Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 15, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 13 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Girculation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Popufation FEDERAL OWNERSHIP OF TELEGRAPH Postmaster-General Hitchcock to Recommend . Ac- quisition of the Lines to Congress T0 BERUN AS PART OF THE POSTAL SERVICE Argues That Government Could Afford Better Facilities at Lower Rates—Has Had Project Under Consideration Over a Year—Value of Systems to be Acquired Would | ni» monoplane at the acrodrome here. - | Approximate $250,000,000—Works Well Elsewhere. ® ston, Jan. 14.—Acquisition of { by tho government under authority ¢h' lines of the United | irom ccrgress, and from many view- "> e government and thelr [ points it is desirable that government « a part of the posial ser- | contro! should be resumed. A method - recommended to congress | for the acquisition of telegraph lines is e by Postmaster General | prescrived in section 5267 of the revised | statutes, which provides that for pos- o Yohic tal, military or other purposes - the | government may purchase telegraph Mr. Hiteheock | 04 gperated in the United States at under | o, “appraised valu Matter Considered mendation ough study sidoration Aftera thorouh SEACY | Greater Facilities at Lower Rates. od 3 postal-telegraph sys- | “My own view s that every reason | s 8 ries, hie has decid- | for the transmission of mail under o aiter upon congress. | government control can be urged with Would Lower the Rat: | equal force fo~ the transmission of . | communications by telegraph. Because 8 s recommendation be | r'iye more extensive organization a Hitchcock tonight | maintained by the postal service and ¢ his intention. “I &m | tha freedom from taxation and other result in Important | cherges to which private corporations $ s and ry materially lower | are subject, the government undoubt- £a es tha are exacted. | odly could afford greater facilities, at xima intries of the | jower rates, thon are afforded by com- | it Britaln_Ger- | panies now_conducting the telegraph a Au 5 Italy, Spain, | husiness. Next to the introduction of a va vernment-con- | o general parcels post, for which there 4 telegraphs now are in success- | js a strong popular demand, the estab- table operation. In many | lighment of & government telegraph s they are operated in| yystem offers, is in my judgment the n e tal service. | hest opportunity for the profitable ex- r s serve an agETeRAL | {enejon of the nation’s postal service” ; ot g il S B Does Not Include Telephone Lines. " g 4.0 e 1t is not Mr, Hitchcock's purpose to ‘ost | recommend the acquisition of telephone | lines, except, possibly, in instances where they are operated e Telegraph and Pestoffices. | lines and are an integral part of defi al Dbenef je and promptit is places not reacned | Rates Could Be Reduced One-Third: e stems, and the pro- | Ly, jatest census figures available ; n therefore would | i jicate that about one hundred thou- L mle e ¢ | sand_people are connected with the sion i facilitles |\ joo aph companies of the United ’ el ) tele- | States. The appraised value of the systems proposed to be acquired woukl | be purely conjectural, would approximate $250,000,000. experts who have figured on the propo- sition are of the opinfon that existing telegraph rates could be reduced at | least one-third to the public and ve could be same employes. e separate mainte- | . » two services under present . & needless ex- Ma hase at Appraised Valu make the investment in and operation T t telegraph in United | of the lines profitable to the govern- ates was operated from 1844 to 1847 ' ment. | A MIMIC WAR TO BE LAWRENCE MILITIA | FOUGHT IN CONNECTICUT. | ORDERED TO REPORT. Now England Troops Will Attempt to | Will be Held at Armory Uniess Strike nvade New York State. | Riots Grow Serious. | Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 14—Three companies oft-the state militia have been ordered to report at the state s | armory at six o’clock tomorrow morn- | ing prepared for duty in case of trouble | s a result of the mill strike now in | i | | | s telegraph | es are main- | nite telecraph system# V‘ wut it s seid it | The | | | Cabled Paragraphs Paris, Jan. 14—The Rev. John B. Morgan, D. 1., rector of the American Chureh of the Holy Trinity, on the Avenue De L'Alma, digd suddenly yes- terday. Paris, Jan. 14.—M. Polncare, who was tendered the premiership, called upon Prestdent Falieries and announced his acceptance of the Invitation to form the new ministry, —_— | Santiagd, Chile, Jan. 14.