Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 16, 1910, Page 1

VOL. LIL—NO. 14 PRICE _TWO CENTS UNITED WIRELESS COMPANY RAIDED Handsome Broadway Offices Entered By United States Post Office Inspectors Al _GIGANTIC FRAUD SCHEME CHARGED President and First Vice Presidsnt and President of the New York Selling Agency Placed Under Arrest—Bail Secured in Two Instances—Hearing on July 12— 28,000 Shareholders Throughout the Country—Com- pany Made Profit of Millions Fraudulent Use of Mails. The specific instanc of alleged fraudulent use of the mails is given z the mailing of a letter on March 3, 1910, to Michael O'Brien of 920 Main street, Waterbury, Conn. 28,000 Shareholders Fleeced. ““There are 28,000 shareholders of the company throughout the country.” said Inspector Mayer in his statement, “many of whom have placed their sav. ings in the stock of the company through false representations made by its officers. Real Assets of the Company. “The real assets of the company, consisting of land stations, patents. manufacturing plants and real estate of all kinds, appear to be worth at a conservative estimate $400.000. or an actual worth of two cenis a share at par value.” “Two million shares have been issued at a par value of $10 a share, but the stock has recently been put up to $50 a share. New York, June 15.—United States postoffice inspectors raided the hand- mome Broadway offices of the United Wireless Telegraph company today and caused the arrest. of Christopher C. Wilson, president of the company; Samuel S. Bogart, first vice president, end William W. Tompkins, president of the New York Seliing agency, which, officers of the wireless com- pany ‘say, was formerly their fiscal agent, but has ceased to, represent them. itious Value of Shares. Chief Inspector Mayer subsequently gave out a long formal statement in Shich he charges that, aithough the «<ompany has been running at a lose, 4he price of its shares has been ad— wanced by manipulation to fictitious walues, and that the officers of the eompany have sold out their stock to the general public at a profit estimated 4n one instance at between five and ten millions, with other instances in proportion. Two Men Give Bail. Wilson was released in $25,000 bail and Bogart fn $10.000 bail for appear- ance on July 12, when a further hear- ing will be held before a federal com- gmissioner. Tompkins was arrested at his farm, near Mahopac Falls, Put- mam county. Y., and was brought Sere for ignment. He could not #ind the 310,000 bail required and spent the night in the Tombs. Self-Made Financier. Christopher Columbus Wilson, presi- dent of the United, is a fipancier of the self-made school. He was born in Missiseippi in 1845, of Irish descent. He became successively a cotton farm- er, a banker in Denver, a miner and finally a promoter of wireless securi- ties. He is an Odd Fellow. a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Order of Elks. He lives at the Waldorf- Astoria when in New York. CAPTAIN BALDWIN FALLS IN AIRSHIP. Aecroplane Tumbles Seventy-five Feet and is Much Damaged. PETER PETERSON CELEBRATES AN NEW MILFORD Mhe 50th Anniversary of His Arrival in This Country. New York, June 15—Captain Bald- win fell with his aeroplane 75_feet while he was practicing today at Min- eola, L. L, but though his miachine was badly smashed he was not injured. He hurried here to get material and me- chanics to repair the damage. Byldwin had just started and was making a turn when he either lost con- tro] of his engine or shut off the pow- er too soon. At any rate the weroplane dipped and started for the earth. He tried to right it so that he could glide down, but could not, and it smashed into the earth, breaking the pneumatic tires of his wheels. The aviator fell out, but was uninjured. PROPOSED LAW REFORMS. Death Penalty for Assault Urged by Judge Gibbons. Chicago, June 15.—Here are some of the law reforms urged by Circuit Judge John Gibbons in his annual report to the supreme court: Capital punishment for aggraveted assault on women and girls. Require automobile owners to give bonds to indemnify any person injured through their carelessness or negli- gence. Abolish the doctrine of assumed ris and require employvers to pay stated sums to employes injured in their ser— vice. Have five judges instead of three on the appellate court bench; give liti- gants the right to appeal to either su preme or appellate court and to make the decisions of each court final. The remedy proposed by Judge Gib- bons for the defective employers’ lia- bility law follow: When an employe is injured by ma- <chinery while at work in the line of h duty, let the fact of the injury be tak- en as prima facie evidence that the machinery was defective and compel the employer to pay $3,000 