Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 23, 1912, Page 1

“VOL. LIV—NO. 21 NORWICH, CONN., ENGINEER UNABLE TO STOP TRAIN Flagman on New Orleans Express Says That Brakes Were Applied. PROMINENT RAILROAD MEN KILLED Panama Express Telescopes Car Occupied by Railroad Officials, Four of Whom Are Mangled to Death— Flagman Tells of Signalling. Onrushing Express, But Speed Was Too Great to Prevent the Crash. 1 Jan 2—The of | managed to make our way out of the 1 s, the coroner of Marion count. car at the forward end. A crowd haa . ’ Central Railroad Co.|gathered by the time we got out and | € three-fold investigation | we searched the ratns of the private »n that road early|car, finding the bodies of Mr, Hara- | Kinm d. thirty miles from | han, Mr. Melcher, M1, Peirce and Mr. ere h four men high in the | Wright. They were badly mutilated. railro v were killed and three | The compartment in which Mr. Curry t were injured ind 1 were sleoping wus In the for- [ ward end of the car and to this facl S e SIS we probably owe our lives. It is mar- riva ar of wooden col velous that we escaped, a it was.” | Uor tached to Train No. 2 Curry sald he retired about 10.45, | ew Orleans express, the four and had been sleeping soundly a long | stant death, whilst four Othet | iime pefore the accident. e ™ © S4M¢| g secker Says He Gave Signal. b s of W k were sleep Broecker testifying at the inqu tng v nd of the private|said he was riding on the next to the | d by the en last car on the express and that when { stopped at Kinmundy for water, he ran back with his lantern a block and | a half to the rear, gave the onrush- ng limited a signal and testified his signal was answered by the engineer | by two s of the whistle, Stuart, Cl nofs Central second vice pres- 4, whose Mel. it was sald, applied the bra but the train was going at too great a speed to be stopped. The force of th collision was mo great that the stand- n, with brakes locked, was 200 feet anead. Passengers Escape with Bruises. Passengers on each train escaped with slight bruises caused by the sud- stoppage of the tralns. Physi- | cians who were taken to Kinmundy | fiom here gave all their attention to | the thiree trainmen. Conducter Corroborates Broecker. | Conduetor John H. Brainard of Ch 20, of the exprass, corroborated the imony of his flagman. At Effing- | ham, he testified, that he told the flag- man that the limited was less than rawine a solid | ten minutes behind and to make a x cars plowed | QUick run to the rear when the train brivate car. The | 5t0Pred at Kinmundy for water. ca B. Pe 3 m F shoved Elbridge E, Wrigl nd bridge E. Wrigh w Severa Trainmen Injured. Escape With Bruises. VThe Bulleriin'sflcirculgtitr)nr i}l Vf\lor T | Nationa PRICE TWO CERTS Cabled Paragraphs Manchester, England, Jan. 22—Work has been resumed everywhere in the cotton trade with the exception of a few spinning mills which will be run on short time for a week or so. Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 22.—The dock and government pier here were badly damaged last night as the re- sult of being rammed by the Ham- burg American cruising steamer Fuerst Blsmarck, Berlin, Jan. 22.—The report of the betrothal of the Princess Victoria Lu- only daughter of Emperor Will- iam, to the Grand Duke Adolph Fred- erick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, is semi officially denled, Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 22.—Count Albert Appony! in the lower house of parliament today criticised severely what he described as “the efforts of influential quarters to disturb Aus- tro-Hungarian relations with Italy and to bring about a conflict between the two countries.” Saloniki, Turkey, Jan, 22.—A court- martial, which is sitting with closed doors at Istib, about 90 miles north of here, has condemned to death efght Bulgarians, two Jews, three ( and six Turks in connection w bomb outrage which was perpetrated early in December in the village mosque, causing the death of twelve persons, HEADS LADEN WITH ISMS AND FALLACICUS THEORIES Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce, . Condensed 't elegrums | TR, Manufacturing, and Other Interests. Ohio Manufacturer's Opinion of ()el~I lege Educators. Wis,, Jan. 22.