New-York tribune., 1912-02-25
News of the Past Week Is Here
Recapitulated for the Busy Man

stated by District Attorney Charles w.
Miller, at Indianapolis, that all this eVi-
dence is to be corroborated by witnesses
! whose names are already known. The evil
dence chiefly is: About forty thousand let
ters and kilograms taken from the head
quarters Of the International Association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers which,
| according to charges in the indictments,
show that President Frank NJ Ryan, Sec
! retary-Treasurer Herbert s. Hockin and
! executive board members corresponded for
six years with business agents OF local
unions about Jobs 10 be blown up steno-
graphic records of a telephone apparatus,
which the government had connected with
| Ryan's headquarters for more than three
months and through which, IT is asserted,
| conversations Of the iron workers ofhcials
about the dynamite conspiracy were over
! heard and transcribed; Ortie f. McMani-
gals confession covering his experience as
a dynamlter employed by j. J. Mcnamara
! from June, 1907, to his arrest, last April.
MILES FINDS BROTHER DYING.
| While Lieutenant General Nelson A.
Miles Cretired) was riding by lafayette
| Park. in Washington, in an automobile, he
noticed a crowd in the square. Stopping
his automobile, he inquired what the
trouble was, and was informed that man
had tainted and apparently was dying.
General Miles offered his services. and was
| shocked 10 find that the man on the ground
was his brother, Daniel C.. Miles Of West
minister, Mass. With the assistance Of one
or two others. General Miles carried his
brother TO his automobile and then hurried
TO his own apartments in the Rochamboau
apartment house two blocks away The
| generals brother was dead when the ma
chine arrived at the apartment house. Mr..
Miles was eighty-fve years old and had
been suffering from heart disease.
Eight little children died from poison
and four are in a serious condition at the
Brooklyn Nursery and Infants Hospital,
No. 396 TO 40 Herkimer street, Brooklyn.
A nurse, believed to be insane, confessed
that she had put oxalic acid in milk the
babies drank.
With twenty freight cars burning fierce
ly and with tons Of rock. loosened by the
heat, raining down upon the tracks, the
famous Hoosac Tunnel, on the Fitchburg
division of the Boston G. Maine Railroad,
was effectively blocked as the result OF a
collision. in which four were killed when a
Boston bound passenger express crashed
into freight.
CORNELL STUDENTS DROWNED.
1.-TWO undergraduates in the Cornell Col
lege of Civil Engineering, Henry A. Con-
verse Of Buffalo, and Charles W. Getman,
OF Richheld Springs, were drowned in
Cayuga Lake, near Kidder's Ferry, about
twenty miles from Ithaca while skating.
Detectives Russo and Flood. Of the Dis
trict Attorneys staff arrested a negro
woman named Bessie Green for threat
ening leiter received about a week ago by
| Francis r. Arnold. father OF the missing
Dorothy Arnold which demanded $50 on
pain OF death. Letters demanding large
sums of money and threatening exposures
Of alleged family scandal and even death
have been pouring in on Mr.. Arnold for six
| months or more. he told the police.
"Mrs. Lena BoTnkamp. forty-two years
old OF No 1866 Second avenue was knocked
down by an automobile opposite her homo
and died in Flower Hospital a few minutes
after arrival there. Michael Morrissey.
twenty-one years old, the chauffeur OF the
car which caused the death OF the woman,
was locked up in the East 5lst street sta
tion. charged with homicide.
Robert w. de Forest, vice-president OF
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced
that Francis l.. Leland, president Of the
New York County National Bank. had
j made an unconditional sift 10 the museum