Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 30, 1913, Page 1

The Bu!letirn’s Circulation in Norwich NORWICH, CONN.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1913 h is Do uble That of Any Other Paper,” and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population | | | tomorrow | Dancing Pupil is Now Sought MAY SHED LIGHT ON DEATH OF DANCING TEACHER WERE SEEN TOGETHER Murdered Woman Took Ball Gown and Pink Slippers When She Left Home —Her Husband Not Under Suspicion. , Sept erett A. Rex- roat, Macomb county farmer, husband of Mrs, Mildred Allison Rexroat, Chi- cago dancing teacher, shot to death near Wayne, llls, Saturday morning, told a eoroner's jury the story of h acquaintance and life with Mrs. Rex- roat. His testimony together with that of W, H. Allison, her divorced hus- band, and others who knew something of the circumstances in which Mr: Rexroat visited Wayne, failed to throw any light on the idenlity of the slayer and an adjournment of the inquest w taken until Thursday morning to pes | mit the police to seek more evidence. Search for Dancing Pupil. The efforis of the police now are centered in a search for “Mr. Spen- cer” a pupil of Mrs. Rexroat’s dan ing class, reported to have been infal- uated with her and who she had said had arranged for her to teach a private class at Wheaton and who accom- panied her from Chicago on the night | she met her death. Switch and “Rats” Identified. switch of hair and “rats cort used hair, found vards of the Burling- today, ere identified t Johnston as having b Mrs. Rex: home. the police to indicate murderer fled to Chicago, possibly on a freight train, discovere hair while looting Mrs. Rexroat's suit case and threw it away here. Couple Seen on Train. C. A Goodwin, who lives in Wheaton and who occupied the seat In the train A woman's of the sing t number of women in n a 0ad s. Vietor T nged to Mrs. at Mrs is taken by t the the ton’ | in front of Mrs, Rexroat, was one of the chief witnesses at the inquest Thegeouple sat back of me on the 6.30 train,” he said hey mentloned the town of Macomb several times, and the man said, ‘My father certainly knew how to make a will. The in- terest from my income is big: than st fellows’ s. It sure sup- ports me a 16t beiter’" Sy foritor & » |wife or a Peabody, Mass., leather Spencer Had Passion for “Tango" | Gorker, and mother of signi children | seribea ns a “small town man” with | fommitted suicide ye Dx chtin |& passion for the tungo, is believed | IST) throat = She had been in poor I by_the police to be the only one whe, | 1€aIth for some time [ ol e real trith of the murder. | A Turtle of the Leather Back varicty, Hadley of Diipage cointy that he had | neSht 1500 pounds, age (estimated) ‘\n‘\ part in the murder '}‘a\'l‘ng estab- IR0 oaxas s br it it he T oRic Jipeeuest e Lok stab- | vesterday by the schooner Gleaner, | S EE | Captain Tapper. The monster was | ody Placed on Tracks. | captured yesterday near Fire Island. | Mrs. Allison-Rexroat was murdered {at Wavne, a suburb of this city, where| An Automobile Campaign Tour of | many wealthy men have their country | tF entire state of Massachuseiis homes, on Friday night last. She was | started vesterday by Charles S. Bird, | shot in the head. the body placed on | progressive candidate for governor the railroad tracks, and she was rob- | Four automobiles carried Mr. Bird and | bed of jewelry and money valued at | party, including a fife and drum | about $400. | corps. I intmen e %5, Hios ppeciptment MUt Spanoar. Justice Benedict in the supreme | A nee e or Frank L Olesbn cat | court M Brooklyn ruled that a strip | jane ner cmplover, Frank L. Olesbii, al|of land) 583sfeet long, ‘onyCaney: Tn- hose school in Chicago she taught the | Janq's shore is free to the use of the ango and other popular dances, un- | public as far as mean high water, derstood ‘that she was on her way to | Boparriny or o mean high =1 | Wheaton by arrangement over the tel. | SSParTIng property ewners from mon | ephone with one ence knu\\ng % # | from the manner of his speech as the| gecrotary Houston of the United f vman with the drawl” When she left | giiteq dfipirlmim of agriculture in an | Mrs. Johnston's home. she carried a | jGuress before the American Roads Jione Zcansl coptaintae :’\;Emi’“kfi_t“rm cungress at Detroit urged good roads | poras rhe et e b ond bk 8UD- | for the farmer in preference to great peys e suit case has ot Dbeen | tring-continental highways for auto- | found, nor has the pistol with which | mepincre | the murder was committed., LAY, — | 5 N Wilbur Foerste, the 17 Year old boy | JOKE NEARLY CAUSED arrested at New York on charge A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.