Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 3, 1910, Page 1

MANY RIVER TOWNS INUNDATE Passengers of Six Trans-Continental Trains Marooned on Oregon Short Line NEW ENGLAND RIVERS e Considerable Apprehension for Homesteads and Fac- tories — Connecticut River Has Not Yet Reached Danger Point—Miles of Highway Under Water— Hudson River Eighteen Feet Above Normal Level— Gov. Hughes Moves for Relief of Flood V:~tims. Boston, March 2.—Four days of heavy rains and continued mildness have created flood conditions aleng many of the rivers in New England. ‘Though so far no great damage has been reported, much inconvenience has been caused, transportation schedules have been deranged by the washing out of tracks and in several districts considerable apprehension is being felt for homesteads and factories along the banks of the menacing streams. New Haven Road Tracks Washed Out Througheut Massachusetts the riv- ers are rising steadily. At Harwich, on Cape Cod, the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad tracks have been washed out and several highway bridges have been carried away. In _the western part of the state, the Housatonic river has overflowed its banks from Sheffleld to Great Bar- rington, ten miles or more, and for siles highways are under water. ‘Washouts on the New York, New Ha- ven & Hartford lines in that section hiampered traffic today. Factories Forced to Suspend. Thus far the risa of the small ®treams such as the Quaboag, $he Assabet and the Blackstone, has been moat rapld. In some cases the fe tories which line these streams hav been forced to suspend operation:q) The Connecticut, rising very slowly, ‘was about 13 feet . above low water mark at Springfield tonight and had not yet reached the danger point. Freshet conditions are reported at many places in New Hampshire, FIVE TONS OF DYNAMITE Force Narrow Channel Through Jam at Herkimer. Utica, N. Y., March 2.—The persist- ent efforts of gangs of powder men who have been endeavoring to break the ice jam at Herkimer have begun to- yleld encouraging results and while the congestion has not been completely ended a narrow aperture has been forced through which the long check- ed waters are now flowing. More than five tons of dynamite were exploded at the mouth of West Canada creek tenight. e Water Recedes Two Feet. Tt was estimated a2t nine o’clock to- night that the. water in the . village streets had receded fully two feet sihce noon and the people of the vil- lage are taking an optimistic view of the general situation. The village authorities have been oble to keep in close touch through- out with conditions among the people of-the village and no one has been al- lowed to. suffer from want of food if his or her wants were made known. Prompt Steps for Relief. Prompt steps for relief have been taken both in Herkimer and other places in the vicinity. A subscription list was started in the village today, mnd several hundred dollars were sub- scribed for the flood victims. The 1tica chamber of commerce took up the matter actively and today a sub- stantial sum was subscribed in this city. Ice Coal Urgently Needed. Mayor Grogan of Herkimer advised Secretary Cole of the Utica chamber of commerce today that coal was urg- ently needed in the village, and a car- load of coal left Utica for Herkimer &n_ hour later. The state armory at Ttica. and the Utica Young Men's Christian association building have been offered to as many Herkimer families as these buildings will ac- commodate. . POLICE PATROL IN ROWBOATS. Streets in Lower Portion of City of Al- bany Inundated. Albany, N. Y., March 2.—After the wdoption of an emergency resolution by the legislature today directing the state superintendent of public works to re- move the ice jams which have formed 4n the Huéson river south of Albs with a view to rellieving flood condi- tions, Deputy Superintendent Winslow M. Mead and several employes of the department left today on a specizl en- gine ov rthe New York Central rail- road to look over the situation. Governor Hughes ordered the stats armory at Mohawk, Herkimer county, thrown open today for the relief of flood vietims, and sanctioned immedi~ ate action by the senate to relieve con- ditions here and elsewhere. The Hudson river, which reached a height of 18 feet 3 inches above its mormal level this morning, receded a few inches during the day. The lower portion of the city, l¥ing along the “iver, is inundated, and tonight the po- lice patrolled the streetg in rowboats. Railroad and street car service is in- terrupted, and there is much suffering. among residents whose homes are part- 1y submerged. NORTHWEST MOUNTAIN FLOODS. Defiles Fillzd With Avalanches—Seat- tle Has But One Outlet East. 2 Sealtls Wash, March 2.