Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 2, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV—NO. 288 ; - The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of 7Any:Ufliel; i’iperr NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913 and Its fotal Girculation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population Cabled Paragraphs' Japanese Battleship Launched. FOR A NAVAL HOLIDAY CONFERENCE Bill Introduced in National House Providing $500,000 For Gathering to be Held Here unching foday of the new Japanese Dattleship cruiser Kirishima was made on of a brilllant ceremony in which many prominent officers of the navy took part. Dr. Bell Awarded Hughes Medal. Royal soclety Alexander Graham Bell MONEY TO ENTERTAIN THE FOREIGN DELEGATES Rebels Intrigue With Outlaws. Regular Session of 63d Congress Gets Under Way—Senate Takes Up Hetch-Hetchy Bill— Republicans Promise Not To Filibuster On Currency Bill—Congressman Reilly Aid of Injured Postal Employes. 1s provinces in South the Chinese rv bands to f government Introduces Bill in Winston Churchill an Aviator. entertain the delegates from foreign has taken lessons recently at the g Session of Senate. flying depots, and on Saturda sentative Ret introduced & bill for a year's ex plane with Captain Lushington. Although the programme the currency measure was ot formally adopted in the senate, the ts Succeeded in beginning work Discussion of the Hetch- alled up the At 6 o'clock T 4 Senator Owen Leader Kern two hours and sit during Postage Book Inventor Loses Case. ed $1.000,000 the little waxed e postoffice de- as become so popular wa pne Farnham invent BUSINESS REGULATION, Introduced Aiming at and Other Industries. = DANIEL P, Re-elected Mayor of Willimantic. housé interstate commerce ‘committee. monopoly and sup- NO LONGER ASK TO VOTE BUT DEMAND AMENDMENT | bills strike at competition Attitude of Suffragists As Set Forth | Anna H. Shaw. hat his measures were in line defining rights prescribing penalties to prevent discrimination and over reports on what shed by the theory that to regulate commerce the government must take charge of and siasm over prophecies of ture will bring forth marked The first bill would require rafiroads eontrecting advertising, the receipts for thorize more com- on and supervis ommerce Co foward Shaw the Interstate sion of issues of stocks and bon disposition of the money obtained from he prevention of interlock enfranchising womer 1 would pro of commerce by partnershiy n compliance wit annual addres NEARLY 500 AUTOMOBILE SPEEDERS BEFORE COURT. Over 100 Refuse to Pay Fines and Go DEATH OF A DERBY ILD DUE TO DRUG. meetings in various parts of Her by Her Mother fon was give Dec. 1.—Nearly 500 auto- | of profesgional fTeurs and owners of cars in response to sum- we'll own the HAS MANUSCRIPTS OF “BOBBY" BURNS Gribbell Purchased Them but to Scotland. to five days, who elected to accept s Pell entering ) serve a riominal ené day jall enjoyed Pell's hospitalit him. the amount of the ad declined to pay for overspeed- jce presi- | he Philadel ssociated in CONTRACTOR TESTIFIES REGARDING EXTORTION. Says He Had to Give Up $1,500 to Get Mo i He declared that he had purchased the BERT Him manuscripts from Ald- | would 1.—Madisen psie contractor, Whitman's deed of trust to the people who gave Robert Burns to the world. NO CHARITY BALL AT KANSAS CITY. CLASSMATES BANQUET JUDGE EDWIN 8. THOMAS. ympleted during the admin- | fighway Commissioner C Nearly a Third of Class Members Are on the Bench. money in cash in 2t Hartford, Conn., Dec of Judge Eawin Law school, 95, tendered him a testi- i | monial_b: t tonight has disappeared. | omnial, banduet tonigh 1.—Classmates at the Allyn . house in_honor of his elevation to the man has information that he | fojeral judgeship. classmates were | impromptu Domingo at that James K. McGuire, for- of Syracuse, now under in- | pr salled south. % There was | being somewhat in | the nature of a class reunjon. the | jcarned that nearly one-third of the onstructlon company, sald | members of the elass are now judges. 144 given the money on Has- representation o Charles R. commissioner, Pay on his contract had.