Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 21, 1913, Page 1

i % VOL. LV—NO.18 NORWICH, CONN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1913 PRICE TWO CENTS TURKISH GOVERNMENT WEAKENING| Cebled Pararashs Taft Attends -Such is General Impression in Europe---Meeting of 2 National Assembly Postponed a Day iS STILL SEEKING TO ESCAPE HUMILIATION Rechad Pasha Believed to Have Been Instructed to Confer Intervention by Powers in the Form of Mediation— Plague Breaks Out Among Garrison at Adrianople. London, Jan. 20—The Balkan plen- fpotentiaries who are awalting the Tur- kish reply do not conceal their im- patience and their firm determination to prevent Turkey from postponing the settloment longer than a week. Allies Discussing the Spoils. Meanwhile unofficial conversations Bave begun among the allies regarding heir inter-Balkan limitations. Dr. aneff, head of the Bulgarian delega- fon, and the Greek premier, M. Ven- elos, were engrossed in this task oday. As no agreement yet has been feacheq concerning Saloniki, the Greeks hope to find no difficulty in etaining the town when the Bulgar- ns get Adrianople. Turkey Wants Intervention. Rechad Pasha received a long cipher fressage from Constantinople this af- ernoon and it is asserted that he was instructed to confer with Sir Ed- ward Grey, the British foreign secre- tary, with the object of obtaining di- gect’intervention by the powers under the form of mediation, or in another way, if more acceptable so that Tur- key ‘might be spared the humiliation ©f ceding Adrianople at first hand. MORE VIOLENCE BY NEW YORK STRIKERS: Dhirty Arrests Result from Riots of Garment Workers. New York, Jan. 20.—A few thousand girls went fo work in the dress and shirtwaist factories today, but in other ranches of the garment makers' rades the strike developed more vio- ence than the police have had to con- end with on any other day since the trouble began. Rioting started before gdaylight when members of the United Garment Workers of America learned $hat strikebreakers were to be brought nto the factories as early as 3 o'clock. ast week these employes had_slept ®nd eaten at the factories, but Satur- day night they were allowed to g0 to their homes. The strikebreakers were attacked as they came out of the subway stations and the police say that Hast Side #angsters played an important part in fhese battles. Men and women were beaten and trampled and policemen engaged in rough and tumble fights all over the street. More than thirty ar- Fests were made. The supreme court was asked this gfternoon to grant 2 sweeping injunc- ion against the employes of manu- facturers belonging to the New York Clothing Trades association. The in- gunction, if granted, would Testrain he strikers from all manner of inter- erence with employes who remained &t work. LABOR MEN CHEER TVEITMOE'S PORTRAIT. Pob Harriman Declares Two of Dyna- miters Are Innocent. Los Angeles, Jan. 20.—Job Harri- fman, once socialist candidate for may- or of Los Angeles and assistant coun- el in the McNamara case, addressed the convention of the State Building frades council today, declaring that Olaf A. Tveitmoe and E. A. Clancy of San Francisco and J. E. Munsey of Balt Lake City, convicted at Indian- mpolis of participation in the dynamite conspiracy, were innocent. At the close of Harriman's address @ veil of banners was dropped at the rear of the stage, showing Tveitmoe's plcture draped in a huge American flag n the center. The delegates rose and cheered. Tveitmoe and Clancy were unani- mously elected to their present offices in the state council—secretary-treas- urer and member of the executive board, respectively. Telegrams ex- pressing sympathy and belief in their innocence were addressed to them at Leavenworth prisom. REPORT OF MIRACLE IN FRENCH CEMETERY. Paralytic Cured by Contact With Handkerchief Used on Statue. Beziers, France, Jan. 20.—Great_ex- citement has been caused in the Bez- fers region by the Teport of a miracle. A few days ago a woman went to the old cemetery of Besziers to tend her Felatives' graves. She noticed that the @lene statue of the Virgin_ on the ~mausoleum of the Arnaud Palvagnac family was covered with moss, which she cleaned away with her handker- chief. On returning home, according 1o reports, she touched her little para- Ivtic daughter with the handkerchief and the girl was completely cured. Large numbers of pilgrims now go every day to the “tomb.” Senate Disapproves Immigration Bill. Washington, Jan. 20.—Control that Russia and other countries might ex- ercise over emigration to the United States led the senate today to refuse to accept _the conference report on the Burnett-Dillingham _immigration bill. The bill was sent back to conference with the senate's disapproval of the provision requiring certificates of Ccharacter from _inimigrants coming from countries where such certificates are issued. Another Scarlet Fever Death. Amherst, Mass, Jan. 20—&dward Woodman, Jr., of Portland, Me. a sophomore at the Massachusetts Agri- cultural_college, died of scarlet fever today. The death of Woodman is the second among the students and the eventh in the town since the disease became epidemic. Nineteen persons are 1l several of students. Five Fruitless Ballots. Boise, Idaho, Jan. ”.