Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 11, 1909, Page 1

an investigation. . Amoy, China, June 40.—Thare small riot yesterday between soldiers during a reiigious aochow. killed ang three were Demands Investigation of Insfiécfifon System at Louis Packing Houses ONE OF BAND WHO HAVE TERRC LONG ISLAND. stice Ga. York city of j&\;bhl and juggling of transit securi- IS DISGUSTED WITH CONDITIONS 'St. Paul Despatches Indicated that J. J. Hill plans to merge his railroad Colorado and Constantinople, June 10.—The porte has requested Great Britain, France, Russia and Ttaly, the protecting pow- ers of the island of Crete, to recon- sider their decision te evacuate this territory July 31 next. ' London, June 10.—~The Meadow Brook (Long Island) polo u?fm had a walk away,victory in the first match played today for the Ranelagh open cup tour. They defeated’ “The Tiger 14 to 1, but their opponents were a weak lot and counted only one first class player on the team. Mmuvmm ; The Misses Townsend and Their Guest Miss ' Halsey, Stabbed— Shrieks Awoke Neighbors, Surgeons of the American Quarantine service in Porto Rico have arrived in Caracas, Venezuela, to study bubo! plague condition. Annie St-?lm, 14 Years Old, told how she had et the two little caughters of 4 Hoboken banker rob him and turn the money over to her. ner Bingham of New York said he would not resign if the mayor ordered - him to take Duffy’'s picture from the rogues’ gallery. \ J. F. Harms, Resigning After Eighteen Months’ Service ' as Inspector, Writes a Letter to Secretary of Agricul- ture Wilson—No Animus Prompts His Letter—Asserts that the Label “United States Inspected and Passed” is Mnnhgl'ou Because of Inadequacy of Inspection. New York, Jume 10—Miss Ada sister - Bessie of Townsend and Oyster Bay, who come of one of the oldest and best known familieg in New | York, and their guest, Miss Kitty Hal- sey, of Great Neck, are in the hospital tonight as the result of an encounter with a masked burglar, a member of the band of automobile house-breakers, the activities of whom have long terrorized Heard Intruder in Hall.” Miss Ada Townsend heard the in- truder moving in the hall and grap She was stabbed in’ Rome, June 10.—The ceremonies in connection , with the golden jubilee of the American college in Rome were cclitinued here today with a grand ban- quet 1 tha refectory of the college, which was decorated with flowers and American and papal! flags. dents of the college rendered music during the»banquet, and toasts to the pope, Mongignor Kennedy, rector of the istitution, and the college of cardinals were proposed. 3 Pt DR Despatches from Toulon Say that the cruiser Conde communicated by wireless telephone to shore stations more than 1060 miles away. re not uncormmon, because the du- z:l.ot gho chief inspector called for decisiong in matters of doubt.* “Many of the other charges, I am sure, cannot be true’” said Dr, Clan- “He has mot complained to me decisions nor to my assist- illiam H, Meadors. We are ready to be investigated any time.” Condemned- Beef Goes to Packers. Another excerpt from Harms’ letter to Secretary Wilson says: “To illustrate, on April 1,71¢09, Drs. St. Louis, June 10.—After eighteen months' service 8s meat inspector in East St. Louis pack- ing houses, J. F. Harms has resigned, he says, writing a letter to Secretary James vzn':n, de; manding an investigation o e meal inspection systém at the mnational stock yards. Inspecter in Charge Too &cnf-m. Harms, who has gome to his home {n Fremont, Ohio, asserts that he re- a United States Long Island. Julia McCarthy, 14 Years Old, told the police two men kidnapped her and handed her over to a woman accom- piice, from whom she escaped. pled with himx and thrown fainting. The scuffle woke her sister, Bessie, who flew to her aid and was stabbed twice i the breast. Miss Hal- first .tried the tele- American Financiers, backed by the government, served notice on foreign capitalists and governments that they Shriners’ Session Ended. Louisville, Ky., June 10.—Nobles of ~In Bad Position WRECKERS STAND BY READY TO TAKE OFF CREW., #3 f Among Them Thirty American Tour- ists—Spanish Liner Ashore Un Fire Island=-Struck Wednesday Night. \ New York, June 10.