Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 30, 1910, Page 1

VOL. LIL—NO. 312 NORWICH, CONN.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1910 PRICE TWO ARRESTED AT HOME OF HIS SISTER On Charge of the Larceny of $90,000 From the Washington Savings Bank ROBIN MUST GIVE $25,000 BAIL When He is Arraigned Today or Go to Jail, Pending Trial or a Determination of His Sanity—The Case Greatly Complicated by the Lunacy Finding—New York Syndicate Said to be Negotiating for the Purchase of Aetna Indemnity Co. of Hartford. New York, Dec It took the | Another Inquiry Into His Condi grand jury just one hour this a Accordingly Robin drove up tonight noon to indict Joseph G. Robin on a | in his automobile to his sister's home, «harge of larceny of $90,000 from the |4 pench warrant was immediately Washington Savings bank, of which he | served on him, and Dr. Austin Flint, was president. The bank passed into | one of the physicians who previously the hands of the state banking depart- | examined him, and Dr. William B. ment this afternoon, there to keep com- ! \iahon, superintendent of the Manhat- pany with the Northern Bank of New | tan state asylum for the insane, began York, of whose executive committee he | un inquiry into his_condition. 1t was which his was chairman, and W not expected that their findings would | FUND OF $150,000 name has hitherto heen more promi- | he made known until they were pre- nently connected. The district attor- | dented to the court tomorrow: FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS‘ e o M trom s Tocords of | _ The Indictment Against Robin. | Of Philadelphia City Employes Who St imstitutions he had chosen the | The indictment against Robin was| May Be Killed or Injured in Dis- charge that he thought could be pre- |based on information sworn 1o by | Gpiioc“of Their Duties. wented most simply to a jury. | Frederick K. Morris, formerly his cor BiE Dy | fidential employe. It charges that the | - = . Must Give Bail in §25000. Washington Savings bank, of which adelphia, Dec, 29.—Through the Robin was immediately placed under | Ropin was president, was induced by | ¥ sity and co-operation of Rod- est at the home of his sister, Dr.|pjg representations to draw to his or- [ man Wanamaker and the city of Phil- se Robinovitch, but hiz arraizn- | der two checks aggregating $90.000 in | 2delphia, a fund o 50,000 will be was postponed until tomorrow, | Gonsideration of two participation | established for the support of the en he must give bail in 5,000 nx"‘ greements purporting to g the | Widows and orphans or dependent par- £ 10 jail pending either a trial or de- | pani an equivalent interest in a mort- | €nts of all city employes who may be termination of his sanity. | page executed by the Fidelity Develop- | killed or incapacitated from injuries | Robin’s Insanity. ment companp, one of the siring of | received in the discharge of their du- Tobde fx to now. The | companies promoted by Robin, in fa- | ties. The creatio; of this fund is the | « mitment signed by Justice | vor of the Title and Guarantee com- | direct result of the fire here last week A Je request of Dr. Robino- | pany of Rochester, which Robin con- | When thirteen firemen and one police- Yiteh and on the certification of other | trolled through his ownership of the |man were killed by falling walls. physicia 1 stands, withough the | Aetng Indemnity company. “No such| Mr. Wanamaker today sent a_com- rtorium | 16 awhich Robin | mortgage” said the district attorney | munication to Mayor Reyburn, offering s taken refused to receive him. today, “as is described was executed by | to contribute $50.000 in sums of $2.000 s Junacy finding i the thing | the Fidelity Development company. | vearly for 25 years, provided the city that slionted the cw eald Di “These participation agreements” | Will establish ‘a permanent fund, the trict Attorney Whitman rday “If | continued the district attorney, | income of which, in addition to the Mr. Jerome would comsent to waive | signed by Anthony Stumpf. vi si- | $2,000 he promises to provide annually, that finding it would greatly simplify | dent, and by William V. Lomax, secre- | Will be applied to the pensions he pro- satters.” y { tary of the Title and Guarantee com- | poses. Mayor Reyburn transmitted the Willlam Travers Jerome, who has|pany. Two checks in !rxirn.m‘:t: ;‘— Wanamaker offer to city ;'uunlmli and heen retained by Robin, made his % | them. one for $35.000 and the other for [an ordinance was introduced appro- B et ‘-13«:.1:;‘;\’1’ ;:1‘.