Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 15, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 92 “ NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, APRIL 15 1912 'PRICE TWO CENTS - The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population PENNSYLVANIR FAVORS ROOSEVELT Ex-President Captures 65 of the 76 Delegates in Keystone State’s Primary Election. WILL HAVE CONTROL OF STATE CONVENTION Crushing Defeat For Regular Organization—Woodrow Wil- son Gets 74 of the 76 Democratic Delegates—Roosevelt Happy But Won't Predict His Nomination—Senator Mc- Kinley Says the Acme of Demagogism Has Been Reached Philadeiphia, April 14.—Coal. Theodore Roosevelt's sweeping victory in Penn- syivania at Saturday's primary elec- tion kept growing today 8s the returns continued to come in. Incomplete re- turns from every district give gxe for- mer president 65 of the state's 76 dele- gates in the republican nattonal con- vention. e Roosevelters Claim 67. The Roosevelt supporters are claim- ing 67, and later returns may carry the figures to that total. Colenel Roosevelt won 53 of the 64 district na- tional delegates, and his followers eolcted enough delegates to the state convention to give them control of that body. The state conventfon will pame 12 delegates at large. Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jer- #ey, who had no organized opposition, wili have 74 of the 76 delegates from Pennsylvania in the democratic na- tional convention. In the TEleventh congressional district the two demo- cratic national delegates elected are favorable to Speaker Champ Clark, but they are not pledged. Politicians Astounded. Politicians look upon the triumph of Colonel Roosevelt with astonishment. 'he supporters of the former presi- dent were without a state organiza- tlon and without an organization in many of the 32 congressional distric! The ular republican organization headed by United States Senator Boies Pénrose, which has weathered many a political storm, suffered a crushing de- feat in the losz of control of the state convention. It is the first time in the present generation that it has lost con- trol of that body. Convention to Name 12 Delegates. Besides naming the 12 delegates at large to Chicago, the convention will melect 38 presidential electors, fo candidates for congressmen at large, mnd candidates for state treasurer and suditor general, all tQ be voted for at the November election. = The significance of the Rooseveit wictory can be realized when it is re- membered that the delegates in control of the state convention hava the power to select the state chairman and under the party rules the delegation to the national convention clects the national ecommitteemen. At present Senator Penrose holds this position. 1t was ®aid by a prominent member of the wtate committee tonight that some of the Roosevetl delegates elected to the mtate convention are regular organiza- tion men who, although they voted for Roosevelt delegates, will still stand by the state organization. A Light Vote Polled. Scme of the leaders of the 1epublican preanization refrained from personally entering the primary as candidates for district national delegates because it had been expected they would be se- lected ae delegates at large. Among those understood to have been looked apon as the likely delegates were Sen- mtors Penrose and Ollver, Governor Tener, Secretary of State Robert Mc Afee and State Semator J. P. McNich the leader of the party organization in Philadelphia. The vote polled was Jight. Tn some Instances it did not go much over 50 per cent. of the total wote cast at the last general election. Colonel Roosevelt Is sald to have re- cefved his heaviest vote from the re- form element in the state represented by the Keystons party, which since it was organized about two years ago has opposed the regular republicans al ev- ery election and succeeded in electing e reform mayor in Philadelphia last year. Miners for Roosevelt. Another element of strength to the Rooseveit forces was the 175,000 idle anthracite miners in the northeastern eountles of the mer president ran strongly. In Phila- deiphia President Taft's adberents got three of the six districts and split the @delegation in another, glving the presi- dent seven dclegates to Roosevelt's five. The delegates favoring Taft were mnot instructed. Among those who es- caped the Roosevelt landslide were John Wanamalker and E. T. Stotesbur) whe were elected as Taft delegates in the Second district. Edgar F. Smith, E0lt of the University of Pennsyl- a, went down to defeat, but Wil- Draper Lewis, dean of the law department of the university, was a Rooszevelt winner, Pinchot’s County for Taft. In the congressional district where Gifford Pinchot has his home the Roosevelt national delegates won, hut Mr. Pinchot’s home county, Pike, sent & 7Taft delezate to the state conven- #ion. Wilso? Had No Serious Contest. Governor Wilson had an easy time of it in winning 74 of the 76 delegates to the Baltimors convention. At pres- ent