Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 1, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 156 PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Doublé” That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population TWELVE BOYS DROWM /AT LAWRENGE Narrow Walk Leading to Municipal Bath House Gives Way Under W eight of Waiting Lads ABOUT 40 PLUNGED INTO 15 FEET OF WATER Stronger Ones Saved Themselves by Swimming to Shore But Current Too Strong Bodies Recovered With For the Weaker Ones—Twelve Possibility of More Bodies in River—Boys Were Fooling When Accident Happened. s Lawrence, Ma wooden walk lea of water to the municipal bathhouse in the Merrimac river today gave way under the stamping ‘eet of a crowd of smpatient boys, and at least twelve of the little fellows were drowned. There may be more bodies in the stream. Waited for House to Open. The boys, ranging in years from 9 to 15, had come down an incline to a level stretch of planking that led to the bathhouse There they waited for Wil Jiam B. Blythe, the hathhouse keeper, to open the door. No one knew tonight how many there weer in the clamored for Blytne to ‘open up,” but it is thought that forty is a con gervative estimate. Walk Extension Drops. There was a ball game in the city his afternoon, and many of the eager oungsters figured on seeing that after ving their afternoon dip. Bight min- before the appointed time for “opening” the boys were letting loose their exuberance by jumping up and down and tumbling over each other. Snddenly the supporis at the foot of the incline sank. A second later the walk extension dropped like a trap door and the boys rollad into the river, Boys Capght in Swift Current’ There is a swift current at this point drawn by the falls a quarter of a mile below, and the lads were caught in this. Many of them could not swim. Witnesses on the river bank say that all disappeared in a flash, but a mo- ment later there was a struggling mass on the surface. The sironger ones, who could swm, struck out brayely for the boathouse and a score saved them- pelves. Their cries brought aid and peveral others were pulled ashore. Five mnconscious forms were brought from i Jure 30.—A narrow ng over fifteen feet | party | \ the water and two of these were finally Tresus ted. Effots to restore the oth- | ers were futile. | Lad Missed His Chum. It was thought at first that only three were drowned, and it was not until two hours later that the probable | loss of life was realized. John Moon- | ey, vears old, awoke the police to the | true “situation. In the crowd of dis- I‘ tracted friends on shors he missed his { chum and set of a cry: “I don't drowned.’ Twelve Bo see Rollie. He must be s Recovered. Then boats and grappling irons were brought, and the river bed was drag- ged. When the work ceased late to- night twelve bodies had been recoy- ered. - Most of the youths were from the mill district, and when word of the ac- cident reached their homes thousands crowded the river bauk. In the confu- sion fathers and mothers lost track of their children, and fear that they had been in the swimming party caused the parents to besiege the police with in- | quiries. This led to conflicting reports of the number drowned. Names of Victims Recovered. | The bodies recovered were identified as_follows: ‘William Balster. Joseph Hennessy. Michael Woitena. Joseph McCann. Joseph Cote. Michael Higgins. Alfred Doucette. William Thornton. Flower Durban. Roland Jones. Joseph Boulanger. Serund Allgbro. MULHALL DISCHARGED BY THE MANUFACTURERS. Because He Was Promoting Matters of His Own, Says Colonel Pope. New York, June 30.—In a statement fs=ued tonight Col. George Pope, presi- dent of the National Association of Manufacturers, replied to the charges made by Martin M. Mulhall in refer- ence to the political activities of the assoctation. The charges deserve at- tention, the statement said, and “we shall endeavor to see to it that mot < the subject matter of these charges bui the whole fleld of matte relatinz to so-called labor legislation at Washington shall receive the fullest investigation and _publicity, for the subject is one of the most vital and jmportant now before the American public.” . Concerning an answer or explanation regarding particular_ items _in the ges made by Mr. Mulhall, the atement says We shall await the action of the te commitiee before which Mr. .en subpoenaed, to the ath and before an of the in- authentic and trust the action of that speedy and thorough rate with it certain the on with Mr. Mulhall's ssociation, Col- wred that “Mr. Muihall's b ssociation was sal Oc 1911, and ght to represent it in nce that time, although ed Information from that he has dome so. erious charges re- to that time with the as- sociation Mr was continually promoting. as has e been learned - 1d personal matters