—Without a rpis- hap the 26 passengers of the Spafish liner Antonio Lopez, which went ashore® in the *fog last night off Fire Island, on one of the most dreaded stretches of the North Atlantic coast, reached New York tonight.The cabin passengers, 102 in number, were allow- ed to go ashore at once, while those in the steerage were placed in care of the immigration autorities at Ellis Is- land. Lies Broadside to the Sea. The Lopez lay tonight in a bad posi- tion, broadside to the sea. Bevera! ef- foris were made during the day by the wrecking tugs to drag her from the sand; but all were unsuccessful. While the ship appeared tonight to be in no immediate danger of going to pleces, .| the wreckers lay alongside, prepared ecause he could not tolerate and that the inspector in charge of ithe bureau of -a dustry was too lenient with the Mystic Shrine ended their 35th an- Graham and Stingley retained and mean to share in Chinese loans. condemned eleven beef carcasses for On April 2 Drs. Clancey and Meadors released gix of sald car- casses to the packers. five were tanked and destroyed. “On the morning of April 2 I was in & cooler and the packing company suverintendent came m. When his at- tention was called to the elaven car- carses he said: ‘Yes, thay are a bad lot and had.I heen o the floor last even- ing I would not have let them coine Adcewn, but woull have sent them to the phone and finding the wires cut, joined The Russian Douma Adopted the in- cRarging Dr, president of the League of the Russian The remainin e, People, with organizing political mur- SARY CELEBRATION 250th ANNIVER Meaningless. He declared that no animus prom t- Asserting that “b;nl d States inspected and passed” as it ap- ears on products of all the packing ouses is meaningless because of the fnadequacy of the inspection, Harms, in his letter says: The ex-Inspector’s Story. “The inspection stoek yards, Iilinoie, is costi e spproximately $100,000 a year, and i not actually worth § For whem the word is passed from the inspector In charge to the imspec- tors actually dofng work on the floors that they are getsing The Fiftieth Anniversary of the opening of the port of Yokohama it was, announced, will be celebrated with an expenditure ed his letter. Founding of Norwich, July 5th and 6th ————e e — in the fray. It Was Learned That the American Sugar Refining company had agreed to pa# the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining 750,000 in cash, for the $1,250.000 eancel the debt in scttlement $20,000,000 suit. ABSOLUTE CASE AGAINST BLACK HAND SUSPECTS. Postal Officials Regret Release of Two Men on Bonds. nual session tenight in the mazes of' appointéd dance at the First regiment armory._ Business was completed yesterday and today was al- lotted by the Shriners Some of the red-fezzed members’ be- today, but the real hegira will begin tomorrow when trains and cars for all over North America will start homeward. The burglar felled her with blows on the head from a jimmy, but the second sister, Bessie. returned- to the attack despite her wounds and forced the desperado to take flight. Burglar” Abandoned His Machine. aroused by “Men holding good positions with ihe packers see and know these th'ngs and acknowledged they were wroag. I have ' in a dying killing beds a gorgepusly to pleasure. draggéd into the marked ‘U. . Inspectsd and. ['assed’ Filth in Sausage Departments. “8,me of the filthirst things imaz- inable are practiced in the'sausage de- partments, such us using bladdera for casings without thorough washing or of fi'thy tripe tausage, the use of s:imy hog stom- achs for casings or contamers, vsing of meats that have fallen on the floor and are taken up and used without any pretence of clearing. Such Stuff Good Enough for Consumers “These are all permiited by those ir. If an inspector calls their at- tention to any of the wrongs, he is told, as T was, that-the people who sat =vch stuff are too lazy to prepare anjy - thing else for themselves and ought to have such stuff. 2 7,000 Pounds Sour Meats Released for leaving the the shrieks of the young women, rushed to the reccue, but too late to effect a cap- The burglar's auto; found abandoned nearby. too many €on- and to change the that the whole thing s a farce. Mr Secretary, the packers today from 70 to 80 per ought to be eondemned 7|0blle was BATTLE-SCARRED o CONFEDERATE VETERANS SHOT HERSELF IN LONDON, FACTS WERE SUPPRESSED. Mary Agnes O'Brien Ruiz, Divorced from Cuban Diplomat. June 10.