Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 30, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 27 NORWICH, CONN. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1912 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in WOMANKILLED BY LAWRENGE RIOTER Police Officer Stabbed in the Back While Hemmed in By An Angry Mob. SCHOOL CHILDREN, ALSO ATTACKED A Day of Wild Turbulence in Strike-Ridden City—Four teen More Companies of Militia Ordered Out "and Parades of Strikers Forbidden—School Committeeman Arrested as Result of Dynamite Investigation. Jan, 2 One wo- |/turbances, and a pelice officer rioting | Ettor, the labor leader, was respon ympathizers who | sible for all of the trouble. g the number of nearly 1,000 | Are you planning to arrest Et erett mills on Garden and | tor? the marshal was asked. ; tonight. Police and m| 4 do mot know vet, amswered th rushed to the scene and a | officer. g bs and rifle butta re- | Lunches Stolen from Children. o beaking up of the mod | pyjrey 1o forty school children car al of the strikers. | ;ying hooks and lunches were force Woman Killed by Rioter. | to leave a car on Newbury stre victin o riot was an Ital- | Disorderly persons took. the lunch » nearby was firing | away from the children and trample ground when the | the food into the smow and dirt i sathered ity Marshal O'Sullivan declared emphatically that Joseph J | Cabled Paragraphs Assuan, Upper Fgypt, Jan. 29.—The Duke of Fife died here at 6 o'clock this evening. He was a son-in-law of the late King Bdward, whose daughter, the Princess Lguise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, he married in 1889. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 29.—Order has been almost completely restored in Babia, which had been in a state of virtual anarchy for several days, since the withdrawal of the former governor, Aurelio’ Vianna, who took refuge in the French consulate. London, Jan. 2 ng George, it was announced today, has conferred upon John Hennike: Heaton, conserva- tive member of parliament for Canter- bury since 1885, and popularly known as the “father of the Imperial penny postage,” the title of baronet. o St. Thomas, D. W, L, Jan. 29.—An extraordinary meeting of the colonial council of 8t. Thomas wiil be held February 2 to discuss the proposed grant of a concession to a Danish com- pany for deepening the harbor and Lullding wharves and doclks. | Vienna, Jan, 23.—The condition of | Count Von Aehrenthal, Auvstro-Hun- | garian minister of foreign affalrs, who | has been seriously 1l for some time | e/ past, is reported to be somewhat im- proved. The fever whech was pro- nounced a few days ago Has abated. | WOMAN CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN MURDERER | Testifies at Trial of Brother Who | Charged with the Crime. d 5 d | n | o s believed she vas | the street. The children were not Police | injured. It s supposed that some of | New York, Jun, 29— The prosecuting | d-et the be- | the foreigners mistook the young peo- | aitorneys trylng James McDermott, | AC that time | ple for mill emploses on thelr Way to | 4 former clerk in the Hotel Belmont, work, and down | houting. discharging Fifteen Arrests Made. As a result of the rioting, eight per sons were arrested here and ere taken into custody in Methuen. Children With Dinners Attacked. Officer Benoit Stabbed in Back. Serg anger and | fou: ons and while Bopar were children going to the mills with seven | scene but had | The noon hour was generally quiet. 3 g the disturb- |7 he strikers, however, were out -in )8 Benoit ame se| on a charge of the murder of Charles | Muldoon, a customs house inspector, | were noplussed by the sudden turn of | late today by Mrs. Martin, a 22 vear old sister | of MgDermott, The state has prac- | tically completed its effort to prove | at ‘McDermott stabbed Muldoon to ath in an uptown saloon last March, large numbers and their especial prey | oy oo UPLOW | prisin nounced & he Mrs saloon on and that she information Martin take the stand. woman testitied that was in the night of the murder, | guarreled with Muldoon had received some and asked the the defendant an- sur- that & hundred an-|{ dinners for their parents. In a num- ng was stabbed in | per of cases the strikers took the din- to the Law- | ner baskets away from the children | r was found his | and trampled the food under foot.