|~f stealing $1,400 from a depart- | ment store in Cleveland ,Ohio, was Dummy in Form of a Man Placed in | ordered held for 48 hours to cnable th Road Near Meriden. L‘((\’::l?:‘d mpr;;ll('o to have an officer 3 | == dgepor on Sept. 29.—T] D D L Th | a_physiclan in the Confederate army dangerous curve several miles south | 0d as such attended General Albert of Meriden tonight by an unknown|Sidney Johnson of the Confederate perso Dersans very: nearly resulted | &'my when he was mortally wounded. o B il died at his home at St. Louis, vester- o+ day at the age of 80. arba_of was Bridgeport homeward from Meriden on motorevele about T o’clock and g aw of the curve in the roa slackesed his speed. His ma- chine had completed the turn in the roadway when, with the aid of hi he discovered the apparently motionless forn, of road. ghted and was in the act of examining the supposedly in- jured man when an automobile nosed around th urve from the Tear swerved from one side of the road to the other ind flnally came to a_halt within a few inches of a deep ditch, followed clcieiy hy a heavy tourlng car which narrowly escaped striking the forwarc The drive n chine rear-on of the first automobile, a dy, on seeing the man’s form Iving the roadway, became hysterical. ng contril of the machine tempo- It was some time before the in fit condition her' journey. The matter repcrted to the state police and an investigation asked. in | woman's nerves_were to continue will be OBITUARY. Capt. Bertram Dickinson, London, Sept. 29.—Capt. Bertram Dickinson, sh aviator, died the Engli He was the first British officer in the army manoeuvres. Just three years ago Captain Dickson col- lided with Aviator Thomas while fly- ing st Milan. The machines became interlocked and fell nearly a thou- sand feet, both aviators being badly injured. I. Layton Register. Philadelphia, Sept. 29.—I. Layton Register, widely known in life insur- at Ardmore a suburb, He was 71 years old. Four Poisoned by Toadstools. Siratford, Conn ,.Sepl, 29.—As 8 ra- sult of ealing icadstools, mistaking them for mushrooms, Paul Wargo, his wife and two children were taken to the Bridgeport hospitai tonight suffer ing from the effects of the polsoning. Physiolans say that all will probably recover with the exception of Wargo, whose condition s serlous, Steamera Reperted by Wirel s Brigands Wreck Train. % a3 . Rostoff, Russia, Sept. 20.—The tear- & o s : S ing up of the rails by brigands has re- n e Eec Evidence of Political Bargaining by Sulzer is Ruled [tist ., he freek of g passenser g g oy train_between Bak and Batum. Six cars were destroved and forty persons o e killed and a hundred injured. Out at the |mpeachment rial TIMOTHY WOODRUFF SUFFERS __Bengali Youths Kill Constable. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN —_—————— Calcutta, British India, Sept. 20.—The 3 Head constable of Calcutta was shot amon . o e P i) today by three Bengali youths, N PRICE OF CORRUPT BARGAIN NOT RECEIVED” | wiv'escanea theotith e dense crowds. | CONDITION IS SERIOUS The e believed to have a po- ol litical Declaration of Presiding Judge Cullen in Making His Ruling| Uecoration For Brewer Susch: o.[\Complsined arsPalncin, K While . | Busch, ot St Lous, wis decorated to- | Seaking But Continued ~ Address, Testimony Adduced Showed Assemblymen Had Not by the Grand Dukecof Hasee, With | Collanai e 2 g 5 g the cordon and cross of the first clas oliaraing saz s Concligiec it Changed Their Attitude on Pending Legislation as Result | of he Order of SR 0 oot kil cognitio s philanthropy to the . . . . . people of Germany New York, Sept. 2 Timothy L. of Interviews With Sulzer—Colwell Now in Sanitarium. = $it Woodruft, former. Tieuténant. Sovacnon Reduction of German Bank Rate, | of New York was stricken tonight in Berlin, Sept. 29—The possibility of | cagrem iy Just as he conclided an s S vernor Todd for the impeachment managers, | & reduction of the German bank rate|fes < Brasioriios O tiaiden M 5 3 Was ndld pot s e oK slate|ing. Physicians who attended Mr over | “that the fact that the witness did | Was ut tod by Otto Von Glas- | Woodruff at first thought that he had iis im- | not smooth Mr., Taylor the right way | CNapp. vice president of the German | ufiered a stroke of paralysis and said B | had some bearing on the question.” | Inperial_bank at the monthly meet- | pig eonditlor oy refaralysis and sai h f the hi; Ruled Out by Judge Cullen. ing of the institution. As he was speaking Mr. Woodruff ction sustained,” ruled Judge CEECREA turned to John Purroy Mitchel, the L e has already said he voied | Suffragettes Destroy Golf Links. fusion candidate for mayor, and com- Seainst the bill ana if ‘this witmees | Yarmouth, Bngland, Sept. 29—MiNi- | Dlainéd of & painSin his dnee. He Was already against the bill, it showed | 1art suffragette “arson squads” ware | continued his address, however, but as he did not reteive the price of a cor- | again busy last nightwand destroyed | he Concluded 1£“he reeled and would = 2 rupt bargain.” tne Greens of the municipal golf links | have fallen to the floor of the stage On practically the same grounds |here with acld, The women left a con. |Bad not Mr. Mitchel and others on . o Cullen held that the charges in | fession of their crime on the ground. |the platform supported him, =8 nection with the Prime case were - A Political Fi for 30 V. G L e case el : qure for ears. r LAl ifterance wes Hing v fofor Sighs iDec oe Mr. Woodruff was carried to an v b e 3 . isa. Ttaly, Sept. 29.