Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 14, 1912, Page 1

k- VOL. LIV.—NO. 196 ’ K NORWICH, OilN., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1912 The Bulletin’s’ Circulation In Norwich is Doubie That M}MM BAIN TEN MILES BY HARD FIGHTING “Reds” Defeated Defending Army In Spectacular Battle of Great Ring Hilf » -_——— SOLDIER DROWNED IS FIRST FATALITY IN WAR Taken With Cramps When He Went to Help of Another in the Water—Aerial Scout Wins Special Mention—Con- - necticut and Maine Regiments in Thick of the Fight— . Latter Turned the Tide ?f Battle—Real Fight Friday. — Manoeuvfes Headquarters, Stratford, Conn., Aug. 13—The advance of the Red enemy against New York was pushed forward today nearly ten miles after jhard and spectacular fighting. The Ifne of the Blues had been forced back towards its base at Danbury. The inteffion of General Frederick A. Smith, the commander of the Red army, to take the metropolis by rear attack was disclosed by creating a diversion at the north, bringing on the battle of Great Ring Hill. He found little opposition in placing his Mas- sachusetts brigade of infantry across the Housatonic river at Derby and sending it into bivouac at Long Hill, Huntington, where he can use it against the First New Jersey brigade of the Blues, which was last heard from near there. Can Use Their Pontoons. He left the First New York brigade of infantry still in Orange, support- ed by the Twenty-Second New York engineers. The air line distance from the Massachusetts troops is about four miles with the river between, but if General W. A. Pew, Jr., of the Massa- chusetts brigade is hard pressed the engineers cen put the New Yorkers across with their pontoons or they can meke a forced march. The next defensive move of General Mills is awalted with keen interest by the non-combatants. The Reds are ex- pected to push on and a decisive battle may soon be fought. They are mass- ing for the encounter as today's bat- tle has made it possible for General Smith to make a juncture of all his forces along the west bank of the Housatonic. % Blues Massing Artillery. The hopes of the Blues rest in Gen- eral Mills' concentration. Today he brought his Second New York brigade from Naugatuck Junction under cover of Colonel James Parker’s provisional cavalry brigade, and he is presumed to be massing his artillery in the hills to the west, over which the Reds must, go to reach the Hudson river. The Red army has not disclosed its weight of fleld guns. Tomorrow all artillery can be brought into action } if needed, as heretofore it has been non-combatant for the instructional y period. Aerial Scout Proves His Value. A great feature of the day was the ) aerial scouting of Lieutenant Foulols who mapped out the location of the forces while going iffo battle, their formatiops, their defensive works and the wagon trains along the highways, retirning quickly to make his re- port. The significance of this was ) mentioned in General Bliss’ report of the day. Two machines were slightly injured in landing from flights. Big Battle Begins Friday. On Friday, which will be the first day of the big battle, ‘Wood, chief of the general staff, will , come from Washington to witness the ¢ fghting. Governor Dix of New York has returned home. Great For the Spectators. The fight today around Great Ring . Hill developed, as do few manoeuvre battles between the militia and regu- lar troops, into the prettiest engage-| ments imaginable from the stgndpoint of spectators, hundreds of whom view- ed the fight from tops of walls, porches, and tonneaus. Ploture two long lines of the oppos- ing armies, streiching over country fields for nearly a mile—the Red in- wvading foe prone upon their stomachs , in the concealing grass or behind the stone walls; the Blue defenders find- ing security behind the high stone wall , at the cross roads; imagine a steady fire spitting from the stone walls, with the Reds coming back with heavy fire in Wke manner: umpires and com- ) manding officers of both sides gallop- ing up and down behind the lines, and General Bliss and staff just behind the extreme left wing of the Reds; con- Jure all this and you have an idea of the pioturesque and stirring spec- tacle a moment after the two armies Reds Crossed Zoar Bridge. Over the winding Zoar bridge, be- tween the lower Berkshires and along ) the bank of the mirror-like Housa- tonic, the Red army had moved . premptly at § in the morning and ! crossed Zoar bridge. The Blue defenders, kmowing of the , strength of the Reds at a northern point, also set out to take this gtruc- ture, but the Reds had the shorter distance and the Blues were not within four miles of the bridge when the clash cams. 5 Connecticut Regiments in Action. A company of cavalry from the fight_ ing Tenth, acting as an advance guarg of the Reds, had run into the advance of the Blues and