Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1922, Page 1

SO, Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday. followed by showes tn northwest por- tion by Friday night. Cooler in north- east portion tonight. Cher —— SS sper Daily Crihune VOLUME Vi CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1922. City Edition Circulation of The Tribune Yesterday 6.951 NUMBER 259. TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN POISON MYSTERY Final Decisions of Harding Proposal TWO DEAD IN BLAST | } ABOARD BIG LINER Five Others Reported Injured on Adriatic but Radio M: essages| Reveal No Danger to 650 Passengers on Ship Off East Coast, from Liver pool to New York a ee, a NEW YORK, Aug. 11—(By The Associa‘ed Press.)—-Two members of the Adriatic’s crew were killed, five were seriously injured and one is missing as the result of an explo- sion of unde’ ned origin in her No. 3 hold, according to a wireless message received} today at the White Star Line. | The message reported that the Adriatic was proceeding to New York at half speed. Coal} was stored in the No. 3 hold and officials of the line, in the absence of details, thought that EE spontaneots combustion may have caused the explosion. NATIONAL LEAGUE | MRS, CONNELLY, WIDOW OF LATE RESIDENT, DEAD ‘The men killed were a fireman and atrimmer. Those injured included an electrician and other employes of the engine room, 11.—An 8. O. 8. call Star liner Adriatic At Brooliyn— R. H. E.| early today telling of an explosion in] Heart failure liastened by ». weak-) New York ------000 023 100-6 6 Ojher No. 3 hold was followed by ajened nervous condition was named by| 000-000 100—1 8 Ijserles of radio messages culminating | physicians today as the cause of the Batteries—J. Barnes and Jin the word that no assistance was|sudden death late yesterday afternoon | = 4 n of Mrs. Allle Connelly, at her home, — “Everything is O. K. now,” the last}407 West First street. Mrs, Connelly sald. ‘The Adriatic, bound from Liverpool for NewYork with 650 passengers, gave her position as latitude 41.27 and longitude 51.41 west, or about 300 miles east of Portiand, Me. The early messages characterized the explosion as bad and said Capt, David was try- ing to'locate the cause, but gave no had made her home in Casper for et A short time ago her husband, John W. Connelly, died from much the same cause. At noon today no funeral arrange- ments had been made as friends of| Mrs. Connelly were unable to locate relatives. The body is held at Shaf- Batteries—Luque, grave; Cooper and Schmidt. further details. They said the liner was proceeding qn her course. ‘The Adriatic carries 300 first class cabin passengers, 150 second and 200 third. She left Liverpool August 5. ferGay chapel until arrangements are complete. WASHINGTO’ Aug. 11.—The navy department, which has been in AMERICAN LEAGUE = nt communication with the 4a At Boston— R. HE. , on which dn explosion: occur: Washington _-..001 103 000—5 18 0/144 during the night, said today thelr 000 040-4 «8 1 information indicated that no one was hurt aboard the liner and that no as- sistance was needed. The Charlestown naval radio sta- tion reported another message from the Adriatic received saying that the vessel was having some success in fighting the results of the dlast. The message follow 4 “Having some success with explo : Only two American League games REPARATIONS HARVESTER HEAD TAKES OPERA SINGER AS BRIDE, DIVORCED WIFE SILENT D> : VLE |THE SHRIEVALTY MARATHON—Continued | Rail Executives a JAW COMI TMAT WiLL SE HARD! TO RECOVER Feom- AND ELLITHORPE "rook THE LEAD ROW AVERTE ‘Split Between French and English Is Be- lieved Averted, London States; Offi- cial Conference Opens Pending % Strike Leaders in Separate Meetin,*® s Brotherhood Walkout Extena%, Santa Fe WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—(By The Associated Prass.)