Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 25, 1911, Page 1

~ VOL. LII—NO. 308 THE PEAGE CONFERENGE IS HOPELESS Premier Yuan Prepares to Renew Hostilities and Will Endeavor to Retake Wu Chang HOSFITALS PREPARING TO RECEIVE WOUNDED| Tuan Fang Slaughtered by His Own Soldiers and His Head to be Delivered for a Ransom—Statements by Represen- tatives of Both Imperialists and Rebels Indicate Serious Objections to Intervention—Greetings by Wu Ting Fang 24—That the imperial nds tc remew hostili- word which comes ng-Fu, ofie of the import- Peace Conference Hopeless. is expected soon. This at there nghai ana secks retaking 2% Prisoners Taken. ine f ~ y Ransom for Tuan Fang's wn to bril with rs fel OPPOSE INTERVENTION. Representatives of Both les Urge | Strict Neutrality. | Shanghui Dec. 24.—Tang Shao ¥ the tmperic] plenipotentiary “appoint | e0 by Premier Yuan Shi Kat and Wu | | Ting I'ang, the forelgn secretary of the rovolutionary cabinet, the princi- pal fizures in the peace conference, Zove signed statements to the Asso- cd Press today, briefly setting forth © views. ) Tang Shao ¥i, who is Kai's personal representa- | tive. foliows: ne situation in Chine today de- mands caution and deliberation and ale. the highest form of patriotism, which means the subordination of ev- the welfare of our coun- cryihing to r I am trving my best to settle all rial differences as a result of this ence and show the world a new . §nited and strong, autonomous nd peaceful, and a whole people wrosperous. We won't divide Chi T want ea ad_throughout the world, t drcud any form of intervention. (sizned) TANG SHAO YL Wu Ting Fang’s statement follows: | “Grectings to the people of the | Unitea States &nd the world from a . of ihe newly formed We hope and axpect complish our great purpos that ‘s done 1t will benefit not the peonle of China but all na- with which we are commercially iiplomatically connected. feel sure that all nations sym- with us in our struggle for lib- freedom and better government. confidently expect that the na- will remain strictly neutral, as ve de until SEARCHERS FOR MISSING WOMAN NUMBERED 500 ereabouts of Miss Considi No Ciue to Margaret Stil . . ng the . issing A POSTAL SAV BANK AT NIANTIC. Fostmaster General B Ordered b ady to Be B on —oteor revnue The presidnet | = ate the names o 2 Noble Skene t secon t nt liress s 3013 < city. Plantsvil fect Janua and Niant 1912 take OBITUARY. Colonel Waiton J. Miller. Dec. 24 —Colonel nal Silver here to- « ailments - Mr. n the bus. £ the town for several ears, was president of the Shelton vings bank and e directorate of several banks nufacturing concers. He was representa- tive to the legislature from the town of Huntington, w. mber of the stafls of G wnd Cham- Derlain, a 224 deg Mason, and member of the Anclent and Honorables of Boston. He was 62 vears oid. A Large Barn at East Hartford, swned by W. G. Comstock. was burn- ed last night. together with its con- tents. entailing a loss of $5,000. The cauze is not known. DERBY MAN TAKEN AS MURDER SUSPECT. Promptly Reledsed, But Hiz Maghsr Breaks Down in Consequence. Conn., Dec. Derby 24 —Bdward di Denato walked into the police station here tonight and handed to the officer nt the desk a pair of handeuffs which | when he was taken to Albany last might di Donato wore on his wrists. Di_Donato, 19 years old. was arrested afternoon at the request of Saturday the Albany district aitorney on sus- ion of knowing something of the ng of the Morner family at De Ereestville, Y. on Dec. 12th. He nis willingness to accom- ny an Albany detective to that city vithout requisition papers and the handeuffs he returned tonight were borrowed by the detective and worn | by ai Donato on the trip. | “At Albany the train on swhich the party arrived was met by a crowd of 1000 or more people who had heard of he arrest, but there was no demon- ation, the police having the matter Il in hand. On being looked over ose acquainted with the man :nted, di Donato was found not to the person under suspicion, but to matters certain he was taken to where he was again scrutinized ~ same outcome ai Donato returned to his 1t he found his mother in ¢ a physician, the strain o son's being suspected of the Mor- crime having caused a breakdown. TURKEY TO BE IN Growing of the Savory Bird is Stead- ily Decreasing. Dec. 24.