Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 10, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 114 PRICE. TWO CL.... AS VIOLENT AS ASSAULT OF 186l Secretary Knox Sees Menace to Autonomy of The States in New Nationalism of Roosevelt. “A MAN OF WHIMS, AMBITIONS AND VANITIES” Scathing Denunciation of ex-President By Secretary of State | in Speech at Los Angeles—Urges That Party Not Be Made Plaything of One Man—Declares That Disaffected and Rejected Bosses Are With Rodsevelt. Findlay yesterday that friends of the governor had tried to purchase Bryan delegates in 1908, He said: “I repeat Cal, May 9—In a t before the South- association, Secre- ™ State Knox made his first po- | that no one authorized by me or with atterance since his return from | my knowledge or consgnt ever tried to . I America. He defended Presi- | purchase delegates. I never heard of dent Taft against eriticiems by | such a thing except from your state- Colonel Roosevelt and attacked the [ ment yesterday. At the date you men- colonel as & man mpted by whims” | tfoned I had accepted the nomination of “tmperious ambitions, vanities and | for governor and was making no effort . = for the presidential nomination. If you have a letter showing what You fay, why don’t you publish it The people are entitled to the facts and I wish them to be known." antipethies” and ‘one break the rule of his party and his own word to gain the seat of a friend.” Compared With Assault of '61. teric s w at! alism” of Colonel i i 160 by Dicretary THAT MYSTIC LETTER. todtaiy ult upon the &1 | pecipient Was Urged to Obtain Two nalism of Delegates’ Votes for Harmon. y of the upon the integ- Columbus, 0. May 9—Charges by In refutation of Colonel Roosevell's claim that President Taft-was unfit for | Willlam Jennings Bryan that friends ction,” Mr. Knox cited the col- |of Governor Harmon sought to pur- re-el el's lang which in 1908 com- |chase Bryan piedged delegates to the mended Mr. Talt as the “true friend [ 1908 convention stirred the Ohio ex- of reform, je foe of abuses.” ecutive to a telegraphic denial today and brought from Mr. Bryan the pub- lication of the letter on which he says the charges are based. The letter was made public here by Harvy Garber, who sald it was ad- dressed to State Senator Frank T. Dore. It was slgned Michael Devan- ney of @incinnati,.and was in part: “Cincinnati, June 29, 1908. Effort to Confuse Situa Declari iis is perhaps one rdinary ante-con- within "the history Mr. Knox sald that the has been to confuse the dragging in issues with 5 s alone are concerned.” {nox then smmmarized and com- trao pa. » respective claims to reform | “Dear Sir: In a conference with our achievements by Colonel Rooseve t and | mutual friend, Mr. y of ——, he President Taft and asserted that the |advised me you were in touch with the president’s accomplishments far out- Weigh those of his predocessor. Disaffected Bosses With Roosevelt. two delegates from the —— district, He advised that you see Mr. — of ———and have him see the delegate of that place, whose name he did not f M Roosevelt he said, “claims (hat President Tort is weoking or hasffemember, and have him, together the support men who for years ML= of . meet Mr. have stood for leadership in the repub- at Columbus on the evening of an party and guided its columns to , Jul so that arrangements may be made for the trip to Denver. “Mr, ——— of _Cincinnati, meet ‘them, and take care of transportation to Denver. “By this letter, my dear Mr. ——, victory, President Taft can reply that Mr. Roosevelt sought and had their support in his campaign in 1904, and that in many piaces now his Interests are in the hands of rejected and dis- will their affected political bosses whose political{¥ou will sec-there is ‘somathing doing, offenses ‘smell to heaven.' and whilst endorsements have been | 1f Mr. Roosevelt claims that he is |given In your districts, I hope that | not in favor of reciprocity With Cana- | your delegates can see theelr way clear | dn, President Taft can point to the fact that before entering into that great agreement he consuited Mr. Roosevelt and obtained his hearty and unquall- fied approval of it." Roosevelt's Eulogy of Taft. Mr. Knox quoted an eculogy of Mr. Taft by Colonmel Roosevelt in 1908 as an apswer to the cnlonel's assertion “that President Taft ‘s unfit to succeed himselt” He also cited passages of praise of Mr. Taft in Mr. Roosevelt's #peech as temporary chairman of the Baratoga convention in 1910, Roogevelt,” the speaker contin- ved, “has given no coherent reason for changing his just appraisement of Mr. Taft's characier and qualifications. 2 ms that Presi- tions have been incon- his daclarations in 1908, Taft can point among other examples to the following declarations by Mr. Roosevelt Rooseveit's Consistency. s to vote for Judge Harmon on the first baliot at Denver.” Mr. Garber is a member of the dem- ocratic national committes, He de- clined to make known the names of those invelved in the letter. FLOOD REFUGEES POUR IN i TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS. | Workmen Continus to Strengthen Em- | bankments of the Mississippi. Aéw Orleans, May 9.—Other than| the rescue of marooned persons in the overflowed sections and the closing of an incipiefit crevasse at Illyria, near the mouth of the Misstselppi river, the Louisiana flood situation today was without incident. ‘Workmen, in_de- creased numbers, were engaged at nearly all doubtful places between Nat- chez and New Orleans, taking advant- age of the fair weather in strengthen- ing embankments, | “Nov. §, 1804 —Under no circum-| Rescuers, working near Lettsworth, stances will 1 be a candidate for, or | have about completed thefr work and accept another nomination.’ turned their attention to places more | ‘Dee. 11, 1907—1 have not changed | distant from the river. ater from wnd ahall not change that decision thus | the Torras Crevasse rose three inches announced.’ at Morganza today, Railroads in that “Feb. 25, 1912—T will accept the|section are paralywed by the washouts. nomination for presifent if 8t is ten- | Refugees are continuing to pour into dered me.' " Baton Rouge, Opelousas and other con- The most consplcuous point of dif- | centration ocamps, whence they are farense between Tag and Roosevelt, Mr. Knox assertes entered in th *new nationalism” proposed by Co enel Roosevelt. The New Nationalism. “This involves” he said, “a new con- ception by Mr. Roosevelt of the Bosive principles by which the states re bound together to constitute the "mited Staies of America. “We heard much of a new nationai- Ism prior to 1861. It was also predi- cated upon a false conception of the nature of the union. Its fundamental weakness whs that some states ciaim- ed the right to destroy the union by weparating themselves from the unfon. That fssue was decided by the most tragic war of modemn times—a war that carried grief into & million Ameri- can homes. Will Defend States as They Did Unien. * “The new nationalism of Mr. Rooss transferred to places less congestod. At New Orleans the river stage at 7 o'clock tonight was 21.4 feet, no change having been recorded since 7 a. m. This | was within one-tenth of the prediction | racently revised by the United States | weather bureau officials, who believe the stage will not go over 21.50 unless southerly winds prevail, which would tend to hold back the water. | METHODIST CONFERENCE COMMENDS PRESIDENT Approved His Course in Workd-Wide | P8ace Movement. | Minneapolls, Minn, May 9.—Ad- dresses and reports concerning the | ‘Woman's Home Missionary soclety and the board of foreign missions this aft- ernoon and evening occupied the at- | tention of the general conference of welt represents the other extreme. It|the Methodist Episcopal church. ids as violent an aseault upon the au-| The Woman's Home Missionary so- tonomy of t siates as the new na-fclety in the thirty-ome years of its tionalism of 1861 was upon the in-|existence has acquired property tegrity of the union. . |amunting to $2,360,244, which is used “Whno dares to prophesy that the|for homes, missions and hospitals. The | people—the patlent, undemonsirative |work of the soclety i8 done among | people—whose full volce is never heard | southern whites, negroes, Mormons, except In great crises, will not, when |Inqjans, immigrants, and the foreign aroused to the danger of the substan- | population of large citles, tial Joss of independent statehood at 2s|* The question of whether negro | great cost, defend the states as they | churches in the south shall have 8 | did the union?®" Party Not Plaything of One Man. Mr. Knox made an earnest plea that President Taft be given a second term, maying: This has been the republican rule, without exception. except one (Presi- dent Hayes), which so foreibly empha- wizes the rule, and unless the republi- ean party has becomé the piavthing of one man, prompted by his whim bis imperious ambitions, his vaniti and mysterious antipathies, it will not break the rule now by refusing a re- nomination to the man who has jroud (istiac*in of having receiv. more votes than wers ever cast by the American peopls for any other candi- date for president. For You to Decide. “On the other hand, you have only one man who has served two terms as ident, who would break the rule of is party and his country and his own solamn word to gain the seat of his bishop of their own race is to be set- tied tomorrow. The conference today approved the | world-wide peace moyement and com- | mended President Taft for the part he has taken in i DREADNOUGHT UTAH PLACED IN DRYDOCK. First Battleship to Occupy New Con- orete Basin at Brooklyn, New York, May 9.—The dreadnought 3| Utah was successfully placed today in the new drydock in New York navy vard. Because of the ill-fortuné which has attended the construction of the drydock, there was some anxfety con- cerning the placing of the first battle. sbip in the big concrete basin, during the building of which a number of worlmen were killed and many were injured, golemms Great precautions were taken and i K the Utah was warped Into the slip & It is-for you to declde between | without mishap. After a line had been rem. passed from the how of the battleship 1o the power house a diver went down aud inspected the blocking upon which the blg ship was to rest and saw that HARMON TO BRYAN. Poerless One Asked to Publish That Letter, if He Has It everything was In ~ good condition. Then the water gate was lowered and Columbus, 0., May 5 —Governor Jud- [ the pumps were set to work. son Harmon todsy sent 4 telegram to| Comptroller Prendergast of New William Jennings Bryan, -further deny- | York will ald Colonel Roosevelt in his Cabled Paragraphs Berlin, May 9—The eclericals today Introduced & resolution In the reichstag asking the imperial chancellor, Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, to take Ssteps Lo end dueling in the army. Berlin, May 0.