Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 2, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 81 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1912 PRICE_TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Girculation in _finWiC-;l is Double That of lily Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to fne City's Figure in Coal Fields of World 200,000 New England Mill Workers Now Get More Pay. v one | both the Industrial Workers of the World and the United coun- | of America, will be tak g g of the Low 0 be c: present we ting has n 2 the Industri tile union nave asked an per cent. in wages and for ix cotton m sult of tk 000 oper sociztion ots ted Workers v other are miss m ay Go Back April committ 1 their own s representing q general at by ver of t f the rike “V'yv at the ¢ 1 ned at were induced to go out. t-Hour Day” Anniversary. MORE STRIKERS, E 92" painters, Decorators, Carpenters, rs, mark- Granite Workers and Clerks O Boston, April 1—Painters and de secretary- | OFLOIS, car nit r . SN N ithe ore cle ren htiBes will v Lngland ranks of gos over paid thousnds of e I A antry b 5% s crease ittle Effect on LOWELL MANUFACTURERS o Hoid Meeting This Week to Act on Strikers’ Demands, L. and WOMAN ON TRIAL TELL VERY PATHETIC STORY. Loves Husband Still, She Killed Him. ARIANO HELD MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. Al- Older Brother Held for Off sistance to an Officer. April 1—T didn't 7 of Antonfo Mari- ar old boy arrested Sat- being iter which had been e boy and held him t a hearing on April 11. hen taken to the Boc! The osse! ' han [ Chief Willis told the court that the | Mariano boy had previo been in g yurt for larceny { n a li | A few minutes after the concl e r that to her | of the oy's_brother, he ans cer in t | Mariano fami | of Antonto. He pl was held for HARTFORD'S CITY LECTION TODAY. rom. o ] State Rate Cases Argued. | arms _tonight, each : ton 1 | tory. Chairman M AR it satee for tomie| atic_committ .. oud | e T ‘ | airman s " x a tha hig Cheney . by t 500 s ren najorit he »pen at 6 o'clack A ally | capitol struck y Tom $4 to $4.50, whic | ing rate of an | men aftesward returnc ing am adjustment of the question, A Strike of 175 Retail Clerks b ia Barre, Vi, yesterday, HIGHEST WAGES EVER PAID MINERS Cibt Paragapts The Contemplated Increase Will Establish a Record SOFT COAL MINERS MAY GO BACK BY APRIL 20 Announcement at Lowell That Strike For Eight Hour Day is Soon to be Inaugurated in Lawrence—Several More Crafts Join Ranks of Strikers in New England—About 1 Aprfl 1.—Karl own writer of Indian nances for boys, died here 70tk < r} despatch from ating that Germa troops in the foreign office New preparin niede Paris, April rived at the rece! —The Prince of Wales © du Nord tonig ed Dy the prefect of ris, the Marquis and Marchioness Breteull and several members of English colony. The Prince of Wal s here incognito, under the name of the Barl of Chester. PRESIDENT MADERO DOES NOT FEAR INTERVENTION. Says United States Has Given Proof of Spirit of Justice, the 25th t. touching existing between States, sald: relations with there have occurred I should refer on The armed s in various parts s given rise to ru- mors rding the possibility of in- terven in Mexico by the United States. These rumc fomented In t ous news- od in causing o countries, povernment most thinlk- legiti- rstand is solely in s olescer t in political and its the rights eretén na- NG LARGE AIMS FOR ROOSEVELT. Has 64 Delegates in m New ¥ Atter that som nake be to Pitte- ak on Mon- ON STUMP. Norwalk Mills Says His Inves Never F had not the reasons r ostment, while Mr. Hill's investment cent never paid The Norwa a local company e entire plant s crelitors hy vote of Ta Wto vears ago and the soon be sold to satisfy fr. 111l said he had not in the company for a ? years and that his son, one treas of the company, had n dead for five vears. nge Inauguration Date, April 1.—Representative who has o bil the me 41 Smalipox Cases at Naugatuck. The to- 1s now more cases developing today. number of ceses are still under sur- 1d it would not ba surpris- » tetal number would increase her within f Cennecticut Boy Wins Hartford, April 1—Ths winner the W ity colle King of tent being hel was won by Milford, Conn. of tlock oratorical prize at Trin- for this yeer is L. D. Ad- mston, Md., the annual eon. tonight. Second prius R. J. Newten of New e Mere Smalipox at Willimantio, Willimantic, Conn., April 1.