Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 15, 1911, Page 1

The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its LYNGHERS ARE TO BE PROSECUTED Pennsylvania Authorities Making : Effort to Bring Mob Leaders to Justice MANY LEADING CITIZENS INVOLVED Great Ind'ign/ation in Quaker Community Where Negro Was Roasted to Death—Victim Said His Crime Was Inspired by Too Much Gin—Widow of Dead Of- ficer Says She is Glad Negro Was Burned. Coatesvile, Pa., Aug. 14—No arrests have vet been made in cohnection with the Ivnching of Zack Waller, who last night was dragged on a bed from a hospiial to be burned alive on the outskirts of the town. Authori Have 30 Names. The authorities of Chester County, it is said tonight, are in possession of a list of about thirty names of men who are alleged to have been the ring- leaders of the mob. Warrants, If any are issued, will not be sworn out until the investigation has been completed. Leading Citizens Involved. Borcugh, county and state officials are uniting in an effort to bring the leaders of the mob to justice, but it is alleged that some of the leading citizens of the town are involved and arrests will not be-speedily made. State Troopers Sent. Although the burghess of Coates- ville reported that he would be able to handle the situation without assist- ance, Sheriff Goder asked that the governor send a squad of statq troop- ers here. Acung upon his fequest Captain Wilhelm and 19 troopers were ordered to proceed from Pottsville to Coatesville at once. Hospital Guard Questioned. Howe, the policeman who was on guard at Walker's bedside when the mob arrived, and a colored hospital attendant, were put through a severe cross-examination today in an effort to learn the identity of the men who carried the mob's victim from the hos- pital. Says He Could Do Nothing. To the district attorney Howe sta- ted that a signal was given in front of the hospital by a pistol being fired. Then a brick was thrown through a window. *“I was overpowered at once and could do nothing against the odds,” he said. Claims He Was Pushed Aside, “I was, pushed aside and the cot colored man: were dragged out, blood flowing from Eis wounds, which had opened when ore man tore off the bandages. Chief of Police Umstead and T tried to stem the rush, but were unable to do so. were draxzed to the road and turned over to the crowd.” 5 Names Nat Divulged. ‘The district attorney refused to di- vuige the names, if any were furnished him, of the persons who were active in the lynching. Everything is quiet here tonight. The Community Aroused. The fearful work of the mob has ouscd the greatest indignation in this community and everything possi- ble will be done to bring justice to the ders of the mob. That such an :ould occur in a community like in Chester county was not be- that lieved possible. Souvenir Hunters At Pile of Ashes. Noth is left of “Ezekiel Walker, the victim, but his ashes, All un- “The cot and man | iburned portions of the hospital cot that formed part of his pyre had been gathered up by souvenir hunters. How Walker, Was Captured. / Among the angriest people in the community are some of those who cap- tured Walker yesterday afternoon in a tree in the woods near here. He had | two revolvers and when he was sur- |rounded by the posse he threatened them. Several of the man hunters fired at him and wounded him slightly. Evidently believing that he was about to be shot to death Walker tried sui- cide, sending a bullet into his head. He feil to the ground and was quickly captured by the crowd. . With no thought of lynching but with the de- termination of having him tried quick- ly for the murder of Rice, the posse lai@ him across three shotguns and carried him to a waiting automobile hospital, Had Drank Too Much Gim When brought to the hospital Walk- er confessed his crime to Chief of Po- lice, Umstead and District Attorney Gawthrop. Walker declared that when he went out near the work mills he | had been drinking too much gin and shot Rice when the latter tried to ar- |rest him for firing his revolyer. | Masked Man Agitated Lynching. News of the murder of Rice, who was very popular among the peaple here, spread rapid There had been other crimes committed in this neigh- borhood that had been blamed on negroes and talk of lynching fell upon willing ears, The main street of Coatesville. is usnally filled with people rom the surrounding towns Sunday nights ‘and a crowd soon gathered .at the hospital. As the crowd increased the talk of lynching spread and finally a masked man mounted the steps of the hospital and shouted: | “Men of Coatesville, wil Ivou let a drunken nigger do up such a white man as Rice?” The orderly crowd was instantly transformed into a riotous mob., The attack on the hospital was then made. All the leaders in the crowd wore masks made of handker- chiefs tied around