Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 12, 1910, Page 1

VOL Ln.—uo 296 NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE Cabled Paragraphs President Tait to Send in Appointment to the Senate Today at Noon EDWARD D. WHITE, A DEMOCRAT, Now Associate Justice, Will Be Elevated to the Chief Justiceship—First Time that a Chief Justice of a Political Faith Opposite to that of the Administra- Has Ever Been Appointed. Washington, Dec, 11.—Asgociate Jus tice Bdward Douglass White of the United States supreme court Is to b elevated to the ehief justiceship of that tribunal. President Taft will send the nomination to the senate to morrow at noon. It Is expected also that two assoctate Justices to (1l va- eancles on the bench will be named tomorroy Announcement Will Cause Surprise. “I'he announcement that Justice White will be the new chief justice undoub edly will cause some surprise, because it had been pretty gen ly under stood for Charles K me time past thit Justice Hughes was siated for that high honor. During the past two or three days, however, It became known that a change In thé slate for head of the supreme court might be mude Why Hughes Was Not Chosen. {he disregarded all political considera- tons, Justice White s a democrat ind was born In Loulsiana. He was appointed to the supreme court by Grover Cleveland and I8 65 years of age, Mo far as Washington could recal) ight, this is the first time that a chief justice of a political faith oppo- #ite 1o that of the administration has ever been appoined. Associate Judges to Be Named. It was reported tonight, though nei- ther confirmation nor denial was ob- tainabl t the White house, that Pres. ident Taft will name as associate jus- tice, Judge Wiills Van Devanter of Chey Wyo., now a federal judge in the Kigth United States circuit court, an Georgla, a de; tice of the ( eph Rucker Lamar of crat, and former jus- orgla. supreme court. Home of the president’s closest nd- The New Court of Commerce. Y % argued with him that Justice 13 # nlso reported tonight ike- HHughes' experience at the bir had not | wise without confirmation, that the heen sufficlent to warrant his promo- | aw court of commerc i1l be name: tion at this time to the highest judi ident tomorrow and will 1l position In the countr They | consist following: Martin A. simed that Mr. Flughes' reputation f Knapy of New York, at present chair- “s A lawyer had becn guined principal- | man of the interstate commerce com- in his conduct of two legislative In- | sstigations. They agrced with the | T. Archibald, at present ’ nt that everything pointed to a | (rpited States district judge the most brilliant_eareer on the hench for | piatfd JHALES CIEITCL Juas the former governor. At the same time | “yrijliam #, Hunt of Mon they offered the argament that Justieo | o Judge of the court of cust Hughes was the youngest man on the | 5. bench and his opportunity for promo- ur €. Denison of Michi have had the advantage of maturing | PReent AUE experience of having served veral | % 1 W2 years on the bench. t judge of 1 court It is known that the president secs | of o piee Mack Mr. Hughes most of the qualities e L 3 o believes essential in a chidt juatice, | '# @ democrat. Young, vigorous, possessing sreat ex- | To Fill Vacancies on Interstate Com- ecutive ability and with progressive) faslont? ideas, Mr. Hughes was looked upon as| . R C°mm‘"'°rxh, e the man who could do much to bring [ T fI o 2 et b 8 b about the reform in judicial proceed- | State commerce commission of Chair- ings in this country. ‘Mr. Taft regards | man Knapp and = ex- "““’" < court reforms as the crying necessity | Cockrell of M v RO EeLies o of the United States. Fe has made e e sirong representations on the subject .. i gl fn his message to congress 1 i\""-f'r O B e and-C. C. ord of Kentuc hopeful that something substantial can be accomplished during his adminis tratfon. It the president could have bis way, hla administration would he notabie In history for having acco plished = something toward making court litigation less costly and less tedlous. The president has been most care- ful in making his selections of judges and he finally was impressed by the objection of tnexnerience of Justice Hughes, especially inexperiance on the bench. Always coupled with the eri fetem of Mr. Hughes as a chiel jus- tice was the highest pralse for the former governor s a man and as an associate justice. No appointment, the president has made, has caused more favorable comment. Justico White a Democrat, Born in Louisiana, The opposition to Mr. IHughes as chief justice at this time on the ground of inexperienc eame not only from the president's sdvisers in Washing- ton, but on the principle of the pro- posed appointment from the bar and from the judges of the various