Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 19, 1912, Page 1

g VOL. LIV.—NO. 44 NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1912 ; Wfi“\\e R V" "o 0O o @' PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population LI N T Y e e Ty e Y AN INSULT TO THE UNITED STATES Suggestion That Secretary Knox Keep Away From Colombia so Regarded. COLOMBIAN MINISTER MAKES A STIR In Letter to Acting Secretary of State Expresses Opinion that it Might be “Inopportune” for Knox to Visit Colom- bia at Present—Recall of ination of Diplomatic Rel: Washington, Feb. 18—A grave ai- plomatic situation between the United Staice and Colombia has been precipi- d the publication of a letter i del Ospina, the Coiombian minister, has written to Acting Secretary Huntington Wison of the state department, suggesting that it might be “innppm'u\n_e' for ry Knox to visit Colombia dur- yrojected tour of Central Am- enor Pedro erica, Criticises the United States. ter drawing attention to the fact iy the views are his own and not officiaily those of his government, the ('olombian minister seriously criticises the United Stateg for mot submitting 1o arbitration the differences Wwith “olombia growing out of this“govern- ment’s acquisition of the Panama ca- nal on Regarded as Personal Insult. Inasmuch as the letter is admittedly the personal expression of the min- written without having com- 1ted with his government, it was | at the state department in ure »f a personal insuit to this vernm Minister's Recall Expected. No action has been taken and no official would comment on it tonight, but the ircident is known to have stirred cfficials of the United States 1o suck an extent that the recail of the Coiombian minister is expected as a matier of course. At present, how- ver, the United States is disposed to walt until Senor Ospina receives the instroctions he has asked for. May Terminate Diplomatic Relations. In diplomatic circles, it was be- Minister is Expected and Term- Possible. ations lieved that Colombia, smarting under eigit years of ineffectual eorts to ob- tain arbitration of the canal zone d ference, would. confirm the unofficial views of her. accredited representa- tives. A more profound sensation is looked for, because it ig helieved that | & terminaticm of diplomatic relations | between this country and Colombia is in prospect Charges Discrimination. Acting Secret: Wilson has ad- vised Senor Ospina of the probable itinerary of Secretary Knox, What is said to have particularly aroused the Colombian minister was a reference to the repudlic of Panama in the itin- crary, a country whose independence Coiombia never hag recognized. He akes veiled reference to the long de- lay by the United States in answer- ing ‘several notes addressed to this government in seewing arbitration and charges that this country has discrim- inated against Colombia in failing to give to her arbirtration which the United States is now offering to other members of the family of nations. Believes Government Would Take Same Attitude. A tentative itin Secretary Knex tonight malkes sion for a op at Cartagena, Colombia, on March Senor Ospina was disposed to- night to believe that his government would indicatc to the United st:,;tes that a visit from Secretary Knox would be untimely unless the secre- ta came prepared to promise an early arl ration of differences. He said tha* Lis letter summed up the positein of Coiombia as conclusive. CONFESSED MURDER OF HIS SUPPOSED RIVAL | Cargin Teils of Killing Man He Blamed for His Troubles. = | White Plains, N, Y., Feb. 18.—Jobn Cargin, arresied last night for, the murder of Frank Connolly at Katonah in the Croton Aqueduct district, con- fessed tonight, according to Sherift that he shot Connolly in a jeal- arrel. Cargin blamed Copunolly ipg his separation from his wife two years &go, according to the ahoriff, and said that, with no thought of meeting Connolly, he went to his mother-in-law'’s house last TFriday night, w' the shooting occurred, merely with the hops of getting a glimps= of his cight vear old daugh- er. While he was peering through @ window Conneily came nu, accord- ing to his alleged confession, and the quarrel of which the shooting was the sequel ensued. HAD WEALTH BUT LACKED DOMESTIC HAPPINESS