Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 8, 1911, Page 1

SATURDAY, , JU| PRICE TWO CENTS SOME OF STOKES’ LETTERS MISSING| Cabled Paragraphs Hgat Kills 207 Millionaire Hotel-Owner Hasn’t the “Re- " motest Idea” What Became of Them TAKEN FROM APARTMENT OF GIRLS Employe of Stokes Testifies That He ‘Turned Them Over to Latter’s Counsel—“Will Make Interesting Read- ing,” Says Miss Graham—Stokes Denies’ Ever En- tertaining Affection For Miss Graham. ing collar and biack clothes. His hair is nearer white than gray, and he shapes his heavy gray mustache up- ward. The Twe Girls in Whi The two young women wore white serge suits of the same cut, with low necks and flaring white satin revers, white low shoes and white lace hats. The elder one was self-possessed and at times amused, but Ethel Conrad constantly twisted her hands and she wore a puzzled little frown as if the trend of the testimony were difficult for her to follow. Never Had Affection for Miss Graham. It was when Stokes swore that the utmost of his intentions toward Lillian Graham was to be polite that she smiled. “Did_you not, ‘down to the time of your visit to Loxington, entertain af- fection for Miss Graham?” asked Mr. Moore. “Never,” shouted Stokes. At His Farm Three Days. “How long did she remain at your farm with only the farmhands and a negro cook?’ pursued Mr. Moore. “Three days,” answered Stokes. Didn’t you make her write a letter exonerating you from an attempt ‘o wrong her, before you would permit her to leave?”’ “I did not. No such letter exists.” Keep Scandal Out of Case. “Let us try as much as possible to keep scandal out of this case,” suggest- ed Magistrate Freschi. “But the record shows he gave her money, and improper inferences might be drawn.” protested Mr. Moore. “Nothing of the sort” volunteered the magistrate. “He may have given it to her out of the goodness oOf his heart.” Miss Conrad’s Visit te His Offic Stokes told of a visit made to his office on May 21 last by Miss Conrad, which was the first time the letters were brought to his notice. She came into his office, he said, highly excited, and was unable to speak for some time, Said Miss Graham Was Broke. “When_she became calmed,” Stokes continued, “she told me she had been out to dinner the night before. - She et Miss Graham, she said, at the dinner, and the voung lady was in New York, July 7.—Where are the rest of the Stokes letters? How did they come to be suppressed? Who sup- wressed them, and why? These are questions that Robert W. Moore of counsel for Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad tried to get answered this af- ternoon in the preliminary hearing be- fore a police magistrate on the charge that they attempted to murder W. E. 1. Stokes, the millionaire hotel ma when he called on them in their apar ment to get possession of those same letters. Not Answered Satisfactorily. The questions were not answered awholly to Mr. Moore’s satisfaction, but he was able to advance so far that he will rest his case tomorrow morning after one more witness has been called ~-the elevator boy who took Stokes to the girls' apartment on the night he was shot. Marigstrate Freschi will then decide whether the case shall go to the grand jury or not. How He Met Miss Conrad. Under cross examination, Stokes told today how he first met Ethal Con- rad, how she enlisted his sympathy anew for Lillian Grabam, who, sick and penniless, Stokes said, Miss Con- rad told him, had attempted suicide; how he came to call on the two giris after Lillian Graham’s recovery, and what his sentiments for them were. Girls Did Not Take Stand. His narrative only faltered when e was questioned about the missing let- ters. But those who had expected the two girls to take the stand were dis- appointed. The defense succeeded in eliciting most of the facts on which the people must base their case with- out disclosing its own hand. Wrote More Than Eight Letters. Only ence did Stokes show signs of confusion. “Are these nine lettexs (produced in evldene& yesterday) all ou ever wyote Miss Graham?” asked iobm ‘W, Moore, coungel for the de- fendants. No “How many did you Many as eighteen?" “Perhaps.” The Missing Letters. “What became of the missing letters, which you admit having writtep and which were in Miss Graham's posses- ®ion on the night of the shooting?” write Thec? “T havent’ the remotest idea” said| distressed circumstanczes, Wwith littl> Stokes blandly. money and_ no clgthes, and that