Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 9, 1913, Page 1

Satisfactorily and Do Justice to Each TO GIVE ENTIRE TIME TO NEW HAVEN SYSTEM Emphatic Denial That This Action Is Forerunner of His of Maine Central to Succeed Him—New Haven Will Still Retirement From the Latter—Morris McDonald Retain Its Interest in the Other Two Systems. ton. July The first definite ouicome ng continued agitation over the New York, New Ha artford con of the Boston railroads came Rl G L S vl ok INT CHARLES S. MELLEN Mellen, presi- relinquished the Boston and Maine. self also | with the officers here. e report | St il Al < = v Deldiars of the Bos- | dlscassed the defense of the attormey | 5 SSIS ¥SERE, [S2E JlEU By -y . - — o~ general and said the action o 1€ | esteemed Toval Lnight, H. 1 e ¢ directors of the |PreSident in sustaining the attorney- | SICUELS T tniens M T Tennines, o o ose reg. |Eemeral in one bre: ot ot 0 | turing knight, E. M, Dickerman, Tu, < the resisniation was sub. | (e demands of the district attornoy | gon il ¥oran Snner guard, Eawia lien deciared that | , was, in the m of the | 5. Kelly, Cheyenne, ; gra 8= . the predidemay ol {he | MUy an Gstosisbing methed of dis- |y Y i omme WS gracd trus- 3 Muto he Maine | POSIIE of B werious case, o | dlanapolis; grand rustee for two years - . Joking aftes |, o cannot permit this report to £6 | o 5il vacancy caused by Goath of s « ‘Wnien's other cxtensive ina | 1% anneunced Judgo Vum Fleet ufter | Noyor Charlos M. Sehmidi of Wheots : vom bimeelt | L L Rt & question betore vou | b8 James R. Nicaolson, Springtield, 3 man could = Satlslas te the rights or wrongs of the|M3Ss ltehell of P, - be ap- |ignation of McNab. Tt is therefore |, une 33 SPpointed fto the erand ESFoper for Yo to make comments |\ p Mg oo sdiocced Perry A, Shon. i could be construcd as reflecting | 43 V. MUls to succeec ek e McDonald Succeeds Him. | upon either the president or the at- | Of BSorvlle Fa = L e Meilen's succe: will be | torney-general second v Morris McDonald, of Portiand, Maine,| The court then ordered that another | f, S250nd ballot Will be cast tomorrow who is now vice ;.r;s‘d»m' and gfn?;:;li"”"fl be submitted. cago led a four cornered race on the manager the Maine Central e t baliot, his opponents being George - e elected 1o the ywfldon(‘)x- of fl:elCOUPLE ENTERED D. Locke, of Rogers, Ark, r'.M:'Y. Rreiv on smd e at a special meet- cT | nan of Denniston, Texas, i ? B¢ board of directors callea A SUIGIDE PACT | 4 mvans ot St Josesh. Mo Wi for July 16 and will advance to the i the Maine Central to- 10 meet Mr. Mellen’s act today erunmer of his retirement system gland, him and sues Statement. anization means that Mr. Mellen ne to the aflairs lroad and ter, and mean affairs of e 3 - Haven, and Mr. n n the boards of di- rectors roads, and as'a mem- ber of xecutive committees Tee Much For One Man. mors eafter deveie mpaor: i - that road.” ame Relations to Continue. Men close to- the New Haven man- agement declared tonight ihai there Bo intention to serve the relations tween the New Jiaven and the Hc ton and Maine, which have been tacked by oppoments of the system in recent public hearings monovely of transportation service in vieia - law ¥Financia! operations of the two ds were the su Ject of fnvestigation in year by the interstate commerce commission, b Charles A. Prouty conducting (he hear ings. The report of the commission is expected within a short time. “Step in Right Direction,” says Brandeis. The merzer of the New Haven and Boston and Maine has been an issue before several legi es in this state and it has played part the politics of other Always President aded it, declaring that were ' naturally part stem and were not competi- tive except to a very small extent. “The action today is a step in right direction,” said Louis D. Bran- dels, who has figured prom y_as aftorney for interests opposed to the merger. “But it does not go -far enough,” he added. “The travelling public wiil mot be entirely satisfied until there is complete scverance of the control of the Boston and Maine and Maine Central by the New Haven The New President. Morris MecDonald, who Is to be the mew -resident of the Boston and Maine #nd of the Maine Central, is g prac- tical rafiroad man of nearly ° thirty wars experience. He i= 48 years old. From 1885 to 1893 he was with the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louts Tailrosd, beginming as paymaster. and ending asx superintendent of trans- portation. After a year's service with he Cemtral rafiroad of Georzia as as- wistomt frainmaster. Mr. McDonald weai te the Maine Central, entering ven and | manager. and | November 10, 1897, when he was made today | general superintendent of board of directors the service of that road on Decembe; |20, 1896 as secretary to the zenera This_position he held unti that road In January, 1908, Mr. McDonald be came vice-president and general man ager of the Maine Central which of fice he now holds. B. & M. Stock at 58 1-2. During the last few months Boston what it has reached at top sales. JECTS REPORT iJUDGE RE. | OF THE GRAND JURY. |1t Contained Reflections on Presiden sd Attorney-General. San Francisco, July $—Because