Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 22, 1911, Page 1

L. LII.—NO. 306 San Francisco Labor Leader Must First Talk With} The Government Prosecutor THE PROPOSITION PROMPTLY REJECTED BY HIM,‘ Prosecutor Baket Fined $50 at Indianapolis For Contemptv‘ of Court—Tells Court That Member of the Grand Jury | Has Been Made Insane by McNamara Case and That His Own Nerves Are Unstrung—Carpenters Disagree. | | or stive who was work- and in a det. Ax , Cal, Dec. 21.—E. A.,dragsgi e dynamite investigatio v, the San Francisco labor lead- | ing or er who amswerer a subpoena to appear | Baker sald he was “shadowing” him. | before ”;;‘ feger-ell xra?d j"rfé fn\ sti- | To Adjourn Until January 3. | s i it i 3o YRl ! seéven - dsys work by ithe federal| mite conspira sajd today he was B jun,yh” Sernltped that : the | evidenco is more voluminous and the number of witnesses to be called from distant cites is greater than was an- pated. The investigation will be adjourned tomorrow until January 3. 1t will then require a month to com- plete the inguiry. DYNAMITE PROSECUTOR FINED. Eaker of Indianapolis Pleaded That He Had a Case of Nerves. told the jury would not call him until he was ready to talk first with the ¢overnment prosecutor. Statement Causes Conjectures. Apparently Clancey rejected this suggestion, for he left the federal building immedistely afterward. His statement, however, caused many con- Jectures &s to what he meant. Union Official Testifies. J. E. Munsey, an official of the Salt Jake City Iron Workers' union, ap- | yeared before the jury todey, but did| | rot complete his testimony. ndianapolis, lynl{ Dec. 21.— Express Agent a Witnes: et e Another witness was W. E. Becknel, | {;:.t he had been under an intense assistant agent of the American EX- | jervous strain because he had n press company, who took bouvks into| “shadowed by thugs and hired men’ ihe grand jury room. It was supbposed|in the employment of the National bis testim related to shipments of | Frectors’ association and the labor explosives, concéaled under false de-|upions during the dynamiting inve: acriptions in bills of lading. gation did not avail, when he apnear- g T € _court to show cause why he should | MYERS TESTIFIES. rot be punished for contempt. Judge Joseph Markey fined him. Baker interrupted a murder trial late - Chief of Police of Ti Tells of n, Big Supply of Dynamite. yesterday when he forced Robert —_— ster, a detective for the Erector Indianapolis. Dec. 21.—Claude E.|association, into court, and asked Judge Markey to protect him agains | Interference by Foster. The court said today that the prosecutor’s action had Myers. chief of police of Tiffin, Ohio, where 540 pounds of dynamite and oth er explosives were found hidden in a barn the day after the arrest of John | been irregu and nnecessary. but McNemara in_ Indianapolis, last | added that he would instruct the srand Aprli, was the chief witness before | jury to inquire into the identity of per- the federal grand jury in the investi- | sons annoying tie prosecutor gatton of the dynamiting conspiracy | To show the mental stress under today. which he had labored Bak.r told the Tiffin the Base of Supplies. court that a member of the grand jury had become insane through considers- tion of the alleged dynamiting plet and bad imagined he was John McNamara Ile was among those from whom it | = =aid the Investigators expected to | iearn who, besides the McNumaras and MedManigal, were implicated par- | ¢n_trial for his life. The man was e R, i cited P~ | ot dismissed, the prosecutor said, be- cause it was feared the public ight ania. Ghio and Indiane, to carry on | which the stores of explosives at Tif- | fin were wsed as a base of supplies. | Information was said to have been ob- ained by District Attorney Miller that exploslves were directad from Mc- amara’s headquarters at Indianap- | where as secretary-ireasurer of | International Assoclation of ze end Structural Iron Workers Tie had his offices, but that the susges- r the destruction of property ted by firms emploving non-union misconstrue the action great the interest in the investization. That he knew Detective Foster had teen armed with a maguzine pistol w he excuse offered by Baker for his ai- tempt to search Foster in court after | the judge had ordered him out of the room. No “gun” was found in Foster's | rossession by policemen who went | through his pockets. CARPENTERS WON'T MOVE. was e O g loes | Not to Blame Because of Murderers Tlace. L "and Thugs at Indianapolis. Information from 20 Cities. e ey TR It was d he dis- C 3 nd, e. 21.