Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 20, 1913, Page 1

. “VOL. LV.—NO. 304 _ NORWICH, CONN., SATfiRDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913 The Bulletin’s Circulation i Norwich is Double That of Any Other Papél{, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in- PRICE WO _CENTS — T0 SELL ITS WESTERN UNION STOCK .American Telephone and Telegraph Company| Adopts a Plgn of Reorganization ) { NO OTHER COMPANIES TO BE ABSORBED BY IT In Cases of Companies Already Acquired But No Physical Union Effected, Its Course Will be Submitted to Federal Authorities—Other Companies to Have Access to Its Toll Lines—Plan Has Approval of the Administration. graph company will dispose promptiy of its holdings in the Western Union Telegraph company so that each con- Washington, Dec. 19—Attorney Gen- eral McReynolds tonight made public detafls of an asreement for reorgan- th szaticn of the American Telephone and | cern shall be under distinct manage- Telegraph company, the telephone | ment and so that all shall be entirely trust” which will prevent litigation to | indépendent. Jve that corporation under the| The company will not hereafter ac- trust act and under which com- | quire control of other telephone com- will be restored i | panies and where control of telephone titive condition: the telephone service of the entire | companies has been acquired, but no country and the combine will dispase | actual physical union has been ef- of lings in the Western Unicn |fected, the American Telephone and “iwlegraph company. Telegraph will submit the course it is to pursue to the Interstate Commerce Flan Preposed by Telephone Company. | (/i icsion and to the department of The resrganization plan™originated | fuxey Y. althongh It follow- | Jostiee £ that a suil azainst it | Other Companies to Have Access to It was regarded t tustice officials tonight | Toll Lines. as the most striking imdication offer- | The company will promptly make siness” hus that it is bet- | law #1an th te biz b ed in come to de arrangements by which all other tele- pircne companles in the United States shail have access to¥its toll lines. | Department officials tonight declar- | ed that the plan gave the government - Todd.| everything and more than it could e = of the | have hoped to obtain in court. Of- approved | ficials were particularly pleased with | the last part of the sagreement, by Celay Govern:aent Ownesship. | which the Bell company gives long ehte McRevnolds the | distance service to subscribers of oth- A presses Lis admiiration for | ©F companies and did mot deny that trde of the telephone com- | they mever had hoped to gain such a ¢ gt v Ry By con- | point by suit under the anti-trust act. ermanent Loes The authorized capital stock of the u the heel of the announce. | Bell company December 31, 1912, was o is iniercsted in govern- | $500,000,000, its honded indebtedndwe ' Genersl Burle- | at that time about $105,000,000. From sted in govern- | October, 1906, to April of the current phone lines, | year it has paid eight percent an- department of nually. The WeStern Union had an authorized capital of $100,000,000, practically all of which has been is- sued. Late in 1911 the American T(-l»’ ephone and Telegraph company held more than $29,000,000 of this stock. The Western Unien has paid 3 per- cent since January, 1909, agreement provides Offieials do Bnot believe that either . company will be affected greatly by American Telephone and Tele- | the announcement tonight ount it be p ninistration at the pres MADE NO CHARGES OF CARD GAMES | COUNTERFEITING PLANT FOUND IN CANADIAN WOODS Attorney at New Haven Hearing | Engraver on Montreal Newspaper Is Makes a Statement, i Among Those Arrested. | A demial that he| Montreal Dec. 19. By a raid on a | es of the |shack in the oods five miles from | and Hartford | the village of Lavaltrie today the po- | lice unearthed what is Welieved to be | the source of one of the most import- | ant counterfeiting schemes discovered | {in vears In this section. Five men | | were arrested in the house where the ‘rllant was located and a sixth uri t was made in Montreal, r names he rail- | were kept secret, at first, but when | the prisoners were taken to Joliette h it was learned that the five were Bar- tholomew Frederick Eaon, Ed- | I sked Philip Bossquet and | . ene Gagne, The man arrested here | 2 grmes al is Alfred Grenier, an engraver in the | 1 at a hote employ of the Herald Publishing com- | pany ¢ r followed the | The police clatmed to have scized . m H. Cool ne | most_elabgfate counterfeiting plant | including a printing press, platc clally prepared paper and ever necessary for the counterfeits United States $10 gold certificates. | oBIT UARY. Captain Frede New York, Deec, 19 erick Lincoln Chapin, late comma of the bdttleship Wyoming, died { | EXTRAGRDINARY EFFORTS | | | i | | TO KEEP MAILS MOVING | afternoon in the hospital at the Brook- o Iyn navy vard to which he was take Postofiices Having Biggest Problem |on his arrival here last Monday They Ever Encountered. Mrs. George B. Evans. | Extraordinary | -, Bristol, Conn., Dee. 19.