Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 31, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 132 NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1912 TOTAL OF 204 CONTESTS T0 DECIDE Republican National Committee Will Meet Next Week to Adjust the Various Disputes ROOSEVELT FACTION PRESENTS 177 OF THEM | Contests of Taft Managers, Numbering 27, Are Mostly From Missouri and Texas—Chairman New Will Yield His Seat to Roosevelt if Necessary to Enable Colonel to Attend Convention—Connecticut Socialists to Expel Militiamen. Chieago. May 30—When the republi- tan natfonal committee meets in Chi- cago on June & it will be called on to | decide 2 ontests, Four years ago | 219 contests were submitted to the committ ROOSEVELT RETORTS, | Speakes of “Three Guinea Pig Power Brains,” Referring to Fitzgerald. Gettysburg, Pa, May 30.—Colonel Roosevelt commented here today upon Coneressman Fitegerald's speech ves- terday in Washington, during which Mr. Fltzgeraid read what purported to be a memorandum by Mr. Roosevelt when president relating to alteratons | to the White House “to be permanent during my lifetime.” “Mr, Fitzgerald's accusation, or the implicd accusation, 1s too preposterous | to need any serious discussion,” said | the colonel today. “Just as machinery can be expressed in terms of horse- power, so some intellects can be ex- pressed in terms of guinea plg power. That kind of aceusation can only be heeded by men with brains of about three guinea pig power.” HILLES MAY PRESIDE, Roosevelt 177, Taft 27. Of the 204 contests filed with Secre tary Havward, 177 were presented by the Roosevelt factions and 27 by Taft adherents. The principal contests fil- €d by the Taft managers are from M #our! and Texa: 28 Contests in Texas. Joseph B. Kealing, former United | Etates district attorney at Indianapo- | Uis, arrived in Chicago today from | s Texas, where he looked after Presi- dent Taft's interest in the recent prim- arfes and conventiens and reported to | Chairman New of the sub-committee | on arrangements for the convention that Taft and Roosevelt each have six , Instructed delegates from that state While the remaining 28 are contested. Will Give Up Seat to Roosevelt. President’s Secretary Hi Chairman New reiterated his pre- Choice for wions declaration that no presidential Convention Chairman. candidate would be recognized in the ~ | distribution of convention tickets but | Washington, May 30.—The Interests | ndded that if Colonel Roosevelt came to Chicago and applied for a ticket in | person he would provide him with a | card of admission even if he had to Eive him his own seat. Roosevelt's Managers Claim 581. of President Taft at the meeting of the | republican national convention will be in the hands of C. D. Hilles, secretary to Mr. Taft. This information tonight was taken as an indication that Mr. | Hilles will be the president’s choice for chairman of the republican national B s e e el | convention in case he is renominated. candidate will have votes on the | Mr. Hilles would not disouss the, re- first ballot or more than enough fo | POTt that the chairmanship and the nominate. | conduct of the campaign were to be They give T La Follette 35: | Placed in his hands if his choice se- Cummins 19, 155 the other dele. | €ures the nomination. His friends said, Fates as un! ted. | however, that this was practically a certainty, in view of his political work for the’president and because of his association in the last year with mem- bers of the national committee, Mr. Hilles will leave Washington for Chicago June 5, the day before the national commitfee takes up the ques- tion of seating contested aeiegations. It is not tha president’s plan to have llows in Taft 2 ROOSEVELT AT GETTYSBURG. Stodd on Spot Where Lincoln Deliv- ered Historic Speech. Mr, Hilles superseds ex-Senator Pa., May %0.—Standing | Charles Dick of Ohio before the com- » spot where Abraham Lincoln | Mittee in the matter of contests. Bellvered his famous address forty- | Neither will he interfere with any work that may be dome in Chicago by Di- rector McKinley of the Taft bureau. He will, however, be the personal rep- resentative of the president on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt he encounter hetween south, which reach- and found in the themes which he nt day ent turned aside FUSS OVER TICKETS. the day from the stress of the e esent compaign (o the . serenity of | Senator Dixon Says That Roosevelt | spot of memories. About him Is Not Being Treated Fairly. - | Buassed on every side wera thousands ©f persons, among them hundreds of| Washington, May 30.