fTSE FASTEST GROWING NEW SPAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA TTE NEWS- NIGHT EDITION PAGES TODAY reater C h a 'r 1 o 1 1 e 9 H b"m e Newspaper 99 : t (b;;,hed: Daily, 1888 Sunday lttO.. ' CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12. 1914. Price: Daily 2c; Sunday 5c. G -1 iti o rll HTti r 10? rh oday J; Kiord ttotel SU.UI.IN FOR WATERWAY ft prpnMn nuLUU nn n ULU NacK endree, of hi J if usta, Fires 'iW THE WEATHER. Forecast for North Carolina: lullet Throuah Brain Increasing cloudiness tonight. : iouowed by snow or ram. lri-.;.:i day, rain or snow. Moderate w northeast winds. ": Dead Body Lying in Pool of Blood Was IMear-By - H3ri Been ueaa Tor borne Tim? it k Thought. Maid Fr on Fir Rpvnh TALK OF ANOTHER RITUAL MUBDE Mo Cause Assigned for Rash ! - nefi Lrtter From Fomily By Asiated Press. . . n-ti ! London, Feb. 1-'. J NUinn ruuKu iiee;di tch from s tinluicK i-ivc in miyuolct. (reports the arrest of Fashkoff, a Jew A Central Petersburg today MUCH INTEREST IN TRIAL OF CAPTAI! BERRY R.i. JETTON IN JAH0 EFFORT TO GET BAIL WAV !SU li! E GRIPS MISTER EMEHTi THE COUNTRY fruiree. general rep Siotiega Coal Co., .. s. C, was found "T ;u the Buford ho'.el rnj. Uc was lying in loot uf the bed. his ! of Mood and by his - ; calibre pistol. 1'iiiK't wound in his Ho had been dead, it re vesterday afternoon, the boy ish tailor, at Fastoff, 40 miles from Kiev, in connection with the murder on December !. ot a boy known as Yoshel Pashkoff and supposed hith erto to have been the tailor's son. The boy was found murdered and was buried after a post morten ex amination. Rumors of "ritual murder" were then spread and the exhumation of the body was ordered. At the sec ond examination this week, the Cen tral News says, it was found that -.vas a Christian. gtor n one can say. He A woman witness stated that the ilif hotel between o ;ad was really the son of a-Christian ','', k it was assigned to law court official named Taranthe- 7 !!'. ;!'( rear hall on the vitch employed at Vitormir, whence ..r the hotel, Mr. M. C. the boy had lied. The arrest of Pasli- r. ): lerk. being at the koff followed the investigation. It ' aipi nrned by a colored bell was taid after the exhumation that . M ;!"! endree took the eie- thirteen wounds had been found in ri -wiit to his room. That the boys neck. -('li ot nun oy any one r BinTiirn r mr nintn tint IN NEW YORK Ecdy Found- I (.. i..:;n!i(p,v 'uet'ore 1'. o'clock to-' ! 'iVVirriV..W colored maid on . 't'.er fiean.-ii;! rounds, came to tins 'Oct. kiM'-k-Hi and receiving no an-i Tf. (W( hi," as she expressed! i; f :i man lyinf? on the floor j ;i :'. or" the bed dead. She j us :u fin L'jusekeeiv. Mrs. Rose' K-.-ri. who was in her room, to By Associated Press. '" j b-r horrible find. Mrs. Rog- New York, Feb. 12. With the r-- .,!',) rbe office. Mr. Gresham thermometer within a few degrees t:u- all. lie. . '.rs. Rogers, of zero, 50 tamilies were driven into ai,ri others went into the the streets early today by a fire that :vin io whom the room burned out one five-story apartment :i-is;ned yesterday afier- building in East Eighteenth street on the floor at the and for .several hours threatened an- t .(- l ed. his head toward other adjoining it. Neighbors collect or, hi- feet toward the fire- ed clothing tor Ja1 i.uor, 1 tp was a nool of blood cn '".'! w!ire his head was lying, ''! ripht foot was a pistol, Thj i.-Fo the appearance of some cue !y.i;s on it for a few minntps th fovVi vtp .ii?htly disturbed on the ed at $100,000. H- v T !m KoTii-th strfrf nnH there i-'.-sion of a head having pillow. On the table was :3r;: -;nii and an overcoat. Wife Dead. Mr. r. i. i.reen, of Spartanburg, one l r.:i-.. irot-s of the Bufoa. who : In the refugees and Charles F. Murphy, leader 6f Tam many Hall, who passed the fire scene while on his way home from a ban quet provided funds to care for the homeless, a score of whom were in jured. The property loss is estimat- GENERAL AMNESTY Mr. li. Monroe Jetton, who was brought to the city yesterday from1 Davidson and remanded by the cor oner to jail without jail, for the mur der of Dr. "NY. H. Wooten at Davidson Tuesday night, has made no effort through his attorneys to obtain free dom by seeking a habeas corpus writ. It is . derstood that no steps w... be taken in this direction until Mr. E. T. Cansler completes a case he is engaged in before the civil" court. Thio case will be fiuisheu this afternoon an J it is likely that Mr. Cansler and the other attorneys retained by rrr. .Teton will confer on the