Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 10, 1911, Page 1

* FIFTY MADE INSANE BY HOT WAVE] Cebled , The Bulletin’s Circulation o e . p”“ " PRICE TWO CENTS in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total 'Gimulati'on is the Lé,rgest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population Half a Hundred Patients Now Under .Ob- servation in the Washington Asylum TWENTY OF TIIE VICTIMS ARE WOMEN N Five Deaths and Two Suicides at Pittsburg Yesterday— Kingston, N. Y., Druggist Dies From Effects of Heat—Weather Men Predict Cooler Weather This| Week After a Warm Opening—Kansas Gets Rain. Washington, July 9.—Driven insane By the intense heat of the past week, fifty persons. twenty of them women, are being held in the Washington asy- lum hospital for observation. Believes Most of Them Will Recover. Dr. D. Percey Hickling, chief con- sulting physician at the hospital, ex- presses the belief that most of the patients will recover. 101 at Washington. Th official temperaturs today was 94 Gegrees, thoush in the downtown streets thermometers registered 101. No Prostrations, Owing to o refreshing breeze, how- ever, there were no prostrations and little suffering. Druggist Dies from Heat. Kingston, . July 9.—The excgs- @ive heat clai a viet!m tonight in Alexander Hasbrouck, a wealthy re- tired drug merchant of New York city. Dfr. Hasbrouck has been at a hoi here since Memorial day. The direct cause of his death is said by physicians 1o be paralvsis of the brain, caused by the heat was 65 years old. Twe Cases of Insanity. Pittsburz, July 9.—The maximum of- fcia) tem re today was 92 de- | gress. Five cpaths were reported dur- trom the heat, while two it 1s said, from ing the d 94 at Boston. July 9.—After two days of ;ather, following la: week, the omfortably 4 oclock this thermometer at istered 94, on'y last Sunday's san .y reau r than lock tomight the mer- groes At 10 o dropped to $3 degrees. For- humidity was only slight- e normal. Mercury Above 90 in New England. New York, July 9—Following closely | f last wesk's record hot area of Nigh tempera- -ud the eastern section of | Saayaan todsy. Although only a ! 35 was reached in this 2 rmometer ran well up in the 90's in upstate sections, in Nes Englend and in the Atlantic states to | th. Albany and Boston both 1 temperatures of 94, and Port- | Me. of 92. rrence of th e hot weather | Fve deaths in Greater @1 are attributed, making a | 203 victims. | HOT IN CONNECTICUT. Thermometers Almost as High as Hot- test Day Last Week. 5 —rhe | us most New ¥ er which was with hour last night. of last week and disapeared for two days returned today with almost full vigor. . In many of the towns of the state thermometers registered within a few degrees of the maximum attained last week, but the humidity was not great and the suffering was accord- ingly less. In New Haven the ther- mometer officlally avas 90 during the day, while at 8 o'clock tonight it was only 79, and a breeze which had been blowing all day gradually died down as the night avanced. In Woodbury it was registered 104, three degrees less than the highest last week. In Bristol it was 93, with little or no air stirring. In Hartford the official fig- ures were 9 and unofficially 105. There were no prostrations reported in the state. COCLER WEATHER IS DUE THIS WEEK. Will Open Up Warm, But Thunder Showers Are Expected. ‘Washington, July 9.—Comparatively cool weather is to prevail throughout the country during the present week, according to the general weekly fore- cast issued by the weather bureau to- day. Warm weather will mark the opening days of the week in the middle Atlantic and New England states, but is expectad to disappear before local thunder showers. Three Deaths at Baltimore. \ Baltimore, July 9.—Another hot wave descended on this city today, causing three deaths and several prostrations. A maximum official temperature of 30 degrees was registered at 5 p. m. LUCKY KANSAS. Rain Soaked That State Yesterday, After Six Weeks' Drought. Kansas City, Mo., July 9. —Breaking up & six weeks' dronght, a rain of from a quarter to three-gquarters of an inch soaked nearly all Kansas today. Pros- pects are good for heavier rains. The rain was general over the south- west. In Oklahoma the precipitation n parts of the state was from one to four inches. In Missouri the rainfall was slight. Gobod rains fell over north- ern Nebraska and southern South Da- kota also. Nine Deaths in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July 9 —With a maxi- mum temperature of 90 degrees and a death list of nine, the heat spell which showed signs of breaking yesterday continued here today with ~renewed severity. Today's maximum was five Qegrees greater than yesterday, while a 8 o'clock tonight the mercury stood At 86, ten higher than at the same LAND TRANSFER TO BE INVESTIGATED. TOAL " Said to Have | Brother of Py De It . July 9.