—Tnless some- B doneé to rehabilitate turkey | #rowing there will be no such thing as Chrisimas or Thanksgiving turkeys in the I'niged States within ten years, 1o census bureau has issued a bulle- tin wing that nly 2,668,708 turkeys on farms in this country, while in 1900 there were 6,- 14,095 At this rate the turkey will s tn dodo class by 1¢20. There was ¢ reduction of about 50 per cene. in ducks during the ten years, d the number of geese dropped con- derably. Chickens Increase, however, total for the country golng from 566,021 in 1900 to 230,345,122 In the 1s0 = 1910, YALE EMPLOYE HELD BY THE HAMDEN POLICE. | Charged With Burglary at Home of George K. Payne Last Week. Ham den, Conn., Dec. 24.—The local sthorlties believe that in the\ arrest of Joseph Garrisom, & youns man em- ved in Collese, they have secured one of the gang responsible for many burglaries recently committed in this town. Car- is specifically charged with hav- entered the home of Georze K. yne in Whitneyville on Monday last, from which several articles of value e taken. He has been released on 0 ball furnished by his mother. rison ng Bisiiop Brewster's Christmas Greeting. New Haven, Conn., Dec, 24—Chaun- cey B. Brewsier, bishop of the Episco- pal diocese of Connecticut, sends the followine Christmas greeting to the people of the state: “May Christmas bring its sreat joy to all people; that joy that is deeper than any pain; ana bind them in that brotherhood that is deeper than any distinction Woman Held for Husband's Murder. Pridgeport, Conn., Dec. 24—In a | finding handed down today by Deputy Coroner Ilenry Stevenson, Mrs. Rosfe Martello and her brothers, Joseph and Rosario de Lucia, are held as belng | crincirals or implicated in the killing of Rosario Martello on the night of Dee. $ artello was while read- ing = paper in his cobbler. and there were no éye witnésses, al = [ Mrs. Martelio i< safd to have been in ihe rovmn when the shooting took place. DODO CLASS BY 1920. in 1910 there were the carpenter shop at Yale | Cabled Paragraphs |Byrglar Bang miners were killed bya firedamp ex- | I" Ne Haven ploston which occurred in one of the pits of the Teutoburgia colliery near here. | Madrid, Dec. 24—An official despatch | | from Melilla, reports.a sharp engage SIX ALLEGED CROOKS CAPTUR- | ment with tribesmen on December 2: | The Spaniards lost 9 killed and 38 ED BY THE POLICE. - | wounded. Berlin, Dec. 24— Lieut. Comumander | | Boyed has been appomtea mavai ai-| THEFTS TOTAL $15,000 tache to the German embassy at| ‘Washington, in succession to Com- mander Rotszmann. e | Clothing Stores the Principal Suffer- Manchester, England, Dec. 2i—The | | executive of the Weavers' trade union| ers—Over $2,000 of Stolen Coats Found in Room—All Prisoriers Mum. has decided to support the strike of | the mill operatives at Accrington against the employment of non-union- PRICE TWO CENTS The Bullotin's Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in ‘Connecticut in Proportion tu the City's Population Ran Wild on | Steep CGrade | _Mrs. Mary M. Avery, women 1o be elected to public office in | Ohlo, is dead. The War Department lIssued orders | for a change in the military prison methods. Hetty Green ha valuable picce of real estat cago for 93 years, TORONTO MOTORMAN LOST CON- = i leased the most TROL OF TROLLEY CAR. in Chi- | o An Italian Cruiser Seized the British stermer licnzaleh carrying $130,000 in #old coin for the payment of Turkish troops, TWO KILLED, 20 HURT Slippery Rails Said to Have Been the | Cause—Motorman Held by Police— All Stroet Cars in Indianapolis were halted for five minutes during the fu- | neral of Hugh J. McGowan, president of the company. Troops—Russians Blame Double Bereavement of Capt. Deacon Henry N. VanDyke, formerly regis- | | | through the Panama canal PROMINENT HARTFORD MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. | Olcott B. Colton Had Suffered from | ¥ Insomnia for Some Time. | Hartford, Conn., Dec. 24.