Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 10, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 295 NEW ELECTIONS CALLED IN MEXI Reesat Eloction Nullified Sunday of July Assigned For Another £0 by Congress and First e HUERTA TO REMAIN IN The Election of a New Congress Also Provided For—‘Vivas” For Huerta in Chamber of Deputies—Catholic Deputies Absent From Session—Tampico Threatened by Large Rebel Force—Federals at Mexico City, Dec. 9—The Mexican | congress today nullified the president- ial elections. New elections are called | for next July. Congress, according to this action, | expects General Huerta to remain inl the presidency for at least t will be well towards the end of Sep- tember next year before he vields his power to another. “Vivas” for Huerta. tonight that the recent election was null the dep- wties decided to fix the first Sunday in July, 1914, as the date for the new election. They also econfirm the posi- tion of General Huerta as provisional president until then. The action of the deputies was ac- eompanied by no debate. The commit- tee report was gpproved without a dis- senting vote-as rapidly as the articles eould be read. It was not until the last clanse was read, referring to General Huerta as provisional president, that the chamber gave evidence other than of a well trained organization. When the reading clerk stopped some one be- e polauding, and then instantly the jes were shonting Vivas for Hu- New Congress to Be Elected., The presiding officer < ind them thai en well, but that it w L - the enthusiasm by votes. ] sures taken tonight also pro- vide for the election of a new congress, since the one elected to take the pla at dissolved by Fuerta is to serve t an unexpired term which should terminate Sept. 15. The given for nullifying the eelctions was the in- sufficiency of the number of votes cast. It was stated that the entire number aces in the republic is 14.- | that returns were received | Catholic Deputies Absent. Altholgh there werc > chamber on the commit- wag noted thae-the €ath- absented themselves from The action of the new 1rpr 1o mest peo- reiteration of Huer- de from time to{ he* atements There erowing heen, 1 might approval programme doubting on: dent retains tuation. Tampico Now Threatened. tonight to -reassure the/ the acting presi- p en the politic: There has heen nowever, that G from the pres re from abroad e e rebels from the 1 are s ramor current,! Huerta may re- | ¥ beeause of{ 1d the advance | The con- | fourt eived at the capitel by ives of the oil interests im t dist A band of Ame an hur located the outpo: of rebel Altamira. Information obiz hunters led them to belie an atiack on the city would be ugurat- ed short]ly and that the commamnder of the rebels, realizing the difficulties he might enceounder, s sending forward ope of the heawviest forces yet em- ployed in the campaign in that part of the republic. The Americans ex- plaineé to the rebels that they were !y a hunting expedition and were vited by the rebel officers to be their guests at dinner. Foreigners Will Be Respected. They were assured that foreigners need have no fear so far as the con- stituiionalists were comcerned; that when the city was at ed the rights of ail foreigmers would be pected. Fighting between the rebels and fed- erals in the vicinity of Hupitzilac ,be- tween the capital and Cuern: eontinued today, but it was indeci SOLDIERS WANT Federais in Ojinaga in MONEY. a Sorry Pre- dicament. -“With Gen- northern di- § of the federal army in bank- | FMptcy and with the soldiers threaten- | g mutiny unless they are paid, ever restraint was enforced today to pre vent & general rush of the federals ! across the river from Ojinaga into TUnited States territory. Driven from Chihuahua City. where they have been besieged by rebels, to a point where communication could be | opened, the army, representing the| strength of the Huerta government in | the north, reached hts#iborder with an empty easury. The future of the| army was sald to depend upon the na- | ture of responses to urzent demands for money sent to Mexico Cify. Gen- eral Mercado himself, before evacuat- fng Chihnahua and thus turning it over to the rebels, gave as one reason for his act the Jack of money with which to pay his troops. The appearance of his financial agents on the American ride, soon after the arrival of the troops at Ojinaga, and the fact that General Ynez Salazar and other offi- gers at once communicated with Mex- {eo Clty were no surprise to American srmy officials who were apprised of| eonditions. The TUnited States troaps here, re- infore by other troops