their faces up to the eves. “Got What He Deserved,” Says Widow Mrs. Annie Rice, widow of the mur- dered policeman, today declared that ‘Walker had got just what he deserved. Her only regret seemed to be that she had not been permitted to light the pilc on which the colored man met his death., Would Have Set Him On Fire. “I knew nothing of the lynching,” said. Mrs. Rice, “until I heard the crowd pass my house. I heard the noise as the crowd took him from the hospital. I was willing to set him on fire. T would have done anything to have got near him, but they wouldn't let me. After it weas all ovet they tolé me about it and then I was satis- fied that the death of my husband had been avenged.” MONETARY COMMISSION CRITICIZED IN THE SENATE Resolution in Senate to Abolish After January 8, 1912, Washington, Aug. 14—The nation- @l monetary 'commissicn which is headed by former Senator Nelson W. Aldrich - of Rhode Island, once the yepublican leader-of the senate, must wind up its affairs by January S, next, #f the house takes favorable action €n the measire passed by the senate today, limiting the commission’s life to thut date. Today's action followed a storm of criticism that recently broke in the senzte over the com- mission’s delay in making a report and its alleged extravagance. The senate passed a substitute for the Cummins resolution which would have termipated the commission’s life De- cember 5. The commission thus far has en- countered little criticism in the house but it is anticipated the senate reso- lution will be called up for action in the house before adjournment. Mem- bers of the commission who are also members of the house will probably offer little opposition to the resolution, believing that the eommission will by able to complete its work without eni- barrassment by the end of the present year. TWO-BODIES STILL IN WRECK AT FORT WAYNE. Remains of Missing Engineer and Fire- man Not Yet Recovered. it ‘Wayne, Ind., Aug. 14.—Though ‘W®ecking crews worked unceasingly cn the tangled masses of iron that re- mained of the two engines .of the Pennsylvania railroad fiyer wrecked in this city last night, the bodies of En- gineer Ira Burger and Fireman J. 1. ‘Wilson, believed to be buried in the debris, were not recovered tonight. Burger was tha engineer of the sec- ond passenger engine and Wilson tha fireman of the first. It is believed they will be found by tomorrow and their names added to the list of known }iead in the wreck, making it number our. Stabbed to Death With Hatpin. New York, Aug. 14.—A quarrel be- tween members of a party of young mwomen retarning from a Long shore resort early this morn- ing ended in a fight with hatpins os their car was pulling into the city over the Queensboro bridge. Nineteen year old Alveda Carpenter was stabbed in the heart and dropped dead in the street as she alighted from the car. @ police arrested one of her com- nions c¢harged with the murder. Deep River’s Second Smallpox Case. Deep River, JAug., 14—Miss Ora Harrls, a sister of Archie B. Harris, the smallpox patient. was stricken with the disease Saturday and was removed to tha @ ers now, occupied by ‘her brother. Mr. Harris is so far recoverel that he has volunteered to care for his sister during her illns~" \ DR. WILEY MAY GIVE TESTIMONY TODAY. Committee Expects to Finish Work Before Congress Adjourns. ‘Washington, Aug. 14—The house committee investigating affairs in the agricultural department and the facts surrounding the threatened reprimand or removal of Dr, Harvey W. Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry, ex- pects to finmish its investigation before the adjournment of congress, and if possible make a report to the house at this sesision. Dr. Wiley was ready to take the witness stand today, but Chairman Morse put on other wit- nesses. It is expected Dr. Wiley wil testify tornorrow. Dr. Baldwin, assistagt chief of the bureau of! emistry, who was also lated for removal in the case in- volving the agreement with Dr. H. H. Rusby of New York, completed his testimony today and sought to_ show that the agrecment with Dr. Rusby was modeled upon that previously made between Secretary of Agricul- ture Wilson and members of the Rem- sen pure food referee board, em- ployed on a similar basis of pay. GIRL KIL.LED BY AUTO AT SOUTH FRAMINGHAM. Owner of Machine Surrenders Himseif to Police. South*Framingham, Mass., Aug. 14.