—Olcott B. Colton, treasurer of the Smith-Worth- | ington’ company, ene of the largest | harness and saddie manufacttories in | | the country. committed suicide at his | and to that cause his family attribute | his act. ‘ | Had*Prepared to Attend Church. | For many years he had been a dea- | con of the Asylum Hill Congregational church, and had made all preparatlons to attend morning services with his | family, who were assmbled in the hall CHRISTMAS TO-NIGHT Everywherg, everywhere, | Christmas to-night! home, on Laurel street, today, by | il i i hea i H obert L. OW- | St Petersbure, Dec nt dew ing for the past month from insomnia, Of the fir tree and pine, amsociation, declared the United States | behting bets an constitu- | Christmas in lands Of the palm tree and vine, | Christmas where snowpeaks Stand solemn and white, two year term, which begins Jinu cesstion of our overtur 1, 1912, he will quit politics forever. lie ‘, 1 ications. President Taft Has Cabled to tne MO Telearaphic C"":"‘“"'f e | acting president of Ecuador the condo- e comuniiication. belyesn lences of himself and the American RS Lris cupGi, o people upon the death of President Bs- ! £ trada. b their The Young Daughter of A. B. Peters was aseaulted, shot and killed Satur- day at her home In Cascade, a mining town in West Virginia, by &n unknown negro. | mmunication with consul, FROM ST. PET SBURG. Advices from Russian Capital Coniirm ! News from Tabriz, supreme court Is “the bulwark of priv- ‘Condensed Tetezrans RUSSIANS GHARGED WITH BUTCHERY ae ot e st | Vice Governor at Tabriz Asserts Women and Children Are Slaughtered in Cold Blood SAYS THAT 500 PERSIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED Overtures For Cessation of Hostilities Ignored by Czar's Persians For Fighting at Tab- | it Workmen, which occurred Decem- 3 trar at Princeion” university, died of riz and Threaten to Avenge Attack of Tribesmen— { ber 20. | New Haven Comn, Dec. 34—The| Toronio, Ont. Dec. 2{—Two women | heart disease Saturday on & Hroad- | c to Tabri police today arrested Joseph Chibelia, | Were Killed and twenty other persons | Way car, New York. ach i nd Cossacks on Way to Tabriz St. Petersburg, De —A NeWS | making the sixth in connection with | were injured, some of them mortally, f et Detachment of Russians a ¥ | agency despatch from Dainy, Manchu- | recent burglaries of clothing stores | When a runaway troley car on King | Nicholas Eisen of Brooklyn, N. Y., | g | ria, siya that the Japanese do not con- | (rom which_goods of the estimated | Stret. crowded to its capacity with |unable to et his ewife a Clirisimas | | cedll their delight at the controversy | \iluc ‘of 315,000 have been taken in | Churchgolng passeagers, dashed down |SIfi, wished her o Merry Christmas, | ¢ pic- (Uonalists and Russlan troops. There { which has arisen between Russia a st two weeks. The other five|a steep grade tonight, ran into an open |8nd then hanged himself, 1 Teheran, Dec. -An appalling pic- has also been fighting at Bnzell on tk | the United States over the Jewish | ts were made yesterday and ail | Switch and fell over on its side, One e 2 ture Of the sifuation in Tabriz ax i |has also been Aglting at Bnsell on th question. They perceive in this a new | ects are being held under $10,- | of the women killed was Mrs. Alfred | A Candle Set Fire to Milville Shry- |result of- Russian aggression is given | Caspian sen, R trs (he Bo ground for closer relations between il each pending further examina- E. C. Deacon, wife of an engincer 2¢k, who was impersonating Santa |ir a telegram from the vice governor |north of Enzell, At Tabriz tho kov Japan and Russta. commander in the British navy. Claiis, and caused a panic at a school | of that city. He says Somabarded and there were casua 2 e . | Folicemen in Plain Clothe: Passengers Piled in Hesap. SGr e mment I Cotivcton, O Slaughter of Innocents. on both sldcs. The cause of the ut London, Dec. 24.—The Hay-Paunce-| por the past week all policemen on| When the crash came the panic- h “I swear before God that Annocent | fF N B, 0% reports from & | Kingdom of Great Britain and 'Vflla"d quarters at midnight and donned citi- ; amongst a litter of broken glass and | “Afarachino Cherries,” according to a |€red in cold blood. | Russia moldiers wore killed. At Res! land the United States 1s quote zen’s clothes and patrolled their beats | splintered wood. struggled desperately | jocision by the pure food board 500 Persians Killed. and Enzeli the fighting was between 2 inst P”s"::m Taft's svz'tg"‘;fl;;nb'? thus dressed for the remainder of Lhe | for egress. Many men climbed out of | 2 * T fce, governor stimates the | Russian soldiers and the pol s messago to congress on December | njynt. The first arrest was made | the uppermost w abov e Pareiany klied in TADIIE a8 o 21 that preferential treatment