—Eva ballots ‘were taken in the g‘ bly today of the Idaho legis Joith no Ton of o short. erm Unitéd States o1 J Call on Secretary Gray. Rechad Pasha, accompanied by Tew- fik Pasha and Osman Nizami Pasha, later in the day visited the British foreign secretary but the nature of Sir Edward Grey's reply has not been aisclosed. Turkish Government Weakening. The meeting of the national assem- bly at Constantinople has been post- poned until Wednesday and the Porte's reply to the note of the powers will be presented after this meeting. The gen- eral impression is that the Turkish government is weakening with Tespeot to the demands of the allies, A Plague at Adrianople. London, Jan. 20.—A Mustapha Pasha despatch to the Daily Telegraph says that plague has broken out among the garrison at Adrianople. Greeks Drive Turks from Hills. Athens, Jan. 20.—General Sapount- zakis, operating outside 'of Janina, re- ports that he made a general aitack along the whole front. Artillery fir- ing continued throughout the day. The Greeks finally dislodged the Turks from the hills in front of Bizani, the Turks retreating in disorder towards Ithat place. INDIANS DISAPPEAR FROM HIDING PLACE. Now Unable to Locate Band of Utes. Cortez, Col, Jan. 20.—Without leay- ing a clue fo their destination, the bend of fifty Ute Indians who left the Ute reservation Baturday rather than deliver to the civil authorities or to the Indian agent Big Rabbit, one of their tribesmen, wha shot and seriously wounded Joseph Vichel, a sheep herd- er, left their retreat in’ the mountains today. Sheriff Gawith and posse and Indlan Agent J. S. Spears went to the moun- tains to parley further with the Utes and found that the Indians had disap- peared. Sheriff's Pos ‘White citizens of southwestern Col- orado in the immediate vicinity of the reservation have armed themseives and the Utes who have remained on the reservation are also said to be arming. Indian Agent Spears recelved word from the Interior department at Wash- ington today asking for detailed in- formation. No request has been sent government or state officials for troops, the authorities here hoping to | settle the trouble. THE INAUGURAL BALL TO BE ABANDONED Inaugural Cemmittee Compl Request of President-elect. with Washington, Jan. 20.—The honored inaugural ball will not be Eiven this vear. In compliance with President-elect Wilson's wishes, the inaugural committee, at a special meeting today, unanimously decided to eliminate it. The committes also decided that a public reception at the capitol or else- Where suggested by Governor as a sub- stitute for the ball, was not within its jurisdiction and if one is held con- gress must appropriate and make the necessary arrangements for it. The committee took the position that the proposed reception would be purely a governmental function, under the con- trol of the joint congressional inaug- ural committee. Governor Wilson's wish, in the event of there being a public reception on March ¢ is that Mrs. Wilson and the Misses Wilson should not be expected to attend. time- FIVE TALESMEN DRAWN FOR TRIAL OF DARROW. Two of Them Excused on Account of Admitted Preju Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 20.—Five talesmen hid answered questions satis- factorily to the defense and two had been excused on challenges for admit- ted prejudices at the conclusion of the first day of the second trial of Clar- ence S. Darrow for alleged jury brib- ery in connection with the McNamara cases. The men excused by the court were Francis H. Hutchins and N. O. Anderson. Hutchins was a member of the grand jury which indicted An- ton Johannssen and O. A. Tveitmoe on the charge of illegal transportation of dynamite. Replylng to queries by Darrow, Huichins sald he would place little credence in the testimony of Johannssen should the latter be called as a witness for the defense. Ander- son confessed a prejudice against what he called “union labor hotheads, ASHLEY RENOMINATED FOR POSTMASTERSHIP. Plainfield Postmaster’s Name Before Senate—Ssnator Brandegee's Bill. _ (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—In the senate Saturday a bill introduced by Senator Brandegee which aims to call a halt upon the practice of parties other than owners of automobile appropriating machines for joy rides was taken up 2nd passed. The bill imposes a max- imum penaity of a fine of $1,000 or im- prisonment not to exceed five years, or both. The bill is effective only within the District of Columbia. ‘The president sent to the senate the names of Edward E. Ashley to be postmaster 2t Plainfleld and Jerome S. Gainer to be.postmaster at Noroton Heights. The office at Plainfleld be- came presidential on Oct. 1, 1912, and the commission of the postmaster at Noroton Heights expired on Jan. 11th. Both are reappointment: “Big_Tim's” Sanity Questioned. New York, Jan. 20.—William Allen, a lawyer, John H. Van Tine, a retired merchant, and Dr. Aspinwall Judd Jvere appointed today a commission to Atlantic Fleet at Colon. Colon, Jan. 20.