— Chief officials of seventeen railroad labor organizations went into joint session shortly after 10 o'clock today to consider the response which would be made by the seven striking shop crafts unions to President Harding's latest proposal of basis for settling the railroad strike. ‘ a Officials, of the seven striking rail-[ ‘resident Brotherhood of Railroad road unions through B, M. Jewell,| Crainmen their chairman, said the session would] The organization of the dis be a long one. They had nothing to chers. was also expected to be rep jadd to their previous indicatipns that the shop unions intended to reject the} I president's proposal, which provides !for leaving the seniority status of all ted at the session. tent Harding and in to session ar exactl: on leaders as: his cabinet went strikers to adjustment by the railroad ‘wae doce labor board after their return to work discussions. Attorney | Attending the meeting today, in ad ty before leaving the dition to Chairman Jewell, were War. for the White House sent telegrams to officials of the department in Arisona co and Callfornia the walkouts hood members of vestern |ren 8. Stone, grand chief Brotherhood lof Locomotive Engineers; D. B. Iob- jertson, president Brotherhood of Lo comotive Fireman and Enginemen, L. EB | way ask of big four Santa Fe in He carried brother Sheppard, president Order of Ratl- Conductors; J. W. Kii1e, presi ritor nies laent Brotherhood of Machin w os dispatches telling of the walk |H. Johnston, president Association of into the cabinet meeting gnd |Machinists; J. A. Frank, president] other members of the president's of |Brotherhood of Bollermakers; James lBurns, vice president Sheet Metal Workers’ alliance; James P. Noonan, |president Brotherhood of Electrica! | Workers; Martin F. Ryan, president Brotherhood of Railway Carmen; T. lc. Cashen, preeident switchmen’s un ion; B. H. Fitzgerald, president Broth- lerhood of Railway and Steamship | Clerks; E. J. Manton, president Order jof Railroad T aphers; E. F ‘Grable, president maintenance of way Jemployes; D. W. Helt. president | Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen land Oilers, and W. Doak, vice ficlal family went to the cabinet ses. sian prepared to report on various fen tures of the railroad strike. Chairman Cummins of the erstate commerce committee an ounced today that legislation was nder consideration which would em power the president to take over the railroads if transportation became ser fously paralyzed. senate RAIL EXECUTIVES APPOINT COMMITTEE. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—(By The As Press.)—Heads of 148 Amer. ican roads today appointed a commit lee to recommend a reply to Presi dent Harding's latest proposal for set T. DeWitt Cuyler, sociation of Railway tee with Judge Robert 8. the Union Pacitic as chairman. Tt membership was reported to be ap- proximately the rejected Mr. Harding's first. proposal Tt was not indicated by thove leav. Hement of the nationwide rail strike. | head of the An- Executives, was | ¢ namedex-6fficial \head of the commit Lovett, of sams as that which/ BIGHLORIOE IN CHERRIES. HELD GAUSE OF DEATH OF CASPER LAD Mr. and Mrs. George Mar- tin are Seized Today for Investigation of Late Tragedy An overwhelming desire to obtain a lease upon a ranch in the Bates Hole section, which would return a woman to her old homestead, and an at- tempt at poisoning the present tenants of the place is believed by county authorities to be the keynote to the complete solution of Casper’s “poison mystery” wirtch took the lite of one young man and placed the jives of four persons ¢n Jeopardy. A special investigation trip made this morning to the McGraugh ranch, the scene of the fatal poisoning some three weeks ago, by County Coroner Lew Gay and Acting County Attorney @dwin Barrett, disclosed startling facts which have led to the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. George Martin df Casper Examination of stomach content and the contents of bowels of botti the dead yout i Of those who suf: fer in Casper homes, disclosed bichlor+ ide of mercury poisoning. A careful search of the extire house of the ranch formerly owned by Mrs. Martin and now leased to Mr. and Mrs. James | Thomas, disclosed quantities of the fa tal poisoning in powdered ‘form scat. ered promiscuously about the Thomas | ames A half filled crock of cherries stood fon @ low shelf. Examination in the jlaboratory of several of the cherries showed them to contain a large quan- fgtity of mercurial poisoning The diag- {nosis secured by bowel ing the conference chamber what and stomach would be nature of the administra-| Content examination coincides exact tion’s suggestion that the matter of with that found in the Thomas seniority—at which the executives | Pantry had balked at their last meetng here railroad board. The complete story as given to the {Tribune this afternoon by Mr. Barrett, sion in No. 2 hold,’ —should: be left to the | BRUSSELS, Aug. 11.