Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 13, 1912, Page 1

] VOL. LIV.—NO. 91 NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912 PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Girculation is the Larsjest in Com;étiéut in Proportion to the 7(:ity"s Popuiatir=,, SIXTY MORE ™ =3l ROOSEVELT IGNORED RULES OF GLUB Talked Politics to Commercial Travelers After Hav- ing Been Told That It Was Barred AN ABUSE OF HOSPITALITY AT SPRINGFIELD Told His Auditors That He Could Not Refrain From Talking Politics Because It Represented His Deepest Convictions —Asserts That Courts Have Unjustly Overturned Sev- eral Laws—Club Members Forget Rule and Applaud. Mass, April 12—Al- eived a broad hint not to Colonel Roosevelt spoke here tonight and It was After paying his respe: er who laid the injunction the names of the presidential electors or either of the old parties in its party column next fail Both the democrats and republicans will vote directly for 84 of their na- tional delegates, two from each con- gressional district, and the remaining Springfield though he r talk politics, for an hour upord him, he made the flat statement that he belleved his hearers wanted | twelve will he closen at the respec- him to say what he belleved. When | tive conventions, the delegates to he sat down his face was wet with|whica will also be chosen tomorrow. perspiration, so vigorously had he| Supporters of Theodore Roosevelt rpoken for the repubiican nomination are the only delegates in the republican party to take advantage of that section of the uniform primary law which per- Religion and Politics Prohibited. Colonel Roosevelt's forbidden speech was delivered before the Commerclal| mits Gelegates to have the name of Travelers' club of Springfield. Three | peir choice for te nomination printed hundred members of the club were | 0" ¢ haliot present. It was Willlam G. Mc- The slated candidates of the regular Kechnie, who introduced the toast- | ropumicr o cdnization throughout the master, who told the Colonel that pol-| giate have declaréd in favor of the ities was barred re-alection of President Taft, but they “Religlon and politics play 1o part| o’ voche bound by any instructions in this organisation” said Mr. Me- "o voters because Mr. Taft's name | Kechnle, in his introductory speech. | (%70 "o nn o inon the bailots. “Any reference thereto is expressly| " potn wings of the democratic or- prohibited by its constitution.” ganization in this state have Geclared Toastmaster’s Explanation. in favor of the nomination of Woodrow Wilson for president. Republicans Endorse Democrat. Naugatuck, Conn., April 12—At the republican caucus tonight Warden Wil- McKechnie referred to the fact that he was a democrat, nd that there were differences ¢ opinion among republicans, pointing to the fact that Albert P. Langtry, secretary of liam 7. Neary, a democrat, was en- state, who was the toastmaster, Was8| jorgeq for warden. The democrats at & supporter of the present administras| ypeir caucus last night also named Mr. tion and was “unequivocally opposed” | Nogry 5o his election is assured at the to the political doctrines of the guest|;,, a] porough election in May. The f the e ing socialists, however, have a ticket in Later on, he con i, the club} the feld, but they are in the minority would as its et other public men who did e with Colonel Roosevelt, “They will receive the| MURDER MYSTERY same degree of attention as we give AT POINT OF PINES. to Colonel Roosevelt,” he sald. Langtry Compliments Roosevelt, George E. Marsh of Lynn Found With When Mr. Langtry arose he made no Five Bullet Wound: reference to his own political belief and paid a compliment to Colonel| Lynn, Mass, April 12—George . Roosevelt as one of the cc most | Marsh, the wealthy president of the distinguished men. George E. Marsh Soap Manufacturing During these introductory remarks | company, whose body, lacerated by the colonel ast quite still, looking | five steel pointed bullets, was found straight ahead of him with a quizzical | Jying on the rocky embankment of the expression. When he arose to deliver| Point of Pines Boulevard today, was speech there was a round of ap_ d then an expectant silemce. Gives Democrats a Thrust. murdered while riding in an automo- bile according to the theory adopted by the police tonight. Beyond the ex- pression of that belief Chief of Police gt Oty hipeeaseg, .‘,",'\”L'M,”';f:] Thomas M. Burckes had little to say Kechnie's ex ation that there was | regarding the investigation. He ad- o politics here and that therefore ne | Mitted that the mystery presents many i obliged to warn me that both he | baffiing features and that there is lit- T ety Miterly disagreed | tle, if any, prospect of an immediate With my policies. And in furtherance | ATost. g ; e keep e our of polic | , Mr. Marsh was T1 years old, and in O D ey ot e s ieni- | feeble health. He fs known to have B e ditsercoments sban ‘our | been in the business section of the ? clty yesterday afternoon and was seen to board an electric car bound towards his home. Chief Burckes is of the ander the mistak- Soiing over with harmony. 