Lawys= George F. Parsons Committed Suicide by Shooting. New York, Feb. 18—George F, Par- 8, a lawyer, 35 years oid, committed by shooting himself at the res- ence of his epfatner, Tlhomas Smith, in Weat TRh street today. Par- sons enjoved a large income from the his father, the late Georze Parsons, who was a wealthy manufac- torer of fireworks, and had a good pract aw, but his relatives say became despondent over a recent disagreement with' his wife, whieh re- #ulied in her and their six year old daughter living apart from him. NEXT STORM DUE HERE ON FRIDAY Rain Likely Then With Moderate Weather Generally Pravailing. Washingten, Feb. 18.—Moderate wratner is expected this week, accord- (0 the weather bureau bulletin, general storm to cross the rountry will prevail in the, eastern wiates on WPriday, The precipitation tlending this disturhance will be Iy rzin, although snow is likely orthern states east of tne Rocky CROWDS AT OONEV' ISLAND YESTERDAY. Balmy Weather Induced Several Visit. ors to Take Dip in the Ocean. Mew York, Feb. 18.—Fally fifty thou- d_persons attended Coney Isiand's official opening for 1912 today, pted by bright eunchine and mild the crowds seught the seaside re- sort In automobiles. carriages, trolley oars and elevated railway trains, were crowded. Bathing wes not se popular, but a score or more hardy persons ventured the dip. Mo Developments at Lawrence, lawrence, Mass., Feb. 18.—No com- munications from the mill agents in reply to the demands framed by com- mittees of striking textile operatives were received today, and as a result t meeting of the Central union’s . executive committec to have heen held was postponed to tomerrow aftesnoon. By that time it is mfl that the atti- tude of the mill of toward the de- mands will be made knewa, Former Slave Dies at 116, ton, lad., Feb, $8&Gran- ford, a fermer s said w ¢ old, e to- bio was ‘the snotfereg 17 chil- 40 of whom wese tace of the dedlings of sl Sevek times, orge Hafford, who owned a ZH Inte Tub of Hot Water, Bridg port, Coun, Feb. 18.—Three years vid Edward Hazomoki fell into a tub of hot water at his home here today and received hurns which may caus IAT’ death. He was takea to The #maller reserts and the dance haH!iI WHITE WAS ENGAGED TO A “LOVELY” GIRL But Gave Sick Sister the Money He Had Saved for Wedding. St. Louis, ¥eb. 18—Andrew J. White, cladmant in the Kimmel mystery case, now on trial in the United States dis- trict court, rencunced Mrs. Hstelle Kimmel and her daughter, Mrs. Edna Bgnslett, mother and sister of the missing George A. Kimmel, as his mother and sister today. ‘““T'hese women are no longer my mother and sister,” the claimant said. ‘1 mean, of course, that they are my blood relations, but I feel no kinship for them. “Our relationship is dead. It was killed by their actions towards me in this litigation. “l am against them from now on. T will ses this thing through. I will fight their case in every way I can. “I was engaged to the loveliest girl in Michigan and would have married her but for Fdna, who was sick, and I gave my sister the money I have caved to be married on. Had it not been for that I would have heen an honored man now instead of an out- cast, an alleged impostor.” TWO CORNELL STUDENTS DROWN WHILE SKATING. Made Unsuccessful Attempt to Leap Across Open Water, Ithaca, N. Y. students, Per: Cenverse of Buffalo and Charles W. Getman of Richfieid Springs, were drowaed at Kings Ferry today while skating on Cayuga lake. A companion, Reaney G. Newman, this ecity, escaped from the water, The bodies of the others have not been found, The thres young men started from here thig afternoon to skate to Kings Ferry and return on an eyening train. They came to a crevice in the ice about 16 miles down the lake and tried to ieap the opening, All went in, but Newraan grabbed the ice and pulled himself out. This is the firsi time the lake has heen frozen over since 1904, when H, J. Dickinsen, a brother of Charles C. Dickingon, the former Carnegie "Trust compazry president, tried to skate the Jake ana went under at mnearly the same place, NEW JERSEY MAN FOR THE SUPREME BENCH. Two Cornell Chancellor Mahlon Pitney to Be Named as Justice Harlan’s Suceessor, Washington, ney, Fep. chaneellor of the state Jersey, member of congress for two | terms, & lawyer and jurist of 30 years’ practiee, looms up tonight as the man 18.