Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 13, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV—NO. 39 DEMOCRATS ACTING IN USUAL WAY Doing the Wrong Thing at the Right Time, Declares President Tait. SEEK TO CRIPPLE ARMY AND NAVY “Spasmodic Penuriousness which Ignores Great National Needs on Score of Political Emergency,” is the Way President Puts It in Lincoln Day Speech—Alsg Pays His Respects to “Political Emotionalists” and “Neurotics.” Feb, —President Taft ceiebration of Lincoln's | se here tonight with ning more than fifly years has always been a progressive party and it has aiways recognized its responsi- “ o the Republican |bility by action. The arguments of reathed deflance to | most democrats in favor of a return declared that | to their party have & general likeness. was his belief that the republicans ald triumph next November at the and made it plain that he had sympathy with those of his own We have first a general denunciation of conditions, said to be due to the republican party, which _every man would Jdeprecate, political faith who call themselves [ of general good results that must be t “are political emo- |accomplished by following the princi- T neurotics,” | ples of the democratic party without . spectfication as to what they are, anc The President's Address. | finally a pressure for an invitation to | t sald th: party to assume power. There is neoln today and al- | nothing definite in what is said; noth- blican party, ultogether | ing definite promised, only general de- fact that in Lincoln's ion and general promises. R T ans Can Point to Definite aim and accomplish- e history of the one is| Deoeds. 1 f the other. The truth| “They speak of a spirit of unrest 1 t f the la v | everywhere; they don't describe what | s, | unrest depends upon and if they they don't tell how it is to be . The progress that has heen | remedied or what legislation will ac- a as been made republi- | complish. It 13 because of my con- R Sk pros nd execu- | fidence that the republican party can e rusted to it by the peo-| point to definite deeds already accom- e at larg plshed, to laws already on the statute bocks and being enforced and carr Py Down Piilars of Freedom | to a useful purpe and to proposed giose who look upon the | statutes with a clear description of one full of he terms and effects of such statutes, | : as a tyrammy of 1 confidently rely upon-an ult th, and who ap- o e people In favor of 5 any ordinary reme- ican party, the party of . » pull down these | Lincoln and of Grant, the most pro- S been regarded as sive party in the history of this pillar emple of freedom | tiry or any other country, the par- government and \r‘y of achievement and not of broken whole society on some | promises, the party of liberal effective new pr not definitely formulai- | government in which far-sighted . w » intelligent or intelligi- | cconomy is the watchword, without bie f the exact constitutios that spasmodic penuriousness which 3w sults to be attair | tgnores great national needs on the ; 2 | score of political emergency, the party Parsing Conition. oF U Al 1 sihiie Ty The Dudssiinl netc. clples of free and well ordered gov- the selec- | ernment, ‘preserving the rights and | i enactment of | equality of opportunity of the indi- legis m of courts |vidual, and not interfering with the 3 ary passions |only steady practical progress that is ndifferentiy | possible” o o (b MOVING PICTURES urity nt of the people, hurry us into a find no parallel | ution, or in FROM HYDROPLANE Frank Coffyn Makes a Flight Over New York Harbor. t once ch: New York, Feb. 12—Frank Coffyn, . American repub- | the aviator, who last week was the » & are not progres- | first to demonstrate the success of ot tionallsts | the nydroplane here, made a more daring flight from and over the har- bor today. He was accompanied b Adrian Duff, Who carried a moving pleture machine and who obtained th moving pictures taken from an roplane in full flight here. Wrapped tightly in woolens, Coyn ¢ started in near zero weather ks upon ha m de our people . o poi » ition and n, who s thronged with tors, The start was made at _|m., and after skimming the waters | for 300 yards the hydro-aeroplane ro in a ular cour: out the S | of Liberty. From there the flight w | made across the upper bay over t funnels of incoming steamers -and around the Statue of Liberty at a height of over 1,000 feet. The last