Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 10, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 37 NORWICH, CONN.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1912 PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population URGED T0 KEEP THE GUNSHOPS BUSY Newspapermen Testify Regarding Advice to Lawrence Strikers by Ettor COMPEL COUNTY TO FEED STRIKERS Letter Addressed to Haywood Suggested That Strikers “Break Into Jail” and Force County to Support Them During Strike—Testimony That Bullet Which Killed Italian Wo- man was Intended for Policeman—The Case Unfinished. Lawrence, Mass, Feb. 0 —Three let- | yesterda ters, which were finally admitted as evidence over the objection of the de- | for gured prominently in the hear- | y met both the mill owners and the striking textile workers was | unable to see a clear way to settling the month-long controv v when the ng In the local police court today of | members compared notes at a meet- | Jogeph J. Kttor, until his arrest the |ing today. PEve leader of the striking textile work-| “The legislative committee is await- | ers here, and Arturo Giovannitti, his|ing development said one of the| lieutenant, both of New York. They | members, targed with being ulzu:;ssonf re- ALl Quist’ ori “Strosts. he fact to the murder of Ann| .. e b AT e Ttalian woman who Wi The whole interest in the str A during & riot on January 2 One Letter to Haywood. Two of the letters were from Vin- situation today centered in the court proceedings. ide from one or two small gatherings of Central Labor union operatives to formulate demands cent St John, general secretary- | there Were no mcetings. On the streets | treasurer of the Industrial Workers of | there was no semblance of disorder the World, at Chicago. One was ad- | 2nd the squads of militia stationed sed to Kttor and the other to|¥bout the police station and court | D. Haywood, the western |Toom had little to do. The number of | o who 18 now in Lawrence | OPeratives at work in the mills was | the strikers. In these let- | @bout—the same as on yesterday. St. John urged the recipicnts e Lawrence textile work- | r ghly, gave spime advice about carrylng on the strike and indi- ated his distrust of the American Federation of Labor. Downfall of Wage System. A win at Lawrence means a start that will only end with the downfall Strikers’ Children Going to New York Arrangem were completed to- night for sending 200 children of the cared for during the continuance of the strike, Incidentally, it is planned to have the children, whose ages range | from 7 to 1 ade upon their arrival in late tomorrow ew York of the wage system,” said the letter afternoon. by | DRAMATIC TOUCH AT | Letter from Rhode lsland Man. | : ey The third letter was written to| TRIAL OF MITCHELL | - by Thomas. Miller of Lymans Labor Leader Makes Statement and Court Makes Another. , R. I, whose identity or busines: was not further disclosed, but who is | & to be 2 Rhode Island textile In this letter Mr. Miller in- belief that it would not Washington, I'eh. 9. trial for contempt of court, | organize a general strike | he was invoived with Samuel Gom- | merican Woolen | pers and Frank Morrison, officials of | nd. The prose- | the American Federation of L in fairly started its ¢ art adjourned until 10 a, m. connection with the Ducks Stove & | Range hoycoit case, took on a dramai- onday next. |ic_touch at the hearing today. Bullet Intended for Officer. | fet Attorney Atwill in outlining | j o se said the prosecution proposed | gisp 10 show that Ettor, as a leader in the | 1 trial Workers of the World, an | organization which desired a social revolution, and the destruction of the ystem, made speeches and gave advice to the strikers which inspired em to use violence, T the dis- torney declared, resulted in the vigich the Lopizzo woman was Glovannitti. he held, had as- i Ettor in his efforts. He sald would be shown that the bullet which struck the woman had been in- o My. Mitchell had seemed to be criti- cising Justice Wright is before whom and the justice had impatience with his DI on red trial, some “Lot Mitchell which I have never said which has, perhaps, no place in these proceeding: At the time I was summoned to Wash- me explain this” §aid Mr. have much in my heart ington to appear pefore this court for judgment, I faced a long term in prison. It was on the day before Christmas ove. I was living in New York, I had not seen my family and children, who were in Illineis, for two months. 