of ¥ ally in the political ate matters he has the name of the association and med to yepresent it without au- rity and it was the discovery of of t kind on his part. with serions hetrayals responsible for his association.” statement declares Association of Man- ver in any way, hy influence or sugges- child labor Jlaws. ation law or other \e condition of working rth in the Mulhall he contrary. the state- the association has been a ader in the movement for and compensation of dents, vecational training, in- betterment, the development &n American merchant marine and the extension and upbuilding of foreign vities ied otk the gnized | evention commere: Tn conch the statement says, “the association can only ask and be- Neve ery fairminded man will ts brought out by official in reading the so-cailed 1 of Mr. Mulhall he will re- member that political activity can be for legitimate and proper purposes as well as for corrupt and improper ones.” DEMOCRATS CAUCUS ON THE TARIFF BiLL. Apnrove Income Tax Section as Re- vised by the Committee. Washington, June 30.—Democrats of the senate in caucus late tonight ap- proved the income tax section of the tariff bill as revised by the majority members of the finance committee, vot- ing, however, to sirike out the amend- ment which would exempt mutual life nkurance companies from the tax. President Mellon Indisposed, Bridgeport, Conn., June 30.—Presi- dent Charles S. Mellen of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rall- road will_not appear at the inquest into the Stamford wreck here tomor- To according to 4n announcement ay by Coromer Yohn J. Phelan. The oner sald that attorneys for the road had notified him that Mr. Mellen was slightly indigposed and was going awav for a week's rest. Mr. Mellen ‘will probably appear late: ¢ RAILROAD CONDUCTORS DECLARE FOR A STRIKE. Recently Taken Was Over- Whelmingly in Faver. Vote Boston, June 30.—An overwheiming vote in favor of a strike by the con- ductors and trainmen of the . New | York, New Haven and Hartford, the | Boston and Maine and the Boston and Albany railroads was announced to- night by union officials after they had completed the tabulation of returns from the three systems. The vote was taken to enforce demands for higher wages and shorter hours similar to those which have been made on every | railroad in the eastern part of the United States. The result of the bal- Joting, which has been taking place for some time, was taken to New York late tonight. There the situation will be gone over by the internatignal offi- cers of the unions involved before any further steps are taken. MAN RUN DOWN BY AN EXPRESS TRAIN, George Everitt of South Norwalk Dy- ing at Danbury Hospital. Danbury, Conn., June Everitt of South Norwalk 30.—George ing condition at the Danbu as the result of being run down this evening by an express train on the New Haven road n the Branchville st n. He was w the station along the tracks rgetown, to get a train for home. eritt was formerly employed as a tion foreman on the New Haven ad and gained some notice by testi- fying at the coroner’s inquest into the Westport wreck that he had been able to pull the spikes from ties with his fingers on the road along the section where the wreck occurred. | He is between 50 and 60 years old. | At a late hour tonight he was reported | as unconscious. i PRESIDENT TO TAKE A YACHTING TRIP. To Spend Three Days on Mayflower by i Advice of Physician, Washington, June 30, — President w on will leave early tomorrow on a three days’ vachting trip_aboard the yacht Mayflower. The president had intended to take a much nceded rest by going to Cornish, H., to join his | family at the mountain home that is to be the summer White House, but his decision to go to Gettysburg on July 4 |upsei all plans. A trip on the May- | flower was suggested by the physician and the president agreed to go on the | condition that he would have complete rest. No correspondents will be aboard. EXECUTION OF 28 MEN REPORTED AT JUAREZ Victims Arrested Following Discovery of Dynamite and Arms. El Paso, Texas, June 30.—Twenty- eight men were executed in Juarez to- day. according to credited reports, but which were denied by the federal mil- itary authorities. The victims are saig to be men who were arrested during Saturday and Sunday night in connec- tion with the_discovery of dynamite beneath the Juarez federal building and the finding of smuggled arms and ammunition in several residences. Federal authorities in Juarez began erecting barricades in the streets to- day to meet the threatened attack of Pancho Villas' insurgnts. WOMAN STABS MAN WITH HER HATPIN Admits Charge but Claime He Made An Insulting Remark. Danbury, Conn., June 30.