Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 4, 1914, Page 1

VOL. LVL.—NO. 54 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1914 GREAT BRITAIN IS NOT AGGRESSIVE Will Not Demand That United States Resort to| Force in Mexico to Secure Justice IS A GREAT RELIEF TO THE ADMINISTRATION Statement of Sir Edward Grey in House of Commons Regard- | * ed as a “High-Minded Declaration” in Official Circles at Washington—United States to Take More Aggressive Attitude Toward Contending Factions in Mexico— Friendliness of Two Nations May Have Good Effect. Washington, March 3.—Great Brit- ain’s pronouncement through Sir Ed- ward Grey that the United States was | S in no way responsible for the recent | ENGLAND iS PATIENT. execution at Juarez of William S. Den- | ton, a DBritish subject, and that the ' Will Not Ask American government would not be asked to resort to force as a result of body, though details are yet awaiting Carranza’s approval United States to Resort | to Force. the incident, was the chlef factor in| London, March 5—Sir Edward Gre: the Mexican situation today. I the British foreign secretary, made an President Wilson in a conference 0- jmportant statement on the Mexican | @ay with Sir Ceell Spring-Rice and Sir | gityation in the house of cdmmons to- Lior rden, the British ambassador | gay. saying in the course of b L understood to have ex- p ssed nis approval and” apprectation Wie friendly sentiments uttered bY | that the United States is prepared he British foreign secretary in the | take to securs justice, we have no title | louse of commons. Tension which had | o qemand \as a right that the U fle we shall weicome any actic been foii here over the killing of Ben- | States shouid itself resort to tne usc ton arose largely because€ jt was be- | of force. One can demand that an Meveq Grea: Britain might press the iner governmen: should go to ali United States into {aking drastic steks jengihs to secure reparation for a c | to secure reparation. The British view iU ©ran"cna holds v t gover that the United States is not odli- jn'some way responsible for it gaied to demand reparation for Great 'miccon of the crime. Britain relieved this tension to some = g, far the United States has sliown | exten hough it is clear that the gt jeast as much interest in the death | Benton incident has developed an in- in Mexico of a British subject as 1t tention on the part of the American hag in the case of outrages on government to take a more aZZressive | can citizensfor 1 unde &tiitude toward the contending fac- geveral Americans have been killed b e | Mexico. And the United State: President Receives Carden. { shown every desire to ence to secure protection for British | The entire ion was discu: t ot it b Thps it T Subjects in the Mexican territory con bis couference with the two Britisn hose described as const diplomaze. It was the first time the | "U,°0 ;15" therefore, sum up the si Britisk am!] ador had called on the = sl if the ed president singe the Benton execution, | Jation by saying that if the United Sl his conferences on this matter States thinks it proper to take further | ving bee 1 o ary Bryan. = “ Ll £ | Baving been with Secretary Bryan. He ) 0/%0 "of a British subject, we wiil | introduce Sir Lionel came primarily to imate knowledge of = Eladl : But if Carden, whose in Iy await the result. ns of its own the United it as tate e poiiticai and diplomatic situation | 1% RO its . v Rt n Mexico City enabled him to giye the | docs not think it desirable to take such | {dent firsihgnd nformation of con. | SLCPS We must, of course, reserve e e Hovse” offieials | ourselves the right to secure reparation & afterward the conference was “for | Whenever there is an opportunity ‘o mutual information” and that no pians | 40 = i had been suggested by Sir Lionel, The | latter, who is en route o London, had | 1 ‘attacked in the American press 3 3 | friendly to the American policy | To Institute Proceedings for Liberation His meeting with the | of Mexicans at Fort Bliss. president was most cordial. | - HUERTA'S NEXT MOVE. | The president received his yisitors| T 3 3— \ the private parlor of tie White that thers is no warrant of House. later Setretary Bryan attend- | tional jaw or treal ed a dizner in honor of Sir Lionel giv- - the Britisi embassy. Garden May Warn Huerta. 2 | States after tiie pattle of Ojinaga =nd | who are interned at Fort Bliss can I 5 of the IHue | ans who fled to the Ugited | neld, representativ The confercuce with the president. e Lige o - 2 i 4 govern here are preparing to in b T e o . | stitute habeds corpus proceedings to B Ltk Mtates sa traaora- | Obtain their Hiberation, fila to the Unite] Etates in itg hand” | " Harrls Walthal and H. R ‘Gambie| L o e M exican e ioir aftor | aTe acting for the Huerta government | Bil gabects lo relirn to Mexice aries | tnder tie ifimediaie direction ot Mi- el Sl cam e A e el E. Djebold, Mexican consul he assured the president of Lfs ownf ELG b AEC foli ern w the policy of the Brit- nent in interposing no ob- to the handling of the Mexican | question by the United States In some quarters it was AMERICAN HELD AS SPY. H. W. Dent Has Been Prisoner at Tor- iggested | it tiat the interview eventually mig reon for Two Months. have important resuits, as Lion-I | - wouid be #bie to convey to Provisional | Juares, Mex., March 3.