—The Chilean | cabinet, which has been in office for a | | year, Is threatonel with disruption, | The ‘minister of foreign relations, En- | rique Rodriguez, resigned today. Pau, France, Jan. 14. { The French | aviator Jules Vedrines beat the world's | speed record Saturday by covering a | distance of 142 kilometres, 150 metres | | (ebout 88 1-3 miles) in one hour in Santiago, Cuba, Jan, 14—Enrique | Sanches and Rafael Pedron, who wers | | shot during a political dispute among the members of the veterans' assocta- tion, have sucoumbed to their wounds, | Both were very prominent members of the veterans' association. London, Jan. 14.—Coal dealers are reaping a rich harvest as a conse- | quence of the ballot of the coal miners | which unofficial reports state to bo| | largely in favor of a national strike fo- | a fixed minimum wage. The dispute | affects about 900,000 men. | | | RELIEF AT HAND, Woather Bureau Promises Normal Temperature This Wesk. ‘Washington, Jan, 14.—Rellef from the intense cold which has prevailed in | ail sections of the country the pam | few days is promised the coming week. | “The general pressure distribution as | shown by the weather map of the northern hemisphere during the last | several days,” says a bulletin issued | tonight by the weather bureau, “is such as to indicate a general reaction to | normal temperature conditions over | tho eustern half of the country by the middle of the week. | “The weel will he one of generally fair weather east of the Rocky Moun- tains, except that a short period of smows will attend a disturbance which will appear in the eastern states about Frida 20 Below at Stevenson. Stevenson, Conn,, Jan. 14—It was | the coidest 'in many years here this | morxing, 20 below. In the surrounding country it was from 10 to 13 be'ow. | Coldest Since 1896, | ‘Woodbury, Conn., Jan, 14.—The cold- ‘ est weather since 1896 was registered | by thermometers this morning, when | the 30 below mark was reach:d. In| 1896 it was 35. | 21 Below at Meriden. | Meriden, Conn., Jan. 14.—The coldest | temperature recorded here for several | years was 21 below zero at the sewer | disposal farm this morning at 5 o’clock All parts of the city were in the of zero weather conditions, &rin | RELIEF FOR NANTUCKET, With Provisions Through Field of Ice. Steamer Plows | Nantucket, Mass, Jan. 14—Roelief from the ice embargo was brought to the inhabitants of Nantucket today, | when the new screw steamer Sankaty | forced her way through the besrier | sand reached Nantucket barbor with a fresh supply of provisions. The steamer Was rammed through | the ice field for eight miles, and upon | discharging provisions enough to last the community for another week, cut ‘prugresa. The call was issued late | which was | tonight by Mayor Charles I. Sargent, ted to Governor Dix yesterday e and New Jersey troops { and others and it is expected that | i somewhere in West- | neasly the entire complement of the est the border of Con- | three companies about 250 officers and | . says the réport, but the thea- | men will be on hand. Battery C, Light war pr iy will be | Artillery of the Eighth regiment, and | Companies F and L, infantry, of the | Ninth regiment, are the three organ- | izations affected. The men will not | be sent out on the streets unless it is seems | found cannot be that the situation taken care of by the police. | That serious trouble might follow the | opening of the various mill gates to- morrow morning was not denied by city officials or the police. Fear wa expressed that a repetition of the dis- orderly scenes of last Friday might | be attempted and that 5000 strikers | crowding about the mill gates would a comple 2 not consider e war depart from going to work. | e national v and measure- experience churchds today the priests urged t men and women not to resort to act of violence when the hour of opening |arrives tomorrow and asked them to remain quiet during the strike. ek | Father Mariano Milanese of the Italian POSTMASTER CONVERSE church sald that he would visit the ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.|mills in the morning and attempt to s Lseda prevent trouble. Windeor Rev Locks Veteran Was Cleaning Iver When It Discharged. by strikers today. The most portant meeting was that at Franco- | asor o Conn. dan. 14 A1 | Belgian hall, attended by more -than tred I Converse, for 30 vears posi. 1:000 Dersons. aster here. accldentally shot himsell 7 — de today while cleaning a re- | ROCKVILLE YOUTH GETS Siant 3 Serious s Mo Bons Do @b 49 Gl | ANNAPOLIS APPOINTMENT. & beer an employe of Con NI PR " intter was in hir T0Om | Son of Rev. J. F. George Selected for : Dreparatory to putting it | 7 Ao e ulng it Y mnmer o ei8,0l | Vacaney by Congressman Henry. for i harged, the bullet | e Bia side just below the (Spécial to The Bulletin.) it and 1 % In Dis back. Con- | washington, Jan. 13.