Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 8, 1913, Page 1

NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1913 CHIEF OF POLICE SHOT AT HAVANA Genera! Riva Mortally Wounded in a Combat Wi Prominent Members of Political Club THE GOVERNOR OF HAVANA ACCUSED BY RIVA A Senator and Representative Also Involved in Fracas—Made Their Escape in an Automobile—Trouble Results From Raid of Asbert Club and Arrest of Several Members For Havans, July T.—Gemeral Armando Riva. chief of the National police, was shot and mortally wounded during a pistol fight this evening in the most crowded portion of the Prado. Result of Gambling R: eneral Ernesto Asbert, governor of ina province, Senator Vidal Mor- < and Representative Aras were in- in the fighting which was the of a raid made by General Saturday night on the Asbert Un that occasion a large num- members were caught gambling. were arresteq and sentenced to \vy fine ernor Asbert complained to Pres. Menocal, who, it is understood, ined the action of the police in sreing the letter of the law. Two Bullets Strike Chief. General Riva while driving this eve- ning with his two young sons, stopped his carriage in front of the Asbert club and caused the arrest of the door. keeper for illegally carrving a revol- ver. Asbert, Morales and Arias ar- rived in an automobile about the same me and a heated dispute arose, In- sults were exchanged and all alighted, vancing in a threatening manner. According to the stories told by wit- = nesses, Asbert and Morales opened fire, General Riva falling with & bullet in his head and another in his abdomen. Escaped in Automobiles. Seeing their chief fall, several po- licemen Tan to the rescue and opened fire but Asbert and his friends re- entered their ear and departed at full speed in the direction of Mariano. General Riva's coachman was shot in three places and two bystanders Tegeived builets. The Prado was crowded with prom- enaders. many of whom were women lqd children, Riva Accuses Asbert. General Riva was taken to a hospi- tal, where he made a statement that he wi shot by Governor Asbert. An operation was then performed, but he is not expectod to_survive the night. A wacrant has been issued for the arrest of Asbert and his companions. All Political Clubs Closed. The tragedy has caused the most in- tense excitement throughout the cit Al political clubs were ordered closed. Central Park and the Prado were pa- trolled by squads of police, who pre- vented any assembling in groups. A strong force of rurales is being held in reserve. STABBING AT A GLASGO WEDDING. Stanley Dudeka Dangerously Wound- ed by Albert Faber. (Special to The Bulletin.) Jewett City, July 7—A stabbing af- fray took place at Glasgo, six miles m_here Monday afternoon as the | aftermath of a wedding. | The affair started as the resuit of | scurrilions remarks made | the party, several of whom more or less under the influence squor. it is claimed. A little after lock a ielephone despaich was the borough for officers and In response, Of- a doctor in a hurry. ficers Martin' Wolfe and Louls Gin- gram accompanied by Dr. 8. H. Holmes, made a quick trip by auto to tie scene. where affairs were found to be in great confusion. Stanley Dudeka had been stabbed and cut five or six times by Albert Faber, the former i employed by the American Thread company at Glasgo, his as- saiant lives in Jewett City, where he as a had name. Dudeka was found by Dr. Holmes at the house to which they had removed him, several of the wounds in scalp needed stitching, one taking 10, the wounds on the neck | shiowed evidence of a dull | heir intent was plain. The the man will doubtless | wroa. stabbing Fabre ran to a| soarding house and entered by window and it was supposed his way to the cellar. The ang- | llagers surrounded the house and | or the arrival of the officers | sm Jewett City. Officer Wolf and Dr. | mes enieed the house with a doz- | rear en 1 { their backs. The cellar was | . but soon the doctor found the | man in the attic lying on the floor. He | . o Wolf and he arrested him. | sde no resistance until he ! at reel, where it was nec- e<ars inister a mild choking. He str harply once or twice at Officer Gingras with his manacled | hands but Gid not hurt:the officer. | re is in the lockup at Jewett City \nother Pole was held by Officer | seboro as belnz a witness who - get away if posible. | He also is locked up here. AUTO TRUCK OVERTURNS THE WAGON OF FARMER. Soper Has Fractured and Other Injuries. William A Skull July “William A retired farme: d his daught Saffield, Conn Soper. a well known was seriously injured or. Mrs. Jennie Watkins, slightly hurt. laie this afternoon when the they were riding was Jarge automobile truc} s Molinari of Windsor driver of the latter was in which G owned Locks. The Henry Sasalo, who was not arrested. Hystanders sa)y that Soper’s horse shier. near the residence of F. S. Bis- sell. Sr., in the southern part of the town. and the motor truck struck the vagon a glancing blow. The wagon was overturned, and both occupants pianed under Soper has a fractur- ed skull, a fractured@ wrist and inter- | nal injuries Mrs. . Watkins was cut bout the head and body Soper is 5 years old his wofe last week. He buried WOMEN WEAR TROUSERS. They Are Considered the Correct Thing at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. lLake Hopatcong, M J., July Women campers on the lake shore have taken quite a fancy to male attire and imost all are wearing khaki trousers. is