Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 13, 1913, Page 1

- VETO OF MILEAGE BILL IS EXPECTED Members of Assembly Received Hint of the Gov- - ernor’s Attitude STRONG SENTIMENT FOR SALARY INCREASES Members Pacified by News Tl"lat 1911 Amendment Would be Presented For Second Repeal of Personal Tax as Matter of Party Policy—Only One Critic of Tax Commissioner Corbin. Hartford, Conn, March 12.—Legis- lative business which was started off for the week yesterday at high speed moved almost as quickly through the routine channels today. The sitting of both branches lasted two hours, leaving a short breathing space befo members took up committee work. The house members were still sensitive on the mileage question, for not only was the Isbell resolution émpowering mem. bers to draw their salary and mileage in monthly instalments passed in con- gurrence with the senate, but the mem- Lers tenaciously clung to debate over roposed constitutional amendments to ncrease the salary of members of fu- {ure assemblies, unfavorably reported, untll assurance was given that the pro- posed amendment of 1911 would be re- ported in from the committee for Sec- ond_enactment before it is submitted to the people for ratification. Veto by Governor Expected. In the senate the effort to reconsider the vote whereby the Peck free trans- portation bill was passed in concur- Tence was ineffectual. The bill goes to the governor and from statements made by his excellency at the recep- n Tuesday night members now await Bis veto message. The senate deferred action on Tes- alutions naming county commissioners, &l nominees of democratic caucuses, wpon the desire of Senator McDonough, the democratic leader, that no action be taken until bills come in dealing with new methods of choosing these commissioners. The republicans lent their aid to the democrats as it mere- 1y delays final action but in spite of what Mr. McDonough said about the democratic party pledges in its plat- form several democrats were for im- [Bediate action and opposed Mr. Me- onough. Increases of Capital Stock. The feature of the session was the debate in the house in which several [pembers declared their opposition to e custom of public service corpor- Mtlons asking for permission to in- rease capital stock through charter dments. Their position was that he corporations should get the pub- fc utilities commission to sanction uch increases after due inquiry into e needs for the additional capital na whether or not the customers of ese public service corporations got e service at rates to which they are ntitled. Much the same objection was ade in the senate on the Meriden as Light company’s bill for an in- rease in its capital stock. The ef- rt of Senator Neebe to amend by ffering the company the opportunity o get the public wutilities commission zanction the increase falled as it 81d rot meet the issue as then raised, This matter as well as the two bills of this nature in the house were finally ot acted upon but will be taken up ter. Supervision of Stock Issues. Meantime it is expected that the in- eorporations committes will report a bl providing for supervision by the public utilities commission of the is- sue of stock. Governor Baldwin is interested in such a bill and he insists that it shall contain a provision that all stock issues shall be at not less than par. This is in line with the bills Mr. Whiton of New London advocated for two sessions. The need of economy in state ex- penditures was brought to the front by Senator Perry who wanted scrutiny e of the resolution to pay Joseph ullin, a newspaper man, $500 for complling the list of bills. In the de- bate it was stated that the many res- olutions which come in for various rvices would be looked into care- fully. Mr. Mullin's resolution was assed, but it occasioned lively de- te. Juvenile Courts for Children. A second judgeship resolutior. went through the house to be held up in the senate. It was that of John B. Fahey o be associate judge at Rockvilie. Of the committee hearings there was much interest in the judiclary room when bills were- under consideration providing for juvenile courts and for care of dependemt children, Senator Quinn was heard on his bill which provides that where fatherless chil- @ren cannot be cared for by the mother that the state aid the mother so she may keep them instead of\the state sending these children to county bomes. A strong plea was also made for juvenile courts. Overcrowding of Trolle In the raflroad committee’s room bills to stop overcrowding of street cars and_against riding on running boards of open trolleys were heard. The companies on both propositions claimed that these conditions cannot be stopped. The demand of those sup- porting_the bills was that companies provide™ sufficient equipment. The committee on executive nom- inations heard those who were for or #gainst the nominations of Tax Com- missloner Corbin and John J. McPart- land. The only opponent to the for- mer was _Senator Purcell, who said that Mr. Corbin did not give his whole time to his office, that he was arbi- trarv, and that he had wrong ideas on taxation problems. When endors- ers of Mr. Corbin’s name were called many prominent democrats spoke Etrong words for him. Mr. McPartland was spoken of highly. It is expected both nominations