Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 7, 1911, Page 1

VOL. LII.—NO. 188 The Bulletin’s Circulation in MISSILE FRACTURES WOMAN'S SKULL Inoffending Passenger on Coney Island Car a Victim of Strike Rioters STRIKEBREAKER FATALLY INJURED‘ Twenty-five Strikers and Their Sympathizers Under Arrest—Attempt of Coney Island and Brooklyn Com- pany to Run Cars Results in Bloodshed—Police Guards Mistaken For Passengers and Attacked. New York, August 6.—The Coney and & Brooklyn Railroad Co. ran empty cars for nine hours today between twenty-mile lines of 1,200 po- licemen. Notwithstanding these pre- cautions rioting occurred in many sec- tions. Four Persons in Hospital. Four persons are in the hosoital to- night, one of them mortally hurt, probably twoscore more are suffering from wounds inflicted by stomes and brickbats and 25 strikers and their synipathizers, are under lock and key. First Car Out at 9.45. The first car out of the barns left al 9.45 o'clock. nearly four hours after the time set by the company’s officials for resuming operations. It passed through single files of bluecoats fring- ing hostile crowds along the way and mad: {ts destination safely, picking up half a dozen passengers. Awed by the heavy guard, the strike sympathig- ers did not molest it. Second Car an Hour Later, Nearly an hour later the second car crawled into the open. Thereafter service was maintained at irregular intervals varying from 30 minutes to an hour until eight o'clock tonight, when the police were notified that no more Cars would b: run for twelve hours. Double Crews and Police on Cars. As the day advanced the crowds be- came uglier and double crews were placed upon all cars on the three lines affected by the strike. A policeman who stcod besile the two motormen and plain clothes men and detectives of the “strong arm squad” riding in tlirees and fours over the system stood in readiness to repel attacks -upon crews and passengers. Rioters Attack Police. A detachment of the squad was at- tacked by a dozen or more men who mistook them for passengers., Two of detectives were dragged to the reet. After they flashed their re- slvers and shields the mob took to s heels. Woman's Skull Fractured, More than a dozen cars were pelted with missiles and in each case blood was_spilled. Mrs. Lena Weisengrum 1 Of Yonkers, a passenger, was taken to a hospital with a probable fracture of the skull fcllowing one of the at- tacks. Dozen Knocked Insensible by Stones. A dozen persons, or thereabouts, were rendered unconscious by flying stcries, while many more sustained laccrations and bruises. ‘med so serious an aspect at so y points late this afternoon that many of the cars were turned back | to the barns within the single fare zone, less than halfway to Coney Is- Jand. To Lay Matter Before Mayor. Patrick Shea, one of the labor lead- ers, announced tonight that he had spent the afternjon discussing the sit- uation with William C. Rogers, -deputy labor commissioner. Shea said he was to meet Rogers tomorrow morning and that they would probably place the situation before Mayor Gaynor and ask him to intervene. Strikebreaker’s Skull Fractured. Reports from outlying sections late tonight told of further rfoting with a probable fatal result to at least one person. William R. Graves, a strike- breaking motorman, was struck on the head with a stone and sustained a frac- tured skull. He was taken in an un- conscious condition to the Coney Is- land hospital. Women Struck by Stone. Two women, on a Smith street car on their way to Coney Island, were struck’ by flying stones, but escaped with contusions on scalp and shoul- ders. A shot was fired from Prospect park at a passing street car. Nobody was hit. Will Run’ Cars Today. In a statement tonight the traction | company said that it was prepared to place three hundred men on its cars tomorrow and expected to operate its lines on a one-third schedile, begin- ning at 4 a. m. -_— e WAS IN A HURRY TO MEET ETHEL BARRYMORE Russell Griswold Coit, Her Husband, | Leads Motor Policeman, 20-Mile Chase. Freeport, L. I, August wold Coit, against wrom Ethel e has begun suit for divorce, ted at Wantage, Long Is- land, last eveninz. for reckless driv- ing in an automobile. For nearly 20 miles he kept ahead of Otto W. Payne, a motoreycle policeman, along the Mer- and when he was caught hurrying to caich a train for Canada, where he has an appoint- ment with his wife, a case of wine or more,” e policeman. “It is of importance that I reach Central at 6.20 o'clock. I started tonight.” ith Colt in his 70-horsepower car Wiz a young woman and a chauffeur who gave his name as William Nash. Colt explained to Payne that the wo- man was his secretary. He refused to her name. Colt said he lived at = pending the day with s, at Bay Shore,” he