Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 20, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—ND. 199 NORWICH, CONN., WEDN SDAY, The Bullotin's Circulation 1a Norwich is Double Vhat af Any Otber Paper, and its Tota) Circulation is the THAW ONGE MORE IN PRISON CELL Captured in Canada, He is Preparing to Fight Against Being Sent Back to United States LIKELY TO BE DEPORTED TO NEW HAMPSHIRE Customary to Send Back Undesirables from This Country to State from Which They Crossed International Boundary —New York Officials Preparing to Charge Him With Bribery if Necessary, This Being Extraditable Offense Sherbrooke, Que., Aug. 19.—Harry K. Thaw halted in his flight from the state hospital for the criminal insane at Matteawan, N. Y., by arrest today ai the village of St Harmenigilde de Garford, just over the line from New Hampshire, prepared in his cell in the county jail here to- night to fight against being sent back to the United States. W Be Charged With Bribery. Thaw faces depertation on the ground be is an undesirabie alien | and 32 on a warrant charging New York state for his ar- charge of conspiracy will not extradite him. in the opinion authorities. These authorities received word tomight that the dis- trict attorney of Dutchess county, in Dis way here prepared to swear to a Warrant finally charginz Thaw with extraditable in - 3 o offense—if ! Was on Way to Detroit. In his own defense Thaw claims that he was merely passing through to Detroit when his passage was interrupted by arrest. He exhibited what he claimed to bel transportation to Deiroit in support of tuis claim, and cited the case of Jack | Jobnson 1o bear out his coniention that he cammot be sent back to the Tnited States by the Canadian author- ities so long as he is simply passing through the country and intends to go Beyond its borders Held Under Immigration Act. Distriet Attorney Conger of Dutch- ess county, N. it is understood Dbere. wants Thaw onrdered deported. Me wants Thaw returned to the Unit- ed States over that part of the inter- nagional lne touched by the state of New York. Thaw came into the do- minion from New Hampshire, however, and if costam is followed he would go back to New Hampshire. The Canadian immigration depart- mment at Olzawa wired the chief of m‘! bere this afternoon to hold ow under th# immigration act, in- dicating that sieps will jbe taken deport him This theok was made almost a certainty by the information that the department had sent two in- @pectors to Sherbrooke with instrue- tions to watch the case and institute proceedings o deport Thaw back un- der the clause of the act dealing with *prohibited persons” Thaw Engages Lawyer. At Coaticook, where Thaw was Thaw's Companions Reieased. Two men were arrested with Thaw Bt liberated later at Coaticook. They are believed to be of the party of five confederates who mapaged the two an- tomobiles used by Thaw in his escape from Matteawan The two men re- fused to give their names, or say any- thing about themselves. They follow- ed Thaw here from Coaticook and re- mained I town over nigh W. L. Shurtlefl, the Coaticook law- Fer retained by Thaw, denounced the Bearing before Justice Dupuis as un- fair and sald that he would apply to- morrow mornimg for a writ of habeas carpus for Thaw. prior to the hearing Defore the extradition commissioner. Should the writ be refused Mr. Shu Jeff said he would ask for an appeal from the justice’s dectsion ere is every indication tonight that intends to_write into the juris- Prudence of the Dominion a record of & bRterly contested fight against tradition, deportation or both. Thaw Issues Statement. From his celi in the ex- @iy Thaw sent oul (e the newspaper men a statement tmder this caption, trpewritten in capitals s “No One Has Comiended that for %wo years pearly thui Thaw has heen gn the Tombs he has been inwane There is no evidencd of deiusion in the sligbtest degree on his par 1s t anything crazy (o take pistol 10 defend yourself againsi a man who calis you a —— and threatens to kill 3 before morning™ The statement itaeif was a printed srnopsis of District Aftorner Jerome's H—or purported to be such—to ry at Thaw's second tria an- wary 36, 190%, for the murder of Stan- ford White, Thaw Meets Reporters. After Thaw had spemt some hours n bis cell and grumbled a hit ar his Boor auarters. he was remiged to_the hospital. where the a odations are hetier. At his lawyer's 2 tion_he o “Where did you intend to gz iter you left Matteswan™ he was asked, 1 may have been g@ning home,” he veplled quickly and finaliy No amount of questioning could in- @uce Mm to modify this declaration, Left Portland Mondav, 1t s beileved that Thaw tovk the train that .eft Portland, Me., at 9.35 yesterday morning, Substance is given io this theory by the published des- pateh from Portland yesterday which said that a traveling man thought he recognized Thaw at the railroad sta- tion at Portland just before the train wpon which Thaw reached Canada drew oul. The fugitive, however, and his two frienas atiracted no atention throughout the long day’s ride. They wecapied seafs“in the smoking car, and, sccording 16 ofher travelers, Chaited with each othier. but kept by themoelies untl 8 velbek lasi night. when Thaw, infuiring of s stranger the Ju-alion of the neurest county seut, waz direcied to Sherllf Keisea for un pnswer. The question Stru e offi- cor as rather odd and he took a good look a1 his questiomer, Betrays Himself by Question After a few exchanges Thaw appear- me nervous under the seru- international | blance of the stranger to the published | pictures of Thaw, made a random shot that, however, hit a bull's eve. “Well, 1 can make a preity good guess that you are Harry Thaw.’ “You're right,” said the other. Thaw’s friends took no part in the | conversation. Thaw then told of the |Plan to reach Quebec, from which Place he intended to sail for Europe. Sheriff, Kelsea's Story. Sheriff Kelsea thus describes his meeting with Thaw: Thaw told me that though T was the sheriff of Coos county, where we then swere, 1 could not molest him, for no charge making possible his extradition from New Hampshire had been lodged against him. 1 did not feel that T had ihe right to take him. I should, how- ever, have continued on the train and directed the attention of the police wherever be stopped to him, but it was necessary fo me to leave the train at Colebrook, N. H., my home, as I had business to attend to last night. I am not sure just what happened to Thaw’s companions after I got off | the train, but I think that one of them | followed me with the idea of getting a jcar and picking Thaw up beyond the Canadian Mne. The other man con- tinued with Thaw. i Pursued Him to Canada. After disposing of my business T ) obtained an automobile and started in | pursuit. 1 took with me Walter Drew, |a press correspondent, and another man. We overtook Thaw at Here- | menegilde-Garford, where we found | bim driving with one of his compan- ions in a farmer's wagon. 1 told the farmer who Thaw was and he held up |his team until I aroused an officer | who made the arrest on my complaint that Thaw was a fugitive from justice. The prisoner made no resistance and | eaused no trouble when he was brought | here. | The farmer who drove Thaw told me that the latter had left the Maine Central train at Hereford. just inside the Canadian line, and had offered hitn 39 to drive him across country to any point where he could reach the Grand Trunk raflway and so get a train for -~ this-town- and were within two miles of the Grand Trunk when we overtook them. He said that Thaw had awak- guess at the hour. My responsi- bility ended when 1 turned the fugi- tive over to the Canadian police, ex- cept that T will be represented af the hearing at Sherbrooke as the formal complainant. - £ WILL BE DEPORTED. Thaw to Be Sent Back to New Hamp- shire by Canadian Officials. Ottawa, Ont, Ang. 19.—Harry K. Thaw will be deported from Canada under the present pians of the Cana- dian jmmigration department, because within the meaning of the Canadian immigration act he is regarded as a “prohibited person.” If custom is fol- will be sent back to New. Hampshire, from which state he en- tered the dominion. It was late this afterncon when the department was officlally notified Thaw's apprenension and immediately Inspectors D. H. Reynolds and F. E. | Williams were despatched to Sher- brooke with instruetions to watch the case and institute proceedings to the above mentioned end. The department wired this afternoon to the chief of police at Bherbrooke to hold Thaw un- der the tmmigratigs act. How Jack Jo'inson Escaped. The act seems plain fin rezard to Thaw's case, Th e are certain class- es who, under sevtion 49, are not eligi- ble to enter Canada, or who, if they sticeeed in dofng =0, are not permitted to remain here. The law states that |idiots. imbeciles. insame peopie or erstwhile criminals shall not enter the country, and if they do succeed in eluding the officers of the immigration department they shall be deported forthwith. There i= an sxception. however. and it is interesting (o note that the negro pusd ack Johnson, recently man- aged to pass through Canada under the clause which provides that one of the prohibited class who enters Cana- @a. carrying with him through trans- portation {o another country, may not have his progress impeded. Doubt as to Extradition. Information received here does mot say wnether Thaw has taken the pre- caution of seeuring such iransporta- tion, though following so closely on the Johnson affair it is difficult to see how his lezal advisers could have overlooked this contingency. At the justice department grave doubt is expressed as to the power of the courts o grant extradition under which authority Thaw has evidently been held. In the treaty betwes Great PBritain and the United Statfs escape from an asylum is not men- tioned as.an extraditable offense. The department, however, unhesitatingly expressed the opinion that the case comes under the immigration act. May Be Sent Back to New Hampehire Questions of the legality of Thaw's arrest do not conflict with any action under the fmmigration act, Deporta- ton pFoceedings are very simple, They merely consist in arresting the object of deportation and If there is | sufficfent evidence as to his identity and |as to his disabllity to enter the coun- try under the limitations of the law, hie 18 simply escorted across the bor- dér to a point 76 miles in the interior, The custom 18 to remove him through the pori und ints the state from which he entsred affer the officers of e United States government have been motified, undsr & reciprecity ngresment hetwesn the United States and Carmds, in sdyanee, It is likely ibat Thaw will be seat back to New Hampshire, & Objactions Rarely Successfuf, Objeetions 1o depertation proceed- ings “have ravely gucceeded, as pre- hibited immigrants have net under the act the, epporiunity of resisting the in- spectors of the immigration depart- meat sherift and finally asked: Yoo dent know me, do veu> The sherifl, whose suspicions alweady wers areused, as he neled the resem- Onee Phaw s Ianded back over herder, it wili he 4 1 ¢ ol concern te the Unil ates aul the of | Cabied Paragraphs- To Compel Turkev to Respect Treaty. Sofla, Bulgaria, Aug. 19.