Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 10, 1914, Page 1

1 VOL. LVIL—NO. 35 The Bulletin’é Circfilationwin Norwich is Double That of Any NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, Other Paper, and Its T FEBRUARY 10, 1914 otal Circulation is the 1914 Largest in Connecticut in PRICE TWO CENTS UPKISING OF YAQUI INDIANS FEARED Between 600 And 700 Of That Tribe Holding Up Ranches And Robbing Pack Trains In Sonora USING MILITARY KNOWLEDGE TO ADVANTAGE Agents of Rebels Among Them And The Mayo Tribe Re- cruitfi:gfl'hem For Service In Rebel Army—Effort To Re- inforcé Army In State of Chihuahua To 6,000 Men— Force of 6,000 To Leave Sonora For Chihuahua. Douglas, Ar Feb. 9—Travelers tunnel, where 51 persons perished in arrived from interior points in the [a train wreck last Wednesday. state of Senora today brought re- | Smoke and gas and a fall of rock | and earth delayed the progress of the | force which is trying to penetrate the | ports Ya of increasing activities of the Indians and a general Yaqul i sing was predicted. tannel. They penetrated to the | etween six and seven hundred In- |baggage car from the south entrance were said to bo in the fleld, |and removed much debris. dians holding up ranches and robbing peack trains in the Arizona and Sahuaripa tricts of the state. £ Make Use of Mil The larly Yaq more, RECRUITING INDIANS. Agents of Rebels Strengthening Army | In State of Chihuahua. | ary Knowledge. # Indians were reported particu- active in the Yaqul basin. The proceeded in bands of 100 or travelers assert and in opera- Douglas, Ariz., Feb. 9—A force of six thousand rebels under the person- al command of General Alvaro Obre- | tions made good use of the military | gop “and accompanied by General Car- knowiedge acquired in their service in | $of ST SECoPPAnies B QU T the' ravoludddnsagyeasmtes February 20 and march into Chihuhua Iled Only Those Who Resisted. by way of Ofinas Pass and Pasas | Where victims offered no resistance | Grandes, according ta Colonel P. 1 it was said the Indians did no killing, | Calles ;member of General Oberegon’s | but instead stripped their captives of | staff. | everything and sent them into the | Constitutionalist recruiting agents | nearest settlement. This procedure | are reported at work among the Mayo was on orders from their chief, the |and Yaqul Indians in an effort to re- | 1 inforce the rebel armysin the state to | six thousand men indians are said to have declar REMOVING DEBRIS. To Resume Mining Operations. Cumbre Tunnel Still Full of Gas and | Juarez, Mexico, Feb. 3—A resump- Smoke, Hindering Workers, [tion of mining and other industries . {In rebel territory was promised by umbre, Chihuahua, Feb, & General Villa here today after he had | rude wooden cross was planted today | conferred with many American busi- at the south portal of the Cumbre | ness men whose interests are affected. THE FIGHTING STAGE IN DENVER CAMPAIGN. | REORGANIZATION OF NEW YORK DEMOCRACY. B = Democratic Politician and Newspaper | Aid of President Wilson Enlisted in Owner Come to Blows. | the Effort. | Sl Denver, Col., Feb, 9.—The bitter cam- | Washington, Feb. Plans for the paign which will end February 17 at ! reorganization of the New York state | & special election, when the voters will | democracy along progressive lines were | paes on two propositions involving | submitted to President Wilson today | Denver's water supply, today passed | by Governor Glynn and William F., Mo- from the stage of heated discussion to | Combs, the democratic national chair- that of personal encounter. The clash [ man. ~ They found the president in | ogcurred between Thomas J. O'Donnell, | hearty accord and left here tonight | phominent democrat of Colorado, and | ready to begin their work of welding F..G. Bonfils, part owner of the Denver | the various elements _in the Empire Post, as the two men entered the coun- | State democracy into a harmonious or- iv court house to attend a hearing in | ganization to fight for the national ad- the suits in which Bonfils, as a stock- | ministration in both the primaries and holder, sought to have the Denver Wa- | electicns next fall for members of con- | ter company enjoined from “using | gress. money for political purposes.” | _illiam Church Osborn, Princeton In the meleo several blows were (77, and a close friend of the president, | struck before friends and spectators could separate the combatants. A few hours later O'Donnell was arrested on a2 capias issued in the criminal divisio of the district court, where direct in- formation was filed charging him with | assault with intent to kill. Bond was furnished in the sum of $2,500, FEDERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE COPPER STRIKE. had been agreed upon by Governor | Glynn and Chairman McCoombs for the chairmanship, and they learned to- day that his selection met with the hearty approval of Mr. Wilson MAY BE FURTHER TROUBLE IN HAITL Theodore Proclaims Himseif Head of Provisional Government. Counsel for Both Sides Make Opening| twashington, Feor prNow that Gen- Statements. eral Zamor has been elected president of Haiti, state department officials are | closely obserying developments in the fsland republic with a view to deter- mining how stable a government has been erected. As far as officials have | ancock, Mich,, Feb. 9.