscribing banks.
The banks will also retain their present Gov
eminent moneys; and by shifting securities
now held against such deposits they can use
the new issue as basis for additional bank
note circulation. In this way alone, to this
extent only, will the currency famine be re-
heved just as it is about to relieve itself sss
The Government first exacts a quarter of
billion by excessive taxation; then restores
this fund to circulation by free deposits in
the banks; then borrows $150,0000OO more
which it does not need, at an interest cost of
$4OOO,00O, solely to provide more currency
and move the crops.
Is this not heavy price to pay, with all
the vexation and loss the business commu@
nifty is suffering, for standing pat upon an
excessive tariff, for Congressional neglect of
an inadequate and inelastic currency system
and for amateur management in the Treasury
Dnnorfn1 q-NnEu
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-01-30
GobernOr Hughes R' ss,; :: ::;;;' 1,;;a'es
in Taft Boom. ~

Albany, N. Y, January 26-Possible
organization of the Republican State Com
mittee-more particularly as to the chairman-
sip of the committee and and personnel of
the big FOUR delegates at large from this
state to the Republican national convention to
be held in Chicago on June 16 next, are the
matters Of chief concern now among the poll
ticians in and about the legislature These
questions center in the preliminary state con-
vention to be held probably in April and add
interest to preparations for the preliminary
elections which will be held in March for the
selection Of delegates
Situation Has Changed
The situation has changed in radical way
during the past week. Seldom within seven
days have occurred two events of Importance
so fundamental as the two to which the shift
in the political situation is almost entirely
due. Both were unexpected One was the ac-
ceptance by Governor Hughes, for all practical
purposes, of the candidacy for the Republican
presidential nomination; the other, closely fol-
lowing, was the letter Of Secretary Taft to
Chairman Parsons, Of the Republican general
committee of New York county, asking his
friends not to oppose endorsement of Govern
or Hughes by the Republicans of New York
State
The declaration Of the governor was ac-
cepted by most Of the Republican leaders as
leaving the party no option in the matter;
the letter of Secretary Taft swept away what
eyer remained sof opposition to the Hughes
candidacy, so far as this state is concerned.
Chairman Parsons, who hitherto had been re-
garded as virtually committed to Secretary
Taft, at once declared himself for Hughes,
and there seems no room for doubt that at
the meeting of the New York County Com
mittee on Wednesday the resolution for the
endorsement of Governor Hughes, on which
the committee has twice postponed action,
will be adopted without opposition.
The Hughes State League
An interesting side issue is the question of
the attitude and even of the continued exist
cnce of the Hughes State League, of which