Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1910, Page 1

A Gain of $27,860,352.37 in the Bl.nk!ing Transacti The Thrift of 1909 Shown i 1909 A PROSPEROUS YEAR of the Year. Transactions of the National banks weqr -8 93,801,986.60 94,708,884 58 112/363,274.65 126,000,764.42 118.159,156.11 184,291,737.40 150,051,397.10 139.231.740.70 118,703,474.30 147/569,826.67 HEAD OF A WHITE MAN FOUND IN TRASH BUCKET In One of the Large Office Buildings of Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga, Dec. 31.—The head of a white man, evidently freshly cut from | sons were killed and 45 were injured the body, was found tod: bucket in the Prudential city. There is no clue to dentity. The head was found by a ter as he emptied the trash human face roll into view and with a in a trasa uilding, one | the large office structures of the the man’s megro por- can saw a yell he dropped the bucket and ran. The head was meatly severed, -the flesh clean cut and the bones sawed. A deep wound was found in the back of the head, as If a portion of the skull had been blown away with a gun. The victim was about 28 years of age. The finding of a human in a bucket in the basement of an office | building here today created mutch ex- citement.and the police at first thouzht they had on their hands a .murder mystery. It developed that the head had been used in one of the medicai offices in_the building and kad been siven to the janitor, with orders that vuried. NEW YORK’S WHITE SLAVE Some Part. TRAFFIC. | Recent Charges Made Substantiated New York, Dec. 3L—The charges made and vigorously denied during the recent municipel campaign of a whole- sale white slave traffic in this city were in some part substantiated toda: by Joseph C. Gravour, a probation of- ficer, in the court of special sessions. Gravour declared on the witness stand that an investigation he made showed that a centralizel group of men took possession of two hundred flats, be- tween the middle of the city and Har- fem. for immoral pi urposes. Many Polish servants, he said, were enticed, and if the inducement {0 live 1ife was not sufficient, a was performed. the e GIFT OF TC YALE UNIVERSITY By Mrs. Russell Sage to Secure the Hillhouse Property. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 31.—An- ouncement is made at Yale tonight an offer miversitr - 4 Mrs. Russell Sage to the a gift of $650,000 to be for the purpose of meeting the ire cost of [~ as the Hlilhouse ¥ A meeting of the Yale w1l be held Jan 10, at Mrs. cepted. Securing ‘the thirt head of Fillhouse avenue, Sachem wood estate of s uary which timo Sage's offer will be formally ac- ation MRS, 1..CE SUFFERING FROM FROZEN FEET. Trylng Experience When Driven from Home by Fire—insurance Paid. Mrs, WiBem Ince, who with her husbend W wiven outdoors in her nightclothes when their home in Lis- ®on burned to the ground Thursday night, was sufferh Friday. but she 15 being ©y her relatives and mo lasti from frozen feet cared for ing effects #re feared from her exposure to the severs cold. She was able to walk Friday. Mr. Ince, who was il Thurs- day =7d did not come down to his woodyard in this city as usual, was weak Friday from the effects of his exposurs and excitement of chilling the night before. He around to do much Friday aid not get as among sther things he was looking around for an outit of clothes for himself =nd his wife to replace those lost in ihe fire. Mrs. Ince was carried first to the home of a meighbor named McDon- nelly, and later taken in a sleigh to the Lome of Mr. and Mrs. Jo ohn Spen- -er in Lisbon, who are relatives, and Mr. and Mrs. Ince are no their home with them. The insurance agent _vi ruins Friday morning and w ‘n paying to Mr. Ince the $1.500 w making sited as prompt =hich the place was insured. WATCH PARTY BY LODGE OSCAR Carried Out in True Swedish Fash- ion in Foresters’ Hall. Lodge Oscar, No. 30, Order of Vasa, saw the old year out in true Swedish fashion on Friday evening ers hall in Forest- ith a special Christmas par- for its members and friends, who were present to the number of more than 200, Among them were Miss | Frieda Johnson of Montville and Miss e Johnson of Wilimant upper was served by a committee cofjsisting of Mrs. John Lindroth, Mrs. ittee and . Anderson & Benson thel sadership of Emanucl re were also Swadish ehiy The committee Valentine Pearso: 21 Engdabl and L. New Year Plans. is_in charge of car's afternoon, from 230 to and coffee are to the committec. members. Misg Je Anderson, Mrs. L. Anderson, Amy Valin_ The welcome for evening was cor€ialls given by the the pro- included fine selections by orchestra, micely rendered vocal selections By \he Harmony Singing society, under Anderson, mes and g for the children. futnishing a enjoyable evening for all in charge Adolph C. W. Pearson, Carl Pear- Anderson, :tainment commitiee of the the plans when the will be open for members