leg | was a flight over the military ters on Governors island. The land- |ing was made easily within a few vards of the starting point, after cov- ering a distance estimated at fifteen miles in as many minutes, a8 purpose he olift v that private ssuring to man | r, thrift, NINE O'CLOCK CURFEW he man | ought to be in- ] s means the vor of tution Must Gt Home Earlier Nights or Go to the Waorkhou New York, Feb. urfew loom, r, a8 The 9 o'clock ll ring for a year for Wiltred an_emplovment agency man- tho result of a court pro nt today. His failure to r port home at that hour will result in_a workhc s 3 Bloom was before Magistrate Appleton today on his wife’s complaint that he wbused her and stayed out nights and neglected her. Disregarding the pris- oner's plea that his wife's tongue wag- ged so much that home had no attrac- " Progress Against Corporate Abuses. We permitts re establish al the pows he corrupt 80 as n politics Wi (osgy t ! fions for him, the court found him o A EenEeTous CON- | guilty and placed him on probation for | islatlon and govermment; but | Fv” = g e uch prog- |~ ‘During that time,” said the magi e Ry e B 18 Deen | (rqte, “vou will have to be home nights < e b2 by 9 oclock, and you will have to Parly L am vor coriain oa 3 Bational | st your wite properiy.” the Uniled States, the | e whizh the judiclal clauses | GIRL'S 30DY FOUND mental instrument were FROZEN IN THE ICE. cure the independence of | 3. Judicary atement i Nt Doy comsent 10 40 | gyjioved to Have Started to Walk on Mightcst dezrea. It and Fell Into Open Lead. oafer System of Imposing Tariff Du- [ o von 5 ties. 19 year old girl was found today frozen “The jean parts h in the ice & m high tarir Bay, L 1 arnasie and Bar tions of c ren Island, the city's garbage crema- n tition to tory. It is belleved to be of a in the domestic prices charged | young women who on Saturday tricd excessive rates of du and to hire a tarnasi: reamster to drive is a much safer system her across the four mile stretch of ice te the dutles to the meas- | to Barren Island. Unsuccessful in ob- taining & conveyance, the eirl started to walk, anl the last seen was a mere speck on the glittseing fce. It is be- rence between the cost kere and the cost of road, than to the whole- em of imposing hish rates lioved she me' her death by falling to secure vprnl“ on .at the ' into an open lead In the ice and o of everything elge. drowning Democrats Doing the Usual Thing. » NEW HAVEN REPUBLICANS We have an army of mobile troops, not more than one to a thousand of CELEBRATE LINCOLN'S DAY on, and now it is proposed | i oeratic friends In conzress | Governor Baldwin and Judge Wood- 2 Dot ey b Clmnatng | anses of Cincinnati Among Speakers | New Tlaven, Feb. 13—In _keeping | with n cusiom observed for 26 v the Young Men's Republican g aw Haven tonight held its & inner and d tribute to the of President Abraham Lin akers wers Gov. Simecn win, wiose toast was “The great mis democratic Ty Shing that| ooTy i coln®; Rev. Dr. M. L. Pontlus i e i e e ot e |Of the Yalo'ivinity school, Who mave SRt time . the eulogy to Lincoin; Judge D. D. Woodmansee of Cincinnati, who spoke on “From Lincoln to Taft,” and Harry Irving Horton of Hartford, on “Some Passing Thoughta™ The Democratic Arguments, *1 have said this much to show that the icpublican party since its begin- then the statement | quar- | FOR A NEW YORK MAN. | The Bulletin's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lis Total Circulation is the Cabled Paragraphs Berlin, Feb. 12—A reception was held at the American embassay today by the United States ambassador, John G, A. Leishman, and Mrs, Leish- man on the occasion of Lincoln's birthday. London, Feb. 12.—Legacy duty amounting to $300,000 must be . paid c estate of the late Consuelo, s of Manchester, according to dsment delivered today in the chan- cery division of the high court of | Justice. Lendan, Feb. 12—The king has ap- pointed Sir Kdward Grey, secretary of state for foreign affairs, a Knight of the Garter. ited to membe f royal families and a few of the highest among the no- bility | Panama, Feb, 12.