| wound serious, and he was | (uigi Icona stopped a little girl with | . n | a basket on her arm ih front of the Militiamen Use Rifle Butts. | rolice station and tried to get the food | " ers hurried to the|AWay from the child. A policeman . they used thei: | S8W the act and arrested Icona. de sittle mpres- he double-quick Upon coming up the crowd who o stand their men use: soldiers broke their mixup and it is be- the rioters were seri- Shots Fired fired 4 Only by Rioters. olice nor the militiamer The rioters who were irearms coull gt be the officers and no ar- made. An hour after t ed the streels were clear rging Electric Cars Held Up. of electric cars the rioting strikers many forced oul‘nnd as- windows were.'smashed a an hour Bssex e ne of exclting oc- ences, Hooting and . yelling, the ticipants in rouble, many of & women who were employed m atrike, 24 through several | Crossing the ice under cover of dark- nterrupted by the | ness reached the military headquarters aused considerable | late tonight, and as a result an extra the marchers car- ke noise and ed Unconscious. e scene of most body of strikers ogress of all cars go- ton of the mille. In motormen refused to sthe trolleys were yank- panes were of ice and the cars the passengers to refused they as ting, the $ : $40,000,000. In the case of public | violence. Those | Charged With Conspiracy to Damage | buildings, however, there may be some | resistance were roughly Property. | appropriation for emergencies. | veral men and women| o | | Wot Aangerousiy | . Breen Was formally cherged with - — John W. Fletcher, ;’"”»",i',‘m:‘ \lu e defac an«:1 de- | TO BAR AMERICAN - . Maine | StroY’ 'Droperty. He was released un- | ey B s S| der 31080 bos, faruisned by Ar. JEWS FROM RUSSIA | elng taken off a some of the rioters was so sed that he was rendered He was taken to s reatment Pelice Unable to Quell Disturbances. To quell the disturbance the whole e force was called out, including cers, It appeared that the rs outnumbered them too great stop the trouble Striker Assaults City Marshal. rrests were made during . Taras Parnaglan, @n was taken to the police re he was booked for as farshal James T. O'Sul- 1 that Parnagian wes n dressed uong _and 10 rahal in civillan interfered. Sullivan a work- er. Parnagia is alleged, assaulted the head of the city's police force and was prompt igged off to the po- other arrests were ntimidation, rioting or led weapone. stati; charges carrying ¢ conc: 2 Head Cut Open by Bottle. strikers went down Broadway reet, where more street cars ere held up. James Lord, father of perintendent Lord of the Pacific lls, a passenger on one of the street ars, was struck on the head by a tle thrown through the car window one of the diforderly persons in rowd. Mr. Lord was badiy cut on the head. David Bruce, division superintendent of the Bay ale street rallway company, was also cut on the face by a mi thrown by one of the Strikers, Priest Cheered by Strikers. As parade of strikers passed the sealdence of Rev. Fr. Marino Milanese, pastor of the Italian Catholic church, the priest who has championed the cause of the strikers, he appeared at & chamber window and waved his hand e marchers. He was cheered vig- y the strikers. Strikers Chase Watchman. e of its movements the sowd met Waichman Sewcll ‘of “the Washinsion mills. Bewell is the man who two weeks ago dispersed a crowd of strikers by turning the hose on them. When the trikers met him he way escorting two girls to the mills, Recognizing their enemy the strikers cried out, and Sewell, believing that tiey intended to injure him, fled to the police station for safety. ! Ettor Blamed for Trouble. In commenting on the morning’s dis- two companies their rifle gases the the beginning of ns, cow bells Barades Now Forbidden. There were no parades or ed other evenings of the strike. Thi ed by Colonel Sweetser, commander of the milltary force in the city, who an. no more parading. militia Colonel With tofore have enclosed only the mill dis. of the city, and wi quires, to go into any sectlon of th. The same comditions will apply to to gatherings streets. Extra Guard on Duty Last Night. of infantry and two troops of of infantry and two troops of ordered out by Governor Fo or outbreaks on night and reported to the city marshal Rumors that tempt to reach the mill an attack, should it develop. School Committeeman Arrested. Late tonight the state police, who ed,” and was n. strikers, rence. ed to discuss the arrest, except to sa) that he will be in court tomorrow. Militia Forced to Fire. mill dlstrict, early thle morning, the rike. No one was Injured MORE SOLDIERS SENT. More Companies of Militia. Boston, Jan. 20.—Governor Eugene N Foss tonight rence to assist J ing the mill strike. reached Lawrence by midnight. The following the governor's secretary, Dudley M. Holman: poon in regard to the strike situation n_Lawrence, the governor after con- at once to Lawrence, fifty officers from the metropolitan in the outskirts of the city. “The governor property in the cily of Lawrence, It is the early evening and that all will have arrived by midnight.” city of Lawrence under martial law at this time. Raising Funds at Akron, O. Akron, Ohio, Jan. 20.