there are two democratic organ- izations in Pennsylvania, and each has endorsed the New Jersoy governor for president Thera were a. fow scattered delegates who favored Champ Clark end in three districts there were dele- gates in favor of Harmon. The two Harmon delegates in the Eleventh district were defeated by Wilson men, and in the 25 distr Clark men defeated the two Wilson candidates for national delegates. Wi son's total still stands at 74 ont of 76 in the delegation “ACME OF DEMAGOGISM.” EBenator McKinley Says It Has Been Reached by Roosevelt. Washingto April 14— “The ava- Janche victory\for Colonel Roosevelt in Pennsylvania vesterdey spoke the final word and made the repudiation of the Taft candidacy complete,"—Statement at Roosevelt headquarters, “The president is in this fight to stay. He will be the nominee of the republican convention at Chicagoe, He was nominated four years ago without 1he voies of THinois, Pennsylvania, In- diana, New York or Wiscensin,"— Represcntative Willlam MeKinley, di- rector of the national Taft hureau, “When the complete returns are re- ceived it is probable that the New Jersey governor will have the solid delegation of 76 votes."—Statement at Woodro® Wilson headquarters. ate, where the for- | ts two | littie and meade practically no fight in Pennsylvania. assury The e at least latest advices 17 votes."—Statement at Champ Clark’'s headquarters, The feregoing is an epitome of com- ment made today upon the Pennsyl- vania primary election by the cam- paign managers name of the d. candldates The statement from Rcosevelt head- quarters, while lengthy, to th e Pennsylvania electio refers briefly n. The quotation given is practically all on that Dir in pa subject. ector McKinley" rt: statement says The outcome of the Pennsylvania primaries is plainly indicative of the fact that nationai issues are playing only a small part in some states in the campaign for the’ republican nom- ination for president. “Instead of constructive statesman- ship being put forth in an effort to solves the problems before the country and as a bid for votes on the ground | of merit, a nation-wide campaign of wiiful and malicious misrepresenta- tion, vilification and assault upon the president of the United States has been substituted. Such a campalgn, amounting in fact to a conspiracy, not to humiliate the president per- sonally, but to commit the republican only perty to rank socialism, has not only | been countenanced but cond ucted by former President Theodore Roosevelt, “The fact that this candidate is now claiming to wear the mantle of Abraham Lincoln is evidence that the acme has been reached. of demago in this country ROOSEVELT PLEASED But Will Not Say He Considers His Oyster Ba hit them Nomination Probable. N. Y., April 14.—"We ling hard,” said Colonel Roosevelt today of his victory in the Pennsylvania primaries. The colonel was greatly elated over the outcome of the Fennsylvania cam- paign grams which covered his desk which | and exhibited a heap of tele were sent to him from all parts of Pennsylvania, as well as fr om_ sup- porters elsewhere, giving him details of the result, and congratulating him. Colonel r@‘ velt was asked wheth- er in his opMon his nomination was now probable. “T would not say that,” he respond- od. tiors, Pennsyivania, He declined to make any predic- The resuit of the campaign in he said, plea sed him particularly because he considered it an expression of popular opposition te “the bosse “They have heard a good deal from me on the stump,” he added, “and they’il hear more.” Colonel Roosevelt said that some of his opponents were misrepresenting the situation in regard to the number of delegates elected for President Taft and for himself and were claiming far more for the president than was justi- fied. He said he was considering the ad- visability of preparing a formal state- ment in regard to this matter. “At the presen: time,” he continued, | “I think that the delegates really in- structed are about evenly divided. 1 think it is about 150 each.” The colonel gave Mississippi as an example of what he had in mind. He sald he believed the entire Mississippi delegation was for him and vet his op- ponents claimed it all for the presi- dent, Pittsturgh, Dalzell's Fate April 14—The in Dout. renomi- nation of Juhn Dalzell as the congres- sional representative from the Thirti- eth district {s in doubt tonight. M, C, Kelly, his opponent, ran him a close race in yvesterday's primaries and an official count of the votes probably will be necessary, FIRE IN AN AUGUSTA HOTEL THIS M ORNING —Quests Escare Lightly Clad. Augusta, Me., April 15.