no uncommon sight to see a | boys. Closer inspection shows that scme of the “boys” are women. Most of the women don conventional siirts when they leave camp, but some of the less timid have gone so far as to appear in stores and other places sbout_Holan's Point in thelr novel at- |~ Chrisiansand, July - T—Arrived: tire. When they do they are. the ob- | Steafst-C. F. Tietgen, New York for ject of more or less respectful attén- | CopenNagen. tion. Some of the more puritanical are | ~Leghorn, July 6—Arrived: Steamer @iscussing measures 1o prevent thelr | Perugla, New York via Marsellles, etc, wisters from parading in anything but Genoa, July 2 —Arrived: MSteamer the accepted feminine garb. Principe dl_Plemonte, New York, London, July T—Afrived: Steamer Mampton Postmaster Commiissioned. | Minnewasku, New York, » man about thirty years old was plek- €4 up in BHnd-Bodus bay this morn_ in four drowned in Rodus bay, Lake On- tario, THREE ACRES OF BUILDINGS BURNED. Plant of Yale Manufacturing Co., at Yalesville Damaged $200,000. | | Meriden, Conn, July T7—Fire of | unknown 'origin ‘at five o'clock this afternoon destroyed the plant of the I C. Yale Manufacturing company at Yalesville, a suburb of Wallingford. Three acres of factory bufldings was swept away, entailing a Joss estimated at $200, The insurafice policies on the buildings and contents aggregate but §45;000. The plant consisted of one brick jtructure 40 by 100 feet, ope frame building of same dimensions and twelve smaller frame buildings. The company had $50,000 worth of Ger- man silver in stock. Edge tools valu- ed at $50,000 were totally destroyed. The factory employs when on full time between 117 and 120 peopde and manutactures spoons, flat and hollow silverware ‘and edge tools. The shops had just closéd for a vacation of two weeks and were deserted when the fire_was discovered, General Manager P. F. Rhinehart having left the plant at four o'clock following a careful inspection of the premises. Fires are reported to have occurred frequently during the past three weeks at the plant, all of unknown origin. The general report among those other than officials of the com- pany was that the fire of today was of incendiary origin. ARE ALMOST INHUMAN IN THEIR FEROCITY Soldiers in the Balkan War Bayonets as Daggers. Using London, July 7.—The most import- ant news from the seat of war Is the report, confirmed from Sofia, of the appearance of a large Bulgarian forge at Vrania, threatening the Servian line of retreat, Still more significant, as tending to confirm the belief that the Servians are suffering defeat, .5 the announcement from Belgrade ‘that only meagre re- ports are heing received from the Ser- vlan army headquarters and that the goyernment has decideq to publish re- ports only on alternate days. In ad- dition a rigorous censorship on the newspapers is being enforced and the publication of speclal war editions has been stopped. The Servian wounded describe the baitles as almost inhuman in their ferocity, the men throwing away thelr firearms and their bayonets as daggers. This rds with the in- formation from many sources of the wholesale slaughter witnessed in the present struggle. Whatever the policy of the Buropean powers may be. littla is now heard of attempts to stop the war. The am- bassadorial conferenca met in Lon- don again today, but rently did little else thar discuss the boundaries of Albania. EAST HAVEN BOY KILLED BY AUTO. Robert Brockett, Aged 13, Has Skull Fractured and Leg Crushed. New Haven, Conn, July 7—Robert Brockett, aged 13 years, of East Ha- ven, was struck by an automobile on Main street, in that town this after- noon and so badly injyred that he died shortly after belng brought to St. Raphael's hospital, in this city. His injuries included a fractured skull and a crushed leg. The automobile was owned and driv- en by P. J. Btzel of this city, who carried the lad to the hospital in his machine. ; Steamship Arrivals. Napl les, July 3—Arrivec Steamer Verona, New York. Glasgow, July 6—Arrived: Steam- ers Cameronia, New York; Parisian, Boston. Antwerp, July T7—Arrived: Steam- er Lapland, New York, Plymouth, July 7—Arrived; Steamer Kronfrinz Wilhelm, New York, Glasgew, July 7T-——Arrived: Steamer Pretorian, Montreal, Body Recovered In Sedus Bay, Auburn, N, Y, July T.—The bedy of supposed te he ome of a party of Cabied Paragraphs New German Minister of War, Berlin, July 7—Major General Erich Von Falkenhayn has been appointed minister of war in succession to Gen- who re- eral Josiah Von Heringen, cently resigned.- Suffragettes Set Fire to Pier. Southport, Eng., July mile long, at this watering , place, tinguished the flames damage had been done. American Woman Suicides. American woman who MacDuff, of Massachusetts - avenue, Cambridge, Mass, on Beptember 12, 1913, The lingered until July 4. NO UNDUE INFLUENCE John Murray Scott. London, July the eccentric millionaire and art con- Wallace will be disposed of in accord- more than half of his property to Lord and Lady Sackville, the latter a daugh- ter of a former British minister at ‘Washington, who succeeded the Sack- villo-Wests ‘as_tenants of the famous country seat Knole park, Seven Oaks, Kent. The jury of the probate court, where the suit had been in progress for eight days. pronounceq a verdict today up- holding the will. After only ten min- utes’ consideration they decided that Lady Sackville was gulltless of the charges of fraud and undue influence brought against her by members of