will be favorably re- ported without delay. Repeal of Personai Tax Law. In the senate Senator McDonough #poke in favor of the bill to repeal the personal tax law. He said it is a democratic measure. Benator Perry sald he is rohustly opposed to the passage of the bill. He said the only reason given for the repeal of the law was that the repeal | was demanded by the forgotten dem- ocratic state platform. He reminded ythi senators that even though they m&ed the bill to repeal the present .aw, “that palladium of our lbertles and of our treasury,” the house of reprasentatives, stood In the way of its_enactment. Senator Cheney sald that in the vete on the bill in the house on Tuesday there were democratie representatives who were glad «o get elected on the Satform which conseimed the plank. NORWICH, “'CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1913 PRICE TWO CENTS at His Reception Enactment—Senate Votes For demanding the repeal of the law, but who voted against the bill. Senator Cheney opposed the bill. State Gets None of+the Money. Senator McDonough said that not a penly of he persomal tax goes o the state. Senator Stevens asked Senator Mc- Donough If he was certain that none of the money received from the per- sonal tax went to'the state. Senator McDonough replted that he was. Senator McCarthy stated that he knew that not a cent of the personal tax went to the state. The Vote. The vote on the bill to Tepeal the present law was as follows: Yes—Senators J. McA. Johnson, Pur- cell, Landers, Frohlich, Quinn, Shan- Neebe, McDonough, Hurley, Mc- rthy, Miner, Avery, ¥, A. Johnson, ‘man, McNeil, Jr, Whitcomb, Peck, Weed, Mountain—19. is—Senators _Hooker, _Cheney, Stevens, Colton, Isbell, , Mc- Grath, Perry, Welch, Wi s and G. H. Johnson—11, Absent or not voting—Senators Fos- Gaylord, Reyrolds and Wheeler School Exemption Stands. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hartford, March 12.—The commit- tee on finance made unfavorable re- port on the act to withdraw the clause in the charter of the Wheeler school and library of North Stonington which exempts the property from taxafion. The act. was intended to permit exemp- tlon from the school and library build- ing, but not the additional -property purchased by the trustees. The re- port of the committes was accepted and the bill rejected. By this action whatever property may be acquired by the trustees of the school will be exempt frem taxation. The same com- mittee made unfavorable report on the act to exempt from taxation the prop- erty of the Star of the Sea Total Ab- stinence soclety of New London. The report was accepted and the bill re- jected, though much similar property in many eections of the state is ex- empted from taxation with the restric- tion that all income from the property shall be devoted to the purposes for which the societies were organized. County Commissioner Bills Rejected. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hartford, March 12.—The committee of the judiciary, through Represen- tative Hyde of Manchester, made un- favorable report on three bills reiating to county commissioners, two of which were in regard to the election of com- missioners by the people and the other of appointment of commissioners by the judges of the superior court. After explanation by Mr. Hyde that the com- mittee had several bills of like nature awaiting action and would soon re- Dort a substitute bill for the consider- ation of the house, the three bills wero Tefected. In the absence of Speaker Webster, Mr. Healey, chatrman of the judiclary committee, Was secretary pro tem. In consequence a big bunch of unfavorable reports of the committee were reportea by Messrs. Hyde of Manchester, Thoms of Waterbury, Avery of Groton and Evarts of Mil- ford.” It is evident that the house is now down to busimess as a large vol- ume of reports were recefved from the committees on Tuesday. A MOVING PICTURE OPERATOR KILLED Electrocuted Whils Throwing Pictures in Philadelphia Theater. Philadelphia, March 12—While speo- tators who crowded a theater in the northeastern section of this city sat in wonder at the sudden stopping of a ‘moving picture being displayed on the screen today, an investigation by at- taches of the house resulted in the discovery that the operator had been electrocuted. His body was found stretched acrosg an electric switch- board in the little room in which the machine was located. The dead man, ¥rederick Bchmidsteter, 43 years old, was an experfemced operator and the manner in which he came into contact with the live wire is a mystery. CHARGES PREFERRED AGAINST COL. SCOTT. Formally Accused of “Non-Feasance and Neglect of Duty.” Albany, N. Y., March 12—Charges of “non’feasance and neglect of duty’ were preferred against Col. Joseph K Scott, superintendent of state prison today by Governor Sulzer. The gove: nor in presenting the charges wrot: Colonel Scott that he wouid be given an opportunity to be heard in his de- fense at noon tomorrow. The super- intendent was busy tonight preparinz his answer. Friends of the superin- tendent predict his removal within « short time. The charges are based largely upon the report submitted by the governor's committee of inquiry and bear in part on the Thaw scandal. Robbed Telephone Ccmpany. Danbury, Conn, March 12.