Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 14, 1911, Page 1

Rev. Charles M. Brewer of Oklahoma Implicated in the Confession of Private Michael Quirk, U. S. A. MANY EXPLOSIONS ON GOVERNMENT PROPERTY Government Sustains Losses of $500,000 in Neighborheood of Fort Riley. Brewer. a Clnphin,/kaiued From the Army For Drunkenness, and According to Quirk, Sought Revenge—Wife of a Convict Also Implicated in Crime. Junction City, Kan., Dec, 13.—Rev. months have destroyed government | A* hnknown Fresch X rles M. Brewer, formerly a chap- lain in the United States army, now 2 pastor of a Baptist church in Olus- | burned with a loss of $200,000. property valued at $500,000. A big storebouse on the manoeuvre grounds Since tec, Oila, has been arrested in conse- | Quirk’s arrest therehave been no fires. uence of the ascusation in a confes- on of Private Michael Quirk of im- plication in a mysterious series of ex- yiosions which have baffled military authorities at Fort Riley for six ths. Woman Also Arrested. . S. Commissioner Chase here to- stated Brewer had been arrested : Oivstee and was being keld for tho T"nited States marshals. Mrs. Anna Jord f Kansas City, also implicated n Q confession, Was arrested to- ay in Kansas City, following a tele- | ram to the police. Quirk’s Confession. Quirk, in his confession, which was 2 to Colonel E. D. Hoyle, sixth field , commandant at Fort Riley, he blew up the bridge across the r June 24 last, and the cav-| able Juue 30, when 25 cavalry | were burned to death. He saia at e bl up the water main i suppli the water main water. Quirk declared he committed these crimes at the instigation of Brew- er. who sought revenge hecause he had been courtmartialed and dismissed | from the service for conduct unbecom- ing an officer and a gentieman. Mrs. Jordan Wife of Convict. Mrs. Anna Jordan, implicated by Quirk, is the wife of a convict in the federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven- | worth. She was arrested here several | months ago for aiding her husband to escape from the guardhouse, where he was confined on a charge of stealing. He was recaptured and sent to the fed- | eral penitentiary. Mrs. Jordan wasre- leased. Quirk Placed the Explosive. Quirk in his confession alleged he | miet the former chaplain and Mrs. Jor- | dan in an automobile on the road be- iween Juncton City and Fort Riley. | He sald Brewer told him they were on ihe way to blow uwp the bridge, and| asked him to go along. Quirk said he placed the explosive. Quirk has been in the guardhouse on suspicton of con- nection with the explosions for nearly 2 month. Last night he sent for Col- onel Hoyle and made the confession. More Arrests May Follow. Explosions and fire8 hers within six| POPE GRIEVED BY MGR. Latter Was to Have Been Apostolic Delegate in This Country. AGIUS’ DEATH Rome, Dec. 13—The sudden death at Mauila of Mer. Agius, papal delegate to the Philippine islands, has deeply grieved Pope Pius and Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary. Cardi- na! Merry del Val chose him for the office he had filled since 1904. The Osservators Romano publishes =a long eulogy of Mgr. Agius, which is of official character, It says also: “The pope had deciced to entrust Mzr. Azius with another most import- ant cffice. Thus he was about to de- part from the Philippines leaving there grateful memories both among the clergy anda laity.” This practically confirms the report that it was the intention of the pope te-s2nd Mgr. Agius to Washington as apostolic delegate. PHYSICI;NS WANT DR. DOTY RETAINED Adiopt Resolutions to Governor at New York Meeting. p New York, Dec. 13—Thirty-four prominent physicians mst tonight at ihe Academy of Mcdicine and adopted resolutions calling upon Governor Dix io reappoint Dr. Alvah H. Doty as Dealth officer of the port of New York. Dr. A, Jacobi, presilent-elect of the ‘Americar Medical association, presid- ed, and Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden, pro- fessor emeritus of pathology in Colum- bia_imiversity, acted as secretary. Charles N. Bulggr ,acting as com- missicner for Governor Dix to inve: tizate the business affairs of the of- fice of Dr. Doty, recently recommended the dismissal of the health officer on the ground that he had failed to prop- erly administer his office. OBITUARY. Capt. John H. Shipley. Washington, Dec. 18.—Capt, John H. Shipley, naval attache, of the Ameri- cen embassy at Toklo, 'died from apo- plexy in that city today, according to o cablegram received at the state de- partment. Captain Shipley was born in Jowa City, Iowa, was graduated from the naval academy and was flag Meutenant on_the Lancaster at the naval base, Key West, during the Spanish war. Mrs. Agnes Taylor Schwartz, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 13.