Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 3, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 289 NORWICH, CONN HUERTA'S POWER IN NORTH IS GONE| Seven Generals Including Commander-in-Chief of the North Offer Terms of Surrender 'DECLARE HUERTA IS UNABLE TO PAY SOLDIERS Peace Commission From Chihuahua Arrived at Juarez Last Night—Caravan Over a Mile Long Fleeing From Chi- huahua City Toward United States Border — Many Wealthy Families Among the Refugees—Some Oil Companies Cancel Contracts With National Railways Thereby Handicapping Federal Military Movements. Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 2.—Seven gen-| Is of the Mexican regular army are ready to surrender, and the backbone of the Huerta dictatorship in the north bas been broken. A peace commission arrived in Juarez tonight bearing terms of the surrender. Huerta Unable to Pay Soldiers. The peace commission was headed | by Odilon Hernandez and came from Chiheahua _bearing a proclamation | signed by General Salvador Mercado, Huerta's military governor, and com- mander of the federal forces in all the north. The proclamation stated that the| Huerta government was bankrupt and was unable to pay its soldiers. Indication of Concerted Action, even the ordinary passenger traffic be- fween the capital and the coast may beecome irregular. Congress Approves Huerta's Course. Mexico City, Dec. 2—The chamber les approved toenicht President use of the executive power in taking over the conduct of the de- partment of finance after the dissolu- tion of congress. Four members of the Catholic party voted against approval Orle of them, speaking in debate on the measure. declared the tax im- posed on crude oil iniquitous and ruin- ous to the compa To Save American Missionaries. Brownsville, Texas, Dec. Z2—Two au- tomoblles are today enroute to Mata- The simultaneous evacuation of other | Moras, at the expense of the United federal strongholds in the north is|States government to seven believed by the rebels to be the result | American m the Friends of a concerted action to abandon the | church at Mexico, where a famine of food and supplies is threat- whole of northern Mexico. ened. The peace proposals were sent by General Mercado to General Francis Lind Back from Tampico. Yilla, rebel leader, through Frederico | Moye, civil governor of Chihuahua [ Vera Cruz Dec. 2—John Lind, Pres- state, appoinied ad interim. Along [ident Wilson's personal representative to Vera Cruz to- hoard the United States battlest Nebraska from Tam- pico, where for several days he has been looking over the situation. in day at moon Mexico, returned on with it came an appeal signed by all the foreign consuls in Chihuahua call- ing upon Villa to give police protec- tion to the citizens of Chihuahua Ci General Mercado’'s proclamation said: Text of Proclamation. “Under the circumstances which have existed in Chihnahua it has heen deemed necessary for the federal troops to evacuate. I leave in charge Fred- erico Moye, a person who is not iden- tified with politics and who is there- American Held for Ransom. Los Angeles.™ if, Dec. 2.—W. Windham, formerly cashier of a bank at Pasadena, now superintendent of a ranch at Quimict territory of Tepic, Mexico, sent a ireless message to for- fore qualified to give full protection | mer Senator Bard of Oxnard today to foreigners. It is impossible to re- | saying he was* being held by rebels main here longer, as there is n noney | until he paid a ransom of $5,000 gold. with which to pay the rtoop: i TS T TR The generals who ‘have signified, ; ONE FATALITY IN THE through General Mercado, their wil- lingness to surrender, but who never- | INDIANAPOLIS STRIKE. theless are fleeing to theé United State border, are: Balvedor Mercado, Pas- cuel, Orozco, Jose Ynez Salazar, Mar- ielo 'Caraveo, Jose Mauzilla, Bla Or- Special Police Officers Shoot Colored Elevator Man. pinal and Lands. S Ih:;;?namfis. d. : An .fi%rt & e ) i s eihs Ask Clemency for Federal UMEHals. |y i) the teamsiers’ and chauffewrs’ The peace commit to ee proposed strike, wak started at a meeting of the General Villa that all non-combatants | teamsters’ umion late today. No defi- who sought safety Ly fleeing to