Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 18, 1910, Page 1

VOL. LIL—NO. 248 . NO WORD OUT OF THE VAST SILENGE Five ’tlantic Steamers Report They Have Seen Nothing and Heard Nothing OUT OF TUNE WITH THE WORLD Wellman May Be Husbanding the Strength of His Wire- less Batteries for a Crucial Need—All Vessels Re- porting to Siaconset Station Report a Violent Electri~ cal Storm on Sunday Evening—Fine Weather Follows Over the waste of the Atlantic.in & |trees or trails along the ‘ground for position which can only be broadly ap- | more than fifteen minutes, og if the proximated as somewhere off the coast | balloon descends in fresh water. If a of New England or Nova Scotia, Wal- | balloon descends in salt water it is ter Wellman's atrship America is in | disqualified. @11 probability pursuing its lonely flight | The wind when the race started was in the general direction of the northern | blowing eight miles an hour. Weath- fteamsnip lane whose ulima thule i3 | er Observer Have expects the balloons the British Isles. to: take a northeasterly course after § 1. |they have reached the higher altitudes. A Painkien X oward Their Goal &| . All the balloons were well equipped n the abs 3 e . 1 from the navigators or of any positive ;‘%’ur:’"’g:;,';!exi"‘u;‘]": 'v::nf":‘n — information whatever _since Sunday | POIFS, AOXVESH TS WO pre to thelr fate, the mest reason- | { e e e foon a8 X Leblanc and Hawley carried blowers able conjecture in the minds of their | [EPBRC ANC p. gy riends and supporters is that they are | With whic AR e A L frien balloon bags and husband gas. This sHII pointing toward thelr koal It i | cnables the balloonists to- keep from nite maws by mo means detracts | ascending under the expansion of the sun’s rays without letting out gas. All the Comforts of Home Taken Along The French entrants took cham- pagne and whiskey in their supplies of drinks. The Germans placed beer and sausage in their baskets. They also 2 the hopeful outlook and that the failure to receive a message implies erely that either no steamship has come within the America’s wireless ra- s or that she is conserving her elec- 1 ical resources for a supreme struggle sgainst obstacies to come. took wine and chocolate. Most of the Should Make Sable Island Tonight. | balloonists took fruit with them. Ap- \s nearly as can be computed, the | Ples, oranges and grapefruit were prominent in the food boxes. E. Messner, a Swiss pilot, will de- pend on celd tea to quench his thirst. H. E. Honeywell will cook his meals by slaking lime. He has been able heretofore to hoil coffee and frv eggs in this manner. His stove consisis of a bucket with a pan on top. If necessary he can throw the stove ov- erboard to lighten the balloon. His balloon will be electric lighted by the use of batteries. Hans Gericke took a revelver with him. He said ‘he expected to shoot game if he landed in a wooded part of the country. Horneywell carried @ rifle in his bas- ket to be used to scare persons who attempt to hold his drag rope and thus force him to make a landing. The Million Club basket carried a cageful of homing pigeons. Expects to Sleep in the Air. Captain Messner expects to sleep while in the air. The Azurea is fit- ted with a wicker coueh, One ‘end of the basket has a hole through which the feet can be shoved. On the out- side of the hole is a net which the great balloon, if it has met no unto- 1 accident ought to be in the neigh- 21 of Sable Island some time to- with Cape Race, 350 miles away, next and last stage in the voy- wge before the final turn across the open seas, ATLANTIC LINE*S LISTENING FOR WELLMAN'S WIRELESS. Ships Report to Siasconset “Nothing Seen Nor Heard.” Siasconset, Mass,, Oct. 17—Five west und Atlantic liners, all in touch with h other and all anxious for news of \¥aiter Wellman, reported to the wire- joss station here at various intervals today that they had seen mothing and Jeard nothing, either directly or indl- rectly_of his dirigible airship America and her crew of six—seven if the mas- cot kitten is counted. Many Ships Call Siasconset Operator. The first ship to_call the operator constantly on duty here was the Fin- 1and, then 110 miles east of Nantucke, Five #t 5.06 this morning. Th in succes 3 5 {on The Maloe, for Philabelphia: the |+ i-20S 11 s ndam, the and finally the MASSACHUSETTS -DEMOCRATS STILL DEADLOCKED. Looks Like There Would Be Two Can- didates for Governor. ronprinz Wilhelm for New York. Not « word had they heard. - Repert No Word Out of the Silence. All five ships bad sent out the pre- erranged call “W" at frequent infer- vals, but no word out of the silence had eome back to any of them. They had followed the regular west bound | that a mail Ione for trans-Atlantic travel, and, of th: fng Into the reckoning their distances| convention.made by the state commit- from each other, their wireless zone | tee shows