Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 14, 1914, Page 1

VOL. LVL—NO. 11 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population MEXICO TO DEFAULT IN PAYMENT Will Be Unable to Meet the Semi-Annual Interest on Bonds of National Debt HUERTA GOVERNMENT MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT European Diplomats Greatly Concerned Over the Interests of Their Nationals—Gen. Bliss Finds Animals of Mexican Fugitives a Nuisance and Asks Permission to Have Them Sold—Soldiers and Refugees Start on March to Fort Bliss Washington, Jan, 13.—Announce- ment by the Huerta government of its intention to default in the pavment of the semi-annual interest on the bonds ed, but the tattered line of soldiers, women and children, followed by horses, burros and dogs, as they strag- | { gled over the mountain road in clouds of the Mexican national debt created | of dust, was a sorry picture of an much interest in diplomatic circles | army in retreat. The refuzces on foot here tonight, and brought out much | will ke guarded by United States cav- speculation, “especially among diplo- matic representatives accredited to the countries in which the greater part of the loans are held. While state de- partment officials were understood to accept this step as natural devel- opment in the American government's policy of walting for the collapse of alrymen until they reach miles from the border. At Marfa ten trains of ten coaches | each are to carry the Mexicans to El| Paso, under escort of four compflnies] of the Twentieth United States infan- | try, and at the army post in Bl Paso | something like o village is to spring | the Huerta regime, no comment was |yup-and remain in existence until the forthcoming. Secretary Bryan said he | goreien soldiers are faken elsewhere had not been officially latest turn. advised of this or finally returned to Mexico. As he watched the vanguard of his European Diplomats Interested. jarmy depart, General Salvador Mer- The discussion of European diplo- {cado, Huerta's former military chief | matists turned to the security which |in the north, stood by the roadside.| their nationals will have for the enor blue, faded coat was dusty, mous sums which go to make up the |the insignia of rank were gome. eggregate of the Mexican debt, exter- | On his face was an expression of in- | nal and internal. credible suffering. | They have not been disposed to take | “There is mo country, except my seriously constitutionalist pronounce- | own, hich T feel more grateful ments that loans advanced to Huerta | than the United States,” he said, and would be repudiated. They take the |walked away. that whatever The whole hody of refugees will be | ils in Mexico Cit, ien route to Marfa for three or four| days, and it probably will be next week | before they are put on on trains for El Paso. Along the route to Marfa four camps, each marking the end of | {a day’s march, are to be provisioned. influence finally 2l obligations ace will have to d, although it is admitted loans advanced during the not he so easy of li- view prev: incurred in time of j be fulfille Bliss Wants to Sell Animals. Brigadier_General Bliss, command- MEXICO TO DEFAULT. the border forces in Texas, report- ; i ed to the war department today that | Will Not Pay interest on Bonds Fall- & count of the Mexican federal fugi- ing Due Within Six Months. tives from Ojinaga, at Presidio, Texas, showed 3,352 officers and soldiers and | Mexico City, Jan. 13.—After a meel- 1,067 women in his custody, besides |ing of the which lasted until | 783 horses, 671 mules and 370 burros. | easly thi. the Mexican for- Bliss said he had prepared to | aign minister, o Moheno, an-| the refugees to Fort Bliss, but !nounced that the Mexican government the anfm were a nuisance, He vill fault in the ment of all in- on fo have the Mexican | i oorault In the pay terest on the bonds of the internation- consul sell them. This probably will |57 ang external debts which now r be given him. mains unpaid or which falls due within | S | the next six months. A heavy pay- | FUGITIVES ON MARCH. {ment of interest on the foreign debet| Srete e . {becomes due in April. It has been the Mexican Soldiers and Refugees Begim | practice of the government to make | Journey to Fort Bliss. | weekly remitiances to New York. Lon don and Paris to apply to its interes Presido, Texas, Jan. 13.—Turning | obligations, in order that when the | their backs on Mexico, the ragged sol- | interest payments arrived the money dai and generals of the Mexican fed- | would be hand. These weekly mittances have now been the explanation being that the zovern- ment of interest on the foreign debt pacification purposes. The foreign minister sald also that heh ad been instructed to notify ail foreign governments of the default. eral army, routed by the rebels from Ojinaga, Mexico, opposite here, today began their march toward Fort Bliss, at Bl Paso, Texas, where they are to be kept indefinitely as warde of the Tnited States government. Only a portion of the refugees start- BALDWIN PRAISES COMPENSATION LAW ! Expects It Will Result in Giving Bus- iness to the Courts. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 13.—Speaking | Washington, Jan. 13.—President Wil- { tonight before the annual banquet of | son today gave the members of the | the Hartford Business Men's associa- | cabinet his ideas on the government's | tion, Governor Simeon E, Baldwin |relation to bizg business, the field that ! praised the workmen’s compensation | anti-trust legislation should cover in | mct @s a whole, but added “a good | the present session of congress and the | many questions arise under this act | spirit with which he believed the task | which will give business to the courts, | should be approached. ‘With a statute of sixty sections, mak- | So far as is known the cardinal fea- | ing such profound chenges in our | tures of the president’s plan are: { economic system of business adminis- | 1—Supplementing the Sherman anti- tration, it could hardly be otherwi i trust law to reduce the debatable area “One great argument in support of | around it. 1 the bill” said the governor, “and it 2_The prohibition of interlocking | was one that appealed to me very ! directorates. i strongly, was that in our large con- | 3—Location of individual responsibil- cerns it was no longer possible for ity and the fixing of perso anlgnilt for | the heads of the business to come in | ail violations. close touch with their men, and 4—The MAIN FEATURES OF WILSON’S CAMPAIGN. Four Principal Ideas Regarding Anti- Trust Legislation. creation of an interstate ! come to know m personally; twe | trade commission to perform the func- | imporiant thin determining what | tions not only of a bureau of informa shop rules should be made and whether | tion but to determine by its investig: injury from accident should not he | {ions whether recrees of dissolution c charged up as a risk of the business | which the employer assumed. Joor | this reason, a distinction is made in mandates of the court are carried uu:.l ATTORNEY ACCUSED OF the act, you recall as to employers of less than five! The act leaves POISONING RELATIVES | them all the defenses they had before, 2 H such as that the injured workman was | Six Jurors Obt @arcless, or that he assumed the risk, | of 4. H. Majors in New Mexico. or that one of hig fellow servants was | < and contributed to the in- E( lea: i ined to Sit on Case | | | i Alamo Gardo, . M., 15.—Six jurors were obtained today to sit in the trial of H. H. Majors. a prominent attorney accused of causing the death of his daughter, Eudora. Court ad- journed until Wednesday pending th summoning of & new venire, Majors' daughter, whose life was in- sured, died mysteriously after the | ves them these defenses if they give notice to the compensation commlssioner In their district and to their employees that they do not wish to abide by the mew pian, and per- are not bound to give notice to an; body, but may juet stand on their | geatn’ of her mother. The insurance T '{:s!;‘_‘flc Jather & C1°¢ Jucs: ! company refused to pay the policy and | | the body was exhumed. After an an | ysis of the contents of the stomacn of | | the girl an indictment against A most of those who voted for the bill thought that employers of less than five were entirely exempted, and y £ they are mot, the next legislature is, | W88 returned. While he = on this charge an invesiigation w ip my opinion, very lkely o exembt| startod futo the condition of his e eom. ond wife, who was ill | a further indi Steamers Reported by Wireless. | bad administered poison with ir Slasconset, Mass., Jan. 13—Steamer | to cause her death was found. XKronprinzessin C e, Bremen for | ywife recov { New York, signalled 410 miles east of | ik A TAX FOR FRENCH { sandy Hook at noon. Dock 10 a. m Wednesday. ! Steamer Verona, Naples for New MILITARY EXPENSES | York, signalled 450 miles east of San- | Sl s i dy Hook at noon. Dock 830 a. m.| All Fortunes in Excess of ss.oofl,oeol Thursday. Subject to I1t—12 Cent: 5200. Sable Tsland, N. §. Jam, 13.—Steam- | e ot e er Sagamore, Liverpool for Boston, | paris, jan. 13—The French cabinet's | ignalled 480 miles east of Boston at! p.ojeet to meet the immense additions 11 a m, | to the military ses of the coun- | Cape Race, N, F., Jan. 13.—Steamer | fry by an annual tax upon capital was Celtic, Liverpool for New York, Sig-|]ajd before the chamber of deputies nalled 831 miles east of Sandy Fook | when it reassembled today, It had been at 5.55 p. m. Docik 8.30 a. m. Friday, | anxiously awaited by the propertied ! b Bl od O | classes of France, Yacht Club Burned Out. | Phe mew tax begins with fortune Btamford, Conun., Jan, 13—FPire about ! amounting to $6.000,000. Afier deduct- Suit Against Collector Walsh. