Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 13, 1911, Page 1

C e iw i * RIOTERS USE THE BOMB AND TORCH Situation in the Champagne District of France Has Become Extrentely Grave A BOMB HURLED AT CAVALRYMEN Three Troopers Wounded and Horse Killed—Five Es- tablishments Looted and Fired—Whole Section Aglow With Light From Blazing Wine Cellars— 12,000 Troops Called Into Service. Epernay, Department of Marne, France, April 12.—Startling develop- ments occurred today in the rioting watch immediately followed the action of the senate on the champagne ques- tion. Throughout the day and during the esarly hours of the evening the sit- uation was extremly grave but at imid- might, owing to the prescnce of formid- able forces of troops, conditions had Become somewhat settied. Bomb ' Thrown at Cavalry. The frenzy of the rioters exceeds all ®ounds. and it ia feared that they will use dynemite, o large quantity of which disappeared from the quarries last week. News comes {rom the town of Ay that.a bomb was thrown at the cavalry, wounding three troopers and killing @ horse. Five Establishments Burned. Altogether five esatablishmen in Bpernay have ben practically burned to The safes in these establishments were forced and the furniture and fittings were plled in heaps in the strests and ®et on fire. The firemen were power- less, as they were driven off by the rioters. Blazing Cellars on All Sides. All_ around Epernay the country is @otted with blazing cellars, and the whole viclmity is aglow. At Cusnieres Moet and Chandons great wine prasses nare blazing, as well as anothier big es- tablishment at Plerry. AL Ay two more establishments were wrecked to- | night. | Ay, April 12—At | to consume the entire village. | habitants have abandoned their houses, Broken Bottles Hurled at Cavalry. The cavalry charged repeatedly, but the mob showed stubborn resistance, the men ani horses. Troops Pour Into the Troops continue to pour into this dis- trict. Already six battaMens of infun- try and four squadrons of-cavalry have arrivel, ard a brigade of cavalry is on its way here from Paris.: It fs esti- mated that there will be.12,000 troops on seryice by tomorrow’morning. Soldiers Under Strict Orders. Tmmediately on their arrival, the sol- diers are despatched to the danger centers. The prefect plans to occupy practically every town and village in the district with the military, believing that anything less than this' will have no effect. The soldiers have strict or- ders to arrest pillagers and use their | arms in case of resistance. the ground. after having been pillaged. | An Entire Village Threatened. midnight, fed by incendiaries, a conflagration threatens The in- taking their most precious possessions with them. Troopers Pursue Fi: g Rioters. A regiment of cavairy arrived to. night from Epernay, and are stationed around the village. ' The rioters have led in the direction of Montreuil, pur- In one of the col- sued by troopers. lisions @ lieutenant was severely wounded by a paving stone. ARMY CAPTAIN SHOT BY NIGHT WATCHMAN Captain Cook Broke Into Store While Under Influence of Drink. San_ Francisco, April 12.—As a re- It of a fizht with John J. Hayes, an ewed night watchman. today. Capt ¥rank A. Cook, subsistence officer of the commissary department of the regular army, lles dangerously wound- | @d in the Central emergency hospital. | “Cook. accompanisd by his two sons @nd daughters, arrived here vester- day from Manila on the transport Sheridan, With his family he visited reiatives last night. Leaving them at their hotel. he went to another hotel, Where, according fo his stary, he had @ few drinks arly this morning he broke in the door of a stere on Market cot and was met by Watchman ves. Hayes claims that he struck Cook on the head with his club when the latter refused to leave the place. According to Haves, Cook seized the club and returned the blow. Hayes then fired two shots at the officer, pen- eggating his left Inng and barely miss- ing his heart, the other going wild. 'olicemen then entered the and separated the men. Cook was taken to the Central emergency hos- pital, where Dr. G. M. Terrill probed for the bullet. While Dr, Terrill was operating he recognized ook ak a Brother officer, who served with him #n the campaign against the Apache chief, Geronimo, in Arizona, in 1885. At that time Cook was a_lieutenant ©f the Fourth cavalry and Terrill was = post sureeo When Captain Cook resained con- sciousness he deciarsd that from the me he laft the hotel his mind was a lank. and lre inquired eagerly for the details of the fight which had led to Bis wound. He will probably recov TESTIMONY IN DIVORCE SUITS OF THE CRAGINS Abandonment Charged on One Side and Cruelty on the Other. Newark, N. J, April 12. stimony was heard here today in the for @ivorce brought by Willlam B. Cragin, the weil know eounter suit fil Massie Cragin. ment; she charces governable temper Mre. Cragin is ihe Donald, a New York banker, and mar- rled Cragin in November. 1901. Cra- &in testified todas that his wife had not lived with him since June, 1908. On cross examination he admitted that Be had not sent her any stated amount of mones or any money at all for the pport of their child. The case goes on tomorrow tennis plaver, and the d by his wife, Mrs. He alleges abandon- eruelty and “un- niece of James PHILADELPHIA MAN DIES OF BLASTOMYCETES Ninsteenth Case of the Kind in the History of Medici Philadeiphia, April 1f.