Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 4, 1913, Page 1

o ) B NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1913 +_ PRICE_TWOQ CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any uther raper, and Its lotal Girculation is the Largest in %nnect@t in P}o@fiidfi;fo the City's Population ATTACK MEXICO CITY BY CHRISTMAS| General Villa Predicts He Will Have 20,000 Men Surrounding the Capital in Holiday Season TO TAKE POSSESSION OF CITY OF CHIHUAHUA Villa Leaves Juarez With Rebel Force of 2000—Will be Join- ed by 5000 More on the Way—Nothing More Heard From Seven Federal Generals—Villa Declares They Would Expect No Clemency—Huerta Still Obdurate. odus of the’federals. It was stated Mercado had been bankrupt for weel no marked the pe 1 oc and that the soldiers had been without Tebels of the territory abandoned by |pay for so long they threatened loot- Huerta's deral troops, ing and mutin With 2,000 rebels, General Francis- S e Villa, ‘entoute from Juares to the PREPARING FOR REFUGEES, cuated city of Chihuabua, passed et et \humada, S5 miles south of | U, S, Soldiers Instructed to Arrest miles further south. th sand more rebeis will join him on way and wiih a combined foree of T. men he will enter the state Capil there to establish what will be temporary military headuarters of constitutionalist party, Garrison of 1,700 at Juarez. of the rebel for d ire m rder. and camped at Montezuma, Iive thou- uarez with their equipment was Mexican Federal Officers. the | m Paso, Texas. Dec. 3.—On infor- 000 | mation that the refugees from Chi- tal, | hughua were within thirty miles of the | Ojinaga on the border a squadron of the | the Fifteenth United States cavalry tonight was ordered to Presidio, Tex- as, opposite Ojinaga. The military au- thorities were instructed to arrest any Mexican federal officers who might at- tempt to cross the border. ces of | ade on fou ains, a garrison y r 2 : e O ewing been Jeft hehind | Five Mexican officers, including two ) uard the border town. As far as | colonels, who had been held at Fort \muda has restored the tele- | Bliss for violation of the neutrality b The railrosd runs to Monte- |law, were released. to be reconstruc seemed to be , although Villa said he exped ther south ons Zacatecas Next Point of Attack. Chihuah it is interrupted by burn- , the rec- revolution, also to cross from Som- the men for oper- HUERTA UNYIELDING, Do His Part as Long as the Fighting Continues. ted | IWill in | ted Mexico_City, Dec. 3.—The enuncla- tion Bf Washington’s policy appears not to alarm President Huerta, espe- cially since he long ago abandoned hope of anything but opposition from the United States. He said today: the sebels cnter O nom | “I have mo intention of - yielding. tattered Mexican flags Wl <y | Should this fighting in Mexico con- hey are carrying s symaolicis of LISIT | tinue for years I shall continue to do for & restoration of constl|my part in it if I am still alive. government, they will have | "Genmeral Huerta declared that the s the nearest federal| country was self-supporting and that on the south. It Is toward | farced loans, if made necessary, would et X ® Wil | enable him 'to resist indefiniiely. So s long as he was able to obtain Amer- e B e |ican ofl he did not regard the shut- ederal Eovernor AN corrs | ting off of native oil from the rail- -chief, with all his officers | *1 o 2 after sending a peace com- | s o T S e, whose answer he did | CONFIDENCE AT WASHINGTON. ! oceupation of the sity without | g0 o (el Sl TR oo Patience The fact jion to Villa through mask to enable Mercado away that Mereado sent Fred- Moye, the civil governor ad in- ), was rezarded by the rebel leader to. get Is to Be Rewarded. ‘Washington, Dec. 3.—Government of - ficials here were more than ever con- fident today that the infinite patience which the United States has shown No Word from Federal Generals. in its treatment of the Mexican prob- e rebels and federals have | lem is soon to be rewarded by a Solu- e of any character, and | tion brought about by operation of the ight Huerta's officers | great internal forces now engaged in clemency from him. | g final struggle in Mexico. Such a sceived today from the | conclusion bhas been the one principal generals and the band ¢ t of—the American administ fugee: he rebels ex- | tion, f th fter escorting |~ There wes no change recorded today he officers | in the disposition of American mili- state, as | tary or naval forces in Mexican wa- are un- | ters, s ed St The navy department announced that ality laws. | the 700 marines which arrived at Pen- d remaining | gacola, Fla., yesterday