—Mrs. Agnes Taylor Schwartz, sister to the ‘ate President Joun Taylor of ihe Mor- mon church and _ mother-in-law of President Joseph F. Smith, died here today of old age. She was 90 vears old. She had eleven children, three of whom. - including Mrs, Smith, survive, as well as 68 grandchildren, 145 great grandchildren snd five = great-great- ehildren. Montreal Shoe Machinery Inquiry. Montrezal, Dec. 13—In the inquiry ny today, evidence touching on the :-.nnn by the cempany with shoe manufacturing firms using competi- tive machinery was taken. The tes- timony also dealt with the state of competition in the shoe machinery manufacturing business ~the or- ganization of the Ul Shoe Ma- chinery company In Canada. [Tt was said at the post today that oth- ers have been implicated and that more arrests will follow. Brewer Dismissed_for Intoxication. Brewer was born in Alabama 34 years ago. He became chaplain in the United States army in 1907. He was married and has several children. Braewer was chaplain of the Sixtn Field artillery, stationed at Fort Riley, unti] he was dismissed from the army June 21 last, after conviction by court- | martial of charges of having been in- toxicated at an enlisted men’s dance at the fort, and with behaving in an tlemanly manner in the preschce cnlisted men and their wives March 31 last. ADDITIO-_NAL ARRESTS. Explosions at Fort Riley Under Inves- tigation Some Time. Junction City, Kas, Dec. 13.—Army officers at Fort Riley said tonight that the federal authorities had under ob- rvation several persons implicated in the recent dynamite explosions at Fort Riley and that additional arrests might be expected. It was said the persons under surveillance are prominent. The investigation has been going on | some time, but it was not until today, | 1. Brewer, former | after Rev. Charles chaplain at Fort Riley, but now pastor of a church at Olustee, Okla., and Mrs. Anna Jordan of Kansas City had been arrested that Col. Kli D. Hoyle, com- mandant at Fort Riley, confession of Private Michael Quirk. Brewer Taken to Fort Riley. Oklahoma City, OKla., Dec. 13—The Rev. Charles Brewer, charged with implication in a series of recent dy namite explosions at Fort Riley, Kan- | sas. was arrested at his home in Olustee, Okla., late today. The depu- ty who made the arrest refused to say where ‘he would take the prisoner when they boarded -a train . tomight. It is believed Brewer is being taken to Fort Riley. A despatch from Olustee, town in the northwestern portion of the state, Brought this information to- night. Mrs. Brewer, wife of the min- ister, declined to discuss her husband's | arrest. GOVERNMENT URGED TO PREVENT A LOAN. Chinese National Association Takes a Hand in Revolution. San Francisco, Dec. 13.—The Chinese National association in America, which has its headquarters here, sent des- patches today to the secretary of state at Washington ang to the ministers of | foreign affairs of England, France and Belgium asking them to use their in- fluence to prevent a loan by any of the financiers of their respectiVe countries to the imperial government at Pekinz. They said in the degpatches that the Manchu rule was at and end and such a loen would be construed as an un- friendly act toward the new Chinese republic now being formed. The revolutionary army of 20,000 men lately engaged in the attack on Nanking moved northward today to FEupeh provinece, in which Hankow, now under imperial control, it situat- ed, according to a despatch recelved from Shanghal by the Chung Saf Yat Fo. Another division of revolutionary troops has been organized at Canton, it is also said, with General Chang Kwang Ming as commander and it also will be sent north. ACCUSED OF A MURD%R ON FINGERPOINT CLUE Elevator Man Held -Responsi New York, Dec.. 18—Finger prints allezed to“have been those of Joseph Roberts, a West Indian negro, convinc- ed a coroner's jury today to hold Rob- erts for the grand jury on a charge _of homicide. Roberts was the eleva- ior man in a Canal street building, where Isaac S. Vogel, a wealthy itin- erant jeweler, was murdered and rob- bed last week, On a cigarcite case among the stol- en articles foung hidden in a loft in the building, a finger print was dis- tinctly impressed. The lines corre- sponded exactly, the police say, with | those of a finger print on which Rob- erts was recently indicted on the charge of safe burslary, and with a | recent fresh impressio: No Riot in Philadol; a. Philadelphia, Dec. 13—There was no New York here tonight when a large audience in the Academy of Music heard the pending arbitration treatie: between the United States, Great | Britain and France strongly endorsed by prominent speakers. A letter from | President Taft and speeches by United States Senators Sutherland and Bur- ton and Colonel Henry Watterson, all favorable to the ratification of the treaties, caused vigorous applause. Albany Meeting Condemns Russia. