Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 20, 1911, Page 1

. Victims Were All Prominent Members The Bullét.in’s Circulation in 'Norwichris Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Totalfitculation 1s theLhr J ALDRICH MY BE A WITNESS Ex-Senator Arrives in Wa§ilingt0n to Ap- pear At Lorimer Investigation . MAY EXPLAIN ATTITUDE OF TAFT Hines Has Testified That President Expressed a Desire For Lorimer’s Election to Rhode Island’s Ex-Sena- tor—Wiehe Declares That Burgess is “An Absolute Liar”—Never Heard of Confession to Father Green. Washington, July 19.—Whether the Taft administration wanted Lorimet elected to succeed Hopkins as semator from Illinois and tbat ex-Senator Ald- rich of Rhode Island, then the repub- lican senate leader, was the means through which that wish was convey- ed to Edward Hines, the lumberman, will probably be developed tomorrow. Aldrich Arrives in Washington. Mr. Aldrich arrived in Washington | tonight, and, is ready to appear before the Lorimer/ committee at once to ex- plain his alleged activities during the 1llinois senatorial election. Hines Involved Aldrich. Hines has testified that he waited | until midnight at. Mr. Aldrich’s Wash- ington home while the latter at the ‘White House taiked over the Illinois senatorial deadlock with President Taft. On the conclusion of the talk, Hines said, he was told by Mr. Aldrich the president wanted ~Mr. Lorimer elected. = ines Claimed to Act for Taft. | Hines has sought to prove that his own energies were directed toward | the election of Lorimer as the result of the alleged conference at the White House, and he has asserted he believ- ed he held the commission of the administration. Aldrich’s Testimony Awaited With In- terest. After Mr. Hines’ testimony a state- ment of the president's attitude to- wards the Illinois election contrary to impression conveyed by Hines was | »d from the White House. The »f Mr. Aldrich has been awaited with much interest. Bank President Testifi George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental Commercial bank of Chi- cazo, whois reported to have declin- ed the treasury portfolio®in the Taft P S administration, told the senate com- mittee today what he knew of Edward Hines delivering an alleged message from the administration at Washing- ton to Govxernor Dineen to aid Lori- mer’s election. He recalled how on the day of Lorimer’s election, Hines consuited with him as how to deliver the message to Dineen, Burgess “an Absolute Liar.” C. W. Wiehe, secretary of the Ed- ward Hines Lumber company, declar- ed that William Burgess of Duluth. Minn., was “an absolute liar if he testified to what was read as Burgess’ testimony. Blrge had said Wiche told him on the Winnipeg flver March , 1911, that he subscribed $10,000 to a Lorimer election fund. Frameup Between Burgess and Cook. Wiehe told the cesamitiee that he believed there was a frameup between Burgess and W. H. Cook. Cook Would Perjure Himself. The latter recently testified that Ed- ward Hines telephoned from his room in Chicago the day Lorimer was elect- ed that he (Hines) would go down to Springfield with all the money neces- sary for Lorimer’s election. Wiehe said he believed Cook would perjure himself to injure Hines. Never Heard of Father Green Incident Wiehe denied that he ever heard of the “Father Green” ineident as Bur- gess related it. But he recalled a ru- mor that Detective Keeley of the state attorney’s office in Chicago complained to Father Green about the work as- signed to him in the Lorimer case, and also that Kelley got Representative Beckmeyer drunk and Beckmever was taken to the “Red Light” district and a compromising photographh was shown him when he would not testify as wanted. - = = FOUR KILLED WHEN TRAIN STRUCK AUTO| of Saratoga Society. Troy, N. Y., July 19.—Four women were killed and a chauffeur was seri- oualy injured in an automobile acci- dent at Racevville, seven miles north of Granville, late today. The dead are Afrs. Charles Wells, Jr., Mrs. George W. Yates and Mrs. Charles Grant of Siratoga Springs and Mrs. F. M. Rob- inson of Boston, Mass. The chauffeur, ‘harles Ostrand of Saratoga Springs, had bth legs and an arm broken, be- sides sustaining internal injuries, and ™ not recover. The big touring car conveying the party was struck on a grade cross- ing by a Delaware & Hudson passen- zer train on the Rutland division. The tomobilists had spent the day 2t Williamstown, Mass., and were return ing to Saratoga Springs in M Grant's car. Ostrander saw the train approaching and shifted his gear from low to high in an effort to get across the tracks. In shifting the gear, how- ever, he lost the spark and the auto- mobile came to a standstill ingthe middle of the track. Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Grant wera killed instantly. Mrs. Robinson died aboard the train en route to Gran- ville and Mrs. Yates expired while being carried to the office of Dr. Da- vies at Granvillee Dr. Davies, who is the coromer, will conduct an in- vestigation at once. All Wealthy and Prominent. Saratoga, N, Y. July 19.—The four ictims of the fearful automobile ac- cident near Granville today were all prominent ‘n Saratoga society and were from wealthy families. Mrs. George Yates was a club woman and the leader in charitable organizations; Mrs. Charles Wells was an officer of the humane society and wife of & well known druggist; Mrs. Charles S. Grant was a sister of Mrs. Wells and also a charitable worker. Mrs. F. M. Rob- inson was the widow of a Boston physician and was spending_the sum- mer here, The chauffeur, Charles Os. trander, who was injured, had been ru ing tae machine since spring, when at her physician's direction, Mrs. Grant bought it. Relatives left tonight for Granville by automobile to bring the bodies here. BRIDGEPORT FIREMAN FALLS FROM TRUCK. Lieutenant Haggerty Fatally Injured Responding to an Alarm. Bridgeport, Conn., July 19.—Lieut. “illiam Haggerty of Engine iCo. No. 5 of the Jocal fire department was killed by falling off a.truck while go- ing to a fire. Lieut. Haggerty was at home eating supper when an alarm rang for a fire on the east side. He started for the fire and jumped onto the side of truck No. 1, from which he slipped and feill under a rear wheel, which passed over him, breaking a leg. fracturing his skull and inflicting internal injuries. He was placed in the chief's automobile and rushed to a hospital, but died as soon as the door was reached. Lieut, Haggerty was one of the best officers in the department. The fire was a emall one and did practically no damage. Steamship Arrivals. At Copenhagen: July 18, United States, from New York. At Naples: July 18, Taormina, from Philadelphia and New York. At Rotterdam: July 18, Kursk, from New York; Uranium, from New York. At Antwerp: July 19, Gothland, from New York. t London: July 19, New York. At Naples: July 19, Duca D’Aosta, Srom New York. B Willie Leahy Is Found. Lewiston, Me., July ~19.—Willle Leany, the 15 year old lad who dis- appeared June $ and for whom the Boy Scouts have been conducting a country-wide sea has returned to his home. “Fle had been no -further Minneapolis, THE THOMAS FAMILY DOMINATES SUGAR TRUST. Their Combined Holdings of Stock Aggregate Nearly $2,000,000. New York, July 19.—Although the minutes of the meeting of the board of directors of the American Sugar Re- fining company show that Washington B. Thomas, the present chairman of the board, was elected a member of a special committee with Mr. Havemeyer and Mr. Senff to acquire beet sugar refineries, Mr. Thomas testified today before the special congressional com- mittee which is investigating the so- called sugar trust,that ha did not know anything about it until he read of it in the government report at ‘Washington a few days ago. Besides many other interssting mat- ters revealed, Mr. Thomas explained his financial interest in the American Sugar Refining company. After much pressure he said that his stock in the company amounted to about 3,000 shares, “wit _ha book value of about $375,000, and that the holdings of the members of his family, including his own, were between 15,000 and_20.000 shares, with a value of between $1,600,- 000 and $2.000,000. When Mr. Have- meyer died he had only about 135 shares of stock, but for many years he haft thoroughly dominated the com- pany, the witness said. The committee is not vet through with Mr. Thomas, but tomorrow it/will examine John F. Parsons. former gen- eral counsel for the company. The committee expects fo get much information on the methods employed by the company in spending large sums of money. SMALL DEALERS SOAKED BY NEW YORK ICE TRUST. Price Raised from $.250 a Ton to $2.50 a Cake During Hot Spell. New York, July 19.—The iceman— the small independent dealer—tried to make it plain to Magistrate Appleton, vho began a hearing on the alleged wavs of the so-called ice trust today, that there is nothing enviable in his lot. Fifteen small dealers who were subpoenaed to tell what they knew of the price of ice during the recent hot spell in this city, testified that they and the consumer were victims of prohibitive charges by large dealers. One of them said he paid $2 for two cakes of ice at a dock of the Knick- erbocker Ice company one day during the hot spell and $3 for two cakes the next day. He said the cakes weighed 150 pounds, which made his purchase price about $15 a ton. or more than five times the usual mount. Another dealer, who said he had bought ice of the Knickerbocker com- pany nine years, testified that he bought it at $250 a ton all summer up to July 7 then he' was asked to pay $2.50 a cake. PASSENGER TRAIN GOES THROUGH BRIDGE. Structure Was 50 Feet “High and spfnned a Swollen Creek.. Muskogee, Okla., July 19.