Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 5, 1912, Page 1

NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, -APRIL 5, 1912 Name to Come | Compelled fo 0ff tne Ballot| Kiss Old Glory VOL. LIV—NO. 84 PROVISIONS AND TENTS AT HICKMAN Marooned Kentucky City Relieved--Water Supply of Willimantic Men-Representing Finance, the Law, Com~ merce, Manufacturing, and Other Interests, { Memphis Becomes Polluted NO INDICATION OF ABATEMENT OF THE FLOOD Several More Drownings and Many Persons Perched in Housetops and Trees—River Now Within Two-Tenths Foot of the “‘Dead-Line”’—Levees Appear to be Doomed —Practical Stoppage of Navigation on the Mississippi. No sign of abatement of the flood s keeps the larger steamboats tied up, which for days has dealt or threatened | because they cennot get under the disaster all along the banks of the Mississipol river from St Louis te Arkansas City comforted yvesterday the thousands of homeless sufferers wait- ing for the return of normal conditions to go home and find out what the water has lelt them, Instead, the water came from the north In ever-increas- ing volume, with predictions that more would follow. Last night saw the river within two- tenths of a foot of what the Memphis | weather bureau had termed the dead- line—44 feet. In his opinion the levees will go when the pressure Yepresented by that much water is reached. A stage of 45 feet, 10 feet above the danger lne, is predicted. Weak spots have appeared, too, at Mound City, Ark, and at the Reel Foot levee west of Hickman, Ky. All along the river shifts of men en~ engagad in reinforcing the sorely test- ed levees were urged to redouble efforts, while behind the dykes those who had not obeyed the warning and fled, gath- ered up or secured their movable prop- erty and hastened to the hills. Numer- ous unccnfirmed reports of breaks in levees not designed to withstand an unheard of flood increased anxlety the length of the danger zone. The day, however, brought relief in the shape of provislons and tents to the 8,500 refugees at Hickman, Ky., that number inciuding the 2,000 driven from their homes in the factory dis- trict there and 1,600 gathered in from the submerged area across on the Mis- wouri side. Governor Harmon of Ohie today offered more tents for the suf- ferers in Kentucky and Tennessee. At Memphis, where no less than a dozen first class river steamers are tled up, the flooding of the whole of the low-lying section in the northern part of the city, it is feared, has pol- luted the water supply. The health au- thoritias have warned the residents of the closed-in section to boll the drink- ing water as a preventive measure. The death list was swelled today. At Burkesville, Ky., Miss Allen Alexander was drowned when & boat oapsized in the overflowed section of Red river. A negro was drowned at New Madrid, Mo. At Craigs Landing, Mo., 11 employes of the Mengel Box company of Hick- man, Ky, were placed for a time in a desperats predicament, having remain- ed behind when 39 others were taken away in boats At length they were rescued. One of the phases of the flood is the | mtoppage of practically all traffic, not only on the Mississippl, but on the Ohio and the other navigable tribu- taries of the Father of Waters. Usual- 1y a “big river” is the signal for an nrasuel amount of traffic. Especially is this true of the “coal fleets” from Pittsburg, which go down the Ohio whenever possible on a “rise” Now, however, hundreds of barges and coal boats are fast walting until the Mis- issippl is open for towboats again. High water, too, on most of the streams bridges. SITUATION AT MEMPHIS. Mayor Says Commercial Interests Are Not Affected. i Meraphis, Tenn., April 4—Mayor E. H. Crump of Memphis said today he had recelved a number of telegrams {from mayors of larger cities express- ing sympathy for and tendering aid to Memphis because of the Mississippi river flood. Mayor Crump attributed these telegrams to grossly exaggerated reports sent out regarding the situa- tion, and requested The Associated Press to disseminate the following of- ficial statement, signed by him: “Memphis has 19 square miles, and ot this territory not over eight blocks contiguous to Bayou Gayoso is af- fected by the overflow, and that is an eld section