—King Victor | ante-room where he wus attended by Cullen 5o valed out ail evi- | Smmanuel today signed a decree sub- | two physicians. Later he was taken were « of gett ediciation of, Assembiyman | he royal hunting lodge at San Ros- |in an uptown hotel, accompanied by rnor's sigr B he public good. sore, dissolving the chamber of depu- | Mrs, Woodruff, who had attended the = : ® or the public &0od. ations | oS 4nd calling general elections for | meeting with him, . 1 that | 4 ew hether s constitutional or e vears old, has been a political figure - x b M b B A s S R :revnsi Wins International Cup. in New York state for nearly thirty e 3 i featis theims, Irance, Sept. 2 Taurice [ vears. Seculs | N o . Sanitarium. | prevost toduy won for France the in Was a Republican Leader. - of With the introduction of evidence |ternational aeroplane cup open to all| Up to a,dear ago, when he lett, the S 1ses were | Of three more campaign contributions [ nations but with only France and Bel- cans ity i ome 10 Feported in ‘the §OVEEnors. €570r republican party and joined the . ere 1 in govern, SWorn | gjum competing, by flying the 124.28 | gressives, there were few s : e et T e e e gressives, there were few state and $ P e kot e g record time of 59 min- | city republican conventions which he 3 | apaeine e g0y it . or over {wo miles | did not attend as a delegate. In 1888 o . Sllegod Wall street gpeculs- | a minute. Ho vanuished Bistwo for_ | ho m1s's Geiee e ‘o B0 republiosn -~ 3 end of their case today. It | et '14; 'm‘l—”g‘q‘"‘" ents, Emile Gil- | national convention and at the 1908 . - was announced that with the call OF, who took S0 SR convention e nominated Jam, e B SadRBls oo Tio contribabas ag T:NJT ;”“ § o Schoolcraft Sherman for vice presi- y s one or two other witnesses tomorrow po Wt # dent. From 1897 to 1903 Mr. Wood- . g S R e Rl Albert Crombe 0 lieutenant governor of New P against the governor we o time was 69 minutes, 52 sec- £ ong missing Frederick L. Col- For vears Mr, Woodruff was chair- - |86 Sio. avvoiding o comosci tor the | DEFENDING KITTEN. | coun: embracing Brooklyn, and a . st it~ | governor, but will consent to testify | Radaliaidy dominant advisor in his pariy’s poli- » ' |as the zovernor's witness under stip- | Gang of Foreigners Used Knives After o of tae te. Leaders were ac- & ulation that he not.be placed under Abo i customed to meet for conferences at d BRI ror rbtEine Yo, cbey the sl busing Feline. Kamp Kill Kare, his Adirondacks es- i poena of the Frawley investigating [ Cambridse, Mass, Scpt. 20.—Bécause | tale Which was purchased recently © committee. Counsel for the managors | John Scanhell, ased 17 ehampioned the | Alfred G. Vanderbilt had not decided tonight whether to |cause of an abused kitien, he was stab- Became Progressive Leader. agree to this stipulation bed to death. When Theodore Roosevelt organized . Purchase of Big Four Stock, | According to the police version of the | the progressive party Mr. Woodruff BRI s taiine dinot be soev eS| annell and his companions | left the republicans and aligned him- | him, 3. B of Sthol et A s : on their way tc watch by the | self with the colonel, subsequently as- S i B9 nd Grar Smore the | body of dead friend when they saw | suming the progressive leadership in e see his | governor is alleged to have specnlated her ho homas Connors, sitting | Brooklyn. 3 Taylor, | aith som Rhs- €ahithis o fon @ et ‘hydrant with a kitten in| Soon after Mr. Woodruff was taker . sht w tions, will be a witness tomorrow. Thug | 1S arms. A zang of foreigners com- | to his apartmeni, Dr. Norman E. Ditt- 2 Counsel have been unable to Tocats | INE down the street noisily also spled | man and two nurses arrived and-took t him. His partner, Arthur L. Fuller, | the kitten, and one of their number | charge of the patient ? m rs. who was on the stand today, said that | ETabbed it by the neck, held it in the| Mr. Woodruff in his speech had bit- plied the Wit- | this was the fault of the subpoena |?ir a moment, then threw it into the | terly aitacked Tamma hall and Des: servers as Mr. Gray had been making | Street. Scannell and his companions | praised Theodore Roosevelt and Gov- Swest's etoed | no_effort to evade service. ‘:n,«'»v the kitten's cause their own. In | ernor Sulzer. ? s | Fuller and his employes gave festi- | the fight which followed bricks and | Last Words in Gasps. . . a _’»' many today tending to W at Col- ‘«! 