scampered back to the Hne with the warning. The Con- nectlout regiments, First and Second, under Colonel Cowles, were in front of the Red army, and it took them only a Jiffy to whip across the fleld into a line of battle, the First regi- ment going to the right of the Zoar road and the Second to the left. The Blue commander, Colonel Kirby, sent the First Vermont to the left wing, and the Fifth United States as the right wing. Tried a Flank Move. Colonel Kirby, after drawing out the Red fire, saw that It was weaMest toward .the left flank and directed his forces toward IBAY point, bringing up .two troops of Favairf fo_ ald in the “e% - attempt to turn the fleld wing of the . Reds. Between the two armies at the g;‘s‘trem end of the position ococupled = “hy each, rose Great Ring hill, crested 4 a red farmhouse, which mads the oonaplsuous, To the trained ‘wye of the almy strategist this was the to the situation, Whichever side the il would win the day, for 1ts helghts It could ‘mow down enemy Wi a murderous fire from behind stome walls and other points of At first lis capture by {he Blues neemed n, Red Roinforcements Needed, “Where are the Rod reinforce- dates Major General | % ments?’ asked General Blss impa- tiently of an aide. began the aide. this moment?” repeated the general. ~ Arrived Just in Time. ‘I do not, sir,” seen. off the Blues at will. exchange of shots ' was steady and strong to give all the real- ‘back thrusts, as they stubbornly with- drew, defeated. Blues Preparing for Today. ‘While the battle was going on, Gen- Fourteenth, Twenty-third and Twen- ty-seventh New York, quietly camp at Naugatuck Junction, cross- ing the Washington bridge and burn- outskirts. Colonel Parker, provisional brigade of cavalry at Mil- and then southwest along the rail- road, going into camp late in the aft- ernoon north of East Bridgeport. Both movements were ward tomorrow. Welcomed . the Hose. ( commands quite severe and in pass- storekeepers found amusement men, much to their satisfaction. In the official report of General “Partioularly gratifying concerned Was to make a report of the of their wagon trains, of ubout‘flfleen miles.” SOLDIER DROWNED. Private Oliver H. Mass. Signal Cramps. Corps setts signal corps of Dorch noon. part of the war manosuvres. shouted for help. cramps. Jones in time. brought to a local undertaking estab- lishment. Near Riot in Derby. infantry, a fight with James Lombardi, Lombardi, it is_alleged ders, after the latier him. ers' companions shouted dago!” no trouble. ARMY AVIATORS GIVE UP. Hydroaeroplane Dropped Into Plym- outh Bay and Was Damaged. Plymouth, Mass., Aug. their hdyro-aeroplane somewhat dam- aged by an accident today, Lieuten- ants Kirtland and Arnold of the Unit- ed 200-mile to the arroy flight from necticut. The aviators went train to Bridgeport, Conn., the day to participate in the war ma- neuvers. The hydro-aeroplane was shipped back to Marblehead. The aviators left Marblehead yes- terday in an attempt to fly to Con- necticut, but engine trouble necessi- tated their landing in Duxbury. flight early today. only a few miles this morning, when, in attempting to make a turn, Plymouth bay, and other parts were damaged, Bteamship Arrivals, At Now York; Aug. 18, Iinland, from Antwerp; Krenprinz Wilhelm, from Bromen, Bteamer Ivernia, Naples for New New York, 716 miley east of Sandy Hook at 11 a, m, Dock 450 p, m., - Thursday, Al Gibraltar; Aug, 18, Saxonia, from New Yo, At Prieste: Aug. 16, Kdiser Franz Joseph 1, from New York, At Liverpeel: Aug, 13, Lusitania, from New York, The well-known (ricolor ef Franee from (ho revelutlon ef 1762 bs “It is reported that they left—" “Do you know where they are at and as the sharp interview closed the tops of the hats of the Second Maine troops, the much needed Red reinforcements, were to be A moment later, the Maine ri- flemen were sweeping up the hill,, tak- ing cover as they found it and picking The Blues, tak- en by surprise, peppered away, and the sufficiently ism of actual war. The Blues, driven back, made a few tries at the center of the Red line in retreat, but only eral Mills was changing his forces to the south. General Eddy, with the left ing it behind him, marched through Bridgeport to a polnt on the western with ‘the ford, make a roundabout march north . unopposed and were made in preparation for a hot.battle with the Reds to the morth- Extreme heat made the hikes of the ing through Stratford and Bridgeport in turming the hose on the overheated Particularly Commends Air Squadren. Biiss, on the operations today, he says in part: those the operation of the aviation squadron. This squadron was sent out from general headquarters to engagement. This they accomplished, for they were able to ascertain and locate on the map the advance of the two forces, the deployment and location of their lines, the positions of the reserve and the locatior and direction of the march This informa- tion was Teceived at general head- quarters about twenty minutes after the conclusion of the engagement near Berkshire, a distance on an air line Jones of Second Taken with Derby, Conn., Aug. 13.