“:\1 fmme- | $35,000, were deposited to the credit of | priating $100.000 to establish the fund atately. “My suggestion to the court |the Title and Guarantee company. | ' The dependent relatives of the me f= this® he said; “that a physician| Further indictments are expected to | killed last week will not benefit by sppointed by the district attorney, in | follow the taking charge of the Wash- | this new fund, as a special pension | oomjunction with one I have suggested, | ington Savings hank by the ate | fund of 35,000 is being raised for | make & physical and mental examina- | banking department | them. More than $40,000 has already | tion of the patient. | Talk of Sale of Aetna Indemnity Co. | been contributed to this fund “If ¢ appeara he s sufMiciently able | Iy was understood that megotiations | 1-ASt Week's fatalfties showed the | 1o appear in court he can be brought | w.re in progress this afternoon look- | necessity of a large permanent fund | here to answer to the indictment. He | 10" ward the purchase of the Aetna | 20d all future cases will be taken care is now s ward of the supreme court, | ;8 (G € U8 PSSy rtford, Conn., | Of under the new plan, without resort- 37 he is found respomsible, just What || o New Yorh eyndicate, but the de. | I8 to present methods of calling upon | eoures i wise to pursue im left to sub- | /i ” o' t1e synaicate could mot be | Citizens for contributions. The spe- sequent determination. Iis person | learnea tonight. g ial fund will be in dition to the wecurs. oo it b regular police and fireme pension Option on Aetna Co, Allowed to Expire. “I suggest that an examination first | be made end that its result shall de- | New York, Dee, 20.—At the offices of | tarmine what is to be done with him. | the state insurance department it was | 3¢ his condition requires immediate in- | said tonight that the option held here earceration in some institution for the |on the Aetna Indemnity eompany of | insane, he ehould be incarcerated im- | Hartford, Conn., had been allowed to mediately.” expire without being taken up. LONDON THE HEADQUARTERS | OF RUSSIAN ROBBERS STRINGENT MEASURES PLANNED REGARDING FIREARMS. Next Bay State Legislature Will Be| Who Secure Money to Aid in An-| Asked to Pass the Bill. archistic Propaganda. | ston, Dec. 20 —The next Massa- | Tondon, Dec. 29.—Some of the even- | chusetis” jegmiature will be asked to | Ing papers assert that the police in- | pess & bill which will forbld anyone | vestigatio £t recent burglaries ¢ belonging to the militia or police | committed by a band of _Russians | tores to “buy, hire, lease, Teceive, use | show that London was the headquar- | or carry firearms,” without securing a a gang which carried on exten- | epecial lcense for that purp B, slve obberies to money with The bl has heen prepared by Dis- | which to further anarchistic pro- | triet Atto y Joseph C. Pel of y paganda. H Suffollc county with the co-operation| Literature preaching anarchy has C i endorsement of each of the other | been discovered ¢ mg n_ burglars’ | rict ¢ # of the state and was | effe as well as explosives which | 3 ed by the sensational shooting | might be used in the construction of | . urred recently in the district | bombs or for the purposes of safe- . s offica. blowing. Translators are engaged on | 1t is proposed to have licenses fssued | bundles of letters discovered amd | the excise hoard ef Boston and the ording to the newspapers, | ensing boards of each eity and sortant revelations. | <own. The fee fs to be $10, no licenses anarchist clubs have meet- | 10 be granted to minors. ng places in t 1st End, where the | The penaity for infraction of the law | burglars lived, but they have not been | placed at a fine of mot less than $50 | molested, as the members confined | nor more than $500, or impriconment in | their activities to writing and making 4 nut more than & year, | speeche The pap say that the preslhogy i government is likely to change its pol- TWO WEALTHY OHIO I this rospect, as is already indi- cated in the recent suppression of an BACHELORS MURDERED | ;7 <hist puper. Netihibors of the bur. | . E vho was fatally wounded a he | Before Their Bodies Were Burned in | e (hat three aollce ofiom at fog | Destruction of Th Home. interrupted a burglary were shot to | death, state that the man recently That Mi- [ made’ a trip to America and that he " ealthy bachelor | received mail from that country. | b U u-(n|v~ their B ISR - A i e e et 5, cetraction | AL GivY CHURCHES arent al the sherill’s investigati - NEED BUSINESS MANAGERS fay. = s Fifteen = \’r“\ ere extraoted he iAs Well as Pastors—Associate Secre- | isull of one of the bodies and a num- | tary McAfee’s Theory. | 1spots on the ruins of | phjladelphia, De That all the | k a Iy bute churches need business managers, | %nife found on a door and empty | a5 well as pastors, was the theory ! whells found nearby, are among t anced by J. E. McAfee, associat | points of evidence sur ng the the- | retary of the board of home miss - le murder was commit- | of the Presbyterian church, at ‘ % : cning sessic of a conferer i proba jat the authorities lay worker make two arrests in connection | Aceord \ e Sith tha case within the next twents ! the Preshyte h are not four hours. ywed to take a active part ot n the executive zation of the | !