Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 24, 1913, Page 1

" THECURRENCY BILL BECOMES AJLAW/ | Enthusiastic Demonstration When President Affixed} * His Signature to the Measure FOUR GOLD PENS TO WRITE NAME AND DATE These Distributed as Souvenirs—President Declares Bill is First Chapter of Reply to Does Not Know How to Charge That Democn‘tic Party Serve Business Interests of Country—Will Be of Lasting Benefit to Business. Washington, Dec. 23 President Wilson signed the Glass-Owen cur- yency bill at 6 oclock tonight in the Ppresence of members of his cabinet, the congressional committees on bank- ing and currency and democratic lead- ers in congress generally. With a few strokes of the pen the president converted into law the meas- ure.to be known as the federal reserve act, reorganizing the nation’s banking and currency system and furnishing, in the words of the president, “the machinery for free and elastic and uncontrolled credits, put at the dis- posal of the merchants and manufac- turers of this country for the first time. in fifty years.” Democratic Leaders Jubilant. | Enthusiastic applause rang through the room, not only as the president affixed his signature, but as he deliv- ered an extemporaneous speech char- mcterizing the desire of the adminis- | tration to take common counsel withi the business men of the country a_nd‘ the latter’s efforts to.meet the gov- ernment’s advances on “the constitu- tion of peace.” { The event came at the close of a! day of rejoicing in the national cap- itol, for congress had recessed for two weeks for the first time since it con- vened last April. The democratic leaders were jubilant because they had completed two big pieces’ of legisla- tion—the tariff and the currency re- forms—in nine months, a performance which they considered unprecedented in the history of the country. Gratified by Republican Support. “T need not tell you,” sald the presi- dent to the assembled group as he took wp bis pen, “that I feel a very deep | gratification at being able to sign this bill, and I feel that I ought to express Very heartily the admiration I have for the men who have made it possible for me to sign this bill., “It is a matter of real gratification to me that in the case of this bill there should have been considerable a number of republican votes cast for it. All great measures under our system of government are of necessity party ires, for the party o he major- is responsible for their origination 2nd their passage; but this cannot be called a partisan measure. It has been relieved of all intimation of that sort by the cordial co-operation of men on the ether side of the two houses whe have aeted with ue and have given very substantial reasons and very in- telligent reasons for acting with us. So that T think we can go home with the feeling that we are in better spir- its for public serviece than we were even when we convened in April. First Chapter of Democracy’s Reply. “As for the hill itself, 1 feel that we ©an say that it is the first of a series of constructive measures by which the demecratic party will show that it knows how to serve the country. In so calling it the first of a series of con- structive measures I need not say that I am not casting any reflections on the 1 great tariff bill which preceded it. was refreshing my memory on the p sage of the national bank act w came in two pieces, as you know, February of 1868 and in June of 186 it is just fifty years ago since that! measure, suitable for that time, was passed, and it bas taken us more than a generation and a half to come to an understanding as to the readjust- ments which were necessary for our own time. But we have reached those readjustments. 