| Divorce for Washington Girl. ed today to Mrs. pter of Robert J. Wynne of Wash American consul | | general in London and ex-postmaster Steamship Arrivals, Hugh Ronald Fr Fourth battalio (terriorial) of Portland, Me,, Elects Democrat. ‘urtis, democrat, was reelecied mayor publican, | *Jacobs, r | Hi Dunn Wins by Mgrgin of 89 WILLIMANTIC RE-ELECTS ITS PRESENT MAYOR QUADRANGULAR FIGHT Dr. Wilcox as an Independent Candi- date Polls 142 Votes—Republican Aldermen Elected in Thres Wards. (Special to The Bulletin.) Willimantic, Dec For the first time in the history of the city of Wil limantic there were four candidates for the office of mayor to be voted for at today’s election. This was_due to the fact that Dr rted George B, Wilcox, who was de! for the nominatior caucus, ran as to voté for him it demacr dent, thoug necessary write his name in the blank space on the baliot. The progressives had a full ticket in the field, also. About 1600 Votes Cast. Although the there had been amount of work the election was quite lively. A of the mayoralty candida Daniel P. Dunn, George I ¥lor, Dr George E. Wilcox and John Bar- stow, were on hand bright and early and worked hard all day. One of largest strings of automobiles d in an election here was kept mov- ime the polls opened at 4_p. m & was % little slow In the morning, but by time the polls closed, "in the neighborhood of votes a whole ad been a8 Very Interest in Third Ward Result. At the beginning of the day ho Mr. Taylor and Dr, Wilcox them! s expécting to wirn 1St on the Democratic becan con t and it was stated that May s person popul d_carr n ough margin over the field ward furnished some in- it was ipated Joseph the progressive cs man, would make, This ward is nor mall ongly democratic. but X Berard’s popularity was expecte draw a large vote to from the democrgtic tic The Election Officers. didate for alder- im and away The voting the first ward wa done in Tarkin's shop on Walnut street. The officials were: Moderator, W. C. Norrls: checker, T 1 Looney: challengers, Heliodore Trudeai. Ar- thur Kelley: booth tenders. Patri Doyle and H. P. Conzdon clerks, -James F. Shea and Ado Vaillant, The second ward voted town building officials were: Modera Casey: checker, C. R. lengers, Arth arch stree Fillmore, rick tenders, Charles H. B ael Moriart A vacant sfore in t rnham b ak used in the third ward. The fol- John O'Rourke: checker 4 con: ballot_elerks, Johr aha Waiter T. Chamberlin: b enders) James J. Moriarty, Edward Re In the fourth ward the votivg South and Pleasant icials were: Modera t clerks, Rober | D. E. Sunivan Thres Wards Republican. Mayor Daniel P. D popularity by winning fleld with 89 votes m 7. Taylor, the republi eorge . Wilcox, indepenc ; ten upon the ballot first, second and fourth war Ahc ballots were thr proper marking and the total Vote in Detail Barstow, D Wileox, Tnd Aldermen-at-Large— ~Qaisse, @ .,..,....137 210 228 Weatherhead, r ,..135 33 *Gelinas, r ........152 339 Rivard, p 12 15 Thompson, B ...... 18 24 Clerk— Scripture, d . 120 216 143 852 Treasurer— *White, Powell, r Ford, p Auditor— *Morrison, d *Boss, r ‘Walden, p .... Assessors— *LaPalme, d *Mustard, d . *Chagnon, r . Barrows, r . Weodill, p .. Becbe, D . Aldermen. Ahearn, d . “Coming, r DMacfarlane, D Mahen, d .. *Graves, T .. Smith, D ... *Jenkins, d . Freeman, T . Berard, p Ashton, d bl FEE Jury Completed for Craig Trial OPENING STATEMENT OF COUN- SEL FOR STATE SWEEP!NG ALLEGATIONS Accusation of Prosecuting Attorney Brings Forth Vigorous Protest—Al- leged Relations Between Couple. Shelbyvfille, Ind., Dec. 1.—The_ ac- cusation that Dr. Willlam B. Craig had “engaged in a system of wrong- ing women,” brought forth a charge, of unprofessional condgct against Ephraim Inman, of counsel for the state, late today, at the trial of Craig fon the murder of Dr. Helene Knabe. Henry N. Spaan, leading counsel for Craig, protested to the rt that Mr Tnman was exceedin bounds of propriety in mak . iing state- ment for the prosecution befdre the jury and he demyanded justice for his Client. Necessary to Establish Motive. The jury was excluded while Mr, In- man explained to Judge Blair tha was necessary to show Craig's a women in order fo es- tions wit tablish a motive for the murder of Dr. Knabe. court d that coun- sel should confine himself to the facts the state expected to prove by its wit- and should not indulge in denunciation of the defendant Thus restrained, when the jury was recalled, Mr. Inman_ declared that the prosecution would show that two wit- nesses of vital importance to the state's ase, had been placed beyond the coi through the Influence of the acoused man sr three hours and d, court adjourr omorrow morning at nine an expects to with an _opening @efense, The jury 1ddress the | statement for was completed at the morning sesston After more than fifty talesm, en examined The s ill be able to bring man nning his statement to he jury we expect to bring fore vo n of circumstances murder, but in the direction of Dr. The Craig-Knabe Friendship. Dr .Craig sat unmoved, gazing at his_accuser with unfaltéring eyes, while the prosecutor pictured him to fonlest crime éver committed in the rbed was Dr. Craig’s Will Disprove Suicide Theory. i will be no direct pro between Dr. Craig and n 1L be ances in that directio days before the woman's death, Mr. Inm serted, “there were signs of a break befween the twc st -d t \ that Dr, K Te dec er death made se with patients for Persons who had heard somebody reaming in Dr apartment 0 the fateful suicide theory, Mr. Inman said. T OBITUARY. Charles R. Remington. George A. Hearn, v York, Dec. 1.