—Charged with stealing copper wire from the Southern New England Telephona company to the value of $500, the local police authorities today arrested near Topstone Tony Pasquenz. It is leged that about a ton and a half of wire had been cut into emell pieces and put Into barrels, Dinner Tendered to Bryan. Washington, March 13.—Secretary of State Bryan and Mrs. Bryan were honor guests tonight at a dinner given by the retiring assistant secretary of state and Mrs, Huntington Wilson. Another Suffrage Parade, New York, Mareh 12—What Is pian- ned to be the largest parade yet held In the jnterest of weman suffrage will take place in this city on Baturday, May 3, according fo. Amnouncoment to- nighty 2 | ming, Surrey. | that while lfifln Cabled Paragraphs Lady Scott Sails for England. Sydney, N. S, W., March 13.—Lady Scott, widow of the Antartic explorer, sailed for England yesterday on the steamer Medina. Pope Improves Slowly. Rome, March 12—Pope Piuz con- tinues to improve slowly but steadily in health. The pontift now takes reg- ular nourishment. Spanish Ball Game Bill Vetoed. Havana, March 12.—President Gomez has vetoed a bill permitting the reviv- al of the Spanish ball game of “Jaj Alai’ according to an official an- nouncement today. Australia’s New Capital. Sydney, Australia, March 12.—The foundation stone of the future capital of Australia was laid today by Baron Denman, governor general of the com- monweaith. Lady Denman christened the new city Canberra. Instructed to Greet Diaz. Naples, Italy, March 12—J. Tra- montano, the Mexican consul here, has been instructed by G. A. Esteva, Mex- ican minister to italy, to go on board the steamship Adrfatic on her arrival here from Alexandrie, Egypt, tomor- row, to greet General Porfirio Diaz. Woman and Daughter Suicide. London, March 12.—Mrs. Louisa Jeffryes and Miss Natalle Jeffryes, the wife and daughter of Dr. Fyman Jeff- ryes, a Scotsman who server some time as a surgeon\in the army during the civil war in America, committed sui- cide yesterday in a pond near Godal- Fist Fight by Italian Admiral Rome, March 12.—A fist fight be- tween Admiral Pasquale Cattolica, the mipister of marine, and Admiral Goz- z0, recently retired from the navy, cavsed a sensation today. Admiral Jozzo met the minister of marine on the street and boxed hi sears, and Ad- mira] Cattolica eneregetically retall- ated. Oppose. Increas: Paris March 12.—Some opposition the immense and hurried increase of the peace footing of the French army has made its appearance. Some 350 professors of the Sorbonne, many of them among the finest scholars in France, have issued a united address to the people of France not to allow themselves to yield thoughtlessly to the milit: panic and to forces of re- action which tend toward desperate adventures hostlle to the republican government. BUSINESS MEN DEFEND THE WASHINGTON POLICE Say They Did All That Was Human- Iy Possible to Do on March 3. to Washington, March 12.—A mass of small detail as to the disorder that interfered with the suffrage parade here on March 3 was elicited today by the senate sub-committee Investigat- ing the occurrence, from 31 wilnesses. Madame Mountford, an evangelist, in addition to detalling her experience in the parade, declared she had been roughly used by a Washington police captain, while watching the inaugura- tlon ceremonies the next day, She sald that Captain James E. Mulhall in T fusing to allow her to croes the police lines with a suffrage banner handled her_roughly and_esclaimed: “You damned women had your day yesterday.” A dozen Washington business men who were organized into a committee ublic order for the inaugural period and who, in automobiles, endeavored to aid the police in subduing the dis- order during the suffrage parade, tese tifled. They declared that the police had done all that was humanly pos- sible to handle the crowd but that the gathering was too large to be con- Erotied. Captain Henry Schneider, who was in charge of the police detail at the point on Pennsylvania avenue where | the crowd was densest and where the cavalry was finally called on for aid, defended his men. He declared he and hig officers worked faithfully in their efforts to clear the street. He declared that Major Sylvester had been emphatic and expiicit in his instructions to his subordinates and the men of the depart- ment looked upon the parade in a “light manner” they had been admon- ished to work faithfully. He declared they did so. Steamship Arrivals. Copenhagen, March 12—Arrived: Bteamer United States, New London, March 12.—Arrived: er Ausonia, Portland. Queenstown, March 12.—Arrived: Steamer Ivernia, Boston for Liverpool. Marseflles, March _ 11.—Arrived, steamer Canada, New York. Smyrna, March 1l—Arrived, steam- er Laconia, New York. York. Steam- Steamships Reported by Wireless. Siasconsett, Mass, March 12— Steamer President Lincoln, Hamburg for New York, 480 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock $ a. m. Friday. New York, March 12, Campania, Liverpool for Teported 1,460 miles east Hook at 6 p. m. of Sandy Dock 8 a. m. Sun- still Havanae March 12.—A session of congress Was held this afternoon but no message was received from the president regarding the general am- nesty bill. It was explained that the president was still awalting a precise definition of the American views from the Cuban minister at Washington, Senor Rivero. A Reported Gold Strik Skagway, Alaska, March 13.