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o8, was deel VOL. LIV—NO. 125 NORWICH, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1912 ROOSEVELT HAS 25,000 PLURALITY| Cabied Paragraphs London, May 22—The house of commons adjourned teday to June 4 Rome, May 22—The Italian news- Returns From Ohio Primaries Indicate That He Will| povers e Ners hiier toies ™ ctn- Have 32 of the 42 District Delegates . plorable decision of the Turkish g0 ernment to expell Italians. Monte Carlo, May 22.—Count Nicelai Dmitrijevifch ‘von der Osten-Sacken, Russlan ambassader to German and LIVELY BATTLE AT THE STATE CONVENTION i it o %, > gopen}lmgvn, Denmark, May 33.—No L 3 Tng oitaldo Chtlonbote bastis chapel Contest For the Six Delegates-at-Large is Expected—Taft | today when the doors closed on the public lving in state of the late King Leaders Say They Will Control It—President Claims He | Iederick viil, - s Madrid, May 2: Persistent reports Already Has 570 Delegates to National Convention— |are current of an approaching minis- terial crisls in Spain due to alleged dissensions between Premier Jose Texas Congressman Fears Eventual Rule of Mob Here. il and the other members.of tha cabinet, « .—The pope has ap- Rome, Ma; )., May 22.—According to | which were expected to be materially | 1, i t.q” Cardinal Falconio, the former ' night from approxi- | increased, The claim to the sl\fi‘cl’l;‘—v RroNtola ae e te Inithe United States f 5 recinets in | gates at large in Ohlo was made bY |y oiotor of the Franclscan Sisters at - velt's | the president after uring mes- | BIOISCOT B8 e publican | sages from his Ohlo managers. o le, Pa. ok rried erday’ ":”\:i Dixon Already Claiming New Jersey.| HOPPING, THE WAITER, plurality of about 25,000 | Ny gefinite claim was made by the 4 seems scarcely possi- Taft forces today, to the 24 delegates RELEASED BY POLICE. nge the nu the primary mber of dis- to be selected in New Jer ne At Roosevelt national head- Examination Fails to Shed New Light s for either side by more | gy,piers, Senator Dixon expressed the on Boston Murder Mystery. wo. The best Meures | belief that Colonel Roosevelt would rry all districts in the state and | Boston, May 22—The mystery sur- obtain the full delegation. In a state- | rounding the murder of Mrs. Lillian ment earlfer in the day Senator Dixon | Jewar, formerly of Montreal, who was declarea that Colonel Roosevelt would | strangled in her apartments in the Harmon Assured of 48 Delegates. | be nominated’ at Chicago on the first | South End, probably on Saturday, + returns on the demo- | ballot. was still far from s % noon. Several clew 3 ference primary have been run 4 e ison s Rahins| GROWTH OF DEMAGOGUERY, |down without producing any tangibls| e included the exam- les W. Hopping, a wait- er, and be was released from deten- —Tn one of the| Several of the police inspectors of the pres. | Pointed out today that the circum- wo more delegates, T ivhet standing | Texas Congressman Fears the Repub- for several days | lic Is Crumbling. ed rural returns judges who - | Washington, May count in their | most remarkable spesc ng a night's sleep. | ent session of congre presgntutive!| Stances surrounding: the discovery of Harmon is practi- | Dies-of Texas, democrat, assailed ex- | MIS. Jewar's body yesterday resem- s delegation | President Roosevelt in bitter terms to- | bled closely those attending the mur- ore con- | day, and referred in almost as bitter a | €T 0f Laura Chamberlain in a water es him con- | fashion to the leaders of his own par- | front hotel 1 September. Both t emocratic comven- | ty, including Speaker Clark and Gov- | Women Were seen during the even- ious resorts, but no clew liscovered that would lead ntification of their compan- e room where their bodies sequently discovered. told the police last might ernor Wilson. The latter he alluded|IRs in ye to as “Parson” Wilson. Mr. Dies fore- | Could be rule which | saw the crumbling of the republic, the | {0 the gates, se- | eventual rule of the mob, and gave as | lons in t ay, to vote | the causes of this the growth of dem- | Were : agoguery and the influx of ignorant h“"\’f“”»” it ; s ospect immigrants from southern Burope. hat he call Mrs. Jewar's apart- Prospect of Fight at Stats Convention. | T FRIER, Fol ory of Rome, Greece, | Ments on Saturday night, but could Pl i H resent | not et in, so he left a note under the not be known when the state nvention meets here. The s six delegates at e conve Italy, France and down to the day in Mexico, the Texan e his fervent hope that “hi not repeat itself under Teddy.” He |Were examin : i | cated by Hopping. Two women who g 1 stated that they ac- say they will control the | ;pophegied that Colonel Roosevelt, be- | companied Mrs. Jewar to one of the - B “\ i | cause of his victory in Ohio subway stations late Friday night and gate X 2 ¢hat | day, would “sweep the country” in the e Jmown ,’{;:t»\\:\%“[‘hb Jast O A Taft | coming presidential campaign. o e e £ it oy sl e nu i aft |~ “You are