—The first division of the United States Atlantic fleet arrived here today for a short stay. Briand to Form New Cabinet. Paris, Jan. 20—Aristide Briand to- | night_definitely accepted the call of President Fallieres to form a new cab- inet. He has not succeeded as yet in selacting his ministers. To Impeach Japanese Cabinet. Tokio, Japan, Jan. 20.—Plans to im- peach the Japanese cabinet at the re- assembling of the Diet tomorrow, have been made by the constitutional party which has a majority in the lower house. Insane Corporal Kills Comrades, Vienna, Austria, Jan. 20.—A corporal in the Austro-Hungarian army during a sudden attack of madness today shot down and killed five of his com- rades of the 18th infantrty and wound- ed three others at Nevesinje, Herze- govina. Conductor Paur Resign Berlin, Jan. 20.-Emil Paur, former- ly leader of the Boston Symphony or- chestra, today resigned his position as conductor of the Royal opera at Ber- lin, owing, according to some press Teports, to differences of opinion with Emperor William. Brigandage in Manchuria. St. Petersburg, Jan. #.—The United States consul at Harbin, Manchuria, ang the German comsul have made representations to their ministers in Peking calling aitention to the neces- sity of protecting trade in Manchuria against the increasing brigandage there, according to a despatch to the Novoe Vremya. = SLATER PROPERTIES TO REMAIN IN FAMILY. Mrs. Horatio N. Siater Wins Her Point After Thres Years' Fight. Worcester, Mass., Jan, 20 persistency 'Mrs. Horatio N. Slater, daughter of the late Richard M. Hunt, the artist, and widow of the millionaire textile manufacturer, has won her case after meeting defeat in every court of the state, including the supreme bench to_which she appealed. By the will of her husband his ex tensive properties passed into the con trol of trustees who decided to sell them to a corporation financed by & Boston bank. Mrs. Slater wished to keep the nroperty in the family. For three years she fought the trustees and now two of them have resigned in accordance with a compromise ap- proved by the supreme court today. A third trustee died while the litigation was pen The settlement further provides that the business established by their grandfather shall not be sold, but re- mains in the possession of his grand- children. Mrs. Slater has devoted much of her time when not in the courts to the social welfare of thou- sands of textile workers. SLEDS OF PEARY AND AMUNDSEN Occupy Positions Side by Side in Mu- seum of Natural History. New York Jan. 20—Two battered sleds which have journeved to opposite ends. of the earth occupy a place of honor today jn the American Museum of Natural History. Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of _the south pole, today presented to the museum one ‘of the three sleds used by his ex- pedition, and it was placed beside a sled which Admiral Peary used when he found the north pole. OBITUARY. Mrs. Edyth Ellerback Read. Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 20.—Mrs. Edyth Ellerback Read, member of the Utah legislature, died foday of nervous prostration. She was elected at the last election, and it is said her death was due to the excitement created during the campaizn. O. H. Kelley, Founder of P. of H. ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—O. H. Kelley, founder of the Patrons of Husbandry, and for many years secretary of the national grange, died here today. Sir James Coat: Providence, R. L, Jan. 20—News of the death in Carrick house, Ayr, Scot- land, of Sir James Coats, a director of the J, and P. Coats Company Lim- ited, thread manufacturers, was con- tained in a cablegram recetved here tonight. The company has large mills in Pawtucket. Mr. Coats was 79 years of ‘age. Thin loe Claims Two More. Worcester, Mass., Jan. 20.—Miss Alice D. McGrath, 20, and Earle W. Porteous, 17, broke through the ice while skating on Cook’s pond here to- day and were drowned. In attempting to rescue Miss McGrath, Charles Har- vey mnearly lost his life when he also fell in. He was saved by other skate ers. Strike of Opera Chorus Ends. Chicago, Jan. 20.—The chorus of the Chicago Grand Opera company, which struck in a body last night, preventing a scheduled performance of Pagliacel, returned to work tonight and assisted in a performance of La Boheme. The chorus objected to working twice on Sunday. Multi-Millionaire Divorced. Pittsburg, Jan. 20.—Josiah V. Thompson, well known multi-million- aire coal and coke operator of Union- town, Pa, was granted a divorce to- day. The decree is a special one and Thompson agreed to pay Mrs. Thomp- son $1,000,000. Each party to the suit has the right to marry again. Steamship Arrivals. New York, Jan. 20.—Arrived: Steam- er La Lorraine, Havre. Naples, Jan. 18.—Arrive Canada, Ngw Y?;k Patras, Jan. —Arrtved: Ste: T Laconia, New York. o Glasgow, Jan. 20.—Arrived: Steamer California, New York. Baby's Body in Scrap Heap. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 20.—The body of a dead femalie infant, appar- ently but a few davs old, was found today on a scrap heap near a mill at Fair Haven. The body was well dressed. The police are Investigating. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Sable Island, N. S, Jan. 20.