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VOL. LVI.—NO. 18 MERCADO READY FOR General Who Evacukisd to Mexico Again to Stand Trial UNDER AND COWARDICE | ACCUSES OR0ZCO OF PL [Two Other Volunteer Generals, He Claims, Abandoned Their Posts as Soon as Rebels His Soldiers to Obey the Officers—Shows Gratitude For Treatment Accorded. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 20.—General Sal- wador Mercado and the 3.300 Mexican federal soldiers who fled into the United States during the battle of ©Ojinaga and were Interned today Fort Eliss on the footing of prisoners | of war, defended his abandonment n(i Ojinags and charged General Pascual ©Orozco with cowardice and insubordi- Bation. s Charges Orozco With Duplicity. In answer to_criticisms from Mexico City, General Mercado gave his rea- | sons’ for taking asylum in this coun- | try. He sald that Orozco repeatedly | had robbed the federal provision train, | had refused to attack the rebels, had | ebandoned his own troops and had run i @way under fire (o give the impres- slon that he heroically would remain | on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande to fight more batiles, whereas Orozco was afraid to cross into the United ! tates because of an indictment pend- | & against him here. | Ready to Stand Trial. General_Mercado also charged that | Generul Ynez Salazar and General Antonio Rojas, volunteer commanders, mbardoned their posts as soon as the | rebeis appeared. General Mercado | waid he was ready to go to Mexico City | €0 stand (rial by courtmartial. He gaid he would disprove charges that he left Chihuahua because of money fur- | mished by the Terrazas family. | at| American officers. | clothed by the United Btates is not | csition to General Bliss, commanding | Huerta has authorized an initial ex- NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in JANUARY 21, 1914 tOr City’s Population COURT-MARTIAL Ojinaga Willing to Return Appeared—Mercado Instructs Orders of United States Army When his soldlers tumbled off the tralns which brought them from Marfa, Tex., General Mercado was still commander of his troops, but his au- thority was subordinate to that of the He worked direct- ly under Brigadier General Hugh Scott of the United States army and | showed his gratitude for the treatment of himself and his men by promptly telling the Mexican soldiers to obey orders. Similar evidences of gratitude were shown by Generals Castro, Landa, Orpinal, Romero and Adana. Refugees Prepare a Meal. Soon after their arrival the refugees were spread over the reservation, mix- ing beans with chill and making tor- tillas out of flour furnished by the American army. How long the Mexi- cans are to be fed and sheltered and known. Huerta To Feed Refugees San Antonio, Texas, Jan 20— George J. Head of Brownsville, Texas, arrived here today claiming to bsar an offer by President Huerts to feed all Meyican refugees on _American soil at Huerta government’s expense. Head sald he would submit the prop- the southern department. He said penditure of $100,000. Head is captain in tre Texas national gusrd. CONVICTS HAD AID | ON THE OUTSIDE | — i Evidence to Indicate It Unearthed at | Investigation. | That the | MeAlester, Okla Jan. 20. three convicts whose dash for liberty | from (he staie penitentiary here yas- terday vos lices of themseives, | ghre. Is and former United Biates Thomas, had utside aied by evidence | eard today by members of the board | ©f prison control Thé revolver used by David Koontz, Jeader of the mutineers, was identified ms having been sold recently by a local hardware dealer. The identity of the man who made the purchase has not Deen established. It was also learned that a horse and wagon, without a driver, was standing at the prison gates when the men made their break. Members of the board intimated toz night that their inquiry so far failed to comnect any “frusty” with the planning or the execution of the at- empted escape. Virtually normal conditions prevafi- | d at the penitentiary today ON TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. Mother of Victim Testifies to Troubles of the Couple. Waterbury, Conn,, Jan. 20.—The jury in the case of Miciacl Rikteriatas, on trial for the murder of his wife on May 10 last, was completed at three o'clock this ernoon. 1t took four honts to cte the entire panel After the jury had been chosen the went on with its evidence, s pring vitness of the after- noon was 3 Talbot, mother of tie nan. who' testificd ot Rikteraita DR. APPLEBY CLEANED UP $50,000 AT MONTE CARLO. Former College Lecturer Deolines to Disclose His Methods. London,. Jan, 20.—Dr. Ermest Vii- liers Appleby, formerly lecutrer at the University of Minnesota, today aston- ished the court of King’s Bench with stories of his success at Monte Carlo. He was giving evidence in a suit brought by him to recover $20,000 from Baroness May de Pallandt, an ‘American woman whose family lives in | Chicago. Dr. Appleby said he did not gamble, but “I exchanged money at the tables and made money every year by my in- vestments there. One year 1 made more than $50,000 profit” Dr. Appleby added that he was & sure winner in the way he played. Judge and counsel tried to get an inkling of Dr. Appleby's syatem, but the plaintiff told them they wanted to know too much Baroness De Pallandt also entered the witness box and told the court that Dr. Appleby had not worked for years. “He only gambles,” she added. ~ She added the doctor gave her a necklace on which she had borrowed $15,000 from Miss Schaefer, an American, whose address she re- fused to give. REV. C. H. BARBER CHOSEN PRESIDENT. Elected by the Conneotiout Temperance Union, Officers Hartford, Conn, Jan. 30.