Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 16, 1911, Page 1

VOL. LilIl.—NO. 144 BANKS BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE Accepted as an Amendment to the Minority Report by a Margin of One : SPEAKER SCOTT CAST DECIDING VOTE| Some Members Voted For it to Bring About Disagree- ing Action With the Senate—Predictions That There Will be no Public Utilities Legislation This Year— Some Warm Colloquies in the Lobby. Hartfor June The Banks Democratic Vote by Counties. 10 bl atilities commission, he vote of democrats by counties drawn by Duniel Davenport and intro- | Was as follows duced by Mr. Banks of Fairfield as an ounty. 3 No. amendment to the Judson bill, which | Hartfcrd X § passed the senate last week by a vote ; New Haven §" 12 of 1 to 9, was passed by the house | New London 6 i this evening, 123 to 106 | Fairiela 3 13 Amendment Accepted. 119 to 118. | Windham 4 - or to this, after the close of de- | Niifdlesex |- : H which-began at 11.30 this morn- | Tolans S ety 7 ing and did not conclude until after | five o'clock, the se had voted' 119 | Democratic Leaders Sursrised. to 11 « the amendment to the | This result was a great surprise to min vort. the democratie leaders. The laiensss - y of the hour is held to be responsible - Sy SN the (Y le. _ | for the absence of a number of mem- This tie was hroken by Speaker Scott | pers when the vote was taken, as some Sfley had stated that he believed | are go jocated that it would have been n & publie utibties commission. Dut | hard for them to reach home if they {ia not helicve the minority report, o 4ig not take trains about 5 o'elock. Tevul wae greetod ‘with éheers by the | Judson Keenly Disappointed. embers who had voted for the Banks | Senator Judson and many of the bil | other senators sat in the house ail the A, " | atternoon. When . the result was | Amended Bill Passed, 123 to 106. |}, 0o Sinator Judson lett. He ha & soon as quiet was restored. Mr. | vory Jittle to say but he evidently wa: Baoks d the previods question, | jeenly disappointed. It was known ieh us ordered. 143 10 97, and pes- | generally that a canvass had béen in- of the amended bill and on this | formally maace of the house on Wed- ol call waw 123 to 10 | nesday and the results had indicated o than LR Lt Sue | that the Judson bill was likely to pass S ¥ Peck Gets After Comstock. Prediction of No Commission Legisla- | hile the debate moved along tion. | smoothly in the chamber there bad | “The prediction was freely made that | been many interesting mcidents in the there would be no public utilities com- | lobbies. Semator Donovan in the mission lexislation this seesion. morning had vigorously criticised J. Henry Roraback, George I Allen and Voted for Bill Without Reading It |many others for their activity ama 1 ors ho ha ed for > | members, and had expressed his vie Hanks that they did the senate along the same lines. = bring about eing action | Prominent also in the lobby was - the sena Members said t i('harl-s W. Comstock. chairman of the n e Banks bill. Some of | democratic state central committee. He t who were for the minority re- | was met by Representative Peck of po arcd that the Banks bill was | Stratferd, who gaid to him: “It seenw & hao less, that it was hy- | to me, Mr. Comstock, that you are ¥ . n senate weuld | Sniy here In crises; you were here tw. never pass vears ago when the Barnum bill was 3 under debate. Some Angry Colloquies. Mr. Comstock repiied that he didn't \s the members went out into the | pelieve all his people were to be P Jors . en hours’ contin- | classed as fools. S Sy Biog ":i"'{r"‘;’ Donovan Alse Tackles Comstock. ture egislative agents who Senator Donovan also met Mr. Com- T spent the d the galleries | Stock and intimeted that he was very Fushed dows congratalate mempers | Actve among the democratic mem- | ®he had el ome way or the other. | bers. Mr. Comstock ofiered to give g BET | the senator a thousand dollars if he | Doors Closed to Spectators. ould find anyone he had been talking | w he scen as no twardly | to about public utilities - wo years ago when Spoke for Banks Bill. = n bill was under debate. | The members who spoke for the - T even more intense. | panks bill were Representative R ol e Sevmwere.| b o Williligton, of excopt that many ladies were admit- | 5 Yow Haven, Hyde of Canterbur: " ¢ Knight of Salisbury Smoking Allowed in Hou e . B T o e | Spoke Against the Bill. { That members were going Into the Job. | Judson bill, Representatives Tingler bies to teh their legs and have a | 2f Vernon, Chandler of Rocky Hill - the rapitol restaurant can | Phillips of ~Stamford. Meltzer out of food, quite @ few of the mem- | Bridgeport, Murphy of Danbury, Fth- ers’ went hungry. the min 1 | eridze of Thomaston, Johnson of New- advocates resisting attempts to have | (0%, Johnson of Manchester. Fenn of a recess Pts to Bave | withersfield. Durn of Willimantic and Huntington of Windsor. _Analagous to Two Years Ago. Banks Biil Ridiculous. The situntion toryeht Ws regards | Members in debate, If they were t « legisiation is anals against