—George ding dry good James E. Smith. Hartford, Cor Tames E. Smith, for general agent Life Insurance d at his home in West after illness of more than a vear of t's dlsease. He was 63 vears old Zelaya to Sail for Spain. Dee de v a United former parently laya and the Nicaraguan Convicted of Policeman New York, Dec. 1.—Murder first_degree, the penalty of w death %n_the elec r verdict of a supreme ¢ the tr Tes de M b, Indicted for Dynamiting. Indianapolis, Dec. 1.—Harry - Jones, secretary-treasurer of the Internation- al Association of Bridge and Strue- tural Iron Workers, and George E. Davis, an iron worker, were indicted on_charges of conspiracy to transport unlawfully dynamite and nitro-glycer. ine by the federal grand jury which Teporied today. The indictme: based on Davis' alleged confession. | Loan for Budget Defioit. , Dec. 1—The government was Jus by u narrow margin today in its first great trial of strengih with the opposition in the chamber of dep- uties on the question of the new loan 60,000,000 to cover the budget def- “The appropriation was voted, 291 to 270, Motion Picture Trust Hearings. ten da der the Sherman an in _the government's suit un- -trust law company, General Film company and other companies and individuals, Circumstantial Evidence Relied Upon. not only_in the direction of William B. Craig as the guilty man.’ his judges as the perpetrator of the fonrteen-year-c daughter Marian, who sat at side throughout the ordea Mr. ‘Trimaan told tie jury how Dr. nabe had become acquainted with Dr. wary college, how that acquair nce had resulted in a friendshin whi those who knew them expectéd to re- | son Ewan. daughter of Mrs. E | terday to And s were New York, Dec. 1.—Hearings were resumed here today after a recess of against the Motion Picture Patents Condensed Telegrams An EE? Boycott is underway In Kansas City. St. Paul Housewives vesterday joined in the national boycolt on esgs. Herbert W. Ladd, twice governor of Rhode Island, i sdead at Providence, aged 771. The Housewive's League, of De- troit, vesterday officially declared an egg boycott. John Howe Clark, former medical director of the United States Nav diteg at Amherst, N. H., from paraly sis. Thore Were 300 Chicago Women" at the city hall yesterday for examin- ation a8 to their fitness for police wo- men. Laborers Making an Excavation on the farm of M. J.-White near Lowell Ind., unearther the teeth and skull of a mastadon The Farmhouse of Sumner Bray on the road from Milford to Laurel Beach was damaged by fire yesterday to the extent of $1,800. More Than 100 Persons were poison- ed and 13 others are d Puente Ovejt in, as the of eat- ing bad linless Conaress Takes a Recess during the Christmas holidays Pre ider son will forego his planned ten d vacation. Fhe Immense Plant of the Devog Tin Can company at Hunter's Poin L. I, was swpet by fire yesterday a loss estimated at $150,000. George Schwartz, a farmer o Scranton, Pa. cut down an oak tree and found embedded in its heart a pine tree shilling dated 16 Cornelius Street received 180 % at the whipping post and was jail for the ngton, Del. 1 nd Violets ‘e blooming in e e 5f the Rev. Dr. Robert G. Mc- Presbyterian church at New Rochelle, N. Y Floating Barrooms in navigable waters within harbor limits of cities must_comply with city liquor regu- lations. The supreme cour cided yesterday. Walter Gra of Batayia, N. Y. has vawned three times in as many days and each time required the services of a doctor to re- set a dislocated jaw. Prompt Attention Saved Mrs. Clara Long, 26 years old, of Phil- adelphia, who swollowed two tablets of bichlofide of mercury in mistake for a headache remeds To- Facilitate the handling of par- cel post mall matter, the post otfice tepartmen{ has begun the establish- ment of rsilway te in cities having lars: railwya fac Armand Girard, Aged 24 and married of Woonsocket, R. I, emploved by a ntly killed eaming company, vesterday when a one-ton steel casing ch was being unloaded fell on hik nec A Wesk’s Continuance was grant- ed the moving picture theatre men and employes arrested Sunday for conducting a theatrical performance Savin Rock in violation of the Sun- e of Eggs is beir more by United The High Pr estigated a w States District