—Senator Dix- | Seterans of the civil war on, manager of the national Roosevelt There w e fire of a cam- | campaign, aroused over the refusal paign ral Mr. Roosevelt spoke|of Harry New, chairman of the gub- | ezrmestly, but affected the manner of [ committee of the national committes B preacher rather than that of a politi- [ on arrangements for the republican €al leader. The throng which heard | cenvention to allow him 250 tickets for Bim listened in grave attention with | the use of Colonol Roosevelt, his fam- occasional « plause. The |ily and friends, determined tonight to speech n the national | demand recognition from the national on of which Lin- | committee, After receiving word that his re- quest for tickets would not be grant- cd, Benator Dixon sent to Chairman New at Chicago a telogram which says in part: “Knowing that the sub-committee of the national republican committee hay- ing charge of the arrangements for the national convention had made most liberal allotment of tickets of admis- sion to Mr. Taft and his friends, I wired you yesterday asking for an al lotment of tickets for members of Col- onel Roosevelt's family and immediate friends at the national convention. This morning I have your reply say- ing that not one ticket would be allot- Mr. Roosevelt his moment the this nation are show both a sisiting on the rule neaded practical sense in recognizing that we 8 ire material prosperity and that so far ffom there being any nec- between justice neither can spment unless goes hand in hand. he army would have man In civil life ought roc that equality of|ted by the sub-committee of the na- reward wher Is an utter in-|tional committes for Colonel Roosevels equallty of ice 18 ftself a very gros: friends at the convention. The ferm of infustice. But no soldier bore the g iated Press despatches this after- | sight of reward comi noon, under Chicago date~carry the t because of s story that, whils you have Seen fit to volitical or financial | refuse this small courtesy to Colone Anirigue. Roosevelt, you have at the same time | “No man can help being profoundly | on your own Initiative allotted 150 ad- | moved,” sald evelt, “when | missfon tickets to Mr, Taft for distri- | he sees the greal War | pution among his friends, | and their ch iren strew | “7p to this time, it had been my be flowers on t who | Jief that the men temporarily occupy- died that we might live » be | ing the positions as members of the southerners here, | kn cin | national republican committee were | ;'nin witt 5 iu paying | disposed to act as trustees of the re- | “:w.p- « victor as| publican national organization and for | an Ying | the genes o wel of the b T Saying | the general good and welfare of th republican party, Tt had not occurred to me that any msn temporarily oc cupying a position of trust would he | 80 narrow and factional in his disposi- tion as to refuse to extend a pé 1 courtasy to an ex-president of the United States in the matter of admis- uished themse in which th conduct after welt continued In th daye there were foolixh ! in theic fonel Ruose- ves not 1ght the war, ( only the Just after people the war who talked | of impeérialism and of a dictatorship. | gion tickets to the national conven- | ! They sald that the soldiers would | tion of the republican party, to whose | tyraanize our country, One of the|record his acts as president had added | @reat lessons taught was that in six | Gagitional It | o gy 8 conld 80| I ghall not 1 it you as an indi- p aud be vidual partisan to arrogate to yeur- | seif the final dispesition of this” very sonable request, but shall immeds Jay the matter before each in- | ately dividual member of the republican na- | tional committee. (Signed) JOSEPH. M, PIXO) ne senator plans to get into inication with members of the na tional committee at once accerding to his announcement tonight, m- ip and a any with m_of the th TAFT REBUKES CONGRESS Brotherhc o who irg, Pa the day the engineers peak after the lunch- man called out: “Is yo For Failure ta Provide Memorial Edi- fice at Arlington, | | Washington, May 30.—In the ivy- | | covered amphitheatre in Ariington N tional cemetery today, President T speaking in memorial exercises, re- ferred to suggestions of its change, In closing, the president said in pert: “It I¢ the solemn contempla- tion of what the civil war and its con- sequences really meant in the history ol vur country thal makes this day's celebration wost valuable, It is re- ligious regard for the pillars of pop ular governwment, for the principte of liberty reguluted by law, for the pres- ervaton of popular repiesentutive in- siltutions, which this day’s ceremonles should commemorate and strengthen. “On this day it is the highest duty of all the people to revitalize their loy f their country and re {heir devo tion o limilatlons of its constilution eon, a stll in the ring?” “I think the ring is in the hat now,” the colonel responded. On finishing his address at (he cemd tery. Catone! Roosevelt started at ouce for New York Colonel Thanks Pennsylvania. Lancosior, Pa, May 30.—At Lancag ter aund Columbia, ; Colonel Roosevelt He wd om the plRtform ol s car b lwnds until the rush to him such a4 mad scramble that he | want to thank Peansyl- #ald at b for what We are going o do them found large crowds awaiting lLim e (8 | Cenklin | £a | 1ts | Lameonte, Nerih Cansen, e Cabled Paragraphs Brussels, May 30.—The rate of dis- count . of the Bank-of Belgium was reduced from 4 1-2 to 4 per cent. today. Brandenburg, Prussia, May 30.— "The fifth centennial of the entry of the Hohenzollerns into the march of Brandenburg, which formed the nu- cleus of their later domains, was im- posingly celebrated today when a statue of Frederick, the first margrave, was unveiled by Emperor William. London, May $0.