Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 16, 1911, Page 1

~VOL. LII—NO. 13 _ Having Been Missing Thirty-Eight Days He| Reached the Metropolis -Sunday COMES BACK CALM AND SMILING Denies All Talk ot Graft as far as He is Himself Con- cerned—Says He Knew Nothing of the Agitation Caused by His Absence—Has No Intention of Re- signing His Position—Tells of His Trip. New _York, Jan. 15.—Charles H. Hyde, New York clty’s chamberlain, who had been missing 38 days, came back to town from Florida today, jaunty, calm and smiling. Of the clos- ing of two banks containing $800,000 §n ecity funds, of which he was th> <ustodian, he Won]dl say nothing. Of the graft investigation, new adjourn- ed, he talked more freely. ‘Briefly, as far as he was con it was all “posh.” The committ It will be re- called, desire® Mr. H: as a witness, other witnesses having testified that e was present at a meeting where it was alleged $500,000 corruption fund was raised In an attempt to defeat the mantitbetting bills at Albany. Remained Away on Acocount of Health. All this and more, Mr. Hyde denied. The committes had ample time to get him before he left New York, he said, and he remained away solely on ac- count of his health. Spending most of Jis time on a houseboat, he was out of touch with the world, he declared, knew nothing of the furore €Tused by his absence, and did not learn until J¥riday Jast of the closing of the banks. Then, he said, he hurried back to his duties, prepared to be at his desk to- jnorrow morning and to stick to his Job. Suggestions of resignation he met with emphatic negatives. Graft Stuff is All Bosh. "nns graft dnvestigation stuff is all " declared Hyde. “I left this city because of ill health and for no other reason. For three months before I left the Investigation committee was wession. 1 was about the City hall ev- ery day, but I never had any sugges- tion from any member of the commit- tee that I was wanted. “Bverybody else was subpoenaed who was wanted. Nobody approached soe. 1 had no reason to assame that I was wanted. And as to the alleged corruption fund, why, I don’t even Jnow the people they said I met with to raise the “boodle Will Not R.Ill'l at Present. “T intend to continue in the faithful performance of my duties as city chamberlain. I have mo ‘intention of resigning now.” “Do_you mean that you may resign Iater “Oh, well, T carmot say what T shall €@o later,” he replied. “It is not my though I have wanted to resign for six months on account of the nuisance of detectives and reporters. Why, they iny, intention to resign, | even followed me all over Europe. You begins to wear after a while. You know that saying about the constant dripping of water wearing away the stone.” ‘Whereaboits a Mystery for Weeks. When the subject of his protractéd trip was brought up, Hyde grinned. For weeks his whereabouts had been a mystery, and the idea seemed to please him. He smiled as he talked the trip over, but he ccntinued reticent when pressed for somthing on the banking situation. About all he would say wes that he did not learn until Friday last of the closing of the Northern Bank of New York and the Carnegie Trust company. Then he turned about and hurried home. Hunting Ducks in the Carolinas. Mr. Hyde said that part of his time had been spent on his houseboat and part in hunting ducks through the Carolinas. He left Camden, N. J., on his bouseboat December 8 and worked south, stopping at various points, and he did not read a newspaper or com- municate with New York. Learned the News in Florida. From Southport, N. C., he went by rail through the Carolinas, joining the houseboat at Jacksonville, Fla. Last Thursday he reached St. Augustine, where his family joined him. They had started for Palm Beach on the house- boat, he said, when he was overtaken by Dan Smith, brother of his secres tary, near Daytona, who explained the sitnation in New York to him. “Hyde was greatly surprised o hear of all that had been going o, and it was not until I mentioned the bank failures that he permitted me to show him a newspaper,” said Smith today. Decided to Abandon Trip. “He said’ that many. times he had thought of resigning his public office. He declared that reporters and detec- tivespeven entered his law office and rummaged through his papers. taking letters and other documents, just what he did not know. When the situation was fully explained he decided to aban- don his trip and to go right home, though he laughingly remarked ‘I don’t suppose 1 covld have prevented the failure or that I can reopen the banks. Those who have their own ends to serve and the financial power must decide thoes questions.’” Hyde appeared to be in good health, but friends who were with him declar- ed that he was far from well and hint ed at an operation being necessary. UNIQUE PARTY CAUCUS OF DEMOCRATS THURSDAY Selection of House Speaker with Con- siderable Other Business. ‘Washington, Jan. 15.