—The Bul- garfan government was. informed to- day that the European powers are con- sidering measures to compel Turkey to respect the treaty of London. A New Steamship Line. Bremen, Germany, Aug. 19.—The North German Lloyd Steamship com- pany announced today that it will in- stitute in the midale of September a regular passenger and freight service every three weeks between Bremen and Boston and New Orleans: Serious Floods in Germany. _ Berlin, Aug. 19.—Germany is facing serious floods as the result of contin- uous heavy rainstorms. The Vistula and other” Silesian rivers are out of their banks and a number of towns and a great acreage of grain have been inundated. Crop losses already are heavy. Castro’s Brother at Trinidad. Port of Spain, Trinidad, Aug. 19.— General Carmelo Castro, a brother of ex-President Cipriano Castro of Vene- zuela, who recently commanded a force of rebel troops which invaded the state of Tachira, arrived here yes- terday from Barranquilla, Colombia, by way of Curacao. He landed under an assumed name $15,000,000 for Rajinroad Franchise. Peking, China, Aug. 19.—The German firm of Carlowitz & company, iong established at Hong Kong, has offered to. the governor of Yun-Nan province, i was learned at the ministry of com- munications today, $15,000,000 in ex- change for rights to construct a rail- road from Yun-Nan-Fu eastward to Poseh, a town on the west river just across the boundary of the adjoinin, province of Kwang-Si, o ties as to how he will be further dealt with. | GO AFTER THAW, New York Officials Left Last Night for Sherbrooke, ~ Poughkeepsie, . Aug. 19.—Dis- trict Attorney Bdward Conger, Sheriff Fren Hornbeck and former District Attorney John E. Mack left this ci tonight for Sherbrooke, Que., by wi of Montreal, with the avowed inten- tion of taking Harry K. Thaw into | custody and returning him either the Dutchess county jail or to Matteawan asylum. The Dutchess county officials are armed with a warrant®charging con- spiracy, issued by the supreme court Justice Morschauser, and if it is found that Thaw cannot be extradited on the conspiracy charge a new rrant, charging bribery, will be applied for and attempt mide to extradite the fu- gitive on this charge. Itis the hope of the district attor- Iney and his associates, however, that | | Canada will deport Thaw and in so doing land. him over the international | {line "in New York, instead of New | Hampshire or Vermont. Should this bt: done, Mr. Conger and his associates Will be waiting on the line to take “PMhaw inte custody and bring him back. They don’t want him returned to the United States in any other state than New York for the reason that he would, in any other state, have an opportunity to attempt to prove that he js insane and almost interminable litigation and delay would follow. Sheriff Hornbeck and District At- torney Conger went to Matteawan this afigr‘npon to get more complete de- scriptions of the five men, Richard Butler, Roger Thompson, Eugene Duf- fy, Michael O’Keefe and Thomas Flood ~who aided Thaw to escape. The offi- cials inquired also as to the ownership of the automobile which they believed was used as a pathtinder for the Thaw car on Saturday last. Chief of Police McCabe ascertained that this car made the tod¥ from Mat- teawan to Connecticut and return last aturday to pick out the best roads for !the Thaw automobile. District At- | torney Cohger learned the number of the car and communicated with Sec- retary of State May, as to its owner- {ship. It was found that the number was that of three anto trucks. The officials believe it was taken from one truck and used by the driver of the to the | car, | Howard Barnum. the Matteawan | guard who ovened the gate on Sunday morning when Thaw made his escape, had nothing to s Thaw had been when notified that captured, Barnum’s | examination will be held before § preme Cour{ Justice Morschauser Thursday, prisoner will be charged with bribery, conspiracy and negleet of duty as a public | offictal. | | MRS. THAW IN TEARS. pr | Deeply Affected by News of Her Son’s Testimony by Lav@s Wife CORONER RESUMES INQUEST AT EAST WOODSTOCK * HELD AT LAWSON HOME Neighbor and His Wife Also Examined —Coroner Reticent Regarding Na- " ture of Evidence He Has Obtained. Hast Woodstock, Conn., Aug. 19.— Coroner Arthur G. Bill of Danielson continued his inquest taday into the killing of Jonas P, Lawson, a farmer here early last Saturday. Lawson's body, with skull crushed in, was found by Mrs. Lawson and John May, a neighbor, early on the morning of Au- gust 16 In a horse stall in the Law- son barn. Mrs. Lawson has stated that she was awakened by a commotion shortly after midnight on the 16th and after searching for her husband with- out success summoned May, who lived nearby and made further search sulting in the discovery of the bod: Mrs. Lawson Testifies. The proceedings were held today in the dining room at the Lawson home, the/dozen witnesses examined being called in separately before:the cor- oner, who conducted his inguiry be- hind cloged doors. Those ‘examined included the wife of the slain man, John May, the neighbor and the lat ter's wife. Investigation Not Ccmpleted. At the conclusion the coroner stated that he had nothing to give out. He has not completed his investigation and may return here later in the week. One theory advanced for the crime was robbery as it is known that Law- son had nearly fifty dollars with him that night, but the coroner was non- committal on the matter of how far the evidence taken bore out this the- ory. Neither would he say whether the evidence in hand furhished any definite clue to the perpetrafor of the crime. No Investigation Outside of Town. He admitted. however, that he did not expect his investigation would take him_outside of the town . TWO GOOD ROADS DAYS IN M:SSOURI. 