—In the absence of Whitelaw Reid, United States ambas- sador, who has gone to Belfast, Ire- land, ‘to receive the honorary freedom of that city, the Russian ambassador teday presented Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago at the levee held by King George at St, nes’ palace, " OBITUARY. Wilbur Wright, Aviator and Inventor. ton, Ohio, May 30.—Follewing a sinking spell that developed soen aft- er midnight, Wilbur Wright, the noted | aviater and inventor, dled ef typheid fever at 3. m. teday. Mr. Wright had been lingering on the border for several days and though s condition from time to time gave cme hopes to members of his family, the attending physicians, Drs, D. B. and Levit Spitler, felt throughout the latter part of his sick- ness that he could not recover, At the death bed were the members of his family, which included his aged Bishop Milton Wright, Miss e Wright, Orville, the co-in- ventor of the aeroplane, Reuchlin Wright, and Lorin Wright. All of the family ‘reside in - this city, except Reuchlin, who lives in Kansas, Mr. Wright became ill May 4 while on a business trip in the east. On that Dr. Conklin, the He took to his bed and it was several immediatel before diagnosed as typhoid. Throughout the early part of his illness Mr. Wright attributed his sick- ness to some fish he had eaten in Bos- ton. He explained to his physician, however, that he had no conclusive Teason to believe that the disease orig- irated from this source. Wilbur Wright was born in Henry ccunty, Ind, April 16, 1867. Orville was born August 19, 1871, Both Wil- bur and Orville attended the local high school and stood high in their studies. Hampered by heart trouble, caused, it 1t is thought, by accidentally being struck by a polo stick, Wilbur was compelled to abandon his purpose of | attending college. Their father, Bishop Milton Wright, being away from home much of the time in attendance upon his church duties, the two beys helped to maintain their home. The two first started a job printing office and for a while published a small sheet that had a suburban circulation. They then entered the bicycle busi- ness and opened a repair shop, at the same time manufacturing bicycles. In the meantime they began study- | ing the flying machine while carrying on the bicycle business, and in pursuit of this subject they acquired a knowl- edge of the underlying principles, fur- ther adding to their knowledge by working acquaintance with dmr{nxt modern languages. For approximately two weeks the patient has been unconscious but as his eyes roamed about the room in the direction of the nurses the doctors and members of the family, he gave unmistakeable evidence of a sub-con- | scious desire to recognize them, On Wednesday morning as Orville sat at the bedside, Wilbur smiled faintly, While definite arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made. it is probable that it will be held Satur- day afternoon with interment in Wood- land cemetery, south of Dayton. Sorrow in France. Parig, May 30.—The death of Wilbur Wright, the American aviator, has used profound sorrow throughout France, where he was everywhere pop- ular, 'he newspapers contain long eulo- sketches recounting his first France at the beginning of They generally agroe that c's supremacy in aviation is due to the fact that the Wrights showed the way, Gen. Henry M, Baker. Manchester, N. H., May 30.—A pri- vate message received here tonight an- nounced the death of General Henry M. Baker of Bow, former congressman, and former national committeeman from New Hampshire, in Washington, D. C. He was the executor of the will of the late Mary Baker G. Hddy, foun- der of the Christian Science chureh. General Baker was also president of the trustees of the estate of Mrs. Eddy ang had figured prominently in the 1iti- tion over her will. He wae 71 years old and a direct descendant of Hannah | Dustin, heroine of the Indlan wars, which have made it permanent and useful to the paople, and to reject with stern and flint-like front, all light suggestions of change in those prin- ciples which it has cost centuries of struggle and hectacombs of lives to secure gnd maintain.” President Taft rebuked congress for flure to provide at Arlington a bie edifice in which to hold the 1l memorial ceremonies and prop- attest the nation’s reverence for suit ann erly | it honored dead. CONNECTICUT SOCIALISTS, Place Ban on the Militia and Nominate State Ticket. Hartford, Conn., nual state convenr arty was held today at the headqu: ters of the local branch, No, 235 As: lum strest, and there wers about 1 members, yepresenting 4 state mem- rship ef 2000, in attendanes, The oilowing tieket was placed in the fleld Governor — -Samuel Shelton, Lieutenant May 36—The en the socialist E, Beardsles, Governor — Reobert R. Secretary of State—F man, Hartford, T surer—H, air Comptrotier—@, bury, Presidential Ficetors—H, P, €lask, Bristol; F, B. Basnes, Hartford; . W, Andrews, Rockville; W, 8. Plunkett, Wailingford; W, F. Ryan, Meriden; A, G, Mugzy, Bristsl; H. P. Lezotte, Wa- terbury, An amendment