Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 17, 1911, Page 1

ato VOL. LIIL.—NO. -248 'NORWICH, CONN., TUE DAY, OCTOBER 17, 1911 PRICE TWO CENTS CHINESE TROOPS MUST HfAVE MONEY Otherwise They Are Likely’ to Desert or Join the Revolutionarry Army FUNDS OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT LOW Foreign Bankers Have Refused Furt her Loans-—Vast Bo_dy of Chinese in Sympathy Wit/h the Revolutionists— Situation at Peking Grows Miore Serious—American Legation Guard to be Reinfiorced From Manilla. ——— { Peking, Oct. 16—Simultaneously withj whiv:la refers to 24 army trains in the acceptance today by Yuan Shi|the last three days. Kai of the post of viceroy of Hu Peh T.‘“a"'“d Closed to Passer;ls;r? a /inces, hic rri- | _Thelve trains wil be despatched from ol p e | Petfin ‘and the sixth division. which is tory he is directed to proceed to Im-1 5.4 "quartered at Pao-Ting-Fu, will fediately re-establish the imperial |lersve as soon as conditions quiet down authority, the ‘Chinese government is|tllere. After the departure of a single showing remarkable activity, evesn in | P/issenger train tomorrow the raii- the face of a depleted treasury. The|Vjay between Yin Tchang, the minis- government sSeems to realize at last | Jer of war, who will have chief com- the necessity of promptly crushing the |/'hand of the government troops, is a rebellion and is now despatchinz the j small, thin, queless Manchu. army to the scene of the revoit as]. Chinese Troops Untrustworthy. hastily as preparations can be made. ThHe German and Austrian officers Women and Children Leave. /{ who hold the general's greatest con- A few messages are beginning to | fidences, report that he has not en- arrive from the south and it is believ. | tire faith in_the Chinese troops. Ac- ed that a certain measure of ordgy |cording to the Chinese people gener- is being maintained at Wu Chang arid |ally, the Manchus were tolerable when Hankow, Outside of the foreign caor | they protected the country, but are cessions in Hankow, these two citjes now worthless, The vast body of are in the hands of the revolutionysts | Chinese sympathize with the revolu- and the fact that al the women 7nd |tionists and a significant saving of en have left or are leaving Hian- | the soldicrs who are proceeding to the indicated that the forces ut.der |south is: “An ordinary rebellion would be all right, but we must now’ fight against our own trained broth- ers.” Will Fight If They Get Paid. The women, on seeing their soldier kow the insurgent leaders, well armed 'and | weil munitioned from the ardenal | s are preparing to resist ' the | Chinese army, several divisiony of which are tither on the road to 'Han- kow or are being rapidly fitted ovat for | relatives off to the sceme of action, the expedition. advise them if there is danger to dis- American Legation Guard Reinflorced. | card ftheir uniforms 13112 walk_bac!;_ s fore o | Before entraining last evening, Yin Jegmtion ord e A hundred i eo whg | Ching shook hands with Prince Tsai- are proceeding from Manila, wlaile not | T30, the brother of the prince regent, significant of danger, is mevertheless | Who accompanied him to the station, indicative of the seriousness, of the |and said: ituati ‘en in Pekin. Chi re- | “If_ you : situation even in Pek Y:pese re: will do the fighting.” will send the money, we sp for foreigners, which fs often 'ringing. continues to be up /to the Government Funds Low. customary standard. Thig /is duve| rThe situation depends on money, largely to the lesson of 190f)f and the legation quarter will not b subject- | 5¢ the Chinese government are low. ed to more than inconvenie/yces, owing | Further loans by foreign bankers 1o the rise in the prices ol foodstuffs | have been refused. If the pay of the and possibly diserders in' the native|tgoops is increased and is regularly city, Fanis | forthcoming, and-if the men are weil 24 Army Trains in Three Days. fed, they may not desert or rebel. An indication of the Aictivity being{The feeling in Pekin is, not which displayed by the goverfiment is giv- army is the stronger. but which is the en in the despatch froa Pao Ting-Fu !less feeble, the less disorganized. and it is admitted that the ready funds MURDERER WIPES !'DUT !FELLOW MINISTERS A FAIVILY OF FIVE | SCORE REV. LAMBERT. Hehds, of Parents and Three Ghildren | Has. Forfeited His Good Standing as Congregational Pastor. Battered in V/fith Axe. | qfet. 16.