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 13—Governor Dix presided at » mass meeting in the capitol tonight at which resolutions were adopted condemning the Rus- sian government for its attitude on the American passport question, and calling upon President Taft to ter- te the treaty of 1832 without de- lay unless Russia forthwith sbandons her position. x e DAL A Hydro- Aeroplane Tested. Hmmnflwt.m N. ¥, Dec. 13— binson, testing a new hy- dro-aeroplane today with a seventy- flv‘-horlepo:t"',‘lna!or, attained the speed miles per hour in calm air, s Patrons of Husbandry, in 1887, was The ncrease in s B el i e ‘was o e the annual meeling of that be gave out the | a small | Cabled Paragraphs Paris, Dec, 13.—Paul Vayson, the painter, died here today. EQuthampton, England, Dec. 13— orton F. t was among sengers on the H-I-mbnr‘-Amnfi liner Amerika which sailed here today for New York. Buenos Ayres, Dec. 13.—The British atguner Gogovale, /from Hull, and the Afnerican schooner May V. Neville, from Boston, have been in _collision. The Neville sustained some damage, Melun, France, Dec. 18.—Lieutenant Charles Lantheaume, the well known military aviator, was killed by a fall from his aeroplane as he arrived at the military aviation camp here today from Etantes, > Munich, Bavaria, Dec. 13.—THomas Inorr, publisher of the Munich neueste Nachrichten, died here today. He was a prominent art collector, the pictures and sculptures in his galleries being worth millions. sau, Bahama Islands, Dec. 13.— Ar unknown French bark, it was re- near Long She sank in eight fathoms of It is not known whether the crew were saved. | Paris, Dec. 19—The name of Mme. | Curie, the discoverer of radium ani | one of the most eminent professors of chemistry at the college of France, was | cited today in a petition filed In the | ¢ivorce court by Mme. Langevin, wife of Prof. Langevin. | 1sland. I water. | Berlin, Dec. 13.—The possibility that measures for strengthening the navy | or the army, or both, will be submit- ted to the next reichstag, which is to | be elected on January 12, 1912, as result of the International crisis of last summer, is arousing intense interest |in the Dress and gmong the public. London, Dee. 13.—Lady Constance Foljamice, a half sister of the Earl of Liverpool, comptroller of the king's Lousehold, who created a sensation in -ondon on July 3 by failing to appear t church at the time appointed for her marriage to the Rev. A. H. K. Haw- Icins, has again astonished soclety and by quietly marrying Mr. Hawkins this afternoon. AMERICAN SCHOONER | ON POLLOCK POINT gCrew Saved But Vessel Likely to Be a Total Loss. | | her friends | ifax, N. S., Dec. 13.—The Ameri- <an schooner Moowee, Capt. D. Mc- Donald, from Banguero for Boston, | struck on Pollock Point at the western end of the Lunenburg coast, last night, and is likely to be a total loss. Every- | thing that could got off was being landed, it | The steamer —Samson went to the wreck, but it is not likely she can be pulled of?. The crew was saved and three of them who got away in a dory {brought the mews to Broad Cove. Th: were all night finding their | way ashore, being nearly swamped in | the breakers while landing. | REVIVAL OF GRAFT TRIALS AT FRISCO. Ex-Mayor Eugene Schmitc Ordered to Prepare for Tri | San Francisco, Deec. 13.—A revival of the sensational graft trials which fol- lowed San Francisco's great fire in 1906 was indicated today when Eugene E. | Schmitz, deposed mayor, who is under scntence for extortion, but was re- leased by order of the supremecourt cn technical grounds, was ordered to prepare for trial on one of the many bribery indictments still pending against him. Both state and defense were directed to be ready next weelk for sstting the trial date. ROYAL GARDEN PARTY FOR THE KING AND QUEEN. Sit on Golden Thrones as Processions Pass in Review. Delhi, India, Dec. 13.