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 13— were served today in a suit broughi b the Aetna Life Insurance company against James J. Walsh of Meriden, internal revenue collector for Connecti- ent and Rhode Island, for the recovery 0 alleged ex $40,000 insurance, i ten o'clock fonight destroyed the hand- | ing $1,000 fer each child an assess- | mome buildings connected with ihe | ment of twelve cen to be mude on | Stamford Yacht ctub at Shippan Point, | cach $200. The assessment then rises together with five small sloops and 2 | gradually to fift nts per $200 upon number of skiffs and canves, entailing 1 fortunes of ov. 600,000, { an estimated loss of $75,000. There xsi — | Impeachment of Congressmen. ‘Washington, Jan. 13.—Whether Rep- resentative James McDermott of 1lli- rois shall be impeached by the house as a result of exposures in the recent Jobby investigation -will he taken’ } salvage and passage money, some $30,- { have | Senate Rescinds Action ! bo: Cabled Paragraphs President Poincaire Receives Sayres. Parls, Jan. 13—President Raymond Poincaire on recelving Francis Bowes Sayre and his wife, formerly Miss Jes- sie Woodrow Wilson, at the palace of the Flysee today sent messages in be- half of himself and his wife and the French people to President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, to which Mrs, Sayre gracefully replied, German Women Want to Vote. Berlin, Jan. 13.—A petitlon asking that women be allowed to vote at the electlons for the imperial parliament and also to sit as deputles was intro- duced Into the fmperial parliament to- day by the German woman’s suffrage union and referred to the considera- tion of the government without any recommendation, Suit Withdrawn to Avoid Scandal. Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 13.—The Duke and Duchess of Orleans, desiring to avoid scandal and the ce of the proceedings, agreed today to withdraw from the courts the suit started by the duchess for separationm, alimony and the restitution of large sums she had advanced to her husband. They agreed, also, to submit to arbitrators the questions of the property and of the amount the duke should allow his wife. after separation. TITANIC MOURNERS IN SUPREME COURT Arguments Begun as to Extent of liability of Ship’s Owners, Washington, Jan._ 13.—Half a dozen mourners of the Titanic disaster sat | in the supreme court today listening | to arguments on whether the liabllity of the owners of the ship shall be lim- ited to less than $100,000 or for full claims _for damages aggregating some $12,000,000, The ‘mourners did not make them- selves known and were unrecognized. Charles C. Burlingham on behalf of | the Oceanic Steam Navigation com- pany, opened the argument, contending that damages should be limited to 000. Frederick M. Brown, on behalf of the | claimants, contended that the Titanic was a floating island in the eyes of the law and that the British flag fiy- ing over it made the British law gov- ern the lability of the owner. He chal- lenged. Mr, Burlingham's statement | that the American courts had repu- | dlated the “floating island” theory in the cases growing out of the wreck | of the Scotland more than thirty years ago and declared that not only the ! American courts, but those of France and Germany had repeatedly approved of this theory. Arguments will be concluded tomor- row. 10,000 JAPANESE IN NEED OF FOOD.| Famine in North, Volcanic Erupti Earthquakes and ns in South. Tokio, Jan. 14.—Jjapan meeting a double afflict the north and earthquake: canic eruptions in the south. Ten milllion people are in need food in northern Hondo and Hokaido, and there have been many deaths from starvation. In the south the islands of Kiusuhiu and Shikoku are in th grip of seismic disturbances. Crater: suddenly discharged great vol- umes of flaming rocks and ashes, car- rying destruction and terrifying the southern empire. Ashes are falling as far north as Osaka. Although the fate of the inhabitants of Sakura Isiand is not certain, it is believed the great majority escaped in boats to the mainland, Many of the people of Sakura have escaped from the danger zone in a maimed and| burned condition. ‘The cruisor Tone has sent a wireless despatch saying Sakura has been en- heroically famine in and vol- of tirely evaucated. This morning the ! foreign office received a despatch from | the former minister to China, H. Tjuin, now a resident of Kagoshima, sent| from that ctiy enly a few hours be- fore, saying: “About ten persons have been killed | and thirty injured. The whole city is| in_great confusion. | The foreign office thinks this indi- tes early reports were vastly ex- | aggerated. CURLEY IS ELECTED { MAYOR OF