Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 26, 1911, Page 1

VOL. LIl—NO. 178 26, 1911 3 For the Briclgeport Disaster ~Cabled - Paragraphs * Santander, Spain, July 25.—King Al- fonso sailed'for England today aboard the royal yacht Giralda. The yacht ‘Wwas escorted by the Spanish cruiser Reina Regente. , aris, July 25.—Commenting on the IF‘ranco-German negotiations growing lout of the Moroccan situation, the Echo de Paris today says that France will not allow herself to be intimidat- ed by Germany. BOTH ENGINEER AND ROAD BLAMED] ronaon, suis 55—mrmest weran Hoo- Railroad’s Culpability Lay in Maintenance of Short Cross-Over on Fast Express Trunk Line Track—Re- quests Engineers to Make Up Lost Time—Two En~ gineers in Cab Are Recommended on Fast Trains. Bridgeport, Conm., July the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad. company was criminally regligent and that Arthur M, Curtis of New York, the engineer of the Fed- Tl expr , Was also criminally neg- ligent, is the finding of Coroner Wil- son as a result of his inquest into the wreck of the FMederal express here on the morning of July 11, when fourteen were killed and forty injured. Proper Signals Were Set. The wreck was caused by the train taking a short cross-over at a high rate of speed, which threw the engine and six cars off the tracks onto a streot below. That the proper signals were set against the rain and that En- ineer Curtis was in good heaith were also brought out in the finding. Why Road is Blamed. The road is found negligent because they maintained a shert cross-over on fast express trunk line tracks and Cur- tis because he ran his train at such a high rate of speed over the cross- over. Text of Finding. The finding, in part follows: “I ‘find that Arthur M. Curtis died from being crushed and other injuries sustained when he ran his train at a high rate of speed over a low-speedl cross-over located at the Burr road tower of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, caus- ing a derailment of sueh train and the death of thirteen other occupants ot sald train. Cross-Over is Dangerous. “That the said New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford railroad company was criminally negligent in maintain- ing an inherently dangerous and short cross-over on fast express trunk line tracks and in relying upon a rule gov- erning the use thereof. Notwithstand- ing the fact that it operates fast pas- senger trains over this location, when = longer and more 1" cross-over, with ts accompanying diminution in the degree of angle, would have eliminat tho.:nnc of this situa- tion. Longer Cross-Over Would Have Pre- vented Accident. “That the said Arthur M. Curtis was eriminally negligent in operating his train at such a'high rate of speed over this cressing, but, even s0, were it not for the dangerous construction and layout of said company, or had a long- er cross-over been located there, such & catastrophe could net have heppened. Two Engineers on Fast Trains, “I would recommend also that the maid railroad company look carefully into the advisability of having two en- &ineers, on fast trains particularly, with no division of responsibility be. tween them, and that safety be econ midered above speed at all hazards. People Demand Safety as Well as Speed. “There is ao quegtion but that peo- le demand tre and high speed, ut it is equally true that they de- mand and are entitled to safety in travel, and the degree of care incum- bent upon railroad companies to ob- eerve In sunning their trains is mere or less commensurate with their speed. Weather Was ©Oppressive. “Then, again, it is cemmon kmowl- shat a hwman eing is not infal- ible and is often affected by extreme Wweather, and at the time of the acci- —Thart_ dent the weather was extremely op- pressive for several days. the chances of failure to observe sig- nals would be greatly two engineers in the cab, and both be required to observe signals. would particularly apply to fast trains. Cross-Over Makes Dangerous Situa- tion. “This cross-over when set up for a train to pass from two to four is a dangerous situation, and known to be such by the railroad company, unless their rules in such a case are compli- ed with. Roadmaster DeMore testi- fied, as above stated, that the safety in crossing over increased as cross-over is lengthemed, and that it is practically as easy to operate a long one as the one there. Curtis Did Not Do It Wilfully. ! “This being known as a remedy for all such danger, it was not the exer- cise of due, reasonable and proper care to allow a rule to stand between safety and disaster. The result of taking such cross-over at high speed was well known to Curtis, and I do not find that he did so wilfully. Engineers Requested to Make Time. “Clayton N. Woodward, the superin- tendent of the Shore Line division, on which this wreck occurred, very frankly states that the company does not object to engineers making up time when speed restrictions as to cer- itain locomotives are not violated. I find bulletins reques engineers to make up time and cautiéning them not to exceed speed limits in certain sec- tions. A Bulletin to That Effect. A bulletin issued by Supt. Woodward on July 10, 1911, reads: ‘Some of our a,;:ineers and firemen are not doing as well as could be done in making time or in recovering time that has been lost at stations.’ “Superintendent Woodward also ad- mits that the crew of fast trains is no different than that of any other trains. Curtis Had Been Il With Measl “Joseph McCabe, general road fore- man of engines, testified that Curtis reported sick on May 71, 1911, and that he reported for work veluntarily on June 18 and that he had been ill ‘with measles. Curtig Ran Up Federal Express Four Time: “In response to a question by Mc. Cabe, Curtis stated that he was little bit under the weather, had been under the weather, but was all right now.” He testified that Curtis alsoran the same Federal express three days in April and on June 25. Had Werked Until 3 p. m. “The original train sheets as hand- ed McCabe by Curtis showed that on July 24 he, worked eight hours in the Harlem River yards and on the subse- quent days an average of eight hours until the day before the wreck, when he was relieved from duty at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and reported for duty at 12.15 en the morning of the 11th. Curtis Glad to Take Train. “McCabe also said that Curtis was much deligh:ted at the fact that he was out on the Federal, because it took him off the switchers.” NAUDEVM.LE MANAGERS SEEK MISS BINFORD. Woman in Murder Scandal Aiso Re- ceives Offers of Marriage. Richmond, Va. July 25.—Cenflicting rumers circulated teday that Beulah glnl rd, “the other woman” in the ca had broken dewn under the censtant questioning of dotectives and had supplied a pessible motive for the crime by a statement that Henry C. Beattie, Jr, the accused husband, desired to tlee’ with her. 'The state- ment had ne seener galned circula- tien, however, than it was bitterly de- nounced by the defense. According to the stery, the Binferd girl is alleged to have told the detectives that Beat- tie had said te her not long before the murder of Leuise Owen Beattie: “Of ceurse, I have ne intention of epending my life with Louise. [ may have te live with her as long as my Cather is alive, but just as seen as the o'd man dies—say, Kid, yeu and I will run away together. I don't know lether we can get married or not, but we will take a chance, anyway.' The girl is receiving voluminous mail and telegraph communications from .11 directions offering her everything from | marriage te big salaries in vaudeville, No one has offered the $1.000 bail re- quired to procure her liberation, how- sver. KEELEY ON WITNESS STAND ALL DAY Subjected to a Withering Cross Ex- amination in Lorimer Case. ‘Washington. July 25.—James Keeley, general manager of the Chicago Trib- une, was sybjected to a fire of ques~ tions from Elbridge Hanecy, attorney for Senator Lorimer, aboui his testi- mony yesterday before the senate Lor- imer committee, and when the com. mittee adjourned this evening the crofk examination had net been concluded. “The session was replete with sharp passages between attorney and wit- ness, At adjournment, Atterney Hanecy was directing Mr. Keeley’s attention to the vouchers, submitted te show hew "The Tribune spent $20,000 investigat- img the White confession, Vaudeville Actor Drowned. Port Madison, Ia.. July 25.—J. W. Connolly, a well-known vaudeville ac- tor, was sei; with cramps and K‘:'Id in the w‘-:-mmu river here | LILL}AN GRAHAM SAYS SHE WAS KIDNAPPED {issing Actreas Located at a Hotel in Poughkeep: Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 25.—Lillian Graham, under Indictment and at lib- erty on $19,000 bail pending trial for the shooticg of W. E. D. Stokes, a wealthy New York hotel proprietor, was locabed at a hotel here this eve- ning. Miss Graham disappeared from New York Sundey night. She said she had been kidnapped, According to Miss Graham's story to Chief of Police McCabe, she left the home of her sister, Mrs. John Single- ton, Saturday night at hast-past ten o'clock, to g0 to a nearby store for =ome butter and headache powders, “When I got to the corner,” she is said to have told the police, “a man approached and threw over my head a cloth that smelled like tar. T strug- sled and tried to make an outery, but was upable to do so. I was pulled along ‘into a motor vehicle and re- membered getting inside where I heard a man and woman