courts, Justice Hughes already is very pop- wiar among the judges of the supreme eourt and it s mot believed they took any part in the arguments placed be- fore the president. liminating Justice Ilughes from romotion and eliminating all sugee jons made from outside the court, President Taft, it 18 said, turned nat- urally to Justice White. In doing so Justice Edward Douglass White. | _Washington, Dec. 1L—Justice Ed- ward Douglass White was, strictly speaking, the loife representative of the south om the bench for a numher of years. Coming from a family of | indges, his father and his grandfather | before hom having been on the bench, | Justice White has had a fudicial in- beritance as well as legal training. fle was horn in the parish of Ta Fourche, Louisiana, in Movemiber, 1845 Fis parents were Catholics and he ueation was in Catholic institutions. his early youth he attended the ool at Mount St. Mary’s, near Em- whurg, Mr.; later he entered tha !.Il uit college in New Orleans, and finally he went to Georgetown college | of Washington, D. C. | Justice White served in the Confed- erate Army during the civil war; prac- ticed lnw among the people of Louis- i same a sugar planter on its His ability and high char- gnized by the people in ated commizgions as a public offi- cial. In 1874 he was elected as sen- ator in the Louisiana legisiature. Four tice of the supreme court of ate and serv until the new consti- | tion went into effect in 1879, making 1 offices in the state vacant. e was elected United States senator and 1894 elevated to the supreme bench by President Cleveland. $30,000 FIRE AT BRIDGEPORT METHODIST CHURCH. ze Started in Basement of Sunday School EIl Bridgeport, Coun., Dec. 11 field Methodist Episcopal SBtratford and Central avenue wa stroyed by fire tonight, with an esti- ated loss of $30.000. The fire discovered in a basement under : wged for Sunday school purpose before the fire depurtment couw’ wpond it had eatem its way into the| main body of the church such rapld headway that it w gble to do other than keep th nd sain s impos- from spreading to_surroundir per- ty. One fireman had a finger torn off by catching it in a hose shut-off, and soveral others were alightly burned. The building was conerete block construction and was erected threeand & half years ago at & cost $30,000. Thers was insurance of $10.000 on the roperty, but this was subject to an 8,000 mortgage. The cause of the fire ts unknown. CYCLONE IN SPAIN. Many Persons Killed or Injursd.—Wire | Communication Suspended. Madrid, Dec. 1 ain has been vis- tad by a second cyclone, oven more s were than that which sweot over the | wastern portion of tell country a few days ago. Many persons have been Yalled or injured. and the low Iving dis- | tricts are flooded everywhere. The low - or part of Seville is submerged and it fs feared that the entire city will be wnder water shortly. A railroad bridge ot Alcala has been destroyed and num- erous villages in that region are in a critical situation, Railroads have been washed aw Caceres, Aranjuez, Castillo, C Villasecra and Malaga. Two t v at derafled today at Paleca a Ve bodles have be ohserved floating down the river at Valadolid ] ications wi r"fir\hlf cor n 18 almo-t ports have r along the coast. tor Reads Resignation. ntirely suspenc hed here of shiy Bristol P. Bristol, ks & Dec. 11.—At the morning service of the First Baptist church todey, Rev. Henry Clark, for years pastdr of the church, read resignation, 1o take effect January 15th | Rev. Clark hes received and accepted o call from a Racine vis., churen was THE CAPE COD CANAL, SANDWICH BOARD OF TRADE Preparing for Big Business Boom in the Near Future. Sandwich, Ma Dec. 11.—With the | completion of ns for the constru | tion of a s and railroads this end 3 od_ship car local e is preparing | t in the near future. Constraction work on this end of the canal has already reached a point where the mouth of the ditch i being used as a harbor of refuge for tishing vessels and the board has peti- tioned for a lightship which will serve to mark the eastern entrance. The plan is to have the ship stationed at the outer end of the breakwater, about to date. has complet t long e canal | Sax boundary be started in a fe line a v da will connect with the New York, New Haven s railroad at zamore, whi y Iso connect at Sandwich with the main wn the cape. k on the b ndad for t ight month; been place kwater has been | vinter. During 008 tons of 1 off the shore here. | Wealthy Newark Manufacturer Shot His Wife and Himself. J.. Dec. 11.