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VOL. LIV.—NO. 56 DID NOT WISH TO ENTER THE FIGHT Roosevelt Says in Becoming a Candidate He Op- poses His Personal Inclinations i HIS SUPPORTERS NEEDED EFFECTIVE LEADER Believes He Would be the Choice of His Party by a Big Majori- ty on a Popular Vote—Taft Forces Produce Letter Writ- ten Last June in Which Roosevelt Said He Would Not be Candidate in 1912—He Says Context is Suppressed. onel Rooss pres 2ons former Congre March 3.—Col- | indiana. M g views of the n and his re S of 4 Pinct former ther Eclieves He ould Win Hampshire; / president of | e rnia, and John | mg bee, Ari 2 o1- | 8 A slonel in the is mer ssident | ospects and briefly | 4 WOULD NOT BE A ey iy 25 w g CANDIDATE IN 19127 e comvineed him that | Declaration Made in Letter Written lect leader. As to| by Him Last June. 1 the opinfon that| Washingtod choice of his party by a big mafority. | from How r sult ght be modified | mir th n on of the machinery | he ould of p he was unable to say. 1 republican % Did Not Wish to Enter Fight. | bresident, statement at Oyster | Sliael Roonavets said:IhubiRe et vestorday retary of the Rhat WRaY, paists. Meyer ary of War | v Bre Hj!:\yv ‘v “«’ni »-‘;nlxl.]d | Stimson dn't have said that he| : B M NS el S a candidate, caused to | it ond te made public here tonight a copy of | a jetter written by Colonel Roosevelt 5 J 27, 1911, denying :ts current | that he w e letter conc d PP uded as foi- t His Supporters Needed a Leader, voters favor him was made ROOSEVELT'S REPLY. In 1004, he said, lis position was : | He was desirous of the, T have expressed myself perfectly | o because he . wished. the | vy to a large number of men in | sople’s & roval. But in tak- | this maiter, s to the same effect, | 1 his wi s op- | telling 1, for instance, personaily, h al inclinations. Many | and those who were with you at lunci s had come to him, he | at my hou and telling Gifford Pin- | e uted to him that | chot, Jim Garfield and sman | ! and that there | Madison, and Billy Loeb a ad demand that he as- | Me; Secretary S ! ! bilitv. IL was in t exactly what I have ) t epresentations, the | that T would not he a candidate in | added. that he at length de- | 1912 myself, and that I had no in- | srmined to accept the leadership. | tention of taking part in the nomina- | Encouraged by Straw Vote, tion for or against any candidate. | 1 that T “Sincerely your: { g P e THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” | a large majority of the o | | he was informed of the result ot g8 o test canvass of voters in differ- | guqoents That Language of Letter | « sections of the country, showing . H y sReged rat) S ¥or Roosc.| May Not Be Correctly Given. | The colonel said he thought that e aBout reprebentad. the agnabioh. Tn| T OpNtRr B ;"‘::;)h | all bu ous r five statés, ~luding . . | Fiatanare and Ttah. Colanal Roasavert | 68 tonight from: Washington' cor said he believed he would recelve _,.!mz a letter of his deated majority on a popular vo: B0 G-, (quotlig, T8 aF L% od that he felt confident he wouid | iom of being a preside bave 2 majo of the Pennsylvanla | 12,1912 made the follow i Gelegation to the natienal convention. 1l say nothing unless the name | = the test vote in | Of the recipient of the letter is given | r_published in full Prob- had ziven him an alleg- X e ey gt o8 [ aply the language is not correctly that ke was not at ali|8iven Certainly all the con i sorprised at Political Gathering at His Home. romination is suppreesed. The pubiisheé in a Chicago evening p: at length he climbed tie steep | one month ago contains substantiall of Sazamore Hill and reached his | all T said in these letters. (Signed) he turned from thoughts of | “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” al history and the morning ser- | The letter referred to as published things political. Former Sen- | i a Chicago paper was a copy of a etcr Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana | letter which Colonel Roosese t had eome to Ovster Bay to go over | to Frank A. Munsey, explaining h e Indiana situation with him, and | pesition TURNED DOWN AFTER FIVE l YEARS OF COURTSHIP | FOR A NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE | Young Woman Loaves Note Explaining | President Taft Has Called a Conven- | | Reason of Her Suicide. | tion of Commercial Delegates. ric, March 2.