—Democratic members of the house of representa- tives are busily preparing for the vunique party caucus next Thursday night which all democratie represen- tatives-elect are expected to attend. ‘The actual effect of the ecaucus is in- tended to commit the democratic ma- jority of the next house to an organ- ization ‘to be perfected next winter. It is expected that a committee on ways and means, the body which frames the tariff laws in ‘their initial #tages, will be chosen; the method of designating the = mnel of standing committees will ined, and a seloction will be made for speaker of he house. The selectlon of Champ Clark of Missourl, the present minor- ity leader, apparently is a foregone conclusion, as more than a majority of the democrats of the next house al- ready have pledged themselves to his election. Nearly ell the democratic leaders favor the selection now of the mem- bership of the ways and means com- imittee, In order that there shall be no | delay in beginning work on the tarift revision programme to which the dem- ocrats are pledged. The majority of the committee Intends to hegin work ut once, although the republican mi- mority of the committes probably will not bs chosen until the new ho organized next winter. This delas not be a cap to the democrats, however, as they intend to follow the ocustom of exeluding the minority. from the committee during the framing of a bill, just as the republicans, when they were the majority excluded the demo- crats until their bill was ready to re- port. The slate which seems to find favor with most of the democratic leaders gives the chairmanship of the ways and means <ommittee to Underwood of Alabama. selections, aside from reasons less, have been made along geo- graphioal lines. The method of selecting committees is not expected to be disposed of with- out a contsest, although the declaration s y made by many leaders that etwo-thirds of the democrats of the next house favor the selection by ¢au- cus of a “cemmittes on committees.” Tt may be that the members of the house will come back from the har- | mony econference in Baltimore Tues- nlng in such a complacent mood that a it over the appointment of com- mittees can be avoided, although few wre sanguine of such a result. HONDURAN REVOLUTION. Trujillo Captured by Insurgents After Hard Skirmish. Ceiba. Honduras, Jan. 11, via New Or] Jan. 15.—Trujillo was captur- od by revolutionists Tuesday after & hard skirmish with the small squad of governmeént soldiers. The govern- ment lost seven killed, including the -:vw.‘bo Plaza, and twelve wound- Three hundred government soldiers left Celba this afternoon for Neuva Armenina, 28 miles east, where they expect to meet the revolutionary army, which is said to have left Trujillo Tuesday Ceiba. evening on a march toward Couple Accidentally Asphyxiated. THE COMMERCIAL USE OF THE PANAMA CANAL. Terminals Needed for the Transship- ment of Cargo Washington, Jan. 15.—Plans for the commercial use of the Panama ecanal have progressed to such an extent that the canal commission now has before it extensive information as to the ship~ ping that is likely to pass through the inter-oceanic highway. This informa- tion has been laid before the estimates committee of the house, but will not pe made public. Terminals have been planned equal to the prospective com- mercial demands according to Colonel Goethals, chairman of the canal com- mission. ‘Wharves are to be construct- ed that will provide for the unleading and transshipment of cargoes of ships that want to make the canal @ transfer | point. iips destined to many ports will carry cargoes contigned to other ports,” said Colonel Goethals, “and they will drop their, cargoes at the ca- nal for transshivmeht by other vessels. “Terminal facilities will be needed for just such shipments as these, but it is our purpose at present to build only sufficient wharves for the vessels that are now utilizing the terminal A general plan has been made, ver, for all future needs for com- mercial business, and we are beginning with work at the Pacific end, in ac- | cordance with these plans.” . SEVERE ATTACK ON ROOSEVELT’S | CONSERVATION POLICIES. | Appeal to Declare Unconstitutional Creation of Big Fobst Reservations. ‘Washington, Jan. 15.—An attack on the conversation policies inaugurated by the Roosevelt administration more merious probably than any heretofore will_be contained in an appeal next week to the supreme court of the United States to declare unconstitu- tional the creation of the big forest reservitions of the west. Failure to win on this proposition s not to end the campaign of the anti- conservationists. They have prepared to fight a step further against the al- leged independence of the forest reser- vations from the state- laws or the theory that the federal government in creating them holds the land merely as a big land proprietor and not with any peculiarities of sovereignty. The fight over the conservation poli- cies of the government has arisen out of the attempt of the United States to enjoin Fred light, a Colorado cattle- man, from “allow his cattle to tres- pass” on the Holy Crozs forest reserve in_that state. TRIAL OF MURDERERS OF STANLEY KETCHELL Begins Today in the Webster County, Mo., Circuit Court. Marshfield, Mo., Jan. 15.