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NORWICH, CONN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1912 V' PLURRLITY OF 5,909 e P -Knot Dreadnought. Portsmouth, - Eng., Sept. 4.—The most powerful battieship yet ordered is to be laid down here in November by the British admiralty. She is to be 700 feet in length/and is to displac> 30,000 tons. Honor Japan's Dead Emperor. Tokio, Sept. 4.—The entire foreign diplomatic corps paid their respects to- day at the bier of the late Emperor Mautsuhito, upon whose coffin they laid a silver wreath. They were previously recelved in audience by the Emperor Foshihito and the empress. OF FLETCHER IS ASSURED Vill Have a Majority of 63 in the Legislature on Ballot—Eleven of the Fourteen Counties Carried Train Attacked at Leon. Corinto, Nicaragua, Sept. 4—Rebeis today attacked a train in which the members of the Central American court of justice of Cartage, Costa Rica, were traveling near Leon, on the rallroad from Corinto to Managua. The train engineer was killed. Scientists on Live Issues. _Dundee, - Scotland, Sept. 4—The British assoctation for the advance- ment of sclence began its session here of devoting their dis- abstract and | empirical questions, the delegates will deal with great soclological and political issues which are of absorbing moment at tho present time. ESCAPED SLAYER SOUGHT ;N COUNTRY’S BIG CITIES Alleged Murderer of Two Men 'Who Made Escape-from the Tombs. be captured. ‘had that he would break out of jail and he did, even after his first atitempt to eaw his way out ered, He | COMPLIMENTED BY JUDGE. Thrashed Man Who Taunted Him of His Sén's Crime. it , Was plimented by Mmmndla Lev today for having thrashe d Russinslsi, ‘who taunted Czo! declaring iin was not gullty, Judge “Czolgosz ‘was taunted by Russinslsl and five companions -about his son’s rash act. In this case, the father Is not responsible for his son's sina. Czolgosz should have whipped the ‘whole bunch.” o e el R BLEASE-JONES PRIMARY FRAUDS Tillman Warng Against Unfairness to the Governor, Columbia, 8. C,, Sept, 4—The cratic executive co: of Carolina met here today to canvass the results of the recent primary, Charges of fraud filed by Judge Jones, Who was a candidats for the guberna-~ torial nomination, running against Gev, Blease, include specific allegations of ballot , A new element of in- terest was the statement of Senator Tillman, advising the committes against hasty action, Mr, Tillman warned the committes that if it should deelare Judge Jones the gubernatorial nominee and there was a suspieion of unfairness te Gov, Blease, then Blease weuld run as an independent In the general election, SOLDIERS KILLED BY FALL: FROM AIRSHIP demo- South 23 gek 5it i i & ] 2 i o5 £l Eg 3 { § g i ¢ § § g E 3 st at | Cause the bosses finally cencluded that his victory meant -their vietery, At Chicago the bosses knew that our vie- Fie fpe s her::flcl;:lel of privilege will it they have 22 a new lease of lifs, It means precisely | Clung to Ropes and Were Carried up in a High Wind. Buda Pesth, Sept. 4—Three soldiers were instantly killed today from a fall from an airship which was engaged in military maneuvers. The airship was being prepared for an ascent and was held down by more than 100 soldiers. A heavy wind prevailed at the time, and a sudden gust of wind carried the airship away. It rose rapldly and all the men released the ropes but three. They held on until exhausted and fell one after the other. DEMOCRATS ENCOURAGED. Decision Reached to Redouble Their Efforts in Maine. may seem to o have criticised 1 have made, the er, 1 have made in policy _with is that 1 got 160_encourage. it. indiseretion of and not an indiscretion of my closest Intention 18 to Colonel Roosevelt sald he found ev- erywhere among reactfonary republi- ans a growing purpose to support Mr. Wilson on the theory that President Taft was beaten already and that the only hope of preserving the old ps was to support the democratic tic and defeat the progressives. of “avery . kind, by the W.m or any- , and 18 ed to the place can attain ihe objects he has PROGRESSIVES