Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 8, 1911, Page 1

_ TUESDAY, 8 1911 i PF'; g‘i%fl CENTS The Bullefin’é Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the La;rgest in Connecticut in Proportion to .6 City’s Population TRAIL OF CRIME FOLLOWS A THEFT Efforts of Cashier to Cover Shortage Re- sults in-One Death, Two Arrests ARSON, CONSPIRACY, MANSLAUGHTER Samusl Brown of Jersey City and a Faithful Friend Held on Three Serious Charges—Burglar Employed{’ to Destroy Records to His Life—Police Secure Conceal Defalcation, Loses Confession From Brown. Jersey City, N. J,, Aug. 7.—As a re- &ult of the alleged attempt last night 1o destroy the records of the Long Dock milis and_elevator, to conceal a &hortage of $2,500 in the accounts of Samuel Brown, the cashier, Brown and Patrick J. Timmons, an expert ac- countant, are in jail under the charges of arson, conspiracy and manslaugh- ter. Cashier Brown Makes Confession. The police hold a confession, bear- ing Brown’s signature, explaining his plans for the crime, and naming Tim- mons, his good friend, as an accom- rrank Walsh, known as ightning,” the burglar who fas hir- to do the job, died today of his Friend Tried to Cover Him Up. Brown was arrested when he report- ed for work today.. His employers told the police that experts examined the accounts last week and set today for examining the books. After little re- sistance to the detectives’ questioning, Brown told them that he had been ehort since January 1, and that Tim- mons worked on the books as a friend for three months, trying to ‘“doctor” them. Brown's confession reads as follows: The Confession. “About 1.30 p. m. T met Timmons in a saloon in Jersey City. We had been talking about destroying the books for the past two months, as I was short in my accounts. Timmons said he could get a man in Newark to do the job, and we took a trolley car to a New- ark roadhouse to get the man. Tim- mons left me there. but returned in half an hour with Walsh. The three of us took an automobile to Jersey City. Shortage Not Discussed in Walsh's Presence. “I held no conversation with Tim- mons or the man about the case, as we had agreed not to talk about it in Walsh's presence. On the way back we stopped at a_garage and boaght a five gallon can of gasoline. About 9.30 we went to the office of the Long Dock mills. Walsh Burned Up Books. “T opened the door and the three ot us went in. door and took out thres checkbooks and the cesh book. Walsh held the books over the gas jet and set them on fire. I watched them set one book on fire and then I left them there, to 2o back home to New York. I did mot knovwr anything about the fire until this morning.” Timmons Did It for Friendship. “Did you agree to pay Timmons and Walsh ‘anything for books?” the detectives asked. I then opened the safe | destroying the ! o sion. “Timmons friendship.” Broke Down When Told of Walsh’s L Death. The police did mot tell Browg, upon arresting him, that Walsh had died in his attmept. Instead. they tried to batter down his defense, and failing, one of them said, irrelevantly: “Walsh died at 5 o'clock this morning.” , I did not,” reads the confes- did it for me out of came hard and nis eyes started. “My God!™ he gasped. “I can't have a man's death on my soul” Then he told his story. Timmons Refused to Talk. Timmons was arrested near his home in Newark. He had been out until 5 o'clock this morning, his wife told the police, and was very nervous when he got up. They found him in a nearby saloon. “I have nothing to say,” he told them, and he stuck to the phrase. No Confession from Timmons. Intermittently the detectives have been at him all the afternoon and night, seeking to elicit a confession, but to each he has given the same re- ply. The safe was found intact, although the volice at first thought that the doors had been blown from the hinges. There was no evidence of an explo- sion, the firemen say, but that plenty of evidence shows that gasoline had beer: used liberally. The books, how- ever, although soaked with the fluid, were only charred about the edges. The Manslaughter Charge. Brown and Timmons will be arraign- ed tomorrow in the second criminal court. The charge of manslaughter grows out of the arson caSe, as under the New Jersey law arson resulting fatally is defined as manslaughter. Walsh’s Eyes Blown Out. When Walsh was found by the fire- men, with his eves blown out and his clothing all but burned from his body, he said he went into the office, ~the door -being open, to sleep. He 1was smoking a cigarette, he said, and fell asleen, and he supposed the cigarette |set the piace afire. At the hospital he gave detectives his address in East ewark, and shortly afterwards lapsed nto insensibility. He recovered con- |sciousness several hours later, and |was told that he would die of his burns. Was Game to the Last. “Now,” queried a detective, “won’t | vou_tell us how it happened?” ‘Walsh shook hig head and straighte ened on his cot. It was his last act. SAYS ICE BUSINESS IS A “ROTTEN BUSINESS.” Vice President of lce Trust Says It Doesn’t Pay to Invest in it. New York, Aug. 7.