Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 28, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV—No. 77 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1912 INFAMOUS METHOS TO DEFEAT HIM Roosevelt Tells Chicago Audience That Opponents Are Resorting to Fraud and Trickery SAYS NEW YORK PRIWARIES WERE A FARCE Election Machinery, He Declares, Was Used as Unscrupulous- ly as in Days of Tweed—Effort to Have Another Primary in New York—Colorado gates For Taft—Wilson Chicago, March 27.—Colonel Roose- velt's most stinging campaign speech thus far was delivered here tonight. He lashed his opponents and charged s#ome of them with using fraud and irickery to defeat him. Colonel Roose- velt said it was a fighting speech. , It was delivered before a throng which packed the auditorium and cheered him enthusiastically. The primaries in New York yesterday furnished the text for his speech and he cited a number of instances in which he said his opponents resorted to wrong prac- tices to defeat him. Charges Use of “Infamous” Methods. He expressed bellef that in the great majority of districts of the country the people were with him and that the opposition was trying to de- feat him by methods which he char- acterized as “infamous.” Part of Col- onel Roosevelt's speech was devoted to "big business.” He opposed “our present policy of chaos,” and gave his own ideas of the methods which should be pursued to {nsure strict regulation of large corporations. Greeted by Great Crowds. Chicago gave the former presicont a lively welcome. Crowds cheered him at the station when he arrived and whenever he appeared during the nine houss of his stay hers, The auditorium was large enough to hold only a part of those who sought admission. Chough two other meetings were held, many persons who wished to hear Colonel Ruosevelt were unable to do 80. Greeted With Cheers. Two hours before the auditorium was opened a crowd had gathered at the docrs. A line of persons four abreast was formed and grew steadily until it extended for two blocks in cach direction. When Colonel Roose- velt entered the bullding the people rose with a cheer, For two minutes the cheering continued and during his speech he wag frequently Interrupted Ly epplauge. He said in part: “Are the People to Be Bullied?” “The fundamentai issue in this fight i an issue of honesty, decency, fair play. Have the people the mght to rule? Have the masses of the re- publican party, the rank and file, the piain people in whom Abraham Lin- coln trusted tho right to express thetr” will as to who the nominee for presi- dent shall be? Or are they to be builied and defrauded out of that right and is the nomination to be en- | trusted to the representatives of po- litical and financial privilege, the rep- resentatives of the powers of pillage, the men who, with the backing of big crooked business, Jowest kind of political machinery and count on the silence, or support, of cvery newspaper that is owncd or con- trolled by, or directly or indirectly respeneible to these great financial powers that work in the darkness. More Important Than Ordinary Party ! Fight. “Now, I am using strong language, because only strong language will ds scribe the facts as® they usually are; T shall give detail This is not an ordinary factional’ fight. It is far mere important even than any ordi- nary party fight. ‘The issue is in substance whether *he American peo- ple are fit and able to govern them- selves or whether they ere to be gov- erned Dby those machine politicians whose close alliance with the worst forms of big business has produced nine-tenths of the corruption and gcandal of American public life” “Infamous Methods.” Colonel Roosevelt said that in many perts of the country the opposition was counting for success on “methods 1 which 1 can only characterize as in- mous." He asserted that President ‘2ft had ocommitted himself to the flocirine of the rule of the people by *a representative part of the people.” “Ir. pursuit of this theory of govern- ment,” he continued, “the president's rolmcal fortunes are now committed o the political machines in the vari- pus states which are led and con- glled by men ‘ike Mr. Tawney in innesota; Mr. Keeling in Indiana; Llr. Penrose in Pennsylvania; Mr., ‘Ballinger in