—Re e was 1) B e s iington, Jan. 13.—Representative | BN Nl S O D ”,"lmm—v vesterday appointed Nelson p G y James George of Rockville a midship- % ¥ o |mon at the Naval Academy at Annap- .- kot | - " | viis. to fill & vacancy. He is the son e T . | of Rev. J. F. George and the grandson 2 {of Judge Bristol of Enfield | Mr. George was appointed to the [ awcademy seve 1 years ago, 1t failed Fan. 18 Sotns passing the physical examination, ,r the | Although passing high in his mental o fhoodt | “Xaminations, It is belleved now tha Ploct v Zht ‘1 ie physical disability has been over - gh with the election of of- | a n4 the choosing of Providence, 1he sub-committee of the house com- s the place of the next meeting, to 14. It was recommended «t the counctls of New York state be d to the New England distric officers were elected . J. D. Beecher, Providence: 1 ice president, H. E. Schimme] Pro-idence: second vice president, J. Towrence, Mass.: third vice | ¥ Bradley, Hartford; secre- mittes on postoffices and post roads, having In charge the bill introduced by Representative Rellly restriciing the working time of postoffice clerks and carriers, in first and second class offices, to eight hours, which must be performed within ten consecutive hours, voted to report in favor of the passage of the bill. Mr. Rellly had as guests at lunch yes- s ;. E. "Whittaker, Provi. | terday at the house Hon. Homor Cum- L vt aker, Provi- | mings, member for Conmactiout on tha nationsl_demooratic, committes, and i T om” Sullivan of N ' Haven. New French Cabinet | Mr Cummings sald ‘e had engaged 30 rooms at the Hotel | plvidere, Ralti- {.—The French cabinet organined by Premier Hoincare was of- | More, for the use of | \o Connecticut - snannced today. No changes | delogates 10 the national convention Pae de in the portfollo as | 2ext June 2 . oy ¢ night, but today’s a- The senate confirmed the nomive- 2 1aea 1 tions of the following postmusters: pud Stendilon SR John A. Ayres, at Saybreok; Franmic A, g i 3 Hiffron, at Deep Hiver, and Annfe A. ot Vinton,’ at Eaglevills, Below at | RN RS Wasaington, Ja 4—'The nativnal | Leaky Gaspipe Causes Death. apital = s jn & (old wave | Bridgeport, Conn, Jan. 14—A lean which arove the mercury at the weath- er bureau down to 1 helow zerq, 1thin two degTees of the r:cord tem peraturs, 15 bolow, on Feb, 11, 1589, in a pipe feeding a gas stove caused the death of Mrs. Eimma Parrot here today, She was 87 years old and lsaves -no immediate relatives. | brought the official ther: | to | try to keep the other 20,000 operatives | ¢0d here this morn: Rev. | Meeting Hou Eer way out again and returned te| | following a conference of city officials | Woods Hole. | Frozen in Backyard. Burlington, Vt, Jan. 14.—Cold which ometer down 15 degrees helow zero during the night caused the death of Adolphus | Grovereau, 76, whose body was found | today in his backyard. He had fallen | there some time last night, and, un- | able to rise, was frozen to death. | No Colder in Thirty Years. | Newtown, Conn., Jan. 14.—It hasn't been colder in thirty years than it was this morning, when thermometers went | as low as 20 below. In Botsford they | Tegistered 30 below, | 28 to 35 Below Zers. Terryville, Conn., Jan. 14—It was| the coldest in many years, from 28 1o 35 below zero In the Italian, Polish and Lithuanien | P¢In& reported in this and neighboring towns, NO CHURCH SERVICE. :i at Satan's Kingdom | Could Not Be Made Comfortable. | Winsted, Conn,, Jan, 14 | no church service In Satan’ There was s Kingdom Meetings were held all over the city | today; it was too chilly, The thermom- imp- | eter wvas 22 below and the meeting | housé was too cold. All weather rec- orde for the past forty years were broken in this section of the country this morning, the temperature ranging | from 30 to 38 below zero. The lowest was reported at Barkhamstead. At Pleasant Valley members of the M. & church attended morning service, and In the afierncon were called back to fight a fire in the church caused by an overheated furnace. Both church and chapel were saved,but not until & thou- | sand dollars damage had been done, = = | FAMINE AVERTED. | Soldiers From Fort Qetty Make Way | Across Narragansett Bay. Newport, R. 1, Jan. 14 ed famine A threa at Fort Getty was raleved late today when men who were sent to Fort able yesterday, seeking pr sions for the garrison’s dinner, suc ceeded in making their way back rough the ice in Narragansett bay. ITaif a dozen cans of tomatoes and | peas were all that the ten men station- | ed at Fort Getty had to subsist on un- | tl the