Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 5, 1912, Page 1

VoL LIV—NO. 32 NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY. FEBRUARY 5, & $ -~ The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, an ICE FLOE BEARS THREE TO DEATH Great Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls is Loosened From Its Moorings. FOUR ESCAPED TO CANADIAN SIDE Toronto Woman Falls and Her Husband and Cleveland Youth Remain Behind to Assist Her, thereby Losing Their Lives —Ropes Dropped from Bridge and Youth Made Frantic Efforts to Cling to It, but Strength Gave Out—Husband and Wife in Final Embrace in Face of Death. floe. In his course there dangied one rope, and a second was moved toward him. He caught that held by Officer Niagara I'sils, N. Y., Feb. 4 —The aat jce bridge that has choked the river channel between the cataract and d lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Double Suicide Ends Romance MR. AND MRS. NOBLE CAREFULLY PLANNED DEATH. ALL GAS COCKS FOUND OPEN No Note of Explanation Left Behind —Woman Deserted Millionaire Hus- band to Marry a Young Plumber. New York, Feb, 4—Double suicide ended the eensational romance of the former wife of Walter L. Suydan, and Frederick Noble, the young. plum- ber, for the love of whom Mrs. Suydam ran away from her millionajre hus- band and married. The bodies of No- ble and his bride of a monih were found in their New York apartments today, asphyxiated. Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce, | Manufacturing, and Other Interests. Votes 1 under the direction of a the upper steel arch bridge below the falls for the last three weeks broke from its shoring juet at noon today and vent down the river, taking with it to their death & man end weman, said to be Mr. and Mrs, Bldridge Hlur:mn of Toronto, snd Burrell Heacock, 17 years old, of Cleveland, Q. Four Reached Shore Safely. Four other persons wers on the ice 8t the time, but managed to get ashore in safety. The bridge was considered irely safe. TFor weeks the great fields of ice had been coming down the river, piltng up ageinst the berrier un- Pat Kelly of the Ontario police force and a company of about 20 railroad men—caught it and jumped free of the ice. Many Sensational Featur The mutual agreement to commit suieice, the discovery of its results by Mrs. John White of Washington, D. C, mother of the former Mrs. Suy- dam, and other features of the case were sensetional. Found All Doors Barricaded, Mrs. White, who has an apartment on Lexington avenue, had her daagh- ter with her last night and she =sup- posed the daughter was staying over night with her. When Mrs. White awoke latg this morning found her daughter had fled the house and to Battered by Floating lce. The sag of the rope at that great drop—200 feet—let him into the chilly water up to his waist, and before he was clear of it he was frightfuily bat- tered by three successive floes of jut- ting ice. Tried to Climb Hand Over Hand. Not content with the efforts of the men above to draw him up, he tried to | assist himself hand over hand. The time was 1.10 o'clock and the hour or i1 1t was from 80 to 50 feet thick, and under ‘the influence of gero weather it had become firmly anchored to the shore. Attracted Many Sightseers. The jam was about 1,000 feet in Jength and in some places a quarter of a mile In breadth. For two weeks It had offered safe passage to the hardy, nnd today,a great crowd of excursion- more that the boy had heen on the ice and the effects of the icy ducking had sapped his strength. ¥e stopped try- ing to pull himself up and hung Iimp on the rope, which spun him around like a top. Kelly and his men pulled steadily. Ten feet, 30, 25, 30 feet, up he came. The great crowd on the bridges cheered—those that were not 1 15f:0 view the winter wonder of | Weeping. 