ani & oclock. be served. (chairman), Dr. Clar- Henry Woodmansee, 3. and Clarence Mes- club is to observe New ‘open house during the re. Luel e Wallace and | The above figures are a _revelation, for they show the ups and downs of business in Norwich during the past ten years. The increase between 1905 @nd 1506 was less by many millions than between 1807 and 190S, vet the transactions of 1906 were about two and one-half millions greater than in 1909, a part of which is accounted for by_the comstruction of the Norwich & Westerly trolley line. The increase of nearly twenty-eight millions the past year, shows that 1909 was high line in money transactions. ROCK ISLAND TRAIN DERAILED AND PARTIALLY BURNED Tourist Car and Sleeper Went Over Embankment—Three Lives Lost. Trenton, Mo., Dec. 31.—Three per- | today by the derailing and partial burning of a westbound Rock Island passenger trajn south of Trenton. The wreck is thought to have been caused by spreading rails while the train was running at high speed, the | locomotive and tender plunging over a five-foot _embankment, ds two baggae cars, a mail car, a tourist car and a standard sleeping car with them. Another sleeping car and an observa- tion car remained on the track. While passengers in the wrecked | cars were struggling to escape from the debris, fire started from the fire- box. The splintered cars burned rap- | idly and the three slain passengers | were partly burned. Scores of persons were rescued as .the flames were scorching their clothing or burning their flesh, David Siegel of Cleveland, O., was | held by the wreckage for 'an hour | while the fire burned Wi a few feet of him. The rescuers carrled wa- | ter from the tender and kept the fire | from reaching him. Eventually he was rescued, although he may lose an rm. Heroic rescues were numerous. | Unharmed men and women who es- caped from the upset cars by kicking out windows and breaking down doors, | rushed into the burning wreckage to rescue the less fortunate passengers. TOTAL SALES OF RED CROSS STAMPS. Canvassers Disposed of 67,307, Misa Annie Doyle Making the Largest sal Final reports of the result of the three weeks’ sales of Red Cross stamps Dby the yousg ladies of the Haile elub, who were stationed in several of the | stores, are in and show the fine zoral of 40,202 disposed of in this way. To this number can be added 17,105 scid by Edward S. Lawler the special can- vasser, making a grand total of 67.507 stamps sold by these special solicitors. Not all the young ladies who wors | the neat uniform of the Red Cross were able to be on duty for the full three weeks, so that the number of stamos sold by Individuals varles, but Miss Annie Doyle, who was at the Boston Store, leads the list with 11,791 This big_total gave the Boston Store the ! lead also as the best place to sell tr.e stamps, as Miss Nellfe Foley and Miss Doyle together disposed of 18,751. Miss Foiey was not able to be there the fuil time. At the postoffice the stamps were on sale by the Red Cross young women only for the last three days b-fore Christmas, but 600 were sold there. The following is the way the stamps ol n Store: Miss Nellie Fo- Annie Doyle 11,791 At & Mitchell's, Miss Grace Jackson 5,398, Miss May Houldcoft 7.- 063. At Cranston & Co.s, Miss Muy Freeman 5,680. At Noves & Davis' (one week), Miss Ella Kirby 2,710, At postoffice (three days), Miss Ella Kirby and Miss Nellie Foley 600. By Bdward S. Lawler, special canvasser, 17,105. This carnest work will put a larse sum into the treasury for the tubercu- losis camp fund. RED CROSS WHIST. Twenty-Four Tables Played — Prize Winners at Bridge and Whist. An afternoon of whist for the benefit of the Red Rross tuberculosis camp fund was carried out to great success Friday by Mrs. Frank L. Farrell. The | object enlisted enthuslastic support for Mrs. Farrell in her effort to add to the fund, the Haile club contributing its |rooras for the whist from 3 to 6 | o'cloci. | Twenty—four tables played in the| all and there were six tables of bridge | !in the reading room. Flowers for some | of the prizes ang also_for sale were all contributed by Mrs. William C. Lan- | man, consisting of beautiful reses, pots of begonias, lilies of the valley and | freezias. Tea and cake were served after the ‘whist, Mrs. James Sheridan and Miss Ellen Murphy pouring, assisted by the Misses Doyle, Jean Jackson, Henrietia ‘fl\d‘well. Grace Jackson and E. Camilla Eldred, the latter wearing Red Cross costumes, Assisting Mrs. Farrell in the bridge room were Miss Effie McGee and Miss Theresa Steiner, and in the whist room Mrs. P. J. Cassidy and Miss | Sadie rown. Miss Grace S. Benjamin and Miss Susan I. Gallup also assisted in the scoring. ‘The prizes at the bridge were taken |as follows: First, Miss Mary E. Mullen, | & pot of begoni second, Mrs. Edward | Kirby, a cut gl dish contributed by Mrs. . McNanama; third, Mrs. Noah