was made tg the state comstitution prohibiting aay member of the party from belonging to the state mil Al members of the party who are now members of state military companies must resign the expiration of their texm of ser- vice, under penally of being expelled fror fhe party. During the day (he fol gram wis seat to th tion at Blizabeth, N. I.: “Slug capita] over the ropes and :u-all it ‘l‘::c“ frazzle and- socialize your rusts, Fraternal greetings from Con- aocticat grectiang, o ther 8. Suis- N. Beebe, New Brit- P, Peach, Water- Howing tel fist conv his case was definitely | Dawson Beats Out DePalma WINS 500 MILES SWEEPSTAKES IN 6 HOURS, 21 MINUTES, DE PALMA’S HARD LUCK Held Lead for 198 Laps When Engine Went Bad—Race Fres from Serious Accidents—Burman Thrown. Indfanapolle, May 30.—After leading all the way from the start to the 198ta lap, Ralph DePalma's Mercedes d veloped engine trouble and Joe Daw- son's Natlonal came up from six laps behind, today, and won the second international 500 miles sweepstakes automobile race in the record time of 6.21.06. Teddy Tetzlaff’s Flat was sec- ond. The Stuts company protested the award of third place to Hughie Hughes Mercer, contending that their car, driven by Charles Merz, which was announced as fourth, won the position, Bob Burman Thrown. The day was ideal for the motor en- thusiasts and not a serious accident ‘marred the sport, Bob Burman, whose Cutting turned over in the back stretch when a rear wheel collapsed, was able to leave the hospital with a’ few scratches after a slight treatment and viewed the finish of the race. Twenty-four Starters. Twenty-four cars, the pick of Amer- ican, German, English and Italian fac- ries, started. A Lexington, driven by Harry Knight, the hero of last year's race, who deliberately wrecked his car to avoid running down the driver of another car who had fallen on -the track, was the first to quit, Bruce-Brown was the next tp leave the track. When he found his National was out for good he broke down and wept on the shoulder of his mechani- | | cian. Others dropped out until there were only ten cars to finish. DRIVER. CAR. TIME. 1 Dawson National 82108 D otrdat Flat 6.31.29 e Hughes Mercer 6.34.56 s Mern Stz 6.36.35 5 dicott Schacht 6.46.33 s ingel Stuts 8.50.28 1 Jemdns White 652 8 Horan Leater 8.50.57 ) Wileox National 7.11.30 1. Mulford Knox (fageed) Rabbit Dawson’s Good Omen. Dawson drove a steady race, holding second place most of the time after tho 50th lap. Just before DePalma went out of the race, a rabbit ran across the track in- front of Daw- som’s car as he was speeding down the home stretch. The thousands of spec- tators cheered the rabbit, and Daw- son, after the race, said he considered it & good omen. Johnny Jenkins finished his last five laps driving on the rim of the right front wheel of his White car. Joe Horan in a Lozier Was pushing him for seventh place, and Jenkins feared to lose the time in stopping for a fresh tire. Ho beat out Horan, who had engine trouble, by seven minutes. Dawson Bettered Harroun’s Time. Dawson averaged 78.6 miles an hour as compared with 74.61 miles an hour made by Raymond Harroun, who won he race last year In his Marmon “Wasp.” Harroun's time was 6.42.08. Dawson pulled up at the National rit with a grin on his grimy face, when he was flagged as the winner, and jumped out of the car as if he hed been through a short dash. “I'm not tired.” he sald, “Just happy.” “The Game's All Luck.” Told that DePalma lost the race on- ly because his engine failed him in the 158th lap, Dawson grinned again. 'Tve been up against the same thing,” he sald, “The game's all luck, I just had a feeling I would win and I never had that feeling but once before. That was when 1 won the Cobe race trophy hiere in 1910, Today that feeling be- gan to get pretty slim towards the end of this race, but you mever can tell till Fred Wagner lets the flag fall” “Tough Luck,” Says DePalma. Ralph DePalma, pushing his dead Mercedes to the electric timing wire for the 199th lap, was weary, “It was Just tough luck,” he sald, “and that's all. T made the race whils I was In It and I suppose if I had used just mule power on the last lap and pushed my car through the 200th lap I could have | got in the money for a thousand or so, but life is too short,” THREE, PROWNED BY CAPSIZING OF CANOE Only One of a St. Johnsbury Party of Four Ressued. \ St, Johnshury, Vt, May 30.—Thres young people of prominenca here, Miss Hattiv Hlis, Miss Helen Smythe, and hér brother, Herbert W, Smythe, wers drewned, in' the Passumpsic river to- day when a canoe, in which they were ailempting to navigate the rapids, ov- erlummed, Louls Kimball, the fourth eccupant of the frail craft, was saved by Har- ley Richards, who had been attracted | to the river ‘bank by the cries of the | veung pasple, aball, whe was un- censcieus when pulled out of the water had tried valiantly te save the life of Aiss Rilis, but 1ost held en the v weman a2 few & nents befere Rich- ards waded eut from the bank and caught him, Smythe was the son ef Louis mythe, a merchant, and was ted in business with hi M, was U8 years oid, His siste | was an academy studen | was 18 years ald, Kimbail is vloved in a clothing stere BLUE GUTLOOK FOR Strike Leaders imsist That Oniy Unien Labor Shall Be Employed, Fonden, May 39.