—Mahlon Pit- of New whom President Taft will the supreme ceourt bench I the late Ascociate Justice Harlan, Among friends of the president it was reported as practieally certain that Chaneellor Pituey would be ap- peinted, and the nemination, aceording to excelient authority, will he sent to the senate temerrow or Tuesday, MAN FOUND DEAD IN POWER HOUSE, appoint to to succeed John M. Matthew Eariy Went to Siesp Leaning Against a Boiler, New Haven, Conn., Feb, 18.—Mat- thew Early, 50 years old, of 517 Colum- bus avenue, strelled inte the pewer house of the United Illuminating com- pany pn Grand avenuwe Saturday night and went (o skep leaning against a builer, This morning when discovered by a waichman he was dead and ene side of his budy was badly burned. Whiether death was caused by acute wlevhollsgm or he wap evercame by gas will be determined by a eoremer’s in- vestigation, Plantation near Motiticello, Ky, Father of 15 Cemmits Suicide. Bes Mojnes, Ia., Feb. 18.—After di- vidiug a dollar among his 15 children, Owen Gavitt, colored, committed sui- cide today by blowing off his head with a shotgun, Receipt of netice from the overseer of the poor to leave the coun- ty lest he become a charge upen the cOURLy is given as the cause of Nis act, Cabled Paragraphs London, Feb. 18.—Graham Gil T, one of the best known am:?n; 'B’r‘}t sh ::):.t;fl's, ;Q‘A"B lr]lsl;lntly' killed yester- ¥ by a fall with his aero a height of 380 feet. e 7 T Kiel, Germany, Feb. 18.—The new German battleship Prinz Regent Luit- pold, the 13th gdreadnought of the im- perial navy, was launched vesterday in the presence of Emperor William. Vienna, Feb. 18.—The body of the late Count von Aehrenthal, Austrian- Hungarian foreign minister, lay state in the great hall of the foreign ministry today. The funeral will be held on Thursday by the emperor's order and will be made the occasion for elaborate ceremonies. Liverpool, England, Feb. 18.—The Cunard liner Lusitania, which has been completely overhauled, resumed her regular sailings yesterday, when she left for New York with 1,600 passen- gers on board. Among them is the EBarl of Rothes, who intends to make an extended tour of America. WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER FOR THREE DAYS. Sailors Became Deranged and Many Jump Into the Sea. Liverpool, Feb. 18.—The British steamer Cuban, which arrived here to- night from New Orleans, brought into port nine of the crew of the British ship Erne, which was wrecked In a heavy storm at sea. The Erne was bound from Boston, February 1, for Buenos Ayres. The Cuban passed her on February 8 in latitude 40 north, longitude 50 west, and rescued those of the crew who managed to keep alive. Six of the crew were drowned, while the master of the Erne, Captain Fick- ett, his wife, the second mate and a rassenger are missing. Only the cargo was keeping the wreck afioat. The survivors of the Erne tel rible story of a hurricane on F 2, which carried away the shi cargo and rigging. The gale raged un- | til February 5, when Captain Fickett's wife was badly injured by a heavy sea which swept aboard. Later in the day the crew found that the captain and his wife, the second officer and a pas- senger were missing, having apparent- 1y left the ship in the only lifeboat which had not been carried away. For three days the crew had neither food nor water. Some of the men became deranged by their sufferings and jumped into the sea. The others hud- dled in the forecastle or Jashed them- selves to the rigging. The Cuban sight- | ed the vessel on the morning of Feb- | ruary 8. With much difficulty a boat was run alongside and the nine surviv- tors were taken to the steamer. The officers of the Cuban are of the opinion thot it was impossible for the lifehoat /of the Erne to remain afloat | iong in the seas, which were running | mountain high. i HOPEFUL OF ARRESTS IN TAXICAB ROBBERY. ‘Sixty New York Police Officers Now Working on the Case. New York, Feb. 18.