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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
CANADA WELL PLEASED
Hears With satisfaction News of Tnrin
Agreement.

Ottawa, Ont, March 27.-Thc news
of the tariff agreement at Washington
Vas received IN government circles
here with satisfaction. which is not
lessened by the fact that such an out
come had been confidently looked for
ever since the conference at Albany
between President Taft and Minister
Fielding.
1t is understood that the dispatches
sent from Washington credit MIR. Field
ing with having. made rather more
extensive concessions than have been
given. When the official announcement
is made 1t Will be found that the
list OF items on which Canada will
make tariff reductions will not in
clude half of the French treaty list
1t is also understood that any changes
which have been made in the Cana
dian tariff as result OF the negotia-
lions will not be confined to the
United States, or even to the countries
which now have the most favored ma
tion arrangement with Canada In
fact. any changes in the Canadian tar
in as the result of the negotiations
Will be made general by Canada and
will apply to goods from all coun-
tries.
The net result of the negotiations.
therefore. will he that the Canadian
tariff will be slightly reduced on a
small number of articles and that Can
ada will get the benefit of the United
States minimum tariff.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
HAD "JOLLY GOOD TIME"
jr Ernest md Lady Shncklcton
Pleased with Washington.

Washington. March 27.--Sir Ernest
Sbackleton. the Englisl Antarctic ex-
plorer, who came to the national cap
itaI 10 receive at the hands OF Presi-
dent Taft the gold medal voted him
by the National Geographic society.
spent busy Sunday here, and left
al midnight with Lady Shackleton. for
New York After attending Easter
services In the morning and taking
luncheon with Gilbert II. GroSvcnor.
secretary OF the National Geographic
Society, SIR Ernest want TO the Ma
tiona1 Press club. where he shook
hands with the newspaper men OF the
capital with true Roosevcltian enthu-
siasm and told them some of the
humorous incidents of his Antarctic OK
perierce. He received an enthusiastic
sir Ernest also related seriously
come Of tho hardships witch he and
his men had suffered. declaring that
they only showed what men could en-
cure when the grim shadow Of death
was ever stalking close behind them"
The French Ambassador and Mine.
Jusserand tonight entertained at din
ncr. Sir Ernest and Lady Shackleton
and the British Ambassador and Mrs.
Bryce. Tic latter gave A luncheon
to-dav at the embassy 10 Lady
Shackletor. The explorer and his wife
left tonight, declaring they had en-
joyed themselves Immensely in Wash
ington: that they had had 'Jolly
good time
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
ANOTHER CRISIS PASSES
Bulgaria Compelled to Postpone War
With Turkey.

Paris. Friday, March 1S.-Another
dangerous crisis in the Balkans has
been narrowly. but perhaps only tenn
porarily averted. according TO Well
informed diplomatic circles here. where
for months 1t has been an open secret
that BULGARIA was determined to try
conclusions with Turkey over the aues-
ton of Macedonia, either to win the
province outright or at least 10 secure
autonomy for the remainder of Euro
pean Turkey.
Bulgaria for years has made ire
mendous sacrifices to equip and train
the model army which she now pos
sesses, always with the idea of inevita-
bIe war with Turkey ahead of her, The
Bulgarian people realize that they can
not long sustain the burden of the
army on it's present footing.
The moment. however, was singular
lv unproptuous. because Europe to-
day unanimously supports the regime
of the Young Turks at Constantinople
and desires to give it fair chance
Ia regenerate Turkey. The last hone
NJ King Ferdinand and the Bulgarian
Government disappeared when the
Ring visited St: Petersburg recently
and found that Russia refused TO give
either sympathy or support to an ap-
peal 10 arms at this time. Bulgaria
has Welded. hut. as understood here,
only 10 see what diplomacy can do,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
Young w ON AN Com
panlon of Albert VOL
ter Under Arrest.
HELD FOR KILLING
OF RUTH WHEELER
Both Prisoners Deny Any Knowl-
edge of Slaughter of Pretty
Stcn og r a p h Woman
Knew Nothing of Crime
Till She Read 1t in
Newspaper.