should | ” | 2 t windows above their| Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo, |number «f Persians killed in Tabriz i L R avEnoRD, -t iR I R e SHiDe pasetng | O.. announces that at the end of 0 and adds: “The Russians igr - A Strong Detachment of Russians the Way to Tabriz. Isaphan, Pers attack by Persian tribcsmen sians at Tabriz will be aven A etrong detachment of Russtan comprising & regiment of rifles and a motnia of Cossacks with & mountain battery, laft here last evening for Tu briz, The colunm has aireudy traversed the Daradio gorge without encounter= ing Persian opposition. It wus expect ¢d that the Persians w stoutly fend the mountain passes. The dis tance between Isapban and Tabris is nearly 500 miles, flege. | CHRISTMAS BOQUET | Proposals Were Introduced in the FROM MISS EDMANDS. Russian duma providing for tariff war schedules against the United States at the expiration of the Russo-Ameri- | can treaty. Richeson to Have Christmas Dinner | Provided by Parishioners. [ the police while his companions were in the store making a selection of the stock which they took with them. Stolen Goods Found in Room. The other arrests took place at dif- ferent hours during the day and early evening. in one instance a suspect be- ing taken while carrying a bundle in hich th Hired Man Temporarily Crazed by the Loss of His Entire Savings. Middletown, Conn., Dec. 24—Ben. min Gilbert, 50 years old, of the We Long Hill section narrowly escaped | with his life and Tony Vishiniski was temporarily crazed last night by a fire with a loss of $2,7000. How o] Sap Semany | | stnrted ot mot heow qeaow the flre | foung on Fair street and when a room | | termined. “butthe” authorities heliove il 18, tob of the bullding was broken | it started in Vishiniski's, the hirea | [t0 $2.000 o more of stolen coats an clothing were found. Prisoners Decline to Talk. When taken to the police station the sen, Btephano Cupone, Albert Martino. Vincenzo Guilomo, Vincenzo Guilizzo end Angelo Sirchia, all of whom rave New York as their home, were given ite cells and later examined one man’s room, from an exploding lamp. Gilbert war found by neighbors r and smoke and car- place while Vishiniski who lost all his savings, $100, which he in tended to send to Poland to his wife and child to pay their passage to this | country, temporarily lost his mind and ic his condition was much improved | by one. ‘They refused te telk, althouz | today and & comiplete recovery i3 look- | Martino is alleged to have said ~¥ou | ed for. | 2ot us right” Sixth Man Found in Restaurant. Satisfied that there was another member of the gang who was working the ‘police left word at a_local taurant where the suspects had been ing their meals, and today when | BLOODHOUNDS PLACED ON TRAIL OF A NEGRO. Fugitive is Accused of Assault Upon | ¢ f Foooen sngiontin Chibeita entered the eating place the Giro, 1, Dec. 24 —Bloodnounds ana i T e e arched the woods an L A e nesro who attacked the wife of Ture | ner Johnson, section hand, | | and_Johnson’s daughter, 18 vears cld, | 1ast“night. | Johnson's daughter was | awn and severely beaten, bu: | caped and gave the alarm. ad been In New York and that he ad taken with Mm some of the stolen goods and the police also thing that almost as fast as the goods were stolen they rere efther taken or ship- ped to New York and disposed of, as the lot found on Fair street represents but a small part of the quantity taken. carded Coat Furnishes Clue. One of the most direct pleces of avi- lence against any of the men is a coat knocked ag sho_es- he nes | then fled into the woods. e is sup. | posed to be an escaped prisomer from | a Paducah, Ky., chain gang. Grand Chain s sixteen miles north of Cairo. Feeling is Intense among both negroes and whites. und in an alleyway on Chapel street Burglars Get Christmas Prosents. | near the Mayo taflor shop the morning Windsor, Conn., Dec. 24— r ar | 2fter it had been burglarized. At the o erion ot Sursianies oia mother 8t | £ Station when Marting was beths s fonshtiwhen (he home of Albert | (Hestioned &n offlcee ‘noMed fhmt s Matthews was entered during the ab- | 128t e wore matched the coat and sence of the family and jewelry and | MAartino was compolled to put it on and Christmas presents to the value af # 5004 fit was the result. Martino at $250 were taken. The family was away | 7St denied that the coat belonged to when entrance o the houss was gain, | 'm. but later admitted its cwnership. gd, but on their return suprised two| Police Say They Are Professionals. n ork who made their escape | Besides the robberies of larger stores 2& jumping from a second story wind- | ir the center of the city, the police - Lope to fasten numerous other smaller | jobs on the gang. which they say is made up of professionals. Baby Kidnapped from Cradle. 