—A royal gar- den party was held at the fort this afternoon, King George and Queen Mary being given a great ovation by the 7.000 guests as they walked through the grounds. Later in the af- | ternoon their majesties, wearing their crowns and coronation robes, appeared in a screened balcony on the wall of the fort formerly used by the mogul. The enperor and empress remained seated on golden thrones while for an hcur and a half a long train of re- ligious and other mative processions passed in review. A Decision Reversed. (Special to The Bulletin.) | _Washington, Dec. 18—Representative Tilson called at the postoffice depart- | ment vesterday and secured an order | establishing a sub-station at the corner of Dixwell avenue and Lake place, New Haven. This proposition has ~ been once disallowed by the department, but on the representation by Mr. Til- son that this station was much needed to @ccommodate a large number of colored people that reside in that vi- cinity the decision was reversed and the station will be established. Heinze Sued for $218,874. New York, Dec. 13.—The Metropol- itan Trust company began a suit to- cay in the supreme court against F. | Augustus Heinze, the copper magnate, o recover on four promissory notes on which there is due $218,874. The netes are alleged to have been made v Heinze on June 10, 1910, and made pavable to the trust company. _There notning in the papers filed to show the nature of the tr: on in | which the notes are alleged to have | been given Beet Sugar Men Summoned. Salt Take, Utah, Dec. 13—Promiuert officials of three beet sugar companies which hardle practically the entlre Dbee: production in Utah, Idaho, and Orewon, were subpoenaed today to tes- tify January 2 in the government's dissolution suit against the Amwerican | Sugar Refining company brought in | the United States circuit court of New York. Stokes Considerably Relieved. W. E. D. Stokes’ condition issued to- night by his physicians sai “An operation has given Mr. Stokes considerable relief. e poison Is slowly being removed from the tem. It will be two weeks at least before Mr. Stokes will be able to be up. His condition still remains dan-| gerous.” / Hotel Sheet Law Unconstitutional. The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, : ACCUSED OF DYNAMITING was reported late toflly.J Girt Abused ~ And insulted SAD STORY.OF GLADYS SOUTH- WICK OF WILLIMANTIC CAUSES Asserts That He Attempted to Coerce Her Into Life of “White Slavery” at Hartford—Made Shooting Threat. i Hartford, Dec. 13.—On complaint of Gladys Southwick, 17 years old, of the Coventry road, Wiljimantic, William E. ?fi.ker, 23 years 0ld, known as . the ‘St. Louis Kid,” was arrested tonight on charges that may develop into a ‘white slave case. . Took ‘Her to Hartford. The girl alleges that she met Bai 0 Willimantic and that he brousht her t> this city and ‘tried to make her go out on to the street and that when she refused Le- kicked her in the side, causing an injury which cormpelled her to go to a hospital where an operation was performed. Intended to Go to Uncle’s Home. During her stay in the hospital she communicated with an uncle in this city with the ‘intention of going to his home on her release. When she ‘was able to leave the hospital she savs Baker came for her, and on his state- ment that he was going to take her to ler uncie's home she went with him. Threatened to Shoot Her. Instead of taking her to her uncle's, A MAN'S ARREST she says he took her to a house on | High™ street and left her, saying he would shoot her if she tried to leave.} Tonisht she eluded Baker and went t her uncle’s home, only to besfollowed by Baker, who was arrested on her complaint. Police Find Waterbury Crook, When the police went to the room on High street they found Fredericc Gibbo of Waterbury, who, the police say, is wanted in New Haven for bur- glary and se]ling obscene postal cards. While the rfoom was being searched, Gibbo ran out of the house and gave the officers a lively chase before he |. was caught. To,Be Tried Today. Both Gibbo and Baker will be brought before the city court in the morning. QUIBBLE OVER THE HOME OF DEAD MILLIONAIRE Attempt to Prevent Filing of His Will ~. in Connecticut. New York, Dec. 13—Supreme Court Justice Ford reserved decision today in regard to the camtinuation of an injunction against George C. Perkins and Merritt Hemingway, executors of the will of Homer Hemingway, a wealthy silk manufacturer, restrain- ing them from filing Hemingway's will for probate at Watertown, Conn. The injunction was obtained by Merri- man Heminsway, & mephew and one of the beneficiaries of the will, who declares his uncle was a resident of the city and not of Watertown. The estate is valued at $1,500,000, Dr. Hemingway told Justice Ford that his uncle Hved in this city for twenty-six vears, making weekly trips to Watertown, where his silk mills were located, but on these visits he took only a handbag and made his headquarters with his father and mother. The executors opposed the injunction on the alleged ground that Hemingway always voted in Connecti- cut and in other ways indicated that his home was in that state. A “THIRTEEN” WEDDING PROVES TO BE UNLUCKY. Groom and Bride’s Mother Collapse, Causing a Postponement. ‘Cumberland, Md., Dec. 13.