—Steamer Noordam, Rofterdam for New Yark, in wireless communication with the Marconi station herg when 810 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock 5.30 & .m. Wednesday. To Enable Women to Vote. ATbany, N. Y., Jan. 20.—With but seven dlssenting votes the assembly Steamez tonight passed the concurrent resolu- tion uwmc to_the 3 5 SO B i Yale Meeting| FORMALLY ACCEPTS THE KENT PROFESSORSHIP. WILL BEGIN IN APRIL Intends to Withdraw from Corpor: tion When He Begins His Duties— Recent Gifts Total $70,000. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 20.—At the regular meeting of the Yale corpora- tion today, President Taft formally ac- cepted the Kent professorship of law at Yale college. He also announced his Intention of withdrawing from the corporation when he takes up the Teg- ular duties of his professorship. Pres- ident Taft plans to come to New Ha- ven in April, and will deliver this spring some lectures of an optional chardcter. His work in the fall will consist of a regular course of lectures on the general subject of constitution- al law. He will also give some in- struction In the Yale Law school his exact courses there being not yet de- termined upon. The Kent Professorship. The Kent professorship was estab- lished in 1501, being named in honor of Chancellor James Kent of the class of 1781, one of the most distinguished graduates of the collega. There have been only four incumbents of the chair, Chief Justice David Daggett of Con- necticut, Clark Bissell and Henry Dut- ton, both governors of Connecticut, and Hon. Edward J, Phelps, for many years' American minister to England. The latter held the chair twenty years. Rev. J. H. Twicheil Resigns. At the meeting of the corporation, the resignation of Rev. Joseph Hop- kins Twichell of Hartford, Conn., was announced as_senior Fellow of the corporation. He was graduated from Yale in the class of 1859, and has been a devoted member of the corporation for 38 years. As a mark of special respect to Mr. Twichell the corpora- tion suspended its usual Tules regard- ing the time of voting for honorary degrees, and voted to confer upon him, at this coming commencement the de- gree of Doctor of Divinity. Prof. Tinker Promoted. The resignation of Dr. Twichell cre- ated a vacancy in the corporation among the successors of the originai trustees. Assistant Professor Chauncey Brew- ster Tinker, Ph. D., was promoted to a professorship of English language in the college. He was graduated from Yale in 1899 and is well known as a writer of books of Dr. Johnson. Recent Gifts Total $70,000. Professor Emile Legouls of the Ser- ‘bonne and Professor A. F. Pollard of the University of London were ap- Pointed Woodward lecturers. Treasurer Day reported gifts to the university, since ths November meet- ing, of over $70,000. Immediately after the meeting Pres- ident Taft left for New York city. FIRST SEVEN DAYS OF PARCEL POST Comparative Figures Given from Var- ious Connecticut (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—The post of- | five department officials have given out a statement of the number of parcels handled at the different offices during the first seven days of this month. The figures given are for both the parcels received #nd sent from the various- post offic#s. It is stated how- ever that although the figures are for seven days, two days must be deducted on account of Sunday and one holiday. In reality the numbers shown are for five days. The following offices hav. from Connecticut: Ansonia, 37 reported Bran- ford, 249; Bridgeport, 7025; Bristol, 1367; Danbury, 1328; Derby, 582; Greenwich, 716; Hartford, 10,906; Mer- | iden, 1,373; Middletown, 271; Mystic, 269; Naugatuck, 597; New Britain, | 3673; New Haven, 13473; Norwalk, 688; Norwich, 2515; Putnam, 644; Rockville, 532; Seymour, 258; Shelton, 367; Soufh Manchester, 592;” Walling- ford, 1007; Waterbury, 4146; Willi- mantic, 1001 and Winsted, 845. GOT RICH OUT OF HIs ARSON TRUST CRIMES. Proseoution Asks That Bail of Free- man Be Fixed at $50,000. New York, Jan. 20.—Describing Henry C. Freeman, a wealthy insur- ance broker, who with four other men was indicted today for complicity in the arson trust, as a man who “has got rich out of his arson crimes,” As- sistant Ditrict _Attorney Weller de- manded that Freeman's bail be fixed at_ 350,000 “This man worked in the dark,” sald the prosecuting attorney. “He never showed in the open. He hired ‘me- chanics'’ and profited by their acts. The penalty for the offense is 25 years' imprisonment.” Freeman and Abraham Schlichten, another of the indicted men, were re- manded to the Tombs without bail until tomorrow. The names of the other three men indicted were not disclosed. The true bills against all five charge arson in the second de- gree. NEW GRAND JURY TO PROBE RAILROAD CASE. Challenge of Mellen’s Counsel Causes Discharge of Old On New York, Jan. 20—The federal grand jury which has been investigat- ing the transportation situation in New England was today discharged. This action was taken because the jury is the same that indicted Charles S: Mellen, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and E. J. Chamberlain and _Alfred W. Smithers, president and chairman, re- spectively, of the Grand Trunk raliway of Canada, for violating the anti- monopoly law, and the right of one of its members to serve was challenged by the Gefendants’ counsel A new grand jury to be sworn in tomorrow will continue the investiga- tlon, recalling witnesses who testified before the discharged jury. Four Democrats Bolt. Dover, Del, Jan. 20.