—At the annual meeting here today of the Con- necticut Temperance union these offi- cers were elected: President, Rev. C. | H. Barber, Danielson; secretary-treas- urer, H, H. Spooner, Kensington ditor, J, H. Mansfleld, New Have: | Carlos Sanjines, Bolivian consul at this i .CondensedWTelegrams Archbishop Does Not Ban Tango. Ancon, Italy, Jan. 20—Archbishop Ricel, while not prohibiting the tango, has recommended Catholics not to par- ticipate in dances which offend Christian sentiment. Death of French Political Writer. Paris, Jary 20—Hancis de Presense, an eminent political writer and who for a few months in 1880 secretary of the Trench embassy at Washinston, died here today, aged 60 years. Penfields Presented to Society. Vienna, Jan. 20—American Ambas- sador Frederick Courtland Penfield ‘and Mrs. Penfield were formally pre- | sented to the official society of Aus- tria-Hungary this evening, at what 13 known at the Austrian court as the “Receivmento.” Bishop of Verona Prohibits Tango. Verona, Italy, Jan. 30—Cardinal Bartholomew Eacilieri, bishop of Ver- ona, has issued a pastoral letter strongly condemning and prohibiting the tango. He calls attention to the fact that the tengo has already been prohibited by civil and military au- thorities in Kurope, both Catholic and Protestant. Move Against Tobacco Trust. Dresden, Saxony, Jan. 20.—A search of the premises and archives of the leading German cigarette concern, which is afiliated with the American Tobacco company, has been in progress for two days under the charge of offi- clals armed with a search warrant. nected ‘with _a movement against the invasion of Germany by a trust. NEW HAVEN'S TROUBLES USED AS AN ARGUMENT. Make People Ready For Government Ownership, Says Senator. ‘Washington, Jan. 20—What has hap- pened to the stockholders of the New York, New Haven and Hartford system was held up to the senate today by Senator Kenyon of Jowa as an argu- ment for government ownership of raflroads. The senator was speaking in support of the Alaskan railway bill. “Is it any consolation to the widows and orphans holding New York, New Haven and Hartford stock, we are told that the dividend has been passed, to know that $50,000 of that company's funds went as a donation to the re- publican national campaign fund,” he asked. A Teport of Commissioner Prouty of the Interstate Commerce commission on the New Haven and Hartford, he declared, showed “that $324,000,000 that dit not represent anything had been loaned upon the backs of the people.” These things, he said, had made the people of ti} country willing to discuss government ownership. i “I belleye,” the senator added, “that the profith of such deals are to be found in the bank ‘accounts of the same peopls who have sought to plunder Alaska. Bank robbers are more to be respected than these rail- way plunderers for it takes courage to rob a bank.” MRS. WAKEFIELD'S APPEAL NOT HEARD. Supreme Court to Hear it on Day Pre- ceding Execution of Plow. New Haven, Com: Jan. 20—Appeals of Mrs. Bessie J. Wakefield and Joseph H. Bergeron from the sentence of death for murder were before the su- preme court of errors here today, but as the briefs counsel for the de- fendant and the state were not ready, the cases were continued until _the March sitting of the court in Hartford. Automatically the appeals act as stays of execution ir Leth cases, and in ad- dition tha governor will probably is- sue n decree which will be served up- on the warden of the state prison, up- | on authority of which, he will hold the condemned persons until their cases have been finally determined. Mrs, Wakefleld was found guilty by a jury of murder of her husband, Will- | iam O. Wakefleld and was sentenced to be hanged on March 4. James Plew, | her self-confessed partner in the | crime, and the actusl slayer, was sen- | tenced to die at the same time. Plew has made no appeal. The day of his execution will be the one following that upon which the supreme court hears the argument in the Wakefleld case. Bergeron, who killed a woman with whom he had lived for a time and with whom he was still Infatuated, is under sentence to die Feb, 4, i | BOLIVIAN CONSUL ; ! OCCUPIES A CELL. Arrested on Complaint That He sulted Young Girls. In- San Franeisco, Calif, Jan, 20— | The proceedings apparently are con- | House Acts on Trust Message SUGGESTIONS REFERRED TO TWO ? COMMITTEES A TRADE COMMISSION Bill for Its Establishment to Be Intro- duced in Senate Today—Progressives Diesatisfied With the Message. Washington, Jan. 20.