EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The Lockwood Legisla¬ 
tive Committee on Housing in New York 
City scored its second decisive criminal 
court, victory February 24 when John T. 
Hettrick and three co-defendants, indicted 
on evidence gathered by the committee in 
its inquiry into crookedness in the build¬ 
ing trades, were found guilty of conspi¬ 
racy and sentenced to the penitentiary 
on Blackwell’s Island for terms that, may 
amount to anywhere from six months to 
to three years, in the discretion of the 
Parole Board. Immediately after the 
verdict had been announced it was stated 
that Hettrick would be placed on trial 
again on March 7 with 51 master plumb¬ 
ers on another indictment charging vio¬ 
lation of the State anti-trust laws 
through conspiracy to prevent competi¬ 
tion and fix prices. 
Co-operation between coal operators 
and miners in six States to force high 
prices for soft coal by restricting produc¬ 
tion was charged February 25 by a Fed¬ 
eral grand jury indictment returned in 
court at Indianapolis. Two hundred and 
twenty-six defendants, including 127 op¬ 
erators and miners and 00 operators’ as¬ 
sociations or companies, were accused of 
conspiracy to violate the Sherman anti¬ 
trust law. The defendants live in Mis¬ 
souri. Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio 
and Pennsylvania. 
Liberty bonds having a par value of 
$772,000 were taken from the Northern 
Trust Company. Chicago. February 24. 
by William Dalton, a 17-year-old clerk 
in the trust department. Despite the 
presence of others in the security cage. 
Dalton, it is charged, was able to conceal 
flic bonds on his person and walk out, 
ostensibly to lunch. Dalton was cap¬ 
tured later, and nearly the whole amount 
recovered. 
Two men walked into the office of 
Patzkoff Brothers, jewelers, on the ninth 
floor of 2OT. Broadway, New York. Feb¬ 
ruary 25, held up Joseph Maiorana. emp¬ 
tier! a safe of a tray of platinum rings 
and two gold diamond-studded bracelets, 
placed them in a bag. descended the stair¬ 
way to the street and were lost in the 
noonday crowds on Broadway. The loot 
taken is estimated to be worth between 
$20,000 and $20,000. covered by .$40,000 
insurance. 
A New York Central express train cut 
a nine-car train of the Michigan Central 
into halves at Porter. Ind., February 27 ; 
27 persons were killed and probably 200 
injured. The Michigan Central train, 
known as the Canadian, was bound for 
Detroit, although it had some coaches for 
Toronto. It was just passing over the 
New York Central main tracks when it 
was struck. The sixth and seventh cars 
were demolished and the wreckage of the 
coaches was scattered along the track for 
almost 200 yards. 
The Navy Department February 27 an¬ 
nounced the sinking of the destroyer 
Woolsey, attached to the Pacific fleet, in 
a collision with the merchant ship Steel 
Inventor off Panama. Fifteen of the crew 
of the Woolsey are missing, and one is 
known to have lost his life. One hun¬ 
dred and twelve survivors were rescued. 
John and Charles Krebs and Martin 
Shannon, the highwaymen who have been 
terrorizing Union County, N. .T., for three 
months and have admitted participation 
in a score of robberies, were sentenced 
to from 50 to 75 years each in prison at 
Elizabeth February 28 in the Union 
County Court of Common Pleas. Sen¬ 
tence was imposed by Judge Carleton B. 
Pierce. It was about 82 hours since the 
highwaymen, trailed by blood lost by 
Charles Krebs, were arrested after an at¬ 
tempt to hold up a trolley car near Hill¬ 
side, which was frustrated when Carl 
Sehmidljn, a passenger, opened fire on 
them with a revolver. 
FARM AND GARDEN—The State of 
California has burned a specimen of white 
pine sent by Pennsylvania to California’s 
proposed “Forest of the States” because 
of danger of introduction of the white 
pine blister, according to word received 
bv the Pennsylvania State Department of 
Forestry. 
The determination of the Administra¬ 
tion leaders in the New York Legislature 
to save the State’s .$100,000,000 highway 
system from the wear of heavy motor 
trucks will be carried out by an amend¬ 
ment to the motor vehicle law prohibit¬ 
ing trucks of more than seven and one- 
half ton capacity on the roads outside of 
cities. The legislators originally intended 
to tax the heavy trucks off the highways. 
They were preparing a bill providing a 
yearly tax of $500 for five-ton trucks, 
$600 for six-ton trucks. $700 for seven- 
ton trucks and so on. Senator Lowman, 
chairman of the Internal Affairs Com¬ 
mittee, said February 26 that an investi¬ 
gation showing that the heaviest trucks 
seldom went outside of the cities caused 
them to accomplish their purpose in an¬ 
other way. An amendment will be intro¬ 
duced to change bhe method of computing 
the number of pounds allowed for each 
inch of tire width in such a way that 
trucks of more than seven and one-half 
tons burden will be confined to the cities. 
Sport, a Scotch collie dog, rescued 20 
head of cattle from a burning barn on the 
farm of A. J. Danielson, at Hallis. Wis., 
February 27. Danielson was unable to 
get the cows out, but the dog went in and 
drove them one by one from their stalls. 
Damage to the barn and contents was es¬ 
timated at $0,000. 
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