Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 1, 1911, Page 1

WATER SUPPLY Three Towns Contribute 50,000 Gallons Each to Drouth-Stricken Charlotte, N. C. 'SERVICES HELD TO PRAY FOR RAIN Cotton Mills in North and South Carolina Shut Down For Lack of Water to-Operate Their Plants—70,000 Operatives Idle—Crops Burning Up—Creeks Which Have Not Been Dry For Years Now Mudholes. Charlotte, N. C., July 31.—As a cli- max to the unprecadented drouth this Eection is experiencing, 152 cotton mills in North and South Carolina shut down today because the water in Catawba river is so low the South- ern Power company cannot supply the plants with power. 70,000 Operatives Idle. It is estimated that 70,000 operatives are thrown out of employment, but it is believed work will be resumed in two days. kb Reliable Creeks Are Mudholes. It has been many weeks since rain of any consequence has fallen, and creeks which have not gone dry ' in 45 years are mudholes. Mountair, Streams to the west upon which meny flour- dnz mills, tanneries and cotton mills are dependent for power, have dwin- dled to mere brooks, and many of the manufactaring enterprises have been forced to shut down. Crops Burning Up. Crops are burning up in the fields, while the hot winds are playing havoc with cotton. Water Famine at Charlotte. Cities and towns to the north and west of Charlotte are facing the ordeal of a water famine that this city is now experiencing. At Greensboro, Salis- bury, Concord, Spencer, Monroe, ‘Wadesboro and other places the situ- ation is grave, and measures of econ- omy are being rigorously enforced. Water Carried by Trains. ._Tha situation in Charlotte has not improved materially. Offers of water from Gastonia, Shelby and Lincolnton were accepted today and tank trains brought in tonight 50,000 gallons from each place, This is being pumped in- to the city mains by means of fire en- gines. Special Prayer Services for Rain. Special prayer services for rain were held in churches throughout the sec- tion yesterday. Light Rain Falling. There was a brief shower today and rain is falling lightly tonight. WORKING LIKE BEAVERS TO RESCUE BURIED MAN Heroic Efforts to Drive Shaft to Save Imprisoned Miner. Jopiin, Mo., July 31.—Miners and Yolunicer workers this. morning con- tinued efforts begun last night to reach Joseph Clary, 21 years old, who was imprisoned Ly a fall of rock in a mine near here. Clary, who is the son of a well- known mine operator, is believed to be alive in a _runway 70 feet below the surface. Women last night and today kept the rescue squads supplied with food and at times aided the men who were digging. A second drill hole, sunk ahove the mine crift where Clary is imprisoned, missed its mark and this afternoon another hol> was started. The drift underlies a siab of limestone, and it {‘l]malv tauke many hours to driil through 5. At 1he shaft, hundreds of volunteers are taking turns at the excavating, @nd watching them are thousands of yersons attracted by the reports of Joung Clary's plight. One of the pa- thetic sights at the mine is the father of the victim, Thomas Clary, ove of the oldest mine operators in this field. Since eight o'clock Sunday meorning he has left the mine only long enough to eat but once. He says he will not Jeave again until his son is found. If the third drill hole misses its mark another will be started as it will be iwo or three days before the shaft can be sunk to the level of the drift. ANOTHER AUTO TRAGEDY AT A GRADE CROSSING Two Women Killed and Man Fatally Injured Near Cleveland. Cleveland, July 31-—Two women were Jilled and a man was probably fatally ured when an Erie passenger train, running sixty miles an hour, struck an automobile on a crossipg at N Raudall, gouth of here, today. dead are Miss Louise Snow, Clevcland, and Miss Margaret Tuller, 20, who was visiting Miss Snow, Don- ald French, the driver of the machine snd ron of a well known Cleveland business man, has a broken shoulder nd scrious internal injuries. Miss ‘Tuller and Mr, French were engaged to be married. According to eye wit- riesses French was teaching Miss Tai ler to run the machipe. It is thought she became confused at the sight of the train. Miss Tuller was the daughter of Dr. R. B. Tuller and was regarded as an artist of considerable promise. She wae a student at the Chicago Art in- stitute. It is denied that she was engaged to Mr. French. She went to veland to visit her cousin, Miss Snow. The body of one of the women was burned to a crisp in the wreckage of the automobile, while the oth:r was ‘badly mangled. It was almost impds- sible to identify either of the bodies. TWO BOYS TO CROSS THE CONTINENT ON HORSEBACK Louis and Temple Abernathy Out To Win $5,000 Stake. New York, Aug. 1.