Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 13, 1910, Page 1

7 r NG Five Thousand Four Huadred Residents Homeless — Property Loss Estimated at $2,500,000 — Greatest Fire New Erunswick has Seen Since the Conflagra- tion in St. John in 1877—Eut Two Lives Lost. Dalhousie, N. B, July 12.—A waste | ugees who camped tonight on the of smoking ruins exten g for two | banks of ihe Restigouche. . miles and seven isolated buildings rep- ‘ i Fi;";‘r: of :':! V:;:':n:fi;;'- i o= o Cimpe ampbellton e mted tonight the town of CamiD” | shingle center in eastern America. Al bellton and the nearby village of Rich- | 1o mills were destroyed, including the ardsville, which were overwhelmed |big plants of the Sh|‘;'e! Lumber Cl)ma festerday by tengues of flame and fire- | pany, Richards Lumber company, an Trands hriven Eefare a male. Two |the Moffat miils, = The . property of ves .were lost during the ten hours | these three concerns, in which Ameri- the fire raged. Dr. Beverly Sproule, ' can capital was interested, was valued & dentist, while aiding with his auto- | at_$300,000. This estimate inciudes Mobile in rescuing women and chil- | mills and lumber. A gale and the fai dren, was burned to death by an ex- |ure of the water mains left the pop- plosion of gasoline. An infant was | ulation helpless againat the sweep of | focated i e smoke. the flames. b kg Dr. Sproule gave up his life in sav- Property Loss $2,500,000. ing others. He had carried many wo- Five thousand residents of Camp- | men and children in his car to safety Deliton and 490 of Richardsville are | and had returned to a burning dwell- homeless. One thousand Duild! s in | jng when his gasoline tank exploded. E mrbeléwn,rh a Sqi\';’i;“;g ‘fl’:fip;‘;fi | Score of Fires Set by Flying Embers. estroyed. e con g | v v] d to b pes 3 | Many of the men who attempte bulldings and other property in both | [ NeTY oL o6 T S A ed to D e otal Incurance is $1,000, | abandon the hose and flee for their [T TG Sotal SAmEAE & lives when the flames overwhelmed the e he Res. | Pundreds of wooden buildings of which Refugees Camped on Banka of the the town was constructed. Embers tigouche. | from great Quflnlidliie! of bll;nil:g !h!r:- 3 ome_meanbl order | gles carried long distances by the gale e o ehed by ihe authori. | set fres by the score, and for ten ies and relief work was beguh. Dur- | hours destructioh went on. The fiames ing the day special trains brought | Lurned themselves out in Campbeliton temts food and other suppiies, and all | and Richardsville this morning, but who could not be accommodated in |the forest Is still ablaze at many je and ~in farm: fricts | poinis & Do ared under camvas. Hun: | The fire was the greatest in New Greds of persons lost all they possessed | Erunswick since the destruction of a and it was a disconsolate band of ref- large part of St. John in 1877. VERY CREDITABLE SHOOTING | CERTIFICATE OF EXIGENCY AT WAKEFIELD RANGE.| GRANTED THE C. V. ROAD Tournament of the New England Mili- For the Proposed Extension to Provi tary Rifle Association. dence—An Important Mov e % 2—S cery | Montreal, Que., July 12.—The news e 2 —Some very | : el e e one today by | that the railway commission of Massa- e e vatious matches of the | chusetts has granted a certificate of D giama Miitary Rifle aacociatio . | exigency to the Central Vermont rail- s Lieut E. S. Higsins of | Toad for the proposed extension to the Second Maine, shooting in the | Providence R. I, was received with Cushing match at S00 yards, made 34| satisfaction at the Grand Trunk offices comseeutive bullseves, Sergeant M. | today. % : corps 81 in the same mat D AN i | the first break in_the momopoly hith- B Tt % Tt Miashed 8ot held by the New Havem Faad in = 5 New England. We have gone against in the company team gatches Lieut.| oo PR pcatest railway systems I E G Parker of Com e e aibi | the New England states and have won, Huampshire, scored €9 oft of & Dot o | Which meafia that néw we can. g0 at 200 and 300 vards; Sergeant J.|ahead and bulld our line through to H. Keough of Wakeficld 64, and Ser” | Providence, and now that the ice is geant A. J. Patten of Company C.-Sixi broken it nwill probably mean that Massachusetts, 66. In the Tanner »re- within a year or two we shall have our s o N Private | own entrance into Boston. George W. Chesler Ne i el i Conn., made 23 builseves. WILLING WORKERS The only possible scored during the NaE de: was by Captain S. W. Wise. Sixth | Gave a Sale With Successful Results rfl:fint:ul!llu_ in the Henry match at| at Miss Dobbrow’s Home. vards. Four little girls who comprise the ANCILLARY RECEIVER Willing W'nrkers—]mh-e Linton, Viola 1ELDS COMPANY. |and Mildred Engler and Rhea Dob- e gt brow—met _with success far beyond i . 