Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 25, 1913, Page 1

NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913 The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lis Total Circulation is the Largest—inmcénnecticutfiin Proporuon to the City's Population AGAINST INTERVENTION IN MEXICO Canvass of Members of the House Shows a Decided Sentiment That Way AN AMERICAN MEDIATION BOARD SUGGESTED A Triparte Commission Composed of Representatives from United States and Two South American Republics also Propcsed—Ambassador Wilson Due Tomorrow—Both Sides May be Permitted to Obtain Arms Here Washington, July 2{—Developments in the Mexican situation today were confined to informal discussion of suggested plans for a definite policy on the part of the American adminis- tration toward its nelghbor republic. Every kind of_plan has been suggest- ed, from a mediation board of Ameri- cans to adjust the dispute and super- vise the holding of an election to a triparte commission composed of rep- resentatives of the United States and two South American republics who would atiempt to bring about peace between the warring fractions. Conference With Ambassador Monday. There will be no expression of policy, however, until the conference between the president and Ambassador Wilson which may not take place until Mon- @ay, as word was received at the White House today that the latter could not reach here before Satur- day night While the plan of mediation was scouted by the constitutionalist rep- resentatives here as insufficient as they did not believe the Huerta gov- ernment now in possession of the elec- toral machinery, can guarantee an honest election, the idea has been given some consideration by mem- bers of the senate and by President Wilson as pointing the way to a So- lution. The question of arms was al- 80 discussed today and while neither side Is at present getting munitions war from the United States, it is P le that a change of policy~might follow the conference with Ambas- sador Wilson. Congressmen Against Intervention. of It is thought that eventually the em- bargo may be lifted and both ‘sides permitted to buy supplies subject to the ri of contraband transactions. During the day the democrats on the bouse foreign affairs committee sound- ed sentiment among house members lly and recorded a decided feel- inst intervention and in favor of supporting any diplomatic move President Wilson and his advisors may make. Discussing the proposal to prohibit the shipment of arms into Mexico en- tirely. President Francisco Esculdere, ® constitionalist cabinet member, who is in Washington to explain the purposes of the Carranza cause, said today that his colleagues were satis- fied with the fdes, but hoped that R e THE MILITIA READY TO QUELL CONVICTS. Under Orders to Respond to Emergen- cy Call from Sing Sing. Ossining, N. Y., July 24—Two com- panies of state militia were waiting in White Plains and Yonkers tonight un- @er orders to respond to a possible emergency call in view of the situation a2t Sing Sing prison, where mutinous convicts have been causing serious trouble for two days past. Invoking the riot law, Supervisor John S, Jenkins called upon the West- chester county authorities to be ready to_despatch guardsmen here. Today a fire, believed to have been Eet by Incendiaries, was followed by a strike among 100 convicts. Threats that extreme measures would be taken induced the malcontents to return to their cells. Tonight the hoots and deers of hundreds of convicts could be heard =2ll over Ossining. Warden Clancy announced that the prisoners were well within control and that to- morrow morning sixty of the leaders, most of them second termers, would be =ent to the state prison at Auburn. The warden belleves that visitors have told the convicts that Governor Eulzer's recent removal of John 8. Xennedy, since indicted malfeasance in office, as warden was due to polt Kennedy was personal- 1v popular among the men. For a week or more. Clancy said, he had expected ® strike and feared a fire. He had been warned by & son official while in Albany. he d ed. that trouble with the priconers was in prospect, while a *“grusty” warned him that arson was | to be attempted THE DEMOCRATS AT WAR OVER CURRENCY BILL. Agreement Now Reduced to Vague and Shadowy Hope. “Washington, July 24—The adminis- gration currency bill today became the eenter of chaos in the conference of @emocratic members of the house banking committee. The conference broke up tonight with prospects of an agreement duced o 4 vague and shadowy hope. President Wilson regarded the situ- ation as so serious that he arranged for a conference at the White House tfonight with Representative Henry of Wexas, chairman of the house rules committee. who has bheen advising with the “insurgent” committeemen. EXPLOSION DUE TO YOUTH’'S CIGARETTE. ©One Man Burned to Death