for the loss of one hand or £0ot, $4,000 for the los of both hands, Both feet or one han: and one foot, $1,500 for the loss of an eve, $4,000 for the loss of both eves, $12’a week for disabling injurles of & temporary nature, $5.000 for a perma- nent injury and $5,000 to the widow or next of kin in the event of his death, CONGRESS WEDNESDAY, ¥}" Senate Passed Public Land Withdraw- al Bill—House Passed Porto Rico Bill. ‘Washington, June 15—The public 1and withdrawal bill was passed today by the senate, after a debate upon that measure which covered the entire ses- sion. Just before adjournment the statehooq bill was laid before the sen- ate as the unfinished business, thus in- suring its consideration and probably its passage, during the present ses- sion. ‘The land bill was so amended as to provide for the issuance of $30,000,000 wWoorth of certificates of indebtedness with which to complete irrigation pro- Jjects already in course of construction. The bill prowiding for a new civil government for Porto Rico was passed by the house today. This measure is pianned to take the place of the For- aker act, undler which the islangd is now governed. It provides for a more representative. government than is ad- ministered under the present law. Both houses will be in session to- morrow. ¢ ew Milford, Conn., June 15.—Peter terson, 2 native of Denmark, tonight ntertained the resfdents of the town Bn celebration of the fiftieth anniver- mary of his arrival in this country. band concert was given in the town all by the loeal band and Peterson gat on the stage in the hall with his Kwo hbrothers, whom he had brought ¥rom the old country for the occasion, @ne on each side, and received the con- tulations of the townspeople an? cquaintances from the surrounding country. In addition to the residents f the town and the Smmediate vicin tv there were many automobile par- ties from Bridgeport, where Paterson 4s well known in & soclal and business mway. After the concert a reception wa=x held at his home for relatives ®nd more intimate friends. The in- vitations sent out were in the form of post cards bearing on the one mide = “eproduction of Mr. Peterson as & oung man in his blacksmith’s garbd nd on the other an invitation and a Etatement that the “picture on the re- verse side is my picture taken Af vears ago. Comse and see how I have changed.” Mr. Peterson is a man 75 vears old. a veteran of the civil war, having served in ths Secomd Connec- ticut heavy artillery. On his coming to New Milford he entered busines: and is said to have become quité we: to do. RENC ON HAND. WITH BID FOR FIGHT Wevada Laws Permit Finish Events —Offers to Erect Arena. Reno, Nevada, June 15.—Reno bid for the Jeffries-johnson fight today. A. J. Ailsworthy, a theatrical manager, rep- Teseting Reno business men, telegraph- ed to Tex Rickard that Reno would erect a_suitable arena for the fight. The Nevada law is plain and precise 4n that it permits finish fights when a license fee of $1.060 is paid by ihe promoters. It is not probable that = dverse .action will be taken in @ase it is decided to bring the fight %o Reno. -Governor DicKerson at pres- | Jent is out of the state. Mr. Ailsworthy sured Rickard that Reno would fu ish the §1,000 license required by ! tate law. POIVERS TO SEARCH LAKE COMO ! 4n Effort to Find the Bedy of Young Chariton. Washington, June 15.—Divers have been ordered by Ambassador Leishman 0 begin a search of Lake Come in the effort to find the body of young Charl- ton. in case he was murdered and his body was thrown into the lake, or there is anyv other tangible evidence of the crime connected with the murder of his wife, whose bodv was recovered mome davs ago. This information reached the state department today in & telegfam from United States ‘Consul Caughy, at Milan: who despatched his meseage from Coino. Tiondon. June 16.—The Express this norning makes the assertion that Por- ter Chariton, whese wife's body was found in a trunk in Lake Como, Italy, Jast Priday, and for whom the Italian muthorities are making a vigorous mearch, is 4p London. The newspaper, however, does not locate Charlton. BALLOON BREAKS AWAY Carrying With It a Ten Year Old Boy —Landed Safely. Chillecothe, O., June 15—Cromwell Dixon’s dirigible balicon broke away from its moorings late today, carry- 4ng with it a teén year old boy to a height of a half mile. The balloon landed several miles distant. The boy was uninjured. Thousands of horrified _spectators looked on, as the balloon drifted f miles west and as the hydrogen oas became partly exhausted slowly came toward the earth! The boy crawled out te the extreme end of the frame- work when within ten feet of the nd and drogped oft. sarely - The oon arose n_ relieved of ~his weight, and again soared to a great theight. It was last seen traveling Yerkes Estate Tangled Affairs Wound Up. New Yorjk, June 15.