Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 27, 1913, Page 1

TVOL. LV—NO. 126 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913 iiie Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lis Total-Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proporiion to theMCity’s Population : TEACHERS' PENSION BILL REPORTED Comes to the Senate From Commitige on Educa- tion, the Slowest of Thirty Committees ARE ELIGIBLE AFTER 25 YEARS OF SERVICE Teachers Who Serve 40 Years or More to be Entitled to 40 Per Cent. of Average of Salary For Five Years Preceding Retirement; Those Serving Shorter Periods Get Less— No Car Rides For Persons Having No Coin Less Than $5 e teach- Yol senators had expressed fear that reported by the |in the windup of business this piece : on education, to | of legislation would be killed owing to afternoon after Sena- |railroad influences, they claiming that May 11 had twice announced that it |as it was directly aimed at the smoke cplained by Senator New- | nuisunce caused by locomotives there mmitt chairman. Other | was every re on to believe that the 1. to educational matters | continued delay in getting it up for this committee having | passage came from that Source. The siowest of the thirty odd |debate was sharp for a few minutes. e ke T ot reain!| Fraud to Remain on Car with Fare writter application to | Unpaid. ourd of education, become | Senator Isbell, however, won ou pensions. | another “smoke” bill for " the o Per Cent. For 40 Years’ Service. | 2€Teed to adopt in concurrence the | Isbell bill prohibiting smoking or car- r who has been regularly | rying of lighted cigars, cigarettes or less than | pipes into closed trolley % 3 ich includes{ The senate adopted the el ver- immediately preced- | sion of the bill to prevent evasion ation shall upon form- | of fares on trolley cars and whic be entitled to an annu- | reads as follows: “It shall be deemed The amount shall bela fraudulent attempt to evade pay- or her average;ment of fare as prohibited (in the s » five vears im- | statutes) for any passenger to re- f application, | main upon a passenger car of a street ng > the amount | railway company with his lawful fare s r more | unpaid, while having a coin or bill, ) | in lawful money, of lesser denomina- tion than five dollars, but sufficient | in amount to pay his fare, which coin or bill he omits to tender for the pur of suct after he has Years' Serv- st nof less than 25 years|Deen notified that the owner, agent all be entitled | Or person in authority is at the time Sion equal to such | unable to change a coin or bill of 1 ension as the num- | five dollars for the purpose of recei rvice bears to forty. | ing such payment of fare therefrom. s are to be made in writ- Governor Signs Sunday Bill. »oard of education | The sovernor received a large num- . for Ist of July and | bher of measures this afternoon for his - board shall certify | signature. He signed the Gross Sun- achers who are en- | day bill which allows park .commis- sions sioners to hold concerts and amateur rd itors defeated Sen- | have to work out their own pi: n parliamentary fight | making the law effective. In this city N power to deal | fields, ball diamonds, tennis courts and d up as the Hart- ' week d: EMPLOYED IN LEGITIMATE CAPACITY | | AVIATOR AND PASSENGER HAVE A'NARROW ESCAPE Line cated in “Dyna- | Gasoline Tank Exploded Just as They ng Case. Left the Machine. 26.—T: that | Salisbury, Pngland, May H re pon _their | planing from a height e o 'a blazing biplane, the sh aviator, : ‘ , Colyns Pizey, and a passenger, H. « can Woolen | Fellows, reached the ground in safety 2 . oved by the com- | this evening and stepped from the n capacity, devel- | machine just as an explosion of the rite conmspiracy trial | gasoline tank cqmpletely wrecked it. I ane was in easy flight over zovernment alleges that money | the outskirts of the town, wi , n the authority of | denly the carburetor tool t he American Wool|ing the inlet valve, the aviator shut " A d, was in | off the gasoline and started a steep a entered | Volplane Atter Col-| The rush of air fanned the flames 1 reen and Irnest W.|and to those who witnessed the inci. : = n upon the tex- | dent it seemed as though the men in y machine had but a slender chance s o f heir lives. Tongues of fire swept u the lenger seat and Fellows r. trea of | drew himself up and clung to the stays | who was sum- | while the acroplanc drove down its mon sWift descent. Pizey held the wheel in firm grasp although the flame corched his hands iz W and_succeeded in making a splendid s {landing. Just as the men sprang from Iy - 3 s tank blew up, but fer ped all injury. Attenx in two | ANOTHER DEATH FROM . 3 i THE PIER DISASTER. A om the compante books. | Decision Reached That Grand Jury " Tes Atteux had per- | Investigation is Unnecessary. o B . 0s Angeles, Cal, May 26.