—North- bound passenger train No, 5 on the Midland Valley railroad went through a bridge half a mile weast of Avant, Okla., late today. The bridge is 50 feet ‘high. The structure had becn weakened by a swollen creek. A wreck- ing" train has been sent from here to the scene. Vielation of Food and Drug Act. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, July 18— Notice of judgment against A. G. Beldon & Co. of New York has just been issued by the secretary of agriculture for a vio- lation of the feod and drug act, It seems the firm shipped into the state of Connecticut two barrels of a drug product labeled “Pure Spirits Turpen- tine,” which on examination was found to contain 3.5 per cent. of mineral oil. The court directed that the property ne destroyed; but it was saved by the owner putting up a bond that it should not be sold or used in violation of law TODAY| ] Cabled Paragraphs Lisbon, via Badajos, Spanish Fron- tier, July 19.—The street. car strike at Oporto has reached an acute stage | and the lea ders are trying to launch a | general strike. Bisley, England, July 19.—Private Clifford, a Canadian, won the first | prize in the Prince of Wales' compe- | tition at today’s shooting with a score | of S1 out of a possible £3. London, July 19.—According to fig- ures received in this city the deaths from the plague in India have reached | the enormous total of 650,630 for the half-year ended on June 30. Paris, July 19.—The press continues exercised over the arrest of M. Bois- set, the French consular agent at Al- cazar, Morocco, by a Spanish patrol, and demands that Spain make imme- diate reparation and public apology- Be:lin, July 19.—Baron Oswald Vomr Richthofen, who killed Wilhelm Von Gaffron in’a duel on May 10, was to- Gay sentenced to two years' imprison- ment in a fortress. Both men were army officers, a_quarrel over money matters led to the duel. London, July 19.—The foreign office today denied a report cabled from the United States that James Bryce con- templates retiring from his post as British ampassador at Washington, following the conclusion of the Anglo- American arbitration treaty. Cardiff, Wales, July 19.—At a mass meeting of all classes of workers to- it was resolved to seal up this until the shipowners recognize the | seamen’s union. In pursuance of this | decision, the cval trimmers and other workers quit and the seamen are re- fusing to sign on, even at advanced rates. ‘Wurzburg, Bavaria, July 19.—A local { paper reports the arrest of a. Japanese major who was caught examining the i recoil mechanism of the new Bavarian field gun. The Japanese officer had been attached to the Bavarian troops by courtesy and iz alleged to have been surprised at night while making observations by the use of a dark lan- tern at the maneuver field at Hammer- urg. TO RESTORE RIGHTS OF JOHN ‘. DWYER. Senator Spellacy Makes a Long Plea in the Senate. Hartford, Conn., July 19.—The reso- lution unfavorably reported in the senate to restore forfeited rights to John W. Dwyer, late of Hartford, now of parts unknown, brought out an in- teresting recital of this case from Sen- ator Spellacy. Tt will be recalled that Dwyer shot a Hartford officer, Beecher, and served four vears for it. Senator Spellacy said that Dwyer got intoxi- cated and fired off a_shotgun, the shot going through a door panel and ‘wounding his best friend. He was shot through the stomach. Dwyer paid the officer for his injuries, for his lost time and for his suffering. He received four years, and was a trusty all that | time. Not once did his wife visit him or send him money from the estat, ex- cept a pair of glasses. Dwyer was a hot-headed man and his wife was “consumed with hatred” against her husband. Dwyer when out of prison protested his wife's account as con- servator and~the court uphzld every protest. Dwyer had either-10 or 14 children, the senator had forgotten the number, but he had given all who were of age a college 2ducation. He had left the state upon advice of the speaker (Spellacy), as he could not stay here. Before going he had de- posited money for the support of the minor children, who are to have ns 800d an education as_the others, and he had provided for his wife so that she would not want. Senator Spellacy said that Dwyer had committed no crime against the moral code: he had not abused his family or his wife. The only charge against him was that while in liquor he had accidentally shot