on the Praicle \ » Leon and | had been kept ship because s said, would | there was mnot ent quarters < He in- | ashore at present for all of them, The his main army toward 2 is to keep some of the men per- ntly aboard ship. Mexico City by Christ- To Strengthen Federal Forces. mas, Vera Cruz, Dec The government e 20000 men surroundin making ev effort to strengthen A aristmas time deral forces operating against bers ill incre General as we S anb ny. gunboat returned from Tus me the people | pan this ning_and took aboard a ; v to join 1 strong detachment of infantry and a | € d from Chihuahua | large quantity of 'v'lv(l\llYll(lle\ vH(l sup- ity jvas quiet | plies. She ed toni for Tuxpan, d the ding the Amer- I orders to return here immediate- ed he ex- 1¥. A RETALIATORY DUTY ON ARGENTINE WHEAT.i Hopes of Reducing Cost of Living That Direction Dispetled. s that Waslr Y Hop . be reduced by f at, flour and ot the tod n werin Secretary tors of custon wheat and its ed a nst Ar the other nations er the new tariff 1 are to be vhich ntries T 16 oil region: BECKER'S GUNMEN SEEK A NEW TRIAL. in| Counsel Files Claiming They Were Not Tried Fairly. the| New York, Dec. 3.—Counsel for the | tee | four gunmen who, with Charles Becker, her | the police lieutenant, were convicted ith | of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, gambler, serveed upon As nt Dis- e Attorney Robert ¢ T today o [ in connection with the applica- enttion for new trial for the defend the | ants, “White Lewis. “Dago Frank y Louie” and “Gyp the Blood. 5= the case of the lawy conten- ki for Becker, the aw | - avlor today sets Cabled Paragraphs American Disappears in Paris. Paris, Dec, 3.—Wadsworth Rogers, nephew of former Congressman James W. Wadsworth of New York, has dis- appeared and search is being made for: him throughout France. Verviers, Belgium, Dec. 3.—A pack- age containing $87,500 in German bank notes was extracted from the mail car of the express train which left Brus- sels for Cologne last night. Freight at Sender’s Risk. London, Dec. 2.—The Great Western railway announced today it would ac- <cept freight for South Wales only sub- Ject to the sender’s risk. This action has been taken because of the disloca~ tion of traffic due to a strike which has developed with amazing sudden- ness. New Franco-American Treaty. Paris, Dec. 3.—A new Franco-Ameri- can treaty, designed to avoid double taxation of Americans residing in France and of Frenchmen residing in the United States, in connection with the new income taxes of the two coun- tries, was recommended by the Ameri- can chamber of commerce at a meet- ing here today. The suggestion has aroused considerable interest in Paris. SUFFRAGISTS APPEAL TO PRESIDENT WILSON. Urge a Special Message to Congress Advocating Amendment. vashington, Dec. 3.—Adoption of a resolution calling upon President Wil- san to send to congress immediately a_ special message advocating an amendment to the constitution giving the suffrage to women, featured to- day’s National American Woman Suf- frage association in comvention here. The president was urged to recom- mend that congress proceed with con- sideration of the constitutional amend- ment “before any other legislation.” Mrs. Medill McCormick of Chicago, the suthor, and Mrs. Dasha Breckenridge of Kentucky were named a commit- tee to take the resolution to the White House today. The suffragists began their activi- ties early today with a hearing at the capitol before the house rules com- mittee, ufging the creation of a house woman suffrage committee. They closed the day with a nrgn: session at which senator§ and representatives in congress told why women should be _accorded the righ of suffrage. When Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. pres- ident of the association, learned late today that a number of delegates were going to the capital tomorrow to hear the anti-suffragists when the latter appear before the house rules commit- tee to oppose the proposed creation of woman suffrage committee, she an- nounced from the platform that she boped not a single delegate would go. “Your business is here” she de- clared. - “You can befter attend to your business, which is getting wo- man sufirage, by staying here and let- tng the anti-suffragists attend to their business. . Every good delegate will be in her seat here tomorrow.” Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont announced that she would make a motion tomor- row to have the headquarte of the assoclation moved from New York to this_city. Primaries for elect take place tomorrow of the aflernoon. ons which will occupied much Reports of various state presidents were heard. A mo- tion w adopted providing for tak- ing up again tomorrow the guestion of revising the constitution and wheth- er or not the committee to which it was referred back yesterday has fin- ished its work. OFFERED BRIBE TO SECRETARY M’ADOO. Correspondent Willing to Pay for Job as Revenus Collector. Washington, Dec. Adeo today declined an in a coriespondent, whose name he would nct maxe public, to appoint him a revenue collector in return for a pres- ent «f one-third of the first annual sal- t’ at goes with the office. “I will give you $100 just as soon as nfed and the rest just as soon as = a public sale,” wrote the ecretary Me- tation from ace for you department.” wrote M Adoo in Yy “Such an offer as this shows your unfitness for public office or public trust of any kind. The best 8 can render to you is to ad- to revise vour moral stand- in KILLED MANAGER AND ROBBED BANK. Daring Job by a Masked Bandit at Plum Coulee, Man. Plum Coulee, Al lone masked band up the Bank of Montreal branch here, tole $10,000 in currency, shot and killed the bank manager, H. M. Arnold, and escaped in a stolen automobile. Mounted police and a posse of citizens followed the automobile trail to the hills, town, and are believed to have sur- rounded him on the wooded bluff. toba, Dec. 3—A Steamers Reported by Wireless. Dec Arzentina, - New , sig- led 440 east of Sandy Hook 2. noon. Dock 830 . m r loniun, Gl for Por i ignalled 200 miles east at |a. m. New York, Dec Southampton fo Steamer Ausonia, New York, signalled 1 1,141 miles east of Sandy Hook at 10 . | fendants were not tried fairl from the Unit- | qocument contains 858 pages and cites | ed State 16 reasons why the gunmen demand Argentina imposes a duiv on semo- | apgther hearing in court. Mna. a product of wheat, and although | S both the president and congre: B nation are understood here to f | OBITUARY. repeal of this provision of their i S Jaw, such ac bas not been taken. Robert Cairns. £ e R Hartford. Cona., Dec 4] Rob: d'( Cairns, dean of the local building trade HIGH POLICE OFFICIAL and well known chroughout the state, TO BE INDICTED NEXT |died at his home early this morning - after two days illness, aged 90 years, istrict Attorney Whitman Secures |5 months. He came to Hartford in g 4 11849 and had since lived here. He Important Evidence. worked on the construction of the first Vg 4 i 10 _ | railroaa bridge over the Connecticut e ke e ciat y; "oce of ak this plage., The_bridge ‘has since o epected by District Attorney |Peen torn down and replaced by the ? Whitman, as the result of | Present structure. when he re- Charles € and jury in his gation of and fortune telling graft by the poli indicted yesterday cepting $1.000 as was on of rge conspiracy between police and w tappers. whom he will pro- the alleged wire tapping a former police cap- Dbribe money in connection Wwith an alleged The inquiry was not resumed Until two years ago, | tired on account of his age, he was the head of the building firm of Robert Cairns and Son. He is survived by four children, one of whom, Gilbert J., is now conducting the business, in- ce, a Westinghouse Iil of Indigestion. New York, Dec, 3—Because of an attack of acute indigestion, George ire ore the jury today but an assist-| westinghouse, inventor of the airbrake ant prosecutor examined several Der- | wag ynaple to be present at tonight's sons who appeared voluntarily with | meeting of the American Soclety of MEonetion. Mechanical Engineers, in annual “ses- ¥ : 8 sion here and v in person the (et th Dmpliation Grashof medal awgrded to him by the Washingto 434,249,789 in Cir —There was $3,- ion in the United Vereln Deutscher Ingenieure of Leip- sic—one of the highest honors within Siate . according (o the | the reach of the engincering profes- monthiy circalation statement of the | sion. sued today. That exceeded R I Gremtiions " D¢ B Massachusetts Democrats Confer. - b A e Boston, Dec. g,—Go\'ernor-elect 5 David 1. Walsh and 106 democratiz Complete Ban on Aigrettes. | o inhord olect of the legistature con- Washington, Dec. 3—Algrettes will | ferrea today. By agfreement among not be admitted to the United Sta either on hats or detached, according | to a final ruling sent today to all c lectors of customs. Game be admiited with feathers, feathers must be destroyed, but birds will the tes | the leaders, the contest for speaker of the house was not discussed. The gov- ernor-elect impressed upon the pros- pective legislators the need, in view of the high cost of living, of saving 0}~ a. m Dock 8.30 a. m. Sunday. Sable Island, N. 8., Dec. 3—Steamer Celtic, Liverpool for New York, sig- nalled 748 miles east of Sandy Hook at 2. 