Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - November 17, 1911, Washington, District Of Columbia ADVERTISERS WILL KINDLY Cooperate with The Port by tending In their copy for The Sunday Poat aa aa Weather I followed br warmer or 30. 12.944. NOVEMBER 17, 1911.-FOURTEEN TWO SHOP FOR Is Crushed With Mechanic's CROWD NEAR AT THE TIME After Joins Seventh Street MYSTERY BAFFLES POLICE Proprietor of Tobacco and Confectionary Establishment in Business Section of City Thought to Have Been Victim of Carefully Laid Perpetrated at 7 O'clock Last While He Is Alone in His mi to Buy Discovers Body and Summons Arrives Just as Death Claims Seeking a Tall down from behind with a mechanic's wrench wielded by nn unidentified William H. Ht years proprietor of a and confectionery store at Seventh street fell to the floor of his in the rear of his about 7 t. last while his nnt from the jostled with a merry and Mickle died a few utes later His murderer is at police are The only motive for the murder robbery More than in bills was His watch and chain were and the rash containing about likewise was not Crime Planned With The murderer evidently planned his crime There was no no no com- motion that might attract tion The blows were struck with crushing The skull was broken in a dozen and the at the feet of his slayer Outside the street was ablaze with A block away two stood on a corner laughing and A gay throng of shop and their day's work ed the brightly lighted of the grim tragedy hiri Flu re was no exit from the Miln in winch the merchant met death t through the This route the murderer lie vias and went his as lie had and Found by Small m sro of lentil strict found the hotly Mr hnil into to purchase a of waited several i r anil when no him peered into haik mum In for hint face laj Mickle In i pool He was lint strength on his i tun he sinking to the floor The to the street and seized u ho was by the screamed the nul lad a Tht then ran to the Just around the comer from his at 701 Mount Vernon place He burst Into the house screaming excitedly for Mrs. husband has been he is dead In his It took but a moment for Mrs. to hurry to the side of her dying to me. she sobbed bending over the prostrate form of her Weakened tram the loss of blood that flowing from a wound In the back at Mickle struggled to arise but the effort was too and he sank The effort to bid his wife farewell for the injured man burst a blood vessel In his causing a Mrs. Mickle tried In vain to stop the of blood with her dress for a she half to a curious crowd that gathered In the little you see my husband Is Help me please Policeman J. W. stationed a few blocks noticed a crowd ing before the pushing his way rendered what aid he Dr. K. of 20 Iowa the family was summoned by the brother of the dying Mickle died just as he Mickle la the doctor turning to Mrs. Mickle The woman fell to the floor a Restoratives were and Dr. Koones led the frenzied woman The only clue upon which the police have to work Is a monkey wrench tered with found on a the room In which the murder was The store was In perfect the money drawer had not been A large roll of amounting to more than was from a pocket of the murdered Mrs. Mickle told the police that her husband left home about 6 o'clock last night for the He had the money when he she said For the past several days a unkempt appearing man has been ing about the neighborhood of On several neighbors CONTINUED ON FIFTH SEEKING NEW TREATY New York Grand Jurors Re- turn Thirteen True B. 0. OFFICIALS ACCUSED Commissions Paid to Forwarders Are Held to Be Illegal Lehigh Valley Hen and Members of Im- porting Firms Also Face Charges as Result of Commerce Commission In- Involved Said to Be 10 Per Cent of Freight Earnings of the Two Railways U. S. Wants Russia to Grant Entry of RACE DISCRIMINATION American Organizations Urge Revision of Convention of on Way Will Be Asked to Consider Concrete Changes Prepared by State Department With the understanding that M. the newly appointed Russian who Is expected in Washington next comes charged by hia ment with authority to open negotiations for a revision of the treaty of commerce and of 1832, State Department officials already have given the subject with the purpose of framing concrete proposals to submit to the aa a basis for the The necessity for the revision of this convention has been brought home to the President by the many demands and peals from Hebrew organizations out the country for a removal of the discrimination made by Russia against native and naturalized American Hebrews to enter though apparently the existing treaty does not draw any line between native and naturalized the Russian has placed a construction upon tha article regarding entry and right of travel that operates to exclude from sia any Hebrews except commercial elers and those visiting Russia in the pursuit of Difficulty of There is said to be serious