—Mrs. George | & i ety | B. Bvans, well known here as the pro- e ¢ gk L a large tobacco store and | e Bty (& o hers | Bews stand, died suddenly of apoplexy - D meil | tonizht. She had conducted the bus Bround Chricimas time and this eeal | iness since the death of her husband, | (o sdded task of handling hug. | She was 57 years old and is survived | dred of parce byt VY. o sgp. | prckas the jarze cities £ e e e y Missing Painting Located. orgeney measures New York, Des. 13.—Art circles stirred today by news of the dis- covery of a lost painting by George Inness, one of the greatest of Amer- fcan landscape artists. The canvas was smeared with thin white paper and Mrs, Jonathan Scott Hartley, the painter’s daughter, kept it for nearly | fventy vears atier his death withomt AP earning its value. The restored pic- WIFE OF CHINAMAN ture has been valued by crifics as ACQUITTED OF MURDER |DIEh 2s $25.000. = | Called “Scientific Skunk” by Judge. Goverament Failed to Prove She Slew | Het Hoasbahd, Boston, Dee, 18.—Thomas Corcoran, swamped | | ce, Post- fonight | nted | no e | of Rialto, Cal, whose flight _across < Dee. 19 Mre. Charlie Sing, | the country with Miss Daphne Holmes, B e St s v ¢ mur. |0f Oakland, Cal, was traced by a | S o e 5 was ac- | trail of bad checks, was characterized a day when Ju McDonald | 25 “a-scientific skunk” by Judge Mur e from tho jury ray today when he was found guilty i st i -per, | Of forgery. Counsel for the young wo- i . pv Py two |man said that she was the dupe of PR S g ,und | Corcoran, who had taken her from a Bacons near him. s | PrOsperous home on the pretense that e ol “vidence | De Would finance her theatricar ambi-~ the prosecution was cir- | ons. Instead, counsel declared, Corw coran used the girl to ‘pass bad | checks, which she believed genuine, TO GO oy 2 Ball-Wenat: g T elaya to Sail Monday, Washington, Dec. 19—Counsel for . Contracts to Speak at | General Zelaya, the Nicaraguan exfle, o0 o R | whose presence in the United States s 2 Night, | objectionable to the state department, | informed Solicitor Folk today that the & 4 ka8 an former dictator had booked pass: o s e sail for Barcelons, Spain, nest Mosasr. e R s o | Careless Autoist Gets a Year. — o et cioe presi. | _ Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 19.—Roman reccive. 3800 a leciure, ac- | Schubert, 26 vears'old and wealthy, th. apmeuncement. His | Was today found guilty of murder in ¢ i said, will cover cities | the fourth degree and sentenced to one west. year in_prison for running down and killing Mabel Lohman,4 years old, with Guarding “Mona Lisa.” an automobile. Diec. 192 Dr. Racci, director Cabled_[_’arggraphs New Chinese ister. Peling, De#. 19.—Shia Kai-Fou, who was Chinese consul at New York from 1904 to 1908, was appointed today Chi- nese minister at Washington, in suc- cession to Chang Yin Tang. Portugal to Be Represented. / Lisbon, Dec. 19.—The American le- gation has been advised that Portuga: will be represented by a warship at the celebration of the opening of the exposition at San Francisco. To Abide by London Decision. Florence, Italy, Dec, 19.—The inter- national commission for the delimita- tion of the Albanian frontier today. de- cided unanimously to abide by any de- cision which may be reached in Lon- don. Prison for Brutal utenant. Strassburg, Gepmany, Dec. 19.—Im- prisonment for forty-three days was the sentence pronounced by a court- martial today on Lieut. Baron von Forstner of the Ninety-ninth infantrg, Who was found guilty of cutting down with his sabre a lame shoemaker of Zazern, Alsace, on Dee. 2. Cardinal Rampolla’s Will. Rome, Dec. 19.—Cardinal Rampolla’s will, ‘dated 1889, makes provision for his sistet to the amount of ~$50,000. Jewelry to a_similar amount is be- queathed to the Church of St. Cecilia and $600 to the cardinals’ valet. The reputed will of later date has not been traced. Wilson Going to Mississippi. Gulfport, Miss., Dec. 19.