—Iederal in- tigation of the conditions in the copper country was formally instituted today by Representatives Taylor of | tolorado, Casey of Pennsylvania and; heen jnformed, all the erstwhile pres Howell of Utah, members of the house | gert, NOTRed, 21 the erstwhile presi- subcommittee on mines and mining. | giance to President Zabor, with the O. N. Hilton, appearing for {ie| jossinle exception of former Semator Western Federation of Miners, pictur- | Bosqiore exception of former Senator ed the situation &s he view it and said | Toay wrtgy o eoaor s, ¥ 5or since his de- the miners would prove that conditions | ciaimed himself at the head of a pro- | under which they worked were ap-| Visional government in Cape Haitien. palling. Tt is not known here just how for | cause.” | to be a federal penitentiary Cabled Paragraphs Mrs. Pankhurst Back in London. London, Feb. 9.—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffragette leader, who had been sojourning in Switzerland, re- turned to London today. She an- nounces that she will resume her pro- paganda. Fire On French Steamer. Hayre, France. Feb. 9—Fire on board the sjeamship Bordeaux of the French trans-Atlantic line did damage to the extent of about $20,000 today The vessel was lying in the harbor and all her cargo had been discharged. Accepts Albanian Throne. Rome, Feb. 9.—Prince William of Wied, who is reported to have aasgpt- ed the throne of Aibania, arrived here today .and was officially received. He will be the guest of King Victor Em- manuel for two days, and a court din- ner will be given in his honor. Tokio Pepulace Excited. 9. e police have for- meeting led for to- okio, Feb. bidden a mas morrow in the park adjoining the diet. | Popular excitement arainst the gov- ernment has been increased b, matory speechds, which are being made daily, demanding the resignation of the cabinet Concha Elected in Colom| N Bogota, Colombia, F —Dr. Jose Vicente (oncha, conservative party, has been president of Colombia. Dr. Concha was minister of war in 1901 and a year later became minister to Washington. He disapproved of the proposed Pana- ma_treaty and retired as minister in 1903. No Heresy Uroceedings. London, Feb. 9—The archbishop of Canterbury today decided definitely against instituting impeachment pro- ceedings against the bishops of Ugan- da and Mombasa, Church of England prelates in Africa, on charges of here- sy and schism arising out of their ac- tion at the Kikiyu conference, East Africa, last June. An attempt was then made to unite all Protestant de- nominations against the increasing power of the Roman Catholics in East Africa, and a general communion ser- vice was held. SUFFRAGETTES AGAIN VISITED BY BISHOPS. Latter Fails To Discover ili effects From Forcible Feeding. London, Feb. 9—Another surprise visit to Holloway Jail to investigate the conditions under which two militant suffragettes, Miss Kitty Marion and Miss Phyllis Brady, are Incarcerated there, was made today by the Bishop of London. The bishop in his report says Miss Marion feels much aggrieved at being forcibly fed instead of being released under the “cat and mouse” act. As a ¢ inflam- | the candidate of the | elected | \ \Only $52,000 in . Vaults of Bank ACTUAL CASH ON HAND LISTED AT $527,867. ! THE PRESIDENT IN JAIL Refused to Avail Himself of Offer of Fy to Aid the Smaller Depositors. nds to Provide Bail—Directors Memphis, Tenn, Teb, $—With the discovery tonight that of §527,867 listed s actual cash on hand when the bank closed its doors, $410,000 was represented by the personal checks of the president, C. Hunter Raine, mow imprisgped charged with embezzle- ment, the amount of the apparent dis- crepancy In the accounts of —the Mer- cantlle bank w advanced to more than a million dollar Only $52,000 in Actual Cash. e exact amount will not be known until the audit being made under the direction of J. L. Hutton, state super- intendent of banks, is completed. This will require several days. Count of the actual cash in the vaults showed approximately $52,000, lit is stated. Sight exchange and ed in detall tonight with the personal checks of the president, it is belteved will make up the difference between the money found and the amount list- ed as cash on hand. Declines to Accept B ‘When arraigned today on a warrant charging embezzlement