she Gave $200 for Miss Graham’s Trip | had taken her home to her rooms. Miss Graham Threatened Suicide. ““When I went out this morning to Dbusiness, Miss Conrad said, 1 left Miss Graham In bed after me. I fol got my pencil and returned for it. When I got into the room I was shock- ed 1o find a note on the table, together with a bundle of letters. the note say- Abroad. There was an intermissfon in the pursuit of the letters, and under per- sistent questioning Stokes told how he had consented, at Ethel Conrad’s in- nee. to give her $200 to pay Lillian aham’s passage abroad. Forgot to Mention It. 3 . ing that Miss Graham had committed e e sulcide an she had addressed the let- this monsy on condition that the | €T to the pre 5 eighteen letters from you in Miss Gra- Miss Graham Took Carbolic. ham's pessession be returned. Today, “Miss Conrad also told me,” con- tinued Stokes, “that some of the let- ters were mine and some belonged to the same circumstances, mention of the letters, in relating make no w other men. She said she rushed into 1 forzot to mentlon it todaq,” stam- | the bedroom and found Miss Graham meared Stokes. in bed, her face. all blistere¢ and burn- Cheok’ Pt in-Bvidence: Ved, where she had spilled carbolic acid. A doctor was called and pumped her out, Miss Conrad said, and saved her life. Tis lawyers then put in evidence the check he had cashed to provide Lillian Graham with funds and gained per- . e mission for him to make an addition | Miss Conrad’s Father a Russian Prince to his t mony. “Miss Conrad t me then that her “I sald,” added Stokes, “when I gave | father was a Russian prince and that the money to Miss Conrad: ‘I know |19 years ago he came from Venezuela, this girl (I n Graham) pretty well, | to Louisville, Ky., whare he eloped with and you want to be sure before vou | her mother. Miss Conrad told me she e her the money that she really = abroad to see her sister.’ was born in Bluefields, Venezuela. She told me that her father, the prince, he said” Stokes continued, “‘T| owned a mine worth $200,000, but that won't deliver the ticket or the money | he had bzen killed in riots there and until she has left the letters in the | that her mother had sold the mine for house and is saf> on board ship.’” House Detective Testifids. the afternoon sitting was be- $70.000, which sum she invested in real estate. But revolution and blood- shed caused the burning up of the real estate and she and her mother m insel for the two girls called to pcute 5 e aiand James Gummings, a house | Came fo New York, where the mother detective at the Ansonia, owned by |Collected $20,000 insurance. Stokes. Cummings said he had searc Mother Married Ugly Man. ed the girls’ apartment two or three Then Miss Conrad told me that davs after the shootinf, with three|her mother had married an ugly man tentra] office deteettves. The letters | who had sauandered the insurance hie had found on a closet floor behind a trunk. Rummaged Girls’ Apartment. “And three officers of the department of justice of the city allowed you to rummag- the apartment and take from ft what you wished?" ey didn’t know I had found any- parried the money and left her poor. work, Miss Conrad said. Her Brother in Mobile, “Her- brother, she told me, would come from Mobile and take her back to Mobile with him. She said she had come go see me on her lawver's advice to tell me about the letters she found on the table with the suicide note. She had to thing, detective, Put Letters in His Pocket. Miss Graham “an Undesirable Wo- Mr. Moore pounced on him like a man.” hawk. “Then you deliberately secreted | .. S s these letters from the sworn officers |, ° told Miss Conrad that Miss Gra- ham was an undesirable woman.” said Stokes, nd that I would not give Miss Graham one cent, but T said T ‘would give Miss Conrad money for the nurse to Yook after Miss Graham. Miss Conrad wanted me to sign a te for $200 to allow Miss Graham to go broad. 