‘RTHQUAKE DESTROYS hurche f 1e said, was bad for | TWO VILLAGES IN GREECE | [0 ministers, who'were ihns hurdenca tatling their and t | the “verge of time for of details cur [ e laymen were | spiritual affairs, driven almost to rebellion.” e Days' Continuous Shakes—Full | Extent of Damage Not Known. - | =1 you don’t look ont.” said he, “the | London, 1 ' Special despatehes | 5 vmen will build up a church of their from Athens say that the earthauakes | gwn. All doors should be open to the n the Elis district have been ¢ in- faymen, and they should be given the | for flve days. The villages of | opportunity of taking part in all 1,echaena, 36 from Patras. and | hranches of church activity. ndravidaabout 33 miles from Putras, | “There aro more than 2,000 out of have ben destroyed. The inhabitauts | the 10,000 existing Dresbyterian of these villages, who number aboul | churches now without a permanent 2,450 and 1,8800, respeetively, have fled | pastor,” he added, “many being va- 10 Pyrgos. Their distress has been in- | cant hecause no man will assume the creased by heavy r 'he shocks | enormous burden connected with being continue tonight and the full extent of | their pastor.” Steffens Will Attempt to Substantiate His Statement. Greenwich, Conn., Dec. 29.—Lincoln Steffens, who in the course of an ad- dress in New Britain a short time ago the damags is not known. PLEA FOR CLEMENCV By Indicted Members of the So-Called “Bathtub Trust.” aington, Dee Plea for clem- | Stated that the government of Green- . it is reported, will be made to | Wich was as rrupt as that of any he_ @epartme £ jwstice hy ihe in- |city in the country, will appear hefore | dicted men s of the so-called | mass meeting of the citizen ridsty bath-tub teusi through their attore | night and present facts which he says meys, st & conferences higre tomorrow, | Will substantiate his tement. Mr, Frank H. Watson, 1nited States at- | Steffens is a resident of Riverside and torney @i Detroi, where the indict. | @ larse gathering is looked fo ments were founs has been notified to TR be present. Ed . Grosvenor, spe Bristol Desires a City Charter. cinl sesistant (o the attorney general Bristol, Conn., Dec. 2 By a vole who eonducted the suits which | of to 195 the residents of the bor- have resulted putting | ough today expressed their desire for the trust out will repre- [a city chratec as drawn up by a con went the o r A =mall battal- | mittee appointed for that purpose, and ian of ers. reprexenting nearly | the matter will be placed befors the forty of the defendants, alsu will be ving gener: ssembly. About a present third of the ustad voters cast ballots. | revolutionistg in Cabled Paragraphs Athens, Greece, Dec, —There was a violent earthquake in the province of Elis today, causing heavy damage to buildings. = The government has despatched help. The Lizard, lngland, Dec. 20.—The British steamer Dardistan, from Nor- folk for Bremen, passing today, sis- nalled that she had on board the erew of the British schooner H. J. Logan, which was abandoned on December 19, after she had lost her sails and rud- der ahd was leaking. The Logan was bound frem Port Hawkesbury for New York. London, Dec. 2 John Walk- er Fearn, widow of the former Ame: can minister to Greece, Roumania and Servia, and Arthur Inkersley of Lyme- tegis, a well known traveler, were married at Salisbury cathedral today. The bishop of Salisbury, a personal friend of the groom, officiated, and American Ambassador Reid gave away the bride. London, Dec. 29.—Samuel IHenry Butcher, unionist member of par ment for Cambridge university since 1906, died today. He was born in Dublin in 1850, son of the bishop of Meath. Professor Butcher was pres dent of the British Academy of Let- ters in 1909. He taught successively at Oxford and the university of Iidin- burgh and in 1904 was a jecturer at Harvard. He had written extensively on Greek subjects. sy ems. FIRE RAGING IN MESSINA, TROOPS CALLED OUT. | Postoffice, Railway Station and Tele graph Office Burned. a, Ttaly Resgio Di Calab: Dec z A violent fire which is believed to be still raging has destroved the wooden buildings around the harbor at” Mes ina. This word was brought here to- day by boat. All telegraphic and tele- phonic communictions with Me have been interrupted. Among the burning buildings are postoffice, the telegraph office and railway station. When the boat w despatched from Aessina the fire making rapld progress. Troops ! been called out in an_effort to 1 the flames from spreading to all p of the town. No fear was entertaine at that time for the American qua which is abotu a mile distant fr where the fire started. INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENTS INJURED AT CORNELL By the Explosion of a Milk Testing | Machine. Tthaca, N. Y. Dec. 2 sion of a centrifugal chine in t The explo- k testing ma- e laboratory of the state college of agriculture at Cornell toda resulted in the injury of Instruct David Hodge and four of his students. The instructor received a gash on the right wrist which nearly severad the hand from his arm, and t den mour A. Thorne of Old Chatham, | Joseph B. Widmer of Naples, Floyd M Bacon of Oswego and Geor were bruised . Phe sout vle to leave the hos- OBITUARY A. Homer Byington. New York, Dec, 20.