Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 3, 1913, Page 1

JUNE 3, 1913 The Buletin's Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportionto the City's Population REFUSES TO BOW DOWN TO BOSS Senator Neebe Declares Undertaken to Tel THE BOSS WANTS TO © Meriden Politician Has | Him How to Vote ONTROL APPOINTMENTS Sensational Speech During Consideration of Trusteeships of Boys’ School at Meriden—Senate Adopts Amendment Providing Salary Increase For Members of General As- Hartford, Conn., of June —With ad- »urnment the general assembly only two & away the members to- day either indulged in or sat for hours listening to debate om bills which many »f them thought were of secondary import compared with some hidden away in the bundles of measures in tk of the cler] The time lost, in the opinion of many, - measures were controver- anvway and their merits and de- had to be aired. Plan of Trunk Line Highways. : senate adopted in concurrence providing for control of nar- s which are doing so much habit-formers. 1o resolution for an appropriation $25.000 for a normal school site Waterbury was adopted in the sen- after a long and at times lively te. The vote on it was 20 to 7. he senate salary bill until the close sessio: was adopted The mmissioner sent in a plan ine highways throughout the by resolution he w hed ) have approved by the legislature. enator Johnson of the roads, bridges and rivers of ed a resolution approv- inz of the plan and it was adopted. 2e Johnson said this had nothing vith the good roads bill, but was intended to establish a system Salary ex e hands e sia Increase Adopted. nominations of ach of West Hartford, of Wallingford and Kar- of Goshen, were con- beriey olidation bill with use attached Meriden ¢ ferendum od. full crew bill utilities com- swer to in to th = of trains and to provide rem was,adopted by the senate in the house, te for the pubic increase $300 o $500 house was sends an m passeq the to 4. This to the peopl Democrats Wanted Everything. mmittee on Senate appoint- the names of Michael Bridgeport, Willlam T. ndon, George Ulrich and Dr. C. §. H. Davis, and Irving S. Holt of stees of the boys® school Meriden. Mr. Holt is the only re- ican and Senator Kelsey of the mittee had hard work to save a his party as the demo- Dwyer of of N Hartfor Hogan riden as tr ember was | the | at the next | sembly and Question Now Goes to People. ! / crats haq wanted all democratic ap- pointees. : Senator Neebe, who had been in- terested in these appointments of- fered an amendment to substitute the names of Christian O. Miller and W. . McLaughlin for those of Hogan and Holt. A vigorous discussion én- sued. “Won’t Be Controlled by Bosses.” Mr. Neebe said that there was a fight on; it was among democrats in Meriden and it was between the dem- ocrats and a clique headed by a boss. He said that the boss wanted to con- trol the senator from the thirteenth (himself) who represents the people. The clique had tried to control the senators from the twelfth (Kelsey), the eleventh (Shanley) and the twen- ty-sixth (Peck). Senator Neebe said that the political boss, James J. Walsh had tried to tell him who to vote for and what things he should vote for. ‘He wants me to bow down to | him, said the senator ajnid laugh- ter. “I have refused. In the cam- paign I spoke on the stump and from automobiles that I was against the hosses and the big boss heard me and applauded. Now he has been telling me what 1 should do and I bave re- fused. I will not be controlled by hosses from now on.”. - Presented Name of Brother-in-Law. The senate broke ont in a roar of laughter, and the senator continued saving: “T have never been controlled. This boss wants to control these ap- pointments. For th reason I have submitted names which are accept- able to the democrats of Meriden Senator Neebe spoke in behalf of his ! name: | Senator Quinn thought the senate ought to accord the courtesy to the scnator and let him name the Meri- | den men. Senator Johnson of Hart- { ford asked if any of the names sub- mitteq were those of relatives and Mr. Neebe said that one was that of a brother-in-law. The senate finally accepted the committee’s list and con- firmed them. Repeal of Law of 1911, The attempt to take up out of order the bill placing mergers and leases of | public service corporations under pur- Iview of the public utilities commis- sion was defeated. In the senate an unsigned resolu n found its way to the clerk’s desk calling for the re- turn of this bill to the senate, but no | senator fathered the resolution. 1 To the bill repeal the law of 1911 forbidding the removal of the high- way commissioner by the governor Mr. Magee offered an amendment striking out the repeal part and pro- viding that all commissioners shall not be removeq except on a finding by the syperior court. This amendment was rejected and the bill adopted. BCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT'S SUSPENSION IS ORDERED. Pittsburgh Official is Adjudged Guilty of Immorality. 