—TLocked in each | W Marc President | v wo young women were | Taft the a | 3 \elf apartment uptown | movement ag committed 1de b: Ltae countr; inating gas, To neigh- | ernment was known es Miss May Di- | inis and the other .simply as|of new né the development | The windows aud doors in | of r a national board.of e ftehen whera ey were . foun we i securely locked, and | of the first pe in gas jets in: their room were | p retary Nagel of the depart- v m fr There vas every ey { of commerce and labor has, by & women d as the r ion of the sident, called a suicide pac ntion of delegates . from com- wote addresses the news- | mercial orginizations in Miss Dimitron” signed her n“l' countr to et N Aay Negris,” and explained | on April 15, to disc ve for taking 1if | arganization.” Ivitations something aw she wrote, { been sent to 1.000 local man and o love him only | conur , boards of t and o think he turne down after | commercial bodl five s' courting. [ am only i —_—— ears now, but 1 have 1 trouble enough to be 42, I onlv hope and pray | NO INDICATIONS OF A he will think of me sometimes.’ COLD WAVE THIS WEEK. 1' is believed the uther girl in sym- | — i atheiic despondency, agreed with May | A Gradual Return to Normal Temper- te die with her, WON'T SERVE AS JUROR. Exempted hy Reason Servics in the Militia. \ atures is Predioted. ‘Waghington, March ing to indicate that his week. Banse. alt of burean issned ———— 1 yyster Eay, N, T. March “There wil] be,” save the bulletin oa piain citizen of Naseau county, Tk ‘gfln"rai, though gradual reaction to dore Roosevelt must go 1o 1 Junty | normal’ temperatures over the region seat 2t Mineola tomorror appear | east of the Rocky Mountains Tuesday efere the commissioner ummone for jury duty was served on Mr. Roosevelt yesterday. He sald to- Gay that he would take an early train and Wednesday, and moderate tem- peratures thercafter until the close of the week. A disturbance that now cov crs the west will advance slowly of jurore. A for Mineola in the morning. Althcugh Wward and cause a con the former president must respond to led weather, with suow the summons as though he werc the northern ‘ st conspicuous of the residents of Mountaifis ducing assau county, there is no 1 n00d days. of serving on the jury, which will con- ¢ e s fine its activities to the minor cases jn a county court, Jud Oscor Schuttz sald today that under the law Colonel Roesovelt was exempt from jury duty on account of having served as an officer of the miiitia. SEDE Tt ot Governor Pothier for Taft P stutenie bureau: I am a Taft man,” adding that the | | telegram of endorsement of President | | Paft stated his position perfectly, | R. 1 ence, aid issued from the Hartford Woman Takes Carbolic, Hartford, Conn., March 3.—Mrs, Samuel Tomlinson, 24 years old, com- mitted suicide at her home on Putnam strect today by taking carbollc acid Despondency is supposed (o have led her to take her life. She leaves her husbend. Packers' Case to End This Week. Chicago, Marcj¥ 3.~—The government's | ¢ase against the Chicaga packers -be- | fore United States Judge George A, | to at | Carpenter probably will .come S | close this weéek, 3 Negress Dies of Leprosy, \ | % 3 S F March 3.-~Mra. Prowing Their Love. G Iadisnapolls, Ind, Lavinia well, 40 years old, a ne- it wes all right for the Roosevelt | gress, died at her home today of lepre- after men to dissemble their love, but Why uy betng under quarantine since | did they hit Ay, La Folleite vith a Dec. 2, 1911, when, the nature of har hluds«onlud talke away his dele- | iilness was discovered, The hody wi| | #8tes?