—Fire which started in the old City hotel building on Water street, just after midnight, sprea other d to the Theater wooden buildings, Comique and and at one o’clock this merning was beyond con- trol. Twenty-five persons were asleep on the upper floors building, which has recently heen used of the )ld hotel as a lodging house, and all had nar- row escapes. Most of them were oblig- ed to leave their clothing. The fire started in a fruit store eonducted by Robert Miller in N. Richmond and ancother fruit store, owned by Louls Levin, The lodging house was conducted by Mrs. Bells Murray. From the old hotel proper, which was practically destroyed, the fire spread to the Theater Comique and tiience to a bakery of B} . a, nd & re wooden str Aviator Atwood in Auto Crash. Harry N. Mr. Newton, Mass., Atwood, 114 is par AD the aviator, And Mrs. Bamuel wood, Hflda M. Norman, a laseil = an automobile car of the Newton and Boston street railway on Auburn street. was driving and ran into the elactric also slightly injured tonight when colilded with and ents, studen a street The aviator as it was crossing the street In front of him. There were no passengers in the car, Atlanta, White Defeats Mora Ga., April 14.—Frankis ‘White of Chicage was given the decis- ion over Johnnie Moran of New York, at the end of a ten-round bout here last night, Newark Won from Washington. Newark, N, J., April 14—The New- ark Internationals new left-handed pitcher found Allen, the of the Brooklyn Nationals, for thirteen hits today and easily defeated the Super- “Speaker Clark's friends expecied bas, 6 Lo L the basement of the building and quickly | | spread to other stores adjoining, in- cluding the dryvgoods establishment of Cabled Paragraphs Paris, April I4—Tdeut, M. H. A, Bonsour of the 27th infantry regiment was killed yesterday in an aeroplane accident. Schfetzingen, Germany, April 14.The fourteen passengers carried by the Bchuette-Lang dirigible balloon on its first flight this year had a narrow es- cape from death. Amoy, April 14.—A boat into which the passengers of the British steamer Zang Chun was disembarking capsized today and 40 persons, mostly women, were drowned. The Zang Chun had Just arrived here from Singapore. -— B5t. Petersburg, April 14—A. party of Kurdish priests attacked the American mission station at Suj Bulak, in the province of Aierbaijan, Persis, yester- day. The Kurds objected to the ring- ing of the mission bell and to the hoisting of the American flag. Liverpool, England, April 14—Frank L. Brown, chairman of several com- mittees of the Panama-Pacific exposi- tion, sailed from here yesterday on board the Mauretania, carrving with him the promise of several of the steamship companies to grant reduced rates for European visitors and ex- hibits for the Panama-Pacific exposi- tion. ‘ENTIRE LOUISIANA TOWN UNDER WATER. Dwelilngs and Small Buildings Float- ing About the Flooded Area. Tallulah, La., April 14.—All of the | town of Tallulah north of Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad, with the exception of a few business houses, is under water tonight. Hurried levees have been thrown up along the rail- roads and every able bodied man Is lending his aid in the desperate fight that is being made to save the Test of the town from the flood waters which are rushing through the Dogtail crevasse In the Mississippi river. Dwellings and small houses are floating about in the flooded area, some of which is ten feet under water. At 10.30 tonight the water continued to rise at the rate of two inches an hour at the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pa- cific depot. Only a few business buildings on the north side of the railroad track were out of water at this hour. WCRK OF RESCUE. Nearly a Thousand Brought from Backwoods to Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Miss, April 14—The Mississippi levee for miles along here presents a weird scene tonight. Fires made of driftwood dot the embankment on which refugees are roasting the | carcasses of beeves for food. Meanwhile the work of regcue pre- ceeds in the back country. Velunteers in launches ard skiffs and on impro- vised rafts have saved nearly a thou- sand persons since the Salem levee broke Friday, and other thousands that | made their own way to safety are scaiterec along the levee, camping as best they can. Tugs and steamboats are gathering them up and bringing them to Vicksbure. Governor Brewer has ordered tents sent here for their use. The inhabit- ants have been driven out from a terri- tory embracing a hundred square miles in two days. The cause was a 15-foot wall of the water, 50 feet wide, that | burst suddenly through the levee at | Salem. . Friday evening, inundat- ing within 20 minutes two miles of | farm land. Ahead of this mighty rush of water rode a score of negroes from the Alsatia plantation, mounted on mules and korses. They rode all night through the darkness and rain as fast | as their mounts could gallop, warning the Inhabitants to fles, until, over- taken by the rising tide, they were forced to flee for their lives. / DONOVAN IS MAYOR. | Republicans of Meriden Jubilant and Democratic Officeholders Shiver. Meriden, Conn., April 14—Mayor Daniel J. Donovan, whose title to the office was settled by decree of the su- preme court of errors Saturday, took the oath of office at 4.30 Saturday afternoon, immediately after learning | | of the court decision. City