Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 19, 1914, Page 1

VOL. LVIL.—NO. 43 CONN., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Ciruclation in Norwich is Double NORWICH, That of Any 6ther Paper, and Its Total Circulation is rthe L CASTILLO ON VERGE OF BREAKDOWN Bandit Chief Shows Effects of the Strenuous Ex- nerience of Eluding Rebel Pursuers ASSERTS HIS INNOCENCE OF TUNNEL TRAGEDY Declares That He is a Socialist and Has Been Conducting Sep- arate Revolution to Establish Socialist Government in Mexico—To be Confined at Fort Bliss—Mexican Arrest- ed on Suspicion of Having Designs on Life of Huerta. aximo | C; stillo will be interned at the Maxi an prison camp at Fort Bliss tomor- ow, according to information today Hachita Castillo, by tates troops. him were his brother, his |recéived by Hugh L. Scott. He will rumpeter and the latter's wife and | be placed in a cell near that ot Gen- two indian women. None were|eral Jose Ynez Salazar in the post mounted | suardhouse. Bandit's Band Broken Up. e Th apparently was not HELD AS SPY. ave ing_himself under the A EE rotec he United States. IHis | American Held Prisoner Forbidden to and, which for months has har Thlk e o s, held prisoners for ran it stolen in a care irned, sacked and eer Juare: Mexico, Feb. 18.—Thomas which culminated in the Cumbre tun- Edwards, United States consul here isaster, is scattered and believed | this afterncon succeeded in seeing to be broken. | Gustay Bauch, the American whom On Verge of Nervous Breakdown. | the rebels are’ trving on a charge of ase the O s | el y. The whereabouts of William S. Benton, the British subject, who was arrested last night, could not be learned. General Villa said he was not locked up but meanwhile his friends made a fruitless search for him. Senor Ramon, chief of the rebel se- n no rest, and he seemed on the i mervous breakdown when | here. Villa's rebels have been | , and along the Ameri- n bord American troopers kept sleepless watch. Finally he chose cap- re by the iatter as his fate. on his = cret service, conducted the Amer- American’s Check in His Pocket. |jcan consul and two reporters into the in Castillo's pocket was found the | gloomy cuartel. When Bauch ap- check for $1,000 given him by W. A.| proached in the darkpess, a rebel Roxby as a ransom. Roxby, an Ameri- | officer sharply ordered him to y can, who is manager of a Mexican | nothing, ranch, was held up by Castilio a week | Senor Ramon explained that Bauch's or more ago. He is now in El Paso, | case was still being heard and that it where the bank has been instructed |is the rule to hold prisoners incom- not to honor The troopers | municado until decision is rendered. and_their prisoners camped last night | at Las 15 miles south of | BOYS BEATEN WITH here. The trip was over roughest S8TICKS AND STRAPS. | Holy Roliers’ Method of Driving Out Sin and the Devil. roads and required five hours, Denies Complicity in Tunnel Tragedy. “astillo was not talkative. He look- ed at his inquisitors out of bloodshot | vehemently asserted his in- € his in Newton, Ill, Feb. 18.—The burning Docence of complicity in the Cumbre| of ‘the Sprines Holiness church, the agedy. He he was a socialist | o4,;legale arrest of its members and g avas Conducting a separate revo.!the conviction of five more persons 0 attain that form of | gere today's developments in the court | action and mob action against the re- ligious cult known as “Holy Rollers” near here The trial is the outgrowth of a spe- cial service at the Springs church & week ago, at which, it is alleged, two little boys were tied hand and foot, and Feb. of | after a vote of the congregation were the xican bandit| beaten with sticks and leather straps f charged with responsibility for | till their backs bled. The members, It the Cumbre tunnel tragedy, on Ameri- | is charged, took this means of driving n soil, as furnished a knotty prob in and the devil” out of the boys. for officials here. From the mo-| The little fellows, 9 and 12 years old ment General Bliss reported today that | on the witness stand said the sin with Castillo and his companions had been | which they were charged was failure taken by the border partrol in New | to attend church. Mexico there were conferences and The church of the recently organized exchanges between the state and war | sect was found burned today. Tt is department officials to determine what | presumed that the mob which yester- should be do: ith the prisoners, who | day was frustrated in its efforts to are temporarily held at Fort Bl Iynch the pastor of the church, and Washington Officials Not Decided as to Disposal of Castillo. As the crime charged agai Cas- | three others charged with