—At s mass meeting held here a collection was taken for the benefit of the strikers at Lawrence, Mass., and a large sum was realized. Today subscriptions are | 21d later issuing an open letter to miil being taken throughout the city to|OWRers and operatives, urging the raise funds for the R, | strikers to go back to work for thirty Governor Makes Proposition, Beston, Jan. 29:~Gavernor Fosf mass meetings tonight, such as have mark- was due largely to an ultimatum issu- nounced tonight that he would aflow | additional Sweetser believes he will be fully able to enforce his ulti- | matum, The military lines, which here- trict, will be extended to other parts ile citizens general- ly will be aliowed, when. business re- | city, they will do so at their own risk. any vho may be innocent onlookers at | the lary fifty-five members of the metropolitan police force also reached the city to- the strikers mighet at- district by guard was placed on duty and every- thing placed in readiness to repel such for more than a week have been in- | vestigating the finding of dynamite in different sections of the city, and | who some time ago came to the con- clusion that the explosive was “plant- intended for use by wused a sensation by arrest- ing Schol Committeeman Breen, a son of former Mayor John Breen, and one of the most prominent citizens of Law- | drew B. Ahearn. Breen was a popular man, and at the last city election re- ¥y | Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 30.—In repuls- ing an attempt of a body of strikers to cross the Merrimack river into the | militiamen fired their first shot. of the | | Governor Foss Orders Out Fourteen | operatives when ordered 14 additoinal companies of infantry and two troops of cavalry to proceed at once 1o Law- preserving order dur- 1t s expected that ull these additional troops will have | statement regarding | the governor's action was given out by | “At the request of Mayor Scanlon and the city council of Lawrente, who | came to #e the governor this after- | sultation with the adjutant general has | ordered twelve companies of infantry | and two troops of cavalry to proceed | “The governor has also requested of | Chairman De Las Casas a detail o1 park force, which will leave this even- | ing for Lawrence to aid in patrolling intends that there ehal] be ample protection to life and now expected that part of the troops will be on the ground during | Governor Foss declined ta place the Lecause he called her a vile name. | e told of going to her home to get a large bread knife and when the | prosecution demanded to know what | she did with it, she replied: “I decline to answer on the ground | might_incriminate me.” “You did not say anything about | that at the time you were with the | coroner,” the district attorney replied it f when he had recovered from the sur- prise o was not under oath then,” nan replied. Did you Kill that man?” “I decline to answer on the ground | | that it might incriminate me.” | this dramatic point adjournment | was taken until tomorrow. ‘Che pros- | ecution contended- that McDermots, | [ Who was captured in Denver, admit- ted the crime, the - | 0 DEMOCRATS TO PREVENT BATTLESHIP BUILDING Action of Caucus Calculated to Save | Expenditure of $40,000, | avlary today Washington, Jan. 29.—There will be | no appropriations for battleships or public buildings at this session of | congress. This was the decislon Dy | the democrats in the house after a | spirited caucus tonight. Elimination of a battleship appro- | priation was a surprise, the caucus | having been called to consider a $16, | 000,000 public building hill, recom- | | mended by the committee on public buildings and grounds. Representa- tive Burnett of Alabama offered an amendment, however, to g resolution | to dispense with the public bulldings bill that no battleship appropriation be reported to the house. Representative Hobson of Alabama headed a bitter attack on the amend- ment, but it was passed by a vote of 28 to 68. \ The saving resulting from this ac- tion by the caucus is estimated by the democratic leaders to aggresate about 0 | \ Bill | Introduced in Duma Also Raises ceived the highest vote of any can Tariff on American Goods. | date for school committee, He is an = | undertaker. The police tonight declin- | St. Petersburg, Jan. 39.—The nation- | alists introduced a Dill in the duma | today prohibiting the admission into | Russia of Jewish citizens of the Unit- | ed States. an increase in the reneral customs | tariff, with special duties against Am- erican goods. { The bill introduced in the duma is the first definite step taken by Rus- | sfa in retaliaition for the notification recently given by the United States | | kevernment of the abrogation of the | | treaty of 1832, T OBITUARY. Dr. Norton R. Hetchkiss. New Haven, Jan, 29.—Dr. Norton R. Hotchkigs, surgeon general on the | staff of Governor Woodruff, dled at | his home here tonight. He was pres | ident of the New Haven Medical as- soclation and a former president of the | New Haven County Medical societ; and & member of the Foot Guard. He | was 42 vears old and leaves a widow and three daughters. Ministers’ Conference Drops Richeson. | Boston, Jan. 29.