—The long standing vouflict between President Baron Von Lrffa and slx soclalists of the Prussian diet resulted today in the calling of police to the diet chamber, where they ejected Deputy Berchardt Rome, May 9.—An official note is- sued today declares that the pretended Turkish despatch received from the governor of Rhodes to the effect that the Turkish troops had won a great ictory there and captured 1,000 Ital- ans is false. Cape Town, Union of South Africa, May 9.—The color question Wwas brought prominently to the front by the promise of the premler, General Louls Botha, made in parliament this afternoon, to appoint a commission to inquics Into the “black peril” problem. Berlin, May 9.—Warned by the Ti- tanic catostrophe, the Hamiburg- American Steamship company has dis- continued any self-insurance of its own ships and hes reinsured all the ships of the Hamburg-American line against total loss or serious wreckage. Casablancia, Morocco,” May 8.— The tribesmen in the suburbs of Marakesh, one of the three capitals of Morocco, have broken out ‘in re- volt. The Calif was assassinated and the tribesmen then pillaged the resi- dences of the officials. Manchester, Eng, May 9—Tom Mann, president of the Syndicatist Education League and a labor lead- er wes today found guilty in the court of the Assizes of having en- deavored to influence British soldiers from their duty and sentenced to six months imprisonment. ARCHBALD HEARING TO BE RESUMED TODAY. Examination of Judge’s Partner Will Be Continued. Washington, May 9.—Inquiry_info charges of misconduct against Judge Robert W. Archbald of the commerce court will be resumed tomorrow by the house judiciary committee which is to determine whether impeachment pro- ceedings shall be brought against the Jurist. The committee will resume question~ ing Edward J. Williame of Scranton, Pa., who yesterday testified of his re- lations with Judge Archbald in a culm bank option transaction with the Erie rallroad while the raflroad’s “lighte age case” was 'efore the commerca court, and of another transaction in which the judge was alleged to have given a note for $500 in paymgnt for an interest in an option upon Vénezuela timber lands. The committes will also nvestigate a transaction in which Judge Archbald and a man named Dainty are alleged ho have negotiated with the Lehigh Valley railroad for culm banks to.be sold at a large profit, as was the plan with the culm dumpe solicited from the Erie raliroad. The Lehigh Valley transaction, it is said, never wag concluded, an investi- ganon of the Erie deal having been egun by the department of justice about the time the Lehigh negotlations were getting under way, The documents in the Archbald case submitted to the house committes by direction of President Taft are belleved to include other things not yet tBuched upon in the hearing. “The committes willy amination of - the witdles, Williams,” sald Chairman Claytogl§ “befors any others are called. After the direct ex- amination, Judge Archbald's counsel, Mr. Worthington, will be permitted to ask Willlams any quesions which the committee may deem proper. I believe that the hearings can be finished in two or three dz nish its ex- MARYLAND TAFT MEN FLOP TO ROOSEVELT. Governor and Committes Chairman Bow to the Will of Majority, Baltimore, May 9.—Governor Philips Leée Goldsborough, one of the leaders of the republican party of Maryland, | today declared that he advocated send- ing a delezation to the national con- ventfon that would vote for Colonel Roosevelt as long as there was a chance of his recelving the nomina- tion. Governor Goldsborough sald: “Colonel Roosevelt won the prefer- entlal vote in the primaries in this state last Monday, and the will of the people should prevall. I was on the Taft side and we lost. “I advocate a delegation to the re- publican national convention at Chi- | cago that will carry out to the utmost degree the wishes expressed by the majority of republicans at the polls and who will vote for Colonel Roos velt f6r president as long as he has any possible chance of recetving the nomination. The personnel of these delegates to the national convention should properly be determined by the delegates in the state convention.” Chairman John B. Hanna of the republican state central committee, who heard the governor make the above statement, said he indorsed the governor's view. Mr. Hanna support- ed President Taft in the primary cam- palgn. TO START RELIEF FUND FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS. Mayor Gaynor Wires Three Southern Governors to That Effeot. New York, May 9.—Mayor Gaynor sent telegrams today to the governors of three southern states offering to see that a reilef fund for flood sufferers in those states was begun here if advised | that the necessity existed. The tele- gram was sent to Governors Brewer of Mississippi, Donaghey of Arkansas and Sanders of Louisiana. 3 Many of us here are much concern- ed by newspaper despatches giving the details of the damage being done by the river overflow and the losses and distress caused thereby to many fam- flfes,” the .message read. “Is the dis- tress as great as this, and will it be agreeable to you If we should make up a fund here to rolieve those in dis- tress? New York city had long been indebted to the southern states for many of our most useful citizens, and would be glad to make some recogni- tlon of this fac Counterfeited Turkish Colns. Buffalo, N. Y., May §.