Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 4, 1911, Page 1

President Taft Defines ‘States ii Address at HAVE ALL THE TERRITORY WE NEED Nowhere in This Country is There a Desire For Ter- ritorial Aggrandizement—But We Have the Respon- sibility of Helping Those Nations Which Cannot Help Themselves—Pending Treaty Approved. < Baltim, May 3.—President Taft in his the :flflu of tha third national peace conference here today declared that the United States would k-, hands off and not seek to extend its or tq acquire foreign terri- tory. Inspired by Mexioan Situation. The president made mno mention wpecifically of Mexico, but to those ‘who heard him it wAs evident that tho troubled situation there and the sus- picion in tha South American republics @s to the !ntention of this nation in regard {o its sonthern neighbors has inspired him. Great Nations Should Exert Influence. The president had been speaking of the recurrence of internai disturbances in countries not o well able as the Tnited States to maintain order and and had said that it was incum- Bent “upon the sreat nations of -thia hemisphers to exercise their kindly influence @s much as Suspicious of Our Motives. “One ¢f the difficulties that the United States finds Ja the natural sus- picion that the countries engag>d have of the motives which the United States has in tendering its good offices,” con- tinued the dent. . No Desire for Territorial Aggrandize- ment. “Asssveration of good faith helps but little where the suspicion is real, and yet I Wke to avail myself of an op- portunity in such presence as this to that there is not in the whole and breadth of the United Btates among its people any desire for URER CAPERS OF A LIGHTNING BOLT. Cuts Mattress in Two Between Twe Men Who Were Lying on It. Orange, Mass, May 3.—During, o sharp electrical storm a boit of light- ug_cut up one of the most peculiar | ever known in this vicinity. A time after the storm broke a ®olt_entsred the two-tenement house mt the corner of Wheeler avenue and the maim road to Athol, owned by H. A. Powers of Bacon strest and occupled by two ltalian femilies, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Rowsi and Mr. and Mrs. Tony Wanki, with several men roonfers. The _boit entered the barn, which adjoins e house and following through a shed in the bottom tenement went through the floor of the mpper tene- ment, oceupled by Rossi. From there it went through a parti- tion into an adjoining bedreom. whera | Mrs. Rosei's brother and another roomer wars sleeping. It plerced the footboard and cut through the mat- | tress betwesn thw occupauts of the byd. throwing the bed clothes on to the nfor, but roely disturbme the | eapars. It then re-entered the kitéh- d from there went into the dining room, where it went out & window. | Nothing was burncd and the damage | was slight, whila the occupants of the Ped were scarcely jarred. CONGRESSMAN HILL NOT "AFTER THE GOVERNORSHIP. He o AIl Taik | Says is Discour: Washington = J. Hill of lindly to the suggestion that he be nominated for governor by the repub- v 19 Connecticut next year. > ® friénds agree that he would Be an ideal candidate. that he could unite the party, make a great cam- | a palgn, and do more than any other ing everything it can. There is water man, perhaps. to redaem the stats from |on hand for approximately 120 davs, democratic control, but Mr. Hill says [Last vear at this time we had 104.000.- nar. ¥ 000,000 gallons on hand; this year we t is very complimentary to be|have 52,000,000,000 galloks. spoken of for goveror.” said Mr. Hill wpon his return from Commecticut to- & “but I mm disco; ne the talk. ve no intention of making the race gubernatorial npmination. It is balleved that Mr. Hill plans td remain n the house for the present @nd 1o take another ebance at the Tnited States senate as successor to 2fr. Prandezee. MOTORMAN NOT BLAMED FOR DEATH OF GRIFFIN Coroner Finds That Victim Was Doz- ing on the Tracks, New Huvep, M. No_criminal re- |doubtful. When Cotter ‘reached the | spomsibility is fornd by Coromer Mix |10P of the Nill the horse began to| #n conmection with the fatal injury of | PACK. 4nd in his efforts to make it John Griffin of this eity by a trolle car at Branford, Saturday/ In hi fnding Corbner Mix states that he of the opinion that Grifin was dosing on the tracks and was not seen byl the motorfian of the car until too tate AT AR | ELECTION OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION Select a Lowell Doctor /" President Gene Lontsville. Ky, M Dr. Moges @reels Parker of lowell Muse. Was | elscied president gcneral of the Sons | . of the Amegican Revolution at the Sroa) comkress | hers todny D, Parkeg succeeds Willlam A. Marble of New York. - Died After Entering Institution. Waterbury, May . S.