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FOUR NEW YORK GUNMEN DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
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Senators From All Sections of the
Country Deluged With Let
ters on Canal Tolls.
WASHINGTON, April 11.—Sena.
tors from all sections of the country
are being flooded with letters and
telegrams protesting against the re
peal of the coastwise exemption
¢lause of the Panama (‘anal act.
“Nine-terths of my mail on this
subject is agdinst the repeal plan of
the President,” said Senator Cham
berlain. “These protests come to me
from all parts of the country and
from all classes of citizens.”
“Of course, | receive letters uphold
ing the President's point of view,”
said Senator O Gorman, "but they are
in the minority. Many women inter
ested in this subject write about il
1 have heard from men all over New
York and other sections, and they
voice & general sentiment of opposi
tion to the repeal plan, believing it
not only unwise, but unjust and un
fair to this country.”
Protests From Pacific Coast.
“Practically all the letters I re
ceive are strongly expressive of op
position to the President’'s policy,”
said Senator Poindexter, “The peo
ple of the Pacific coast are vitally in
terested in the canal and its success.
They had hgped, and had every rea
son to expect, that the canal wouid
be the means of lowering freight
rates.
if the President’'s views are to pre
vail the railroads across the country
wiil still exercise their same old mo
nopoly of transcontinental service.
“The benefits for which the people
of the coast have worked through all
these years will not be realized. The
Pacific coast people are not hesitat
ing to express themselves against any
alliance of this sort with Great Brit
ain which means the supremacy of
the (Canadian Pacific Railroad and
the keeping of our region of the
country still under the dominion of
the railroads.’
Hits Monopoly Plea.
Senator O'Gorman recently received
a letter from an old sea captain in
San Fraucisco who writes intelligent
ly and gives some potent facts well
worth studying. In his letter he says:
“I have read with inuch interest the
extracts of speeches made in the
House on the toll bill.
“It seems to me that one of the
best arguments against the Presi
dent's point of view has been over
looked. The President says his prin
cipal reason for repealing the ex
emption of the American ships from
the tolls is that, by granting free tolls
to American ships, he will be build
ing up a mondpoly.
“How little real merit there is in
this statement is proven by the fact
that all contracts made within the
Jast féw months for the carriage of
freight between the Eastern and
Western coasts, or vice versa, after
the opening of the canal, contain two
rates, one rate being fixed provided
there are no tolls and the other rate
if tolls are charged.
Consumer Pays Difference.
“The second rate is exactly the first
rate plus the tolls, so that it does not
make one particle of difference to (he
ship whether it pays tolls or not. But
it does make a difference to the mer
chants and consumers. These are the
people who really will have to pay the
tolls, not the ship people. :
“The imposition of the tolls, how
ever, not only increases the rate on
every ton of freight carried by sea,
but also by the transcontinental rail
roads which otherwise would come
fnto competition with the steamships.”
CENSORSHIP ON ALL NEWS.
MEXICO CITY, April 11.—Censor
ghip of all cable and telegraph news
was put into effect to-night.
No news was given out to-day re
garding the situation at either Tor
reon or Tampico.
It is not known here what action
has been taken on Admiral Mayo's ul
timatum to the Federals demanding
an apology and a salute of the Amer
jcan flag for the arrest of the pay
master and escort of, marines who
went ashore from the gunboat Dol
phin.
Huerta has let it be known that he
considers the incident of small impor
tance, declaring it to be the result of
foolish overzealcusness of Colonel
Hinojosa, and that the latter will be
properly punished for having exceed
od his autnority. “Heaven defend me
from my friends,” Huerta was quoted
as sayving to-day.
HURT IN RAIL WRECK.
NEW BRITAIN, CONN,, Aprit-11,—
Fireman Harry Carroll was fatally
fnjured and Engineer Fred Benson
was seriously hurt, a dozen passen
gers painfully injured and fifteen or
twenty others bruised when a soo
- “dinky” train on the New Ha
ven road jumped the track at Clay
tons this afternoon. The locomotive
and two of the four coaches were
overturned. Spreading rails caused
the accident.