'w Haven, Dec. 24.—With the sit- ting room in the home of Mrs. Filo- mena Spea full of boarders today, Dominico Sylvestro entered the room, walked to a cradle in which Mrs. Spea’s T8 months old baby was sleep- ing, picked it up and went out of the house and neither Mrs. Spea nor the rolice have been able to get any trace of the two since. It is stated Mrs. Spea at one time kept house for Syl- vestro and that he was be- cause she refused to return to him. Many Poor Families in New York eity ] receive u Christmas gifts of from 320 to in gold by ex- vpress, and will never know the syurce of the benefaction Fell from Trolley Car. Griswolaviile. Conn., Dec, 24.—Cari| Olsen of Hartford, 23 years of age, | fell from a rapidly’ moving trolley car | here late today and received a frac- | rured skull, an fnjury which will pr abiy cause his death. He was taken o ‘a local hospital, where an opera- tion was performel. He was return- ing from a visit ai the home of his brother in Middletown. Policeman’s Hsroic Act. Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 24.—Patrolma: Frank Blanchard’ of the local police proved himseif a hero in an unusual manner today when after a supposediy mead dog had run amuck and bitten 0 Bost seriousy mert and peoaanis anc Dabl. suved the man's life. The Log wes Znally cornered and ahot on the main 5 of his home. As they were ready to i i A Confederate Hero of the Battle | Boston, Dec, 24 —Christmas eve found | depart he cxcused himseif, and a fow | Chrl_stmas where co'rnhelds bet tne Monitor and the Merri- | Rov. . V. T. Richeson, who Ix Tan heard - His son. Herold, of Nevw | Lie sunny and bright! | Sppatmiod agent In the mavel Wer rec- | Domenies of hin Toreser. sweedneurt | | York, who had come en for the holi- | ords office of the navy department, Avis Linnell, somewhat recovered from | days’ went down into the cellar, and | 2 % the effects of his sulf-mutilation and | | there on the cellar bottom found his Christmas where children More Letters Were Cancelled in the | the subsequent surgical operation | { father ead. with a bullet hole in his Chicago postoffice last Friday than Wednesday His physicians sald fol- head, with the revolver by his side | Are hopeful and gay, any other one duy fn its history. The lowin their auily Call that the prison- Had Suffered from Insomn: . new record was made when upwards er-patient is now out of all danger, 65 Calfoe Saik nipett Trpne tnsoss- | Christmas where old men 24,300 letters Passcd through the | thoweh he is still confined to the cot M ’ i e in his cell nia, but had seemingly been in good Are patient and gray, S ATl e spirits and had entered into the > B ey ever quets of NOrs; (0% . ay e 3 e Condition of Former State Sen- | them the holiday gift of his flancee, [ o e ormieatiies win | Christmas where peace A ator Thomas Arnold, Jr, who i in a | M Vioiet Bamands, were pluced b t F 1 on of tak- T e < i | Bridgeport hospital, where he has pass- | side the minister's col as reminders e s of e Like a dove in his flight, | o0 tirbugh T operations o kiney | o the Chrstmas season. ‘e Wil axs K osse: raen K | trouble, was reported last night as | Christmas da in bed but W have that he possessed a revolver, nor do Broods o’er brave men | troubte, 3 da; ut i : gt . E much improved. specially prepared dinner which two T e e arelt e win, | In the hick of the Sabt: v | former parishioners have received per- e o e hit B e Den | n e thic of the lgh'l Authoriti Are Searching for Phil- mission to provide for him Attorney e e e miapioden) ip Burris, owing to the ])noismxlng of | Willlam A ’\n.m» had a long talk with el e e e el Everywhere, everywhere, ifvo persons, two of whom died ufter | his cHunt this after noon, and will Vis- | ¥ ive i i i | drinking beer from a pitcher at the it him again tomorrow S84 A?;'" 1'; c:'":':"‘ wh"'k‘ Christmas to-night! home of Thomas Royster, a wealthy | The Initiative in any step looking to s