Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 13, 1913, Page 1

DAY, JUNE 13, 1913 REAR-END COLLISION AT STAMFORD Second Section of Springfield Express Crashes In- to Rear Pullman of First Section FOUR KILLED OUTRIGHT, ANOTHER DIED LATER Over a Score Injured, Some Fatally—Car Containing 50 Pas- sengers Reduced to Splinters >— Locomotive One of Heaviest on Road—Hartford Physician Among Dead— Engineer Unable to Work Air Brake, Ran Past Signals. e e Stamford, Conn., June 12.—Four per- sons were killed outright, another lat- er died in the hospital, and a score of others were badly -injured, some of them fatally hurt, in a rear-end col- lision in the Stamford yard of the New York, New Haven & Hartford raflroad at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The Pullman car “Skylark” was tele- scoped and that any of its 50 occu- pants escaped death is nothing short of a miracle, for the car was reduced to kindling wood in an instant. The Dead. MRS. EDWARD KELLEY, 34 Tri- dent street, Winthrop, Mass. EVERETT HALSEY, 38 Broadway, Flshing, L. JR. HARMON G. HOWE, Hartford, Conn. FRANK K. CONFIELD, Springfield, JMass., proprietor of linen store. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN in Prit- chard’s morgue. The Injured. F. B. JENNINGS, %6 Park_avenue, New ork, injuries not serious.Y S. W PATTERSON, Red Bank, N. J., cut about head and body; critically injured. GEORGE WALTON, 438 Broadway, New York. conneoted with Canadian Pacific railway, arm proken and bad- I cut about face and arms. ALLEN A. WARFIELD, 2633 Adams il road, Washington, D, C., broken %g and injured in groin. J. P. HAMLIN, 111 Fifth avenue, Kew York, internally EVERETT §. BENSON, 255 West 85th street New York, injured in Back; condition serious. % MARGARET . BRODERICK, Farm- ngton. Conn., deep gash forehead; condition serious. F. M. BROWN, Richmond Hill, L. L, head and face cut: serious. P. J. GARRITY, 33 Linden street, Hackensack, N. J. badly cut about head, back and legs: may die., J. J. MARTIN, 14 Fast 75th street, New York. body and face badly cut and_probably fatally injured. REBECCA MBEYERSON, 90 Bast 41st streec. New York, badly injured, nose torn off and face badly lacerat- ed. SEVEN MONTHS OLD BABY of Nrs. Myerscon, face cut and thrown through car window. BEV. ANTONIO BERHLEY. 347 Fast 57th street, New York, lacera- tions on head and breast. * E J. KELLY, Winthrop, Mass, whose wife was killed, suffering from JOHNSON,, ehock. HELEN Springfield, Mass., cut and bruised. MRS. BURGESS, mother, of Helen Jobnson, cut about face, 4rms, head and legs. y J. W. HOUSTON, Roxbury, Mass, seriously injured; in hospital. GREGORY HUMES, New York city, seriously injured; in_ hospital F. D. JENNINGS, Staten Island; se- riously injured; in hospital (F. B. Jen- nings not seriously hurt). ELEANOR PLUM, Brooklyn, N. Y., weriously injured, in hospital. H. HUME, address not given, se- riously hurt. MARY THOMPSON, Goshen, N. Y., seriously injured. First Section Was Waiting. The Skvlark was the rear car of a ten-car train,_the first section of the Boston-New York express, via Spring- fleld, known as Train 3. The irain reached Stamford on time ard was halted momentarily in the yard to change the power from steam to electricity. While standing still, await- ing orders to proceed, the second sec- tion of the same train came dashing around the curve into the yard and a moment later had struck the first sec- tion, motionless on the same track. Engine Plows Through Pullman. The heavy engine hit the Skylark with terrific force and plowed its way through for forty feet, until the engine crivers were against the forward irucks of the Puilman, the smokestack #ticking through the split roof of the coach. Following the chash, which at- tracted thousands to the spot, the air was filled with fiying debris and the cries of the injured. Simultaneouslv with the hmpact, the train took fire, and within two minutes the city fire partment and police were on the scenc. Work of rescue was at once Pegun. Priest Escapes Injury. The police and nearby - neighbors aided and the unharmed passengers of the forward cars of the train were of greatest assistance. A Catholic priest, Who was a passenger on the Pullman, escaped serious Injury, and at once ministered to the dving and injured. Rev. Father O'Brien of this city Tush- ed o the scene in his automoblle and < in time to administer the last rites the dying. Autes Commandeered by Police. Every ambulance in this city was geickly in commission, and so great « the need of speedy conveyances tha! automobiles of the earliest sight- secrs were commandeered by the po- lice and used to carry the wounded to the Stamford hospitals. clans made haste to tender their aid and evervthing possible was done for the sufferers. Private automobiles dashed through the main streets car- ryine the injured to the hospitals, Travel Not Lona Delayed. Travel was not long delayfd. The smash occurred within 300 feet of the station and within ten minutes a full force of wreckers was at work clear- ing away the wreckage. One of Heaviest Engines on Road. The smash scarcely fifty feet e crossing at Pa- half mile from the nding crash of throughout the nor Pullman left the rafls. Theitop of the Pullman ‘was broken in. about midway from its ends. and split_reached to the nm-n--m No. 1338, is one the eg on gv road and short work T its progress through the shell of the wood- en Pullman coach. The smashed car was