Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 17, 1911, Page 1

> VOL. LIl.—NO. 276 S JUMPED FROM THE PRESTON BRIDGE Mother of Bertram Speacer Tells of His At- tempted Suicide in Norwich t A NORWICH MAN ON WITNESS STAND Charles A. Gager Testifizs to Spevncer’s Attempt to Shoct a Man at a Lebanon Dance—Mrs. Spencer Describes Severe Punishments Inflicted on Her Son in His Boyhood Days—His Alleged Confession Read. 16.—The man] At another time, when the boy was | . ‘accused of [9 vears old, Mr. Spencer whipped him | trutal murder, was brutaily treated by |for stealing a knife, breaking the butt his own father from his early child- [of a heavy whip over the boy’s head. | Lood, sccording to the testimony of [ Ever since that time, Mrs. Spencer said, Jirs.'W. L. Spencer when she took the [her son had frequently complained of witness stand on behalf of ger son. [his head, Bertram G. Spencer, charged with the murder of Miss Martha B. Blackstone. Beaten With Butt of Whip. town, where he enlisted in the navy but a few weeks later he returned ing terms. The Bulletin's Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Cabled Parazraphs St. Petersburg, Nov, 15.—Eight mil- lion persons are in need of immediate relief owing to the failure of the crops in twenty Russian provinces. London, Nov. 16.—The British dele- gates to the forthcoming opium con- ference at The Hague have been se- lected, but will not be officially ap- pointed until the government is fully informed of ihe subjects to be consid- ered. Paris, Nov. 16.—King Peter of Ser- via, whom the newspapers styled the most Parisian ¢f Buropean rulers be- cause he was educated In France and fought for France in the Prussian war, arrived here today for an official visit of four days. Berlin, Nov. 16.—Sharp earth shocks occurred tonight at Munich, Strass- burg, Mayence, Frankfort and Stutt- gart. At Frankfort, where several houses were badly shaken, half-clad people rushed into the streets. Big | cracks appeared in the walls of several { buildings. Berlin, Nov. 16.—Emperor William has cancelled the hunting trip in S iesia upon which he had intended to start lastievening. The reason giver is that he is suffering from a slight cold, regarding which, however, those near nis majesty speak in the most reassur- London, Nov. 16.—The hearing of the MWithout hesitation and with no dis- |y 50." 4 bursting gun caused injuries | cross-actions arising from the collis- play of emotion the mother. told in | o7 e e etk of mumerone occasions on | (0, s head when “he “was 16, wkich her husband had ished youn, " Siftram with extreme Severity. That| _Father and Sen Wers Hostile. & certain punishment was In the same vear Bertram left home deserved the boy on each of those |he returned ome evening for his occasions was admitted by the witness |clothes, and his mother persuaded him examination, as well as the |to remain for the night. ‘When the r husband is now a Sun- [father came home and learned that| uperintendent In Lebano Bertram was in the house he took a | The treatment accorded by his |lantern, rushed up stairs to the boy’s | made Bertram verr nervous. |room and jumped upon Bertram as he | pencer sald, and ever since a |lay asleep. lar! ere beating over the| Rertram grabbed a revolver from | Dbutt of a heavy whip in |under his pillow and aimed it at his the hands of h father the boy ~|I ther, but the weapon was rustv and‘ womplained of pains in the d. could not be discharged. The boy Tied to a Chopping Block. e e e & ‘o | firingfive shots at the boy at he dis- | his nerves wers the tying of |appeared in the darkness. block and telling Jumped from Preston Bridge. i off and | Later he lived at the home of Cal- the woods | vin Briggs in Norwich. Conn. In Nor- ©{wich he tried to ikiil himselt, the mother said, by jumping from Preston Tried to Commit Suicide. {bridee, and once was found on the Mrs. Spencer said Rertram | street in a_dazed condition. Later ce tried to commi Grown- | Dertram went to Portland, Me., New nr and at another time by taking | Haven and Hartford. she said, her son had Attempted to Poison Himself. frothing at the | peiiram had carrled a revalver, Mrs. | Spencer testified, ever since he had heen attacked by a highwayman and lert iying by the roadside. On an- e s Jeiated b¥ ! other occasion when he was held up, e TR S iatives and those of her | gnt, but the shots did not take cife today. ion of the White Star line steamship Olympic with the British cruiser Hawke off the morth coast of the Isle of Wight, on September 20, was begun in the admiralty court before Sir Sam- uel T. Bvans, the president of the court REWARD OFFERED FOR CANTON’S BOLD ROBBER Farmer Richards Whom He Shot Ex- pected to Recover. Canton, Conn.,, Nov. 16 —The town n ran down stairs and out of the | of Canton tcday offered a reward of house, his father pursuing him and | 350 for the arrest of the man who last | | night entered the home ¢f Edgar Rich- ards, a farmer, living two and a half miles from the center of Collinsville, and shot him, and then after a scuf- fle robbed him of 35 It was at firsf thought tmat Mr. Richards had been} but slizghtly wounded, but an examina- tion tod: showed that the bullet, 32 caliber, tered the skull at the base of the' brain, Physicians probed but were unable to get it out and will Dprobably leave it there unless compli- ecations set ! OBITUARY. Rev. Father Connolly. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Nov. 16— Bertram fired two shots at his assall- | o Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Nov. 100 2nd well known throughout Canada, sband had bcen insan > A tt it of the defendant to com- | 2 = Spencer’s Outbursts of Rage. it i by (Aking. leudanum whon | Gied suddenly today of heart failure in Mrs. Spencer left the stand |he was 19 years old was described by | IS home at Baut See. MATC ORb a dozen itnesses were exam- | the witmess, who sald that her son | Father Coanolly formerty Mies bas- Practically all of them ftold of | told her afterwards that he was t1ed| o ) tbursts of rage on Spencer's part'of life and that he had had a love af-| hen he was at home. at various | fair, | places in Connecticut or at the Mount Letter from Providence Man. | At this point Mrs. Spencer-identifi: e e | letter written by C. H. Tiltay cf| ~ | Providence to her on December %6, Fire Chief Thomas J. Smith. ‘Manchester, Conn., Nov. 16—Fire Chief Thomas J. Smith, head of_ the local fire_depzitment, died at a Hos- pital in Hartford today from blood- ind others told of threats of in- | 1349 The district attorney objected to | poiscning. He was chairman of the persons and actual at- | ipe aamission of the letter, hut the | Jem.ocratic town committee and was a by Spencer when he | ooirt ruled it competent, inasmuck ns | registrar of voters for twenly years. the writer is dead, and the letier, the Miss Mary J. Miller. secretary of . : i court satd, should be regarded ns the % fermon school. read renort | S foment of a deceased person. in = ot o th letter Mr, ‘Tilley sald that Ber- | ? a6 trane. who was at that time living with Attacked His Father. | An imcident to which Mrs. Spencer | wrist during a fhendly boxing bomt. | had alluded in her testim: s de- | ribed by Penjami F a | Had a narrow escape from death. The | nn. farmer. letter urzed Mr. Spencer to take Ter- | 1 Spencer were dizzing a | tram back home and foregive him, a: e was 50 years old and-leaves a wid- ow and two children. Panic of 1907 Unwarranted. New York, Nov. 16.—After declaring the writer. had heen badly cut in the! yna¢ industrial _depression extending 3 over a period of years after the paniz An artery had been severed and hie had | o7 1907 s unwatranted and must be laid to causes which should and mus: be removed,” the National Founders® association at its annual meeting here $ father told them (o |it was stated that Bertram was in pJ0r | today adopted resolutions calling upon pencer pecame angry th. c | the American people to “awasen to o M - Served Eight Months in Navy. | the real situation” and regain ‘“conf ed in the navy, but served only eizht months. The witness then related sev. eral incidents to show that her son was subject to fits of frenzy, wken he would froth at the mouth, make a pe- test dance ut ago, when - frizger of | California, and his-mother was unable 10 testify regarding his_condition at ddletown. | 1902, Mrs. Spencer said, and secured | tes- | employment as conductor on a trolley | was unable to comnprehend fractions. | Ome iy h was called toda. Dr. | Her Husband a Gloomy Man. Fawin L Lenicison. of Lebanco. Conn. | Mrs. Spencer said that she had tried father, | that time. He came to Springfield in | rolled under the bed. | out he awakened this woman. “Waul | I was talking to her she pulled off| some rings,” he continued, Soon aftér this time Bertram enlist- | dence in themselves. More Typicid at Torrington. Torrington, Conn., Nov. 16.—Three new rases typncia fever were re- Charte ] ported %oday, showing that the epi- i 157 | culiar sttural noise in his throat ind | gomic is not altogether at an end. The when his eves looked like “the eyes™ ot | {o” ¢ W © e fert . Jeriram | i " " = g for the sufferers is pro- Bertram | o wild animal,” as she described them | grocoing so well that the emergency In Califernia Two Years. hesoital will be closed on Saturday | It was From 1869 to 1902 Bertram was in| evening of this week. ame in and locked the doors and wen: to bed. 1 must have stayed there (her died car. Dertram spent two _terms ‘at| hour or two waiting for her to g to it various Mount Hermon school, East Northfield, | sicep. And every time that 1 wowid 1 insane. | Mass, and had gone to school in Leb- | make n by Sam- |anon,” Mrs. Spencer saild, but was al- | could hear her kind of sizh. 1 rankiin. Conn. ways deficient in mathematics and | waiting a long