Washington; Messrs. Koe- «pig and Barnes In New York: Mr, Uinger in New Hampshire; Messrs, Buggenheim and Evans in Colorado; [r. Aldrich In Rhode Island; Mr. x fn Ohio and Mr, Lorimer in IHi- g. These are the men, who, when theory is carried in| actual prac- | ‘tepresertative | ar* of the paople which is to govern | ce, appear as thai e rest of the people.”” New York Primaries a Farce. Oelane! Roomevelt then turned to primary election in New York ves- ¥y to substantiaie his charges. e peferred ino Samuel Koenig, chairman ®f the New York county republican ecmmittes, as a “figurehead,” “Before the election fook place,” the speaker continued, “I denounmced i< @ a criminal farce, bhecause under the wicked law which had been thrust npoen New York by the machines of the two parties, Mr. Koenig had beon given the right to name all the in- rpectors al the primary election in the wounty of New York and had aiready wmed that right to throw out over a fundred of the inspectors simply be- ecause it was known that they were supperting the Roosevelt ticket, Charges a Trick Ballot, “Rvery inspector kept was an anti- t man. Now, [ ask you your- R + selves, 10 think what such conduct yssans. Tn meny of the districts the ballote were so printed that twe or thres feet of blank space was left under the Roossevelt embloin and the wvoters did not understand that what was below was the Roosevelt ticket at el Never Got Any Ballots at All, *“On twe of the huge baliots the Roosxevelt delegates were at the bot- tom of the ticket and the ballots were folded in such a way as to make it practically impessible fer the veters 1o refold them in case they opened tbsm up in erder to find where the Reorevelt delegates were. The Inde- yendence league men never got any Yallote at all 1n many of the electibns districts throughout the city. In short, the elastion machinesy was used as sasorwpulovsiy w4 in Lo days ef work through the | Convention Elects Eight Dele- Opposed by a Combination. Tweed, names of Rooseveit delegates were left off the, ballots, ballots were misprinted, were folded in such a way as to feaze voters, Taft's Concord Speech. “In his speech at Concord, President Taft, according to a stenographic re- pert forwarded to me by Governor Bass, spoke as follows: ““It is said that I distrust the peo- ple because I said that under impulsive action they may do wrong., I do. I think so. Don't you?” This was said in commenting on my proposal con- cerning giving the people the right to judge for themselves what their inter- pretation of the constitution in cer- tuln.eases may be, But the president’s words, of course, have a far wider ap- | pication. When he, with whatever | good intentions, keeps dwelling upon nis Gistriust of popular action, his disbelief in action by the people them- selves, it is natural that his lieutenants | should feel that they have a free hand | in trying to thwart the wishes of the pecple” ANOTHER PRIMARY., Roosevelt Committee Chairman Wants ! One in New York, New York, Maréh 27. primary in New York characterized as a “farce” by ( rles 1, chairman of the Rooseve committee in the city of New Yor and after he had conferred with Roosevelt leaders he appealed today to Governor Dix to declare the primary invalld and provide for a second pri- mary. Samuel 8. Koenlg, chairman of the republican county committee, and ‘Willlam Barnes, Jr., chairman of the republican state committee, both ex- press the opinion that a second pri- mary would be illegal. Governor Lacks the Power. Albany, N. Y., March —(overnor Dix has no power to call another pri- mary election in New York, as the question is ons which the legislature coun was and courts must deal with. This is the subject of an opinion given by , Governor Dix tonight by Attorney General Carmody. CONFUSION OVER BALLOTS. Forty-two of 835 New York Election | Districts Still Missing. New York, March 27.