New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1923, Page 1

NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 TWO NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1f U.S. BALLOONISTS KILLED WHEN STOKES SCANDAL IS LIGHTNING STRIKES S-6; MAKES FIVE TAKING QUEER TURN FATALITIES IN INTERNATIONAL RACE Spanishand Swiss Balloons [:llllRT ROOM IN SOBS Also Hit By Bolts and| As MRS WAR" TMKS :I::i:p;):::h‘flwled s slmpllbeflch Women Spectators 1 K Join Her in Weeping at Trial American Navy Entry A.| 6699 Safe—Army Bag, st, WIFE TELLS HER ~STORY| Louis, Bursts Before Walter 8, Ward was called lo lhr‘ Start of Race. witness stand today by the prosect ' | tion to testify in the trial of N husband charged with murder in the | first degree of Clarence Peters of Haverhill, Mass, Sobs on the Stand, There was a hush over the crowd- | ed court room when the defendant's’ | wife, dressed In a blue Jersey dress | trimmed with white cuffs and collar and wearing a small dark t* “an hat that afforded a clear vie r,' her | features, went to the v She sobbed us she sat in .. ':'q‘ when the questloning be, ) & her eyes with her small h and tried to smile, N The way for her entrance I paved by previous witnesses wu tified that they had played cards her, her mother, other relatives a. Injuries so serious that he may die | friends of the family on the night were received by Gomez Guillamon, |that Peters was killed. These wit- ' assistant to Barca in the Polar. | nesses had agreed that they had not‘ Two Reported as Safe seen Ward at his home between §| I'he balloons, the U avy A-6699 | o'clock that evening and a half hour| and the Fernande 111, a I'rench ent after midnight when they left. [ piloted by G. Blanchet, were the only | Saw Husband at 4 Or 5 A, M. ones reported up to noon today as| Still sobbing but withal trying to| having landed safely, | smile, Mrs. Ward calmly answered her | Fear for Others | questioner, She said that the first In view of the terrific storm \_\'hl(-h i she saw her husband on the night of broke out half an hour' after theé 'f\fit\thc killing was between 4 and balloon took off and which was raging o'clock in the morning when he en- over northrn Belgium and Holland | tered her room and awakened her. and the neighboring North Sea waters| Angwering her husband's attorneys, until 10 o'clock last night, fears are|gne tegtified that it was possible for entertalned for the safety of the ten|yper puchand to have been Home | :ft"lolgl':l:lsl:":t 75 l‘Pfla"“L'f;‘e’"h h;{:‘:‘;“ earlier and for her not to have heard i g N s him until he came into her room. Picard France. DeMuyter and sy o Vi { Veentra, balloon Belgica, Belgium; | \\'l{\;l}\:edv‘l;l:‘;dn}’r:; :‘; ‘?gt)e e‘)’:lan‘i’tlolg | PDunville and Spencer, England. Arm- Hed th PARR VR brister and Plcard, Switzerland. De- | Féplied that he did. Justice Wagner > 3 upheld the contention of the defense lasierra ‘:l“" “‘“g‘l'_""““" oAl | that Mrs. Ward could not he called 8/ N ne rac X ¥ | 1'1m"(z;l|n‘:iu\|:‘or Dlhm'-,m].irusxols Aerg | WPOn to testify what her hushand! clbb appalled by the catastrophe, &4 said to her. | point out that they had advocated | k:g&:h‘"s explanation Emsf«c!orr’"J postponement of the race, but found | &9 he prosecutor, that the rules were absolutely inflex-| “'Yes” she replied. | | Speaks Very Low. | ible, ‘They will propose changes to overcome this difficulty in future.| Mrs. Ward was, apparently nom-! Many members however, favor can-| posed as she parried the interroga- celling the competition altogether. tion but her voice was so soft that| The third American entrant in the i her answers were almost inaudible to, race, the balloon Saint lLouis, never|the spectators who leaned forward n|, took the air, bursting before the|their chairs to catch every word, At! start from the ptessure of her anchor | times her answers were so low when rope. [she was questioned by Attorney Gen. | nohig | Sherman that the court clerk had to! repeat them for the stenographer| and the jury. | Still suppressing her sobs, Mrs. | Ward testified that when the first grand jury began the investigation