tut he was no: led lo iestity as | twice to end her life by poisom once | hering T says: “What did to Spence 1 condition, on tihe | in 1394 and again in 1895. She then dropped something? She says: grouna t h pencer hie zave a long list of relatives and ances- | GioPRe! - ician nor | tors on both sides of her son’s fam- expert in mental discases. He tes- | jly who had been insane. Her own treating the youns man for | husband, she sald,was gloomy through- | isoning and. on cross ex- | ont thefr married life, slept with a | told of havinz sigred a|lizht in an adjoining room and always in_connection with Spen- | Mr. Spencer, sbe cer's entrance to Mount Hermon school. in which he wrote the word | trying to wrong or annoy him. in Tesponse to the printed ques- | Chone- Exsarigmtion Brief. water and I gave her a drink. ; asked me what door I wanted to 0| | out and I said ‘the back door’ Sh unlocked the back door and says, | ‘Good_night,’ and I savs ‘Good night; and that is all there was to 1t | the defendant, in contrast to his vio- | alwavs inflicted for cause. Mrs. Spen- | “;,Am:,’."?: ;Z"nilfi‘&??’iflf'ifg;'c‘rfifie?;‘;: ! - . 0. | the next adventure of the man who | that since the' arrest of her son her | \ro, Toil ATventure of the man who night. He shot out the lights, threat- ened to shoot them, and was on the Doint of doing it when a man droppel down some money from upstairs. s to whether the bov was suf Lo A | fering from any nervous dise H trict attorney’s cross-examin- | explained on the stand that in refer- | Mrs. Spencer brought out th rinz to mervous diseases he had no|admission by the witness that whila thought of insani unishments administered by the | Throughout the day’s proceedings were severe, punishment was | lence of vesterday, was thoroughiy | CEr also:said. on cross-examination, - = e husband had been chy a Spencer’s Mether's Story. usband hiad been chosen supsrinten Spencer's mother was the first wit- | $e, °% 2, Sunday school at Tebanon ness for the defemse. The burden of | pyice abd aeter My Gallahan had qo.s ler testimony related to the punish- | gool,*1IC BECE TOR Caliahan had qu . ments her son had received at the| ot 'S0, (PERCANE FEO S808 of the bands of his father and the probable | [emites Who are mHege bl mental effect of such punishment on f 2 & e By Other Alleged Robberies by Spencar. Mrs. Spencer testified that Bertram From a tall, somewhat frightenea was born at l.ebanon, Conn., June 9, | voung woman, Miss Bessie C. Niles, 3851 When ho was less than a vear | the stenosrapher who took Spencers | d, the witness said, his father pun- | dictation the morning of the eonfes- ished him with a_ siiver kn fe at the] sion, the jury heard him go into de-. tuble one day. and from thal time the [ taild on the subject of fifteen houses whild began fo manifst signs of ner- | that he told of robbing. Here is an Spencer Bidden Good Night by Woeman “I asked her to move over to one side and she did, and I saw them. T asked her if she had an: she said ‘a little’ ‘T said I wanted it. . always helleved that people wera | She gave me the money, which was $2, | I think. She asked me for a drink of She | a Clothespress. At another House he followed one | woman into her bedroom after he | had been hidden In a clothespress, made her go downstairs with him and in the kitchen tied her hands behind her. After he had gathered up the silverware and a few dollars he re- turned to the woman in the kitchen. It was such visits as this last one that aroused the people of Sprinsfleli Yousness. e Tqm_that confession as r2ad{ gnq led to the appointment of a citi- Injured at Base of Skull. bt | e i s whal o ohild' was. Be got_into s house ani foun toone time When the child was he-|two orange spoons and about $2 ant father whipped him for some small | I think T got a napkin ring. T was e o darum at chara bomag | standing in the bedroom and the bed | Eiainer the Stovecuting o e Tl [ UE For God's sake, dow't take thos Siey at the base of the sball they are for my children’ and 1 sald At the age of five yea the witness| “All right, I von't #aid, Bertram seemed unable to mem- Hid Under a Bed. orize a short praver and his her, On another occasion he m: Telieving the boy to be stubborn, took | reputation as a gentleman hm-g’lg_:. m him into the woodshed, tied his hands, | described entering a house wiers a 1aid him across a block and told him | man and woman were sitting in the h; was golng to cut the child’s head | room next to the one b oft. » 3 . He said that Father Tied Him to a Tree. e Bl omed o At another time, Mrs. Spancer said. | that just suited him, and after stani- husand took Bertramw. then 13 |ing in a closet for a few minutss he . into Mack's woods, Lebanon, | made up his mind to go out and de- some breach of diseipline. tied him | mand money. Then he heard & trec and drove awar, ieiling the | like a person pushing t the wolves would cat him. [ The