Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 28, 1911, Page 1

s Ao . w———' LIGHTNTNG ACMANIED BY WINDS A Kemington Factory’ Wrecked, Throwing 350 Out of Employment—Man Killed in Wreckage of Tacony Railroad Station—Another Killed by Falling Wires at Girard, O-—Hmae Stnlck by Lightning at Danbury. Phfl.ldelph’ll. Mu-ch 27.—A - severe tm accompanied by ' & m.m wmd at_times: blew: with the force of a tornado, swept over - northern section .of the . city after 6 o'clock tonight, = leaving struction and death in its wake. " * Buildings lhmlhlnd. Houses Unroof: de- Buildings were umall.hed, roofed, and the New Yi division of the Pen ia was placed out of . por-rlly by the d er at Holmesburg and cony, cutting off all telegraphic munication. New York trains are 1 routed via the Trenton mu-ofl, wi xcn branch of the Pennsylvania pany was net in the path of the h|'h winds. Police Station Demolished. Tacony, (h. section where the great- | est damage occ ‘was compl cut off from the réest of the city. Tele- mraph, telephone and troliey fllrelw-'q blown to the ground, and it was hours before the detalls of the destruction where the police station at Tacony Was ished. The roof of the bullding was blown off and every window was brok- en by a sudden gurst of wind. Unknown Man Killed. At the Tacony station of tire Penn- eylvania railroad an uni ed man was killed when a portion of the structure was blown awa. Mgny ‘houses in this section were unnwfu! or completely demolished. . Kensington Factories . Destroyed. - In the manufacturing section of Ken- sington. in the northmt toward Ta- em-y, several factories m destroyed, trolley wires weére Foofs of houses huled to the center. ot the streets. A corner section of the factory of John Blood & Brothers, manufacturers of woolens at Trenton and Allegheny avenues, more than one hyndrad feet in width, was torn away, wrecking the valuable machinery. 360 Men Thrown Out of Work. men who st "Phe factory of the mmu C: ~ company, nearby, : % ng, but the fl-m before gwch m had’ ‘been Church Cupola Blown Off. In *he fashionable section.of .Ger- mantown the stor oc. The cupola was blown off. Jon roof, as did the ory of the Ameri- can Metal company. Telegraph and telephone communication was also-de- stroyed, but up to a late hour no lives had been reported lost in this section. Hospital Wall Crushed In. Many mills were unroofed by the storm in Manayunk in the northwest section of the city and a wall of the Timothy's hospital at Roxborough was crushed in. The patlents were buried under a mass of debris, but were rescued with- ving sustained serious injurie: A riurse was badly cut by flying glas Roof Blown Into Canal. The roof of A. P. Baker: & Co.’s fac- tory was hurled into Main street, while that of Willlam §. Davis & Co. was blown into the canal. ‘The cupola of the Masonic hall, 24 feet square, was Mown away and has not yet been found. Many small houses in this wection were demolished and' the trol- ley lines ware put out of commission by the mud which ‘was washed from the surrounding hills by pouy of the rain, Train Service Resumed, fate tonight the Pennsylvania rail- road resumed train service +to New York, sending a train by way of the Delaware river bridge to the Camden and Asbury division to Trenton and thence over. the regular tracks to New York Big Hailstones Fell. Reports ‘from points throughout the state show that many towns in the southeastern sectlon were visited - by the heavy wind and in some instances by urm.vp large hailstones. illage Under Wate Syrocuse, N. Y., March 27.—The vil- lage of Moravia, in Cayuga county, is partially under water tonight, follow - ing a rainstorm of unusual severi| The viillage is in the Owasco bawin. ‘The main streets are under wi cellars flooded and all furnace are extfnguished. Creek Flows Over Bridge. The waters of Main creek,: -whlch flows through the heart of the vill 4re running over the railroad bri and trains have been ordered to pfo- ¢eed with caution betwen Moravia end Cagcade. The lowl: .xa- west of Mora- fi are covered with four feet of Wa- “;& ' hall also lost its the down- es Man Killed by Falling Wires. . Pittsburg, Pa, March 27.