—Although there have been no arrests of apparent im- portance for last week's theft of $25, 000 from bank messengers in & taxicab, the $10,000 diamoud holdup and other recent similar affairs, Deputy Police “ommissioner Doughertly expressed himself tonight as far from ° dfsap- pointed with the work of his detectives assigned to ferret out the perpetrators of these crimgs. The frequency of re- cent holdups in this city was coinci- dental, he believed, and he was con- fident that there would be important developments in the case of the $25,- 000 robbery in a few days and that it would be satisfactorily eleared up. Gino Montani, the chauffeur in the taxicab affair,”would be kept in cus- tody, the commissioner said, pending complete evidence in the case, This, he said, was being rapidly and satis- factorily gathered by 60 men attached to the central office. | NO ATTEMPT TO PREVENT | ENGLAND'S COAL STRIKE | Government Impervious to Appeals to Intervene in Controversy. London, TFeb. 18.—Atthough the | country is now within eleven days of | the coal strike which will involve hundreds of thousands of miners, and ir Edward Grev. the foreign secre- | tary, has described it as threatening | “the greatest natiomal catstrophe in our history,” there is no sign yet from any quarter of any attempt at media- tlon. Wight hundred thousand miners | Irave already handed in their notices to dquit work March 1, and the news- | papers and the public are calling in- sistently for government interference. But the government is reluctant to force itself upon the disputants, and ‘both sides avpear to resent the idea of interference. | | | | FOUR ATTACKED BY GANG OF ITALIANS. [Two Stamford Men at the Hospital | and Two Abls to Reach Home, Stamford, Cona, Feb. 15.—Eugene | | Cody is in a local hospital with a, cut | in Ms back and Vietor Williams is in | the same institution with a bullet in| his back and cuts about the body. Hd- | ward Triacca and Rebert O'Brien are being treated at their homes for cuts | and bruises. All four are under 21| years of age and claim to have receiv- ed their wounds when attacked by a gang of Itallans as they were passing through West Park Saturday night late. The police are looking for the as- sailants, 8cluptor Charged With Begging. New York, Feb. 18.—Martin Bithke, a young German who was arrested to- day, charged wtih begging a pair of sheoes, exhibited in policec ourt sev- era] photographs of work he said he did as a scluptor. He sald his father wass an alderman in Wurtemurg, Ger- many, with whom he had a quarrel a vear ago, and this caused him to seek employment in America. He said he was 23 years old and a graluate of the Academy of Fine Arts at Munich, The police undertook to assist him to find employment, Farmers' W Opens Teday, Itahaca, N, ¥, Feb, 18.—Farmers' week, one of the mest petent facters in the rural uplift mevement in New York state, will begin tomorrew at the Cornell Siate College of Agricul- | tare, During the week 3,060 agricul- turists frofa ail parts of the state are expected New Britain—Supt. 8. H, Halmes of the public scheals bas received. word from Supt, W. A, Wheatley of the Mid- dletown schoel that the Middletown teachers will visit the lecal scheels Wednesday, Feb. 28. Ligben.—0. H. Ivens dislpcated his | the shoulder while sawing weed with his- éugi ene day recently ¥ Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce Manufacturing, and Other Interests. -306”” ; 7ORE" S ncH °|! NOR:O,(N. FRANK J. KING, . Treasurer of The Reid & Hughes Co. Repented on | His Deathbed CHICAGO MILLIONAIRE REMEM- BERS CAST-OFF SON. | WIDOW TO DIVIDE ESTATE | in Accordance with Dying Request of Her Husband, Son Who Was Cut Off with $5,000, Will Get $1,000,000. Little Rock, Ark, Feb, 18.—William Springer of this city, son of the late ‘Warren Springer, the Chicago million- aire, has been notified that he is nol receive $1,000,000 of the Springer es- tate after.having been cast off during his father’s life and all but disinherit- | ed by the latter's will Widow to Divide Estate. Mrs. Marguerite Springer, the widow, has asked the son to visit her in Chi- cago. She proposes to divide the es- tate, it is said, in response to a death- bed request by her husband. He ap- parently repented the clause in his will leaving the son only $5,000. Has Been Working at Sign Painting. “I could hardly believe my cyes when 1 received a telegram from my step- mothe: yesterday asking me to come to Chicago to receive a million dollars— my