—President Wil- son’s suggestion in his trust) address to congress today that the government and business men are ready to meet each other half way “in @ common ef- fort to squure business methods with both public opinion and the law” fell on attentive ears and struck a re, sponsive chord in representatives, of differing political parties. (The mies- sage is printed on page 3.) Few discordant notes were sounded in comments from members of the congress who are to pass upon legis- lation urged to prohibit monopoly and hold men of business within the law. House Acts Promptly. Before the plaundits of his audlience had ceased and as the president was passing from the house chamber, where his_successive appearances since last April haye contributed to the nation’s history, his utterances had precipjtated action. Representative Underwood, majority leader of the house, was the firat to act. As soon as the house re-convened after the joint session held to hear the president, he offered a motion to refer to the interstate and foreign commerce committee, the suggestions for the cre- ation of an interstate trade commia- slon and for a lew empowering the interstats commerce commission to regulate the issuance of railroad me- curities and to the committee on judi- clary the proposals relating to legis- lation designed to supplement but not amend the Sherman anti-trust act. This motion was adopted and it was announced later that both committees would begin work at once and arrange for public hearings, Progressives Dissatisfied. Members of the house judiciary com- mittee and members of the senate in- terstate commerce committee conferred again on plans for expediting the bills to be submitted to congress. Later Senator Newlands talked with Joseph E. Davies, commissioner of corpora- tions, who read the trade commission Dill proposed by the judiciary sub-com- mittee. This measure now will be in- troduced from the senate committee, Dprobably tomorrow. Expressions on the message came freely from senators and representa- tives, democratio, republican and pro- gressive. The only unfevorable criticisms emanate from progressives, Represen- tative Murdook, the third party leader, asserting that the suggestions for the solution of the trust evil were “inade- quate” and would render the trust evil more acute. One of the most signifi- cant comments came from Senator Gallinger, leader of the republican mi- mority in’ the upper house, Senator Gallinger’s Opinion. “The president’s recommendations are moderate,” said Semator)Gallinger, “and for the most part wise. It seems to me there is nothing in the recom- mendations that need disturb business men, or that would justify radical leg- istation. If the democratic members in both: branches of congress, will for- mulate bills along the lines suggested by the president and abandon their method of legislation by party caucus they will find the republicans ready to cooperate with them in bringing about legislation that will be of real ben- efit to the country and will harm no one.” Senator Lodgé remarked that the message_was “very satisfactory” and Senator William Alden Smilth of Mich- igan said: “The president has attacked tha problem from his own viewpoint but probably his programme will do some go0d.” Senator Kenyon of Iowa, who repre- sents the progressive-republican wing of the party, praised the address, “It was admirable,” he sald, “and T am in full accord with it. that portion which would fix persona gullt for violation of our trust laws. Jones Looks for Long Session. Representative Mann. the minpriiy leader of the house, also commended the message, particularly the sugges- tion for government regulatisn of k- suance of railroad stoc! and bonds. He recalled thet he had put the same proposition through the house once in the face of democratic opposiiion Benator Jones of Washington, also a progressive leader, said: “T am mot so certain that the presi- couple. of the life directors, Rev. J. H. James, Rock. day was g ISxaminer . ville, Prof. K. N. Camp, New Britain Crane and th ouee cials as to the I. B, Leadwell, Brani lk-. E, Strong, circumstances of the tragedy, Winsted, W. H. Sharp and Rev. J. H. | - — Stubberf, Putnam, Prof. W, P, Brad- | WHO OWNS THE ley, Middletown, T. L. Norton, Lake- | o Ville, Edward D. B Bridgeport; INCUBATOR BABY?: 404’ speakers, Rev. B, W. Potter, New 14 iteq | Haven, 8. H.' Davis, Westerly, R, L Long Legai ¢ Dismissed by United | 'y "5 iconer 'in presenting his report Statc: Suereme Court |®aid that aithough the bIIl calling for % el | the establishment of & state farm for Wasinzg Jen. ot —The long legal | inebriates had been vetoed by Gover- fisht for the . po on of the St., nor Baldwin, the bill would be rein- J.ouis exposh incaiwlor baby” was troduced at the next legislature. i dismissed sifireme cou ay | biapse neitier peret fo the:sult Tad! 4oTEL GLERK ARRESTED 8l uf Toy Mrs, Jumes G ON EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE. ay of . were the 1f == involves the A growing and_Tllinois years ded Ars( the other he appeal court H. 8. Hale Accused by Mohican Hotel Management at New Londen. New Leoudsn, Jan. 26. Heury 8. Hale, 24, up 1o ten days ago & boskkeeper in the employ of tis Mohican company at the Hotel Mohi- can, was locked up in the New London ' police station Tuesday night, eharged | with the embezalemeni of apprexi. matoly 31,600, The arrest was made | . upon the complaint of Major Richard | the b ind child had esiant akely had her to the taaker supren OBITUARY. Emil Liebling. Chicago, 1 Liebling, con cert pianist, and lecturer, d today at his home here. He was " in Pless, Germany, in 1 Lord Strathcona. is died peace- n virtnally velaek afternoon, Lord v of\ u severc ailack of .catarrh. 