Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 29, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV—NO. 76 RCH 29, 1913 i PRICE _TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwi LOSS OF LIFE MAY NOT EXCEED 300 Many Persons Thought to Have Perished in Floods Are Found to be Safe KEEN COMPETITION AMONG THE UNDERTAKERS Rivalry For Possession of Unidentified Bodies at Dayton Re- sults in Disregard of Instructions—Disease Breaks Out Among Refugees in Indiana—Cincinnati Now Threaten- ed by the Worst Flood in Its History. ’ waters from tributaries east and north of here, this city is facing the worst | flood in its history. Late today the| sauge would reach seventy feet, ai- most to the mark of 1884, the record vear. \ ‘Weather forecasters here tonight expressed conviction that during to- morrow the river would reach 68 feet and would go to the 70 foot mark early next week, probgbly Monday. The weather bureau also declared there would be a further rise of 5 to 10 feet at all points above here with- in the mext two or three days. At Cincinnati the conditicns are not yet acute, but the worst is feared. All lowland fo the west and east of the city is submerged and also alons the water front the commercial houses are gradually disappearing under the vellow river. No loss of life has been reported here. Along the Kentucky *shore condi- tions are rapidly becoming worse. At Covington more than 500 houses are reported submerged and their occu- pants are being given shelter and protection in public buildings. WON'T TURN BACK. Secretary Garrison . Determined Make Trip to Flood rict. Flood waters receded _sufficiently last night to show that the numbers of persons drowned in all the affected cities in Ohio and Indiana may not exceed 500. While many persons are still missing to friends and relatives, investigations made to date indicated that many were safe who had been thought lost. In Dayton, careful esti- mates placeq the number of deaths at 200 or fewer, although a meeting of the undertakers asserted that the total might be 800. Relief work went on rapidly in Dayton and all parts of the city were reached. Columbus will have the next to the largest loss of life, sixty bodies hav- ing already been found in the inun- dated portfons of West Columbus. Unverified figures for Miamsburg, Ohio, give fifty dead, but in all oth- er flooded cities, the figures fell off rapidly as relief expeditions covered the ground. Hamilton, Ohio, which had report- ed as many as 250 dead did not put forth any figures today. Mount Vernon did not confirm its previous report of fifty dead and no confirmation was had for 32 reported drowned at Venice, Ohio . Chillecothe and Tiffin, Ohio, where there had been reports of fifty or more dead, each found 18 corpses up to midnight.. The best figures of Plqua give a death toll of fifty persons Fremont and Middletown, Ohio, each has fourteen dead; Massilon five and Zanesville four. The Indiana total drowned receded to fewer than fifty distributed as fol- lows: Peru 20; Brookville, 16; Fort Wayne, 6, and Terre Haute 4. No bodies have been found in West Indianapolis, where as many as 200 deaths were at one time reported. With the situation somewhat alle- viated in the flood-swept districts in to _0n BoardMecretary Garrison's Spe- cial Train, Kenova, West Virginla, March 28.—Turning a deaf ear to rail- road officials who counselled him against attempting to penetrate the heart of the flood district, Secretary Garrison undaunted by djsheartening delays which have marked his journey, declared tonight in emphatic terms | that he would under no circumstances abandon his undertaking. At Wil- liamson. the secretary was told the situation-was hopeless beyond Kenova, so far as reaching either Cincinnati or Columbus was concerned. Ohio and Indiana, a new menace| “Wa shall go forward as long as threatened tonight in the rise of rivers | there is a length of track to carry in the southern valleys of both states. | Us,” said the secretary, as lus train At Cincinnati the Ohio, swelled by its | crept, snail-like, through the narrow Bilue Ridge passes.” $5,000 FROM ROCKEFELLER. Red Cross Raises Fund of $300,000 Within 48 Hours. ‘Washington, March 28.—Miss Mabel Boardman, chairman of the Red Cross rellef committee, left tonight on a special Red Cross train, bearing the relief of the capital cliy. With her were Miss Jane Delano, head of the Red Cross nursing corps: Major Char- les Lynch, a Red Cross official, and ten nurses. . In all $300,000 has been placed in the hands of the Red Cross within 48 hours. Of this over $50,000 was receiveg today. From New York there came $65.000: from Detroit $10,000; from H. C. Frick, $10,000, and from John D. Rockefelier $5000. There were thousands of smaller contribu- tions. A complete fleld hospital was ship- ped to Columbus via Pittsburgh by -the war department. Medical supplies that had been shipped out of Wash- ington twice before for Ohio _and blocked were again sent forward to- day. tribuiaries north and south, caused alarm: and elthough the situitions had not yet reached an acute stage, re- ports from neighboring Kentucky towns indicated that warning had been issueq to the inhabitants to seek Doints of safety from the rising water. Indiana alarm was felt in the vs of the Ohio, Wabash and White rivers, but ample warning sery- ed in a measure to reduce the panic. RIVALRY OF UNDERTAKERS, Competition for Possession of Bodies Results in Disregard of Instructions. South Dayton, O., March 25.