Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 16, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 66 NORWICH, CONN., COAL OPERATORS ISSUE STATEMENT — Condition of Mine Workers’ Does Not Warrant In- crease in Price of Coal to Consumers WAGE ADVANCE WOULD MAKE THAT NECESSARY No New Condition has Arisen Since 1909 to Justify Demands of Miners—Not Only Wages but Number of Working | Days has been Increased—No Expense has been Spared to Protect Employes’ Lives, They Say—Both Sides Firm. New York, March Mine Workers of America and the ymmittee of ten of the | operatcrs ended negotiations here today in a deadlock. Tonight both declare they are standing firm— niners for their demands of 20 cent rease in wages, recogmi- »f the . a shorter workda i ihe operators ar renewal of the pres- which will terminate 2 March Unless an asreement is reached by that date, ench side admits 180,000 hard-coal mi- | ners in Pennsylvania will then cease work, White Considers Case Hopeless. | there is the aslightest chance of | compromn before the automatic sus- pension of work on that date, it faled of expression today by either miners or operators, President John P. White of miners' organization and his | colloagucs said they considered the case ss, so far as the avoidance of a suspension is concerned, and pre- pared to return to thelr homes to- morrow. They will spend the twenty- four hours before their departure in marking time to afford the operators an opportunity to reconsider their de- cision. Both Sides Obdurate. The operators’ committee of ten, to whom the miners address today a re- sponse to the operators’ reply, received the reiterated demands by the miners without comment, further than they resretted the collierfes’ stand. After the sine die adjournment of the con- ference, George J". Baer, for the oper- | ators, notifled President White that | the eperators’ committee would meet the miners at any time; but that the operators regarded the miners’ pres- ent demands as quite impossible of concession. Mr. White replied that they were ecually impossible of modi- flcation, After the joint conference the executive committee and national officers of the miners’ organization held & brief meeting. Strike to Be Decided After March 25. They decided to abide by their de- mands and to hold another meeting tomorrow merning to deal with any phase of the situation which may come in the interval. At tomorrow's meeting, it is expected a statement in reply to the operators’ statement to- might will be issued. No formal strike will be declared, President White said until after the meeting of the committee in Cleveland March At that time the result of the | rence among the miners and op- erators in the bituminous flelds, sched- uled for leveland, March 20, will come before the committea. The bituminous miners have asked for a ten per cent. | increase in wages and the operators have offered in reply, to make a new sgreement reducing ten per cent, Bituminous Miners May Also Stril up ‘We expect to get the increase in L bituminous section,” Mr. White paid tonight, *“Should the unexpected | havpen, however, there is little doubt that the bitnminous men will also fa- vor a strike, or that the policy com- mittee would recommend such action. Of course, | cannot forecast that, as | the v committee is composed of delegates from each of the twenty- five districts in the United States and Canada. In any event, the poMcy committee will probably deal with the anthracite situation for the best interest of the whole -organization. Likewise, a general suspension of work in the anthracite flelds will automat- feally go into effect April 1 unless a new agreement is reached.” Would Have to Advance Coal Prices. In 2 statement to the publie ed tonigh the anthracite o h through their committee, reiter: e declaration that they cannot adyance wages unless recouped by means jof an_ advance in prices of coal to the public, which they do not copaider warranted by anything m tne Con@i- tion of the mine workers, undég, 15.—The United |Present agreement. anthracite | | clining to ~modify their demands. The statement | says: | Statement of the Operators. “The c:mmitiee of the antbracite operators have today met the repre- sentatives of the anthracite mine workers in conference, and have re- ceived from them a forimal answer de- n order that the public may have with- ot delay a fuil understarding of our attitude, we unite in issuing the foi- lowing statement: Conditions Unchanged Since 1909. “We claim for the award of the strilke commission no more than this: That the commission prosecuted for months @ conscientious and painstak- ing inwestigation of the problems pre- sented to it; that, by the terms of its appointment, the object of its award was ‘to establish the relations between the employers and the wage earners in the