Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 31, 1913, Page 1

g VOL. LV.—NO. 313 SWAM RIVER TO THE AMERICAN SIDE Retreating Rebels/Who Sought Safety in United States Reported to Have Been Forced Back AMERICAN COMMANDER’S ACTION SURPRISING Doubt as to Accuracy of This Report Expressed at Washing- ton—MNo New Instuctions Issued to Warrant This Course —Lind Leaves Vera Cruz to Confer With Wilson—War Vessels of Three Nations at Mazatlan—Reason Unknown | weaving mills ditious in Mexico have forced the Na- clated ! tional Railways of Mexico and affiiliat- of Presidio, T s, and | ed properties to default in the payment ren by officials here as| of interest, due January 1, on bonds no news reached the | amounting to $11,600,000. E. N. Brown, Washingtou, Dec. 30.—Limited means of communication between the border ¥ the town north is reasor 1l state or 2 departmen today Te- | pr ent of the em, who made this garding the battle heported in Progress| announcement today, said that in lieu across the border In Ojinaga. Some | of the regular ash payments the w. expressed as to the pro- > said to have been adopted by pilitary commander at companies would issue three-year six per cent. notes. LIND TO MEET WILSON., soldiers seekimg to cross the line ) Texas. The state department has given no instructions and made mo re- ooking to any different treat- ich refugees than was ac- ) the federals who were driven \e line several months ago at Leaves Vera Cruz on Fastest Cruiser of American Navy. Guests ment corded Vera- Cruz, Mexico, Decs 30.— breakfast time New Year's day or s on 2 o pwg = . after that if no untqward incident oc- e B e s sy e Lo |curs, John Lind, President Wilson's atied and Internéd; the Naoo-fugl- | Peronalrenresenigilve..and. the Dres N L SiL¥ b ol Rauhsipk | dent self, will be discussing face R T 2nd the Browns. | t0, face the _international problems R R s Bkt & et ng out of ihe Mevican revolution. ey e lifi et T i | Lind left Vera Cruz at six o’clock rlace { tonight on board the Chester, the No New Instructions to American |fastest cruiser of the Ame: 1 hound for Pass Chr Officers. | President Wilson z s said at the war department |ti The Chester’s captain and R t no new instructions have been | Admiral ¥ Fletcher assured given io the American military com- | Mr. Lind that twenty-four hours would manders, and it is assumed, if Mexican | be sufficient to Jand him on the Lou federal ldiers who crossed the line |lana coast whence he will proceed as were disarmed by American troops and [ quick ible to Pass Christian. then forced to return into Mexico, that must have been because the Ameri- | commanding officer did not be- that he was thereby endangering their lives or ng any of the laws | e department is for more infor- BLIZZARDS AND FLOODS IN WESTERN EUROPE. Ve Coasts Swept by Violent Gales—Many Deaths from Expesure. 1 on this point. tate department reports today are | Dec, 3¢.~France and a great rat ial tension in the Mexi- ( Europe are cxperienci car has been relieved by the t year-end in =z “ade. enfor nk holiday. Conditions at 1d floods have done great Acapuicogeontinue serious. Banditti | inland and gales are very active throughout the state | have ravaged -oasts, vod the military authorities are said In ain and Port the intense exacting for Ameri- | cold has caused numerous deaths. In cans and other fo affected | the south of France thp temoerature by se demands. istered some degrees helow / . { ahrenheit. Mount Vesuvius, in War Vessels of Three Nations. Bovael. WA et aitin. e For the first time since the despatch of foreign vessels to the west coast of Mexigo, so far as officials recail, the craft of three different pations are in the same Mexican port. This interna- tiopal fleet, now at Mazatlan, is com- ¢ the Japamnese cruiser Idzuma, cruiser Shearwater and the cruiser Pittsburgh and the white. Germany is now in the grip of storms, and in many places, including RBerlin, there have been heavy falls of snow. In France and southwest Europe