—Rev. C. V. T.| Richeson, who is under sentence of death in the state prison for the mur- der of his sweetheart, Miss Avis Lin- nell, was dropped today from the Bos- ton Baptist Ministers' conference. The action followed the step taken by the Immanuel Baptist church of Cambridge last Friday in withdrewing from their former pastor the right hand of fel- lowship,* Middies Forbidden to Have Candy. Annapolis, Md,Jan. 29.—An order | has been issued by the Naval Academy authorities forbldding midshipmen to bring packeges of candy into the acad- emy or to have any sent to them at Bancroft hall. The new regulation is said to be for the double purpose of limiting the expenditures for the mid- shipment and regulating the charae- ter of sweets which they use, took an active hand tenight in the Lawrence textile strike by issuing an order sending fourteen additional companies of militia to the mill city days, and requesting the mill ewners to give 56 hours’ pay for 54 hours’ work during that period, | | Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Other Interests. CHARLES A, GAGER, JR. M'NAMARA: Two indictments Against Darrow 'S COUNSEL INVOLVED§ IN EMBRACERY CASE. Sworn Juror and Venireman in Me- {RELEASED ON $20,000 BAIL | Aceused of Bribery and Corruption of Namara Case—Declares Innocence. Los Angeles, Cal, Jan, 29.—Clarence | 8. Darrow, union labor attorney, was indicted today for bribery and cor- ruption of jurors by the county grand { jury, which for four weeks has been investigating allegations of embracery of the trial jury in the McNamara dy- namite case. Four Counts of Bribery and Corrup- tion. Two indictments were returned, con- taining four counts. counts charge Darrow with the brib- ery and attempted corruption of Rob- ert Bain, the first juror sworn to try James McNamara, the confessed dy- namiter and murderer, now serving a life term in San Quentin prison, remaining counts allege the bribery and corruption of George N. Lock- wood, @& venireman summoned in the | McNamara casge, G wo of Detective Franklin Passed Bribe. Bert Franklin, a detective, who is | alleged actually to have passed the | bribe to Bein and LocKwood, is ac- | cused of the same offenses in informa- | tiong filed some time ago in the su- verior court, Franklin's trial has been set for February 2 Released on $20,000 Bail, The maximum penalty that could be imposed on Mr. Darrow for con- viction on all counts is thirty years’ imprisonment and fines aggregating He i3 under $20,000 bail, but tonlght the former chief defender of the McNamaras said he was glad the suspense was over and that he would face his arraignment cn Thursday in the superior court with an equanimity $10,000. born of his innocence. Darrow Knew It Was Coming. Today an intimation of the district The bill also provides for | sttorney’s office reached Mr. Darrow tlat the charges against him would be reached today, and he at once set sbout arranging fer bail. compte Day row's associgtes friend of the acel in the used Mrs. Le. wife of one of Mr. Dar- McNamara case, and Col. Charles S. Young, a lawyer, plied the bail fixed by Judge Conre who sat for Presiding Judge Hutton. Warrant Served in Courtroom, ‘When Darrow arrived in court the Judge Conrey formalities were br! fef. received the indictments and order ‘bench warrants issued. The warrants were served on Mr. Darrow in_the courtroom and the judge asked Dep- uty Distriet Attorney Kord what he thought would be a proper amount of bail. Darrow Speaks Hopefully. “This is a very serious said Ford, “and I would suggest the | highest &mount compatible with | degres of gravity.” ‘“Ten thousand on each indictment,” charge,” said Judge Cenrey, laconically. Mrs. Davis and Young qualified at once, and Darrow, apparently greatly reliéved, Jaft court with his attorneys. “This is something I never had to do before,” said Darrow, “but I think 1 can beat “No Escape for Darrow,” Says Fred- ericks. Tampa, Fla, Assoclated Press Darrow. “We knew that when and we knew who did it.” “This is but . the beginning.” laughed when asked if he thought it | possible that the indictment of Mr. Darrow in any way involved high of- ficlals of the American Federation of Labor, Jurer Bain took {hs seat that he had been bribed Jan, 39.—“There was no, chance for Darrow to escape,” re- | marked District Attorney J. D. Fred- ericks of Los Angeles, who is spend- ing several weeks here, when shown despatches _tonight! announecing the indictment of Clarence Supreme Court Recess. ‘Wasghin; e Spetieds to cases under consi ion., on, Jan. 28.