along the bor- dar, were prepared for an emergency, having been informed that the Mexi- can troops purposed rushing across the border. Rebel agents who went imo Ofinaga also reported that only the prompt payment of ithe soldiers would appease them, Meantime efvilian and federal refu- gees from Chihuahua continued to pour into Ojinaga. A faetor which tended to inerease the predicament of the federal troops was a fear that the rebel forces, which now hold sway over a great section of the north, would not leng allow Ofin- | aza to stand unmolested, The neces- sity of reprovisiening, the army was apparent, and uniess this could be done at once the troops would be insuffi- eiently provided against a possible rebel attack. It was thought that @eneral Villa, who recentiy occupied no dissenting | for | the OFFICE IN MEANWHILE Ojinaga in a Sorry Plight. Chihuahua, would soon prepare for a pursuit of the federals. The federals have fortified Ojinaga since their arrival. ON TO OJINAGA. Villa May Drive Federal from Border City. Refugees Juarez, Mexico, Dec. .9—Preparations were begun among the rebel ranks to- day for some military movement, and it was reported that General Franc Villa, Tebels given orders th acti against Ojinaga, where th refuging. i The federal strength in or near Ojin- aga, now the only federal stronghold north of Monterey, is about 4,000 men. Villa has abecat 7,000, a large number of whom, however, he mnecessatily would have to leave for garrison duty at Chihuahua and Juarez and along the railroad between these cities. The proxi of so large a force of federals is said to have given General Villa much conce The belief of the Cabled Paragraphs anquet in Rooseveit's Honor. Asuncion, Paraguay, Dec. 9.—The president of Paraguay today gave a banquet in honmor of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Among the guests were three former presidents of .Paraguay, Bg Gaona and Dr. Ravero, and the Cecilo Baes, Juan Emiliano Gonzales cabinet ministers. Dublin Strike Settled. Dublin, Dec. 9.—All the transport and doekworkers in Dublin have agreed resume work, according to the companies and the port, which has been practically closed since the end of Augusi owing to the strike, will be reopened tomorrow, when the reg- ular Sailings across the Irish channel will be resumed. Careless Auto Driver Punished. Paris, Dec. .—Morverand, the driver of the automobile which plunged from the roadway near Neuilly-sur- Seine into the river carrying with it the two children of Isador Duncan, the ‘American dancer and their gov- erness, was today semt to the correc- tional court on a charge of homicide through imprudence. Attempt to Escape from Siberia. St. Petersburg, Dec. 9.—A second unsuccessful atlempt to escape from exile in Siberia was made early this month by Mme. Catherine Breshkov- skaya, “grandmother of the Russian revolution,” whose case at the time of her.condemnation in March, 1910, aroused such widespread interest in Europe and the United States. Mrg: Pankhurst in Paris, Pari Mrs, Emmeline Park- hurst arrived here this evening to pay a short visit to her daughter, Chris- tabel Pankhurst. Although looking very tired and weak, Mrs. Pankhurst expressed her determination to return to London to keep her engagement to speak at a meeting on Monday, wheth- er she was fully d or not. ecove: WAKEFIELD LETTERS GO TO WASTE BASKET rebels is that the federals after escort-| Governor Receiving Them Faster Than ans to the border, will retreat to south, probably the state of Nuevo Leon. General Villa has taken the position that should they ing all the c not do this. they will continue to be menace to the rebels in the north. Hi purpose is to dislodge the federals should they attempt to remain at Ojin- aga, or to hasten their flight if they intend to continue on southward. FEDERALS WORRIED. Rebel Strength Around Ojinaga Rapid- ly Increasing. Presidio, Tex., Dec. federal troops stood on the the river tonight and shouted over to the American side that they would de- t if attacked by r . It was re- hat the rebe round Ojinaga rapidly increa and that a three or four thousand wa: soon. As the rebels appeared imerous the -deral troops dissatisfaction. to more Y show remain at Ojinaga, There abpeared te he great aetivity among the United Sidtes tro6ps, More border patrol was ordered frem Marfa, neare; station, 50 mile: away, and Dr, Burnside, an army sur- g asked to come to Presidie ties of bandages and medi- for a possible emergency. Terazzas, one of the richest men in Mexico, who fled from Chihuahua, a ed at Ojinaga, surrounded by a bedyguard of one thousand federals, DENIAL BRY CARRANZA, Says That He and Villa Are in Per- fect Accord. ° of the tional ord, despite according to a from the in- rmosille by A. , Jead: titutional agent. s made public read: no truth in the reperts that General Villa and m not in accord. The best proof of this will { be that inside of a short time T will be in uahua. All advices to the are put out by insidious ene- 30 Carloads of Silver Bullion. Laredo, Te *. 