i ! contained criticisth of the course o | President Wilson and Attorney-Gen |eral McReynolds in connection w: |the resignation of United States Dis |trict Attorney John L. McNab, the ‘r.xporl of the federal grand jury be | fore which was presented the | dence in the Diggs and Camietti white ! | trict court. Judge Van Fleet declared The report stated that the serious. had | been represented to all parties by the “Poslpflnement of the cases. ness of continued postponement district attorney but that the attorney- | general had peremptorily ordered Youth and Bride Take Poison Rather Than Face Poverty. Englewood, N. J., July 8—The youth | who took siow poison with suicidal ifitent yesterday, his girl bride en- tering into a death pact with him, was identified tonight as John K. Simon- | ovitz, son of a Jersey City storekeep- | Bridgeport, Conn, July S.—H. H. or. The disclosure disposes of the |Jennings, who was elected grechd | bow's romantic tale that he and Bar- [loval knight of the B. P, O. K, insti- | hara M. Ackerman of Baltimore had tired of 1ife because his father had | disinherited him after a runaway mar riage. TUntil tonight Slmonovitz was knovn to the police authorities as John Y. Peltrowitz, the name he gave when he and his 19 year old wife were brought to the institution. As “Pel- trowitz” he had described his “rich ¥ | father” and told of the denied inhec itance but refused to say where he lived, fearing he and the girl would i separated. The father after identi- fying his son said the hoy left home three weeks ago without money. Ha { knew nothing of the marriage and had never hearq of the Ackerman girl, | he said. He assumed the snicide ar tempt was made because the couple faced povepty. Relatives of Miss Ack_ erman say “Peltrowitz” posed as the son of a wealthy man The physiclans tonight held out lit- o hope for the recovery of elther pa- ent { | STRIKE AVERTED ON | BOSTON ELEVATED. Differences. 8—A threatened strike men on the system of Elevated Railway com- Boston, July street car Boston the pany was averted late today when an agreement was reached by representa- tives of the company and of the men .on_a method of arbitration. B; this agreement James L. Rich- ards for the company ,and James H. Vahey, counsel for the union, were delegated to select a third arbitrator {to act with two others, one being named by each party to the dispute. T was the manner of choosing this third member of the arbitration board that the matter of a strike hinged. An agreement made a year ago giv- ing to the mayor of Boston the power to select this official proved unsatis- factory Steamship Arrivals. July z Joseph I, New York v spenhagen, July | steamer C. I Tietzen, New York. | " Waval,_ guly. 7.—Arrived, steamer | Roma, New York. Liverpool, July 8.—Arrived, steamer | Mauretania, New York. ! Plymouth, July 8—Arrived, steam- er Ascanfa, Montreal, Gibraltar, July 8—Arrived, steamer Cretie. Boston, | Philadelphia, July & — Arrived, | steamer Carthiaginan, Glasgow. Dover, July 8—Arrived, steamer Vaderland, New York for Antwerp. Bremen, July 8.—Arrived, steamer Kronprinz Wilheim, New York. Naples, July Arrived, -steamer Pannonia. New York via, Gibraltar for Trieste and Maine railroad stock has been | Died From Eating Infected Lamb. |greatly depressed. It sold today at| Avila Spain, July S—Six people died 53 1-2, a price about one third of | today, 1S others ate dying, and many {slave cases, the postponement of) ' Mills. of ; Skl i S | which_led tos McNab's resignation, | 125 obPosed by J. Cookman Bovd of | was refected todfy by Judge William | Pifimore. The vote —was. Leach, IR, Juilis Yon Dieol dosiarea | Erel C, Robinson of Dubuque, lowa 2L, ne | was reciected in a three cornered figh {he would not permit the report as it | Y43 Teclec gt e | 003, to become part of the court ) ij e OF TSR, s, Teed rom, Che ‘re%o;e@n.w" declared that the jurors | €3¢ river \\h:in Mr, Leach’s election “ - Jurors | was announce | feit they would be derelict if they d The election was the feature of the | not record their fudgment and opinion | 4 on the correspondence relative to the | 7% the Company and Men Agree to Arbitrate | Naples, July 4—Arrived, steamer San Giovanni, New York. Patras, 5.—Arrived, steamer | s —Arrived, | Cabied Paragraphs Holy War Declared. Simla, India, July $—A holy war was declared today on the Sultan of the Independent State of Oman of Southeastern Arabia by Sheik Agaul- la, Futile Effort to Defeat Welsh Bill. London, July 8—A motion to reject the Welsh dis-establishment bill was defeated tonight in the house of com- mons by a vote of 347 to 244, The bill then passed its third reading. Gave Luncheon to the Pages, London, July $—The Soclety of American Women in London today gave a luncheon at the Sayoy hotel o welcome Walter Hines Page, the new United States ambassador, and Mrs. Page. Aeroplane Capsizes, Two Killed Wurzburg, Germany, July 8. German aviator Lendner, with = a Frenchman as a pasenger, gave an exhibition flight this afterneon as a feature of the Folkfest, The machine capsized at an altitude of sixty feet and both men were killed The v 1 1 Another Suffragette Fire. London, July $—An “arson squa of milltant suifragettes set fire to and caused the destruction of the country residence of Sir William H. Lever, the founder of Port Sunliht and Chair- | man of the Liverpool School of Tropi- | cal Medicine, early today. n | moreare seriously ill, in’ the village {of Flores, near here, 'as a resuit of eating the fiesh of lambs infected with anthrax. The meat had been passed as fit for human consumption ELKS ELECT LEACH EXALTED RULER t t = L H. H. Jennings of Bridgeport Grand Esteemed Loya! Knight. n | - | Rochester, | Trea | N. Y, July 8.