—The tangled affairs of the estate of the late Charles T. Yerkes ‘were finally wound up_ here today in fhe United States circuit court. Receivers were discharged and counsel fees allowed. Mary Adelaide Yerkes, ‘the widow, will receive -163,- 362 as lver dower. sas City Flight Post- poned. Topekla, Kan., June 15.—At 8 o'clock tonight /J. C. Mars abandoned his To- ~-to-Kansas City aeroplane flight, 'or the day, at Bismarck, near Law- rence. Topeka to Kan P 1ath of Bridgeport ex-Sheriff. digeport, Conn., June 15.—Peter Doolain, formerly sheriff for fifteen years, died at his home hera tonight er an illness of six weeks. Mr. oolam was noted for his close resem- t e to President Taft. He was 56 »old and leaves seven children. Deesn’t Add to Its Comfort. it was a love knot that T: R. British lion's tail does not st any more comfortable. ¥ 3 2ke 1 Sl &mwrmmmwm; Berne, Switzerlahd, June. 15.—Inun- dations caused by swollen streams in the eastern and central districts of Switzerland have caused immense damage. A landslide at Altorf buried a factory building, killing a woman and ten children employes. St. Petersburg, Thursday, June 2.— The population of the Russian empire, including Finland, according to data collected by the governmental statis- tical department for 1909, has reached 160,095,200, an increase of 33,199,000 or 26.2 per cent. since the last general census in 1397. Constantinople, June 15.—Despatch- es ed here say that terrible floods floods have swept over the prov- ince of Erzerum, Turkish Armenia. Half the town of Hassankaleh has been wrecked by the torrents, hun- dreds of persons being drowned. The rise of the waters resulted from heavy rains Sarajevo, Bosnia, June 15.—General Varesanin de Vares, military governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, narrowly escaped assassination today., He was returning to the palace after having opened tie diet when a socialist named Karajie fired five shots at him from a revolver. None of the bullets found its mark. The would-be assassin, follow- ing the failure of his attempt on the life of the governof, shot and killed himself. QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS. Held at the Johnson Home—Memorial Address Read by Miss Geer. The quarterly meeting of the City Union of the King's Daughters was held at the Johnson home on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The opening devotional exercises were conducted by Miss Lucy Geer, who read the scrip- tures, and all united in repeating the Lord’s prayer. The memorial address, which was read by Mrs. Smiddy at the county conference, was read by Miss Lucy Geer. The Teport of the last meeting was read by the escretary, Mrs. A. W. Dav- is, and was approvtd, and the report of the county conferemce, Written by Mrs. Arthur R. Blackledge, was read by Miss Henderson. Jt was a complete and helpful account of the doings of the conference. Following the business the following entertainment was given under the_ direction of Mrs. Louis A. Wheeler: Piano solo, Miss Ella Potter; solo, Mrs. W. G. Haselden; recitation, Mrs. Avery W. Park; piano solo, Mrs. Reuben Potter; piano and violin selec- tion, Olive and Austin Linton; recita- tion, Mrs, Avery W. Park. Ice cream and’cake were served. MT. PLEASANT ST. SCHOOL. Memorial and Flag Day Exercises Held in Grades Sevem and Eight. On Wednesday afternoon at the Mt. Pleasant street school the following programme was carried out In grades Eight and Seven for Memorial and Flag day, the exercises having been deferred one day because of the many absentees on Tuesday, which was a Jewish holiday: Grade S—Reading of the proclama- tion, Arline Fields; singing, The Star Spangled Banner; True _Patriotism, Choate, Abie Schwartz; Ode to the Brave, Collins, Annie Sadinsky; Biv- ouac of the Dead, Fannia Meier: Only a Soldier's Grave, Bertha Weinstei: Dirge for a Soldier, Baker, Ire Welch; Unfon and Liberty, Matilda Clish; Love of Country, Scott, Morris Zalinger: Salute to the Flag; einging of America. Grade_7—Proclamation, Bessie Car- ne: Dirge for a Soldler, Lillie Braunstein; The American Flag, Edna Bowe; Memory Day, Ida Blumenthal; song, Star Spangled Banner, schoo! True Patriotism, David Bendett; Dec- orating the Soldiers’ Graves, Ruth Barber; Breathes There a Man. Israel Cohen; wong, The Flag Goes By, the school; Only a Soldier's Grave, Ella Bowe; Barbara Frietchie, Annie Bass; Our Flag, Florence Cook: song, Amer- ica, school; Salute to the Flag, school. SPOKE TO LOCAL GREEKS. Hope to Have Priest Located Here for the Church on Boswell Avenue. On Wednesday: evening Father Pa- roskakos of Peabody, Mass., was in town and spoke to about fifty