and Five Fatally Injured, Tusle, Okla, July 24—Charles M. Wright, & well driller, was burned te @eath, five of his fellow werkmen wera bably fatally injured and an oil ell located two miles seuth of Tusla was set on fire late today as the result an explosion which accurred when a urning match, with which it is al- & youth had jighted a cigareiis, in comtact with gas escaping from well, Efforts to extinguish the fire met with but litlle success up to a e hour tomight. Chinese Rebels Repulsed. @hanghai, July 25—During the past hours the rebels have made se- of spirited attacks on the arsenal, all of them have been successfuily and the govermment treops Bre so encouraged at their continued Buccess that they have assumed the effensive and are fercing the rebels back en Naniae. a southern suburb of the Chinese native city. for alleged | on the bill apparently re- | soon both sides would be permitted to get arms on an equality. S An Assuring Announcement. Further assurance that Americans at Madero are in no immediate danger was given by the state department to- day in the following announcement: “From Chihuahua it is reported that Madera has been out of communica- tion with Chihuahua since Sunday, the 18th, on which day the federal troops were withdrawn from the western part of the state. There was no rea- son to believe that Americans in the i vicinity of the town were in danger, according to reports to the state de- partment on the 23rd. The federal government has promised to make every effort to relieve. Only 8ix Families at Madera. “Consul Edwards at Bl Paso report- ed today that six families were the only people supposed to be at Ma- dera on the 20th, and that they were thought to be enroute for the border. The railway officials have stated that there is a locomotive and plenty of box cars there at the disposal of the men and the road is in operating con- dition for fully seventy miles to the north. The Madera company would send rellef if necessary. General Vil- le i willing to assis TO PROTECT JUAREZ. Arrival of Reinforcements Makes Gar- rison of 3,000 Men. Bl Paso, Texas, July 24.—Fifteen hundred federal reinforcements reach- ed Juarez this afternoon in command of Colonel Alberto Lerrazas (ex-gov- ernor of Chihuahua.) Six hundred of the men are volunteers, 250 of them from Orozco’s command. Their ar- rival precludes the possibility of a suc- cessful rebel assault on Juarez, as the gerrison is said to total nearly 3,000 | men now. They announced that they | will at once begin campaigning against the rebel bands near Juarez. Colonel Lerrazas discussing the dis- position of the United States to stop exportation of arms and munitions to all_Mexican factions, satd: “The revolution in Chihuahua is now practically crushed but we have to put down the bandits, If we cannot get arms and ammunition we cannot protect our own property and protect foreigners.” STILL AT VARIANCE WITH THE TRAINMEN Railroads Have Not Yet Reached An Agreement with Them. New York, July 24—The rallroad situatfon involving the threatened |strike of 80,000 trainmen and con- ductors against the eastern roads re- mained practically unchanged tonight after another day of conference. | The federal mediators met the em- |ployes of the company in the fore- noon and the railroad’s conference committee in the afternoon. It was given out after the day’'s conference | that there are yet points of the dis- pute to be settled. By Saturday, how- ever, the mediators expressed belief the controversy would be adjusted. As to the questions over which the two sides are still at odds, the mediators were reticent. | TWO ELECTROCUTED DURING INITIATION. Double Tragedy at Meeting of Loyal | Order of Moose. Birmingham, Ala, July 24—Donald A. Kenney, a chauffeur, and Christo- pher Gustin, an iron moulder, were killed tonight by an electric shock at | the local hall of the Loyal Order of Moose. An Initiation was in progress and it is said that an electric shock was a part of the ceremony. In some way, not vet explained, Kenny and Gustin, 1t is stated, received too much current. | It was at first thought the twe men had fainted and they were hurried to a_hospital where both died shortly afterwards. Lodge officials have made no statement regarding the affair. KILLED BEST FHIENb FOOLING WITH PISTOL. Tragedy Breaks in on Plans Double Wedding. Huntsville, Ala, July 2{—FEmmet C. O'Neal, his best friend, Pulgham Hall, and the fiance of each, were to- gether here late today, completing plans fo rtheir deuble wedding which was to have taken place soon, when Hall, it is sald, playfully snapped a supposedly unloade pistol into | O'Neal's face.. A. bullet entered iO'Naal's mouth and penetrated the brain, causing almost instant death. O'Neal, a_young newspaper manm, was the son‘of R. L. O'Neal, editor of the Mercury-Banner, Dr. Sen’s Charter Cancelled, Peking, July 24—The