New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1915, Page 10

fan of Court L Postmaster of Southington, p to Atlantie City. e street left e hip Kroonland he will enter the nia next fall. of New York, who uest of Colonel W. P led to her home. of Philadelphia ley of New York, guests of Mr. and ng, have returned 1@ of Maple Hill tion at Littlefield, of fifi‘;sunxay or an t weeks ' grendparents ' in 3 Amy Wiggles ‘for Lanrel mfi? ‘Vlnce‘ 4 ite moun- Ve, nine wid with the ex- ception the ition of one church and the partial wrecking of another church, a factory, a hospi- tal and a convent, was confined large- ly to the unroofing and the uproofing of trees. 5 +Two hundred men were at work to- day ‘building a ‘temporary bridge for the Wabash Rallroad near Gilmore, Mo., the railway bridge having been swept away in yesterday’s storm. i Wabash, trains between Kansas City and St.' Louis were routed over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. Line today between Mexico, Mo., and St. Louis. It is thought that the new bridge will be ready for use tomor- | row. Summer Camp Destroyed. A summer camp at Mitchell, Tl | eleven miles north of 'here, was de- stroyed by the stor. No one wasuhurt there. i The town of St. Peters, Mo., was almost demolished, but no one was seriously injured there. Forty of the sixty buildings which farmed the town of St. Peters were blown to fragments, but only a few slight injuries were reported from that place. Gilmore Nearly Wiped Out. Gilmore, Mo,, was nearly wiped out, yet only one man was found dead there. Between Gilmore and Wentz- ville: a Wabash . passenger train crossed ‘the path of the starni, and the 'first four coaches in the train were neatly picked up by the. wind and ' laid to one side of the right of way. Not a person was injured ser- iously in this accident. Those in the ditched cars ran back to the/five pas: senger coaches left standing ‘on the track, these were coupled to @ the tender and the train proceeded:on its Journey. i Two miles west of O'Fallon the wind lifted a buggy off the road, carried it with horses and three occupants through the air for 200 yards and then hurled it to, the ground. Daniel Minor] the driver escaped with a few bruises, but his wife and one child were Kkilled. Mother’ and Children Killed, At Dardenne, Mo., Mrs, Thomas Flaherty and her two children were ‘killed. Fifty other homes 'in: this town ‘were reduced to splinters and piles of brick. , At |'Wentzville, Mo., Mrs. Herman Oberlind ' was killed and at Gilmere the body of Frank Kunzle was found on the railroad station platform after the storm. Catholic Church Razed. At St. Charles the entire central portion of the city, including more than.' ane hundred ' residences, was destroyed. Search was being made today for the bodies of a woman and two small children who took refuge in the’ St. Charles Borromeo Cath- olic church ‘a few minutes before it was razed by the wind. It is sup- First Page.) o, killea by fal- oman and two uni- owned by overturn- on. Ohio river, A .)jh-ndu and rousta- by capizing of towboat . church service ral hours; rail- ffic seriously ‘and debris on by Minutes. itinued . for about Ing which Tain iding sheets. The ceased when ‘Dolice ; . patrols | called out by of “the . city, . greatest havoc . 'and Mound The tow- ~left Cincinnati ‘ghortly betdre k & pier of the bridge and sank. twenty-four men, eved to have been lant Prostrated. the Western =~ Union ¥ ‘on the fifteenth building was pros- were blown in, ad- in_such wvolume as rendering useless other equipment. A ensued among the was injured. rs_on the Penn- ‘were overturned at o of the cars con- ng horses, The g and many of them ired that they had - Dead.. -8.—Reports today rept area ‘of east- ‘western Illinois left ~at seven. Three per- “reported missing at ., the largest town in pased they perished. The church ;vouou built in 1862 yat a cost of .§100,- . The property damage in St. Charles alone, | it 18’ believed, will aggregate nearly a 'half millon dollars. The damage to wheat in St. Charles and St. Louis counties i ‘estimated at meore than $100,000. A dozen towns | in these counties, were isolated last night, as miles upon miles of tele- bhone and telegraph wires were on DIREGTORS UPHELD BY SUPREME GOURT New Haven Miu(;rity Stockholders $102,000,000 Suit Dismissed Boston, July 8.