—Coroner - iz iR M rer Bt Calvin Hartwell and District Attorney s Vizein, vice presi- | John D. Fredericks conferred today - e ot woolen | With reference to handling the ine, = nio ihe pier disaster Saturday ¢ the day was | Long Beach which cost 37 lives, and it ts counsel | Was decided that there would be no = ence of | 87And jury investigation. : = Tk The coroner’s jury, it was said, was T vested with powers sufficient to cover | s LN {he case and hag the right to obtain A == | prosecutions for manslaughter if the OCRATIC GOVERNOR | evidence developed at ihe . inquest FEARS TARIFF CHANGES. | Which begina Thursday warrants such | ) action. Offers It as a Reason for Not Granting | | KoY. I P Kilbourne, 2ed 84, one - of the injured, died this afternoon. Employes’ Demands. | This brings the total number of deaths 26—Governor Eugene |U"P 3. {ink for_ the manazement of | MANY RESPONSES TO AN treasurer, today ADVERTISEMENT FOR WIFE, of emplc —— poration for a 20 per cent | Man’s Mail Increases Until the Post- rease in wages. As one of his re master Begs for Mercy. ®ons hé gave “the impending charges | o S ¢ policy of the ns | New York, May 26.—Girls of sixteen i | and women’ of sixty are among the men have threatened to strike ' numerous applicants who are eager to . iemands were granted or | accept the offer of Ernest W. Darrow. nitted to arkitration, of Patchogue, Long Island, who has Shess S | announced that he wants a wife and Steamship Arrivals, will allow her $40 a week for household Cadtz, N —Arrive Steamer | CXpenses. Buenos Aires, New York for Barcelona | M. Darrow ls a prosperous con- | tractor. He 18 a widower and has four children. So great has been the press of correspondence that the local post- and Genoa San Glovanni | L | the public that thero i, New York tor G pnaster has soked Mr, Darrow to, make | cood positions wiich ‘are mot. i the a, May o Bl k classified service, and only “Influence” incige’ di P s matiea’ i pomson_" 2% Y°LNC | ig needed to land places of this charac- Tarseities, May as app . ter. He bids the job hunters “go to . New ¥ Steamers Reported by Wirel 1 en, May 26, TRPATANS, pone LA o] Explaining the motive in compiling Washington Babia land, May 26—Steamer | the * job list,” Representative Britten baecls, May 23.—Arrived, [ Kronprinz Wilhelm, Bremen for New | rocalls the consternation that was | mma, New Yorig end Prov. | York, signuiled 630 miles east of San- | thrown into the ranks of the House by fdence for Lisbe Muf“'f"’}i vta, g‘.‘ \(;w\k at 10 a. m, Dark 430 p. m. | the publication of a little red book at asgow, May Arrived steem. | Tuesday, | the opening of the 624 Congress, giving Caledonta, New York: 2fth, Bar. | Blescesset, Mass, May 26—Stoamer |y Jixt of offices and ‘employes of tha nlan, Philadeiphia via St Johns, N, | Meitke, Genon, for New York, slg- | Houso of Reprosentatives, with thelr n ed 40§ mils L of Bandy Hook | palaries, when o howl went up that It ul 5 p. m, Docl 7,30 p, m, Tuesday, Montreal: Mav 26, Athenin, from Glaszow. I © Quebee: May 20, Tunisian, from| Oenats Passes Jury Reform Bill, erpool, Fren , May ~The ehans Fishguard: May 26, Ma vellor sherig ju reform bill, which | New Yor has the aprrovél of Pregident Wead. G, Waiser Wil- [ yow Wilson, pussed the senate tonight New Yori by & striel perty vote, The meastre L Decontan.from | pu Vi lower branch of the gen- cral ussembly Lwo wedks ugo, in the Freaeh schools there has been & reiura te the glanting system of wriling Instcad of the verllcal, A sharp knife can @ut his name or initiels in » eoric and se It insiead of & rubber stamp, A Cabled Paragraphs Japanese Empress Now Il Tokio, May 26.—Emperor Yoshihito is better, but the empress Sadako has fallen ill from a cold contracted dur- ing her long vigil at her husband's bedside. Her illness, though not ser- iou s caused her to be confined to her room. Disappointed Student Shoots Himself. Lile, France, May 26.—Disappoint- ment ‘at_his failure to pass his ex- aminations caused a medical student named Cuvilier to attempt suicide with a revolver at the university here to- day Pankhurst Rearrested, May ‘26.—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, “the militant suffragette leader, who was released from Hol- loway jail on license on April 12, ow- ing to’ the serious condition of her health arising from her “hunger strike” was rearrested today when she was leaving the house where she has been staying. Suffragettes Attack Golf Links. St. Andrews, Scotland, May 2 Two militant suffragettes tried ing the night to damage the golf links here and so interfere with the open- ing today of play for the amateur golf championship of the world. One of the women escaped, but the other was caught. She was liberated, however and was not handed over to the po- lice. Mrs. London, to CHARTER AMENDMENT FOR SHORE LINE ELECTRIC. Adopted in the House—Various Rights ~ Conferred. (Special to The Bulletin. “Hartford, May ding the charter of the ctric_ railway, a part of the Plant systcm, of which R. W. Per- kine is president, which was passed in the senate, was adorted in the onday at Hartf Th, follows 3 n 1. Shore Line Electric Railway com s hereby authorized | to build, maintain and operate poles, 7 At Shore Line I ral wires and equipment for the carriage and sale of electricity and to seil elec- | tricity in any of the towns in or | through which its