Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 24, 1912, Page 1

, Speed of Ship was Not Reduced After He had Announced Its | Proximity—Major Peuchen Testifies that there were not | | i { | i Godfrey Peuchen, Canadlan manufac- | out the reserv ' turer and yachtsman, who was among | to disperse the crowds, aft . @ood glass he b VOL. LIV.—NO. 100 [d ~a- NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESEAY, APRIL 24, 1912 ~ PRICE TWO CEN TITANIC LOOKOUT HAD NO GLASSES Had He Had Them, He Says, He Would Have Seen Iceberg Soon Enoug h to Have Avoided It. HAD BEEN TOLD THERE WERE NONE FOR HIM Enough Sailors Around the Lifeboats—Women Credited with Pluck by Witnesses Before Senate Committee ‘Washington, April 23 —1Like the miss- ing horseshoe nail that cost a monarch his kingdom, the fallure to provide binoculars or spyglasses for the look- outs on the Titanlo was one contribut- ing cause in the destruction of the 4 =hip an the loss of more than 1,600 lives, Two witnessex before the senate in- | Vestigating committee today agreed on this. They were Irederick Fleat, a lookout on the liner, and Major Arthur the rescued passengers. Asked for Binoculars. ‘leel acknowledged that if he had been aided in bis observations by a probably could have #spled the herg into which the ship crashed in time o have warned the bridge to avold it. Major Peuchen also | lestified the much greater sweep of { vision afforded by binoculars, and, as a vachtsman, sald he believed the pres- ence of the Iceberg might have been detected in time to escape the collision , had the loookout men been so equip- \ ped. It was made to appear that the blame for being without glasses did not rest with the lookout men. Fleet they had asked Yor them at sald l Southampton and were told there were | terms the lack of expericenced sailors | their child. | been held from the time the ship ieft | L none for them. One glass in a pinch would have served the whole crow's nest No Drills Held by Crew. Major Peuchen criticised In strong on board the Titanic. He sald that when the call to quarters was sounded not enough of the crew responded to undertake the work required in lower- | ing and filling the boata Furthermore, he sald no drills had Southampton, although It was custom-~ ! ary to hold such drills every Sunday. ? Falled to Aid Those Struggling in Sea. | | Herbart J. Pitman, third officer of the Titanic, told of his fallure to turn baeck the lifeboat in which he and his passengers were idly drifting to at- | tempt the rescue of others when the t o Titanio went down. Shuddering at continuous moan.” The passengers in- | wisted that to to be spared a recitation of the facts, + but Senator Smith pressed him. { Photographers Ejected. | The importunities and activities of | photographers today so aroused Sen- | ator Bmith that he indignantly ordercd them all excluded from the chamber. “This inquiry is official and solemn,” he said in explanation, “and there will be no hippodroming or commercializing of it. 1 will not permit it.” An amateur photographer managed to slip past the guard later, but he was summarfly e¢jected when he sought | to get snap of the scene. Ismay Refused Permission to Leave. I. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the Internationed Mercantile Marine, and President P. A. S. Fraaklin of the White Star line urgently re- q d the committee to permit them eturn to New Yors. In executive session at the elose of 1 w the committee declined to r to leave Washington until 9 no longer needed. Mr. Ismay was have been recalied te the witne hut may be recalled t Vice decided also to call no more witnesges until all the Brit- 1 witnesses had Dbeen heard. The commitiee also decided {o delay other smportaut business before it until the Titanic Inquiry had proceeded farther. 