1d been ailing,* however, ever | the death of his wife on No- vember 12 last, which proved a great | shock to him. Cassidy MisGreger Willimantic, Jan. 26, was received oy telephone In morning of the death r Locks on Monday of Cas- McGregor, formerly of Willlman- o deceased also resided in Scot- one #ime, as a farmer,s and to Wimdsor locks abont 14 Wory this city Tuesda; at Win idy Girard, Kagi Jaa. 20 —Qirard's wii- aicipal well s yieldiug water so hot | that it caunet'be used. Pumps at the waterworks #ere shut Gown today be- gause the heat had destroyed. their | hard rubber valves. No satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon has been made, Mexico Fac a Coal-Famine as Fesuil of her internal struggle a P, Freeman, acting as counsel for the | Mohican company, of which Frank A. | Munsey is the head, Auditers of the company made an ! examination of the hotel books a week age, after which Hale was,accused of the shortage. Despite his denials of wrongdoing, he was detained in a room at the hotel pending a more searching examination. His arrest Tuesday night followed the visit of the New York auditors. Hale has always borne an unblemished reputation. He is married and has one child. He was held in a cell at the police station, making no effort to secure ball. His case will come up in the police court. AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. ’ Because Mule Team and Carriage Were on Wrong Side of the Road. Wiitimantic, Jan. 20 6. Dona Sevigny met with an anio- mobile accident thout 3 oclock Tues- day afternoon, damaging the car, but not Infilcting any injury on Mr, Sevig ny. Mr. Sevigny, while driving Lis car | {oward the center of e clig, met two | {eams about oppesite the premises No 242 Main swet. One was s mmulp team | and the othera carriage in which were | two ladies. Both, the driver of (he| auto says, were on (he wrong side of the road, and in order to avoid the | arriage he was forced to turn directly across the sireet. The automokile ran onto the curb aud into a tree, damag- ing the hood and the forward part of the engine. Mr. Sevi s thrown | out, bt not severly hirt. The car was | hauled te & gatage for repairs, | port, occupied & cell In the city prison beeause of his failure to put up $5,000 bonds to insure his appearance in po- lice court tomorrow for a hearing on a felony charge growing out of an ac- cusation made by two voung girls. Sanjines, indignant over his arrest, da- clares the police have no authowitr | over him and threatens to make an in. | ternational incident out of his arrest, | While Sanjines was in a meving | picture theaire lust night, two thir- teen year old girls told the manager of | the house that he had insulted them, | The showman called « policeman, whe rrested the Bolivian. The nature of the eharge agalnst Sanjines makes him liable, if convict- ed, to a penitentiary term of not less | tnaw a year. Ho stands charged al- so with the misdemeanor of having lottery tickets in his possession, EIGHT ACCUSED OF CONSPIRAGY. Involved in Alleged Concealment of | Assets in Bankruptcy Case. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 20—Philip Rubon of Naugatuck, charged with concealing assets in his petition to bankruptcy and seven others, who are charged with conspiracy in connection with the case, were held in $3,000 bonds each by Judge Thomas in the United States district court here foday. Those held beside Rubin were Joseph Weis- man, Morris Gartinkel, Alexander | Friedman, Harris Glass, Isadore Simon | and Morris Osmansky, all of New York; Tsador Goldestein' of Waterbury. Haury Rubin, son of the accused, was released in bonds of $540. State Forester Filley a Speaker. Boston, Jan, 26—Cooperation tween states in fighting forest near the boundaries was disci day at o’ conference attended by state foresters, fire wa and -other of- | ficials from the New England states. W. O. Filley, Connecticut state forest- | er, was one of the speale: | be- fires W. R. Hearst denics that he intended urchasing the Montreal Herald, dent’s plan will be reassuring to bus- fness. Tt depends emtirely on how it is_werked out. You cannot make a thing not destructive merely hy sa ing that it is not destructive. T look for a long, long session.” SMALLPOX SPREADS AT NIAGARA FALLS Churches Decide to Clese—Ledges and Thoatres May Follow Suit. With Niagara Falls, N. Y., Jan, 20- 103 eases of smallpax en the yecords of the health department of the eity today, steps were taken ot elase ail places where pullic meetings are held. The pastors of the Protestant churches took the initlative by anneuncing the closing of their churehes and at meeting of the health board It was decided to ask all theatres, lodges and other places of public mesting to close voluntarily. THREATEN AMERICAN. Federal Troops Assume Menacing At- titude Toward Otto Winters, Laredo, Texas, Jan, 36.