—President Taft's | nst a1 lands at Con r _Ha the forest n wil it be m et ¢ ‘the land offic have been sum- | the commit- Den- ir before o been investi- P 2 be ques- tion z state r Seorctary of the Interior Bal- | 1 n which the former declared that (harles I . ‘brother of the Ppreside 10 asked the chief exec- ative t e ihe Controller Bay order. CEVEN BALLOONS IN ELIMINATION RACE | Rir Monsters Ready to Get Away at a Moment's Notice. E P P ana o pooe pational morrow onauts Mo. n_perfec rking, ands comi at will b W h the m. the July 9 e ball leted i | | | | 2 the tonight sssert now get aw ar he so t < Tit and zoss onizht are that weather ct tomorrow. hed for a cool A good rain fell this afiernoon, lowering the tem- peratre scversl degrecs, and a covling eeze came in the wake of the rain of SIXTEEN LIQUOR RAIDS BY POLICE AT BRISTOL. Sixteen Proprictors Held in $200 for Trial Today. eristol, July 9.—In automo- biles and with automobile trucks to take away the liquor found, the poll todey raided sixteen places where in- ftoxicants are being sold illezally and arresied the sixteen alleged propriztors of the places. The accused were taken Before = special session of the bor- ough cour: and sach held under $200 Bonds for trial tomorrow. Soldier Falls Five Stories. Boston, July 9—Montreville M. Gar- Jow of Mergantown. W. Va., a private in the 15ist artillery corps ac Fort Andrew, was instantly kiiled early to- @ay by raliing from the fifth story of & hotel. The body was discovered hanginz over an awning by a passerby &ad it was removad (0 a morgue. How .r happened to fail is un- MEN MOVED TO TEARS AT ATLANTIC CITY PIER. Stirring Addresses at Big Christian En- deavor Meeting for Men. Atlantic C : . mén's meeting on the Million Doll pier this afternoon in connection with the 25th international Christian En- deavor. convention was one of the largest ever held here. Men were moved to tears by some of the stirring addresses. Fred B. Smith, secretary of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian associations of New York, gas one of the principal speakers. Before the services ended more than one hundred men rose in testimony of resolution toward more Christian endeavor. In the crowd that packed the audi- torfum was August Hermann of Cin- cinnati, grand exalted ruler of tite| Elks. who hold their .annual reunion here this week, and nearly his entire delegation. In the women's meeting held on the pler at the same time Mrs. Wood Allen Chapman of New York was one of the principal speakers. Tonight's meetings were crowded. Commander Eva Booth, on the pro- gramme as one of the big speakers. was unabla to attend, and her staff telecraphed her regrets. Former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks arrived here this afternoon and is the guest of the Rav. Francis Clark, founder of the Christian En- deavor society. He will speak tomor- row night The pulpits of nearly all the Protest- ant churches in the city wers filled at th> morning and evening services by ting clerzymen. BOY LOVER SHOOTS A _ FIFTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL. Committed After He Had Kneeled in Supplication. 9.—T Crime New York, July 9.—Because 15 yvear old Madeline Fritz spurned the love of her former sweetheart, Peter Wick, 17 vears old, pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot her tonight. Passers- by who had paused to listen tho his ardent pleading saw him kneel in sup- plication to the girl just before he akot her. The shooting occurred on the street in front of a house where the girl was visiting. Sh will proba- Dy recover. Wick was losked up on a charge of felonious assaulf $30,000 Gift to Y. W. C. A. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 9.—William W. Smith, Poughkeepsie's philanthro- pist, has given $30,000 to the Young Women's Christian Association to pay for an addition just built to the asso- ciation’s $100.000 building. . Mr. Smith's gifts to local charitable institutions now total nearly a million dollars. $75,000 Blaze at Musgrave Harbor. North Sydney, N. S., July 9.—News of a disastrous fire at Musgrave Har- bor, Newfoundland. was brought here today by °the Newfoundland mail steamer. All of the principal shop: of the town, wharves and several resi ed. The Paragraphs Paris, July 9.