—Mountain floods are sweeping every river valley §n toe norihs esi tonignt, and rajlroass =re helpless to raove traffic. Bridges #re gone, trackage is washed out and defiles are filled with avalanches. Many river towms are inundated and a-large number of people-in various places are temporarily homeless. The superabundance of water comes from the melting of vast quantities of snow in the Caseade mountains by a warm sea breeze. Seattle today thad only one. direct railroad outlet to the east, the North- ern Pacific mzin line. That outlet, however, may be closed at any time by he turbulent Green river, which is also been washed out, and it may be several ARE RISING days before trains can be moved. STALLED ON NEVADA DESERT. Train Passengers Amuse Themseives With Impromptu Entertainments. ports presaged. Gen the way from repairs. at Winnemucca, more at Golconda. promptu entertainments. $1,000,000 DAMAGE | Four Thousand Persons etery. Cleveland, Ohio, less in Ohjo as a result | women are out of work. | obtained on- that point. are still raging. If there large commerrcial plants Over 900 people are now the city authorities. | will have been uncovered. 25 FEET ABOVE siding at all points along have been driven from their homes. ing from New York state. Southern Pacific officers do not know how many passenger trains are halted between Reno and Ogden. Eight passenger trains were stalled Nevada, half a dozen at Imlay and as many These are small stations en the desert, and the passen- gers are amusing themselves with im- San Franecisco, Cal., March 2.—Infor- mation received by the Southerh fa- cific company tonight insist that the blockade of overland trains in Nevada will not be as protracted as earlier re- eral Manager E. C. Calvin of the Southern Paeific, on New York, was on one of the trains tied up at BElko, Ncvada, end he has assumed direction of the yesterday, N OHIlO. Homeless—- Torrent Threatens to Uncover Cem- March 2.—At least four thousand people are mow home- of the flood, | which continues to devastate the state. Numerous plants have been forced to close down and hundreds of men and The material | demage is estimated at over $1,000,000, | though it will be some time | fore any definite informatton can be me be- The Licking | and Muskingum rivers have passed their record of 1898 at Zanesville, and is no abate- ment of the waters before morning it is said that the water works plant will be forced to close, and this will mean the shutting down of all the power in that town, being fed by A fresh horror confronts the people of Maumee, where a torrent ice and debris has swept over the cem- etery, and it is practically certain that ‘when the waters subside many corpses laden with | LOW WATER MARK. o a6 sl | Susquehanna River Drives 1,200 Fam- ties from Their Homes. ‘Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 2.—The Sus- qu2hanna river shows no signs of re- ceding. The official measurement made at 9 o'clock tonight shows 25 3-10 feet above low water mark, with the water rising about one inch an hour. Nearly twelve hundred families re- the lowlands their homes, and others are in readiness to leave on the shortest notice. Many of the resi- dents at Westmoor, a half mile from here, have over two feet of water im The only fear tonight is the ice com- Should this Jam up between here and Nanticoke, it ‘would mean untold suffering and great damage. MAYOR GAYNOR STARTS NEW INVESTIGATION. Inquiry Into Funds Raised by Patrol- erate special legislation. been current. Baker ‘to investigate and month since Oct. 14 last, benefits to $750. viewing the testimony. police bills passed in this Albany. B. & O. TRAINMEN AGAIN TA Baltimore, March 2 Railway strike would be called. not in a talkative mood, question. rejection of the favor of sta.ndlns by the t whatever action Paymaster Sound. says he investigate further, and that if it ap- pears the money is being raised for improper purposes he will .—Unless the B. and O. Railroad company makes sev- eral changes in the counter proposition to the demands of the Brotherhoods of Conductors and Trainmen for a higher wage scale, it was declared tonight by President Lee of the trainmen’s organization that a men did not want to strike and gave the tmpression that there hope of an amicable settlement of the 1t is understood that the vote by the imen on the question of acce Auld Orderad to men’s Benevelent Association. New York, March 2.