Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 14, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV—NO. 273 NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1913 CAIN GIVES STARTLING TESTIMONY Howarth’s Co-Defendant Admits Complicity With Former in Setting Two. Putnam Fires “Cabled Paragraphs American Jaokies Visit Pompeil. Naples, Név. 13.—Three hundred bluejackeéts of the battleships Arkan- sas, Florida anda Wyeming paid a visit to Pompeii today. Colonel Boulgarin a Suicide. Rome, Nov. 13.—Colonel Boulgarin, the Russian military attache at Rome, committed suicide today. 1e had been suffering from a serious illness. American 5-Ilon at Venice. MURDER AND ROBBERY WERE ALSO SUGGESTED Witness Declares Thzt Howarth Had Proposed Robbery of Mrs. Bennett Whom He Regarde das Wealthy—Gives Detailed Description of Origin of Fires—Howarth Threatened to Kill Cain if He Made Disclosures. since that tim When fir in the iHetin.) he W 1 winter had_five fendant (Special to The B Willimantic, Nov. 13. of the Howarth arsen ensation sprung high by the prosecuti Phurddayy the duated in 1903, and studied law in 13t st DABEE RGNS B tho AEfovasns 1ess’ office a litte over three year: when Lindley Cain, law siudent and Until admitted, witness thought, in super] court messenger, accused of | January, 1912 Defendant told him all somp with Howartn in the Put- | Of the cars were second hand except fires, took the stand an detaileq | the Chalme Witness would not nam the facts of his th and admitted that he and the de- | intimacy with How- . have known by the looks whether they were new or not. His other cars were fendent set the fire on Priest's Island, | £one and Howarth told him they were so calied, and at the fair srounds, | S0id, With ception of one. How- when Howarih’s two cars were burned, | 2rth did s ery pusiness with the s Cain said. to getsthe insuranc Pope, the Velie and the Regal Told B B e s him he had made a profit on the Ford Amazing Statements. and the Pope-Hartford. Howarth Am amazing siaiements of | wanted him to keep quiet about the the witness. several h promi- | price paid for the Velie, as didn't want Ome aie Policeman | it to spoil a trade. The price struck and he remembered it. rd was bought for three witness as low Thought the I Putnam fire, and ley was i Island e night of the Howarth told and “To b—I with Hur- | or four hun Let's slip one over on him.” Knew Nothing of Mines. . L T he reason Howarth gave for ask- was my work, and I'm proud of i his advi western trip Robbery as Well as Arson. that ring of mines. Another was that Howar ! No price was m!]v[mned Witness told nciuded, in addition to the fi him 20, as he could find someone bery of Mrs Benneit and two mur- | there who would know about mines. e | ! Hurley Took the Casts. Threatened to Kill Cain if He Told. | Henry Duryea, recalled, testified that her statements were that Howarth | he saw Hurley the ¢ after the fire to kill Cain if he told: that curred at th s, and saw ‘ain to help ve an footprints there ¥ out by Mr.j§ ain had tion | J Hurley took two casts of foot- t to church, so would not be | brints; when they were dug witness FRANK E. HOWARTH LINDLEY H. CAIN took them out; one was broken and no good. The smaller one was broken. suspected; that after the Priest Island fire Fowarth said: “Now youTe in it | Hurley took them away. as deep as I am. and have got to keep your mouth shut.” { On cross examination witness said The . A | 1t rained after about an hour. Experimented With Candles. casts were left until morning. Wit- testimony that they two ex- | n covered them over with boards. ted with cand reading : o5 gazine accounts of they were ESie i the Automobile. d: thal Howarth siole $85 {rom Mr There were four in the automobile | arner’s office and promised him which disturbed witness by starting | keep his mouth shut, and hls near the fair grounds the night of the | piicit explanation of how the fire about 11.45. These got out; wit- | grounds fire was set, and the pains ness did pot know where they went. | he o make ceriain of the de- | They got out about 150 feet from the | f Howarth's automobiles, | gaie. near the office, which is between | ation affer sensation. the gate and nou | 4 The fire started at precis. | Testified With Readiness. Witness was excused and the state’s | His replies me quick and feadily, | attorney laid in papers showing the | with no hesitation at apy time, and | title and properties where two of the impressed his hearers h their sem- which it is alleged were set by ! ance of reality and truthfulne: In | the defendant occurred. cross examimation he did not falter, Attorney