Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 23, 1910, Page 1

@ VOL. LH.—NO. 279 NORWICH, THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO One High Mexican Officer Says the Reign of Diaz is About Over \ CITIZENS HOURLY EXPECT THE WORST Situation Now More Serious than at Any Time for Years—Fighting Now Going On—Troop L, Third U. S. Cavalry, Arrives at Eagle Pass—American Ambassador Says the Revolutionary Movement is Doomed to Defeat—All Quiet at Laredo. Magle Pass, Texas Nov. 22.—A high offleer. who by virtue of his position i= In close touch with the revolution- movement in Mexico, tonight sald at fighting was going on in Cuatro Cienegas, a large and prosperous city iust below Monclova. This is the home J. Carranza, brother of the candi- date for governor of Coahnila, in oppo- =ition to the administration candidate. It iz a stronghold of the revolutionists. Intense Excitement in-the Interior. This man, whose information cannot e questioned, but whose position pro- hibits publication of his name, said the #ituation in Mexico is now mwore seri- ous than at any other time during the last fow years. He declared the ex- cltment on the border was nothing compared to what it womd be if all were known of the sitwstion in the in- terior. He said that officers and citi- zeme of Chndad Porfirio Diax were ex- pecting the wery worst at any time. Merchants and Citizens Used as Pa- trols. They were scouring the surrounding coumtry, not Yor revoiutionists, but for their friends and relatives, and bring- ing them into the city, some for pro- tection, hut more for the purpose of arming and assistin in the defense of ™udad Porfirio Diez. Local merchants and eitizens generally were armed and ueed as petrois. The town was umder abeolute mili- mfi control and all communfontion dark. this side was prohibited after Railway Wires Cut. The passenger traim from the south s supposed to have left Torreon afternoon has not arrived in Dias, though it was duw there at 11 o’clock this morning. Railroad officers say they do not know where the trein is. The railway wires are mot working. in Torreoa and other pomis retmtives eon AN points Aowrs the Mexican intermational line Snwe wot been eble to get word from them for three days. U, 8. Cavalry Troop at Eagle Pase. Tyoop U, S. eavalry, under conmmand .of Bristol, arrived in Yomgle Pass tonight and begem unigad- '.'A. figh Ofexican officer teday maid 4 wais his opiniom ther the Diaz eign-Was about over, ALL-QUIET AT LAREDO, TEXASRAMQERS ON HAMD. et eee WY als Bvary Precauttion ¢o Prevent Viclation gf Neutrality Laws. B2—Everything thetandi T the situation 4o pow un acute govegnment and 8t - various ths repubdlic. - tions are con- .ry e fear of an kind, The Unitel € has an increased the wtate rangers also notwithatanding the thelr services will ot Dagesdod: &t other border betgte Yo Uphold Nertrality Laws. Ths sungers. are Wnder comimend of J, H. Rogers. Cap- s ix here 10 ses, 50 e, fhat ghe 1w ta ot vio- wvay, 1t is mot certain yemmin in Laredo, but o the country, eith- Welow the city along the #nd will exercise every prewend violation of the % i Egs Step at-Frontler, I8 mod Boardlng houses 4 ith people win had Yo Mexico &rom @l parts of Hut who on reach- e ve considerad it de- owalt the #lme when condi- seitdad hefore continu- 5 Inst ‘whtodl wers current m m Gomes Palacio and , are in part confirmell wy Mexienn offiials and army officers at Neuvo Taredo, although ® im datded ihat e batiles between *he imsuwmectionists mnd the Mexican at both pimces several deaths and the less of life en hoth » eweniy divided. Ciese Watch Kept for Revolutionist Leader. N cam be siated on good autherity the Mexiomn government has a eaydon of extending from a 17 o poiat befow Luq to Colombia, twen- trewix giles np I8 Rio Grands. These ~iona I. Madeiro, who ad to be in the nelghbor- Of%l_ his Mamily being 1and owners not far from that nosnt. which ia regarded by the Mexi- can governoment officiale as a hotbed of lon, The WMexican and Asserican army officens ave #amd in hsnd to levent the -itmn(m:: assuming more - rfl? long the border, Qné um. ving thix ohject in wisw aAre DUNeNGUs. it : H H i ¢ i DOOMED TO DEFEAT. Opinten of American Ambassador Wil- son in the Mexican Capital. . 