explained. staved rather late, and I would not i you to be brief with me, but I must art for Canada tonight to keep an ‘tment with my wife. She is Barrymore. May T go?” rel ("olt :efused to talk concerning his action for divorce, and said: “I am ngz to Cavada. She is there, That & is_all. The chauffenr confirmed Colt's state- ment regarding his trip to Canada by saving that his employer had received 2 messaze frpm Montreal that day. The trip whicfl Colt made to Bay Shore is consigered significant in view of his hurried trip to see Mr. Meyer who is a lawver. Before Payne had time to make a complete memorandum, Colt ordered his chauffeur to start and the police- man jotted down the number of the car as he sped away. Colt will be arraigned_before Justice of the Peace Corodon Norton at Newport upon his return from Canada. He would not #ive the date of his expected return. HARTFORD AUTOMOBILE OUT OF COMMISSION Marooted Tree and Damaged Machine | Tell Story of a Mixup. Branford, Conn., August 6.—Automo- bilists driving along the road between this place and New Haven at a point known as Long Hill this afternoon, saw an automobile in a lot at the side of the road with the forward end against a small tree which had been uprooted. The wind shiela of the ma- chine was smashed, the front axle bent and twisted and ome of the front wheels broken. The machine had the registry - tag 1896, which the register gives as belonging to E. H. Hartford, It is understood that one of the occupants of the car, a woman, was injured. and taken to New Ha- ven, where she was cared for and then taken to her home in Hartford. Morse Admits Accident. Hartford, August 6—I. H. Mose, president of a local business college, tonight admitted that he had had a mishap with his automobile at Bran- ford today, but other than to deny that anyorie was injured refused to discuss the matter. { German Day at New Haven. New Haven, August 6.—Delegates to German day, which is to be observed here tomorrow, besan to arrive tomight and tomorrow it is expected that fully 15.000 men will take part in the parade which is to be one of tme features of _the day. The parade in the morning “will be reviewed by the city officials and in the aft be made by 6.—Russell | Morse of | oon an address will | Baldwin. DASTARDLY POISON PLOT UNEARTHED IN MISSOURI. Poisoned Gum Placed in Yards, Appar- ently for Revenge. Fulton, Mo., Aug. 6.—What county authorities believe to be a plot for the wholesale poisoning of children has | been unearthed at Concord, in Callo- way county, and as a result L. O. { Boyd, a farmer, and his wife and Jef- ferson Woods, a horse dealer, were ar- rested today. The children whose lives were en- dangered belong to families whose members testified in a slander suit re- cently brought by Mrs. Bovd against | Dr. W. B. Ellis, a physician of Con- cord. Mrs. Boyd asked $15.000 damn- ages, claiming. that Dr. Ellis had de- famed her character. The jury brought lin a verdigt for the defendant. The first allegad attempt on the lives of the children was made several weeks ago, when a package of chewing gum was found in the yard of Edward Mec- Pheeters, a nephew of Judge Robert McPhzeters of Fulton. The gum was sent to a chemist, who discovered that it was sprinkled profusely with strych- nine. The placing of gum on the premises of people iz, the vicinity of Concord has become frequent the last few days, and at least three more fam- ilies appear to have been included in the poisoning plot. All the families on whose premises the poisoned gum has been placed have small children. Tonight bond was fixed at $1,000 fer Mrs. Boyd and $2,000 for her husband. BATTLESHIP FLORIDA TO BE READY SEPT. 15. With Sister Ship Utah She Will Be Largest Vessel in Navy. . | New York, Aug. 6.—It was stated at the Brookiyn navy yard today that tie construction of the battleship Florida is within two per cent. of completion and that on the 15th of next month she will be formally placed in commission. “The Florida and her sister ship, the Utah, which has just besn built at a private yard, are the latest and might- iest fighting units in the United States navy and one or the other will super- sede the Connecticut as the flagship of the North Atlantic fleat. When the Florida sails she will rep- resent an expenditure of nearly $10,- 000.000. As compared with the next largest ships in the United States navy | —the Delaware and North Dakota type | —the Florida and Utah are ten feet longer, 1.825 tons greater displacement. on even terms as to the main batte: but with two more of the five-inch suns in the sacond battery | REFUSAL TO MARRY COST GIRL HER LIFE ] | Bodies of Inez Marshall and John Ornst Found on Farm. Rochester, N. Y., August 6.