—New York Herald. | be cremated, { P il g - — { Not All at the Zoo. / In Marope and Africa the eucalyptus ! Cincinnati zoo lkeepers have found tree is iu high favor eficlency in draining swamps so Al ik b tiat monkeys love toddy. So do some of thelr descendumts.—~Boston Heruid. | | ed which 1 said I would not refuse the |7° | peared in the Harrigan & Hart | York, who was temporarily attached Cabled Paragraphs Parié, March 3.—Mme, Casimier- Perier, widow of the ex-president of the republic, dled today. London, March 3.—Queen Mother Al- exandra, who has been suffering from an attack of influenza, is making a good recovery. Madrid, Spain, March 33.—The Mex- ican government has ordered 10,000 carbines from a rifle factory in the city of Oviedo, in the north of Spain. Tripoli, March 3.—The Arabs cele- brated the prophet's birthday by an attack on the Ghirgarish redoubt, but the Itallan fire easily dispersed them. Belfast, March 3.—The White Star lino steamer Olympic, which lost a blade from one of her propellers while on a voyage from New York for South- has gone into drydock for re- Liverpool, Eng.,, March 3.—The Cun- ard liner Mauretania sailed yesterday for New York on her first voyage since she grounded in the Mersey on De- cember 7, when she suffered consider- able damage. She has undergone a complete overhauling. | London, March 3—Mrs, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mrs, Tukes and Mrs, Mar- gliall, the three leaders of Iriday even- i window smashing campaign, by suffragettes almost succeed- ng the London trades- men, were vesterday sentenged each to two months’ imprisonment, Rome, March 2.—Mgr. Giolvanni Bonzanno, recently appointed apos- tolic delegate te ¢ho United § €8 ed titu'ar bishop of Mity. Merry del Val in » Propaganda college Bonzanno received many | iuded ‘4 gold cross nonds from the pope mp from the papal secre- was COns.e and a wold 1 WOMAN S8UFFOCATED IN NEW YORK FIRE. Score of Occupants of Boarding House Have Thrilling Escapes. New York, e woman | was killed and had thrilling | s today in a fire which partiy | a four-: ry Madison avenue a fashionable board- woman who lost her | 5. a_widow, 40 | 3 old, secretary of the Dutch Re formed church on Madison avenue, whosa body was discovered in her room | on the fourth floor. It is believed she | was xiated by smoke before the | flames reached D While the fire w a stairw man, who, although comrades from burning debris, was verely injured. The damage to buitding is estimated at $20,000. & Lo " 5 & £ & = h a fire- | his | SHOT MAN WHOM HE FOUND AT HIS HOME. reat Barrington Farmer Was Him- self Twice Wounded. | Great Barrington, Mass, March 3.— | police today identified the man s shot and killed by vivester | G . farmer, last night, as Laigi z . a laborer employed in the village. At first it was thought that | Love Lad been attacked by the man | home, but today crities learned that the farm- ed Cardel! after finding him In the encounter | was e and then suc- ir' wresting the weapon from | ailant and turning it upon him tal egect. Love was seriously but today the doctors gave ore of his recovery. His wife is held nder $500 bonds as a witne NINE IOWA COUNTIES FOR ied 3 President Shows Up as Big Favorite in Senator’s Own Stats. Des Moines, Towa lican conventions of eleven ith and sent out 2 nal dis- delegates for at the state and con- ntlons. ‘Twe county President Taft the instructed delegates for mins. Senator | OBITUARY. i, March 3.