Fireman Carroll died to-night.
THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
A Milestone in Human Progress
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
HE Treatly of Utrecht, signed
two hundred and one years
ago by the representatives
of Great Britain and France and
other allies, will ever remain as
one of the important milestones
in the stadium of human progress.
The treaty brought to an end
the thirteen-year struggle known
as the “War of the Spanish Suc
cession,” a conflict that started
over the question of a successor
to Charles 1l of Spain. Charles
died in the year 1700, leaving no
children, but providing by will
that the succession should go to
a grandson of Louis XIV, named
Philip of Anjou. 2
This at once alarmed the na
tions of Europe as a menace to
the “Balance of Power,” a theory
that made as much noise in those
days as the “Monroe Doctrine”
does to-day. Furthermore, the
Dutch and British statesmen saw
at a glance that there was a deep
political move in the matter—
nothing less, in fact, than the
attempt to give the political pre
ponderance in Europe to the Lat
ins under the head of Louis the
Fourteenth.
The astute men at London and
The Hague “caught on” to the
game at once. They saw behind
the will of Charles the trickery of
the French King, and upon the
trail of that ambitious monarch
they sent the great Mariborough
with his unconquerable legion.
Marlborough sent the French
marshals in headlong flight from
Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudernarde
and Malplaquet. The French
fleets were burned at Vigo and
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Howard Is Anxious
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For Probe of Prison
WASHINGTON, April 10.—Repre
sentative W. S. Howard, of Georgia,
vesterday called upon Attorney Gen
eral Mcßeynolds concerning the
promised investigation as to condi
tions at the Federal prison at Atlanta.
Mr. Howard said to-day that he was
not satisfied with the interview. He
found the Attorney General npow
rreatly interested in developing the
prison farm and making it self-sus
taining. He was led to believe that
the Attorney General would visit the
Atlanta prison soon and look irto
conditions in person.
Mr. Howard continues to receive
letters from friends of convicts com
plaining as to conditions, and de
clares that some remedy will be found
to relieve the situation.
' MAY BE IN RACE.
OMAHA, April 11.—" Is Charles W.
Bryan, brother of William Jennings
‘Bryan, preparing to announce him
‘selt a gubernatorial candidate in Ne
asraska?” is a question Nebraska De
mocracy would like to see answered.
But Mr. Bryan sits tight and refuses
to make a statement.
Mr. Bryan has demanded that a
progressive Democrat be named. He
has stated to close friends that so
anxicus is he to see a progressive can
cdidate that in order to insure a Dem
ocrat of that class he himself will
enter the ring. And then he has gone
ahead ang discouraged every progres
sive candidate who has offered him
self,
SUFFRAGISTS STUNNED.
CHICAGO, April 11.—Mrs. William
Howard Taft's action in becoming a
member of the Anti-Woman Suffrage
Association at New Haven was ridi
culed by Chicago suffragists to-day.
“Mrs. Taft's attitude is in keeping
with her husband’'s Administration,”
said Mrs. Charlotte Rhodus, president
of the woman's party of Cook Coun
ty. “It is like some of the planks of
the Republican platform—moss-grown
and antiquated.”
Miss Harriet Vittumn, who was a
candidate for Council, said: “Shock
ing, amazing, astounding. Had she
been here Tuesday she would be a
suffragist.”
M’ADOO RIDES WITH FINACEE.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.
VA, April 11.—This fashionable
mountain resort extended a cordial
greeting to two of its most distin
zuished guests, Miss Eleanor Wilson
and Secretary of the Treasury Mc-
Adoo, to-day. They went horseback
riding in the afternoon.
Miss Wilson was smartly attired in
4 riding habit of dark green, with a
black felt hat, giving the required
“horsey” touch.
President Wilson went golfing this
morning and took a leng buckboard
drive this afternoon with Mrs. Wil
son., ,
DOG HAS A CORK LEG TO USE.
CODY, April 11.-Murphy, a bull ter
rier owned by George Williams, which
lost a foreleg last summer as the re
gult of a gunshot wound, has been
equipped with a cork limb, and is learn
ing to use it with great facility.