—Frank | rit, TS further learned that the i | Duffy. secretary of ‘the United Brota. | {rict attorney’s office has’ accumulated | crhood of Carpenters and Joiners of “al conditions in the twenty cities | America, e > 2 Jefier from ;' e struc re 3 T = | Carpenters’ local N 2, 2rooklyn, N. re structures were blown ub In the | rooklyn, N Y., which demanded the the national headquarters from Indian- apolis. He declares such removal would be The Lrookiyn union com- five years. Prosecutor Baksr Fined $50. Prosecutor Baker was also e grand jury. He was sum- of his conducting be- that Indlanapoiis 15 known as : grand jury a_serles | “the stamping sround for murderers n Indianapolis. Earlier | and thugs,” since the confession by the ] aker had been flned McNamaras. Mr. Duffy s. the clt for contempt because, he interrupted | is not to blame and believes the Brook- =z murder trial in theficounty court by | employer's barn today and fatalls NEW YORKERS AFTER THE GIRLS SAY KEY WAS | IN LOCK OF THE DOOR. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. | — o | Hotelmen's Association to Raise Fund | Still Working for Firm and Have Had of $125,000 for Expenses. | Wages Raised. New' York Dec. 21.—The movement | New York, Dec. 21—/A witness who | 1c obtain the demoecratic national con- | testified that there was a key in th vention for this city took definite form |lock of the dodr on the eighth floor | today, when the Hotelmen’s association | of the Asch building, where 147 lives were lost in the fire in the Thiangle Waist J appointed a committee to ask the co- 4 compan establishment last peration of democratic leaders in the »ject. The committee will report to | March, was produced today at the trial association tomorrow, and steps, | cf the company’s proprietors for man- i stated, will be taken to raise |slaughter. Ida Volinsky, an emp! £125.000 for the expenses of the con- | the firm, testified that terror st ention, the date and place of which | zirls piled upon her until she cowid is to be decided by a meeting of the | rot open the door leading to fety emocratic national committee in| At that time the key of the door was the lock she testified. It was not Washington on Jan. 8. until the superintendent made his way Because of the proposed demolition t of Madison Square Garden it was |through the throng and pushed the pointed out that this city had few |zirls away thag the door was opened, places large enough in which to held | the witness said. Several other girls who escaped from the building testified for the defense national convention, and the com- tee was instructed fo obtain the use mn ¢ an armory, if possible. { | today. Under cross ecxamination it . disclosed that they were still in | Bristol Farmer Killed by Train. the firm's employ and that some of | them have had their salarles raised since the disaster. Something of a sensation was caused when Samuel Bernstein. the Triangle company’s superintendent, testified that at the time of the grand jury in- estigation District Attorney Whitman Lristol. Conn., Deec. 21.—While driv- | £ to a local factory tonight to take his two Aaushters home from work, Henrv Juniver. a farmer, living on th sutskiris of the city, was instantly killed when his can ge was struck by a passeager traifat the Peacea- 3 o " | ca - him in the corridor out- hle street crossing. Junivers body | (ime across I s - was_mo badiy mangled that it was| 300 5 JuTs poem and ordered him two hours after the actident that iden- | O pios tfeaticr. was mude,/ He was 72 years | L Unch his head was IS | the face.” Why Mr. g\:]z:r:;lrema‘ es & widow and " two | 2% NiS bresence wa nd_“smash him in Whitman object- not brought out. $3,500 Reward for Morner Murderer. Troy, N. Y., Dec. 21.—Jesse Morner, whose mother, brotner and two sisters Force of Deputies to Curb Strikers. Dunkirk, N, Y., Dec. 21.—Sheriff John 1 all ¢ Mayor Jaj e T o T s “situstion. pere, | wero murdered last wesk at the home. | VA%t = probable he will place a | Stead at De Freestville, Rensselaer | ferce of deputies at the Brooks plant | County, has offered an additionaul re- | of the American Locomotive Works Ward of $500 for the arrest of Edward temorrow. The police force is too | Donato, the young Italian farmhand emall to handle outbreaks similar to | Who is accused of having committed | jost nizht's. District President Dona- | the crime. This makes a total re- | hue of the boilermakers will meet | Ward of $3,500. Sheriff Hall and Mayor James tomor- row Gored t> Death by Bull. | Passaic, N. J, Dec. 21.—Fmil Lun- Biair Elboiell Boaibiiers. | zer of Athenin,’a farmhand, was at- New York Dee. 21e—cn Tedyard| 2cked by a full he was feeding in his employeder's barn today and fagally | gored. He was taken to a hospital. | The bull wae subdued with pitchforks, Blair, owner of the steam yacht Diana, was elected commodore of the New York Ygcht club tonight at its annual meeting. Dallaas B. Pratt, owncr of % = 1he sehooner yacht Sea Fox, was elect- English Jews Stirred Up. ed vice eommodore, and George F.