—Mrs. who has been old woms: tonight af! Annic nown as of the en on the d before audienc > world. She celebrat- birthday Nov. 19. Yeaman ¢ American he oldest actre: the and on distinction of being the only one whose birthplace wa e of Ma While she was a child her purénts moved to Australis, where she made her fArst appearance - behind the footlig as Julien, The Farmer's Daughter. She | married BEdward Yeamar circus { clown, who died in 1865. As a dancer and equestrienne she care in Dal o America 1865 and later joined the Augustin Stock company. She later ap- pro- ductions and in_the character part of T.1sh woman in Old Lavender, the Mul- n Guards and other farces achieved greatest fame. Harrison A. Austin. Held, Conn 3 Mareh hildren, Dr. Frank 1 than a fortnight ago. brothers were fifty years old. Rome, March teorge N. Oleott, a professor of Columbia university, New to the American school for classical studies in Rome, died last night from pneumonia, Richard P, Southgate. H Chicago, March 3.—Richard P. South- gate, veteran owner of hotels in Chi- cago, s residence hers | today from a general breakdown. | Suffragette Resorts to Torch, | London, March 3—A suffragette at- | tempted start a fire in a large hall | The woman carried a bun- | r and flimsy material soak- | tmd 1 3 by name, who entered the city and was | U. 8 Senator Crane with leading a | ed with paraffine into the public hall | raging simultaneously in various parts | trying to assist German friends, was | movement virtually “to disfranchiss @nd set it on fire near a counter. She!of the city. The soldiers broke into shot dead by looting soldiers. 1or- | the republican voters of the state,” by then smashed a plate glyse w mdow“lhu pryang mint. which was set on |eigners generally, however, were mnot | attempting the defeat of the presiden- and surrendered hergelf to the police. ! fire. ~Machinery to the value of many molested. al primary and preference bills, | diers. e | marched around the city as a show o Juarez tried today to force, They took the broad main ros ontribution of $100 from on which are many picturesque arches. into, who was conduct- New York, Montreal, Saratoga important streets fand St, Paul, died at bi; | dlers kept up a continual gunfire. The Norwich Men Representing Finance, the Law, Commerce Manufacturing, and Other Interests. i | 1r WILLIAM D. TiLLSON, | for §1,900, imports of cutlery | ricane in the . to ¥ buildings on Main street, ofLimestone, Me, ed at § Condensed Telegrams The Wets and the Drys clashed be- fore the senate sub committee on the judictary, The Government Has Instituted Suits 90. for undervaluation in Many Lives Have Been Lost and a umber of vessels wrecked in a hur- ores. A New York Jury Granted a divorce Allen Lawrence Story, Staniey crde, an actor, was named as co- Fire Yesterday Destroyed four frame in the center The loss is estimat- 000. The Jordan Bill for Referendum of wide prohibition was defeated 1 the Virginia Saturday. Il Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, declared the White ho 1 th ation Mexico v L could pe The President osta Fiica, Ri- cardo Jimin is kindly disposed the United States, bul Is not with the union. Clarence V. T. Richeson, u idea of a Central tence of death for the murder of . id to be losing his mind of brooding over hig un- ituation The Body of Lieut. Comman | Samuel B. Thomas, U.S.N., t Los A les Mayor Gaynor of New Yerk writton o letter to (Governor Di ommending h refusing (o par- I ae former va President Taft Has Issued a Procla- | £ g mation warning American Superintencent of the Central District Schools. to enter M co, and advising yi- nttiie o4 0T R i new to leave when conditions , threaten t become intclerable. Two Atacks . On Chihuahua REBELS RENEW FORENOON BAT- TLE AT NIGHT. 3,000 Foreign Tm@i in Gity LEGATION QUARTER AT PEKING| PATROLLED. { a Foote, home Maine, have c3 ard Cutting New Under the Will of Edwin Bancroft the v Haven hospital, the for destitute men and women the Goodwill farm for boys, in ill each receive $200,000, An Affection of the Heart, superin- ed by an acute tack of i was held by a_coroner aused nd Bishop Doane, head of the Episcoal OVER 100 EXECUTIONS |CLERGYMAN ARRESTED | i Tt i 4 "4 "2t which the i op Tounded, presente Six Women Among the Mutineers to|Jesuit Priest from United States De- Pay Death Penalty — Authorities Afraid to Execute the Soldiers. tained Until American Consul Inter- | t vened—Tws Americans with Salazai Peking, March .