B Mr. CoRton hds been a fi ds, K: the appaintment of a commission (o member of the concsrn of which he o2 il ey determine whether Richeson 1a insane was treasurer, assuming the executive —Phillips Brooks. Circuit Judge Withrow at St. Louis | will not be taken by District Attorney position when the concern consolildat has granted a new trial in the Mc- | Pelletier Mr. Pelletler says he does ed with a_ wesiern plant manufactur Dermott will case, in which a “strik- Dot ¢ minister's act of i!ng a similar line of goods. He was ing” jury after three days delibera- | Wedn such a move, Al- fn°the thurch chariten He s 03 (ion retuned a verdict contrary <o the | though Lawyer Morse ir “yuoted s |in" the church charitles. He was 62 s fons of the judge. saying that in his opiniop, the act in- years old and leaves his widow. a| T n. e uoe dicated an abnormal mind, the defense daushter and one son, Harold of New | shortly after 3 o'clock Saturday morn- | heads, while women and children made R. P. Tolman, an Expert from the has taken no steps as yet toward rais- York. | irg by an officer in civilian's dress who | their way to the doors and windows at [ Corcoran Art Gallery, has undertaken | Ing the question of sunity. It is in- i | suspected a man wandering around the | the ends of the car. | the task of repairing The Battle of | tim; that whatever Is done by the FARMER OF 80 RESCUED | \_Il':lmxy of W‘r:eed &fompl.‘;:ynxglnra ou Motorman Held by Police. | Lake Erie, the splendid painting at the | “‘1( | w,l‘u:u)!;rll‘wh return _frem State street. er developmen itol, Washington, which was slash- | Virginia of Lawyer Jo se, One FROM MIDDLETOWN FIRE. | showed that ihe man was watching for | , AS the car capsized come of the pas- | “APIt0L, Wasbinglon, which was slash-| Furefals o6 JOmer JO00 the sengers were hurled through windows and pinned under the car, one of these being Mrs. Deacon. Her husband was i holiday season. Having Been Bitten on the Hand by | only slightly injured. William J.| & fellow physiclan who died several CHARLES F. GODFREY | of the car on ths slippery rafls, was beld by the police pending fixing the responsibllity for the accident. He es- caped injury. of New York, is at the Marine hos- pital at Washington for pasteur treat- | Westport Man’s Body Found Lying ment. | Between Tracks at Woodmont. Captain Deacon Just Lost Mother. | A Handsome Marble Bust of the Ger- | Woodmont, Conn, Dec. 24—The The circumstances surrounding the [ man emperor, the gift of Emperor | . . % Da 'greight in passing | death of Mrs. Deacon were narticu- | William, was presented Saturday to J. | CT¢W ©f @ sl 5 larly su husband, commander | P. Morgan at Mr. Morgan's private li- | through here last night discovered t | of a British“naval trading ship, had | brary. The presentation wae made by | mangled body of a man lying he- | come with her to Toronto for a Christ- | Dr. Kurt Ziegler, the German vice | tween the tracks and on searching his | mas visit, only to witness the death of | consul. clothing_found a card bearing the | his mother, a sufferer from cancer, on | e pame Charles 1. Godfrey, Westport, Satvrday. Captain Deacon, doubly be- | Bellefontaine, O., is Santa Clausless | The body was taken to that town and reaved, is expected to be sufficiently | this year, and probably is the only | positive identification made, ifre Tecovered from his injuries to attend | city in the couniry that will have no | was last seen in South Norwalk about | the double funeral which now will be | Christmas exercises in any of the |eight o'clock Saturday night and how eid. Z churches or Institutions. This is due | he came to be killed in this place is Mrs. Lena Jean Williems was the | to sentiment against the Santa Claus | somewhat of a mystery, though it is other fatal vietim of the accident. She [ myth and the high cost of livinz. | ght that he mmy have fallen died at the general hospital from a | D on boarding u train at So fractured skull. Another Mile Stone Was Set Up at | Norwalk and on waking and find the beginning of this month in the his- t he had passed Westport jumped | POISONED BEER MAY | toey of the construction of the world’s | and was hit by later truins that | greatest engineering work, when the | bassed. The Westport authorities CAUSE CHILD'S DEATH | Two Members of Kentucky Household | Have Already Succumbed. | also working on a statement madc Godfrey’s companions that a Polander | with whom he quarrellod had threat- ened to kill him. He was 36 years old and leaves his widow and two children. engineers announced that on that date four-fifths of the excavation required | to complete the Pana canal had been done. | Henderson, Ky. Dec. 24.