22.—'That the rev- Mexico mre doomed io defeat is the opinion of HMenry Lane Wilson, the Aerican ambassador ia the Mexicen capftal. From that van- <age point, with access 1o the reports recwived by the Mexican go from it military coumander governors, and with private ad- vices from the American consular of- fices &t points wiere disturbances have oocurred, Mr. Wilson has reached the conclusion, which Le has transmittad o the state devariment, rhat owing to the excellent aisposition of President Disz'e military forces, the revelution- arv movement ich appears to have im-ite nature o mot likes 1 Captain Shmitters Granted Interlocu- tory Decree of Divorce. New York, Nov. 22.—An intenlocutory | decree of divorce was granted today in | the mupreme court in Brooklyn to | Capt. Ferdinand Shmitter, U. S. A, a | surgeon stationed at ¥Fort Slocum, near | here, from Mary Hill Shmitters, whom he married in Bt. Louis in 1907. The ! suit was not defended. Captain Shmitters left his brid2 two days after the marriage he testifled, because he did not believe her state- ment that she had diverced a former husband. He made other statutory charges. NEW YORK MAN'S EXPERIENCE IN THE DANGER ZONE. A. G. Springer Says a State of Terror Prevails. ~A. G. Spring- ing man. arrived here today direct from the scenes of disorder around Torreon. He said: Whole Country in Arms. “The whole country through which I passed is in arms. and in many places a rlate of terror prevails. I was in Mortersy Sunday. The troops were in full control and everything was guiet. A‘ tho station I saw thirty men, each cumying a rifle, get off a train. The poiice and rurales immediately sur- rounded them, but I do not know the ouicoma, as the train puniled out. Bodi, Lying in Str “I reached Torreon Monday and found the Gomer Palacio in the hands of revolutionists. Everything was olosed at Torreon; banks, stores and saloons, and business was at a stand- stdl. A mining engineer and myself visited Gomez ;ehu:!o on a tram car and we saw bodies lying about ths sireets and were told that a battle had taken piece between the revolutionists and the rurales. “It was said that two hundred sol- disrs FTad deserted and jolned the in- surgents. There was fighting around the palace for several hours and we saw some of it. The chief of police was sho. dead. “Yhe rurales fought desperataly and were Lotter armed and drilled than the revolutionists. They fought behind p.les of railroad ties and finally forced the mob to flee to the hills. Took First Train for the Border. “I* was impossible to send a tele- gvam, buy a peper or get anvthing to eat ot Torresn. We heard rumors of battles at other places, especially at | Farral, whers it was reported sixty- seven had bzen killed. The rumors piied wgpmn each other so fast that it wae impossible to verify anything. I jtosk the first train for the border, zlad ‘o get ¢ut of the danger zone.” Conerste Building Collapsed, Five Per- sons Killed. Ciewsland, O., Nov. 2 The wife of Simon Frutkin, a tailor, his two small children, Mrs. J. B. Jackerny, a cus- towper, and a servant were crushed to death by the eollapse of a new con- crete mercantile buillding at Lorain avenue and West Thirtieth strast to- night. Anm empiosion of unknown ori- gin is belleved to have caused the dis- Rster. BATTLE NOW IN PROGRESS, Madeire with 1,444 Men Attacked Cas- tro Ceiengas Last Night. Bt Paxo, Texas Nov. 23.