SWEEP STATE. Petition Necessary to Get Taft Elec- tors in California. San Francisco, Cal, Sept. 4—Re- turns today from yesterday's primary election, made it piain that by petition only can Taft electors find place on the republican ticket, at the presi- dential election this fall. The decisive manner 4f the immigrants are to o e < in - unrestricted a to at the ports whers jy enter and there to compete in an plled labor mhrket, there is "fo be unhappiness, there is go- deterioration, there is going hing’ that will be detri- o the community as well as e to the immigrant. And, it s to the interest of the that the government itself L Of at any rate encou talities. which wiil wery thing. Multiplying of entry for that purpose, ple, will ease and facilitate the process of distribution, New York, Sept. 4—After a confer- ence today between acting Chairman McAdoo of the democratic national committee and Senators Pomerene of Ohio and O'Gorman of New York, and Representative Burleson of Texas, at which the result in Vermont was thor- oughly discussed, it was decided to bend every effort to strengthen the democratic campaign In Maine up to the last moment before next Monday's election. With that end In view, Senator O'Gorman and Representative Burle- son left tonight for a speaking tour in Maine. Representative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania started for Maine yesterday At the close of the conference act- in which Roosevelt and Johnson swept the state for the second time this year made it certain that the nominating conven- flon to be held in Sacramento this month would return electors pledged to Roosevelt, as the republican electors of Californi The general primary law provldes, however, that any candidate for office may find place on the ballot by peti- tlon if he obtains signatures const- tuting a stated percentage of the total vote, In the case of presidential elec- tors, the attorney general recently gaye an opinion that their petitions hear the slgnatures of three per cent, neithe total vote cast throughout the d acceptable to those who ing Chalrman’ McAdoo gave out a VELT AT DES MOINES. g 10 re; st pmaral olaction, statement n which he expressed grai- Sie Bladtion Wil Mean En- e {fication at the result In Vermont. SBteamers Reported by Wi _ thronsment of Bosses. Capa Raca, N, F., Sept. 4—Steamer| Bixty Fatalities in Mine Disaster, 3 Cameronla, Hasgow for New York, in| féms, France, Sept, 4—It is-offl ~Upon ; : um:;n I e o e | wireless commuication with Marconi | clally snnounced (oday that the total e nre . mraduiily. centered, | station hers when 1,278 milos cust of | denths from the exploalon of gas damp lonel Ronsevelt told the state pro- | Sandy Hook, -at W5 p. m, Dock 830 fyestorday In (he Clarence pit, nesr a, m., Sunday, Steamer Laurentlc, Braay, number 60. Thews include sev- Ldverpool for e convention of lowa here {o- ot communication He asserted that -the reaction- arfes of h:!h pariles were now turn- Montreal, In wireless g ing to the democratic candidate, Col. with Marcon! station here when 26 onel Roosevelt aiso called for speedy | miles northeast at 7.1 p p eral miners who dled after being brought te the surface, Most of the bodies were so mangied as to be un- recognizable, Remained in His Apartments Prac-|Engineer Puts Him Out of Commis- tically All Day—Will Go to New York | sion With Brass Torch—May Die of Teday, However, as Planned. Injury—Most of Booty Recovered. ‘Washington, \Sept. 4—Though suf- gout, not_to had | who is Chicago, 4— forced dows on. The explosion was the third within .Chw‘::klnolunln‘flddyfintfiw-ln 180, | ankle and &|dit held up decided mTfi :?wo’ul “to New York tomorrow to | twelve miles from here, looted the mail the car, robbed the passe: Pullmans and a club car, and then to leap out of second story win- ‘to death GREAT SLIDES AT CULEBRA, Will Delay Werk on Big Panama Cut Two Months. Colon, earth slides at Sept. 4—Two great Culebra . cut, one of 900,000 cubic yards and the other of a third of that amount, have filled sec- tions of the big canal, partly buried 1 big steam shovel and other machinery