return of the messengers. The | latter reached Fort Greble early yes- | terday in a small boat and were obliged to remain there over night on account of the bad weather and ice conditions. Cold Kills Four at New York. New_York, Jan. 14—The death of four persons today was attributed to the extreme cold and numerous cases of frozen hands and ears were re- ported at the hospitals, but it was be- lieved tonizht that the cold wave | was broken. The early morning_tem- perature was one degree ahove zero, followed by notabla fluetwations in the mercury ‘tonight. . At$ p. m, it was 18, at & p. m, it was 24 and twenty minutes later it had dropped again to | 20. Warmer weather with snow flur- | ries was forecasted ! i Cold Weather Records Broken. | were broken today. Harry Peterman, o former constable, was found frozen | to death in York, where the coldest | weather In thirty years was experi- enced. | Inet of which Jose Canalejag y Mendes. Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce,| Condense Manufacturing, and Other Interests. ROLLIN C. JONES, Of the Firm of Utley & Jones, Druggists. To Atone For lis Blunders SPANISH CABINET TENDERS RES- IGNATIONS, URGED TO ‘RECONSIDER King Alfonso Assures Premier Cana- lejas of His Continued Confidence— When Accident Sequel te Reprieves of Seven Rioters | Madrid, Jan..14—The Spanish cab-| Philadelphla, Jan. 1 was premier resigned today. In Conflict With King. The cabinet resigned as the result of divergence of views with King Alfonso as to the advisability of commuting the death sentence of one of the riot- ars who murdered a judge and wound- ed geveral court officlals in the town | when on at the Linden ing at Torresdale, The dead are of Cullera, province of Valencis, last |19 years: September. The general strike at that | year: ne In Vhlencia and other provinces involved a plot to assassinate General Weyler, and the king was compelled to | ssupend the constitutional guarantees. Radicals Use Trial to Advantage. The trial of the strikers concerned in_the Cullera murder has engrossed publis attention to the exclusion of ail else for some time past, thanks to the | Jiveryma skilful political campaign of the radi- | frip aver cals, who seiaed upon the affair s a | years, weapon to attack the government in|° > the same way as they utilized the re- fusal {o reprieve Franclsco Ferrara, director of the modern school, who was executed in 1909, to bring about the downfall of the Maura cabinet. King Advised to Commute Six Sen- tences. The rloters were tried and seven of fhem were sentenced to death. Premier Canalejas advised the king (o exercise 1is prerogative in the case of six of the prisoners, but held that the seventh, Chato Chugueta, should be made an example of In the interests of law and order- Premier Awakes to His Biunder. The agtiation had by this time reach- od formidable proportions and the Barcelona radicals issued a decree[ed that it wes calling for a general strike If Chuqueta ) them by their clothing. was executed on Monday, the date fix. ed for his death. The premier, in his own words, then realized that the ex- clusion of 'Chugueta from a reprieve was a political blunder, and, learning that the king was of the same opinion, he went with his colleagues to the palace, where the king declared that he | favored a reprieve for Chucueta. | RICHESON HAD A Premier Tenders R ignation. ~ Premier Canalefas said that he de- ferred to his majesty’s judgment and ould prepars & decree to without delay, hui, considering as le ist d made a mis < duty to hand in his Bridget Agnes Ga Rose Gallagher, Deddy, aged 20 years. Davidson was the The Linden aveny ally guarded by a and his substitute had The squarely Agnes G on the _side t of the train, andw Agnes Garrity she was p ing conveved tn Davidson was d found fifty feet from Premisr May Reconsider. | the clergyman, raceived Sepor 1 a t the Broo 5 cere aybenn | flancee, 3iiss Violet e to another fiancee, O g to the premiership; sase: letter to another fiancee, according t ntinued confidance. S asked for time to reflect give his reply tomorrow promising to | 4%, CHURCH AT BAYSIDE BURNED TO GROUND, | Wrote that soon, he would seek Explosion of Radiator Causes Panio Among Cengregation. New York, Jan. 14—An hour after the explosion of a radlator in the basement of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bayside, L. L, today had | driven the congregatlon of 500 persons | out in semi-panic and a small fira whieh broke out had been extinguish- | ed, the flames burst forth agaln, and despite all efforts the large frame edi- fice was dburned to the ground. The loss is estimated at $20,600, | hundreds.” ! According. | tion Miss Felts was never