3 I S iad tho accldent happened | Lost His Grip, Plungss Into Stream. &an hou? later hundreds would have 108t | Grimly the boy hung on, trying al- their lives, for the crowd was moving down into Prospect park in the ele- vators which run down the clff to go out upon the lce. Died in Effort to Save Wife. Somewhere deap in the great whirl- pool tonight lies the man _partially identified as Mr, Stanton. He twice thrust aside a chance of rescue to re- in with his terror-stricken wife, and 1 the shadow of death—just at the reak in the rapids—spurned assistayce for himself and tried vainly to bind around his wife a rope, ene end of which dangled from the lower steel nrch bridge. The lad, Heacock, was ast in the same mould. Had he not turned back on the ice to assist Mr. Btanton, he, too, might have made the shore. Others Ran to Canadian Shore. On the bridge at the time it tore free from the shore, beside these three, were Moanroe Gilbert of this city, Igna- tius Roth of Cleveland, Heacock's ctm- panion, Willlam Hall, an old riverrian who had a sl on the fce, Wililam Lablond, riverman, and an uni@eatified Ttallan. Hill in his shack was nearest to the American shore. When he heard the grinding and crashing of the ice he ran at top speed towards the Cana- dian shore, calling to the others to follow him. Lablond gave them warn- ing that sefety lay in that direction. Gilbert and the Italian followed their lead, but the others became confused. Hy the time they regained thelr com- posure the Dbridge was moving fast down the river. Mrs. Stanton Dropped of Exhaustion. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton started first toward the American shore, but were topped by a lane of open water. Back r.‘loy rau again towards the Canadian ride, turned about and made for tho Amerfcan side. When hardly more than 50 yards from the rocky shore, Mrs. Stanton fell on her face, utterly ways to get one leg wouad about the rope. Then his hands begap to slip. ‘He sought to get hold of the rope with his teeth, but could not. Finally, just he was about 60 feet clear of the water, his head fell back. Iia was ut- terly spent. He lost his grip and plunged far down into tha stream. en he came up his face turned tow- ards the great wave and he feebly moved his arms in the breast stroke. But the mighty rush of water was too much for him. He was caught like a cork and sent racing into the midstiof the seething waters. For perhaps half a minute he was in view and then he Was no more seen; he was swallowed up in the sputne. Stanton Encircles Wife With Rope. Heacock's fatal fallure was witness- ed by Stanton on the other floe. His wife apparently dared not look. The men appearsd calm as he in turn pre- pared to stake his and his wife’s lives against death, for caught by a down- river cufrent the floe was moving into the course-Heacock had gone, As the coupls swung under the cantllever | bridge Mr. Stanton grasped e rope and tried to put it about his wife's walst. The force of the current was too much for the rope. It parted and the man waved the torn end toward the crowd. Hands Too Numb to Tie Rope. There was still another chance—the rope that was dropped from the lower steel arch bridge by the Niaeara ave- nue firemen. As the floe careened into the swift drift the man caught it and grimly hung on. He was given slack and he tried to wind the rope about her waist. He fumbled in his agony of effort as if his hands were numb. The rush of the iee in the stream was overpowering. When he could not tie the rope about the womsén's walst he let it go. Embraced Wife in Face of Death. Apparently he had no thought of wpent. ‘T can't go on; I can't go on,” | himself. He raised the woman to her | vthe cried. “Let us die here.” feet, kissed her and clasped her in his is Life | rms. The woman made as if to cross | Hinosek Hetped Her and Lot His Life |85 00 - r anc to her knoes. - The And all the time the great field of ice, driven onward by @ southwest gale and pressed by a jam broken free from anchorage near the base of the Horseshoe fall, went on breasting the Vrnma, outrush of the Niagara Falls Power company’'s tunnel outflow, the (mightiest current in all the river, with- put being broken. When Mrs. Stanton éf:" her husband strove to get her on man kneit beside her, his arms clasped cloge about her. So they went to their death. The ico held intact until it | struck the great wave. There it was | shivered to pleces; there the gallant | man and the woman by his side disap- i peared from vie i i 8IX OYSTERMEN DROWN IN CHOPTANK RIVER. Te also called to B | th and Heac who were nearest, | Boats Caught in an ice Jam and. Go r help. Heacock turned back and Down With Their Crew (elped support the womam, and the - wet eost him his life. Tilghmane, Md., Feb. 4—Six oyster- Roth Saved by Lablond. men arahi;»heved to hi w; bmv; d'rnlwns:(] R ugRle " _|in the Choptank river when their boats n‘,i’;‘,h,.;‘:JE‘L;L?YE:“.