16 Mr, | opinion that when within 150 yards of _—_ o omined ™ {hat | his home Mr. Marsh was picked up by 3 Pt would suggest | SOme one in an automobile. joint ”‘ '“I", be- “The police are completely at sea” fessrs Hun\‘.m and ‘\\'flnun said Chief Burkes, PL mn aetiation T il Dnuerrad 0™ | that it is a case of murder and that Hending down 1o Mr. Langtry, who | the pistol shots were fired in some kind e B, (¥10 | of 4 vehicle, supposedly an automobile, said: | and that the tragedy occurred between Can’t Refrain From Talking Politics. | nine and ten o'clock last night. Aft- Secr: I deeply appreciate ' er the shooting, the body was taken th K v Is 1 have ed in in- | In an automobile, I believe, to Sea ' It 1 know u wished me extension, which is the state ‘ ssachu: 8 to tell you y between Lynn and Revere esons the faith that lies in [ and was thrown over the fence, land- went on M icg where it was found this morning.” aid your association | The police have investigated a va- traedom of speech. That | riety of rumors. All theories as to the ' wish an n to speak | motive of the crime nave failed to de- ankness and [ wild not come | velop. A sum of money and a gold ifised g from speaking of poli- | watch were found on the body, indi- t b h me politics rej cating that robbery was not the mo- » Dest ictions as to the | tive, = of the country and of | Mr. Marsh is not known to have kad speak to you of them?” | trouble with anyone, or to have Lad Government's Present Policy Wrong, 4Ny enemies. He had not owned an s et o automoblie or a horse and buggy for mels hearers hardly Knew f geveral years, Mr. Marsh lived with | at first how to rggeive what he had| s gister, Miss Hannah Marsh, and cald. A welt on he was inter- | qwo servants. He was twice married, rupted quently with applause, ATt- | pu¢ hoth wives are dead. er expressing his determination to talk politics despite the restriction laid up- | HT o o g s of corpora. | TEN JURORS DRAWN e o o sith i FOR REDDING TRIAL L i ampaign it | Box May Be Filled Today and Evi- VaS DeRSetar ¢ er. both m,.; dence Started on Monday. siness e country and its — ra. sserted that the| New Haven, April 12—When ad- ot O f the government fo- | journment of superior court was taken 5 pors « was wrong, ond that | this afternoon, ten jurors had been $hs fitlls {5 Ly to “nig | drawn in_the trial of young George tsbed it 5 Redding, Jr, for the murder of Morris Greenberg on February 24 last. T For Three Eight-Hour Shifts. |furors chosen today. wors Alrcances d to ha policy of | Reel, age 66, of Milford; Cornelius str ng business said, “hut it | Hammond, age 73, of Seymour; Mor- h e to have a J of enam |ris G. Fosdiek, age 72, of Ansonia; " John R. 8. Todd, age 66, of Wolcott: President Tait stated,” | Barlo §, Honce, age 68, of Branford: ( sa later, “that | Dwight Johnson, age 65, of Bethany, se W ocated my polistes in| Mr. Honce acted. as a juror at the regard judiciary ‘wish to put | Kritchman murder trial, an jous hand on the ark of the| The panel of 320 talesmen was ex- eovenant.’ " | hausted at today’s session and a new He then esplained his iivas in re- | one of sixty will be drawn tomorrow, gard to the cou ral laws | From present indications the remain- il he said had an- | ing jurors will be selected tomorrow stly overturned ¢ move- | morning and court will adjourn until ments we intend to “huilt.” he | Monday morning, when the actual trial said s that instes d ive- | will comunence. shifts se woek for | 2 orkmen, w ha ree bt -hour Rl SV ars. n wees ! Funston to Succeed Grant. q R | Chevenne, Wyo., April 12.—A private “My Fight is For Justice. | despatch said to have been sempby an % am told,” he went on, “that when | official of the war department at I insist upon the people having the | Washington was received at Fort D. A. right to pass upon such luws affecting | Russell tonight saying that Senlor their welfare, I am ‘laying an implous | Brigadier General Frederick Funston hand upon the ark of e covenant.' | would suceeed the late Major General My fi t is for justic | Frederick I Grant and that Brigadier \fter his addre loniel Roosevelt | General Clarence R. Bawards, chief of wen' to the Central High school, where | the insular bureau, would succeed he spoke for & few minutes to a crowd | Funston as brigadler of the line, which filled the auditorium. Then | he went to his car, to leave late at To Explore Arctic Land. ‘Washington, April 12—George Borup and D. M. MeMillan, two of Peary’s as- sociates in his successfuledash for the North Pole, are to head an_expedition to be sent out by the New York Muse- jum for the exploration of land in the night for Nashua. N. H. PENNSYLVANIA TODAY, Both Parties to Choose 64 National Delegates in_Primaries. middle of the Arctic ocean which ) 2 ‘ Peary sighted while on his memorable Philadelphia. April 12—Pennsyivania | trip,” The party will sail July 30 next. delezations of 76 delegates to both the and republican national conventions depend upon- the result | emoeratic and republican national con- | cntions devend upon the result of to- morrow’s primaries, Delegates will also be chosen for the Keystone state con- vention which will decide the ques- uor whether that party shall print democratic $10,000 Fire at New Haven. New Haven, Conn., April 12.