—The condition of John W. Gafes is reported as unchanged from yesterday, when improvement was noted. Paris, July 9.—Eugene Pfizer's Hin- dou IL today won the Prix de la Riv- jere. a selling hurdle event at one mile, five and one-half furlongs, at the Auteuil course, Mourmelon, France, July 9.—Aero- planist Loridan yesterday reached aa altitude of 10,761 feet. The time of ascent was $3 minutes. This mark is claimed as a record. Birmingham, Eng., July 9.—Joseph Chamberlain celebrated his 75th birth- day at his home, Highbury, yesterday. The veteran statesman was the recipi- ent of world-wide consratulations. Sulina, Roumania, July 9.—As an at- tempt was being made to float tha stranded river steamer Queenborough yesterday an explosion occurred on one of the wrecking tugs. Two men wera killed. Christiania, Norway, July 8.—The @ispute of the mine ~wnars snd s over wages and conditions of employ- | ment culminated yesterday in a locs- out of 15,000 men at various points in Norway. If a settlement is not react ed within a week, 17,000 more em- ployes will be shut out. Paris, July 9.—The French cabinet, vhich met for the special purpose of discussing the Moroccan situation, de- cided to take up pourparlers active and in a conciliatory spirit with Ger- many, which is expected to outline her desires to Jules Cambon, the French | ambassador to Germany, who is due ia Berlin from Paris tonight. Budapest. Hungary, July 9.—Two earthquake shocks were felt early ves terday morning in the town of Kecske- met, thirty miles distant from this city A panic followed, thz inhabitants rush. ing out into the streets and assembling in the squares. Hundreds of chim- | neys were overturned and the town| hall and other buildings more or less | damaged. POLICE TRACING THOSE MISSING STOKES LETTERS. A Thorough Investigation of Their isappearance to Be Made. New York, July 9.—A thorough in- vestigation to determine the manner | in_which nine of the eighteen letters | written by W. E. D. Stokes, the mil-| lionaire hotel man, to Lillian Graham, the show girl, allegad to have been ab- | stracted from the package found in| Miss Graham's room, has been bezun | by_the police department. James Cummings, a hotel detective, | was pressed to an admission on ths | witness stand on Friday that he took | the package from the voung women's | Atlantic ity Welcomes Elks VISITING DELEGATIONS ARE MET ‘WITH A BAND. BIG GAIN IN MEMBERSHIP Grand Secretary’s Report Shows Net Increase of 28,389 and Total Assets of $17,000,000—Candidates for Ruler. Atlantic City, N. J. July 9.—Purple and white bunting envelopes this re- sort and elk’s heads and clocks with their hands pointing to the mystic Thour of 11 are in almost every availabie niche in honor of visiting members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks who have been coming to town by the hundreds from every section of the country since vesterday. Gov. Wilson to Bid Them Welcome. While the convention does not be- gin until tomorrow night when Gov. Woodrow Wilson will bid the antlered herd welcome, the reunion has already begun. : Band Welcomes Delegations. Delegations from the local lodge in their while suits met every incoming train today with a band of music. Big Increase of Membership. The annual report of Grand Exalted Ruler Garry Hermann of Cincinnati, and Grand Secretary Robinson show forty new lodges and a net Increase of 28,389 in membership, bringing the total number of Elks up to 359,667. Elkdom’s Total Assets $17,000,000. The order distributed nearly a half- million dollars in chasity last year, and the total assets of all the Elk lodzes are more than $17,000,000. Three Candidates for Exalted Ruler. Booms of various candidates for of- fices in the grand lodge are already well under way. The Louisiana EIks are shouting for Col. John P. Sullivan, former_district ttoraey of New Or- leans, for grand exalted ruler. Other formidable candidates are Charles A. Rasbury of Dallas, Texas, and Arthur C. Moreland of New York. Election Comes Tuesday. ' The election is set for Tuesday. THREE SCOTTISH MASONS HERE FOR MYSTIC SHRINE EVENT Are Members of Oldest Masonic Lodgs in the World. room in the presence of police Getec- | tives two days after the shooting of Stokes and put it in his pocket. Later, | he sald, he turned the package over o | Stokes’ counsel. i A deputy police commissioner exam- | ined this afternoon the three detctives | left in charge of Miss Graham’'s room | after the shooting. e declines to make public his findings or to say whether Cummings’ testimony had | been corroboratad. He did say, how- | ever, that he hoped to trace the miss- | ing letters to. thelr ultimate