—A third | member of the household may die as | the result of the poisoning on Friday | night of the family of Thomas Roys- Mrs. Lew Shank Saturday active reinforced her husband. the mayor of | Indianapdlis, in his campalgn against | the high cost of Christmas feasting. | WILL NOT PARDON MORSE AT PRESENT. ter. Three members of the family and | She stood in the public market selling | S | two negro servants became suddenly | dressed turkeys nd chickens, walnuts President’s Attitude Set Forth in State- | il after drinking beer. Philip Burris, | and mincemeat, at prices under those ment from White House. an admirer of Blanche Royster, was asked by regular dealers. | the only member of the family not poi- | _ Washington, Dec. '24—Charles W.| soned. & The )Grand Jury Saturday returned | Morse will not be pardoned by Presi- | Tonight the physicians in attend- | indictments charging Frederick G.|cent Taft at present. The following ance \ipon Lorene, the 13 years old | Boneham and Willlar P. Channeli | siatement issued from the White 11ouse daughter, sald_her condition was such resident’s attitude as to make her recovery extremely called fato con- | with the murder of Mrs. Hattie Kauf- | plains the man, who was killed by four ewtomo- | “The president today doubtful. The second negro servant is | bils bandits In front of her home, in | sultalion the surgeoneral of the army, also sald to be in erious condition. | Chicago, Irec. 2, as she was returning | the surgeon gene of the navy and Thomas Royster will recover. from a theater with her husband. | Major M. A. Delaney, modical corps, | ~ United States, on the report of the MURDERED IN FRONT | . The Oldest Man Ever Arrested in|board of physicians at Atlanta as fo Chicago, and the police belfeve in the | the physical condition of Charles W. OF CHRISTMAS TREE | world, charged with highwny robbery, | Morse. After full conmideration of the | was taken in custody Saturday night | report as oxplained to him by them, Deranged Wife of Fred Feassl Kills| Mo is Willlam R. kly, 83 years A e R M G Him and Haerself. | Ely, with a much younger man. enter- ‘tion_was necessary, but di- | ed an Englewood real estate office and be kept fully advised at attempted to hold up L. S. Jamieson, a clerk. B Trequent intervals of any change GIRL FALLS TO DEATH WALKING IN HER SLEEP. Her Body Found in the Yard Where She Had Lived. New York, Dec. 24—The half dress- ed body of Rose Brown, the 23 years 0l daughter of P. ., Brown, a wealthy real estate dea'sr, was found by a butoher boy this morning in the yard of tife fashionable Park avenue apart- ment house in which the family lived. | The girl's sloull was fractured. The father would mot entertain the idea of suleide, but sald that his daughter must lave walked in her sleep Lo the roof of the building and fallen off. She returned from u Christiias cele- Sandwich, Ill, Dee. 24.—Before a Christmas tres which he was about to decorate, Fred Feasel, manager of a dry goods store here, was shot and killed today by his wife, who then committed suicide. She had shown tendencies to mental aberration, since the birth of a baby six months 0. Mrs. Feasel shot her husband twice |in the back, telephoned to his brother to come to the house as soon as he could, lay down beside her husband, and killed herself, New Cardinals Receive Greetings./ Rome, Deo. 24—Cardinals Farley, Falconio and O'Connell have received an abundance of especially from the United States and Ireland. Many presents are being re- ceived by the American cardinals from Catholies and Protestants slike. Three Killed in Freight Wreck. Bristol, Tenn., Dec. 24.—Three train- men were instantly killed and a fourth probably fatally injured early today, when a double header freight train on | the Virginia and Southwestern rail- way ran into a boulder whic hhad fal- | len on the track in the natural tun- nel, forty miles _west of Bristol. The men killed were Engineer W. 8. Adam Fireman Lee Glober and Brakeman Clinton Sprolles. The injured man is Brakeman 8. 