—Four demo- cratic members of the Delaware logis- lature refuseq tonight to participate in e binding caucus and the semate election scheduled for tomorrow will probably result in a deadlock. The New York Merchants' assocla- ton now has an enrollment of Li28 The -Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportiofi to the Cfi}’s Population. To Turn Down Dunn’s Request INTENTION OF THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. ON MILEAGE QUESTION Cannot Give Members of General As- sembly Transportation for Session for Sum Provided by Constitution. New Haven, Conn. Jan. 20.—That the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Rallroad company will not accept the suggestion of the state comptroller that transportation of members of the general assembly be given for the ses- sion in return for the mileage fixed by the state constitution, i now prac- tleally certain, Would Approach Free Transportation. The present attitude of the company is known to be quite apart from the constitutional question involved, that there is mo reason why the company should be deprived of the receipts from the legislative railroad fares and also that the plan would come &0 near free transportation that the company would open itself to the charge of improper legislative influence as in the old dave when it gave each legislator a free pass. No Compelling Statute. The situation also disposes, appar- ently, of the idea that the company can be compelled by a new statute, to give cheap or free transportation. Amendment of Railroad Charter. One of the latest rumors s that an amendment of the railroad’s char- ter 50 as to give free transportation to the legislators, may be proposed in the general assembly. Such a Dlan would have to encounter the proviso of the federal constitution against de- privation of property without due pro- cess of law. TO PLACE LEMONS ON THE FREE LIST. Underwood Declares in Favor of It— Others Propose 50 Per Cent. Cut. Washington, Jan. 20—Free lemons, or at least a fifty percent cut in the present duty of one and a half cents a pound assumed shape today as part of the democratic tariff revision policy of the coming extra session of congress. Most of the testimony before the committee on ways and means at three sessions today and tonight, while under the general subject of the agricultural schedule of the Peyne-Aldrich law, bore on citrus products, an Industry that _vepresents $200,000,000 invest- ment on the Pacific coast. The Citrus Protective league of Cali- fornia comprising growers and shipp- ers of oranges and lemons and the fruit growers’ exchange, which Chair- man Underwood of the committee in- sisted was the selling agency for these products, contended for retention of the present duty on its products. The New York Fruit exchange, com- prising jobbers, importers, commission merchants and brokers, demanded elimination of the lemon tariff. Democratic Leader Underwood fa- vors putting lemons on the free list, while some members of the committee were figuring today on three quarters of a cent a pound as a fair compensa- tion. COST OF TRANSPORTING COAL IS EXCESSIVE. Interstate Commerce ~ Commission Takes Steps in Investigation. Washington, Jan. 20—A conference was held today between Chairman Lane of the Interstate Commerce com- mission and representatives of the an- thracite coal carring railroads as a step in the commission’s Investigation into the operations of the roads and into the mining and sales operations of their affillated coal companies. Convinced that sound basis exists for complaint that the cost of an- thracite coal and the charges for its transportation from the mines to the markets are excessive, the commis. sion instituted its inquiry with a view to reducing the transportation rates of anthracite and to regulate further the methods and practices of the roads, if the inquiry should warrant such ac- tion. FORBIDS TROOPS TO ATTEND INAUGURAL Governor” Blease Says That He Has Received No Invitation. Columbla, §. C, Jan. 20.—After all arrangements had been made for a battalion of South Carolina troops to attenq the inauguration of President- elect Wilson, Governor Blease issued a statement today saying he would not permit them to leave the state. He assigned several reasons, one of them being that he, as commander- in-chief, had not received an invita- tion, and that he would not let troops £o unless an invitatlon was extended. ‘As no formal invitations have been given it is not likely that the South Carolinans will participate in the cer- emonies. The troops had paid in ad- vance for quarters they had intended to occupy at Washington. IMPROVEMENT IN THE RAILROAD BUSINESS New Haven’s Receipts $20,000 a Day More Than Last Year. New Haven, Conn, Jan. 20.