of the city in the extreme north, and which is very low and which has been subject to overflow ever since Memphis was a town. The commercial interests in the city are not affected, and with the exception of a few people who live in the small overflowed districts, largely made up of negroes, who have moved time after time before on account of high water, the rest of the city is not affected. “Memphis is situated on a high bluft and before Memphis proper could be overflowed the entire country would be covered with a sheet of water for hun- dreds of miles to a depth of 15 or 20 feet.” Six Feet of Water in Street. New Madrid, Mo., April 4—Water F. R. JORDAN, stands from three to six feet deep in the streets of the city tonight. There is water in every house and the dis- tress is great. Business has been sus- ended and the city is almost deserted. 0 trains are running into or out of the town. The casualty list has been length- oned according to reports brought to Charleston, Mo., by refugees from the inundated towns of Birds M1l and Wy- att. They say several persons have been drowned, and many are perched upon housetops and in trees awaiting rescue, There are no boats at Charles- ton to go to their assistance, but mo- tor boats enroute from Popular Bluff and Moorehouse should reach them by tomorrow. All communication had been cut off. The number drowned or in danger could not be obtained from the refugees. loe Jam Breaks a Dam. Aarora, Ill, April 4—The Fox river dam at St. Charles, Ill, broke today, a jam of ice tearing a huge hole in the center of the structure. The back- water from the ice jam is flooding the lower portions of the city, particularly the residence district of West First street, Dynamite is being used to break up the jam., The river rose four feet during the morning, the highest point ever reached at St Charles. S ————C DISCHARGED EMPLOYE oy “SHOOTS UP" A SHOP, Kills Two Men and Wounds Three, One Fatally. Holsington, Kas., April {—Two men' were killed and three others were in- Jjured, one probably fatally, at the Mis- souri-Pacific rallroad shops here to- night whe na discharged employe, Bud 8m o negro, engaged in a revolver 1i with shop employes. Mortally wounded, Smith was rescued by offi- cers from a crowd intent upon lynch- ing him. The dead are Smith and Charles Loven, s watzhmen. C. W. Layman, & from wounds. Smith was discharged vesterday. To- Ight he appeared at the shops and »>] he was “going to kill some- timekeeper, will hman loven warned him , Bmith shot and killed the watchman and wounded‘Layman, who was standing near. Shop employes rushed to the aid of their feliows, shooting at the megro, whe returnad their fire as he retreated Two bystanders were wounded by stray buliete. Smith was shot several times and fell mortally wounded. rpite of his conditlon, leaders of a ecrowd which gathered helped him to his feet and amid cries of ‘“Lynch him!” were hurrying him away when officers arrived and assuring the crowd the negro would be given a speedy trial if he recovered, took him in charge. Smith died a few minutes later, MINE WORKERS CONDEMN ATTEMPT AT DYNAMITING. Effort to Blow Up Home of an Engi- noer of Colliery, Philadelphia, April 4.—Active re- eruiting for members among the un- emploved miners by the organizers of the United Mine Workers and the an- nouncernent by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway comvany that work- ers in the shops of the company would be put on short time during the sus- pension were among the events today in the anthracite coal reglons. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad todey laid off all except four of the 24 coal crews employed at the Scranton yards. Leaders of the mine workers con- demned the attempt made at Trevorton to dynamite the home of Andrew Wil- liams, engineer of a small colliery at Dunkelbergers, and the blowing up of a small section of the Philadelphia and Reading railway track at the same place. Dormitory Burns at Negroes’ School, Kansas City, Mo., April 4—Ward hall, the largest dormitory of West- ern university, an industrial school for negroes at Quindaro, Kan., seven miles rorthwest of here, was destroyed by fire tonight. Loss $50,000. Municipal Skating Rings Advecated. Indianapolis, Ind., April 