—After three gears liness from A disease so rare tha! it is said to have been the nine- ¢ in the history of me s 3. Rhodes, Jr. widely ally and ence a guard on Princeton football team. died to- it his home at Villa Nova, near Tie dissase that killed Mr. Rhodes 1= known to physicians as hlas ceies and is manifested by a malig nan: vegeluble growth which aiiaches ftueif to the intestines Mr. Rhodes was attacked by 4he mai ady while on a visit to the south. He wae 35 vears of age and was eradu- @ted from Princeton in 1397, EX-GOVERNOR GUILD AS AMBASSADOR TO.RUSSIA. Sucsesd W. W. Rockhill. Who Has Baen Assigned to Turkey. # April 12. — President | wend (o the senite to.10 TOW wilons of former Governor uild, Jr. of Massachusetts as dor to Russia and W. W. as ambassador to Turkey. . Rockhill is ut present ambassador & Russia. Employers’ Liability Bill ‘Drafted. ‘Hartford, Conn., nm:gxn int on 5 jary, #hich meetings on the employers Mability bills, an -zamvo Ses- slon this afternoon, when the drafting of a blii was taken up. The are were non-committal as to action tgken as 1o whether there was a sem- of uzreement on the measires w P Lo [ ‘ | WORKMEN GET $20,000 FOR THEIR BRAVERY Crushed Their Hands in Saving Oth- and Recovered by Suit. i New York, April 12—The bravery ot Orlavus Juve and John J. McGlynn, who risked their lives to save fifty of their fellows while working on the Queensboro bridge in 1907, was re- warded by the appellate division of the supreme court in Brooklyn by the award of $20,000 damages to each of this mem, with interest and cost 1o U e mere iu charge of pi n_position some ron plates on the tower o‘,t?ghfl&_ e of thege from . its” supports and would ve fallen in the midst of some fifty men who were. working below if Juve and McGlynn had not used their skill and muscie,to deflect it. In so doing their hands were crushed to pieces, costing thelr usefulness in a trade at which théy had earned from $30 to $40 a week, Their suit for damages, won in a lower court, and now sustained by the appellate division, today, was against the Pennsylvania $teel company, who had the contract for steel work on the bridge, z SCHENECTADY EX-MAYOR ENDS LIFE WITH BULLET. Sheriffs Were Waiting at Deor to Serve a Body Execution. ng Schenectady, N. Y., April 12— Jacob W. Clute, three times mayor of Sche- nectary, shot himself dead in the bath- room o home today while the sheriff' and undersheriff were waiting at the door wWith a body execution for him growing out of allaged irregulari- ties in the handling of an estate. 1t is underétood that the shortage as alleged in the Banta estate is not due to any dishonesty on the part of the former mayor, but to his too ready loaning of his name to friends. It is said he had indorsed many notes which he has lately been obliged to_pay Last Saturday Anna Biiza Mackey secured a warrant in Saratoga county for Mr. Clute, charging him with con- tempt of court in failing to pay over to her $1,146 due her from the Banta estate. It was this execution the sher- iff was about to serve when the former mayor killed himselz. Jacob W. Clute was born in this city in 1847 of a long line of Holland Dutch stock. He was elected mayor in 1383 and again in 1895 and in 1305, serving six years in all. KILLED MERCHANT WHO INSULTED HER Mrs. Lewis Emptied Contents of Shot- gun Inte Dalton Meadows. . merset, Ky., April 12—Mrs. Mag- gie Lewis shot and killed Dalton Meadows, & wealthy mercfant and timber dealer, near Greenwood today. Mrs. Lewis used a double-barreled shotgun. The contents of both bar- rels entersd Meadows' body. There was no twitness to the kil ing, which occurred in a room in Mrs, Lewis' home. The woman surren- dered, saying that she was compelled sulted her The victim leaves a several children. AMENDMENT TO LAW ON DEATH CERTIFICATE. Physician Last in Attendance Make Official Report. Hartford, Conn., April 12—The law relating to death certificates was amend>d by the house this afternoon %0 that it provides that a physician in attendance last upon a dying person, or within 24 hours of the death of a persoil. shall make his report upen a staie oard of health report blank. In case no physician attended the deceased parson, or in case of inability of the attending physician to make out widow a a Must cure the certificate from the health officer of the place. Shot Mimself in His Office. Alta Vista, .Va., Hutchison, president of the Alta Vista cotton mills, shot himseif while In his office hers today. It is thought he c - suicide. .. Hutchison lived ‘in Charlette, N. T., whe secretary of the Victor hip Arrivals. April 11, President hurling broken bottles and stone at to shoot Meadows because he had in- | a certificate, a near relative may pro- April 12-4..C.| AY, APRIL 13,, 1911 Cabled Paragraphs St. Petersburs, Aprfl 12.—The budget committee of the duma today approved the grant of $75,000,000 for the con- struction of warships and naval works for the Black sea. B London, April 12.—Meredith B. Col- ket, a lawyer of Philadelphia, and Miss L. A. Kelsey of New Hayen, Com: were married under special license to- day at St. George’s church, Hanover square. t London, April_12.—The sentence of death 1mpo: March 15 on Stinie Morrison, Wi after a sensational trial was found guilty of the murder of Joseph Beron, was commuted today to Dbenal servitude for life. Geneva, Switzerland, April 12.