objection on the part of the Russian government to opening the country to the free entry of the great body of Polish and French and Oriental The difficulty is to shape the new treaty so as to admit the American Hebrews out leaving the way open for European nations to base a demand upon Russia for similar treatment under the favored nation clauses of existing Julius of Col. Isaac M. of New Harry of R. and Judge J. W. of the Commerce discussed with President Taft the treatment of American brews In PLAN TO INSURE GOOD TIMES I John Wanamaker Would Have I Merchants To Take Business Out of Politics and Exert in Influence on Luncheon in His 91.38 to Baltimore mmt mnd via Pennsylvania Tickets good to until Special to The Wa shim ton Post New Nov. 16-Merchants of of and elsewhere gave a luncheon at Sherry's today In honor of John It was a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Mr. business career and of anniversary of his entrance into New York He was lated and complimented by George B. John P. Robert A Oscar Job and In touched upon many topics of Interest to business men Mr. Wanamaker proposed a federation of ot more merchants In the States for the purpose of insuring good times and checking It IB his Idea that a of this sort would be able to take business out of and would be able to modify or secure legislation affecting the He put forward a dec- of which Included lowering the a parcels tion of telegraph and telephone punishment of bribe and and reducing the cost of Mr. Wanamaker said he believed that big business men who had Invested vate capital in corporations that have been assailed have been treated Widespread hatred tiad been engendered unfairly against Wall street and the and this was costing millions of being especially disastrous in Its results abroad Trouble might have been avoided had the Sherman law been In- but now that the law Is he and everybody is getting ready to work under it was time for to Ferry burct 91.35 to Berkeley to and November 19 Baltimore train leaves Union a. m. New Nov. ments were returned this afternoon by the Federal grand jury which has been Investigating charges of rebating against several railway freight officials and J bers of firms this city and The inquiry has been conducted with un- usual All the Indictments are similar except as to the details of the particular trans- action and contain In all 45 The alleged rebating was on shipments of between this city and Six of Indictments are against ert B. foreign freight agent of the Baltimore and Ohio for giving rebates to the Judae Gallagher I Oscar F. trading as Charles D Stone Co American ping International Forwarding all of and Peter C. trading as P. C. Kuyper of New Other Indictments Other indictments are against Thomas N. vice and Clarence A. freight traffic manager of the I Valley Railroad for giving rebates to George W. Sheldon of New York and Other indictments are against the lowing for receiving rebates from the Ohio Railroad Jules E. of Judae and Maurice of Gallagher of New Oscar E. trading as Charles D. Stone Albert E. president American Shipping and August president International Forwarding Com- Those for receiving rebates from the Valley Railroad Com- pany are George W. Sheldon and Henry W. president and vice president of George W. Sheldon Co. Tentative pleas of not guilty were entered to the indictments by Vice ident Jarvis and Freight Traffic Manager of the Ball In each was furnished by each Assistant District Attorney In a statement to the asserted that the total amounts involved in the alleged re- bating would approximate 10 per cent of the total freight earnings of the Valley and the Baltimore and Ohio road Position of the Nov. the tive offices of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad here It was stated today that the indictments found In New York city are based on legal technicalities as to the relationship of the forwarding agent to the railroad The grand action was further declared to be an fort on the part of the government to place the foreign forwarding agent and hia representatives in the position of for the shipper instead of for the railroad counsel are of the the Baltimore and Ohio's representative an agent paid by com- mission on the business he secures not be construed to be a shipper under any construction of the Result of L C. C. The indictments by the eral grand jury in New York yesterday were the result of an Investigation made by the Interstate Commerce Commission during the past several through Its division of The alleged lations of the law Included the payment by railroad officials of rebates on import shipments through the port of New and their acceptance by The alleged rebates were paid under the guise of The Indictments rest upon the doctrine that refunds from rates paid to persons controlling routing of shipments are un- lawful even though the persons receiving the refunds are