—Ong more cas walipox dovelopad, teday, making a total of All of'the ated Téfif{gmw Mayor ation Ceunsel King a building to"B8 used as an hospital. All of the cases are miid Socialist Mayer Defeated. int, Mich., April 1L—John A. C. enton, soc mayer of Vlint, wa defeated for re-election today by Charles 8, Mott, running on an inde- pendent citizens’ ticket, supported by | Dboth demecrats and sepublioans, 'Danielson Men Representing Finance, the Law, Com-jcondensed Telegrams merce, Manufacturing, and Other Interests. Thers Was a General Advance by | retailers in New Haven yesterday of | one dollar a ton on coal, The Anti-Trust Laws of Missouri were upheld yesterday by the supreme court of the United States. _A Gigantic Home Rule Demonstra- tion was held in Dublin, at which ail the Irish leaders made speeches. Two Hundred Painters Struck ves- terday in Worcester, Mass, for a ten per cent. rajse in wages and shorter hours, Fifty Thousand Workmen in the bullding trades of Chicago will be idle as the result of a strike of 14,000 car- penters. There Were Large Crowds of fash- ionably aitired people in the Palm Sunday parade on the boardwalx at Atlantic City. L. Dr. Belisario Penos, Former, Minister t Washington, is making a strenuous npaign in Panama as the Ifheral andidate for president. 1 | The Managers of the Cotton Spinning and yarn mills in Ut N. Y., Monday | announced a fiat ralse of wage of ten cent, to take effe esterday. ver Equal Suffrage for Women is large- ly responsible for a marked decrease in the number of marriage licenses is- sued in California during the month of March. W. Mcrgan Shuster, Deposed Treas- urer General of Persia, has been ap- pointed Scuth American representa- tive of the National City company of New York. City Officials Will Be Elected in Montana today. ’The chief interest is the outcome of the fight of the so- claiists and anti-socialista in Butte and Helena. l The English Miners Are Returning o work without waiting for the vote the unions to be taken on accept of im wage bil SABIN 8, RUSSELL. House Passes the Wool Bill REPUBLICANS WITH DEMOCRATS. Governor's Islax recove: Fatal End of April Fooling GROCERY CLERK KILLS ANOTH- | TWENTY ER WITH HAMMER. g Two Hundred Painters VOTE | ( MADE VICTIM OF JOKE | won'T CUT REVENUES Quarrel Followsd and Fatal Blow Was | Dsmocrats Cont | That Government Strucl—Assailant Attenipts to End| Wai Lose Wil His Life at the Police Station. Gain-—Tariff Board Under Fire. v Elmer Swope of Mar nder esterday adm e millionaire palla T.ienty Progressives in Favor. New York’s Largest Episcopal was' passed b 1 rch is looking toward Hartford for icans Trivity tepresentative opposed it in Rucker ¢ debate an: mittes to r arted With Aprii Fool Jo was le 1 that menthal was interes a and Norris of Ne attempted to striking Will Save Over $50,000,000. Stewart with a shovel. He did not Representative Cox of Indiana in- succeed subsequently the twe troduced ill yesterday to cut off weni into the store. e mi alfowances of se o Hit Him with a Hammer. > u/zmrnnm. ‘beoauss af Tepresen szull territorial de Baviitaliy o AN t of rates. All e ates and provide that they paid ac st reages made a Temark about | republicans to wmend the bill to in- | tual travellng expenses. crease the rates were lost art told both clerks to get to work, | SR Siviig Halie oo aut bbb Tariff Board Attacked. A Far-Reaching Principle of Law Hedges did not go at once, but stood | The ta board came in for orit-| Was decided vesterday when the su- ! about the store, James Stewart had |icism du the specchmaking. Rep- Preme court held that one state could to go to a flour barrel to fill an orde: While leaning over the barrel with his | head tnside, to resch the contents, Hedges darted across the store with o hammer in his hand. He struck Stewart on the head. not refuse to enforce judgments of another state in regard to ‘he liabil- ty of stockholders for corporation debts. sentative iitchen said that Smoot and Werren delfierately enators impos- ed on the tariff hoard to maintain the high duty on wool. “How is it,” he cried, “that sheep in growers Washington are