talking and saying something about ‘throats’ That was the last I remember until I was shaken by the sheulder and looking up heard a conducter =ay ‘Poughkeepsie: last stop. 1 got off the train, walked out- side, and heard a taxi driver say ‘Morgan house’ I entered the tax and went to the hotel, where I have since been.” At the hotel Miss Gra- ‘ham registered as Lillian Clark, ‘When asked by the chief why she @id not communieate with her rela- tives the next day she replied she had been thinking of it, but did not do so. She seemed to have no explanation to offer when asked why she did not re- turn to New York. Miss Graham's attorney was notified and replied that he would come for her at once. Steamship Arrivals. At Genoa: July 24, Moltke, from New York. At Hamburg: July 24, Amerika, from New York. At Tiverpool: July 25 Lusitania, from New York. At Leghorn: July 23, Ttalia, from New York. At Bremen: July 25, Kaiser Wil- helnl der Grosse, New York. At Londen July 25, Minnetonka, from New York. . Snow in Michigan, ay City, Mich, July 25.—Feor five es last night a snow flurry oc- several miles southeast of Bay snow 't of the . mi; e This fact should be taken into consideration and minimized by This the ley. one of the financial meteors that astonished the city a few years ago, was today lodged in Brixton jail be- cause of his failure to obey the orders of the court in connection with bank- ruptey proceedings. BABY MAY REUNITE THE ESTRANGED COLTS Ethel Barrymore and Husband Show Affection for the Child, St. Johns, P, Q, July 25.—“Sammy,” the little son of Russell Colt, may yet play the part of peacemaker between the young New York stock broker and his actress wife, Ethel Barrymore. ‘When \Miss Barrymore me to Can- ada after her recent retufn from Cali- care of Mr. and Mrs. S. Fring, here, while she went to Montreal. Almost at once Mr. Colt arrived in town and saw his son, and, it is said, sent mes- sages to his wife. No sooner had he left than Miss Barrymore returned. Friends of the Colts here believe that the husband's messages sent from here sought a meeting with his wife and a Teconciliation. They say, however, that Miss Barrymore left town as soon as she learned that Mr. oClt was com- ing and showed a desire to avoid meeting him. BITTER FEELING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Epithets Hurled by Rival Factions at Yesterday’s Sessions. i London. July 25.—Another exeiting day of political conferences, party cau- cuses and ministerial visits to the king left the crisis no nearer solution than vesterday. The session of the house of commons today was not-importa but much heat and bitterness was di played and there was renewed finging of epithets such as “Hottentot,” “inso- lent wine,” and similar terms. The only significant incident of the session was that F. E. Smith, one of the leaders in yesterday’s turmoil, quitted his accus- tomed seat among the adherents of Balfour and ranged himself with the Lord Hugh Cecil and other insurgent unionists. The most important svent of the day was the publication of a letter which Mr. Balfour wrote to Lord Newton in reply to a request for his opinion on the situation. W. H. Whitman in. at Chapinville. 19 Chapinville, Conn., July 25.—TIt be- came known tonight that W. H. Whit- man, editor of the Boston American, lies in a critical condition here at tie summer home of John Shepard, Jr., of Providence, as the result of a fall dewn a steep ravine Sunday. Sunday afternoon Mr. Whitman want out to Sayer's ravine on the Shepard estate,.and in leaning over to_ gather moss slipped and fell to the bettom, landing on a pile of jagged rocks, a distance of 35 feet. He was taken 13 the Shepard home, where it was found that he had two broken ribs, but his condition was not thought serious. To- day he gradually became worse and tonight it is feared that he has suf- fored internal injuries and possibly in- jury to the spine. MERIDEN MAN HELD. FOR BIGAMY AND THEFT. Alleged to Ha Stolen Silverware from His Employers. Meriden. Conn., July 25.—In the ar- rest of John Malowiejeski, aged 42, on the charge of theft and bigamy, the local police claim they have captured one of the cleverest creoks working about here in some time. Malowiejeski-is foreman at Factory , International Silver company, and it is alléged he has stolen several hun- dred dollars’ - worth of flatware and sold it to friends in this city and in Southington. The police“claim they have recovered over $100 worth of the stolen goods. Ths additional charge of bigamy was worked up after complaint of a Wal- lingford weman Who says she marriel him 11 years ago. but he has not been supporting her lately. Malowieiecki married a Southington woman about a week ago, and he claims he was never the husband of the Wallingford woman. FIGHT AGAINST CHOLERA. Activities of Health Officials Directed from Many Angles. New York, July 25.