—No bills origi- nating with the police force of New York will become laws if Mayor Gay- nor can prove that the fund now be- ing raised by the Patrolmen’s Benev- oleat assoclation is intended to accel- That such a fund exists the mayor said tonight he had proved. Rumors {of its existence and of the purpose to which it was to be applied have long Acting on them, mayor recently directed Commissioner the report. The summarized facts are now made public. Commissioner Baker found that all patrolmen have been assessed $13 a ostensibly to create a special fund to raise death The mayor, in re- shall veto any legislature at LK STRIKE. ibochr‘lkion by President Lee of the Trainmen’s Organization. Railway Mr. Lee was but said the was still ptance or company’s counter proposition was almost unanimously in committee in deemed advisable. Puget ‘Washington, D. C., March 2.—Pay- | St. Petersburg, March opposition candi Dr. Ruy Barbosa, ex-president of ‘senate. province, pre! vocation of the prohibition throughout Manchuria. UPROARIOUS SCENES IN THE KENTUCKY SENATE House Bill Adopted Deposing City At- torney of Louisville. Frankfort, Ky., March 2—Amid uproarious scenes today, democratic members of the Kentucky senate, in what the republican members are terming a “rump” session, because President Cox had declared it ad- journed, adopted a house bill deposing Clayton Blakey, city attorney of Lou- isville. Republican members of the senate left the chamber when President Cox declared the body adjourned. Twenty- three democratic members remained and 21 of them voted for the bill. The passage of the bill was preceded by two hours of filibustering, during ‘which democratic and republican sen- ators rushed to the bar and denounced ‘rulings by Acting President Conn Linn. Lieut. Governor Cox at one point forcibly took the gavel from Tdinn, and Mrs. Cox, who was seated in the lobby of the chamber, rushed to the presiding officer’s stand and took a position peside her husband. Governor Willson, it is said, will ve- to the bill RENT COLLECTOR SHOT GIRL. Brother of Umpire Tim Hurst a Fugi- tive from Justice. Pottsville, Pa., March 2.—Miss Viola Curry, aged 18 years, was shot in the chest today by Thomas Hurst of Ash- land, a brother of Tim Hurst, the baseball umpire. The girl is in a crit- ical condition at the Miners’ hos- pital. It is asserted that Hurst went to the Curry home to collect rent and in an altercation he was struck on the head with a stove lifter and that he shot to defend himseif. Subsequent to entering Dbail, the committing magistrate was instructed by the district attorney to commit Hurst until the court had fixed the amount of bail, but Hurst could not be found. & $30,000 for the Completion of Govern- ment Irrigation Projects. w-sm?um. March £.—After brief general discussion the seunate togay passed the bill authoriziing the issu- ance of $30,000 worth of certificates of indebtedness for the completion of irrigation projects of the government already underway. The bill is intend- ed to supply sufficient money to finish hise works, and it is contemplated that the certificates will be redeemed by money derived from the sale of lands redemed by the improvements. Died of Heart Failure on a West 8hore Train. New York, March 2.—George B. An- derson, United States consul at Mar- tinique, die@ of heart failure on_.a West Shore train as it was coming into the station at Weehawken, N. J., today, according to advices received by friends in New York tonight. He had ‘been on leave of absence on account of ill health. Mr. Anderson was a native of Kentucky, about 45 years old, and entered the consular service in 1890. Thomas Taylor Rather Remain in Penitentiary. ‘Washington, March 2.—Declining to take advantage of the pardon granted him by President Taft, Thomas Taylor, sentenced in this city to fifteen years in the Atlanta penitentiary for the murder of his wife, will remain as one of the “trusties” of the institution. During his long incarceration Taylor studied pharmacy and was assigned to the custody of the prison pharmay. He will remain in this capacity. in U. S. Corporation Tax Docketed Supreme Court. ‘Washington, March 2.—Another cor- poration tax case was docketed today in the supreme court of the United States. It was the suit brought by Katherine A. Cook et al. of Connecticut nst Boston Wharf company of Massachusetts, to enjoin the company from paying the tax, alleged to be un- constitutional. This makes sixteen suits in the court raising the question of the validity of the tax. To Escort Explorer Shackleton to America. New York, March 2.—A special com- mittee of three appointed by the Transportation club of New York sail- ed for London today to meet Sir Er- nest Shackleton and to escort him to this country, where he will deliver a series of lectures, beginning March 25, on his south polar expedition. French Troops Defeat Morocco Tribes— men. Casablanca, Morocco, March 2.