—Wesley M. Oler vice president of the Knickerbocker Ica company, took tha stand at today's session of the district attorney’s inves- tigation of the so-called “ice trust” in New York and submitted figures to up- hold his contention that prices ware not advanced materially during the hot spell in July. Less than 90 tons, he tastified, were sold during the two weeks at $3 a ton—an advance of 50 per cent. over the oustomary $2—while the average price throughout New. York with one exception was $1.93. The sales during those two we2ks this year, said Mr. Oler, were double as compared with almost any other vear. No com- pany could have prepared for it. The consumption was unprecedented. Mr. Oler added that his company had made but $638,200 profit during four '¢Ars upon a p: in capital of $4.500,- 80. He offered to sell his compan,’s jee cutting privileges in Maine to any- one that wanted to buy. The fcg business is a rotten business, he added. It does mot pay anyone i3 invest money in it. This year, up in June 1, there was a loss of .000. Bince July 1 we have made a profit of $17,000. A TARIFF DEADLOCK BETWEEN TWO HOUSES May Result in Adjournment of Con- gress Without Legislation. ‘Washington, August 7.—Senator La Follette and Chairman Underwood of the house ways and means commit- tee, who have undertaken to reconcile the differences between the senate and house on.the woel and the farmers’ fre list bills for the fuil conference com- mittee, are in an unqueetioned dead- lock, with the pessibility of remaining so and thus forcing an adjournment of the session without final actien on either of those measures. The situation is due to Mr. La Fol- lette's uncompremising attitude to- ward the house bill. He has told Mr. Underwood that a reduction in the rates below those fixed by the bill as it passed the semate is an impos- sibility, In response, the chairman of the ways and means committee, who had great difficulty in getting the house to agree to the rates fixed in his bill, has said that the house will never accept the senate figures. Another Plot in Me: Juarez, Mexico, August 7.—The po- MNce of this city have unearthed a lib- eral plot having for its object the promotion of a new armed movement in the northern part of the state of Chihuahua. Innocenzo Usguiano was arrested today and on his person was found papers which may lead at once te the arrest of several more conspira- tors. £ Yankee Bluejackets Not Needed. ‘Washington, August 7.—Contrary to expectations, the entry of General Le- conte’'s forces, 300 sirong, &u Prince, Haiti, was compassed quiet- Iy and there was no need to land Am- eérican biuejackets. United States na- vel officers were fully prepared to sake that step in the avent of trouble, into Port |- WOMAN STRUCK DEAD AT FUNERAL SERVICE. Four Others Rendersd Unconscious by Bolt of Lightning. Milwaukee, Wis.,, Aus. 7.—An Even- ing Wisconsin special from West Bend, Wis., today says: “Mourning for Philip Brisset, whoie body lay 1u a coffin before the altar of St. John's Evangelical church at Koh!- ville, Mrs. Henry Conrad was strucg dead and four other women rendered unconscious when a bolt of ligatning pierced the house of worship yester- day Rev, John Frank had just started ths sermon when a vivid flash cf finme and deafening crash seemed to para- Iyze e entire congregation. Pastor Frank's words of compassion for the sorrowing family were never uttered. Mrs. Conrad and a dozen oth- er women lay prostrate on the fvar, while near them writhed a dozen nth- ers, their shrieks of terror precipi‘a‘- ing. x panic which cool headed men hardly yet comprehending the situa- tion, prevented. In this church the men sit on one side and the women on the other. Hence when the light- ning struck the steeple, entered the church and hurled down a chandelier under which sat Mrs. Conrad, the lightning found only feminine victims. CONGRESSMAN AROUSES A GIRL’S FATHER'S WRATH. Expressed Hope of Introduction in Let- ter to Young Woman. Washington, Aug. 7.