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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
MAYOR OBJECT
Of HOT ATTACK
BY Mr.. MATTIA
Economy Claims of Mr.. Ray
mond Held UP to Scorn by
FreehoIder.

Mayor Raymond's appointments
were the main objective of a heavy
fire from the artillery of the Dal-
rymple forces in the Ironbound dis
trict last night The occasion was
the formal opening of the campaign
for the regular Republican organiza-
ton. Freeholder Richard f. Malta
found the range early and concen-
trated his attack on the mayor and
his acts. doing great damage accord
ing to the latest communique from
the Dalrymple war office.
One of the freeholder's best hits
was an attack on the appointment
by Mayor Raymond of DR.. Charles Y.
Craster as health officer. That's
Mayor Raymond's policy of home
rule" said Mr.. Malta. "He doesn't
believe in your slogan of Newark
Knows How DIR. Craster has been
in the United States only six years
and has been a citizen only a year.
He was brought here from Long
Island"
Mr.. Malta was one of the speak
ers at a mass meeting under the
auspices of the Ralph b, Schmidt
Republican Club, held in Haeuslers
Hall, Ferry street and Hamburg
place. While 1t was practically the
opening of the primary campaign.
the Raymond faction got under way
in the Ninth ward on Wednesday
night with Il speech by the mayor
defending his administration and the
high tax rate. and got a slight jump
on the Dalrymple forces. This Ray
mond move was a counter offensive
to make up its retreat from the Iron
bound district through the abandon
ment of tonight's proposed meeting.
Mr.. Matthias speech was full of
fire and aroused the crowd of 200
men who were present to applause a
dozen times or moro. Others who
spoke were Assemblyman Thomas j
Smith, candidate for Board of Works
on the regular Republican ticket;
former Assemblyman William Pen
njpgtQn. candidate for freeholder;
Thomas p. Alwortb, treasurer Of the
county committee, and Thomas IL.
Brooks, candidate for alderman of
the Twelfth ward
Mayor Raymond made a speech
last night down In the Ninth ward -
said Freeholder Malta, "and accord
ing to the papers he declared that his
administration was not responsible
for the high tax rate; that no new
jobs had been created or salaries
raised. | don't blame the mayor for
the high tax rate, bat l say IL wasn't
Continued on Page 2. Column a.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
Bishop Shot Down
by Priest Whom He
Did Not Appoint
Rt. Rev. Patrick r. Heffron,
Head of Winona Diocese, Sc
riously Wounded.

WINONA, Mimi, Aug. N.-Rt. Rev.
Patrick r. Heffron, bishop of the
Winona Roman Catholic diocese, was
shot and seriously wounded today by
the Rev Father AL Lesches, priest,
for whom the bishop had refused to
procure an appointment. The bishop
was shot once through the right lung
and once In the hip. Physicians said
he would recover unless complications
set in. Father Lesches was arrested.
Bishop Heffron was sitting reading
in his library at Terrace Heights
when Father Lesches entered and
fred twice at him with a revolver.
The priest then returned to his room
et 81 Mary's College and locked him
aelf in. He was arrested soon after
bv Sheriff Parr. who forced entrance
al the point of a revolver.
rather Iesches proved unreliable in
charges recently held by him. He hal
been spending the last week at st.
Mary's College, diocesan headquar-
ters here, seeking an appointment
which Bishop Heffron had refused to
give him.
rather Lesches is fortysix years OF
aee. of French birth and came to this
country in 1898.
Lesches had not been assigned to
regular work in the priesthood for
several years, but visited among his
fellow priests and assisted them at
times in reading mass and other
duties.
AZ the Jail Lesches said he shot the
hishop because he had yesterday re-
fused to assign him to work.
After the shooting, the bishop went
into the hall of the college, and with
the assistance OF priests was able TO
walk to his residence nearby.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
REFUSES TO HALT
100000 DEAL
OF SPL|TDORF CO.
vice-ChanceIlor Turns Down
Injunction to Prevent Purchase
of Patent-HoIding Company.
Special to the Evening star.