30 p. m.. Dock 2. 30 p m Friday Lizard; Dec. 3.—Steamer Majestic, New York for Southampton, signalled 316 miles west at 2.18 p. m. Due Ply- mouth noon Thursday, Governor Baldwin to Speak. ‘Washington, Dec. 3.—The fourth na- tlonal conference of the Anierican so- ciety for the judicial settlement of in- ternational disputes will begin a three days’' session here tomorrow night. Governor Baldwin of Connectlcut is on the programme. Steamship Arrivals. Havre, Dec. 2.—Arrived, France, New Yor! Plymouth, Dec. 2.—Arrived, steamer Ascanja, Mongreal for London. Plymouth, Dec. Arrived, steamer Rotterdam, New York. Hamburg, Dee. 2.—Arrived. steamer Moitke, New York and Boston. steamer Lawless Weaver Arrested. Derby, Conn., Dec. 3—Striking | weavers at the Blumenthal mill to- n!fht created a disturbance that re- sulted in one of them, Paul Zanowzalk, | being arrested, charged with breach of the peace. William Clavton was struek on the head with a stone, al leged to have been owgak, this afternoon held not a great distance from this | 15,600 Homeless by Texas Flood AREA OF 200 MILES BY 100 MILES INUNDATED SCORES IN TREE-TOPS Seven s Known to Have Been Lost —Property Damage in Waco Alone in Excess of $75,000—Rivers Rising. Dallas, Texas, Dec. 3—With three out of their banks as a result of tor- rado—and innumerable small streams rivers—the Trinity, Brazos and Colo- rential rains -which began Monday night and still continue, the flood sit- uation in central Texas has assumed serious propodtions. ‘Within a territory 200 miles in length and 109 miles in width almost all of the lowlands are under water; approx- imately 15,000 persons have been driv- en from their homes; scores have been rescued from tree tops and float- ing wreckage; several railroads have been forced to suspend operations, and much damage has-been done to prop- erty. Seven Lives Lost. Seven persons are known to have lost their lives. Yesterday five mem- Dbers of the family of W. C. Polk, a farmer, were drowned at Belton, and B. F. Lacy and a man named Manley #net the same fate near Dailas late today. Manley lost his life while attempting to rescue marooned victims at the vii- lage of Grand Prairie. 10,000 Homeless at Waco. Waco, on the Brazos river and in the center of the flooded area, reported the most serlous situation today. Sec- tions of that city known as South and East Waco are under water, and it is estimated that more than 10,000 resi- dents were made homeless. In Waco property damage is estimated in ex- cess of $75,000. The military compan- ies stationed there have been ordered on duty by Goversor Colquitt, and ball cartridges have been issued to the guardsmen for use in the event of loot- ing. So far there has been no disor- der. Train service out of Waco was de- moralized by washouts. Officials of the Texas Midland, operating between En- nis and Paris, reported the entire sy tem tied up. Near Eigin the soft road- bed caused the engine and baggage car of a Houston and Texas Central pas- senger train to overturn. No one was seriously hurt. People Marooned in Trees. In the Leon river bottoms, near Tem- vle, a numbes me women and children, stil were marooned late to- day, after spending hours in the trees, and tomight it was uncertain when improvised boats could be navi- gated through the swift flowing water. Near Dallas this afternoon boatmen rescued & dozen persons from trees in the Trinity river bottoms, and earlier in the day boats took refugees from trees near Waxahachie and at other poi Marlin, the training site of several major league baseball teams, is pras tically surrounded by water, and the town of Hetty, on the Texas Midiand railroad, is inundated to a depth of from one to three feei, most of the in- habitants having moved to Terrell with such of their effects as they could hur- riedly gather. Three Men Afioat on Log. In Waco and other large towns in the flooded districts charitable organ- izations are caring for those made ss, while in the smaller vil- viding sheiter for those driven from their homes. As a result, except in isolated cases there has been but little suffering from bunger and exposure The Colorade river at Austin, after lling during last night, rose again to- day, coming up at the rate of feet 1 hour for a time tonight. Three uni- dentified men, riding on a log, floated down the river at dusk, one getting into a tree far out from shore and the other two on top of the par sub- merged grandstand.of the park. Boats were sent out to rescue the men, but were unable to find them in the darkness. FALL RIVER UNIONS VOTE AGAINST STRIKE. Leaders Declare There is Opposition to Strike in Winter. Fall Mass., Dec. 3.