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WOMAN IS BOUND ON
' STOVE; IS SLOWLY
TORTURED TO DEATH
Mrs. Van Zandt’s Clothing Is
Also Saturated With Oil, Po
lice Say-Seek Girl As Im
portant Witness
WOMAN’S HUSBAND IS
PLACED UNDER ApREST
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)/
CINCINNATI. Jan. ». Detectives
Rueftlein knd Pflug are searching for a
girl said to live in Covington. Ky.. and
who is wanted by the police as a witness
to tell what she knows about the mur
der of Mrs. Alice Van Zandt, aged 34. at
her home. No. 634 Richmond street.
The girl is said to be one known to the
family and knows much about the family
life of the Van Zandts.
The victim had been bound and placed
on top of the stove to be slowly tortured
to death by the tiny flame of a gas stove.
Two small bottles of oil were found in the
Kitchen and the police say the clothing
had been saturated in oil.
About her ankles was wrapped several
thicknesses of heavy lace, and there was
a heavy piece of cloth tied about her
throat. Her body was burned to a crisp.
One arm was completely burned off.
\ There was a tourniquet about the wom
an's throat. It had been crudely made
of a piece of lace and a stick. It was
tightened about the throat.
Deputy Coroner Bange began an in
quiry into the death of Mrs. Van Zandt
at the morgue at 2:36. He declared short
ly after an examination of the body had
been made that the woman had been
choked by a tourniquet. A handkerchief,
it was declared, was used to-strangle the
womMn.
Mrs. Anna Garner, who lives at 632
Richmond street, next door to the mur
dered woman's house, heard a scream in
/the Van Zandt home about 11 o'clock Sat
urday. She rushed in. but was driven out
x of the place by the thick smoke and the
odor of burning flesh.
HUSBAND IS ARRESTED.
Jesse A- Van Zandt, husband of th
woman and depot agent of the United
States Express company was taken to the
central police station shortly after the
* woman's body was found, and is now be
ing questioned.
<3eorge Van Zandt, a son of the murder
ed woman, told the police shortly after
the body was found that his mother and
father had been quarreling.
About 31 minutes before Mrs
. Van Zandt was talking to Agnes Fox
aged 15. a girl living tn the neighborhood
She said she was going in to prepare
dinner.
Shortly after that Mrs. Garner saw
smoke issuing from the kitchen, but
when she tried to enter the kitchen she
t found all of the doors locked. She
screamed for help an<T ran to the streets.
There she met Fred. Rice, a mall carrier.
"Mrs' Van Zandt ’is burned to death!"
shouted Mrs. Garner.
Rice rushed into the Van Zandt home. .
The heavy smoke rolled through the
door and drove him back. Crawling
along on'his stomach below the pall of
smoke. Rice managed to get to the kitch
en. He saw the body of Mrs. Van Zandt
lying across the gas stove.
The woman's two children. Anna May
t and George, were taken to the children's
home Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Van Zandt was the mother of
' three children.
Van Zandt left home at 10 o’clock
Saturday according to a statement of
George Van Zandt, the young son.
Van Zandt was at the depot whbn he
received the news that his home was on
• lire, and he arrived home at 11 o'clock.
He wal'-ed into the kitchen ujid asked
' if his wife was dead. He refused to
make any kind of statement to the po
lice. and was immediately taken to cen
■ tral police station where he was ques
tioned before Chief Millikin.
CONSCIOUS ON STOVE.
Mrs. Van Zandt was fully conscious
when she was placed on the stove, after
being bound and eagred and her clothing
with oil." declared Coroner Coe
at the conclusion of his post-mortem ex
amination of the woman's body.
' *-i is the most atrocious murder ever
committed in this part of the country."
The post-mortem developed nothing to
show-that the woman had been choked or
wounded before she was burned. There
was a congestion of the lungs, but that
» was due. the coroner thinks, to the fire
and smoker and not to choking.