broken. Richeson passed toda; the Charles street visitors, Aany, N. Y., Jan ever sheddeth man's answer by Right Rev Leg Crushed in Runaway. Winsted,- Copn, Jan. 14—In a run- [ocese of Albany away ‘accident here today Pugena | he believes in when right leg crushed and possible internas | Dix and Colonel Joseph ijuries inflicted, Mrs, O'Connell was | also thrown oui, but escaped harm. The horse was frightened by & trollex car state, ed 18 hen necessary ! Six Killed at Grade Crossing TRAIN STRIKES WAGON IN PH|L»1 ADELPHIA SUBURB. GUARD NOT ON HIS JOB | Party Being Transported to Happened—Four | Women-Mangled Beyond Recognition Were on Way to Church. The dead women were all employed as gervants in fashionable homes in Torresdale, and were being conveyed to church when the accident occurred. driver for a local and had been making the Sunday for the past two Crossing Not Guarded. crossing s t atchmen, but regular man was on leave of abesence, not when the coach reached the crossing. Davidson waited for a freignt,train to pass and then drove directly in fromt of the approaching express. Women Horribly Mangled. horses managed to track, but the engine struck the wagon Davidson rrity, who were seated on the front seat, were tossed to the side ot track, but the four other women were thrown directly under the wheels thelir Were recovered were so badly mutilat- to identify Miss Garrity Picked Up Alive. was stfll alive when cked up, but died v Torresdale d when his body wns the tracks, FIANCEE IN WEST. | Wrote to Her on Day Following Avis Linneil's Death, ne home of his Sdmands, wrote a i information given out by the police to- | not exceed $5,000. The letter was written to Miss Pat- | | sey Felts of Sale Lake City, who haa | loaned Richeson money when he a poor theological student, and in it he | in that ve { he would be on'his way to the police became in his cell at | charged jafl, receiving mno | Bishop Doane for Death Penalty. | ~—'"Whomso- blood shall his blood be shed” This was the William Cr | well Doane, bishop of the Episcopal sked whethe by e abolition of capital | announcement of the coming of Prof. Philadelphia, Jan. 14—Cold weather | O'Connell was thrown from his team, | punishment, the question having records in several sections of the state striking a stope hitching post and his | suggested by the attituda of Governor | superintendent of prisons, { announced their belief that the death penalty showld be abandoned in this | ix persens, five women and a mam were killed | an express train on York division of the Pennsylvania rail- road dashed into a light station wag- venue grade cross- suburb, today. The Dead. Charles | aged 50 years; Nellie O'Connor, agoed Malloy, v, aged 28 year: Davidson, | west, whers a_ church, “might preach to thousands instead or engaged to Richeson in 1904, and the engagement | er Telegrams | Northern Vi;m»niar 2 { is Buried under | | a foot of snow. Snow Covers the Greater Part of Georgia and the southern and wnnem{‘ portions of the Carolinas. Fines Agoregating $17,500 were im- posed on Atlantic City hotel men for violations of the Sunday liquer law. A Roomful of Love Letters to the | 250 widows of Santa Monica were | destroved Ly the mayors advisory council of women. | P ST | Secretary of War Stimson has urged | upon congrees to pass the bill suppiy- | ing discarded Krag-Jorgensen rifles to | schoois and rifle clubs, A Band of Bulgarians Threw t(hve: bombs into 1 meeting of the residents of Zilkeira, Furopean Turkey, killing | three and injuring 25. Only Prompt Work by the Crew of | the Allan liner Pretorian, Philadel- phia for Glasgow, saved the ship from | destruction by fire at sea. | The Japanese Government has de- clined on- the ground of neutrality to | | assist the Chinese revolutionists to 1m':n: ate a loan in Japan. Nine Hundred Men of the .United | States Marine corps at present are iu | Chima, despatched there from the Phil- | &reéater portion of th | ippines October in smail numbers- since last President Taft Has Now Equalled | the record of President Roosevelt's ad vinistrations Tar trust prosecutions der tho Sherman law. The | numter is 44, total | NEW HAVEN FIREMEN KEPT ONJUMP Crippled Department Called Out to Ten Fires Three of Them Serious, in Less Than 48 Hours THE HOSE SO BADLY FROZEN AS T0 BE USELESS Insufficient Number of Substitutes and Men Not Connected With Department Impressed Into Service—Grocery Es tablishment of D. M. Welch & Sons Damaéed $60,00C and Block of Governor Baldwin Damaged $75,000. New 3 Haven, Conn,, Jan. 14—With | Fancher, who passed through an eper- Chief Rufus Fancher, in a lo- |ation for appendicitis successfully. cal hospital, where he was “ operated | The chief was just recovering from a upon ténight for appendicitis; the |six weeks illness caused by ptomaine men of the department exhausted from | poisoning and was exposed to the cold inswering eight alarms in the past | of Saturday In directing his men at the two of them for fires which | Meadow street fire. He covered a fire caused losses of $150,000 and with & |on Hazel street Saturday night, where hose frozen so |he was taken with severe pais in the | that it cannot ba used for several days, | side. During today his cgndition be- the local fire department tonight finds | came worse and tonight after a hasty {t8RAL in rather a serious cundition. | consultation of physicians he was rushe A special meeting of the fire board | ed to the Elm City hospital in the poe held this afternoon and n to relleve the situation. $75,000 Blaze Saturday. | The first fire and the one causing the greatest damage came early Sat- steps | lice ambulance and the operation par- | formed. P - New Hose to be Secured. At the meeting of the fire board this afternoon Fire Marshal Perkins wes | Mark A. Wilking, who was convicted | urday morning on Meadow street with | Placed in charge of the department Maj. Gen. W, H. Carter told the house committes on military affairs that there were 15,000 former Japan- ese soldlers in Hawail, who would suppor an In case of war The National Demooratic Leaders who have been in conference for the pest two days are agreed that the | presidential nomination will in all probability go to a “dark horse.” of Grain by trans- Atlantic lines from Portland, Me. | amounted to 5,357,000 hels for the year just closed, a. decrease of 258,000 bushels from the 1910 shipments, | | | The Shipments John Nelson Wisner, formeriy su- perintendent of hatcheries of the Unit- ed States hureau of fisheries, has bee: employed to go to Uruguay to organ Yze a fish bureau for that country. The D. and L. Slade Company, deal- ers in spices, whose plant was burnel in the Chelses, fire of three years ago, suffered a losk of $30,000 by fre in their new quarters at Boston last nig) The Bdy o Battalion Chief Wil- liam Walsh, who lost his life in the Bauitable fire, New York, was found on the fourth floor of the burned the New:| building by seachers Saturday after- Andrew Carnegie Has Promised o, gift of $100,000 to the endowment fund of the Yale Forest school as its en- | dowment fund has reached $500,000, and only $40,000 is now needed to complete that sum. The Passenger Steamer Indiana, which had been ice bound Several miles ont of Chicago harbor for t! days, was liberated yesterday and aft- er fight aguinst lce floes reach- td port Chicago last nigh Rev. George W. Quick, for six years pastor of the Second Baptist church at Newpert, R. I.read his resignation fram the pulpit yesterday. Ho has a cepted a call to the First Baptist church at Greenville, S. C. s was Made on the battleship Wyoming during the past month than on any of the other, Ves- sels now buflding for the govern- ment, gccording to @ report on prog- ress issued at the navy department. The Omission of the Word “Obey” from a marriage service celebrated in church is lllegal in Great Britain, and invalidates the ceremony, according to a sensational announcement made by the Rev. Hugh Chapman, chaplain of hapel Royal Savoy, Iondon. The Bates Manufacturing company plans to begin in the spring of 1913 the erection of aweave shed covering ‘our and a half acres under one roof, and other enlargements that will dou- bie the capacity of the mill at Lawis- ton, Me.,, and employ 2,680 additional heip. Bills for the Reduction of the first- class postage to one cent an ounce, similar to the measure introduced by Senator Burton of Ohio, have heen {-troduced in_the house by Repre- sentative Weeks of M achusetts and Representative Littlepage of West Vir- nia. Ex-Mayor Arthur Howard of Salem, Ve saw the plant of his newepa m Dispatch, rulned by ar Saturday. The fire was pe machine and the flames spread so rapidly that two men vork had n to the street without stopping change their clothes. The loss will SON GAVE HIS LIFE TO PROTECT MOTHER. Father of Victim Under Arrest for the Sheoting. New York, Jan. 14—William Quinn, a young resident of the West -Side, died today from a bullet wound re- | ceived in an effort to protect his meth- | er from assault last night. Patrick Quinn, his father, {8 under arrest, with the shooting and with having twice shot and seriously wounded his wife after the received his death wound in trying to keep the older man from carrying out an allezed threat to kill her. Mra. Quinn is in a hospital in a eritical ondition. Ferestry Degree at Cornell. Ithaca, Y., Jan. 14—With the Filinert