—H. W, Dent President Hferta an idea of the unal- |ai American, has been & prisoner at teranie aetermination of President Wil- | Torreon for the iast two month ®on never to recognize the Huerla gov- | cording to Americans who arrived ernment 1 the south today. Dent, a former | “A High Minded Declaration.” Co ST fE zdward Grey's statement in Lon- | {00 was received through the press | : | erals with being a rebel Ly e AN ] | Hamm is said to be tr spy. ing te obtain | by the president. It pro- | e I officers re and came Torreon ‘a_high minded declaration. e o s s developments were accepted | s tectin 5 ’ o | rebels. thig fact he owes his ar & shoving clsElSEie cios, on yaia- rest. He carried a large sum of money | veen the United States Britain in the Mexican situs & circumstance which it was be wouid make a deep impression spon the Mexican factions. No Reply Yet from Carranza. Whils definite information was lack- ng 3s to the fate of Gustave Bauch, an &merean citizen supposed to have been killed by constitutionalists, and Clements Vergaza. another American soportefl murdersd by Mexican fed- | ol e b | ticalls all the attention of Carranzs | the Atmerican . government to secure | 30d his advisers. complete investigations. . | There were practicalls no despatches | Naval Battle Impending. i importance to the state department| Nogales, Somora, Mexico, March 3— exico today. Word was still | Th, first naval battle in the history of | awaited from General Cerranza|the Mexican revolutions was expected | s to whether he would persist in his | foday at Tobolobampo, Sinaloa. Fed- | attitude denring the right of the Unit- | eral gunboats Morelos and Guerrers | ed Btates to inguire about a British | have arrived off the harbor, where lays | mubject. the gunboat Tampico, which recentiy | Carranza Advissd by Friend | went over to the constitutionalists. | Carranza’s friends here, who know | 3 the attitude of the American govern- | Skimmish i sar Torraoh: | ment, have been tlegraphing the con- | Chihuahue, March 3.—A ! atitutionalist chief advising a change | Ecouting detachment of federal = his posttion. That the United States | Torreon was encountered rec y may communicate againg with Carran- |a, rebel force 90 miles northwest of | 2, seeking protection for Spanish sub- | Torreon and an inconsequential siir- | fects, was intimated by Secretary Bry- | mish ensued, according to a report re- an foday. Representations have been |ceived here today by Gemeral Fran- | made to the United States on behalf of | cisco Villa. | & Spaniard named Ruiz, and it is like- = | Iy that the Amerfcan govermment will | vIGOROUS DEFENCE OF { make inquiries to Carranza for him. Though there have been Intimations in | THE B.& M. MANAGEMENT. press despatches that Carranza would | assume the same attitude regarding | Spanish subjects as he hae in the Ben- ton casé, the determination of the American government to conijnue to act for other nations has not been al- tered. Stiffening of American Policy. | These phases of the situation occu- | ed auch of the time of today's cab- net meeting. Some administration of- ficials expreesed fhe opinion that while farranse way not have intended to be gnfriendiy to the United States he had | an embarrassing situation. | a which is said to have been confscated | oy his cap! | Z|oy hl | - Carranza to Probe Benton Case. | | Nogales, Sonora. Mexixco, March 3. | A commiasion to invesfigate the Benton case was appointed tonizht by General Carranza.’ The made after a long session of the p sional cabinet. It was said that the | death at Juarez of the British subject, William S. Benton, has occupied prac- | Coolidge Challenges Anybody To Point | Out Any Wrong-doing. | Boston, March 3—Vigerous defense of the management of the Boston and Maine Railroad was made by William | H. Coolidge, counsel for the road, be- fore the legislative committe® on r: roads today. M. Coolidge also defend- roads togay. Mr. Coolidge also defend- ident Charles s. ellen. “I_challenge anyone to lay a finger on a single instance of wrongdein roduced on the part of officials or directors of Politre o Sompir it e Smerioan | the Boston and Maine,” he said, ¥iewpo in this case, it was agreed, “Despite all the charges against the gnight lead to serious complications, | road and the much emphasized public- as other nations might not feel dispos- | ity given to them there has been l\}! ed to be as tolerant as Great Britain. | aitempted adjudication on the part o Caninet members showed their agres any stockholders,” he added. “If it is ment with the president that every | true that the stockholders have been | peacaf»! means should be tried fll’!timbhe_fl by the directors or by any out- o settle the Mexican quesiion before | sde interests, why haven't the courts | there is any resort t armed interven- | been appealed (04" tion. There is apparently, however, a stiffening in the American policy and a firmness which is interpreted in offi- i Willimantic Laborer Killed. circles as meaning an insistence | Willimantic, Corin., March 3.