| Londop, Dec. 21.—The Jewlsh Chron- owner of the steam yacht | icle savs _that the leading Jewish in- | rear commodore. “| stitutions” here have decided to urge | the abrogatior of the Anglo-Russian “treaty, which diffcrentiates against the Enelish Jews. - Receiver for Pittsburgh Concern. Pitsburgh, Dae. 21.—A bill in equity was filed in court today by John H. Jals, president of the Wolfe Brush company, asking for the appointment of a reesiver for the concern, The |tive committee of the southern cotton “olonial Trust company of Pittsburgh ' congress adopted a systematic plan to- was named, The liabilities are §146,000 dav which is expected to result in re- and the asseis are said to be $136,000 ducing cotten acreage 35 per cent. next in exceas of the liabilities, » Ry ear To Reduce Cotton Acreage. New Orleans, Dec. 21—The exeéu- i m: | tort here and abroad. Some of the senate leaders profess | | great concern as to where the pro- | BOSTON MAN KILLED ) on her-way to Winni» Paragraphs >anama, Dec. 21.—Quiet has retgned throughout the republic since Decem- ber 6 and no disturbances or riots of ny kind have occurrea recently. Lurg, Dec. 21.—A despatch from Tabriz reperis that a small body of Russians was attacked while en- gaged In repairing a telephone line. Two of the attacking party were kill- ed. San Juan, P. R, Dec. 21—Governor Colton sailed last night on board the mer Coamo for New York, He will pay a visit to Washington, where he will have a consultation on the sub- ject of the proposed Porto Rican leg- lation, St. Peter: London, Deec. 21.—The London dra- matic censor, George Alexander Red- ford, known officially as the “Examiner of Plays,” resigned his position today. h; E. Brookfield, who was ap- pointed his assistant on November 26 last, is to succeed him. arig, De~ 21.—The eastern districts ¥ ne have been swept today by viclent tempesy of rain and wind. damage to property has been caused, many telezraph poles and trees in the forests have been uprooted, while a score of fishing craft have been hore along the coast and a of fishermen drowned. Much it number REPUBL;CANS WiLL FRAME WOOL BILL. Proposed to Have It Ready to Meet Bill of Democrats. Washington, Dec. 21—A wool* bill, framed according to President Taft's recommendations on_the tariff board’s report on schedule K will be prepared by the republicans on the house ways and means committee. Republican leaders in the senate who have si ar plans, susgested today that the senate and house republicans would get together during the Christ- s recess and have a bill ready by | time the democrats have a meas- ready -to report. Regular republicans in the senate say they will draft a bill which will put the issue of protection squarely up to the progressives and force them on record. The progressive leaders re- that they are alveady on record in favor of a protective duty equal to the difference in the cost of production | | gressives ill stand on the democratic | wool bill which is sure to come over from the house. The general opinion seems to be that the progressive re- publicans will make their choice be- tween the two measures and use the strength which a merger with the dem- ocrats would give them, to force amendments to the republican bill | Progressive leaders say they are anxious to revive schedule K at this session of congress and they will use all the tactics known to the senate | to do it = | It seems to be agreed that the pro- gressives will not frame a bill now | but will depend upon the two which | are certain to come from the regular | republicans and the democrats. Most of the progrssive leaders will be away from Washington d@ring .the Christ- mas holiday RUSSIANS AND PERSIANS HAVE BEGUN FIGHTING. Reported Bombardment of the ernor’s Palace at Tabriz. Gov- Tehe n, Dee. 21.—That serious fight- ing I begun between the Persian censtitutionalists and Russian troops is evidenced by the despatches from Tabriz, ralaco which say that the governors has been bombarded. There sualties on both sides, but their extenti s not vet known. The Russian legation here professes tonight to have no_detalls of the engagement. There has been fighting also between the Russians and Persians at Enzeli, on the Casplan sea, and at Resht, 16 miles northwest of Enzeli. Conflicting versions are given as to the cause of the fighting. One says that the Rus- | sians seized the police headquarters at feared that the mews will have »rable effect on public opinion in Teheran. NEWSPAPZRMEN ARRESTED ON BLACKMAIL CHARGE Waterbury Druagist Says They De- | manded $25 from Him. ; Waterbury, Conn., Dec. 21.