—Tonight's re- i r New York county showed no material | change {rom the figures as announced last night. Forty-two out of th election districts were stfll missi night, owing in some instances io the confusion over pallots. The retur as made public at the republican coun- ty committee headquarters gave the | following total for the 138 congressional | districts of the city: | _Republican orzanization, 31,111; Roosevelt opposition, 12,262; organiza- | tion plurality, 18,849; total enrolled | republican voters, 89,640; total votes | ocast, 43,373, COLORADO FOR TAFT. iz i Eight Delegates 2t Large Instructed for Him by Convention. Colorado Spr Col., March 27— The state republican convention here today selected eight delegates at large to the national convention, instructed them for President Taft, adopted res- | olutions endorsing the Taft admints- tration and chose United States Sen- ator Guggenheim as national commit- | teeman from Colorado. The Taft in- structions and endorsement were adopted by a viva voce vote and Sen- ator Guggenheim was chosen national | committeeman over Philip B. Stewart | | Bight persons were | tomorrow. of (‘zim‘ado Springs by a vote of 657 to_ 241, Never after the first test vote on | temporary chairman, wien Thomas H. Devine of Pueblo, the Taft candidate, was elected over, Ben QCriffith, the Roosevelt candidate, by 565 to 242, | was there a doubt as to the adoption of the programme agreed upon by Taft leaders. Milford Strong for Taft. | Muford, Conn., March 27—The re- | publican caucus tonight elected four | delegates to the state convention to be held at New Haven. A vote was | called for, to ascertain the sentiment | | of the meeting, and resulted in Taft | securing 86 votes to Roosevelt's 19, Putnam County for Roosevelt. Carmel, N, Y, March 27.—Compl | returns of the primaries in Putnam | eounty show that in a republican vote | short one-half of the enrollment, the | organization delegates received 471 | votes to 185 for the Roosevelt nomi- { | | | o | nees. This is considered as much a defeal for cx-Representative Hamil- { ton Fish as anything else. | New Hampshire for Taft. | Concerd., N. H., Mafch —The ad- | ministration of President Taft was | | heartily and ummualifiedly approved, {and his renomination favored in res- olutions adepted at a meeting of the| republican state cemmittes tonight. | The vote stood §7 to 27, the opposi- tion representing supporters of Govw. Robert P. T one of the seven gov- ernors who urged Colonel Roosevelt to become a candidate, COVMBINE AGAINST WILSON, Attenticn Called to Lineup of Other Presidential Candidates. New York, March 271 Wilson headquarters isfued today = | statement declaring that pr des- patches Jast night frem Tampa, Fla., | carried *conclusive proef of the exist- | ence of a presidential candidate com- | | bine, having for its ohject the pro- | vention of Gevernor Wilson's nomina- | tion.” 'The despatehes which are thus ! interpreted by the Wilson headquar- ters have anneuneed that the names | of these two candidates would not be | on the primary tickets in Florida and that the comtest there probably will be between Wilson and Underwoed, “In Oklahoma and Kansas a free -The Woodrow { Harmen fores. was left te Speaker Clark without v either “Joveraor Har- inderweod,’ ’the state- “Fhe swme is true in Arkansas and Wisconsin; in ment reads. Jowa. 'Danielson Men Representing Finance, the Law, Com. merce Manufacturing and Other Interests. GORDON A. JOHNSTONE. Danislson, Rome, March 27.—Pope Pius is much better in health today, although the catarrh from which he bas suffered for some days is not yet quite cured, Bogota, Colombia, Mar ~—Julio Betancourt has been appointed Colom- bian minister at Washington. Senor Betancourt served as Colombian min- ister-to Spain. Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 27 led and 20 in- Jured in this cit. st _evening during a cyclone which causad the collapse of a number of old residen Willemstad, Curacca, March 27.—A three-inch gun exploded on board the Dutch cruiser Zeeland during targei practice today. A corporal was killed and three sailors were wounded. Berlin, March A movement has quietly spreading in Germa: to e a more exténsive use of fero- aneg for military purposes. P t persons and ip nli‘tiz‘vs St. Petersburg —It is an- nounced that holas and the empress will leave for the Crimea M. Makaroff, minist: ol the interior, has resigned, and it is reported that his resignation has been { accepted by the emperor, London, March 27.—Another baich of suffragettes was sent to prison to- day by Judge Robert Wallace, chalr- man of the London sessions, at the re- sumption of the trial of the women ac- cused of window smashirg during the raids of March 1 and March 4. Berlin, March 237.