a friend. He had made recompense in full for what he had donme. He had petitioned for restoration of rights. The committee for some reason had not granted it. Senator Spellacy did not think this was right. There was no opposition to the petition. Mrs. Dwvers attorney favored it and there were many. i cluding police officers, who spoke Dwyer's behalf. in Men have had their rights restored who have been con- victed of many and gross crimes. i cluding those which include assaults upon women. He failed to see the jus- tice in refusing Dwyer his petition. At this point tha point was raised that as there was not a two-thirds at- tendance of the senate a vote could not be taken. so Mr. Spellacy did not fin- ish his plea. WIFE AND MOTHER COuLD NOT AGREE So Michigan Farmer Beat His Wife to Death. Charolette, Mich., July 19.—William Elmsherry, the Windsor tcwnship far- mer, charged with killing his wife_on Jantary 1, 1905, confessed the crime ‘ate touay ipor being informed that Sheriff Donovan hal dug up the wo- man’s body in the sheep shed at the Lonsberry farm Lonsberry says in his confession that he hit his wife several times and that when she fell her head struck ihe floor with force enough to Kkill her. Both he and his mother tried to re- vive the woman, not. He says the trouble all started over the fact that his wife and elderly mother could not g2t along together. he said, but could ENCOUNTERS TWO LUNATICS WITHIN A FEW DAYS.| Blacksmith McCumb Gave Second One a Wide Berth. Greenwich, Conn., July 19.—Joseph McCumb, a blacksmith at Coscob. who was assaylted by an insane man a few days ago, had another experience with a man in a similar frame of mind. A man, well dressed, jumped from a trolley ‘car as it was passing the smithy and ran into the shop and ask- ed for a 'phone to call the police, who he told that he was an architect from White Plains and that he had been robbed of $100,000 on the trolley car. McCumb backed out of the man’s way aftér he had telephoned and let him go out unmolested. The man went to- ward Stamfori. Gates’ Condition Assuring. Paris, July 19.—Jonn W. Gates, the American financier, who has been su fering from an acute attack of nephri tis. with accompanying heart compli- cations, passed an excellent day and according to the attending physicians _hi! condition to night is most reassur- ing. days, are very ‘much encouraged af the gutlook. .. b Arson Trust In Existence FIRE MARSHAL TELLS OF CON- SPIRACY OF FIREBUGS. WORKED IN A DOZEN CITIES ol Fifteen in the Gang and Two Are| Now in Prison—Fire Their Buildings | tg Recover the Insurance. Chicago, July 19.—That there, exists a gigantic arson trust with headquar- ters in Kansas City and representa- tives in all the large cities of the country, the members of which make a business of setting ‘fire to buildings to enable the owners to collect large sums of insurance, was the charge made today by . Doyle, state firs marsHal, in an address bafore the Chi- cago Association of Commerce. Mr. Doyle said: % Band of 15 in Conspiracy. “The state fire marshal department of Tllinoig has united with the state fire marshals of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio to wipe out the band of 15 | men at the head of this arson con- spiracy. g Ringleader in Kansas Cijty. “The head of the firebug tr¥st is in Kansas Ci from which city the op- erations of the entire gang is directed. Worked in a Dozen Cities. “The daring of those behind the has grown into a doz2n or more ci They have been found at work i1 Bloomington, Springfield, I1l.. Pittsburg. Cleveland. New York, Buffalo, St. 'Louis, Chicago, and elsewhere) 1 Two Already Convicted. “Two of the gang have been con- victed and are now imprison2d in a southern city. The others will be be- hind the bars before long if we are successful in following the clues we are now working on. Firebug Problem Important. “The firsbug problem is one of the| most important which confronts the country. Fire Losses Appalling. “With these cases of arson the fire {losses of the country are appalling, { amounting to about $500 a minute. In | Chicago the loss is $5.000.000 a ypar.l | while in Berlin the annual loss does not exczed $200,000. We should adopt | the fire protection plans of European | cities.” 1 INDICTMENTS AGAINST FOUR WALL PAPER MEN Accused of Proscribing Against Five and Ten Cent Stores. Cleveland, Ohio, July 19.