the railroads are cyut in many places, and this section is practically isolated, so far as telegraph communication is eon- cerne an gupply ship Glacier. Officials here f have received no advices ®s to the |, Oofditions are gt the worst in cen- f %ok tral and western France, which are reason for the eoncentration of so for- i favored by mild wind s midable a squadron at this western ey L0 e S Spalt e il ) of villazes, which ordinarily never see snow, are cut off. The suffering of the poor is intense and deaths from expos- ure are common. Paris and outlying districts have been partly snow-bound’and as a re port. orts continue to pour in from many sources describing the destitu- tion and suffering which seem to be widespread throughout Mexico in con ze ce of the suspension of indus- 2 r activitles and the total failure of | 8ult of temporary thaws the tribu yps thronghout wide areas. ries of the Seine are overflowing. The i Paris steamboat service, as a conse- quence, has been suspended, and al- though the authorities do not antiei- pate a flood of disastroug propor ns, they are taking all precautions, as the weather bureau foresaes no Immiediate improvement in conditions. Lind Asked for Conference. iristian, Miss., Dec, 80 has given permission to s personal representative come from Vera Cruz on Mexican affa Lind asked, through the state de B whether he could have leave ) board th cr Pr Chester, hich was to leave Vera Cruz today. BATTLE AT OJINAGA. PREFERS HER CAT ) TO HER HUSBAND Qancy Woman Offers to Her Spouse for $1,000. w Sell Federsls Who Crossed Border Driven | Back by U, S, Troops. Boston, Dec. 30.— w willing to sell | my husband for $1,000 cash, Texas Dee fans | M Bedell of ¢ i . S i « Chandler made public tonight. o sent | William Bedell the yand, when ine | Ha Zrow Critigainia, Ty |1 CioNed 1ater, s alleged 1o hay | many of the federals § s herp s ol | er to the Ameri ide, | o8 or eiieriexplamine fhat M ] et iy, Ide‘-h had secn Miss (‘handler's name by the United 5 troop. The final rowt was preceded by a |, 5 nd, fo | three hours’ battle begur dark “ L y d to be | in which the rebels marching through | & fathe My ausband is -the deep canyons south of Ofinaza | % WOTKIM: of_suppoetiae 3 wl;irleloh' wiped o the federal out- "”’"(',‘vf,n",‘ e ) posts. The news of the defeat ] i & e oS il ne fa. Pass and Ya Mulato, giving the content to : wi ,mr? to tend rebels an unebstructed ,,I for rather have | fiving distance of Ofinaga I, caused | | @ frenzied refrest among the federals. | e i About €90 of thém plunged into the | ABJECT SLAVERY UNDER river 1o ek swlety on the Amerdcan | E H Bie, ey were Torced bk oy tcien | THE MASK OF FREEDOM MeNuman, commander of the Amer- || ong Hours for Women and Children | A mutiny developed in the Ojinasa | So Characterized, forts. General Salazar and Geueral | o e | Ovozco believing their men were about | VWAShingten. Dee 20 of | 1 Aesevi, slood With druwn veyoiyers | Gependeni wemen and children to work | threatening 1o sheod those whe did not j :nni:‘q:(wx:—:‘_ and under any « nllll(i]nll‘i i ey . | 4s ject Y ers ma i ing The badly wounded were the ony | Under the name of frecdom, declared allowed 1o remain on this slde | Professor W. F. Willoughby of Prince- these were cared for by Dr, Burn. | 108, in his address as president Ameriegn Associat lation, in joint ses the American Politi ciation, His brother, Professor W, W Wilioughby of Johns Hopk uni sity, In his address as president of { Political ¥cience associ ) for Labor Legis- n here today with Science assu- | of the Tnited States army. killed on both sides was smail, ‘hat many were reported injured, BATTLE CONTINUES, Mo Buflots Cross Border—Federals Not | of the | | i | i the same idea when Likely to Surrender, “there should be mno sl warrant >R to the spobation of one Presidio, Texas, Deo, 80—The battle | Totividus) for (he hrimery wencht of tween 5,000 rebels under General | & = = Loribio Orfega gnd the northern di- | Coner individus vision of the Mexican federal army, | i sntronched arpwnd Ojinags, Mexicy, | OMIS SO EREE EROM | across the horder from this place, stiil F f continued when darkness feil tonight. SEATT AND BAscaLITYs No pailets came aeross the border. The foress had béen engaged for 36 { hoars and maai had beea killed a.nd| wounded on hoth sides, Neither fl%:“sppssms forces ig provided with ital facilities and the weunded have E—%n left on the hill- sides where they 3 Tonight, although fhe 7rebels ap- peared 1o have much advantage, the Fiowery Kingdom Has Corrupt Pofi- | ticians Like United States. Minneapolis, Minn., Des, 86.