charter grant- ed to Dr. Sun Yat Sen for the eon- struction of a network of railways in China has been canceiled. Only ene contraet had been conciuded under this charter, that with an English firm gre- viding_for the constructien of a limre | from Caaten te Chungking-Fu, whieh {it is Delieved the government wili ree- ognize. For Manoeuvres in the Sound. New York, July 24—Asrangements for joint maval and ceast defence e ercises between the Nerth. Atlantic fleet and the coast defenses of Long Tsland sound, to be heid at the eastern eatrance of Long Island Augusi 3 to 9 were announced toduy ai the head- auasters of the eastern department of {he United States army, Governor's Is- and. Anti-Plural Voting Bill Rejected. London. July 24.—Fhe house of lords | i rejected tonight the bill to abolish piu- | Im voting al elections in the British Isies. The vote was 197 te 43. Cabled Paragraphs Vatican Guards Make Threats. Rome, July 24.—Another detachment of the mutinous Swiss Guards left the vatican this morning. Some of them :Jhrea.tenad to make unpleasant revela- ons. Hurricane in ltalian Lake Distriot. Milan, Italy, July 24—The entire Ttallan lake district was devastated during last night and today by terrific hurricanes. The effect of the storms is felt throughout Italy, where the tem- perature has fallen considerably. To Be Extradited from England. London, July 24—The extradition was ordered today by the magistrate at Bow street police court of Frederick Thory, who was arrested in London on July 1 on & charge of stealing jewelry to the value of $5,000 from Hugo Sher- er, a manufacturer of Detroit, Mich. Suffragettes Caught Setting Fire. Glasgow, Scotland, July 24—Two suffragettes, Margaret Morrison and another woman who refused to give her name, were arrested here today when on the point of setting fire to a large mansion in a suburb of Glasgow which was at one time the residence of the late Sir John Muir, a former lord provost. LAMAR INDICTED FOR HIS IMPERSONATIONS Grand Jury Charges Him with “Cun- ning Act and Deception” New York, July 24—The indictment of David Lamar, the Wall Street operator, on the charge of imperson- ating an officer of the government for purposes of fraud, was announced to- day by United States District Attor- ney E. Snowden Marshall. Mr. Marshall sald that no attempt would be made to arrest Lamar, who is now in Washington, until he returns to this district. The indictment charges Lamar with impersonating Congressman A. Mit- chell Palmer of Pennsylvania on Fab- ruary 8 last for the purpose of de- frauding Lewis Cass Ledyard, J. P. Morgan and the United States Steel Corporation. % According to the indictment Lamar employed “cunning act and deception” in an effort “to fraudulently deprive said persons and’ corporation of divers sums of money.” The government bases its action on an opinjon given in 1882 by former United States Attorney General Ben- amin Harrison Brewster that “in a road and general sense, a_member of congress is a_government officer.” Sec- tion 32 of the federal criminal code and under which the indictment was found provides as punishment upon conylotion e fine not in excess of $1,000 or imprisonment of mot more than three years. TELE A HEADLESS BODY PICKED UP AT SEA Believed to Be That of Young Woman from 16 to 20 Years. Boston. July 24—The discovery at sea of the headless body of an expen- sively dressed young woman was re- ported today by Captain Charles White of the schooner Jennie Gilbert upon his arrival in port from & swordfish- ing trip. To the captain it appeared that the head had been skilfully severed with & sharp knife. The body was picked up July 16, about 170 miles from Boston and in the track of both ocean and coastwise steamers. It evidently had been in the water but a short time. Captain ‘White described it as that of a well- cared for young woman of from 16 to 20 years. “The clothing gave no clue to the identity of the wearer. Cap- tain White wrapped the body in can- vas and returned it to the sea. LITTLE PROGRESS IN | TARIFF DISCUSSION. Every Amendment Offered by Repub- licans Voted Down. Washington, July 24.—Republican senators continued to offer amend- ments to nearly every paragraph of the Underwood-Stmmons tariff bill when its reading was resumed today, and democrats in solid phalanx voted them down. As a result of the prolonged discus- slon on rate after rate little progress was made during the two hours’ con- | sideration of the measure after gen- | eral debats had proceeded throughout | the afternoon, Senator Works of Cali- | fornia and Senator Weeks of Massa- | chusetts criticising the bill. When ad- journment came the senate had barely made an lmpression on the chemical schedule, the first schedule in the bill, FELL INTO THE POND WHILE BAILING BOAT Harry Gillette of Bridgewater Drowned on Fishing Trip South Kent, Conn., July 24—Harry Gillette of