—Grand irer Edward Leach of New York onight was elected grand exalted ruler of the B, P. O. E. to succeed Thomas 3. Mills, of Superior Wis. Mr. Leach ’s sessions of the grand lodge. At el tonight adjournment was Il 11 o'clock fomorrow. The report of the committee appointed to consider the advisability of erecting a new national home at Bedfowd, Va., was made a special order of business lacked 156 votes of election, 741 being | necessary. Atlanta withdrew from the | race for the honor of entertaining the 1914 convention before the grand lodge went into session and the delegates were unanimous for Denver. Jennings a Theatrical Man. | | tuted Bridgeport lodge and still retains s membership here, though no gaged in the real estate busine | Hartford. He is well known in atr circles, having been eng here in the manazement of several theaters in years past DEMOCRATS CAPTURE REPUBLICAN POINTERS Enables Them to Correct Serious De- fects in Tariff Bill. Washington, July $.—Senator Sim- mons, chairman of the finance com- | mittee, turneq a trick on republican leaders today when he got his hands on a lengthy amalysis of the demo. cratie tariff Bill which had baen pre- ared under the direction of Senator moot pointing out what the repuwbil- cans claim are serfous defects In the measure, | Senator Smoot had delayed for a | montiy the introduetion of the analysis | despite insistence of Senator Simmons | that it be printed. On the last day | of the caucus when the republicans were assured that the democrats wera | througi h the bill, Senator Smoot consented | for the to send the printers. But the democrats not yet printed thefr bill and have a day or two to make corrections and laugh at their opponents inas. much as debate will not begin untfi next week. Knowing that the republican docu- ment might contain valuable pointers, | Senator Simmons directed the finance sub-committees to g0 over their sched. ules today, and pored over the Smoo: analysis to check up with the sub- committee tomorrow. Senator Simmons heard some weeks | ago that republican leaders had cau- | tioned Senator Smoot to hold back the | analysis. | . “Don't send it in yet,” “It will give us away.” | ance committee document in they urged. v.” 'Then the fin- chairman decided -to | lay in wait for the document and to- | day_he pounced on it before it went to the printing office. He found the result of Senator Smoot's careful la- | bors of a month aided by a corps of | experts and assistants. Ile said ome | of the analyses point out errors \that | could be corrected, but that mueh of | the document was found to be ment. The bill probably will not go to the printer until tomorrow night as the sub-committees are still checking up for corrections. Woman Stabbed at’Suffiold. Suffield, Conn., July 8.—Reuben Har- Tis, colored, was stabbed twice in the | breast with a knife, by Richard Lock- | ett, colored, during a quarrel tonight, | One of the knife thrusts punctured the lung and physicians said that Har- | rie’ condition s serious, although not necessarly critical. lLockett was ar- rested but was later released on | brought up at Bow street poli IRun Starts On a Savings Bank SMALL DEPOSITORS PAID $50 ON DEMAND, PITTSBURG SITUATION Aside from This Run Financial Condi- tions There Are practically Normal— Bank Prepared for Any Emergency. Pittsburgh, July $—To the declsive and sharp cut statement of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo issued last night is atiributed the restoration of almost normal conditions in financial Pittsburgh tonight despite the closing of the First-Second National bank yesterday, an institution that - had been accredited ome of the strongest in the country. While the situation was tense yesterday, and litle in- formation as to posible developments was obtainable the gat statement of facts of the secretar¥ served to de- velop _an overnight[ optimism that grew in magnitude as’today advanced. MoKeesport Bank Suspends. The closing of yhe First-Second was naturally followed by suspension of its affiliated bank the First National of McKeesport and the appointment of receiverships for the banking house of J. S. and W. S. Kuhf, Inc., whose principals were the majority stock- holders of both igstitutions and a like action with the American Waterworks and Guarantee company, an enterprise fathered by the Kuhn interests. Run on Savings Bank. Another Kuhn interest that was af- fected, the Pittsburgh bank for Sav- ings, suffered somewhat from the com- plication, a run being started on it yesterday, chiefly by small depositors, This was continued in somewhat appears to abate as the day wore on. apears to abate as