1 myself have alway felt when the democratic party was eriticized as not knowing how to serve the business interests of the country that there was no use of replying to that in words. The only satisfactory reply was in action. We have written the first chapter of that reply. Wil Be of Lasting Benefit to Busines. ‘9 have been surprised at the sudden { and many acceptance of this measure by the pub- lic opinion everywhere. I say surpris- denly become obvious to men who had looked at it with too critical an eye that "it was really meant in their in- terest. They have opened their eyes to see a thing which they had supposed to be hostile to be friendly and viceable—exactly what we intended it to be, and what we shall intend all our legislation to be. The men who have fought for this measure have fought ‘nobody. They have simply fought for those accommodations which are going 10 secure us in prosperity and in peace. Nobody can be the friend of any class |in America in the sense of being the enemy of any other class. You can only be the friend of one class by showing it the lines by which it can accopmmodate itself to the other class. The lines of help are always the lines of accommodation. It is in this spirit, therefore, that we rejoice together to- night, and I cannot say with what deep emotions of gratitude I feel that I have had a part in completing a work which 1 think will be of lasting benefit to the business of the country.” Signing of the Bill. The scene at the signing of the meas- ure was not unlike that which attend- ed the completion of the tariff law. By 6 o'clock. the hour set for the ceremony, Speaker Clark, Representa tive Underwood, Senator Owen and Representative Glass, Secretaries Mec- Adoo, Garrison, Daniels, Lane and Wilson, and Postmaster General Burle- son were grouped around the presi- dent's-desk, and in front of the presi- dent had crowded members of eongress government officials. The group also included Mrs. Wilson and her daughters, and M McAdoo and Mrs. Owen. There was an atmosphere of jovousness rather than of solemni- ty apparent. The president inquired if Senator James had come. Tte husky form of the Kentucky senator appear ed from behind the crowd and some- one remarked: “A majority of the senate has now arrived.” Four Gold Pens Used. Four gold pens were used by the president in writing the bill into law. He wrote the words “23, December, 1913, Approved” with one, and used three pens in writing “Woodrow Wil son,” splitting the first name inte two syllables. . The last three pens he presented to Senator Owen, Representative Glass and Secretary McAdoo, co-authors of the measure. The president answered the curiosity of the crowd as to the disposition of the fourth with the laughing remark: “This is the 40 per serve” Later it developed that Senator Chilton of West Virginia had sent up a gold pen of his own to be used in writing the date of the law. Organizations«of New System. Organization of the new banking system will be undertaken immediate- by Secretary McAdoo of the treas- v and Secretary Houston of agricul- cent. gold re- u ture, two of the three members of the committee charged with the task by the law. The comptroller of the cur- s named as the third member, office is now vacani and can- not bé filled until the p dent sends a nomination to the senate upon his return to Washington after the holi- days. It is agreed in, official circles, however, that a majority is authorized to act, so the two cabinet officers are preparing to proceed without waiting for a full committee. ment authoerities decided that the dep- uty comptroller temporarily in charge of the office could not serve on the or- ganization committee because this duty would be in the ex-officio class. ARRESTED FOR USING THE WHITE SLAVE FILM | #mw York Picture House Raided by the Police, New York, Dec, —The showing of the white slave film which last Fri- day caused Harry W. Newburger, dep- uty police commissioner, to elose a Broadway theaire, resulted in a raid tonight by the police on another the- atre was taken on-a warrant issued by against ithe management of the the- atre was taken on a warrane issued by Police Magistrate Murphy. Giving a public exhibition of an immoral mov- ing ‘picture is the charge. Commissioner Newburger entered the theatre with five detectives and arrested four men and a woman con- | nected with the management of the house. When the spectators began to clamor for a refund of the money paid for admission it was announced that this could not be made because the ganction of those under arrest would bave to be secured. Over 300 of the spectators threatened to make trouble and they were stil crowding the lob- by of the house at a late hour, Testimony That Hobbs Confessed. Vicksburg, Miss.,, Dec, 23.