the Scott family and cast the burden of the costs of the suit, which will be extremely heavy, upon the late baro- net’s relatives. Lord and Lady Sackville will obtain about $2,500,000 of the $5,800,000 of the testator's property, including some of his magnificent art collections. Many of their friends among the aristocratic audience assembled in the court offereq their congratulations to Lord Sackville and his daughter, “the kidlet.” TLady Sackville was not pres- ent today, as she was resting after the severe strain of the cross examination she underwent last week. The verdict of the jury seemed to be a foregone conclusion after Sir Samuel Thomas Evans, the presiding judge, had delivered his charge to them ‘hefore they retired. He express- &d strongly the opinfon that Lady Sackville was guiltless -of fraud and said that Sir John Murray Scott ap- parently haq felt he had found a cus- todian for the art treasures, which he desired the Sackvilles to keep at Knole park, and had realized that he must leave money to enable them to be kept. For undue influence, he said, thers must be something like coerclon, and for fraud there must be something like representation to the testator of facts which did not exist. LEMON PRICES 30AR: HIGHEST IN TEN YEARS Those from Si ly Retail at Five Cents Apiece. New York, July 7.—July and August are the great months for lemons, and this year prices are the highest for 10 years. During June 400,000 boxes of Sicily lemons were sold for an aver- age of $5 a box, making the total sales for that month’ $2,000,000. During the last of June prices were as high as $8 for the finest stock, and at the close of last week the price was $8.50, which is more than twice as high as at the same time last year. There are now in port 60,000 boxes and 115,- 000_are due on Tuesday. If the heat continues prices are likely to go to $10. One reason for the high prices of Sicily lemons is that no California | lemons hecause of the freeze there last winter, have reached this market this season. The California fruit as a rule brings $1 a box more than that from Sieily. Last week brokers here, realizing that California was bare of lemons, shipped two cars of Sicily fruit to Sac- ramento. Information that it was in transit preceded ‘the fruit and on its arrival the state horticultural commis- sion quarantined the cars, claiming that it feared the white fly, and would not permit any to be unioaded. The lemone had to be shipped back to New York, although they were sold at $11 a box. The high prices haye made some of the importers rich this season. The crop in Sicily is short and lemons may g0 as high as $15 a box before the end of August. At the present price of $8.50, each lemon costs at wholesale about two and a half cents, which means five cents to the consumer. CAPTAIN POTTS TO SEEK REINSTATEMENT. Leaves For Washington to Have “Plucking Board’s” Action Reversed. Newport, R. I, July 7.—Captain Templin M. Potts, U. S. N., retired, until last week commander of the bat- tleship Louisiana, accompanied by an attorney, left today for Washington, Where, according to intimate friends, he will seek to have reversed the act- fon of the “plucking board” which re- tired him before he had an opportuni- ty to reach the grade of rear admiral. The silence regarding his plans, con- sistent with naval discipline and eti- quette, was maintained by the captain. BABY PIG SLEEPS WITH WOMAN. He d and C is Washed and Combed Daily and Eats Out of Silver Spoon. Denver, July 7.—Mrs. Whitney New- ton, a well-known Denver society mat- ron, has a new pet—a, baby pig. Young Robert Newton brought home the shoat a few evenings ago. He was much entertained by the antics of the animal and all went well until he wished to attend a dance, A mald cared for it that evenlng until mid- night, when she turned it over to her mistress. Mrs. Newton took the shoat Into her arms and tried to make it comfortable, but without sueeess, Finaily she got a fine plece of hemstitched linen, em- Droidered with blue flowers, wrapped it gently ‘about the plg, then lald him cautlously upon the downy pillow be- side her own, Piggy gave a satisfied liitle squeak, doul up his feet and went off te sleep happy, The cunning act won Mrs, Newton's heart, His white skin is washed and eembed and perfumed and 7—Militant suffragettes today attempted to burn down the recreation pler, which is a Fisherman discovered the fire and ex- Dbefore much Paris, July 7—The body of the young committed suicide at Villebon, near Meudon, has been identified as that of Agnes Firth That name and ad- dress were found on a bicycle license iseued ‘to her by the authorities here Young woman took poison on June 19, and BY LADY SACKVILLE Probate Court Upholds Will of Sir 7—The great estate which the late Sir John Murray Scott, noisseur, inheriteq from Lady Richard ance with the terms of his will made in 1901 and of the five codiclls giving Mellen Guided By His Counsel DECLINES TO ANSWER TIONS OF CORONER. QUES- STATES HIS POSITION Has No Desire to Conceal Anything, but Must Abide by Advice of His Counsel—Bardo Testifies Ag Bridgeport, Conn,, July 7.