—A. Homer By- | ngton, once part owner of the New | York Sun and friend Abraham | .incoln, died today at the home of his | son in Flushing, L. I | pea old and for sixty < | editor of the Norwalk { Byington was born in Herkimer, | N. Y. He served as a war correspond- | ent during ‘he Civil war and is said | to have sent the first despatch to New | York reporting the result of the baetle | as United States consul at Naple and while there reported to the state | department what was said to be a plot | against the life of President sevel Mexican Federal Troops Capture Stronghold of the Rehels. Mexico City, Dee. 20, Halpa to. have been the stronghold the state of Tma captured today by eral forees, according ceived late tonight by Chihua the fed to telegrams re government of- was | T Act nsiELvorkiia GovilBaldwin in| the Inaugural Parade. | Hartford, Conn., Dec. 29. —Perm! ion was given Company F, Second infantry, of New Haven, by Adjutant General Cole tod Governor-elect the inaugural ¥ to act as e Simeon E. parade scort to | Baldwin in | anuary 4th. Oklahoma State Capitol Bill Signed. Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 29.—Governor Charles N. Haskell affixed his signa- ture to the state capitol bill while sit- | ting on a stool in a railway eatin house this city tonight. The bill which was passed at a recent special ssion of the legislotur tes the pitol at Oklahoma Ci Steamship Arrival i At Plymouth: Dec, Teutonie, | from New York. | At Barcelor Dec. 24, Buenos Ayres, | from New York. | At Southampton, Dec Teutonic, from New Yo To every one thousand girls born \!I. England and Wales in 1908 there were | 1,036 boys | man of 84, | DEPUTY MARSHALS SEIZE | Battleship Fleet Homebound DEPARTURE FROM FRENCH AND ENGLISH PORTS. COME AS TECHNICAL ENEMY will Cruisers on Warfare Condi Attempt to the Atlantic Coast— ions Will Be Adopted Elude Fast Scout ‘Washington, Dec. 2 orable reception by England and France in ch the American nation and her navy were toasted and honored by every conceivable exhibition of friendliness, the great Atlantic battle- ship fleet is leaving foreign shores to- After a mem- day and tomorrow on its homeward voyage. Will Approach Atlantic Coast as a Technical Enemy. The fleet will approach nent as a technicai enemy tempt to elude the v this conti- and will at- lance of the t scout cruisers will will operate along the Atlantic coast and endeavor to her- ald the a nee of the “enemy.” In this day of wireless telegraphy the At- lantic fleet will have a difficult ta but it will conceal its movements a far as possible, using the wireless onl when absolutely nec ary and avoid- ing the frequented lanes of transatlan- liners. All the conditions of actual rfare will be adopted and the fleet will make a serious artempt to hide from the watchful scouts. EVERY MAN IN ONE DISTRICT SOLD HIS VOTE 1,071 Ohioans Have Been Indicted Up to Yesterday. West Union, Ohio, Dec. Seventy- three more indictments were returned today by the grand jury which is prob- ing the selling of votes in this, Adams county, under the direction of Judse A. Z. Blair. Seventy persons were a raigned, making the total to date arraigned and 1,071 indicted. Judge Blair said tonight that it may become necessary to indict some men who have bought votes in order to make a clear sweep of all the guilty ones and to bring about the desired reforms. It was discovered tonight that mot a single voter will be left in one school district in event of convictions in | Jefferson township. Every male cit- | zen has been z heen in ested. icted, Two more but has none ministers, | een township, were i both residents of indicted today. Court officials decline to give out their names. KEach re- ceived $5 for his vote. One young man confessed today that he sold out to his own father and received $10 for his vote Mrs, Sallie Inlow of Peebles pleaded to ing the vote of her son, She said she was scparated from her husband and is very poor | could not resist taking the money ren it yas offered to her. She was fined §$10, which was remitted. he son fined $5 and costs and dis ranchised for five years. The oldest voter in the has been disf: he says that he never e again. county, a nchised and <pects to vote ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ WAS NOT BURNED AT STAKE Supposed V. of Texas Mob Is Hale and Hearty. eai ‘va!hn Dec. 29.