the day wore on. Crowds assembled about the bank building and the sidewalk about the building was roped off. The small groups of depositors that entered the | bank were - promptly paid $50 upon demand as yesterday, and required to give the legal moetice of thirty, sixty or ninety days, to withdraw other amounts above stated figures, Yes- terday $57,00 Owag withdrawn from the bank, while the deposits were §20,000. it is assured the withdrawals were under yesterday’'s figures. Prepared For Any Emergency. There were reports that a million Tellars had been shipped te the Pitts- burgh Bank for Savings today from Philadelphia but this was not veri- fied and was discredited by eclearing house members whe verify the state- ment 'of the bank made yesterday that this bank has $5,000,600 in cash and $6,000,000 in quick assets, enabling it to meet any stress or emergency, . Resignation of the Kuhns, Abptt neon the anRmouncement was made that J, S, Kuans, president and W, 8. Kuhns, viee president, had re- signed and that W. J. Jones, the form- er secretary and treasurer of the bank had peen made president, with A. D Vegtly, former assistant to Mr. Jumes, as secretary and treasurer while L. M, T, o directer, was made vice president. - Several Dicline Receivership. Expected statements as to the Amer- ican Waterworks and Guarantee com- Dpany were not forthcoming today, the delay being atiributed to _the delay in the appointment of the fourth Te- ceiver, which Judge Orr announced should be,a man havirg no business interests with the Kuhns. Several buginess men have refused to accept thé appointment of receiver. SYLVIA PANKHURST | IMPRISONED AGAIN. Goes to Jail and Threatens to Go on Hunger Strike. London, July 8.—Miss Sylvia Pank- daughter of Mrs. Emmiline ankhurst, the suffragette leader, was court today and found gulity of inciting o disorders on June 20, when she led a mob to Downing street to raid the offi- cial residences of the premier and the chancellor of the exchequer. She was ordered by the magistrate to find sure- ties in $12,000 to be of good behavior for a year, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment. Miss Pankhurs* elected to go to Halloway jail, declar- ing she would at once siart a hunger strike and also go without water. Archibald Bodkin, prosecuting for the treasury, sald the authorities did not deire to punish her, hut merely to pre- vent her making inflammatory speeches, Miss_ Zelle Tmerson of Jackson, Mich., Miss Mary Richardson and Har- v Golden, a male sympathizer with the woman suffrage movement, who were arrested last evening while trving to liberate Miss Sylvia Pankhurst from the hands of the police at Bromley, were all sent to_jail by the police mag- istrate today. Miss Emerson, who the police testified had incited a mob of five hundred obstructionists by shout- ing “What are we going to do?’ was given a month’s hard labor, and Golden son, who had assaulted the police and broken a window in the police station, was sentenced to three months’ impris- onment, The prisoners only comment “We shall do just as much as xe ANOTHER SUFFRAGETTE RELEASED FROM PRISON Kitty Marion On a Hunger Strike Since She Was Sentenced. London, July 8.—Miss Kitty Marion, a suffragette who was entenced on July 3 to three years penal servitude for setting fire to the stands of the Hurst Park race course, was released from prison tonight on license. She was in a very weak condltion. ‘When sentence was pronounced aft- er her trial at the assizes Miss Ma- rion said: “I shall hunger strike and | I shall refuse to leave prison under the ‘cat and mouse’ act. I shall in- sist upon staying there until dead or released a free woman.” Wins in Elimination Race. Huntington, N, Y., July 817, Stu- art Blackton’s newest high speed motor boat, Speed Demon Rellance, won eis- ily foday in the first elimination rac: to select o defender for the Harms- worth _International trophy, as Com- modore Blackton's other new hoat, the America, and the Peter Pan V, own- ed by James Simpson, both cracked thelr cylinders and had to retire. The Speed Demon Relfance broke no rec- ords, but she covered th thirty miic cours in fifty minutes fortv-three sec onds, which s at the mean speed of a similar sentence, but Miss Richard- | BY INVESTIGAT! Open Washington, July mits that he bandied pletely info his confiden sons. sion” wished to of Bdward Lauterbach, velop some cther as it was made. to which patient ing could bring him back Was Playing Wall game, he said, congress. through with it now. many years in the sgainst himself and Lau words when he said: Playing. Tamar's appear again. SUFFRAGISTS AND S8CI CHILDREN Hrie, Pa., thronged by cheering in-Bay. of handsomely Several of historical -interest. ever held was about to disband were | urging. suffrage. and many_persons, rpri audacity. TO INVESTIGATE THE Three College Professors Washington, July efficiency of the servi Wanted to Stir Up Wall Stree LAMAR'S EXPLANATION AT LOB. 8.