— Failing to cross the street quickly enough- to aveid a rapidly moving au- tomobile owned by Frank A. Winslow, Miss Anmie Livingston of East Boston was struck and killed herz today. Winslow, who is the proprietor of a local groceéry store, was not placed un- der arrest immediately after the ac dent, but voluntarily accompanied Chief of Police Holbrook to the police station, vshere he and witnesses of the affair weze examined. Miss Livingstoa was 18 years old. d in Boat While Clamming. Stamford, Conn., Aug. 14—Lying in the boat in which he had gone out for clams on Saturday, the body of Wil- liam Wood, a Civil war veteran, was found yesterday morning ‘in an inlet at Coliender Point, in the town of Darien, where the boat had drifted ashore. Death was due to hemorrhage and it is-belleved it occurred Saturday evening, ‘the boat with its occupant having éirifted about the waters until golng ashhore at the point where it was found. b Steamship Arrivals. At Livierpool: Aug. 13, Celtic, from New Youk. At Plymouth: Aug 14, Kaiser Wil- helm II, from New York — At Piraeus: Aug. 14, Patris, from New York; Temistocles, from New York. At Naples:. Aug. 12, Perugia, from New York. S5 At Glasbgow: Aug. 14, California, from New York. 3 which brought him to the Coatesville | Cabled Paragraphs Berlin, Aug. 14—The hot wave has claimed many victims. . Yesterday was the hottest August 13 since the f.-su;.g:isshment of the weather bureau in . Cologne, Germany, Aug. 14—Tweive persons were drowned while bathing in ‘ihe Rhine at Bodenkirchen yesterday. It is thought that the yictims aut!e‘efl from sunstroke. ; Berlin, Aug. 14.—The Berliner Tage- blatt protests against _the' United States admitting duty free, certain Canadian products prior to the rati- fication of the reciprocity treaty by Canada, as a direct infraction of the German-American trade agreement. Liverpcol, Aug. 14—The Cunard of- ficials announced this afternoon that the steamer Caronia will be unable to sail for New York tomorrow in con- Sequence of the strike. and 300 saloon passengers, the great- er number of them Americans, will be delayed. ELOPERS MAY BE MARRIED AGAIN Episcopai Rector May Perform Cere- 'mony — “Handsome Jack” . Stops Smoking. e \ Springfield, Mass., Aug. 14—The par- ental blessings of the mother and fath- er of the bridegroom were received by Mr. and Mrs, Geraghty, who eloped from Newport last Wednesday. Al- though the former Kewport automobile demonstrator did not make public the letter, he received from his parents, he intimated that it was perfectly sat- isfactory. Both Geraghty and his society bride said today that they ex- pected that in due time they would Teceive the good wishes of the latter's famil A second marriage by a minister of the Episcopa! faith is béing considered by the eloping couple. No definite plans, however, have been made. Mrs. Geraghty is an Episcopalian while her husband is of the Roman Catholic faith. 3 A smile played over the features of “Handsome Jack” today when he ad- mitted that he had stopped smoking at the solicitation of his bride. Mrs, Geraghty appeared greatly pleased as her husband made the admission. The voung couple passed a quiet day today at the heme of the bride- groom’s relatives, with whom they have been_staying since their secret marriage in Central Village, Conn. Both have been tired somewhat by the notoriety they caused. and ‘their gontemyplated honeymoon through the Berkaiire Hills was delayed another day. NATIVE OF AUSTRIA BUT NOT A SPY. Private Petr Says He is Willing to Stand an Investigation. New York, Aug. 14 —Private George Petr, the United States artilleryman, has broken the silence he maintained sinte Miss Anita Dyer of Indianapolis accused-him of being a spy employed by Austria and has told his story. Petr admits that he is an Austrian, but denies he is a spy. He declared he is not afraid of the investigation undertaken by the war department on the strength of Miss Dyer’s affidavit. “I am, perhaps, guilty of an discretion,” Petr is quoted as saying today. “When I told Miss Dyer I was Prince Windisch-Graetz, which means ‘Prince Windy Bags,’ I did so as a joke.” The artilleryman, who is at Fort Totten on Long Island, said he was born at Husin, on the Bohemian frontier, and that he came to this countiy in 1907 and immediately en- listed under his right name_ He as- certed that he had confessed to Miss Dyer that the spy story was a fabri- cation and gpologized for deceiving her. “I do not think she harbors the slight- est ill feeling-toward me,” he added. THE GLITTERING WEST Not So Much Better Than Home, Wa- terbury Men Find. The cities of the west, especially Detroit, have been sort of magnetic for the expert mechanics and machin- ists of this city, and as a result, a llarn number o fthem have left Wa- terbury to work there. Waterbury, the home of brass industries, formerly had the reputation of employing more skill- ed mechanics than any city of its size in the country. But it Seems apparent that in a few years Waterbury will no longer enjoy such a privilege, main- 1y through the fact that these men are being replaced by boys, scarcely old enough to have acquired a grammar school education, and by women, con- sequently when the latter can be em- ployed at a much lower price than ex- perienced men, there is a _change. Reports have been Teceived