—George Gner- gnar, a Turk, was arrested here today on a charge of counterfeiting Turkish coing. He pleaded not gullty and was held for the federal grand jury which convenes wt Rochester on Tuesday, In Gnorguers voom secret eorvice men found moulds, ingots of gold, silser and copper and replicas of the Turkish lira, made of silver and copper and gold plated. The prisoner pleaded as de- Mg charges made by Mr. Bryan at|Ohio fight fense that the colns were to be offered as tokens Destruction of Pool Evidence VICE PRESIDENT BAACKES SAYS HE GAVE ORDER. TESTIMONY A SURPRISE Declares It Was Given Before Present Suit Was Filed—Both He and Cragin Deny Whitney's Testimony, New York, May 9.—The question whether officers of the American Steel and Wirs company ordered the ds struction of the evidence used in the so-called Jackson wire pool cases be- fore or after the flling of the pending dissolution suit against the Unite States Steel corporation was answered today. Frank baackes, vice president of thy wire company, testified before ‘Commissioner Brown at the continua- tion of the hearings in the suit that h gave the o to George A. Cragin, his assistant sales manager, at Wor- cester, Mass., in September or early in Oofober last. The suit was filed on Oet. 26. . Order Only Partly Executed. Paackes testified further that he had glven orders, after the dissolution of the wire pools three years ago, that all Pay connacting his company with the pool be destroyed, but that the or- der was only partly executed. It was due to this oversight that the papere rcw fn question came into the hands of the government. Differs fram Whitney's Testimony. This testimony was somewhat of a surprise, as it was elicited by the steel corporation’s attortieys after they had fought to prevent Baackes from an- swering a certain question regarding the date of hie visits to Worcester, where the papers were hurned by Har- 1y A, Whitnay, a subordinate, who sub- sequently resigned. Whitney testified a day or two ago that Baackes gave im the ordec personally during a visit Dy the latter to Worcester in Novem- ber and that at the grand jury investi- gatlon into the disappearance of the papers an effort was made by Basckes ana Crsgin to guide his testimony in this regard. They hoped that he would testify that the directions were given by Cragin, he said. Denials of Whitney’s Testimony. It was due to Whitney’s version that tha government attorneys appeared anxious to prove that the papers were ordered dest_r&:rd after the filing of the suit thai they might not again be used as evidence But toéay both Ci and Baackes |- denied Whitney's imony, although neither of them coyld be pinned down to the exact dates upon which Baackes visited Worcester. All that Cragin definitely testified to was that on one of the ylsits Baadkes asked him if the papers had beem destroyed. - Farrell Didnt Know of Pools. Henry E. Colton of counsel for the government, who conducted the grand jury investigation, falled to ask Baackes directly when he gave the or- der, but R. V. Lindabury of the de- fense put the question with dramatic suddenness. While Cregin was on the stand, Jndge Dickinson for the government tried unsuccesstully to get the witness to admit th t James H. Farrell, now president of the United Btates Bteel cosporatien, was aware of the pools, Oragin etoutly denied that he ever had any correspondence or conversation with Farrel on the subject. CHICAGO STEREOTYPERS LOSE UNION STANDING. Thelr Charter Forfelted and All Trav- eling Cards Canoefled. Chicago, May 9.—President James J. Freel of the International Btereotyp- ers and Electrotyers' union took dras- tle action tonight against members of Stereotypers’ Local union, No. 4, who quit work in sympathy with the news- paper pressmen. Freel and his asso- clate members in the executive council of the International union formally cancelled the charter of the local un- ion because the men refused to return to work as ordered by Freel. Several days ago, in anticipation of this dlsci- pline, officers of the local union made preparations to issue “traveling cards” to thelr members, givng the men standing in any office in the country President Freel's order cancelling the charter of the local union also can- celled all traveling cerds issued by this union to any of its members. The effect of this action by Mr. Freel is to leave every stereotyper em- ployed i1n Chicago outside the union ranka. BULKHEAD DOORS WERE OPENED. Titanie’s Engineer so Testifies at Brit- ish Inquiry. London, May 9.—Evidence that the doors of four water-tight bulkheads had been opened, after having been closed from the bridge, was introduc- ed today at the British wreck commis- sion’s inquiry into the loss of the White Star steamship Titanic. This was done, according to Thomas Dillon of the ensincers' stag. in orfer that the engineer crew might reach the pumps. The order ceme from the chief engi- neer, though the attorney for the White Star people told the court that these doors having once been shut, could not be again opened except by Detng refeased from the bridge. $2,500,000 MORE FOR IMPROVING MISSISSIPPL. River and Harbor Appropriation Bill Now Carries $34,000,000. Washington, May 9.—The river and harbor appropriation Bfll was passed by the menate today, amended to car- Ty $8,000,000 more than as passed by the house and making a total of about $3¢,000,000. ‘The principal increass was $2,500.