Torrey stated to the court and acted guite differently from one that Mr. Clapp, the clerk in the secre- who i telling a prepared sio tary of state's office, who brought the | The fact that Cain was tifying for the licenses put in | was Yuickly noised around, and every week, nearly lost his job | Inch of available space was filled, so | in consequence, and substitutes were | #ha: court had to walt at the opening filed by agreement of counsel, | of the aftermoon session until chairs Cain on the Stand. “ouid be procured for coun : e d be procu i indley Cain was then called and | Candles Used When Howarth’s Mother | (00k (ho s(and. zave his age as 1, | Did. s education, and stated thai he had RO 5 ng P known ¥Fran Howarth for over ten e Bk oHihit Waidisitons, sars, had alwayvs been playmates, had when Cain exhibiied by means AN i gt e Box ana rags the m gl Spe o e . box, s A D Dielie e in Putnam many times ndle= they used were those EAPEY ACRy, WRES oL Joun shodn had been bought for the last In Collection Business. on the date of Howarth's had heen engaged in a collec death last spring. iness. called the “Legal Col- It was a frightful story to which £sociation of Connecticut,” for iz‘wa;:s‘ fances. .,.‘,\.":;fa S e they had Ir‘nprm;mL lpr:]ntad, d - “ , she. 8 h - in number. Cain described the mnlh;"r x‘vl‘;hrhwm"fwmz- "l' wak ':1; printing on these leiterhead: About | ticeable thai she responded less readi- | b jotioy SR id con- o g A S e ,;iw tiers were sent out. He did con- | g = siderable typewriting for Howarth in than on other occasions. his office. Sent out form letters an- Putham Attorney Testifies. nouncing Howarth's candidacy for the The first witness called at the morn- | 20Siion of representative in 1912 Ing sessiop wae Attorney M. H. Giess- | 20Ut 250 in number. apiea o of Putnam. His testimony was mn little work for Howarth sirce then. part as follows: Had known Howarth SW a great deal of him and spent Mitimately for several years, and DY evenings with him. | known him to have five antos which Howarth’s Cars. | he said he owned. Had ridden in all ome time in winter of 1910-11 How- | e of them. a Fora runabout, Pope Hart- ford touring car, Velie touring car, Regal runabout. Chalmers touring car and Hudson, the last of which How- purchaged a Ford runabout; his car was a Pope-Hartford ear, for h he thought the price was $600. s rold to Tony Leo about a year | arth did not claim to own. The Ford later. The Velie was bought in May, | was in his possession in 1910. The 19i2. Howarth told him it was bought | Velie he rode in about May, 1912, soon | hefore Decoration' day. Saw receipted | after §t was bought. Howarth told!Dbill for it and the price was $750, him in July, 1913, that this car was Bought from George Gorh company of | burned in the falr grounds fire, as well | Boston. The next car was a Regal | as another one. On the first day after runabout; finally sold in Boston to | the purchase of the car, Memorial day, | licorge Groh. Chalmers tourlng car witness rode in Velle, and Howarth was purchased in March, 1913, Fad | told him it was a second hand car and scen Howarth running a Hudson. Had he paid $600 for the car.in -Boston und ' ridden in all but the Hudson. How- bought it, witness thought, of George ' arih ouly owned one Velle car, It was | Groh. ¢d. Howarth told him before the car was burned he wished to realize | money on i, Sald cost $760 and re- Witness saw the car just before it | went into the paint shep, the week be. fore the fair grounds fire. palring and overhauling coest $96, but . SE Tr {1t Was hard (o get the money out of Bpske SEIVVENERTA. Trip: s/ 1t The car was 1910 model, Howarth | d himn, and wiiness knew it was a ond hand car, Was present with Howarth when he made application | from Gorman for insurance on the car, Howarth told Gorman to insure both cars, $300 on the Velle and $1.400 In bis office some time after the 15th | L of July, 1912, Howarth said he wanted | to ask advice on a maiter of business, had & wealthy lady client who wanted him to go to Colorado, near Denver, in connection with two mines, in re- gard to which someone was Urying to on the Chalmers, A few days later cheat her, Said he knew nothing Witness saw the policles in Howarth’s abnut mines, and wished advice as to office. g whether he should go, i Made a Mistake. On cross examination stated the A day or twe afier the application | Ford car was purchased early in the | Cain and Howarth were in the Velio | up with him- Venice, Italy, Nov. 18.—Forty sailors and stewards attached to the United States battleship fleet arrived here to- day and spent the time in sightseeing. They will leave tomorrow for Florence. Lioness Wounds Schoolboy. Moeslin, Pomerenia, Germany. Nov. 13.