the attack tillo was committed in Mexican ter- | on the b vented their wrath ritory, American courts are without | against the “Holy Rollers” by destroy- Jurisdiction, although many of the vic- Today Mrs. Rosa De- tims were Americans. In time of peace ing the church. ick, Frank Emery and his wife, Aller the prisoner would be surrendered un- | Lyons and Harold Cummins were der extradition proceedings to the gov- | found guilty of being accessories to v of the Mexican state of Chihua- | the attack on the boys. Each of the for trial: but as President Wilson | first. three was fined $85 and costs and formally declared there is no ent in Mexico, any extradition involve grave diffi- | the two latter § and costs each. |PEN-KNIFE A CLUE TO GIRL'S MURDER state department has been ap- to. and pending its final | SFT ety S the intention of the war de. | Property of Benchmate of Man Held partment to retain Castillo and hi for the Crime. party in custody under the same con- B Aurora, Ills,, Feb. 18.—A pen-imife, found in the cemetery, a few feet from where the Dattered body of 20- | years-old Theresa Hollander was dis- covered by her father, was identified today, according to the police. The knife, it is sald, was formerly the | property of Frank Barimont, a bench- mate of Antony Petras, former sweet- ditions as Ge eral Salazar and the sol- | who came across the internation- > with arms in hand, thereby nz themselves to internment GUZMAN HAD DAGGER. Believed to Have Intended Assassina- H tion of Huerta. heart of Miss Hollander, who has —— |been in jail since the finding of her Mexico City. Feb. 18—David Guz- |body. man, a stranger in the capital, is being | _Miss Hollanduer will be buried in held’ 2 ce headquarters tonight | St. Nicholas cemetery tomorrow only agents are investigating a a few feet from where her body was he was attempung to as- | found, President Huerta. R. H. Schellhorn, conductor on_the was arrested at the natlonal street car on which both Miss Hol- Palace after having been refused an a with President Huerta and Blanquet, minister of war rched by the police, it is said lander and Petras were seen shortly before the murder, today confirmed the statement of Waiter Hickman, a ne- gro, that Petras had ridden a block that a dagger was found on Guzman | beyond where the girl left the car and and that in his pockets were a letter | then had run swiftly bac from rebel sympathizers in Guadala- - s i jara and a list of names and address- s of members of the cabinet and other prominent residents in the capital. | STREET CAR CRUSHED , BETWEEN TRACTION CARS Guzman, who is a young man and Killed_and Fi well dressed, denied tonight that he | Four Persons Killed and Five Prob- intended to' assassinate President | ably Fatally Injured. Huerta A NEUTRAL ZONE. sons we 2o {in Wilson Demands One at Torreon for tonight when an outbound English NoniE bt Sets avenue car was crushed between two E | heavy traction cars. The accident ac- e Killed, five"probably fatally Mexico City, Feb. 18.—President Wil- mon, through Nelson O'Shaughnessy the American charge d'affaires, sisting that President Huerta and Gen- eral Vilia, the rebel leader, agree upon the maintenance of a neutral zone at Torreon, in which foreigners and other non-combatants may have some de. gree of safety in the event of a bat- President Huerta has agreed to » conditional upon General Vil- iescence to it. It is under- zents of the United States representations to General curred at Virginia avenue and South street rails. aged and was The dead are: James Horan, 16 and Jacob K, Hardy, r Roark, Harry Oliver. e English avenue car, loaded with homeward bound #rem the { business section, of a steep grade, just behind a | lumbus and Southern traction car. large Indianapolis and Cincinnati trac | tion freight car crashed into it. {dead and a majority of the injured | were standing on the rear platform of | the English avenue car, which was Co- ) acq! stood that Ula for the establichment of the zone. Vil b he z telescoped. There is nothing here to indicate| At the hespitals it was said it was thai there will be serious fighting at|doubtful if any of the five persons se- Torreon for several day , although | riously injured would live. skirmishes betwen federal and rebel | scouting parties are being reported al- most datly. Salvador Diaz Miron, editor of B1 Mmparcial, has been placed under po- Hee surveillance on account of the re- port that he threatened to kill Mr. O'Shauzlinessy, who recently protested to President Huerta concerning the Steamship Arrivals. New York, Feb. 18.—Steamer Meon- tana, Puerto, Mexico. Liverpool, Feb. 1§.—Steamer Cym- ric, New York. TLondon, Feb Portland. Fiume, Feb. 15. 18.