5 ey ten Schools S. L. Heeter ,into whose immorality a committee of citi- s went as an investigating com- e. appointed by the board of ed- jon was adjudged guilty of “mak- = improper advences and taking wp n rties ” with three wo- report of the committee, board tonight. The board report and ordered that ed in the hands of the that he be suspended provisions_of the accorded a hearing 2h, 1 the py be plac rintendent, nding of the committee imous in the matter of an alleged re to pay the bill of a teachers v, the majority found that the superintendent “made an improper and dishonest proposition to use his offi- cial in prder to compromise a claim made against him individual- Iy Th r case was brought about for monies, alleging to be for ices in securing Heete position. In: response to is said to have written one of- nd positions under »r applicants to the he claim against was uc his fering dict pay in him. FORTY CANNIBALS DIE ON SCAFFOLD. Other Members of Leopard Society De- ported from Sierra Leon. 2—Convicted Lopdon, June 2.- cannibalism and ces of of the human ces, 40 members of the “Leopard eiy,” a secret organization, have hanged in Sierra Leon, a British colony on tie west coast of Africa. Sir William Branford Grif fef g tice of the Gold Coa: idcd at the trials, arrived at Ply to dny. He deciined to discy case, | but fellow travelers said that 100 mem- bers of the society had been arrestel and that 30 of them had been hanged, while many were sentenced Lo depor- tation. | The “Leopard soclety” has existed among the Mendi tribe and has long caused trouble to the government. Ali natives failing to conform to its rites | or submit to its demands .are con- demned to death or slavery. ~ 0. bee Johnson Declines to Serve. Washington, June 2—Representa- tive Johnson of Kentucky af being unanimously elected chairman of the @emocratic congressional committee tonight, sprang a surprise by askKing unanimous consent to withdraw his mame. This was granted and another postponement of Jelection of officers until three weeks hence followed an appeal by Senator James of Kentucky for deliberate action. Carnegie Guest of Honor. London, June 2.—Andrew Carnegle was the =uest of homor at the ban- auet of the library assoclation today. The American ambassador, Walter I, Page. alo attended while the othe zuests were chiefly municipal repre- | sentatives and cducationalists. uperin- | on the immorality charges | 2 ¥ . b | apartments of Frederick Brown Whit- | ternational RUSSIAN CLAIMS AGAINST A BRIDGEPORT COMPANY. | Creditors Secure Administration of Its | Russian Business. | St Petersburg, June 2 —Russian | creditors, alleging claims of $15.000. | have secured through the courts the administration of the Russian busi ness of the Lake Torpedo Boat com- pany of Bridgeport, Conn. The government also has entered claims for $478,000 additional claims to the amount of $2,000,000 damages for alleged breach of contraci respecting | the construction of four submarines. | The court record mentions undis- | closed American creditors, ~but the | abrogation of the treaty of 1832 leaves | the “matter subject to Russian law. | under which Russian creditors must be paid first, The police today visited the hotel | ney of Washington, D. C., the com | pany’s American lawyer, and seized his proper AMr. Whitney says that the Incident is without international importance, s | Russian suffrance ~determines the status in Russia of American citizens in the absence of @ treaty. | CLAIMS AGAINST RUSSIA. | Company Has Sued Government for Nearly $2500,000, It Is Stated. | Bridgeport, Conn, June 2.—Accord- {ing to President Simon Lake of the | Lake Torpedo company, the Russian | government has no claims whatsoever |on the firm. On the contrary. said Mr. Lake, the Lake company's rep- | resentative in St. Petersburg recently informed the Bridgeport office that he had brought suit against the Ru. gian government. The representative, Mr. Whitney, telegraphed that he had brought suit against the government for $2,000,000 damages for contract ches, and nearly a half million damages’ for additional ms. The fizures mentioned by the same ag those figuring claims reported to have been the government against the vany. n the magde com- Favors Women on Health Boards. Paris, June 2.—A brilliant reception in the great hall of the Sorbonne marked the opening today of the In- Women's congress. The minister of the interior, Louis L. Kiotz, presided and delivered a cor- dial _address of welcome in behalf of the French government. He especially eulogi%ed the work of the organiza- tion in the field of public hygiene and said that women should be on cvery health board. . Late Senator Hoar Quoted. New York, June 2. Evidence that the late Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts, who framed the Sher-. man anti-trust law, wrote an_opinion one vear after its enactment which held that steel manufacturers who en- tered pool agreements to fix prices, regulate output and divide profits could not be convicted under the law came to light today at the hearings of the government dissolution suit agaifst the United States Steel cor- poration. In 1916 the mavy of the United Lake are | Cabied Paragraphs German Cruiser Refloated. Kiel, Germany, June 2.—The German armored cruiser Lluecher was refloated today, after having been aground to the north of the island of Romso, in the great belt between the Baltic and ths Catiegar, aics Feldhy momisis: General Alcantara at Bueno Ayre. Willemstad, Curacao, June 2.