a bare majority in favor of covered an area which they thought|ihe nomination of Eugene N. Foss of would have included Wellman, if he| Boston for governor, the committee of was able to repl four appointed by the convention to May Be Running Before the Wind,! select a candidate in place of Frader- With Motors Quiet. | ick W. Mansfieid of Boston were still 3 deadlocked when it adjourned tonight. Just hefore the America drifted out| The mail vote resuited as foliows: E of tune with e Sarll, her wircless | gene Foss of Boston 495, Charles operator warned the station here that! & Hamlin of Boston 484, James H. e was preciou | Vahey of Watertown 3, Charles F. The gasolene motors were not then ! Riordan of Roston 3. Frederick W. running and he was depending for his| Mansfield of Boston 1. blanks 3. sending spark on the reserve supply 'n |~ S0 goon as the count was completed the storage batteriee. If the Americi|ihe committee went into session and wre still running before the wind With | Major Robert A. Crowley, an power shut off, it was therefore thousht | Hamlin supporier, announced that ne \ere today that she might be bushand- | qiq not recognize the poli of the dele- strength for a crucial need, | gates and would not be governed by i ne to expend it in gossip, how-| Fe presented the name of Chief Jus- r interesting to those ashore oo Alken#5 a afrh Violent Storm Sunday Night. committee. . of the state Oct. 7.—Notwithstanding All the stations In this chain and ail| t «sels reporting to them tell of heavy | POTter, said that he not vote for ins and a violent electrical storm on | Judge en, ag he believed the com- | | mittee candidate Sundav evening, followed by continu- would agree upon a & fine weather and a calm sea. s a short time. : gl ey pohile the vote was being counted, backers of Mr. Fows for governor and BALLOON RACE FOR Thomas P. Riley of Malden and CUP AND MONEY PRIZES | Thomas F. Cassidy of North Adams for | s i {lieutenant g were hustling Ten Started from St. Louis in Fifth | about for signatures to nomination pa- " — Whi pers, and a few minutes ‘before 5 p. m., International Contest whllk.'y, wheri the time ekpired “for the ‘filinz Beer, Champagne, Sausage and Fruit | 0¢ mominations f B o and Cold Tea Taken Along. mothods, the me ber of — names had been o tified and st Lo Oct. 17 The fifth inter- | filed with the secre national balloon race for the James| Tn a statement to Foss says Gordon Bennett cup and $4,750 in three | that he will he = cap t the poils prizes was started late today when | under the name of democratic progres- ien Jarge aerostats, re| nting four | sive. countries of Europe and America, as- papers are styled demo- nded amid the plandits of thousands | izen, while those of Mr. Cas- ¢ spectators. The balloons sailed to are democratic independent. rd the north and northwest and| As Mr. Mansfield is the actual -dem- y of =ight within a few min- ¢ candidat> for governor and ha tes after the words “Let her g0 that he will not withdraw be. | ere given by the pilots. m. next Thursday in favor balloons were reieased at in -arying from one to twent The tervals minuies The the oss, whom he strongiy op- because of the latter's labor rec- looked to the party leaders to- n as if there would he two can ates for governor as wall as two for Deutenant governor from their rank: ret to start was the Condc last was the Germania. Starters and Time They Ascended. | rters and time they ascend- QUESTION OF DEMURRAGE RATES IN NEW ENGLAND Hearing in Boston Attended by Mer- chants and Manufacturers. dor (France), Jacques Faure. pi- | Ernest (. Schmolck, aide, 4.40.25. jon Club (United States). 8. Lou- is Von Phul of St. Louis. pilot, Joseph | O'Reilly of St. Louls, aide, Azurea (Switzerland), Capt. Emil| Baston, Oet. 1 - - . ct. out twe hi : parts of New England attend - Harburg 1IL (Germany), Tdeut. Leo- | ing held todas ne Interstmts Sonear” pold Viogt, pilot. Willlam F. Assman | sioners Prouts: and Lane ot the oheis. of St. Louls, aide, 5.14. Isie de France (France). Alfred Le Bidne, pilot; Walther De Mumm, | alde, 5.24. St. Louis No. 4 (United States). H. E. Honeywell of St. Louis, pilot, J. W. Tolland of St. Louls, aide, 5.26. Helvetia (Switzerland), Col. Theo- aore Schacick, pilot; Paul Armbruster, atide, 5.27.30. Dusseldorf 1L ( Hans Gerick, pilot; of New York aide, ber of commerce on the question of demurrage rates in New England. The point at issue is the desire of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad to reduce from 96 hours to 48 hours the maximum free time be- tween the receipt and unloading of shipments of freight, demurrage rates to be charged by the road thereafter. The New Ingland merchants and manufacturers ar protesting against this decrease, claiming that although the 48-hout rule is in effect elsewhere; rmany), Lieut. muel F. Perkins “States), Amerfca 11 (United Allan | there are pecaliar?coyditions in this R. Hawley, pilot; Augustus Fost, - | section which would make the appli- 847 catiotn of the rule here a hardship. Giermania (Germany), Capt. Hugo| The witniesses all agreed In saying von Abercron. pilot; Angust Blanck- | that the fact that New England was ert«, uide, .54 | served practically by but ome railroad The Race s For~ Diatance. | made conditions cimerent from in oth- iR i Jishiop of the |°F S€ctions: ‘thht there were insuf- PO i om0 S o - i 5 :I‘L';‘nx-iex.r sidetrack facilities; that there charge of (e contest. The race s for | a8 much delay in the arrival of way- bills and that there was great irregu- e I e heasure- | larity 1n, the Tecelpt of frelght. receive the James Gordon Beunett cup 4= and 32000, second and thire Discharged in the City Court. Dries nd $1.230. Tn the city court Monday morning Under (he rules. u Janding is made | Anionio Furrisi. chargsd with thefi, SIf the haskels louches (he ziound. er | waz ischarged, az the evidence against the draz in fope hecomes entangled him was not sufficient, :anvass of 93 1-2 per cent. | delegates to the democratic state | ardent | Cabled Paragraphs Rio-de Janeiro, Oct. 17.—The British freight steamship Portmarnock is stranded oft Cape Frio, Twelye of the crew were drowned. The Portmarnock safled from San Lorenzo, Argentina, on Oct. 5 for Leith, Scotland. London, Oct. “17.—“Digger” Stanley tonight knockéd out the ex-bantam champion, Joe Bowker, in the eighth round before the National Sporting club. The fight was for the banta championship of Great. Britain and’a purse of $3,000. Herne, Westphalia, Prussia, Oct. 17. —A basket carrying thirty-five miners dropped to the bottom of the shaft in the Shamrock colliery today when the ) supporting rope snapped. Six of the men tere killed and all of the others were injured, several of them fatally. RAISING MONEY FOR THE HEBREW SCHOOL. New York Lawyer Selected as the Teacher—Location of School. _Having acepted the offer of the United Brethren synagogue on High strect to hold a Hebrew school in their (bullding, the commlittee which is pushing’ this plan is taking steps to provide the financial backing to carry out their purpose. They propose to have the money assured before they Legin the school and have appointed Jacob Gordon ‘and N. S. Penich to represent them in raising the sum which they need, which is from $300 te $400. About $57 has already been pledged. The financial plan is to ee- cure a number who will pledge pay mants quarterly or otherwise. Already a number of applications have been received from those who want the appointment as teacher and the committee has selected the one they think best qualified. He has had previous experience teaching in a sim- | ilar school jn Syracuss and is now a lawyer in New York. It is expected that he might combine his law prac- tive here with school teaching. The names of from 40 to 45 children have been registered who would at- tend the school. Their ages range from 6 to 14. The school hours would bein the afternoon, after the public schools have closed. OPEN HOUSE CLUB COMMITTEES NAMED. Annouriced by President Carey at Meeting of Executive Board. The committees for Open Tous were appointed on Monday evening b; the president, Rev. Neilson Poe Care; at a special meating of the executive board. The following were the ap- pointments: House committee, Dr. C. B. Capron. A. J. Christman, G. Stanton; entertainment com: D. Kinsman, J. C. Davis, F. F. S. Gelligan, Dr. R. R. Kinkead rules committez, C. G. Cobb, H. W. Cardwell, J. P. Huntington: finance committee, Grosvenor Ely, F. 8. Jer- Horatlo Bigelow, E. ¥. Gallande I N. P. Carey: refreshment commi tee, W. R. Baleom, W. K. Stinson, Fred | Moil, Frank Fagan. C, J1. 1i- { bra; committee, H. C..M, B. Havens. A W, Coit; s G. R. Havens (Central Himes (West Side), Louis 8imon (Cen- tral), Harry PBlackburn (East Side), Frank Breoks (Laurel Hill), 7. C. Geer (Greeneville). C. H. Haskell (Falls): auditors, P. T. Weles and J. R. Hows. This concluded the business and the meeting adjourned. ‘WORKED ALL NIGHT SINKING ARTESIAN WELLS {'Not Thought That the Rain of Satur- | day Feil at the Reservoir. i Supt. J. J. McCorkery of the water department stated Monday eveni that the work of driving the artesian weils at Meadow brook was started | | on Monday and the men were engaged at the. job all night. Late in the aft- | ernoon " the well was down scevera! feet, gzoing through soil at that time. {1t expected that water will be | struck before reaching a very deep | point. It is thought that the quarter of an inch rainfall which was received in the city did not fall on the water- sheds of cither reservoir on Satur- | day, which therefore did not help the water supply at all. The roads were as dry as tinder there on Sunday. | FIRED REVOLVER SHOT THROUGH SIDE OF HOUSE. | TG 1 Amana Camelucci Arrested on Com- »laint of Neighbor—Hearing Today. On Monday Amana Camelucei, aged living at the cornar of High and West Thames sireets, was arrested, barged with breach of the peace. I is claimed that he fired a .38 c bullet through the side of the of a neizhbor. the bullet being up in the room { Tt is said that there has been some | trouble between the familizs, but his | claim is that he fired the shot at the | hens of the neighbor and did not in- tend to hit the house orinjure anyone. He will have a hearing today. WHITON A;D CRAN})ALL H NAMED AT NEW LONDON. | | | | iber | housa | picked | Republican Candidates for Representa- tives at City Convention. I | New T.ondon, Oct. 17 (Special).