—The lobby investigating committee took a Jook at Wall street today through tho spectacles of David Lamar. Der operator on the bear.side who ad- in the market place the names of men high in congress, took the committee com- For all the machinations he contrived there were, after all, he swore, but two rea- He wished to cause an “explo- which would bring street men whom he felt were antag- onistic to him “into the open” and he insure the re-employmeal lawyer friend, who had fallen' into disfavor with the mighty of -the street. Denied Any Other Consideration. Although the committee tried to de- that there might have been consideration Lamar denied such allegation as often He Was on the stand for several hours and although five senators questioned him they uncov- ored nothing that Lamar did not wish to reveal. Time after time he seemed to be on the verge of some admission questioning brought him, but he veered away and no persuasive or lawyer-like threaten- 10N, TO UNCOVER ENEMIES Declares They Have Been Dragged Into and He is Satisfied—Played Wall Street Game, He Say: out ce. his again. Street Game. He was only playing Wall street's when he made such frequent use of the telephone and talk- ed about what might be done in Wash- ington through prominent members of It was the game he had known most of the 25 years he had been in the street, he sa{d, but he was He was sorry for the publicity that had been given to the reports of influence in congress but except for that he thought the end justified the means. The explo- sion ‘had oeeurred he added and his enemies had heen dragged into the open to prove charges circulated for financial district terbach, summed up his whole story in a few The Only Villain in Wall Street. “It was the Wall street game I was In Wall street you dom’t act ke vou did on a New Jersey farm.” Later hé added bitterly: only villain in- Wail street. others are actuated by the highest mo- tives, and possess the highest ideals.” examination was finished teday and both he and Lauterbach were alloweq to go with the under- standing that if wanted they should HOOL IN PROCESSION. Feature of Third Day of Perry Cen- tennial Celebration, July 8—Through streets thousands, school children and advocates of wo- men suffrage this afternoon marched in procession as the principal event of the third day of the Erie centennial celebration of Perry's victory at Put- In the evening a long line decorated automobiles passed over the same route. thousand children bravely over the long route, drawing floats ‘which told the story of events Immediately following the children came in what was said to be the first parade in the cause of woman suffrage in Pennsylvania. hundred women from a dozen or more states, each one wearing the colors of the cause and carrying a small flag or a basket of yellow flowers, marched through the streets. When the parade the women halted in front of the courthouse, two or three of them sprang to the steps, and in a moment as many speakers the cause of universal ised at sudden turn in affairs, cheered their MEAT PACKING ESTABLISHMENTS. Appointed For the Work by Government. $—Meat packing establishments throughout the country are to be subjected to searching in- | spections by well known experts se- lected by the secretary of agriculture from outside the government service. This step follows criticism of federal meat_inspection from various sources and Secretary Houston announced to- day that its object was to increase the | ice and to foster | senate The dap- the Wall involved, “T am the All" the trudged Several Gondens_ed Teisgrams -, ailroads Will Spend more than 32,- 000,000 to improve the Union depot at I Denver. At Forest Hill, O, John D. Rockefelle day his 74th birthday. in wages from $3.25 to $3.50 a day. clerk, sat lifeless in a chair home feur days before hs was found. plant, daily, was seriously damaged by fire. Abiel Cheney, 94 Years Old, said be, the oldest civil war veteran in Ve mont, died at Concord, of Bright's di: ease. union. The Lake Erie and Western Dep $25,000. tis at a hospital at Oakland, Cal., ve: terday. room at Hartford, Conn. drowning at Bloomington, 11, tomobile turned over. had | to death under the wind shield. Lieut. Loren H. Call of the Unit yesterday by the collapse and fall his aeroplane north of Texas City. day. Making the Manufacture of hool of Ohio. He W. W. Christian, a Atlanta, Gz abinet maker sire to smoke again. prison at Trenton, vesterday to ser silk workers at Paterson, N. J. a prominent ice and coal dealer of tl, centracted by eating strawberries. er,. mother, Kaempen, a friénd, was yesi\rday Quincy, I, October 18. school teach: sentenced young as a result of falling from the rqof 40 feet, to the sidewalk. rents which had overcome Meyers. “Saloonless United States” in 1920 the goal sought by (he Christia deavor society, which will meet in L Angeles in annual to be launched at the convention Testimony That the Material used the construction’ had been used befo was given vesterday at the inquest r the | lapsed last week. uty milk inspection department of Prov and malfeasance. The Year Just Closed established record for the United States bureau fisheries in the number taken and later planted. | enormous total of vear by 137,000,000. bers of the Trainmen and of the Order of Ral | way Conductors out of 76,683 partic his summer home, celebrated yester- Several Hundred Iron Molders