Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 8, 1913, Page 1

The Bulletin’s Circulatio NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913 WARNING ISSUED TO HUERTA'S ARMY General Orders Issued Yesterday Require That Therg be No Interference With Foreigners FIGHTING IN FEDERAL DISTRICT ANTICIPATED Railroad Conductor Shot Down by Zapata Forces—Resi- dents of Mexico City Show More Interest in Bullfight Than Municipal Election — Villa Taking Precaution Against Being Cut Off From Juarez by Federals. Mexico City, Dee. 7—Foreigners must | ceded by all classes that the rebels are Dot be interfered with if fighting oc- [ moving rapidly. curs in federal district his in- | junction is contained in the general VILLA CAUTIONS army orders issued today. The orders | — Specifically state that in the event of | Taking Precaution Against Being Cut nghting th ers in command of the | OF from Juares. government troops must understand | el lives and property of all| Juarez Mexico, Dec. T.—Still fortify- s are to be respected; that | ing his telegraph and rallroad commu-~ or supplies are t®Phe exacted | nication with Juarez against a possi- m and that they must be per- | ble attack by federals, General Fran- o leave the scene of the fight- any time. Railroad Conductor Shot. has disregarded the cisco Villa with his rebel army today remained near Sauz, about 30 miles | north of Chihuaua. Villa said he would delay his entry into the capital city until he was confident he was not go- i Rud 2 Torces that the¥ | ing to be cut off from the north. The 1 shoot any railway emploves in|ijea prevalled that some of General e o o op ihe! Salvador Mercado's federal troops, Sulvace was atiempted after | seror evacnating Chihuahua, possibly Deo a result a pitched ety Hitid left the main body o = * between Cu- | guung around to the morth and west, oacn and Teualn. e Valdez 2! in an attempt to throw a force bo- member ot e e o Teand | tween Villa and his base at Jusrez. ey Gonaact ihe Order of Rall-| ghould Villa iose his communication oy Snctors, whe. was i /)xu'u:si with Juarez he would be isolated In of in. was shot and seriously in. Chilwahua and thus be in the position of the federals before they evacuated that city. Direct telegraphic com- munieation with Villa’s headquarters, owed that no federal had been seen ywhere and Villa's slow progress to- Jured. ican aiso, le another conductor, was wounded. Planned to Dynamite Train, « The Zapata forces had made rangements o d ar- namite the train, but ihrough miscalculation, they fired on rd the state capital was merely pre- the train Just i reached the | cautionary, e R 2abed he ) “Villa himself ts convinced that the Thraed, $h which sevbral of the a | hurrying away of the federal generals corting soldiers were killed. withont being put under fire was suffi- Fiehting between the fofierals and| clent indication tbat they were dis- rebie mear Huttsilan witen 1y o) | heartened and fearful of mutiny by the ated between Mexico City and Cuer- | Unpaid solaiers. navacs, ha dapparently ended today it the omtcome has not been de- A SLOW PROCESS. termined, although the rebels E > ) . = e rebels With- | washington Officials Think Revolution More Intsrest in Bullfight _Than_in S SRR o Tine Election. | Washington, Dec. 7.—With the an- R Pty e .. | nounced polley of the Washington gov- | oimitetending reassaring reporis | Sunion: on the diplomatic sids of the Mexican situation one of patient walt- | ing, interest chiefly centers in the rap- | idly moving military operations in northern Mexico. The movement southward of General Viila’s _constitutionalists and the re- at Monterey and Saltillo have been taken by the rebels are persistant and the temper of the residents of the ca; ital i now such that reports of federal | reverses are given more credence thaa those of federal vietories. < <4 port sthat Huerta generals are plan- There was a municipal election in | ming a concentrated obstruction to his $he HpRar Soowy © scenes at the | march on Mexico City, with a possible polls failed to indicate that the av-|fank movement by those bodies of fed knew anything of the af- | eral troops_hitherto reported as flee- blic 100k No in- | ing from Chihuahua City to the bor- d manifest a allfight, the he presence in | der, are being observed with marked attention by military officials there, There is a _general feeling among famous | high officials here that the pendulum Spanisk: Gaona, the idol- | will swing back and forth for some 2ed son « i weeks—constitutionalist successes be- n general ap-|ing followed by federal victories—and rd 1o the ad-| that the process of forcing the Huerta sh it is cou- government to yleld will be a slow one, NEGRESS HELD FOR WHITE MAN'S MURDER. Ralph Morreil of Francestown, N. H., Has Throat Slashed. COWARDLY LIEUTENANT TO BE COURTMARTIALED. Struck Down Lame Shosmaker With His Sword at Zaburn, Berlin, Dec Forstner. 7 ant Baron von| Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 7.