8. Circuit Court | their expectations in holding a sale b v o - = sE Wood. ™" | Tuesday afternoon on the lawn at the RN Theivy = Wood. | Dobbrow home, No. 23 Park streat e ey Their purpose was to help the Salva- Eriladelphia, July 12_0n the decla- | o0 "ATmy'e outing for poor children. T3 on At D R ite of the stock of | and they will be able to turn over $10 i B f1to Captain Douglass as the result of o Bluefcide Steamship =company: | {7 (D DOUEAS limited. by alleged dominating tactlcs| Cake. candy and lemonade were for hee caused @ loss of at least 33800000 | 01" Gy “medtng n ready patronage 1o the Blueflelds company, o N eimens | There were two articles to be awarded N emporting Zriits from ftropical re. | Juring the afternoon, of which Mrs. Fioms o this country. Judge Holland | A . Geer received the kimona and in ths United States circuit court here | 2188 T08 MUTP! ‘2:;30);0(5'30 el today appointed Elmer E. Weood an-|° " = . -P‘Ai‘l\r} receiver of the Bluefields com- ST. MARY'S SOCIETY T e e e et | Officers Elected at Semi-Annual Meet- court for the district of Louisiana, | ing—To Be Installed Next Week. ich on Dec. 3d appointed Mr. Wood mary receiver upon the appiication| Its semi-annual election was held on ©f Fraderick M. Steele of Chicago, a | Tuesday evening by St. Mary's T, A. stockholder of the Bluefields organiza- | and B. society at a_special meeting in Tioms who is also the petitioner in the | the rooms in the T. A. B. building. present case. President Lewis A. Andrews was re. elected, h the following staff: Vice POSTAL SAVINGS BANK STAMP |president, John Wozniak; recording ke = secretary’ and editor, James B. Smith; ed by the Postmaster General— | financial secreta Archibald An- A”"'O,d Y for. GOMDNS Biven dre reasurer, John Edwards; li- i i ]hr rian. Horace Cornshlg. sergeant at . 3 S Bartholomew Smith; _directors, R . oy Tne ns N Caples, chairman, John Don- B S mtem” har heen” approved Gy | ohue. William Norton, Jeremiah Rior- B e e nalhroVed BV | Gan Charles McGibney, Walter Casey Sery unpretentious looking. emblem, re. | John Wozniak; trustées. (13 months), Semabling an ordinare twa cent stamp, | John Donohue, John Fitzgerald. The: S R hie mo porBatt Gpon ft ilare to be installed next week b SR W e, sxctaateuty on M2 ol County Director Maurice Fitagerald mail in conducting the postal savings |°f New London. Pt e Arst order for 500,000 of these| NEWARK, O, LYNCHING CASE. e L AN NNCLTInE: | Ten Suspects Held to Answer to First the stamps in order that an account Degree Murdar Charge. may be kept of the expense attending - ; ‘her.dmh'\ir;(rann:- of the postal sav Newark, O. July 12.—Sheriff Linke Jnes banks. Until the srstem is in-|of Licking county resigned today. The ialled the stamns wiil te used exclu. | county commissioners elected . AL Sively on the oficial mail of the hoard | Slabaush io succeed him. At a se. of trustees. cret session of the police court to- night Acting Mayor Ankele bound over 000, | 1o the mrand jury, which meets on JUSTICE FULLER LEFT $1.000000. | tonday, ten suspects arrested as a. re- pecEiiect A | sult of the Iynching. They were held i Gm;";""”f:'"c Heirs—A | Sithout bonds to amswer to the charge e g of murder in the first degree. ustice of the suireme covrt of the, by His Wife's Half Filled Grave. United States. which has been filed in Monroe, La. July 12.—Returning the probate court the children of the | here today with Philip Ward, alleged Jurist and the direct heirs will share [ horse thief, Sheriff Parker and his ually in the division of his estate, | deputies reported that they came up- ich is estimated to amount to near- on Ward while he was standing by the Ty_$1.000.000. half filled grave of his wife. Ward The document provides that the es- | drew a revolver,but the deputy Knock- tate. which included real estate valued | ed it out of his hand. He drew an- 2t $300.000. be held in trust for the | other, and it met the same fate. As heirs during the lifetime of his chil- | he was drawing a third revolver the dren. 8 S Gregory. a Chicago la posse decided it was time to intrude yer, and the Merchants' Loan & Sl further upon the obsequies, and gompany are named as truste “Th placed kim under arrest. Ward's wife | will s brief and was executed in ammitted sulcide vesterday. He |© 10, 1910, % he bad self-destruction in mind 3 when the posse drew up, and na, © Oldest Resident of New Orleans Dead | thought of harming them. - at 100 Years. ew Grleans, July 12 v« Sarah | Chief Clerk of Albany Hotel, New Murphy Robi-. 160 years oid, (he old- York, Arrested at Buffalo. 2 resident of New Orleans. died to-| Buffalo, N. Y. July 12.—Roy Salt, * @ay. Captain Murphy. her father, | said to_be chief clerk of the Albany who had been an officer in the British | hotel, New York, was arrested here v, come with his familc ‘o New | tonight on a charge of grand larceny E s New in 1822° At|It ix alleged that Salt was a stake- that time the family was in financial | holder in » $2,100 pool on the Jeffries- and the passage here was made | g by the generosity of Aaron | gvhom the Murph:s were terms. Johnson fizht and that after the fight It and the money disappeared. To- ht Salt deciared he placed the $2,100 the hotel safe and left it there. Melbourne, July i2.—The government has decided that it has no power to prevent the introduction of films of the Jeffries-Johnson fight. Lisbon, July 12.