a pessimist,” interrupted | tha! A JEWAE ~ I PCn . IR the state conventlon are | jo0000 0n the republican side. the evening with them in a palm nereasing, as day. There is 3 Taft-Ro 8 wrried to the floor " on when the final gle in Ohio will be made for the Taft May Lose One Delegate, g 88 counties of the te con- ut that she entered the sub- ion alon VICTIM IDENTIFIED, | garden, wa 0, I am not a pessimist,” Mr. Dies. “I look only for the Out of the jungle comes the lion his hands reeking with blood of beasts. Up goes the cry, ‘We Teddy!” ‘We want Teddy!” Not LaFollette—not even Cummins— anced enough, They do not know he meaning of progressivism.” Bo; May Mr. Dies attributed to “ignorance at | er, who was found murdered by stran- Police Searching for Male Frequenter of Questionable Resorts. sen In the remaining [home and cowardice here,” his con- | gulation in her apartment in the South < gates will be named |viction that the republic was going | End Saturday night; was a native of ntions ahead at the present time “more and | Botwoodsville, ewfound- er ter of district more slowly \ by reason only of its|land, where her now live, The unt will be neces- | acquired momentum.” body 3 ts. An He attacked Speaker Clark and Mr. |late tod thorough inspection in | Underwood for their alleged failure to | of ihe woman's effects and investiga district | sustain the old democratic principles. | tion among her forme: urns indi- | In like vein and for the same reason | She form divided | he assailed Mr. Mann and Representa- | came to Boston about two years ago Taft and | tive Dalzell of Penmsylvania for what | from;New York, having lived in the | Harmon and |he charged was desertion from their | latter city in West 142d street. Scores ga two del- | pofitical faith. of girls and women of the South End n “Berger is the buneh,” he said, referring to the lone | secure some clue to the woman's slay- socialist member who hails from Wit The police would not disclod consin. “He is heading toward social- | whether they had found any evidence ism, while you are backing away and | which would point to a particular per- ed by the police lived in Montreal and o into 1t” son. It is known, however, that they s Bl e s are looking for some one of degenerate pdeptol eyl | NEW JERSEY NEXT, habits among men who frequent cer- de tonight of the re- t places of questionable reputation. hows that| La Follette Already on the Ground—| ;The body still lies in the city hos- as not con- s g pital mo waiting a claimant. The ilar section of the | Primavies Nox | oniy n relative of the woman in icular class of eit- | 2 x : ty is a Mrs. Marsh, a cousin, ¢ and & .| Newark, N. J., May The struggle S the o & and Indus- | for national convention delegates turn- quentinied by (e polthe o »f the ”M,S}‘ ed today to New Jersey. Governor S ban commun- | Wilson's home state has taken the e Sreaa was | center of the political stage occupied | INTERLOCKING DIRECTORS Mie farmers, | 1ast by Ohio and previously by the oth- -| DON'T INFLUENCE CONTRACTS. T an | er commonwealths which expressed = = Y Niefranchised mot | their preferences for presidential can- | Independent Bridge Constructor So didates by primary elections, he | L 4 | Testifies at Investigation. this vic who Wz day, te. A selling, Roosevelt had | e phi s town with | New Jersey primaries will take place 2l name, White House, in|Dext Tuesday, New York, May 22—Interlocking us county, gave Rooseyelt 21 votes | Senator Lal'ollette opened his cam- | giroctors between the United States Taft five Roosevelt managers | PAIEN tonight with speeches in Jersey s I + D Jersey | gteel corporation and numerous rail ter the state tomorrow, e Loty Ton The democratic situation is unusual, | Siruction company, an = independent Although Governor Wilson is the only | pracee SOPeerh from obtaining eon- candidate for the presidential nomina- | gorci® %, Maag railroad bridses, ac sident Confident That His Nomina- | tion named on the democratic ballot, | conning; 'ayieoomony given by o gov- o s Avielred, his opponents within the state have i oo ot W the Dy s organized agaipst him and named a | &y to Steo %orporation und the Wash'agton, May 23—Clatmisg 570 | complete list of delegates who will ap- | Stes Stect, corporation under the te 'ty Cbl conyention | pear on the ballots gs “uninstrueted.” | itV SHCUAE Tl o more than enough to insure | The antl-Wilson leaders have not an- | ,ogident of the construction company, him the nomination, President Taft | nounced what candidate they will sup- | BPS0000 OF the construetion company, declared today that he was going in- | pert at Baltimore in case they go there | (0 WSS WRER MELOR B0 natned. ove New Jersey “to mak urance | With any delegates, Gevernor Wi Sowa Bvd Airectoniiat tho 1T .l’;s‘ oo~ Dy supes Ho will Iauve Washing- | has made no speaking campaign in the | (0r% 7@ dizectors of the United States on for Philadelphia at 7 qclock tomor- | sense undertaken by the ' republican | cop'yunt bridges, T a5t . “”:’ row morning and make his first politi- | candidates, His last public address | cii™ \lh:ll\mer; e P‘]. ]{',‘ A it tal speech at Camden in the evening. | Was made Monday night befere the | guits i American Dridge P sadat B it Pk 1 Busy Doy, Burlington County Democratic club, . P St i resi «&ign i New Jersey wil] send 28 delegates to | FpcER T a g Contract, The president’s statement was issued i E R I iy 5 te WAt aee SUsation, | UNITARIANS OPPOSED House. Political conferences with h 16 “SE o Habagers aad appolntments with OMID “SETTLED #T TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. e iis incident as a harbin- wer of good fortune, TAFT CLAIMS 750. o m.