disposi- | tion. ANCTHER CLOSE CALL FOR ATWOOD AND HAMILTON Engine Trouble Causes a Sudden Shoot to the Ground. Atlantic City, N. I., July 9—Harry N, Atwood and Charles K. Hamilton. the aviators, had another narrow escape from injury when they again attempt- ed to start on their flight to Washing- y of Wilmington. Del., and After sailing along about of a mile the machine, { a quarter | Which belongs to Hamilton, suddenly | shot to the grcund, wrecking the tail | of the biplane and damaging the pro- pellers. Engine trcuble was responsi- ble for the mishap. The attempted flisht was made at Ventnor, south of this city, shortly aft- er 10 a.'m., and the men spent the re- mainder of the day repairing the ma. chine with parts taken from Atwood’s biplane, which was damaged last week in their first attempt to cet away from here. The repairs were completed this evening and it was announced that the aviators would make another effort to start at five o’elock tomorrow morni INCREASE OF PAY FOR RURAL MAIL CARRIERS Over 40,000 to Receive an Raise of $100 a Year. Washington, July 19.—It was an- nounced today that the forty thou- sand-odd rural free delivery carriers in the Tnited States are to receive salary increases of $4,009,000 during the cur- Tent fiscal year, which will mean an increase of $100 over the present sal- ary of $990 for all carriers on standard routes with proportionate increaseson the shorter routes. During the current vear the rural service will cost the government about $40,000,000. the estimated loss being about $25,000,000. The postmas- ter general expressed the belief that the percel post svstem under proper management would insure the main- tenance and proper extersion of the rural free delivery serviee as a self- supporting branch of the postal serv- ice. The rural deliver ed fiftcen vears ago who were paid only $200 July 1 there were 41,562 c aggregate salaries Average iers, their $35,795,000. WORCESTER MAIDEN WEDS A TITLE. Miss Rachel Workman Becomes Lady McRobert. London, July 3.—The marriage is just announced of Sir Alexander Mc- Robert, manager and director of the Cawnpore Woolen mills of Cawnpore, British India, and Miss Rachel Work- man, daughter of Dr. William H. Workman, the noted explorer, and Mr: ¥anny Bullock Workman, the mounta climber, of Worcester, Mass. The mar- riage took place at York on July 7. Sir Alexander McRobert received his knighthood in 1910, Before going to Cawnpore in 1888 he was a lecturer at several noted colleges. He was presi- dent of the upper India chamber of commarce for nine vears. Jockey Killed by Merchant. Men phis, Tenn., July 9—Thomas Do- lan, 26 years old, formerly a well- known jockey, has shot and instantly killed tonight by J. S. Hughes, a mer- ' sured for $2,500, but the sentimental ckant and planter of Haynes, Ark., n a room occupled by Hughes in a hotel. The shooting followed a dispute over a diamond stud that Hughes says he miscad New York, July 9—Two hundred and nineteen Mystic Shriners from Texas ended here today a 2,000-mile cruise from Galveston, when the Mallory line steamer Mohawk reached her dock. The Texans were met by a committee of Mecca temple of tnis city, whose guests they were during the twelve hours spent in New York before con- tinuing to Rochester for the conven- tion of the order which opens there Tuesday. Among other Masons of high rank who reached New York today are three representatives of St. John's lodge of Glasgow, Scotland, the oldest Masonic lodge in the world. Worship~ ful Master James Strang, Past Mas- ter Andrew Brown and Junior War- den John W. Dempster compose the party, Mr. Brown brought with him the badge of his office, an exquisite gold chain, the central link of its for- ty golden shields ana stars being the officiel seal of the lodge, the gift of Malcolm Canmore, king of the Scots, in the vear 1057. The chain is in- value attached to it places it far above price. The Swots will Temain in weeks. America s BOY SCOUTS HUNT FOR ONE OF THEIR NUMBEH.I Willie Leahy Has Disappeared from His Home in Lewiston, Me. New York, July 9.