—Dom- | on ds hitherto made. There is| inick De Matico diéd at the hospita. | every reasom to belleve the United | tonight foil ng amputation of his Btates will continue to. press its re- | @uest for any examination of Benton's arm, “which was cri on the rallroad hed while working |, Georsetown, British Gui: March | | disastrous fire occurred yester- | day at New Amsterdam, about 62 miles | south of this city. The water suppls { failed while the firemen twere fight- |ing the flames and many of the im- | portant business houses of the town | Court Tutile in the criminal supe- and the motion to vacate the warrant | for t of Charles S. Mellen, | | with_legal procedure, Attorney | S. Cummings, counsel for Mr. ate in the afternoon filed a exception to the ruling with i clerk of the court. The | exception does not mean | that an appeal is to be taken as there is a doubt both in the state’s attor- nev’s offic among counsel for Mr | Mellen as to whether or not an ap- | body, put the burns are not serious. | the mother's absence, it is I the child played with nes, setting the bedrcom om fire. Hefore the firemen arrived, several men were making ineffectual efforts to enter the hallway. Returning home from a Dbrief visit with neighbors, and | hearing the child's screams, ~Mrs, | Heuschiel did not hesilaie an instant in rushing into what appeared to be almost certain death, The men tried © stop her, but witheut suevess. The fire Was later extinguished with |a loss of about $300, | MEETING OF NEW HAVEN'S decision was #mitte \poration’s ore shipments, were prom- Condensed Telegrams Seven Coal Miners Drowned. Belglum, March 3—Seven were drowned today in a mine at Bracquegniec in the province of Hainaut, by the bursting into one | of the e of a pit of a subterras | nean sir Confidence in Peru Increases, Lima, Peru,®March 3.—Public con- fdence’ in the beard of overnment has been incr Ly reason of the fact that all the accounts of the re- public for Februars and many ant dating that peried have been ligu T3 Disastrous Fire in British Guiana. were destroyed. Remarkable Increase of Tubercuiosis. Paris, March 3—Tuberculosis has a little more than doubled in France since 1887, according to fizures su plied to_ the Temps. Infantile mort ty in Normandy, where women dripk | excessively, is just double what it 1s | n the department of the Gers, where | the peopie are sober. WARRANT AGAINST MELLEN TO STAND. Overrules Motion of That It Be Vacated. Counsel hter. in connection with the reck on October 3. 1913. The motion rzued last week. The effect of the decision is tp leave the case on the for calling it be trial list with no date fore a jury. EXCEPTION FILED, Will Protect Mellen’s Right in the i Court Event of Conviction. perior that the warrant ior coupt for the President ‘Charles 8. New Haven road was in the sup: former the peal on sudh permissible. te: question and ruling is This matter will be set- within the next (hree days ax decided upon. E to protect Mr. en’s right in the event of his standing being convicted for man- or any other count. fiagey FACED DEATH TO SAVE HER CHILD Mother Dashes Into Burning Room to Get Little Daughter. _ Danbury, Conn., March 3—With the hailway Jeading to her apartments in 10 Baimforth avenus on fire t George E. Heuschkel | o several men, plunged wildly through the blinding smoke and flames and carried her three years old | r Ilizabeth saf out of a bedroom through a rear doer. burned about the head and EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chairman Elliott Outliness Status of Dissolution Plan. New York, meeting today of of the New and Hartford railroad Howard Elliott submitted a detaled | statement relative to {he government's atiitude toward the New Haven system in connection with the separation of the Boston and Maine road. Mr. Elliott declined to discuss the matter for publication but said lioped to arrive at a satisfactory derstanding with the department of justice as to the time to be allowed the New Haven for dispesing of its interests in the Boston and Maine. A meeting of the New Haven ai- rectors will be heid on Friday, by which time it is hoped to have further vord from Washington with regard to the general plans of dissolution, CLAIM OF INSANITY IN BEHALF OF ELLIS Court, However, Refusss to Take the Case from the Jury, Chicago, March 8.—Counsel for Wil- liam C. Ellis, on trial for killing his wife in a hotel here last October, sought to have his case taken fram the Jury an the ground that Bilis when he Lilled the woman. o of their arguments the aled their motion, Physicians tesiiied for the state today that Ellis could distinguish be. tween right and wrong at the time he killed his wife, thus contradicting testimony for the defense that Kl was insane when he committed the murder Arguments will be begun tomorrow and the case is expected to reach the jury on Thursday Railroad Rebates to Steel Trust. Washington, March 3.—Cercified | copies of entries on the books of the United States Steel corporation, ale leged to show the payment of enor- mous rebates by raflroads on the cor- ed (o the Tnterstate Commerce Com- | mission today by William H.gGreen of ebraska, President Leading His Troops. ‘Washington, March 3—Dr. Alfredo B, Moreno, president of the Kcuado- réan senafe, hus assumed the dutics of president of the republic during the | absence of President Plaza. Plaza according to a state department des- patch today, has marched on Esmer- aldas to put down the uprising there. [er Adriatic, The Bulletin’s Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Threats Made by AN EXCITING HEARING Two Wi Clash—Congressman Heflin Hissed— “Antis’ ‘Washington, March the woman suifrage question were pre- sented to the house judiciary commit- tee today, accompanied by cheers, Jjeers, hisses and