—With men suspected of being members of the Black Hand society Tumble Over Each Other to Shake the Hand of Gen. Fred Grant at Mem- phis Reunion. = or destroyed. Use Olive Oil for Shortening. —— sewer in the floor, the sewer out- ne and said lard tak- joor and out of the of which were unclean And your doctors pass- to the packers t?hv.lr r}‘he pro& test of the inmspector on thal oor an it went to the pubMc marked “U. S. fnspeoted and passed.” Lax Inspection. eited several nees of lax inspection, declaring at comdemned by ¥ leased to the packers by higher officials regret the reiease on bonds of Sam Lima of and Sevarce Ventola of Co- Lima’'s bond was Toledo at $3.000 and Ventola's at Co- lumbus at $5,000. Now that Lima Is out of prison, the inspectors believe that it will be diffi- s father, his brother and run into an Memphis, Tenn zled demonstration of welcome by the men in gray for the son of the man who defeated them marked the final June 10.—A fren- London, June 10.—According to the statements published in papers today, the London Agnes O'Brien was divorced a year ago from Antonio M. Ruiz a Cuban diplo- mat, and whose name was. mentioned in conmection divorce case of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, committed suicide in her home in Gros- venor street on May 16, by shooting. The newspapers.also say that an in- quest was held on May 1 the facts in the case were s 1ot quiskly bdloci en up from the ot i scene Of the anuual United Confederate Veterans today. In the reviewing stand during thé rade stood Gen, Frederick Dent Grant of the .United States army. . 'alry division appreached and its com- manding officer, old and grizzled, peer- ed steadily.at General Grant a mo- Then he turned in his saddle “Come on, vou kids, here's rome to life again in reunion of the., prominently cuit to find h ‘a third suspett who fled from Marion when the first arrest was made, Lima returned to Mariop today and is re- informed his®fugitive “1 will give you another instance that happened elsewhere. . spector in the department held scm 6.000 or 7,000 pounds of cured meats fc beirg sour, and, mind you, four or five other inspectors were called in, and they all pronounced the Your Dr. Meadors released it to the comrades by secret emissaries of the plans to arrest them, Inspector Oldfield declined to make public- any of the threatening letters which have been translated by the in- sub-inspectors and the affair is now being investi- veneral Grant Mrs Ruiz came to London last Apr'l, and, with an Miss Caney, too a furnished house, where sh» haq numerou ing the early part of May she became ill. ‘With an old-time rebel yell the di- vision charged e Many of the Charges Denied. Chiet Inspector Clancy, the charges, asserted tahni such onses '~ the stand and tlhie men jostled one another for an ep- portunity to shake the hand of the son of their old-time enemy. moment every eray-clad veteran who could reac¢h the stand rushed up to do the evidence upon which is based the case against the men now under arrest. have an absolute case” “The evidence is in the handwriting of the accused and there are no missing links in the chain which * binds On May 16 Miss Caney heard a shot In Mrs. Ruiz’s room, and on entering found the patient lying in bed with a bullet wound in her breast and a revolver by her side. slan was summoned, GOLD MEDALS PRESENTED Inspeator Oldfield. TO THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. Congratulations of the American Peo- ple to the American Aviators. $#OUSE REJECTS THE TEACHERS’ PENSION BILL. Bill Opposed as an Affront to Teachers —Others Spoke in Favor. Hartford, June 19.—In the house to- v the unfaverable report on the bill pension school teachers was taken om the foot of the calendar. Mr. Chandler said he did not per- onally favor the bill, but recognized hat the teachers are nnderpaid. Other v army officer’s grey eyes and his shoulders shook with emotion as He murmured: “God bless you all. boys.” Battle-torn flags were grouped at his feet and waved over his head in more than one veteran, tears at the thought of what an amica- ble situation had grown out of a bit- but Mrs. Ruiz MISSING TRUNK FOUND, CONTENTS'IN PAWN SHOP Was Stolen fr;m D:bury Railroad Men Arrested. INCOME TAX AMENDMENT.™ ‘Washington, June 10.