—Presideat Charles S. Mellen of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, the principal witness at Coroner Phelan’s final hearing this afternoon into the probe of the Stamford wreck, declined to answer questions concerning the du- ties and powers of higi officials of the road, including his own, upon advice of counsel. Mellen Declines to Answer. “As a layman, I do not know th: meaning of these proceedings.” he said to the coroner. “For my part I am only too willing to answer all questions that I can; but I am vnder indictment for the Westport wreck. and must face trial in September. My counsel nas advised me not to say anything defin- ing my duties, or the duties of othery the decision of my counsel, and decline to answer. If I were not under indict- ment I would be glad to answer ai questions, for I have no desire to con- ceal anything.” No Single Unit of Authority. Mr. Mellen was on the stand for near- 1y an hour| He gave a general outline of his own duties and the duties of his subordinate officials. He said _there were no written rules defining his own Qduties, being guided by “experience and common sense.” Thaere is no single unit of authority, he said. He had au- thority up to a certain point, but the executive' committee and board of di- rectors had final authority in all mat- ters. Railroad Attorney Protests. When the coroner asked as to who had charge of the roadbeds and track- age, Attorney Spock for the road made a vigorous protest’ saying that these matters had nothing to do whatever as to the cause of the Stamford wreck. He could not see the reason for the ques- tion, saying that the cause of the wreck, from the evidence, was due to either the brakes or the engineer being at fault. The coroner insisted, how- ever, that he had the right to ask any question he chose, as he wanted to de- termine who was responsible for the wreck. Mr. Spock pointed out that at the inquest into the Westport wreck the officials answered every gquestion that was asked them, without hesita- tion. The coroner put several other ques- tions to Mr. Mellen later, but each time he declined to answer. Bardo Denies Doherty's Testimony. The remainder of the hearing was taken up with the examination of Gen eral Manager C, L. Bardo and J. H. Morrison, signal engireer, to clear up certain points in their previous testi- mony. Mr. Bardo explained the working of the rule concerning the spare list for engineers. Engineer Charles J. Doher- ty, who was in charge of the ill-fated engine in the wreck, had testified that although he was not feeling well, he would have been put on the foot of the list if he did not take the engine out on the duy of the wreck. Mr. Bardo said this was not so. If an engineer had a reasonable excuse he would not de dropped to the foot of the Hst, nor would he be disciplined in any way. Reasons of Doherty’s Demerits. Doberty said that he had been given six_demerits because he had missed a train, and was unable to report for his run, about a vear ago. Mr. Bardo, reply, said that this was because he was working in New York and living in New Haven. An engincer is supposed to be within convenient distance from his work. Doherty said his pay was so small that he could not afford to live in New York at that time. Mr. Morrison was asked concerning automatic train stops. He had never recommended that they be installed, no said, because he did not know of any sure stop. He had reccmmended, *how- ever, that the company make experi- ments as to these stops. No More Public Hearings, Coroner Phelan announced that the inquest would be indefinitely postpon- ed. He wanted to secure some more information as to technical matters, but sald there would be no more public hearings. His finding is expected within & few weeks. TWO WORKMEN FATALLY INJURED IN DISTILLERY. . Other Injured ky Explosion of | High Proof Whiskey Kettle. | One, Peoria, 11, July 7.—~Three men were injured, two of them fatally, in an ex- plosion in the cistern room of _the Clark_distillery this afternoon. Wi liam Denson and Fred Steckel, laborer: who were terribly burned, will die. Fire broke out immediately following the explosion and gave the firemen a | three hours' strugsle to keep the flames | confined to the one building. Workmen had just emptied a Diz copper kettle of high proof whiske: and accidentally let a block of wou fall into the receptacie. A man was | lowered into the vat, and later an in- candescent electric light bulb was sent down to him. The bulb struck against the side of the vat, broke and an ex- plosion of the gas in the kettle follow- ed. The three men were picked up unconscious. Fire broke out and a sec- ond explosion followed, and for a time threatened the big warehouses. ° The loss b fire it 18 said will not ex- ceed $30,00 153,633 Animals Slaughtered Here. (Bpeclal to The Bulletin.) Washington, July 7—According to the report of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agr culture the number of animals slaught- ered under Federal inspection in Con- necticut. during the year 1912 was 163,- 633, These consisted of 184 calves and 158,440 hogs. Ambassador’s Family As Guests. Gloucester, Mass., July 7—The am- bassador from Italy, Marquis Cusani Confalonleri, with the Marquise and family, arrived today at Lookout Hill, Freshwater Cove, the summer resid- ence of Mr, and Mrs. John Hays Ham- mend, whose guests they will be for several weeks, he sleeps in a dewny hed every night heside his mistress, He alge eats from & silver spoop Tt is sald one eent of every dallar of American capital is new empleyed in the auto tadustry, | banks: Bank’s Gapital Much Impaired PITTSBURG INSTITUTION ORDER- ED CLOSED. IN RECEIVERS’ HANDS McKeesport Bank and Other Enter- prises Affected—“A Sporadic Case of Unsound Banking,” Says McAdoo, Plttsburgh, Pa., July 7.