1e testimony detail is printed on two.) MORE BODIES OF VICTIMS. Fourteen Mcre Names Sent by Wire- less from Cable Steamer. "he White Star i3 morning made public the fol- lowing wireless communication, giv- ing the names in the additional list of those recovered in the Titanic disas- | ter #rom Mackay-Bennett via steam- ship Royal George and (‘ape Race to | Ismay, White Btar,line, care Commer- cial Cable company, New York Following identified Monday Mre, Mack i Mrs. H, McNamee. | ‘atavelas Vassilics line WVilliam Sage | lames Farrel. ! Hansen i enry D. Kelly aurelz Adahi, Reg, Hale, and W. D. Douglas. i Douglas has heen embaimed. Abova all passengers. Have also identified | J, R. Rice, assistant purser: G. Hinck- ospital attendant, and W. Butt of Total bodies tod: T NEARLY $1,000,000, the recollectfon, he | waid the cries for help made "ons long | g0 back to ald them | would mean thelr destruction, he said, 50 that after starting in the direction | of tha cries he rescinded his orders and | walted for the dawn. Twice ho begged | t that has not heen fle-i | horrible that they wi | street surrounding the Educational Al- | lance building in East Broadway, | where the meeting was scheduled to | the police dared not allow would be | the hall, that the police on guard were swi¢. off their feet. es from three precinctg indefinitely, ‘While the crush was at its worst, 2 railing guarding an areaway in frontf many persons had been swept into the area and injured. found little to do. In the excitament scores of childr sn became separated from their paren fs. FAMILY UNITED. Woman With Baby, Saved from [i- tanio, Joins Her Husband, Norfolk, Va.* April 23, Aks and her infant, surv Titanic disaster, arrived here today. The woman was too ill to talk and had to go to bed. Mrs. Aks camep to America to join her husband, 8. .hks, a tailor, who had never before sten The Aks infant was re- covered by the mother on the Car pa- thia after she had given it up . as lost. The infant, having been talfen from the mother by a frantic m an, | fell into the lap of a woman suryi vor |in a lifeboat as it was tossed o wer the side of the Titanic. The motijer, who had fainted, was placed in an- other lifeboart. Convinced They Are Her Boys, Nice, France, April 23.—Mme, N lav- | ratil, who yesterday belfef that the two walfs saved from the Titanic are her children, {s neore Mrs. Jarah ors” of. the chael, called Lolo for short, aged four years; curly chestnut hair: radther large for his age and speaks with {if- fleully, Fdmond. called Momo, iwo years old, fair hair with one (juite white lock; big black es, fair ¢pom- plexion; large and strong for his age. Californian Within 20 Miles of Di jas- ter. Boston, April 23.—The Leyland line steamer Californian was less thagwn 20 miles from the ill-fated White Star liner Titanlc when tha laat fa und- ered on the morning of April 15. - Cap- tain Lord of the Californian sai{l to- night that had he but known of{ the | Titanie’'s plight all the latter’s pas- sengers eould have been saved. Pugilist Among the Lost. 1 23.—The bed)s of a Welsh hanl fm- ho lost his life v//hen sank, will be brough il to it was annouiced tonight. George MacDonald, Wells' manager, has charge | arrangements, Williams was eo1ning to this esuntry to fight in Pittsbywgh. He had not, however, been mag ched with anybody. Williams' name s on the list of these whose bodi been recevered by the Maekay-Bel mett cable ship. Freight Steamer Wreck. Poriand, Me., April | weight fighter, v the Titanie New York for bur 23 —Had with a wireless outfit she could have reached the scene of the wreck 4 ¢ the Titanic in time to have saved /imany lives. The Lena, w! X from Fowey, E j within thirty gland, today, was miles of the 7 fitanic { when the latter foundered. -Chif £ Offi- cer Eli Sayre that those on the Lena did not know of the wreck until they took a pllot on board ¢f' Port- land. Titanic Moving Pictures I3arr ed. Canton, 0., April ture exhibits ~Movin, of the Ti H pic- S: afety tors of moving picture places anc/ the- aters to that effect today. Tha direc~ tor said he had learned the p ktures were “faked” and that they 'were =o 1d leavie a bad impression on the minds of women and children. To ldentify Two Littie B pys, Centerville, Ia, April 23 - ank | Lofebre tonight started for N¢ yw York 1o to identify two Frepch thrown from the Titanic hoat. children ) into , a life- Uis wife and four chlid ren were jon the Titanic comjng to u jeet him after he had been in this ¢ puntry a year, making money to pay t/ heir pas- nage. (Continued on Page Ti wo.) SIX FIRE ALAMS IN WATERBURY YEf,TERDAY. |None of the Blazes Prove d Serious, Contributions Pouring Into Londen u' Well as Into New York. London, April 24—The Titanic dis- | asier still holds first place in the pub- iic mird. The newspapers publish at great length the thrilling details of the evidence given hefore the sena- torlal commitiee at Washington, while the extraordinary flow of money to the rellef funds is proof of the wide- felt sympathy. The tetal fund, includ- ing that in New York, is appreaching $1,600,000, MEMORIAL POSTPONED. Great Crush at New Yerk Hall Made | This Course Necessary. New York, April 23.