—The appre:ia- tion, good will and congratulations of the Ametican people were manifesied to Wilbur and Orville. Wright, the American aviators, today by the pres ident of the United States. I'he ocrasion was the presentation of old medats awarded to the Wright ers by tha Aero ciub of America to commemorate the conquest of the In the presence of ‘i1lemats, the members of the cabi net, noted scientists Another Effort Looking to a Coalition Begins in Senate. Station—Two Washington, June 10.—Encouraged bv what is interpreted as a weakening of the opposition of an amendment, another effort toward a coalition between republicans and democrats wa: in"‘the senate tomight. The programme outlined is that Sen- ator Bailey shall tax amendment and “that a motion to amend shall be made by Mr. Cummins to reduce the proposed tax from 3 to 2 per cent., and to include a provision for a tax upon the income of corpora- It is said that Mr. Bailey will accept both of these changes and that of those who favor an income tax will unite on the amended measure. ‘The outcome is uncertain, but the in- dlecations point, it is'said, to the refer- ole subject to the judi- with instructions to The parade over, the reunion ended, and veterans' special trains began to leave the city. . The ball of the sponsors, maids and matrons tonight was the one big so- cial event of the reunion. P i T L BT Danbugy, Conn., June 10.—The dis- trunk oontaining clothing and jewelry worth $500 was cleared up today when John Puchera and John Burcuak were arrested and the stolen goods were found at their homé on River street. The trunk, which belonged to Mrs. E. B. Booth of New from the baggage room of the railroad on Mav 23 and 1o trace of the trunk was found until to- day, when a part of the fewelry was in a pawn shon and the thefts traced to the two men arrest- The .men clalm that they went to and presented a income 1ax ates have a pension syabem and those get the best teachers of Con- Dectiout, while the standard -of teachers working in the towns of Cou- necticut has low “progressive” d Guring tlie Connectieut s a recru gtate for the schools of other ‘state: A pension system might Induce the best teachers to remain T.eading industries pension their em- ployes; why should not the-state pen- #1101 its teachers?” Mr. Fuller of Tolla and prominen’| negTRUCTIVE HAIL STORM, VIRGINIA VEGETATION RUINED. Hail Drifted in—Ravino to the Depth of “Two Feet. aercrants and aviators the two inven.- crs of the first successful flying ma- chine heavier than air recelved the Connegticut, first publie recognition of their achievc- ments from their fellow countrymen. President Taft-in handing the med- als to thae brothers, expressed kean ad- miration for their work. He ventnred the belief that their flying machine will be the basis for the aerial craft d spoke in oppo- engion system. Mr. Marsh rd spoke eamnectly in Buchanan, Va., June 10.—The neigh- borhood of Collierstown * county, twelve miles west of Lexing- ted by the most destruc- tive hai] storm ever known in that section late yesterday. For a distance length and more than a half a mile vegetation ~was - totally de- stroyed. Wheat, corn and garden veg- etables were driven to the éarth. Hail drifted in ravines to the depth of two Farms were absolutely ruined. all the soil being washed from the uplands. the baggage room check for a trunk and were given the one belonging .to Mrs. will be given a trfal tomorrow, ton, was vi and he made the prophecy that the dawn of the age of flight is here. The ‘Wrights were introduced to the presi- Mr. Tomlinson said it was in tha in- t of good business to make it an inducement to the teachers to stay in “We are making teach- for other states to hire away from NEW AMUSEMENT PIER AT LONG BEACH, L. I Will Extend Half a Mile ence of the w ciary comm report to the next session. dent by, Representative Parsong, who ten " Milleg 11k graised their personal qualifications. Miss Catherine Wright, sister of the aeroplanists. accompanied her brothers Comnecticut. u: : Mr. Higgins opposed the bill as an affront 0 the teéachers. was warmly applauded. mith of Milford said B9 per cent. of our children in our publie schools are taught-to read and write wrong. The ecducational institutions rtate have been ‘We should give Whitla Family Want None of $15,000 Reward. Sharon, Pa., June 10.—In a state- iven to the Associated Press to- ames P. Whitla, father of Willie Whitla, and Frank Buhl, uncle of the kidnapped boy, anneunce they do not want to be reimbursed for money ex- pended in the recovery of Willie. The impression was given from Mer- cer, Pa., that Whitla and Buhl expect- ed to get over $3,000 of the $15,000 re- ward offered by the state of Pennsyl- vania for the arrest and conviction of the abductor and was quite as much lidnized. feet or more. g New York, June 10.