confession continued: zens’ committee who engaged detec- tives and finally led to his arrest. Some Testimony Withheld. The Tommonwealth has apparently decided to spare the feelings of &¢ eral woman, and their adventures with the “gentleman burglar” will not be told. At one stage of the confession he was telling of an especiall ing night. He saids ‘I never . mads a5 much as a dime that night. even get a jackknife; which incident- ally, was, the first thing he ever stola, That waé when he was a small boy. Burglaries in Vermont. At Brattleboro he is said to have committed five burglaries and two in ‘White River Junction. In North- fleld he took a $5 bill from the burean drawer of a room in the hotel. Indignities to which women victims ‘were subjected are among the evidence gathered by the police, but which they say it will not be necessary to pre- sent. A Short Cut to War Begun on Suprem_e Court l!EF: PACKERS ENDEAVORING TO . ACCOMPLISH IT, “Insurgents” LIVELY BATTLE Ii!wll‘a AT NATIONAL GRANGE, pines for irom President Taft. SAYS GOVERNMENT COUNSEL | TO EXPEL A GRANGE MASTER 009 in pension: Charges Preferred Against ~Official o %1 | their widows during the past year. Head of Washington State Grange— Method of His Election Questioned. Habeas Corpus Petition Vigorously Opposed by Attorney Sheshan— Packers Raise Cry of Hardship. Columbus, O., Nov. 16.—Today’s ses- sion of the"National Grange saw the beginning of a fight, waged by Sam- uel Hill, millionaire relative of James J. Hill, which has fcr its purpose the expulsion from the order of C. B. Kez- ley, master of the Washingion state grange. Kegley is the acknowledzed leader of the “insurgent” faction, and Hill, it is charged by Kegley's friends, s in sympathy with the administra- Chicago; Nov. 16.—Putting a ques- tion of fact against a question of law, advocating the public welfare against an allegation of selfish, pecu- niary motives, lawyers for the indicted ers fought the govern- ment’s counsel today in an effort to obtain a final ruling on the criminal clause in the Sherman anti-trust act from the United States supreme court before the packers go to trial. Chicago pacl education in the U the past ten years than in any previous decade in the country’s history. Arguments Not Finished. No Action Yet in Hampton Case. Contrary to expectation, a vote on the expuision of G “insurgent” reached today. may be deferred until after the elec- | tion of officers. tempting to force the Hampton mat- Charges Against Kegley. Hills charges against Kegley are that as master of the Wasungton grange in his annual addres ered at Snohcmish, Wash., Kegley re- ferred to a state aid highway as “the road which Samuel that Kegley is not a resident of Wash- ington, and that he obtained his elec- tion as mas:er by questionable meth- Charges to Bs Heard Today. The commiitee on hear the charges tomorrow. 458 New Grang Wide and prosperous growth in the | national grange was shown in the an- | of Secretary Freeman. H: reported the following new organized: California_3, Connecticut 4, Idaho 19, Towa 30. Tlli- Kansas 15, Kentucky Maine 9, Maryland 13, Massachu- etts 9, Michigan 43, Missouri 5, Min- nesota’s, New Jersév 8, New IHamp- shire 2, Nebraska 10, New Ohio. 56, Oregon 46, Pennsylvania 31, slard 6, South Dakota 19, Ver- The court room of United States Cir- | Kohlsaat was the battle ground for clashing forces of legal knowledge. When ended both sides claimed the advant- The arguments will be resumed tomorrow morning. Contention of Packers. The question of rge P. Fampton, the court day “Insurgents fact advanced by counsel for the packers was to the ef- fect that the defendants really wore one hour last Monday, after they had been surren.i- ered by their bondsmen, and they were, therefore, subject to the operation of the habeas corpus law. Not Legally Under Restraint. Against this, lawyers for the govern. | ment declared that as a question of law, the packers had no right to wuse | | the habeas corpus writ because tneir method of surrender was illegal therefore, legally, they were not un- der restraint. | Business Welfare Demands Early Rul- | restraint for in 1910 deliv- promoted”: srievances will nual report After they had threshed oui these | knotty points, the lawyers proceeded to point out two widely different pui- poses which they said actuated packers in petitioning for the wriL ot habeas corpus. Levy Mayer of coun-~ for the indicted men said the welfare of business in all !ices the country over demanded the possibie ruling by the United S:ates | Rhode 1 supreme court upon the validity of the | ont 11, Washington 51, Wisconsin 6. of the Sherman anu- | Total 455. CONGRESSMAN HIGGINS AN HCNORARY BEARE Colorado 11, | nois 4, Indiana criminal clause Sheehan Opposes Petition. Attorney Sheehan in his argument against the habeas corpus sharply criticised a portion packers’ petition, especially the follow- ing paragraph: That