9~—Thirty car- loads of silv bullion, reported last night enrcute to Laredo, e from the vicinity of Monterey, Mexico. The e of their probable arrival here is known. Trying to Raise Money in Paris. Paris, Dec. —Representatives of the endeavoring CONSPIRACY AI\iD Charges Against Officers of Florida Land Gompany. Mo, 9. The fed- eral grand been investi- zating Ilor companies endec its activities it by dietmegis against two Miami Everglades Land us of New - Pe and four against offi- ward Van dent, York, and I secretar: | cers of the B s Plantation com Edward an Asmus, esident, Perkins, vic president, S. Ka s Cit secretary, and R. Ernest Perkins, B general sales agen The cha s conspiracy and misuse of the mal ookfield, Mo., OBITUARY. Arthur M. Wilson. }’V!ndsfir, Conn., Dec. 9.—Arthur M. ‘Wilson, president of the New England Grocers’ association for the past ten vears, died at his ‘home at Wilson's station at five o'clock tonight, after four weeks' illness of capillary bron- chitls. He was also first vice presi- dent of the National Grocers’ associa- tion. Mr. Wilson was 56 vears old and was for many years treasurer of the wholesale grocery firm of E, 8. Kibbe and Company, of Hartford. Mr. Wilson was a 32nd degree Ma- 8Son, a member of the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford and & number of other clubs, He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alen Wilson, and his widow, Postal Employes Threaten Strike, London, Dec. 9—The prospect of a strike of the postal employes in the Ohristmas season was increased by the announcement today of the post- master general, H. I. Samuel, that he ‘would net concede the demand for a 15 per cent, increase in wages. New Haven Man's Body Found.’ New Haven, Conn, Dec. 9.—Missing from his home, No, 283 Davenport ave- nue, since Nov. 26, the body of Robert Reilly, aged 83, evidently a suicide, was found shortly after midnight, head first in the mud of the West River | hovering between life and death meadows, near Celumbus avenus, MISUSE OF MAILS. | | cellar | gun being discharged. They Can Be Opened. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 3.—Faster than the clerks in the executive offices at the capitol can open them come peti- tions to Governor Simeon ¥E. Baldwin asking for clemency for Mrs. Bessle J. ‘Walefield, sentenced to be hanged for the murder of her husband. The cor- respondence goes into the waste bas- ket as fast as opened but overflowing waste baskets sent to the boiler room barely keep pace with the incoming mail sacks. A batch of six thousand signed peti- tions promised by telegraph from Louisville, Ky., came by express yes- terday, while from points widely scat- tered throughout the west have come newspaper clippings, lists of names and letters giving personal opinions of the law or of the sentence. Here and there is a request thai the law be permitted to take its course. The néw feature is the malfling in of pho- togravhs of children. One photograph had written scross it “the mother of these children is praying for the life of the mother of the Wakefleld babies Many letters come under registry, Everything goes into the waste basket, A conservative estimate made by the clerks is that upwards of twenty-five theusand, persons have sent in a letter or petition, The Wakefield case has not come to the attention of the governor or the board of gpardons, Counsel for the women will first ask the supreme court for a new teiai, Fund for Wakefield Children. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 9—A fund t be used for the clothing and edu- cating of the children of Mrs. Bessie Wakefield, now in Wethersfield prison under sentence of death, was formally starfed today by New Haven women. Former Governor Rollin 8. Woodruf? is made trustee of the fumd. The ex :fg}'ernor made the first eontribution— 525, FEDERAL COURT MUST PASS ON THAW’S SANITY. Announcement of Jud¥e Aldrich in U. S. Court at Concord. Coneerd, N. H. Dce. 9—Judge FEd- gar Aldrich ruled today that the men- tal condition of Harry K Thaw must be determined in the federal courts. The court’s ammouncement was made at the hearing Thaw’s petition to be admftted to !;.ls . MUST BE A DECISION. An Appeal