—Four in- dictmenis were returned today by the | federal grand jury, which has been in- { vestisating the ~ alleged wall paper trust. The indictments charge a con- spiracy in restraint of trade under the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law. The indicted parties are all officials of wall paper jobbing houses. They are J. B. Pearce, president of the J. B. Pearce Wall Paper company of Cleveland, Norton Newcomb of St. Louis, Edward E. Maxwell of Chicago, and C. C. Aller of Columbus, Ohio. Bond was fixed at $3,000 in each case. The specific charge against the in- dicted men is that they met m Cleve- land on May 30, 1910, and after a se- cret session notified, wall paper man- ufacturers of the country that if they sold wall paper to five and ten cent stores the jobbers would boycott the manufacturers. According to federal officecs over 300 of the five and ten | cent stores throughout the countr: were affected by the order of the job- bers. THREE KILLED IN A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT. Party of Berry Pickers Thrown Out of Wagon on Steep Hill. Tamaqua, Pa., July 19.—-Three per- sons are dead and three badly injured as a result of a runaway accident near here tonight. The dead are: Mrs. Henry Heron, Charles Heron, Mrs. John Remalia. The_injured are: Leonard Heron, a boy: Mrs. Kate Heron and Mrs. Wil- liam Shult: The party of six were returninz from a berry picking expedition on Pitch mountain, riorth of the town, and occupied a spring wagon. They were hurled from the wagon onga steep The horse dashed into town, and « investigation revealed the accident. MORE FIRE FIGHTING BY SOLDIER BOYS Forest Fire on Beckwith Ridge Breaks Out Again. Niantic, Conn., July 19.—After fight- ing a forest fite on Beckwiti ridge, East Lyme yesterday afternoon, and receiving, the thanks of the people of that place this morning, the boys were called out again this afternoon to sub- due the fire, which had broken out anew. Troop B, cavalry, was sent out shortly, after 1 o'clock and at 3 o'clock the First battalion was sent to their aid. The men returned to camp about 6. The Third battalion went out on a hike for read work this afternoon and the signal corps continued their work with wireless. PENNY TELEPHONE CALLS. Chicage May Pass Ordinance Making Nominal Rate Chicago, July 19.—A brief outline of an ordinance to force the telephone vesterday by members of the council committee which wen its fight for a lower gas rate. resented by Senator Mec- Lean. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, July 19.—Secnator Me- Lean iniroduced in the semaic a b increasing the pension of David L. Guires of East Hartford from $i5 io $30 per mionth. Mr. Gaines served in “ompany 1, Tweaty-second Connezti cat voluntéer infantry. ~ He alsc presented the petitions of the United Trish Socleties of Harif and the Gaelic Athletic club of Har| | ford against the ratification of the ar- bitration tréaty with Great Britain. Petitions Mexico City, July 19.—President De Gen. Zugenio Rascon and the assistant 4 mecretary of war, Gen. Juan M. comrany to reduce its rates of five | Yielding B cents a call to onme cent was given [Wrought the Fragments of Bones on Deck PORTIONS OF THREE BODIES FOUND ON THE MAINE. SKULL WITH JAW MISSING Fragments of Jawbones and Portions of Vertebras Also Recovered—All Turned Over to Undertaker. Havana, July 19.—Fragments of bones believed to represent three bod- ies were recovered today from the wreck of the Maine. Found in Mud on Main Deck. The discovery was made in a pile of mud and rubbish on the main deck almost dire~tly beneath an inverted conning tower which had been upset and hurled sixty feet aft from its “original positicn, and close to the spot where the bones of a foot encased in a shoe and other fragments were found several weeks ago. Skull Minus Jawbone. The remains consist of a skull mi- nus the lower jaw, the frontal part crushed in, several fragments of jaw- bones and psrtions of vertebrae. Ofh- er splintered fragments were not iden- tified. Will Be Listed as Unknown. The bones were discolored and coral encrusted and unless possibly the teeth affcrd some club they will be listed among the “unknown.” Undertaker Takes Them in Charge. All were taken in charge by the offizial undertzker, Jepkins, and placed in a temrorary re-eptacie composed of mahozany panels stripped from the admiral’s cabin. Exploration Interrupted. The work of explcring the ™ wreck was interrupted toazy by the necsssity of letting in four feet of water for the purpose of floating a scow used as a receptacle for wreckage which grounded in the mud. Will Be Pumped Dry in Day or Two. Probably the last of the water sur- rounding the wreck will be pumped out in a day or two. “BUD” MARS MAY ABANDON AVIATION - All Events, He Will Not Fly Again for Six Months. At Erie, Pa., July 19.