—A royal decree has been issued nullifying the action of Archbishop Braga, who upon orders from Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretars of state, suppressed the Franciscan Review. which, he main- tained, although Christian and Cath- olie, was not necessary to the support of the national Catholic party. Dresden, July 12—Princa John George of Saxony, brother, of King Frederick August, and the princess made an ascension this evening in the dirigible balloon Parseval IV. The two princes of Caserta also wers passen- gers. The airship, which arrived here early in the day from Bitterfield with six_passengers aboard, carried out a series of interessting evolutions over the city and made an easy landing in the presence of 10,000 spectato™ THINK TIGHE THE MAN / WHO SKIPPED LOCAL JAIL Deputy Sheriff Bowen Does Not Think Him the Man, However—Tighe in Company ‘With Greenwich Red and James Miller. Presented before the United States court at New Haven on Tuesday, Greenwich Red, who was arrested here in conmection with the break at the postoffice at Gales Ferry and sent to state prison, James Miller, known as Cheshire Dutch, and John Tighe | were given a hearing which will be completed today. They broke into the station at Stony = Creek. but were frightened off and later captured b: Constable W. J. McKee of Branfor They pulled out a telephone pay sta- tion, but dropped it intact when pur- sued. Greenw *h Red gave the name of Frank Murphy, Miller said his name was Charles Smith. and John Tighe of New London gave the name of Tay- Jor. On Tuesday Greenwich Red said he was not Greenwich Red, as that fellow is doing time in a government prison. He said he knew Chief Mur- phy of Norwich and it was he who gave him the name Greenwich Red, and that he had never been called that before. Chief Mufphy was in attendance at the hearing and-testified that the ac- cused was Greenwich Red and the one who broke into_the postoffice at Gales Ferry. State Policeman Hurley said e had known him as Greenwich Red for five years. Miller is one of the number was sentenced from here to state p on for one to four vears for blow the safe at the Briggs mill at Volun- town. He served the full four years | and was released last January Tighe is a New London man. and it was said at New Haven that he had escaped from the Norwich jail a few vears ago. As to this Deputy Sheriff Bowen, the jailer. stated on Tuesday evening that he did not think he was the map, although when the fellow sas there he had been told his name was Tighe. The feliow who skipped from jail when they were tearing up the flooring there in 1905 gave the name of Frank Corcoran and he was serving nine months and costs for statutory burglary. WORK 1S STARTED ON THE NEW SEWER Will Be Continued This Summer Un- til All the Sewers Ordered Are In. The sewer commissioners have or- dered the street commissioner to be- gin work on the sewers recently au- thorized by the city meeting and couri- eil and work was started Monday on the Boswell avenue sewer, the portion in Eleventh street being buiit first. A good start has been made and some pipe has already been laid. A ledge has been encountered which may de- lay the work somewhat. The commissioners will push this work so that all the sewers will be put down during good weather. Sewers in Platt avenue, Oneco street and Ripley place are to be constructed. BROADWAY SUNDAY SCHOOL. Annual Outing Held at Kitemaug and a Delightful Time Was Enjoyed. Members of the Broadway Congre- gational church Sunday school to the number of 225 had their annual out- ing and picnic_on Tuesday, going to Kitemaug on the 9.20 tr: on_ the Central Vermont road. They were 2n- tertained in various ways. Sto launch was In commission for parties all day and at 12.30 o'clock dinner was served, 45 loaves of bread and 50 loaves of cake having been disposed of, together. with the other menu at- tractions. Mrs. A. H. Lathrop was in charge of the refreshments and had an able corps of assistants. The financial end was in charge of Amos A. Brown- ing, while the tramsportation and | games were looked after by Herbert B. Cary. superintendent. The com- mittee in charge of the picnic included Amos A. Browning, Herbert W. Gal- lup, Herbert B. Cary, Mrs. A. H. La- throp and Miss Freeman. The day was pleasantly bowling, boating, ~swimming, various games were enjoved. Thare was a close bali game between nines captained by Walter Peck and Roger er winning, 6 to 5 passed in while Champion, the for: It was found an ideal spot for a pic- nic and F. W. Browning did all that was possible fo make the day a suc- cess, the courtesies extended being ex- ceptional. - The party returned about 6 o'clock, happy but tired. OBITUARY. Patrick McCune. After a lingering illness. which va patiently borne, Patrick McCune pas ed away on Tuesday afternoon ab 5.30 o'clock at his home, No. 22 well avenue. He had been a resis of Norwich for fiftv-three years, and was a brick mason by trade. belonging to the local union. He was a native of County Louth. Ireland, and when he first came to the United States ne was located for a few years in New London before coming o this city. In this city, May 30, 1868, he was united in marriage with Mary Whalen by Rev. Daniel Mullin of St. Mary's parish. His wife survives him with their four children—Mrs, P. B. McC b of Springfield, William D. McCun Thomas P. McCune and James J. Me- Cune, all of this city. The deceased leaves five grandghildren and one cous- in, Owen Murtha of New London. Mr. McCune’s interests were all cen- tered in his home. where he was a g00d husband and a kind father. who gave & good examole (o those he in- fluenced_ As a workman and citizen he was industrious and faithiul 1o his duties and he leaves many friends to mourn his loss. Sent Back to Providenc: By jumping off ‘a freight train In the local freight vard Tuesday morn- ing William Hand. who is 44, and was on his way to Stafford Springs. sprain- ed his foot and was treated by Dr per. The selectmen’s attention was iled to the case and he was sent to Providence by Clerk Corkery. ORANw USED IN GH-AM BATTLE AT ATLANTIC CITY. ‘FROM A HEICHT OF 300 FEET Aviator Demonstrated Utility of Ae: planes in Coast Defense—Practically. Made'Every Shot a “Hit.” Atlantic City, N. J. July 12.