—Contracts were by Frederic Thompson and John L. De Saulles, which call for the immediate construction at Beach, Long Island, of the longest and most pretentious amusement pier ever Associated with Mr. Thompson are a number of U. S. STEEL CO. PRESIDENT IN AUTO ACCIDENT. William E. Corey and Party Thrown Out on Freneh Road. signed today Prominent New Haven Financier Dead. Nashua, N. H,, 'June 10.—George F. Andrews, president of the railroad and a prominent financier and business man of this city, died today at the age of 71 years. had heen president of the railroad but two weeks having been elected to fill caused by the death of General Charles H. Burns of Wiiton. Mr. Andrews Nashua Savings bank when that insti- tution failed with many others in 1895. lected for politics. teaehers good wages and let them take care of the Palaisean, France, June 10.—An au- tomobile, in whieh William E. Corey. president of the United States Steel corporation, his wife and a friend were became unmanageable? 4nd Mr, De Saulles prominent capitalists who are saii to have subscribed $1,200,000 to defray cost of construction. Engineers wio have been called in consultation have reported that it is entirely feasible to build the pier one-half mile into the quéstion of pensions. Mr. Ogden said we cannot pa:s this oill in justice to the public servants Not one young girl in a thousand goex irto school teaching to make a life business of it as a makeshift un*il t comes along; Mr. Andrews of the state. driving today, All three were thrown out, and Mrs. Corey escaped with a few Their friend was more se- riously hurt. The third occupant of the automobile was M. Gadilleau, man- ager of Mr, Corey's estate here. was conveyed to stretcher and on examination by physician showed that he had been The accident was T ASREST o Funeral of Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale Next Sunday. then ‘she takes a better treasurer of “That’s what God Almighty made The tegchers will go where they oan get the better wages while they are teaching. Mr. Ogden was fre- quently !uterrupted with applause. Mr. Homphrey of Roxbury opposed pension idea, but favored better structure will be a convention hall ca- pable of seating 5,000 people. MARCH OF OVER 100,000 SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN Reviewed by Vice lent Sherman. Boston, June 10.—It was announced late tonight that the funeral of the Reyv. Dr. Edward Everett Hale will be the chateau on a Two Earth Shocks at Messina. Congregational church on Sunday at 2 p. m. officiating clergyman will be Rev. Ed-, ward Cummings, Hale as pastor of the church, and Rev. James De Normandie, paStor of the shocks were felt here today with an of about six minutes.. first schock was slight, ond had strong undulatory movement and lasted eleven seconds. ulace was greatly frightened and hun- dreds of persons ran out of the build- ings. Several walls collapsed, but no one was injured. seriously. injured, due to the skidding of the machine. “Joan of Arc” at Harvard Stadium. New York, June 10.—From present indications the audience that will as- semble in the stadium university on the night of June 22 to witness Maude Adams’ performance of “Joan of Arc” will bé the largest and most distinguished brought together for a’ theatrical per- formance on American soil. tra sections have been added to the already enormous stadium,. 80 that 15,500 persons will have plates in the immense amphi- The previous question was moved by who succeeded Dr. Mr. Smith, and so ordered. was then put to vote and rejected. New York, June 1 dred thousand Sunday school children marched through the streets of Brook- lyn in a parade, reviewed James S. Sherman, Charles E. Hughes' and other notable The occasion was the <celebration of the Brooklyn Sunday School union, an or- ganization composed of all the Prot- estant Sunday schools of the union, and while the weather conditions were anything but auspicious the event was 'by far the most successful of its kind ever held here. BRIBERY CHARGED ON PART OF DEMOCRATS In Connection With Recent Election at South Kingstown, R. I —Over one hun- First church, of Roxbury. will be at Forest Hills cemetery, Francis J. Heney Nominated for Dis- trict Attorney. San Francisco, June 10.