—Sore and limp- ing, J. C. (Bud) Mars. the aviator, left the hospital today, where he has been recovering from injuries- due to a fall with his biplane last Friday. He went to a local notel, where he will_vet be confined to his room for several days. He said today that ne will not attempt another flight for at least six months and may abandon aviation. He is contemplating another trip around the world and says it may be vears before he will be seen in another aeroplane flight. £ Speaking of his accident he said he knew that there were several things wrong with his machine on the day he feli, but they were of a minor char- acter and could not have been ex- plained satisfactorily to the crowd awaiting his flisht. The only thing he cannot understand-about the acci- dent is how he escaped with his life. ANOTHER DEATH FROM THE ASIATIC CHOLERA Recent Arrival from ltaly Succumbs, Maki g the Total Seven. New York, July 19.—Another death from Asiatic cholera occurred at the Swinburne island hospital s!a!.ion of the New York quarantine station to- da: The victim was Giusseppe Pet- tinicchia, 32 vears, who arrived here on the steamer Moltke. e Notwithstanding this _ additional death. making the count seven at the port in the last month or so, Health Officer Doty igsued a statement to- night in which he said the situation was satisfactory. No further cases of the dizease have developed among im migrants detained at Hoffman island during the past three days, and the one suspicious case which was discov- ered this morning proved not to be cholera. SHOT IN LUNG AS HE WALKED IN STREET Automobile Mechanician Fatally Wounded by Unknown Person. New York, July 19—Whence a bul- let came wiich pierced Frank Rosen through the left lung close to his heart as he walked along an East Side street tonight, and how ho managed to run a full block to the next drug store with such a wound, puzzles the police and surgeons who had to do with the case. Roscn, 24 gears old, is an automo- bile mechanician. He is said to have been alone when the bullet struck him. He retained consciousness only long cnough to gasp his name to the police at the drug store, and it was said at the hospital that he would probably die without regaining his senses. The Canadian Tobacco Crop. (Speecial to The Bulletin.) Washington, July 18.—Harry A. Co- nant, United States consul at Wind- sor, Canada, writing to the bureau of manufactures, says: “Tobacco is one of the most vaiuable crops of this section, and each year shows an in- creased acreage devoted to its cultiva- tion, In Essex and Kent counties in 1910 there were planted 6,000 acres, 6,500,000 pounds, which growers $1,040,000, or about $175 per acre. The cost of pro- duction was about $40 ‘per acre. The price was the highest ever paid in Canada, choice lots of leaf bringing 18 cents per pound. “Bobbie” Carruthers Dying. Peoria, TIl, Jul “Bobbie” Car- ruthers, famous as a pitcher for the St. Louis baseball club of the old Am- erican assoc! jon when it won four successive werld’s champicnships, and who later pitched in the National league, is in a local hospital, and is reported to be in-a dying condition. He has been umpiring in the Three I league. $500,000 Fire at Brookiyn. New York, July 19.—Damage esti- mated at nearly $500.000 was caus>d by a fire tonight which practically’de- The members of his family, whe | La Barra received today and accepted | stroyed the five-story brick building in tave been with him for the past few | the resignation of Secretary of War fBrooklvn occupizd by the Cowper thwait company, retail furniture Condensed Telegrams President Taft Will Become a week- end visitor to Beverly on Saturday. A Proposition to Pension School Teachers was voted down at Brattle- boro, Vt. X “A Heat Wave. Has Struck Alaska, the temperature in Valdez rising to 80 degrees. - The War Department Wants college graduates as third lientenants of the Philippine constabulary. Leading St. Petersburg Newspapers urge the conclusion of an Anglo-Rus- sian ‘treaty of arbitration. Recruiting Officers Find Very Little difficulty in obtaining as many. recruits for the naval service as,they need. Gov. Aram J. Pothier of Rhode Island will retirs from politics at the end of his present term, which is his third. Portland, Me., Was Selected as tire place for the next annual meeting of the national division, Sons of Tempsr- {ance. Robert Inglis, on his way to Mar- quette prison for 40 years, jumped overboard from a “erryboat and was drowned. An Echo of the Recent Hot Wave cagne vesterday when Patrick Guydon, 50 years, died at the Waltham, Mass., hospital. Civil War Again Threatens Mexico, ! as the result of an open break between Francisco 1. Madero and President yDe La Barra. Senator Heyburn Made a. Bitter but unavailing attack on_the appropria- tion for a confederate naval monu- | ment at Vicksburg. Mrs. Peafl G. Hopkins of New Haven was vesterday indicted for the murder (of her husband, Jesse- B. Hopkins, by shooting