—Slain as | Providence, R. .J, Oct. 16.—The act-! n/ ght, the bodies of | ion of Rewv. Joseph Lambert in per-| Wil Showman, a Jgauffeur, his wife, | forming the ceremony at the marriage and three small chi] dren, were discov f John Jacob Astor and Miss Madel- | erel ionight ir the/Showman home by | ine Force was deplored in a resolu- a neigh | tion adopted today by the Congrega- The feutures of #all the vietims were | tional Ministers’ association of Rhode batt:red beyond nition by the | Island. blows of an axe *w the slayer had | The resolution, after recounting the vsed, The baby had its head severed | marriage Newport and deploring from the body. /\ll three children were | the part that Rev. Lambert took in onder five yeary: old. The authorities | the matter, says: “In order to make | have faiied to /nd any cause for the |repetition of such marriages impossi- | crime. | ble, we declare that no minister ought he liam Showman, | to marry gui'ty, parties to divorce ob- 33 vears old, 'his wife, and their chil- | tained on statufory grounds and that drem, Lesier, five years old, Fern, four | any minister who does so shall be con- veairs old, wnd Senton, one yvear old.| sidered as having forfeited his good ‘The Showmau: hormie is a snall cottage, about three hundred or four hundred jargls from ary other hov}se. . s five wietimg were found in one voom. 17w fether, mother and haby | EFFORTS FOR PEACE | were in ome Led and the two other PROVE UNSUGCESSFUL chiMren in a second bed. There was il s bload on tie walls, ceiling, floor. beds and every article in the room. In this roomm algo was the bloody axe which the murderer had used and which he had left n his flight. Lest night all the members of the Shoswman family visited at the home of Mrs, O. W ook, a friend, living sev- cral ‘biogks away. They left the Snook standing as a Congregational minis- ter.” Italy Refuses to Give Turkey Financial Compensation. London, Oct. 16.—The Chronicle’s Vienna correspondant learns on high authority that all the diplomatic ef- forts 2de at Rome to bring about failed. Italy has the unconditioral annex- n housy about nine o'clock. It was Mr, | I RO the. 4 ) Snookc who discovered the quintuple | 2tion of Tripoli and Cyrenaica and crimq. She called at the Showman |Practicaliy refuses to give -Turkey | financial compensation. All homa late teday, Her knock wag un- answiered, so she opened the door and that italy has offered was to | recognize the khalif's superiority over . 3 house, entering the € Tt o 3_\:11“ in’:\fn.’:c;,hihe badien of the five | the county in spiritual and religious ’,,,."m'“‘m lay. 7 matters, and to pay an indemnity, v £ from~which, however. were to be de- | Syowman was a chauffeur and me- chagic 4t 1 garage here. TEAS FROM CHINA MAY COST MORE. Result of Ban on the Artificially Col- ored Product. | ducted Italy’s ware expenses. Another attempt at peace interven- tion, says the correspondent, may he made later when theré is a chance of suceess. NEGRO GIVEN SEEERE SENTENCE FOR ASSAULT. Fine of $2,000 and Term of Twenty- Two Years Imposed, i Wiashington, Oct. 16—Tea drinkers, especially these who prefer the Chimess blend, may soon find the price | of their luxury increased in the wake of eoffee and sugar as a result of the T Fost Holidayburg, Pa., Oct. 16-—Jacob. treasmury departments strict Plowden. a nezro. was sr\nlenrr:’d by _ against importations of teas : the Blair County court today to pay a cially colored. Th‘e order has al fine of $2,000 and undergo a term of fesuited ifi turning from Ame 22 years imprisonment in the peniten- ports several hundred thousand - for an assault upon Mrs. Cath- unds of China tea treated with Perkins, of Altoona, Pa. The rugsian blue, talc and other chemi- broke into the cellar of the cals. Customs officials forsee in con- sequence a sharp advance in the prices of Chinese teas. Teas from Formosa, Japan and Cey- lon may not be affected becaus their fovrnments are ce-operating with the | T'nited States to stop the traffic in| Sl artificially colored teas. i Joshua B, Hendrie. ! Stamford, i . Stag . Cenn., Oct. 16.