matter. In addition to Mr. Cansler, Mr. Jetton has retained ex-Judge Osborne to represent him. Solicitor George Wilson, who came over to Charlotte from 'Jastonia yes terday afternoon and conferred with Coroner Hovis to see what evidence the latter had obtained at his investi gation at Davidson yesterday had nothing to say as to whether he would strongly oppose any effort to et Mr Jetton out on bond. He hinted, how ever, tnat since criminal court con vened next Monday, he would likely be averse to the release of Mr. Jetton on bond. Mr. Jetton, it is said, could furnish any reasonable bond. Mr. Jetton stated to a reporter for The News this morning that he rested pretty well last night. He said that he was sore yesterday in almost ev ery muscle, but that he had rubbed with liniments the doctors had giv en him and felt much better in this respect this morning than he did yes terday. He also ate a good breakfast, he said,-of han ar?d eggs, besides en joying some fruits that one of his brothers had sent him. He, of course, would make norstate ment about the shooting or what led to it. saying that he had left everything to his lawyers for them to arrange. He stated that he was also leaving it to them to arrange for bond and to feet off the starboard bow of the do anything they thought best in the TI" h. -i i n J T 1 J 1 ' w - A. A I . Rivers and Harbors Bill Form ally Made Public Today Many Southern Rivers and; Harbors Received Appropri ations Uunder the Bill. What North Carolina Gets The Time Not Ripe for Ap propriation for the Proposed Boston-Beaufort Intercoast- al Waterway. Say Experts. By Associated Press. Philadelphia, Feb. 12. Inquiry into the collision between the steamships Nantucket and Monroe off tl e Virginia coast in which 41 lives were lost, probably will lead to changes in the regulations for the navigation of coast wise vessels and also to the adaption of rules increasing the efficiency of the wireless operators so as to assist commanders to ascertain the proximity of other ships during foggy weather. During the examination yesterday of Captain E. E. Johnson of the Monroe in the trial of Captain Osmyn Berry, commander of the Nantucket, charged with negligence, the Monroe captain said that operators do not always an swer questions from other ships with relation to their position. The local steamboat inspectors are inquiring into the wireless situation and expect to put the surviving operators of the two ships through an exhaustive ex amination. It is expected the trial of Captain Berry with last several weeks. Rep resentatives from shipping interests all along the Atlantic coast are watch ing" the proceedings. Testimony in the case is expected to be an important fa,ctor in the damage suits that have been filed. Capt. Johnson resuming the wit ness stand today corrected his tes timony of yesterday when he said he judged the Nantucket by the sound of her whistle in the fog was about 3i5 By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 12. The rivers and harbors appropriation bill, tarry ing $43,000,000 for waterway improve ments throughout the country was for. mally made public today. Chairman Sparkmau, of the house rivers and har bors committee, will report it to the house in a few days and press for its ppeedy passage. Last year's riwr and harbor bill ear ned appropriations acsrezatini? about ?4S,000,000. This year's appropriations are larger than was at first contem plated because of the urgent appeals oi advocates oi waterway improve ments from various parts of th coun-i try. The bill, in addition to the lare number of appropriations for continu ing work already in progress in many states, provides for many new proj ects. The sum of $13.40.0'H is pro vided for developing the East river and removing Hell Gal and other ledgfs there that threaten navigation in New York harbor. Other projects in clude the purchase of the Chesapeake and Deleware bays for $l,30.i.0tM) and its development to accommodate ocean commerce and a $7,000,000 appropria tion for improvement of thv Missouri from its mouth to Rock Island. The bill does not provide for the proposed waterway from the Delaware Bay to Nov York upon which the war department has adversely reported The project is part of the ultimate K-hcme for an intercoastal waterway from Boston to eBaufort." N. C. Both the army engineering board and the rivers and harbors comm'ttee agreed that the time was not yet ripe for an approraltion for the proposed , water way. Mam- Southern rivers and narbors received appropriations under tne bill, both for immediate use and In sonic cases larger authorizations lor (Continued on Page Nine.) TO PRISONERS. i'd!!;r,ii' Bv Associated Press. Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 12. A bill extending a general amnesty to all being in the city for political prisoners in Portugal ex Vnew Maekendree in cept those alsp accused of felonies is Hp did tint lmmv he. to be laid before the Portuguese par- res i :.l the hotel until the liament tomorrow by the new. cabinet. r"?- "f K 1 .TT . ! Has ne is ;.-r-"r;i! '.'i : :-!.t.atie of the Stonega '""i "ipiim-, of Spartanburg' said ''I (Jll-f-t! Mr ., Monroe. After reflection he said he judged the distance was about one thousand feet. Yesterday he testified that he first saw the loom of the Nan tucket's lights 34o feet away on the starboard bow. He changed this dis tance to 390 feet. Under international rules a vessel meeting another on the starboard bow must give the other vessel the right of way. Under this rule the Nan tucket should have kept her course and speed. Capt. Johnston was unable to say whether the Nantucket kept her course and speed in the fog. Capt. Johnson testified that he was steering a northeasterly course when he first saw the Nantucket about 300 feet away. At that moment the Nantucket, he said, was pointed at the starboard side of the Monroe for ward of the stack and that the Nan tucket's course was west-northwest. Ml' (lr i'rt , ... ro. ..it-.-! o ''if!..!- i,. ''i(S. till' !,iM. i;i r i ror . :ur! ;ir.i Dan hjui ..-. Ill' "'"I ':,.;! '''at '; it on: v.. ' '-if, tin! 'if.. It.' '"jr ! It; :;, tlP ri(.. i' bad the reputation of j prosperous man, making 'j io.ouo a year." '"'! that Mr. Macken- H'-d two years ago, and ti!) Augusta man. Clerk's Statement. "-M i, Hi derk, said: Mac-"- Ht the hotel be- "!J 4 o'clock and was assign-' H- told the bell boy he! urf-, iIimji countermanded the ' had a fire built. That '"Hi 1 heard of him, or fii as t know, than any ' ' I knew of him." C roner Summoned. ' "' i v as immediately not- '-' '-harge of the body. The '' mbM- of letters in his 'i i i - person, some opened, "i o cardri on his per : " the R. O. Campbell :' Atlanta. Ga. He had :-'.'i'orary membership in Hub. C).i his hat band 15 i; "M. C. M.," Atlanta, bag there were cards ' '" '-t. v.-as a letter dated, I -'14," .and signed, '' -..oTi&tely, Maggie." The ' " and the tone of it ( 'iriarcial stress there '! ' ot paying a note due, " , !oer domestic financiai Had Children. '' dd the touch of infi "ie Horn the man's chil- " :r was signed, "Your af '"i'iter, Elizabeth Mac- ariolh.t r letter written in oniidish hand beginning, un no name. f,K of the man's watch, an ' -It-case gold watch wa , lt" his two daughters, taken i.r. . tt"u 11,1 ee years old. vKendree was apparenUy 35 "Mimic! on Page Nme ' TIPPER'S MISSION TO MEXICO :! By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 12. Dr. Henry Allen Tupper, special peace commis sioner of the International Peace Fo rum, is going to Mexico without any official standing, according to Secre tary Bryan. The secretary today declined io make any statement as to Tupper e mission, saying only that ne nau seen the doctor in Washington, leav ing it to be inferred that the subject of the talk .was the possibility of hastening the conclusion of peace in Mexico. The state department has given no instructions to charge O'Shaughnessy to protest against the publication ot article in Mexican newspapers dis paraging President Wilson. Senator Bacon Improved. By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 12 The condi tion of Senator Bacon, who is ill at Garfield hospital, was much improved the president was ordered by his phy er fever accompanied by restlessness yesterday alarmed tt; senator's friends. OF GUILTY R A I N E ENTERS PIES NOT By Associated Press. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 12. C. Hun ter Raine, president of the defunct Mercantile Bank which closed its doors Monday as the result of the alleged defalcations of the president, estimated to reach $788,000, entered a plea of not guilty when arraigned in criminal court today. Haine previ ously had pleaded guilty when ar rested on a bench warrant charging embezzlement. case. Mrs. Jetton, he said, would go to her sister's. Mrs. McCoy's, in ML Holly for a while. She spent last night with friends at the Stonewall and went to Mt. Holly this morning. Nothing new has developed in the case. The most important features were brought out yesterday in the coroner's investigation