—Dr. Young, member of parliament and pro- vincial secretary of British Columbia, arrived today with dogs and suppiles to malke an investigation of the report- ed strike of placer gold at Teslin Laie, All the steamships arriving are crowd- ed with prospectors. Fire in South Manchester Block. South Manchester, Conn., March 13, —Tire, thought to have started from an ofl stove, did about $2,500 damage to the Mannell block here iate this af- ternoon. The firo for a time threat- ened to spread and gave the fireman a hard tusele to get it under centrel. Engine Deralled on Shere Lin Baybrook Junetion, Conn., Mareh 13, —An engine attached to a frelght was artly derailed on the Shors Line near Bere “toniuht and trame was ted. up for a time. No one was injured, Old Homestead Burnmed, Fast Windser, Conn, March 12— Fire of unknown origin tenight de- stroyed the old Henry Carrell home- sieed near here, ontalling a loss f $3,00. The fire started Im the attic The mutten' pie wes the fererumner mince pie A5 & tid- Men, Not Wages Are Responsible COMMITTEE RECEIVES TART LETTERS VICE CALLED “HYPOCRITES” Women of Underworld Belittle In- vestigation Now in Progress—“Make the Men Good,” Their Advice. Chicago, March 12.—Reformers and reformed—the state senate's vice in- vestigation commission and the women for whose moral downfall the com- mission is trying to determine the causes—differed today in the relation between low wages and low morality. Letters received by the commission from women of the underworld mock- ed at the work which the Ilegislators are doing. Not Wages But Men to Blame. One of these letters, signed “K. R. L.,” reads: “To the Commission: Girls don’t go ‘wrong because they are hungry or be- cause they mneed clothes. They go wrong because they are tempted by lies and overpowered by the evil in men. “They listen to the fair and pretty things that mex tell them, and they fall because they think they can trust themselves and trust the tempters. It is not the employer. I was a good girl and I worked in a store. Could Not Aveid “Friends.” 1 didn’t get much meney, but that dn’t matter. I lived on $8 a week and would be living like that now, but I met men. They semed to consider me their prey and all the time it was fight—fight. They wanted to be nice to me, they said to me, and take me to the theater and treat me fair—and give me a chance to enjoy life. “I didn’t know men were bad—all bad—where a girl is concerned. I thought only women were bad. T thought all a girl had to do to remain good was =0 be truthful to herself. God pity women who think that and ‘who keep their trust in men until it is too Jate. Every day it was some one else, always smiling at me, always trying to glve me a ‘fair chance’ to be happy. In the street they followed me. These 1 could avold—but the ‘friends’ who hung around. The Big Secret of Vice. “That is the big, big secret of the thing that makes a good girl bad. If they had let me be—if they had only let me be—only let me live as I wanted to—T wouldn't have had to slink into the room when vour commission was trying_tp solve things, and wouldn’t have had to sit in a corner with-my veil down, afraid to look a good wom- an in the face.” Another cry from the underworld echoed the words of this letter. It was more bitter, though, and it read in part: Due to a Lot of Blackguards. “You're looking for the things that made such women as L Low wages? Dance halls? Hunger? Cold? They all helped a bit, but they didn’t turn the trick themselves. You're all a bunch of hypocrites, afrald to look the thing in the face and afraid to learn the trath. “T don’t know any girls who sold themselves for money to buy bread or clothes. But I do know lots of us who hit the road for hell because a lot of blackguards kept hounding _them with their rotten attentions. God help the men, and not us. We're all right, when we start. All we need is to be left alone. * * * There are hun- dreds and hundreds of kids and sports who hang around State street and wait like Wolves for the tired girls to leave the stores. “Wages Won't Help Us. “Why dom’t you make the men be good? All the wages in the world won’t_help us. Make the men good and the girls will be good. “Now they haven't got a chance, and they never will have as long as the law smiles at one and spits at anoth= er. This letter was signed tials “L. M. with the Ini- Several Girls Resign Positions. TWhile these comments on the situa- tion continued to pour in, the civic bY the com- the launching investigat- consclousness awakened mission bestirred itself in of committees and private ing forces, Tn some stores numbess of girls ap- proached their employers to demand larger salaries. All were assured that they would be taken care of as soon as something definite has been agreed upon. Beveral resignations were ten- dered- by girl employes as a result of | parental advice. i A mass meeting for the discussion | of a living wage and a Saturday half | holiday was schedulea by the Juven- | ile Protective assoclation, the Consum ers league and the Women's Trade Union league for next Friday night. NEED $9 A WEEK. Working ~ Women Require That Amount in Milwauki Milwaukee, Wis., March 12.