—~Frederick Lee, 29, who was before the city court morning charged With non-sup- fi._m who was sent to Brookside Jor thirty days, died shortly aft- er being received at the fhsiitution. y. after arriving at the institus o he was seized with o hemorrhase died within a few minutes Littlsfigld Out on FNémoart. R L thefletd, who i Reld for grial; ehapged wigh the murder of bis nfoth- ., Mry Afn EBlizabeth Littleficld, of Island, was releawed on bull Frahik Lit political power. our own in which we dre attempting to work out and show to the world suc- cess in popular government, and we need no more territory in which to show thjs. But we have attained great prosperity ‘and great power. #and persons with the president, president of the conterence, wHo spoke Dbefore the president, voiced the opin- jon that the negotiations of the pro- posed arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain would mark the greatest stsp toward unlver- =al seen. DISAGREEMENT OF JURY Justice Hammond Dismisses the Ju- greement was reported i court Xoday, been hearin, over the will murdered Waltham laundryman. P. Jurymen, by permission of the court, went to their hol‘::es. convened today, the foreman reper that ‘the jury was divided and conld not agree npon a verdict. court of Massachusetts, who has been presiding over the trial, made no com- ment a¥ he discharged the jury. ing the will was In court jury Giover, the widow of the laundryman, was aiso ament. rectly interested in the will. Scymour Glover, the brother to whom a large part of the estate ‘Wwas the only one present. of the supreme ‘court in Middlesex county until October. Only-Heavy Rains ' Can can prevent New York city from facing coming summer. er Thompson of water supply. don't know whi the people themselvés can save the water; the department is already do- and summer, and the winter and spri ! 3 e ng ;Teln! have not been sufficient to re- William Cotter of Scetland May Di Cotter of this place was kicked in the head by a horée he was driving up Hoéy Hill Jate today and raceived a probable fracture of the skull, from the effects of which his recovery is continue he leaned over the dashboard and hit the animal with a whip. horse kicked. striking Cotter on the head, “rendering him unconscious, and then ran dashboard, animal was stopped by a passing farm- grpihree-quartesr of /4 mile from the where the physician satd his conditlon was critical. MASSACHUSETT Defeated in the Senate Yesterday by a Magsachusetts state senate today re- fused to ratify the ‘proposed amend- ment to the federal constitution pro- viding_for an_income tax. was 11 to 10, with nine pairs. The measure recently passed the house by an overwhelming vote The vote on the measare was almost strictly on party lines, one republican voting with the democrats in favor of the measure, while all the votes cast against it were republican. ot gzwv!tom ehge ;’E New. !btg" “Attitide: of U territorial aggrandizement and that its people as a whole will not permit its|oiselle Thirion, an attractive Parisian government, if it would, to take any|resident here.’ was steps in respect to - foreign . peoples | charged with being a spy and obtain- looking to a forcible extension of our |ing the sacret mobflization plans of - the German army from an arms of- cer. defense that she had asked for the plans in order to test the honor of the officer, who was a suitor for her hand. NO FREE RAW woOL We Would Have No Wars. “We have a magnificent domain of We Have Become‘a Powgr. “We have become a powerful mem- ber of the community %f nations in | which we live ana therefore thrust up- on us necessarily\a care and responsi- bility for the peace of the world in our Prominent Men on Platform. The president spoke to several thou- in the Lyric theate: Cardinal Gibbons and Hamilton Holt. peace that the world had ever IN GLOVER WILL CASE rors Without Comment. M Cambridge, Mass. 3—A disa- the supreme by the jury that has evidence ‘in “the contest £ Clarence F. Glover, the The case went to the jury st 2.52 m. yesterday and at midnight the Fo When court Juitice Hammond of the supreme None of the four brothers coritest- hen the reported, IAllian M. and Mrs. Of the. persons di- was bequeathed, There will not,be another session EW YORK THREATENED WITH WATER FAMINE. Prevent a Shortage of Supply. New York, May 3.—Only heavy rains water famine befora the end of the So said Commission- the “department - of, “Frankly,” said|the commissioner, “I we shall do.. Only There was a heavy drought last fall . the depletad reservoirs. KICKED BY HIS HORSE. from Fractured Skull. (Speeial to The Bulletin.) Scotland, Conn., May 3.—William The ith Cotter hanging over the where he was when the Cotter was taken to his home, 8 REJECTS INCOME TAX AMENDMENT. Vote of 11 to 10. Boston, May 3. By a close vote the The vote Steamship Arrivals. Plymeuth:- Max 3, Oceanic. from orkk. Piraeus: April 25, Themistocles; New York. April 29, Bugenia, Naples: April 29, San Giovanni, New York, Liverpool: May 3, Campania, | Mav 3, Oceanie, ceivad today by Shanghai scribes the_situation at Canten, China, as quieting” down following the rebel- lious outbreak. Rajiway traffic tween Canton and Hong Kons has been resumed. Democrats’ Plan Sai schedule. cratic majority in, the house and the democratic membership of the commit- tee are divided, but the committee di- vision is ' not so wide as.in ‘the past few weeks. Philadelphi for lin owi nited|* T S fatigue of traveling. - ue to the Leipsic, Saxony, Mayy3.