—After the First Presbyterlan church here %had been filled with guests and the proces- sional had been played, but no bridal arty had appeared, Rev. Dr. James E. oifatt, the pastor, announced that the wedding of George Bayard Clifton of Baltimore and Miss_ Marion Amick, daughter of Arthur Hammond Amick, 2 prominent local business man, had been postponed because of the sudden iliness of the groom and of the bride- efect’s mother. They collapsed simul- caneously at the Amiclc home. Late tonight it was said the mar- rlage would be performed before morn- ing if Mr. Clifton recovers sufficiently 10 answer questions. The wedding was to have been in deflance of the super- stition of “13.” The couple met, be- came engaged and planned to be mar- ried on the 13tk day of the month. In the house decorative scheme “13" pre- dominated and the pre-nuptial parties were made up of 18 persons. HOUSE VOTES FOR TREATY ABROGATION Russia Had But One Friend When Resolution Wi Considered. Washington, Dec. 13.—The Sulzer joint resolution for the termination of the treaty of 1832 between the United States and Russia because of the lat- ter'’s discrimination aszainrst Jewish- American citizens, passed the nouse tonight by a vote of 300 to 1. The one negative vote was cast by Repre- sentative Malby of New York. A prac- tically identical resolution by Senator Culberson of Texas ie pending in the senate and favorable action of both houses would be necessary to make either resoiution effective. Both the Sulzer and Culbertson resolutions would direct the president to give Russia lmltned:;:dy {he vears notice necessary for complete abrogation of the treaty that has been In force nearly elghty years. CLERGYMAN FOUND DEAD AT A HOTEL Rev. Dr. Gwilyne Probably Took Over- doe# of a Sedative. New York, Dec. 15.—The Rey. Dr. David W. Gwilyne, 60 years old, was found dead today in'a room in a Har- lem hotel, which he had engaged earl- irfllm":md”éywvm ath-bodm}'“l 01 n\mg ‘which con- tained a sedative. | ~ Royal Rescue SAVES TN“ LIFE OF KING GEORGE’S NIECE. 1 STEAMER STRIKES REEF Boat in Which Royal Party Was Be- ing Taken Ashore Capsizes—Daught- er of Princess Louise Has iose Call. Gibraltar, Dec. 13.—Princess Louise Victoria, 'princess royal of Great Britaln and Ireland and sister of King George V, and her daughters, had a thrilling experience today when the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Delhi, on which they were voyaging to EgYDL, struck the reefs off Cape Spar- tel, the northwest extremity of Africa. While being taken ashore by the long- boat of the British armored cruiser Duke of Edinburgh, they were thrown into the water by the capsizing of the Loat ‘and ome of the daughters had a narrow escage from ~drowning. She was rescued by a sailor and carried to land with the others, all suffering se- verely from the bitter cold. Accident Due to Fog. The Delhi struck at 1 o'clock in the morning in a thick fog. Immediately all the passengers hurried from their staterooms half dressed and put on life Ereservers. Water poured steadily in- to the cabins, while enormous seas, sometimes mast high, broke over the vessel. Signals of distress were sent out by wireless, and the first warship to arrive was the French cruises Friant. Taken Off by Launch, Iy was long past daylight before the Friant's steam lanch was able.to get dlongside the Delhl. In the meantime preparations were male aboard the stranded steamer 40 send the women end children ashore. One of the Delhi’s toats was lowered and filled with pas- sengers. The launch finally succeeded ir. getting this*In tow, and then steam- ed to the British cruiser Duke of Edinburgh, where the frightened wom- en and children were safbly taken on toard. - Spend Night at Tangier. The Duke of Edinburgh, with the 38 cf the rescued passengers from the Delhi, arrived here tonight. It was ex- cted that the royal party wonld reach Gibraltar aboard the battleship Tondon, but latest reports stated they had decided to remain for t night at Tangier. where they are housed in the British legation. No Panic on Vessel. One of the women passengers In de- scribing the wreck said there was not ihe slightest panic after the vesscl siruck. The passengems were summon ed