-—Fire this evening destroyed the combina- tion barn and house of Theodore A. Blake, at Blake's Corner, at the end of the Dixwell avenue car line, causing a loss of $10,000, partly insured | Cabled Paragraphs Dublin, Ireland, April 12.—The na- tionalist papers of Ireland on the | whole consider the government's home | rule bill as satisfactory, although some | of them profess to regard it as not be- | ing final Berlin, April 12—The Prussian gov- | ernment has decided to prolong the | entire $50,000,000 of short term 4 per | cent. treasury notes payable in July, a large amount of which was placed in America during the erisis of 1911. Peking, China, April 18.—The British representative of the Belglan financial syndicate signed at Shanghai yester- day a contract for the loan of a fur- ther sum of 2,000,000 taels (approxi- mately $1.400,000) as an advance on the propjected big loan to the Chinese gov- ernment. Nice, April 12.—A serles of Franco- British festivities signifying, according to the French press, another powerful demonstration of the vitality of the friendship between the two countries, bezan here todey, when an imposing monument was dedicated to the late Queen Victoria. Rome, Aprfl 12.—General aCneva, commander of the Italian army of oc- cupation in Tripoli, telegraphs today that the Ttalian fiag was planted yes- terday on Beu Chermez, near the Tun- isian frontier. TELEPHONE FOREMAN SAVES A CABLE SPLICER. C. Fred Welch Grabbed E. C. Burke as He Was Falling. Waterbury, Conn,, April 12—At the risk of his own life, C, Fred Welch, district cable foreman of the Southern New England Telephone company, this afternoon saved E. C. Burke, a cable splicer, from falling 25 feet form the arm of a telephone pole to the pave- ment. Burke's right foot managed to slip 5o that it came into contact with an_electric light wire carrying 2,300 volts, His right hand and foot were burning when Welch noticed his plight, and, after reaching the opposite arm, grasped Burke by the belt as he was falling. Welch supported the uncon- scious cable splicer until he was able to pass a rope around Burke's body and lower him to the ground. Burke will probably recover. MORE TROUBLE BY INDUSTRIAL WORKERS Dynamiting and Parades Started In Coal District. Scranton, Pa, April 12.—Sherift Conner of Lackawanna county was called ofl today to bring about peace in Jessup, neat here, where some dy- namite was exploded yesterday. The sheriff went to the town with a num- ber of deputies. A large body of men paraded the streets and threatened to make trouble if interfered with. Most of the paraders, it is said, belong to the Industrial Workers of the World, which i declared to have a strong representation in and about Jessup. The members of the United Mine ‘Workers of America are endeavoring to have the Industrial Workers main- tain order in the town. None of the mines in the vicinity of Jessup is in operation, OBITUARY., Clara Barton, Red Gross Founder. ‘Washington, April 1C.—Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross_society, died at her home in Glen Bcho, Md,, at 9 o'clock this morn- ing. The cause of her death was chrontc pneumonta, with which she was stricken about a year ago. Her brother, Stephen Barton of Boston, was with her when she died. Miss Barton was born at Oxford, Mass, in 1821. | her home “Red Cross” at Glen Hcho, | since last fell, when she returned from a visit to New England. It was thought her trip was beneficial but soon after- ward she was taken seriously 1l Shs celebrated her 90th birthday anniver- ry December 25, when she recelved many messages of congratwation from all parts of the world, Miss Barton was 40 years of age when she first turned her attention | to the great works of humanity which have made her name famous. Her ex- perlence as a school teacher and o {zer of public school systems in ew Jersey, taught her methodical its and gave her the experience in manding figure in the direction of Red Cross affairs, That organization was established in America in 1881 and Miss Barton was its president from that date until 1904. Before that time she had made a name for herself by her services on -battle- flelds, beginning in the civil war and extending through the Franco-Prus- sian war. Congress recognized her good offices in the first case by an ap- propriation of $15,000 to be disbursed by her in searching for missing men after the various great battles of the war. Miss Barton’s work became more extended with the organization of the new field of catastrophes in time of peace. She distributed relief to the sufferers from the Johnstown flood, and went to Russia in 1862 to ecarry f00d to the famine sufferers there. In the following year she was minister- ing to the destitute survivors of the lina and Florida. ing by the Turks and when yellow fever appeared_among the American troops in Cuba following the battles