the trial of your petitioners on said-indictments will consume at Jeasc the district court vna will necessitate the hearing of maa: hundreds of witnesses and will costly to the United States and to youir | petitioners, and will entail great el endless hardship upon them, which will be a complete loss waste if said act of congress is nncor- stitutional and void, as hereinnofore set forth, that the questions herein in- | volvea have not been determinci b: | the supreme court and the case pie. sents speclal circumstances and is ons | of exceptional importance. Want Short Cut to Supreme Couit. Sifted down, what does this mcan * | asked the attorney. “It means simply that because of| | Larson, ¢ father, Do 5t the | Large Attendance at Funeral of ex Congressman Sperry. ew Haven, relatives and friends and by with whom at vaj public career Attended by Six months in 5o had been associated, the hody of former Congrcssmun > hemiah D. Sperry, who died last Mon- day night at bhis home In this cit: Wes laid to rest this afterncon in ergreen cemetery. The funeral serv- ices. were held at the Church of ihe Raodeemer on Orange street, with the Watson L. Phillips, For one hour preceding the services the body lay in state im the church surrounded by a guard of hon- or, representing the New Haven Cham- ber of Commerce, the Quinnipi: the veteran Gravs Wooster 1-dze of Masons, all of which organizations the dead statesman had | | at one time presided over, of the Young Men's Republican club Private prayers for the family were conducted at the home by Dr. Phillips before the body was removed to the church for the public association, the cost to these defendants if this| matter takes its regular course, set up that the writ should issue to provide a short cut The mere charge pensive is no reason for ‘Hfting” this case from the district court to tha cuit court, with the purpose of prov ing a short cut to the United Staies | upreme court. Constitutional Question Raised. Levy Mayer presented arguments for | defendants in reply to Attorney | Shechan. He took up the decision by United States District Judge Car;en- | ter on May 12, 191L in refusins grant the application by the pache: for a demurrer based on the decision | by the federal supreme court Standard Oil case. “We bellevo we can satisfy you that the learne: district judge fell into error in his rui- | ing.” said Attorney Mayer, “when he held that the criminal clause of the | Sherman anti-trust act was constitu- | acted as ushers. to the suprems | at it is ex- | The honorary bearers were Former S. Seaator Morgan Congressman_ John | eressman E. Stevens Henry. Congress man Edwin W. Higgins, Prof. A. M Phillips, Gen. George H. Fordi, J. Rice and Arthur B. Treat, the latter a business partner of Mr. Sper- the funeral bell tolled eighty times, the number of years Sperry's life. have beer used for a similar purpose, the first time at the death of Pre: dent McKin ey at that of Governor Lilley. During _the the city ha'l Then this lady | | the least move to come out I| the second time Afeer | time I thought she | must have been asleep.” In getting | JURY BOX FULL FOR Want Constitutionality Determined. | il M NA,MARA FomL “We desire to get a quick, a short | Several Will Be Challenged Today for and decisive way of adjudicating tha & i question of the constitutionality ¢ th. If that be an offense, we uncove our heads and take the consequer.ces. GOLD FILLINGS AND FALSE TEETH MISSING. | Property of State Dental Commijssion | Gone from Ca, | Hartford, Conn., Nov. 18, is being circulated here that propert: of the state dental commission sup- | posed to be stored in the vaults of the | , is missing. are alleged to be gold fillings and false teeth used by the commission in its examinations of applicants for admis- sion to the profession of dentistry. Notthing definite could be ascertain- ed on the matter through either Pres- ident Provost or Recorder Taylor, of the commission, who were in town to- day, and the details will not be known until_a report is made to the dental The members of the commis- sion seen decline to say whether the alleged missing goods were valued at one dollar_or one thousand dollars. Recorder Taylor requested that noth- ing be said on the subject at this time. Sistors Asphyxiated. New York, Nov. 16.—Twin sisters, 83 vears old, Mrs. Eva L. Enos and Jirs, Ada L. Sanford of New Britain, Conn, were found dead in- om zas asphyxiation their ‘plece, Mre: 3. H Hurmeson. of Brooklyn. The after Thanksgiy bedroom dentally left open, it was found. Three Horses Burned to Death. Stamford, Ccnn., Nov. 16.—A barn owned by Emil Sova, located Nov. 16.