50,000 Residents of State Prepare to Wield Pick and Shovel. Kansas City, Mo, Aug. 19.—Fifty thousand business men and farmers of western Missouri, it was estimated, burnished their picks and shovels ts night and prepared to shoulder them at daylight to take part in Missourl's two good roads days, the slogan for which i5 “Pull Missouri- out of the mud.” Thousands of Missouri mothers and daughters and wives and sweet- hearts were busy, too, preparing lunches for the “bovs.” Tonight while Missouri citizens were making ready fof tomorrow’s test Gov- ernor George H. Hodges of Kansas was busy in the statehouse at Topeka winding up his state business; he might journey to Jefferson City and assist Governor Eiliott W. Major of Missouri, who issued the proclamation for the road days. Both executives are preparing to don overalls and take an active part in rebuilding the roads near the Missouri capital. BROKERS BEFORE THE LOBBY INVESTIGATORS Deny Testimony That They Raised a Fund for McDermott. ‘Washington, Aug. 19.—The house lobby investigating committee today continued to probe the statements of L. H, McMichael, one time chief of pages of the house, that Representa- tive James T. McDermott of Illin had been given $7,500 to work agaf a_ “loan shark” for the District Bili of Columbla by pawnbrokers affected Dby the Dbill. Two of the three brokers who contributed to a fund to be used agalnst the bill denied that Mr. Me- Dermott had even been asked to op- pose its passage. They swore they raised whout $3,750 for the use in the empioyment of altorneys and for pre- senting printed arguments to congress_ men. Isaac Heidenheimer, who gave 40 per cent. of the total, kuid his ac- quainiance with Representative Mc- Dermott was slight and his conversa- tion with him abon! ‘he bill was only “casual” EXPLOSION AVERTED | Arrest. | | Creseon. Pa, Aug. 13.—Mrs. Mary { Copley Thaw, at her country home | Eimburst, tonight is hroken in Spird {over the tidings that her fom whom {she supposed to be fres when she left New York this morning, had been cap- tured Ca T many-gabled | | | mansion. which sits high up among [ the Allagheny foothills, two miles { south of here, had been prepared as if | | for the homecoming of a prodigal son, | for word had been sent there today | that Harry Thaw was expected to re: | iurn within 48 hours.~ The news that | he was in a Quebec jail was con- veyed to her on a train while enroute here. \ At first Mrs. Thaw refused to be- lieve the truth of the report. Karly despatches describing Thaw’s arrest were shown to her as her train pulied {out of North Philadeiphia, but she | returned them to their’ bearer with | the remark that they. were “nmot fm- | portant”” She declined to male any | statement until she was later Inform. | | ed that despatches definitely confirm- | ing her son’s arrest had been received !and that he might be deported to the | United States. | _“1 can't believe it!” she exclaimed, | “I won't believe it.” She was silent for a moment and tears came to her eves. “Even if I do beliey e added brokenly, “I am | going home; it will not change my plans. I am going home and stay there. She declined to read the detafls of her gon's arrest and refused to make any further statement. For the re- mainder of the trip she sat for most of the time gazing out of the win- dow, Her demeanor was the anti- thesis of the happy mood she appear- ed be enfoying when she bourded the train at New York. TO SECURE THAW. Deputy Attorney General Kennedy May Go to Canada. Albany, N, ¥, Aug, 19.—After u con-~ ference with Dutchess esunty~authori, lies, Depuly Attormey General Persons tonight announced that “if it were deemed necessary” Deputy Attorney General Frankiin Kennedy would be designated to go to Canada in an effart te secure Thaw's return te this state. I€ was peinted out at the attorne: weneral's office {hat the Cangdian au therities might inierpret their deper- = BY PROMPT ACTION. | Defective Fiue Caused Water to Leak from Boiler of Engine. Meriden. Conn., Aug. trafic_ was blocked fo hour here early 19.—Railroad more than an this evening when a defective flue in the boiler of engine | No. 1001 delayed its train. An ox plosion was averted only by (he prompt action of the engineer and fireman, who quickly raked the burning coals of the cab, in an in- the cab. from the firebox to the fioo: The woodwork ignited and stant flames shot out from | The blaze was brief but spectacular. | | The fireman opened the plug in the water tank and flooded the engine, ex- tinguishing the blaze. The passengers were transferred to another train and in about an hour another enginme ar- rived from New Haven to take the disubled locomotive in tow. Steamship Arrivals. Bergen, Aug. 14.—Arrived: Steamer Kristianiatjord, New York. Genoa, Aug. 16.—Arrived: Verona, New York. Cadiz, Aug. 18.—Arrived: Steamer Manuel Calvo, New York for Genoa. London, Aug. 19.