the Banks bill, did not hesitate to that of two years ago. when | (o refer io the lobby, the lobbyists and ate passed Barnum Dbill | other “interests.” Not many person- the house rejected it and finally | alities were indulged in, ut once Rep- indefinite posiponement 0f the | resentative Huntington declared that matter. From an point of view. | the Banks bill was ridiculous, and Bowever, the situation is altered | pointed out - wherein, in his opinion, t was defeet 1 A Great Deal Made of Trifles. Banks Makes a Pledge. B Reprerentative nks, who clo the debiite after the previous ques presentative Chandler took up the tlon had been ordered, in his Anal plea | points made Mr. Banks azainst ;flum. 4 several times hat if the minority bi] a briefly under- onse would pass the * bill and | took to show that Mr ad masie @end it to the senate nd if the se & @res Jdeal of tri He- also ate would not pass it \uin | sald that laymen could not pass upon | Bend 1o the, Nouse the mimority, constitutional questions, ~and he pussage of the minority Lill could. He advocated, with Represen tative, Huntington, that the only place P'°'°"":" to Table Minority Report. test out the constitutional question S R B poesints os. (he Bosin v DAk It aou. Mipad. tabiE the minority report which had |, TOward the close when Representa- Dot passed so that the house could | tIve Banks was having questions aim- Reep this bill in fis possession until it | 4 at him. he remarked that e never Was seen what the senate would do, | felt happler in his life. He had go #nd if the Banks biil was rejected then | id of his sveech and was now indu he house could take the minority re- | 10§ 1 a Iittic fun. He was happy, in Sveryining he tonia > ma oul0 39 | him and his bill, because he was = bound to win. He would win, he saia peaker Scett's Ruling. vould win: if it was rejected he knew peaker Scott ruled that the houss | it was bound to be thrown out of By vote could keap the minority bill ourt within six month . Fétndsdion, slthough it wes She Adjournment Until Tuesday. B e o 2 bers were-not in a_mood to discu ST Hsn | the future of the bills when final ad- Banlk Pledge a Vote-Catcher. jouvrnment was taken until Tuesday, It was the claim ufterwards of many B — of those favoring (he minority report RODE H1S AIRSHIP, that the wavering ones were influ- en‘ea by Representatiic Banks' offer | THEN RODE THE GOAT @ promise. Mr. Banks in his ar- 3 R gument had devoted much tine to ai- | Aviator Charles K. Hamilton Becomes tacking the constitutionality of the | an Elk at New Britain. minority bill. Most of those speaking | et New Britain, Conn., June 15 on that side of the question used this | ed that tative Tingier mittee and the with Senator J would the lead of the judic democtats dson, that vote alme idder of resen- | today called out the entire five depart ment on a false alarm. The hoard in its downward descent struck an alar | box in such a manner as to cause the sending in of a fire alarm. It swas Y com- #tood demo- ialy for | showed argument ably the first candidate 1o ride to his initiation in the Fiks in an airship 3 ‘T:" V"I'hbi ‘:W‘"“'* | taken in by that order here to- The ‘vote on the adoption of the | on . the arrival of Charles K amendment was as follows Hamilton in his biplane from Farm Yes, - No. | inston, five miles from this city. Ham- Hartford county " 4s | flton Tecently towed his machine be- e e Caraiger et s 32| nind his automobile from Squantum, Mass. to Farmington, and tonight, R o SSunty % 10 shortly after-five o'clock, took the ai e ey 34| from a farm in town and flew to this TIRRe gty - 24 | city, covering the distance in four and A Coumty Pl it minutes Before alighting 'he - etees i | marieuvered in the air for ten minutes I Sotnty _ M lund then landed, to be taken to the - & 115 Tirs | place Of inibation m un automobile. Tle dissolved by speaker voling ves. | False Alarm at Ansonia. 33 Democrats for Banks Bill. | Ansonia, Coun. Junme 15.—A care- Alotis pugty lines there was o split- | lessly thrown picce of wood from the wp of the Vote. It had been predict- | roof of u houss by a workman late i the o over an hour before the dzpartmeat returned, after fruitlessly searching (or the supposed fire. 1 —Prob- Cabled Paragraphs Havana, June 15.—Fifteen hundrsd laborers employed by the Cuban En- gineering Construction company on the Tew sewer system struck today for an increase in wages. Trieste, Austria, June 15.—A storm of hurricane force raged during the night, causing many deaths and much damage to shippins. Barly today the bodies of 20 victims had been recov- ered at this point alpne. Madrid, June 15.—The = great en- trance to the cathedral was shattered by a bomb exploded in the Plaza Ori- ente adjoining the royal palace today. Several neighboring buildings weré damaged, but no person was injured Berlin, June 15.—Emperor William sent an enthusiastic congratulatory telegram to the governor of East Pru:- sia today upon the receipt of _an- nouncement that East Prussian fancy | saddle horses had won second, third | and fourth prizes at the international | horse show in London. | Berlin, June 15.