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Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
BECKER AGAIN
FOUND GUILTY
Only Pardon or Court InteTfer-
enCe Can Save His Life.
WILL FILE SECOND APPEAL
Former Police Lieutenant Will Ap-
peaI-Tears Stream Down Fore
mans Face As He An
nounces Decision.

New York.-Twelve men decided for
the second time that Charles Becker
was the arch-conspirator responsible
for the Rosenthal murder, which near
ly two years ago awoke New York to
a realization of corruption in the Po-
lice Department and opened a new
era of police reform.
Becker, once a police lieutenant,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree. Only a pardon or interfer-
ence again by the Court of Appeals
can save him from following to the
electric chair the four gunner who
shot Herman Rosenthal, the gambler,
early on the morning of July 16, 1912.
The jury decided that the gunner
were Becker's agents.
Five ballots were taken by the Jury.
The first ballot is said to have stood
six for guilty in the first degree, two
for not guilty, three for a lesser de-
gree, and one blank. A second bal
lot, taken after the jurors had had
luncheon, brought one man over to
the majority. The third ballot showed
gain of two and the fourth stood ten
for guilty. The fifth ballot was unani-
nous.
Tears streamed down the foreman's
face as he announced the decision and
tears stood in the eyes of several other
jurymen; but sympathy did not warp
their Judgment. They had agreed that
the confederation which the District
Attorney failed to present at the first
trial to support the stories of Rose,
ValloR and Webber, the three accom-
plices who turned informers, had been
furnished by the new witnesses at the
second.
Becker's Counsel To Appeal.
Becker's counsel announced that he
would appeal and gained weeks stay
for the preparation of his future cam
paign. The defendant was granted a
short meeting with his wife and his
brothers and then taken back to his
cell in the Tombs.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
POST LEAVES $2o,OOo,OOo.
Bulk Of Cereal Kings Estate To
Widow and Daughter.

Washington, D. C.-The will of c.
w. Post, of Battle Creek. Mich, who
died at Santa Barbara, Cal, on May
9, filed here for probate, 4eaves the
bulk of an estate estimated at $780,
100000, to the widow, Mrs. Leila Y.
Post, and daughter. Marjorie Post
Close. The stocks, bonds and other
personal property of the estate were
estimated at about SIS 1000, 900.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
BIG BLAZE IN. CLEVELAND.
Fire In Lumber Yards Causes Loss
Estimated At 100000.

Cleveland, Ohio.-Fire in lumber
yards on the fats caused loss esti-
mated at $1,0OO,OOO, and destroyed
large portion of the central viaduct
which connects the South Side with
the business part of the East Side. The
lumber yards destroyed were those of
the Fisher & Wilson Lumber Com
pany and the Martin Barris Lumber
Company.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
AeEp ELk BuRMED ro DEArA.
Set Fire To Brush Pile While Visiting
Friend In Country.

Bedford City, va-James L. Tindall,
75 years of age, met horrible death
by incineration. He was resident of
the Elks Home, having come to the
home from Fremont Lodge. Fremont,
Ohio. Mr.. Tindall was on the street
at noon and. meeting friend, Mr..
Walters, who recently moved here
from Fremont, he accompanied him to
his home, short distance from town.
for dinner.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
ENGINE SPARK is COSTLY.
Starts 100000 Blaze, With Little In
surance.

Newbern, N. C.-Fire which is be-
lieved to have originated from a spark
from a passing locomotive destroyed
the mammoth plant of the West Box
and Lumber Company, in this city, en-
failing a loss of more than 100000.
In addition to the plant. which was
estimated at about $4,000, there was
about $4,000 of material on hand,
which had been finished and ready for
use. There was also large quantity
of rough lumber.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
WALL suRIEs II FlREMEN.
Score OF Spectators Also Hurt At Chi
eaao Fire.

Chicago. = Eleven fremen were
trapped beneath a falling wall while
they were fighting fire in West Madi-
son street. Several are believed to
have been killed. Most of the mem
bers of Engine Company 1OS went
down" said the ire chief. Rescuers
dragged II injured fremen from be-
meath the bricks and hurried them to
hospital, None was killed.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
WORLDS END NEARH
Pittsburgh Pastor Points To. Present
Unrest As Warning.