—Private Oli-. ver H. Jones of the Second Massachu- er, Mass. was drowned in the Housafonic river about two miles below here this after- Members of the corps were stringing a wire across the river, as a One of the men was seized with cramps and Jones plunged into the water and he, too, was seized with Soldiers rescued Jones’ com- panion, but were not able to reach His body was recov- ered tonight by a local policeman and Derby, Conn., Aug. 13.—There was a near riot here tonight between a crowd | of several hundreq persons and some members of the Ninth Massachusetts Herbert Saunders, a mem- | ber of Company C, became engaged in in the street, and a crowd quickly gathered. struck Saun- had provoked | Both .were placed under arrest, and while the officers were taking the men to the station, several.of Saund- “Lynch the The police haq the situation well in hand, however, and there was Both were later released. 13.—With ed States army abandoned the propos- Marhlehead aviation fields on the banks of the Housatonic river in Con- by during In a light air the officers resumed their They had gone the machine began to descend and the aviators volplaned to the surface of The machine landed in shallow water near the shore, The propeller and a pontoon were broken, Cabled Paragraphs Moroccan Abdicator .at Gibraltar. Gibraltar, Aug. 13—Mulai Hafid, ex- sultan of Morocco, who definitely adbi- cated in favor of his brother Mulai Youssef vesterday, arrived here today with a large harem and suite on his ‘way to France. Bulgarians Demand War. . London, Aug. 13.—The declaration of war by Bulgaria against Turkey was demanded at a mass meeting attend- ed by 20,000 people in Sofia today, ac- cording to a news agencsy despatch from that eity. Politictans of all par- ties made speeches in support of the demand. Slight Damage to Corsican. Liverpool, Aug. 13.—The Allan line today received a communication from the captain of the steamer Corsican, which struck an iceberg yesterday aft- ernoon off Belle Isle near Newfound- land, stafing that the vessel was pro- ceeding toward Liverpool “all right.” It also stated that she had suffered finly slight damage above the water ne, Plotted to Assassinate Kitchener. Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 13.—The trial of three youths who were arrested on July 2 for being concerned in a plot to assassinate Viscount Kitchener, the British agent and consul general in Egypt, took place today and. resulted in all of them being found guilty. One was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor while the other two were sent to pris- on for 15 years without hard labor. IN EIGHT MONTHS BECKER DEPOSITED $58,000. Startling Disclosures Made When Clearing House Committes Aids Whitman. . New York, Aug. 18, —Powerful bank- ing interests, acting through the clear- ing house committee, came to the aid of District Attorney ‘Whitman today in his efforts to lay bare the alleged cor- rupt alllance between the police and the gambling fraternity, founded on graft and blackmail. A virtual com- mand was given by the committee to- day to all banks in the clearing house to furnish the distriet attorney with a record of deposits ¥ may have re- ceived from any of the high police of- ficials whom the district attorney sus- pects of having been a collector of blackmail from the disorderly ele- Tnents of the city. As a result records showing _that within the last eight months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, charged with the murder of Herman Rosenthal and- accused of gambling graft, has made bank deposits of $58,845 in his own name or that of his wife, were Placed in the hands of the pubMc pros- ecutor, 2 A Veritable Golden Stream. These deposits, the records show, were first made in November, 1911, shortly after Becker became head of the strong arm squad of gambling raiders, and continued all during the time that Jack Rose says he was col- lecting graft for Becker,and until after his arrest, The table of deposits as presented to the distriot attorney was as follows: 2 Corn Exchange bank, Nowv, 21, 1911, to Aug. 1, 1912..........329,815 Corn Exchange bank (branch), May, 1912 Corn Exchange bank (branch), July, 1912 Bmpire Savings ban, April, 1912, West Side Savings, May, 1913.. Lincoln Trust Cg, April, 1912.. Totals covseivee +.