line of railway now | Tuns, except within the towns of Guil- | ford, New Haven and Branford; and addition thereto to acquire by leas purchase the vileges now pany or tribution aid town: rig power owned by any existing mpanies for the sale and electricity in any of svided said The | Eine Tlaatite Ralinay compeny | not, without such lease or purchase, | have hereunder the rizht to sell elec- [ tricity in any of said towns wherein cd y existing company s en: | the sale of electricity, except that it may sell electricity to any company in any of said towns, including Guilford, | New Haven, North Branford and | Branford, so’ engaged in eaid business; and for the pu of the rights hereby a m | maintain_and operate suitabl structed and supported conductors, cluding lines of poles and wires properiy supported cables, all proper fixtures and appurtenances, on private lands with the consent of the owners thereof, and may cro over or under any streams or waters nd subject to the provisions of Sec- ons 3904, 3905 3906 and 3307 of the seneral statutes, along or across, upon, above or under the streets, highways and public grounds within sald PAwns or_any of them. Sec. Said The Shore Line iec- tric_Railway company is hereby au- thorized to gell electricity to the New n and Fast Lyme Railway com- v and to any rallway compeny ose line of railway connects with ailway line of The Shore Iine Railway company. | Sec Section 3 of a_resolution amending the charter of The Line Electric Railway compan extending the time for constructi lines, approved June 10, 1909, i by repealed. Sec. 4. 1 onferr exere the | Electric { right of said The Shore | Railway company to use ¢ the Connecticut com- e town of New Haven. in the contracts made nd_entered into between said panies under dates of Nov. 6, 191 | Dec. 18, 1912, and Jan. 22, 1913, | hereby confirmed and validated. | Sec. The powers, rights and privileges heretofore granted by the | Zeneral assembly to said The Shore | Line Electric Railway company a | hereby ratified and confirmed | see. Said company is hereby | thorized to comstruct over the | proach to the Connecticut river bridg | a line of railway to connect its main | line with the railway tracks on _the Connecticut river at Old Say- | brook, and to ope: same when | completed. HUNDREDS ‘'OF JOBS OPEN, | JOKER TELLS “SEEKERS.” Republican Incurs Wrath of House Democrats by Printing List. | Washington, May 26.—Representa | tive Britten, an Ilinois Republican, | made himseif unpopular with his De | beratic colleagues t week, when he printed in “The Congressional Record a list of several hundred governme: jobs which are not under the civil vice. 'He suggests that job hu shall communicate immediately Democratic members of Congress cerning_the places. “I feel that I am performing a great service for my colleagues in printing | this list,” said Mr. Pritten, grinning | expansively. “My colleagues will now ‘be relieved of much embarrassment, with con- | | | | | Dbecause they will not be compelled to | | tell their constituents that they, the members are uninformed as to posi- tions which are to he filled.” | Mr. Britten has mailed a great num- | ber of that issue of “The’ Congressional | Record, and he advises his constitu- ents to “pick out their jobs” and get | in touch jmmeaately “with some Dem- | ocratic member from Ilinois” Mr. Britten assures his constituents and was o Republican scheme trouble for the Democrats, « to make Middletewn—Through the effarts of Frank Farnsworth Starr, fourteen rol- atives of Mius Margaret M, Van Duer- pon, who dled hero lust woek leaving all her estato to charltable objects, have heen leested, There nve nond nearer, than weoond cousing, but will bednotifleq of the hesring on the will, in order that they may nppear and’ oppose 1ts being probated if they 5o deaire all | Lobby Scored By President EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS ALTER TARIFF BILL. TO | CREATING SENTIMENT Accused by Wilson of Trying to Make It Appear That Public Opini Opposed to Chief Items of the Bill. n Washington, May Wilson stirred congressional c today with an emphatic statement de- nouncing the us” and “in- sidious” lobby in W ing to create public certain features of tariff bill. This w capital as referring forts being made wool and free sugar. Lobbyists Making No Headway. While ington attempt- sentiment against the Underwood accepted at the to the unusual ef- nst free raw aga the president was declaring it his opinion that the public should be veq from “the intolerable bur- senators and re viewing on e representative hand the evi- Ty dences of the lobbyists which beset them; and significance was attached to a statement made by Senator Sim- | mons, chairman of the finance com- mittee which now has the tariff bill in hand, that, in his opinion, the lob- byists were not making any headway Bilis to Regulats Lobbying. The president’s declaration that\the hbyists were sod thick that one couldn't throw a-brick without hit- ting one” revived interest in two bills recently introduced in the house and senate regulate lobbying on pend- ing legislation. Senator