Pittsburgh.-Ministers here are dis
cussing a sermon delivered by Rev.
w. L. McEwan, D. D., pastor of the
Third Presbyterian Church, on the
Ascension, which he closed with the
words: "The Ascension is a guaran-
tee that Christ will come again. 1t
will be a personal coming; it will be
a visible coming; 1t will be in glory
and it will be sudden. 1t may be soon
sooner than the Indifferent world ex-
poets. 1t is not for us to know the
times and the reasons, which the
Father keeps in His own hands, but
there are conditions Of unrest so
strange that devout scholars are look
ing for the end of this dispensation.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
DRAGGED TO DEATH BY cow.
Russell Roberts, Years Old, OF
Lynchburg, the Victim.

Lynchburg, Va.-Russell, the 9-year-
old son of Charles Roberts, was drag
ged to death by a COW which the lad
was taking to pasture. With rope
tied to the cows horns and wound
around his waist, the COW ran off
dragging the lad two squares. one of
which was over a street car track.
The boy died five minutes after he
was released.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
CHICKEN BREAKS HER ARM.
Woman Goes To Hospital After Try
ing To Pull Fowl Apart

Philadelphia.-After purchasing a
fresh young spring chicken" at a
market, Mrs. Evelyn Rudderow, OF
Camden, N. J., started to pull it apart
for a chicken stew. She grabbed one
of the legs with her right hand and
started to pull. She pulled and pulled
until she was convinced that the fowl
must have been at least 100 years old.
Then she pulled some more, but be-
fore she could seperate the legs she
felt a sudden twinge in her arm.
Neighbors took her to the Cooper Hos
pitaI, where physicians said she had
broken her arm.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
SENATOR BRADLEY DEAD.
Kentucky Republican In Upper House
OF Congress Expires.

Washington, D. c. William o.
Bradley. United States senator from
Kentucky, died here after a lingering
illness, aggravated by fall.
William O'Connell Bradley, who en-
joyed the distinction of having been
the first and only Republican Cover
nor of the State of Kentucky, was
born near Lancaster, Garrard coun-
ty, KY, on March is, 1847.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
Reeker,s Counsel To Appeal.
sEABoARD TRAIN WRECKED.
Officials Blame Death Of Engineer On
TamperIns With Switch.

IdmPGFIH8 WIFI oWItCH.
Savannah, Ga.-The Seaboard Air
Line Florida to New York train was
wrecked at Anderson, six miles south
of Savannah. Engineer A. c. Gruber,
of Savannah, was killed and the fire.
man and express messenger were in
jured. No passengers were hurt. Off
cials Of the road stated that train
wreckers were responsible, lights hav-
ing been extinguished and a switch
half thrown at a siding where the
wreck occurred.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
EAGLE HURLs SNAKE AT AUTO.
Followed Machine With Reptile In Its
Talons.

Talons.
Cumberland, Md-While David Long
and party were returning from Cum
berland to Keyser, W. Va, by auto
mobile, they were annoyed by bald
eagle darting near their machine.
After they had pasesd Frankfort the
eagle came so near the automobile
that it could be seen that it carried a
snake in it's talons The eagle follow.
ed the machine for some distance,
finally dropping the snake, and it fell
beside the auto.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
POPE CREATES 10 CARDINALS.
Gibbons Present At the consistory in
Rome.

Rome-At a secret consistory held
at the Vatican Pope Plus created 13
new cardinals. At the same time OIL
cial announcement was made of the
creation of Monsignor Bello, Patri-
arch of Lisbon, as cardinal. His
name had been reserved ''in pectore"
at the consistory of 1911. The Pontiff
was surrounded by all the members of
the Sacred College living in Rome,
and by those who are now here, in
cluding Cardinals Gibbons, Farley and
O'Connell.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
MORE TROUBLE IN COLORADO.

U. S. Cavalry oueIIs Disturbance Near
Weston.
Trinidad, Col.-For the first time
since they assumed control of the
Colorado coal fields, where the miners
have been on strike for months, the
United States cavalry Monday was
called out to quell disturbance near
Weston, a mining camp 25 miles from
here.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OPENED.
President Wilson Presided At Formal
Ceremony.

Washington, D. president Viii
son formally opened the new Ameri-
can University here. He was assisted
by Secretaries Bryan and Daniels and
church dignitaries from throughout
the country. Among the latter was
Bishop Earl Cranston, Methodist
Bishop of Washington.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
SIDDONS APPEALS TO
NEGROES CIVIC PRIDE
Tells Them Rights" Should Always
Give Way-May Have Meant
White House Incident.