—Activities were directed today from many angles in the skirmish against an invasion of the Asiatic cholera germs. They i cluded artial confirmation of suspi cion that the case of a Bellevue hos- pital orderly is really cholera and not a case of fright: the detention and d infection of a Hudsen river steampoat and the placing of its crew under ob- servation; the apparantly mistaken suspicion of a British vessel arriving from Mexico, and the continued deten- tion tonight of four Italian vessels, three of which arrived today. TAFT ENDORSED BY NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS to Promote LaFollette Boom Meets with a Frost. Lincoln, Neb., July 25.—Nebraska republicans in convention here today gave President Taft and his admini tration a strong endorsement and ef- fectively blocked all efforts of a small band of insurgent delegates. to arouse sentiment for Senator Robert M. La | Follette of Wisconsin as a presidential candidate. Atty t ttemp! Democratic Senators All at Sea. ‘Washington, July 25.—After more than thrze hours’ caucus, the demo- cratic senators tonight got no nearer a decision as to their*party action on the house wool tariff revision bill now in the senate. Gates Has a Goed Day. Paris, July 25.—It was announced tonight that John W. Gates had passcad & go0d day and was progressing satis- factorily. Ansonia. — Ex-Representative John ‘W. Schumacher has been chosen to present Governor Baldwin, the of the day, to the German Alliance at m'sq-t?,' field day at Savin Rock on fornia she placed her infant son in the The Bulleti's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Auy Other Paper, and Its Total Girculation is the RAILROAD FOUND 70 BE NEGLIGENT Coroner Wilson Places the Responsibility Must Turn Off Searchlights AFFECTING PASSES THE SENATE. BILL CAUSES A HEATED DEBATE Hooker and Spellacy Exchange Com- He Has ed Nothing from the Unions. pliménts—Latter Declares Hartford, July 25. The senate today passed the searchlight” bill The bill, which provides that motormen on cars must turn off their searchlights when ap- proaching within two hundred feet of-| a vehicle on a highway, was reported favorably early in the session. Would Cut Down Motorman’s Pay. Senator Spellacy claimed that al- though a fine of $7 was to be imposed on the officers of the railroad com- pany for each violation, the fine, in ef- fect, would mean a deduction of that | amount -from the motorman’s wages. At request of trolleymen, who claimed that they had not been heard on the bill, Senator Spellacy had the- matter re-committed. Today the report came in unfavorabiy. Would Relieve Company of Responsi- bility, Senator Spellacy claimed that the | Connecticut company was desirous of legislating into a statute a rule of the company. He also said that such a law would relieve the company of re- ‘sponsibility for damages or accidents if the motorman was responsible, The ;enale, 10 to 9, declined to reject the ill. Spellacy “Lost His Good Judgment.” On the question of passage over the unfavo: le report, Senator Hooker said he Mid not wish to take from a | motorman any of his meagre earnings, but he did believe that the company should be compelled to have its motor- men turn off searchiights when ap- proaching vehicles on the highways. He thought Senator Spellacy through “his employment by labor organiza- tions,” had lost his good judgment on this matter and was too anx- ious to aid the corporations. He said that as'a matter of working for the labor men and for the corporations it was a matier of conscience. If he knew the corporation did-not want this bill he was adding “the sin of treason to the sin. of hypocrisy.” Hiding Behind Labor Organizations. s the senator hiding behind 'the | labor organizations to help the cor- porations?” - asked = Senator Hooker. “The senator from the Third has many times reminded us of the sacredness of our oath.of office and from January to July has told us of his interest in and devotion to the labor unions.” Never Received Cent from Labor Un- ions. Senator Spellacy was on his feet to | reply. He said that both the senators from the Third and the Twenty-fifth (Judson), had many times referred to his being employed by organized labaor to represent them in the senate. He said that he took the remarks of Sen- ator Judson as facetious, but he could not let go by .the remarks of Senator Hooker. He would state in absolute truth that during the two years he had served in the senate he had never received a cent in compensation nor accepted a retainer from any labor organization. Hooker’s Remarks “Ungentlemanly.” The searchlight biil he had opposed _when it first came in hecause he felt the motorman would suffer and the company ‘sought to secure a legislative whip over its employes. The remarks of Senator Hooker, the senator said, were ungentlemanly, false, and the acts of an ungentlemanly senator, Hypocrisy Contagious. Senator Spellacy rose to say that he had been charged with hypocrisy. He said he sat close to the senator from the Second and hypocrisy might have been catching. How They Voted. After further discussion the biil was passed. 