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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
CONGRESS MAY ACT.
Unless the Attorney General Acts
 Soon Against the Paper Trust.

Washington, April 1S.-In the event the attorney general does not soon show that something substantial has been done to prosecute the paper trust as a combination in restraint of trade providing the pending inquiry shows it is operating in violation of law, congress may go into the trust fight ing business on it's own account.
 Speaker Cannon and Chairman Payne, of the ways and means com-s mittee contend that the tariff has nothing to do with the high price of print paper;~ that if the scarcity of the raw product is not responsible for it. then the fault lies with the paper trust, which, by combining factories and regulating the output holds the prices up to suit itself. The speaker does not intend to rush into trust fighting, but he may offer resolution providing for searching inquiry by q congressional committee into the op- erations of the International Paper company.
 '- This inquiry if held will touch upon the sources of supply, the methods of manufacture and the manner of dis tribution of the products of wood pulp.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
WIND AND RAIN.
Te1as Struck by One of the Worst
 Storms Ever Known.

Fort Worth, Tex, April 1S.-With telephone, telegraph and railroad service completely suspended, Fort Worth was last night the center of tue worst wind and rain storm that has ragged over Texas in many years. With two exceptions every railroad out of this city was forced to annul some trains owing to washouts and loss of bridges, and at midnight the telephone companies reported all wires out of Fort Worth lost. Gle burn, twenty miles south, was struck by wind storm of tornado propor- tions, followed by a torrential down. pour of rain. Within twenty min utes after the storm broke last night the two bayous that run through Cleburn had left their banks, food ing 500 or 600 houses.
 A circus whose tents were pitched in the western portion of the city was completely wrecked; two lions escaped and prowled about town for an hour, throwing people into a panic. One eanvasman was caught under. the wreckage of the main tent and fatally injured. The loss to the circus is estimated at $12,0O0.
 At Fort Worth the Trinity river began to rise again at midnight and every available man from the po- lice force was hurried out to warn the people living in the bottoms.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
CITY NEWS.

Prom Monday evening, City Hall, American band.
 Mir and Mrs Frederick Chase are home after an extended tour through Europe.
 Mayor Thoms spent the day out of town, but is expected home this evening.
 In this weeks edition O. Musical Waterbury is a page article on Henry Dunn, the talented pianist, of this city.
 ]. A. Hynes & Son are Waterbury agents for Royal Insurance com pany. The leaders in paying Chel- sea losses.
 Inquiry at the local florists re- vealed the fact that the Easter trade will equal and perhaps exceed that of a year ago.
 One of he delivery wagons of D. F.. Carroll and Co. while going into the alIeyway between Pollack's store and the Why lunch room broke down this afternoon and blocked the sidewalk Tor some tune.
 Although the number of callers at the charity department is growing less daily. still there are more seek ing aid than usually at this time of the year. The number of inmates at Brookside has been decreased con- siderably during the past few weeks.
 Seth Pratt Of Litchfield and Edwin l.. Oyiatt of the same place to-day had two attachments served by Con- stable I.ann0n on property owned hy Frederick C. Kilbourn on Wolcott street. The first was for damages of S-aO and the second for Sl40. Money was claimed tO have been borrowed in each case.
 There was a rumor circulated this afternoon that the packers of the ticket in the first ward primaries which was thrown out on Thursday would try to have their delegates seated at the convention One of the men whose name was on the ticket when asked about it said there was no truth in the report.
 H. H. Dorsen. the new manager of the Union Clothing Co in the Buck ingham building. has been associated with the firm for many years. and has successfully conducted branch stores in Newcastle and IOhnstovn Pa. as evil ss being for years in the headquarters in New York He is gentleman of pleasing personality and will doubtless make good in his new position
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
FOUND IN RIVER
Body of Man With Union Card is Awaiting Identification at
 Chester