1hbs were used, nearby windows were During his peroration he was fre a8 hair- | well had purchased 300 shares of “Rig | hed and one head was broken. | tly applauded. He had ‘;( ot : f efficienc i Stock through Fuller and Gray, | of the bovs cried out: “Look | Jiently avplas P e - submic. | Four k through Fuller and Gray, } Several of the boy d : 100K | pluded a reference to William A. Pren- L s for which was paid $37,000 in cash, [out; thev've got knives” A moment | Gargas (he candidate for the office . i b Contractor May Testify. | lnter, Scannell fell to the sirest, stablof comptrdlier, when his legs sagse ¥ y "k Sl e e B + to. | Ped throush the heart. Other bovs had | and he seemed about to fall. The last - e day the Sssembly manasers miremiecd | their coats slashed. —¥Four men were|few words he uttered came in gasps A 3 Sl & confPGitor atd. raliocdll = Immediately the large audience in mary | recently announced that he had loaned | PLACED UNDER ARREST | fore was shouting enthusiastically, be : = 2 | Governor Sulzer $26,000 in cash. Reilly | # i came silent. Mr. Woodruff was ca T rrupted | had relations with Sulzer when the | One More Harriston Victim Succumbs | ried to ) chair ‘!'f' ‘: C oy “‘;”“" 3 for the |latter was chairman of the foreign af- to an ante-room off the stage, to which e faira commitiee in congress. He may | tofihis Viounds, | two ‘physicians in the audience hur- n be wi s tomorrow iSEA Ty s e N ried. o . Attorn a m Harriston. Miss. Sept. 20.—Another P Y R PR fatality due to Sunday's riot brought o et T T | the deatn list today up to eleven, three | Both physicians said 3 oodruft | PRESIDENT ELLIOTT white persons and eight negroes. Hom- 2;;" ‘;'\\”{fl“f"l,:in% ”1 ,r»;h:;-\nw: ;‘\;;;}:;‘- MITCHEL MAKES REPLY TO FOSs, | er Atken, a nesrosuccumbed to wounds | 81 (1o ofl side- t inf i O O Mrs. Woodruff, vho had stood be- Fusion C an Attack on | Tells Governor Fault Lies in Manner | Jones brofuns, il nsusnmalon e e o of Reading Reports. {isorder, which ended when they Were | ,ygicians that her husband’s condi- —— e SR Y tion was serious and would become Purroy | _ Boston, Sept. 20.—President Howard |, [ocal authorities today worked onm ;o0 "So” nniess he secured immediate a Eiliott of the New York, New Haven | (he theory that the Jones hovs Were|.itention. Mr Woodruf was then city and Hartford railroad, in a letter to [ #0Vised to begin thelr murderous out| j5ceq in a chair and carried to his iy ‘notificd | Governor Koss which was made pub- | HUFSt and in & drugged condition read- | fyigmobile and removed to his apart ir hel o N e e ¢riticism of | iPheir mother was taken Tnto custody | MeBts E P : ed great expenditures by the road | Their mother was tafen In's 24| Son Denies Shock. 1 S Moat entirely i1 the mannen of readiny | Prophet, a negro of Champagn, Il |Woodruff, a son, who had b LN T the publiciger: H ) Whe Johck boysle prestia at the hotel. After seeing I s % g~ Ve ~ e 2 r Sl or | he made the following staten v Governor IFoss had called for an in- | With Robert Patten, another . : 4 b e on by the public service com ml i V)"flv‘l'm“ organized "( Fh'rm- v‘;r‘l‘m!l;n'.:‘h.” 1. 2 :»",‘?, T S o e AT R A e ek . | stead he is suffering from a com £ ¥ period substantially covered by | TELEPHONE OPERATORS | Remons e e : day. | the last session of the Massachusetts MAY BECOME MEMBERS. | plained of being ill but ref s R e ¥iCes, and —— | cancel his enzagement to spesk ; for Sertain teme listed under the un- | Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | fusion meeting. I have been infc Sk Establishes Woman's Branch. | by Dr. Dittman that there is : Prebidant Mniott explaingd | litely no danger. Father resting o Eie 10 the Eovernor “that | Fosion, :pl. 29.—Women members | now quietly and is askinz for food 3 At Sl ok ‘ "t oth anted the right to vote on in- A short time afterward Dr b 4 e e L s e ool | complete autonomy over their own lo- | stitement. Hc added that the pas Bamission as & subalivision in e | cai business by the international con® | tient's ner®ous system had hee & 8 L Tlie heatihy om o our' | vention of the American Federation of | taxed and that with rest and quiet his r D e raliroud te nide anyihing of | ers today. - This action followed the — — o by the railroad to hide anything or | Crcation of a woman's department of | STOP WATCH USED IN e T rasult of {he reenot! | the brotherhood, in which telephone | EXAMINING SCHMIDT - = had heen a iransfer of expenditures | Slectrical shops will he eligible to|gqpioyed to Test Working Rapidity of | % | o adverticing on the compamy's bogk | membership. These workers in every | 5 Bral oEl Iassification of other ex. | Section of the country will be organ- Murderepies Brain: chiBes? o thit o i Hisinew | ized under the new department, it was P AT g P that of "traffic advertising” | ;nounced. The right to vote in in- | New York, Sept. 28.