Clerk Her- | man Hess gave him the oath. Since assuming the duties of chief executive Meyor Donovan has not executed any official acts. He gave out a statement tonight in which he said he would fulfill the pre-election promises made last December. Thess Wwere principal- |1y that he would run the city on an efficient, economical and businesslike basis, and appoint only the best men to city offices. The republicans of the city are jubi- lant, but their enthustasm did not | manifest itself in a street demonstra- | tion of any kind. Much speculation is rife about what | will become of the democratic com- missioners of different departments | and the partisan democrats who are holding down ecity jobs. Mayor Don- ovan says he will not make any changes untll he has a thorough grasp on the city’s affairs. Meriden now has | the republican town government and will have a complete republican city government, with a republican magjor- ity to the common council and re- poblican to be appointed to the com- missions. The city was ruled by a democratic mayor and demoeratic com- mis<ions for six years. TWO KILLED, 20 INJURED, BY COLLAPSE OF CHURCH FLOOR i Nearly 300 Precipitated Into Basement During Exercises, Harrington Park, N. J. Aprll 14— Two persons were killed and more than twenty injured, several seriously, when the collapse of the floor of the Iy 1t ndred persons basement tod: The church onty partly completed and the assemblage there today was for the ng the cornerstone. re: | ttingen of Westwood, N. J. | H. Oeligern of Park Ridge, | L 3. While an address was being delfver- ed by Father Delanty, the pastor of the church, the floor was heard to creak and then felt to be giving way. There was a scramble to’escape, but everyone went down in the crash and many were badly crushed. Nearly a dozen were taken out, unconscious, several with fractures of legs or arms, Smallpex List Now at: 77. Naugatuck, Conn., April 14.—Thres new cases of smallpox today brought the total up to 77. A number of per- sons are still under obesrvation, and it is expected that several will be dis- charged from the isolation hospital to- morrow. The city of New Yerk owns 934 pieces of real estate, R SN si COURT DECREES THAT | from the darkness of the jail to the | Outside Work ‘For Convicts EMPLOY THEM ON HIGHWAYS, 8AYS GOVERNOR, GRIND UP LIMESTONE That in Litchfield County Would Make Valuable Fertilizer, He Says in Speech at Charities Conference. ‘Waterbury, Conn.,, April 14—The Connecticut State Conference of Char- ities and Corrections opened here to- day with a meeting in Buckingham hall in the afternoon and a general session in the evening. The occasion was marked by the presence of Gov. Simeon B. Baldwin, who delivered an address in the afternoon on the prison problem of Connecticut before an au- dience of about 600 people. The oth- er speakers were Mayor Francis T. Reeves, President Arthur R. Kimball and Homer Folks of New York, presi- dent of the 38th national conference of charities, 1911. Mayor Reeves gave the address of welcome. Mr, Kimball, as president, pointed out the aim of the association and the activities planned. Mr. Folks ®poke on “Public Charities and Social Progress. John Collier of New York, educational secretary of the national | board of censorship of motion pictures, gave an address on “The Public Schools ag Community Center ‘arol Aronovicl of Providence gave an ad- dress on “The Housing Problem in Small Cities.” Governor Baldwin’s Speech. Governor Baldwin said: I wish to bring before vou this afternoon the subject of the employment of prison- ers in new ways. been ore discussed in other states and countries than here. We have ‘been content to manage our prisons as our fathers managed them in the main, but I am by no means sure thdt better methods may not be taken up In the twentieth century, and the time to begin is now, Connecticut is spending vast sums every year In the construction- and repairs of our highways. She has a great number of laborers at her com- mand wkoss services upon them she could have for nothing. She could 8'so employ these men in any other work that she thinks proper, witheut paying any wasges at all. Should Be Profit Instead of Loss. Instead of this, she boards and clothes most of them at an expense considerably exceeding what they earn. She keeps them shut up within brick walls, their faces blanching for want of sunlight that the rest of the world loves s0 well and finds so health-giv- ing. N Criminals can never make good to the state all that they cest it. It is the criminal for the most part who has compelled the organization of the state and made political society neces- sary. If, therefore, a man committed a crime serious enough to authoriz the state to deprive him of his libert thers ought to be resulting profit, in- stead of a loss for the community, provided always that 1t is possible to | arrive at that result without the com- mission of a new wrong. Make Prisoners Work Outside. Pvervbody recognizes it as just and expedient to make convicts