not the owners of the a matter of as stated by the commission In referring to yesterday's of the recipients of these instead of being agents for the carriers for the solicitation of are In reality forwarders with their principal office In the United or else employ forwarding agents or brokers In New York city who act as agenta of the consignee at Chicago or other In- Paid Direct to In other cases It appears that sions were paid direct to the New York who was designated by the carrier as Its import In the In- against Thomas S. and Clarence A. of the It was alleged the railroad appointed George W. Sheldon as its Import In addition to a salary of a year paid Sheldon Co. for traffic for the Lehigh ad- payments were made on the commission the appearing as the shipper from New York For Sheldon Co. Is said to have an annual contract with Scott Chicago whereby the former agreed to for the latter all Us from points In Europe to Chicago at through When the In New Sheldon Co. shipped them over the Valley to Chicago on bills of lading showing Sheldon ft as the shipper and Scott Co. as Payments It Is the contention of the government that the payments to Sheldon Co. are to a and as such are un- because in the contract of the obligations of Its contract with Scott Co. it is an agent of the and therefore cannot under the an agent of the railroad com- It further developed through the In- of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission that the tonnage owned by don Co. was very In order to obtain the commission on shipments tually owned by the It Is that such shipments were billed from New York showing Sheldon Co. with Henry W. vice president of Sheldon Co. as this the sion are paid by the Valley Railroad Company on fic actually owned by the In these cases the government secured the indictment of the individuals rather than the feeling that this course result more speedily in the elimination of the various devices adopted apparently to defeat the purpose of the Chicago Judge Among J. A. Patten and Barnes 111., Nov. to his determination to have leaders in the world of finance do duty on juries In the nsane Judge John E. Owens today caused summonses to be served on a lumber of leading citizens of who will begin service in ng upon the sanity of unfortunates in the detention hospital This week's will in- clude James who frequently has been styled the Harold treasurer of the International Harvester Eames son of the Secretary of the and Honors son of Mrs. Potter MARRIAGES Illinois Appellate Court Holds pants Liable to Special to The Post Nov. prop of legality has been knocked from beneath marriages In Illinois a decision of the appellate court of southern The of persons within a even though ceremony Is performed In another is declared The principals in such marriages are declared to criminal tion should they to Illinois to live following their second venture in The case that brought about this de- cision was that of John Nehring against Frances Nehring Mrs. Nehring was di- from her husband last Two months later she accompanied Mr. Nehring to they were Then they returned to Mount Vernon to Later Nehring sued for ing that his marriage was a violation of the Illinois and should be set The court upheld his UNWRITTEN LAW Judge Refuses to Admit Evidence In- Wife of W. Nov 16 there Is no such thing as the in West Virginia was stated today by Judge Taylor in instructions to the Jury In the case of Henry who shot W. W assistant chief of the Huntington The Jury returned a verdict of guilty within a few The defense based ts plea on the alleged Intimacy of Church with the wife of but the court refused the admission of this of Church was not fatally Friendly Blow on the Back Leaves Man Practically Special to The Washington Post Nov. friendly slap on the back by Earl Wallace paralyzed today L. R. a telegraph Parker fell to the unable to move Tonight he has slight use of one His spine was injured in a recent street car ROADS NEED MORE INCOME J. J. Takes Issue With Knapp as to BY A Railway Employes Now Get Big He but Owners Axe In- adequately Reward for Returning Pocketbook Con- Special to The Washington Post New Nov J. head of a large manufacturing missed his pocketbook when he arrived at his place of business The wallet con- in cash and In certified checks and securities Philip a waiter in the Hotel where Mr. found the wallet floor of the dining Mr. gave the waiter a reward of Special to The Washington New Nov. J. chairman of the Great Northern Railway does not agree with Martin A. presiding Judge of the new United States Court of that raising wages would the chief economic problem confronting the American Mr. while pointing out that of employes on American railways la from two to flve times as large as pre- vailing In also directed desirability of affording like adequate returns to and builders of railways wages are should we think that wages here