—The trial of Walter A. Dipley and Goldie Smith, charged jointly with the murder of Stanley Ketchell, the champion middle- weight pugilist, will begin tomorrow in_the Webster county circuit court. Ketchell was_killed 15 on the ranch of R. P. Dickerson, about fifteen miles from here. Dipley, who admitted the shooting, said it was done because of Ketchell's attentions to Goldie Smith. Mrs, Edith Melber Examined by Men. tal Specialist, Albany, N, ¥, Jan. Melber, Who Was. ster, at the reonest CITY CHAMBERLAIN HYDE RETflRHS NS| Cabled Parsgruphs ‘many sutemobile Madrid, Jan. 15.—King Alfonso T turned here today after a visit of near- Iy a week at Melilla. London, Jan. 15.—The marriage en- gagement is n.nnoumeed,ot Zena Dare, the actress, and the Honorable Mau- rice Vyner Baliol Breet, the son of Viscount Esher. [Miss Dare ‘been leading lady in the Seymour Hicks company and made her first ap” pearance on the stage in 1899, Brett is a captain in the Coldstream Guards. Chur, Switzerland, Jan. 15.—Catta- neo, the Italian barber, has been sen- tenced to four years’ imprisonment and perpetual banishment " {or the theft at St. Moritz of jewelry valued at $50,000 from Mrs. Daniel Bacon of New York, sister-in-law of Sir Gilbert Parker. Cattaneo’s wife, who was employed as a maid for Mrs. Bacon and was con- victed of complicity in the theft, was 8 to eighteen months’ impris- onmfi and ten years’ exyulslon. Pula Jan, 15.—Advices from Bada- Jose, Spain, five miles from the Portu- guese frontier, say that the Portuguese government Lias acceded to the de- mands of the garrison at Eilvas, which mutinied recently and demanded in- pay. It is reported that the authorities of the town of Campo Maior, nine miles northeast of Elvas, urgently requested the Lisbon govern- ment to despatch two battalions of troops to that place. No reason for this request is known and the govern- ment refused on the ground that, troops could not be spared. CONGRESSMAN AMES REPLIES TO 'ROOSEVELT Who Saturday Night Denied Certain Statements Made by Former. Boston, Jan. 15.—Congressman But- ler Ames issued a reply tonight for former President Roosevelt who last| night made a vigorous denial of ce tain statements attributed to Mr. Ames regarding the alleged connection of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge with an effort to sell some old colliers to the navy department. Congressman Ames in his statement says in part: “T @0 ot question your denial of the conversation between yourself and Senator Lodge and the secretary of the navy. In fact, I expected you to do so. And a cabinet officer cannot be expeeted to verify the accuracy or lrll“l.cfnrncy of a conversation with his e “I was authoritltively informed that you-did use the words I have credited you with; but whether you did or did not is of minor importance and this particular part of the controversy may be safely left to some future time. “Has it occurred to you that the denial of those charges or an expla- nation thereof should have been made by Senator Lodge himself and on the floor of the senate, for the fair name of Massachusetts, if not for his own? “Has it occurred to you that thg time and place for you to have to come to Senator Lodge's rescue was even before you came to speak in his be- half at the Arena In Boston before election? “Has it occurred to you, or to Sen- ator Lodge, that to thus rush to his defense in the press on the day before the caucus in the legisfature on the senatorial election in thig state was to lay yourself open to the charge, in the minds of some uncharitable people at least, -of trying to suppress full infér- mation in the matter and your choice of time makes the delicate compli- ments you pay me in your telegram to Speaker Walker take gn a politi- cal uthet than a personal complex- jon?" Speaker Joseph Walker of the Mas- sachusetts house, tonight issued a communication in. which he further emphasized his stand against those who would place him in nomination against Mr. Lodge for the Senatorshi: Mr, Walker says in part: “Early in July last, Mr. Lodge asked me if I would support him for re-election to the senate. I gave the matter careful thought and decided that it was my duty to support him. When I told him of my decision, I said to him that I had determined the question purely on public grounds and that I should never ask or expect from him political suppert or other favor. That is our ‘understanding. “On July 17, 1910, I stated in a pub- lic speech that I believed AMr. Lodge should be electéd and that, if I were a member of the legislature I should vote for him. I meant then and I mean now, exactly what I said. “It must be apparent to all of my real friends, -that, under the circum- stances, I cannot now, with honor, b come a candidate agalnst Mr. Lod I cannot encourdge or permit, so far as I can control the matter,.any mem- ber of the legislature to vote for me. I, therefore, request members mnot to vote for me. OBITUARY.' Mrs, William Paret. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 15.—Mre. Wil- liam Paret, wife of the Protestant Episcopal bishop of Baltimore, died to- day at the Johns Hopkins hospital of cancer of the stomach. She was 59 years of age. Mrs. Paret was Miss Sarah Hayden, of Windsor, Conn., and when she married Bishop Paret in 1900 was the widow of Henry T. Haskell of Chicago. She was also the bishop’s second wife. Mrs. Paret died unaware of the faet that her husband is very ill of pneumonia, as she has been in a state of coma almost from the time she entered the hospital four months ago. ‘The condition of Bishop Paret was said to be decidedly worst this even- ing, last night having been a bad one for the aged sufferer. He has not been informed of the death of his wife. C. J. Erdman, Allentown, Pa., Jan. 15—Former Congressman C. J. Erdman died at his home here tonight after a lingering ill- ness, aged 64 years. He served two terms in congress and was the author of the Krdman act which applies to arbitration in labor disputes and which was used several times in the past year to settle labor | troubles. Mr. Erdman was a graduate of Get- tysburg college of the class of ‘65, Tle was admitted to the Lehigh counts in 1867 and was leading la to the time of his illness. He president of the Allen Mutual Fire In- surance company, the Allentown and Coopersburg Turnpike company and for years of the Coplay Cement com- pany. Incident to e New Haven, Conn., Jan. 15—The fes- tivities incident to “prom. week” at Yale university, which had their in- ception Saturday evening with the presentation. of “Il Ventaglio” by the University Dramatic_association, were suspended today. This morning the guests of the week attended chapel, Rev'3. Douglas Adem of East Ovangs Rev. J. of st N. J. In the mturnow there were 2t the eaun y d by ‘Tomor- Tow will be hcld ahe teas at chap- ter nouses of the Several flg:rnl the cpncert of the Glee ¢lup and ga-. mans. Festivities Yale “Prom. " | masked men early today stormed the Shelby county jail and lynched three Stormed Jail| MOB THREATENED TO BLOW UP THE lUlLDlNG. THBEE NEGROES 'LYNCHED Early Sunday Morning at Sheibyville, Ky.—A Dozen Guns Pointed at Dep- uty Jailer’s Head. Shelbyville, 15.- negroes,’ two of whom were charged with insulting white women and the third of whom wa$s under sentence to be hanged for the murder of a mnegro woman. The bodies of Gene Marshall and Wade Patterson have been found, but that of the third man, James West. is still unaccounted for, although he was seen in the hands of the mob with a rope about his neck. Two Bodies Recovered. According to Ernest Hornback, a deputy jailer, the mob within an hour and a quarter surrounded the jail, broke down a door and took the three negroes away, leaving fourteen others in the same cell from which three were taken. The two bodies recovered were found about a'quarter of a mile apart. That of Marshqll was hanging to a bridge over the Emminence pike near the jail and- that of Patterson in Cedar creek. Patterson, it is sald, atfempted to es- cape from the mob and was shot and his body thrown into the creek. According to Hornback, the mob threalened to blow up the jail unless the negroes were’ given up. “Then the mob started to beat up the cell locks with a sledge hammer,” he continued. “About twelve men had their guns pointed at me, demanding the keys. I insisted I did not know whiere they were. Finally they broke the cell door open and took out West, Marshall and Patterson.” Throwing Kisses to White Women. Patterson, it was charged, insulted two white women during the holidays and knocked down both of them. West’'s alleged crime was that he had often been seen throwing Kkisses to white women. He was a chauffeur. Marshall was sentenced to hang for beheading a negro woman. MERIDEN PASTOR PREACHED ANOTHER SOCIALISTIC SERMON Occupied the Pul Against Wishes of Most: of His Cofgregation. Meriden, Conn., Jan, 15.