Chester, April 1S.-The body of a
 atly dressed man about 45 years O. age was found in the Connecticut river late yesterday and to-day it was taken to local undertaker's to await Identification. In the pocket of the clothing there was a painters union card bearing the name of Henry Lasker of Springfield, Mass, but the pictuer on it was not that of the drowned man. There was nothing else to give clue to identity. The body had been in the water several weeks. The first impression was that the body might be that of Dr Wheeler of Cornwall-on-Hudso N. Y., who is thought to have jumped off the steamer on its way up the river te Hartford late last fall but friends of Wheeler came here to-day and said the body was not that of the missing doctor.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
BOMB
Tries to Show Tbat Anonymous Letter and Tbursion Questions
 Came From Same Person
LILLEY DISOWNS IT

Washington, April 18.-Hand writing experts were called to-day before the special committee inves- tigating the submarine situation Chairman Boutell stated at the out set of the session, that, 'of the many charges brought before the committee, the most serious was that corrupt means had been used to se- cure or defeat nominations and cleo tions of members of the present | congress. Such a charge reflects | upon the integrity of the house and | deserves most exhaustive examina- | tion by, the committee. The only case of the kind, which the testi- mony has disclosed, is the cowardly | attempt which has been made, part ly through anonymous letters, to blacken the name and ruin the ca reer of Representative Loud of Michigan. As no one has had the courage to admit the authorship of these dastardly communications. the committee feels that the burden has been laid upon it to discover, if possible, the authorship of these communications" MT Boutell stated that the letters had been turned over to experts and he then called David CarZalho.
 The later said he had examined the two letters in question. one re- ceived by the Washington corre- spondent of the Detroit Free Press and the other by Frank Edinbor- ough. He also examined great mass of typewriter documents and compared them with the anony- nous letters, taking photographs and preparing charts, showing his deductions. "Unquestionably," he said, "the two anonymous letters and certain of the papers were writ ten on one and the same machine. |" These documents, it had been testi- fled, were dictated by former Senator Thurston and written in the Wash ington office of the Lake Torpedo Boat company.
 The documents in question were questions and statements to the committee by MT Lilley and signed by him. The witness said that the identity of the type writing ma chine, on which two or more pa- pers were written, could be deter mined more readily than the gen. uineness of handwriting
 While he was testifying, Repre- sentative Lilley gave out state ment, denying all knowledge of the authorship of those letters.
 Mir Lilley further said that the four documents. which the expert said were written on the same type writer as we'll as the anonymous let ters, were submitted to me by an agent of the Lake company. "I sign ed them and submitted them to the committee. They were not written on any typewriter belonging to me-"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
ANOTHER GOULD ROW l
Youngest Son Sued by Wife For
 Separation.
BLAMEs "CURSE OF MONEY"
If He Had Been q Poor Chap He Could Have Escaped, Asserts Millionaire With Beautiful Spouse-Mother-i in law a Peacemaker.

New York, April 1S.-Frank J. Gould, on train bound for Hot Springs, Va, | admitted that his wife had sued him for legal separation.
 MT. Gould evinced great sorrow and in long interview talked most kindly about his wife. He has entered no | cross action and will enter none, but probably will make vigorous defense. His affairs are in the hands of De- lancey Nicoll.
 Every effort at a reconciliation is be- ing made by Mrs Goud's mother, Mrs. Edward Kelly But she admitted that she had made little headway.
 Mrs. Gould's action, begun in the su- preme court, is based on the grounds of cruelty and neglect. It is learned that the husbands extreme jealousy is at the bottom of the difficulty.
 Mrs. Gould's bessSy makes her the center of attraction wherever she ap- pears, and the gallantries of which she has been made the object have result ed in so many quarrels between the young couple that the wife has finally decided to conserve her peace of mind by seeking legal separation.
 It can be stated on the highest au. thority however, that there will be no action for divorce on the part of either
 In the interview which Mir. Gould gave there is held out strong possi. bility that the reconciliation for which Mrs. Kelly is working may be brought about.
 "A fellow can have bully wife" he cried, "beautiful children, money and all that and still that chap can be cursed - made unhappy. It's hardly fair, now, is 1t? I need a change, and then I wanted to escape all this," pointing to a heap of newspapers by his side
 But the fates were against your
 Not that; mo- not that. If I had been poor chap could have escaped 1t all. This is another curse of money" and the young millionaire disconsolate, ly buried his face in his hands.
 He is the third of the six children of the late Jay Gould who have becohhs enmeshed in domestic difficulties, and this tangle comes while the public are still discussing the troubles of Mime Gould, his sister, and the Prince de Sagan and the divorce suit of his broth. er Howard Gould. This fact weighed heavily on him apparently, and he spoke bitterly of the distressing pub licity.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
DEATH AT FEAST
Soldiers Broke Loose Last Sun- day and Killed Two
 Policemen.