Bridgewater was drowned in Hatch’s Pond near here lat this afternoon while en a fishin; trip. Harry Brown of Gaylorsville, whe was algo fishing on the pond, says he saw Gillette standing wp In his boat, and bailing it eut, A moment later, Gil- lettee toppled over into the ‘water, ap- parently losing his balance, Brown rowed to the spot at once but found no trace of Gillette. | Gillette was 42 years old and for years was manager of Hatch's store at Bridgewater, He is survived by a widow and a son. The body was re- coyered tonight, qs(eamon Reported by Wireless, ueenstown, July 24— Steamer Adri- atio, New York for Quespstown amd Liverpool, signalled 217 miles west at 435 a m, Due Queenstown 6 p. m, Bable Isiand, N, S., July 34—Sfeam- er Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, Ham- burg for New York, signalled 763 mi{:s east of Sandy Hoek at noen. Dock 8 a. m, Saturday, Siasconset, Mass, July 34—Steam- er Sant’ Anpa, Marseilles for New York, signalled 176 miles east of Sandy Hook at meen. Deck § a. m. Friday, e Siasconsett, Mass., Jily 24.—Steamer Cedric, Liverpool for New York, sig- nalled 240 mlies east af Sandy ook at 9 g . Dok .30 p. . Briday, { able Island, N, S July 24 —Steamer | LaProvence, Ljavie for New York, sig- nalled 860 miles east of Sandy Hook at moen. Deck 8 a m, Saiuvduy. Steamship Arrivals, ,‘ Patyas, July 20— Acrived, steamer Halia, New York. | adras, July 21°-Arrived, steamer | Paormina, New York. | Rotterdam, July 22— Arrived, steam- Czar. New York for Libau Boulogae, July 24—Azived, steam- & New Amaterdam, New York for otterdam. _ London, juiy 43—Asvived, steamer fonian. Montreal Liverpool, July 24—Arrived, steam- ers Cémric, Bostom; Carelia, New York National Guard is Ordered Out COPPER MINERS IN MK}NIGANl DISORDERLY 15,000 OUT ON STRIKE Several Persons Injured in Fights— Man so Badly Beaten He May Die —A Few in the Hospitals Calumet, Mich., July 24.—Disregard- ing orders of the Wesiern Federation of Miners against violence, many of the | 15,000 striking miners of the copper belt today created enough disturbances to result in the ordering cut of troops, by tomorrqw night there will be nearly 2,400 state\soldiers, including cavalry and artillery in the mining fields of the upper peninsula of Michisan. There were no concerted attacks on mine property or persons about the mines, but several persons were injur- ed in sporadic brawis. The governor was on his way to Alpena, and when the request for troops reached him he was at first inclned to believe the sher- iff was unduly alarmed. Later reports, however, caused the governor to order Adjutant General Vandercook to rush soldiers to the sirfke zcne. Relieve Deputies of Badges. The chief disturbance that set the troops in motion was an assault on the deputy sheriffs stationed at the mines of the Calumet and Hecla company to protect property. None of the mines has attempted to operate, but the strikers seemed to obe ject to the presence of the deputies. About 300 strikers, a few armed with firearms, marched to the No, 32 Con glomerate shaft and stripped the depu- ties of stars, They then proceeded to the Hecla branch mine and divested the deputies there of their insignia of authority, One Man Beaten, May Die. The deputies, eutnumbered, offered little resistance, but there were many fights after the stars had been collect- ed, and several persons were severely beaten. A few men were taken to hos- pitals, . The strikers then surrounded ail the | surface plants of the Calumet and | Hecla company and foreed suspension | of auxiliary operations in these plants. Among those most seriously hurt during the riots was Geerge Denblom, who was beaten abeut the head and may die. Four others were less Seri= ously injured. Miners Parade Strests. Whether the miners ylelded to the advice of their leaders or were fright- ened by the call for troops, they ceas- ed their demonstrations this afternoon. More than 500 miners from Almeek marched to Calumet and paraded the streets, shouting for the union,but they | attempted no violenca. Several mass meetings were held, and great enthusiasm was shown when the speakers exhorted the men to re- main faithful to the strike orders. | Carried Clubs and Other Weapcns. Several men were cbserved to be armed with clubs and some were said to_carry knives and revolvers. Leaders of the Western Federation | of Miners have sent out repeated re- quests to the men to Gesist from car- rying arms or interfering by violence | with anyone about the mines. i After a mass meeting in Calumet this afternoon, strikers marched to the | Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet & | Hecla company and chased away three | watchmen. Then a loyalty meeting was | held and speeches were made in English end Finnish. The orators beseeched the men not to use vlolence ,but to | stand together untll the demands for | more