—“Our col leges are full of educators whose heads are laden with all sorts of isms and fallacious theories wiich they are con- stantly instilling into the minds of young men who are cent to them to be educated. We are working to cou teract this condition b dissemin mg literature whien will operate an antidote for suca teaching, which will remove the weeds that have grow.: up in the heads of some college pro- fessors and students and set them thinking along broad lines. It is a tedious and expensive undertaking, but it must be done if fulure generations are to be made clear-thinking, broad me Milwaukee 2 nat wae a statement of John Kir- of Dayton, Ohio, president of the Association of Manufacturers, in an address to Wisconsin members »f the association at a luncheon here teday. SRt Bee oty | THE DAY IN CONGRESS. | « Bridgeport Lawyer Makes an Attack | on Labor Unions. - nts, Byron B, Curry, | Stop Due to Cold Weather. esident Meicher. | indirectly the cold weather may have | of the | peen & contributing cause . of tho | Ark,, and | w All trains ore under orders aped with brulses | to stop at Kinmundy for water because | veck. P n the de {of the shortage of water along the | eer and Flagman Blamed. |road caused by the cold, A freight | s o Bidite M immediately ahead” of the ex- | . g T 1 delayed it in_getting water as! . AtiE Friday to 80D a8 expected. Supi. R. W. Bax- o g ter of the Tllinbis Central arrived here ad today and said the road will hold a | d ~ | public hearing to determine the cause sl o of the collision. | . No Night Operater at Edgewood. | s in Chicago. A. R layman, Inspector for the| | Dead Mon Badly Minl ate board of raiiroad and warehouse Z mangled. | “Ommission, visited the scene tonigh’ i heE oy ard will make his report tomorrow, e A merfi ter which the poard’s hearing wil: o funk C\tia. | begin. Testimony at the Inquest wiii : ¥ e train|Ue used by the state board. While - emoving the | 1¢SUf¥ing, Broecker said that the tow- “ fends oF the | erman at' Bdgewood failed to hold tha | p lies of Mr. Hara. |lmited the full ten minutes after the | » T Mr. Peirca t,|€xpress had passed, but Superintend- Wright's body was tak. | €nt Baxter said there is no night op- | a Membhis erator at Edgewood. | Harahan's Previous Escap { hree years ago Mr, Harahan had a &' Tow escape in a simiiar wreck at | iin, 11l, near Kinmundy. He was in i private ecar, which was station- v, when a Baltimore & Ohio freigh t dashed into it from the rear. The private car was demolished, bu Mr. Harahan was not hurt. Six | ricnths after that he had another rarrow eecape in a collision at Mem. phis, enn., according to C. D. Cary, | chief ciaims agent of the Illinofs Cen- y Assisted Each Other.|{ral and a friend of Mr. Harahan. Mr, | arise, | Harahan had been in many minor | difieult wrecks. 1 IN POLITICS MENACE TO INDUSTRIES UNREASONABLE PROFITS ARE MADE ON IRON ORE. | d to Organize to Coramissioner of Corporations So Re- ports to President Taft. | bt | Washington, Jan. 22—Unreasonable | fits are made on iron ore lu the | | | reglon; excessive earnings fow he treasury of the United States corporation from its transp.crta int Ste tion facilities, which suggest the peces- from the standpoint of putlic yol- fey of segregating the ore raliroads | from the glant corporation, and large | inter-company profits are made by consolidated ore, iron and steel com- | fes, according to & preliminary re- | port on the cost of productfon in the | steel industry by Herbert Knox Smith commissioner of _corporations, m | | public tonight. The report was pre- | sented to President Taft and sent the | | house committee on ways and means | for consideration with the proposed | revislon of the steel tariff schedule, of TO BLOCK GRAND TRUNK FROM ENTERING BOSTON Canadian Pacific Said to Have Ob-|upon which the democrats will caucus | tained Control of Allan Line. B el I | | . 'The prices of lake ore the report Tar . | declares, “have been kept for many WAs curres % | years at an unreasonably high level that 8 3 | compared with the cost of production | ‘rand | 8nd the cost of the investment in the enining | Preceding properties” ansatlan- i ey | PACKING COMPANY AUDITOR ON STAND. f the steamshi afiroad tc Newpe s and build [ | Reads Mass of Figures Regarding | hased & o the Test Cost of Beef. | - | Chicago, Jan. 22—That the method COLORED CITIZENS | of Aguring ‘the test cost of beef and the basis of crediting allowances for | by-products used by the National | Packing company from 1907 to 1910 was substantially the same as the sys- | tem used by the other members of the alleged combination was demonstrated today in the packers’ trial by the read- ing to the jury of numerous entries {| from the books of the corporation. OPPOSED TO HOOK. President Taft That the ge is Prejudiced. Assert hair Suffrage th| William E. Weber, general audotor | ore ns of colored piojls, have|of the National Packing company, was - t Drolesung | on the witness stand all day and in re- Against ae appointment of Juds - | sponse to a series of questions put by Mam . ook to the supreme court on | Distriet Attorney Wilkerson he read a the zround that Me has shown as mass of figures into the record of the judge str prejudice against equal| case. this and orivileges fop colored citi- | Y vens with white. 