Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 4, 1912, Page 1

! for the witnes VOL. LIV.—NO. 83 NORWICH, CONN. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1912 HIGKMAN, KY., IS FACING STARVATION Only Three Days’ Supply of Food on Hand and the! City is Inaccessible by Railroad FLOOD MORE MENACING IN DELUGE GENTERS' Fully 300,000 Acres of Farm Lands Under Water and 900,000 More Acres Left Untilled Because of the Sit\ution—.- Number of Lives Lost In reased to Eight—Government Engineers More Hopeful Area affected by the flood caused by aimost unprecedented volume of water in the Mississippl was not extended a great deal yesterday, but the situation at the deluge centers continued last night to become more menacing. But LWo more breaks in levees were report- | ed. These were where 30,000 acres was inundated. Twolve hours of sunshine and a slight check in the river rise have combined to give the generzl situation a more optimistic look in the opinion of the government engineers. They said tonight if the sage at Memphis does not go over 45 feet the govern- B vees will hold, But the weather ter at Memphis urged managers ing that city from » warn inhabitants of the to move to higher ground immediately. The number of lives lost was brought lo elght today when the death of three railroad men near Fuiton, Ky., vas reported and two were drowned near Ciar! iay morni oad Inty the overflow waier of the led river. That the loss of lifp has not been greater is due to the warning dven lo nd dwellers of the coming vigh wat: near of Chester, I, farming land 11 Hickman, Ky., is the worst sufferer. "he 2,000 homeiess inhabitants of the own were augmented today by the wrrival of 1,000 refugees from Dorena, VMo. The food supply at Hickman will ast but three days meore. No tralns have been run in or out of the town | or several days. Unlese ald comes oon many will go hungry. At Columbus, Ky. which was the | ret town to be inundated, the situa- tion is grave. Residents are leaving apidly and there is much suffering in utlying districts, The damage in that leinity is estimated at $100,000. Damage at Memphis is conservative- ly estimated at $250,000. About 1,200 HEDGES HELD WITHOUT BAIL ON MURDER CHARGE. Will Be Tried at Next Tefm of the Superior Court, Greenwich, Conn., April 3.—Judge Charles B. Burnes, in borough court thig afterncon, found probabie cause in the case of Roland Hedges, charged with the murder of James G. Btewart ot Sound Beach April 1, and bound him eover to the next term of the superior court without bonds. ¥e was taken te Bridgeport jail later in the day. Hedges, it is alleged, struck Stewart on the head with & hammer, the blow Jater causing death, as the sequel of a Joke played on him April Fool's day. When Hedges heard the news of Stew- art’s death he tried to commit suicide at the local jail, but the attempt was unsuccessful. Prosecuting Attorney Henry B. ‘White called four witnesses to the stand: murdered man, who told of the scuf- fle in which his brother was struck on the head; John Downey, who separated the two men in a tussle just before the fatal assault; Willlam Scotanus, who gave minor details of the joke which it is eaid Stewart played on Hedges, end Dr. Clarke, the medical examiner, who testified that the cause of death avas 2 hemorrhage of the brain. There been no symptoms of a fracture of 1e skull until a few minutes before death, two hours after the man had been hit. Attorney Homer S. Cummings, ex- mayor of Stamford, counsel for ITedges, put one witness on the stand , John Mereal, who tes- tifled as (o the fight in the barn before the fatal attack. He sald that Stewart hit Hedges on the head with a wrench while the latter was cleaning a stall in the stable, TO SUPPRESS SALE OF HABIT-FORMING DRUGS. ' National Association of Retail Drug- | pressing gists to Seek Federal Legislation. ago, April 3.-—Methods of sup- the sale of habit-forming druge were discussed at the midyear meeting of the officers and executive commiitee of the National Association of Retail Druggists held here today. J'ederal legislation will be sought pro- hibiting illegitimate interstate trafic 1d similar drugs. ) eem to think that druggists foster the sale of these habit-forming drugs, but the fact 18 we are decidedly opposed to it” sald Herman G. Shup- trino of Savannah, Ga. “Peddlers and disrepulable doctors are the persons whe engnze in this traffic. Federal logislation is needed to cure this rap- {dly growing evil.” of Health for McCullam. Conan,, April 3.