—Although he had been asked by the parishioners to relinquish his pulpit, Rev. D. H. Loux, pastor of the Center Congrega- tional church, who recently embraced socialism, at the morning services to- day preached a sermon on socialistic lines. An audience of some 400 greet- ed him, but of that number but fity /were members of the church, the ma- jority of whom were men. At the close of his sermon he asked those of the congregation who were in favor of his continuing his sermons to stand up, and twelve did so. He then asked the members of his church who were present how many of them were in favor of his leaving at once, and one of the members stated that he did not think it was the proper time for the matter to be decided, as the meet- ing was not a legal meeting of the church members, and the matter was dismissed by a member moving to.ad- Journ. A meeting of the congregation and the pastor will be held Monday night and it is expected that an arrangement will be made whereby Dr. Loux will relinquish his pastorate at once on receipt of the salary due him up Lo the first of April, the time set by him in his resignation. One incident that attracted more or less attention took place while a dea- con of the church was discussing the pastor's request for an expression by the members as to his continuance of his sermons, The deacon was stating his idea of the matter en a man in the rear said “Shut uo. The deacon took exception to this and the man ex- ed that he was speaking to his NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONFRONTS A CRISIS, Mr. Sheshan’s Name Not Likely to Be Presented to the Caucus. New Yorl . 15.—The focal center of the senatorial situation was again transported to Albany today, when Governor Dix Teft town. And although the wovernor continues to maintain, public t, his attitude of si- lence and “bands off,” more and more the conviction grows among leaders here who talked with him yesterday not only that the solution of the situation rests with him—that a public word from him would precipitate the final result—but that he knows it and with- holds the word because he h lieves the outcome is alread In the clubs along Fifth avenue, in the hotel lobbies, among the Tammany district leaders, there is no longer any doubt that fronts a ci J. S 5 chairman of the general committee of Tammany Hall and, long one of the trusted ers of Leader Charles F. Murphy, showed this today when he said: s, P'm going to Albany tomorrow. I think T have a right to be there in a crisis of the party: perbaps at the extinetion of the part. Tve been waiting eighteen years to see’the dem- ocratic party in control and I don't want to see it all thrown away in seventeen day: Albany, N. —An attempt was made here’ tonight. following the conference hetween Governor Dix and Mr. Murp! from one of the Tammany leaders who | visited Governor Dix in_New York yesterday that Governor Dix had ex pressed a belief that Mr. Sheehan's name would not be presented to the caucus tomarrow. GPEN AIR TREATMENT WITH GRATIFYING RESULTS. Condition of 49 Children Affer a Year in Open Air School. Chicago, Jan. 15.—How forty-nine children, AGCOHDING 1'0 CHICAGO COM- MISSION MERCHANTS. COLD STORAGE STUFF Aggregating ~Millions of Pounds of Eggs, Cheese, Poultry and Butter to. Be Thrown on Market. Chicago, Jan. 15.—Millions of pqmls of butter, eggs, cheese and . poultry held in cold storage warehouses here will be thrown on the market before May 1, and a general tumbling of food prices is expected at once, according to commission merchants. Commission Men Facing Failure. Numerous Chicago commission men are said to be facing failure as re- sults of their efforts to maintain an artificial price on the necessities of life. The inability further to uphold this price is said to be due to a com- bination of circumstances, chief of which are-the open winter of 1911 and the banner crops of 1910. Thiee commission men failed in the last week as a result, it is said, of holding great quanties of butter which they purchased at an average price of 31 cents a pound and are now unable to market for more than 27 or 28 cents a pound. ‘While the wholesale prices of but- ter and eggs have dropped within the last few weeks, there has been as vet no decline in the retail prices. Some of the produce which now is to be un- loaded on a falling market has been in warehouses for as long as five years. By means of the cold storage houses ‘commission men have been able to maintain an artificial price not only to the consumer, but to the producer, it is said. No public warehouse report is ever made here, and the exact amount of produce in the hands of Chicago firms cannot be estimated. Thirty-two warehouses are said to have 44,000,000 pounds of butter, eggs and poultry. Men familiar with the market condi- tion today declared it would, be im- possible to say whether that figure ented the total or whether i was only a small percentage of the en- tire amount. COND!TION& SAME IN NEW YORK Butter and Eggs Men Largely Over- stocked—Big Reductions to Retailer. New York, Jan. 15.