in this city from men who have gone to the west about the prosperity and induce- ments that the cities in that part of the country offer to 2 man who has a trade. But this prosperity has only favored a few of Waterbury’s former Tesidents, and, according to one, inti- mately familiar with the real state of affairs in Detroit, where so many men have sought employment, it would be better for those who contemplate go- ing away to think twice before leav- ing a city, where they are known, to go amongst strangers. Perhaps nine out of ten that go meet with failure, but instead of returning home to try the old job, they prefer to stay where they are uninown and face the music. The alluring inducements that Detroit and other cities offer is not what they are described to be, and no one realizes it more than those who were tempted to leave their home city and met with everything but success.—Waterbury Democrat. O To Teach in New York. Philip L. Walrath, principal of the Union ‘city schools,” Naugatuck, ten- dered his resignation to the district committee of Union City Monday and a special meeting of the committee was held that evening and the resigna- tion was accepted. Mr. Walrath leaves to take a higher and more remunera- tive place in the schools of New York city. Should Tell Congress. Champ Clark told the Christian En- deavor convention that there is no room in the world for idlers.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Hardly Worth White Paper. Alfred Austin has used up two large | volumesg to tell the story of his life. —Philadelphia Inquirer. Old Enmough to Vot The rumor of Secretary Wilson’s re- tirement from the cabinet is going the rounds again—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Country Wants to Know. “The country knows how I stand,” says Champ Clark. ‘it, how does 'he stand? Between 200 |- “Come to think of | No. Bee. Awood Makes [Beatiie Faces ANew Record) Fight for Life LONGEST DAY’S ' FLIGHT BY|YOUNG VIRGINIAN TO GO TO AMERICAN AVIATOR. - TRIAL NEXT MONDAY. 7 FROM ST. LOUIS TO CHICAGO |ACCUSED OF WIFE MURDER Covers 286 Miles in e Hours, 43| Aged Fath, Minutes—Starts for New York To- to Stand by Him— in the Case” Appears in Court—Judge’s Charge to Grand Jury “Woman day en Route to Boston. Chicago, Aug, 14—By flying the 286 | Chesterfield Court Housz, Va. Auz. miles from St. Louis to Chicago with | 14—Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., a young only two intermediate stops, and in | Virginian of good birth and breeding, actual flying time of five hours and 43 { Will be placed on trial for his life here minutes today, Harry N. Atwood of | next Monday in the little red brick Boston believes he has set a pace |court house built more than one hun- which will result in his establishing | dred and sixty years ago. A grand a new record on his flight by aeroplane | jury today returned against him a true from' St. Louis to Boston. bill charging” him With, wife: murder, ' Eli and if convicted in the first degree he R.;:ru“ Bi‘:‘::wz::i z-;) eg::*m"'g':: may be sent to the electric chair. broken the American record for a sin- Judge Wants Speedy Trial. gle day’s flight. The best previous| Counsel for the defense fought hird American record made by Atwood him- | for postponement of the case. but self when he flew 148 miles from At- | Judge Walter A. Watson of the Ches- Jantic City to Baltimore on July 10, | terfield circuit court held that the in- 1911. The best international cross |terests of the commonwealth demanded country record is held by Andre Beau- |2 speady trial, and accordingly set the mont, who in the Paris-Rome contest | case for a week from today. covered 401 miles in a single day but Jurors Deliberated Two Hours. in this instance he made three land-| Already held guilty by a coroners ings, while Atwood today landed only |jury of having shot his bride in & mo- twice between start and finish. tor car on the night of July 18, the in- Actual Time: 5 Hours, 43 Minutes. dictfment of Beattie today was purely in a Burgess-Wright biplane | Perfunctory. Only four witnesses ware e e e Bana | Redva: hut tne Turots delboratad fon in Chicago at 6.9 p, m. His total | (W0 hours before they returned the time Dbetween St. Louis and Chicago, | broad indictment covering all desrecs counting the delays occasioned by the [Of homwlde-F' two stops, was 10 hours and 14 min- | Cousin and Paramour Did Not Appear utes; but his actual time in the air| Neither Paul Beattie, cousin of the computed by deducting the delays Was | defendant, nor Beulah Binford, for the fivethours and 43 minutes. love of whom the state will charge that Thrilling Descent at Chicago, Bhesttie kill?dhhis )‘1"“8' ;ppearedbbe(oz‘i roadte i 5 -as | the jury, although both were brough tm‘.