wages, better working condition, | and, chief of all, the ccmpany’s recos- | nition of the union. Workmen Driven Away. | At Hancock a body of strikers this | afternoon went to the Park Brewing company’s plant, operated by non- | union men since a strike some time | ago, and closed the plant by driving | away the brewers. Tonfght union meetings were held at all points affected by the strike. THE FIRE BROKE OUT UNDER A STAIRWAY Witnesaes Testify Regarding the Bing- hamton Holocaust. Binghamten, Y., July 24—TInves- | tigation of the causes of the Bingham- ton Ciothing eompany’s fire which | Tuesday afterneon resulted in the loss | of lives of forty-eme garment work- | ers was begun ieday by Corener Sey- | {mour. Representatives of several | state boards were present and were granted permission to question the witnesses, ‘Ambrose | Fuller, shipping clerk of the burned factory, testified that he discovered the fire in the stairway be- tween the first and second floors, where old books were stored. The | exact cause of the fire was not fixed. Withip five minutes, Fuller testified, oonditions inside the factory were such that no one could live inside the four walls. 1t was brought out that the fire escapes were never used in conduct: ing fire drills. According to witnesses, flames from the windows made it im- pegsible to use tham with safety. ames Whiskeman, an enngineering expert in the employ of the state sen- ate factory investigailng committee, who was present during the inquest, Ind who wag Tetained o investigate | {he Triangle Factory fire in New York, made a statement today in which he | claimed that his examination had in- | dieated that a stairway that had run fhreugh the clathing company build- ing had been meved “to make room for manufaeturing.” _ “It is,” he said, “anpther case of dellars and cents be- ing plased above human life.” TWO BUILBINGS BLOWN ; DOWN AT NEW HAVEN Bog Killed and Several Children Have Narrew Escapes. New Havea, fonn., Fuly” 24, —Puring the sewere wind stosm This afternoon, twa Balf gompleted heuses, pwaed Dby Tiouis Titsky ia Wes partially “biown dowa and a numb. of chfldren who had taken refuge in hem from fhe slorm had a nwrrow | escape from injury. Some pf the chil- dren were strack by the falling lim- bers, and a dog was killed. Rt is s that fle bufldings were very faultily constructed. 1 James Masterson, a horse trainer, | has brought suit against the New Haxen Railzoad for $10.609 injuries claimed te haze been received in a wreck at Stoniagien, Oenn., in 1913, | in; | 2 | will of the late Major Theadere Byx McDermoit Had Borrowing Habit MULHALL MADE LOANS A CONGRESSMAN TO LOBBYIST'S TESTIMONY Chief of House and Two Messengers were in His Pay, Mul- Page hall Tells the Senate Investigators Washington, July 24—One more denial of the allegations of Martin M. Mulhall, former “lobbyist” for the National Association of Manufacturers and one more serious charge against men close to the powers that were in Washington in the days when Mulhall was_working as a political agent, marked the progress today of the sen- ate investigating committee through his voluminous correspondence. Senator Cummins, a member of the investi- gating committee, declared by Mulhall to have taken him Into private con- ference about public business, denied flatly that he ever had held such a confergnce with the lobhyist. Gave Money to Congressman Mulhall in letters and on cross ex- amination swore that he had paid the chief page of the house of representa- tives, the messenger to the Speaker of house ways and means committee monthly for little jobs they did for him. Fe swere, too, that he had giv- en money to J. H, McDermott for elght years a member of the house from Iilinols, When questioned by Senater Nelson, he said that this men- ey was “borfowed” and never repaid. McDermott an “Uneeuth Politician.” Mulhall swore that his first visit to McDermott was when he was visiting every member of congress he could pos- sibly see about tariff commission bill, in the summer of 1909, At that time he found MeDermott “an unceuth pol- itieian.” Later in the same year, he swore he was introduced to 1. H. Mec- Michaels, chief page eof the house, and McDermott’s “confidential seeretary.” He testitied that MeMichaeld, Henry Neal, messenger to the Speaker, and Harry Parker, messenger fo the ways and m 1S committee, were put on monthly salary by him in that year; the chief page getting $50 a month, while eongress was in session, Neal $30 a menth and Parker §20. He said McMichaels knew when he employed him that Mulhall represented the as- soctation and that he realized what sort of legisiation he was opposed to. Later he swore the ehief page brought Muball and MeDermott tegether in a Washingten hetel. MeDermott Kept Borrowing The witness sald that after his first interview he had been against Me- Dermott strongly and had wished