Toulon was besieged by land and
sea, while Prince Eugene played
havoc with the French power in
talyr—
Year after year rolled by, and
at last Louis found himself good
and ready for peace. He was old
and weary, for, besides being
beaten in the field, he was crush
ed by the great weight of domes
otic sorrow that weighed upon
him. His only son had died, then
two of his gran‘’sons and no
body remained in the direct line
of succession to the old man of
75 but a great-grandson, then a
mere infant.
The peace that followed strip
ped Spain of much of her power,
and forever broke the supremacy
of France in continental politics.
The Netherlands was given at
least partial autonomy; England
received Minorca and Gibraltar,
positions which secured her the
command of the Mediterranean;
the Dutch Barrier was re-estab
lished; Dunkirk was dismantled;
the right of Queen Anné to the
crown was recognized, and the
“Pretender” was hustled from her
soil without ceremony. Last, but
not least, the British colonies and
plantations in America were
greatly enlarged, thus providing
for the ultimate success of Great
Britain in her future struggle
against Frapce for supremacy on
this continent.
Thus it may easily be seen that
the Treaty of Utrecht looms
large in world history. The mat
ters which it established were
far-reaching in their conse
quences.
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San Domingo Rebel
Forces Defeated
WASHINGTON, ‘April 11.--Dis
patches to the State Department to
day say that the forces of President
Bordas, of San Domingo, have de
feated the followers of General Arias.
The State Department regards Gen
era] Arias and his followers as ban
dits and smugglers, and is standing
hehind President Bordas.
HAD THREE WIVES.
~ SAVANNAH, April 11.—Joseph 8.
‘L'mberger, aged 22, confessed bigamist
‘wilh three wives, was sent to Milledge
ville to-day to begin a six-year sen
‘tence closing one of the most sensa
tional cases of the kind in the history
of the State.
Seven years ago Umberger married
Miss Bessie Adelaide and in less than
two years disappeared here. He was
next heard from in Atlanta when he
was reported to be married to a Miss
Ethel leacraft, No 40 Houston street.
Letters from his second wife begging
aid for their little child, which were
opened on the eve of his marriage to
IMiss Charlotte Wickenburg here, here,
less than a month ago, led to his arrest
on the bigamy charge after the wedding.
SWAMPED WITH PROPOSALS.
BOSTON, April 9.—Miss Helen
Cudahy, dauzhter of the millionaire
Chicago packer, who gave up a life
of ease and luxury to become a nurse
at the Massachusetts General Hos
pital, has been swamped by proposals
of marriage from admirers in all
parts of the country.
Miss Cudahy is in the second week
of her probationary period as a nurse
and her one ambition is to qualify.
She has been greatly hampered in
her work by the persistency of the
fortune hunters who are seeking her
hand.
Every mail brings scores of letters
from men of all ages vowing yndying
devotion to the charming heiress if
she will marry them. The bolder ones
use the telephone and now Miss Cud
ahy refuses to answer the telephone
unless she is acquainted with the
party who is calling.
SECRETLY ADMITS PERIL,
GALVESTON, TEXAS. April 13.—
President Huerta has sent a plea to
the Governors of all loyal Mexican
States to furnish all the available
troops possible to the Government at
onc according to a code dlspaten
that reached here to-day after escap
ing the military censor at Mexi®o
City. He says Huerta has notified the
Governors that he will be unable 10
arrest the progress of Carranza ind
General Zapata much longer unless
they help him with fresh troops
CAUGHT BY AERO.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.—Cap
turing automobile speeders by an
aeroplane is the innovation intro
duced her: by Miss Rhoda Thomson,
2 comely local “copette.”
While riding over Golden Gate
Park, a passenger in the aeroplane
of Bilas Chritsofferson, Miss Thomson
discovered an automobile tearing
along at 60 miles an hour.
At her request Christofferson gave
chase, and dropped low enough to
permit her to get the number of the
machine. The speeder was summoned
for trial.
Requires 39 Minutes to End Lives
of Quartette in Sing Sing
Prison.