—Mr. William Van Wyck of New York was run over by an automobile here last night and seriously injured. Her hus- band, William Van Wyck, is a nephew of Robert A. Van Wyck, the former mayor of New York. REPRESENTATIVE NOBLE DIES AT HARTFORD. Was Taken Suddenly Il at the Capitol on March 29. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hartford, April 1 Representative John H. Noble of Old Lyme died at the Hartford hospital at 6 o'clock, be- ing the third member of the house to pass away since the general assembly was convened in January. Mr. Noble was taken seriously and suddenly il at the capitol on March 29. He was given first aid and atten- tion in_one of the retiring rooms, but a careful examination by the physi- cians indicated a critical condition, and he was hurried to the hospital, where operations were immediately performad for gallstones and appendicitis. Mon- day he was reported as sinking, but late in the dav he rallied and there was renewad hope for his recovery. His strength had_ebbed, however, and death finally ended his struggle for :p sympathy was expressed at the capitol Wednesday. The deceased had won a_place at Hartford and was a man liked and appreciated. A Native of Kingston, N. Y. John H. @ Lyme born in Ki oct. 7, 1 the son of RODEFE and ‘Murgaret tin) Nobl “attended ' the public schools at Lyme id lived on his fa- ther's farm until He was 21 years of age. At that time he went to Old Lyme to take charge of the largs farm of W. H. Stark of Louisiana, o south- ern planter, which pesition he held for several years, untll Mr.Stark's death. He was then employed in J. F. Bug- bee's grocery store. where he remained seventeen years. Since the year 1900 Mr. Noble has been cuccessfully engaged in the lum- ber business. On Aug. 16, 1877, he married Joseph- ine B. Gibson of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have five children—May E., born Jan. 2. 1879; Robert H., born Dec. 14, 1880: Joseph' G., born Sevt. 21, 1884; Martin T, born Aug. 2, 1836, and James L., born Oct. 4, 1887. First a Legislator in 1897. Mr. Noble was a member of ths house in 1897 and in his home. town had | served as selectman.and secretary of. the school committee for many years: He was a democrat and took a deep. interest in the welfare of his-town: In 1909 Mr. Noble was re-elected a mem- ber of the legisiature, serving as.a member of the committee on _joint rules and shell fisheries and as clerk of the latter committee. He was again refurned to represent his town in the present genmeral assembly, wherein he was_very popular and recognized as among the very efficient and capable lators. His committee assign- ments this time were insurance, con- gressional and ' senatotial _districts, roads, Ti and bridges, he being clerk of the latter committee. Mr. Noble was a member of Pytha- goras lodge, No. 45, F. and A. M., past grand_master of Crystal lodge, No. 88, I 0. O. ., and a membar of Old Lyme grange, No. 162. He was an asseciate corporator and a member of tie board of managers of the Odd Fellows’ home of Comnecticut. Two years ago Gover- nor Weeks appointed Mr. Noble one of a commission of -thres to inquire into the advisability of the state’s assuming control of ‘the Connecticut river fer- ries. was MOTHER STRANGLED CHILD WITH TOWEL Terribie Deed of Boston Worman in a Fit of Insanity. Roston, April 12.—During what is believed to have been a fit of tempo- rary insanity, Mrs. Clara Russell strangled her 12 vear old daughter, Marjorie, to death at their home, No. 1,191 Washington street, Lower Mill Dorchester, today. Mrs. Russell, who is about 45 yvears of age, lived ~alone with her child, having been separated from her hus- band for several years. The tragedy was disclosed this morning when Gilbest Munroe, an uncle of the child, called at Mrs. Rus-~ sell's home. Munroe talked with the woman for a few minutes and then said: How is Marjoris is dead,” replied Mrs. Russell “What has happened?’ asked Munroe, in amazemenf. “0, 1 killed her,” "answered Russell. “I thought it was abouf tfme to put her out of the way,” she added. Munroe immediately left the house and notifled the police, and Mrs. Rus- sell was taken into custody. An investigation showed that the mother had strangled the child with a towel a8 the latter was asleep in bed. Mrs, Russell told the police that as she was tightening the ttowel about Marjorie's throat the child awoke and | begged the mother not to kill her. but the woman did not heed er appeal. The police arranged to have Mrs. Russell brought into the Dorcester municipal court on a murder charge. $60,000 WANTED FOR MYSTIC PUBLIC BUILDING Bill Introduced by Comgressman Hig- gins—Want New Life Saving St tion. (Special to The Builetin.) ‘Washington, April 12.—Mr. Higgins has re-introduced pension bills in fa- vor of James Carver of Norwich, Al- bert Williams of Salem, Mrs. Cather- ine Kunoski of Colchester. Humphrey Gallivan of Norwich, Chauncey Geer of Norwich, and Benjamin G. Barber of Norwich. Mr. Higgins also_introduced a bill to correct the military record of Dwight Bromley of Stonington, and Charles H. Brown of Lebanon. Mr. Higgins introduced a bill a Dropriating $60,000 for ths purchase.of 2 .site.and the erection of a publc ‘building thereon at Mystic, also_a bill arpropriating - $125,000. for. the estab-. Jshmient of a life saving station.on Island sound, between New Lon- don and Saybrook. He, vesterday, re-introduced a fish- hatchery bill and the bill for the con- struction of a revenue cutter which failed of passage during the lust con- To Tom Johnson PAID BY NEARLY 200,000 CITIZENS IN A DRIZZLING RAIN. BODY MOVED TO BROOKLYN Streets Lined With People as Simple Cortege Passed—Floral tributed by Cleveland Neswhboys. Piece Con- Cloveland, 0., April 12.