—At an au- tograph sale today a lefter written by Martin, Luther to Emperor «Charies V was pought by a $25.00. been made for J. P. t _Florence dealer for The purchase is"said to have Morgan. - ‘Willemstad, Curacao, May 3,—Georgée Boulard, who says that he'is a natfve of Boston, is-fmprisoned at Maracaibo pending inquiry into the death of two companions, George American, dian. Bradford, an ,.apd ‘Armand Arens, a Cana- ! R London, May 3.—A cablegram re- the Hong Kong and Bagking corporation_ de- be- Cofogno, Germany, May 3.—Madem: arrested today, The prisoner offers the romantic AT THIS SESSION. to Previde for a Gradual Reduction. May~ 3.—The ‘Washington, house committee on ways and means will be- £in next week to grind out the tarift neighborhood and & burden of ‘helping | Pill providing. for revision of the wool those nations that cannot help them- selves, i we may do that peacefully and effectually.” < Upon this both ths demo- It is the policy of Speak- er Clark, Majority Leader Underwood| Dr Cardinal Gibbons, Secretary of War |and othér democratic leaders not tol evidence that Heath had been drink- Dickinson, Senator Gare of Oklahoma, | submit to-this congress e bill placing Andrew Carnegie and more than a!raw wool on the free list. dozen men prominent in the movement Many dem ocrats want raw wool on the free list. for world peace sat on the platform | Others believe that the schedule should 1 not be 0 radically révise Aporoved Pending Arbitration Treatyd That a majority of the the ways and means comi efl free raw wool until § there is no doubt, but a m; democrats could not Swing even in committe jority of democrats in the house ef- fect the passage of such a bfil. FAILED AT MURDER, it this time. crats_on fee favor- few days ago ority of ch a bill nor could a ma- SUCCESSFUL AT SUICIDE. Woman Attempted te Kill Petty Naval Officer. Philadelphia, May 3—Mrs. Adella ichter, aged 38 yéars, committed sui- cide in the rear of her home on South Clarion street tonight, after attempt- ing to kill Williar J. Blust, aged 33 years, a petty officer on the United States baitiéship Indiana. She fired thiree shots at Biust when he returned to her home for some clothing which he had left ihere pre- v LATT The bullets the house, He was stopped by a policeman and was_being led towards Mrs. Ritcher when she drew a revolver from the folds of her dress amd put a bullet through her heart. éi_some weeks ug0. zed Blust,who ran from followed by Mra. Ritcher. to a g DYNAMITE FOUND IN STONE CRUSHER AT NEW HAVEN Ite Discovery Saves Lives of Those Employed' on Maghine. New Haven, May 3.—Enough dy- namite to blow Fast\Rock to pleces was found in a’ stone crusher at the rock today by the local police. ~The dynamite was stolen from a teol house on the rock a few days ago and today 21 sticks of the explosive weére found concealed in the grinders of the crush- ing machine. The crusher would have been started in a day-or two and If the dynamite hag not been discovered there would probably have been an explosion that would have brought death to ‘those employed ‘on. the ma- chine, DEBATE ON “FARMERS’ FREE LIST BILL" Spaeches Favoring It Made by Demo- cratic Congressmen. Washington, May 3.—Speeches in suppdrt of the democratic free list bill were made in the house today by Rep- resentatives Hardwick of Georgla, Helm of Kentucky, Curley of Massa~ chusetts, Graham of Illinois, and Ru- bey of Missouri, all democrats. Mr. Weeks of Massachusetts was_the only member who spoke against the meas- ure, declarjng there was no monopoly, trgst or combination in the shoe in- dustry. Waterbury. May 3. STATE RED \MEN Twenty-fifth Great Sun Council Held at’ Waterbury. of the Improved Order of Red Men opened in Waterbury Wednesday orning, Great Sachem Howard J. opkins of New Haven presiding. The morning session was taken up with the reading of reports, which showed a gain Of 261 new members. During the year, forty-five members died. One new tribe, Arrow Head, No. b6, of Hartford, year. There are thirty-eight tribes in the state, with a total of 5800 mem- bers, and the order has $54,000 In its treasury. ‘The year amounted to $44,546.70, and_dur- ing the year $12,102.28 was for the relief of members. neral benefits during the year amount- ed to $2,994, while the sum of $350. was expended for the relief of widow and orphans. Great Sachem Hopkins recommended in his report that more effort be made in ' establishing - new tribes in the state. Adjougnment was taken at ome o'clock for loncheon, The following great chiefs were elected: - Great Drophet, Howard J. Hopkins, New Britain; great sachem, Hon. Edward T. Buckingham, Bridge- port; great senior sagamore, John Oetsel, Danbury; great junior saga- more, Franklin® A. Wells, Waterbury great chief of records, William Saun- ders, Naugatuck; great keeper of wampum, O. 8. Culver, New Haven; great_sannap, Jeremiah W, Hackett, New Haven: great machineiva, Georgé A. Fairchild, inner guard, S‘ W. Starr, M outer guard, J. Merr! great répresentatives, Willlam Saunders, Naugatuck, and Ed- ward J. Hopkins, New Britain. The fu- Axe Factory Burned at Westen. Weston, Conn., May 3~The G. W, Bradiey Sons’ axe factory wak burned here. today, and in addition two barns and one horse. The fire is thought to have started from a stove in the grind- ing department. The total loss is esti- mated at about $30,000, with partial in- The twenty-fifth great sun council | was organized- during the | —_— . i WITNESS <IN BODAE MURDER TRIAL SO TESTIFIES.