—Arrived: Steamer Minneapolis, New York. Plymouth, Aug. 18—Arrived Steam- er_Ascania, Montreal for Mondon. Dover, Aug. 19.—Arrived: Steamer Zeeland, New York for Antwerp. Bremén, Aug. 19.—Arrived, steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, New York. Trieste, Aug. 19.—Arrived, steamer Saxonia, New York. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Slasconset, Mass, Aug. 19.—Steamer Bremen, Bremen for New York, sfe- nglled 193 miles east of Sandy Hook at 12.20 p. m. Dock 8 a. m. Wednesday. Sable Island, Aug, 19— Steamer Arabic, Liverposl for Boston, signalled 600 miles east of Boston at & a. m, Bteamer Georglan, London for Bos- ton, signalled 500 miles east of Boston at 1118 a. m, Steamer tatien laws so that Thaw could only be returned to the state frem which he entered Canada. In this event, it was said Depuly Atterney General Kennedr might endeavor to influence the Deminien officials to .direct the fugitive’s return direct te this gtate, Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the / Dynamite Gar Strikes a Pole NEARLY 100 KILLED IN RESULT- £ ING EXPLOSION HOUSES DEMOLISHED Al Within Radius of 500 Feet Re- duced to Ruins—Fifty Bodies Dug from the Debris at Mexico City. Mexico City, Aug. 19.—It is estimated that nearly 100 persons were killed and almost ag many injured early this morning when a car loaded with dyna- mite ran wild down the hill from the powder works at Santa Fe, jumped the track and dashed into a trolley pole in the suburb of Tacubaya and exploded. Houses Within 500 Feet Demolished. The earth for miles around trembled and great damage was done to prop- erty. Within a radius of 500 feet from the scene of the explosion every house was demolished, while farther away in, the village and in the adjoining town of San Pedro, many were badly damaged. No Americans Injured. Numerous Americans and other for- elgn residents live in Tucubaya and San Pedro, but none .of them Is report- ed to have been injured. Fifty Bodies Dug from Ruins. Late this afternoon over fifty bodies had been dug from the ruins of houses in Tacubaya and the Red Cross had ministered to the needs of scores of wounded. AMENDMENTS TO SUGAR SCHEDULE DEFEATED. Louisiana Senators Line Up with the Republicans. fine residences Washington, Aug. 19.—President Wilson’s programme for free sugar in 1916 carried the day in the senate to- day when democrats rallied to the sup- port of the Jariff bill and defeated all amendmenis to the sugar schedule, With all but Senators Ransdell and Thornton of Louisiana standing firm- ly for the administration measure, the democrats defeated the Bristow amendment for a compromise duty, the Norris amendment against free sugar and the Gallinger amendment against free maple sugar. An amendment to abolish immedi- ately the Dutch standard color test for sugar was ddopted during the fight. It was proposed by Senator Bristow, re- publican, and accepted by Senators Simmons and Williams, the democratic managers of the bill. 'Under its pro- visions the Dutch standard, against which a consistent fight has been waged, since 1909, will be abolished as | scon as the tariff becomes law, instead of next March as the bill would other- wise have provided. BOY RUN OVER BY AN AUTO AT SAVIN.ROCK Son of New Haven Fatally City Treasurer Injured. New Haven, Conn, Aug. 19.—Henry Fresenius, aged 10 years, son of City Treasurer Fresenius, was probably fa- tally injured at Savin Rock this af- ternoon when he was run over by an automobile. The car which was owned and_operated by Charles G. Johnson of New Britain, ran over the lad’s abdomen. He was removed to the New Haven hospital, where an operation was performed, but the physicians to- night state that his condition was very_serious. Johnson was mot detained by the West Haven police after they had questioped him closely about the ac- cident, as they were convinced that the boy darted in front of the car and the driver was not at fault KILLS WIFE AS FOUR OF THEIR CHILDREN WATCH. Man House Surrounded b Police, Ends His Own Life. Wheeling, W. because he had | ports_reflecting Va, Aug. 19 heard unfounded re. on his wife's charac- ter, John Marshall this morning fired five bullets into her body as they sat at the breakfast table in their home in Martins Ferry, across the Ohio river from her Chief of Police Edward Hyland. who ves next door, heard the shots and | forced the door to the Marshall house. Marshall fled to the attic and Hyland summoned other policemen, who sur- | rounded the house. Finding escape cut | off, Marshall blew out his brains. ! Mirs. Marshall was killed in the pres- ence of four of her six children THE CUTTING ESTATE IS APPRAISED AT $10,906,480 Widow of Late Railroad Director to ! Receive $9,060,242 of It. Aug. 19.—The estate of the jate William Bayard Cutting, law- yer, financier and railroad director, | wag officially appraised today at $10,- | 905.450. | The widow. Olivia M. Cutting. the chief beneficiary, receives $9,060,242. The remainder of the estate with the xception of u few scattered donations, luding $1.000 to Fisk university ville, Tenn., is left to other im- mediate mem s of the family. TO BUILD RESERVOIRS THROUGHOUT KANSAS. | | | Plan to Conserve Water in the Winter | and Spring. | _Topeka, Kas, Aug. 13.—Governor | Hodges today set about finding a force | of 50 expert pond builders to.supervise the work of bullding _reservoirs throughout Kansas in furtherance of the governor's plan to conserve in winter and spring enough water to tide the farmers over such droughts as has menaced the state in the last three weeks. Determined to Ead-His L Newburypor(, Mass, Ang. 19.