—Tight hundred dead is the average estimation of seven-eighths of Dayton’s under- takers called tosether for a conference tonight. They reported 83 bodies had Eeen recovered and now are at various prlaces in the city. Individual esti- mates of the undertakers were from 500 to 1,000, but the consensus of opinion was that 800 would be a co servative figure. Exbloration of se eral recesses of the city today by mewspapermen hardly would justify such an estimate. 5 ()brdi)rs hafl been issued for all bodies to be brought to a general morgu - tablished in a Earage. This nad et AFURECORD - HEIGHT. been hgeded, as less than half the < = number of bodies found, according to [Hudson River Establishes New Mark the undertakers, had been brought —Water Now Receding. | there tonight. —_—- There has been keen competition he- tween undertakers for possession of ‘unidentified bodies, and many of them have been taken to undertaking estab- lishments not under water. A general call for all undertakers to meet was sent out by John H. Patter- son, in charge of relief work, in an effort to have the work of recovering bodies organized. Thirty undertakers were present and all said they based their estimates of the dead on a gen- cral survey of the eituation Louisville life savers r into Riverdale and North Dayton sec- tions, where it was feared there had been great loss of life. They did not find a body and said they believed few would be found. An expedition of Cleveland naval reserves brought practically an identical report. As so large a part of the city had been explored and information obtain. ed failed to bear out earlier estimates ::reat loss, the announcement of the ertakers came as a surprise {o those most familiar with the situation. DISEASE NOW THREATENS. May Cause Greater Loss of Life in In- diana Than Flood. Indianapolis, Tnd., March 28.—Indi- ana’'s flood death toll remains uncer- tain tonight, with all reports confirm- ing more conservative estimates of the loss of life while panic is attacking cities in the southern valleys of the ‘White and Wabash rivers and all along Albany, N. Y., March 28—The Hud- son river today reached the highest point in its history when at 1 p. m. the local weather bureaws- records registered 22.4 feet. The crest of the flood which has caused enormous loss- es and widespread suffering through- out the Mohawk and Hudson valleys, 15 believed to have been reached. To- night the water is receding slowly. The lower section of the city s in- undated. Much sickness already is re- ported and physiclans and nurses are aiding in relieving the suffering. Many factorfes and some schools have | closdd. Raflroad service is crippled, mails are delayed and telegraph and telephone service is hampered. There | has been much damage to property but no loss of life has been report- ed. Boat Capsizes, Three Drown. Terre Haute, Ind., March 28.—While attempting to cross the Wabash river in a rowboat today Ed Leffner, Bud Shoemaker and the latter's wife were drowned when the boat capsized in midstream. The body of Sammy Richardson .a little boy, was recovered today from ‘the bottomiand flood. Second R T Leaves. New York, March 27—The second relief train in charge of officials of the National Cash Register Company left over the New York Central tonight for Dayton. Whole Family Drowned. the Ohio, as rising waters threaten . repetitions of the upstate horror. | South Dayton, Ohio, March 28— Sunshine and disappearing waters re- | Charles Potter, his wife and six chil- lieved sufferers in the city. dren were drowned today while at- tempting to escape from their wreck- ed home. The wagon in which they were being conveyed to a place of gafety overturned and all lost their ives. West Indianapolis and Peru were placed under the strictest quarantine orders' today. there being four deaths in the courthouse last night. Much serious sickness among Peru refugees today threatened greater loss of life than was caused by the waters. The Indianapolis city board of health late today quarantined West Indianapolis after ejecting hundreds of persons who had entered the flooded district since noon, when Mayor Shank opened the Oliver avenue and West Michigan Meriden Fund Starts With $100. Meriden, Conn., March 28.—At a meeting of citizens here tonight to organize for the purpose of providing funds for the flood sufferers in Dayton, ©O., a committes of 100 was appointed to serve as the active machinery of street bridges to the publi the proposition. George N. Curtis, Sixteen bodies were found in Brook- | treasurer of the International Silver ville and six still were missing today. [ company, was appointed to act as Indiana’s worst danger now lies in | treasurer. The fund starts with $100. 