to dress and go on deck, but were assured there was little danger. Ar- fiving on -deck, they found the f dense and the sea beating heavily against the ship. There was littlc con- fusion or excitement. They remained assembled on deck until 10 o'clock In the morning, when the Friant's boats, after considerable exertions, succeeded in conveying some of them aboard the British cruiser. Delhi in Critical Position. The Delhi is reported to be in a critical position, She is broadside on the rocks. The salvage vessel Gibel- musa has sailed from here with light- ers and will make an effort to save the specie, mails and luggage. The weath- er has moderated somewhat, but heavy seas are still breaking over the stranded vessel. \ NO TIME TO DRESS. Royal Party Forced to Leave Vessel in Night Clothing. London, Dec. 14—The. Daily Mail's Tangler gorrespondent says that the Princess Roval, the Duke of Fife and their two daughters and physician were landed by the French cruiser Du Chayla’s boat with enormous danger and difficulty, for the seas washed completely over the craft. They land- ed below the signal station and had to walk, drenched to the skin, over the rocks to the lighthouse, where the Spanish guardians gave them some sort of_dry garments. Most of the passengers were also | landed. 2 Some of them camped on the beach, while others rode or walked into town. The sudden rise of the sea swamped one of the Du Chmayla's boats, drown- ing four of the sailors. A Tangier despatch to the “The royal party had not even time to dress. Some wore night dresses, with such coats _as they were able to pick up in the hhrry of the moment. “The ®vessel listed shortly after striking. Water entered the lower Times cabins. Great difficulty was experi- | enced in getting into the boat: the royal ladies had to be literally dropped and caught. When the boat was still some ways from the shore the break- ers began to fill her, although the duke himself bailed as hard as posible. Be- fore reaching the beach she filled and sank. The whole party had strapped on life belts, and they floated to the surface, where they were terribly buf- feted by _the waves. “The Princess Alexandra disappear- ed for a moment under the towering waves, but she was seized by a friend- 1y hand, and with others, after all had been washed off their feet several times, bl o dragged to safety up the shore.” Cargoe Valued at $500,000. The Delhi carries gold bullion to the value of $500,000, and silver bars to the value of $1,000,000, and the value of the carge is estimated at $500,000. Pomfret Man a Director. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 13.—At the annual meeting of the Connecticut So- clety of Mental Hyglens directors were elected, among them the following: H. S. Chase, Waterbury; Willlam Hineks and Dr. J. C. Lynch, Bridge. port: S. P. Overlock, Pomfret, and Dr. W. N. Thom Hartford. Officers of last year will serve the coming year, Brooker Back in Ansonia. Ansonia, Conn., Dec. 13.—Charles W. Brooker, the Conmecticut member of the republican national committee, re- turned to his home here tonight from the meetings of the committee in He refused to the zs of the meetings, but that he had no intention of A ressional Investigatiun into vecy Shase of the livestock and pack- Ing industries was the chief recom- Mackensle of g=a e restock .aeso Two Persons Were Killed by a run- away freight train of 82 cars at Car- »a;f.;.. Fa. . Frederick Townsend Martin of New York' has abandoned fashionable life to work among ths poor, J. P. Greek Committed Suicide by lcaping from the nineteenth floor of the Masonic temple in Chicago, ‘ The Anti-Saloon League Convention adopted a resolution to investigate charges of graft against national offi- cers. Mrs. Catherine Boott Wells (Kate Ganmett Wells), the author, died sud- denly at her nome in Loston yester- way. The Quadrilateral Seal Treaty was ratified by representatives of the Unit- ed States, Great Britain, Russia and Japan. Youngs Hotel, One of the Lead'ng Boston hostelries, is soon to be torn down to make room for a great mod- ern puilding. A National Registration Scheme has been Jnaugirated by the.department of Justice as an aid to the suppression of ‘the white sluve traffic, A Bulletin of the Federal Bureau of | cducationsays Germany’s excellent in- dustrial schools enable her to beat us in the markets of the world. Robkers Held Up a Florida and New York express on the Atlantic Cgast line near Hardeville, 8, AC.,, securing 55 sacks of registered mall. Mrs. Andrew Johnson of Shelton purchased a leg of jamb in Ansonia, and found fin it & diamond, which a Jjeweler