1 said I would not. I would ive no agreement because I thought Miss Graham a dangerous woman. M Conrad Wanted Cash. Stokes said he offered to draw a check “r $200 to enable Miss Graham of the iaw”" he thundered. Cummings would not admit it. put them in my pocket.” he said. “Yes or no,” insisted counsel. “Yes.” admitted Cummings. Delivered Letters to Stokes’ Counsel. Subsequédnt testimony was that Cummings had delivered the letters 1o a Mr. Gleason, personal counsel for Stokes, who had passed them on to former Judge Olcott, in charge of the case for Mr. Stokes, who in turn deliv- ered them to the district attorney’s of- fice. Cumminzs. the detective, had not counted the letters, he swore, and did not know their contents. Package Contained Twelve Letters. Judge Olcott said that the packagze as it reached him contained twelve Jetters. Nine of these letters were read yesterday. One referred to loosely as a letter was a telegram, and two had been excluded from the record. ‘“There were eighteen of thoss letters at least,” #air Mr. Moore after the hearing. “Who suppressed them “Will Make Interesting Reading.” “They'll make interasting reading when they are produced,” added Miss Graham. “T wouldn't dare to tell you what's in them. You wouldn’t believe ‘me, but when I get out of this trouble Tm going to put them into a vaude- ville skit. They're a scream.” Stokes Was Cheerful. Stokes was fhe same big. bulky. cheerful personality today that he wa: vesterday. He wore a shovel-shaped SR . oy b | to ge Belgium to join her sister. Whe: n, he continue “Miss Courad said, ‘Oh, no, dom’t draw a check; there mignt be some scandal about it. Give me the cash.’ I said it was all right and gave her the mone; Asked if He Insulted Miss Graham. The defendants’ attormey questioned Mr. Stokes sharply regarding Miss Graham’s visit to his farm in Lex- ington, Ky. The defense has contend- ed that the girl expected to find other guests with Stokes and when she dis- covered that she was visiting him | alone she left the following morning. “Didn’t_she leave because you tried to insult her?” Stokes was asked. He was not allowed to answer this ques- tion, but he replied that she remained at the farm about three days. Once Felt Kirdly Toward Miss Graham Hiss attorney read the letter of in- vitation in which Miss Graham's sis- ter was asked to visit Stokes at the sarie time. Z - “But you Jdid entertan so-called fa- ther] for Iy affection Miss Graham, § Paris, July 7.—Andre_Beaumont, the ¥rench aviator, won the international circuit aviation race which ended at the aviation fields at Vincennes to- day., Paris. July Intimate friends wio see John W. Gates daily say that the condition of the American financier is much improved. According to these persons, he is sitting up in his room at the hotel during the day, and three days ago drove through the Bois de Boulogne. \ Dublin, July 7.—The roval yacht Vie- toria and Albert, with King George and Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales and Princess MarV on board, anchored in Kingstown harbor at eight o'clock this evening. Every available point along the breakwater and on the l4nding stages was crowded with cheering Dublinites, who, on seeing the king and the Prince of Wales on the bridge of the vacht, burst forth singing the national anthem. TAFT ADDRESSES THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS Discusses™ Arbitration and Benefit of \ C. E. Movement. Atlantic City, N. J, July 7—In a speech to the International Christian Endeavor convention here tonight, President Taft declared that the nego- tiations for the arbitration treaty be- tween Great Britain and the United States have reached such a stage that there is no doubt as to the signing of the past. The president expressed the hope that eventually half a dozen European countries may make similar_treatles. Such action, he said, will not abolish war, but would farnish a foreible in- strument in _preventing i The president left Washington amid the closing features of the severe thunderstorm. His private car was twenty degrees cooler than it was early in the week when he journeyed through Olilo, Indiana and Pennsyl- vania, with a temperature indoors of 100_degrees The president spoke from a plat- form on the million-dollar pier. Several thousand persens heard and cheered him. The first part of the president’s speech was devoted to a brief review of the work of the Christian Endeavor societies. “Such a movement,” said the pres- ident, “cannot but have the most ben- eficial effect upon the citizenship of a nation like this and I should be lack- ing in appreciation of those currents of popular reform and individual up- lifting i I did not seize such an op- portunity to pay a just tribute to those who have deserved so well of the re- public; for while this country has no State church and encourages the ut- most freedom of religious belief and practice, it is & fundamental error to suppose that those who are responsi- ble in any_degree for