work prison, within certain limits. in 1 ask prison. No doubt, there are ons to bringing the criminal out glare of the sunlight, where everybody can see him, and note what he is do- ing. The ~ommon objections te it are, first that it exposes him to public humiliation; second that it degrades him by throwing him into bad com pany; third, that it gives room for abuse and tyranny upon the part of those who oversee his work, or direct it; fourth, that there is a chance that he will escape; fifth, that he will be come a competitor with the honest man who labers in the same vocation. Humiliation Not Serious Obstacle. Let us Jook into these objections: Work in the open would expose pris- orers to some public humiliation if that work were on the public ways. This would be did their work within the prison en- closeure, and the prison enclosure, with no great expense, could be made large enough to embrace quite a farm, or a quarry. But even if work on the highways might humiliate some of them, thelr conviction of crime has been a notorious fact, and has already made them the subject of public cen- sure. A man must have conducted himself very ill befere society thinks it necessary to take away his liberty dnd condemn him te jail. It is a pufi- ishment too serious te be lightly in- flicted, for we know it is quite rare for any one who has been subjected to it to succeed in making it forgotten in the course of time, so as to re- habilitate himself in the esteem of the memoers of the community where he was sentenced. Btate to Hire or Buy Farms. Wa must remember, too, that mast countries the majority of the prisoners belong te the class of day in laborers or tramps. They have no trade: they only know how to handle the simplest tools, if any. They ean handle a pick or a hoe, after a fash- ion. 'Why net have the government buy er hire farms on which they can employ all these streng-armed in field labor? Such labor might reclaim bad land: It has been found in many states and eountries a real source of profit to the state. To buy run-down farms, rap a steckade areund them and reclaim them to fertility by the aid ef cenviet labor. ¥orest land can be developed. Quarries can thus be werked, WNorth Carolina has a aumber of prissn colonies of this sort. The state buys cheap land, manures and plants it, and looks after the proper drainage. A stockade s built about it, or else a suitable number of guards are employed, generally one guard for ten convicts. Agents of the state direct the labor of the convicts on the land, and are held strictly ac- countable to the officers of a higher grade. 1In this way the state of North Carolina has cleared very large sums of money and at the same time pro- moted the welfare of the convict colo- nies. Let Convicts Grind Up Rock. We have in our state a considerable quantity of limestone rock. Grind it up and it makes a valuable additien to the sell for farming purposes. It can be ground by the employment of conviet laber., A eenvict camp in Litchfield ceunty where limestons is plenty ceuld {urn eut great quanti- ties of valuable fertilizers in this manner, and jt would seem probable The subject has | oided if they | Mexicans Are Given Warning UNITED STATES SENDS A VIG- OROUS MESSAGE. MUST BE PROTECTED American Life and Property Must Not Be Sacrificed or Endangered—Oroz- | co Accused of Murder. Washington, April 14—Warning was | issued today by the United States to the Mexican government, as well as to | General Pascugl Orozco, chief of the revolutionary forces, that “it expects and must demand that American life and property within the republic of Mexico be justly and adequately pro- tected and that this government must hold Mexico and the Mexican people responsible for all wanton or illegal acts sacrificing or endangering Ameri- can life or damaging American prop- erty or interests.” Attitude of United States. The attitude of the United States as expressed to both the federal and reb- e] authorities is that any maltreatment of American citizens “will be deeplyl { resented by the American government and people and must be fully answer- | ed for by the Mexican people.” | Intervention Not Contemplated. Acting Secretary Huntington Wilson of the state department, who- today issued special instructions to Ambas- sador Henry Lane Wilson at Mexico City and Marion Letcher, American | consul at Chihuahua, authorized the | statement that. intervention was not contemplated by the United States. Orozco Accused of Murder. | Amabassador Wilson has ordered to communicate at once the views of the United States to the Mexican minis for foreign affairs, and a copy of his instructions was likewise sent to Mr, Letcher, with speclal representations addressed to General Orozco. Orozco recently refused to recognize Mr. | Letcher as the American consular rep- | resentative because the United States withheld recognition af the rebel cause, The representations to Orozco accuse him of “practical murder” of Thomas Fountain, an American gunner enlist- ed with the federals, but