—Graft | and rasecality in municipal government | thrive fn China as weil as in the Unit- ed States, and it should not be hard fos| Americans to understand Chinese poli- | tie, aceording to Charles Hend putcome of the sizuggle was not cleax- { S0n of the Unis cage, whe | Iy dgfined, fhe federals with their | addressed the ion of [he eleven generals, ail fhat js left or | American Sociological sociefy here to- Huegia's litmey condirol of the far | 48V, simuitaneously " with that eof {he north, still havigg to win sucecess | American iconomic asseciation. Mr. againgt apparenily hopeless odds or | Henderson’s topic was “Relations Be retreat. tween the United Siates and China. Tha: the federads will suirender is R improbable because Geueral Oriega Steamship Arrivals. hag explivii orde o execuie fhe sb- Genoa, Dec, 27 —Steamer Nadia, New called volunigers and their c'qmmanT ¥ork. exs, General Pascyal Or . Ynez Sal- | Hlgsgow, Des, 29.--Steamer Gulifor- azar, Antenin Rojas, Blas (rpinal, La- i nig, New ¥or zaro Alanis and Roque Gomez Bigh-| Tiverpool, Nee. 30.—Steamer Lusit- iteen; hundred volunteers a6 come | ania, New York. il pnder (he senieace of deafh imposed | * Trteate. Dee 27— Steamers, Avsens sy order of General Villa.® | { tina, New York; Martba Washington, < SEE | New York. National Railways Default. | Dec. 30.--Steamer Minne- New ¥York, Pec. 30.—Pisturbéd con- | New York I { again | testimony NORWICH, CONN.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1913 Servian Cabinet Resigns. Belgrade, Servia, Dec. 30.—The Ser- vilan premier, M. N. Patchir, today tendered to the king the resignation of the cabinet. “Mona Lisa” En Route to Paris. Milan, Dec. 30.—Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece, “Mona Liza,” 1s at last; on its journey back to Paris. The di- rector and curator of the Louvre and several Itallan offictals kept zuard over it when it left Milan this afternoon. Eighteen English Mills Close. Blackburn, Eng., Dec. 30.—HEighteen in this district have’| been closed within the past few davs owing to the slump in the cotton trade. Over 1,000 people have been thrown out of employment. Steamer Tasman Floated. Sydney, Australia, Dec. 30.—The steamer Tasman, with her passengers aboard, is being towed from Bramble bay, in the Gulf of Papua, where she ! went aground Sunday, to Thursday Island. The vessel was floated today and the pumps are keeping the water down. Pope in Good Health. Rome, Dec, 30.—Pope Pius X is in excellent health, despite recent reports that he is indisposed. Today the pon- tiff received the diplomatic corps ac- credited to the vatican headed by the deaw, Prince Von Schonburg-Harten- stein, the ambassador of Austro-Hun- gary, who presented greetings for the new year. Kaiser Shows Appreciation. Paris, Dec. 30.—In recognitlon of the devoted care shown to Capt. D. Von ‘Winterfeldt, the military attache of the German embassy to France, who was seriously injured in an automo- bile accident last fall while following the French army manoeuvres, the German emperor today sent an auto- graph portrait to Bugene Etienne, the French ex-minisier of war. SCHMIDT JURY FAILS TO REACH AGREEMENT Two Jurors Stood Out Against Convic- tion to the End. New York, ating thirty of Hans of S, Jo murder of A about ten o'clock ) could mot reach an agreement -After deliber- Aumuller, ported it was discharged, and The foreman of the jury reported