$58,845 All on Salary of $2,260. The district attorney has been prom- ised records of Becker's deposits in four other banks which did not have time to goover their accouits today, and he has also discovered that Beck- er has an unknown amount of stocks, bonds and other securities locked up in two separate safe depasit vaults. That the total value of the police lieu~ tenant’s assets will be found to ap- proximate $200,000 would be no sur- prise to the district attorney. Becker's salary as a police official | was only $2,250 a year. PHILADELPHIA POLICE MAKE HAUL OF WHITE SLAVERS 10,900 3,600 3,000 1,500 More Than Eighty Secured—Every Man Taken in Raid to Be Pho- tographed. Philadelphia, Aug. 13.—Police offi- cials announced today that in raids conducted during last night and early today more than eighty men who live off the proceeds brought in by women \of the Tenderloin were arrested and I'will be heid for trial on various | charges. The head of the local “v ° | squad” said that every man taken in | the raids will be photographed and an j effort will bé made to free the city -of this ylass of men. The ralds were among the most | spectaculay conducted in the Tender- loin in a long time, the main object | being to get the men. More than two hundred men and women were ar- rested. NOT. PROMISING OFFICES, Colonel Roosevelt Denies He is Mak- ing That Bid for Support. Oyster 'Bay, N. Y, .Aug. 13.—Prom- ises of offices are not being made by Colonel Roosevelt in return for sup- port’ in his campaign, he said tondght. “I have not promised any office to a single human,” he declared. ‘“More than that, I have not spoken to anyone on such a subject, and no one has even indirectly brought up the subject with me. T fyou can make that state- ment any stronger, you have my per- mission to do so.” The colonel's declaration was the re- sult of a despatch from Omaha say- ing that, to win the support of Gov- ernor Aldrich of Nebraska, he had promised the governor a federal judge- ship In the event of his election. Col- onel Roosevelt said he had never heard of this until he saw the despatch in the newspapers. PRESIDENT REMOVES S8AN JUAN POSTMASTER W. K. Landis Is Displaced on Charges of Neglect of Duty. Washington, Aug, 13—President Taft has removed from office W, H, Tan- die, pestmaster at San Jusn, Perts Rico, and has neminated R, H, Tadd of Forto Hico in his place, Charges reached the White house that Landis was neglecting his duties, - Governer en Vacatien, New Haven, Conn, Aug, 18.4Gov- erner Simeon H, Baldwin left teday for a vacation {o be speat in Vermont, ‘A leiter apemer mail seaie, and a six-inch rule have been combimed in 2 handy desk Implement, POy Federal Officers ‘Hide Schepps HOT SPRINGS POLICE TURNED HIM OVER TO THEM. WONT TELL WHERE —_— Whitman's Men Expected to Arrive in Arkansas Today—Rumors of Com- plications' with New York Police. / e Hot Springs, Ark, Aug. 13.—Sam Schepps, heid here as a material wit- ness in the Rosenthal murder case, has been hid by federal officers to whom he was given into custody this evening. After holding him three days, the time limit of the law, the police turned him over to Fred Johnson, postmaster and deputy United States marshal, and Johnson declines to say where Schepps has been taken. Offi- cers here are anxious to turn Schepps over to representatives of the New York distriot attorney’s office, but ow.- ing to the pecullar status of the case they fear possession of him might be obtained through court technicalities by other officers. 2 Whitman’s Men Did Not Arrive. Hot Springs, Ark.,, Aug. 13.—Repre- sentatives of Disti Attorney Whit- man of New York failed to arrive here tonight to take in custody Sam Schepps, held by the Hot Springs olice as a material witness in the senthal murder case. If figen's of the New York police department ar- rived.during the day, they are keeping J. R. Rubin, assistant district attorney, telegraphed the Hot under cover. Springs police from Terre Haute, Ind., that he would arrive tomorrow. Documents Have Disappeared. Mention in a Hot Springs newspaper today of a rumor that a New York detective sent by Deputy Commission- er Dougherty has been here all day and is shadowing Schepps ang Police | Captain Howell, created some interest. | Police Chief Leonard expressed the bellef that if such a representative is here, he may have obtained certain letters and telegrams that have dis- appeared from flles in the city hall These include telegrams from Whit- man and other correspondence bear- 1 directly on the Schepps. The papers in question are the only authority for holding Schepps specifically for the New York district attorney, and failure to he able to pro- duce them if called upon in court. it is feared, might cause the delivery of Schepps to the New York police, Courses Open. If Bchepps was demanded of the Hot Springs police by New York po- lieemen, to the former, demand that requisi- tion be shown, or, If it be produded, to fight delivery through and in the event of any legal move on the part of the New York police the no fear of the outcome once the district Hot Springs authorities express attorney’s ‘men are on the ground. 