—The state today closed its case against G, A. Hobbs, state semator on trial on the charge of soliciting and receiving a bribe, with testimony from Governor RKarl Brewer that Hobbs had confessed guilt to him and a declaration from the Rev. H. P. Webb that Hobbs had | said to him: “I would not take a bribe, but T would not drop anything placed fn my ‘hand.” Gardner Won’t Run for Governor. Boston, Dec. 23.—Congressman Au- stus *P. Gardiner, republican hom- ee for governor in the last state elec- | tion, tomight apnounced that he would pmot be a candidate for governor next ear as he recognized that there was strong sentiment among Massachu- sefts republicans that my candidacy | fiegovemor in 1914 would be undesir- #Jim” Donnelly Seriously Hi. . New Hawen, Conn, +Dec. 23.—The ‘eondition of *“Jim* Donnelly, head of the Yale university police,. who has been quite ill at his home in Eim street for some time, is causing his | { York CORRUPT MISCONDUCT AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND, Former Bookkeeper Summoned Before the Grand Jury. New York, Dec. 23.—The investiga- tion begun recently into stories of ill- treatment the New county well’'s Island has broadened its scope to include allegations of wilful and corrupt misconduct in office of officers of the institution. This was set forth today in a pefition filed in the supreme court by an assistant district attorney asking for a writ of Jrabeas corpus at- recting the warden of the Sing Sing prison to produce before the grand jury here tomorrow one George I. Lewis, formerly a prisoner on Blackwell's Island. The writ was granted. Lewis, now in Sing Sing, was for- merly on Blackwell’s Island, where he acted as a bookkeeper. questioned as to whether he was in- duced to make false and fraudulent en- tries in the imstitution’s books. Live Wire Kills Two. Stamford, Conn., Dec. 23.-=While on their way home in a driving rain late tonight Guiseppe Marturo and Guisep- pe Gaudio met instant death when electric light wire which had fallen to the sidewalk. The men had appar- ently been walking under one um- brella and did not see the wire. The bodies, badly burned, were found by pedestrians. Machias Oiler Attempts Suicide. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 23.—George Hinckley, an oiler on the U. 8. S. Machias, stationed in New Haven har- bor, attempted suicide tonight by swal- lowing five grains of strychnine. He took the “tablets in Main- street. By- standers called the police and he was given herofc treatment, with the result that he has an even chance of recov- ery. Miss Wilson Distributes Gifts. ‘Washington, Dec. 23.—Miss Eleanor ‘Wilson, youngest daughter of the pres- ident; played Santa Claus to a half hundred little children today. With ‘Christmas greetings from the president she took an automobile load of toys many friends much uneasiness. He i suffering from heart trouble. Toda, He had a relapse, but tonight hewa¥ | as being somewhat improved. and candies to a settlement on the Vir- ginia side of the Potomac, through which her father rides on his way to golt ed, because it seems as If it had sud-| Treasury depart- | He is to be| ! | | | | Cabled Paragraphs ontenegrin Queen Dangerousiy ik Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 23.—Queen ena _of Montenegro, mother of Quedn Helena of Italy, is reported to be dangerously ill in the capital of the little Balkan kingdom. Severe Storms on German Coast. Hamburg, Dec. 23.—Severe storms for the past two weeks have done great damage to shipping at Elbeports. Fif- ty-two lives have been lost, according to latest advices, hut the reports are not yet available. Will Be Tried In Portugal. Lisbon, Dec. 23.—The republican po- litical' prisoners who were arrested last April in connection with serious disorders in Lisbon and sent to prison at Angra, the Azores, have been brought here for trial. Among the prisoners are two generals. Miss Emerson Released. London, Dec. 23—Charges of as- saulting and obstructing the police, brought against Miss Zelie Emerson of Jackson, Mich., in connection with a suffragette disturbance on Dec. 15, in | the Bow district of the East End of London, were dismissed today by the police magistrate. Two New Chinese Railways. Berlin, Dec. 25.—The Chinese foreign minister and the German minister to China signed at Peking today an agreement for the construction in Chi- na of two railways to be undertaken by German engineers, which is to util- ize purely German materials and the capital for which is to be provided by German financiers. The cost of the two undertakings is estimated at from $17,500,000 to $20,000.000. MRS. YOUNG TO AGAIN BE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. Chicago Board of Education Rein- states Her at Stormy Meeting. Chicago, Dec. 23.