the | nite action .was taken, being de- horder be permitied to go. without | cided to wait untll the union officers being fired upon and all the federals, | had conferred with the leaders of the including 200 soldlers,. left on police ntral labor union. The question will duty in Chfhvahua City be pardoned. | come up again at {omorrow's meeting. It also ashed clemency for federal 'of-| 'Thd first fatality of the strike, which ficials. The peace on stated | wag started Sunday midnight, occurred that before leaving Ct hua the fed? | {oday when a crowd interfered with an 1¢ e and |jce wagon in charge of six men on € that | whom speecial police powers had been existed | » money inl conferred. When the crowd began ¥ and that 2,000 citizens had left | hrowing bricks the special officers he troops, most of them being | ghot, killing Claud Lewis, a negro ele. who were rich and who feared | vator man. and wounding four others, harsh Villa Bound for Mexico City. treatment by the rebels one fatally. The special officers were taken to police headquarters, but were released. ned Chihna- i . Another erowd was fired upon today Villa's assur- lasses in the ssion retu ances that peop owned and driven city and includir federal police R would be protected and that he would tacked. Jack Long, a teamster, Sispatch troops to garrison the place | Was wounded in the right leg. Whor- ton was arrested. There were several action of the | other minor disorders. 8 himself was| The police continued making numer- - departure southward, He | OUS arrteste. Among those taken into Jitie ' Womld. be only 8 stop. | Custody: tnds us Henry Friedman, a labor and politicajl leader. and wealthy. William Whorton, megro, when the | by himself | I ncrease Insurance Commissions. i Chicago, Dec: 2.—An increase in commissions to casualty and Mability insurance solicitors was recommended in a report adopted today at a confer- ence of state insurance commissioners, insurance officials and agents. Rusaian Minister Reoalled. Stockholm, Dec. 2—The Russian minister to Sweden. A. A. Savinsky, today presented his letters of recall to the king. M. Savinsky is said to be compromised by an espionage affair in which several Swedish subjects are also involved. British A Bast-Church, Kent, England, Dec. 2. —Capt. Gilbert V. Wildman-Lushing- ton, commander of the v?xfldn? éz:;:-\ flying corps. with whom Winston - cer Churchill, first lord of the admiral- ty, made a long flight on Saturday, W& killed today at the naval flying ground here by a fall with his biplane. Defeat for Government. Paris, Dec. 2—The government of Premier Barthou was defeated by a vote of 290 to 265 in the chamber of deputies this evening on the question whether the new loan of $260,000,000 should be subject to taxation or im- mune, like the existing rentes. The ministers immediately resigned. A Brutal Army Officer. Zabern, Alsace, Germany, Dec. 2.— Lieut. Baron von Forstner, who start- ed the trouble between the troops and civilians here by referring scornfully to the citizen: when he addressed the recruits of his company, aroused still further indignation against the army today by cutting down a lame shoe- maker with his sabre and wounding him dangerously in the head. A CHRISTMAS TREE FOR LONELY PERSONS. New York Spugs Planning Entertain- ment For 20,000. New York, Dec. 2—The local organ- ization of Spugs. as members of the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving style themselves plan to play host on Christmas day to every lone- ly person in New York city. There is to be a Christmas party in Grand Cen- tral Palace for the lonely, a Christmas tree, music, dancing, singing ang re- freshments. Announcement of the plan was made by Kate Douglass Wiggin (Mrs. George Riggs) at a Spug meeting to- night. Mrs. Riggs said that the party would start in the morning and last all day. The number of guests expected she placed at 20,000. A mam- moth Christmas tree, she said, glow- ing with hundreds of electric lights, | will be laden with candy and other sweets for the children, 500 Campfire Girls in costume would sing, a band would play all day; the children would ation. The | THE GRAND TRUNK, pt place on his southward march, S b s eeringd 10 raskaroon He was subsequenily released by the | %o Mukice Oity. police. The ca of all the per- Carlos Heberlin of Los Angeles. Cal, | #on% arrested yesterday were contin b - HRIRE IReer: - acdun ted in police court today until nex Deace ecommissioners. who iraveled in | Monday, so that the arresting officers @n antomobile by way of Ofinaga. |:could appear. strikers Aid | Wealthy Families in Flight. R e Fleeing over the desert and pursuedi soon as he heard of the plan, issued a by rebels, several thousand persons.