Leader-Dispatch (Newspaper) - June 17, 1909, Piqua, Ohio f v 1 and cooler Friday HAVI YOU NEWS Of any description If so call the Editor Home Bell phone VOLUME XXV PIQUA OHIO THURSDAY JUNE 17 1909 2 CENTS Give Message Right of Way Senators Pay Close Atten tion to Taft's Proposals Paragraphs Relating to Admission of Philippine Products as Recom mended by Finance Committee Are Adopted After Several Amend menta Are Voted Down Senator Burton Opposes Duty on Zinc Ores but protest Counts For Nothing June 17 The the incorporation of a provision in the tariff for the taxation of the earnings of corporations and the adoption of a resolution looking to an amendment of the constitution so as to permit the levying of an In- come tax without interference from the courts which was received by the was generally regarded by senators as of such transcendent im- portance as to place in the shade all questions pertaining strictly to the schedules of the tariff The sage was referred to the committee on finance There was a full senate present and the document was awarded the most careful attention from all tors present Senator Gore ed to have the committee instructed to report on the income tax feature of the message by tomorrow when under general advisement the in- come tax question is again to be taken up for consideration His tion was however voted down lor the first time in many weeks me division was strictly along party lines all the Republicans voting to lay on the table while all the crats cast their votes against that proposition During the informal dis- cussion of the reference of the sage Senator Bailey gave notice that he would demand that made for a graduation of any income tax that might be provided for and Intimated that much time would be necessary to get through a provision which did not carry that tion After considerable more tion the senate adopted the finance committee's recommendations ing the admission of Philippine but not until after two or three amendments had been voted down Senator Foster of Louisiana occupied the early hours of the day with a speech opposing the free admission cf any Philippine sugar into the ed States He took the position that with the encouragement that would be given by allowing tons of the Philippine product to come in free of duty the production of the islands would be so rapidly increased that it would soon exceed the tity named Senator Aldrich presented the finance committee's substitute for the touse zinc schedule The committee amendment provided for a graduated scale of duty on the zinc in zinc ore place of the fixed rate of the house Senator Burton spoke against any duty on zinc ore while Senators Heyburn Guggenheim and others ad- even a stiffer rate than was proposed by the committee The com- recommendation was finally adopted They decided that the plan is not consistent with their de- mands for the adoption of an ment taxing incomes and that both may be adopted in harmony They assume that the president's plan in- by leading Republicans on the finance committee is designed to chloroform the Income tax ment but nevertheless announce that they will continue to fight for its adoption That the supporters of a direct tax on incomes do not like the idea of substituting an amendment imposing a tax on the net earnings of rations was manifested by the sion It was argued by Mr Borah that it is unjust to tax the earnings of a corporation and let a ship in the same line of business cape Such legislation he declared only can be explained by the fact that there is a wave of antipathy to the corporations that leads many people to believe that they are ob- of legitimate prey What the position of the crats in the senate will be when President Taft's program is ted for a vote has not been mined A caucus on the subject will be held tonight Senator Bailey thor of one of the income tax ments assured progressive cans that the Democratic senators would remain true to their ment of an income tax law made at a caucus several weeks ago j STATE HE Columbus O June Fire Marshal John W Zuber announced that he would reorganize the branch and Cleveland next week He has returned from an inspection of these offices He is not ready to an- whom he will appoint for places He will cut down boundaries of both districts and two additional districts One will be located in the Williams ty firebug district west of Toledo and the other be near Cleveland Dayton Honors Aerial STENOGRAPHER SLUGGED City Mo June Miss Annie Lee Owen official in the police Investigation was while working in her office Stenographic notes representing timony of the witnesses t in the were stolen by the assailant who escaped Miss Owen was discovered In an unconscious condition and has not sufficiently recovered to give a lucid account of tha affair WOOSTER MADE Wooster O June 17 Dr L E HoUen president of Wooster hat declined to accept the of secretary of the Presbyterian Educational board and will remain at of the local Institution The trustees are considering the tion of changing the charter of the Institution and making it tarjan At present it Is strongly Presbyterian OLD VETERANS IX PARADE Newark O June from Xenia and Wooster the leading contenders for the next state Grand Army encampment are making things lively parading the streets with bands and pinning badges and buttons on everything animate and inanimate Despite the fact that the ranks of the old guard are growing thinner every year the parade today was a complete success Kaiser's Trophy and Composer Of Prize Song For Festival READS PAPER