5 wave of disease that may follow the floods. Water service was resumed in Indianapolis today with-a warning that the water must not be used for drink- ing or food purposes unless bolled. CINCINNATI IN DANGER. The committee on claims reported favorably on the clalm of the buildin: committee of the board of trustees of the Connecticut colony- for epileptics for services and for ihe empleyment of engineers and architects. The total . |sum claimed is $3,210, which inocludes Threatened With the Worst Flood in {31,180 for Zebulon R. Robbins of Nor- wich, Willlam P. Kelley of Killingly Ao it 1l _|$760 'and John H. Mountain of Mont- Cabled Paragraphs French Aviator Killed. Verdun, France March 28.—Lieuten- ant Brossard, a French army officer, was killed while making a fiight in an aeroplane here this morning. 114 Miles an Hour. Liege, Belgium, March 28—M. Com- brez, a French fiying man, attained a speed of 114 miles an hour during A flight from Rheims to Tournal today. Boats Sunk by Drifting lce. Rybinsk, Russia, March 28.—Over & hundred boats have been sunk by drifting ice in the river Volga. Many men have perished as a result of the accidents. German Army Strengthened. Berlin, March 28—A bill increasing the German army by 4,100 officers, 1,500 non-commissioned offcers and 116,965 privates was adopted by the federal council today. Japanese men Killed. Tolkio, March 28—The Japancse of- fAcers, Lieutenants Tokuda and Kimura, were killed today while giving an ex- nibition fiight in an aeroplane before a large gathering of members of par- liament. Made 93 1-2 Miles an Hour. Lyons, France, March 28—Bugenc Gilbert, a Frenth aviator, flew from Paris to this city today in_a mono- plane, a distance of about 318 -miles, at an average speed of 93 1-2 miles an hour ,a French record for long dis- tance fiying. THE RAGING CONNECTICUT. Two Flood Waves Cause Troubl North—C. V. Trains Delayed. Springfield, Mass, March 25.—Two flood waves, born of the rainstorms in northwestern New England_earlier in the weel, swept down the Connecticut river today, causing some damage to property in’ the lowlands, necessitating the shutting down of many industries and interfering with railroad traffic at reral points. far as known there was no loss of life. The flood was not a record- breaker, but many old marks were threatened. Driven from Homes at Woodville. The first wave was the higher, and evening the crest was passing Holyoke and was being watched with some anxiety by the river bank inhab- itants below that city. The second wave was following 1 miles back, having driven the lowland dwellers from their homes at Woods- ville, N. H., last night and carried out Up | a @am on Israel’s river, a tributary of the Connecticat, at Lancaster this forencon. The second wave was abreast of White River Junction to- ght, but it was not so high nor so leng as its predecessor. Delays on Central Vermont. The first wave left behind it work for the Boston and Maine, Central Vermont and the Rutland railroads. There were many washouts and some Dbridges went out. The Boston and Maine had to stop its trains on the Cheshire division near Bellows Falls, Vt, and on many stretches of the Passumpsic, especially in the vicinity cf Bellows Falls and Woodsville. The Canadian service on the Boston and Maine was fairly well maintained. The Central Vermont suffered delays near Brattleboro and between White River Junction and Montpelier. No trains ran on the latter division during the day because of washouts. Factories Forced to Shut Down. The Rutland road was compelled to suspend service to Bellows Falls from the north and suffered the loss of & bridge between Rutland and Middle- hury. The road had trouble also be- tween Rutland and Bennington. The first flood wave shut down fac- tories at Bellows Falls, Brattleboro and Northampton and caused some damage to riverside gardens while passing through Massachusetts. Its wave crest could be plainly followed. At dawn it was just below Bellows Falls. At noon it was passing Brattleboro; dur- ing the afternoon it swept by South Vernon and crossed the Massachusetts line, and at sunset it had reached Hol- yoke. Both Waves on Way to Sound. Ahead of it there was a gradual rise in the river, while behind the river aropped quite sharply. —Both waves are destined for Long Island sound, the first to arrive by tomorrow night and the second on Sunday. Still Rising at Hartford. Hartford, Conn, March 28.—The flood in the Connecticut river is ex- pected to reach crest here at 2 c'clock tomorrow morning, according to the forecast of the local weather bureau tonight. tA midnight the water was about 24 feet above the low water mark and it was expected to rise & root or more by 2 o'clock. No serious damage has been reported so far. Boats Used at South Hadley. Springfield, Mass., March 28.