%(;,:"‘;nl';;s]‘r‘“;;‘,, were carried into the open waters in stretch of water at the Canadian end | the ice jam that began to move early | of the fam. There were men on the | this morning with the gale that swept | E.,,,m.d\ to give him assistance, La- | ©ver Tilghmans Island. The iceboat | er fest again, and then tried to drag er along the lc Jond, Willtam Cook and Supt, Harry | Annapolis up to a late hour had found {ing of the Ontario Power company. hey were stationed at the bottom of the cliff just at the foot of Fastwood wtreet, Niagara Falls, Ont. Roth was efraid to trust himself in the icy we- no_trace of the boats or men. The missing boats are: Launch and dredging boat scow Covington, which ounded at Tilghmans Island. ©n the aunch and dredge were four men. S hat Taunch and dredge of the Tilghman's | i pout pablond Jumped out ubon| poooying ‘company and her crew of the field of ice with a rope and half t L . Mis- carried, half dragged the boy ashore. iree men. un i les Field Split in Two. hes caught in the After getting Roth safely ashore, the | swirling ice and water managed to | meh made an effort to rench the sther [fght thelr way through the buffeting a:m on the ice floe. But at a point | cakes and make clear water. They ut 80 feet below the upper steel|are now anchored in the middle of the arch bridze the ice field hroke into two | Choptank, trying to ride down fhe great fields. One section went towards | 8ale. the Ameriosn shore and grounded on ® rock near the hydraulic power house. The other floe with the three helpless human belngs on it passed slowly down the river. Firemen Threw Rop: Meantime the fire headquarters truck The struggle for life was watched by Tilghmans Islanders who stood oo the wharf and shore powerless to give assistance. The Covineton launch moved slowly to the side of the dreds- ing boat and the short stop she made fs thought to mean that the crew of the other boat was taken ahoard the had been called out and o general . ritirae. alarm of fire on the Canadian side|POWer bo8t: Then all four disappeared. called out the men there. They took OBITUARY. station with ropes along the shore, but the flos was far beyond thelr reach. The Nlagara avenue firemen were sent to the lower steel arch bridge and there took station with a rope. The Canadjan firemen had two ropes down from the cantllever bridge, which is about 300 feet above the other struc- ture. Joseph LaHait. New Milford, Conn., Feb. 4.—Joseph LaMait, for many years in the furni- ture and undertaking business here, died today from acute indigestion. He wag 57 vears old and leaves a widow and three children. Charles M, Gerdiner. Bridgeport, Feb, 4.—Charles M. Ger- diner, for 42 years superintendent of the local gas light company, dled at his home today. He severed his con- nection with the gas company eight vears ago, and previous to his service with thet company was chief of the fire department., Tie was 75 years old and leaves a widow and two sons, Judge David A. Nichois. Sheiton, Conn., Feb. 4.—David A. Nichols, judge of the Huntington and district probale courts, died at his home here today from a complication of diseases. Judge Nichols was born In Monroe, where he served as town clerk and judge of probate. He also represented the town twice in the gen- eral assembly and was active in repub- lican politics. He was 55 years old and leaves & widow and three children, Floe Splits Again. Just above the old Maid of the Mist landing, a quarter of a mile from the whiripool rapids, the floe on which the three were horne broke into two sec- tions, each 200 feet square, the on one, Heacock on waved his band to 1 distress as hig floe r of the other and, caught 4 down'the river. The vds the Amer- vas caugit in an eddy, and ut thera for about five min- Wiad within ‘sight of the waters which marked the tumbling beginning of the rapids and death. Heacock Clutches Rope. Heacock saw the ropes dangling from the bridge and made ready to catch one. Very coolly he took off his over- <ol and polsed himseM on the tossing learn the reason she hurried fo ner deughiers home on Wes: Twelfth sireet ir her automobile. She iwas alarmed when there was no angwer ta repeated knoccks on the door, so she summoned two policamen, who forced an enrance, when they found the door barrfcaded with chalrs aud tables. The doors of the rooms ox the larze apartmeni riere also locked and barri- caded and by the time the party had reache¢ the diming rocra whea the odor of gas was first detectel Mrs, White was hysterical, Clasped in Each Other's Arms. On breaking through the nex: docr into the kitchen, the party found Noble and his