applavse. Desertias Sentimental phases of the suffrage ar- ument, nd awyers, torms, w political men in ited upo considesation was given the constitu- tional amendment for woman suifrage. Dr. Anti-suffragists told the committes that woman suffrage would be harm- ful “not country hearings, and silk-hatted, presented to the com- mittee w constitut women already have the,right to veie under the constitution. In the frage amendment was continuing ihe senate. The suffragists who agpearsd befors the committees ~were Antoinette Funk, mick ant senting the National Woman Suffra ociation, urged that if the commit- tee woul amendment, to allow decided states, in Mrs. al union, make the suffrage quesijon one of po- litical expediency. Democrats Warned Not to Dodg “It s of this administration at heart,” said Mrs. Evans, cratic m: its wa; all wa tion of the demoeratic caucus. | Ars. Evans and Mrs. Benedict warn- e democrats not to “dodge the is- 1d declared that action on the ed sue, suffrage | session of congress. “Gentlemen,” gaid Mrs. Beard pnot_a fades that right scarecrow and then expect us not to read the newspapers when you re- pudiata express state's rights in the matter of 2 presid tel} us that the platform will not allow this suffs silent, b the canal tolls exemption which 1t ex- pressly forbids, | Congressman Heflin Hissed. “It i8 under-estimating our resources to suppose that we cannot put these facts_ints ers, including over three million free women. enter into possession government on March 4, 1917, will be- lieve that woman suffrage is a matter of national concern and transcendent national The representatives of the National ‘Woman Suffrage-Association disclaim- ed participation in the political warn- ing of the congressional union and for some time the committes room was'in confusion with trying to explain things. during the hearing the spectators who crowded feelings. abama, was Treq Women Argue Against Suffrage. ' Mre. Arthyr M. Dedge, president of the Nati Woman sition to the amendment, Mrs, Henr: White of Boston, declured woman has | succeeded in getting ail of her rights without the ballot and that the ballot was unnecessary, “The wise state recognizes that wo- man must be preserved for the work | she only can do for the state,” said | Miss Allce . Chittenden of New York, | “when a ‘the weapons of men she is yi E losing game.” P Miss Margery Dorman of the Wage | ¥arners Anti-Suffrage League of New York said working women did not need the ballof | bor world were dental” and could not have ence necessary to cope with govern- ment probleme, B Matter For States to Deal With. During the debate Senator Clapp declared that sinister influences of the country were lined up gainst woman suffrage, said he regretted that good people, in opposing suffrage, allowed thmeselv to he used as a mask for these evil in- fluences. the democratic party in no uncertain Benedict, Glendower Evans of Boston and Dr. Cora Smith King, for the congression- CRATIC PARTY. gs of Suffragist Movement in " Arguments Also Heard. | All phases cf Mrs. Crystal Eastman Bene- Mrs. Mary Beard, New York threw down the gauntlet fo arning the committee that the wrath of the four million suffrage states would be vis- n_ the party unless favorable Mary Walker Rarticipates. only to women hut to the At _the conclusion of the Dr. Mary Walker, trousered hat she called “the crowning ional argument” to show thai meanwhile debate on the suf- m ivided. Mrs. Mrs. Medill McCor- d Mrs. Willlam Kent, repre- d ‘not report the proposed it report an amendment the suffrage question to be by referendum in the various nstead of by the legislatures. Mrs. Beard, Mrs. \declared the time had come to because 1 have the interests “that 1 hope the dem ajority in the house will ses clear toseconsider what after a somewhat unconsidered question must be taken at this “you our nswer us by shaking in tatterdemallion of & state’s your platform and violate ential primary. You eannot rage discussion because it is ut will permit the repeal of o the hands of 15,000,000 vot- ‘The political party which will of ‘the federal importance.” half |2 dozen At women times the room gave vent to their Representative Heflin of Al- who spoke against suffrage, uently hissed. ional Association Opposed to | Suffrage, condueted the appo- legal Woman attempts to fight with t. She sald women in the la ransitory and apei- | the exper In the senate, all tha He Senator Bryan ef FJ laae y: lorida made the extended speech against tha amendment. He contended first of all | that the states should be allowed to Californi: whether should vote than Florida h that the ifornia.” WARRA 1 with the question, saying th 2 had a0 more right to say the negro wemen of Florida ad to say Japanse should vete in Cal- ] NTS OUT FOR THREE | ALLEGED WHITE SLAVERS. Action Taken San warrants Francisco Damon and Frank York, and Joseph Cleveland, Ohio, charging them with Following Revelations of Jacksonville Girls. i March 3—Federal | for the arrest of Edmund H. orbett, of New W. Schwartz, of violations of the Mann act; were sworn out yest, district attorney's office, Thorpe and Lillian Lynch, cksonville, ¥ Ja The W erday by the United States after Anna both of » had told their story. omén assert that the three men transported them to San Francis. co for immoral purposes. Steamship Arrivals, New York, March 3.—Arrived, steamer Oceania, Trieste. _ Libau, Feb. 25.