Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 3, 1911, Page 1

New YOrk’s Indmed City Chamberlain Says That it Will be Laxd Bare WILL RESIGN HIS OFFICE AT ONCE Declases thit He Takes this Step to Relieve Mayor of Embarrassment—Indictments Charge Bribery and Taking of Unlawful Pees—Action of Grand Jury Results from Carnegie Trust Investigatiqn. New York, May 2.—Charles H. Hyde will resign as city chamberlain at once, Under indictment and under the fire of practically every mewspaper in New York, he announced tonight that, aithough be is the victim of “ane of | the most wicked conspiracies in the | hhflfl of the city,” Bis position as custodlan of the city’s ‘millions in ordsr not to embarrass the Gaynor administration. He has been the: mayor's protege’ for years. ~ Pleaded Not Guilty, Indicted secretly late Yesterday on two counts, one charging him with brivery and the other with taking an unlawful fee, the clty chamberlain leaded 1ot guilty In the criminal, ranch of the supreme court this aft- ernoon, with permission to change or withdraw the pleg up to May 16, and was released under $7,500 bail,” fur- sished by Daniel S. 3McElroy, com- issioner of taxes. rand Jury Resumes Investi A free man, he went smilingly about Bis affairs again, while the special grand jury resumed its investigation Carnegie Trust flasco and had state super- the witness O. H. Cheney, intendent of banks, who b replaced by Geory Albany. Mr. Cheney Ciale of the state are 10 be guestioned 0 learn why the Carnegie Trust com- any was not closed, though known to 82 ottering fimancially. Resignation Tendered Saturday. Hyde's resignation has been in the mayors hands since lust Saturday, so it is umdersiood here, but the mayor hws said nothing, though- he held an hour's conference this afternoon with Samoel Untermwyer, Hyde's counsel The cfty chamberluin's staiement. i sued afier this conference, predicts Bis compiete exonoration, bitterly as- wails the district rney’s office and cenciudes as follow he will relinquish | Will Not Embarrass Mayor. “While T have no fear or doubt that the whole conspiracy against me will be laid bare within a very short time, 1 do not propose to have the adminis- tration of Mavor Gaynor embarrassed and I shall at once tender my res- nation. After twenty-two years' as- sociation with him. I fesl he will not misinlerpret it, as he knows better than anyone else the dastardly meth- ods that have been employed to in- volve me.” Hyde Asks Public to Suspend Judu~ ment. Hyde again asks, the public to sus- pend judgment until the “motives be- hind the prosecution” are brought out and says that with one hundred and twenty or more banks with which he has daily transactions, it is strange that there are not more alleged irreg- ularities brought out, “if I were capa- ble of the dastardly crime of betray- ing the city,” He was indicted main- 1y, he adds, on the testimony of the discredited ‘and self-convicted Joseph G, Robin, who has “been enjoying the hospitality of the district attorney's office.” Denies the Alleged Transaction. “It is charged in the Imdictment,” says the statement, “that I required Robin to procure the Northern bank to lend one hundred and thirty thou- dollars of its funds to the Car- negle Trust company, and that I promised that if it did' make this loan I weuld increase the deposits of city funds in the Nortaern bank. It is then charged that this loan was made and that the city funds in the North- ern bank were increased. It will prob. ably surprise the public to learn that this is the entire charge that is made against me. I have already denied that 1 ary such transaction - or made any such agreement, and I now reiterate the denial. CONGRESS OF MOTHERS ATTACKS MORMONISM. ‘Want Federal Jurisdiction Over the Crime of Poiygamy. Wasiington, May 2. Declaring that. wherevar the Mormoém organization controls, the church is in undisputed mfim of all political power, con- to the federal constitution, the national congress of mothers at its closing session tonight adopted reso- jutions urging cengreswional legislation o- :flxm polygamy, recommiending tutional ameridment giving fed- erni jurisdiction sver the "crime of poivgamy, and pretesting agaipst the soceptance by battlsship Utah of the silver ur\(el b.-nn.— he repr sentation of Brigham Young. Oher resclutions edepted urge par. o form associations for child Study, endorse the Gailingse bill for accaptance of Nathan Strauss’ teurized milk Jaboratory. urge probibiting the intermarriage of feeble minded and degenerate persons. de- meunce the uee of soothing. syrups ane “mediated soft drinke’ thank Presi- dent Taft for his fight against the “white siave tariff” and deprecate the publleation of anything that is a menace to public morals, particular ‘o heing Made to the “so-called comic supplement.” 