—At| the city convention held in the coune chamber of the city hal evening Louis B. Whiton wa ed by the republicans for fir sentative and Lewis Crandail nominated for second representative. | The meeting was presided over by the | Fion. Theodore Bodenwein and was perfectly harmonious throughout. here this | nominat- | Common Pleas Court. { | The court of common pleas came in bere Monday morning for the trial| | of the cases of Jacob Lahn vs. Max | 1 Lahn and Joseph Marecaurele v Mor- ris J. Solomon. but both were setiied | without trial. The sessjon of the court | | was opened and it was then adjourned to come in at New London on the af- ternoon of next Monday at 2 o'clock. Died from Membranous Croup. On Monday morning Maria Gagnon. haughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gag- | non of No. 45 Baltic street died as the result of meubranous croup. The bur- 4al took place Monday afternoon in S Mary’s cemetery. Another child in the )’amil)" is il Supreme Court Today. The sapreme court of errors of this | atate will. come in here this umx'niug' [ for the héaring of six cases on ihe i Tt 4s thought the session will| las TLwo davs, pivil superfor court | i be in sesgion @t New Loudon. One of the cases assigned for today has| Been settled. * i - —— i City Court Receipts. bl The recipts of the city court for the | } au ending September 30 we $1.286.34. and of that amount the sum | of 363949 was turned over to Ciil Treasurer Peck and City Court Clerk | Tibbits: Take the Field MASS MEETING OF NOTIFICATION AND RATIFICATION. THIRD PARTY IN NEW YORK To Be Reckoned With Seriously in ths Final Count—Mr. Hearst One of the - Speakers Last Evening. New York, Oct. 17.—The New Yori state political campaign jumped into full stride tonight when the third partq to be reckoned with seriously in the final count—the Independence league— formally took the field with two mass meetings of notification and ratifica- tion in Manhattan and in Brooklyn. Speculation on the Effect. ‘What effect the activities of the league will have on the two old line! parties—irom which of them it will draw the most—has been a mater of speculation in the councils of both, but it is generally conceded that its| showing in New Yodk city particularly | will assume importance in proportions | as the election is closely contested. Tt was the independent campaign of Wil- | liam Randolph Hearst, now candidate | of the league for lieutenant governor | that elected an entire fusion ticket i | New York city a-yvear ago, Mayor Goy- nor excepted. = Three Speakers Last Night. The principal speakers tonight were John_J. Hopper, candidate for govern- of; Mr. Hearst and Robert Stewart. candidate for attorney general. MORE BOMBS THROWN BY FRENCH STRIKERS. Attempt to Wreck Passenger Train at | Versailles. Paris. Oct. 1 bombh outrages in connection with the railroad strilie reached a climax today in an attemnt to wreck a passenger train at Versailles. bomb was thrown of the tunnel to the Ci mo- A the entrance ntiers station at the ment a passenzer train was duc from Dreux. The bomb struck the limb of | a tree and bounding off landed beside the tracks with a terrific explosion. It tore a great hole, sending up showers of earth and fragments of the iron of which it was constructed. A group of soldiers guarding the tracks near by had a narrow escape from injury. They report having seen three per- sans on the bridge just before the ex plosion. Neither tie tracks nor the tunnel were damaged. The train fron Dreux arrived a few minutes later and continued its journey. Tonight the police were notified that a small cylindrical box contaiming powder-and nails and a lampwick" fuse had besn discovered in the vestibule of 2 public kindergarten at Yanves, a suburp-of Paris y FRENCH RAILROAD STRIKE FORMALLY CALLED OFF. | Work Will Be Resumed on All Lines Today. i Paris, Oct. 17.