The police found an oval scarf pin In
which an Indian head had been cut in
cameo. They are trying to ascertain iti
ownership.
A family named Johnson on the thiru
floor and another by the name of R:ek
hoff on the second floor, said that they
had heard nothing of any quarrel be
tween the couple. although at various
times they h-»d had little tiffs.
Agnes Fox. who Is 14 years of age. and
who lives at 634 Richmond street, said:
. "I saw Mrs. .Van Zandt about 20 min
utes before the alarm. I had the baby
In the alley and took it in my arms. Mrs
Van Znr.dt then said don’t do that.* and
I put the baby down. Mrs. Van Zandt
seemed to be very down hearted."
C. A. Titus, agent for the United States
Express company, where Jesse A. Van
Zandt was employed, said that Van Zandt
has been engaged as a handier of express
matter at the Union Central depot for
some time and was always regarded as
an industrious man.
"Were bis habits good?"
■So far as 4 know."
"When did he last report for work?"
“He has not been at his job since last
Tuesday or Wednesday.* I think it wab
Tuesday. He left word that he was not
feeling well and that he would not ba
around for a few days. No. he was not
discharged. "
“OLD FRIENDS” SOUGHT
BY BANDS OF SLEUTHS
Informal Convention of Detec
tives Will Be Heid During
Mardi Gras
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 31.—Detectives
from practically all the largest cities of
the country will gather in New Orleans
for the Mardi Gras season, it was an
nounced by the local chief of detectives,
today.
"We are likely to meet some of our
old friends," said one of the vanguard
of sleuths.
“The average criminal is bound to
seek a little diversion and it is possible
that many of them will take the carni
val season here to combine busin<*»s
with pleasure-"
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CAMPAIGN BEGUN
TO STOP FUTURES
ON FARM PRODUCTS
Eighteen Members of Con
gress Pledge Aid to President
Barrett in Efforts to Outlaw
Speculation
FRIENDS WILL START
ENDLESS CHAIN OF AID
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—At a confer
ence tonight at the National hotel between
the executive committee of the Farmers’
union and 18 members of congress initial
steps were taken to outlaw gambling in
farm products. The congressmen present
not only pledged their support to the
movement, but agreed to enlist the sup
port of others. It was agreed that each
of the 18 should see at least two other
members of congress within the next
three days.
Another conference will be held next
Thursday night when the executive com
mittee will hear reports. In the mean
time other congressmen will be interview
ed and put to work, and in this way an
endless chain of supporters will be estab
lished.
LIST OF CONGRESSMEN.
The congressmen present at tonight’s
conference were Livingston. Bartlett,
Howard. Adamson. Bell, Hughes and Ed
wards, of Georgia; Heflin, of Alabama.
Candler, Sisson, Dixon and Collier, of
Mississippi; James, of Kentucky; Beall,
of Texas; Webb, of North Carolina.
President Charles S. Barrett, of Geor
gia. presided over the conference and act
ed as spokesman for the union. Other
farmers present were Alex Davis, assist
ant national secretary. Texas; national
committeemen. John Grady, Kentucky;
W. A. Morris, Alabama; 8. L. Wilson,
Mississippi; A. C. Shuford, North Car
olina, and O. F. Dorn blazer. Texas. Oth
ers present, Hon. T. J. Brooks. Tennes
see; B. F. Ward. Jr., editor of the offi
cial organ of Mississippi, from Jackson;
M. B. Tapp. Kentucky, member of the
state executive committee of the state;
J. J. Robinson, LaFayette. Ala,; W. W
Mevers, president state union, Wheatland.
Ind.
HEARING BY COMMITTEE.
It was agreed that all the congress
men present should attend the hearing on
February 9 before the agricultural com
mittee. when the legislation to prohibit
gambling in farm products will be con
sidered.