—It was re- ported that Madeiro, accompanied by néarly 1,000 mounted men, attacked Castro Cefengas last night at 11 o'elock and a battle is now in prog- ress. This news comes from Torrech &t midnight. ASSASSINATION OF DIAZ RUMOR IN CIRCULATION Futile. Denver, Nov. 23—A rumor that Pres- ident Diar of Mexico had been assassi- nated galned some circulation here la#t night, but efforts to trace it to n{"\y authoritative source proved fu- tile. i % {RESENTS UNWARRANTED INTERFERENCE OF FOSS In the Re-slection of U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Boston, Nov. —Speaker Joseph Walker of the Masgachusetts house of reprasentatives tonight issued a state- | pient protesting against the proposed aciivity of Governor-elect E. N. K in opposition to the. re-eiection of Senator Henry . lLodge. Speaker Walker emphasized the point that the choosing of United States senators is placed upon the legisiative and mnot the exeoutive branch of the general court of Meassachusetts, ““Ae a member of the house of rep- resentatives 1 resent the announce- {ment of the governor-elect as an un- warranted interference bty the execu- tive with the Jegislative branch of the government,” he said. Mr. Walker added that his statement was issuesd without suggestion from Senator Lodge. Fire Insurance Methods Under Inves- tigation. New York, Nov. 22— Fire insurance methods were under fire today at the hands of the Merritt legislative graft committee. Insurance experts were tile chief witnesses and the testimony was ahuost exclusively technical. With this new line of inguiry under way the race tiack scandals hive been aband- oned temporarily, primarily because subpoenw Nervers have been unable to |find several prominent men desired as witnesses. Among them are James R. Keene and Harry Payne Whitney. Once Prominent Insurance Man Dead. | Milwaukee. Wis.. Nov. William | More, in rears past a prosperous urance man snd well kno in eastern social and- financial « es. disd today in the Proteztaht Home fo the Agsdl aged §7 yoars | | But Efferts to Trace Its Proof Prove { | Cabled Paragraphs Saigon, ¥rench Indo China, Nov. 22. -~One thousand persons were drowned and 400 barks were lost during floods in the province of Quanguagai in An- nam. r Paris. Nov. who died on The hody of a man eamer train while en route from Paris for Havre Saturday was identified today as that of Alfrcd G. Platt of San Francisco. Berlin, E The sixth game of the chess championship 'match be- tween Janowski and lLasker, adjourned from Sunday, was again adjourned to- day. The position of the players is ‘onsidered equal and a draw is loo for. The present score: Lasker drawn 2. “GET-RICH-QUICK” PROMOTERS ARE STILL IN THE TOMBS. No Application for Bail Has Yet Been Made—More Evidence Against the Burr Brothers. 35 ‘New York, No —Sheiton C. Burr, Eugene H. Burr and ¥Frank H. Tobey, officers of Burr Brothers,” stock pro- moters. were still in the Tombs tonight. Their operations netted them millions, according to Postmaster General Hitchecoek, but no application for bail has been made since their arrest yes- terday on a charge of using the mails to deffaud. Mr. Hitchcock, who personally en- gineered the raid on the concern yes- terday, is still in New York, anging for speedy prosecution of the ca said tonight that he had rec flood of congratulatory messages the action he had taken and also a flood of complaints from persons who say they have been victimized. John Bmerson, a bricklaver, complainad at the federal building today that he had invested $2,000 in mining stock adver- tised by the Burrs and had received no returng. ‘Thus he lost a life's savirgs. The bricklayer said he had recently received literature from the company advising him to exchange his mining stock for oil stock. A letter signed “E. H. Burr,” counseling such action, he turned over to the authorities. It says in part: “To be frank with you, we are about as discouraged with the mining busi- ness as you are, and we decided to dis- continue all mining operations and di- rect our energies toward the flnancing and development of <California oil properties. “Would yeu like to change upon a reasonable basis the stock you hold in the British-American Copper Mines and Smelting company for stock in one of our active successful oil com- panies? From your standpoint such an exchange would seem Yery advan- tagaous, as your British-American stock as it now stands is of little or no value and the exchange proposition we speak of would perhaps be the only way of saving the money you have in- vested in British-American stock.” DR. BOEHM AND HIS WIFE FOUND HANGING ON TREES Their Team