Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 9, 1914, Page 1

VOL. LVL.—NO. 58 ~ NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, MARCH 9 1914 PRICE TWO CENTS —— e e e _W s —es—:e—sss _W e _e 5 B < . . The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Larges. .n Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population VERGARA'S BODY BROUGHT FROM MEXICO Texas Citizens Cross Border, Disinter Remains of Murdered American and Bring Them Back to the United States INTERNATIONAL COMPL JICATIONS ARE UNLIKELY United States Consul Had Been Granted Permission to Re- move the Body But Did Not Consider That it Would Be Safe to Undertake the Task—Body is Mutilated and Shows Evidences of Torture Before Death—Thorough Examination of Corpse Ordered by State of Texas—Was Very Crudely Interred—Villa Waives Ransom in Case of Terrazas But Threatens to Expose Him to the Enemy’s Fire Unless His Father Rrefrains From Activity. S Laredo, Tex., March 8.—Texas citi- @ens, who secretly crossed into Mexico last night, today prought to the Ameri- can side the mutilated body of Cle- mente Vergara, Texas ranchman, and established the fact of his execution after he was seized by Mexican feder- als. Vergara was shot twice through the head and once through the neck, his skull was crushed as by a blow from a rifle butt, and the charred fingers of ghe left hand indicated that he had been tortured before being put to death. The Americans were not opposed ac- compl alightest violence, taking the body from | & grave in Hidalgo cemetery, almost within sizht of the Texas border. The seizure was divested of possibly Erave @spects in international complications by reason of -the fact that the party was virtually making use of permis sion granted officially by Mexican fed- eral autnorities several days ago for recovery of the body. This permission bad been given to United States Con- sul Alonzo Garrett at Neuvo Laredo, but he did not get the body because of what he reported as_dangers attending search for it In the immediate vicinity of Hidalgo. Identified - Son. Identification was made by Ver- gara's son and by numerous friends, some of whom were in the party of nine, led by the state border patrol, which made the grim journey to the Hidalgo cemetery during the early morning hours today. The body was not badly decomposed, despite its three weeks' burfal. In addition to recos- nizing features, young Vergara ook a bit of cloth from the trousers .on the body and matched it with the coat which his father wore on the day he crossed the Rio Grande. Followed an Investigation. The body was brought into the United States at a point 45 miles northwest of Laredo, opposite Hidalgo @nd near the Vergara ranch. American <onsul Garrett of Neuvo Laredo, dep- uty sheriffs and other authorities were waiting to receive it, and, pending the arrival of the undertaker from Laredo, an armed force stood guard over the body. The recovery of the body was made by a force of Texans, including friends of Vergara, acting with a troop of Texas rangers under Captain Saun- ders, who have been investigating for Governor Colquitt the circumstances of Vergara’s seizure by federals. A se- cret investigation, in which many Mexicans had been questioned, is un- derstood to have preceded the trip into Mexico. Leading the force was a man ~who claimed to have been a witness to both the execution and the burial of Vergara. No Difficulty in Lecating Grave. The force gathered near the Ver- gara ranch, not far from spot Where Vergara crossed the river Lo meet the Mexican federals who prom- ised remuneration for stolen horses. Moving silently, they began the over- land march to Hidalgo, a distance of X five miles. They avoided the c it is said, and met nobody (o question their journ Location of the grave proved an easy task, for it has heen a center of specu- latlon and wonder since it appeared after a swinging body had been cut down from the place of executlon when the hue and cry over Vergara's dis earance started an investigation. ody had been rudely Mtie effort to protect it. Thorough Examination Ordered. With their burden fixed on a stretcher, carried by six of Vergara's The interred, with iends, the procession started unchal- ed on the return journey whicn t© ght Clemente Vergara home again the United States. ie understood that a thorough ex- nation of the body has heen order- v the state authorities. Vergara left his ranch, near Pa fox, Tex., Friday, Feb, 13, and crossed the river into Mexico in answer to a mess. from three federal soldiers that t Apolonio Rodriguer. of the son wished to settla for 11 horses