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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
WISHES SLEEP WOULD COME.
Tom Johnson, in Conscious Moment
Murmurs Readiness to Die.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. April s-Former
Mayor Tom L. johnson. who. following
a relapse, has been confined to his bed
for nearly three weeks from cirrhosis OF
the liver. passed q comparatively restful
night. but today is believed to be ap-
preaching death. No official announce
ment has been made, but close friends OF
the family admit that dissolution Is but a
few days distant.
The sick man is in a state Of coma part
Of the time.
'I wish that sleep would come." he
murmured yesterday. A tear started from
his half-closed eyes and trickled down his
cheek.
Mrs. johnson and the children were ad-
mitted to the bedchamber early in the
day.
When Mrs. Johnson left she was weep
ing and her frail body was trembling with
grief. c. w. Stage. friend OF many
years, assisted her to the waiting motor
car. Lotion johnson. his wife and Mrs.
Mariani came out with red and swollen
eyes. unable to speak for the sobs that
choked them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
PRIEST AGAIN CALM
AFTER DAYS OF STORM
Stronger After Having Been
Ordered by Court to Break
His Fast.

VITERBO Italy, April s.-A glorious
day has followed a stormy night and this
led Giro Vitozzi. the priest, when brought
into court with the other Camor1st pris-
oners today to remark that the weather
corresponded with his spirit, which was
calm after a week Of passion. The in
terrogation to which he was subjected
had told severely on the priest, but he
has improved since the court commanded
him to break his fast.
Speaking Of the approaching Easter vi
tozzi said he hoped that his ascension to
heaven would come soon in the form OF
his liberation.
Pasqualo Gargiulo, Giavanni Rapi, Luigi
Arena and Gennaro Ibelli, four of the
Camorrists charged with completely In
the murder Of Gennaro Cuoccolo and his
wife. were not in court. having been ex-
cused for various reasons. Ibeln has
been ill with pleurisy since his interro-
cation.
Accuser Is Examined.
The proceedings opened with the ex-
animation of Genarro Ascrittore who is
accused of having denounced De Angels
and Amadoo as the murderers of Cuoccolo
in order to save the real assassins His
defense was that he acted in good faith,
and he described at length how he be-
came convinced of De Angels guilt
He said in substance. Two days before
the murder De Angels came to my home
and asked to be given a room for three
days. Later / understood this to have
been ruse on his part to aid him in
establishing an alibi after Cuoccolo had
been killed.
Some time afterward he returned to
my house disguised as a coal HEAVIER.
and, opening his coat, exhibited q dag
ger. allowed him to sleep in the court
yard.
Feared Arrest and Fled.
Later he came to me clean shayen.
and explained his former disguise by
saying that he was at CasteIlammare
Adriatioo when Vitozzi arrived there to
make inquiries In the interests of En-
rico Alfano. who was then under sus-
picion.
De Angels said that he feared arrest
and fled. He showed a wound in the
leg, which apparently had been caused
by a penknife. His actions from the
first convinced me that he was one Of
the murderers of Cuoccolo"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
SEVERE BATTLE RAGING.
Force of Three Hundred Federals Be
sieged by Superior Force.

Ell PASO, Tex. April S.-The severest
sattle yet fought in the state Of Durango
ras in progress at Velardina Tuesday.
ghen mail advices We're sent from Tor
con. The battle had been in progress
wo days, 300 federals occupying the
own and 700 insurrectos surrounding the
lace.
Fifteen or sixteen rebels had been killed
md one soldier was killed in town and
TX non-combatants were wounded The
ighting continues outside Of CuIacan.
tate capital of Sinaloa, and the federals
IRE reported trapped by a band of rebels
one place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Observation-Disclosures
Italian Steamship Verona Arrives in
philadelphia With ESQ Aboard. :,