—Georgian- na Spalding, colored, of Boston, is un- reaching h der arrest, charged with the murder of martia Ralph Morrell of Francestown, N. H. maker w s w Morrell, & while man 34 years old. burn, Alsace | was killed today in an_early morning agces. It was | affray at the home of Frederick White, who starte ° | colored, in Cambridgeport. The police roops end say the woman slashed Morrell's throat ing = | with a knife. She is 31 years old. White §s held as a witness, Man For The Job. Why not recall Iind and send Boss Murphy down to impeach Huerta ™ QUINEBAUG POMONA Held Last Meeting of the Year With| Boston Transeript Plainfield Grange. | v e T 2o | They Can’t Find Him. | The reason a lot of people can’t find opportunity is because old Op usual- goes around disguised as Hard ncinnati Enquirer Glosed Season For Huntres What the country seems to need is me game laws that will protect the niers at least as muech as they pro- t the Press. ame.—Philadelp| Would Have Saved Trouble. wonder nature did why Den | put an oeean. where Mexico and Cen- America now are—Philadelphia We See His Finish. ria already has done what many {another aviator could not de—sailed his ship uupside down in thin air. Omaha Bes. Send Him Another Ultimatum. | 1t is understodd in official circles taht Huerta doesn’t eeme to terms this Missing Middletown Girl Found. President Wilson will sternly Middietown, Cor o while longer.—Kansas City Nellie Mordner, irnal. her b here e Their Dieappointment Softened, whom the police search. wis loaates Gentelmen whose aspirations te sey Cit membership in the present Cengress brother. s were disappointed may at least refleat s afiernoon and that they missed some _exceedingly state hospital for hard work.—Washingten Star. for several days at a time within the No Further Proof Needed. BRSC Suwr momths If further proof were wanted that | diplomats are underpaid, it is afforder the news that Charge O’'Shaughnes- Airship Tears Down Pole. Hambarg, De The ip Sach. | ¥ was embraced at a banquet by Gen sen arrived here from Dresden in a|°'al Huerta. What is it worth to be dense fog this afternoon and was kissed by Huerta?—Chicago News. able to find a landing place ,aithough o T yrockets kere fired, After cruising Great Efficiensy. or & time over the cily, the pilot com- | The Department of Agricuiture has pletely lost his b and iv | discovered fhat in 10 years the product descended at Qu 20 miles to | on eggs in this country increased 28 the norih. in landi Sachsen tore | percent and the popudation increased down the telegraph wires over long | 2! per cent. That Is, the more eggs streich. there are to be divided the more they et -, | cost. This is proof of great efficiency— | on fhe parl of somebedy.—Providence Former Actress Seriousiy 11l { Trivune. Boston, Dec. T—Julia Arthur, the | former actress, known in private life | Unfortunate for the Spugs. ss Mrs. Benjamuin P. Chene Unfortunately for the “Spug” out- orted tonight be serious] !lpok, it's only a rich man that can af- asband, & n, | fbrd net to gi a foolish present, ne was in N Wasshington Post. trip, was back to her = rodss. she was L Would Settle Things. from an illness which develop ! ™ Would it be feasible to build a high a heavy coid, but that the doctors had { board fence around Lot decided whether she had preumo- |let it alone for a Ld Jewrnal Mexico and then hilei—Wali Strest not | | | | | Cabled Paragraphs Philippines Officials Resign. Manila, Philippines, Dec. 7.—C. 3. Cotterman, director of the bureau of posts, and Richard Campbell, judge of the court of first instance, resigned their positions yesterday. Coster Comedian Dead. London, Dec. 7.—Alec Hurley, one of the foremost coster comedians on the English music hall stage, and who was recently divorced by Marie Lioyd, the variety actress, died here yesterday. Russian Aviator Drowned. Librau, Russia, Dec. 7—Lieutenant ‘Wachshmuth, while making an over- sea flight today in a hydro-aeroplane, fell from a considerable helght and was drowned. Suffragetts Blaze at Manchester. Manchester, Eng., Dec. 7.—The exhi- bition hall in the southeastern suburb- an district of Rusholms, which cost $60.000, was burned to the ground by an “arson squad” of militant suffra- gettes yesterday. Roosevelt Welcomed to Paraguay. Assuncion, Paraguary, Dec. 7—Colo- nel Roosevelt, who left Buenos Aires Friday, arrived Lere today and was g:ven ‘a leaity reception. Quari-is had been prepared for him at the resi- dence of the ex-provisional president of Paraguay, Pedro Pena. Suffragette Fire at Liverpool. Liverpool, Eng, Dec. 7.—Militant suffragettes atterapted yesterday to destroy the exhibition buildings here, which have been only just closed fc the winter months. The scenic rafl- way, a big canvas covered structura, was' discovered in flames and the fire. men had the utmost difficulty in pre- venting the spread of the fire to other buildings. NOBODY PERMITTED TO VISIT MEGARO Held in $20,000 for Using Needle on Woman. ., Dec. 7.