—The French column under General Monniers surprised and routed with severe loss a bang of Zear tribesmen who re- cently murdered a French officer, Lieu- tenant Meaux. The French in this at- tack lost two Kkilled and thirteen wounded. Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Jr., One of the Heirs lham, Mass.,, March 2.—An estate of $354,000 was left by Henry G. Grew, of Boston and Hyde Park, who died re- cently, according to the will probated here today. One-half of the estate is left to Mrs. Grew and the other half to four children, one of whom is Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Jr., of New York. Senator Jeff Davis Denied Privilege. ‘Washington, March 2.—Senator Jeff Dayls of Arkansas was today. denied the privilege of striking from the rec- ord a statement in his testimony be- fore the house committee on public IN THE PARTY IS TO BE AVOIDED. HIS MIND NOT ADAPTED To Correctly Viewing Present Day Conditions—Speech by Representa- tive Gardner at Republican Club. Beverly, Mass., March 2—“That Pvea.ker Cannon would rettlire I be‘léeve s the uppermost wish of the president today,” Representative Augustus P. Gardner, one of the leaders of the “insurgents” in econgress, told 200 of his uents at a dinner of the Beverly Republ| club tonight. “Mr. Cannon has reached an age ‘where his mind is not adapted to viewing correctly present day condi- tions,” ‘'said Mr. Gardner. “If a split n the party is to be avoided, the peaker must retire. When this takes place the rules will be changed s> as to prevent the present misuse of the speaker’s power.” Gardner al iff from responsi of living. PASSENGER TRAINS CRUSHED BY AVALANCHE. Number of Persons Killed Now Placed at Forty. Everett, Wash., March 2.—Latest es- timates tonight place the number of persons killed by the avalanche which | crushed two Great Northern passenger trains at Wellington at forty. While twenty-three persons are known to be i dead, nearly a score are thought to be duried in the wreckage. Communica- tion with Wellington is maintained only by men on snowshoes. Twelve bodies had been removed tonight from the 150 foot gorge into which the snowslide swept the train. The railroad bunkhouse at Welling- ton has been transformed into a hos pital and ten injured are being cared for there. Superintendent O'Neill of the Great Northern made his way to the wreck late today at the head of a party of doctors and nurses. The treacherous trip down the precipice was made on snowshoes. ‘The nearest telegraph station, Scenie Hot Springs, is three miles below Wel- lington, down a precipitous grade, which is covered with a deep blanket of snow that may slide down the a olved the Payne tar- lity for the high cost S w ples in good heal Carolina was placéd in his wife have been granted a divorce of separation. Holland, hundreds of workers having to flee from inundated factories, opened at Helsingfors, with their agrarian allies, Jority of ti tion of Viadimir Koeppen, a meteorol- ogist, that air navigation be regulated by the government, weather bureau, w reichstag, succeeding Count Udo olic priest of New York, was arrested in connection with the death of Mrs, Maria Laguidice, the priest being ac- cuged of having applied a heated alu- minum button to the woman’s body to relleve pain. BROOKLYN MAGISTRATE Of $16.66 in the Performance of His ‘hich last a week, Henry J. Furlong, Brooklyn police magistrate since 1901, for this trival sum he faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a fine of $5,000, or both, and a minimum penalty of five years in prison, no fine. sentence on Friday. The jury recom- | mendad mercy. prominent foreman of the jury wept as he pro- nounced the verdict today, and the for- e geeeeg— i PRICE_TWO CENTS Condensed Tel :‘”’ Mayor Reyburn Remains Firm REFUSES TO BE PARTY TO ANY ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS. J. Pierpont M Al The United States Battleship South commission. Cartoonist Homer Davenport and p S Floods Have Done Much Damage in NICHT RIOTS START ACAIN A Congressional Investigation is to be asked for in the Sutton case and proceedings are to be instituted in the civil courts. In Northeastern Philadelphia—Transit Co. Waiting Room Set on Firt—HMHose Turned on the Mob. In the New Finnish Diet, which the socialists have a ma- Philadelphia, March 2. —Mayor Re burn sald today he would maintain the position of refusing to be & party to any arbitration proceedings even if It caused him to bremk with the repub lican organization. When he wes v ited by a_committee from the United Emperor William Heard the sugges- Prof. Willis Moore, chief of the told the house com- mittee on agridulture that he