—Af- ter he hiad been dragged from In front of a train where i Iad throw him- relf today, Herbart L. Rowe, a shod worker, 36 yearasld, hroke away from his reséuers and jumpiag into the Mer- rimac river was drowned: There s no xplanation of his = détermination to commit sulcide, Democratic Senators to Caucus. Washington, Aug. 19.—Democratic members of the senate will caucus probably temorrow night io discuss tha situation Which hax arisen through the appeintment of Henry D. Clayton tn succeed the late Senator Johnston of Alabama % ° |less from Tampico reports * Gondensed Teieyrams Yellow fever rted in Progreso and Campeche, Mexico. i Miss Mary Coes, dean of Radcliffe College, Mass., is dead at Brookline. Chief Justice John W. Rowell of the supreme court of Vermont has resigned The gunboat Nashville sailed from Portsmouth, N. H., for Mexican waters yesterday. More than 700 men are needed at the manufacturing and industrial plants near Sharon, Pa. Isaac Stephenson of Wis., will not be a candidate for the United States Sen- ate to succeed himself. During 1912, 20,000,000 tons of coal were consumed in New York city, ac- cording to a report by the Geological Survey. : Postmaster-General Burleson, has ordered the immediate separation of the Lynn postoffice from the Boston postoffice. £ Mrs. Orlando Kepler of New York City is dying at her home with a clot on her brain, caused by fright when a burglar attacked her recently. The books of the state highway de- partment under the administration of James H. McDonald are being audited by Mr. Dutcher, an expert accountant. Baggagemen on the New Haven road have organized with Thomas Ryan of Providence, president, and Walter Faulkner of Fall River, secretary- treasurer. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan- iels has notified Congressman Loner- gan that he will attend the Connecti- cut Fair on Labor Day and will deliver an address. ' Frank Falk, an Indianapolis, real es- tate man, was murdered yesterday on the temporary bridge over White River at Washington Avenue. Hid assail- ant escaped. Inspection of the sanitary arrange- ments_and safeguards in railroad sta- tions and trains has been ordered on a sweeping scale by Acting Secretary of the Treasury Allen. Miss Louise Irwin, daughter of the late Rear Admiral John T. Irwin, died of apoplexy as the result of a fire alarm turned in at the Mare Island Navy Yard, where she was residing. A creditors petition in bankruptcy was filed against Thomas A. Kelly of Lynn, a morrocco manufacturer, in the United States district court at Boston yesterday. Drought in _Southeast Kansas, in the vicinity of St. Joseph, Mo., and in the Wichita, Kag. district was little better yesterday than be- fore the first showers in weeks fell last Saturday. An ordinance declaring motorcycles nuisances and prohibiting their opera tion on city streets under a penalty of $50 to $100 fine was introduced in the Board of City Commissioners of Lex- ington, Ky. The free sugar fight continued in the Senate vesterday with Senator Smoot predicting the refiners would be in agreement to control prices in the Uni- ted States “before the ink was dry on the tariff bill.” The entire business section of North Anson, Me, was blotted out by fire yesterday through lack of protection. Eight dwellings also were destroved. The loss was estimated at from $125,- 000 to $150,000. Dairy Commissioner Potter, at the capitol today said that not' in vears has the adulteration of milk been so general in Connecticut as at the pres- ent time and numerous cases have been reported to his office. The treasury department vesterday announced that it would insist fthat | contractors on public buildings there- after must look after the financial wants of their sub-contractors as work on the structures progresses. | No Americans or other foreigners were killed and only one American was slightly injured in the recent fizht- |ing around Torreon, Mexico. A Americans | A GORDIAL | GYPSIES cify’s Fohbl! - NTERVIEW WITH HUERTA Representative of President Wilson Meets Mexican Executive at the Latter’s Suggestion ' NO ULTIMATUM ISSUED T0 THE UNITED STATES President Huerta Authorizes Denial of the Report to That Effect- —Huerta’s Reply to American Proposal of Media- tion Contains 7,000 Words—Lind Sends Summary of 1,000 Wordsé to Secretary Bryan—Senlte Debate Stopped Aug. 19.—Hopeful, though somewhat puzzled by today's developments, administratien officials aixnously awaited tonight the receipt ‘Washington, some difficulty in understanding, was given to members of the senate com- mittee on foreign relations, republicans as well as democrats, and had the ef- of the Huerta government’s complete i fect of staving off debate on the Mex- reply to the communication presented by John Lind, personal representative of President Wilson in Mexico. Text of Huerta’s Reply. President Wilson and Secretary Bry- an had received during the past 24 hours: from Mr. Lind giving briefly the Huerta government’'s rejec- tion of the American proposal. About 1,000 words of the text of the Huerta reply, said to be 7,000 words long Cordial A message from Interview With Huerta. Mr Lind stating that he had been in conference at an | early hour today with Provisional President Huerta, that the interview had been cordial and was brought about at the suggestion of Huerta him- self. No Ultimatum