0 meets next in Texas, probabir at Dalla vear t BOMMON SOAP AND WATER CONDEMNED Are Declared by Dr. Towle Commen- est Cause of Skin Disease. Boston, May -—Common soap and water are wisely avoided by small #oy and tramp allke, according to Dr. Menry C. Towle, who lectured at the Harvard Medical school. He classed thess a3 amone the commonest causes of -fl.m Soup 4nd water cuuse the aells to swell; they abstract the fromi the iiswue, and the skin be- u—u dry and thin. Chapping m the first dimagreeable thing noticed. and | is followed by eczema uniéss the | is checked. reason why soap and water are forbidden, o be used i oczema is due | to the fact that in this condition the | @eep layer of the skin is exposed, and | the frritating soap ,and ‘water . would | add to the trouble. In the con- ot diseased condition, susceptibility must be con. SUES BECAUSE OF AN U"_D!LIVERED TELEGRAM. Nerwatk Man Seeks to Recover $1,000 from Postal Telegram Cempany. Toem Bpven May 2—P, served on ¢ phd officials of thé Postal Telegram company. in this city vester| ay in & suit for damages brought b Fredorick R, Batker of Norwalk The company failed to deliver a telegram to itc destination sent by him and he asks $1.000 demages. He alleges that on Oct. 21, 1910, he went to the de- fendant’s office in Norwalk and sent a to Miss M. Bukiehaupt, trained purse In Brooklyn, as follo 3 It was signed “Bob.’ This was an understanding between himself and the nurse that the stork was about to visit his house and that the nurse was to start for Norwalk immedia The plaintiff says that he recsived no answer nor did any nurse appear. After walting 24 Rours he sent snether despatch by the rival office, and this produced the required resuits. When the nurse arrived she explainad that thé reasom she did not arrive sooner was because she did not receive the first despatch. Mr. Batker was mad. He is now suing fer the mental anguish and the worry that he en- dured by the miscarriage of the tele- gram. FUNERAL SERVICES OF CONDUCTOR KENYON. nd of Hi: yhood Read Original Poem and 23d Psalm. New ‘Haven, Conn., May .—The fu- neral services of Earl Kenyon, who had been a conductor on \the New York, New Haven and Hartfard rajl- road for forty years, were conducted today by Mrs. la Bond of this city. Mr. Kenyon was a Spiritualist and in his boyhood days entered into a paot with Mrs. Bond, whose views on Telig- jous matters agreed with his own, that the one who survived should conduct the funeral services of the other. This pact was fulfilied today when Mrs. Bond read an oration written by the deceased o poem written by herseit and a part of the 234 Psalm. The body will be cremated. were. ONLY AUTOMOBILES IN FUNERAL PROCESSION S . Remains of Mrs. Brown Borne in an Automobile Hearse. want to caution against the use | of largs amounts of berax. A minute | quantity of horax will serve the pur- | pose of softening water fjust as well | 7 #s large . amounts, whilo a lar amount will produce just the very ef- | fect you are tising fo met rid of BANK PRESIDENT | TAKEN TO SING SING. Cenvicted of Appropriating $4/400 of | Bank’s Funds te His Own Use. New York, May 2. . rim'lormn president of the Ham- bank, was taken from the Tombs to Sing prison teday to serve not le#s than two vears and iwo months and ot more than five . cars and two mosihs for larcen: He was eemvicted Jast Feoruary of | taking 34,400 of the i.m s funds’ jast Lefore the institution I and & #ropriating the mohay to his own use T Hl. EGGS SMASHED. Morace E. Hull Sues Connecticut Com- mht—nm May 2 Horace E. full | W farmer, has hrought suit | in the common pleas court | Connecticut company. T uf be action:is that on Oat. u o lis | “hip and gfi'l e hip a - Siong the New York, May, 3—Only automobiles —twelve limousine cars—followad the nummob:la hearse in which the bedy f Mrs. Margaret Daly Brown, daugh- ter of the late Marcus Daly, was borne to the srave today. As the long | procession filed its dusty way from | Mrs. Marcns Daly’s house in_Fifth avenus to Greenwood cemetery, Brook- Iyn, it drew comment on every side. Cosmopolitan Manhattan, used to all varieties of funeral ceremonial, remem- | bers no other with quite the. same touch of ultra-modernity. CONNECTICUT WOMEN CHOSEN AS OFFICERS Two Selected ‘at Meeting of National Congress of Mother: Washington, May 3.—Mrs. Frederick Schoff of Fhiladelphia today was unanimously re-clected president of the National Congress of Mothers, whieh adjourned tonight. Mrs. David O, Mears of Alpany, N. Y., was unaj vice presi- _{ tha revoiutionary movement Berm. Swi Theodere m"‘é:"& Swiss aeronaut, ‘who competed in’ laat year's interna- mfl ‘balloon race at St. Louis, died Y London, May of the London, in South usiegs opened today by Mrs. Rel American ambassador. oo Hong Kong, China, May 2.—Today's advices from Canton, the capital of Kwangtung province, and (n whigh city a indicate that foreigners have escaped harm. K The new _elubhouse street, was wite of the Havana, May 2—The cartmen, who struck yesterday In protest against the new traffic regulations, resumed work today following the transfer of a police captain_who had been -objectionable to the drivers because of his vigorous enforcement of the rules of the street. Munichafsen, Germany, May Lieutenant Roser of ‘the German army, who recently. obtained an avia- tion pilot's license, fell with his aero- ipiane from a haight of 150 feét today and was so injured that there is no hope of his recovery. His maching was smashed to pieces. Bogota. Colombia, May 2.