Necessary to Get Case Be- fore Supreme Court. ‘Washington, Dec. 9—Judge Al- drich’s statement today that he would not pass upon the constitutional questions involved in the Thaw case but would ferward them promptly to | the supreme court of the United States Wwas not taken in supreme court circles as meaning that the case would come to the hjghest court without at least the form of a-decision by Judge Al- drich on the pending habeas corpus application. Only the federal circuit courts ' of pointed out, may certi- law to the supreme 2 swer before they have a(‘rvéd_thenmoh es, and this can be done i e the decision of the it courts of appeals are fihal. The only way in which the Thaw St ay come from the district court Supreme court is said to be by way of appeal from a decision rend- ered by Judge Aldrich. A NORTH HAVEN MAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT William E, Dickerma—-'i'ripped Whilz Carrying a Gun. _ North Hayven, Conn.,, Dec. 9.—Wil- liam B, Dickerman, treasurer of the ){orga.n and Humiston company of New Haven, manufacturers of doors and windows, died at his homse this afternoon from a wound from a shot- gun. The medical examiner, Dr. Good- year, says death was “probably aceci- dental” Members of the family say that Mr, Dickerman went down the stalrs with a shotgun to shoot a cat, when he tripped and fell, tha The back of his head was blown off, Mr., Dickerman was 52 years old and was well known throughout the state. He had been in poor health lately. Unknown Steamer Ashore. ‘Wilmington, N, C., Dec. 9.—A steam- er, as yet unidentified here, was report- 351 ashore en Frying Pan shoals on the ‘orth Carolina coast at 10 o'clock to- night. The United Htates revenue eut- ter Seminole proeeeded from this port under full steam te her assistance. Child Takes Strychnine Tablets.. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 9.—Samusl Pnsenhgski, ed 4, swallowed some strychnine tablets, mistaking them for ‘eandy, at-the home of his parents in Bast street tonight, and he is .now at a loeal hespital, | forces from SUms o 10, 1913 Miss Pankhurst Arresied Again CAPTURED DESPITE AN ARMED BODYGUARD. POLICE NOT DECEIVED Effort to Delude Them by Use of a Dummy—Threes Other Arrests— American Woman Speaks. 9—Neither strategy nor force availed to prevent the re- arrest of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst at London, Dec. Shorditch, where she addressed a meeting held tonight for the pur- pose of organizing a local company of her “People’s Army.” Miss Pabk- hurst seemied unusually nervous and aprealed .to her East Enders to save her from arrest as they had often done before. Ruse Didn’t Fool Police. Surrounded by a boayguard armed with clubs, she left the hall before the meeting ended. At the same time a dummniy dressed to resemble her was carried from the rear door. The po- lice declined to be diverted by the ruse and made a sudden rush upen Miss Pankhurst whom they captured before her bodyguard, got into action. Three of her followers were also arrested. American Woman Mixed Up In It Among the other speakers at the meeting was Mrs. Rhetta Childe Dorr, an American suffragist, who accom- panied Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst when she was arrested at Plymouth, to IExeter jail. S _ Miss Pankhurst was released under bonds from Holloway Jjail the latter part of October. Since then she has figured in a number of clashes be- tween the police and militant suffra- gettes, and until tonight had always succeeded in making her escape. WINDHAM BOND ISSUE IS NULL AND VOID. Attorney-General Submits an Opinion to Governor Baldwin. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 9.—Atiorney- General John H. Light handed down an opinion today, at the request of Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, concern- ing the validity of a bond issue of the town of Windham, in which he holds that the act passed by the last legis- lature is null and void. 8, The town of Windham petitioned the assembly for a bond issue of $60,000 for schools, which was later increased .to $75,000. This bill went through the house and the senate, but in the mean- time the Willimantic High school was burned to the ground. The lssue w: then increased to a total of $150,000. This amended issue was passed by the house, but did not go to the senate; through an error, The governor signed the bill aufhorizing $160,000. Attorney-General Light says It Is apparent the $150,000 bond issus did not pass both bodies, and is therefore null and veid. He suggests that the town of Windham may apply for -a bond jssue in accordance to 1931 of