-;m.,r- AIrr nkhrls\ h;!‘w:':;:l'-flifl'\‘l':“;:;;ll Colonel Roosevelt Regards Nomination | Go on Record in Boston Session, Also o'clock by a meeting o | B ey o Lk e s as Already Won. | Indorse Woman Suffrage. eeting was devoted to “routine bus- s £ St Theas” But members of e cabinet ad- | , Oyster Bay, N, Y, May Colonel [ Boston, —The American Tni- ation placed itself on rec- al situation was | i in | ord as favoring the abolition of capital mitted that the poiiti jewed in considerable detail. to his statement earlier in Roosevelt would add ‘.“”“T tonight | tarian asso . which he said that his victofy in Ohio | punishment and in favar of woman's Will Have 17 Ohio Delegates. had ttled the contest” He Will | sufftage at the business session of its ©ur opponenty guote from a state- | leave for New York early tomorrow, to | 87th annual meeting yesterday, t of mine, afade in Cleveland, that | g0 Lo his editorial wfiice for an hour i « fight in Ohio, my home state, much | before beginning his New Jerse Claude Allen on Trial. stification, would be the de paign. He e one,” id the president in his ! train at 11 atement, “and would settle ihe ques- | he will make his first speech n of my nomination. This is true.| Irom Paterson he will go by auto- shall have at least 17 votes from |mebile to Pussalc, Hackensack, Has- Obio, including the delegates at la | brouck Helghts, Rutherford, Beileville, for we have every assurance that we | Bloomfield, Montclair and West Or- sball control the state convention. | ange, stopping for dinner at the Essex o Make Assurance Doubly Sure. | County Country club in West Orange. *This will constitute u clear ma- |7 e evening ke Js to speak in New- —— ity in the national conventlon. In. s Aia Hartford’s New Tax Collector. ed, in addition to the vote rom A o1 P3 v 93—Mayo Ohio, delegates elected for me from | SENATE VOTES DOWN THE iy Ao e m AR otber states of which I have been ad- RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION.|and M. F. Hafey, persomal tax Col- vised since my Cleveland statement, B lectors for one year, commencing Juae R e “l"’uxm“;"; “‘",‘_"g‘;"“;:”‘i;“ ¢8| Proposed Merger of New Haven aad | 1. The salary is §1,500 each and a bond nal convention-—thirty more than B. & M. Roads Beaten. DEE N O paated ¢ to nominate. = e = SR New Jersey to take | Poston, May 22-A bill authorizing Finds Titanic Was Warned. in the cotning campaign there, fc U'.‘:ul‘}ni\(‘lv v\_,"n-l “\‘[u}!m{r‘llrnjul to unite | yondon, May 22.—That the iceberg same reason 1hat ] went to Ol > o S e M R D with which the Titanic collided was egaten 8 we may Tecelve [ HITORD under certaln conditic one of those of which she had warn- n New Jorsey will thus make us- | GUatng 4 tanel beneathy tis clty and | jngs from other sldps is the conclu- nce doubly sure” e o b nened", tho| stou reached by the bgard of trade Director Mokinley Claims 600. | \cuare todsy by & Vot of 35 to 20 E Larller in the ¢ay Director McKinley | Governor Fuss has served notice on 5 P als v the Taft headguarters elaimed “xt | several of the senators that he will{ Steamship Sailings. t 600” delegates for the president. I the loglsiatnre fto an extra ses- | At Southampton; May The presient’s estimate while small- | sion tnis Stmmer for the purpose «f | helm der € for New 3 d at the White House | passing such a measure with the add-{ At NXew York; May 32, Mauretania, o reproseut crock bettom’ figwres, edpEc¥ision-ol a public-utilities boaxd. [ for Liyexpuol; Oceanis, for Naplesy 5 to leave Jers clock for Pate y Ci on, where Wytheville, Va., May 22.—TFhe direct charge that a bullet from the revolver of Olaude Allen kLilled Judge Massle, when the Allen clan shot up Carroll ounty court, was made on the witness nd here today by Judge D. W. Bo- len. Bolen was the first witness swe by the prosecution in the trial of Claude Allen. Morse’s Health Much Improved RETURNS FROM TRIP ABROAD Says Physicians Say That by Atten- tion to His Diet He May “Live Quite Awhile"—Lawyer on His Trail. sailed for “Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Camp- bruary 14, shortly after his sentence was commuted by President Taft, returned today after nearly three months in Europe, as “Mr. and Mrs. Morris,” but when the steamer arrived he made no further secret of his iden- tity and talked freely with the ship To the pertinent question as to whether he intended to return to depends on how my health keeps Health Much Improved. The former banker said he had gain- ed a great deal by his rest in Kurope and his looks confirmed his opinion, | 8°Rt needs. After touring Italy and Germany he spent the latter four weeks of his trip at Wiesbaden taking the baths and | districts have come storles of dis- his physlcian there told him that he | tressing conditions, but the United had so much improved in health that with careful attention to his diet he ‘quite & while” ily Without a Cane. “He did not say what ‘quite awhile’ might mean years ,or it might mean months, 1 do not know. lution this after- | Can Walk Ea get well while I have been in Europe. 