—Gonzalez Blanco, a Spaniard and anti-clerical lecturer, was .attacked and riously injured Sunday by a crowd whom he had offended by his religious views. He sought refuge in the Spanish legation and the lagation was stoned by a mob. The police di dsmerhea the rioters. TO OIVE WOMEN_ RIGHT TO VOTE Committee on Constitutional Amend- ments Will Report Amendment. Hartford, May 2—Legislative com- mittees are beginning to clear up their bills in preparatién for the early ad- journment of the general assembly in case the public utilities and other more important bills are sent in for action during the next two weeks, as has been predicted by the leaders in both branches. The judiciary com- mittee will again consider a draft of a public utilities bill tomorrow. Municipal Suffrage for Women. The committee on constitutional amendments has prepared a proposed amendment to the constitution strik- ing out the word “male” from the con- stitution and has ready another bill to give women the right to vote in town. borough and city meetings pro- vided they are seized In personal es- tate to the amount of $600. A favora- Dble report is also likely on a bill to give women the right of municipal suffrage. Child Labor Law Proposed: The labor bills which are coming in are attracting much attention. The certificate plan, which has made trou- ‘ble for school officers when children of school age have wanted to go to work is believed to be solved in the bill from the education committee which pro- vides that mo child under fougteen years of age shall be employed inh any manufacturing, mechanical or mercan- tile esgablishment under- penalty of a fine not exceeding), $100. Must Be Able to Read and Write, It further - provides that no under -sixteen shall be employed less he can furnish a certificate show- ing that he is at least fourteen years old, “'Such child must be able to read with facility, write legibily and solve problems in’simple arithmetic. Cer- tificates are to be fssued by the see- retary of the board of education, his agent, a school princifal, or other per- son designated by the beard. One copy of the certificate goes to a par- guardian, cne io the employer, e to the board of education. “a Physical Examinati Children may be examined gs to their physical fitness at state expense. Another provision is that an employer must - notify the board when he em- 2 minor ahd when the minor " To License Boxing Exhil ns. The public health and safety com- mittee will report favorably a bill for public exhibitions of boxing and wrest- ling in which care is exercised 'to throw- safeguards, around the partici- pants and promoters in the interest of §o0d hoalth and protection of the ath- etes. Te Limit Legisl e Sessions. A ‘favorable report is expected on a constitutional amendment which would put a limitation -on-the.length of sessions,” making, adjournment on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in June. Such an amend- ment will have to go over untfl next session for approval before it is sub- mitted to the people. With this amend- ment it is expected that a bill of some sort will be reported having in view the cutting down of the velume of special legislation, Diseased Animals .Dumped Here. The committee which is looking in- to the governor's recommendations that certain departments be consoli- dated began its task, and found that there was opposition to the office of commissioner of domestic animals because General Averill is not a vet- erinary Surgeon. Dr. Atwood of New Haven claimed that many diseased enimals are dumped on the state from adjoining states, a matter which has been Inquired into for several sessions by committees having bills ‘béfore it relating to the inspection and disposition of diseased animals and on bills to abolish the tuberculin test on animals, OBITUARY. Jesse H. Robinson. 5 Washington, May Z.—Jesse H. Rob- inson, chief of the telegraph division of the United States weather bureau for the past forty yvears, is dead at Bia hotma'fiere, Sped €7 Sfare Mc | Robinson served the United B itiiaty tioErale cordy. ing the civil war. Rev, Daniel E. Putnam. Unionville, May 2.—The Rev. Dan- iel E, Putnam, rector of Christ church, died suddeniy at the rectory on Lovel street at .45 tliis morning. Lieutenant-Governor Hopewell. Tincoln, Neb.. May 2.—M. R. Hope- ‘well, lieutenant governor of Nebraska, died today of pneumonia. Increase of Odd Fellows. Providence, May 2.—AH membership Recording _secrefary, Bulton, New Havel Mrs. W. B. on, Connecticuf auditor, Mrs. William T. Thatcher, Florence, N. historian, Mrs. A. A Tuttle, New York clt,. PERSON'S NA.MI AND PHOTO PROTECTED s Ju’wfl. Court Forbids Their Use for | 3 Advertising Without Cansent. Was] court the con; statute for ton, Masy 2-The supreme :§¢ United States has upheld nality of the New % the of a y-hoto. 2 -nm for . trade w records for 'the past twenty years were broken by the Qdd Fellows of Rhode Island during 1910, according to the report of Grand Master Nathan M: Wright, at the €8th annual ses- sion of the grand lodge. The order | made u net galn of 154 members dur- ing fhe vear, increasing the total membership to §,155. The, financial condition also showed improvement over last vear. Frost Daniages Fruit Crop. Kansas City, Mo, May 2.