the public welfare may not in every proper way encour- age all instrumentalities in betterment of the individual man, all moral and religious movements for his higher spiritual welfare, without regard to the denominational jurisdiction in which such movements take their source, or excrcise their irfluence, They neces- sarily tend to a leaven of the whole community and to the rightesousness that exalteth a nation.” From praise of the society the presi- dent_turned to peace and arbitration, which he said could be expedited by the influence of such organizations. GIVEN $350,000 IN JEWELS BL MILLIONAIRE ADMIRER. Mrs. Helen Jenkins a €entral Figure in Smuggling Investigation, , July 7.—For an hour and a half this afternoon Mrs. Helen D. Jenkins, who savs she was given gems valued at $350,000 by a western mil- lionaire admirer, told the federal grand Jury what she knows of the alleged smuggling of jewelry into this coun- try. The grand jury is investigating reports that precious stones worth mil- lions of dollars have poured- through the port of New York without pay- ment of duty, and Mrs. Jenkins is the central figure in the inquiry which was begun by Richard Parr, the man who ran to earth the sugar weighing frauds. ! Mrs. Jenkins, handsomely zowned, drove to the grand jury in her auto- mobile which also carries a liveried footman beside the chauffeur. Sho hurried into the building unushered and left as quietly as she had come It was several hours later that ne of her visit became known and furnis| ed the first indication that the grand jury was consideriffig the jewel cases. Other witnesses in the investigation testified after her departure but their identity was withheld by the district attorney. TO SAVE A WOMAN FROM THE GALLOWS. Prominent Chicago Women Taken Up Her Cause, Have — 4 Chicago, July 7.—Some of the most prominent women of Chicago have taken up the cause of Angelina Na- politzno, who is under sentence of death for the murder of her husband at Sault Ste Marie, Canada. The date for the execution is set at August 12. Unless the calculations of the prison ‘physicians are wrons, Au- gust 9 will fall within two weeks aft- er Mrs. Napolitano has becomes a mother. The women at the head of the movement in Chicago are Mrs. Charles Henrotin of the Chicago Women's club, Mrs, Laverno W. Noyes of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, Mrs. D. D. Reilly of the Catholic Women's league, Mrsg Charles F. Fishbagk of the Tues Art and ‘Travel club, and Miss Julia Lathrop of Hull house. The campeign takes the form of an appeal to ecery woman in Chicago to write a letter fo Sir Allen Avlesworth, minister of justice in Canada, urging him to grant Mrs. Napolitano a respite until a month of six weeks. after the child is born. Forbes to Head Aeronautical Board. Bridgeport, July 7.—It 'was stated here topight that A. Holland Forbes had been notified that he would be appointed chairman of the state areo- nautical board, recently proyided for by the general assembly, and that all aviators applying for a license to fly in this state will be given trials on zn aerodrome in this city. No other mem- bers. of the board. it is understood, have been decided upon by the govern- or. . didn’t you?” asked the girl's atterney. “I did feel kindly toward her,” re- plied Stokes, turming to smile ai the two young women. Intended to Be Polite to' Her. “‘Lvhat were ydur intentions toward “To be polite to her.” In New England i | TRAGIC RECORD OF THE WEEK IN | SIX STATES. 52 DEATHS BY DROWNING i Forty-four Heat Victims in Connec- ticut—Suffield Man Driven to Sui- cide—Cool Wave Relieves the State. | New Haven, July 7.—After many days of suffeking from the intense heat the state wds relieved today by the arrival of cooling breezes and tonight for the first time since last Saturday Dpeople were able to secure a reasonably comfortable night's rest and those liv- ing in the close tenement districts of the cities able to sleep without re- course to the open places along the shore and in public parks. Eleven Deaths Yesterday. While the dro»” in temperature brought relief to the greater number - Are Imperilled STEAMER BREAKING UP ON CAL- IFORNIA COAST. LIFEBOATS CAPSIZED IN SURF | Thirty-five Occupants Thrown Into | Sea, but Many Are Rescued by Life | Savers—Wreck 300 Feet from Shore. Surf, California, July Several | passengers and sailors of the steamer | Santa Rosa of the Pacific coast steagme | ship line were drowned this afternoon | in the surf while tryinz to escape from | that vessel which stranded near Point Arguello before davlight today. Lives Pounded Out Against Rocks. In two lifeboats they left the ship, plunged into the roaring surf, and Soon were floundering in the boiling waters. The lives of some were | pounded out against the rocks, while | others sank to the bottom. Some | dislikes for it is held in a little w Zoes on in silence forever. The c keeps the balance right over aga always remembering to send with with his publication. Following is a ter: reliable Norwich Couriel our household. M. 