—it is evident t the joint Conierence tomorrow whereby the “governmeni hoped ic arrange a settlement of the dock strike Is fore- doomed tg !m'i{ra The master carmen, the master {ighietmen, public wharfin- gers and parge ownery have joined with {he other associations of the em- Ployess in declialng the goveruments nvitation (o send representatives to take part in the conference which will be Leld at the board of frade.\ In each case abstention is justiied gn the ground that ihe employers must re- O ruon-union labor as they choose and s0 long as the men’s leaders insist that no seftierent “can ‘be aceepted which does not resirict the employers to un- Ton labor (he negotialions would be futiie ¢ g dropping out in its seventh lap. David | ENDING DOCK STR’KE»‘ nat | tain their right 1o ‘employ €ither union | Waiters’ Jobs For Students COLLEGES APPEALED TO FOR STRIKE-BREAKERS. BY HOTEL MANAGERS New York Strike Spreading—Employ- es of 8ix More Hotels and Two | Large Restaurants Quit Work. | New York, May 30—Father Knick- | erbocker had his dinner interrupted again tonight when the union waiters, | cooks and kifchen help in six leading | hotels and two of the jargest Broad- way restaurants Jjoined the strike. Thousands of diners had given their orders and some had been served with | the first courses when the hotel em- ployes deserted their posts. In some of the hotels strike breakers were placed in the dining rooms, and serv- fcc continued with slight interrup- tions. 2000 Waiters Now Out. At the headquarters of the Interna- tional Hotel Workers' unlon it was an- nounced that 900 men joined the strik- ers tonight, making the total number now out about 2,000 The hotels af- fected by tonight's walkout were the Plaza, the S| Regis, the Astor, the Prince George, the Imperial and the | Gotham, and Shanley’s and Louis Mar- tin's restaurants and the Hiks' club. Other Waiters to Join Strike. Unless their demands are complied with by the Hotel Men's assoclation by tomorrow, leaders of the strike as- sert cooks and waiters in all the res- taurants in New York, including two long chains of popular price restau- | rants, will be ordered to join the strike, President Reed of the Hotel Men’s as- sociation said that the hotels will not recognize the union, which, since other demands have been acceded to, now seems to be the principal grievance. Students Solicited to Do Work. It was announced that telegrams were sent tonight by the hotel men | to the registrars of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Bowdoin and other universities and colleges, invit- ing any of the students who are work- ing their way through college and are in" need of additional funds to come here at once to act as waiters, This idea originated with David Mulligan, manager of the Breslin, and was promptly. taken up by other members of the Hotel Men's association. Negro Waiters from South. | Negro waiters will be brought from the winter resorts in Florida, Georgla and the Carolinas to take the places of the men who walked out of the Plaza. MEMORIAL TABLET TO BUTT AND MILLET. President Taft and High Government Officials Raise Fund, Washington, May 30. — President Taft, members of the diplomatic corps in Washington and many high gov- ernment officials have cohtributed to fund of several thousand dollars, com- pleted today, which 18 to be used to erect a memorial to Major Archibald W. Butt, personal aide to two presi- dents, and to Frank D. Millet, vice chairman of the national fine arts commission, two Washington victims of the Titanic disaster. The work of ralsing the fund was undertaken quietly by C, D. Hilles, secretary to President Taft, and Col- onel Spencer Cosby, chief aide to the president. The memorial, in the form of a bronze tablet, probably will be erected in the “elitpse” back of the White House and almost within its | shadow. Authorization by congress will be necessary, but there is no doubt among friends of the two men that it will be granted. The site near the White House was seleated because of Major Butt's close assooclation with the White House for many years and also because of Mr. Millet's interest in the public grounds at the capital. ‘PENBION APPROPRIATION BILL OF $165,162,500 1S PASSED Senate Action Increa House Appro- priation Nearly $13,000,000, Washington, Ma; 80.