—A wind out nertheastern Ohio, & ‘est Virginia and western ivania late today, caused At one fatality, injured & number, of and resuited in heavy financiat At Girard, Ohlo. an unknown Snan was killed by falling wires:' Steubenville Buildings Blown Down. Steubegville, Ohfo, was mcklw the c.'r-oru!wub oflth and the: were — down and | . | down 8 a loss of $25,000. Oil operators structures ] nce. that the wrecked thl be replaced with stecel ones. At Waynesburg « tombstones were picked up by the wind and car- ried from a cemetery into a road a !mnired feet away. . Tornado in Alabama. Monroeville, Ala., March 27.—A tor- ck several small towns in mnado’ .thia reglon vesterday, causing death d destruction. As far as known, one dead and another is dying. over the country in.an:east. flrmtlon, the 'storm killed Ste- and probably fatally in- Frank McCrory. Mrs. Byrd and three children were injured and Mrs. McCrory her four children also were hu The Byrd and Mc- Crory homes and other buildings were | deatroyed. Fifteen others are report- ‘ed lightly injured -Several Buildings Destroyed. At Excel several persons:were in- and a number of buildings wer: persons two were Th Cleveland, O., March 27. sons had narrow escapes from serious or death in the storm ‘which wept over Cleveland and . northern hio ‘today. The wind at one time reached a velocity of 59 miles an hour and did much damage. edes! hy and wagons were bowled over a several persons suffered broken by, Many roofs, trees and fences are leveled, and numerous telephone, nhaaph and trolley wires went d causing street blockades in this th Cnp. Will Suffer Heavily. . The tug Vulture of Sandusky was re at Cedar Point, but her crew were able’ to syim to safety. At Orrville, the spire of the Re- formed .church was blown off and it crashed through the roof of the edi- and 'tmhd the interior.; - *M of the crop de- Ohio State univer- said tonight thst wvily. A oS IMPRISONED BANKERS. Mcm th Later on Have His Sen- " “noo Commuted. Was| hingtori, March 27.—Executive clemmcx wm not be shown at present to’ Charles W. Morse, the New York ‘banker, and Jobn .R. Walsh, the Chi~ cago banker, who are serving and five year sentemces, respectively, in federal prisoms, the former in At- lanta and the latter at Leavenworth. From sources close to President Taft it was learned today that he will fol~ low. the recommendations of Attorney General Wickersham. It is understood ‘that.Mr. Wickérsham resommended that inasmuch as Walsh will be pa- roled under the new federal law next September, justice would be better served if executive clemency were not shown him. In the case of Morse, it is under- stood the atterney gemeral was averse to any Iimmediate relief, but recom- mended that if there was to be a com- mutation it should be such as to make the sentence expire in five years. In that event: Morse would ®be released after sgervi three years and eight months, which includes the usual al- lowance for good behavior. Morse be- gan serving his sentence in January, 1910, and Walsh twp months later. MEAN SCOUNDRELS ROB MESSENGER BOYS OF WAGES. Three Holdups in Broad Daylight in New York Yesterd. New. York, March 27.—A trio of masked men, armed, invaded the finan- «cial district late today, lined eleven messenger boys against the wall in the dreesing rooms of the Western Union Telegraph company’s office in ‘Wall street and took from them their ‘week’s wages. A clerk who rushed in to learn tbe cause of the commotion ‘was marched to the head of the line and searched, too. O boy stuffed a $5 bill in his mouth to avoid.giving it up. Another let fall a $5 gold piece and covered it with his foot. Several tucked bills eir nécks. The trio backed out aftér warning the boys that an outcry would mean death, but one of their number rushéed immediately to a tele- graph key and notified the main office. Detectives reéached- the wcene of the holdup within a few minutes but found no ciue to the highwaymen. This was the last df three h- \fl\lva in broad daylight today. A widov |was ‘beaten afid robbed on the street 47d a mfl robbed of his watch earlier in day. P R A ROOSEVELT EREVENTS FROM FAINTING to Lad in a Hénds Pitcher of Packed” Theate: Berksley, Cal, March 27.