—The expert who wes hired by the town examination into the ac- t Town Treasurer P. C, Mc- rfl“lam ligg reported that he has found ne books in good condition. Not only that, but he has money due him from geveral sources, Politics is sald to have been back of the investigation. Clean Bill Easton, Pensicns for Telephone Employes. Dosion, April 3.—A pension system for the employes of the New England %elepiiono & Telegraph Co., number- ing about 12,000 persons, to go into eTect July 1, was announced tonight bv the directors of ths company. The entire cost of the plan will be borne &y the telephone company and no con- tributicns will be asked frcm em- 3loyes. Wrote Teddy's Name on Bailot. Oshkosh, Wis, Aprfl 3.—Although }is name was not on the ticket, Win- % sbago county in yesterday's presiden- 1 2] primary recorded 23 votes for ex- ¥ regldent Roosevelt, His admirers w.rote the name on the ballots, Quadruplets Born at Guthrie. Guthrie, Okla., April 3-—Mrs, J. A, Thalsgrap of this clty gave birth to four boys today. The babies are all ailve and vigorous. The father of the cilldren is a third cousin of Governor Jidson Harmon of Ohlo ille, Tenn., early yester- | The latter drove off thes Robert Stewart, brother of the | Sovernment Levees Will Hold. persons have been driven fromn homes. ! Charitable organizations are taxed to their capacity. The gas plant was put | out of commission, and side is in dis- | tress. | Reporta from New Madrid, Mo., are meagre. The town iz flooded, but no |loss of life is reported. The damage 1s not known. The gravity of the situation is not Hmited to river towns. Small tribu- taries have overflowed their banks and it is estimated that fully 300,000 acres of farm lands in Kentucky, Tenuessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippl are flooded and probably 200,900 more are untilled because of fear that the levees protecting them may break. Business District Under Water. Lexington, Ky., April 3.—Beattyville, on the Kentucky river, reports most of the, business district u water. The river ig eight feet above the flood line and the people are go about the streets in boa Saylersville and Ir- vine are partia inundate Appeals to Governor for Aid. Jefferson City, Mo., nor Hadley received a tele; appesling for aid from the mayor of New Madrid and from Representative Conran for state help for the flood suf- ferers in that county. The governor at once wired State Senator Oliver of Peniscot county nel of the Sixth regiment, Missouri National guard, to go to the flood digtrict and ascertain | what aid the state can give. Red Cross Sends Funds. ‘Washington, April 3.—Telegrams were sent from ihe National Red Cross headgnarters here today to Gov- ernors McCreery of Kentucky and Hadley of Missour! stating that $300 | would be sent to each of thes as the nucleus of a local fund for flood sufferers. The Red Cros send a man into the and will keep in touch with conditions | as the flood moves down the Mississip- pi river. | MRs. nNiCODEMUS 8AYS SHE WANTED TO DIE }Hulhand, She Testifies, Showed Har: How to Attach Gas Tube. New York, April 3.—In faltering tones, interrupted by hysterical out- breaks, Mrs. Genevieve Nicodemus completed on ihe witness stand to- day her account of the ouelty Inflicted upaen her by her husband, Frank Nico- demus, for whose killing she is on trial. “I can’t believe he is dead. 1 did not see him die,” exclaimed the young woman, when her counse’ pressed her for details of the shooting. Later, she | said, when asked if she Intended to kill her husband “Before Go, 1 aid rot. I Joved him and would give my life to bring him back.” Letters she wrote to her husband containing endearing terms were read. | One of them, written shortly before | the shooting, pleaded with Nlcodemus, “pefore I say good-bye to you for- ever,” to “come and see me just once.” In reply to this letter her husband came, she sald. “I ran forward to meet him, think- ing he was going to take me in his arms,” she testified. “Instead he struck me in the face.” She wanted to die, she said, and “Franiie” attached a gas | tube to her Ledroom gas jet to show {her how easy it .would be. He gave | her a bottle of poison and she carried it until the day of the shooting, she declared. Other witnesses testified that Nico- deinus was an associate of vicious persons. The defendant’'s counsel to- day set up a hypothetical question, predicating insanity. | ENTICED GIRLS OF TENDER AGE. Meriden Girl of 14 Causes Arrest ef; Springfield Man, Meriden, Conn., April 3.