—Mrs. Har- ry Bulger, wife.of a comedian, playing at a local th er, was arrested. to- night, charged with assault on Charles Vallauzo. She is alleged to have stab- beq him with a hatpin. She admits the charge but cialms the man made an insulting remark ae she passed. This Vailauze denies. The wound is not serfous. Mrs. Bulger will appear in court tomorrow, ! Cabied Paragraphs . Death of Count Von Kanitz. | Berlin, June 30.—The death occurred today of Count Hans Von Kanitz at the age «of 72. He was a leader of the agrarian party and a strong protection- ist. Suffragettes Burn “Railway Station. Leuchars, Scotland. Jume 30.—The important railway junction here con- necting Edinburgh "with Dundee and Aberdeen and within a few miles of St. Andrew's golf links was burned to- day. The authorities believe the fire was started by militant suffragettes. Librettist and Composer Coming. Paris, June 30.—Gabriele D'Annunzio, the librettist, and Riccardo Zandonai, the_composer of the, opera ‘““Francisco da Rimini,” will go to Boston to super- intend its first production in February next, which will take place before it is presented in Europe. Triumph for Home Rule Bill. London, June 30.—The home rule bill passed the committee stage in the house of commons tonight automatic- ally. The opposition loudly protested and challenged division, which resulted in a vote of 120 to 143 in favor of the bill. To Check American Tobacco Trust. Berlin, June 30.—The German na- tional association of chambers of com- merce today called on its members to support actively its campaign to check tHe progress of the American tobacco trust in Germany and to educate the business world and German consumers up to the dangers arising from a pos- sible trust monopoly. GRAND JURY IMPLICATES THE EMPLOYER OF GIRL Decide That She Came to Her Death by lllegal Operation. Salisbury, Md., June 30.—That Flor- ence Wainwright came to her death on Friday, June 20, “at about 6.30 p. m., by a criminal operation performed in_or about the Home Gae company's office, in which opinion Harold M. Smith was implicated as an accessory thereto both before and after the fact,” was the verdict of the coroner's jury this afternoon. Smith is general man- ager of the Home Gas company, is for- ty years old and married. He was ar- rested shortly after the verdict was rendered and an hour later was re- leased on Dball. Miss Wainwright was 24 years old and was the bookkeeper of the Gas company. Her body was found in the office of the gas company a short time after her death is supposed to have occtrred. A medical examination show- ed that death had been caused by a criminal “operation. After the first ballot, eleven jurors signed a paper that did not place the blame on anyone. William S. Powell refused to sign it, and when eight more ballots were taken without amy change, he declared he was ready to leave the room if the name of Harold Smith was not placed in the verdict. The tenth ballot resulted in an unani- mous vote implicating rilh BULGARIANS ATTACK THE GREEKS AND SERVIANS. Efforts of the Powers fo Prevent War in Balkans a Failure. London, June 30—The prolonged ef- forts of the powers to prevent the out- break of a fratricidal war between the Balkan allies seems to have failed iust at the moment when it appeared possible for the four premiers to meet at St. Petersburg and submit their dif- ferences for Russian arbitration. Fighting began this morning all along the lines where the Bulgarian forces are facing the Servians and Greeks. These were only outpost at- tacks, but according to the Greek ac- count, the Bulgarian attacks extended over the Greek and Servian front of 140 miles. This is merifestly war without a previous Heclaration of hostilities, and we accordingly are forced to order our Givisien to ac¢vance,” says the official atement. e oprosinz armies accuse each other, 71 initiating the cffense. AN ADDENDA TO JAPANESE PROTEST. Viscount Chinda Informs Secretary Bryan It is Coming by Cable. Washington, June 30.—Viscount Chinda, the Japanese ambassador, in- formed retary Bryan late today that the Japanese foreign office had dis- patched to him for delivery to the United States a note additional to the last Japanese rejoinder in the matter of the California alien land law nego- tiations. The communication is ex- pected to arrive in the coures of a day or so by cable. and the ambassador himself does not know its nature, be- vond the fact that it is supplementary te the exhaustive argument contained in the rejoinder submitted to the state department almost a month ago. The effect of this notification was to suspend the preparation of Secretary Bryan's replay to the rejoinder, which already was under way and so near completioff as to warrant the expecta- tion that it would be ready for delivery before. the end of the present week, Steamshp Arrivals. At Hamburg: June 28, Amerika, from New York. June 29, Pennsylvania,from New York. 2 At London: June 30, Minnehaha, from New Yor! At