share of my father's estate,” said younger Bpringer last night. Springer has been working here as a sign painter. He is 45 years old. Father and Mother Divorced. He was born in Plane, Mich. When he was 10 months old his father and mother were divorced. The father went to Chicago, where he started a machine shop. Springer graduated from the University of Michigan in 1889. Then he went to work with his father in Chicago. Quarreled With His Father. “But father and I could never get along,” he said. “We qnarreled almost constantly, and in 1890 T left and start- ed out to make my own way. I have wandired all over the United States, I have seen my father but once since I left, and then only for a few min- utes eight years ago, I heard he had grown rich, but that never changed my feelings towards him. Belioves Hs Can Take Care of It. “I have had some nretty hard knocks during my vears of roving and can hardly believe 1T will zet a million dollars, but if T do I think 1 have learned how to take care of it.” Springer will leave Monday for Chi- cago. OB{TUARY. J. Edward Aljen. Bethlehem, Conn., Feb. 13.—J, Ed- ward Allen, one of ‘he most prominent farmers in this part of the state, died at his home here today from pneumo- nla, He was promincnt in local politics and at one time represented the town in the legislature. He was 55 years old and leaves a family. Francis D. Stillman. New York,~ Feh. Stillman, president of the Watson- Stiliman’ compeny, manufacturers of | hydraulic machinery, died suddenly to- | day at his home here, aged 82 years Mr. Stillman was president of the Bridgeport Motor company of Bridze- | port, Conn., and was a director in| many manufacturing firms, He was | graduated from Yale in the class of 1874, 18.—Francis D. | . Rev. J. Lewis Parks, D.D. New York, Feb, 18.—Rev. Dr, Lewis Parks, rector emeritus of Calvary Protestant Episcopal church in this ecity, died tonlght at his home from pneumenia, Dr, Parks was once a recter at Middletewn, Conn. Chiidren Aid at Scheol Fire. Nerth Peliam's $60,000 publie sehool Was destroyed teday by a. fire of un. knewn erigin, Beeres of ehildven hur. ried 15 the seene when they learned their seheollieuse wes burning, and they helped in esrryimg many of the records and mevable fixtures frem the building, 5 Anether Thin-lce Tragedy, Roehester,. N. Y, Feb, 18.—Robert Heldridge, a Nerthern Central tele- graph pperater, was drowned today Wwhile skating en Seneca lake near Watkins, his heme, The bady was vacoverad, Fe leaves a bride of six ‘Two Succeed in Eluding Capture FIFTY-TWO ARRESTS THUS FAR IN DYNAMITE CASE. IRWIN LOCATED IN CHICAGO Whereabouts of Former Peoria Secre- tary Unknown for Over a Year— Evidence Picked up by a Dictagraph Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 18, —Thr kinds of evidence, it was learned today, are being prepared by the government for its prosecution of the 54 men in- dicted in the dynamite conspiracy. It was stated by District Attorney C. W. Miller that all this evidence is to be roborated by witnesses whose names are already known, and the evidence chiefly is about 40,000 letters and tele- grams taken from the headquarters here of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers which, according to charges in the in- dictments, shows that President F. Ryan, Secretary-Treasurer H. . Hockin and executlve board members corresponded for six years with busi- ness agents of local unions about “jobs” to be blown up. Dictagraph Records to Be Used. Stenographic records of a telephonic apparatus which the government had connected with Ryan's headquarters for more than three months, and by which, it is asserted, conversations be- tween the iron workers’ officials about the dynamite conspiracy were over- heard and transcribed. Ortie Mc- Manigal's confession, covering his ex- iences as a dynan employed by J. J. McNamara from June, 1997, to his arrest last April, also will be used. McManigal’s Confession Corroborated. “McManigal's confession probably will be the basis of the prosecution,” said District Attorney Miller. “It has been corroborated in every detail, es- pecially with reference to the men who, he asserts, assisted him in the transportation of the nitro-glvcerine and d mite. Hotel clérks, railroad men and wagon drivers