An appeal TO negroes to think less OF
rights and more OF civic duty was
voiced last night by Commissioner Sid
.dOns at the annual meeting of the Colored
Social Settlement at Metropolitan A. NJ.
+. Church. Some believed his words to
be a sort of reply 10 the recent protest
OF negroes to President Wilson against
segregation in government departments.
Mr.. Siddons made no remark to show
his thoughts We're upon the White House
ircident
1T has been said that the colored race
is more sensitive to religious emotion
than to a consciousness OF civic duty"
said the Commissioner. Il venture to
say that religious emotion gets us but a
little way toward solution of the prob
lens which confront us today. appeal
to the colored residents OF this District
to think less of rights and more OF civic
duty.
Christ talked little OF rights. but much
OF duty. Colored people have a peculiar
duty to that social settlement which de-
votes itself particularly to colOred peo-
Pile"
w l. Washington. resident director Of
the Colored Social Settlement, gave a re-
port of its work during the last year.
DIR. Charles F. Nesbit, head OF the insur-
ance department Of the District, told
what work he had done to protect the
ignorant among the colOred against un-
scrupulous insurance men.
Health Officer Woodward spoke OF the
relations between social settlement and
the District government in regard TO
health matters. Mrs. Charlotte Everett
Hopkins and Howard Reeside spoke.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
PARSoN GETS, DIVORCE.
Now Wife Who Did Not Defend
Suit Is Missing.

Milwaukee, Wis. Nov 2O-It is now
the divorced wife of Rev. Louis T. Pat
mont, the vanishing parson." who has
disappeared. She is gone from her hons
here, and has left no trace. kilograms
to her parents. who live in Newark. y.
j., have brought replies that she has not
arrived there.
Yesterday a divorce was granted Pat
mont at Stevens Point, Wis, In an un-
contested suit, in which he alleged his
wife was unfit TO care for their children
and declared that in Milwaukee she had
| confessed to him that during his disap-
pearance, when he was supposed to be
dead she had received the attentions OF
another man.
Mr. Patmont won publicity in the Mid
die West by his anti-liquOr campaigns.
Last March, while he was waging such
crusade in Westville. Ill. he vanished.
His wife declared his life had been
threatened by men in sympathy with the
saloons. There was a widespread hunt
for him.
A farmland heard cries issuing in an
abandoned house near Columbia, Ill, ana
found Patmont inside, bound hand ano
foot He said he had been kept there by
a band of liquor men, who forced him
to drink whisky and constantly threat
ened his life.
At Detroit there came a second disap-
pearance This was on June L. He was
found in a lumber camp at Rib Lake,
Wis. He said he had been scared BY
threats against his life into quitting CRU
sading.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
WILSON ADDRESSES
LABOR CONVENTION
Cabinet Official Says There Can Be
No Industrial Peace that Is Not
Based Upon Justice to Labor.

Philadelphia, Nov. 2o.-After two days
Of jurisdiction wrangles, the American
Federation Of Labor convention today
began considering a proposition for keep
ing Jurisdiction disputes out OF future
conventions. Chairman James O'Connell,
Of the adjustment committee, offered a
resolution calling for the establishment
Of an arbitration department Of three
members to have power in solving ali
disputes between the unions composing
the federation.
The proposal will be taken under con-
sideration for one year. 1t will be de-
cided by the 1915 convention.
Labor's representative In the PresI-
dents Cabinet appeared before the con-
vention today to tell the delegates OF
100000 union men in the United States
and Canada that the unions were the
greatest forde for industrial justice e1-
istent
The arrival Of William B. Wilson, Sec
retary Of Labor, at the convention today
was a homecoming. For forty-three
years he has been a member Of the
United Mine Workers of America
There can be no Industrial peace" he
said, that is not based upon industrial
justice of labor. You men are fighting
for industrial Justice. My department is
doing its best to bring 1t about-indus-
trial justice for labor and for Its en-
ployers at one and the same time"
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
DARKEY'S CLOTHES PUT
HIM IN "BooBY HATCH"
Charles Daniels and Gold-headed Cane
Taken to Asylum-Was Far
Ahead of Home Town,