—Eight hundred 1 foreign troops patrolied the outskiris of the legation quarter for three hours today, but there were no disturbanc There are now 3.000 fore! Peking, and the natives feel thousand Japanese troops have been ordered from Port Arthur to Tien Tsin, | where there are only 1,500 foreign sol- | ighting was re- wed in Chihuhua at 7 o'clock tonlght, i to a telegsram received by a, one of the wealthy family the : who is a member ¢ blony here, The m letaiis of t ording to Senor A Morning Attack. message, not fuily authen- Over 100 Executed. . =, SRR e - t , but probably approximating ost ¢ S oops ¢ % 4 1§ Parst. of Jusn Bbl Kat's troops Ioft | tpe gruth, had it, that the forennon's heard on Saturday was caused by an =i = e then with telegrams to Sen the attack tonig , according to the attack of matineers on Tungchow, Teraza, retprned to | | which was occupied and sacked. ] homes of many of the nobles and princes in Peking have been looted. More than 100 executions have take REBEL REINFORCEMENTS. place. For the most part the victim _— were civilians and included six fe- Garrison at Juarez Leave to Join males. Apparently the authoriti Conivadoe: ot Chiltalhs afraid to execute the soldiers. i < Legations Support Yuan Shi Kai. The legations consider it judicic to support Ypan Shi Kai urest means of the general spirit of al comrades in the his opinion not be permitted to up- il scheme of reconstruc- mnsists of two old muz- set the tion. 200 More American Troops Arrive. modern cor- W0 newspaper | allowed to go with E. Z. Steever, mugcums and Dowling of Providence, he institution with an endowment fund of $100,000. Urusual Precautions Have Been aken by the New York customs au- heriti to guar the ari treasures £ rpont Morgan as they arrive uniry ries. The Consecration of R, , will take place Sts. Peter and Providence, of which n rector, on March 18. The Official Burial at Sea of the old tieship Maine, originally scheduled v aas nostponed until 15, on account of unexpected farch liticulty experienced in removiug the offerdam around the wreck, Plans for a Tour of England, ITre- and and Scotland by several hundred Am an boys during the summer va- ation this year are being made by ‘olin H. Livingston, head of the Boy Scouts in the United States. There is Great Surprise amongrel- tves of Harry G, Welch of New Iaven, over mews of his arrest in iainesville, Fla, on suspicion of be- conc ied in the murder of Dr. pencel re on Monday last. alingo, a New York Shoemaker, 1 small v paid with police be- s his refusal to meet the de- of Black Handers. His corpse found in his little shop, on a After Bsing Locked in a Room of a railway between Pekin; 1 Z Sf. Louis hotel for 35 hours, members he American troops here, | of i} o TR enth infant rd. i Hoes S ",‘;”“' B agree on a ve Arrowsn tion of the guard along | i, case wa Americana | s duty is i'd t heing par-{ fo . m, after twenty came attalion of the | qaye of tes and two of argu- although the, : Iy e MLl dohit ed a Maxim gun on a fla 2 P el o | = ¢ : tront of the engine, in case it : e sareready| The Government Has Instituted Suit be needed. The fact that a company | | of the Somerset ir Fen, eom At ot o ns enlisted to work | deployed b Unit e | the They are Samue:| ack e mutinous re m l:l‘.! X ity . G | on Ded its i o) : Drehin of Philadeiphia and T. C. Rich- . 1w is accepted here as evidence | J _ ol i ne that the forelgn powers will intervene Ardson of Lamar, Mo. Drebin fought| suit that it now controls & per cent, so far as it i3 necessary to keep up | “I&h :‘{'1‘-1 rrz;l;fan of the trade. communication along the railway from | ¢ hes; th the in- | t surrecto gen |agua, In the threw 1 he Peking to the sea. Americans Head Legation Guards. This afterncon detachments of from 50 to 150 each of the legation guarc Ment, in D 3 N @, and last ye: Yucatan for Gen- Curious throngs watched the foreign forces, which attracted more attention than the headless bodies