—From Coney Is- 1and to the Pacific coast on horseback is the trip which is being undertaken by the Abernathy boys, the two little veterans of the saddle who last year rede into New York from Oklahoma. It was one minute after midnight to- night when Louis Abernathy, 11, an his brother Temple, four years his jun for, started on the trip which will take them 3,600 miles according to the route which they have picked. If they make the ride in sixty riding days and abide by certain gosditions they will win_ $5,600. ‘The boys have agreed that they will PERKINS SUMMONED IN STEEL TRUST CASE ify Next Week, Followed Ly Charles M. Schwab. Will Te: New York, July 51.—George W. Per- kins, director of tne United States Steel corporation, and chairman of the finance committee of the Interna- tional Harvester company, was served with a subpoena today to appear be- fore the congressional committee of inquiry into the affairs of the Uniteds States Steel corporation. Mr. Per- kins, however, will not be called as a witness tomorrow and was excused from appearing until the committee has completed its inquiry into the in- tricacies of the absorption of the Ten- nessee Coal and Iron company by the steel corporation. Tomorrow inquiry will be made of experts as_to the valuation_of ore properties of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. Three men have been subpoenaed who made estimates for members of the Tennessee syndicate before they took over the property to surrender it later, during the finan- cial panic,of 1907, to the United States Steel cofporation. They are C. P. Perin, W. M. Given and Walter Moore. Mr. Perkins ‘probably will not be call- ed_until next week. He will be followed by Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel company and former president of the United States Steel corporation. Both will hé asked concerning their knowledge of the Steel Plate associa- tion of the United States, which was formed just before the organization of the United States Steel corpora- tion. FRENCH SUGAR LIKED BY TRUST INVESTIGATORS Members of Committes Preferred It to American Product. ‘Washington, July 31.—Samples of sugar from Russia, France and Ger- many transformed the house special committee which is investigating the sugar trust into a “fudge” varty today and interrupted the sober proceedings of that body. Everybody voted for the French sugar. _ Representative Madison of Kansas said it was as goed as rock candy. Truman G. Palmer of Chicago, sec- retary of the beet sugar association, who brought the samples from abroad, explained thai American xranulaied gar is good enough for me.” said Chairman Hardwick, who Jet the sugar dissolve in his mouth. “If you took that coarse French su- gar home there would be a howl,” said Mr. Madison Mr. Palmer gave the commiitee gen- eral figures on the world's production and prices of sugar, ONLY FAINT HOPE FOR JOHN W. GATES’ RECOVERY. Condition Last Night Was Regarded as Very Serious. Paris, July 31.—The condition of . Gates tonight was very se He was sami-conscious most of the time. His physicians say that the pneumonia, which has attacked both lungs, did not increase during the day. This ‘was a good sign, they. declared, and added that if the lungs began to clear up tomorrow there may be u hope, though a very faint one, for Mr. Gates' recovery. The patient's heart continues satisfactory and his general strength keeps fairly good. $30,000 to 940,000 for Senator Alsop. (Special to The Builetin.) ‘Washington, : July 31.—It has been decidedto let the further conslderation | The Bulletin’s Girculation in Norwioh is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Tts Total BROUGHT BY TRAIN Cabled Paragraphs Belfast, Ireland, July 31—W. M. Sloan, local agent for P. V. Myers & Co., of New York, committed suicide at his office today by shooting. Bapajoz, Spain, July 31.—The Portu- guese consul here, while entering th. consulate today, discovered a - bomb that had been placed in the doorway of the building. St. - Petersburg, July = 31.—Harris Rothstein was taken to Libau yester- day, where he will be formally sur- renderad to-the American officers on board a steamer and taken back to Boston, where he is wanted to answer to a charge of burglary. Berlin, July 31.—The return of Em- affected the Moroccan negotiations, contrary to intimations in the Paris papers that his majesty would change Foreign Minister Von Kiderlen ‘Waechter’s policy. TEXANS BOOM DALLAS AS CONVENTION CITY Make Big Stir in Boston Immediately After Their Arrival There, Boston, July 31.