wite dead on th: fiour, part'y undressed and clasped in each other's Bem A great volume of gas was escaping from five burners of a range. The o}.en jets were also turned on and the licads of the suicides wer: aimost within the over. The woman was clud in a silk kimono and she lay with Nebie's left arm ench £ her bsdy. The'r faces were clo KeTner, No Note of Expiznation. Mrs, White, who was the first to see the kodi shrieked and raiated. She carricd to a physician’s office and resuscitated with difficulty. On further Investigation the police found every window In the nine-room apartment locked. They found no notes to ex- plain the coupie’s act, but they were fully convinced it was a case of double suicide, and later Coroner Hellenstein | said that the circumstances left no doubt that such was the case. He sald the two had been dead probably three or four hours before found. Former Husband Greatly Affected. A few minutes after the discovery of the bodies, Mrs, Noble's former husband, the millionaire, Walter Lis- penard Suydam, was summoned by telephone and arrlved quickly in his automobile. He was much affected but he was not allowed to view the wo- man’s body. He relinquished any claim to it and it was given to Mrs. White, Knew of No Motive. Employes at the apartment housa gaid that Suydam frequently visited hig divorced wife after her marriage to the young plumber. When asked what he thought the motive for the double suicide was, he said: “I can’t tell you anything. She isn't mine now and I am only here as a friend to see what I can do.” Drew on Former Husband’s Account. Mr. Suydam picked up In the apart- ment & check for $110, which he satd his former wife told him yesterday she had drawn on his account. He put the check in his pocket. Suydam Runs Down Mail Carrier. Buydam was ®0 unnerved Yy the tragedy that later when driving his down Edward Rappold, e malil carrier. He took the injured man to a hos- pital, leaving orders that no expense be spared In treating his injuries. It was said the man would recover, Cause of Suicide a Mystery. The reason for the suicides probably never be known man was in her twenties, Couple Quarrsiled Friday Night. According to the superintendent of the apartment house, Noble may have attempted to take his life Friday night. will The wo- The superintendent told the police that | the Nobles were overheard quarrelling and .ate that night Mrs. Noble told the elevator operator to summon a physi- cian because her husband had attempt- ed suicide. NEGRO LYNCHED AND THE CORPSE BURNED. | Mob Took Culprit from His Guards in | Railrcad Yard. Macon, Ga., Feb. 4.—Charles Powell, a negro, who assaulted and robbed a voung white woman here last night, was taken from officers and lynched by a mob early today. Previously county officers had sought to prevent the lynching and had re- moved Powell from the jall about which the mob gathered. Powell gone, the would-be lynchers were admitted. Then followed & man hunt in which all outgoing trains were watched. Members of the mob used automobiles and overtook the negro and his two guards in the yards of the Geormia Southern and Florida railroad, four miles from the city, the negro having been taken there to board a train for Atlanta. He was tied to a telegraph pole and hundreds of bullets were fired into his body. At noon today a crowd of several hundred -men assembled near the un- dertakers where the body had been taken, loaded it into a wason, carried it to the heart of the negro section of the city and burned it. (‘oal oil soaked cross ties furnished the pyre and so quicklv and quietly was the work done that the police kmew nothing of it until the torch had been applied. The crime of which the negro was accused was the asgault and rodhery of a voung white eirl Cotton Steamer Sinks, Crew Saved. Norfolk, Va., Feb, 4—The British steamer Consols, cotton laden, from Galvesion for Hamburg, flame-swept, in a long, futile race for port, sank early today forty miles south of Cape Henry. Her crew of 34 men, refugees on the British steamer Castle den, were landed at Newport News, WILLIAM R. STEVENS, The Main Street Photographer. Eabled Paragraphs . Berlin, Feb. 4. —The federal council approved of the draft of a new citizenship code which is of great interest to Germans in Amecrica, St. Petersburg, Feb. 4.