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If you do-not have The Bulletin, now is a good time to subscribe for The pager will be left at your door daily for 12 cents a_week. wemollowing s a summary of the matter printed during the past Bullstin Telegraph Local Genera/ Tota/ i Soturday. July 1 122 154 1014 1290 Monday. -/u/}i 3 154 156 273 583 Tuesday, July 4 155 178 240 573 Wednesday, July 5 116, 128 125 369 Thursday, July 6 166 ° 151 302 619 Friday, July 7 160 133 193 485 Totat, - - - - 873 900 2147 3920 sends ses in words his ikes or his ymer regard than the reader who prompts to improvement and unstinted praise. Someone s a remittance the kindly word from v how well pleased he is g00d word from an absent daugh- y and with my home tow and my hear from another “Your paper suits ‘We had hoped to convert him, Our polities seem to act as a like a friend and brother. ber not given to words manifests we en publisher’s mind p the paper up to the standard of holds its own at a increase of perma- it came too late to save the lives of eleven of those who had been (pros- trated during the past six days. Suffield Man Blows Head Off. There was one suicide, William Snow cf Suffield, whe, temporarily crazed by the heat. blew off his head with a shotzun. The twelve deaths today brought the grand total for the week up to 44. Now a Chance for Rain. 1 The weather bureau assures that the backbone of the heat wave is effec- tually broken and now tkat it is cool- er that there will be a chance for rain to come 72 in New York. { New York, July 7—The predicted cool wave arrived on schedule time 1o The temperature shct down ten de- grees within an hour this aft-rnoon and from the high mark of 87 at 1 p. m. the mercury had dropped to 72 at nine tonight—mnine desrees under ihe record for the same hour yesterday. 29 Deaths Yesterday. Ths last day of the hot spell while early giving signs of the coming letup, was prolific in fatalities, the result of the five days of torridity which had preceded it. Twenty-nine deaths were recorded from the effects of the heat in the metropolitan territory, bringing the aggregate for the six davs the hot wave has overspread the city up to a total well over 150. Little rain fell and the drouth is still unrelieved. 207 Deaths in New England. Boston, July Figures from vari ous towns and cities in New England indicate that the deaths of 207 persons were due wholly or in part to the op- pressive heat. In_addition, 52 persons, most of whom weM seeking relief from the heat in New England waters, were drowned. » Although today was com- paratively cool, 17 deaths were report- ed in this cit; ANOTHER VICTORY.FOR MORTON F. PLANT'S ELENA.! Schooner Wins Fifth Conquest in Run Along Maine Coast. Portland, Me., July 7.—The new Plant schoooner Elena won her fifth visctory today over her rival, the Iro- | lita, by winning the first day’s run along the Maine coast of the Eastern Yacht club. The time was not figured out. with gratifying abruptness Will Ride His Pony to Hartford. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, ~ July 7.—Bradley Lees Dawley, a 14 vear old boy, left Wash. ington July 4th en route for Hartford, on horseback. He will make the trip in about ten days, and visit relatives while in-Connecticut. He is confident that his pony, Rubberneck, a she calls him, will take him safely through. Young Dawley is the son of Thomas H. Dawleq, Jr., a special agent of the department of commerce and labor. Strike on Ward Line Steamer. New York, Jily 7.