—Crown Prince Fred- erick William as in an_ automobiie accident today, but escaped injury. He was driving to the home of Dr. Von | Bethmann-Hollweg to call upon the chancello when his car struck the | curb, smashing a wheel. The crown prince was thrown to the sidewalk, but not with great ferce. Lishon: June 15.—The commission ippointed to investigate the advances made by the tfeasury to members of the roval family has issued a report »wing that the Queen Mother Amelie | received 382,000 and the Duke of Opor- to $122,500. The government rwill dis count these advances from ex-King Manuel’s private property | CHINA A MENACE TO HEALTH OF THE WORLD. Every Ship Sailing from China a Possible Carrier of Disease. Chicago, June 15—China is a per- petual menace to the health of the en- tire world, accordig to Dr. M. R. Ed- wards, head of the branch of the me ical school of Harvard —universit | which is being. established in_Shang- | hai to combat disease. Dr. Edwards | arrived today from a tour of China. | ““Every ship that sails from a Chi- nese port is a possible carrier of | cholera, bubonic plague and even lep 15 the outside world,” he said ina has all the diseases of Ame; | and Burope and many others. Against | them it has no adequate medical pro- | tection. | “The whole state of affairs is a world menace. Threo .years ago, c | plague was brought to our ships from Chi last win- ter Asiatic cholera was carried to Ha- wail, and now a Chinese disease that is little understood idemic on the western coast of the United States.” ARRESTED AT CLOSE OF WIFE'S FUNERAL | Melrose Man Charged With Uttering a Forged Check. elrose, Mass., June Just as the | carriage containing Howard B. Gur- | ney was ariv the grave of his wife into wl shovelful of earth was falling today, policemen | who 1 ccupied the Jast carriage of | the funeral proce: ced Gurney under arrest on a forging and uttering a check. The arrest w | the sensational climax of a remarkable | funeral. Mrs. Trma A. Gurney, who | was the wife of the arrested ian, was one of the most prominent voung w. men in the city. She was the daugh- | ter of ‘Maror Moore 2nd had been | employed in the mayor's office. As a K of respect during ner funeral ail eity buildinzs and most of the es were closed. It was an homor paid to only one other woman in t ory of the city, the late Mrs. Mary Livermos | LATEST MOVE IN i EDDY WILL CASE. | Counsel Wants Facts in Plaintiff's Bill Taken Pro Confesso. Concord, N. H. Junz 15.—A motion asking that the facts alleged in the plaintiff’s bill in_ the suit brought by | Dr. Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy of Water- Vt., adopted son of the late Mrs. ¥, to have the residuary clause of } M, dy's will declared void, be | “taken pré confesso,” or in other.words | accepted as facts, was made by coun- | sel for | Dr. Eddy in the Uhited States | circujt court here today. Counsel for | the plaintiff in this motion contend that the defense has merely filed a de- murrer, and that their failure to file an answer within the legal time limit, which has now expired, amounts to an admission on their part of the allega- { tions in the bill., A YOUNG BRAKEMAN KILLED AT PORTLAND. Boy of 16 Fell Under Wheels of a Quarry Train. Portland. Conn.. June 15.—John An- | derson Peterson, aged 16 vears. em- ployed as a brakeman on the Brainard | Shater & Hall quarry raflroad ir place, lost his balance while st on a moving flat ¢ar and was under the wheels of the tra t his legs were almost severed at the knees, there being but a slisht piece of flesh holding the two parts togather. He was taken to a Middletown hospi- tal. where he died soon after his ar- rival. He had been in the employ of | the quakry for less than ‘two months. AMERICAN SEAMEN PRESENT DEMANDS. PCommittee of Six Waited on Ship i Owners Yesterday. *New York, June 15. American sey men on coasiwise vessels who have threatened to strike sent a committee of six to ship owners today to present their demands. The delegation will Teport at a mass meeting of sailors, firemen, cooks and stewards, to be held hera tomorrow night, the success failure of their mission. H. P. Griffin, vice president of the International Seamen’s union of Amer- ica, said today that 20,000 men would be Involved. Butchers and Grocers. Hartford, Conn., June 15.—The f. lowing officers were elected by t state butchers and grocers: President, J. L. Roache, Hartford: vice presi- dents. Joseph Ansell,-Meriden, Thomas Preston, Hartford: seéretary nant, New Haven: ires Weissert, New Haven! arms, 1. Hall, Danbury. $1,000,000 Lumber Fire at St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo, “June 15.—Fire in the lumber miiling 'quarter of St. Louis tonight destroyed $1,000,000 worth of property, including five factories that covered 'four blocks, and drove hun- dreds of persons from their homes in & panie e NORWICH, CONN., FRIDA The Bulletin's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is Maine’s Hull Is Badly Shaitered FOUND IN MUCH WORSE CONDI- TION THAN EXPECTED. MAY BE CHANGE IN PLANS Pumping Dslayed Yesterday Because of Rain—Remains of Ensign Merritt May Be Recovered Today. Havana, June i5.