—John H. | Curley, editor of the Sunday Tele- graph, a pa lished here weelgy for abou four myenths, with Samuel | App] jrum, business manager of the | pape®and’ George L. Heronm, sald to be 2 reporter, were arrested here this afternoon on a charge of biackmail preferred by Hugh P. McLinden, a | druggist. Mr. McLinden charges them | with having demanded $25 for the sup- | ion of a story, Heron was ar- i as he was leaving the store with money pald him by MecLinden. other two were arrested later at | Curley and Applebaum re released tonight on bonds of $2,00 each. Feron is still in con- finement. - BY BROTHER-IN-LAW. Family Quarrel at a Laundry Ends in Shooting. Boston, Dec. 2l.—After a family quarrel tomight, Frank E. Willians, | aged 22, proprietor of a South End laundry, was shot.dead at his place of business, and Isaac J. Saunders, 33, his brother-in-law, was arrested on the charge of murder. Both men are | 89 blood Roosevelt on Their Ballot NEBRASKANS-FILE PETITION TO THAT EFFECT. Menaces Lives of Foreigners PREMIER YUAN'S ATTITUDE MAY STIR UP TROUBLE. OPPOSED TO REPUBLIC IS STRONG IN THE WEST Is Holding Out for a Limited Monarchy | Governor of Nebraska Believes He Could Harmonize the Party—Teddy Declines t6 Make any Comment. —Great Britain Supporting Monarchy Idea from Ulterior Motives, It is Said Shanghai, Dec. 21.—The revolution= ary leaders here positively assert that if Yuan Shi Kai persists in his refusal to accept a republic the powers giving Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 21—A petition asking.that the name of Theodore Roosevelt should be placed on the primary ballot as a candidate for the himtheir support would be regarded { G sident of as the enemies of China and the 1ves | b o g oD Lo D e . by of a:Ld{Ol:?‘fimfrs in China would| be | Secretary of State Wait this morning. Jeopardized The petition is signed by John O. Yeis- Great Britain Supports Monarchy. |er, an Omaha attorney, and twenty- It is generally believed among the | five other voters. revolutionists that Great Dritain is| Has Corresponded With Roosevelt. supporting the monarchy solely be-| vojsor geclindd to say whether he cause of the dangercus example which would be set for India, should China |pad been authorlzd to file the petition by Col. Roosevelt. He admitted, how- become a republic. ever, that he had been in e Dr. Sun Expected in a Few Days. |[ence with the ex-President. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the reform leader, | our state law,” said Mr. Yeiser, is due here in a few days, and it is|candidate is not required to the nomination, nor has he believed that he will assume the lead- ership of the south. Large reinforce- ments of well armed and well trained troops are arriving from Canton. YOUNG WIDOW WINS IN to withdraw his name, once i e of Prim- Delegates Vote For Ch, aries. The Nebraska primary law makes it the duty of the delegates to the Na- FIGHT OVER WILL. | tional convention to vote for the can- S —_—— didate receiving the highest popular Jury Finds Undue Influence Exerted | vote for president. his is a provi- Upon Robert Thompson. sion, however, like that under which e the people instruct the state legisla- New .York, Dec. 21.—Mrs. Maybelle | ture sgarding senatorial elections, Ames Thompson, the young and pretty | which could not be enforced shouid the Wwidow of the miilionaire paper manu- | delegates see fiit to disregard it, a facturer, Robert Thompson, proved her | cording to the opinion of locsl attor- 7 | neys. right to a share in his $2,000,000 estat when a supreme court jury in Brooklyn returned a verdict tonight that the vill left by the old"man was invalld *be- cause undue influence was exerted up- cn Mr. Thompson by means of alleged “spirit” letters. The Thompson grand Nebraska Governor’s Opinion. Commenting this evening on the fil- ing of the name of Colonel Roosevelt for the presidential preference prim- ary election in April, Governor Chester H. Aldrich said: children, J. Linton Thompson, Rpbert Rt it Bie e oot 4 . out doubt, 2 could go H. Thompson and Mrs. Marion Funk. |on the ballot in’ every state in the N _— : | union if Colonel Roosevelt would even have fought the young widow at eVery | give the slightest Indication that he “urn. & y e would sanction it and he would be Robert H. Thompson died in 1910, sl i ) 4 ronbet B Thompson dled dn 1910 Inominated for pregient af th | national convention just he was in 1904. May Feel it Patriotic Duty to Run. Miss Maybelle Ames, his confidential secretary in the Boston offices of the Thompson & Norris Corrugated Paper | company. When she found she had “Despite his declaration t he dbes been ignored in the will she began a not wish to be a candidate for office ccntest on the ground -that her hus- | under any circumstances, the