1In their letter they | 3 cite a decision of Judge Hook in the Connecticul Boy Appointed. matter of “Jim Crow" cars. New Haven, Jan. 22.—Steven B. Da- vis, Jr., who was appointed United States attorney for New Mexico, is dmont, Conn., Jan. 22.—Fire to- | a son of Judge of Probate Steven B. ed a dwelling house here | Davis, Sr, of Middletown, Conn. Ho L. T. Ellis with a loss of | Is a graduate of Weslevan university An overheated stove ie thought | and has been in New Mexico for the ave caused the blage, past twelve years House Burns Down at Woodmont. w nigh owned 2,500. to B s B S A e SRR | ship, Washington, Jan. In session at 2 p. m Lorimer senatorial inquiry postpon- ed until next Wednesday because of Attorney Hanecy's 1llness. Daniel Davenport of Bridgeport, Conn., arraigned labor unions n hear- ing before interstate commerce com- | mittee, | ttorney General Wickersham dis- | cussed * ‘tobacco _trust” dissolution | | —Senate:— matters before judiclary committee. Senator Gore of Oklahoma intro duced a joint resolution for a con- gressional investigation of the presi- dential campaign funds of 1904, 1908, and 1912, Senator Williams of Mississippi brought up the arbiiration treaties by | asking the senate to print the treaty of 1853 with Great Britain regarding the Texas-Florida bond ciaims. Adfourned until Tuesday. House:—Met at noon. District of Columbia appropriatios | bill debated. | President Farrell and Attorney Reed | of United States Steel corporation tes- | tifled before steel trust investigating committee. Steel tariff revision bi estimated to reduce average tariff on steel products to imported from 24.51 ad valorem made public. Representative Lever of South Car- olina introduced a general oleomar- | garine bill, reducinz the tax on that | commodit The staie department expenditures | committee decided to issue a second subpoena on Secretary Knox, com- manding the production of the secret fund vouchers, Adjourned until Tuesday. 42 per cent. Phelps to See Wife and Children. ton, Jan. 22 at Silas N, Phelps, whose executlon was deferred until after Wednesday by request of Governor Foss, will have the privilege of seeing his wife and children once more if he has to die, was made cer- tain today when Attorney F. A. Da- venport said that Mrs. Phelps, sup- | plied with funds bv an anonymous giver, will come to Boston tomorrow to see her husband. The attorney for | the condemned man said that he| thought she would bring with her ali | her six children, the oldest of whom 1s 18 years, Sewer Gas Causes Explosions. New York, Jan. 22.—About fifty per- sons were hurt tonight by a series of sewer gas explosions which blew more than sixty manhole covers on three crowded Fast Side streets, smashed hundreds of windows in stores and tenement houses - and caused a panic among pedestrians. Fortunately, no one was seriousiy injured, but se- vera cuts, lacerations and brulses were many- Grand Trunk Application Endorsed. Boston, Jan. 22.—Endorsement was | glven today to the applcation -of the Southern New England or Grand | Trunk rallway to extend its lines into | Boston, by the committes on transpor- tation and the directors of the Bos ton chamber of commerce. Tomorrow | the report will be submitted to the full membership of the chamber of commerce. Pillsbury for U. 8. Senator. Manchester, N, H., Jan. 22.—Rose- crans W, Plilsbury, publisher of the Manchester Union, made his first for- mal announcement tonight of his can- didaoy for the United States semator to succeed Senator Henry [, Burnham. Mr. Burnham has announc- ed he will not be a candidate for re- nomination. Steamship Arrivals. At Antwerp: Jan. 21, Vaderland, from New Yorl At Queenstown: Jan. 22, Ivernia, from New York. At Naples: Jan. 18, San Giovanni, from New York. At Naples: Jan. 22, Caronia, from New York. | American Troops Welcomed, Tientsin, Jan. 22.