—That the shatter- ing of the hull of the battleship Maine, expressed by the mute testimony of| steel ribs bent apart, decks upheaved and hurled far from their original po- sition, bulkheads crumpled like sheets | of paper and apparently inextricable and hardly identifiable masses of con- | struction material, is evidently far | greater thn supposed, was revealed to- day as a result of a superficial ob- servation made possible by the lower- ing of the water level in the coffer dam a total depth of seven feet. May Necesstate Change of Plans. On account of this unforeseeen rev- elation of the terrific character of the explosion which sent the battleship to the bottom_of the harbor, all plans heretofore broposed for dealing with | the ultimate removal of the bulk have become merely conjectural until a con- | sidefably greater amount of water has been pumped out. Every Foot Revealed Worse Condit- | ions. A the water receded today every successive foot revealed werse and orse conditions in that part of the hull forward of amidships which was subjected to the main explosion. Bow 20 Feet Below Surface. | The bow section is still pearly 20 feet below the surface, and here it is! believed the destruction will be found | to have been eveh~more complete. Rains Delaying Pumping. The work of pumping was somewhat delaved today because of the heavy rains and a slight interruption of the | electrical current. | May Recover One Body Today. It is probable that the searchers may be able to enter the officers’ quar- ters in the after superstricture tomor- row, where they mey find the remains of Ensign Merritt, the only officer whiose body was not recovered. Jenkins’ Remains Recovered. The remains of Lieut. Jenkins. the other officer killed, were recover- ed from the torpedo chamber shortly after the explosion. CO-RESPONDENTAND FRIEND !N NEW YORK. Mysterious Action in a Millionaire’s Divorce Proceedings. Pittsburg, June 15.—The arrest in New York tonight of Alfrad Georze Curphey and Thomas W. Kirkbride, Englishmen, is a_result of the divorce nit Andrew W. Mellon, multimil- lonaire, of this ci against his wife, Nora MeMullen Mellon. daughter of a prominent family of Dublin. Ireland. Curphey is the co-respondent in the case and Kirkbride a friend. Every move in the case has been surrounded with the greatest secrecy. Tt was Jearn2d here tonight. however. | | that Curphey was to have appeared in | this city today to =ive testimony in the | case before a referee. This he falled | 1 | | to do. hief of County Detectivas Muth admitted tonight that he_did not send the telegram to the New York authori- ties and confessed ignorance of the entire matter. Pressad for information, he finally stated that the message wa probably sent by District Attorney William A. Blakeley; his superior. INJURED ON A BICYCLE TRACK. New Haven Amateur Thrown from Machine, Landing on His Head. | FATALLY New Haven, Conn., June 15.—As the result of a spill at the national cir-! cuit bicycle- track at Lighthouse Point late today. Samuel Schwartz, an ama- teur motoreyelist, who was: to have taken part in the races tonight, T ceived a fractured skull and will pre ably die. Sehwartz was following Henry Rausch, another amateur, whos2 machine skidded, Tunning into the rail- ing and throwing a plank on to the| track. which Schwartz’s machine | struck, throwing him into the on to his head on the track. His skull was fractured and he is still uncon- scious, with practically® no chance for recovery. Rausch was cut and bruised. The circuit races which were to have been held tonight were cancellad on account of rain. WANTS TO BE MARRIED BY PRESIDENT TAFT. Unique Proposition Came in White House Mail Yesterday. shington, June 15—°It is my desire to be married by the president of the' Good Old U. S.” A., and seein. that your wedding anniversars is tol be celebrated Monday, thought it | would be very appropriaie for the oc- | jon and at the same time would | ke two souls very happy. | That was the request that came in| President Taft’s mall today from a| man in New Jersey whose name the White House did not make public. The president expacts to be too busy on Monday to perform any marriage cere- mony. SECOND DAY OF ORAL WAR ON RECIPROCITY. Nelson and Others Make Speeches in Opposition. Senator Washington, June 15.—The day of debate on the Can procity bill proved a fizld day for those opposed to the measure. Led by Sen- ator Nelson, who had prepared an e: haustive speech, a number of sena- tors took part Im a running debate which marked the closing peried of the address. At adjournment Senator Penrose, who is in charge of the bill, felt thut this had cleared the atmosphere con- that the general debate would not be of such great duration as has been second dian reci- siderably and he expressed the opinion \ predicted. Kick of Horse Proves Serlous. ford! Conn.. June 15.