Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 6, 1913, Page 1

~ VOL. LV.—NO. 292 NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913 The Bulletin’s Circulation in NorWich is Double That oi Any utner I . —— ey aper and its lotal Girculation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population T0 CAPTURE THE FLEEING FEDERALS Gen. Villa Despatches Troops After the Recent Chihuahua Garrison, Now in Flight TO PREVENT THEM FROM CROSSING THE BORDER Will Also Seize Arms and Equipment and Will Confiscate Money of the Civilian Refugees—This Movement De- lays Occupation of Chihuahua—Huerta to Obtain Ldan Cabled Paragraphs Priest Shot by Soci t. Brussels, Belgium, Dee. 6—A Catho- Ue priest ‘was shot and wounded to- duy by a soeialist beeause he re- fused to go to a fumeral procession in which the red flag of socielism was earried. Roosevelt Off for Paraguay. Buenos Ayres, Dec. 5.—Colonel The- odore Roosevelt left here today for Paraguay. He was given a hearly farewell at the railway station by the alde de camp of the president and a number of offieials. British Rallway Strike Settled. London, Dec. 5—The strike on the Great Western railway, which has tled up traffic since Wednesday, was settled today at a eonference of the men with the representatives of the board of trade. The 30,000 men of different trades, most of them miners, who had been thrown out of work by From Asmericans—Two Gunboats Sent to Mexico. Juare: Dec. 5 Instead of | tlon is also reported to bave occurred occupying the state capital, | at Guadalajara. = - il of TWO GUNBOATS SENT. els e ped raiiroad | rth o t ed hur- | Yorktown and Raleigh Bound for the : Ahumads, the telesTaph Westorn Mexican Coast. S re men In PUr-| yashington, Dec. 5.—Guarded inqui- federals mg toward| ries are being made at the state de- aga he border | partment by representatives of some eizs Arms a i of the European governments as to To Seize Arms and Equipment. | in, progpeat for an early termination S B - ) rebels occuby the| of the present conditions in Mexieo, ral Vilia said | permit the fed- | rder or aver | which_are imposing grievous burdens upon foreign interests \ o on There is no evidence that these in ) tes without a GgLt | quiries have had an effect upon the de- apture the | cojopment of the administration’s pol- seize the| jor in regard to Mexico. There is much | umofficial talk, however, of & probable | | eariy recognifion of the fact that the | be fn the| cOnstitutionalists are in possession of taken by | More than half the sountry. s "Y | Administration officials here are look- for some tmportant developments s a resnit of the extraordinarily suc- cessful campaign of the constitutional- ists, and every precautio: is being tak- en to make certain the protection of foreign lives and propert - at the sceno of the trouble. The nav 'has a fleet of warships on the er ftern coast of exico. ©Oa_the west past, twilce as tensive and with alm 5t no means of communication by ra | however, the American navel force is much below the needs of the situation, hence to- day it was amnounced that two gun- boats, the Yorktown at San Francisco and the Raleigh at Bremerton, were sailing for Mexican waters. AMMUNITION FOR REBELS, Two Steamboat Firemen Had It Under Canvas Vests, Fugitives Number 2,000 [= howe Tals, er, w w! banks before the evac- . would protect the such as were offenders. Mem- were plac- | s. 1 A LOAN FOR HUERTA. c of 750000 Pesos Assured by an | the stoppage of traffic, will now re- turn to their labors. NO GENERAL STRIKE AT INDIANAPOLIS. Their Teamsters Reverse Action of Thursday. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 5. be no general strilfe in Indianapolis at this time, and teamsters whose em- | ployers have signed union contracts | will return to Work tomorrow morning. | This conrse was decided upon late to- | day at a meeting of the Teamster: unlon, which was addressed By Daniel J. Tobin, international president of the teamsters’ organization. “The talk of a general strike in In- dianapolis at this time is all nonsense,” declared President Tobin. “I have often met such conditions as face you here now, and I tell you the time is not right for a general strike. “It 15 better for us to have 700 teamsters wearing union buttons at work than have twice that number idle in the streets. If we expect fair treat- ment we must be fair, and I urge you to permit the teamsters emploved by team owners who have signed union contracts to return to work. The vote in favor of the|proposition was unanimous. The same proposition, vhen submitted to the union yesterday by Thomas J. Farrell, general organ- izer of the union, was hooted