he entered a formal plea of guilty and elected to go to jall, declining the proffer of friends to_arrange bail, fixed at $250,000. Representatives of other banks here issued statements tonight declaring that the suspension of the Mercantile bank was without influence on their institutions. Directors Raising Funds, Eftorts are being made Dby several directors _to'make up a fund to repay the smaller depositors in advance of a final announcement of the bank’s af- fairs. Opinions differ “as to whether the directors can be held personally ac- countable Dy the depositors under the terms of the banking act of Tennesse which went into effect January 1, ENGLISH COURT RULES IN ONE TITANIC CASE. | Declares Illegal Condition Printed on Steamship Tickets. 9, London, Feb. 9.—The court of ap- protest against her continued im- prisonment, the bishop says, she al- | ways gave four or five shouts or screams when subjected to the opera- t(u]ll, but she did not look ill as a re- sult. Miss Brady told the hated foroible feeding, but that it did | not make her sick. She thought, how- | ever, it gave her indigestion. | Both women refused to undertake to refrain from militancy in case were released. “I cannot conclude,” writes the | bishop, “without telling you that in my | opinion you are pursuing a wrong pol_ fey if you wish to win educated and thinking men and women to your | bishop she | WILL MAKE PRISON A_ DETENTION BARRACKS. Radical Revision of the Articles of War by the Senate. 5. Washington, Feb. 9.—Revision of the articles of war—the military law of the United States that has stood un- | changed since 1806—is proposed in a Dbill> passed without a dissenting vote by the senate today, designed to make the soldier who is gulity of purely mili- tary offenses an object of reformatory discipline instead of a penitentiary convict with the criminal stamp upon him. Fort Leavenworth Kas., would cease under the | terms of the bill and hereafter would minaseuring the commiltes that the | midaiile a following Theodore has, but o . i it is realized that he may make things | asistance in getting at the iruth, AL | very ‘uncomfortable for the mew companies, ssid Hilton's statement was | " ¢nt in Fort au Prince. | ‘a falr type of the campaign of mis- representation and falsehood which has been oharacteristic of the situation mince the inception of the strike.” Lost” Locomotives. here has been much merriment | over a story in the British papers of | ‘lost” rallway engines, which is mere- Iy a matter, say railwaymen, of an !‘,*""‘ 'fi“"';‘“‘ila’ w"’("“,’" error in_record-keeping. But in Au- zard, Teb. 9.-—Steamer Olympic. ' gust 185, the Great Northern Com- jew York for Southampton, signalled | Sony did ‘temporarily lose an engine 8 miles west at 8 p. m. Due PIym- | by capture. It was the culmination outh 10.30 p. m. Tuesday. of a long-standing dispute between New York. Feb. 9.—Steamer Prin-i that company and the Midland as to ress Irene, Genoa for New York, sig-| rights of running into the Notting- walled 650 miles east of Sandy Hook| ham station, which was Midland at noon. Dock 5 p. m. Wednesda¥. | property. A contemporary account of | = | the event says that “the Midland did Express Companies Having Struggle.| neither more nor less than seize the Portland, Ore, Feb. 9.—Declaration | Great Northern engine which had tha the express companies not only are | brought a train down, just as it was losing millions of dollars annually, but | @bout to start with a new load of are battling for their very existence,! !aSsengers to London. The course Was made today by their representa., {aken was in acordance with the Troms Meotore o joint meeting of ihe| clephantine dimensians of the object | Washington public gervice commission. | oF 5 W0, K0S, €9 hem 1t in before Bublishor Wearbocts Acuuitted. | triumph, while the poor passengers were obliged to sit patiently looking New York, Feb. 9—A jury in the| on at the contest and capture of the United States district court today ac- respassing engine, Mancheter | quitted Mitehel] Kennerly, the INew | Guardian ' | Tork publisher, on 3 chargs of violat- ing the United States postal laws b an obgeens book to a pur- through the mails. Mann's Genial Pelitical Soul Minority ‘Leader Mann's enthusiasm for the President’s message because | he thinks that it will ceuse trouble among the Democrats is characteristic | of his_genial political soul—Indian- apolis News. el Probably Grazy. A Tonkers woman has asked the po- Hee to find her husband, who, she says, washed, jroned, scrubbed, pared pota- toes, cooked, never smoked, drank or erent to All Things. stayed out late, and alwavs did as he vesident Wilsen calls it_thie houor was told. Has ghe thought of looking. able surrender of ti whreakers of in the insane asylum for him®—Buf-| iz Business. President Reoseveit falo Express. would have caller it the forced sur e render. These two men differ greatly No Doubt About That. | In politeness an well us other (hings Eenu}.lmr Bristow probalh!y had doubts | Providence Tribune ) 25 to his ability to be elected as a re- : publican, but he had none as to his Audience Pays to Hear Him. ability to be elected as a bull moose. _The applause Scorsiary Bryau can He knew he couldn't.