—A dashing band from Texas, u jolly _party of 400 | Towans, and thousands of other adver- tising_men from every section of the Uniteq States and Canada, together with a_delegation from England, de- scended upen Boston today as dele- gates to the seventh annual conven- tion of the Associated Advertising clubs of America, Sessions of the big convention will open In_ historic Faneuil hall tomorrow and will continue during the remain- der of the week. The westerners were the first to arrive. Both the Texas and the Iowa special trains reached Boston an hour ahead of time. Led by P.,F. Willis of Dallas, cos- tumed as a cowboy, the 125 delegates from the Lone Star state rushed out of the South station with an Indian “war whoop” and a cheer for Dallas as the next convention city. The Tex- ans then formed in line and marched through the city to their hotel. Fach man wore a white hat and carried a “Tone Star” flag, and from the lapel of each cpat hung a pennant demand- ing that the 1912 convention be held at Dallas. The Texans were greeted with enthusiasm all along their line of march. Meanwhile the “Boston tea party special” train had discharged a party of 150 Towans.. All the men in this party wore blde serge suis, black bow ties and white outing shirts. Blue bands of ribbon were about their straw hats and on the ribbon was writt “lowa” in silver letters. They had a complete line of songs and yells, too, and Boston people heard and cheered fhom at frequent intervals during their march to thelr hotel. : A delegation from St. Paul arrived with a boom for their city as the next convention place. Chicago and Wash- ington were also in the field. THE, REORGA—I;;;ATION OF THE OIL TRUST Stock of the Subsidiary Companies te Be Distributed. New York, July 31l.—Announcement was made by the Standard Oil com- pany of New Jersey today in a com- munication to its stockholders of the Way it intended to.reorganize to meet the provisions of the Sherman anti- trust Ia; The plan. provides that stock in about 35 subsidiary companies shall be distributed ratably among the stockholders in the parent company. Dissolution will be about December 1. The detailed plan showing what pro rata shares in the sypsidiary company the Standard Oil stockholder may ex- pect under the reorganization will be made known later. This is a matter of computation and will require some time, but the communication today shows in outline the way in which the company proposes to reorganize. “Such distribution will_be made to the stockholders of the Standard Oil company (of New Jersey), of record on the last day of September, 1911; and for that purpese, the transfer books of the company will be closed on the 3lst day of August, 1911, at three o'clock p. m., and kept closed until the date when said stocks are ready for distribution, which, it is ex- pected, will be about December 1, 1911. “Notice of the date when said stocks are to be distributed and of the re- opening of the books will be duly given.” NO EXTRA PAY FOR THE EMPLOYES OF CONGRESS Democrats Decline to Compensate Them for Extra Session. ‘Washington, July 31L.—Overriding a thirty-year-old practice, the house voted down to day, 181 to 25, the sen- ate amendment to the deflclency ap- propriation bill providing for the pay- ment of one month’s “extra pay” to employes of congress to supplement their regular salaries. Ths amendment would have added about $140,060 to the appropriations. Despite the old custom, the democratic caucus early this sesslon decided to abolish the “extra pay” for economy's sake. Former Speaker Cannon and Republican Leader Mann were among those who. advocated the amendment, nsisting that the employes were en- titled to the extra money so that they might pay their traveling expenses ia going-to and from home: Mr. Mann declared that the democratic employes, afraid to ask democratic members to support the amendment, were praying to the republicans for help. He said democrats for years had silently al- lowed republican majorities to vote this extra month's pay when they might have Stopped the practice by objecting. Has. to Forego Ameri Visit. peror William to ‘tha capital has not| Admits Taking Lorimer Bribe CHARLES A. WHITE BEFORE LOR- IMER INVESTIGATORS. . WAS TROLLEY CONDUCTOR Elected to Legislature to ExRose Graft —A Reader of Bryan's Commoner, Lawsor's. Expose and Socialist Paper ‘Washington, July 31.—Charles A. ‘White, who, after running the gamut from straet car conductor to member of the Illinois legislature, .confessed to receiving money to vote for William Lorimer for the United States senate, began today to retell his story - befora the senate Lorimer committee. 