—Cbn- tinued revival and activity of business in New Englang are indicated by the returns for the first half of January, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company which show an increase over a yvear ago, of upwards of $20,000 a day. The in. crease includes all branches of traf- fic, comprfisln§ freight and passenger business and the trolley and naviga- tion properties. A “De Luxe” Book Swindler. Boston, Jan. 20.—Glenn F. Farmer of New York was arrested here tonight on an indictment warrant charging him' with the larcény of $87,075 from Mrs. Mary L. Rogers of this ‘city, The warrant alleged that Farmer obtained the money by misrepresenting the val- ue of so-called “de luxe” books. . For Robbing M: Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 20. formerly an employe in the rail- way mail service, was arrested in a suburb here today and charged with robbery of the mail car of -a Southern Railway train near Riverside, Ala., on | Condensed Teiegrams Capt. Philip T. Smith was vesterday appointed chief of police of New Ha- ven. Brother Button, successor to Father Damien at the Molokai, La., leper col- ony, died a victim of leprosy. Thomas Lundy, Manager for Swift & Co. at Philadeiphia, was fined 3400 for selling eggs undlt for food. Miss Jane Addams, chief of Hull house, will sail from New York on February 18 for a long stay in Egypt. A Reduction of Rates for Chairs in Pullman cars over the New Haven road between various points is an- nounced. Electrocution Will Replace Hanging as legal execution in Washington, D. C., according to the Gallinger bill passed by the senate. James H. Geggett, an orange grower of Oroville, Cal., has produced a fruit ‘which Is @ cross between a navel or- ange and a grapefruit. Joseph Harris, a Shoe Worker, died yesterday from a bullet wound received during a strike dlsturbance at Haver- hill, Mass., last Thursday. s Passenger Service on the Bangor & Aroostook railroad was resumed yes- terday through the employment of non-union engineers and firemen. A Substantial Increase in wages has Dbeen granted blacksmiths, machinists, boiler makers and their helpers by the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Co. Two Persons Were Killed and three others injured when the boilers at the Howland Pulp and Paper company’s mill at Howland, Me., exploded ves- terday. Christy Mathewson, New York Na- tional league pitcher, at Jamaica, L. I, vesterday was fined $10 for speed- ing the automobile presented to him by admirers last year. ? Jane Bicknell Young, widow of Jo- seph Young, brother of Brigham Young, is dead_at Tacoma, Wash., aged 98 years. She was a prominent Christian Science leader. The offense to_steal House Bill Making a federal freight, express or baggage from trains in transit was yesterday reported favorably by the senate judiciary committee. John Schrank, Who Shot Colonel Roosevelt at Milwaukee, is classed as 2 model inmate in the insane asylum | at Oshkosh, Wis. He spends most of his time writing his memoirs. Theodore T. Proctor of Cornell uni- versity declares there is a decrease of drinking in the university and names the “movies” as being one of+the main factors in bringing about this result. The Dimes and Quarters which the | enlisted men of the Atlantic squadron chipped in for something for _Miss Helen Gould have been used to buy a gold flower bowl ten inches In height. Burglars Entered the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad sta- tlon at Ridgefield, Conn., some time between Saturday night and Monday morning and stole $50 from the safe. When Werd Was Brought to The- odore Bellevern, a meat dealer, that the Esmond, R. I cotton mill had closed again’ yesterday, he took a re- volver from his desk and Killed him- self. Bitter Opposititon to the bill pro- viding for the erection of a $2,000,000 monument to the memory of Abraham Lincoln is threatened when the meas- ure is taken up in the house Wednes- day. The President’s Yacht Mayflower left yvesterday for Guantanamo, Cuba, army and navy officers who are to plan the fortification of the naval station there as an outpost of the Panama canal. The Blusberry Ganning Factory, grist mill and lath and box shop mill, at East Machias, Maine, owned and operated by Gaddis Brothers, was des- troyed by fire vesterday of unknown origin. An Order Providing for the appoint- ment of a committee to investigate the recent election of John W. Weeks as United States senator, was intro- duced in the Massachusetfs house . terday. used to members of “Gasoline Sausages’ were start incendiary fires by the alleged Chicago “arson These ‘“gasoline sausages” explode when the fire reaches them and spread the flames. Provision to Pay $71,000 to ten per- sons injured by Mexican bullets fired across the line in battles near El Paso, Tex, and Douglas, Ariz, was mace in a bill introduced yesterday by Senator Smith of Arizona Miss Inez Milholland of New York City, whose designation as “the most beautiful girl in the suffrage move- ment,” is sald to have caused some heart burnings, is to lead the suf- fragist parade March 3. A Loss Which May Reach coneld- | erable proportions is thought to have | been done to ovster beds in Long Is- land sound by the recent high gales, and more particularly by the extremely low tide on January 3. Capt. A. C. Larkin of Boston, Mate Arthur Stevens of