— Connecticut river was still rising slow. Iv here late tonight. At 9 o'clock it had reached a height of 20 feet, two feet below the record mark. In South Hadley the river fiooded the lower floors of a number of houses and the Lasement of St. Patrick’s church was damaged. In a section of Northampton known as Little Venice several houses were inundated, and in some instances occupants were forced to flee to safety in boats. MAINE TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION LAWS. Impeachment of Three Sheriffs is Pro- posed in House. Augusta, Me., March 28.—The cam- paign against violators of the prohibi- tion law is receiving the attentlion of the legislature. ‘Today the house passed the senate resolve for an investigation of the charges of official laxity made by the governor in his message of vesterday, ind added an amendment to include Sheriffs Wilbert E. Emerson of Penob- scot county and John W. Ballou of Sagadahoc county In the impeachment proceedings instituted by the execu- tive against Sheriff Lewis W. Moulton of Cumberland county. Not Blamed for Steamship Explosion. Baltimore, March 28—The grand jury _today dismissed the charges against Willlam J. Bomhardt, foreman of stevedores, who was held respon- sible by the coroner’s jury for the dy- namite_exvlosion on °the steamship ‘Alum Chine on March 7. Which caused the death of more than thirty persons, injurfes to many others and heavy property damage. Protection Against Iceberg ‘Washington, March 28.—The revenue cutters Seneca and Miami will patrol trans-Atlantic ship routes this spring to protect shipping against icebergs. The Baltimore Board of Estimates vesterday appropriated $25,000 for the Cincinnati, Ohio, March 35—As thé |ville 8300. The report of the commit- waters of the Ohio river continue to ' ice was accepted and the claims or- Tise, increased in yolume by flood dered paid. ; relief of the flood sufferers of Ohio and Indiana Serenade For A Suffragette STRANGE DEMONSTRATION BY AMERICAN WOMEN. AT A JAIL IN LONDON Led by Deaf Cornetist They Sang American Patriotic Songs for Bene- fit of Detroit Woman Prisoner. Landes; Mach g8 Bcbtestel by 4 bodyguard of busky dock _workers, Miss_Scott-Troy of San Francisco, heading a delegation of American and English suf tonight serenaded Miss Seelie Emerson of Detroit, Mich., the militant suffragette who is on a hunger strike in Halloway jail serving out & two months’ sentence for break- ing windows. Solos by Deaf Cornetist. The anti agists had hired a band of roughs who were armed with bad eggs, stale vegetables and other ob- Jjectionable things for use as missiles, oh is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total ircula tion is. the Largest in Connecticut in- Proportion to the City's Population Sultan Weeps | Over Reverses WANTS THE POWER. TO HASTEN MEDIATION. JEALOUSY CROPS OUT Bulgarians Claim All Credit for Cap- ture of Adrianople, but Servians Want Snare—Adrianople Situation. London, March 28.—Railway and tel ‘aph communications with ople are being restored rapidly and some idea of the condition of the city is beginning to reach the outside world. According to reports from Sofia the condition of the population of Adrian- ople is not so desperate as has been depicted. While the Turks set fire to the grain store they overlooked the flour depot, the contents of which are being distributed among the poor. These reports declare that only a few buildings were damaged by the bom- mind. the other is the confidence of such The real value of advertisiig medium as it does in the advertis tisements. He also must realixe superior advertising opportunities tin, twelve cents a week delivered Confidence in Advertising The merchant who considers the best method of bringing chandise before the public has two important points presented to his One is the purchasing power of those he seeks to reach and be ‘seelss to make his announcements. scrutinizes both and it is the paper which is able to secure and hold the attention of the public because of its mews value that is in a position to ive the advertiser the best opportunities. the reading public is interested in the news columns, just that much time, interest and attention does it give to the advertisements, with which it becomes familiar and has confidence. The merchant must realize that if the readers give credence to the news printed therein, they likewise place their belief in its adver- paper can have the best results and his advertisements do the most good. As the home paper of Eastern Connecticut, The Bulletin has In the past week the following matter has appeared in The Bulle- mer- purchasers in the medium in which lies as much in securing the proper ements themselves. The public Just so much as in the home where~the that it is for the business man. at your door: Bulletin Telegraph Local ~Gensral Total Saturday, March22.. 78 195 819 1092 Monday, March24.. 81 150 275 506 Tuesday, March25.. 89 116 225 430, Wednesday,March 26.. 65 130 252 447 Thursday, March27.. 80 116 305 501 Friday, March 28.. 93 118 196 407 Totals . ..ov .. 