—Commission men in New York announce the same con- dition in the trade as outlined in the Chicago despatches. In fact, it was made known here last night that the butter and eggs men were greatly overstocked, and that reductions to the retailer would be made immedi- ately. Wholesalers Want the News Public. The wholesalers were emphatic in their statements that substantial re- ductions would® be made, and they wanted thé news made public in order that the consumer might demand cor- responding cuts from his dealer. In other words, they feared that the re- tail men, although buying from the jobber at cheaper rates, would main- tain their prices to eustomers. Drop of 20 Cents on Eggs. According to the jobbers, the finest fresh eggs should sell tomorrow at from 33 to 35 cents a dozen, as against from 50 to 55 cents last week. The finest grades of butter, they said, should bring from 33 to 35 cents 2 pound, as compared with 50 to 52 cents last week. Overstocking is given as the cause of the proposed milk is lik STRENGTH OF VARIOUS Made also to drop. CLASSES OF NATIONAL BANKS. Comptrolier of the Currency About to Undertake an Investigation. Washington, Jan. .—A investiga- tion of the relative strength of the various classes of national banks is abour to be undertaken by the com- troller of the currenc: Bankers in eneral expect the result will be high- ¥ important, at is probably will have much influence in determining the question of the advantages and disad- vantages of so-called “branch bank- ing,” a warmly contested point among Ananciers nowadays., For the purposes of this investiga- tion the banks will be classified ac- cording to capital. When it is con- cluded the comptroller expects to know whether the average $25,000 na- tional bank in a small town is rela- tively as well managed and in as sound condition as the $5000,000 bank in a the comptroller’s office national ics of that shareholders in show banks have received dividends averag- 9 per cent. annually for the last forty years, and that surplusses have been general, increasing until last year they were equal to 64 per cent. of the capital employed. UNKNOWN SAILOR DIED IN NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL. is Said He Was Thrown Under Wheels of Freight Train. New Haven, Conn., Jan, 15—The sailor who was found early today’ dy- ing from wounds received by being run over by a train in the freight ).u'ds at Belle Dock and taken to the N Haven hospital, died & few hours aft- er reaching that institution. The dead man’s name the police believe to be Stanton, but where his home is is not known. On investigation the police placed Alexander Stuard and George Kippe, two sailors on the schooner James P. Paul, Jr. under arrest, and they are being held for the coroner, who will conduct an investigation, it Dbeing alleged that Stanion was thrown under the wheels of a freight train. ‘According to a story told by Ralph Gilmore, who has charge of the hoist-. ing machinery on the dock at night, he saw the three men fighting, and no- ticed their going behind freight cars which were being used for switching. He started after them to notify the It -crew of the freight to iook out for ths three men, but was too late, as Stan- ton had been run into. The men un- der” arrest admit fighting, but claim they did nat know that Stanton had been killed. The man, they said, was a stranger who came on board the boat Saturday and ate with the erew. and say the fight started because he stole whiskey and a pair-of boots from . Saved by His Collie Dog. New York, Jan. 16.—After breaking through the ice on & pond &t Bloom- afternoon, Frank John- cut, and it is said that |y Condensed Telegrams pel G“M whose foreign bmk Esgmme o Piftsburs Thursday, kill- ad himself at Co‘nnel.lsv)lle, Pa. Railroad Communication throughout the Portuguese republic is at a stand- still because of. the. strike of the em- ployes. ’ ¢ Dr. Charles J. Kipp, one of the most celebrated eve and ear specialists in America, died from pneumopia at Newark, N. J. Judson C. Clements of Georgia was elected president of the estharodm elected chairman of the interstate com- merce commission. Four Trustees of the Washington Savings bank of New York, of which Joseph G. Robin was president, were indicted for perjury Twenty Thousand Men. employed in the morocco trades in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., and New England will be idle during the month of Au- gust next. —— Mayor John F. Fitzgerald of Boston petitioned the legislature for an act limiting campaign expenditures to $10.000 by political committees and $5,000 by candidates. The American Legation at Guater- mala_City has been instructed by the state department to make vigorous representations to President Estrada Cabrera for the enforcement of the Washington convention, in connection with the revolutionary movement in Honduras headed by Manuel Bonilla. Members of the National Senate do not intend that the palatial office building devoted to their use shall helter any ‘other branch of the pub- fe service. When it was proposed to devote a small part of the building to the use of a central office for the postal savings bank system, several senators mace vehement protests. CHARGED WITH MURDER AND ROBBERY. [Ephraim Dorous Arrested by State Police and Deputy Sheriff, Together With Annie Lambert and Mrs. Wat- son—Hearing This Morning. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hampton, Conn., Jan. 15.—State Po- liceman Robert T, Hurley of Hartford and Deputy Sheriff John H. Fitts of Hampton _ arrested this afternoon Ephraim Dorous, an Indian, on the charge of murder and robbery. They also placed under arrest Annie Lam- bert, who lived with Dorous, on the charge of robbery and being an accom- plice, while the latter's sister, Mrs. Watson of Elliott, was arrested as a witness. All were held without bail, and will havé a hearing Monday morn- ing before Justice of the Peace Fred- erick Litchfield of Hampton at Llarhs Corners. Dorous is charged with the munlor of Albert C. Neff on December 20, the deceased having been found dead at Dorous’ house that dayv, the accused having reportéd the matter. There was an inguest at the time, but it was held by Coroner Bill that death re- sulted from alcoholism. Since then it is understood that ad- ditional evidence has been secured suf- ficient to warrant the arrests which have been made. At the inquest it was the testimony of Mrs. Neff that her husband left home perfectly sober with $13.10 in his pocket. When he was found he had no money in his pockets. His body was found in the Dorous shack 500 feet from Clark's Corners, where he had been during the day and at which house all three of those arrested were. The Lambert woman lives with Dorous and Mrs. Watson, sister of the Lambert woman, testified at the inquest that she went there to spend the day with her si ter. Neff when found had a bruise over one eye and had been under the influence of liquor that day. He was 27 years of age, and leaves his wife nd had some property. Dorous, it is id, has been in trouble before, and rved time in the Brooklyn jail for being connected with a cutting\affair. He married a woman named Brown, of Chaplin, and lived in Brooklyn. She died under somewhat peculiar circum- stances. SUPPOSED DEAD WOMAN WALKED INTO BDSTON MORGUE And Settled Disputed Question of Iden- tity of Body on Siab. Boston, When a Wor T man, acéompanied by an undertaker, | apreared at the morgue in Boston to- day to claim as his sister the body of a young woman found-dead on the water front Friday morning, he was met by two women who also claimed the body as that of their sister. The mystery of the woman’s identity was believed solved vesterday, when Wor- cester people claimed to identify the body as that of Mrs. Lillian Hastings. Today the iMisses Donohue of Ran- dolph personaily identified the body us that of their sister, Miss (Mary Dono- e Whije the rival claimants were dis- cussing the matter, Mrs. Hastings walked into the morgue, finally settling the dispute, and the body was given to the Randolph parties. The death of Miss Donohue was at first believed to be,the resuit of foul play, but the medical” examiner later declared it to be due to natural causes. Jan. 1 HIGH PRICE OF GLYCERINE BLAMED ON PANAMA CANAL. Price Has Now Reached $24.33 Per Long Ton, Highest Recorded. Washington, Jan. 15.—The Panama ecanal is partly responsible for an in- crease, amounting te over 50 per cent., in the price of glycerine, according to to the United States gonsul at Birm- ingham, England. In the past eighteen months’ the vrice has been gradually zoing up until recently it rTeached $24.33 per 1ong tone, the highest price r recorded. his increase in pride is reported to be dpe largely to the scarcity of fats and oils from which glycerine is made as a by-product in the manufacture of soap and the increased demand for glycerine for the manufacture of ex- plosives. The great quantities of such explosives reguired for the ma canal are partly responsible for the lthouzh other great engi. advance, neering works have had their influ- ence. Year Locusts Due This Summer New York, Jan. 15.—This is the year for the 17 year locusts to appear. They are due along the At ic seaboard from Virginia to New York, but Dr. Seventeen Chinese Gfim Burning of Bodies I‘EMATION WILL PREVENT REC-. OGNITION IN FUTURE LIFE. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN HARBIN Some Houses Contain Dead Bodies of Entire, Families—Heroic Death of French Physi Peking, Jan. 15.