12 to 9. Those in the affirma- tive were: Marlowe, Dickerman, Marsden, Parker, Platt, Lounsbury, Mahan, Bartlett, Peck, Judson, Dono- van and Meara. Those against: - Spellacy, Fenn, Bai- ley, Mitchell, Shanley, Paddock (who announced that he voted that way in behalf of the Bridgeport union), Brins- made, Frisbie and Leonard. Senator Woodruff presided and while voting “Yea” his vote was not needed for record. THE ROMANIA WON'T CROSS THE OCEAN. Runs Aground Off Nova Scotia and Will Be a Total Loss. Halifax, N. S, July 25.—The motor boat Romania. which sailed from Bridgeport, Conn., Saturday evening to cross the ocean to Queenstown, is ashore miles ot of her course at Che- bogue Point, eight miles from Yar- mouth. _She struck shortly before mid- night Monday, and this afternoon was g in a nexposed position, with ev- prospect of becoming a total loss The crew. however. got off and saved some of their effects. Capt. N. H. Small, ths navigator, says the stranding of the craft was due to strong southerly winds, caus- ing an excessive in-draught to the Bay of Fundy. and to_the heavy fos, which made, it impossible to take an observation for 36 hours before the ac- cident. At the mext high tide an effort will be made to save the new engine. MOROCCAN SiTUATION GROWS MORE ACUTE. Great Britain’s Atlantic Fleet Cancels Norwegian Visit. London, July 25.—That the Moroccan difficulty has become acute is indicated in the sudden order issued by the ad- miralty today cancelling the projected visit of tlle Atlantic fleet to Norway. The ‘battleship squadron under Rear Admiral Sir John R. Jelliicoz should have left Cromarty tonight for Nor- wegian waters. Instead it has been ordered to remain at Cromarty until Friday and then proceed to Ports- mouth. It is also reported that the crews of several ships of the home fleet have been. ordered to hold themselves réadiness for emergency service. Newtown.—Bishop Nilan has assign- ed Rev. Patrick Conners, for three years curate at Newtown, to be curate of St. John's R. C. church, this ¢ity, to Rev. T tho c¥ 0 22 Trust Members' . Heavily ‘Fined MOTORMEN |COURT IMPOSES PENALTIES ON 32 WIRE MEN FROM $1000 UP TO $1700 Pleas of “Nolo Contendere” Accepted by Court Despite Protests of District ‘Attorney—Court Says Trade Offense. New York, July $5—The federa] gov- ernment today scored heavily in its effort to break up the alleged “Wire trust,” when 32 of 83 men indicted June 29, withdrew the plea of “Not {1ty” and accepted sentence, without al, on pleas of “Nolo contendre.” Upon this passive admission of guilt, Judge Archbald, in the United States district court, imposed fines of from $1,000 to $1,700 and costs in each-case. District Attorney Protests. The action came in the face of vig- orous arguments against the accept- ance of the plea by United States Dis- trict Attorney H, Wise.’ It had never been accepted in this court, he de- clared, and he protested against a precedent. L Such a Plea a Compromise. “The best authorities,” he said, “characterize it as a plea indicating a compromise between the defendants and prosecuting attorneys,” and he denied that any such compromise ex- isted. Clear Case Against Them. “The facts in this case are flagrant,” he declared. “This set of men, repre- senting practically an entire industry, in open and perfectly clear violation of a United States statute, combined to restrain and control trade. The case against them is so clear and open that the most eminent counsel in this country have advised them that it would be fruitless to attempt to enter a defense.” Judge Calls it “Trade Offense.” The court, however, accepted the plea, and remarked: “This is what you might call a trade offense. It is an offense which by the act of con- gress is against the interests of the business world. Congress has declared that the combinations in restraint of trade shall not exist. It seems to me I am not going out of the way when I say that just what was meant by sthis law has remained in considerable uncertainty up to this time, Hergafter Will Be No Excuse. “We know no# exactly or very near- ly what it means, and from this time on there will be no excuse, but I feel justified in looking upon what has oc- curred in the past in this light, and therefore I certainly regard this as calling for