—The American troops were welcomed at the railway station by the British and American colonies. ~ The Innigkilling Fusilfers’ band accompanied them to the impro- vised barracks | teally active to prevent his renomina- | scarcely wouid be avallable, Goierbehn el N S NS ALBERT W. LILLIBRIDGE, First Selectman of the Town of Norwich. | | Faith Strong in Hitchcock | PRESIDENT TAFT HAS NO DOUBT| OF HIS LOYALTY | TR | SO INFORMS HIS CALLERS| Places No Credence in Reports that | Working | Against His Renomination, He Says. | Postmaster - General . is Washington, Jan. 22—Twice tod: President Taft denied emphatically to White House callers that he placed any credence in reports that Postmas- ter General Hitchcock has been polit- tion. Once at least the president denied that cabinet officers have urged him to oust the postmaster general from his official family because of alleged anti- | Taft doings, and visitors who talied | with the president gained the impres- | sion that he had not the slightest doubt of Mr. Hitchcock's loyalty. The president was reported tonight to have sald that if his postmaster general | were proven disloyal he would be the “most badly fooled men in the c try.” He was wiliing that his at toward Mr. Hitcheock be made Attempt to Create a Break. | Some of the president’s advisers were | inclined tonight to the view that a concerted efiort was being made to | force an open break between Mr. Taft and Mr. Hitehcock, 5o that the latter's services and his political advice might be missing from the Taft camp.| Friends of the president did not dis- | count the worth of the political assist- ence the postmaster might give Mr. Taft. Although Mr. Hitchcock has de- clared himself out of politics, it was admitted that there were few of the president’s advisers so well qualified at present to give political information | which might be useful to the Taft con- | tingent. With the postmaster general out of the cabinet this information No Evidence of Disloyalty. It became known tonight that many of the president's close friends hold the same view that he holds as to Mr.| Hitcheoek, Several of these men, it | was made known, would not hesitate to g0 to the president and explain Weir attitude if they found what they con- | sidered reasonable ground for beieving | Mr. Hitchcock Alsloyal. So far they | have discovered no such evidence. To Fight for Instructed Delagation According to friends of the prasider a determined effort will be in New York state to send an instructed delegation to the Chicage | corvention. Acording to reports which have rcached Washington, Wililam Barnes, Jr., the republican state chair- man, is opposed to an instructed deie- gation and wishes the New York re- publicans to decide upon a platform on which they can stand, rather than a man whom they can support. It was said tonizht that Mr. Taft's supporters in Greater New York Intend to fight Mr. Barnes\in the state convention If he will nct conceda the necessit; of an instructed delegasion. | SALVATION OF PERSIA RESTS WITH ENGLAND. Significant Statement Made at Paris by W. Morgan Shuster. Parls, Jan. 23.—After remaining in Paris four or five days, W. Morgan Shuster, the ex-treasurer-general of Persia, who arrived here from Vienna today, will preceed to London, wnere | on Jan, 20 he will deliver an address on Persia before the Persian committee | founded by members of the house of | commons and others interested in the maintenance of the integrity and inde- | pendence of Persia and the regenera- tion of that country. He concluded a Teview of the whole Persian situation this evening with the words: “Persia's salvation rests with England, and Eng- land alone, for only England can check the encroachments of Russia. Only the awakened public conscience of Engiand can give to gneient Persia a vestige of respectable self government.” The Boott Mills Corporation of Low- ell, Mass., has passed it cemi-annual dividend. The usual dividend has been at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, | was the sen of Mrs. Willlam D, Page | Henry Labouchere, the London Edi- tor, wiio died Jan. iv, ieft a fortune of $4,000,000. The Supreme Court of the United States will recess from January 29 to February 19, | The Progressive Democratic Letgue of Ohio began its attack on Governot Harmon's presidential boom. Lieutenant Boernes, a French Mili- tary Aviator, died from burns received during a flight at Senlis, Franc A Census Report Shows that there were 48,606 deaths from violence other than suicide during the past year. The Lorimer Case i eing held up indefinitely because of the illness of Judge Hanecy, Senator Lormer’s coun- | sel. United States Deputy Marshal J. H. of Waltham, Mass,, died at the o