The congi essmen were impressed with
the fact that the faimers knew what
they want and they were likewise im
pressed with the knowledge that they have
adopted a practical way of getting it
soon. President Barrett heard the exc
pressions of every statesman in atten
dance. and a record of every word that
was uttered w«s taken in shorthand. The
union proposes to disseminate this infor
mation amo ig the fanner. It is th-’r pur
pose to sound every representative and
serfs!or in congress ai>l pub’ish to the
world his position on this question.
“We are keeping a recor I of this thing
•that will make the Congressional Record
look like an old woman’s almanac,’> Presi
dent Barrett informed the congressmen.
"We are here to stay until we get thia
legislation considered, and we propose to
leave no stone unturned in this fight."
TO SEND SPECIAL MESSAGE.
Congressman Livingston, who was first
to address the conference, pledged his
hearty support, and added that he under
stood President Taft would send a special
message to congress, urging such legis
lation, notwithstanding that his brothe -
ls attorney for the New York cotton ex
change. He then reviewed the details of
the corporation commissioners’ report on
the New York exchange. Livingston said
that it had cost him about 3600 to get any
information about the exchange. He in
vested his money In cotton, he said, just
to learn the "modus operand!” and lost it.
Judge Bartlett voiced his hearty sympa
thy with the ,proposed legislation and
provoked applause by his glowing trib
ute to the serllng worth of President Bar
rett, a citizen of his congressional dis
trict.
Congressmen Howard, Hughes, Ed -
wards. Bell and Adamson expressed their
eagerness to lend assistance in the move
ment to wipe out cotton exchanges.
President Parrett and members of the
executive committee, are much encour
aged over the outlook. It is regarded as
practically certain that a bill embodying
the principle for which the union is fight
ing will be reported to the house at this
session. The systematic campaign that
has been inaugurated argues well for Its
success, not only in the house but in the
senate.
PRIMARIES IN HART
TO BEJELD IN APRIL
Three Counties Will Vote for
State Senator Instead of by
Rotation Plan
HARTWELL. Ga., Jan. 31.—The Demo
cratic executive committee met in the
court house Saturday and set the days for
| holding the county primaries on April 1
I and April 8,191 u. the committee declaring
jln favor of double primary. From the
outlook it seems that the field will be
full of candidates. ,
A mass meeting was held just before
the committee met and elected delegates
to the convention in Lavonia to deter
mine which county is entitled to the sena
tor the next time, Stephens or Habersham
county. A resolution was offered, which
was unanimously passed, asking that the
convention in Lavonia pass such rules as
may be necessary allowlng/the voters of
the district to vote for the candidates who
seek the nomination, which does not
change the rotation plan, but allows the
entire district to have'a voice in selecting
I the nominee.
MOORE STARTS TERM
OF EIGHT YEARS
Colquitt Man to Serve Prison
Sentence in Laurens County
Convict Camp
MOULTRIE. Ga.. Jan. 31.—Rich Moore,
who shot anti killed R. F. Webb, about
one year ago. has just been taken to
Laurens county to serve out a sentence of
eight yearp. Moore was tried for mur
der at the April term. 1909. of the su
perior court, and a verdict of manelaugh
•ter was found by the jury. The case win
,esrried to the supreme court, but a new
; trial refused.
Moore was first assigned to Colquitt
county, to work out his time, but as
I tins county has no preparation for work
iing white men. made arrangements for
bis transfer to Laurens county.
PARIS STRUGGLES
TO REPAIR DAMAGE
WROUGHT BY FLDDD
f _____
Waters 'Recede Slowly, but
Hope Is Felt--Authorities
Shore Up Underground
Workings
PREPARE TO CLEAN
AND DISINFECT CITY
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, Jan. 31.—From midnight until
noon today the subsidence of the river
Seine averaged only one-third of an inch
an hour. The weather, however, contin
ued favorable, with a rising barometer.
The temperature was slightly lower. The
recession of the waters in some of the
streets was noticeable during the fore
noon.
The situation at critical points was
ameliorated to a considerable extent to
day, notably in the neighborhood of the
St. Lazare station. The engineers now
hope to be able within a few days to
shore up the underground workings and
so prevent the collapse of streets and
buildings, which has appeared Imminent
for several days.