at Davidson. All that was learned of a definite na ture about the case is contained in the statements of the four witnesses given below. Witnesses' Statements. Statement of Mr. Charles M. Stiles before the coroner's jury: "I did not hear the pistol shot, but heard Mr. and Mrs. Jetton calling for help. I saw Mr. Jetton standing on the front porch. He asked me to come in quick. I asked 'Monroe, what in the world is the matter? He said 'Charlie, mv home is ruined: it is wrecked. Come on and go with me We went into the room. When we got in there Dr. Wooten was lying on the bed. Mr. Jetton still had the pistol in his hand. He pointed it at Dr. Wooten and again ' said, 'he ruined my home, and I shot nim. I caught him in a compromising attitude with my wife there on the bed.' I said i must go for help.' I went out on the porch and Mr. Jetton followed me, saying, 'He has ruined my home; he hao wrecked it.' I reached my hand out for the pistol and he gave (Continued on Page Nine.) NEVER QUARRELED DURING 65 YEARS. 3 By Associated Press. - X New York, Feb. 12 After 65 years of married life Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Tuttle, of Speonk, L. I., said at their anniversary celebra- ;? tion yesterday that in all those years they never -had quarreled. -X' He is 87 and she is 84. NGLE II BASE- Ll SITUATION By Associated Press. . New York, Feb. 12. A new angle developed in baseball situation, here today when the Federal League pro moters announced they would not .bid for the services of Johnny Evers, de posed manager of the Chicago Nation al League club. Charles H. Weeghman, leading Federal backer, stated his or ganization considered Evers under con tract with the National League and conforming "with the new league's an nounced policy, would make no effort to obtain the deposed Cub manager. Evers failed to appear today in the gathering of magnates, players and other followers of baseball. He left his hotel early in the forenoon and could not be located in the usual gathering places. Mr. Smith Knew the Way "The News' Want Ad Way." t would be like looking for a needle in a hay stack to try to find a buyer in the city of Char lotte for a clarinet where, pos sibly, not more than a dozen men would be interested in such an instrument. One of this doz en, however, was found througa a News For Sale Ad. Mr. F. W. Smith, of The Wm. C. Robinson Co., this city, desir ed to sell a clarinet. He knew a way The News' Want Ad Way The ad was ordered to ap pear one week but on the fourth day the instrument was sold and the ad discontinued the to tal cost only amounting to 52 cents. In this city are many articles that could be disposed of to advantage by using "THE NEWS' WANT AD WAY." 92 "Wants" printed yesterday 1068 to date in February (not' including today) 2651 in Jan uary 3719 since New Year. Ev erybody is reading 'em more people using 'em. . Page Eight One-Ceht-a-Word 'Nuf Ced. AUTOMOBILE EXPEDITION Mexicans Last Night Started a Movement From the Amer ican Side of the Border With Probable Purpose of Joininc Federal Forces South. U. S. Troopers on Look-Out But See Little An Officer Tells of Seeing Number of Automobiles Cont a i n i n n Boxes. Ur Associated Ires. El Paso. Tex.. Feb. 12. Sbarj-cj United States troopers frcLi through stunted bruli alons Ui? m:ndy plain fetre-tcbinc back from ti Kio Grandefor the SVxIcaa '.LofeUrUx. at automobile ete;!itioa from Ibtr Attet i can tide of the border Uu Light it!i (he probable purpose ot joialiu; fed? raJ j probable purpose of joining; federal forces south of the border r burra iuK the rebel garrison at Juarez. The alarm reached General Scott, in command at Fort about 1C o'clock lau night. Rancher alone Urn road near Yalcta telephoned into thi city to find out the rauw for the an. al number of 'cold weather" fires and I pea ranee of an unubuaJ numl f firemen suffered kevnly In fiichting the (automobile, boiue of bica mere. v. outbreak. ered with canvas and ai.t'arenUv car. Second Cold Wave. tried boxes. New York. Feb. 12. Thr official Counts of the number of the tarW mercury in New York, driven far from ten to fiftv Um inauirv t Y1-;a downward in tli eond severe cold; today indicated that U-r.