BOSTON. Voters of Beantown Honor Candidate Who Has Served Jail Sentence. Boston, Jan. James M. Curley — Congressman “hosen mayor of Boston today by a rity of 6,000 votes over Thomas J. Kenny, president of the city council. Of a total of 80,000 votes, the victorious candid 42.308 ana President Kenney had Mr. Kenney and Mr. Curley a democrats in national politics, althou; i they ran without political designation, | and the democratic voters in the city | were divided in their support. Presi- dent Kenny. in addition to the backing of most of the democratic ward chai men. had the endor zens' Municipal lea organizati n whic > promjinent, a by 2] Tep . nor many 1 he foc s con g another mination harle man and reet civil two GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP RESOLUTION REFERRED. Cailing For Data From Postmaster-General. | months in Jan, 13—The Senate today rescinded its action of yesterda alling on the postmaster gdheral f the data on his special investigation of government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines, and referred Sen- | ator Norris' resolution to the postof- fice committee which probably will re- port it favorably. ! Provisions For the Unemployed. New York, Jan, 13.—Official recogni- tion of the large number of unemploy- ed in this city taken today by the of aldermen by the adoption of | a- resolution requesting the hoard of | | | estimate and apportionment to estab- lish in the department of public char- ities a civic emplovment agency which to provide work for those who are | eek temporary phelter in | obliged to the municipal lodging houses and sim- ilar institutions. Store Clerk Overcome by Gas. 'w_Haven. Conn., Jan. 13.—Miss ara Kenecht, a clerk employed in a Temple street news .store, was found unconscions in the store at 11 o'clock tonight from gas poisoning. The au- thoritles are unable to determine at up ! o ment-made on | present whether ‘or not it was an ac- tomorrow by a subscommit(ee of the | November 21, 14 s charged that ieident. She was taken to a local hos- Judiciary committee charged with de- | the « i with infercst now | pital. where her condition is said to clding the case ¥ wnpts o a total of $7,069.09, A be critical, | weather bureau’s history has the the: | through | NEW HAVEN HAR;OR FROZEN. by Cold Wave MERCURY FALLS TO 47 BELOW IN NEW YORK STATE CHAUFFEUR SUCCUMBS Dies of Exposure After Sitting Two Hours in Auto—Trains Run at R duced Speed and Poorly Heated. New York, Jan. 13.—With the mer- cury standing at 3 degrees below zero | early tonight, this city lay in the grip | of a cold snap of such severity as rare- | ly is experienced here. Less than a dozen times in the 43"years of the local | i mometer registered a temperature low. Notwithstanding this downward | plunge of the mercury, which caused | three deaths from exposure today, this | was the warmest region of the state, | reports from the country districts in northern New York showing lower | temperatures, running to a minimum | of 47 degrees below. Wind at 75 Miles an Hour. ! Since midnight Monday the mercury | here fell steadily from 14 degrees to 2 | degrees at 5 o'clock this afternoon, and | at 6 o'clock it reached zero for the | first time since Jan. 13, 1912, two years | to a day, with promise that it would | be much colder by LOMOrrow morning. It_has never been under 6 below 2 far back as weather records have been kept here. A wind that at times blew 75 miles | an hour added to the suffering. Many | of the city’s unemployed were driven | to_shelter in missions and municipal | lodging houses. ! Chauffeur Dies of Exposure. | The city, aiming to relieve these ! persons, began the work of turning a | recreation pier and charities in depart- ment boats into lodging abodes, while the board of aldermen adopted a reso- lutlon favoring a civic employment agency. ‘A chauffeur died from exposure after sitting two hours in his automobile | | in front of Carnegie hall and a laborer | and & grocer’s boy were overcome in hallways and died. Several persons were removed to hospitals from exposure. Little Heat in Trains. The tug Newport went adrift dow the bay when her engines went ‘‘dead” and had to be rescued by the harbor police. 