—Armand Me- garo, the South American held in $20,- 000 bail on a charge of having as- saulted Mrs, Marjorie Graff, victim of a poison needle attack in a local the- atre last week, was not permitted Lo see anyone today except counsel he has engaged to defend him. No date has been set yet for the presentation of his case. Louis J. Hood, the pros- ecuting attorney, sald today that the action of his office in the matter would be kept secret until the case was com- pleted. In New York the crop of indefinite reports of similar cases continue to grow, but no results leading to police action have developed, Poisoned Newark, N, BLIZZARD, SWEEPS OVER INDIANA Bpringlike Conditions Have Come to a Sudden End. Indianapolis, Dec. T.—A’blizzard, ac- companied by rain, snow and sleet, swept over Indiana today, putting an end to the springlike weather and causing a Dig drop In temperature. The government thermometer here reg- istered 13 degrees above zero tonight, a drop of 25 degrees in twelve hours, Towns in the northern part of the state reported from three inches to two feet of snow and drops in tem- perature ranging from 35 to 50 de- grecs. The wind reached a velocity of from 30 to 40 miles an hour, but little damage was done. OBITUARY. Montgomery Ward. hicago, Dec. 7.—Aaron Montgomery Ward, who rose from a day laborer to the presidency of a mail order house, died today at his residence at High- land Park. The multimillionaire was 70_years old. Death resulted from a complication of diseases which developed after two falls. About two years ago Mr. Ward slipped on the running board of an automobile at Pasadena, Cal, and Dbroke one arm and a shoulder blade. Those injurfes forced him to forego all outdoor amusements. Six weeks' ago he fell in his home and fractured his right hip, The kidneys were injured ang pneumonia set in. Mr. Ward was born at Chatham, N J., on Teb. 17, 1843, the family coming West when he was § vears old. He ad- vanced himself by his own endeavors until at bis death his wealth 1s reliably estimated at $15,000,000. Mr. Ward’s long continued efforts to prevent the erection of buildings in Grant Park_won for him the name of The Watchdog of tHe Lake Front” At one time there were 46 projects for \buildings on the park, and he fough these projects in the face of gene: opposition. Two years ago the stat supreme court handed down a decision prohibiting the erection of buildings on the lake front. Rev. George Marvin Stone, D. D. Hartford, Conn., Dec Rey. Dr. George Marvin Stone, pastor emeritus of the Asvlum Avenue Baptist church, an author of religious works and known as a lecturer-and travelier, died his home here this in Strongsvills, Ohio. He prepared for college at Williston seminary and graduated from Madison, now Colgate college, in 1858, He was engaged in newspaper work in Cleveland, after his graduation, and became city of the Cleveland True Demoerad He gave up newspaper work for the ministry, however, and his first pas- torate was at Danbury, Conn. He was fer twenty-nine years pastor of the ‘Asylum Avenue Baptist church here, becoming pastor emeritus in 1903, Ho traveled extensively on the con- tinent and was quite prominent as a lecturer. He wroie a number of books of a religious character, one of his best known being The Public Uses of the Bible. He also wrote a number of a widow Ppoems, Dr. Stone Jo supviyed by M. Stone of and three and a_som, Dr, Wilbur New York. Two sisters grandehildren also survive, Dr. John Green. 8t, Louis, Mo. Deq 7.—Dr, Joka Green, ooulist of international fame, dled here tomight at the age of 76 years after a years illness. During the Civil war he was surgeon in the army of the Tennessee and of Maryland. He was born at Worcester, Mass. Major Edward Hopkins Hotch Binghamten, N. Y., Dec. 7.—Edward Hopking Hotchkiss, aged 82, major of the Sixth Connecticut regiment during thy Civll war, friend of Bresident Tin® coln, was found dead in bed of heart soase this morning, After the war was for years chairman of the ngs cdunty republican committee. s, Admiral En-icue Howard. Buenos Ayres, Bee. —Admiral Fin- rique Howapd, president of the su- pepme. council of war and marine, died at morning,’ of a breaking down, ineident to old age, | Had he Jived three days more he would have been 79 years old. He was born editor | Wireless Call Brought Help FIRE BREAKS OUT ON COASTING STEAMER. HAD 197 PASSENGERS All Safely Transferred to British Steamer Until Fire Was Out, Then Returned Safely to the Rio Grande. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 7.—Wireless re- ports received here tonight told of the transfer at sea of 197 passengers from the steamer Rio Grande, which had caught fire while bound from New York for Brunswick, Ga., to the British steamer Swanmore, the subduing of the flames and safe return of the pas- sengers to their vessel. The Rio Grande is now on her way to Bruns- wicl. e Broke Out in Hold. The wireless operator here received the name of the fire ship “Ringrande,” but no such vessel is registered, and marine men say the vessel undoubtedly is the American coasting steamer Rio Grande. The transfer took place 205 miles northwest of Diamond shoals. The meagre reports reaching here said that fire was discovered in the Rio Grande's hold at 4 o'clock this morning, and wireless calls for assist- ance were sent out immediately. Ths Swanmore, outward bound from Balti- more, responded and soon had the American vessel's - passengers on her decks. Then attention was turned to the fire, and when it had been sub- dued the passengers were taken back to the Rio Grande. ' Wireless from Cuban Steamer. The following message came by wireless tonight from the Cuban steamer Antilla: “Second operator at moon recelved relay from steamer Swanmore to send nearest Marconi station that she went to help of Ringrande in answer to her appeals for assistance 4 a. m. Dec. 7. Also states took off 197 passengers un- tl fire was put out, then put them back again. Ringrande proceeding under own steam. All well” MESSAGE TO NEW YORK. Captain of Rio Grande Severely Burned About Hands. New York, Dec. 7.