8. Carrige; Santa Claus 8truck by Train. | New Britaln, Conn., Dec. 24—On his | way to play Santa Claus at the home of his brother-in-law tonight, Anthony ' Savage was struck by & train at the | | North Family street crossing of the | bration last night in good spints, he . | interurban railroad and received a sald. Mr. Brown did not niss his Steamship Arrivals. fractured skull which will probably | daughter until awakened hy the crowd At Genoa: Dec. 24, Cretic, from New | cause his death. He was 31 years old which responded (o the buteher hoy's Yor and unmarried. ) orias PRESIDENT TAFT ELUDES HIS GUARD, With Mrs. Taft He Escapes from the White House Unattended. Washington, Dec. 24.—President and Mrs, Taft were lost for two hours t aay, and there were 120 minutes uneasiness in the White House as a result They slipped oul of tho house st 4.80 o'clock this afternoon, having dodged their vigilant guardisns, Major Butt and the secret service men, and nc withstanding the driving raln tramped the streots together and dropped in at the homes of friends to wish them the compliments_of the season. Secretary Hilles was the first to-di cover thot his chief wase missing. 1o wanted to consult him with referer to somo public business and was a tonished to learn that the chief ecutive had escaped from the watch his special guanl, A search of White House and vicinity was without result. At 6.30 the searchers were prised to see the president and M Taft trudging up the walk, dripp with rain, but apparently thorougt delighted over thelr afternoon’s esc pade. In the morning the president ad aressed the congregation of All Saints® church, taking for his text “It is m blessed to give than to received.” “Christmas is an evolution.” he sai ‘Some day you will understamd there is something better than to recelve gifts, m as y rize them now After a while then I hope you will be lo to make gifts you will Aind much more pleasure In giving things to other persons than in getting them Yol selt.” A TOY BEAR CAUSES SCARE IN NEW YORK, o Officors Approached the “Giz« Iy” With Drawn Revolvers. Pol Some prmctical New York, Dec eral hundred joker gave a crowd of we persons on Fifth mvenue u bad scare Today and brought policemen running |to the scene with drawn revolvers when the sight of what appeared ta be u big bear at large on the mdewatt along the Central park edge excited ) | bellef that a grizzley had escaped the park menagoerie. The furry t, of about @ maws belght, wam rocking back and forth and giving \m:j to low growle. A policeman lovelle his weapon to fire, but had no soon~ er done so than the growling ceased and the bear toppled over. The “bear proved to be an ingenious toy which, ! on winding, would rock back and forth and emit a low growl at regular in- tervals. About the neck of the big toy was a ribbon, to which was ats tozhed " o oard: inseribed “A . Merry Christmas from Uncle “Tut Tut™* The, bear is being held for identification byfy | the police. UNSEASONABLY MILD DAY IS PREDICTHD, | A Greon Christmas Scheduled For All Sections of New England. Boston, Dec. 24—A green Christmasy for New England was predicted for o certainty in the official forecasts to- night. It will be an unseasonsbly mildy day, and the first green Christmas which many sections of New Kngland ) have experienced in nearly & Score of! yeurs. Proparations were In hand in this city tonight for probably the most extensive charity in the way of Christ< mas dinner giving ever known in Fos« ton and it I8 believed that fow, heedy familles will go without n of the season’s good things. Tho Ha vation Army's plans embrace nen 20,000 poor people, while the \ unteers of America and nur other charftable societics will 1o er as many more. Ocean of Molasses Wastes. Boston, Dec. 25—More thai ¢ lion gallons of molasses wis « in u fire today among the whir bulldings of the Boston M pany, on the eastern bar Point Channel in South Iox loss on the stock and p: company Which is said the largest plant of its Iin world, i3 estimated to am tween $200,000 and $300,000 Frozen Stiff by Roadside. South Norwall, Conn, Dec James Cassidy, an employe of 1 Nursery, New Canasn, who Norwaik Saturday and started to home late at night, lay down by wayside to sleep, aind his Itfeless wes found this morning by Frederick B. Bcofleld, of Scotts Corners, who Wwas driving 1o Norwadk. Two partly filied wh bottles were lonslde the man, but he was frozes sud