8chepps Laughed at Reports. Schepps laughed when told that Mrs. Schepps, accerding to today's des- paiches, expressed relief at his cap- ture, statement concerning Mrs, opinions. “She’s the finest woman in the world and very clever,” was all he would say. Schepps is allowed what the Hot Springs police term “very reasonable liberty,” and he expresses his opinion of their ®eatment of him in the high- est terms. It was after Schepps had read sev- eral accountswf his case in as many | newspapers that he decided to give out | what he termeq the true status of his | He laughed at the report ‘that he was| affairs to the Associated Press. broke and mentioned that he had told his friends to cease wiring him money as he had plenty of it at present. He also said he did not believe his wife sa!d today that his arrest would do him good. NEW JAPANESE EMPEROR KEEPS OLD MEN Japanese Statesmen Asked to Con- tinue to Serve the Throne, Tokio, Japan, Aug. 13.—Emperor Yo- shihito today issued an edlct address- ed to Prince Sadanaru Fushimi, Prince Takehito Arisugawa, both elder states- men, and Premier Salonji, expressing his gratitude for their services to the late Emperor Mutsuhito, and request- ing the continuance of their devotion to himself and the Japanese nation. Prince Katsura, ex-premier, was ap- pointed today lorq keeper of the privy seal and lord chamberlain, in succes- sion to Prince Saneori Tokudaiil, who resigned from the office. TGN 1o POSTOFFICE APPROPRIATION Bill Passed the Senate After a Sharp Fight. Washington. Aug. 13.—The annnal postoffice ‘appropriation bill passed the senate tonight, at the end of two days' sharp fighting over provisions relating to parcels post, good roads improvement and the affiliation of postal employes with labor organiza- tions. As it goes back to the house, it contains some restrictions upon the right of postal employes to join out- slde organizations and an entirely new system of parcels post, based on the “zone plan” with varying rates for varying distances. z After a fight involving the right of government employes to , strike, the senate today approved this In part, but provided that employes should not join an organization “which im- poses an obligation or duty to strike or to assist in a strike against the United States.” . Under the terms of the bil as it passed both houses employes have the right to appeal to confress for re- dress of grievances. The Bouren-Hristow parcels-post system, which the senate substituted for the flat rate of 12 cents per pound fixed by the hotise on patlages, pro- vides for elght gones ranging from 50 fo more than 1800 miley and a grad uated rats ranging from five to twelve eents per pound, The limit of welght i3 eleven poundls, ‘A rate of five cents for the Arst aRd oRe cent tor each ad- fitignal prund is previded for rural vhitie and ity delivery, Instead of allowing evertime pay for the serviee of earriers and clerks in citl¥, the senate adopted Senator Bryan's amendment that when an em- pl:‘gs ‘Werks everiime he sheuld be ve- B: n “compensatory stime” within alx days, % 3 detentjon of two courses would be open the courts. Meantime, it 1§ pointed out, Whitman's men are expected to arrive tomorrow but declined to authorize any Schepp's Wool Bill Over President’s Veto PASSEND WHEN 21 REPUBLICANS WENT OVER TO DEMOCRATS. IN THE HOUSE TUESDAY Vote Was 174 to 80—First Tariff Measure Known Ever Passed Washington, Aug. 13.—By the nar- row margin of five votes the house today passed the wool tariff revision bill over President Taft's veto. The vote, 174 to 80, was made possible only by the defection of twenty-one republicans who voted with the dem- ocrats. The announcement of demo- cratic success created a wild scene in the house and amid great confusion the republican leaders protested that Speaker Clark must count as voting ten members who answered “Present” to thelr names, a ruling which would have defeated the democratic pro- gramme by Overcoming the five-vote margin and making impossible the re- cording of the necessary two-thirds vote of the house. This the speaker declined to do, Disagreed on Sugar Bill. Less than an hour after the wool hill had been repassed in the house, the conferees on the sugar tariff bill met and disagreed. They determined to report to the house and senate that it had been found impossible to reach a compromise between the Underwood and Lodge-Bristow bills. This action is expected to mark the end of sugar tariff consideration In the present ses- sion, and the excise tax bill, which was framed to make up revenues that would have been lost by the re- duction of the sugar tariff, also prob- ably will remain in conference when congress adjourns. ‘While democratic and progressive leaders of the senate do not believe the wool bill can be passed in that body over the president's veto, they will continue the demand for the ac- tion on the cotton