—Anto- an Appeal. It Was Announced Last Night by | 1io Rodriguez supposed to have been | = | the graduate committee of the Wright burneqlatiine ol (nikodk Sorimes, | brovidendes B LiADesH 30 = Have D {issem i fbuiiiltor) it valefon e |3 lexas, is in Guadalajara, hale and | Walter D. Buchanan, pastor of the | ihat Miss Eleanor De Graff Cuyler of | hearty. Despatches from Rock Springs | Fourth Avenue Presbyterian church of | Naw York city had subscribed $3.000 | at the time of the lynching made rea- | New York, was found guilty of exceed- | {o the dormitory fund as a memorial sonably certain the identity of the |ing the automobile speed limit by to her brother, Theodore Cuyler of man as a resident of this city, and as | jury in the superior court he | the class of 1852, % | an aftermath to the killing anti-Amer- | afternoon after an all-day tria = | can demonstrations in Mexico were | clergyman was allowed seven d The Former United States Cruiser rated. An effort w 1so made to | which to file an a 1, and it | Detroit, which this week was sold by a mational subscription fo | lieved that this will be done, fhie o reriment toia New VarE Troier family, but less than 108 pesos wer attorneys took numerous exceptions | fo; 220,000, wiil form the nucleus of a ihseribed. 4 | during the proceeding: 2 B filibustering fleet to be sent against the " “Rodrigies was arrested here seve al | Dr._ Buchanan is a brother of the | guls coast of Mexico by the nsurrece days ago on suspicion that he was late Mrs. R. G. Dun, who was the | foa, acterding to informatios for the agent of the revolutionary leader Ma- | widow of the founder of the mecran- | Mexican junta in New Orlean | dero. Tis identity was established to- | tile agency of that name, and recently 3 — ! day and he was released. | inherited ‘an estato of several million | Hot Springs Officers Arrested Ben Ro the United | dollars by her will. Murray and John Rutherford late yes- States ¢ laborer until re- e was arrested in Pawtucket for | terday on the order of a corone iry cently | overspeeding on September 2 last. He | jn conmection with the lynching of Os- | appeared in the local district court, | car Chitwood last Monday morning, | FALSE WEIGHTS AND IMPROPER GRADINu OF SUGAR Federal Government Defrauded in Im- | port Duties at New Orleans. New fede Dec. 2 1as —That the been defraud- Orleans, La.. 1 government ed out of more than a million dollars | in impert duties at New Orleans through false weights and improper grading of sugar, was developed b: the grand jury investigation avhich | was in progress here for two weeks | before the holidays, according to un- | official _information made public here today. It is sai t no criminal pros- ecution is to the investigation. but that the government will bring suits against ¢ sugar refineries | to_recover the 1 unpaid duties. | he grand jury is expected to re- | convene n cek and present its re- | | rt on the 6,200 CANS TOMATO PASTE | Used by Restaurants and Hotels for | Tomato Soup. 1 Chicag Drec 29 United States | deput yarshals today seized 6,200 | caiE of iont\tomaate: umutatine o 124,006 pounds. used by hotels and vestaurants for tomato soup. The marshals, headed by Robert Youns the government laboratory here, s cd a box car on the Pennsylvania rail- road, and will destroy the paste to- morrow. The inspectors say the paste is made of the leavings after the pulp has been squeezed dry in (he manu- facture of catsup. The dry pulp then mashed into powdered form and canned. Baroness Hengeimuller Von Hengervar Improving. Washington, Dec. —Baroness Hengelmuller Von Hengervar, w the Austro-Hungarian ambass who was taken suddenly il last witih appendicitis, was reported im- | proved tonight. [fer physictan, Dr. ¥, Fremont Sy h. stated that he thought Trom would night indicatiivs be needed o operation Texas White Cappers Indicted Corsicana, Texas, Dec. nouncement’ was made today of indictiuents against prominent ers in this section, cha g them with “white capping.” It is alleged they entered into & conspiracy to drive negroes out of this county, | fined him { the Cleared the Crest 0f Mount Wilson OVER FOUR THOUSAND FEET TO SPARE. AVIATOR ARCH HOXSEY WITH Flies Over Highest Peak of the Moun- tain Range That Rims the Valley of California’s Orange Belt. Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 29.—Arch Tloxsey of Pasadena, Cal, holder of the world’s aeroplane altitude record— 11,474 feet—today flew over Mount Wilson, the highest peak of the moun- tain range that rim the valley in which Los Angeles, Pasadena, and the towns of the orange belt lie. 10,005 Feet Into the Sky. Under ideal weather conditions he ared 10005 feet into the sky and cleared the crest of Mount Wilson with 4,200 feet to spa To Transport Armies by Biplane. Lieut. Vernon Boller and several other army officers who are here to see the flights, asserted Hoxse: per- formance pointed a new way of trans- porting armies across mountain ran- ges. He said that a thousand bi- planes could transport an army of ten thousand men across mountains as high as the Alps in a day. Floxsey used a Wright biplane equip- ped for passenger service and made the journey fromn the field to a point | beyond minute 34 miles. News of his success was flas] the ayiation field by telephone from the Carnegie solar observatory on Mount Wilson. Temperature Far Below Zero. “It was fearfully cold,” said Hox- the mountains in hour The di sey, “and when I got to a point just above the summit, L found that the | ter of the late Rev. Luther Peck, was haze which obscured the mountains |found on the floor of the kitchen at trom the aviation fleld was a heavy |ller home in Scranton, Pa. with heén pall of vapor filled with fine jce par- | throat cut. ticules. 