—A young lioness while on exhibi- tion before the boys of a local classical school here today escaped and serious- Iy injured a seven year old schooiboy and caused a panic among the other pupils. American Countess to Wed. Paris, Nov. 13, —The engagement was announced today of Countess Louls de Gontauts-Biron, cldest ~daughter of John G. Leishman, formerly American ambassador to Germany, to James Hazen Hyde, at one time prominent in New York ' Count de Gontaut-Biron died Dec. 10, 1907, TRAINMEN STRIKE ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC. Five Trains from New Orleans Can- celled Last Night. New Orleans, La., Nov. 13—Two passenger and three freight trains of the Southern Pacific railroad scheduled to startt from New Orleans tonight were annulled because of the strike of trainment and enginemen called at 7 o'clock. An effort will be made to take a passenger train out tomorrow morn- ing. Union officials at Algiers, just across the Mississippl river from New Or- say the striket order was obeyed by nearly every man on the New Or- leans lafayette division of the road. Tonight traffic seems paralyzed. Some trains art out on the line, but it is ex- pected the men will strike when they are brought in. Every enzineman and trainman at the Albiers terminus quit. The shops will be operated by non- unon men who have been working, it is aid, in place of striking shopmen for several months. No strike breakers were in evidence at Algiers early tonight, although it is reported some are on the way. DRUGGIST HAD FOUR STRINGS TO HIS BOW. Disclosed by Letters at Promise Trial. Winsted, Conn., Nov. 13.—The trial of Clinton Buc a prominent drug- gist, charged with breach of promise by Miss Mabel Scultepus, a summer resident, attracted a crowd teday, and the courtroom was packed. ‘women were present. lany endearing letters alleged to have been written by the plaintiff to Buck were read. In one of the letters she said She was a school teacher, and in another she tells of making money in a Wall street deal. From one of the letiers it was appar- ent that Buck’s mother had ob. Breach of to the proposed match and the plaintiff | : “You are over seven; | replied to Buc get out from under your whgs” It also developed letters that Buck was paying atten- tion to four young ladies at one time. SCHOOLBOY KILLED BY A DOCTOR’S AUTO. mother’s from the Little Fellow Was Playing With Com- panion in Street. New Haven, Conn, Nov. 13.—Henry L. Keppel, aged 12, while returning home from school this afternoon, was 2n automobile owned and Dr. Louis M. kmown physician. and instantly The accident happened in Cen- terville, a few miles from th Ac- cording to Dr. Gomper another boy was playing in the road. Keppel apparently did not see the ma- chine approaching front of it. His skull w Dr. Gompertz was held, leased on his own rec ut w nce. re- Coro- ner Mix is investigating. Garibaldi to Visit New York. New leans, N 13.—Guiseppe ribaldi, soldier of ru:mm, who has ared in revolution: ved in New Or day from Colon, and it is going to New York Central American eans to- said | car_and Gorman asked for the serial number. As they drove off Howarth | said: “I made a mistake in that. 14 can't get insurance the car 5 a8 1910, and I must raise the numbe lLater Howarth told (ain he had raised. the number 10,000 on the blind hope that would ma * it come under the manufaciurers’ 1 number. The Chalme 11 was bought in the spring of 1913 hortd after it was purchased, in Howarth's offi. defend- nt told him it was purchased of orge Groh for $850, §: sh and note for the $600 balance. The receipt showed cash payment of 3850 'l!l | his best recollection it was a 1912 Witness knew these facts before lho car was insured by (orman. Car Bought to Be Burned. Howarth told him the car was pur- ed for the purposé of desiroying it fire: said the V nt shop at the fair work was dc on it; nted the Chalmers to be revarnished: witnes: ook car down with Howarth to the shop where Way worked. - Howarth said he would take the- Velie back and have the brass work painted black. | They took the car gown Saturday aft- erncon with two gallon cans of kero- sene oil under the rear seat. Howarth Angry. After the caucus in October, 1912, witness discussed it with Howarth,who Was angry at the politicians for getting ira to withdraw hie name. Howarth had very little law business, one or two cases In preparation. Howarth said Wheaton had treated him mean, and he would even matters his business would burn very-soon. This talk was In Novem- ber, 1812, Howarth