sent so forefbly into the parlor car ahead that the ends of both were splintered to bits. Inside the ll-fated Pullman the Local physi- | greatest consternation reigned and it was several minutes before ity stun- ned occupants coulq gather~ their senses. The survivors speak in high terms of the New York Catholic priest, Rey. Father Anthony Berhley, of St. John's Catbolic church, 347 Bast 57th street, who was in the car and escaped serious injury. He was among the first to render aid and his presence of mind and coolness in the excitement Were highly esteemed. Until the ar- rival of physicians he gave ald and spirttual comfort, and was practically in command of the situation. Railroad Officials reticent. Liocal officials of the railroad are very reticerf regarding the cause of the wreck and refuse interviews._ It is known here that all passenger trains bound west always stop at this spot in the local yard to change engines before proceeding to the depot, and the engineer of the train that was hit fol- lowed the usual custom. Whether sig- nals were set against the second sec- tion following closely is not known. Those near the scene say that no more than ten minutes intervened be- tween the arrival of the two trains. Father Berhley's Story. Rev. Father Berhley, of New York city, the Catholic priest whose hero- ism’ marked the wreck, standing out so brightly in the scene of suffering, is at the Stamford hospital sufferin from shock and infuries about thi body. He is active and on his feet and says he is not badly off. Telling of the crash, he said this evening: “T was seated about midway in the Pullman and little dreamed of trouble. There was no warning nor shout or threatening rumble. Just a crash that roared in my ears and is ringing now. The next instant the swhole car was topsy-turvy. Men and women seemed to be almost suspended in the air and there Was a mass of evervthing con- ceivable fiying about at random. Then all seemed to_ssttle. except the escap- ing steam and the hot coals from the firebox that soon burst into flame. Women Were Brave. “Women's of helplessness and terror and the deeper cries of men Some in mortal agony, others caught in the wreckage and all asking for istance. The women were brave as they were lifted out of the windows with bloody faces and torn and cut bodies. They deserve highest praise. The passengers from the other cars aided those penned in, helping them from the outside, and ‘they made the work of rescue quicker and added much by their encouraging words. We who were in' the car cannot be too thankful that the horror of fire was not added to the”hwful scene. Had this car caught fire from within a few minutes after the crash, it Is cer- tain that the loss of life would have been appalling, for many. of the men and women were 50 penned in by the broken_chairs and rods that they could not have escaped without assistance.” Woman Swallowed Powdered Glass. One of the most seriously injured at the hospital {s Miss Margaret Brod- erick of Farmington, Conn. She has a deep zash in her forehead from a broken window pane, but her. most serious trouble comes from powdered glass which ghe is believed to have swaflowed In the excitement. Her condition is reported as pfecarious. May Identify Unknown Woman. W. H. Seely, of the Industrial Bu- reall of the New England lines at Boston called up a local newspaper on the long distance telephone late to- night and he said, from the descrip- tlon of the unidentified woman at Pritchard’s morgue, that she may be his sister-in-law. The name of the latter_could not be;learned, owing to Mr. Seely’s talking being indistinct. He said he would take the next train to Stamford, In an ‘endeavor to iden- tify the woman. Humes Expected to Die. At the Stamford hospital tonight it was said that the tnjured were doing fairly well, with the exception of Greg- ory Humes, a New York newspaper man. His death {5 momentarily ex- pected. ' An Engineer of Experience. New Haven, Conn, June 12.—Engi- neer Charles Doherty, who was run- ning the engine on the second seotion of the Springfleld express, was an ex- perienced man, Hé had bean engineer anq recently owing to changes was demoted as a result of those changes but through no fault of his own. A few days hgo hegas promoted. tb be an engineer. Engineer and Fireman Not Located. The engineer of the second saction, Charles Doherty of New Haven, could not be located after the wreck. It was at first reported that he was ! seriously injured and was in a Stam- |ford hospital, but no trace of him |could be found tonight. The fireman of the second section, whose name has not been learned, has not been loca- ted either. Railrgad officials were re- ticent on the subJect and professed to of either man, RAN PAST SIGNALS. Official Statement Says That Airbrake Failed to Work."' New York, June 12.—An _oficial statement given out at the offices -of the New Haven road here tonight sald that Charles Doherty, engineer of the second section, ran past both the dis- tance and home signals. each-set at danger, and was goipg fiftesn to twen- ty miles an hour when it strgck the firat section. Doherty put on the air- brake, but it did not pesm to jwork, it was stated, and he reversed ‘his en- fino Just s the eoll ocourred, e, Tepmt ot (e aeos ot u of the heavys Tath er than the train’s spesd caused-the damage, offiotals 2 Accarding to M, W. s of e, Paul, Minn,, er In the eqr thet was struck and who came through to New York, the engine plovghed two- thirds throush the rear ear, Griggs, in meat 9, was catapulted over the seal in front and alighted prestrais on the floor besids & sercaming girl, The have no knowledge;of the whereabouts | Cabied Paragraphs Danish Cabinet Resigns. Copenhagen, Denmark, June 12. King Christian today accepted the res- ignation of the premier and his cab- inet. - Ancther Bomb at Lisbon. Lisbon, Rortugal, Jume 12.