—Eight subway to the northeast of Damage to the extent of several mil- lions was done. London, March 37.—The Turkish army in Tripoli has just achieved a great victory over the Italian army, whose losses were 27 officers and 3,500 men killed and wounded, according to the report of the Turkish commonder at Benghazi received here today from a special correspondent at the Turkish headquarters. LORIMER IN LINE FOR A VINDICATION. | Test Vote Shows Committee Five to Three in His Favor. Washington, March 27.—The special committes of eight senators which has been inves‘igating the election of Sen- ator Loriraer indicated today by a test vote that it stands five to three in his favor. The majority of the committee has adopted the contention by Senator Lorimer’s counsel that the senate hav- ing passed upon tha senator’s’ case once and declared his election valid, cannot try him again on the same charge. Such a resolution will be re- ported by a majority of the committee, A motion today to close the com- mittee’'s vote upon its report tomorrow was defeated, five to three. This was taken as o forecast of how the com- mittee stands on the case. These senators voted not to clome tomorrow: Dillingham, Vermont; Gam- ble, South Dakota; Jones, Washlngton; Johnston, Alabama, and Fletcher, Flor- ida. Thesge senators voted to close tomor- row: Kenyon, Iowa; Kern, Indiana, and Lea, Tennessae. claring that the first investigation of Senator Lorimer's election acts ag a bar to a second certainly will delay, and may ultimately prevent, the sen- ate’'s second consideration of the fa- mous case. Though from today's voting it 2p- pears that a majority of the invest} tion committes favor Mr. Lorimer, the personnel of the senate has so changed since the first investigation that the outcome if the case comes to a vote is conjectural Mr. Underwood are apparentiv work- ing m perfect adjustment with the The following lineup is significant: % “Clark ve. Wilsan—Towa, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Kentueky, Oklahoma, Kan- ia, et Vs lina, sissippl and Louisiana, “Harmon vs. Wilson—New Delaware, Maine, and other New Eng- land states, Ohio and states contigu- ous theretc.” Colebrook Solid for Taft. Colebreok, Conn., March 27.—The ‘workmen barely escaped with their lives today | when the River Spres broke through | the tunnel now being bored under the river for the extension of the Berlin | Berlin. | ‘onsideration of a resolution de- ! Wilsen—Gaorgls, | North Cerolina, South Caro- York, | i | } i ! | i Cabled ’P'aragraphs \Condensed Telégramsl — | President Taft Nominated George L. Townsend to be United States marshal for Delaware, Eimer E. Shawn, a Te!egra;har long in the employ of the Associated Press, dled at Denv The 1912 Meeting of the Farmers’ . national congress will be held in New | Orleans in November, The Army and Navy Board is now ready to ship relics of the Maine to these who have secured allotments, The New Haven Socialists are invit- ing labor bedies to take part in a big parade and demonstration on\May day. The Turners Falls, Mass., Cotton Mills advanced the wages of their sev- eral hundred employes vesterday 5 per cent, Uider the Will of Gen. John W. Noble, flled in 8t. Loufs, law Yi- . brary willi go to the Washington uni- versity, o w Mrs. Mortimer L. Schiff Appeared before the grend jury in New York and gave testimony in the Brandt in- vestigation, The Westinghouse Electric & Man- | ufacturing Co, declared a dend of one per cent. en its common stock ves- terday, the first since 1907, Thers Will Be No Furthsr Investiga- tion by the house of the Lawrence, t le striks, and as a result | into the so-called woolen An Advance in Wages varying from 5 to 25 per cenf. is announced by the management of the W. house & Howard worsted mills at North Ad- ams, Jass. Miners in Kansas, Missouri, Okla- homa and Arkansas, whose contracts expire Sunday, are awating the action of eastern miners before signing their contracts for next year. 1 Two Large Steamers Have Been! Chartered to bring to Portlend, Me., for Maine pulp mills 50,000 cords of pulp wood from Dalhousie and Chat- ham, N. B, this summer. More ‘"han 48,000 Automobiles were