—TPhe vast out- pouring of residents of the East Side | who wished to pay tribute to Isidor Straus, a victim, with his wife, of the Titanic disaster, defeated the purpose for which the thousands had assembled when it became necessary to posipons a lecture on his career arranged for tonight. ¢ Fully 48,000 persens, according to the police emtimate, erewdod inte the N o and One Alarm Was False. Waterbury, Conn., April was a slight renews City hall at 4.50 o'cl which was quickly et de)wn by the firemen, Two 'boys ran int p the Leav- enworth firehouse at 7.20 ag id said there was another fire at 27 d rand strest, and the chemical respes pded, but it proved to be a false alarn ., ton street company was a alled out for a brush fire, These alarms made a tq tal of six for the day, but none of thq fires was of & serious nature, Arran;lements have ‘been made for the ealliyyy out of the militia should such a si p ;brove neees- sary hy the seunding ¢/¢ tho whistle of the Socevill Manufacty ring company, 23—There in the k thif s afternocon, Accused of Embez . ling frons Owls. Bristel, Conn., 4 .pril B. Whitney, who ¥.as clsjimed to be an organizer for the ~4f Owls here, was brought baekaiflmhfimelpm by Chief Belden today'y and charged in court with attemptiy g to defraud a local hotel kesper of a board bill and of embezsling money from the Owls. At his own request ti{'al was put ever wntil the 36th, with a hond eof $500 demanded, 2 Within 30 Mili s of | | -2 the freight steamer l.ena been equl pped | L nic ais qster | { will be prohibited in Canton. | Director Dunwoodie notified pre prie- The Bur- | 23 —Wrederick | | i I t ) It was necessary to ¢all | 'L“"d"“- it hac)|duced in the house of commons | been decided to postpone the meeting'| W | | | { | | of the court officers Marca 14, announced her | convinced than ever after reading the | | latest despatches from New Yo She desoribos the children as follow Mi- Matt | f the| Cabled Paragraphs Berlin, April 23—The new trans- Aflantic steamer which was ordered by the North German Lloyd on, April 11 at the Schichau Shipbuilding yard ak Bremen is to have a displacement of 354000 tons. Paris, April 23.—ThHe massacre at Fez, in which a large number of French officers, soldiers and citizens were killed and wounded, has given rilse to considerable criticism of the governmnent authorities for not fore- seeing and preventing the occurrence. ~The squadron of which has been op- Rome, April 2 JRalian warships wrating recently in the Aegean sea and mear has s¢ 3 entrance d the Tur] the Dardanelles sh island of Stam- palia and has established its Dbase there. Venice, April 23.—The international art exposition was inaugurated today | by the Duke of Genoa, in the name of King Victor Zmmanuel. J. Pierpont Morgan, who arrived yesterds was one of the central figures at the cere- mony. 23.—Masses the Russlan steamer ulig, Holla prevented d, April be held, So great was the crush thaj. | Birma, which left New York for Rot- the doorms ! terdam and to be opened for fear that hundreds | reaching the Titanic in reply to the trampled in the rush invo |sinking liner's appeal for” assi The crowds began gathering | The Birma was 100 miles from the at three o’clock this afternoon and hy] Titanic when she received the wireless | evening had grown to such dimensioxs | call that the liner Libau on April 11, from stance. s in danger, April 23.