1 had bought and packed in tended for a police officer and that| p\v'orin tovs and gifts for my chil- when the person who fired the shot, | g "} (23® S0 B 108 10 Washing- | hom he described as a tall Ttallan, | o to receive my sentence. I asked | t d his mark, he 'inar the decision be postponed. It | e was not. T was brought here and sen- | the letters which figured in the| ad merely done what T beiieved mtate’s case were cen from Fttor | Was my right under the government when he was. arrested yrding to | 1y father 1ad sought to uphold. So | when 1 appeared and w the testimony of Captain William H. | as_sentenced, | tor of the state police. In the let- ed it afterward, I c.uld not to Haywood, Mr. St. John said: to disguise and did not dis- 1 want to suggest that if the strike guise my feeling at being sentenced or | 8 to f any length the practice of the day & » Christmus, and I felt arry it on by paying strike outraged that did not receive the . and opening 4 commissary | Same cohsideration that would have st be cut out. There 1s no chance | been given to the worst oftender in | win anything that way. These are | the land.” Mr. Mitchell,” f date methods. Get those 16,000 | interrup 20,000 organized to break into the ou have shown so | ske the county feed them this court for the man- | are on strike. Organize in which you were sentenced, | yack into the mills and What reason h ou for believing | Get hiia Kok we ih or the court knew of your request | n with the understanding that | for a postponement? 6 3o continie to SURE." “I wrote to the president of the | o 3 ican Federation of Labcr Keep the Gunshops Busy,” Said Ettor. asked it,” Teplied Mr. 1Mitchell. That Ettor inone of his speeches | supposed t my request had been | urped the strikers to “"keep the gun-| conveyed to the court.” | ¥hops busy™ and declared that~he was| “No request was conveyed to the going to get a gun himself, was the | court,” replied the justice. *“It can testimony of two newspaper men call- ed to the stand. Haywood Declines to Answer. as a demand. There was an atmo- sphere of antagonism about i*. t was a demand from the vice presj i ofthe American Federation of I About thirty witnesses were sworn 3 g R oy » | for postponement. 1 did not C. I». Haywood was the first witness | '@ had any more right to demaad it called. He gave his home as Den-| ‘MR SY OUNCE AR L o M| ver, Colo. Aakd.if he knew anything | nyiichan suggested that there had been | wbout an organization known as the | - Juge Pt OGS, e mistake and usked who presented that Washington lawyer nad 4p- rroached him in chambers. dndustrial Workers of the World, he | 1 “I have been under the smpreesson} refused to ankwer on the ground that he might incriminate himself. He #aid thut he had been assoclated with , = bt the strike leaders who were defendants | that my request was conveyed to the in the case and did not wish to say | COUrt and was denled. If I have been | wnything that might tend to prejudice | WTORE in that 1 would do the court an | thetr es in the minds of a judge | INJustice and I regret taat I have made | g %¢ | it appear so,” said Mr. Mitchell. | The question was withdrawn Rt | High School Student Hostile. T DA\L_'N Seopthize S Angelo Rocel, o high school student who said he was financlal secretary of the local branches of the Industrial Workers, proved to be a hostila Wit- a Effort to Increase Aeroplane Appro- | priation Is Defeated. ness, in the opinion of the prosecu- | v ashington, Feb. 8—The day in | n Attempts to have him say that 2 1 tor was sent for, or that Ettor had | Senate:— | ever said that he was an official of Not in session, meets Monday 2 p, the union resulted in negative answers m | at first. When recalled to the stand later he admitted that a committee of the Jocal union requested Ettor to come