—That fPres ident Wilson intends to spend a_part of his winter vacation at Pass Chri tian, Miss., is indicated in a telegram received by Judze W. H. Hardr of this city today from Senator Vardan hingion, requesting the locate a furnished cottage Christian, suitable for occupancy the president GEORGE DECLARES HE IS INNOCENT. nal Differences Responsible For Charges Against Him. York, Dec. 1 o radical dif- of opinion between two ho actions, William R. George at- buted this afternoon the re ommendation of the state 0 of charities that he be removed from all participation in the affairs of George Junior Republic at Free- viile, N. founded by him more than ten years ago. Mr. Georze a serted his innocence of all charg made against him. it is maddening” he said. “after established in the world a re; utation for good characicr and service, to have my name dragged in the mire as a debaucher of womanhood. Thoso who know me need no reassurance from me that I am perfectly inno- cent, but my tortures begin in earnest when I“think of the tens of thousands of people te whom I have spoken on public platforms and that they may be saying, ‘It s true after all that Daddy ‘George is a lying hypocrite and a villain in disguise. “The seed of the whole trouble is a radical difference’ of opinion between two hestile camp those who believe in the self-governing principles of the Junior Republic as for training boys and girls for good citizenship, ¢ thos ho believe in paternalism and discipline from above and institutional methods. Certain members of the state board of chari- ties cling tenaciously to methods which I believe to be outwor and wholly erronious. With them for years I have been in conflici.” ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC LEADER IMPLICATED. Fac New ference tile William H. Kelley Accused of Solicit- ing Campaign Contrbution. New York, Dec. 19—Te William H. Kelley, 2 democ er of Onondega county, s campaign contribution from a corpor | ation, an indi fense, was ad- duced today ct Attorney Whitman's investigation into po graft in the state highway depart- ment. It was also testified that Arthur A. McLean, of the democratic ate committe tion from a co which he alres. , accepted a contribu- poration, an offense for 9 ¢ indicted. Steambship Arrivals. Genos, Dec. Steumer Pourgia, New York, 5 Naples, Dec, 18.—Steamer Ruthonta, Montreal, . Southampton, ~Dec. 19.—Steamer rin Augu Hamburg. Plymouth, Dec. 19.—Steamer Olym- York for Southampton. Dec. 19.—Steamer Carpa- , New York for Naples. Queenstown, Dec, 19.—Steamer Alau- nia, Boston via Portland for Liverpool, ste Victoria, New York Piraeus, Dec. 18.—Steamer Themis- tocles, New York. Naples, Dec. 15—Steamer Verona, New York. Dover, Dec. 19—Steamer Zeeland, New York for Antwerp. Gibraltar, Dec. 19—Steamer Ci nati, New York for Naples. Liverpool, Dec. 19.—Steamcr Tunis- ian St Jobn, N. B. Plymouth, Dec. 19. York, from' New York. Liverpcol, Dec. 19.—Steamer Celtic, from New York. Southampton, Dec. Olymple, from New York. nein- Steamer New 19.—Steamer Steamers Reported by Wireless. Trastnet, Dec. 19.—Steamer Caronia, New Yorl for Queenstown and Liver- pool, signalled 276 miles west at 9 a. m. Due Queenstown 3 a. m. Saturday. Cape Race, Dec, 19.—Steamer Call- fornian, JLiverpool for Boston, sis- nalled 690 miles southeast at 10.20 a. m. New York, Dec, 18—Steamer Pre- torla, Hamburg for New York, sig- nailed. Time and distance not given: Dock 8.30 a, m, Monday. Bable Island, Dec, 19.—Steamer Car- thaginian, Liverpool for Philadelphia, signalled 763 miles east of Philadel’ phia at 11 a. m, Wagon Run Down by Train, Torrington, Conn., Dec. 19.—Two men had a narrow escape from strious in- | jury this afternoon when a southbeund train on the Naugatuck division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railre struck their wagon at the North street crossing. F. H, Van usen was driving the team and John assassac was on the seat with him. Both men were thrown a considerable distance, but were not seriously in- oral of fi arts, today personally Glandered Horses in Lyme, Treaty-Signing Postponed. rvised the ing of the paint- Hartford, Dec. 19.—Deputy Cattie ‘Washington, Dec. 19.—The ing of fng “Mona Lisa” which wili be for- | Commissioner Frank A, Ingham was in | the American-Dominican peace treaty, warded to Rome tomorrow. The pic- Ly; da; i od o Re Yo pic. | Lyme Thursday and located five glan dered horses. He traced the disease ‘which Secretary Bryan aad Dr. Payna- do, Dominican minister, had museum officials and carabineers will be_on_duty at all stations along the Fadlrodd lne to a horse taken there from Essex, and in turn from Hartford and New York. Fho antmals are quarautined, Sppecied to HodompHar today, was pestporied un- il Mr, ryan’s retura from his holi- €ay yacation jn the south, the best means | ) hadly out Huerta Releases Three Americans ACTS PROMPTLY ON O’SHAUGHN- ESSY'S PROTEST ACCUSED OF MURDER Charges Against Them Not Dism ed, main at American Embay Mexico City, Dec, 19.