—A stop watch ¥ R | ternational ccnventions is being given | 3S 2 means of testing the working rap- coLp, THE FIRE ESCAPES | the women in only the proportion of | idity of the human brain was employ: - | one te fa ry two to which wom- | & Yy an a oday se L E WERE INADEQUATE | 20 00 e s are eligiblo. & Fans Schmidt, the German priest who Is na | to Treatment et o 7 | SHE Ry has confessed to cutting the body of e a Verdict of Coroner’s Jury on the Bing- Steamship Arrivals. Anna Aumuller Into pleces and throw- 3 S, i i the river. e a1l cRuat | At Glassow: Sept. 28, . Camaronie, mgo;}:;?;zl:’:s being evamined at tha | I3 Binghamton, N. Y. Sept. 29.—“The } frr‘;m New: Tork; Parislan, from Bos- instance of District Attorney Whitman | has not been det. n s | to r Dr. George H. Kirby, clinical di- - = {gande. Bie Bt besn ditstoined: ie| At Wiatenard: Sept. ss, {husttants, | Dy DG oTReE BIEERYdlinieal a1 ) : i h | mour of Whitney Point, regarding the | from New York for Liverpool, Ward's Island. _Mr. Whitman also was | a ? | Binehamton Clothing company fire, | At Plymouth: Sept. 29, Kaiser Wil- | present\ Dr. Kirby as he asked the | e which resulted in the loss of 32 lives | helm IL, from New York for Bremen. | priest questions, used the watch to | 3 r Fe ek |on July 22 this year. The verdict was | At Naples: Sept, 26, Canada, from|measure the time it took Schmidt to | - i =h | filed with the county anthorities today, | Montreal and Quebe: gather his ideas and put them into | oc < at | The deciston Includes several facts | At Patras: Sept. 27, Martha Wash-| words. All this was with a view to < not re- | which appeared to the coromer to be | nston, from New York for Trieste. determine if Schmidt is insane, as it B m inusual At Bremen: Sept. 2§, Keonig Lulse;|is expected that the priest's plea will a s pres The building was twenty years old,” | from New York. be Insanity when he Is brought to trial. ? he re . “the interlor was of soft | At Glasgow: Sept. 23, Pretorlan,| The result of the examination was v e rnished, {he material man- | from Montreal Sl not made known. Dr. Kirby and other ® s ary s hereln was of highly in-| At Cherbrurg: Sept. 29, Kalser Wil- | allenists wil question the man further | r x Aunmanle compositlon, #n oid woodew [ helm IL, from New York for Bremen. | tomorrow and their report is cxpected 5 ~ 4 | stairwa <in use for the cntire four | At Landon: Sept. 29, Minnewaske, | to be given Mr. Whitman by next Mon & . e ik - | storles and sbove the first floor but [from New York. day: ie one etalrway communicated with the At New York: Sept, 29, Moltke, from s | remainder of the building.” Naplen Nilssen Awaits Fram at Panama. i Tie nlso sets forth that the fire es- | At Gibraltar Sept, 28, Berlin, from| Paname, Bept, 29.—Captain Torvald | witl o wet's nANBqUALS, New York for Naples: 26th, Saxonta, | Nilssen, commander of the polar ship Calif, Se « i S from New York for Naples, Fram, 14 here to swalt the arrtval of - 1 i ' At New York: Sept, 29, Candia, from | his vessel, According (o latest ndvices o Shew, the | 400 Dead on Mexican Battlefield, | Aarsellles, the Fram f4 coming up the South . o | Pledras Negras, Mexico, Sept, 20.— | At Montreal: Sept, 29, Seotlan, from | Amerloan coast slowly and is stopping ‘x; " vdd; "-", on ]'~ 1;7 | More than four hurn:!rsd :am“‘ml:‘ ahnd gondo‘n: !;rmndiifii:;, 11"“(" Glulgdo:: at various ports on the way, - man and he wi 1d pend- | rehel dead were left on the flel e- | Canada, from ool; Cassandria, tne ¢ Investigation of the murder | Jaw Rarroteran, whera a flerce mirug- | from Glasgow, Alfred Andersen of Hartford, well »f Gax. the Christian | gie ook place hetween e (wo forces | At Dover: Sept, 29, Kroantand, from | knawn sk a wrestler and spart promot- = oner. Whe was slain in | Baturday and Runday, according to re. | New York, ar thraugheu! New Kngland, was ber consultation room some lime last | ports brought (o cvnsmuuunaunj (AL Naples:. Sept, 28, Sant Anna, from | drowned jn Bequennock Sunday wmlal Friday evening. & ... headquarters today.