San Francisco, April 1S.-WhilG almost the entire place of Mazat- Ian, Mexico, were participating in a religious feast last Sunday 25 sOl- diers broke out of the garrison and began a wild career of rioting and bloedshed. They quickly killed two poIcemen and one other citizen and robbed three men in the outskirts of the city.
 News of the mutiny was brought by Louis Bradbury, well known mining man who arrived here yes- terday afternoon in the German steamer Abessinia, which left Ma zatlan on the day the mutiny oc- cured.
 Gov Francisco Canedo of Sinalo, who was in the city, lost no time in calling out the mounted district po- lice and 50 of them started in pur- suit of the soldiers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
PRESIDENT MELLEN DENIES.
That Railroad Borrowed $3O,OOO,-
 900, Foreseeing Panic.

New Haven, April 1S.-President Mellen of the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Railroad com pany to-day emphatically denied the statement made yesterday by A. O. CroZier of Wilmington, Del, to the house committee on bank ing and currency at Washington to the effect that prominent financier had told MT Mellen that a panic was to be brought on before the meeting of congress and on that in- formation, MT Crozier said, the rail- road had borrowed 100000. MT Mellen said the statement was ab- surd and unqualfiedly false. He added that the plans for borrowing the money had been made by his road for year or more before the panic and that the original plan had provided for an issue of stick. This had been changed, owing to later panic conditions, to loan at par of per cent debentures.
 At the time the loan was planned and for a considerable time subse- quently neither he nor, in his opn- loH, any plOHiueHL HdClcl Ol luO country anticipated the panic condi- tions and tn unfavorable condition for railroad loans which subse- quently ensued. As confirming this statement of Mr Mellen's it is pointed cut in banking circles here that the plan of issuing new stock was actually outlined in the last annual report of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad com pany, the scheme providing for the issue of a large amount of new stock at $125 share and rights on the new stock to be delivered were actually sold by brokers. This plan, owing to the panicky conditions of the money market and the fall in the price of the New Haven stock, had to be modified, debenture scheme, as stated, which plan has since been carried through.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
railroad" replied MT Lilley with {

railroad" replied MT Lilley with a smile.
 And rebating," suggested John M. Thurston, attorney for. the Lake Boat company.
 "Yes, and rcbating," added MT Lilley. adopting the prompting by ex-Senator Thurston. MT Stevens asked MT Lilley if he meant to charge the members Of the board of construction with be- ing unpatriotic.
 "They are no more patriotic than are Admirals Bowles, O'Neill and Melville. Their experience has all been along the same lines, said MT Lilley. ,..u He added that the fact that a man was a good naval constructor did not necessarily make him a good business man.
 q am making no charges against anybody" replied MT Lilley.
 Replying to questions by MT Olm' sted, MT Lilley said he maintained that the government had paid more than million dollars in excess of what is should have paid for subma- rines, this including the pending un' contracts.
 "When Gid you make the discov- cry that the government was being cheated?" he was asked.
 "When I first went on the naval affairs committee, in 1906"
 MT Lilley admitted that he had voted for the appropriation for sub marines in the bill of, 1906 and again in 1907, the first appropriation a million, the last three millions.
 Yet you knew the governmentwas not getting the worth of its money when you so voted?" inquired MT Olmsted.
 "Yes," replied the witness, Out the government never gets the worth of it's money from any contract"
 MT Olmsted read the record O. votes in the naval committee on the authorizations of submarines and re- minded MT Lilley that he had voted against a proposition to buy eight submarines for three millions be- luty Wtlc ElcCtllC lDOiL to ton tracts, but voted immediately there. after for an appropriation of s., 500,000 for four boats to be built by the Lake Boat Co.
 MT Lilley seemed puzzled and ad. mitted that if he voted that way il was due to mistake. "The amend ments were hurriedly drawn" said he, "and I may have voted for il without knowing what I was doing"
 Then yon are in the same boat with the navy board that you have been criticising, are you not?" In. quired MT Oimsted.
 Concluding for the day MT Lilely decuared that he did not charge cor. ruption against navy officers. but he did charge that the government had lost money through inexperience and want of experience.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
M'KINLEY MEMORIAL.
Philadelphia Monument Nearly Com.
 pleted at BranforC,