—A work. Ing woman neews $8.90 a week, excep, in domestic service, to support herse’ in Milwaukee. This is the opinion e pressed by the social service commis- sion of the Milwaukee federation of charitles In a report made public to- day. The commission urges young women Wwho expect to support themselves to keep away from the city unless they have an assured income of at least §9 . week, domestic service excepted. Hawthorne Trial Nearing End. New York, March 12.—The Haw- thorne trial in progress since Novem- ber 25, practically came-to a close to- night. " The government concluded its summing speech, scathingly arraign- ing Jullan Hawthorne, Josiah Quincy, Afert Froeman ana Dr. William . Morton as ewindlers In their exploita- tion and sele of stock of Canadlan mining claims, Tomorrow morning United States Judge Mayer will charge the jury. Might Cause Complications. Castro is belng reearded with some curiosity as a man who may be tempt- od to introduce some compllcation into eoast-wise commerce. —Washington Star, Exceeding the 8zeed Limit. Colonel Roosevelt continues to im- Prove on Abe Linceln every day, It's & progressive age—Philadelphia In- aquirer, —— e Indlana MWas Jolmed the states de- siring direct clectlon of United Btates sonators, sentative Jones of Virginia, Tariff Only in - First Message WILSON’S POLICY DURING THE EXTRA SESSION APPROVED BY CABINET Others Will Follow Dealing With Oth- Proposed Leg Cannon Caile on President. ation — “Unocle Joe Washington, March 12, — President Wilson has decided upon a policy of meeting legislative developments as they arise rather than planning a pro- gramme for the extraordinary session Of congress. This, it was learned from White House callers today, will be the president’s answer o those who are urging that currency legislation, Phil- ippine independence, Alaskan questions and other subjects be taken up during the session of the new congres: Later Date for Extra Session. The president was advized by Repre- sentative Oscar Underwood, the demo- cratic majority leader, as to the status of the tariff bills belng prepared by the ways and means commitice. He learned that the committee was mak- ing rapid progress, but that it might not be ready on April 1, the date orig- inally fixed for the opening of the new congress. Mr. Underwood _thought that at least a week more,should be given to preparation and as it was oa Mr. Underwood’s advice that Mr. Wil- scn fixed upon April 1 there is no doubt that he will name & later date when Issuing his proclamation. Rep- resentative Underwood if of the belief that tariff reform alone should be at- tempted at the coming session. Champion of Philippine Independence. As he left the White House Repre- who s champloning the cause of Philippine independence, met him and sought to impress upon him the necessity for some action on that question during ihe extra session. Mr. Jones secured an appointment with the president fo~ Friday, when he will further urge Philippine legislation. The president will send first a mes- sage polnting out the necessity for tariff revislon and will follow this with a serles of messages upon specifiz things which he belleves congress muy be able to act upon without unneces- sarily prolonging the sesston. Whis course is said to have been approved at today’s cabinet meeting. “Uncle Joe” 8ays Goodbye. The suggestion that only tariff re- vision be aitempted at the coming ses- sion arose from the fear that other subjects might becloud the tariff ques- ton and interfere with it It was a day of many callers for tns president. Among these was “Uncle Joe” Cannon, former speaker of the house, who €aid goodbye to the pres:- dent Defore departing for his home in Danville, Il TEACHER REFUSED LEAVE OF ABSENCE. School Board Turns Down Request of Married Woman. New oYrk, March 12.—The privileges of maternity cannot be claimed by % New York public school teacher, the board of education decided tonight In denying the application of Mra, Kath- arine O. Edgell for a years leave of absence to bear a child. Her case en- listed the sympathy of only flve mem:- bers of the board. Thirty-two mem- bers declared themselves by their vot: unable to help this married woman high school teacher solve the problem of maidng the duties of a school mis- tress not entirely incompatible with those of a housewife and mother. By 2 vote of 28 to 9 the board voted be- forehand not even to allow the ques- tion to be debated. Publication of Mrs. Edgell's request aroused a storm of expressions of criticism and approval. Educators, clergymen, workers in women’s and children’s welfare and others partici- pated in a discussion as to whether woman's teaching efficiency would be lessened by motherhood or her efl- clency as a mother be handicapped by her position as a teacher. PRESIDENT’S WIFE TO JOIN HUSBAND. Senora Plaza an Evile in This Country for Five Years. New York, March 12—Senora Leon- idas Plaza, wife of the president of Ecuador, sailed today with her flve children’ for Colon, there to cross tho isthmus to join her husband in Quito. The varied political fortunes of Senor Plaza have kept her here for more than five years, an exile from her native land. Senor Plaza. who was elected president of Ecuador last September, after years spent in the United States as an exile, has never seen his young- est child, born 17 months ago, & month after he Teturned to his home in South America. All five of the children were born in America and none of them can speak Spanish, the mother tongue of the land over which their father rules. TO NAME A TICKET AGAINST TAMMANY. Call for Meeting Signed by Men of All Political Faiths. New York, March 12.