Ran Away—Horses Plunged Over Steep Hillside. Greensburg. Pa., Nov. 25—Dr. George Boehm and Mrs. Boehm were found hanging on trees along a steep hill- side today after their team of horses had ‘been killed on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks a hundred feet he- low. They were driving ahout two hundred feet above the track when their horses became frightened and plunged over the steep hillside. Mrs. Boehm was thrown inte the branches of & tree, while her husband contin- ued with the runaway horses until he lost his hold and was also pitched in- to a tree. The team alighted on the railroad tracks in time to be ground to pieces by a heavy freight train. The crew investigated and with ropes res- cued the doctor and hils wife. Mrs. Boehm was unconscious. Both were taken to Herminie, where their injur- ies were dressed. NATIONAL GRANGE TROUBLES. DELEGATES FOUND GUILTY of F and Malicious Statements Against the Grange Administration. Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. —After a session of the national grange which lasted until midnight Monday, a com- mittee consisting of State Masters Ackerson, Jones, Gardner, Black and Healy, appointed from the grange as a committee of the whole, reported back to the main committee that they had found Delegates Helme and Hamp- ton “guilty of false and malicicus statements against the present admi®- istration of the national grange.” The committee adopted their findings and will recommend to the grange that Helme and Hampton be expelled from the sixth degres and barred from fur- ther participation in the affairs of the convention. Death of Man Who Made Coffin for John Brown. Charlestown, W. Va., Nov. 22.The last of those who took part in the execution of John Brown died here early today at the age of $3. He was Louis P. Starry, the undertaker who made the coffin in which Brown's body was placed. Mr. Starry rode on the wagon with Brown from the jail to the scaffold and delivered the body afterwards at Harpers Ferry to Mrs. Brown and Dr. McKim. Mr. Starry lved here all his life. Receivers Asked for the German Mu- tual Benefit Association. Cricago, Nov. 22.—Receivars for the German National Insurance cempany. reorganized from the German Mutual Benefit association. were asked for to- day in cireuit court by Mrs. Catherine Rickermann, a policyholder. She charges frauds in management and in the transfer of the assets of the old company to the new at the time of reorganization. Pastor Barrett Accepts Call to Ohio Church. Nov. 22.—The Rev. Wil liam L. Barrett of tlie Blaiaville Pres- byterian church, who was arrested ves- terday on a charge of libeling Govar- nor-elect John K. Tener, has, it is an- nounced, accepted a call to the pastor- ate of the Presbyterian church at Bellefontaine, O. Tndiana, Pa., Birthday Present for Andrew Carnegie Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 22.—To show théir appreciation of the recent gift of $1,500,000 to the Carnegie technical schools and an endowment of $2,000,- 000 by Andrew Carnegle, students of the institutions today purchased an immense solid silver tray which they will send to his home in New York, where it will be presented to him on his 75th birthday anniversar next ¥riday. The tray is appropriately en- graved. Chinese Will Filed for Probate. New York, Nov. —What is be the first will written in Chinese characters ever filed in the office of the surrogatz of New York county was de- posited there today by James A. Done- gan, a lawver. It is the will of Pong Wing Wart. otherwise” known as Pong Chak. He leaves his entire estate, a comfortable fortung te Fong Sung Wing, a brether. ¢ £ CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1910 Ugly Suffragettes AssaultflAsquith POLICE RESCUE PRIME MINISTER JUST IN TIME. BATTLE ON bOWNING STREET Many Women Dragged from the Scene with Clothing Half Torn O#—One American Among Those Arrested. T.ondon, Nov. 22.