—Glenn Curtiss _tossed oranges as mimic bombs within_three feet of the decks of the yacht John E. Mehrer IL, used in place of a battiéship during the sham battle arranged this afternoon to demonstrate the utility of aero- planes in coast defense. The mock “hombs” were -dropped from a helght of about 300 feet, and Curtiss purpose— ly failed to strike the deck of the yacht for fear of injury to the officials and passengers. 8 Visiting experts agreed that the ex- periments showed that a fleet of aero- planes armed with bombs of high ex- piosives could wreck any warship be- fore guns could be trained on them. Curtiss was fiving about 45 miles an hour when he dropped the “bombs” and officials on the yacht deelared that he was within accurate rifle fire less than a half minute. Colonel William_ Allen Jones, retired, formerly neer corps, who Is an advoecate of aeroplanes 'for coast defense, stated his belief that the air machone has provey its efficacy. Bombarded Fortifieation Beach. Curtiss also dropped oranges over a Marked on fortification marked out on the beach, | making practically every shot a “hit, although the trajectory was sometimes thirty degrees becaues of the wind and his speed. Brookins Made Sensational Flight. ‘Walter Brookins’ last flight here day was sensational, the driver gliding his machine toward the ocean until its hunners were submerged in a breaker. He rose safely and glided to the beach. Both Curtiss and Brookins also made exhibition flights over the oecan. Today's flights ended the meet. The prizes of $5,000 each were presented to Brookins for breaking the altitude record and to Curtiss for establishing a fifty mile American record over the sea ‘course - yesterday. Twenty-two flights were made during the ten days of the meet. SHORTAGE OF AUGUST ROPKE IS “VERY LARGE." Placed by Rumor at About $500,000— Peculations Began 15 Years Ago. Louisville, Ky., July 12.—Admission that the shortage of August Ropke, de- faulting assistant secretary of the Fi- delity Trust company, is “very large™” was made at the Trust company’s of- fices today. At the same time it was announced that the directors of company had pledged themselves to an increase of $1,000,000 in the capital stock, if such increase be necessary. President John W. Barr issued a | statement this afternoon in which he says: “Our securities have been found absolutely intact. The defalcation of Mr. Ropke is very large. The estates are absolutely intact. can be lost to anyone other than the stockholder: Ropke’s shortage is placed by rumor at about $500,000. His case today was set for hearing before a grand jury on October 5. The prisoner returned to jail in default of $25,000 bail. Although no official statement could be obtained, it is said the peculations began_between ten and fifteen vears ago. The exact time involved will not be known until the examination by the experts shall be completed. The | system employed by Ropke is also as yet unggplained, aithough it is gen- Mioposed that e manipulated Dalzell Gained Three Votes in the R count. Pittsburg, - July 12 —Congresman Dalzell's majority in the primary elec- tion of June 4, which was contested by his opponent. Dr. R. J. Black, is now 207, according to the returns found by the county commissioners in their recount of the district, was finished tonight. The returning board of elections has found a major- ity of 204 for Dalzell, and in the re. | count, made upon petition of Black, Dalzell gained three votes. CHARLES M’KIRNIN ré DROWNED IN HARBOR. Had Besn Mising All Night When Body Was Found Floating. The body of Charles McKirnin, who lived at S3 High street, was found floating in the Thames river off the south end of the Chappell dock about 4 o'clock Tuesday. morning. Thomas Pearson, who was rowing across the river, ‘notived something floating, and finding it was the body of a man, tewed it to the Jomstock wharf at the foot of Page's lane, and made it fast there. The body had_ben' previ- v notived by Thomas Wright, Po- ou was. Medical Examiner Kimball was noti- fied by the policeman. When he ex- ed the only mark fouhd on itnami amined the mbodyeht 01 4 amined the body the only mark found on it was a slight cut on one hand. The body had been in the water only a hhort time. Mr. McKirnin had been away from his home all right, and Chief Murphy had been so notified by his wife. The missing man had last been sen on Thames street and North Thames strect between 8 and 8.30 Monday evening. A crutch, cane and hat,which were -identified as_his property were found by. Frank Perry in the gans- way near the Chappell company office. Mr, McKinnin was about 70 years old and had been in poor health for somw time. He had resided here about ten years, having kept a. stor> on Thames street and on High strect. fe came here from Monson, Mass., having heen 4 stonecutter. He' leaves his wife, three soms and two daught Oneé son lives i Providence. ~Because of the condition of Mrs. McKirnin, who was prostrated by the death of her husband, Coroner Brown hLas not been able to begin his investigation. Gone to Bushy Point. Promptly at 10 morning the party of 25 Y. M.