members of the Greek Catholic schurch, includ- ing_President Bibiscos, at the church in Boswell eavenue. Church matters were discussed, and an effort is to be made to have a Greek priest located here for the church. OBITUARY. Mrs. James C. Warr. Sarah E. Nichols, a mative of Nor- wich, and the widow of James C. ‘Warr, died on Tuesday at her home on Main street, Wareham, Mass., aft- er an illness of several weeks. She had lived in Wareham about 25 years and was the daughter of Mr. and Afrs. John Nichols. She was born in this city 69 years ago. Mrs. Wagr was & member of the Monday clib and of the Queen (f Hearts whist club. She was an Epls- copalian, among the faithful workers of the Church of the Good Shepherd. She leaves two sons, William =. C. ‘Warr of Wareham, and James C. Warr of Miami, Fla., formeriy of this city. FUNERALS. August Johnson. At 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the funeral of August Johnson was held from his late home in Montville, the services being conducted by Rev. S. ¥. Maine, pastor of the Uncasville M. E. church. There was a large num-— ber in attendance and a number of handsome floral forms. The bearers were Swanton and Ernest Johnson, Ruth McDermott and William Smida Burial was in the Comstock cemetery, where a committal service was read. Shea & Burke had charge of the ar- rangements. King's Daughters’ Convention. A recent item on the fifteenth an- nual state convention of King's Daughters and Sons stated that it would be held in New Haven in Octo- ber. This should have been in New London. Especial pleasure apd profit at the convention are anticipaed from the presence of Miss Georgia Libby, vice president of the order; Mrs. Ed— ward H. Smiley, the Connecticut mem- ber of the central council; Mrs. W. G. Lathrop, state chairman of the Silver Cross magazine, and also two other members of the central councl, Mrs. B, P. Raymond, state secretary of Rhode Tsland, and Mrs. David Laird, state secretary of New Yorl Some People Are Particulal When cashing a pension check for 4 woman this week, a teller in a No-¥ wich savings bank-had a $10 gold certificate returned to him. The wo- man who had received it from him doubted whether it was good and wish- ed another bill in exchange. Anoiher woman who was buying one-cear stamps in a . drug store wanted know if she couldn’t zet them in a ferent eolors, as she gidn't like thein all green, i Mafiiml Ends Phelps Captured HAD BEEN SOUGHT BY POSSES SINCE SUNDAY. Shot and Killed In Store Door MURDERER COMMITTED SUICIDE IN CELLAR OF BUILDING. et PROVIDENCE MERCHANT - LOCKED UP IN COUNTY JAIL Hunted Man Half-Mad from Thirst and Hunger—Made No Resistance— Joseph Navacroski,, Second Hand Clothing Dealer—City Firemen Cali- ed Upon to Drown Out Murderer. Digging for Water When Taken. Providence, R. L, June 15.—Joseph Navocroski, aged 54 years, a_second- hand. clothing dealer, was shot and killed in the door of his store on South Main street tonight. His _supposed murderer fled to the cellar, where after an exchange of shots with several po- lice officers and an attempt by the fire department to drown him out he committed suicide by shooting. Rent Receipt on Suicide’s Body. A rent receipt found on the suicide’s body was made out to Fred Leclaire. It was from the Pawtucket house, a Pawtucket hotel. Murderer Took Refuge im Cellar. The sound of revolver shets issuing from the Navocroski store called the police to the place and the body of the storekeeper was found just inside the door, with two bullets in the forehead. Police Officer Patrick Blessing and In- spectors Ahern and Maguire were standing on the sidewalk in front of the store when several shots rang out, and one bullet, crashing through a cel- lar window, cut a hole through the helmet of Officer Blessing, but without injuring him. The officers immediate- ly returned the fire, shooting through the window into the cellar. Then, re— solved to take no further chances with the man in hiding, they sent,for the fire department. A hose wagon responded and streams of water were turned into the eellar window for nearly an hour. when the officers again ventured to reconnoiter. When they made their way into the cellar they found the man's body in the water. A bullet wound and pow der marks on his forehead showed that he had committed suicide, A revoiver was lying beside the bod Robbery the Motive. The man appeared to be about 25 or 30 years old. Aside from the rent re- ceipt, no means of identifying the man was found in an examination of the clothing. Navocroski was 54 vears old and had a wife and five children, with whom he lived in a tenement over his store. Robbery is believed to have been the motive of the murder. Monroc Bridge, Mass., June 15.