—The political cam- paign is being waged with a fiérceness almost unknown in England. both by politicians on the stump and suffra- gettes on the battle field. Government Windows Broken. The battle of Downing street, which was fought this afternoon when sev- eral hundred suffragettes attempted to storm the premier's residence, assault- ed Mr. Asquith and Augustine Bir- rell. chief secretary for Ireland, and roke many windows in the govern- ment offices, surpassed all previous spetacles of the sort. About 150 wo- men and seéveral men supporters are in the police station tonight. Mob of Women on Trail of Premier. Fellowing announcement by the prime minister in the house of com- mons that if he were still in power at the next session of parliament the government would give facilities for the consideration of a suffrage bill, a large body of women, inflamed rather than placated by the promise, which was characterized as ‘nothing more nor le=s than an insult to the cause,” left Caxton hall in search of the pre- mier. They came upon him eon the way to Downing street and immedi- ately formed a hostile cordon aréund Mr. Asquith, who recently has résorted - to all kinds. of subterfuges to keep himself clear of the hands of the mil- itant women. One of them, Henrietta ‘Williams, struck the government lead- er and the premier would have fared badly had not large detachments of police come running to his rescue. The police had great difficulty in putting down the dizorders and many of the women had to he dragged from the scene, with clothes half torn from their backs. Rioting Continued Into the Evening. The rioting continued into the eve- ning. when squads of women attacked the residences of Sir l;inward Grey, the foreign secretary, Winstone Spen- cer Churchill, the home secretary, and Lewis Hareourt, secretary of state for the colonies. Stones crashed through the windows of the houses, Sir BEd- ward Grey’'s bearing the brunt of the attack. One band spied Mr. Birrell stroMing through St. James' park to the Athenaeum club, and swooped down upon the aged statesman, knock- ing his hat over his eves and kicking bim about thg legs.. When help came and the worden were driyen off, Mr. Birrell limped to his metor car on the arms_of policemen. One American Woman Arrested. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. the léad- er of the suffragettes. has among those taken to jail. Her sister, Mrs. Grant, denied admittance, threw a missile through the jail window. She also was incarcerated. Miss’ Grace John- son was the only American arrested. Miss Annie Martin of vada, who was taken to the police station on ¥ri- day and later was released was not among those arrested tonight. SUNK BY COLLISION. and Crew of Norwegian Steamer Picked Up. Officers Nov. 2 The San Francisco, Cal., steamer Beaver. which left this port for Portland, coilided with and the Norwegian frelght steamer ja. bound from Hong Kong for this port, off Point Reves late today. The Beaver is standing by to pick up the erew of the lost vessel. The steam- shipx coilided in a heavy fog, the Sel- ja_sinking within fifteen minutes. The freighter carried a crew of 40 Javanese, commanded by ter white of- ficers. The Beaver, which was only siightly damaged, picked up the offi- cers and erew of the Selja and is now sieaming towards this city. DIPPED TOO NEAR THE EARTH. sank | Aeroplane Turned Over and Fell—Avi- i ator McCurdy Uninjured. 22.—While de- hundrad foot Mobile, Ala, Nov scending from a five fiight this afternoon, Aviator J. A. D. McCurdy dipped too near the earth, {one of the wing shields of his aero- plane striking the ground when going at a_high rate of speed and turning the | The crowds rushed to the end of the { fizld in which the accident happened, but found McCurdv walking about. smiling and uninjured. The aeroplane | was badly damaged, although it fell but ten or fifteen feet iCapihl Stock of New Britain Manu- facturing Plants Increased. New Britain, Conn.. Nov. At a ! meeting of the directors of the Trawt & Hine Manufacturing company here today it was voted to increase the cap- ital &tock of the company from $200,000 to $500.000, the increase to he given to the present stockholders as an extrs dividend at the ratio of on2 and a half shares for every share held. The directors of the Landers, Frary & Clark company today voted to in- | crease the capital stock of the company from $1,560,000 to $2.000,000. The stoek increase is to be offared to the present stockholders at par $25 a share. { Killed While Making Repairs in Ele- vator Pit. Boston, . 