—To the activity of political enemies Representative A. W. Lafferty of Oregon ascribes the threatening attitude assumed by the father of a young woman of this city. The representative admits having ad dressed a letter to the young woman, to whom ha had never been introduced, enclosing a card to the house galleries and expressing the Hope that he might some time’ have an introduction if agreeable to her, but states that that ‘Wwas all the letter containe Mr. Lafferty says he received a call from the young woman's father, who is chief clerk in one of the government services. The father, said Mr. Lafferty, ramarked that he was surprised to see that the representative was so-youth- ful a man. Apparently that had re- lieved his mind, as he had imagincd, said Mr. Lafferty, that the letter had been written in bad faith. The visitor departed in good humor, declared the representative, who has not seen him since. A letter came, however, threatening Mr. Lafferty. It was written on paper manufactured in Oregon, according to the representa- tive, and for that reason he conside’s it was inspired by political enemies. “Knockout” Brown Gets Decision. Baltimore, August —Knockout” Brown of New York got the decisifn over Joe Ferguson of Philadelphia in a ten-reund bout before the Washing- | ton Sporting club-here tonight. Brown was the agsressor throughout. « Steamship Arrivals. At Naples: Aug. 4, Mendoza, from New York. Aug. 6, At Marsilles: from New York. At Plymouth: Aug. 7, President Liu. coln, from New York Sant Anna, Brown gripped his chair. His breath! Cabled Paragraphs London, August ‘The strike fever has reappeared at Liverpool and Man- chester, where thousands of railway men quit work today, demanding an advantage in wages and shorter hours. Bremen, Germany, August 7.—An Englishman, said to be an officer of the British yeomanry, was arrested here today, accused of spying on the German fortifications on the North sea coast, London, August 7.—Robert Bacom, American ambassador to France, who had planned to sail for New York pania Saturday, changed his plans and returned to Paris today. Chiasso, Switzerland, August 7.—The official report of the Italian govern- ment on the cholera situation shows that from July 27 to July 31, inclus- ive, there were throughout the king- dom of Italy a total of 802 cases and a total of 319 deaths. { OPPOSING LAWYERS COME CLOSE TO BLOWS An Exciting Incident at Lorimer In- vestigation Yesterday. Washington, August 7.—What prom- ised for a few minutes to be a per- sonal encounter between Attorney El- bridge Hanecy, representing Senator Lorimer, and Attorney John J. Healy of counsel for the senate Lorimer com- mittee, marked the close today of a lons cross examination of H. J. O. Beckemeyer, former state representa- tive, who says he recelved $1,000 aft- er voting for Lorimer for senator. The clash occurred when Mr. Healy accused Mr. Hanecy of having “the very purpose of confusing the record and those who will read it.” He was speaking of Mr. Hanecy's questions regarding testimony Beckemeyer gave Saiarday concerning his statement two years ago to officials on Cook county that he knew nothing of Interest to the grand jury relative to corruption in the legislature. “If the gentleman means what he says I desire to brand it in the manner it deserves to be branded,” shouted Mr. Hanecy, jumping up and facing the committee’s attorney. Mr. Healy declared he could not tell whether Mr. Hanecy was asking about Beckemey- er's testimony Saturday or about the iruth contained in the statement about two years ago. Beckemeyer said he could not understand either. As a result, Chairman Dillingham conducted the examination on the point himseif. Mr. Hanecy repeatedly required the witnes sto admit that he lied, but he remained firm in declaring he received money for voting for Lorimer. SHIPWRECKED MEN ON A BARREN Ragged and Starving When Picked up by Passing Steamer. Valdez, Alaska, August 7.—Attracted hy signals of distress on Bardwell is- land, 4 barren rock near the entrance to -Resurrection bay, the steamship Bertha on August 2 sent out a small boat and took off two ragged and starving men, Charles Alexander and Alvin Anderson.. The men had been on the island two months and_would have perished but for the Bertha. News of the rescue reached here to- day. The men sailed from Kodiak May 11 in a dory on a prospecting voyage. About June 1 a storm upset their craft off Bardwells island, and_their provisions and outfit were lost in the sea. They managed to get ashore, but were with practically nothing but their clothing. The men, who had a few matches, lived for a month on mussels, clams, voung gulls, seaweed and wild herbs, Which they cooked. After their matches gave out about July 1 they ate their food raw. Two vessels passed with- out noticing their signals of distress. ISLAND TOGO APPRECIATIVE OF COURTESIES SHOWN HIM Received with d Mospitality. Says He Has Been Greatest Honors ‘Washington, August 7.