~ 000 to the house provision of $3,500,000 for improving the Mississipp. The re- lation of that item to the flood situa- tion caysed a long debate which took up most of today’s session. The balance of the increase made by the genate was composed mainly of smaller amounts, among them being Nantucket Bound $250,000. Bteamship Arrivals. At Queenstown: May 9, Adrlati from New York for Queenstown an Liverposl, was 247 mijles west aut § p. m.; due Quesnstown 1 p. m. Iriday, At Plymouth: May 9, Kaiserin Au- w-c and Sy ceeded), for Hamburg (and pro- To Abolish the Commerce Court REVOLUTIONARY PROPOSALS BY THE DEMOCRATS. TURMOIL IN THE HOUSE i Denounced as “Political Guerillas” by a Democratic Colleague—Unsuccess- ful Attempt to Abolish Certain Mints ‘Washington, May 9.—Revolutionary proposals, such as have not been grouped in any bill passed by the pres- ent session of congress, were adopted by the house today in the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation Dill, The measure will be voted on and probably passed formally tomor- row. The bill now proposes abolition of the United States commerce court and the restoration to the interstaie commerce commission of all railroad regulatory power, subject only to ap- peal to the United States distriet courts. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce. Creation of a bureau of foreign and domestic commeree, with all the pres- ent powers of the so-called tariff board, to be under the jurisdiction of the sec- retary of commerce and labor. The new bureau will absorb the bureau of trade relations of the state depart- ment and the bureafis of manufactures and statistics of the department of commerce and.labor. Concentration of Document Distribu- tion. Concentration of the distribution of pyblic documents, of which millions annually are sent from Washington in the government printing office. In addition to these three principal changes in the operation of the gov- ernment, the house overturned the committee in charge of the bill in & number of instances. Attempt to Abolish Mints. Afier a bitter fight the house defeat- g » propesal to abolish the mints at San Francisco, New Orleans and Car- son City and the assay office at Boise, Charlofte, N. C. {Deadwood, S. D., Helena, Mont,, Seattle, Wash, and Balt Lake City. It also refused to abolish the position of deputy commis- sloner of lighthouse service and on this latter Speaker Clark jolned with the opposition to the committee, Democratic Defection. The defection in the democratic ranks caused an outbreak in the clos- from-¥1 eclock this morning until 9 o'clock tonight. The house under a misapprehension had just repudiated the committes on the clause providing for the concentration in sending out of public documents by adopting an amendment excepling the agricultural department, when Chairman Fitgger- ald arose in a chamber crowded with a cheering, hooting crowd. Will Be Responsible for Defeat in Novembe “I have sat here,” he said, “and have seen oertein distinguished members of my own party vote to overrule its committee. Working in the interests of economy and for the carrying out of the party's pledge to that end, these men have forsaken the commit- tee, and if defeat is the party’s por- tion in November, they would be re- sponsible.” Denounced as “Political Guerillas.” Seeing in Mr. Fitzgerald's remarks a velled attack on Speaker Clark, re- publican members deserted that side of the chamber and crowded around him. No names were mentioned, ho ever, and although the speaker hurried in from his office during the attack, he took no notice of it, while Mr. Fitz- gerald denounced those Americans who voted agalnst their committee as “po- litical guerillas,” Republicans Vote with Democrats. The fight for the abolition of the commerce court was led by Represen- tative Sims of Tennessee, democrat, who framed the legislation abolishing that tribunal. He was opposed by Representative Driscoll of New York and Stevens, Minnesota (republicans), but when the provision was adopted, 120 to 49, many republicans voted with the democrats. FOREIGN MINERS BUYING FIREARMS Dealers in Minersville Have Practically Sold Out. Several Philadelphia, May 9.—The bitterness engendered among the foreign-speak- ing miners of Minersville, when three of their countrymen were shot by the state police during a riot, was inten- sifled late today when Michael Mul- lange, one of the trio, dled. That trouble is brewing is apparent from the number of firearms being guronasea by naturalized foreigners. everal dealers in Minersville have practically sold out, and thers is also a big demand for firearms in Potts- ville, Captain Wilhelm of the state police says there {8 no way to stop the sals, unless ma law i8 declared, and the situation does not warrant such a step at present, Officers of the state police fear that an attempt may be made to lead their men into an abuscade along some of the mountain roads. They believe that the naturalized foreigners are distrib- uting the firearms to their countrymen with this object in view. Although Mullange was a stranger in Minersville, arrangements are be- Ing made by the foreign element to hold a big demonstration when his fu- neral takes place. ‘There has been no serious rioting in the coal fleld today. Some women and boys marched to two washeries with the intention of driving the employes from their work, but were persuaded by union officlals to return to their homes. Business Change at Windsor Locks. Hartford, May 9.