summarily executed last week when taken pris- oner by the insurrectos. | Strongest Demand Ever Made. | Though declining to justify partici- pation by Americans on either side of | i the revolution, the United States ex- | | pressly stipulates that American com- | | batants when taken prisoners must be | | given humane treatment in accord- | ance with the international rules of | war. The correspondence made public | tonight is admittedly the strongest de- | mand the United States is known to have made upon Mexico for respectful treatment of Americans as wel]l as other foreigners, and declares that a | continuation of illegal acts is tending | | “to difficulties and oblligations which | | it is to the interest of all true Mexican | | patriots as it is the desire of the Unit- | | ed States to avoid.” | | Lobsterman Found Dead in Launch. ‘Westbrook, Conn,, April 12.—The | body of a man found in a gasoline | | launch off ¢ | Asa 8 he enport, L. L, is that of | nnard of this place. Word that | was dead was received in a tele- gram from Greenport sent by his son- in-law to a nephew, Frank Gladwin of Westbrook, tod Stannard went out | in his launch last Tuesday to set_ his lobster pots. He was about 50 years old and leaves a wife, two sons and | two daughte | | 3 | Powers to End Turco-ltalian War, St. Petersbur April 12.—Tt is offi- cially announced that the powers today made proposals of mediation to Con- stantinople witn a view to bringing to | an end the war between Turkey and Italy over Tripoli. that favorable arrangements could be | made for iis transportation by rail to any part of the state, at a low charge for freight. It would, of course, be much less costly to employ convicts in building | | or repairing highways, but it is true this would expose them to a certain humiliation. The greater number of prisoners, however, have little sensi- bility in shame; they have become the slaves of evil. If they fear that they | would be recognized by old acquaint- ances such fear would be born of the apprehension that it would augment their chances of being discovered later should they return to a life of crime. | Could Wear Mask or Domino. | In a paper which T presented on | | this subject to the International Pris- on congress at Buda Pesth some years | ago, 1 suggested that there might be | convicts who could be spared the | chance of such humiliation by being | authorized to wear a domino or half- | k when employed on the highways. | would prevent their being recog- | »d by former friends without~im- | ing the execution of their tasks. | Such a privilege might be accorded by those recommended by the prison au- thorities for good conduct, It might alsp be provided that no ome should be compelled to work on the highways | without his own: consent, | As to Conflicting With Honest Labor. ! It is true that the convict would | have more chance of escape if he wers | | set to work outside the prizon walls. He has already mads one step towards liberty. 1 see no impropriety, how- ever, dressing him in prison zarb, for siripes weuld be a serious obsta- ble to his escape. Undoubtedly, the occupation of con- victs in the open air would put them in a position of competition with free | { lahor, but this is true of every other { kind of prison labor. Such labor is necessary. To shut up men without giving them occupation renders them insane, or shortens their lives. On the other hand it would be unjust to the staie if it were not to make them, go far as it reasonably ean, earn their bread whiie suffering the penalty for their crime, To Eliminate “Jail Smell.” ‘The health of the convicts would certainly be improved by employment in the open air. There are regenerat- ing forces of nature ever at work to purify the free air from afl contagion, and destroy all morbid germs, These forces are almost entirely excluded from prisons. There, notwithstanding all practicable measures of cleanliness, will be centers of infection from which disease will radiate, particularly tu- berculesis, to which, indeed, prison lite is especially favorable. There are few jails in Connecticut which have not an evil edor peculiar to such places—what we call the jall smell, | | | | | ni | | inaugurated a | rate | ticity The Study of Agriculture is to be inaugurated in the public schoels of Pennsylvania. Col. Lewis W. Crampton, medical corps, U, 8. A, died at San Bernard- ino, Cal. . The New York State Bar Association adopted resoiutions protesting against a recall of the judfes, A Six-Million-Dollar Suit, filed mgainst Operator Patten in Chicago two years ago, has been withdrawn. nerity report adverse to the work- i men’s compensation bill. New Yorl’s District Attorney has campalign against the loan shuarks, The President Has Signed the Bill to tax white phosphorus matches, It is claimed the law will in effect pro- hibit their manufacture. North Carolina's Representation at the republican national convention will be divided so as to give 18 dele- fates to Roosevelt and 8 to Taft. Robbins Little, who for