—By appealing directly to General Huerta today Nel- son O'Shaughnessy, American charge d’affaires, obtained from him almost immediately unequivocal consent to the release of three Americans now in jail whose liberation has long been delayed by legal manoeuvring. The men ordered set free by General Huer- ta are H. J. Kidder, Willlam Krause and John. Parker. t developed apparently that General Huerta had known nothing of the in- But They Will Be Permitted te Re- | War Veteral? is Granted Pardon ELLIS HAS SERVED 34 YEARS AT WETHERSFIELD CONVICTED OF MURDER Niantic Man, Serving Sentence for At- tempt to Murder, Also Libeggted— Liberty for Victim of Wife's Spite. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 19.—The board | of pardons today granted four pardons, iJeRerson Eilis, aged 69, colored, who has spent the lasi 34 years of his life !in Wethersfield prison for the murder | of Louis Fairchild in Clinton, was set | free. His case has’been before the | board several times. The evidence showed that Ellis killed Fairchild with. a hammer during a fit of anger. He | was sentenced to life imprisonment. ilis, is a Civil war veteran. Jobn E. O'Donnell, who was sen- vertising ever: men. day throughout thi There is a reason for this the increasing of overhead charges volume of business which counts that volume equal to the power of are bought for the construction of vertising is bought for the huildin there is no advertising medium f which can equal the advantages ing territor: | 1f you have somethi; people who will buy If you are seeking a purchas: letin’s adverf now g to sell sing coiumns, Advertising is as much an investment as any commodity. is through The Bulletin. Buy Advertising and Build Business The expenditure of two million dollars a day means a staggering 1] ©outlay of money vet such is the average amount which is put into ad- is country by successful busines enormous daily expense account and that reason lies in the same sound and sensible motive which prompts to get larger returns. It is the and there is no means of boosting £ advertising. Bricks a house and in the same way ad- & of business. As a business builder part of Connecticut prded by The Builetin. n the ea which are af ern It has a business pull which thoroughly covers the city and surround- the best means of telling it to the there is no better aid than The Bul- nd always, | In the past week the following matter has appeared in The*Bul- letin: . Bullstin Telegraph Local Gsnerz! Total Saturday, Pec. 130 <75 125 772 972 ! Monday, Dec. 14. 80 122 338 560 il Tuesday, Dec. 16.. 120 150 235 505 | Wednesday, Dec.17.. 87 105~ - 245 437 Thursday, Dec. 18.. 100 118 308 526 Friday, Dee19..- 10& 133 198 438 Faldlsciie] Susa. 0009 733 . 2116 - 13138 | carceration of th 1Imd been midle by men or Mr. O'Sh: r release. Made impa- | long series of evasions | 5 ven him from other | O'Shaughnessy | ring the displeasure of 1 and found Huerta ap, and anxious to demonsirate by order for Telease his Intention to in- dulge in falr play. He declared th | as long as he is president he would | not ~countenance any discrimination | against Americans or any persecu- tion of them because of nation: Men to Romain at American Embassy. | | Parker 1s in jail at San Luis Po- | tost, He is charged with being im- | plicated in a murder, Krause and | Kidder are je jail T The { 2gainst the mep are not to be | missed, but the men will not be | forced ‘to remain in jail, The conditions of release oblige the men to present themselves at the | Amertcan embassy, The military gov- ernor of s Potosi has been | ordere ker here for that purpose. TO TAKE MEXICO CITY. Zapata So Declares in Circular—Will Hang Huerta and Blanquet. Mexico Cify, Dec. 1. Huerta and Blanquet, after a ver short process, will be publicly degraded and hanged from the balconies of the national palace as a warning to The rest of the cabinet shot after be- ing judged.” } | Such is the sentence passed on the | executive and his official family by Emiliano Zopata in a circular, dated Milpa_Alta, December 16, which Desred in the capital tonight, It was addressed to the inhabitants of the city of Mexico. Zapata says that at a war council it was resolved | to take the city by fire and sword “on a day which for the better success of | the assault is to be unknown until the | moment the fight begins.” RUN ON BANKS, Dilatory Tactics Result in Kesping Down Withdrawals of Deposits. | Mexico City, Dec, 19.—The bank of London and Mexico has been the first to_suffer as a result of the reduced volume of the medium of exchange caused by non-acceptance of the state bank notes. Long lines gathered in front of the Central bank again today but dflatory methods of payment and only partial redemption of notes kept the amount of money handed out down to a minimum; but at the Bank of London and Mexico the lines, although shorter, were more menact Throughout the day the management was forced to witness heavy with- drawals of deposits. It is believed by most busimess men that the bank is entirely solvent, but they fear that if the run continues it will find difficulty in meeting the de- ‘mands. An Improper Moving Picture, New York, Dec, 19.