\fi,“:gd s "FerCht‘rf:gsooS‘ 25 | here from Richmond. The Binford girl, west, a lone speck in the clouds, he [UOW only 17 vears old, was prettily made direct for the downtown district | dressed in a blue tailor suit and a biz and for a time hovered unnoticed in |Picture hat. She appeared unruffied the distance over the skyscrapers. |Dy the stares of the curious, althougi Thousands of people were crowded at | She shielded her face from photogra- the lake front intent upon the flight | Phers with her fan. of the aeroplanes competing in the Father to Stand by Accused. aviation contests. Atwood appeared on| Not only was the defendant not the scene as a stronger unheralded | present in court today, but no mem- and expected by a few. ber of his immediately family put in First Stop for 91 Miles. a}llwteaganc?il His ;ged }tjther l:%d sa"ii Atwood steered over the field and |that he Wwill stand by him fto the end, circled around while some other ma- | PUt, he avelded the noforiety of at- chine listed in the meet followed be- |eRdiNg today's proceedings. Thoma hind as an escort. Once around At- |OWem an uncle of Beattie's wife, was wood descended - grecefully touching | 3 §FADd jury witness and was the only the ground for the first time since his puves A e T stop at Pontiac, Tlls, 91 miles from | Ne Women in Court Room. Chicago. | A striking feature of the day was On His Way ¥o Boaton. | the absence of women. There was not ane, biack or white, in the court room. Originally setting ten days as the 2 3 maximum " ume for completing the | The 'l{H1e court room holds mormally 1,460 miles from Boston, Atwood be- | crowded into it today, while others ifeved by the pace he set today he will swarmed about windows and doors. Perhaps to discourage further attend- ance of curiosity seekers at the trial, Judge Watsen commanded all disin- terested spectators to remain standing. He discouraged many in this way, and several of the less curious retired dis- gruntled. Counsel Plead for Delay, H. H. Hall and Hill Carter, both well be able to materially reduce-that time. He had expected not to be able to reach here before tomorrow, but fav- orable weather and the good working condition of his machine induced him to shorten his stop. First Stop at ‘Springfield, Iil. His first stop which.was made at Springfield, 98 miles from St. Louis, after a two hour and 25 minute flight, | xnown eriminal lawyers appeared. in wag to fulfill a promise. Instead of o' remaining there until 3 p. m. howevers Beattia’s behalf. Both pleaded that the case be started not earlier than the he got away two hours earlier. He\‘firll Monday in September, but L. O. Was scheduled to stop at Bloomington, | ywendenburg and L. M. Gregory for the Tlis, but the crowds assembled at his | procecivion® Te0 I that the: sentiment proposed landing place there was SO |of the people demanded swift justice, dense he could not find clear space fgng ol fheir point. enough to land in safety, so he swept T e G low and nodding his head neggtively h at the people, continued. At Pontiac| In charging the grand jury Judge he descended to replenish his supply | Watson said that the Midlothian turn- of gasoline and lubricating oil. pike, where the crime was committed. Slight: Buss In His Enis: had “become as well known as Wall street.” He lamented the brutal fea- All that was suffered by the mal | iuyres of the case without referring to who thus shot through the air at a | Beattia by name and deplored the noc speed-greater than that of an express | {oriety brought to the community. e train was a slight buzz in his ears, | goiq 1y conclusion: caused by the chugging of his engine. | **if (R CORCNION qono e inauirs Landing on his feet he was as calm a5 | 2t whoss: hands ba. ianGont ang: e though he were merely a SPectator | fenseless young lady came to har foath who had dropped in to watch the other | ang with reasonable certainty to iden- Serovlanes, i tify the perpetrator, that we may place Starts for New York Today. him on his trial” Atwood, according to an announce- ment tonight, will resume his flight to New York at 3.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. He will start out over the water and will travel across the lower end of Lake Michigan and into In- diana. PLAYED WITH REVOLVER. ONE CHILD IS KILLED. Fourteen Year Old Girl Shot by Her Twelve Year Old Playmate. Lowell, Mass., Aug. 14—Little Anna Quinn, 14 years old, was instantly killed today by the explosion of a re- volver in the hands of her playmate, Thelma Borg, 12 years old, after the weapon had failed to discharge when the Quinn girl placed it at the heart of her chum and fired. MUNSEY ANNOUNCES -HIS ENGAGEMENT. After Twelve Years of Wooing Well Known Publisher is to Wed. el yeffl"‘_‘s‘";’felf;“e“‘-mfi;‘tg'pér;s;f;f",};;fi; . The two children found the revolver society and business circles hers have | il & drawer. The Quinn girl playfully recelved information that Frank A. 106G 1t againet Thelmas Beart = .o Munsey, the publisher, at last has been | e BURE 0 w0 FOO - 800 S successful and that his engagement e e Dn % 5 failed to_explode. - Miss Lota Robinson of Baltimore = S00n be. anhounced. Mr. Munsey is| ,Then Thelma took the weapon and about 57 years of age, and the woman g‘a%“-d x"l;.l;?e m‘t!r?ea ?;:“““ child’s whom he’has picked as his bride and | "20, exClfjming With & lauegh: - for whom he has much such a persist- |, ;. fou Ko 3 going ent fight is about 22 years his jundor. you. ; She fired. This tim the weapon ex- e A e e oo timeon: | Ploded and the Quinn girl dropped at about 12 years ago. She was still a the feet of her friend. She died in- Sy e o5h s stantly. bud, and a beautiful one, just rounding | STREYY o o0 s o an into “womanhood. ~ She ' immediately | e BOTE Chid W captured the heart of the publisher, Py who was thought to be a confirmed| A, Aple Connecticut Woodchuck. bachelor. Then began a chase which - orld, Mr.| John Zodiick, a farm hand of Salis- reached almost around the world, T it e Bl s » d M Minsey BOmE the haser aud Mims | o heava tho fargi dog barking 10u0 ‘Wherever Miss Robinson was. there|ly at a.stone wall adjoining the field, also was Mr. Munsey. The chase went | and the sharp whistle of a woodchuek from Baltimore to Burope and even .| that had secreted itself in the wall = i hen be.k | Zodlick began removing stones from far-off China and return and then beuk | Zodlick began removing stones from to Burope several times. It is und stood by close friends of Miss Robin- wgkof 3;: %‘;“;kiaeg:gh}}frgm:“fi: o e e e a8 ot"ot tha| Chuck from its hiding place, As the h the feet of the B e e L eof | chuck lett the wall it selzed Zodlick not until ten davs ago was he a ed. by the calf of the left leg with a £rip as tenaclous as that of the dog. R The dog pulled one way and Zodlick the other way. All this time the Found Red Clams in the Sound. | ihucics teeth were fastened in Zod- New Haven, Aug. 14.—Former Staie| jick’s leg. Finally he choked the chuck Senator Franklin L. Homan of this|off for an instant, which then fas- city, president of the American Oyster | tened on the dog. Zodlick seized a club company, while out on.a “prospecting” | and made a pass at the chuck, missed, voyage the other day off Brenton's| gtumrled over the rock and landed in Reefs, Rhode Island, discovered a spa- | the midst of the melee. As he struck cies of clam with a brilliant red shell.! the ground the chuck seized him near Mr. Homan dredged up a bushel or|the ‘seat of the trousers and held on more ‘and was quite interested in his|for dear life. Then the dog fastened find. The clams were of splendid fie=| on to the chuck’s hindquarters and be- vor, but it is doubtful if they could ve | gan to pull. gathered in sufficient quantities to pay A1 this time Zodlick was yelling for marketing them. for help. Another farmhand came to the rescue, and between the two men Fortnight Vacation in Cetton Mills. | and the dog fhe chuck was killed Zod- sy ick was saved, bu e was y -~ ot ibe e ord, Mass., Aue 14 hour| wen and has been oblised to ouit milk- trolled by William Whitman and asso- | ing the cows.—Berkshire Courier. ciates will close Saturday, Aug. 19, un- Himself and Two Cthers. til Sept. 5. Tha mills are the Mamonet 5 Neo. A Nonquit No. 1 and | Since the vote on reciprocity we also » ‘the fifth mill| know just how much of the country will run. ! Joe 5. ieads.—Pittshurg Despatch. Condensed Telegrams The Tax Rate of Chester, Mass., is §$21 per $1.000. Greenfield, Mass., is Threatened with a water famine. Forest Fires Are Devastating large aroas in the Liverpool section of Nova Seotia. Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Emperor William, is confined to the palace in Berlin with an abscess ca his knee. Before His Suicide at Newark, Jis ‘William Krueger of that city c: his fox terrier to him and shot the an- imal dead. The Death of Thomas Shaw, prob bly the oldest man in New Brunswick, was announced yesterday. He was.105 years old. Alexander McDonald, a Carpenter, fell three stories to the ground at Bos- ton yesterday. He died on the way to a hospital. The Marquis of Queensberry Sailed for New York on the Mauretania, in- tending to seéek a livelihood in the United States. William Trimbath, an American mining man, is in jail in Guadalajora, Mexico, charged with killing a 14 ye: old Mexican b Friends of Governor Marshall are trying to discountenance the demo- cratic movement in behalf of Woodro« Wilson in Indiana. The Sting of a Bee Proved Fatal to George F. Putney, 54 years oid. f Unity, N. H. He was stung whil: gathering blueberries. Allessandro Lion, Attorney for the defense in the trial of the Camorrists at Viterbo, Italy, was accused of bribery in the casa, Two of the Three Men Imprisoned for 48 hours in the East colliery, near Ashland, Pa., were rescued alive, and the third man