able to Pobert Stewart interfered, separat- |raise wool at one-twentieth of a cent a | day by the Interstate commerce com. ing the mon, Who were then fighting, |pound and in Wyoming, according to mission when the supreme ocourt of put Hedges out and gent for a doctor. |the board’s report, a pound costs 13 the United States decided the comm! Dr. Austin dressed the wound, but |cents? . sion Lad the power to compel water fearing ture, he sent “Beauty of the System.” lines to report to it regarding intra- for the hospital ambulance. | Representative Mondell replied that Stato as well as inter-state business. Hedges Arrested. iw costs 15 cents to produce in Wy- = When the smbulance arrived ana it |ming. g y Following the Dismissal by the bor- vas 160 CHAE SEWETE Tas. don | *“And yet,” sald Mr. Kitchen, “this ough court of Torrington, Conn., yes officer who accompanied the suggested that an effort be m: find Hedges. = terday morning of charges of assault brougit by Mrs. Boniface Goodman of trat town against her husband, the infallible board shaded that cost price just two cents. The entleman’s esti- ate discloses the beauty of the sys- Being informed that he had gono |tem: woman became insane and smashed to Riverside to take orde: the offi I —— all the windows and most of the furni. | ture in the house, had the ambulance driven thers. | WATER COMPANIES MUST Hedges was locaied, arvested and tak = en to Stamford. He did not k f O ECTIONS. the fatal termination of the q United At the Stamford police station ho ex- | pressed regret that the trouble had | arisen and that he had struck Stew- | = art and hoped that he would not suf- | Washington, April 1—Water com- | fer any 1ill effects from the blow. |Danles must bear the expense of tap- ; s ping their pipes to furnish connection Hedges Faints at Police 8tation. |with al] city residences, if they are to | “Howr is he, anyway?” he asked of |serve the public impartially, according the officer in’ charge at police head- |to a decision today by the supreme | quarters, court of the United Statos. Dead,” eame the reply. Albert T. Hatch of Couer D'Alene, TUpon that, Hedges plunged to the |Idaho, brought suit to compel the floor in a dead faint, remaining in | Consumers’ company of that city to that eondition for some time. He was |furnish him a connection without his finally revived and later was taien by (having to bear the expense. The pu- the sheriff to Greenwich, where he is | preme court decided in his favor today. held, charged with murder. e o Cuts His Threat in Cell. Hedges was discovered this after- Total Damages of $26000 Were yes- terday awarced against the American Tobacco company .by a jury in’ the United States district court at New Orleans. in the anti-trust suit brought by tue People's Tobacco company of New Crieans, for alleged conspiracy to destroy competition, - | Important Decision of the States Supreme Court. Indictments Growing Out of the Florlda Everglades investigation in the department of agriculture were re- turned by the federal grand Washingion Monday against ( liott, Adlinson D. Morehouse, Ray P. Tecle and Frank E. Singleton. The defendants are charged individually with haging approved or presented false vouchers against the government. Epidemio of “Pink Eye.’ Ogdensburg, N, Y., April 1.—Horses 10,000 have died of | CHANGE OF ATTITUDE noen pool of blood in his cell in | Y2lued af over 310, 3 L Grocul - : “pinkeye” near Lyon Mount: The Geoi € lockup, He hed cut his| DTS TIeH (n e lumber camp sit TOWARD AMUSEMENTS. weels ago, where many horses are employed in lossing, Horses leaving | the camp carried the disease to oth razs iy 002 | places until it is epidemio throughout Tt has been learned Olinton cousnty, Dr. William Burke, after making an examigation of Hedge's {njm to- ntght ¥mid that barring comnlications he wauld recover, sac WBGges necd o Rrlp of copper, ore from an_ele: ight He out himseif just above s appie,” but did net sever vein. N | ‘The coroner’s inquest A Guard Over Hedges. | tomorrow and pending his decision | The authorities have placed a close | Hedges has not yet been formally | guard over the man, fearing that he | charged by the prosecuting attorne: will try to tear away the bandages.