- *IMPOSSIBLE”: SAY DOCTORS, Dead Man's_Hand Outstretched Te ward Revolver—Mrs. Dodge Kept & " Pistol Under, Her Piliow. Guildhall, Vt, May 3.—An intima- tlon of the line of defense which may be followed by attorneys for Mrs. Florence M. Dodge of Lunenburg, who is charged with the murder of Will- iam Heath, was brought out today imy| the ‘trial when, n’ cross-examining a witness, the attorneys secured the ad- mission that from the position of the body and other circumstances, he had formed the opinion that Heath shot himself, either -accidentally or Wwith suicidal intent. Hand Stretched Toward Revolver. The witness was Guy Garvin, who was one of the first persons to view Heath’s body after the tragedy. At that time, he testified that the dead man's hand was outstretched toward the revolver which it is alleged. caused death, Y Could Not Have Shet Himself: Dr. B. H. Stone of Montpelier was a principal witness today, pointing out to the fury the coyrse of the fatal bullet by running a penstock through the heart, which had been removed at the autopsy, and glving it as his opin- ion that the _ bullet could - not have | beén fired by Heath himself. Heath Had Not Been Drinking. Stone stated that he found no ing, The direction of the bullet and the position of the body on the floor led him to the opinion that Heath was painting the baseboard of the room. and that the shot was fired from the doorway leading to the. front room. Mrs. B r's Memory Poor. Mrs, Allen S, Bowker was one of those who rushed to the Dodge house- after the murder and who saw Mrs Dodge. - She could recall nothing that Mrs. Dodge sald at the time, although the state’s attorney questioned her closely and asked her several times it she had not stated something of. the kind at a previous hearing. But Mrs. Bowker's memory was poor, although she qid recall that Mr. Gardner was among those present. The Cross ex- aminatlon also failed to refresh Mrs. Bowker's memory. Selectman Took the Revolve One of the first public officials to reach the Dgdge house was Selectman | Harley W. Powers, who stated today that he found everything in the Toom as’ other witnesses had testified. He received the.revolyer shortly after his arrival and examined the cartridge. shells; thiree of which were loaded and two where empty. The-loaded Shells'! were encrusted with green and white substance, while the bottom of the empty shells ‘wers moist. He turned the_revolver cver to the state's attor- ney the next day. . He was questioned closely as to any paint brush near the ‘body, but could remember none, nei- ther did he notice whether the door to the back sitting room was closed. No Powder Marks on Clothing. Dr. Charles ¥: Dalton of Burlin ton, who assisted at the autopsy, cor- roborated the testimony of Dr. Stone. On cross examination Dr. Dalton stat- ed that he could not remember See- ing anything on the clothing worn by Heatlt that looked Ifke powder marks. Mrs, Dedge Kept Revolver Under Pil- low. Three years before Heath was shot, Mrs. Dodge said she kept a Tevolver under her pillow every night for the sake of protection, according to the testimony offered by Mrs. Clara Nich- ols of Lunenburg. Mrs. Nichols said ment to her and had aiso said that ‘annther reason why, she kept the weap- on was beecause it was the property of her dead husband. Lunenbirg Judge Testifies. Judge Kyle T. Brown of Lunenburs, who_was on the stand when adjourn- ment was- taken tonight, testified that on the day of the: alleged murder he ! heard Mrs. Dodge say she was afraid | she would have to go to court, anfi perhaps to' fail. BALDWIN HOPES TO DRIFT OVER THE NORTH POLE. Announces He Will Lead Another Arctic Expedition in 1913. Baltimore, May 3.—Captain Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, the Arctic explorer, who is a delegate to the peace con- gross here from-the Peace league of New York, said today that Jie would | lead another Aretic expeditioh in 1913, | and hoped to effect the first crossing | of the last remalning ocean to be thor oughly examined. He plans to enter the pack ice north ‘west of Point Barrow, Alaska, make | his shp fast to a large ice floe and! drift near to if not over, the north{ pole and into the north Atlantic ocean | | betwen Spitzbergen and the east| | coast of Greenland. He expects to| | emerse from the ice in 1917. | | / Reciprocity Hearings. “(Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washin, i, May 3.