people of this country may put him in a pc sition that he may feel it to bewhis normal and patriotic duty to _accept the nomination 3 “Colonel Roosevelt would carry hand was kept from providing for her because of communications which Mrs \Funk professed to have received from his_first wife. These letters were signed “Muzzie,” a name Mrs. Thompson-No. 1 was sup- | braska and the West by even a great- posed to. have assumed in her ethereal er majority than he did before, which existence, and nearly all of them im- | was a record breaker. It is my opin- plored Mr. Thompson to leave his|ion that not only here in the West, rroperty to his children butJver the entire country his nomin- atlon would cement and harmonize the CHICAGO POLICE IN LEAGUE working force of the entire republican WITH THE CRIMINAL CLASSES’ e P Over a Dozen Members of the De- partment Disciplined. Roosevelt Won't Talk. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Dec. 21-—Colonel Roosevelt was informed tonight of the z step to enter him in the Nebraska Chicago, Dec. 21.—“There 15 and has | primaries, but he declined to comment been for years a connection between |upon it. He spent the day in New the Chicago polics department and the | York. He said on his return toni criminal classes of the city,” says a|that he expected to remain at preliminary report to Mayor Carter H. | more Hill until after the holidays Harrison made tonlght by the city civil | to spend Christmas quietly with service commission, which has con- | family. - ducted an exhaustive examination of of the police department. The report, followed within a few hours the dismissal from the service of John Revere, the second police spector to lose his position as a re- sult of the investization. Another of- ficial, Lieut. John “Sandy” Hanley, was exonerated, and Capt. Bernard Baird swas sent to the mayor for ac- tion on charges of inefficiency and neglect of auty, This brings the num- | his GALLAGHER'S SANITY TC BE DETERMINED. Man Who Shot Mayor Gaynor Said to Have Par | | Trenton, N. J., Dec. -Upon appli- | cation of state prison keeper Osborne, Judge Gnichtel of the Mercer County glect of . m | court, appointed two physicians to- ber of disciplined offictals to more than | goUTy PPOTICE twe physiclans to- | a dozen | ' -t zen. upon the sanity of James .J lagher, Other pointed and direct charges are made in the commission’s preliminary report to the mayor, and drastic changes in the administration and or- ganization of the department are rec- ommgnded. HONEST BOY REWARDED who is serving a tweive y time Gallagher tried to assassinate Mayor Gaynor, of New York, as he | was about to sail for Europe. This action was taken with the ap- {proval of Dr. Thomas H. Mackenzie, |lh<| visiting physiclan of the prison. o WITH A NEW $100 B"‘L"Thc two physicians specially appoint- Found $10,000 Necklace and Restored |, "i¥F 1ot made thelr report ver Sufforing from paresis and will prob- E s ably not live more than a year. New York, Dec. 21—Jimmy Scully, Keeper Osborne is xaklng’zho action an errand boy in a tailoring establish- | to have (allagher transferred to the ment, recently found in the street a|siate hospital for the inasmn necklace of 200 shinning stones and | At the time Gallagher was tried for red omes. Jimmy. thought | ghooting Commissioner Edwards four It to Woman Who Lost it. | the stones were glass and stowed the | physicians testified that he was suf- necklace away with the idea of RiV- | fering from paresis. This {estimony ing it to his little sister on Christmas | was combatted by Dr. Allen MeLane day. Today, however, he innocently Hamilton and Dr. Charles MecDonald displayed his find to one of the men in | of New York. the shop, an uproar followed and an he men who testified that Gallag- expert on precious stones was hastily her had paresis were Dr. Henry K. called in. It was spedily determined | Peabody, head of the state hospital by the expert that the necklace Was for the insune at Trenton. Di . B composed of diamonds and rubies and was worth something like $10,000. Advertisements were hastily scan- ned and a reply to one inserted by a distracted woman of fashion revealed that the necklace was the property of Mrs. Mary Stelnman of Tuxedo Park. In her happiness over recover- | ing her gems she made Jimmy a present of a brand new hundred dollar biil. Dr. McGlll of Hoboken. | A REIGN OF ANARCHY THROUGHOUT MACEDONIA. Lone Baloniki n, Dec A despatch from European Turkey, to a Lon- don news agency reports a condition of anarchy threughout Mzscedonia. Murder, piliege and brigandige are IN°AGONY OF HYDROPHOBIA. DIED- colored. Williaws’ wife left him a few days ago and went to live with Saun- | ders, her brother. Tonight, Saunders and the woman went to