tariff measure. Burprised Republican Leaders. The vote on the wool bill came as a surprise to the republican leaders of the house. When they discovered that defection from their ranks was to be expected it was too late to prevent it. As a result the following repub- licans went over to the democratic camp and with their votes made vic- tory possible for the majority: Rep- resentatives Akin, New York; Ander- | son, Davls, Lindbergh, Miller, Steener- son and Btevens, Minnesota; Anthony, Rees ang Young, Kansas; Cooper and Morse, Wisconsin; Haugen and Woods, lowa; Heigesen, North Dakota; Kent, Californin; Lafferty, Oregon; LaFol- lette and Warburton, Washington; Norris and Sloan, Nebraska, Not in the memory of the oldest | member of the house has a tariff measure, ever been. passed over the president’s veto by the Jower branch of congress. Neither Speaker Clark nor Majority Leader Underwood could recollect such an occurrence, Democrats Wildly Enthusiastic. . When Speaker Clark announced the vote and declared the bill again had been passed “the president's veto to the contrary notwithstanding,” there was a wild outburst of applause from the democratic side. The tumult was increased by the demands of a half- dozen republicans that the ruling was unconstitutional. When semblance of order was restored Representative Gardner of Massachusetts declared that a two-thirds vote of the house was necessary and that the ten mem- bers voting “Present” should be counted, for they haq recorded theit presence in the house. Representa- tive Olmsted of Pennsylvania, one of the foremost parliamentarians in con- gress, supported the contention, | Ruling by Speaker. “Those ten members who voted | “Present,’ ruled the speaker, after |a lengthy examination of precedents, “are recognized as being present only to constitute a quorum. The consti- tution, as interpreted in the past, ‘clearly provides that all decisions must rest on a yea and nay vote.” Representative Fitzgerald of New York, democrat, supported Mr. Olm- sted and Mr. Gardner in their con- tentions, while Minority Leader Mann supported the speaker's position. The speaker, when the debate broke out with renewed vigor, put a damper on it. Talking No Use. “You may talk all you want” he | said, “but the chair has no intention | now’ or later of changing its ruling.” | Shortly before the vote was taken Mi- | nority Leader Mann appealed to his | followers to stand by the republican | party and protective tariff principles. ADVISER TO NEW CHINESE REPUBLIC W. W. Rockhill, Formerly Minister to Pekin, Considering Offer. | Washington, Aug. 13.—Unofficially it {& known here that overtures have been going on between President Yuan Shi Kal and W. W. Rockhill, the American minister to Turkey, looking to the | appointment of the latter as adviser to | the new Chinese republic. These have not progressed ‘ar enough to warrant Mr. Rockhlll's resignation, but it is known he is gi. ing to the offer seri- | ous consideration. Mr. Rockhill is regarded as being | thoroughly conversant with Chinese | governmental methods and the Chi- | nese temperament. In addition to a service of three years as minister in Peking, follow- ing the Boxer uprising, Mr. Ro®khill, as secretary to the American legation at Peking about a decade before, had made extensive explorations of the in- terfor of the country, even penetrais ing Thibet as a piomeer, which adven- ture formed the basis of what is re- ]| garded as a textbook on that little known corner of the world. If Mr. Rockhill does not accept the Chinese offer, it i3 expected that some European statesman will be appointed. TRAIN'S TRAIL OF DEATH. N. Y. Central's No. 16 Killed Four Men Running from Chicago. Matteawan, N, Y, Aug, 18, —Salva- tore Valk, un Iiallan, was Instantly kiiled New York Central passenger train Neo, 18 last night near here, At ihe Imquesi today the engineer festi- fled that Valk was the fourth man te be killed .after (he {rain left Chicago, Missouri's Prize Mule Burned. Trenten, Me., Aug. 13.—The largest vondensed Telegrams Harrison Ingram died in Hoopes- town, Ill, aged 100 years. The Mercury Fell 25 Degrees in 20 x:qtnnltl.eu at Tampa, Fla, during a jual Mulai Hafid's Resignation as sultan of Morocco was accepted by the French government. Three More Earthquakes Occurred at and around Constantinople and many wore people were killed. Prince Henry of Russia was chosen by ‘the kaiser to represent him at the funeral of the late mikado. X Elizabeth Lebar, 18 Years Old, a balloonist, fell in Lake Michigan near Muskegon, Mich., and was drowned. . The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conven- tion of the American Poultry associa- tion 18 in session at Nashville, Tenn. James A. Mersey, formerly prominent in the wholesale dry goods trade in flew York, died at his home in Brook- yn. The Senate Confirmed the uomina- tion of