—A crowd ‘that taxed the capacity of the Greek theéater at the University of California today keard Theodore Roosevelt con- Under the throng was .80 dense that almost Suescoie: He was e colonel, who interrupted his lddre to -hand down a- pitcher of water to.the lad. “The Public Servant and the Eighth Commandment” formed the subject of the day’s address. Colonel Roosevelt devoted particular nnenllon to graft sivers as well as graft recejvers. i, o oty St PLOW TRUST FORMED close | ""lltthe forfier mayor fiaa imkln: ‘and 27 = Au-nrmnh been or- Pping week, W has mh:d‘by the uman J kmt in sh sion - house this mo Christchureh, New Zealand, Mu'ch 27—The steamer Terra Nova passed Stewart island, off the southern ex- tumny of New Zealand today, return- Trom the ice barrier where the tish Antarctic. expeditfion - under Capt, R. F. Scott was landed. London, March ~27.—The execttors of the estate of Cecil Grant, the avia- tor who lost his life while attempting a-cross-channel flight, were granted leave to presume his death by the probate court today. The body of the aviator has never been found. + Lisbon, March 27.—In -consequence of the discovery of a military conspir- acy against the republic at the town fof Vizeu, high army officers have been arrested, as. well as Pro- fessor Aguiar of the University of Co- imbra, who is accused of -complicity in the alleged plot. Rotterdam, Mareh 27—Rudolph Tins- Jey, director of the Uranium steam- 'ship line, who was expelled from Hol- land following a transatlantic emigrant ‘trafic’ dispute with the . government, left today for Antwerp, fromi which city the business of the Uranium line will be managed, Paris, March 37.—Following the. ar- rangement made recently. with Har-| vard, the University of Paris has de- cided to send ‘a professor to Colum- ‘bia university and today designated Gustave Lanson, professor of French literature, to give a course of lectures there during the first three months of the college vear of 1911-12. BRAKEMAN THROWN FROM MOVING TRAIN. Hartford Man Goes Down E: ment at Whiting River Fil Winsted, Conn;, March 27.—Frank Lynehan of . Hartford, ;} passenger brakeman on the Central New England radlroad, narrowly. escaped. death to- d-y when a lurch of the train on which zwr‘ldlng threw him through an opan the - car down a steep” emban aik ank- -baggage nt at Whiting river There ill.al‘n.rpcurveinthetrflcka at the fill, which is between East Can- aan and West Norfolk, end Lynehan: was hurled through the doorway at about th- center of ‘the curve. He up and brought to this pl.ue, ‘where his physicians say is serlously but not. fatally injured. TOM JOHNSON SAID TO BE SINKING Intimate Friends, However, ‘Msintain That He-is a Little Better. Cleveland, O., Mdroh 27..—Reports to- night -and- late todey cohcerni the' condition of Tom L. Johnson w-:: con- DE LA BARRA IN GABINET Maderos ~Are ‘Not x‘mr‘onm..l-y- Father of Rebel Chisftain—Women. and cmunn Fles to Mountains. — Mexico’ City, Mareh 27.—Coincident nictal Dehesa for Secretary of Interior. In the cabinet the office.of mretury of the'interior was left vacant. Specu. lation as. to its incumbent still nvoted Teodors governor * of Cruz and candidate for vice pre: ldem at the last election, General. Coslo- !‘ahl.n- the portfolio of the ; The follow: Forel(n rélations, Franeisco Leon De La Batra. Justice, Demetrio Sodi. lI’ubllc instruction, Jorge Vera Esta- Fomento, Manuel Hmnquhl ¥ Rive- a. Communications and public works, Norbeto Dnmfi)‘uu. Pinance, Jose Yves Limantour,in- marine, General Manuel don, where ha has stationed for the last two years. No :Attention to Peace Overtures. El Paso, Tex., March 27.—“The in- stores with a view to carrying on the war to a decisive issue. No.attention ‘whatever is'paid to the so-called over- tures for peace. Madero is anxious to show the widespread extent of the rev- olution and’thus to win nacognition of belligerericy from all*the nations.” TM- information was giveh out by the El Paso revolutio: junta today as coming from sco 1. Madero, gorovhlum.