mothing except a proper vindication of the law by a fine. The extent of that fine is somewhat diffi- cult for me to fix, but it should be a substantial fine, and I will impose a thousand dollars in this case on each defendant. Let him pay the costs and a fine of $1,000 in each case.” $100 Fine for All but First Case. —Judge Archbald shortly afterward corrected himself with the decision that instances where the defendant had pleaded and been fined in one, in the second case he would modify the fine to $100 for each of the additional cases. : List of Those Fined. The complete list of defendants fined is: $1,700—F. W. Roebling. $1,500—Frank J. Newberry, Joseph W. Marsh, William A. Conner, Philip H. Smith. / $1,400—Charles J, Marsh, Frank N. Phillips, Charles. R. Remington. $1,200—Theodore F. Ryan, John G. Bridgman, Henry H. Ashley. $1,00—W. F. Fields, Alfred ¥. Moore, James H. Mason, Alfred A. Cowles, Russell A. Cowles, Thomas Wallace, Louis Anschutz Joseph C. Belden, Edwin L. Frisbie, Jr.. Thomas B, Kent, Edward Murray, D Karl Roebling, Ani Bouw ville, Charles A, Morss. $1,000—Newell B, Pdrsons, James A. Doughty, George B. North, Robert W. Sieberling, Robert Luc: R. E. Gal- lagher, William H. Hall, Jr.,, Raiph ‘Watrous, George L. Bowen, Everett MorsS, Frank M. Potter, Jr. Associations in the Trust. The nine associations in one or more of which the indicted men are mem- bers, are the Telephone Cable associa- tion, the Bare Copper Wire assoeia- tion, Weatherproof and Magnet Wire ociation, Fine Magnet Wire asso- ciation, Horseshoe Manufacturers as- sociation, Underground Power Cable association, Rubber Covered Wire as- sociation, Lead Encased Rubber In- sulated Cable association, and the wire rope manufacturers, Brooker Has Pleaded Not Guilty. William P. Palmer, president of the American Steel & Wire Co., Herbert Satterlee, son-in-law of J. P. Morgan, Frank J. Gould and Charles F. Brook- er,. republican national committeeman from Connecticut, are among the 46 other alleged members of the associa- tions who have pleaded not guilty to the indictments. INDUSTRIAL FARM. Prospect of One Being Located Near Waterbury. Plans are under way for the estab- liskment of an indust formatory in the vicinity aterbury says the Republican. The plan is be- ing superviszd by Supt. Nicholas Com- bellack of the Boys’ club and a number of local men are ready to back it. A site has not vet been selected, but one is being looked for. The purposa of the new farm is to care for boys under 16 who have been convicted in the city court. It is be- lieved that such boys will be benefited more than if they werz sent to the state reformator: During the summer the boys will enjoy a vacation, just as though they were home, but in win- ter they will be compelled to attend school under the same regulations as exist in the public schools. ‘The products of the farm will be used to supply the table of the Boys' club, and the farm, if the plans are carried out, will be the first of 'ts Kind in the stat Ansonia.—Frank M. Buckley, super- intendent of public schools in Ansonia, is recuperating at St. Raphael's hos- pital, New Haven, from the effects of a. serious surgical operation twoé weeks ago. It' is expected that he will re- turn to his home in Eridgepurt within a few day: = 3 —_— — Westport.—A large ‘walnut tree whici: stood in the yard of Thomas. Hill, Sai gatuck, was struck! by lightning the other day. The treeiwas uprooted ana rally torn . Condensed Telegrams. Quite a Little Snow Fell at Findlay, ©O., Monday night. Miss Mary Louise Thomas, an Amer- ican, was drowned in Lake Leman. W, F. M. R Aged 97, the last sur- vivor of the inole war, died at Flint Springs, Tenn. < The Senate Committee authorized a favorable report on the international treaty prohibiting pelagic sealing, Madame Lantelme, the noted Parisian actress, was accidentally drowned in the Rhine near the Holland frontie: Ex-King Manuel of Portugal is said to be personally directing the move- ment for the restoration of the mon- archy. Fifteen Hundred Dock Laborers em- ployed by a company controlled by | Americans have struck at Tampico, | Mexico. A Heavy Sea Kicked Up by a Terrific gale tied up all shipping and causel considerable damage at Newport, R. L, yesterday. The Passage of the Ellis Milk Bill over the veto of Governor Foss i urged by the Massachusatts Milk Con- sumers’” association. | _Senator McLean favor of the new general. arbitration | treaty with Great Britain, now in process of negotiation. Has Declared in | John Ringling of Ringling Brothers’ | circus fame, is lying seriously injured near Ashby, Minn. He was Injured | when his automobile turned turtle last Friday. Samm Keller, the Erglish Bantam, | shaded Charley Harvey of Philadel- phia in a ten round bout