5 Will. Be on Stand Several Days. He was the first witness at the pre- vious Lorimer investigation. His e: amination is-expected to consume three or four-days. - Whité, who is not more than. 30 years of ‘age, brought to the witness stand a large bundle of papers by which ha hoped to place himself before the country in a better light than that under. which he has rested since the Jorimer investigation started. Elected When a Conductor. He produced many testimonials of good character and _ability from schools hs attended in his youth and from former employers. He described his service at Springfield in 1906 as the legislative agent of street car men and his election to the Illinois housa of representatives while-he was work- ing as a conductor. Read Lawson’s “High Finance” Expose Explaining that he. wished to show the source from which White obtained his food for thought, Attorney J. H. Marble, for the committee, asked the | witness what he was reading at the time he was elected to the legislature. White mentioned these: Lawson’s high finance ‘exposura magazine articles, which White characterized as “a pret- ty good piece of work.” Read Bryan's Commoner and “Appeal to Reason. “The Jungle,” by Upton Sinclair, exposing the _stockyards — “splendid piece of work; four yolumes of Roman history, “about the Carthaginians, the Syrians and that class of stuff;” In- gersoll's complete works, Bryan's Com- moner, Taylor's “life pictures,” “Ap- peal to Reason,” a socialist publication. and various labor magazines and the daily newspapers of St. Louis. Promised to Expose Bribers. Tha_witness said that before he was elected to the legislature he heard of several men who. 100k bribes and then exposed the bribers. He said he told his _supporters during the campaign that if he was elected he would expose any corruption at Springfield, but he denied saying he would take the bribe in so doing. The witness was “c- ing letters from Lee O’'Neil Brown in reference to the orsanization of the house when the committee adjournei until tomorrow WHITE SLAVE CASE FOUND AT HARTFORD. Girl Says She Was Brought from New York-and 'Locked in Room. Hartford, Conn., July white slavery has aro police to unusual activity. Its author is Margaret Haynes, aged 18, of New York, who declares that she was brought here last Friday by three men, locked in a room and kept a prisonar until last night. She asserts that she caped after the men had pointed a pistol and demanded from her the bal- ance of $50 she had when she arrivad in town. She was_escorting them to where she alleged the money was when a policeman passed and she ran to him and asked for protection. The girl's alleged abductors fled and the patrol- man fired one shot at them. Later one of the trio, -who gave his_name as Frank Devine and his home New York, was arrested. Ha is under bonds cf $1,000. The police will not give out the de- tails of the case, but it is _understood the young woman comes from 105th street, New York city. TROOPS FIRE ON 2 RIOTERS; NINE DEAD from Mining Train. Ameri{:}n Women Flee amp on Special El Oro, Mexico, July 31.—In repelling a mob of striking miners, who today freed the prisoners in jail, troops fired into the crowd, killing nine and wounding 3 2 .Strikers were from La Esperanza mine, which they aband- oned this morning. This afternoon the men in the Mexico mine, an adjoining property, walked out. It is expected by the men of El Oro mine that a rike will be cailed there tomorrow. Fearing that they might be the vic- tims of anti-foreign demonstration, many American women were sént out of the camp in a special train over the El Oro mining railroad to Tulenanmo, whence they were taken to Mexico City over the National line. The fears were based on a circular, recently is= sued by the miners, in which Ameri- cans were- bitterly assailed. MEN’S SHOES AND WOMAN'S APRON IN OVERTURNED BOAT. Indications That There Were Three Persons Aboard Wrecked Craft. Stratford, Conn., July 31.—That there might possibly have been three people on board the catboat found off Middle jthat the house And More Beer DR. WILEY DECLARES HE IS ' TIRED OF BUYING “SUDS.” CONSUMERS ALSO PROTEST Claim That They Are Not Getting Enough for Their Money—Brewe: Object to Labelling Their Goods. Washinzton,’.}uly 31.—Entering the illustrious names of Herodotus, Caesar, Plato and other ancients us ready drinkers of beer, barley growers and brewers from all over ths coun- try began testimony today befdre the board of food and drug inspection t> determine the long disputed question, What is beer? Too Little Beer in a Schooner. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist, who heads the board, shared honors with the ancient convivialists by an- nouncing early that ‘his chief com- plaint was: that too little beer was found in the ordinary glass of com- merce sold to tha dry. Wiley Tired of Buying Foam. “I'm tired of buying foam,” said the pure food expert, indignantly. “Thers should be a line on glasses indicating where solid beer - end: Dr. Wiley looked thirstily on the pitcher which adorned the speaker’s table. It con- tained only water. There was - am- :er liquid samples at ths hearing to- ay. Consumers Want Beer Labelled. John R. Mauff, representing the Na- tional Consumers’ league and the ‘Wisconsin board of the American So- ciety of Equity, argued that most peo- ple were under the impression that all beer was made of barley malt, _hops and water, whereas in reality Miferior grains or ‘chemical preservatives” were substituted. He asserted that the brewers would lose nothing by labelling their product and the consumer would indicate his preference to various kinds of beer. Brewers Say Labelling Not Necessary The United States Brewers' associa- tion, represented at tha hearing by a committee, offered a statement answer- ing” various questions as to the manu- facture of beer and suggesting that beers were substantially alike - and needed no labelling to differentiate them. Egypt Has the Record Thirst. Mr. Mauff told the board that Egypt stili holds the record for continuous beer drinking, having quaffed the liquor for five thousand years. He ex- ploited the merits of beer, bat charged that the public did not get enough for its money. = Small and Large Pints. He sgaid that the consumer 1e sold a “pint’ or a ‘“quart” was In reality given what is known on brew- ers’ invoices as a “small” or a “large” and that since the Spanish-American war the “five quarters to a gallon? measure had never been changed. It was at this juncture that Dr. Wiley thought well of the suggestion about tha excess of foam in beer, and so ex- pressed himself. The hearing will be resumed tomor- row. ON THE CHARGE OF SHIELDING CRIMINALS. Committee on Judiciary to Report Evi- dence to the House. ‘Washington, July 31L—After general charges and denials between the two Wickershams of the government—tha attorney general and the delegate from Alaska—the house committee on judi- clary decided late today that it had no power to do anything but raport the evidence to the house. It will report early tomorrow Delegate Wickersham's resolution calling on the attornty gen- eral to furnish all the papers and data caring on the alleged frauds in con- nection with government coal con- tracts. - The committee will not refommend investigate Delegate Wickersham’s charges that Attorney Genzral Wickersham has shielded and protected “Alaska syndicate criminals.”” In a hearing enlivened with frequent and bitter clashes between the two Wickershams it turned out that In 1908 the dzlegate from Alaska offered his lezal services to the Guggenheim interests in the northwestern commer- cial company for a salary of $15,000 and the maintenance of office head- quarters in Seattle. A WILD RUSH OF SOUVENIR HUNTERS Interferes With Formal Beginning ef Work on New Subway. New York, July 31.—Souvenir hunt- ers nearly broke up the ceremonies swhich accompanied the beginning of Work on the new subway today. Work- men had loosened a little square of asphalt on Lexington avenue, under which the new line will run, and pub- lic service commissioner Willcox was preparing to lift the first shovelful of earth with a_silver spade when several thousand _enthusiasts swept away the small police guard. ‘After the police reserves had brought order from disorder the programme. was continued, but the first earth was not lifted with a_silver spade. It was scooped out of the hole by doz- ens of unofficial hands, while the police ought to keep_ the city officers and others scheduled to perform lhg cere- mony from being swept off their feet. No arrests were made. and nobody was badly hurt, although four women not eat or sleep under a roof during the ride. Their beds will be on the grass, and they will eat their meals by the roadside. They will ride up the eastern shore of the Hudson to Al- bany, thence west, and wil conclude their trip at Presidlo Park, San Fran- cisco, Weighed 650 Pounds 19. Baltimore. July 31.—William Filtz, said to weigh 630 pounds, died late today from “kidney “trouble in a hos- pital here. Early in the evening he ‘was removed in a furniture van to the hospital about seven miles from the suburban resort where he had been on exhibition. Filtz was born in east- ern Pennsylvania 19 years ago. Anti-Foreign Spirit in Mexico. Mexico City, July 31.