TRENTON, Aug. 27.--Chanceller
Backes in the Chancery Court today
refused to allow an injunction applied
for by Sidney S. Meyers to restrain
the Splitdorf Electrical Company. of
Newark. from paying $1,000,o00 to the
Sumter Electrical Company, of Sum
ter, N. c.. for a patent for a high
tension magnetic.
The Splitdorf concern has a capt.
tai of $3,5O0,QO0, and during the past
few years has made high tension
magnetos. which are used in auto
mobiles and aeroplanes, and are also
used by the United States govern
ment in it's machine guns. The pat
ent for the magnetic in question is
owned by the Sumter company and
the Splitdorf concern has been pay
ing a royalty. The directors agreed
to buy out the Sumter company for
81, 100000 and this was ratified by 98
per cent. of the Splitdorf stockhold-
ers.
Meyers sought to restrain the pro-
posed increase of capital stock to oay
the s1,000,000. Meyers charged TINT
John Alvord. the president of the
Splitdorf Company, was also tho
owner of three-quarters of the capital
stock of the Sumter concerE and that
1t was scheme on his Fart to de-
fraud the stockholders of the Split
dorf Company
vice-Chancellor Fackes said no
fraud was shown. The vice-chaH-
cellor further said while it was true
that President Alvonl was interested
in both companies, that fact did
not deprive him of the right to sell
one company to another, providing
that full value is received and that
the proceedings had been honestly
conducted.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
COLORADO STRIKE
HORRORS BLAMED
ON ROCKEFELLERS
Labor Policies Show Contempt
for Government, Industrial
Commissioner Reports.
HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR
RIOTS, MURDER AND ARSON
Declares President Was Re-
buffed and Deceived by
Wealthy Operators.

CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-The RESPONSE
biiity for the strike of coal miners in
Colorado in 1913 and 1914, for the dis
order and suffering that followed is
placed squarely on the shoulders of
operators in a report by George p.
West, made public today by the Com
mission on Industrial Relations.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany, controlled by John D. Rocl1efel-
ler. Is declared to have been the
leader in formulating and carrying
out strike policies. Mr.. Rockefeller
and his son. John d. Rockefeller. ir.,
are charged, first, with the selection
of incompetent and reactionary agents
to serve as executive officials in this
company. and, second. with giving
their heartiest Endorsement and sup
port to these officials after they had
taken action that precipitated the
worst of the troubles.
Mr.. Rockefeller, jr., is charged with
having approved measures to coerce
the State government of Colorado and
with having fiouted the will of the
president of the United States.
The report says:
During all the seven tragic and
bitter months that preceded Ludlow,
Mr.. Rockefeller wrote letter after let
ter in enthusiastic praise of men
whose acts during this period had
- ~
bloodshed 1t was only when the Lud-
low massacre filed the press of the
nation with editorial denunciation,
when mourners in black silently pa
raded in frqpt of his New York office,
when cartoons in the conservative
prers pilloried him and his father be-
fore an angry public, that at last
complacency gives way to concern in
his letters and kilograms to Denver" s"
Responsibility of Rockefeller.
OF Mr.. Rockefellers' responsibility
the report says:
Mr.. Rockefeller's responsibility has
a significance beyond even the sinister
results of his policy in Colorado. The
preversion OF and contempt for gov
ernment, the disregard of public well
fare, and the defiance of public
opinion during the Colorado strike
must be considered as only one mani
festation of the autocratic and anti
social spirit of a man whose enor-
nous wealth gives him infinite op-
portunity to act in similar fashion in
broader fields. Mr.. Rockefeller writes
to Mr. Bowers: You are lighting a
good fight, which is not only in the
interests of your own company. but
of the other companies of Colorado
and of the business interests of the
entire country
And Mr.. Bowers, with whom Mr..
Rockefeller obviously is In full SYM
pathy and agreement, writes letter
after letter picturing the growth of
trade unionism as II national menace
against which the business men of
the nation must combine. Now for
the campaign OF 1916 and beyond, is
the slogan with which one of these
letters closes, and Mr.. Bowers is un-
Continued on Page IA, Column ~
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Count Won Bernstorff called at this
state department early and conferred
with Secretary Lansing nearly half
an hour. 1t had been suggested that
perhaps Germany was ready also 10
make reparation for the Americans
lost on the Lusitania, but that sub
Ject did not come UP at todays con-
ference. The disposition of the Gar
man embassay is to take up one step
at time.
No Report from Submarine,
The ambassador did not make pub
lilo the extent OF the instructions from
Berlin on which he acted, but 1t was
understood they coinoided entirely
with the statement of the German
chancellor In Associated Press dis
patches from Berlin yesterday, ex-
pressing the willingness of the Ger
man government to make fullest rep
aration IL it is shown finally that the
Arabic was torpedoed without warm
ing.
So far the German admiralty has
received no report from Its subma-
rlnes which We're operating in the
Araoics vicinity. Further communi-
cations now are expected from Berlin
to the German ambassador, and .te
lthe state department from Ainbss-
sador Gerard, which will advance the
negotiations to point where attacks
on passenger carrying ships will be
dennitely discontinued, at least while
the subject Is under discussion. The
Crisis between the two countries uow
Is regarded as having passed into the
realm of diplomacy.
The German ambassador frankly
stated after his interview with AIR.
Lansing that his Instructions en,-
bodied the declaration by the Berlin
government that 1t would give full
satisfaction to the American sovern-
ment. That, he declared. meant much
moro than disavowal OF course.
he said, the giving of satisfaction
would depend upon the circumstances
CONTINUED on Page 3, Column -
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
EXPECT HAITI TO
RAT|FY PLAN FOR
APROTECTORATE
Republican Congress Will Take
Favorable Action in a
Few Days.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-State
department officials announced today
that there was every indication that
the financial protectorate convention
with Haiti would be ratified by the
Haitien Congress within few days.
The statement was made upon ad-
vices received from American Charge
d'Affaires Davis at Port-au-Prlnce.
Minister Menos,i of Haiti, conferred
more than half an hour with Secre-
tary Lansing in regard to the ratifi-
cation of the proposed convention.
The minister afterward stated he had
lengthy dispatches from his govern
ment, but declined to say that they
substantiated the report sent by the
American charge.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
ALL NEWARK IS
SHVER|NG TODAY
IN COLD SNAP
Drop In Thermometer Brings
Breath of Early Fall
in Air.