Roth of the University of Michigan to Cernell to be the head | ot « torestre school, it is made known that Cornell will eventually give a de- xrec in forestry. Heretofdre the study has been an elective branch in the | state college of agriculture. son had | | of the murder of Mrs. Vernle Car-|the thermometer below zero, when the | With full authority ef a chief with 4 men, with whom he eloped from Kan- | plant of the Walter Gracie company | h€ understanding that any stepa he | sas Clty in 1907, was hanged in San |was destroyed with a loss of $75,000, | Might take would be upheld by the | Quentin prison. | This fire cccupied the attention of | P0ard. Hasty steps were also takem - — | most of the depariment all day. Satur- | !0 Seécure a new supply of fire hose, Angered Attendants Are Said to| night the department was called | 41 @gent being telegraphed for to come have caused tho death of Harry Will- |[to a small blaze on Hazel street and | 'er® tomorrow. |lams, an oged member of the New |this morning three alarms came in | Substitutes Are Scarce. York City ¥arm colony, by scalding | within a short time of each other, one| The department wo: him in a bathtub. for a fire on Prince street, Dbt b e o Jn. s one nd avenue and the third for isecond big fire, that of the D. Welch and Sons on Congre: wholesale and retail grocers, (on | trouble if another big fire should break helout in the immediate future as so M. I much of the hose has been frozen and avenue, ! rendered practically. useless in the past : _ and_rets which | 38 hours, There 18 also & lack of sub= caused a loss of $60,000. | stitutes for the department and the Small Fires During Day. | board called upon the civil service During the day the other slarms | L08Td fo hoid lmmediate examinations, came in but fortunately for fires of a | Lh, O%0YS, Tres men mot connected minor nature. One of them was at| 1¢ department had to be used, the home of F. F. Brewster on CIiff | Two Fires This Maorni street, where the flames were confined | New Haven, Conn., Jan, 15—After & to the conserfatory with a loss of a | short rest from the fires of yeaterdayy few hundred dollars. the department was called on twa Welch Fire Incendiary. “’fl:’mfl early lhll-lniorging to a fire in That the fire at the D, M. Welch & | % Tour story brick bulldiug on_the Sons was undoubtedly of incendiary | SIS Of Grand avenue and State orlgin Was stated by Mr. Weich to- | jreet: owned by Governor Simean B night. The fire started in or near the | (a0I¥I and, oceupled on the ground office on_the first floor and the only | %, VIOWION'S Testaurant sad fire in the building was in a heater | [80S stloon and on the uyper floers in the cellas There were no lights of | ** N '8 any kind burning in the building and Rescues by Firemen. Mr. Welch also stated that the goods | The fife started iu Moulton's restau- in the store had been dlsturbed, that | rant from a fire built in & stove last ho found coils of rope which had been | night just bhefors the place closed. It |left in a drawer Iying on a counter.{spread rapidly and many of the tenants | $5,000 Left in Safe. had difficulty in escaping from the sec- The loss, he said, was partly cover- | 904 and tiird ficors.. Dennis Murray | ¥ . o \it tha and his wife were taken out by Cap- {ed by nsurance, but that one of the| o Tt WS Tete taken o | blggest losses would be the loss of | ;7 FETNAE O NO. TS company vatt: | trade as it would take four weeks or | | ¥ _— Ryan and Mrs. Ryan were taken down by ladders from the third story. It is expected that the fire will be confined to the ome building, the second alarm being sent in as a precautionary meas ure The loss is estimated at $75,000, 50 to resume business. $5,000 in the safe in There the office, was but that s thought to be intaet. Hope for Chief Fancher's Recovery. Hope was expressed at the Elm City hospital for the recovery of Fire Chief NOTHING FURTHER FROM RICHESON He Will Never Make a Detailed Con- fession, Says Counsel Morse. TUG AND FOUR BARGES AT MERCY OF ICE JAM: | Forty Men, Two Women and Foue Children in Perilous Position, Boston 14—The Rev. Clarence| I V. T. Richeson will never make public | —Forty men, two women and four a'more detailed confession of his pois- | children on board & large tug and four oning of Miss Avis Linnell than has | barges of the Knickerbocker Ice com- tings-on-FHudson, N. Y., Jan, 1% already been given out, in the opinion | pany are in a perilous plight in the of one of his counsel, Willam A.