—Dr. Helisario Por- former minister to the United s, Whose recall by President Aro- semena. last October occasioned much cussion and bad feeling, has been unated for the presidency for a tending from 1912 to 1916, by | the liveral party. ntcinhuette, Prussian_ Silesia, Feb. | 12—A large number of fatalities was | caused by a fire which broke out in one of the pits in this coal mining ter last evening. Seven bodies of iners havo heen brought to the sur- face and the authorities believe that ut least 20 more men have perished. " PACKING COMPANY LIABLE TO A $132000 FINE | | CUDAHY PACKIN: | Falsified Its Books to Cover Large Sales of Oleo to One Man. Atlan Feb, 12.—To sell $4 or | 86 worth’ of oleomargarine a day in | Atla the (‘udahy Packing company a fine of $132,500 tment returned | today in the ppen t an in ompany States court. unusual punishment has been | o the government charges, | by b illegal trafficking, which could not have profited the packers | to the extent of more than $1,000. The rmatior. presented to the grand | jury was that the company sold about | sixty povnds of oleomargarine a day to Thomus Hopkins, already under in- dictment as an “oleomargarine bloc! This distinetion is lim- |~ ade 1d received for it about seven cen , or $4.20, It is alleged | |in o that to cover up | the sale of so much oleomargarine to | | one man, the company falsified its | | books 10 show that the quantity w: being distributed among several At- | lanta restaurants. | etors of the taurants named have denied using oleomargarine and a peared before the grand jury as wit- | nesses against the packing company. i | Indignant propri- BRONXVILLE POSTMASTER 1S DEFAULTED IN COURT. Fails to Answer to Charge of ‘Selling | Stamps Outside His District. New York, Feb. 12.—Samuel L. Riley, postmaster at Bronxville,\N. Y., who was indicted by the federal grand fury in March, 1911, on the charge of Vio- { 1ating the postal laws by selling stamps | in large quantities for use outside the | limits of the Bronxville district, failed to appear when his case was cailed for trial today in the United States district court., Judge Houeh ordered Riley’s | bona of $500 forfeited and government | detectives were detailed to ascertain | the whereabouts of the absent post- | master. At the time of Riley's indict- ment similar charges were made against several other postmasters of suburban Sffic Wien their cases were called tha other defendants ap- peared and after making cxplanations were let off with fines. The purpose of the postmasters in seliing the stamps to be used for mail- | ing matter in other postal districts was to increase the total sales so as to > the class of their offices and thereby secure higher pay | INDUCED SMALL BOYS | TO STEAL CHICKENS New Milford Man Fined $50 and Giv- en a Six Months' Rest. | New Milford, Conn., Feb. 12.—On the | testimony of three small boys, Alfred | Simons, 22 years old, was today con- | | victed of chicken theft and sentenced | in a justice’s court to six months in | jail and a fine of $50. David Willi- | man, arrested ov a similar charge, | | failed to put in an appearance and | his 5200 bail was forfeited. The boys | testified that the men sent them into | various chicken coops to get the chick- ens and as a reward received a few pennie All three boys are on pro- bation. FUGITIVE A SUICIDE. | Man Wanted in Lowell, Mass., Dead Near Montreal. Montreal, Teb. 12.—Alfred Dufort, ped from custody at Lowell, r being sentenced to Jail for assault, committed saicid. today at | Seholastique, near here He cut throat and then shot himsel. t. Watorbury Woman in Male Attire. New Haven, Conn., 12.—~Mabel Jones, colored,/ 29 years cld, who for | | the past five years has posed as a | man, was LTcugat before the pelice | court this morning and sentenced to 60 days in jail. She nad been ar rested on a serious charge and wt she appeared In court was clot méan's attire and wove shert hair, told the court that she had spent a | short time in an industrial school in New York, that she had worn man's clothing for the past five vears, and that her home is in Waterbu | | | Three Years for “Green Goods” Man. Yo 12—A sentence of | onment {n the. fed- | {eral prison al Atlanta was imposed | today by Judee Hough in the "nll&d" States district court upon Martin Clark, a “green goods” man with a long ' record. John Smith, a young man who was associated with Clark in the latter's latest enterprise, was sent to Elmira reformatory for a year. Coaster Runs Into Trolley. Guilford, Conn., Feb. 12.—Charles Rassmen, 11 years old, while sliding down hill here today, ran in front of a trolley car and recelved injuries which may prove fatal. His left leg and left arm were broken and internal Injurfes inflicted. He was cared for at a physiclan’s house and later re- moved to his own home. His condi- tion is eritical. Longshoremen’s Strike Settled. Boston, Feb. 12.