—Mrs. Ella Flagg Young was voted back into the super- intendency of the Chicago public schools today after a stormy session of the board of education. Seven mem- | bers refused to vote, taking the ground that the board had no power to recon- sider the election of John D. Shoop, assistant superintendent, who had been elected Mrs. Young’s successor, Con- tention also was made that the four new members of the board, named by Mayor Harrison to replace four whose resignations he had enforced, were not entitled to their seats. The action of the board in removing Shoop and replacing Mrs. Young will at onCe be challenged in court, it was announced by the opposition. PIECES OF HUMAN FLES—H FOUND UNDER A BRIDGE. Wrapped Up in Bundle Covered With Bloodstained Coat. _Utiea, N. Y., Pec. 23.—The finding of pieces of flesh, believed to be parts of a human bedy, at Guildersland Center, is believed by some of the authorities te be connected with the mysterious murder of John Barrett there Sunday night, Under a bridge at-Guildersland Cen- ter a bloodsoaked coat, wrapped as a bundle, was discovered. Inside were a vest, coat, shirt, trousers, arcties and the small pieces of fiesh. Distriet Attorney Hardies of Amster- dam 1s inclined, however; to the belief that this is a second mwurder, one prob- ably net committed by the same slayer of John Barrett. “DYNAMITE GLYCERIN” : CREATES EXCITEMENT. Large Quantity of It Found at Cleve- land City Hall. Cleveland, ©. Dec. 23.—The find of 12 six-ounce hottles labelled “dynamite glycerin” in a safe in the former quar- ters of the health department in eity hall this afiernoon precipitated a panic among officials and attaches. A report spread that an attempt to blow up the building had been made, The bombs were turned over to Street Cleaning Superintendent Hanna, who will give them to City Chemist ‘White for analygis. From the appear- ance of the fluld in the bombs it is believed it may be glycerin, used in compounding the explosive nitro- glycerin. TWO PAINTINGS BY MRS. WOODROW WILSON. | Landscapes at Ex on of National Academy of Design. New York, Dec, 23—Two of the paintings in the winter exhibition of the National Academy of Design, which opened at the Fine Arts building re- cently, are the work of Mrs, Woodrow Wilson. The fact was cailed to notice today by a friend of Mrs. Wilson. The pictures, both landseapes, are of the same size in twin gilt frames. “Near Princeton, N. J.” is the title of one, while the other is called “An Old | Wagon Road.” Being smaller than the have been hung in average size they the upper row. BRISTOL BURGLARIES. Lads of 14 and 12 Arrested by the Danbury Police. Bristol, Cenn., Dec. 23.—Chief of Po- lice Belden returned here tonight from Danbury with two local youths who were arrested there for burglaries | alleged o' have been committed here— | Armand Fiorillo, aged 12, and Josepa Kolibpzynski, aged 14. t is charged that the boys broke into the feed store | of Goodsell Brothers in North Main street Sunday. Previously they had | broken into the library and were on | probation when the Sunday night bur- glary was committed. Steamship Arrivals. Rotterdam, Dec, 22.—Steamer Birma, their feet became entangled in a live| New York for Libau. Glasgow, Dec. 23.—Steamer Ionian,| Portland via Halifax. Liverpool, Dec. 23.—Steamer Arabic, | Boston. London, Dec 3.—Steamer Minneha- | Marselles, Dec. 19.—Steamer Madon- na, New York and Providence. Naples, Dec. 19.—Steamer Germanoa, New York. London, Dec. 23.—Steamer Ausonia, Portland. Philadelphia, Dec. 22.—Steamer Mer- ion, ILiverpool, New York, Dec. 23.—Steamer Hellig Olav, Copenhagen. ‘Eremen, Dee. 23.—Steamer Kaiser ‘Wilhelm II, New York, Steamers Reported by Wireless. Cape Race, Dec. 23.—Steamer Cedrie, Liverpool for ‘New York, signalled 1,- 145 miles east of Sandy Hook at 10.55 a. m. Dock 2 p. m. Friday. Siasconsett, Mass., . 23.