taken from Vergara's island pasture in the Rio Grande. Mrs. Ver- Eara pleaded with her husband not to risk seizure by the Mexicans, but he crossed the river with his young nephew. how she saw the soldiers knock her hueband unconscious and carry him away. Vergar: nephew hid in the brush until he could recross the river Wife Visited Him in Jail. went in rch of her husband and found him in the Hidalgo jail. So far #s known there was no charge against him. He had been cruelly beaten, ac- cording to the wife. She dressed the wounds on his head, she said and re- mained with him until forced fo leave. That was the last time she ever saw him alive, for early next morning b was taken from the jail, supposedl to be transferred to Piedras Negras, and disappeared. Stole Horses on U. S. Soil. The island pasture of Vergara, where it was first reported the ranchman had been ascaulted, complicated the affair the question whether it was Mexi- £an or American territory, until iL was found that Vergara had been actually smeized on the Mexican mainland. This Tendered those responsible safe from prosecution in Texas. were alieged to have been taken from this pasture, however, and county rec- ords showed it belongs to the state Texas, Mrs. Vergara flled an afdavit charging Captain Rodriguez and three of his men with horse theft. Governor Colquitt’s Action. Governor Colquitt requested permis- #ion of the United States state depart- ment (o send Texas rangers across the sning thelr search without the Mrs. Vergara since has told | As the horses | border to pursue the “abductors and murderers” of Vergara, and was told by Secretary of State Bryan that the United States government alone could take authority for sending an armed { force into a foreign country. Later, when Mrs. Vergara made the charge of horse theft, them Governor Colquitt | asked of the state department “whom | the United States recognized as consti- | tuted authority in northern Mexico, | so that he might make requisition un- | der the Mexican treaty for the men | named. This question never wus answered to the satisfaction of Governor Colquitl and the governor announced that solve the question he would requisition both the federal and constitutionalist rs of the states of Neuvo Leon hihuahua. This was on Friday | and, 5o far as known, the requisition | has’ not been issued. | Vergara's seizure and alsappcarance cast the Texas border country in this section into a turmoil. Many bitter expressions have been heard and,while there has been no sisn of disorder, | feeling having run high, dissatisfaction was e v keen beécause of what | Vergara’s friends thought a delay in demanding return of his body for burial, and theve had been rumors that an attempt might be made to obtain it. i Interest in the case was intense to- | night. i Namcd in Mrs. Vergara's complaint { were Captain Apolonic Rodriguez and the following privates of the Hidalso federal garrison: Nito Sierra, Juan | Vestillon and Andres Rodriguez. 1t has been said that they were trans- ! ferred to another post after the Ver- | gara incident became public. Their ! arrest was promised by General Joa- | quin Maas, federal commander of the northern zone of Mexico, when Gover- nor Colquitt asked if a requisition would be honored, but it was not said whether they would be delivered (o Texas authorities. No further word has come from General Maas. When a search was begun for the missing American, it was learned tnat {a man had been shot and his_ body hanged to a tree outside of Hidalgo early ‘Sunday morning, February 15, and that the body had been left hang- [ ing for several days. Soon after Con- sul Garrett started his inquirfes, this i body was removed and a fresh grave was noticed in the old Hidalgo ceme- tery. Mexicans Lie to U. S. Consul. Mexicans who had known'the ranch- man said the body seen hanging was that of Vergara and that they believ- ed he was buried in the new grave. It finally was ascertained to the sat- isfaction of the American investizators that he had been executed. Persistent denlal was made by the Mexican federals, however, and prior to this General Alvarez, commander at Piedras Negras, haa promised Amerti- can Consul Blocker that Vergara would be released and his captors called to account. This allayed the fears of his friends until his contiuued absence started an exhaustive investigation in which the United States government took part. Consul Garret procesded to Hidalgo and personally interviewed Captain Rodriguez, the man held re- sponsible for Vergara’s kidnapping: but the federal captain said that Ver- gara had been sentenced to Piedras Negras, but had escaped en route and that the federals were certain he had joined the constitutionali Texas Rangers Investigate. Consul Garrett, however, after inter- viewing numerous Mexicans and oth- ers, reperted officially that Vergara had been executed. He added that he was convinved from the federals’ atti- tude while he was in Hidalgo that it would have been dangerous for him to demand surrender of the body. { The investigation was ordered cem- | tinued by the state department, and the state of Mexico alse ordered an in- vestigation by the Texas Rangers. Not Work of Texas Rangers, Laredo, Texas, March 8.