Kenyon of Towa anq_Representative C. B. Smith of New York have declared it their intention to press for early consider- ation bills they have introduced which vould restrict the work of lobbyists, require their registration and that ey be licensed to appear before any ymmittee or to carry a_campaign v or inst propos lezislation. avy penalties would 1 for olation of the reg Lobbyists Blamed for Rumors. Democratic leaders were almost unanimous in support of the presi- dent’s statement maintaining that they are well able to handle the important pending tariff legislation and that su- gar and wool will be thoroughly con- sidered and discussed by the finance committeo and democratic caucus be- fore the bill is reported to the sen- ate. Many conflicting rumors being sent broadcast regarding proposed changes in these schedy are at tributed by the finance committee members to lobhyists. That no chanze relating her schedule been. . determine flatly de red by the members the com- mittee. The The follo: I think that the public ought to | know the extraordinary exertions bhe- ing made by the lobby in Washington to gain recognition for certain alter- ations of the tariff bill. Washington has seldom seen €0 numerous, so in- dustrious or so insidious a lobby. The newspapers are being flled with pald advertisements calenlated to mislead | the judement of public men not only, a be impo: H s vet of President’s Statement. president’s' statement was as Tt 15 of seriolis interest to the coun- | that the people should | have no lobby and be volc in these ters, while great bodies of astute men see to create ampartificial opin- ion and to overcome the interests of the public for their private profit. Tt is thoroughly worth the while of the people of this country to take knowl- edge of this matter. Only public opinion can check and destroy it. The government in all its branches ght to be relieved from this intol- erable burden and this constant inter- ruption to the calm prozress of de- bate. I know that in this I am speak- inz for the members of the two houses who would rejoica as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation. NEW TITANIC DISASTER SUIT. Woman Who Contested J. M. Smart Will Begins Action for Insurance. | w York, May 26.—Mrs. Constance H. Baldwin has brought suit against the States Casualty Company $2.000 on an accident policy on the life of J. Montgomery Smart, | who went down on the Titanic. Mr | Smart_was president of the American Cold Storage ipping Compan; Baldwin, the concern the benefic! fendant TDhe who was a partner says that Smart made her of the policy in the de- company. will of Mr. Smart filed Surrogate’s Court mentioned his two children, but all efforts to reveal thbir { whereabouts have failed. He left his | estate to two friends, and Mrs. Balaf win_contested the will on | that she was a creditor of Mr. | She had herself appointed administra- trix of the estate. in the ROYAL PALACE VALUED. King George’s London Home Is Worth $17,500,000. | London, May 26—A comprehensive valuation of Buckingham Palace and its contents has just been completed | by a West End firm. The property is returned as worth $17,500,000, of which | one room alone monopolizes nearly $2,600,000. The valuation is said to be with a view to reinsuring the palacg,against | possible sutragette outrages SILK COMBINE CHARTERED. | Nightingale-Morse Mills of Putnam Has Capital of $500,000, Hartford, May 26—Among Trecent Connecticut Incorporations s that of the Nightingale-Morse mills of Put- | nam, which combines some of the silic | manufactures in that vicinity, capital | atock $600,000; incorporators Augustus Morso of Putham and A. G. Nightin- @ule and John K. H. Nightingale of | Warwtek, R L I W. W. Gorm at Now Britaln, New Hritafn, Conn, Muy 887 | branch of the Industrial Workors of the Warld was organlsed here today with ‘a membership of 150 men and women, but also the public -opinion of the | one of the original members of the country itself. '!‘hfln- is every evidence | olg Greenback party, has written an that money without Hmit i3 belng |open letter to President Woodrow spent to sustain this lobby, and to | Wilson advocating what he calls “di- create an appearance of a pressure | rect currency” as a remedy for the \m« public opinion antagonistic to some | present unsatisfactory currency con- of the chief items of the tariff bill ditions. He proposes that all corpor- | Only Public Opinion Can Check or |ations and individuals provided they Deatidy it deposit the proper security and con- & form to the same rules and regula- the ground | Smart. | Finds Pelkey Not to Blame CORONER'S JURY EXONERATES THE PRIZE FIGHTER. MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL Preliminary Hearing to Be Held Today That Not One in Fight. —Referee Declares Hard Blow Was Struck Calgary, Alberta, May 26.