Beginning this morning the authorities
concentrated their efforts on the restora
tion of the crippled public services, the
repair of telegraph, cable and tjte tele
phone lines and the re-establishment of
the now demoralized railroad communi
cation. There is no prospect of restoring
the electric light and power systems this
week.
Preparations have been perfected for
cleansing and disinfecting the city.
President Roux, of the Pasteur institute,
in conference with other experts, has
decided upon a series of measures which
will lie carried out by the sanitary of
ficials. The principal danger is consider
ed to be from the polluted water supply.
The health authorities have caused a
house-to-house canvass to be made,
warning the occupants against re-occu
pying flooded rooms until the apartments
have been disinfected. By the same
method instructions are given that water
must be boiled before used. As the de
posits of mud left by the waters are
removed from the houses, quicklime will
be plentifully applied and the floors and
walls. cleaned and whitewashed or
painted.
Dr. Debovo, dean of the medical facul
ty of the Academy of Medicine, was
comparatively optimistic today. He says
that the pest of malarial diseases which
enter the blood through the respiratory
organs can be avoided. The principal
danger is from typhoid, the germs of
which may be received through the di
gestive channels if impure water is
drunk.
It was officially announced that the to
tal fall of the river up to noon was*two
feet.
The sidewalk at the corner of the Rue
Caumartln and the Rue St. Lizare fell
into the subway today. No one was in
jured.
PUBLIC PRAYERS RECITED.
The reciting of public prayers continues
in the churches. Yesterday the image of
St. Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, was
carried in solemn procession through the
afflicted districts on the left bank of the
Seine.
Messages of sympathy and financial
contributions from abroad, are still ptour
ing in. Among the numerous sums ca
bled direct from the United States were
>20,000 from the Standard Oil company,
, 310,000 from Speyer & Company and $5,000
i from Frank J. Gould.
1 The Gil Blas today proposes that the
i municipality have a medal to be called
[ the “medal of Paris” struck for bestowal
, upon flood heroes.
Armed detachments, of the military will
I be held in the inundated districts within
I and outside the city Until normal condi
tions are restored and to prevent pillag
ing.
The fluvial department estimates that >t
will be two weeks before the Seine has
returned to its normal state.
CHASE CRIMINALS IN BOATS.
Excitement rowboat chases after crim
inals on the outskirts of the city occurred
last night. Several times the Apaches weru
1 tired upon by their pursuers, three were
I shot dead and two others were hanged
from lamp posts as warnings.
The women of the French nobility arc
planning an important part in the work
of relief. .f is predicted that there will
be a further fail of 16 inches in the Seine
by noon tomorrow.
The Marne has dropped three feet from
its crest at Chalifert and the Seine has
[ receded equally at Montereau. The Yoni&
i remains stationary.
No Danger of Collapse
Os Building Masterpieces
'• PITTSBURG, Pa., Jan. 31.—The alarm
that\any of the great architectural mas
terpieces In Paris are in danger of col
-1 lapse is wholly unfounded, according to
the long distance view of E. K. Morse,
president of the Engineers’ Society of
Western Pennsylvania, and chairman of
the Pittsburg flood commission. He has
had no little experience with floods in
the Ohio valley.
"Every city between Pittsburg and
Cairo,” he said, "is flooded on an aver
age from once to thrice a year. Pitts
burg has often seen a 32-foot rise, and
Cincinnati a 72-foot rise. In 1884 I sailed
into Marietta, Ohio, in a steamboat when
the water was up to the second floor of
every building in the main portion of the
I city. Yet none of our cities have col-
I lapsed. When a modest brick dwelling
, will not succumb to annual floods it is
‘ preposterous to believe that buildings
1 like the Louvre, Notre Dame and Pan
! theon are in any danger. They are mas
| terpieces of construction,.so strong as to
: be considered wasteful in these days,
i There are no better engineers in the
world than the French bridge and struc
tural engineers."