—The supreme court of the Unifed States today took until February 19 to enable re opinions in these The sup- its He ‘Walter's Body Iil}lemaled STRICKEN PARENTS. PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE Wrote Statement for the Public at 2 0'Cleck Yesterday Morning—Showed Little Resistance to Current. North Bergen, N. J, Jan. -A Landful of ashes is all that remains of Albert Wolter, the young murderer, who went to his death at Sing Sing prison at dawn today. Accompanied by mother and father, the body reach- o'clock this afternoon. Ashes Turned Over to Parents. Almost at once it was placed in a retort and forty-five minutes later the ashes were poured in an urn and turned over to the weeping parents. THE EXECUTION. Wolter Showed Least Resistance to Current of Any New York Murderer. Ossining, N, Y., Jan. Albert Wolter was put to death in the elec- tric chair at Sing Sing prison at 5.41 cclock . this morning for the murde: of 15 vear old Ruth Wheeler nearly two years ago. The execution was without feature and Wolter was declared dead after one contact of 1,960 volts. The state eiectrician said . that Walter showed less resistance to the electric current than any murderer put to death by electrlelty at Sing Sing prison Wrote Statement at 2 A. M. The murderer spent his last night quietly, resting only part of the time Af two o'clock this’ morning Wolter wrote his denicl of the killing. The statement was written on a single sheet, and so even and clear were the letters formed that the writing had the appearance of copperplaté. The statement reads: “Warden J. 8. Kennedy: To be giv- en to the public:—January 29, 2 a. m. Wolter's Denial of Crime. “Now that T am departing from this 29, I wish to make this last statement The world refused me justice, but our Tather in heaven, who knows our in- nermost, He will give me pure and vndefiled justice. I wish to state I am innocent of the crime I was con- victed of. I have heen a victim of circumstantial evidence, T hope that there may.come a time when the con- science of the perpetrator will over- power him and he will come to the front and acknowledge his guilt. It is my horiest prayer to God that he may bring the person guilty of the crime to justice that my name may bo cleared of this stain and that the Leople may see the injustice done me end that they killed an innocent boy. To thoss who have . given me their ?ind assistance and have trusted in e I give my sincerest thanks. To hose who have malciously perse- cuted and killed me, for them I pray God's forgiveness. (Signed) “ALBERT W. WOLTER. Convicted on Circumstanial Evidence. Although Wolter was convicted on circumstantial evidence, the court of appeals, reviewing the case after a series of legal delays, declared he was fairly tried end justly convicted. Ruth Wheeler met her death on March 24, 1810, in Wolter's apartment on the fourth fleer of a house on East 75th street, New York city, where she had gone to seek erployment a8 a stenog- rapher. Her charred body was dis- covered subsequently. Body Partly Burned. The evidence indicated that the girl had come to her death by strangula- tion and burning after having been assaulted, The body had been thrust into a fireplace, where it was partly burned, and concealed until it be- came convenient to remove:it in a bag to the fire escape from which it was thrown to the ground below. Admitted Writing Postal Card. Wolter admitled that he wrote the postal card which led Ruth Wheeler to visit his apartment, and in a book kept by him was found in her hand- writing an entry of her name and ad- Gress. A hatpin and a ring which the girl had worn on the morning of her disappearance, were found in the fire- piace, and In a house to which Wolter | ASHES TURNED OVER TO GRIEF- | ed the crematory here shortly after | earth to go into the presence of God, | Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population 1 : i s Q Condensed Telegrams i i The Standard Oil Company of New | York yesterday announced an advance of'25 points in refined peroleum. A Phenomenal Change Has Occurred in the course of the Japan Current, which brings it closer to the Alaskan coast. Lake Superior Believed to be freezing over its entire a If so it wil] be the first time in the memory | of the white man. | According to an Opinion Rendered by | | Attorney General Carmody automobiles owned and operated by the federal government cannot be taxed. Clara Barton, Who Has Been Il of | | nervous exhaustion since November, is | much improved, and physiclans yester- day declared she would soon be out. | General Liang Pi, a High Manchu Official, was wounded in Peking by & bomb thrown by an unidentified China- man who was killed by the explosion. | At the Trial of the Beef Packers in | Chicago efforts were made by the de- | fense to show that retallers are re- | le for high prices of dressed Charles W. Morse, the New York Banker, who was recently pardoned by President Tar eft the military hos- | pital at Atlanta and took quarters In a hotel there. As President of the New York State board of the American Red