hers and assume control of the. situ tion. Rocco said that Ettor came to Lawrence to keep thé strikers peace- | ful_and to do organization work. William 15 Trautmann practically declined to testify and was excused. Police Captain Testifies. The riots on January 29, the most Lorimer committes tested stenogra- pher Sheridan's ability to record far- away conversaticns, | Steel products manufacturers told finance committee proposed new steel tarift would seriously affect their buriness. Expositions committee ordered ad- verse report on resolution asking Lat- in-American nations to partiefpate in San Diego exposition, serfous day of the strike, were des-| House:— | eribed by Capt. John J. Sullivan of Met at noon the police. Through questions | Ilomestead (Fa.) steel corporation attorney, the captain told of seeing Ettor during the early morning at the head of a crowd of plant conditions refated committee, George B. Cortelyou testified before to Stanley strikers, near where the trouble oc- | postuifice expencitures committes in eurred. Lewis fraud crder case. Captaln Sullivan sald that Miss | Democrats will caucus next week on Lopizze was killed by a tall Ttalian'chemical tariff bill which ways and Wwho ghot at Police Officer Oscar Benoit | means committes will report before After the shot missed the policeman | sugar tariff bill, end struck the woman, inflicting a Demecratic members of banking fatal wound, the same Itallan stabbed | committee began plans for proposed Benoit with a knife. . “‘Money trust” investigation, D e SN, T atets” aborapciation. Bl gepct y n vate While the hearing was in Drogress | Representative Mann advocated - at the courthouse thel strike com- | creagad appro:riations for acroplancs. mittee met at thelr lquarters and | jffort te increase seroplane apprepri- after a long talk by Chairman Yates yoted to resume picketing. In ordur to e A e T T eep withing the law the pickets will form an endiess - chain, walking| 200 More For Starving Chinese. Washington, FPeb, 8—TFhe American National Red Cross seciety sent $2,- 000 to the famine sufferers in China today, This makes a tetal of $5000 dispatehed te the steieken empirs, in single file and keep constantly on the move, Awaiting Devel pments. “The legislative committee which | His action is attributable to the wide- | ers is threatened unless the dispute | istered packages containing tie sum of strikers to New York tomorrow, o be | . | ed in her arres | are dead and three others | dwelling today Cabled Paragraphs Paris, Teb. 9.—Abbe Charles Loysen, known throughout the world as Pere Hyacinthe, died today in his 85th year after a few days' jllness. London, Feb. 9.—Barl Spencer today resigned his office as lord chamberlain. spread criticism of his conduct of the office of censor of plays. Berlin, Feb. 9.—Dr. Peter Spahn, the leader of the clerical center party, was elected today president of the reich- stag, defeating August Bebel, the lead- er of the social democratic party, by 196 votes to 175. Honolulu, Feb. 9—Viscount Stemi Chinda, the newly appointed ambassa- dor for Japan to the United States, ar- rived today on the Japanese liner Shinyo Maru. He will reach San Francisco Feb. 1 ‘Winchester, Eng.,, Feb. 9—Heinrich Grosse, a captain in the German mer- chant marine, who was arrested on Dec, 5 on charge of espionage, was sen- tenced today at the assizes to three vears' penal servitude. Glasgow, Scotland, Feb. 9.—Winston Spencer Churchiil, the first lord of the admiralt; arranged by the Clyde navigation trust and in the course of a speech painted a roseate picture of the preparedness of the British navy to meet all event- ualiti Manchester, Eng., Feb. 9.—The dock workers here went on strike today be- cause the shipping companies contin- ued to employ non-union labor. A general strike of the transport work- between the dockers and the employers is settled. Santiago de Cuba, Feb. 9.—Two reg- $30,000 consigned to the Spanish bank at Havana have disappeared from the postoffice. It upposed that they were stolen by two postal clerks who | believed to have embarked on board | St. Petersburg, Feb. 9.