Liverpool: June 30, Devonian, from Boston. At Fayal: June 28, Kaiser Franz Jo- seph I, from New York. At Naples: June 28, Ruthenia, from Montreal, At Glasgow: June 29, Columbia, from New York; Hesperian, from Montreal. At London: June 30, Pomeranian, from Montreal. At Plymouth: June 30, Kaiser Wil- helm II, from New York. At Quebec: June 30, Lake Manitoba, from Liverpool. At New York: June 30, Minnetonka, from London. i Cherbourg, June 30. Arrived: Steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, New York via Plymouth ‘for Bremen. Dover, June 30—Arrived: Sfeamer Finland, New York for Antwerp. New York, June dia, Marseilles for New York, 900 miles cast of Sandy Hook at noon 28th. Dock about § a. m, Tuesday. Siasconset, Mass,, June 20.—Steamer San Giorgio, Naples for New York, miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock about & a. m. Tuesday. Sable Island, June 30—Steamer Olympic, Southampton fér New York, signa®™ed 724 miles east of Sandy TTook at 1.0 p. m. Dock 8. a. m., Wednes- day. Wilson Signs Indian Bill, ‘Washington, June 30.—The Indian appropriation bill, carrying $11,000,000 for the fiscal vear beginning tomorrow, was signed tonight by President Wil- son. —Steamer Cana- | L motor vehicle in a grossly, Boy Chauffeur - Had No License CORONER FINDS THE LAW WAS DISREGARDED FATHER PERMITTED IT Question Raised as to Whether They Are Not Amenable to Prosecution— Ran Down Boy and Killed Him. New Haven, Cdnn., June 30—Coron- er Mix does not hold ‘Charles R. Brock, 16 years old, of Hamden, crim- inally responsible for the death of Carlo Ruggiero, aged 9 years, who was killed in this city on June 19 by an automobile driven by Brock. This is the coronmer’s finding made public to- night. Coroner Mix says, however, that there are certain circumstances connected with the case which he deems it important to incorporate in his finding, his observations being im- pelled by “the growing disregard of the provisions of the motor vehicle law.” He says that as Brock was only 16 years old and unaccompanied by a licensed operator, his driving of the car was a violation of the law. As to whether this violation renders him criminally fabne for hmicide, the cor- oner expresses, he says, “no definite conclusion.” He further points out that it was an offense under the law for Broke to drive away as he did ,without stopping after hitting the boy. 8peeded Up Car After Accident. The finding says that the Ruggiero boy was riding on the rear of a mo- tor truck and dropped off that and ran directly into the path of the Brock car, being struck down and almost in- stantly killed. The truck was travel- ling in a directipn opposite to that of the Brock car. After striking the boy Brock, the finding continues, with- out bringing his vehicle to a stop, in- creased the speed of the same and drove off. In the car with him was his brother and a seven years old hoy. After detafling further developments, all of which have been published, the finding continues: Not Running Car Recklessly. “From my investigation'I am satis- fed that Brock was not operating said negligent and reckless manner, or with a reck- less disregard for the safety of others while passing said motor truck, and on that account I find’said death was not caused by the criminal act, omis- slon or carelessnéss of sald Brock. “There are certain circumstances, however, appearing in the investiga- tlon of this case which I deem import- ant and necessary to incorporate In this finding. 2 portion of section five of chapter b of the public acts of 1911 reads as follows: “‘No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon the public highways of this state until he shall have obtained from the secretary a license for that purpose, but no such license shall be issued until such secretary is satisfied that the applicant is over eighteen years of age and is a proper person to recelve it’” Had No Right to Operate Car. The coroner points out that the law provides a penalty of not more than $100 fine or imprisonment of not more than ten days, or both, for a first of fense and $500 fine or six months im- prisonment or both for any subsequent offense. He continue: “By the terms of this act at the time and place of this homicide, Brock ‘was prohibited from operating this motor vehicle. “Whether by using an instrument which he was forbidden by law to use, to wit, a motor vehicle, and with that instrument causing the death of any- one, renders him criminally liable for homicide, I express no definite conclu- sfon. I am of the opinion, however, that he is not criminally responsible for causing the death of Ruggiero by using such instrument thus provided.” Father Knew Circumstances. The coroner calls attention to fact that section 17 of the act pro- vides a penalty for any one who knowingly goes away. without stopping the after