George M. Morton of Massa- chusetts to be a United States district judge. The United Stat Training Ship Newport arrived at Plymouth, Eng- land, from Sweden. All on board are well. 5 Four Armed Men Boarded a West- ern avenue street car in Chicago and robbed the conductor and several pas- sengers. The Trade of Taxidermists is boom- ing; political clubs are eager to se- cure bull moose heads for decorative purposes. The Plant of the Segura Sugar com- pany of New Iberia, La., was destroy- ed by fire with a loss of $500,000, part- 1y covered by insurance. Headquarters for the Republican na- tional campaign were opened in Chi- . The democrats and progressives will follow suit. Mrs. M. .McCoy, mother of Bessie McCoy, the dancer, is driving the blacksnakes from New ‘Rochelle, N. Y. She has killed 28 this year, Seven Murderers Were Put to Death in the same electric chair at Sing Sing. The time was one hour and 1§ min- utes, a world's record, J. F. Guthrie, the Chicago teacher- ‘burgiar, attempted to end his life in his cell by setting fire to his cclothes, Ht was badly: burned. Charles E. Windom, a banker of Sterlin, Ill, well known in Masonic circles, died of apoplexy on an excur- sion boat on his way to Chicago. The Cigar Factory of Milton S. Sters ner of Pleasant Hill, York, Pa, was wrecked by dynamite planted by un- known persons. The loss is $15,000. Several Haitians Were Arrested in Santo Domingo city, charged with plots again President Victoria's gov- ernment. They will probably be ex- pelled. W B. Killingbeck, secretary of the socialist party in New Jersey, declares that the party will participate in the primary elections in November. More Than 300 Mornion Men, follow tng their families, arrived at Bl Paso from Mexico, leaving all their posses- slons behind in the hands of the reb- els. James Whitcomh Riley deposited a check for $50,000 tn favor of Edmund H. Bitel, his nephew, who was married three days ago. All poets could not do this. The Taft Managers in Kansas, after a, conference, decided to contest the nomination of the ecight Roos velt electors chosen in the primary last Tuesday. Rear Admiral Oscar F. Stanton, U 8. N, retired, has been selected by President Taft as naval attache to the special embassy to the Japanese em- perors’ funeral. The State Department has again asked the Cuban government to pay $500,000 remaining on the Reflly con- tract for the water works plant and sanitation of Cienfuegos. Postmaster General Hitchcock de- clares the department favors allowing employes one day in seven for relaxa- tion, bpt could not show individual preferenge as to the time off. Commercial Conditions are hecom- ing alarming in China’s silk districts on account of the widespread aban- donment of silk apparel for western clothing since the revolution, Leon Guitterez, a Well Known an- archist, is dead and two policemen are wounded as a result of a riot in the Plazza In Los Angeles, when a gang of Mexicans stoned the police. The Battleship Delaware lost a tor- pedo worth $5,000 at manoeuvres. Div- ers found no trace of #t. When the anchor was weighed the missing tor- pedo was found in the prongs. Russell Bailey of Philadelphia, 12 days old, welghs two as fingers as smooth as toothpicks and arms that will go through & woman's ring. The mother is 16 years old. Large Shipments of Arms and, am- munition are arriving in Peking' from Europe. As Prince Ching has recent- ly arrived in the capital, President Yuan-Shi-Kal fears an attempt o re- store the emperor. A Peculiar Will Written on four sheets of paver with the names of two witnesses, but no attestation clause, was probated in New York. It was de- clared valid because the intention of the testatrix was apparent. Rudolf Katz, Socialist Candidate for congress from New Jersey, was releas- ed from jail in Paterson, N. J., where he has spent the last three months, Katz conducted his campaign from be- hind the bars. The Train Known @& the “Bankers' Express” train became derailed iu the “cut’ 'at b#th Btreet aud Park Ave- nue, New York, and the baggage car caught fire. No one was injured. The dumage (o the baggage car was slight Frank Kenyon Shot His Wife through the heart, whot his eighteen months old baby and then killed him- #elf- with a bullet from the same re- mule in Misseuri, weighing 2,080 Ibs., was burned. to death teday when fire destroyed a livery barn here, volver In a Pitisburgh hotel. Ken- yon, aceompanied by his wife and child, registered at the hotel Satur- day frem Turtle Creek, a suburb, PRICE_TWO CENTS "{’&fl_——'-fi_ Largest in Connee’ - * in Proportion to the City’s Population Georgia Mob Lynched Negro TOOK 16-YEAR-OLD MURD FROM THE DEPUTIES, TRIAL JUST FINISHED Overpowersd Court Houss Guarde— Jury Had Found Prisoner Guilty— Body Riddled With Bullets. Columbus, Ga., Aug. 13—FHolding up officials in the courthouse, a mob of about forty men here