anthracite region on a just and permanent basis’; that nothing was advanced in tne conference of 1906 and 1909 to cast doubt upon the wi dom of the award, and no new condi- tion is now brought forward, nor have the facts and issucs then covered since been changed. Have Provided Every Safeguard. linor modifications and additions have been made, some at the request of the mine workers, and others have been effected by the operators upon their cwn initiative, The operators have always stated, and today again assured the mine workers’ committee, that they were ready to meet them and to give consideration to any sug- gestion urged by them. The strike comumisslon took into consideration the hazards of the business and so stated in its award. Moreover, it is known that the anthracite owners have not spared care nor expense in affording protection to mine workers. Not only bave they provided the best equip- ment and safety devices but they have done and gre doing more to educate their employes than is done in other industries. The government of the United States has accepted the stand- ards established by the amnthracite op- erators, for the purpose of carrying omn its work' in that direction. Work Less Than Eight Hours. “The anthracite business, unlike the bituminous, is a mixed industry. The production is the work of the miner, who works lsss than eight hours a Aay. The manufacturing is conducted at the Lreakers in the preparation of the several sizes of coal for the mar- ket. The miners in the anthracite re- gion do not work longer hours than do those employed in the bituminous mines, Whiie it is conceded that the cost of living has increased, it must be remembercd that the agvance in wages awarded to the mine workers by the strike commission was based upon tho then existing conditions. An Increase of Working Days. tunity for work, 165 days in the year, as shown by the average figures for the perfod from 1897 to 1901. Since then the opp:rtunities for work have steadily increased, until in the year 1911 shere were 2¢0 days. In addition to the twenty-six and four-tenths per cent, increase in the rate of wages in the year 1911 over the year 1900, thare was an increase of 45 per cent. in the number of working days, so that the mine workers had the opportunity to that extent to incredse further their earnings. Not Fair to Public to Advance Wages. “We again emphasize the statement that it is impossibie for the operators to advance wages unless they can in some manner realize from the sale of the coal prgduced a sum equal to increase ages. It is not possibie to increa: e price of the steam es on acfount of the competition of fuminous coal, and it does not seem and there would appear to be nothing ingthe condition of the mine workers th warrant the advance in .g,}:e public.” SENATORS DISCUSS PENSION LEGISLATION. Suggestion That They Forfeit Mi and Free Shaves to Aid Soldiers ngton, March 15—Pension Jegislation was before the senate today | and prompted government o the ous suggestions for economy which veterans more liberal allow- or McCumber critized the house I dollar-a-day bill, comtend- it was based on erropeous and would add $86,500,000 to reports the pension expenditures while the senate Smoot bill would add only | $83.000.000 a vear. Senator Pomere- ne, of Ohio, attacked the Sherwood measure and argued that the Smoot bill would grant every dollar that the government could afford to pay. Senator Kenvon of Jowa, suggested that the money for pension incremses might be raised by his bill to reduce tke milage allowances to senatore and representatives and abolish the senakd barber shops and baths, Senator Brown of Nebraska recalled that there | was a bill to abolish the senate it- gelf as a matter of economy. “1f we continue to plle up expendi- replicd Senator Pomerene, when the senate may come abolished.” CHILD'S DEATH DUE TO THROWING SHOES. Little Fellow’s Skull Fractured When One Rebsunded From Ceiling. ..Phiiadelphla, March 15—Bernard Adelman, 11 years old, died in a hospi- tal here today from a fracture of the skull recelved in a pecaliar manner. The boy with his brother Samnuel, 16 years old, was amusing himself in bed at his home by throwing shoes against the celling of the.room and catching them on the rebound. One of the shoes struck Bernard on the head. His mother carried him to a hospital where he lasped into uncensciousness might | the price TWENTY YEARS FOR A DOUBLE MURDERER. Charles E. Baker Not Greatly Moved by Sentence Imposed. Schenectady, N. Y.» March Charles Edward Baker, was | guilty of murder in the second degree today on the charge of killing Norman Briggs near Northville, Fulton county, | October 24 last. Baker was immediate- |1y sentenced by Justice H. T. Kellogg {to a minimum of twenty years fm- | prisonment. at Dannemora. The youth | accepted the verdict stolcaliy. Baker also killed John Pollock, a mounted 15 capjure. TO HALF MAST FLAGS IN MASSACHUSETTS. | Respect to Battleship Maine During Time She is Being Sunk. Boston, March 15— Governor Foss issued a proclamation today directing that flags on all public buildings In the state be displayed at half staff from ynoon until sunset tomorrow during | which the time the battleship Maine Iis to be sunk off the coast of Cuba. Steamship Arrivals. At Rotterdam: March 14, Campanel- lo, from New York At Harve: March 15, La Bavoie, from New York. At Plymouth: March 15, Amerika, | from New York | $1,500,000 to Improve Roadbed. { Minveapells, March 1i.