|Hudson river tonight. The five bouts Morse. Mr. Morse visited the con- | are helpless in a big ice floe, the cakem Gemned clergyman at the Suffolk | of which are occasionally driven with county jail yesterday for the first time since the latter pleaded guilty to mur- der In the first degree last Tuesday much force against the vessels' hulls, There was no way to reach the ma- ooned party tonight, and it is bed “Such an explanation could accom- |lieved it has food enough to last for plish no useful purpose” said Mr | only a day or two. Moreover, the tem= | Morse, * would cater to mor- | Perature ‘is not far from zéro. bid curiosity. Ri | en to me nor to | reason for his { bas never gly-| The tugs Blsmarck and Prinosss other lawyers any | Were coming down the river during the ttack upon himeelf. 1| night with the barges in tow whem do not know his motive for the re- |ono large of ice p:emod % markable act, but I sincerely belleve | Princess’ bow. Being in dangder it was committed while In the throes | sinking, Captain Woodward cut his tug of an fsnane religious frenzy.” loose and was just quick enough te The attorney said Richeson appeared | beach her. She was still rwh -;-I much more buoyant than before he|fast on the beach tonight, h“n(ne confesged his crime. He discussed with | With her crew o S e client varfous phases of the plea |leave The tue Bi: ek | which will be made to Governor Fo four bnr‘”’fl’“"“‘:i‘“fil\l’lne::!a ]'-:nlflh. and the executive councl] for/a com- | FToSress after ‘ mutation to lfe imprisonment of | and during the night -h; and her tow | Richeson's senteace fo death in the|became the victims of the ice Jam electric chalr during the week begin- Jam- ning May 19. | T€ beonme known vesterday _that| WATCHMAN CAMPION'S BODY FOUND IN RUNS | Moses Grant Edmands, father of the | former flancee of Richeson, has with- i mcmiel Was Encassd in lIce and Foot Finmiy Frozen to Floor, drawn his support of the murderer, | Now York, Jan. 14—The body e fter spending almost $25,000 in hie behalf. Fdmands had remained faith- ful to the clergyman even after the William Canipien, the head waseh Who lost his life in the Feuitable Li huilding fira last Tuesday, was found Iatter's own famflr had ceased to com- municate with Richeson appar- ently e now without friends, save for | Mr. Morse, John L. Lee, another of his | inday tromen iu & kneekzg positien B~ attorneys, 'who was retained by the | pitaV, OREn 0 B KTIRE % prisoner’s father, having returned 10| gireet from the vauits of the dercan~ Miminde': tile Trust company. A heavy steed | i Leam from the roof of the. vault pirmed { HUNTINGTON WILSON | down the man’s back. Evidence of the MAY c watlchman's frantic efferts (o escape MAY SUCCEED BACON. | i} “taliing ruiny benind him was & T w1 extended through the burs of thé Assistant Secratary of State For| i extended throush the burs French Ambassadorship. ok — protruded through the oronllfl. ased i vith the feel feomly © vasterday the conpse statue of Washington +—H Wilson, ista sem hewn | to siicceed Robert Bacon as ambassa- | magbie S At | dor to France, according to persistent e Work {rumors n diplomatic circles here to- O ‘SioNe, th (088 BE 1CG-REACIIN |day. Thomas C. Dawson, resident | jilis Whic:. hid the gates of To VaU | diplomatic officer of the state depart- | from view ~and a dave ‘the ment, whose name was mentioned | Wrecking experts to cut e Ltn | prominently in connection with the | Of the gate. Thls e post of ambassador to Brazil, to which | 52Ws and gas flames. 3 | Edward V. Morgan was appointed, will | ¥as going on two of the men & |be made assistant secretary of state, | [N€y say, far back in the r the vault, the body of Francis Neldus, another miseing watchman. Plans te recover the pody as quickly as possl< ble were being worked out tonight, | the same rumors say. CAIRNS TO REMAIN ON HIS PERSIAN JOB. But Disclaims all Responsibility For | Management of Treasury. Two-Foot Coating of foa. Halifax, N. S, Jan. 14—WHh hes forward deck and rail covered with |1ce two feet thick, the r\‘]: Mner - ™ , Jan. 14—F. E. Cairns Corinthian, from Glasgow for Phitudel- e o T Mangurienss e | phinvia St. Johns, Ne I put into this American to whom W. Morgan Shuster, | ;o1 this morning. She Was four days the former treasurer-general of Persia, | making the run of ordinarlly a3 transferred the affairs of that office | Dours from St. Jolus. for she present. topertorm ehelbrre= fiu oo T Vous 10000 e M“) spective dutles he disclaimed all re- sponsibility for the management of the | Woodbury, Conn. Jan. l4—At ial town meeting $20,000 was voted treasury from the moment M. Mornard took summary possession. M. Mor- r state road improvements and an- nouncement made that $500 had been nard, who i the Belglan ex-director of Perstan customs, recently assumed control of the department as head of the commission appointed by the Per- ||