Rogers, a pot of lilies of the valley. In the whist room the following received the prizes: First, Mrs. L. R. Noyes of New London, a pot of béegonias; sec ond, Mrs, P. H. Harriman, a hand- painted bonbon dish contributed by |John Corcoran: third, Miss Georget Comeau,_ a pot of lilies of the valle: fourth, Miss Magner, an Irish lace | the Industrial | biil of particulars was granted “Cabled Paragraphs Pua France, Dec. $1—Paul Tiewan- dier fiew over the city today in a bi- plane in the course of an attempt to break teh record for height. He failed to make a new mark. 3 London, Dec. 31—Mipuel Concha, Colombian minister to France and Spain, has arrived here. He is said to have o special mission in the rais- ing of teh loan Initiated by President Reyes. London, Dec. 31.—Contrary to cus- tom, no list of political honors will mark the coming new vear. Had-the usual practice been foliowed, jPremier Asquith scarcely could have escaped the elevation to the peerage of some of his staunch supportersfl and in view of the present denunciatory attitude of the radicals toward the upper house it was considered apparently to be in- consistent to add to its numbers. CIVIL SUPERIOR COURT ADJOURNS WITHOUT DATE Number of Short Calendar Matters Disposed of and Three Divorces Granted. The November term of the civil su- perior court came to a close here about 2.30 o'clock Friday afternoon, when it ! was adjourned without date. and much business has been accomplished dur- ing the session, which lasted 22 days. There were twenty matters on the short calendar list, but eight of them went off, In the case of Geraps vs. Goldstein et al, judgment of foreclos- ure was given for the sum of $1,086.75 and the time for redemption set as the third Monday in January. Judg- ment in accordance with the opinion of the supreme court was given in the case of B A Sherman Sons Co. va. an Monday of February and the succeed- ing day. Judgment was given in the case of Norman vs. Gray and the time fixed as the first Monday in May. A bond of $756 was ordered in two weeks in the case of Couture vs. St. Onge. In the case of Goudreau, admx., vs. the Connecticut company, a motion that the non-sult be set aside was argued and the judge took the papers. In the case of Williams vs. Will- jams, the motion that the mon-suit be set aside and the case reétored to the docket was granted, on compliance with the origihal order in two weeks. Permission to file a substitute com- plaint in the case of Weber vs. Gatter was was allowed and the complaint filed. ‘ A motion 1o cite in a new party co- defendant was granted nisi in the case of the Washington Trust company Vs. the Norwich and Westerly Railway company. b The motion to erase in the case o Flaherty vs. Tracy was argued, and denied by Judge Reed. Divorce Case: On the grounds of desertion, Maggle Mattatall of Groton was given a di- vorge from Claude Mattatall of parts unknown. They were married in Bath, | Me., June 20, 1900, laicr moving o Groton. Three years ago the husband two children. worked at but_wher: deserted the wife and He went to Fall River and his trade as a blacksmith. e is now is not known. Mrs. Mat tall_supports her family by worki He drank to excess. Her maiden name was Downing. Several testified in her behalf. Edgar J. Standish of en @ divorce from whose whereabouts alem was giv- Standish, nown, on the grounds of d hev were married in Colchester 9, 1901, her maiden name peing Bdith M. White. Mr. Standish testified that his wife left him over three years ago and went to Boston. He saw her arter that and tried to have hes come oack, but she ! lone to liv- He found out said she preferred living ing with him in Salem. that, she loved another, a man who lived near them in Lebinon, and they but they made separated for a while up again. Mrs Standish love for the neighbor in one letter. Several testified for Mr. Standish. A divorce was given John E. Beetham of Norwich from Maisy Brook Beetham alias Susie Brook Beetham, for deser- tion, They were married Oct. 16, 1902, in New York and came here to live. After a month Mr. Beetham went to South Africa to see his folks, leaving his daughter by his first wife with his second wife and providing them wi plenty of money. When he return his wife had gone. He found her 1 Olneyville, living with another She promised to come back, but Later she was found sick in the Backus hospital, having been arrested with George A. Woodward for adulters, but being sick was sent to hospital She escaped and has not been found since. She was under arr 0 the hospital and it was understood that after her escape she went to England. Several testified in his behalf. The file was shown In which it appeared that Woodward skipped his bond on the charge of adultery. A judgment according to the sworn in the case of J. L. Benard of this city vs. the International Mining company. A claim for $1,900 for material and board was made. In the Segar case the quash was granted. In all about eighty cases have been disposed of during the term Pleased the Court Officials. Having anticipated the closing of the motion to court, Clerk G. E. Parsons had his costs ready for approval by Judge Reed, which was done, and the court officials received their checks on F day. This is unusual, as it often takes weeks to get the costs figured out. The thoughtfulness of the clerk was greatly appreciated by the employes. Broke Left Leg. Mrs. Sheéa of No. 389 Central ave- nue silpped and fell on Bast Broad street on Friday evening, breaking her left leg. She was taken in a carriage to her home in Greeneville, where Dr. Donohue reduced the frac- ::.