—The longshoremen’s strike,l which began on January 4,when 2,600 men employed In handling the cargoes of foreign steamers in the port of Boston walked out, after demand- | ing an increase in wages, was settled | today, and the men will go back to work on Wednesday morning. The i terms of settlement are withheld. ! Confiecficut in Frfipoflim mthe HERBERT M. LEROU, Druggist and President of the Connecticut Pharmaceutical Association. Knock in Heads |Hartford Man of lhg "§cahs” Amung [ndicted ARRESTS IN DYNAMITING CON- | SPIRACY LIKELY TODAY. GIOVANNITTI’S ADVICE TO THE LAWRENCE STRIKERS. TOTAL OF 54 PRISONERS MADE A SPEECH IN ITALIAN ltalian Detective Testifies Regarding Its Purpert—Neither He Nor Ettor Took Active Part in Rioting. Men Under Indictment Have Been Under Federal Espionage and Can Be Quickly Apprehended. Lawrence, Mass., Feb. jeep in the daytime and at night prowl around like wild animals and look for blood. At night you can knock in the heads of the scabs. In a few days we will be able to count the broken heads and they won't be on our side.” Indianapo! eve of the a Ind, Feb, 12.—On the st of the men indicted in the dynamite conspiracy cases it was reported tonight that the number £ defendants would be fifty-four. The arrests may take place tomorrow. Many Officers in One Union. Many officers in one labor union and one officer in each of two other unions are believed to be involved. It is understood that the defendants west of Salt Lake City, Utah, include only those whose names already have been mentioned relative to prosecutions indictments found on the Pacific goa and that no individuals west of Salt Lake City not heretofore involved are under indictment here, Defendants Under Espionage. Many cities in the east and in Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri, are said_to be the points from which the federal au- | thorities expect to receive reports of | arrests. Most of the defendants, | whose names have heen kept secret, | but who have-been under federal es- pionage since the indictments were returned a week 2go, reported as now oeing within reach. Arrests Can Be Made Promptly. As the capiases for the arrests have | been delivered to United States mar- hals in the respective districts, it is | believed the apprehension of the men | practically will take place within a few hours after word has been sent by telegraph for the authorities to | act. Probably a humber of the de- | ferdanis will be beyond immediate | service of the capiases, but the plan is | to take as many as possible of them ! into custody on the same day Hartford Man Involved. A labor leader in Boston, several each in New York, Cleveland and De- | troit, at least five in Chicago, one each’in Peoria, St. Louis, Kansas City New Orleans, Philadelphia, Mil- | Italian Detective’s Testimony. These and other similar statements were ascribed to Arturo Giovanitti by Charles Bencardo, an Italian detec- tive, who was a witness at the con- tinued trial today of Giovannitti and Strike Leader Joseph J. Lttor, who arc charged with belng accessories to the murder of Anna Lopizzo, killed in the riot during the textile strike here. Testified in Two Languages.- Giovannitti, according to the wit- ness, was addressing a crowd of strikers who had gathered on the Common following a parade and dem- onstration on ‘the moring of January He spoke in Italian and witness was required to give his testimony in English and Jtallan that he might satisty the court that he understood the foreign language. Defendants Not Active in Rioting. All of the witnesses called by the government during the d. testified as to the riots of January 15 and 29, and in some instances placed the de- fendants In the vicinity, although in no case was there testimony tending to show that they had any active part in the rioting. Urged Rioters to Desist. George Berthel, a police officer, who described one of the riots, told of seeing Ettor about yards from the place where street cars were being held up and damaged, but under cross examination he said that the strike leader appeared to be urging the riot- ers to desist. Seven street railway con- | ductors told of the damage to their cars and the rough treatment accord- ed the passengers. Strikers’ Printer a