causing injury to any person or property, and adds: “From the testimony taken at the inquest it clearly appears that Brock violated the terms of this section of the act. “During the investigation it apeared that the father of Charle R: Brock was aware and allowed and permitted his son to operate said motor vehicle in the prosecution of his, the her’'s business, well knowing that h son was not of sufficient age to obtain a li- cense to operate said motor vehicle.” Has' Father Violated Law? The finding quotes section 1583 of the general statutes that “every per- son who shall assist ,abet, counsel cause, hire or command another to commit any offense may he prosecuted and punished as if he were the princi- pal offender.” “To what extent the father has vio lated the provisions of section 1583, if at all” the coroner says, “is not f. this office to determine, but for the prosecuting officers in the several towns where this motor vehicle y have been driven by the son in vic lation of the law. Growing Disregard of Law. “The growing desregard of the pro- visions o fthe motor vehicle law has thus impelled me upon this occasion to make these observations ,and a copy of this finding is forwarded to the prosecuting officers of the various city and town courts in this county and to the secre.ary of state.” . RECEIVER ASKED FOR A WORSTED COMPANY. Concern Whose Mills Are at Stafford Springs Said to Be Insolvent. Providence, R. I, June 30.—A peti- tion asking for the appointment of a temporary receiver for the Rhode Is- land Worsted company, whose mills are at Stafford Springs, Conn. was | presented in the United States distriet court foday. Judge Brown took the matter under advisement The petitioners—Benjamin 1”. Leon- ard and Jerome B. Schoenfeld of New York, minority stockholders—allesa that the company is insolvent. H. W. T. Mali of New York holds a majority ot the stock. Judge Clarke Holding Fort. Hartford, Conn., July 1-—Judge Clarke held position in court against | all night behind locked doo e will open the regular court session this morning at nine o'clock. ~After a few moments it will be adjourned and Mr. Fberle will make his forma demand for vacation by Judge C(larke. The latter will refuse and the matter will then go to the courts. s Song Made the Veterans Weep PATHETIC ' INCIDENT GETTYSBURG REUNION A AT RALLY ROUND THE FLAG Patriotic Melody Sung by Six Whit Haired Gettysburg Schoolgirls of 50 Years Ago—All Hummed Chorus. Gettysburg, Pa.. June 30.—Over the fleld of Gettyshurg where 150,000 men in Dblue ang in gray fought with the weapons of war fifty years ago, the soldlers of peace from the north and south, the east and west trooped today to the tented city of brown where they wlill live in the four days of semi-cen- tennial celebration. It was an army united in sentiment and united in fact, for the blue linked arms with the gray. They marched the dusty roads together from the village; they sat down at the same mess tables and they talked over the war before the same campfires tonight. If there was any rancor in any heart, any feeling of bitterness, it did not come to the surface and over the broad expanse of the ‘city” re- unions of those who won and those who tried, went on hour after hour. Pledges to “Forget.” Although the programme of the cel- ebration will not be taken up until tomorrow there was a-reception today by the survivors of Buford division of Meade’s army and Wheeler's division of Lee's. This meeting was held In the big tent set aside for the speech- making of the celebration and began fifty years to the hour from the time when the rst shot preceding the battle was fired. The gray cavalrymen who fought the skirmishes that led up to the three days’ fight pledged them- selves in the shadows of the Stars and Stripes to “forget” and thelr brothers in blue swore by the Stars and Bars that the fight was over for all time. Old School Girls ' Sing. There were several women from the village in the tent and six one-time school girls, gray haired and aged now, sang Rally Round the Flag, Boys, while the veterans wept like boys, but with pride. The six women who sang the battle song were among those who throngeq the streets of Gettysburg af- ter the advance guard of the Southern army left it fifty years ago. On that night when Buford’s men came riding into the village on the heels of Wheel. er's men in gray, maidens strewed flowers along the streets and bells in the churches pealed the newh of the coming of the blue ang the town went wild. Only Half Dozen Singers. Of all_the scores of girls who wel- comed the van of Meade, only a half dozen could be found and they stood, white haired, with tears in their eves, on a platform in the big tent and sang to the weeping soldiers in the seats below. “I'm afraid we can't sing like we sang fiftv years ago,” said the matron- 1y woman who