—Annoupce- ment was made today that the Chica- g0, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway will ¢pend $1,600,600 in Improving its road- bed in the northwest. Episcopal Church Burns, Atlantic City, N. J, March 15—St. James Protestant Episcopal church in this city was burned today. Loss $60,- Among these was the lirvited oppor- | found | +| on the tracks of the New York, New policeman, in phe fight preceding his | Navigation on the Connesticut River has been resumed for the season. Dr. Edmund K. Goldsborough, physi- sian_and auther, died at his heme in Washington. The Hudson River was Opened for navigation as far north as Kingston, | N, Y., yesterday. ‘The Washington and Baltimere Tran- sit Company’s lines were sold at auction for $20,000, Mahlon Pitney, the New Associate Jjustice of the supreme court, will prob- ably take the oath of eoffice Monday. Rear Admiral John M., Bowyer, re- tired, former superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolls, died at Tampa, Ila., yesterday. | Maria McGowan, a Trained Nurse of Springfield, Mass., committed suicide yesterday by jumping from a ferrybeat in the Kast river, New York, The House Committes on Inter-8tate Commerce yesterday decided to favor- ably report the Sims bill, which would abolish the court of commerce. Acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cable issued warrants of depor- tation for 21 Chinese who had at- tempted to land at Oakland, Cal. The Countess of Warwick was a caller at the White House yesterday, being introduced to President Taft by Representative Levy of New York, Three Convicts in the Nebraska pen- ifentiary at Lancaster shot and killed the warden, deputy warden and a cell- keeper, affer which they escaped. The Worumbo Manufacturing Com- pany of Bath and Lisbon Falls, Me., announces an advance in wages of five percent to go into effect immediately. Schedules in Bankruptey of the Di- amond Importing Company of No. 71 Nassau Street, New York, show liabil- ities of $131,168 and assets of $82,181. It Is Believed By Waterbury, Conn., Italians that Antonio Dalba, the would- be assassin of King Emanuel of Italy, resided in Waterbury up to two years ago. King Alfonso of Sp: Issued a de- cree restoring the infante Alfonso his titles of which he had been deprived for guarrying without the King's per- mission. Commissioner of Corporations Knox submitted a report urging the develop- ment under government control of re- malining water power sites on the pub- lic domain. An Order Inviting the Canadian Pa- cafic railroad to extend its lines to Boston, was.reported in the Massachu- setts House yesterday by the commit- tee on railroads. An Increase of About 3.7 Percent in the wages of the 600 operatives em- ployed in "thé mills of the Stevens Linen Corporation at Webster was an- nounced -yesterday. E Walter B. Vincent, a Prominent Providence lawyer was yesterday elect- by the legislature an asociate justice of the supreme court, to succeed the late Justice John T. Blodgett. The Presidential Preference Prinfary bill was enacted by the Massachusetts senate yesterday at the afternoon ses- sion and immediately laid before the governor for his approbation. The International Harvester Com- pany, is preparing plangf or dissolu- tion to meet the government's con- tention that the company is violating | the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Four Men Are Dead, Several Missing and one seriously injured as the result of a smew slide that swept down on the Black Bar mine near Telluride, Col. The slide carried away nine buildings. Conductors, Brakemen and Baggage- | men, employed on Michigan branch | Unes of the Grand Trumk railroad have received notice that on April 1| their wages will be reduced to the | scale of 1911. The Strike Fever Prevailing in a number of factory towns has infected the boys employed in the finishing rooms of Farr alpaca mill No. 2 at Hol- yoke. The boys demand an advance of 10 per cent. United States Senator Robert M. La | Follette of Wisconsims announcedy yes- terday that he would campaign Ne- braska, Oregon and Washington in April previous to the presidential pref- | erence primaries in those states, A Grand Jury