ndge Foster that there was no ity of an agreement being re ed, the last ballot being taken exa as the first. Two of the jurors had stood out against convietion all the time, said Foreman Ottinger. After thanking the jurors and free- ing them from further service in con- nection with the case, Judge Foster directed that Schmidt He remanded to the Tombs. The accused ex-priest heard the re- port of the jury without showing much interest. It was learned that the two jurors who had failed to agree with the other ten were of the opinion that Schmidt was' insane when he killed the woman with whose murder he is charged. ACCEPTED BRIBES IN SENATORIAL CONTEST Five Members of West Virginia Leg- islature Found Guilty. Charleston, W. Va., Dec. 30.—That five members of the West Virginia leg- Islature are guiity of accepting bribes in connection with the election of a United States senator at the regular session held in January and Febru- ary, 1913, and should be expelled is the finding of a joint committee of the two houees of the legislature made public toda: One member of the state and #ix members of the house of egates were indicted last I'ebruary, charged with accepting bribes to voie for Colonel William Seymour Edwards | as United States senator to succeed [ Clarence W, Watson. Later Judge Nathan Goff of the United States cir- cuit court was elected, { State Senator Ben R, Smith and Delegates W, R. U. Dodds, Rath Duft, R, H. Asbury and Davis Hill . ommended for expulsion. De 8. Van Meter and Thomas have not been brought to tr WOULD-BE LYNCHERS MAY BE INDICTED. | Judge Instructs Grand Jury to Sift| Matter to the Bottom. Chestertown, Md.,, Dec. 30.—An dictment charging murder in the fi degree was reiurned by the Xent| county grand jury this atternoon | Norman Mabel and James | Paraway, negroes, for the killing of | James R. Coleman, a well to do farm- er, Jast Tuesday Boih negroes in- had previously rabhers Chief Constable insirueted 0 make a rigid inves- | e storming the jail | | of tigation info Baiurday by a mob endeayoring to lvnch the negroes. He urged thoe | indictment of all whom the evidence ! implicated. iess of their standing | in the NEW ?ANV“ CHAR'ERS’ b ! ARE NOT NECESSARY.| Announcement Regarding Membership in Federal Reserve System. mak rect ng coramit the committee board ol | wigh te sound ou | i di ; Crown Prince Alexis Improved. Leaden, Dec. 81.—The St. Petersburg | coerrespondent of the Times gives the | of an eye witness to the| great 'm;tP ovement in the condition of Crown nee - Alex. since August, when he still had his left leg encased in supperts, could barely hebble and looked ill. Now, aceording to this testimony, the prince has disearded the supports, walls nnaided, but drags the leg a ({ime. and is bright and rosy- cheeked. Artist Dies of Starvation. Paris, Dec. §0.—The dead body of Wincelas Peizynski, an artist of prom- ise, wag found in his studio ihis after: noon, His death revealed ane of the most pitiful tragedies of the Fatin narter in vears. He came to Paris a ew months ago bui did not meet with, fi succes His funds w > an Kteni necess = the nz of even his clothes and bed- The intense cold finished the work begun by starvation, Cabled_Paragraphs | Reggivers for | plied for their money late maticn ton, Dec. 20. nks w cderal n do not | e oue 'rs, bot natior Kansas City, Mo, Dec. 30. theusand-tollege students, imbued | o com purpose, the eventuai Ch Seigel Stores SUIT INSTITUTED BY THE HOLD- ING COMPANY. STRAINING OF CREDITS Conditions 'in New York Stores Made Readjustment of Finances Necessary —Private Banking House Involved. New York, Dec. 30.