around Santiago, it was Ciara Barton who, at the request of President McKinley, | organized field hospitals and person- ally spent her time on the battle lines. Her last work of national importance was in conmection with the great Gal- veston flood relief in 1900. Miss Barton will be buried in the little cemetery in Oxford, Mass, her birthplace. Brief funeral services will be held at the Glen Hcho home Sunday after- noon In accordance with Miss Bar- ten's wish, expressed shortly before her death, her friend of long standing, Mrs. -John A. Logan, will deliver a Drief eulogy. Rev. Dr. John Van Schaick and Rev. Dr. Curry, Univer- salist _clergymen, will aiso officiate, Miss Barton ‘eaned toward Universal- ism, but held membership in no church. The funeral party will leave here Sunday evening and further services in Oxford will be conducted Monday at noon by Rev. William E. Barton of Chicage, a cousin, and Rev. Percy H. Epler of Worcester, Mass. Willard B. Tucker. Middletown, Conn, April 12—Wil- lard B. Tucker, proprietor of the Tuck- or garage, died suddenly at his home in Silver street, this afternoon, at 4 o'clock. He had previously been in good health. Medical Bxaminer J. Francis Calef, who was cailed, aseribed heart disease as the cause of death, Mr. Tucker was 47 “vears old and leaves a widow. His business partner, C. N. Blatchley, died suddenly less thian two weeks ago. In 1898 she was aid- | Miss Barton had been confined to executive work which made her & com- | American Red Cross and covered the | tidal wave which struck South Caro- | the Armenian families decimated | Divorced from . His Half Sister COUPLE IGNORANT OF BLOOD RELATIONSHIP, HAVE TWO CHILDREN Neighbors Call Court’s Attention to Ci Granted—Couple Still Love Each Other. and Divorce Cincinnati, April 12—A strange story, which resulted in John P. Ruch, Jr., aged 22 years, being divorced from his half sister, Helen Hoffman Ruch, 24, was related In the insoivency court here today. The brotner and sister ‘were married October 25, 1310, neither at the time knowing of tho bluod re- latiorshlp between them. Tae dis- covery of the refationsh'p was d:s cicsed a few weaks ago, and the acticn for a divorce followed. Mother Deceived Them. It was explained to tae court that the mistake had been poss.»'e teciuse of the fact that ‘he mother, fir a private reason, had hidden frem the cliidren the fact that they wers by th- er und sister, allownz taem to Telieve tuat the girl wag only an adopted cnfid. The husband Was given the custody of the two children. Neighbors Made Complaint. The relationship of the Ruchs was disclosed to the young husband and wife by Judge Willlam Lueders of the probate court a few weeks 2go in the | \Cashier Arnold Lived Lavishly NOW BANK'S FUNDS 'SHOW SHORTAGE OF ABOUT $200,000. HAS CONFESSED GUILT Suffering from Nervous Breakdown and Not Expected to Recover—En- joyed Confidence of Community. Utica, N. Y. April 12.—Officiale of the First National bank of New Berlin, which closed its doors yesterd mit tonight that the former cas Frank Arnold, has made statements showing his reaponsibility for a short- age in the bank’s funds Cashier Believed to Be Dying. Mr. Arnold lies at his home in the village of New Berlin serfously il from nervous breakdown. His death is not umexpected. Officials of the bank have had to be patient with him | and have not guestioned to the leng cesired However, they say they have learned encugh to enable them to get at the bottom of the difficulty. The amount involved is close| to $200,000. Lived Lavishly on $1,800. According to the statements of men connected with the bank, Arnold liv lavishly on a sala ,800 per an- num, explaining this by the statement that'he received an income of $12,000 a vear from his wife's estate. This he said he invested with excellent results. He was deemed a shrewd business man and residents of the village and the suceessful business house. that truth. It is the da opinion. forth his message of opportunity. Carries the Advertisers’ Message The advertising department s one of the vital branches of every As much attention should be paid to it as to the replenishing of stock and the display {§ 1= to the nowspaper tpat the business man must go to attract and hold his trade, and there are endless numbers of examples to demonstrate newspaper that offers the broad and straight highway to quick, intelligent public consideration of any proposition, whether it be the sale of an article of merchandise, the offering of a service for monetary or other reward or the creatfon of special bargains. It of a public Hvery man or woman who is & force or factor in effairs makes the daily paper a part of his or her daily life. ness opportunities, bargains and sales in staple or seasonmable goc is as much a part of the everyday life of the community as work an pleasure, The daily paper puts the people of the community in in stant touch with the trade opportunities offered by the merchant and 1s therefore the ever-present spokesman of the business men in putting Its perusal for news, busi- Secure a Bulietin Tate card and get (he hemefit of its clrculation of over 8,200, and which i3 constantly Increasing, covering the ho: fleld as no other. The Bulletin i3 a necessity in the home. It will b: left at your door for twelve cents a week. The following is the summary of the matter ecarried during the past week: Bullstin Telegraph Looa/ Gsnmeral Total |} Saturday, April 6. 