the. general statutes, AWARDED §8,000 OF LIFE New Haven Woman Wins With a Bank. INSURANCE. in Fight New Hawen, Conn., Dec, 8 —Judze Gager in the guperior eourt this after- noon handed down a decision awarding Mrs. Harrison Wasgner $8,000 insur- ance money outi of $11,216 left her by her husband, A Joeal bank brought suit to prevent the paymeni ef the money to the widow, alleging that Wagner, knowing that he s insol- vent, a sheort time before his death, made his wife the beneficiary. Previ- ously the creditors were to De the beneficiaries, it was alleged. Mrs, agner rimed that she loaned large money to her hushand and hs the benefic in order that ¢ weuld suffer no pecuniary loss in case of death. Le PROHIBITION FORCES TO MARCH ON CAPITOL. Over 2000 to Demand Prohibition Amendment Today. Washington, Dec, 9—Prohibition all over the country are gathered in Washington tonight, pre- pared for a mighty demonstration to- morrow before the national capitol. More than 2,060 men and women rep- resenting the Anti-Saloon Lesgue of America and the Women's Christian Temperance union will march in sep- arate bodies to the capifol bearing pe- titions demanding national prohibition by constitutional amendment. One thousand men, representing the anti-saloon forces, will be received at the capitol first, after which they will withdraw and the women will make their plea. FLOOD NOW THREATENS TOWN OF 1200 PEOPLE. Total Deaths in Texas Are Now Placed at 165. Houston, Texas, Dec. 9—The crest of the Brazos river flood tonight is passing Richmond, a town of 1200 people, and threatens to overtop the bluff which heretofore has protected the little city from all floods. A fur- ther rise would cause heavy damage. Surrounding lowlands, some fifty miles from the Gulf of Mexico, are jnundated. Reports of additional loss of life throughout the flood district area to- day have brought the total to 165. Of this number the majority were negrces. Rescue work was continued until late tonight. Play Immoral, Actress Arrested. New York, Dec, 9.—Miss Cecil Spooner, actress, and Joseph Cone, the manager of a Bronx theatre where she has been appearing in a play in which the activities of “white slavers” are portrayed, were arresied tonight by the police, who announced to a crowded houge that the performanca must stop. In night court the actress and manager were charged with pre- &enting an immoral play. A hearinz in the case was set for tomorrow af- ternoon, Embargo on Arms More Stringent. Belfast, Dec, 9.—The embargo on grms and ammunition in Ireland has been made more stringent by an o - served on' the raillways teday by t callector of eugtems providing for the examination of the baggage of all in- coming travelers. Steamers Reported by Wireless. _Cape Race, N, F., Dec, 9.—Steamer France, Hevre for New York, sig- ‘nalled 1,596 miles east of Sandy Hook | counsel for the defend: af 430 B P Deck ¢ p. m, Friday, | when the siate PRICE TWO CENTS Condensed Telegrams | Melrose Downs A Consignment of 3,000 Dozen Eggs arrived at“ San Francisco yesterday from China. The Tango Dance is not to be- al- lowed at Government House festivi- ties in Ontario. A Paris Ediot makes it a mis- demeanor for women to wear hatpins with unprotected points. Rev. Henry L. Meyers, 86 Years 0oid, of New York was bowled over.by a strong wind. His leg was broken., - Dr. Henry Wishard, the oldest hysician in” indianapolis, died at his gome there yesterday at the age of 97. “Votes For Children” are being ad- vocated by Mrs. Alice Thatcher Post, wife of the assistant secretary of la- bor. The Star Bologna Co., of New York was fined $25 for having putrid chop- ped meat and sausage in its posses- sfon. A Letter to Governmor Trumbull of Connecticut signed by George Wash- ington was sold at an auction in New York for $82.50. David F. Pickett, aged about 58, was instantly killed by a south bound pas- senger train in the railroad yards at Ansonia yesterday. The Farmers and Miners Bank at Marianna, Pa. was closed yesterday and Bank Examiner James W. Mc- Burney took charge. A Bill Was Introduced in the house to pay one year’s extra salary te the widow of Colonel Gaillard, the Pana- ma Canal engineer. . A . Hospital Bfiss., through the acceptance by the sflectmen of a gift of $10,000 from the Ipswich Mills corporation. is Assured to Ipswich, Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, who has been ill for several days, passed a restless night Monday and was not so comfortable vesterday. Dr. T. Marshall Huntington, of Amesbury was struck and killed by a freight train at the Boston and Maine station at Newburyport, Ma: ves- terday. Relief