—A Kranco- Erh-Hsun, the viceroy of Manchuria, palace at Mukden for $650 0a0, Alexandria, Egypt, Feb., 4—Th Egyptian cottoa crop is now estimated at not less than 11,000,000 hundred- weights. It i8 expectsd that the bet ter qualitles will be held for higher prices. Rome, Feb. 4. pacificists yesterda: C f Italian daro, the minister of pubi nstruc- | birthday celebrated as a in all the schools of Italy Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. {—The sen ate yesterday expressed its agreemen of an extension of the state of siege and the trlal by military courts of the men arrested in connection with the Tecent general strike. Over 1,000 per- song are still in cugtody. | TWENTY DETECTIVES ON BOMB MYSTERY New York Woman Killed by Innecent | Appearing Cigarstte Box. New York, Feb, 4—Definite clues to the identity of the person who sent { the bomb which caused the death last | night of Helen Taylor, also known as | Mrs. Grace Walker, in her apartments on West 77th street, had falled to manifest themselves today, aithough | twenty of the city’s best detectives employed all their ability toward un- aveling the mystery. Charles H. | Dickinson, the employe of a motor company, and formerlv of Portland, Ore.,, who was ir the apartment when | automoblle on Fifth avenue, he ran | Miss Taylor opened the fatal pack- ) | | age which contalned the bomb, will be given a hearing tomorrow by Cor- oner Feinberg, on a technical charge of homicide, but the police seem In- clined to accept his statement that he knew nothing of the bomb until the explosion occurred. Efforts either to establish a motive for the box or to find the messenger who dellvered the innocent looking cigarette box with Its death dealing contents have thus far proved una- valling. The police learned, however, that there was another man in the apartment just previous to the ex- | plosion, a fact which they gathered | from Miss Edna Lamarre, who occu- | pied. the apartment with the Taylor woman, Miss Lamarre admitted, ac- cording to the police, that when Dick- inson arrived at the apartment early in the evening she left by a rear door accompanied by the man who was not, kowever, seen by Dickinson. About ten | minutes Jater she called up Miss Tay- lor on thg telephone, the police say, | to carry out a pre-arranged plan io | induce Dickinsor. to leave the house |on the ground that Miss Taylor's | brother-in-law was coming., Dickin- |son and Miss Taylor had quarreled, | she explained, and the latter was anx- fous to get him out of the house. Lamarre got no answer to her mes- sage, she sald, the explosion having already occurred, she believes. The police say they have the names of her companion, but will not make it public _until they have interrogated him. Just what happened during the ten minutes Mrs. Lamarre and her compznion were abgemt, Dickinson will be asked io tell tomorrow. A | small business card on which was printed “American Electric Fuse com- pany, Muskegon, Mich,” wilh “repre- sented by J. H, Taylor,” written in ink, was found in the dead woman’s apartments today and to this the police seemed to attach considerabie signifi- cance. They have communicated with the firm and expect information to- morrow which they hope will throw some light on the woman's past, of which Iittle is known other than she has lived in New York for the past seven years. .Bhe is reported to have been married to a man named Howard Walker, but the police do not know whether he is allve or not. Guilty of Starving a Patient. Seattle, Wash.,, Feb. 4—The jury in the case of Mrs. Linda Burfleld Haz- zard, accused in the Kitsap eounty superior court at Port Orchard, of having starved to death Miss Claire Williamgon, a wealthy Enmglish patient at the “starvation sanitar- lum,” returned & verdlct of manslangh- ter today, addressed Signor | tion, asking him to have Washington's peace day | American syndicate has offered Chao- | to purckase the sacred treasures in the | with the chamber of deputies in favor y Condensed Telegrams Railway and Strest Car Traffic was paralvzed at St. Joseph, Mo., by a | drifting gnowstorm, | - - ! The Death of Otis Kimball, a well- knowr dmancier in Boston, occurrcd Saturday. He was 66 years, .