—Lym>n Kwith is critically 111 as the re- of the kick of a herse. He was found unconscious in the stall after the horse ‘was brought from pasture, with his skull fractured. Collapsed On Witness Stand . FORD STRICKEN AFTER BARING HER PAST. et ATTACK MAY PROVE FATAL MRS. Swooned She Clasped Little Her Arms—Remcved to Hospital in Critical Cendition. Daughter Cincinnati. O., June 15.—Mrs. Jean- ette Stewart Ford is in a hospital tonight to recover from the ordeak of her cross examination today in the | trial of Edgar S. Cooke, accused of embezzling $22,000 from the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis rai way. Bared Her Past and Collapsed. Forced to bare her past in the hear- ing, Mrs. Ford, the woman who help- ed 'lead Cooke, Warriner and other Big Four empioyes astray, collapsed ‘when, clasping her six year old daugh- ter in her arms, she said that the child’s father was Cool Relapse May Prove Fatal. The relapse may prove fatal to Mrs. Ford, hospital physician said, after he returned the woman to the hos- pital where she has been for a year. Letters and Telegrams Admitted. !,Condensefi Telegrams The Personnel of the New Belgian cabinet was announced at Brussels. President Taft Accepted an Invitation fo visit Houghton, Mich, probably .on ug. 8. _George Nochel,. Who Died of Starva- tion at New Haven, had $9 in ais pocket. Madero Has Sent General Viljoen o Southern California to fight the Ma- gonistas. Leonard D. Adkins of Easton, Md. won the prize in English at Trinity college. A Committee of the Chicago Board of Trade finds there was no corner in May wheat. : The First Through Boat for the year from White Horse arrived at Dawson, ¥. T, on Monday. The Southern Newspaper Publishers’ association passed resolutions favoring Teciprocity with Canada. ' Great Crowds Are Following Jack Johnson around the streets of Londun and frequently they cheer him. | A Number of the Larger National |/forests are being divided to permit | of their more efficient management. | Stockholders of the Cleveland & | Pittsburg raiiroad voted an increase | | in the capital stock from $22,000,000 to $40,000,000. John D. Simmons of tHe Atlanta | Journal was elected president of the | Internationai Circulation association. To spare Mrs. Ford further suffer- | ing attorneys agreed to the admis- sion of cerfain letters and telegrams which Mrs. Ford excahnged with Cooke and announced that her exami- | nation had been finished. Melodramatic Situations. The morning session was full of melodramatic situations, but the aft- ernoon was given over to dry testi- mony from railroad employes as to the methods used in disposing of old account books and records of the Big Four. Search Failed to Reveal Books. The prosecution presented these Witnesses to prove its contention that search had failed to reveal the booiks. These, it is alleged, would show that Cooke was short in his accounts. If the books were destroved in the ordi- . nary course, the state could use sec- | ondary evidence to prove the charge against Cooke, it is said. NOT ENOUGH RAIN TO SATiISFY NEW YORK Rainfalls of Three Days Still Leave Big City's Supply Scarce. New Yeori, Juns 15.—Rains of Sat- urday, Sunjay and Monday augment the city's ~depleted ports of the engineers. a amount of water, as New York uses it. The reservoirs contain about 50,000,- 000,000, as agalnst $5,000,000,000 gai- lons at this time last year. The de- ficiency represents approximately 30 days’ supply. Consequently Henry S, Thompsen, supply, does mot want citizens te get it into their heads that they can be- gin to waste the prectous fluid again di@ not water supply as much as it was thought they had. according to the preliminary re- 1t will be sev- eral days before accurate figures are forthcoming, but the calculations thus far indicate that_ tHe supply has just held its own, with an additional half billion gallons over—not such a large commissioner of water No Further Opposition Will Be Made to the dissolution of the Keith & Proctor Amusement company, a Maine corporation. p— | At a Meeting of Prominent French- men and Americans in Paris it was | decided to found a French institute in | the United States. | _An Invitation to Attend the American | Purity Federation meeting at Colum- | bus, Ohio, in October, was taken un- | der’ advisement by President Taft. High School Instruction in Connecti- cut is held to be unpractical in a re a committee of the council of educa- tion. _A Bale of Cotton That Seld at auc- tion a few days ago in Houston, Tex for $2 a pound, brought only 15 cent; a pound on the steps of the New York cotton exchange. daughters by asphyxiation on May Thomas Haggerty of Roxxurby, Mas was indicted by the srand jury ves- terday at Boston. ebrated vesterday. 13 it would not stand. Pa., an expert locksmith, employed in the’ treasury department, dropped dead White House office. The United States Suprems Court managers’ | port to the state board of education by | On a Charge of Killing His Three | The 100th Anniversary of St. An- | drew’s -Episcopal church at Hanover, Mass., one of the oldest of the de- nomination in New England, was cel- | John O’Brien, a Chicago Teamster, | for stabbing a herse to death because Joseph Durnbaugh of Mechanicsburg, while attempting to open a safe in the the Largest in Conneoticut in Proportion to the City's Population Albany, N. Y., June 15.