hospital yesterday after an of two months, | Another Drop in Rhode Island coal on the Boston curb market carried the | stocks yesterday to 30 cents, the low- ost ¢ history of the stock. The Men and Religion Forward Movement opened an eight day cam- paign in Philadelphia with 400 meet- ings in churches and two mass meet- The lce Crop Throughout New Eng- d is the best in a decade, according a statement by Wesley M. Oler, esident of the American Ice com- Contributions Announced Yesterday bring the total of subscriptions to Brown university's $1,000,000 endow- ment fund thu announced up to s Detectives Investigating a Series of 26 murders which have oceurred on Louisiana during the last year, are holding in Jenning negro preacher, King Harris, The Standard Oil Company of New York yesterday announced an advance of 25 points in the price of refined pe- troleum, making refined in cases 9.39 cents per gallon According to Figures Compiled in Winnipeg, western Canada lost 00 on the Winnipeg grain market alone by the rejection of the proposed reciprocity compact. Daring Feats Cost His Life Cyrus E. Woods of Greensburg, Pa. as nominated by President minister to Portugal, to suc- dwin V. Morgan, promoted to be bassador to Brazil. Four Storage Houses, containing bushel of potatoes, have be YOUNG AVIATOR MEETS DEATH AT LOS ANGELES. I at onticello, Me., with a tot |1 about §18,000. The buildings at = W ywned by L. A. Hills FOOLHARDY PERFORMANCES | William Watts Sherman, wh da r, Miss Mildred Sherman, be- & bride of Lord C.moys last SRS November, died at his home on Fifth Boasted He Would Beat Beachy or emue, New York, yesterday Charged With Smuggling Cattle 1e Canadian r from New Carey Taylor of Houlton “Break His .Fool .Neck”—Laughed When .Cautioned .by Older Aviator. Bru d o fine of $100 in the United States court at Portland, Me., vestert _ Los Angeles, Cal. Jan. 22. After a Shut Down of six months ford Page, 24 years old, a Y bec se of unsatisfactory busl uate, reglstered from New nditions, the American Yarn ¢ flying as one of the Cart ny of Pawtucket, R. L, resu was idlled when he fell 80 work in nents yesterday on Dominguez field, a few moments § before the close of the third day's| Three Mills and the Offices of the programme of the third internation William S. Allen company at West aviation meet. »ywn, N. H.,, were destroyed Jumped from Machine. n 4 fire that threatened for Page was endeavoring to “turn on ) Wikt Stewartstown. & pivot” when the swell of air over PR the hangars caught his planes. He| The Annual Appropriation for the control, gave ap, and when | De Sboyt 13,500,000, 3 ceduction of sey- Teet 1n" the Tl Boim g ) ok L e clear of the machine and fell fiat into | ®Stimates of Secretary o the plowed ground. According to ths A ST = 5 doctors he was crushed to death, dames Y. - Sounivigh pngee =0, riments in 1 and First Flight as Licensed Aviator. n 1 many other sea coa Page was flying for the fir Ad ws protecting _the 2 licensed aviator, having be 1 1 al his home at New- ed his licens cday. His earlier vesterday, aged 81 yea flying was one of the spectacula tures despite a puffy and treach Robert G. Southall, Former Repre- wind. He w one of the first to | sentative in congress from the Fourth leave the ground. Virginia district, was elected yesterday More Daring Than Curtiss. to the judgeship of the Fourth Virginia s 5 3 % circuit. He succeeds Judge Walter A In the first heat of the five-mile | Watson, who Is a ¢ for con | handicap in which he and Lincolu | syecs | Beachy, the Curtiss veteran, were s i contestants, Page thrilled the by his sensational maneuvers. Death Warrants for the Execution dips and sharp turns y May 19th Rev. ( Vi To - : Richeson for the murder of Miss Avis were duplicated by Page, wh inell Wl et et even more daring. served upon Governor Foss, Warden Cautioned by Curtiss. Bridges of state prison, and Sherift The more experienced aviators shook | Quinn heads when they witnessed = Page's aprarently foolhardy evolu Maurice Tannenhblz, & Weil-tosDo tions and when he descended, Glen | Madison avenue, New York, jeweler, Curtiss, who tauglt him to fly, cau- | died yesterday irom the alter effects of tloned him against attempting to per. | & Pistol shot wound inflicted thre form feais at his first meet which |Years ago by a robber. Blood transfu- required much experience to learn | Son Was used to save his life, but in Page laughed, and assured Curtiss he | VaIn. Wi ‘all to the gnod.” During afternoon the voung New Yorkés tofy| Pending Bills to Inorease