—Arrived, steamer Czar, New York. Gibraltar, March 3.—Arrived, steam- New York for Genoa. Will Personally PRESIDENT WILSON TO ADDRESS CONGRESS. ON FREE TOLLS CLAUSE Believes That the Nat the United States is at Stake. Washington, March session of congress Thursday, Panama canal act Dayment of tolls. Whaite House ranged “with officials the majority leader: p. m. Thursday. sets forth pean nations should notbe allo: Ropeal Sentiment Strong. The exemption clause, he points ou, was passed on the assumptiof thatl while the Hay-Pauncefote treaty guar- nations the matter of tolls, the document ail nations except the United States. The | president beiieves there should be no' onee United States is in_ honor bound to keep the spirit of anteed equal treatment to ail in was to be interpreted as meaning debatable made_and ground on Delieves the treaties the Hay-Pauncefote treaty Originally Mr. Wilson tended to del subjec peared to him to be strong. Suffragists| Advocate Repeal | WILL MAKE WAR ON THE DEMO- ion to Be Held Tomorrow— | nal Honor of 2 President | Wilson will personally address a joint | advo- | cating,the repeal of the clause in the | which - exempts | American goastwise shipping from the tonigit ar- n both houses for a joint session at 12.50 The president has | prepared a brief address in whichs ho | his opinion th& congress should reverse itself and keep the ob- | ligations of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty Whicii he beiieves were violated by the | Panama canal act. The president holds | that the national honor of the Ameri- | can peopie is at stake and that Iuro- d to get the impression that treaties made by the American government #re not adhered to both in letter and in spirit. had not in- r a message on this | . He had conferred with sena- | tors and members of the house and sentiment in favor of the repeal ap- | Some of | the leaders, however, were of the opin- ion that the international phases of the situation should be emphasized in a communication from the president to congress to impress upon those who Cabled Paragraphs Caleb V. Whitbeck, cditor of _the Hackensack, N. J. Record, died of pneumonta. . The Condition of Vincent Astor, ill of bronchial trouble in New York, i said to be improved Captain Joseph Church, a pioneer in living ex-mayor of Fall River, died yesterday, aged 30 years. Mrs. Elizabeth Sharon, one of _the oldest women in the country, is dead at Steelton, Pa., aged 104. The United States Army forces in Hawalii are to be increased from 8,000 to 14,000 or 15,000 men. Robert Henry who was the oldest man in the fishing industry died at his home in Tiverton R. L. yesterday. The Merrimac. er was six fest above normal at Lowell, Mass., yester- day, but there was no trouble from backwater. It Will Cost Columbia University $3,721.215 to operate all of its de- partments from July 1, this vear, to June 30 mext. v ishop Thomas Bowman, formerly presidént of De Pauw university, diel at Orange, N. Y. vesterday at the home of his daughter. There Were Just 7500 national banks | doing business in the United States at the close of business at the frea: ury department February Customs Receipts for the entire United States for February fell off slightly more than $10,000.000 com- pared the same month of 191 The Right of Exprees Companies to ! refuse to’ deliver C.O. D.shipments nf liquor into Texas was upheld by the | Missouri Supreme court vesterday. Miss Ailesn Heppner, accused of per- jury, in connection with the Henning- Funk alienation suit. was found not guilty by a jury at Chicago vesterday. Earl W. Plummer, whose father, John Plummer of Alfred, Me., was a pensioner of the Revolutionary died in Hartford yesterday, aged years. Henry Champine, Aged 22, who was married ten days ago, was crushed to death yesterday at the boxboard mill at Fairfield, Maine, where he was em- ployed. had voted for the exemption previou: = Iy the necessity of changing their votes | Secretary Bryan announced vesier- regardless of domestic questions in- | day the birth of a girl to his daughter, Volved, Mrs. Richard L. Hargreaves of Lin- ' O'Gorman Exvected to Fight. e Sryan St ks T Since the tolls question was last be- president has told nations ger- were taking the view that the Hay- The governments | of the world, he made it clear. were United States was not sincere in construction The message to congress will open the fight on the Panama Senator ’Gorman, chairman of the Intergcean- ic canals committee, is expected to op- Lately has been sald that a majority of sthe The White Fouse Is confident that in both houses of congress the repeal will be republicans joining democrats fore congress the senators that erall United States had violated the Pauncefote treaty. uropean beginning to believe that the of treaties. tolls in aquestion carnest. pose the president'’s view. committee would favor a repeal. passe in making the change. CENTRAL VERMONT ONE OF THE PETITIONERS | Ten Railroade Apply for Relief from gators on government projects twenty | Panama Canal Act. Years insiead of ten to repay the gov- | Washington, March 3—Ten more | ®™Ment for thelr water rights. i railroads applied to the Inferstate Com- : | merce Commission today for reliet | . Attorney John J. 3 for T tha opesation ‘ot ihat mrovisies | day argue a motion for a new trial for | of the Panama canal act which re- | JOSePh Buonomo, who is under