Aiterney John P. Hil of the Maryland district, under in struciions by the department of jus- tice The Joint Committee of the Cos ductors and Trainmen Orders, met at New Haven_vesterday to discuss the recent award of the arbitrators in t wage dispute of employes of Ea rallroads Mrs. F. W. Keiferle, wife of a_nrom- inent merchant of Lewiston, Pa. is| dead blood poisoning from k of the needle ich contai tion of red silk George B. Crichton of New resentative of Detective .Jf e $10,000, reward for the cap- the McNamara brothers, con- icted of destroying the Los Angeles Times building unt” Mary Long, ed out to acquire »anon, Mo, the a th a score of other negroes arning the A B C’s in @ recently organized night school ther John Wilson,” who was arrested in Philadelphia and held for invest gation, has been found to be R. 1\ Stannell. who is charged with steal ing $4.000 from the Fraternal Order of Tagles at Valle Jose, Ca.l In the Presence of only a few rel tives and friends Miss Laura Patter- Dver of New York, Newport and Bal- arried Newport ves- ew Roberson of Brook- timore, was Miss Harrist L. Meyers, daughter of the publisher of the Linn County Budget of Brookfield, Mo., has brought sult against the Rev. W Atwood. pastor e First Conaregational church hugged and kissed Upon 1ts Plea of Nolo, the Cons: dated } ering company was fined $8.000 by ed States fct Judge Morton at Boston ye tor vio- lating the Sherman anti-trust act by | effecting a monopoly of the rendering nd. business in New Engl A Conspiracy That Found Its support in perjured testimoney put former Po- lice Lieutnant Charles Becker in the Sing Sing death house for the mur- der of Herman Rosenthal, attorneys for the convioted man argued vester- day in the court of appeals. Declaring That Threats had been made against his life and his home gince he had ordered the suspension of business by ull saloons in Nashville, Tcnn., some iime ugo. Judge A, R. Neil vesterday dirgcted the sheriff to post a deputy at the door of every drinking place if necessdry to keep them closed. Mprs. Charlotta Thompsen Brown, wh owas convicted of having em- bezzled $21,000 from a customer while | in the brokerage business with her | husband, was sentenced vesterday by Judge Cushing of the common pleas court at Cincinnati to an indetermin- ate term of not less than one nor more than ten years i the state penitentiary, Juarez, Mexico, Dec endure starvation cording to advic General Francisco Villa, ican border patr nigh imposstt against the munition into Mexico was de a report from Br commanding the forces on the Whrde: ma ment. = Practically the entire popula state, with 2,000 federa women and City Has Never Been Taken Besides being the northern Mexico, volution nor commandin ers and mach guns afforded heretofore had presented a it was belleved a fi e Id, a farmel 35 Years Old, a farmer Water Supply Destroyed. be such that The Spanish conveyed wate he life of egraphed details of General Carran ing the proposed els southward now be expedited straight through to Z and operations wor city and Aguaz Calientes. 1 post offices ities. Evacuation Occurred Sunday, a prominent merchant, had been civil governor he would be accepted in an official despatct rebel_courier 0 miles northw rebel advance called Villa established Near Mexico City Within Month. concentrate |aries from We will be nearing Mex talen through the refusal of mer MINOR DISORDERS AT INDIANAPOLIS. Under Arrest. be permitted to re was voted down Chauffeurs’ last midnigh 1,000 teamater 250 men had agreed strike was members of fon, were arrested on_$1,000 bonds. No ‘garbage was coliected In “Voodooism” actice of w tion was made cent murder of a white mysterious | of healing suid to have been administered. To Learn Arc Chieago, Dec. gover the fate of Krnest de Koven fingwell, geologist and Arctic whe went into norther: 26, was begun today the University started north with the Steffansson ition and was to have returned nt Barrbw by November 1 has been heard from him. Explorer’s Fate. An attempt Alaska August | tioned at the gates of all the fadulty Leffingwell Washington Joins Egg Boycott. ‘Washington, housewives ment for a national Thousands of wemen pledged selves not to buy eggs until the price is reduced. Washington FEDERALS EVACUATE CHIHUAHUACITY To Escape Starvation Military Governor and 2000 Troops Start Toward American Border FOOD SUPPLY EXHAUSTED AND WATER CUT OFF City Occupies Commanding Position and Has Not Been Taken in Either of Recent Revolutions—Will Be Imme- diately Invested by Rebels—Gen. Villa Expects to be in Vicinity of Mexico City Within a Month, He Declares. to_acoept paper money issued by the Tebels. SYMPATHIZE WITH REBELS. Americans in Border States Smuggle Ammunition Across Line. Washington, Dec, 1.