Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-03
La TOURAINE is DISABLED
French Liner Bursts Steam Pipe as it
is Leaving New York.
TWO OILERS BADLY sCALDED
Passengers viii BE transferred 20
La Bretagne, which Will
Sail for Havre To-
day.

NEW YORK, April The Transatlantic
liner La Touraine was crippled today by
the bursting of the main steam pipe OF It's
port boiler and compelled to abandon its
voyage to Havre. Two Of the oilers were
frightfully scalded, but it was said to-
night they would recover. TIL accident oc-
CURED Just as the vessel had come from
its pier and was veering around in mid
stream for the run down the river TO the
open sea. Friends of passengers who were
still waving farewells from the pier saw
the ship suddenly enveloped in steam from
water line to deck. There was an eXplo-
sion. but 1t was too faint to be heard from
shore. Those on board, however, were seen
TO be Scurrying about the deck and for q
time the widest kind of excitement pre-
vailed both on board the vessel and ashore.
hat something serious had happened waS
realized when signals ship not under con-
troll" were run up.
The general agent or the line at once
put out in a tug and upon reaching La
Touraine found that the explosion had
shattered the intake pipe of a cylinder of
the port engine and had so crippled the
mechanism as to preclude all possibility Of
the ship continuing on its way.
La Touraine then proceeded under one
engine to quarantine, where 1t anchored.
Its passengers will be transferred TO the
La Bretagne, which will sail for HRvre
tomorrow. La Touraine will follow oR
Saturday in all probability, without
passengers.
Denies "Fixing" Newspaper.
Edmund l.. Mooney, counsel for Franklin
and Scott in their suit against Joseph
Letter, Joseph II. Hoardley and Cyrus
Field Judson, to recover $4,000 alleged to
have been lost by them as a result Of the
collapse of the pool in international Power
company stock, was served today with
papers in an action in which he is named
as defendant and Hoardly and Letter as
plaintiffs.
The action was understood to be for the
recovery OF $500 which Hoadley and Letter
allese was given to Mooney by them
through the Intermediary of the stock
brokerage firm of Mckinney & Co. \
Both Hoadley and Letter testifying in
the Franklin and Scott suit declared this
money was paid by them to ''flx' a GER
tain New York newspaper which had been
printing articles detrimental to the inter-
ests OF international power stockholders.
Mr.. Mooney denounced this statement as
an infamous falsehood and declared that
the S2,5O0 had been paid him by the Nc
Kinney firm for legal services,
sculptor Goes to Jail.
Because he refused to pay his first wife's
alimony to the amount of $1,000, Roland
Hinton Perry, a sculptor and painter, was
today committed to Ludlow street jail for
a six months term. BY going to prison
Perry is relieved of the alimony obliga-
ton, or at least of the imprisonment, as
the penalty for failure to pay as the state
laws provide that six months Is the limit
of jail confinement for the delinquency. In
1906 Perry was divorced from Irma Hinton
Perry and later married Mrs. Hamburg
Fisher of San Diego, Cal. He claimed in
ability TO pay alimony as the divorce court
ordered. During the sculptor's stay in jail
his wife and their 4-months-old son will
live with AR. Pcrry's mother here,
Fertilizer Combine Forming.
II was announced here today that ef-
forts which have been under way for sew
eral months 10 consolidate about seventy
five OF the Independent fertilizer com
psnies in the south into a $50. 900. 900 cor
p~oration have been virtually completed and
1t is expected that articles or Incorporation