—Joshua B. SKELETON FOUND | Hendrie, whose brother prosented naen~ IMBEDDED erkins home a week ago and lay in wait for the woman. FHe afterwards kicked her into insensibility. OBITUARY. | IN MUD. | drie hall to Yale iniversity, died :odav, aged 81. He suffered fcom heart trou- A Quantity of Unexploded Shells Al- ble, and had been ill a _week. Mr. Hendrie was wealthy. His wido: al and two daugh- . Jennings and so Found on the Maine. { brother, Charles W. ters, Mrs. Stanlev Mrs. Linus Wood, surviv Frederick W. Vinal. Middletown, Conn., Oct. 16—Frederic | W. Vinal, clerk of the superior court | for Middlesex county, died today after an illness which extended through a year und which hegan with a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Vingl was a native of this town, being born July 13, 1857. He had a . musical education, which embraced study abroad, and had sung in the choir of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, while Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was the pastor. He leaves a widow. two daughters and a one son. 1iis brothers are Charles G. R. Vinal, former secretary of state, and George, Havana, Oct, 16—A quantity of s fnch shells and smaller rapid fire pro- jectiles, all of them unexpioded, were recovered today at a point immedi 1y forward of the forward mag of the Maine, from which apparently they were thrown out when the mag- szines were desfroved. The explorers also found a six inch powder tank, _ecrushed but apparently unexploded. Net far away they came ulpon portions of a skeleton imbedded in the mud. MERCHANT ASLEEP WHILE DRIVING AUTO. Machine is Ditched and His Wife is | | t i i Killed. of Dallas, Texas. Mr. Vinal, while = teacting mmsic in Chicago, had for a Barre, Vt, Oct. 16—fAn automobile | pupil Mary Garden, who is now a pri- party returning from Sherbrooke to- day was thrown into z ditch by the wieidding of the maochine and Mrs. Odule Gilbert, the wife of a promin- ent merchant at Granteville. Vt., was =0 badly crushed that she dled a few ma denna. Cardinal Reviews Children’s Parade. Baltimore; Oct. 16—From the steps of the cathedral late today Cardinal hoeurs later. Charles (filbert, her son, | Gibbons reviewed a jubllee parade of had his arm broken. ‘Odule Gilbert, [ various Catholic societies. For two the oar, said after|hours upwards of 25,000 men. boys a who was drivm! ir accident :h; he _t@ll‘h& he nuaf x:;- mruf:od past the -historic vfl? l = I | 8. Pecik was begun today. | taker. | of Local Cabled Paragraphs Manila, Oct. 16—The orders for the United ‘States cruiser New Orleans of the Asiatic fleet to return home were rescinded and the warship sailed to- gGay for Shangh: Vellery, Italy; Oct. 16--The inhab- itants of Segni, 30 miles from Rome revolting against the cholera pre- cautions adopted by the government, today bUrned the city hall. Munie, Bavaria, Oct. 16—Prince Re- gent Luhtpold of Bavaria is ill from an attack of bronchial catharrh. Reassuring bulletins were issued to- day by the physicians in attendance but anxiety is felt because“of the ad- vanced age of the patient. He cele- bra}:ed his ninetieth birthday on March 1zth. ! OFFERED NURSE A DIAMOND FOR KiSs Eccentricities of New Haven Man De- scrited in Court. New Haren, Oct. 16.—The contest over che probating of the will of Burr Mr. Peck was an octogenarian, who, a few months after the death of his wife in 1908, married May Rryan, the miece of a next-door neighbor, who later was in marital difficulties with her aged nushand. An agreement beiween then: was arrived at, and Mr. Peck did not press his petition for a diverce, The estate, whigh is of a considerabie amount, was left to the young wife, put the tesiator’s relatives are con- testirg the will, Showed No Feeling at Wife's Death. Miss Schringeour, superintendent of the Visiting Nurses® association of Derby, was a ness and told of Mr. Peck’s eccentricities at the time the first Mrs. Peck died. She said that Peck id on the night that his wife was dying that if anything happened he did not want to be disturbed, and the nurses were to call up the under- He showed 'no feeling the next xpor;n’ng when told that his wife was dead. Wore Pink €hirt on Day of Funeral. Peck, aceording to the testimony, re- | marked that he had nc one left but Tabby, the cat, “unless he could get one of these girls.” Miss Schringeour said che remarked to the other nurse, Miss McGarry, “Would you leave your happy home for that?’ Miss McGarry said she wculd not. On the day of the funeral, Peck strolled around 1n a mixed suit, a pink shirt, a celluloid collar and a green tie. His face was dirty and Miss Schrinegour took him to a sink and washed it. Warited a Live One. She also tried to put a hlack necktie around his cellar and Peck told her that he did;uot mind how much she hugged him. When told that Mrs. Peck ought to receive proper respect, the widower veplied: “Oh, she’s dead; I want a live one.” Offered Diamond for a Kiss. He talked on financial affairs and said he intended to sell Yale some of his property for a swimming pool. He asked Miss Schringeour if she liked diamonds and showed her some jew- eiry which had belonged to Mrs. Peck. He told the witness that she could have it all for “hugging and kissing him.” He offered her a diamond if she would give him a kiss. b Wanted a Young Woman. Miss Schrinegeour said she advised him <o put the jewels in a safe deposit vault, but Peck replied that he would get someore who would kiss him. When a middle aged woman came to care for Mr. Peck's aged mother, he would not have he:, saving he wantel a young woman. Neighbor Suggested Her Niece. The witness testified that Mrs. John- son, the next-door neighbor, had told Peck that ke should have a young wo- man io take care of the nouse, and had suggested her niece, who lived in New Rochelie, saying that she ecould be had for %2 a week, which would be less c¢xpensive than a graduate nurse. Miss Schringeour said that Mrs. John- son had said that anyvone who gave “the old man soft soap” could get away with anything he had. WIFE'S ‘DYING WISH GRANTED. Husband Stricken With Paralysis While at Her Funeral. Cincinnati, O., Oct., 16—With life's tid~ ebbing slowly away and with his snowy white head resting wear on the pillow of his cot in the City hospital, Williagn . Huesman. seventy vears old, related what he believes to be thg cause of his affiction. or many years prior to the death his e, Minnie Huesman, they were separated. About the middle of September his wife was taken ili, and she was removed to the City hos- pital. As death drew near instead of wishing for a reconciliation with her husband, she declared that when she died she hoped he might become par- alyzed if he attempted to 20 to the | cemetery to attgnd her funeral. On September 29 she died, and almost with her last breath she reiterated the wish she had expressed before. The husband was notified of her death, and he at once prepared to give her a proper burial. He provided the coffin and furnished the conveyances. On the way to the cemetery Huesman studdenly collapsed on the street. He was taken to the hospital, where the receiving physician d he had been stricken with paralysis. Huesman is not expected to live, Connecticut Fire Insurance Agents. Hartford, Oct. 16.—At the Fire Insurance Agents here today. the followinz officers were elect- ed President, Ph Holzer. Bridge- port; first vice president, R. D. Pierce, Danbury. second vice, D. D. Butler, Middletown, third vice, E. W. Kneen, Shelton: secretary-treasurer. W. F Heald, Staffcrd rings, and chair- man of the executive committee, J. J. Fisher, Bridgfipnl" Alleged Assailant of Miss Waugh. New York, Oct. 16.—The police ar rested tonight Frank Rroch, 19 vears old, on the charge of being the man | who assaulted and brutally beat Miss Agnes Waugh last Wednesday night in the Fort Hamilton section of Brook- 155 % ‘Miss Waugh, the police sav. identified Broch as her assailant. He is already under Indictment for a sim- ilar offense. Robhed by a Scalper. New York, Oct. 16.—Mrs. E, F Flynn, aged 60, who has a boarding house in Chicago, reported to police headquarters today that she was $1,500 out of pocket because of the failure of a_former boarder to carry out a plan of speculation in tickets to the world’s series baseball games. She lent him the “money to buy the tickets. Philadelphia Scalper Arrested. Philadelphia, Oct. 16.