—Kansas City win whenever e appears before an Journal, audience may tend to neutralize the | eriticism_leveled at him in his ab- sence.— Washington Star. Should Revise the Calendar. The twenty-ninth_of February seems to be the only day Mr. Huerta has not ! designated as 2 vank holiflay —New Yorks American. Command of the Sea. The long awaited strugsle for (he eommand of the sea has hegun with a sharp cutting of steerage rates —Naow “York Bvening Post, New Experience for Bill Bill Sulzer 3ays he is “here (o { Only One to Stand It i | victed of be known as the United States mili- tary detention barracks. The prison would be modeled after the English army disciplinary institution at Alder- shot, and no soldier or civilian con- an offense punishable servitude might hereafter nfined_there. Military prisoners under suspended sentence quartered in the detentlon barracks would be organized into mili- tary commands and thelr training kept up. 3 kept where prison conduct warrants Honorable restoration to the a permission to re-enlist without p dice, if the enlistment had would folloWgood behavior. by penal be co; expired Steamship Arrivals. Feb. 8.—Steamer Celtic a Naples, ork. Gl 7.—Steamer Mongoli- an, Philacelphin via St Johns, K. 5. _Rotterdam, Feb. 7.—Steamer Russia New York for Libau. 2| New Gibraltar, Feb. 9. -Steamer Corona, | Now \'v‘ vk for Naples, etc 2 lle, Feb. 9.—Steamer California New York for Glasgow: O New York, Feb. 9, —Steamer Ca - | onia, Glasgow, Eid Philadelphia, Feb. 9.—Steamer Man- | tou, Antwerp via Boston. Naw Commandant at West Point Washington, Feb. 9. Captain Morto: F. Smith of the Twentieth infantry. now stationed at El Paso Tex., has been ordered by Secretary Garmson s proceed to West Point, N. . - aume the duties of commandant of ma | dets at the wilitary ac suceeed- g Major Fred W iie Blev- enth infantry, who is wd join is regiment in China Suspected of Westport Baurglaries. Westport, Coun.. Fe, 9. Jored Ar ers and Tleury Pag STais E. W. LaCrosh, said sbella dence! L. were to the next term of 2 bonds of $5.000 ¢ for many een few robberies committed here weels, b Forbes to Lead Bir Cambridge, Mass., Feb, 3 eron Forbes, former governor genera) of the Philippines, will head & bird collection expedition for Harvard uni- versity into the jungles of Central and d Hunt. 9.—W. Cam | South America. ‘it Was announced fo- day by the college authorities. I | sitnesses had undou peal today sustained the decision of the king's bench court, which in a test case brought last June by an Irish farmer claiming damages for the loss of his son in the Titanic disaster, declared illegal the condition printed | on the steamship tickets exempting the company from liability for loss by a paseenger even through negligence of the company’s servants. The judgment of the court of appeal they | in dismissing the appeal of the White | Star Steamship company from that decision was delivered by Lord Justice Sir Roland Vaughan Willlams, who declared that praftice did not justify a vessel in maintaining her course and speed when the warnings of dangers | ahead wero such as the Titanic re- ceived. The only enswer, he said, which the owners of the Titanic could give to the charge of negligent naviga- tion, in proceeding at full speed under the circumstances preceding the disas- ter, was that this was the custom of eamers crossing the Atlantic_under the most skilled navigators. Expert tedly shown that On_the other ence that hazardous in such was the practice. hand, there was expert evi under conditions extremely a prudent navigator was justified departing from the general practice. WOMAN'S CHIEF WORK 1S THAT OF HOME MAKER. of of New President Goucher College. Baltimore, Feb. 9.—In his inaugural address today Dr. William Westley Guth, the new president college, Geclared that woman's work 15 to be that of home make: that in all the training for women Declaration chief | clearing house certificates not count- | | | of Goucher | the schools the duty of motherhood . must be carried out. He sald in part “While our higher lustitutions of learning should grunt to woman (ha ege of graduate and technic: h the view to professional life, on women cannot or w would be a mistaking of the pose. of her higher educatio: hould be trained away fromw than toward, the expectancy riage and motherhood. ‘I would have no word to say con- cerning woman’s rights, if her righis involve nothing more than the bailot. Personally, I have never found any reason why woman should not vote. “There {s no reason why a_woman who knows something about business and public affairs, and is interested in social betterment, cannot be levable and gractovs and sweet, or, above all a good mother.” all of ma Meeting of Western Governors. Denver, Col., Ieb, 9.