From the Prohibitive egz prices is in sight, the experts of the department of agriculture announce because the pullets all over the coun- try have begun to lay. Five Servants narrowly escaped death when fire at Pittsburgh yester- day destroyed the residence of the late Captain Samuel Brown, the property loss being $125,000. Unanimous Approval was given by the senate committee on agriculture vesterday to the bill of Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia for a system of ag- ricultural extension work. Secretary Lane Yesterday designat- ed 1,950,000 acres of dry lands in western states suitable for entry under the enlarged homestead act. The larg- est area designated is in Montana. Patrolman Thomas F. Madden was shot and killed at Detroit, yesterday, when hs attempied to question two so- called “joy riders” in a stolen auto- mobile, . A. J. Devee, a weather prophet of Hackensack, N, J., will debate with a Broeklyn minister on his contention that Noah sighted the first rainbow ever seen by man, Devoe is a coal dealsr. Mary Conte, 15 Months Old, feil from & chair on which she had been placed by her mother at the Conte home at Stamford, yesterday, and broke her neck, dying almest in- stantly, Nearly 600 Men Who Scught sheiter at the municipal lodging\ house at Chieage Monday night were vaccinat- ed yesterday morning after one of the number was feund to be sufferinfg from small pex, Many Windews at the Kunhardt mill and the Farwell bleachery, at Lawrence, Mass.,, where the boiler fire- men have been on strike for a few weeks, were broken by stone throwers yesterday, The Newark, N. J., Police have failed to make out a case against Ar- mand Megaro, the young drug clerk charged with assault with a poisoned needle against Mrs. Marjorie Graff, bride of a week as she sat in a theatre box last Thursday. The Aged Father and the sister of Hans Schmidt, confessed slayer of An- na Aurmuller are on their way from Germany to New York to save him from the electric chair if possible by their testimony that he has been in- sane for years. _ Counsel for Margaret Catherine Sul- livan, 17 years old, yesterday obtained an order from the supreme court to 5 for $50,000 her claim state of the late Congress D, Sullivan, the East Side Tammany leader. Michael Bouray, a Pawtucket, R. L., laborer, who lost his position Mon- day was yesterday found dead in his room in a lodging house. The gas was turned on and the windows and doors caulked. A eat which was iIn the room, died with him. Mrs. L. B. Hart, Aged 71, was found dead yesterday in her home in ‘Worthington, " a Columbus, Ohio, suburb and her two grand-dausghters, Misses Barbara and Rachel Hart are in a dying condition as a result of being overcome by gas fumes. Under the Terms of the Will of the late William Whiting Borden of Chi- cago, Yale 1909, who died about a year ago at Cairo, Egypt, while on his way to the mission field, the Yale Hope Mission in New Haven, which he founded, is to be perpetuated. To “Some Unknown Poison” a cor- oner’s physielan attributed yesterday the death of three little children, who as guests at a wedding ceremony in the Bast Side of New York, hid them- selves In a rear room and drank the contents of several bottles of liquor. The Mallory Line Steamer Rio Grande, reported afire and in distress 'y somewhere off the Virginia and North Carolina coast, was in no need of assistance yesterday, but was procepding southward off the coast of Georgla, according to wireless advices picked up at sea yesterday, Dr. Craig Goes Free. Shelbyville, Ind, Dec, 5S.—Judge Alonzo Blair teday instructed the jury to dismiss the case ingt Dr, Wil- liam B. Craig, charged with the mur- | der of Dr, Helen Knabe at Indlanapolis, Oct, 23, 1911. The motien to dismiss .the case was made by -Henry Spaan, Hen Ordinance - FEW CHANGES IN BAY STATE ELECTIONS, “JACK” GERAGHTY WINS Elected an Alderman at Woburn— Lowell Emulates Norwich and Elects Murphy Mayor—License Vote, Boston, Dec. 9.