be generally said It Is commonly known that wages on American roads aie two to five times as great as in If railroads were to be run to pay large how would this suit those who have borne the In their and to whom adequate return Id due for their service providing transportation facilities forythe country and Its to government of course the government could not take over roads without compensating their present and any such ultimate result the government probably would nnd the problem fa I may only point out oney problem that Is constantly be coming more and that is the inadequacy of terminal Such facilities constantly are becoming less adequate for the growth of and the government would find in a pretty IN STOLEN Alleged to Have Been by Another at special to The Washington N. Nov. in- and detectives are searching for a man who obtained from the local a registered letter addressed to of South Broad a draft on the Bank and In United the receipt of the ad- dressed to the man is charged with the New Jersey State pital for the Insane and drawing also belonging to purr LI Ii aft Officials Declare No Danger Threatens From HELD INDEX TO TODAY'S HONEST GIVEN WAR ON CANAL SHIPS President Is Told Railways Block Proposed REFUSE TO BUILD BOATS Fear to Be to Important Says B. N. Withdraw Aid and Subscriptions Are May Investigate Attitude of Big Supt Report Caused Spread of Alarming President of the Board of Holds Drills at Institutions as Needing District Commissioners Meet and Issue Statement Giving the Exact Situation and Parents Bernard N. president of the Atlantic and Pacific Transportation Com- a proposed independent American line of steamships to run Ian tic and Pacific ports of the United States and called at the House yesterday and laid before dent Taft a history of the he have been Intel posed through the influence of trans- continental railroads to the organization of an Independent line of Mr Baker undertook to organize an independent line early in the present i and by the terms of an act jof Con- gress he had until November 25 to quire the necessary subscriptions to in- sure the success of his It is understood that Mr Baker told the President a somewhat startling story of the opposition which had confronted this proposed Independent line of Many individuals who had ily subscribed at later withdrew their Mr Baker tov influences of the transcontinental Bankers Change Banking houses in New York and other cities which in the beginning seemed glad to participate in the subscription also it is because they had discovered that powerful interests would be Mr. Baker told the President also that the Influences working against the posed independent company were so reaching and powerful that they had pre- vented ship yards from taking contracts to build vessels for the proposed new line It is understood that Baker received assurances from one shipbuilding con- cern that it would be glad to build sels for the independent Later this firm expressed regret and begged to be excused because it might be considered an unfriendly act to Important interests Mr. Baker said the refusal to subscribe the funds to the Atlantic and Pacific Trans- port Company enterprise Is the mighty force of the allied railroad and financial They scanned the plan they saw that the new line would cany freight through the Panama and they knew It meant losses to That killed the game you abandoned the Appeals to Mr. Baker looked a trifle so long as I have and a dollar in my said have put the question up to and at the coming session it will be thoroughly It is perfectly sible for the government to own the for it can control the petition will then count for It is certain that government ownership of the line will be the solution of the As to his plans In the Mr. Baker had this to shall do my best to interest the government In the I am almost certain that Congress will see Its enormous and the Necessity of government If the government does take It I shall aid it in every way possible to make it a But if It Is turned down by the I will not be but will set to work to build Talk of an The Biker charges are expected to arouse great interest in Congress and in administration There Is already talk of a possible investigation by Con- Secretary of War ready has indicated that he fears there IB danger of an effort on the part of the transcontinental railroads to secure a monopoly of the transportation facilities to the believes that the moat effective solution of the problem will be to extend the power of the Interstate including its power over the new He has suggested that a statutory provision against road ownership and control of lines also could be There has already been considerable talk in Congress of government ship of a line of coastwise vessels ing to and the charges by Mr. Baker will revive this Aroused by the fear that some slight cause might result m disastrous panics among