from all over the country have verified his state- ments as to when and where he was in connection with particular explosions. About 300 of these witnesses were be- fore the federal grand jury, and more than that number wiil be called at the trials. Dictagraph Worked Satisfactorily. “T dislike to comment on the govern- ment's telephonic apparatus which was installed in Ryan's office one night last October, and by which two govern- ment stenographers in a room below were able to record just what was said in the iron workers' headquarters, but I will say the apparatus worked satis- factorily and we have great abun- {dance of notes taken by that means which undoubtedly will be offered as evidence.” Date of McManigal’s Trial Unknown. McManigal, now in Los Angeles. Cal., wil! not be arraigned with the other defeniants on March 12, but wiil { be brousht here during the trials, prob- ably In May. It is not stated when McManizal will be arralgned. Only Two Defendants Missing. The arrest of J. W, Irwin in Chicago puts 1 rnment In posses- all but two of the 54 men in- dicted. The defendants who had not been apprehended are John J. MeCray an iron worker at Wheeling . and Patrick Ryan, formerly a business agent in Chicago. st ARREST OF IRWIN. His Whereabouts Had Been Unknown for Over a Year. .Chieage, Feb, 18.—John W. Irwin, former recording secretary of the Peorig, 111, loeal of the Structural Iren Workers’' Internatienal union, one of the men indicted by the Indianapelis federal grand jury, wag arrested here teday and was arralgned before United States Commissienas Mark Foote and en metien of counsel fer the defense was released en altemperary bend of $5,0060 until next Wednes The Peeria secretary's ereabeuls had peen yuknewn except to a few elese friends for mere than a year. Gevernment afficers at Peoria were told that Irwin had been sent to an asylum under an assumed name, It was discowered, hawever, that Irwin 1ad been employed on several strue- tural jren cantraets here within that Finally his piace of residenee Condensed Telegrams Ping, a wealthy Chinese mer- married Miss Myrtle Arthur Norfolk, Va. Wona chs of Oklahoma County’s 31 Delegates (o the democratic state convention are instrueted solidly for Champ Clark. Nils Nilson, the New Britain Aviator, 2de 4 flight over that city yesterday, aining in the air for six minutes, Railroads in the Pittsburgh District are preparing for a coal scorike and 1 quant of coul are. being @ stored. Many Important Decisions are | pected from the supreme court which will reconvene today aiter a three | weeks' recess, | _Eleven Year Oid Frank Millitz of | geport was drowned in Burr creek erday when e broRe through the ce while coastin, I ¥ i Advance 20 upon the expir: A General in Wages in Chis: tion of exist- ing coniracts 1s to be asked by the building tradcs unien. Lord Leitrim, an Earl with large es- taies in the north of Ireland, arrived yesterday to spend two .months in Florida fishing for tarpon. | Becauze of the Fioods, many of the poor of Seville, Spain, are in a dying condition, and corpses washed out of vemeteries fleat in the streets. and an intinate friend of Hanlan ck, Courtney; Hosmer and Wal- ® Ross, died Saturday at Boston. Charles Hazen Hyde, former city chamberlain _of New York, lost his appeal for change of venue, and must stand trial for bribery in that city. Members of the Hyd# Park Improve- | | resclut ! ment club of Chicago, have adopted demanding separate | schools negro children iu Hyde Park. Soventy-five Fatal Cases of Gas asphyxiation were reported to the New Yorlk corcner during the first six weeks of 1012, The total is the largest on record. Amasa B. Campbell, one of the fore- most mining ope of the west, died at rkanc vesterday of cancer « r was 67 years of age. Eleven Hundred Dollars a Year is the smallest income in which a New X man should venture into matri- | mony, according to the verdict of the Rockefeller Bible class. Colonel Roosevelt of Oyster Bay lias { been drawn among other residenss Nassau county, New York, to serve as trial juror at the term of court he- sinning March 4. Theodnre Roosevelt, Jr., Is About to desert the carpet business in the west for a partnership or an import- ant place in a prominent Wall street financial