—Frost in some sections of Missourd, northern Oklahoma and Arkansas last night, is believed' to have damaged frult cto & emall extent - Ju JKantax cistered below mqv ey W] May 2.—Colonel ety .of ‘American Women in | PRI ARATION. TO REBUILD THE MRS. DODGE DIDN‘T KNOW RE- 1 'BUSINESS DISTRIOT. 2 A Charitable” Organizations Are Doing a Noble Work—Report _ That Fire Qtlmd from a Cigarette. X Bangor, Me., May 2.—Preparations for_rebuilding Bangor's business dis- trict, which was swept by fire Sunday night, causing an estimated loss of $3,000,000, were fairly started today. Business Concerns Resume. \Nearly every business concern burn- ed Sut.plans to resume. Many of them were - establisiied today in stores or rooms " previously vacant on the west side of the Kenduskeag stream, where the_ fire damage was shght. ‘Little’ Sign of Discouragement. There is little evidence of discour- agement-among the business men not- withstanding the fire losses. Many property owners have already besun the work of clearing away the piles of brick to make ready for- new struc- tures in the places of.the old. * Homeless Families” Provided. For. Mayor Charles W. Mullin said today that various benevolent agencies have cared for the meeds of every homeless family requiring assistance. All have ‘been_providad with temporary homes and abundant food. The charitable or- ganizations sre rivaling each other fn indusiry with which needy cases &mng found and relieved. Many Calls for Beds and Linen. No ‘miore than 75 families have ac- knowledged that they wish help from the -city or charitable societies, and in most_cases the necessity is for beds and Mnen. Fire Started by Cigarette. That the conflagration was started by a cigarette. stump thrown into the hay~n a store room on Broad street by participants in a poker game Sunday afternoon was -a report circulated through the city today. The police of- ficials say. they have made no progress in their efforts to dstermine the origin of the fire. Changes Proposed in Street Lines. At a citizens! meeting in_city hall, the mavor. whs authorized to appoint two committees—one to assist those who desire to rebufld, in making finan- cial arrangements to that end. the other to study the problem of rebuild- ing the burned district upon an im- proved plan with desired changes in some of the street lines, Subscriptions Aggregate $22,000. It was announced' that subseriptions ta the relief fund aggregate ahout $22,000—practically all from present or former residents of Bangor. Electric lighting service was re- sured tonight and the east side is again supplied with gas. Street car service has ‘been partially restored, and some of the streets that were choked with debris Bave been opened to travel BALTIMORE ELECTS A ¥ . DEMOCRATIC MAYOR James H. Preston Defeats ex-Mayor Timanus by Narrow Margin. Baltimore, May 2.—After one of the most _closely contested elections on Tecord in Baltimore, James H. Pres- ton, democrat, has been chosen mayor of Baitimore for the next four vears over former Mayor E. C. Timanus, re- publican. It took over three-fourths of the city vote to indicate who has won and even on these figures it is now estimated Preston’s - majority will mot exceed 500, The democrats have carried a ma- jority of the members of the first and mecond ‘branches of the city council. No_doubt exists that all three of the praposed loans. have. carried and the coming. administration is assured of authority to expend $10,000,000 addi- tional on sewers, $5,000,000 on paving, and $2,500.000 on Paving in the annex. AMERICANS WARNED Advises Caution Furs in Canad: Washington, May 2.—Chief Wilkie, acting head of the speeial customs agents, warns all Americans who in- tend to buy furs in Canada this sum- mer t6 make sure that their purchases Will be delivered in & legitimate man- ner and not smuggled in. Many Am- ericans who bought furs in good faith last year in Toronto, Mfln!real and Quebe: expecting them to be deliv- ered du! free, have been obliged to pay heavy penalties. says all- Americans who make pur- chases abroad to be delivered duty pald should take recéipts showing that ag In Vielation of Constitution. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, May 2.