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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-01
U. S. Supreme Court Sets
March IA As Date
On Which Constiiutionalty OF
Law Shall Be Tested.
State Of Kansas Loses Suit Against
Pullman Co....0ther Decisions.

Washington, Jan. 31.-Recognizing
the imnortance of an early decision on
| the question involved, the supreme
court OF the United States today set
March IA as the date for the hearing
of tba Flint case of Vermont to test
the constitutionality of the corporation
tax provisions of the Payne tariff act.
| subsequently the court advanced the
six other corporation tax cases on the
docket for hearing as one case with
the Flint suit on March IA.
They were Wyckoff, Vanderhoef VS..
the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad
| Co. Of New York; Francis l.. Wine VS..
Home Life Insurance Co. of New York;
Fred w. Smith VS.. the Northern Trust
Co. of Chicago; Cedar Street Co. VS..
Park Realty Co. of New York; Lewis
w. Jared VS.. the American Multigraph
Co OF Cleveland, Ohio, and William Fl.
Miner VS.. Corn National Exchange
Ranll of Chicago.
| In each case stakeholder sought to
enicin the company from paying the
tax and in each case the petition was
ordered dismissed. The governments
| request that it be permitted to submit
arguments and briefs ir the cases was
granted by the court.
| Holding that the attempt of the state
| Of Kansas to tax the Pullman co. on
| its Capitalization, as done under pro-
| visions of the so-called Bush act, was
unconstitutional, the supreme court OF
the United States today reversed the
decision of the supreme court of Kan
sas and ordered the case remanded.
The court followed in the main the
reasons given in the case of the attempt
of the state to Gust the Western Union
Co from doing local business in the
state
This was an action to GUST the Pullman
Co. from a corporate franchise of charg-
ing and collecting compensation from
passengers on railroad trains for the use
of seats and berths in it's cars between
stations in Kansas.
Suit was brought because the company
failed to pay a charter fee on the capital
ization of the company required under
the law of Kansas, enacted in 1905, by
which foreign corporations seeking to
transact business in the state must pay a
charter fee for the benefit of the perma-
nent school fund.
Judgment in the supreme court of Kan
sas was rendered in favor of the state,
the law being held constitutional
Justice Harlan announced the decision
of the court. Justice Holmes announced
dissenting opinion. Chief Justice Full
Ter and Justice McKenna also dissented
The fight of Lydia B. Conley, the In
diana woman lawyer to prevent the sale
of the burial ground in Kansas City
where lie the bodies of her ancestors,
came to an end today, adversely to her. in
the supreme court of the United States.
The court affirmed the judgment of the
lower courts that her bill to enjoin those
who proposed to disturb the burial ground
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-01
rs. SMITH & co.
Gardiner, :: Maine.

ALWAYS SOMETHING DOING At OUR STORE, THIS TIME
1T is A CLEARING UP OF BROKEN LOTS, ODD SIZES OF
WINTER wEARARLEs. WE NEED ROOM FOR OUR 1910
EARLY VISITORS SOON TO ARRIVE IN FACT SOME ARE
HERE ALREADY IN THE LINE eINeHAMs, PERcALEs
NEW THINGS IN MERcERIzED GOODS AND EMsRoIDERlEs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-01

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-01
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breathe itia. Complete Cu5ft, Including
inhaier$A. Extra bottles Soc. druggists.
The sun., 1910-02-21
RUNAWAY GIRL rs SORRY.
She Robbed Her Mother and on the Train
Some One Robbed Her.

She Robbed Her Mother and on the Train
Some One Robbed Her.
A little girl came tinidly to Policeman
Everett Miller at Third avenue and For
tieth street last night and asked him if he
knew where she could spend the night.
She told him she guessed she was a very
bad girl. She had run away from her
home in Everett, Mass. and had taken a
train from Boston to this city. getting
In about o. clock. On the way down she
had gone to sleep and some one stole all
her money. She had taken $40 from her
mothers room in the morning and last
night had not a cent left.
Miller took her to the station house and
there the matron learned more OF her
story. Her name. she says. is Ethel
Prowse and she is is years old. She has
been living with her parents at 30 Apple
ton street. in Everett. Her father is a
nurse in a hospital in Providence. r. l..
and Ethel has been working in factory.
The girls mother wanted her to leave the
factory and go TO school but Ethel didn' t
like that so she ran away.
She was taken to the Gerry society ana
her parents will be informed as to her
whereabouts.
The sun., 1910-02-21
HYSTERICAL IN HOTEL.
Girl Recently Guest OF Miss stanchfeId
III In Philadelphia.