—The jury box in the McNamara murder trial was filled with jurcrs and accepted tales- men for the second time late today Peremptory challenges by the statc and defense will be exercised at the opening of court tomorrow. Jaco” Laneing, an orchardist, is the | twelfth man accepted. the box are: money and | general, His fellows in Robert Bain, carpenter: Byron Lisk, mill vwner; F. D. sworn jurors; —A. report | by a matio banker: K. E. Sexton, retired farmer; retired ‘walnut ‘Willet Brunner, railroad engincer: A. Heath, farmer: state capitol The articles William J. Elliott, gardener, Lansing stands a good chance, it is said tonight, of being the first man ex- cused by the defense tomorrow. is reported to have said that Jumes mara was guilty and ought to Lensing_denied this, but Attorney Lecompte Davis sought to- day to ohtain an admi opinions ran along this line, ‘William J. Andre was a union mar in the Pennsylvania oil fields, but is He 1s counted upon as like Iy tc meet with one of the challenzes | allotted to the defense. fon that his Manufa 3 THREE PLEAD GUILTY IN THE TARRING CASE Three Others on Tri Assault and Battery. e hime.o¢ on Charge of yislt until day. The gas heat- Had been ace Lincoln Center, Kan., Nov. 16.—Sher- rill Clark, a wealthy merchant; A, ard Jchn a farmer, were placed on trial iay for “assault and battery” in connection with the tarring of Miss Mery Chamberlain,, Previously, Everétt G. Clark, presi- dent of a “Shady Bend” milling com- pany; Watson Seranton and Jay Fltz- vaater, farmers, un.xpectedly enterol Judge Glover said to- pass sentence after Didn’t barn were burned to dsath. wiil amonnt to $1,500: origin not please of guilty. night he would hearing of the present cases. Mistakes Found in the Providence returns by the official count of canvassers ha: ll:lz m ,"'f""" ‘plural- PRICE TWO CENT Largest in Connecticut in Condenspd Telegrams A General Strike That Threatens a bread famine is on in Torreon, Mex- ico. 7 Princeton Undergraduates Have Or- rr.‘iz.d a Woodrow Wilson club for ol litical purposes. Not a Soldier Will Leave the Philip- ina_except upon orders A Protest by Cable Was Sent to the Unitea States senate against Italian atrocities in Tripoli. The Carnegie Founda to colleg: n Paid $526,- professors or Mrs. Elizabeth Atchison of Sydney, N. 8. W.. claims title to all the land on which” the city of Atchison, Kan., is located. Dr. Breckenridge Bayne and Miss Olga’ Roosevelt, a relative of former President Roosevelt, were married at Faltimore. Gov. James H. Hawley of ldaho criticises President Taft for pardoning Clarence W Lezzling bank funds. Robnett, convicted of em- Has Been Made in Greater Progre: ited States during Bishop Alexander Mackay-Smith of | the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania died suddenly at his home at Philadelphia yeste: ay. The Entire Atlantic Fleet of Revenue cutters has been ordered to -« ol the coast from Maine to Florid: continu- ously from Dec. 1 to April 1 next i Two Gasoline Motor Cars Left I timore vesterday on an experimental run to Philadelphia to demonstrate the practicability of their use for rural delivery. George A. Pinto, 22 Years Old, a for- mer teacher in an institute for the deaf and blind in Boston, has arrive ir Kansas City, Kas., after a 2,000 mile journey on foot. The Closing of the American Pavilion at the international art exposition in Fome caused the loss to American rtists of prizes that would have been awarded to them. With All the Dignity of State Cere- mon the first session of Canada’s twelfth parliament was opened vester- day afternoon by his royal highness, the Duke of Connaught. Secretary of the Interior Fisher is | of the opinion that much of the $400, ©€00,000 which s Jost annuall American mining and metallurgical | ‘(nrluslrh:s can be saved. The Jury in the Case of Mrs, Etta areed with poisoning her f 1s Rodenbaugh, of North- weod, Ta., returned a verdict of not goilty fer being out 20 hours. The Petition of the So-Called Inde- dent tobacco dealers for leave to intervene In the government’s dlssolu- tion sult against the tobacco trust was denied yesterday by the United States circuit court. Taking the Oath of Office as gover- nor of the state of Georgia, John M. president of the state senat became tempe Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, Col. Isaac Ullmann of New Haven, Conn Harry Cutler of Providence, R. L. and Judge G. W. Mack of the commerce court discussed with President Taft yesterday the treatment of American Jews in Russia. Pater Lenane, a Wealthy New York saloon ke per, was shot to death y terday on the threshoid of his plac business. The police arrested Robert Harris, whom they found beating the | dead man over the head with the butt of a revolver. Mice Are Being Used by Whi | Maua Slye of the medical depariment of the University of Chicago in ex- periments to prove of value to science in the treatment of cancer. The object | is to find if cancerous growths are | hereditary. Mrs. George West of Providence, R. a daughter of the late James Lewis Pullman, whose sons invented and manufactured the railroad cars that Lore their name, dled at New York yesterd~- at the home of her sonm, Stuart