| proclamation ng the police te dncluding some of the richest families| stop any attempted demon in northern Mexieo, who d ted Chi-| police kept the owd cor fhuabua City in fear of u rebel attack | the move and did not give tonight were reported nearing the|a chance to form. : 1nited States borde: | —— - Among the refugees is Louis Ter-|migs CATHARINE TOWER yazas, head of the wealthy Terrazas | ) estate, W s s@id to have with him| UNDERGOES OPERATION i five million pesos which he withdrew | . srbma— S from the Chihuabua banks. Other | Leading Lady off “Within the Law” in F Ithy families, including some of the | Serious Condition, i 3 known to have left the city. | Caravan Over Mile Long. | \'«-va H.{,\rn,' Dec }_ l.\h.T- Cath- Eeni TG ey o | avine Tower, playi 1e leading part ey Which are women |, within the law at a local theater, #nd children, was described as being| .5 operated upon at a private ho meore than a mile long. At the head. | onigh: peritonitis. She was il with an { eral troobs. is|jaei night, but finished her part with Lieneral ivador Mercado, . Hy S| Todsy, it was decided th deposed governor of Chihuahua sta | on was ne ey iTar i etails of the evacuation of the &t | dition is regarfied as se fand ihe exodus of the people were| " * e el ety The Ropsevelts at Lima. yught to Juarez in official despatch » Federico Moye, who was appoint- i B o vieior i Ante vers| Tima, Peru, Dec. 2.—Mrs. Theodote | Srancisco Villa, and it cailed upon the | Vel her niece. who reached here last rebel leader.to take pessession of the | eVening, left t afternoon for Bilbao, i | Panama. Thay were received at the 4 palace by President EBillinghurst eax: ANOTHER BLOW TO MUERTA. |lier in the day. and the president per- F sonally condueted them around the L ou P Ty With | gardens. They visited the prineipal PR Compet e Sansal D oN o It | e oF ‘nlarciein iss prewidants National Railways, S et 6 Mexico refer e e e Aaielre Ane st A Another Maine Hunter Dead. government y practical mani-| Bangor, Me. Dec. Z—Louis Noiskey Festation of the rebels” wrath, two pro- | ef Trenton, N. J. who was accidental- dueing oil companies of the republic! !V shot at drindstone yesterday by today cancelled their contraets for| William Stacew, died in a Bangor hos- supplying the National Railways with | Pitsl tonigh{, Sheriff O’Connell will fuel oil. confer with fhe county attorney as to possible proqedure against Stacey. A bullet from !Stacey’s rifle, aimed at a mink, struck the surface of a brook, was deflectedi and hit Noiskey. This is regarded as one of the most »as wlows dealt the government, quse it is likely te bring about ear- i f all railway traffie terfere greatly with tions and would strike Slippery Prisoner Recaptured. at the commerce of the coun- Boston, [Dec, 2.—Joseph Horewitz, Most of the oil used by the rail- { known to the New York pefice as “th 4 s produced in the coast region|man with | adjustable thumbs,” who i ampico and southward. This ter- | slipped thraugh two pairs of handeuffs v is overrun with els, directed | to freedom/ in that city on Nevember for the most part by General Candido | 12, was regaptured here tonight. A pe- Aguilar, i culiarity ix{ the formation of his thumb + Ia spite of General Aguilar's assur- | bones m: his feat possible. He will @aces to Rear Admiral Tletcher that|be returnefi to New York tomerrow, oil properties would not be me- 2 e e e ied, representatives of the compan- es_have been given to understand that Pestal Savings Limit Rafsed, Washinfsten, Dee. 2-—The house | committef: on postoffices today faver- ably repprted a bill to raise from $100 to B1,000 the maximum amount which ap individual may deposit in 4 postal savings bank in one menth. The excgss over $100 would not bear further sale of the oil (o the govern- gaent railreads would be regarded as 100 great a manifestation of friendship to the enemy of the constitutionalists. Practically all the locomotives have been using oil for some years, and the gearcity of coal will make a return to | interest. that fuel difficult. 