—Mexican federal troops encamped on the San Erique ranch mear the border, have renewed threats to kill Otto Winters, the Amecrican manager, and desiroy the the property which foimerly be longed to the Madero family, accord ing to infarmation received today b Consul Garret at Neuve Larcdo. Mr Garret has urged the state depariment | to make foral demands i behalf of | Winters, Captain Miguel Haszon, one of the officers of Generw| Mercado's com- mand, who fied with vthers whea Ojin- 282 was evacuated, was arrested here oday. i { i Kansas City Gets Balloon Race. New York, Jan. 20—This s on's in ternational balloon race for the James Gordon Rennett cup was awarded to- day by the conlest commitice of the Aero Club of America to the Kansas City Aero' club. The race will started Oglober & especlally | = | . Eugenic Law Meets Defeat DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY COURT | PETERSON MAY MARRY Wine His Case in Wisconsin—Refused Marriage Becauss He Lacked Cortificate of Health. Licen: Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 20.—The Wis- <o} eugenic law which provides for the issuance of marriage licenses only upon a certificate of a clean bill of health, including the Wasserman test, from a physiclan, was this afternoon Cabled Paragraphs James F. Fielder was yesterday in- augurated governor of New Jersey. The First Day of the campaign to ralse $30,000 for the Danbury hospital resulted in $21,500 being contributed. The Number of Saloons in New York state has decreased 918 since 1596 when the present excise law Was.pass. The Factory of the Medway, Mass., Box' company was burned to the ground yesterday with a loss’ of $15, Francesco Zaraglia, Duke of Massa. To n resident of New Orleans, wa granted a divorce from the duchess vesterday. William A. Clark, former senator from Montana has been elected a member of the board of trustees of the Corcoran Art gallery. The Haffen Brewery, the largest in the Bronx, operated by the J. & M. Haffen Brewing Co., has been pur- declared unconstitutional by Judge F. C. Eschweller of the circuit court. The case will go to the supreme court. Impairment of Individual Rights. Judge Eschweiler held that the eu- genics law was of unreasonable stat- utory limitation so far as physician's fee was concerned and that it was an unreasonable and material impairment of thé right of persons to enter into matrimony. The law is praised be- cause of its movement toward suppres slon of sexual diseases, but is con- demned because its enforcement is practically an impossibility. An Unjust Burden Upon the Fit. The court held that If the state wish- s to exercise its right for preventing undesirables from marriage it should assume the burden of weeding out the unfit and thereby not cast upon the fit an unfair demand and thus materially impalr an {nalienabie right. The praver of the plaintiff that the law 1s class legislation by demanditg tests from men only is refused. The judge £ald that this was a legislative right. He also overruled the objection to the clause in the law which provides that all examining physiclans must be thirty years old or older, because that feature of the law does not affect the rights of the petitioner. g Peterson Will Get License. Alfred Peterson and ‘Miss Hattle Schmidt made application for a mar- riage license on January 3, the day on which the law went into force. Clerk Widel refused the application be- cause the man &id not have a certifi- cats of heglth from a physician, as demanded by tse law. Poterson tm- mediately aought recourse in the courts and {oday’s decision by Judge Esch- weller will enable him to secure the marriage license without the medical examination. ELOPERS CHARGED WITH MAN’S MURDER. Worcester Woman Causes Arfrest of Unfaithful Husband. Firle, Pa. Jan. 20.—Charles D, Sweet and Miss Bmma Lafleur are in custody Bere upon the allegation of Edward T. Lafleur, divorced husband of the wom- an, whose body was found in the Blackstone river at Rockdale, Mass., on June 19, 1913. Mrs. Sweet lives in Austin street, Worcester, Mass., and alloges that her husband and Mrs. La- fleur threw Lafleur in the river and eloped. Five days prior to the finding of Lafleurs body, Mrs. Sweet alleges, Mre. Lafleur had been granted a d vorce by Judge John R. Ratigan in the superfor court. Sweet’s arrest here followed a. letter which he wrote to his wife requesting money. When he visited the general delivery of the postoffice he was ar- rested, and Mrs, Lafleur was taken into custody at a boarding house a few hours later. Both _are being held pending word from Worcester. UNUSUAL CARE IN S8ELECTING A JURY. Precautions Against Another Disagree- ment in Schmidt Case. New York, Jan. 20.—Unusual pre caution in the selection of jurors being taken by counsel for both sides in the second trial of Hans Schmidt, the German ex-priest accused of the murder of Anne Aumuller, whose bady was found cut in pleces in the Hudson river last summer. The jury had not been completed tonight at the close of the second day, although 300 tales- men had been examined. Six jurors were chosen during the day, making ten in all and & third panel of 100 talesmen was summoned to appear to- morrow. At the first trial the jury which dis- eed was drawn from 150 talesmen. The care now being taken is an effort to prevent another disagreement. Auto Thisves Arreste New York, Jan. 20.—Two members of » band charged with steallng au- tomobiles worth mare than $100,000 | were arrested here today upon in- | formation furnisied by Daniel Reill @ prisener in jail at Hlizabeth, N, They gave their numes as Chester Travis and John Chandler both chauffeurs, The police said that they implicated ' a prospereus automobile dealer at Lakeweod, N. J. Acolian Company’s Suit. New Iaven, Conn., Jan. 20.