—An important bus- iness change was consummated today when Fzra B. Balley of Windsor Locks so0ld his controlling interest in the firm of F. Horton Sons of that place, man- ufacturers of machine tools. The com- pany was reorganized this afternoon and B. D. Redfield, president of the riford Clty bank, was chosen pres- ident and treasurer. Ninetesn Earth Shocks in Twe Daye. Guadalajara, Mexica, May 9.—Five earthquakes, besides the fourteen sx- perifnced yestorday, were felt here at | short intervals up to neon today. The most pronsunced shooks were at si o'clook and 8.0 a. m., yesterday. Sev- oral bulldings have been slighth dam- aged, but no lives have beon lost, ing hours of the session, which lasted | . | collectors that thev would be held re The Bulletin's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population Condensed Telegrams The Case of Four Cadets Dismissed from West Point for using intoxicants is up before the senate. John Noack of Brooklyn Was Fined 25 cents for throwing waste paper in tBa street. The 8enate Passed the Jones Bill for compuisory education of children in Alaska, A Bill to Establish a Wireless sys- | The Striking Plumbers of New Haven, representing 62 firms of master plumb- ers, are planning the opening of & central co-operative establishment of their own. The Death Rate Among Railway pos- ‘al emplyyes has been decreased great- ly by the more general use of steel cars, according to Joseph Stewart, sec- ond aesistent postmaster general. Gen. Bennett P. Young of Louisville, Ky., commander of the Army of Ten- nessee, was elected commander in chief of the United Confederate Vet- erans yesterday. The Guatemala Central Railroad, in Guatemala, was recently sold to Minor Keith and his associates of the United Fruit company for several million dol- lars. Governor Foss Censured the Massa- chusetts senate yesterday for rejecting the bill permitting voters to express their preference for United States sen- ators, Rev. Francis Southworth, for many years pastor of the Seamen’s Bethel chureh at Portland, Me,, and known to many seafaring men, died at Portland, Me.,, yesterday at the age of 88 years. J. T. Cusick, Engineer on Fire En- gine No. 46 of New York, became vio- lently insane and was taken to Belle- vua. He was effected by the Equitable building fire and has acted queerly since. Mrs. Winifred Farrell died yesterday at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs P. J. Haggerty, in East Orange, N. J, |at the age of 104 years and 5 months. | Bho is believed to have been the oldes: | person in New Jersey. Notice Was 3srved on City Collector Parker of Boston and four former city sponsible for the uncollected taxes on the books of the city during their re- spective terms. The total amount is about $300,000. The Committee on Resolutions of ths Unlted Confederate Veterans has & vised the organization to refuse the {nvitation of the Grand Army of the | Republic for the veterans of the south to take part in the celebration of the battle of Gettysbury After the Expiration of the United States Steel corporation’s leases on the Hill ore properties in 1915, the Hil interests will mine their own ores and enter the market as independent pro- ducers, The French Champlain Delegation which brought to the United States the bust of “La Fran: Auguste Rodin to be placed at the base of the memorial lighthouse at Crown Point, Lake Champlain, left for France yes- terday. | | | The Woman’s Body Found in the Connectlcut river off Hockanum Wed- nesday was vesterday identified as that of Mrs. Charles Davenport of South Hadley Falls, Mass. She disappeared from her home in December, Tt is supposed the death of her two children affected her mind. The Application in the United States district court at Trenton, N. J., for an injunction to restrain the United States Steel corporation and a number of its | subsidiary concerns from the destruc- tion of books and papers which might be used in evidence in the suit of the | government for the dissolution of the Steel corporation was dismissed. Coughdrop Chokes a Child. New York, May 9.—After a cough- drop had become lodged in the throat of his two year old nephew, Maroo Sibilio took the child in his urms and started in search of a physician. When he reached Bydenham hospital 15 min- utes later a surgeon prononneed the \ebild dead. / | Strikers Picketing at Lowell. | Lowell, Mass, May 9.—Picketing was carried on by 500 strikers at the Mer- rimack Manufacturiag company’s mill tem In the Philippines was reported to' S MAY-ACQUIRE GONTROL OF RUT Application of New Haven Road Finds Favor With York Public Service Commission. MINORITY STOCKHOLDERS SEEK TO BLOCK IT the senate. Funds on D'”n'a "fi 7,168 postal 1 savings banks on March 31 last ag- 2 ransfer— i B Have Obtained a Court Order to Prevent The T T it 4 ' The Arrowhead, the Largest Summer Would Eventually Mean New All Rail Route From New hotel at Saratoga Lake, was destroyed B0 o by fire. The loss is $50,000. York to Montreal—Commission Believes Project Will J. H. Mooney of Cleveland was e P o N Benefit Localities on Line and The General Publie, tine, Fla, while attempting to rescue 4 his nephew. The latter was saved. P The Lifeboats of the Steamer Presi- | _Albany, N. Y., May 9.