—Reports from Har- bin say that the Chinese there are vigorously opposing the summary dis- position of the bodies of those who have died from the bubonic plague. The authorities do not dare to burn them, the people desiring that they re- main intact so that their ancestors may recognize them in the future lite. They also oppose the burning of houses, some of which contain the dead bodies of entire families. Some of the corpses have remained in the city for days, but they are now being taken to the open country, where trenches for their interment have been prepared. Charges of Burial Alive. It is reported that the Russians in Harbin are not concerning themselves with the Chinese se although they are dealing drastic with the Chi- nese within i The Chinese newspapegs are raising an outery and bringing forward serious charges of persecution and burlal alive. Members of the legations, who con- stantly recommend measures to the government, are suggesting a censor- ship of the press, But One Per Cent. Recover. The plague is of a very virulemt type. Death usually ocsurs within for- eight hours, and not more than one per cent, of the cases have ended in recovering. Dr. G Meany, physician who gave himself up to the work of combating the disease, died herolcally. ‘When he realized that he was at- tacked by the plague he isolated him- self in his room in a hotel, drafted his will and wrote farewell letters. He begged hie friends not to mnotify his wife of his illness and died alone. Fighting Spread of Disease. Already the doctors recognize the hopelessness of attending to those stricken, and they are devoting their energies to fighting the spread of the It is feared that some of the Manchurian villages have been entirely wiped out. The Intensity of the cold weather has caused the peopls to- remain indoors, thus fostering in- fection. Foreign Doctors Volunteer for Service. The danger of the plague getting a foothold in Peking is considered slight, as train service to and from the in- fected districts has been stopped. An American educated woman doctor has gone from here to Harbin, as also have severaf‘other doctors. The doctors have been inoculated and are equipped with special costumes and masks. The government is insuring each foreign volunteer for $20,000. ily the Russian ¢ JUMPED FROM EIGHTH STORY HOTEL WINDOW. H. B. Whitmore, 11l and Despondent, Committed Suicide. St. Louis, Mo,, Jan, 15.—H. B. Whit- more, 68 years old, leaped from a win- dow in the eightl. story of the Mar- quette botel to the pavement today, killng_himself instantly. Desponidency over illness and the death of his wife, who W the daughter of Georgs Knapp, one time publisher of the St. Louis Republic,are given as the causes for the act. Mr. Whitmore was a_member of a wealthy St. Louis family, and for a number of years was secretary of tha Merchants' Exchange. He retired about eight vears ago. He left a sanitari- um today, which had been his homa for more than a year, and went to the Marquette hotel, where he registered and asked. for a room on ome of the upper_ floors. Fiftten minutes later he hurled himself to the pavement. His bod ynarrowly missed a pedestrian. A note found in a coat pocket stated that a local physician had advised him that he would be utterly helpless for the remainder of his life. Whitmore was a native of Newton, Mass. He was once a manufacturer at Quincy, Ill. Charles E. Whitmors of New York, a nephew, was stopping at the hotel,’ on his way west, the elder Whitmore ended his Hfe. FELL FROM BICYCLE WHICH HE WAS LEARNING TO RIDE. Boston Young Man Killed by Passing Automobile. Fitchburg, Mass, Jan. 18 Faling from the bi hich he was just learning to ride, in front of an aito- gnobile in which were two well known Joston physicians, Dr.William R. Mac- Ausland, of 411 Marlborough street, a professor at Tults collegb, and Dr. George W. Morse, formerly connected with the Massachusetts General hospi- t3l, Guiseppe Marotta, 19 years old, ilied here today. The two phy- ns were at first taken in custody, harged with manslaughter, at the in- Stance of the police, and furnished bafl, but later wére absoived of all blame on the recommendation of District Attor- ney Stiles. They. were supportel by byatanders in thelr assertion that the accident was unavoidable, a3 Marotta in as- cending 4 hill on his wheel lost control and toppled over under the front wheels of the automobile. The bic was not damaged. Record Exports of Iron and Steel Man- ufactures. ‘Washington, Jan. 15.—Exports of iron and steel manufactures of a great- er valpe than ever before were sent from this country during the calendar vear 1910 according to figures compiled by the bureau of statistics of the de- partment of commerce and labor. Fx- ports of this class for the last year aggregated $200,000,000, forming prac- tically one-fourth of the total of man- ufactures exported durin; the vear, valued at $330,580,000. In addition to this, iron and steel shipments to Porto Rico, the Hawalian Islands and Alaska aggvegated about $12,000,000. Drowned in Attempt to Aid a Wouna- ed Deer. Ware, Mass., Jan. 16.—Efforts t cor a mpded deer which was float- ing down Swift river on an ice cake o iy el s worker, ° E the .predicament of the deer ‘rndm%h on to hh; ;fia beneath him. n 1 was nearly