Newarkers awakened shivering to-
day. A sudden change in the tenn
perature, which came after midnight
last night, ushered in the coldest day
this summer. No records of tempera-
ture were broken, but at o'clock
this morning the mercury had fallen
to So degrees. BY noontime it had
risen to 6S degrees, but men were still
hurrying around and the breath of
the coming fall was in the air.
The cold will probably last until to-
morrow evening, according to the
weather man. The wind is in the
northeast and is expected to remain
there until tomorrow at sunset, when
showers are promised. Then the in
dications are that the temperature
will rise.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-Temper-
atures ranging from 5 to II degrees
below seasonal average were recorded
over the northern part of the country
from the Missouri river range east
ward. Frosts have occurred generally
in the upper lake region and locally
in the northern portions of New York
and New England. In portions of the
upper lake region the minimum tenn
peratures were the lowest ever re-
corded in August. Frost is probable
in interior New York and western
and northern New England tonight
and Saturday. High temperatures
continue in the extreme West.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
GEN. PERSH|NG'S
WIFE AND THREE
CHILDREN BURNED
Trapped by Fire in Their Guar.
ters at San Fran
cisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. e7.-Mrs.
Frances Warren Pershing, wife or
Brigedier General John j. Pershins.
u. s. A, and three OF her four chill
dren were suffocated in fire In their
quarters at the Preside OF San Frau
cisco today.
Their bodies were badly burned.
Mrs. Boswell, q relative, and her two
children, escaped, as did Warren
Pershing, five years old. and three
servants. The dead children are
Helen, Anne and Margaret, all under
eight years. Mrs. Pershing was
Wyoming. Her husband. Command
ing the Eighth brigade, United
States infantry, is at Ell Paso, Tex..
in charge of the border troops.
The fire was believed to have been
caused by q night lamp. A burst Of
flame from the roof of the generals
big two-story frame house, which
stands on the parade ground direct
ly in front of the headquarters. was
the first intimation of the fire. Tho
Preside army fire department rushed
to the house. and believing that the
occupants had all escaped, centerec
their energies on the flames. Only
the roof of the house was burned
over the damage they found the
bodies of the mother and her three
little girls. The boy, Warren, Mrs.
Boswell and her children and three
servants slept in other parts of the
house.
General and Mrs. Pershing were
married in Washington. January %,
1905. The general fought in the In
dian wars in the early days and in
the Spanish American War. He be-
came a brigadier-g general in 1906.
Mrs. Pershing was devoted to her
home and children and took an in
terest in suffrage and other women's
movements.
Ell PASO, Tex, Aug. 27-News OF
the death of Mrs. Per-hing and three
of her children reached General John
]. Pershing. commander of the Eighth
Infantry Brigade, here today through
Associated Press dispatches. Gem
eral Pershing has been preparing a
home here for his family. He ex
pected them to leave San Francisco
for Ell Paso this week. He said hs
would leave immediately for San
Francisco.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
LabOrer Is Buried Under
a WagOnlOad of Stone