the Pay those about the hangars that he would | 9410 Tank of army aviators were urged beat Beachy- or Break my fool neck | Yesterday befors the Rouse commitics Was Expected to Be a World Beater, | Jamea Allon. miis of [1;({‘fl{,1r,,}',’,‘é,f;:1 Page joined the Curtiss camp at|corps, and by Captain Paul an San Diego about six weeks ago and | army aviator there he received his first Instruc tions n flylng. Mr. Curtis A Writ of Attachment to the amount death of Page was due to lac £ $250,0 0 wag served yesterday upon perlence, and his extreme Dwight Manufacturing company of ‘He was more than fearle pee, in a sult instituted by the Curtiss. “He had been called federal government alleging violation ond, Beathy, and it was_predy f the alien contract labor laws, in ell who had witnessed his early | connection with the employment of flights that he Would be a world beat- | (:rocks. i3 er if such a thing as happene v ot s career.” - 3 day.did. not end'his career Bartenders Support Lawrence Strikers Wrecked Machine Burned Up. | . i Woonsocket, R. I, Jan. Peter Immedlately after the accident, th| F. Bowen of P DR e Tt | wreckage of Page's machine was Diled | elected president of the Hotel and up and burned to prevent its being | Restaurant Employes' International al- carried away, piecemeal, by souvenir | ljance and New Engiand branch of the International league. The moral support of the organization waa voted the Lawrence strikers. The next convention will be held in New Haven hunters, Bartende: IN YALE "10 CLASS. Italians Cut Turkish Cable. 2 | Constantinople, Jan The Turk- New York, Jan. 32.—Rutherford | ish cable between Suakin, a seaport of Page, who was killed at Los Angeles, | the Egyptian Sudan, on the Red Sex and Hodeida in Yemen, Arabia, is in- terrupted and i been cut by th feared that Dead Aviator Leaves Mother, Brothers and Sisters in New York. of 37 Eest Thirty-eighth stree clty. He was graduated from Yale in 1910, Although not a member of the | aviation school at Nassau boulevard L. I, Page did some practice flying | there recently in a machine said to | have been of his own comstruction. | It was a composits biplane of the ‘Wright-Farman type. Acoerding to the Aero elub, its of- | flclal at Los Angeles telegraphed the club yesterday that Page had passed his license test, and today the club for- warded a provisional license to Page by telegraph. Besides his mother. this It is air of the cable will be | tmpossible during the war. alian warships. young Page two brothers. closed tonight. Page's death is the first aviation fa- tality in this country in 1912 and is the ane hundred and fourteenth in the world since actual flying began nearly four vears ago. There have been three deaths of aviators in France since the first of January, the victims being Lieutenant Boerner of the French ar- my, the aviator Ruchonet and Alfred ‘Wagner, a medical student, leaves two sisters and The Page residence was Detroit Will Today Vote Upon the Question of municipal ownership of street railwaye and reduction of fares, | | PECPLE LIE DOWN wich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Lar_grévst in Connecticut in"P'x:oportion to the City's Population IN ROADS TO DIE~ |Discouraged Chinese Lost All Desi Farmers Have Now re for Work. \PARENTS KILL A STARVING CHILD Horrible Picture of Famine District Painted by Red Cross Engineer—Scciety Makes Urgent Appeal for Funds— | Efforts to Bring About Abdication of Throne Fails— Premier Generally Believed to be Bluffing. Washington, Jan, 22 i to plant and no animals to do | their plowing with, and this condition of affairs has gone on for so long that ~"They have no they have lost all desire for work; simply want to lie down in the mud and die. There were people walking on either side of the road- way, coming and going. These were all beggars and all starving. A few the cen successful f vears ago b najority of them had mers, but now they e absolutely nothing. There was ay thai T did not pass two or bodies of men, women and chil- | lying on the road. When th people get tired and give up, tb | simply. dropped down where they were | and died; they did not even go to th | raised track on the side, but dropp in the road where they lay unburied | Parents Kill Starving Child. I came across the emaciated bod of a young boy, five or six years old | premier permitted the probability abdication to hecome known. | Curiously enough, the princvs, of | inner Mongolia, whom the Manéhus | conalder their inferiors, rallled te the #id of the Manchus. At a