twenty years vas librarian of the Astor library in New York, died at his home at New- port, R. I, Saturday. A Number of Arrests Have Been made in the City of Mexico in con- nection with a plot to assassinate President Madero, James J, Hill, Chairman of the board of directors of the Great. Northern railway ,and one of the country’s railroad leaders, will retire in a few weeks. U 8. Senator A. J. Gronna of North Dzkota is regarded as the man who will present Senator LaFollette's name for the presidential nomination at the Chicage convention. _The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion held Saturday that there is no substantial reason why mobair should bo reguired to pay a higher freight | than wool. It Has Been Held by the Interstate commerce commission that postoffice inspectors can lawfully use free trans- portation on intersiale journeys only while actually on duty. While Investigating the Failure of a charge of dynamite to explofle, Pi- erre St. Pierre, a Brunswick, Me., con- tractor, aged about 50, was ki Sat- urday on Dingleys island, M On the Eve of His Silver Jubilee as Roman Catholic bishop of Provi- dence, Rt. Re Matthew Harkins was honored hy Pope Plus by being made an assistant to the pontifical throne. The United States Government offi- cials are indignant over the effrontery of the Mexican rebels in interfering with the officlal mail of United States conauls in Mexico. Acting Upen the Recommendation of the committee ¢n foreign relations, the senate adopted the house resolu- tion congratulating the people of China upon their assumption of pow- er. President Taft's Personal turn, now on file in the county courthouse in shows that Tax re- Cincinnati, he is $30,720 richer in property subject to taxation than he was last year. A New Custom of Yale Classes is indicated in the form of a {(‘lass tree which has just been planted on the Yale caumpus by the class of 1902, whose precedent will be followed by othier classes. The Body of Maj. Gen. Frederick D. Grant will lie for 10 days in the chap- el of Cornelius the Centurion at Gov- ernors island, where for the last few years of his life neral Grant mede his headquart C. M. Wheeler of Portland, Me., en- gineer of the Grand Trunk passenger train which collided with a freight train at North Stratford, N, H., Fri- day, died Saturday from the effects of his injuries. Premier Poincare, at the dedication of a statute of the late King Edward in Cannes, France, lauded the FEng- lish monarch as the artisan of the triple agresment of Great Britain, ¥rance and Russia. J. Pierpont Morgan Had to Fight his way through an angry crowd te the rallroad station at Florence, Italy, the Florentines suspecting that he had boughi the famous inz. The House Committes on Eleotion of president and vice president Bata urday favorably reported the Henry bill whichiwould provide for the pub- of all contributions to ecam- paign funds, together with thelr dis Lursement. Receiver John T. Rhode Island Coal company was au- thorlzed by Judge Brown of the Unit- ed Siates distriot court to sell the mines and other property of the com- pany at Portsmouth, R. 1, at public auction. The Minting of Canadian five and ten aollar gold pieces will begin at Ottawa, Ont,, The new coins will meet need in Canada, as practie. only gold used in Canada at present is coined by the United States, The Attempt of an Automobile Driver to avoid running over a dog Satur resulted in the death of Miss Etta | Carr and the injury of Miss Dora Clement, at TLawrence, Ma The young wemen were members of an o chestra playing at a theater In IHaver- hill, Agent Wadleigh, president of the Mill Agents’ association 78f Lowelil, Mass,, announced Saturday that the mills in that city will open Monday, April 23, with an advance in wages on a basis of ten per cent, over the schedule of wages in force before March 25, F. Rodman Law, the parachute Jumper, of New York, dropped 250 feet from a_ hydro-acroplane piloted ‘ovér Marblellead bay by Aviator Page. His parachfite opened greadily. hit the water easily and was pulled out ¢f the ocean by an army of boat- men. 3 J. C. Stuart, Chairman of the Gen- eral Manage: association of fifty eastern railroads, issued a call Sat- urday for a. meeting of the conference committee to be held on April 17 to discuss the recent strike vote of the englneers and determine whether the railroads should make a counter prop- ositfon to their demands for increased payy Hamilton | had | Mona Lisa paint- | Burnett of the| Into an lceberg WHITE STAR LINER HAS PASSENGERS ABOARD, 1,300 HER MAIDEN VOYAGE Titanic, Largest Vessel Afioat, Sink- ing and Passengers Are B Off in the Lifeboats, ing Put Montreal, April 14—The new White Star liner Titavic is reported in ad- vices received here late tonight to have sturck an iceberg. Vessel 8inking, Passengers Take to Boats, Cape Race, April 156.