—Governor E Ammons has recelved a communi from Secretary of the Interior Lane suggesting that a meeting of the gov ernore of western states and individ- nals interested in reclamation projects and be held to discuss irrigation reclamation of arid lands. General Cleanup at Wa the national ¢ sequences of Pl ing of the Ke gan in earnest for police superv pic re shows, <o restanran ar ment houses and low amusement re Old Bills Found in a Crevice. A b. 8. tattered Washington far bill and & rugged 25-cent “shin- mailed to the lreasu 1884, were found in a cr in the office. of the comptr of currency today while some old fixtures were being removed Landlords to Be Prosecuted St. Louls, Feb. 8. —Efforts by ow: ers of property in the segreguled vice | district to resist the police order clos- ing resorts on March 1 will be met by the prosecution of the landlords on g DB Cht nly an Eskimo could stand st A Paper Mills B | chasges of lesying property, for im- r Oily a%i B : : Arm- | s Burned. | Record- Herald. ageddon in this weather without freez- | Wausau, W o starting | 20T ROFECRNS S e L {inz hoth fee(.—Springtield Mirror ! trom an overlheized motor today ca Speaking of qui olutions, cor There are nearly « thousand el L EE €0 3 Tosx of $150,000 at the Broki | sidi The Changh that Mab Some over tyte ranges in use in the<ity of Winni- electric burglar alarm has beem | Mills of the Wausau Paper Mills Com. | (e United Stafes senate’ — Chicago e d fer the chicken coop | pany " L Nows. 7 | plunged to death Nov. 4. Made a Record [Lnit_His Life| LIEUTENANT POST PLUNGES TO | DEATH. | i COLLAPSE OF MACHINE Hydroaeroplane Crumbled Up Like Eggshell—Sixth Fatality Since Es- tablishment of U. S. Army School. San_Diego, Cal., Feb. 9. —Lieut. ry 8. Post of the First Aero corps, con- sidered one of the most skilied: of Unlteq States army aviators, plunzed | to his death in San Diego bay today, when the right wing of his hydr aeroplane crumpled like an ecggshell. Post died after cstablishing an Amer- ican altitude record of 12,130 feet. Tle | fell 600 feet into shallow water and | was dead when Francis Wildman, an- other aviator, reached the scene in & flying boat. Started Out to Break Record. ost left the North Island hangars at 8.50 o'clock, after having declared his intentlon to break the American altitude record for hydroaeroplanes. Within an hour he had attained a height of 12,120 feet, the barograph showing this figure when recovered from the wreckage. A series of wide spirals was a feature of tho descent, the machine appearing to be under per- | fect control. When within 600 feot of the water the plane was seen to col- lapse, then careen. The next instant the unfortunate pilot was hurled from his seat and the machine plunged downward like a bullet. Sixth Fatality in Corps. Captain Arthur S. Cowen, head of the First corps, declared the machine which Post was piloting was solely re- sponsible for the fatal accident. Post is the sixth arm: tor at- tached to the First Aero corps flying the army type of machine to meet death since the school was established. The other fatalities are: Previous Fatalities. Hen- i Lieut. Rex Chandler, killed April 8, 1913. Lieut. J. D, Park, killer while at- tempting ® flight from San Diego to Los Angeles. Lieut. Moss L. Love. crushed beneath machine in short fall on the aviation grounds. Lieut. E. L. Eilington, chief instruc- tor, and Lieut. Hugh M. Kelly, pupil, Lieut. Post was 2t years old. He came here June 28, 1313, from Honolu- Iu, wher® he was attached to the 25th ! infantry, and beceine military aviator j No. 11. 'He is survived by his widow and his sister, who came here only re- cently to visit him from their home in Babylon, Long Island, where his moth- | er also resides, and a brother, V. S. Post, the novelist. His father died two | weeks ago. The body will be shipped to Wash- ington, D. C., for interment in Arling- ton National cemetery. REFUSED PERMISSION TO ATTEND WIFE'S FUNERAL. Manning and His Sister Charged With Concealment of Murder. Newark, N. J., Feb. 9.