Girl Recently Guest OF Miss stanchneId
Ill In Philadelphia.
John B. Stanchheld, a lawyer OF 80
West .Eighty-sixth street. communi-
Gated with the jefferson Hospital in
Philadelphia yesterday and informed
the authorities that the young woman
who had been taken there suffering from
a violent form OF hysteria was Miss Ella
Van Valkenburgh of Huntsville. Ala.
Miss Van Valkenburgh became violent
in the dining room OF the Hotel Walton
in Philadelphia on Saturday night and
tried to stab herself with q hatpin. She
was taken to the hospital. where it was
necessary TO administer morphine to
quiet her. As she was being taken from
the room she called for Mr.. Stanchfield.
saying that he was her lawyer.
Miss Van Valkenburgh was returning
to her home after visiting Mr.. Stanoh-
fields daughter In this city. The lawyer
said yesterday that she was about %
years old and the daughter OF q promi-
nent Southern family.
The sun., 1910-02-21
CARS SMASH ON ICY RAILS
20 PASSENGERS JARRED; WRECK
JAMS BUSY CORNER.
CrOsstOwn Trolley Slips Down Hll and
Sends Another sprAwlIng-scared
women Struggle TO Get Out-Three
Persons Sent 20 Bellevue Hospital.

Seventy persons we're bruised and
shaken up in a trolley car collision at
Thirty-fourth street and Third avenue at
0 o'clock last evening.
A Thirty fourth street car carrying
about thirty passengers was bound east
in charge Of Motorman William Smith.
After leaving Lexington avenue Smith
let the car slide down the hill toward
Third avenue. When it reached the
avenue it was going so fast and the tracks
were so slippery from the drizzle that
Smith found his brakes wouldn't hold.
just then a Third avenue car in which
were forty passengers shot out north
ward from the Thirty-fourth street corner
across the path of the crosstown car.
The lighter crosstown car jammed the big
pay as you enter car just about amid
ships with a crash and a splintering of
flying glass. 1t ploughed through the
wooden side and then jammed the car
of the tracks and left it lying on its side
about ten feet off the tracks near an
elevated pillar. The front platform Of the
lighter car was fattened until it looked as
IL it were trying to run inside for safety.
Motorman Smith was jammed back
into his car and so badly cut and bruised
that he had to go to Bellevue Hospital.
The motorman of the Third avenue car.
James Bryson. and his conductor were
thrown into the street but not badly
hurt.
Passengers in both cars were thrown
to the floor. Most OF them were fright
ened woman. In the upset Third avenue
car those who got on their feet found
themselves unable at first to get to the
doors. They began to scream. This
started a panic in the smaller car and
everybody tried to get out at once. A
crowd of pedestrians crowded about the
cars, adding to the confusion.
Police reserves got round the corner
quickly. Policeman Bushnell, who wit
messed the accident got into the Thirty
fourth street car and found Mrs. Ellen
Clark OF 1853 Fifty third street, Brooklyn,
lying bruised and hysterical on the floor.
He took her in his arms and carried her
to the street. She was taken to Bellevue.
Frank Lenzfer OF Ie4 Second street.
who was q passenger On tho Third
avenue car. also went to the hospital
suffering from contusions OF both hips.
The other passengers were more or less
bruised. but none needed medical atten-
tion.
The cars, locked by the collision. blocked
traffic on both lines until a wrecking
crew removed them at 7:2O o'clock.
The sun., 1910-02-21
AMORY Tells BRIBE Story.
Says . Former Chairman Of Assembly
Railroads COmmlttee G Onf essed to Him,

Says . Former Chairman Of Assembly
Railroads Committee COnf essed to Him
At a meeting OF the Forum OF the
Church OF the Ascension, held in the
parish house at IL West Eleventh street,
last night to discuss traction, William
N. AmOry, the principal speaker. told
his audience OF -individualists and So
cialists" that a New York Assemblyman
now alive had admitted to him In 1909
that he had received bribes from the
Metropolitan Street Railway to pass and
to kill certain traction bills.
The conversation took place in the bar
OF the Hotel Endicott in this city and the
Assemblyman had been drinking heavily
when he made the admission. Mr.. Amory
said that the Assemblyman had at one
time been chairman Of the Railroads Com
mittee in the Assembly, but was not chair
man at the time OF his confession. The
chat in the Endioott took place in 1899.
said Mr.. Amory. The Metropolitan was
not formed until 1898
One Of the audience called for the
Assemblyman's name, Mr.. Amory re-
piled that he intends to send the name
to James W. Osborne. who is representing
Benn Conger in the present investigation
by the Senate. He hopes that Mr.. Osborne
will be appointed to conduct an investiga-
ton into traction affairs too. he said.
The sun., 1910-02-21
VOLUNTEER DID HIS BEST
But II Took the Firemen to save Him and
ImDeriIIed Women.