New York, March 27.-Albert Wolter.
the youth in the fireplace of whose
rooms were found yesterday portions
of the burnt body OF Ruih Wheeler, the
young stenographer, who had been
missing since last Thursday morning.
was committed to the rombs without
BAH to-day charged with the girls
murder
At a continuation OF the police quiz"
10 which he was subjected last night,
he persisted in his denials that he had
ever seen tho girl. ever had written to
her, or knew how her body came TO be
on the hro escape outside his window,
or why fragments of human feet. hands
and arms we're found in the ashes of
his fireplace
Miller Girl Arrested.
Katie Miller, or Hatcher Mueller,
the girl with whom lie lived. was ar
rested to-day as she approached the
house where the murder was commit
ted. She was reading the details in
German newspaper as she walked. and
was smiling as she read. During
long examination by the police
she held sturlily 20 4 consistent story
that she knew nothing of the crime
until she read Of 1t in the newspapers.
on Thursday night, when she returned
from work at the laundry, where she
earned Sc week--and gave it all to
WoIter--she said she noticed that the
stove in front of the fireplace had been
moved. the firehoard newly painted and
q colorcd lithograph pasted over the
hole where the stoyepipe formerly en-
tered When she asked Wolter why
lie had done this he answered that
summer was coming and they wouldn't
r1aad hp
became Jealous.
She had not even known that VOL
ter had received a visitor, she says,
until Pearl Wheeler. the dead girls
elder sister called on Friday morning
TO ask if Ruth had been there. Voter
had denied it, but the Miller, or Muel-
lcr girl says he was uneasy after the
interrIew and that she became jealous
ard accused him OF hafboring another
woman in the nat. Again he denied 1t.
An autopsy to-day showed that Ruth
Wheeler had been killed in the man
ner Indicated by the first superficial
examination. First. she had peen
strangled with rope, and then the
bones of the arms and legs were bro-
ken to admit the body more readily to
the narrow throat OF the chimney. Why
the cuts on the body were made does
not appear.
When she was shown the night shirt
in which part of the charred body
had been wrapped. the girl positively
identided the garment as VOTERS
.rhat letter W." said the girl. in
dicating an initial worked on the shirt,
was Embroidered by Albert's mother
She also identified the g,unny sack in
which the head aud trunk of the vic
used by her and Wolter to hold kind
ling. wood.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
LENT TOO BRIEF
rittsburg Must Extend IT'S season Of
pcnltcnce.


Pittsburs. Pa. March 2I--'Fhc Lent
en- season, whici ended to-day. has
been too short scason of pcnitence
for Pittsburg. and II VIII bc continued
with promise OF even moro Startling
confessions and disclosures of graft
this week. IN several hundred Churches
to-day an unusual feature of the East
er services was the ren1iGS Dt clr
crlar letter Issued py q ctYis commit :
tee Yesterday. urfsintt the members of
every congregation - ATTEND huge
Indignation mass-iucsting TO ne hcIh
some day this week
II having been pret'r thoronghly
torney William A. BlaISaly's claim. shat
a. least sio2.5Oo was 1sel in inotenc-
ing legislation, the source OF the
money and the dispensers OF II are
TO be the focus of the grand jury's at
morrow morning after two days re-
cess. 4 considerable portion OF the
big bribe fund Is charged 10 certain
hanks which sought to get the city
deposits. They succeeded, but tt IS the
desire of the grand iury. as announced
in its reports Of Friday last, that the
bank deposit ordinance be rcscinded.
and the banks found guilty he de-
prived OF the use of city moucr. II Is
known that some representatives Of
the banks arc TO be called tomorrow
to testify
The city's Legislative Councils meet
Tomorrow niez1t TWENTY Of the pres
ent members of the Councils are un-
graft cases. 1t Is expected that some
VIII protest their innocence. but the
majority are expected 10 hand In res
ignations quite AS meekiy as they CON
fcssed last week
While the big sfiovr continues there
is lively side feature In crusade
against all varieties Of graft and
wrongdoing in Pittn,urg.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
UNIONS FOR LOCAL OPTION
Lahorcrs Arc Called Upon
ln Sunnnrf

t'HtIHHclpIiN IuEOrcrS arc tNlcu lPtu
to support II.
Philadelphia. Pa. March 27.--Declar-
ing that the passage of a local option
law would hasten the settlement of
the trouble between the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company and its enl-
ployes, the Central Labor Union at its
meeting to-day adopted resolutions
calling upon the members OF the
trades unions OF this city to agitate
and vote for local option at every op-
portunity.
The failure of the brewery workers
to join the sympathetic strike, II was
was practically responsible for
the passage OF this resolution. The
aye and nay vote on 2. motion TO table
the resolution was "a to 49,
The general strike in sympathy With
the striking street car men which has
been in eftec. for more than three
weeks was officially called off at to-
days meeting. A majority of the work
ers who have responded to the call
have already returned to their work
and others have arranged to return to-
morrow. The committee of ten. which
has charge of the sympathetic strike.
made its report to-day and recon-
mended that the strike he discontin-
ued and full support given to the car
men. This report was adopted and the
committee discharged
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
MARRIED OR NOT?
,,,ons Of DefnnIting noolsl>ccpcr