—The First- Second National Bank of Pittsburgh, the First Nhtional Bank of McKees- port, a neighboring city, the American Waterworks iand Guarantee Company and the Banking house of J. S. and W. S. Kuhn, Inc, of this city, were forced into the hands of receivers .today through the failure of the first named inatitution to open its doors this morn- ing. Clesing Ordered By Deputy Comptroller The closing of the First-Second Nat- ional Bank was ordered by the deputy comptroller of the currency, T. P. Kane) after every effort had been made to meet the government requirements as to the legal reserve. The Kuhn banking house has extensive interests in irrigation projects throughout the linked with me in the indictment. I Wwest, and st own case, therefore I must abide by | vania, besides being a_dominant fac- tor in the American Waterworks and Guarantee Company. W. S. Kuhn, was president of the First-Second Nation- al Bank, vice-president and director in the banking house, and vice-president and director of the American Water- works and Guarantee Company besides being a director of the McKeesport bank, J. 8. Kuhn was a director of the First-Second National Bank, president and director of the American Water- works and Guarantee Company; presi- dent and director of the McKeesport bank, and chairman of the board of directors of the banking house. No Statement until Night. When it was learned that the banks would have to suspend business steps were taken to protect the American Waterworks and Guarantee Company and the Kuhn's Banking house, and application was made in the federal court this afternoon for receivers for both institutions. Throughout the day a statement of the banks and affected companies aff- airs was awalted with feverish anxi- ety, but none was forthcoming until to-night when Mr. Kane made a formal statement. No statement of the condi- tion of the bank was obtainable sub- sequent to the one issued Juné 4, on the last bank call of the comptrolier. Unable To Make Good Impaired Capital. To-night Mr. Kane issued the fol- lowing: “At a meeting of the directors of the First-Second National Bank held on Sunday the condition of the bank and the results of the recent investigation of the bank examiners were discussed. After full consideration the directors declared their inability to make good the bank’s impaired capital and with- out dissent decided that it would be best for the protection of depositors and all other interests to have the comptroller of the currency take charge and arrange for the liquidation of the bank, Little Loss to Depositors. “The Pittsburgh clearing house com- mittee which has been engaged for the past four days in going over the aff- airs of the bank with the examiners nd in making a careful investigation as to its condition refused to furnish enough to justify the bank in keeping its doors open and agreed under the clrcumstances there was no alterna- tive to the course recommended by the banks directors. “The officers of the bank have ex- pressed to the department the belief that there will ultimately be but little if any lcss to the bank's depositors. The liquidation of the bank, and the distribution of its assete will proceed as expedltiously as possible.” Clearing House Was Prepared. After a protracted meeting of the Pittsburgh clearing house association that institution to-night issued this statement: _ “The closing of the First-Second Na- tional Bank by the deputy comptroller of the currency was not entrely un- expected by this association and it was therefore prepared for the crisis. The members of the clearing house are all in good condition and we belleve that the banks and trust companies in the city of Pittsburgh as a whole, are prepared for any emergency. It will take seve- ral days to arrange for the transfer of accounts and the proper and careful handling of checks made on theFirst- Second Natlonal Bank. We therefore ask the indulgence of the public and roqueet that they will help in every Wway possible to assist in the solution of ‘the problem which confronts the. clearing house committee and the WITH NEW ENGLAND BANKS. Firms With Which Kuhns Are Con- nected Have Done Business. Boston, July 7—W. S. Kuhn and his brother. J.'S. Kuhn,the Pittsburg bank- ers, are 'president and director, r spectively in the Bosfor firm of Kuhn, | sher & Co, Inc., dealers in municipal | and corporation bonds. | The company has done an extensive | business with banks throughout New | England. It orlgnally handied almost | exclusively bonds of the Kuhn inter- ests, but of late years has gone exten- sively into the sale of municipal issucs. “UNSOUND BANKING” Secretary McAdoo Says This is One of Few Sporadic Cases. Washington, July 7.