—Reginald Me-~ secretary, today intro- the sh disestablishment bill which pro- vides that after July 1, following the rassing of the act, the four Welsh di- will na, home Commission- session of the church property and dis- Ambulances wer e | tribute it { summoned, but the attending doctoiss | CHANGE OF VENUE FOR OUTLAWS' TRIAL Allen Followers in Battle Array Front of the Jail. Hillsville, Va., April Allen ciansmen, charged were arraigned In C courthouse this morning on ments returned after the Ass Each pleaded “not guiity.” A change of venue was asked and granted, the court announcing i would hold the trial at W ginning next Tuesday, A defendants will be tried heville be- 1 30. The eparately. ilie and the courthouse bristled rs with firearms in the hands of offic as the proceedings went on, and du; ing the day it was demorsrtated that the Allens are not without friends. Detectives say they nipped a scheme to sipuggle firearms into the jail. W ley Smith, one of tbhe kinsmen, drew a detective and was Later at the point e drove two / from the was on uir from which ot, a strapping with a large iff Edwards arched all who entered ti rtroom. DR. WILEY BALKED AT AN UNDERWEIGHT HAM. Says He Saved Ninety Cents by In- sisting That It Be Weighed. ‘Washington, W. Wiley today told tk waittee on interstate commerce some of his views about living and house- keeping, advocating a bill to require the net weight of food packages to be stamped on them. He declared that all food should be bought by weight or measure and not simpiy by package. Dr. Wiley sa r recently tried to sell kim a which he said weighed a certain amount. “I asked him if he had weighed it April Dr. Marvey house com- and he sald it was weighed when it came in last No nber,” said Dr.Wiley. { I made hm weigh it again and it had ilost three nounds. That gaved me have | ch arrived here | | of the | | ninaty cents.” Dr. Wiley eral authorities frequent contro bureau of chemist with s 5y W hom he was in Young Redding’s Eccentricities. New Haven, Conn.,, April 23.—Ten witnesses were examined today in the trial of George Redding, Jr., charged with the m r of Morris Greenberg, and all testified to peculiarities of con- duct of, the acc and all of them declared they belleved him insane. Five witnesses w: chums of the prisoner. told of many plans gaining notoriety. one of which was to walk acress the United States dressed | in cowboy custume. New York, Anconia, wh r Genoa and Naples, took miles south of the one the Tit > Was pursuing when the fatal collision oc- curred. Captain Consigliere reports that although he took this extreme southerly course to avoid icebergs, he encountered on April 20, in latitude 40,05, longitude 29.29, an ‘iceberz 300 feet long and 1 >0 Editor Held for Murder. Nowata, Okla., April 23.—Because the hoof of his horse exac! | a plaster cast of the footprint of the | horse | | driven to the spot near here where Mrs. Irene Goheen was mur- dered recently, H. O, Jeffries, editor of the No a Advertiser, today was arrested, charged with killing the wo- man. Double Shooting by Jilted Suitor. New York, April 23.—Anna Schoski, 20 years old, and her supposed sweet- heart, Barney Berger, were shot and dangerously wounded today while at work in the factory in which they wera employed. Both may die. ing is charged by the police to have been done by a jilted suitor, Samuel Margales, whom they arrested, Another Mexican Battle Expected. Tucson, Arlz, April 23.—A battle between federals and rebels near Cul- iacan, capital of Sinaloa, is expected. A despatcn today sald Gen. Ramon Tturbe, commanding 400 federals, was marching upon Culiacan, and that rev- olutionists had left there to intercept them. Telegraphers Want More Pay. Cineinnati, O., April 23.—The teleg- raphers of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicage and St. Louis railroad met here today and presented a demand to the management of the road for in- ereassd pay approximating 14 per cent. and a change in their working rules. The Real Defilement. We must hepe that the compulsory kissing of the flag by those anarchists at San Diego did them good. It was awfully hard on the S'ars and Stripes. —Omaha World-Herald, cease to form part of the| of tae building broke and a near panip | province of Canterbury. resulted when the report spread thak|ers are fo be appointed to take po: i the | | | i | tomorrow { oriqnd euy 1BY} HUR I | should be correct { paid his respects to fed- | | Affidavits Tending | by records of the V y matched | | | | | | The shoot- | { intended. ‘Strike Likely To Be Averied RAILROAD MANAGERS AGREE TO| A CONFERENCE. TO DO WHAT IS FAIR. Commissioner Neill Says That is Pur- pose of Intervention—Engineers Ex pect Mediation to Follow. New York, April 23.