—A wireless des- patch received in this city tonight from the Virginla Beach station from Cap- tain Dodge of the steamer Swanmore says that in answer to appeals for help from the steamer Rio Grande he ar- rived alongside that vessel at 4 a. m. today. The vessel was afire and at that time was 205 miles northwest of the Diamond shoals. The 197 passengers on the Rio Grande were taken aboard the Swan- more until the fire on the Rio Grands had been put out, and later were re- turned to their own vessel. The cap- tain of the Rio Grande was severely burned about the hands, the wireless said, In fighting the flames. Both the captain and wireless operator aboard the Roi Grande displayed great cour- age, it was stated, in remaining at their posts while fighting the flames. When the fire had been subdued the Rio Grande proceeded under her own steam. The message concluded with the statement that all aboard her we! well, MIDDLETOWN DISTURBER CAPTURED AT MERIDEN, Was Wearing Handeuffs With” Which He Had Escaped. Meriden, Conn,, Dec. T.—A novel ar- rest was made this morning at the railroad station when John Kurson,who had broken-away from the Middletown police Saturday night, came to this city on an early car wearing a pair of hand- cuffs, He and another Meriden man hecame engaged in a fist fight in & Mjddletown saloon and a Middletow 1 officer sprung one of the handeuffs on Kurcon and asked a citizen to hold Kurcon while he tamed the other fel- low. Kurcon broke awey. The alarm was sent out to the Merl- den department in anticipation that Kurcon would walk home, but he r mained over in Middletown and the first trolley in the morning, only 5 have a Meriden officer on hand to | rest him. He was turned over to the | Middletown authoritles and charges | made against him of intoxication, as- sault and resitance to an officer. BRIDAL COUPLE HAD VERY ROUGH VOYAGE. Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre Ar- I rive In London Safely. | Lonodn, Pec, 7—Mr. and Mrs® F cis Bowes Havre, arrived in London iy this morning. They were mel by | the ~American ambassador and Miss | Page and drove to the ambassa- | dor's residence, where they will be | guests during their stay in London. Mr. and Mrs. Sayre who are on ULeir T on honeymoon, had a rough | the steamsuip Ge During the first two days cane 1aged, The stoamer mouth twelve heurs late. The bridal couple, however, held to their originil programme and Janded and cams te Londcn on a special boat train. | DOMINICANS PROTEST AGAINST INTERFERENCE. United States Sends Commissioners To Watch Elections. Sante Domingo, Tee. 7—The Ameri- can minister, Tames M. Sullivan, has advided the Deminican government of the coming to Santo Domingo of the American eommissioners tc ob- serve the municipal elections, The Dominican government has en’ tered an energetic protest against any foreign intervention in its internal af- fairs. ss Wilson to Address “Spugs.” New York, Dec, 7—Miss Marsaret ‘Wilson, daughter of {he president will be one of the speakers at a meeting of the New York “Spugs” or Soelety for ihe Prevention of Useless Giving, 1o be held hers Tuesday night. Miss Maude Wetmbre, chairman of the woman's department of the National Civic Fed- eration, whe has just organized the “Spugs” movement in Washington, al- se will speak, Sixteen Miners Perish. Rydnik, Prussia, Dec. T—Sixteen miners were killed last nigh® by smoke from a fire which started suddenly in a mine, The fire has beea extinguish- i I | | { | | } Mrs. Pankhurst Leaves Jail I8 LIBERATED ON A SEVEN DAYS' LICENSE. IN A WEAK CONDITION Is Driven to Hotel and Immediately Retires With a Nurse in Charge— Demonstration by Her Followers. London, Dec 7—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the militant suffragette leader, who was arrested at Plymouth ecember 4 on her arrival from the United States aboard the steamship Majestic, was released from the Exeter jail at ten o’clock tonight. Mrs. Pankhurst began a hunger strike and thirst strike immediately following her arrest. Liberated For Seven Days. Mrs. Pankhurst was driven to a ho- tel. She appeared weak and immedi- ately retired to bed. She is in charge of a nurse. Mrs. Pankhurst intends to proceed to London at the earliest pos- sible moment. Not anticipating the early release of their leader, suffragettes gathered to- night at”the Empress theatre, Barl's Court, to protest against onment of Mrs. Pankhurst. was