—Two great de- partment stores in New York and gne in Boston, an express company, a wholesale house and & private bank- ing house run in commection with the department stores, all allied with and controlled by the Siegel Stores cor- poration, of which Henry Siegel of thig city is directing head and presi- dent, were placed in the hands of re- ceivers today through a suit instituted by the helding company in the federal courts. None of the concerns, accerding to statements of counsel, is insolvenr, and the action was taken to conserve their good will, to rehabilitate and reorgan- ize them. Annual Gross Earnings $40,000,000. The assets and liabilities were not stated. Curtailment df ks’ credit made receivership imperative. Their earnings heretofore have been ated at $40,000,000 annually. vo firms, the similarity of whose corporate name in one case and stock ownership by the Siegel Stores cor- poration in the other, might result in re involved the inference that they we 0 in the failure, were quick to issue statements explaining their position. The Greenhut-Siegel-Cooper company of this city has no connection, direct or otherwise, with the firms controlled by the Siegel Stores corporation; and in Chicago the store of Siegel, Cooper & company, although its stock is own- ed by the Siegel Stores corporation, is prospering. Counsel here issued a statement (o this effect, which was confirmed by Max Pam, general coun- sel for the ago store. The busi- ness there, he sa would be contin- ued without interruption. The store, he added, was in no sense a party to the suif, The Firms Involved. The firms for which receivers were appointed arve: The FKourteenth York. d, Street store, New ¢ Simpson-Crawford York. company, Siegel and Frank E. Vogel, a private banking business as vy Siegei & company, New ‘York. Henry Siegel & company, whole- New York. Merchants’ Express company, New York. Henry Siegel company, Boston, a department store. Jor all except the banking house William A. Marble apd J. 8. Shepard, Jr., of this city were named receivers with bonds of $50,000 each. Henry Melville was placed in charge of the banking business. Bank Depositors Mostly Poor People. The amount of its deposits was not announced, but they were estimated at | §2,000,000, mostly in small accounts. It paid 4 1-2 per cent. interest and the majority of the depositors were com- | paratively poor people. Bank May Be Solvent. Mr, Melville said tonight that he was | not fully informed regarding the con- dition of the bank in the Fourteenth Street store. “If the store is solvent, the bank is all right,” he said. A few depositors, mostly yvoung girls and women, ap- today were told they would have to wait un- til auditors had gone over books. Counsel for the Siegel Stores cor- poration issued this atement night: Statement of Corporation. “The Siegel res corpora holding company and is a creditor the other companies and its reiations with the various branches of the busi ness are such that pendent on the cont the business repres companies, parinersh and individ- uls. Credits of the New York stores have heen so greatly strained that the bhe successfully business cannot con- tinued without some readjustment of | fi s, althongh none of the com- anies or vartnerships or individuais s insolvent, in bankruptcy sense of the term. “The institution of the present suit and ointment ¢ receivers i friendly proceedi made in an effort to prevent ton of the differ- ent parts of the large ente e and o pr the enermousty valuable good will this great business for the benefit of its creditors and custome and the public ge ally.” Statement of Receivers, Messrs, Marble and Sheppard had this to = : as ona s us creditors ssential and will The situation whera i with the reageiv | aid materially in securing the Dest re- $ all concerned. The relation- ship beiween all of the three concerns nvolved in this receivership was very ose, in that each store was either a ! creditor or a debtor of the other store. The creditors will be given ail infor- as soon a ortunity to oollect and usiness will,be « we ard our counsel in - n of the world, he openty rtudent fgn mis tion of college st held in America, Alliam J C | of state will address on Jan. 4 Abandened Bark- Afire, Mobile, Ala, Dec. 30—Captain M, | McGowan of the fishing sehooner Fd- gar Randall, who arrived here today from Campeche fishing banks, reported pessing 200 miles sonthwest of Mebile bar a vessel on fire that is believed to be the abandoned bark ar, whose crew were brought inte Pensacela Sunday, Suffocated While Asleep. New Haven, Conn., Dee, 8 dichael Aheara, aged a carpenier. W suf- focajed during a fire at his home, No. 5? Liberty stresl, tonighi. He was alone in the house and had lay downy upon & goyeh for a doze. FPire started in another room, presuraably frem a pipe he had been smoking. n Horses Perish in Stable Fire. New Briiain, Conn., Dec. 30.