4—Munici- pa! skating rinks and dance halls were advocated ‘today at the child’s welfare exhibition by Rev, E. 8. Wicks of All Souls’ Uniarian church, o \;.u».a'u 4 | {came east from San Francisco, where MISS WHALEY HOMESICK FOR HOME AND FRIENDS Girl Who El‘opad With Clergyman Calls on Grandmother. Hempstead, L. I, April 4—Floretta ‘Whaley, who eloped from Hempstead six years ago, when 18 years old, with Rev. Jore K. Cooke, rector of the ex- clusive St. George's Episcopal church, of which August Belmont is senior warden, returned to the home of her grandmother here yesterday with the statement that she was homesick for old friends and relatives. Cooke did not accompany her, and she stayed but a short while, then returning to New York, where she joined the ex- communicated clergyman. Where they were smy(n% in New York could not be learned he The former minister and the girl who renounced her family for his sake they have been living since the elope- ment on March 5. Scarlet fever and | diphtheria were epldemic in San Fran- cisco at the time and inesmuch as In | | father's estate; and upon the death of { her aged grandmother, a child had been born to them, it was deemed expedient to come east for a ! hort visit in order that [Floretia might sce her relatives, When Cooke and the girl left Hemp- stead he deserted his wife, who was a member of a prominent and well to do family in Hartford, Conn. The elopement created a sensation through Long Island. Miss Whaley will short- ly inherit more than $25,000 from her Whaley ‘of this place, she will receive about $50,000 more, Cook has gone into the decorating business in San Francisco and prospered. Had Been Living in Poverty, San Francisco, April 4—Floretta Whaley and Jere C. Cooke were dis- covered here in dire poverty not long after the elopement. They had taken a furnished room in a port part of the town and Cooke was earning his | living as a house painter and decora- tor, Friends of the Whaley family plead- ed with Floretta to return to her rei- alives, but she continued ‘to live on obscurely with the man of her choice. Two children were born to them. No recent epidemic of scarlet fever or diphtheria is on record here. SUPREME COURT RULES ON THE CHELSEA FIRE. Declares It “Act of God Beyond Power of Human Hand to Prevent-’ Boston, April 4—The $12,000,000 Chelsea fire of 1908 was legally recog- nized by the supreme court today as ‘an act of God beyond the power of human hand and the Standard Of company to prevent,” and as a result the company won a $40,000 damage suit brought against it. Several oil tanks belonging to the company ex- ploded during the fire and the burning oil, spreading over the waters of Chel- sea creek, set fire to and consumed the bassenger steamer Mary, owned by Capt, Alfred Sorenson. Captain Seren- son brought suit against the company for the value of the steamer Mre, Kaziah |. Cabled Paragraphs Condensed 'Leleéf;n; Port au Prince, Hayti, April 4—The cruiser Washington, with Secretary Krox and the members of his party aboard, sailed at noon today for Guan- tanamo, Cuba. London, April 4—The home rule bill which is to be introduced by Premier Asquith in the house of commons on April 11 will provide for an Irish par- liament consisting of two ho?ses. London, Aprfl 4—The magistrate presiding at the Bow street police court today .aMowed Mrs. Pankhurst, the leader of the militant suffragettes, to be released on bail in $10,000 pend- ing her appearance at the Old Bailey sessions, to be tried on the charge of conepiracy. London, April 4.—Alfred H. Morley and Clark A. Miller, former residents of New York, who have been carrying on a lithographic business in London since June last, appeared at the Bow strest police court today on a charge of alleged larceny. They were arresi- ed yesterday in London at the request of the New York police. MAYOR ATTEMPTS TO END LOWELL STRIKE 8ubmits Proposition to Manufacturers and Operatives. Lowell, Mess.,, April 4 —A proposi- tion to end the strike and lockout of 14,000 employes in the cotton mills of this city was made by Mayor James E. O'Donnell to the manufacturers and to the opsratives today., No general action on the proposal was taken by either side tonight. The mayor's sug- gestion s that: “All the mills now closed shall