struck at Cincinnati yesterday for an increase §. J, Madden, a New York postoffice in h The Omaha, Neb., Packing company's with a capacity of 3,000 hogs Sergeant D. Foster, 62 years old, died at Beacon, N. Y., on his return from Gettysburg, where he attended the re- and several small buildings at Kokomo, Ind, were destroyed by\fire at a loss of Jack London, the Well Known au- thor, was operated upon for appendici- Herbert King, 26 vears of age, was arrested yesterday afternoon, charged with theft of money from a private John Cummiskey, an atterney of E: canaba, Mich., was killed when an au He was choked States aviation corps was killed early way station at Regina, Sask, vester- and eyes in the United States a crims and prohibiting the importation of suci is proposed by Represertative Bowdic was sandbagged by a ma. after refusing him a cigarette. When he recovered he swore he had no de- Patrick Quinlan Was Taken to state's not less than two years nor more than -seven for-inciting riof among striking Harry 8. Pickering, past exalted ruler of the South Norwalk B. P. O. E. and place, died vesterday from poisoning, Ray Pfanschmidt, slaver of his fath- sister and Miss Emma to be hanged Saturday, William Wrubel, aged 8 years, is suf- fering from a punctured lung, broken arm, jaw and ribs and other injuries, the Middletown High school building. Theodore Leslie, 17 Years Old, used his dog. Spud, as a buoy at Atlantic| City, and rescued Alfred Meyers, a cot- tager there, from drowning in the occan after a hard struggle with cross cur- convention today. This will be the keynote of a campaign sulting from the drowning of eleven boys when the runway to the munici- They had a big audience | pal bathhouse at Lawrence, Mass,, coi- Inspector Walter O. Scott and Den- Inspector Baylies R. Charce of the of fish eggs it ran to the 640,000,000, which broke the record made in the previous Ninety-four Per Cent. of the mem-’ Brotherhood of Railroad The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the Ci* RESIGNS THE B. & M. PRESIDENCY Mellen Finds it Impossible to Handle Three Roads to r- s- Good Condition and He Haven Only One of Ten Chicago, July $—Two of the three hydro-aeroplanes which started from Chicago today to fly to Detroit were wrecked over Lake Michigan by squalls and fell into the waves far ot from land. 5 Anthony Jannus of St. Louis and his mechanic, Faul McCullough, were picked up off South Chicago by a steam sand dredger. Walter Johnson of New York, flying along, was_ res- cued hear Whiting, Ind., by the South Chicago_United States Life Saving crew Jannus’ machine was aband- oned in a squall after the dredger had started to tow it ashore The life savers brought Johnson's crdft to shore and he may resume his flight. 5o \ Clarence Innis, 18 vears old, died G from the rough freatment he was suk- Sy OhesMade. FisCinp dected to after beinz rescued frow | . Beckwith Haven, carrying as pas- senger J. P. R, Von Planck of Fish- I, N. Y., owner of the machine, reached Michigan City in safety, the | oniy one of the ten aviators or oigin- {ally scheduled to start who made the first lap. Jannus was the first to leave Chicago, Havens followed ten minutes later. Johnson's start was delaved by engine trouble. Roy 1. Franci Who rose. from ¢ 8- ed of San Francisco, - endon beach in the llorlllemhymr|t_ rl'l the (\11[\' 51i(] nol(f‘b aricholas Brefors and nig four ehil- |100R, 06 Mainad ot Grant parkthe poisoning cansed by eating chicken | Starting point for the contest. e Durchaked: in'a Bridgepart:market | Tpl BEIE SO hre L0 Ol ] Eight Thousand Dollars in registered Ran Into Thunder Storm. with fierce squalls of wind when he SQUALLS W“E‘m; Two Machines Which Started From Chicago For Do- b troit Unmanageable in Lake Erie : DREDGER RESCUES AVIATOR AND HIS MAOHIHE’; :'f o Their Machine Abandoned As Useless—Life Snvmng« Rescues New York Aviator, But Machine is Still in Will Resume Flight Today— - to Finish The First Lap Safely, had covered about half the distance: . The machine was forced to descend but the lake was so rough that it was with difficulty that Jannus and Mc- Cullough could keep afloat. The men were paddling. desperately in the ef- fort to keep the craft right side up when the dredger steamed up to them ana threw them lines. Machine a Wreck. : A few minutes later the storm be- came so severe that the Dahlke found it impossible to tow the air craft and was obliged to cast it adrift, Tae. hydro-aeroplane drifted out of sight iz a few minutes apparently a wreek. Jannus and McCullough almost ex- hausted were revived in the cabin of the dredger and a shorttime after landing proceeded to Chicago by train. Johnson’s Machine Ail Right. Johnson was able to make a land-, ing on the water and was in gond shape when the life saving crew pull- ed out to him. Engine trouble had forced him to descend but his craft was_sald by the life savers to be in condition to_proceed. Beckwith Havens, who lett Chicago a few minutes before one _o'clock dropped into the smooth water _of Michigan City harbor at 1.43. The distance is_about sixty miles via the air code. Macatawa bay is his mext scheduled 2jee. Johnsdn to Start Again Today Johnson remained