only three-quarters fllled “General” Mrs. Flora Drummond, presided, explained the empty s by accusing the postoffice of tampering the impris- The house and with letters conteining invitation tick- ets. In the course of her speech, de- nouncing the government, she ex- claimed: A Bodyguard For M-s. Pankhurst Here and now we swear thui rever again will the goverum<: t ‘get Mrs. Pankhurst, Ve shall organize a hody- guard which will even face battle- ships.” A resolution demanding the instant release of Mrs. Pankhurs: was carried with enthusiism, but as meoting was dispersing ¢ news of her lber- ation was cnnjunced and was eresicd with prolonged cheers. Several large donations to the cause were made and promises of further donations given, amounting in all to $50,000. This amount includes $22,500, the proceeds of Mrs, Pankhurst's American tour, Again Disturb Church Service, Scores of suffragettes invaded St. Paul's cathedral this morning and chanted: “God Save Emmeline Pankhurst The service -vas stopped untl the women had finisned and w sumed us tneogh - as if no the ing S had happened. The suffragettes quietly left the church. NO GOVERNMENT AID TO BUILD CHURCHES. Cardinal Gibbons Fears It Might Sub- sidize the Clergy. Baltimore, Md. Dec. 7—I do not wish to see the day when the church will in- voke and receive government aid to build our churches or subsidize the clergy,” said Cardinal Gibbons in a sermon at the cathedral here today. For the civil rulers might dictate the doctrines we were to preach May the happy conditions now exist. jng among us always continue; when the relations between the clergy and the people will be direct and immedi- ate; when bishops and priests will be- stow on thelr spiritual children their voluntary labor, and when they will receive in return the free will offer- ings, the devotion and gratitude of their beloved flocks. The cardinal said that whenever auy encroachynent on the sacred rights of civil and 1eligious liberty have heen made by professing members of the church “these wrongs, far from being pepetrated with her sanction, were committed in palpable violation of her thority SON b ..D FOR A Parents Burned to Death After Re ceiving a Beating. Gardiner, Me., Dec, 7.—After the dis- covery today of the burned bodies of wilfrid B. B ¢ and his wife In the kitchen of thelr farmhouse in Litehfield, their son, Kernald M. Eld- redge, aged 30, was taken into custody here pending an Investigation, The vietims were about G0 vears old, T police sald that they had apparently been beaten and that kerosene had been sprinkled over the bodies Fernald said when arrested, accord to the police. that he had b vKing last night, that he slept at home, and left there at § o'clock this morning. He made no reference to the death of his parents. He was taken to Augusta and locked up. he hodies were found by neighbers who, attracted by smoke, pui out the | fire before it had gained much head way. The poliee say money and other valuables about the house were not disturbed. GOVERNMENT MAY OWN RAILWAY POSTAL CARS. | Provision for It Likely to Be Placed in Appropriation B Washington, Dee. 1 Government ownership of railway postal cars will probably be placed in the annual post- oftice uppropriation bili, which is about ready to be reported to the house, with a_record-breaking aggregate of about $300,000.000. A vote on the questioa will 'be taken in the committee tomor- row. Wooden cars cost approximately $6,- 000 per car, and the new modern steel tyDes $10.000 each, and the government pays an annual rental of approximate- Iy half the cost. Steamship Arrivals. New York, Dec. 7.—Arrived, steam- ers Caronla, Liverpool; Cameronla, Glasgow; Auzonia, avre Stampalla. Genoa; Taormina, Genoa. Gibraltar, Dec. T.—Arrived, steamer Canopic, Boston. Fishguard, Dec. 7.—Arrived, steamer Carmania, New York. Fiume, Dee. 6.—Arrived, steamer ! TFranconia, New York. Halifax, N, 8, Dec, 7—Arrived, steamer Noordam, Rotterdam. Gun Thief Makes Escape. Meriden, Conn., Dec. 7.—The Meriden Firoarms company has lost quite o nymber of guns lately. Sunday night while Watchman Fotchman was on guard in the store reom a man broke Into the building. Fotchman shouted to the man not to meve, it the latter made a quiek rush for the door. The watehman fired two shots, but the man made his eseape ST T FIENDISH CRIME. | Condensed Telegrams In Two Weoks’ Anti-Rat campaign at Kirby, Pa., 6,891 rats were killed. There Were Admitted o the nited States a total of 134,140 immigrant aliens in October this year. A Legal Holiday for rural mail car- riers at Christmas was proposed in a bill Saturday by Representative Young of Texas. The First National Bank of Bayonne, N. J., has been placed in the hands of federal examiners and will not open its doors today. The Pittsburgh City Council author- ized the payment of $33.40 for physi- clan’s service to “Cicero” a cat, when the cat was shaken by a dog. Representative Steenerson, of M nesota, introduced a bill, prohibiting the use of the term “United States” by any bank, trust company or firm. Rear Admiral Kossuth Niles, U. S. N., retired, died suddenly