opened o law office himself when Carpenter left Pui- for nam Previous Fires. There had been fires previous to No- vember, 1912, One in the Killian sa- loon building the first part of Novem- ber. one e the Arcanum club building the night of the presidential election, hefore 10.30. Witness had beeu in the lobby of the Putnam Inn for an hour before and after, watehing returns. lHowarth plaved pool -with witness bout 8 p. m. Cain was in Puinam Inn when the fire started. There was a fire in the Cloutier bui ing the first week in November. Wi (Centinued en Page Eight.) lf&!ed steamer Charles S. Price. Many | Gompertz, a | Xeppel with | and ran directly in | s fractured. | he is| was in the | 5, and the | Vessels Collide on Lake Huron INDICATIONS THAT ONE IS BE- NEATH THE OTHER AN ENGINEER’S THEORY Identifies His Chief, Who Wore Life Preserver of Another Vessel—Fears for a Big Steel Freighter. Port Huron, Mich., Nov. 13.—Does another vessel lie beneath the wreck of the overturned vessel in Lake Huron, 13 mils from here This is the theory advanced by Mil- ton Smith, assistant engineer of the ill- Mt Smith had a premonition of the ap- proaching danger, and left his ship at Cleveland the day before it rode into the teeth of lake Huron's gale and foundered with 2ll hands on board. Identifies Chief Engineer. Mr. Smith returned to Pont Huron tonight from Thedford, Ont.,, where he went to help establish idemtlly of the men whose bodies were in the morgue there. The first body he identified was thht of John Groundwater, chief engineer-of lhe Price, whose home is in Cleveland. “Are you sure?” asked the coroner. “As sure as I know my own name is Smith,” he replied, “Well, this man had one of the Re- gina’s life preservers wrapped about his body,” sald fhe coroner. Indications of a Collision. Smith was dumfounded. How_ the chief engineer of the steamer Price happened to be found in one of the life preservers of the Regina was more than he could fathom. Then it dawn- ed upon the Port Huron man that the Regina and Price may have colllided, and in the attendant excitement sailors of each vessel grabbed the life pre- servers that happened to be nearest. His theory is further strengthened by the faot that the bodies of the men who went down on the Regina and the Price were found in precisely the same position on the shore, some of them even clasped in each other’s arms. This practically substantiates the belief that the overturned vessel on Lake Huron is eitser the Regina or the Price. Also Identified Price’s Steward. Tt also is thought that the vessels collided with such force that one of them either is piled on top of the oth- er, or that one of them has sunk com- pletely otu of sight. That the accident occurred with ter- jrible suddenness is established in Smith identification of the Price’s steward, Herbert Jones of Superior, Wis, “There he was,” said Smith, “lying there with his apron on, just as if he were about to prepare a meal or just ‘had prepared it. Evidently the poor fellow did not have even time to look after his wife, who was alsh on board, which shows how quickly the boat must have gone down.” Fears for Another Vessel. Marquette, Mich.,, Nov. 13.—There is | eveat apprehension here tonight that he 600 foot steel freighter, Henry B. Smith of Cleveland must be added to ihe list of vessels which met disaster in the recent heavy storm that swept the Great Lakes. There is fear that the Smith foundered in Lake Superior with her crew of probably 40 men, YOUNG GIRL SHOT TO DEATH BY BOY. | Two Lads Had Gone to Open Field to | Fight a Duel. | { Boston, Nov. 13—Little Mary Joyce, 12 years old, was shot to death today recause she did not move fast enough at the command of two boys. The po- | lice are searching for Christopher Har- aged 14, and Thomas Foley, aged both of whom were armed with olv Which of them did the ooting is uncertan.i Two other boys ha quarrelled in the street and started into an open field to “fight it ou Mary Jovce and oth- er children went with them. Harris IFoley, perched on a fence, brand- revolvers, the police say, shout- et out of here or we'll shoot.” The frightened children bolted for | | the street, the Joyce girl at the rear. | ice they heard an ominous hammer | as if a weapon had missed fir | shotr rang out, and Mary Joyc dropped with a bullet in the head. Soys Caught at Providence. | Provide: R. 1., Nov. 13.-—Christo- pher 14 and Thomas Foley, the| bovs w nted in Boston in cennection | the fatal shooting of 12 year old| > tn- Mary Joyce, were - arrested he night. On the arri of a freight | train from Boston William K. Pryor, aj | Iroad detective, caught sight of the | beys riding on one of the trucks | et { | WON'T ACCEPT MEDIATION. , i | | Rebel Leader Makes Significant State- ment Following Conference. ogales, Sonora, Nov. 13.