June a tion was caused at the police chiefs the reading of a paper oy Chief Fred Kohler of Cleveland describing his Golden Rule an effort by some of ler's admirers to have adopted a indorsing of a city For two hours the de- bate waxed warm and it appearing that bitterness would be engendered in the association if a vote was had the introducer withdrew it for sake ERS PLEAD New York June F gustus Heinze his brother Arthur P Heinze and Carlos Warfield a for- mer director of the United Copper company pleaded not guilty to the federal indictments charging them with conspiracy in obstructing the administration of justice by spiriting away the books of the United Copper Washington June 17 Five Republican senators Messrs Borah Bristow Cummins LaFollette and Clapp conferred to determine what their attitude is to be in tion to the income tax amendment to the tariff in the face of President Tuft's special message to congress favoring the submission of the tion to the states for a constitutional amendment and the a taxing the net earnings of cor- O June 17 W Hull prominent Democratic state leader and former of cus f Toledo member dropped dead at -St Charles hotel while looking thi score board from a sudden stroke o apoplexy WOMEN AT PRIMARIES Columbus O 17 Women may vote at the and Democratic primaries Sept 7 for the nomination of party candidate for members of the school board The women have the same lega right to take part in making the school board tickets as they hare in voting for the tickets when made was held by Attorney General man in an official opinion rendered to Secretary of State Thompson Everything In City Like Flying Machine CITIZENS WEAR TOKENS A chorus of voices of New York the Concordia by an orchestra of 150 pieces singing society of Wilkesbarre is a feature of the great songfest to j which has won it twice the be held in Madison Square of Philadelphia die j New York from June 19 to 22 of Newark elusive a dozen of the world's the Arion society of Baltimore Herr most famous soloists will be heard j Mathieu Neumann's prize song The kaiser's trophy the warning of the has been man emperor several years ago for the competition No to stimulate German than 185 singing societies will cans the art of song will be com- compete in the various contests for by the Kreutzer Quartet Pittsburg June skilled workmen members of the J In the Pittsburg district a majority j of the mills of the American Sheet I and Tin Plate company a subsidiary of the United States Steel tion are The combined plants in which a strike crder will be effective total 152 mills capacity in the tin trade and 51 mills in the sheet steel trade Among cities Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers who are em ployed by the American Sheet anc Tin Plate company will quit work on the night of June 30 at which time the open shop order of the com- pany becomes effective Many un- skilled workmen will also be affected The decision to take this action followed a special convention 1 here Steel Shares to Listing Them on Paris StocK Exchange Paris the fact be- came known negotiations were being carried on the campaign against the Hating of common shares of the United States Steel tion has grown steadily more able Certain papers denounced what they termed the proposed raid on French savings and severely the tor concession to the United States while the hostile tariff was pending French steel interests took up arms and lodged protests and it is believed that hostile financial inter- ests helped along opposition by raising every possible technical ob- The net result of the campaign besides raising every possible com- plication has been to cause the fiscal authorities who were favorably dis- posed to the listing of steel common to retard their decision in order to examine and weigh the objections The negotiations consequently are to be prolonged Ohio Martins Ferry 23 Bridgeport 23 mills Cambridge II Piqua and Struthers 10 mills South liam F Bend Ind June Fleming of Cleveland was found guilty of grand larceny It was charged that he engineered a fake wrestling match in which W J Springborn service director of land lost a wager Fleming was sentenced to the Michigan City prison for from one to 14 years He was taken to prison today When Springborn the complaining witness was leaving the courtroom an un- known man assaulted him and disappeared WAGE INCREASE ANNOUNCED Pittsburg June sand employes of the Jones lin Steel company have been notified that from the date of June 1 their wage rate has been computed on a basis of 10 per cent higher than has ruled since last April Rumor Busy With Miss Elkins F AUGUSTUS HEINZE company which books were under subpoena for production before the federal grand Attorney Wise informed the court that he posed moving for trial of the cases on Their plea taken with leave to withdraw or demur by Friday of this Until then they were held in each WOUND Marion O June son 24 died at the Central gency hospital as a result of being stabbed in the neck with a knife by George Hammer ting Attorney Charles L Justice ob- an statement and charged Hammer with first degree FARMER KILLED BY TORNADO Monett Mo June tornado west of here killed Andrew mick a farmer injured seriously his son Noel and hurt six other children Troops Parade Streets In and at Night Achievements of the Wright Brothers Will Be Pictured In Display on Mian I Harmon and eral Allen Will Present State and Congressional Medals Tomorrow Dayton O June thing in Dayton today bears some resemblance to a flying machine Vehicles