PHILADELPHIA. April s.-rhe Italian
steamship Verona arrived here today
from Delaware Breakwater. Del, with
go emigrants on board, who had sue
ceeded in getting health certificates from
the doctors and thus escaped the quar-
antine.
The steamship went down the Delaware
river Wednesday to place her. 800 pas
sengers in the government hospital on
the sandy wastes of the breakwater. They
were to remain there until all danger of
smallpox had passed, one or more steer
age passengers having contracted the
disease on the way over. and $50 are
still in the hospital awaiting release.
which may not come for a week or more.
While anchored down the river the
Verona was fumigated, and today the
work OF unloading the cargo was begun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
C0RoNER's JURY SAYS SUICIDE
Verdict in Death of. Craige Lippin.
colt of Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, April S.-A coroner's
jury empaneled to inquire into the death
Thursday of Craig Ldppincott, president
Of the J. B. Lppincott Company, pub
fishers. rendered verdict Of suicide to-
day. The inquest was brief. Members Of
the family were not called as witnesses,
but instead their sworn dispositions were
read and accepted by the coroner. Mr..
Lppincott was buried today, the funeral
being private.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
RISKS IN INDUSTRIES
THEME OF ADDRESSES
Throop Mine Horror Basis of
Discussion at Meeting
of Scientists.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April S.-Wfth
the Throop mine horror the uppermost
thought in their minds, delegates and
guests attending the annual meeting Of
the American Academy Of Political and
Social Science today listened to further
addresses on the question OF risks In mod
ern industry. Many Of the delegates ex-
pressed their sorrow and believed some
thing should be done to lessen accidents
and place responsibility.
Alleged Defects in Law.
At the morning session, at which Prof.
Samuel McCune Lindsay of Columbia
University presided, the subject of de-
fects in the present liability laws was
taken up. The recent decision of the
court Of appeals of New York. declaring
unconstitutional the workmen's compensa-
ton act, was referred to by several
speakers.
There were divergent views on the de-
cision. Prof. Lindsay expressed regret
that the court found the law unconsu-
tutionaL Joseph p. Cotton, counsel for
the New York commission on employers
based on the laws Of the land as inter
preted by learned jurists. He said that
the courts were not responsible for the
laws and intimated that many acts on
the statute DOCKS IOOdy I0lduFc 10 ell
ployeds' liability were the views of tories
and 200 years old.
Defense of Employers.
Walter s. Nichols OF New York, editor
Of the Personal Injury Law Journal, held
that under the spirit, if not the letter. of
the Constitution no ordinary employer
Of labor can justly be made liable for
an injury for which he was not actually
or constructively at fault, and that every
attempt to impose such a liability is an
attack on the manhood Of employers as
American citizens"
He said that both the employe and the
employer are Independent contractors, and
he added, there Is no reason why a free
man who contracts for his manual labor
should impose on the party with whom
he contracts responsibility for injuries
which are due to no fault of the latter
than why a like responsibility should not
attach to other forms of contract.
Compensation Of Workmen.
Miles W. Dawson spoke on the system
Of workmen's compensation best adapted
to the United States.
The comparative merits Of the compen-
sation liability considered simply as a
practical rule of private justice was dis
cussed by P. Tecumseh Sherman. former
commissioner of labor Of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
MISTAKEN FOR ANOTHER; SHOT
John Downey Killed in PHILADELPHIA
italian Quarter by an Unknown.

PHILADELPHIA, April 8-Mistaken
for another man. the police say. John
Downey, twenty-eight years old, was
shot and killed early today while pass
ing a house occupied by Italians in the
southern part of the city: James Maralo,
nineteen years old. was taken into Gus
tody on suspicion Of being the one that
fred the shot. He denies the charge and
says it was another man whose name he
does not know who fired from a win
dow.
DOwney was passing the house with
three friends and none Of the four men
was acquainted with any one in the
house. The police say they believe
Downey was mistaken for another man
by some one who stood behind a window
curtain and shot out Of the window when
the four men came into view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
KILLS WIFE, TRIES SUICIDE.
Roumanian Follows Murder by Stab
bing Himself Ten Times.