~ Pacific Coast Cities from San Diego, Y to Vancouver, B. C., find them- selves confronted with a Chinese tong war. Scarcity of Cavalry and field artil- | lery organizations In the pational | guard ig causing the war depariment | serious concern. The Army Is Going te Use wax iul- Jets .at For: Myer in revolver prac- tice, the in being introduced to produce No Fewer Than 15,000 Bluejackets are to be added to the German navy by the new naval bill about to be in- tioduced in the reichstag. Extra Forces of Police Are Required | to protect the weavers and coiton mill | workers of Manchester, England, who do not helong to the unions. Great Britain and Russia wiil shortly advance to Persia another $: order to relieve the immediate nec sities of the Persian government, For the Second Time This Winter, ravigation on the Ohio river betw Gallipo) Q. amd Pitlsburg is sus- pended because of heavy floes of new ice Heavy Snow, Assuming almost the proportions of a bhzzard, and five de- grees below zero were conditions pre- vailing throughout Central Iowa Sat- urday., | Representati of Coal Operators | urged the senate interstate commerce commiitee to create an interstate trade commission with control over coal | mining. Six Hundred Union Employes of the | Reck Island arsenal have voted unan wously to strike in case the govern ment Instals the so-called Taylor sh gystem at the arsemal. Or. John C. Branm of Leland Stanford, Ji teen presented b Academy of Sefer medal for the y vice president university, has Philadelphia | with the Hayden 1912, ar A Riotous Disturbance Was Caused forelgn strikers at the Lowell Ren- | dering company’s plant in Billeria, Bass, Saturday. A number of per- | scns were hurt, and five arrests were made. The Only Music neral of Prof. Rendered at the fu- M. Skinner of Jack- son, Mich, a vocalist, was a phono- | graphic rec of his own voice, & mu- sical arrangement of Tennvson's poem, Crossing the Bar. President Taft has Signed a proela mation inviting other nations to par tictpate in the Panama-Paeific inter national exposition to celebrate the opening of the Panama canal at San Francisco in 1915, George W. Perkins, in an address be- fore the Traffic club in New York, advocated the creation of a business court, composed of experienced busi- | nexs men, to deal with the corporation | and trust question. Fire Broke Out Early Saturday in a Luilding occupied by the opera house at Cranford, N. J,, and spread rapidly to adjoining buildings containing the postoffice and six stores. Damage to | the amount of $100,000 resulted, Clarence S. Darrow, former chief | counsel for the McNamaras, pleaded | not guilty Baturday to the™two indict- ments charging him with jury bribe; Darrow was ordered to appear Febru- ary 14, at which time s date for his trial will bs set. The Second Batch of Warrants, ten ir. number, for Bridgeport's personal tax delinquents, were placed in the hands of the authorities yesterday for service. Those brought by the frst| warrants escaped with payment of the | tax, but it is expected that this lot | will have to pay costs as well as the iax, Three Children Perish in Fire. Keyser. W. Va, Feb. 4—In a fire here early today three children of | Henry G. Pyles, a Balttmere and Ohio brakeman, lost their lives. The mother | escaped with a baby in her arms, but | both were severely burned | the kouse late last night. | with three builets in his body | Meanwhile | ger issued an & 0 Aid the Strikars LAWRENCE CENTRAL LABOR UN- ION TAKES ACTION. AFFILIATED WITH A, F. OF L. Rival Organization of Industrial Work- ers Ready to Sanction Strike if Called Upon—Pauperism at Lawrence. Lawrence tral Labo > American . ¥ gortion to the City's Population { iuto the fight for | Robbed Bank For 32 Years EVIDENCE OF DEFALCATIONS BY | DEAD TREASURER. | 'LOSS WILL REACH $150,000 | | Expert at Windsor Locks Finds Evi- | dence of Stealing as Far Back == 1879—No Trial Balances Ever Taken. Conn,, F . treasurer Gf he Wind- Locks Savings bank from its in- ception in 1871 to 1911, witen he re- ceess of the strike of th 2 15,000 textile mill which has becn on for nearl; more operatives y a month val organ- Indusiriol Workers of tite aetion was decided upon “losed meeting of the executive commiitee of the Central Labor union and representatives of a dozen of the skilled classe of mill operatives, when it was decided to have the C. L. U. try to bring about tiement of existing differen: favor of the operatives, Conduct the Strike. failure to bring it, the Central er actively into and mak set- abor union the conduct o he fight for nds on call with a for- strike and active ike the mills comy n ¢ that cor poration has will be no immediate attempi on the part of the | leaders of the strike here to extend it bevond this cit This was the statement today of Wil- liam Yates of New Bedford, who has taken up the direction