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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. IT.
Though Governor Samuel M. Ralston
has not decided what disposition to
make of s5s.1s4 left from the fund
contributed to aid the sufferers In the
floods In this State last spring. near
1y hundred persons In widely sepa-
rated parts OF North America have
offered to relieve him OF his troubles
by accepting part OF the money. As
the fund was contributed for a spe-
cial purpose, Governor Ralston be-
lieves that 1T should not be used in
any other way unless an emergency
arises.
A man in Gettysburg, Pa, offers
Indiana's executive an opportunity TO
purchase a fifty thousand dollar col
lection of animals for one-fifth of
that amount. The menagerie in
cludes q spotted ant-eater, snakes,
bears and crocodiles. The governor
also was asked to buy an artificial
hand for q man In Chicago, and sew
eral persons asked for money with
which to purchase Christmas pres
ent5.
A Milford, Ohio, woman, who says
she is cripple. asks for money with
which to start home," and TWEEN
ty-year-old wife of an invalid In
jackson, Mich, wrote that unless
somebody aided her she would have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Stakeholder Wins Suit
Against N. j. Corporation

NEW YORK, Dec. 1L--An import
ant decision as to the right of a New
York stakeholder in a New Jersey
corporation to sue here In behalf of
the corporations to recover damages
from the directors for declaring divi-
dends out of capital instead of out
of the earnings was made yesterday
by Supreme Court Justice Seabury.
1t was in the stockholders suit of
F. ]. De Raismes against the United
States Lithographing Company and
the officers and directors. M
The suit asks 100000 damages. from
the defendants on the ground that
the last dividend OF 7 per cent. which
was paid in 1911. was not out OF earn
ings. In his decision Justice Seabury
said that the New Jersey laws now
make directors liable to stockholders
for illegal dividends, while In New
York they are liable to the corpora
ton for the full damage sustained
by the illegal dividend, The court
said that the plaintiff had right to
maintain the suit here both at COM
mon law and because the New Jersey
statute makes the payment Of divi-
dends out of capital illegal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Mitchell Calls Conference
to Discuss Police Head

NEW YORK, Dec, ia confer
ence of the leaders of the political
organizations that took patti In the
Fusion municipal campaign has been
called for next week by John Purroy
Mitchell, mayor-elect, to discuss the
appointment of successor to Rhine
lander Waldo, police commissioner.
This course was adopted by Mr.
Mitchell, ii is said. because of the re-
fusal of his close friends and ad-
visers to suggest the name of man
for police commissioner, although en-
dorsements for other places have
been numerous.
Neither the Republican nor Pro-
gressive leaders will submit candi-
date although both are reported to
be willing to do so II legislation CIV
ing the police commissioner longer
term and increased power is passed.
Mr.. Mitchell is said to be willing to
make a fight for both of these things
after his Inauguration on January /,
IL it is necessary to get man for
the place who shall be unembarrassed
by hostile criticism from any source
during the early part of the new adj
mlnistration.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Deputies Sing Hymns as
Camden Man Dies in Chair

TRENTON, Dec. 17.--Walking to
the death chair without a murmur.
Edwin williams, colored. thirty years
old, Of McCalls. s. c., paid the death
penalty in the State prison last night
for the murder OF William Miller, OF
Camden.
williams found Miller in the com
pany of Mrs. Penny stewart, WIN
whom the murderer had been init
mate. In drunken and jealous rage
he shot Miller to death on September
a. williams procured the revolver In
Philadelphia.
His defense to the, crime was that
he had no recollection of the pur-
chase of the revolver or of the crime.
Before going to the electric chair
Williams had one of the prison depu-
ties sing to him several hymns. Rev.
William w H, Heath. OF Camden
attended to Williams spiritual needs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17