to have the National Assoclation fight him for re-election. He said that af- ter the first meeting he often saw Me- Dermott and talked with him about labor bills and other matters “of that Xind.” “Did_you give him any asked Senator Nelson. “I didn’t have a chance” sald Mul- hall. “He borrowed it and kept ber- rowing it.” He said he loaned McDermott money in 1910 and 1911 and in 1912 when he helped him in his fight for re-election he aided in the collection of a fund of about $760 raised among manu- facturers in McDermott's district in Chicago. He said McDermott told him meny things, showed him “Gompers’ funds?” | private letters” and in other ways was useful. Woman “in One Sense His Wife” “He considered all these as pay- ments for the loans,” suggested Sen- ator Nelson, “I suppose o0, answered Mulhall. In speaking of his expense accounts | Mulhall said they were made out by | Katle“M. Mulball, who accompanied him on all his trips. He sald she was “in one sense his wife” and that she had been driven insane by palgn in the sixth New Jersey dis- trict. BULGARIAN KING MAKES APPEAL TO THE POWERS | Protests Against Turkish invasion and | Calls for Intrvention London, July24—Without 'declaring war and apparently trusting that the Jealoustes of the powers will prevent any Buropean interference, Turkey has begun an invasion of Bulgaria. The Turks bave occupied and burned the villages on the Jambeli road and it Is reported have pushed their recon- naissances as far as Philippopolis. In Vienna it is reported that the | Turks have eressed the Bulgarian frontier in three plaeces, roughly coin- ciding with the routes followed by the | Bulgarians seuthward last October King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has pro- tested to the powers and appaled fo: Kurepean intervention but there is no sign that Hurope will take action. | | Greece and Servia are both throwing obstacles in the way of an armistic, while pushing their attacks in the direction of Sefia. It is reported that Rumania has warned Servia and Greece that if they adva, the Rumanian army will be ordered to eecupy Befia first, Major Byxbee’s Will Uneontested, Meriden, Cenn,, July 24—The hear- in the probate eeurt teday ef the bee, was held without a sensational incident, The alleged son, Theodare Byxhee, of Philadelphia, whese pres- ence beeame known far the first time upon the death of the majer, was not present. The heirs did net contest the will, Schooner Burvived Collision, Bosten, July 24—Uncertainty as te identity gnd fate pf the vessel ) collided with the Frolland Amer- Slaterdyk in the fog th an line steamer Slod was ended when the masied scheon diner . Ting cawe fnlo pert tenight, badly damaged from impact with anether o, Lighitning Bestreys Landmark. Meriden, Conn., Fuly 24-—Pire ear tuis afternoon destroyed the JFulius Hall farahouse, landinatk of the east section of e town of Meriden, when « bolt of lighin of the building. The 1t $4,000. The house w 1848. T 48 Do insurane Prince of Wales Best Man fondon, Fuly, he wedding Prince Arthur of Connaught and Puchess of Fife will be the chapel royal. §(. Jame lemnized in Palac October 15, The Prince of Wals will | will ke the best maa. the cam- | Condensed Teiegrams Counterfeit five dollar bills are in circulation. The lItalian authorities have made arrangements (o straighten the leaning tower of Pisa. Anna Mannagan, of Chicago, P wearing a slit skirt, was bitten In the leg by a bull dog. The Manitoba government telephone exchange at Brandon, together with valuable apparatus was destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is $10,000. Channing Whitaker, a well known mill engineer, died yester: at his home in hgsboro, Ma aged 69 years. He was a veteran of the Civil War. Seven men were blown to pieces vesterday by the explosion of a ton of gunpowder at the plant of the Canadian Explosive company at Bel- ofel, Quebec. Important changes In the rules gov- erning the reservation of sleeping car berths will be considered today by the cutive committee of the Western senger Association. Pa; A constitutional amendment to em- power congress to regulate marriage and divorce was proposed in a joint resolution yesterday by Representative Edmonds of Pennsylvania. Julian Hawthorne and Dr. Willlam J. Norton, serving a year's sentence in the Atjanta penitentiary for misuse of the mails, have heen recommended for parole by the parole board. Protect and encourage the meadow- lark, for its principal dlet consists of cotton boll and alfalfa weevils, grass- hoppers and predaceous ground beetles advises the department of agriculture. Several sticks of dynamite which John Everitt, aged 35 was & basket out of a shed in the the villigse of Honeye Falls, N. Y., terday, exploded, and blew Everitt to pleces. Mary Mason Boswick was yesterday granted a decree by the divorce ceurt t Londen, on the ground of