down,and a resolution demanding the calling of Striking There will | a general strike was adopted in its stead. KILLED BROTHER PLAYING INDIAN. Unionville Boy of Six Shoots Little Fellow of Four. Unionville, Conn., Dec. 5—William Hawley, aged 6, killed his brother, American Corporation. | New York Dec. 5—The jerky walk There is a well | of two firemen going aboard the Ward President | liner Matanzas today attracted the a loan of | aftemtion of custom guards. searched the two. Ob each was found 000 Tounds of ammunition, omcealed in.camvas vests. The munition was confiscated. The M. 7as is @ue to safl for Havana on Di It & thought that the am- d for the rebels corpora cleverly am- ember 11. BARBAROUS WARFARE. Rebel Tied to Ground and Blown to | Bits with Dynamite. Mexieo City, Des. 5—A modification of the oid method of tying men to | e cur- |the muzeles of eanmon and blowing | of_ | them to pieces was empioved today by | n Luls Potosi. E osed to have was | ber of the band which recently | This | dynamited 2 troop train at Carnros was | summary trial by a eourt mar- | nd sentenved to death. He was | the ground and a dyna | ced beneath hia bod: | tearing the body to atoms. ompany's exploded | { They | | | | Lawrence, aged 4, this afternoon while both were playing an Indian game. They were in the home of the parents, Mr and Mrs. Michael J. Hawle Main street, and the older boy gested to_the brothe Indians. While having a mer Willigi picked up 2 small calibre re- volver which stood in the corner of the room and aimeg it at the small boy The weapon was loaded and a bullef passed through the body of Lewrence close to the heart. Death came whils the patient was being taken to the hospital. The medical examiner made his report to the coroner after viewing the body- JURY DISAGREES ON THE “UNWRITTEN LAW. Mistrial Results in Case of Miss May Copeland and Her Fiance. Mayfield, Ky, Dec. 5—A mistrial was declared today in the case of Mi: May Copeland and her fiance, Lucien Turk, charged with the murder July of Hugh Atchison brother-in-law | of Miss Copeland and a wealthy farm- er of Bardswell, K. rthat they The Lesses 2t Victoria. at city | Browpsville, Texas, Deo, :—Of the | menta- (ten thousand men Who participated three daye' battle ‘which fermi- 4 with the federal evacuatl of | Nov. 1%, not more than fifty ed =nd 200 wounded, accord- the refugees. o th | | LODGING HOUSE REFORM IN BOSTON Good to Result from the Arcadia Hotei Holocaust. WING. Declare for Eoston, Dec. 5—As a result of adia lodging house fire, in which n lost their lives, lodging hou n will be foreed to undergo changes, Building Commissioner | rthur G, Everett announced early to- | fler a tour of every licensed low- | lodging house in the city. The ite room system is te be abolisl only dormitory accommedations wed aisles and halls will be order- | ed widened in most of the houses and ractically general orders will issuo or additions to the present fire escap | rotection. Home of the houses may | m Ar be ordered closed pending compietion | and in pearly all of | shat off. | CLASSIFICATION OF | STATE HOSPITAL ATTENDANTS | £ the changes, hem certaln seetions will be Dr. Pofiock Wil be in Confersnce With Public Service Commission at um»{ ford Today. | Hartford, Conn, Dec. 5— The public service commission will 10ld o meeting in the capitol at Hart- rq this forenoon and, in the after- noon, they will have a conference with | Dr. Henry S. Noble of the State Con- necticut Hospital for the Insave, at | Middletown, and Dr. M. M. Pollock the Norwich Hospital for the In- sane, in reference to the classification of the attendants employed at their EGG BOYCOTT IS | EFFECT. | PR il instiiutions. At the Middletown tusti. rops Six Cents in | thtion there are at ante and af e B :"N‘ g, Gix Conkd the Norwich hospital 139, The com- ‘wo Days. | missicn will also confer with Saecre- = - . ary Charles D, Hine, of the state A . gy A Y ard of education, in rcgard to the . e s fication of the tsachers in the state normal schools, It i found, in the eass of the two insticutions for the imsare, that it e extremely ciffieult if pot impossibie 10 classify afl the attendants and other persons emp.cyed at the institutiens, without ser:ovely embarrassing the management, and perhaps affeeti the discipline, Quite a number es for some ang the orE §6 widespread, aceerding to head Sor > hanges are made In the positions in 7 A the institution for one reason or as- Hanged, Shot and Asphyxiated. | othe during the year, and & Ne York. Dec. 5.