addition to one, should be based on
1.-THE Republican vote for Republican
Presidential electors in 1908 or for
the Republican candidate for. Con-
gress in 1914, whichever is the
higher
Nebraskan Has Minority Report.
r. B. Howell of Nebraska submit
ted a minority report. He concurred
in everything except the apportion-
ment scheme and declared that he
believed the proposal of the majority
would be SubyerSive of the object OF
the meeting and result in future en-
barrassment to the Republican party.
He contended that the principal pur-
pose of the meeting was to reduce
southern, representation in Republi-
can national conventions and that he
did not believe that the reapportion-
ment scheme as proposed would rem
edy the difficulty. The elimination
of only sixty-two delegates from all
the Southern States, Mr.. Howell as
serted, would not, in his opinion, be
satisfactory to the Republicans OF
the country.
Mr.. Howell suggested as an alter
native a plan of the Republican Con-
gressional committee providing four
delegates-a large for each State and
fOIlt uGlCRdlG4 III fdQulItOIl LOI Ctttli
10000 votes, or major fraction thereof
cast for the Republican candidate in
1903. That plan would reduce the to-
tai number of delegates in the con-
vention to 945. THE south, which had
272 delegates In the convention of
1919. would have only 119, If that plan
were adopted.
William Barnes, jr, of New York,
proposed as substitute for the
Howell amendment that the report Of
The special committee be adopted
with a provision that no congress
sional district should get the benefit
of an additional delegate unless that
district had cast at least 1900 Repub-
lican votes for presidential electors,
or in 1914 for candidates for Congress.
He said that it would be a funda-
mental mistake to adopt any scheme
of reapportionment which would
eliminate the congressional district as
a unit.
/. The proposal of Mr.. Howell, he said,
would absolutely shut out twelve
States from the congressional district
delegate plan.
Mr.. Barnes's substitute proposal,
he said, would reduce the Southern
representation by seventy-seven votes
in the convention, the Northern States
by eight, of which New York would
lose four.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
mo FORGIVENESS,
THOMPSON SAYS
Bergen County Clerk Learns
That Wife Visited pesr
i'm Cell.

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 17.--Any feel
ings of forgiveness toward his wife.
Mrs. Stella Thompson, which may
Charles f. Thompson. clerk OF Bergen
county. when he decided to take her
back to his home on Monday. after a
Jury had convicted G. Bert Deer, Of
Ridgefield Park, for intimate rela-
lions with her, were renounced last
night, when Thompson learned that
his wife had visited Deer In the
Hudson county Jail.
IT am through with her forever,
said Thompson last night. II shall
press my divorce suit against her
and cast her from my life as soon as
possible"
Deer, who Is a former social fa-
vorite of Ridgefield Park. is now
awaiting an appeal by his lawyers
from the finding of the court OF Judge
George g. Tenant. which sentenced
him to from one and half to three
years in State Prison. 1t had been
brought out at the trial that Mrs.
Thompson and Deer. who had been
given a home by Thompson after the
death OF his wife. were guilty OF mis-
conduct On leaving the court Mon
day afternoon. Thompson was quoted
as having said that he was ready to
take back his wife for the sake Of
their twelve-year-o daughter, on
condition that she promised to be-
come a good woman He also said
that he would discontinue the divorce
proceedings against her.
Yesterday, however. Mrs. Thompson
visited Deer in his cell at the Hudson
county Jail. She brought him pack
age of sweets and cakes and spent
about an hour In talking to him
through the bars of his cell. Ac-
cording to witnesses, her bearing
toward him was affectionate and en-
cOuraging
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Duplicate Crippen Chase in
Search for WOman's Slayer

LONDON, Dec. 17.-There has been
no such worldwide quest for a sus-
pected criminal since that for DR..
Crippen for the killing of his wife a
few years ago as the hunt which Is
now on for George Sumter. Sumter
Is sought as the murderer of Miss
Christine Bradheld, sister of a Liver
pool manufacturer, whose mutilated
body was found in the Manchester
ship canal several days ago. The
woman, who was thirty-eight years
old and acted as manager of her
brothers office, was killed at her
place of business on Wednesday eve
ming. The body was tied UP In sack
ing and wheeled through acme Of the
busiest streets of the city to the
canal Sumter was employed in the
office of which Miss Bradfleld was
manager.
Wireless messages have been sent
to ships and cablegrams to all foreign
ports, giving detailed description OF
Sumter.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
C. 0. P. CONTINUES
TRIMMING PLANS
Continued from Fir.t Page.)