—Thirty New Yorkers of various political faiths is- sued a call today for a meeting next Wednesday night to select a commit- tes of seventy to name candidates to oppose the Tammany tioket in_the municipal election next fall. Progres- sives, so-called independent democrats and republicans, and organization re- publicans were among the signers of the call. These included Oscer . Straus, Job . Hedges, Joseph . Choate, Seth Low, Cleveland H, Dodge, Norman Hapgood and Isaac N. Selig- man, Japs Raiss $20.000 for Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., March 12.—Japan- ese graduates of Harvard university ave subscribed a fund of $30,000 to sed by the eprporation as & femn- dation wu%_wmen o ostablish lesture- ships en Ovfental philosophy, The Greater Noed. We're not sending the troeps to Gal- veaten on Mexico's aceount, put sim- B for, the rpaciSeation of Governor leuitt—Washingten Post, Net Sumprising. Ner, eensidering all the things thet nave happened to it, is it Susprising that the Mexican treasury Be Stomne ‘Gondensed Teiegrams Speaker Champ Clark was yesterday admitted to practice before the 'su- preme court. The Bill Abolishing Capital Punish- ment in Wuhln‘lon’stalz was D:‘E‘:ei by the senate. _Tho Slashed Skirt has come under the ban of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Marshall. \ Assemblyman McKee introduced a bill at Albany providing for free text- books and school supplies in New York ate. The Plant of the Giens Falls, (N. Y. Publishing Coy publianers of the Batiy Times, was wrecked by fire. The loss is $50,000. Former -Representative Sweet of Grand Rapids, been chosen for asslstant of commerce. Edwin F. Mich., has secretary Mrs. Emma Nouts and her six dren were fatally burned yeste: morning when a lamp exploded thelr home 4t Filbert, Pa _The Young Men’s Christian Associa tion bullding at Malden, Mass, was damaged to an extent of $30,000syes- terday by fire and water. \ Reuben F. Smith, president of the Cleveland and Pitisburg railroad, died at his home at Cleveland, O. Heé w born in Connecticut in 1§30. Senator Ratts Introduced a bill in the Indlana legislature providing for an annual “rat killing day.” The bill Wwae passed and slgned by the gov- ernor. Vermont Farmers and Lumbermen believe thet the foars of o poor maple sugar season are well founded. Only a_comparatively small run of sap is expected.- The Day of the Fire Horse in New York city is over. “We will purchase no more horses for the fire depart- ment,” Commissioner Johnson an- nounced yesterday. ‘ The Study of Latin virtually hus been abolished in the secondary schools of Latin-America, accoraing 1) Dr. Edgar E. Brandon of the United tates bureau of education. Among the Subjects not acted uj by the expiring congress and whic have gone over for the new admini tration and congress to deal with, that relating to the fur seals of Alaska. Albort Baker and Lawrence Ledersr, boys of 18, were held yesterday with- out bail for trial on a charge of at- tempted robbery of the home of Fara Forni, the Italian consul general at New York. on of the Town of War into two towns was as- sured yesterday when the house passcid the bill by a vote of 83 to 11. The senate had already acted favorably on the measure. The Resolution Making Sept. 10th next, the centennial anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie, a legal holi- day passed the Rhode Island senate yesterday. Governor Pothier will ap- Prove the resolution. Antl-Suffragists Went to London shops and ordered baby buggies, bar- rel organs, pianos, coal by thé ton, ang sent them to the suffrage head quarters C. O. D. The suffragettes couldn’t see the joik: Investigation Was Begun a few bours after the sudden death last Sat- urday at Norwell, Mass., of Rear Ad- miral Joseph Giles Eaton, U. S. N., re- tired. The basis for the mnquiry has not been made known. Damage Estimated at About 52,000 him, Henry Schultz and Mrs. Bertha Hunt. Judge Carpenter in the United States district court at Chicago vesterday se the trial of Jack Johnson, the neg- pugilist, charged with smuggling, for April 7. The charge of violating thc Mann white slave act will be heard later. In a General Order to All Railroads the interstate commerce commission Yesterday required them to disclose, under oath, before April 15, what con- nection each may have in the trans- portation of frelght or passengers by water. The Treasury Department yester- day barreq from entry to the United Btates “piratical copies” of copyright- ed motion pictures, but declined to bar fllms claimed to be simply Iin- fringements of copyrighted books and the like. Rev. Nestor K. Clarkson, & Chicago missfonary, was deserted by his wife for Owen W. Conn, the confessed “S0- clety” burglar under arrest at Saa Francisco. She became Infatuated with the jallbird while trying to re- form him. Finding Her Husband Alone with a woman who gave her name as Mrw. I.. Howell in a flat at Memphis, Tean AMrs. August Schieber opened fire upon them