—Two of the sixteen Massachusetts cities which held elec- tions today changed their attitude on ® 9M0iq UUAT -uopsanb osusoll oy3 “dry” period of six years by voting for license, and Newburyport returned to the no-license column. Lowell Mayor Defeated. Only one of the mayors who came up for re-election today was rejected— James E. O'Donnell of Lowell, who was defeated by Dennis J. Murphy. Mayor Michael A. Scanlon of Lawrence was returned by a margin of 152 votes. In Newton, Edwin O. Childs, Jr.,, re- publican, although running as an in- gefenfide:.lntmwith democratic baocking, efeate e regular republica - date, Allston Burr, i ey Mayors Re-elected. Mayor George M. Wright, republican, was re-elected in W’omgest'er b; the largest plurality ever given a candi- date for mayor in that city. Mayor Hiram H. Landford was re- turned to office in Newburyport in the only three-cornered contest of the day. Other mayors re-elected included Frank A. Rivers of Chicopee, James Chambers of HEverett, Edward B. Wil- lard of Cheisea, William B, Henshey- democrat, of Woburn, Oliver B. Munroe of Melrose, and Charles Schumaker of Malden. Z. B. Cliff, republican, was elected {n Somerville. Medford, Beverly, Lynn and Salem did not elect mayors, “Jack” Geraghty' an Alderman. “Jack” Geraghty, who becam husbang of Julia French of Navevpou:t. after an elopement to Central Village Conn., two years ago, was elected & member of the board of aldermen on the democratic ticket in Woburn. Hen Ordinance Voted Down. » Melrose voted against regulating the keeping of hens by city ordinance. Ity citizens were asked to record their votes as to whether the keeping of bens should continue to be regulated by the present ordinance requiring the purchase of a license for emch flock, CIVIL WAR VETERAN SHOOTS HIMSHLF Placed - Muzzle of Shotgun in Mouth and Phlled Triggen, Chester, Conn., Dec. 9.—Josaph <. Lynde, a well known resident ng ‘this town, ended his life this afternoon by shooting himself ‘through the mouth with a shotgun, in a vacans lot not far from *his home. When his ter, Mrs. Willlam Ladd, with whom he lived, returned home this aftermoon, she found the following note: “You will find my body in fiy'a lot, mear the path. Goodbye, Gertrude, \ “Paps Joe.” Mrg, Ladd notified ndghb%u and a search was started at once. Fdward Deuse found the body in the lot near the path, as was indicated in the nots. Beside the body was a shotgun. It was evident that Mr. Lynde had placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger, His head was badly mutilated, Mr, Lynde was 75 years old. Me retired from business some years ago and had accumulated enough money to live comfortdbly for the rest of his life, He was of a jovial disposition, and friends and mneighbors saw no change in him up to neon today to Indleate that he intended to end his life. No reasen can be assigned for his act, Mr, Lynde was a veteran of Civil war afd was a past commander of Methar post, G, A. R., of Deep River, He was long a member of the Masonie order. He js survived by two daugh- ters and a son, A WORD BATTLE IN THE SENATE. Both Parties Accuse the Other of Wastingi Tine. Washington, Dec. 9.—Charges by Senator Owen, chairman of the bank- ing and currency commitiee, that the republicans were trying to delay the currency bill and waste time Dby insist- ing upon the presence of a quorum broke into the smooth progress of cur- rency debate in the senate tonight. For an hour and a half a wordy bat- tle waged across the party dividing line of the chamber, threatening at times to break the bounds of senate proprieties. The republicans endeav- + ored to show that Senator Owen him- zelf had occupied time “uselessly” in debate, and that the democrats had re- peatedly absented themselves from the senate and ignored its business, “Day after day is used up here in idle debate,” declared Senator Owen. “That is the reason why seats are va- cated.” “If the senator from Oklahoma has his way,” retorted Senator Gallinger om the republican side, “he would make his speech and then the argu- ments would be closed and the vote taken.”. . Steamship Arriva Tiverpool, Dec. 9.—Arrived, steamer Sachem, Boston, Trieste, Dec. b5~—Arrived, steamer Oceania, Montreal. Naples, Dec. 9.—Arrived, steamer Pannonia, New York. Christiansand, Dec. 9.—Arrtved, steamer C. F. Tieegen, New York for { Qogenhngen, H ibraltar, Dec. §.—Arrived, st-amer Agdriatic, New York for Naples, New York, Deo. 9.—Arrived, steamer Neckar, Bremen. Bremen, Dec. -Arrived, steamer Kmnprlnzes:«n; Cecilie, New York, Fayal, Dec. 9—Arrived, steamer Ma.- donna, New York. - Microbe of Cancer Discovered. Montpeller, France, Dec. 9.—Dr. Bose, professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Montpelier, who has been making extensive Investigations 1nto caneer, clajmus to have discovered he microbe of the disease. It is of the protozoa type and is found prin- ef] y in water. A large number of insects, fish and warm blooded animals act as carriers, Hartford Livery €table Burned. Hariford, Conn,, Dec. 9—Fire of un- l;n;v.vx {4 tonigh t1 practically des- 0 e, en- tailing a loss of fi.»ooo% horses, which wers in the stables were Be ! oued. The fire spread to the of | an adjoining twenty family temsment house, but was extingwished