—A brief speech, the first he has made since his stay in this écountry, was made by Admiral Count Togo before the Na- tional club of Washington tonight at the close of a strenuous day’s pro- gramme. “Since my arrival in this count he said, “the president of this great republic has received me with the greatest honor and hospitality, your government has extended to me in- numerable courtesies, and your fellow ecitizens have given me the most hear- ty welcome, All these, I dare sav, are more than I am entitled to, and I take them as meant toward my au- gust sovereign and for his subjects. Nothing pleases me more than to take home the most happy remembrances of my visit to the United States. “Gentlemen, may I ask to take this opportunity to convey to your coun- trymen on behalf of myself my feel- ings of profound gratitude and high appreciation of their hearty welcome?” Mrs. Walker’s Body Arriv (Spacial to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, Aug. 7.—The body Mrs. M. E. Walker, one of the victims of the Bridgeport railroad wreck, reached this’city iast evening. Mrs. ‘Walker had been connected with the public schools of this city since 1890, with the exception of the year from 1894 to 1895, and at the time of her death was principal of the Polk school. Her sister, Mrs. James S. Benedict, is the wife of the United States consul at St. Johns, Newfoundland. Aeroplanes in Naval Maneuvers. Provincetown, Mass.. August 7.—The battleships of the north Atlantic fleet, which had been scattered over the week-end, were unable to engage in their summer maneuvers today off Cape Cod on account of fog. Aero- planes, fitted with pontoons, will try to drop dummy bombs on the battle- ships, which will endeavor to keep guns aimad on the airships long enough to claim theoretical hits. Togo at Naval Academy. Annapolis, Md., August 7.—Admiral Count Togo inspected the grounds and buildings of the United States naval academy today. His programme, how- ever, made possible only a hasty walk and the most casual observation. In three hours he saw the entire group of buildings and declared the place a most complete and comprehensive in- stitution. Shock Results Fatally. Guilford, Conn., August 7.—Andrew J. Dudley of 129 York street, New Haven, died at his summer home here tonight from the effects of a shock. Mr, Dudley was found lying on the ground in front o fhis home this morning and it is thought that he was ;};icken last night, He was 7% vaoxg from Liverpool on the steamer Cam- | His Desertion Was Justifiable, ~ ~For Treaties COURT TURNS DOWN MRS. GAM- BIER IN. SEPARATION SUIT. HER CONDUCT NOT WIFELY “If He Had Been More Selfish It Might Have Been Better for Both,” Says Court—Lived Together but 3 Months New York, Aug. 7.—Edith Russell Gambier, the former Atlanta society girl, loses her suit for separation anl the writ she prayed for goes instead to Edward V. Gambier, her husband, a New York bank cashier, according to a decision ‘handed down by the su- preme court today. Gambier's suit for annullment of the marriage is on the fall calendar for jury trial. Desertion Was Justifiable. _Justice Pendleton, who wrote the de- cisicn, finds Mrs, Gambier was not deserted by her husband, within ths n:Aeaning of the law, because the deser- tion was justifiable. Mrs. Gambier’s effort at reconciliation, the court finds, could not be accepted in good faitn. Was Not Conducting Herself Properly If at the time she is said to have sought a reconciliation she was con- ducting herself with another man in the manner testified by some witnesses the court holds that her efforts could only have been intended for purposes of litigation. No Love for Her Husband. “It would be impossible to reconcile such conditions with a belief that she entertained a feeling of love for her husband or was willing to live with him,” the decision reads. In Company of “Unknown Man.” It was testified at the trial, which had several sensational features, that Mrs. Gambier was often seen in the company of “an unknown man. The court says “this was scarcely in ac- cord with the customary propriety for a married woman.” Gambier Loved Her. On the other *hand, ths decision states, Gambier “loved the plaintiff; married_her with every intention of doing his duty by her, and treated her with great consideration, kindness and attention.” Better if He Had Been More Selfish. WIt is possible if he had treated her with less consideration and had been more selfish, it would have been better for her and both of them,” the dzcision continues. Lived Together Three Months. The couple were married here on April 30, 1910. The alleged desartion occurred on Aug. 10 of the same year. CREW OF A WRECKED SCHOONER RESCUED. Ocean Liner Brings In Ten Sailors Picked Up on July 30. New York, Aug. 7.