- ere taurr s-nap oi u.e winter, aippea one i- man a uunaretf. low zero at 7 a. in. today and a?l Mr. Mary O'Xeii teleihone orr. tor at Y si eta. ta ti of lliem. em- jinRly ladt-n with boe under thi- New York State is Center of the Disturbance-Thirty-Four Degrees Below in Sections Many Cold-Weather Fires Reported Firemen Suffer. Snow Storms Threatened For the Middle Atlantic Terri tory and aRins for the Gulf States Cold Weather Re cords Broken in New York. By Associated Press. NXashinston. Feb. 12. With an area of biting rold centered in New York Mate and New England today a second disturbance was preparing to wcep northeastward from Texas that threat ned to bring snow storms to the mid dle Atlantic territory and rain to the Gulf States. In western New York ihe lovtt tern peratures noted in 1 years were rec orded. At stvcral points the mercury reached 34 below zero. In some parts ot eastern New York It wag the win ter s coldest day with temperatures ranging at 3; to 37 below. In several towns thre were the usu- still at the zero mark at 10. 22 Degrees Below. hcuetiectady. .. .. l-eb. 12. TIm covers, turn toward the .1ver. Tbey thermometer here reUter-d "2 il"-rn without lUht and lie tbotv. green below zero today. -j thai the uiarhiue diai ;Mied in iom- Boston Shivers. ;of the numerous corral la Yfeleta nd Boston. Feb. 12. A quick drop in temperature carried the mercury were there unloaded. The only tmldier o far to kat een early today to U degrees below zero.Jany of the rlleped lluert- reemit MBS BOND TELLS HER STORY IN GORE TRIAL By Associated Press. Oklahoma City, Okla.. Feb. 12. Minnie Bond, who is suing United States Senator Thomas P. Gore for $50,000 damages growing out of an alleged assault committed in a Wash ington hotel, took the witness stand todav and told Tier version of her meeUng with Senator Gore. Despite the ruling that evidence a to incidents in the past life of either of the litigants' was irrelevant, coun sel for Mrs. Bond offered to let all the evidence as to her character go before the jury without objection, provided the defense would not ob ject to evidence offered against the character of Senator Gore. Counsel for the defense did not reply to the proposition. Wire. Bond testified she first met the senator in 1909 and again a short time later at a reception at Oklahoma City. At the latter meeting she dis cussed the appointment of the bus band, Julian Bond, to the position ot internal revenue collector. At that time she said the senator talked fa vorably of the appointment. The witness then reiated how ne went to Washington in March, 1913. At a teception tendered by Mr. and Mrs. Gore to their Oklahoma visitors she again mentioned the appointment and the senator asked her to come to his office, according to the testimo ny. Reaching the time of the alleged assault, the witness said she had telephoned Senator Gore to come to her hotel, saying she did not like to wait in his office. When the senator wrived she went with him, she said to a room occupied by James Jacobs, of Oklahoma. In their talk, she said the senator asked many personal questions and tried to take her hand "I told him I was a different kind of woman from those he had been as sociating with," testified Mrs. Bond. She alleged that the senator took hold of her and tried to pun her towards him and that her glasses were broken in the etruggle, cutting her in the face. When he pushed her over on the bed, she declared, the covering was stained with blood in several places. At this Juncture the witness said T. E. Robinson, of Oklahoma, enter e dthe room, together with Jacobs and Kirby FItzpatrick and she went to the toilet to wash the bloodstains from her hands and face. She de clared the senator followed her and told her to tell the men there a i nothinjc wrong. the lowest point reached in thi city for several years. The -water fro.e so f.ti that Bre men were forced to leave their lad ders and work entirely from the ground at a fire which damaged a manufacturing building on Haverhill street. Cold in Adirondack. I'tica. N. Y.. Feb. 12. Hxtrea" temperatures prevaileil In central and northern New York today. Tupper ake and Lake Clear Junction in the Adirondacks. reported 3S degrees be low zro; Utlca thermometers regis tered 20 degre below. At Winsted. Wincted. Conn.. Feb. 12. With the tempeiatuie 20 below zero eix fami lies were driven from their homes m canty attire when fire destroyed a large frame apart mcnt bouse here. Bo.