—A' suit of minority stockholders to recover $102,000,000 | from former and present directors of the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad, who were charged With responsibility for alleged improper ex- venditures of company funds, was dis- missed by the supreme court today. ‘Willlam G. Rockefeller, Lewis Casg Ledyard, James S. Elton and Charles 8. Mellen were among the defendants. Decision by Full Bench, The decision was handed down by the full bench and was on an appeal by the raflroad from a superior court decree enjoining the corporation from transferring stock standing in the names of the defendants, The full bench also had before it an appeal of the plaintiffs from a decree of Supreme Court Justice Hammond, dismissing the bill as against the estale of the late J. Plerpont Moérgan and other deceased : non-resident defen» dants. Judge Hammond had also de- creed that the bill could not be main- tained by the: plaintiffs, hor could it be. maintained if brought in the name of the corporation itself; that the plaintiffs as stockholders had ac- ‘Guiesced in some of the acts com- plained of and that the bill failed to show that the expenditures were made for an uphwtul purpose and that the company did not get turni value for what the directors expended. Rescript Accompanies Decision, In the Tescript ' accompanying ' to- day’s decision’ the court says; “The gllegations' of ‘the bill do not show 1casondble application to directors to institute . proceedings to recover. the losses referred to in' the bill nor facts showing that such application would Lave been useless.”. o i ‘ .In Béhalf Of Trustees. - ' The suit ‘was 'instituted’ in behalf of the trustees of thé will of Oled Bull Vaughn, and other minority stock- holders of the railroad. ¥ { The basis of the action dates back 10’1904, when, it is alleged William G. RockefeMer, Charles S. Mellen, D. Newton Barney, Willlam Skinner, George- McC. Miller and Robert W. Taft, directors, acting with J, Pier- pont . Morgan, Edwin Milner and I. De Ver ‘Warner, planned to - effect a monopoly of 'all the transportation companies operating' in New Eng- land. In acquiring properties meed- ed for that purpose there was paid out of the treasury, of the New. York, New Haven and Hartford . Railroad Company, a total of approximately $200,000,000. .The losses as the re- sult of the action of the directors, the plaintiffs say, are $46,000,000 on street railways; $16,000,000 in steam- ship enterprises; $22,000,000 on stock of ‘the Boston'and Maine, and $18,- 000,000 in the purchase of the New York, Westchester and Boston Rail- road—a total of $102,000,000. Triple Indemnity Claimed. At the time the suit was filed the plaintiffs claimed that wunder the Sherman Act they were entitled to recaver ' triple indemnity, or $306,- the ground a tangled mass. Business Section Flooded. * From St., Charles the tornado swerved across the Missouri and Miss- issippi rivers into Illinois. There it branched out, ending in cloudbursts at Rock Island and Mounds, near Cairo in the extreme Southern ' part. The 000,000. HOLCOMB NAMES CUTTING. Southington Man Appointed Dental Commyssioner by Governor. Hartford, July 8.—Almond J. Cut- ting of Sputhington 'has been ap- business sections of both these towns ‘were flooded. ‘ Three Killed at Indianapols. Indianapolis, Ind., July 8.—The wind and rain storm which swept cen~ tral and ' southern Indianiana lasi night caused three fatalities, many in- Jjuries and much property damage. Indianapolls, Brazil, Bicknell, Mar- tinsville, Terre Haute, Greencastle, Vincennes and Muncie felt the storm most. < At Vincennes a breyery and a furniture factory collapsed before the gale, and near Vincennes the farm home of Tom Riley was blown down and Riley’s daughter killed. . Silas Mellon, night engineer, was caught be- s neath the falling walls of the brewery and fataly inured. X Lighting Kills Prisoner. At Greencastle a prisoner in the state penal farm was killed by ligat~ ning while walking in a field. At Martinsville, Floyd Oakes, an electrician, was killed while repairing a broken wire. The storm knocked out the lighting system and left the city in darkness. Buried in Ruins of Barn. Bicknell, reported that houses were unroofed and trees ~were uprootea there. Several persons suffered minor injuries. Roy Chambers is said ' to have been buried beneath the ruins | of his barn. 5 Terre Haute and Muncie reported-no loss of life but much property dam- age. The village of Toad Hop, near Terre Haute, was under five feet «f water but all the resident were re- moved, s 1,000 Foot Land Slde. The Monon raliroad reported a 1,000 foot landslide over its tracks near Logan and a 400 féot washout near Ellettsville.’ Between Brazil and Terre Haute interurban line suffersa from washouts, and near Brazil Big Four and Vandalia railroads suffered delays from the same trouble. Rural sectlons detail damages to the corn crops and to wheat in the shock. 'PROS. AND CLERKS TO PLAY. The first Wednesday half holiday will be inaugurated next week with a baseball game between the Profes- .sional Men, captained by Dr. G. W. Dunn, and a team composed of clerks in the various stores. ' The game will pointed by Governor Holcomb a dens tal ‘commissioner for five years from July 1, 1915 to succeed Howard G. Provost of Winchester, ¥ The governor has approved the fol- lowing payments: $17,770 to Connect- icut Hospital for Insane, Midletown; $8,387 to American Scheol for Deaf, Hartford; $5,116 fo Mystic Oral school; $3,096 to Schol for Imbeciles; $4,811 to Conecticut Children’s Aid soclety; and to hospitals as follows: $2,600 each to Hartford, Bridgeport and St. Francis, (Hartford); $2,125 each to St. Raphaels of New Haven and St. Vincent’s, Bridgeport; $1.875 each to St. Mary’s, Waterbury, and Stamford; $1,250i{ each to Middlesex of Middletown, Waterbury and Mem- orial of New London; $1,000 each to Griffin of Derby; St. Joseph’s of Wil- limantic, and Day-Kimball of Put- nam; Meriden $750. COMPLAINS TO MAYOR. Rumor has it that a young man named Malarney yesterday Visited Mayor George A. Quigley 'to register a complaint against a prominent| member of the New Britain police de~ partment who he charged with insult- ing him. It is said that the young man’s charge is that while he 4tvas standing in' front of the police station with a large crowd after court yester- day: the police officer came out to dis- perse the crowd and told him to move on, at the same time applying an in- sulting name. LOVE LAUGHS AT SELECTMEN. Despite the fact that First Seleci~ man Gibney of Berlin refused to mar- ry them a couple of weeks ago, Mrs. Anna Paul and John Romanecryk, both of Beckley, heard the happy heard te happy words that made thenr one, as is shown by the return te ‘the city clerk’s office today of their marriage certificate. They were map- ried last Saturday by a local justice of the peace. Mrs. Paul is twice p widow and has eight children. NEW SECRETARY AT Y. W. C. A. Miss Clara Conger of New York has been chosen as house secretary au the Y. M. C. A, to succeed Miss Grace G. Baird, who was recently miarried to William Blair.. Miss Conger is a ' in all parts of the United States. 720\ some serf: e&'i"’.im of two. or more seeds envelo) e% in a prickly husk. CH UT: An old joke or wheeze. | Take your choice—either is cor- rect. Anyhow the world is not to languish for'want of chestnuts after Angu.st 25; American Press Humor- ists’ Day at’ the Panama-Pacific In- ternational Exposition. For on that day, their day, the newspaper joke- writers of the United States are go- ing fo plant and dedjcate to posterity an ial chestnut tree. ‘This unique ceremony is to be the formal purpose of their holiday jour- mey to San Francisco, their this [ROSS EXAMINATION | OF HARRY THAW Started by Counsel for State at His Sanity Trial New York, July 8.—Harry K. Thaw | had ineryed himself for a long and thorough cross examination by coun- sel for the state today in the sanity trial. - His direct testimony dealt only with events since his escape from the Matteawan Asylum, and counsel for the state expected to question him concerning hi§ entire career. The questioning of Thaw was expected tu oceupy the entire day. For the first time ‘since the hearing opened the court had ordered a night session tonight. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw, for whom the court had issued a writ of attach- ment, may ‘be called to the witness stand temarrow. Thaw's counsel had ended the cross examination of Mrs. Susan Merriil, Thaw’s former landlady in New York, when court adjourned yesterday. Thaw On Stand. Thaw when called to the stand af- firmed the: truth of the statement that he said he had no animosity against William Travers Jerome. Asked when he first learngd that any rich men were interested in keeping him in Matteawan, Thaw went into a lang Aescription of ‘the.examination alien- ists had given him in Matteawan in 1908, concluding that at a habeas corpus hearing at White Plains in 1912, on the question of his sanity there had “been considerable oppo- sition to him. He had been told, he said, that Jerome had derived financial support” to keep him in the institution and that newspaper arti- cles intimated it. Thaw addressed his testimony to the jury. He read from & newspaper a statement quot- ing Jerome as saying ‘‘certain peo- ple would be only too glad to have this fellow adjudged a lunatic.” Thaw was shown a letter and asked if he wrote it while staying in Con- cord, N.'H. Looking For Graft. “I wrote this letter and many oth- ers like 'it,” he said. “I found these correspondents were looking for 2 little graft and dropped them.” The letter was a request to a Mr. Cooper to use his influence with state senators and assemblymen not to as- sist Jerome and his friends. Thaw explained that he was conducting a publicity campaign in favor of his cause and that the letters were writ- ten in:furtherance of the campaign. Deputy Attorney General Cook then questioned Thaw about this campaign. Thaw produced a printed copy of | a petition in his favor, which he said had been signed by 400,000 persons The water department has finished | graduate of Normal school and also attended the University of North Da- be played at Walnut Hill park at 3 o'clock. \ kota. She has made a special study o | ot X, W. C. A, work. laying a six-inch water main into the | Vocatipnal High school. The depa }- | ment will clean out all watering troughs -tomorrow. = EXPOSITION CROWDS TO SEE FUN L 1x'ofi'7' MERRITT ¢# year’s outing, and is intended to make their thirteenth convention dis- tinctive. As far as is known nobody has ever planted a chestnut tree for the benefit of the whole world before. But the humorists decided it was high time something were done, what with the visible mpgly of -squirrel food becoming so depleted. e ex- osition landscape - gardeners, - John fcLaren, the :famous builder -of Golden Gate Park, and his. son, Donald ‘McLaren, have - reserved a fine young tree for the planting. The site chosen is at the Press Building. But this is only temporary. The tree is to become a gift to San Francisco for a tgerm-nem; place in one of its magnificent parks, where it can grow uninterruptedly and perpetuate a liberal harvest of chestnuts — both kinds. \ The chestnut tree ceremony will be TEUTONIC MARCH BROUGHT TO HALT (Continued from First Page.) infantry engagements. These excep- tions were between Fey-en-Haye and the Forest of LePretre, where two at- tacks on the part of the enemy were checked by us.” Italian Official Report. Rome, July 7, via Paris, July , 3:40 a. m.—The official statement issued tonight at the headquarters of the Italian general staff was as follows* “An attack against out position at Passo Di Campo in the Val D'Aone was repulsed with heavy loss. Bombard Austrian Positions. In Cadore, our heavy. artillery opened fire on the enemy's defensive works at Corte, in the upper valley of Cordevole. At La Tagliata anq Tresassi in Val Porta serious damage was dofie. “In Carnia we repulsed attacks against our positions at Passo Pram- isio. Monte Scharnitz and in the direc: tion of Val Grande. Capture 1400 Prisoners. “Combats continue on the Carmic plateau, where we are making slow but constant progress. Between July 4 and 7 we took 1,400 prisoners. “On the night of July 6 an Italian dirigible effectively “bombardedl the railroad junction north of Opoina (northeast of Triest.) “Aeroplanes dropped a number of bombs yesterday on the Austrian avaition field near Aisevissa, east of Gorizia, causing fires, and also on the railrgad station at Nabresina. Our aviators were obliged to alight but returned unharmed.” British Stores Destroyed, Berlin, July 8, by Wireless to Say- ville, N. Y.