Witness. Antonio Columbo, a printer, testi- jied that he had printed much of the matter for the strikers’ committee. He said thal Joseph Bedard, the sec- retary of the committee, paid him for or 1 waukee, Hartford, Conn., Buffalo, Cin- | and about five men in Indian- re believed to be among tilose Six indictments are said to i cinnat ed, to men ng ¥ and west of there, Arrests Likely Today. ‘Whether the arrests would take place | in Salt Lake - . tomorrow, U. S. District Attorne: lus work. The witness could not say [ Charles W. Miller positively rofused that ecither of the defendants had re- |t say, but it was learned that such | quested him to do the printing, though they had been in his shop, Giovannitti’s Threat. Two police officers, James J. Galia- gher and Michael J. Barry, testified about the riots. Officer Barry testified that one evening while in a drug stdre Giovannitti talked with him about the al- was the plan mapped out by the g ernment\ tonight and that it would be carried out unless some unforeseen obstacle develope 3,000,00 PERSONS ON VERGE OF STARVATION. strike. The officer said that Glovan- | Appeal lssued by the China Famins | nitti sai - . | “To h—— with peaceful picketing! Paper Sompitse, | They have got to stay out or we will | break their heads!” No Decision Before Thursday. When court adjourned tonight to resume tomorrow morning, it was an- rgul\ce\i that a decision is not expect- €d before Thursday or later. More Strikers Back at Work. More workers were at their ma- chines in the mills today than on any day dince the inauguration of the strike. The general strike com- mittee announced the receipt of a New York, Feb. 12.—“Thren miilion persons in ceptral China are on the verge of starvati)n” reids a state- ment issued today by th China famibre | relief committee, of which Biship David A. Greer is chairman. ‘“Last summer the worst floods in 40 years destroyed the crops in an area of 5,00 square miles. Many have already dted of hunger, and unless prompt relief is given muititudes > meu, women and children must perish. No harvest can be expected until May. Untll then the famine will be growing daily donatlon of $100 from the loom fixers | sote > 'y _more of Adams, and with it a communica- | “There is a strong famine reliet tion in which the Adams workars state that’they have voted that here- after no member of the state militia be taken into their organization, The meeting voted to send more children 1o New York and Philadelphia during the next two weeks, if conditions contirue as at present. Militia May Be Withdrawn. Withdrawal of the 2,000 or more militiamen who have been on duty almost since the start of the great textilo strike more than four weeks ago Is being serlously considered by state officials, This will be decided at & conference with the governor tomor- row. committee n Shanghal composed of both foreigners and Chinese of all faiths. This committee will employ as rany as possivle of those able to labor in building dikes ond i such otier work as wil! help to prevert ‘he recur.. rence of flood and famin>’ Tariff Board’s Funds Low. ‘Weshington, Feb. 12—The tariff board’s money is running so low that it may not be able this vear to in- vestigate the iron and steel schedul which is already under revision by congress. ‘The leather investigation, now under way, probably will use up all the hoard’s present appropriation, Largest in Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Com merce | Manufacturing, and Other Interests. | ted suicide by { room {and Senator Les, |in the Back Bay. Condensed Telegrams President Taft Has Begun the nego- tiation of a new reciprocity treaty wi Cuk; J. Pierpont Morgan Has Invested a sum estimated at more than $106,000 000 in art treasures. Sixty-three Stre: barn of the Washington Electric company in Was burned. Loss $300,000. The Biennial Convention of the Su- preme Chapter of the Xi PsiPhi De! tal fraternity met at Baltimore yester- day for a two days' session. Cars and a large nd flway ington The House Committee on expendi- tures in the department of agricuiture will begin probing the Ever- glades land charges Madame Lillian Nordica Was Unable the Sostor opera house last of a slight illness. Her had neuritis, Massachusetts Medical Men & worked up over the invasion of Jc Hopking men in appointments to t hy and mediczl schools of tha sta ns The House Yesterday Passed anti-loan shark bill establishing 12 per legal rate of interest that d by loan agencies in the olumb an While Conferring With a Patient in office yesterdiy, Dr. Will K a prominent physician of 2r dence, was stricken with apoplexy aad Wi lied almost imme 1 The Wreck of the Maine, which has been buried for fourteen fath- oms deep, is now almos h the water of Hav i the main deck is plainiy Republicans in the Eighth congre siopal district of Virgini: ciected J.