—Charles Wil- son of New York was un-estad}lt(oduy trying to escape from Shibe pai be- fore the game betwen.the New York Nafionals and the Athletics started. He had a batch of one hundred $1 tickets which had been placed on sale at 9.30° g'clock, i 1 ! Endorsement 0f LaFolleite PROGRESSIVES FAVOR HIM FOR THE PRESIDENCY. ; +- 200 MEET AT CONFERENCE Also Declare for Selection of Repub- lican Nominee by Direct Primary Vote—Wisconsin Held as a Model. Chicago, Oct. 16.—Two hundred pro- gressive republicans in their firstna- tional conference today endorsed Sen- ator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin for president, and declared for a di- rect primary as a means for the ex- pression of a presidential choice, 5 Presented by Garfield. The endorsement was in the shape of resolutions framed in part by for- mer Secretary of the Interior James R.; Garfield. Tt was held by the delegates | that Mr. Garfleld expressed the views of Theodore Roosevelt. and it had been feared he would oppose a decla- ration in favor of any individual. / LaFollette’s Name Cheered. The resolution followed a day in which Mr. LaFollette's name was cheered repeatedly when it was men- tioned by a dozen speakers. Contra- Ty to expectations, the conference was finished in one day, most of the dele- gates have left the city, and the pro- gressive programme outlined for to- morrow will be devoted to the sup- port of state and local conditions and candidates. The resolutions.read in part: The Resolutions. “The progressive movement is a struggle to wrest the control of the government in the nation and states from the representatives of special] privilege and restore it toc the control of the people. The issue is the same in, all the states, though the problem may be presented in different way: Special Privilege Control. “In the national field the control of | government by special privilege is ev- idenced by the influence and power of the revolutionary leaders in both par- ties in checking or preventing, the en- actment of progressive policies pledg- ed by the republican party. Definite Rules for Corporations. “The present condition of uncer- tainty in business is intolerable and destructive of industrial prosperity. It is worse than idle to leave the ques- tion of whether. great business enter- prizes are legal or not, merely to judi- cial determination, Industrial corpora- tions should by affirmative legislative enactment be given definite rules of! conduct by which business shall be! made safe and stable, while at the same time the interests of the public should be fully safeguarded. We seek @on- structive legislation and not destruct- ive litigation. Want Direct Primary Vote. “We favor the ascertainment of the choice of republican voters as to can- didates for presidency by a direct pri- mary vote, held in each state pursu- ant to the statute, and where no such statute exists we urge that the repub- lican state committee provide that the people be given the right to express their choice for president. Wisconsin a Model. “Robert Marion LaFollette of Wis- consin years ago found conditions in his state not unlike those of the na- tion today. Under his leadership =ll opposition was overcome and there has been enacted in Wisconsin a system of laws that stand as models for legisla- tion in all states of the Union. Endorsement of LaFollette. “This conference indorses him as a candidate for the republican nomina- tion for president, and urges that in all states organizations be formed to promote his nomination.” Drafters of Resolutions. The resolutions were drafted by E. P.” Costigan, Colorado; C. E. Merri- am, Chicago; James R. Garfield, Chi- cago; Amos Pinchot, New York, and J. E. Little of North Carolina. NELSON WON'T SERVE ON M'NAMARA JURY. Gave Answer Yesterday Which Dis- qualifies Him. T.os Angeles, Cal, Oct. 16.