-C. A. boys who are to camp for two wezks [ Mr. two | Church & Allen took ‘cha: ‘dock. | remains. -The burial will at Bushy Point left here in Jaunches” from the. municipal General Seeretary Morse was with the | family boys. distance for | of the United Statés Engi- | the | Not a dollar | which | eman Morrow and another man who | were standing on the west bridge over | A fast_milk train on the main line of the Yantic, but they had not been able | t to decide certainly from there what it | Mock Bombs|Ha i | | o'clock Tuesdaw|tham arrived here Tues Y. WY 13 810 ) Hfl Callers POLITICS DISCUSSED AT NATION'S e SUMMER CAPITAL. SATISFACTION EXPRESSED Hopeful of Republican Success All Along the e—Long Conference. Beverly, Mass., July 12.—President | ‘Taft talked politics today with Sen— ator W. Murray Crane of Massachu- setts, - Attorney General ‘Wickersham | and Secretary Nagel of the department | of commerce and labor. All of these | gentlemen were the president’s guests | at luncheon. Their conference lasted | until after 6 oiclock tonight. Extreme Reticence Displayed. Extreme reticence was displayed by | everybody, and no statement, other than that the general situation was | discussed, could be obtained. Senator | Crane was close to the president dur- ing the last session of congress. Dur- | ing the last six weeks of the session, | when the president was hammering | away at the programme which he| finaily induced congress to adopt, Sen- ator Crane was a daily visitor at the White House. In looking forward to a | campaign which it is admitted on all | sides will be a hard one, it was natural | that Mr. Taft should consult with the senator from Massachusetts among the first of his advisors. President is Hopeful. The president was reported tonight l#o be very well satisfied with general | conditions and hopeful of success “all along the line. It was definitely detemined this aft- ernoon that Attorney General Wicker sham shall accompany Secretary Na- | gel to Alaska. The situation in that far off territory has given the presi- | dent much concern. Serious factional | fights have been in progress there for | several vears. Extreme bitterness has | been displayed. Each time an appoint- | ment has been made to one of the fed- | eral offices, a campaign has been start- | ed against the appointees. NEW YORK COTTON BROKER MISSING SINCE MONDAY Rowed Out on Long Isiand Sound and Disappeared. republican | New York, July 12.—George H. Reit- man, a New York cotton broker, has been strangely missing since Monday morning when he left his home, osten- sibly to go to his office. Instead he | went to Throggs Neck, Westchester, rowed out on the Sound and disap- peared. An emplove of a ikt heuse at Throggs Neck came to the Reitman house today and reported that a man giving the name of Reitman had hired the boat Monday morning and that neither Reitman nor the boat had been heard from since. The family was @i- ready alarmed by his absence and witn | this news the search was begun. | Mrs. Reitman said tonight that Reii- | man is an expert swimmer and osra- man, but she cannot explain his sud- | den whim to go boating and negiect his business. unless his mind was of fected by the heat. Reltman is 43 vears old. NEW LONDON POKER JOINTS. Three Men Arrested for Operating the | Places and Fined $100. i William Manice, John Madden and Charles H. Humphrey were each fined $100 in the New London police court Tuesday morning, each being charged | with operating a place reputed to be a | gaming resort. In each case & demurrer was overruled and the accused found guiity. Humphrey gave notice of an appeal and a bond of $250 was ordered in his case. Prosecuting Attorney Cronin told | Judg> Colit that the men were arrest- ed on warrants, resulting from an in- vestigation on the part of Lieutenant | Jeffers. The lieutenant had been 100k- ing for a man; a hanger-on around the poker rooms, and made a tour of them on Sunday, July 3. He visited Mad- den’s place in the Bacon block, State street, Humphrey’s in Aborn hail, Bank ‘street, and Manice’s in the Shea | building, Bank street, and in each one found ,evidences ‘of gambling. The' lieutenant was not looking for | road aw. and " operated aeroplanes, committed suicide Dby jumping from a - skiff in Marblehead “harbpr today He had | | been mentaily dépressed for some Condensed Telegrams | Were Held in Anticlerical Meetin many cities in Spain. J. Perez Caballero has been appoint- ed Spanish minister to France. . Twenty. y-three Persons Died from the heat in New York during a week. San Francisco Has Barred the ox- hibition of all prize fight pictures. Major David Rice Burnham, U. S. A, retired, died at Carbondale, Pa. Thirty-seven Ogalala Sioux Indians attached 1o a wild west exhibition ars reported stranded at Brussel The Navy Department has invited eight firms to it bids for extend- ing the dry do . 3 at Norfalk, Va. During the Coming Fiscal Year the postoffice department expects to use nb?ut 1,225,000,000 yards of binding twine. g Upon an Interpellation by the so- cialist deputies the French chamber of deputics adopted a vote of confidence in the government. A Board of Government Officials has been appointed to carry out the law covering the adulteration and mis- branding of insecticides. General William L. Marshall, retir- ed,returned from his vacation and took up his duties as consulting engineer to the secretary of the interior. The State Department expects soon to receive additional advices concern- ing a secret treaty accompanying the new Japanese-Russian compact. Former Secretary of the Interior I.