the laundry to try to adjust the trouble, and duriny | an argument the shooting occurred. Mrs. Williams was held as a witness. | Steamship. Arrivals. At Copenhagen: .. Dec: ' 18, United States from New York. | At Fishguard: - Dec. 21,. Carmapia from New York. At Rotterdam: Dec. 30, Campasuello | from New York. "' * At Bremen: Dec. 21, Kronprinz Wil- helm, from New Yorl - =~ ° At Genoa: Dec. 31,;Berlin, from New York. T e At Boulogne: Dee. 21, rdam, from New.; York. _Nieuw Am- st At Liverpool: 21, Cdrmania, from New ¢ Trunk Mystéry Cleared Up. Racine, Wish Déc.” 31—The mystery surrounding the : disappearance -of .a trunk containing $%0,000 worth of dia- monds and j - belonging to Johm Lindley, o New, York Jewelry’ firm, W today when the trunk was found in 8t. Paul, Minn., booked for Winnipeg. Lindley. while in Chicage. got his checks mixed up with these of a Miss Sax, who was rife. Travel in ®he country districts is safe oniy for large armed parties. ‘I'wenty-seven assassinations have oc- curred within the past month within 2 ‘two hours’ journey of Saloniki, all the victims being Greeks. The Christians finding it impossible to obtain redress, are organizing bands with the object of killing the Turks. Assassins to Be Courtmartialed. _Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 21.—In the na- ticnal assembly today. an interpellation was submitted r ing the anti- Chrisidan outrages in Macedonia. Pre- mier Guechoff announced that s num- ber of arresis have been made for the Istib massacre -and that the persons charged. with the erime will he court martialed. The outrage referred to by the premier occurred on Dec. 4, when a bemb* was' thirown in & mosqué, killing twelve pes Dog Which Bit John Bell Showed No | Signs of Rabies. Perth Amboy, N. J., Dec. 21.—John R. ‘Bell” who was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last spring at the age of 20 and had | since been connected with a' chemical company, here, died in agony tonight | at his-home:from what the physicians diagnosed"as hydrophobia. Five weeks ago - Bell was bitten by -a dog. Phe ‘animal was killed and the head _was sent to Trenton for examination. The ‘report “which was returned was that there were no signs of rubies in the dog’s*brain, and Mr. Bel] did not take.the Pasteur wreatment. He appar- ently forgot-the incident ‘and his heeith’ was §0od until Wednesday. Octogenarian Becomes a Benedict.. Nowburgh, N. ¥ Dec. :3L—Colonsl Sty e o Awron: Hals i ey e - : 2 widely. kifown, horseraas ;and Unfo $90.000. Gift to! Harvard. Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 21.—A Har- vard alumnus who wishes his -name _withlield has given the university . the um _of $8,000 for the, erection of a three-story brick building to be de- oted solely to music, according to an .| announcement made by the university, | teday.’ The gift 15 conditional on 350,- merkets | 000 being during the next yeur veteran, was ‘married by Judge ‘tais afiernoon at: bis home in im “Valley to Miss Henrietta Clark .o Charleston, ‘8. C.,, the daughter-‘ef ‘an ex-Confedrate veteran. % Markets Close Tomorrow. New York, Dec. 21.—All. will_be closed Saturday except dairy | for the and poultry, ' departme; is fied.” | [at the prison for shooting Street Com- | missioner Edwards of New York at the | smith of Bayonne, and Dr. Arlitz and | mafiflmm “of' the “building | died The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double- That of Any Gther Paper, and lis Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in l’rop’ortion to the City’s Population CLANCEY T0 G0 BEFORE GRAND JURY | Cabcd Condensed Telegrams Yale University Yesterday Closed its doors for the Christmas hoilduy of two weeks, Army Scouts Appear to Have Lost the irall of General Reyes and his it~ tle stafl. | | _Boola Zanthasky, a 16 Year Old | | Grecian girl, is missing from her home | in Waterbury. | The lllinois Supreme Court yesier- day handed downa decislon upholding the constitutionality of the commiss form of government law. | _For the Second Time in Fi the plant of the Stamford (he company, the principal industry Stamford, Vi, was burned yesterd ot ~J. W. Gunnelea, Former Owner of n matrimonlal ageney and reputed to be | a millionaire, died suddenly yesterday his home in Toledo, 0., 6f hemor- rhage of the braln, Amendments to the Articles of In- | corporation of the Minneapolis and St Louls Railroad company increasing the capital stock from $20,000,000 to $30,- 000,000 were filed yesterday. The Courtmartial to Fix the Respon- sibility for the explosion on the Irench battleship Liberte, which oc- curred in Toulon harbor & ac- quitted all the officers y | 1t Was Announced Yesterday that Luctllus A. Emery, former chief justice | | of the supreme court of Maine, had | been appointed Storrs lecturer at the Yale L#w school for the next course. B. F. Jonas, Aged 77, Former United States senator from Loulslana, and for the last half century a prominent fig- ure in the political and commercial life of that state, dis ‘at hig home at New Crleans yesterday. ator Kenyon of lowa Yesterday introduced a bill which would prohibit | interstate rallroac# or other carriers from taking lquor into any territory | where its use, possesston or sale I3 a viclation of alocal law Commiesioner of Internal Revenue Cabell has decided that the dividend paid by mutual and “participating” in- surance companles to thelr policyhold- ers are subjeet to assessment in- come under the corporation tax law. The Directors of the Atlantic Coast Line company of Connecticut, which ontrols the Atlantic Coast Line Ralil- ompany, yesterday declared a Iy dividend of three per cent., rease of one-half of one per cent. | | Capt. H. Rodman, Now at Mare Isi- and, Cal, navy yard, has been assigned to command the battleship Connect!- it, flagship of the Atlantic fleet, re- lieving Capt. W. R. Rush, ordered home to await orders. The change is to take effect Jan. 2. Caroline Missirrare, Three Year Old Daughter of John Missirrare, of Bridgeport, died at the Bridgeport Lcspital yesterday morning from burns that she received while playing around a bonfire in the rear of her home Wed- nesday evening. Accused of the Embezzlement of $1,100 from the® ShoegCutters’ union of Quebec, of which he was the treasurer, A man known as Joseph La Plante but whose real name Is sald to be Joseph Coulombe, was arrested at Spencer, Mass., yesterday. Fifty Years Ago Archbishop lreland entered the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church. By the express wish of the archbishop, there was no public celebration of the anniversary, but there were many callers vesterday at | | the archbishop’s residence. | An Indication of Prosperity was denced at the Hartford shops of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company vesterday when it was announced that the machinists | would hereafter return to the old schedule of niné hours a day The Columbian, the Fast Train the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul rafjway, which was wrecked Monday ai “Odessa, Minn., with the loss of ten | lives, again was wrecked yesterday when it crashed into the rear of a local vassenger train near Glencoe, Minn. PRESIDENT TAFT ON A SHOPPING TOUR. and Silversmith’s Purchases. ‘Washington, Dec. 21.—Prestdent Taft, who began his Christmas shopping in New | York yesterday, made e #irip through the downtown section today and personally selected & number of gifts. The president’s objective point was a_ bookstore, but en route he spent some time at a silversmith's, where he made several purchases. His entry in the shopping district was made in the quiet way in which Mr. Taft moves about the. streetd of the capital, and mundreds among whom he went missed sceing him altogether. While in the bookstore a young army lieutenant, intent on his examination of some editions de luxe, pushed | against the president oblivicus of the | fact that he was jostling his com- mander In chief. Mr. Taft was equal- ly absorbed with Major Butt in select- ing some volumes and falled to ob- serve the officer’s presence. Tho president confined his pur- chages to standard work and let the “Lest sellers” go by. He returned to the White House shortly —after ¢ o'clock. ' ted Bookstore and ‘Made Several FEDERAL INVESTIGATION OF AN INSURANCE TRUST. Insurance Commissioners Appeal o State and National Authorities. Huntsville, gAla, Deo. 21.—A move- ment aimed #t federal investigation of the Southeastern Tariff association, to ascertain if #t st _control rsurance rate; ed in mev Alabama*eiti the associa- tion fixes rates interested belleve er. Leocal munief; .miesioners ha b o-lluf upon th* and “Attorney ¢ ‘an’ fmmcdiate i general ral ‘Wiekersham for estigation. Killed on Ansonia Grade Crossing. Ansonia, Conn., Dec, 21, y Lane, employed in a local factory, was struck and instantly” kilied ‘tonight by a ‘rallroad train while crossing .the car tracks on-his' way . home - from wi He was 45 years old-and leave; ‘and three ehildren. - Bridgeport - Teamster ‘Klll-’d. Bridgeport, :Comm., Dec. ' 21.