—Striking mi- mers at El Oro - Teported rioting today actuated by an anti-foreign spirit aroused by a nln:nifigw de- manding that foreigners lave the A special train ca ‘three can women om | eral governme ‘send to of the resolution providing for the elaction of senators go over until the regular session of congress next De- cember. The conferees have had sev- eral meetings and decided that it is impossibls to agree and have so re- ported. It is reported down here that State Senator Alsop of Avon will be a bene. ficiary to the extent of $30,000 or $49,- 000 by the settlement of the so-called Alsop claim against tha Chilean gov- ernment. Representative Roberts of Nevaia has introduced a resolution in the house to investigate the investigating committees. He wants to find out how 'much these committees have spent, and how they have spent it,” what salaries they pay to the outside help they have employed, and what number of “gum- shoe men” they have employed.to dig' into corners for clues and information. This resolution is before the committee on rules. It is not thought likely that it will pass. Y Lewis Reilly of Meriden, son pf Rep- Rellly, has ac edito; London, July 31.—Although he had engaged passagg to New York for him- self and his wife on board the steamer Lusitania, Which sailed last Saturday, the Earl of Granard was compelled to stay here. The countess sailed alone. The earl was compelled to forego the trip in order that he may be present to help pass the veto bill through the house 8f lords. The fact that he holds a political appointment as master of the horse in the king’s household obli- gates him to the government. U. R., K. of P., Elects Officers. New Haven, Conn, July 31.—The following officers were elected by the Uniformed Rank, K. of P.: Brigadier general, George R. Tryon of Meriden, for a term of four years; colonel of the Second regiment, George E. Pettijean, Waterbury; major of the same 1egi- ment, Perry E. Wallace, Watsrbury H Wild Storm in Texas. Abilene, Tex., Aug. 1L.—Two persons were killad, 20 were injured and near- 1y every business house in ved by a storm of wii night. A number of residences Ground light yesterday was evidenced today by the finding of two men’s shoes and a woman's apron in the boat. The shoes were not mates, one being black and the other tan, and of differ- 2nt sizes. Fishermen here think that the boat belongs on the Long Island shore. ICE CREAM FULL OF GERMS. Some Sold in Thicago Has 84,000,000 Bacteria in Cubic Centimeter. Chicago, July 21.—Ice cream con- taining 84,000,000 bacteria to the cubic ‘centimenter is being sold in Chicago, according to analyses of samples made by Dr. F. O. Tonney of the municipal laboratories, who testified in the mu- nicipal ~ court against a company charged with manufacturing guantities of the product which is fmpure. A normal number of bacteria in ice cream is 500,000 to the cubjc centime- ter, according to Dr. Tonney. ~ Municipal Judge Going fined the ufacturer $100. ‘The defendant of an appeal to the su- fainted and a police captain had the badge snatched from his cap—also. as a souvenir. PENSIONS FOR CITIZENS OVER 60 YEARS OF AGE. Radical Proposition Introduced by the Soocialist Congressman. Washington, July. 3.—Every person in the United States 60 years of age or older, who has been a citizen 16 years, who has an income of less than 36 a week and who has not been con. victed of a felony, would ba put on ti pension roll of the United -States if congress passed a bill introduced t>- day by Representative Berger of Wis- consin, who constitutes the socfalist party in the house. Tha' bill would give pensions of $1 to 34 a week. Mr. Berger offered a joint resqlution pro- viding for the appointment of a com- mission to investigate the old age pen- sion question. M:’i'.?;'" %ng-l Ho!yt‘ will mcce: yor General Carter in command the manoeuvre brigade in Texas. when |- Gigoula u tion is the Largest” mmmtmfiopoifi@ ; For Less Foam Condensed Telegrams ’.lof' Were Two Murders and a sul- cide in Toledo Sunday. Bartholdi Cardinal Was Assassi ;NE sitting at his w’;da:v"::m;l':\g Yor] 27 Several Cases of c-holora have do- nce. Congressman Loudenslager was re- ported very ill at his home in Pauls- boro, N. J. A cablegram statés that Edwin A. bbey, the American painter, is dy- ing in' London. One Hundred Thousand.Dollars has been set on the ex-shah's head at Teheran, Persia. A suspected case of cholera came to the attention of the health authorities in Providence, yesterday, The Prince of Wal Has Begun his duties as midshipman on the battleship Hindustan at Portsmouth. Booker T. Washington Addressed the National Association of Teachers in blind schools in St. Louis, Mo. Carey A. nker, a Defaulting banker of Pearl, Ill, surrendered in San Francisco, having spent all he had. Bubonic Plague, Transmitted by ground squirrels, has appeared in Cali- fornia, and causad one death thus far. W. Morgan Shuster, the American treasurer general of Persia, has had trouble introducing monztary reforms. President Taft has accepted an in- vital to attend the state fair at g!:.rtford, the first week in Septem- Breaking of a