—On the charge that a moving picture film dealing with the white siave traffic was not a proper show to put before the public, Samuel London, menager of a Broadway thea- tre, was arrested tonight and his house closed, The film had been ap- proved by soeiai workers who had pre- viously given: their approval to two plays on ilar theme which were siven police attentlen later, Trolley Cars Collide, Williamstown, Mass, Dec, 19.—Two tralley cars on the Bennington line of the Berkshire street railway, col- lided near this tewn tonight and Mo- Jfin"fi n". Gflgn a of Zylonite was seriousiy injured and five others were and “The traitors | all. | ap- | tenced from one to four vears for stat- uto was pardoned, as i was shown that in the past he had greatly alded the government secret service. “He was once before in trou- ble and President Roosevelt pardoned him. Atto and Postmaster wrote to the ing his [ don. The pardon takes effect Jan..20. to of Niantic, sentenced from five to ten vears for assault with intent to murq was pardoned. e had se A part of hi sentence, Convicted on False Testimony. | Julius Bruchman of South Norwalk, Who was sentenced from five to eight | years for indecent assault upon his three year old daughter, was granted his pardon, as it was shown his wife manufactured _the evidence. An affidavit from pre- sented in whic said she gave th. | evidence because she was angry with Rim. The a case of Ciifford H. Wilmarth, for obtaining money under Dreten was continued. Wil- rth made a unique plea, guoting | from ‘one of Governor 'Baldwin's | works en the judicta Other Casee Heard. Other cases he: d, on which ne ac- tion was taken, were these: George Valentio, aged 21, from three | to five vears for complicity in abduc- tion of 4 vear old Plainville girl. Luigui Madonna of New Haven, two to five years for statutory arson. | s L SCHMIDT WANTED BIG CHURCH FOR THE POOR Had Suggested He Would Like Make Money for That Purpose. to New York, Dec. 19.—The first med- al witness for the defense in trial of Hans Schmidt for the murder Anna_Aumuller was called to the jSiand today. Ile is. Dr. Perry Loch- | tenstein, physician of Tombs priso | Two other doctors who, it was said would testify in Schmidt’s hehalf with- and because they believe him be insane, Were among the wit- nesses waiting to be called. Dr. Lochtenstein _testified that Schmidt had talked freely with him about the murder. Schmidt had de- scribed if, the doctor said, as a sac- rifice of love and devotion. The pris- oner had shown no emotion in tne Tombs except on one occasion. This Wwas when the physician calied at- tention to a handkerchief, embroidered'| with the letter “A” which Schmidt had placed over an eleciric light to shade it. Schmidt said the handkerchief Wwas Anna Aumuller's and wept. On_another occasion Schmidt told the physician that he would like to make money so good that it would not really. be counterfeit. “Don’t you know that that is against the law?” asked Dr. Lichtensteln. “Yes” said Schmidlt, according to the witness, “but what law is it that Prevents a’' nation suffering a little while an individual profits much? I would like to make enough money to build a church so big that it would hold ali the poor people of New York.” Owing to a death in the family of one of the jurors the trlal was ad- journed untfi Monday. Paid $400,000 for a Titian. New York, Dec. 19.—A Titian with a notadle histery, one of the finest of the master’s painfings, has been bought by rs. Tho; 3. Emory of Cineinnati | om Sir h Lane, the famous Brit- ish collecfor, and sent-to Mrs. Bmory’s home in Cincinnati, i{ was learned to- night price paid is given as $400,000. The painting is a portrait of the young son of Charles V of Spain, afierwards Philip 36 the | Condensed Telegrams Cuban Women Want the Vote and are organizing. Newberry, N. C., is fighting an ep- idemic of typhoid fever. Chicago Saloonkeepers urge the abolishment of free lunches. £l San Franeisco is promoting public dances to do away with public dance halls. The Municipal Ferry from New York to Stapleton, 8. I, 1 be discontinued December 31. The Plaifield, Iil, Bank, did not open its doors yesterday. No reason has yet been given. Vandals: Wrecked the Carnegie Pub- lic libfary at Oberlin, Ohio, causing several hundred dollars damage. H. I. Nolan, a Prominent Attorney of Peorla, Iil, committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a railway train at Galva, Il A Sweeping Advance was made ves- terday in burglar insurance rates up- on risks in New York city and the surrounding territory. President Wilson helped plant a Wilson elm in the _White House grounds to replace