1 am certain that if I had a - recording thermometer with me it Major General William P. Duvail, would have shown the temperature the upper altitude to be far below zero. However, hurdling mountains is much easier than climbing 11,000 feet over R a valley or the sea. The earth does| ANl Hopes of an Unconditional Par- Rotiisecm do tdr away don for Charles W. Morse, the New Narrow Escape of Hubert Latham. |York banker, have been abandoned and Hoxsey's performance was the most | President Taft will now be asked to interesting feat today, but just be- [commute his sentence. fore the close of the afternoon’s events the crowd got a thrill by an accident which nearly resulted in the death of | I the Nayy Meyer attacks the Hubert Latham_ the French aeroplane | Statements made by Sir Hiram Maxim expert, who made a valiant attempt | relating to the kind of smokeless pow- to save Glenn Mar a California | der used by this country. novice, when the latter lost control of e g his machine and was blown into a | Judge Martin A. Knapp, chairman of rane i Al Mty e i the interstate commerce commission, Latham was in front of the judges’ | and Hon. J. P. Mabie, chief of the box when Martin brought his machine | Canadian railway commission. held a to earth. He saw the danger and, rushing out, caught hold of the ma- chine and desperately tried away from the fence, but miscalculat- | o¢ Grand Opera, The Alociors ot the ed its speed and was dashed to the | & 178G DESTR, The € irectors of the ground. The running gear of the ma- | gion yvesterday atternoon. voted to con- chine, ‘which weighs nine hundred | finne’ the company's efforts another pounds, missed Latbam’s face only by | Lo0® "WT4te PRy =) CHRER SRother a few inches, and Martin and his bi- | ;anager ana Cleofonto Campanini 55 plane sped into the fence with force | n¥eRgAT S0C, T o enough to break the iron posts upon e which the wire was stretched. Mar-| g ! : Rk = aroness Hengelmuller Von Henger- tin was hurled over the fence, but Was | yar wife of the Auatro-Hiungarian sm- PASTOR FOUND GUILTY OF EXCEEDING SPEED LIMIT Allowed Seven Days in Which to File where, despite his protest that he was not violating the speed law, the judge 15 and costs. He appealed. UNUSUALLY COLD WEATHER ALMOST TO THE GULF Cold Wave Follows the Late General Weather Disturbance. Louisville, Ky., De Unusually cold weather with fre g tempe: pany takes in all the tewns from tures almost to the gulf pravails | Branford to Haddam and has 55 miles throughout a large portion of the | of pipe and three reservoirs. = The sonth tonig The cold wave follows closely upon the heels of @ general weather dis- | The plans of the new owners of the turbance which took the former of a | company are not known. thunderstorm in the central valleys and snow in northern Texas, Snow More Than $3,000,000 Has Been Saved fell eariy today throughout the Texas {te the city of New York during the Panhandle. and a severe wind and | past vear by the department of water rain storm prevailed along the Guif | supply, zas and electricity, according coast. Southeast Texas axperienced | to a report presented to Mayor Gay the first heavy rain in five months. | nor vesterday by Commissioner Henry Granted a Flat Increase in Wages of Ten Per Cent. Chicagy, Dec 29.—Conductors and e 0 STCa R0, St and | and commissioner states that o uth an e RO e i out of the departmental ap- granted, after a month’s negotiation | BIoPriation for 1910 will be ‘turned per cent. today. The increase was R IS i granted afetr a month’s negotiation and affects 75,000 members of the | Army Apropriation Bill Carries Total | Brotherhood of Railroad _Trainmen of $92,000,000. and the Order of Railway Conductor > .} Washington, Dec. 29.—The army ap- and will mean an added expense of | propriation bill. carrying a total of $5,000.000 a_year to the railroads. The | 100,000, or $2.000,000 less than the | increase, although signed late today, | es, will he ready to report to| becomes effective from this morning. Governor Hadley Will Write No More | Messages. Kansas City. Dec 29.