—Section 3 ot the reapportionment bill, which passed the house of representatives last woek, provides: der this apportionment to.more than one representative, the representatives to the Sixty-third and egch subsequent- congress shall be elected by districts | | composed of a contiguous and compact | { territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhab- itents. The said districts shall be equal to the number-of representatives o which such states may be entitled | {in congress, no district electing more than one representative. Representative Houston, chairman of the comunittes un census, is of opinion that if tie becomes a law as it passed the houseuo state, unless it T ceives an increased representation - | der this bill, can send a “member at large” after this congress. | A member of the Connecticut dele- gation, although belicving that Con-| necticut should be redistricted and that the present legisiature should take the matier under consideration immediate- 1y, ‘takes issue with Chairman Hous- ton and says that this section is in conflict with the constitution, which leaves ,the' manner of electing ropre- tatives to the diseretion of I ites themselves. All members to wh[ch a state s entitled can be elec ed “at large,” dither by popular vote or by the 1-|unmre #s they. were pre- vions t 2 Bauncsd for Laying Off on May Day. fi bur nyz -Another -naval tually stopped worlk. ;na 1 out recéntly occurred o hipyard and now the wpr ve dismissed 2,000 BY. CHIEF WILKIE in the Purchase of | Chief Wilkie | “That each state entitled uml snm'umtf VOI.VER WAS LDADED. HMELESS PRDVIDED F(lR TESTIMNY ‘OF A NEIGHBOR Wost Feared She Would Be Blamed for Man’s Death Because ' Her Pistol Was Used—Murder Trial Opens.- 2 5 Giiildhall, Vt, May 5—That Mrs. Florence M. Dodge of Lunenburg, who is on trial here charged with the murc der of William Heath, declared repeat- 2dly on the day of the murder that Heath shot himself and that ,she “didn’t know it was loaded,” was the testimony given in_the county court today by the Rev. H. C. Howard and ‘Bis wife, who ere the first to arrive on the scene after the shooting. Were Talking About Burglars. Mrs, Dodge made the statement, ac- cording to the minister's testimony, that she and Heath, who was employed in painting a room in her house, had been talking about burglars and that Heath had remarked that since his wife had had a-diamond ring he had keDt. 4 revolver in the house. In reply Ars. Dodge told Heath, it was testified, that she also had a révolver.and Kept it in a drawer, which she pointed out. Mrs. Dodge Cried for Heip. Mr. Howard, who is pastor of the Congregational church, and who resid- ed next door to Mrs. Dodge, testified that he was lying down when he heard sounds which might have been shots and that shortly afterward he heard Mrs. Dodge calllng for help and ask- ing someons to go for a doctor. He went and “on his return entered the( room in the Dodge house where Heath lay on his back on the floor. Found Heath Lying on His Face. In a talk with Mrs. Dodge she told him, the minister said. that she had heard shots #nd that she ran into the room where Heath had been working and found kim lying on his face. She turned-him over, gave him some bran- dy and then tried to telepkone, but could not get a response to her .ail. “They’ll Blame Me for It.” “They’ll blame me for it, for it was my revolver,” Mrs. Dodge said, accord- ing to the minister’s testimony. Mrs. Howard testified to a conversation with Mrs. Dodge, who, she said, was excited and very mervous. Mrs. Dodge’s ‘Exclamations. fome of the exclamations attributed to Mrs. Dodge by Mrs. Howard were: “Heath has shot himself.” “I've tried to_telephone, but couldn’t get central.” “Something ‘terrible has happened.” “0, Jif- there had only been someone there.” “L gave him some brandy.” “They will blame me. bicause it was my plstol” “I -didn’t know it was ioaded.” -“Get womieone to help me.” These, . remarks, Mrs. Howard said, were made while her husband was calling a physician. Wished Somebody Had Been Pnunt. Tn response to questions, Mrs. How- ard said that Mrs. Dodge had repeated many times that she “wished someone had been there” 4nd that she “didn’t know it was loaded.” She was still on the stand when court adjourned for the day. Witnesses Heard Shots. Other ‘witnesses called during the afternoon were Abraham E. Quacken- Dgs and his wife of Wellesley, Mass. ey were visiting in Lunenburg and were sitting, they testified, on the steps of the Congregational church when they heard the shots, They Dplaced thé time about 11.40 2 Exhibits Introduced. Amohng the exhibits introducsd by the government today were plaster casts showing the marks of bullets in the floor of the room where Heath was found. m. CONGRESSMAN TILSON OPPOSES “FREE LIST” Says Farmers of This State Are Not Fooled by It. ‘Washington, May 2.—Protection and { free trade were the themes of today’s debate in the house over the democrat- ic bili to put agrieultural implements, certain food products and manufactur- ed articles on the free Hst. Mr. Til- son of Connecticut said his state, us- a manufacturing community, held large and important farming inter- csts, but that the farmers refused to be caught by the name, “farmers’ free list oill.” on the democratic. meas- ure. Messrs. S. W, Smith of Michigan and Burke of South Dakota, republ ans, opposed the measure because -its assault upon the doctrine of protec- tion. | Mr. Catlin of Missouri declared that it would give a firmer foothold in the United States to the growing Japanese trade. Messrs. Byrns and Sims of Tennes- see and Lever and Byrnes of South Carolina, all dembcrats, defended the Dilk CONDEMNS CHURCH FAIRS AND STRAWBERRY FESTIVALS [ ference of Church Clubs, Phitadelphia, May m in churches and the funds by bazaars, strawberry lawn_parties, was con- Major