\re She will be laid up for some ime. In the City Court. The continued case against Edward Moore came up in the eity court on Friday merning and at the request of crocheted dofly contributed by Mrs. William H. Shields; fifty, Mrs. R. M. Powers, a fancy dresden picture con- tributed by Mrs. F. L. Farrell. Several awards of potted plants do- nated by Mrs. Lanman were made with the assistance of four little girls, who were Georget Comeau, Loretta ins, Marguerite Donoline '‘and Una Dono- hue. The following iere the awards: Begonia, No. 26, Mrs. M. Donohue; 1 ies of the valiey, 95, Miss Agues Shes Yantic; freezia, No. 128, Katé Flynn; lilies of the valley, No, 105, Mrs. Alexander Jordan. A number of contributions were aiso made to the tuberculosis fund as = 3 Fawrell $1, lows: Dr. J. J. Donohue $5, Mrs. McNamara $3, Prof. F. L. :"fi.w"""?l H. Shields §1, Mrs. John [cNamara $1, cents, Mrs. .u:au-'i_tu govh C. Bland §1 Attorney €. W. Comstock, who ap- peared for the accused, the case was continued until Monday under $1.500 bonds, which he was unable to gt - Four Degrees Below. At Trading Cove Friday night at 11 oclock the thermometer was | degrees below zero, and at 12.30 this morning down there it was equally cold. for Striking Switchmen. ! Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 31.—The grand lodge officers of the Switohmen’s Un- ion of North America voted $15,000 to- for the relief of striking switch- meén in the northwest. The sum will be duplicated later on, if necessary, it was stated. Mrs. C. Leslie Hopkins was in Wor- cester on Friday, to attend the funeral of Frederick F. Hogkins n Banking Trfnt@gcfipp,é | across the Manufacturing | company, the time fixed bein gthe first | declared her | MAYOR M'CLELLAN Bridge Knocked - Out by lce Jam 300 FEET OF FALSE STRUCTURE CARRIED AWAY. SIXTY WORKMEN WENT DOWN Loss of Life Not Yet Known—Compls tion of Bridge Delayed for Months— Damage Estimated at $250,000. St. Louis, Dee. 31.—Three hundred feet of the false structure of the M- Kinley bridge, now under construction ‘Mississippi _river, was knocked out by an ice jam this eve- ning. Sixty men were thrown into the river and some of them may have been drowned. Seventy Men Escaped. ©=c hundred and thirty men were at work on the structure when the jam began to move. Seventy of them heard the warning snap of the tim- bers in time to escape to the steel LIFE CRUSHED OUT IN Dead in Wreck PULLMAN SLEEPER COMPARTMENT. —_— EMINENT BANKER KILLED In Rear-End Collision on the New York Central—Train Was Halted Near Croton Station, N. Y. New York, Dec. 31.—Spencer Trask, the head of a firm of bankers, which for many years acted as fiscal azents of the late was crush- g4 to death in his private compart- ment today, returning ow York from 'Yaddo, his country place at_Saratoga. One other ger was so seri- passen, ously Injured that he could not give his name and the negro sleeping car was also of the Dressing When Killed. ' Mr. Trask, who was coming to the THE OPTIMIST’S DAY BY DAY JE_ VERY day of the year my tasks squarely in 1910 will find me laoking the face, and doing with all my might the work that it is my privilege to per- form. | the street and let the light into its utmost corners. | helping hand and so live m stand that optimism should possess.—Washingto: OLD YEAR The midnight bell: The wintry winds build my home on the sunny side of of optimism shed its rays will give my neighbor a y that he will under- s something that every man n Herald. AND NEW s are trowling, are howling, The cliff-beat surge is growling In thunders far away; And heaven and earth are sighing, And_ drearily replying: “The OId Year lies a-dying." “Old Year, good-bye,” they say Here comes the New Year duly ‘We'll give him welcome truly, Come, mark the score up newly— Time flies a pace away! Tet’s meet him like a lover, His brow with chaplets cover, “hen his reign tod is over, “Good-bye Old Year,” we'll say. Dic and depart, O1d Year, Welcome, O morning air O glad New Year, bring ~—Anon. o1a sorrow! of health and strenzth! us new hope tomorrow, ‘With blossom, leaf and fruitage bright and length. —Celia Thaxter. work, but sixty fell with the