| Stewart wus 30 years of age, and Hedges has secured the legal services ‘unmarried, Hedges i8 27, and ma. of ex-Mayer Hemer 8, Cummings of ried. Methodists Propose to Eliminate Rel erence to Card Playing and Dancing. Kingsion, N. Y., April 1.—A decided 1 on in Mathodism was deoided the New York Methodist Wpis- rence today when it adopt- osented to the general conference asking tiat the Methodist discipline be amended as to amuscments by striking out references to daneing, card piaying, and substi- tuting therefor he Methodists snall not take any diver- sions “which we cannot take in the name of the Lord Jesus.” | Stamfers. He has made no |ment regarding today’s t state- - | DONOVAN IS RELEASED expression_that | Area of Missouri, Illinois St. Louis, April 1.— section of the count! sour, Illinois and Wworst on record. alrcady run into Rain has been failiy flooded district fo &nd no rellef is i ght Large District Inundated. The Mississippi has been stationary 24 hours at 29.8 feet and a further rise Cairo the is mot expccied for 24 hdurs. and the drainage dietri city are the only tw. that section qf the territory norilt a ing covered witil ¢ River Breaks All Records The river 4t Cairo reacyed a 58 feet tonight, which is ~Ngh of & foot higher thon previoils record A stage of §4 feet is predicted hefo the floods subside. above enth Large Force Patrols Levess. Large forces of men patrol the levee constantly every e to keep the eml n to regist all t water in sight operating they CONGRESS MUST ACT General Bixby Says Otherwise Disas- trous Fiood is Inevitable Washin, spr After | suitation today with Coignel Townsend, president of the Mississippl river ¢ mission, the chief ¢ | Rixby, sid . able the ensineers sit- | BLOODHOUNDS LOSE | SCENT OF ALLENS. | | Track Today Apri’ I'wo blood y» the trail al. Hillsviile, Va hounde tods of the. detective: trafl, the rain ia tho the scent and hed met with 1 given to the dogs ! cave Wiere on Sat rations and biank, by the on & Allen < he dete formation dogs upon a 1 Sciplo Gray | Gap section believed from that the two men & forth between tw | ply about ten miles apa mation @ back and BY JUDGE FALLON Court Convinced That Killing of His Daughter Was Accidental Boston, April was arr ith causing the | Bllen, 17 vears old | Judge Kuilen in t after the court les: | |w | that the tragedy ros dent. Donovan was cutting some toba | ! - with a lonz knife w ’thvmched him. According to mem- bers of the family, Donovan sw arm and accidentally struck the girl, | tho knife entering the grofn. She died later at a hospita | Donovan declared that he had no | thousht against the girl and tnat the stabbing was accidental. INCREASE OF ACCIDENTS | ON NEW YORK STREETS. !Thifiy-uven More Killed and 199 Mere { Injured Than Last Yesr. New York, April 1—The report of the National Highways Protective so- vehicular the ciety on dccidents duo traffic in New York for monthe ending March 31, 18 that 91 persons were killed and 506 injured. Thirty-one of those killed were children under 18 yeers of ag During the corresponding months 1911 54 persons were killed and 307 in- | Jurea, to three shows | 81X THOUSAND TONS OF POTATOES FROM LONDON. | Largest Shipment of Spuds That H Ever Arrived in New York. | New York, April 1 | tons of potatoes, the la | éver recetved in New ¥ from London today. Rough | ars enough of them to supp!y meais for an adull t quoted hore today at §3 -Six thousand shipment rived 25 per bag of | 168 pounds, the shipment is valued at | more than $230,000. The governmert | eoMected $50,000 in dutles Shot at Cat, Hit Boy. Gresawich. Conn, April 1.—When Herbew Kent, aged 12, fired his re- | volvar at a in a tree this after- | noon. his aim was s poor the bullat | #trocic nis companien, Hugh Fox. in [ the Tes. The hoyr was taicen i a hos- pital, wrere tis dociors probed for some time befors and remov- ing tae hullei 8old Wine Without Licens New Haven, Conn.. April 1.