—Theobald Beg ruic of eivil service might be foun hetti, 40 years oid, & manufacturing | unwerkable under these ciroum- Joweler, was found dead tonight in his | stances. It is believed that o nup- Tooms on West 80th st where he ber of pesitions will be placed im Bad turned on the gas, climbed on 4 | excmpted class. table and put a rope d his neci | and then shot himseif in the head. Tha | :j_“;;‘ e et ouhain ial service bulletin” s pub- the Washington, D. C, pub- = = T Tor the purpose of mak- Ka Hawaitn Islands, has 27| ing known to seclal workers the la ePen-air schoolrooms jn regular use. | est infermatien in (heir fisid, | 8 for It was reported the jury cquittal Miss Copeland swore that she killed Atchison because he had wronged her a week before the tragedy. The theory of the prosecution was that Turk, who drove with Miss Copeland to the Atchison home on the night | of the Killing, fired from the fron: yard after Miss Copeland had induce Atchison to come to the door. MASSACHUSETTS WILL TEACH AGRICULTURE voted 9 New Governor Proposes Employment of Itinerant Instructors. ringfield, Mass. Dec. 5.—Govern- lect David 1. Walsh, speaking at | a dinner conference on sural deveiop- | ment work held this evening under the | auspices of the suburban committee of the Springfield board of trade and the Hampden County Improvement league, promised that he will work to securs a system of extension teaching of ag- riculture to the farmers of the state through the employment of itinerant instructors who should be paid by the ( state. He also said that he was heart- ily in favor of the compulsory teach- ing of agriculture in the common chools of the state, Steamers Reported by Wireless. Stasconset, Mass. Dec. Steamer | Bant’ Anna, Marseilles for New York, | signalled 380 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock 4 p. m. Saturday. | Cape Race, Dec. 5.—Steamer Noor- | dam, Rotterdam for New York, sig- nalled 1,180 miles east of Sandy Hook | at 830 a. m. Dock 1 p. m. Monday. Steamer Minnehaha, London for New York, signalled 1210 miles east of| Sandy Hook at 8.30 a. m. Dock 3 p. m. | Monaday. Steamer Rochambeau, Havre for New York, signalled 1,155 miles east of | Bandy Hook at 8.30 a. m{ Dock 8.30 a m. Monday. Steamship Arrivals. At Christiania: Dec. 3, Bergensfiord, from New York via Bergen. At Naples: Dec. 2, Oceanta, from | Montreal; 34, Re D'ltalia, from New York and Boston. At Liverpoal: Dec. 5, Corsican, from Montreal; - Merlon, from Philadeiphia. At Gibraltar; Dee, 5 Pannanla, from New York for Naples, etc. At Bouthempton: Dec. 5, Mafestic, from New Yorl, Jap Sailors Sought to Escape. Philadslphia, Dee, 5—The bodies of three Japanese sailors who jumped into the Schuylkill river in an at- tempt to eseape from the steamship Teiloku Maru, were recovered today. The vessel is the firet Jupanese steam- Ehip to ‘arrive here for several years and the crew had been denied shore lsave bacagse it wag rumored that they had planned to resert, Btrike in Quincy Shipyards. Mass,, Dec, 5.—Three hun- d employes of the Fore River Ship- laing company Who belong to_tho ndustria] Workors of the World went out on strike today on aceount of an | on the electric 1 Craig a Galler at Dr Knabe's OFFICE GIRL OF DEAD WOMAN TESTIFIES IDENTIFIES A KIMONO Remarks Upon Changes in Its Appear- ance, Sustaining State’s Contention That Chemicals Washed Out Blood. Shelbyville, Ind., Deec. 5.—Miss Kath- erine McPherson, office girl for Dr. Helene Knabe, for whose murder Dr. William B. Craig now is on trial here, late today was placed on the witness stand by the state. The witness de- scribed the finding of Dr. Knabe's body, the condition of the flat and her em- ployer's habits, Miss McPherson testified that she had seen Dr. Cralg in Dr. Knabe's epagtments twice and had seen the | former bring her employer in his au- tomobile to the house several times. She also identified a photograph of Dr. Craig and his daughter Marion, one which Marion had given to Dr. Knabe, The W tness said that when she en- Guilty of Riding Woman nn‘flail FIVE GRAY-HAIRED WOMEN CON- VICTED BY JURY ONE OF QUINTET IS 65 Liable to Fine of $200 and Six Months’ Term in Jail — Man Who Assiste: Waukegan, Ills, Dec. 5.