—John Ornst, 24 years old, and Inez Marshall, about 19 yvears of age, were found shot to death on the Ornst farm just out- side of the city today. ~ Ornst took the girl to the cottage on the farm last night and it is be- lieved that he shot her when she re- fused to marry him and then turned the weapon on himself. She was a friend of the Ornst famil, Steamship Arrivals. At Southampton: August 6, St. Paul, from New York. At Liverpool: August 5, Caronia, from New York August 6, Raltic, from New York. $15,000 Fire at Manchester. ] Manchester, Conn., August 6.—Fire tonight destroyed the factory of the Eastern Paper Box company, with a loss estimated at $15,000 The rioting { Cabled Paragraphs Liverpool, Aug. 6.—Robert Bacon, the American ambassador to France, sailed for New York yesterday on the steam- er Campania. Leipsic, Saxony, Aug. 6.—Ten thou- sand metal workers here and 9,000 in the Thuringien district were locked out yesterday because some of the men had struck. Etampes, France, Aug. 6.—Captiin Felix, director of the military aviation school, ascended 11,330 feet Yesterday, thus breaking the record for height ar- tained by aeroplanes. Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 6.—General Antonige Simon, the deposed president of Haiti, with his family and suits, ar- rived here yesterday on the Dutch steamer Prinz Nederlanden. The party numbered 44. Deauville, France, Aug. 6.—William K. Vanderbilt's Canadienne today won the Prix Du Premier Pas and his M rambo ran second in the Prix De La Societe De Encouragement, races for three year olds, at one and a half miles. Brussels, Aug. 6.—An aeroplane cir- cuit race of Bel: im, for which prizes amounting to $7,000 and the king’s cup have been offered, started today. Thare were 18 entrants. M. Lanser, a French- man, won the first leg, from Brussels to Mons, a distance of about 35 miles, in two hours 12 minutes. Maurice Tabuteau and M. Parisot fall and smashed thur machines, but neither man was injured. The race will end at Brussels Aug. 15 Madrid, Aug. 6.—It is rumored that the men who mutinied vesterday on board the battleship Numancia while that vessel was lying in the roadstead at Tangier have been shot. “There is, howaver, no confirmation of this. The government declared the insusrectfon i was of no importance. Although the sailors who mutinied were armed, they were few in number and were quickiy seizad and placed in irons by their officers and the loyal members of the crew. TOGO PLACES WREATH g ON WASHINGTON’S TOMB. Visits Mount Vernon and Carefully In- spects Washington’s Sword. Washingtén, Aug. 6.—Reverently, with a brief invocation in Japanese, Admiral Togo placed a wreath of roses on the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon today. A group of a dozen, among whom were the Japanzse am- bassador, Acting Secretary Winthrop of the navy, five rear admirals of the United States and Chandler Hale, third assistant secretary of state, watched the diminutive Oriental enter the mausoleum and stand silently at sa- lute. He spoke softly but audibly for a moment and then set down the wreath. Emerging from the tomb, the admiral saw confronting him a battery of cameras. “That's the only way we'll ever shoot at you, I guess” remarked Rear Ad- miral Wainwright, amid laughter. The trip from the city to Mount Vernon was made on the president’'s vacht, the Mayflower. At~ Mount Vernon two electric launches conveyed the party ashore. After the ceremony at the tomb the party stroiled through the picturesque Washington estate to the mansion in which the nation’s first president lived and died. The admiral was lad through the rooms and up the staircases to the bed where Washington died. He bowed and saluted. He paused before Wash- ington'’s sword and carefully read the inscription. Ona of the party pointel out the wine and liquor case which once figured in the hospitality of Mount Vernon. “Pretty generous bottles,” comment- ed a navy officer, and the little Jap- anese smiled quickly in appreciation. On tha Mount Vernon autograph book the admiral wrote with a firm hand in English: “Admiral Count Togo, Aug. 6, 1911.” The Japanese ambassador also sign- ed his name. On his return to the city Admiral Togo rested in a big chair on the quarter deck, chatting for 4 while with Rear Admiral Harber. Presently his head droopad and he fell asleep. Ad- miral Harber walked softly away and joined a group of officers on the main deck. One of the latter who observed what had happened congratulated Ad- miral Harber. “You've done something Rojestven- sky couldn't do,” he said. “You've put Admiral Togo to sleep. Tonight Togo was the guest of tha Japanese ambassdor at a banquet. HEADLESS BODY OF WOMAN IDENTIFIED. Cincinnati Police Are Now Searching for Her Negro Hushand. Cincinnati, O., Aus. 6.