the e and misconduct of her husband. The petitioner, is a daughter of L. C. Hasell of New York. Alighting head first in bucket suspended near the a water bottom of a_well yesterday, probably saved the |life of Lloyd Church, son of a rancher living in West Haskell county, Kai near the Colerado line, State laws compelling oitizens to exercise the priv were advocated £ the by ballot Daniels of the navy department aking at Long Beach, Cal, at a luncheon in his henor William Butier cf Kenvil, N. J., was who was murdered Tuesday night her heme in Newark, Mre. Alice Prescott Mayer, widow of | Willlam H. Mayer a well known four- in-hand driver and soclally prominent | was found dead in bed at her country estate at Middletown, R. I, yesterday. Death is ascribed to “natural causes” Another fire at Sing Sing prison vesterday gave the mutinous conviets a chance for more demonstrations. The blaze started in the clothing shop and the prison fire brigade extinguished it, after a hard fight, without outside aid. Patrick Quinlan, the Industrial Workers of the World leader at Pat- erson, N. J, who was sentenced to a term in state’s prison for inciting the striking mill workers to riot was yes- terday released under $5,000 cash bail. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper of Townsend, Tenn.,, were fa- tally bitten by rattlesnakes and while Mrs. Cooper fought for them, an infant {she had placed near the bank of a |stream fell Into the water and was drowned. | _To prolong the life of George W. | Nunley, a confederate veteran, dying {in the’ Paducah, Ky. jail, President Wilson yesterday commuted to expire |at onoe the prisoner's one year sen- {tence for making a false claim for a pension. Fran, B. Sayre, flance of Mlss Jesse Wilson, the president’s daughter, has been offered a position as secretary to President Garfleld of Williams Col- |lege, the offer is still open, and he has not yet declded whether he will | accept or decline. | Dissalution of the | monopely on the Pacific coast by the | American Telephone and Telegraph Company the so-called Bell Telephone Trust, is seught by Attorney General | MecReynolds in o civil anti-trust sult filed at rtland, srday gon, yes Search Is being made for Mrs. F. W, Guieser, and Miss Louise Hines, of | Trenten, N, I, and Miss May Herring | of Deutzville, who with six voung men frem Florence, N. J, were last seen | by their friends in a metorboat on the | Delaware River last Sunday night. Jesse Conyers, a coloréd chef on a New York, New Haven and Hartford dining ear, was arrested at New | Haven yesterday for the Jersey City, , pelice, He is elleged to have inflieted eerious injury on his wife with a meat cleaver at their home there, | Lying acress the grave of her hus- | band in the family let at a Louisville, Ky., cemetery, Mrs. Olivia Hemphill, |82 years old, was found unecensociou An ‘empty bottle which had eentained | poisen, was within a few feet of the woman. She died a few minutes later | A step toward bringing abeut so- |ealled heailth marriages in Pennsyl- | vania was taken yvesterday when Go erner .Tener signed the bill requiring | all apnlieants for marriage licenses to | set forth in the applieations that they lare met afilicted with tramsmissible | diseases. | Fer the first time in its histery siladeiphia is te have a weman street | inspectar. Director Ceoke of the de- | partment of public werke yesterday spainted Mrs. Bdith W, Pieree, see- | refary ui the Home aad Scheel League | io the place which was created a fow | months aga J, 7 cight w ef Velo, mear ]w ukegen, Ill, whe rede Mrs. jehn Richardsen ou a rail threugh the | streets of « recendly must mswer to the jury ter their act. | Flic women asseried (hey helieved Afes, | Richacdson te b too friendiy with her | Peother-in-luw., 2 new head of the New ind ford ten financial and em ta radical operat- nges in the peiicy with a revolution in the | Wiuery of eseculive mapagement, be recammended by (he gub- mittes of dirsators, | shot and killed yesterday st Dover by policeofficers whe mistook him for Wil- | liam Cerduan, husband of the weman aged telephone | Insured Girl was Poisoned WOMAN BLAMED FOR DEATH OF HER . NIECE FINDING OF CORONER Mrs. Annie Monahan of New Haven Held Without Bail—Second Husband Showed Same Symptoms Now Haven, Conn, July 24—Mrs. Annie ¥. Monahan is held criminally responsible for the death of her niece, Miss Jennie McNamee, on March 17, last by Coroner EU Mix, whage find- ing in the case was made public this alternoon. The coroner Ands that Miss McNamee died of white arsenic Polsoning, which was administared to her in small repeated doses by Mes, Monahan, the last being given a days before the young woman's hfl!