—Union < voted tonight against 1 strike in the cotton > their demands for an es of 121-2 per cent. Five union organizations held special meetings. Four declared against in- stence on the demands, while the the weavers, among whom the agitation for an Increase started, vot- River. ‘ed 436 to 361 in favor of striking. As the rules of the Weavers’ union require a two-thirds vote on a strike, the vote without effect e unions demanded that the w se be granted by December 8. ming that recent dividends by two ls indicated that the manufaciure: could afford the raise. The Manufa: | turers’ association rejected the de- mand. Union leaders said that tonight’s act- ion indicated principaily the opposition thrown by Zam- | the apartment a short while before the | is head s in contact With of the workers to going through a { winter strike. SPENCER INSISTS ON HAVING EGGS. Murderer Upbraids Sheriff for Denying Him That Luxury. Chicago, Dec. 3.—Henry Spencer, sentenced to be hanged December 19 for the murder of Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat, today expressed two desires— one that his body be cremated and the asMes scattered in front of the court house where he was tried; the other for eggs. Owing to the high price of the latter Sheriff Kuhn has ellminated them from the cuisine of the jail at Whea- ton, where Spencer is confined. Spen- cer upbraided the sheriff for limiting the diet of a man who “has only 1€ days left to eat in.” Dressmaker Murdered in Bed. New York Dec. 3.—Mrs. Agnes Guth, who as Madam Guth ran a West Side dressm establishment, was mur- dered as she lay in bed at her home 4onight. She had been stabbed twice in the back and once in the chest. According to the police, a man with whom she had lved for the past year, and whom she had introduced as her second husband, is belleved to have left Eight Separate Investigations BOSTON’S HOLOCAUST WELL PROBED IS TO BE GRAND JURY ON SCENE it Cheap Lodging I:oulo in Which 28 Inmates Perished — Owner De- clares That the Fire Was Set. Boston, Dec. 3—The fire which snuff- ed out the lives of twenty-eight home- less men in the Arcadia Hotel, a low- priced lodging house in the South End district early today had become the subject of eight separate investiga- tions by nightfall. Some of these were aimed at determining where lay re- sponsibility for the conditions which made the loss of life so large, and others were directed toward devising measures to protect hundreds of other men forced by circumstances to seek shelter in similar places. Grand Jury Visits Scene. Most jmportant of the day’s inquir- ies was that begun by the Suffolk Copnty grand jury. Directed by Dis- tridt Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier, the Jjurymen paid a visit to the hotel while the ruins were still smouldering.| They saw the remains of cots lald side by side in a general dormitory on the fifth floor and narrow, box-like rooms on floors below in which privacy was obtalned by inmates for a few cents more than was pald by the dor- mitory occupants. The cause of the fire was not de- termined. Most Deaths Due to Suffocation. A large quantity of painters ‘mater- ials, District Attorney Pelletier said, was found in a closet on the second floor but, apparently it had not been touched by the flames. Later the jury went to the city hospital morgue. where Medical Examner Timothy J. Leary pointed out that in nearly every instance death had been caused by suffocation although in two or three 4 it was evident that fire ended es. Other lodging houses in the vicinity were afterwards inspected by the jury in order to see how those houses were conducted in reference to the safety of the occupants at night. Fourth Mysterious Fire There. Other investigations were the official inquest by Medical Examiner Leary inguiries by the fire commissioners; the bujlding commision and the board of health; the city police department; the state po nd personal re- search by uyor Fitzgerald. Joseph Lyons of Brookline, president of the firm which operated the Arcad- in as part of a chain of lodging houses in Boston, New York, Brooklyn, New- ark, and Jersey City, believes that the fire started under the stairs in the main hallway. Within a few months three other mysterious fires have bee discovered there, he said. This fire was undoubtedly set,” he added. Total Finances of Victims. $147. None of the men found burned to death had been identified _tonight. Of the injured taken to the city hosp: tal, William Sullivan and George