-L. Cropper and ery delegates to the national conven- tion and instructed them for Taft Burns Received Yesterday when her s caught fire from & gus J 1ome at b wido The Grievance Committee of the (1~ der of Railro2d Concnctors is holding session at Mexico City to protest against the recentl ted crder that rain orders should b n in Span- the Filipinos are were off no better 5 ago Spa ot Charic W. Piper cultural depart ment. After the Police Had Been Callad s district ah the elected delegates to the Chicdgo con- vention. An Inventory of the Estate ol late Gen. Samuel (. Lawrence of Med- ford, Ma: who left sums to charity and especially (o Masonic f ternit shows a total amcunt of 1 ; * A. T. Shaw, Founder, President r of the A. W, Shaw eport bszon Aulter of a sum n his company The Survivors of Company 1, T Connecticut volunteers, sented to the Gre ciation a silk flag made~by the of the town and any at the front du Washington M. Seligman, a Well Known Broker of New v shooting himself in at the Hotzl Gerard A year ago Mr. Seligman n Successful attempt/to take h York, commit- followed a, lcnz veriod of st work, the Alice and Millville m the Woonsocket Rubber compa Woonsozket and Millville sumed work yeste: schedule. J. P. Marchaud, Eugene Bernard and Wiiliam Hery, the hoys found guilty of firing the Holy Cross college at Farn- bam. Que. were vesterday released on suspended sentenca. They will have t- furnish bonds of $1.000 h to keep the peace, Secretary Knox Left Washington last night for Palm Beach, FIX, whére he wiil ain about a Week and then embark on the armored cruiser Wash- ington for Colon to begin his diplo- T atic visit to Central America, Ameriea and the West Tndies South One of the Largest Gatherings of Masons in this state assembled at Bridgeport yesterday to take p in tho 150th anniversary of 8t. John's lodge, . and M, hundred gathered for th afternoon exe: es, which as followed by a banquet and night the past master's degree worked. at was INVESTIGATION OF THE MONEY TRUST Progressive Repulfican and Progre: sive Democrat Lead Movement. Washington, Feb. 12.—The proposed congressional investigation of the Money trust” got an unlooked-for im- petus today in the senate ahd had some developments in the house. Sen- ater Kenyon, progressive republican, progressive demo- crat, joined in framing a proposal for an investigation by a committee of six members to be drawn from hoth houses. ‘This, it is understood, will be in- troduced in the senate in the form of a joint resolution which will require the concurrence of the house, OBITUARY. Richard Bartlett. Guilford, Conn., Feb, 12-—Richard Bartlett, one of the oldest residents of the town, died here today at the age of 90 vears, He represented the town in the general assembly in 1861. Resolution Given Cardinal O’Connell. Boston, Feb. 1 tonight tendered o dinner to Mayor Fitzgerald and the nine members of the city council of Boston at his home ayor Fitzgerald, on benalf of the eclty; presented the cardinal a set of resolutions passed by the council at a recent meeting. The | resolutions were engrossed on parch- ment and enclosed in a silver cagket, Steamship Arrivals. £t Glasgow: Peb. 12, Caledonia, from New York. 3 So Far as Agriculture is Concerned, | —Cardinal O'Connell | Gity'’s Population CHILD EMPEROR ABANDONS THRONE | 'Chinese Republic Made a Certainty by Ab- dication of Manchu Dynasty. 