—Gen- eral Francisco L. Alcentara, who, ac- cording to advices received here, re- cently fled from Caracas, today arriv- ed at Bueno Ayre, a Dutch West In- dian island, thirty miles east of Cura- caro, bound for Willemstad. Operation on Mrs. Drummond. London, June 2—“General” Mrs. Flora Drummond, one of the militant suffragette leaders, underwent a suc 1 cesstul operation today. She had been taken {ll ducing the police court pro- ceedings against the suffragette lead- ers for infringement of the malicious damage to property act early in May. Mrs. Pankhurst Very Weak. London, June 2—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the militant suffragette leader, whose ‘“license” expires on June 9, Is recovering from the illness arising from _her “hunger strike” which broughi about her release on Friday last from Holloway jail. She was, however, {00 weak today to at- tend the usual Monday meeting of the ‘Woman's Soaial and Political union. MEATS AND FLOUR NOT ON FREE LIST. Senate Sub-Committee Alters the Un- derwoed Bill. Washington, June Meats and flour will not go on the free list in the democratic tariff law if the recommen- dation of the senate finange sub-com- mittee in charge of the agricultural schedule is accepted. 7 This important alteration of the Underwood bill as it passed the house was determined upon today by the sub-committee composed of Senators Willlams, Shively and Gore. It was decided, in carrying out the determin- ation to perfect the Underwood bill by equalizing raw materials and their products, that it woulg be wiser to levy nomfhal dutles on _meats and flour products than to put livestock and graln on the free list. Meat Dutiable at 10 Per Cent. In accordance with this decision the sub-committee in revising the schedule took from the free list in the house Dill fresh. meats, beef, mut- fon and pork and made it dutiable at ten per cent. gd valorem. Wheat flour wag restored to the dutiable list at the specific rate of 45 cents a barrel, with other wheat products at ten per cent. ad valorem and the Underwood duty on oats was reduced from ten cents per bushel to six cents per bush- el with a compensatory duty on oat meal said to be approimately five per cent. ad valorem. This rate on oat meai was not definltely determined, but It is assured that the recommen< dation will be to take oatmeal from the free list. Cattle, sheep and hogs will be left as they are in the pro- posed bill, dutiable at ten per cent. ad valorem, and the Underwood duty of ten cents a bushel on wheat will stand. Expect Approval of Changes. Th recommendations will _be made to the finance committee late this week or early next week, and the senators who propose the change be- lieve it will have the approval of the majority members and also of the democratic caucus. Soon after the passaze of the Un- derwood bill by the house there were many protests against differentiating Dbetween raw materlels and their pro- | quets and it was ome of the first fea- tures to be taken up with the Senate leaders and President Wilson. Several weeks ago the committee determined to equalize the rates one woy or an- other anq a few days ago President Wilson was consulted about the mat- ter by Senator Simmons, chairman of finance committee, and Senator Sugar Schedule Approved. approval without change of the sugar schedule as it passed the house: other schedules advanced to varying stages & completion in the sub-com- mittees. It also was announced by Senator Shively of the finance com mittee that in his opinion the bill as it goes to the senate commit- tee will be a lower bill in the agsre- gate than the Underwood bil A LIVE BABY USED FOR EXPERIMENTS Girls in Short Dresses Begin Study of Infant Hygiene. Cleveland, Ohio, June 2. dred girl: their- early in_the grad public today tical study of infant Teal live habies to experiment The initiation of the course took at the, Sterling school, where Edward Parsch, eight months old son of Ma- Son Parsch, a machinist. was stripped and given a perfectly hygienic bath before an interested class of girls in short dresses, “I believe this is an 'ing innovation in publi strucf id- Mrs. Ada lams, city supervisor of scieffce instruction, who, for the course. J At the Sterling school class today, Florence Girz, aged 14, who had ob: tained Master Parsch for the experi- ment, undressed the baby. After the Instrictor had washed its eves, nose anq ears, other pupils bathed his body. Then Lorna Boo dered him and put him to bed. He demonstrated the value of infant hy- giene by going to sleep at once, Five hun- *teens, pupils of the Cleveland besan a prac- hygiene with upon. schools, is epoch mak- school _in- B. Wil- domesti PROVIDENCE WOMAN SHOT BY HUSBAND | Shooting Follows Wife's Refusal. te Live with Her Slayer. Providence, R. I, June -Julian Forgue, a machinist, shot and probably fatally wounded his wife today and then killed himself, The two had been separated for two months and the shooting followed a refusal by the woman to return to her husband’s home. > Steamship Arfivals, Plymouth, June 2.—Arrived, Kaiser Willielm 11, New York men. - Glasgow, June 1. rrived, ers Hesperian, Montreal; 2nd, bia, New York. Madeira, June 1.—Arrived, steamer Ivernia, New York for Naples, Genoa, and salled. Catania, May 27 Arrived, Laura, New York for Triesté. Trieste, May 28.—Arrived, Franz Joseph 1, New York. Naples, June 1.