—Many were killed or wounded today by the explosion of a dynamite bomb thrown from a window at & procession passing along the streets. Accept Russian Arbitration. St. Petersburg, June 12.—The Ser- vian and Bulgarian governments have both agreed 'to accept Russian arbi tration in their dispute over the ter- ritory ‘ acquired during the Balkan war. Grand r Buried. Constantinople, June 12.—The assas- sinated Grand Vizier Mahmout Schef- ket Pasha was buried this mornin, in the mausoleum situated on the Hill of Liberty, in the outskirts of the Turkish capital, where many of his soldiers fell while he was leading them in the operations against Constanti- nople in April, 1909, Another Suffragette Explosion. Liverpool, Eng., June 12—The ex- citement today at Runcorn, 16 miles from this city, Where it was thrown from the wiidow of a street car cross- ing the suspension bridge over the ship canal. The canister burst with a loud report. Militant suffragettes are suspected. Americans Defeat Moros. Manila, June 12.—The entrenchments of the rebellious Moros under the Sul- tan of Jolo at Bagsag, were taken by the American forces today after a fierce battle in which the American casualties were six killed and twelve wounded. The killed were two pri- vates of Company M, 8th United States infantry; three members of the 5lst company of scouts. and one mem- ber of the 29th company of scouts. “Hitchie-Coo” the Latest Dance. Atlantic City, N. J, June 12.—The “hitchie-coo,” a combination of the ‘“one step” and “tango,” with a grace- ful kick as the final feature of each set, was introduced as the lqtest dance creation at the annual conventlon of the International Dancing Masters’ association, in session aere. Doherty Telegraphs Family. v Haven, Conn. June 12—The family of Engineer Charles Doberty of the second sectlon of the train which was- in the wreck at Stamford, re- ceiveq a telegram from him at Stam- forg tonight saying that he was all right, and “got to worry. pllot of the colliding locomotive stop- ed but a.few feet behind him. Bverett H. Woodruff, one of the dead, was a buflder of Long Island city. F. B, Jennings, among the injured, =y Tala mohimonti s men ot 5 Jennings, a_prominent New York law- yer. . Tho Hev, Antonio Berhiey ia & priest, reetor of 8t. John Nepomucene Roman Catholie church, on the upper Tast Side. Gregory Humes is a news- ‘paper man, employed with the New York World. . Officials of the road here sent rep- resentatives to New Faven to arrange for bringing the uninjured to New York. The first section, without the damaged “Skylark” and with three added. cars arrived here shortly after 6.30 o'clock, bearing many of its own passengers and a number who had been transferred from the second section, Which was left at New Haven. Other passengers arrived here at .10 on one of the regular trains passing through tamford. At the train gates in the Grang Central station relatives and friends of the passengers residing in New York and vicinity were waiting. ON BUSINESS TRIP. Mrs. Kelly Was Accompanying Hus- band as Far as New York. Boston, June 13—E. J. Kelley, whose wife was killed on the railroad at Stamford, Conn., today came to this city from Chicago as land agent for the Canadian Pacific railwas Mrs. Kelley lived in Chicago until six_weeks ago when she joined her husband here and began housekeep. ing at 34 Trident street, Winthro Mass. Mr. Kelley left Boston today business trip through the east. Mrs. Kelldy had planned to go far as New York with Rm. MRS. BURGESS SAFE. Springfield Woman Sends Glad Tid- ings to Her Husband. on as Springfield, Mass., June 12—Rela- tives of Mrs. Thornton W. Burgess of |61 Washington road, Springfield, who at Stamford, Conn., received a messgge from her tonight telling of her safety and asking that a supply of clothing be sent for her and her daughter by a former marriage, Miss Helen John- son. : reports -had Mrs. Burgess in the list of dead and her husband and friends were overjoyed to have direct news from her. Frank F. Confield of this city who was killed in_the accident, was pro- prietor of a linen store at 406 Main street. DR. HARMON G. HOWE. Wereck Victim Was President of Larg- est Hospital in State. - Hartford, Conn., June 12—Dr. Har- |mon G. Howe, was one of the most | prominent surgeons and physicians of the state. He was born in Jericho, Vt., September 8, 1850, son of Luclan B, and Clarissa J. Howe and received his education at the University of Ver- mont and Columbla university. On April 12, 1876, he married Harriet N. Stevens of Jericho, who survives him with two sons. Dr. Howe for many years was presigent of the Hartford hospital, the largest hospital in the state, and chairman of its executive boarll. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Medical - and Surgical staff and a_member of the board of directors. He was a mem- ber _ of the American Medical assoclation, the Connecticut Medical society, the Hartford Medical soclety, and numerous clubs. Railroad Machinists at Minneapolis {lemand & wage increase of ¢ cents an Unknewn Weman May Be Mre. Sesley, Hoston, June 121t wag learned to- night Mrs, Besley, wife of W, A, Bea- ley, maneger of the New Kngland Lines Ipdustrial bureau, wes a passenger in the car whish wae telscoped in the eol- listen. . Bl laft Rasttord to vialt her brother-in-law, According to advices received hare sha has not teen heard from since the aceident, Mr, Besley iy in Maine on & husiness irip and esuid net be located tonight, plosion of a canister caused great ex-\| was a passenger on the train wrecked ' Lying Amidst Hissing Stream WARFIELD'S EXPERIENCE IN STAMFORD WRECK. . A CLOSE TO HIM ENGINE Stared His Hand on It as He At- tempted to Rise—Injured Bride Mis- took Him for Hegr Husband, He Says New York, June 12.—Onme of the most graphic stories of the wreck at Stamford was told by Allan A. War- field of Washington, a fire insurance adjuster, one of the injured in the wreck who, after being treated in Stamford, came to this city and went to a hotél. He was not so badly in- jured as reported. Seared Hand on Locomotive. “There were screams and shouts as the car was ripped apart as though made of paper,” said Mr. Warfleld, describing the collfsion, “and the black steaming monster cut’ through, stop- Ding s few foet from where I was. I was thrown to the floor underneath the seat, wedged in by the wall of the car. A few moments later I regained consciousness i the midst of hissing steam and the fumes of coal gas fill- ing the car. I tried In vain to move my Itmbs and in an effort to find something by which to raise myself up touched the wall of the locomotive which was burning hot. My hand was seared by the contact. Tried to Assist Bride. “Finally by desperate efforts I man- aged to ¥ree Dboth legs, the left being badly injured and crawled to the spot where lay a young bride who had been sitting just behind me with her hus- band before the shoeck. As I gently touched her on the shoulder she tried to turn her head and murmured: Ts that you dear? She thought 1 was her husband and when she found it was not he .she pleaded to be allowed to lie where he was. Her Husband Found Laf “I drs ed her from the car and as we ::Sded on a pile of debris I fainted. When I came to I told two men who were bending over me that the woman's husband was in the car under the locomotive. As we lay there I saw the body of the husband drag- ged out and lald beside her. The men carried her to an automobile, then came for me and we were taken to a hospital. I was badly eut and my body was a mass of bruises, but I able *with assistance to dress being attended.” Life Saved by Moving Seat. Mr. Warfield attributed his eseape from_death to the fact that he moved hig t a little forward In the car shortly ‘before the acecident. ‘ter WAS JOKING WITH WIFE. Then Crash Came That Rebbed Ed- ward J. Kelley of His Helpmeet. Bridgeport, Conn, June 13—To a Telegram reporter Edward J, Kelley, of 34 Trident street, Winthrop, Mass., recounted his experiences in the wreck in which his wife, occupying the next seat to his, was almost instantly killed, Mr. Kelley, who is New England land agent for the: Canadian Pacific rail- road, described with dramatic vivid- nessthe details of the catastrophe. “One minute I was joking with my wife; the next instant without the slightest warning came the crash; wife was killed, and I éscaped, but am so dazed by it all that I find it hard to realize what has happened. “My wife and I occupied seats No, /17 and 19 at the rear of the Pullman car ‘Skylark’ near the extreme end of the train. I remember the train’s stopping in Stamford to change en- gines. My wife had gotten up to get a drink of water and brought me a | glass. Then we noticed that a young | fellow seated in seat No. 20 was flirt- | ing with a pretty girl in seat No. 21 and I turned to my wife and laughed and guoted a couple of lines of verse: “ ‘Youthful romance is never dead The flowers are ever blooming.’ “We laughed and I swung my seat away. for a moment, so that my back was turned toward my wife and just at that instant I heard the most ter- rific grinding crash, the whole roof of the car seemed to come in on me and a great weight crushed me down. I heard frightful shrieks and scfeam: My first thought was for my wife. ‘I seemed to be pinned down by an im- mense_ weight but 1 managed to twist around and called. ‘Ada, where are you,_and .tried to reach for my wife. My hand and face came in contact with the boiler of the locomotive which had had ploughed its way through to where I sat. 1 was scalded by the steam | pipes_and the escaping steam. Next think "I heard people shouting, and someone took hold of me from behind and pulled me out into the open. “I begged them™to get my | They told me she was not in the car. I said that T knew she was and im- lored them to look for her. Then suddenly caught a glimpse of my wife, her 'body hanging half way out of a window iIn the wreckage. ‘For God's sake get a ladder, T shouted. Pooplé came with the ladder and we lifted_her down. When we took her out of the window her pulse was beat ing. We carried her fo a little shanty could be found. Just before {heédoc- tor came I felt my wife's pulse again and it had stopped beating. Her eves were open and I\implored her to speak to me, but she was dead.” ‘ PLEA OF GUILTY BY MAJOR HASTINGS 8het Nephew Last Month Because of Fancied Grievance. 