—Mediation in the dispute belween the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the eastern railways, which has threatened to re- sult in a strike on fifty lines east of Chicago and north of the Potomac, is expected to result from the action the conference committee of rail managers today in agreeing to confer with Charles P. Neill, United States labor commissioner, and Judge Martin J. Knapp of the United States com- merce court on the subject. Possibility of Strike More Remote. ‘While the answer of the railroads to the letter of Messrs. Neill and Knapp did not definitely accept mediation, the opinion was expressed by the engineers that in the end this would be the re- sult. Commissioner Neill in an inter- view glven out after he had received the raiiroads’ answer also indicated that he considered that mediation was Tonight in all quarters the opinion was expressed that the possi- bility of a ke, which ye peared imminent, is incre: mote. Conference to Begin Today. On a series of conferences beginning probably will depend either the definite seltiement of the dispute or the arrangement of a plan of arbi- tration. Mr. Neill announced tonight that he wiil confer with the railroad managers tomorrow morning and if possible will meet the engineers later Judge }\napp: according to word received from Washington to- | night, will leave that city tomorrow to take part in the negotiatio ); decision railw: managers to cor Knapp and 2 was reached a a conference las practicaliy all day The Plan of Action. Tmm ately upon receipt of this let- fer Mr. Nelll announced his programme for immediate action toward ending the trouble, if possible. It Is his plan for him to confer with the managers, while Judge Knapp fer with the engineers. The two will meet later to compare motes. In this wa Mr. Neill pointed out, the rights of each side will be protected by se- crecy from the other, while giving the government rejy ntatives a upon which to work for a settlement. Striving to Do What is Fair, In discussing the matter tonight, Mr. Nelll nmaid in “In the position in which I am placed 1 canvot venture any opinion, or say anything about the prospects of a speedy settlement of the difficulties. Both sides have now agreed to accept our kindly offices in an attempt to pre- {8 B U3 informed of the and this I am 111 con- progress being ma always willing to do when I can do so without hindering our plans. Nothing will be secrat, but you must realize we are all striving to do what is fz When everything is setiled then I wiil be more at liberty to talk.” Roads Have Not Agreed to Mediation. On behalf of the railroads, following the giving out of their letter, it was stated that the Jecision to confer witk the government renresentatives did not mean_that th tion. " The positi : was stated, that they will Mr, Neill has to offer them, but In case his proposals are not satisfactory the railroads are free to refus em. In this event affairs would return to their former status—the refusal of the rail- roads to grant the demands of the en- gineers. INSANITY ARGUMENT IN RICHESON’S CASE. to Show Mental Weakness in His Family. Joston, April 23.—John L. Lynchburg, Va., attorney who counsel for Claremce V. T. Ri the former Daptist minister, under s tence of death for the murder of Avis Linneli, arrived in Boston today to joi T.e with the other attorneys in the case in | a last fight to cli Soon after his arr I Mr. Le red with Willlam A. Morse and Philip R. Dunbar, associate counsel, regard- ing the case, It is said th: whereas counsel have been maintaining a strict ¢ regarding Richeson, from now on his side of the case will be given much publicity, his attorneys desiring to educate the public mind to their viewpoint, Mr. Lee returned from the south with a mass of affidavitg collected at the home of the prisoner in Vir- the ienor of these statements tending to show mental irresponsibili- ty. It i3 the claim of the attorneys that Richeson’s family history is fraught with dementia, hallucinations and other forms of insanity, proven, it is declaréd inia. insane hos- pitals. Within a few days Richeson’s counsel will appeal to the executive council for clemency. s lif ON TRIAL FOR MURDER OF FIRST BASEMAN BROWN., | John V. McStea Tells Jury That Ball Player Destroyed His Hpme, Albany, N. Y., April 23.