a Hayes elm blown down by a recent storm. Frank H. Rand, bursar and assist- ant treasurer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died at Pine- hurst, N. C, yesterday. The Dissolution Suit against the United Shoe Machinery company as an unlawful monopoly was adjourned yesterday until January 6. Robert Hilliard, the actor, was sued at New Orleans, by Willlam Page, his valet, for $5,000. Page alleges Hil- liard’ beat him unmercifully. Mrs. Albert T. Patrick, whose I band served twelve years in Sing Sing prison as the alleged murderer of William Marsh Rice, died ot Tul- sa, Okla., yesterday. An Indictment For Murder was re- turned yesterday the grand jury against Asthur C. Mack, who is al- leged to have beaten his wife to death in Providence. 4 The First National Bank of Eliza- beth, Pa., yesterday notified the treas- ury department that it would not open its doors and asked for the appoint- ment of a receiver. A Barbed Wire Fence along the Mexican boundary to check incur- slons into American territory was pro- posed in a bill introduced yesterday by Senator Ashurst Fire, Starting in the Bryant & Com- pany hay and grain building at Brockton, Mass., In 2 congested busi- ness district yesterday caused dam- age estimated at $12,000. President Wilson has directed the return to the civil government of the Philippines of the military reserva- tion at Bonao, one of the small is- lands of the Jolo group. The House Yesterday passed a bill to appropriate $5,000 miore for the ex- penses of the American delegates to the International Safety at Sea con- ference in session at London. Robbers Gained Access to the East | Berlin and Westfleld station house: and the Westfield section tool shed ' branch lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Thursday night. Leaving Their Automobils at curb in front of the at Bluffton, Ohio, yest rushed Into_the store, containing $700 worth escaped. rday, {hree men seized a tray f diamonds and [ | | A Complimentary Dinner to W. Cam- | eron Forbes, fornier governor gencral {of the Philippine island, was given | last night by the Philippine sociely and the Harmony <lub of America New York. A New Record Pric New City land is established in a t tion just recorded for a plot located at Fifth avenue and | Second street. The price was §: 000, which is equivalent to $307 square foot. York an. Forty a The United States Circuit Court of peals at New York yesterday de- clded that the Waltham Watch com- pany of Waltham, Mass, could not | force Charles A. Keene, a New Yofk jeweler, to stop selling their watches at cut prices. Two Hundred Women, members of the Women's Health league, were yesterday stationed In the principal streets of Pittsburgh at the opening of £ campaign to enforce the anti-spit ting ordinance For Shooting Out Electric Lights during an automobile ride on the night of December 1, Louis F. Curtis wged 18 years, and a member of | prominent and weaithy Newton, Ma: | family, was sentenced fo three month; in jail yesterd Secretary Garrison’s | that when Major Wood leaves his office as chief of staff of the army he will take command, of the department of the east with head- quarters at Governor’s Island, N. Y. has renewed speculation in army eir cles as to who will succeed him. announcement eneral Leonard The American Ambassador at Rome, Thomas Nelson Page, has arranged for | the reception of Ira Nclson Morris, special commissioner, to seek the co- operation of Ttaly in the Panama-Pa- cific exposition, by the foreign min- ister, Marquis ' di” San Giuliano, to- ay o TO BE ELECTROCUTED FOR MURDER OF WIFE. Was Irresponsibility Due to Drunkenne Little Valley, N. Y., Dec. 10.—George Coyer was today found guilty of mur- dering his wife and was sentenced to be electrocuied at Auburn In the first week of Febrary. Cover shot his wife, Ejizabeth, at, Cattaraugus on July 14. She had not been living with him for some time. The facts of the shooting were not disputed, Coyer pleading guilty on the ground that he was in- toxicated aud did not know what he was doing. Mrs. Schwab Seeks Divorce. Chicago, Dec. 19—Mrs. Maud Mor- ris Schwab, daughter of the late Nel- son Morris, filed suit for_divor.e here today from Henry C. Schwab, vie president of one of the large gepart- ment stores here. Mrs. Schwab charged desertion and asked that she be given the custedy of their ten year oid sen, Proportion to the City’s. Population xel Jewelry store | GURRENGY BILL PASSED BY SENATE For Passage of the Measure E THE VOTE ON FiNAL PASSAGE WAS 54 T0 3% P Radically Different From One Passed by House—Con- Member of Congress Eligible to Benefit Under It, Washington, Dec. 19.