-ion. Feb. 12. The cold was ac companied by a stinging northwester which reached the projortlon of a gale along the coast. The ocean was cover-; ed w ith min and observation off shore was obscured. There was anxiety. lowever. regarding tlio four-manted schooner Dustin tl. Creasy, which rode out the gale last nigh! off the Paniet river life saving statiou. At Detroit. Detroit. Mich- Feb. 12. Tempera tures ranging from 15 to 26 degrees below zero were rejorted oday from cities scattered throughout Michigan. At Sault Ste Marie 2fi below was re corded. At daybreak it was six below In Detroit. A fire in the business dletrict of Port Huron caused a loss estimated at $230,000. Five building, including the opera house, were destroyed. ni mil PTrm inn rLHIW JlLHUNb SAYS SEN. NELSON By Associated Press. -John O. Mil- wa honors I Kauflmin of Trooj. A. lith catalry. He wa UlSomJ a? i TlllaRM -jit of Ysleta and w u tie alarm sounded be a dl.a.u bed t Ysleta to guide other trooj hurrtin? to that point He arrived abwid the reinforcements and lay io a d.tcb from which be says be uw the. de tachmentH of a!ojt IS men eacii ouko a rush toward the river. All nfght the Americans searcaefl along the R!o Grande but did not ciii sight of their quarry. To all appearances tby had e raped. According to Mrs. O'Xet! st ranee Mexican had lei-n coiWUni: t-lnce Tuesday. They -atne In fnai! group and were reticent about thHr business. Hefutees re not encommoa In this iart of the country tut lh number was unusual. General FraneiMw Villa, eommjxl lag the rebel fore, received an In timation of the situation at and sent small detachments eat along th Mexican bank of the river to cai.lurt the invaders. They did capture ten men bat six of thett(. proved to be harxnles peon and the otb-r four were held for further in-.e.s!igatjiWt. Villa during the nhrbt sent out rein forcements and as they are tnounici be said today that they tbould no: have great difQculty catching up with the dismounted recruits. General Villa said he boped that the rec ruits pot across the rher for If th American" captured them .bey would only he imprihoned while be could shoot them. The movements of the-autotnooile constitute one of the mysteries of the night. Every road Into El Paso was watched after the alarm but' co pris oners were taken, although beveraJ persons insisted that there were maov machines and that most of tiem car ried armed men. There Is direct cvl den;e of only those seen by Mrs. O'Xell. In an adobe house w Llch formed psrt of the corral at Ysleta American troop!, found a large stock of saddle which apjieared nearly new. To one rf the saddles was attached a box full of fuses. These suggested that tie re cruits. If such they really were, had burn, counsel for the New ork stock jn mind the destruction of the rail- exchange. finHied his statement to- road south of Juarez in order to delay day before the senate banking com-; the movement of additional rebe! mittee at its hearing on the Owen bill to regul.Ve stock exchanges. He objected to the requirement that before the securities of any cor poration shall be listed on the stock exchange the directors shall file with the exchange a statement as to the!a mile from the Rion Grande and rush nature and value of the assets oi them Into Mexico. It appeared thi the corporation together with other miscarried, for the rush to the other Information as to its business. He side, as re-ported by ci'Jiens of Ysleta. thought It might be proper to re-, was precipitated before many f tb troops south for the impending attack on Torreon. American cavalry officers early to day believed that one part of the ex peditions plans involved the rapture of a corral of horses at Ysleta about quire the fiillng of that information somewhere but the filing of It ought to have nothing to do with the ques tion of regulating the transmission or Ftock quotations through the mails. The discussion led Into a mention of the New York. New Haven & Hart ford Railroad affairs. Senator Hitch cock ubed the word "stealing. "Don't call It stealing." said Mr. Milburn. "Oh, let's call things by their right names." interrupted Senator Nelson. "It's the meaniest kind of stealing. The man who breaks into ray house I an honest man in comparison." President Hat Slight Cold. Washington. Feb. 12. President Wilson's engagements for today were cancelled according to an announce ment at the executive offices because thep resident wm ordered by hU phy sician to stay In hi room to recover from a cold. horses could be obtained. BAD FIRE IN Til 11 By Asoclaed Press. Syracuse. N. Feb. 12- Two ho tels, four stores and five dwelliIl, were destroyed by fire at HsrrifTllK X. .Y- lt night causing a Iom ot 1100.000. Intense cold hampered the efforts of the firemen. Water turned into almost before it fell. The temperature was 2' degrees below rero. The Ken woo hotel, ote of thofe d ttroyed. was a well known reeort to Adirondack sport1 men. I 4 .r