Yesterday in Brooklyn found an indictment of murder in the first degree against-Winifred Ankers, | a hospital attendant, who was arrested | for kiling infants by putting an acid in | their milk. Nine deaths resulted. The Retail Coal Dealers Association | of New England yesterday voted | down a proposition to postpone until | May 1 the spring schedule of lower prices for coal and the usual changes | are expected to go Into effect on | April 1. ! | Was Cut Off from all | | Newport, R. 1 | railroad communication by a three inch rainfall yesterday. A washout Haven and Hartford Railroad stopped all train service between Nowport and | Middletown. Aviator Charles K. Hamilton claims | to have established a new American biplanerecord by his 33-minute flight between Sacramento and Maryville, Cal,, a distance of 43 miles. He made | the trip at an average speed of 78.9 miles an hour. | The Removal of Judge Jeremiah J. | Makoney of the Lawrence, Mass., court, and the pardoning of the thirty five strikers serving sentences for in- timidation were urged yesterday by a upon Gov. Foss. Fifteen Thousand Dellars in Cur- ! renoy was taken from the registered | mail ponch on the Arizena and New | Mexico Rallroad at Clifton, Ariz., Tues- day. The money .was consigned from | E1 Paso to the Detreit Copper Co,, at Morenci, ' | The Leaders of the Movement to se- cure a commission form of government for Meriden anngunced yesterday that they had secured thus far a total of 1.180 names to the petitlon which is being circulated , or in the neighbor- hood of one-sixth of the voting pop- ulation. Bank Exchanges This Week at all leading cities in the United States, as reported by Dunn's Review, aggre- gate $2,333,681,927 an increase of 3.5 per cent as compared with the same week last year, but a loss of 12.9 per cent compared with the corresponding week in 1910. 2 committee from Lawrence who called | ATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1 12 Condensed Telegrams [Denielson Men Representing Finance, the Law, Com- and Other Interests. merce Manufacturing Danielson. W X 2 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Pr. .don to the City’s Population — Resignation of PURE FOOD CHAMPION LEAVES His W. Wiley left the laboratories of the | Dr.H. W. Wiley GOVERNMENT SERVICE. ACT DUE TO FRICTION Activities Restricted and Was Kept in Contact With Those Who Planned His Destruction, He Says. Washington, March 15.—Dr. Harvey bureau of chemistry tonight, where for 29 years he had been chief chemist, no longer a government official, but deter- mined to champion the cause of pure food from the ranks of the people. Friction with his supporters and irre- the enforcement Dr, Wiley for handing his resignation to Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture. Dr. Wiley's Future Intentions. Dr. Wiley will devote the remainder of his life, according to a statement issued by him toiday, to the “promo- tlon of the principles of civic right- eousness and industrial Integrity which underlie the food and druss act, in the hope that it may be adminis large, instead of that of a compara- tively few mercenary manufacturers tered in the interests of the people at I LEPER GIVEN A GOVERNMENT JOB. Unfortunate Man Given Charge of An- other Leper. &Vashington, March 15—John Early, the leper over whom the scientists cf one hemisphere havesdisagreed, will ns | longer be shipped about the country in | box' cars. President Taft, Secretary MacVeagh and Surgeon General Blue of the pub- | lic halth service have found for him a | position at the Point Diamond quaran - t tine station near Port Townsend, Wash-. Here he will take care of | Andrew Grover, a leper over whom | there is no dispute. Early’s case has been a pitiful one. | Because sclentists disagreed he was isolated in one city, then shipped across the continent in a box car, and has never been able to earn money enough to support his family. He has a honorable discharge from the army, ' and_besides his pension will get a small salary at Port Diamond. STORM DELAYS TRAFFIC ON AIR LINE DIVISION | | Wind Blows Poles Down ang | Landslide Buries the Tracks. { | Bast Hampton, Conn., March 15— Traffic on the Air Line division of they! New York, New Haven and Hartford | Railroad was held up for several hours tonight because of the rain and wind | storm of the early evening. Six tel | egraph poles east of Lyman’s Viaduct | were blown down and a train known as | the “Black Diamond” running between | Middletown and Westchester, ran in- | to one of the poles, smashing the | windows in the engine cab. An east- | bound passenger train from New Haven was held up near a cut at Co- balt where a landslide had covered the tracks to the depth of two to four feet with dirt and Tocks. In this town and the surrounding country roads were badly washed. 