PITTSBURG, Pa, April s.-While at
work today Lena Pulk, a laundress. EN-
ployed in a local hospital, was shot and
killed by her husband.
Pulka then fired a bullet into his head
and stabbed himself ten times in the left
breast with knife. His condition is seri-
GUS.
The couple are Roumanians. and the
deed was the result OF domestic diner.
eQces,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
SEVEN FATALLY BURNED.
Explosion of Oil Stove in Chicago
nisastr0us Tn Family

CHICAGO, April S.-By the explosion Of
an oil stove six children and their mother
Mrs. Luddie Podotil. were fatally burned
last night at Clyde, a suburb of Chicago.
One Of the victims, five-year-old boy,
died today. All the others suffered fear
full injuries from flaming Oil.
When neighbors came to her aid Mrs.
Podotil was attempting in vain to ex-
tinguish the fire on the clothes Of her chill
dren, while her own dress and the walls
Of the room where burning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
FIRE DESTROYS
ENTA|uNG HEAWLOSS
Property Burned Estimated
to Be Worth 100000.
No Lives Lost.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, April S.-Fire
early. today swept away the Killiam
block, q ed-thousand-dollar lof,
building in the downtown factory section
Of this city. The stocks of four firms
which were tenants were destroyed and
three tenement houses adjoining were
burned.
The fire started on a lower floor at 3
o'clock. The only watchman employed in
the building was a bulldog, who had done
faithful service in this capacity for sew
eral years. He discovered the blaze and
gave the alarm by series Of barks,
which attracted the attention Of passers-
by.
Augmented by Explosion.
Before the f1remen could get into action
there was a terrific explosion, appar-
emily Of gasoline or other oils, which
drove the fire throughout the entire build
Ing. When the smoke of the explosion
had cleared, the flames were burning
brightly from half a hundred points on
all five floors.
Ffremen and police were compelled to
turn their attention to saving the tenants
in adjoining tenement houses.
The Hiding was located on Franklin
dotted with frame structures peopled by
Italian workers in the factories. Nearly
3O persons were in evident danger il the
flames could not be prevented from
spreading, and the police were directed
to rout all Of these from their homes at
once. There was little panic, however.
Thousands Of Spectators.
The noise of the explosion and the vivid
illumination from the fast-burning fire
brought a crowd Of 10000 persons into
the narrow streets and hampered the
work of the firemen.
The fire was under control an hour after
1t started. with a loss which fire officials
estimated at about $3OO,OOO Forty per
sons were left homeless by the destruc-
tion of the three tenement houses, but
there was no loss Of life
The blaze was q spectacular one, being
plainly visible for q distance Of nearly
ten miles. The glare lighted up the win
dows of the Yale dormitories and out
shone the glow Of the harbor lighthouses
to vessels far out on Long Island sound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
"War Bill" Howell Dead, Aged 105,

WILMINGTON, N. c., April S-Wil-
liam Howell, by an authentic chronicle
1O5 years old. and well known in this
state as WAR Bilr' Howell for his record
in both the Mexican and civil wars, died
yesterday on his farm near Goldsboro
N. c. He was very active up to the time
Of his pitching his crop this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08

HARR1SONBCRG, Va, April S.-lce
cream and cake at the State Normal
School here will be offered up tomorrow
OH the altar Of charity Instead Of en-
joying the dessert which usually accom-
panics their Sunday dinner. the 200 girls
at the school will deny themselves this
pleasure TIE $25 which will be. saved
thereby was forwarded today to the Red
Cross Chinese relic: fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
TO SAVE PEARL DEPOSITS.
Diving With Suits at Tahiti Not to
Be Permitted.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, April S.-The
French government has stopped pearl
fishing with diving suits or like appara-
tus about Tahiti, according to news
brought yesterday by the Oceanic steam
er Mariposa from Papeete.
Fear that under improved methods the
fisheries would be entirely wiped out. is
said to have caused the prohibition. Old
fashioned diving is still allowed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Thousands of Spectators.
George Premise Butler Drops Dead,

LONDON. April S.-George Premise
Butler, a New York financier, dropped
dead of heart disease at his hotel here
last night.
Accompanied by his wife and daughter,
Mr.. Butler arrived in this city from
Egypt last evening and died Immediately
after he reached his hotel. He was forty
seven years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Deaths From Plague Continue,

AMOY, China, April s.-Twelve deaths
rom bubonic plague and five deaths
fom smallpox were reported here during
he two weeks ending yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Eject Must Be Considered.
Facts Considered.