—Arrived, Stampalia, New York. Cherbourg, June 2. = Arri Steamer Kaiser Wilheim 11, steamer for Bre- steam- Colum- steamer Kaiser steamer ved New States will rank below that of Franc York Another development today was the | and | | Rhinelander Japs Approve Bryan's Plan ACCEPT IN PRINCIPLE UNIVERS- AL PEACE IDEA. SECRETARY NOTIFIED Japanese Ambassador Calls at State ) Department—Not Committed to Ap- proval of Any of the Details. Washington, June 2. — Viscount Chinda, the ambassador from Japan. late today called upon Secretary Bry- an, with formal notification that Japan hid accepted in principle the proposed plan_advanced by the United States for universal peace. Conditions of Proposed Treaty. Signitories of the treaty proposed in Mr. Bryan's plan would agree t0 re- frain trom hostilities for a period of at least nine months while any coa- flicting claims were under considera- tion by an international joint commis- sion. In the case of Japan. as with the ten other nations that have re- ceived the. proposal favorably, the Te sponse applies solely to the general principle involved and none has com- mitted itself to approval of any of the details of the project. Therefore it may be many months before the ten- tative dralt of the conventlon which Mr. Bryan submitted to the various embassies and legations|can be re- duced to a form which will receive thelr unqualified approval. Has No Bearing on Pending Contro- versy. The statement by the Japanese am- bassador that his government was prepared to give careful and favorable consideration to the peace Dropos: has ne bearing whatever upon the ne- gotiations now in progress between the two eountries regardine the California allen land legislatios. During his call upon Mr. Bryan this afternoon the am - bassador discussed this subject from various angles for half an hour, but hwithout any cefinite results. Japanese Rejoinder Not Yet Presented. The Japanese foreign office has no: yet cabled the ambassador definite in structions regarding the submission of its rejoinder Lo the last American note, and it is known that it is conducting an original investigation as a basis for its rejoinder. BOY KILLED BY A HEAVY TOURING CAR. Said to Have Darted in Front of the Machine While Playing. Terryville, Conn., June 2. large five-passenger touring car, driven by Charles D.'Schoenmel, proprietor of a Waterbury garage, ran down and in- stantly killed 9 year old Ernest Zeiner this afternoon. The boy, with others, was playing on a bridge near the Easle Lock company’s plant. It is said that Mr. Schoenmehl blew his horn as he approached the bridge and that the boys scattered. Zeiner, according to witnesses, suddenly darted out in front of the automobile, evidently not seeing the machine. The headlight struck him, breaking his meck, and causing instant_death. Mr. Schoenmehl was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Emmett and given a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Starr. The hearing was continued for one week, pending tho outcome of the coroner's inquest to morrow. Mr. Schoenmehl was released under bonds of $1,000. Coroner Her- man of Winsted was notified of tre fatality. | REMOVAL OF COMMISSIONER WALDO IS RECOMMENDED. Result of Aldermanic Investigation of Police Graft in New York. * New York, June 2.—The removal of Waldo as police commis- sioner, an appointive post he has held u- | for two vears under Mayor Gaynor, is tarift recommended in a majority report adopted today by the aldermanic com- mittee that investigated the police de- partment after Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, was slain last July by gun- men hired by former Police Lieutenant 14, dried and pow- | Charles Becker. The report was in- tended to go to Governor Sulzer, but at the last minute an amendment was passed directing for removal lo the mayor. The board of aldermen as a whole must pass on the report before it can reach Mr. Gaynor. The committee today stood four to three in favor of the report. Two members did not vote. VIOLATES PLEDGE OF BALTIMORE PLATFORM Democratic Senator Attacks the Free Sugar Schedule. ~ Washington, June 2.——Senator Rans- dell of Louisana in a prepared speech today discharged verbal broad- des at the So-called ‘“Sugar- Trust ” decided the free sugar schedule of the tariff bill “violated the pledge of the Baltimore platform not to destroy legitimate industry” and declared that in supporting free sugar “the Democratic party will be playing into the hands of the Sugar Trust and other refiners.” Mr. Ransdell that the cane made the statement industry of Louisiana supported “half a million souls the beet sugar industrsy employed 150,000 people with 000 dependent upon it and that 200,000 people Hawaii depended on sugar. The finers, he declared employed 10,000 men. Directly attacking the so-called sugar trust, Senator Ransdell review ed the cusioms frauds, and the gov- ernment’s anti-trust sults against the American Sugar Refining Company and declared that former Attorney General Wickersham had referred to some of the refiners as “criminals of unparalelled depraviy.” The cam- paign for free sugar, he charged, was conducted by the refiners “to distract attention from the others” No re- ductions in price to the consumer would follow frge sugar, Senator Ransdell declared, but charged that after competition' haq been eliminat- ed, the price would be raised. Senator Ransdell contended that the framers of the Baltimore platform did not contemplate free sugar, and de- clared that the words “that will not injureor idestroy any legitimate in- dustry” were written into the plat- form with ‘“especial reference to sugar. The Senator's argument was a very long one intended to show that free sugar would violate the pledge of the Democratic party, destroy the home industry, deprive the government of some §52.000,000 and hring no deduc- tion of cost to-the consumer, re- bout the recommendation | that | New Evidence In Wood Case CHAUFFEUR SPRINGS A BIG SURPRISE. TAXI TELLS OF PASSENGER