—Ten men rescusd from the mid-ocean shipwreck of the French schooner Charles Henry wers brought safely into port today by the Wilson line steamer Francisco. They were taken off the schooner by the Franeisco on July 30 while the steam- 2r was on her way from Hull. England, in latitude 48.18, longitude 24.50. The Charles Henry, a three-masted topsail schooner, was bound from St. Pierre, Miq., for Havre, with a cargo of fish. when she ran into a storm on July 26 and sprung a leak. For four days and nights the seven members of the crew and three fishermen aboard as passengers worked the pumps, but the water gained as their strength lessened and they were about exhausted when the Francisco sighted them on the evening of the 30th. A heavy north- west gale was blowing, but learning the schooners’ plight, Captain Clark lowered the starboard lifeboat, in charge o6f Second Officer Law, and af- ter two perilous trips all thoss aboard the water-logged schooner were trans- ferred. Before the last man left the Charles Henry attempts were mada to set her afire, so that if she floated she might not-be a menace to navigation, but owing to the high seas these efforts were unsuccessful. Captain Pen and his men saved nothing but their clothes. TO SHOW THAT M'CABE WAS UNDERMINING WILEY. Letter from Former to Latter Intro- duced at Investigation. Washington, Aug. 7.—A second sharp Jetter from Solicitor McCame to Chief Chemist Wiley, both of the de- partment of agriculture, for failure o prosecute cure-all” patent medicines, wholesalz, and other acts tending to show McCabe's growing control of the whole administration of the pure food law, were brought out at today’s hear- ing of McCabe before the house inves- tigating committee. It was contended by counsel that whila McCabe was thus berating Wiley, McCabe himself knew he had power to invoke the law against these drug interests. McCabe said that, explaining that, he Gid not want to an onize Secre- tary of Agriculturs Wilson, who had overruled him on the Remsen board's advice. LAXITY OF OSSERVANCE OF SUNDAY IN NAVY. Secretary of Navy Promulgates Special Order Regarding It. Washington, Aug. 7.—Laxity in the navy in complying with the regulations reliting to the observance of Sunday has produced a spacial order from the secretary of the navy calling attention to the rules laid down in the matter and directing that they be strictly fol- lowed. The regulations provide that labor shall be reduced to a minimum on Sunday, consisting only of necas- sary duty. Officers’ inspection of ship and crew are suspended for the day, and a vessel is not allowed to coal, except in case of necessity, on Sun- day. The special order says: “The d2- partment notices a tendency in the service to fail to conply strictly wit] the provisions of these regulations. No Censure for Asquith. TLondon, August 7.—A vote of cen- sure of the government of Premier Asquith for having obtained from the king a pledge to create, if necessary, sufficient peers to pass the veto bill, was rejected by the house of com: mons tonight by a majority of 118. The motion was introduced by Arthur J. Balfour, leader of the opposition, and its defeat is considered io have falled to improve. the upionist cause. Taft Pleads SENATE CAN HALT THE MOVE- MENT FOR PEACE. ASKS CHURCHES' INFLUENCE Makes 400 Mile Trip by Special Train to Address Chautauqua in Maryland —Pays Tribute to Roosevelt. Mountain Lake Park, Md., Aug. 7.— President Taft traveled 400 miles through , Maryland and West Virginia today by special train to appeal to ihe people of the United States to use their moral influence ‘to have thz sen- ate ratify the arbitration. treaties with England and France and the treaties with Nicaragua and Honduras. His appeal was made directly to the Moun- tain Lake Chautauqua of the Methodist Episcopal church, but in it he includzd the rest of the nation. No Substance to Objections Raised. “I observe,” said the president, “that there is some suggestion that by rati- fying this treaty the senate may in some way abdicate its function of treaty making. I confess myself un- able to perceive the substance in such a point. g Senate Can Halt the Movement. “To have these treaties not ratified by the senate of the United States, or to have any hesitation and discussion of 5 serious character in respect to them, would halt the movement toward general peace which has made sub- stantial advance in the last ten years. To secure the ratification of the trea- ties, therefore, appeal must be made to the moral sense off the nation. and while that is not entirely in the ke2p- ing of the churches, certainly they may exert a powerful influence in the pro- motion of any effective instrumentality to secura permanent peace.” Central American Treaties. The president asked for the same sort of popular support of the trea- ties with Honduras and Nicaragua. “There is no issue before the s2nate so acute in respect to the cause of peace as the confirmation of these Cea- tral American treaties,” said tha pres dent. “While I admit the greater im portance of universal freaties of arbi- tration, in the long run, and as affect- ing the world at large, yvet in respect of American interests, in respect of peace in this hemisphere, they are not equal in importance to the confirma- tion of these Central American trea- ties.” Praise for Roosevelt. In pleading for