is dead. Chief Engineer M. N. Eldridge, after 39 years' service in the Portland, Me. fire department and 14 years at the head of it, retired yesterday. Marblehead, Mass., Lost One of lts best known residents in the death yes- terday of Nathan P. Sanbo: pres dent of the Marblehead Savings ban In a Quarrel Over Whether Locust street in Kansas City runs north aud south, or east and west, Edward Mur- ray shot and killed John Hanrahan at Chicago. Senator Bacon of Georgia, a demo- crat, was chosen president pro tem. of the senate for Monday on account of the enforced absence of Vice President Sherman. | Pangs of Hinger Caused Egidio Zo- vataro, an Italian at Boston, to say that he believed himself to be suffer- ing from Asiatic cholera in order that he might secure something to cat. The New York Public Service Com:- mission has, for a second time, denizd the Buffalo, Rochester and Eastern railroad permission to_lay a railroad across the state from Buffalo to Troy. Former Town Treasurer John Ogden, who is awaiting trial on the chargz of embezzling the funds of the town of North Providence, has sent his resie- nation to the town council, to tike effect at once. Following Senator Bailey’s Resiona- ion from the national monetary com- mission, Vice “President Sherman re- ceived a telegram from former Senator Flint of California announcing his res- ignation from the commission. Rising Prices of Meat Reached a new high record for the season in New York yesterday, with an advance, according to dealers, that boosted four cents above those prevailing a fort- night ago. Twelve Hundred and Twenty Miles is the distance Mrs. R. Schindler of Melwood, R. I, and Miss Helen Gove of Springfield, Mass., drove in their au- tomobile to view the aeroplane races at Chicago. Rather Than Pay an Annual Tax of $500 on a foreign-built craft, Lind- sey Loring of Boston, member of the Eastern Yacht club., ordered burned yesterday his English sloop Ezlin, val- ued at $10,000. Cincinnatus Leconte was yesterday elected president of Hayrti unanimously by congress. Lecon‘e headed the larger of the two revolu- tionary factions that overthrew Presi- dent Antoine Simon. General Two Holes Large Enough to Admit a horse and wagon ecasily were blown in the walls of a five-story Italian tenement house on First street, York, early yesterday morning by the explosion of a dynamite bomb. More Than 500 Lives Were Lost and great devastation ashore and afloat re- sulted from tvphoon and tidal wave which swept over Japan July 26. ac- cording to advices brought to Victorfa, B. C., by the steamer Empress of Japan. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bayer of Ad- ams, Mass., are the parents of tripleis, two girls and a boy, which were born to them last Friday afternoon. The children weighed 13 1-2 pounds to- gether and are all well formed and healthy. The Funeral Services Over the Re- of John W. Gates were held at interdenominational church in and ‘e attended by some 200 rican lends, in addition to the family. The remains will be shipped to New York toda: m the The Storm of Protest which has I raised over the approaching marr of Col. John Jacob Astor and Mi:s Madeline Force has brought about an agitation among members of the sen- ate and house of representatives look- ing to a federal law regulating mer- riage and divorce. W. C. Temple of Pittsburg, who s commissioner ‘of the steel plate asso- ciation, was a witness before the com- mittee probing the United States Steel corporation. Among other things, he told how J. P. Morgan once refused a $160,000,000 option on the Carneg.e Steel company and six months later paid $500,000,000 for that property. Resenting a Criticism by Ambassador Bryce of Great Britain that the Unit=d States senate delays diplomatic quess tions to suit\political contingencies, the senate committee on forzign relations amended the arbitration treaties so that the proposed joint high commis- sion is deprived of power, now resting Total Girt}ulatidn is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the bity’é Population General Labor Revolt Feared SITUATION IN ENGLAND GROWS MORE SERIOUS. h'IANAGERS DECIDE TO RESIST General Strike of All Transport Work- ers Declared at Liverpool Last Night —Ship Owners Lock Out 30,000 Hands London, Aug. 14.—Tonight there ap- pears little hope of averting a great railroad strike which probably will be accompanied by a general labor revolt that will have a tremendous effect on the trade of the United Kingdom. Marnagers Are Stubborn. At a meeting held in London teoday by the managers of all railroads hav ing terminals here it was resoiced that the time had arrived to resist the men's encroachments. The managers contended that the men by striking will violate the agreement arrived at after the railway troubles of 1907, un- der which all disputes were to be re- ferred a. conciliation boards or an ar- ‘bitrator. Agreement Runs to 1914, This agrement, they say, was to run until 1914 unles: ther side gave neo- tice of its termination, which has not been done. 7,000 Dockers Quit at Liverpeol. Liverpool, Aug. 14.