open on next Monday, April 8, under the new schedule of wages of March 25; the operatlves to work for at least three weeks under the scale. Then if the wage conditione have mnot been satisfactorily adjusted, the operatives shall make such specific demands as they may desire, and in the event of | being refused, cease worlk.” “I am actuated in making this sug- gestion,” added the mayor, “by a very strong assurance that in the event of the operatives returning to work on next Monday, the mill authorities within three weeks will have adjusted the present differences in a manner that will be satisfactory to the em- ployes.” None of the mill agents who were asked about the mayor's plan tonight would admit the probabllity of-thelr granting any further increases. Tn anticipation of a long industrial struggle, many of the operatives have gone to Canade, Lawrence, Nashua, Manchester and other textile centers where wages have been advanced 10 per cent. or more. So far 2s the French-Canadiar workers are concerned, it is not un- common for them to return to their homes in the provinces every spring, coming back to Lowell in the fall after the crops are in. The strikers today paraded in the mill district, carrying two red flags as well as the stars and stripes. CLOTH PRICES ADVANCE BECAUSE OF WAGE RAISE. Most Goods Increased One-fourth Cent, Some One-half Cent. Boston, April 4.—The general ad- vance of about 10 per cent. just made in nearly all of the cotton mills of New England means an increase of a quar- ter of a cent a yard for most goods. Print cloths, prints, gray goods and sheetings are all up a half cent a yard. Cambrics and drills have been notched up one-quarter cent. It is expected that these advances will be sufficient to meet the Increased manufacturing cost and furnish a normal profit once more, But the mills will not get the benefit until midsummer and by that time three yeers of no-profit conditions will have rolled around. Y Killed by Rejected Suitor. Detroit, Mich.,, April 4—Mrs, Helen Marshall, an employe of a Woodward avenue shoe store, was shot and killed tonight by Jemes Rasaco, who then ended his own life, Mrs. Marshall came to Detrolt from Brantford, Ont. Rasasco was a well to do fruit mer- chant. He was Infatuated with Mrs. Marshall, who declined to receive his attentions. Mrs. Marshall had been x:_smrated frem her husband for some ime s S A vhconh o Do it S S s S U R . St it SN A S RS eSSt Sttt e i A Mayor Gaynor Requested Herman Ridder to act as chairman of the Fourth of July celebration committee. Dr. Isaac K. Funk, founder and pres- ident of the publishing firm of Funk & Wagnall Co, died at his home at Montclair, N, J., yesterday, in his 73d year, F. C. Costello, a Prominent real cs- tete and Insurance man of New Brit- &in, committed suicide by shooting in the head with a revolver at his office yesterday. A Proclamation Has Been Prepared by Miss Lorena Cruce, daughter of Gov. Lee Cruce, calling upon the peo- ple of Oklahoma to observe Mothers’ day, May 12, 1912, Secretary “Bob” Adamson, Mayor Gaynor’s chief of staff, received an In- vitation from Georgia to go down and help celebrate the 100th anniversary of two botties of brandy. Wholesale Prices of Food and prod- ucts increased 2 per cent. during 1911 aver the previous year although whole- sale prices generamlly of 257 articles declined 1.7 per cent. William Lynn, a Mariana, Ark, planter, is under arrest, charged with bavin;; shot and killed three of his farm bands, negroes, and wounding Gordon Wright, a bystander. Mount Holly, N, J.,, Was Threatened with destrucilon by fire for a time when the plant of the R. P. 8. Wood company, manufacturers of fireproof felting, was destroyed by fire. A“Mystery Was Cleared Up with the appearance at the Philadelphia marine recrulting station of Theodore Furman of Middletown, N. Y., whose brother was suspected of having killed him. Powell Roberts, the American ar- rested at Juarez and taken to Chi- huahua, was tried by rebel courtmar- tial as a Maderista spy and acquitted. He will return to Bl Paso tomorrow. The German Aeronautical Union has opened a subscription list~to provide for a national aerial fleet so as to en- able Germany to keep pace with {«:rance‘ln the development of aeronau- cS. Officials