—The adminis tration currency reform bill, proposing a revision of the financial system of | the United States and the creation of | regional reserye banks to act as sta- bilizing elemeffts in the banking and financial worlp, passed the senate to- night by a vote of 54 to 34. Forces that had fought together for improvement and amendment of the measure to the last, divided when the final vote came. Senator Hitcheock, ‘who had led the opposition to the bill, returned to the democratic ranks and Senator Weeks, one of the leaders on the republican side, with five other republicans and Senator Poindext (progressive) voted for the passage of the measure. Many Changes Since Passed by House. Representatives Glass and Korbley, democrats, and Representative Hayes of California, republican, The house ‘will name its conference committee tomorrow. Points of Difference in Two Bills. Many of the chief points of differ- ence have already been gone over be tween currency leaders of the two houses, In conference with Secretary MecAdoo of the treasury department and it is believed but a short time will be required to reach a compro- mise. Among the chief points of differ~ ence between house and senate are the following: The house provided for twelve re- glonal banks; the senate for “from eight to twelve” discretion being left to_the federal reserve board. Senators Brandegee and McLean | The senate adopted a provision cre- voted against the bill. ating a fund to guarantee the deposits ‘Wide diffenences exist beiween the |of failed banks that are members of form of the legislation passed by the senate tonight and the bill thai passed the house several months ago. Dem- ocratic Jeaders already have partly ad- Justed these differences, however, and | it was predicted tomight that the bill would be completed by a conference committee and sent to President Wil- son for his signature by Monday night. The adoption of the administration bill, known as the “Owen bill” fol- lowed upon the formal defeat, by 44 to 41, of the “Hitchcock bill” which had been endorsed by Senator Hitch- cock and the five republican members of the evenly divided senate commit- tee that passed on the legislation, The senate had previously rejected, with- the reserve associations, Loans on Farm Mortgages. Tho house limited the re-discount of cemmercial paper at the reglonal Dbanks to that maturing in ninety days: the senate provided that 180 day agri~ cultural paper could be accepted um- der certain limitations, The gold reserve required of the regional reserve banks against cireu- lating notes was placed at 38 1-4 per cent. by the house and at forty per cent. by the senate, Banks would be permitted to loan on five year farm mortgages by the senate bill on one year mortgages by the house bill out a roll call, a “central bank™ bill | Senator La Follette proposed twe offered as a substitute by Senator |amendments just before the bill came Burton. to a vote which caused & mild sen- Mrs. Wilson in Private Gallery. |[Sation. One of them was written to the bill and the other rejected by an Throughout the afternoon when overwhelming vote. vote on the blll was momentarily ex- pected, Mrs. Wilson, with a party of friends from the White House, Secr« tary McAdoo and Joseph P, Tumult: President Wilson’s secretary, wera i terested spectators of the senate's proceedings. Mrs. Wilson stayed in the private gallery until 7 o'clock, but left ‘before the bill had passed. Gal- leries and the floor of the senate were crowded throughout the day and the passage of the measure which has held congressional attention for many months, was greeted with unchecked applause from the galleries. To hasten final enactment of the bill the senate named tonight its con- ference committee which will work with a house commitiee to compose the differences between the two bills. The first provided that “no United States senator %l; Tepresentative contemplating under this leglslation that may be participated in by mem- bers of ome or both houses of con- out a roll oall. The members are: Senators Owen, | provided that mo member of the fed- O'Gorman, Reed, Pomerene, Shafroth, | eral reserve board, any officer or di- and Hollis, democrat: and Nelson, | rector of a reglonal, or member banl, Bristow and Crawford, republicans. |should be a director or officer of any other bank, trust company or insur- ance company., Meinbers of the house conference com- mittee already determined upon are: FAVORS SUNDAY WORK ‘ IN THE POSTOFFICES, Its Discontinuance Costly, Says As< sistant) Postmaster General. Washington, Dec. 19.—The 1aw pro- | hibiting the opening of postofoces and the delivery of mail on Sunday has added largely to the cost of the service and “materially lessens its ofi- | ciency,” according to the annual report of Daniel C, Roper, first assistant master general, made public today. Roper suggests it would be in the terest of both the service and the ployes to amend the law s0 as thorise Sunday work and grant com LIST OF INSTRUCTIONS TO THE COUNTRY GIRLS Hints for Their Guidance When They Go to Big ‘Cities. 