1f the Mexican Rail- | — e way also is barred from the use of|{ In A?&ralia Eggs are selling at 16 ‘eil, and it is assumed that it"will be, cenis a idezen, l | plentitul, play games under the direction of playground workers and instructors, and, as an added attraction, there would be moving pictures. Everyone there she said would be given hot coffee or chocolate and sandwiches. Every Spug in New York. Mrs Riges asserted would be privileged to invite as many friends as desired. To d@efray the expenses of {he entertain-. ment the Spugs are making voluntary contributions, placing their offerings in a huge paper pie at headquarters. The pie i8 to be opened and the con- tributions counted = at the = party Christmas afternoon. “We ‘want te bring the Christmas spirit of goodwill to everyome in the city who would not have it otherwise,” Mre. Riggs declared. “The Spugs be- lieve in the promotion of the Christ- mas spirit as well as the prevention of useless giving.” POLITICAL WRANGLE CAUSE OF ACCIDENT Elevater in a Chicago Building Drop- ped Six Stories, Chicago, Dec. 2—An elevator in the criminal court building dropped six | stories. today with a full load of ai- | torneys, political leaders and men un- der indictment in the alleged vote fraud cases recently investigated by the grand jury. The men had been in Judge Bretano’s court seeking a change of venue. The elevator fell it is said. because the men engaged in a scuffi€ as soon as the door closed on them. ighting words were uttered and | ndished, it was said, Some- pushed against the elevator who lost control of the lever ar dropped. No one was seriously hurt, although bruises were SUED FOR $1,000,000 Alleged Breach of Contract by Failure to Build Teminal. Boston, Dec. 2—A suit for $1,000,000 against the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. for alleged breach | of contract in conneetfon wigh the construction of a railway terminal at Torento, Ont., was flled in the United States district court today by Westing- house, Church, Kerr and Company, en- gineers and architects, of New York. he complainants set forth that they lost $1,000,000 through the railroad’s alleged breach ef contract with the New York company to erect the To- ronto terminal at a cost of $9,000,000, Steamers Reported by Wireless. Sabie Island, Dec, Guglielmo, Naples for nalled 690 at 945 a Thursday, Steamer Argentina, Trieste for New Yerk, signalled 720 miles east of Sandy | Heok at noon. Dock absut 830 p. m. Thursday. _ Cape Race, Dec. 2.—Steamer Tunis- ian, Liverpeo! fer St. John, N. B., sig- nalled 620 miles east at 2 a. m. Cape Race, N, F. Dec. —Steamer La Savoie, Hevre for New York, sig- nailed 1,586 miles east of Sandy Heok at 5 p. m. Dock 8.30 a. m. Saturday. | Steamer Launia, Liverpool for Bes- ton, signalled 376 miles southeast at § B. m, ew York, sig- miles east of Sandy Hook m. Doek about 830 a m. 8toamship Arrivals. { At Bergen: Nev, 28, Bergensfierd, | from New Yerk, | At Genea: Nev. 28 Amerika, from | New Yotk | At Trieste: Nov. 28, Laura, frem New Yeorik. 2 At New York: Dee. 3. United States, frem Cepenhagen; Kristianafjord, from Bergen, Hamburg, Dec. 1—Arrived, Steamer Amerika, New York; 2ad, President Grant, New York. Bremen, Dec. 2—Arrived, Steamer Grosser Rurfurst, New York. Increase of Postal Savings. ‘Washington, Dec. 2—Pestmaster Bur- leson reported to congress today that during the year ended Jume 30 post- al savings depeosits increased frem R4 to $33.818,870 and the number of depositors from 2243.801 to 331.006. The average deposit inoreased %0 §03. Drop Trolleys ~and Steamships NEW HAVEN RAILROAD TO TAKE THIS STEP. A WASHINGTON REPORT Will Also Divorce ltself from Boston & Maine and Boston & Albany— Conference with Attorney-General. ‘Washington, Dec. 2.