of | the killing of Peters, after it had been | announced her husband was impli- cated she went to Bermuda. After| ~ho had been there some weeks, she \~. id, she cabled her husband to know if she could not come home to get the children and go to some other re- sort. This was arranged she added, and she took the children to .m.mm White Plains, N, Y., Sept, By The Assoclat Brussels, cluding two 1 nltcd States army lieu- | tenants, lost their lives, another was scriously injured and five balloons | were smashed on the ground or de- stroyed by lightning in the James| Gordon Bennett cup race started yes- terday under the most adverse " weather conditions experienced in the history of the competition, The dead are: Those Who Were Killed, Lieut. Olmstead and Licut Choptaw of the United States army Balloon 8-6. Lieut, von Gruningen and Lieut, Wehren of the Swiss balloon Geneva. Penaranda Barca, of the Spanish Lalloon Polar. % | | Js Third, ¢ The Assoclated 1 B’B“;-‘uswls, Sept. 24.--United Stal('s army balloon 8-6 cowmpeting in the | Gordon Bennett international race was struck by lightning last evening and Licuts. Olmstead and Choptaw, her occupants, were killed, This was the third balloon that met with acci dent since the race hegan yesterday. Pive aeronauts have been killed. Other Balloon Is Safe. United States navy balloon A- hG’\fli has landed at Putten, Holland, near| the Zuyder Zee. Lieuts, lawrence cyp. and lioirh:\'_l(:‘xfi!. comprising her| g the questions of the attorney i | general she answered that she re club of Brussels officially announced . o oriniving ';v‘m(vu;:..‘nx‘;::t (l:ml‘v‘\“n podad which her hushand now is heing tried Bywies O Nurned. Swits Craft Bu Other Women Sob Too The Swiss balloon Geneva was| TS » ainec giruck by lightning near Reverloo and | 0 “.‘\dr:’,, r';:“”“r: m,"”"' witne: burned in mid-air at an altitude of | 5 minutes and when she re- 1,000 feet. Peasants who ran to nw‘:“;‘;‘"d"”h“‘“:‘“';I"“‘” behind her hus spot found the dead bodies of Lieut, | she was shaking nervously. Re von Gruningen and Lieut. Wehren, | (0T she sat down she looked fixedly ¢ Spanish Tragedy Too. into his eyes and then buried her face The Spanish balloon Polar also !N her handkerchief and sobbed and caught fire from a bolt and fell near | PI¥: In a moment sympathetic sobs He Goor. Her p”m Penaranda | 0114 be heard from women acattered all over the court room | | (Continued on "‘wemh Page) Helps Wife to Chair The staff of defense attorneys rnsai Em— to their feet when Attorney Gen. Sherman first summoned Mrs, \Vflr-i\ | to the chair but they interposed no| | objection. Her husband, the defend | ant also got to his feet, and assisting | { her around behind the jury box and | | to the witness stand where he gently | 2% | helped her to her seat | | With an air of pathos, she squirmead | Spanish Ba"f’omSt Tells nf[ahnm a minute, muffled ‘her sobs in Bag Being Struck by | her handkerchief, leaned forward and | Lightning (Continued on Third Page). Arrested for holatmg State Antomobile Laws Alex McIntyre of Bristol was ar- rested by Policeman John Carlson to Malines, Belgium, Sept. 24.—Gomez Guillamon, of the Spanish balloon Po- lar which crashed here late yesterday | while competing in the James Gordon Bennett cup race, had sufficiently rv-"‘!.“ on a charge of operating a mo- covered from his injuries today to tell| tor vehicie without an operator's 1i the story of the accident. Guillamon,| cense. Elias Johnson of Fast Hamp- who is under treatment in the Malines | ton was notified today by Sergeant| hospital, sald the Polar was struck by | Willlam P. McCue to be in polica/ lightning while at an altitude of 3500 | court tomorrow to answer to a charge | 1t had only a few seconds pre-| Of passing a standing trolley car on| escaped crashing to the| West Main street yesterday at 12:40! ground. Penaranda Barca, the other | 0'clock. occupant, threw two bags of sand| . | overboard and the balloon shot up| HEAVY CRIMINAL DOCKET | right into the teeth of the storm. | New Haven, Sept. 24.