1 Harrisburg, Pa., June 12—Major Willlam H. Hastings, who last month shot at his nephew, Ross A. Hickok, a former Yale athleie, becatise of fan oled grievances, and later engaged in a plstol battls with policemen who attempted to arreat him, today plead- od gullty in the county court to felo- nloys mssault and baitery with intent to kfll, Mentence was deferred and Hastings, who 18 & brother of o former sovernor_of Pennsylvanis, was return- #d to prison, Mr, Hi k and the po- Wight natiens have pew Inl@leated that they faver Mr, an’s peace plan, Grapa-juice diplemaey isn't so wite. | | | | | and it seemed an age before a doctor | His “Joy Ride” Ended in Death YOUNG AVIATION PUPIL FALLS 200 FEET. DEAD WHEN PICKED UP Had Urged His Partner to Go Up with ittle Joy Ride” Before They Went Together to Eat. Him for “Just a Lima, Ohio, June 12.—Andrew Drew, pupil of Orville Wright, volplaned to .death there this evening in a blazing biplane. Drew was killeq as a result of a desire to tale “just a little joy ride”—his last words to his partner— inia machine which he had not thor- Qushly tested. ~His partmer in a local school of aviation, J. C. Brabazon, had urged him not to make the taip, but Drewywished to try out the biplane. Fell 200 Feet. He fell 200 feet, his blg maohine falling like & torch hurtled from the sky. He was dead when Brabazon and geveral workmen at the Lima state hospital pulled his body from under the wreck, » “Take One Little Joy Ride.” Drew and Brabazon went out to the aviation grounds about a half mile from the state hospital quring the af- ternoon and Drew.and hig mechani- clans set up the machine, It was dusk when they had finished. Drew was anxious to try out the machine and urged .Brabazon, who has made sev- eral flights with him to go along. “Let's. take just one-little_joy ride,” he laughed, “and then I'll g6 and eat Wwith you,” said Drew. Rodgers .Used Same Machine. Brabazon demurred on the ground that it was getting too dark to fly and there were no places suitable for a good landing. The machine which the aviator used was the one in which Calvin Rodgers made the last lap of his coast to coast flight two years ago. C. 0. D. PARCEL POST. Postmasters %ssue Instructions—In Efiect on July fst. (Special to The Bulletin,) ‘Washington, June 12.—Instruetions to postmasters were issued yesterday for handling the C, O, D. parcel post packages. The regulations will be ef- fective July 1, Charges on packages will be colleet- ed from addressees on and after that date, provided the amount on a single parcel does not exceed $100. The fee for collcation will be ten cents in par- cel post stamps to be affixed by the sender: | Phis-fee-also- will insure the package ‘against loss to the actual Valuo of the esntents not excoeding 5 The sender will get a veeeipt shew- ing the amount to“be eollected, the amount also appearing en a tag at- tached to the package, The addressee will receipt for the packaze en the tag, which will serve as an application for a money order. O, O, D, pareels earriers and wil be delivered by eity and rural eavriers and special deliv- ery messengers, Such packages will not be“matlable either to the Philip- pines or to the canal zone. QUIT MEAT BUSINESS BECAUSE OF PRICES Six New Haven Dealers Consider lce and Beef Too Costly. New Haven, June 12—Prices of meats took another big jump here this morning. The present prices of meats togeth- er with the big jump in price of ice has caused at least six New Haven meat dealers to temporarily retire from the meat business. The Booth Meat company in Whal- ley avenue, has given up the meat end of the business for the present, while C. C. Andrew & Co., proprietors of the Broadway Cash Market, have sus- pended the meat business. There are several other local butchers who have. gone out of business within the last few days and they give as their rea- son-the high price of meat and ice, John V. Rattlesdorfer, who for years conducted a fine market at 95 G¥eene street, has gone out of business. The high prices of all meats and ice ate up all the profits HAD MILLIONS BUT THEY LACKED INTEREST IN LIFE Wealthisst Couple in Switzerland End Lives with G Zurich, Switzerland, June 12.—Bu- geno Maggi and his wife, beleved to be the wealthlest persons in Switzer- land, committed suicide today, their act being actuated by sheer lack of interest in_life, Eugene Maggi was only 41 vears old and his wife 35, and the joint estates of the man and wife are estimated at $10,000,000. while quite recently Maggi inherited the income from a number of extensive factories. The couple had been greatly dis: appointed because thelr marriage was without issue, and last night in a fit of despondency they decided to end their lives. They retired to thleir bed- room in thelr villa here, turned on the gas and were found dead in he morning. POTATOES ARE CHEAPER. Old Ones Offered in Chicago at 16 1-2 Cents a Busl Chicago, June 12—The high cost of living recelved a jolt yesterday when old white Burbank potatoes were of- fered in Chicago at 16 1-3 cents a bushel, the lowest price in the memory of local dealers. These potatoes were selling at $1 and $1.15 a bushel a year ago. The potatoes were shipped from Minnesota at a time when tho market price was between 80 and 90 cents, The consignees put the price down to 40, 30, 20 and finally to 16 1-2 ocent which barely paid the frieght charges, but stll there were no takers. Consumers are paying 18 aud 20 cents a peck to retallers for old pota- ligemen Avpeared ageinst him at the 100" and males to the publla by ship- pstings fired meveral shots at his |PETS, In the raflroad yards were plan- ne Bt the laftar's homs here when ned, 1, e ."E&fi.'