acted as leader as she led the way up the steps to the plat- form, Veterans Weep Openly. “We don't care; just sing again,” shouted the soldiers. As the first notes of the war-time melody came from them in quavering tones, the veterans both of the north and ‘of the south sat quiet with eyes fixed upon the singers. The hum of the chorus came from every side and old men wept openly. One bearded veteran of am Tllinois regiment rose to tell of an in- cident that happened on that other July night Has Kept the Purpls Ribbon. “As we rode through Gettysburg that last time,” he said, “I remem- ber a little girl stopped my horse and said she wanteg to give me a bou- guet. I got down and she pinned a ribbon—a little purple ribbon, to my 5 Wear that in into,’ she said. We're not going to have any more battles around here,’ I told her. the next battle you 1 you are,’ she insisted. ‘Those hills back there are full of rebels.” ‘I wore that purple ribbon through the battle. I never saw the girl af- terwards, but I've kept that ribbon and its back at home in Illinois today.” Four Governors Arrive. The veteran looked slowly toward the platform to see if any of the wo- men there had been the donor of that | faded bit of ribbon but not one nodded {in answer and he sank into his seat with = sigh. “T guess she’s with the army above,” the said Four governors came into camp to- day: Governorg McGovern of Wiscon- sin, Tener of Pennsylvania, Mann of Virginia and McCreary of Kentucky, NORWALKS CONSOLIDATED Action of Voters Gives New City Eighth Place in the State. Conn., June Norwalk, 30.—By a ma- jority 81 the consolidationists won out today in the special election on the question of merging Norwalk, South Norwalk and other component parts of the town of Norwalk into the city of Norwalk. The change will be effective the first week in October, the cials will be chosen at the regular { election. The consolidation act as passed by the last general assembly provided that the boundaries of the new city town, and that the act should be ef- fective upon approval by the electors. In ordance with this referendum clause today's special election was held. Keen in_the outcome. Norwalk was the strongest advo- cate of the merger, the vote in favor being 1,580 against 200. In South Norwalk a heavy negative vote of 1,068 was cast, while the consolidationists could muster only 484, while in t Norwalk the antis were also in the majority, the vote being 224 in favor and against. Incidental to (he | outcome it was reported in South Nor. walk that there was already talk of taking the matter up to the next legis- lature and asking for a re-division, By the consolldation the twin cities | of South Norwalk and Norwalk rank- | Ing sixteenth and elghteenth respec- tively among the citiey of the state, will as the new city of Norwalk, jump at once to elghth place. OBITUARY. i Gerhardt Otto Tidden. New York, June 30.—Gerhardt Otto Tidden, for 18 vears baseball aditer of the New York World, died earty today after o lingering iline He was 57 years old, present officers remaining in office un-9 til that time when the new city offi- | shall be coincident with those of the | interest wds manifested P Condensed Teieyrams More Than 250 Volunteers have of- fered to supply skin for the victims of the Husted mills explosion in Buffalo. Senator. Ollie James vesterday for mally recommended Dr.” Arthur Yager of Georgetown, Ky, for governor of | Porto Rico. Philadelphia Authorities Notified the | residents to boil their drinking water in order to prevent typhold, which is increasing. There Have Been Seven Deaths in Grand Rapids, Mich, in the last 24 hours due to the heat, and 17 serious prostrations. The Police of Philadelphia have ar- rested Joel Goldman, sexton of a synagogue, charging him with running peak easy.” Wage Increases for Employes of At- lantic coast na ards are likely to be recommended within a short time by Secretary Daniels, ' _Charles H. Jackson, a Keeper in the New York Tombs prison, was arrested charged with giving to a prisoner a bottle of morphine. Twenty-seven Deaths—ten of fhem vesterday—and scores of prostrations was the record at Chicago for the sixth day of the hot spell. All the Buildings of Scobey, Mont., will be moved two miles, as the result of the construction of the Great North- ern Plentywood extension. Herman Fromme, 50 -Years Old, a member of the law firm of Fromme Bros., of 20 Vesey street, New York, died from heart disease in his office. The Prices on All Gradesof Coal at Providence will be raised 25 cents a ton today. This will make the price for stove coal from § to $8 a ton. Thomas W. Morgan, a newspaper editor of Ottawa, Kas., took the oath of office vesterday as warden of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kas, In the Face of Advanced Medical precautions the number of cases of