twisted mass of timbers, three hoisting engines and a traveling crane. lce Jam Six Feet High. Capt. John Short, in charge of a ug and two barges, frozen in the riv- er. rescued forty of the men and got them ashore after a two hours’ strug- Zle ith the ice which is jammed six feet high in many places. The twenty men who were unable to reach the .tug are belleved to Lave reached land across the floating ice floes. Company officers say they will not know whether any lives were lost until tomorrow. $250,000 Damages The damage is estimated at $250,000. Completion of the bridge will be de- layed for several months. The bridge is building for en interurban system. A PRIVATE CITIZEN TODAY. Last Official Act Was in Behalf of Patrolman’s Widow. New York, Dec. 31.—The last official act of Mayor McClellan before he left his office at the close of the last day of his administration was to write a letter to Police Commissioner Baker in behalf of the widow of a patrolman who was killed by a trolley car while on post last September. “Please in- vestigate,” the mayor wrote, “and If the circumstances warrant, have the widow provided for from the pension fund.” The mayor sizmed the letter, rose and breathed a sigh of relief. Then he torc the last sheet from his calendar, crumpled it up and threw it into a waste paper basket. “Gentlemen,” he said to a small group about him, as he reached for his hat, “it is all over.” The ceremonies at City hall when Mayor Gaynor arrives tomorrow to up his new duties will be very imple. He will go direct to his office, where the former mayor will receive him. There will be 2 few moments of private conversation, a grasp of the hand, and then Mr. McClellan will walk out a private citizen to take the first available steamship to Europe. R. Hoe Co. Incorporated, Capital $5, 875,000. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 31.—The R. Hoe & company of New York was incor- porated today with a eapital of $5.375,- 000 to manufacture printing and other vresses. The directors include Otto T. Pannard, John S. Hoyt, Robert Hoe, Arthur I Hoe, Charies W. Parsons, Arthur C. James and Willam W. Car- man of New York. 3 Lehigh Valley Road Conductors Get More Pay. South Bethlehem, Pa., Déc. 31L—As the Tesult of a conference between General Manager Maguire of the Le- high Valley Railroad company and a committee of conductors which ended here today the conductors will receive substantial increases in their pay. Ten hours instead of twelve will constitute a day's work. Daughter of Cousin of President Taft Disappears from Railroad Train. Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 31.—Dorothy, 12’ vears old, daushiter of . H. Tart, & cousin of President Taft, who_lives at Sawtelle, Cal. disappeared from _ a Southers Pacific _train today. “Bvery possible effort to find missing girl bax failad l city from his home at Saratoga, was dressing in his compart ment ‘'when 3 freight train plowed into the heavy passenger train, was removed from was found that he had dressed himself, Wild Confusion. The wildest confusion prevailed. When his torn body | the wreckage it but partly A passenger In one of the cars crawled fgom a window, Many ri;vu of the five sleepers hi d®cased, and they hait-clad, t point. of the into snowbanks acen- ad not fully with the inperature far below the freezing- Body Removed to Morgue. Wrecking and _rellef ¢ despatched from the Harlem rains yards of were man' and author, died at St. Louls, aged 656 years, of pneumonia. dered in Néw York by a meraebr of the Four Brotherhood society. ple in Hammond, Ind., Is being a legal Nrwlch Business Condensed Telograms | MILLIONS IN NORWICH BANKS Rev. Dr. Robert A. Holland, clergy~ ARk 5 Shines A an e A Gain of Nearly Six Millions in Ten Years—Gain in 1909 $976,863,22 A Trial Divorce Was Granted a cou- Beparation for five years. | Deposits in the Norwich savings| The steady gain in the depostts of ;e banks at the end of each year from | the savings banks of Norwich sl The Cross Apro-l in the Bucks Stove | 1900 to 1909, inclusive: that during the past. ten yesss S case, involving the boycott, was filed in B0 5. 5o 322,655, conservative methods and theift of B the United States supremé court. 1000 Rttt people have bheen productive ot U : —-— 96 : 3343680749 Btondy galn in bank depomite. Wi SIS AiThe Sity Council of Birmingham, ne : Be1404 fect of the panic of 1807 i clessiy Ala, adopted ‘the state-wide prohibi- 190¢ % ? shown by the smaller incresse in on'laws as regular city ordinances. 