is sald to have valued at $250. Public Bequests Aggregating $140,000 are provided for in the will of the late Attorney John D, Bryant of Boston, who left an estate worth more than $500,600, Charged With the Murder of Simon Chilgerian at a Haverhill, Mass., shoe factory a week ago, Mrs. Emma I, coshian was held without bail for the grand jury yesterday. The Exceptionally Warm Weather of the past week or ten days in the Con- the shrubs Ldlac trees nécticut valley has started sprouting and budding. and the Jike have “swelles A License to Wed Was lssued at New York vesterday to Edith Loulse Pulitzer, daughter of the late Joseph Pulitzer, and llfam Scoville Moore, sen of Clermofit Clark Moore. A Voluntary Petition in Bankruptoy was filed yesterday by the Champlon Igniter company, whose factory s at Iudson, Mass. ' The labllities are placed at $57,000 and assets at $1,200. President Taft Personally Initiated the government’s present investigation both at Los Angeles and Indianapolis, inte the dynamiting conspiracy In which the McNmmara brothers figured. Ralph O. Wells of Hartford told the senate committee on postoffices yes terday that the proposed parcel: aystem would not be gelf sus 2nd would be a move in favor of the meil order house: In the Contest Over the Election of officers of the National Counecil of Jewish Women in session in Philadel- phia, the Bealtimore council is said to figure in a movement to maie a change in the executive secretary. The New York Court of App yes- terday fixed the week beginning Jan- vary 29 as the date for the electrocu- ton at Sing Sing prison of Albert W. Wolter, the convicted murderer of Ruth Wheeler of New York. While Reaching for a Piece of shaft- ing teing hoisted up the elevator well in the George T. McLaughlin bullding in Bogton, yesterday, John Grundy, a machin’st, 47 years old, lost his bal- alance and fell sixty feet to Lls death. The Jury in the New York Supreme Court that has been hearing testimony In the suit brought by H. C, Silver to recover $30,000 from .Lady Cook for breach of contract, yesterday returned a sealed verciet in favor of the de- fendant. Mrs. David Caplan, wife of the man sought In connection with the Los Angeies Jynamiting cases, cannot De found by Deputy United States mar- snals, who have a subpoena for her to testify before the federal grand jury at Los Angeles. “The Laboring Man Is the Hope of the country in the fight against the rum traffic,” declared John B. Lennon, treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, at the annual convention of the anti-saloon league of America at ‘Washington yesterday. A Riot at Newark, Dhio, that threat- cned to result in a repetition of the scenes which led to the lynching of ‘Carl Etherington here last year, fol- lowed an attempt on Tvesday by men and women agents of the “drys’ to rald three alleged saloons. At the Rancheria Reservation near Colusa, Cal, nine Indlan couples were united in marriage yestérday. accord- ing to the rites of the Christian church, Seven of the couplés were inarried years ago according to tri- bal rites and have ehfidren. Pryce Lewis, the Fameus Union Spy, who committed suicide on Wedn: y of last week, by jumping from th dome of The World bullding in New York, afterlearning that he had been denied a pension by the govi was buried in Torrington yesterday, Examination of Dr. Robert Alexander McGregor, 26, of Ubly, Mich,, and Miss Margaret Gibbs, 41 of Port Huronm, Mich, the former on a murder charge and the latter rhufed with being an scvessory after the fact, in the poison= of Cyril Sparling, 20, with arsenie, on. ————e “Labor Has Busin on the Run.” Chicago, Dec. 13.—The National Busipess congress concluded its three days' session here todlr without stat- in foderal ing the changes d and state laws affecting Chatr. man Allen Frost said Tresolutions committee was unable to such a declaration, He gald “bad busi: ness or the run,” and that no repeal of the Sherman law was wanted. Far- ther than that, his committee was not agreed. i o Steamship Arrivals. At M 2 o33 sy, Do o Azuv-‘:lt Doe.u,\m from New X Konaenl e 18, a0y | out_this plot, according to the Begins Today DYNAMITE CONSPIRACY TO BE THOROUGHLY AIRED. GUARDING OF THE JURY "Precautions to En- at Indianapolis Extraordinary sure Secrecy—Prol May Continue For Over a Month. Indianapolis, Dec. 13—Nation wide interest will center here tomorrow when the weeks of work by detectives, attorneys and accountants who have complled evidence alleged to show the complicity of others than the Mc brothers In o dynamiting mara conspiracy will be turned over to the vestigation. Letters