—Steamer Laura, Trieste for New York, signalled 440 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock 8.30 a. m. Thursday. Steamer Helllg Olav, Copenhagen for New York, signalled 178 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock $.30 a. m. ‘Wednesday Villa Cut Of ~ From His Basp =+ s FEDERALS PULL DOWN WIRES S8OUTH OF JUAREZ TO DESTROY PROPERTY [, A, 00, 2000, 08,800 New Plan of Campaign by Huerta's|tne tinited States for 1913 was “the Forces—Railroad Bridges as Well as Telegraph Wires Are Destroyed. Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 23.—A flying wedge of federal troops swept into rebel territory today and, adopting the tactics of guerilla warfare, began a campaign to destroy railroad bridges and telegraph lines, according to rebel reports. Their first act was to cut off com- munication between General Francisco Villa’s 60,000 rebels at Chihuahua and the rebel” base at Juarez By pulling down telegraph wires, south of Juarez the fe s temporarily isolated Villa in Chihuahua, so far as direct com- munication was concerned. Campaign of Destruction. The small federal band went out from Ojinaga on-the border and was believed to have been commanded by General Ynerz Salazar, who is well sea- soned in guerilla warfare. * The plan of the federals, as under- stood by the rebel chiefs, is to operate extensively over northern Mexico and by working in circles to destroy all property that might be of use to the rebels without engaging the latter in a fight. - According to report, Salazar's men were headed for the Casas Gran- des district, west of the railroad run- ning from Juarez and were designing to burn houses and other property. Wires Can Soon Be Repaired. 1t is believed by the rebels that the federals will form nothing more than a fugitive band, destroying what prop- erty they can reach and disappearing before they can be overtaken. Exten- sive destruction of railroads and tele- graph lines would handicap the reb- els, dut so far no serious damage has been done, as the wires between Juarez and Chlhuahua can soon be repaired. An attempted invasion by the fed- erals of rebel territory was expected and it is sald Villa regarded it as in- signifieant, Comparative Strength of Two Armies. The total federal stremgth is about 4,000 spldiers, the bulk of whom are at Ojinaga, while with more than 10,- 009 men Villa controls almost all of the country north of Torreon and west of Monterey, A train which left Chihuahua for Juarez before the telegraph was inter- rupted had net reached here tonight, although it was believed the railroad had not been impaired. American Admiral at Culiacan. Hermosillo, Senora, Mexice, Dec, 23. —Rear Admiral Cowles and the cap- tain of the United States cruiser Pitts- burgh arrived teday at Culiayan, being brought to the capital on a spe- cial train with Felipe Riveros, consti- tutionalist governor eof Simaloa and in- surgent army officers. This informa- tion telegraphed here tonight did not make eclear what business the Amer- ican rear admiral had with the con- stitutionalist officers, although yester- day it was reported the visit was in connection with the state department’s inquiry into the safety of W. S. Wind- ham and J. M. Duna, Americans whe it was reported were held prisoners by the censtitutionalisis. The consti- tutienalists accounted for the where- abouts of the two Americans after the cruiser had started southward. Another Federal Train Blown Up. Mexico City, Dee. 32.—Unaware of the presence of nerthern rebels at a poiat se far south, a train carrying a detachment of government troops on a tour of exploration ram over a rebel dynamite mine near Charcos teday and was practically destroyed. A majority of the federals who escaped death in the explosion were killed afterwards by the rebels, Rebels Strong on West Coast, Mexico City, Dec, 23.—The rebels are showing greater strength on the west coast in the vicinity of Acapulco according to- consuiar advices received here. A forced loan for the support of the federal troops has been levied on Bpaniards at Acapulco, the reports say, French Cruiser Called to Tampico. Vera Cruz, Dec, 23—The ¥rench cruiser Conde sailed from here this afternoon for Tampico, the conmmand- er having receiyed an urgent call from that port, Stefansson Explorers Safe. Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 23.