concern. Gov. Aram J. Pothier of Rhode Island has decided to appoint Zenas W. Bliss i of Cranston, Frank I. Davis of Glou~ cester, and Teremiah P. Mahoney of Newport as state tax commissioners. Miss Hazel Hotchkiss, the Champien woman tennis player of the United States, has announcel her engagement to G. W. Wightman, a Harvard univer- sity student and son of a Brookline, Mass., capi‘alist. The Government of the duchy of Brunswick is about to present to Har- vard university a bronze cast of the celebrated Lion monument erected in the Castle square by Henry the Lion in the year 1166. All Records in the Number of Fail- ures at the University of Minnesota have been broken the result of the midyear examinations. Notice of de- ficiency will be received by nearly six hundred studen Cablegrams Protesting Against the | electic of Premier Yuan Shi Kai to the presidency of the Chinese republle havebeen forwarded Chinese in North and South America to the as- sembiy af Hanking | While Attempting to Jump from a | moving elevator at the Hanley Brew- ing company’s plant at Providence Saturday, Simon Hindle, a machinist, | was caught between the gate and the { floor of the car and almost instantly | killed. | . Emilio Vasquez Gomez's Frank Pub- | lic Declaration that he will ace provisional presidency of case the rebels succeed in forcing [Frflncis(‘o I. Madero from the national | palace has gone far toward convincing unofficial rasidents of the capital that a general rebellion is in progress, The Marriage of Mrs. Deborah Jef- {r and_Horace F. Parshall of Mil- ford, N. Y., chairman of the Central Lordon Tube railway, annulled by the English court, the woman eon- freys, from whom she was separated, had compelled her to wed Parshail for bis money. Pinchot Declares for Roosevelt. Washinston, Feb, 18.—Giflord Pin- chot in a sizned statement rnade pub- lic tonight announces that he has with- drawn his support from Senator La Follette's tial candidacy and that h hereafter advocate the nomination of Theodore Roosev $80,020 Oil Fire at Philadelphia. Philadeclphia, Feb. 18.—Half a mil- Hon gallons of lubricating oils were destroyed by flames which raged for more than twelve hours today in the works of the Atlantic Refining com- pany at Point Breeze, in the southern section of this city. Loss about $80,- 000. Hartford Brakeman Killed. East Hartford, Conn, Feb. 18.— Gecrse Vallencourt of Hartford, a brakeman, was.instantly killed tonight by being run oyer by a train in the iocal raiiroad yards, He was 25 years old and leaves a family. Steamship Arrivals, At Madelrs; Feb, 17, Arablo, from New York. 5 Litchfield. A e annual faesiing of the Cennectlcut “Berkshir, tion in New Milferd (George ’&’%\m‘t ot Litehfield was elecied secretary and J, H, Putnami of Litzhfield was elected reasurer, Was faund in a remote quarter af the seuthwes. side. Irwin - appeared greatly surpeised when arrested, e denied hp was can- nected with the dynamite canspiraey | Charges against him and his Beidla % Patrick J. McNulty, an old time oars- | fessing that her husband, Herbert Jef- | i Gonspiracy fo “Rob Aged Man EX-STATE SENATOR AND NURSE UNDER ARREST. FORGERY IS ALSO - AVLEGED Charge That Signature to Dofument Giving Former Power of Atterney Is BPHPIOM.;-TWO Wills Invelved. | _New York, Feh. 18 —Formet State Senator Frank J. Gardner, of race track legislation fame, who was ar- rested and locked up late last night on the charge of conspiracy to gain control of the half million dollar estate of Samuel F, Haslett, an aged recluse, by use of a power of attorney, which Easlett is alleged to have repudiated, was released on $3,000 bail today after arraignment in a Brooklyn court, Garduer, who a year ago was acquit- ted of a charge of attempting to brive State Senator Otto G. Foelker in con- nection with the anti-race track legis- l2iion in this state in 1909, pleaded not gullty and said that he had no doubt of his asility to clear himself. Says He Will Come Out All Right. As the nator left the court- room with wife, formerly May Yer an actress, he said: “I am surc this will come out all right. ! have absoiutely nothing to fear. There will be plenty or sensa- tlonal exposures made before this case is through, and let me assure you that I will not be the victim. That is all 1 care to until 1 have u talk with counsel. 