1908 £ deposits of that year. That prosperd 9 has returned 1s shown by the increass Supt. Brown of a Mine near McAl- 1908 S By s s ester, Oklahoma, was rescued from & ol L e mine after being entombed 2§ hours. dress goods smugsling scandal will be- &in their battle for liberty in Chicago. of America may visit College Park and other Maryland_ sit iere precipitated, | i the New York Central and officials of | the company hurried to Mr. Trask’s body was rem scene. thy oved o the Croton morgue and the injured pas- senger and porter were cared for by the local doctors. Struck by Heavy Freight. Mr. the rear of the last car, Trask's compartment was at a_sleeper. The train, known as the Montreal ex press, halted near Croton, was supposedly protected from N. Y. and the rear by the block signal system. but it had hardly come to a stop when a heavy freight struck with_ great force. Trask's car was battered it from behind The rear of Mr. in and the front end of it was telescoped with the sleeping car ahead. Vice Presi- dent Daly of the New York Central said after the wreck: the railroad are unable to accident. The line was “The officials of explain the completely signalled and track at Croton was perfectly straight. The air was clear. Mr. Trask Leaves a Widow. Trask leaves a widow, author of fiction, and of ‘The Little Town of Beth “King Alfred’s Jewels. known as two plays, lehem,” and well- Their four children all dled in rapid succession some twenty years ago dur- ing an epidemic of scarlet fover. Last September M. Trask was seri- ously injured in an automobile acci- dent at Cambridge, Mass. ered, but lost the sight of Improvement Noted ‘Wilson’s . Annapolis, Md., Dec, He recov- one eye. 1.—That there was percepiible ‘movement below the neck was reported today for the first time by the surgeons attending Mid- shipman Earl D. Wilson, academy football player, the naval/ last. It was said today that there was undoubted voluntary movement of Wil- son’s left arm at a point where it is|mont takes the p! hoped it is controlled from the spine|Swift, who goes to the nav. below the point of injury. ment as one of the aides under the re- cumstance has given much Tment to those having Wilson in charge. Disabled The cir- Cendition.. is’ five-masted schooner | publisher 'of the Chicago Record-Her- George P. Hudson in a battered but|ald tonight gave out not totally disabled condition. She was | signed statement: Wa""‘m Teamer declined assistance, but asked to English Pastor Gets Calls to New York London, Dec. 31—The Rev. J. H. Jewett, P pastor of Carr's Congre- P‘l::l‘fll o T whose neck | finder, was broken during a game on Oct. 16(read his smspectio vd with business men and political leaders conditions on the island. Carnegie hero m Miss Mary R. Brown ines the and 1909 28,633,033.84 The Two Modistes Indicted in the “NOTHING BUT CHAMPAGNE A8 THE NEW YEAR ROLLED | How 1910 Was Greeted in New o City, Afloat and Ashore IRON AND STEEL TRADE OUTLOOK FOR THE NEW YEAR Is Firm and Hopeful, Says U. S. Steel Company Chairman. New York, Dec, 31.—The outlook for the new year in the fron and steel trade, which has been called the ba- rometer of business in general, is pro- nounced firm and hopeful In a state- ment given out today by Judge B. . Gary, ‘chairman of the United States Steel’ corporation. Overconfidence, with consequent inflafion and a corrective collapse, remain the dangers, he says of any 'period of prosperity—“but wg have all learned something by exper- | he adds, “in the past fow Figures of the Census Bureau show that fire insurance is much more ex- Pensive in this country than in Bu- rope. New York, Jan Eight b ped the quartermaster of ship. Eight bells sounded every 6 | battieship of the Atlantic squad 1 | as the voices of the bells floate shore they blended with rem cent chimes of Old Trinity, of ( | church, and of St. Patricics’ cathes It was'the end of & watch, the a day, the end of a year As the last stroke vibrate lence, every light went out whistle aflont he ed its_grec went the light amen_ beat on tles, pots and palls, cords on every wind instrument. o ship's bands, while they ing. in mock par 1 Colonel John Byrne, father of Cadet Byrne of West Point, who was fatally Injured in a football game, died at Buf- o, N. Y. President Bishop of the Aero Club for the interna- end tional meet in January. Secretary of War Dickinson, on an n “trip to Porto Rico, discuss- cymbals, nd far as relates to the iron and steel Industry of this country at prei ent,” says Judge Gary, “there is little need for an elaborate statement. The figures which are given out from time to time speak for themselves. ¢ Efforts Are Being Made to have a lal bestowed upon the trained nurse who was shot by her insane patient. past eight months the new ord Down town, the New Yea « Sty ceived by the subsidiary companies of [ on waves of champagne A Governor Creel, the Mexican special | the United States Steel corporation | o'cloc' “nothing hut champu was envoy, sald his mission to arrange with | have been gratifying. During the [ the rule at all the better known » Secretary Knox the disvosition of Ze- | month of December the bookings of | taurants along 1ift avenue laya of Nicaragua had been satisfac- |these companics combined have been | Broadway, where mor than 100, torily completed. about fifty thousand tons per while | guests had paid from $10 to $50 & & their capacity Is about 41,000 tons |ul-v- 1;-)‘ their reservations It Is estimate day. The only concern at the mills Is | that this great crowd of merrymak e n asls Honey Algernon George: | to datiafy Customers In regard to de- | left §1,600,000 bemind them with 1 {"the"statement 5F the doctars and i | 1veries tauranioura and iotol keei o | family, but 1t was reported in Paris Rl Aons o tons had s that death was caused by injuries in 4| WOULD-BE BANK ROBBERS :'h"-dk\f:wl{: woro kivon. pik HaLREE povs R RAN INTO MARSHAL'S PARTY. | pormiticd to bass from table (o i z . g without introduetion U desivab The Paris Matin Declares that the | Two of the Bandits Killed, Another | were excluded Ly closs scruting of findings of the United States immigra- | doors. Wounded and Two Escaped. tion commission placing France first b OF ihe atibeta. et it o among the nations as an exporter of | Guinrie, Okla., Dec. 31—IJive men | old deafening riot of ¢ s " | White slave recruits constitutes a na- 'h'"l e 1a 0 b th »u| nk nd the | horng—New ork takes its agr B e o who. inferided to rob. the bank & %) A ’ Postoffice at Harrah, Okin. eariy foday | hut way. Bt along the Wit 15 Pon Into, & party headed” by United | it wak noticcable How VAGARE WeH FLAMES SWEPT THE States Marshal “Jack” Abernerthy. A | those " burrooma wsuuilythe i H a result two of the bandits are dead, | crowded and t roughest of the gi* DYER BLOCK, PROVIDENCE. |5, 5% Siil at Guthrie. wounded, and | Tite poorwere listenin to the e two others are pursued by armed citi. [ of Trinit; va;’ :‘" dborpéd e Thicd-Btory { S50, ? On the East Side, diffisences of indow—Strong Police Guard Pre- | “prany qQuige, former ~ baseball | ligion and nationulliy interfersd bub venysd Looting—Gems in Street. | player, was shol deaa during the fght | little with the unfsarsal celeirat DIt the deputy” maranals, To lived at | In general, thors apwsami ) Providence, R. I, Dec. 31— ring Kus, 1 was the son of a | disord fey - reports of pick » that the flames which were sweeping Jthy mother Frank Carpenter, hn. | ots and surpristagly Jitel ablie Sther obber, was mortally wounded | toxicatione | il precautions W through the Dyer block this afternoon would reach them. two men jumped admirably exeeuted. in during the fizht and died late toda from thiré-story windows and received | jail. J. C. Dilbeck, a third bandit, was - probably fatal injuries. A _third Sy atighitly hurt 1 stonmed. vat| TMINITY GOLEEGE $500,000 was overcome by smoke and removed | The robbery was well planned, but ‘ 186D to & hospital in a serious condition. | Carpenter told someone ‘of the plot ERTS P RNT RUME Ao and postoffice inspectors learned of the affair, Quigg’s brother Geo ber of Roosevelt's W | ase Forty jewelry workers and clepk: crowding to the windows in pan when they saw the flames in posse: sion of the stairway, ladders by the firem Fifty Minutes Before Expiration of tha Time Limit, mem- s and at Ride ¢ home Timit expf Hartford, Conn utes before th in the Natfonal So Kas., & y rious jnjury. Teavenworth, o 3 ed were Harlen Witcomt nighr iene 14580, endowment man Robinson, jewelry workers. \ RS. ity college, which was Taft, an aged’dentist, was fous MANY NEW-SANALS ON Moty raised by populat subscription | ing unconscious on the floor of i el ih B e ek completed, thereby saving $170.000 {office on the second story Accordi ‘; "’ otographs Taken by | pieiges condition w_the, | taken to a hospital. rof. Boing subscribed by 12 o'clock (onig In the midst of the excitemernc gems | oo | At oon ‘today there wax ackin § e e e [ making the dir cloged with that maunt i guard was stationed about the build- | {on of new . ac additional subscribed, making a Fuard W tationed aboul the Sulld- | ‘percival Lowell in'the cloing address | total of $600,047. . OF the $51,000 st T A WasboRtet and Blethe wace: $ts vath tics at the mecting of sclent- | apportioned among more thar is estimated at $25,000. {ists here ~ today. When Schiaperelll | gong, The last $1,000 was contri & 7 4 nis famous worke on Mare. | by Stes, Morgan G e Apped 7 canals, and the | (nited States Senator ¢ IESLECTED AN MONOE number b heen Iicreased’ by the | (ne total amount §15 f READY'TO START FOR PRISON. | Iazsiafr obscrvers to nearly six hun- | infs'cily. Will Be En Rouse to Atlanta Before |1y the doubling of the canaly In the ¥e- | goc atary of War Dickinson Aute Noon Today. | sion called Syrtis Major. ' That the ca- | 4 st e | Taia wero mew, nccording o the speak RHCTQn Potto NE New York. Dec. 3 1 | r, was conclusively proven by a'com- | San Juun, P Dec. 31 . all probability be | cpring. when' nothing of the. kind ap-.