‘:’ There was insurance on Miss MaNa- mee's life, the coroner says, to the amount of two thousand dollare, Mps, Monahan being named as the bene- fiolary, Mrs. Monahan had been held with- out bonds pending the outcome of the coroner's investigation. Aunt Had Exclusive Care. _The finding states that Miss Mo- Namee went to live with her aunt at nie years of age, following the & of her mother. During the latter part of December, 1912, she was taken Il hm“\v%shame to fhe about the house unt “ebruary of the present year, when she had to take to her bed, ’Bnr aunt had exclusive care of her her all medicines prescribed Jfi! taken. Two physicians attended the younglwcmzm.x:lnd lme cause of death was given as mitral re tion gnd neuritls, During her . Hinges her stomach was much disturbed and & short time previous to her death she had paralysis of the legs and arms. The Bedy Exhumed, After Jemmie's death Mrs, Monmkan made immediate claim on the insurance companies and the coromer says, ‘3t being ascertained that her stajements were not to be relied upon; thet she had a criminal pecord, grave sy picions were entertained us to the cause of the death of Jennle Mo~ Namee,” which resulted in her body being exhumed last month, an autopsy performed and a chemical analysis made of ceriain tissues and . he auptosy, the coroner says, did net veal evidence of disease sufieient to cause death, “and did demenstrate death was due to some cause acting lin a subtle manner and leaving very little evidence discoverable by the | naked eve.” The chemical analysis | showed the presence of arsenis, “in significant amounts. Second Husband S8howed Same Symp- toms, The ceroner also says that Mrs, Moneban was at this time living with her third husband, “her second ~hus- band baving deceased after about ten days’ illness, during which he had symptoms similar to those which ex- isted during the iliness of Miss Me- Namee, with the exception of the par- alysis. He also was insured in a benevolent order, his wife being the beneflciary.” Mrs. Monahan's second husband, the coroners' finding continues, was a brother of her present husband, whom she married about a_month after the | death of her second husband. “During | bis iliness,” says the coroner, “the physicians in attendance was Dr. Paul R. Stetson, and suspicion at that time existed that his death was not due to natural causes. He died in November, 1908, the essigned cause of death b ing gastritis and exheustion.’ Repoated Doses of Poison. In his conclusion Coroner Mix 'says that “Jennie McNamee's déath was due to poison introduced into her {body in the form of arsenious oxide | {(white arsenic), and that it was in- | troduced by small repeated doses, the last being a few daye before her death. | _“I am of the apinion that Jennie Mo- Namee's death wag ceused by the polson introduced Into her bedy as sald chemical examination demonstra.t- ed; that the same was administered | to her by Annie F. Monahan and that said Annle F. Monahan {s criminally ]respon.!lhle for sald death.” HANDSOME LEGACY FOR EVANGELIST Grateful Father Leaves It for Ser vice Rendered Daughter, | _ Chicago, July David 8, X, | Byrne, o Pittsburgh evangeMet, is Ghioago today to establiah nis identity under the terms of the will that will <o hlm a rich man. The legacy is given him because his prayer in the rear of a Chleago saloon six years ago turned back toward a Balttmore home a girl who had lost her way and restored her to her family, A few weeks later he received a let- ter from her father telling of his gratitude, “One thing T want to do in appre- | clatien of your work,” wrete the fath- | er. “I want to support your under- | lings, Help other women as y® have | helped my girl. Go out among them | and preach., I will stand by vou, And because I feel so toward you I ask that you charge yeur name to Byrne.” ’ Cemplying with the request the evangelist changed his name from Da- | vid 8, Kidd to Dayid 8. K, Byrne and under that he he has worked the last | few years, | Lucy Byrne died a few years after | her'return to Baltimore, A’ few weeks ago he learned that the man was dead, Then He was Informed that a large legacy hed heen left far him out of the Byrng estate and that he was to be one of ihe exeeutars of the wil, | Ho was asked te prove his identity | at enee, | FoUR KILLED IN A RIOT OF STRIKERS Miners and Watchmen Have Battle In West Virginia, f) Charlesten, ¥, Va, July 94—Feur men were killed today in 8 hattle he- wween steiking miners and watehmen employed hy the Wake Harest Ceal campany al Wake berest on Oabln Creels, tho seene of much Hotng and hloedsied simee coal strike iroubles staded in April 1811, ‘fhe Gead ave Prank Ginn, coal eam- pany watchwman, and (wo uaideatifigd men, members af the attacking party, Don Blater, anather watchman of the vompany, was shet threugh the body and died Jaiestonight, Bomb Explesion at Lima Lims, Peru, july 24—A bamb was azpladed tanight at the entrance of the residence of the president af the sena b . 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