sen- quires railroads to divest themselves | {20¢¢ to be hanged-for the murder of of water line holdings before Ju l,i""‘“‘° Lavaliert iin SSHEHOD, FhEwe, unless the commission shall ex were: The_Oregon, and Navigation company; ern Pacific company and the Cen Pacific rallroad; the Delaware, awanna and W New York, Ont way, which operate tugs, barge: and oth the Lehigh Valley railroad tauk Steamboat company, York city and owns tugs, bargbs, ries and similar craft emploved New York harbor and. vicinity; the | Of fRithful service to his credit ‘as a Southern Pacific company and Mor- | llicssenger and door-keeper in the of gan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad | fice of the secretary of the navy. Will- and Steamslip company: Vermont_railroad, which owns Central Vermont Transportation com- t railway . PRESENTATION OF GOLD MEDAL TO COL. GOETHALS. | Testimonial Awarded Him by National Geographical Soci ty. Washington, March 3.—Washington paid_tribute tonight to Colonel George builder of the Panama canal. The occasion was the Washington Goethals, department was toastmaster and gath- ered about the banquet table with the Qistinguished scientists of the society | wers President Wilson and his cabinet, Justices of the supreme court, members high officers caders in both sress and other notable nationai of the diplomatic corp: of the army and navy, houses of cor figures in the life of the capital, During the evening~Jules J. Jusser- and, the French ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps, was formally honorary notified of his election to membership in the society. The medal awarded Colonel Goethals | It was given as an expression of the appre- | the society and the mation | of the army engineer's distinguished | was of heavy Roman gold. ciation by service, Lac} ern railroad and the o and Western rail- floats r craft in New York harbor; the Long Island railroad, which owns the Mon- } operating between Sag Harbor, N. Y. end New | fer- pt them from the las. The applidhnts ‘Washington Railroad the South- tral in the Central the pany, operating freight steamers be- | = Policowomen Were Decided at Chi- iween New York city and St. Johns, | 480 Yesterday to be a failure at | Que, and the Baltimore, Chesapeake handiing disorderly persons of their and Atlantic railway, wiich controls | OWN Sex, due to lack of physical | the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia | Strength, coupled with the inordinate | More Time For Thaw Case Briefs. Concord, N. H., briefs for the state of New announced. that William T March 3—Finai | was stpucturalis weak in York on fhe cxtradition of Harry K. Thaw wero to have been filed here today accord- ing to the order of Judge Edgar Al- drich of the federal court, but it was Jerome., | representing the New York attorney general, has been granted tional days at his-request. ve addi- it Word Was Received by the Queb Provincial Board of Health vesterdas hat mild typhoid is epidemic in the municipalities along the banks of the e | News Reached Boston yesterday of the death in India of Baba Premanaud Bharti, who lectured in many parts of the country two years ago in behalf of international peace. Senate and House Conferees agreed | yesterday on all differences over (hfl,; Alaskan rallroad bill and a report will be submnitted for final action in both | | | | houses probably today. Mayor Curley Informed a gathering of Boston business men yesterday that | he expected to remove 500 employas from the city payroll during the fi year of his administration. President Wilson Yesterday gave his approvai to the proposal to give years ago. Governor Walsh Sent a special mes- sage to the Massachusetts legislature yesterday in which he advocated a | | change in the distribution of corporate | franchise taxes paid by certaln classes | | of corporations The Legislative Committee on mer- | cantile nffairs of Massachusetts re ported adversely vesterday on a meas ure 1equiring telephone companies to | | furnish to chiefs of police names of ali unlisted subscriber: 2| With a Record of thirty-seven rears iam H. Wilkes, aged 71, ington Monday night. died at Wash- curdesity of onlookers. An Extensive Opium Smuggling con- iracy, unesrthed by government in- vestigators at New York came fo light yesterday and a Hoboken hotel | keeper and two Mott Street (‘hinamen were placed under arrest. Judge John R. Land, at Shreveport, La., yesterday barred forever from service as jurors in that parish the twelve men composing the jury that acquitted Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Little of | anmual banquet of the National Geo- the charge of murdering J. J. Van graphical society, with Colonel Goe- : Cleve. ke gl thals present as the guest of honor L —— | and to recelve from the hand of Presi- _Because Oil Ranges are much | dent Wilson a special gold medal cheaper and cleanlier than coal ranges. | awarded him by the society in recog- the navy department is having them i mition of his wonderful accomplish- installed in the galleys of the Penn. ments. Becretary Bryan of the state S¥lvania and “battleship No. 89, now | under censtruction, for cookin - | poses. & pur | S. U.'G. Rhoades, One of th. memmbers of the West Virsinta Tentes lature confined in state penitentjary for bribery in connection with the elecs tion of a United States senator last spring, is dangerously ill in th - | on hospital. A