which were come upon occasionally, sti'l unhurie: as a warning Americans hes Russians 1 mission church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, in Juarez. Father Pinto make 0 and is an Americ at the hes 3 RIOGTING AT TIEN TSIN Shops and Banks Looted and Numer- Peru, thousan a {ten yed night. [one of : ch h and pre- | quart cigh L. Wilson of cautions were taken as far as it was | Lincoln, Neb., has resiznei and here- possible to protect the residents from |after will devoie his time to evangel- harm. Between 9 and 10 o'clock in the evening the soldiers mutinied. They set fire to a number of buildings and {ism. green skbrub, No Disorders Over Coal Strike, London, March 3. he coal strike, he greatest in the histery of the ish isles, is markingitime over v featu f any disorder All negotia- seitlement have oking to The Liveliest of the Tariff Revision hts in the present session will be ‘ought this md ubway tachaigal homicide after his chil had been when lem Cherriss. 1 13.—Jerusalem fruit of a sesmali ever- used as a parlor deco- -ation, are believed to have been em- \delphia, the then began looting from house 10 |thousands of dollars was destroed. | Ploved oday by Mrs. ida Hose, 4 house. They were joined by the rab- | The looters entered the sflver stores [ X4 foid 8 o MCEES TOr EREmE Bos ble. The shops and banks in all the |after wrenching off the iron shutters S 2 3 ere looted and some £ thern were wrecked, To intimidate the populace, the sol- and even made holes in the walls. The | mint was utterly rojbed of everything perlable and the glound was strewn with empty cartridge clips and cases. The German consul despatched a, guard to protect the Germen residents in the city, composed chiefly of the en- gineering staff of he Tien Tsin-Pukow railw A German doctor, Schreater of h rattle of musketry could bs heard throughout the night, Only a few of the police remained loval, and they wers greatly outnumbered and power- less to suppress the disorders. No [fev than fourteen fires were 1 he ornamenta’ plant which yesterday was covered wil Jerusalem cherries, ad been entirely stripped. Attack on Senator Crane. Bostcn, March 3.—City Counellior Matthew Hale has beer sel2cted as the munager of the Rocsevelt campaign sett; AMr. ¥ € CLATES Massach om the European a8 bish- | he has| L | was no 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 Many Strikers Vote fo Return A CRISIS EXPECTED AT LAW- RENCE THIS MORNING. BIG FORCE OF PICKETS Industrial Workers Planning te | vent Mill Hands from Geing to Werk —Police and Militia Aleo Preparing. Lawrence, Mass, March 3,—A crigis the big textile strike inv8lving many (nousands of operatives in the | cotton and worsted mille in this cil: is expecied tomorrow whan the mill offer of*a minimum wage in- > of five per cent. will pect | effective, , Although the Industrial | Workers of the World have rejected | the cffer, the employes in the Arling- ton and Pacific muls who are affiliated | with the Central Labor union have voted to return to work. Five hun- | dred Ts representing all the + this city, and 200 mule spin rers algo voted it meetings today to return to their 8 tomorrow Industrial Workers' Demand. | _ The Industriul Workers of the World remain firm ir their originail demands, which include a fifteen per ocnt, advance, double pay for over time, the abelition of the premium svstem, the taking back of all strikers and the release from jail of strike { lcaders Jossph J. Ettor and Arturo M Giovannl, who are held for the grand jury on a murder charge, Large Force of Pickets. | Picket parties of mueh larger pre- | portiong than usual were planned for tomorrow by the Industrial Workers Men, chiliren and women have been to be on hand in the early preceding the opening of the | factories to endeavor to prevent the | mill hands from returning to work. | 'The main force of pickets will gather | near the Arlington and Pacific mills ! To Guard Against Trouble. To guard against possible eutbreak | and to prevent intimidation of return- | ing mill workers by the pickets, the | entire police force, including metropol- ; itan park police and special ofcers and the military companies, will go on duty tomorrow morning at five o'clock { end remain untll after the time of Lbeginning operations at the factories | at 6.43. 