-The New |for their stock which it I8 willing ta dent Grant were manned and put into | York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- | pay for control. While sueh & the water In four minutes in a light- | Toad Company was authorized today | tion might weli be imposed in & ning boat drill-at the Hoboken docks. | bY the public service commission to | where (he transfer would create Py acquire control of the Rutlund Rail- | control by a traffic line which did 8ot THY Finger Print 8 for the|T08d Company from the New York | therefore exist in the presemt case \dentification. apd " the eersciimn ot | Central ‘and Hudson River Rallroad | the control is now in the hands of the depositors is being rapidly adopted by | COMPany. 53 = Central and the relief sought is mere= New York Tk The New Haven's application had |ly the transfer of that control to the & been opposed at hearings before the | New fll:u'»n If the result of the s o commission v Samuel Untermyer, | transfer to the New Haven is to fu= maer Suinley, convicted of the | representing minarity stockholders on | crease the business of the - Rul list, must serve a life sent‘ence in thé the ground that their interests would | and thereby increase its revenues Minanrt'-p etk finry " not be fully protected. | will be to the manifest advantage of : Court Order to Prevent Transfer. | (he minority stocknoiders. The posl= The Curfew Law Was Proclaimed in | _An application by the New York | siockholders hae bern® thot ton e Rehway, N. J, and as ail of the girls | Central Railroad to purchase control | now injured by the treatmsct sog and boys must be indoors by 9 o'clock | of the New York Ontario and Wet- | cetved by the Central They do Bek the moving pleture men are . up In|ern Railroad Company from the New | Sogsest that the e sessey (o B06 arms. Haven was denied recently by the | cord them worse treatment while o8l 5 W e LR . |the other hand the commission I8 The Three Months’ Old Baby of Mrs. | Represeniatives of the minority | satisfied that it will be & 2 i Jo. 60 W i s be to the advant« Anna Krieter of No. 60 Willett street, | stockholders of the Rutland obtained | age of the New Haven to develop tha | New York, choked to death on a nipple | & court.order in New York yesterday d materially beyond what it {8 | which had been sucked from the top of | to prevent the proposed tfansfer of | doing at the present . time The a bottle. control. t itmel .. 52 . The commission was unanimous in | nge to the ‘nflnm:;!":m“xmh Some Practical “Joker” has been ty- | granting the application today iving b Th ; ing live rats on_doorbells in Bakers- | its reasons as follow e ville, Conn., and the women are 30 isslon “6—That it is to the public interest frightened (hat they dare mot answer| . ne Commission’s Reasons. of that portion of the state the ‘bell sfter deric 1-—That the acquisition of thelYork through which the R stock of the Rutland Railroad Com- [ passes that the control of the road 08 Robert E. Tod's Three-Masted | Pany by the New Haven Company is | put in the hands of the New Haves schooner Karina is wating for fair | DOt belleved to be in violation of the | Company and since this cam be Seae weather to start on a trip across the | Statute of the United States common- | without apparent injury to the mi= Atlantic. The vessel will o to Stock. | 1Y Known as the Sherman law and i | nority stockholders and. in the opisa bolat: for e Olrapic ehnss not In violation of the principles laid | jon of the commission with bemefit # ¢ down In any decision of the courts|and advantage to them, and Cardinal Farley Demands an Apology |t Which its attention been | authorization of the tranafer from the New York board of estimate | called. . be made.” in connection with the statement that A New Through Line. Catholic charitable institutions misap- "2-»7‘:131 the Rutland Railroad in NEW LINE TO MONTREAL. plied city money. connection_with its subsidiary water — | Iine, the Rutland Transit Company, | One of the Possible Resuits st Mes Albert Melberg, a Naugatuck Farmer, | is natural route between N ng- Haven's Control of was Instantly killed yesterday after- |land territory reached omly by the N noon when his head was dashed | New Haven roud and the west and | New Haven, Comn, May S—Usies against an iron fencepost when he' was | northwest. That the opefation of |held up by the New York court pros thrown from his wagon. the Rutland by the New Haven will | ceodings, the effect of the finding of s in effect constitute a new through |the New York public service commis= line from New England to all points by the Rutland Transit Company, Will Increase Competition. “3—That the New York Central, which at present controls the I.ut- land, is to a material extent a com- petitor with the Rutland, while on the other hand the Rutland is by its con- nection with the Boston and Maine a natural extension of the New Haven system as at present operated and that the natural effect of the control of the Rutland by the New Haven slon is to gite the New York, New Haven and Hartford Pailread compeny full control of the Rutland system and to enable President Mellen to carry out plans which he hus outlined here very recently. Those plans ipclude immediate fme provement of the Rutland plant, closer traffic relations of the Rutland with the Boston nad Maine system, he en= largement, it possible, of the Rutland business into Canada, and the dem ment of the Rutland through west by the way of gdensburg, N. Yy will be to increase competition and |iha jakes on Whic i induce a very conslderable increase | ot as pon Tich the Rutiaad owns & of business