Charles Daniels, colored forty-five years
old. is at Washington Asylum Hospitals
victim Of circumstances. He Is being held
for observation as to his sanity, when his
only crime is that he was too far ahead
Of his home town. .
Daniels is known to nearly all OF WASH
Iington, especially to the sporting ele-
ment. None ever said that Daniels wasn't
sport. He is known from Blagden's s
court TO Fourteenth and F streets as a
beau ideal-a regular guy and a dandy
of parts.
gentleman of color" who was always
dressed for Sunday-always with a gold
headed cane, Q Scent cigar. a gray
derby hat with spats to match, a dia-
mond ring, patent leather shoes-in fact,
all that go to make up the perfect gen.
tleman." He was far ahead of the most
pretentious ''racin' niger both in social
qualities and in dress.
Some will know Daniels because he
always swaggereJ. All have laughed al
him at some time. Many know him as
one from whom two large simoleons could
be borrowed until that check came.
Daniels could always be seen walking
up Fourteenth street in the afternoon
when he hal finished his work as a
skilled Iaborer in the Bureau OF Engrav-
ing and Printing. 1t was the fact that
he worked there that caused his arrest.
The plodding employees OF the depart
ment demonstrated with him for years,
and it had no effect; in fact. he got worse
they called II worse-as he neared and
reached perfection. They asked the poI'cc
yesterday to come and take him to the
cooler
Detective O'Brian was sent after DAN
iels. He was sent-as he would have
said, with an air that would have made
the slang seem sIlver-to the BOBBY
hatch. He is there now, his glory taken
from him.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
REPORT ON ALLEGED MASSACRE
BeIgians Say More Than $50 Per-
sons Were shot Down Mt Tamines.

London. NoS. 2O.-The Belgian commits
sion OF inquiry into alleged German vio-
lation of the laws and customs Of war.
has issued another lengthy report, which
is published today by the British official
bureau. 1t covers what is described as
the massacre of Tamines." the sack
OF Dinant," and the "outrages in the
province Of Belgian Luxembourg"
The report says that over go persons
were shot by the Germans in the village
OF Tamines. Referring in detail to this
alleged massacre. the report describes
how a group OF between 800 and $50 men
we're collected in front of the village
church As shootingN them down with
rifles proved too slow. German officers
ordered up a machine gun. and those not
killed by the bullets from this weapon
were finished by bayonet thrusts.
According to the commissions report.
more than 100 of the inhabitants Of Dim
ant we're killed. Eighty-four Of these
were shot to death on Parade Square
and fifty others outside a church from
which they had been driven by the Ger
mans.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
TURKEYS MAY BE HELD UP.
Foot-and-mouth Quarantine May
Seal Up Eastern Shore Shipments.

Baltimore, Md, Nov. 0.-To permit
Eastern Shore poultry growers to get out
their Thanksgiving shipments Of turkeys
and cattle, President Harry P. Skipper
Of the State live stock sanitary board
made a special plea today that Talbot
Caroline, and Queen Anne counties be
not quarantined until next week. Mr.
Skipper arrived in Baltimore today from
the Eastern Shore, where he has been
fighting the foot-and-mouth disease toI
the past week. The cattle scourge already
has invaded Talbot and Caroline counties,
and other members Of the State board
and DR.. w. C. Siegmund, head Of the
Federal forces, all believe the three coun-
ties should go under the ban.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
FRAME MODEL CITY CHARTER.
Municipal Leagues Committee Fa-
vor City Manager and Counsel.

Baltimore. Nd. Nov. 2O.-Fast reaching
what is expected to be the model city
charter for a form Of municipal govern
ment, four sections of the report Of the
committee of twelve appointed by the
National Municipal League to work out
such a plan, were submitted at the con-
vention today. A city manager. a coun-
ell OF from five to twenty-five members,
which will select the manager; a civil
service and efficiency board, and constr
tutional municipal home rule form the
sections submitted.
These plans and other matters that
have come before the convention will be
considered by the executive committee,
which will meet in Philadelphia in a
week or two.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

New York. Nov. 1.-MILLFEED-strons:d demand
fair. Spring bran, in lOolb. sacks SO 70 arrive
standard middlinEs. 10 arrive, SIS; Western red
dog. g %; winter wheat. in lOo-poGnd sacks, to
GrTire 8.35; city br1n. in bulk $50
RYE FLoUR-StrOng; trade hindered- Good TO
choice. 5.65a60o.
CORSMEAL-Steady; demand modsrate Kiln
dried for export, 37O. in SACKS; cusrse meal, in
baGs. lSsal.60.
BCCKwHEAT FLOUR-steady; choice sold in
small lots at 24oa2e5
HA1-ReceiptS, 6A tons: cay; demand is quiet.
Prime timothy. Id; No. l timothy. l.lOaLl5: No.
., lyolRl.O6; No. ). sOaS5
STRAW-Rscsipts. 20 tons; fat; trade light Long
rye quoted at 6oa70.
PORk-Steady; inactive trade. Mess D5AI %;
family. 4oa5.50: clear, q 0oag!Oo
BEEF-Dun; scArce- Packet, Z.Ooa2LOo; family.
2L0Oa5m
LARD-Unsettled; business inactive. Prime West
en- n.50; refined continent, l225; South American,
l25O rhnedNBEazihan. in kegs. 1870; beef stsarine
lo%; lard stearine quiet; New York. IN.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
NO CLEW TO SLAYER.
Wealthy Victim Dies without Re-
gaining Consciousness.