early last week. A Plot to Assassinate General Reyes in reported in City of Mexico. There is a strong feeling against him in the ranks of Madero's followers. The 21 victims of the explosion in the mine shaft of the Cascade (oal and Coke company ati Sykesville, Pa., last Saturday nignt, were buried. Threatening Letters Which Drove Harlow Higinbotham of Chicago to Europe two weeks agd met him az when he returned®on the steamship Olympic. An Invitation to Attend the Closing session of the Mountain Lake Park Chautauqua, at Mountain Lake park, | Md.. August 29, was accepted by Pres- ident Taft. With More Than 400 Pieces of Skin on his body that originally belonged to his friends, former Fireman George Nelson of Battle Creek, Mich., has left the hospital. | Experiments Now Being Gonducted {by the federal leprosy investigation | station at Honolulu undoubtedly will produca serums and vaccines fatal to leprosy germs. Another United States Gunboat will be despatched to Haitian waters to protect American interests, which are threatened by the revolution against President Simon. - The Charge Was Made hefore ths house committee that the Alaska syn- dicate controlled by the Guggenheims discriminated against the Iiumboldt Steamship companyt . seamen and the police occurred a Cardiff, Wales, and the warehouses o the Liverpool and Dublin Steamship company were burned. U Mrs. John Burke of Green Castle, , has bequeathed a fortune of a lion dollars o Rumnel Ward, a poor wanderer in the west, wha be- friended her some years ago. One Hundred Dollars’ Worth of Rail- jroad tickets and.mileaga books were stolen by burglars who broke into the Rockingham Junction station of the Boston and Maine railroad, N. H. It is Probable That the Present Ses- ’Gion of the Massachusetts legislature will break all records for the length -f its sitting and will not reach proroga- tion until nearly the first of August. In Attempting to Extinguisft a Firs following the explosion of a kerosen Jamp, Mrs. Mary Murphy, aged 60, o Central Falls, R. I., was so badly burn- ed Monday night that she died yester. da While Playing Around a Rubbish Fire in her yard at Providence Jenniz Mat- tera, 5 years old, approached too near the flames and her clothing caught fire and she was so badly burned that she died. To Raise the $173,967,835 Required to run the ity of New York this year every $100 of taxable property in the borough of Manhattan will be taxed Last _year the rate was Bloodhounds Are Aiding ,Richmond, Va., mounted police and r:fses in_the hunt for the man who shot and killed Mrs. Harry C. Beattie, Jr.. as she was riding with her husbanmd in an auto- mobile. Because He Said His Wife did not greet him with a hug and a kiss on his return from a week's absence, James Millis of Waterbury slapped her. He was arrested and fined $5 and costs. American Ranchers in Lower Cali- fornia are being threatened by the so- called Mexican liberals there. The United States has requested the gov ernment _of Mexico to afford them ade- quate protection. A Posse of More Than Twe Hundred men wera searching the woods of Wal- lingford, Vt. yesterday afternoon for an unknown highwayman who held up and_shot City Engineer A. B. Grover of Rutland while he was surveying near a-highway. The 75 Weavers and Dresser Tenders employed at the Montrose Woolen com- pany’s plant at Woonsocket, R. 1. who struck on Monday of last week becausa of trouble with the management over fixing windows so that more air would be obtained, returned to work vester- day. Following a M ng of Abeut Forty representative men of Lawrance, Mass., to consider what could be done to re- lieve the low financial condition of th. city treasury, it was voted to petition Governor Foss to appoint a commis- sion of five citizens of Lawrence to act as a board of control and to hold offica and administer the affairs of the city Lawrence for the next three years. A Fierce Fight Between smkmg4 gest in Connecticti, mProporflon totheclty’s Population Claim a Victory EBERLE DECLARES BATTEESH!PS ARE DESTROYED. Wt')‘ll A TEN MINUTE ATTACK Osterhaus Claims This Honor for In- vaders—Battleship Connecticut Quite Fight Because of Actual Diuh.lomm Block Island, R. I, July 19.