— Declaring that he has been trying to surrender since Tuesday afternoon. Silas Phelps, the alleged murderer of Sheriff Haskins of Charlmont, ‘who has been sought for by sheriff's posses and militiamen in the vicinity of Mon- Toe mountain since last Sunday, is to- night locked up in the Frankln coun- ty jail. Had Tried to Surrender, He Says. ‘When Phelps was captured this aft- ernoon he declared that once before he had tried to surrender, but that he had frightened two of his pursuers by ‘coming on them suddenly, and befors he could offer himseif for capture they took to their heels. Will Be Arraigned This Morning. Frequently during the hunt for him, he said, he had called to his pursuers, but their paid no attention to him. Clean shaven, bathed and fed for the first time ‘since Sunday night, he is sleeping exhaustedly in his cell. At 9 o'clock tomorrow he will be arraigned in the Franklin district court before Judge Henry J. Field. In the absence of District Attorney Irwin a ten day’s continuance will be asked for by State Detective McKay. How the Capture Was Made. The capture of the hunted man was effected this afternoon by Deput Game Warden D. F. Shea, assisted by Charles Thompson of North Adams and Deputy Sheriff Pratt. Phelps was digging with a knife for water at a spot thirty yards from = clearing. His rifle and shotgun, both unloaded, were leaning against a tree out of reach. Shea ordered him to throw up his hands and then sprang at him. While | he held him, Thompsen covered him and Pratt manacled him. Phelps made no resistance. He was apparently hall mad‘from thirst and hunger, and asked to be taken to a spring a little distance away. There he fell headfirst into the water and gluped and choked until he was restrained. SAFEGU-; RD DEATH I:N EFITS. Insurance Commissioners Would Regu- late Fraternal Societies. New York, June 15.—Representatives of more than seven milllon members of fraternal societies red today be- fore the various state commissioners of insurance, in session in the Hotel Manhattan, to pass judgment on proposed uniform bili for state lation and control of the insurance features of the fraternities. The pro- posed bill will give to the state not only control of eight billions werth of fraternal insurance, but the measure will also have a direct bearing upon the solvency of more than one-half of the societies in the country. Tn a statement made by the commit- tee on fraternal insurance of the na tional association of insurance com missioners there appears the follow- ing: The opportunity for fakes and fraud In the good name of fraternal societies will be removed by the pro- posed measure. It requires that so- cieties with headquarters outside of a state shall comply with state require- ments or be refused a license. The, <hief’ menace to the soundness of the'| insurance certificate issued by many fraternal societies has been a reluct- ance on the part of members to sub- mit to the readjustment of rates neces- sary to proviie funds to meet death claims as the average age of members fncreased.” - WEST POINT GRADUATES 82. Commissions Presented by Secretary ‘vf War Dickinson. West Point, N. Y., June 15.—Bright skies favored commencement day at the United States militarv academy this morning. The exercises were held unider & canopy of canvas stretched in front of Battle Manument at Trophy Point, overlooking the Hudson river, Occupying the speakers’ stand were the secretary of war, Jacob M. Dickin- son, Brigadier General Walter Howe, commanding the department of the east, and a score of general officers of the Uniteq States army, and the mem- bers of the academy board. Col. Hugh L. Scott, superintendent of the acad- emy, presided. General Howe first addressed the cadets. He was followed by the sec- retary of war. The exercises conclud- ed with the presentation by Secretary Dickinson of second lieutenants’ com- missions to the 82 graduates. TO LET JUSTICE MOODY RETIRE. Senator Lodge Introduces Grant— ing Him Full Pay. ‘Washington, June 15.—Senator Todge today imtroduced a bill permitting ‘Willlam H. Moody, associate fustice of the supreme court of the United States, to retire from office with full pay, not. withstanding that he has not served ten years and is mot 70 years old, as required by law. Tt was learned that the suggestion that Justice Moody be retired came from the justice himself. His determi- nation to leave the bench was reached as a-result of some comment made re- cently that certain of the big corpora- tion cases assigned for reargument would have been decided by the su- preme court of the United States had not the court been o evenly divided. STATEHOOD BILL PROSPECT Senate Leaders Hoping to Take Mat- ter up After Postal Savings Bill. Washington. June 15.