—Bravins the chilly winds ang drizzling rain, an jm- mense throng of people, variously esti- mated from 150,000 to 300,000, stood in the streets late today, especlally down- town, and 'paid silent tribute to the memory of Tom L. Johnson as his body was conveyed from the family apart- ments in the Knickerbocker on Euclid avenue to the union depot. Family Occupied Private Car. The train bearing the funeral party departed at 6.10- p. m. over the Lake Shore raflroad and wiil arrive in New York.at 9.11 a..m., Thursday. - The caskst was placed in the bag- gage car and the. mourners and friends occupied the private car Livingston. _ Hearse and Four Carriages. The Rev. Harris R. Cooley, a life- long' friend of Mr. Johnson, officiated at_the. brief funeral services in . the family apartments this afternoon. At the grave- in _Greenwood cemeétery, Brooklyn, he will deliver a short ad- dress and a prayer. - The simple funeral cortage consisted of the hearse and the mourning party in four carriages, preceded by a squad of mounted police. Streets Lined With People. Tiong before the cortege left the Johnson, home the streets were lined with people, despite the inclement weather. As the procession passed down the streets the men removed their hats and the women bowed their heads. Fiags at half mast floated from the buildings, and in stors windows pictures of the former mayor were dis- played drdped in black and the stars and stripes.. . For five minutes, during which time the cortege passed the city hall, where Mr. Johnson had £o-long presided, most D the stores in the downtown district suspended business. The courts were also adjourned and municipal business generally was suspended. * Hundreds of Floral Tributes. Hupdreds of floral tributes were re- ceived .at. the’ Johnson apartments from far and near, among them being pleces from the Cuyshoga county de- mocracy, the Detroit, Mich., fire de- partment; the Cleveland newsboys and the state’democratic committee. Movemsnt for “Johnson’ Park.” The movement for a memorial was given, further impetus today when at a meeting of the city council plans for a new city playground to be known as “Johnson park” were discusséd. Mayor Witilam® B, Thompgon of Detroit and Msayor Herman Buehr of Cleveland ad- dressed. the meeting. ‘A Champion of Playgrounds. “When I' die 1 hope the pzople will make a playground over my body. - I would rather have the children romp- ing over my grave than a humdred monuments.” This was the statement often made by,_fermer Mayor Johnson. The pallbearers named for the fu- neral in Brooklyn, which will be held probably Thursday afterpoon, are Wil- Ham J. Bryan, C. M. Bates, Ben T. Cable, Lincoln Steffens, A. J. Moxham, Henry George, ‘Aungust Lewis and Philip A. Brennan. LOWELL WOMAN HAS FORT SUMTER FLAG. Presented to Her Brother During the War. Lowell, Mass., April 12—The flag which flew over Fort Sumter when General Beauregard began the Civil war by opening fire on the federal force fifty years ago'today is thought to be in tha possession of Miss Eliza Cowley of this citv. Miss Cowley says that while in Charleston during the war her brother Charles, now dead, was pre- sented with the flag, and that it had always remained in the Cowley fam- 1Iy. Charles Cowley was judge advocate on Admiral Dahlgren’s staff in the south jtlantlc sauadron during the latter days of the war. Her brother, Miss Cowley says, always maintained that the flag was the one which Major Andersor, the federal commander of the fort, dlsplayed at the time of the attack. P An >ffort i= being made to have the flag displayed here on Patriots’ day (April 19). DECAPITATED WHILE “JUMPING'A FREIGHT.” Malden Man Killed by Coming Contact With a Bridge. New York, April 12.—John Grant of 47 Clifton street, Malden, Mass., was Killed last night while “riding the Toofs” with a fallow workman, Joseph McNulty, of No. 19 Green street, New Haven, on a westbound New York Central fast freight in the northern suburbs. His head came in contact with a section of the University Heights bridge and he was decapitated. McNulty just managed to save him- seld. Grant's death was told of teday in police court by McNulty when the New Haven man was arraigned for “stealing a ride.” McNuity was discharged after he had told his story. A BRIDGEPORT MAN LEFT OVER A MILLION Estate of William Avery Grippin Valued at $1,227,000. Bridgeport. April 12.—An inventory, filed in the probate court, on the es. tate of -the late William Avery Grip- pin; late head of the Bridgeport Mal- leable iron works .company, shows an estate that is valued at $1,227,000. Mr. | Grippin -dled intestate and his estate | will be equally divided between his | widow.and two children, a son and a daughter. Wi Into Healey Opposes Reciprocity. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hartford, . April 12.