saw no | Business Men's assoclation, eomposed danger of a forest famine. of leading business men, from ever section of the city, he sald that poten: King Peter of Servia Will Visit the | political leaders had alrendy urged him czar this spring, which will be his first | to change his attitude and urge arbl reception by a foreign sovereign since | tration but that he was going to main his accession to the throne, tain his stand, thet his only duty wes to maintain peace and order Count Hans von Schwerin-Loewitz, member of the conservative party, as elected speaker of the German von on Day Quist, Riots at Night Although today was unusuelly quiet throughout the city, rioting started again tonight in the northesstern see tion where everything was quist dur ing the presence of the state police Firemen Turn Hose on Crowd. At Allegheny and Frankford avenues a number of cars were demolished by stones and at Richmond and Orthe dox streets a number of small boys #set fire to & frame waiting room owned by the transit company. The firemen were obliged to turn their hose om the crowd before it would disperse. tolberg-Wernigerode, who died ebruary 19. Rev. Innocenzo Montannani, a Cath- ACCEPTED A BRIBE FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT GENERAL STRIKE BEGINS 100,000 Men Will Stop Work at That Hour, It is Reported. Court Duties—Found Guilty. New York, March 2,—After a trial was found guilty by a jury today of ac- h » s cepting a bribe in the performance of ntr’lk J}'.’.’.‘.’?fifix w vr:':-:l- ml‘vhi‘l‘i :y': his duties in court. The specific charge | L /iyizir, 'to hegin a1 midnight Friday, was that he had accepted $16.66, and & o prociaimed by the Centre! Laber union of Philadsiphis and vicinity st & meeting tonight. The strike lenders declare that 100,000 men wil -u? work at that hour if the rapid transit company shall not in the meantims have consented to arbitrate its differ ences with the striking carmen. As surances have been recelved, they say from hundreds of unorganized workers that they will join the movement The meeting at which the strike or with He was remanded to jail for Furlong is 49 years old and had been in Brooklyn politics. The u: b mer magistrate almost collapsed. &o: p¢ v r u?l'h’:“%e?ltlngnngnm&ng;uh operator | _ After the jury had returned its ver- -'n;u;:-::n p:v’::“’:;x;‘-r’m:l’;' ul::'-:m:::-‘ arrived at Scenic Hot Springs today | dict the district attorney of KINgS | "oy 2 'or fhe ganernl strike. Spaseh almost insane from the scenes he had | county announced that he had recelved | . 7500 y1ORERR 08 B0 e TRESTNC witnessed. No information as to the|letters charging two Manhattan and | W70 B0 RHIROR: PRORCEEE BF T8 exact number of the dead could be ob- | one other Brooklyn magistrate with | g o/ JG00F BEONL L CRreRRe tained from him. the game offense. No o s to be | ana William Mahon |\rld':“0nl ot the The raflroad compiny is making | tioned. but an investigation is to International ~ Carmen’'s _ sssociation strenuous efforts to reach Wellington from both sides of the mountain range. Relief trains have been despatched from Everett with supplies ana a wrecking crew. The road is blocked in several places by smaller slides and the high temperature leads to the fear that more may occur to impede the re- lief work. Everett, Wash., March 2.—The dead in the Wellington avalanche, based on |a list of dead and missing given out tonight by officers of the Great North- ern railroad, may reach a total of 84 before the rescuers reach the bottom of the mass of snow and wreckage that crushed two trains into a deep gulch. ‘While only eight passengers and nine railroad employes of the road are known to be dead, 38 passengers and 29 employes of the road are missing. Railroad men think few of the missing Iwill be recovered alive if they are buried under the snow. Rescue parties are working desper- ately to recover the passengers from | the buried coaches. The day coach and the smoking car have not been found. They were smashed flat, it is said. It is now said that the reason the train was not kept in the tunnel, where it would have escaped the slide, was that passengers feared they would be blocked in and suffocated there. BETHLEHEM STEEL CO. STRIKE. 2o Between 800 and 1,000 Men Said to Be at Work. Bethlehem, P; March 2.