hut II Took the Firemen to Save Him and
ImperiIIed Women.
As the men Of Truck reached fire in
a five story brick building at 1eS East
Ffty-fourth street last night a child
cried out that her grandmother was on
the fourth hoor and would be burned to
death.
Edward Bessinger Of l53 East Fifty
fourth street. who was in the crowd. ran
up the stairs as far as the third floor. He
was stopped there and finally fought his
way to a fire escape. By that time the
firemen had an extension ladder up.
Fremen Dugan and Messenger went up
and brought down Mrs. Bridget Curran
and Mrs. Thomas Toomey. both aged
women, from the fourth floor. On the
way down they picked up Bessinger and
he climbed down the ladder.
Alfred Wooley. who had a room on the
third floor rear. got out on a window sill
and motioned that he was going to jump.
Firemen told him to wait a minute. He
waited and they ran up a ladder and
carried him down.
Bessinger, the volunteer. meanwhile
was down In q saloon on the street
door. He suddenly keeled over and an
ambulance surgeon said that he had
swallowed too much smoke. He was
fixed up then and there.
The sun., 1910-02-21
FAST PENNA TRAIN DERAILED.
"A Hour Limited From 81. Louis Hits .
Broken Rail In Ohio.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Twenty
four Hour New Yorker, the roads fastest
train between st. Louis and New York. was
partly wrecked near Scio. Ohio, at 8
o'clock yesterday morning. The train
is made up OF six cars. and five of these
left the track. 1t is said that only one
woman and two men OF all the passen gers
in these five coaches were even bruised
and their injuries are not serious.
According to the stories told by the
passengers when the train reached Jer-
sey City last night the train was half an
hour late and was being hauled by two
locomotives over a level stretch of road
in an effort to make up the lost time.
There is a curve a mile west of Scio. The
passengers said the train struck this
curve while going fifty miles an hour.
The FIVE cars jumped the track and
bumped along for half a mile.
Only the locomotives and the combina-
tion baggage and smoking car stayed on
the track The couplings between the
diner. which was the first OF the derailed
cars and the Pullman behind it broke and
the locomotives dragging the baggage
car and the derailed liner kept on for an
ei ighth Of a mile more.
A westbound train came around the
curve a moment after the accident, but
missed the derailed cars by a narrow
margin. Employees OF the road and
passengers stopped this other train in
time to keep it from hitting n Pullman
which was too far of the track. The west
bound train carried the passengers back
to Pittsburg, where a new'train was made
up. and brought the passengers TO New
York three hours late. The railroad
m en- lay the accident to broken rail.
The sun., 1910-02-21
HURRICANE KILLS FIFTY.
Holds Ip the MauretanIA Nine Hours
Great Damage In British Isles.

Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN.
LONDON, Feb. 2O.-An exceptionally
violent southwest gale which has pre-
vailed over the British Isles for two or
three days reached hurricane force
to-day. the wind sometimes reaching a
velocity Of eighty miles an hour.
There have been several wrecks on the
resulting in the aggregate in nearly fifty
deaths.
The steamer Queen. from Boulogne
with l2e passengers, tried vainly for hours
to enter Folkestone this evening" She
was finally compelled to stand OF at sea-
where she tossed like a cork for hours.
After five fruitless attempts she at last
entered the harbor. For the sixth effort
she steamed three miles seaward to enable
her to get enough way on. The steamer
was all the time swept by the waves. The
passengers had q most uncomfortable
experience.
The Cunard Line steamer Mauritania
was compelled to lie OF Queenstown for
nine hours before she was able to enter
and embark mails and passengers for
New York. When she sailed again abe
was unable to drop the local pilot at
Roche Point and is taking him to New
York.
Severe thunder and lightning accom-
panied the gale in many places and heavy
wires are down and communication be-
tween London and many Of the northern
and western cities has been stopped.
Three hundred lines are down in London.
The sufragette demonstration sched-
uled 10 be held in Trafalgar Square
this afternoon was ccmpulsorily aban-
doned. only handful OF enthusiasts being
willing to face the weather. The gale
ia 6till blowing
The sun., 1910-02-21
GAS KILLS c. c. ". Y. TEACHER.
Instructor HippOlyte Bergman Dies y.
Accident In q Bathroom.