—First Base- man Arthur Brown of the Albany team | of the Now York State baseball league. |diec tomight in a hospital from four | Dullet wounds inflicted, he told the | police, by John V. McStea, a New Orleans actor. Found Wife With Brown. | The shooting occurfed at a rooming house on Pearl street, where McStea | said he found his wife in an apartment with Brown. Heard His -Wife’s Voice. McStea arrived in Albany tonisght, and procceded directly to the house, where_he asked to see Mrs. Brown. |In a statement made after the shoot. | ing, he said he heard his wife's voice upstairs and rushed to the halk above. | Attacked by Brown. When he entered the room, he said he was brutaily atiacked by Brown, | while his wife cowered in one corner. red Four Shots. Getting the worst of the struggle, | McStea, says, ke drew his revolver | and fired at Brown. Four shots took | effect, two in the abdomen, one in the | went wild. arm, another in the leg, and a fifta | b BASEBALL PLAYER SLAIN BY ACTGH Outraged Husband Sends Four Bullets Into- Body of Albany’s First Baseman FOUND WIFE IN VICTIM'S COMPANY John V. McSted) Under Arrest For the Crime—Declares That First Baseman Brown Attacked Him Before ‘He Fired Fatal Shots—Mrs. McStea, Known on the Stage as Mildred Barre, Held as a Witness. e McStea Under Arrest. Brown sank ‘o the fioor, whers he was found an instant later by an offi- cer, who heard the shots from the Street. McStea was placed under ar= rest and his wife js being held as a witness. Brown’s Home in Wilkes-Barre. Brown’s home Is in Wilkes-Basre, Pa., where he was born 26 years ago, He started his professional basebell reer Barre clab of the New York leagve, Has Played with Dstroit. He later played with the Detrol€ American league team, Monireal East- ern leagus team and (he Trenton Tri- State league team, from which he was purchased by Albany two years sgo. His plaving today was a featurs of the Albany-Scranion game. Mrs, McStea a Former Actress. Mrs. McStea is 23 years oid and & native of Albany. was an aet- ress and while on stage in New Orleans two years married Me- Stea, who was ector at the opera house, whers was playing. s 20 Her Stage Name Mildred Barre. She has been in Albany since Aprily Her stage name w ldred Barre. | | REFUSE TO EXCUSE i LEADER OF MORMONS | Joseph Smith Must Testify in Sugar i Trust Investigation. “Washington, June 15.—How the su- gar interests combined in first one form ana then another and how the American Sugar Refining company achieved power in the sugar world was the theme of the testimony to which the house sugar investigation com- mittez Jistened today. / In point of interest that recital was rivaled in the day’s proceedings only by the refusal of ihe committee 10 ex- cuse Joseph F. Smith, bead of the Mormon church, from responding to | the subpoena_fo testify before the committee. He must appear Rext | we By far the most important witness before the committee today was Low- ell M. Palmer, director of the Amer- was sentenced to serve ome vear In|jcan Suzar Refining comphny from the penitentiary by Judge Kavanash|15¢s to 1905, and head of its tragic department for years precading that At the cutset of his testimony, Rep- | resentative Madison of Kansas, who conducted the examination, introduced as a basis of his question a page from the minute books of the company board of directors. It bore the date of September 6, 1898, #nd its para- mount feature was the authorization of in t g y S5 a commiltee to buy outside refiner- i the rood ol elioees Y‘av";,“lgh;-o wiil be asked to determine the consti- | jes, Through the summer withyut gomuicg | tutlonality of the Rhode Island stat-|' The page read: “On motion, & spe- inconveniece, MAPLE TREES NOW ATTACKED BY PEST If No Remedy ls Found New Eng- land Sugar Crop May Disappear. Suffield, Conn., June 15.—After three years' efforts by the state authorities the scourge of the elm tree beetle has been checked in Connecticut. Now a similar pest has been discovered at- tacking the maple trees in{ nortHern Connectlcut and Vermont. Sugar ma- ples over are victims of this new scourge. The ground under the trees is coverad with dead leaves and the trees are bare. Unless something is discovered to prevent its spread, the annual New England maple sugar crep will seon be a thing of the past, tracts many miles square iting the practicing of den- President Taft Promised a Commit- tee appointed by Governor Crothers of Lewell, Mass., vesterday, nine year old John Armstronz went depth and was drowned. beyond his Panama,_bonds promises to be 5o s cessful that there will be no chance that any part of the proceeds of the issue may go to banks as deposits. The International Paper Company has refused Chairman Penrose of the senate finance committee information raspecting the purchase price of the $2,000 SILVER SERVICE Pproperties merged into the compans. FOR TAFT ANNIVERSARY A Complete “Moonshiner” Plant, 3 600 gallons of sugar mash and many House to Buy One and Senate Will | demijohns of spirits were seized by resent Another. internal revenue officers yesterday in a raid on a New York East Side tene- Washington, June 15.