—Aithough the theoretical smoke of the morning's powderless battle at sea had hard cleared away tonight and another con flict was said to be impznding, the res- idents and summer visitors here dis- ‘played no great interest in the move- ments of the red and blue fleets, and as a matter of fact the little that could b2 seen from shore was mean- ingless, to the majority. Result of First Engagement Not Known. Even the men of the fleets do not Yet know officially which was the vie- tor in {he engagement early today, and will not know for some months hence, when the navy department has had an opportunity 1o examine the reports of the umpires who.are in charge of the game ofrwar. Battleships Seek to Control Entrance. What tha people on shore saw this morning was a series of manoeuvres by two fleeis, one composed of battle- ships seeking to gain control of the entrance to Long Island Sound amd the ‘naval base im Narragansett Bav, and an opposing fleet composed of szcond class crulsers, destroyers ani submarines, Submarines and Destroyers Patroling. At dawn today the submarines wera apparently patroling the ocean he- tween, the easterly side of Block Tsl- and ald No Man's Land, with the de- stroyele along a secondary line be- tween | Gardiner's Bay and Newport, and ths cruisers on guard at Newport, Point{ Tudith and Gardiner's Bay. attleship Fleet “Destroyed.” Just as the sun was peeding over the_horizon, according to Commander E. W. Eberlz of the defenders, the hat- tleship fleet approached from .sea, en- gaged the enemy and were apparentiy theoreticaily destroyed. Manoeuvres Lasted Several Heurs. Observers at Block Island saw the battleships approach, go through a se- ries of manoeuvres consuming several hours and finally stop three or four miles northeast of Block Isiand. De- stroyers and a few submarines wore sighted between the .battleships and the shore. Attackers Claim a Victory. At 10 a. m. three cruisers, the Wash- ington, Salem and Chester, part of the a2ttacking fleet, came In from sea very rapidly and passed between the battle- ships and the north end of Block Ta'- and, and then headed in the direction of Gardiner'’s Bay.. This movement which was designated as & ten minuts attack by Rear Admiral Osterhaus, in command of the invaders, and he claimed to have won victory by one and one-half minutes. The Connecticut Out of Commission. Tonight the invading fleet will ba weakened by the loss of the Conneeti- cut, Rear Admiral Osterhaus’ flagshin, for' she is actually out of commission for the time being by the cracking of a_crank shaft. After a day of restinz about Block Island, the hoats of the attacking fleet put to sea late toda but left the Connecticut behind. She will remain at this port until tha “war” is over, taking me further part and will then proceed to New York for repairs. Defending Fleet in Narragansett Bay. While the invaders were resting up at Block Island, the torpedo boat de strovers and others of the flest of defense spent the day in Narragansett Bay, in the vicinity of Newport. They left 'at dusk. A Night Attack Expected. At about the same hour the battle- ships_headed out to sea from Plock Island. Tt Is generally understood both here and at Newport that there was to be a night attack tonight and at the attempt of the so-called hostile flest to open a way through the defendin fleet to reach New York through Los Island Sound would be made fn the vicinity of Montauk Point. With th exception of the Connecticut. no ves- sels of either fleet weére visible from here this evening. CIVIL, WAR BONDS BEING BURNED UP More Than $2,000,000,000 of Them Be- ing Fed to the Furnace. + ¥ 19.—More than $2,006,000,000 in redeemed bonds, rep- resent he major part of the govern- civil war debt, is being fed to the furnace in the bureau uting and engraving. The engi- peers estimate that the immense sum in old securities will generats about as much steam as two tons of good coal. All the government securi‘ics issued and redeemed between 1860 and 159% ment’s | are being thus destroyved, including nearly $1,000,000.000 in the famows 7-30 bonds, which were made in the size of greenbacks and passed as mon- ey at the highest rate of interest the government has ever paid. Mare than 1,500,000 separate bond coupons, which represent a large portion of the gov- ernment’s interest payments for fifty years, also will be burned. The usual process of reducing old se- curities to a pulp by macerating them was at first attempted, but the job proved too great, VANDERBILT DREW $3.66 A MINUTE Government Once Paid Him Fabulous Interest on Bonds. ‘Washinston, July 19.—Proof that the elder William H. Vanderbilt once owned $48,050,000 in government bonds upon which he received interest at the rate of $1,922,000 a year, has been found in the old treasury records. The old interest checks made out to Mr. Vanderbilt show the government paid to him $160,000 a month. One of the department statisticians calculated that he received $220 every hour of ths day and night, and $3.66 every min- ute, - Crushed to Death In Quarry. Pisa, Ttaly, July 19.—A huge of marble fell today at the quarries, carrying down twelve men with it. A erscuing party found six of thg‘:gn dead aud four seriously in- jured.Two men are missiny