—URusu- KNOCKS A WASHINGTON ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—A brisk fight between Representative Ben Johnson chased by Col. Jacob Ruppert. Mrs. Vera Studley and her four year old son, Rector Kenneth Studley, were found dead from asphyxiation af thefr home at Pawtucket, R. L, yesterday. ® Mrs. Constance Benerowicz, 26 years old, Monday shot and kilied John Hinze, a farmer, who had attempted {e Break into her house at Kenosha, is. The Collection of Art Treasur: queathed to J. P. Morgan by his fa. ther, the late J. Pierpont Morgan, are 5ot o be sold, Mr. Morgan said yester- ay. be- George R. 8mith, aged 60, committed suicide at his home in New Haven last night by hanging himself to a rafter. He had been in poor nealth for tem years. Two Attempts Were Made yesterday to remove the convention of United Mine Workers of America, which open- ed yesterday, from Indianapolis. Both failed. Deolaring That They had informa- tion that wages would be cut, four hundred employes in the Toledo plant of the General Electric company struck Yesterday. A Bible is an Impertant Part of a fighting sailor’s equipment, a delega tion of churchmen of all denomina- tions yesterday told the Howse naval committee. One Hundred and Thirty-Two ap- plicants for appointment as consular officers are under examinatiop at the state department by the civil service commission. The Consumer Has Gained Nothing from the placing of meat on the free list, according to smeakers before the annual convention of the American Live Stock association. 3 Two Bandits Early Yesterday rode up to the State bank at Pittsburgh, Oklahoma, forced the cashier into the vault at pistol point, rified it of -eofn and galloped out of town. A Resolution Protesting against the illiteracy test in the Burnett Immigra- tion plill now before congress, was passed yesterday by the Rhode.Island house of representatives. Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam- many Hall, may be a witness in Dis trict’ Attorney Charles 8. Whitman’ John Doe inquiry into ailegations of state highway and canal contract graft. To Present a $200,000 statue to the city of Huntington, W. Va., as a tribute to the late Collis P. Huntington, found- er of the city, is the decision of his widow, now Mrs. Henry B. Hunting- ton. Albert H. Atkins, in charge of the modelling department of the Rhode Island School of Deslgn, has been awarded the commission for the Co- penhagen fountain, to be erected in Park square, Boston. No Namé Was Suggested to the board of directors of the Princeton Tteological seminary at its meeting yesterday for president of the sem- Imary to succeed Francis Landley Pat- ton who resigned last June. Grover Crawford, the Satannah, Ga., young man who recently suddenly lost both his hearing and his power of smpeech, and who recovered his hearing equally as suddenly a few dave ago, yesterday recovered his speech. Professor Silas Marcus MacVane of on and formerly of Harvard uni- versity, who died a few days ago, was buried ‘at Rome vesterday, the mem- bers of the family having decided not to send the body to America. |;that Shields had collected a fee of four of Kentucky and Jokn R. Shields, a Washington lawyer, broke up a meet- today in the house district com- mittee room and threatened to turn into a tragedy. Committee clerks sep- arated the men after both had landed telling blows; ~then Representative Johnson, with blood streaming down his face, broke away and dashed into his private office, shouting: “Let me get my pistol, I'll kill him.” Spectators Seek Refuge. Someone closed the door and held it and_before the enraged congressman Tedppeared, Shields had been hustled away, leaving his coat and hat be- hind 'and committeemen and specta- tors had made a hasty retreat, some of them' taking refuge behind the great marble columns of the corridors until they were satisfied there was to be no shooting. Tonight the incident ap- parentiy was closed. Representative J ohnson sald he “had been in the game t00 long to keep on when a fight's over” and Shields issued a statement. declaring that he had acted in self defense and indicated that he did mot expect any aftermath. The trouble started while a sub- committes of the district committee, of which Representative Johnson is chairman, was hearing Representative Kahn of California argue for a bill to allow Washington crossing police- men to ride free on trolley cars when in uniform. Mr. Shields was present to_support the bill, Representative Johnson entering the room just as Representative Kahn con- cluded declared that he had learned GflNGHESgfiAN STARTS A FIST FIGHT Mnson of Kentucky Precipitates Disgraceful Scene In a Committee Room of the House LAWYER TO THE FLOOR Revolver and Threatens to Kill Attorney—Spectators Seck Places of Safety—Melee Stopped by Committee Clerks—Controversy Over Washington Policemen’s Bill son rounded the table, Shields full on the cheek, sent him to the floor. The lawyer struck his chin on a chair on the way down, but he Was up in an instant retaliating with a blow that started the blood from a cut over Johnson's right cheek bome. The men exchanged blows freely for a moment; theh Shields clinched, and was pounding away on the congress- man’s head when Sam Eskew and Fred Allen, clerks of the committee, inter- fered and drew Johnson away. In