—Four es were burned to death in a fire destroyed Miller & Schumburg’s stable tonight. Fhe fire’s origin is un- Buowi. The loss is about §3,000, | Condensed T gram and | largest conven- | President Wilson’s Vacation is great- ly improving his health. The Fund for the erection of a mon- ument to Mayor Gaynor amounts to $7,336, . —— City Funds for Feeding the unem- glayed at San Francisco have been ex- austed. Navigation on the Hudson beiween New York and Albany is closed for the “season, Dr. Joseph H. Schenck, patent med- icine manufacturer of Philadelphia, is dead of apoplexy, aged 65 years. On a Pilgrimage of 14,000 miles, one hundred nobles of the Mystic Shrine s?ued from Seattle yesterday for Ma- nila. Robbers Who Broke Into the Fredo- nie Valley bank at Fredonia, Ky., took between $7,000 and $10,000 in cash and escaped. Stephen Godo, a butcher of St, Louis offers to sell his six-year-old daugh- ter for $2,000 and his eight-year-old son for $1,000, A Campaign to Encourage the rais- ing of more and better livestock has been inaugurated by the Waterville, Me., board of trade. Rev. Dr. John ton Worrall, a widely known Presbyterian clergyman, died at Philadeiphia yesterday from pneumonia. He was 88, - Governor Davidson of Newfoundland issued a proclamation last night sum- moning the legislature elected last Oc- tober to meet Wednesday, Jan. 24. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, a pioneer in the cause of woman suffrage, died in a sanitarium at Englewood, N. J., vesterday, aged 80 years, The Need of More Gocd Teachers of modern languages in the schools of the country is urged by the United States bureau of education. W. Cameron Forbes, former governor general of the Philippines, declared yesterday that he would not accept the position of police commissioner of New York. Renel R. Fleming, a navy musician, who contracted smallpox on the battl ship Ohio, died Sunday at the Guanta. namo isolation camp. He came from Mayor Flake of Moéunt Vernon, N. Y. revoked the license of the Savoy theatre (o prevent an exhibition of Im drama Traffic in Souls, or New York Sleeps. Lucy Hoke Smith, daughter of Sen- ator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and En- sign Alston R. Sampson, U. 8. N., were married at Washington yesterday at Senator Smith’s home. A Telegraph Company is not respon- sible for errors made inea message unless they are the result of gross negligence, the court of appeals at Al- bany, N. Y., held yesterday. Albion Mackay, 35, and Oscar Niami, 29, of Fall River were serlously in- jured when a.seven-pound can of gun- powder exploded in a shack at a Bul- { lock street quarry. yesterday. At a Mass Meeting of Strikers ves- terday afternoon it was decided to for- mally call off the garment workers’ strike which has been in progress at Philadeiphia since last July. Gordon F. Matthews, a Buffalo at- torney, who was found shot to death in his bathroom Christmas afternoon, and who was pronounggd a suicide by the medical examiner, was murdered. Twenty-three Out of Forty enlisted men in the navy have successfully passed the examination for machinists, which places them in line of promotion ter six years' service in rank of chiet Miss Mildred Zimmerman, daughter of Gustay Zimmerman, once a famous , faintd Tuesday on the edge York subway platform, fell upon the tr: in fromt of ex- nd was Resolutions Prohibiting its members train pr instantly from affilliation with Theta Nu Epsi- lon, an ernity society, were dopted at terday’s