Cross, overnor Dix issued an appeal yest ay for contributions to the Chinese relief fund. Dr. Norton R. Hotchkiss, surgeon general on the staff of former Gov- ernor Woodruff and one of the best known physicians in New Haven, is seriously l. The Resignation of Rev. Louis A | Parsons as rector of St. Paul's Epis- | copal church, at Brunswick, Me., is an- | nounced. He is considering a call Amesbury, Mass, Champ Clark Was Given His First boom in California for the democrat ion for the presidency yeste y the organization of a state np Clark league. Suit Was Started at Madison, Wis., | against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad to test constitution- | ality of the upper berth law enacted by | the legislature of 1911 There Were 200,601,000 Head of horses, mules, milch cows, other caftle, | sheep and swine, valued at $5,008,149,- | 000, on farms and ranges within the United States on Jan. 1. Former Governor William T. Cobb of Maime announced yestgrday that he will not be a candidate befare the b ries for the republican nemination for United States senator, Albert C. Nagal, a Grocer; is ing from a well developed cise a form of glanders. and the New Haven since that which the death of Dr. J. H. Kelly. suffer- of far- first in caused | Great Britain’s New Foreign Policy | of conciliation and tinwillingness to in- terfere with the schemes of Russia and other powers in China is not approved by the masses of the English people. Home Rule Would Be the Worst p: sible thing that could befall Treland, is the opinion of Iord Talbot de Mala- | hide of Dublin, and a member of the | house of lords, who is touring this country. | War on High Prices of Produce was begun in New York with the ovening | of the first of what is proposed to be a series of sales places where products | will be sold without a middleman’s in- | | tervention. s William 8. Ransom, 90, for 29 Years clerk of the Litchfleld county superior | court and by virtue of his iong prac- tice kmown as the dean of the Litch- fleld county bar, is dead at his home at | Litchfleld, Conn. | Joseph Theoret, 50, Yard Hand em- | | ployed by the Imon Falls, H, | | Manufacturing company, was killed ‘day by a bale of cotton falling him from a second story and | his neck. | _A General Order Has Been Issued by | | the Confederate Veterans' association | of Louisiana urging all camps of veter- ans to secure from state legislatures Indorsement and financial aid for the proposed peace jubilee at Gettysburg. The Body of James Maguire was | found kneeling against the sink in the | kitchen of his home by firemen who | entered the house at Biddeford, Me., vesterday to extinguish a fire discov- ered by neighbors. He had besn suf- | focated. | . | With Fifty Vacancies Existing at the Military Academy in spite of all | efforts to secure the desired number | of qualified eligibles for appointment as cadets through the ordinary chan- nels, the war department again has turned to congress for relief. { A Ten Year Term for the postmaster general, the elimination of the entire postoffice department from politics, | and the appointment of all postmaste: ¢ the head of the dpartment, instead of by the president, was proposed in a bill “introduced yesterday by Repre- sentative Norris of Nebrask: Negro Assaults Young Woman. Cordele, Ga., Jan. 20 —Stepping from behind a fence into her, vath early to- night. an unidentified hegro seized a young white woman of prominent fam- ily of this city, choked her. carried her behind a high fence not fifty feet from two homes and assaulted her. Bhe by came unconscious, recovered, and gave | the alarm. Authorities with dogs and | hundreds of armed citizens are search- | ing for the negro. Three Ast nations at Mukden. Mukden, Jan. 20.—The president of | the municipal council and two mem- Dbers of the progressive society have been assassinated. Suspected revolu- tionists are being executed dally. had moved bn the following day, was Giscovered an umbrella’ which the girl ‘wag known to have had witn her wien she left home. Named an Unknewn Man. Wolter claimed he had never seen ilte Wheeler girl and that he was not at home until late in the afternoon on the day the crime was committed, He scught to account for the entry of the girl's name in his book by saying he wrote it there at the dictation of a man named Fred Ahner, who was desirious of starting a school of short hand and told him he was going to No one could engage Ruth Wheeler. be found to testify as to the axistence Ahner. b Wolter was found guilty and was scatenced to be electrocuted ) | nor witnesses. ELECTION OF WILSON A CALAMITY Col. Watterson Says He Cannot Be Trusted To Be Loyal to Anything. CLAIMS THAT GOVERNOR HAS LIED Caustic Letter From the Kentucky Editor, in Which He Accuses New Jersey Governor of Not Daring to Face Facts—Regards His Acquaintance With Wilson as a Misfortune—Is Backing No