1 The combination of high wind and | low tide left so little water in the East | and North rivers tonight that the subway company was unable to pro- cure the water necessary for condens- ing purposes in the power houses its intakgs, with the jresult that trains were operated at reduced | speed and with little heat in them. The surfaces of the park lakes were frozen thick and the city’s public rinks were available for the first time this winter, suffering | Only Main Channel Open—Coldest There Since 1896. New Haven, Conn., 13—At 8 o'clock ~ tonight the United States weather bureau here reported that the thermometer registered three degrees below zero in New Haven, which is the } coldest on record since 1896, when the mercury dropped to 11 below. Weath- er forecaster L. M. Tarr gaid that there was every indication that it would | grow colder during the evening and he would not be surprised if the 1896 rec- ord was nearly equalled before sun- rise. Except for the main channel, the! rbor is frozen over. Many small | sailing and steam craft are in the! arbor, waiting for the gale and high | as to die down, The fire department was kept on the jump today answering alarms for | fires. In one instance, the fire- | found that the hand chemieals | zen. The city mission, or | ities, Salvation Arm. Seamen’s Bethel and other Kin- istitutions were ecrowded to- So far no casualties have been reported. | 22 BELOW AT COLEBROOK. Satan’s Kingdom Warmest Place In Northwestern Connecticut. | | inste onn. , Jan. 13—North- | ern Connecticut shivered under | y blast of winter today, and the: 1 mometers dropped down to nearly record point. At 7 o'clock tonight, the | mercury registered 28 degrees below | zero at Colebrook, and 22 below at th i place. A high wind that swept over the hills added to the discomfort. ! The warmest place in this section today was Satan’s Kingdom in the | own of New Hartford, w vallev the thermomete ht degrees below hills ere down in w: s onl k. the mometer r teen 'd be- | low. 1 lce curiing on the lakes was stop- | ped use of the gal The auto ¢ fire engine, while enroute to here today, stop suddenly. | the engine being f was nece: sary to bring horses into use to get | | the apparatus to the fire. i 36 BELOW AT POMPEY. Pupils of Syracuse Schoels Dismissed | Because of Cold. = | Sy 11 the publi e were | more or less crippled today by the | 1 ther in the history of the weather bureaw. The lowest int reached was 22 below zero early this morning. Tonight it was seven below, | Pugils of five schools were dismissed | because of the cold. ~ Hundreds of frostbites were ireated by physicians, | No fatalities have been reported. i Pompey was the coldest spot in | Onondaga county, with 36 below zero. NEW RECORD AT HARTFORD. ; No Period in Which It Remained So ! Cold for So Long a Time. | Hartford, Conn., Jan. 13.—All records | for coniinuous cold for ome day were smashed here today. Farly tonight the | official report of the United States| weather bureau here sald that the thermometer registered 7 degrees be- low zero, with bright prospects of | climbing down to 12 below before morning. At no time during the day | did the thermometer rise above 8 be- | low, which is said to be a record. The records back to 1829 were searched in vain for a period in which it remainea as cold for =0 long a time. ‘The wind that whistled over the city reachod A velocity of ¥ miles an howr . Records Made |A General Strike | position of the native workers. | much longer. | be dropped during the present trouble, | hour batile in a freezing gale for the in South Africa ORDERED BY LAST TRADES FEDERATION NIGHT MINERS TO COOPERATE Government Immediately Proclaims Martial Law—Native Workers to Be | Sent Back to Their Villages. ape Town, Union of South Africa, Jan, 13.—A general strike throughout South Africa was proclaimed tonight by the trades federation, and the Rand miners by a two-thirds majority voted to join ‘in the movement. Govern- mental retaliation was swirz. It took the form of the preclamation of mar- | tial law. _This was the only step the authori- ties believed adequate to mect the sit- uation, for the strike of the miners means not oniy” the turning loose of the most turbulent spirits in the Rand, but raises the whole question of the ) If the miners actually obey the strike order the government will immediately take steps to send the natives under es- cort back to their kraals, A Serious Blow to the Rand. This means that about 200,000 na- tives must be marcheg back by road to their homes at enmormous cost. It will be most difficult after the end of the strike to recruit them again. In brief, such a step would mean disas- ter for the Rand for many years. Although official reports from Jo- hannesburg show improvement in the irain service reports from other dis- tricts are less encouraging. In Natal | the situation Is one of great tension | and it is feared that the loyalty of the trainmen will not stand the strain An instance of the men's temper is shown by the action of an engine driver, who quitted his train on the veldt and left the passengers stranded, General Botha’s Prediction, Practically no information is at hand 18 to conditions in the Orange Free State, but improvement there is not considered probable, From the government’s standpoint about the only ray of light in the sit- vation today was the assurance from the Indian leader Gandhi that the pas- sive resistance movement by the In- dians against