—A coro- ner's jury tonight’ exonerated Pelkey, the prize fighter, whose blow Killed Luther McCarty in the prize ring here Saturday. \ Held on Manslaughter Charge. Pelkey was given a _preliminary hearing late today on the police charge of manslaughter. The hearing was adjourned until tomorrow afte Penkey’s bail of $10,000 was continued Witnesses Summoned. Reforee Kd Smith, Tommy Burns, William MeCarney, McCarty'’s man ger, together with a dozen attendants ! and newspapermen, were called to ap- pear witnesses at the hearing to- morrow. Authorities Change Plans. The course of investigation planned by the authorities s somewhat changed today as a result of the an- nouncement by physicians following an autopey last night that McCarty's death was due to a biow to the jaw which dislocated his neck. The first supposition that death had been caused Dy a blow to the heart was discredited when the heart was found to be sound. Had Hemorrhage of Brain. H. Moshier, who last nighi, was one of the first witnesses at the inquest tonight. He testified a blow on the edge-bf the | right jaw, the dislocation of the fourth cervical vertebrae, the hemor- rhage of the brain that followed and the forcing of blood into the spinal | canal were the causes of McCarty's death. He was questioned closely by | } Attorney A. Smith, who appeared for Pelkey and Burns. | . No Hard Blows, Says Referee. Crown Prosecutor Shaw questioned Dr. H. the autops: conducted | Burns, who acknowledged he promoted | the fight and that McCarty and Pel- key were to receive $5000 each, ac e®rding to the agreement. Referce Smith testified that not one | hard blow was struck during the bat- tle. His testimony was brief. { McGarty in Good Condition. | Manager McCarney asserted on the | witness stand that McCarty was In good condition when he entered the ring. He said that In his opinion death was not caused by a biow, McCarty's body was ghipped to his home In Ohlo tenirht, McCarney had planned to accompany the remains, but was delaved here by the authorities, PROPOSES DRASTIC CURRENCY REFORM | Would Allow Corporations and Indi- viduals to Issue Currency Like Banks. Meriden, Conn, May 26.—William W. Wheeler, a local manufacturer and tions imposed upon national banks, be allowed to issue national currency. If | this prerogative was extended to cor- porations and individuals Mr. Wheeler states that in times of panic and money shortage there would be no widespread and continued panics and rency they needed and escape the con- | | trol of the banker. The ery for #las. tic currency is met Mr. Wheeler states | with_his plan. The fax paid to the | covernment for ihe use of the gov- srnment indorsement on direct cur- rency would become. a vast internal | evenue to the sovernment. Strike at Falls Village. Falls Village, Conn., May 26—About | 0 of the 500 men emploved in build- | ing the huge Gam in the Housatonic | river for the electric light and power. plant to be erected here struck toda: for _shorter hours. They have been working ten hours a day and demand a nine hour day without reduction in wages. Seaman Casey Discharged. Hartford, Conn, May 26.—Adjutant General Cile of the Conmecticut Na- tional guard announces that in accord ance with a sentence of a summary court Seaman Willlam J. Casey, Third division, na militia, is discharged from the navai service of the state for the benefit of the service. Gompers Suffers a Relapse. Washinzton, May 26.—News was Te- ceived today that Samuel Gompers, | president of the American Federation | of Labor, who has been ill with mas- toiditls at Atlantic City, had suffered a relapse. Members of the family | and the family physician arranged to Jeave for Atlantic City tomorrow. Strike for Longer Workday. ew Haven, Conn engine wipers emplo Haven road at the Cedar went on a strike today for more hours The men recéive 16 cents an hour for an eight hour day and they want the same pay for nine hours. Won't Accept the Honor. If Colonel Roosevelt could be per- suaded to bevome king of Albania, it would relleve the anxiety of two American political parties and possi- bly of three.—Washington Star. Fitting the Punishment. How would it do for the New Jer- sey authorities when they catoh the rioters in Patterson to compel them to sot off their own dynamite then and there?—New York Herald, } Now Britain —~Rev, Fr, Gaspar Panik pastor of the $lovak R, . church, and Charles P. Kirseh have applled far a permit to build a clubhiotise on the north wlde of Joseph stroct, The building will be of frame constructian, ono story in height and will contain one reom, 25x40 feet Condensed Teiegrams _General James H. Baker, aged $4, died at,his home at Mankato, Minn., vesterday. More Than 5000 Progressive Party clubs have been formed in the United States since Jan. 1. A 400-Pound Sturgeon Was Caught off Fire Island after a fierce battle in | which a boat was overturned. The Supreme Court Yesterday took a recess until June 9, when it will again recess until Saturday, June 14. Riohard Lindsay, 35 Years Old, was arrested in Philadelphia, charged witn sending threatening letters to Presi- dent Wilson. Harry Collins, 20 Years Old, ranged, entered a Catholic chur Chestef, Pa., and destroyed stat valued at $1,000. de- in y h Justice M. L. Griffin caught a land turtle which he had marked with h initials 50 years ago on his propert at Quogue, L. 1. Representative Lindquist has enlist- ed the Natiomal Laundrymen's associa- tion in a campaign for his bill for pure cloth fabrics and leather. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit com- wha t Marsoob Casparian of Lynn, shot and killed hls wife Queenle Lynn last October beeause of jealousy pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree yesterday and was sentenced to state prisen for life. Women of the Cabinet Circle wiil apply the pruning knife to their call- | lists, Hereafter only wives of senaters and members of the supreme court and ladies of ths corps wiil be on the list. Ing Managers of Five and Ten Cent Stores and officers of several Chicago associations of tradesmen whe employ @ large number of wemen and girls Wil be witnesses before the Illinois senate welfare commission, Wiiiiam Miyers of Coilinsville, Conn., depressions in business and shrink-|ei death in a peculiar manner Sua- age below the normal of real price | uy night, While cut driving in a | values for corporations could tgnore | Co¥e cs carriige he fell asicep, his the banker ang pledze direct with gov- | heyq dropped between the carriage ernment securfties which would en- | eUS and he choked to death. | able them to issue the matlonal cur- = R. W, Berry, for 45 Years an employe of ihe Atchison, Topeka and Saiia ie allway, and for the last 20 years, con- ductor on the Santa Ke-Lamy branch, was killed by being crushed between two cars which he was coupling. Economic_Conditions or Low Wages are responsible for not more than 12 per cent. of all cases of immorality among girls and women, in the opinion f Prof. Graham Taylor, head ot Cli- ago commons social settlement. The Fire Which Destroyed the prize fight arena at Calgary, Aita., in which Luther McCarty was Killed' Saturday afternoon in a fight with Arthur Pel Key, is believed by the authorities to have been started by incendiaries. With a Bent Umbrella Rib a man giving his name as_James Evans of Chicago robbed the Northern National bank of Toledo, O., yesterday of two rolls of bills. each containing $500. The money was abstracted from the teller's windok. The Plea of Mrs. Rose Spogard that she was guilty of murder in the sec- ond degree for shooting her husband, Sven Spogard, at Lynn on Keb. Was accepted ycsterday and she was eentenced to the woman's prison at Sherborn for life Jacob Dunn_and Seeley Davenport, the Wharton, N. J., woodchoppers who sent threatening letters to President Wilson before he assumed office, were sentenced to Trenton state prison ves- terday, Dunn for five years und Lav- enport’ for two. Thomas F. Robinson, until lately a New York policeman, was sent to Sing Sing prison vesterduy to serve from six to ten years fos extortion. Robin- son was convicted of collecting “‘pro- tection” money for Police Inspector Sweeney from a Harlem hotel keeper. More Than Ten Thousand Farmers on reclamation projects of the west will be affected by the supreme court's declglon yesterday that they must pay to the government the cost of maln- taining and operating the varlous reclumations projected, pending thelr completion. Prison Sentences of Not Less than six nor more (han elght years wera Inposed yesterdny on flenry Goedsich of South Burlingion, Vi, and on Hen- vy McCanbo aidi James Sweeney of Hol- ton, Vi, who in an altempt to make Samuel Rounds, a negro bex, confess to stesilng, drowned tie lad in the Winooski river at Bolton. JURY GHOSEN FOR RODSEVELT'SCASE Composed of Miners, Teamsters, Farmers,\a Black- " smith, Locomotive Fireman and Woodsman THE COURT ORDERS THAT THEY BE LOCKED .UP, Will be Kept in Close Confinement Until Case is Finished That They May be Protected From Outside lnfluencb\. Will Not be Allowed to Communicate With Anybody Except by Consent of Court—Night Session of Court. A Marquette, Mich., May suit | réports that rem, a v 3 q 1 . May s at re made by You involving allegations of nlrumwnm‘sfl{!'Nlil\ inspired Newett (o write. the on the Dart of a former president of | alleged libeilous articles he United States will be heard here | sudi beginning tomorrow, by a jury com- | s ta Fositle Pruiiee | Opbosing counsel worded the same posed of four miners, three teamsters, n i id 2 v Ao L e Lok | inquiry difrerently when if pany. declared yesterday . quarierly | tWo farmers, one blacksmith, one lo- | ‘RAUIry 3 a dividend of 1 1-2 per cent,, raising the [ Motive fireman and one woodsman. 5l_l‘]‘l"'k{:_”"'mll)A;uldlm prejudiced against dividend tate from 5 to 6 per.cent. The plaintiff, Col. Theodore Roose- | €Ither b o the suit, Sty velt, who is suing George A. Newett, |, Wollld the fact that the defendant President Wilson Told Senators|an Ishpeming newspaper lruhlixlu»nr:;‘“;'“‘i'l‘\‘a‘\’l‘,‘l" ‘”,'v' a citizen of this com- Chamberlain and Jones vesterday that | for $10.000 damages because of an | giRi\se WE the Dlaintlft s o resi- he felt kindly toward the proposal for | ditorial charging him with drunken- | JEh oF & distant state, prejudice you government construction of railroads | NeSs, probably will be the first wit- | 452Inst the plaintiff?” was the way in Rk neas oo effect that Mr. Pound put if. Alasks e il oty Mr. Belden would ask John N. Coie, Alias Frank J. Cole, | je jury completed at 11 o'clock t Five Veniremen Dismissed. of Westville, was held for trial in the | night s composed of- s “Would the fact that one party to e eitargea itk Maving | iires | agonopl Rober, teamster, Ishpeming, | Untedh Siates, whils tine. oo e g E rged h ha it ited States, while the other 1s @ wives. ke Bivor o e | mere citizen, cause you to give more omas Pryor, locomotive fireman, ) : — e e S | weight to the statements of one sida ie New | Mar 0 the o fo the arrest yesterday of James J | TQRshD aged 40, .