of One of the Leading west- ern railroads have begun a campaign against the waste of pins. Emploves have heen tcld that greater care in conserving them will be demanded in the future. Good Roads as a Means of promot- ing courtshlp in the rural districts were advocted by Bishop Samuel Fal- lows In an address before the Ilinols ‘Women's State Good Roads convention at Chicago. Vi-Kynin-Wellington Kos, a Chinese undergraduate at Coiumbia universi- ty, wag chosen for the diplomatic posi- tlon of English secretary to President Yuan-Shih-Kal of China. Koo is only 22 years old. leon Taliaferre, a 30-Year-Old Negro escaped lynching at Elkton, Ky., only through the pleading of George W. Robinsen, upon whose wife the negro 15 alleged to have attempted a crimi- nal assault. Following the Expulsien of Thirty members of the Industrial Workers of the World from San Diego, Cal, and the announcement that others were to bo deported. labor agitation there has ceased temporarily. Governor Mann of Virginia oned Ernest Lyons, a negro preac! er, who has served three years of an 18 year term for slaying a rival preacher. The dead man returned last Sunday and preached a sermon. Because Only About 100 Operatives entered the three mills of the Thorn- dike company at West Warren, Mass., when the intes were thrown open vesterday, the management decided not to resume operaticns, Accerding to Joe Miller, one of the leaders of the Industrial Workers, forty thousand men reported idle in Kangas City, thirty thousand in San Francisco and thousands in other cit- iee, will be brought to Southern Cali- fornia if necessary, to win the free- lcch.ch fight now en at San Diego, & ¢ GOVERNOR FOSS WITHDRAWS IN | LESSON IN PATRIOTISM TO IN. | MASSACHUSETTS, WON'T HELP THE CAUSE And Would Defeat Purposs of the Primary—Fight Is New Between Governor Wilson and Champ Clark. Boston, April 4—Gov, Eugene N. Foss withdrew his name tonight from %he presidential preference primarty ballot. In a letter accompanying the withdrawal, he asked that delegates’ candidetes pledged te him consider themselves as unpledged. The Governor's Letter. The letter of Governor Foss, which i= addressed to Thomas P. Riley, chairman of the democratic state com- mittee, says in part: “I regret to learn that representa- tives of one or more of the avowed candidates for the presidency are in Boston today for the purpose of with- drawing their names from the ballot for tke presidential preference primary In Massachusetts, It is reported that they are taking this step out of court- esy to me. Please communicate with these representatives if possible and urge them to permit the names of their candidates to remain upon the ballot. Would Defeat Purpose of Primary. “I deeply appreciate the courtesy indicated by such intended withdraw- al; but if only one name appears pn the ballot, then there will be ho chance for a popular expression of preference and I cannot consent to such an arrangement. As you know, my name has been entered upon the baliot by the democratic state com- mittee as an act of loyalty to myself as the party leader in the state, an 1act which I greatly appreciate, But if I were to permit it to remain there, causing other names to be withdrawn, the purpese ef the primary itself would be defeated, Would Not Help Cause. “In my judgment, my election to congress in the Fourteenth district, and two succesaive elections to the governorship of Massachusetts on a platform of tariff revision and reci- procity constitutes a sufficient indica- tiun as to the sentiment of this state on these important issues. The ap- pearance of my name upon the ballot in accord with the old idea of voting for so-called ‘favorite’ sons would not help the cause, Hence, I have written to the secretary of state today, direct- ing that my name be taken off the ballct, and shall request such dele- gates as have been pledged to me to consider themselves entirely un- pledged.” Clark and Wiison on Ballot, The withdrawal of the name of Gov- ernor Foss from the primary ticket leaves two candidates, Woodrow Wil- son and Champ Clark, on the demo- cratic presidentlal preference ballot. Still another day remains, however In which either or both of these candi- dates may withdraw their names. Congressman James M. Curley