malaria among the troops of the Phil- ippines more than doubled during the past year. : Nearly 50,000 Fersons were marooned on Rockaway Beach all Sunday night by fire which destroyed part of the trestle connecting that popular resort $88.000,000 For General Public SOUTHERN PACIFIC 8TOCK TC BE AVAILABLE DISSOLUTION TERMS Approved by Ccurt and Big Harriman Merger Comes to 2n End—Decision of the Court Comes as a Surprise. June 30—Federal Sanborn, William C. - 1. Smith, sitting as yurt of the United States approved late St. Paul, Minn, Judges Walter I Hook and W the district for the district of Utah, today the plans agreed upon by At- torney-General McReynolds and at- torneys for the Union Pacific railroad and the famous Union-Pacific South- ern Paclfic merger, known as the great Harriman combine, practically came to an end. The decrce signed today will become effective with its filing in the federal court at Salt Lake City, Utah, which probably will take place next Wednesday or Thursday. Decision Came as Surprise. With the handing dwn of the final decree today, fears of litigation came to an end, the first suit of the govern- ment to dissolve the merger having been filed at Salt Lake City in 1908. The decision today came as a sur- prise. There was a brief hearing this morning at which the government was represented by G. Carroll Todd, special assistant to the attorney general and the road by N. H. Loomis and H. W. Ciarke. The court then took the case under advisement, a number of times calling In attorn®ys for both sides to question them further concerning the, plan, but there was no hint that a de- cree’ would be giv: Shortly before four o'clock, Judge Sanborn presid- ing, called -in the attorneys and an- nounced that the court had decided to enter a final decree, approving the plan as presented hy the attorney general and roads’ counsel with practi- callg but one exception. This excep= tion was the naming of Louis @, Krauthoff of New York city as a com- with Long Island. Chicago City Officials Have Ruled that the suffragettes will not be per- mitted to hold a celebration in Grant park, declaring the celebration to be a “politichl project.” Mrs. Miranda Chester of Middle- town, N. Y., will leave with her two sons and a dog on a hike to Minneapo- for the purpose of shortening the e made by Weston, Dr. C. C. Sater, a Civil War Veteran, died suddenly at Atlanta when leaving for the Gettysburg celebration from the effect of a wound he received at the battle on July 1, 1863 Frederick M. Shepard- of East Or- ange, N. J., prominently identified with the rubber industry for many years, dled at his summer home at Norfol Conn., yesterday, aged 85 years. The Heat Claimed One Victim at Cleveland yesterday. David Hughler, 60, of Orangeburg, S. C., fell uncon- scious on the pavement in the public square and died on the way to a hos- pital. Mrs. Isabella H. Woodford, widow of the former United States minister to Spain, was freed of charges of man- slaughter and recklessly operating an automobile, in the Fairfleld court yes terday. The Atlantic National Bank of Prov- idence, which closed its doors on April 14, announced yesterday that it will pay its first dividend to its creditors today. The initial dividend will be per cent The Directors of the Southern New England Telephone company, at the quarterly meeting at New Haven ves- terday. increased the capital stock to $10,000,000, which is the limit of the charter. Charles A. Hawley Pleaded Guilty in the federal court at New York yester- day to misuse of the mails in conne: tion with tRe sale of stoek of the M Henry Distilling company. He was fined $2,000, which he paid. Edward P. Murdock, who gave up his law practice in Chicago to become an aviator, probably was fatally injured at Spokane, Wash., when an aeroplane he was testing collapsed at a height of 50 feet and crashed to the ground. Following a Suggestion of the pastor more than 80 per cent, of the men went coatless to the First Baptist church at | Fond Du Lac, Wis., Sunday, and the women all left thelr hats at home. The minister preached in his shirtsleeves The Bitter Fight over the Greenwich borough court judgeship assumed an acute stage vesterday when Judge W A. Tierney, appointed last week by Governor Baldwin. had Judge . D. Burnes forcibly ejected from the court room. v Three Men, Patrick Dunn, John Gan- non and Thomas Winch, were drowned in a sewer at Cleveland yesterday when earth about a trench in which they were working caved in and brush- ed them into a culvert leading to the Cuyahoga river. Michael J.! Flannigan, a Chicago sa- loon keeper, who is alleged to hav converted $2,000 of the $273.000 in Canadian currency stolen from the ‘Westminster branch of the Bank of Montreal, was indicted yesterday, charged with receiving stolen property., Secretary Lane of the Interior de- partment, on behalf of the Geograph- ical society of France, yesterday pre- sented to Dr. Alfred FL. Brooks of the United States geological survey a gold medal awarded by the French society to Dr. Brooks on account of his ex- plorations in A The Condition Printed on the steam- ship tickets issued by the White Star line exempting that compsny from lia- bility for loss of a passenger, even through negligence of the company's servants, i illegal, according to a judgment pronounced by Sir Clement M. Baflhache, justice of the king's benclh division of fhe Engiish high court af justice, Great Religious Awakening. Portland, Oregon, June 30.