| ause, two of these because they Dencliue, & member of the board, o0 & | {oumekin, ageq 56, un, failed to comprehend, simple q.mmu‘x;'.u s William H. Matthews, miner, sh- [ foitd thed A o - % s | could render a fair decision, “regard- The Ridley szrl‘f, P?., C?uncll ‘nas L o i el teamster, Mar- | 1658 of the evidence,” whe reat o U1IBE appropriated $300 for the salary of an | Willlam Fassbender, teamster, 3 Setlia Bt b official exterminator and has stocked | duette, aged 28 [orpine hoxCout> hufty ML the lake with pike perch to rid the m-'.’»“h"m:' ‘derickson, miner, Negau- | ¥“Victim of Stage Fright. I"'“"e Femomnbe William “Garrow, miner, Ely town- | The other scemed siricken dumb, an una | Ship, aged 26. wpparent victim of stage fright, He The Body of a Youna Woman found | ShiP. aged JISRODS. - Vi Tis in Abernathy’s pond near Kingston, N. | , Andrew P. Johnson, miner, Hum. | Was a large olonde man with a droop- Y. wes identified vesterday as Mrs. | POt township, aged 60, native of ustache and hair brushed high. JTennic Payne of Sax Harbor, N. Y., 4 | Denmark | ps moved sometimes. but the e o John A. Johnson, farmer, would not_come. To give him. DoERR O o e | township, ‘aged 36, married tme to recover Judge Flannigan des Fire at an Early Hour vesterday | Willlam Sharp, teamste aunce, | ferred the examination until others desiroved the three-story building at | 48ed 3 natiy England; .- [(D&0 St an cxample. DUt afier M Kansas City, Mo., occupied mainly by | GUy . /iWellsigoun_ [ 213 Wes, stlll unable toVarticulien sy the O'Dowd Furniture company. The | ShiD, married. [Eyes cxdnged 3 Joss is estimated at $100,000 The' Jury Locked Up. | Recovered Voice Outside Courtroom. L soon @s the jury had been sworn | He left the building and went to his jFatented Articles Sold under price e Richard . Clannigan ordored | boarding ho and after court took strictions by manufacturers may be Jurors locked up and kept in con- | & recess the c passed along their resold by retallers at cut prices. The | finement until a verdict is rendered |Way home observing him through a gupreme court €0 held vesterday In | in court. window, talking with great animation o case of a newly TVe | “Gentlemen of the jury” sald the |to a friend tonle. court, “until you have rendered a ver- MRS: PANKNURBT TRREATENS dict ‘in this case you will be kept - The Greater Part of the Help at the lose confinement . < ootton milla of the Corr Manufacturing | ey chbdmament & e e ANOTHER_HUNGER STRIKE. company at Taunton, Mass., Struck | fluence other tham the 28 I e between” the company and the 100 | have decided on this 1o ses that v Placed in. Jail. ors, are not approached by outsiders. v anyone attempts to talk to you abou London, May 26—Mrs. Emmeline Mrs. James Marshall, her 16 year old | thig case, I want you to report to the | ’ankhurst, leader of the militant suf« son James and her daughter Ivy wers | court, It possible giving their names. | (FéSeites, 'is again in Holloway ail. burned to death and three other chil+ | I wish to cautlon vou azainst coming | She was rearrested today, having in dren of the family were severely burn- | to any final concly in your minds |the opinion of the authorities suffi= ed yesterday at their home at Little!as to the merits the “case, until | ciently recovered her health to warrant Hecking, O, you are Instructed to deliberaté on a |her serving another period of her sen= verdict. Don't talk among yourselves | tence of three years’ imprisonment. Al not strong when arralgned at the Bow street police court, deciared vehement- about_it, >ankhurst, Court in Session Until 11 p. m. “You may milies but | though _evidently write to your Iy that she ould continue her hunger e opened by the court.” s - Tw, f - When the gates of Holloway jall Two litfs were then sworn by the sive he! scort i }lh-v-l. to keep careful watch and ward SRamesion: receive her Boore af L tants tried to rush the prison, and tha over the jurors and not to allow them | 2 A . | to_communicate with anyone, includ- | erders had dificulty in preventing | ing “the baliffs, “excopt by permis- |them from entering with thelr leaders i e v For & lang timo they remained outside | Court then adjourned uatll tomor- |Shouting “We will keep on fighting un« row morning at 3 o'cloclk. til we win Colonel ~ Roosevelt ~ was present s e T throughout “the night session, which | SAVED FROM DEATH | did not cenclude until 11 eo'clock. The BY A LIVING CHAIN, defendant, Newett. worn out. during —_ the ‘afterioon session, was ot pres- | James Molntosh Was About to Sweep The arrival of Colonel Roosevelt, OVer 80 Foot: Falla, | necompanied by Gifford Pinchot, Tru- 1o Vi Gotln . | man H, Newberry, James R. Garfleld, | ,,7alls Village, Conn, May 36.