—Senate lead- ers today said that the passage of the statehood bill by the senate at the present session was assured It will not be taken up, however, until action | is had upon the conferemce report on the postal savings bank bill. Tac feel certain, however, that stateho -1 legislation will emerge from confer- ence. CAPT. S. O'CONNOR ACQUITTED. ed Officer Was Charged With SERIOUSLY STABBED BY HATPIN Deputy Marshal Did Not Discover In- | Ref jury Until Day After Inflicted. Killing Mak Ju ‘Feud_Over Ciuim. Globe, Ariz. Junme 15.—Although | Tombstone, S ! Deputy” Maraiial G W, Morsis wgs | Stephen O'Connor, U."S." A.. retirer, Ganwerously - wounded by a hajpin | Was acauitted tonight of the murder which penetrated his abdomen Monday | °f Dr- A S. Russell. The jury was while he was attempting to arrest a | Out five days. Captain O'Connor. wiho woman, he did not realize the fact|!S In his 73d vear. was accused «f having killed Russell in a feud over until today. The woman fought desperately. beating the officer over the head with a bottle, and he did not notice the tiny wound in which the steel had broken off until examined yesterda. by a physician. Morris will orobably die. QUEEN MARY TO BE REGENT mining claims The Appeal of the Land. Who is it that has the faire: in ‘the race of life these day: the lawy The citie: are full briefless barrister: Not the prea pr. Few professions are more poorly paid than his. Not the teacher. He rivals the preacher in meagreness of salar Hardly the doctor. The young physi- cian, as a rule, has hard sledding now as of yore. Not even the engineer mining, electrical, structural or me- chanjcal. He, as compared with most others, has a pretty easy row to hoe, but_even in engineering the ranks are beginning to be crowded, There is a new “proféssional man” who is leading all these in the race. This man is the thoroughly well train- ed eclentific farmer. There may be those who have easier going than he, but in the professions such are few and exceptional, merely going to prove a rule. Just now agriculture offers a clear field. There are more good jobs oper. than there are trained agricul- turists. The “Ag” school graduate who desires to teach has excellent chances of landing a place at $1,000 to $2,000 per year. The department of agricul- ture wants foresters and experts in indred lines. The state experiment stations are always on the lookout for promising new timber, and the big’ dairies, ¢ meries and cheese factories offer plenty of good opportunities for graduates in dairying. Of all the grad- nates who go out into the active worlg during these commencement days the gradusies in agriculture will have (he hest start in life. The moral of this i« “back to tfie 3 with a cauti Don't go rash- ly back. Wait till you know some- thing about the chemical makeup of the sofl in question.—Boston Traveler. Would Save Them He. What may be of belated interest to Britishera is the new invention de- scriped to the American society of m: chanical engineers of an apparatus to absorb. jars and shocks.—X. Y. World. going Yot of In Case of Demise of George V. Dur- ing Minority of Oldest Son. London, June 15.—Premier Asquith introduced in the house of commons today a bill appointing Queen Mary regent im the event of the demise - King George during the minority of the Duke of Cornwall. W. R. C. Memorial Day. The women of Sedgwick Relief corps met at the Buckingham Memorial on Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, where they prepared bouquets for the graves of their deceased members, about thirty in number, and then went to Yantic cemetery for their W. R. C. memorial day. Twenty-two members of the corps went to the cemetery on the 230 trolley, meeting a half dozen more in the cemetery, all assisting in, the decorating. American Mechanic Deputies. The deputies for the several districts . A. M. were announced on night by Grand Deputy Gammon of Manchester, nd 51, A. T. nd_53, Ray Returned from Lecturing Tour. Mrs, Charles W. Spalding has re- turned to her home an Penobscot street after an extended lecturing tour during which she has filled engage- ments with Spirituglist societies baih in Canada and the’hnile_d States. She has been away lu‘sflve months. Condensed 'Ielégra.ms An Insurrection Is Reported in the Acre territory of Brazil. Senator Rayner Introduced a Bill for a new immigrant station in Bal- timore. President Taft Formally Received the new Turkish ambassador, Yous- siff Zie Judge Peter Grosscup of Chicage favors curbing monopolies by con- trolling profits, The French government hus not the money to apply the workmen's old age pension law until 1911 John K, Gladden was for collector of the port of by National Committeeman The Bill Providing for the Abolition of the Jewish introduced 1n the commended Annapolis Jackson. Russian dguma, has no chance of e actment. Dr. m A. Granville of Shef- field scientitic school been called word of warning 80 it is said, the ductors of the Yonkers Railroad com pany went out on strike today, Street Car Strike Grips Yonkers NO WORD OF WARNING GIVEN TO THE EMPLOYERS. NOT A WHEEL TURNING Higher Wage Demand Refused—Peace- ful Walkout—No Precautions Talken Against Possible Disorder, Yonkers, N. Y., June 15.