F. Adams, died during the day. Search of the dead developed little to assist in identification. It revealed the financial circumstances of the men when only $1.47 was gathered from the effects of all the victims. Homeless Men Roam Streets. Several hundred human develicts Toamed the streets tonight without a place to lay their heads. Mayor Fitz- gerald ordered limits placed on the number of guests to be accommodated in each of the lodging houses and v were left without a place to go. was estimated tonight that more than five thousand men in poor ci cumstances rescrted to these low price lodging hous ch night. for sleep ea MANN FEARS THAT IT PORTENDS WAR. Republican Leader Discusses Volunteer Bill. Army Washington, Dec. 3—After a discus- sion into which Republican Leader Mann injected the Mexican situation, the house today passed the Hay Army Volunteer Dbill that in varying forms has been talked of at the capitol for many years. The bill, which now goes to the sen- ate, weuld put war volunteer forces on an equal footing with the regular army. It would provide that whenever in the presidént’s judgment war is imminent or actually exists, the president may organize volunteer regiments for war purposes. The men, instead of enlist- ing for a short period as in past wars, would enlist “for the war.” The pres- ident would appoint all the officers not more than four regular officers to be appointed to any one volunteer regi- ment. The volunteer force thus formed would supplement the existing na- | tional guard of militia, with which the bill would not interfere. Representative Mann's ks the administration and all others con- nected with the bill would vigorously deny that the measure w now because the government was pre- paring for a war with Mexico, he re- called that just before the Spanish- American war the appropriations com- mittee presented a bill to put $50,- 000,000 in President McKinley’s hands. “I took a minute then to say,” added Mr. Mann, “that at least there was one man in the house who was not at- tempting to deceive himself while all the others had said that this was not in expectation of war, but to prevent war. I fear that the same situation arises now. “I should greatly regret war with Mexico,” he continued. “I have no complaint to make of the president’s attitude in his dealings with Mexico, although I confess I can see no end to the road which he is now pursuing. He sald yesterday that the Huerta government in Mexico would fall soon. Very likely. I think any government in Mexico which does not receive the moral support of our government will not last a great length of time and I doubt whether any government in Mexico constituted by the so-called constitutionalists or the other revolu- tionists will last wii or without the support of our government.” Veteran Enginfer Killed. Troy. N. Y., Dec. 3.—Thomas Maho- ney, one of the oldest engineers on the Boston and Maine raiiroad, was in- stantly kilied tonight at Greenfield, Mass., whe leaning out of the cab wina. of his rapidly moving locomo- Condensed Telegrams Chicago Has Had no sunshine for eight days. The State Tax Rate of Illinois for 1914, has been fixed at 70 cents. Edward Silva of Tompkinsville, §. I, has green tomatoes growing in his cellar. Six Hundred Refugees, mostly Mexi- cans, arrived at Laredo, Texas, from Monterey yesterday Alfred Eaves, philanthropist, died at his home at Denver, Colo., from a com- plication of diseases. Chicago Women who qualify as judges and clerks of elections, will not have to tell their ages 4 oldest practicing Bernard Rogers, died in Somer- lawyer in Machias, Me ville, Mass., y v The Standard Oil Company yester- day announced a reduction of half a cent in the price of gasolene. The Madisonville Kentucky Savings bank was placed in charge of the state banking department yesterday. Lillian Cowles, aged 28, of New York city, was drowned by falling off barge Red Ball at Belle Rock, New Haven, yesterday. Joseph Rickman, a negro, the mur- derer of Mrs. Ellen Fox and her 14 vear old daughter, was nanged at Bi- son, S. D., yesterday A Moving Picture Theatre was des- troyed and the bullding of the Mullins Furniture Co., at Paterson, damaged by fire. Loss $20,000. Samuel Ali, a chewing gum facturer of New York, was fined for using sulphurous acid in strawberry chewing gum. The voney found Grove The Citizens State Bank at Colfax, Iowa, was closed yesterday by the State Banking department. Bad loans are said to be responsible for the clos- ing. manu- $75 making Dead Body of Michael J. of Worcester, 25 years old, was floating yesterday near the Street shore-of Salisbury