before tha Knickerbocker A. C. at Albany last night. Fire Last Night Destroyed the Bur- ton Lake icehouse and an adj barn, both owned by the Hygenic Ic company of Westville, Conn., with a loss of $35,000. Although a Strict Watch Was Kept on the North End Italian quarter by a corps of 20 doctors, no new cholera cases were reported to the Boston board of health. Justice Wright of the District su- preme court has refused to refer the case of the labor leaders, charged with contempt of court, to another mem- ber of the court Touching His Shoulder Against a high tension wire, Hughie D. McInnls, employed by a Springfield construction company, was electrocuted at Lee, Mass,, yesterday. The Body of a Young Woman Found in the Salmon Falls river at Somers- worth. N. H., was identified as that of Miss Emma Gaudette, aged 28, daugh- ter of Louis Gaudett The Commiission Form of Govern- ment was adopted by the city of P saic. N. J, by vote of its citizens I n_lght, making the third New Jerse: city fo fayor the change. The Amount of Taxable Property in Connecticut in 1910, according to fiz- ures compiled by State Tax Commis- sioner W. H. Corbin, is $097,500,664, an increase over 1909 of $31.879,887. Gaston L. Holmes and Charles L. Clifford, the two midshipmen of tha American practice squadran who dis- |appeared at Christiana, Norway, on Thursday last, were found yesterday. The Directors of the United States Steel corporation yester declared the regular quarterly dividend of 13-4 per cent. on the preferred stock and 11-4 per cent. on the common stock. e e e 1 A Few Hours After Receiving notice that his wife had begun suit for di- vorce, Willlam D. Hochler, a salesman from Pittsburg, committed suicide in a downtown Chicago hotel by shooting. The Very Rev. Joseph Butler, for the past 25 years president of St. Bona- venture’s seminary and college, Alle- ghan ttaragus county, New Yo died in New York yesterday lingering illness. Democrats of the House of Repre- | sentatives, after a prolonged ratified the cotton ta reducing by nearly one-half the sched- ules of the Payne-Aldrich law on man- ufactures of cotton. The Nebraska Democratic Conven- tion, which had been erpecie ebraska democrats on As Battleships Are Built Larger year after vear, the navy department may recommend to congress the con- struction of a mammoth drydock at New York or Norfolk exceeding in size any naval dock in this country. Supreme Court Justice Bischoff has | granted a final decree in the divorce action brought by Edna Goodric Goodwin against at Goodwin, the actor. The actor is barred from mar- rying during the lifetima of Mrs. Good- win, President Taft Has Commuted from one year to six months the sentence of Raymond F. May, former business manager of a Kansas City newspaper, who was convicted there in 1909 of using the United States mail to de- fraud. The Commission on Fine Arts has recommended that the $2,000,000 me- morial to Abraham Lincoln in Wash- ington take the form of a monumant in Potomac park on the same axis as the Capitol and the Washington mon- ument. Fears for the Safety of Ernest W. Day, the master mechanic at the Hood Rubber company’s works, Watertown, who on June 30th sailed out of New Bedford harbor abeard a yawl, has caused that company to institute ¢ search for him. Ten Thousand Soldiers, comprising detachments of United States infantry and cavalry from Fort Sheridan, regi- ments of the National Guard and Naval Reserves from Illinois and four other states, took part in the national military tournament which opened at Grant Park, Chicago. Former County Assessor Henry P. Dalton of Oakland, Cal,, was sentenced to serve eight years in the state peni- tentiary’ following his conviction of having accepted a bribe of 000 from the Spring Valley Water compauy, in consideration of which he was to re- | the Horseshoe falls jof the str Largest in Gonnecticut'—ilé Proportion to the City’s Population Over Falls in - Steel Barrel BossY LEACH'’S FOOLHARDY STUNT AT NIAGARA, BADLY BATTERED, BUT ALIVE 7 Did Not Mind Drop of 158 Feet So Much as Tumbling Over Rapids— Second Successful Performance. Niagara Falls, N, Y., July' bie Leach, 49 years old, of Niagara Falls, Ont, this afternoon went over y in a barrel and still lives. Though he was seversiy battered and bruised in the drop of 158 feet over the brink of the cataract, he sustained only superficial injuries, and tonight is ablé to be about his house. Second Successful Attempt. This is the second time in the his tory of the river that the cataract has ever been successfully navigated. Mrs. Anna Edson Taylor of this city made the trip in a barrel on Oct. 24, 1901, {and came cut aliva. Barrel Was of Steel. Harrassed by police on both sides of the river, Leach was forced this after- noen to