486 825 - 2072 3383 but the presence of the strong-armed | bardment. Nothing is sajd concerning dock men deterred them from making the slightest manifestation of hostil- ity, “The suffragettes had anticipated trouble and hired a deaf cornetist who could not be disconcerted by the hoots or jeers of the antis. Not omiy was thers no hooting or jeering, but the cornetist had no other kind of inter- ruption to contend with. Sang Patriotic American Song. Baron Von Hoist of San Francisco acted as master of ceremonies. Stand- ing close to the wall of the jail and accompanied by the cornetist, the ser- enaders sang patriotic American songs. After the serenade Miss Troy was presented with an illuminated honor- ary membership in the dockers' union as @ testimonial of the gratitude of the men for her support during the dockers strike two years ago when she fed thousands of her children. Rowdies Smash the Cornet. In striking contrast to the demon- stration at Halloway jail was a suf- fragette meeting held across the street without the protection of a bodyguard The speakers at this meeting were howled down by the mob. At the con- clusion of the serenade of Miss Emer- son-the deaf cornetist was Invited to cross the street and play, the suf- fragettes hoping that his music would Ssoothe the savage breasts of the rowdy element. The cornetist accepted the invitation but had only begun the air of The Star Spangled Banner when hoodlums pounced upon him smashed his cornet and forced the suffragettes to abandon the meeting. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TREATS TARIFF ONLY. Document of About 1,200 Werds Sub- mitted to the Cabinet. hington, March 28. — President Wi a3 8 busy day with the flood situation requiring constant attention, 2 long cabinet meeting and a long turn of New Jersey politics. The president referred to the cabinet his messago to the extraordinary ses- sion of congress, about 1,200 words. It was approved and ordered printeds Those who have discussed the message with the president said it dealt entirely with the tariff, leaving to the discre- tion of congress the method of han- dling the issue and calling attention to the brieg of currency legislation as soon as the tariff was disposed of. OBITUARY. Ex-President James McCrea. Philadelphia, March 28 —James Mc- Crea, former president of the Penn- sylvania Rallroad company, died at his home in Haverford tonight. Child’s Body in Newspaper. Meriden, Conn., March 25.—The dead body of a white female child was found this afternoon in the rear yard of a tenement on Lewlis avenue. The Child was wrapped up in a local news- paper of the issue of March 22. Medi- cal Examiner Bradstreet declared that the child was less than a day old. The police are investigating the case. Butter Famine in New York. New Yori, March 28.—Not a pound of butter was brought inio New York today and the price went up four cents n ‘pound. The milk supply also was inadequate, upstate floods making it impossible for shipments'to reach the city. xS . Any way, the spirit mediums scem Lo have & ghest of a show, the damage done by the fires which the Turks themselves started before the city fell. Turks’ Work of Destruction. In the last despatch the Turkish commander of the fortress, Shulzi Pasha, sent to Constantinople, he sald he was destroylng the great national | religious buildings “to prevent them being profaned by impure food.” Many of the Turks before the ememy arrived took time to break thelr rifles, render useless a number of siege guns, destroy all ammunition depots and even to kill their horses in order to prevent them falling into the hands of | the invaders. The wireless telegraph | station and the searchlights were blown up by order of Shukri Pasha, who, on the whole, seems to have made a pretty complete job of his work of destruction. Jealousy Between Bulgars and Ser- ns. The railway is being utilized to take supplies into the city. Jealousy be- tween the Bulgarians and Servians is apparent in official circles. General Ivanoff, the Bulgarian commander, Cclaims ‘all the credit for the capture of Adrianople. He describes the Ser- vian operations as “purely demonstra- tive” "On the other hand the Servian official account of the fall of the city glves credit to the Servian artillery, cavalry and infantry which, it says, made possible the capture of the east- | ern section of the fortress by the Bul- | garians. | All accounts reaching here agree that the Turks have suffered a severe defeat at Tchatalja. Some of the cor- respondents placed the Turkish loss as high as 2,600 killed and 7,500 wound- | ed. These ‘figures, however, probably { are exaggerated as only a few wound- ed men have reached Constantinople. Sulfan Sheds Tears. The sultan wept bitterly when in- formed of the general situation and it is reported that the Turkish em- bassies abroad have been ordered to appeal to the powers to hasten medi- ation. 3 The ambassadors, who met today to discuss the southern limits of auton- \2{101}3 Albania, found some complica- ons which will cause a delay in reaching an_agreement. Well-balanced Meals. The University -of Wisconsin_has proved that “four adlits leading fair- Iy active lives can be supplied with well-balanced meals at $2.50 a week each,” but who cares for a well-bal- anced meal—New York Sun. In the Tall Timber. “There’s no sorrow, no unhappiness, no worry in the woods,” says a nature writer. 