—Charging con- cealment of the crime of Haxel Herd- man, the veiled woman who last F' day shot and killed Mrs. Harriet Man- ning, the police arrested toda 1. Manning, husband of the murdered woman, and Mrs. Saidee E. Garrabrant, Manning's sister, and after a_severe examination lasting five hours brought them before Police Judge Frederick in the second criminal cour: for arraignment. Each was held in; $5,000 ball. Mre, (mrrabrant had been | ained s a material witness, but later she was held on the same charge | as her brother, violation of section 20 | of the criminal act,which provides that non-disclosure of knowledge of the act- ual commission of murder s a misde- meanor. While under examination by the po- lice Manning hegged permission to at- tend the funeral of his wife, hut was refused. Haze! Herdman. who, ing the shooting of Mrs nix t secured ball OBITUARY Frederick Bond. New ¥ Peb. §- Frederick - Bon actor, who appeared in noted g tions on the American stage for more than thirty vears. died foday at Whitestone. Long [sland, after a brief illness. For the past two decades Bond ling parts i many ad suceesst ns and nlso ap ¢ in vauderiile, Preston Hussey Terre Huute, Ind. Feb. 9—Prest Hussey, 88 dean of local bankers and said to be the oldest banker in the United States, died at his home here | this afternoon. 1 . William F. Downey. i Waskhington, Fob, William I, Downey, a 1ocal philanthropist, wh enjoyed the distinction of having been | publicly named by former President Roosevelt as “a man Washington should ba proud of,” died -here today He dispensed his charity witheut re gard to race. William H. Bell. Washington, Feb. 9.—Wiiliam H. Bel lived throogh the hardships and pri- vations of the Greely Ar expedition b < howme 1 Eliot’s Dislike of Labor Unions New Huve Conn.. Feéh. 9--Dr Charles W. F former president oi Harvard University, in a letter to Charles ¥ the local trofley Pender of while i and_she bad effect on writter Ain his men's hours, e cb Dr. uni ad u hep, iz Diggs Held On Girl’s Complaint. rancisco, Feb, 9 -Maury T former state architect. who with F. Drew Camenetii. son of An thony Caminetti, United - missioner of immigratior victed of violating the slave act, was held white in Mann $10.000 today police court to answer in the superior court to a charge of criminal assault preferred by lda Pearring, aged 17 | de- | The paccel p using electrs Tivery trucks cities many of the l-r‘-' | suddenly Condensed Telegrams | By a vote of 107 to 29 the New York assembly last night adopted the re- publican investigation plan. Mayor Smith, of Laporte, Ind., will select a policewoman for the.purpose of censoring women's dress. taken | court Judge Jéseph F. Quinn was ill on the superior bench at Salem, Mass., vesterduy. The strict enforcoment of prohibi- tion laws 1s believed responsible for the decrease of crime in Maine. Mrs. Bridget Daughert ebrated her 107th birth Bethlehem, N. Y., Sunday of her daughter. Curran cel- y at South at the hame Only natives of Panama and Ameri cans will hereafter be employed in the higher grades of service on the Pana- ma Canal. Hope of saving Frederick W. Vand- | erbilt’s yacht Warrdor, stranded on a reef on the \Colombian coast, has been abandoned. As a punishment for jumping on trolley cars, Judge Fowler of Boston ordered Alfred Chapdelaine horse- whipped by his ther. An effort being made in New Jer- y to have a limit of the age for children attending school changed from 17 to 16 years. William A. Stone was. burned. to death when his celluloid collar caught ablaze, while he was working over a fire in Hanover, N. H. Huntington Brown, aged 63, past grand commander of the Knights Templar of Ohio and three times may- or of Mansfield, died yesterday. Announcement is made by the State Bank of Evanston, Ill., that $1 will be | placed to the credit of every baby born ' within the limits of the city. Someone with a grudge against T. E. Donovan, a Shelton liveryman en tered the stable and with a sharp knife cut the linings of several hacks. The body of Miss Genev, Allis, an artist, was found under the Hunting- | ton bridge in the Housatonic River at Dérby, Conn., vesterday. 1t was a case of suicide. | Collector of Internal Revenue James J. Walsh is at St. Francis hospital Hartford, where he underwent a deli- cate operation yesterday for necrosis of the jaw. An expert knowiedge of safes and the use of explosives was obtained by August Kaufman, convicted of burg: lary at Hoston yesterday, from books in the public library Director Ralph of the bureau of printing and engraving declared yes- terday that the $4.000 missing from the bureau for some timé, was either stol- en or destroyed. The will of the late Charles C. Gates will be probated In Tesas. but the heirs will pay the state of Minnesota inheritance taxes on 32,750,000 mounting to $:¢738. Four passengers were injured when a train on the Marblehead Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad struck an open switch and crashed into = freight car at Salem, Mass., yesterday. . .Student wa working universi locked ot business rs who rebelled against conditions in the Wisconsin commons and who were week ago by order of the manager, returned to work | ns, wireless operator hero of the lost steamer Republic, is