pond. Statistics Show That More Men ure enlisted for the navy from New Yor Pennsylvania, Delaware and the Dis trict of Columbia than from other sec- tions. Pittsburgh Commission Merchants disposed of arloads of Flo oranges, totalling about 1,500,000 at cents a crate or approximately one cent apiec: Alfred E. Duncan, president Franklin Fire Insurance compar widely known in insurance on | | | the Mexican situation featured the de- | | bate. Declaring that of course Chair- man Hay the military committee, Phila_ throughout the country, died at delphia yesterda A City's Greatest school of crime— the “boy gang” can hest be abolished the Boy through Scout movement, in the judgment of ¥. B. Porterfield, ju- venile judge at Kansas City, Miss Margaret Wilson, the presi- dent's eldest daughter bes ch man of the Washington “spugs” yes- ay at a mass meeting of more than 1,000 women Remarkable Progress in military sanitation and improvement in the health of the army is recorded in the annual report of surgeon general George H. Torney Abrogation of the Pass privilege by the Pennsylvania railroad for its em- ployes has resulted in a movement to organize all clerks in railroad offices into a labor union Sweeping Criticism of the Rhode I land State Board of Public Roads is made by report of the Office of Publie Roads, United States De (o ment of Agricultur Mrs. Henry W. Tryon, ageq 17, died vesterday at Meriden of L nd shock incident to the death of her h - band, which oceurr very recent after several weeks’ illne David R. Divine, a telegraph epera- tor, who it is alleged, was married to Seven women, was sentenced to serve from two and a half to five rs at Jackson, Mich., for polygamy. Burd Marion, one of the Allen gang, which shot up the Hillsville, V, courthouse, is dead at the Mounds- ville Federal prison, where he was serving a term for illicit distilling Expenditures in the United States for improvement of roads has more than doubled since 1904, according to figures compiled by the office of public roads of the department of zriculture, Damage Estimated at $1,200 sulted from the burning of a barn with its contents sbury, vesterday. It was owned by Alexander Suydam and used by Henry Hoysradt. Included in the loss was one hors Henry Wood, Aged 32, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wood of Lowell, died in Worcester City hospital es recefved late Alonday re- omobile -Paxton line Mrs. Deborah VanNess, 94 Years Oid, o te | lost her suit vester 400 back alimony from the est her husband. Cornelius H. VanNe w Iroad man. The c o recover Civil w us tions for braVe: s a signal under General McClellan and Grant, died at his home at Kas., vesterday of apoplexy. dece officer General Ottowa, Joseph L. Hirshman, convicteq of conspiring to use the mails to defraud manufacturers and jobbers of women'’s clothes, was sentenced in the federal court at Boston yesterday to five years g‘[%he house of correction at Green- eld. Rivalry Between the Parcel Post and express companies was reflected yes- terday in the reduction of the quart- erly dividend of the American Fx- press mpany to 2 per cent. Pre- viously, the quarterly dividend had been at the rate of 3 per cent. Sir Rickman J. Godles, surgeon to King George V, of England, and presi- dent of the Royal Coliege of Surgeons of England, was made yesterday prior to sailing from New York on the Lusi- tania, an honorary member of the Na- tional Institute of Social Sciences, “You Ought to be Ashamed of your- self,” declared Judge Morton in the United States District court at Bos- ton yesterday to Oliver M. Mink, a capitalist, who appeared before him in contempt proceedings arising. from failure Lo answer a summons to serye OB A-iuIds A Severe Blow to Prosecution WITNESS FAILS TO POSITIVELY IDENTIFY DR. CRAIG LOOKS LIKE THE MAN Strongest Statement That Haskett Would Make on Stand—Bad Feeling Between Craig and Dr. Knabe 8hown Shelbyville, Ind., Dec. 8.