Dam at Carlsbad, N. M., caused a flood in the Pecos river to do considerable damage in the Texas valley. Governor Colton of Porto Rico gave a reception in honor of the American secretary of war, Henry L. Stimson, at San Juan. ‘The Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass., employing over 5000 hands, started up on full time yesterday in all de- partments. X Michale Antoni, a Barber of New York, lost $2,300 at poker while playing with an alleged millionaire he supposed played to lose. Opposition Has Developed to the proposition to make the house in which Cleveland was born at Caldwell, N, J., a memorial museum. | Wisconsin, of all the western central states, derives enough revenue from its taxes upon corporations to pay its ordinary state expenses.- The Candidacy of Gen. Bernardo Reyes for president and J. Nera Esta- nol for vice president of Mexico has been formally announced. Plans for the consoliddtion of some of the largest shipping corporations on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes, have been completed. 2 Peter Rudolph Schloe, of Ph delphia, and chief boatswains mate on the cruiser Tallahassee, was drowned st Ocean View, Virginia, while bath- ng. . The Industrial prosperity of Rhode Island was materially increased yes- terday by the opening of a number of mills which had been shut down for periods of one and two weeks. Charles L. Green, an Albany county farmer, was electrocuted yesterday at Clinton_prison, JN. Y., for the murder of his daughter, Eva, a girl of 14 on & farm near New Scotland a year ago. Her head nearly severed from her body, Mrs. Rose Spinol, 80 vears old, was found, murdered early yesterday morning in her bedroom in a third floor apartment on Second avenue, New York. : Miss Alice Meyers of Blackwell, Okla,, who is a telephone operator has left for Hartford, Conn, to claim an estate valued at $80,000 to which she has fallen heir by the death of her grandmother. What is believed by the Barre, Vt, police to be a case of murder revealed when the body of Daniel Diack, a stone cutter, was found lying in a pool of blood in the rear of a house in River street. While undergoing an operation for injuries ‘received as the result of a fall from the gun deck to the quarter deck of the battleship Maine, C. R. Nelson, a seaman, whoes home is in Hobgood, N. C., died. While working on a staging on the steel hull of the Argentine battleship Rivadavia at the Fore River ship- vards in Quiney vyesterday, Charles Chapelen fell sixty feet and was al- most instantly killed. -~ Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, the labor leaders, were yesterday allowed twenty days by Justice Wright of the district Su- preme Court, in which to answer the contempt against them. A 1200 mile auto trip to Chicago by automobile was begun by two women, Mrs. Richard Schindler of Norwoo: R. L. and Miss Helen Gove of Spring: field, Mass., who started from Nor- [yood at 7.3 elock yesterday morn- ng. Courtney Piggott, who from the time he was stricken with blindness six years ago. while working as a motor- man on the troliey lines, had been a pensioner of his former comrades, died in New Haven, Sunday night aged 52. In Order That She Might Better work for the freedom of the man with whom she had fallen in love while he was a prisoner in the county jail in Kansas City, Kan., Miss Nora Carpen- ter of Norton, Va., was married to Ed- ward Baker, who is serving a six gmntha' sentence for a postoffice rob- ery. To save Mrs. Andrew H. Warner from gaing crazy, the mayor of Hack- ettstown, N. J., ordeped that the test- ing of the whistle that calls out the fire department be diseontinued and that the whistle be blown only for act- ual alarms of fire. A week ago Sunday Mrs, Warner's husband, a yolunteer fireman, was summoned by this ‘whistle to a fire where he lost his life. Insane Asylum Afire. Toronto, Aug. 1—A long distance telephone message from Hamilton, Ont., says that the main building of the sane is on patients in veloped in the department of Vraul, |- Severe Shock * For a Mother FAINTS WH BOY ADMITS GUILT OF MURDER. HARTFORD WOMAN'S ORDEAL Young Geidel Has Lost Spirit of Bra- vado—To Be ' Arraigned Today— Hotel Keeper Comes to Assistance. New York, July 31.