—Dr, R, Andersou, chief anthropologisy with M, | ihe Steffansson expedition, reported to George J. Desbarats, deputy minister of naval affairs, today that all the sci- entists and members of the crews of the Alagka and Mary Sachs, two of the explorer’s vessels, are safe and well in wirniter quarters, at Collinson Point, 50 ; miles from Flaxman Island, in the Arc- tic cirele. Banker in Contempt of Court. Boston, Dec, 23.—Henry W. Munroe, a New York banker, was adjudged in contempt in the United States district court today. the banker was trying to shield Mrs. Mary Dolan, a Boston dressmaker, who is under indiciment on a charge of smuggling, when he failed to obey a subpoena requiring him to produce certain checks and papers belonging to Mrs. Dolan. Wilsons Leave for Mississippi. ‘Washington, Dec. 23. President Wilson, with Mrs. Wilson, their two daughters, Misses Margaret and Elea- nor, Miss Helen Woodrow Bones and Dr. Cary T. Grayson, naval aide, left Washington tonight at 10.45 for Pass Christian, Migs., to spend Christmas. Burglars Steal Children's Toys. Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Scores of little children were robbed of their Christmas presents late today when burglars broke into the South Presby- terian church and stripped a big Christmas tree of its toys, %rinkets and 1 candies. / Unknown Steamer Ashore. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 23.—An unknown | steamer is ashore half a mile below Little Island. Life savers and the revenue cutter Onondaga have her assistance. been unable to identify the vessel on account of a dense fog. . Wilsons Make Gifts of Turkeys. Washington, Dec. 23.—Each of the 150 White House ‘employes received a 15-pound turkey today with Christ- mas greetings Irol‘: the president and Mrs. Wilson. Judge Morton held that | gone to | st 1d. The life savers have.l TR o veats o Condensed Telegrams Burglars Broke Into the Lawrence, A tomea‘rnd stole $200 in cash Grape Juice at Bryan Dinners been superseded by pineapple with carbonated water. New York School Teachiers ‘ard%pre- paring a bill to allow female teachers 92 days of sick leave each year. has Juice in their refrigerator in New York. The Mill Consumption of cotton in largest in the history of the country. Boyden’s Block at Sandwich, Mass, and the livery stable of Jerome Hol- way were destroyed yesterday by a fire. o - Miss Helen Keller, the blind and deaf girl, received a badge entitling her to pass through fire lines in. New York. Judson C. Clements of Georgla was reappointed by President Wilson a member of the Inter-State Commerce commission, Approximately 700,000 Passengers were carried for every life lost on steam vessels in the United States dur- ing the past year. Richard Donahue, aged 69, fell twen- ty feet from a ‘bridge over a small stream yesterday and was killed. His neck was broken. Postmaster-General Burleson: de- clares himself against the proposal to take assistant postmasters from under the protection of civii service. A Special White House Reception in compliment to New Jersey, will be given by the president and Mrs. Wil- son, Friday night, February 13th. Forty-One White Seamen aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Asia were dismissed at Vancover, B. C., and Ckinese labor was substituted. The Massachusetts Bar Association established a precedent yesterday by admitting a woman to membership, Mrs. Mary A. Mahan, an attorney of Boston. Merchants of Loraine, Ohio, offer-to the first baby born in 1914, many use- ful gifts, including corsets, beer, wine, barber service for life and a theatre pass for life. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Woman Suffrage associa- tion has refused to pay her income tax and announced her intention to fight the law. A Big Song Service attended by high ofiicials of the government, at which the old year will be sung out and the New Year in, js to be held at the treas- ury depariment. Rev. Dr. Elias D. Whitlock, seventy years old, of Toledo, father of Mayor Brand Whitlock of 'Foledo and a re- tired Methedist clsrgyman, died at Cleveland yesterday, More tman Three Hundred cadsts left the United States military acad- emy at West Point last to te spend the Christmas holidays with their parents or friends, More Than Twenty Letters threat- ening te blow up his home have been reeeived l:f' Judge /K, M, Landis of the United Btaies court at Chicage in the last five years, A Resolution Providing for the in- stallation in School basements of bowl- ing alleys and pool and billiard reems will be