—A fund of | ment. $2,000 to purchese a silver service to present to Mrs, Taft on her silver- wedding anniversary at the White house Monday, was subscribed by members of the house of representa- tives today. Each member gave $5 and the fund was collected so rapidly | that a_committee was enabled to_take Capt. Frank Parker of the Eleventh cavalry has been appointed milita attache to Thomas C. Dawson, spec American ambassador to the Vene zuelan centennial exhibition early in uly. Quick Work on the Part of the afternoon train for New York, pt. where a gift will be secured. The |Jobn L. Lowry of the river steamer present will be supplemented by a | John L. Lowry, zaved the lives of 6 magnificent silver service which the | Persons vesterday wheid the boat burn- senate will present to President and | €d opposite Smithland, Ky. in ihe Mrs. Taft at the celebration Ohio river. OBITUARY. Prof. Hiram Corson. Ithaca, N. Y., Jupe 15.—Prof. Hiram Corson, one of the oldest and most re- nowned of educators and authors, died | Professor | at his home here today Corson was professor of English lit- erature at Cornell for many years. was a professor emeritus at the timie of his death. He was born in Phila- delphia in 182%. He is the author o a large number of hooks and contrib- uted extensively to magazines and re- | views. Stokes Leaves Hospital. New York, June 15—W. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire hotel man, who was shot by Ethel Conrad and Lillian | Graham in their apartments a week ago yesterday, was discharged from the Roosevelt hospital today, out of danger, and immediately left for nis cottage at Long Branch. N. Y. in .a automobile. Both the show girls are still in' the Tombs in default of bail. Candidates for Naval Academy. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, June 15.—Senator Me- Lean last npight made public the names of his principal and alternats who will take the examination for ad- mission to the Naval academy April. Stewart Adams Hamilton of 126 Elmont place, Bridgeport, is named as principal, and George Monteith Kel- ler of Hartford as first aiternate, Stan- ton Hall Wooster of New Haven sec- ond alternats. and Herbert Benjamin Ray, Jr., of Bridgeport, as third alter- He | next | General Rains Over a Radius of 309 miles every direction from Fort rth, Texas, varying in amount fron to 2 inches, wiil save the corn crop, which had been regarded as practically lost. Seventy-five Alleaed Smugglers, women, were st- ed at San Dicgo, Cal.. while attempting | to cross the American-Mexican line | with thousands of dollars’ worth of | loot from Tijuana A Bill Providing That Every new papér must print in a conspicuous place the name of the owner or owners, publisher and managing editor, has been introduced by Representative Barnhart of Indiana, Komatz , Aged Seven, of was ‘awarded damages of $31,000_in his claim against the N York, New Haven and Hartford ra road, as the result of an accidant which both less were severed by freight train. | Stratfor W in a Use of the Time and Services of government employes in work of a | private nature for their superiors, was the subject on which a number of post Office department employes were in- terrogated by the house commitiee on expenditures Catherine Barker, 12 Years Old of Laporte, Ind,, who by her father's wilk receives an annual mcome of $60,000 for her education and sustenance, has applfed to the circuit court for per- mission to divide her income with charitable institutions of Laporte and Michigan Ciwy, Ind ¢ The Government's Issue of $50,000,000 1 committee, consisting of the pres- ident, vice president and Mr. Thomas, was appointed to fix the price of re- fined sugars; they were authorized in their discretion to make the price Maryland that he would write a let- | of granulated not less than 3-8 above ter endorsing the “See America First” | the price of centrifugals or 95 degree movement started in Baltimore. | test, either refined sugars to corre- G — | spond. They were authorized and While Bathing With Two Other | empowered to purchase for account small bovs in the Western canal at|aof the company, or hold, any portion i of outside refineries, at a pr and | upon terms to be fixed by them in { their discretion.” With th et at the pe as a basis from which to icy of the American Su- gar Refining company, Mr. Madison Cuestioned the witness about the first combination of sugar refineries in 1897 and combinations or acquisitions dur- ing the period Mr. Palmer was a di- | rector. HOLDUP OF HIGHWAYMEN NETTED THEM BUT $15.85 One of Them Shot and Captured in the Bargain. Piymouth, N, H., June 15—Two arm- ed men who held up Mrs, Alice Head, aware of this and the holdup netted .8 MILL OPERATIVE'S SKULL CRUSHED BY AUTOMOBILE Victim in Critical Condition and Driv- er Under Bonds: Seymour, Conn, June 15.