—Charles F wealthy retired manufac Newa 3 old, shot his wife, Hen- 50 years old, in the neck this aft- ernoon, then sent a bullet into his head | and another inte h He died | < Mrs. Croselmire is in a critiva 1 cond tion. Relatives and | friends could | stooting. ¢ | “T couldn't s he next wor this.” ve no motive for 1d it any i will & gee county jail to get Henry Taylor, & negro prisoner, charged with assauit- ing a young white woman, dled today from a Wouhd received in tha attack | More wran & bundred shots wese fined Seven arrests were made todey. Jailer Phelts Wa$ serigusiy injured, dur =i Tecover. British provident 254, with ST and f mself is a confessor of that faith. His | vears later he was appointed associate | In 1891 | 0 feet of which has been construct- | Member of Lynching Mob Died of Wound Received. Columbus, Ga., Dee. 1l.—Irvin Kent, oung cotton mill operative, alleged o have been a member of the mob vhich last night stormed the Musko- | 'NORWICH, Rome, Dec, 11,~No deunths from the cholera’ have heen reported g Italy | during the past twenty-four hours and only two new cas Lisbon, Dee. 11—The ministry of finance will issuc a decree on I calling for the payment of one ot all customs duties in gold. Tokio, Dec, 11 Count Komura, falrs, in i health n cause, The resignation of minister of forelgn af- ted ehortly, Protracted 1y be given as the primary Constantinople, Henry Ozmun, Americin coneul gen- eral here, died Friday after a brief ill- ness. He ‘'was born at Rochester, Minn., Aug, 6, 1857, 11.—Edward Christiana, Norway, Dec. 11—The Nobel prize commission of the storth- Ing yesterday awarded the peace prize for 1916 1o the interndtional permi- nent peace bureau at Berne. The value of the prize is $40.000 Funchal, Madeira, Dee. 11.-—Asiatic cholera continues to rage here, Officinl raports give the figures since the out- brealc at 442 cases and 136 d ery physician has been sorvice Ly the h Florence, Do here reports that from 11 o'clock th morning until 1 o'clock this afternoon | | a smerles of strong earthquake vib | tions were recorded on the instruments. | Apparently the carthquake was at a great distance. Constantinople, Der 11.—Edward | Henry Ozmun, the Armerican consu goneral at Constantinople, » died on December 9 after buried tod cemetery. a brief (linees, ‘m the DBritish ( This was in_ace with hig expressed wigh. Flin ¢ 1 near that of Consul General He ¥ho led in 1587. A lar athe ot ,mnm« and officia terded the bur- ¢ The recent coup d’ etat | y when th | i the v | vot followed a » of | on the fore ANC ymestle | thie: governmient. which. wae - ong the grand vider's review of ral situation ! FATAL HUNTING ACCIDENTS | IN STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Appalling Figures and the Season Not | Yet Ended. Pittsburg, De: | cidents o with the | equal the number o | in all forty-six this fall, ‘While tie serfous acecldents in the same state twice as many as were due in the United States. ! This coraparison of “sports tha is obtained from a careful compila- tion of all gunning accidents reported | in Pennsylvania to local . this fall and from a summary bail accidents which was widely pub- lished at the conclusion of the grid- iron season. The record as obtainable is: Football in the United States (1910) Deaths 13; serious injuries. 17 Hunting' in Pennsylvania (1910), Deaths 13; serious injuries The list of gunning casualtics shows | a death or injury for almost every day | of the scazon thus far. The v are main Of the thirteen dead, seven were k | by weapons in their own hands an | 8ix by guns in the hands of other per- ons. The causes of the accidents | were varied: Stumbling, fence climb- ing, careless loading, stacking guns against trees, heedless aims and ig- norance that guns were loaded. In no | case is it reported that a_hunter was mistaken for game, as often happens in the bigger hunting grounds of Maine and the nortawest. One peculiar accicent was the death a hunter by heart digease when a abbit which he thought he had shot | dead, jumped juet as he was about to | piek it up. This victim was Albert | | Henne, aged 42, a school director and hotel man of Dickswm City, Pa. H death is not included in the tab | | tion of deaths from hunting. | In addition to the known dead there | | were at least a dozen persons report- | | ed in the news despatches as I g | ! little chance to recover. but sinte their condition was not follywed up clos it was not reported whether they lived. Of the score of others seriously in- jured a majority lost a leg or arm or eye. Nearly all the accidents occurred in the hunt of small game, rabbits and pheasar The weer and bear hunting seasons | were unuswally successful. The stat | fish and game_commission report th { over 800 deer were shot and about | bears. TIncidentally S$7 arrests were | | made for vielations of the game laws; | | and all but ene case resulted in & con { viction. Death Toll for New England. Boston. Dec. 11L.