Malden and R. K. Shafner, a cook of Maplewood, were lost when the Boston schooner Fu- ture was wrecked off the South Car- olina coast early in the month. Governor Tasker L. Oddie in his message to the Nevada legislature yes- terday recommended passage of a law requiring residence of ome year in- stead of six months in the state be- fore a divorce could be obtained. Articles of Incorporation for the so- called “Rockefeller foundation” to ad- minister a philanthropic fund of $100, 000,000 to 'be donated by John D. Rockefeller were passed by the house yesterday 15 to 65, after desultory op- position. Another Tragedy of the Sea was-re- corded yesterday when Captain Ree of the Dutch steamer Pheoda reported the sinking of a large Danish tramp steamer about fifty miles off Plymouth, England, on December 26, during a hurricane. On -Account of Additional Work in connection with the enforcement of the pure fooq and forestry laws and the development of the department’s aducational operations, the annual de- partment of agriculture appropriation bill carries an increase of nearly a million dollars over last year's ap- propriation. Some Italian Masonic lodges are ad- mitting women to membership, ring,”. | TELEGRAPH LINES -CUT El Paso, Tex., Jan. 20.—Heavy fight- | ing between the main rebel arm; the 23d battalion of federals is in | DProgress at Villa Ahumada on the Mexican Central railway between Juarez and Chihuahua City, says a | late report today. Rebels Cut Telegraph Lines. After reported today over the commercial telegraph that fighting was | in progress at Ahumada all communi- cation was cut by rebels at some point near Juarez. The garrison commander at Ahumada, $0 miles down the Mexi- can Central rallway, had reported danger of a rebel attack, and the 23d infantry vith artillery was despatched from Chihuahua City. Railroad Closed. from | Mexican Central The Mexican Central is closed Ahumada to a int 50 miles Juarez, where a work train is repair the line, guarded by fede troops. Movements of the rebels and details of Women | pam. 1n the state o | detafls of the at FIERCE BATTLE RAGING IN MEXICD Heavy Fighting Reported Between Main Rebel Army and 23d Battalion of Federals DOWN BY THE REBELS Details of the Engagement Lacking Because of Lack of Means of Communication—Ahumada, on the Mexican Central Railway, Scene of the Conflict—The 23d Infantry Sent to Reinforce Garrison There—American Ranch Raided. the reported battle are lacking owing to interruption in the telegraph. RAIDED BY REBELS. Abducted from American’s Ranch—Four Killed. Mexico City, Jan. 20—Rebels ‘have raided the ranch and mills of J. Gleason, an Amerl four of the empl were abducted. ranch, who is M his child made their escape wit < culty. The buil s were looted an | burned. Federals Cut to Pieces. Mexico City, Jan. 20.—A federals were cut to pieces near Atencingo, in the state la, yesterday. Survivors who s into the city of Puebla. toda ob aggled 1 SHERIFFS ON PLATFORM 1 AT A LABOR MEET!NG; == | Present to Make Arrests If Incendiary | STORK CAME 28,176 TIMES TO CONNECTICUT. More Than Half the Babies Last Year Were Boys. Hartford, Jan. tion formeq “to lick the “How? This way?”" holding up his fists. “No. Putting poison in the soup? No. The capitalists cannot understand in a million years that in our hands there is more poison than would be necessary to kill all of them. It is all In our hands. If we work the machines work. If our hands are idle Mr. Capitalist will have no more wealth ground out for him. Onr hands mean strength—all there is in life. All that the capitalists have is mouth. They know how to eat, but not how to cook and they must employ men to do it for them.” Glovannitti pieaded justification for the destruction of machinery as 4 form of “sabotage” by labor against capltal. “Sabotage,” re described as | “a weapon of war that canmot be | reached by flashlight, cannot be des- but which will fall | troved by cannot among capitalist like a bombshel RAILROAD VICTORY IN SUPREME COURT Highest Tribunal Curbs Power of In- | terstate Commerce Commission. | Washington, Jan. 20.—The govern- ment on behaif of the Interstate Com- merce Commission today met defeat at the hands of the supreme court of the United States In its attempt to es- | tablish in the commission a right to make a rate without substantial evi- dence being presented at a hearing to show /the unreasonableness of rates about to be replaced. | At the same time, railroads of the | country won an important point when | the court decided that in making rates the commission could not rely upon | information gathered on investigation by the commission but must base them upon evidence presented at hearing where the railroads have an opportunity to presen- side of the controversy. In thus Hm- iting the power of the commission the court declared that the question of whether any substantial evidence had been presented in a case one of law for the courts, euch as the com- merce court to review and was not entrusted exclusively to the commis- sion. AMERIGAN THIEVES WERE AFTER PEARLS | Attempt Made to Enter Establishment of London Jewel Merchant. A determined ef- tturday night or Sun- day to steal $400,000 worth of pear