—Leonard H. Heuley, Wogdsfock, master of the state grange, and as representative of that organization {n Connecticut, addressed the meimbers, of the Farmers' associa- n.:;:}i o ogwtlmnon z:“ Canadian reol- Pr 8t the oa ‘ednesday mornihg and w?- ‘Warmly congratuiat- €d’a. the end. s speech. I TNe ‘w“ m “in Tennsssse, Nashvi n April 12—The n;\:'v“uuu rejetea & ol proposing an gmendment fothe_constitution pro- o = or _the -inftiative and referen- % Telegraph To ~Madero’s Gamp ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE FOR QUICKER COMMUNICATION. TO BRING ABOUT PEACE Cipher Message Sent from Washing- ton to Revolutionary Leader and an Looked For. Early Reply ‘Washington, April 12—Initial steps to bring about peace in Mexico, supp! menting various informal advances that thus far have been made to that end, were taken here today. Arrangements for Quick Communica- tion. Dr, Vasquez Gomez, head of the con- fidential agency of the revolutionists in the United States, who recently was designated by Francisco I. Madero,lead- er of the insurrection, as the only per- son_besides himself who was empow- ered. to receive or initiate peace pro- posals, announced tonight to the Asso- ciated’ Press that he had completed special arrangements for expeditious telegraphic communication hetween the | camp of Madero ‘Washington. Definite Terms of Peace. The results of the telegraphic con- ference with his collcague, which will incude a definite set of terms by which peace may be effected will be transmit- ted by Dr. Gomez to Mexico City. Message Sent in Cipher. The first message from Dr. was sent today in the cipher revolutionists, and an answer pected within 24 hours. Three Fights Reported. Sen Antonio, Tex.. Apri 12.—Three fights betwen federals and insurrectos occurred Monday south of Ciudad Por- firio Diaz, in the first of which four federals and two insurrectos were kill- od. in Chihuahua and Gomes of the is ex- Other Two More Serious. How the other two fights resulted is not known, but reports say they were attended wit hmuch heavier casualties than the first. Report Brought by Courier. . This is the report brought to San Antonio by Jose Ordonez, a courler, with messages to Don Francisco Ofa- dero. Protection for Americans Asked. San Diego, Cal, April 12.—An inves- tigation of conditions in Alamo, Lower California, where G. Raffi, his wife and five children, of San Diego, and a number of American employes of the mines there and their families are said to be prisoners of the rebel band under Gen. Simon Berthold, probably will be made by George B. Schmucker, United States Lower California. telegraphed to Tirother-in-law lows: “Proteclion has been requested for Americans in Alamo. I will request the ' depariment to’' authorize me or messenger to investigate conditions in Alamo. Mexicans arriving yesterday report Amerlcans safe.” Bridge Burned, Wires Cut. Agua Prieta, Mexico, April 12—(Via Douglas, Arizona).—The combined force of rebels under Juan Cabral, An- tonio Garcia and Ricardo Romero, ap- peared suddenly before Cananea today. Three bridges between Naco and Can- anea on the railroad were burned and wires were cut. All communication was thus suspended. No trains ar- rived in Naco todey, The federal force of 1,100 men, in- ciuding two hundred cavalry under command of Media Barron and other leaders, which went out from Cananea a few days ago, entered Arizpe to find the rebels gone. Mexico Talks Peace, Prepares for War Mexico City, April 13 —Regardless of all the talk of peace, Mexico's de- partment of war is rapidly placing its fighting machinery in the best_condi- tion possible. Francisco 1. Madero may yet be induced to agree to terms which do not_include the resignation of President Diaz, or it is said his following may be taken from him by those who are spreading the propa- ganda of peace, 8,000,000 Pesos for War Fund. Officers say every day of delay serves to strengthen the government forces. The spending of eight million pesos appropriated by congress last week as a special war fund has begun. Today it was announced that the gov. ernment has placed an order for 5 000 rifles. consul at Knsenada, Mr. Schmucker O. Henry Savage, of Mrs. Raffi, as fol- HIS EYE GOUGED OUT BY WOMAN'S HATPIN. Gateman at Omaha Railroad Stal Nearly Lost His Life. Omaha, April 12.—Henry Pepper, a gateman ‘at the union station, lost an eve as a result of coming in contact with a hatpin yesterday, and came near losing his life. He was punching tickets at the gate when a fashionably dressed woman pushed her way through the crowd, and as she passed the gateman the pin in her nat pierced his eye and drag- ging across his temple tore an ugly gash. The ey was badly mutilated and the sight destroyed. The police tried to find the woman, but failed. Some Petitions. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington. April 12.