—Five gray haired women of the viliage of Volo, who rode Mrs. John n on a Tall one night in July because her name was linked by a gossip with that of her brother-in-law, were found guilty_here tonight by a jury. Bach may be fned $200 and sentenced to six months. in jail, All on Shady Side of 40. The women are Mrs. Emma Stad- fleld, Mrs. Levina Raymond, Mrs, Alma Watlan, Mrs. Sabel and Mrs. | John Stadfield. Mrs. Kate Wagner was | freed because she left before the vic- tim was given her ride. Mrs. Sabels’ 65 vears make her the oldest of the convicted five and the vice and opinion, based upon the success in business. Thus when 18 recogn nece: as much a necessity to a busine is good udvertising. If you have peopie want, but only 500 of them energy you have expended in main little good either to your customers or to your own business. newspaper advertising is the most thelr trade.” it to the test than at the present the homes and there is where the found. advertising eariy in the Bulletin In the past week the followin; the home paper of Easi Bulletin Telegragh Local " General . Total Saturday, *Nov,29.7- 89" 480% 948 1187 {§ Monday, Dec: s, +86 162 295 543 {§ Tuesday, Bec: 0 =80 117 266 469 Wednesday, Dec. 3.. 112 125 240 477 {§ Thursday, Bec 245089 142 266 497 |§ Friday, Bect 55 5130 112 245 487 Totald o .ooeodiese 2230 -+ 3660 Those Who Know Say Advertise! There is nothing more helpful to the business man than the ad- d as comingfrom an authority. ty to success in retail trade is of cou s that is to ieep up a healthy growth are hundreds of small dealers who would find upon experiment that What Mr. Wanamaker says comes statements apply to the entire year but there Dbusiness offering to the people who are going to trade. Stmulate your Christmas trade by advertising properly and ern Connecticut: - experience of those who have made a John Wanamaker says “advertise” it He further says “The first se good mercandise. Quite in your shop exactly what 500,000 know that you have it, the care and taining a stock of high quality do There powerful of all means for increasing from one who knows. His no better time to put The Bulietin will get your 1t goes into buyer is to be moment. steady every day & matter appeared in the Bulletin, tered the room which Dr. Knabe had met death, window _ curtain was Taised about one Ioot from the bottom of the window. The state jn~ sisted upon this testimony, it was s3ld t | on the theory that when Joseph Carr, 2 previous witness, passed the house Dr. Knabe was being murdered. Carr, on cross examination declared that when he apartment house in which lived, he heard screams, b there was no light to be of the rooms. today, passed the D; ut declared cen in any The state contends that the murderer had led down the curtain and was cuiting Dr. Knabe's thrgat when Carr passed. lLater, it s fontended, the slayer returned to the flat, raised the curtain and turned hts, Color of Kimono Changed. Dr. Knabe's kimono wh attempted to get pefore th terday, and which was fo aeseion of an Ind was shown to M h the state jury yes- 2d in pos- apolis undertaker McPherson, She testified that the last time she had seen the garment was on day before Dr. Knabe's death it was hanging in a elaset of where the doctor met des “Then it was a pretty navy blue, with poppy flowers,” the witness ex claimed, “and now it looks like a faded rag.” Witness Shaws Nervousness. The state contends that the garment take was washed with chemicals to out bloodstains, after it had been ried away from Dr. Knabe's office, During her examination, Miss Mc- Pherson was extremely nervous and once the trial was halted until the witness could be given a glass of Wa- ter. T When the witness was turned over to the defense, she was excused after a few questions, Divorce For Mrs. Dahigren. New York, Dec. 5—The appellate di- vision of the supreme court today af- firmed ap interlocutory decree of di- vorce in favor of Mrs. Lucy Dahlgren, against Eric B. Dahigren, son of Rear Admiral Dahlgren, U. S. N, Mrs. Dahl- gren was a Miss Drexel, of the Phila- delphia family of that name. SUFFRAGISTS WRANGLE OVER THEIR FINANCES. Congressional Committes Taken Task for Its Methods. ‘Washingto Dec. 5.—SBtorm clouds that hovered low for a time today over the closing session of the 45th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association cleared away just before adjournment, Trouble started when Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the congressional committes, also a leading worker in the congressional union, an affiliated soclety, presented her report, It was charged on the floor that the congres- slonal committes had lgnored instruc- tions.from the national beard by re- fusing to collect its funds through the national society’s treasurer, - After much diseussion & rdBolution was adopted directing the congression. al committes to act in future in ac- ce with the board's desires; iss Paul's report was approved, to then Fhere were § sehools and 150 pu- pils in the Brooklyn kindergartens organized by Supt. Wm, H, Maxwell alleged violation of an agreement Dby t;\: company regarding working condi- R, 15 years ago; now there are 40,000 children ju 'the kindergasiens of Grenior Naw Yauk, Knabe | | others are wont