Relations Of DefnultinE Ho0'Ii>ccpcr
nnd Miss IIightoNer still MNsterF.
Cambridge. Mass, March 2I-r- Mystery
still envclops the relations of George
w Coleman, the former $l2-a-weet
.l,nol;l<eeper of the National CilN I'anli,
who Is under heavy bonds on account
of the discovery of quarter of a
million dollar shortage at Die bank,
and Miss Mamie Eliehtower, of Kansas
city. who came East a fortnight ago
TO marry him. II the marriage has
taken place, 1t is being kept u pro-
found secret by all concerned
Coleman took out marriage license
a week ESQ. and Miss frightower was
quoted as saying that the ceremony
would be performed Yesterday but
when Coleman's father heard of the
plan he announced that IL would posi-
lively not take place. The elder Cole
man is the principal bondsman for
his son in the case pending against
the young man in the Federal Court,
and he said tonight that he believed
he would be able 10 exert sufficient
influence to stop tho marriage, al
though the young man was over
twenty-ope years of age.
Young Coleman declined to-day to
saw whether or not the marriage had
been perlormed. lie passed the greuter
mart of Easter Sunday in automo-
hiling with his friends, and evinced
no sign of worry over his affairs. Els
lancee, Miss Hightower, was not OF
the party,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
LAUDs estate E-WlDE"
Govcrncr stubb. Tells What II HAS
Done for ILrnsns.

Govcrner stubb. Tells What II Has
Done for Iinnsns.
Chicago, H. March 27.-Governor
walter K Stubbs, of Kansas, In q
speech Tonight. put his foot on the
necks" of those who maintain that alb
soiute prohibition would bring com .
merciai ruin 10 community. He cited
tho experience Of Kansas as showing
how Statewide prohibition preciuded
race suicide and encouraged savings
bank accounts.
prohibition in Kansas is not re-
suit of atnospheric conditions" said
Governor Stubbs. Reason was at the
bottom of It all. AS result the Kan
sas people to-day arc better fed. bet
ter clothed have finer homes. larger
families and bigger bank accounts.
II have proofs by which. hSurattve-
IL speaking. I think have my foot
on the necks of those who circulate
anti-prohiblation talk 1t was SAID
three years ago that the wiping out OF
Witchita's 1fty-seven saloons would
ruin the town. To-day with no sa-
looms that town has doubled Its .pop,-
ulatiou. moro than doubled its bank
account. has better people, loss crime,
more schools and more intelligence.
II have Just received letters and tel
errams from tho Mavore of twenty
cities and towns from t7venty-nine dis
trict Judges and from chiefs of police.
and they all agree that the day state
wide prohibition went into effect in
Kansas was the brightest day in that
states history
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
WILL VOTE TUESDAY


senate Ready 10 Decide Famous
Bribcry Cases.
Albany, y. y. March 2T.--fhe forty
nine members OF tile New York state
senate. who COMPRISE the jury in the
allds-C -Cpueer bribery case viii vote
Tuesday on the question OF whether
or NOT senator Conger has succeeded
III making good his charge that Sem
ator Aids, while majority leader OF
tho senate. in 1901, demanded and re-
ceived $1,000 for influencing high
way legislation. What the verdict will
he no one knows. Corridor gosslp
las been busy with speculation. aud
predictions lave been freely offered
but these forecasts have been mere
guess work
Should the verdict be against Aids.
he Will be given an opportunity to
esign, otherwise a motion Will prob
ably be made TO expel him II tho
Senate decides that Conger has not
proved his case and no resignation
from him is Forthcoming. motion to
cxpel him probably also will be made.
There is reason TO believe that II
the charges are sustained and Aids
resigned or is expelled, an effort will
be made TO cMpel Conger it he does
not resign
With the case out OF the way the
question OF broader investigation OF
alleged legislative corruption will be
taken up.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
GIVING AN EXAMPLE
Mayor of EIkhnrt shows What Blue
Rcall1. 4