with a pistol. Schieber, who is president of a lumber company there, died soon after. Trapped in a Little Upstairs Dari Room by flames which damaged & loOging house in Philadelphia, vester- day, Mrs. Annie Maguire, an agol pensioner, was rendered unconscious by the smoke and died shortly aftcr being carried to the street. Secretary Garrison Was the First 1) bare his arm for vaccination vesterday under a _general order for the innoct. lation of all employes in his depari- ment in the state, war and navy build- infl because of two cases of smallpox among war department employes. A Bomb Explosion in the Doorway of an Italian bank at Rochester, N. Y., yesterday, blew out the front of the building and broke windows in a score of houses and business places in the noighborhood. Charles Capellino, tne banker, has been in receipt of Black Hand letters. Rev. J. M. Dunlavy and Rev. Theo- dors Ftangon, clergymen of the Meth- odist chureh, upabie to obtaln aotion by the pelice department agalhst an illieit saloon in Kansas Oity, Kag., visited the pisce themselves bovehi beer, earried away evidence and ment the preprieter into eourt. Unless the Supreme Coumt restrains Postmaster General Burlesen fram en- foroing the newspaper mmlmx law, 2x ¥t was amked to do Tuesday, ha will & immediatoly de sa, regardless of an wlgfihfl:"um agreement by fermer emal Hitchesek ta pending deiermination of its ‘enetitu= resulted from a fire vesterday after- noon in a three family house in South Manchester. The building is owned | by Joseph Hawkes, and occupied by The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion ;fil; City’s Population AGUA PRIETA IN HANDS OF REBELS Gonstifutionalist Sympathizers Take Possession With- out the Firing of Single Shot State Troops, Established A Douglas, Ariz, March Prieta fell to nearly 1,060 consiitutl alist sympathizers who crowded border from Douglas today. Not a shot the was fireds and General Ojeda. com- manding the federal garriscm, With about 500 men, evacuated the town, leaving thirty rural police to guard federal interests. Federal Guards Join Rebels. Late this afternoon 24 of the guards leff by General Ojeda deserted to the 1 the rebel garr night and reinfore son. 18,000 Rounds of Ammunition Left. The new arrivals found 18,000 rounds FEDERAL FORCES EVACUATE THE BORDER TOWN Sympathizers at Douglas Crossed Line and Upon Arrival | ranza, the rebel gov who_refused to minister of agriculture north by reconciliation, has teleg ident Huerta ask a Provisional Municipal Gov ernment—Americans Assured They Need Have no Fear of Disorders—Refugees Urged to Return. titution” is the cry resounding the streets of the little Mexica While the troops parade in hilarious fashion C that no American need disorders. He has sent las for all refugees to aseured of protection. A pre municipal government and house service will be establis mediately. SUING FOR PEACE word to I re Rebel Governor of Coahuila Surroun After the surrender of the border town, 650 state troops under Blias ed by Federal Troops Galles arrived and & provisional mu- WS R or of Cos recognize rebol standard and the six who refused e S Te Join the constitutionaiists _were | sdministration and initlaied whe ejected from the town. Unarmed men |Deared 1o be & IF000TES J 3 from Douglas crossed the border e s mmud & bave men. Garcia. Aldape, named Manuel the government aphed t ng for Schearer Testifies Regarding the Inci- dents at His Home, veland, Ohio, March 12.--Samuel D. Sehearer, former husband of the wodman whe is chjrged Chief of Police Ired uilty of im- moral conduct, today told the civil service commisson his v¢ on of the occurrences at snearer home which ¢ ',\il"l“ th 2 f the charges against t ks e The prosecution th Maurice Budwig, first witness for the defense, st ribed at | for XKohler while chief was | home in bed on F ry 2, 1912, the first alleged visit to the date of his Schearer home. On the night of June 5, 1912, Schear- er 2ald he smashed @ Window in his home, after ringinz the doorbell for several minutes, and, soing through the house, found Kohler hidden behind | the ice box In the kitchen. “You've got me’ Kohler exclaimed, aceording to Schearer: “now what are you ing to do with me? Th’g;' g'nfl upstairs to where Mrs. Schearer was found. Schearer desecrib- ed Kohler and his wife as being In “scanty attire. Finally Mrs. Schearer left the house, Schearer said, and durlng the conver= tion which followed, the witncsse said, | Kohler asked that the storv be kept from his 1 said: “You can rest assured that | she will never learn about this from “T thought it was me,” Schearer said he had said ! the only sensible thing during that evening.” BRANDS KISSING AS A DANGEROUS HABIT. New Haven Board of Health Warns People to Be Carefu' New Haven, March 12.