—One of the | Then came the lightning bolt which | heaviest criminal dockets in thé rec set the bag on fire. It burned speed- [ord of this court will be presented to ily with the exception of the lower|Judge Jennings when he opens the part, which was of siower combus-|New Haven superior court tomorrow tion and acted as a parachute. Guill-| While there are no homicides likely | amon jumped when the basket was|to bring a trial of fire degrce murder | 100 feet above the ground and land- |there are eases which may require ed in a soft, bush swamp. Both his|long jury trials. The lower Nauga tegs were broken. Barca was killed | tuck valley liquor raid cases are on by the lightaing bolt. ‘me list. feet viously 0‘7"3 ’ Ilback on the Red and Gold eleven, "{ 09 zh:- “Herald” today that Coach | | his position as assistant | last year | angular league Murtha | High | accrue through | cording to the young man | would | the athlete who s considered by the | game by quitting the squad Thursday | nople quotes an | stating that | seaplane entered for the | sea near Portsmouth today A, STOCKHOLDERS VOTE. ON §13600 BOND 15U Pavorable Vote Passed At Meeting This Aft Run For 50 Years, Btockholders of Traut & Hine Mfg Co,, at & meeting this afternoon, voted favorably on a recommendation of the directors that the company issue honds to the value of $225,000, The bonds will run for a term of 50 years, 14 MURTHA SAYS CASSIDY ASHED HIM TO FLUNK l-ormcr H S Foothall Star| Makes Charge Against | Coach ! George (“Battler") Murtha, captain of the New Britain High school foot- ball team in 1921 and for two wum; o M. Cassidy of the High school | sggested to him last year that " his studies so that he| ~aduate in June, and| g % . to school this year to| ¢ foowoall; that he ‘assured lht'\ former captain that he would have no| need to worry for spending money; | that he (Cassidy) would arrange matters so that Murtha would rece h< the Burns \lcmon.,.l award in 1924; that Cassidy tried to control the elec- | tion of a captain; that when he re-| tused to deny statements made to the | “Herald"” by present and former pld}-\ ers he was summarily dropped from | coach, but| was later asked to return. | Murtha said from his observations| of Bil McCue's playing both as a member of the team on which Mec- Cue displayed his abilities and as an | | assistant coach of this vear's gquad, he was convinced that Cassidy did not give the elected leader of this year's squad, who has now resigned because of difficulties with Cassidy, a fair opportunity to represent the school on the gridiron. The former Red and | 'Gold leader said Johnny Grip and Henry Zehver are good men in the backfield and he feels they have earned places; but that McCue is | cqually as good, if not better than either Gerokowski or Walker. Murtha told the story of Cassidy's ) alleged proposition to several alumni of the High school today and indig- nation was expressed at the reported action. The former player claims he was approached about Christmas time by the coach and the sug- gestion wi made that he fail in English for the remainder of the year. IFailure to pass this subject would have made it impossible for the school | to graduate Murtha, He was presi- | dent of his class and had he followed the suggestion which he .says was made, it would have been necessar; for someone else to act in that ca- pacity. Under the rules of the tri- was eligible with the | to play one more season school team. When Murtha spurned the suggestion, the coach, lw‘. says, offered to go to Mrs. Murtha, and explain the benefits that would such an action, ex- pressing a belief that Murtha had not hed the heights in football that it him to attain, ac- rea was possible for The Burns Memorial award which Murtha says was assured him if he| “flunk'™ and return, was estab- lished in memory of the late William Burns, considered by many the best all-around athlete that ever wore the High school colors, Each year administration having done the most for the school on the athletic fields and who has maintained good | marks in studies has his name in- scribed on the memorial shield. Relative to the ¢ of MeCue, | which resulted in his resignation