Drove Man Resemhling Atteux from Woog’s Residence to Boston Street Corner Named by Breen. Boston, June 2—Evidence intended to close the gaps in the prosecution’s case by connecting President William M. ‘Wood of the American Woolen com- pany and Frederick E. Atteux directly with the alleged plot to “plant” dyna- mite in the houses of the textile strik- ers at Lawrence was introduced by the state today. B Chauffeur Gives Testimony. ‘When the trial of Wood, Atteux and Dennis J. Collins was resumed, District ‘Attorney Pelletier called a witness who was discovered only last Sunday. This was Arthur Pira, a taxicab chauffeur, who testified tha on or about January 1912, the date upon which the dynamite was™ planted,” he drove a man resum- bling Atteuv from the Boston residence of President Wood to the corner of Franklin and _Washington streets, thence to a saloon on Court street, back again to Franklin streeet, and then to the clubhouse of the Boston Athletic association. Previous Testimony. Earlier in the trial Collins, who turn- ed state's evidence, told of assisting John J. Breen in placing the explosive. Breen, who also confessed complicity, said that Atteux had paid him $700 to do the work, and that Ernest W. Pit- man, a building contractor of Andover, had furnished the dynamite. Breen's story of Pitman’s part in the affair was corroborated by William H. Rice, a quarryman, who testified that Pitman had obtained the explosive from him and that he had seen the contractor deliver the explosive to a man resembling Breen at the corner of Franklin and Washington streets. Pira’s Testimony a Surprise. Pira’s testimony came as a surprise {0 a crowded court room. It agreed in essential points with a portion of Jreen’s testimony. Breen had told of two meetings on January 19 with At- teux at the corner of Washington and Franklin _streets, at the sesond of which Atteux had dropped a package containing $500, the first installment in payment for the “planting.’ Pira said thas Wfs passenger made two trips to Franklin and Washington streets on the same evening, mecting a tall man each time. Identification Not Positive. The witness was unable positively to identify Atteux as his passenger or Breen as the person met, although he said they resembled the parties. Pira, however, was positive that no package was dropped by his passenger or pick- ed up by the man keeping the appoint- ment. N DIVORCE CASE TO MAKE RECORD To Furnish Sensational Disclousures of Society Matrimonial Escapades. London, June 2—What insiders say will e the greatest matrimonial sen- sation of the year, so far as concerns questionable_details to be revealed, is due in the divorce courts here a fort- night hence. The parties are con- nected with two of the most fmport- ant businesses in’ the country. Onme is connected with the house which controls the wholesale tea trade. The case, which is entered in the list as A. R. Moosbrugger and C. J. Mooshrugger, originally was' the wife's petition for divorce, but after her suit was filed the husband entered a cross petition chargink his wife with mis- conduct with a vachtsman named Martin. All interested are well known in London soclety. They always take 2 leading part in social life ai Cowes in regatia week. The Moosbruggers have been popular for their lavish en- tertainments on their magnificently appointeq vacht at the various meet- ings they have invariably attended each season. The' evidence, it is asserted, will stagger the court. Lawyers who have been busy collecting _evidence for months say that if it is ever allowed to be made public it will establish a rd for sensational disclosures of matrimonial escapades. The biggest bundle of love letters ever brought into the divorce court in one action will be produced. It is said the junior counsel, whose duty it will be 10 read these letters in court, has con- sulted a throat and voice specialist In anticipation of the strain involved. The number of these Jove missives may be imagined from The fact that the lucky clerk who copied them put in a bill for $300 for the job. He was 2t work over two months exclusively making copies A special jury will he impanelled to hear the case. There are 110 witness- es to be subpoenaed from all over the country. If the judge allows all to be called the case will certainly last sev- eral weeks. The legal costs already paid, would take a holiday party on a round the world trip in luxurious style. THE VAN SCHAIK'S SEPARATE. Captain and His Wife Divide Goods —She Disliked Farm. Amsterdam, N. ¥. June 2 —The marriage of the Lebanon FHospital nurse to the man whom her ministra- tion brought back to health, was re- sarded as a romance at the time, but it assumed tragic proportions last week whem Captain and Mrs. William Van Schaick divided their worldly goods and signed papers of separa- on. The married life of the Van Schaicks has not been a happy one. Rural life was distasteful to Mrs. Van Schaick, and she and her husband drifted further and further apart, The farm purchased by New York friends, together with its contents, was disposed of Saturday, Captain Van Schaick returned to New York, where he still hopes to find happiness among his former friends. Some Cow Record: New Haven, Conn, June 2.