P. West. Louis S authorize trade agreement proposed yesterday before the sena committee on interstate commerce by Taylor Vincent. a West Virginia coal | operator and attornes Upon the Upper River Indian Reserve on Lake Winnipeg there is a great | commotion in the tribe and the Meth. odist_missionary has reported (o the | government trouble is due to the teachings of “Apostolic Saints,” or, as they are called, “Shakers. Faul's church,New Haven, where he Las been living for some time Bridgeport, was @ lively fizht Stealing Coal from Barg The senator 18 in the coal business | with the caplain. u m tonignt received u (p was being stolen from u barge in the | then started to picic nim wp. a few McXNeil reported to the police, and There tiey found the by Ballan and placed the mate, arrest, morning. portld‘r) ” t.he City’s Populnatio k SENATOR IN BATTLE WITH THIEVE: McNeil of Bridgeport Found Them in Act of Transferring His Coal to a Sloop LIVELY STRUGGLE ON A COAL BARGE Member of Crew Knocked Senator Down and Started to Throw Him Into the Harbor—Owner of Sloop and Captain and Mate of Barge Placed Under Ar- rest—Slcop Owner Claimed to Have Bought the Coal. 16, —There Aged Captain Puts Up Fight e ‘harbor here | oo enator Archi- e bald’ McNejl, Jr,, and cosl thieves, in | was knocked | being thrown then went to the tain's cabin and aftsr o st powered C: Jehn Lo old, of New York. | Started to Throw Senator Overboa | While the office " we y that coal | crew knocked the serutor ¢ Much coal has been lost in | evident intention of throwing & months, | erboard, but on the senat the matter | ening to snoot, dropped hir accompanied by of- ficers, went down the harbor In a pow- Sloop Owner Also Arrestec The owner of the sloop, Joh Mate of Barge Arrested. of this city, was also pla n " e Balloon rest, th Ambo Six Bags Found in Slos nd lying along- Darn stated he had purcha her was a sloop, 19ading with coal. | coal »t tweaitly cents a bag hoarded the | police found six bags in hi loop. Th John No- | men will Do’ given a hear | REBEL SYMPATHIZERS 4 | One of Them dication of Regent. H spondency Over Il Heulth Peking, Nov. 16.—Premier Yuan Shi| Washington, Nov. 16.—F new cabinet name tionable wheth the members expressed am bis appointment r it will stand. | pointments. in sident of the tion nt of the h commerco, iy 8 ago of his only son, Androw 1 government of | Taylor, was a severe sh He signed\with Wu Ting | never left the house aft Fang the demand for the. throne's ab- | desponde; dication which the reformers sough } delivered to the through the , appointed presid agriculture and member of prince o American legation. Sev- | hig life, eral other members of the new cabinet v, e are known to be strong sympathizers " PP with the revolutionary movement WICKERSHAM WON'T APPEAL ary helr of th, who resigned to become phia, Nov, 16.—Two cases of 1in this city to- leprosy we; Schliefman, 58 years, sylvania hospital. It is said she is in stages of the has been in the other case, Foerder, 36, was reported by | sicians of the Orthopaedic ho 1906 and is be_in an advanced stage of the dise twenty ye Mrs. Becky of | children; the 15 years and the 3 th wemen were Miss | o} pital and a quarantine their homes. SELF-CONFESSED BRIBERY. White’s Confession Cannot Be Used |balance of $203,000,000 on the rig Against Him Under the Law. Charles imports and exports of onfessed to having taken | White, wio William Lori. | 000 worth of these ta, It expe a_bribe for his vote for 5 United States se Irosecuted, rt, a Wealthy Cdtton Importer and a member of the firm of Siegbert Brothers & Co., New York, 11 between the cars of a New York Central express at High Bridge station yesterday and died of his injuries a few minutes later. A Plea for Peace the Business World was made by John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, former postmasier at a luncheon given him at ew York yesterday by a number of prominent ‘merchants from various parts of the country. terial investigating committee bemng due to a lack of evidence g inst White was that con- | tained in his own confession, and un- | der the law he could not be prosecuted on such evidence, OF HUSBAND ACQUITTED Lacle Matheson, murder of her hisband at Abil ; acquitted here after a jury had o United Celiberated only 10 il g e She testified Control of the Coal Mining Industry al commission. with power she was glad she | commercial interests Who Was at|gre expressed in the the home of a negress when slain, and | {1nired of threats made by the negress. | crte” Moor Matheson sald she was married |fior Jisher . The b was reach- | DCY Charges Are Made in a Petition filed with the interstate commerce commis- the New Roads Oil Mill and turing company of New Roads, | that the railways of Texas muke freight rates that unlawfully discrim- inate against other states in fuvor of Texas, Increased Dividends Were Declared vesterday by the Hocking Valley and Kanawaha and_ Michigan Railroad company. The Hocking Valley in creased its semi-annual disbursement from two to three per cent, and the Kanawaha and Michigan from two to two and one-hall. William A. Barnes, Jr., Was Served with the order of Justice Kellogg re: quiring him to answer certain ques- tions and produce certain books of the Albany Journal company, of which he is president, before the senate commit- ten investizating the ndministration of Amany city and county. Rev. Howard Sargent Wilkinson, | of formerly a Methodist minister in Lynn, was ordained deacon in the Episcopal church by Bishop Willlam Tawrence at Boston yesterday. Mr. Nov. 16.