1 have paid no attention to_busine Four months ago I couidn’ Now I can walk asily without a cane and feel sreatly benefitted by the sojourn in Attorney Gets On His Trail. se walked down the steamer’s | without e his wife’s arm. The couple | pastures are residence. | tle taken from the lowlands. returned —— y t out the form- | gEE er banker relative to a suit for sm:— | SEEKS INJUNGTION 70 el 1. Culver, former | STOP RAILROAD TRANSFER. Fludson Navigation | nst Peter McCarthy, | when an attorne Sed|door. The note was found as indk | S 5| 000 brought by Ab a alleged to be due C: for the purchase of $1,000,000 wo re-organization stock and bonds of the | da alver h of | New York, May Evaded Accepting Writ. Morse, who is wanted for 1o | New York C of irlanger and counsel for Me- who was unable to find Morse | declared that he proposed to | 22—Lillian Eleanor Jew- | et for it sue out a writ of STAMFORD MAN HELD FOR NEW YORK MURDER | Rutland and New peting roads. In case the court de- clines to grant the injunction, Mr. Un- termyer asked it to compel the New r not only the utland at $105 , but also the minority holdings | [ | i Head of Victim Almost Shot Off by Twelve Bullets. companions. | xoo you A he is Richard Geib, 28 years old, | Dr. Henry Geib of Stamford, ; t & po- | Mr. Untermyer saaid that when | the dis- | President Mellen of the New Haven an known | road said before the public service commission that he wanted the Rut- he murdered | land railroad to use as a “club,” his ace was almost obliterated by | real meaning was that he desir fired | Rutland as a means with which war upon the Grand Trunk in com- the shooting | petition for traffic in New England and Canada. This, the attorney added, would be inevitable within a few years. The hearing was not concluded to- man who lice station late tonight aft very of the murder of a n biggest man in this | have been questioned by the police to | 3 d i James Boylan in a rooming house from a rifle and h No motive f has been established though the; head was almost the police and | 0 e that a repeating | rifle was found in a trunk in Geib's room and the prisoner’s clothing was | day. bloodstained, sGeib positively asserted s innocence of the crime. ing house tragedy occurred at about 7 o'clock tonight on the third and top floor, where Boylan had a single room t M s and where Geib had two rooms. Mrs. Marie Wolf, the landlady, knew neither well, for they had been at — a few weeks, and, so| London, May 22. Boylan Two other young Gregory she knows, not acquainted, men who gave their names as and summoned the police. Boylan's body was found at the top |age to property. of the stairs on the third floor and strewn about his body were cookies | pathetic figures when the verdict of and rolls and in his hand he clutched the remnant of a paper bag. The de- teotives, who were promptly called, gay | prisoners’ enclosure, trembling v that they found Geib locked in his room near where the body was found. | class misdemeanant. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, raising both hands in the attitude of prayer, sway- man within threatened to shoot the first man who ered, but the door was broken open suddenly and three revolvers “cevered” b, who was seated, fully dressed, in | just!” thair near the doer, From the blood clothing it was at first thought he was wounded, but it developed thaj | invelving hard labor. net and he was placed under In addition to the rifle which the de- | PROPOSED CREATION OF ive found in Geib's reem were a number of papers en which were what —_— the detectives regarded as irraticnal | Preject Quashed at Conventien cf Also accerding Feinberg, Geib admitted te him that he had ben in several a The ceroner was certain ¢ was_insane, to Coroner Tums in Con- at Gelb said that Be dia not know 1 and after aving heard the shootigg in the ha s clati nie Tushed out and stumbjed sver tpe | LAt e assoclation g0 on T ad that in this manner stained dothes with blood. police found lo irynk “was red hot” they Tefused to answ he wanted a law But the rifle ked in_his eih er questions and said er to advise him. He ed lJu send a telegram to his ennie Geib, at Stamfaord. From letters in Boylan’s room ihl{ & coroner said he learned that Baylan Mrs. Nellie Boylan, whao i