—(By The Associated Press.)—Ac-! Jand as believed to be true by county scheduled. Santa Fe Would Cut Passenger Fare to Coast ‘The navy authorities took this mes- sage to.mean that the ship's crew was making a winning fight in the hold against either the entrance of water or quenching of fire, they could not state which. 11 MISSING IN uninhabited northern shore of the PARIS, Aug. 11—(By ‘The Asso- ciated Press.)—Harold F. McCor- mick of Chicago and Mrs. Alexander Smith Cochran (Madame Walska) were tuarried today in the city hall of the sixteenth ward here. Announcement of the marriage was made by the bride. After the wedding Mr. and Mrs. McCormick gave a luncheon at the | sociated Press informed the former winter, on either her former hus- band’s activities. or the announced engagement of her 17-year-old daughter, Mathilde, to Max Oser, elderly Swiss riding academy pro- prietor. Mme. Walska created a furore when she came to Chicago two years ago to appear ua one of the stars of the Chicago Opera com- Mrs. McCormick obtained a di ‘cording to information received from London this noon an, agreement has virtually been reached on the four main ‘points of the reparations controversy. and a general accord is now anticipated, says the French semi-official Havas The impression in London is decidedly optimistic agency. |and talk of a split has ceased, it adds LONDON, Aug. 11.—(By The Asso lctated Press.)—Premiers Poincare. patch to the Havas agency from Lon- SW YORK, Aug. 11.—(By The As-! authorities reds as follows: Press).—Two hundred trane-! “Mrs. Thomas at the time of tak- n magnates, representing the! {ns the ranch on a it is said, nation’s biggest railroads, gathered at|98Teed with Mrs. Martin, the former Grand Central terminal today, to vote|OWner, that should ‘anything happen’ acceptance or rejection of President!t? Mr. Thomas, the ranch would be Harding's latest proposal for peace in| &i¥en up to {ts old owner and the lease einin, the shopinen's strike. |forfeited. The Martins were satisfied Practitioner iaanaie aust wotiics [MUN east An ‘aRRadnadn gs nectninteee athemaitia wae 'anbaxent said, soon became restless and longed for ranch N sociated poftati lease, in the }to know what matters were to be con Ritz hotel at which Mr. and Mrs.! pany. Mr. McCormick, who with | Lloyd George and Theunis (Belgium) A L . : The eastern division appeared un- aes fe, ‘This longing is al- CRUISER CREW *Dudley Field Malone were guests. | Mrs. Edith McCormick were the | had a long conference today previous sks njunction alterably opposed to acceptance of the ey earn nes saad eee of CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—The Atchison, 4 Mr. Malone was counsel for Madame | principal guarantors of the com: | to the official opening of the repara president's plary weause se: wan prepare. MREES to Ae pesae reso: Topeka and Santa Fe railroad has sub- Walska in the proceedings which | pany, had employed her while visit- | tlons conference. —— ie arty ah pei ah Taturninsy 2 ‘ : a mitted a proposition to other trans- FF LABRADOR » recently resulted in the divorce be- | Ing Paris. | Premier Theunis .was said to be BOSTON, Mass,, Aug. 11.—.* bill in (Continued on Page Four.) 1 Continued on kage Four.) continental roads to reduce regular 5 tween her and Mr. Cochran. On the day before her announced |striving his best to effect ® reap- equity filed in the federal district court| one-way fares $10 and sleeping car Mr. McCormick and his bride, | debut with the Chicago company, | proachment between the British and py Mrs. Katherine Aller of Phoe charges between Chicago and Cali- « | after the luncheon left for an auto: | Mme. Walska packed her, bags and | French, jnix,. Aris., asks. that directors fore St Was announced, ‘The pro} ST. JOHNS, N. F. Aug. 11—Bleven| mobile tour. Their destination was | lett for New York. Gossips buzzed ed [of the First Church of Christ, Scien: posed ‘refiuctions were considered at | members, of the crew of ithe British) not announced. . | over the incident and it was gen- | STRASBURG, Aug. 11.