86 234 1004 1324 Monday, April 8. 81 130 285 496 {§ Tuesday, April 9. 78 98 200 ¢ 439 Wednesday, April 10. 106 142 296 344 il +Thursday, April 11. 119 136 243 498 |} Friday, April 12. 102 111 180 393 [ Totals Sieeiss 592 886 2229 3687 | Ruch. Nelghbors of the Ruch fam- fly informed Judge Lueders tuat they belloved the couple were half brother and half sister, He learnsd afis.: in- vestigation that the two had grown 1p together under the belief that the girl was only an adopted daughter of Mrs. Ruch. | Gave Girl's Name as Hoffman. Ruch gave the young woman's name as Helene Hoffmann, “This young man came to the pro- bate court in 1910 and obtained a li- cense to marry this young woman, who, it since has been_ discovered ,is his sister,” said Judge Lueders to the | court, “That was before the recent law was passed requiring both applicants for & marriage license to personally ap- pear. The young man gave his name age and address properly. He gave the young woman's name as Helene Hoff- mann and told her age and address. 8till Love Each Other. “I am {nformed, in fact I have in- vestigated the matter carefully and feel certain that he did not know at that time that this young woman is his sister. The discovery was not made until a comparatively short time ago. | T had them in my office and we tried to arrive at some solution for the | problem presented. They have two | children, ~They still dove each other and love their children. I explained to them that although they might be | able to kaep the secret for years, thers | would come a time surely as anything human can be certain, when some one would discover it and it would be ext posed possibly in their declining years. Or if the disalosure were to come not until after their death it would be left as a heritage to their children. Now they could come into court, honestly to explain an honest mistake and do the only thing in thelr power to recti- ty tho mistake.” RICHESON'S CASE COST SUFFOLK COUNTY $7,030 Hearing Next Week on Petition for Commutation of Sentence. Boston, April 13.—It cost Suffolk county $7,030 to investigate and prose- cute Clarence V. T. Richeson, the self- confessed slayer of Miss Avis Linnell, according to bills made public by the office of Clerk Manning of the super- lor court, toda: Governor Foss, it was stated today, will give a hearing next week on a p tition to commute the sentence of death, imposed on Richeson, to im- prisonment for life, - Steamship Arrivals. At Queenstown: April 13, Adriatic, from New York. At Trieste: April 7, Alice from New York. At Genoa: April 10, Taormina, from New York The youngest of their children is only & few weeks old. In securing the\ marriage license | | presence of their mother, Mrs. John P, | farmers in the surrounding country brougit him money and securities implicit faith. This officials of bank declare was his undoing: How He Made Books Balance. Ho could, when h with the needed mone to the vaults, take out securities, real- izo on them and put in the places bonds or other securities of which no record was kept and the books of the bank would balance. A private bond rogister, used exclusively by Arno and a private register of certificates of deposits, found by the officials, gave an inkling of how easy it was NESBITT UNDER ARREST. Toronto Bank President in Custody of U. S, Officers at Chicago. Chicago, April 12.—Dr, Beattie Nes- bitt, former president of the Farmers National bank of Toronto, C: tonight in the custody of the United Statey government here awaiting ex- tradition on the charge of misap priation of the funds of the bank, re- sulting, it is said, in the ruin of the in- stitution Dr. Nesbitt was taken to the county jail today a hearing before United States Commissioner Fe The extradition laws do not permi bail, His hearing was continued {o April 26. N itt’'s alleged defalca- tions are estimated at a quarter of a | million_dollars. Nesbitt at first denied his ic A number of Toronto school t attending a_convention here pc identified him, however, and 1z attorneys gave out a statement ting he was the former Cana president, but denying he was any offense. Attorney Pattison caused surprise by saying that to his own knowledge } bitt had been in Chicago more than a vear and that he had frequently di with him at a downtown hotel “The president of a bank in Cana merely is a_nominal figure,” sai Pattison. “The cashier and oth ficers have most of the power. charge of forgery is not extrad any event. Mr. Nesbitt, moreove not forge anything. He merely signed a false statement which resulted in wrecking the- bank.” in ban guilty o Leg and Hand Cut Off. w Britain, Conn., April 12 —Henry a of Waterbury, a brakeman om- rloyed by the New Haven road, fell under a freight train at the local yards this evening and was so badly injured that he may die. He was taken to a local FLospital, where it was found that his right leg and hand had been taken off ard that he was internally injured. He is about 35 years old and is un- married. Smallpox List Reaches 74. Naugatuck, Conu., April 12.