—Congressinan Henry introduced petitions favoring an improved parcels post today following granzes: Columbia _srange, No. 131: Sutlield grange, ; Som ers “grange, No. 105: Waugumbang of South Coventry, and No. 127, of Glaston- grange, No. 8 Good Will gras: bu Congressman Higgins introduced a petition from the Woman's club of Willimantic, praving for the repeal of the tax on oleomargarine. He also pre- sented the petition of Rosweil A. Ben- edict of Norwich, and of the Brooklyn County grange, protesting against the ratification of the Canadian recipric- ity treaty. Congressman Hill introduced a bill in the house yesterday to pay James B. Garrison of Bridgeport $218.18, the sum found due him by the court of claims for overtime work in the Bridgeport postoffice. Mr. Hill re-in- troduced’ 2 bill granting a pension to Charles L. Stevens of Still River, of Companles ¥, and F. U. S. cavalry, at the rate of $i2 per mou 3 S e R $20,000 Bequest to Seminary, New York, April 12—A bequest of $20,000 to the General Theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church is provided in the will of Ellen H. Cotheal, a member of a prominent New York family, who died il 7 The document was- filed for today. from tho | | Poésident Taft Has Commuted the sentences of three federal prisoners. The Allan Liner Lake Erie, at Hal- ifax, N.'S.. reports the burning of the Frerch' schooner Victoiville. The Pennsylvania and Pittsburg & Lake Eric railroads were indicted in Pittsburg on charges of sranting con- cessions In demurrage charges, . President Taft Will Attend the un- Yeiling of a monument in Annapolis in memory of Irench soldiers and sail- ors who fought in the revolution. The General Assembly of New Ta daclined to Brect w monment to iranklin Plerce, tow teenth president of the United States. Nearly All the Women on the wood- en steamer Iroquois, which foundered off Vancouver island, were drowned, being penned in the deckhouse when | the sea washed in J. B. McDonald, an American mining engincer, in charge of the big Gug- enheim smelters and mines in Guan- ajuato, Mexico, has fortified them against the rebels, who, however, are fereing mines to close down by cut- ting off the coal supply. GRAND TRUNK TO CROSS TRACKS OF NEW. HAVEN. Seeks to Have Its Charter Amended to Per It in Rhode Island. Providence, R. I, April 12.—Officials of the Grand Trunk and New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads appeared before a legislative commit- te2 at the statehouse this afternoon at a hearing on the petition of the Grand Trunk.for additional privileges in or- der to reach a tidewater terminal here. First Vice Prasident E. H. Fitzhugh, Chief Engineer Kelly, G. C. Jones, gen- eral manager of the Central Vermont railroad, Engineer A. S. Going and At- torney John S. Murdock appeared for the Grand Trunk, while the New Ha- ven road was representéd by Vice President Buckland and Attorney Na- thaniel W. Smith. Mayor Henry Fletcher and City Solicitor Baker were also present. The Grand Trunk desires to amend he charter of the proposed Southern New England railroad so as to allow it to cross the tracks of its rival, the New Haven road, at two points. BARNES ON TRIAL FOR PULLMAN CAR ASSAULT Daughter of Professor Hill of Univer- sity of Chicago the Complainant. Anderson, Ind., April 12.—No one who ever rode in & Pullman sleeping car or who ever bought a cash regis- ter was permitted to sit in the jury which was impanelled today to hear the trial of Benjamin C. Barnes. Barnes was arrested in Dubuque, To- wa, on the complaint of Miss Cecil Hill, daughter of Prof. Willlam Hill of the University of Chicago, who charged him with forging his way in- to her berth on a train, just after leaving this city, on January 27, last. The jury was completed this after- noon and the taking of evidence was begun. Barnes is a cash.register salesman and today said his home was in ‘Washington, D, ', and that his head- quarters were in Dubuque, lowa. JUDGE: KENYON TO SUCCEED DOLLIVER Elected United States Senator by lowa Legisiature Yesterday. Des Moines, Towa, April 12.—The protracted deadlock in the ITowa legis- lature ended today when Judge Will- iam S. Kenvon of Fort Dedge was elected United States senator to suc- ceed the late Senator J. P. Dolliver. The election came with the sixty- seventh ballot and was attended by tumultuous scenes, in which Kenyon adherents displaved their enthusiasm by tossing books and papers about the legislative hall. ¢ ANOTHER SALARY FOR CHICAGO’S 218T WARD. Francis W. Taylor Named as Private Secretary to Secretary MacVeagh. Washington, April 12. Taylor of Chicago, a real who until the last municipal election Wag a_member of the board of alder- men from the famous 2Ist ward, has been appointed private secretary to Secretary MacVeagh and will begin his duties April 20. Secretary MacVeagh, Secretary of the Interior- Fisher, Secs Dickinson and the late eral Bowers lived in the 21st ward. Francis W. state dealer, MRS. CLARENCE MACKAY RESIGNS PRESIDENCY. Unable to Attend to Duties in Equal Franchise Society. New York, April 12.—Mrg. Clarence Mac] who was’ the first of New York society women ta enter the ranks of suffrage advocates, Inid aside today the gavel of the Equal Franchise so- ciety, which she organized two and a half years ago. In resigning the presidency Mackay made a formal statement to the effect that she wis unable to do justice to the work which the position required. Ars. Committee Assignments. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, April 12.