Elllhart, Ind, March 27.--"Just to
show the public what the Sunday blue
law is lf strictly enforced" Mayor
Chester to-day closed drug stores, to-
bacco, fruit and refreshment stands
and stopped all manner of business
except intercity trolley traffic. The
Ministerial Association had accused
him of insincerity in the prosecution
of managers of cheap theatres that
have operated on Sunday. Electric
cars to pass by cities were crowded
With people seeking amusement.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
ANOTHER MILL CLOSES
strike OF International Paper Com

strike OF International Paper Com
pnny Employees Grows.
Glens Falls. ~ Y. March o1.-The
twenty second day of the strike of the
union employees of the International
Paper Company finds another mill
ready to shut down. At mass meet
ing of employees in the mills at Ticon-
deroga it was unanimously voted to-
night to walk out tomorrow morning.
Between 175 and 200 men will quit
work.
In ten of the thirty-two mills of the
company tho strike is now effective in
varying degrees.
The situation in this neighborhootl,
at South Glens Falls. Fort Edward and
Corinth remains quiet although the
militia is still kept on duty as a pre-
cuntiou
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
ELECTRIC TRAINS COLLIDE
TWO Wen Arc Killed and House burned

Lima, Ohio, March 27.-Two men
fatally Injured ana house burned
to the ground. the result OF a colli-
sion between two interurban electric
trains near here to-day. Both trains
were destroyed. The dead
Pearl II. MCPHERSON. Lima motorman
Earl Rothrock, LockinEton express
James Risk. bargagcman, Lima. was
fatally injured. and several OF the
passengers on both cars wcrc seriously
The collision occurred at a place
where the tracks curve around an nm
tenanted house The cars crashed into
each other with terrific force. An ex-
ploding fuse sent the wreokaee. into
a blaze. which communicated with the
house and colnpletely DESTROYED 1t.
Risk was elcctrocuted. while Nc
pherson was literillv mangled TO pieces
between the two cars.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
Ared nnnkcr Dics

Columbus, Miss March Hl.--Cantaln
G A. Johnson. president OF the FIRST
dent OF the mississippi Bankers Asso-
citation. died in Chlcago this mornins.
Captain johnson went TO Chicago for
an oneration, His heart became af-
fected. and death followed He was
seventy years old and was we'll known
in financial circles throughout the
country, having spent much OF his time
In New York and New orleans,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
Old Cru,Ire ENDS Fntn,Iy.

Milan, Ga. March .T.-Ed Hart was
shot and instantly killed and Mrs
Hart, his wife, was fatally wounded
by f,ufe Miller. at the home Of the
former, in Dodge county, last night.
"Details OF the tragedy are mehgre hut
1T is said that the shooting was the
result or an old grudge between tho
mon, Miller was arrested and taken
to iail at Eastman,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
SHOT FROM AMBUSH
Merchant Fatally Hurt anh Two Nc
grOes Arc In Jail.

Merchant Fatally Hurt and Two Nc
groes Arc In Jail.
Pulaski, Ga, March 2T.--J. \,
Thomas, a merchant of this city, was
shot and fatally wounded at his home
hero early TODAY, and Arthur Parish
and Walter Mcbride, negroes, are IN
iail charged with the crime.
Fire OF incendiary origin broke out
in an outhouse on Thomas's place. and
when he went to fight the flames he
was shot from ambush, q heavy load
of shot literally tearing away his hip
1T is believed that the building was
fired to lure him from his home, as
the telephone at his house had been
cut
1, sherIrr's posse from Statesboro
with bloodhounds. went TO the scene,
and the dogs, taking MP the trail fol-
lowed II to the home of the accused
naproes
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
BLIND 0RGANIST DEAD
DR.. David ID. Wood Had international
RcputRtion.

Reputation.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. March 27:--Dr.
David D. Wood. the blind organist of
St Stephens Protestant Episcopal
Church, OF this city, who had ana In
ternatioual reputation as a composer
and performer died to-day after a
brief illness. IIe was born in Pitts
burg in 1898 and had been totally
blind ever since he was three years old.
DR.. Wood had been orGanist and
choirmaster IN St Stephens Church fo,
forty-siS years.
DR.. Wood was a student in the Penn
sylvania Institution for the Instruc-
tion OF the Blind located at Overbroolt,
a. suburb. and was a pupil In mathe.
matics OF the late James G. Blaine.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
REAL MAN IN WELLESLEY
sacred Traditions of womnn's College
Broken 1T LnAt.