—The Boy Scouts | of America are searching in two coun- tries for a high private who is missing | from the ranks,according to announce- | ment made here tonight by Daniel Beard, leader of the movement. The | missing lad is Willie Leahy, age 15, of Lewiston, Me. His mother, Mrs. John Leahy, wrote to Mr. Beard, tell- ing him that her boy was a scout and asking Mr. Beard to have the other boys in the orzanization search for | him. Mr. Beard complied, and postal cards bearing the lad’s picture and asking the members to join in the | general quest have been mailed to every camp in this country and Can- ada. Willie Has $5 Bill. Lewiston, Me., July William the son of Mr. and Mrs- John | y, has been missing frm his home in this city since June 8. He was giv- en a five dollar bill to pay a goccery account, but did not go to the store. His disappearance was between two | dates on Wwhich circuses exhibited here, and the theory is advanced that he went with one or the other of these. WORST FOREST FIRE IN MAINE’'S HISTORY Five Hundred Men Engaged in Fight- ing It Last Night. Kineo, Maine, July 9—Five hundred mer, are engaged tonight in fighting one of the worst forest fires that Maine has ever known, It has already burn- ed over an area scven miles long in Enchanted Township, causing a_loss estimated at $125,000, and there is no Prospect of stopring the spread. Men are being drafted from other town- ships by the' authorities to assist in the work, In the French Town district a fire has been burning several davs in spite of the efforts of 300 men to control it Still another serious fire is burning on Lobster mountain. FRIENDLY CONFERENCE OVER MOROCCAN CASE French Ambassador and German Sec- retary of State Talk It Over. . Perlin, July 9.—Tae Moroccan sit- uation was the subject of a half-hour’s conference this afternoon between the French ambassad Jules Cambon, and Baron von Kiderlon Waechter, secretary of state for foreign affairs, According to a semi-official statement the exchange of views shows that no cause for anxiety exists, but that, on the contrary, there is a sincere desire to reach an understanding regarding. any differences between the two na- tions. The Will of Frederick A.'Keep, a retired business man, was filed for pro- te. | occupants of the store To Avert the Forest Fires FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO AID THE STATES. | MAINE WILL RECEIVE $10,000 | Agreements Completed With States — Connecticut’s S Five Agreement Pending at Washington. Washington, July 9.—Forest fire co- operative agreements between the de- partment of agriculture and five states have been completed. To Spend $25200 a Year. These agreements provide for the expenditure by the federal government ©of $25,200 on the forests in these states for their protection from fire during the ensuing year. 3 Appalachian Forest Rgserve Act. They arc made possible under the terms of the so-called Appalachian for- est reserve act, L Maine Gets $10,000. The states, which have so far com- pleted plans’ for receiving a share of the money appropriated under the law are Maine $10,000; Vermont $2,000: New Hampshire 3$7,200; New Jersey $1,000; and Wisconsin $5,000. Money to Pay Patrolmen. The money is to be used exclusively for the employment of patrolmen. To obtain the money each state must ex- pend a like amount during the same period and the plans for the fire pro- tection must receive the approval of the department of agriculture, $10,000 to Be the Maximum. As only $200,000 was appropriated for this purpose this vear, the officials of the forest reserve have decided to Iimit to $10,000 the amount given to any ome stat Agreements Pending with Connecticut. Similar agreements now are pending with Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ma- ryland and Minnesota. DEFAULTING GIRECTOR SURRENDERS HIMSELF Left Bedside of Dying Wife to Give | Himself Up. Indianapolis, July 9.—Frank J. Via- =on, 48 vears old, formerly director of the Columbia club which entertain- ed President Taft last Tuesday and auditor of the Brown-Ketcham iron works of this city, tonight surrender- ed to the police after a warrant, charging him specifically with the em. bezzlement of $4,460 from the iron works company, had been. issued, 1t is said the total alleged shortage will reach $56,000. Vinson left the bedside of his wife, who is said to be dying of heart dis- ease, to give himself up. He was later released on a $2,500 bonda. - ‘The alleged defalcations were dis- covered when the company went into the hands of a receiver in Jumne and expert accountants were put to work on the books of the company. MEXICAN POLITICS GETTING STRENUOUS. Eight Killed and Fifteen Injured in a Political Riot. Oaxaca, Mexico, July 9-—Eight men were killed and more than wounded during a_political riot in Ocotlan last night. Partisans of Beni- to Juarez, ome of the two candidates for governor, began the riot by lead- ing an attack upon mercantile estab- lishments of the Diaz Brothers, rela- tives of General Felix Diaz, the oppo- sition candidate for governor. Armed resistance on the part of the increased ‘the fury of the mob, which ran amu through the principal streets of the little town, breaking windows of pri- vate and business houses. In a short time the partisans of Diaz rallied and their leaders led them in a counter mob. Several owners of stores attacked posted themselves on top of thelr buildings and shot into the attackilng mob, Most of the deaths STEAMER AGROUND ON SHOVELFUL SHOAL Passengers Remain on Board as She Is Not in Danger. Chatham, Mass.,, July 9.