\ .pregident of the insurrec- 8. Madero Not mr Office. New, Orle:;‘u March 27.—Thst no and no direct statement was o from ‘the-slok reom. ‘Omne_report s-—d e T 's;nn |- eirculation, .and’ dpparently “co ed by scveral that the end was near: RINS Other “intimate . friends . minmnnd that Mr. Johnson's condition was about the same as Sunday, or, if anything, a little better. OBITUARY. . James Jack. Salt Lake City, Utah, March 27.— James Jack, treasurer of Utah for. twenty years and treasurer of the Mor- mon church for more than fifty years, died today at his home. He was 82 years old Jack crossed the plains with an ox team in the early fifties. Shortly after weacking Salt Lake City he was ap- pointed by Brigham Young as treas. urer of the church. He served. in this ul%ce under ‘fl Mr. Young’s success- ord. ' Morris Brown Y. New York, March 27.—Morris Brown Kirby, a playwright and writer of short stories, died in a sanitarium here tonight of a fractured skull. Mr. Kirby was found unconscious at tRe foot of a subway entrance Friday, having slipped and fallen - there, the police belleve. He is a gon of Thomas Kirby, a contractor of Washington, D. & lher. the body will be sent’for rial. James Dudley Perkins. New: York, March 2’ -James Dudley Perkins, for fifty vears a heavy ship- per of coal in New York and New England and for many years a resident of Boston, diad at his home in New Rochelle today. Mr. Perkins had been enerous financial supporter of Tufts college a: the Franklin home . for working girls in Boston. YALE Y. M. C. A. Meeting Held and - Officers Selected. New Haven, Conn. March 27.—At the annual meeting of the Yale uni- Vversity Y. M. C. A. tonight L. R. ‘Wheeler, 1911, of Portville,'N. Y., was appointad university secretary: S. S. Day, 1911, of Catskill, N. Y., academic secretary, and H. L. Achilles, 1911, of Rochester, N. Y. Sheffield secretary. The annual meeting of the academi department elected ths following offi- cers: President, A. McClure, 1911, Lake Forest, Ill.; vice president, S. Lovett, 1913, Brookline, Mass.; treasurer, Proctor, ,1913, Proctor, secratary, C. D. Allen, 191 N. J.. and librarian, R. Lyman, 1913, artford. he officers of Sheffield were select- ed as follows: President, T. R. Hyde, 1912, Waterbury; vice president, S. Dows, 1913, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; treas- urer, H. H. Vrzeland, 1912, New York Clty, and recording secretary, J. W. ‘Watzeke, Jr., 1913, Davenport, Iowa. LEFT ALLOWANCE OF $15 A WEEK FOR WIFE. Schwenzen’s. Will Also Provides Her a Chrintn,a Gift of $100. New York, March 27.—The will of Willlam Schwanzen, who was 4 manu- facturing milliner, and which disposes of a considerable estate, provides for a weekly payment of $15 during her life to the widow and an “annual Christmas present of $100” to her. The will was filled today. $5,000 Robbery at ‘Jeweiry ‘Store. .* Chicago, . March 27.—Two thieves hurled a padded. brick-through.a win- Annual “Staff “of ugh - this : clty my ad ‘San ‘Antonlo - Madero, N “Werking for Peace,” Says Eider Ma- - dero. ““We are workisig for ¥ peace now and will try to conciliate the warring fac- tions;” -continusd Madero. ¥ ‘American 8hot in Leg. Mexicali, March '27.—General S!mon Berthold, the' American soclalist lead- or - of" the rebels in Lower California, ‘was shot in the leg and one rebel: wa: killed in-a- skirmish-with Mexican fed- erals at Almu Pass, 75 miles south ‘of Me ‘Women nnd Children in Mountains. Wfi.lhl on, Mafch 27.—In res 15e ml;‘,}rom ‘Brigadier General Bliss nt n Diego, Cdl, for relief for the destitute refugess of the Mexican Tevo- lution iri Lower Califoraia, the Ameri- can National Red Cross today tele- graphed $2,000. e refugees, of whom 45 are women and 121 children, are in the wild part of the mountains about 35 miles from San Diego, General Bliss reports. A detachment of American troops is on the scene, giving all assistance possible to shelter thelrefugees. Another Revarse for Rebel Parral, Mexico, Mgrch 27.—When the demand of two hundred or ‘more in- iunoctos for the siirrender of Inde was Tefused last week the jefe politico a fire that lasted five hours was di- rected on the town. The rzbels lost eight men and then retreated to the mountains. Federal Slaughter at La Colorade. Hermosillo, Mexico, March 27.