Saturday in a book store in the shopping district of New York. His home was in Win- sted. The 1,000 Ohio “Corn Boys” visited the corn show and agricultural con- ferences at Philadelphia, where $1, was distributed among them for prize exhibits. Mrs. Frank Martin, of Warren, Pa,, mother of George Gillesple, who was murdered last September by Gusieppi Di Gicla, wants to attend the execu- tion of Di Giola. Two Children, Madge, 15, and Theo- dore, five, of Judson Ripley, a farmer of Thurston, N. Y. were burned to death Saturday in a fire which des- troyed their home. Armories of the lllinois National Guard may be used for housing of Chicago's army of unemployed, which is taxing severely the capacity of the municipal lodging houses. Victor D. Brenner, of New York, d signer of the Lincoln penny, has re- ceived an order for a $50,000 work in granite and bronzs for the entrance of Bchenley park, in Pittsburgh. Indictments Were Returned Satur- day against Thomas F. Foley and Christopher Harris, two South Boston boys, in connection with the shooting of Mary Joyce, 11 years old, on Novem- ber 10. Following its Prohibiting the com- mon drinking cup ix public places, in- cluding Bunday schools, the Penns vania_State Department of Health is considering abolishing the common communion cup. Two Thousand Unlon Teamsters who have been strike at Indianapolis since a week ago last night will re- turn to work today, according to union officlals. Several more team owners signed union contracts yesterday. Early Abandonment of Ceal as fuel for the battleships of the American navy and the substitution of ol is foreshadowed in the annual report of Rear Admiral R. 8. Griffin chalef of the bureau of steam engineering. Charles N. Chase, of Bridgeton, M: financial secretary of the Young Men's Christian assoclation at Washington, was arrested Saturday on a warrant charging embezzlement of $100 from the Washington association. A Resolution Opposing the govern- ment lifting the embargo on the im- portation of European potatoes was passed at the agricultural conference being held at Philadelphia to discuss the high cost of living and farming conditions. The Indian Summer of 1913 in Cen- tral and Western Massachusetts has been so long and of such a_ decided character that the farmers of Ware are harvesting an extra hay crop, while violets, arbutus and other spring flow- ers are in bloam in Westfield. Dr. Varl Von Klein, a graduate of on high Heldelburg university, an authority Bgyptian papyri and ranking among the archaelogists here, found by his friends yesterd tient in a charity ward at the coun hospital at Chi “If Ma to Mean anything, a brake must be put on the grant- ing of divorce id Judge Joseph B. | Connolly in the superior court at Port- | land, Me., Saturday, when he Insisted that all the facts in a divorce case on trial should be presented for his con- sideration. Nearly Every Window Glass in Mill- ville, N. J., and the nearby town of Bonhamton was broken, a forest fire was started and buildings a mile away were wrecked by an explosion Satur- day in the smokeless powder and dy- namite factory of the International Praeposit company en the edge of Mill- | ville, “Please Appoint a Younger Santa Claus,” wrot eight vea r old lodema 1. Hile of Albion, TIL, to Postmaster General Burleson, a létter which | reached that official's desk JSaturday. | “Grandpa says he used to come to his house when he was a little boy so he must be pretty old by this time, and P'm afraid he's teo old to come to my house.” | The House Committee which has been invest he lot night in ng bying a pitol { upon a report which | ommendations to t ided Ia Imake house, thot | will comment severely upon some of the facts disclosed during the months of inquiry following the published ac- cusations of M. M. Mulhall, form agent of the National Associati Manufacturers. FUTILE EFFORT TO END DUBLIN STRIKE. Employers Positively Refused to Rein- state All of the Strikers. Dublin, Dec. 7—The attempt to reach a settlement of the Dublin strike which | has been in progress for fifteen weeks has failed. A conference composed of employes and employers, assisted by the English labor leaders, sat for twenty hours, threshing out every point, but broke down today on the workers' demand for complete rein- statement of the strikers. This the executives of the employers would not concede. i The employers had offered to remn- state 80 per cent. of the strikers. Longwood House Crumbling. Paris, Dec. T.