—Interest focussed upon official Washington ight by the actors in the exchanges en President Wiison and G 1 nza, through Wiillam Bayard | 1t, was considered probabdle t | the next step would come mlhn-l in thel |form of an announcement from thei | American capital or a resimption of | ! the negotiations in Nogales between | | Mr. Hale and the constitutionali ief, Carranza, the officers of his staff an the members of his provisional cab-» | inet went about their routine of busi- ness today. Mr. Hale divided his time | between his hotel on the Afherican.side and the American consulate, talking with Consul Frederick Simpich and | callers. General Carranza’ referred to the Mexican situation only once today. “I will not enter into transactions | with the Huerta government, d.irecfly_l or indirectly,” he said. “Nor will I ac- cept the mediation of anybody.” i $12,000 Fire on Dr. Knight Place. Lakeville, Conn., Nov. 13.—A large stock and dairy barn on the estate of | | the late Dr. George M. Knight was burned to the ground tonight. The | loss s estimated at $12,000. The ori- gin of the blaze is unknown. The | stock was saved, but 160 tons of hay, | farming fmplements, the contents of | two silos and grain and feed were de- | stroyed. Silver Gifts for Miss Wilson. Washington, Nov. 13.—Miss Jessie Wilson’s wedding gift from senators— a silver service—will ineclude a lea‘ service, coffee pereolator, compote, ases, candelabra and trave, all fit- | tingly insorfhed and will cost a little more than $1000, | dian, | House was employed as an electri in the banker's | what officlals Lleft here to | #long the South Atlantic coast. iport, R. L, in PRICE_TWO GEHTS A Broken Rail Causes Wreck TWELVE LOSE LIVES ON CEN- TRAL OF GEORGIA R. R. OVER 100 ARE INJURED Three Rails Plunge Down Steep Embankment— Train Crowded With Excursi Coaches Leave and ts. Bufaula, Ala, Nov. 13.—Twelve per- sons were killed and more than a hun- dred injured, some of them fatally, early today when three coaches of a Central of Georgia passenger train left the rails at a point-17 miles south of here and plunged down a steep em- bankment. The train, which cons of five cars, crowded with excur: ists, was en route from Ozark, Al Eufaula, where a fair is being held. Th ‘eidentified dead are: The ldentified Dead. Pomp Outsey, aged 60, superinten- dent of the Barbour county poorhouse at_Clayton. Monroe Floyvd, aged 60, Clayton. Miss Bonnie Brock, aged 18, Clio. Curb_Bell, C Mrs. Laura Wilkinson, Clio. Mrs. Wilbur MacLean, Clio. Child of B. F. Brock, Clio. Mrs. Alto Adams, Elamville. Tennie Fryor, negro, Clio. Maud McRae, negro, Clio. Zack Peak, Clayton. Among those who escaped with minor injuries was Jefferson D. Clay- ton, a wealthy Alabamian, and brother of Congressman Henry D. Clayton of this state. Other prominent persons among the injured were Sheriff Teal and Will Teal, Mrs. M. McGilvary, C. C. Teal and wife and Henry Johnson, all of Clayton; Andrew Teal and Mrs. Fannie McRae of Clio; Simon McRae of Louisville, Ala., and J. M. Wilson of Eufaula, Ala. Caused by Broken Rail. A broken rail is said to have caused the accident. As the crowded excur- sion traln rounded a curve the three cars at the rear, literally packed with passengers, suddenly left the track and, breaking away from the others, rolled down the steep embankment. The coaches practically were demol- ished. Shrieks and groans of the in- jured rose above the rending crash of splintering timbers. Occupants of the two coaches re- maining on the rails immediately bent their efforts to rescuing the hundreds Who were caught in the tangled mass of wreckage. Word of the disaster quickly reached Clayion, Ala., three miles away, and relief trains bearing surgeons and purses were immediately despatched from Ozark and Fufaula, where most of the dead and injured later were taken. UPROAR AT A STATE D. A. R. CONVENTION. Maryland Regent Accused of Improper Use of Funds. Annapolis, Md., Nov. 13.—This after- noon’s session of the ninth annual state conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the state- house was in an uproar for some time following the call to order of the ses- sion after the noonday luncheon. Charges were made against Mrs. R. C. Hogan, the state regent, that she was using the funds of the society for the entertainment of guests. This pre- cipitated trouble, and delegates clam- ored for recognition. Others left the senate chamber and did not return un- til order had been restored. Transfers by Bishop Nilan. Hartford, Conn., Nov. 13—The fol- lowing official appointments are an- nounced by Bishop John J. Nilan of the diocese of Hartford, Roman Cath- olic: Rev. John Augustine Sullivan, from St. Thomas' seminary, Hartford, to St. Mary’s church, Lakeville (as- sistant); Rev. Michael J. Regan, from Assumption church, Ansonia, to Im- maculate Conception church, Hartford (assistant); Rev. Thomas J. Brennan, D. D, from St. Joseph’s church, South Norwalk. 