s7d Records Figure. Interna and Letters and records of fhe tional Association of Bridge Structural Iron Workers have abstracted and checked agninst » ments Orti anigal n 1 th ploy of convicted secreiary fessed dynamit J. McNamara, th treasurer of the asgoclation. This cluss of evidence is to be delved into to fathom charges of a dynamite plot with its seat in Indianapolis. earry ation | al Erectors’ assoclation, explosives in the st five years were carried into seventeen states in violation of fed eral regulations and about 100 structures were tly or wholly wrecked, the Los Angeles Times bulld ing being only one of them. Will Continue Until Last of January. Great precautions lmve been taken to insure secrecy «f the deliberations in the grand jury .oom. OGuards hav been placed at the doors and all out siders, including witnesses to be call ed ,are to be kept away from tl rors ¥he entire length of the f bullding or almost a city blo: trict Attorney C. W. Miler indicated it was not expected the grand jury would complete its work before the end of January notwithstanding the belief expressed in Angeles thut the authorities there expected it would end sooner. Mr. Miller was much aterested in the report from Los An es that he was to be assisted here later by Oscar Lawior, who has - been participating in the prosecution of the McNamara brothers but he declined o comment on it Secretary Hockin Returns. Herbert 8. Hockin, secretary of the igpn workers assoctation, return bday from St. Louis, where it was re ported he conferred with President Frank M. Ryan. Hockin said that Ryan went to Chicago and he would return here tomorrow. Almost the first witnesses to be called, it waw learned, will be stenographers who were employéd by MoNamara when he was an active official of the union They evidence gathered by mgents of the National Erectors’ assoclatic defensive organization of “open shop contractors, re seized in a raid on the Irom orkers’ associatic headquarters or voluntarily turr over by its officlals and de'alled con fessions of McManigal are to be sub mitted. ~Many witnesses from cities in which explosions have occurred have been subpoenaed. Statement of Union Offic The Iron Workers' association from the headquarters where John J. Mc Namara as secretary-treasurer had his office issued today ‘through one of its publications the statement it has made since tl McNamaras con tessed. he statement follows: Just before going to press the sur prising news reached this office that J. J. McNamara and J. B. McNamarn had entered pleas of gullty in the su perior court of Los Angoles county In view of those pleas part of the con tents of this issue may. seem odd to the readers but all of it was written at a'time when we had impllelt faith in the innocence of these men, and we have, therefore, concluded to lot this matter go out in its original form. We have no detalls concerning the confessions other than those contained in the newspapers, but hope to be more fully acquainted with the faocts before the next issue of the magazine at which time we will take our read- ers fully into our confidence,” Wanted “Fair and Impartial” Trial. The other references to the McN mara case are mlong the same line an these appear during recent months and some of them tell of efforts be ing made to raise funds to obtain for the McNamaras a “fair and fmpartial trial” M'NAMARA’S LAUNCH, Dynamiters’ Craft Figures In Geand Jury Investigation. T.08 Angzles, Dec. 13~Days when the lsunch Pastime, = formerly t Peerless, darted about Ban Franclsco and Sun Pablo bays at the will of James B, McNamara, taking on dyna- mite from powder houses and convey - ing It to San Francisco, where it was concealed in a vacant house, were re called today by the procession of wit nesses who passed into and out of the federal grand jury rooms here. Among them were Capt. John Poter- son of the launch Pastime and k. H Buxter, part owner of the boat, Mc Namari activities on the north side of San Francisco bay brought in Mre. J. S. Stuperich, wife of the proprietor of a cafe at Bausalito, at whose place J. B. McNamara used to #it in the Bsunshine, ‘bombs. The rapidity with which the witness es were examined led to the bellef in ®ome quarters that they were shown trapscripts of their previous story bh- fore the Los Angeles county grand jury and identified them again after afMrming thelr veracity, Still Getting Jury to Try Pa Chicago, Deec. 13—Seven been accepted by. both cors. urors had by both sides is there any n‘fiflnn may be taking of test|- Yesterda: 18.—Mid-Decemi .t in &t Coney lsl- men and, of the mild the surt. The