'No wonder people take to ‘em —Denver Republican. Paying No Attention. The engineer doesn’t even toot his whistle when the train whizzes past Armageedon now.—Chicago Record- Herald. A Difference. Mr. Cleveland had Congress on his hands. It begins to appear as if Con- gress would have Mr. Wilson on lts ! hands—Omaha Bee. . Net in Hobo Cla President Wilson anyhow, hasw't osted a ‘slgn notifying applicants for jobs to apply-at the rear door.—De- trolt Free Press. Silence may give consent, but few ‘women will consent to silence. Condensed Teiegrams Hartford’s Flood Contribution last night amounted to over $15,000. Women Lead the Men in high schol- arships at Cornell university. The High Water Record of 1865 has been broken in western New York. Walter A. L. Collins,"a music_com- 5!1012 died at his home in Elmhurst, Since Jan, 1, 1913, there have been 58 bombs exploded with maliclous intent in New York. Mrs. A. J. Woods Sailed for Europs on the steamer France, her dog Pierre occupying a stateroom. A Girl Baby Was Born on the Kron- prinzessin _ Cecfle during a terrific Storm on the Atlantic ocean. President Wilson Practically has de- termined to keep Miss Julia Lathrop in office as chief of the federal children’s bureau. New Haven's Total Subscription to the Red Cross fund for the relief of the flood sufferers has so far amounted to $4,500. One Hundred and Fifty Thousand dollars has been subscribed to the flood relief fund of the Chicaco assoclation of commerce. Supt. Brumbaugh of phia public schools has adopt simplified spelling mentary schools. the Philadel- decided’ to in the ele- ng of Various Organizations il eld on April 1 in New York to start a nation' wide movement to re- duce the cost of living. Governor Tener of Pennsylvania ves- terday signed a bill prohibiting the carrying of red flags in varades or other public processions. Governor Cox of Ohio yesterday tel- egraphed President Wilson: “We are more than grateful to you for the good things you are doing for our state.” | Twe Men Were Killed and six others were entombed vesterday as the result of the collapse of a pillar of coal at the Buck Run colllery, near Pottsville, | o Bocause of the Floods in Ohio 900 freight cars on the Pennsylvania rail- Toad, most of them loaded, continue to be held at Altoona, Pa., and at Holli- daysburg. While Searching Titles of Property in Sullivan county, Pa., it was discov- ered that P. E. Armstrong, who died | in 1864, deeded his land to God. The provisions of the will still stand. President Wilson for the Second time 'FATHER AND SON DIE IN THE CHAIR at Hillsville sence From State—Latter Richmond, Va., March 25 Swanson Allen, his son. Desperate Efforts to Save Men. The sentence of the court, held up for six hours while peratc and dramatic efforts were being made to save the condemned men by elevenih hour appeals to Lieutenant Gove Eliyson, was speedily ordcred proceed when Governor Mann hasten ed back to Virginia to take charg r the situation. The prison superin- tendent acting’ within the law, had | agreed at two o'clock this morning to defer oxecution, giving Attorne General Williams an opportun meanwhiie to pass upon the const tional righ: of Lieutenant Governor Ellyson to interfere. Governor Warned by Son But the vounz son of Governo Mann reached his father in Philadel- phia by telephone I than If an hour after the delay had been ordered and by eight o'clock ihe zovernor hod returned to Virginia_soil. Incensed ¥y the umexpected effort to take ad- Vantage of his temporary absence, when he had repeatedly refused clemency, the governor boarded an arly morning train, arriving in Rich- mond at i1.30 o'clock. On tac way he telegrapheq the secretary of the commonwealth that he wouid be in Virginiz by 8 o'clock this information suddenly checking the plan of Allen vmpathizers in furtherin the lieutenant governor to interven Governor Guarded by Police. in his short tenure of office.on Monday | Word reached police hvadquarters wil! face an intrepid committee of suf- | that a crowd had assembled at the fragists who will inyvade the " White| station to meet the governor and pa- House with the demand for the ballot. | trolmen and deteciives were hurried 5 & | there to prevent any demonsiration. Captain Raold Amundsen, discover of | When the governor siepped on the th South Pole, has signed a contriet| platform he was quickiy surrounded to buy two hydroaeroplanes, which he| by officers who escortcd him to a will take with him into the Arctic on| taxicab which took him quickly to his next voyage of exploration in 1914, the capitol. = {.In his office at the state prison Prof. Bruce Wyman of Harvard uni- | Superintendent Wood was pacing the versity has been appointed consulting | floor nervously as he waited develop- counsel of the New England railroad | ments. The situation there had be- lines, including the New York, New | come more intense. Precisely at noon Haven and Hartford, Boston and Maine and Maine Central Bishop Walsh vesterday sent a re- quast to the pastors