Wellesley Mass, March 2T,-The
most sacred tradition of Wellesley
has been broken. Into the classes of
this institution, formerly exclusive
TO the female sex, there has been ad-
mttted young man, Diran FIagopian.
He IS an Armenian, who escaped from
Turkey a year ago, following the mas
sacres at Adana. He finally settled
in Wellesley. One OF the teachers be-
came interested in him and eventually
the faculty gave him permission to
attend lectures and recitations in Ger
tain courses. The faculty is as yet
undecided as to whether Hagopian will
be awarded a degree upon completion
of his studies
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
FATHER OF THIRTY-FoyR


Dedham Mass, March 27,---The birth
of healthy baby boy in this town has
made Joseph Sears the father of thirty
four children. He has been married.
twice IN the past forty years, his first
wife giving birth to eighteen children,
and the present Mrs. Sears to sixteen,
Mr.. Sears is nfty-seyen ',, Years old, lie
Is carpenter by trade.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
rr,.o Arc Killed When Mnchine Colltdes
-. With CnrrinEe.

sons We're killed and three injured to-
dav. when an automobile colltded with
: The m dead are: Wylio Lloyd and Miss
Bertha Nossman.
The injured are: Oren FIX, Jay john
son and Mabel Wilkins. All were in
the automobile.
The four occupants OF the carriage
escaped serious injury. One Of the
horses leg was broken and 1t was
shot.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
rrinI ncsins To-nnx.

Andersnn, S. c. March 2T,-~The trial
of Calhoun Harris tormer assistant
Treasurer o5 tho Orr cotton mills, or
thi. city, under Indictment for forgery
in six counts and breach OF trust will
.beSin In c'riminah Court morrow Vt
is charged that Tarlis's total short
a sc amounts to $4,000.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
rlrht rcrson. lnlnrcd

Kansas city Mo- March 27.-Eight
persons were injured. one severely. in
a rear-end collision between two
crowded street cars on the Swope-
Parkway line TO-DAY. The cars We're
on the way to Swope Park. The most
seriously injured Is BENJAMIN CAM.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
No News In wnslinwton.

Washington, D. G., March 27.-Om-
cials of the Navy Department. up TO
midnight had received no word of the
accident on board the cruiser Charles
ton, in which eight men We're reported
either to have been killed or injured
by the bursting of a gun. Rear Ad-
miral n, II. Mason, chief OF ordnance,
believes If the report Is confirmed that
it will be found the damage was done
in one of the siX-inch turrets, steps
have been taken by the department to
learn the extent of ,he accident
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
TREATY is PROPOSED
nEGaiiin -l.Ia ixau,S

INHNSI' TIVHrs IHNt IHIteU StHtCS May
nccone Chinn's Ally.
st. Petersburg. March 27.-The Rech
to-day prints a story concerning pro-
posed treaty between the United states
and China. which WI Ting Fang, the
retiring minister at Washington will
endeaNor to arrange. The treaty, ac-
cordinG 10 the Rech. viii provide that
the United States shall help China with
her llcet in the event of China being
attnclkel
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28

The United States cruiser Charleston
is the flagship of Rear Admirhl !onn
Asiutic fleet. Her commanding officer
is Commander Iohn n. Gibbons,
The Charleston IS a protected cruis-
er OF $500 tons, and carries fourteen
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
MT. ETNA STILL ACTIVE


tity of lava from the craters of Mount
Etna continues to decrease, the inter
nal activity OF the volcano was strong
er TODAY than yesterday. Frank A.
Is due TO instructions in the new
craters which prevent it lowing freely,
and that later, either in n few days
or perhaps In week, the molten mass
either will force q passage or an earth.
quake Will result.
Mr.. Ferret went to-day from Nico-
lost TO the Alpine Club refuge, which
is situated near the craters, and later
teiegraphed down as follows:
"'The activity of Etna TODAY il
stronger.s but the lava is slower. Ter
rife explosions in the interior of the
mountain continue
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
ACCIDENT ON CRUISER
Eight Men Reported Dead or Woundcd d

ON VHVTIcNVUH,
Manila, March :S-A report reached
here to-day that gun on the United
Stntcs cruiser Charleston exploded dur
ing target practice, and that eight
men were killed or wounded. The
Charleston Is returning to Manila from
OIongapO. No details OF the reported
accident have been received here.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
nrgnnihinc for Fight.

Practically all the county oftlcera
are Democrats. Chairman i. Frank
Wysor deserves most of the credit.
say the Pulaski Democrats, for the
gratifying growth OF panty sentiment.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
Eiyc Ncw Crntcrn.

Naples. March 2..--Five large new
hssues have opened near the central
orator of Mount Eesuyius, but the vol
cano shows no great activity