the Central American conventions the president ‘Thighly praised former President Roosevelt. He spoke of the tendency of the United States to help less powarful peoples and instanced Mr. Roosevelt's inter- vention in Cuba. That tendency was evidenced also, he said, “by the won- derfully successful intervention by Theedora Roosevelt as president of the United_States in securing peace be- tween Russia and Japan.” Railroad Officials Help Run Train. The president left Washington at 3 oclock with a carload of Baltimore and Ohio railroad officfals who were to help run the special. Ha spent just an hour in Mountain Lake Park. leav- ing for Washington at 3 o'clock. His audience was one of several thousand. DEMOCRATS WIN IN THE CONGRESSIONAL BALL GAME. | “Nick” Longworth’s Home Run the Redeeming G. O. P. Feature. Washington, Aug. 7.—Democracy tri- umphed again today when rapublican congressmen bit the dust—some of them swallowed it—on the basebail | diamond in the contest for the cham- pionship of the house of representa- tives. Score, 12 to 9. Charges may be preferred against the democrat umplire, Representative Byrnes, of South 'Carolina, who had a rabbii's foot in his pocket, and, the republican ball players charge, a loaded half do!- lar_also. Ths game, played for chariyt, really decided by the umpires. liam W. Wilson, republican, of Illinois, did all he could to stem the tide of his party’s defeat, but in all close de- cisions. when members of both parties crowded on the fizld and threatencd riot, the only solution was for Byrnes and Wilson to resort to the toss of a coin. Byrnes had the coin and did the tossing. Byrnes won every time. Mr. Longworth. shortstop for the republican team and its captain, plaved like a field in the field and pounded out baggers and a home run. of Connecticut covered first base for the democrats and lasted one inning. was Wil- NO RIOTING YESTERDAY BY TROLLEY STRIKERS. Three Principal Lines of Company Operated Last Night. New York, Aug. 7.—Encouraged by tha success of running cars today without serious interference by the 300 striking motormen and conductors and their_sympathizers, the Coney Island | and Brooklyn Railroad company oper- ated all three of its principal lines to- night. It was the first attempt since the strikers went oyt Saturday morn- ing for an increase in waees, to oper- ate anything like a full sorvice affer dark. Up to a late hour no rioting ‘had been reported. It is believed that the strikers anc their followers were awed by the pres- ence of policemen, 1.200 of whom were on special strike duty all night. The strikers propose to ask Mayor | Gaynor to arbitrate the differences. Deputy Labor Commissioner Rogers visited tha city hall today for that purpose, but found ghat the mayor was taking a day off at his country home on Long Island. Identified as Boston Man, Philadelphia, August 7.—The body of the man killed in a revolver duel with Policeman Barnett on Nevember 22, when the policeman also lost his life, was exhumed today and posi- tively identified by Mrs. Mary Gately of St. Louis as that of her son John, who left Boston shortly before the tragedy to visit her in the west. The body will be removed to her home and buried there. Died on Carriage Trip. Derby, N. H., August 7.—Death came today to Thomas Saunders of Haver- hill, Mass., who was associated with Alexander Graham Bell in the early commercialization of the telephone. Heart disease brought to a sudden end a carriage trip from which Mr. Saun- ders, who was 68 vears old, was mak- | ing alone from Haverhill to Barre, Vt, The Honduran and Nicaraguan Loans conventions were made public. A Patent for a Puncture Proof Tie | is the millionth patent issued by the{ United States. Army Officials Declare the Task fortifying the Panama canal will pro- gress rapidly. Joseph Parry, “the Father of Irriga- gation,” died Sunday night at his home at Ogden, Utah, Countess Susan T. Guzman, who nursed President Garfield and Mrs. Roosavelt, is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt were guests of King George and Quecn Mary on the royal yacht at Cow Joseph Belm, 39, a Woonsocket, . 