—The strike commit- tee of the railroads’ union at a meeting | tonight formally called off the strike | of the railroad employes, which has | extended over several of the most im- | portant systems in France. Work will | be resumed on all lines tomorrow. The collapse of the strike was pri- marily due to the stringent measures taken Premier Brand, who called lors the majority of the strik mpelling them to do ser- : | R | New Counterfeit $10 Bi/l Discovered. | hington, Oct. new coun- | terfeit $1¢ bill 01, has ‘neen; discovered by the treasury department. The certificate bears the check letter “B" and contains the signature of J. Lyons, register of the treasury, and Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the United States, and portraits of Lewis| and Clark. The bill is poorly printed and ité number is A2726778. Aged Man Killed in Runaway. Hillshoro, Oct. 17.—Taking ht at a passing automobile, a horse - Johnson Wells, 70, Tan away . killing Wells and fatally i his housekeeper, Mrs. Lydia P’ who is also 70 years of age. carriage collided with a tree. throwing the, aged couple heavily to the ground. NUMBER TO BE MADE MUCH LESS THIS SPRING. Applications Are All in the Hands of the Registrars Now—Total Number 469, Besides Four Women. Monday was the last day in whic applications of tie residents who desire to be made voters could be handed te the registrars of voter: and Downe: They have ing them f st ime and at 5 o’cloc The total is 469 and four women, which 101 less than four vears ago, when a state election was to be held. Those on the list of to| be mades will be made on F tober 21, Saturday, October 23 Friday. October 28, in town hall the selectmen and town clerk. The applications received. by dis- tricts. are as follows, in comparison with four years ago: 1910. 171 102 1306. | First d Second _distric Third district ! Fourth district 42 Fifth district . 4l xth district . 4] 169 0| In the Fourth and Fifth districts the number this year exceeded those of two | cears ago. but those arethe only in- stances. This vear in the Second dis- trict_one woman avolied to be made and in the Third thrae applied. NEW SALES AGENT OF NATIONAL BISCUIT CO. R. F. Sternberg Takes the Place of W. O. Williams, Who Returns to Virginia. A change in the sales agent of (e lacal Lranch of the National Biscait company bas been mede and F Stenhers of Providence Las urrived here and twaken up h new duties, | W, O. Willlams, who came here from | Danville, Va., returig to that place us sales ageif, a promotion over his former job in that city. TTe has made wany friends during his stay here, and it is with much regret that he will jeave again for' the south. A Great Mass Mesting was hold in Cincinnati by ‘the Board of .“i-flinnxi of the Episcopal church. 2 BER 18, 1910 i the carlier hour | sines were working and holding their | of these sufferers, whaose condition Havana Front . Submerged, ‘pital Service is making stren BIG BREACH .TORN THROUGH MALECON SEA WALL. RUMOR OF A TIDAL WAVE Added to the General Panic in the City Caused by Hurricane Which Swept the Island of Guba. Havana, Oct. 17.—For hours during the night and all through this morning Cuba was in _the grip of a storm which blew up with great violence from the southeast and attained its greatest| force shortly before noon.” Then the | wind shifted to the west and the sea | bogan to rise, the waves sweeping in | upon the city. Within an hour the| pounding of the waters had broken a | breach through the Malecon sea wall The waves quickly incréased to moun- tainous heishts,” enguifing the main driveway and flooding. the handsome residences -faeing: thereon for a dis- | tance of a mile. \ Buildings Threatened to. Collapse. The waters, stiil rising, invaded all the seaward part- of the city until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. when the sce- tion bounded by the on. the Pra do and the Boulevards Caizada de Ga inmo and Animas were several feet u: der water. 'Fhe residents of the lower *s were driven to seek refuge on | higher levels, while detachmenis of soldiers, rural guards. police and fire- men, assisted by members of the Red Cross and fishermen with boats which wera dragged from the harbor. hasten- ed 1o the submerged districts and res- cued hundreds from. buildings that threatened fo collapse at any moment. Vedado, a residential suburb, was ex- posed to the full fury of the storm. T sea_advanced some hundred yards in- land. demolishing -many small struc- tures and probably causing loss of life. The rumor that the city had been struck by a tidal wave added to the ganeral panic.which was allayed sh, after 3 o'clock, when the wind per- piibly abated and the water. ceased | . The upper part of the;Prado was then filled with throngs of pani stricken negroes carryinz such house- held effects as they could rescue from their own homes. The jail at the foot of the Prado was completely surrounded by water and the prisoners, mad with fear, clung to the barred windows, clamorously de- manding_to be removed to a place of aafety. red at the time that the prisoners would break. loose, but armed guards held them in check with rifles until the waters-began to recede. Waves Topped Ramparts of Morro Castl At the helght of the storm the great waves breached clean over the ram- parts of Morro castle. They rolled with terrific speed up.the harbor, tumbling over the sea walls, inundating the strects in fhe lower parts of the city.