to be married in June. His fiancee is Miss Alice A. MacNiff of Brooklyn, whom he met when he was wireless man aboard the Adriatic. The Swedish steamer Marie, laden with chalk and ten davs overdue from London, reached Roston vesterday. The steamer fought against head winds and mountainous seas through- out the 27 davs vovage. The bodies of Robert and Albert Coleman, eight and six vears old, s of John Colema 4 Boston labor: were fon nder the ice <m: u A largehalf starved, grey wolf, after f others spread ousternatio, thr o stald esidetii MALILt 1o Kaneas City, Mo. was shot and killea n Linwood Boulevard vestardas In return for ing lier dower hix in the estate of the lyte Tlenry e. Ida A. Fla an incompetent Flagier . atier she he. The protective committee, « York, New Iave: i Hartford Rail- road s ne w the compans ap- peared to be facing o linanciek crisis was dissulied yesterday after an exist- ence of ten months. Expert divers wh examined the wreck of the Old Domin. | ion steamer, Monr in_collision with the Nuntucket, express the belief while the bodies of the forty-one vic- tims, a5 well as the cargo. can be covered, the vessel will be a {otal loss have thoreughly The immense $2,500,000 rep: the Boston and Maine railvead at Billerica_ Mass ware opaned for work for the first time vesterday with ovep 200 mechanics reporting at the leco- motive shops and 300 mere coming in from Keene and Concord, N. H., dur- ng the da shaps New American Record. “eb. 9. —A uew light hri Fran sToe- by an from San Die- one-da Silus rom San To Oven Usn Alaska Coal Lands. Olsla 1o gramme « ources will of the idte Hall of Now Haven thodist Episcopal | ill receive a bequest of §1.000, and 320,000 will go as & spesipl fund to Grace hospital. Milton.—Willlam Kenn of 15 White Leghorn eggs in Janua | i v has a pen puliets that iald | like & mun than to go | commitree 'fiéo!;&mon to the City's Population T0 CAUGUS UN__FIEE—TUU.S REPEAL | Democratic Senators Conclude To Thresh Out “m barrassing Situation In Secret Session |INTEGRITY OF PARTY PLATFORM IS AT'STAKE . Contention That This Should Not Be Made A Party Question —Senator Stone Places Patriotism And Common Sense Above Party Plank—Senator Lodge To Fight For Re- tention of Literacy Test In Immigration Bill. Washingtor ¥ 9.—Repeal of Lhe provision of nama caral act ex- emp American coastwise ships from tolls, favored by President Wi is ade a subject o action by a democs of the senate. That this would be a wise and necessary course in the interest of party harmony and the tion’s foreign policy is the conciusion of administration senators who have discussed the subject with the presi- dent within the last few days How soon the caucus witl be called has not beeu determined, but several senators today frankly asserted that the democrais would get toseiher to welgh (he situation as presented by the president and seltle for themselyes the whole controversy. The fact that the democratic party endorsed the tolls exemption policy at the Baltimore con- vention, these senators and President Wilson hoid, should not be a subject of open controversy at this time. because conditions involved in the tolls que: tion have changed since that time. The point to be settled is whether the pol- iey of tolls adopted by the nation through the action of congress should be reversed regardless of the declara- | tion in the Baltimore platform. Should Not Be Party Question. Pregident Wilson has made it clear to senate and house leaders (hat he is not attempting to force .ongress to reverse itsel has ouilined to them the count wiih respect to foreign relations iis Delief tnat a Teversal of the policy on the tolls guestion wonld be the bost thing. He | is seeking nvined cong that thle is 80, but party leaders who have talked with him declare thut he s not attempting it In any spir ism put in a spirit of co-operation for the general welfare. One senator said today -there is a general understa=ding in congress that the shapiug of the country's foreign policy is up to the president and that congress must g.ve ear to lum wnen- ever legislation affects that poliey. For this reason. ithe feeiing is that the tolls queetion should Lot be a party ques- tion. - Senator Stone of Missouri, who is confined io his homfe by illness, ad- dressed <ouic poignant questionx on the cur (7sy in a letter to Senator Kern as ‘man of the senite demo- cratic caucus. Baitimore Plank Not a “Joke: Referring to the discussion of the question with reference to the toll plank of the platform a “joker,” Senator Stone called such a suggestion “utterly puerile,” although admitting that only a smull percentage of mem- hers of the convention had more than imperfect knowledge of the sub- he Ais- there is the least occasion for startin ump- ns’ ab platform aration, The d is in_the orm as the del ste act