—Hearings be- receipts during they | fore the senate committee on finance | on the Canadian reeiprocity agreement began this mMorning at ten o'clock. ! The first to appear in opposition to the paid out| by were the leather Interests of Chi- | Diegle was farn: | cago, A delegation consisting’of three | { hundred farmers from the northwest | | section of the countrs will follow the | | leather m Senator Lodge of Mas- |'sachusetts has .filed with the coram | tee the protests of the fishermen, appeared before the . committe /gession, and has asked that the testi- | mony given at the previous hearinzs | be made a_part of the records of this ! hearing, which will make it unneces- | sary for them to appear again. i . No bard and fast programme has | been laid down by the committee, but every person who has anything to say for or egainst the proposition will be given an opportunity to appear. before the committee, ol at | Many Immigrants to Northwest. St. John, N. B, May 3.—Nearly 41.000 immigrants entered . Canada through | the port of St. John in the scason which has just.¢losed. s This is an in- creafe of about 10,000 over last year. Most of the inumigrants wers headed for the Canadiah northwest 1o take up farming. O L ve Farmers. Washington, May 3.—The farmers who are coming to town to give the sepate committee. their’ views on reci- procity will be received by President Taft on the m,o( May 11, -way into the city of Juarez, Francisco I\ = ! that Mrs_ Dodge had made that state- | g',;u';,;i“’;*m A no. dependent children.: ;h&; Senate. Comm l’«;‘vmry' il [ -wi the, and short haul clauses. MADERO AND CARABAJAL ‘HAVE | T g ~ s Postmaster Hitchcock has - 'PRELIMINARY MEETING, - R it g FIRST CONFERENCE TODAY _ General- decided to designate from 0 to 100.ad ditional' g savings banks me Receivers of the State Mutual Build- ing and Loan association of Trenton, %fl.’., have sued the-officials for $450,- Nobody Allswed Within 100 Yards of " the Enyoys—Madero Not to Partici pate in the Gonferences. ¥ ‘A New' Trial Was Ordered in New York in the case of the United Wire- less officials,. charged with misuse of the malls. <« <+ L_: y: S Postmaster General Hitohcock had a conference with the council of admin- istration of th®National Association of Letter Carriers. El Paso, Texas, May 3.—Shadded from the sun’s heat by a eottonwood gTove at the foot of the barren hill over which the insurrecto army not long ago had threatened to make its The Bank of Rosemont, Neb., was entered by robbers and the Safe was blown. - The robbers escaped with $1,500 in cash: . ; Robert” Graham- Woodward of New York qas convicled of embes- zling $5,500 while manager of a New York medicine company. X 7 Mrs. Annie E. George and her Arranged Preliminary Details. ' | gaughter Moy, aged 20, were arresicd ~ As Judge Carabajal's credentials | at Kittaning, Pa., in connection with had instructed him to deal with Fran- | the death of a one-day-old baby, cisco L. Madero, Jr., as leader:of the | 3 revolution, the two men mel dn neu- tralaground and talked alone for near- | Iy an hour. They ‘arranged the pre- liminary details of the first confer- ence, which will begin at nine o'clock tomorrow. \ Federals Came Auto. Judge Carabajal and General Xa- varro, the federai commander of Jua- rez, Mexico, accompanied by Senors Braniff and Obregon, go-betweens in the negotiations, proceeded by automo- bile to the meeting place, where Judge Carabajal and Senor Obregon alone ! alighted. o Madero Escorted by Cavalry: Senor Braniff continued over the loose sands beside the muddy ~Rio Grande to the Madero cam$. A few minutes later Madero entered the au- tomobile, wearing a felt hat_around which was, a guady colored bdnd, the revolutionist insignia. He was foj- lowed by a troop of cavalry, wio e corted him to the meeting ground. Gen. Pascual Orozco and Col, Fran- cisco Villa rode beside him. Conferred in Auto. On ‘the meeting ground the entire escort dismounted: They fondled their rifles at a respectful /distance, while Judge Carabajal and General Madero sat in the automobile alone, arranging details of the conferences that are to follow. Two's Compary, Msre's a Crowd. It was arranged that the scene of the peace negotlations immediately should become sacred to the envoys, no_one else being allowed hereafter to come within a radius of one hundred yards of the spot. Kven Senors Bra- niff and Obregon,” who are unofficial adyisers to_Judge Carabajal; each day will await Judge Carabajal outside the reserved space. General Madero will mot Partisipeate in the conferences, be- ing represented Drf. Vasquez Gomez, Francisco Madero, Sr., and Senor Pino Suarez. < Meeting Lasted an' Hour. At the conclusion of today's meeting, which lasted one hour, General Madero declared that he Lad examined Judge Carabajal's credentials and found them satisfactory ia every respect. He also sald he had exchanged “general | impressions” with Judge Carabajal as to the procedure to be followed by the peace commissioners. Extension of Armistic The three days' prolongation of the armistice went inte effect at noon to- day. It ineludes Ojinaga. Rebels Get Machine Guns Across Line Douglas, Ariz., May 3—Reports wero recelved from the Mexican side of ‘th line that the rebel leaders of Sonora succeeded in’ getting two machine gun, a breech loading three-inch field piece, and a quantity of ammu- the international botnd- Tt is- an- nounced that the rebels intend to use the suns in the next attack on Agua Prieta. Yagqui, Indians Butt In. Nogales, Ariz., May 3.