—The senate celebrated Memorial day by passing the enrual pension appropriation bill after fifteen minutes’ consideration. | bis entire estate, worth about $30,000. The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Girculation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the Gity's Population Condensed Telegrams No New Cases of Smalipox ha been reported at week, e Naugatuck for a The British Shipowners have refused to have a conference with the dock- workers, President Taft Will Go to Hampton Roads on June 3 to meet the visiting German fleet. General James Allen, chief signal of- ficer, has ordered three new aeroplancs for the army. School Teachers of North Adams, Mass, have petitioned for n increase of salary to $15 per week. A Reception Was Given at the city hall in Paris by Cesar Caire to ih members of the Chicago Paulist choir. The Lorimer Election Case will he brought up in the senate next Monday, | immediately after the routine morning | bustness. y Under the Wi of Hamden, of Ellsworth Cooper | who died about a year ago, | was left to the Connecticut Hums soclety, e The Latest Thing in the Line of combinations or trusts is a chain of delicatessen stores which are to be opened in New York by interests con- nected with. the American Tobacco company, Edward Russell Thomas, former broker and banker, was charged in the New York supreme court with having fraudulently transferred to his Wife property te defeat the claims of his creditors. Dr. Charles C. Hill of Baltimore in an address at Atlantic City to eminent specialists in convention there de- clared water intemperance to be mo dangerous than overindulgence in the | cup that cheers. The Trial Under the Sherman Law | of the suit instituted by L‘im g.no:am | ment against a number of ocean Steam- ship lines on the charge of illegal com- bination in steerage passenger traffic, | is scheduled to take place in June, | Senator Warren, Chairman of the senate appropriations committee, ye. terday predicted that congress woul remain in session all summer and tumn unless greater willingness wer wn to consider the opriation | < appropriation | Claude Allen, on Trial at Wytheville | for the murder of Judge Museie ag | Hillsville, went to the witness stand. | He denied that he shot at Judge A | sle, declaring that if a bullet fror Distol killed the judge it wvas acciden- | tal. He said he was firing at Goad, | clerk of the court. ; his | FATAL SCUFFLE AT A ! HAZARDVILLE HOTEL.‘ Amos Brewer Has Neck Dislocated and Death Follows. Hazardville, Conn., May 30.—During | 2 Scutfle, following ' a quarrel, at the | Hazardville hotel this afternoon be- | tween Michael Ryder of Thompsonville | and Amos Brewer of this place, Brew- er was thrown against a billiard tabl and suffered a_dislocated neck, whi caused death shortly afterwards. Dep- | uty Coroner William H. Lee of Thomp- | sonville {s conducting an investigation prefiminary to the inquest tomorrow. | Ryder has not been arrested. | According to the story told by Fer- | nard Ryder, proprietor of the hotel, | and a son of Micheel Ryder, witl whom Brewer quarelled, Brewer was | more or less under the influence of liquor and had been creating a dis- turbance in the pool and billiard room. When Brewer finally used pro- fane language, Mr. Ryder ejected him | from the place, under the threat that | if he returned he would place him un- | der arrest. | In the meantime Michael Ryan had entered the room. Within a few mo- | ments after his ejection Brewer re- | turned, and Bernard Ryan immediate- | ly stepped to the telephone to call the | police. - When Brewer heard the mes- sage he bocame profane, say witnesses, which angered the elder Mr. Ryder. Angry words soon led to blows, and | the men grappled. The two men fell | upon the floor, but fh falling Erewer's | | head struck a billlard table. It was | seen that Brewer was badly hurt, and | Dr, E. ¥, Parsons, the medical examin- er, was summoned. When he arrived | | Brewer was dead. Dr. Parsons fmme- | diately turned the cuse over to Coroner Calhoun of Hartford, who in turn in- strustad Deputy Lee to Investigate, | Brewer was 56 years old and married, | JOE WHEELER'S SON IN THE NEW YORK PARADE. | The meesure carries $185,162,600, an | increase .of almost $13,000,000 over the | amount appropriated by the house. | The increase | expenses caused Ly the heavy velume | of work growing out of the recent en- wotment of the so-called dollar-a~day | pension law, The bill retains the | present eighteen pension agencies, dis | Uibuted throughout the country, fe | whose conselidation ints one agene the house provided. Tt aiso provides for the payment of pensiens by checks to the veterans instead of by veueher THe bill will ge to canference between the two heuses, | | FIRE VISITS HOME OF SENATOR BRANDEGEE | Blaze of Unknown Origin Breaks Out in Washington Residence, n, May 80.—Fire of un- u late tonight damaged the Senater Brandegee of Cen- (on K street, N, W, Pesple in aw the hlage and gaye tha 1 and the servants, the emly se- ants of the heuse, eseaped safely, or himself was at a club, N © of the damage has been mads, ie house is between the residences of Secretary of State Knex and Senater | W, Marray of Massachusetts, | HYDROPLANE MOTOR BOAT STRIKES LOG AND SINKS Baby Reliancs Was Strong Competitor for International Races, New ¥ork, May 30.—The Baby Rell- ance, Commodore J. 5. Blackton's new bydroplane motor boat, which had es- tablished & record pf 4682 miles an hour, sank late today while compet- ing in the Atlaniic ¥acht eluh re- getts off Fort Hamilton, doms the barbor, The accident probably re moves oné of ihe sirongest compeéti- tofs for the comiing international races at’ Huntfogton bay. The racer was rinning at full spesd when she struck a log and sank al- most immediately. Commodore Black- ton and his mechanician were unin- jured and later picked up by a passing ncludes $13,500,000 for | Commanded the Regulars Who Escort- ed Old Veterans, New York, May 36.