of the following the arrest of Joseph J. tor Y rday M ates seid that meeting of the executive committee of the Industrial Workers of the We would be held in Boston 'today for th purpose of deciding on the matter tending the strik I day he explained that grams had prevented hold the this meeting, but that it may later. ' of be called Pauper Funeral Every Day. A large number of investigato along various lines, sociological and economical come to Lawrence since the stri an, studying con- ditions. = Mr. Side estigation. he save, has developed the fact that there is a pauper burfal in Lawrence every other day, and that practitally every one is that of a mill operative or a member a mill operative's fimily. Those d s represent two per cent. of the city's population, he says, and he claims a that ten per cent. of the mill workers die each year. Average Wage $9.24. The observations of Rev. Herbert Johnson of Boston during two visits to Lawrence have pr d the minister to say: “If the fig hown to me by the mill owners in Lawrence, covering the wages paid the operatives, are cor- rect, the average weckly wage is $9.24 instead of $6, and the mill owners are not able to increase the kages at the present time. Made Insane by Lawrence Strike. Jersey City, N. J.,, Feb. 4. reading accounts of the textile riots at Lawrence, Mass., Edward Fort- mann, a middle aged jewoler,went su denly insane at his home here tonig! and fired more than 20 revolver shots at imaginary “strike rioters.” He shot and perhaps fatally wounded ome of the five policemen who tried to capiure and finally shot himself through the abdomen. He will probably die. SECTION FOREMAN KILLS TWO FRIENDS Murderer Is Belioved to Have Sud- deniy Become Insane. North Adams, Mass, Feb, 4-—-Sud- denly becoming insane, it & believed, Andrew Cullen, aged 42, gection fore- nan of the force of Hoosac tunnel laborers. murdered John Balzerinin, ged 28, and Edward Willlams, aged 3, members of his crew, during the night, 2na later Kkilled himself by shooting. The shooting occurred at i home and lal rini's as Mrs, llen, who friend, came to He appeared to be slightly under the influence of Balzerini was in bed, but Cul- Icn persuaded him to got up, and later Williams came in and joired them. Sudgenly Cullen whipped out a 35- eallbrd revolver and said, “I'm going to do some shootins trigger and a bullet hit Balz ing him inatantly. Willfams also fell the only witness said that 5 close She ni, kill- fata wounded He dtcd er the arrival of the police. Cullen walked from t house to the tunnel and was found by the police later lying just inside the tunnel entrance, suffering from three bullet wourds. A special electric train rushed hfm to the North Adams hos- rital, where he died after making a Statement denying that he had shot shortl; eny one. The medical examiner de- cided that an autopsy was unneces- sary, EMPRESSDOWAGER AGREES TO REPUBLIC. Issues Edict to Prem instructing Him to Establish One. Peking, Feb. 4.—The empress dowa- edict this evening in- structing Premier Yuan Shi Kal to es- tablish a republic in co-operation with the southern republicans., he edict has not yet been published and it is expected that it will be kept more or less secret 8o far as the public is con- gerned until arrangements in the south has been completed. Yuan Bhi Kal is now endeavering to persuade the Nanking government to hand over the control of affairs to en- able him to earry on the administra- tion of the whole empire until the na- tional convention appoints a permanent government and ndopts a constitution. It Is doubted here that the regnbll- cans in Nanking will consent to' this. Tt is believed that the only solutien possible is the creation of two pro- visional governments and the continu- ance of temporary contrel. Steamship Arrivals. AL Southampton; Feb, 4, Philadel- phia, from New York < in | e| t in favor of @ gen- | the | "~ He pulled the | signed on accoun; of age, had been | stealing constantly from the bank since | 1879, has been iosed by an examin- the hooks whieh has been ) 1858, How lawge the de- vill be cannot be determin- ed until the books have been exem- {ined up to the tme of his resignation, | but it is stated that the actual steal- { ings and the interest which that mon- | ey would have drawn, and which the | bank has becn paying, will amount to $150,000 or more. Trial Balance Never Taken. Attention to the bank, which is now 8 uds of the state banking com- s first