of Catholic | churches in Maine to take up collec- | tions next Sunday or the Sunday fol- the superintendent was called to telephone. Governor on Duty at Noon. the The governor of Virginia is at his desk,” was the message he received from the capitol and instantly prepar- lowing for the aileviation of those in the flood districts. Justice Henry Bischoff of the New York state supreme court plunged 11 stories down an clevator shaft o, death vesterday afternoon o} grant Savings bank building at New York, whre he had offices. The Body of Mrs. George Willing, who was__drowned in Wednesda: flocd at Sharon, Pa, was recovered yesterday, and the bodies of two uni- dentified men were taken from the debris at Wheatland, three miles south | of therc More Than 250 Persons spent two days and nights in the little court- house at Hamilton, Ohio, without light, food, water or heat, and often they were drenched with rain that leaked through the roof. Many slept standing and sitting. What May Be a “Pointer” as to the probable date of opening of the Pan- ama canal is found In an official an- nouncement that all the gates in the west chambers of the big locks at Pe- dro Miguel and Miraflores will be com- pleted by Oct. 1 next. William W. Montgomery of Pitts- burg, Pa.. cashier of the Alleghi National bank, convicted for abstr: ing funds and under a 15 year sen- | tence, left the federa] penitentiary at Lezvenworth. vesterday, pardoned by President Taft, one of the latter's last official acts. At Friday’s Session of the New York East Conference of the Methodist Epis- pal church Bishop Franklin Hamilton urgeq greater activity on the part of Methodists as an offset to the activity of the Roman Catholic church. which, he said, “is_enirenching itself in our national capita Word Was Received at Yale last night that the Yale swimming team, which has been touring the west, is safe at Indianapolis. No word had been received from the men for several days and as they were known to have been in the flood zone considerable anxiety was felt for their safety, Although it Was Expected that some formal recognition of the new Chinese republic would be made yesterday. President Wilson and the cabinet de- ferred the subject of recognition until after the meeting of the Chinese as- sembly on April 7, which will proclaim a new president of the republic. Couldn’t Be Any Worse. Martial law_in Columbia, S. C., would be an improvement over the Blease kind.+Washington Post. The county senate resolution appointing commissioners, which included the name of Albert H. Lanphere of Waterford for New London county, was received in the house Thursday and placed at the foot of the calendar. The school system of Bolaé City Iaano, was recently reorganized on the basis of a careful survey of the city’s needs made by a committee of edu- cational experts. So well . satisfled ‘were the peole of the city that a num- ber of them came to Superintendent “Meek and offered him 160 to 300 acres of land and half a million dollars if he would go further and develop the Jocal high school into an' industrial city college, | | the Emi- | | ations were made to obey the mandate of the court. The witnesses who had | assembled at 7 o'clock ,the hour an- nounced for the execution had left the prison with instructions' to return at *clock. after sunrise the Allens practi- collapsed when informed that respite had been granted a combination of ci ame cally a half day by POSTMASTERS MUST | DO ACTUAL WORK Will Require All of Their Time on Job. Washington, March 28— Hereafter postmasters in the larger offices of the country are to be held strictly account hle for the time and personal atte | Postmaster-General on they give their official | Postmaster-general Burleson announ ed today that he proposed not mere! to discourage, but 1o stamp out the practice sald to be followed by many first and second class postmasters of imposing a considerable part of their { duties upon subordinates in order to utilize the time for personal ends. Furthermore the postmaster-general in making recommendations for ap- pointments to these offices, will require in -addition to the usual qualifications an assurance from the applicant that his whole business time will be de- voted to the duties of the position 147 REPORTS REGARDING THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. Filed by Examiner With Interstate Commerce Commission. Boston, March 28—The Interstate Commerce commission met here today and received from Examiner David E. Brown, 147 reports representing his investigation of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. Of the reports, forty-one deal with the New Haven itself, seventy with the New England Navigation com- pany, which operates the steamboat Iines of the company, fifteen with the Rhode Island rallroad, which operates trolley lines in that state, eight with the Connecticut company and thirteen with the Consolidated Railway com- pany, which operates the trolley lines in Connecticut. Steamship Arrivals. ew York, March _28.