the meantime Representative Winslow of Massachusetts threw his arms around gdmlelds and pulled him out into the' and, striking Congressman’s Statement. As Johnson started for the door to his private office, crying that he would kill the lawyer, the spectators stam- peded to the corridor. A few midE utes later when the Kentuckian, with & towel in one hand, appeared at the committes Toom, he found only an empty committes room. “The affair is ended concerned,” sentative Johnson said later. e been in the game 00 Jong to keep on when a fight's over. 1 always make i a practice to take & licking or give a licking without com- ment. I got in two good before Allen pinioned. my arms _There was nothing for ma to do but hit when he 8aid I told a falsehood.” Police Contract with Shields. Shields sald: “I actea in self de- fense. Johnson struck me when I was not looking. The whole thing occurred without the slightest warning or foun- dation. I had hardly finished the sen- tence concerning the misstatemefits when Johnson, at whom I was not or five thousand dollars from crossing | looking, struck me full force in the policemen for “lobby activities” in | Jaw.” conmeetion with a bill increasing the | Later in the day the sub-commlittes policemen’s salaries, passed by the last | called a dozen crossing policemen, who congress. Chalrman Crosser pf the | testified that during the last congress sub-committee saw trouble impending | they had contracted to pay Shields eer- and announced a recess. tain sums in event he devoted his efs % forts to securing the passage of a bill i Cengressmen. Makes t Attack. |increasing their pay and givi “I. want to be heard” insisted | annual leave. Under the con Bhields. “T want an opportynity here | said, the men who had thei to reply to these unfounded charges. | creased from 375 to $100 a m They are utterly false.” With a bound Representative John- to pay Shields $10 a month for year atter the bill passed. BEARDSLEY MAY NOT SURRENDER TODAY Making Money Signing Postcards and Hates to Lose the Revenue. Mayville, N. Y. Jan, 20.—Doubt was expressed tonight by persons who talk- ed with Edward Beardsley, the Sum- merdale outlaw farmer, that he would walkk to Mayville jail tomorrow and submit to arrest for the shooting of Poormaster John G. W. Putnam. For several days Beardslev has bean reaping & harvest of dollars by sign- ing picture postcards and posing for his_photograph. He sald today that he hated to give up the revenue. Henry Anderson, a butcher of Jamestown, one ©of the men who saw him, asked him the direct question: “Beardsley, are you going to surrender tomorrow “Well,” replied the man who has de- fled arrest for a week, “I will need this money that is coming in to pay my lawyers and to help take care of the children while I am being tried I might stay here a few days longe: Beardsley asked Anderson to bring him a quart of whiskey and a deck of cards. Sheriff Anderson sald on that if Beardsley failed to keep his Ppromise to surrender peaceably he would attack the house at the head of Sunday SPEAKER CLARK DECLINES INVITATION TO DINNER. Secretary Bryan To Be a Guest—Clark Issues Statement. Washington, Jan. 20—Speaker Clark’s declination of an invitation to attend a democratic dinner tomorrow evening at Calvert Hall, at which Sec- retary Bryan is to be a guest stirred up so much commotion that the Speak- er_issued a statment. Published reports connected the Speaker’s” dechnation with the pres- ence & Secretary Bryan and echoes o fthe Baltimore cOnvention. “I have cut out all dinners and funa , tions, except those I feel under obliga- tions to attend in my official capacity,” said the Speaker. “I did this for two reasons: 1—because 1 have not time to attend them—I have too much to do. 3—Mr. Spofford, o long librarfan of congress, cnce told me that most public men and army and navy offic- ers who died in Washington “dug their graves with their own teeth” a saying which I took to heart. “The people of the country are not interested, to any considerablo extent, about dinners in Washington, but they are interested very much 2s to what congress does and when it does it, and I am tryig my best toexpedite bus- a force of deputies on Wednesday. He | T 4 xpedite ac SVednesday. e | iness so that we can get away from refpsed to discuss the sltuation 10- | pore pefore the frost flies next fall S eormaster Putnam is improving | 204 &ive the country a rest. That is daily and there is hope for his recov- “Tirs. Eaith Austin, the mother-in- law, arrived at the barricaded house this ovening anw was Jjoyfully welcomed by the *nine Beardsley chil- dren and Mrs. Bdna Pier, the woman accidentally shot on Sundey. Beardsley refused again today to 2 good policy for both the country and the democratic party. Steamship Arrivals. Bergen, Jan. 16—Steamer Bergens- jord, New York, 2 Manuel Cedlz, Jan, 18— Steamer Calve, New York Algiers, Jan. 18.