introduced before the new Cleveland board of education, ..The La Follette (Tean.) State Bank La Follette Coal and Iron and Ralil- road company and the La Folletts Co- operative Store company were forced into receivership yesterday by gen- eral creditors’ bills. Vice President Marshall sent a copy of “Back Country Folks” to President Wilsen as a Christmas gift. On the flyleaf he wrote “To the President the United States. From his only vice—Thomas Marshall. The Bodies of Robert L. Gallatin, of York, Pa., and Louis Wakefleld, of Shelbyville, Kv., were found yesterday imbedded in the mud on the edge of a small creek in the suburbs of Louis- vilke, victims of an automobile ac- cident. By the Will of the Late Seth K. Sweetser of Brookline, Mass., the Bos- ton Museum of Fine arts, Boston Kin- dergarten for the Blind, ~'Massachu- setts Institute of Technology and American Unitarian association each receive $25,000, If Ralph Lopez, Slayer of six men, is still in the Utah-Apex mine where he teok refuge on November 27, he is securely sealed up and will be held & prisoner there until after Christmas. Not a sound has come from the mine since ]_;el'. 14. Sidney L. Bacharach of Hartford has been appointed to the position of as- sistant to the chief clerk in the auto- mobile department of the secretary of state’s office, succeeding Harold Clapp, who will retire January 1. The salary is $1,000 a year. Maud H., 2’s Lass, a registered Hol- stein cow at the Delaware College | experiment farm, althongh in milk for | nearly, ten months made a record last week of 12 pounds of butter fat, ecuivalent to a pounds of butter. little more than 14 Heirs of “Big Tim” Sullivan an- nounced yesterday that poor families in the Bewery district would continue to get the usual Christmas dinner 'baskets and that the inmates of the | lodging houses along the Bowery | would also be remembered as formerly. Church Goers in Meriden looked with keen interest upon cards placed in store windows yesterday advertising a public dance in the parish house of St. PauPs Universalist church on New Year’s eve. Rev. Thomas H. Saunders, who recently was installed as pastor, has had bowling alleys and pool tables placed in the parish house ifor men of the church and their friends. 3 i Life Sentence for Inhuman Mother. ! | _Meridian, Tex., Dec. 23.—Mrs, Ellen | { Btheridge, who confessed to Killing | four of her stepchildren a few years | i.ago, was today sentenced to life im- 'prisonment after a verdict finding her guilty of the murder of Oscar, her Mrs, Etheridge {is the wife of a stockman whom she ima.rrled last March. - To Appraise J. P. Morgan's Estate. New York, . 23.—John T. Martin, & lawyer of this cig and an appraiser attached to the office of the deputy state controller here, was today de.u:fi l nated appralser of the estate of late J. Pierpont Morgan, Begged Widow to Forgive Her MISS BRANCE PLEADS DEéP AF- FECTION FOR COUCH RELEASED FROM JAIL Police Absolve Her From All Respon- sibility For Lawyer's Death—Was Voluntary Prisoner For Three Years, Monticello, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Miss Ade- laide Brance,the woman who was with Melvin H. Couch, former district attor- ney of Sullivan county, when he died suddenly Sunday morping in his office, was given her freedom late this after- noon, the authorities having failed to connect her with the death of the man for whom she immured herself for three years. . Though freed nmow even onf the charge of petty larceny, on which she was held pending an investigation of the man’s death, Miss Brance has asked permission to remain a vol- untary prisoner for two or three days. Is Anxious to Die. “I cannot face the worid now,” she said today. “I am sick at heart and sick physically.” 