'MANY CONCESSIONS TO EMPEROR Will Draw an Annual Pension and will be Respected as a For- eign Monarch—Palace Attendants to be retained and Emperor’s Property to be Protected by Republic—First President of New Republic is a Naturalized American. Peking, " A er cupying | the sacrifices at his ancestral tombs | the throne of for nearly (hree |and temples. which will be protected centuries, the Manchu dynasty, re by iblican soldiers. e child emperor. Pu Vi, | Fifth—The great tomb of the late abdicated today., Three edicts Were | emperor, Kwang Su, will be completed issued, first " proclaiming abdica- al ceremony will ‘be fit- tion; the second dealing w | | tingly observed at the republig's ex- tablishment of the republic t . pense third urging t 4! Sixth—The palace artendants may E gl peapien nuchs ca increased, | Seventh—The emperor's property Great Relief in Peking. [ will be protacted by the republic. the em- | Eighth—The imperial guards will be anked Yu- | governed by the army board and the efforts | yepublic will pay their salaries. A Contested Point. ubdication of the P A contested point as to whether the given profound relief to everyone in | throne shail be perpetuated or will Peking. botih foreigners and (‘hinese. | terminate with the Chinese emperors A 2 {death is not mentioned A Skiiful Compromise. In concluding second edict, the gement is considered a skil- | empress dowuger says i The it repul i | Hopes for Happiness Under Republic. jeans, The ! wOur sincere hope is that peace will GaICt rovides gbat the LeIME |y, pestored and that happiness will be £ ponun e By enjoyed under th ublic.” The third iss ) their iy | edict describes the throne's motive vernments bject b in modeiing its policy “according to RO repudlican | e progress of the times and the eurnest desires of seople, with the Plsdges of Republicans. [ ¥ole ohject of suppression of a great consideration of abdication disovder and restoration of peace.” blicans muake the following ¢ S R e DR. SUN AN AMERICAN, | yyparet-The pmperor shall retain B% | China's First President Became a Gite eign monarch. izen by Act of 1900. AP taels | Washington, Feb, 12.—Dr. Sun Yat L formed. aftes | 3en, first president of the Chinese re- Seive $1000.600 Mex. | public, is a naturalized American, i " The dcpartment of commerce and {lebor so held in 1904 on the ground emporary vesidence shull | that Dr. Sun, who was born in the | be vrovided in tne For i Fawalfan islands, was endowed with ~fand ifter the'iimperial Al American citizenship by the act ef | reside in t summer pal; miles | 3000, which provided a government fer outside « ki | Hawail and declared ail eitizena of the Fourth—Tite cmperor may observe | torritory citizens of the United States. | i | BELIEVED MRS. SURATT WAS INNOCENT WOMAN | ABOLISH FREE BATHS AND FREE BARBER SHOPS Kenyon Suggests Economies That Sel- diers May Be Liberally Penai Ben Pitman Says Shs Had No Prior | | Knowledge of Lincelin's Asnuination.‘ Cincinnati, 0., Peb, 12.—Almost fitty | Washington, Feb. 12—“Why ery vears after the ‘assassination of Abra- | economy only when the soldier is in- ham Lincoln, the pen of Ben Pitman, | volved demanded Senator Kenyon vy hy, Who acted as | of low a speech in the senate to- official st he trial of | d n vocacy of the Sherwood so- the conspirators, ealed facts | calied dollar a day pension bill, passed Mrs, Mary | by the house. Senatar Kenyon sald with three | that congress had raised the salaries other consp; nocent of the | of its members and of the president crime for w vas executed, The | eMered into an expense of hundreds statement was written by Pitman just | of millions of dollars for the Panama ofore his death here a | F canal and had even retired Robert E. ppears in March Peary on rear admiral’s pay for dis- cinnati megazine, covering “something known as the A portion of Pitman's statement North pole, which no one eares any- hat Mrs. att, who was h: thing about.” | with three Mr. K ale) Cankrea nyon said the cost ef living | cerned in a plot to assassipate Presi- increased ax much for the sel- i Lincoln and otler: government as for anyone else. He sug- als, was entireiy innocent of any knowledge of or participation in crimes is to my mind beyond question. My conviction is based on the fullowing facts: [ c ted that there could be a saving of 000 a vear in the matter of mile- for senators and representatives, vet leave sufficient’ for traveling and expenses. We could economize,” he continued, hat as official recorder of the having heard every word of | by getting rid of some of the com- imony; ompiler of the |Missions which surround us on every 4 volue, ‘Lincoln Assassination |hand, with enormous expense. more than all, as having previ- | “Public buildings might wait a few ous to the trial written down from the | Years, even though it might fnjure Iips of the principal witnesses fheir |the chances of a few men o go back stories of what they knew or about|to Congress because they could not which, in their employment spil pbtic