registeret in New York state betwsen Jan. 1 andi*he first day of the present ! | month, the \vense fees from the regis- tration aggregating $506,000, i John Arbuckle, the Well Known Cof- | fee Man, died early yesterday morning iat his home in Brooklyn. He was 74 vears old. Death was due to a eral collapse inciden ge gen- | At a Meeting of the Cotton Mill Managers of Utica, N. Y. yesterday it | wag decided to readjust the wages of operatives, to take effect the last of | April, making a genera! increa: i A Coroner’s Jury Found That Jean- ! ! ette Nicholson, 16 years old, of &t ! Louis, died from the injuries received in a basketball game at the Winne- bago Presbyterian church Friday. Officers of the New York, New Ha- ven & Hartford Raflroad Co. have | been ccnsidering the question of the ! ,electrification of a number of the] [ smaller branch lines in Connecticut, | Paints, Oils and Gasoline composed | | the fuel for a fire that destroyed the | | store of L. B. Coburn & Co., dealers | {in paints and oils at Lowell, Mass., ' | yesterdzay, causing a loss estimated at | $50,000. The Arizona Legislature by an over~ ! whelming majority adopted resolutions objecting to the appointment of former Territorial Governor Richard Slean to be United Statas judge for the dlstriet of Arizona. No immediate Action, if Any, at thie session, on the president’s ~showing that the rates of tha cotton schedule in the tarif¥ law are too high will he teken by ths house committes on wavs and means. The Arrest of Sheri# Charles O. Emery of York county, Me., charged with offering to bribe Countv Attorney Asa A. Michards to protect liquor sell- ers, has creatad a sensation throughout | that county. | Prof. 8. J. Zewski, Head of the de- | partment of hydraulics at the Tniver- | ity of Michigan, has designed a tur- ine which, it Is said, exeeeds by near- 1y 50 per cent. the power of any sther tarbine ever built., There Are’About 3,500 Textile Weav- | ers and other workers on strike at Passaic, N. J., and about twice as Unworthy Wife PHILIP 8 HICHBORN S8HOOTS | consent. | h | family ' gister, | quished his power to 1 Causes Suicide { | HIMSELF IN HEAD, WIFE ELOPED IN 1910 i v Young Lawyer Had Never Recovered His Spirits Since—A Son of the Late Rear Admiral Hichborn, Washington, March 27-—Philip S. Hichborn, a young lawyer and son of the late Rear Admiral Hichborn, killed himself tonight from despondency and humiliation over the elopement more than a year ago of his wife, Elenore Thoyt Hichborn, with Horace L. Wylle, a prominent Washington attorney, He | chot himself in the head with an au- tomatic army revolver and died almost | instantly, I Left a Sealed Note. Hichborn went to the home of his sigter, Mrs. Paul S. Pearsall, for din- ner. The family were out, and shortly efter his arrival servants heard a shot in his room. The door was broken In and he was found dead. On a table he had left a sealed note. The coroner took charge of this, and its contents may be made known if the families A person who professed to ve seen the note said that part of its was: “I am not to blame for this; nk I have lost my mind.” Couple Disappeared in 1910, The first hint that the public had that all was not weil in the Hichborn occurred in December, 1919, ‘when Mrs. Hichborn and Wylle disap- peared at the same time. Mrs. Hich- born's family indignantly demied re- ports of an elcpement and declared that she was '‘a patient in a private hospital, having broken down as a re- sult of the death of her father, Henry M. Hoyt, former solicitor general of the United States. Hichborn Sued for Diverce. That winter the couple under the names of Mr, and Mrs. Henry Wise were reported as travellng on the Nile, iater in Paris and on the Riviera. Both families demied persistent ac- counts of their: whereabouts, and no verification of them wes had until last January, when Hichborn sued for di- vorce, That action, however, never came to trial and is now ended by his death. ' Hichborns Never Reconciled. In April, 1911, Mrs. Hichborn return- ad to her mother, and simultaneously Wrylle peturned to his family in Wash- ington. He had deserted a wife and four children; she had left a 3 year old baby boy. It is supposed this at- tempt at reconciliation was the result of a meeting & few weeks