of Bos- ton, a Clark supporter, was in the city today, and it is understood that his visit was in the interest of Mr. Clark. Card Game at Primary Election. New York, April 4—Freaks of the recent primary election, when ballots failed to reach several polling places and voters could not register their choice, were brought to light in the appeliate division of the supreme court in Brooklyn today. In one dlstrict, when no ballots had appeared five hours after the polls were supposed to open, all pretense of holding an elec- tion was abandoned and a card game was started. “UNFAIR METHODS.” Roosevelt Still A¢cusing Opponents of Misusing Him, Parkersburg, W, Va, April 4.— Btriking hard at his political oppo- nents here, Colonel Roosevelt charged them in a speech tonight with using unfair methods in an effort to defeat him at the cenvention soon to be held in this city. The former president said he had been informed that plans were belng made to turn the Wood county con- vention against him notwithstanding that it had been represented to him that a large majority of the people were on the Roosevelt side. The col- onel appealed to the people to do all that lay within their power to make the convention one which would be a fair expression of the popular will, Colonel Roosevelt's speech was do- livered at the close of the second day of his campaign in West Virginia and Kentucky. He remained in Parkers- burg five hours, during which time ho made two speeches. JORDAN EDWARDS SNIFFS AT OFFER OF $1,500 REWARD Refuses to Betray His Kinsmen, the Allen Outlaws. | 4 —Another day's purstit of the courthouse assas- gins still at large had brought no news of success from the posses in the mountains late tonight. Jordan ¥dwards, one of the Allens’ kinsmen, arrested yesterday, charged with giving aid to Stdna Allen and ‘Wesley Edwards, the only two out |laws of the band who have not been | taken, was given a grilling by thc | chief of detectives today in the hope that he might tell their whereabouts The mountaineer was firm and did not betray them. He scorned an offer that the $1,500 offered for the men would be his if he gave them up. It turned out that he is in Sidna Allen’s debt. Detectives have found-a great many others in this county In the same plight, who fear being suspected of alding officers. A change of venue for the trial of the murderers seems certain. Clerk Goad, fhe only officer of Carroll court who was not killed in the assassina- tion of March 14, is the principal wit- ness for the prosecution. The Allens probably will not be tried in a court where one of its officers was a prose- cuting witness, Merchants & Miners Fined $20,000, New Orleans, La., April 4—A pen- alty of $20,000 fine imposed by Judge Emery Speer upon the Merchants & Miners \ Transportation Co. in the U. 8. district court was affirmed today by the United States circuit court of ap- peals. The case practically involved the giving of rebates to shippers, Canadian Pacific May Enter Boston. Boston, April ¢—An order inviting the Canadlan Pacific raliroad to ex- tend its lines to Boston was adopted by the house today. The order mow Foes to the senate. | to stop the cons DUSTRIAL WORKERS. SAN DIEGO DISCIPLINE - Undesirables There Marched Out of County to Air of “Star Spangled Banner,” and Warned to Keep Out. San Diego, Cal,, April 4.—Nearly 100 Industrial Workers of the World, all of whom admitted they were anar- chists, knelt on the ground and kissed the folds of an American flag at early dawn today near San Omofre, a small setllement a short distance this side of Orange county boundary line, Surrounded by Armed Men, The ceremony, which was most un- willingly performed, was witnessed by 45 deputy marshals and a large of armed citizens of San Diego. men who were thus forced to sh respect to the national emblem posed the party that left Santa Anns on a freight train the night before, and whese coming was awaited by the deputies and armed citizens who had gone out In automobiles to meet Lhem and drive them back, Marched to “Star Spangled Banner.” The Industrial Workers were stop- ped at San Onofre and detained there untii this morning. After the fla, kissing the Indusirlal Workers were divided into squads of five and placed in command of detalls of deputies. ‘When