A wagon load of stone was acci-
dentally dumped on John Clark. fifty-
flve years old, q laborer. while he
was working at the foot of South
street this afternoon. Clark, who
lives at 40 Jefferson street, was
taken to the City Hospital, where 1t
was found that he had sustains an
injury to his left thigh and bruises
about the body. His condition is not
AansidarNA serious.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
IrOnWOrker Dies of
Injuries Received
in Fall Yesterday

William A. Miles, an ironworker,
thirty-three years old of 246 Mont
gomery street, Jersey City, who was
injured yesterday afternoon at the
Public Service power plant, at Point
No Point, succumbed to his injuries
at 8 O'Clock this morning at St.
Jamess Hospital. He never regained
consciousness.
Miles was working on a scaffold
about thirty feet from the ground
when he probably slipped and fell to
the ground, sustaining a compound
fracture of the skull and a broken
jaw. He was taken to st. James's
Hospital In the City Hospital ann
bulance, but failed to rally and died
this morning.
Miles Games to this city from Dan
vile, Ind. few months ago. He Is
survived by his wife. who boards in
Jersey City, and his parents, residing
In the South.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
FIELDER URGES
BUILDING Up Of
NATIONAL GUARD
Would Encourage Enlistment in
Militia as Adjunct to Fed
eraI Forces.
STATE SHOULD FURNISH
$4,000 TRAINED MEN
Believes in Peace, but Feels
Country Should Prepare
for Unexpected.
SHOULD FURNISH
$4,000 TRAINED MEN

BOSTON, Aug 00.-Governor James
F. Fielder, of New Jersey, was one of
the speakers at the governors con-
ference here today. Governor Field
ers subject was THE Relation of the
State to National Defense
He strongly urged the encourage
ment of enlistment in the State
militia as an adjunct to the Federal
defense forces. The governor said the
volunteer camp at Plattsburg, y. Y,
will teach the men there the Difficult
ties that would be encountered by a
volunteer army in time of a con-
tingency and will lead them to the
opinion that what the States really
need is a body of citizens who will
give their services to the State,a to be
educated by competent instructors,
and who will be trained to meet any
possible contingency.
The States, In the opinion of Gov
ernor Fielder. ought to be ready to
furnish to the Federal forces a re-
serve force of men, not less than
25O,000 in number. and this force
should constitute In each State its
National Guard.
'I take my stand with those who
believe In peace" the governor said,
but who feel that our United States
should make some reasonable prep
aration against the happening of the
unexpected. While we do not seek
war; he continued, "as long as the
American spirit of fair play rules our
nation We must be ready to resist
foreign aggression" He reviewed the
many struggles of this country and
said it might be necessary even now
for the organization of a volunteer
army to go to Mexico.
Problem of Defense
The governors speech follows:
No subject has aroused greater In
terest or is receiving wider publicity
through press and magazine discus
sion than the problem of national de-
fense. The awful conflict raging so
fiercely upon the soil of Europe has
brought the matter most forcibly to
our attention, and the startling sud-
denness with which war was declared
between nations seemingly at peace
with each pther serves to present to
us most effectively the necessity for
serious thought as to whether or not
we should prepare ourselves to meet
q similar condition. The people are
deeply interested. and they through
their representatives in legislative
halls, will settle the question of
greater preparedness. and what we
may think or say at this time will
be but our individual views, which
may or may not represent the opinion
of the majority of the people of our
country.
1.-The discussion which has been
Continued on Page Q, Column 81
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
Another IrOnwOrker Falls at
Public Service Terminal