their grievances would The union government remains firm | in its attitude. The premier, General | Louis Botha, is said to have declared | that he would “guarantee that with the end of the present crisis there | would not be another workers' strike in South Arj-a for a generation.” Feeling at High Pitch, Feeling runs high between the gov- ernment’s supporters and the strikers, and the chance of mediation is prac- tically hopless. The supreme court has granted an application compelling the government to show cause why the sirike leaders should remain in prison. Premier Botha has addressed a cir- cular to the natives advising them to obey implicitly the compound man- agers, assuring them of the fullest protection. The circular seems to have had an excellent effect, at one time during the day, but the av- erage velocity was about 30 miles, The fire department was called out a dozen times for small fires up to 8 o’clock tonight. SCHOONER SINKS. Another One Mysteriously Disappears —Engineers Unable to Make Steam. Boston, Jan. 13— rth Pole weath- er rushed down on New England on a mile i gale today. causing | and disaster at sea | John Paul sank & while belng towed to | the revenue cutter picked Haven by which had ed, Not a word has of six. U up by some other craft, they have been lost. The John Paul was bound with gran- ite from Stonington, Maine, for New York. She was commanded by Capt. E. J. Hutchinson, of Deer Isle, Me. The British schooner Greata has teriously vanished. She was sight- d at dark last night anchored close o Half Moon shoal with topmast gone fiying signals of distress. No trace her up en heard less picked it is fesred abando; from her crew m: of her could be found today. Life savers say she may bave worked clear and proceeded, On land the zale brought widespread and low temperatures un- in years. Many schools and factories were closed. In Burlington, Vt. a part of the city was without d power because of | a4 freezing of the Winooski Temperatures beiween 25 and below zero were common The Munich Police have banned the tango in public. Christian Clark, & farmhand, yesterday found frozen to death Etna, Pa. was near | Condensed Telograms |Staamer Fast on the Ledges Suffragettes R sed $10,000 at & LAST RADIO MESSAGE REPORTEL meeting in Washington to carry on demonstrations. Seventy-Eight of Cleveland’s public school buildings are called fire traps in a report made public by the Cham- ber of Commerce. A Dwelling at Manchester, Conn., owned by FPhilip Stum, as burned yesterday with a part of its con~ tents. Damage Placed at $5000 came from a fire yesterday in a business and tenement block at Stamford owned by Charles S. Finch. From Paris Comes the News that at last the name of Sarah Berohardt has been added to the roll of fame of the Legion of Honor. Philip O. DeMau passing fraudulent checks at New Ha- ven, was sentenced to state’s prison from one to three years yesterday. c, charged with The High Winds during Monday night unroofed and rendered unhabit- able a two story brick house at Mid- dletown, owned by John Steimmeyer. Canada Announces the mew agree- ment with Australia for interchange of postal parcels reducing the present rate of 24 cents a pound to 12 cents. A Majority of the National Banks in Boston voted at the annual meet- ing of their stockholders yesterday to enter the federal resgrve bank system A Six-Tenement House at Dodge- ville, Mass.,, was destroyed by fire yes- terday with a loss of $10,000. The 27 occupants were driven out into the cold. The Supreme Court Refused to set aside the death sentence imposed upon Leon Martinez, 16 years old, for kill- ing Miss Emma Brown of Saratoga, Texas. Standard Oil Steamer Delivery No.’ 2 was floated yesterday from Stave Island, near Sargentville, Me., where she dragged ashore in the heavy gale Monday night. President Wilson yesterday made the nomination of John Skelton Willlams of Virginia for comptrolier of the cur- rency and ex-officio member of the federal reserve board. Material Reductions in the whole- sale price of staple serges, unfinished worsteds, clays, cheviots and other woolen goods for the fall of 1914 were | announced in the trade yesterday. John Snyder, a Farmer, was buried | near Harrisburg, Pa., vesterday in a | coffin made of wood from a walnut tree which- he had-planted and had cared for all his life. He was 85 years old. The A. Morton Oppenheim Company, New York, dealers in women's wear- ing apparel and shoes, and Frazin and Oppenheim, shoe dealers, were thrown into bankruptey yesterday by creditors. Reasons Why Women should not be granted equal suffrage with men were given yesterday before the Massa- chusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Wo- men. Under the Will of Mrs. Betsey Rit- ter, who died at New Haven about a year ago, Trinity Episcopal church of Portland, is to receive $50,000 outright and St. Thomas church of that place $2,000. While Responding to a Fire Alarm yesterday, Driver Fred S. Morrill, a veteran fireman of the Manchester, N. H., fire department, was blown from the steam fire engine seat by the gale and is now dying. Chicago’s Experiment with police- women has proven so successful that Major M. L. O. Funkhouser, second deputy superintendent of police, will ask the city council for funds to em- ploy 15 more women police. Lillian Schwartz, Aged 8, of Hart- ford, was seriously burned last night when her clothes caught fire from a redhot stove. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schwartz, were burned in attempting to beat out the fire. A Resolution Creating a legislative committee to inquire into the advisa- bility of the state acquiring the trolley lines within its boundaries, was intro- duced in the Rhode Island senate yesterday by Senator Widison P. roe of Providence, No Decision on the Question of re- leasing Harry K. Thaw on bail is ex- pected before the last of next week as William T. Jerome sent word to Judge Aldrich that professional engage- | ments would prevent him from attend- ing a hearing before that time. Thanks of Congress for Captain Paul H. Kreibohm and the officers and , New England, ilropd traffic was crippled. En- were un to make steam rly and were anywhere one hour six hours late from A DAY OF FIRES. Due Mostly to Overheated Furnaces | and Thawing of Water Plpes. | New Britatn, Conn,, Jan. 13.—With | o thermometer hovering well below the zero point, the city fire department | was ecalled upon today for one of its hardest day's work, answering more than a dozen alarms. Most of the fires were small, belng caused by overheat- ed furnaces and thawing out frozen pipes. Fred Lansing was badly burned when he pulled out the gas plug in his_cellar, thinking to shut off the water, He was carrying a candle and was severely burned before help ar- rived. Mrs. Pairick Kenny, wife of a fire- man, was burned about the body when her skirt caught fire from an over- heated stove. Neighbors probably saved her life by wrapping her in blankets. { i Barge Crew Rescued. Nantucket, Mass., Jan 18—A nine lives of three men ended late today ! when the Costkata life savers reach- | ed the stranded Lehigh barge 788 off Great Point and brought her frostbit- ten crew ashore through the heavy sea. The barge broke loose from the tug Irvington through the sixty mile blow last night, while bound light from Boston for New York. 38 Below, at North Creek, N. Y. Glens Falls, N. Y., Jan. 13.—Ther- mometers today registered 33 degrees below zero in North Creek, the lowest 1 in 1 yewss =2 crew of the American steamer Kroon- land for their heroic rescue of $3 souls from the burning Volturno last Oc- tober 9 was asked vesterday in a reso. lution by Representstive Hardy of Texas, The Panama Immigration Law re- cently passed, which subjects Chinese Uving in the republic to registration and the payment of a tax, is to be the subject of discussion at Washington noxt week between Seeretary of State Bryan and Cyrus W. Wicker, secre- | tary of the legatlon at Panama. A Barn Near What is known as the Cheshire Junction, leased by Walter Scott, was burned to the ground about midnight last night, together with a small bungalow nearly adjoining. The bungalow was occupled by a Poilsh family who were drivem out into the bitter cold in their night clothes, Major Lewis H. Rand of the army engineers will be relieved of his duties in charge of the river work in the | Cincinnati district because in approv- ing a bridge at Duncan, Ohio, he wrote the supervisors of Musk county that the structure would suit the needs of inhabitants who “wers net too old or too drunk. 75 FAMILIES FORCED OUT INTO THE COLD. Fire Destroys Department Store on Washington Street, Boston. Boston, Jan. 14—A Philip Ferrill, was killed and 75 were turned into the street in a tem; of 9 degtees below zero by a fire destroyed the department store of ° & A. Bacon, a four-story building on Washington street, at Ruggles s HER FILLING 120 PERSONS ON BOARD Nearly a Dozen Boats Sent to the Res- cue, But it is Feared She May Foun- der Before Aid Reaches H Halifax, N. S, Jan. 13.