—Steamer Aseania, character of a serles of anti-Wilson | New Yor editorials appearing in El Imparcial. It | Marseilles, Feb. 16.—Steamer Sant appears, however, that the most seri- | Anna, New ¥ork. ous threat made by Miron was that| Havre, Feb. 18—Steamer La Prov- he “wouid repeat to Mr. O’Shaughnes face what he had written in edi- torials.” The charge takes the editor serious- 1y and has reported the incident to ‘Washington. ence, New York. Boy Hanked Himself. Chicago, Feb. 18.—Earl Moisly, aged 14, a pupil in the sixth grade of the Beaubien school, hanged himseif in the basement of his heme today, after he had been sent home from school for heing disobedient. . Castillo Going to Fort Bliss. Paso, Tex, Feb, 13.—Maximo | Indianapolis, Ind., Fep. 18—Four per- | ured and 25 others were hurt here | caused by slippery | 48, | stopped at the foot | The | Steamer Belvedere, | Cabled Paragraphs Panama Recognizes Peru. Panama, Feb. 18.—The Panama gov- ernment today formally recognized the new Peruvian government. French Liner Loses Propeller, Havre, Feb, 18.—The French line steamship Niagara, which lost a pro- peller at sea while bound from Havre for New York, returned here this eve- ning. Ocean Liners Collide. Naples, Italy, Feb. 18.—The White Star liner Celtic collided with the Fa- bre liner Madonna here today,and both vessels were seriously damaged. The Madonna was unable to leave for New York, for which port she was to have departed today with a large number of emigrants. Earle’s “Affinity” Leaves For Paris. Christiania, Norway, Feb. 18—Miss Charlotte Herman, of Rutherford, N. J., the companion of Ferdinand Pin- ney IKarle, the American artist who was recently extradited to France in connection with the kidnapping of Earle’s eight year old son from & school in France, left here today for Paris. Suffragette Horsewhips Baron. London, Feb. 18—A militant suf- fragette armed with whip savagely attacked Baron Weardale, while he was waiting today with 200 other guests for a train to Althorp Park, Northampton, to attend the wedding of the Hon. Sidney Peel, son of Viscount Peel and Lady Delia Spencer, daughter of Xarl Spencer. WIRELESS APPARATUS NOT PROPERLY LOCATED on the If-Fated Monroe Gives Testimony. Operator Philadelphia, Feb. 18—The position of the wireless apparatus on the steamship Monroe, which was sunk Dby the Nantucket off the Virginia coast with a loss of 41 lives, made it im- possible to send out O. S calls except for a few seconds after the crash. Testimony to this effect was given by Robert L. Etheridge, a wire- less operator aboard the Monroe, who was the principal witness today at the trial of Captain Osmyn Berry of the Nantucket, charged with negligence. Etheridge said the wireless outfits were misplaced on nearly all coast- wise vessels and declared that both the auxiliary or extra switches and the telephone to the pilot house shouid be placed at points convenient to the wireless operator. “If the auxiliary switch had been placed so that I could have reached it, under the conditions which pre- valled after the Monroe was hit,” he testified, “I would have turned on a Storage battery we Kkept in reserve and stuck uniil we got an answer to our 0. S calls,” The witness sald he left the wireless room 27 sec- onds after the crash, and that the other wireless operator who lost his life, preceded him by a few seconds. ¥theridge admitted under cross ex- amination that if he or the other | operator had remained in the room a trifle longer the distress signal could have been eent out again by reason of the auxiliary dynamo being placed n commission by the second engineer. “ TO STOP MAD RUSHES TO BARGAIN COUNTERS Woman Wants Prices of Household | Goods Standardized by Law. Washington, Feb, 18.—Members of the Interstate Commerce Commission today listened to a plea from Mrs. Christine Frederick of Philadelphia for fixed prices to standardize house- hold goods and for legislation which would eliminate peril to womanhood | of the nation in mad rushes at bar- | gain _counters, under “the lure” of the | retailers to fill. their stores with pa- trons, Representing the Housewives League of America, Mrs. Frederick aroused intense interest when she arraigned the “folly of women who spend half a day, six thousand calories of energy and ten cents in car fare to rush down town to take advantage of a cut price, a 25 cent toothbrush selling for 18 cents.” | The cost of doing business to the department store, Mrs, Frederick said, is about 20 per cent. and from 30 to 93 per cent. of retailers in all lines favor price maintenance. She assert- ed that the price cutting stores let the sincere manufacturers spend money to tell consumers his standard and his ideals