make his start from LaSalle, a village two miles and a half above the cataract, on the United States gide m. Albert Mang and Wii- liam Perry, old rivermen, took him ont in a launch into the Canadian channel They stopped at Navy Island, where everything was made ~shipshape, and Leach was placad in the barrel, a steel affair, 11 feet long, the ends of lami- nated wood. Hung in a Canvas Hammock. Leach was hung in a canvas ham- ock. The barrel with its passenger s cast adrift just off the mouth of Chippewa i, hardly a mile above the brink of the herseshoe, at 2 o'clock, and was quickly caught by the rush of the upper rapids. A heavy wind drove it towards the Camadian mainland and it coursed down for a time, slowly to the falls. Strikes Rock, Piece of End Breaks Off ‘When 500 vards from the brink, the barrel was caught in the tremendous current and raced to the chasm. Al- though the water was unusually high, the barrel was roughly handled in the upper rapid; ‘Within 200 yards of the brink it struck hard against a reck and a large section of the wooden end was broken off. As the barrel reached the crest at 3.13 o'clock it swung straight and went plunging down Into the abyss on its long axis. Spun Around by an Eddy. i Fardly 30 seconds elapsed from the time that it made the piunge until it was seen, a red speck, careening in the spume below the cataract. Witn the terrific outrush of the horsesho= caused by high water, th2 barrel went floating down, tossing and sumbling in its passage towards the upper stdel arch bridge. Just abreast of the On- tario Power company’s generating station the barrel was caught in an eddy and there spun areund for sev- eral minutes before again catching the down current. Swimmer Gets Barrel. Men in Leach’'s employ were reads in a rowboat just beyond to catch the barrel, but before they could get to their oars Frank Bendzr of Chippewa swam out to it with a rope and caught the barrel by one of its handles. From that point the barrel was towed ashore and the cover quickly lifted. Leach Exhausted. Leach was bleeding and appsared in a bad way, but once out of the barrel sed ‘himself and waved to the that lined the bank. He was v exheusted and it was necessary to apply oxygen to ravive him. He thought that his leg was broken, but examination showed that it was mere- Iy sprained. “Tossing Nearly Killed Him. “I minded the tumbling above fhe falls more than the big drop,” sai Leach. me near killing me, the way I was tossed about before I hit the brink WELLMAN WILL NOT CROSS THE ATLANTIC Abandons Second Attempt te Sail in Dirigible Balloon, Cheyenne, Wyo., July —Informa- tion that Walter Wellman has given up the project of making a second at- tempt to cr the Atlantic in a diri- gible balloon, transferring the man- agement to Melvin Vaniman, chief en- gineer of the last venture, was secured here through a personal letter from Mr, Vaniman to J. Lovett Rockwell. B Vaniman wrote that he has a di- rigible well on the way to completion at Atlantic City and believes the ex- pedition will be successful. HOTEL TAFT TO CONFORM, Architect to Make Trip te New Haven to Look Over Architecture Around Green. In order to have the Hotel Taft cor- respond as nearly as possible with the buildings now under constructi around the green, and those that are in contemplation, all of which are morz or less of centinental design, ¥. M. Andrews, the architect of the hotel, will come to New Haven, says‘the Journal-Courier, and under his direct supervision experiments will be con- ducted as to the color and general styfe of brick te be used above the third story. As far as the hotel has already progressed, with two stories of stone and a coping, the celonial effect is apparent, and the experiments to be conducted will carry out this idea still further. There is to be one more story of stone. and after that brick. It is probable that Mr. Andrews will try to match the color of the original brick in the Center church, which is to be restored, but at all events the experiments will be thorough and the Tesult in keeping with the general ten- dency towards beautifying the green and harmonizing the buildings faeing it. Mr. Andrews has just returned from a trip to Kurope. While thers he at- tended the meeting of the Internatio al Academy of Arts and Science, a world famed organization, and delfy- ered an address. Reynolds Bridge.—Frank Howd has Jjust completed building a runabeut Wwhich is a fine specimen of workman- duce the corporatioy’s assessments. ‘When water boils and steam escapes the temperature of the water rises ro higher, however great the heat of- ship. He has been about two years building the vehicle, doing the work &t odd times. All the ?od and iren werk was done by Mr. Howd. He th‘ eady receivedaoflq flm:;