Other Candidate, He Says. Washington, Jan. 29 —Colonel Henry | Wilson, and ti Watterson in’ a_statement issued to- | fear” that if t: night and intended to bring the “dis- | tribution from Mr. Ryan got abroad it tasteful episode” to and end, so far as | wight do more harm thun good. he is concerned, declared that the issue | Colonel Watterson's Statement. between him and Governor Wilson is| o008 7 8Feraen solely which one “lied." Colonel Wat- | , colonel Walterson's terson said he “had engaged conclu- | d5e88ed "ty the demacrs latter ressed the knowledge of u .con= statement, ad< s of the Unit- sively to show that Governor Wilson | ®% i gl PRI ) lled, and charged that the New Jersey | . joue 00 on Nt Py (e executive dared not face the facts” | DR OTE GRI e SRONE 0 e Watterson Declines to Furnish Proofs. | fused m. as to the issue of v oife Colonel *Wattereon declined to . | racity he has raised between us, to sub- public any proofs iu his possession. He A mit proof of truth of my a crment denied that Thomes F. Ryan was ever | [0 PArty associates cormpetent to judge approached for campaign contributions | 10 both of its character and the ex- for Governor Wilson, but said that the [ Pedfency of it publi L (Contined on Page Eight.) matter was talked over with Governor = HOUSE REDUCES THE TARIFF ON METALS REPUBLICANS URGED TO STAND BY THEIR GUNS Taft Makes Stirring Appeal at Mec- | Twenty Insurgent Republicans Vets Kinley Day Banquet. with Democrat Cleveland, Jan. The hig event of | Washington, Jan, 29, he democ the president’s first day in his tour of his own state, was the McKinley day | hanguet given by the Tippedanoe club | ic metal tariff resolution, 1o make re- ductions averaging 35 per cent, from the steel and iron duties in the Payne- at_the chamber of commerce tonight. | Aldrich law, passed the house today s ddressing north Ohio republi- | by & vote of 510 (o 109. Republican cans, the president made & sUrring ap- | offorts to have the bill amended or to peal to the republican party to stand | debate it were brought to a sudden its guns and to rest in the confi- e that it has carried out the pledges it made to the people of the United Sta He said thac he faced ! the future with equanimity and in the | beliet that the judgment of the coun- | try would prove him right in his opin- i : end when ( mit further and forced [ lerwood refused to per- nendments being offered the house vote upon the final passage of the measure, Twe insurgent republicans voted the meusure, while the democratic gation from. Colorado, Represents. Martin, Rucker and Taylor, dis: 1 tiv » his hearers it appeared that-a |satisfied with the great reduction pro- Leynote” speech upon which the com- | posed in the lead tariff, voted against ing campaign might be fought was|the democratic majority being delivered. | Defeated repeate in their at- “Looking over the record of whattempts to force amendments into the has been done’ said the president |measure, 'the republicans raled for “If seems to me that we are armed | the last attack upon.a motion by Rep with the facts and with thil ac- | resentative Payne of New York, for- complished, sufficient to mect our en- | mer republican chairman of the ways emy in the open field and to overcome |and means committee, to re-commit him in the judgment of an impartial | the bill to that committee, with ime umpire, It seems to me that|structions to hold it until the tarMt there is no occasion for the republi- cans of this country to fear the is- #ue, with their knowledge of the prog- ress that has been made in the last four years, with their adoption of pro- gressive principles indicated in _their Dlatform of 1908, and in the proposals of the administration since that time. They must if they would serve the fountry well, distriminate between what is really progressive and useful and what is utterly at variance with sound, constitutional ~governmental and economic policy. “On this, the natal day of William McKinley, let us take new vows in half of the grand old party, standing by the constitution, standing by the rights of liberty and property of the individual and willing to face defeat many times in behalf of the cause of scund constitutional government.” commission reports upon ity investiga- tion of the metal tariff. This motion was deteated, 205 to 108 The regular republicans protested to the last agatnst the application of rules closing the debate. Mr. Un- derwood was charged by the republi- can leader, Mr. Mann, with the “ruth- less application” of the force of the democratic majority, Many attempts to Bave sections of the democratic free list stricken out were made, but amendments by Mr. Mann, to restrict the democratic freo list, which includes typewriters, printing machinery, ma- chine tools, sewing machines and other artlcles, to countries which do not discriminate against American cottonseed ofl, live cattle, meats and meat products, were defeated. The bill will face a stormy reeap- tion in the senate, It will reach that body tomorrow and be referred te the flnance committes. LORIMER LOSES PATIENCE UNDER CROSS EXAMINATION kis Relations with lllinois Democrat- ic Leader Subject of Inquiry. NORWICH MAN ON EXECUTIVE COMMITTER Tyler Cruttenden Henered at Mesting of MeKinley Associatien. Waterbury, Conn, Jan. 29.