—(By The tist, and the trustees of the Christian mecting of pinaial passelger agents} Te plesk, trace of /Wwhom was) Mr. Spd. Mrs, Malone ware -the,| orally reported | that Conductor | Associated Press};The | commisser¥| Science Publishing company be en-| of the tranedontinental Imes. lost when. the waship went ashore on| only witnesses at the marriage. | Marinuzzo had publicly criticized |general of Alsace-Lorreine has an |JoIned from putting into effect a vote) <The contemplated rate cute are to| the cvast of Labador, were. still miss- ae | her ability as a singer before the |nounced that in pursuance of thelof the directors to remove her name| be brought about by placing in effect] !S- Admiral Sir ‘Villiam Packenham) CHICAGO, Ag. 11—‘Mra. Edith | entire cast at a dress rehearsal French “retortion” measures against/from the list of Christian Science! a a second clase passenger fare, which|®P4 the 800 other officers and men of) Rockefeller McCormick will have no | Madame Walska was the wife of |Germany, 500 undesirables in Alsace-| practitioners published in the Chris ‘ has not existed since the war, at $10} 28 flagship searched for the missing ent to ‘make on Mr. McCor- | Alexander Smith Cochran, wealthy | Lorraine have been served with ex: tlan Science Journal. less than the present first class pas-|°7es without success. mick’s marriagi manufacturer. Incompatibility di- | pulsion notices and must cross the) The bill asserts that no charges sender tare: Of $80 The Raleigh ran aground ina dense} ‘That telephone message, deliv-.| vided them and a divorce decree | frontier before Saturday evening. against Mrs. Aller upon which the yates fog and it is hoped that the men mere-| ered by Mrs. McCormick's secre | was issued by a French court on | hearing leading to the vote could have ly lost their way and will turn up at| tary, was the only statement forth- | May 31 last, to become finally ef. PARIS, Aug. 11.—({By The Asso-.been held ever were furnished her) . | S GUARD STILL IN CAMP. some other point along the relatively} coming this morning when The As- | fective in 6( days. ciated Press.) many, says @ dis-| and that no opportunity was given her CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 11.—Na- tional guardsmen from Torrington and Douglas continue in camp at Buffalo, 35 miles south of Sheridan, awaiting developments in the latter city, where strike violence recently caused a critical situation. strait of Belle Island. ‘The cruiser struck a quarter a mile west of Point Amour Lights, while she was heading for Forleau. She Mes 200 yards from high water mark, resting easily, with her bow nearly submerged. wife of the International Harvester | head of the latter’s marriage in Paris to Mme. Ganna Walska, the opera singer. Mrs. McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, has declined to comment, since her divorce last vorce last December after a mar- ried Ife of 26 years. The decree was obtaine don the ground of de- sertion. Reports were frequent during the spring and early summer that Mr. (Continued on Page Four) BiG FOUR TIES UP SANTA FE TRAINS y tions question brought forward in re- to those of Premier Poincare of France are in four sections, it was re don this afternoon, will be granted a noratorium until the end 06> this i PROPOSALS Aug. )}—The 11.—{By The 4 British proposals settlement ef the German repara- 0. ported today in French circles as fol lows: First—A moratorium to be granted sidered at the hearing, or to be pres: ent, or to present any evidence in her own behalf. FINDS SOLDIER WITH WIFE, USES GUN IN PROTEST 'M ilitary and Police Barracks and Other Buildings Burning in Irregular Stronghold; No Communication LONDON, Aug. 11.—(By The Associated Press.) —AH the military and police barracks in Cork are burning, accord- ing to the report of a government aviator who flew over the irregular stronghold late yesterday, says a Times dispatch from Dublin. fighting the irregulars and the pro+ “i ;Visional government forces are. un- |known here. to Germany to extend to the end of| CHEYENNE, Wyo. Aug. 11 BELFAST, Aug. 11.