—Negotiations between Attorney General McRey- nolds and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company to- night reached the stage where predic- tions were confidently made in official circles that actual litigation in the couris will be avoided but the New Haven wlll effect a complete reorgan- lzation, divorce its steamship, trolley and railroad holdings to which ob- jection has been found and bring it- self entirely within the Sherman an- ti-trust act. No agreement has been entered into between the department of justice and the railroad and the reorganization talk originated with the New Haven. To Ask For an “Agreed Decree.” Unless unexpected developments arise, however, within the next few weeks, the department will appear be- fore some United States district coutrt and ask for what it terms “an agreed decree” to which the ' New Haven would express consent. The practice in such cases has been for the courts to ratify such an agreement and if the custom were followed the years of litigation which would be necessary to carry as case against the raflroad through the district and_ supreme courts would be avoided. Under an order of the court the New Haven would procged to carry out its agree- ments and If it complied in the time fixed further civil proceedings under the Sherman law would not be under- taken. The whole New Haven problem was gone over in great detail today at a conference between the attorney gen- eral, Howard Elliott, chairman of the board of the New Haven; E. D. Rob- bing, its general counsel; Bdgar J. Rich, general counsel for the Boston and Maine; L. 8. Storrs, vice president of the trolley lines, and John W. Crim, counsel for the New Haven. What McReynolds Demands. An agreement to meet the demands of Attorney General McReynolds would provide: For a separation of the New Haven and the Boston and Mtine railroad. For a peparation of the New Haven and the Boston and Maine railroad. Rhode Island and other states. For a relinquishment by the New Haven of its control of lines, some of which are held by the dej ent to compete for the New York-Boston traffic. For the nulification of the New Ha- ven's agreement with the Bosfun and Albany railroad. Will Grant Reasonable Time. One argument which has had weight with department officials is that time should be given to the New Haven to dispose of its ouiside transportation holdings. The officials have been told thz' the New Haven needs money and they realize that to compel the road to go to court and dispose of several blg transportation systems, in double quick order, would put it in a delicate situation. The attorney general has made It plain frequently that he is seeking to better conditions in New England and that if the law is obeved by voluntary action on the part of the New Haven he would not object to avoiding suit in court. Any reasonable amount of time asked for by the New Haven probably will be granted if Chairman Eljott and his assistants convince of- ficials of the soundness of their plans. DESPERADO LOPEZ 1S PROBABLY DEAD Poisonous Fumes Poured Into Mine for Over 24 Hours. Bingham. Utah, Dee, 2.—No since last night has come from the T'tah Apex mine in which Ralph Lo- pez, desperado, is confined. Today the exits, except that in the lowest Jevel were sealed with double bulkheads and tonight it was believed that the gas- filled mine had become the fugltive's tomb. % The watchfulness of seven sheriffs and more than 200 deputies who ex- pected a break for liberty on the part of Lopez, was relaxed, aithough the number of guards was not lessened. It was considered impossible for the Mexican to approach any of the exits witQout being overcome. e crowd of miners which has stood waiting vengeance since two of their number were killed in the underground battle on Saturday, dispersed tonight. They felt satisfied that the poisonous fumes pouring into the mine since vesterday had done thelr work. How- ever, the jaunty Mexican who killed fellow countryman because of a sound a | woman’s favor and subsequently five | police officers, may be alive although this is not a probability. His one | chance for life was to have sealed himself fip in some distant slope against the invasion of the gases. BRIDGEPORT COMPANY BIDS ON SUBMARINES Asks