—The memory of President William McKin- ley was honored by the McKinley as- sociation of Connecticut tonight in the customury way of & banquet at which the principal respouse was given by Congressman Paul Howland of Cleve- land, O., an intimate friend of the late president, biauquet was the ninth one. Tonight's was the largest gath- ertng in several yoars. A comniittee named to select officers of the association reported the follow- ‘Washington, Jan. ~Senator lori- mer's relations with Lee O'Neil Browne, democratic leader of the Illi- ncis legislatung, and others prominent in the senator's eiection, was the sub- ject of cross examination of the sen- ater today before the senate commit- tee investigating his election, Many times during the day/Mr. Lor- imer. expressed impatience with Mr. Marble's method of cross examination and many of his objections were sus- tained by the members of the commit- tee, The crose examination probably will be concluded tomorrow. ing, who were elected: President, Col. ey R. O. Eaton, North Haven; secretary, DYNAMITE INVESTIGATION Col. C. W. Pickett, New Haven; treas- urer, J. D. Walter, Cheshire: executy NOW DRAWING TO A CLOSE | (07 iites, Abner 'P. Hayes, Waterbury, Joha J. Dahill, Hartford, W. P. Balley, Bethel, Frank B. Munn, Litchfleld, P. B. Leonard, Tolland, Isaac Spear, Mid- dlesex, G. A. Bartle(t, Windham, Tylee Cruttenden, Norwich and last speaker was Hon. Clark, governor of Alaska, a former Connecticut boy. Mr. Clark was handicapped by a bad cold which affected his voice and he explained that he has suffered throat trouble ever since he left Alaska and feared he would not recover until he returned. His theme was “Alaska” and he de- scribed in detall the conditions existing thers &t the present time. He said that President Taft had been a factor in its development and had become a great favorite with the peopls of the csum~' try. Indictments Expected by Last of This Wesk or Next Week. Indianapolis, Jan eral grand jury's investigation of the Cynamite conspiracy is drawing to a ciose and that indictmants may be re- turned at the end of this or the be ginning of next week, was indicated todsy by the dismissal of many mi- That the fed- The present plan of the government it 18 sald is to cause ull the arrests, if any are authorized, as nearly. a8 posgible on the same day. The indict- raents will be kept secret until the men are arrested. Segregation of Bright Children, ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—Geniuses and children of exceptional ability should be segregated in tho public schools and pushed forward as rapidly as pos- sible, in the opinion of a commission named by the United States commis- sioner of education to «investigate the schools. The commisston estimates that about four per cent. of school children are ‘“supernormal” and mays they should be given instruction sep- srate from those beneath them in abil- ity, Shuster Banqueted at Londea. ‘London, Jan. 20—W. Morgan Shuss ter received a remarkable ovation and his claims for Persian independence were enthusiastically cheered at & ban- quet which the Persian committes, composed of members of the house of commons and other prominent men, gave In honor of the American ex- treasurer-general of Persia at the Sa- Yoy hetel tonight. oy Coasters Held in $200. Bridgeport, Conn., Jan, 20.—Roy. Flol- loway, 14 years 0ld, and Peter Branni- gan, 15, were arrested tonight and later released under §200 bonds charged with involuntery mansiaughter in having ecauséd the death of Joseph O'Conmor, who died from injaries inflicted when run fnto by the bovs while coasting. The arrests came after the coroner totind them responaible, $2,000 Mors for Stricken Chima. ‘Waghington, Je 28 —An 32,000 for the relief of the Chine was despatched by oan Croas soolety to Shanghal tamine refel committes. An eoftort will be mude from now en t wend a dally amount for use in aiding the stricken. Miners Rejoct Operstors’ Offer. Indianapolis, Jun, 36.—The Dbiumi- nous omr miners today rejected the proposal bm operators Lo retura to Steamship Arri At Glasgow: Jan, from New York, At Havee; Jan. 28, La- Bretajme, frem New York. At Hamburg: from New “York, 29, Columbia, of 1904-06, submitted. Jan. 26, Perinsylvania Lower Freight Rate on Waste, Washington, Jan, 20.—The inter- state commerce commission today re. aueed the freight rate on catton waste from Charlotte, N. €., to- New York | city from 4§ cents a hundred pounds 10 40 cents, é s