?:.i’::: Presidential Neminations. St o ’;&. jn the hip end | Washington, June 12—A large list of caustng n sight wound, divlomatie pominations were prepered at the White House today and seme of them will go to the mate temer- row, These expected to be named to- morrew are Thamms Nelson Page of Virginia to be ambessador te Italy and Willlam C, Genzales of Columbua, bad niter all—Chicage Reserd-Herald, | B, €. to be mimster-io Cuba, Condensed Teiegrams N[] PUSTAGE FOR S Peru Proposes to Spend $10,000,000 for irrigation ‘purposes. The Gold Production of the World during 1912 is estimated at $472,975,100. Meredith Nicholson of Indiarta, the novelist, probably will be minister to Portugal. i H. W. Walker, auditor of the Grand Trunk railway, died in Winnipeg, Man., aged 75 years, 2 West Point’s Class of 1913—ninety- two Americans and onme Cuban—was graduated yesterday Chicago Street Cleaners will be| taught the one correct way of 29 dif- ferent ways of handling a broom. Refined Sugars Were generally ad- vanced ten cents per hundred pounds, yesterday, making standard granulated 35, Secretary Lane Has Ordered an auc- tion sale on July 15 of 210 lots on the government irrigation project at Hunt- ley, Mont. William Hickam of Spencer, Ind, will be graduated from the same clas3 as his son in a law school at the In diana university. ‘ The American Meat Packing Com- panies operating In Argentina are not considered as a “trust” by the Argen- tine government. Dairy and Food Commissioner Her- bert F. Wilson of Suffield an assistant inspec- tor in his department. The Massachusetts Bill ‘Permitting the New Haven to extend its trolley lines was vetoed by Governor Ioss, but the veto was overridden. It is Announced at Buenos Aires, Argentina, that Theodore Roosevelt is to go to Argentina to lecture on the progress of the United States. Eighty-Three Members of the grad- uating class of Worcester Polytechnic institute received the degreé of bach- elor of sclence at the Commencement exercises yesterday. Dr. E. 8. Higley of Wellieston, Ohio, is the sole helr to $1,000,000 in Aus- tralla left by Charles Froelich, whom he had lent $700 to complete his edu- cation 30 years ago. Dr. J. W. Kunewaki of Chicago was elected president of the American as- soclation for the study of the feeble minded at the annual convention at Lapeer, Mich., yesterday. More Than Ome Hundred Workmen at the Swift, Morris and Armour king plants in South St. Joseph, Mo., went on strike yesterday and othérs are quitting werk hourly. Rockford, Iil. College For Women yesterday completed its campaign for Taising the $60,000 required to bring its endewment to §200,000 and se- eure Andrew Carnegie’'s $35,000. Edward Yeung, 84 Years Old, oiler 1 en the steamer E. M, Peck, fatally in- jured when the vessel blew up at Ra- may be accepted for mailing by rural | cine, Wis, died last night, bringing | the death iist up to six. 3 The Bedy of Harrison Wood, a hat finisher, forty years old, was found i a lodging house at Danbury, yester- day. The man had committed suieide by drinking carbolic aeid. Joseph Bergeron, who is held with- out ball for the shooting and killing ot Mrs, Elizabeth Dowsett in New Haven on June 4, will be tried at the July term of the superior court. The First Heat Prostration of thc year in Bridgeport “came yesterday afternoon when an unknown man col- lapsed on the street and is now in a serious condition in a hospital. The Main Building of the Regina Sask., Exhibition assoclation, togeth- er with the grandstand and _several small buildings, were destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is $150,000. Boswell, N. M, is Menaced by a huge volume of water pouring down the Rio Hondo river from the White | moumains. Clourbursts following a week of continuous rain caused the flood. o In an Effort to Restore the memory of the mysterious “J. C. R.” who has been a patient of the state hospital at Rochester! Minn,, for some time, an | operation will be performed on his skull this week, Two Women and Two Men, alleged heads of the “vice trust” in New York, were indicted by the grand jury ves- terday and warrants for their arrest issued. It is feared, however, that all four have fled to Europe. At is Session at Collingsweod, N. J., yesterday the Camden Baptist asso- clation, adopted resolutions in favor of legislation making it obligatory for couples t oobtain certificates of health as a prerequisite to marriage. That American Railways have Kept pace with the world in the installation of safety devices, was the declaration made by President D. K. DeCraw- lfnr(]. at the opening of the Master Mechanics convention at Atlantic cit; Claims Amounting to More than $2,- 000,000 agafnst the Atlantic - National bank, of Providence, which recently | | suspended, have been proven and the |reditors vesterdav received certifi- | |cates entitling them to the dividends | when they are declared. | One Hundred Thousand Bushels of | potatoes said to be spoiling on the tracks at Minneapolls. Minn, may be | turned over to charitable institutions. The extraordinary congestfon of old | crop potatoes is said to be partly due | Iln the arrival of new potatoes from the south, Convinced That the High Prices of meats could be sharply and effectively reduced