—Jum, Ryan, an employe of the local cotton mill, 'was struck and probably fatally injured late today as he was on his | way home, by an automobile driven | by N. D. Holbrook of Torrington. Ry- {aw's skull was crushed, and he was { prebably internally ured. He was taken to a Waterbury- hospital, where Iate tonight hi concition was reported as critical. He is 65 vears old. Hol- brook was placed under arrest'and re- { leasea under $1,000 bonds, pending the outeome of Ryan's injuries. Ryan died in St. v's hospital here at 1.5 this morning, Rain Comes to Rescue of Lumbermen. St John, e rains of the lust few davs have many. of the lumber drives Mifamichi_and other rivers. In man instunces ‘the drives were about to be 1 me —Heayy started on the bookkeeper in the office of the W. D. Veazey Lumber company at West Thornton, fificen miles from here, this afternoon, missed getting an expre package containing $2,000 by a few minutes, and in trying to zet away one | of them was shot in the leg by a lum- berman and captured. he second man_ escaped into the woods h a number of lumbermen and some de uty sheriffs close on his trail foday v at the camp and $2,000 had been shipped from here by | exXpress to the Iumber company. some reasorf tho express was delay | slightly, but the robbers were not | mendation of the IN SWAMP 56 DAYS WITHOUT ANY FOOD, Marlboro Man Found in Emasited Condition by Searchers. Marlboro, Ma: absence of 36 day have spent in a sw boro and Westboro, with mnothing ‘e eat, William D. ome of the leading young men i s city, was found ,emaciated and barely comscious, in the heart of th: swamp by fou= employes of the Metropolitan Water works late tods Hanley was in & terrible state of exhaustion. put Be was able to recdgnize his brother, Jofin J. Hanley, when the latter reached the Scene, and to ask after his father and wife, to whom he was married last ice on Aprfl 29 sensation. He was and was well Hked October. Hanley's disappear: a last caused prominent soc by his friends. It was supposed that an attack grip had unbalanced his mind. bot a though he was sought far and circulars were sent all country by the police and Knights of Columbus and the Forest- ers, In which orders he w trace of him was fo After Hanley had his brother's home examined him said he ha phys recovery. TAFT TALKS OF THE HYPOCRISY OF SENATORS, Would Like to Be Relieved of Certain Class of Aprpointments. Washington, J e 15— The first au- thoritative answer to the chargs that the administration used the approved power of the president to further po- ticel -ends was made by President Taft today. In converation with friend, the president said he would be delighted if congress Ms hands the duty of naming eoflac~ tors of internal revnue, United States marshals and postmasters of the sec~ ond and third ciasses. The president told his visitors that nothing which congress could do would be received more gladly by him than this aet He would be happy, he it com- id take from gress would amend the civil servies regulations. He has recommended such action to congress in past mes- sages, and said he expects to make similar recommendations in the fature, He declared his belief that thers 18 & lot of “hypocrisy” in the charges made by senators and others that a political machine has been built up by Appoint- ments of such officers MISCONDUCT ON THE PART OF CERTAIN ARNY OFFCEAS Intimated in a Resolution Passed by the House Yesterday. Washington, June 15.—The secrstary of war was directed by a remofutiors passed by the house of representatives today to furnish-any information in his possession relating “in any way t charges or accusations of criminal other misconduct on the part of any officer or officers of the depart= of the army, since Janwary 1, esentative Covington of Marys who introduced the resolutien, tand, divuiged to four members of the mili< tary affairs committes the nature of olution and at whom it Fas He declined to give his Mae the house, but on the recome ommitice the rese- lution was adopted, Abbott-Verenson Wedding. Cambridge, Mass., June Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York and President Marion L. Burton of Smith college officiating, Herbert V. Abbott, son of Dr. Abuott and asso- te professor of English at Smith college, was married h noon to Miss Senda Versnsom, tor of physical culture at Smith cele lege. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's brother-in-law, Ra!ph FEarton Perry Mr. and Mrs Abbott will sail the latter part of the month for a Furopean trip. Ocean Liners Must Have Wirsless. Washington, June 15.—After the first of next month ocean zoing vesselsw car= abandoned. Many thousands of dollars wili be saved 1o the lumbermen. Steams At Napies: June Neyw York At Havre: June 13, from New York At Plymouth: Washington, Arrivals. 14, Oceania, from La Provence, June _1 from New Xork George rying more than fifty passengers wilh I lable 1o a fine of $5,000 nless 1 are equipped with o wireless t apparatus capable of 1r: messages to a distance not less one hundred miles and operator carrying a by this or a foreign