—Heliodorus, | the reactionary priest, who recently, | while under a sentence of exile, mys riously disappeared Petersburz and has returned to arted for the Floristcheff monastery, where he was ordered to s term of exile. This statement is printed today in the No- voe Vremsy CAST-OFF NEPHEW MAY GET $2,000,000 Failure of Edwin Hawiey-to Leave a Will May Benefit Him. New York, Feb, 9.—After her re lease today from the workhouse, | where she was sent a month ago on a ! charge of di rly conduct. Mrs. Adeline Crandell, wif= of Frederick H. | Crandell, the cast-off nephew of the | late Kdwin Hawley, was unable to | find her husband, who comes into a | $2,000,000 sharc of the estate, owing | to his uncle's failure te make a will. | In his unexplained absence, she sought | a lawyer to secure protection of her interest in her husband's inheritance | and the interest of thefr five children, | | now in Chatham, N. Y. She said she had heard or seen nothing of her hus- band since the night she became in- | volved in an altercation at her room- | ing place, which subsequently result- | Crandell obtained leave of absence today attended a luncheon | | pages of printed testimony were tak- three days ago from the stevedore's | offices where he was employed, and | has not returned since, it was said there today, although the lawyers for the Hawley estate have heard from | Bim-by telephone, It was said today | that in the recent thorough search for | Margaret Cameron, Mr., 3 rd, who had conducted his“ hold affairs for some time past, | ransacked the millionaire’s country | estate at Baylon, L. 1. Attorneys for the estate denied re- | ports that Miss Cameron had made a | clalm for a share in the estate, but °t THREE DEATHS DUE TO ESCAPING GAS Three Other Memters of Family in | Precarious Condition. New York, Feb. Three persons all mem- | me family, .are in a pre- ;ondition in Ledi, N. here, as the result of gas poisoning. Gas escaping from a small stove pread through the house:during the night. Neighbors broke into the and found Alfred Chatdelaine, a construction company foreman, and his sons, Wilfred, six, and Alfred, Jr, two months old, deaa | in bed. Mrs, Chatdelaine and two | other children, Ruth, two years of.| bers of the s cariou | age, and Lilian, four years of age, | were unconscious. The woman is in | a critical condition but the children may possibly recover. " OBITUARY. Rev. Frank Dewitt Talmage. Philadelphia, Fecb. 9.—Rev. Frank Dewitt Talmage died at his home here | tonight of heart failure, superinduced by a nervous breakdown. He was 44 vears old. Dr. Talmage was pastor of the Chambers-Wylie Presbyterian church, Capt. Daniel McLaughlin, Sawtelle, Cal, Feb. 9.—Capt. Daniel | McLaughlin, $3 vears old, who, ac-| cording to official records, was the| last survivor of the landing party which raised the American flag at Monterey, Cal, died at the National ldiers’ home toda Feared He Wouldn't Make Good. Feh. 9.—Frank J. Thieme, ars, committed sui- cide by gas today after having wor- ried himself into d:spondence over promotion from a bookkeeper’s posi- tion to that of a traveling salesman, He had just received a two weeks’ vacation and promotion to the new | position, notwithstanding his protest that he was not fit to be a salesman, feared he would not “‘make good.” Release of Boscheiter Trenton, N. J., Feb, 9.—George J Kerr, one of the four Patterson men convicted eleven years ago of the | murder of Jennie Boscheiter, will be released from the New Jersey state prison shortly after midnight. Kerr will have completed his fifteen years’ sentence after allowanc# for good be- havior. The actual time served was 11 years and nine days. Murderer. To Probe Butter and Egg Trust. New York, Feb, 9.