River Rises at Rouen
i ROUEN, France, Jan. 31.—The river
Seine continued to rise here today.
ASKS 10-CENT GIFTS
TO FIGHT U. S. STEEL
NEW YORK. .Jan. 31.—1 n a circular
which is being sent out today from the
national headquarters of a dozen labor
organizations, the 5.000,000 members of
labor unions and farmery’ granges
throughout the United States are formal
ly asked by Samuel Gompers to con
tribute 10 cents each to fight the United
States Steel Corporation.
Mr. Gompers says that the unions are
acting "in self defense and in protection
of the American standards of life and
'* American institutions." •
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1910.
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BUIEHTON LIMITED
DISHES INTO DEPOT
8 Killed, 30 Hurt-Three Cars
Are Hurled Into Station
Near London
LONDON, Jan. 29.—One of the most se
rious railway accidents in England since
the disaster to the steamer train at Salis
bury, in July, 1906. when many Americans
lost their lives, occurred at Stoats Nest
station, near London, on the London and
Brighton railway this afternoon. Eight
dead and about 30 injured were taken
from the wreck.
Two third-class cars and a Pullman of
a trkain from Brighton, traveling at a
sped of 40 miles an hour, crashed into the
station. The third-class cars were com
pletely wrecked, Aid a part of the build
ing was demolished. The Pullman was
thrown violently into the air. but was
comparatively' little damaged. Its passen
gers escaped with minor injuries. Robert
J. Wynne, the former American consul
general at London, who was in the Pull
man, escaped uninjured and helped to as
sist the wounded.
One account says that the wreck was
due to the derailment of a portion of
the train and another that it was due to
the breaking of the coupling between the
first and second-class cars. The two
third-class cars reared almost on their
ends and toppled over on the platform,
bringing down a mass of iron girders
and timbers from the station with a tre
mendous crasn.
Doctors, ambulance detachments and
boy scouts with stretchers soon appeared.
The critically injured were taken to a
local hospital, while the others were
brought to Ixmdon.
THEATRE IN f’ANIC -
OVER A RACE RIOT
Negro Patron and Usher Fight
Over Seat-Innocent Man
Mob’s Victim
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—A quarrel at the
Folly theatre, a burlesque house, last
night, between a negro patron and an
usher over a seat ticket precipitated a
' race war that threw the audience into a
panic and ended in an attempt at lynch
ing on the part of a mob of men and
boys.
After the police Lad broken up the riot
it was discovered by the leaders of the
mob that the man they attacked was
: not the one who had quarreled with the
I usher. The victim, whose name is Wil-
I Ham Bailey, was mistaken for the o£-
i fender.
Bailey escaped with his life through the
active use of clubs by a dozen policemen.
Before he was rescued the mob had cut
his head open and so severely trampled
him that he was taken to the emergency
hospital. In the scrimmage to get out of
the theatre after the trouble started sev
eral women fainted and the clothes of
many persons were torn.
MILLION TO BE GIVEN
NASHVILLE COLLEGES
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—One million
[dollars probably will be given certain edu-
I cational institutions at Nashville. Tenn..
[ by the board of trustees of the Peabody
Educational union at a meeting to be
held here this afternoon. A similar
.amount has been promised by the city
of Nashville, the county of Davidson and
the state of Tennessee. The gife will
mean the establishment of the George
Peabody Senool for Teachers at Nash
ville.
J. P. Morgan and Richard Olney arc
an.ong the members of the board who aro
expected to attend the meeting. The board
has in its custody a fund left by George
Peabody in 1877. The original gift was
$3,000,000.
THE MEAT “BOYCOTT MEASLES”
UMCLE SAM AND C. ».» X HOPE AX.X. OF THEM CATCH XT.
BRITISH ELECTION
VICTORY FOR IRISH
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Second Budget Will Contain,
It Is Said, Concessions in
Reduction of Spirit Taxes
LONDON, Jan. 29.—The week close;'
with the Liberals in better heart as a
result of their gradually swelling total.