—Seeretary Mo- Adoo in a statement tonight declared that the general banking condition In Pittsburg, as well as in the entire country, ‘was strong and sound, and that he expected no further trouble as a result of the Piitshurg First-Sec- ond- National bank. 2 The failure of the Plitsbire bank is ®simply & sporadic cvale of unsound banling and has ne other significance,” the secretary sald, He added that tf receivership for this institution remev- ed a long standing “sere spot” in the Pittsburg situation, leaving the general condltion in that eity sound. The see- retary will make a sweoping investiza- tion of the causes of the failure of the Dig bank and probably will call on the department of justice to assist. Eighty-six per cent. of the faectories in Switzerland use electricity as mo- tive power. The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion ‘;;y"’é,.e City's Population Condensed Teiagrams The Suffragette Skirt, much like the harem skirt has srrived in New York. Philadelphia has 20 Plaincloth men patroliing the sireets to catel mashers, Mary Sweatt Hodadon 101 Years old, died from heat exhaustion at Lynn, Mass. President Wilson Yesterday nom- inated Frederic Courtland Penfield to be ambassador to Austria-Hungary. Ethel Rhul, Five Years Old, was killed by lightning in Marysville, O., in the severe storm which swept the state. Hereafter the Detail of every army officer in Washington except buréau chiefs will be strictly limited to for Years. Thq Italian Tobacco Monopoly will start'in September to sell cigarettes “without nicotine” at three cents apiece. A Black Snake, Measuring Seven feet, was found in a rocking-chair of the ‘porch of Mrs, O. D. Ice's home at Newcastle, Ind. Robert C. Ogden of New York, is seriously il at his summer residence “The Billows” on Arundel Point, Keri- nebunkport, Maine, Constitutionalists Led by Governor Carranza were reported to have de- feated Mexican Tederals Sunday near Candela, in Coahuila. Mrs. L. O. Bradley, wife of a Titus- ville, Pa., merchant, was killed by a ‘bolt of lightning. A baby which she ‘was holding escaped. Helen and Margaret Averill, aged 8 and 10 years, respectively, fell into a creek near Warren, Pa., while dodg- ing a firecracker thrown at them and were drowned. ~ Traffic on the Main Line of the Bos- ton and Albany railroad was delayed yesterday by the derailment at Roch- dale, Mass., of a milk car attached to a Boston bound train. Secretary of War Garrisan has with- drawn Federal financial support from the Arkansas National Guard, because of negligence of state officials in car- ing for Federal property. The Main Building of the factory of W. J. Budgell and Sons at Peabody, Mass, manufacturers of sheepskins, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss will exceed $60,000. General E. Burd Grubb, superintend- ent of the New Jersey Home for Dis- abled Soldiers at Kearny, died yester- day of a complication of diseases. He was seventv-two vears old. Miss Abbie D. Munroe, principal of Laying Industrial school at Mount Pleasant, N. C., died suddenly at her summer home. at Bristol, R. I, yes- terday. She was 76 years old. An Unidentified Negro who _had assaulted a young white girl at Boni- fay, Florida, was taken from a rail- way train at Milton by a mob, hanged to a telegrapn pole and then shot. William B. ‘Morand, 91 Years Old, the_only survivor of the Mexican war in Wisconsin and one of the five sur- vivors known in the United States, died at Green Bay, Wis, yesterday. Pasqualo Perrins, Who Killed Guic- seppi re Rosa in an argument over a game of cards at Providence, was given the maximum sentence of 20 years' imprisonment for manslaughter yes- terday. Thomas Malley of Somerville, Mass, about 25 vears of age, an en- gineer in the employ of a Boston firm, was drowned in the Merrimack river yesterday while making soundings for the proposed new bridge in South Manchester, N. H, One Hundred and Twenty-Five men were engaged vesterday in fighting a forest fire that In three days has burn- ed a strip half a mile wide and two and a half miles long near Templeton, Mass. Standing timber worth $10,000 has been destroyed. John Harris, Whose Home is in Brooklyn, Y., was drowned at Waterfown, N. Y., and five others nar- rowly escaped death when the motor boalt in which they were riding was run_down by the vacht Sisilina, owned by Nathan Straus of New York. Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his sons. Quentin and Archie, left New York vesterday morning for the west on a_trip which will last six or eight weeks. He will spend most of this time in and aronnd the Grand Canon of the Colorado in Arizona. George Richardson. Aged 23, son of Mre. Marietta R. Jefferson, of Lowell, Mass., was found dead in bed vester- day morning. A revolver by his side. He had been in poor health and had also brooded over an accident a vear ago in which the car he was driving ran over and killed a man Flying at the Rate of fifty miles an_hour yesterday, Glenn Martin's | LAUTEsACH IS D Washington, July 7.—The strange tale of Wall street operations begun before the senate’s lobby committee last weel by David Lamar had another chapter added today when Edward Lauterbact, Lamar’s associate in many undertak- ings, pleaded that he had been the in- nocent vietim of the “vicarious sacri- fice” in negotiations that have involy- ed the Morgan firm, the steel interests, New York attorneys, members of con- Zress and men of lesser prominence. Lauterbach’s Second Appearance. Lauterbach had already testified be- fore the committee. But since his for- mer appearance Lamar had told his unexpected story involving himself and Lauterbach in the preiiminaries of ihe Steel Trust investigation and in an axtraordinary effort to restore Lauter- bach to the good graces of the Morgan firm, and Lewis Cass Ledyard _had added his sworn statement that Lau- terbach had representcd himself as .ne emissary of Speaker Ciark, Senator Stone and democratic Jeaders in an ef- fort to effect a “reconciliation” with the Morgan steel interests and shut off investigation or opposition in con- gress. Was an Innocent Victim. Lauterbach, long prominent in legal circles In New York, sat all day under a searching fire of questions from ser- ators on the lobby committee. He ad- mitted, _voluntarily or under the de- mand of his questioners, most of the facts alleged by Ledyard, but he de- clared that throughout the negotiations between Lamar and himself or repre- tween himself and members or repre- szentatives of the Morgan firm, he had ____A.,_- Says That His Course in Acting in Conjunction Lamar Was Beneath Him PRICE TWO CENTS w EEPLY REPENT A FARCE FOR LAMAR, BUT A TRAGEDY FOR-HIM Wishes He had Become a Criminal Lawyer Instead of a ..Cor- poration Lawyer—Says Morgan Holds His Note For $5,000 which Beeomes Due in.a Few Days—Second Ap- pearance of Lawyer at the l{;bby Investigation. am a criminal lawyer if we heed the suggestion made around this table.” “Do_you think it good ethics for a lawyer™ lo try to get back into the graces of old clients?