1, mill operative, committed suicide at his home Sunday by inhaling illuminar- ing gas. Shaving of All Cats is Recommended by the state board of health of Kansas as a means of praventing the spread disease. The Chilian Government Has Ac- cepted the bid of an English firm to build two battleships of the drea nought class. Never Before Was There Such bright prospact for Connecticut pea es and Connecticut peach growers there is this year. a h- s Former Statée Representative M. T. C. Beckemeyer of Ilinois testified hefore the senat committee that he acceptel money to vote for Lorimer. President Taft Gave Out the Itinerary for his extended tour beginning Sept. 16, during which he is expected to opea ths campaign for his party. “An Excellent Class of Men is being recruited for the United States nav declares Capt. Henry A. Wiley, charge of tha enlisted personnel. Marcus P. Knowlton, Chief Justi of the Massachusetts supreme jud court, yesterday sent his resignation Governor Foss at the statehouse. Weighing 1,800 Pounds and measur- ing 28 feet in length, the biggest shart ever seen in this part of the c was caught in a net at Virginia F Capt. Thomas D. Adams, direct de- scendant of President John Adams and President John Quiney Adams, was buried yesterday afternoon at Newport News, Va. untry ach. Walter Durant, Aged 12, of Livermore Falls, fell jnto a hole near tHe wreck of an old vessel while bathing at [ gins Beach, Maine, vesterday, and was drowned. Christened With Flowers by 1T Emily T. Gallagher of Roston, tie barge Helen was launched at Bath, Me., vesterday for a Boston towhoat company. The Woolen Mill of S. F. Cushman & Sons at Monson, Mass., has resume T time, wages are to be advanced nearly cents a day. Mrs. Willa The weavers 59 A. Leonard, After Years in thz service of the treas department chief of the counterfeit detection division. has resigned on ac count of her health. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley Threatens ‘o bring out the entire controversy in the agricultural department as to the au- thority of various officials in enforcing the pure food and drug law. Coleman Carnegie of Pittsburg, a nephew of Andrew Carnegie, died ves- terday at the home of Samuel Jenkins an Adirondack guide, at Pattens Mills, N. Y. He was 31 years old. Christians Who Dance, Play Cards or go to the theater cannot be succes ful in_their Christian work, said T R. A. Torray, the evangelist, yesterday at the Northfield conferenc Miss Madeleine Traverss, a young society woman of Boston, returning from Eurovz on the liner Amerika, re- ported the robbery of $400 from her suit case in her cabin on Aug. 1. Te Defeat Reciprocity, the opposition in the Canadian parliament must re- turn with 25 more membars than they now have,_which would only assure them a working majority in the house. Nomination Papers for Lieutenant Governor on the democratic ticket 'n Massachusetts in the coming fall pi litical campaign were taken out y. terday by David I Walsh, a Fitchburg lawyer. A. R. Peiper, a Young Naval Reserve, in full uniform, plunzed into Lake Michigan at Chicago Sunday night and draggad out by the hair Mrs. Bertha Kantsalstein, who was determined to commit suicide. Senators Borah and Bacon Dissent to the conclusion of the arbitration treaties, believing that what they con- sider to be a compulsory arbitration clause deprives the senate of its con- stitutional prerogatives. [l A Suit for $100,000 Was Filed in the district supreme court by Gen. yd King against Dr. E. T. Perrin of Ari zona, which it is said will throw new light on acts of the Roosavelt adminis- tration regarding land reservations. After a Long Life in the Methodist Episcopal ministry which carried him from Nova Scotia to the Rocky moun- tains, Rev. Wil day at the hom= Fred C. Harnden zers Were Used Ts | Eamund C. G Atlantic Ci‘y | lawver, to remove a_ needle thit ha? been in his body 23 vears. It had worked its way from his knes to nis shoulder. Heg found it there when bathing the s er in the bellef he had rheumatis The Postoffice Safe in the General Store of Brown & Hopkins at Chepa- chet, R. I, was blown open and rified between 3 and 4 o'clock vestarday morning by cracksmen who escaped in an automobile with about $25 in stamps and a quantity of merchandise and provisions. A Pair of Tw A Report Compiled from an enumer- ation of the puplls in the public and the parochial schools of Baltimore city in 1910 by Roland P. Falkner, assistant director of the census. shows that the attendance in the public schools then was 59,876, nearly six-tenths of which were native born white and more than one-eighth of native negro origin. Congressman Reilly Plays Ball. ‘Washington, Aug. 7.—Réapresentative Reilly played first base on the demo- cratic team at the congressional ball ame this afternoon for the beneflt of e Washington playgrounds | pressed |Condensed Telegrams| Aggyses Lover 0f Being Spy INDIANAPOLIS GIRL'S CHARGE AGAINST A SOLDIER, “SECRET AUSTRIAN AGENT’’ Makes Affidavit to a Recruiting Officer —Says She Met Him on Shipboard and That They Are Engaged. — . Aug. 7.