beyona forty. As tney sat huddled in the courtroom tonight when the verdict was read they bore | n0 resemblance to the angry women {who drew Mre. Richardson from her |home by a subterfuge, placed her astride a scantling, bore her scream- |ing and fighting to the edge of the town with a warning never to return. Man in Case Has Disappeared, | Mrs. Richardsop; is not against her forme) ' friends. satisfed with vindictive She was a &inviction ana was agreeable to lettif3 the women off with a . She | & a civil suit for $100,000 pending as imst them. Bdward Krepel | Iso was indicted with the six women. It was charged that, dressed in the garb of a woman, | he assisted in riding Mrs. Richardson jon 2 rail. He has disappeared. Tax Reform Proposed. Boston, Dec. 5.—Taxation of public service corporations by the valuation of physical properties instead of by earnings was advocated by Thom- as . Adams of the Wisconsin state | tax commission and secretary of the National Tax association, in an ad- dress before the Association of New England State Tax Officlols. Pensacola Bank Closed. | Pensacola, 5—The Pensa cola State b was ordered closed today by a representative from the state comptroller's office. The ank is capitalized at $10,000 and has deposits aggregating nearly $400,000, about $125,000 belonged to \‘ Admits Robbing Students. Trenton, N. J. Dec. +—Suzio Happ, {who was alleged to have served pri |on senten in New England for | plundering the rooms of students at | Yale and Harvard universities, plead- ed guilty here today to similar renflrs at Princeton. ‘ Musicale at White House. Washington, Dec. & Woodrow Wilson entertained several hundred guests at the first musicale of the | winter season In the east room of the | White House. The programme was | rendered by a temor, a cellist and a | harpist from New York city. Rogers Reappears in Paris, Paris, Dec. 5.—Wadsworth Rogers, |the nephew "of former Congressman | James W. Wadsworth of New York, |returned today in seemingly good health to the hotel from which he had | been missing since last Saturday. Mr. | Rogers gave no explanation of his pro- |longed absence, | _The Board of Education of New | York city has just secured an appro- | priation of $79,000 with which to op- erate during the coming year after- school glfiy centers in 163 of its school bufidings. Each of these play centers will accomodate from 250 to 850 uchool children. The schoool yard and the school gymnasium Wil he used for this purpose, and will re- main open from 8.30 to 5.30. The ex~ pense consists of $8.50 for the direct- or of the centsr and $1.00 per session for extra janitor service, making s to- tal of §350 for an afternoon center acoomodating approximately 300 children, or about 1 1-8 cents per ohila. How to bind’ dilapidated textbooks so that they look almose as good as new is taught in manual training |clnsses at Hampton Institots Hamp- ton, Ve & Them Mas Disappeared. - Condensed Telegrams William Deering, for many years Seneca county, N. Y. The loss is os- timateq at $75,000. The Farmers of Suffolk County, N. Y,. haye organized and will deal direct- 1y with oity purchasers. Representative William F. Murray of Massachusetts has been agreed up- on for postmaster at Boston. An Imporial Elephant with tusks 15 feet long was unearthed in a tar fleld near Los Angeles, Cal. The Wholesale Price of fresh eggs dropped five and six cents a dozen in the Philadelphia market yesterday. The Tacoma, Wash., commissioners dectded to ask the Tacoma Rallway & Power Co, to grant a four cent car fare. The French Red Cross soclety is manifesting a Keen interest in the sale of Christmas stamps by the American Red Cross. Denver Awakened Yesterday to find every manner of trafic blocked by more than two feet of snow which covered the cit: Judge Ephraim P. Arnold, died at his hgme g}. Haddam yesterday after several days illness from pneumonia, in his T4th year. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, Who collapsed while on an inspection tour of cheap lodging houses, was confined to his bed yesterday Fogp Assisting in Recovering a stolen autdmobile, Amaza W. Bigss, sherifl of Huntington, L. L, received $1,000 as a Christmas present. Fire, Believed to have been started by an incendlary, early yesterday Wip- ed out the business section of Lodi, a small town in the southern end of William Deering, for many _years identified with the great Harvester interests, was reported vesterday as eritically fll at Miami, Fla., his winter home, Robert Gowdy of Westfield, Mass., was yesterday appointed temporary re- cefver of the Textile Manufacturing company of Hnfield, by Judge Bdwin | 8. Thomas. Eggs Are