—Governor Hadley announced ioday that he h: decided to substitute léctures hy e perts for written messages by himsel to make known to the legislature the needs of the various state institutions. said experience had shown that messages written by governors on the He needs of fective. state institutions are not el He sald his plan w men in charge of the institu address ihe legiskiture. Died at Age of 104, the Father of 31 Children Grafton, Mass, Dec. father of 21 children, the age of 104 years died was born in Quebec, and until . two days ‘ago, when he suffered a shock, had never seen a sick day. King was twice married, his first wife bearing him 1S children and his second 1 was also grandiather to 26 and great- &randfather to 26 more children. 1d 28 | ince is estimated at | ed to | of to turn it to have ons and 24 days. He llel Hubbard, Condensed Telegrams The Cotton Situation is causmg some uneasiness in Bombay. A Strike on the Government-Owned Railways of ltaly is threatened. Steam and Electric Roads of the middle west are tied up by snowstorms. The Public Service Corporation of New Jersey has granted old age pen- sion. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell has resigned as a director of the University of Penn- sylvania. The Turkish Troops had a sanguin- battle with Bedouins in the vilayet President Lowell of Harvard is op- posed to organized cheering and col- lege yells. Friedrich Luethy Has Been Appoint- ed secretary to the Swiss legation at Washington. J. E. Schwitzer Was Appointed chic | engineer of the Canadian Pacific at a alary of $25.000. “MA Laffort, the French Aviator, and | Pole, a passenger Moulineau were killed at ance, Miss Lucy Jones, a society and uni- versity woman of Uniontown, Pa., has been appointed a deputy sheriff. William Barber and Two Other Americans are reported to have been badly beaten by Henduran poli R. Winder Johnson, a Philadelphia, banker, who was knocked down by the automobile horse ambuiance of the S. P. C. A, died of his injuri The Flood of Small Coins which tha mints ground out for the Christmas trade has begun to find its way back to the vaults of the treasury. The Elopement of President Alex lerz and Forewoman Mrs. Lucy Gib- bon has closed the factory of the Mid- \}el;}“ n Hat company of Middletown, Miss Sadie M. Peck, aged 51, daugh- commanding the military forces in the Philippines, who retires on Jan. 13, has been granted a leave of absence to that time. In a Letter to President Taft, Sec- tary of conference on the subject of an inter- national railroad commission. | Chicago Will Have Another Season bassador at Washington, | from appendicitis, and Dr. F. Fremont Smith, has called into consultation several other physicians. It has not been determined whether an operation will be necessary. is critically ill her physician, No charge has as yet been placed against them. Rutherford was the of- ficer with Chitwood when the lynching took place. The New Haven this morning will say that the con- trolling stock of the Guilford and Chester Water company has been se- cured by W. S. Woodruff of Orange | and associates of his. The water com- | Journal-Courier | company is capitalized at $300,000 and has a bonded indebtedness of $240,000. S. Thompson. Water revenues of over $12,000,000 were collected by the de- { partment. corporate stock amounting to 917,500 was caused to be cancelled & house next miitee on military ~'wa ently to l to the house after two days’ ses- sions immediately follow & recon- | ing of congress. The bifl is virtu- | confined to the formal estimates submitted by the war department, re- flecting none of the suggestions in- | formally made to the committee as to | greater military preparedness. President of New England Pin Com- pany in a Critical Condition. Winsted, Conn., Dec. 29 It was made known iwday that Juy K. Spaulding. president of the New England Pin company, of this place, had been un- couscious since Monday, due to a con- cussion of the brain received by & fall | downstairs st his home. Mr. Spauld- | ing is 64 years old, and doubts are ex- pressed ag to his recovery. week with the le its’ re- | iness for the last two vears, | worth of |long iliness Alexander Hasvie Uniform System 0f Bookkeeping ORDER ISSUED BY COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, EVERY NATIONAL BANK Directed to Install What Practically Amounts to Same System of Keep- ing Its Books—Examiners Fooled. Washington, Dec. 29.