for 10 Per Cent. Commission Above Cost of Labor'and Materials. Washingten, Dec. 2—Bids for four new submarines. opened at the navy | department today, contained novel features. A Bridgeport, Conn., company offer- ed to build two on a commission of ten per cent. on the cost of labor and | materials supplied by the government, the company suppiying plans, plant and patents. New York concern submitted various bids—one of $1,- 300,000 for a monster submarine of 1,310 tons, twiee as large as any now in the service. There were no foreign bidders, although they had been in- vited, Owing to the complexity of the bid- ding it wifl not be possible to announce the successful bidder until the pro- posals have been analyzed. FIRE BREAKS OUT AT TUFTS COLLEGE. Students Drop from Windows and Fire Escapes. Medferd, Mass., Dee. 2.—Fifty stu- dents of Tufts college were forced to drop frem windows and fire eseapes tenight to escape from a fire in East hall, Herbert K. Anderson of Manchester, N, H. was glightly burned, The dam- age was glight, although the belong- inks of manv-al the meu Were burneds Fifty a steamship | Gbndensed Tglegrams There Are 21 Cases of tyqhoid fever at Franklin, Pa. The Ertire Plant of the American Shoe Finding company at Bingham, Me., was burned. The loss is esti- mated at $100,000. Charles S. Ashley was elected mayor of New Bedford, Mass., yesterday for the 17th time. The Blast Furnace of the Carnegie Steel Co., at Farrell, closed throwing several hundred out of work. Rev. James Bruce, for 47 years past- or of the United Presbyterian church of Andras, N. Y. died Monday. Ferdinand A. Hart, 67, died sudden- ly at his home in Hartford yester- day. He was a well known Insurance man. Investigation of the Business of so- called adver.ising “quack doctors” was started by the federal grand jury at Chicago yesterday. Robbers Yesterday Entered the post office at Youngstown, N. Y., hlew open the safe, obtained $2,000 worth of stamps and escaped. The Yates Center, Kas., National bank was closed yesterday on order of Bank Examiner A. C. Cutler, because of failure to reallze on securities. Governor Foss’ Unsuccessful pam- paign as an independent candidate for re-election cost $4,225. The governor’s personal contribution was $3,460. George M. Goldstone, aged 20, of ‘Warehouse Point, shot himself with suicidal intent in the stock sheds of an electric light company at Thompson- ville yesterday. President Wilson has under con- sideration invitations to spend his Christmas vacation in Columbia, 8. C., Augusta, Ga., or a place near Corpus Christi, Texas. Thomas W. Hall, president of the American Hide and Leather comgany, died at his home in New Canaan, Conn.,, Monday night of heart disease. He was 63 years old. Lehigh Valley Railroad employes asked the Public Service commission of Pennsylvania for an opinion upon the question of annual passes to the wives of employes. Completion of a Plan whereby Kan- sas City consurners may get eggs di- rect from the country merchant at a saving of eleven cents a dozen was announceq yesterday. o Walter Butler, 19 Years Old, a pris- oner in the Worcester House of Cor- rection made a successful dash for liberty by scaling an 18 foot wall and jumping into the street. Oswald Lowe, Aged 60 Years, a bricklayer employ on the new Poli Theatre building at Hartford, was in- stantly killed yesterday by a fall of twenty-six feet from a staging. Mrs. Agnes E. Fry, 84 years old, widow of Captain Joseph Fry, who was captured by the Bpanish and shot to death with 38 of his &% in 1873, =t Bantiago, Cuba, is dead at Mobile, Elaine Golding, of Bath Beach saileg for Panama, where she will attempt to duplicate the feat of Alfred Brown of New York, by swimming the canal, from the Atlantic to the Paocific. As a Result of the Providence city milk, authorities crusads for pure eight milkmen were brought iInto court yesterday charged with having adulterated milk in their possession. A Permanent Fund for the care and protection of children in strike dis- tricts is to be maintained after the first of the year, it was announced last night from socialist headquarters at New York. 8amuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has ac- cepted