—"John Dee” pro- ceedings to determine whether a butter and egg trust exists in this city will be started before a magistrate here next Tuesday by Distriet Attorney Whitman. For the past two weeks he has been conducting a grand jury in- vestigation into the high price of food commedities. | Bishie took all the money iIn the car Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce ;Conden Manufactiiring, and Other Interests. [ A. D. LATHROF, Carman and Coal Dealer. sed Telegrams| —— | | Nome, Alaska, on the Border of the | | Aretic circle, is reported entirely out | of coal. . | . - The Montreal Police Force hias been | | vacclnated on account of the outbreak of smallpox In its ranks. A System of Wireless Telegraphy in | the Philippine Islands was recom- mended by President Taft in a mes- sage sent to congress. James N. Read, the Oldest Udd Fel- low in Maine, and among the oldest residents of Portland, died yesterday at the age of 91 years. “No Developments in the Dynamite | conspiracy cise may be expected b fore early nes " said Di trict Attorney esterday. James Nobel Adam, former mayor ot Buffalo and founder of the dry goods house of J. N. Adam & Co., died there day after a brief illness. Harmen Governor Addressed i Ohio constitutional convention at Co- lumbus, and he is op- posed to the ini and referendum | Plank. i The Estate of David Graham Phil- | lips, the novelist, who was shot and | killed b ne man, is estimated {at $13,000 in royalties on his Argumsnts Against Federal “injunc- tions of labor fore the house committee on jndiciary by advocates of the Wilson anti-in- junction bill The Conferees of Both Houses of ngress on_the joint resolution pro- viding for the election of senators b PUBLIC HEARINGS END IN THE LORIMER CASE. | Fees of the Stenographers Alone Will Reach Sum of $15,000. Feb. 9 ‘Washington, Public hear- en, constituting about 5,000,000 words. | It is estimated that the stenographers fees alone reach $15,000. | The closing hour of the hearing was| a veritable love feast. The attorneys explained they had never intended really to display temper and the com- | o mittee added that it did not entertain | day would e a maximum of 10 | Tie Postoffice Department is inves-| like intentions. A. W. Blumenburg, | regiments of cavalry. It w timated 1 syndicates dealing in the official stenographer who was dis- | by Chairman Hay that {he immediate | involved charged for his conduct before the! saving from the uction in cavalry | pertaining lo the committee Saturday night, wrote a |force would be 5. cuiture, letter of profuse apology, which was read into the record. REdward Hines was the last witness called. - He denied that he attempted to bribe Miss Helen Seavers, a local telegraph operator, to see a message | which a private detective in the case| had just sent. The early hours of today's were marked by tests of the abilit; J. E. Sheridan of a detective agency | to make a shorthand report of a con- versation, such as he swore when Charles McGowan is alleged to have | DEMOCRATS REDUCE bill is put upon it was tophez British of the infantry, he said t fantry ments of cavalry. WOMAN THREATENED Dickinson Sends ct vote have decided to report disagreement. Mrs, STRENGTH OF ARMY. | Elizabeth J. Magee, aged 102 ArfEppapt ye th ident of Woon- Five Regiments of Cavalry \Wiped Out | sacket, I hursday night. She by Vote of the House. | v horn gow, Scotland, Aug. — 28, 1809, Washir ton, Fe A reduction of | . ings ip the second senatorial investi- | the cavalry force of the United States| The New York State Grange in- gation into the election of Senator|army from 15 to 10 regiments, with a | cuded in its ssyesterday the Lorimer were declared closed today | consequent reduction of the enlisted | “doption of on withdra wing by Chairman Dillingham of the sen-| force of the army by all charges the onal ate Lorimer committee. Attorney | voted into the army Grange officers, Hanecy, representing Senator I | in the house late today T ¢ i mer, was given permission to file fight. U a Brainard of the South | brief to the effect that the senator's| The cavairy ion amendment t, Middletown, Conn., was election was adjudicated before the|was presented by Chairman Hay o to de at her the present investization began and|the military affairs committee, who and had it therefore could not be the subject| was in charge of the §$88,000,000 appro- of a second investigation, | priation bill, but it did not bear tic W A8 The inquiry has proved to be one|endorsement of the committec. It was ipoli during the of the most exhaustive ever made by | vigorously opposed by the republican y far exceeded a