as captain on the ground that he v diseriminated against, and which | followed by the resignation of Ed- ward “Pat’’ O'Brien, a speedy half- | back, and that of Donald McGuire, a promising end who cast aside a | chance to break into last Saturday’'s | | | Col | Six Witesses Fail fo Identily % Wile as Nolorlous Woman ADMIT HUSBAND'S PLOTTING | Wife of Wealthy New Yorker, Seek ing Divorce, Visits Lawyer's Office at 240 a. m, to be Confronted by Those Who Had Slandered her, Chicago, Sept. 24,—Mra. Helen ¥ wood Btokes, whose divoree suit is pending in New York, faced six per sons early today in the office of Charles E. Wharton, assistabt state attorney, who is investigating Mrs Stokes' charge that her husband has sought to defame her charactor by affidavits obtained here, and defied 923 —~FOURTEEN PAGES, PRICE THREE C Six Face Murder Charge Based On atal Beating Given Davidowicz Geo of Hartford Manufacturers’ Assn. (Consensus of Opinion Given »Socm“ PEOPLE IN FATAL L. C. C. Is That New Eng- land Favors Storrow Plan, Though Some Modifications. MOORE IS OPPOSED, POTEET IN FAVOR Boston, Sept, 24.—Three members the interstate commerce commis- slon were here today to conduct & hearing on the proposed consolida- tion of New England railroads. Wide- spread interest in the hearing has heen shown throughout this section and in addition to railroad officials | representatives were present to give [ | mitted the views of state and city chambers of comimerce and other commercial organizations, The discussion was vxpoc!.nl to re- around the r“poll recently sub- to the governors of the New states by the joint New volve England England railroad committee favoring| a consolidation into a single system of the New | the exception of the .Boston and Al- them to identity her as a former in-, mate of a notorious “club™ in the old Chicago tenderloin. None of the wit- nesses could identify Mrs. Stokes as having resided at the club. | Yaces Her Accusers. When Mrs. Stokes with her attor- ney, and Mrs. Ann Miserva of Denver, appeared at the county building | at 2:30 a. m. it was announced ghe had come to face those who had]| signed affidavits at the the instance| of W. E. D. Stokes, the wealthy ho-| tel owner, that Mr Stokes was| known in Chicago's night life prior to her marriage. Later Mr. Wharton, who previously had been quoted as having said the prosecutors were meeting difficulty in W, E. D, STOKES bany, the Central Vermont and the New England lines of the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific. The | report also submitted plans for the| rehabilitation of the N. Y., H. and thé Boston and Maine. The | Maine and New Hampshire members of the committee opposed any form of consolidation at the the New Hampshire members tion proved necessary be with the trunk lines. Those in Charge. The commissioners in charge of the hearing are Chairman Henry Hall, Frederick I. Cox and Joseph B. Iast- man. Thomas P. for the commission, Governors Present Wher the hearing was opened Gov- ernor Cox of Mass., Klynn of Rhode Island, Brown of New Hampshire and Templeton of Conn., were present. President James H. Hustis of the Boston and Maine railroad represent- ed his road and James J. Storrow chairman of the joint New England railroad committee was on hand. The hearing was started with a brief address by Governor Cox who formally presented the joint commit- tee's report, Mass, Is In Favor “The pecple of this state,” he said, “art vitally interestd in this ques- tion. The people feel that their in- terests will be better served by a con- solidation of New England lines than hy the formation of relations with the outside trunk lines. We ought to have a system sym- pathetic to our needs and directed by our own men."” Rhode Island Partly Agrees' Governor Flynn said that Rhode Island was definitely In favor of a New kngland congolidation for trunk line consolidation. “Personally,” he added "I would be behind consolidation as indicated in the storrow report.” Governor Brown referred to the dissenting report mad by tHe New Hampshire members of the joint com mittee and continued “New Hampshire people want ade quate and efficfent service. No struc ture uniess financially sound can give such service." New Hampshire's View He said that the committee had found the two major systems in New England be financially weak and he opposed their financial rehabilita- tion and merger with the other New England roads proposed in the committee's report. He questioned whether sta d wounld place the Boston and Maine and the N N H. and H. railroads on their Fears High Rates ‘As to New Hampshire,” he added to as To feet said they | evidence, obtaining definite were “‘progressing.’ against Cassidy, Murtha claims that Cassidy took an active part in the campaign to defeat his| | election. Murtha claims that Cassidy | called him into his office and tried to | urge upon him to vote for Walker, who was MeCue's rival for the cap- taincy. He also claims that other in protest “The new evidence changes whole thing,"" Wharton said. Confesses To Conspivacy. has been obtained | Lee, negro special | deputy cheriff, that he had been| employed to get the affidavits, Mr.| Wharton and policement said adding| that they found in l.ee's possession | Ihfli A from confession Robert E members of the team were similarly (« ‘ontinued on ‘[‘hird Page) S TO WITHDRAW London, Sept. 24-—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Constanti- Angora message = as the Turkish government bas decided to press for the' with { drawal from tha straits of the flotilia | of American torpedo boats stationed at Constantinople and that Adnan | Bey, the nationalist representative in WANT U | Constantinople had made representa- tions to tha United States high com- missioner here. | AMERICAN PLANE WRECKED, Sept. 24.—The American | severith an-| Schneider | into the| during a wrecked. up un- London, for the fell competition September nual cup on 2 trial flight and was totally The ogeupants were picked | I hurt. i | er, | Stokes had a note dated August “hought six affi-| davits.” . Lee, nouncement, ployed by counsel last July, together a taxicab driver, and John Scott, waiters “It was explained to dence was wanted to show that Mra | &n the club,” Lee was quoted as having told Wharton, to Wharton's an had been em for Mr, Stokes with Joe Rrun and John Rogers according said he us that evi been inmate of (Continuad on Twelfth Page). WEATHER o Hartford, Sept —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair, continued mild tonight and Tuesday: gentle northwest winds. i W rstam o i s THE 1 Frp— | | | | i * | northern “n my opinion there is the gravest | doubt as to the possibility of passing state legislation for the state proposed. 1 have no fear of absentee management the closing of the gateways, Rut 1 have fear rates The people of consolidation against state or XXX prefar of excessive New England with the trunk lines aid." Prof. Wm. Z Ripley university asked Governor he appreciated that the result of nw consolidation might be that the out side trunk lines which would absorb as Brown England railroads with | 1(]‘ Desire H. und‘ present time, | ex-| pressing the belief that if consolida-| later it should | Healy is examiner | | through the guard rail of a bridge | and not | | | | head-on f Architect in Aus [married CRASH, LIQUOR IN ONE CAR| Thomas Fortune Ryan's Granddaugh- ter Badly Hurt—lowis Norrie, Princeton Athlete, & Kileld, New York, Sept, 24~—Miss Adele Ryan, daughter of John Barry Run. und grapddaughter of Thomas For- tune Hyan, was in & eritical condi- tion today at the Long Branch, N, J., hospital, the victim of an automo- blle crash early Sunday morning at Asbury Park which cost the lfe of Lewis Gordon Norrle, Princeton hock- star, and son of Mr. and Mrs. A, Gordon Norrie of New York. Strict secrecy was maintained by hospital authorities, They declined to detail the names of others of the party who were hurt. Norrie and his friends in two au- tomobiles, according to police, were speeding to his aun home at Red Bank, N. J., from a roadhouse at 3 o'clock Sunday morning when Norrle's car, which was preceding, collided with an automobile driven by Isador Orbatel of Newark, demol- ishing both cars. The second car in the Norrie party did not stop and the injured lay for five minutes in a driv- ing rain before they extricated each other. They were taken to the hos- pital in a passing car. Chief of Police White, of Neptune| | township, said there was liquor in one | of the Norrie party cars. THREE ARE ELECTROCUTED Auto Goes Over Road Onto Third Rail Hazleton. Pa.