—Disclosures following the forced liquidation of the Quanah National bank of Qunah, Tex- as, ten days ago, caused the eomp- troller of the currency today to issue an order directing every one of the 7200 national banks in the United States to - install what practically amounts to a uniform system of book- keeping. Unable to Learn ank’s True Cendi- tion. Investigation of the Quanah bank disclosed that it had been doing bus- although undoubtedly - insolvent,” and although inspected at regular intervals by ma- tional bank examiners: that during that time the examiners were unable to iearn the bank's true condiiton, largely because the management re- fused to keep a proper record of its business transactions, and that the entire capital of $50,000 and probably gome of the $38,000 surplus was paid out to stockholders as dividends. Comptrolier Murray's Statement. In a statement issued today Clomp- troller' Murray concedes that his ex- aminers were hoodwinked r two years by the way the bank handled its not “During these two years,” the comp- troller says, “the bank carried com- paratively little past-due paper, all of the notes having the appearance of being promptly paid or renewed. The bank had no discount register and the various earning accounis were kept in such a manner as to make it practically impossible to audit them. By this method of accounting, the bank, without detection by the exami- ner, had the doubtful and worthless notes renewed with the interest added to the note at the time of renewal. This interest on worthless paper which had not been collected was credited to some one of the earning accounts, and as the dividends were regularly paid, this resultedq in jaying the capital out to shareholders as dividends.” Examiner Finally Grew Suspicious. Reports to headquarters show that an examiner finally did become sus- picious shortly before the bank's clos- ing and insisted that a new set of books be instalied. The officials aban- doned the new system two days later, after the examiner had left town. Re- turning unexpectedly, the examiner found the change and reported it by telegraph to Washington. TO INCREASE CAPITAL 8TOCK TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS. 77777 of the New Statement from (he Officy Haven Railroad Company. ow Haven, Conn., Dec. 29.—Begin- ning next Monday the capital ntock of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company will be in- creased by twenty million dollars, if the holders of thirty milllon dollars’ 31-2 per cent. bonds avail themselves of the option of converti Dbility. At the offices of the company here today it was stated that gemeral conversion was expected owing to the increased rate of return on the 8 per cent. stoc] as compared with the bonds,” but it is thought that some trustces may refain the oonds under the restrictions of the trust invest- ment laws. The convertibility of the bonds runs for five vears, and the: may be exchanged during any quarter- Iy dividend period and thus obtain the next Adividend. The bonds are con- vertible in the ratfo of $5300 of the bonds for two shares of stock. New Weather Bureau Building Needed at Sand Key, Florida. Washington, Dec. 29.—Undismayed by the hurricane that a year &go washed away the weather bureau building at Sand Key, Fa., the weath- er bureau officials have served notice on congress that they must have a new building on that sea-swept point. Sand Key is right in the fair way of all craft passing in and out of the Gulf of Mexico, and it is through the weather observers there that all these vessels communicate with land. Cramped in a room but nine feet square in the lighthouse, all that was left standing after the storm had car- ried the sand off the coral reef, are quartered the three weather observers who keep the observations and dis- play storm signals. Aged Widow of Torrington Probably Fatally Burned. Torrington, Cenn., Dec. 29.—Mrs. Nellie Robinson, an aged widow living alone on Meadow street, was probably fatally burned tonight when her cloth- ing caught fire from a match with which she was lighting a lamp. She was terribly burned about the body and inhaled the flames from her cloth- ing before assistance reached her. She was taken to a Winsted hospital, where her recovery is said to be very doubtful. Aeroplane Flights New York te At- lanta, Plans Being Mad Roanoke, Va., Dec. 20.—Plans arn being made by the promotera of the New Yoérk to Atlanta national auto- mobile hightray for aeroplane flights over the course between the two eit- jes, according to J. H. Marteller of Roanoke, who returned today from Atlanta. The idea is to have night controls, dinner stops, ete., for the air- 1nen, just as is the case for automo- Dilists. Bridgeport Savings Bank President Dead. Conn., Dec. 29, L Aftor a . presi- dent of tiie Bridgeport Savings bank, died at his home here tonight. Mr. Hawley has been connected with the banking interests of the city for th: past 51 years, and before assuming the presidency of the savings bank was treasurer of ¢ e First National bank. He was 67 years oid and leaves four sons. idzeport, Death of Henry J. Goodrich, Hlincis Pioneer. cage, Dec. %6.—Henry J. Good- rich, Jlliuois pioneer and first WAV of Hyde Park, s residence sutmrb, died today., MHe was 71 years of age. Mr. Goodrich was bern in Middletown.— Descendants of Gieorge an early settier of Midd) town, held a banguet Monday evening at the Winthrep in Meriden, the Ninth Massachusetts velinteers. from which he was out as coionel at the cless of the Mmep setts and served in the ctvil wae fn e