congressional committee. In the | side of the house, and it probably will | ording to a eight months hearing about 10,000 [ be the cause of another fight when the sued by the imperial Ot- final passage. Mr. Hay said the army ere the avalry force equal to one-sixth | n | avalry was equal to one-half the in- strength. | The Hay amendment as adopied to- | Fancher, of New Haven, ted upon some time ago has 80 far recovered to leave the hospital for appendici at he expect within a few da The present strength of the 0 regiments of infantry and The Hz A Sunday School Crusade, to be con- tinental wide, has been planned by ment, if retained in the final draft of | joint meeting of Sunday school asso- the army appropriation bill, would be- | clations and other religious bodies come effective July 1 1 meeting in New Orleans The Use of Caramel to Give Cofor to vingear cannot be considered as adulterating accor to an opinion | by Judge Sander in the superior criminal court at Boston yesterd LIFE OF MRS. TAYLOR. New York Police Chasing Another Clue. | An Increase in the Estimate for the ! admitted ng money for “per- A woman sus: | expenses of :}‘1 customs service in u‘x: i " him efo! committee, > recently returned | nex 2 e: J ,500, S aetiE s T o { hero ing sought by | $11,1 s submitted to congress | the police s far fruitless by Secretary of the Treasury Mac- ,Youth o 16"Guiity! of Murder. efforts to solve the mystery of the | Veagh. Scranton, Pa, Feb. 9.—William | murder of Mrs. Helen Taylor, killed by - Bishie, 15 years old, who shot and!a homb last Saturday. The woman's| The Executor of the Estate of Lew- killed Irvine Borger, an express mes-|name and the information that there |is C. Green, cashier of a New Canaan, senger, while riding in an express ¢ar | was trouble between her und Mrs. Tay- | Conn., bank, who was killed by a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and |lor were furnished by Charl . Dick- | at Elizabeth, N. J., last June, brought ‘Western railroad last November, w ed today cf murder in the firs He had been on trial since After killing the messenger, Monday. and eseaped. Governor Pleads For State Rights. Danbury, Conn., Feb. $—At the 13th ness Men's association here tonight sovernor Baldwin made a plea for state rights and a repeal of the laws <0 as to allow the building up of a | merchant marine. speakers were S, Bridgeport; and C. S. Lake of Waterbury. inson, | case, who told the polic threatened Mrs. being sought. Edna La Marre, who has been held by the c rial witness In the case, on bail today | tion as | annual dinner of the Danbury Busi-|a oner desired. W. H. Seeley of Boston, | trade relations with the Urited States, Bhe debate had lasted three days. the discharged - against the Pennsylva- $100,000 damages. Taylor's life. | A man acquaintance, over whom he | id the two women quarreled, i The Nurses and Attendants at i state asylum Worcester, Ma v conducted 21 female in- om the north wing of the asy- vesterday, when the cupola was be oft fire. roner as a mate- | was released | She gave her occupa- irl and said she would | time the police or cor- lum discovered to a sho’ ppear at an A Naval Board of Inspection will week whether the determin r has rested on ern Saskatchewan Wants Reciprocity. { the bottom of B for mo Regina, Sask., ¥ob, 3-—The legisla- | Fhf!l] “?(‘v 3(‘-“1»'. ! DN - Among the other | ture of Saskatchewan approved by a | 4oned by fhe navy E. Vincent, ot {vote of 27 to 12 today of reciprocal | Elijah Marshall Allen, a Rich 74 vear old lumber exporter, who attracted public notice a month ago by his mar- Because my interests are here. gncd enough for me to buy in. Because I want to see the goods. Because every dollar T spend at for the welfare of this town, state taxes, my lodge, my home. pocketbeok, if need be, worth bearing in mind. Following is a summary of the m Bullstin Saturday, Feb. B2 Monday, Feh. 5.0 65 Tuesday, Feb. 6. 414 Wednesday, Feb. 7... 97 Thursday, Feb. 8... 94 Friday, Feb. 9... 