They emphasize, the fact that with the
Laborites the government's purely Brit
ish majority will be 40. The fact that
Premier Asquith and Chancellor Lloyd-
George are taking a brief holiday, after
a short conference today, is further re
assuring to the ministerialists, who <ee
in this an evidence of harmony in the
cabinet.
It is notable also that the more mod
erate opinion, which a few days ago
echoed the conservative suggestions of a
conference on the subject of the house of
lords, has now come into line, the ex
tremists declaring that it is the govern
ment’s first duty to pass the budget at
once and then take up he matter of the
lords.
There is no question that the ploughing
of sajids by the introduction of legislation
would likely be barren of results. At the
same time it is hinted that the second
budget, which is due to be presented im
mediately the first is passed, will con
tain concessions to the Irish in the re
duction of spirit taxes, and to the im
perialists by an increase in the navy for,
which probably $25,000,000 will be voted.
The Unionists are confident that the
government will be plunged into difficul
ties from the outside, by the Laborites,
who are certain to reintroduce their
"right to work” bill, which was rejected
by the government in the last parlia
ment. Moreover, the debate of the ad
dress is likely to be very animated. A
host of amendments already is foreshad
owed, including the home rule and fiscal
questions.
The latter, however, is likely to be in
the background, so far as parliament is
concerned, although an'active propagan
da will be continued in the constituen
cies. The warmest fight in the new par
liament will be on the veto bf the house
of lords, which, all are agreed will precip
itate a new election within a few
months.
TELLS HEBREWS TO GO
SOUTH AND WEST
“Distribute Over the Country;
Don’t Concentrate,” Jacob
Schiff’s Advice
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—“ Distribute over
the country; don't concentrate,” is Jacob
H. Schiff’s advice to Jews, made public
through the Young Men’s Hebrew asso
ciation of this city.
"It is true,” continued the banker, "that
this country yet has room, and a profit
able living for two or three million more
Jews, but we don’t want them to settle
where congestion will militate against
their making a living. We want to fa
cilitate their going away from New York.
In the west and south there are bound
less opportunities.”
ALLEGED^SCHOOL “FADS”
SCORED IN SERMON
Columbus Minister Says Fools
and Philosophers Are Not
in Same Class
COLUMBUS, Ga., Jan. 31.—4 n an able
sermon at St. Luke churc*> yesterday. Dr.
Bascom Anthony, the pastor, paid his re
spects to the "fads" in the public schools
of Georgia, declaring that the philoso
pher and the fool had Ho business in
the same class.
In other words, he objected seriously
to the efforts on the part of the public
schools to make the same thing out of
every child, regardless of the talents it
might possess, and he spoke out plainly
his views on the numerous "fads" which
bad recently crept ln|o the schools.
"0, WHIT'S THE USE?” -
WOMM DM FITIL DOSE
Mrs. Rosa Young Tried Twice
Before She Succeeded in
j Ending Her Life
Frustrated in her first attempt to take
her own life by the quick action of her
friend and companion, Mrs. Rosa Young,
wife of William H. Young, night trouble
man for the Georgia Railway and Elec
tric company, managed to evade her
watchful friend, secured a second deadly
poison, a dose of which resulted in her
death at 9 o’clock Saturday night.
In her home at 738 Marietta street,
shortly alter the evening meal on Sat
urday, Mrs. Young, who was 31 years of
age and very pretty, attempted to kill
herself by drinking a bottle of oxalic
acid. Miss Ruby Stokeley. a life-long
fri<id of Mrs. Young’s, who for the past
two weeks has been staying w*ith the
family, saw her raise the bottle to her
lips.
' Miss Stokeley quickly jumped from her
I seat and seized the bottle. A short but
desperate struggle followed, Miss Stoke
ley finally gaining possession of the pois
l on, which she threw in the fire.
“SO, WHAT’S THE USE?”
Seeing that the attempt was futile Mrs.