and then publicly assault him and try to rob him and the consumers of the benefits of the standardized fixed quality and price, so valnable to con- sumers. GAMBLED MONEY AWAY Chicago Man Gonfesses Embezziement | from His Employer. IN SALOON. Chicago, Feb, 18—Judge Adelor Petit in the criminal court teday re- fused to parole ¥red Bell, an emb zler, but at the same time deciared it was ou the court’s consclence to see Bell's wife and children provided for. “Under no circumstances will I p: roie this man and let his faithful wife work her fingers to the bone to pay back the money he stole” said Judge. Petit. “But 1 am going to find some zood woman with plenty of money and plenty of time to take care of this | wife and the little ones while the hus- band {s in prisen Judsge Petit was affected to tears by | the pleading of Mrs. Bell, but he would not change his decision, He continued the case a week in order to find a refuge for Mrs. Bell, 5 | Bell had a previous eonvietion | against him. He confessed to having embezzled 3700 from his employer, & grocer, and te gambling the money | away in a saloon. As a resuit Morris { Sabath, a saloon keeper, cousin of Representative A. J. Sabath of Chi- cago, was arrested and charged with | condueting & handbook, | " 'No Woman Suffrage in Maryiand. Annapolis, Md., Feb. 18.—The woman suffrage bill was killed in the house of | delegates today by a vote of 60 to 34. | Unfair Freight Rates on Coal. | New Britain, Conn, Feb., 18.—At the | instance of Mayor Joseph M. Halloran the common council tonight voted to instruct the corporation counsel to cail 1o the attention of the Interstate Com- tperce Comamission alleged unfair freight rates to this city, especially in Tegard to the tramsportation of coal. The mayor claims that imvestigation | shows that six miles west of this city I coal is delivered for ten cenis a ton | less than here. Six miles east of the clty coal is delivered for cents a ton less tham in New Britain. Municipal Market Opens. €hicago, Feb. 18—One hundred and iwenty-five purchasers, who spent §125, visited Chicago’'s first munieipal market, which opened today. Feod was sold at cest price to pessons out | of smployment, 'Charged With | fragists he Inconsistency PRESIDENT WILSON UNDER FIRE IN THE SENATE. A DEMOCRAT REVOLTS! Declares He Will Not “Stultify” Him- self by Voting Against Free Tolls Plank of the Baltimore Platform. Washington, Feb. 18.—Accusing President Wilson of inconsistency in his views of the binding effect of the democratic platform and charging that “greed of the railroads and the auda- clous claims of Great Britain seem far more potent with our president than the appeal of the womsnhood of the nation,” Senator Bristow, reput lican, of Kansas, turned discussion of woman suffrage in the senate today into a vigorous debate on the pro- posed repeal of the free tolls provision of the Panama canal sct, Chamberlain Won't “Stultify” Himself. Senator Bristow's attack brought to the defense of the president several republicans as well as democratic sen- ators, while it served also as the sig- nal for opening the fight within the democratic party against repeal of the tolls mption provision. Senator Chamberlain of ~ Oregon, democrat, dramatically declared that he would not “stultify” himself* by telling his constituents that he had not kept his platform pledge on the toll question “because the president of the United States does not agree with me.” ‘While senators were thus engaged in the first open discussion of the ap- proaching battle in congress over the chief executive's desire for reversal of the Panama policy, the president himself was engaged with leaders of the house of representatives who are opposed to repudiating the declara- tion of the party platform. He dis cussed the situation with Majori Leader Underwood and Representative Kitchin of North Carolina, but as far as could be learmed did not convert them to his view that the provision granting free tolls to American ves- sels violates the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and embarrasses the adminis- tration in its foreign relations. Lodge Defends President, Senator Bristow based his charge of inconsistency against the president on the ground that he had told the suf- could not advocate th cause because the democratic party had not expressed itself in the matter while he proposed that congress should reverse itself on the tolls question despite the fact that the party had endorsed its action. In this connection the Kansas senator mentioned the ref- erence in the Baltimore platform fa- voring “a single presidential term and asked whether ths president would “Iinterpret this plank i{n harmeny with his