—Reperts have been | received that Longwood house in St, | Helena, where Napoleon died, 1s fall- ing to pieces for lack of funds to re- pair it adequately. In consequence of this several prominent deputies have prepared a measure 1o increase the appropriation in the foreign office bud get by $4000 for the house, Hsadnailii | | | upkeep of the | tal n in Norwich is Double That of Any Uther raper, and Its fotal Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to” che City’s Population SUNNYSIDE HOUSES FLOATING AWAY Mostly Negroes, Reported Drowned © ~ RESIDENTS CLING TO TREES AND HOUSETOPS Sixty-One Known Deaths at Other Points on Bru:o‘ River— > A 700 to 1000 Persons Marooned in Houses Facing Dfl.fll. From Cold or Starvation When Not Menaced by Surging Waters—Babe Born on a Housetop Fails' to Survive: Houston, Texas, Dec. hay been drowned at message received here early Houses Floating Away. J. R. Garrett, a plante phoned to ‘Houston for ifty Sons, mostly negroes, are reporte Sunnyside, small town on the lower Brazos rive according to a long distance telephone pe tonight, who tele- istance, re- ported that the entire Brazos bottom in Waller county number of hou was flooeq, that @ s had floated away and that refugees were clinging to trees and housetops. structed as rapidly cue those imperilled Sunnyside is eight Brookshire. miles north Boats are being con- as possible to res- of Known Deaths Number 61. Tonight's despatch number of actually know: increased dead | Texas floods to 61 with the possibi ty that a_heavy death toll by drowning reported at Sunnyside, as printed above but not yet confirmed would inc; this number. The additional deaths in today’s case known ‘s reports included four at Hungerford and a like number near Wellborn, The crest of the Eraz s river flood tonight was nearing Brazora county, which borders on the gulf, crest of the Colorado river approaching Matogorda on the gulf. Will Reach Guif Wednesday. The director of the weather and the flood was county, also an said he 4id not expect -the o floods to pass Into the gulf before Wednesday, Reports last night from Wellborn that twelve negroes and a Mexicen had met death on the the junction of the Have Brazos rivers and that 25 been drowned on the P; Allen plantation, at sta and ses had nearby, were not confirmed today. HUNDREDS MAROONED. Many Negroes Facing Death in Rock- ing Qin Houses. ‘Wellbarn, Texas, Dec. T. The task of resculng inhabitants along the forty miles of flooded Brazds valley was gnceeeded by providing for 2,000 Reports brought by the programme or more refugees. motorboats from today of the flooded, territory today showed that botween 700 and 1,000 persons are marooned in houses and plantation res- to bo safe, among them John K. Pars d to ker and John Gordo e a | Parker's reside i & B and Walter McGregor, Clay station, river. and G. W. Bomas Wwho " reached. s | in on the west side of the Arch Goodwin, er, still is missing, a wealthy plant. Tonight at Horseshoo Bend, above the roaring of the river could be heard the singing and praying of more than fifty negroes who were facing perfl of death in & Tocking gin house on ugx island a mile and a half out. Fifty more refugees were in a gin house opposite Koppe's Bridge, In Parker residence were 5 o eigh other v flood victims and simllar numbers in | various plantation houses al 3 the forty miles of the valley up to Mum= ford. A rapld fall in temperature and a ' cuttin wind increased the suffes day, especially in the. along the river banks. tent ring to- colonles Almost all those affected were mes groes, were gathered at Koppe's Bridge. Dr. P. H. Rayzer of Bryan, who:was active In rescue work, described the situetion as follows: forty miles of river bottom everything has been wiped out and “Alom there are 700 or 1,000 persons msroon~ Three hundred rescue negroes ed in gin houses and large residences. We have been to most of these and they are safe, but all need food. Thera arg no refugecs remaining in the troes. ™ How many ngro tenants fu the food« 6 secticue wers drowned Is siill un« known und untll the witer recedes the annot be estimated with death to any dogr The of accuracy. . cod stretches over the valley' fix imiles or more almost to the hari< zon, the water dotted here and theve by a house top or the steeple of a subw merged church. The forty mile leves 1s now the refuge of horses, mules and cattle at points where it did not cave in. Many of the rescued negroes to- day appeared unconcerned over theiw adventures. camp fires Jaughing and recalling in« cidents of thelr escape from the flood, They grotped around Friday night at Horseshos Bend, i adles below Wellborn, a Mght bobb up and down on the river and there came the frantic cries of a half domen hoarse voices of men, men- persons, thy led with o screams of women. im bulk of a house could be seen dut it was impossible for persons’ on the bank to aid those In the house. In the same vicinity a ohild The wag - idences safe from the flood, but in|born on & housetop. The Mfant dled urgent need of food and clothing, and the mother, whe was rescued by Several missing planters were found | a motorboat, is In & eritical condlttony TRIPLE MURDER IN JUMPED FROM WINDOW % THE STRIKE DISTRICT ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR' Public Sentiment Aroused Over Reign | No Reason Given for Suioide of Murs: of Lawlessness, Frances McGregor, Calumet, Mich., Dec. 7—Arthur and | New York, Dec. 7.