Aurora, Ill, Nov 2O.-Miss Jenny Mil
Ter. the 'Hetty Green of Aurora" the
latest victim OF the church yard MUIR
derer. died this morning. An operation
performed last night in the hope that she
might regain consciousness for a mo-
ment before death and name or describe
her assailant failed in its purpose.
Chief of Police Michaels continues in
his belief that the murderer of Miss Mil
Ter and of Theresa Hollander was the
same man. The chief had four weak
minded. but supposedly harmless men,
bers OF the Austrian colony brought in
and questioned this morning. He ques-
toned these men last winter before he
arrested Tony Petras for the Hollander
girls murder
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
Hearing DELAYS Licenses.

Because of the legal technicalities that
hinge on the transfer OF a retail liquor
license to Preston Z. and Edgar A Mil
Ter, at sol Fourteenth street northwest
the eXcist board. which held a hearing
on the question yesterday, reserved de-
cision until the early part Of next week.
Permission to file formal applications for
retail licenses have been given Michael
Rafferty,, at 1905 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest. and Edward J. Glavin, 800 G
street northwest, and if all these licenses
are granted the 30 licenses allowed in
the District under the new excise law
will be completed.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
MODEL LOSES RICH HUBBY.
Beautiful 'Irish Queen" Now Back
on the "JOb," Is Report.

New York, Nov. 2O-AccOrding to gos-
sip in the fashionable shops along Fifth
avenue, the romance of the most beau
tihlI gown model in New York, Josephine
Loughlin, and Walter Richter. son and
heir of a Pittsburgh millionaire, has
ended disastrously. They were married
in September, but have separated. after
a visit paid the home of Richters par
ents in Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Richter, as Josephine Loughlin'
was known as The Irish Queen She
is a tall and beautiful brunette. In the
recent fashion shows at the Ritz-Carlton
and the Plaza she was easily the most
dazzling Of all the beautiful models who
displayed the gowns, furs and millinery
creations.
Last Friday she kissed all the other
models in the store good-by. formally
resigned and announced she was going
to Pittsburgh to take her place In So
ciety.
She returned to Bendel's Wednesday.
applied for and received her old position
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
SEEK "oLD MAN. AS SLAYER.
Philadelphia Police Have Few
CIews to Murderer of Boy.

Philadelphia, Nov 20.-The police today
are searching for IAN old man who walks
with a cane and shakes his shoulders
as a suspect in connection with the muir
der of eight-year-old Albert Kraft. whose
body was found yesterday morning on
the floor of a culvert under the Essing-
ton and Chester branch of tho Reading
Railway. near Gibson avenue and Fifty
sixth street.
Late yesterday the police arrested
William A. Swan, seventy-eight years
bold, on a clew furnished by nine-year-old
Frederick Sykes. a companion Of the
murdered boy. After an hours question
ing the aged man was set at liberty and
the police were more mystified than ever
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
NAMED WASHINGTON PROVINCE
Episcopal synod So DesIgnates
New Church Division.

Pittsburgh, Nov. 2O.-The third prov
ince of the Episcopal church has been
designated as Washington Province by
the primary synod. which is meeting here.
The Right Rev. B. D. Tucker, cOadjutor
Bishop OF Southern Virginia, filed his
committees report on permanent organi-
zation at the initial gathering of the
synod.
It was announced that 1894, 45407 has
been given for mission work in this prov
ince during the past year. The province
includes the States of Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware and Maryland. The rails
ing OF an additional $1.0O0.OO0 to take the
place Of the support formerly given the
mission work by the nations now at war
was again urged and a number of clergy
participated in the discussion, all favor
ing the plan.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
Edwards Bond Renewed.

John H. Edwards, Third Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury during the Roose-
welt administration, whose arrest was or
dered and his bond of $500 forfeited when
he failed to answer a charge of nonsup-
port brought by his wife, is on speaking
terms with the police again. His bond
was renewed by Chief Justice Covington
when it was explained that Edwards had
no knowledge of the hearing set by the
Judge for the case.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-21
Educators Meet in Detroit.

Detroit, Mich. Nov. 2O.-Educators who
have taken up the problem Of delinquent
or unfortunate children are in session
here today at the convention of the Ma
tional League of Compulsory Education.
Among those pEsSent are John W. Davis,
director of the~bureau of attendance or
New York. and Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
the Chicago school superintendent.