through the enactment of a law prohibiting the slaughtering of calves, the Washington Chamber of Commerce anounged yesterday its in- tention to appeal/to congress for some such ligislation. New Haven Down to 99 1-2. feature of the day's otherwise atrong stoek market. The decline represent- ed a new low record for that stock and a loss ef § peints from yester- day's close. No news accompanied the slump in New Haven, buf it was a sumed to represent further liquide- ]tln‘n on the part of discouraged stock-~ holders. Safe To Go The Limit, | _Thers being ne inheritance tax in Florida the appraisal of the late Henry M. Flagler's estate ls §100,000,000— Kansas City Times ernment prinfing office.and the posi- office department help against free sugar and the congres- sional frank sent tons sugar “literature” circulating: through- out the land, was brought out today by the semate lobby investigators. resentative of she United Statet buet sugar industry, on the stand the en- tire day and thie subject of a.swecp- Potter has appointed John 1 . |ing cross examination, testified more than ments been turned out by printing office, ments by order of congress amd had ridden on the franks of senators.dnd country postage free. him, he sald, had attained a circula- SERVIANS AND BULGARS circles believe the report to be cor- diately and, as a consequence, is op- premiers as that would tend to delay matters. premiers for the fall of the Guechoff cabinet, which is likely under the new circum- stances to remain in power. numbered if the premiers met. strength, for Servian e New York, June 12—A decline in New : York, New ilayen and Hartford stock |rs Monmouth, Liverpool; Canada, to 95 1-3 shortly before noon was the | Liverpool, UGAR ARGUMENTS Representative of Beet Sugar Interests Says $é8,000 ™\ Was Saved by Using Congressional Franks SENATORS LODGE, SMOOT AND OTHERS NAMED Made Public Documents by Congress, and Turned Out by * Government Printing Office—Over 1,500,000 Copies Sent Throughout the Country—Free Sugar Arguments- ., circulated Under Same Conditions—Lobby Hearing. o Washington, June 12—How the gov- in " the fight of anti-free 1,600,000 Copies Without Postags Truman G, Palmer, Washington rep- that copies of argu- beet sugar had the government docu- 1,600,000 in behalf of made public representatives to the ends of the Franks of Senators Used. “Sugar at a glance,” prepared by tlon of 320,000 copies under the franlk of Senator Lodge. “Report of the fi- nance committes,” By the same sena- tor, had beaten the pamphlet by 80,000 copies. The franks of Senator Smoot, . former Senators Curtis and Dick, and the late Representative Malby, former Representative Pickett and Rrepre- sentative Martin, had swelled the total to more than a million and a half, Free Postage Saved $28,000, The printing of some of this number had been pald for by the beet sugar Deople, the witness said, but the free postage had gaved them about $28,000 r. Palmer developed that “sugar a* a second glance.” which he intimated was inspired by the federal Sugas Refining company, and which was nn argument in behaif of free sugar, had also been printed as a public docu- ment and circulated under the frank- ing privilege. He did not say nor did the committee ask whose frank was s0 used. IN BLOODY ENGAGEMENT Latter Attack Junction of Greek Wnd Servian Lines. London, June 13-—Official confirma- tion of the news of the accéptance of Russian arbitration by the Balkan al- lies is still lacking, but diplomatic reet. Bulgaria_desires arbitration’ imme- posed to the meeting of the four The proposed meeting of the was_ primarily responsible Bulgaria felt that she would be o“lé an while consistently opposing sueh a meeting, has as consistently demanded Russian arbitration. “Greece also de sired Russia's aid to settle the quas rel,-and Servia was reluctantly ’com-e pelled to assent. A Saloniki despatch to the Daily Talegraph dated Wednesday last ani delayed in transmission, repotts a furious and indecisive engagement be- tween the Bulgars and Servians. The Bulgars made an attack at the junction of the Servian and Greek Tines. They were repulsed but desul- tory fighting continted, evidently for the purpose of testing the Bulgarian unter-attack. POLICEMEN OFFER But Exact Condition That Another| Officer’s Sentence Be Lightened. San_Francisco, June 12—Five sus pended policemen today offered to| plead gullty to concpiracy with buncoy men if the sentence to be imposed hn‘ their ffellow officer, Frank Esola, con- victed of grand larcency in the same coses, would be lightened, it was an- nounced by District Attorney Fickert. One offer has not been accepted. All officers while asserting their will- ingness to plead guilty, maintain their innocence. In return for pleading guilty, the five would get six months sentences instead of a year, unl:i all felony charges would be dropped. Engineer and hiu hrdl rdlu hrdluu v CONTRACT FOR BIG OIL BURNING ENGINE Recoived from Navy Department by New London Ship Co. New London, Conn, June 12—The New London Ship and fingine compary announced Thursday that it has re- ceived from the navy department a contract for the largest oil burning en- glne ever built for a cargo carrying vessel in this country. It will be used on the Maumee, an oil tank ship of the navy. The contract calls for twin six cylinder engines whose total horse power is 5000. The ofl which these engines will burn is that which carried in the ship's tanks. FIVE MORE DAYS “¥OR JACK JOHNSON is Counsel for Pugilist Granted Time to Prepare a Writ of Error. Chicago, June 12—Jack Johnson, negro heavyweight prize fighter, ob- tained five more days of freedom when Federal Judge Carpenter today granted his counsel five days to prepare a writ of error to bring the negro's case before the United States court of ap- peals. Johnson was sentenced to a year and a day in the state peniten- tiary when he was convicted of violais ing the Mann white siave act. mers Reported by Wireless. St Fastnet, June 12—Steamer Cedr:, New York for Queenstown and Liver- ool, signalled 235 miles west at noon 'ue Queenstown 6 a. m., IPriday. Slasconset, Mass., June 12.