—Mrs. Frances Harry James and Thomas Dally were | McGregor, 31 years old, wife of B4 idlled and Mary Nicholson was fatally [ ward J. McGregor, one of the nroad' wounded by rifie bullets fired befcte | show managers for the theatrioal firmy daylight today into the apartment |df Sam and Lee Shubert, commits house in which they lived. James | suiolde tontght by jumping from &' brothers came here v from | window on the seventh floor of ¢ Toronto, Canada, and obtained employ- | Riverside drive apartment house whene . ment in the copper range Consolidated | the couple lived, N mine, whose men are among those on | While their sevan-year-old son play=’: strike. They stopped with Dally, a|ed with his toys on the floar, Mrms | miner and a boarding house keeper, | MeGregor and her husband were tales Miss Nichalson lived with her father, | ing together in their parior, Mrs, Mo Who oceupied the otheg side of the | Gregor suddenly rose from her seaty Dally apartment house. and went te another room, slamming All of tho victoms were 1n bod when | the docr behind her. - She remained soh shot. Three kinds of rifle bullets were | long that McGregor became alarmed imbedded in the walls of the house (and called to her. < and the difference in stvlo of bullets | ‘TNl be out in s minute” she re<} led to the belief that at least three | aponded. L: men fired the ten or twelve shots. Six| MoGregor waited a while and e-“‘ men are under arrest on suspicion. | again, He got no response end thems The murders aroused great indigna- | he smashed in the door. Looking out tion thronghout the strike sone and |ef the window he saw the crummled mass meotings were held in different | form of his wife in the rear eourty places today. Speakers condemned | geven storles below, No reason 'was acts of lawlessness of which the mur- | given for her act, j ders today were the latest, Resolu- R % tlons were adopted demanding 't“/'] the [-"VIGTIM OF “FRAME-UP { sheriff nse all means to bring t aw - reakers (o justice and urging all law DECLARES MGQUIRE ls hiding citimens to unite —in giving — e S eers mssisiance in restoring | Former Mayor of Syraouse Deniest normal eonditions to the strike dis- Charges Made Against Him, A triet, h. The strikers held meetings and| New York, Deo, 7—James K, Mew' speakers exhorted the men to stick to | Guipe, former mayor of Syracuse, 'u] the Western Federation of Miners and | was fndioted here on a eharge of sos e be prepared to defend their hemes |‘mfi“g A 35,000 campaign eontwib from raids from officers tlon fram a orporation, the Unjon Of} T gompany of California, In a stad issued tofay, denied all the DOSE OF DYNAMITE made against him, explatged his < sence, in the tropid while Distriot A | FOR DESPERADO ‘-OPEZ-‘ tarney \\«hhlmau'du ‘grafé hmu’:hlv * . T TR PR | in progress and declared his intentiom, Sheriffs Blow Up Room In Which He | f e, o™ 1" hs Guthonition toad May Have Been Hiding. | morrow. 7 = MoGuire summarized his dental ql" Bingham, Utah, Dec Sticks “"lh- accusations against him by decarwy dynamite were ted a room in!ing: 3 the Utah-Apex mine today in whichl SAI the charmes against me are & Ralph Lopez siayer of six men, is be- | dosperate attempt of oil men to desm leved (o have crawled, wounded, drag- | troy me, a ‘frame-up,’ @espicabls im glng his weapon behind him. its object and eruel in its purpos 3 Tons of earth nd rock choked flvfl‘ e e room after the explosion and tomotrow | TERRIBLE CARNAGE s work wiil be begun to clear away the > & debris, to learn the Mexican des- | OF MOTOR VEHICLES:] | perado finally was trapped Lopez | 4 Wag traced to the room long the tins | Nearly Twico As Many Killed As Lasth nel by imprints showing that he had | Year In New York. ) crawled on his hands and knees, drag- | e ging his rifle. Members of the possa( New York, Dec. 7—During the el followed the track until they led into|en months past 416 users of . the Toom. There the searchers, know- | highways were killed and 2,149 ing the deadly aim of the Mexicam, | In this stato by automobfles and feared to follow. motor vehicles: over which the . The pursuit of Lopez began on Nov.| had no oontrol, aecording to & Stpfes # 21, when he killed a Mexican miner, | ment mado tontght by Mitchall i 3 Since then he has killed the chief of | police and four deputies. A New French Ministry. Paris, Dec. 7 Gaston Doumergue Although s deferre. Senator until tomorrow nowfying President Pofncaire that he will take the ponsibility of forming a minlstry, it is belleved that he will accept the task imposed npon him. net this afternoon. He arranged a provisional eabi- Fruitless Search for Lawyer's Wife. Newton, Mass., and_pollce searched the Dec. 7.—Boy scouts woods and ponds unsuccessfully in the heavy rain today for Mrs. Annie Col wife of a, Boston lawyer, whe disappeared from a private hospital Thursday. lake, mear the hospital, dregged temorrow. Cryvs- will be secrotary of state. In a majority o. cases no (nvestigations were con: to determine the May continued. the automobile death rate, said it was apparent that someth law and responsibility, In- commenting upem | Mr, May “there L2 radlcally wrong both in the | ts enforcement, as this secrie :; floe of human life, almost double of last year, 1s too heavy a toll to for the advantages of ‘the -utamob'fi Steamers Reported by Wireless. New York, ‘Wilhelm I, signalled 1,400 n, Eat Hoek at nesday, L, Deo. T8I Lremen . Pork nday's for L