—The po- lice tomight arrested seven Nalian storekeepers in Fair Haven charged with violating the liquor law. It is al- leged that they made and soid whe at their stores without either a state or government lieense. They will be ar- Faigned tn city court in the morning, o ® | denness that j i ther is Goubt im seme | whether o mejetty =it “ e | adeive Population THE MISSISSIPPI AT RECORD HEIGHT ————a Lower River Reaches a Stage of 53 Feet Whicl: Surpasses All Previous High Marks PROPERTY LOSSES RUN INTO THE MILLIONS General Bixby Declares That Congress Must Make Appropria- tion For Engineers to Avert a Disastrous Flood—Large and Kentucky Under Water— The Floods Are Already Said to be Worst on Recor! uation a disastrous flood of the coun- try along the lower Misgissippl weus | be_inevitable. | ever recorded. Thoy are rising on foot an hour and will soen mark th 53 foot level. This Is brought abow by the very unusual combination & floods simultancously in the Mississip pi, Missourl and Obio Cairo. been low water in one or the other these branches when the other stream s | were flooding in $860,000 for the engineers supplement ing the work which will be done b’ the varions state levee boards woul endeavor to strengthen the restrainin banks at the pofuts whers wouid do most damage. | e LEVEE BREAKS sreache ¢ Many People Homeless at Hiokmar, Ky., But No Lives Lost, | Hickman, Ky, April 1—With sué wna dwellers, desp! | rations t warn them, | river levea broke here at $.30 o'clec | tonight. and & ourrent went rucin: throven oty of Hickmen the of the situation, | At Calro the waters aro higher that rivers abovs Heretofors there has alway ¢ estimated the pardizad lives of low - L of 1wo 1o elght fes. To add to the dange * when the inhabitaots heard the fire alarm, arresd npon as + | aignai, they rushed toward ioves | to see 1he spoctacie, unaware that the break was of 5o grest extent. No Nwes | were lost, but tonight homeless per. sons are wanfering about In the rady rismg. The damege incursed by to night's break is estimated at not . than $100,000. | BALLOT OF MmwERS 2 LITTLE DISAPPOITING Deteotives to Start the Dogs on a NMow | Agaimst Resurmption of Wosly 5. My Comtet.. i s i Mas Been a4 | Lovdon, Apsil ~Up 0§ | the votes comnted in the the miners in counestion orovic and 86,628 wemm tion, These totats, inciude North Weles and | tricta where 1t is belleved - T e e——— ] E : ym- | secking ahelter. Water is six tnobes | a1 | Geep In the stores and late tondabt we s | Jorities will be polied ta Dwse o€ 284 sumption. Che beddot affords swopeived, " beliots for & reburn to work, 2ll the responsible leaders “fi the men of the tinuing the strike, Wales, which;, was mfl o hotbed of resibtance, neacty tw o oge 1a fuvor of resuming; while & | Engith northern counties i tavor of contimuing the etrike, One xplanation of the somews ~e§ ballot 1n that large willlng workers are ecord thetr | scended into the pits yesterday. Cor affo is being resumed and meny shi | yard industries have started up | The price of coal declined la. | the London coal exchange todus, DEAD LINE AGAINST | Western Method of Dealing With 8¢ i cialistic Organization, Lytle Jumaber mill 209 armed citizens est line 300 feet from (h Industrial Workers of leaders appeared, followed by | strikers, they were stopped. was opened tods blishied & deac plant and ag tk he World atrik Thes were arrested, and a dosen ringleader ed, were sent 1o jall. Dr. A F. Titgs, the alleged leader ¢ olty warrant Saturday and released o | sedition. Btrike Stops Railroad Construction. | Vancouver, B. C, April 1—A de patch from Kamloops, B. C. says the comstruction work on the Canadis | Northorn raflroad is emtireiy heid ection of the Industrial Workers « the World. SPECTATORS SEARCHED FOR Unusual Precautions at Trial of Is dustrial Workers' Organizen San Diego, Cal, April 1.—Speototo ot the trial of Jack Whyte, organiz af the Industrial Workers of 1 | World, were mearched for weapor when they entered court today, b sistant Distriot Attorney McKee hs been threataned. ‘Whyto, with two others, f charg: | with having violated an ordnanos du Ing the recent fres speech agitathon. Fiood Warning for the Comnectiout. ‘Weshsngton, April L—/The wenth: ‘burean annoumnced tonight that 'n afternoon flood wamings were wsu for the mlb-a‘l :,V.'; the vicind of Adbany COonnend | river st and belesr Hedyeke, xx_moamkeo(memmuc INDUSTRIAL WORKER: o Hoquim, Wash, April L—When the oth 7 who attempied to cross the deadilia including two or three Who Wers armi- the strikers, who was arTested on a 1 bail Sunday, was rearrested late Jact t on 6 foderal warrant oharging t t WEAPONS IN COURT ROOM, T » . cause of reports that the Iife of A. - 1 i v