—Paul Geidel's mother fainted today when she heard from her boy's own lips a confession that he murdered William Henry Jackson, the aged broker. Mrs. Geidel came here from her home in Hartford with her daughter Agnes, aged 16, and Mrs. Mary Geiger, a friend. A Pathetic Meeting. ‘When the bellboy was brought see her at the Tombs prison she rus) to him and threw her arms about his neck. Then, putting him off at arm's length and looking him straight in the eyes, she asked: “My boy, did you do it? mother.” Boy Admits Crime, Mother Swoons. Without raising his head, Geidel re- plied: “Yes. I @id.” The words were still on his lips when his mother fell in a_swoon. It was half an hour before she regained con- sciousness. Geidel hziped carry her to a lllaunge and then went back to his cell. Qu n as to Boy's Sanity. Geidel's attorney obtained a post- ponement today of his arraignment ug- til tomorrow to allow time to apply for the appointment of a commission te inquire into the boy's sanity. Mrs, Geidel will stay here for several day: Id-ler daughter returned to Hartford to- ay. Wealthy Hotel*Man to Aid Him. Notwithstanding Geldel’s confession. every "avenus that the law offers for escape from the death penaity will be tried in his case, James A. Gray, his lawyer, ‘said today. A wealthy hotel man whose name he was not at liberty to disclose has come to Geldels’ all and would bear the expenses of the trial, Mr. Gray added. Boy is Sleepless and Tearful. Geidel is sleepless and tearful at night, his keepers declare. The air of bravado he has exhibited since his arrest departs with the setting sun. they declare, and he spends the night in moaning and crying. Dawn brings rellef and sleap. Will Be Tried at an Early Date. Geidel will be tried within the next 30 days, if possible; if not, early In September, District Attorney Whitman said ‘tonight. WOULD DESTROY COTTON MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Congressmen Make Dire Predictions As To Effect of Cotton Bill. Washington, July 31.—Though al today in the house was su; d to b devoted to republican spe against the Underwood cotton tariff revision bill about half the time was taken up by demands for pension legislation and an ineffectual effort to obtain tha passage of the senate amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill pro- viding for an extra month's pay for employes’ of congress. The house vot ed down the amendment, 181 to 2 thus abandoning the practice of fhirt vears standing. Representative Austin of Tennesses, Utter of Rhode Island and Green of Massachusetts denounced the Under- wood ‘bill, saying that if passed it would utterly destroy the cotton mant- facturing industry in the Unfted States. They urged that there Be no tariff legislation without a report from the tariff board. 'Mr. Austin said that the Underwood bill had been drawn by a lot of lawyers who knew about the tariff. Representative Stevens of Minne- sota and Sloan of Nebraska made pleas for pension legisiation. Mr. Sloan sat) that Representative Sherwood of Ohlo, author of the “dollar a day” pension bill of last session, was “a victim of a new Washington system of white slav- ery,” inflicted by the democratic cau- cus which kept him quiet at this session. RECORD GATHERING OF AMERICAN WAR CRAFT. ‘Theoretical Attack en Cape Cod Bay Has Commenoced. Tell your Provincetewn, Mass., July 31.—Cape Cod bay was a theater of mimic navil war_topight for the greatest collsetfon of ships of war ever gathered toget! under the American flag. More t half a hundred warships participa in a theoretical attack of Cape Cod bay and the port of Provincatown. T4e North Atlantic battleship flest, in command of Rear Admiral Osterhauns formed in line of battle across the mouth of the bay as the defending forces, trying with their searchlights to disclose the attacking vessels of the seventh and eighth torpedo divisions and the submarines. The torpedo boats and submarines manoeuvigd in the outer bay all day, going through tastical evolutions until it was time to arrange themsalves for the attack. The battleships spent the time in the middie bay, going through battle practice and firing at each other with blank shells. Tonight's attack was the first of the practical manoeuvras to follow the gathering of the fleet here for their summer = work. During -the coming fortnight there will be night and dav attacks by aeroplane upon the battle- ship fleet, it is expected, for the first time {n American naval history. Lawyer's Suspension Set Aside. Bridgeport, Conn., July 31.—The su- preme court sitting in New Haven today set aside a deeislon of Judgs Burpea of the superfor court in the Fairfleld county bar against L Ennis, a Bridgeport attorney. Ennis by order of the lower court was sus- perided for two years for unprof-s- sional conduct. It was alleged that he took half the sum given a client for in- juries received when the probate court which appointed him for his client’s guardian allowed but ona-third of the amount. Steamship Arrivals. At Glasgow: July 30, Caledonia, from New York. At Christiansand: July 30, Osear 1T, frem Naw York. At Plymouth: July 31, President Grant, from New York. Hamilton asylum for the criminal in- re: gty | “There are about