* asked Senator Nelson. “No, I do mot. I think my course was beneath me. I believed Morgan and the other leaders did not think bady of me. Morgan received me in his lbrary and his firm then held s note of mine for $5,000. 1t becomes due in a few days.” While Senator Stone was propound- ing a long question reviewing Lauter- back’s testimony ho thought Lamar tried ao prompt the witness. “Stop prompting the witness,” he warned, “I am not,” responded Lamar. Won’t Be Browbeaten. “Don’t say a word or we will have the sergeant at arms place wou where you where you won't say & word,” sald ithe senator. “I am not to be browbeaten in this fashion,” interrupted Lauterbach. Lamar did not speais to me.’ A moment later Senator Reed and Senator Nelson got inio a sharp wran- gle about the treatment of the witasss, enator Nelson declared the witness wag being “bullyragged.” PLEDGE THEIR VOTES 2 TO THE TARIFF BILL, Passage of the Measure by the Senats is Assured. Washington, July 7.—Forty-seven democratic senafors stood up in the party caucus one by one late today and declared their intentlon to vote for the Underwood-Simmons tariff re- been the innocent victim of those who had concealted facts or more miserpre- vision bill as finally approved by the sentations to him. Claims Dealings Were Honorable. The witness admitted his long asso- clation with Lamar, and said that it hod been an honorable connection and cancus a few minutes previously. Two senators, Ransdell and Thornton, of Louisiana, stated that they would mot maie such a promiss because of tha proposal to place sugar on the free hist in 1916. Senators Hitchcock of Ne- profitabie one for him. He told of talking over with Lamar the steel in- vestigation and or seeing the propos- ed resolution, and admitted urging La~- mar withholding it until he could sce ‘braska and Culberson of Texas wers absent, but both are known to be in favor of the bill. This gives the dem- ocrats 49 votes for the bill, or a slender majority of one, with the vote of the J. P. Morgan and othe's and urge them vice president to fall back on in an to authorize him to prevent the intro- duction. Throughout the entire proceeding he emergency. An absolute binding resolution was not adopted, the poll by individuals declared there was no thought of re- ward on his part. He raised himself in the witness chair and shouted emphasis_when No!" with vehement being substituted, and that poll was put only on the ground of personal promise and was not made binding. A resolution was adopted, however, Senator Reed sucgested tnere had been declaring the Underwood-Simmons bill an effort (o “shake down” the Morgan a party measure and urging ite un- divided support without amendment steel tion is an insult and an outrage” he trust interests. ‘“That insinua- unless such should be submitted by the committee. Senator Newlands of exclaimed. Supposed Lamar Knew Stone. Lauterbach admitted he had told Mr Ledyard he had the authority of Speak- er Clark, transmitted through Senator Stone, to make certain “proposals for peace” to the Morgan interests, bul Nevada cast the only vote against this resolution, but Senators Shafroth of | Colorado, Ransdell and Thornton did not vote, Veterans of 1812, In the United States we think of a said this authority came from Lamor. | veteran of the Civil War as a.man well He declared he had never seen Clark or advanced in years. And in all coun- Stone, but had been assured by Lamur | tries the ranks of those who took part that the latter knew Senator Stone and | that he had made the srrangements for the Lauterbach-Ledyard interview with the approval of Stone znd the speaker. Throughout the day’s investigation |in_any campaign fifty years ago aro rapidly thinning. A correspondent of the Frankfurt Zeitung, however, calls attention to the extracrdinary longev- Lauterbach recalled dates and circum- ity that distinguishes the veterans of | the Russian Army. stances with difficulty, and could not its to Washing- X the time of his v | An event that took place during ths ton, or of his conferences with Lamar He insided he did not know Lamar had_telephoned Ledyard in the name of Representative Palmer to make un centennial celebrations of the “War of tho Fatherland,” as the campaign against Napoleon in 1812 is called, aroused wide interest. The committes that was arranging the festivities in appointment for him, but he declared he believed when he went to Ledyard's Moscow conceived the strange notion of issuing an invitation to the veterans house that Senator Stone had tele- of this war of a_hundred years ago. phoned Ledyard. He supposed then, he Foretgners considered it a pretty and said, that Lamar had full authority to represent Stone. Sought No Pecuniary