—Memorial day eeremonies in New York were inter- | rupted in the afterseon by a rain and | thunder gtorm, Headed by u column of white haived veterans, who marched hallingly along to the strains of music that stirred {heir hearts in the sixties, ten theusand men puraded early in t day in Tioner of these who died in the | civil war, Major Jaseph Wheeler, U, 8, A, son of "Fign Jos" Wheeler, the Confederate general, was in com- mand of the regulars whe formed part | | of the escort, There diers i | | | | were only 800 of the old sol- 2 . T these were w ed to leave nks before the head of th umn reached the Hoi ind Bal menument on Rivers riv were displayed from hundreds of win- dows and thousamas cheered as the Velerans passed in review RAIEE ON EO.STON L Company 8ays Minimum Wage Wil Be Twelve Dollars a Week. Bosten, Ma wages (o Bosion ted railwa wpany cl | that the in the mini- | ges lo $12 a week. Hhere was meeting of about 1,080 em- ployes of the company heid early to- | day, whem the union organization 1:0:;1»& on Monday was still further perfected. There was a long discus- sion of grievances, spe discharges without a BIGE;ER S’TEELAWORKS. Propsed Enlargement of Edgar Thompson Plant at Pittsburg. "ncause. | { | | : May 30—Tbe Bdgar | | Pittsburg, | Thompsou Steel Works, 4 plant of the | | Carnegle Steel compuny, are to be en- | Targed at an expense of from §5,000,- | 00U to $10,000.800, ac here. S clude th ding to reports | me of the improvements in- | crection of fourteen new open | Despatched From the Naval Station at Guantana- mo to Protect Mining Properties RURAL GUARDS UNEQUAL TO THE SITUATION Insurgents Destroy Property in Spite of Them—Opinion Growing That Cuban Government Forces Are Inade- quate to Cope With Rebels und Also Guard Property— Forward Movement Delayed to Give Troops Day’s Rest tack in the war of imdependence, There have been numerous outpost skirmish. es without definite resuits. Mining Property Destroyed, The most serious news of today was the report of the destruction by ineure gents of the property of the Spanish~ American Mining company at Dalquiri, which the small squad of rural guards was unable to protect, and the des- patch from the United States naval station at Guantanamo of the gunbost Paducah with marines aboard for the rotection of the mining properties at &iqulrt Government Forces Insufficient. The Paducah arrived tonight at Dal« quiri, from which it is reported the insurgents retired into the interor. The opinion is becoming general that the government forces are insufficlent to guard the property and cope with Havana, May 30.—The government forces at the front in the district of Oriente bounded by Guantanamo, San Luis and Santiago have been compelled to halt in consequence of the weaken- ing of the main body by the despatch of detachments to guard plantations in the outlylng towns. Troops Given Day's Rest. General Monteagudo, the commander in chief of the Cuban army, who start- ed from Santiago with 1,500 reinforee- ments, has delayed the forward move- ment to give his troops 24 hours' rest while determining the plan of attack. Insurgents Have Advantag General Monteagudo expresses full confidence in his abi to cope with the enemy, but the insurgents have the hoice of various positiens which eight wounded. In the earlierfighting the French casualties numbered sixty wounded. The sultan of Morocco has shown | signs of being panic-stricken, but has | Probably Member of Crew of Sunken proved impregnable to the Spanish at- the insurgents. FEZ HARD PRESSED BY HOSTILE MOORS. Belated Advices Reach Paris from General Lyautey, Paris, May 30.—Fez, the Moroccan is practical urrounded by Moors, according to wireless ceived by the French gov- utey. French date of May ys the situa- their way wi but the French troops, under arms almost inc days, repulsed them. thirty dead on the field and undoubt- edly carried off many more. The French lost five soldiers killed and the wails of the city, who had been antly for five "he rebels left become reassured since he finds that the population of Fez is not joining in the attack. TUBERCULOSIS CONVENTION SESSIONS IN WASHINGTON, Distinguished Physicians and Scien- tists Attend Annual Gathering. Washington, May The National Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis began its eighth an- nual convention here today with many distinguished physicians and sclentists attending. Following the general mdeting for preliminary business sessions of the soclalogical &nd clinical sections were the scheduled features of the day. The convention will be in session two days. Speakers for the sociological section ncluded Frederick L. Hoffman of Newark, N, J.,, Treatment and Care of Tuberculosis; Wage Earners in Ger- many, Dr. Herbert W. King of Yon- kers, N. Y.; The Value of Institutional Treatment, Irving Fisher of New Ha- ven, Conn.} The Economic Cost of Tu- berculosis, Dr. W. J. Vogeler of New York. SAILOR’S BODY FOUND IN NEW HAVEN HARBOR. Sohooner Witch Hazel. New Haven. Conn, May 30.