—Three new cases of smallpox developed to- night, bringing the day’s total up to eight and a grand total of 74. Three patients will be discharged from the iselation -hespital temerrow, v, ad- | &) Condensed Telegrams Prof. Walter E. Howard, first dean of Middlebury college, died at his | nome in Middlebury, Vt., yesterday. The Fourth Senatorial republican convention at Bast Hartford yesterday Went on record as favoring President aft, General Foss Yesterday proclamation setting; apart Saturday, oril 27, as Arbor day, in Massachu- Issued a se After Having Lived nearly a year | with a broken back, Dennls Boyle of | New Haven is reported ae dying at St Raphael's hospital, | The Senate Prcbably Will Amend | its rules soon £0 a&s to permit than a majority of the committee to constitute a quorum. The School Children of Valhalla \‘.‘ Y., joined in the search for 16 year old Rosie Wren of that village, who dis- appeared on Tuesday evening. | . James Jefferson, who was to have | been hanged at Columbus, Ga., ves terday morning committed suicide in | is cell early today by taking poison. | _Evander Childs, principal of a school in New York, dropped dead at his desk | from heart failure, Mr, Childs had been a teacher for more than 50 years | 2% | Ex-Congressman Nathan Frank w | made owner of the St, Louis Star by | an order of the federal court accept- ing his ofier of $40,000 for the equity of E. G. Lewi icials of the Central Passenger as flirmed their decision to Traffic Policemen in New York | clare that the new or 'surface | car which 1s S0 popular with the pas. ngers does not permit of passage | room between tracks. | Edward M. Blake, formerly street commissioner of South alk and | keeper of the almshouse, dropped dead | uperintends Though There is No Typhoid fever |at any the naval ions in New- | port, R. I, the offic and enlisted being inoe rum the disease. A Dose of Horse Medicine taken b: mistake caused the death at Esm: Thornton, ing machine agent, and was 57 years old. | Jacob Fussell, said to have estab- lished the t ice cream manufactur ing plant in the United States at Bal timore, in 1851, is dead at his home at Washington, 94 years old W. A. Laihrop, President of the Le- high Ccal & Navigation Co, died at a hospital at Wilkes-Barre, yesterday, following an operation for appendici- He was b years old. Hitehcock an atement denying emphatically “that he has any inten- tion of resigning as a member of President Taft's cabinet.” Postmaster General thorizés a form Secretary of War Stimson will soon begin distrfbuting to the National | guard of country the new auto- m pistol adopted for the regular army fo displace the revolver. Mrs. Genevieve Nicodemus, on trial at New York for the ldkt three week for the murder of her husband, acq by the jury on ground that she was homa a monument over It al Stan Watie, one |c noted ( ee generals in the ern army in the civil war In Aberdeen, Wash., | sympathizers went to cut five hundred switc of me mills, Women Strike o woods and the the Three Shots Were Fired a Harvey, a Wa \. H., mer by two men Henry ant, ey of him at a lonels nigl The Clause Compelling companies to furnish free ate le | was passed by the Rhode yesterdey | Opium Valued at $40,000 Was Seized In Francisco. This is all that | could be found of $7,000,000 of opium in the city when the law prohibiting its importation went into effect thres years ions in Freight Rates th in sacks and in bales, d from western points of o gin to eastern destinations, were pre yesterday the interst commerce | ‘ nission, | Access to the Muster Rolls and oth- war ment, will be the fu inder cer an to ans and repr f historical socleties. gran | restrict sentative Six Years’ Imprisonment in the state prison ne penalt Girard pay f | of clothing from | store and $125 in road station at worth lowell, Me., money Watery | A Conference Was Held This Week between District Attorney Pelletier and | | William A._ Morse, counsel for Clar- | ence V. 7. Richeson, who is under sen- tence to be electrocuted in the week | beginning May 19 for the murder of i.\ns Linn | The Bodies of L. Cannon of Harris- | burg, ¥ and L. G | ton arrived at Panama from Nica Cannon and Groce were put to death by order of President Zelave in 1909, after they had been captured with the revolutionists. Three Trainmen Were Injured, twe serlously, in a head-on tween an express irain collision b from bound | Montreal to Portland, and a freight train weet hound on the Grand Trunk railway near We Vt, vesterday. | Three Students of Valparaiso, Ind., university, swept down on the b 9 section of that city late Thurs night, and smashed windows, fired volvers, brcke up a vaudeville per- formanco and defied th eliy firemen (o check them, g less than two cents a | mile for convention fares during the | coming mer | In 1911 There Were 872 Bull Fights | x ven million spectators at- | Ten bull fighters were killed injured; 4,304 bulls and 5618 | W Joseph | tom the rail- | Break in the Levee “nSHIPS INUNDATED at Panther Forest Floods a Much More Thickly Populated Territory : \WATER IS COURSING OVER 200 SQUARE MILES Four Counties in ana Will Suffer—| Break Will Decrea Greenville, ~ Miss./ ril Mississippi river levee at Pant est, 19 miles above Greenville Arkensas shore, gave way | &nd tonight the water is fir | way over 200 square miles | tarming lands and several pr | townahirs toward the kansas river. 