—The revolutionary force: that took La. Col- orado, 40 miles from here, was well| received by, the inhabitants. When the rebels heard of the approach of-fed- erals from .this city they marched out to meet them, leaving @ guard of 50 men” in_the town:- ‘The federals approached the town from 'another way and were met by the guard of 50 men only. Thess were apout ‘half Pima Indians. At the first fire from the ‘guard 15 MWierals fell dead. The guard finally retreated, leaving sewen dead and having killed 22 federals. To Drive. Rebels from Lower Califor- nia. ‘Tecate, Lower <California, Mexico, March 27.—The- arrival of Lieutenant Colonel Basque from Ensenada with two -hundred soldiers and many wo- men, and the arrival tomorrow of Col- onel' Magoyot with three hundred iore men, two mountain guns and two ma- chl guns, will complete the forces assembling ‘here. to _wage a campaign ;?In!t the rebels in Lower Clliloml& campaign inclides an attack on the rebels at‘Mexicali. The orders are 1o ‘clean up .the country. Tecate is the strategic center for the campaign. It is midway between the hciflc ocean and the gulf of Califor- n ALLEGED MURDERER ’ RUN DOWN- IN BOSTON. lmlmorv ‘Man_ Accused of Kil His rother-in-Law. Bo ton, March 27.—Antonio - Coleta, the' dow of a jewelry store near one.of | Chicago’s busiest corners tonight and escaped with Jewels -and ‘watches val- They. held o= ued at $5,000. hundred persons- back with . revolvi Bfi persons were in the- store w] Tobbery . was committed. Montreal Defaulter !:utuud FIRE MARSHAL'S THEORY . OF _NEW YORK Honnon. ¢ MIINEGlE GIVES 35.000/ : Heads Relief Fund for Sufferers—R port | That Doors Leading to Fire “Escape Were Locked. . the blame for the losg of 142 lives in the Washington Square fire of Satur- day drew to a focus. today the ener- gles of the district attorney’s staff, the fire marshal, the coroner, the state la- bor department, ‘ and - Borough Prési- dent McAneny of Manhattan. Dozens of investigators collected every scrap of evidence, An Additional Grand Jury. Grand jurors turned personal pro- bers and an additional grand jury in a formal resolution presented to the court of general sessions offered their aid: to the district attorney and.de- clared that some one should be prose- cutéd for the disaster. "Found Doors Swinging Inward, ‘What the probers found—evidence that doors at exits swung inward; th -crumpled fire escape in the airshaft; the one fire escape blocked by. iron shutters when opened; an empty wa- ter tank on the roof; and the prac- tice prevalent among ‘cutters’ of light- ing cigarettes a few minutes before quitting time—all this, and what is yet to be ferreted out, will be placed Speedily before ‘the ‘grand jury for ac- tion, District Attorney Whitman an- nounced. Doors tb Exits Locked? The tenement house department summoned owners of half a dozen faulty structures to police court.as a preliminary step to a far-reaching investigation of tenements. One man was held for violating ‘the law, and other cases, it was announced, will be pressed tomorrow. Fire ~Marshal Beers summoned the proprietors .of the Triangle Waist company and sev- eral employes to testify at a public investigation, largely to inquire into the truth of reports that doors lead- ing to fire exits were locked. Fire.. Started from Cigarette. “So far as I can discover,” he said, ‘there has never been a fire drill in this factory. In my opinion, it would take seven hundred girls fhree “hours to reach the street by the' one flre escape in that building: -Nine-te of the employes cannot- speak ‘Engl " yet I could not find a sign in 'viddish or Itallan pointing ‘out the fire' exits.’ /The fire ‘marshal said he was con- inced that a cigarette, lit by s cutter ‘snd thrown in 4 'heap of cu»pmn, started the fire. 5 c-!nn.u Contributes: m bodies, most of mm ‘Thirty-three. shorn; of all sémblarnce to human forms; 1fe unidentified tonight at the. Chari- ties Pier ‘morgue. Eleven - persons, mpst: of (them girls in .their teens, are fighting . for life’ in hospitals.” Fifty corteges traversed the East Side and the Italian district near the factory and- as -many more ate scheduled for tomorrow., The . unidentified . will be buried ln a single grave, but will be held as long-.as. possible to: give rela- tives” and friends an-opportunity to claim them. . Death List at: 142. Final figures place the death list at 142, as announced last night. Of these 133 bodies were taken from the scene of the disaster and nine died in hos- pitals. The list will be swelled, sur- geons say, by others, who, still liv- ing, have no chance of recovery. On Lookout for Bogus Heroes. Bogus heroes will reap no rewards for mythical rescues at the Washing- ton square fire if a warning issued by the survivors of the'General Slocum disaster prevails. The Slocum Sur- vivors’ association‘held a special meet- ing tonight to prevent, as President Charles Dersch put it, “a good hearted public from bestowing rewards where none was deserved.” The association extended its sym- pathy to those bereft of relatives in the Washington square fire. SHOPLl‘FTI'ING STUDENT EXPELLED FROM CORNEL| Skips Town Before Police Could Serve Warrant on Him. Ithaca, N. Y., March 27.—R. F. Hef- flyn- of New York, a student in the college of agriculture at Cornell uni- versity, charged with shoplifting on a warrant issued today on the request of a number of merchants, has been expelled from the university and has disappeared before: the officers could serve the warrant. . Before leaving Hefllyn implicated two other students and they have been suspended for one year, the authori- fles refusing to make their names pub- c. An attachment for room rent against Heflivn revealed a quantity of goods from various stores in his rooms. It ;a el‘t)jm ted the thefts will amount to 1,00 QUICKER MAIL SERVICE TO THE SOUTHWEST. New Fast Mail Train Betwéen New York and Kansas City. ‘Washington, March 27.—Arrange- ments have Been completed by Post- ‘master General Hitchcock .with the Pennsylvania and Missouri Pacific railroads for a new :fast mail train from New York city to Kansas City, Mo. With the addition of the new train, whichgwas put on today, the mail service between the east and the south- ‘west' will be improved greatly. By the new train’ eastern mail will reach Kansas City four and a half hours earlier than it arrives at pres- ent. BIGGEST INVENTORY * IN HISTORY PLANNED. Complete Valuation of the-Entire Har- riman System Proposed. n. - The k2 two or three years. Prisoner An.mp& Sisids. lnrcfi vellad at th Cn »ch 1 Svnwflu- e\ pen 0ol Four ; ‘leuunl assengers sailed from Livergglwi on tl liners fi:‘l‘re‘ tania Itic. | All lurln Fmr Germs have been driven from Bryn Mawr co\lm and the school is reopening. John’ Larks, Wanted in Momnnhlll as'a:murdeér suspect, committed suicide in a c2ll, in Scranton, Pa. The New Italian ‘Cabinét has been formed, with Giovani Giolitti as pre- mier and mlnlster of ths interfor. .- “Cardinal G-hhon. Spmt Sunday in ‘Washington as the guest of Rev. T. S. Bmyth, pastor of St. Ann’s church. The British Freighter Insbrook and |. the French freighter Vilje de Bordeaux collided off Benchy Head, England, and both foundered. The City Colh" Lacross Team, de- feated the Maryland Agricultural col- lege twelve in the opening game of the season by 6 to 1. The Camorrists Conferred with their lawyers in Viterbo, Italy, to plan an fattack on the testimony of Abbate- maggio, the informer. Secretary of the Interior Figher re- turned to Washington yesterday from Hanover, Ind., where he attended the funeral of his mother. ’ The Suwannee, h the Mi & M. guests aboard, started from Jackson- ville for Bailtimore. A stopover will be made for a day at Savapnah. A Clear Chai of Wireless Telegraph stations extending from Maine to Flor- ida is now included in the Marconi ‘Wirzless Teleégraph company’s system. The British Columbia Shipping pany’s steamer Sechelt turned turtle in a furious gale off. Vancouver Island, and all on board, 25 persons, were lost. The National Fdrest commission is ready to begin purchas- ing lands for the creation of forests in the White and Appalachian mountains. Dr. F. S. Bushnell, a Mijddletown veterinary, has