—The Ward line steamer Havana, due to sail tomorrow noon for Havana, was deserted today by 75 stewards and firemen, who went out on strike for recognition of thee Atlantic Coast Seamen’s union, of ‘which they were members. The Maine Bar Association Will Give a complimentary banquet to Chief Justice Lucullius Emory ef Ellsworth in Bangor, Me., Thursday evening, July | 27, the day following his retirement from the bench. > i bodies were washed ashore At 9.30 o'clock tonight the Santa Ro- sa was almost submerged and frantic efforts were being made to save the rest of the two hundred passengers still on board. Ship Will Be Complete Wrack. At that hoar the government wire- less station at Point Arguelle reported that the vessel had broken amidships and that imn se breakers were dash- ing over her. The ship will probably Fe a complete wreck and it seemed likely that at that time that the num- ber of dead would be increased. Abandonment of Steamer Forced. The doom of the steamer was seal- ed late today whksn a wind stirred a a2 and forced the abaideament assengers of to the schooner Cen- tralia which with the schooner Helen ol 4 had previously made abortive efforts to float her. ’p to that time there was no apprehension among of- the Sant ficers of the stranded vessel It was thought she could be floated. Expected to Float Her. Captain Fariel answered wiréless. queries with the statement that the ship apparently was lying easy and would be floated at the crest of the tide: tonight. Began to Break up on Breakers. As the wind rose, however, the Santa Rosa swung broadside to the breakers and began to break up. The crash of breaking timbers and overstrained steel could be heard by the w men at Point Arguello. First Lifeboat Launched. The first lifeboat was launched at dark after every effort had been mad; to establish boat communication with the Centralia, Shore Only 300 Feet Away. The shore lay only 200 feet from the breken ship, but the lifeboat could not make it. It bobbed like a cork on the crest of the breakers and the next in- stant was submerged. Sixteen Dashed to Death. There were-sixteen persons in this boat, eleven passengers and five sail ors, | merce commission. | at his home in Lawrence, Kan. | 381 tacked on by the senate comm died while at work in the field. | The Bulletin's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population 'Lives of 200 Condensed Telegrams A Milk Famine Threatens Provi- dence, R. L, following the period of hot weather. Riotous Strikers Engaged in a fierce conflict with police and soldiers at Amsterdam. Many es Were Lost and other damage done by a typhoon off Yoko- hama, Japan, The Rea Packing Company of Pitts- burg was burned yesterday, causing a loss of $200,000. A Number of Informal Rulings were handed down by the interstate com- The Town of _Maxville, Glenzarry coun: Ontario, was nearly destroyea by fire. Loss 100,000, James Traaund Rescued two compan- jons from drowning in New York har- bor, but lost his own life. Thousands of Cotton Operatives in Manchester, England, are idle as a re- It of the seamen’s strike. % Congressman A. C. Mitchell of the ond Kansas district died yesterday An Urgent Deficiency Bill, with $181 tee, wa s reported to the senate. William Loudon a Norwalk farm- | hand, was overcome by the heat and | David Soffer of 388 Grand Street, New York city, was drowned while bathing in a pond at Litchfield. Conn. Joel H., White was fined $5 and coscts on a charge of having horsewhippel two young girls, e the South Norwalk court. The Body of a Man, Tied Securely in a heavy burlap bag, was found floating in the Oswego canal at Phoe- nix, N. Y. 7 Exhausted from the Heat, James Corcoran, 54 years old, a well known Marlboro hotel clerk, was found dead yesterday. Rear Admiral Melville says he agrees with General Bixby that the battleship Maine was blown up by one of her own magazines. Before a "House Committee federal xpert Prof. Elliott and Fish | ioner Powers called each oth- er perjurers. Governor McGovern has signed a bill authorizing the state to éngage in the annuity and life in surance business after next vear. | of Wisconsin | The Steel Men's Conferehce in Brus- | sels adjourned after a committee had | been appointed to work out a plan for | an ihternational steel organization. Reports from the Bering Sea Patrol fleet of revenue cutters say the ice has only recently broken up enough to let| the first ship of the season into Nome. | Earl Gray, British Secretary of for-i 1 eign affairs, announced in the house of commons that the American-British | arbitration treaty would soon be sign- ed. United States Ambasador Deid and | Mrs. Reid gave a reception at Dorches- | ter house, London, to the American del- | egation to the Institute of Naval Arch- | itects. A Bolt of Lightning Struck the Farm | buildings of George Holmes at Hart- ford, Me.. and they were totally de- Vi v fire, together with most of the contents. Representative Norris, the Kansas in- | surgent, charges that Secretary to the President Hilles is the head of a news | bureau and is trying to belittle Lafol- | lette sentiment. .. . .