i} [ 06 Broad street, | The police havéy telegraphed fo' taat Geib's Father in Feeble Health, | e But little | Sailed Without Wireless Operator. of Richard Geib, whp i New York tonight aft- | ? of His father, Dr. Heary <nown Dhysi- is one of the best clans in this section of the state. IS 00w in feeble health, three “times and Richard 3 son of his first wife, has not"lived here for' several years, He Dr. Geib was is Guilty of Criminal Assault. o kio, age 15, wa$ found guilty of ¢erimipally assaulting Annie Rinkiewicz | from San Franeisco in May bY & jury in superior court hew today. | fmposed “tomorrow uluce here February The asspuls - The Bulletin’s Circuiation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Col Taking Care of 140,000 DAILY, WALKS WITHOUT CANE | OVER $1,000,000 SPENT New York, May’ 22—Charles W.| X.w Orieans, May 22—With the Missisgippi river and tributaries stead- ily falling, and no further disastrous crevasses in the levees anticipated, in- terest in the devastating flood “‘hll:_h swept milllons of acres of Louisiana’'s fowlands and stretohes of fertile fields in Mississippi and southeastern Arkan- sas now centers in the gigantic task of caring for the tens of thousands of Deople who have been made homeless. business wo o Over $1,000,000 in Cash Spent. s o o g orse Teplied | fore than & million dollars in cash and a still lJarger amount in clothing and supplies have been devoted to the Fefugees and there is almost a half million dollars in sight for their ur- Relief Has Been Prompt, gess. I have only tried to |~ Army Feeding 140,000 Refugees. mately 170,000 persons who have been driven from their homes by the floods, the l'n‘!('\*d S(:}t(‘s army relief corps is dispensing rations | 2 to nearly 140,000 and such of the rs as need assistance are being cared for by local relief committees. Inhabitants of towns in the hills have, ception, thrown open their homeless folks and their given freely for the cat- 3| of appr doors to th £ Minority Stockholders. cation for pany property to the New Yo of the Second district, which a the transfer, and charged it tra; the state. The transfer of control, declared t | law holders of Rutland stock, wa lation of the Sherman law, be in ares at the same rate. a The room- | NINE MONTHS IN PRISON FOR THREE SUFFRAGETTES rence Receive Sentences. jons toda; and e: ed as she said. , Manufacturers’ Association, President Jehn Kirby, Jr., in nual address at the conv ord 2 favering the creation of a new natior | committe on reselutions wh tigs, By Four new members were ele | ta {ed | Mix of Indianapolis; Calonel G Pope, Hartford, ¢ ; Cop | Michaels, of Eoanoke, V £ Capt. E. steamship Sabine of Mayer “in the Uniled States distris h or Apri | expedition Flood Victims U. S. ARMY RELIEF CORPS FEEDS Half a Million More in Sight for Ur- gent Needs—Inhabitants of Hilltowns “Throw Homes Open to the Refugees. From some sections of the flooded States army relief corps and local re- lief committees have been prompt in every instance In despatching food and medical supplies, and today the con- dition of the various refugee camps is declared to be fairly good. Only a few deaths have occurred among the refu- Lawyer Untermyer Still Fighting for —1In argument to- v before the supreme court in appli- an injunction to stay the transfer of the Rutland Railroad S k, New Haven and Hartford railroad from the entral, Samuel Untermyer attacked the public service commission roved ith be- | ed special envoy to represent the Unit- ing the interest of the people o er, who represented the minority 0~ ause the Haven were com- | department of Te: | of non-game food fish h: | by the Ne Mrs. Pankhurst and Mr, and Mrs, Law- Mrs, Bmmeline | Pankhurs{, the militant suffragette | leader, and Mr, and Mrs. Pethick Law rence, joint editors of Votes for Wo. Merraro and Raymond Odriasola, who | men, were all found guilty at the Ol the second floor, told | Bailey s the police that they heard the shots, | tenced to nine months' imp: but without investigating they ran out | on the charge of conspiracy and inci Ing their followers to malicious dam- The two women in the dock were guilty was brought in by the jury. Mrs. Pankhurst clung to the edge of the ibly and pleaded to be treated as a first | Jennle Kelly, 17 L ool : | met h 287 God detend us, &8 onr cause 18| 5t Gay and . then killed . Bimuelf The prisoners were all sentenced to be confined in the second division, not | NEW HAVEN TRACK EN’S DEMANDS. A NEW POLITICAL PARTY. s | New York, May 33—The proposal of an- tion of the National Association ef Manufacturers | al pelitical party, was quashed by the | h repori- ed today-witheut any refercnce te poli- Mr, Kirby was re-elected prosident of the association today; A. B. See . New York was chesen treasures and dinot was re-elected secre- o boazd ef directors, M. W darg: e Mecse of San Framcised, and O, A, | from D. Johnstone e Mallory line was fined $100 today by Judge court. (Captam Jolinstone pleaded Richard Geib | S0 Amundsen to