—Francis -J. Heney was' nominated for distriet at- torney today by the Demecratic club, representing one fac- tion of the democratic party. Mr, He- ney accepted the nomination, though in politics, he said, he was a “Roose- velt republican.” The nomination - of Heney for the same office 18 now under consideration by the Municipal League of Independ- ent RepubMcan Clubs. Excavation During May on Panama Fund for Disabled and Aged Physicians N. J., June 10.—The the American gathering ever this afternoon, Washington, June 10.—May's record | oth anniversary San Francisco of exycavation on the Panama canai, houge of dele; Medical association voted its support »™on a project for setting aside a fund for disabled and. aged physicians establishment of sanitarium for doctors attacked with The next convention will 2,896,095 cubic yards, was the smallest for any one month during the past vear, though it exceeded the exaca- ‘tion for the corresponding period of capacity of last year by 193,198 cubic wards. reduced@ output is attributed to fewer Railroad Merger Denied. working days and heavy rainfall. St. Paul, Minn., June 10.—Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern b T L L Greenhouse Completed. The erection of a new greenhouse has been completed on the grounds of of Mrs. William C. Lanman on Wash- ington street. Gardener B Beasley has begun the nlanting of it. U. P. Train Raced With Waterspbut. Cheyenne, Wyo., Pacific westbound Wallingford Weman Commits Suicide. ‘Wallingford, Coun.. June 10.—Mrs. Hattie B. Stevens, 44 year old\ com- mitted sulclde at her home, on, Center street, today, by hanging. Neighhors found Mrs. Stevens' body hanging by & rope from & ventilating pipe in the attlc at her home. She was married and leaves four chlldren. Domestic troubles are supposed to have caused her to take her life. report today , chairman of the Great Northern board of directors, had found way to merge into a single corpora- tion the Great Northern, Northern Pa- cific, Burlington and the Colorado & Southern railroads charter provisio China and Japan fast mail train raced four miles with a waterspout today near Paxton, Neb., and barely missed the course of the deluge, which tore out a section' of track a few seconds after the had passed. South Kingstown, Four warrants charging bribery served today Jr., a police constable, by Sheriff Jihn Wilcox: of Washington i claimed by John G of the republicin tov by Roland Hazard, wh candidate for preside council, and who on June 1, bribery on the part of, democrats. Four negroes are atieged in the warrgnts to have been Wibed hy Teargee. — under the broad s of the last-named Trudeawd classic experiment. points n 5 1 the right direction. lating a number of rabbits with tuber- culosls, be confined a number of them indoors and turned the others outdoors. ‘The latter all recovered, while the for- mer all died.—Medical Record. ESSCLIE. s Sy 7S . After inecu- Bobby Waltham in Paris Race. —Bobby Walthour, the American bicycle rider, tonight won a “4fty kilometre motor paced race in 41 minutes 2 1-5 second: . The state of Sao Paulo is more than half the size of Germany and has scarcely 2,000 inhabitants, W tlvanl{l:dbeuflcmmre fully dwelo;i:d woul capable of supdrting 000.000 inhabitants . Clark, chairman 1 committes, s was republican Pittsfield to Troy Pittsfleld, Mass,, for the Adirondacks w rain weighting ¢ drenching the Paris, June 10. Steamship Arrivals. La Lorraine, wn the gas bag and, defeated in the Wpants, William Van Sleete, pilot of the Pittsfleld, brought his balloon to a landing in the open of Albany county, four miles west of The two Methodist conferences in Germany arve raising 350 a year ‘or ? ‘fl;ej‘m !: -louml‘ lumilslonal’—y_ p&:s ers, print literature in ‘bie, 1':‘- Wative and other !: June 9, Duca Di Genova, engzgemsnt preseat to take off the crew in case a change in the wind should threaten their safe- ty. If the wind dies down the wreek- ers hope to save the vessel, Passengers, Mail and Baggage Trans- ferred. JThe transfer of the passengers, mall and baggage was effected this after- noon without aecident. The last per- sons to be taken off were about thirty Americans returning from a tour of Spain. The Lopez, a steel ship, 430 feet in length, with 3,091 net tonnage, wemt aground at 9.30 o'clock last night. “BLACK HAND” WRITTEN IN LETTERS OF BLOOD On Wrappings of Bundle Containing Dismembered Body. New York, June 10.