"Eighth-Facts considered and held:
1.-THE unavoidable effect Of the general
and sweeping reductions of intrastate
fares and rates in Minnesota made by
the acts and orders considered was and
Is substantially to burden. directly to
(Coptinued on Second Pa9e1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Rights Of a State Defined.

ITO the extent that 1T does not sub
stantially burden or regulate interstate
commerce a state may regulate intra-
state commerce and the fares and
rates therein within it's borders, but no
farther. 1t may enforce regulations
Of intrastate commerce and it's fares
and rates which only incidentally or
remotely affect interstate commerce
But state laws, orders and regulations
fares or rates therein which substan-
TALLY burden or regulate interstate
commerce or the fares or rates therein
are beyond the powers of the state,
unconstitutional and void.
And where the attempted exercise
OF the power Of a state to regulate IN
trastate commerce or the attempted eX-
ercise of any Of its other powers i'm
pingeS upon or conflicts with the con-
stitutional power Of the nation to pro-
tect the freedom OF and to regulate in
trastate commerce and the fares and
raateS therein, the latter must prevail.
because that which is not supreme
must yield to that which is supreme.
Eject Must Be Considered.
"Sixth-The effect and neither the terms
nor the purpose Of state regulations de-
termine whether they substantially bur-
den or only incidentally or remotely af.
feet interstate commerce. And this is a
judicial question which each court must
decide on its own responsibility on the
special facts of the case before it and
In the decision of which 1T must obey
the Constitution rather than the law.
making department OF the government
"Seventh-The nation has the power to
forbid. and by the act to regulate com.
merce, "a Statute, 379, 1t has prohibited.
undue discrimination between localities In
different states wrought by unreasonable
differences between tntrastate and legal
interstate rates caused by the reduction
Of the former by the acts and orders of
tho nff3cors NJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
Worked Through Night.

All through the night rescuing gangs
kept at their gruesome task of picking
up the dead who lay strewn along the
farther parts of the ill-fated tunnel Of the
Pancoast colliery. from OF which was
the chambers and headings into which
they had entered for their days toll Be-
fore midnight twenty-one bodies, iuclud-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08

Continued on Second Pagel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08
WEATHER.

Unsettled; showers this after
noon or tonight. Sunday fair and
cool; moderate north winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08

The Star is the only afternoon
paper in Washington that prints
the news of the Associated Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13

runs as high as 20 million pounds year,
chiefly from Germany and in smaller
quantities from France, Italy and Scot
land. Sausage castings, which we would
scarcely expect to see imported into a
country slaughtering food animals in
such large numbers, are imported to the
value of from two to three million dol
lars year, by far the largest contribu-
tor being England, from which the i'm
portations in 1909 were over one and
one-half million dollars, the remainder
being from widely scattered countries,
from Germany, Turkey in Europe,
China, Australia, and Turkey in Asia.
Natural gas is another article which we
would scarcely expect to see imported,
yet the importations run as high as
$50, 900 per annum, being piped across
the river from Canada at or near Mia
CARA Falls.
Of the more commonly used articles
of which other parts of the world are
the chief source, sugar is the largest in
value, its importations ranging about
100 million dollars year from foreign
countries and to 70 million dollars a
year from our own island possessions,
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
Nearly all of that coming from foreign
countries is drawn from Cuba, which
supplied US last fiscal year with three
and one-half billion pounds valued at
9315 million dollars. Of coffee, the i'm
portations range from 60 to rs million
dollars year and in exceptional years
as high as 100 million. The bulk Of this
comes from Brazil, though a consider
able portion comes from Java, Mexico,
Central America, and the northern sec
ton of South America, and compare
lively small quantity from Africa. The
tea importations, which amount to from
IL to Is million dollars year, come
chiefly from Japan, China and India,
much of the latter, however, reaching
the United States by way of England.
One would scarcely expect to see raw
cotton imported into the United States
in view of the fact that she produces
three-fourths of the cotton of the world,
but the value of cotton imports ranges
as high as 20 million dollars a year, the
bulk of it coming from Egypt, though
Mexico and Peru contribute consider
able quantities, even India, China, the
Dutch East Indies and the British West
Indies make small contributions.
All of the raw silk used in the United
States il manufacturing the $50 mi lion
dollars worth of silk goods turned out
annually by our factories is brought
from other parts of the world, chiefly
from Japan and China, though in smaller
quantities from Italy and France. To
the 112 million dollars worth of hides
and skins imported last year, nearly
every grand division contributed. OF
goat skins alone the imports last year
amounted to 80 million dollars, brought
from such distant countries as India,
China, the Straits settlements, Persia,
Morocco, the Belgian Kongo, the Mad
agascar.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13