110 elah cesiie <l A Few Sensible Becauses The intelligent buyer always reads the advertisements in his pa; and has good reason for trading at heme. the following “becauses” for trading at home: Because the community that is good enough for me Because I want to get what I buy when I pay for it Because my home dealer “carries” me when I run short Because I seil what T produce here at home, Because the man I buy from pays his part of the town, county and Because the man T buy from gives value received always. Because the man I buy from helps support my scheol, my chureh, Because when 111 luck, misfortune or bereavemant comes, the man I buy from is here with his kindly greeting, his words of cheer end his These are pretty goed reasen for trading at home and they are The business man should advertise in his home paper because the most desirable customer is the permunent resident of his town, Send for The Bulletin rate card and become familiar with space rates. Now is the time te subscribe for The Bulletin if you weuld keep in touch with the heme market, and the news of the werld. left at your doer for 12 cénts a week. Telegraph Leca! riage to Miss Mattie Walker, 20 years | old, Is reported dving in a New York hospital from ptomaine poisoning. Advices to Dun’s Review this week from leading cities in the United States indlcate that distribution of general merchand is still hampered | by cold weather, allthough in some | sectipns distinct improvement is shown. A Hartford man furnishes Harry Sing, Steward, and Yip Wah, clerk, of the steamship Kentuckian, from Puerto, Mexico, were held in vesterday by a United States com. joner on the charge of smuggling §2,490 worth of opium into Philadel- phia, to live in is The Publication of a Report that | | Dr. ¥rederick A. Cook was to address | the students of the Portland, ' Me., High school, of which Rear Admira! Robert E. Peary is a graduate, result- ed in the receipt by the school authori- ties of an avalanche of protests from citizens. home stays at home and works Charges of Inefficiency and Neglect | of duty were filed yesterday against | | Police: Capt. Nicholas J. Hunt, who | | was one of the Chicago inspectors re- | | 4uced to a captaincy,when the depart- | ment was reorganized recently and a | number of commanding officers were dismissed from the service, l John M. Kidney, who zained some notice by vowing when Willlam Jen- nings Bryan was first nominated for | president, that he would not cut his| | beard or hair until Mr. Bryan should | | be seated in the White House and who | Kept his vow until a year ago, died at | the Soldiers’ home at Noroton Thurs- | | day. | It will be atter printed the past week: Gonaral - Total Bryan to Be First Witness, 123 752 3 Washingtor, Feb, 9—Willlam Jen- ¥, 79 957 | nings Bryan will be the first witness | 100 216 381 || to be'summcened before the house com- | 10¢€ 73 mittee on banking and L<i*urrun;ymlu ) testify in the investigation of the s 7 393 “Money trust. s investigation the | 106 168 371 democratic caucus referred to standing | committees of the house, after hav- 116 143 353 || ing refusod to comply with Mr. Bry- | s {an's demand for a special committee. | 105 176 391 $215,000 Fire at Pittsfield, | Pittsfleld; Mass,, I'eb. 9.—The Burns | from Must Keep Off American Soil MEXICO CANT MOVE HWER TROOPS THROUGH TEXAS. EL PASO PEOPLE OBJECT Secretary Knex Assures Governor That Permission Will Net Given Until the Matter Has Boen Studied. Wasilinglon, Feb. 9-—Diplomatic complications aroze today between the state of Texas and the United Btates government on the one haund and the Mexican government on the | other, which, temperarily, at least, will not allow Mexico to move any treops over an territery to quell her revo- lutionary disturbances, Secretary Knox Makes Inquiny. retary of State Knox made fur- inquiry tonight of Mexico through U American embassay at = Mexico Qity, asking the specl purpese of the military expedition for which per- nt to travel from Hegle to El Paso, Texas, in order that points in noerthern Mesico may be reached to which the rebels have out the nternational railroad communidatioy. El Paso Residents Apprehensive. Governor Colquitt of Texas po‘nted ouat to the state dGepartment in his s today that residents of El were apprehensive that rebels. at Jugrez, Mexico, might