1o Biblical institute, Rome (student) Re chael J. Lynch, from St lar: church, Lakeville, to | St. Josepn urch, South Norwalk (assistant): Rev. John H. Anderson; church, seminary from Immaculate Conception Hartford, to St. Thomas’ (professor). New Haven Physicians Held Up. Middletown, Conn., Nov. 13—Tt was reported to the local police tonight that two masked men had attempted to hold up Dr. William F. Verdi of New Haven, as he was on his way to that city in his automobile tonight. The scene of the attempted holdup was the New Haven turnpike on a lonely streteh of road between Durham and Northford. When Dr. Verdi re- fused to stop his machine at the com- mand, four shots were fired at him, of them taking effect. Steamship Arrivals. 13 rrived, ew York. ‘13, —Arrived R.,qun for Naples. Nov. 13.-—Arrived, steamer sin Cecile, New York n, . Nov. 1 New York. ved, steamer none steamer Copenhag steamer United States, Genoa. Noy. 18. Berlin, New York. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Siastonset, Mass., Nov. 13.-—Steamer Cedrie, Liverpool for New York, sig- nalled 427 miles east of Sandy Hook at 11 a. m. Dock 4.30 p. m. Friday. Cape Race, Nov. 13.—Steamer Cana Liverpool for Boston, signalled 210 miles east at noon. Stole $20,000 Collection of Coins. Kingston, N. Nov. 13.—Otto H. House, an electrician,was arrested here today on information from Baltimore charging him with the theft of a col- lection of gold coins valued at $20,000 from the home of a banker of that gity. ian while house in the family was absent. Motor Fo Washington, July e Boat on Cruise. Nov., 12.—BEquipped with consider the finest wire- less apparatus of its size in the United ates, the department of commerce's 65 foot terror of violators of navigation laws, ay for Its wintef crulse Old Aimanac Brmq- $525. Boston, Nov, 13-—An old alnxnac of thirty-twe pages printed in New- 1781 brought $325 at an auction here today. It was pu chased for the Rhode Island Historical society. IR steamer | Arrived, | motor police boat Tarragon, | Condensed Telegrams Boston Newsgirls will strike If thelr union is not recognized. Dr. Webster Fox of Philadelphia claims he can cure trachoma in one month’s treatment. Rev. Jof H. Edwards, former state senator and town clerk, at Exet#r, R. 1, died suddenly vesterday. After Searching For 50 Years, John Waters of Summit, N. J., succeeded in finding his son, James, in Centralia, 1L The Question of Changing from an- nual to biennial state elections will next Massachusetts come before the Jegislature. Mrs. Charles H. Arndt, of Reading, , died in a fit of laughter shortly after remarking that she would “yet die of laughing.” Because, They Claim, they are not given enough work, twenty weavers .the Berkeley, R. I, mills went out on strike yesterday. Women Students at the University of Chicago went on the war path when the price of hash was advanced to seven cents a plate. Charles Hecht, 18 years old, was ar- rested in New York for wearing an Elk’s pin and being unable to give the “high sign” of that order. The 1914 National Convention of the “Modern Woodmen of America yester- day was awarded to Toledo, Ohio, by the executive counzil of the society. John Burke, President of the Wood and Ewer Dry Goods company of Bangor, Me.,, died at his home in Brewer, Me., vesterday at the ase of 43 years. Miss M. C. McKaig a Guest at a fashionable Pittsburgh hotel reported terday that her room had been en- ered during the night and her jewels valued at $5,000 stolen. Action on the Proposal to give wo- men the vote in church government was postponed yesterday for one year by the Protestant Episcopal convention of the diocese of New York. Lee of New Grand Av- Patrolman Michael G. Haven walked into the enue station at three o'clock yester- day morning and said he was ill. He was sent to the hospital and died from hemorrhage of the stomach. Pretty Girls, a small army of them, were recruited yester to go forth Saturday in the streets of Washington to sell “The Suffra; " a new weekly publication spons by the N tional Suffragist red headquarters. William Campbell, negro sought by the Cincinnati police for murder, was found