—Rrnest & teamster, h{lmt the furniture van. . ‘the | i B8R o C seat of. Saw Child of Four at Work REVELATIONS OF TENEMENT HOUSE INBPE_CTOR. WAS WORKING QN LACE Cver 40,000 Children Working In Ne York Tenements for SmAI Wages— “Tuberculosis Among the Italians. The W York, Dee. 21 New Yhrk state factory Investigating commis sion, which concluded here today. ftw st public hearing bafore reporting to the legislatare in Kebruary arne from witnesses that th e more than 40,000 children 1 Tk oft doinx work in tenements for 32 or $3.50 a weelk Child of Four at Work, zabeth ¢, Watson, a tane se Inspector, sald that In one week's Investigatipn she saw 100 chil dren of tender age at work in tens- ments, one being a child of four yoars who was employed at night, working Irish lace Italians Prone to Consumption. . Antoine Stella, vice president of Italian Immigration soclety, maid at nearly ope-third the immigrants who go back to Italy in the summer have tuberculosis, or what is known as “industrial consumption.” He en timated th re 85,000 consumpiives among Italinn laborers, Fired for Testifying. Schiging, Jr, who testified be fore the commission at Utica, wis one of the witnésses st today's scssion He was formerly in textile work "L was ‘fired’ after I testifiod be fore the commission,” he said, “My testimony was in all the Utica papers After that the bows didn't want me Rage Distribute Tubercule “In the textile mills where thoy use the arnet’ machines they use old rags and the operatives get the ben efit of all the dust and dirt off the rags. In that way we are distributing tuberculosis.” New Yorkers Buying the Goods. “Did similar conditions exist else wh " he was asked, “Yes; in all lines of textile manu fact New ever ring, in the lower grades of goods Yorkers are bldying this stuff day.” ALDERMAN TRAPPED BY A DICTAPHONE Walter E. Gibson of Gary, Ind, Feund Guilty of Bribery. Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 2L—Alder man Walter E. Gibson of Gary, lad was found gullty tonight of bribery i tho passage by the Gary commor council of a heating franchise nance obtathed by Thomas 3. Dean Louisvil who was the mtate chief witness. It is said to bo il fNirst conviction in which u dictaphon played an important part. It s the first of several trials of Gary officlals on charges of bribery which will be held in Crown Point, A previous trial &t Valparaiso against City Engineer Williston of Gary re sulted in his acquittal Dean testified that he came to Gar to Invest In @ heating plant. He wns told, he said, he vould not get a fran-4 chise unlews he “saw” some of the cft officials. He testified that Gibson was cne gficial he “saw” in the way of bribe for a favorable vote. Dean sub stantinted his statement by causing dictaphone records to be made of his conversation with Gibson. The dictaphons, & delicat instrument, which gathers sounds cne room and transmits them to a te ephone recelver elsewhers, carried cor versation in this case to stenographer The stenographers read into the ord what purported tc ration, including the alleged bribes and their acceptance. eleotrieal in r be the conver offers SPRECKELS’ SONS SUING EACH OTHER Two Want Accounting from Other Two of Mos Recelved. San_Francisco, Dec. 21—The fight over the will of (ke late Claus Spreck els, the sugar magnate, took a ne form today when suits were filled In the ruperior court by Rudloph and Claus A., Jr., against Adolph and John D. Spreckels, all sons of the decedent asking for an mecounting of the $1% 716,752 the defendants are alleged (o have recelved as gifts from their ther in his lifetime. In the complaints the sums maid have been en outright to Adolph and John D, were oalled the commun ity property of the father and mother For this remson, the father had no legal right to dispose of his estate In that manner, #t 18 stated. The return to their mothor's estate of property valued at $9,529,140.69 1n amked by the plaintiffs, and fn lfeu of this judgment for $21,000,000 $681,000 ¢ BEGUN BY WIDOW Charles Dilworth Bues Husband's Business Associates, Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. 21-~A wnit over an_interest th the Dilworth, Porter & company, limited, steel and iron mann amoul to $681,000, was court here to day by Mrs. Elizabeth Louise DIl worth, widow of Charles R Dilworth, of New York. The mction is sgainst the company, the brothers and sisters of Charles Dilworth and thetr heirs., Mrs, Dilworth asks for a preliminary irjunction, to be made It Iater, onjoining the defendants from exercis In; ny riehts over the Interest of her Jute hushand, and that they fdmit her to ownership over this interest. TWO INDICTMENTS RESULT FROM FLOOD AT AUSTIN, Offioials of Bayless Company Charged With Involuntary Mansiaughter. _Coudersport, Pa., Deo. 21—The Pott eounty ‘grand jury returned indict ments C. Bay , pr . Hamlin, iperiritendent of the Bayless Pulp and Paper company of A Pa., charg ing. nvolREry’ manviauglitor because of the, Austin’ dam - disester on Bey- tember 30 Jast. The Jury failed to return a true. in the oase of Michael C, Balley, the ocaretaker of S S oo s ‘Sestn. Rl ury by peace. " safd Hodley be Qm A & withes "M" lesn and FAamiin go to trial nt the ePIT FOR Mr