—J. H. Mansfield has on his farm in Cheshire a six year old cow which he raised and Which freshened last Thanksgiving. Having now been milked during a pe- riod of six months, she gives an aver- age of 19 quarts of milk daily and two days ago gave 21 quarts. The New York's Tree dispensary for animals, maintained by the Woman's League for Animals, in 1912 treated 5,383 cas=" Condensed Teiegrams S. C. Bishop's Barn at Mount Kisco, N."Y.. built at a cost of $15,000, was éstroyed by fire: W Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, the Arctic_explorer, received a gold medal from the Swiss Geological society. Thaddeus Austin Thomson of jus- tin, Tex., was vesterday nominated by President Wilson to be minister to Co- lombia, Vast Tracts of Land containing kiesselgubr, used in the manufacturz of dynamite, have been discovered in the southern part of Chile. While Tryil to Make a Flight across: Lake Erle, Hurry Atwood was forced to float on the water until res- cued. His gasoline gave out. B. S. Walker, the Banker of Macon, Ga., who was poisoned by taking bi- chloride of mercury in mistake for medicine, left an estate valued at $500,000. The Nittle Village of West Hatfield, Me., was swept by fire yesterday and four farmhouses, ten barns, a number of sheds and a machine shop were de- stroyed. William Wiggins, 22 Years Old, of Kearny, N. J. hit on the head by a during a game of base- s, died yesterday of a frac- Gen. Joseph B. Leake, who was one of the youngest brigadier generals in the Clvil war and who was the oldest member of the Chicago bar, died yes- terday, aged 85 year: Walter E lIves, a Broker, with of- fices in Wall street, was fined $50 and costs in the Bridgeport city court yes. terday upon a charge of violating the automobile speed laws. Gregorio Pattini, 25, Went Smiling to death in the electric chair at Sinz Sing prison yesterday morning for the murder of Gluseppe Vasta, whom he shot down in December, 1910. A Syndicate of New York, London and Berlin bankers purchased yester- day from the National Railways of Mexico an issue of $26,730,000 six per cent., two-year, secured notes. Nicholas Lotto, a Coal and Ice Deal- er, was arrested in Maspeth, L. I, charged with - stealing a one-story house from New York city. Lotto had chopped the house into kindling. An Eleventh Daughter was born to Mrs. S. W. Jackson of Lawrence burg. Ind. Mrs. Jackson is the eleventh daughter of the eleventh daughter of a family of which there were no boys. The House Democrats in Caucus yes- terday restricted the legislative pro- gramme of the present extra session to tariff, currency, emergency appropria- tions and election cases. Frederick C. Whittemore, Jr., a freshman in Yale university, died St. Louis vesterday from an injury the spine “which resulted from be! hit by a babeball several years ago. Clerks in the Wholesale Cotton and woolen establishments of the East Side. New York, have struck, refusing to work on ftheir Sabbath, which lasts from sunset Friday until sunset Satur- day. Edward Payson Weston, 75, the fa- mous long distance pedestrian, who has twice crossed the continent afoot, started from New York at noon yester- day on a L1500 mile tramp to Minne- apolis. The Missouri Supreme Court yes- terday discharged William R. Nelson, owner and editor of the Kansas City Star, from contempt of the Jackson county circuit court. The decision was unanimous. A Satisfactory Adjustment of the trouble between the New York, New Haven and Hartford railrgad and its clerks has been made and an agree- ment covering the points at issue was signed yesterday The United States is Second only to Great Britain in supplying cotton goods to Canada, says a report just made by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Rt. Rev. Charles H. Brent, Episcopal bishop of the Philippines, arrived ves- terday and will confer during his stay with Secretary Bryan, Secretary Gar- rison and insular bureau officials about Philippine independence and adminie- trative questions. In Lawrence, Mass, Police Court esterday Mrs. Mary-Dodson waived examination on a manslaughter charge in which she is accused of.throwing a dish_at hen brother, MicRael Cronin, which caused his death on Saturday from a fractured skuli. Resolutions Censuring the Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden for his alleged “unchristian attack” upon the Rev. W the evangelist and former Drofessional baseball plaver, vere dopted by members of the ministerial ation of Columbus, O. Between 200 and 300 Members of the Bricklavers' Masons' and Plasterers’ union went on strike at Fall River yes- terday in consequence of the refusal of the Fall River Builders' association to grant them an increase in wages from 55 cents an hour to 60 cents at hour. Arkansas Authorities have been ask- ed to detain John Sick, expresd mes- senger of Kansas ' pending an in Vestigation of the killing of Patrick i Lawson, a youth of Poteau, Okla, on board the express car of a Kansas City Southern train, near Heavener, Okla., | Sunday. { Declaring That the Evidence war- | ranted a conviction, Judge Ratigan in | fro; the superior court ‘at Worcester | terday discharged an entire jury further duty after a verdict® of | guilty had been returned in the cases | of five men charged with assaulting | two policemen. Jonathan C. elow, Jr., a 19 vear old Trinity college fréshman, commit- ted suicide at his home at Manchester, “onn., -during Sund: night, blowing off a part of his head with a shotgun. Mental trouble due to oversiud: worry over a coming examinat Delieved to have caysed his act. At the Anniversary Exercises of the Yale School of Fine Arts last night it was announced that the William Win- chester fellowship had been awarded to Lester J. A, Julianclle of New Ha- ven. The Alice Kimball scholarship, a year of study abrgad, was awarded to Charles H. A. Asres of Port Jervis, N, ¥ Ice Price Booted at Bristol. Bristol, Conn., June 2.