—ilow the Amer- I has found {t well 0 e the embargo rms and am- cribed in gadler General Bliss, public today at the war depar tion along the int report sald, is in sympathy with the Mexican rebels, and as_the result large quantities of war munitions have been smuggled across in spite of the un ceasing vigilance of the troope: General Bliss complaiged of the vagueness of the law and that the in- structions to the army were so gen- eral that too much of a task was im- posed upon the troopers and junior officers. He recommended thet two of the best equipped officers of the gov- ernment’s legal force be sent down to travel along the line and decide ques- tions of doubtful rights and powers. William Bayard Hale, who has been conferring with General Carranza and his constitutionallst chiefs at Nogales, returned today and had a long talk national line, the with Secretary Bryan. Ho will see President Wilson Wednesday and sup- plement the reports he aiready has made on the character and personality of the constitutionalist chiefs and the r oir movements, Rear Admiral Fletcher reported te the navy department today success in his last mission, which was to ensure the Drotection bt forelgn interests m the oil fields near th Mex| of force. gulf coast of without any irritating display LOPPING OFF SALARIES Members of Mexican Congress Permits ted to Draw But One. Mexico City, Dec. 1.—President Hu- erta gave the people of the capital thrill today by another of his period ical disappearance. For many hours no trace of him could be found, but, ho returned this afternoon to the national palace, saying he had been visiting & farm nearby. Early in the day It was reported that the president had left the capital and was on his way to Vera Cruz. Rail- road officlals clafmed to have knowl edge of General Huerta’s departure on a special train. This gave rise to all sorts of rumors, which merely caused the prestdent to Teiterato his determin- ation,to remain at the head of the ad- ministration and econtinue his efforts toward the pacification of the country. A resolution wes introduced In tha chamber of deputies today that the de- partment of finance be instructed mot to pay to congressmen any salary oth- er than that due them as congressmen, |1t the resolution is adopted #t will |save the country many hundreds of thousands of pesos annually. Many generals, who are now members of the lower house, would forfeit their sal- he war department. The action was prompted by the |fact that the constitution forbids a member of congress from drawing any other salary from the govérnment than that in connection with his congres- sional position it a majority of the members of the present congress are on the payroll of the government in < lother departments. | NEW HAVEN BOY KILLED BY AUTO. Was Running Across Street After Be- ing Ejected from Armory. New Haven, Conn. Dec. 1—Walter Jacques, aged 5, while running across Meadow street tonight, was struck by an automobile driven by Arthur A. !'McConnell and received injuries which caused death a few hours later in a local hospital. The boy tried to “sneak” in the Second regiment armory to sea an indoor baseball game and was eject - od. He darted across the streat just in time to be struck by, the auto. Me- | Connell was arrested, charged with reckless ariving and releaesd in $1,000 bail, Republican Mayor at Reckvills. Rockville, Conn., Dec, 1—S, Traey Noble, republican,’ was chosen mayo in the city election held here tod defeating William V. McNerny, dem ocrat, by a vote of 525 to 466. Georg Andrews, the socialist dlidate ived 366, a gain over last electio Louis Koelsch, soclalist labor hee for mayor, w Arbitration Proposal. AT Ammoans toduy prepared a je ter to the operators and mirers with- drawing tho arbitration proposition submitted by them last week for the settlem: of the Colorado coal strike. This action was decided upon, it was explained, to clarify the situation and leave only one proposal hefore the miners, * No Strike at Paterson. Paris, Dec. 1—With the police sta- e silic mills in the city erson was pre- saved today for another strike, but the abor froubles threatened by union leaders did not develop. Six thousand ribben weavers were to have walked | out at & o'clock this afternoon, but the strike failed to develop. Burglars Take Wedding Presents. Branford, Cosm, Deo, 1—Burglars entered the hame of Mr and Mrs, S, V. Osborn, Jr. on Wilford avenue dur- ing their absence tonight and stole a quantity of silvesware and wedding presents. Mn and Mra. Osborm have gem married only aa few menths, G