and threaten the destruction of the Yo! building. Men's Christian association club The latter, which is two stories high, hés moved 18 inches toward the cut, and engineers say it cannot from sliding in. be saved The commission has had warnings forbidding its use posted on the bullding. The whole hill upon structure is built, Culebra seems to be going down rapidl mission engineers say the lats will delay work on the cut feeks to two months., ‘which the Heights, Com- est slides from six NAVY FIRING TESTS. Old Texas “Basket Mast” Battered All to Pieces. Norfolk, Vi yesterday - attleships of lantic fleet upon a “basket the hull of Tangier sound, are sald to hs onstrated that the battle Sept. 4.—FPirin tests the At- mast” on the old San Marcos, in ave dem- masts of ships in the United States navy could not withstand the raking fire of ac- tual warfare. The fleet pass sea today in a brisk gale, le: hulk of the Marcos, formerly ed out to aving the the Tex- as, a battered and sunken wreck. A special board will report on the firing tests to the navy de; partment. The “basket mast” had been claimei to be practically indestructible in a heavy fire and far superior to the solig one formerly used. OBITUARY. Lafayette E. Pinke of Hai Hartford, Sept. 4.—Lafa; rtfa: yette E. Pinke, who was a former well knpwn stock broker in this eity, di home here tonight, aged 5. reputed at one- time to be W eral millions of dollars, but ed at” his He was orth sey- it is safa that he later 1ost most of his fortune in stocks, He had omfices in of large cities, 4 number Earliest Snowfall in 25 Carson City, Mont, Sept. fell in the mountains west of hers to- | Years. 4—Snow day, covering the range to a depth of several Inches, This s the enowfall in 25 years earifest | hlfihhhe Jos brass torch by Engineer May Not Come |Train Held Up To New London| By Lone Bandit TAFT SUFFERING FROM GOUT|MAIL CAR LOOTED AND PASSEN- AND SPRAINED ANKLE. 7 RESTED UP YESTERDAY | DESPERADO | leans, Sept. 4.—A oy the northbound d Nashville railroad jock tonight near Micheud, x5 Engineer Fl over A CHECI B —_— DOCTOR GIVES Hi GERS ROBBED. ‘was about to leave the tender HYSICIAN DISCOVERS BODY TO SCIENCE. in’s Circulation In: Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticutin Proportion to-the Gity's Po el e g Bk lone ban- express of ngers in five oors. Him. the head with a K FOR MEASLES de_ Experiments with a Monkey Which They Inoculated. Condensed Telegfims New Haven Schools Opeced with attendance of 25,000, F'r‘ 5 e CAPTAIN HAYES SEEM Senator Bourne of Oregon Wil support Roosevelt for the riresidency. A Fresh Outbreak of Cholera in the town of Cagliari, in-southern Sardinia, ‘Was reported yesterday. D\ W. J. MoGee, noted anthropolo- Bist, geologist, hydrologist and author, died at Washington yesterday from & cancerous growth. Seven Hundred of the 1862 Looms X in the Appleton cotton mill at Lowell, Mass., were idle yesterday because of 4 @ strike of 300 weavers. ' o T Bonuses Aggregating §70000 were hich He Was Forbi distributed vesterday to 3,100 employes o That in the mills of the Alexander Smith & Sons carpet company, Yonkers, The Altar in the San Bernade chap- o e Bt Majorca, Spain, was destroyed e land of by fire. New York, Sept. 4. es, -the demoted police inspector, | tained The Yalue of the Estats ot | o is to ko on irial mext Friday for | to emps died on April § last, amounts to $4,- b o e G L 086,175, § J. 0. Wright, chief drainage engi- | ed tonight, at Ji Doe l\wb T Deer of the state of Florida, who has | to mnn.l:-:: »!olhlcoc g&‘rnmymn. been in charge of the work of drain-'| who was In_secret conference oS e, Everglades, has tendered his | night with District Attorney a gnation. . ¥ {man, is known a to have given information, and it Is under- A Strike of Pi s “'“"},fi, fimh‘mgmm&lymur: stood . zn.umdywmcu_od. ided certain conditions in m ents generally, seems likely E':u of the district attorney to tfi"bo’% next labor disturbance in|are complied with. hia: N ' Hayes Sesks Immunity. Hayes, it becarie kn l ! sought a_conference with t At- iofmey, Whitmen st ieht, chiety lo find out wi er prose- Lol 0 pabetion. wih tha sead lon W 8! It Required a Caszerian ¢ Mr. Whitman franidy (01d Hayes P A DYl T G0 g which ters of Henry Ma: in Com.