Start For North Pol® Montevideo, May 22—Captain Roald | Amundsen, the discoverer of the south pole, who arrived bLere yesterday, en- nounced his intention today to start 1913, on an expedition to the. north | pole. Te will have with him the same men who accompanied him on his last 1 Condensed Telegrams A Tornado in Michigan Caused dam- :fioe estimated at trs:g $30,000 to ga,- President Taft’s Plurality over Col- onel Roosevelt In the recent Massachu- setts presidential preference prima: was 3,623, S o The Oyster Boat Earl, from Oyster Bay, L. L, became disabled vestérday afternoon and was beached off Mil- ford breakwater, George W, Stevens, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, was op- erated upon for gallstones at a Baltl- more hospital yesterday, —_— Fire Supposedly Caused by lightning yesterday bractically destroyed the main building of, th Michigan school for the deaf in Flint, Mich, Governor McCreery of Kentucky has offered a reward of $500 for the prehension of the assassins of Ed Cal- lahan, the Breathitt county feudist. Newport Was Chosen as the meeting Place for 1913 at the closing session of the Rhode Island diocesan convention of the Protestant Hpiscopal church, The New York Times will announce today that Samuel Strauss, formerly publisher of the Ne York Globe, has become associated in its management. King Alfonso Gave an Audience at Madrid to Marconi, the wireless in- ventor, and conferred on him the grand cross of the Order of Alfonso XIL Julie Hill, One of His Pupils, fircd three shots at Aaviator Frodan, as he began a flight at Budapest, because he was engaged to another woman, Her aim was bad. Governor and Mrs. Dix have left France and are motoring on their way to the Black Forest in Germany. They expect to be back in New York early in June, The House of Commons was obliged to choose between paying more for the dinners in the house restaurants or | having some of the items cut out. They cut out the sweets. to Be No Delay in the pre There i: | ecution of the government’s anti-trust suit against Herman oth ‘v ilcken and the members of the Brazilian coffee rization combine.” Because She Marched in the suffrage parade on May 4, Miss Almee Hutch- inson of New York city has been dis- missed from her position as school teacher in a parochial school. The Consummation of a $1,000,000 lumber deal was announced yesterday in the purchase by ward Hines of Chicago of the entire cut of two mills owned by United States Senator Isaac Stephenson. Norval Richardson, Secretary of (he United States legation, who is acting charge d'affaires, has been appoint- ed States at the funeral ceremonies of King Frederick of Denmark. An Opinion Given by the attorney general to the secretary of state, of Connecticut, regarding maintained the same a when cars are | in motion, Col. E. Z. Steever, commanding the S, wa vesterday instructed by the war department to inform the commander of the militar forces in Juarez that he must not per- mit any firing whatever into American territory Concluding Its Labors with the r ommendation that the maximum sal- aries for preachers be raised next year to 31,400, the gemeral committee on home missions of the United Presby- terian church of North American ad- journed. A New Rule Governing the Taking been made tate conservation commission, t bits the catching of any food fish, excepting migratory fish of the sea, by other means Yor | than angling. Senator William Afden S man of the Titanic dis investigat- ing committee, announced to the ser ate yeste would file its report next Tuesday, when he would make a speech on the subject. A. W. Herzog, Who is Stopping at he Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York, was arrested for smoking in the sub- | way. In court he was much perturbed | by stock market reports and said he | was losing $1,000 a minute. He was | finea $3, which he paid with a $100 { bi1L William W, Brown, 22 Years Old, ot and killed weetheart, Miss old, when he t at Havana, II, sh r on the stre Brown quarreled with Miss Kelly be- cause she walked with another young | man, FORE® Want Eight Hours on Saturday and Time and a Half for Overtime, New Haven, Conmn., May foremen of the New York, and F demand, and time and well as on ather days for all overtime, There are 600 track system, and the ay to be $16 per wek. ment traek workers. An auswer to the do- ze Wag e present move- mands was expected tonight, but no statement from the road has been ming. OBITUARY. Morris Herkheimer Tay 23--Gen- of Wheeling eral | W. va taday aft- er'a long ilin old né served in the Eduardo de Martino. fondon, May Commendatore Martino, the marine artist, died today. E » De Martino was marine paniter in ordinary to the late Queen Victoria. He was born at Meta, near Naples, Italy. The London Port Stnke‘ London, No progress has been made (OWS tilement of the Tondon port strike. Twenty thousand men are now ouf. The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Clarke, former solicitor gen- eral, has been appointed to condugt the inquiry which will open | below Tanner's ocafe, sights on motor vehicles standing at the curb, is to the effect that the lights must ibe day’ that the committee 2.