—Steamer Franconla, King Morse, an Automobile Supply | allow Dr. Revnolds to give Mrs. Pior | New York for Naples. eto. dealer. of Mobile. Ala. In urider &r. | medical atention, saving she would be | Gi , Jun, 20—Steniner Miulliee, rest charged with the murder of | all right when Mrs, Austin arrived. Boste Charles Freadhoff. father of Miss | Ex— et jtar, Jan, 20—Steamer Advintle, Eleonora Freadhof, in whose company | New York for Naples, Morse was when the killing occurred, | COUPLE ASPHYXIATED Liverpool,_Jun, 35-—Steamer Lusl- g - P tani jew Yorl Nearly Half the Estate of Richard | BY ESCAPING FUMES. | *3 00 Jan 30 Steamer Grosser D. mkford, vice presids ERTY - rturst, New Yaor Bouthern railwas who was. agpisels | Deubls Tragedy at Gplumbus Discloses | XUrfumt N = ated last week at his home in Brook- | a Scanidal. s Eaiphiyed G lyngoes to Miss Nellie B. Patterson of Hrooklyn, to whom he was engag- 4 Columbus, JFan -Gas fumes ed. New York Jan. 20—Timothy Kem- | edy, ane of mail wagen chauffenrs ewln& from a stove in the room now on trial in the Federal distriet which they occupied caused'the death Mrs. Violet Hartman, 31 years old, known as “The bride of the air,” whose marriage in a baloon to Dr. Milo E. Hartman in a balloon to Rr. Milo E. al intere is atiached o the suit be gun befere .udge Thomas in United Btat=s dis.cict court here today by the Asclan Company of Comnecticut vs Wilcex and White C mpany ard John Wanamaser. Pa intringe- ments are alleged. Haitien Revolution Serious. ‘Washington, Jan. 20—News of the rout of the Haitien government forces ! and the flight of the minister of war, caused state department officials to- night to canclude that the revelution raging in the southern part of the Iand republic is far more serious than previeus despatches have indicated. here same time last night of Albert ‘Walters, a prominent business man of Norwood, Ohio, and of Mrs. Margaret Deckard of Columbus. Mrs. J. S. court, an a charge of having conspired to obstruct the United States mail, pald “Owney” Madden $200 for gun- men, aceording o Thomas E. Peppard, | ane of the witnesses examined today. mational _eliminating balloon races at Greenwoed, at whose home the pair | Kansas City in 1912, died vesterday of Ppneumenia. f Fifteen Year pation in 1t is charged, o 10 murder of her Higging, her step- father at Geiesburg, L., will not be pushed too harshly because of her youth. Prosecution Julia Flake for comspiracy which, January old it Six Months Imprisonment and $200 | fine each were imposed yesterday in the United States district court at Mobile, Ala.. upon Harold Shirley and C. W.' Oberisirch, shipping masters was asphyxiated, declared to the cor- oner she did not know of the presence of Walters in her house until today, when she found the dead bodies in a bed in an upper roem. Waalters was vice president of a €in- cinnati shoe last company. Mrs. Deck- ard leaves two small children, in addi- tion to her husbhand, who is a street car conductor. Walters al 1 es a famfly. % Boy Killed by Barn Door. Danbury, Conn., Jan. 20—The body of Harold Gustafson, the 4 vear old son of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Gustaf- Hamiin to Succeed Williams. | Washington, Jan. 20—Charies | Hamiin, assisinc secretary of treasury in charge of customs, aply will succeed Jobn wkelton | llams as assistant in charge of Saance, { when Mr, Williass takes the cati of | offica as camptroller of the owrrency. | This was predlcted today by fxiends of Mr, Homlin, s. the prab- Long Terms For Whits Siavers. New Haven, Con,, Jan. 20.—Charsod with barboring a femaic far fmmoral purposse, . Judse Sbumwzy in the s New Haven Man Missing. New Haven, Coan,, Jan, 20.—The po- | lice were asked tonight to search for Archibald Patterson, aged 56, of Wes Iaven, who walked out of the New {aveu Genmeral hospitul, where he was | recoveriug from the effects of & deep | gash in His throat, made with suicidal sttempt several days-agn. It'is feared Pattersou may have ended his life iday of “s ing” two 16 year old boys aboard the-Ftallan bark Mincio. Mongarella, the 22 year | £ o New York Gontract- F several weeks ago s < ellccts of an alaek with e “polson ncedle” after pdsging. & paFroll of $2,200 to his brother %ol was yesterday sentenced to the Blmiva 1eformatory b Charles T: old pay clerk ¢ ifg compal simulace son, who has been missing from his home since yesterday, was found to- day under a barn door which had fall- en upon him. When the boy did not return to his home vesterday a wide- spread search was begun atd blood- hounds were employed, but to no avajl. Gharged With Buyin g Nomination. cougress from Queens county . was uperln:é maw afiecncon set ta staic . pris en for from six to fifteen “rank Ferarra from ome to Ex-Senator Cullom Very Low. ‘Washington, Jan, 20—Weakened Ly the advance of ags untll his h(‘-’ar({nr. faintly, but win 28 clear and ale: Still Searching far Missing Schooner. Portiand, Me., Jan. The revenua cutter Androscoggin, which came into | port last night to permit her com- | mander, Captain. Hall, to confer with the owners of the missing five masted | schooner. Prescoti P resumed ber | seurch for the vessel lodis, The Task of Securing greater securi- ty for ships at sea and thel rpasgen- sers was dealt with in a thorough manner by the international confer- ence of safety at sca at Londow, whiel| came to an end vesierday, when- the.: delegaies sent by 14 nations. signeds a sivention laying down regulations® fo the fuluse At _sinzer. who placed on trial in the supreme court in Brooklyn today charged with haviag putchused his nomination for supreme court justice in 191 by giving dr promising somie consideration. From Thursday | that Mme. Lillian has hee siffering from oz i |