Branford, April 1S.-The McKin- ley Memorial monument, which is to be erected in Philadelphia and dedi- cated May II, is nearly finished at the quarry here. The design is in three dies, made up of two bases about eight feet high and central shaft rising fifteen feet. The shaft is square. is slightly tapering and is hammered smooth. On t wo sides there will be eagles with wings out spread and on a third side there will be a tablet bearing the name "Wil- liam Mckinley" Surmounting the shaft will be bronze statue of the dead president and on one of the sub dies there will be an allegorical group in bronze. The monument Is of Stony Creek granite and weighs about 100 tons.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
AFTER TwENTY-oNE YEARS.
Engagement Ring Restored to
 Young Woman Who Lost It.

Westport. April 1s.--A gold ring, bearing the initials "A. F. s. to R. D." picked up on the old braves farm in the Springhill district on Tuesday, has been identified as a ring that was lost twenty-one years ago. At that time 1t was given to Rose Drayes by Arthur E. 5oley, an engineer on Sound steamer. One day Miss Braves was pairing potatoes and tossed the parings to the chick ems. The ring flew off her finger and was not found uitil now. Mir Soley and Miss Draves were married and are residents of Riverside avenue. The Draves homestead is now occu- pied by Lucius B. Tanning. One of the Tanning children while at play on Tuesday picked up the ring. which was almost as brighJ as when lost. It has been restored to Mrs Soley.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
GO BACK TO THE MINES.
Soft Coal Men to Take Up Picks Again
 Next Week.

Next Week.
 Toledo. O., April 1S.-The 100000 idle miners in the central competitive dis. trict will go to work next Monday. AL amicable agreement between miners and operators was reached by mem. bers of the scale committee, and this agreement was later ratified by the joint meeting of the miners and opera. tors. Both sides are satisfied with the results of the convention, and the con ference adjourned with the best of feeling between the two parties to the controversy. The terms of the agree ment provides for general resumption of work throughout the district next Monday.
 The adoption of the old rate of 90 cents a ton for mining coal; referen dun vote to be taken by districts and call of the committee to receive the returns of the vote, the referendum being on the proposition to make the agreement hold for two years: uni. form screen of one and one-fourth inch. es: an eight hour day: the referring of all local differences as to prices and conditions to the districts for settle ment: an invitation to Illinois opera. tors to join in the next interstate con vention and that the next joint inter. state conference be held in Toledo in February. 1910.
 Miners and operators are delighted with the outcome of the conference and declare there is now more har. monious feeling between miners and operators than has existed in years.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
CASES ARE SETTLED.
The Connecticut Company Arranges
 With Several Contestants.

Through the agency of Attorney F. P. Guilfoile a settlement has been effected in the suits of Lizzie Bro- phil against the Connecticut company Mrs James Crough against the same and Michael Mankevich against the same also. The last named was a small boy who was killed on North Main street through coming in con tact with a loose live wire. The wire was hanging down almost the entire forenoon, and the boy, not knowing the danger. touched it and was killed instantly. Damages of s5,000 was claimed in that case.
 Mrs Crough was aunt of Mary Ryan who was killed at the railroad crossing accident on West Main street November 26 last. The company of. fered s4,000 in settlement of al those death claims arising from that accident.
 The Brophil suit had its origin in that accident also. and damages oi s2,000 was claimed on account of in- juries received.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
Removing a Village.

Washington, April 1S.-Gatun vil- lage on the Chagres river, opposite the railroad station at Gatun, 18th mus of Panama, with a population oi about 600 people and containing about no dwellings, is being remov- ed to a new site about two miles away, a change being necessary be- cause the village is on the proposed site of the dam at that place. The new town is to be amply provided with water and sewerage systems.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
It Is Maud Durant.