| A. Garfleld set forth the platform of the insurgent wing of the republican party at a banquet in Cleveland, O. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane in a speech at the international railroad congress in Berne, Switzer- land, explained the new American rail- The Interior Department has becn | notified that the forest fires that have been raging In Sequoia Nation: park for the past few days are believed to be under control: Contracts Were Let by the treasury department for electric light bufbs, of which the government uses approxi- mately 1,000,000 a y The contracts aggregated about $170,000. Pay Director Martin reported to the navy department that $6,633.61 of gov- | ernment money and $90.20 of private | funds were taken by robbers from the | safe of the receiving ship Franklin. The Navy Department announced that the enlargement and extension of | the dry docks at Puget Soupd would ! inerease the total cost to $1,662,096, and at Pearl Harbor the eniargement will advance the cost to $2,904,000. JUMPED FROM A SKIFF IN MARBLEHEAD HARBOR. Suicide of Lieut. Pfitzner, Designer and Operator of Aeroplanes. Marblehead, Mass., July 12— Lieut. Alexander L. Pfiitzner of Budapest, Hungary. an aviator, who had designed weeks. In his flights with the Burgess-Cur- tiss aeroplancs at Plum Island in Neyw- buryport recently. Lieutenant Pfitzner had met with a number of mishaps and after each of these accidents became discouraged and morose. His friends say that he had expressed thie inten- tion on several occasions of commit- ting suicide. Last Saturday, when he narrowly escaped drowning in a creek after a fall with his machine, he ex- claimed while he was being pulled ‘out of the water: wish I had broken my neck, boys! Today he went out head in a skiff and later found fioating in the harbor. It con- tained the man’s hat-and coaf, an au- tomatic revolver, and a note giving the address of the owner of the boat. The barrel of the revolver was somewhat clouded as if it had been fired recent- Lieutenant Pfitzner was 35 years old. He graduated from the universi- ties of Charlottenburg and Budapest, taking engineering courses, after which he served in the artillery. He was a member of an old Hungarian family. from Marble- the boat was gambierg that day, but put the evi- | dence hé had up to Prosecuting At- | torney Cronin, who gave him warrants | for the three men. | Two Hours’ Ride With Dead Baby i Hiz Arms. 7 Philadeiphia. July 12.—Concealing | from his sick wife the fact that their infant had died while they were wait- ing for a train from Egg Harbor. N. J., to this city, Louis Deininger made th journey with the little body in his| arms. Not until they had arrived at| their home here, after a two hours’ | ride, did the grief-stricken father in- form his wife of the child’s death. The news caused her to faint, and the hus- band himself was almost prostrated ut | the ordeal he had endured. Fast Milk Tr Ran Switch. Brookfield Junction, Conn., July Into Open | Berkshire division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road ran into an open switch just above the station tonight, overturning the engine and several of the cars loaded with milk. Two passenger cars on the rear of the train remained on tha tracks. Nome was injured. m of Pellagra in State of Rhode Island. Providence, R. L. July 12.—The dread disease pellagra has claimed its first vietim in this state in the death today of Willlam Riley, aged 55, an inmate of the stats almshouse. He had .been ill for a Jong time and about two weeks ago his case was diagnosed as pellagra. First At Hamburg., July 9: Deutschland, New York. braitar, July 12: Cretic, from York At Rotterda New York. At_Bremen, July 11, trom New York, At London, July 12: . July 10: Estonla, from 12: Kaiser Wilhelm Messaba, from (ew York. At Naples, July 12: Verona, from Philadelphia apd New York. He came to this country about eight veurs agn and was emoi yed by an au- Politics—Entire Situation tions Eill the One Rock in MNcither Hughes nor Roos: came up s not known. PRICE _TWO CENTS 'SECRET TALK AT SAGAMORE HILL It is Not Known Whether the New York Gov- ernorship Question Came Up GOVERNOR HUGHES AND MR. ROOSEVELT Spent Last Evenirg in éonfarence on New York State Reviewed—Direct Nomina- the Smooth Seas Ahead velt Would be Interviewed. Oyster Bay, Y., July 14.—Theo- |nations bill, and James W. Wads dore Rooseveit ‘and Governor Hughes | worth, speaker of the state wsgembly of *New York spent the evening gt [sald with equal frankness, when he Sagamore Hill in their long expected |called on Colonel Roosevelt In New and much heralded conference on New | York today, that this bill was the o York. state politics, They talked in | thing which loomed up as & rock in secret and no word of the result was |the smooth seas ahead, as he wa allowed to become known beyond the | pleased to paint the plcture Tt fact that the entire political situation | speaker'’s chat with the colonel wa in this state was taken up. Colonel | very brief, but to judge from appe Roosevelt had said frankly on previ- |ances very much to the polnt, and ous’ occasions, however, that the de- |gave Colonel Roosevelt, in advance o feat of the direct nominations bill by | his talk with the governor, a « the