presious meeting, one of the Mongols strongly controverted Prince Ching's argument | that the fmperial armies were unable | to opLese the rebels, Apparently prep- | avalions were compiote for a provis- {1oval government and an edict of ab- | dicatien had even been drafted, but the ennouncement of such a course, which had been allowed to become public, with the evident object of pre- paring the Manchu troops for the £hock, inspired clansmen of all degrees {to_res ' empress dowager, being reluct- to albvlcate, has accepted the ad- or | vice of the reactionary princes. The matter of appointing Yin Tehang, the ex-war minister, or Tieh Liang, for- mer Tartar general at Nanking, to | replace Yuan Shi Kal was discussed, Bt ok e R Rl s e iy | but the argument prevailed that the on him which stated that his father | Promulgated by the nationai assembly and mother had nothing to give him to eat and the children of the village were standing ar looking at the Thousands Will These were D, sent in China possibility of Hwai valley Die. rvations oss engi- mine dis- report on the prevention in the palling conditions apply to nearly three million peopls, and unless outside reief is Instantly forthcoming it is ¢ d untold thou- sands of these must died before the scanty new crops are ripened and gathered. Worse Than Last Year. Consul General Wilder Shanghai of neer trict to inspect and fiood The a at has seconded Mr. Jameson's appeal in a letter directed to Miss Mabel T. Boardman of the American Red Cross. In which he savs that bad as was the situation last year, new elements have entered Into it to make it worse and to justify another appeal to the Red Cross and through it to charitable Americans, | Land Could Be Reclaimed. | Mr. Jameson has reported that the prevention *of damage by ordinary floods is possible and that the build- ing of proper dikes and the deepening | of water courses wonld reclatm enor- mous stretches of land and provide work for famine sufferers. The build- of roads also would furnish em- ployment and every dollar would be well employed. ng $3 Would Keep Family a Month. Three dollars gold would provide work for one family and save it from starvation for a month, Fifteen dol- lers would carry a family through un- til the barley harvest. Notwithstand- ing the rebellion, police and military otection is assured for sufficient area to work In at present, regardiess of the faction in control. = For over two months in Nanking, from 400 to 800 men have been employed on useful work by the relief committee even during the bombardment of the city Red Cross Issues Appeal. The Red Cross has acted immediate- ly and sent out an urgent appeal for contributions, ABDICATION FAILS. Widespread Belief That Premier Yuan | Is Bluffing. | _Peking, Jan. Premier Yuan Shi Kai’s efforts to bring abeut the abdi- cation of the throme have failed, and the situation in China has entered a new and perplexing phase. _ Prince Ching, the ex-premier, Prince Pu-Lun, <-president of the national assem- ply; and Prince Tsai Suun, brother of the ex-regent, absented themselves from the conferences of the princes f the imperial clan today, which left st November should be observes Yuan Shi Kai's bluffing is becoming [ | obvious. He has had special traine | ready for several days for his depart- | ure, but now that the Manchus have | | accepted his challenge he remain: | Peking. He has ssked for a further so-cailed Sick leave, indicating that he has no intention of relinquishing | the premiership. It is believed he will remain in Pe. king, protected aitke from Manchu at- tacks and rebel dynamite, until the Manchus discover their own inability to cope with the sitwation; whereupen he will resume control. Many missionaries in the northera provinces strongly resent the attitude of the missionaries in Shanghal, who are publicly supporting the revolution. Bishop Bashford of the Methodil Episcopal mission and other promi~ nent American missionaries have ex- pressed to the Waashington, adminis tration the view that a republic is inevitable, whereas andther group, aimost entirely American, have tele- graphed to the empress dowager and the leading princes, asking them to abdicate. WONG IN GOOD QRAOE. Former Exile Elected President of Chinese National Assembly. in San Francisco, Jan. 32—Wong Chim Wei has been elected presient of the Chinese national assembly, according to a cablegram received today by the Chinese Free Press. The assembly now is_in session at Nankm, Wong Chin Wel was formerly editor: of a revolationary paper at Tokio, sad had been sentenced to life imprison- ment by the Manchus, but was roleas- ed shorfiy after the outbreak of the revolution. A RIGHTEOUS MOVEMENT, President Sun Yet Son Says He Is Ab< solutely Convinced of It. Nanking, China; Jan. 22.