—Before taking action, the war rtment wiil await a full report from Capt. James Watson, United States army recruiting officer ‘at Indianapolis, in regard fo charges that Private George Petr is a secret agent of Aust Captain Wat son telegraphed the de that such an allegs 2d been against the soldier by the girt says he is engaged to her. Papers Will Be Forwarded, The recruiting officer will forward all the papers in the case depar:- ment for investigation First Case Under New Law. This is the fi se to be brough up under the law passed at tie session of congress io prevent the dis- closure of national defense secrets, Anyone who endeavors to procure miki- partment tod a> who tary data can be fined $1.000 or im- prisoned for one year, or bo If an attempt is made to communicatz anv secrets of def nse to a foreizn gov- ernment the maximum punishment is imprisonment for ten vears. Miss Dyer's Affidavit. One of the papers in possession of Captain Watson is an affidavit of Miss Clara A. Dyer, who had previously inquired about obtaining Petr's lease from the She sald Peir s stat t Totten, York city, in h company, Coa Artillery ‘corps, and that he was an Austrian spy nt to the 17 ed States fto obtain the secrzt of manufacturing e powerful explosive used by the nited States government Turns Over Love Letters. Miss Dyer claimed she met Patr on an ocean liner en route from Europs last' September and later dv a visit | of. Petr to her Kentucky home had be- come engagad to him. The girl turned lover a number of letters from Petr i which he told of his plans. Petr's real i name, she said, was Count Windi Grae whose home is at Prague, B hemi Girl Again in Conference With Watson Indianapolis, Ind. Aug. 7.—Miss Clara_Anita Dyar, formerly of Philp. Ky. who vesterday made aMdavit i her’story that Private George Petr of the 135th coast artillery, now stationed at Fort Totten, N. Y. employ of the ' Austrian governm: | was closeted again late today with | Capt. James D. Watson, in charge ¢ { the local United States army recrufting station. and members of the Indianar.- olis detective force. Reaffirmed Her Story. After the session the authorities said is a spy 1n thers was nothing to give out other than that Miss Dyer reaffirmed her story. Earlier in the day Miss Dyer was reported to have left Indfanapolis for Muncie, Tnd. Leaves City to Escape Notoristy. Captain Watson said tonight that was going to leave tha city t notoriety, but that she prom to keep him informed of her movements He also said that the young woman promised to send him some corresy dence which she said sha had had wit Petr’s family In Austria and 2 num- ber of photographs. Served in Philippines. The statement from the commandant at Fort Totten that Petr former served in the cavalry in the PhiT pines corrzsponds to a degree with t statement today by Corporal W H. Lahr of the local recruiting off that he served with one George Pet in Troop M, Sixth cavalry, In Philippines and in Montan Watson Awaits Instructions. Before taking any further action in the case, Captain Watson is awaiting word from the war department on ths woman's affidavit, which he forwarded to Washington today. Nothing Known at Fort Totten. Fort Totten, N. Y. Aug. ~Tne commandant at Fort Totten said toe day that he h=d received no informa- tion either from the war department or from Capt. James Watson, in charge of the recruiting office at Indianapo’ s, regarding Private George Petr of the 135th coast artillery. whom Miss Clara Anita Dyer of Indianapolis is said te have charged with being a spy in the employ of the Austrian zovernment. Petr has been stationed here a year and a half. Hz is said to be one of the best soldiers at Fort Totten. Po fore coming here he served three ears in the cavalry, the greater part of ths time in the Philippines. The mandant sald he believed some mistais had been made. In the absence of official information, he added, no ac- tion in Petr's case had been taken COMPLETE RECOVERY OF POPE EXPECTED, His Physicians Look for It Within a Few Days. Rome, Aug. 7—The condition of Pope Pius, who suffered a slight re- lapse today, was ‘satisfactory tonight, according to his physicians. They ex- tha belief that a few 3 1 suffice to perfect a recovery. ing with the illness of the pope, the Osservatore Romano, the vatican organ, published the following official statement tonight - most {completz‘y T the recent affection of the larynx, but has been suffering since last night from a slisht atlack of gout in the right knee.” Dr. Giuseppa Petacel, private physi- cian to his holiness, and Dr. Ettors Marchiafava, consulting physiclan at the vatican, visited the pope this morning and again this evening. Leav- ing the vatican tonight, they said that while they found a slight rise in tem- perature, they considerad the gener: condition of the patient good. Although the present attack of gont differs from former attacks only be- carse it is less severe the pope's sis- ters are agitated because of alarmist reports in circulation and for the first time remained at the Vatican tonight to nurse the patient. His holiness is doing well. ile sank into a tranqguil sleep at ten o lock tonight, Gates H Bad Turn. Paris, August 8.—~Owing to comges- tion of the kmne; the attendance was Summo; side of John W. Gates at 8. this morning A e o'clock