—Little or no progress along the line of legislation is expected in the senate this wek. The committee on committeel claim that it will require all of this week to com- pletc the committee ignments sat- rily to the two factions of their parties, for there are pro- the democratic party as g the republicans, and they about as insistent for what they think is right Representative Magm, the leader of the minority in the house, made pub- | lic his minority asignments at the meeting of congress vesterday. The Connecticut members were assigned to the same committee places held by | them in the last congress. Major Til- son is on military affairs and expendi- tures in the state department; Mr. Henry, merchant marine and fisheries, | patents, and expeuditures o public | buildings: Mr. Higgins, on_ the judi- ciary and expenditures in_the depart- ment of agriculture; Mr. Hill, on ways and means, and cxpenditures in the treasury department. Mr. Reilly is & member of the majority on_ coinage weights and measures and postoffices and postroads. It is expected that business will be- gln now in carnest and that one or two tariff bills will be before the com- | miitee on ways and means hefore the. Weelt is uct. { ENDED HIS TROUBLES TWO TOWNS WIPED OUT BY TOR TWenty-Three _Li_ves Snuffed Out by Wind- storm in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma RAIN, HAIL AND LIGHTNING WITH Very Few Buildings Left Standing at Big Heart, Okl and Whitting, Kan.—High School Blown Down a Score of Students Injured—Woman Swept to Death From Her Doorstep—Horses Killed by Lightning. A heavy wind storm, attaining the velocity of a tornado in some secticus and accompanied by rain, hail and lightning,- swept over western Mis- souri, Kansas and Oklahoma yester da illing twenty-three persons, prac ticaily destroying two towns, injuring almost a _hundred persons, wrecking scoreg of bulldings and putting almost every telephone and telegraph wire in the territory out of commission. Sixty Buildings Blown Down. The tornado did its worst at Big| Heart, Okla. where eight persons | were killed, ten were injured and al most every building in the town wa wrecked. - Whitting, Kan., was practi- cally wiped off the map. Sixty build- ings were blown down,thirty persons | were hurt, and one person, Mrs. Da- | vid Stones, was killed | High School Building Wrecked. At Powhatan, Kan, a woman child were Killed. = A high s ! building was wrecked at Eskridge, Kan,, a number of houses were daui aged and from fifteen to twenty pe sons were injured. Schoo! Blown Down. At Hiawatba, Kan, a school ws Dblown down and a boy named Pelton was killed and several buildings were struck by lightning. Several persons were known to have been hurt at Net- awaka, Kan® A boy wa killed at Manville, Kan. Started Near Whitting. The Kansas end of the storm starf ed near Whitting and swept in a southeasterly direction more than fifty miles. It is thought that many more pe ple were killed and injured than have | yet been reported. | Horses Killed by Lightning, In Kansas City the storm did little | damage. A few horses were killed by | lightning and some butldings were | struck. 1 | Two Dead at Hiawatha. Two more deaths were reported from | near Hiawatha late last night. Ger. aldine Meisenheimer, 10 vears old, and | a_small.child of Otis Mellott are the victims. Sought Refuge in Schoolhouse. The Maisenheimer girl sought refuge with {hree companions in a country schoothouse ani the building was wreeked soon afterward. Her com- panions were injured. It is not known how the Mellott child met death. i the steps of her home into a neigh: | buita bor's yard, half a was picked up dead. One Injured it Netawaka. interrupted telephone message Netawaka says geveral persons injured there Only one: tale-s Wi is working between here CH - Depot Blown Over. mile away, were phone and Kans: St. Joseph, Mo. April 1z—The Sta Joseph and Grand Island depot and box cars at Manville, Kan. were & blown over by a torvade.' A farm house was: also wrecked and a child was killed, according th information received by the Crand Island offictals here Telegraph and telephone wires are down and particulars arc medgery Two Killed at Lawrence, Kan. : Lawrence, Kan., April 12—Two peo= | ple were killed, scores of houses were | destroyed and the streets were piled high with debris by tornado woleh itruck LawTence at eight o'elock S84 night. : Wires Are All Down. Topeka, Kam, April 12.—A tornade, traveling in a southeasterly directiom, destroyed the town of Whitting, 25 miles north of Topeka, late toda Sixiy houses were blown down snd thirty persons were injured. M reports received here by long-distance telephone tonight indicate that the towns of Powhatan, ¢ Netawaka and Eskridge_were struck by the same storm. Wires are do n and particu- | lars are hard to get Twenty Students Injured. Eskridge 1s 25 miles south of Tae The storn struck there shortiy ock. The high sehoof g was low lown and twenty students were in, ed. A_woman and child at Powhatan. Woman Swept Off Her Steps. Mrs, David Stone, wife of & farmer, living near Whitting, was swept from Two Killed at Checotah. Checotah, Okla., April 12.—~One man peka before four o' were Killed | ana one child were killed in & tornade two miles south this evening. Four Killed at Mesker. Checotah of Meeker, Okla., April 12—Four per- song were killed in a tornado that visited this city today. A score of houses were wrocked. Many miles of telephone and telegraph wires were torn down. HARRY THAW NOT TO BE EXAMINED BY ALIENISTS His Attorney Says .hat Such a Pro-“ cedure Would Be Farcical. New York, April 12.