1 THE DAY IN CONGRESS. Railroad Official Opposes Bristow. Bill | Before Committ: Washington, March 15—The day in | congress. | Senate: H In session 2 p. m. Grain dealers advocated before inter- state commerce committee legislation ruaking railroads liable on bills of lad- ng. Vice-President Sowerin of Pacific Malil Steamship company, opposed be- 1 fore inter-state commerce .committee Bristow bill to prohibit railroads from having any interest in steamship com- panies. House: Met at noon. Debate on free sugar bill resumed. Representative Sabath introduced another workmen's compensation bill and attacked bill recommended by em- ployers’ liability commission. | Committee on inter-state commerce | decided to favorably report Sims’ bill to abolish commerce court. . When an advertisement is written right its efficiency is greatly increased if it is set up right; but no printer can set it up right if he | President of Lawrence Trust Company | | for the strikers agreed to submit books { Lawrence Trust company, stated that | | visited the new excavations which he | which is granted only to the most | visits of King George and Queen Mary HOW 1O MAKE ADVERTISEMENTS ATTRACITIVE E ABOUT $40,000 DEPOSITED 1 FOR LAWRENCE STRIKERS. « Testifies Regarding It. Boston, March 15—The contyoversy | over the fund for the Lawrence strik- ers, was practically compromised in | the supreme court today, when at the | suggestion of Judge Hammond counsel | | u e and vouchers for examination in Law rence. Charles J. Corcoran, president of the an account was opened January 23rd by the Industrial Workers of the World, Local No. 20. The amount de- posited in January was $3,557.60, in February, $15,658.65 and in March up | to the 13th $20,773.21. All of the fund had been checked out except 49 cents, In February, Joseph A. Bedard, sec- retary of the strike committee open- ed a personal account with $10,800. On the same day he obtalned a cashier's check for that amourt and deposi it with the account of the Indus! Workers of the World, were Judge Hammond suggested that 'l parties agree to an examination of the books | and vouchers in Lawrence. | It was intimated by counsel for the | strike committee, that the fund was general in its nature, and that when contributions were sent, no particular purpose Was specified as to show ow it should be used. The books und vouchers will be examined and a repcrt made to the court next Tuesday. Notices were posted at the Everett mill today announcing the re-opening of the plant Monday morning and an increase in wages for both day and | piece workers, of about 7 1-2 per cent., effective at that time. The Everett mill em, t! el b¢ [ t t T T ployes 2,200 cp- | | eratives. Cabled Paragraphs : Manlla, March 15—W. Cameron‘ Forbes, governor general of the Philip- | pin left here today for the United | States on a vacation. St. Petersburg, March 15—For'ty five miners were kiled as the result of a| gas explosion in the shaft of a coal mine at Uzoka, province of Saratov, today. Naples, March drove today 15—J. P. Morgan to Pompeii, where he declared were among the most im- portant discoveries of late years. London, March 15—King George has conferred the coveted Order of Merit eminent persons in any walk of life on Sir Joseph Thomson, the great sel- entist. London, March 15—All the prdjected to forelgn courts have been abandoned for this year. 'The change in the royal program is attributed officially to the coal strike, 1 tl Taft for exonerating him last summer relative to alleged irregularities in em- I8 Dr, Wiley remarks, however, that hough he was continued in his posi- 0n after that ineident, he nuturally | nim to be engaged in the manufacture | | of misbranded and drugs. © found that the activities pertaining to its consideration and referred either to | jother bodies not contemplated by the| jlaw or directly relieved from further | sult of which I have been pectations in this m: determine to le: % Ly PLOTS AGAINST LIFE evidence exists here that the attempt made ves- King Victor Emmanuel was the out- come of a plot arranged some time ago. The Italian minister at Berne recently notified tha government that he had been informed of a plot against Minister Marquis dl 8an Guiilano, and gave the nagnes of the anarchists con- cerned in the affair, Geneva reported thet an anarchist plot agafinst Premier Giol nd dealers” President Taft Expresses Regret. | President Taft expressed regret at | the resignation. Secretary Wilson said | Dr. Wiley had been “a valuable man." | Dr. Wiley thanks Mr. Wilson in his| tatement for “the personal kindress | and regard shown him,” and likewise | xpresses his gratitude to President loying Dr. H. H. Rusby of New York. | pected that “those who had made | e charges” would be dismissed. | His Activities Restricted. { Dr, Wiley speaks in his statement| the “Interests” which were