—The Mc- Namara murder trial in an instant to- extricated itself from a situation wh had worried opposing counsel | since last Wednesday, and the re- mainder of the day it went ahead steadily. | “Could you set aside your opinions sufficiently to enable you to give a fair | and impartial verdict?” was the cru- cial question put -to Talesman Z. T. Nelson. Nelson had been asked hun- dreds of questions to elicit his views, and he had answered all of them with- out clearing up the situation. “It would take pretty strong evi- dence,” he replied, dubious District Attorney John D. edericks thereupon withdrew opposition to a challenge previously made by the de- fense on the charge of bias. “There was nothing else to do after that question and answer,” said Fred- ericks later. “The.talesman diqualis fied himself. | Judge Bordwell himself examined |in the injury of 25 persons. !began at on at length before the question| W settled. Nelson’s final discharge | on fundamental grounds leaves the many questions raised during his ex- amination still not ruled upon in this case. When court closed today two other talesmen had been examined by the defense. One of them, John W. Rob- erts, a real estate dealer, was found satisfactory, and the other, Robert Bain, a carpenter, was also ecxamin- ed without contest.* Nevertheless, it was the general opinion tonisht that the Nelson case would be dupli- cated before a jury was obtained. ! Roberts and Bain both are past| middle age and white haired. Roberts | recited a number of businesses in which he was engaged while being questioned by Attorney Darrow. Sud-| denly Darrow caught a familiar phrase. . 1 ‘Ever studied law?” he asked ab-‘ rupt “Yes,” said the talesman, “a longf time ago.” i He seemed pleased at the detection. | The Merchants and Manufacturers’ | association, a local erganization, wi ichl is among those offering rewards for! the detection of the person or persons | supposed by them to have blown up the Times, was brought into the situa- tion today. Roberts said he belonged to it several years ago. It is possible that Bain will be ex- amined briefly tomorrow. e ! 1 Meriden,—The total 6f funds depos- ited in the Meriden postal savings bank since its opening several. weeks ago, reached the $1,000. K the middle of the week. Iriday the $1,200 mark had EY Condensed Telegrams Scottish Rite Masons are at Wash- ington to attend the session of the Supreme council, The manufacturing outlook in Spen- cer, Mass., and Vicinity is much brighter than for several months. Claims against the government, in- volving millions are to be tried in the United States Court of Claims at the present $ession. The United States has made no overtures to any nation for the pur- pose of bringing peace to China. More than a dozen buildings which comprised nearly the entire busi- ness section of Hurleyville, N. Y., were burned at 4 o'clock yesterday morn- ing. Mr. Adolph Miller, of New Haven, Conn., who believes firmly in horse- shoes for good luck, Las received news of an uncle in Germany leaving him $50,000. Action was taken at the Concress of Indiana in Columbus, to mote the movement for the abolition of reservations and government pa- ternalism. Commissioner of Pensions Daven- port submitted a report suggesting a plan of direct checks to pensioners by which the government and the pen- sioners will Save money. An expenditure of $1,458,929.22 is called for at Yale university the coming vear according to the budget submitted to the regular meeting of the corporation yesterday. A tornado that swept through the western part of Indiana Saturday night did considerable damage to property in five towns and resulted Information regarding the _strike now. prevailing at Cananea, Mexico, received at the state department, in- dicated much uneasiness there. All banks and saloons have been closed. Burglars dynamited the vault of the Planter's bank at Clarksville, Va., here early vesterday, and after a fusillade of shots, escaped with what is believed a large amount of money. Investors in government bonds will e this month more than $3,200, 00 in interest. The sum is the gov- ernment’s quarterly payment on the $646,000,000 consolidation loan of 1909. Plans for the erection of a great Presbyterian temple in honor of the memory of the late Justice Harlan of the supreme court of the United States already are being considered at ‘Washington. Death resulted yesterday from the burns received by Mrs. Everett W. Frost, of Augusta, Maine, while at- tempting to light a lantern with a slip of paper. She was 33 years of age ard the mother of four children. A Triple Row of War Craft, the most powerful fleet ever assembled in American waters, will swing at anchor in the Hudson river the latter part of this month on_ the occasion of the great new naval review of New York. Right Rev. Augustine Van de Vyver, for the past twentyv-two vears, bishop