to be Banished From the tables in the home of neapy all the cabinet members, whose wives have pledged their support to the’egg boy- cott campaign. The 21 Chinamen who were captured in an opeum raid on the Wah Kee laundry at Pittsfield, Mass, Sunday night were fined $15 each in court yes- terday. A Reward of $250 is being offered by the navy department for the return of “one anchor and chain lost from the U. 8. S. Rhode Island, off Block Is- land, August’8, 1918 Steve Bisko, 25 Years Old, & me- chanic_and living at Bridgeport dled yesterday as a result of his suicide at- tempt Sunday night, a chisel being thrust into his chest. Michael Carroll yesterday was fined $10 in Malden ocourt for driving a motor hearse from Stoneham to Boston over a boulevard on which only pleasure vehicles are allowed. Lieutenant Colonel David Du Bose Gaillard, U. 5. A, who directed the en- gineering work in the Culebra cut di- vision of the Panama canal, died at Johns Hopkins hospital yesterday. Recommendations _For Increased Wages for employes of the government printing office amounting to _about $83,000 2 year is contained in the an- nual report of Cornelius Ford, public printer. Rev. James A. Graham, aged 67, who at had been serving a life term Moundsville, W. Va., under the habi al criminal act, was released havir been pardoned by Governor H. D. Ha field Twenty-Eight M Bible and books co the Holy Scriptures were printed dur- ing the past year, according to a re- port compiled for publication on “Bible Sunday,” Dec. lion Copies of the The Buffalo and Susquehanna R road was sold at foreclosure sale Coudersport, Pa., yesterday for 000,000 to a protective commissiones representing the immediate first re- funding four per cent. bonds. President Wilson has ths grippe. His cold is in his nose and throat, and his physlcian, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U. 8. A, has ordered him to remain in | bed. Mrs. John A. Johnson, widow of the late Governor Johnson of Minnesota, ! be married on Christmas day to Willlam Alley Smith, of Mr. Smith has resided in Minneapolis for two years as manager of a lumber company. Mre. Lorillard _ Spencer, philan- thropist left New York on the ste ship Oceanic terday on the first stage of a journey to the Island of Jolo, in the Philippines, where she will devote a year or more to educating the Moros. A Person Who Joins in a aining portions of | 4t ters has proven a great Pittaburgh, | dore George R. Salisbury, U. 8. > strike is | TEXAS DEATH Bryan, Texas, Dec. 5—A death roll of moye than fifty persons, with scores of flood refugees spending tonight in mminent peril, and possibly a thou- sand others marooned and suffering from prolonged hunger and cold, was indicated by tonight's reports from the flooded Brazos river bottoms In this section of South Central Texas, For over fifty miles the Brazos was thres to five miles wide and running with mill race speed. Property Loss $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. The known dead in Texas floods numbered 33 before reports from the inundated territory in this district be- gan coming in late today. The late Teports were brought by men on horse- back and indicated at least twenty more persons had been drowned. About two-thirds of the dead were ne- groes, The courlers’ reports indicated that the property loss would total four or five million dollars when losses along the Brazos are added to the already heavy damage in other portions of the state. Raifroad Manager Drowned. Henry Martin, vice president and general manager of the International and Great Northern railroad, was drowned at Valley Junction, near here, late today while attempting to rescus marooned flood victims.. Mr. Martin went to Valley Junction, where the confluence of the Little and Big Brazos rivers made a swirling lake, six miles across, to direct personajly the road's rellef forces and w ftempting to navigate a boat alone when the frail craft was upset. His body had not been recovered tonight. Six members of the life saving erew stationed at Galveston and a train- load of motor boats from Houston, which started for Bryan late today were stopped by high water at Nava- sota, Resouing Refugees from Trees. The boats were lainched at that point shortly before dark and tonight started upstream over the flooded bot- toms to rescue persons reported cling- ing to trees, housetops or occasionally standing in shallow water, cut off from shore. Bryan had twenty boats out all day, which brought to high ground several hundred persons, the majority terrified and half clad negroes. A trainload of provisions and blan- kets was sent from here tonight to Kosarek, on the