from Huerta. A denial from Charge O'Shaughnes- sy, authorized by President Huerta, declaring that there was no truth in the report of an ultimatum demanding recognition from the United States. Debate Staved OFff in Senate. This information, coming in discon- nected cipher messages, which admin- istration officials themselves confessed | ican question following sensational re- Ports of a threatened severance of re lations by the Huerta government, LIND SEES HUERTA. Mexican Ultimatum Report Is Denied by the Latte: Washington, Aug. 19. Although both the state depa.rnsent at Washington and Mexico City au- thorities denied the story of an ulti- matum_ from the Huerta government to the United States officials in Wash- ngton seemed agreed today that ex- treme measures had been taken in Mexico City last night, and subse- quently a more moderate course was decided upon. The one hope in a threatening out- look, according to the Wilson admin- istration officials, was that Jokn Lind, the president’s personal representative, had conferred with Provisional Pres- ident Huerta. This conference means a large degree of success for Mr. Lind's pilgrimage to Mexico's capital. It is believed that when the details of the negotiations are known that Mr. Lind acted at the psychological moment to cause the Mexicans to modify their action as to an ultimatum. TO INVESTIGATE THE BALKAN CONDITIONS President Butler Outlines Plans of In- ternational Commission. Newport, R. L, Aug. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia university, while here today, outlined the plans of the proposed international commission to inquire into conditions in_the Balkan: “The Carnegie endowment fund for international peace, through the divi- sion_of Intercourse and Education of hich I am chairman,” said Dr. Butler, “is sending a special commission of inquiry to the Balkan peninsula to make ~personal investigation and re- port for the information of the public opinion of the world on three points: ~“First—The outbreak of hostilities between the allies at the conclusion of the war with Turkey. “Second—The truth or falsity of out- rages reported to have been ‘commit- ted by the combatants, particularly the mutilation of captives, outrages on. wo- men and destruction of private prop- erty. “Third—The economic waste caused by this war between the allies and its 19.—President cost. “This commission will probably be composed of _ representatives of France, Great Britain and Germany with a possibility of delegates from Austria, Russia, taly and the United States. The_selections will be made by Bar- on D'Estournelles D'Constant. a mem- ber of the French senate and chair- man_of the Carnegie endowment ad- visory council in Europe. i “It is expected that the commission will be organized and proceed to the Balkans before the close of August “The feeling in this matter was brought about by statements printed in this country on the authority of the king of Greece.” CAPTIVE 17 YEARS, RESTORED TO HIS PARENTS. generally around Torreon well. | Paul Kase, of Bloomfleld, N. J., an | {importer and exporter of bulbs, com- | | mitted suicide by shooting some time | yesterday in his_ stateroom on_ the | Steamship Massachusetts of the Basi- ern Steamship Company line. He had | | boarded it Monday night at Boston. | | Place, Seeialist member of the Columbia Parliament; Arthur | | Jordan, secretary of the Nanaimo Coal | Miners Local. and Joe Angelo, leadcr | of the foreign element in the strike at | Nanaimo, were arrested at Nanaimo, | with forty others implicated in strike | disturbances. ! John | British The four arbitrators appolnted under the Newlands Act in the wage troversy between the eastern rail and the trainmen and conductors se- | lected yesterday as the Afth arbiter, h Low, former mavor of New York and president of the National Federation. ads ic Young Man Mourned as Dead Finds Relatives After Long Absence. 19.—Word Watertown, N. Y. Aug. | reached here yesterday that Frederick idnapped Brosseau, aged 24, who was go, had by gyps nearly 17 years been restored to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Brosseau, of Sissonville, St. Lawrence county. They had long mourned him as dead On Oct. 14 1896, when only 7 years o0ld, young Brosseau left home to meef ! his father at the edge of the village. That was the last seen of the boy in Sissonville About a week ago a_voung man de- serted from a band of gypsies in the | Camadian wilds and ook refuge with the monks of Oka, whose isolated mon ustery: is 40 miles from Montreul. He could remember nothing of his history before becoming a member of the band except that he had been called Fred and that his former home was in northern New York. It was annouqced vesterday on au- | thority of Governor Foss that he would not be a candidate for the Republican { nomination for governor although it | | was declared that he had s ient | signatures to nomination papers io | place his name on the primary ballot if | he had desired ONE WRECK VICTIM WAS KNOWN IN TORRINGTON. Served as Nurse There During Typhoid | Epidemic in 1911, | Torrington, Conn, Aug. 19.—Miss Annie L. Cassidy, whose name appears In the list of missing passengers of the | steamship State of California, which | was wrecked in Cambier bay, 90 miles south of Juneau. Alaska, morning, was well known here for her work as a nurse during the typhoid epidemic which visited Torrington in [ 1911, She came to Torringtor at that | time from Springtield, Mass. Subsequently she went to Vancouver and a few days ago friends here re- ceived a letter from her saying that with & party of friends she was on the way fo Seatile, Wash., to rake ship for Alaska for her vacation. last Sunday | Two More Investigations. Washington, ~ Aug. 19.