—Without a to their employers, motormen and con- Higher Wages Demanded. :.:rm.; presidency of Gettysburg uni- The cause of the strike is the refusa! ¥ =l of a higher wage, The men demande!l AP 30 cents an hour forea ten-hour Guy Senators Heyburn hes op- ¥ poentors Heyburn yand Hughes °D- | for which they. are now getting . 23 Bamiically attacked former Chiet For- | BB watkout was poscota The pa e strike was decided on at a meeting at Representative Ransdell made a |tWO Oclock this morning, and the speech in_the house calling attention | ™Gh SIMply dld not show up. 3 to the golden opportunities the south % l;“"_”‘hvl"”w i """Uk""‘ or ;"“"’"‘ offers to settlers. t, and run to Mt. Vernon Tuck TR R R e and the New York city line on torhe Senate Confirmed the nomina | Soutn Broadwayg at Two Hundred and South Carolina, to be United States R ST Rt Vaa b v e Forty-second street. The Vatican, Replying to Germany's Company Not Notified. protest against the pope's recent en- Leslle Sutherland, receiver of, ti eyclical, declares there w o intcr- #Yonkers Railroad com s tha tion of iffending German testants, | he received no netification the men = = were about to strike, and that the Number of Friends and Supporters | Company wag taken entr unawares of Francesco Madero, the imprizoned | by the action of its employ candidate for president of Mexico In The men were to hold a meeting at opposition to Diaz, e also been ar- | ten o'clock this morning at Hibernii rested. | hall, on Palisade avenue, their head- — quarters, but for some reagon it was Clarence Buck and His Son Bernard | Postioned. = Avhen ~asked when the were burned fo death in a fire which | eeting would be held, the men were destroyed thelr powder factory .oper- [Umb. = = G % ated by the Buck Manufacturing com- pany, at Coudersport, Pa [ The Worl Missionary Congress | | i s Trolldymer . to take cha definite union of th could be n 1TThe irtied ng here out nothing n this point, < , Scotland 1de s e e swelcigh. Thevs | Citizens Must Take Steam Trains or are 1,200 accredite delegat - J. Walk, Bryan is a representative of an The strike is being conducied ‘n churches. peaceful fashion, and the msm wie ———————— keeping away from the car barns &nd cousing no trouble whatever, Tha b lice, so far, seem_to be taking no ¢x OVER THE BAR PROHIBITED. | (., ‘recautions against a possibie dis oy . turbence and only the usual nun Massachusetts General Court Adjourns | o7 i 0 & dome Tarrol duty After Session of 162 Days. | The great | ) t June 15 Massachusetts Boston, Mass., and genéral court of closed up its business for the vear shortly after 9 o'clock this eyening after a session of 1 s, which was unusually prolific in legislation regard- ing railroads, especially the New York, | New Haven and Hartford. The legislature went on favor of direct nc r state senators and T and against the white | It made October day,” a legal holid: record in tr HEAD-ON COLLISION | Freight Cusiness men, clerks and othe the city dally by the trolley to go by the New York <en ns this morning, or walk as far ns « city line befors they could get a ley car iad ON THE RUTLAND ROAD. Fireman Killed, Two Train- men Injured in Vermont. Bennington, Vt., June 15, Fred , a freight fireman, was kill- srely over the bar a fwo other tralumen se in bottles to sealed receptacles, and and rallrc at South 8 r‘:»xm.r-’vi, gra: e N5 th Bowto k afternoon, between a southboun nted pensions to Qoston teachers. | g olgnt and a light engime, Thomas >R Mangan, engineer of the freight, was BIDS FOR THE PANAMA LOCKS. | [l 1y injured Iintornally, and Louls Lowest Submitted by McClintock-Mar- | Greenough, engineer of the 1ight en- shall Construction Company. e e, B oo ‘Washington, June 15.—One of th an e reduced to scrap torn up for & hun- R e T e onen: | dred vards, holding up passenger trat- locks to be located at three different | fIc for the rest of the day. goimte"ten 21 Gatun, wi Tt V0 | wome semious TROUBLE largest of these will be 52 feet high IN THE SEYLER FAMILY. and all will be 65 foet wide, o e Bids were open today mru.» isth- | Brother of William Sey! Recently mian canal commission for furnishing i f vy the material and building these locks Acquitted, Shit By His: Fathe which will require abouj-60,000 tons of Atlantic City, N, J., June 16.—Jasper steel. The lowest bid wa ubmitted s - e . 