from the establishment of Mark Ru- bin, jewel merchant, of 32 Holbern Viaduct. But it was not' successful. In the opinion of Scotland Yard the burglary was the work of a zang of American thieves who left behind the most elaborate anq most costly set of electrical tools and appliances ever seen by the London police. In addi- tion to a portable electric light plant they abandoned twtenty cylinders of oxygen and other gas. London, Jan. fort was made Regulation of Telephone Trust ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—Regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the American Telephone and Tele- graph company and not the compul- sory competitive provisions of the Shéerman anti-trust law, will be the means of solving in large measure the so-called telephone trust problem, ac- cording to Attorney General Wicker- eham, who today announced that he had referred tho whole question to the commission for investigation and action. Blizzard in ldaho. Hailey, Idaho, Jan. 20.—As a result of a severe snowstorm in the Wood River district, several passenger trains are stalled, wires are down and, cattle are perishing. For two weeks a bliz- zard has raged, entirely isolating sev eral points from communication. In some places snow is six feet deep on a level The Hamburg-American Steamship Remarks Were Made. | Vew York, Jan. 20.—Joseph Kttor and Arturo Giovannitti, hoth of whom recently were acquitted charges | growing out of the textile strike at | Lawrence, Mass., last year, were the | principal sveakers at a mass meeting | held tonight in_Carnegie hall by the | Intercollegiate Socialist society. Both | men spoke on the atiitude of labor towarq capital. | Sheriff Harburger aid a_large force.| of deputies had seats on the platic The sheriff had announced previou that he would make arrests if | incendiary remarks were made. #e | |sald after the meeting that none of | the speakers had transgressea the law Bttor declared in his specch that trades unionism was an organiza- #n Comnecticut and of t the total number 19,143 bables had o or both paren Tor ratio figured out by Dr. retary of the state board and who compiled the vital s for 1911, is that there was one every 40 persons, one marr: ery 105 person: person m every 52 person.s and one death to ev ery 64 persoms. The number riages wor the year were which 5,194 mar I were America the year fell 10, of births. MILLIONAIRE SCHENCK IS GRANTED A DIVORCE Wife Recently Acquitted on Charge of Attempting to Poison Him. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 20.—John O, Schenck, multimillionaire/pork pac was granted an absolute divorce frc his wife, Lanra Farnsworth Sche and given custody of his children t day in a decision handed down b Judge . D. Kervey. Mr: was errested Nov. 9. 1910, on a of attempting to poison her by administering arsenic. After a. sational trial the jury disagreed the woman released on $14, The case was not brought during the thres terms of was dismissed according to I Schenck and his wife bad for divorce. DETECTIVE KILLED BY AN AUTO BANDIT. Had Gome to House to Arrest Crool Assassin Escapes. the \utomobils climax te Chicago, Jan. 20.—A search for members of the bandit crew came toda sbocting and killing Hart with his own rev by ome of the bandits. The detective was shot th heart when he entered a of arresting “Bob” an accomplice of James B. fessed bandit, now under arrest After shooting Hart, the assassin leaped through a window adjoin- ing roof, Tan .the length a block went down a stairway and escaped in a crowd. BELATED EFFORT TO THROTTLE THE TRUSTS. President-elect Wilson Suddenly Gets Busy in New-Jersey. what he considers the rogramme of | New Jersey. Seven bills making fo: | the most extensive revision of the cor- poration laws in the history of the ate were intraduced tonight in the state legislature. hese acts are designed to put an end to trusts and monopolies under tha laws of New Jersey,” declared Gove nor Wilson in -a prepared statemer describing the measures, “end I con fidently predict that they will accem- plish that much desired result.” INSANE VALET MAKES AN ATTACK ON COLONEL CROSBY Jumped from His Bed When Jap Ap proached Him With Knife. New York. Jan. 20—Col John Schuyler Crosby, veteran of the Civil war, former governor of Montana and a noted Indfan fighter, narrowly es- caped death tonight when he was at tacked by S. Iwomogo, his Japanese valet. Colonel Crosby, who is recover- ing from an illness, leaped from his bed when the valet rushed at him with @ large knife. Other servamts came to the assistance of Colonel Croshy an held the Japaness, who had shown signs of insanity on several previous occastons, until attendants removec him to Bellevue hospital. as gos Adopting American Fashions. It was feared that the office of presi- dent of France might have to seek th man. But the man—seeveral of him —promptly hustied forward and re- leved the anxiety?—Cliveland Flain Dealer. South Norwalk.—The Rev. Willlam H. Wakum of Port Chester, N. T., hag been extended a call of pastor to the Co. has reduced the steernge vassen- ger rate from §42.50 to $3& - L. First Methodist l]:‘?lmo'ps.! church of South Norwalc. will probably ae: cept, : -