this afternoon took T. 8. Cotton, alias E. T. McEl- henny, a sixteen year old negro, on trial, and Iynched him just beyond the city limits. The negro was accused of killing Cedron Land, a white boy, near town, two months ago. Sentence of Three Ye Guards were overpowered In the courthouse a few minutes after Cot- ton had been sentenced to three years in prison. A jury had just brought in a verdict of “guilty of unlawful manslaughter.” The courthouse was packed during the trial today As Soon as court adjourned many of the officials left. When deputies started out with the prisoner on the way to the patl they were surrounded and dis. armed and held in the courthouse while a score or more of men teok the prisoner out to a street car. On reaching the negro quarter ,of town the passengers were ordered off the car, which then proceeded a few hun- dred yards. Then the negro was taken off and his body riddled with bullets. The body was left there. Land was found In a fleld. his face riddled with birdshot. He had trouble with the negro, who was soon arrested. lh is said Cotton partially confess- ed, Many of Mob Recognized. The members of the mob were mot masked and many of them were recog- nized. An inquest was held tonight and there will be an investigation of the lynching Wednesda; _— POPULISTS PUT FORTH BRAND NEW PLANK, Would Recognize Chiness Republis— Discuss the Money Question. St. Louis, Aug. 13—The eight dele- gates to the populist nationnl conmven- tion during nearly six hours’ argument tonight adopted a platform realrming the 1892 platform and addi A num- ber of new planks, one of :flnm fav- ors the recognition of the Chinese re- publie. The leading plank .discussed the money question at some length, “The quantitive theory of money as declared in our Omaha (1892) orm is now untversally conceded,” the pre- amble states. Issuance of money by the government direct to_the people is demanded. Ioans by the government to the people are also favored. Government ownership of the tele- graph and telephone systems and the parcels post are recommended, as well as the extension of free schools in the lines of manual and occupational train- ing; mecognition of the Chinese repub- lic, and old age pensions, CANNOT BRING MILK TO NEW HAVEN Board of Health Bars Twenty-ene Dealers. New Haven, Aug. 13.—The board of health at its meeting today voted to refuse twenty-one milk dealers from surrounding towns within a radius of twenty miles to bring milk into the city,. The action against the dealers wag taken because of unclean condi- tions in their barns, etc. This ac- tion means that the eity will have about 2,000 quarts of milk less a day than it has been in the habit of re- ceiving. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, Next Convention in Winnipsg—Cana- dians Will Have Candidate. Denver, Colo., Aug. 13—The su- preme lodge, Knights of Pythias to- day decided to hold the next conwen- tion in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1914, The selection of the convention eity practically completed the considera- tign of important business Notification was given the supreme lodge that the representatives fron the grand domains of Alberta, British Columbla, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec had decided unandmously to place Judge McArthur of Manitaba in nomination for the office of supreme vice-chancellor at the 1914 meeting. PORK BARREL POLICY. Secretary Meyer Waiting to See if That Governs the Demoocrats, ‘Washington, Aug. 13.—Secretary of the Navy Meyer, just returned to his duties from a protracted iliness, as- sailed the naval policy of the demo- crats of the house of rogrmlemvu in a statement madé public today. Whether the “pork barrel” ls mors important than the navy in the minds of the democrats, the secretary de- clares remains to be ascertained after another caucus of the democratic members to be held tomorrow. FATAL MINE EXPLOSION, Nineteen Men Lost in Alabama Workings After a Blast. | Abernant, Ala, Aug. 13— negro miners were instantly killed by explosion near here this morning at the Abernant Coal company's mine, Forty-six wiite men and eighteen negroes got safely out of the work- ings after the blast. Seventeen bod- ies had been recovered tomight, The explosion occurred in entry 28, about 100 feet from tHe surface, The majority of the workmen iymre en- gaged at a lower level which prevenf- ed greater life loss. \ Speeding Motor Boat Upset. Chicago, Aug. 18.—Travgling ol to fifty miles an hour, the motor u-}‘.-: Kitty Hawk of Detroit, Mich., over- turned in Lake Michigan this after- noon and sank. [ts driver und engl- ueer jurmped when the boat dived une der the water and were rescued, The* craft was compting in the event the water carnival. :. 4 Was Noted Shakespearean Scholar. Philadelphia, Aug. 18—Dr, Howard ‘gno-. ‘ge noted holar, ded from mt'hehhon.h 79 years,