—The Xocal} police today received word from | Springfleld, Mass., of the arrest there of Joseph (“Nig”) Popale, aged about | 22 years, in connection with a charga| of enticing young girls for immoral ! urposes. Popele formerly lived here. ecently Elsle Wilson, aged 14 years, | received a letter from Minnie Bradley, who has been away from the city for about two months, asking her to join | herself and Rose Goedtel, another Meriden girl who has heen missing for flve weeks, in Springfield, where the | letter said they were having a good time and making “an eaey living.” The Bradley girl is an orphan and 16 years old; the Goedtel girl is 16 years of age. The Wilson girl showed the letter to her parents and it was given into the hands of the police, who at once be- gan an investigation. They instructed the Wilson girl to reply thit she would go to Springfleld. S‘m went there this morning, and a detective went on the same train. She was met at the rail- road station by one of the two girls and Popale and taken to a house, the detective following. As the thres en- tered the house Popale was placed un- der arrest, as was the girl with him. The police say they expect to take the other girl into custody very shortly. OBITUARY. George Bleekman. New York, April S.—George Bleck- man, a well known yachting expert, marine artist and newspaper man, dled today 'n a hospital from apoplexy. Mr, Bleekinan was 49 years old. He had been In the newspaper business in New York city for the last 2 vears, having been yachting editor of thne New York Herald, Sun and Times. At the time of his death he was managing editor of The Drygoods, a trade news- paper. Cherry Trees Planted at Tomb. New York. April 5.—The first of 3,000 cherry trees, the gift of the oity of Toklo to the city of New York, were planted today at Grant's tomb under the direction of Park Commis- sionor Stover. A representative gath- ering of Japancse ocitizens took part in the ceremony, A tablet made In the Tckio arts school, commemorat- ing the gift, will be placed nearby. Grant's Willimantic Men Representing Finance, the Law, Com- merce, Manufacturing, and Other Interests. “OAH D. 8t. Petersburg, April 3.—The news- papers announce that Emperor Nich- olas will meet the German emperer in Finnilsh waters in July. mey. China, April 3—The United ee protected cruiser Albany, which d here from Swatow on March sailed for Olongapo in the Philip- Ppines this morning, A Paris, April 3—The American cham- ber of commerce today held a recep- tion In honor of Arthur Balilly-Blan- chard, secrstery of embassy, who is iabout to leave for Tokio, where he is to be secretary of embassy, He was presented a loving cup. RS 2% & X 5 00 £ $3 Neck and Back Forbidden 10 Broken by Fall Hell f_lutlaws |AVIATOR RODGERS BURIED IN|GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION TO I WRECKAGE OF BIPLANE, VIRGINIA CITIZENS. é LIVED A FEW MOMENTS | COUSIN IS ARRESTED EVIetlm Was Making Flight at goong | Accused of Assisting Courthouse As. | Beach, Cal—Was First Man to| sassine—Jack Allen, Father of Friel, (abled Paragraphs Condensed Telegrams, Cross the Country in Aeroplane, ' Loong Cal, April 3—Cal- Beach, braith P, Rodgers, eroplane, was killed here almost in- i stantly late today when his biplane, in which he had been soaring over the 1 ocean, fell from a height cf 200 feet ,and buried him In the wreckage. His jneck was broken aznd lds bedy badly | smarhed by the engine of his e ' He lived but a few moments, i Had Been Carrying Passengers. Rcagers for a weex past had been i meakirg daily flights hers ard had tak- {en up with hin. wuny passengers, both |men and wemen. Today he started {frem his usual viace and soared out over the ocean, «ressing thy pier and then «wrned and dipred Jcse to a roller