—The head- less body of a woman found in a sewer late Friday_was identified early today by women friends as being _that of Bertha Courtney. The authorities are looking for her negro husband. Women in the house where she lived told the police that the Courtney woman one night came in crying bitterly and told them that she_had been mistreated bv her husband. She asked that she be protected. The following night the husband came to the house with a patrolman and insisted that he be allowed to see his wife. This privilege was granted, and after a conversation the woman Jeft the negro and was not seen alive again by her friends. Every effort was made to locate the negro today with- out success. FARMER DROPPED DEAD WHILE CHASING A COW. Ellington Man Succumbs to Heart Dis- ease in Protecting His Corn. Ellington, Conn., Aug. ¢.—Warren Braman, 55 vears old, a weli to farmer of this place, dropped d 1 from heart disease today while chasing a cow. The animal had gotten into a patch of corn and Braman started to chase her out. The cow returnazd to the barn, but her ‘owner failed to put in an appearance, a search disclosing his body a mile and,a half from the Louse. He leaves a wife and one daughter. VAUDEVILLE ACTRESS FOUND MURDERED. Her Husband, With Whom She Quar- relled, Under Arrest. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 6.—Tha body of Mrs. Charles Mowrey, 36 vears old, a vaudeville actress, was found with her throat cut in a rooming house here during the #ight. A razor, a bowl of bloody water and bloody fingerprints are clues upon which the police have arrested her husband. He is a dry g00ds packer and is said to have quar- relled with his wife several days ago. . NORWICH, CONN. MGNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1911 Bow Stove in By an leeber OCEAN LINER DAMAGED ABOVE THE WATER LINE. HOLE COVERED BY CANVAS Columbia Able to Complete Voyage to New York at Thirteen Knots an Hour—Collision off Newfoundland. New York, August 6.—Bearing ble proof of her collision with an ice- berg_on August 2, the Anchor line steamer Columbia reached New York today from Glasgow under her own steam. Many vards of canvas covered the ‘hole made in her bow by the ice- berg, but her officers declared that the damase was entirely above the water line and could be handily repaired. 120 Miles Off Newfoundland Coast. The Columbia * averaged thirteen knots an hour between the spot where the accident occurred about 120 miles ofi? the coast of Newfoundland, to this city.. Passengers Were at Dinner. The Columbia’s 598 passengers had just sat down to dinner. when the col- lision occurred. Because of the heavy fog, the vessel's engines had been stop- ped. Unheralded by the customary drop in temperature, the massive lines of the iceberg loomed up in front of the vessel almost at the moment of collision. Liner Backed Away Quickly. There was a crash as the sharp stem cut into the floating mass and tons of ice rattled from the side of the berg to the vessel's deck. Captain Mitch- ell, who was on the bridge, signalled with all despatch for full speed astern and the liner backed away before her officers or crew could take, in the white gloom, the measure of the jey mountain they had encountered, _Split Up Ice With Axes. An inventory of the damage found the bow stove in so badly that the liner took considerable water in mak- ing any speed forward and canvas was stretched across the splintered section to shut out the sea. The canvas heid and there was no trouble from this source during the remainder of tie vovage. The canvas laid, the crew set about removing the mass of ice for- ward, but made little headway until their axes had split the largest pieces, weighing tons, into many sections. Berg Caused an Echo. Although the passengers could not see the iceberg through the mantle of fog after the steamer backed away, they heard the sound of theix voices rebound in echo from its wa The shriek of the liner's whistle and other loud noises were thrown back as if to remind the passengers at the rail of the unseen danger’s nearness, g Hold Flooded With Water. Close examination of the Columbia at her dock tonight revealed the i’ measure of the damage as greater than at first reported. Her hold was flood- ed with hundreds of tons of water.the plates of her bow were crumpled for fifteen feet, her port anchor had been left in the grip of the iceberg and sev- eral persons aboard were suffering from injuries sustained in the crash. Woman Passenger’s Leg Broken. Among them was rs. Elizabeth Ogilvie, an elderly woman, ‘bound for her daughter's home in Pittsburg. Her leg was broken when she was hurled to the deck. ENGINE WENT DOWN AN EMBANKMENT. Engineer and Fireman of 18-Hour Train Escape Death. Chicago, Aug. 6—One hundred and twenty-five passengers on the Penn- sylvania 18-hour train which left here at 2.45 o'clock for New York were frightened but uninjured