60 Townships Will Be Inundated. | Sixty townships in Chicot, ey, Drew and Desha countic kansas and Fast Carroll par will be inundated. Lake Vi a population of 1,500, is the portant town In the water's No Loss of Life. So far as can be ascertain | Rich Farming Lands and Prosperous Towns in Its Path— Arkansas and One Parish in Louisic No Loss of Life, So Far as Known— se Strain at Points Below on the River, there bas hefn revasse will he east b 3 no loss of life The decrease the strain om nk both at this point and ding iis | at Greerville, where it was fesred & of “rich | treuk would eccur. Chief Engineer rous | Scahkelford of the Mississippi leves and Ar- | board tenight predicted the water hers would fall a foot withia 24 hours. Worse Than Previous Breaks. 2| The crevasse at regarded as mora cng the upper stretches of the rh The ferritery which will be inundated is more thickly populated and (he wa- eep will have a wider range, | unty, which practically will be 1 tonizht | covered, has a population of 23,000, Panther Forest is portant than those ge, with | m- | 1th, VOTE IN FAVOR OF | Are Affirmative. pril 12.—By ENGINEERS EMPHATICALLY Over 23,000 of the 25,000 Votes Cast MILITARY FUNERAL STRIKE. | FOR GENERAL GRANT, To Be Delayed 10 or 12 Days to Awa Arrival of Daughter. New York, A a majorit New York, April 12—General Fred< of more than 23,000 out of 25,000 votes | erick Dent Grant will be given & mi cast, locomotive e eers on 50 rail- | tary funeral in this city and will be ads east of Chicago and north of the | buried at West P where military orfolk and Western have thorized | services w also be held This an« their officers to call & strike should | nouncement late tod: ter Prigadies | further megotiations with the railroads | General Tasker IH. now in com« | for increased pay fail. The count of | mand of she cast, 4he vote was completed at noon today | and Lieutenant the apd the result made knosn immedi- | dead generals aide, had A & cone ately by Warren S. Stone, grand ¢ f‘sullmirvn at the Hotel PBuckingham of the Brotherhood of Locomot En- | with Mrs. Grant and Captain Ulysses gineers, J. C. Stua chairm of | 8. Grant, 34, ho arrived today from | the Generat Managers' association of | Washington, The fur 1 will be de~ the railroads | layed, However, for ten or twelva The general managers have called & | days, it until the arrival hera | meeting to be held here April 15 to | of General Grant's daughter, Princess consider the result of vot The | Michael Cantacuzene Bperanskey, who engineers’ officers have notificd Mr. | 18 now in Rui o princess cabled | Stuart that they. would remain here f y_that she would start for this | for reasonable time to awail ry at once In the mean e the | er proposition of the railro | full details of the funeral will be ar< riginal demands of the engineers | ranged. Tomorrow the body w | for increases in pay age 15 | removed to Governors Isl | nt. were recently reje quarters of the department | lroads. and will will be placed in the Mr, Stone announced that:92.1 per | of Cornelius the Centurion, where cent. of the engineers had voted to au- | will lie in state under a military guard | thorize the calling of a strike. In his | until the day of the funeral letter t § Mr. Stone asks if | The general's widow was the recipient the railroads any counter propo- | today of hundreds of Lelegra wnd sition to make and notifies him that if | other messages of sympathy from ail no counter proposition is received a | part of the country. One of the first | strike of the en: rs on each of telegrams to be delivered t Grant 50 roads is subject to call at any time. | was from President Taft from | it i | MINERS AND OPERATORS the White House, This message r “Mrs. Taft and I extend to you our SETE heartfelt sympathy In your great. sor E . TAKE LUNCH TOGETHER | 1oy~ We mourn with you and cherisg e the memory of him that has gone and | Indications That Agreement Will Be | ;¢ our long friendship for him. He | Reached in Coal District | rendered great and loyal service to the — country | Philadelphia, Ap 12—The sub-| (Signed.) “W. H. TAFT.” | committee of miners and operators,| From Oyster Bay, L. L, came thig | which 1s endeavoring to agree upon a | message: new working arrangement between the | “We are inexpressibly shocked and suthracite mine workers and coal com- | grieved. You know what an affectiog anies held two long sessions to we have for you both. and when it adjourned to meet tomor- | (Signed) »w morning