While working on the Public Serv-
ice terminal building today Harry
Dryden, twenty eight years old,
structural ironworker. lost his bal
ance and fell twenty feet to the
ground.
Dryden, who lives at 34s Dowd
street, East Orange, was taken to
the City Hospital where it WAS found
that he had sustained injuries to his
spine. He is not believed to be seri-
ously hurt -.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
Turks Report Repulse of
Attack on Left Wing
nv the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 81 (via
Londor, s:25 a. m.)-An official state
ment issued here says:
Weak hostile forces which at
tackled our left wing at Seddul-Bahr
were repulsed. Otherwise there is no
change"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
BY the United Press.

ny 0hteu HFosbs
LONDON. Aug. Naturalization
of the coal mines of Wales and some
form of conscription to force the
'ishirkers' into the army are impor-
tant questions now under serious con-
sideration by the English cabinet, 1t
was learned today.
The ministry is keeping in close touch
with the situation at Cardiff, where
another general strike of 100000 miners
threatens to close the nations shell
factories. The executive council of
the miners federation was to meet at
Cardiff today Repol IS to the gov
ernment indicated general unrest
throughout the coal region, and de-
clared every miner in the district
probably will quit work unless the
arbitration award made by President
Runcfmen, of the government Board
of Trade. is altered.
The government will not tolerst te
the closing of the Welsh colleries at
the present critical stage of the war.
Both the men and the coal operators
were so informed several weeks ago.
when the dispute was carried to LON
don. In event the two sides are un-
able to agree the government will
take over the Welsh mines and oper-
ate them for the remainder of the
war
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
NO BOSSES"
CANNOT VOTE IN
PRIMARY BOXES
Several Prominent League
Members Find Election Law
Blocks Them Off.

Several of tho prominent members
Of the No-Boss League were Disagree
ably surprised at the meeting last
night when they learned that they
could not vote at the primary for the
candidates of the No-Boss League in
view of the stand that the league has
taken In local politics.
This fact was made known when
N. w, Hoot, chairman of the primary
committee, submitted a report on tho
work that had been done by the COM
mittee In getting out literature to be
circulated among the voters Of the
county.
Mr.. Hoot stated that the literature
called the attention of the voters to
several tricky sections or the cleo
tion law, which he stated had evil
IDENTIFY been placed there by the pollti-
cal bosses to thwart the Will of the
people" Among the sections was one
that prevented a man from voting at
the primary unless he had voted for
the majority of the candidates Of the
party with which he was affiliated at
the previous general election. Mr..
Hoot said that this section OF the law
barred him from assisting the candi-
dates of the league with his vote on
pibieAi o<hyt anu lit diSO RiiNW VI oSf
eral other members who could not
vote in the primary.
He also stated that every man who
takes out any literature from the
league headquarters would be ex-
pected to see that it got in the hands
of the voters and promiscuous giving
out OF literature would meet with the
disapproval of the league.
Want Aid of Ministers.
A request was made If any action
had been taken by the officers rela-
tive to starting campaign for the
candidates indorsed by the league in
the churches throughout the county.
1t was stated that it would be a
good thing IL the help of the various
ministers was enlisted as they might
advocate the election of tho candi-
dates with q statement OF the prin-
ciples of the league from their pull
pits No action was taken on the
suggestion.
The suggestion was also advanced
that 1t would be good thing IL the
league could enlist the aid of tho
Women's Political Union to act as
watchers at the polling places on pri-
mary day. The matter will be taken
up by q committee with Mrs. Minnie
J. Reynolds. secretary of the union.
Charles d. Richardson, the league
secretary, stated that 1t was one OF
the most harmonious meetings that
the league has ever held.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-27
$4,000 MINERS
Join COAL STRIKE
IN WALES FIELDS
Trouble Again Threatens to
Tie Up British Shell
Factories.
BY the Associ .ted Press.

LONDON, Aug. 27, 1908 p m.-Re-
ports from the South Wales coal
fields this afternoon state that e5.000
miners already have Joined the now
strike.
The recurrence of labor troubles is
due to growing dissatisfaction with
the award of Walter Runciman,
president of the Board of Trade, who
acted as arbitrator in the recent
strike. The situation was strained
further when the colliers learned thai
Mr.. Runcimen had declined to see
a deputation representing them.
The miners charge Mr.. Runoimen
with going behind arrangements
made by David Lloyd George, and
demand that Mr. Lloyd George make
good his promises to them.