tonight at Whit ing, Ind, and will start again tomor< row morning. TRAINMEN MEET THE RAILROAD MANAGERS. ks Fail to Come to Terms—Outcome May Be Known by Monday. —Peace overtures ceased here today hetween East- ern railroads and 100,000 members of the Order of Railroad Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railtvad Train- men after the employes representa- tives in conference with the railroad managers announced that 94 per cent. of the men had voted to strike for increased wages. Final action on the proposed tieup remains with the gen- eral committe of one thousand of the of New York, July ve conductors and trainmen's organiza- tions and a meeting has been called at | for Saturday. It is the unanimous opinion in operating circles that the strike vote will be ratified unless the companies meanwhile offer to pay more wages, or agree to submit the dispute to arbitration. During the negotiations today the Erie rallroad and its two subsidiaries, the New Jersey and New York, and the New York, Susquehanna and Western withdrew, leaving 42 roads in the conference. The Erle system claims that the increase demand rep- Tesents an annual cost to the three roads of $1,200,000, and that the sys- tem in paying this sum would suf- fer in safety appliances and equip- ment. The conference committee of manag- ers will meet next Monday to consid- er at of er the decision of the employees’ general committee. The railroads are then expected to make their uiti- matum. ¥ It was said today that at mo time is | during the session was the Brdman is arbitration act mentioned but comr | ment among railroad offictals and union representatives {onight showed a general expectation that the men | would appeal for abitration before defi- | Ritely deciding to walk out. Both ides to the controversy have express- @d a belief that the present three men mediation under the Edrman act ig dengerous, in that it places too much Tesponsibility on the deciding vote when two of the members fail to agree. For this reason the course in con- Bress of a bill amending the Erdman act by increasing the number of ar- bitrators is being watched with in- terest. in e { dence were suspended by the city | council vesterday as the result of an | NEW HAVEN ROAD | investigation of charges of nesligenre ENGINEER GUILTY. Coroner Blames William Rigby For Death of His Fireman. a of Winsted, Conn, July S—William Rigby, a New Haven road engineer, residing at Harrison, N. Y., was today found to be guilty of carelessness and gross negligence by Coroner S. A. Terman In causing the death “by his criminel act” of Thomas J. Waldon, of Stamford, his fireman, who was killed in a wreck of a south ‘bound funeral |train and a north bound freight at public confidence. | pating in a strike vote In the wage dis- i North Kent, June 2. The fu- | _The secretary made pfblic the | Pute with the eastern railroads are in|nera] train which had been churtered | names of three college professors who | favor of a strik | by Dr. McBurney of New York had | have been chosen td®visit and report by the|carried a party to Pitisfield and was | to him personally upon conditions ex- | Tools and Machinery used by the |, iyring without passengers when it ting in packing plants in New York, | #eneral contractor the Cape Cod|pn jnto @ freight train which was | Massachusetts, Connecticut, ~ Illinois | canal. the Furst-Clark Construction | wajting on the main track. expecting {and Missouri. Dr. W. T. Sedgwick, | company. were badly damaged in a fire | /Yo extra to take the siding | professor of bacteriology and sanitary | engineering in the Massachusetts In- | stitute of Technology, is to investigate | Y Worcester EBrightwood, Mass, and New Haven, professor ‘university, will go Philadelphia, New York, Buf- plants at Boston, Conn.; Dr. V. A, of pathology at Cornell falo and Pittsburgh and Connaway- of M college to Kansas vards, Ilinois, in his instructions to “that you report to me frankly the ments together with mendations looking su ment may seem best.” Salt Lake City, = July Colonel Theodore zona. Colonel Roosevelt it -announced, according 491 knots or 40,813 statute miles en bonds, hour. Roosevelt, that ha will ing while he is in Arizona Moore, the conditions as | them at the various packing establish- | recom- to the improve- ment of the service as in your judg- DY T Agricuitural City, St. Louls, and St. Joseph’s Mo., and national stock “It is my desire,” said the secretary experts. fully you ch Roosevelt to Do No Hunting. , 8.—Advices were recelveqd Lere today from Nich- olas Roosevelt of Flagstaff, Ariz., tha! Roosevelt chafiged his plans and-it is now.rot known where he will eross the Gran Canyon of the Colorado or what itinerary will be after he enters Aui- | wishes to Nicholas do no huri- also shop at Buzrardls money loss is about $10,000 . and : A. governor to investigate the subject. Nathaniel agent, yesterday Maplewood park, Rochester, N. fired two shots at Ethei M. Cou stenographer, at his own he: his temple. gether. B. Chase, an advertis ¥, tney. and find club of Canton, O., Canton, have been forewarded to Pres ident Wilson Bad | hat of MeKinley on postal cards. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Queenstown, July S s pool, signalled 276 miles west at ‘Wednesday. That the Plague Which Killed more than 25,000 horses and mules in Kan- sas last year was not an infectious dis- ease, but was due to a poison, was the report of the special commission of the University of Kansas appointed by the ng drew a reyolver in and nd then fired {wo shots one bullet entering They went to the park to- Resolutions Adopted by the McKinley named in honor of William McKinley, whose home was in nd Postmaster General Burleson profesting against the sub- stitution of the picture of Jefferson for Steamer Arab- ic, Boston for Queenstown and Liver- p. m. Due at Queenstown 10.30 a. m., which biirned the company’s machine | "7 tC8 Rt E (09 SIS on ror Bay vesterday. The finding Rigby responsible for the fa- tality that he did not stop his train for the purpose of throwing the switch to take the siding. The finding re- lates that Conductor Apgar in charge of the the train directed his trainman Radcliffe to go forward to front end of the Pullman car, next the engine to be ready to throw the switch, and that Radfield attempted to do so but found the Pullman car locked so he could not comply with the instructions. The cor- oner finds that the conductor and train- man did all they would be expected to % | do. FARMER KILLED BY HIS OWN SON. Was Maltreating His Wife When the Youth Interfered. Central, 8. C,, July $.—Jolui Dobson, a farmer, aged 50, dicd near here to- day from wounds recefved last night In @ pistol duel with his 17 year old som, {1t 18 sald the boy attempted to ajr his | mother, whom the fither was mis- treating. The father mortally wounded ansther son, who had taken no part in the difficulty. Afier the shooting the elder bov excaped. bul today he sur- rendered to the sheriff. 4 ASBERT AND ARIAS IN HAVANA PRISON, Governor and Representative Charged With Attempted Homicide. Havana, July 8.—While public ex< citment still runs high over the attacic on General Armando Riva, chief of the Cuban national polise, by Governor As- bert and his friends, order is baing. preserved. General Riva s still livipg tonight, but there is no hope for his re= covery. i Ancluding Strong forces of police; extra squads of mounted men, armed with revolvers and miachetes, are on. constant patrol duty in Central Park, the Prado and adjacent streets, All political and gambling clubs remafa closed under police guard. Supreme Court Judge Edelman, who' was specially appointed to examine in- to the charges against Governor Asbert, Representative Arias and Senator Vi- dal Morales, has committed Asbert and Arias to the city prison on the charge of attempted homicide, assault with firearms and resistance to authority, The charge against Morales has not been determined. The supreme court 15 allowed by law until Thursday morning to order the | indictment of the accused. POWERS WILL TAKE NO FURTHER ACTION Not Likely to Attempt to Mediate in Balkan War. London, July $—The Balkan war having now been regularized by for- mal declarations, it is understood that the powers will make no attempt to mediate. The Official Gazette at Belgrade pub. lished tonight notice of a formal dee- laration of war against Bulgaria. Military news was lacking today. Servian despatches admit that a strong Bulgarian column hag invaded Servia at Koldkat Konagevats, which town they occupied after setting fire to ihe adjacent villages. Cholera has been brought to Belgrade by the wounded.. Official Greek despatches claim & great victory at Doiran, where the Bulgarians recently reinfo: “wers. in superior strength to the Greeks. latter asgert that a whole division of Bulgarians was completely destroyed and that the Bulgarians fled in such & precipitate manner that they even left loaded gung behind. This victory is considered of great importance because Doiran was the Bulgarian victualling center” and all the provisions fell into the hands of the Greeks. 3 —_— e BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HIMSELF Was Discharged While Hunting For Frogs. Revolver Meriden, Conn., July $—Edwin Ost, aged 13, is in a ‘critical condition to= night from a self-Inficted bullet wound in- the abdomen, caused by the aocidental discharge of a revolver while he was shooting hull frogs at Baldwin’s pond. Bdwin's _brother William, aged 11, and Gilbert Oefinger, aged 13, were in the shooting party. After the accident Edwin sald to the police “I did it myself.” The other boys said they were taking turns fir- ing the revolver and after Edwin had taken his first shot he handed the revolver to his brother with the bar- rel pointed towards himself. The trigger was accidentally pulled. The boy was removed to his home where | Dr. Stoddard probed without suc- coss. Young Ost has been an unlucky chap. He lost the sight of his right eve six vears ago, and two vears ago broke his. arm. A DROPPED DEAD WHILE OOACHING.> William A, Wells of West Hartford Succumbe to. Apoplexy. Hartford, Conn., July 8—Willlam A. Wells of West Hartford, a former sec- retary of the Y. M. C. A., dend of apoplexy this afternoon whiln Detwaan (g Tactery mines bis. Walla etwesn two " played first it e though ha wa i