—The body of an unidentified man, evidently a satlor, ‘picked up by two fish- ermen off Sperry ht this afternoon. The body was =0 badly decomposed that identification is aimost impossi- ble, Medlcal Examinar Kowaelaskl of West Haven was called and said that the man had apparently been in the water for severn| months. It 18 be- lieved by fishermen that the man was one of the seilors drowned when the scheaner Witch FHagel sunk in the harber last October. LIGHTNING TWISTS A TABLE AROUND. Scatters Dishes in House at Bristol, But Causes No Fire. Bristel, €enn, May 30.—During a heavy rainstorm this afternoon light- ning struck the heuse of John Englert on Conle reel and played strange pranks. The lightning struck a cornice he followad & w hes i table was ntry the whiried ar in chen. araun s the floer, NEW BRITAIN MIDGET SUICIBES IN HIS CELL Arrested for Drunkenness He Stranm- gles Himself with Neckti ew Britain, Conn., May 39 moski, 33, commitied el at police’ he: strangling Lims £ was arrested eadlicr in the duy o charge of druukenness Eazuoski was a midge:, beiug on 67 inches in helght. He had Cause the police wuch trouble wnd wus fr quenily Lefore the clty court om var Gus char i T Wombal? ¥ thought you turned over a new leaf™ “Well, the darned (hing blew back."\¥as ingtoy Herald, HOUSE PASSES STEEL AND IRON TARIFF BILL Ropublicans Absent Themssives to Permit Measure to Go Through. Washington, May 0.—The house steel and iron tariff revision bill pass- ed the senate today 35 to 22, repeal- ing the Canadian reciprocity law, put- ting & universal duty of $2 a ton om print paper and cutting the duty om pig ifron and ferro-silicon. The bill now goes to conference with the house. Although ¢ ry of French artil- | The metal bill went through by de- lery is due to arrive tomorrow to rein- |fault. Many of the regular force the garrison, the French troops [cans disappeared to allow the are still insu it in numbers to un- | cratic bill Instead of the Cummins dertake a decisive offensive sortie from | substitute, to pass, and thus permic the cf but Gener vautey consid- | the president to veto a straiphi demeo- iers they are capable of holding the |cratic measure. Only one republicas. cagital against attack Senator Gronna of North Dakots, vet- On the afierncon of May 23, the|ed for the bill, while the entire neg- general reports, the Arabs again fought |ative vote was cast by republicans, progressives as well as regulars. Sen- ators Brandegee, Briggs, Catrom, Du Pont, Crane, Fall, Guggenheim, Lodwe, Penrose, Richardson, Root, Smith ef Michigan, Stephenson, Sutheriand and Wetmore, regulars, and Senators Clapp, Kenyon and LaFollette, pro- grossives, were absent and unpaired. The biil 15 the firat of the session's series of house tarlff bills to be voted upon by the senate. It reached the senate Junuary 30, more Lhan two months being given to its considera~ tion by the committes on finances. The chemical tariff revision bill was made the unfinished business on mo- tion of Bénator Simmons. GENERAL BOOTH MAY BE TOTALLY BLIND Surgeons Have Little Hope of Saving His Sight. London, May 30—That Gen. Will- fam Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, who recently underwent an op- eration for the remm‘-fil o s catarast from his left eye, will henc totally blind, is the opinion reached by the doctors after a consultation this afternoon. An official bulletin issued by the surgeons says: “It 1s now evident that there is Mt tle hope of the preservation of Gem~ eral Booth's sight.” The veteran's disappointment is ail the deeper because the dootors at first were 50 positive as to the success of the operation. General Booth's spirits, however, are fairly well matntained, and the general condition of his heaith good, He is elghty-taree years of ge. A NEW HAVEN MERCHANT ENDS LIFE WITH BULLET, Julive J. Pallman Shoots Himself in His Brother's Garage. New Haven, Conn., May 30—Julius J. Pallman, who cmw&:’d:l“m and notions store at Cl committed sulcide in the antomobilé rage owned hy his brother, Dr. g“heoflon D. Paliman, at 420 Winthrop avenue, this afternoon. He shot him- salf {n the temple with a .38 calfbre re- vifiver, and death was probably in- stantaneous. Husiness (roubles which caused him mueh worry during the past faw weeks led him to end his life, it is balleved. He was unmarried, Another brother, 6, M, Paliman, in the present clerk of the eity court. STRATFORD AUTOMOBILE RUNS DOWN BICYCLISY, Latter So Badly Injured at B That He May Die. Bridgepert, Conn, May 10 —An au- tomeblle ewned by Mrew, 0. J. Stafferd of Btratford and driven by R, J, M: Bride, who says he s her nephew siruck an nnidentified Ital whe was riding g bicyele at the corner of Ma 2n v streets this afterneon ani iafured him 80 badly thet he may d He was removed to St, Vincent's hos- mwm it was found thet he iw 8t g from concussion of the brain ulu fraotured skull, vide was arrested apd later r ! under bends of 3500. Aesommts differ as to the speed at whieh the an- tomebile was geing, WAITERS STRIKE AT A NEW HAVEN CAPE, Sixteen Quit Work Just Before Supper Hour Last Night, W Haven, Coun., May 30 —Sixteen i3 ut Heublel'y sale went on Just Mm ¢ 1o "‘:;‘Sgsfi. A