| carryine away wany of the ihall craft along the shores.and swamping many ighters which escaped the biow during All the steamers in d At anchor, the en- the haror réma ground. All Communications With the Inter Were Levelled. At half past 3 o'clock the rain ceased but the wind remained strong from the northwest. The barometer stood at 29.23, having risen ecight-tenths of an ineh in two hours, giving rise to the hope that the worsi was over. Practically all cemmunications with the interior woave levelled. and ther fore news concerning the effects of the r torm in other parts cf the island is| 1 nited States torpedo hoat lacking. but no doubt the damage was | er Truxton off Santa Barbara enormous, especially in Havana and| and were bri ar del Rio provinces. river and other small streams in the | vicinity of this city are over their| banks, flooding the lowlands and car- | rying off huts, barns and cattle. Proj ably many people lost their lives these sections. Work of Raisi The Alandres | in o the Maine Seriously Delayed. A barge containing all the outfit of the d working on the wreck of the | ol battleship Maine was carried away and stranded on the rocks of Morro castle. Later the soldiers of the fort- ress succeeded in saving part of the apparatus, but 211 of the divers’ buoys, | stakes and other marks und tha| Maine werf swept away, which prob. ably will seriously delay the work o rajsing the wreck [ | LOSS WILL AGGREGATE MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. ic May led to | Cuban Republic May Be Com Request International Havana, Oct. 17.—The island of Cu ba has probably sustained the great est material disaster in all her hsitory | in the *practicall ntinuous cyclone ! which began with light rains on Thurs- | day morning, developing into torren- | tial floods nd devastating hun'jumwsw‘ and continuing until this evening. The western half of the island suffered more severely than the east. it is impossible to estimate even! roughly the amount of the damage, | which “doubtless will aggregate many | | millions of dollars. In addition to the great destruction to sugar and tobac- | co plantations, many thousands of peasants in the three western provinces | have been rendered homeless and des- | titute by the loss of their homes and! the food crops. It now seems probabl that the republic may be compelled to | request international aid for the relie most deplorable. In the city of Havai the losses probably will exceed a mil- | lion dollars. | Conditions from Artemisa to Caps | San Antonio, it is stated, are even| worse than in the territory explored by ! Consul Rodgers. All the tobacco seod | beds and barns have been destroved. | The prospectiev crop, it is asserted. | will not exceed 10 per cent. of normal TAMPA AND FLORIDA KEYS i IN PATH OF THE STORM. Grave Fears Felt for Members of Plant Tampa, Fla. Oct. 17.—With commu- nication with all points south of her cut oc and wireless stations out o commission, Tompa and all that ter i tory between Tampa and the Florida | Kevs is Deing storm-swept tonight. It Is lmpossible ul this hour 10 e mate the damuge, no reports havine . been recefved from nearby. lowhs, Z Tampa 1p to 11 oclock 1he damage 15 coufined 1o telephone and eleciric light | wires, and minor damase 1o shipping. Grave fears are reli for 46 members of the Plant City Artillery. encampe:! | at Egmont Key. The company landed there this afternoon and soon after the | tents were pitched the wind blew them | down. Consid fear is'also enter- tained for residents at Passe-a-Grille, a resort an the bhav. where there are at leagt Aty perzons. |a large wheat crop | United States circuit court of the east- | calvin Export Figures for September that the United States is getting an increased share-of the foreign trade. SRR The Public Health and Marine Ho;- us ef- foru to keep cholera out of this coun- i ] 2 George Seymour, former minister of finance and member of the privy coun- cil of Jamaica, B. W. L, died in Phil- adelphia. ‘ According to the Government Month- ly Crop Report the indications point to in the southern hemisphere. : : Edward N. Whitson, judge of the: ern district of Washington, died at his howe in Spokane. of a family, caliber John L. Morgan, a member prominent Carbondale (Pa.) end:d his life by firing a .22 bullet into his heart. Dr. W. H. Sledge of Mobile was ar- rested on an indictment for murder in the second degree following the death of Maggie Ashes Burgess. Willie, the Two Year Old Son of Pa- trolman McLaughlin, of New York,was accidentally shot and killed by . his brether John, 13 years old. All of the Old Officers of the Mary land society of New