—Announce- ment was made by local ice dealers today of an advance of ten -cents a hundred pounds in the price of ice. | g omato juice will remove ink stain from linen not | ‘Washington, June 2—The struck out boldly today on the n'mll of the “insidious lobby” which Presi dent Wilson declared is operating to modify the tariff bill. At the rate of four senators an hour, the colleagues of the five men on the investigating sub-committee stepped to the witness | chafr, took the oath and then told | their stories of senatorial wealth, poverty or moderate circumstance: business and professional connections | and of their interest or lack of it in the tariff measure. Knowledge of Lobby Denied. Suspicions that the trail might prove a winding up with many a strange turning brought out a good sized crowd that listened intently to these tales from senatorial life. As sena- tor after senator denied knowledge of the existence of an organized lobby, declared that improper influences had not been. exerted upon him and that money to influence legislation had never appeared upon the congressional | horizon at the present session the crowd lost its appetite and slowly thinned out. The trail of the lobt was hard to find and spectators who looked for semsations went away empty-handed. No Evidence of Outside Influence. Senators who had served in con- gress for many years repeatedly testi- | filed during the all day session that they believed there was less personal appeal to members of the two houses now than at any tariff revision of re- cent years. Nearly a dozen and a balf | senators had been examined befor the end of tonight’s session and while they disclosed freely their personal | business affairs and the extent of their property investments the committee | | democradti | Ashhurst said | tracts Only ‘One Unearthed atllnvestig{ltion in the Testi- mony of Over a Dozen U.S. Senators HIS EFFORTS NOT IN ‘REFERENCE TO TARIFF Said to be Attempting ;o Influence Action in Favor of Indian. Contracts—Senator Brandegee Testifies that He Knows of No Lobbyists or Improper Use of Money or Influence —Says Connecticut Business Men Have Called on Him. senate found no evidence of the use of senaw torial or outside influence toseffect im= proper tariff legislation. Arguments Legitimately Presented. The majority of the senators declar= ed they did not consider as lobb, and republican expressed the opinion ed parties” had the their cases either to ments to congress right “that men who |legitimately appeared to present argu- Both senators intes to. rest- present individual sena- tors or to committees of cither house. One Reference to a “Lobbyist.” Names of a score or have appeared to cut in sugar, wool, protest lead, more men against meat, who a flour and similar dutizs were given by dif- ferent senator t the ferred to as “lobbyist” pamed McMurray,” whom he believed tempting to influence actio: o fthe proval of certuin it which he was only one re- was a * nan 1 Senator was n at- in_favor Indian con- interested. Senator Brandegee's Testimony. Senator Brandegee no interest in any con facturing or handling fected in the legislation had not attempted to senators in behalf of any terests. rn declared he had manu- anything and that he influence other af- certain in- Of those who had called on him, Senator Brandegee recalled Han- ry Hall of Willimantic, Conn., a thread manufacturer; W. W. Skiddy, of Stam- ford, Conn. and Cheng manufacturers of Conn. These and others, hy argued that reduced duties their business. no improper u: said, uld y Brothers, silk uth Manchester, , had ruin The senator knew of e of money or influenca and he knew of no lobbyist and of no ex lobby. BULLETS INTENDED FOR THE OTHER GIRL. Margaret Lepper of Seymour May Re- cover from Wounds. Ansonia, Conn,, June 2.—Little new developed today in the case of Alfred Pryor, the Ansonia young man who shot' Margaret Lepper, a 16 old girl, in Seymour Sunday. Pryor, who is also known by the name of Cro land, was arrested in this city after the shooting and remained in the Ansonfa police station until shortly before noon, when he was taken to Sevmour to answer to a charge of assault with intent to kill. The Lepper girl received two bullets in her head. Her condition today was reported as favorable and her recov- ery is expected. From facts which | have come o light today it seems that Pryor intended to shoot his sweetheart, | Biilie Bukofski, a pretty Seymour girl of about 16. The two girls went rid- | ine Sunday with Earl Valentine and | Edwin Carlson, two Naugatuek youths, and were met by Pryor. The latter upbraided the Bukofski girl and ended | by pulling a_revolver and firing into the carriage in which the two couples were seated. Both bullets struck the | Lepper girl. Pryor d the shooting, but was later at_the railroad station in this city Pryor was arraigned in the Seymour town court this afternoon and held ir: bonds of $1,200 for a hearing June 11 Attorney A. B, McOrmond appeared as | counsel for the accused who is likely to have difficulty in securing a bond: man. ested | BOY’S BODY FOUND IN CONNECTICUT RIVER. Believed to Be That of Hartford Lad Who is Missing from Home. Middletown, Conn., June 2.