Hlppolyte Bergman. aged 20. an In
structor in physics at the College OF the
City Of New York. was found dead in the
bathroom OF his apartment in the Bell
court, 4l6 West 122d street. at o'clock
yesterday afternoon. He lived there
with his father and mother. Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Bergman, and his two brothers.
He was studying to take the examina-
tions for the degree of doctor of philosophy
and had taken a problem book into the
bathroom. When his body was found
gas was escaping from a burner. Coroner
Feinberg said the death was accidental.
Bergman was absent minded and in the
Coroner's opinion he had unoonsciously
turned on the gas as well as the electric
light.
Bergman was graduated from the Col
lege Of the City OF New York and after
ward took special courses at Columbia
University and Stevens Institute.
The sun., 1910-02-21
BIG AUTO BURNS UP.
Man I'm Charge Said He was Charles O
Lanzer, which wasn't True.

Shortly after $50 o'clock yesterday
morning a touring car in which were two
men and two women caught fire near the
Union street entrance to Prospect Park,
Brooklyn. and was destroyed. The man
who seemed 70 be In charge OF the machine
accompanied a policeman to the station
house and said there that he was Charles
o. Ianser Of 1877 West Thirty-fourth street,
Manhattan, owner OF the car.
Il was trying TO find some trouble with
O pump he said. "Some dripping gaso-
lene caught fire from a lamp which I was
using and the car burned up
Then turning 20 the others in the party,
he said: I'm glad you are all safe. The
car cost % 500, but that loss is nothing to
me 80 long as you are all safe
The man then left the station house and
boarded q car with his friends. At Mr..
LAnEer's residence last night It was said
that he il In Europe and that II his auto
mobile was out It was without the knowl-
edge OF any Of the family.
The police have been notified 30 look for
the 10y rider.
The sun., 1910-02-21
WATA THE WRECKER.
Discharged Cook Retaliates by Cuttinl
to Pieces ~. II. Parrots Home.

Discharged Cook Retaliates by Cutting
to Pieces 81. Il. Parrots Home.
A Japanese, George Wata, had such
good references from Senator Root and
others when he applied a month ago for
a cooks Job with Marvin E. Parrot, a
lawyer. who lives at the Hague Dwellings,
SAT Riverside drive. that he was employed.
He acted queerly, however. and on Satur-
day he was to receive a months pay and
go.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parrot and their son Mar
vim dined out on Saturday. When they
got home thay found their apartment
s,Ta wreck nboIstsnS Mss nsd S@sneH c,, M al tns I
gowns to pieces. ripped Mr. Parrots
suits. shirts and shoes and smashed the
china. In all he had done several thou
esnd dollars worth Of damage.
He had made such a runpus that other
tenants got the janitor TO capture him.
Yesterday Magistrate Cornell held him
in $500 bail on a charge OF malicious
mischief.
The sun., 1910-02-21
POLICE ALMOST IDLE.
Only One Prisoner at Headquarters Al
Day Sunday.

Only One Prisoner at Headquarters All
Day sunday.
The record at Police Headquarters for
scarcity OF city prisoners was nearly
equalled yesterday. For the twenty
four hours from midnight Saturday to
midnight Sunday there was just one
arrest made by Headquarters men.
Twenty-four or twenty-five years ago.
according to traditions, there was one
twenty-four hour period that passed
without the appearance Of a single pris-
oner.
Moving the day along a half hour. no
prisoner was taken to Police Headquarters
from 1890 Sunday morning. when Davis
was brought in. to 1880 this morning.
But at 1905 this morning Headquarters
mon arrested two Italians for beating
up a third and the third for intoxication.
The arrests were made on the East Side
OF Harlem and the prisoners were locked
UP In the East l04th street police station.
The sun., 1910-02-21
SENATORS WON'T OBEY COURT.
Members OF Joint Printing C0mmitte
VIII Ignore Summons.

WASHINGTON. Feb. Ex-senator Reed
Smoot Of Utah. chairman Of the joint
printing committee Of Congress. said to-
day in response to a question that the
attitude of the Senators who are members
Of the joint committee toward the order
issued by Judge Wright OF the Supreme
Court Of the District Of Columbia in a
mandamus proceeding brought by the
Valley Paper Company was unchanged.
The Senators will not appear. notwith-
standing the action taken by the House
instructing the Representatives who are
members Of the committee to appear In
court next Friday In response to the sum-
mons. The situation will be unusual,
especially IL the court should hold that it
has jurisdiction.
The sun., 1910-02-21
BREAKS LEG AT OPERA HOUSE.
Osias ghlon, Hurrying to Get stanfing 6
Room, Falls Down Steps.