election to delegates, to national con-
MENTIONS of political parties, In a pri-
mary election, shall be placed upon
the temporary roll by the national
1 committee. l6
Agre on ReappoPtionment Plan.
The Warren committee finally agreed
upon a plan of reapportionment pro-
viding for four delegates at-large
from each State one from each con-
gressional district and one additional
from each district where the total Re-
publican vote was So per cent, or more
of the total vote cast. No district,
however, would have more than two
delegates, no matter how large the
Republican vote, States having con-
gressmen- at-large to be entitled to
one vote for each. The congressional
election of 1910 probably will be used
as the basis for determining the exact
representation in each State. Terri
tories and the District of Columbia
would have two delegates each. The
plan provides also that il shall be-
come effective when 1t is ratified by
States representing q majority of the
electoral college
Jersey Would Lose One Delegate.
Under the Warren plan representa-
ton in national conventions would be
reduced by seventy delegates. The
following named States would lose
the following number of delegates:
Alabama, 6: Florida, 2; Georgia, 6;
Louisiana, Z; Mississippi. s. North
Carolina, 9; Oklahoma. /; South Caro-
lima, 7; Tennessee, A. Texas, ID: Vir-
ginia, s. total loss for the South, 81;
Illinois, 2; Kentucky, 1 New Jersey,
/; New York, 4: total loss for the
North. 8.
The plan for additional delegates
where the Republican vote was more
than 40 per cent. of the total was re-
jected, because under 1t the North
would lose proportionately more than
the South Under 1t New York's rep
resentation would be cut by eight
and Ohio five. The entire COMMITTEES
unanimously agreed on the So per
cent plan.
The plan of the committee 20
recognize primary laws and change
the rules governing convention was
adopted by the national committee
by unanimous vote. On point
raised by Committeeman Cub, of
Florida, it was announced that the
resolution would be changed so that
In States where 1t Is optional wheth-
er a party shall hold primaries for
the election of delegates they shall
be selected in the old manner and the
primary plan shall be observed only
in States where the law provides
specifically for such action.
With the resolution for reappor-
tionment of delegates an amendment
was accepted providing that the
basis for the selections of delegates
from each Congressional district In
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Mother Hears Gun and Finds
Daughter Dying in Bush

NEW EGYPT, Dec. 17.--Mary, the
fourteen-year-old daughter of Oscar
Southland, of Golfers Hill, near here,
is dying. How she received the wound
Is the question the Ocean county au-
thorities are trying to answer.
Mary left the house yesterday. She
had been out of the door but a few
minutes when Mrs. Southland heard
the report Of a gun. followed by a
scream. She ran out and found her
little daughter unconscious In thick
brush a few yards away. q wound in
her shoulder.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
SLAYER VOGT IS
SHOT BY CAPTOR
Taken to Bellevue Hospital, He
confesses to Killing
Nine. Agnese.

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Confessing
that he killed Mime. Agnese Guth on
December 3 in her home, 206 West
Eighty-fourth street, because she re-
fused to give him money. Oscar Vogt
is a prisoner today in Bellevue Hos
pital with bullet wound In his head,
His capture was brought about un-
Willingly by the wife he had de-
serted for the woman he murdered
It was made by Detective Norman
II. Connolly after a battle in which
Vogt and a bystander were shot.
Vogt was formerly a soldier IN the
Swiss army, and since his arrival in
New York eight years ago had be-
come known as an expert chef and
a pianist. After the murder of Nine,
Guth the police found where he had
cashed g. check stolen from her, but
then lost all trace of him. 1t was
understood he had a wife in Switzer-
land, but one man in New York out
side of vogt himself knew she was
here. and believed eventually Vogt
would appeal to her for aid.
This man was Policeman Connolly,
one of Commissioner Waldo's
rockies" then attached to the West
Sixty-eighth street station. He has
been on the force but two months,
and learned about the wife acct
dentally. A short time before the
murder Connolly was called into a
restaurant in West Eighty-fourth
street to stop quarrel, 1t was be-
tween vogt and his wife Theresa.
While all the police in the city were
looking for Vogt the day following
the murder Connolly recalled the
| fight. and reporting that he knew
/ Vogt by sight, and believed he could
/ locate the wife, he was transferred to
the detective bureau and assigned
| temporarily to the district attorneys
staff, with nothing to do but look
/ for Vogt.
After considerable digging he To-
Gated Mrs. Vogt in a restaurant where
she is employed. He followed her day
and night, but Vogt did not show up
Last night when Mrs. Vogt left the
Third avenue IL" station at 125tf
street Connolly, as usual was on the
same train. Alighting at Twenty
| third street, she walked down the
avenue to Twenty-second, and man
emerged from doorway. Connolly
peered into the mans face, saw II
was Vogt and said:
well, Oscar, ! guess I've got you
You may as well come along with me
You know what want you for"
Vogt drew back, pulled a razor and
leaped at Connolly, who drew his re
volver and fired. and a man at tn,
corner of Twenty second street fell
shot through the thigh. Again Vog
plunged at Connolly, and once NOR.
i the latter fired. This time Vogt tel
with bullet in N -Ts'-'s, taHanie- Tit
other man who
George Palmer, o
eighth street. Fl
! bath man uver6 ss.4s--
vue Hospital, where yost =
confession of the murder.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Rector Urges Sex Hygiene
Teaching in Parishes