brought to the atten- COm s vhen a bank ound that there had never 1 balance he books, 1 | . Cleveland. who succeedec | Converse, took charge, no trial balance, when | other t me, was {aken, he | stating one had never been | taken, and the daily balances preving, be did not sec wny reagon for making 2 change old order of things. I take leid 10 the seour- aining order by the courts the tuking in charge of the benk the banking commission on Jamu- | by Not lonz prior to the diseovery ef the condition of the boolkkeeping*of the bank, Converse. who was postmaster, shot himself with a revolver which had been awarded him as the most popular men in town. At that time he stated thut the shooting war accidental and happened hile cleantng his gun. Afier an investigation was started In the hank’s affairs Converse's accounta | a® postmaster were gone over amd found to be correct in all particulsrs. Expert Finds Defalcations. As soon as the restraining order was ssued an expert was put on the beks and a call issued for the passbeokse. | Nothing was discovered out of the way in the bool with the exception per- haps of minor mistulkes in bovkkeeping until the accounts for the year 1879 were reached, and then signs of the stedling were manifest. From that | time on the taking of small amounts of money were constant up fo 1388, me far as the examination has been ear- | ried, and the investigators state that | therw is every sign that it continued in like manner from that time on. Like Taking Candy from Child. s one of the commission stated to- nig “It was a continuous perform- { ance and was just like talking candy from children.” = Although the amountsa taken in . themselves were small, the aggregats will he large. As was stated tonight, Converse did not benefit in the full amount that will bs shown mise- ing on the books, as the sums he took bore interest all the time, which wan being paid by the bank. The examiners say that they expest to find all of Converse's misappropri- ations on the books, and that they do noet think that he juggled the mort- gages ov other securities of the msti- | tution, it being unecessary for him to | take any such chances when the actual 1 stealing of the money was 80 easy and the chance of detection, under the ferm of bookkeeping, so, remote. Did Not Speculate .or Live Migh. When it was definitely determined that there was a shortage an investi- | gation of the life led by Converse was | started, with the object of ascertain- ing what he did with the funds mis- eppropriated, but up to the present | time nothing has been learnsd that he did not lose the money in stocks or high living. He was not ac- | customed to leave town, and his only | trips outside were two or three made | each year to Boston, where he made | purchases for his father. Passbooks Sold at Big Discounts. Up to the present tme mub:‘:!_t:c passhooke of the bank have - P, and the nthers ave expected fo | come’ in rapidly. The closing of the pank has brought the greatest hard- ship on the small deposttors, mostiy are employed in the local mills. "The mill owners are helping those wiko need assistance and lookln{‘dl. the | welfare of their esmployes. any pase- | books are alleged to have been sed for thirty cents to ¢ighty eemts wn the | dollar, FACTORY BUILDINGS BURN AT PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers of Millinery and Dress Trimmings Place Loss at $800,000. Philadelphia, Feb. 4,—Fire which was discovered shortly gfter § o'cleck te- night destroved three large facters dings in the bloek | Wood, Vine, Bighth and streets, causing a loss of mere fhan & miltion dollars. The principal leser was the Hensel-Colladay companry, manu- facturers :l milMnery and GM“J lr‘-; | mings. This company eccup . - story brick building extemding from with Vine | Franklin, a four-story annex at 711-717 street. Both buildings were 4 Members of the fiem loss at more than $300,000, cesered by insurance. Spetted Fever at Bridgepest. ‘Bri rt, Feb. 4.—After a shert ilinesr, Pasone, 33 years old, died here today from spotted fever. The young woman was eared for in a va-- cant houge opposits her home on Lex- ingtor: avenue. The funeral be private in accordance with erders of the hoard of health. Suicide at Hartiord Hotel. Hartford, Conn., Yeb. d.—John Boum derquist, 29 yeirs oM, sule cide at s local hotel himself twice with a ver. He left & note %mmy.fl-m- ng a it Maria L:fdmn of li‘o"fl#un- nue. No cause is known for bis act, i