Moses Veale, in an s session of the —Commereial- sing of nec There Is not enough of the teach- ing that giving is & matter of wor-| husband fors$10 a aveek alimgn | ship and of rendering to God part of 'whae God has given us,” said Major officers were elected 3 President, { ¥ 1, Baltimore; 3 V. L. Marvin, {land; secona vic Collier, Philadelphi ident, Lawrence B. Bvans, 7 lege, e John J. ice pres- FOR PURCHASE OF) Fon‘n w:ys’Hmm'oN to. Buy ernmost Point Reached by eonfedaram. paltd 25 Horrisburg, Pa./May 2 ~The high- water mark of tife civil war, that is the farthest poift north Tesched by confederate soldiers. is declared to be a point in Cumperland county. within three miles of {Harrisburg, according 1o a bill presented In the senate to- day., The spof is called Fort Wash- ington becausp union soldier# in 1843 rushed over from Harrisburg and built entrenchments at the place and r pelled a threatened invasioy of the state capita ides. that the state bua - the | Bill ually referred to In tariff debates as| | Major Veals Addresses National Con- | 7| men who ave n‘lufllm -died h! I‘:mdg\" ;:?nusm. was launched on thé The An’lc -German Fnand-lnp soefx |, ety was launciied at the Mansion house in’ London. 3 S Chinese Revolu sts and Brigands | Iooted @ numiber of towns on the ver. 'A French Paper Claims that King Alfonso of Spain is seriously il with tuberculosis. nate Finance Committee gave consideration to the Canadian city bill. * The Final Hearing of the so-called Cunningham coal claim in Alaska wlll be held in W'\shnlgton Monda; Vice President Corral of Mexic Paris repudiated the _interv which he attacked the United States Fovernment. in Four Méasures drawn 1y Chairman Hay of the house military affairs com- miitee, making radical changes in the acmy, " were “‘apptoved by Eresident t [ James H. Robbins, a_sergeant in the ‘army, while temporarily insane, leap- ed from a train'at Evanston, Wyo., and was found dead four miles from " the tracks. George S. Dougherty, for many vears chief of the New ¥oric bureau of Pink- erton’s, succeeds William J. Flynn as second deputy commissioner of police for New York. A Petition to Have Adjudged Insane Stillson Hutchinson, founder of the St. Louis' Times,~Washington Post -and Washi1 gton Times vas. sranted to the second Mrs, Hutchinson. Robert B. Gordon of St. Mary’s, Ohio, who"was a. democratic member of the Fifty-sixth congress, was appointed superintendent of the document room of the house of representatives. The White House Has that Lawrence Maxwell, a Cincinnati attorney, has declined to serve as a member of the postal commission and that President Taft has permitted his withdrawal. Announced GLOVER WILL CASE IN HANDS OF JURY Sealed Verdict Will Be Returned Supreme Court Today. Cambridge, Mass., May 2—The, con- test of four of the five brothers of repce F. Glover, the murdered m laundryman, over the will the bulk of his property ow and the fifth brother, was . left for final decision in the hands of a jury of the supreme court tonight, Judge Hammond instructing that body to Treturn tomorrow in seal- ed form any verdict which may be regched. he final day of the trial was mark- ed by the appeararice of Mrs. Glover on the stand, with several of her friends, who testified to friendly re- latlons’ existing between the husband and wife, Mrs. ‘Glover especially de- nying the claims in the deposition of Hattie ‘LeBlanc, the.servant in her home, who was tried and acquitted of the murder of Mr. Glover, that there was never any show of affection be- tween Mrs. Glover and her husband. Jesse A. Gove, in.summing up for the contestants, asserted that Mr. and Mrs. Glover had lived -unhappily and that by holding threats over him, Mrs. Glover induced her husband to make the will in her favor. Fletcher . Ranney, will, denounced the four brothers, who, he said, had_ stirred up family trou-" bles and had attempted to besmirch the good name of Mrs. Glover, Judge Hammond, in instructing the jury, said it was agreed that th was’ executed according (o law that it would stand unless the jury found it was procured by fraud. If Mrs. Glover did not threaten her hus- band, Judge Hammond said there was no undue Influence. rguing for the “SHRIMP WIGGLE” GIRLS IN TROUBLE. One Expelled from School, Two Sus- pended and Three on Probation. North Adams, Mass., on _account of a “shrimp wiggle” one Tl has been expelled from the state normal school, two Others are under pension and three more ane on pro- fon. ‘Shrimp iggle” is a succulent dish. It tastes best when compounded in & chafing dish. When it is made at mid- night, in the secrecy of a dormitory room, and especially when all such midnight parties have heen forbidden, it is a feast for goddesses. The goddesses in this case were the girls, the “shrimp wigzlers.” They ved the order against chafing dish parties. Princinal Murdock a lcohol should e kept in the to prevent the to a “wiggle. was expells WOULD HIRE PUGMLISTS TO THRASH WIFE BEATERS. Chicago Judge Has New Idea for Puri- ishment of This Class. Chicag —*T would like 1o & the state of IHinois enpower the couris to pitch a-24-fool ring and then send o pugilist into it and beat. the faces off rucl to their awiv d . Pet had sued her pend- ing an action for divorce. ‘The young couple separated some {ime ago and the wif2 told ‘the court “that she was about to be ajected from her home fe- cause of arrears in rent and payment 0 babies, M said Judge A. Suzette Smith sding in ing Smith. ers" gaes 1o car The Conqueror, Great Briiain's 20th | ( BecommgU —Residents of Two Mencnn States are flfldi en—“Jack’” Mosby Badly woum{ea in Skirmish, Nogales, Arizona, May 2.