1 am not worrying any.” Old Man's Nurse Also Held. Gardner's examination was fixed for tomorrow. It is expected that at th same Ume George H. Decker, who in & remarkable account of the alleged plot told to Magistrate Kempner, involved Carcner in the case, will also be ex- anived. Decker, who was employed as nirse for Haslett when the recluse was taken 11l two weeks ago in his “house of mystery” in Brookl¥n, was still in jeil toright in default of bLall Haslett in Feeble Health. Haslet: was reported in a serious cendition and will be unable to ap- pear at tomorrow’s hearing. He'will be represented by John B. Lord, his counsel for the past 15 years. who staried the machinery moving yester- day that caused the arrest of the twe men :ud the exposure of the allefed conspirac; ignature a Forgery. | in his atidavit to the court Lord, Wwho was barred yesterday from hiw cllent's house by Decker upen ground that Haslett had dismissed him, recites that Decker “did call sald Frank J, Gardner to the Haslett residence:” that “the sald Gardner did prepare a power of attorney giving to the said Frank J. Gardner full power and authority over the persen and property of sald Samuel E. Haslett;” that “the signature to said power of attorney is not in the handwriting of Samuel T. Haslett,” and that “said Sainuel E. Haslett stated to 4 n:nl in the presence of sald ()eofsa er and other persons that he did not sign =aid power of attorney.” Gave Gardner Sweeping Powers. The document in question, which was witnessed by Decker, was extremely broad, authorizing Gardner to draw checks, pay bills and care for Mr. Haslett’s mcney and interest in almost every conceivable way, and containing a provision expressly revoking all other powers of attorney. An Alleged Will Questioned. Decker's testimony tomorrow s ex- pected to throw more light u an- other feature of the case Involving anh alleged will executed by Haslett. In this will, according to Decker's story, as told by Magistrate Kempner after his examination of the nurse, Gardner was made sole executor and Decker residuary legatee. The nurse, the mag- istrate said, insisted that Haslett In. structed him to call in Gardner draw up this document, saying he was tired of Mr. Lord s his lawyer. A Recluse for 25 Years. Haslett, whose fortune was the ob- ject of the alleged conspiracy, has been a recluse since his wife was burned to { death 25 ¥ 8 o and when his | “house of mystery” w entered re- | cently on his being taken ill the in- | terfor was found in an astonishing state of neglect and decay Two Wills Drawn. Amorg the probabie vitnesses in the case, it was learned tonight, are twe physi Dr. 1. T. Devo and Dr. Hiram Turner, ndght ‘that he and signed a will on Thursday in the Has- lett residence, which they urderstood was that of the re:luge whum they | had ween called to attend. According | to Dr. Deyo two wills were involved, ne of which he said he signed witness on the Tuesday previous whem he first vigited the sick man, Signing of the Secend Will. On Thurscay, Dr. Deyo said he call+ ed agair at the residence, talking with him Dr. Turner, with whom he wish- ed to hold & consultation over Mr. Haslett’s illness and he was then in- formed by the nurse, Decker, that ow= ing to the death of one of the legatees, a sister oi Haslett, it had become nec- essary to cxecute a new will. This will he and Dr. Turner consented to sign, suposing they were doing thelr patient a favor. Gardner Present at Time. present at the time, sald, and told him thas here- aftar he would be Hoslet®s regulse phys ). The patient had previously been attended by Dr. H. B. Mintos, Haslett's physician for years. CONFERRED THE FOURTH .. DEGREE ON BISHOP NILAN, Knights of Columbus from All Seox tions at Hartford. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 18.—Members of the Kuights of Columbus from all ts of the state were in attendance re today at the conferring of the fourth degree upon Bishop John Nilan of the Hartford diocese, 14 priests and the mayors of Hartford and New Brit- &ln. The order attended solemn mass at St Joseph's cathedral in morning. After the conferring of the degree a banquet was held. v $15,000 Blaze on Dairy Farm. Southington, Conn, ¥eb. 18 —A 3