—“This man attacked me and destroyed my home,” testified John V. McStep, at his trial today on a charge of muyrder, first de- gree, for the shooting of Arthur Brown, former first baseman of the Albany state league baseball team, last June. McStea testified that he saw Brown in tha room and that Brown struck him, Mrs. McStea in the meantime erylng “Give it to him, Artle” Mec-~ Stea said that during a struggle with Brown he fired several shots, but not with deadly intent. Blew Head Off With Dynamite. Sanlyville, O. April 23 —Wesley Olmstead, 58, today placed a stick of dynamite in his mouth and touched a lighted match to It. His head was blown away, a hole two feet square was made in the floor and the room was parily demolished. Lylng on a bed two feet from where Olmstead committed the act was his ‘seven months’ 1>d baky. The infant was but slightly injured. Arizena Downs Woman Suffrage. Phoenix, Ariz, sAprll 23.—Woman suffrage was defeated in the Arizona senate today, 11 to 7. This followed an adverse report on the measure by the commities om constitutional amend- mentg INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE basis | |Condensed Telegrams Taft Garrigs The Supreme Court Will Hear No Granite state Cases after May 3. |[NEW HAMPSHIRE STRONG FOR THE PRESIDENT. The Boarding House Keepers' asso- | ciation of New York has Dbeen incor- porated. 5 Albert H. Olney, a Direct Descendant of Roger Williams, died at Providence yesterday after an illness of two years. Building Inspector “Al” Gillison of Atlantic City was convicted of at- tempting to bribe. Willlam Grigley, judge of elections in the 1910 elections. | IS CONCEDED BY BASS A Chicago Firm of Custom House brokers is suing Jack Johnsonm, the pugilist, for $125 for insurance on an automobile shipped from London., Roosevelt Leaders Claim a Fighting Chance in One District—Rhode ls- land State Convention Today. The St. Albans Granmite Company’s shed at St. Albans, Vt.,, was destroyed by fire yesterday with a loss of $22,- 000. Concord, N. H, April 23.—Victory i3 in the republican presidential primaries Forty Weavers at the Stanley Wool- | in New Hampshire was practically en Mill at Uxbridge, Mass., are on| conceded to Taft tonight by Roose- strike for an advance of 10 per cent. | velt leaders, including Governor DBass. in wages. | Returns received at the Roosevelt ! headquarters, from 202 of the 290 cit- ios and towns, gave Taft 380 dele- gaies and Roosevelt 264, out of a total William C. Matthews, a negro law- ver, was sworn in yesterday as special ass l’in:{ United .\ft;tes disxtrict.(atml‘— | of 811 in the state convention, |ney a oston. 1} a former | s . N . . : | Harvard baseball a&ndnfieg;zbail pluver.e { Claim Fighting Chance in One District 3 | ‘I'he Roosevelt leaders conceded the | A Large Barn on the Farm of J. H.| First district to Taft, but claimed & Jennings, postmaster at West Redding, | ighting chance in the Second district, Conn., was burned Monday night and 1 although admitting incomplete returns four horses owned by Patrick Gorman, | showed Taft in the lead there, a contractor, perished in the flames. At the Taft headquarters It was claimed that the president would have 400 delegates in the state conventlon to 170 for the former president. Nine of 11 Cities for Taft. Most of the primaries wers heid this evening, though some were afternoon affairs. In every case, voters wers permitted to express ¥heir presidential proference in addition to voting for either Taft or Roosevelt delegates to | state and district conventions. Tabu~ lations at the Roosevelt hepdquartiers showed a slight lead for Taft in the state In preferential voting. Nine of the eleven cities of the state chose Taft delegates, while the candl- dates split about even in the towas. LITTLE RHODY TODAY, Will Adopt Taft Platform and Endores The Family of John B. Thayer, sec- ond vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, one of the Titanie viotims, will receive life Insurance amounting to $120,000. * Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, ths avi- ator, returned to New York, after a five months’ trip to the Orient. Cap- tain Baldwin made 20 flights in Japan and China. As a Result of a Strike of loom fix- er d weavers the North Village cot- ton mill of 8. Slater & Sons., Inc., was closed yesterday at Webster, Mass., by the management of the plant. Senator Knute Nelson declares that the “houn’ song™ is not a democratic tune, but a base imitation of an old| " Swedish viking and is at least 1,200 President. years old. Tl Providence, R. 1, April 23.