—The iron steamer Kershaw of the Merchants and Miners line, carrying freight and | 24 passengers from Beston to Balti- more, after midnight on Shovelful Shoal Rib off Monomy Point, and lies imbedded in sand, after several ineffectual at- tempts made today to pull her off. Her passengers and crew remained on board today, as the steamer is in an easy position and in no immediate danger. The cargo is being lightersd and it is believed she can be dragged off on the nigh tide tonight or tomorrow morning. KILLED BY LIGHTNING WHILE IN HAMMOCK Alfred Lequesne, Well Known Bowler, Meets Sudden Death. Royalton, 0., July Alfred Le- quesne, a _bowler of national reputa- tion, was killed by lightning here late today. With his wife he was in hammock under a tree when the bolt struck him, killing him instantly. His wife fell to the ground unconsfious, but was not injured. Lequesne was a meraber of the Dond team of Cleve- land which broke the world's record at the Buffalo international tournament last winter. He was 42 years old. Waterbury Man Falls O: Board. ‘Waterbury, Conn., July 9.—Frederick Grenier of East Main street while rid- Runing ing on the running board of a Cheshire | car bound to this city at 8.30 tonight fell and received a concussion of the brain and possibly a fracture of the skull. His condition is critical. Scollard Returns to Hamilton. Utica, Y., July 9.—Clinton Scol- lard has accepted the professorship of English literatvre st Hamilton college and will bezin his duties this fall. He was gradua‘ed at Hamilton in the class of 1881. Afterward he studied at Harvard and at Cambridge univer- sity, He was professor of English ature in Hamilton college from 1883 to 1296, resiging to devote him- self to study and to poetry - |Condensed Telegrams | fifteen | went ashore in the fog shortly | al There Were 107 Deaths Caused by ?vemkm Greatér New York the past ecl Ira Erastus Davenport, the famous Spiritaalist, ied in Chaut: - Sotsttugly auqua coun. A Marked Decline in . Mill Share quotations has been noted during tha past week. The Text of the Anglo-Americal | arbitration has been sent to the pup lic printer. { yLeo Stevens Ascended from a New | ork skvscraper on a balloon voy to Philadelphia, idmie Detroit Has Demanded $200 2 Da; of the Detroit United railway for s of certain streets. France is Suffering from a Heat ave more intense' than the country has exvevienced sincs 1900, . A $2000,006 Hospital, to be erected at Kansas City, will be modeled after | the Johns Hopkins hospital. A Report of the Bureau of Labor shows that foodstuffs reached their highest prices in March, 1710, ! Forty Marines, About One-Tenth of those quarterad at the Brooklyn navy vard, have taken French leave. & The Recent Aviation Races in France show conclusively the marked pros. ress that has been made.in aviation, The Troubles of the Ward Line sea- men ovor ths auestion of wages and conditions of labor have been settled. Hundreds of Fish in Stump Lake at Neshua, N. H., were found fnina the banks, victims of the recent hot spell. The Senate Defeated 14 to 32 the | Cummings amendment to the Canadian reciprocity bill to add meats to the frae list. |, Maurice Arnold de Forrest, a heredi- tary baron of the Austrian empire, | has been elected to the British house i of commons, W, E. Sedgewood and Miss Shalleck, of New Yirk were drowned while fishing in Big Tupper lake, in the Adirondacks. James Pettit, Treasurer of the Pea- vey Grain company, was drqwned in Lake Michigan near his Waukegan, I, | summer home. A Comet With a Visible Tail that | may be observed with opera glasses is reported by Prof. R. G. Aitken of Lick observatory. | The U. S. Gunboat Vicksburg reliev J. S. g reliev- | ed the Yorkiown at Corinte, Nisaraa. | to keep an eve on the unsettled condi- tions in Nicaragua. | Los Angeles, Cal, Was Selected - the meeting. e for holding the 1913 international <on nof Ahe Chrie tian Endeavor u i | Cipriano Castro, the Exiled President | of Venezuela, effected a landing on the | western coast of Venezuela and has a following of 1,000 men, - Stephen Bridges Declares that his | | wife ana_another woman. gave & total | of 325,000 to Albert See, founder of | the Absolute Life cult, of