- % © . mw Now-York, - ' on a fshing-teip, Sahle Island, Sept. 29, President Grant, Hamburg for Ney York, signuiled 635 miles eagt of San dy Hook at 3 & m. Dock 9 & m. on Wednesday, 7 % a man Iving in the ! ance circles, died today at his home | Mrs. | closed to lal The Aeolian Co., has factory at Meriden, owing troubles. that Representative Timothy D. S dent. Joseph Bouvikowski, aged five, killed when he was run over by a he vesterday. Notices Were Posted yesterday erly of the St. Louis World Publi ing company. Isaac Vail Brokaw, day at his home in Elberon, N. J, his 80th year. Because of the Rapidly Increa: trade between the United States sels is expected. erament owned-ships of all de: tions repaired at the navy vards, stead of by contract as formerly. John F. congress, fell dead at his home at Oskaloosa, ITowa, yes! day. Physicians said his death due to apoplexy. laces and other Jewelry recently st from the home of Mrs, C. Chumnse: Narragansett Pier. has succeeded in on one acre of ground a crop ginseng, which he has already tracted to sell for $50,000. culturist, signed a statement declar tention to violate an order, Judge Humphries in Seattle, W prohibiting them from gpeaking streets. To the Barl proprietor William C. Carroll Lighthouse hotel at Lighthouse his wife and clerk, Thomas Ca their lives vesterday, was burning. g of some poodle d of. Mrs. William H. Fuller, 47 ves Texas Democrats are astir over the discovery that the large oil pairting of General Sam Houston which has oc- | cupied a_position of honor on the walls of the State Chamber has been re- moved and a painting of ex-Senator Joseph M. Bailey put In its place. Thomas Mott Osborne, chairman of the New York Commission oh Pr Reform, entered Auburn prison yes day morning to serve a short self-imposed, for the purpose of stu: ing the effect of the present pri system on the mental and phys condition of a man, Compelied to Sleep of her son's home all Saturday ni because the son's wife ghiected to presen. of the Bridgeport charity board.and tion authorities in New York. ment for an active campaign for election this fall of tions was started at at a conference of dirdet primary" Tocates from many sections of state. | vear old daughter, Tllyn Mason, | American mining engineer, who having been convicted of killing terday to Mexico. The Chinese was killed | Mason for attacking his little girl, was badly tajured in accident &t Bradford, night when his ststes Miss Lillian Lee of Brookline was killed, died y hiil nespital, e Leo wos riding In & basket ultached to her brother's motor cycls, when the ne collided with an elsetric car, terdey at the Hayv ma Fatal Tose from Saddle. | George Geity, wife of a weslthy st Condensed Telegrams its bor A Coroner's Jury Found yesterday uli- van, (“Big Tim") met death by acci- was avy wagon near his home at New Britain for the sale under foreclosure of the brop- sh- pioneer cloth- ing merchant of New York died vester- , in g and Japan a shortage of trans-Pacific ves- An Alligator Crawled from the mouth of a sewer in Shreveport, La., causing a panic among many women. It was shot by a policeman. J Secretary Daniels plans to have gov- Tip- in- Lacey, former member of the doorway of ter- was A Reward of $20,000 has been offered for the return of the 360 pearl neck- len at Elias Kittle, a West Verginia horti- producing of con- Captain Harold V. Jones, of the army - in- issued b og! the | found an Immediate operation Point, owe when the hotel \old, te term, dy. con ical the back vard ight her PMrs. Annie Thuroff, an aged | Russian immigrant, is now in the care he { case has been referred to the immigra- The Twice Defeated Sulzer direct | primary bill was endorsed and a_move- the assemblymen pledged to state-wide direct nomina- bany vesterday ad- the Accompanied by His Wife and sight an es- caped imprisonment in Korea after Chinese, arrived at San Francisco yes- from the Orlent on his' way by Harry F. Loe of North Weburn, who the motor cyela Muss, Sundwy i Silver Springs, Md., Sept, 99,—Mrs, ock farmer here and ene of the best known Killed late teday near breaking a saddle Steamer | horsewemen in the atate, was fngtanthy her hame when e was (Arewn frem o carriage while | b horse o harngas ~ Nahant, Mass., States Senator Henry Cabot Lodze. senior member of the Massachusett: delegation in congress, who was oper: ated upon Friday for a gastric ulcer, was, according o his physicians to- night, “not entirely out of danger.” News of the senator’s illness leaked out by accident today. Then it was learned that for 24 hours following the operation his life had been despairéd of.¢ The operation itself, his physicians said, was successful, but the patient, weakened by his labors at the extra Sept. 20 —United session of congress, did not have the vitality to rally promptly from the shock. Recovery a Matter of Vitality. Hig recovery, according to Dr. ¥, B. Harrington, one of his physicians, is largely a matter of vitality, in which his 64 years and the fact that he was a very tired man previous to the op- eration must be taken into considera- tion. According to Dr. Frederick Winslow, another of the physicians, the senalor’s condition late tonight was “excellent.’ The silence of the Lodge household medical corps has reached the con-|at Eastern Point w broken for the clusion that the recruits of today are| first time since the senator return inferior in strength and physique to|from Washingion by his secretary, B. the soldiers in the army in 1875. T. Clark, who gave out the following e statement tonight More Than 180 Soc: have | His Secretary’s Statement. enator Lodge was operated on last en- Friday for a ulfer. The ator had been suffering for some dz with what was thought to be an attac of indigestion, but his condition be- came so eritital that the physicians neces- sary. Dr. Harrington and Dr. Winslow who are in charge of the case, today pronounced the senator's condition en- tinrely satisfactor Even some of {he senator's most in- timate friends were surprised today to learn of the serious nature of his il ness. He had returned from Wash- ington ten days ago, complaining that he was tired and wanted a rest. In the seclasion of his .csaie on the ged cliffs overlooking Massachusetts Zastr) OPERATION UPON SENATOR I.UI]GE“ Life of Distinguished Citizen Was Despaired of For 24 Hours After It Had Been Performed bay, he took many short strolls, but an Wednesday he complained of the in- creasing severity of his indisposition. Physician Called Thursday. On Thursday he called in the family physician, Dr. Laurence Cusick, who found the senator suffering from an ulcer of the stomach. The growth was acutely developed, he said, and he ad- vised an immediate operation. This met with the opposition of Sen. ator Lodge, who thought such a step unnecessary and that he was too weak to go under the knife. The family, now greatly worrled, call- ed in Drs. Harrington and Winslow, who confirmed the diagnosis of Dr. Cusick and said that an operation was | mecessary to save the patient’s life, Mrs, Lodge, it is said, added her pray- ers to the doctor's advice and the sen- | ator submitted to their will. Two Policemen on Guard. Dr. Harrington performed the opera« tion ‘Friday, assisted by Dr. Winslow. A slight rally on Saturday was not satisfactory to the physicians, and an- other consultation was held Sunday. By this time a still further gain, though slight, offered more encouragement, and Dr. Winslow's report on his con- dition late tonight as “excellent” ndi- cated additional improvement. Hundreds of telegrams and telephone messages poured into the senator's home tonight when the news of his iliness became known to the public fo: the first time through a few words dropped by a member of the house- | hold. Secrecy had been maintained at the Trequest of the semator himself, 1t was sald, and two policemen maintain- ed a guard around the estate, which is shut off by nature from the rest of the town. Congressman Gardner Cafls. Congressman A. P. Gardner, son-in- law of ~Senator Lodge, forsook the work of pressing his campaign es re- publican candidate for governor of Massachusetts to pay a call upon the senator. He staved at the Lodge home nearly ‘an hour, .and_ then motored back to his home ‘n Hamilton. GIRL SAYS ELLIS IS NOT HER HUSBAND Attempted Suicide Because She Thought She Wed Murderer. Indianapoli: ept. 20.—Audrey Ba- ker Anderson, the Danville lls., girl who attempted suicide here last week at a hospital, today declared when shown a photograph of Joseph Ellis, who Is sought by the police here as Schilansky, the Oneida that he i the man who lured Joseph a merchant, to a room in hotel and murdered him not the man to whom she was mar- | ried in Danville on July 5 under the name of Roy Anderson. The photo- graph was sent here by Ellis' family from Richmond, Va. | " The girl previously had identified a | picture of Fred Drokaw, wanted in Pittsburgh, for robbery and for a time | confused with Ellis, as her husband and gave as her reason for attempting | her life that her husband was a mur- | derer. The man who killed Schanksy | regtsterea at the hotel here as “W. R. | Anderson.” The Baker zirl's descrip- | tion of Anderson tallled with the de- | scription of Filis furnished by his fam | fly and_it was believed that her hus- | band anid Ellis were the same. | “The Danville girl is slowly improv ling at the hospital from a bullet | wound in the lung and physicians now say she will recover ss there are | complications. | The police search for the slaver of Schlansky is being continued through- | out the country and a number of s | pects have been arrested, but all have | been released according to local police. | DROP CHARGES AGAINST | DIGGS AND CAMINETTI | Minor Offenses of. the Two Men Are | to Be Overlooked. | Sacramento, Calif. -All | charges agai Maur and F. Drew Caminetti, which been | pénding in the courts here since their | 2rrest, and the criminal charge of con- | fributing to (he felinquency of the minor children of Diggs and Caminetti, | which were pending against Lola Nor- Tis and Mareha Warrington, were dis- missed by Superior Judge iHughes and Township Justice Clarken today on the motion of the district attorney, Diggs and Caminetti, besides bheing charged with contributing to the de | linquency of their minor children, were | under indictment for child abandon ment. Charges of adultery against the two young men in a justice court also Were dlamissed. There is still pending in the juvenile jeourt a petition to declare Marsha | Warrington and Lola Norrls dependent | children. | TARIFF BILL TO BE SIGNED THIS WEEK Is the Expectation of Demo- cratic Leaders at Capital, Washington, Sept, 29.