York will P. S A. Franklin will probably ceed President Jennings S. Cox. Suffering Among the Families of the striking cigarmakers in Tampa. Fla., has become acute. and many returned to work Monday, when thirty-six fac- tories opened. FORESTVILLE WOOLEN MILLS BURNED, LOSS $50,000. Frame Houses Also Destroysd— Fire Started in Card Room. Thre Stafford Springs, Conn.. 17— The Forestvili> Woolen Mili: owned and overated by T. F. Mulien & com- pany, and three frame houses wel = by fire tonight, en- timated . at $50,000, ranc re started in the card roon of probably from spontaneous . and was well under head- en discovared. The fire spread and soon after being detected e building, a threz story wood- en structure, was flames, and three tenement houses adjoining cauzht from the sparks. It was impossible to save the plant and all atteniion was given to surrounding rroperty. Tha mill em- ployed seventy-five hands. CHOLERA SITUATIEN IN ITALY. THE OFFICIAL REPORT. New Cases and Deaths in Last 24 Hours Show an Increase. Rome, Oct. 17.—7 he official report of the cholera situation shows. an in- crease in the number of new cases and deaths’ in_the last twenty-four hours. It also shows that there are fiftesn cases of the disease fn one nf the asy- jums for the insane in the province of Caserta. 3t new CAEes are re- ported. twelve cfiweloped in ‘the province of Naples. twenty-two in Caserta, cne in Avellimo and one in the province of Foezin. In the same period nineteen deaths occurred from the cholera, thirteen serta and six in the province of EXPLOSION ON BOARD U. S. TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER Off Santa Barhara—Three Men of the Truxton Seriously Injured. ples. Santa Barbara, Cal. Oct. 17.—Three men were serionsly injured by the ex- sait watar evaporator on | Bailey, .S and FUNERAL. [ Mrs. Calvin L. Briggs. At 1.45 oclacl funeral of Mrs. 1. Briggs was held -from her late home in Penobscot Mon- day afternoon, the hot th relatives and friends, nber from out f town. were cond ices church. God, to rge Beebe. The hearers were Frank Greene, Frank Hiiton, John Blackburn and D. Lucas. The remains were taken by electric car to Jewett City by Funeral direci Gager, where burial took Rev. service place in the Jewett City cemete Mr. Cobb read the committal at the grave. There were many ebau- tiful floral forms, test ng to the steem in which the deceaxed was held. Among the large number were the following: 3 | THE FALL CAMPAIGN OPENED LAST NIGHT. ‘ REPRESENTATIVE CHANDLER, Talks Straight to the “Man on the ‘Bench”—Records and Positians of _Goodwin and Baldwin Compared. Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 17.—The re- publicans opened the fall campaign in the city tonight with a' rally at which speeches were made by Chbarles A. Goodwin, the party nominee for governor; Judge Carlson of Middle- town and Representative George B. Chandler of Rocky Hill i Workingmen's Compensation Act. M dler devoted mostief his speech to a discussion of the'ques- tions of a workingman's compengation act and the public utilities bilj, stat- ing that tomorrow night at Litchefid he would reply to Judge Baldwin and the other critics of his Torrington speéch. He said that tonight he wanted to talk straight to the *man. on_the bench.” He went into the two questions thoroughly and then compared the rec- ords and positions of the democratic and republican nominees for the gov- ernorship, Judge Simeon E. and Charles A. Good: with respect to them. win's utterances were, he said, ‘about as vague as the Delphic oracle, while Ar. Goodwin's position clear and specific as the Iinglish lan- guage can make it.” Mr. Goodwin had fought for these measures when thy had few friends and he had nothinz to gain by it: Judge Baldwin's inter est in them had dated from the time of his nomination to the office of gov- ernor. Mr. Chandler, referring to Senator Walter L. Goodwin's record, character~ ized it as a consistent one. A Word to Wage Earners. “I say to the wage earners of this state,” he continued. “that if you are looking merely for history, precedemt and legal technicality in the zoverm- or's chair, vote for Judge Baldwin: if vou want real laws passed to remedy real grievances, if you want to see progress accomplished on_the lines af what you have been fighting for—it you want this, vote for Charlie Good- win. Did Judge Baldwin ever.do any thing for you? Did he ever show any interest in you? You know what George_Lilley did for. you. You know what Walter Goodwin did ' for you. You know where Charles .A. Goodwin stood when you needed. friends. If you doubt what I am telling you, ask your committee that s up at the capitol -fighting for these measures in the last session of the legislature. “If you turn down those who were loyal when you needed help, in faver of those who have given you ndthing but lip service when they neede 3 vou are serving notice on every public man that it doesn't do any good to siipport labor legislation because it is forgotten in favor of the first fair promiser that comes atong.” When the Pinch Came, Republicans Led the Fight. “Remember,” he continued, “that the republicans did not promise these bills in their 1908 platform. It was the democrats that promised them. When the pinch came it was the republicans that led the fight for them.” Mr. Chandler ‘read from the plat- forms of the two parties and from the journals of the two houses in support of his statements. “Now,” he added, “the republicans have promised these measures in their 1910 platform. 