found by | or adulterated foods | “One by one,” says Dr. Wiley, “T| he bureau of chemistry were restrict- d, and various forms of manipulated 00od products were withdrawn from | ontrol. | Even His Speech Restrained. “The official toleratjon and valida- fon of such practices have restricted | e activities of the bureau of chem- try to a very narrow field, as a res- instructed | o refrain from stating in any public way my opinion regarding the effect | of these substances upon health. This estriction has interfered with my aca- | demic freedom of speech on matters elating directly to the public welfare,” | His Enemies Retained Pesitions. | Regardng those who brought the al- | summer, Dr. Wiley says: 1 naturally expected that those who had made these false charges against me would no longer be continued in a| Bridgeport in which Motorman Arthur | post tion of such action possible. Thelevent, | broken leg. He was taken to & Bride- he jon which would make a repeti- ver, has not sustained my ex- | ter. 1 was still truction.” | Feeling Growing for Six Years. Dr. Wiley explains that he did not ve the government ser- ice until two days ago, but for near- | six years there had been a growingl| nces between his superiors and him- self were irreconcilable,” and that 1ie | he amputated. had been “consclous of an official en- | vironment which was essentially in-| he wiil not submit Lo the Operation. ospitable. Dr. W has not yet decided whem:‘ er he will continue his efforts for pure foods in the lecture fleld or as a writs | er or editor of household magazines. | Doolittle on His Job. Until his successor is chosen, Dr. R# Rumors of Them Have Been Afloat ' | skarts. Since Last January. Rome, March 15.—Although positive is lacking. a strong suspicion | erday by Antonio Dalba to assassinate he king, Premier Giolitti and Foreign On January 20, the Ttalian consul at King Victor Fmmanuel and fitti had been arranged | express car on acocount is space-bound. He must have room; white paper has all to do with making leading lines effective. Space crowded with fine type is never attractive, although under some circumstances it may be effective. The advertiser who wants to get all he can for his money in written words sacrifices the impressive values of'contrasts and striking displays, mere list of goods is never a good advertisement. price of goods are what interest the prospective buyer, and they en- able him to compare and copclude, which direct his trade. A The quality and The ad- vertisement which has to be looked up is not as effective as the an- nouncement which sticks out oris gelf evident; but whatever the space taken it should present in good form what buvers want to know. With the advertisement fitting the space and effectively appealing to the reacers there is no reason’why every pay. The price of spa Builetin rate card an small quantities. Now the palitical news of this door for 12 cents a week. Sy vear, Totll o, oo i 492 the time to subseribe for The Buy Following is a summary of the news prin advertisement The printer usually knows how 1o do his w will furnish space—just give him the opportuni depends upon the amo: tamiliarize yourself w nt 'w 703 h its cost should not rk if the advertiser nted. Send for a In large or t will contain all ing the past weekt 1895 3070 there by unjon and progress.at Constantinople. At the end of January another report received here gave the names of two Turks who were alleged to be impli- cated in the plot, Tascu Piocerea, aged 40, a Macedonian agitator, and Nicho- las Tacito, aged 38. Later there was considerable movement by anarchists a'ong the Italian frontier, In addition, the Italian embassy at otified the government that an engineer informed the em- that while in a beer Lail he partiy in bassy overheard a aenversation, Italian and partly indfrench, between ez individuals, whe said they would leava for Ttaly at the beginning of THe Bulesin March and make an attempt to as- 3 durl | sassinate the king from = window, Ac- | cording to the engineer the men said Bulletin Telograpp Local Genera/ Toial ;‘\“L:s,“d receiys 320,000 it SNy e Saturday, - March 9, 73 100 876 1049 T OBITUARY, . Menday, March 11. 99 120 210 428 §i° s~ ot Tuesday, March 12, 87 . 131 190 408 ||, stinncaotts, 3 Wednosday: ~Margh133+ 88 ° 121 “.7201 + 400 flats tiominens matn compat Thussday,”- “March 44,776~ 414 242 - ., 433> |l one et otny of Heavt meommier Friday, March 15. 