—Among the news items prepared by the Overseas News Agency today for distribution by wire- less telegraphy abroad were the fol- lowing: by German heavy artillery destroyed the main stores of the British troops, which now are greatly handicapped. The German gunfire has so far pre- vented the intended new grouping of French troops at Arras. The destruc- tion of the Cathedral at Arras is gen- erally regretted, Dr. Karl Helfferich, secretary of the imperial treasury, has invited the finance ministers of the several Ger- man states to attend a conference in Berlin lon July 10. Count Zeppelin Seventy-eight. ‘“Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin, who is 78 years old today, is in Tobust health and still ' superintends the building of dirigible balloons at the | Zeppelin works on Lake Constance, ‘“Advices from Athens say that King Constantine of Greece has called a royal council for July 15, at which ex- Premier Venizelos will be present. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES. The directors of the Mercantile bureau of the Chamber of Commerce held a meeting this morning with L. J. Parker, who is in this city, to estab- lish a credit system. Minor details pertaining to the plan were discussed ‘“The bombardment of Arras ! participated in by exposition officials and ierican - Press Humorists jointly, aided, abetted and approved by members of. the local press club, which has-several humorist members. Ted' Robinson of the Cleveland Pldin Dealer, president, wields the trusty , ‘while ‘Dixon ‘Merritt of the hville Tennesseean, .vice. presi- dent, steadies th; pretious -t” ng. g«rge Fitch: of - ent, author of “Good Old Siwash,” “Homeburg Memories” and ‘est Pocket Essays,” holds Robinson's coat 8o that tary Fred Schaefer of San Francisco doesn’t get i Schaefer in the meantime to hol Fitch so he doesn’t leave with the coat. Sufficient dignity will be lent the affair . Moulton of Grand Rapi the Central Press humorist, who doesn’t say much, but writes a “lot. at length.: It is expected that the work will be started next week. The directors of the Civic bureau will hold a.meeting tomorrow even- ing at 8 o’cloek and it is probablé that a partial report will be made on the ash and rubbish 'disposal proposition. Secretary Andrews is in receipt of a circular letter from. the government announcing the sale at auction of building sites at Polson, Montana, on July 26. & “DIME TO DAMNATION, PRICE OF A DRINK” Dan Morgan Smith, Judge Advocate “of Nlinols Tells Delogates at Antd- . Saloon League Convention. Atlantic City, N. J., July 8.—Dan Morgan Smith, judge advocate of the state of Illinois, who addressed the national convention of the Anti-sa- loon league today summed up in epi- gramatic form what he called “The Price of a Drink.” He said: “If the results of drinking were purely personal then the complaint of the ‘wets’ that the anti-liquor forces are trying to interfere with the personal liberty of drinkers, might carry with it some force, but drink is sold on the installment plan, first pay- ment is made when you get the drink, the others when the drink gets you. *“The greater part of the payments are made by those who do not drink. “The price of a drink ranges from a dime to damnation—the drinker pays the dime and humanity pays the damnation. “Enforcement of local or state pro- hibition depends upon the inclination, energy and honesty of local authori- ties, but you can make prohibition prohibjt—any one of you—by a per- sistent prosecution of those officials who fail to prosecute the violators of the dry law. “1f a judge is too wet to do his duty, make it so hot for him he will dry out. “It ‘often does more good, in' the enforcement of .liquor laws, to kick one crooked chief of police out of the police station than to bring many drunks into the police station.” Referring to employérs who have taken a stand against the drinking employe, he said: “There is ropm.on the water wagon for the employer as well as for the employe.” | ! City Items Philip Seibert Jr., is building , an eight-room cottage at Pine Orchard. White Rose camp will hold its. regular meeting this evening. There will be no meeting of Star of Good Will lodge, S. of B, thls evening, the meeting nights having been changed to the second fourth Mondays. 1 Miss Ethel Benz is recovering from three weeks' illness witn tonsilitis. Best of all “Red Dot” 5c cigar.