—Fhe drowned body of a hoy, thougkt to be | about 7 years old, was found on the | bank of the Connecticut river below this city tonight by Peter Johnson of Portland. The body was badly de- composed. It is thought the body is that of Abraham Davis, who disap- peared frowa his home in Hartford some days ago. The Hartford police have been notified Probabiy is Davis Boy. Hartford, Conn., June 2.—The police believe that the body of boy found at AMiddletown this afternoon is thac of Abraham Davis, the 4 vear old son of Mr. and Mrs. Maxi of 1 Pleasant court, this city, who appeared from his home last Tues The description tallies even (o minutest detail! BATTLESHIP COLLIDES i WITH A SUBMARIKE. | Latter Suffers Extensive Damage, but Former Escapes Lightly. mouth, Eng., June —While in manoeuvres off the'l flotilla of submarines ack on the battleshipe Prince of Wales of the home fleet, The latter collided with a submerged submarine, ng the conning tower agd superstruciure, The submarine, howeve Wbl to reach | the surface and return to Portsmot The damage to the battleship consi ed of the indentation of a few bottom plates, made Irres Today King George's Birthday. London, June King George's 48th birthday ywill be celebrated tomorrow and the usual birthday horfors wers announced tonight. A barometcy s conferred upon James M. Barrie, the novelist, and knighthoods upon John - son_Forbes-Robertson, the actor and theatrical manager, and Dr. Bdward Albert Schafer, professor of physiology in Edinburgh university. I Heaith Causes Suicide. Milford, Conn., June 2-—Despondent because of ill health, Joel Smith, a night watchman, committed suicide at Jis home today by inhaling illuminat- ing gas. He was 58 years old and be~ sides his widow is survived by two daughters and a son. Mrs. Smith found him dead in the kitchen whea she returned from a shopping trip. A motor truck was built_complets recently by prison laber at Sing Sing. THE FIREMAN KILLED, penditures of money to maintain & ENGINEER MAY DIE/ Special Train and Milk Tr: Cra; North Kent, Conn. North Kent, Conn., June 2.—A spe< eial train, chartered by Dr. C. H. sh at Me- Burney, ‘@ prominent New York physi- clan, which was returning empty from Stgclkbridge, Mass., tohight at 7.8 train on the Berks New Haven road. The special train was killed. was perhaps fatally b vas in an collision o'clock with a millc o division of- the. fireman of the Editor Righy injured rushed to a Danbury hospital. The d_he crew of the milk train, seeing that a collision safety. hours by the accld communication was al time, the wires being w inevitable, nt. jumped Traffic was delayed for many to™ Telephona o cut off for a knocked down. The milk train was made up of 27 cars, and many of the: > were derailer, The cause of the accident is-not cer- tain yet. here from Waterbur: The fireman of the whose name could n burled under engines completely other. telesc: Patchen was the engineer. the members of the milk special be learned, was a mass of debris. oped A wrecker has been sent train, The each Hugh Iane of Bridgeport was appearcd after | in charge of the milk train and Roy Some of train wera slightly injured in their wild jump/for safety. The accident happened én an isolat~ ed section of the r | ad and only details could be eked out tonight. MAY CONSOLIDATE meagre WITH ENGINEERS, Proposition to Be Firemen and Enginemen. ‘Wasbington, Considered by June 2—The conven- tion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen organized to- down to worl | day, and more than 900 delezates got Three important ques- tions are to come up besides election of a new set of officers. tion will be in session 2 Selection of a clty for headquarters and conven probably will be the auestion. The conven- days. permanent tion first place important Several clties are making am offort to have headquarters changed. Another ‘subject to come before the convention is a question of consolidat= ing the brotherhood with the Bry hood of Locomotive Engineers, Tother- hanges in the constitution and by« laws prohably also will be made with the selection of a convention. city for the So far Denver, 1916 Oakland and Houston are the only cities in tho feid, FOR MURDER OF WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN. Former Sergeant of U. S. Hospital Corpe Under Arvesh Portland, Oregon, June 2—G eorge E. Schall, formerly a sergeant in the Hospital corps, U. S. Vagcouver, Wash., with te murder or children at the P co, last April. In the ruins of non-commissioned ment, which was de In a statement his W esidio, officers’ foday hi: by an axe b; an ch and A., was arrested today, arged three Francls- /The bodies were found Schall's home in the canton- Schall him and the house set on fire. Schall served 27 years In the army. He was arrested at the home of a sis- ter-in-law in Vancouver, ved Dby fire. sald wife and chiidren had been killed some person unknown te and it was stated by the deputy United States marshal who took him into custody that he probably would not resist ex- tradition. Yale Divinity School Graduation. New Haven, Conn., June 2.—The an« nual graduation at the Yale Divinity' school class numbering 33. the. was held today, graduating class Prof. the outgoing In his address to Henry Hallam counselled them to preach a constructive and not a destructive pol~ fey. said. Death of British Poet-Laureate. London, June tish poei-laureats since today. at the age of 7L 2.—~Alfred A “You have been taught in the new theology and you mnst now forth and preach that theology,” fa LOBBY'S TRAIL S SCARGELY VISIBLE