—Oune of the props fell from under the state’s case today when Harry W, Haskeit failed to identify, positively, Dr, William B, Cralg as the man he saw coming out of the areaway of the Indianapolis apartment house in which Dr. Helene Knabe lived, on the night of the lat- ter’s death, Haskett, testifying at the trial of Dr. Craig for the murder of Dr. Knabe, gazed intently at the accused man for & few moments and then said: “He looks like the man.” Later, under cross examination, Has- keit was asked: Are you willing to swear positively that Dr. Cralg is the man you saw coming out of the passageway?” "I am not,” was Haskett's reply. Haskett's Description. Haskett testified that while he was passing the apartment house about 1120 o'clock on the night of Oet. 23, 1911, he encountered a man who was walking briskly out of the adjoining areaway. The man walked in front of him, he said, and then turned south in the directions from which Haskett had come. Haskett said that he stopped and looked after the retreating figure, which passed under the street Light on the corner, a short distance away, Asked to describe the Hasket, said he was tall, weighing about 18 pounds, and had a dark moustache, He wore a crush Lat and & long overcoat, He did not wear glasses, Craig has a dark moustache, but weighs more than 200 pounds and wears glasses, When Craig was pointed out to Haskett gub- quently by Detective Harry C, Web-~ ster, on the streets of Indianapolis, Haslkett said he was unable to identify Cralg positively as the man he had countered. Then, as today, he said: “He looks like the man,” Feeling Between Craig and Dr. Knabe. The state scored a victory late In the day when the court admitted the testimony of Dr. Otto Wagner, former superintendent of the Indiana veteri- nary college of surgeons, in regard to a conversation on Sept. 36, 1911, Dr. Wagner declared he had_speker to Dr. Craig and Dr. A H, Roberts about giving up their fecture hours at the school on that day in order to per- mit Dr. Knabe to address the stu- dents. He said that Dr. Roberts had, readily agreed to give way to Dr. Knab When I put the question te Dr Craig,” said the witness, “he arose t with a shew of irritation ‘Oh, tell her to go (o hell.’ that I could not casry any age as that and he turned without giving any further an- I told hir such mi away swer.” Newspapermen Testify, Dr. Wagner testified that Pr. Craig and Dr. Knabe previously had bpen good friends and that the former fre- quently had taken the latter home in his automobile, Cross examination of Dr. Wagner will begin with the opening of court tomorrow. The defense hopes to show Dr. Wagner and Dr. Craig have not been on good terms since the incident related and tr trouble between them resulted Wagner leaving the college. Two Indianapolis newspapermen, Paul White and Ray Baumgardner, witnesses for the state told of intep- views they had had with Dr._Craig subsequent to the death of Dr. Knabe, Dr. in Loaned Dr. Knabe Money. he friendship between us was like that of two men,” Dr. Craig had said to th 55, according te Baum- gard “What can a man do whe used in a case of this kind?" he is Baumgardner declared - that Dr, Craig had admitted having lpaned of money tq Dr. Kaabe she had pald back. small sums These sum ZELAYA RELEASED FROM THE TOMBS. Must Leave United States After Transacting His Business. New York, Dee, 3.~—Jose Santos Zelaya, the former Nicaraguan presi- dent, who was arrested here a week ago at the instance of his govermnent which charged him with the murder two countrymen in 1907, was relea from the Tombs today after the fed- eral authorities here had received word from the state dspartment that Nica- ragua had withdrawn its application for his extradition. Two conditions were imposed upen Zelaya, to both of which he agrer according to his counsel. Zelaya, his government stipulated, must not mix in Central American politics again and | must leave the United States for Bpain within a reasomable time. When he has finished ihe business that brought ‘me to New York Zelaya said, ha would sail for Spain, there to reside and to engage in commercial pursuits. |~ Conaditions besldes those to which | Zelaya agreed were originally imposed by the Nicaraguan government and transmitied to his counsel her k. Galston shid. COUPLE ARRESTED FOR JEWEL THEFTS, Chicago Druggist and His Young Wife in Trouble. Chicago, Dec. 3.—Meiville Reeves, a druggist, and Lis 19 year old wife weze arrested today in their home in a fash- fonable residence dist charged with the theft of jewelry valued at $8,180 from the office of T. J. Hyman, secretary of the Illinois Steel company. Part of the jewelry was the property of Hyman’s daughter, wife of Francjs Porter, a former broker, who recently went through bankruptcy proceedings. A pearl necklace which Mrs. Reeves Wwas wearing when arrested was sai to be tho property of Mrs., FPorter. Other gems were recovered from a gxtety deposit box rented by Mrs. eeves the day before the robbery. Policeman Stops Suffrage Meeting. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 3.—7The open air meetings of the woman sufirage advo- cates which were launched here yes- terday were stopped by a polieeman today. He informed the women that they were blocking a sidewalk in vio- lation of the city ordinances and that