22.—Caught beneath a freight elevator . which descended up- on them as they were making repairs in the pit. Charles P. Shattuck, super- visor of elevators at the Seouth termi- nal station, was instantly kiilled and John J. Fitzgerald was seriously in- jured fonight. Shattuck was a vet- eran of the civil war. The responsi- bility for the accident has not been placed. Former Trolley Conductor Commits Suicide. Westport, Conn., Nov. 22.—Despon- i dent, it is believed over family trou- bles, Harry G. Webster, a former con- ductor on- the lines of the Connecti- cut company, committed suicide to- night by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. Webster was thirty years old and leaves his wife, with whom he did not live. Alleged Embezzier Discharged for Lack of Evidence. New York,.Nov. 22.—W. H. Cutler, cashier and . general manager of the Seward Development company, who wae arrested on Saturday, charged by Alirei F. White, vresident of the com- Eh with embezzling $18.000 of the firm's money, was discharged today for lack of evidence Condensed Telegrams ] A Case of Cholera was officially de clared to have been brought to Quebec ' on the steamer Royal George. The Kaiser in Opening the New Naval academy at Flembsburg, Prussia, urg- ed total abstinence of the cadets. Congresman Talcott of Maryland had a talk with Champ Clark, the prospec- tive speaker of the new house of rep- resentatives. Admiral Watt, chief constructor of the navy, reported that the monitor Puritan, recently sunk in Hampton Roads, can be saved. Gordon Jones, president of the Clear- ing House assoclation of Denver, will recommend the organization of a cur- rency association for Colorado. Charies M. Rademacher of Clinton, 1., was elected captain of the Univer- sity of Chicago football team for 1911. He has been two vears on the team. An Anonymous Doner will give a. Thanksgiving turkey to_every police- man in Manhattan, New York, number- ing 5,309 turkeyc and costing $10,000. Minnie Pickett, 13 Years Old, and weighing only 14 pounds, died Monday at Canyonville, Ore. She is believed to have been the smallest person in the world for her age. Otis Hubbsll and His Family of four chidren were murdered in their home near Barnard, a small town in north- west Missouri. The house was then set afire to conceal the crime. Two Former City Councilmen of Pittsburz, M. F. Swift, Jr., and A. V. Simon, must go to jail on bribery charges, according to a decision by court to which they appealed. Railway Commission filed with the interstate commerce commission a complaint against the ‘Wells-Fargo Express company, alleg- ing unjust rates to certain towns. The Arizona Carl H. Rohr, a young bank eclerk who “is accused of making away with $20,000 of National Union bank funds, arrived in Waertown, N. Y., from Seat- tle, Wash., where he was arrested. In Her Will, Filed Monday, Mrs. Flor- ence Coleman, a pioneer of Sacramen- to, Cal., bequeathes $30,000 for the con- struction of a fountain for beasts and birds. Numerous large bequests are made to societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals. Eighteen Thousand Thanksgiving Turkeys have passed through Roanoke, Va., from east Tennessee and south- west Virginia for mnorthern markets since Saturday night. Four solid car- loads were handled Monday night by express, and other shipments went for- ward yesterday. Because Brothers of John Evers and Arthur Hofman revresented these play- ers when. the Chicago National league club plaved at Ottumway, Iowa, on Sept.. 9th,; the national baseball com- mission vesterday fined , the Chicaso club £300. 'The claim of the Ottumway management for damages was disal- Jowed because the home team allowed the game to go on and profited by it. At a'meeting in°Boston Tuesday the board of .commigsioners of the New England Congregational coneress vot- ed to hold the next hiennial session of the congress at Hartford, Conn, on February 14 and 15 1911. Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers of Manchtster. N. H., was elected chairman of the board to succeed Rev. H. H. Kelsev, formerly of Conneeticut, who has moved to Ohio. Judge George S. Criswell yesterday granted the petition to remove the rec- ords in the $42.560 election audit case of former Congressman J. C. Sibley from Venange county, Pa., ‘o Warren county, where the conspiracy trials of Sibley and three of his associates are to take place early in December. Sibley will not be able to appear on account of ill health, but an effort will ba made to try the other defendants. Tt is expected all will seek a postpone- ment. GAMBLING HOUSES MUST GO, SAYS MAYOR GAYNOR Makes Plain His Attitude in Letter to Brooklyn Lawyer. New York. Nov. 22.—Mavor Gavnor made plain this afternoon his attitude toward gambline houses in New York. He savs they must go. Writing to a Brooklyn lawyer who complained that for two weeks the police had held pos- session of a client’s saloon, on the charge that it was a gambling house, the mayor sayvs: “A man's house Is his castle, as vou correctly say. but I have never vet heard it said that a man's gsambling house is his castle. When the volice find a public nuisance thev should then take possession of it until the nuisance is fully abated and that fis propose to do with gam- nlaces and the like. Tt is of tle use to walk into them and 2 the proprietar and thean walk out again. We do not intend to bave the law enforced in that feehle way, but, on the contrary, the amply pow- ers given bv law to the police to sup- press nuisances is going to be exer- cised.” DEMOCRATIC HOUSE STRENGTH. what they bling will H 227 Members and a Ma- jority of 63 Votes. Washington, Nov. 22.—The demo- eratic representation in the mext house will ba 227, against 163 republeans and one soclalist, according to the roster of { the house published today. These fig- ures give the democrats a majority of 63 and a plurality of 4. Tuberculosis Sanitarium fer Colored People. Colorado Sprinsgs, Col, Nov. 22.—An- nouncement was made todav that James K. Polk Tavior, a former slave, has given 480 acres of land at Calha forty miles east of Coloradn S to the Charles Snmner Tibe association as a site for a tnlerc | sanitarium for colored peorie { understond $200,000 will he spent the sanitarium. on Mrs. Totten Found Guilty of Murder in First Degree. Wenatchee, Wash.. Nov. Bella A. Totten was pronounced g of murder in the firsi de a jury. Mrs. Totten. fol pute over a- right of w Totten ranch last Amgu killed James Sutton. a Totten claimed she shot had tried to strike her a: Steamship Arrivals. At London: Nov. 2, Minnehaha, from New York. At Trieste: Nov. 19, Columbia, from New York. At Bremen: Nov. 22, Kronprinzes- sin Cecile, from New York. At Copenhagen: Nov. 22, TUnited States, from New York. 4 At Liverpool: Nov. 22, Lusitania, from New York o P& TWO CENTS s’& : ’ Ll - .ppen Made No Gonfession RUMOR THAT HE HAD CREATED SENSATION IN LONDON. HANGED THIS MORNING Crippen’s Last Night on Earth Passed With Father Carey—Ethel Leneve Sails for New York Today. London, Nov. 22.—All preparations have been made for the hanging of Dr. Hawley Crippen tomerrew morning within the gloomy watls of Penton- ville nrisen. which stands in one of the most digsmal sectiens of London. It is probable that the exeeution will take place between eight and nine o'cloek. Arrival of Public Executiener. Public Executioner Ellis of Reeh- | dale, who hanged a wife munrderer at Liverpool this morning, arrived in london on the evening train. The scaffold was erected today. A few tenments overlook the prison yard, and to bar the tenants from a gi'mpse of the tragedy a big canvas scraen has been.put up before the zallows. No Spectators but Offici Only a small group of official wit- nesses will attend, and every effort Kas been made to prevent morhid crowds from gathering in the neighborhoed. Even the customary official announce- ment of the hanging