—Train Then Mangles Victims' Bodies. Near Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 24.——Two wom- €n and a man were electrocuted last night between this city and Wilkes- Rarre when their motor car crashed | over the Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton | electric raftlway. A fourth ocoupant of the car was seriously injured. The machine struck the third rail | when it landed on the right of way. A few minutes later an electtric car crashed into the wrecked automobile cutting two of the victims’ bodies in half. The injured man give his name was Wilkes-Barre hospital. The dead are: | Delores 8. Angiuleano, | of Thomas Angiuleano, vice-president of the Planters Peanut Co. Dorothy Hogan and Robert Kemmerer, all of Wilkes-Barre, - H.S. GIRL MURDERED J., Child Found who declined to removed to a N. Body of Millville, in Woods—Had Been Missing Since September 13. | Millvitle, N. J., Sept. 24—One or more arrests in connection with the slaying of 1d-year-old Kmma Dickson { the hig? the skull day in a woods near her home at Brickboro were promised today by Cumberland county authorities. Coroner Frank Carroll said he had found nothing to indicate been attacked before being beaten to death. He said the girl apparently had been killed shortly after she dis appeared on September 13 Former Local Girl to Wed Announcement has been here of the engagement of Miss Mar- Ruell, tormerly of this city, now Melhourne, Australia, to Leslie M. of Melbourne. Miss Buell in to visit her - brother, Francisco, after which to Australia and be ian of Porrott, tends shortly Roy, in San she will return Buell is the late Mr, and Mrs, R. N city, Mr. Buell having in Melbourne on New Mr, Perrott ls an architect Australian city and was formerly en {gaged in his prnnumn in Boston Miss Buell of this died suddenly Year's day in the stSincvars ( anadmn Steamer Floated Miss Ryan’s injuries or give daughter | school girl whose body with | crushed, was found Satur- | she had | ralia| received | daughter of the | rge T Knnball Addt Appl'OVIl Woods Presses First De- gree Warrant Against Men Said to Have Been Involved inIOnn(e St. | Brawl [Lawyers Get Court’s Per- mission to Speak to Clients—Case Adjourned | to Thursday—All Held | Without Bonds. | Says That Her Husband Gave Satis« ixplanation for Late Home« Peters Met His factory coming on Night | Death. Joseph Migatz of 96 Cleveland street, Stanley Budnick of 72 Orange street, Austin Zawalick of 78 Grove street, Tony Ceru- lick of 18 Gold street, Edmund Lipitz of 32 North street and | Edward Potash of 72 Grove street entered pleas of not guilty when arraigned before Judge B. W. Alling in police court this morning, charged with first de- gree murder as the result of the | death of Frank Davidowicz, age |35 years, of 72 Booth street at the New Britain General hospi- tal yesterday, following an at- tack on him at an early hour in the morning by several young men on Orange street. At the request of Prosecutor Joseph G. Woods, presenting the state's case, the cases were continued until Thursday morn- ing, the men being held without {bonds. Attorney William F. Mangan represents Joseph Migatz and - Attorney - Saul P, askowitz represents Budnik and Potash. The other men were without counsel at court this morning. Lawyers Barred From Clients Preceding court today the attorneys for the accused men were denied per- mission by Prosecutor Woods to see their clients who were locked up at police headquarters. At the opening of court Attorney Mangan asked | Judge Alling for permission to see his client as well as for Mr. Waskowitz to see his men. Prosecutors Woods objected on the ground that a ‘want- ed an invesdtigation, which was being conducted in the