session of the annual conventi ta, n of Phi Gamma Del- rrangements Are Being Made by A | 1 labor to give a big dinner hington in honor of ompe: president of the an Federation of Labor, on the on of his 64th birthday anniver- Col. Robert M. Thompson, who was { indicted with mes B. Patien and joihers under the Sherman anti-trust | Jaw for cornering the colion market it | 1909, entered plea of noio con ! in the federal court at New York | erday and was fined $4,000. | The Annual Revenue of the town 'of Webster iz increased about §8,000 while that of the town of Milton suf- fers a Tesponding decrease through | the decision of the state tax authori- ties that the former place is the resi- dence of Mrs. Horatio N, Slater. “Resistance” on the Part of Women of the country to. the federal income £ law, despite the government's an- ntention to impose fines each failure to report comes ve the encouragement | of the ¢ eongressional union. “Jack” Binns, the wireless operator o of the steamer Republic dlsaster ; 1909, will receive $12,500 because moving picture co axploited a it of hi & court of Thamy Y sterday that amount graph com- fo Vitz grment the Anether Clash at Shelton, Conn., { between police and strikers and thefr sympathizers, during which a umber of shots were fired, uar vesterday morning In connection with the sirike In the weave shop of the | 8, Blumenthal company’'s sllk mill Mrs. Mary S. Marsh, a non-partici- pant, was struck by a revolver bullet. Her wound will not prove fatal, STRIKE OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS AVERTED Concessions by Beth Sides in “Frisco” Reoad Centroversy. St, Leuis, Mo, Dec, 50.—A sirike of tclegraphers on the St, Leuis and Ban Franclseo railroad was averted late this afternoon when the reeeivers of ihe vopd reached an agresment with the grievames eemmittes of the Order of HRailway "Telegraphers. The receivers refysed tenight te give out the details of the settlement, but will give them onut when the terms ave formaily drawn up. This work is ex- pected te be completed temorrew. It was announced, however, ihal eonces- sions had been made by both sides, - FM— T s (Wide Variance of | in- | in Testimony FIFTY WITNESSES HEARD AT THE PANIC INQUEST, MAN WHO CRIED “FIRE” T Ten or More Difloi_vnt Descriptions of Him Presented—Indications That Cry Came from Somebody in Hall, . Calumet, Mich., Dee, 8$0.—~Posaible identification of the man who started the Christmas eve catastrophe by call- ing “Firel” in a crowded hall here was forecasted tonight by O. N, Hilton, chief of counsel for the Western Fed- eration of Miners. Mr. Hilton asked that the coroner’s inquest into the tragedy of 72 deaths pe adjourned un- til tomorrow, saying that he desired to produce several witnesses who claimed they could identify the man. Cry Came from Within Hall. “I shall present these witnesses only after 1 make sure they can do what they say,” he said. “If would be hor- rible to implicate an innocent persom in such a deed.” The greater part of the evidence again today was that the c of fire came from' within the hall. ree of the thirty or more witnesses claimed to have seen a Citizens’ AHlance but- ton on the man, making five of half a hundred persons examined In the two days of the inquest who made this statement. Ten Different Descriptions. Several stated they saw the man who cried fire, but most of them said they had seen no pin. He was seen, bowever, by persons in different parts of the hall and there were a half a score of descriptions of the man. Three wiinesses, Mrs. Theresa Crabo, Charles Olson and Hilda Forsten, swore they saw a man wearing a Ci izens’ Alliance button come finto the door, wave his hands and ery “Fire!” Contradicts Previous Testimony. These statements controverted the testimony yesterday of two unfon men who said they stood in the vistibule of the hall and that the cry came from within the the place, no one wearing the insignia of the union's enemies having passed them. It also was the opposite of that given