“Lieutenant” Karl con Metz Meyer, y an officer of the army | and dressed as a society ex* | te, was held in $2,000 bail for bur- | glary in Brooklyn. | Despatches to R. G. Dun & Co. State that while the extremely hot weather | in many sections has retardad t activity, business on the whole is Iy well maintained. Damage Estimated at *More Than $10,000 was done at North Anson, Me.. Thursday by a small cyclon h raised havoc in town and severed alll wire communication, Attorney General Wickersham, in addressing the Michigan State Bar as- | sociation, declared the tobacco and Standard Oil decisions prove the Sher- man law an effective weapon against the trusts. The Discovery of the Clothing of Joseph Braico, aged 27, in a bath house at Cranston, R. I, leads to the belief that the man, who has been missing from home since Wednesday, was drowned. The Final Signatures Were Affixe: to the treaty for the protect 2 life shortly before noon y the state department, and th tion will be submitted immediately tha senate. . w0 A Fire Started by Lightning in the cupola of Goff Memorial hall, at Re- hoboth, Mass., smouldered all night and yesterday broke out into flames and consumed the building. The loss is about $10,000. Another Boat Meets Same Fate. Another boat was launched /by the frantic people sboard the steamer. It met the same fate. There were about 19 persons in this boat. Fifteen man- aged to reach shore alive, battered and most of them unconscious. Loss of Life Smail. cisco, July 7.—A wireless message direct from the Point Argueila life station, where the San Rosa was wrecked, indicates. that the loss of life has been very small. The Point A guella operator says that life savers succeeded in rescuing all but ten or twelve of those lost overboard from the capsized boat. TORRINGTON LOVE AFFAIR ENDS IN GIRL’S SUICIDE Eighteen-Year-Old Mary Tornijos flmp. in Front of Train. Torrington, July 7.—Despondent, it is alleged, because her lover refused to marry her, Mary Tornijos, 18 years old, committed suicide tonight by jumping in front of a passenger train. She is alleged to have said that she asked a certaln man to marry her and that he refnsed and that she was go- ing to kill herself. ‘ The Congressional Reapportionment bill svax favorably reported to the sen-| ol Complaint of Unreasonable Delays in securing release of goods held in stor- age at the port of New York was made to the house committee on expendi- tures in tha2 treasury department by B. A. Leavitt of New York. The Manner of the Arrest of the Mc- Namaras with® others in connection th the destruction of the Los An- geles Times building will form the sub- ject of reptesentations to the senate “third degree” committee at a meeting today. Samuel L. Wellman of Omaha, Neb., journeying in company with his daugh- ter from Pittsfield, Mass., to New York, dropped ‘dead yesterday of heart dis- ease in the Danbury station of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. George L. Marion, the New York nc-i or, under sentence of death at Wilkes- barre for the murder of his wife, was refused a new trial by the superior court and will now be hanged unless the board of pardons interferes, which is improbable. The Rev. John H. Districh, Who Re- signed the pastorate of St. Mark’s Re- formed church at Pittsburg when tie All=gheny classes charged him with failing to preach in accordance with the creed of the Reformed church, has decided to unite with the Unitarian church - B . B 3 | and a dozen 1if |Atwood Plays _In Hard Luck BULLDOG MIXES OP WITH ONE OF THE PROPELLERS. ALMOST CAPSIZED BY WIND Biplane Plunges Down Close to tha Surf—Hamilton ‘of Waterbury With the Daring Boston Birdman. Atlantic City, N.'J., July 7.