69 108 176 353 ]| Bogus Check Worker at New Haven. New Haven. March Irank Bates, ! who says his home is in Hacketts- town, N. J., was arrested in the Mer- | chants National Lank lale today as he Wus trying (o cash a check which authorities allege ls frauduient. Iocal anarchists who wera alded by members of the committee of 'The Maine to Be Sunk Today ROSES TO DOT WATER AS SME DISAPREARS. TAPS WILL BE SOUNDED Caskets of 34 of the Explosion Victims Lie in Stats at Palace—To B Brought North This Afternoen, Havana, March 15-—The hulk of the battleship Maine wil be sent to its last resting place at the bottom of the sea three miles off the Cuban coast tomor- row afterroon. Roses from the deok will dot the*waters as it sinks, taps will be sounded and the crulser North ‘arolina wili point her prow northward concillable differences of opinion as to| Lo bring home the last of the bodies of the pure food and | 0. drugs act were the rpasons given by Maine was blown up 'n Havana harbor the me:u who met death when the on the night of February 15, 1898, Final Arrangements Made The final arrangements for the burial of the Maine were made this after- noon when shortly after sundown the hulk was drawn through a breach in the ceffer dam and securely moored 1o the outer wall. Coskets Lie In State At two o'clock this afternoon the public will be admitted to view the 34 plain caskets containing the remains of* 65 members of the crew of the Maine, which lay in state in the muni cipal council chamber of the palace converted for the purpose into an im- posing mortuary chapel. The walls were draped with black and at the upper end of the chamber a giided altar blazed with innumerable wax candles in tali siiver stands. The caskets were rarged around the walls of the room vered with black and draped with Curan and American ensigns. Military Honors to Rsmains The lying in stete will continue te- night and until ten o'clock tomorrow morning, when the caskets, each borne on the shoulders of six Cuban soldiers and sailors will be carried to the Cabs Wharf between lines of soldiers presenting arms. At the head of this procession will be President Gomez. Funeral Oration by Maine's Chaplain At the wharf Mayor Decarenas will | fomally present the bodies to Brigadier General W. H, Bixby, chief of the engineer corps of the TUnited States army who will make a response. After this a funeral oration will be delivered by Father Chidwick, who was chaplain of the Maine at the time of the dis- aster. Caskets to Be Shipped on Cruiser These ceremonies are expected to end by noon and the Ccaskets then transported to the United States States crulser North Carolina, which with the scout cruiser Birninghss is expected here early in the morning. MOTORMAN'S LEG BROKEN IN COLLISION IN STORM Refuses to Allow Leg to Be Amputated And May Die, Milford, Conn.,, March 16—A heavy rain and wind storm of the early ewen- legations of which he was exonerated | ing played havoc with the trolley car service here and was responsible for a colilsion between a passenger oa&r and an express car between here and Stephen of the passenger recelved a port hospital. A tree blown down by the wind left to come into daily contast With| cqused the first delay in traffic hers | the men who secretly planned my de-|and later came the collision, Motor- man Stephen not being able to see the of the rain. In Bridgeport Hospital Bridgeport, Conn,, March 15—Steph- en the motorman whose leg was brok- en in a trolley collision at Milford | fecling in his mind “that the differ-| tonight, was brought to a local hos- | pital and refused to allow his leg to The attending physi- cian says that he will ose his life if Many Washouts at Seymour, Seymiour, Conn, March 16.—A d and rain storm which passed over here late today washed out roads and piled sand and dirt on troiley tracks, caus- ing the derailment of two well loaded cars. E. Doolittle will act as chief of the| 3405 Blown Down at New Haven. bureau of chemistry. New Kaven, March 15.—Heavy wind and a hard rain visited- this section late today, blowing down trees and washipg mud and dirt on the trolley tracks, the latter causing the derall- ing of several trolley cars on the out- $1,000 Damage by Storm at Meriden, Meriden, March 15— Every road and path in Hubbard park has suffered from weshouts and he expense of re- pairs will cost §1,000. Meriden was on the border line of n water famine six nonths ago, but today one ef the city's reservos overflowing and the other ihree have nearly capacity supply. DIRECT PRIMARIES IN RHODE ISLAND es to Demooratic National Cen. vention to Be So Eleoted. Del, Providence, R. arch 15.—A pre= posal to elect delegates to the demo- cratic national ccnvention by dircet primaries was carried in spits of op- position at a largely attenfed meeting 5 the stats central committes today. The primaries will be held in all parts of the state on May &1, when ten deie- gates and ten altarnates will be elect, ed at large by the democratic voters, AMERICAN FORT NOT IMPREGNABLE it Can Be Vaken from Rear.- attle, Wash, Maych ‘Worden, the sirongest d7 th fonse works which guerd the «ut td Poget sound, can be taken rom rear, This-was demenstratad whe! artillery companies stationcd fort gham Hattie i