guilty a Montr yester- day of killing George Muir, and sen- tenced to hang on December 31. He cut Muir's throat after a quarrel An Explosion of Gas in a cafe at No. 583 Main street, Hartford yesterday wreckeq windows in the front and rear of the building, caused people to run from their houses in fear of an earth- quake and painfully burned and bruised Mike Culima who was in the place. A Charge of Fifty Cents a car by rallroads for switching cars to private scales, unless the weights so ascer- tained are to be used for assessment of freight charge8, was held by the Inter: terday, te Commerce commission j to be lawful Direct Elections of TUnited States senators under the new constitutional mendment in states where no re lations have been made by the 1 be provided for in reported from the senate next week. Interstate Commerce Commiss oner s- Eis- bill elec- to be tions committee Charles A. Prouty will confer y with the railroad and public vice commissioners of the New gland states, over the proposed increase in passenger and freight on the Boston and Maine railroad. An Unknown Young Woman drowned herself in the canal at Lowell, vesterday. Luther Hall, a me- plunged into the water to save but the woman fought so strenu- ously that he had to abandon the tempt. Three Belated Trans-Atlantic liners, | the Cambrian from London. the Han- over from Bremerhaven and the Par- isian from Glasgow. arrived at | ton yesterday, each bringing reports of terrific gs and mountainous geas. | Forty-Five Thousand Dollars worth of opium was used as fuel in the hig furnaces at the government appr sor's stores at Boston vesterday. The drug had been seized. Lucion Cable, a New York sports- under arrest at Brownsville, an i Dodge Me., pending the outcome of | | man is | | quest into the death of Charle: of Guilford, a guide, who shot Tuesday in the woods near oodic Lake. | An Autopsy Performed vesterday on the .headless body of woman found | on Hampton Beach H 2 confirmed the findi of the rn-‘lll( ad' feree that death The body is be was due to drown- lieved to be that of Received the N fa rom man’s tian Tempe: union gain lacing in the permanent | ! congressional record the funeral ora- tion pronounced over the remains of the late Adolphus Busch, a brewer of St. Louis.! That the Missionaries of the Meth- odist church will rush into Mexico as | try to prevent further revolutions and | uprisings was the decision made by | the general committee of the foreign missfons board of the Methodist church yesterda yesterd; sldwell, who w s during the Draper company last spring, on him with emplaye May 17 against Joseph one of the strike labor troul plant at Hope- 1 indictment assault on_Jules of the Draper dale, charging | Harant, an company on William Q. Soule, local manager, and Frank’ E. Soule, {stant manager, | of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company, and Herbert: L. Warner, a Boston architect, pleaded not guilly vester- day to an indictment charging con- spiracy to defraud the city of New Bedford in h the erac- tien of the new building. connection Wi The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double T hat of Any Other Paper, and its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Pri‘p.,rtlon to the City’s Populatlon soon as the present crisis is over and | ‘lassical High School | hung | working { presen | arms and ammunation, Huerta Said to be Weakening IS REPORTED TO BE READY TO MAKE CONCESSIONS ANXIOUS TO SEE LIND Minister of Interior Wants to Reopen Negotiations—President Wilson Re« ceives Encouragement from Powers. Washington, Nov. 13.—1UInited sup- port from the great powers abroad for the American policy toward Mexico, shown in a variety of quiet diplomatic act; ies, gave President Wilson and Secretary Bryan a confident feeling today that me elimination of General Viectoriano Huerta as provisional president of Mexico would soon be an accomplished fact. An exchange of cablegrams with Ambassador Page, an agreement by Great Britain to leave the solution of the Mexican problem in the hands of the United States. and an announce- ment that no moral or financial sup- port would be granted by England to the Huerta regime, set forth in Lon- don press despatches, created a favors able impression throughout official ‘Washington. It was felt that Great Britain, France, Germany and other nations now stood together in acquies- cence to the plan of the United States for the elimination of Huerta. President Wilson More Hopeful. That the financial blockade institut< ed by the United States had effective« ly tied the purse strings of Europe, that diplomatic pressure was being