A cigarnaker. Osias Shlon, Of ia
Stanton street, fell and broke his leg while
making rush for the rail on the orchestra
door OF the Metropolitan Opera House
lust after the doors were opened last
night. ,,
There are three steps descending from
the corridor TO the area for the standees
behind the rail. Shlom entered the
building with several friends and hurried
over 20 the most westerly door on the
Thirty street side to get position
near tho stage. He fell az he was de-
scending the steps. He weighs more
Hs wss taken to Mount Sinai Hospital
The sun., 1910-02-21
Street Car Kills Arthur Edgar.

Arthur Edgar. 81 years old, a merchant
living at o2s Columbus avenue. was
knocked down by a street car at Eighty
sixth street and Lexington avenue about
in the Presbyterian Hospital OF his injUi-
ries. James Hogan. the motorman, was
arrested on a charge OF assault and pa.
rolled. The police were looking Tor kira
last might 70 rearcost him for hcmioida.
The sun., 1910-02-21
AN UP TO DATE RESCUE.
Railroad Engineer. Policeman and Chauf-
feur Save Drowning Boy.

Greenwich. Feb. 2O.-When the 4:o5
wsstbound train arrived at Greenwich
station this afternoon the engineer re-
ported that he had seen a boy struggling
in the waters OF Bruce Pond. OfioeT
Medley got the chauffeur OF a passing
automobile to take him to Bruce Pond
at his best speed. The auto landed
Officer Medley at the pond before the
struggling boy went down.
He was Charles Peterson, the eleven
year-old son Of Benjamin Peterson.
The sun., 1910-02-21

be cross-examined again by Mr.. Carr
on Tuesday. Chairman Davis by that
time will announce his decision whether
or not he will compel Senator Conger
to answer as to what he knows Of the
distribution Of Burnett's $4,000. In case
Chairman Davis rules that Conger need
not answer it is said that his decision
will be sustained by the Senate.
The sun., 1910-02-21
EGYPTIAN PREMIER SHOT.
Three Out 0s Five Bullets Fired bs Nation
alIst Fanatic Take Eject.
Special Cable Despatch 10 THE SUN.

Special Cable Dsspaieh 10 THE SUN.
CArRo. Feb. 70.-Five shots were fired
to-day at Prime. Minister Boutros Pasha
az he was leaving the Ministry OF Foreign
Affairs. The assailant was a Nationalist
party fanatic Of the nane Of Wardani.'
Three OF the shots inflicted severe
wounds. Boutros Pasha was taken at
once 70 q hospital, where the physicians
said his injuries were serious. His as
sailant was arrested.
The Khedive. Sir Eldon Gorst. the
British diplomatic agent, and other
prominent men hastened TO the hospital
as soon a. they learned Of the shooting
and condoled with the Prime Minister.
wsrdani says that his motive was to
avenes the 6overnment's acts. OF which
the Nationalists disapprove.
The sun., 1910-02-21
INTERBOROUGH MEN IN UNION.
work 10 Organize Them Going on win
Much Secrecy.

Much secrecy.
1t was said yesterday that because Of
the trolley strike In Philadelphia the
organization of the motormen and con-
ductors OF the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company is now going on with
great secrecy and that the name OF each
member 10 withheld from every one but
the organizers. Like the union in Phila-
delphia this organization is affiliated with
the Amalgamated Association OF Street
and Electric Railroad Employees. NJ.
Fruchter. who has been appointed special
organizer for the New York local, said
that no meeting win be held TO elect
organizers until q large majority OF the
Interborough men are In the union.
President William D. Mahon Of the
Amalgamated Association II expected to
visit this oity In about . week 10 confer
with the local organizer. His visit may
be deferred. however. II the strike In
Philadelphia requires his presence there.
The sun., 1910-02-21
SHE RUSHED INTO FLAMES.
woman Thought Her Son was Trapped
ana She Must save Him.

Mrs. Valbrera Wolf. janitress OF the
fats at III West Hath street, was burned
TO death in her home in the basement
early yesterday morning. All the tenants
were routed out by policemen before the
fire had spread. but Mrs. Wolf thought
that her son Charles. 10 years old, was
still inside. She broke through the police
lines and ran back into the house. The
basement was a mass OF flames by that
time and her body was not recovered until
the fire was out. The damage was about
a thousand dollars.
The sun., 1910-02-21
Four Killed by Falling wall,

FREDERIcKTowN. Mo-, Feb. 2o.-Four
men were instantly killed and four others
were seriously hurt when the brick wall
OF the burning Keyes Building fell upon
them at this morning. The killed were.
Lee Brock. a concrete contractor; Will
lam Hicks. Everett Cowden and Charles
Joiner. colored. The seriously injured
are Judge II. II. J. ParIrin. Frank Kelley.
John Egnery. Jr.. and James Blantes.