position as to suffrage or as to canal tolls.” ‘When Senator Bristow said that the transcontinental railroads had for years (Continued on Page Eight) TO CROSS ATLANTIC IN A MAMMOTH AEROPLANE. Ambitious Programme Mapped Qut by McCormick of Chicago. Chicago, Feb, 18—Harold F. McCor- mick, aeroplane enthusiast, who has already instailed hydro-aeroplane transportation from his home in a northern suburb to downtown Chicago, has planned to attempt a flight across the Atlantic ocean in the largest aero- plane yet built. According to information given to airmen here, C. C. Witmer, Lincoln Beachey and Tony Stedman are to be the pilots in the fiight with Jay J. McCarthy as navigator. Gasoline tanks which can bo dropped when their con- tents are exhausted were said to be | an integral part of the equipment pro- posed for the giant aeroplane whose wings will spread 48 feet from tip to tip. A wireless outfit with a 100 mile | radius of efficiency was to be in- stalled. PROVIDENCE MAY LOSE FABRE STEAMSHIP LINE. Lack of Quarantine Facilit the Reason. | | | Providence, R. I, Feb. 15—A super- | | | | ficial examination today of the Fabre line steamship Roma, which was held on the ledges off No Man's Land for six hours on Monday, showed that five | of her plates had been damaged by the | pounding, but the ship was taking in | very little water. A case of typhus on hoard, combined with the lack of a quarantine hospital here, prevented the Roma’s departure | for New York today. All of the 151 | passengers who came aboard at Mar- | seilles were heid in quarantine on the steamer., Howv/ard Jones, agent of the line, said | ably would result in the company!tion of the country whose flag she abandoning Providence as a port of | Ol b call, Jehler, therefore, ought to have | i | brought ‘suit agatnst the steamship ARE NOT OPPOSED TO HIGHER FREIGHT RATES. ! —— 1 Paper Companies Take a Novel Posi- | tion at Hearing. \ Washingion, Feb, 1 One of the few | entatives of repr shippers to appear | before the interstate commerce com- | mission with no protest against the proposed 5 per eent. freight advance | which the eastern railroads desire to ! make, presented himself teday when paper and pulp freight ratbs were un- der discussion. He was James L. O'Brien, representing paper companies in Sault Ste Marie and Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, and Chillicoth hippers, Mr. O'Brien sire to protest against increases, and were willing to abide by the judgment of the commission en the question of | the railroads’ need of mere revenue. ALASKAN RAILROAD BILL PASSED IN THE HOUSE Authorizes President to Construct a $35,000,000 Line. ‘Washiagion, Feb, 18.—The fration Alaskan railroad bill inz the presidemt to construct a $35,- 000,000 raliread frem Alaska’s coast to its great coal fields, as passed b the house late today by a vete of to 87, A similar jpeasure has passed (he senate and the bills will be taken up at once in conference between the two houses . with a w to sending it to the president, who has sig- g jntgation eof siFming it, 1914 érgé;s; in Connecticut Vin”Prb&n;{itim to the City’s Population Mutual Divorce for the Mackays FRENCH COURT ISSUES A CREE TO BOTH. DE- BASED ON DESERTION Father Gets Custody of the Children—No Three Monetary Matters Mentioned in Papers in the Case. New York, Feb. 18—A mutual di- vorce to Clarence H. Mackay, pre dent of the Postal Telegraph Cable company and numerous other corpora_ tions, and Katherine Duer Mackay his wife, was granted by the courts of France last Wednesday, it was an- nounced here tonight by Frederick R. Coudert, counsel for Mr. Mac Father Gets Children. The decree, obtained in Paris, was the result of a suit brought by Mrs. Mackay on the ground of desertion. Mr. Mackay interposed a counter- claim on the same ground. The chil- dren were given into the custody of Mr. Mackay with the privilege of vis_ iting them granted to their mother. Statement of Mackay’s Counsel. Mr. Coudert’s statement was as fol- lows. “On February 11 the French courts granted a mutual divorce to Mr. and Mrs. Mackay in an action brought by Mrs, Mackay on thé ground of deser- tion, Mr. Mackay having interposed a counter-claim on the same ground. No other charge was involved. The de_ cree grants the full custody and con trol of the three children to Mr. M kay, with the right to visit them ac- corded to Mrs. Mackay.” Decrees Granted to Both. Subsequently John B, Stanchfield, of counsel for Mrs. Mackay, gave out 2 statement in which he explaind that a “mutual” divorce is common under the code Napoleon, the law in France. Under it a decree is granted to both parties where issues are joined by the defendant filing & suit and urging the same