csasier in a beach sinusement l park, H Dove Ints Flock of Sragulls. | Seelng a fleck of gu'ls disporting | themselves 2mong a great shosl of I Just over the brcakers, Rodg- le turned and dited down into N WEBSTER. trheni, scattering the serdowl in all di- reciions, jcome of his dive, Le then flew out to ea, all the time gradusily rising unti] jae had reached & heigut of 200 feet. { Machine Makes Frightful Descent. Making a short turn he started at full speed for ths pier, then suddenly iinclined his planes and his machine ‘began a frightful descent. He was ysecn by hundreds of persons on the | pier to relax his hold on the levers, and then, seemingly realizing that he | was in danger, made a strenuous ef- fort to pull the nose of his machine [Into & level position. All Grades of Refined Sugar were | Eig Engine on His Back. Teduced five cents a hundred pounds| Failing in this, he managed to tarn yesterday, his craft furtier in shore and an in- S A | stant later the craft fell with a crash The Italians Declared a Blockade of | not 500 feet from the epot where on several ports on the Yemen coest of | December 10 last be finished his ocean the Red sea. {to ocean flight, Many men rushed to ihis aid. Ernest Scott and James Good- Edward Griswold, One of the Oldest | Win, life guards, were first to reach coal dealers in South Manchester, died | him. They said Rodgers’ head was suddenly yesterday afternoon of heart | hanging over one wing of the machine, fallure. | the heavy engine was on his back and {his feet were drawn up nearly double the first man to | Virginia took a hand :ross 1the American continent in an | paign to starve the two fres court- Highly elated with the out- | Walter E. Howard, dean of Middle- bury college, is ecritically ili wiu\i heart trouble at his home in Ailrmle-i | bury, Vt. Arguments in the Missour! Rate Perth, Western Australia, Aprii 3. cases in the supreme court closed yes- ~~Wreckage ‘pielied up off the coast appears to seal the fate of the fifty pessengers and the eighty men of the crew of 1ke British steamer Koomba- na, which hes teen wiesing since the disastrous typhocn thet prevailed oa the northwest coast of Western Aus- iralia during the last week of March. ienna, April 3—Telegrams from Azram, eapital of Creatia, announce that cwing to the landtag elections, which resuited in ar overwhelming majority in faver of the severance of Croatia from Hungary, absolute gov- ernment has been proclaimed there. ‘The ccnstitution has been suspended and all auvthority is vested in a royal | commussioner, THREE A:LEGED SWINDLERS TRAPPED BY DETECTIVES. Attempted to Induce Wealthy Man to [nvest in Wire Tapping Scheme. Chicago, April 3.—Three men charged with attemrting to obtain $10,000 from Dr. C. H. Kasischke, a wealthy cattle dealer of New Provi- dence, Ia., by means of a racehorse fraud, were trapped by detectives in a ; Chicago hotel and arrested today. Harry Edwards, 82 years old, one of the prisoners, told the police he was a banker in Detroit, Mich. The others ave the names of Harry Wiison, incinnati, O., and Thomas James, Oakland, Cal. A fourth man and a woman escaped and detectives are searching for them. Dr. Kasischke told the police he met the men at Hot | Springs, Ark., a month ago, and they tried to get him to invest in a wire tapping scheme by which he could get rich in a few weeks by betting on the races. THE DAY‘IN CONGRESS. Approval of Bill for International In- quiry of High Cost of Living. ‘Washington, April 3, — The day in congress. Senate:— Beet and cane Bugar growers pro- terted against house free sugar bdill before finance committee. Foreign relations committes ap- proved Crawford bill for international inquiry into high cost of lving. Agriculture committee ordered favor- able report on bill creating a fivision of markets in department of agricul- ture. Chairman Sutherland of employers’ Hability commission submitted judi- olary committee’s favorable report on commission’s workmen’s bill and an- nounced he would ask its consideration Monday. House:— i Forcign affairs committee decided to report favorably resolution directing state department to insist upon imme- diate settlement by Mexico of claims of Americans. Florila Everglades investigating committee concluded its hearings. Miscellaneous biils considered. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson told Florida Everglades lands investigating committee tnat original excerpt of Major Wright's report had been given out with his consent. Majority Lead Underwood an- nounced the legislative programme terday and today Kentucky cages wil! be heard. t Rev, Frederic M. Burgess, rector ot Christ Episcopal church, New Haven, | died yesterday noon of pneumonia aft- er a short illness, | The 3500 Operatives in the Cotton | Mills of the Nashua and Ja Co. at Nashua, i general 10 per Girard, the Stronghold of Kansas so- clalism, elected W. F. Ross, a demo- | crat independent, mayor, r W. BE.| ’F)jf_rd, soclalist, by a vole of 681 to | <%0, I John O. Johnson, the Representative | of an oyster company of Providence, | R, L, is investigating the condition of | the oyster beds of Prince Edward Is- land, President Taft Has Furnished the| money to pay for markers for the | '%raves of six soldiers of the American evolution who are buried in Mendon, | Mass, ! An Increase in the Wages of the| mule spinners and back boys employed | by J. & P, Coats Co., thread manufac- turers, at Pawtucket, R. I, was an-| nounced yesterday. | Just a Year from the Day his wife | died, John Dutramble, 55 years old, | was found asphyxiated at his board- | ing house at Pawtucket, R. I. yester- | . day. It was suicide. Paul M. Lathrop, son of the mayor of Springfield, was fined $100 and cosis In the Hartford police court yesterday for speeding his car, which overturned | there several weeks ago. | —_— { The Commission Which Will Convey to Washington tJje bronze bust of La France for presertation by Irance to | the United States will be composed of distinguished Frenchmen, The Board of Directors of the| Knights of Columbus anmounce that| $285,000 of a $500,000 endowment fund for the Catholc' unlversity at Wash- ington already is in hand. An Initiative Measurs to Close Dal- las, Tex., saloons at 7.30 p. m., was defeated by a few hundred majority in the municipal elections. The sa- loons now close at midnight. To Encourage the Advanocement of horticulturs, Willlam E. Gable of Al- toons, Pa.. will distribute 20,000 silver maple trees among children of the public schools during this month, William S, Bennett, one of the life- saving crew at Southampton, L. I, found a large fur seal on the beach there yesterday. It is forty years since the last seal was seen along those shores. Julius Kruttschnitt and L. J. Spence !were the omly new directors elected at the stockholders’ mesting of the Southern Pacific company yesterday, succeeding W. Bayard Cutting, de- ceased, and Clarence Mackay, resigned. - A Trunk Full of Metals, Moulds and from now on would be confined to ap- |coins alleged to be counterfeit was propriation and supply bills. Meriden Chooses Taft Delegates. Meriden, Conn., April 5—The re- putilcan town convention tonight me- lected zix delegntes to the state con- ventibn at New FHaven. There wera no contests and the general under- standing was that the Meriden dele- gation reprezented the Taft sentiment in the party. William H. Lyon 18 the chatrman of the delegation. Steamship Arrivals. At Naples: April 2, Anacona, from NeA‘; {(;rk‘ 1 Apri: 8, verpcol: prii 8, Campan! from New York. e At Marseilles: March 31, Sant’ An- na, from Now York. At Havre: April 2, Chis from New York. gy selzed by the Chicopee police in a rald on a house at Chicopee, Mass., yesterday. Two Holyoke youths of 21, Joserh Kaput end Alexander Kobus- vemnski, were arrested. Matteo Abarno, l.eader of the ihree brigands who held up the New York taxicab robbers in a saloon and robbed them of $10,000 of their $25,000 loot, pleaded gulity yesterday to receiving Btolen goods and was remanded an- other week for sentence. The Application of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. to scquire a majority of the stock of the New York, Ontario & Western Reflroad Co. was denled yesterday by the New York public service commis- sion. The majority s 18 now own- | ceeded over his shoulders, Elood was flow- ing from his mouth, Wife and Mother Notified. Rodgers was lifted from the wreck and hurried to the bathhouse hospit- al. He dled on the way. Examination showed that his neck, jawbone and back were broker. A telegram™ was sent ti the aviatol’s widow, who lives in Pasadena, Cal, and a cablegram to nis mother, Mrs. H. 8. who is now in London. The body was prepared for burial and sent to Pasa- dena tonight, Machine Won $11,000 in Prizes, The machine that Rodgers used to- |day was the one with which he won 11,000 in prizes last July at the Chi- cago enfurance meet. It is a total wreck, many parts having been swept out i{o gea by the tide. PARIS AUTOMOBILE BANDIT CAPTURED. Made Attempt at Suicide, But Had Been Sold Harmless Pill. Paris, April 3.