Reward. To aM the questions of the commit- tce Lauterbach insisted ke did not look sentimental bit of formality. To thelr astonishment, however, {1 proces to be as much reason as postry behin it, for twenty-six survivors of that terrfble winter of 1813 responded to for pecuniary reward in carrying in- the call. This longevity is all more remark- formation of the Steel Trust resolution able in view of the rigor of the climate to the Morgan firm, or in conferring and the hardships to which these old with Mr. Ledyard over the proposed agreement between democratic leaders soldiers are doubtless exposed to i and the Morgan interests. their peasant homes. Furthermors, as fcr restoration to “My only hope the remote districts from which most the good graces of the people who ap- of the veterans came, thers is a con- splouous Mack of progress in medivine de- parently had otten together ti stroy me,” he said. Lamar was present throughout the day’s _sessions and was held for fo- night's meeting of the committee. at which he had asked permission to make and hygiene. Naturally, these aged men, crippled and failing. could take no active part in the e ies. Theirgpresence, how- ever,, was enough to make the oo~ casion remarkable. a statement. Both he and Lauterbach announced fhat they would waive any The youngest of the “old boys™ was hydroaeroplane dipped too close to Lake Michigan and was overturned. Martin and his assistant, Charles H. Day were rescued by the life saving immunity from prosecution they might otherwise enjoy from having testified at the commitiee hearing. 117 years of age; the oldest was 13§ years old. He was born in 1786, before George Washington was elected pres- ident-of the United States! Tt is al- | cain, | hurt. | War Lerd, is eelebrating the twenty fAfth bieediess an crew, who also recovered the ma- | Neither of the airmen was| Husband to a Mrs. Vencentalll | her defense. in a Challenging Her rial by battle,” Palaclo made good due! with knives at Denver Colo., against the ccusation of infidelity made a nst her by Samuel Palacio | until the police, who had heen sum- moned by the neighbors, broke | through the locked doors and separat- ed the combatant: Stay of Quinlan's Sentenc: Pagerson, N. J., July _7.—Patrick Quinlan, the TIndustrial Workers of the Worlq leader, sentenced to jail last week for a term of from two to seven years for inciting the silk mill strik- ers to riot, obtained a writ of error from Judge Klenert today, which will act as a stay of sentence. He ex pected to obtain his release soon on ball, Uerssy Justice. The reputation of “Jersey Justice” is conflrmed by the declslon of the New Jersey Supreme Court sustaining the Verdict of the lower coirt in the ease of an Orange youth sentenced teo five Vvears' imprisonment at hard labor fer killing a boy wilh lis auntomeblle.- New York World, Had Them Bluffed. Kalser Wilkelm, onee known us the ersary of his reign. Even his eariy erilies must admit he takes a lemg time (0 start a fight— New Yerk American & Wool and Sugar Lobby Today. i The lobby committee planned to fin- i8h the Lamar-Lauterbach testimony tonight and to take up the wool and sugar lobby investigaiicn tomorrow. It was believed the Afulhall letters, which will form the basis for an investiga- tion of the Assoctation of Manufactur- ers, would not be reached until Wed- nesday or Thursday. Stone Shakes Finger at Lauterbach. During Senator Reed's cross-exam ination -of Lauterbach Senator Stone arose behind the committee table, say- Ing he thought that a good time to ask some questions. Lauterbach, he demanded to know how it came that after Lauterbach and Led- yard had talked about Stone being the intermediafy” in one conversation, Lauterbach suddenly became so cau- tious that he suggested in a subsequent conversation the senator's name need not be mentioned. Lauterback declar- ed Ledyard was mistaken in his ac- cqunt of the conversation, and that he had denied it was corrcct carlier in the day. ‘Why, 1t was not read to you, terrupted Senator Reed “Then 1 deny it now witness. A Deep Tragedy for Lauterbach. Bursting through the fire of rapil questions, Lauterbach delivercd an elo- quent deseription of his course in the affuir. “It was rearing farce for La- in~ responded the mar and Ledyard and cveryone—ex- cept for me, to whem it was a deep tragedy,” said he, “T - Lnown as a corperation lawyer and had gained the eonfidence of sreat finaneial men, I wigh new I had attaaded to business of a smaller degree. I wist I _had Becomo & erinminal lawyer -periaps L Shaking his finger at f; most incredible that one man's life hould span such a space of vears ¥ Slaying the Suavlty. Mr Wilson mads Mr. Brvan secre- - tory of stato and then orewted Hd- itor: Metcalf, of the Oommoner. his ofvil governor of the Panama Canal Zome, Wonder if he is trying to wreck Mr, Bryan's Commonerf— Mansfield (O.) News. Drinks on Him. The New Jersey painter who to life at'his own wake was probably . speedily reconofled that the drinks were on him.—Washington Rost. 2 Ghost of the Golden Club, 5 The thing worthy-of note {a-that no charge of a free trads lobhy has been o by any responsible persan, The - ghost of the:Cobden Club no longer walks—Chicago News, No Danger of Cold™ Peet, Uncls Chau M, Dej 8 we wouldr't ‘be Hcked out af our-boots in 2 war with Ghina or Germeny, No, Bor-eur dutaty Oxfords—Omaha Bes Distance Lends ‘Enchantment, Colgnel Roasevelt is going to & fow. 5 lectures tn Argentine, dorse the lecatton