—Whatever the prospécts of Mexican peace are at Juarez and:Chihuahua, there are no peaceful signs along the western coast of Mexico. News that dribbled into Nogales today from various parts of Sinaloa and Sonora tell of almost con- tinuous fighting in those states. Americans No Longer Safe. Americane in this city, famillar with the conditions across the bor- Even the lives of Americans, hitherto held sacted by federals and rebels, are the smallest scraps | tainable. - Two Americans. Killsd by o‘-fi 4 Douglas, Arlz. received here todaj ican and his 'l were killed by outlaws in n. of Sonora. ' here ing all their friends in tnterrupted to the southward and g concerning the real lll-fl!l are and Sinalo is said to be in a state bor- dering on_panic. | ported to be preparing for another at- -ymfim American: “.f der, regard the situation as grave. |out of that country. % Nok oslyzts e solitical meltace ihe | Another Attack on Agua Priets. < ‘Mexican states affect u! megican S i Ttaronts “are said to e i daNeer, | , The populace in southern Sonors The revels are re- no longer safe in the interfor of Mex- 5 ico, it is reported, tack on Asua. Prieta, b/ ™ “Jack” Mosby Badly Weunded. % Americans Warned to Move. Popal b e 2 Railroad officers who reached No-{ «jack” Moshy Hes mfl‘-" . 2~ gales from Mexico today brought warnings. from the rebels to remove all their families as quickly as pos- sible into’ the United States and to advise all their American friends to do likewise. To Attack All Border Towns. Coupled with these warnings was the threat of the insurrectos that the: intended, before the end of, the wdek, to launch attacks against all the M ican border towns. Many Mexical familles arc leaving Mexic: Reports of Encounters, Word cameé today from the Magdda- lena district, southeas of Nozales, of the wiping out of thirty federals un- der Luis Estrella, Dy near Ota Reports of heavy fighting near La Colorado, southeast of Hermosillo, Spnora, were brought across the bor- der toda Rebels Recapture La Colorado. ‘The rebels, it is said, have recap- tured La <olorado, which was the scene of bitter fighting several weeks ago. of A Grave Situation. The situation along the Southern Pacific lines which varallel the west- ern coast of Mexico for hundreds of miles is grave. Trains are running on these lines only as far south as Nav- ojea, 100 miles south of Guaymas. Very- Little Communication. Al railvoad connections south of Navojen are broken and there is no way of reaching the ports that line the coast. All wire communication is k2! s the camp of the rebels here, two members of his band are wounded and two Mexican 1 diers are dead as a result of am expected mceting of skirmish ten miles southwest of Te st night. Mosby, who was in 'his men, was shot from ambush. The two parties, com) 50 men, came on eich ot edly and began firing at_close The skirmish caused a change in plans of the rebels for an advance on Tijuana, Lower California. Peace Commissioner Arrives. El Paso, Francisco Carabajai, can peace commissioner, arrived to< night, and immediate} ference with Oscar Obregon and Rafael Hegnandez, who have been acting in the negotistions, Has Full and Necessary Pewers, At the end of the conference Senor Braniff anounced that Ju jal b rought “full an powers” for treating with the rebel commissioners, would occur on that score, Negotiations to Begin Te It wad said that the formal s would be taken up 't to_be Arected In = on tneuegfi?nm-tfiolh half-way een Juares surrecto camp. fell from his horse, but comntinued o direct his men. Fought at Close Range. about unexpect- Texas, - May 2—dudge the official Mex- went into con- aniff, MI Caraba - Decessary and that no Bitch P PREPARING TO HOUSE THE. STRIKE BREAKERS Pennsylvania Railroad Installing Bunks and Restaurant in Car Shop. Pittsburg, May 2.—Beyond prepara- tions by the Pennsylvanfa Railroad company to withstand a long strike siege by the, shopmen of the Pitts- burg division, the developments jn the confroversy today were of a minbr na- | ture. Meetings are being held at the various shop points alons the division, | but results are not made public by the strikers' commitiee. Good order continues to be reported. 