—Arrive Steamer C. F. Tietgen, Copenhagen. Copenhagen, March 26. — Arrive Steamer “Hellig Olav, New York (not previously), Havre, March 27.—Arrived: Steamer Chicago, New York. Halifax, March 2§ —ATrived: Steam- er Empreéss of Ireland, Liverpool for 8t. John, N. B. New York, March 28, — Arrived: Steamer Esperanza, Havana. Naples, March 28.—Arrived: Steamer Koenig Albert, New York. Monaco, March 28.—Arrived: Steam- er Caronia, New York. No Change in Size of Money. ‘Washington, March 28 —Former Sec- retary MacVeagh's order changing the size and design of all paper money of the United States was suspended by Secretary McAdoo foday. The secre- tary will authorize no change in tho ill untll congress acts upon currency legislation, which may materfally af- fect the design and character of paper | money. Clevelang has annexed the suburb of ‘Newburg, ) i Pi0ed Ao me 'Floyd and Claude Allen Pay Penalty of Their Crime Ceurthouse GOVERNOR CHECKMATES MOVE TO SAVE THEM Appeal Made to Lieutenant-Governor During Governor’s Ab- Informed and Hastens to F Desk—Elder Man Mumbles a Prayer Ere Deadly Cur rent is Applied But Youth Showed Little Emotion. Plan Arranged a Week Ago. ling a prayer and crying half aude Allen, who had that he was readv to go. ve throughout the trylr a lawless product of the Virginid (his behalf, gasped and tre mountains, whose refusal to accept : !1,.4 regained his compoy SHoTt prison term for a minor offence | the Hopeloss. Snd Aeieriod led to the wholesale court murder in |of his agea father Hillsville one vear ago, Nmped 1o | the corridos. 3 the death chaid in the state penitentiary | What brought for today, eleven minutes ahead of Claude | dignation from reported 14t that » to the lieutenan x upon a week ago Pathetic Farewel Father and son, occupyiy cells, heard the death war a few minutes after one o'cl were in Floyd Al t d upon his boy, who sto hind the steel bars acros There was a pathetic far old mountaineer, bent ar led away. The c of him helg his 5 th through th t chamber. Two minutes tered the room the signa and tHe current was turned Claude Perfectly Compose | When the prison surgeon an that Floyd Allen was d ana g The the straps for the eution, one minute e the power was Floyd Allen w er as he was plac b Claude was stoical. The Rev. G | W. Danlels, spiritual adviser | prisoners, had to lifteg car as hie left the prison A Gold Medal For Clav A gold meda sympathizers, w d to CI b ther,” was not presen in the warden’s safe when went to the chair One of the lines of Claude defense that he fending his father agamst court officers. Sidna Allen Serving 35 Ye Sidna Allen, whose tri November 11, was found murder in the second d. ing Judge Massle and ser fifteen years in the penitenti he wa# convicted of mansiau, glven five years for the kiliix Commonwealth Attorney I by agreement of counsel pleaded g ty to murder i the second degres recelved another fifteen ve for the murder of Sheriff Webb. the penalty of the gang leade years in the penitentiar n a life term for & man of his Edwards Serving Nine Y Three indictments against We Bdwards were compromised . of nin prisoner pleading & a penitentiary se on each. RAILROAD’S FIGURES ARE MERE GUES President Carter's Claim F Reports of Overtime Wo WO New York, March 25.—The of wages paid to firemen f work in reports state Commerce Cor railroads is in man. ter of guesswork on the it was declared today by WV ter, president of the firemen's org ization, before the bitrating the aifferences b firemen and the eastern railronc Certer illustrated by res reports, figures which “In_the nature of pre Mr. Carter took excepti the arbitration award wa the engineers, asserting it on reports that put the er false light. Since the awar he added, many of the engineer |uled to receive back pay h | assessed for fines. Exhibits were introduced fo roads to show that in complying recent federal and state laws r to hours of labor, inspectin electric headlights, safety app and so forth, the ecastern roads h | had to make annual ex ituree in excess of $33,000,000. made to n par rd SEVENTY PATIENTS FOR DR. FRIE Selected from Tuberculosis Victim a New York Hospita MA New York, March 281 ¥. Friedmann began preparati day for the comprehensive fc . tuberculosis vaceins which States public health service & bim to make. At Seton hosp! enty patients were selected. are pulmonary patients and all children, are surgical cases. v ty-five are women. Next W thirty more cases will be « Steamers Reported by Wirsless Fastnet, March New York for Queensic pool, 200 miles west at Queenstown at 2.15 a. m Stasconsett Mass., March er Neckar, Bremen for signalled 200 miles east at noon. Dock at 8 a. m. 28.—Steamer Boston Customs Frauds. Boston, March 28—Jghn 1 head of the spectal agenis of ury department, today tool the investigation of the al ling frauds which resulted in the arrest of Terence L. 3 employe in the local customs off snd his wife, charged with to defraud the government On_motion of Mr. Lackweod of Stamtord, the proposed bill providing for the eleation of United States sena s tors by the peopls was made the spes cial order of the day for noon of Tuess day, April &