affair, completed be- fore counsel for the accused were able to talk with their clients. The matter was deferred for the tin.e being but during a recess at a later hour Judge Alling, granted Messrs. Mangan and ‘Waskowitz the right to see thelr clients. Woods May Reduce Charge | All availahle space in the court room was occupied this morning by friends of the six young men, who | were desirous of knowing what their Although the men are | arraigned on a charge of first degree | murder, Prosecutor Woods in speak- | fate would be, Y ling to a representative of the “Her- jald” this moening stated that the charge might be lessened when the hearing is held Thursday. He would not say on what charge the men will then be arraigned. | Migatz, Budnik and Potash were | originally charged with murder when arrested by the police, Lipitz wae first | booked on a hreach of peace charge and Zawalick and Cerulick were held as material witnesses. The arvests were made by Detective Sergeant Wil liam P. McCue, Sergeants Michael Flynn, Patrick MecAvay, Policemen Thomas Feeney, Patrick O'Mara, John C.'Stadler and Anthony Milewski. Of | the men under arrest Migatz and Lip- itz are the only two holding previous police records Migatz was arrested | on May 5. 1913, on a charge of burg- [lary and at that time bound over to the superior court at Hartford. Lip- itz has been arrested twice on chargea of breach of the peace. Found Unconscious in Road | According to the pelice Davidowicz | had spent Saturday night at the home | of relatives on Orange street where Ihe had imbibed freely in drinking. | Farly Sunday morning he started on : | After Going Aground Today {Rie AT umy Wiok I TN N the New England roads might not be | weaker trunk lines, eration Conn. Vitally Interested Transportation in Connecticut,” said Governor Templeton, “means life or death to its factories, especially those making brass 1 endorse the | committee’s report as governor and as a small business man Do not con- sider trunk line consolidation. 1t means higher cost transportation. The freight shippers can get a better ! figure if he has the choice of ship- ping lines. New England men have the brains and the and can take care of themselves.™ From Little Vermont. Comings of Vermont, repre- said the of money H C senting Governor Procter, (Continued on Third Page) Montreal, Sept. 24 After being | aground three hours and a half the | Richelien of the Canada Steamship | | the strongest but perhaps some of the | Co. was floated at 8:30 o'clock this! § ey Governor Rrown | said he had taken this into consid- | rence and waited for the dense fog t0 | ing, morning at Port Neuf on the §t. Law clear before proceeding. T. R. En | derby operating manager of the com- pany said the steamer went aground at low tide when it anchored becaude of the dense fog Several Villages Razed In Persian barthquuke Fy The Associated Press. Teheran, Persia, Sept. 24 Several villages in the vicinity of Bujnnrd are reported to have been destroyed, with casualtics as far as known of 123 dead and about 100 iWjured, in the earth- quake which shook the region last| Thursday, say dispatches reaching here. The shocks are continuing. Damage is also reported in the dis- | trict of Shirvan. | aistance from his relative's | Within a comparatively few moments after 11® had started on his way homa |he was found uncenscious, his skull his clothes torn and his face bearing marks of a severe beat- in the read in front of 113 | Orange street The police were notified and he was removed to the hospital by Officer G. W. Hellberg at about 1:40 o'clock. At |2:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon he | died, the fracture of the skull caus- \nz his death Had Argument i Restaurant Sergeant Patrick MecAvay and Po- liceman Thomas Feeney were detailed to investigate Davidowicz's beating af- ter he had been attended to and |tearned that he had stopped at the restaurant conducted by Mrs, Stella | Doble at #13 Orange street, to pur- chase a loaY of bread. From what the police have learned there wers geven or eight young men in the place (Continued on Ele\-e'!l Page.),