One could put up with the writer's
cold-blooded assumption that the Idaho
potato is the equal of the Colorado
potato. Colorado is used to having
other products claimed as "just as
good" substitutes. For years melon
growers in all parts of the country have
been fooling the public with cantaloupes
lust as good as the Rocky Ford kind.
California apple growers have stopped
to the subterfuge of shipping their in
ferior apples in Colorado-marked boxes,
and having printed pictures of Colorado
orchards as their own. 1t is not sur
prising that the Idaho potato growers
should try to boost their inferior spuds
over the shoulders of the premier spuds
of Colorado, which long ago established
their claim as the finest favored in the
word-but to add insult to injury by
putting the potato forward as a break
fast food is more than any civilized COM
munity can stand. 1t marks Idaho as an
abode of savagero-a frontier stopping
place where the best customs do not
tarry-a home of darkness where the
light of civilization will be blunted at
the end and frayed at the edges before
it penetrates.
Potatoes for breakfast d sent to
the White House, tool Oh, you be-
nighted Idaho!
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
A Social DereIict.

Near the entrance of one of the fash
ionable restaurants in Fifth avenue.
where there is usually a large crowd
at luncheon time on Saturday. a feeble
old man in tattered clothes was no.
ticed by two men who were on their
way to their midday meal Hating
the old man. one of the others said,
"Come in and We'll blow you off to IA
good meal" and led the way 10 the
restaurant entrance. No. said the
poor fellow; "some one in there might
recognize me. ! used to be customer
of theirs at the old place" and he re-
fused the invitation, but took with
courtly thanks the small coin with
which he said he would buy something
to eat lat some place good enough for
has-beens. New York Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
THE GRANGE
Conducted by
J. W. BARROW. Chatham, N. Y,
Press Correspondent NetD York Stdti
Grange
SURVEY OF GRANGE FIELD.
Interesting Facts Gathered From Re-
ports of State Masters.

Interesting Facts Gathered From Re-
ports of State Masters.
The reports made by state masters
Indicate fairly well the status of the
work in the grange states. California
reports conditions as promising. with
interest increasing, and, anticipating
the holding of the Panama exposition
Mt San Francisco in 1915. California will
invite the national grange to meet
there at that time. In Colorado ten
new oranges have been organized, and
great interest has been manifested
there in the grange field days. In
Iowa twelve new oranges have been
organized. In Kansas there are 1000
members. Owing to the failure of
several farmers organizations in the
past 1t has made grange organization
more difficult. One of the largest CO.
operative grange enterprises is at
Olathe, Kan, which is prosperous
enough to declare a semiannual divi-
dend Of more than Is per cent. Idaho
reports gains all along the line and CO.
operative buying as notably success
full. In Connecticut cooperative buy
ing has saved the grange members
from to per cent on their pur-
chases, and the membership has In
creased nearly LOO during the past
year.
In Massachusetts eleven new oranges
have been organized during the past
year, and there are now 240 in this
state, with $1,000 members. Two dis
tinct objects are before the Bay State
grangers-first, a vigorous effort to
promote a larger interest in agricul-
ture and, second, an awakening to the
responsibilities for community leader
ship. The grange has co-operated
Loyalty with the State Agricultural So
ciety and farmers institutes. In New