2 Sheriff Kinne will permit the woman to stay long enough to regain her strength. She is destitute and says she has no place to which she might 80. Today she expressed the wish to die and be buried beside the dead man. Miss Brance refuses to give any in- formation as to her relatives, saying that she does not wish to bring dis- grace upon them. Couple. Had Quarreled. It was learned today that Miss Brance and Couch quarreled shortly before the man's death. The woman told Couch she wished to visit an old- time friend over the holidays. To this the Jawyer would not listen. He grew excited, and Miss Brance, fearing a scene, finally promised that she would remain with him. A few minutes aft- erwards the aged man fell over on the couch. She ran out to get a physi- cian, but on her return found the iaw- yer dead. Couch was buried this afternoon from the residence of his wife. A Voluntary Prisoner. Is was due to the discovery of the presence of the woman by the widow when she was to explore a room in his offices her husband had always forbidden her to enter that the story became known and the manner of the life for three years of voluntary pris- oner revealed. Miss Brance told the prosecutor that many years ago she lived in Goshen, N. Y. but facts concerning her early life she withheld. After much ques- tioning she told of her life in the little room opening off Couch's offices, of how she never went out except at night, then only when she was sure no one would ses her, and how she lived on provisions brought to her by the law- yer, and threugh it all was happy be- cause she loved and was lovi Fe Begs Widow's Forgiveness. Bhe said she wes years old and had been a boek but stopped there, except to add it was while trying to interest Ceuch in a book 15 years age that their friendship began, ‘q;‘lmy met at frequent intervals x:: that time, she said, until about years ago, when lfiey conclu that secret meetings that lasted a at first could be Irolons’ed to a week, then weeks, and finally to her uh% p living quarters in the lawyers ice, When confronted by the widow of the man with whom she had lived in secret for so long, Miss Brance begged forgiveness, crylnf piteously: "I loved him, I loved him. 8hows Evidence of Refinement. Although her hair is streaked with gray, and her face pallid from her en- foroed confinement, Miss Brance's voice Is well modulated and the quall- ty of tone bespeaks education and culture. At the county jail Miss Brance has denied herself to all callers, that she desired only to be D to leave the gcene of her love and to be forgotten. Saw Funeral from Her Ceil. From a cell in the jail where she was held on a technical charge the woman saw the funeral é;m-km pass on to the cemetery. he had expressed a wish to be at the graveside, but the } lawyer's widow forbade it. Coueh died on the lounge in his of~ fice early Sunday morning, His com~ panion, shrieking, gave the alarm and summoned a policeman, Then for the first time it became known that for three years she had, for the love of the man, existed in a tiny quarter of the office partitioned off as & combina. tion glesping, living room and kitchen, Friendlv for Fifteen Years. Coueh visited his wife and daughier at his home every Sunday, but spent most of his time in his offies. The Brance weidhn says she loved him de- yotedly, that he returned her love, and that their relations dated back 15 years, when she as a beek agent chaneed to eall on him, “The woman looks pale and haggard today, She was young and attraetive looking 10 years ago, but her deveotion to Couch and the secret aliiance and its incident eonfinement have aged her terribly, She has refused to discuss the c¢ase, saying that she wishes te drep out of sight in order not te cause the Ceuch family any mere neotoriety, Native of New York. T.ate today Miss Brance gave the first hint as te her antecedents, “T was bern in Hardwick, near Ceep- erstown, N. Y. where brother is employed in the postefice,” she said. “My father and msther are dead. But that is all T propose to tell of my fam- ily history. What happened to me be- fore I came to Monticallo, 15 years ago, I feel concerns nobod; NO ACTION TOWARD REMOVAL OF GEORGE. Trustees of theT\:u'i:;-fiopublic De to Defer Matter. New York, Dec. 23.—No action look- ing toward the removal of Williain R. George from all participation in the af- fairs of the George Junior Republic will be taken at this time by the tru tees of the Freeville, N. Y., institutic This was the reply forwarded by them today to the state board of chariti regarding the board’s action in-calling upon them to force Mr. George to s his official connection with the inst tion he founded. His removal recommended after an investigac of charges made against him. o de- cision was given at any time on the charges. Battleships Leave Mexico, era Cruz, Dec. 23.—The United States battleships Louisiana New ma%shti.r: sailed this ‘for the United States