—The strike com- mittee at 12 o’clock tonight declared & zeneral strike of ail transport workers. including the railway men, who, up to the last, had refused ta go out. The strike will be effective on all the local steamboats and the Mersey ferries. Seven thousand dockers struek tomight at Birken Head. 30,000 Locked Out. During the day the lockout threaten- ed by the ship owners became effectiv and 30,000 men were refused employ - ment until they decide to abide by the terms of a recent agreement. Police Kept Busy. There has been much disorder in both Liverpool and Birken Head throughout the day, and the police were constantly in conflict with disorderly crowds. POPE WAS NOT sO WELL THIS MORNING, His Sleep Less Tranquil and His Tem- perature Increased. Rome, Aug. 15 0 a. m.—Pope Pius is not so well at this hour as he was last (Monday) night. His sleep has been less tranquil and he twice awoke, complaining of pains in the af- fected knee. His temperature also has slightly increased over that of the ear- 1y_hours of the night ‘While the condition of the pope con- tinued to mend vesterday, his phpsi- cians still are watchful to & degree. They are forbidding any exertion whatever on the part of the' patient, in the fear of a relapse, which they | say his weakened condition would be less able to withstand. A $1,000 Wedding Tousseau. New York, Aug, 14—It became the opinion of some Fifth avenue medistes today that Miss Madeleine Foree, the voung fiancee of Colonel John Jabig Astor, is to be very economnical in the arrangements for her wedding trou- seau. It was learned on the avenue that sne and Colonel Astor drove in & taxicab to five shops this afterneon where the young woman made it plain that $1,000 would be the Hmit to ex- pend for her wedding finery. Seventy Tomatoes on One Plant. Caldwell, N. J., Aug. I14—Seve tomatoes were counted on a plant [the garden of Melanethon Courter Hanover plac Opinions of Neighbor: Neighbors are never sufficiently sat- isfled with other people’s affairs to keep still about them. As long as there is anything to observe and com- ment on they will observe and com ment, and not alwavs Kindly. It Is the way of neighbors the world over. They are made so and cannot help it. 1t makes no difference what the individ ual's- course of conduct, the peopls about him will have their say. It makes no difference what he does o does not do, he will not escape from the inquisitive eve or the nimbls tongue of his neighbor. Always he is an _object of interest to that person. This being the case, it is never th while to order one's comduct ith especial view to pleasing th neighbors and so causing them to cease their critical watchfulness. The better way is for each individual to regulate his affairs according to his own best judgment and concern him self not at all with “what peo; £0 long as he retains his own self- spect. The _stability of society, o course, depends upon the harmonious relations to each other of the people who compose it, and no man can live to himself alone, regardless of others. But having once adjusted himself to the environment and to the social limitations, and having adopted a proper moral code and a rule of non interference with others, he will find peace and serenity lie in pursuing his own_ course in calm indifference to neighhors’ comments.—Cincinnati En- quirer. . Words. The successful man of business short and careful of speech. He em- ploys throughout his career no more at best—than 1,500 words. Ours is a copious tongue, ranging, through its technology and facile aceretions from alien races, into the hundreds of thou- sands of words, And yet the simpie Bible of King Jameg is estimated to contain no more than 8000 words, and the vast Shakespeare, wiho is said never to have repeated himself, is ac- credited with a vocabulary of only 12,- 00. The simplest words are the best. That is why Wordsworth's matchless ode on Intimations of ITmmortality sire vives; and it is why Tennyson wa( made laureate, Stafely and effusive writing does not endure, It is bound to rust becausge of ite own brumima« gem quality. Addison s still read, Bacon and Milton are not. Not alone the discreet writer aad public speaker, but the sensible man of affairs—in any walk of life—comes gooner or later to look npon words as few and precious things, 1o be spent carefully. They may hesitate in say- ing which man is the more detestabie, the miser or the spendthrift, but get to know that they are likely to be less miserable by spending & mers in the senate, of deciding what ques- tions may go to The Hague, modicum_of their reserve #<=4 af ‘words.—Philadelphis Pre~ ) K