—Steamer Volturno, Havre via Halifax, signalled 320 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock 2.0 p. m. Friday, Steamer San Giovanni, Naples for New York, signalled 345 miles east of ?l.!ldy Hook at noon. Dock noon Fri- ay. Slasconsett, Mass., June 12—Steamer Adriatie, Liverpool for New York, sig - nalled 360 miles’ east of SandW Hoolk at 710 p. m. Dock 7 p. m. Mriday, Montreal, June 12 —Arrived, steara- Steamship Arrivals, Leghorn, June 11.—Arrived, steamer Calabria, New York via Genoa. Liverpool, June 13.—Arrived, stedm- er_Merion,” Philadelphia, Naples, June 13—Arrived, steamer Americs, Now Yaork, Same Train In Westport Wreck. The Bpringfield express is the same train that was in the fatal wreck at ! To PLEAD QUILTY MATTEAUX WiLL NOT TARIFF BILL IN THE SENATE NEXT WEEK Steering Committee Notified to Clear the ay for It. ‘Washington, June 12.—The demo- cratio “steering committee” of the sen- ate was called into action late today to clear the way in that body for the tariff reviston Dbill. As a result of the meeting and of reports received from the finance committee, members of the “steering committee” said to- night they believed the tariff bill would get. back iffo the senate before the end of next week. Senator Kern called the party man~ agers together after reports had be« come general that the democragic tar- 1ff canous would have to be postponed until the senate’s West Virginia coal - strike Investigation had boen com- pleted. Tt was determined to attempt ® to secure an agreement between . the genate and house on the sun otvil bill now in dispute; to end tor Jones' single handed fifbuster, which has delayed senate business for over a week and to remove all other ob- stacleg to early action on the tarifr. The “steering committee” was in- formed by Senator Thomas, who fs also a member of the finance com- mittee, that the tariff bill could be completed and returned to the senate next week. Several other members - of the finance committee, however, ex- pressed doubt tonight as to the prob- - ability of this being accomplished. HAVE SECOND TRIAL District Attorney Concludes to Nol . Prosse the Case. ‘ ? Boston, June 1%—Frederick B At teaux, the dve manufacturer who was | a co-defendant with President Wil liam M, Wood of the American Wool- | en company and Dennis J. Colling in the recent dynamite “planting” case, ‘wgrth, e trieg a second time. p e jury reported a disagreement a8 to him and today District Attornes | Pelletier nol prosSed the case. The case of Collins, who turmed state's | evidence and was gonvicted was placed 4 or il acquitted by the * ury. 3 In filing his intentions: with the court the prosecutor saidi , “After careful consMeration andl consultation I have reached the opin- ion that the commonweaith. could nof fairly and reasonably expect a verdict against this defendant upon a second ; ial, A “After five months of preparation the government has exhausted every means for securing honest evidence and there is no likelthood, even remote, that a stronger case could be made out on a second trial, and in some re~ | &pects there 18 a grave prospect that the case would not be so strong.” | STRANGE ESCAPADE ©F A BROOKLYN WOMAN, / Left Home and Sought to Create Im- pression She Was Drowned. New York, June 13—Mrs, Olga M. Housman walked into her mother's home In Brooklyn today, contentad and smiling, to explain how and why ho left home two weeks ago. For more than ten days a search had been ' made for her on the theory, advanced by her husband, that she had been slain or was held a prisoner In the marshes surrounding Sheepshead bay. ’ “T was just tired of Hving the way I was” she explained. “So I rowed over to Far Rackaway, tack offt my skirt, tore-it. and fastenad a piece of it to an car. Then I hrake.the other ear and threw'part of It in the boat. I shoved the boat away, caught a train for New York and got-a job in a mil- linery store. I like it fine and intend to keep on working. The police' would bo looking for me yet i my mother were not fIL" Wood BOY KILLED BY AN AUTO AT WINDSOR. Bewildered by Approaching Trolley, He Stepped in Front of Machine. ‘Windsor, Conn,, June 13—Peter Gud otes, § year old son of Mz, gnd Mrs, Wfl!llgl Gudones, was Iilied tonight when fio was struck by an automoblls owned by John B: n of No, 12 Pliney street, /and _driven by Teslle Smith m stroat, Hart- ford, The ace! acougred near the E'E. Grove cemeiery in Pequonmock. o auto pevty were returning to Hartford frem & trip, It is theught that sn trollsy carbewlldeved the oy, who was.cro: ing the street, and he atepped in front of the aute, The mud rd- strust him in mfi head, kneckin; Westnort, Comn, en Oetober 3 last, when eight persems were killed and several Injured 3 b L