on behalf of the federation the offer of a building on the sife of the Panama-Pacific exposition for a labor exhibit in 1915, q' Horace E. Montague, traveling pas- senger agent for the Southern Pacific railroad, was shot and killed by a bandit in a Pullman car of the west- bound Sunset express a few miles out of l.os Angel Otto Fiala Yestsrday shot and killed his wife, at the home of her | mother at South St. Louis. and then shct himself, A physician who was | calleq refused to attend Fiala, saying | ke Geserved ic die, A Former New York Police captain, Dominick Riley, was indicted for| bribery yesterday by the grand jury in connection with the alleged con- spiracy between the police and wire tavping swindlers. The State Veterinary Commission examineq candidates for state certi- ficates at the capital yesterday. There were nine of them and all except three were from out of the state. The three included Philip E. Coventry of Put- nam. The Purchase For $140,000 of the Veitch collection of lilace and other plants, reputed to the finest collection ’m England, was announced by John K. M. L. Farquah, president of the Massachusetts Horticultural society, on his return from London yesterday. Governor Baldwin Yesterday ap- pointed B. C. Benedict of Greenwich to be yachting commissioner for Con- necticut to act in conjunction with cemmissioners from other states to plan for international yachting in con- nection with the Panama exopsition. Dora Murff, 18 Years Old was found guilty of manslaughter and her step father, J. S. Duvall was convict- ed at Crowley, La.. yesterday of first degree murder without capital pun- ishment. They were charged with the killing of J. M. Delhaye, Miss Murff's sweetheart. 8ix Special Trains carrying Govern- or James M. Cox and approximately 2,000 boys and girls from the corn- fields of Ohifo are on their way to Washington and Philadelphia. They are the prize winning corn growers | of the Buckeye state, and have been given the trip by the state. Mrs. Michael Fleming of North Adams, Mass., wrote a note to her hug- band telling him her body would be found in the river, kissed her eleven- year-old daughter good-by, hurried te the Heesac river and jumped in. Her bedy wus found In the waler after the little gir! had read the note, Eight Jurers Were Obtained yester- ddy to try six women and one man accused of “rioting” ene mnight last summer when AMrs. John Richardson of Velo, 1ll., was ridden on a rail by her neighbors. William Dunnil. whose alleged friendship with the Riehard- on. family figured in the case has dig~ appearsd, ilson Flayed by Suffragisic RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY NA- TIONAL BODY, W LOST HIS OPPORTUNITY Failure to Say Something in Behalf of Woman Suffrage in His Message Disappointing, Declares Dr. Shaw, ‘Washington, Dec. 2—Dr. Anna How- ard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage association, caused a sensation when she declared that President Wilson had fallen short of the greatest opportunity he ever had or ever would have in failing to say a™ word in bebalf of woman suffrage to- day when he read his annual message to congress. Her remarks provoked loud and prolonged applause. Dr. Shaw said she bad hoped that the president would arise to the occasion, but that while he had recognized the necessity for the exteasion of the ballot to the Filipinos, and urged territorial voters’ rights for Alaska, he had failed to mention woman suffrage in his mes- sage. Fell Short of Opportunity. “President Wilson,” she continued, “referred in his message to the fact that the time had come for an exten- sion of greater social justice, and we women eagerly listened to this. We had hoped that social justice would in clude some measure of political justice to the women of the country. I feel fully that measure of disappointment which, under the circumstances, is nat- ural, for the time had come for the president to say a word in our behalf. “We feel that President Wilson has fallen short of the greatest opportunity which has come to him, or ever will <come to him. No.other president has ever had suzh an opportunity. Presi- dent Wilson had the opportunity of speaking a word which