—T am abs solutely convinced now, as I have al- [ ways been, of the success and right- | cousness of this movement. Every | moral, physical and financial stnew of | the provinces of China proper supporta This statement by President Sun Yat Sen was made today in the course of an interview with the Associated Press. The president explained recent negoti- ations between che republicans and the | imperialists, and_discussed the situa- | tion in China. He spoke with the ut- | most confidence, and appeared genu- | inely solicitous’ lest ignorance of the true situation in the south of China had misled the forelgn legations in Peking into encouraging the imperial- ist government In Peking to resist what he (Sun Yat Sen) firmly believ- ed to be the inevitable outcoms of the | present stase of affairs. The president the decision as to abdication to the | continued: “If we fail to securo peacs reactionaries, who have been strength- | and a stable government now thedre- | ening their hand steadily since thelspomsibility mmust rest in Peking.” | LUMBER AND TENEMENTS | DESTROYED AT WINSTED. | Fire of Unknown Origin Causes a Loss | of $20,000. Winsted, Conn,, Jan. 22 known origin tonight de | ber shed stocked with Iumber owned by J. C. Burwell and five frame temement houses occupied by | Italian families, with a loss of $30,000. The fire was discovered by tralnmen in the freight yards and an alarm sgiven by blasts from the whistles of engines. In responding to the ajarm the auto- truck struck John Darcey, son of War- den Darcey, and painfully but not seri- ously Injured him. The loss is partly covered by fnsurance Fire of un- oved a lum- 200,000 feet of Boston Stock Broker Arraigned. Boston, Jan, 22.—Alfred A. Mulliken, of the stock brokerage firm of Cram, Mulliken & company, was arraigned | before Judge Sanderson in the superior | criminal cours late today on an indiet- | ment charging him with the larceny of i | about $60,000 from customers. Mulli- ken, who was arrested in New York and brought to Boston on an extradi- tion wartant issued by Governor Foss, was held In $15,000 for trial. Mulliken was unable to get bonds and was com- mitted to jail. | Woonsocket Mills to Close. Woonsocket, R. I, Jan. 22.—Noetices were posted at the Alice and Miilville | mills of the Woonsgeket Rubber com- | pany today, announcing that the mills | will close on Saturday for two weeks, running again on Menday, February 12. This action is taken because of |the dullness of the market, About {1,600 employes are affected. Ex-Senator Young for Taft. Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 22.--Former | Senator Lafayette Young today em- rhatically announced himself in favor | of the renomination of President Taft. |In a lengthy newspaper article he pointed out numerous acts in the rec- ord of the president which he com- mends highly, JOHN MITCHELL'S ENEMIES FOHLED, Failed te Have Convention Pass a Vote of Censure. Indlanapolis, Ind., Jan. 22.—Bnemies of John Mitchell in the convemtion of United Mine Workers of America fall- ed today to get the orgenization to put itself on record as censuring hm for his attitude toward the National Clvio TFedevation. He obtained the adoption of a resolution providing for an invest!. gatlon of his charge that the miner: convention at Cofumbus, O, lastfyear was “packed” aganst him. It de~ manded bis resignation as a patd offi- clal of the Civie Federation. ‘T have affidavits supporting my chargs,” said the former president ef | the miners “and it they are mHot wp- held, dlscipline and puaish me.” Inhuman Attendant-Gets Twelve Years. e o e LS welve years in s imposed teday upon Herry Carlton, an attendant of the New York dity farm colény on Staten Istand, after he had pleaded guilty to mansiaughter in the first degree. Harry Willlam: “hfih- Iy agd alytio tomate of the tion, died aftar having been ven & hot bath by Carfton and lle&r at- tendant. \ Four Negroes Lynohed, Hamilton, Ga., Jan. 22—A mob of 100 men tonight broke into the i county jafl here, overpowered M.- Rabbitson and took four nearoes, thres men and one woman, and them to trees one mile from town. bodles were riddled with bullets. It ta estimated that 300 shots wers fired. Rubber Mille to Shut Dewn. Maiden, Maas., Jan. 32—The worth and Fells mills of