when the en- gine, tender and bagsage car_ jumped the track while going at full speed between Indiana Harbor and Buffing- ton, Ind., today. The engine and ten- der broke from the train when the en- gineer applied the emergency brak and, leaving the rails, plunged down an _embankment. The train stopp~1 with a jerk that threw the passengers from their seats, but it remained up- right on the tracks. The bagzage car, immediately behind the tender, left the tracks, but did not overturn. W. L. Hoy, tha fireman, jumped when the engine left the rails, and three of his ribs were broken and his leg frac- tured. C. F. Summers, the engineer, went into the ditch with his engine, but escaped serious injury. The total delay to the train was two hours. Careful investization failed to reveal anv cause for the accident. THE GREATEST_GENERAL HOSPITAL IN COUNTRY Gift of Peter Bent Brigham will Con- sist of Fourteen Buildings. Boston, August 6.—Despite the ob- jections of the heirs of the late Peter Bent Brigham, who carried litigation intended to prevent the use of some $5,000,000 of his money for the erec- tion and endowment of a hospital to the highest courts in the land, con- struction of the hospital buildings will begin tomorrow. When completed, the Peter Bent Frigham hospital will be the greatesf general hospital in the country, experts declare. It will con- t of fourteen buildings, four of which are to be completed within 14 months. THREE DROWNED ON WAY HOME FROM DANCE. Bodies of Man and Two Young Women Found in Greene Lake. Catskill, N. Y. Aug. 6.—The bodies of Miss Nomia Meany and Miss May Jar- vis of Brookly re found in Greenec lake by searchers late this afternoon, and not long afterwards the body of Joseph Hensche was brought to the surface. The trio on Friday night lefc a dancing pavilion to return to the hotels wherz they were spending a vii- cation. The next day the flat bottomed rowboat which they had taken was found capsized 500 feet below the land- ing of the hotel where the girls stayed. b s Girl Bather Has Close Call. Suffi2ld, Conn., Aug. 6.—Miss Dora Haas, 17 vears oid, of New York, near- Iy lost hei life while bathing in South- wick pond here today. She was seized with cramps and sank three times oe- fore she could be taken from the water. She was taken 1o a Westfield, Mass. hospital, where her condition is said to be serious. A Lone Bandit Holds Up Gar COLLECTS $8 AND WATCHES FROM PASSENGERS. WANTED NO “CHICKEN FEED” With Revolver Forced Passenger to Assist Him—Subsequently Arrested and ldentified by Victims. Salt Lake City. August 6.—A des- perado held up an electric car filled with pleasure seekers returning from Salt Air late last night. Several pas- sengers were injured. The bandit fled in a fusillade of shots from the car after having wounded a man who grap- pled with him. Two Shots Fired by Bandit. As the train slackened speed at the city limits a man sprang upon the running board of the open car and be- gan shooting. One bullet shattered an oil lamp in the car. A second shot grazed the ear of Mrs. Thomas Hod- der, who sat with her husband. “Ordered Passenger to Help Him. “Here, you! Get out on this board and gather in the shekels, before’I blow your head o commanded the hold-up man, Involuntary Robber Collects $85. Hodder climbed from his seat and became an unpwilling accomplice of the robber. He Went through the pockets of fifteen or twenty of his fellow pas- seéngers, handing the booty to the ban- dit: They collected several watches and some $535 in money. Mail Clerk Jumps Upon Ban “No more chicken feed —for me,” growled the robber. “Get busy, now, and dig up a little coin, if you want 1o get home with your skin whole!” About midway of the car Hodder be- gan the seorch of Cleveland Porfer, a railway mail clerk. Porter made a jump for the bandit, grasping his pis- tol. Revolver Wrenched from Robber. In the struggle Porter was shot through the right hand and both he and the bandit fell from the car into the grass. J. W. McDermott, an Og- den hotel proprietor, who had been with Porter, clambered from the car and went to the assistance of his friend. A fierce struggle ensued, in which the revolver was wrenched from the robber’s hand. Desperado Escapes. The robber succeeded in breaking away and disappeared on the bank of the Jordan river. He had with him most of the property that Mr. Hodder had collected, Auto Repairer Arrested. James Mays, 36, who claims to be an automobile repairer, recently from Portland, Oregon, was arrested here, charged with being the bandit. Mays was identified by four or five of the passengers who had been held up,in- cluding the three who were wounded. Coin May Prove His Undoing, In the pocket was found a coin, carried as a pocket piece by one of the victims. This coin has been posi- tively identified. HOTEL RAIDED AT LIGHTHOUSE POINT Proprieter and Four Bartenders Ar- rested—League Ball Players Present. New Haven, August 6.