| Brigadier Gen. Clarence R. Edwasd o ot e Ve P Brofessor Towell _displayed many | Mayflower, and Governor Colton, droy ing the prisdner’s two son photographs taken of the planet. today [n an automobile to Poncs, ma ly travel with him on the = — —il 5 and Guayam will leave Jersey City OHIO POLITICAL SITUATION. b/ e leat ¥ L= jve mayors, 'TT e a e o epplication Y Republicans to Adopt Prograssive Pro- | t5uny (hirough which the party passed 4 srpor/in balAIC of Mr. Morsed gramme at Coming Legislature. ore_decorated for the oecasion. fon_expired. ut 4 o'clock all of them memorlals were ented e wa Dec. 31—Granville W.| 5 (he secretary of war, aski Littieton. atver a lone. inters | Moony of the house of the | izenghip for Porto Ricans and an elee Jittiston, attex. &-lang ftere] Onlo:-leg talked with President | tive senate view with his cilent, impresscd upon | QP2 N R A . Bim today the futiiiy of furiher the political situntion in Ohlo. It 1% | Ray Lamphere Made Confession Before ERorts will_ bo. made 5o avold known that the president is deeply In- Doath ey e Sk d_pub- [ terested in the elections to be held next licity in the departure. Two deputies : g s Laporte, Ind., Dx fall, when the problem of wresting the will ‘accompany Mr. Morse, while his | oo erorship away from the demo- |ney Smith, who | fury Lam wite and sors will precede him to the (ENOTOUNIE ARLY BBk the, Guntises susp ho died train. Mr. Morse’s affairs have be o be v - | last night in the Michigan City . placed in ihe hands of Campbell Car- | M Moony sald today that the Fe- | il o, "Thai s h o Iy rington, a lawyer, who_has long been|PUbllcans are woing to, QCoPt W PRS- [Glate effort to obtain the confession Bnttiyr Wit ke Intesion Sion of the loxislature.. A public ser- | purported to have beon made by Lar Hospital Superintendent Dismissed. Y106 ommisnion, alonk the Hnew of the | Brere Was In the county jall and om New York, Dec. 31.—Dr. George T.|the party in Ohlo is considering. the verge of collaps o Stewart, for’several years surerinten: 5. g Bmich says he s confider ent of the Metropolitan hospital on iy confession W car up m 4 Blackwell's Tsland. was dismicacd todsy | Lands Withdrawn from All Forms of | mystery surrounding Mrs. Gunn by Commissioncr Hebverd of ihe de- Disposition. - |mous “deatt " B Sent of. <hatifles on es of | wwashington, Dec. 31—In aid of pro- RV B [pisconduct, neglect of duty and vio- | posed legislation affecting water pow- |378,456 Acres of Land Restored to the o A AR 3 ... | er sites on the public domain, the sec- Public Domain. Goubsel for Dr. Stewart said tonight:| retary of the interior has WIth@rawn | wo.iineton, Dec. 31—Secrotar hall have mo. iftcotty. n-vettimg T, | fFom all forms of dispogition @ho fal- | ynger of the intorior departme Blewart roinstatod by Towing. ande; T L cn RIS n#AB | gioreq today to the public domair Midshipman | Stewart reinstated by the c | river in .Colorado, 27,204 acrel; @long | 360 seres or Lind ih California = BI Willlams river and tribubaries in . el Capt. John C. Fremont Commands | Arizons os; aloug the Mel- furnished Charlestown Navy Yard Station. | lalia river in Orcgon, %179 ¢ by the . . Boston. Dee. 31.—The Slong” the McKemse KR Jand having previous y ceremonics were accorded bly valuable Fremont, e, Major General Fren orders in the wd 10 Negroes Restrained from Using Ritual, Password, Pin and Colors of Elk: navy yard today M At T P T contman, > Now York, Dee. 3 egrocs are ro = d of the station. Caplain P b b Moot o gt o Improve Marine Corps Inspection et Rear Admizil| oorq, pin and eolors of the Wik by i Service. cago Record-Herald, and beginning to- ‘morrow morning the paper will be un- deps decision of the appellate division of the {supreme court flied at White. Plains today. The decision was the result of an action brought by the Benevolent Pro- tective Ohrdelr of Elks of tI'-l-t. against the Improved Benevolent Pro- tective Order of Blks af fhe World, an organization for The granted the injunction u%ur and an appeal was taken to court. Washington, Dec, 31— the Inspection mervice in the maring corps Assistant Secretary of the Nawvs Winthrop, who hds supervision of this branch of the ssrvive, has decided fel establish four fleld divisions of fus spection, instead of carrying on the entire work from Washington nprove organization plan. Herman Kohisaat Acquires the Chicago Record-Herald. Chicago, Dec. 31L—Frank B. Noves, the following Goverrment Wirel, Telegraph e Telephone Plants. Washington, Dec. 31.—An inf meeting of representatives of the.s departments of the gov at the war departm: ‘discuss the proposed reg joss telegraph ond telophone and ashore which #ve un nee of the United Statom, " * Steamship Arrivale. “My friend. Mr. Herman H. Kohi- samat, has this day aecquired the Chi- der his control.” - Elected Prenident of Crucible Steel Co. | ext Pittsburg, Dec. 31.—The executive committee of the Crucible Steel com- m’ of America, at a svecial meet- prkaident. to B ine vacancy. saussl by the sudden death B Frank B.