—Frack ew Haven | iriford Railroad company have a change in their ten hour daily rule to eight hours An Saturday, | 1 half on Sunday as foremen on the is said | friendly newspaper will nothing to do Wwith other mnecticut in Proportion to the City's +Sulation JOHN MURP:.. SHOT AT WILLI MICHAEL CONNORS ARRESTED FOR THE CRIME Latter Was Displaced About Two Years Ago by the Man He Shot—Had Not Worked Since and Had. Brooded Over His Loss of Employment—Bullet Entered at the Back of the Ear—Deposition of Dying Man Taken at Hospital, (Special to The Bulletin.) Willimantic, May 22, — One of the most cold ' blooded crimes com- mitted In Willimantic in years was executed a few minutes after 6 o'elock Wednesday evening on Main street, almost in the heart of the city, as hun- dreds of mill operatives were hurrying home from work, Michael Connors, about who lives in South Windham, pulled a re- volver and fired at John T. Murphy, a blacksmith in the employ of the Amer~ ican Thread company, who lives at 630 Main street. The act was committed on Main strest on the north side, at a point between Hollis H. Lyman's plumbing establishment and Oftto Schmidt's lunch cart, just west of the Main street railroad ~crossing. The shot was heard by hundreds of people, Murphy was seen with a bullet wound through his head and the blood stream- ing over his face by men and women as they came up from the mills Bullet Entered Back of Ear. Murphy was hurried to St. Joseph's hospital, where an examination by Dr. Owen O'Neill, theé hospital surgeon, | disclosed the fact that Murphy is in a critical condition. The bullet en- tered back of the right ear and came out above the right eye, on the for head. t was first believed that Con- nors met Murphy face to face, but the fact of the entry of the bullet in- dicates he approached Murphy from behind and took him unawares. Connors, immediately after firing the shot, ran for cover, and endeavored to escape. Chief E. H, Richmond and Liuet, Daniel Kiliourey, upon being no- tified, followed, and caught him near the oil tank down on Chapman street, Dresser Tenders Aid in Connors’ Cap- ture. Immediately after the shooting curred, Connors walked through from Main street to Union street in the alley d through Cen- ter sireet to Valley street, down Val- ley across Jackeon, throuzh Valley street extension to the railroad track and down the tracks to the Standard Oil tank near Chapman street, where Chief Richmond with Fred Morey, who telephoned headquarters of the affair and put John Simmons on Connors* trail while he was doing it, told the chief that Connors was the man as the chief collared Connors, and held his arm, while Morey took the revol- ver from Connors' right-hand hip- pocket. Lieutenant Killourey then came and took Connors on the other side and he was taken to headquarters in an auto- mobile. Much credit is due Mr. Morey and Mr. Simmons for -the part they took in the capture, Both are dresser ten- ders at the American Thread com- pany’s plant. Connors Sings in His Celle. Connors was visited by a number in the cell room Wednesday evening, but had no statement to make, He sang songs at tim and did not seem to be taking the matter seriously. At a little after 11 o'clock Dr, O'Neil said that Murphy might last through the night and even linger for | & couple of days more. Brooded Over Loss of Job. He was taken in an automobile to police headquarters and placed in a cell within fifteen minutes after the crime had been committed. Chief fu‘hmnnd is investigating. It is not known at present exactly what charge will be placed against Connors. Con- nors has brooded for the past two vears over the fact that Murphy has been filling his former place as black- smith at the American Thread com- pany. Up to about two years ago Con- nors was the blacksmith and Murphy Blacksmifi in Employ of American Thread Company Believed to be Dying.at Hospital was Is striker. got through with-the coumpeny Murphy was glven his place and has been fill- Ing it acceptably since, Connors’ Reputation Good. Connors has always borne a fine reputation and comes of a good oMl South Windham family. bhad accumulated quite a little money previous to his getting through at the Thread company, but as he has mot done any work to speak of for the two years, it 1s believed that he as gone through most of it and that this might have had something to Jo with prompting him to commit the crime for which he is being held, Bullet Was a 38 Calibre. As soon as John T. Murphy arrived at the hospital, about 8.16 o'clock, Drs. O'Neill, Parker and Girouard prepared » him for the operating table. consclous at the time and knew the The bullet, which was & .38 calibee, soft-nosed one, fired from a brand new Hopkins & Allen revoiver, pens the base of the skull behind the right ear and tore its