earlier in Paris between Mrs. Hichborn and her Mrs. Ferdinand Von Stumm. It was really, however, the outcome of an agreement between Mrs. Hichborn and Wylie that each should return home, and if botk found a reconclila- tion tmpossible they should.accept such a realization as a justification for their elopement. It appeared at first that the Wylles had become reconociilated. but not so with the Hichborns. A ro- concillation did not take piace there Hickborn Never Recovered Spirits. Wylie resigned from the clubs which had not already dropped him and sail- ed from Boston for Furope. Mrs, Hichborn remained with her mother, near Boston, and later salled for Eu- rope. Soon after the couple were sald to have been seen in Westminster Cathedral and later in France. Young Hichborn remained in Washington, ex- cept for a short trip to California, whence he returned a few days ago. He never seemed 1o rise to his former spirits. e was.known to a host of friends as the best type of a youmg man. te I th | REGIMENT OF MILITIA SENT TO ROCK ISLAND Attempt M:de-—;n the Lifv of Mayor Schriver Yesterday. Rock Island, Tll., March 27.—Because of fears of a renswal of last night's faial riots, the Sixth regiment, Illi- nols national guard, was mobilized h tonight. As a result an early threatened Jemonstration was averted and Mayor Harry M. Schriver relin- the military authorities. The soldlers kept crowds from mfigregating. Put cne man lost his life in last night’s rioting. A confusion of identi- ties and the fact that two men wers missing were responsible for the report that three men were dead. The list of injured however, has increased. Of these two are said to be dyving. An attempt on the mayor's life was made today., OFFICIAL WIND-UP OF NEW YORK FIRE HORROR All indictments Against Harris and Bianck Diemissed. New York, March 27.—What 1is probably the final chapter in the crim- inal proceedings growing out of the Asch huilding fire a vear ago, in which 143 lives were lost, was written today when the five remaining indictments | against lsaac Harris and Max Blanck, | proprietcrs of the Triangie ‘Waist com- i pany factory, where the flre occurred, were dismissed by Supreme Court Jus- ) tice Seabury. The motion to dismiss was not opposed. | The two men were recently acquit- ted on a charge of manslaughter and | the courts have decided they cannot again be put in jeopardy on this zround, Bince their indictment last Aprit both men have been under bonds of $25,090. Naugatuck Bankrupts in Jail. New Haven, March 27.—Morris and Mdward Baurer of the firm of H. Bau- rer's Sons of Naugatuck were ar-. raigned late this afiernoon before U. 8. Commissioner Wright, chaerged with violating the npational bankruptey laws. DBall was fixed at $2,000 each, and being uneble to furnish bonds- men, they were remanded in the New Haven county jafl. Wants Monroe Doctrine for Asia. St, Petersburg, March 27.—The No- voas Vremya, in a leading artiele, at- tacks Americap activity in China, It says that the Monroe doctrine should now be proclalmed in Asia Morse and Wife Out Walking. Flerence, Italy, March 27.—Charles W. Morse was out walking in the sireets of this eity with his wife this morning. Ste: At Gibraltar: hip Arrivals, March 27, Prinzess republican caucus this afterneon elect- | many others who are willing to work, | Irene, frcm New York. ed a solid Taft gdelegation to the state but there is nothing for them to do lerritory Ppeaker Clapk and ! convention, te be held at New Haven, ' owing to the strike of the weavers. At Bremen: March 27, Chemnits, from New York g “="" PRICE TWO CENTS iNo Prospect of An Agresment | ANOTHER CONFERENCE OF MIN: ERS AND OPERATORS, A FINAL EFFORT TODAY Parties to Bituminous Coal Dispute Again Refer Matter to Sub-Commit- tee—To Cease Work Next Sunday. Cleveland, 0., March 27.—Admitting they appeared to be as far from an agreement as they were a week ago, the operators and miners of the bi- tuminous coal fields, who are endeav- oring to fix a two-year wage scale to take effect in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, today re- ferred the dispute back to a sub-com- mittee. A Final Effort Today. The sub-commitice will meet tomor- row in a final effort to prevent a sus- pension in the mines beginning next Sunday midnight. Miners Must Quit Sunday. According to officials of the Unfted Mine Workers of America, the anthra- cite miners have no alternative but to quit Sunday midnight, as the present wage scale will expire th END OF BRITISH COAL STRIKE IN PROSPECT. Returning to Work. London, March 27.