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 17--Rev. Au-
gustine Elmendorf, rector of Holy
Cross Protestant Episcopal Church,
this city, and Secretary of the Social
Service Commission of the Newark
diocese, addressed a letter TO each
rector in the diocese yesterday urging
the teaching of sex hygiene.
In the communication Rev. Mr. Ell
mendorf said that the Episcopal
Church has avoided the question Of
sex hygiene and that the time has
come when the subject must be taught
to the children of the different par
ishes. He said that the duty OF in
struction lay first with the fathers and
mothers and that during the prepara-
ton for continuation of young people
was a good time to discuss the subject
with the children.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Seek Identity of Bogus
Reporter Claiming to Be
Employed by the Star

Efforts are being made to learn the
identity of q man posing as Star
reporter who has called at several
houses at night. saying he was de-
sirous of learning something about a
fictitious happening. The man Is be-
lieved to be playing some sort of
criminal scheme, although as yet no
report that he has succeeded has been
received.
Every Newark newspaper reporter
is furnished monthly with q police
card, and any person can safeguard
himself against possible fraud by de-
handing to see the credentials of any
man who presents himself as re-
porter.
The Star would be pleased to re-
ceive any information concerning this
irnposter.
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Militancy vulgar" Says
Former Inez Milh0lland

PRINCETON, Dec. 17.--Mrs. Inez
Milhoiland Boissevain received an
enthusiastic welcome here last night
when she addressed 400 students and
townspeople at meeting of the
Princeton Socialist Society.
The suffrage leader answered a
rapid fire OF questions with deadly
effect. She declared the English mil
liant movement was not emotional.
but highly strateglcal. She regretted
the necessity of those vulgar meth
DDS"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
vAILsBURG NOTES

Frank Rice, of Mum avenue, has
gone to Bernardsvilie for a short
Mr.. Norworth, of West End ave-
nue. leaves tomorrow for an extended
trip on the road.
Preparations are being made for
the dedication soon of the Boys Club
of the M. r. Church.
Miss Florence Lalley, of Stuyvesant
avenue, entertained at her home last
night
william McCune, of 51s Sanford
avenue, has been slightly Ill.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
City Insures Employees

BERKELEY, Cal, Dec. ia COM
pensating insurance fund for the pro-
lection Of the city's employees was
created here yesterday by the enact
ment of a municipal ordinance. BY
it's terms employees will receive COM
rjensation for disabilities sustained in
the course of their duties. A tax of
one-half cent on each 800 of as
sessed valuation will be levied as a
necessary start until the fund totals
e10 mn
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Policeman WEEDS Girl Who
Trapped Three Burglars

ATLANTIC CITY. Dec. 17.-Pollce-
man Joseph Cramer yesterday mar
ried Miss Florence Miller, who last
summer called him Into the hardware
store where she worked to capture
three burglars,
i've trapped them" she said. Sure
enough, she had them locked In a
room.
ut was the luckiest catch / ever
made" said the policeman after the
wedding
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
Tobacco Workers Strike

WESLEY, Wis, Dec. 17.--Five hun
bred employees of the tobacco sorting
plants in this village went on strike
today, resisting an attempt to reduce
their pay from ninety to eighty-five
cents per 100 pounds. The plants were
obliged to close. There was no vio-
lence. A committee of the sorters
was named to meet the employers
and IL possible arrange q compreHaAsA.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17
new LEGISLATIVE
COMMITTEE HELP
Part of Corporation Tax Work
to Be Assumed by Relief
Committee at Trenton.