—The dangerous and banned by the Haven board of health as a convevor of aisease, and people are warned in the monthly bulletin just issued by the board that cases of contagious and in- fectious dlseases are often attributable o kissing. o 0 he Kims,” says Dr. Frank W, Wright, health officer, “that symbol of affection so highly appreciated by practically al civilized people, that is used to quell fear, sooth grief express joy and emphasize love, so long re- garded as pleasant and harimless, has been proved by unsentimental persons only unsanitary put under to be not certain conditions absolutely danger- ous.” Dr. Wright goes on tel tell of cases which have come under his personal observation in which dread diseases were communicateq by kisses. He urges that those who have contagious diseases be particularly careful In Kiss- ing others. The End of a Thames Bridge. Southwark bridge, which will soon be pulled down and rebuilt, will g¢ unwept, for it has no beauty, no ai sociations, and motorists abuse it be- cause of its awkard hog's back. It is also narrow, and twists away from Queen’s street at a bad angle. It Is an obscure and plebeian bridge, and aiscover: many pelite persons only it on the day of the coronation pro- gress, when London bridse was closed. Yet there is an interest In the quiet and comely old houses on the north approach now the haunt of Dicken- ey commerce—except the one which some conservative City man (appar- ently) insists on inhabiting. And the do worse fcturesque tourist might Bhast oross it to get the impressive near view of the mountainous outline of Cannon Street station, with its twin black domes or minarets over the opening, wnence trains run in and out seundlessly. The bridge was be- gun in the year of Waterloo (thers Was a “cold collation” on a temporary bridge after the ceremony) and it waullong reckoned & wonder in iron- work, becasse of the prodigious wpan of its arches. It was one of the last Lendon bridges to levy a toll. It serv- ©d the purpess of ail the Thames hridgee in opening a passage for light end 8ir through the Hputhwark sluma haste. Tonight those in controi of the |jardo, commander of the rur border town and port are celebrating | joined the Carranza movemunt the bloodless victory. Viva La Con- ficlally reported to have rre AGREED NOT TO TELL SENATOR M'DEVITT CHIEF KOHLER'S WIFE. ESCAPES REPRIMAN Walks Out of Room Bofore It Been Administered. Poston, March 12.—The sens Drepared today to @iscipline John J. McDevitt of Quincy suspend him, but before th was taken the senator bad abry left the chamber. The scrp srms was instructed to reav presence of MecDevitt tomorr hear a reprimand fram the pn and make the demanded apology The committee on rules had r od that McDevitt in stating r ihat an atiempt had been mads member of the house to bribe said what was unirve, and v mended that he be reproved ir session and suspended until M anq thercafter unti be bad apoicgis ed to tife genate. When e committee report reached late this sfternoon, MeDevitt rose to & question of priv ege, and sald: “In relation to the matter about be acted upon by the senate, my The statement wt B scdence is clear. I made at the socond hearin the joint committee on rules w rect. I have had to fight for thing I have gotten, and expect t long as I live. I bear no mali ward anyonme connected i case” This said, the senator walked o the room. The recommendations the committee were adopted by a voi vote. SARAH BERNHARDT IN AUTO COLLISION Celebrated Actress Su But Not Serious Injuries Los Angeles, Calif., Marek Bernhardt, the noted French suffered pamful but proba jous imjuries in an automobile dent here tonight. She was way to Los Angeles from V the evening performance at a loc theater when her eutomob 3 with o heavy truck. The machine was wrecked actress suffered two wrenched a Jacerated 1ip and bruises on the After recelving mredical attendanc insisted upon playing toni: act was placed last on that she could regain her com from the shock of the acciden CRISIS IS BELIEVED TO BT NEAR AT ADRIANOF Fortress Will Either Fall or T Will Attempt to Get Away London, March 12.—News s Adrianopie, the mvested Turkis tress, is meagre, but despatches Constantinople say it is believed that the end of the present wee see either the capitulation of the tress or a desperate attempt by Sb ri Pasha to break through the the enemy. The allles’ reply to the power garding mediation is again delay will not be delivered before Frid: there # lttle doubt that before ropean_ diplomacy can get to we the problem Adrianepie will be session of the alMes. The Turks, while seemingly ed for another revolition, wre zing their flect in an ettempt to pre vent the Servian army from assisth e Montenegrins in their atis utai. EX-8ECRETARY WILSON WELCOMED BY NEIGHBOR Guest of Hemor at Banquet of CF zons of Ames, Jo. Ames, Towa, March 12 —James son, former pecpatary of agriculture was the guest of honor at & “weicom home” celobration today. FPresiden Pearson of Ames, Governcr Clazis an stato officlals were participants in tb g o which inaluded an uddres: y Mr, Wilsen, The former secretar was desn of the epartment of agricul @ here whon he o ortfollo unde When at the seuthern end you sre at Hankside and within a stone's throw of the site ef the Glahe theater, At the morth end was ence the vinemers' where the mediasval bargos Unloaded wine frem Rordeaux, = Rar- viay's en Bankside keeps up the traditien, New Bpitain—Burriit gramge Wil Beld a Huabandman night Saturday the leeture of the eeea- delivered by Herberi K. sFniioiogias N m‘m‘ a8 ot which was pre d by a zeception. Pennayivenia Will Rave a state ae it for the smppreasion of vic on ifa In the senate be caraes e praposed law woul * ) guTgeons, drogwist or Saving knowiadse of the exl of cages af cortaln dis- fram vica within s 6 Teport the swng g3