edge of the bottom: where 100 of the refugees were un loaded. Throughout the bottoms, even Where the water did not endanger life, ROLL WILL EXGEED 50 Brazos River Covering Area Three to Five Miles Wide For a Distance of Fifty Miles A THOUSAND MAROONED IN TREES OR ON ROOFS Railroad Manager Drowned While Engaged in Rescue Work —Cabin and Its Occupants Disappear—Many Planters Remain in Flooded District in Hope of Saving Their Stock —Property Loss From $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. e it ruined most of the provistons in stores, destroying the food supply. Planters Remain to Save Stock. Anxiety was felt tonight for scores of negroes whom the boatmen reported ng to trees. These negroes, wet, chilled and hungry, already had been Lest alght ant sailos 8] t miles from Bryan, Lee Cortmelia, an Italian, Yo i celling for help from his \balf eub- merged cabin. This morning the o had_disappeared and Cortmelia wit bis wifo and several children hiad been od. Prominent planters in the bottoms have refused offers of resous, sending out their wives and children to Bryan, but themselves remaining behind in the wi , tearing down portions of thefr ‘bui] fo Improvise platforms for their stock, Anxlety is felt for the safety of geveral planters. Seth Moor- ing was last seen this afterncon on top of his house near the river. He Iy refused to leawe. Water 5 to 25 Feet Deep. The wife and daughters of A, F. Wil son, who left their plantation between Bryan and Hearne, tried all day to communicate with him, but without sucoess. W. M. Simms was anothgr Bryan planter out in the flood to- night. Muddville, & hamlet near Valley Junotion, was reported flooded to a depth of from five to twenty-five fest. No loss of ife was reported there. | Bn Antomlo today reported its first flood death when John Gonsho, a farm- | er, was drowned in the Leon riger. | At High Bank it was learned that six negroes lost their lives instead of two, as formerly reports when the rise struck there Wednesday night. Convlcts Being Moved. i i At Hearne only seven boats wers | ] ¢ available all day to cover the miles of flooded Brazos. These boats res- cued numerous white persons and many nesroes. Tomight it was report- d one or two of the rescue boats had been swamped .and the fate of their occupants was not known, { Reports from the Colorado river were meagre. Tlasswhere throughout Texas immediato danger seemed past, though Waco faced a serious cleaning wp_problem. Thousands of convicts on the state farms south of Houston today were being moved to high land. Heavy loss- es of cut sugar cane on these farms was expected from the overflow which probably will be in its height in that section about Sunday, One drowning was reported tonight at Bastrop, a . South Texas town. N FLOODS OF PROTESTS REACH THE GOVERNOR. Objectors to Hanging of Mrs. Wake- field Send 2100 in Two Days. Hartford ,Conn., Dec.—Letters pro- testing against the execution of the | death sentence on Mrs, Bessie Walke- | field, now at thé state prison for the | murder of her husband, continus to pour into the governor's office at the capitol in a perfect flood. About 1500 were received Thursday and six hun- dred came in and were delivered up to noon today. Practically all of these are from Middle Western states. Thousands upon thousands of these letters are piled up in_the office of the governor, and many of them unopened as yet because of lack of time. The capitol mail ig transported by a one ermed Civil War veteran, Chester Leonard, and this great number of let- burden to him in the last fortnight. Governor Baldwin has frequently said that he has no authority to par- don Mrs. Wakefleld or mitigate her sentence. He could grant a respite from execution, and ho is a member of the board of pardons, having one vote A pardon granted by the board must be by & unanimous vote. Admiral's Wife Granted Divorce. Kansas City. Mo., Dec. 5—Mrs. Adele Trowbridge Salisbury, wife of Commo- retired, and former governor of Guam, | was granted a divorce for desertion | here today. The action was uncon- | tested, and alimony was not mentioned in the decree. Mrs. Salisbury testifled they were married in 1889 and that | they were happy until five vears ago. Why Taft Came to Yale. Cincinnati, O, Dec. 5.