—It is report ed that 200 Yaqui Indians under Chief | | Mori_have sent a messenger to Gen- eral Madero, offering to take and hold | Ji ey, for the rebels any cities in Sonora, if | giruation of supply and. the forcing Madero-will promise to restore to-the | of an avnoal th the conntry on the recs. Yequis at the close of the revolution | fp oo PREC, I (O8 Fonn T OF LG FECS the lands and chattels they clim have | during the premier's absence, if it I Madero, Jr., thé revolutionist lead er, clasped hands today With Jud Trancisco Carabajal, official pedce e voy of the Mexican government, thus fraugurating formal -~ peace negotia- tions between the warfing factions of | the republic. Petition in Bankruptcy, alleging lla- |- bilities of $300,000 and assets of $150,- 000 was filed in New York against White, Van Glahn & Co, hardware dealers. Clause 2, the Most Important sec- tion of the government's measure for curtailment of the powers of the hopse of lords carrled in the British house af commons 299 to 195 Surrogate Fowler in New York granted letters of administration on the estate”of Tom L. Johnson, former mayor of Cleveland, to his widow, Margaret J. Johnson, and Charles M. Bates, his former secretary. The Charred Remains of the six Utica young women who were cre- mated in the train wreck at Martins Creek, N. J., arrived in Utica, As the remains’cannot be identified the bones will be inferred in' oné casket and there will be a public funeral. SEVERAL BIG CORPORATIONS TO BE INVESTIGATED. Purpose to Determine if They Are Vi olating Anti-Trust Laws. Washington, ‘May 3.—The investi- gating trend of congress took @ wide rapige today, for inquiries into the af- fairs of the United States Steel corpo- ration, the American Sugar Refining company and- the American Woolen company _were placed on the pro- gramme of the democratic house: the big shoe ingustry interests were under re, @nd a senate committee on ex- penses opened the way for o decigion as to a reinvestigation of the charges against Senator Lorimer of Iilinols. | Resolutions directing that special | committees probe the records to. re- termine whether any of the first three operating in' violation of the anti-trust, named big corporations. involved ara | interstate commerce or national bank- ing laws, have been started on the les islative ways, The stéel trust resolu- tiok, the creatfon of, Representative. Stanley of Kentucky, wis approved to- day by the house commitfee on Tules 4nd will be reported to the house to- morrow. PREMIER LAURIER WILL ATTEND COQRONATION. 'on't Assuired that Reciprosity Issue Be Forced in His Absence. , Ont. —As’ the result v between Sir Wil- urier and B. L. Borden, the op- position leader, an understanding was reached which makes it practically certain that the prime minister, with Sir Frederick Borden and Hon. L. P. Brodeur, will leave on the Virginfan, sailing from Quebeo May 13 to attend the imperial conference «.and the cor- onation. |~ Assurance was given the oppos ’llon leader that there wolild be no ol truction of supply in the commons to administration for at r four months during the absence, and that the polit- s threatened through the ob- May been unjustly taken from them. comes at all. FIVE OHIO STATESMEN CIGARETTE STUB STARTS INDICTED FOR BRIBERY. ANOTHER DANGEROUS FIRE Three Senators and Two Representa- e tives Charged With Corruption. Columbus, O., May 3—Three state senators and two representatives were inciuded in bribery indictments return- ed this evening by the Franklin county grand jury which has been engaged in investigating corruption #n the as- sembl i Prompt Work by Employes Prevented a Serious Disaster. | | New York. May 3.—One hundred and fifty women and girls’ on the 1ith floor of a loft building,_a block from the scene of the disastrous Washing- ton plice fire of March 25, sprang from their seats when s burst of flame illed the room this afternoon, ‘organ- ized a bucket brizade and fought the blaze to_such good purpose that ‘it was_entirely extinguished when the firemen arrived. The blaze originated. it‘is believed, from the stub of a cigareite and was fed upon tissue paper used in making artificial flowers, The girls were em- ployed by L, Henry.& Co. and had sen drilled for weeks to meet just such an emergency senators are Isaac E. Huffman, L. R. Andrews and George K. Cetone. The representatives are Dr. Georse B Nye and A. C. Lowry. One indictment was returned against each save in the case of Nye, chargipg the solicitation of bribes. Four indictments were re- turned against Nye. | In addition Rodney J. Diegle, se goant at arms in the senate, an alleged go-between in negotiations with sena. Tors, was indicted with the senators for aidipg and abetting in the bribe | solicitation. Diegle was indicted threc times, as De is included In each of the against senators. 