5 The municipal committee of Pit- cairn, where the largest repair_rhops outside of Altoona are located, has selected @ force of, men from which the strikers have picked thirty men to_act as_special policemen. The railroad company today hegan the construction of bunks in the Pit- calrn shops, the comstruction and or- ganization of a commissary and res- taurant. The strikers toddy squelched a “suf- fragette movement” when they dis- couraged the women car cleaners from organizing und joining the LAWLESSNESS FEARED IN COLLINSVILLE STRIKE Mill Officials Call Upon Sheriff for Protection.. Collinsville, Conn., May 2—Aciive preparations are being made here to- night to cope with any trouble that may arise in the mornihg at the open- ing of the factories of the Collins company, where 150 ¢f the grinders are on 4 strike. Rumors of trouble which it is said will occur at the fac- tory in the morning, caused the offi- clals ‘to ask Sheriff Dewey of Hart- ford county for protection. in the morning at four o'cleck 12 deputy sheriffs and 15 members of the Hartford police force will leave that in automobiles for this place, planning to arrive shortly before the opening of the factories. If there was a demonstration planned it is hoped that, the presence of these officers will check it. Tho grinders. who ave out on a sirike, Nave osked for an increase in lleging that their work is p: ticularly hazardous, and that they a not able to earn over $1.50 in a ten- hour da: w: Paris, May ar 2 certained, the reports that King Al- fonso ‘of Spain has been ordered b: his doctors to a sanitarium at Leysin, Switzerlang, are prematvre: The ne“s-l paper I Titransigeant yesterday a serted that the King is eravely il of i& known at sit. whatever of the royai women gamble for ol Smith. ' The judge 'final couple into his_chambes patched np their quarrel. OYSTER SEASON WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL ONE —_— The Dutpuk Not More Than Half That of Last Year. orderzd the here they ? The oyster this town_and vieinity, the seat the oyster industry .in Riade Tslard, ceased operations to- with ollections, of a_ disap-| growers~ of pn nting season, but with antiefpations of a record buSMhess nest winter. While no dgfinite figurescare now ob- fainabla. It-de calimated that theraits e & Carnegie’s Swiss Hero Fund. Geneva, ‘Switzerland, May 2.—The announcement is made in the Geneva newspapers that Andrew Carnegie has presented $125,000 to the Swiss govern- ment to found a hero fund on the same basie as that wiich governs the fund in other countries, and that the offer bas been accepted. Several Swiss mountaln guides are likely to benefit By the fund at an early ‘date. * Mrs. Gates Granted Divorce. New York, May 2—2\rs Mary W. tes was granted an interlocutory res of divorce frem Charles W. | Gates, a wealthy broker and son of John W, Gates, (he well known finan~ cier, in the supreme court todav. Al tol- recently rendered a report resommending & divorce: New York, May era in English by Horatio Parker, pro« fespr in music at Yale,, and Bryam Hooker of Farmingten, Conm.. lol-'- | 1y’ of the Yale faculty, has, e the $10,000 prize in in oper: contest. The decision the jury, which was unanimous, announced here tonight, an to the terms of the contest' will be produced by the nrnm Opera comhany next season. The contest was inaugurated two and one-half years ago, and was open to all Americans submittng operas in - English. submitied. Messrs. Parker their foint endeavor us tious hame of “Mona,” | the title of the plece, ant sealed envelope was opened was flt idenaity known to the furors. sor Parker wrate the music amd M Heoker the libretto. The jurors were Walter and Aifred Hertz og New York George W. Chadwick and. tin Loeffler of Boston. . a_story of love and war in fhe days of Roman rule in Br ‘ain. tan Washington, May 2 kers are a_greater detriment to & man than a bald head is question. public_life debated the subject be- fore the National Press club here to- night. of Queensberry rules, bell rang the referee threw up his hands in_despair. Speaker Champ Clark of the house of representatives, emergencs any use in either whiskers or a bald head, and referred the whole matter to’'the ways and means cominittes the Mouse, which now has the and hair schedile under cansideration. The buldhcaded aide of the aestion i the hands of Si R T (or of Tennessese and Represents« tive Nicholas Longworth of Obio. The chip Frormer Senator T. H. Tay Montana and linois. worth entered the ring amid cheers and applause. sparkled beneath the radidnce of myr~ iad electric lights. | DISORDER SCONTINUE AT Ex-Mayor McClellan of New York an CONNECTICUT MEN IN $10,000 OPERA PRIZE. “Mona” Selected by Judges in Met~ - ropolitan Opera Centest. —"Mona,” an ops Hundreds were £ and He sent in ler the fleti- - and not Siena” taiia THE MERITS OF BALD HEADS AND WHISKERS Discussed by Eminent Statesmen-Be< fore National Press Club. —Whether whis- till & mooted Four of the ablest men in ‘The bout was under Marquis and when the called on in the declared he coyld not ses curtaing found their chnnfl: “Uncle Joe” Cannom of Mossre. Taylor and Long- = Their hajrless domes THE CAMORRISTS TRIAL. Interested Spectator. Viterbo, Italy, May 2—Two features made the Camorrists trial today of more than ordinary interest. were the prehence of Clellan, former mayor of in whose term_ of office Lieut. sino urrested Enrico Alfeno, leged head of the Camorra, Petroaino, iS helisved 1o have pensity of his 1if by Coread Sortine. y Corrada of being one of ’m& ael for