—The fact that he would have been compelled to prac- tice law before judges whom he had appointed when he was _president not entitled to damages and has no | Prompted former President William H. right to complain if he is not employed again by persons against whom he and his assoclates struck, according to an ‘opinion rendered Friday by Judge Loring of the Massachusetts Supreme court. Alexander King, intimate friend of Andrew Carnegie and former vice president of the American Thread | dompany died at his home at Orange, N. J. yesterday of injuries received when he was run down by an auto- moblle last Wednesday. Earl Curtis, Aged 24, was probably fatally wounded when a gun in the hands of Joshua Farron, a Woonsocket druggist accidentally discharged while the two, together with Joey Conmolly of the Boston Nationals, were out hunting in the woods near Woonsock- et yesterday. John Cowan, Former Postmaster at Cowan, Mont., charged with lssuing fradulent postal money orders amount- ing to $4,600, pleaded guilty im. the foderal court ai Butte 4nd was Ren- tenced 1o 13 months in the federal prison at Leavenworth and to pey & ne of $300 anq cost: Long Term for “Scapbox” Hardy. Albeny, N. Y, Dec. G.—~Charles F. O'Connell, alias “Soafbox” Hardy, who has served 28 of his 49 vears in Drison, today was sentenced to Clinton prison for five years and &ix months for steal- ing $870 from the New York State Na- tonsl benk | Taft to give up Cinecinnati as his home and accept the position of professor of law at Yale university, according to a statement made by him in o brief ad- dress before the Cincinnatl city char- ter commission here today. Marshall's Portrait Brings $1,008. Philadelphia, Dec. 5.—A portrait cf | Johm Marshall, chief justice of the su- breme court of the United States in the | early days of the republic, broughc | $1.005 at a sale of the furniture and fittings of the home of the late J. R. Barton Willing, brother of Mrs. Joan Astor, formerly the wife of the late John Jacob Asto Swedish Steamer Sinks, 46 Drown. Stockholm, Dec. §.—Forty-six Iives were lost today by the foundering of the Swedish steamer Malmberget off Boda, Norway. The steamer left Nar- vik, Norway, November 27, for Rot- terdam. The Malmberget was of 3,908 tons, Elevator Dropped Four Stories. Auburn, Maine, Dec, b.—Four stons masons wers injured, two serlously, today, when one of them pressed the ‘wrang control button and the elevator Which they were riding dropped ur storiss, Mrs. Panichuret Collapsee. Exeter, England, Dec. §—Mrs, Fm- ‘meline Parkhurst, the suffragette lead- er, is said today te be in a state of collapse, having started both & hunger and & SHERIFFS FAIL TO LOCATE DESPERADO Search of Poison-Permeated Mine | Proves Unavailing. ) Bingham, Utah, Dea. 5.—After ! wearching a third of the Utah-Apex mine, the posse which penetrated the stronghold of Ralph Lopes, slayer of - six men, came out tonight and an- nounced to the thousands of expectant miners that they had found nothing | to indicate that the desperado was dead. The belief prevalls that again the sheriffs of nine counties and their hundreds of deputles have been out- witted by the man who several times since the pursuit began on November 21 has risked ocapture in order to Jeer at their efforts, The smudges that had generated deadly gases since Monday were al« , lowed to die down last night and early today the doubls bulkh: in the tun- mel mouths were removed. A of ten went into the mine to mearch for the Mexican. In a blind slope on the 800 foot level a cave-in was found ‘which blocked the passage It was thought possible that within this slops Lopes may have taken refuge from the approach of the poisonous na‘; A squad was left waiching it tonig! and it will be opened tomorrow, STANDING COMMITTEE | ON EQUAL SUFFRAGE. Leaders Argus for One at Hearing. Washington, Deo. 5—Hearings be< fore the house committee on rules re. lating to the proposed creation of a standing committes on equal suffrage closed here late today. The last hours of the heartng were occupied by cham- pions of the ‘movement direot« ed by Catherl ‘augh MoGulloch of Chicago, answering those opposed to equal suffrage who had argued against any federal recognition of the sullrage question. No_action on the resolution which would provide for a house equal suf= frage committee was taken, bul tke subject will be thoroughly constdered and a report made within a short tims It was Teported tonight that many members of the rules committes wers seriously consklering the extension of authority to the present standing com- mittes on election of president and wice , dent to consider women's en- nchisement. Waterbury’s Firebug Ts Insane. Greenfleld, Mass, Dec. §.—Bernard Murray, who time ago com~ ssed to setting the Waterbury, Conn, city hall fire, the Wilson House fire in North Adems and numerous elsowhere, was today ordered commit~ ted to the Northampton Insane Hospi- tal by Judge H. J. Field of the local Suffrage Unpopalar Garrison Traneferred. Doneueschingen, Bmperor Willlam ored” o ' be - S hosad