—The sec- ond World's Christian Citizenship con- ference was begun hers today, Pres- tdent Henry Collins Minton, in tha apening address told of his recent tri) around the world to crea intersst In the corfference. He xaid he had ob- #crved a great religious awakening, missioner of the court to se® to it that the letter and spirit of the plan be carried out. The court also directed bim to report to it from time to time. $88,000,000 to be Sold to General ‘Pub- lie. In brief the plan which had the ap- proval of President Wilson, presented b ythe attorney-general and counsel o fthe road, and aproved by the court, provides that the Union Pacific shall exc ge $38,000,000 of its 6,000,000 holdings in the Southern Pacific for the Pennsylvania railroad’s entire holdings in the Baltimore and Ohio— ly an equal amunt; that the re- maining $88,000,000 shall be sold to the general public through the Central Trust Company of New York; that no present stockholders in the Union Pa- cific continuing as such, may buy any of the Southern Pacific stock so sold; that the trans shall begin No- vember 1, 191 if not complete by January 1, 1916, the court shall direct the disposition of any Southern Pacific stock remaining unsold. Attorney-General Disregarded. By the decision today, the court dis- regarded the e of the attorney- general that decision be with- held for the rcsing of objections by interested parties, to which portion eral’s plan _ Mr. chiection at the hear- of the attorney I ing air to the road. The aiso had asked in Lis connection that there be publica- t n of the plan Tobacco company tentior of interest in the American ase calling the at- A parfies that ob- as jecticn might be inade; but phis also was overruled by the handing down of the decree by the court lllegal Conditions May be Assailed. “We a cecree of dissolution more at the present time than any actio said Judge anbor: annourcing the decree. The go t, however, in the plan presented today &nG approved by the t, expressly stipulated that should illegal condition arise Zrom the ex- nge of stock, either under existing future legislation or future inter- prefation Ly the courts of present statutes, the government would have the right “frecly to assail” the ar- rangement. NEW TARIFF TO BE OPERATIVE MARCH 1, Date of Operation of Income Tax New Fixed at March 1, 1913, Washington, June 29.—Postponement |of the date on which the new (ariff shall go into effect until March 1, 1914, and a change of.date when the incoms tax shall be oparative from January 1, 1913, to March 1, 1913, were agreed up- on by a majority members of the sen ate finance committee today. In advancing the date when the pre. posed rate of a cent o pound on sugar shall be appled, the committee did not amend the schedule to acect the pro- vision ahat sugar shall go on the free list May 1, 1916. That provision re- mains as it was originally in the bill which passed the house and which the senate @emocratic caucus approved last | week. The committee Aiso adopted an | amendment which would put a stamp | tax on all cotton sold for future deMv- |ery; declined to reconsider its action in repealing the act of 1800, which re- Jeased sweet wine manufactures from payment of the full internal revenue |duty on brandies used in fortifying | wine, and adjusted several rates on ar- ticles referred back by teh democratic caucus. SEVEN PERISHE70‘ IN HOTEL FIRE. All Were on Top Floor of Small New York Hostelry. New York, June 30.—The bodies of seven persons, lodgers in a small hotel known as “Til's Hotel,” at 66 Green- wich street, were taken from the top floor fellowing a fire in the building tonight. One of the bodies is that of a, woman and anather of a 3 year old child. None has been identified. A dozeu injured were taken to hospitals. Cheshire Case a Murder. Cheshire, Conn., June 30.—That it 18 a case of murder was the opinion ex- pressed by Coroner Mix tonight, fol- lowing a day of investigation of the death of the unidentified man whose body was found in the woods north of here last Saturday. The inquest will be continued tomorrow. A poor man is always sayimg he would liks to bs rich hecause of the great amount of good he oceuid de with all the money,