—With the hunting season siill four days to run in state of Maine and Ne | and ts of a ]‘I\l'l accidents still w - for the year 1910 in New | i throu | carry The fata the record | Twenty-eiz | ing | 1909 i o REVOLUTION IN MEXICO. Rsinforcements for the Government Forces at Chihuahua. | | i1 wie was an The today, eral twenty art | lowad in a Thirty Minutes for Nean Lunc | Haven Raead Shups. New Haven, Conn., Dec. ll—in In the .»m in New been suomouneed 1o ‘the shops | New York, New Haven and He | mattros COWN., | corps, I Rt | sorship TWO HUNDRED MUTINEERS EITH- ER KILLED OR WOUNDED. Many Ci Teio 4 with The mutineers in the battalion of numbered | composed a IIONDAY. Tanefro, nt troops are warrigon on Coln ond mutiny of inings for All Mutineers Killed, Wounded of Cap- Second Mutiny In Rio Janerio ens Were Either Killed or Grave Wounded While Watching the Bom- barcment—. T 1 Isiand, and the na wualty t prot tured. the about 669 DECEMBER 12, e, 11,—The gevern- giin in control of the al forces bi i1 rrison, 1910 Fears Are , Alag mshfp with it Ben the ge Het, prevent | to come. heen re cugel Meagre Information at Seattle. o Marine men. Of | Beattle, Wash, Maska Steamer Struck on Reef FURIOUS 5TORM WAS RAGING AT THE TIME. 105 PERSONS ON BOARD al Law for 20 Days.| ' Passengers on the Ship Olympic. Dee, 11 company 106 persons o Tsland, A furious storm i r Dee, 1 Entertained Their Bafety—There Are Fifty-two | Nicder Fullbuch foundation. #- | mer | William et et e m e st e e e s oo Two Hundred Citizen of the dead ed emirely actual the for intention rhe dest tions mal. Bombardment Caused Frightful Panic ment feas LARGEST INGOT EVER CAST. Weighs 135 Tons and Will Be Pressed Into Armor for a Panama Fort. o Tupp YALE ‘been dode. be extingumis 206 were made them prisondre. rom boti day afternoon be the steel in the world. WORTH $24,000.000. Jing a 8 o g of Curis mus! Buy r w0 are wisz 1Ke p:h Forwhat merchants advertise! ir eves wide op°n Eit Wounded. bore do Cendvtmns on Sunday Were Nor‘ma‘ in the City. ip Rio Do S te: was c largest 1 abo witne: United S | Property Value Thus Figured, Exclus- ive of University Equipment. ter Steavrer Cacght Fire from Gal- ley Stove. D of the mutf BULLETIN'S advertising pages are crowded, N. B. Do your shoppirg ear.y! ENOCUNCES Seattle nid: Hi —— rhose are the buyers who make their trading satisfactory, convenient and comfortable by taking advantags of the hints with which THE . @ 0 3 o D © T S 8 S S S e © D D T Court Sets Aside Conviction of 1 by Forced Confessions. GREAT SURGEONS FOR NAVY. Surgeon Gnnera! Stokes Has a Plan for a Civilian Reserve. 100 MILES IN 70 MINUTES. Aviation Tally Made by Castain of French Army Corps. D DEGREE. Jkes PRICE TWO CENTS \Condensed T elegrams A Bid of 520,000 Was Received for the ,vruzmvr Boston, which had been condemned The National R Ry congresy rs and Harbors adjourned atter urging that and the purchase of | Princess Louise of Belgium hus cn- {tered wuit for reco of 35,000,000, for | which helonged to her father, the 1At King Leopold, and now hewd by th The Will of Mrs. Eddy has not yet been probated, but offic of the Christian Bcience church state that | the bulk of her fortune of $1,500,000 has been left to the churzh i 24 of entatives Indi repre 1 istion bill. sion of | The Turkish Government the Otis | ment com |4 fir nitte Georue W Perkins, who has noun . B s o e omn e a9 e 0 0 0 e e ol FIGHT FOR CHARLTON O HABEAS CORPUS, Judze Grarts Wi Washington 7 | Federal t in Resist- | ance of Extradition i Warrant. in LEBLANC C2 REACH JURY TUESDAY lover |z Scheduled to Resume Witness Ctand Today. THREE HURT CN SUBMARINE. Valve Bursts on Tests a the Grampus After Coronado. BOY FREE FOR CHRIST“AS Judge Landis Rd\fles to Sentence Lad Who Stole $2 Until After Holidays. OBITUARY. E. V. H. Rossiter. Western Railroads Count StrikeBaliots 350,090,000 e pt uall; © in- land waterways, - PN O% M| tHE REFERENDUM VOTE OF Secrotary of War Dickinson, in h| LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS. annual report, urges the ereotion of ‘UIIP’ to protect the entrance to th 97 PER CENT. IN FAVOR Of a Walk-out Unless Demand for Higher Wages Is Granted—More Mors Than 20000 Votes Wers Cast. Chicago, Dec, 11 nn. unoffic 8 grante | intere; BLOODYVIMPP.H.TS OF FOUR FINGERS AND A THUME e M Son and of Mrs. Two Farm- May Lead to t rdarers Bernhard, Her hands. RIVER AND HARBOR B|LL4 THREE CONNECTICUT ITEMS, Approgriations This Year Small Com pared With Former Years. NORTH POLE EXPLORATION TO BE AIRED IN CONGRESS Make Resresentative to Peary. Arkansas Trouble for Washington. D tica Macon of troubie for Capt Ar: cpiorer, honoring him of ihe house. Jscon .mn--nas' s no more pront Prary discoversd the pole than Dr. rFove his asseriio reports committos < to the | Opportunity for College Graduates te Enter Consular Service. e, TI At B r‘lfl\:;-lh.y New Haven Ruad Divieend. : drectore