—At 190.25 st | night the steamship Titanic sent the 8. U. S. signal, saying that the vessel Wwas struck an iceverg. Hal an hour later the steamship Virginian reported word from the Titanic that the Ti- tanic was sinking and was putting | ths women off in the beats. At 1227 the last signals were recelved by the Virginian irom the Titanie, These last signals were biurred. | . The news was received at the Allsn | line offices here in a wirekss message from the captain of the steamer Vir ginian of that line. It was stated that the Virginian had been in wireless | communication with the Titanic, that she had : eported being in collsion with an iceberg and asked for assisianoce. | The Virginian reported that she was | en her way to the Titanic. Virginian Can Accommodate 900 More. Toe Virginian sailed from Halifax this morning and at the time the wire- less was sent she 18 reckoned to have beon about abeam of Cape Race. She has 900 paseengers on board, but can accommodate 900 more of the Titanic's passengers should their removal bo necessary. Further News Expected. The message from the Virginan's captain was sent by wire w0 ¢ Ruce and from thence cable Lo Halifax and then by wire to Montreal I'he Allan line officials here expect Lo hear further news at any moment, Has 1,800 Passengers Aboard, The White Star liner Titanic, the largest vessel aficat, left Soutbanplon April 10 en her maiden woyage foi New York. She is & vessel of 46,328 tons, ig 882 feet § inches long, amd displaces 66,000 tons. The Titanic when she left Southamp - | ton had about 1,300 passengers on | board, of whom about 350 were in the | first cabin. Among these latter are | F. D. Millet, the artist and president | of the Consolidated American academy | at Rome; Magor Archibald Buti, mili- | | tary aide to President Taft; C, M. Hays, president of the Grand Trumk railway; J. B. lsmay, chalrman sad managing directar of the White Star line; H. B. Harrls, the American the- atrical manager; W. T. Stead, Muiw. | 1sador Straus, Mr. and Mrs. John Ja- cob Astor, Mr. and Mrs, (. D. Widener, Benjamin Guggenhelm and Mr. and Mrg, Harry Widener, Captain H. J. Smith {5 in command of the Titanic. Got Bad Start from Southampton. The last communication with the | Titanic was \a wireless message cetved by the Marconi station at Cape Race reporting her 1,284 miles east of Sandy Hook at 2.15 o'clock BSumday | morning. On leaving Southampton nst Wed- nesday the Titanie had a rather e citing moment while proceeding down Southampton water. Passing the White Star liner Oceanic and the American liner New York were horthed alongside each other. Tha suction ef the Titanic's triple screws dragged the | New York from her moorings and sev en of that vessel's stern ropes parted. The stern of the New York swung into midstream and narrowly escaped strik ing the Titanic, which had to-stap un- til the New York was towed to a safer berth. AN EARLY ARREST IN LYNN MURDER CASE Police Will Be Disappointed If It Doesn’t Happen Within 24 Hours. Lynn, Mass., April M~Three police | inspectors left town hurriedly | to locate a man whom Chief of Police Burckes is anxious to Interview re- garding the murder of George ¥, Marsh, the wealthy soap manufac- turer. Marsh's body was found rid- dled with bullets on the West Lynn | marshes near the state boulevard on | Friday morning. | Inmspectors S. R, Busckes and WHRI- !fam E. Murray have gone to Maine, and Inspector William H. Kane's des- | tination is New York state. Chlef Burckes refused tonight to tell what | cities the men will visit, but declared | that he has what he belleves to be positive information as to the jdentity of the man. He added thet if an ar- rest did not result within the next 34 | hours he would be greatly disappoint | ed. Where this arrest is likely to oo- | cur the chief declined.to say, but he admitted that he looked for it to be made by members of his own depart- ment. The police tonight have settled om one theory and have practically sban- doned investigation on all other Mnes. | They belleve Marsh was murderad by a man with whom he was we]l ac- quainted, a man who traveled far to ses him, Jay In walt for an opportuna | moment and on Thursday night in- duced his victim to enter an automo- | bile for a ride. The detailed information in the | hands of the police which has led them to settle upon this Chief Burckes refused to make public, but he declared that matyers had thorougkly investigated and that he was satisfied of the correctness of the theory, FIVE DEATHS DUE TO DECAYED HERRING. Family Loses All But One Child by Ptomaine Poisoning, Charlotteville, P, E. I, April 14— Five of the six children of Patrick Magee and his wife, who live near Montagu, have died within the last two days. Their death is supposed to be due to ptomaine poisoning brought on by eating decayed herring, of which Mr. and Mrs. Magee and the five chil- dren partook freely at dinner on Fri- day. The sixti child was not at home. After dinner the children and mother being became 111 and, their condition serious, a physiclan was summoned. One child died an_ hour after his ar- rival. Two others died about 10 o'clock Saturdey morning, within 15 of each other, and this