ex« erted incessantly on all sides at Mex« ico City, that close friends of Huerta were applying their influence and per- sistent reports saying Huerta had gone into mysterious seciusion raised the hopes of the Washington government that at least it was making definite progress toward solving the Mexican problem. “There are elemerts in this case” said the president, present discuss, but which make it look to me very much more favorable.” Huerta’s Elimination Favored. The president spoke thug of the sit« uation to a half hundred Washington correspondents at their semi-weekly conference. His manner was calm and it was apparent that he felt decidedly encouraged by recent advices. It was evident that the president had received important despatches, but he declined to say whether they were from Mexico City or Nogales, the con- stitutlonalists’ headquarters. Later, however, it was learned from other high officials that the plan of financial isolation was bearing fruit and that the plan for Huerta's elimination was belng acquiesced in by foreign govern- ments, especially some of those which had previously recognized him and up- on whom he had come to rely for aid Huerta Gannot Long Resist Pressure. One of the most important factors in the situation which caused Washing- ton calmly to await developments was the report through authoritative chan- nels that members of the Huerta offi- cial circle were now divided, some of them urging his resignation to avold international complications. They were reported to be using every effort to prevail upon him to make a formal announcement of retirement at a fixed date. The situation has progressed to the point In the view of many officials where even a definite rejection of the American demands by Huerta would not alter his future materially. Confi- dence prevails that he is drifting intd certain bankruptcy and cannot resist much longer the pressure exerted against him. May Be Unnecessary to Life Embarge on Arms. Another influence that is expected to contribute to FHuerta's overthrow 1is the extension of moral support to the constitutionalists. If pressed to the remity, the American government will lift the embargo on arms to aid the constitutionalists in composing the situation, but there is still hope amon, high officiais that such a step prove unnecessary. HUERTA MAY YIELD. His Official Family Anxious to Reopers Negotiations. Mexico City, Nov. 13.—Members of President Huerta’s nfflu 1 family are diligently for the reopening of the negotiations, and claim to have nt of General Huerta to make concessions which they belleve will ba satisfactory to the United States. The Mexican minister of the inte- Manuel Carza Aldape, saw Nelsom haughnessy, the American charge d'affaires, late today and appealed to him to do all in his power to induce his government to withhold action until the Mexican officials could com= municate with Mr. Lind, now at Vera CruZr He based his appeal on the alle~ gation that they were unable yester- day to get in touch with General Huerta in order to present to him Mr, Lind’s communication. The American charge could give the minister little assurance. Senor Al- dape asked if Mr. Lind could be per- suaded to return to the capital, or, fail- ing that, if a representative of the gogernment might not go to Vera Cruz and confer with Mr, Lind. Mr. O'Shaughnessy expressed the opinion that either course would be useless In the end they agreed to the case to President Wilson, embodyi the representations of Pres. ent Huerta's counsellor together with an appeal for postponement of action directed at lifting the embargo on or such other action as had been decided upon. It is belleved that General Huerta, through his counsellors, proposes to present a plan something In the nature of a substitute. He is sald to be recon~ ciled to the idea of resigning from the presidency, but wants to submit his resignation to the new congress, the body which President Wilson, through Mr. Lind, has declared must not com= vene. British Sailor Has Beri-Beri. Philadelphia, Nov, 18.—A case of beti-beri was discovered on board the | Britlsh steamer Strathmore, which ar- rived here today from Bombay, India, with a cargo of manganese ore. A saflor who was suffering from t disease was taken off the vessel at the | quarantine station at Marcus Hook, Pa., and placed in the hospital there for treatment. Measles Epidemic Among Indians. Beattle, Wash,, Nov. 18.—The Teve~ nue cutter Tahoma sailed for Kndl‘ Island today with medical and other supplies for the villages where Indians bave been stricken by measles. s Two and Ofty cases and thirteem have been reported., n