5 eyler, aged yedrs, brother of by the®McClintock-Marshall Congtruc- | wijjjam Seyler, recently acquitted of tion company of Pittsburg for $6.374,- | the charge of having murdered Jane 474 The United & ! Produets | Agams, was probably fatally shot xports company submitied two bids | AGUDE., Wik probably Taralty, Shot o R The bid|geiler, his father. A bullet from of the Maryland Steel any was| hod N o biver struck Jesper in $3.409.368, and of the er-Conley | 1opt hreast and while the bullet has Manufacturing company of Pittsburg | yeen removed the surgeon $10,183,257. artery has been cut and th ] ZINE B dle. “Peter Scyler has bheen BLAZE NEAR BENZINE BARRELS. charged with the shooting, which he ¥ | @ as accidental a Willlam Work of a Drowsy Longshoreman— | GiIVIAR MM | SPCUeaiog g, WHTIen Took a Siesta on Salt Hays long York, June 15.—A dr Demogratic Candidate for Governor of W wisy shoreman dropped a lighted cigar into | Maine. some salt hay on which he lay on| Afigusta, Me, June 15.—Mayor Fred the bulkheads of piers Nos, 9 and 10, | eflek W. Plaisted of Augusia, a son East river, today, starting a lvely | of Gen. Harris M, Plaisted, who, 30 blaze. %o, was elected governor of There were 200 iron barrels of ben- | Maine by a fusion of the demoerats zine a few yards away, and wer greenbackers, was today nomi made a dash for ety the democratic state eonven A policeman sent in a fire a the gubernatorial candidate for some of the firemen turned in omin Mayor Plaisted roll. the barrels whiie others | receive while 11 votes drenched t hay Little | wer t Obadiah iner of damage waus don he longshore Ro d, who was the party’'s noml man disappeared, nee governor two years ago, DEAD FARMER ON A PILOT. | Steamship Arrival —— At Liverpool, June 15: Caledoniar Was Found on Locomotive Holding a | from FHoston Sack of Flour, r At Plymouth, June 15: Teutont from New York, Akron e 15 At Nuples, June 14: Berlin, fron pilot of wotive s New York sack of Ml he dead bod At London, June 15 Messaba, from M. Webb. 35 years, a fa New York, near Clinton, was found — - It is supposed that he w { Rewards of Honesty. the engine while walking 3 | ‘Whether Richard J. Parr gots $100, tra and was hurled into the air, fall- | 000 or seven times that amount for Ing upon the pilot. The body w his services in exposing the sugar in position by the coupling de trust fr there can be no doub A = - >, that ®o handsome a reward will have President Taft at Marictta College. | a bracing cffect on the morale of the > rresident | BOVernment service .as a whole, it Ix Tui‘r‘c"s‘s::flkm?'u Jume i TIendent | quite true that the government has a niversary of the foundins of Meristta | Tight to look to its employes for loyal college here today, took for the theme | S€rvice as a mati of the day's work of his address the history of the north- | and in no expectation of any other re west territory and referred to the or- | Werd than the approval of their own dinance of 17 for the government of conseience But men would not be the territory as the greatest instru men If so dramatic a demonstration ment of fundamental law, except the | of the somewhat neglected propesition constitution of t United = , | that honesty is the best policy falled which has ever been enunciate oy | to make its: impression. In an age men, | which gives extraordinary rewards to W | the exc tional, it ds not unfitting that Pawtucket Street Car Conductor Killed | o, cXir0tdlnary & combination of in Pawtucket June 15.—In a J.. Py displayed in the uphill fight lision of t urs on_ 1ire agalnet the sugar thieves should r tonight I exce) recognition, Yot § wis killed and would be u r to thousands of g seph Riordan. ernment servants mot to point out that injured. Simin good. fortune, 100, PIayed its part In on the running e Parr's case, and that in faithful at swung from a side street and stroek | fendan 1o duly his case I8 not nr his car midway. Tl ductor’s less | common o much has beon sald and were crished. written about shiftlessness and in S —————— competency AMONK gUVerninent em- By Wi from Roosevelt's Ship, | % us Lo obacure the that for On Board Kaiserin Auguste Vietoris, ry lax or unfaithful servaut ihere by Wireless to Cape Race, Newfound.- must, In the ature of things, Le (e land, June 15 Colonel Ro velt re- zealous and el ent servants, or the iterated to those on board who falked | Work of the government could not go to him today that he will decline to | on at alL.—N. Y. Evening Post. or to_ make speeches anywhere until two months after h arrival in the United States He wil make this plan immediatel= he lands a further statement of his attitude. discues politics Obsourity of the Groom. Kermit will usher at the wedding, fhus conferring additional ohecw upen the groom.—Boston Transcript.