1 for $5,000 for the three senators and Lowry and of $10,000 for Nye and ed. HEAD-ON COLLISION ON NEW HAVEN ROAD. Two Passenger Trains Come Together in Front of Scituate Station. Bi —Several - injured and two s a head-on | between passenger trains on, iymouth_ division of the 0 and Hart FOR ALLEGED ASSAULT OF A CHORUS G!RL.l - Manaager Schubert Held in $500 by | i New York Gourt, New York ‘bert, the th aced unde charge of # grand riece of President Taylor, who is known on the staze Peggy Forbes. Miss Barnett declared | in police court that three ieeks ago the.manager struck her during an ar gument over her dismissal from emi- ployment as a chorus girl from one of ‘his theaters. was due to a misplaced switeh. A train from Boston for Plymouth was | standing on a siding when a train from | n crashed into it sengers on both trains re bad] n up and several wébe cut and bruisd, but no one was seriously hurt. Nash Dies in Elfectric Chair. Auburn, N. Y., 2, —Joseph | Nesce, alias Joseph _Nash, died in | ectric chair this"morning' for the | murder of b monte. , The Proposes a Big Hall for Louisville, @ Armes, . S, tional congre: Antericap Revoiution olntion providing for the erec mi me: 1910, One. use death. pntact | J. Tockett, pastor for the past eleven| of His Three 3 Boston, May 3.—Thomas .Haggerty of Roxbury, meeting an acuaintance on the stréet tonight, told him he turn- ed on the gas in the room occupied by his three daughters, aged.10, 7 and 4 years, last night, and that they were dead. . > Hagerty Under Arrest, The police investigated, found the story” true and placed Hagerty under arrest. Three Children Cuddied Togsther. It was a pitiful sight which the po- 1tce officers came upon when they en< tered the Hagerty home. On one bed in a room filled with fatal gas, lay the three children, cuddled together as in sleep. Overwhelming Odor of Gas. In fact, the officers say, that except for *the_almost overwhelming odor of gas in the room, there was nothing to indicate the traged Mother. Died Recently. The three little girls, whese mother died only a short time ago, were Mar- garet, aged 10 years, Marie, 7, and Anna, 4. EXPECT THE TRAINMEN TO JOIN THEIR STRIKE. Shopmen of Pennsylvania ~Railroad Acting in an Orderly Manner. 3 ing shopmen of the Pennsylvanin railroad along the Piitsourg division are confidently as- serting tonight that they soon will b joined by engifiemen, trainmen anc | conductors. The leaders of the engineers conclud- ed today a two days' conference on the strike situation Piteairn, but re- fused to make any statemeni. A Spe- clal meeting of the engineers has been called for Saturday morning. The headquarters of all ihe union leaders were shifted from this city tof the strike zone at Pitcairn today. hortly after this was announced thy hipping flerks in the transfer depari ment, 35 in numbver, joined the ranks of the strikers. These with the 200 men of the transfer department that went out Tuesday practically tles up the shipping and transfer of freight at that point. No disorder was seported today. At Youhgwood a lot of negroes were frightened away today by some jokers among the strikers. A'large box was rigged up to résemble a chnnon over- looking the vards from a hill and then small: charges of dynamite were set off in front of it. The frightened negroes fled in terror, exclaiming the yard was being shelled. When the foremen tried to assure them they were in no dan- ger they deciared they could hear the bullets whiz past their ears and they never came back. THE M'NAMARAS MAY NOT BE ARRAIGNED May Be Given Preliminary Hearing Before Justice of Peace. Los Angeles, Cal, May 3.—William 3. Ford, assistant district attorney, who will aid in the prosecution of John J. and James B. McNamara, accused of dynamiting The Times bullding, ar- rived here today from Indianapolis, bringing, it is supposed, most of the evidence concerning the alleged con- spiracy charged against the labor leader and his brother The district attorney, it is believed, is considering dispensing with ar- raignment of the prisoners, A preliminary hearing before a jus- tice of the peace is the alternative course, and the advantage of this lies in the fact that the prosecyfion could withhold from the defense tHe evidence upon_which -the indictments were baséd. NEW HAVEN BREWERS ADVANCED $1 PER WEEK Will Also Have Eight-Hour Day Five Months of Year. New Haven, May 3.—The trouble be- tween the local brewers and their em- Hloyes was settled today when the de- mands of the men were granted. Ac- cording to today’s agreement the men will recelve an advance of $1 a week in their wages and will have an elgh- hour day five months in the year and a nine-hour day the remAining seven: months Today’s settlement averts a strike by the men. lliness Stops Camorrists’ Trial.. - Viterbo, Italy, May 5—The after- noon sitting of the court in the Ca- morrists’ trial was cut s?\'xm through the llness of one of the jurors. Cer- rato, who confronted Abbatemdggio at the morning session, also was sent on account of illness, the excity ment earlier in the day proving too much for him. He was said to_be suffering from a violent fever. The court adjourned fintil tomorro Andover Pastor Resigns. Andover, (Conn, May 3.