Young cried out to her friend:
"It’s no use for you to try to stop
me. I will end my own life and do it
tonight. I will never be well again so
i what’s the use of trying to live.”
[ Miss Stokeley then attempted to deter
the young woman from her course and
finally succeeded in quieting her. In a
I few minutes Mrs. Young suggested that
they walk down to W. T. Brown’s grocery
store and make some purchases. Miss
Stokeley consented and together they
went to the store. After making her pur
■ chases Mrs. Young requested her com
i panion to excuse her for a few momenta
as she wanted to use the telephone.
When Mrs. Young failed to return in a
few minutes Miss Stokeley frantically
rushed to the nearest drug store, tne
Red Cross Pharmacy. Clerks reported
that Mrs. Young had not been there dur
ing the evening. Miss Stokeley then told
I them not to sell Mrs. Young any medi
cines without a prescription. This was
piomised and the young woman returned
to the Young home. She found Mrs.
Young seated in a chair in her room. She
did not appear ill and Miss Stokeley aid
not refer to her attempt to commit sui
[ cide.
In a few minutes Mrs. Young became
violently ill. Still she said that she
had not taken poison, and managed to
disrobe herself, going Immediately to bed.
In a few minutes her condition became
criticaT*and Miss Stokeley phoned for a
physician. The Grady hospital was then
called and the ambulance quickly re
sponded, but Mrs. Young was dead be
fore it arrived.
j It is not known exactly what kind of
1 poison Mrs. Young used in the success
ful attempt. Her end came very peace
fully, according to a statement given a
Journal reporter by Miss Stokeley. She
did not appear to be in any pain.
i Miss Stokeley stated that her friend was
despondent on account of continued ill
health. About a week ago she had an
operation performed and while it was
partially successful she ijad never re
gained her full strength and believed that
she would never be well again.
HOME LIFE WAS IDEAL.
Mrs. Young's home life, according to
her friend, was ideal. She was the moth
er of a 12-year-old son. Lester Lee
Yeung, and there was absolutely no fric
tion in the family.
It was more than an hour after her
death that her Jiusband. who was at his
work, learned that she had passed away.
Many efforts to locate him were made by
friends of the family and physician, but
at the time of her death he was out work
ing on a derailed car.
The funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
Mrs. Young is survived by her husband
and a 12 years of age.
The coroner will hold an inquest this
morning at 10 o’clock at the undertaking
parlors of Greenberg, Bond & Bloomfield.
CONGRESS TO PRDDE
HIGH OUST OF LIVING;
FIRST MOVE MODE
Ways and Means Committee
Authorizes Payne and Clark
to Prepare Resolution Pro- 1
viding for Inquiry
WOMEN OF AMERICA
TO JOIN IN CRUSADE
t Packers’ Counsel
Before Grand Jury ♦
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♦ - CHICAGO. Jan. 31.—The federal ♦
♦ grand jury today resumed its inves- ♦
tigatlon into the methods of the ♦ . j
♦ so-called "beef trust." Ralph ♦
♦- Crews, general counsel for the Na- ♦
♦ tional Packing company, was the ♦
-e first witness. ♦
♦ Three managers ar.d or e clerk of ♦
♦ Swift & Co. were subpenaed ♦
to appear later in the day. ♦
♦
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•'By Associated Press. 1
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3L-Foreshadow
ing an investigation by congress of lhe
high cost of living, teh house ways and
means committee today authorized Chair- jr
man Payne and Representative Clark, the
majority and minority leaders in the
house, to collaborate in the preparation
of a resolution providing for such inquiry
and defining the form of procedure.
Women in New York Meet
To Launch Great Crusade
NEW YORK. Jan. 31.—Neither the anti
meat campaign nor the general crusaaa
fcr a low. ring of the high cost of liv
ing showed any signs of exhaustion to
day. .