—The bedy of Clemente Vergara returned secret- ly to the American side of the Rio Grande from Mexico early today was brought by unidentified persoms, who left no trace of their identity, it was £aid late tonight. Karly reports that Texas Rangers had crossed the border and obtained the bedy were officially | denied. BRYAN AWAY AGAIN. | Incident at Washington. Washington, March 8.—No official {advices had been received tonight at | either the state or war departments | {about the recovery of the body of Cle- | mente Vergara. Secretary Bryan was enroute from Springfield, Mass., where he addressed a Y. M. (. A, meeting | today and was not expected here un- | til_early tomorbrow, While official comment on the inci- dent was lacking, the fact that per- mission had been given by the Mex- {ican federal authorities for recovery of the body was believed to remove the possibility of international com- piications, The avidence gathered by the Texas lauthorities as to Vergara’s execution jwill be umed by tha state department | {in renewing its representations to the Huerta government for punishment of | the offenders. A full report is expect- ed by state department officials from Consul Garrett tomorrow. NOT AN “INVASION. Governor Colquitt Comments on Act- | ion of Texas Rangers. Austin, Texas. March 8.—Texas to | i . ) o | On the following aay Mrs Vergara | NO Official Comment Obtainable on citizens last night crossed the inter- national boundary into Mexico, disin- terred from the Hidalgo cemetery the body of Clemente Vergara, the Texas ranchman who was lured into Mexico by Mexican federal soldiers, and re- tarned with the body to American soil. Governor Colquitt, who recently was refused permission by the state depart- ment to send the Rangers across the Rio Grande to pursue the alleged slay- ers of Vergara, tonight said: “We wanted Vergara’s body in order to determine the manner of his death, and we have it,” said the governor, tersely, and added: “Some people may call this an ‘invasion,’ but it was not.”” The official report of Captain Saun- ders on the incident was given out by the executive department It simply said: ‘I proceeded to Hidalgo, secured Vergara's body and returned it to La- redo.” The last time Texas rangers crossed into Mexico in a manner to attract offi- ciai cognizance by the United States government was in 1874. Describing this incident, Governor O. B. Colquitt, in his recent telegram to Secretary of State Bryan asking whether ne might send rangers into Mexico, used the following words: “At periods in the past, commanders of American troops and of Texas rangers have crossed the border in pursuit of bandits and marauders and inflicter chastisement to them on Mexican soil. This was notably done by the Texas rangers in pursuance of an order issued by Governor Coke (of Texas) in 1874, and it is a coincidence that the rangers in that case were sta- tioned in Webb county, where the most recent outrage against American citi- zenship was committed. With a full and fearless presentation of the facts and the rights of the state of Texas by Governor Coke to President Grant's attorney general, the matter seems lo have ended in acquiescence if not with the approval on the nart of the federal government in the course of the state of Texas.” Governor Colquitt did not quote any decision by the Washington authoritles in the Coke case, but said Coke's or- der was for Texas rangers, when in close pursuit of Indian and Mexican marauders, to cross the Rio Grande and take them. Grant, the governor said, “objected to the order of the governor of Texas and referred it to the attor- ney general of the United States, with the inquiry as to how far the then governor of Texas had become liable to prosecution for violating section 6 of the act of congress of April 20, 1818. The attorney general assured the gov- ernor of Texas at that time that any reply he cared to make would be duly considered before he determined what | further action he would take.” Governor Colquitt then quoted Gov- ernor Coke’s reply, which urged Texas’ right to capture such marauders. What reply, if any, was made, was not given. COLQUITT'S STATEMENT. Did Not Specifically Instruct Rangers to Cross Border. Austin, Texas, March 8.