—A wireles~ cry for help from the Royal Mail steamer Cobequid, fast on the dread- ed ledges of Grand Manan just before dawn today, followed five hours later by a final flicker of her radp saying that the ship was filling, has caused grave concern for the 120 persons on The Cobequid was bound for St. John, N. B, from the British West Indies in command of Captain Haw- son, completing her first round trip over this route. She had a crew of 102 men, a2 number of second class passengers and the following in the first class cabin: L. S. Navarro, L. Botta, W. C. Zoller, Mrs. Zoller and child. She had called at Bermuda but most of her passengers were from points south of there Fate Unknown When Darkness Set In Whether the Cobequid had survived an all day battering by hurricane seas and would hold together until one of a fleet of nearly a dozen rescue boate could reach her, was a matter of in- creasing hourly anxiety tonight. Up to darkness no trace of the dis tressed vessel had been found on the east shore of the Bay of Fundy where she was first reported aground. Not could a glimpse be seen through the vapor which shrouded the west side of Grand Manan on one of whose num- erous ledges it was later belleved she rested. The Cobequid was formerly the steamer Goth and had been pressed in- to the winter service from maritime provinces to the tropics. She sailed from Halifax on December 5 for West Indian ports and started north agein on Dec, 30 from Grenada. She call- ed at Bermuda on the Sth and then cleared for St. John Caught In a Blizzard. Approaching the Bay of Fundy, fam- ous for its swift tides and mountain- ous seas, a blizzard descended upon the steamer. Captain Hawson was heading for Gannet Rock Light, the guide to the | western side of the bay and a warning of the ledges which stretch ten miles to the southward of Grand Manan. | It was about sunrise when the ope- | rator at the wireless station at Cape Sable across the bay, picked up the Cobequid's-cry for help. The message said that the vessel had struck a ledge off Brier Island, which is on the oppo- site side of the bay and needed immed- iate assistance. For the next few hours fragmentary messages were re- ceived from the stranded steamer, one of which said that the forward hold was filling. At 8.40 a. m. came the last gasp of the fading wireless to the ef- fect that the engine room was flooded the batteries were exhausted and the operator unable to get any sparks. Boats to the Rescus. In the meantime both the Canadian and American governments had begun active measures for rescue. The Ger- man steamer Kronprinzessin. Cecille. off Sable Island on her way to New York was urged to change her course and head for the Cobequid, 200 miles to the northward. The government steamer Lady Laurier was started out from this spot for the run of 150 miles to Grand Manan. The steamers Bel- | videre, Helena and Landowne were ,asked to help and the revenue cutter l“'oodburyv in command of Lieutenant Ridgely, on her way from Portland to Rockland, was ordered to steam full speed for the scene. i Toward night it was discovered that ! the cabie steamer Tyrian was at an- | chor behind Campobello, only forty miles from Gannet Rock Light, and a message was sent to her skipper urg- ing him to proceed immedlately to the aid of the Cobequid. | Communication Cut Off. i When the keeper of the Brier Is- |1and Heght was notified of the acel- dent in the hope that he might give some information regarding her, he re- plied that he saw no trace of the Cob- equid. This was subsequently com- firmed by the steamer John L. Cannm, which made a cifcuit of the island dur- ing the day. On a re-reading of the first message from the Cobequid, the opinion was reached that the navigator was at a loss as to the real position of the steamer and that she was in reality on the west side of the bay. Unfortunately communication with | Grand Manan had been cut off some time before through the breaking of | the cable. so that no information could | be obtained from there. Scene of Many Disasters. | It was expected that some of the | steamers woul@ be off Gamnet Rock light by midnight and that the Wood- bury would reach the scene by § a. m. Hope was felt that they would be able to sight the Cobequid, as there was i= bright moon, and the gale tonight | seemed to be subsiding. The Grand Manan ledges have been the scene of many disasters, but loss of life has been comparatively small The steamer Tyrian was still at anchor at Campobello tonight wait- ing for better weather conditions. The gale and the zero temperature con- tinues and snow was falling in the | Bay of Fundy. 1 Two Girls Are Passengers. No passenger list of the Cobequid is available, but it is known that among those on board are Misses Marguerite and Dorothy James, giris of 16 or 17 years, children of the late R. H. James, who was formerly mayor of St qu’lhnarmuda. The girls were coming here as the guests of Joseph A Likely, a timber merchant, intend- Ing later to go to & private school &t ‘Windsor, N. S. Paesengers from Bermuda. S’mxtm,mflermng;, Jldn. 18.—The passengers m rmuda on _th steamer Cobequid, reported wrecked o; Grand Meanan, are W. C. Kenny and Captain Hicks, director and marine superintendent, of the of Jobn. . Steamehip Arrivale. .';:nin.—.t—ulhon- Jan. 11.—Steamer Amerika of a seore of dwellings on avesus and uiher meurby ixsets, early today. Sparks Set fire m'aé,mh Jan, 12 —8teamer Caiedo- N DR e