by members of the women's auxiliary of the feder- ation, in charge of the ceiebration, who testified (hey had seen the man in parts of the hall other than the door- way. Children as Witnesses. Mrs. Czabo and the Forsten girl admitted under cross examination by Jurors that they had discussed their testimony with attorners or officers of the miners’ union. Olson sald he had not talked about his experience with anyone connected with the in- vestigation. The proceedings were held in the hall where the disaster occurred and severa] child witnesses re-enacted their parts in the tragedy. Omne girl em- phasized that her greatest anxiety was to save her bag of candy. Federal Official Hears Testimony. paeay azem sSujpesdoad gy jo by John P. Densmore, solicitor of ihe department of labor, who arrived today and spent the opening hours of his task of conciliation with leaders of iiie union. He was accompanied by Clauda O. Taylor, president of the Michigan state federation of labor and the two afterwards visited union head- guarters, later returning to Hancock. BODY OF MISSING MAN DISCOVERED IN A WELL. Believed That Viotim Aococidentally Stumbled Inte It Wk Thomaston, Corun, Dec. 30—The body of John Reflly, who disappeared from his home in what is known as Fluteville, near here, last Friday, was found today by Silas I'rost's dog. frozen to death in a well, and with two large stones wedged in upon him. The well was about six feet deep, with two feet of water in it, Mr. Frost was starting on a hunting trip when his dog made the discovery of the body. The well i locatad in an old field near the roadside, about a mile above this town. Near the well is an _embankment. | Dr. Goodwin, the medical examiner, { who made an examination, says that ‘ 2eilly’s death was accidental. He ad- vanced the theory that Reilly had gone { down the embankment and accidentaily tumbled into the well, which was hailf covered with bushes. In attempting to pull himself out of the predicament, the medical examiner believes that palled the two large stones upom The body, frozen stiff, was in & standing position when found. Cut Throat With Lamp Chimney. Bristel. Conn., Dec. 30.—Patrick Hy -~ man, aged 38, and unmagried, attempt- ed suicide in his boarding house to- night, and if the attempt is not suc- cessful eventually it will be almost a miracle. He locked himself in his room, broke a lamp chimney ana, usmg the fragments, cut his throat from one ear to the other, severing the jugular vein partly. He also cut himgelf in another part of the throat, opening the windpipe. Hyman is a machinist.. He is said to have been drinking heavily lately. H Trunk Vietim { New York, Dec. ot { the trunk victim was identified today { &s “Laborer No. 102,” employed by J. ¥, Donovan, a coniractor at Cornwali, N, Y, A foreman for Donovan viewed | the body at the morgue, He could not | gay who “Luborer No. 102" was, but declared he employed the man-on work at Garrison, N. Y., for about a month, lup to one week ago. Acting on this elue, deteotives from New York went to Garrison to learn the identity of No. 102, President Cables Sympathy. Washington, Dec. 80. — President Wilson today sent from Pass Chris- ' tlan, Mise., & message to King Gustave V .of Bweden offering his ‘sincere sympathy and that of the government and people of the United States in ih e sad afliction which has befallen his majesty aund the royal family in the death of his well beloved and iliustii- ous mother, her royal hir;ness, i Queen Dowager Sophie.” Republican Reorganization. Des Meines, fa., Dec. 80.—Adher- enee to the pregramrne for the rec:- ganization of the republican part termined upem &t the recent meeilip of the republiean pational commitice in Washington was urged by Benator Albert B, Cumming in an address be- fose the Grant club here tomgnt. Auto Burglars Steal Furs. New Haven, Conn, Dee. 30.—Clever burglars, using en automohil it s helieved, stple furs valued at $3,008 from the Btamdard Pur com sture at No. 34l Orange stzeet to [ B