—The cu~ riosity of a bulldog endangered the lives of Harry N. Atwood and arles K. Hamilton, the aviators, this after- noon, and winds compelied them ta abandon their proposed flight te ‘Washington. Poked Its Nose Into Propeller. Just as their biplane was, starting, a dog, running across thé beach, poked its noose into one of the whirling pro- pellers. The inquisifive “canine was killed and one of the blades of the propeller was slightly split. Hamilton Repairs Damage. After some delay, Hamilton suc- ceeded in temporai v repairing the damage, and despite a stiffening north- aest wind further effort to get into the air was made. Biplase Rises 200 Fest, A great cheer went up from the im- mense crowd as the biplane begai to ascend with the two-daring birdmen. It rcse to ‘a height of about 100 feet, but sailed unsteadi Struck by Gusts of Wind. As the macine was a short distance offshore, passing T1linois avenue, guests of wind sweeping around the corners of the big hotels struck the biplane with terrific force. Machine Nearly Capsized. Atwood kept his nerve, and was at- tempting to swing around toward the shore when a gust of wind nearly cap- sized it and it plunged downward and forward onto the beach, close to the water line, Land Close to Breakers. For the moment it was feared that the nervy birdmen would be caught in the breakers. They were hidden be- hind a cloud of spray for a moment, e guards who were on duty watching the bathers plunged in to the surf and assisted the two avi- ators to get the machine out of reach of the breakers. Machine Damaged Beyond Repair. The machine was damaged beyond immedfate repair, so + e flight was called. off for the day NO ADJOURNMENT FOR TAFT'S YACHTING PARTY. Senate Will Hold a Session With Several Absentees. Today ‘Washington, July vachting party on w senators are to be —President Taft's ch a number of entertained in a | cruise from Philadelphia to Washing- | ton tomorrow and Sunday, led to an unsuccessful effort in the senate late today to secure an adjournment over to Monday umimins declared he did not series of amendments voted upon in the absence of Chairman Pen- rose of the finance committee and of a number of “the most prominent and in- fluential senators;” and he did not nt to make them “give up the pleas- ant breezes of the ocean for the sultry atmosphere of. the senate chamber.” An agreement for a vote on the Cum- mins’ amendménts Monday was then sought, but objections Dy Senmator Heyburn and others finally forced Mr. Cummins to withdraw this motion. He announced, however, that he would de- mand separate roll calls upon any of his amendments, notably those for free admission of flour and cereal products, fresh and canned meats and lumber, woolen and cotton products. Senator Gronna concluded his anti- reciprocity speech begun vesterday and Senator Thornton of Louisiana, opposed the reciprocity measure. Sen- ator Swanson of Virginia urged a plan of federal and for state road con- struetion and Senator Owen of Okla- ho gave the details of a plan for municipal government administration. OHIO JUDGE WAS READY TO FIGHT. Almost a Personal Combat in Case of George B. Cox. Cincinniti, July 7.—Charging that Judge William Dickson had “multila-~ ted” the record of the George B. Cox perjury case, Assistant Prosecutor Coleman Avery almost precipitated a personal encounter in chambers to- day that ended in his being ordered to leave the room. The irate judge is said to have offered to settle the dis- pute by personal combat. “You made up this bill of exceptions to suit yourself,” Avery told the judg The row followed, Avery finally quit- ting the chambers. Judge Dickson declared afterwards that he had attempted to correct the bill in a few miner particulars and then, on the order to send another bill to the higher court had had the pages containing the interlineations and era- sures copied. SPANISH PAPERS COMMENT ON BIXBY’S STATEMENT. Spain Had to Give Up Posse is Not Dishonored. ons, but Madrid, July 7.—All the papers print today the statement of Brigadier Gen- eral William H. Bixby, chief of engi~ neers, U. S, A, that he believed that the destruction of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor was caused by thae explosion of her magazines, and not by an external force. The A. B. C. in commenting upon the statement says that it will be shown that although Spain had to give up her American possessions, she has not been dishonored. Steamship Arrivals. At Naples: July 6, Batavia, from New York; July, 4th, San Giorgio,from New York. t Havre: from Neéw York. At Naples: July 7, Cretic, from New York via Azores and Gibraltar. July 6, Caroline, Postal Savings Bank_ at Rockville, (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, July 7.—The postoffice at Rockville is the only Conmnecticut office among the fifty additional postal savings depositories announced the postmaster general today. The ¢ its will be recelved on and after