San Francisco, April 1S.--The Call to-day says: Information was re- ceiSed here yesterday that Maud Allen, the mysterious danseuse. at the Palace theater in London who has taken that city by storm, is none other than Maud Durant of San Francisco, sister of Theodore Durant, who was hanged for the murder of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Will Hams thirteen years ago. In let ter to girl friend who attended the polytechnic school with her she reveals her identity. Hitherto all that was known of the wonderful dancer was that she was al Ameri- can whose success was as successful as her art.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
McClurc's Report

New York. April IS.-Ths repor, of Referee David Mcclure. who heard the evidence in the suit of Mrs Alfred C. Vanderbilt for divorce, Is expected to be filed with the su- preme court on Monday. It Is be- lieved that the granting of a divorce will be recommended by ,hs referee after which it will have tO De either confirmed or disapproyed Oy a jus tioe of the supreme court.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
Taft at New York.

New York, April 1S.-Sec "etary of War Taft will deliver the principal address at a meeting of the Lay mems missionary movement to be held in Carnegie hall next Tuesday. Others who will take part in the meeting are Bishop Greer of New York, Samuel R. Capen, who will read statement regarding the cen tennial commission, !. Campbell White and Silas McBee.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
Conc to GIcns Falls.

Rochester, \. Y.,s April 1S.-w. ]. Bryan left Rochester to-day for Glens Falls. where he speaks tonight. To- morrow afternoon he gives an Easter addrcss at the Utica Y. M. C. A. and in the evening speaks at Little Falls. On Monday he goes to New York city. speaking in the Bronx Monday night and at q press dinner Tuesday night. Hc meets Mrs Bryan and their daughter in New York. On Wednes- day he will be the guest Of Governor Fort of New Jersey in Trenton.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
Had Cen, In Stomach Sixty Years.

Laporte. Ind. April 1s-A large cop per cent swallowed sixty years ago caused the death of James Huckins sixty-seven years old. farmer. The coin become Incased in the lining of the stomach at the time it WAS swal. lowed and remained there until recent Iy. when an absceSs formed and acids in the stomach began to dissolve the coin. Poisoning ensued. causing death
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
KILLED BY TRAIN
Siraif0rd Woman Was on the Tracks Picking Up Coal
 When Struck.

Stratford, April 1S.-Mrs Emma Shaw, mother of five children, was killed by train here to-day. She and her husband being in straighten- ed circumstances, were on the rail- road tracks picking up coal. She stepped out of the way of one train right in the path of another going in the same direction.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
Wrecked Men Arrive.

New York, April 1S.-Captain Hinden and six men of the crew of the British schooner Helen E. Keney. which was lost on March g in the port of Porto Cabello. ar rived here to-day on the steamer Prinz Frederick Hendrix. The Helen E. Keney was anchored at Porto Cabello when currents forced her on a submerged wreck or ledge and she sank in spite of all effor.s to save her. The hulk and the cargo was sold
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
New Haven Gaining su,in.,,.

New Haven. Conn. April lS.-In rail road circles here t is stated that some signs of a business revival have ap neared on the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad company dur. ing the last few days. Tn the latter part of March and the first days of April receipts on the system both fos freight ard passengers continued their heavy falling offs but of late the loss has been decreased nearly one-half.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
Hobson Says Fight Goes On.

Washington, April 1s.-"'rhe light for big navy will go right on," sait, Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama after an interview with the president yesterday. No battle was ever won or lost on the skirmish line. We have only just be- gun. If John Sharp Williams had not made the matter a party question in the house there would have been many more democratic votes in favor Of four battleships. The question of a big navy is broader than party"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18
From Darkest Africa,

New York, April 1S.-Much valu- able information including maps, photographs and specimens from darkest Africa were brought here by Prof Alexander Agassiz of Harvard university and his son Mai. who ar- rived from Europe to-day on the steamer Cedric. Prof Agassiz and his son spent some time in Africa exploring large range of territory of which very little had been learned previously.