—The local police this afternoon raided a hotel at Lighthouse Point run by Thomas Corcoran and arrested the proprietor and four bartenders. At the time of the raid there were about 200 men in the hotel and among them several of the members of the Hartford Connec- ticut league baseball team, Those ar- rested will be given a hearing in court tomorrow morning on a charge of sell- ing liquor on Sunday Friends Ask Pope for pensation for Ordination of Sightless Man. Buffalo, Aug. 6.—Application has just been made to the pope for a dispensa- tion allowing Henry E. Wessling to be ordained to the priesthood, although he is totally blind. While studying at Canisius college here last year Mr. | Wessling lost his sight experimenting with acids. Under the laws of the church blind- ness would be an obstacle to the at- tainment of the priesthood. The, appeal for a dispensation in this case has the indorsement of Archbishop Faleonio and others. 3 Tilson Defended Morrison. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, Aug. 5.—After a hard fight, the house this afterncon adopted the report of the majority members of the committee on expenditures of the state department finding the disburs- ing clerk, Morrison, and the late chicf clerk, Michael, now consul general oL the United States at Calcutta, guilty, and recommending their dismissal from the service of the United States. Representative Tilson made a fight against the report, as it condemned a man without a hearing and without a chance to defend himself. Mr. Tilson claimed that all these men were guil- ty of was follocing the precedest es- tablished, by a long line of state de- partment officials of allowing vouchers ;!0 be signed in blank. He sai “This is not a party question: it is in effect la jury trfal. Morrison and Michael are the accused. The charge is embezzle- ment and complicity therein. We are the jurors and it would be passing strange il this broad isle between us, dividing us politically should also di- ide us upon our verdict upon evidence of an alleged crime. The penalty if we should pass this resolution is to brand as embezzlers both Morrison anl Michael. “It is not claimed that Morrison got any of the $1.600; Michael has not been heard. My appeal is not to party loyalty, but to the cooler judgment ot fair minded men on both sides, and to your sense of fair pla It has always been my guiding principle fo help build up, not tear down, to help lift up, not kick down my feliow men.” Canoceist Pitches Overboard. Farrisen, Me., August 6—Seized with jllness while in a canoe on Long lake, James A. Cook, aged 19, of delphia, pitched overboard, and was drowned before his companion could save him. Young Cook, who is said to be a member of a well to do Philadelphia family, had been camping on the shore of the lake, l The Chicopee Cotton Mills and the Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in 'Gonnecticut in P‘rOportlov? Condensed Teleg s The Tax Rate for Cambriay s, Mass., for the ensuing year is $19.90, a de- crease of 20 cents. Col. W. C. Greene, the Copper Mag- nate, of Cananea, Mex., died Saturday of acute pneumonid. 1 The Senate Finance Committee has deferred action on the cotton tariff re- vision bill until next Wednesday. United States Senator George P. Mc- Lean, who had intended to go to Maine for a vacation, will return to Washing- ton today. With No Assets and $37,306 Liabil; ties, N. M. Weber, a Lynn leather fin- isher, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptey. The Pocahontas Fuel Company of Virginia has been accorded a contract for 550,000 tons of coal for the Pan- ama canal work. Great Landslides Have Caused the famous Culetra cut in the Panama ca- nal to be the most expensive part of the engineering work. The Interstate Commsrce Commis- sion has ordered an investigation into freight rates on livestock, meat and packing house products. Increase in the Cost of Foeds, cspe- clally olive oil, is causing riotinz in Lisbcn and troops have to be called out to disperse the mol The Mine Rescue Apparatus Is Now an important factor in reducing loss of life and property, according to a government mine expert. Jules Vedrines, the French Aviator, promises to startle the world next Wednesday with an aeroplane feat the nature of which he is keeping segret. High Skilled Tradesmen in Many Lines have been exceedingly scarce, but calis for general help have not been excessive in the Na2w England labor market. The Camorrists on Trial at Viterbo, Italy, amused themselves guying and ridiculing Marshal Farris, one of the detectives who collected evidence against them. Speeding Around a Sharp Curve :n the Montgomery road at Westfield, Mass.,, an