—The re- publicans of Rhode Island who will meet in thelr state and district con- ventions tomorrow will elect dele- gates to national convention already agreed upon, adopt resolutions favor- ing President Taft for re-election, and probably instruct the delegates to cast their ballots for him If the programme arranged today by the state central committee is carried out Members of the committee do not con- sider it probable that any effort will be made to send delegates favoring any other candidate than President Taft. Practically all the work of choosing a slate of delegates was com pleted today and the only function of | the state end three district conven- tionse will be to ratify the choices of the organization, unless something un- forosesn arises, TAFT’S TRIP, Has Six Speeches in Massachusetts 8cheduled for Tomorrew. Isaac Southworth of Georgetown, Ky., was trying the front door of his home when his brother, mistaking him | for a burglar, shot through the door, | killing him instantly. Former Vice President Fairbanks, ! selected as a Taft delegate at large at the state convention four weels ago, | has informed a number of his friends ! that he will not go as a delegate, Wiliiam Ryan Recently died at Ros- | erea, Island, leaving $101,000 made in | the saloon business in Cleveland. He bequeathed 343,000 for 32,000 masses for the repose of his soul. | Four Children, Two Boys and Girls, | were born Monday to Mrs. E. Wenski, | who lives at Posen, a Michigan village. | All four are healthy. The father is a ‘] farmer, | At the 143th Annual Meeting of the | Litchfiell County Medical asscciation at Winsted yesterday Dr. R. B. Good- win of Thomaston was elected presi- Washington, Ap: 24.—President Taft and all the members of his cab- inet were In conference at the White house until after two o'clock this morning, considering, it 18 understood, the present situation in New HEugland and golng over the speeches the pres- {dent is to deliver on his trlp begin- i When the conference ad- ecretary Hilles announced that thers was nothing to be given out and the cabinet officers refused to talk. Secretary Nagel left the White For the First Time in four and a | F2lf months the business of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road company has begun to show a decrease as compared with this time | last year. The Interstate Commerce commis- sion has ordered the rallroads to re- | store to Southern California fruit | | growers the right to have their loaded | ; y { freight cars pre-cooled at a charge of | house just before midnight to catch & | $7.50 per car. | train for Missouri, where he begins - | a speechmaking trip Fridey. & The Syracuse Ministerial association | Ior the last two days the president pledged all Protestant clergymen not|has worked only in his study In the | to officiate at any wedding at which €Xecutive mansion and it is under- | the groom 1s requested to furnish a | Stood tha _he intends to reply to re- -ertificate of health and fails to com- | cent criticisms of his sdministration ply. by Colonel Roosevelt, Leaving Washington tomorrow aft- ernoon, the president will spend the night at the home of his brother, Hen- ry W. Taft, in New York. Thursday has been set aside for Massachusetts and the president will make set spegches at Springfield, Worcester and Boston, with rear platform talks at Palmer and South Framingham. Be- fore he delivers his principal address at Boston, Mr. Taft over the long dis- tance telephone will greet the diners at the banquet of the Associated Press and American Newspaper Publishers’ assoclation in New York, Cummins and Taft Claim lowa. Des Moines, Iowa, April 23.—Victory The Ohio Constitutional Convention | defeated a proposal to incorporate a provision for the recall of public offi- clals m the constitution by a vote of 57 to 45. It provided for the recall of | all public official The Plans Providing for the exten- slon of the Grand Trunk railroad to | Boston and Providence will not be af- | fected by the death of President Charles M. Hays on the steamer Ti- tanic. With the Installation of Automatic | | signals a few days hence by the Con- | necticut company on its trolley line| ween New Haven and Waterbury, | In tomorrew's republican state con | the important #nprovements on that | u.