A v.< men’s mass meeting, pos*pon yl
from Saturday on account of the storm,
is to be held this afternoon in Madison
square. Tcnight mee.l igs of the ••'.uh
women will be held to help push the pos
tal card campaign which the Gotham
club, under the direction of the presi
dent. Mrs. Anita Comfort Brooka, has
inaugurated.
The cards are already in wide circula
tion, going to all parts pf the country •
and making direct personal appeals upon
the recipients to stop .using meat. Prepa
rations were under way, was announc
ed today, to have the Federation of
Women’s clubs of America take up at
its convention here next Friday a con
certed movement to ask every woman
in th' country to send a post card to
President Tatt requesting him fc take
' measures against monopolistic control of
1 meat prices.
Quotati(4is for all foodstuffs ntld atndt
[stationary today. Retailers »re showing
j a strong distx,sit:on to resis* further I
cuts. Dimlr'shlng shipments are help
ing the dealers to this
Regulate Storage Plants
CHICAGO. Jan. 31.—Aiderman Dennis
J. Egan will present to the City council
tonight an ordinance prohibiting the cold
storage men from keeping their supplies
more than 60 days. Egan dele res that ,
the cold storage places are used to heap
up foodstuffs and cause what seems to
be a scarcity of supplies which raises the
i prices abnormally.
I The aiderman said that he wanted such
a thorough and complete Investigation
that tome permanent good would come
from the inquiry.
Kansas Is All Right
CIIH'.vGO, Jan. 31.—" The cost of living
Is a secondary consideration to the peo
ple of Kansas,” said Foster Coburn, sec
retary of the Kansas state board of ag
riculture, yesterday.
“Guess we’ll have to plead guilty to the
charge of doing pretty well,” said Mr.
Cuburn, "but I don’t see that the farmer
is responsible for the high prices on ne
cessities. I know if /vorking early And
late makes him’ deserve the prices he
gets for his products that he deserves *.
them and if you are willing to pay
cents fcr corn he would be a chump u* 4
[sell it for*3o cents.
"There ir.vst be some blarqe somewhere
' for the high cost of livinfc. But »he
' farmer has never set the price on one of \
his jTodocl*- brings his steers »o th« '
market and takes what is offered him.
( If he don’t do this he must take his cat
tle home again and that means bank
ruptcy.
"Out cur way we’re not worried about
it. We jurt ride around in automo'j'les.
• ar.d within the last week a farmer ir the
' wheat belt paid $7,000 for an air sh'p.’
Use of Flour Will
Settle High Food Cost
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 31.—1 nan in- I
terview here today. William E. Castle, j
president of the Millers' National Feder
ation, says that if the housekeepers will
buy more flour, the question of the ad
vanced cost of living will soon be set-
i tied.
He quotes from United States govern
ment tests which show that the amount
'of energy secured in 10 cents' worth of
flour is 20 times that ?n 10 cents’ worth
of eggs, and besides wheat flour contains j
all the elements of food that the hu- .1
man system requires, and in the propor *
proportions for its best development.
The government test says that one
pound of flour costing 2 1-2 to 3 cents will
go as far as two pounds of meat cost
ing from 15 to 20 cents per pound.
HARD BLOW DEALT
WEST POINT HAZING
Cadets Must Not Compel Oth
ers to Do Any Menial
Work .
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—Still another set
of regulations to govern hazing at West
Point will go into eff=-.t there thit week.
They follow a recommendation that three
cadets recently found guilty of "bracing"
a plebe be dismissed. The secretary of |
war did not consider the offense to justify
dismissal and has readjusted the regula
tions. “Eracing” is to compel a cadet
to stand at attention for several hours. i
• The regulations are even more I
drastic than any hitherto adopted and
provide that the most trivial annoyance
of underclassmen shall bring summary
suspension. Violence is barred, as in the
past, but in addition, it is specified that
"any cadet who shall compel or permit |
an underclassman to perform for him any
menial service or to do anything incom- J
patible with the position of a cadet ani
gentleman, shall be summarily suspended
and turned back to join the next clase."
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