automobile turned turtle, causing the death of John Cronin, aged 38, of Chicopee. When John Murray, a Young Lynn, Mass., lineman, employed by the fele- phone company, grabbed hold of a heavily charged wire by mistak2 he was electrocuted. Music Will Cost Chicago Theater managers $50,000 more during the com- ing¢vear than it did last year. Ths Chicago Federation of Musicians has raised the salaries of the players from 20 to 50 per cent. Harry Rellis, a Tariff Rate Expert, before the house sugar trust investi- gating committee, expressed the opin- fon that a secret understanding as to 1ebates ;apparently exists between tha railroads and sugar shippers. A Building in Main Street, Midland, Pa.. occupied as a genera! sore and living apartment by J. A. Sfo was dynamited. Sforia has twice within a month tried to pay over $1,000 to the writer of Black Hand letters. Saying That the Fire Risk in Boston is one of the heaviest in the world, Fire Commissioner Daly in his annual re- port declares that the fire department is in a crippled condition for the lack of the necessary number of firemen. Matthew J. Hart, Secretary of thc New Bedford Cotton Weavers' Pro- tective association, and president of the National Federation of Weavers, died at New Badford Saturday, follov - ing a brief attack of intestinal troub! Bingham, z. Town in the Backwoods of Maine lost one-fifth of its valuation ty fire Saturday and had a close call f a conflagration when three business blocks in the center of ths town were bLrned, with an aggresate loss of § 000. ‘Within the Past Few Days Woon- socket, R. L. ph ns have reported to the health department 11 cases of typhoid fever and one death. The pa- tients have been drinking water from m a_ spring in the freight yard of the New Haven road. Fourteen Hundred Excursionists who went to Provincetown yesterday to view the battleships and visit the Pilgrims’ first landing place spent the night on the ocean, for the steamer Dorothy Bradford on which they are passengers is fogbound in the outer harbor. A Wireless Despatch received in Halifax, N. S. last night stated that the British' cruiser Cornwall is stran- ed on the ledges of Cape Sable, a few miles from the southwest ledges where the Canadian flagship Niobe went on the rocks July 30, Joseph Tinker, Shortstop of the Chi- cago Nationals, whose failure to ex- hibit sufficient enthusiasm in Selding in Saturday’s game was given-as the reason for the fine and suspension, has been reinstated and will appear in the game with New York today. Albert G. Butler of Maplewood. Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, vesterday re- turned after an absence of a year and in a quarrel with nis sweethearts’ brother, Eugene Walsh, shot and kill- ed the latter, Butler was taken in custedy by Rev. James Broadhead, a Methodist clergyman. Col. C. D. McD. Townsend of the United States engineering corps, is to investizate complaints made by fruft- growers that the large quantities of water taken out of Lake Michigan by the Chicago drainage canal, which flows from the lake to an outlet in the Mississippi, has had the effect of changing the climate of Illinois, Mich- igan and Wisconsin. Third Degree Report Sheds No Light. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, Aug. 6.—The report of Senator Drandegee of the work of his “third degree” committee was present- ed to the senate yesterday. It is not the fault of the committee that the re- port failed utterly to shed any real light on the third degree question. Its inquiry was limited to investigating the practice by officials of the United States. Tt had many cases before it, but nothing was found to prove that v _government officer had been gullty of the practice. Boy Tied to Track and Killed. Austin, Tex., Aug. 6.—An unidentified Mexican b his hands tied behind him, was ! on_the railroad track and left to his fate, lashed lengthwise of a rai} near Elgin. An Dwight mills of Chicopee will be closed | the life Dut of the lads Officers are in- this week vestigating Aufo Collides With Trolley TWO GIRLS KILLED, EIGHT PER« SONS INJURED, -, ONE GIRL WILL LOSE AN ARM Fatal Crash on Bridge Over Acushnet River at New Bedford—Conductor and Motorman Sustain Slight Injuries New Bedford, Mass., August 6.