the march to the line was start- ed and the procession moved to the tune of the “Star Spangled Banner,” in which the Industrial Workers were compelled to make at least a show of Jolning. Warned to Keep Away. At the Orange county line the men who had come from Santa Anna were given a parting ution to keep out of San Diego ccunty. They siarted north on the raillway track. MILITIA ON GUARD. Strikers in Suburbs of Utica, N. Ye Become Obstreperous. Utica, N. Y, April 4—With thres companies of the state militia patrol- ing the streets of New York mills to- night, the scenes of disorder early im the day were not repeated and the strike situation is comparatively quiet. The soldiers, members of the 28th and 44th Beparate companies of this city and the 31st company of Mohawk, are stationed absut the three big cottom mills to prevent damage to the proper- ty, and are also walking the streets dispersing groups of sirikers as soom as they form. Women Worst Offenders. The appearance of the armed men put a stop to the brawls between the strikers and the recently sworn in dep- uties. The women were the greater offenders tonight, for they insisted on getting together and hurling epithets at the guards and militiamen. It wi necessary in several instances to lite! ally drive the women to their homes. Strikers to Be Evicted. Trouble is expected tomorrow be- cause many of the atrikers who occu- py houses belonging to the New York Mills company will be asked to vacate. There are several hundred families housed in the company's property and the attempt to evict them will un- doubtedly cause a demonstration. Sheriff Closes Up Saloons. Beven men were arrested during the day for participation in brawls. Dep- utles were stoned in several instances and forced to fight back with loaded billies. One man waa cut about the face, but no serious damage was done. The sheriff has issued a riot proclama. tion and the saloons have been closed by his orders. The few employes of the mills who have not joined the strikers are hard at work in the en- deavor to save the goods in process of construction. STRIKERS SLEEP OUTDOORS. Industrial Workers Having Little Sue- cess in British Columbia. Seattle, Wash., April 4—Despatches from points in British Colinmbia and Washington where the Industrial ‘Workers of the World have undertaken tion of two great transcontinental railways and the lum- ber industry, indicate that the “revolu« tion,” as their leaders call the strike, is not making progress. The Grand Trunk Pacific men still are at work, and the rainy weather along the Canadian Northern has dla- couraged the Canadian Northern strik- ers, who sleep out of doors. The strikers know that the promot- ers of these rallroads are determinad to build a certain amount of track this year to have the roads in operation on fixed datés next r and that the companies will not permit the oom- tractors to be idle any long period, Hence the rtrikers belleve they cam bring the contractors to terms, THE DAY IN CONGRESS, Bill Intreduced to Break Up Shipping Pools and Comhbines. Washington, 4—The day M congress: Senate:— Finance committee heard protests from Porto Rieans against froe sugar bill, April mator Jones gave notice he wout speak next Wednesday on Colonel Roosevelt's views of judicial reecall. Eill authorizing appointment of den« tal surgeons in navy passed. Senator Smith, Arizona, failed be- cause it was executive business te have read into the Record protest of Arizona leglslature against confirma- tion of Richard H. Sloan as United States district judge. House:— Representative Humphrey introduc- ed bill, approved by department of Justice, designed to break up shipping Pools and combines. Cinsidered Indian appropristion bill, carrying 37,466,255, Kentucky delegation urged appropri- atlons committes to favorably report bill appropriating $250,000 additionsl for flood preventive work. 8mallpox Leaves No Scars. Naugatuck, Conn., April 4.—Six of the smallpox patients confined at (he g‘ullfion hospital have recovered from = 3 row as d. The form of the dlscase is so mild that it is sald no scars ap- pear upon the body. Kerosene Lamp Exploded. Danbury, Conn,, 1 4—The - sion of a iaruma‘lf:i mm - t in the & louse ocoupled s M, B. No. §1 Eim atrest. Lomm-abont §800,