republican state organization | view of tf titude of the republicar would ‘be one of the main topics of | organization to the extent that t discussion. Whether the question of | speaker res it a republican candidate for governor o Baoriffae . Perviotais: Chairman Woodruff Due Today. The speaker sald with a broad smile Colonel Roosevelt will have more | afterward that his 1u--u|wn\“}nu ‘w.n o politicians at Sagamore Hill tomor- |changed and that so far as he was Tow, perhaps the most conspicuous of | concerned there would be no “sacrifics whom wili be Timothy L. Woodruff, | to_principle 3 J chairman of the republican state com- When Colonel Roosevelt came ou SEeror Mol Oisappointidy We dincussed direct nominations. That A delegation of correspondents went | 1o% 1" Tl up the hill at nine o'clock in the hope | ' [" 1“4l Uosed therefore that the that Colonel Roosevelt or the govern- | gotre.m *WNRP* 0. "SI0 iaent went or would have something to say after | oyer thiy conference with the speaker ‘their talk had been fairly started. But |y getaii tonight and mapped out ten the colomel sent out word that neither | ¢l (o™ (110" Croeramme announced in he nor the governor would be inter- [ 15UTS 0 GRTRYCNL o fores into ool | the “platrorm, “when the republic One Rock in Calm Seas. state convention is held, a ,y‘nrn.“ln‘ Colonel Rookevelt has made it clear | claring for direct nominations withou that he will fight for the direct nomi- equivocation, MANCHURIA CONVENTION A BETWEEN JAPAN AND RUSSIA. Text of the Long-Heralded Treaty Made Public Last Night. STABBED BY YOUNG BROTHER. Of the B. P. 0. E.—1 UGUST ERRMANN ELECTED GRAND EXALTED RULER + Convention at Atlantic Washington, July 12.—The text of| Detrolt, Mich, July 12-—August the long-heraided Manchuria conven- | Herrmann of Clicinnutl was day tion between Japan and Russin, signed | elected grand exalted ruler ot the larg Juiy 4. at St Petersburg, wak made | est meeting of the Grand lodge, Benev public tonlght. It ix one of the shori- | olent and Protective Order of Wlks est important trentlos of modern times, | ever held. Asx the lnst stragelors being Just 237 words in length. If [ reached the reunion headquarters the follows: sran, went_intn executive sef The imperial government of Japan | sion, a s later the hur nd the imperial governmen: of Rus- | dreds of acclamation pro sia, sincerely attached to the princi- | claimed leader, Bdward Dles established by the convention con- | Teach of New York, grand treasurer finded between them on the 30-17 of land P, M. Shields of Clarksburg, W July, 1907, nd desirous to develop the | Va, grand tyler, were re-elected effects of ‘that convention with a view | Tha sharpest contest centersd about to the consolidaflon of pe in_the ( (he election of @ grand secretary. Fred extreme east, huve agreed to complete | ¢, Robinson of Towa, incambent, waw the waid arrangements by the following | opoosed by Devid McArron of Port provisions: | Tobron.and George D, Bostock of Grand Articlo 1—With the object of facili- [ gartie “'Nich The largest vote ever tating communication and developing | cast for an ofcer of the order, it i the commerce of nations, the two WIgh | 4414, was polled in this contest, com contracting parties mutually engage to | Bl WIS RIS S B 0 e Crec Jend Gach . other: thElk riendly . Co= | Doy A e was. Yot known operation with a view to the ameliora- [ 100, R ot ol st e tion of their reapective railway lines | WHSCRE in Manchuria and the improvement of | NSl o oy ehosen for the next the connecting service of the said rail- | AUARHC | ways and to abstain from all comp S5 iitien prejudicial to’ e’ resiization of | pETER PETERSON DOES NOT - = “Article ach of the hi h] con- CARE TO TAKE A WIFE, tracting parties cngages to maintain — and re‘l’lr sct the status guo In Man- | New Milford Man Turns Dewn New churla_resuiting from the treaties,| jorsey Woman Who Came Courting conventions and other arrangements *, concluded up fo this day betw e MIiord.. Gam, Ty 18 Patan Japan and Russia, or between eith Bt e antah e BN Fawie those two powers and China. Coples| beseisn’tew wocks axo. in honor of Al of the aforesaid arrangements have | Beciotn’ wenr na . Fesident. of ih Searr Tachangsd (between Japan | M0 | Titin Biaeas and e e the Russia. ime has been the reciplent of numer arises of a nature to menace the | UR U T N eived & call fr status quo above mentioned. the twWol g woman who gave hor name as Mr: Tigh contracting parties shail in each | &one and Nald her home was in New case enter into communication with| yo.co, She told Peterson that sl each other. in order to arrive at aninought she would make him A good understanding as to the measures they | (NUE L TI0 WOTE Bl ne she was the may fudge it necessary to take for the | qaughter of a Civil war veteran. Peter maintenance of the sald status quo.” son. although he Is a veteran himse The convention 1 bebn presented | aid he was satisfied to live as he was 10 the state department by both theland at this time did mot care to take Russian and Japanese ambassadors. | uo%ihe Burdens of married life. Th The notes of transmission wer> almost | (o toi POTEARS W0 et New 7 as interesting as the agreement itself. | & Federal Inquiry Into the Oleomargarine ed himself with the Herring-Curtiss — Fraud '\fld”"l(;mle mrrv?::.v at ll‘l:mm;md 'xluir" Quarrel Over Pisce of Property Re Washing July 12.