—The event of the day in the coal etrike was the prompt decision by the miners’ federation io tako a beliot of the men on the ques- tion of terminating the strike. The ballot paper reads: “Are vou in favor of resuming work pendlng the settlement of the minimum ratea of wages in the various grades by the district boards to be appointed under the coal mines minimum wage act? When it is remembered that 115,000 men voted against commencing the strike, lttle doubt is felt that a me. jority will now vote in faver of its termination. The prospect tonight, therefore, is that the strike may end in a week although there will be no general re- sumption until after Easter. CLOSING IN ON THE ALLEN OUTLAWS. Posses Moving Upon Their Hiding Place from Two Sides, Hilisville, Va,, March 27.—Poszes are moving upon the courthouse assassing from two sides and a fight is expected within the next 24 hours. Fifty horse.- men who tonight slowly encircled the stromgholds up in the Elue Ridge where the remainder of the Allen gang is Dbelieved to be hiding, left their mounts in the thicket and worked sin- gle file te points of vantage from which they expect to charge upon the tlaws at daybreak. Sheriff Haynes of Surrey county, N €., with a volunteer posse of 50, alec is waiting to move frora Mount Airy. osees have taken equipment to in the mountains until they outlaws or are assured of their escape from this section. A circumstantial story today said that one of the Allens, probably Jas- per, who has a son, Friel, in the hunted and, had a plan to accomplish =& bloodless surrender, It is not verifisd however. REINFORCEMENTS FOR MEXICAN FEDERALS Reports of Government Defeat at Ji. miniez Pronounced Untrue. Mexico City, Merch 27.—Reinforce- menis under General Tellez left Tor- reon today to support General Trucy Aubert and Pancho Villa, who are op- posing the revolutionists near Jiminez. Reports of a federal defeat at Jimineu untrue. On the contrary, up to e o'clock last nigh{, the tioops eneral Aubert were fighting vall- against the forces of Orozco and two o'clock this afternoon no are up to news had been recelved that the fed- had been defeated. In fact the y appears to be with the fed- JED MINE VICTIMS NUMEBERED EIGHTY May Be Several Ea;: Before Bodien Can Be Moved. Welch, W. V., March 27.—Revised figures of the deaths at yesterday's gas explosion at the Jed mine plu‘\ the fatalities at 80. Officials say 99 men were in the mine and that 13 got out alive. State mine inspectors say !t may be several days hefore the tons of slate brought down on the victims can ba removed and the greater number of bodies recovered. Some of thoss found yesterday and today have been sent to Pocahontas and others have been buried at the mine. THE DAY IN CONGRESS, No Immediate Action to Be Takem in Revising Cotten Tariff. Washington, March 27.—The day n congress. Senate:— Met at 11 a. m. Resumed consideratfon of Stephen- son election case. Lorimer investigeting committes briefly considercq Lorimer cass and adjourned until Thursday. Finance commitiee decided to report favorably McCumber bill to repeal Ca~ nadian reciprocity agreement, exeept wood pulp and print paper section, Houser— ~ Met at noon. Considered miscellaneous bustness on_regular Wednesday calender. Rules committee decided not to re- port resolutions calling for Lawrence strike Investigation. Julian Kennedy, mechanical engi- neer, told Stanley steel trust investi- gating committes a steel mill running 80 to 80 Kor cent. full capacity was economically run. Passed bill reducing residence re quired on homestead lands from fiie to three years. Ways and means committes will taka no immedlate action on cotton tarifl schedule revision. Adjourned 510 p. m. until noon to mOTTOW, Colomel Uliman Re-elected. New Haven, March 271.—Col. . M Ullman was tonight re-slected pres- ident of the chamber of commerce. Colonel Ullman announced some weeks ago that he would not be a candidate again, but friends finally induced t2 chazge his mind, o