800 Italians to Do Pioket Duty. Hight hundred Italians, who were the | first of the operatives to go ou strike, | mot today and voted not to return to | the mills tomorrow. They planned to { remain up all the night to be readv for | early picket duty, and arrangements | were made to have a soup kitchen opened at 3 o'cloek in the faorning to furnish them with hot coffee, ON 'VERGE OF BLOWS. Congressman Berger Insults a Law- { rence Business Man. Washington, March between Representative Berger, | soclalist member from Wiscousin, and | Robert McCartney, a clothing mes | chant,- chalrman of the business men' | committee of Lawrence, Mass,, was th climax yesterday of the hearing bhe! by the house rules committeg on the resolution to authorize a federal ir vestigation of strike conditions in the Massachusetts mill town. Representa- tive Wilson of Itlinois, « memoer of the rules committee, stepped in be tween the vould-ba combatants in time to prevent actual hostilities, but in the mean time Mr. Berger had call ed Mr, McCarthey an “underling of the Wool trust,” and the latter had re- sented the refusal of the soclalist to discuss strike corditions with him. The Berger-McCartney imuroglie came just after the rules committes had adjourned its hearing until Mon- day. The committee room was crowd- ed with labor leaders, spectators and a large delegation of striking men, women and children from Lawrence. When Chairman Henry announced a postponement of the hearing until Monday, Representative Berger, who | was conducting the examination in be- haif of tbe shrinking strikers who ap | peared hefore the committee, sald: | “Mr. Chairman, ‘e have no funds to keep these children here until Mon- day. Who will pay their hotel bilis™* Chairman Henry regretted that there eporopriation available, At | this juncture x newspaper correspon- | dent suggested to Representative Wil. son of Pennsylvania, chairman of the | house Jabor committea, that the funds could be raised by “pasging tne hat.” | Mr, Wilson accepted the suggestion, | and several of the girl strikers hegan to meve about the room as the com- mittee adjourned, The hat-pas sinslly came to Postmaster Lewis 8§, Cox and Mr, McCartney of Lawrence, represcnting that municipality in the dispute. Mr. Cox dropped $1 in the hat % “Blood Money!” Berger Cries. “Here,” shouted Mr, Berger, rusa- ing toward the girl who held the hat, “give that mone: back We don't want it. It's blond money.” The girl returned the money to Mr. Cox. | “What do vou mean, sir? | Mr. MeCartney. “Get away from me. | to you. you it will ve the witne ta demanded 1 won't talk It I have anything to say to 1 handie you an Ter- when pouted Mr ger, b 1w in m & repres of the pu in erc I refuse to talk Mr. Berger st o walk eway Mr, Mclartney se the socialist > arm and cal nim to “abou fac ' ght as much money 28 you have and 1 ain as good as vou awg, sald Mr, M y won't stand £ And 1w said D his 1 Lawrente business mén and moving | up untii he was within six inches o his antagoni A8 both'm reseatative who had been aboul pushod his bulky form Dbetween the two belligerenis, aund warned them that thofe must be “no 1gnyng here,” “Who {8 that man?" asked Mr. W son, “1 don't kngw, except that he 1 an underhing of "the Wool trust!” Mr. Berger shouted, amid the general con- fusion, “and we wul have none of his money for these children.” Mutual friends .cd (he combatante Away as they muwnbled dire threats | and 4cowied at each other. . Steamahip Arrivals, At Glbraltar: March .3, Hamburg, from New York. At ‘Southampton: March & 8¢, Paul from New York

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