—(By The Ass0-| ‘rhe crew of a vessel arriving from the present year. 2 mes Slames, barber, who Wednes. °iated Press)—A band of well dressed |Cork said the admiralty house and the econd—Prompt payments of repa night created consternation in a "Siders wrecked a train on the Great! pritish naval hospital at Queenstown tions in kind, especially coal and 1, to be ade by thme Germans Dublin today, } here. The of traf-} Northern railroad near dispatch theater her private, U hy shooting Stanley Lica A., whom he found [n were blazing when they left as well ed as two other large bulldings in which ! Third—The moratorium also would|the audience with Mrs. Slames, prob ‘eek. ad sor abla interrup frequent explos . lrested with brotherhaoi officials in| Four passenger trains were ar. | be dependent upon financal! reforms in| ably will escape prosecution for «fic northward. , é Eastbound Passenger Service Paralyzed |ix. east. The cause for the failure|nulled last night and this. morning interior of Germany under con-|more serious offense than mers 7 CABLE SERVIC 4 z 3 |to report for work was revealed in de-|for this reason. trol of the reparations commission. |sault and battery. Lica, who sustain-: D : {By The Asso-|STILL BLOCKED. by Walkout in Arizona in Protest to Imands thet guaris be removed from| Shopmen and firemen ray that no] Fourth—The reparations coynmis-|ed three separate flesh wounds from cia Press)—Communication with| LONDON, Aug. 11.—(By The Asso {railroad property in towns of the Ari-|tvains without up-to-date covernment}sion would be authorized collect |a single bulzet, is said not to be keenjCork, except by sea, is still impos-|ciated Press)—Americans sre pi + inspection cards in each engine will}26 per cent of German customs. for prosecution. sible, and the exact results of the)over $1 a word to send nfessages from “Armed Guards” in Yards mona division, particularly Needies. Conferences . between iecaeectas! tives of the big four brotherhdods and Santa Fe officials extending to a be moved from the yards. | Northwestern "The; yfleclare that many of the locomotives have not LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.—Eastbound passenger service}iate hour last night, were not fruit-|had thelr monthly inspection cards re on Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system is tied up and no/ful of results. through trains will leave Los Angeles until the walkout situa-| tion of the big four brotherhoods in the Arizona district, cen-| NO jthe road here, declared that would be running |placed-since July 1. V. A. Hampton, general agent of trains on schedule this SIX PERISH TOBAY 18 SINKING OF TUGBOAT; TANGLED TOW LINE CAUSES BOAT TO CAPSIZE England to New York, taking a 15,000 mile route, by way of Lisbon, the Cape Verde Islands and Buenos Aires. due to the tie-up in the Atlantic cables held by Irish irregulars, ‘Telegraphic communication between Great Britain and the United States continued to be gravely affected. The Irish rebels RTHWESTERN tering af Needles, Cal., is cleared up, it was annaynced today MEN ON STRIKE. jevening, the objecting firemen being by I. L. Hibbard, general manager of the Santa Fe coast lines.| DES MOINES, Ia, Aug. 11—A|repiiced with other workers. The “We do not want to send passengers other divisions not affected.” complete tieup of train service on the |firemen, however, stated that the en: continue to hold ten of the seventeen fcables in There is the ident off of six lost NEW YORK, Aug. 11-—Tugboat Clarence P. Howland was overturned and sunk in an odd Staten Island today when a tangled tow-line caused her to capsize. Two members of her crew spect er out to be held up in the desert,” Hib-] Conductors, firemen, engineers andjlocal branch of the Chicago and|gineers, would not take an engine out} tneie Joyes, ormal service, In the bard said. “There {s no change over: | tratnmen refused to answer calls in| Northwestern railroad may result fol-'of the yards with a non-union wor The tug was towing the Texas steamship’s steamer Roanoke and when she slowed down the steamer n s association and news- hight. althcugh the walkout of the| the Arizona division last night, tying lowing the refusal of firemen to take on engine floeted by, causing the slack hawser to become looped under the tug’s stern. The tng was whippec ‘over pa spondents are limited to @ trainsimen seems confined to the Arl-j up trains unexpectedly, and their rep: alle detective locomotives out of) Train No. 2, Des Moines to Sioux on her side and disappeared. within two minutes. Y on of thelr usual services zona division, with the California and | resentatives here indicated the matter! the station, i (Continued on Page Four) Four of the crew were picked up by passing steamers. ibe the Ueup