—James Tacob A, Rils and piners, Carfleld. | MeIntosh was rescued by a living chain afternoon from the Housatonic scarcely a ripple on the placid surface | LIS S Ehie liteie ity O™ Ahe PIRcid surface | 1jyer just in time to prevent his belnk early and onl Phe party arrived | arricd over a falls with a drop of S0 the trapg °NlY & few persons wero at | gect. “Had he gome over the brink he wo ave been dashed down upon & Defendant in Poor Physical Condition | mast of Jgied Focke. A The distinguished plaintiff entered | McIntosh was working with a con= the coutroomy’ with rapid strides and | struction gang on a dam in process of there was a’ craning of necks for o |erection in the stream when he fell moment to see him, but there was no | from a temporary pier into the water. demonstration, and the spectators had | The stream is not deep at that poia gves only for the veniremen exam- |but it swirls along with a speed of ned. 2y mill race, and McIntosh was gettin, George Newett, the defendant, whose | dangerously near to the verge of th Paper, the Iron Ore, of Ishpeming, > falls when a number of his fello Mich., alleged that Colonel Roosevelf | workmen joined hands and, part of “got drunk, and that not infrequently,” them swinging out into the streams sat at a table with his lawyers, Wii- | caught him and brought him to shores liam P. Belden of Iskpeming and Hor- ace Andrews of Cleveland. He ap- peared exhausted from his recent seri- ous iliness and sat much of the time with his eves closed. Mr. Garfield by Colonel’s Side. The former president was one of i number occupyin ts within the railing, and by his sidc during most of the aftérnoon sat Mr. Garfield. Myron Sherwood, a locdl lawyer and mine owner, a casual visitor at the capital, by chance occupied the seat on Col- onel Roosevelt’s left, but they found time to whisper a féw words to each other which seemed to be of a jocular nature, the former president smiling and Sherwood choking off a laugh with | difficulty. The spectators only comfortably fill- ed the room, as entrance was barred after all seats had been taken. Message from insane Man. During the day Judge Richard C. Flannigan, who presided, received a telegram from Minneapolis as follows “Don’t let this sensational trial con- tinue until T have arrived.” It was signed “Jacob Miller.” Judge Flannigan turned the message over to Frank Tyree, who was one of Colonel Roosevell's guards while president and Who I8 here as a witness, Tyree noti- fied the chief of police of Minneapolis, who wired back that Miles was insane and had been arrested, Veniremen Closely Questioned. James H. Pound of Detroit ques- tioned the veniremen for the plaintitf. His_associate attorneys are Willlam THE UNITED STATES UNPREPARED FOR WAR. Prof. Taft Criticises Penny Wisey Pound Foolish Policy of Congress. New Haven, May 26.—Former Presl« dent William Howard Taft in his con- cluding _lecture at Yale today, om “Some Quesions of Modern Govern- ment,” declared the United States was “ludicrously unprepared for war,” and critcised congress for failure to pro= vide for an adequate army and nacy. Continuing, he said: “Muéh of the lit« erature written about what would hap- pen in the event of an attack by the Japanese, supposes they could do a lot of impossible things, and that in the meantime we would be doing nothing: but we must remember that in the past we have had great luck, and 1t might not continue. TO HOLD NATIONAL ELECTIONS IN AUGUST, Senator Works Wants President to Take Seat in November. ‘Washington, May 26.—A new plan for national elections and the assem- bling of congress was proposed today by Senator Works in two bills. He would change election day from No- vember to August and provide for an- nual sessions of congress from the first Monday of October to the first Monday . smen would assume X panensciolen of New Yorx &hd T i Gotben immediatsly Et . §. Hill of Marquette. election, and the presiden and vice- The Detroit lawyers made it a point to ask possible jurors as 1o their, ac- quaintance with the principals in the defendant's legal campaign and_about thelr_acquaintance with H. O. Young. Mr. Young was clected o congress from the arquette district as a re- publican, but the progressive candi- date, McDanald, set up a claim in the house that/lhe had a moral right to the electlon, us a large number of per- sons who wished (o vote for him had innovently used erroneously printed ballots, Before a decision was reached | Westville, was held for at Washington, Young resigned. Coun- perfor eourt on a president would take office in Novem- ber, New Player for New London. New London, Copn, May 26.—Red Waller, recently of the Lynn oclub of the New Mngland league ,and for- merly_ with the Eridgeport ciub of tha olaConnecticut league, was signed by the New London club tenight. John H. Cols, Alias Frank & sel for the plaintiff are interested in He is charged with B R