—The, an- nouncement of the resignation of’ Rev. A. J. McCloua as pastor of the Con- gregational church here was made to- day. He will he succeeded by Bev. J. Years af the Welcome Primitive Meth- odist church, Brooklyn, N. Y. = Mr. McCloud will make hishome in New York. ~ Effort to Raise $30,000 to Wipe Out Debt at Suffield. The truftees of the Connecticut Literary institution .at Suffield are making a strenuous effort to - raise 350,000, before January 1, 1912, in or- der to wipe out ‘the mortgage and floating indebtedness . of the instit: tion P Had a Scheme. . People who supposed a few weeks 4o that Gesrge Gould had been shely ‘Washington- of a sreat meimorigl ‘hall | in which historical relics may be pre- served. Definite action of ~ Colonel Armes’ plan wiil be taken before the It every bachelor should contributé | today, returned 1o Washington with $50 to @ commnon fund there would be| Mr. Carnegie and was said to have £ entirely recovered. - % Mrs. Carnegie Had' Nosebleed. ‘Washington. "My * 5. —Mrs * Andrew Qarnegie, who suffered a severe at- tack of bleeding-from the nose while at, the peace conference in Baltimore congzess clo: it is said. ed are busy wondering what object he had fa fooling. them so.~Chicago Re ord-Herald On the S| It looks as if the “corking ' Roxbury Man Little RECENTLY LOST HIS WIFE Little One: Found by Police Cuddled Toged Bed—Slayer Told Friends of His Crime and. Intended to End His Life in Same Wi . Employed as a Butler Until Employer Died. SCh tonight, and m tered into a them. Soon, according to He made the statement that children weré dead at’home. :! had killed them by last night and that he inten away with himseif in the same ner. Y conversation while one of was placed under arrest. %o 2 i - and Said ¥ Hagerty Tells of His Their father walked 2T . Friends Notify Policsl - Hagerty was' further eng ent communicated with o Following their visit to his Mind Unbalanced by Grief. It is believed that {he of his wife had unbalanced mind. His home Is on Cal in the Roxbury district. Been Employed as Butler, 37 years old and m been Bay idence up to a few weeks ago, his employer died. ALLEGED MURDERER PROTECTED BY GU. Feeling in Community Very Stremg B Against John Poole. Fowler, Ind, decinred ‘she bel?a\:. a Poole, innocent of the charge against him of murdering Joseph luzr. Grace Poole, a witness at the ner's inquest in the case late today, said she had seen and re: on bloodstaing on the walls of the kitekess of the Poole hgime in thig county, 35y Sriar the, Misappearasics of HKem- per in December, 1909. She came t6- day from Chicago, where she had been a student in a seminaryl, and was at once placed under bond of 31,000 am a witness for the state in the prose- cution of her father, 3 Poole was heavily guarded in.the jail, tonight use of the expressiom of public feeling against him. He_ maintained his innocence of the inten-" tlonal murder of Kemper. saying he sbot him accidentally while hfl and cut up his body in & barn a afterward and buried it, because he feared public sentiment against rising out of his having shot & bor a few years ago. Emory Poole, in a further today, said .he had accused his e of Kemper's mufder b«:?:u he feased the clder Poole would murder hs mother, sister and himself. He said his father had told him he owed Kem- per $30 for wWork on the farm snd that his father had threatened Kemm- per with ciolence. £ Tho search of the farm dinclosed 88 other bodies, but excavations are ing continued BRIDE OF JANITOR STABBED TO DEATH, Found Dead in New York, May 3—Stephen Muhles, janitor of an uptown apartment house, returned home from work find his wife, Annle, lylng dead in & pool of blood in the basement of building. The woman, a bitde of monihs, apparently tad put up a fer- rific struggle for life, as the furnitute was thrown out of place and tufts of her hair, torn out by Ghe rosts, were.. soattered ~over the = floor. from i knife was found in the open of & cupboard a few fest wway ‘the body . “Muhler had been dead hours when the body was Death was due to stwbbing. ‘s £x BARNS BURNED AT . o OLD TROTTING PARK. Woods at Plainville Catch Fire and Are Still Burning. o Plainvill, night destroyed two Ryder {rotting park, and the burning bulldings woods on Farmingtosl * ni were still burning at a late night. The old trotting the grand circuit prior to of Charter Oak park in Hartford, the grounds have now been Aviator Hamilton. The cause of the fire s and the loss on the building tents, including two horses which ware burned to A will be $5,000. RECALL AT TACOMA PROVES A F1, Result Undecisive and Another tion is to Be Held. Tacorha, Wash., May 2.—The electlon for the office of the four commissioners held hera not decisive and another will bs two weeks hence at which the nigh candidates will run agaia. the Incumbents. succeeded in q Conn., May 3.—Pire a4t on the e Elec- OBITUARY. George B. Bunnell. Greens Farms, Conn., Georgs B Bunnell, widely theatrical’ circles throughout try, died at his home here today of Bright's disease,jaftor an jUness of about a year. He was at time am- sociated with Phineas T. =ruq n the cltgus busiriens and wae, fermeriy. lessee of the Hyperion m-% the. Grand opera house at New Haven. Life Sentence for 1-.,7..... Iy Olclahoma. City, Okla, 2—. Helratein, 19 Jou e ! lund, 20 years, and werc sentenced nient for the mm who was shot in | tiine’ had been permanently dis ed_ds a feAture of political activis -Washington Star. i R