Iz not likely to be posted until evening. The body probably will be buried in quicklime in the prison yatd. This s custom at Pentonville, although not in all English prisons. Crippen Attended by Father Carey. Father Carey, who has visited Crip- pen frequently, entered the prison at six o'clock this evening to spend the night with the condemned man. He will wallk with Crippen to the scaf- fold. Sensational Report Denied. An evening paper caused a sensa- {«an by flooding the ity with placards that Crippen had made a written con- fession. Kvervone In a position to know denied Ethel Leneve said: “1 was the last person to see Dr. Crip- So far as my knowledge extends pen. he has not made such a statemen | It was also reported that Ori; today wrote a statement for a on un- day paper, which bought a previeus story of his. The paper, however, denies that it has his confession. Ethel Leneve Sails for New York. London, Nov. 22.—Ethel Leneve has booked passage on the steamer Ma- jestic, which sails from Southampton for New York. tomorrow. GOV.-ELECT BALDWIN 1 ON TOUR OF INSPECTION Through the State Tuberculosis Insti- tution for New Haven County. | Meriden, Conn., Nov. 23.—Governor- ielect Simeon E. Baldwin made .a tour of inspection through the buildings and grounds of Undercliff sanitarium, the state tuberculosis institution for New Haven county, this afternoon. He was {accompanisd by Dr. George H. Knight |of Lakeville, chairman of the atate tu- | berculosis commission, Commigsioner George Hall of New Haven and Dr. J. B. Dinnan of this city. superintendent of TU'ndercliff sanitarium. Governor-elect Baldwin and thé two | members of the commission had nrevi- iously made inspections of state tuber- culosis institutions at Shelton and at Hartford and of a private inetitution in i the latter city MILITIA GUARD MICHIGAN : HOME FOR FEEBLE MINDED. | Institution Under Quarantine om Ae- count of Sm-Hp% Qutbreak. Lapeer, Mich.,, Nov. 22.—Militlamen guarding the state homa for the feable minded, which is under quarantine on aceount of smailpox among the In- mates, fired on two women attendants who were trying to pass the lines this evening. Neither of the women was wounded. They were captured and re- turned to the home. Smallpox broke out fn the héme two weeks ago. Since that time there has been fourteen deaths among the pa- tients, many of whom are in & pitiablz state of unsound mind. There are six- teen cases at present. Another de- tachment of milltiamen was ordered to the place tonizht. Free Trips to the Isthmus Are at an End. New York, Nov. 22.—Threugh the arrest today of six men who had ap- plied for work upon the Pa canel the government virtually serwed motive to soldiers of fortune, rovers and would-be sightzeers that free trips to the {sthmus are at an end. The ar- rests disclosed that the isthmian eanal commission has thus been vietimized at government expense. The techniocal charge against the men 4z of present- ing forged recommendations to ths canal commission for the purpere of defrauding the government out of the cost of their tramsportation to Panama. All were held for examination, Admiral- Dewey Deolines Invitatien te Take Airship Flight. Philadelphia, Nov. 22.—Grahame- White, the aviator, today sent invita- tions to Gen. James Allen, chief of the signal corps of the United States army, and to Admiral Dewey at Washington, asking them to accompany him on a { cross country flight of five miles | his binlane, visiting the Philadalphia | navy yard. General Allen tomight w ian accent e nf the invitatiom Thursday. weather canditions ravorable. Admiral Deway repiied ible to aascent would be impos i | Meriden Man Drank Chloroform Whiskey. Mariden, Conn Nov Trodell, aged 38 : house i lodging Bvenifg in Pittsburg, Pa., Nos v nuts doubled in price was announced tiui fined three dealers 40 caci (o ing decayed nuts. The men "¢ 2 - en until next week to colect 1 the wholesalers who brought the 1uts into the city. Meantime all ‘ealers went over their stock and takinz ouvf all nuts of questionable character 1ifi- ed the price from five to tem cents per bag