Chicago. | Aoproximately 64,000 Acres’of Farm {lands in Alberta, Canada, have been | | taken by New England pzop This involves an investment of §: 0,000, { Charles Grater, a Prominent Resident | Qf Amherst, N. H, was burned to i | death on his farm néar Lake Baboosic while flames were raging in the wood- land near by. | “All News to Me,” Said Russell Gris- | | wold Colt, when he was told that re- port had it that his wife, Ethel more, ‘the actress, is planning to | him for divorce. | . Two Brothers, Jesse K. and Warren | H. Buffum, of Winchester, N. H., start- |ed from Boston Saturday on a 4.000 | mile walk across the continent in the interest of scienca. Representative Lindberzh of Minne- cota, proposing an investigation to de- | termine if there exists a combination of financiers in the United States oper- ating in restraint of trade. Tod Ballard Was Killed and Charles McDonald was probably fatally in- jured when lightning struck a carry- all filled with men going to a baseball game at Barboursville, K. King George and Quesn Mary did not receive a very enthusiastic welcome in Ireland. The men in the crowd in Dublin did not raise their hats. The & mayor took no part in the recep- tion. | The Judges and Jury in the Camorra trial at Viterbo, Italy, made an ex- | aminaticn of papers and articles seiz. fed at the home of Vitozzi, the priest known as the guardiar angel of the | Camorra. | _As a Result of Terrible Conflicts | with an enraged bull, two men lay dead at their homes at Dover, N. H. [ The men are Damon Guptill, the ownar of the animal, and Horace Luce, a | farmhana. Terrence Daly, a Hartford Laborer. died from rheumatism of the heart. On | Thursday Daly spent most of the time in front of an electric fan with hi chest exposed. This brought on mus- cular rheuma A _Bill Appropriating $6,000.000 for establishment of a governmept-owned | and controlled steamship line along the | Pacific coast and through the Panama canal was introduced by Representa- tive Stevens of California. Because of the Dullness in the Rub. ber business, the mills of the Nation: India Rubber company at Bristol. R.[ I, controlled by the United States Rubber company, will close next Sat- urday for an indefinite priod. Automobilists Discovered the Lifeless body of Georze C. Marston, 65, former Iy of Nashua, N. H. while driving, along the South Merrimack road. He had gone a short @istance from his wagon and was stricken with the hear, The Automobile Garage of Chadwick & Trefethen, the largest in Portsmouth, N. H, the plumbing establishment of James W. Burrett and two dwelling houses were dstroyed by fire Satur- day, causing a loss estimated at $40,- 000, Disregard for Law is Fast Becoming an American characteristic is the find- ing of a report made by the committee on a system for teaching rals in the public schools at the fire session of the national council of education of the National Education association, | imprisonment, but mearwhilz the mat- [ter Bas niot ¥o T0 SAVE WOMAN FROM THE GALLOW: Petitions Pouring in by’ the Thousands at the Justice Department of Ontario THREE SACKSFUL ARRIVED SUNDAY Case of Mrs. Angelina Napolitana E kcites ‘Sympathy Throughout United States and Canada—Six Men Have Volunteered to Die in Her Stead—Offers of Cash For Legal Assistance Are Macle. Ottawa, Ont., July 9.—Three more sackfuls of petitions praying for exec- | utive clemency in the case of Mrs. An- | gelina Napolitana, under sentence to be hanged at Sault Ste Marie, On next month for the murder of h husband, were received yesterday by the justice department. Petitioners Number Tens of Thousands The petitioners are now numbered by the tens of thousands, representing all parts of the continent. Special Interest in United States. The case, because of peculiarly distressing conditions, the brutality of the husband and the sent physical | condition of the. woma g special interest in tha United States ions from Chicago. Petitions have been received by the hundreds from Chicago and other merican cities, | Offers of Assistance. | Even from Oklahoma othar points thousands of miles away have come requests for mercy and offers to pay for legal assistance in pleading the, woman's case if it comes before the cabinet for final considera Only One Woman Ever Hanged. In only one . case has capital pun- ishment ever been imposed on a wom- | an in Canada. It is th t here that the sentence will be commuted to i been considered by the cabinet coun WINSBY OFFERS TO DIE IN MRS. NAPOLITANO'S STEAD. Kansas Painter Willing to Act as a Substitute on Ga Kan., Ju \0ld, a painter mailed a letter nada offering to lite ava Mrs. Angelina sentenced to be hanged for her. nd. Iy do “substitnte capable of br child, if_in this country the head of the nation. a pure woman. reports are tru for defending their ck Tndianapolis, July to th might rise to America we 1 vour coun- you hang them astity.” Governor Ma shall yesterday wrote to Gov General Earl Gray of Canada that the death sentence of Mr lina Napolitan: nvicted of the mu der of her husband, be commuted life imprisonment. Governor Marshail is opposed to capital punishment. Doomed to Die on Aug. 12. Saulte Ste, Marie, Ont., July 9.