o’ the Roman Catholic diocese of Richmond, died Richmond, Va., yesterday, of complications resulting from a severe cold. He was born in 1844 in Belgium. Harry E. Allen shot his wife and her sister, Miss Daisy Bothwell, at the flat in Jeérsey City where all three lived. vesterday, and with a third shot committed suicide. The Allens had been married onl short time. The women will recover. a The national monetagy commission w York. yesterday a series of two day sessions which will include sittings in various other fi- nancial centers, presenting a final op- portunity for parties interested in the proposed monetary reform to be heard. The first hunting accident in Wor- cester, this season took place yester- day, when Bernard Stimson of Graf- ton had his chest and face filled with bird shot from the gun of a man who D ! ynamite On Taft’'s Route THIRTY-SIX STICKS FOUND UN- DER A VIADUCT. ONE HAD A FUSE ATTACHED President’s Train Passed Over Bridge About Four Hours Later—Dynamit- ers Make Escape After Detection.? San Francisco, Cal, Oct, 16.—A re- port received here today by officials of the Southern Pacific Railway com- pany from C. B. Brown, section fore- man for the road at Naples, Cal, de- scribed the discovery of thirty-six sticks of dvnamite under the Cairtan viaduct, twenty miles north of Santa Barbara, several hours before Presi- dent Taft's special train passed over the bridge, en route to Los Angeles, this morning. Dynamiters Escaped. The 8ynzamite was found after the watchman engaged in a revolver bat- tle with—two men, who escaped. Watchman Fired Several Shots. The dynamite was discovered at two o'clock this morning. The president’s train passed cver the bridge at 5.51. The night watchman saw two men on the bridge shortly before two o’clock. They were at the opposite end of the 1,000-foot span and ran when orded to halt. The watchman hurried across idge, firing several shots as he , and they were returned, A Ten-Foot Fuse. 5 After the pair had escaped in the darkness, the watchman returned to the bridge and began an investigation. Near the center of the span, lodged on one of the supports of the viaduet, he found the dynamite with a tem- foot fuse attached to one of the sticks. He left the find untouched and went immediate to Santa Barbara and notified the officials, Searching for the Men. Sheriff Wines of Santa Barbara county proceeded at once to the bridge with several deputies and removed the dynamite A general search is being made for the men. Taft Learred of It Yesterday. Los Angeies, Oct. 16.—The president heard nothing of ihe alleged attempt to dynamite a bridge on the Southern Pacific railway last night above Santa Barbara untii late today. Last night the president’s train followed the reg- ular train from San Francisco by ten minutes, and if any trouble had been encountered, there would have beer plenty of time to flag the special, MURDERERS TRACED THROUGH TORN CARDS One Willing to Shoulder Blame Be- cause Other Had Children. New York, Oct. 16.—Clever detectiv¢ work has selved the mystery surround- ing the murder of Patrick J. Breen a saloon keeper kmown as “Paddy (h¢ Priest,” who was shot on October ( while defending ths contents of hit cash till from robbers. The detectivet found in the cellar of a neighboring building a revolver with one cartridge¢ exploGed and some torn bits of cardm These, on being pleced together, re- vealed the names of two men, one of whom the detectives rememberd serv- ing two terms in Sing Sing. This wans “Happy Jack” Muilaney. The other was John J. Dowling. After a search which led all over the city both were arrested, and today the police an- nounced Mullaney confessed the shoot- ing. This was not, however, until he had been conironted with a complete account of the holdup, dictated by Dowling, implicating him in the mur- der. At his own request Mullaney was confronted by Dowling, and Mullaney arraigned him bitterly for having eon- 1. “I told him to keep his mouth d I'd take all the reiponsiblll&y ¢ use of his children; I haven't I shut if anything happen2d,” he said. was ke mistook Stimson's brown cap bfl;or a| SUPREME COURT IN Fo:':}.dae Stimson will probably re SESSION A MINUTE In Accordance with the Announce- | Immediately Adjourns Out of Respeot ment of their