it ported that good “THEODORE and | prosress had been made. Nothing oc- EDITH ROOSEVELE” curred at the meeting today to indi- — - — { cate that a peaceful and early settle- | HUNGER STRIKE GAINS ment will not be reached. The com- > mittee gave out nothing offieial, but SUFFRAGETTES' RELEASE will not have anything to intil a report is made of miners and operators To discussio had largely to do with the d t was learne | Imprisoned Window Smashers AL Ima paired Health by Fasting. omm London, April 1 Ey resorting to & hunger strike an eight-hour day f I men in a g B0 g g S | dhout -the’ tathes, 6 age q 1c health to ruch an extent that the jail e e e es Ede and four other suftra. | mothods ot tho "concilia- | £eties who wern recently pentanced 16 | tons of the methiods imprisonment for winiok smashing tion boar 4 obtained their release from Aylesburs Good feeling prevailed throughout | S trined h . ocs \‘f\n n HV]I‘Y'(‘h' i Pt M‘h 1‘”1“)_1 before their terms had ex« : : 9P~ | pire tors took luncheon togother in one | PTed 's that 25 of 2 | of President Baer's private offices, and | ot s, 8478 RAt 26 of 28 suftras Hgroid A vers hopo. | Bettes tmprisoned in the Aylesbury jaf} $11 exprssed themselvas o very b started tho hunger strike April 6 and BAN IS LIFTED ON Now Enjoy Same Privileges State as Other Non-Resi | Boston, April sta way commission Tesc | action of two years ago in bar idents of New Jorgey from JERSEY AUTOISTS. ir automobiles in Massachusetts that it wes not discovered by the Jail | officlals ntil April 9, when a system | of forcibly feeding the women was in- stituted r more terrible_than my personal sufferinzs,” said Dr. Ede, “wa hearing the agomizing cries from oth cells as the prisomers in turn were subjacted to the painful treatment.” A demonstration will bs held in Hyde Park tomorrow to protest against th forcible feeding of the suffragettes CUBA ATONES FOE? in Bay dents. | ate high- inded il | ring riving n- r the non-resident free touring priv- ITS COLD GREETING, Hereafter New Jersey motorists e | a8 wv\l‘l as those of other states - Tenders Magnificent Ball in Honor of | tour Massachusetts for ten days in a | catendar year without taking out a PONIVED S s Wy Massachusetts registration certificate. | Havana, April 12.—The Cubsn gove They were deprived of the Drivilege | qrmment. whion had been reproached because their state refused fo grant | oTh THICH BAG been veproache | reciprocal ouring rights to MOOTISS | Krox with the Montrs den bis Lign of | from Massachusetts 3 fics, answered its critics tomight by | malking Mr. and Mrs. Knox the guests | A WOMAN STRICKEN of honor at the most magnificent ball DEAD WHILE SEWING | they have attonded during their trip i‘ Had Needle in Her Hand When Found | { by Her Husband. officers w 9 & " the Spanish forces. It wad / Brookfield, Conn., April 12.—When | DTS | Dwight Camp, & prominent farmer of | $EIOW With 12,000 colored electria | this_place, and one of the assessors ‘Th"unm Sonks ik o of thertown, returned to his home a'f 70 Gancing 190k place on the eton fow miles gouth of Brookfield Center [{eiins OYeF THICR * e last evening, he fyund his wie lying [ POWer of American Beauty roses. The | dead upon the floor of the sitting | cice bullding als: was decorated with room. Mrs. Camp had been stricken | fOWerS and tires bands of music were by heart disease while sewing and still | 3AONES respectively on he terra held a needle in her hand when her | Joe "Eoasts mumbered over h000 and | husband and two ehildren Vo g - g Kl st e, and society genbrally. Tt was the | eatest turnout of beautifully gow | National Guard Promotions. = 2 g | um-xrm;d, Conn., April 12—The ex- :fl:‘: 1\1:.: 1%: . A Sae. o amining board of the Connecticut Na- | = feo < Enunn guard announces the following DV'ZS ffi:‘;\‘mhfir‘;‘: O T | and consmissioned with t Coast Artillery eerps, Capta I ho have passed satisfactory examinations and who are appointed ylor, Seventh company, Stamford; visiting the Latin-Amarican republic The ball was held In the ministry ] state, which formerly was the palace | of the smsm commaading the enght of Vesuvius Ready for Wireless Calls. Newport, R. L, April 13—In the near future wireless calls ‘or assistance e ranks: Ralph First Lieutenant Georgo J. Schoen, | 563 éceived at the naval torpedo sta Bighth company, Danbury: Second in | Hon here will find ready respons fantry, Captain 1. Cleveland Fuessen. | the fast torpodo boat Vesugiug will ich, Company M, Torrington; First|TIve about April 18 from the Charl Licutenant S Kell Company | 10%R Ravy yard, whero she has under- ‘ll Waterbary; ¥ ant Ralph gone .('thnjl\u rver The Benedict, Company A erbur Vesuvius is equipped with w-fou and piadleniy o e " |in the cret of anch « call for balp as Seuth Manchester Librarian Resigns. | tiat from the steamer Ontasle a few South Manchester, Conn., April 13— | . ® 20 Will be tmumedistely availasie, Mrs. Mar 1. for the past 41 | _eagher G years_librarian of the publi v | by, e police and | here, has resigned. Ehe will go to Chi- [the cago to live with relatives, Tib ar} e, 3&!‘1"% river