grounds as were alleged by the plaintiff. “In such cases,” he explained, “the court. makes an effort to reconcile the ies in open court and, this failing, es a decree to both.” French Courts Have Jurisdiction. Frederic R. Coudert, Mr. Mackay" attprney declined to discuss the case beyond merely announcing the facts and declaring there was no question but that the courts of France have jurisdiction over persons who may admittedly be American citizens and residents of New York if they satisfy the courts that they have residences in France. Mr. Mackay has long had a home in that country, the lawyer said, and Mrs. Mackay has had a place there for some months past. Mrs. Mackay Signed Away Home. No monetary matters were mention_ ed in the papers in the case, according to Messrs. Coudert and Stanchfleld. These, it is understood here, were ar- ranged a year ago, when Mrs. Mackay signed away her title to the $6,000,- 000 home which her father-in_law, Jobn W. Mackay, the bonanza king of Comstock Lode fame, gave her when she was married. This was at the time when Mrs. Joseph A. Blake, wife of the noted surgeon, began a suit agalnst Mrs. Mackay for $1,000,000, al- leging alienation of the affections of her husband. This case did not be- come public property until June last. Subsequently it was withdrawn by consent of the parties about the time Mrs. Blake was granted a separation and $10,000 a year alimony. Three Years of Domestic Infelicity. The troubles of the Mackays have been a matter of society gossip for nearly three years past. A year ago Mrs. Mackay took up her residence in Portland, Maine, and it was then thought 'she would sue for a divorce there. In the early winter it was oth- erwise arranged and in December she safled for Paris, her husband follow- ing the next month. He returned hers on January 31, denying that any recon- ciliation had been effected. There was no hint at this time, however, that the French courts had heard both himself and his wife in a divorce case. Mr, Mackay is in this city, Mackay remalns abroad. | SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT HI8 SUIT IN GERMANY. Ruling in Case of Sailor Against Steamehip Company. New York, Feb. 1%. Judge Cohalan in handing down a decision today in the supreme court in the case of Gus- tave Oehler, & seaman emplayed on the Hamburg-American liner Alleman- nia, who sued the steamship line for njuries sustained in falling between the hurricane and promenade decks, igh seas Is a detached floating per- line jn Germany. His action was in- stituted under the new state workmen's compensation law, Food Fish as Fertilizer. Washington, Feb, 18.—State fish- | eries officials, eastern fish dealers and representatives of fish and gams or ganizations were before the house in- | terstate eommerce commities today te discuss the Linthicum bill te pro- hibit the use of food fish in the man- ufaoture of fertilizer for interstate cemmerce, Deficiency Apprepriation Bill, Washington, Feb, 18.—The annual urgent deficiency ‘appropriation bill carrying many millions of dollars to | provide for emergency needs in various departments, including the Panama canal administration work and the postal service, will be reported tomor- Tow by the house committee on ap- propriations, Kennedy's Counsel Denies Rumers. Buffaio, Y., Feb. 18— Follewing the funeral of John J. Kennedy, state treasurer, here today, Alichael F. Dirn- berger, Jr., his statement in whic of the staries last few da: Ar, Kenmedy ttorney, gave eut a h he answered seme circulated during the alleged reasons for Billinghurst Exiled te Eurepe. ‘Washington, Feb. 18.—Peruvian Ain ister Pezet today received a cable des patch frem the provisional gover ment at Lima, saying former Presi- dent Billinghurst was being taken to Euramn B e —— Mrs. | upheld the principle that a ship on the | the lack of quarantine factlities prob- ] hi 3 Condensed Telegrams The Annex to the Miller’s River .\"a. tional Bank block at Athol, Mass., was burned yesterday. F. Joseph Vernon, a prominent bus- iness man of New York died Tuesday. He was a Yale man The Plant of the Fall River Evening Herald Publishing company was badly damaged by fire yesterday. Winsted Reports that a rat crawled upon the village lighting switchboard and caused a short circuit. with his class in the alumni parade preceding the Yale-Harvard baseball game. I Lewis W. Phillips, who for 15 ‘was pastor of the Christian church at Franklin, N, H., died yes- terday. George H. Dowling, “Doc Needles” former hotel owner, circus proprietor, and theatrical manager, is dead at Bridgeport. William Bailey and Erastus Spencer wood choppers, were found frozen to death on the northern edge of Had- dam yesterday. William