ALBANY, N. Y, April 13.—That
one of the gunmen exccuted in Sing
Sing prison at dawn to-day made
a confession before his death was
the general belief here following an
apnouncement to-day by John B.
Riley, superintendent of prisons,
that he would make public this af
ternoon an official repvit on the
electrecutions and also “important
statements”_from the accused mei.
Superintendent Riley refused ©
state whether the gunmen had con
fessed, but declared emphatically that
there had been ‘“no miscarriage of
justice.”
“Immediately prior to the execution
some of them talked,” said Riley.
It is known here that “Dago IFrank™
was taken from the death cell at 4
o'clock this morning for the purpose of
making a statement.
It is reportd that “"Dago I'rank”
gave a statement to Father Cashin,
his spiritual adviser, in which he to'd
the full story of the assassination of
Herman Rosenthall
According to this report, “"Dago
Frank” .declared that the men who
fired the fatal shots were “lLefty
Louie” Rosenberg, “Gyp the Blood”
Horowitz and Harry Vallon, but de
nied that he took any part in themur
der, though he admitted that he would
have shared in killing Rosenthal if ne
had not been called away to help a
young woman who had been arrested.
Governor Glynn had but a few
hours’' rest last night. He was In
communication with Superintendent
Riley as early as 4 o'clock this morn
ing. It was at that hour that the at
tempt to obtain a confession from
“Dago Frank” was made,
HOW THEY WERE EXECUTED.
OSSINING, N. Y. April 13.—Just
as day dawned over the gray walis of
| Sing Sing Prison, the four young gun
men convicted of assassinating Her
man Rosenthal in front of the Hotel
| Metropole in New York City on the
|morning of July 16, 1912, were pui to
I(‘eath in the electric chair.
{ ‘None of the men confessed in the
‘death chamber. True to their predic
|tions, they died “game.”
i It required just 3% minutes to exe
| cute the gunmen, who went to their
| death in this order:
| Frank Cirofici, ahas “Dago Frank:”
Jacob Seidenschner, alias “Frank
'Mueller" and “Whitey Lewis;"” Har-
LEY Horowitz, alias “Gyp the Blood,”
{and Louis Rosenberg, -alias “Lefty
| Louie.”
‘ Stolid and hardened to the last mo
ment of their lives, none of the gun
men said a word that m'ght be con
strued in the light of a confession.
“Whitey Lewis” alone made a state
ment ir. the death chamber. It was a
hasty, jerky assertion that the wit
nesses who swore that he had shot
Rosenthal were perjurers.
“Whitey” was on the verge of col
lapse. He suffered an emoticnal
breakdown in his cell at the last mo
ment. This unexpected turn of af
fairs compeleld the order of cxecu
tion to be changed at the last moment,
“Whitey” on Verge of Collapse.”
“Whitey” was shaking and his face
was ashen. Only the sounds of the
electricians strapping the electrodes
upon the condemned man broke the
deathly silence of the death house.
REBEL HEADQUARTERS MOVE.
JUAREZ, April 11.—Vestuniano
Carranza, accompanied by th. mem
bers of his cabinet and other offi
cials of the Constitutionalist Gov
ernment, left this morning on a spe
cial train for Chihuahua, where he
is to establish the headquarters of
the provisional government. A pil t
train preceded the Carranza special,
dropping guards of picked troops
at various points along the line.
These troops were picked up by an
other train following the special
It is expected that the headquar
ters will be transferred from Chi
huahua to Torreon within a few
weeks. This, however, depends on
the outcome of the confereace to he
held between Carranza and Villa at
Chihuahua.
It is understood that Villa may at
tack Saltillo before returning to Chi
huahua.
ORDER COUNTERMANDED.
WASHINGTON, April 11.—The
demand of Admiral Mayo on Gen
eral Zaragoza that he apologize for
insulting American marines at
Tampico and that he, as the neces
sary and customary part of the apol
ogy, salute the American flag bee
fore 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
was countermanded.
Full dispatches concerning the
whole incident were in Washington
yesterday by noon and were con
veyed to President Wilson at White
Sulphur Springs.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels de
clined to make the matter public
until the President could pass on
the correspondence.
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