1f you think you can help the situation any by dividing responsibility and putting in a democratic governor to work with a republican legislature, you are not as clever as I think you are. Give the dominant party the power and then demand results.” That's bus- iness.’ CONGREGATIONALIST HOME MISSIONARY WORK. Total Receipts for the Year Amounted to $698,000. Boston, Oct. 17.—All sections of the United States came in for criticism as to methods of carrying on home missions and missionary work in the sesw today- of the National Home ‘Missionary society in connection with the fourteenth of the triennial meet- ing of the national council of Congre- gational churches in the United States, S. H. Woodrow of Washington, D. C, was elected president of the Home Missionary society. The total receipts for the year. according to the gecrauary's raport:: amounted o 4404, 0. Under Outlook operation is about ‘as “The Cheering Interdenominational C'o- ~ the Congregationalist Home Missionary society session in the late afternoon, Judge Alfrad Coit of New London, (onn., gave a report on the Colorado Mvestigation. He said: “It was found 11 per cent. of all home missionary grants went to flelds where there is but one church and that 8 per cant. goes to the largest nine cities and towns. There are whole counties with almost no churches. Such a state of things is deplorable, if the head of for Wreath, - from her mother, ' Mrs. Young: spray of chrysanthemums, | niversalist Sunda school class cross, Mr. and Mis. John Blackburn crescent, Mr. and Mrs. i l_.ewi wreath, C. L. Hill: sprav of chiysan themums, Baptist Sunday class; spray. Mr. and Mis. Button: spray. Mrs. Luacs; spray chrysanthemums, Mr. and Mrs. George Carroll and Wyman Carrell: wreath, Mr. and Mrs. Stamford Briges and ramily and Mr. and Mrs. Epen A Briggs and family: spray of carn tiows, Mrs. Lund and family: carna- Dunbar: carnations, wreath, Mrs. . M and Mrs. of pses. Mr. and escent, Misses Ha- and Mrs. H. 1. Lar- carnations, and 1 spra zler: Mr. kin and famtiy: spray, eonditions in Colorado are at all typi- cal of the great western and south- western countr:; OFFICERS ELECTED By the State Baptist Youmg People's Society in Annual Meeting. Mrs. F. M. Green, Mr. and Mr § Green; standing wreath, emploves’ of Poli's theater; pillow, from the fam- ily. 5 AT POLI'S. . E. Vaudeville and Motion Pictures. A packed house at Poli's greeted- the six-act vaudeville bill on Monday at the matinee and in the eveninz. and all the acts were winners of well de- served applause. The Bovs in BElue, 17 exponents of military {actics and fancy marching, done style, are the hiz number and and thundarous. applause, . whil aree Richardsons give (hefr fs com- e . in the finest N Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 17.—The stats Bapt:st Young People’s society in an- nual meeting here tonight elected the following officers: President, Rey. . R. McNally. New London: fiest vies presidznts, Rev. R. B. Carpenter, South Norwalk, and Rev. A. Smith of '3 A. B. Todd, ¢ treasurer, T. T. Phillips of Bridgeport; executive committee, 0. W. Frye, Torrington, Rev. C. D. Gould, Rockville, E. E. Gates. Hartford, and ‘W. D. Suffield, Danfelson ‘Mrs. Caroline B. Martin Mentally Un- . sound. New York, Oct. 17.—An inquiry into he_mental condition of Mrs. Caroline comedy in admirable form. . Martin, one of the Wardlaw. sister: Floyd Mack is an ecceutric dancer | @Gcused of murdering Ocey W. M. such as is rarely seen und the Three | Snedd, the Bast Orange. N. hath- Westans present a dainty musical of- | tub victim, war ordsred today Ly Jus- fering 1har mukex = kit Rglancing | tice. Ten Eyck In Newark., and Nov tricks and noves u @ pole dre. the | W82 38L for the hearing. 'Two alle specialty of Paul Siephens, who is @ | WHo recently examined Mrs. master at the art, and ihere is & clev- er comedy singing and talking tesm n Nolan and Wilsen. The motion pic- tures are of the usual acceptable sub- jects shown at Poli's. At the matinee the $35. hat was awarded to Mrs. Grace Stoddard. who iipssed the neatost heans in A jar. Thig week ma the opening of the six-act programme 1 Marsin repofted ther she was not respomsible mentally. Steamship Arriva At Bremen: Oct. 16¢ Grossar Kur-