| TRENTON, Dec. ia committee
that is destined to play an important
part in the Legislature this term Is
| the PROPOSED joint committee on tax
alton. The rules committee Of the
House yesterday introduced an
amendment creating the committee on
taxation.
The new committee will relieve the
committee on corporations OF all mat
| ters pertaining to taxes, except as
they refer IN particular cases to cor
porations.
The proposition to create the COM
mittee had the unanimous support of
all the members present, and later the
senators, IN conference, also made
provision for the appointment of such
a committee.
| The senators. as announced in the
Evening Star of yesterday, met in the
State House and apportioned patron
age among the eleven Democratic
counties In the State, while the as
sembiymen, after adopting tentative
set of rules. adjourned 20 the Hotel
Sterling, where they were the guests
Of Assemblyman Azariah M. Beck
man, of Somerset, the Democratic
choice for speaker of the House, at
a luncheon.
The luncheon was very simple
affair, there being no spec ehmaklng
or discussion Of any character Seated
at the guests table were Secretary Of
State David s. Crater, st ,ta Treas
urer Edward u, Grosscup, State
Banking and Insurance Commissioner
George M, LaMonte, Comptroller Ed
ward |. Edwards, Assistant Secretary
of State Job H. Lippincott and Mr.
Bcekman. Acting Governor Leon r.
Taylor was not present, nor we're any
OF the Democratic senators there,
The Senate and House committees
on the inauguration OF Governor elect
James #. Fielder held meeting, but
transacted only ordinary routine busi-
ness.
There was none OF the discussion
of the various positions to be filled
which has characterized the Tuesday
gatherings at the State House since
election. Whether this was due to the
fact that the Governor-elect and the
more prominent State leaders were not
present is a matter of opinion. BY
o'clock the State House corridors were
deserted.
The Senate conference was free
from the wrangling over positions
which marked the session of the
! steering committee of the House two
weeks ago. 1t lasted a little over an
, hour. Hudson county Jared pretty
we'll in the matter of patronage, get
!. ting the assistant bill clerk, the calen-
! dar clerk and the assistant journal
clerk. Cumberland county the home
! Of former Governor Edward G. Stokes,
'>-u-,vhioh Assemblyman John A,
<was elected as
-h-4s- sss...s KEN care Of
3bs, q door
l4'A 4- committee on
pl1..Su oi4.S 49, .r <. 1t was felt
that the Democrats or that county
should be rewarded for electing Mr.
, Ackley to the Senate in place OF Sere-
tor Isaac p. Nichols, Republican, and
In rolling up majority for Governor
; elect Fielder Essex county, which Is
represented In the Senate by Austen
, Colgate, Republican, as matter OF
=
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Maine Raising Cost $500, GOO

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE rails
ing of the battleship Maine in Ha-
vana harbor cost Uncle Sam 100000,
II was shown in final report sub
mitted to Congress by the war de-
partment. There Is yet remaining of
the appropriation $104,354, which Is
available for construction of tablets
and monuments made from portions
OF the vessel
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pIII4N Su Dl4.is3 -. y IL Was l5l 2
that the Democrats or that county
should be rewarded for telecting Mr..
Ackley to the Senate in place OF sera-
tor Isaac p. Nichols. Republican, and
In rolling up majority for Governor
elect Fielder. Essex county, which Is
represented in the Senate by Austen
Colgate, Republican, as matter of
course, received nothing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17

addition to one, should be based on
"the Republican vote for Republican
Presidential electors in 1908, or for
the Republican candidate for Con-
gress in 1914, whichever is the
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vue Hospital, where yost III.
confession of the murder.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-05-07
THORPE.

Miss Berdine Stooker visited Sun
day with her sister, Mrs.Lee.
Wesley Let's and brother Frank
were over Sunday visitors in Du-
buque.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brewster and
children were Manchester callers on
Monday.
Hiss Lucille Work is assisting in the
home Of Thomas Lee, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Haliber were bust
ness visitors at Manchester Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rooney were Edge
wood callers Sunday.
Mrs. S. .Simons visited with her
mother, Mrs. Wonleighton, on Tues
day.
Mrs. E. Wendell spent Sunday with
her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brewster and
children spent Sunday at the Dan
Sarks home.