—Federal In Maxpionead to hecome superintendent [0unE.Y funerited n Napies. led to (he | svecial urand Jury which meets'tn Chi land. vears old. Anthony Matteo was asleep | It arily to 3 ume th ln\luln:vflwn‘vw > in bed when his brother entered the |tbe so-called beef trusi, the indict GERMANY TAKES NO STAND house and attacked him with a large SRy lmnv;lx_ jome r"u;m“ ago buicher knife, Anthony was horribly ving be thrown out of court ¥ R NENTRA. TN Ty gashed. He ran to the front door, Lorciy because they were d Declaration Made at the German For- | calling for help, and then fell dead. = eign Office in Berlin. has_taken the United entral an has issued Berlin, July 12.—Germany no stand in opposition to ates in the af . South America, Germany no_ statement that could be construed | into antagonism to the American gov- | ernment, in what that goveriment has done, is doing or may do_in Nje aragua. This declaration was made at the German foreign office this eve- despatches received here from Washington and other American s reported that the German for- eign office had issyed a statement to- day that “Germany refuses to recog- nize any right on the part of the Unjt- ed States to supervise her diplomatic relations with other countries, Central and South American countries in gen- eral and Nicaragua in particula When this report was placed before the foreign office it was given an em- phatie. denial. No such statement, an official declared angrily, had been” is- sued by that department, or by any other department of the government. He affirmed that mo declaration of such a nature could be made, becaiuse there was absolutely no necessity for it, und that therefore anything pi fished In such & sense Wax pire myen tion. = This explanation was accompanied by the statement that ad uo stention of intervening in any way in Nicarguan affairs. and that the re- ported offer by Madriz of a coaling sta- ton to u Kuropean power if it would intervene in Nicargis, was not made Body Arrives from Colorado. The body of Mrs. Elizapeth P. La- ¥ afternoon Col.. accompanied by Joseph ' W. Latham. of the in the lot in TYantie cemetery this from Denver. and Mrs. to Germany Of late, so flugrant has been the Angelo, brandishing a knife, dashed the Lot weather in the parks of Man- hattan and Brooklyn. Whether these ! e crawling fur-covered creatures are a part_of a sfmilar family now invading | p the White House grounds in Washing- Five Year Old Bridgeport Boy Proba- | o fire. boy ran into his e hix father and mother ex- ing on homie, whe Detroit, Mich, Juiy 17.—] sengers are belfeved o have abuse of privileges accorded by the foreign office to certain correspondents the advisability of expelling them has twice been considered by that depart- ment, and one has alread: been barres on account of sensational despat: v&lc‘h,fi has forwarded to th States, bearing no shred of fatally Injured and 64 were cut and bruised -today when a_special car on the Detrolt United Rallway's Detroit - Flint clectric line was split in twe by a work train on a sharp ecutve near Ortonville. Of the fatally lis Hibbard, aged 12. of Flint, 1a ox; to survive the night ot . tonight that the aetion that Heat Less Oppre: Charged With Employing 15 Year Old through the crowded street and es- ‘aped. One man who tried to inter- Boy Ten Hours a Day cept him was stabbed in the arm. Dayton, 0., July 12.—A warrant wa —_— tanued toduy for the arrest of Johm X v, Jr. presiden of the Dayton { Millions of Caterpillars Invade New | 3y, Jro bresifont of (he Dav] York Parks. National Association of Manufactu New York, July 12.—Millions of cat- | ers, on a charge of emploving & 15 terpillars are spreading consternation | vear old boy ten hours & day, in v among visitors who seck relief from ! lation of the state Jaw It was said was taken aft Kirby, and vigorous! r repeated warnings to Mr prosecution will be ushed, “;;‘ h‘l‘ Bot 'I‘g"“r‘:;‘""“““""’.‘" 'gr AN 1 New Investigation of the Packing In effort to get rid of the inxccts, spray- 4 fng machines have been obtained, and terests Begins. these are being uscd freely on tho| Chlcago, July 12—The frat move es In the parks. n the government's new investigatior il v L of the packing Interests was made to T g day. when subpoenas for fifty employe f the National Packing company wers jssued by United Btates District At Sl Rathily Buraed. torney Sims, Thoke subposnned are Bridgeport, Conn., July 12.—Eddie| , qered to appear before the feders! Smarajak, 5 vears old, was probably|grand jury on Thursday. The mem fatally burned tonight, when John|yers of the special grand fury will re Smijesky, 6 years old, threw a plece of | cajye their instructions from Judg: Dlazing p setting his eloth-| y anats, in New York niguished the fames, burning them- Leresn Baaly abont Nl faces and| New York, July 12—Although the e was take hos, L | mercury climbed to & maximum of &6 hin T e | deKTees at 8,60 o'clock (ks Afternoo % cooling breezes and low humnskdt ul i g — iade the weather less oppressive thun terday, and only tw it h 1 n Two by Work| o hieat were recorded serduy's malmum was 9 To Be Paroled from Joliet Prison Springfield, Tl July 12.—7The state sard of pardons = today decided to grant a_parole to former Judgs Abner Smith of ‘Chicago, sentancad (6 an (n determinate term’ 1n Jollst prises for BURSAWIE | commstracy o wraskl the sk o America. Mr. Smi an s dehtence on Tune 14, the Bank of