—Tho which bear seedle: growers believe t the frult wi President Harris Resigns. the chief executive's sa t, Mass,, Nov, 16,—On account | PANS places, has advancing , 'years, President \ George Harris, D, D,, L.L. D, who is in | onel in the Kentucky militia. th ‘year, tendered his resiznation lo the trustecs nf Amherst coliego Lo- Steamship Arrivals. e expressing deep regret, th At Wilkinson becomes assistant ~at S | trastess voted to accept the. cestirn. | ster Tfrom New York. tion, which si to become effective not | At _Napl later thun the next commencemenl. New York REAR ADMIBAL TAYLOR IN NEW CHINESE CABINET. ENDS LIFE WITH PISTO ned Petition for Ab- | Rash Deed Probably Inspired by D. | John Yeatman Taylor, re torm »s- | medical director of the Ut of | navy and one of the most 2 1t | naval surgeons in the coun ved that | his life here today by sh been | in the head with a navy pist that a | officer was alone in h them will decline to serve. | time, but the butler, hear curlous ap- | port, found him unconsci ¥ Liang Chi-Chiao, appoint- | in half an hour board of jus-/ Admiral Tay or wa X 1 a notable car - His ehith had long been D& | and the death in an automo; ard | dent at Wilmington, Dol r Who | and b wager | surgeo .y over this sorr to | hopeless condition of his hea nt | lieved to have prompted him te tak IN THE TOBACCO C# TWO CASES OF LEPROSY — FOUND AT PHILADELPHIA, | Announces Intention of Accepting ouit Court’s Decision. the dec in't ( at New York today providin disintegration of the Americar > company into fo will terminate a mono 1 tute actual competition In ney General Wickershim | peal the case to the s e United States, 1 | circutt court’s dectsic government possesscs the 1 t ry the plan of dissoluti est tribunal at any time v The government's approva was made known by the attorne eral in an offi atem day. of Mrs, was the Penn- the phy- bital, She of seven removed to the Is- | yape e poo e Iphia_hos- ablished IMPORTED LAST E p —— Their Value Gleater by $78,000, NO EVIDENGE TO CONVICT Eiian Averauh Tor Fivs Youre ‘Washington, Nov, 16 " of the ledger in thc rnment count during the past fscal y st products, While it impor ! | $891,000,000 worth The value of the farm product ported during the year was gr 278,000,000 than the avern five years 1906 to 1910. The the only | Importe rest prod e of any previous ye t 000,000, an increase of § " preceding yoar: $39,000,000 FEARS OF FIRE IN Texas Jury Frees Woman Who Found THE PATENT OFFICE Expressed by Commissioner of Patents 16.—Mrs. in His Annual Report with the ost: Washington, ates patent office and a consequent “tremendous blo t £ the count mual report of tes Commissioner ¥ ret the patent office, Mr, Mo letter was exhibited which was el and 10" pried’ Rigk written by the negress in whose hoves | 100 HEepraof, and s v irs. Matheson shot her husband. This | 170% of It ter threatened the defendant, Mrs. |55 SFGFVER Matheson sald the negres d ing for a weapon when the fatal shot The courtroom was crowded | oo with Abilene women and others, who | '™ epplauded the verdict. SEEDLESS LEMON DISCOVERED. from Bud |newly appointed icissian am . Wood Obtained from Italy. San Bernardino, Cal zeedless lemon, to produce whic bo- tanical experts had unsuccessfully ln- | tored for many years., has been discov The bud wood from which the trees now bearing the seedless lerons grown came from a sample izbeled “Citron of Commerc. 3 The original bud came from Italy, - aETicoitire, & search ot the. omvas o Secret Service Man a Colonel the old world failed to reveal any trees | Washington, Nov. 10.—I.u lemons. = ¥ruit | Wheeler of the secret sorvice, the character of | known throughout the cou changed through bud- | advance guard of President ammable material v which, if destroye laced, and the uld v antold reial intorests of t the comum Revision of Treaty With Russio aghington, Noy. 16.—With ths un derstanding that M. Dakmetier who s expec to present Washington next week, comes ch by his government with afithor ! tiations for u re n of 1 comm and na se of frax concrete proposals to subm ambassador as a basis for the ne tions. cause he precedes the his trips and make arran, ty at been appoinied Governor Willson of Kentueky u col nouth: Nov. 15. Nieuw Am Nov, 18, Acona, free