might ulti- mately lead to the enfranchisement of a large part of the human family. Even Lincoln, who by a word freed a race, had not this opportunity to release from the bonds one-half of the human family. “I feel that I must make this state- ment as broad as it is for the reason that we at Budapest last year realized that womankind throughout the world Iooked to the United States to blaze the way for the extension of universal suffrage in every quarter of this great globe. President Wilson has missed the one thing that might have made it possible for him never to have been forgotten. I amn saying this on behalf of myself and of my fellow officers.” When Dr. Shaw coneluded, the con- vention, amid enthusiastic cheering, adopted by acclamation the foilowing resolution introduced by Dr. J. William Funk of Baltimore: “Resolved, That it is the semse of this meeting that President Wilson falled to rise to the sublimest heights of democracy when he falled In his message to congress today to recom- mend the fresdom of half the citizens of the cvidzed world.” To Prevent Militancy. Fear of bhringing on a revolt that might give America a militant suffra- gist organization today caused leaders in the National Woman Buffrage as- sociation to abandon tbeir efforts to have adopted a new constitution re- ported by a revision committee ap- pointed a year ago. Advocates of righta for state associations and opponents of a proposed budget system for rals- ing e national organization's funds declined emphaticaily to accept the recommendations and finally the draft was referred back to the committee with instructions that a compromise constitution to meet the views of all the factions be prepared DEFENSE OF UNITED SHOE MACHINERY GO, Supreme Court Decision In graph Case Cited. Boston. Dec. The dootrine latd down by the United States supreme court in its interpretation of the Bher- man anti-trust act in the “mimeo- graph case” was the basis of the de- fense set up by the United Shoe Ma- chinery company today at the resump- tion of the dissolution proceedings in- stituted the government. Federal officials allege the company to be an unlawful monopoly within the pro- visions of the aet. As explained by Charles F. Choate, counsel for the defense, the doctrine of the supreme court which he cited 18 nothing more than the common law right of a manufacturer to protect his property and to get as good a return for it in the market as he honestly may, Mimeo- FIVE DROWNED BY FLOOD IN TEXAS Property Valued at Thousands of Dol- lars Destroyed. Belton. Texas, Dec. 2.--Five psrsons were drowned and property valued at many thousands of dollars was des- troyed today in a flood which spread over a territory approximately twenty miles in diameter in Bell county. The dead w : Mrs. W. H. Polk and her four children, who were car- ried away when their home was loos- ened from its foundations and floated down a flooded creek, The flood resulted from an excessive rainfall during last night, which trans. formed small streams, normally hard- ly more than b into rivers which for six to eight hours swept awa houses, washed out railroad and in- terurban tracks, obliterated hollows in the road and cut gaps in telephone and telegraph lines. The flood tonight is receding t. fe VOTES FREE MEALS FOR THE SCHOOL CHILDREN. Republicans S;:oiH;a\rlily at Spring- field Municipal Election. Springfield, Mass.,, Dec. 2.—Spring- field had an off year election today, with no mayor to choose, and a light vote out. The republicans scored heavily. The progressives put up no candidates of their own for alderman and elected no common councilmen, every candidate up independently being beaten. On the liguor license question Springfield voted: Yes 5,495, No 2,6 Three other referendums, eight hour day for leborers engaged In public work, free meals for school children and adoption of a compensation act for eity employes, were adopted by larger majorities, Mayor Moore Re-elected. Pittsfield, Mags.,, Dec. 2—Mayor Pat- rick J. Moore, democrat, was reelected by b6 votes today over Allen H. Bagg, republican. License won by 466, the vote standing yes 3, 028; no 2,562. The eity council stands 13 democraty and T renublicans,