—Harry K. Thaw not he examined Dr. | Carlos MacDonald and ' Dr. Austin | Flint, the alienists appointed by Gov- ernor Dix to investigate the condi- tions at Matteawan asylum for the criminal insane, if Clarence J. Shearn has his way. 3 In a statement issued tonight, M Shearn, who is counsel for Thaw, savs that such an examination of his cli- ent “would be farcical and 1 would not permit it.” He cites that Drs. MacDonald and Flint testified for the prosecution in the Thaw murder trial that Thaw was insane, and adds “Thaw would have a fine chance at their -hands. Dr. Ferris, superinten- tendent of the lunacy commission, whose administration is being investi- gated by these two experts, was also hired with them and testified with them against Thaw. 1t is all one hap- py family.” NINE MEN ARRESTED AS POSTOFFICE BURGLARS Suepected of Being Implicated in Breaks at Several Places. Toledo, O., April 12.—After trailing thelr men for seven weeks through Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, United States officers and private detectives this afternoon rounded up nine men in Toledo suspected of belng impli- cated in bank and postoffice robber- ies in this vieinity, The prisoners are suspected of be ing implicated in the robbery of the Farmers and Merchants hank at Riga Mich., last fall, and later of the rob- bery of the postoffices at Chelsea, Mich, Winfall, Ind.. and Gahenna, Franklin couniy Ohio. —The prison- ers were arraigned before a United States commissioner this afternoon, and were bound over to be taken to Riga, Mich. A SYRIAN AT QUINCY Was Walking Along Street When As- sassin Shot Her. i3 April a Quincy, Mass, zie Ferris was shot a ed in tho Fore River section of this | city, this afternoon, hy a man whose name the police say is Arsar Hadad, a Syrian. The murderer escaped to the woods. The only witness of the shooting, so far as known, was Mrs. Susan C rey Mrs. Corey saw Mrs. Ferris walking down South street, when a| man jumped from behind a’clump of | bushes and shot the woman through the head with a revolver. Ars. Ferris was. the wife of Abraham Ferris, a workman. WITH TWO REVOLVERS Weli®%o Do Riverhead Man Leaves Sick Bed to -Commit Suicide. Néw York, April 12— Frederick Car- penter, 53 vears old and well to do, | eluded & brother and a nurse today, crawled from a sick bed, and, taking tWo revolvers from a bureau drawer, Pulled the triggers simuitaneousily and Governor’s Son to Wad. San Francisco, April 1%3.—The en- gagement of Sturtevant Foss of Bo: < s ton. son of the governor of Massachu- ot sefls, to Miss Dorothy this city, is announced by of the bride-elect Chapmay the par nt two bullets through his brain, at %h‘mt in Riverhead, L. I. { ‘They found him dead in bed. He en despondent over failura to! had fmprove after an operation. 1 “The playing of checkers has beem | made uniawful in x Georsia towm | Hawkes SPINAL MENINGITIS CAUSES 3 TWO DEATHS AT ERIDGEPORT Italien Family Loses Two Beys in Nine Hours. Bridgeport, Conn., April 12 —Seven hours after beinz stricken with spinal meningitis, Dominick Salamone, seven cars old, dled at nis ho here, this afternoon, and two hours later his tem vear old brother Antonio died with the same diseas: The children, who lived with thefr parenis in the section of the eity hea populated with Ttalians, wers taken ill this morning. Physicians were summoned and diagnosed the cases as spinal meningitis, but fhey were unable to prevent the disease taking its course Whils the children wers sick and after their des sefore the ity health officer was notified thers wers ¢ callers at the house and there may be a spread of the disease, though the health officer takes the stand that the disease ix not contagious. MANY HOMES FOUND WITHOUT ANY BIBLES Groat Increase in Missionary Circul tion of the Scriptures. New York, April general secretaries of the Amerfess Bible society as made public hers to- night, show an increase in the mis= sionary _elreulatios the Hible i every part of the United States. The total circulation in these agencies alone amounted to 642,822 volumes in 1910, an increase over 1909 of 351,287 volumes. The Scriptures have been used im seventy languages and dialects and #t iw added that in the great cities, am well as in She widely scattersd pop- tions of the west, many English- sbeaking families have been found Without any Bibles in their homes WOODMEN OF WORLD. 12— Reports of New Officers Elected at Cenvemtion at Binghamten. Binghamton, > Camp K, Wood jurisdiction er Rhode Island and C t, in con- vention here, elected officars today as follows Head consul, 17, T York: head adviser o Rochester; head bunker, Joseph ODonnell of New York: head clethy Alfred Stover of Brooklin; head es- cort, George Dretzer <yracuse; head watchman, W. E. Conger of Ni= agara Falls; head seniry, Soversl Burlingiiams' of Providence, R. ki chairman of the head board of mame agers, C. J. Newcomer of Puffalo, April_12—Head f the World, the York, fowrey of New Fred VAn Duze > “ Other members of the yoard. W. H, Christianson of Bridgepert. (* J. E. Teng of New e Zethar zates o sovereizn which nieets in__ Roc n Fred Boyer of Biftaio and Major J Mohell of Bridgeport, Conn : = F. J. Titus of White Piains, N ¥ will remain as past head consul Head Consul Lowrey wi the sovereign camp virtue of, his Sovereigns Lo Newcomer and elected. 2 No Reduction in Grain Rates. Wi April 12—Iin & tvdl;.’ terstate commerce mission 10 make any “:.'} in what are known z-t Erain rates. from Fuftale, N, castern ions, eiiher om st er export t; By