—Carouy, one of the automobile bandits who killed a chauf- feur at Villeneuvre-St. Georges, held up 2 bank at Chantilly, killing two of the employes, and stole $8,000, was ar- rested today. He was taken to police headquarters, where he attempted to kill himself. The police were informed that a bicyclist answering the descrip- tion of Carouy was seen at Grnd-Mont- rougs, Jouin, assistant superintendent of the detective service, at once pro- there and traced the man through Croix de Berny to Fresnes, where the trail was lost. The search was taken up by Supt. Guichard today and the man was run to earth in front of the railroad station at Lozere, some miles out of Paris. The police jumped | from their automobile and surrounded !and pinioned him before he was abls to draw either of two automatic pistols | with which he was armed. Carouy did not attmept to deny his identity. “Yes, I am Carouy, all right,” he said. “I belong to the band you are looking for.” But to other questions he gave no answer. Carouy, watching a favorable oppor- tunity, swallowed a tabloid. Police surgeons, however, subjected him to to such energetic treatment that the poison falled to act. Later it was discoveredby the doc- tors that instead of taking poison, Carouy swallowed a harmless com- ound which & druggist had sold him n place of a deadly preparation which he thought he was purchasing. When Carouy sald, “I am goi to dle,” the doctors laughed and replied: “Not at all; what you have taken will do you The prisoner was indignant at & re- port pr?nud in the newspapers that he had given the police information as to the other members of the band. MINERS VOTE TO REMAIN OUT UNTIL APRIL 2 Propesal to Return Pending Outcome of Reforendum Voted Down. Pittsburgh, April 3—Union miners throughout num'bf;ing 50,000, will remain idle un- til Monday, April 22. This decision was reached today at the annual con- vention of District No. b (Pittsburgh district), United Mine Workers of America. At the suggestion of Dis- trict President Feehan, the poorly or- ganized Mercer - Butler - Armstrong county field will be excepted and the en there will be kept al work with he companies paying the Increased wages. A proposal to have the miners re- gume work next Monday pending the yesult of the refersnddm vote on the Cleveland wage &cale compromise agreement was voted down unani- mously. i Waterbury Bsptist Church Burns. ‘Waterbury, Conn., April 3.—An over- heated pipe in the' cellar of the First Baptist church Iignited the wood around it shortly afetr 7 o'clock to- night, and in less than half an hour the building was a seething furnace, which continued to baffle the united efforts of all the firemen in the city until 11 o'clock, when the bullding was in ruins. The loss is estimated at #75,008. Schweltzer, | Suffers an Apoplectic Stroke. Fillgville, Va, April 3 —The stute of fiday in the cans- house aszassing out of their mountain | strenghold. Governor’s Proclamation. Governer Mann issued a proclems- | tion calling upon all citizens to with ’bulu ald from Sidna Allen and Wesley ".Ecwards, the only two uncaptured members ¢f the cotlaw troop which | shot vy Carroll courthvuse nearly o montn ago, and threatening proinpt | prosecutions for any person whe does asslst them, | Cousin Arrested as Aeccessory, This action had been arranged aft th the heads of the Detectives Beldwin, Payne and Edwards rode twenty miles iato the Fancy Gap section and ar- | rested Jerdan Edwards, a2 cousin of Wesley, and one of the Allen Kins- men, end locked him up on a charge of being an accessory after the fact In the courthouse muwders. Ovtlaws Have Received Aid. | 'With the backing of the governor §#t is now expecied that ralds on the Al !lens who vepulate t trict will be frequent. he det es pay they have been hampered in their hunt by false clues and traile, They are cer tain that Allen and E esived eid. ards bave re Without it thelr capture is a question of days. Jack Allen Has Shock. { it in another unsue- uring the mountain | ain told, however, on old father of Friel, now in jail for the shooting. He suflered a stroke of apoplexy. INCREASES ANNOUNCED IN SEVERAL OF MILAA. Except at Lowell, Boston, April 2—Weage Increages which are expected to restore indus- trial peace in cotton mills at Warren and Clinton, where operatives arc on strike, ware announced today. Officlals of the three mills of the Thorndike o any in Warren, which have been ed for a fortnight, gave notice to- t after a conference with some of the strikers that the mills will be re- opened tomerrow morning aud that » new wage schedule “based on Increases in other sections” will be put into af- fect. Hight hundred bhands are emn- ployed at these mills. At the Lancaster mills in Clinton which have been shut down for two weeks because of a sirike, an Increase averaging 10 per cent. was announced. It will affect 2,300 hands. Notices of advances were also post- ed at the Palmer cotton mille at Three Rivers, employing about 900 hanés; the cotton mills of the ThornAike com- pany at Thorndike, 600 hands, and the mills of the Boston Duck company at Bondsville, 600 hands. The 8.500 operatives In the cotton mills of the Nashva and Jackson Man- ufacturing company in Nashua, N. H. iearned today that they will benefit by a 10 per cent. wage advance, In Lowell, where 14,000 operatives are in idleness on account of the strike . and lockout, no progress toward a set- tlement was apparent today. MADERO TROOPS GAIN THEIR FIRST VICTORY Defeat Gener-l— Campa and Put Mim to Flight Jiminez, April 3—The troops of President Madero galned their first victory in the northern campaign when they defeated the liberal general, Cam- ra, at Parral, and sent him scurrying back to the bhase at this city. Instead of finding a handful of de- fenders at Parral under General Pan cho, he was met by deadly fire from a force which he estimated at 2,000 under commandé of Generals Villa, Tel- lez, Unlina and Soto. Cempa opened the fight at dawn vesterday, firing at long range with his artillery. In attempting to press closer, he was met by a withering fire ana retreated, having lost thrre killed and twelve wounded, according ta his own report today, tesides the loss of one of his big guns. The federals gave chase when Cam- pa_icireated. The latter left a rear guard of 400 urder Major Quevado to | checic and harrass the federals and to cover hsi retrext. Separation Caused Shooting. Provigence, R, I, April 3.—Rather than agree to a continued separation, James M. Gunner, a machinist, aged 44, attempted tonight to murder his wife Louise, and then shot himself in the head, dying Instantly. Mrs Gunner is expected to recover, though she has a wound in the head. Tht couple had lived apari nearly & year. 21,000 Europeans Arrive in Canada. Winnipeg, Man, April }—Twemky- one thousand settlers for the Canadian northwest arrived from the old coun- try today. Ninety per cent. of the | newcomers are from Great Britain, the | others being from different parts of | Wurope. Most of those who arrived | today will proceed to the western provinces of Canada to settle on western Pennsylvanls, | farme, Twelve Years for Dishonest Banker. Mexico City, April 3.—George L Ham resident of the defunct United Btates anking company, was today sen- tenced to twselve years’ imprisonment on three counts of the indictment against him charging misappropria- tion of the funds of the institution. Ham has been confined in the federa! district prison since the failure of the bank in Janusry, 1910. Killed by Washington Express. New Haven, Conn., April 8.—Bernard Donahue, aged 48, & wntchman employ- ed by the New York, New Haven and Hertford Railroad company,was struck by the Washington express in the Fast Haven lunnel early thls evening and instantly killed, eH lived at 276 Put- nam street and was single. New Haven Democrats Harmonisus. New Haven, Conn., Al pril 3—Bvery- was harmonious at the demo- Snd 30 delegnton, headed by wx-Miyor an g ex- James B, alected