—Speaker Olark today appointed house members of two joint congressional committees. One will Investigate the Indian bureau and the other will study tubereulosis among Indians In connection with an inquiry into the establishment of a sanitarlum In New Mexfeo and better | water at the Yakima Indian reurvvl tion. The presence of the wanderer was reported by the monks to the Montreal police and an aunt of the voung man recognized his picture in a newspaper “The parents were notified and wen( to Montreal, where they positively identi fled Brosseau by a hirthmark. He being detained by the police as a wi ness against some of the gypsies who under arrest, charged with kidnap- Ping. TO COMPEL MAYOR TO SIGN CONTRACT Member of Furniture Firm Takes Case to Supreme Court. Boston, Aug. 19.—An order to com- pel Mayor John J. White of Holyoke | 1o sign a contract made by the school board for school furniture, was asked of Judge Hammond in the supreme court today by Hugh McLean of that city. Mclean is a member of a firm with whom the school board made the contract. Judge Hammond issued an order of notice returnable Friday. A resolution providing for the pur- chase of the furniture was passed over the mayor's veto by the school board. OBITUARY. Mrs. Mary A. Redfield. ° Pittsfield, Mass, Aug. 19.—Mrs, Mary A. Redfield, mother of the sec- retary of commerce, W. (. Redfield. died at har heme here. (oday. She was 67 vears of age and for the past ning vears had been an invalid. Sec- retary Redfleld was notified at Seal Harber, Mainy, and later sent word that he was leaving for this city, | | DEATH DUE TO HER WET BATHING SUIT Water Formed Circuit and Miss Wes- ley Is Thrown Upon Third Rail. New York, Aug. 19.—A dripping bathing suit caused the death by elec- trocution yesterday of Miss Margaret ‘Wesley, who had just left a jolly bath- ing party at Edgemore. ‘A stream of water running frem the ‘bottom of her short skirt formed a cir- cuit with a third rall she was stepping oyer on her way home from her bath. The current knocked her down and threw her ~against another highly charged -third rail. Her bare arms ‘struck against the metal and the elec- tricity Iilled her instantly. Miss Wesley, 21, was a maid in the household of Mrs. Jennie Henry at No. 16 Far Rockaway boulevard. She went into the water at the Edgemere beach about noon with other girls of the neighborhood and after a couple of hours she felt chilly and told the oth- ers she was going to run all the way home. She pulled on a sweater and started up Neptune avenue. Then she took a cut away across fields. The girl apparently stopped running as she meared the Ocean railway trol- ley line and started to cautiously pick her way across the third rails, which are close together. Those who saw her say that she was stepping over the first one when a blue flash sur- rounded her body and she was flung forward against the other rail. Willlam Schochler, motorman, stop- d his trolley car when he saw the still figure. Passengers sent an to St. Joseph’s hospital in Far away, THE CURRENCY BILL TO BE REMODELED. President’s Measure Fails of Approval by Democratic Senators. ‘Washington, Aug. 19.—Unexpected developments in regard to the curren- cy reform legislation in the senate to- day promised serious complications for President Wilson's plans for the pas- sage of a currency bill at this session of congress. At a conference of demo- cratic members of the senate currency committee Chairman Owen, who has been considered one of the framers of the bill now before the democrats of the house, made it efl to his associates that he was opposes to several features of the bill, includ- ing the plan for twelve regional re- serve banks, and that he would recom- mend important changes in the meas- ure. The resuits of the senate con~ ference have heen to leave the cur- rency situation entirel¥ open tonight, so far as the senate’s probable action is concerned. The attitude of other democrats om the semate committee ,including Sena- tors Hitchcock, O°Gorman and Reed, is such as to indicate that there will be materlal changes in the administration measure, if not a_complete remodeling of it, before it comes before the sen- ate for action. STATES TO ASSUME o CAMPAIGN EXPZENSES One of Recommendations to Be Cen- sidered at Governors’ Conference. Chicago, Aug. 19.—Recommendations for important changes in the form of state government will be presented at the governor's conference to open Au- gust 26 at Colorado Springs. The pro- gramme announced today by the sec- retary, M. C. Riley of Madison, Wis., includes these subjects: “A state department of eficienoy and economy.” “Distrust of states legislatures, the cause, the remedy.” “The growth of administrative com- missions.” . “State assumption of nomination and election expenses. ‘Governor Baldwin of Connecticut will be one of the speakers. on Hard Coal. Washington, Aug. rat on_anthracite from the Pennsylvanis flalds to Boston, Roxbury, Boylston street, Forest Hills and Mount Hope, Mass, than now are in force to ad- jacent points taking the same rate, ‘were permitted by an order of the in- terstate commerce commission today, Drowned in Surf at Rye Beach.. Lower Rat ney New Vs vagation Portsmouth, N, H, Aug. 19.—Whit- electtioal