—Two girls were killed and eight hurt, some of them seriousiy, when an automobile containing six children and two men, crashed into an electric car on the Fair Haven bridge tonight. The Dead. The dead: Alice Wright, 15 years old, and Helen ()'Malley,gngg (hrge. Those Seriously Injured, The seriously injured: George Scott, badly cut and bruised. of Matthew Cantwell, Annie Manley, Sylvester Manley, Mollie O'Malley and Alice O'Malley, who were aiso in the automobile, suffered severely from con- tusions and shock, while Motorman Delano and Conductor A. B. Curry of the trolley car were thrown heavily ani bruised. Auto Ran in Front of Car. The automobile, a large touring car, was going west over the bridge, be- hind a Fair Haven car. It is said that the automobile shot out from behind the electric car directly into the path of another trolley car going in the op- posite direction. Motorman Delano did not see the big machine in time to shut off the power and the force of the blow drove in the dasher and pinned him to the front seat, causing bad bruises. Car Lifted Off Track, So heavy was the blow given by the automobile that the electric car, on which there were thirty passengers, was lifted from the track and hurled over against the iron railing of the bridge. The four-inch rail was bent out for nearly eighteen inches, but the curbing on the roadway heid the wheels and prevented the electric from toppling over into the Acushnet river. Auto a Complete Wreck. The automobile, which was owned and driven by Mr. Scott, was com- pletely wrecked and all its occupants thrown out. Alice Wright landed on her head and sustained a fracture of the skull. She was unconscious when pvicked up and was hurried to the emergency hospital, where she died within a short time. Girl’s Arm Almost Cut Off, At the hospital it was found that Ht- tle Helen O'Malley's left arm had been almost cut off, her left leg was broken and her body was badly bruised. She died shortly before midnigLt. Another Girl Will Lo Arm. Annie Manley had one leg broken and sustained many cuts and bruises, Her brother, Sylvester, was badly cut on the head. Molie O'Malley suffered concussion of the brain, and her sis- ter Alice had an arm broken and crushed so badly that amputation will be necessa DES MOINES TROLLEY STRIKE ENDED BY AN INJUNCTION. City Council's Action Brings About Resumption of Traffic. Des Moines, Towa, Aug. 6.—Promptly at 5 o’clock thi: fternoon street traf- fic was resumed in Des Moines, and the forty hour strike which began at 1 o'clock yesterday morning when the employes walked out was terminated. For the first time in the history of the country the order of a court put an end to gave every indication of becoming ong and bitter struggle between organized capital and labor. The mandate issued by Judge Law= rence De Graff of the district court last night was promptly obeyed by the Des Moines City Railway company and the Carmen’s union, and while there is am- ple prospect of a fight later in the courts, one thing is certain, an injunc tion has restored, temporarily at least, nearly five hundred conductors and motormen to their original positions. Within an hour after the order went into effect the service had returned to_almost normal conditions. The reappearance of the cars was greeted with cheers at all the central traffic points where great crowds hard gathered. The suit in equity which terminated the strike was brought by the city of Des Moines upon the order of the city counsil late last night. A hearing to determine whether the in- junction shall e made permanent probably will be made tomorrow. That a new, method of handling labor difficulties has been discovered was the statement of N. T. Guernsey, at- torney for the street car company, to= night. CONGRESS MAY REACH ADJOURNMENT THIS WEEK, All Made om Depends Upon Progr Tariff Revision Bill Washington, Aug. 6.—The vortex of legislation this week, which may pos- sibly mark the adjournment of con- gress, ccenters on the tariff revision bills that are expected to emerge from conference and committee. The ad- journment depends upon the work on these measures and may be deferred some days on their account. The free list bill and the wool tariff revision bill are in the hands of Sen« ator LaFollette and Representative Un« derwood, the former representing the republican progressives in the senate who combined with the democrats to pass those measures, and the latter the democratic party in control of tha house. Democratic Leader Under- wood has been strongly in favor of putting the free list measure back in- to both houses, in the hope of making a stronger showing than before in favor of the house bill unamended. The effort of the progressive repub- lican-democratic combination is to put the wool bill first before President Thft. Upon his expected veto the re~ tainder of the programme of congress largely hinges, absentees In both houses having been summoned to Washington on the possibility of an attempt to pass one or more of the re- vision bills over a veto. Gates Family More Hopeful. Paris, August 6.—Charles G. Gates said tonight that his father, John W. Gates, had had a good day and that the family felt more hopefui for his engine crusheli take nourishment, but recovery. The plu.nht‘.eonunuu to con- dition is weak and m-"""‘lc his heart still causes