—The claim was made tonight by an official of the Bethlehem Steel company that between 800 and 1,000 men were at work today in various departments of the plant. A labor leader said that a total of 5,140 men are on strike. ‘The employes at the Saucon Open Hearth plant, it is safd, will be organ- ized as union men tomorrow. The ex- ecutive committee was busily engaged tonight formulating the demands of the strikers to be presented to President Schwab. Tonight the coroner’s jury rendered a verdict on the death of Szambo as follows: “That Joseph Szambo came to his death on Feb. 26 as a result of a bullet wound in the left side of the head, inflicted by a Pennsylvania state constable by the name of John T. Moughan.” il R CR s O NICARAGUA REVOLUTION. No Prospect of Peace Until General Chamorro is Captured or Dead. th C Managua, Nicaragua, March 2.—A though the government won a victo at Tipitapa, according to the reports received here, there is no prospect of peace until General Chamorro is dead | or captured. A period of imactivity now looked for, until the revolutionists replenish their supply of ammunition. Chamorro_effected a junction with Mena at San Vicente yesterday. De-! serters report the insurgents are fall- ing back on La Manga. FISKE FIRM BANKRUPT. Judge Holt Delegates De Up Brokerage Bu: New York, March 2.—Judge Hold of the United States district court signed | { this afternoon an order adjudging the brokerage firm of Fiske & Robinson ‘bankrupt. Stanley W. Dexter was appointed referee to takc charge of and wind up the business of the firm. Still Trying to Obtain Books of In- dicted Packing Companies. New York, March 2.—Supreme Court Justice Swayze of New Jersey has set Saturday next as the time for hearing S started. grew out of his participgtion in sell~ ing bail bonds. MESSENGER BOY HALTED Brand New Means of Smugglimg Comes the oldest men In the customs service say gling came to light tonight after the docking of the Cu by customs men at the gate of the pler while trying to walk off with a paste- would be at the pler. addressed to a man at a New York hotel. CONNECTICUT ROAD sued a list of the towns which applied for an appropriation from the state funds for road Owing to the fact that the aggregate amount asked, as represented by the votes of the towns, s allotments of the towns asking for the Funeral of late Pre the late Don Jose Domingo de Obaldia, president of the republic, took place this afternoon mony. a detachment of United States ma- rines, bearing arms, procession. livered the fumeral oration. River Again Filling the Mouths of the fall equalling the flood maximum of 1882. The water is again pouring into the mouths of the sewers. however, the authorities believe that the river will not rise further. 150 Suits for Divorce and Separation on the calendar. Among the cases that came up is that of Mrs. Ida Adams Gal- latin, a daughter of the late Al Adams, the ‘policy king, separation from Nicholson Gallatin, a grandson of Al- The Furlong bribery charges | ;. o] the delegnten to a high pitch ¢ enthusiasm. Triegrams were read frow the Chicago and San Franciseo fedsr tions of labor, with 260,000 and 176.000 members, respectively, pledging thelr moral and financial support to the cause of their Philadeiphia brethre. Resolutions were adopted condemn ing the attitude of the traction com pany, by which, #t was stated, business d been affected to such an _extent that thousands of persons not @ireetly interested in the wstrike had been thrown out of employment, Councils were called upon to insist that Mayor Reyburn use his prerogative as chief exeécutive of the city and immedintal serve notice on the Philadeiphia Rapid BY CUSTOMS OFFICERS. to Light. New York, March 2.—What some of is a brand new means of smug- d liner Carmania, A district messen boy was halted board box about two feet long. Ex- |Transit company that it must sisbmit amination showea that the box con- | to arbitration, as the puble, which b tained a number of pieces of valuable | Tepresents, demands, and that he re Malta laces. Box and contents were | turn the police to their regular posts seized. of duty and to cease using them to man An cmploye on the ship said the box | the trolley cars. . 8 to was given him at Naples with instruc- R proclamation addresse o 5 s vt trades unfons of Philadelphis and ons to deliver it to a messenger who The box -was their sympathizers the gricvances ef the carmen against the corporation are recited in detail. A committee of one member each from the printing, metal, bullding, tex tile and transporiation trades was ap IMPROVEMENTS. | pointed to wait upon the sslsct and : ——— common councils tomorrow afternonn It is Found Necessary to Scale Allot- | ang present coples of the resolutions ments of Towns. and proclamation. NEW LICENSE REGULATIONS, STRICTEST IN NEW ENGLAND. Hartford, Conn., March 2.—Highway ommissioner ‘Macdonald tonight is- have Car Announcer in Every Saloon—One Line of Men at Bar. improvements. was $2,095,600, it Bost ,—Ev A N B A L oston, March 2.