— advt. % and Oflicers Elected at Annual Meeting of State Comymission of Fisheries and Game. lem."'a’fl”“t—m the annual meeting of the state commission of/ fisheries and game in the capitol to- day, these officers were elected: President—Wm. K. Mollan, Bridge- port. 1 Vice president—Fred N. Manross, Forestville. Secretary—C. H. Pease, Cansan. Superintendent—John M. Crampton, New Haven. Mr. Manross was the only mew of_- ficial elected, taking the place of K. Hart Mafimddfl who re- signed when elected to the general assembly last fall. QUARRYMAN DIES AT HOSPITAL: Patsy Salvators Recelves Terrible In- juries When Dynamite Explodes. As the result of a’ premature dyna- mite explosion at . the Connecticut Quarries plant at White Oak shortly after 2:30 o’'clock ' yesterday - Patey Salvatora of Plainville received in- jurles from which he died at the lo- cal hospital at’ 4.20 o'clock. The fu- neral was held this afternpon and in- w00 9 MOU QW) U] $EM JUSULIS etery. "‘;"hu:odhq man was twenty- # seven years old and is suryived by his wife and two children. Salvators was tamping in a heavy charge of dynamite when it exploded, the force of the explosiop driving & part of the heavy tamping stick through his neck, severing the jugu- lar vein’and mutilating the body'ter- He weas opérated on at the haspital by ‘Dr. Clifton M. Cooley, » but died shortly being taken from the operating réom. London, July 8, 1:20 p. m.—An Or-| der in qébllncfl'w gazet today prohibiting. the : exportation from Great Britain of ‘jute yarns, = jute plece goods, and .bpgs and sacks made of jute, to any -destination, w- fore the. prohibition only applied to certain Buropean ports. _(Providence Journal.) Three hundred thousand babies less - than one year old died in this coun- try last year; according to the United States Cenuus Buréas. What an indictment of our modern eivilization! A large proportion of the bables could have been saved if u}w had had proper care and nourishment, and it is t'e business of our twentieth cen~ tury society to see that these are sup- plied. o 5 Raw milk -alone is sald to cause twenty-five wotl.m of the deaths ot children under five years.of age, yet | uninstructed ‘mothérs go on feeding) the non-pasteurized fluid to their fm«) fants. at these lgnorant paremts: need is painstaking, rigorous teaching. | It we are té save and strengthen the coming generation we must equip the | generation that precedes it with a bet- ter kngwiedge of the principles of health. Bt IAC ¥ In sumimer, espécially, the lot of the small child in the temement is a hara one. People who bhave means to keep their own children jn comfort should be eager to help in the work of safegiiarding ‘the babigs of the S (Muskogee Qklohoman.) The Rey. Robert Van Meigs, pastor of the First Baptist church hare, raised $805 from’' =4 congregation, about 4,000 strang, wherewith to com« pensate Wvangelist B. G. bil. * He gave in return for each $25 donation® an exhibition: of agility. by leaping over the pulplt stand. Prior fo starting his meney-raisi campaign, the Rev.. Meigs prepar for rushing taetics, Ushers with pads of paper and pencil were stationed at various points on the floor, in order to lose no timié in ‘poting the namey and amounts &s they were announced. Then he went ihto ‘the pulpit minus his regulation blagk coat and with his shirt sleeves rolled above hisx elbows. “’ AL p “It will' - cost just $26 a throw to see me ‘leap over the Bible stand,” the Rev. Meiga detlared. When the first $25 subscriptioh ‘was announced the preacher’ guye A loud shout of joy, ran to the laid his hands upon it and, | pdiover iy after the manner of most #pproved athletics. Before the eve 's-task had been accomplished’ hephad repented this performance ing llke a scors of times. . “Go « Excellgnt ven to visitors to the Pana exposition when'they reach ace of Agrigh ture, There in large letters oft the west wall arg the words “Go East, Ygung Mah. The tide R Giobe.y vel for y inter- re shouid indeed be Science has ‘g0 taught DAR héow to, Amprbvemoll that p/ longer is 'there /complaint that Me land is worn oy Indeed, th @8 been u b ' o during the ;::,m; de! m A western far- mers a/e seeking itic coast states where the grazis satisfactory for cattle, Ner Englan easy, terms markably a spetial country, farmen tion. rms are selling on being improved re. year. of fact, there is no for agriculture in this y, for gelence pas enabled “make money in every sec. his: 18 very ‘grafifying. A 1 Which - Keeps, up Jts agricul. #8 in no danger of