—In a grimy, illy-lighted prison c Mrs. Angelina Napolitano waits to become a mother. Within a few days she @ her fifth child to be born to he a remote corner of the jail, ti gallows waits to kill the mother as | soon as the new-born baby may be taken from her breast world, horrified at the 2ds of thousands of men e petitioni gainst the in this case, demanding de In the outs thought, hun, and women death penalt; that Aug. 12 shall pass without this woman dropping to death in the masw of tha gallows-beast. Angelina - Nopilitano slew her hu: and rather tifan yield to his unthink- | able demand that s 1 and | {give him the money y the| barter. | Five Offer Themselves as Substitutes. ive persons who have bind them already it the law will Napolitano to h B. Whitne 1., Dr. Al Ashtabula, 0.’ Dr. H. nne; “original 40 day fastar,” of Los Angeles, Patrick S. Fallon, a British subject living in Elmine Briiton of Spring Valley, The general demand ®r the saving of the 1 tano is followinz signed by t Evansvi ™ St, Paul, “ Denver, W land, San ¥rar coma, Det 3 ley, Cal., ¢ 3 Sacrament Cincinnat Thousands have gone Minister In Ott e Ayl to Earl 1ada, will rope’s o world already t yor with doom end or i to mother the tha have been bo to b T a petiti From ev band, buf, so - guic . already she v gallows x speaks E oes plain. But e nig watch ren and 14 wife 1 New York' - en wears. > Thessa farm of Ple- ago they the Sip - awallowe Fiendish Cruelty. ¢ were mappy Then ent away. 4 herself. made up her to he threa before Easter and told you don't g0 to the MYSTIC SHRINERS REACHING ROCHESTER From 15,000 to 40,000 Expected There During the Present Week. Rochester, N. Y., July 9—While the formal sessions of the 37th annual convention of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabs order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. do not begin _until 4 hundreds of Shrin e al- ready in the city, and their entertain- ment, ing informal receptions, is under inc way. Masoni clegations from such far- as_Winnipes, Oakland, Cal, Oklahoma, Mis: nd Alabama are now in the conven- tion city and among the early comers is also the imperial potentate, Fred A away points Hines of Los Angeles. Some of the delegates have come long distances by automobile, notably from Louisville, | Ky.. and Racine, Wis. eldom, if ever, have such extensive preparations been made here to we come any body of men, and the street decorations which fnelude electric can- opies and other displays have never been =o lavish. It is variously esti- mated that 15,000 to 40,000 visiting Ma sons will be in the city for the vention. THREE INJURED IN PANIC ON STREET CAR Much Ado Over Blowing Out of Fuse on New Haven-Derby New Haven, Conn.,, July The blowing out of a fuse on a New Ha- ven-Derby line trolley car tonight | eaused a panic in which {hree p: sengers were more or less severcly injured. The injured: Kive Goldberg, Derby, scalp wound: nd_possible internal i juries; taken to New Haven hospital unconscious and later removed to his home. Miss Mamie Kickey, Derby, cut about face and head; Albert Yudkin, Derby, face cut. Other passengers on the car were ‘Jbruibed in the scramble to get to the ground - A ¢ thousands are o 1 Tuetics Aviesworth, upem | r Laurier and | upon Gover } e s threo méT ¢ fate, KING AND QUJEEN AT ST. PAT/RICK'S CATHEDRAL. Hospitably Rexce by the Lasd Archbi £ Dublin, D ¢ Dub- lin d - their affc orge. watched o ’ crowds. T attended from Du the 1o Earl of Aberdé the chief nal Logue, ar and the M Re archbish inspected interest. T TAFT’S PARTY ENJOY FRESH OCEAN BREEZES, Incidentally They Are Gratified With Action of Senate, Washinzton, Ju The following wireless mess: ze ed at the | White Fonse to Secretary Hilles on board ent's yacht Mayilower : “On Board _th s Yacht Mayflower, off \ ast. via Wireless, July W se, Washe ington “Mayflower D with senate gratified at proz on reciprocity. moonlight uniil ter_midniit. A fresh breeze blowing Mayflower . Went as far south 2s Cape Matieras, ; HILLES? - as kept n touch enators, oward vois on_deek in