—FEvery saloon in Chelsea must employ a car announcer to remind its patrons of the rumning maximum appropriation of $20,000. Of | yyne of cars which pass the doo: the towns applying 107 will receive | when jiquor licenses become oper $10,000 and fourteen amounts ranging | tfve in that city on May 1. The n from $2,000 to $8,000. regulations issued today by the Ch TP v —— se. commissio U. 8. MARINES IN PROCESSION. | fo®, Menaing commlssion ars belleved Bealdes the announcer foature they ent of Republic of Panama. provide that only one line of men is to be allowed to stand at a bar snd drinks are. to be passed te any ones back of the line no thirsty Panama, March 2.—The funeral of HELD IN $10,000 BAIL. Treasurer of Goean City, N. J., Charg- ed with Forgery. with elaborate cere- Many Americans attended, and marched in th Mendoza de- President New York, March 2—Irsa 8. Cham plon, for ten years treasurer of Ocean City. N, J. was arrested today and held in $10,000 ball, charged with forg ery. Champion is alleged to hav forged the name of L. M, Crease, may or of Ocean City, to two notes, one for $6,600 the other for $3.500, 'The mayor ewore out the warrant for the arrest. ANOTHER SEINE OVERFLOW. Sewers at Paris, Paris, March 2.—The continued rain- has raised the level of the river eine to 21 feet § inches today, almost Secretary of Treasury Organizses » “Cawinet” of His Own. Washington, March 2.—Secretary MacVeagh has organized a “cabinet” of his own In the treasury department over which_he presides, It is made up of his thrée assistant Mesnnrs. Nor- Like the pres- The weather, is gradually Improving, and | ton, Hilles and Curt! on the Calendar. New York, March 2.—Five justices| ident’s advisory body, the treasur. of the supreme court here were kept| cabinet mects twice a week, the first busy today trying some part of the 150 | gathering having taken place today. suits for divorce and separation now | Wednesdays and S.turdays at noon are to bt the days and hour of meet- ing. Major General Wood to L. pital Next Sagurday. ve Hos- who Is suing for a her husband, James bert Gallatin, a banker and one time| Bfi’“:’“";- M‘“.';"* h '{""1' Gen. " Leonar 00d, Who has been a pa g i e okt AN tlent at a hospital here for several o weeks, recovering from the effects of Dr. Hughes' Estate Admitted te Pro-| 0% 0 rations upon his head, expeots bate. to leave the hospital on Saturday. Alany, N. Y., March 2.-—The will of the late Rev. Dr. David Charles Hughes, father of Governor Hughes, was admitied to probate toddy. The estate, valued at about $7,000, is be- queathed to his widow. Pastor Paid $25 for Shooting a Deer Out of Season. Hudson, N. H., March 2.—For shoot- ing a deer out of season Rev. Father Leo Tyllo, pastor of the Lithuanian church, was fined $25 in the police court todaw ¥ the arguments by Pierre Garven, the public prosecutor of Hudson county, in the matter of obtaiming possession of the books of Armour & company, Swift & company and others recently in- dicted at Jersey City, charged with conspiracy to control the price of meat. The defendants will be notified to be present to show cause why such an order shouild not be granted. threatening the Union Pacific tracks. | master George P. Auld, one of the prin- Centralia, Wasbh., was inundated to- |cipals in the recent naval counma‘.’rua.l day. The country between Centralia {at the Boston navy yatd. has been or- and Chehals is covered by a sheet of | dered to the maval station at Puget Sound. This order marks the detach- ment from the Boston yard of all of the parties to the incident concerned with the assault upon Dr. Cowles. lands in ad of the Arkansas “sunk lands” Dbill that he would receive a large legal fee If the bill were passed. Steamship Arrivals. At Genoa: Feb. 28, Oceanic, from New ;fi: Regina D'Italia, from New Charities and Correction Convention, Hartford, The sponkers st tonight's se: rection. convention Da 1. Green of Hartford, who spoke on “The Improvement of Social Conditions”; Jeftrey R. Brackett of Boston em *“Pub. lic Ald and Its Relation to Private Charit; and T. M. Mulrey _ New York, whose address was on and Private Charity In New The mestings will contimue Tacoma -ilc'.ric power plants are on. tflflc‘.js crippled. Ore., -experiencing great from d e elayed Railroad traffic in Idaho is at a2 stand- atidl. The passengers of six Trans- ‘nei:*al traine ar> marconac at xa- L L R R Burgiar Sentenced to Wethersfiold. Hartford, March 2 —Frank Bragdy, charged with burgiary committed in Kast Hartford, was sentenced to from ‘three to thirty yvears in siate misam, East Hampton—Edwin Stark Thom- % as, secretary of the democratic state Wallingford.—In accordance with a has been the guest| vote taken some weeks ago the Art- ‘J‘ Justice