resist the en- iry of Mexican troops from American ritory and precipitate a battle en- ing American lives and prop- Texas Governor Assured. Secretary Knox assured Govesmor itt that no permission would be granted until the matter had been arefully studied, and indications “o- night were that it would be adjusted i in a diplomatic manner. In- n reached here that no troops rted on the proposed expedi- tion and none would do so until the question had been decided. cle DANGER IN UNCOOKED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Likely.to Be Carrying Agents of Ty- phoid Fever, Says Surgeen. —Uncooked fruit and vegetabl served in restaurants and the hcmes of millions, are likely arryving agents of typhboida fe- ng to Passed Assistent 1, Creel, of the public alth and marine hospital servige to- ¥ as the result of experiments with Washington, leftuce and radishes. In a report is- sued today Dr. Creel declarefl that even under conditions most unfayora- ble to the bacillus the infection last- ed at least 31 d “a_period suffi- ciently long for some varieties of let- tu and radishes to mature,” = To demonstrate how easily the dis- might Dbe transmitted through the soil, Dr. Creel said: “Very seldom if ever is there seen in the market lettuce or celery free from dirt, and even in weli-managed households and public eating places scrupulous care in preparing articles for the table is >xceptional.” AMERICAN GIRL BREAKS AN AUSTRIAN'S HEART. Young Lieutenant Leses Opportunity for Promotion to Woo Her. New York, Feb. 9.—An international courtship reached an official end today when Justice Gerard in the supreme court signed an order discontinuing the breach of promise suit which Lieut Idward Starz, formerly of the Austri- an army, brought against Miss Helen McMurray of Troy for $25,000 damnfi The Austrian lieutenant abandoned suit on the advice of his lawyer. “The lieutenant was not mercenary,” id the latte “His only hope of bringing the suit was to see Miss Mc- Murray and win her again. When he found he could not even see her he was broken hearted. It is a very saé experience for a young man of his type, and he Is going away te try to forget her.” The young officer met Miss McMur- ray in Vienna in August, 1910, follow- ed her to Paris, wooing her ardently, and in order to continue his attention obtained a year's leave of absence from his regiment and thersby aban- doned an opportunity for promotion. Window Cleaner Drops 23 Stonies. New York, Feb. 9.—Crowded Nassa street was startled and shocked late today when a human form came hur- tling through the air and struck the sidewalk in the midst of hurrying pe- destrians. It was the body of a win- dow cleaner who missed his footing on 4 window ledge of a towering office building and fell 23 stories to instént death. The body narrowly escaped striking a group of young women mq were passing. The victim of the Tall, John Roshin, had unhooked his left belt to step around a pillar, a fellew workmen said. Bteamship Arrivals. At Naples: Feb, 8 Cedric, from New York. At Alexandria: Feb, 9, Francémis, from New York. Havre: Feb. 9, La Lorraine, from v York. At Libau: Feb. 3, Lituanis, feew New - York. At Genoa: Feb. 7, Duca D'Atste from New York 0 At Boulogne: Feb. 9, Noordam, frem New York, At Rotterdam: Feb. 8, Noorfines, New York. Negro Escapes Lynching. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 9.—Vine Collier, the Milledzeville negro, who wak threatened with lynching last night &t Milledgeville and Macon, was lodged in the Atlanta jail todny after an ex- citing trip from Macon. He in the custody of Sheriff Terry of 1- ledgeville and is accused of attecking | two girls, Middies Forced to Resign, Annepolis, Md, Feb. 9.-—{ifteen midshipmen In the fourth class of the naval academy fafled in the semi-an- nual examinations and were forced resign. d'l'h: ravy d - it accepted the resignations today the delinquents left the institutism, Old Jeweiry Firm.Bankrupt, Phtiadelphia, Feb. $.~-Blair & Craw. ford, one of the oldest l‘hfl. | bloek, & business structure situated at the Corner of North and Summer | streets, was burned ionight, 215,000, 656 1628 2346 Loz |