bullding at an - enor. they lied, 1 have had the hest oppor- tunity of forming a true opinion as to mous expenditure, where none is need- the guilt or innocence of Mrs. Sur hen there are the free barber- rait” ops and the free baths in the cap- —————— tol here. hey might possibly be abolished: al:hougih I realize that I BAN ON MIXED MARRIAGES |@m treading on sacred and dangerous IN TWO SAMOAN ISLANDS. &round in wmakiug this revolutionary ecommendatio sl | reco i German's . Colonial Secretary’ §ops |\ 1. Bive Ho patience with the asser- 4 : : tion that pension legislation 15 char- Union of Whites and Natives. |0t i RSl o e imeited Serlin,” Feb. 12 Solt w | eontract with this government when e oy Solf, the ¥ |these men marched wway, and thet Jeuadfen order forbidding for the f55]0 cl wae that when they needed ssued un ord n - from the government, they would ture all marriag 5 whites elp from t would | natives i the 1wo Samosn islards be- | Bave it. They did not £6 to war for longing to Germany. Children of mar- | (he thirteen dollars per month, in de- riages hacetsfore | legally contracted | Preciated currency, worth, in gold, | will be regarded as of white birth, but P8t nine dollars. They did not place ofispring of other unions customary in | 0100d agalnst gold. They closed the | the islands will be classed among the | 00T of opportunity, just when the colored or native populaticn tenderest and most swered associations The order comes as a culmination of | 9f life were forming, and never a long agitation against mixed mar- | thought of reward. riages, into which a large oroportion of the white colonists and even tha| DEMENTED MAN HELD. tmperial officials in German Samoa | St William M. Meyers Was Threatening te Blow Up Building. have entered, and which were mlfl‘lfldl and even p! cted by Lormér adminis- tratlons in the colonial office The institution it now regarded as a | danger to German prestige in the isi- | ands, and even a menace to the future | of the colony, ag according t :T!fl of. | ficial standpoinc white colonisis ints L marrying with natives very often sink [to the lower cultural level of the ab- original population, while the children, inherlting the bad qualities of - botil parents, form an undesirable element of the population Newark, N. J., Feb. 12.—William M. Mevyers, who is believed to he dement- ed, wag arrested in the courthouse late today shortly after President Taft had viaited there to view the Lincoln stat- we. Meyers was in the crowd which ~ arected the president and it is alleged that he was overheard boasting that in two boxes he carried he had enough dynamite to blow up the building. On opening the boxes at the police station the officers found two dry cell bat- teries in one box and several hundred empty envelopes. The man, who eald he was a jeweler, will be examined te- mOTrow as to his sanity. Whitinsville Weavers Striks ‘Whitinsville, Mass,, Feb. 12.—One hundred weavers employed in the mills went on strike when Superintendent lo make immediate enswer to their demands for an in- crease in The men made no gpecific demand, but it 18 understood that many favor a ten per cent. fn- | Linwood cotton this afternoon Madrox refused Youth Arrested for Murder. Shamokin, Pa., Feb. 12—Frederick Nye, 18, of this place, who is out on parcle from the Huntingdon reforma- tory, was arrested here tonight charged with having murdered Henry Miller In H aage, They are not organized. the latter's pool room and bowling al- | loy in Sunbury vesterdsy. A loaded i on th And Misssuri Damoorats for Clatk, i /fTanaiwsCiniin Tommia on the prissmer gpd many nickels and dimes, Ksnsue City, Mo, I 12—GOne iundred and twenty delegaies were se- ted today to represent the demo- crats of Juckson county at (he state | convention in Jophin, February 20. They were insiructed sipport Spesker {hamp Clark Folk Pledged teo Clark. S(, Louls, Feb, 12— Former Govesnor Folk' wsked friends in Nebruska today not to consider him as & presidentadal candidute and declared Le is pledged to Speaker Champ Clark During the fiscal yvear ended Jame 30, 1811, the tod States, lneln‘a:: Haweil, had 41 rer cent. of the trade of the Phillppines, as with 15 per cent. for Great [ | Georgia Republicans fer Taft. Atlanta, G eb, publicans of th comgressional district ected Martin and . William T Penn delegates to the republican na- tional conventiou today and fnstruct- ed them for President Taft