public school the District members of the board of and school went to unusual means yesterday to dispel the possible belief that several schools may be unsafe because of the sensational manner in which a report drawn up by Assistant Superintendent for the purpose of directing at- tention to a few minor defects In the of several buildings had been Assistant Superintendent Principal Frank Daniel of the McKinley Manual Training and the of the other schools involved united yesterday In declaring that the schools mentioned In the report are perfectly safe under ordinary but that there were one or thought These defects would never have been described m the manner mentioned had not the board of tion called for the Information with the purpose of bettering they School and other officials and the Dis- commissioners held a two-hour sion yesterday and formulated an Slain and Robbed New Treaty With Russia Railroads Charged With Government Seizes Glass Schools Safe From Railroads Fight Ship Admiral Taylor a Girl Takes Poison Pocket Garden Excites Letter Divorces Peking Situation a Dr. Magruder Hugged Her She on the Sherman Hears Bishop No Appeal of Tobacco McClung Dines Famous Eleven In Though Fire Peril in Patent Office Ten Hurt in a mm MOB Naval Hero Shoots Himself in Dying Soon AGED 82, AND IN PAIN WAVE ENDANGERS Recent Death of Son and Illness Lead to Friends On Board S. S Nov. after Farley and Falconio had left the side of the promenade deck today a huge wave rolled smashing a thick glass window near the point where they had been The prelates were USED OLD POWDER PISTOL UNCLE SAM GETS EYES Thousands of Glass Optics Are Taken in RAIDS ARE EXPECTED HEBE Smugglers Said to Have Evaded tors at Hew York by Bringing in the Goods as Personal in Loeb's Force May agents of the United States toms service arrived m Washington last ed statement directing to means night after a raid yesterday on the taken to protect school pupils against j tional Optical Company and Serrants Find Famous and Artist Lying Amid Trophies in His Den at Family Oui Learns Nothing of Tragedy Until She Returns When She Hears of Con- fined to His House Two Under Farragut in Mobile and Made Record as an Indian Rear Admiral John Yeatman 82 years for many years medical director of the United States a Indian and com- mitted suicide by shooting self in the head with an old navy pistol yesterday fire President James F. of the Optical Supply Company in I afternoon at his 1727 Q board of visited where smuggled glass eyes and Technical High Schools and had were to trace shipments of the the go through fire drills in order p glass eyes that are believed to be In the to restore the confidence of the pupils j hands of merchants For several and j days the detectives of the Treasury De- Principal of Technical High 1 have been investigating the re- to which particular attention was cent shipments of glass eyes to called in the report and believe a considerable quantity denied that the structure j nas reached thia city through Sew York 1 who shipped through B. C. L. of N. J. of the Treasury Department decline to He pointed as he has been doing annually ever since the sthool was his number of under the assembly hall should be and that the escapes should be Views of the In the official report of the given out by Maj. It was declared that the pupils of the schools are no danger from but that the publication of so alarm the pupils that a panic might ensue on the slightest This is the only danger under which the schools are now he Cuno H. president of the board of supplemented this formal statement last night by de- claring that it was drawn up very fully after all three commissioners had made and that It represented the ideas of have been working for years to make the school buildings here absolutely he the beginning of each school year the buildings have been ex- to discover what Improvements are needed We tould not do everything at According to present by the end of the current after the few minor defects mentioned in the recent report are the school buildings of Washington will be the safest in the entire Improved After The report Issued by Judson says that after the at the in in which 163 children and teachers were burned to a commission made an investigation and suggested Im- that cost Since then the Washington schools have been made as safe as any In the 40 the statement con- stairways have been con- Forty-one ash and fuel vaults have been Tn 54 cases new ex- have been provided or the old ones In 29 cases the ceilings over the heating apparatus have been proof ed hundred and forty-five gongs have been installed and 450 ex- 93 per cent of all the work of this character has now been and in their current estimates the commissioners ask for to con- the work to Today our buildings are In a safe condition If erly used and cared Call Fire Escapes regards the they are safer than the buildings of