—The dismember- ed body of a man, with the head miss- ing, was found by the police here to- night neatly done up in two bundles of brown paper and black oiled cloth. The bundles hdd been left in the charge of a small boy by a stranger who had promised him five cents to watch them unt{l he came back. The officers’ at- tention was attracted by the sniffing and snarling of a small Chinese ter- njer. The bundles were taken to the near- est station house. . On the wrappings was written in letters of red three inches high: “Black Hand.” There were four stab wounds in the chest of the body, two of which would have been immediately fatal | TELEPHONE NIGHT RATES BiLl Flat Rate of 15 Cents for 5 Minutes— Hearing at Hartford. Hartford, June 10.—A hearing was held this afternoon before the judiciary committee on what is known as the “telephone night rates bll,” which seeks to establish a flat rate of 15 cents for five minutes’ conversation anywhere in the state after the hour of 8 p. m, and until 6 p. m. This was favored by Representatives Chandler of Rocky Hill, Johnson of Newtown and several others. Officials of the telephone company said that the night rates had been abolished all over the country, except in Connecti- cut, entirely, and that in this stete It was found necessary to male the hour 10 o'clock in order not to have a con- gestion of traffic, as it was ehown that the traffic s heaviest between the hours of 6 p. m. and § p. m. of any hours of the day. Severel of the speakers in favor of the change made complimentary remarks. regarding the general service of the company. An- other argument advanced by the com- pany was that it is very difficult to get good telephone girls for night work, It is probable. the judiciary committee will report the bill unfa- vorably. Frem intimations made b officials of the corporations there will probably soon be changes in rates in certain parts of the state where the public shows dissatisfaction, as seon as the rates can be arranged by the company. It was further shown that the company's rates in this state are sery much lower for toll line cails than in any other state in the country. THE COTTON SCHEDULE. Connecticut -Manufacturers Object te It as Passed by the Senate. (8pecial to The Bulletin,) Washington, June 10.—The cottom schedule as passed by the senate is causing a great deal of trouble, and Connecticut manufacturers are object- ing it it, The corset manufacturers especially "are opposed to the Increased rates of finer cotton cloths. They claim that the specific rates of the senats bill will Increase the rates of the house bill gmd the Dingley bill, and beyond anything asked for by the cotton man- ufacturers. They do not object to the house bill, which provided for ad va- lorem rates, and they are urging ths (‘onnecticut members to fight for tha house provision. Senators Bulkeley and Rrandegee voted for the rates in the Aldrich hill, while the house members voted for the Payne bill, The struggie will of course come in the committee on_conference. On the other hand, manufacturers of cotton yarns are greatly pleased at the senate nates. J. R. Montgomery of Windsor Locks, a prominent manufuc- turer of cotton yarnshes been In Wash- ington for several days, looking after the cotton gchedule, and he expressed himself as greatly pleased .with the senate changes. He is especially in- terested in mercerized cotton yarn, and wants the house conferees to agree to the senate change. A. D. Coffin of Windsor Locks is an- other Connecticut manufacturer now in Washington. He is interested in the paper schadule, which will prébably be taken up this week. Mr, Cofin wants certain increases on high grade paper, ATTACKED éY UNION PICKETS. Fierce Free for All Fight With Non- Union Seamen at Erie. Erie, Pa., Jupe 10.—While a dozen non-union seamen were being taken te bhoats in the harbor here tonight they were attacked, it 1s alleged, by pickeis on duty for the uunion seamen. A fierce free for all fight resulted and over 1,000 speclators were allracted to the scene, One of the plekets Is a leged to have drawn a revolver. A by- stander attempted to take it from him and during the tudsie the revolver wae discharged, wounding Frank ki a spectator, in the right leg. " A num- ber of other persons were™ ‘slightly. Several arrests were made.