are decorated to look lika aeroplanes airships rest on the topa of high buildings as if posed for flight and every person wears some token that the era of aerial tion is at hand The occasion is the opening of Dayton's two days celebration in honor of Wilbur and Orville Wright The city proud of bringing the Wright brothers home is ing to make the event of national in- terest After a salute of cannon a unique ceremony took place A character representing Jonathan Dayton der of the city in the tume of a century ago welcomed the aviators home from their triumphs and trumpeters perched on tall ings in various sections formally an- to the world that is an accomplished fact Parades of troops through streets spanned by triumphal arches will be followed at night by a display on the Miami river The achievements of the Wright brothers will be pictured in fireworks The presentation of medals nation state and city will take place tomorrow Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio will present the while that authorized by will be presented by General James chief signal officer of the WEBB SUCCEEDS DYE Columbus 0 June D Webb of Albany Athens county will succeed T Frank Dye as dent of the Girls Industrial home Delaware having been elected for that position by the board of trustees at the institution Mrs Webb will succeed Mrs Dye as matron MORSE ADMITTED TO BAIL New York June Morse the banker who was of violating the national banking The farm dwelling and barn were de- was admitted to bail In by the force of tiie storm J sum of TAKE A SS STAND Tell of Mrs Gould's Fondness For Liquor DRUNK EVERY OTHER DAY Carpenter Describes Efforts of to Climb Stairs While She Had Fierce Temper and Frequently an attempt of to drive through a closed gate a time when a man saved her from falling when In- as he testified were among the things alleged as Long Island tic or former servant went on and passed from the witness stand Mrs Gould was greatly moved as heard these declarations and she has evinced her intention of fighting terly in rebuttal against them A carpenter Herbert Trotter waa the last witness He said when he was working in the servants ters Mrs Gould rushed in at one i i i we I i i cl il C u v i vi AAA Swore at Employes at and swore at and abused the Emphatically Denies Having At- tempted to Drug Former Mistress Connects European Trip With Name ot Italian Duke Washington Juno kins laughs at the suggestion that his daughter Miss Katherine is going to to meet the Duke of the He said that the young lady had for some time had a slight heart affection which is always materially augmented by hont and that her had directed that upon the proach of hot weather she should im- mediately betake herself to the er of the European She will bo accompanied by her mother and both will leave vcr the temperature nore becomes too high for hem The senator d that the duke engaged lir hit mountain ejjA y would not return to Europe ing the stay there of his wife and daughter St Louis Juno F Harms former government moat in- spector in ths East St Louis packing houses who is now in Fremont 0 will arrive in St Louis today to aid In the investigation of the charges he made against the meat inspection Dr of Secretary of ture Wilson's office has been with Harms in Fremont for two days and him to York June 17 Howard ould did not go on the stand to ify against his wife Katherine Gould whose suit for aration he is opposing instead there was a continuation of servants sip accounts by menials of their for- mer mistress ating details as sworn to on the stand of Mrs Gould's alleged ness for alcoholic beverages and her manner at such times when what the witnesses said was influence of liquor brought from her lips remarks that are ill-suited to a woman's tongue What Katherine Clemmons Gould heard was but a reiteration and in some respects an amplification of for- mer testimony the basis of which was that at various and divers times at the vast Island show place Castlo Gould she had according to the witnesses been Intoxicated had abused menials given arbitrary and unreasonable commands to the vants and had used rather severe language In altercations with her husband Coachman gardener chambermaid and other servants went on the stand and swore to the demeanor of the who used to give them ders An occasion when afce would i have fallen from her but for servants Her voice was shaky and incoherent her hair disheveled and she was very profane She was de- drunk said the witness time she came into the stables while I was working there and swore at the grooms and was so drunk that every one could tell that she was he continued She tried to go up stairs to the harness room but could not navigate the he added emphatically Trotter said he was ordered to go to Blue Gap farm the Gould place in Virginia On several occasions ing the first 30 days he was there he testified he saw her intoxicated and beard her swear a great deal at the workmen Trotter testified that Mrs Gould was only occasionally during her stay of 10 days at the Blue Gap farm when he was thereN How times do you think she was intoxicated during that 10 asked Mr Shearn Every other was the reply Referring to a time when Trotte said Mrs Gould fell off a chair lay on the floor helpless Mr Shearn Didn't you put something IK Mrs Gould's coffee that night at Blut Gap 1 did replied the witness Didn't you got Betty Foster thx girl in the kitchen to put something In Mrs Gould's No -I did not Don't you recall that Mrs Gouu accused you of poisoning her an I certainly do