Fairlie, a director of the Roseville, N. J,, Trust Co. recently wrecked, died of heart disease at his home in Newark, N. J. All of the Thirty_Five national banks in New York have now signified their intention of working under the new federal reserve system, Dr. Robert Kennedy Duncan, di- rector of the Mellon Institute of Ine dustrial research of -the University of Pittsburgh, died yesterda The McLauren Bill to establish a cotton warehouse system and inspec- tion of cotton, was passed vesterday by the South Carolina senate, Joseph Robillard was senienced in the superior court at New Haven yes_ terday to states prison for from one to six years, for white slavery. Money and Diamonds wers stolen from passengers on the St. Louis and San Francisco train to Kansas City that was struck by a St. Louls train late Monday. Foreign Trade of the United States with Europe in 1913 far exceeded that with any other division of the wor the department of commerce announc- ed yesterday. The British Steamship _ Skipton Castle, from Galveston to Ghent, via Norfolk, for coal, went aground in the north channel off Sewells Point, V. in passing out yesterday. Mrs. Eliza A. Chase, mother of Judge Mayor Armstrong of Pittsburgh, ves- terday sent to ('harles S. Hubbard, director of public safety, an order that will separate men and women in mov- ing picture shows throughout the city, The National Carbon Company yes_ terday declared a stock dividend of fifty percent. on its 55,000 shares of outstanding common stock, or a dis- tribution equivalent at par to 000. Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of the civil war hero, took poisonous medi- cine at her home at Washington think_ ing she was taking a cold remedy, and for several hours was in a precarious condition. Clarance Janowitz 3 and a half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jano- witz of Waterbury is expected to dle in a fire which was caused by the child opening a box matches. Publication of an Official Denial of a report that Miss Margaret Wilson, the president’s eldest daughter was e: gaged to be married to Boyd Fisher o Kansas C terday by the White House. The Pitiful Spectacle of thousands of wild ducks dying of hunger aroused the residents of Sayville, Is- lip, Brookhaven, and daily they are taking large quantities food over the fce_covered bay to the fowl | _Albert K. Ramsey, 19 years old, o | St. Louls, Mo., of the sophomore clas: at Yale, was arrested yesterday charg- ed with theft, He is accused of having | stolen three cameras from students | who room in the same dormitory, James Ross Ness, former manager of Lipton’s Ltd, in England, one of the !18 defendants in the Britis! | teen grafe eharges, and for London authorities ing, has been whom the have been sea located in Ottawa. at Fort Madison, pared to rei enforcement of the la., yesterday st through the cou st wwa law providing for the sterlization of insane, diseased and eriminal wards for the common- | wealth, | . The Fire Drill at the T Grant sehool in East Boston was given a | practical test vesterday when 700 chil- dren wers marched from the building within two minutes and ten seconds after a slight blaze was discovered in a closet, The Advisability of Changing th by form of contraet on the New York « be considered by ed for that p a recent re ranagers. mployed flee exc ommittee appo. pose in ace stion of t- ordance with the board Both Sides of the Suffrage movement of Massachusetts having agreed to 2 referendum on the question of grant- ing the ballot to women, the legisl tive committes on constitutional { amendments voted yesterday in favor of such a resolve, Mrs. Elmer Anschott, 17, confessed at Pittsburgh, that she had taken part in many burglaries for which her hus- band, who is 19 years old, arrest- ed. Dressed as a boy, her hair short, she stood guard outside houses he rebbed with a revelver hid- den under her coat John Schrank, Who Attempted to assassinate Theodore Hoosevell at Mil. waukee two years age 1 who ha been confined the North Wiscon- 8in Hespital for the Insane at Oshkosh since his trial, was transf red to the hosp for criminal sane at Waupun yesterday, Senate Confirres Barnett. | _Washingten, Feb. 18 Barnett's appointment major eral and comunandant of the arine corps was confirmed today, by the sen. i Colonel Gegge The President is Expected to march | Cdward E. Chase, who died at Blue Hill, Me.,, Tuesday, passed away yes- terday at the of 87, without | knowledge of her son’s death. from terrible burns received yesterday | Senator Gore Is Exonerated JURY RETURNS A VERDICT HIS FAVOR, OUT ONLY TEN MINUTES Announcement of Jury’s Finding Greet- ed with: Cheers—Counsel for Mrs. Bond Will Appeal the Case, He Says. Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 18.—Unit- ed States Senator Thomas Pryor Gere late tcday was exonerated of charges of improper conduct by a verdict in his favor returned district court here in the suit for $50,000 damages instituted by Mrs. Minnie Bond of Ok- lahoma City. Verdict in Ten Minutes. The verdict was returned ten mim- utes after the cese was given to the jury. Only one ballot was taken. e find,” the jury stated in the verdict, “the evidence submitted by the plaintiff entirely insufficient _upea which to base a suit; that said evi- exonerates the defend- ] the defendant, at the usion of the plaintifi’s evidence, rced that he desired to introduce no evidence and review his case, our dence wholly ant; and h verdict ld have been the same in that even now returned by wvs, in favor of the d ndant. Courtroom Rings With Cheers. :fforts of bailiffs to when the last words ef re read, the crowd that room turned inte & me. Gore Senator heard the jury’s de- change of countenanee, s the first to grasp his she turned and shoeok page eight) SELECTION OF FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS. Organization Committee to Give Mat+ ter Long Consideration. (Continued o country, in a stats- tonight announced that of federal reserve eities nitfon reserve districts be made until careful con- had been given to the in- accumulated on the trip. atement said the committes, »s McAdoo and Houston.found prosperous and learned jankers und business men are s interested in the new banking d confident of its success. supplementnl statement Jr. McAdoo said he hoped the new system would be estabiished in time to take care of crop moving contingenclee next year, but that If it were not the treas- ury department would stand ready to | place its funds sgain at the disposal | of business men, VANDERBILT COUNTRY RESIDENCE DESTROYED. Home at Jericho Hills, Recently Come pleted, Goea Up In Smoke. Jericho, I, 1, Feh, 18—~The new country homse of Mrs, Wililam K. Van- derbi Jr., on Jericho Hills, was de- stroyed by fire today. The loss is es- timated at $115,000 on the buflding and | $40,000 on the furnishings. its selection Secretar! the coun that rea a . Mo, was requested yes_ | has | Inmates of the Gtate Penitentiary | traders | e is to of | cut | the | | The house was compieted only g'f Christmas, and the work of ended about ten days ago. Vanderbilt was prfiinxmuh arty of friends there for win- estivities. The house was occupded only by & er and a couple of assistants. aker :a!a’\hun‘d for halp to Hicksvilla and Jericho when covered the fire, deep that no apparatus could | be moved up to the Vanderbilt place. The F supposed to have besm eated furnacs. e Is TO SWING STATES INTO DRY COLUMN, | Moving Picture Temperance Campaign in the West. “The Presbyteri- 250 temperance California, Colorado, 1 Oregon in an effort to s into the “dry” col- fall election. They Neow York, Feb, 18- will send into an | workers Washington ai swing these s umn at the ne | will take hem motion pleturs | films & lessons against the sale of al Plans for the crusade wers at a mesting of the of temperance. perfected Presbyterian board Steamers Reported by Wireless. .—BSteamer Mar- p for Boston, signalled ¢ Boston at noon. | New Yo b. 18.—Steamer Mitua, 1 for Halifax and New York, sig- 125 miles east of Halifax at 11 Sable Island, Feb. quette, Antw 590 miles east "New York, Feb. 18—Steamer Bar- , Bremen for New York, sig- 800 miles east of Sandy Hook Dock 8.30 a. m. Saturdsy, Opera Company’s Effscts Seized. Denver, Col, Feb. 18—The scenery and effacts o Natioral Guard Op- era company of Canada, seized last night by Clair J. Pitcher, commander of finance, on the failure of the com- pany to give an entertainment after | admission was pald_wers attached to- | day by Fred D. Hawidna, local - moter, who claims damages of $7,000 because of alleged breach of contrast . K. of P. Supreme Counoil. Washing T'eh. 15— Delogatas fram | practically every state, province and of the North American con- tinent were arriving in Washington to- night for the convention of the su- council, Kmights of Pythias, begins sessions here tomorrow to continue until Saturday night. | | ! | ‘ territory | | | | | Iselin to Wed Widow Bronton. | New York, Feb. 18—Adrian Tseln, | banker and tsman, who is 60 years old, escorted Mrs. Frederick Bronson, mother of Mrs. Lloyd C, Griseom, to the city hall today and & ms - cense was issued to them, Ara 15 a widow, gave her age as m, wh | s s | Told of Assaults Upon Strikers. 1 Hancock, Mich., Feb, 1S.—Assaults | alieged to have been made en strik- ers by deputy shergfs and other un. lawful ac mine bel = resulting from the copper warkers'str