Forty-Two Expert Aviators and balloon pilots have thus far enlisted 1n thd United States Acronautical Re- serve. The airmen have obligated themselves as ready to enlist In the United States military service in the event of war. Responsibility For the Wreck of the | | tank steamer Oklahoma ,which broks | in {wo off the coast of New-Jersey on January 4, with a loss of 26 lives 1s. {attributed to the Sact that the vessel ‘the report of the federal inspectors. Angelo Sylvestro, accused of making a business of planting bomps for prices varying from $10 to $100, and found ity of one such act, was sent to Sing Sing prison vesterday for a_term ranging from three and one h@if to six and one halt years angd fined §1,000, Proportion to the Citv- p PLEW MEETS DEATH ON GALLOWS Richelieu river. | | ket, | ed not guilty Hanged at Wethersfield This Morning For Murder of the Husband of Bessie Wakefield WOMAN PRAYING AT HOUR OF THE EXECUTION Request of Condemned Man That He Be Permitted to See Mrs. Wakefield Denied, According to Prison Rules— Visited by Brother and Sister on Last Day of Life—Argu- ments For New Trial For Mrs. Wakeficld Made. Hartford, Conn., March 4.—James| i the trial of Mrs, who murdered William Wake- 4 | field, was hanged in the state prison The' Mordec Bfantetly at Wethersfield early this morning. | ’Tlr o St e ¥ this mor | Plew h und woman In a cell In the “death row,” not|had talked over their future for Some many hundred feet away from the ex-| MONths prior to i ng of Wake- eion Shamber: was M Wikeneia, Deid The e that _an ecution chamber, was Mrs. Wakefield, jndefinice son e under sentence of death for complic- cussed by A nd could be ity in the crime. She was originally | got rid In . was sentenced to die with Plew, but by a | shown : strange coincidence argument were | June 2 a = of chloroform. made for a mew (rial hefore the si-|and a revolvcr of small calibre, with preme court on the very day she was|#bOx of cartridges. The next morns sentenced to be hanged—the appeal |ing, Sunday, he was in the Wakefield acting as & stay of. execution. | tenement il Bristol talking over the Not Permitted to Sec Mrs. Wakefield. T niche — Mrs. Wakefield was awake and pray on a bed, Plew app ing at the hour Plew paid the pen i handkerchief on which of the law. Plew requested that he ad been poured. Plew see Mr kefield before he d Wakeliél of saving somex this privilege was denied him by the | thing about his (Plew’s) relations with ‘rh» wife. Wakefield, = ed to unafraid entored the | Fise and was forced back cizing amber at 1202 o' ¢ | him by his o As Wakefleld did twenty seconds later h not have his spectacies—his vision the death cap and noose being poor—he was ac a dlsadvan- the trap sprung by W, o b e o Nirs. Wakefield Saw Struggle. nounced him dead. During this strugle, which Mrs. Talked With Prison Officials. | bidding, 00k & voratves whioh theaes Plew made no writt rfession be- | ter handed her, to the woodshed door, fore his execution: b a and later returned it to the, crime to the prisob chaplain incident figures in t officials. During the day he case. Wake! ited by his broth Isaze Plew of Sal- the drug and finally Plew isbury Mills, Orange county, N. Y., 2nd | let_him up matiers.” His ‘sinter. v nbure of | Evidence at Wakefield | New York. tookrh‘ and Plew's child out for a w T it wi then Expressed No Regrets. T He evidenced no mer The men for a while and seemeq utterly _oblivio Plew suggeste. and mentioned that he was soon to an automobile ride. Wakefield | he expressed no rearet 5 that BEHRELET ati 1o wall steadily Sn on commitied the murder and was ready | leaving the house Piew sapportod hime A e PRI Seen| Wakefield Shot and StaBbed. with o firm step a cahn Jook upon | Mrs. Gillett, an upstairs neishbof, s Sridom suarde. thorough- | saw the men ‘leave as she peeped out e R et " otked | of her window. Her evidence on this and with incredible swiftness, | POint proved material. Evidence show- Not @ word was £ald. and amid an op- | €d that the men waiked to Cheshite, O ence ihe warden sprung the | rfving there about 4 a. m., when LB e e e tortiong of | Plew turned Wakefield up a side path the body, which prison officials regard |im the woods At favorable opporcum e o ty Plow loaded his revolver and fired | six_Dbullets into Wakefieid. Then ne To Be Buried at Hartford. 100k out his jackinife and stabbed the Dr. Fox, t i vsician, and | victim in the chest. Uniacing \ his resident phy shoes, he d these laces to make a e stethescopes and offi- y noose’ to place around Wakefield's neck claily pronow 2im dead 11 mintites | after he had dragged against a nd 22 seconds after the springing of | treo stamp. The. vietim, stiil Iving, the tragp. : . i was left in a position suggesting sui- The aced ir k cas- | cide. with trimmings. is 1 Told Mrs. Wakefield of Crime. vill be in one of | nderstood th i | Plew returned to the Wakeficid home R LR {and tola widow of his acts. The Exonerated Mrs. Wakefield. | next day he staried with her and the Tames Plew made nd it (o fight | children for Middlebury by trollevs At Lo e e T Mevaut for the Kill- | Cheshire Plew lett the car and visited ing of Wakefield. Without reserve m‘i-;;gflmb(;g:, Ejgming fthe Sk oL told of the crime. showed n of | ion ‘point. The body was fou remorse, contradicted nothin, state g:‘_o—‘r-gx,_ 2 e e by the claimed, and seemed after ¥ ner’s ord o been pronour ; Iy comment