other and safer than they have beenT here at any in the All buildings re- cently or now are fireproofed to the regard to it may be said that their principal function is to provide a means for saving property through assisting in the efforts of the fire The children and the teachers can easily proceed from any of our buildings means of the ample exits The statement then quotes the report of the showing that fire escapes are regarded as dangerous on except as an aid to and that other means of protection should be The report leading schoolhouse architect In America is Mr. William B. of St. He never places escapes upon school lest they suggest to the children the dangers Incident to fire and Induce In under Mr. the children are taught Is no danger to them whatever In case of and that they can proceed In an orderly manner out of the building by the exits Thus CONTINUED OK FIFTH street He expired a few minutes surrounded by his weeping servants and a Mrs. his was out shopping at the bers of the household endeavored to locate but in and con- nothing of the how far their investigation tragedy until she returned home here has but raids are ex- i The butler met her at the door and broke the news to She was May Lead to The raid on the two firms in SO shocked that for a time fears Baltimore yesterday was the result of a e trail picked up m Philadelphia and her werp entertained might i They warrants ni Health Causes v e morning and discovered 1.400 J at the National Optical Supply 111 Company and eyes at the Baltimore ft js Optical Supply which are be- i to be part of the original shipment hv the traffic ny me tragic Only Andrew Bryson of 100 000 glass eyes from a European 26 years about two which evaded the customs years ago in an automobile at New The customs bureau Investigating the dent near is anner in which the glass evaded payment at the New York port and a supposed to have prompted the SS was retired from were negligent The shipment is believed active service in 1801, and for eral years he been an invalid e of the atod almost totally not been out of the He had will be able to obtain many of the con- said for about two to dealers as they are now only a few days behind the The confiscated eyes will be ped to New York to be used as evidence in the prosecution of the alleged smug EARTH SHOCKS IN GERMANY Rear Admiral Taylor and afterward appeared to be in his usual health and He also lunched at the usual hour in his room on the third and when the Residents of Frankfort stokes him about Streets When Quake Is 2 he did not appear to bp under any mental He ate Panic in Heidelberg very and Other Buildings at Con- stance Nov Sharp earth shocks curred tonight at and Stuttgart The shocks were felt quite severely at gart and The disturbance took place about 30.30 and at where several houses were badly half clad ple rushed into the Big cracks appeared In the walls of several At Stuttgart household furniture was overturned and pictures fell from the At In the grand duchy of many including the were badly The way viaduct near fell m. There was a panic in a theater at Nov. 16 Two earth shocks of unusual violence passed from west to east ple fled to the open in terror A huge stone fell from the steeple of St walls in the upper stories of many dwellings were badly cracked A performance in a theater was the audience flying to the streets Nov. 16 slight earthquake occurred here So no damage is ud from November 25; leave Union Washington a. running di- rect to of Returning thirty after Pullman parlor dining and round sold for all trains No- Falls Amid His About 3 o clock Mrs Tas lor took leave of her husband to go and nothing In his demeanor excited her As If he had been awaiting thin the feeble man left his room and went to Ms den on the third where he loved to recline among the trophies of his long naval career and Indian campaigns Among these was a brace of old pistols Selecting an ancient navy weapon of the variety of caliber he stood before a mirror over the mantel as If to make more certain of his aim Whether his sight returned to of course knows any he flred only one and the ball took effect In the right pasing on a horizontal probably most of the way through the head The were startled by the loud and the butler rushed upstairs to his employer's He found the rear admiral lying on the floor In front of the mirror and the on the floor be- side The butler passed the der of the servants on the who were on their wav to the In his rush until November 27 tickets Full particulars of D. F. Fifteenth and Q to the telephone He summoned Dr H H the family of 1612 I street The latter reached the house about fifteen minutes after the and found the patient ing feebly Rear Admiral Taylor was unconscious and never Nothing could be done for him He died in about twenty Died to Escape His Several of the servants were Into Bound while Butler Stokes CONTINUED ON SECOND