an interesting freak on exhibition at his office in a two-headed (beal! which died shortly after it was orn. _Bloodhounds Brought from Mead- Pa., to search for the vandals who dynémited the Erie rallroad’s ore handling plant at North Randall, a suburb.of Cleveland,. failed to get a clue.. The property damage to the docks will be over $100,000. | EXPLOSION' CAUSES THREE I, March), 21—A third 'name was added to the death roll of the explosion at the neW' power house"of the Amoskéag.Manufacturing company :od.s. with the death'tonight of Frank A. 18 years of age. His death was- due Yo inhaling: smoke. The other dead are Frank CaSsidy of Manchestor, who was instantly killed, and Horace C. Crawferd of Dorchester, who died shortly afterward. Six oth- ers were injured, but it was said to- night that all would recover. <Cassidy was instantly killed when the “deAd end” of the big pipe blew out, and Crawford died a few hours later at the Sacred Heart hospital. WANT COLOR LINE DRAWN AT CORNELL Women Students Want Negross Kept Ithaca, N. Y, March 217.- MMore than f of the three hundred women stu- dénts at Cornell university are sign- ers of a petition presented today to Mrs, Gertrude -S. Martin, university advisor of women, urging that negro students be not permitted to reside in the dormitories. Mrs. Martin will forward the peti- tion to President Schurman, by whom it will be laid before the trustees. The petitioners do not give the reasons for maldng the request, GUESTS BURNED IN A KENTUCKY FIRE. Woman and Three Children Perish in Fire at 's Hom Harrodsburg, Ky., March 27.—In the destruction of the home of J. T. Veach by fire, four miles from here, early to- day, Mrs. J. M. Bridges and her three children burned to death. Her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Veach, and their three children escaped . with slight burns. Mrs. Bridges was the wife of an evangelist of Bath, N. C,, and was visiting her paren gt Tk SRS MERRIAM’S NARROW ESCAPE. Republican Candidate for Mayor in “Chicage Hurt in Motor Car Mishap. Chicago, March 27.—An automobile accident from which Charles E. Mer- riam, republican candidate for mayor, escaped with a badly cut hand, a deep cut in his head and a wranched back came near putting a sudden stop to his mayoralty campaign yesterday. Mr. Merriam was starting on a day’s campaign tour with fourteen sveeches scheduled in different parts of the city. The front whi egh of his, automobilz struck a deep hole on Oak street, ‘broke the steering gear agd threw the machine into the curb. r, Merriam~ was hurled violently against- the glass shield in the front, his head and left shoulder going ' through. No B g in Virgini Richmond, Va., March-27.—Gosvernor Mann.announced today that he would pot permit sn{ violation of the*W¥ir- #inla anti-betting law at the James- town Jockey.club spring meeting,which opens April This is rzgarded as a heavy blow if not a t-hl low to the meeting. x At Christiansand: March 26, Oscar IL tmm New:Yark. . t Sau n-, March 26, Adriat- ic, 2 e New York, ‘At Gl " March 27, NEW YORK’S SENATORSHIP STILL IN THE AIR. SHEEHAN HAD 28 VOTES Less: Than One-Third of Vote Cast— Sheehan Supporters Have Little Hope of His Election. bany, N. Y. March 28.—The see- democratic legislative caucus fail- ea tonight to select a candldate for United States senator and was- called to Te-convene tomorrow night. Twen- ty-five candidates were voted for, William F. Sheehan leading with a vote of 28—less than a third of those taking part. The vote follows: Result of the Vote. The caucus vote for candida United . States senator: wfiu‘:}; fl;f Sheehan 28, Augustus Van Wyck 7, John D. Kernan 4, Francis B. Harri- son 1, Joseph A. Goulden 2, James ‘A. Renwick 3, James W. Gerard 3, Will- iam- Sulzer 3, John B. Stanchfield 1, William B. Elleson 2, Theodoré Sutro 4, Isidor Straus 5, Herman Ridder. 