thai he made - e — SRy particular reference to the crime | Motion for New Trial Argued Beforg was that in which he showed a Stato's’ Suprems THEURMIE 1" fection for Mrs. Wakefield, expressing the hope that she would not sufer and | Hartford, Conn. March trer Saving she was not to blame, As Plew | Bessle Wakefield's case was takeh um eif-confessed the murder his was 2| in the supreme court for argument fm< separate hearing, and so far | mediately after Rev. Dr. James Goofi< ble reference to Mrs. Wakefield win, rector of Christ church, had ef« avoided. Mrs. Wakefield having plead- | fered praver. All the justices were on al in fine bad & which, so far as possib cipation was not gone into. Had A Dull Mentality. | te t 1d. of Waterbury. >vine r her in the lower strong for a man between 55 and 60 5 erred in allowing Coromer Mix to tes- and aas of ordinary ability as a farm fifs: in admittine evidenco bearing up- » | court, submitted a brief and made an In jail and later in the prison Piew | gra] argument. State’s Atforney Al- had practically no visitors. He made | Jine of New Haven replied. no_complaints about confinement. and | 'The exceptions. 15 in number, relate showed no intérest in the passing dave-| geperally to tho instructions and Observation showed, that he had 2 | charge of Judge Burpee to the Wake- mentality. He seemed physicailY | field jury, and set forth that the court worker. Plew with a brother onch | on' Plews guilt: in served a term for horse stealing in | the jurv asainst confu Dannemora prison in New York e Satit Srith the ing been sentenced from Kingston in | ttmacy with Plew. and in making clear 1881, The brothers lived in Newburgh. | the law controling a sttmation in A student in criminology about that l Wwhich one conspirator has signified in- time ran across the Plews and in trac- | tention to Jon a common purpose. ing their antecedents it was shown | med a new. trial om that they came from the Jukes fam- | the groun ¢, the woman's euilf ily of deficients whose progen naslg»m.m be Aetermined independently burdened society and filled many cells. | Plaw’s guiit, and independently of Plew’s confessio Took No {nterest In His Trial. | Plew having pleaded guilty to mur- der, the court, in order to guar ! all rights which are accorded by canstitution, accepted a plea of homi- I cide, by which under the law, the Je~ | DIVORCE FOR MOTHER OF MRS. GERAGHTY., Neglect to Provide Alleged and N Defenss Offered. ‘he gree of guilt was fixed by the court itself. Judge Burpee had previousiy accepted a similar plea from Joseph Newport, R. I, March $—2Mrs. Pagi Bergeron, in another case, this being o 2 h . the first time in Connecticut that the | ‘N® Lerl 2 F\rn;h 'Ff-'-‘k"#.'f Iha 3: statute had been invoked. Edwin S. \\‘N‘C‘eY A \ga;m“‘. Thomas, now federal judge for this | New York banker, by Justice B: {in the court today, The testi= district, was assigned as Plew's conn- vi v deposition, sel. The evidence was presented dur- MODY s ing a three davs’ sitting, Plew sat with ' Provide e ,“Jzi_‘_g;;(el,:&d Mr. Thomas. He volunteered no infor- | Wag made by Mr. ¥rench, = ' mation, contradicted nothing ane dil . The plaintiff swore that she left hew hugband in August, 1911, after he had O B by e o o e anci- | tald her that he would mever Hve with dents as related by the stute’s witness- es. The case whs submitted without argument for Plew. The court thank- ed Mr. Thomas for his efforts to aid his client, saying that he had done all that could be done under the ci ch was formerly Miss Paul- and lived here, where they were married on Dec. 1885, Fhey have five children, and maintained res- o e e Len idences at Tuxedo, N, Y. and in gils The Crime of Piew. S b In the trial of Plew it was shown | RESULT OF ELOPEMENT, that he became acquainted with Mrs. = Trouble Followed Refusal of French to Forgive Mrs, Geraghty. New York, March 3—The marital troubles of Ar._and Mrs. Amos Tuck French came fifst into public knowl- edge shortly after the elopement of went to show that the woman appre- | their voungest daughier, Julia, with clated the iindness which Plew had | Jack Geraghty, the family chamifeur, shown to her and her two children }more than three vears ago. It was Wwhen her husband wus cruel in his|some time befare Mirs. Fremch for- treatment. Evidence was ziven that gaye her daughier for.runming away thls intimacy ended in November, 1912 | fa Central Village, Conn., with Bessle Wakefield three years ago, wni. living in Middlebury. Plew's wife had ieft him. She has - since married. | Thee 'is a child by the marriage. An | iutimacy sprans up between sthem while Mrs. Wakefield was having dis- agreements with her husband. JFacts when the Wakefields werc onetled | tv and mamying him there, but’ event- and went to Bristol to live. Plew, | ally the reconciliation was camplete, however, tried to lighten . Wake- | Mr, French, on the other hand, has not field’s. burdens, and, as the evidence | seen his daughter since her elopement. showed, he was impelied by his love | Neither has Afs. ¥rench Vander- for her. The previous intimac of tneybilt, the young woman's aunt, recog- couple was known to Mrs. Wakeileld's \mized Mrs. Geraghiy. Other members parents and others of the family, who | of the family, however, have forgivea upbraided her fov it, but did, nothing |the Geraghtys, who now live i Wez o stop it. This-phase ofthe case wawlburn, 3 5