1 Washington, Dec. 19—A list of in- structions for the girl whe comes alone to a big city was set forth today by Mrs. Nan Sperry, assistant labor com- missioner of Missouri, at the conven- tion of the American association of { public employment officers. | | Mrs. Sperry’s hints for the guidance | of the country girl were gleaned frem | her experlences at the Kansas City of- fice of the bureau, and as a prelimina 'she first advised girls not to come tc B avolded. | pensatory time off to employes assign- reports, and he recommends that the service be discontinued on June 30, | " Find a policeman, o to a police sta- | tion for information, or go to the Y. W, C. A. or some place thot is known | 1914, He recommends that the ‘com= | to you. Pensation of rural mall earriers bs | “Have money enough at least for a|changed from a mileage to an - | month. hour basis “and that the carriers | "Keep your money in your stocking; | permitted to deliver mall regardless. of it is safer than a purse. the distance from the postoffice or U ¢r who offers | corporate limits of the town.* May. | General approval of the eperation of the eight-hour law is given by Mr, Roper, ASSISTANT POSTMASTERS EXEMPT FROM CIVIL SERVIOR, Democrats Make This Provision in A| propriation Bill, Beware of the strang: to gulde you or carry your grip. { be he has horns undér his hat. | “Have some relative meet you if pg: | sible. Go back to the country as seon as you ean. The greatest problem T have to con- front in my work, sald Mre, Sperry, is | the task of coping with the avalan | of country girls who come to the city | seeking employment. Many have no _ ngtions whatever of the conditions | Washington, Dec. 19.—All assistant they will be compelled to meet. We | Postmasters will be exempted from the | civil service under the postofiice appro- priation bill, completed today by the house committee on postoffices and to be reported immediately after the holi- day recess. The dernocrats of the cam- mittee voted to put into the measure a provision substantially similar to_the one in the sundry civil bill under which deputy collectors and deputy marshais were exempted from civil service, The bill carries approximately $303, 000,000, a cut of about $3,000,000 from the estimates submitted by the post- office department. TO COMPEL RESPECT FOR must, In many cases, become a fairy godmother to them. A MEAN TRICK ON UNEMPLOYED MEN, a Youth Sends Fifteen to Bangor on Wild Goose Chase. Boston, Dec. 19.—Isidore Freeman, a Chelsea vouth, was held today for a federal court hearing on a charge or illegal use of the mails, Freeman, who was formerly employ- ed by an employment bureau in New York, was arrested on complaont of an employment agent who discovered that UNIFORMS OF UNCLE SAM. 15 men,whom he had sent to Bangor on c ~ the alleged representations of F'reeman | Legislation to Prevent Discrimination that they were to work in a lumber | Proposed In Senate. | camp, were destitute in the Maine city. | They' had spent all their money for | . Washington, Dec. 10—Tegislation to transportation and for the agent's com- | prevent disarimination in public plsces missioners ;n;i 'h'eg: found that there | against men in the 'orm of the | was no work for them. ‘s Was pro- When faken into cusody Freeman had | bosed In s senato. today vy Benator Just received another party of 20 men | Chamberlain, chairman of the commis - Who were expecting to be sent to the | tee on miltary affairs. A bill intro- Maine woods, duced by Mr. Chamberlain would pre- vent imitation of the uniforms of the regular service, except by militia and ed cadet schools, and would make it unlawful for rallroads, hotels ' or theaters to deny privileges to sol dlers, satlors or marines, > Sohooner Brealdng Up, e R T el e Ch Cardinal Martinelli Seriously Il Rome, Dec. 19.—Cardinal Sebastian | ell, who was papal delegate in the United Btates from 1896 to 1908, 18 seriously 1. The cardinal, who s 65 years is prefect of the Sacred Con- mnt?& o Rites, Judge Criticlses Murder Jury. '&umn. Dec. 19.—A jury verdlct acquitted George Mundy, a t attorney, on the charge of of his wife, was criticised today by Jw; Cushing as a gross miscar- M killed him wite | ieine e et Five Repubficans,n Including Senator Weeks, _Vm;' Apgleuse From: Gallery - When Rosalt Was: Annouriced -0 Restriotion on Members of Congress. . ference Committee to Reconcile the Differences—No | cities unless it cannot be 4 Other instructions were: ed to SBunday duty, you must come, don’t ask any The experimental dellvery of mail in | stfanger for information, villages has been a fallure, Mr. Roper | | | |