—The demo- cratio tariff revision bill advanced to its last congressional stage today when it was brought back to the hou from the joint conference committee with the unanimous endorsement of the democratic conferees. Leaders in both houses of congress were confident toni that the bill, approximately compiete now would be signed by Presldent Wilson before the and of this week | Such Religious Riot in Belfast. Belfest, Sept, 29— While & mmle. ant Tegiment was embarking for India to- T efienAs of the soldiers sank songs mwnon-.blu to the natlonalists, A ript ensued, which was queiled by the uge of clubs by the police. Mitfien: re Bixby Not Guilty. Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. 2. —George CURRENCY BILL GIVES BANKS TOO MUCH POWER Vital 'Untermyer Proposes Several Changes in the Measure, ‘Washington, Sept. 29.—General re- vision of the details of the adminis- tratlon currency Dbill to ensure the carrying out of the purposes of the {measure was recommended to the sen- |ate banking and currency committee today by Sammuel Untermyer of New | York. Many of the changes proposed by Mr. Untermyer went to vital points ‘Df the bill. | __The bill as at present framed, Mr. | Untermyer declared, gave the banks themselves too«much power in the or- ganization and control of the proposed new system. He recommended that the proposed "ndvisory council” of bankers as an adjunct to the federal reserve board be abolished and that | the government be given closer powers of regulation and removal over re- glonal reserve directors elected by the banks. He urged, however, that the banks be given a flat profit of six per lcent. on their investment In the re- | glonal banks and the government be | gtven all profits above that figure. | | FLOODS IN LOUISIANA RICE CROP IN DANGER. Not More Than Half a Crop Unless the Rain Ceases. Lake Charles, La., Sept. 29.—Floods in southrwest Louisiana reached serfous | proportions today. Lake Charles is in darkness tonight and without street car service, high water having put the power plant out of commission. houses in the lower sections of the are flooded and it is still raining. The Southern Pacific railroad has annufled all trains bound for New Orleans, and three branch railroads running into this city suspended today. Comserva- tive calculations are that unless the | rain cesses within a day, not mores than half a rice crop will be gathered. | Much of the crop is in the ficlds be- | cause of previous lack of-labor. Lum- ber companies have suffered damage from breaking of log Looms. DOCTOR POISONED BY PRICK OF A NEEDLE Veins Infected with Gangrens After Operation on Baby, New York, Sept. 29.—Dr. Robert J. | Morrison, president of the Willlams- | burgh hospal, pricked his finger ac- | cidentally with a needle Saturday af- ternoon; today he is critically ill of | blood polsoning. The needle did not draw blood but placed in his veins the infection from which a baby had | been suffering. Dr. Morrison had oper- ated on the baby, which was suffering |from gangrene, and had finished sew- |ing up the wound when he accident- |ally jabbed the needle into his own | Anger. LICENSE ISSUE ON i VOTING MACHINES. Judge Gager's Decision Upsets Opinion of Corporation Counsel. New Haven, Conn.,, Sept. 29.—A de- clsion of interest was handed down by Judge Gager of the superior court to- day, when he ruled that the city of New Haven st the coming election must vote on the excise question on voting machines, Corporation Counsel e S ‘s an ot B the regular wull“" vote, Condemn Governor Foss. Nakant, Mass, Sept, 2. —Governor Foss was cendemned for vetolng the il for ralsing wages of the metre | H, Bixby, a milllonalre of Long Beach, a1, ohargad with having contributed the Aewnfall of minor voung women, as found nol guilty by & Jury te. i politan pack department from §2 to $3,50 a day, at the convention ot the National d of State. ity and “held al PATIENT NOT YET ENTIRELY OUT OF DANGER What Was First Thought to be an Attack of Indigestion Proves to be Ulcer of the Stomach—Operation Was Per- formed on Friday But Sirict Secrecy Was Maintained by Family—His Recovery Now a Matter of Vitality. B