way upward and & fragment passed out through the from~ tal bone between the eyes, fracturing At the time Comners It is smid e Little Chance of Recovery. The surgeons took out &tx fragments of the bullet and the exam- ination disclosed it to be as bad a case wound as has ever beem seen by the operating surgeom. All the surgeons said : not have one chance in & thousand to of a bullet Murpay did Velil said the explosive power of the bullet must have been terrific. The brain oozed out through the im~{ cavity was unusually | where the buliet tore its patm through the brain. Fired at Close Range. A powder mark behind the ear indi« cated the close range at which the shot cision and the The patient came out of the ether in g00d skeape and regained consciousness and recognized the doctor, Prosecuting Attorney E. Frank ' Examiner Dr, L. L. Mason and Potvin, who is a brother It was deemed advisable Murphy's dying deposition when it was found that the chances for his lving throughout the night were very siim. Murphy Makes Deposition. At 10.30 o'clock Prosecuting Attorney Jugbee asked Mr. Murphy tions, and the following Is his sta May 22, 1912—I, John Murphy, of the town of Windham, realizing that my end is approaching and that I am about n oath do say Connors is the man who shot me to- the time the people were coming from the 6 o'clock trolley car near Hollis Lyman's shop. He never apoke to me before shooting, nor me ta | He reported around town that [” trimmed him out of his job, that Michasl JOHN (X) MURPHY, Witnessed by OWEN O'NEILL, LOUIS TRVING MASOK, A, M. POTVIN. Duly sworn, signed and attested be« E, FRANK BUGBBR, Justice of the Peacs. Prosecuting Attorney Bugbes moti« 1. Bill of Danielson at 1L10 o'clock of the fact of the shoot- . ing and what he had done in the mat« | The coroner will come here to be | present at the autopsy. The chargs against Connors i as= sault with intent to murder. fied Coroner A FOUR OF THE EIGHT BISHOPS ELECTED Bryan Tells Methodist Conference He Is Not Candidate. Minneapelis, May 22.—Dr. Napthall Luccock, pastor of the Hyde Park church, Kansas City, Mo, 18 the fourth pishop of the eighth to be elected at the present session of the_ general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church here, This was the result ef the fifteenth ballot announced late today, Dr. Luc- cock received 548 votes, 84 more than necessary to elect. These who have thus far been ele ed at the conference are Dr. Homer ¢ Stuntz, New York; Dr. T. 5. Hender- son, Breoklyn; Dr, W, O, Shepard, Chicage, and Dr, Lucceck. Another ballot was taken and it was announced the result would be made | known at an adjourned sessien tenight. William J, Bryan, in a speech be- | fore the cenference, reiterated his re- cent statement that he is a candidate for ne office, and did not expect to be. “I hape,” he said, “that mo um- y that 1 am a candidate for bishaep. He urged | all church members to get inte pelitics for the benefit of public morality and good government, “T got into polities when young and expect to stay until 1 die,” he declared, “put I dew't want you to beileve that | 1 am or ever expeci to be a candidate, can do more’ by remaining in peli- 4 privats citizen, for then my iéver are pulling at my caat- that er this iend ils telling me not to de | for fear it will hurt me. MURDERER PREFERRED SHOOTING TO GALLOWS. Utah Convict Blindfolded While Five Rifiemen Shoot at Him. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 22—Five riflemen concealéd behind & curtain sent steel-nosed bullets into the heart of a blindfolded man ss be sat in & chalr at the state prison today. Jullus Sirmay, & murderer, was thé {arget. He had sélected desth Ly shooting in preference to the ga after Wis confession of the w.ur o Thomas Carrick, a T4 year old boy, whom e had shot while committing a dayligbt { burglary, BUT FEW PRESENT AT RICHESON’S FUNERAL. Body of Executed Murderer Taken te Virginia by Relatives. Bosten, May 22.—The body of Clars ence V, T. Richeson, the former man, Who was electroeuted for the murder of Avis Linnell, was | shipped back te Virginia, his native ' state, tonight for burial Brief funeral services were held the Warren avenue Baptist the day, Omly brather-and sister amd his counsel a few others-Were-present as mourners, ‘The services wers cemducted by of the ehurch, Rev. Herbert who aoted as visey for the cendemned m: his days in the state prisen, Wollowing the service the taken to an undertaker's amd It was then carried to statien and placed abeard eral express, which left ten at § o'clack, accompany hady a., the family hame, @ interment will be g the besido s s ™ his wishes, could not definitely ascertained. for Washing - £ ATTACK ON'KAISER IN THE REICHSTAG | Social Democratic Leader Precipitates ' ps Sessi Beslin, May 32.—The final session of was 4 stormy one. the refehstag today The soclal democratic leader, Georze Ledebour, in vefrring to the emperor s :fifi: ghma“vl,‘ ata h-mun: Strasb e would incorporate Alsace-L.or- -