plans, made several davs ago, a majority of the 1,500 Knights of Labor shoe cutters left their bench- es in the shce factories of Lynn, Mass. at four o'clock vesterday after having completed eight work, hours’ The call went out from democratic national headquarters yesterday for a meeting of the democratic national committee to he held at Washington or January 8th, for the ‘pllrpnse'()f ng the time and place of holding he next democratic national con- vention. Tony Ladado, Wanted in Portchester, N. Y., for the murder of a man named Scarpodo, was arrested at Meriden at midnight by the police. The crime wag committed recently, Iadado.stabbing his victim to death. T.adado acknowl- edged to the police that he was the man wanted. Judge William L. Bennett of the superior court will hear the argu- ments over 721 disputed ballots cast in the recent Meriden town election for the candidates for first selectman— George . Miller, republican, and George Mischler, democrat, at the city court, next Saturday. Ten of the Glidden tourists reac Staunton, Va., last night after of mild sensations including two ns and one almost serious ac- The first holdup occurred at sonburg. A policeman em- i his admonition to the tour- volver. T Steamship Arrivals. A\t Rotterdam: Oct. 14, TUranium, from New York. At Glasgow: Oct. 15. Caldonia, from New York. At Antwerp: Oct. 16, Lapland, from New York. At Naples: Oct. 16, Venézia, from New York. At Genoa: Oct. 16, Prinzess Irene. from New York. At London: Oct. 16, Minnetonka, from New York. Lumber Dealer Undergoes Operation. New Haven. Conn., Oect. 16—Louis A. Mansfield, head of a lumber con-~ cern and secretary of the Lumber Dealers’ - Association of Connecticut, was operated upon for appendicitis/~t a private hospital here todav. He had been in poor health for some time. = Boy Drowned, Not Kidnapped. Nyack, N.-Y. Cect. 16—The body of fternoon, ! < to g0 slowly by halting them with | ‘Washington, Oct. 18.—The courts in Washington honored the membor oy the late Associate Justice John Mar- shall Harlan of the supreme court of the United States today. The highest tribunal of the land, of which Justice Harlan was the old:st member, the court of commerce, the court of claims and the various branches of the su- preme urt of the District of Colum- bia adjourned immediately and the couri of customs appeals announced that out of respect to him it would not be in session tomorrow. - The supreme court of the United States was in session only one minute. Chief Justice White, in a voice trem- bling with emotiom, announced: “Gentlemen of the bar: It is my painful duty to announce the death of our brother, Mr. Justice Harlan. The court will stand adjourned until Wed- nesday morning next without the tran- saction of #any kind of business.” For Poisoning of Husband. Ontonagon, Mich., Oct. 16.—“Oh, my God, I'm not guilty,” was the plea of Mrs, Laura Stannard when she was arraigned in the circuit court today on the charge of poisoning with strych- nine her husband, Charles S. Stan- nard, who died March 26 last. Imme- diagely after the arraignment the work c.’\ uring a jury was besgun. i Life Term for Lynchers. Valentine, Neb., Out, 16.—Four men, accused of lynching Charles P. Sellers June 18 on a ranch near here, were sentenced today to life imprisonment by Judge Westover in the district court. Funice Murphy, the girl accus- ed of being an accessory before the fact, was released. Arkansas Negro Lynched. Jorest City, Ark., Oct. 16—Nathan J.acey, a nesgro, who, it is charged, attacked Mps. Thomas Cox at her home near Forest City yesterday, was taken from the local prison tonight by 2. mob and lynched. Another Ad for the Dictagraph. Before marriage the man who weds his stenographer gives dictation. After marriage he takes it. And he TAKES it, too.—Philadelphia Inquirer. A Resourceful Woman. One idea of a resourceful woman is one who can stand her family skele- ton in a corner of the parlor and make folks believe it is bric-a-brac.—Gal- veston News. Joseph Francesco, 7 years old, who was supposed to have been kidnapped, has been found 1% Sparki]l Creek, twenty feet from wkywe he was last seen. & d The Hardest Part. It takes some speakers quite awhile to get started, but stopping is the real- ly difficult achhva\mum — Atchison