3, Daniel F. Cohalan 4, Edward M. Grout 1, Morgan J. O'Brien 2, John gerald 6, Alion B. Parker 1, Victor J. Dowling' 2, John A, O'Gorman 1, Kd- ward E, McCall 1, D. Cady Herrick 8, Samuel Untermyer 1, John A. Dix 1, John Lynn 1. Total, 90. Ninety Present at Caucus. Ninety of the 116 democratic mem- bers of the legislature answered the roll call. These included a few who have been voting for some other cap- didate than the caucus nominee, but the bulk of the jnsurgents were &b- sent. Several members who have figured as strong advocates of Mr. Sheghan acknowledged in declaring their votes that his election had ceased to be a Dpossibility and that the reconvening of the caucus released them ° from whatever pledges might have been In- curred by attendance upon the firet caucus. Sheehan Advocates Lose Courage. This was the general impression among the Sheehan advocates who expressed the opinion that the ballot- ing tomorrow would follow closely the lines of tonight's caucus vote and that the reconvening of the caucus to- morrow night would mark the begin- ning of the end of the most protracted senatorial contest which this state has ever known. Dix Receives One Vote. Notwithstanding his reiterated. deeli- nations, Gov. John A. Dix received one vote. Ingurgents Scored. Several of the members in announc- ing their choice scored the insurgents for thefr alleged apostasy and cow- ardice in failing to attend, but the general tenor of the speeches, even those by Mr. Sheehan’s closest friends, was distinctly conciliatory. The gen eral opinion in both the democratic camps was that a democratic semator would be: elected in time to take his seat with the extraordinary session of congress a week from tomorrow, THREE CLAIM REWARD FOR TUCKER’S CONVICTION, Weston ‘Town Meeting Voted te Pay It With Interest. Weston, Mass.,, March 27.—A reward of nearly $2,600, together with acerued interest of six per cent. for szven years, will be paild to the person or ( persons who secured the evidence on which Charles Louis Tucker was con- vieted and electrocutad for the murder of Miss Mabel Page in this town in 1904. This much was settled at the annual town meeting tonight, but ne decision was reached as to, who shouid receive the reward. Theére are three principal claimants for the money: Chief of Police Fred Mitchell of Newton, who bases his claim on the fact that he furnished the evidence on which Tucker was arrest- ed; Chief of Police McAuliffe of Wes- ton, who found the Canadian pin which was one of the strong points in the government case against Tucker, and Earl Woodward of Auburndale, found the sheath to Tucker’s hunting knife, which also played a prominent part in the conviction of the murderer. Tha town at the time offered a re- ward of $500 and private citizens suh- scribed $1,900 additional. With inter- est, the combined rewards which will ‘be distributed by -the selectmen will amount to about $3,000. ROGERS ELECTED MAYOR AT DANBURY, ‘City @evernment Strongly Repubbiisen for Ceming Year. v, Conn., March 27.—The eity election hera today resulted in_a re- publican victory, Burton Rogers being elected mayor by a plurality of 546 over his democratic oppoment, Charles Kerr. ‘The republicans elected the two ai- derm2n voted for and three of the four councilmen. The city government will be strongly republican for the coming year, Mayor-elect Rogers will take® office April 1st, succeeding the presemt mayor, William C. Gilbert. ‘About 3,400 ballots were cast, the Australian’ ballot being used for the first time in a city election apd worked satisfaktorily, but four hours being needed to count the vote. GUTHRIE DAILY CAPITAL SUSPENDS PUBLICATION. Oklahoma City Now Without a Mormw ing or Republican Paper. Guthrie, Okla., March 2..—Announc'- ment was made tonight that the Dail; Capital, a morning newspaper, which has been published here since 1889, will suspend publication with the is- sue of tomorrow morning. @Frank H. Greer, the publisher, has sold the paper to Leslie G. Niblack, publishgr of the Daily Leader. The puspension of the Capital leaves rie without a morning or a repub- lican newspaper. ' CALL FOR SERMONS 3 ON ARBITRATION. tors Urged to Make It Their Pulpit ‘Theme Next’Sunday. AP hladetshia, March 27.—Dr. Willlam . Roberts, stated clerk of the Pres- byterian church and chairman of the executive committee of the Federal Pi w“ of the Churches of Christ in ca, sent out a request 8 be: preached in all