- | pro to present to the grand jury. bridse, Mass, Mother and children are | Hayew, It was learned pra doing well. s innocence, but begged the to withhold: presentation e trial William €. Murph a lecturer of na- ;'3;".1’ Teputation, is dying m An- of caraguan revoluti steamer which the rel near Corinto, g the evi- | an | Bluejackets from the A ican sup- | dence until his polic was n | 51y ahlp Giacier have recapbured fre | Plotell Haves stid e xpecien the ‘Ni ::’faf small | the “goat” of. the. police ¢ .8 nd Py ives of the Sixth Indi- ana fliml"c't"n':mh!&d :7»5;& e Dudiey Touhe s nal b b Colonel Roosevelt, .~ seized | but dlgtu: propose to be a ant vietim, No Raids Without Orders. Should an indictment be fotind fore the police trial is comp 1to, Charged ‘with the 880, of $80,000 worth of the’ postoffice at Cettinje, 23 i 55 & & » H ssgfi Unusual Bequest in the Will of Dr. ‘m of Washington. phia, Sept. 4—The will of two Montenegri) Bear " Whitman Warng ¥ 1t was for this reason, he bjected to resid Hayes was talking, it oo s g S 1 of Th MM The Constitutionality of the Law providing for the sterilization of ha! itusl criminals and those Ity of un- natural crimes was upheld by the su- preme court at Olympia, . a Vain A:‘mn In to save the life’ f unkett, Philadel of 7 years old George Fi PI — Dr. W. J. McGee, the distinguished | William Rollins, Jr, aged 14, was| y: Ty sclentist, ‘who disd in Washingion fo- | arowned n a iy pit wea. tha'boune. | AUTOMOBILE GODE : day, i d g: body, it ufimsmm to- | vard, st Everett Mass, yesterday. " OF ‘THE GOVEANMENT. - the Edarlon “Medlcal college of Phila- | Transportation Rates and resulati Bu' “When Abroad You | Twe e R R oata i s seeat &1 o Will Have o Pay Dty 2k Pposse: : Duty. B Rty Ub Bash i e mrr et el Brahiny Retr ! or Many after but death the gift in SPENCER WAS VI 5 and for the benefit of man- ‘bequest to Dr. Spitzka is un- doctor permission to remove their men have given for scientific pur- by Dr. McGee of entire body created much interest the medical profession here. 1SITED BY HIS WIFE. g Spends Two Hours at His Cell in Last Visit That Make. She Will Probably wife, Mrs. Minnie Spencer, who went over from her home in Worcester to pay her final visit to her husband be- fore he is taken to the state prison and the electric chalr at Charleston in two weeks. The execution Is to take lace on the week beginning the 15th. s. Spencer stayed with her husband for two hours, unmolested by the iail authorities or anybody | Ise, and the couple ‘were allowed to be alone to- gether untii their visit was finished. Attorney R. P. Stapleton for Spencer hag vlaced before Governor Foss a. pe- tition for commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment, but if the governor desires to take hny ac- tion he cannot do when his cabinet m SHOULDER CON it until Sept. 11, eets. FIDENCE GAME. Dislocates Joints Damay and Then Colects . Chicago, Sept. 4. according to the police, has the power | to throw his shoulders out of joint at | will. This unusual hardt into trouble ‘William Reinhardt, faculty got Rein- last night. He was taken from a cot in a west side hos- pital and locked up in a police station on a charge’of attempting to operate a confidence game. Reinhardt few days ago, claimed to have I one time swindled tell from a street car a | and company officials | earned that he at a railroad out of $1,500 because he was able to dislo- cate his shoulder joints. An attorney offered a settlemen t for $1,000 for in- ury of the shoulders, and Reinhardt’s arrest followed, ter an investigation, Vegetable Gro Rochester, N, Y ists from mil parts, the ralsing of Rochester foday in fith vegetables re in Rochester, Sept. 4—Speclal of the country in are in attendance ‘wt tha annual conventlon o the Vege- table Growgrw' rssoclation o Amer- fca. Australla s two million acres with artesian wells Irrigating more than of grazing lande west, were attacked before the :t:;g commerce wmmlur" b4 . s S ) An Attempt to Gair' 100,000 'amw e o o, dsiend Sl o rales 1 ‘to a petition that a propositi exican been S e fi‘flm"",fiu o Boticy act be su o % gy & Thinots on' the Novimber. aliot m“& B3 "”‘ ction | ‘and | Donding of forelgn cars brought In for touring, und laye Dol has failed. a John H. Trainor, a disappointed | Some PaURet Hiotam. that all repairs or mpov O cah whts suitor, fired three shots at a pretty salesglrl, Gertrude M. Jordan, In it to Houghton & Dutton’s big depaftment store, Boston, inflicting probably fa- tal ‘injuries. lorem. I e returning after tour- ing abroad and all brought into this country for touring will be .dmm:"d without duty. All automobile ow: however, are required to go to the first house avaflable for inspec~ tion and passing of thelr mach Automobiles, bicycles, airships, raci shells brought in for racing or similar contests, may remain six months under a free admission privilege. Residents of Oceanside, near San Diego, Cal, have petitioned the city council for a municipal barroom. They figure that the city might 48 well have some of the $200,000 which is spent montbly for . lquor. 5 Ledando Alessandro of Ithaca claims the spaghetti eating champlonship of the world. He atb two pounds in 18 minutes without taking a drink. He then entered the pie cating contest, taking second plac TO SET ASIDE TRACKS FOR CUSTOMS TRAFFIC. Reprosentatives of Several Railroads Come to Agreement. Washington, Sept. 4—A plan to facilitate the handiing of _customs traffic by the setting aside of certain rallroad tracks as “customs tracks” at the station of every customs town was virtuaily assured as the tesult of a conference at the treasury depart- ment today. The conferency was between Acting Secretary Curtis_and representatives of the Canadian Pacific, Grand Truni, New. York, New Haven and Hartford. | Central Vermonj, Boston and Maine, | Michigan Central and other railroads. | THIEVES STOPPED WRONG TRAIN Held Up a Freight Instead of New Or- leans Express. Sergeant Jack Kiernan of the street cleaning department of New York will ride to Chicago and walk back. He expects to make the trip in less than 22 days. He is trying to take off some of his 200 0dd pounds. Miss_Annice Dorothy Nixon, daugh- ter of Richard B. Nixon, financial clerk of the United States senats, was drowned at Colonial beach, Va., in | an unsuccessful attempt to rescue her swimming companion, Franklin = W. ; ‘Wiseman, | Performing His Officiah Duties caus- d the death of Dr. Warren H, Hu r, chief coromor's physiclan, at Chi- cago, yesterday. Me died from blood poisoning contracted through his hands while conducting post mortem examinationg. How After Sixteen Years of almost total blindness, he; ster, Misa Loret- ta McMahon of Thorold, Ontario, was | completely cured while on a pilgrim- age to the sacred shrine of Ste. Ann de Beaupre, was told by Mrs, J. Flan- nery of Montreal. New Orleans, Sept. 4.—Three bandits in an automobfle, plentifully supplied with high explosiveslay in wait twelve miles east of here last night for the New Orleans and Cincinnati e on the Louisville & Nashville road. ~ They had halted the first train that came along, only to find that it was & long line of frelght cars instead of the In Diplomatic Circles at Washington it Is belleved that the delay of (reat Britaln in asking for arbitration of | Coverd peir retreat with the Tree-olin”section o' the' Panuma | (LS 0 R e ds ot T TR canal nct In wn indication that the [ S¥elles €% London forelgn offica eventnally will g R . abandon that plan sl B Struck by the Dinky Train. The New York, New Haven & | Harttord, Sept. 4—Jphn Nugle, aged ford rallroad agreed hefores Judge V' 4 lacal ROSS Jumes L. Martin in the=United Stufes fon roeqiehe court at Harlford, Wednesday, to sub- 1 he count jmit to judgment fn fifty for dinky traln near the vielation of the federal statute regu- | Canngeticut falr grounds, 1a's con- 1ating the hours of continuols servics | dition fs serfous and hie hag been un- | far & site on Grand of tralnmen and will pay 35,000 and |able to give any detalls of the accl. | gon of & new ofty costs. dent.