of the national con- vention. That proposition might as well be taken as settled, and inerefore [ it is not a ‘joker’ The trouble is that the time bas come when many good en and good democrats think that the poltey outlined in the piatform was a mistake and that the nation cannot in homor or in zovod faith adhere to it Manifestly, the honor and good faith of the Amer people are ter consequence than a mere hefence to a declaration Patriotism—tperior to Platform consideratior s & the poliey ¥ o seme f. There is n fuss abo bl m. nor £ ‘cussing se nade | T voted for the platform and T vot- ed for the bill exempting our coust- wise vessels from tolls, but if there s any good reason, and 1 now think there is, why we should reverse the policy so far followed. a1 least tem- porarily. and until the whole subieo could be again reviewed, 1 am ready to vote to take ihat course. I would rather do this right out In the open to hunt some fimey excume for THE LITERARY TEST Senator Lodge te Fight Vigorously for Its Retention in Bill. Pres Wil ident nort bad anotbe but tion House. deter he emphasized bis e wn steer carefully the of mmigra- tion legislation as launched by ihe 1 se"laie. “Ip my judgment” said Seuator $mith, “and it Is 2 judsment held also by many democratic and republican semators, there is no more important Tegislazion befo immizration bill. congress than this What we do towaed dging aronnd | w is of only to our whole world. America with lation of 1 nation i inte . and our foreizn into our treatment ¢ very sug- gestion of tion reform must and will be iy by this committee. volved in the subject considered from a non-partisan standpoint. _Politicians caunot be substituted for diplomats in the mak X and it is m e to this bill is the fore the senate is as As to the lit test in the house Senato; would make no atement, either concerning his own or the pre views. Other mem- bers of the have let it be known, howev President Wil- son favors son rm of immi- gration r ». Senator Lodge of Massach member of the com- mittee an r advocate for many. ars of test for immi- nts, inte to fight vigorously for »vision in the bill. retention E re senate com- mit sessions until it compl ric on the measure. As to t © features, the com= mittee proposes to issue a Statement, probably tomorrow, after the chair— has reported on his latest con- with_the president. President ew of the fact that the committee asked for his views, has left to the ijgment of Chairman Smith what should be made publio concerninz them. BURKE SUSPENDED BY COL. GOETHALS, Charged With Accepting Gratui Connection With His Office. Panama, Feb. 9. —Complete reorsan= ization of the subsistence and commis- sary departments in the canal zome, Whitloek, United begun Frank O. in_charge, was with Capt States cavalry today after ( orge W. Goethals, chairman of the Panama canal com- ipission, had suspended John Burke, fidnager of the commmissary depart- ment, and, W. F. Shipley, chief clerk of the subsisience department, snd had relieved from duty Lieutenant Colonel Wilson, chief e sbsistence depart~ ment, at his own request. Both de- partments will be placed on a perma- nent orga: ion basis immediately, and as a cesult many clerks will bs dismissed Colonel Goethals took action against these officials on the rec the re- port of Spi who had s aguinst Burke in pplies, hat the n- susly push~ he ity investigated that he had ac nection with th Colonel G igation rehase of ared d be vige persons, if ar In anno - sion Colonel Goethals . the deposits made by . o properties purchase Burke d = term as manager of the department, aggre- o of dollars, and gating mar said he wou tunity transact of Hamburg de him every nnocence . L. Sa- Long & to his De e o tha the o LIC SCHOOL Not Producing Good Morals or Goed s, Says. o public sehoal s s Jobr E t fathers used od i= not apparent < sut_of our publie « Roman Catholle church educated. in manners and he children in the Latin countries than have the public schools we have tods Dishonest Cashier Suicides. Haglehurst, Ga.. Feb. 3. —Officers wh went to the home of G F. Armstrong to arrest of $12.00 m for an alleg- in his accounts s Siate bank, and AFmStrong 4ying with s bullat fm his head, The cashisr hud besn given 3 make good the shores himself just befcve He disd tonight. Owe Our Language to Tyndale, Washington, Feb. 8.—Te Tyndales o 7 'the Bible. rathe r than te Tramp Steamer Aground. X b, 9.—The Buite a éen Lonise re- ard agroamd W a sand aft ot NS, « tonight. with ne 2 af k releused Gefore to- w merning's high tide at the ear Wendell Next Exchange Professor. A Feb. 8 —The ap- Prof. Barcett Wendell of depariment at Harsaed Ys xchange professor ta the f Berlin was announced $o- night. New Britain—Roy N. Buell of this city has goue to New Bedford, o supcrintend the CORStruCtion ek’ } zas plans~