over the Rutland from | A remotér plan is the establ of and to New England points, a new all-rail line between New York Will Benefit Cities and Villages. “4—That it such anticipated crease of business over the Ru is realized it will afford additional facilities to the public and be of very considerable benefit to the cities and villages reached by the Rutland in’ New York and Vermont. Will Benefit Minority Stockholders. “5—That the commission adheres to the principles lald down by it in the Ontario and Western case that in transfers of control of subsidiary railroad it should recognize and pro- tect the rights of minority stock- holders. That it does not follow from this principle that in every case the purchasing road should offer to the minority stockholders the same price city and Montreal by shortening exiat- ing lines, including the FHousstonle road, and the building of a few com= necting links. It has also been stited repsatedly railroad circles here that the of the Rutland is regarded by the New Haven management as of importance in_conmection with the Grand scheme of extension in New A high officer of the New company has within two or thres ¢ a stated that the policy of his 3 tion in the case of tha Ruthnd ' the same as tbat pursued in the case the Central New Fngland, of making the company's investment, if pay a dividand on the which the minority stockholders want their share. HOME RULE BILL PASSES ITS SECOND READING. Majority Seven Greater Than at Its First Reading, London, May 9.—The government carried the home rule bill on its sec- ond reading in the house of commons tenight by 2 majority of,101 as agatst 94 for the first reading.” The vote was 71, the most largely attend the present parliament. Both sides had done their utmost to obtain every available vote. Mr. Balfour, for- mer opposition leader, and Mr. Church- ill, first lord of the admiralty, returned from Weymouth in order to be pre ent. ‘fhe amnouncement of the figures showing increised ‘majority oce eloned enthusiastic demonstrations cn the prime ACCUSED “SID"ALLEN [ WITH DYING BREATH i Testified to Lask Thomas Words of Judge Massie ‘Wytheville, Va., May 9—*T'm I'm dying. £1d Allen aid fe. Massie’s first words as he fell 4 wounded during the pistol battle that killed four others in the Hillsville courthouse on March 14, were today at the trial of Floyd Allen, one of the gang charged with five munders, Daniel Thomas, a sturdy man, who was the first to reach @ying judge, described the sceme the fight. When he repested Massle's words his eyes fifled tears and he gave way to his emotions, Sid Allen has never been One other fncident, it oe< ourred outside the courtroom, touched today’s proceedings with the dramst. ic. Campbell Crowder, a friend the Allens, was talking with some J witnesses at the courthouse when exclaimed: “I hope the Allsos will shoot up this court worse than the one at_Hillesville.” A Crowder wes tmmediately fore Judge Btaples, who told any more such term in jail. The man had been ti1_after Whitsuntide, and it %:Il prob- 55 ably consume a couple of months, even wit ba liveral application of the clo- ' ture rules, becauso. the opposition are | the Allens hatched & preparing an endless list of amend- | ghoot up the Hillesville ceurt | ments and will adopt every possible [ came prepared to do the work. | means to ohstruct the measure, Curloasly, the s2cond reading of the [TWO ARMIES SKIRMISH ON THE DESERT PLAINS home rule bill coincides with the dis- appearance of the word conservatives Mexican Federals and Rebels Prepars ing for a Battle, &8 the official designaticn of the tory party. A conference of the conserva- At the Rebel Front, Near Bermefillo, - Mexfco, May 9.—Skirmishing between tive and lberal unfonist parties today finally resolved upon a fusion of fthe the vanguard of General Orozco's ar=. my and the federals under two parties under the title of National nionist association. Thus the liberal Huerta raged for hours today through & storm of wind and Qust on the des~ unifonists who secedrd from Gladstona on his espousal of Mume rule now be- ert plains in front of Torreon, the ob« Jective point of the rebels. Though thers was much no battle had been nnfl up to a e Dot the government side, and minister was given a great ovation on leaving the house, with his wife and aaught glde, The bill was formally referrsd to a , by the crowd assembled out- committee of the whola house, but as heme rule and Welsh dlsestabilshment are being taken concurrently it will now be the turn of the Welsh bill. 18 not expected the committee stage of the home rule bul wiil be reached un- It 3 e A P D) B i come part and parce! of the tory party. - TWO MORE SUSPICIOUS FIRES AT WATERBURY. Pirebug s Now at Work in the Resi- dential Section. o'clock tomight, the to be drawn from their tions, There was hardly an hour the day, however, that the liberals not feint at some point to cosx federals out #nto the open. R v Preferred Death to W Clinton, N, mot.ha’.nlm Bpell, u 12 ames shot himaolf dead with & Waterbiry, Conn., May 9.—Two sos lclous fires’ were discovered thi af- erneon, one on Willow street and the other an Barnes street, in the northe section of the city. In each case they were discovered before the fire had o/ tained any proportions, and no dumsss was done. Oil-soaked wasts wag usc1 in each case, and detcctives who are imvestigating 'believe thet the fireih. hes been at work, this ti in lm:&mmu !l:c:u’:n.e n