-nuu_n w4 med by both the Talt {line between the two cities will be| 3nd Cummins leaders tonight. John | completed. | T. Adauns, state manager of the Taft Ba o forces, declared that Senator Cummins’ trip from Washington to Iowa as an active presidential candidate seeking the indersement of his home people would be met by an enthusiastic in- dorsement of the Taft adminlstration and the approval of the president's ,nominallou for a second term. ..The Seven Story Grain Elevator at| the foot of Pacific street in Brooklyn, owned by the New York Dock com- pany, was destroyed by fire in which all the fire apparatus available was called out. The damage amounted to about $75,000. Determined to Break U | d & 3 Drinking | HORRIBLY BURNED BY among the midshipmen an those who sell to publish | liquor to lhcm? Supt. | E)(?PFODED GASOLINE. Gfbbons sent elght shipmen beforo the | vite of a Shelton Tailor in Mospital | those who furnished intoxicants to & With Little Hope of Recovery. club room in Annapolis, ! Shetton, Comn., April 25— Mrs. James In Answer to an Offer of the City to | Mascola is in the Grifflin hospital, suf- pay a reward of a cent for every tem | fering with burns which may cause her fiies delivered dead at the city hall, | death, and ber husband, James Maa- school children of <Cleveland ars | colo, is also severely burned as the re- “gwatting the fly” with vigor. The | sult of an explosion ot gdsoline ai the crusade will continue for two weeks, |latter's tailor shop this evening. In when the offer expires, | some unknown manner the gasoline ex- lvlodedA and when Mrs, Mascolo tred A Silent Toast to Major Archibald |to extinguish the flames they commu- Butt, one of the Titanic victims, was | nicated to her clothing, She ran into drunk last night by the Second com- | the street, her husband following, try- pany, Governor's Foot Guard, of New |ing to stamp out the fire with his Haven, at its annual observance of the | hands. A passerby wrapped his over- anniversary of the departure of the | ocoat about the woman, venetually company for Cambridge in 1775. smothering the fire, but not until she was burned from head to foot. Miss Virginia Brooks, Sufin?fltn, Physicians say her condition is erit- who acquired the title of Joan of Arc|leal. Mr., Mascolo was burned about while fighting for a reform ticket In | the head and hands. He will recover. the West Hammond, Ind., city admin- {stration, in which she was victorious, was returned winner in the election for president_of the hoard of education, Jumped from Car Window. New Brunswick, N. J,, April 23— While a Fennsylvania railroad train wae running nearly 60 miles an hour through Metuchen this evening, Annie Curren, 38, of Newport, R. 1., a pas- senger, suddenly raised a window of the Pullman car in which she was riding and jumped out. Bhe struck on her head and was fnstantly killed. Bociety’s Attitude Toward Prostitu- tion was advanced as the supreme test of Christlan religlon by Jane Addams, the Hull House philanthropist, in a speech in Carmegie hall, New York, yesterday before the Men and Religion Forward congress. ' Impressive Memorial Exercises were held yasterday afternoon by the puplls of the Oxford street grammar school at Providence for Rossmore Abbott, 18, a former scholar, who,with his brother, Fugene, aged 10, went down with the ‘rttaniec. More Reports from Tornadoe, Springfield, 1L, April 23—A tele- phone message tonight from Center- ville stated that ten persons were killed at that place and fifty more seriou injured by the storm which visite. parts of lllinols Sunday night. Pros- trated wires delayed the news that Centervills had also sufferad. Steamship Arrivals. At Glasgow: Aprit 22, Columbia, {rom New Yark, At Dover: April 33, V. New Tork _Aafl_lf’mm Instructions Left in a Sealed Packet led the heirs of Miss Sallie Bennighoff of Allentown, Pa., who dled two weeks ago, to dig up the ground of her two farms, where they have unearthed over §3,000 in gold and bank notss which she had buried. g , i a A B