—Governor Colquitt ‘tonight authorized the state- ment that he did not specifically in- struct Ranger Captain J. J. Sanders who recovered Clemente Vergara's body, to cross the border to get it. The governor, however, sald he had no complaint to make about Sanders’ action. He wired the Ranger captain for full particulars, but lack of tele- graph facilities will delay the report until tomorrow. The governor announced that pend- ing recelpt of this report from Cap- tain Sanders he would have no state- ment to make.! Unofficially it was sald that the gov- ernor presumed Captain Sanders’ men had proceeded to get the body with the cooperation of Mexican authorities. An early hour was chosen for the excursion, it was said, in order to avoid arousing suspiclons of onlook- ers and not because the party wished to avold clashes with Mexican mil- itary authorities. Vergara’s hody_tonight was still op- posite Hidalgo, 5 miles from Laredo. The body probably will be taken to Laredo tomorrow, TERRAZAS STILL ALIVE. But Villa Threatens to Expose Him to Enem; Fire. El Paso, Tex, March $.—Nan-pay- ment of the ransom demanded as the price of the life of Luis Terrazas, Jr., will not result in the execution of the | prisoner, according to a telegram re- | celved here tonight from General Villa | at_Chihuahua. | _ Information as to the telegram came | from rebel agents tonight, but these added that General Villa certainly would expose Terrazas to the enemys | fire at Torreon unless the prisoner's father, General Luis Terrasas, refrains from political activity, The younger Luis_ it is asserted, al- ways has been held prineipally as a hostage te eentrol, if pessible, his fa- ther's efferts in hehalf of General | | Huerta. Tven after repeated warn- ines, it is declaved the elder Terrazas has ‘aided the Mexiean government with men and moeney, until a-week ago General Villa declared that his pa- | tienee was at an emd. The latter's deeision | | | to waive the | matter of ransom eame threugh repre- | sentatives made by General Carranza, | supreme chief of the revelution, and by his agents. A telegram te Villa frem Federico Gonzales Garaz today pointed out that | to exeeute Terrazas for non-payment | of ransem would be a barbarity which, following so closely the killine of Wil- liam . Benton, would seriously injure the constitutionalist cause In the Unit- ed States and Burope. 1 Five Filibusterers Executed. | Mexico City, March $—Five filibus- | terers who landed at Mendu, state of | Yucatan, - from a Cuban sloop, have been put to death. Those shot were | Gabriel Paredee, Jose Esauiringa, Luis | | Corral, Salvador Recoy and Senor Cc tez, the last named being well known as a poet in the state of Guanajnato. Paredes and Esquidinga are rebel gen- erals. Investigation of Benton’s Death. Chihuahua, March $.—The Carranza commission appointed to investigate the kLilling of Willlam S Benton, ar- rived here tonight. Most of the wit- nesses are here and the court was transferred from Juarez In order to facilitate the work. A Penchant for Languages. Cambridge, Mass. March 8—FEnglish and modern languages are bemg taken up by Harvard students in preference | to economics, government, history and kindred subjecis, in constantly in- | ereasing numbers, according to statis- | compiled by the facult¥ of the university. The study of natural scl- ences is also shown to be losing favor with Harvard men | tics Cabled Paragraphs Htalian Cabinet Resigns. Rome, March $—Premier Giolitti to- day notified King Victor Emmanuel of the resignation of his cabinet. Madame Nordica Improving. Thursday Island, Australia, March 8 —The condition of health of Lillian Nordica, the American singer, is said by her physiclans to be steadily im- proving, although subject to frequent changes. Libelled Crown Prince. Berlin, March 8—A sentence of thres months’ imprisonment was pronounced yesterday on Frnst Meyer, “Jall Ed- itor” of the Socialist newspaper Von- waerts, who was tried on charges of treason and libelling Crown Prince Frederick William. One of Siamess Twins Dead. Paris, March 8—Madeleine, the “Si- amese twin” who was separated on Wednesday from her sister, Suzanne by means of a delicate surgical oper- ation, died yesterday of convulsions. Suzanne is recovering rapidly from the effects of the operation. Earle and Affinity Leave Romarintin. Romarintin, France, March §.—Fer- dinand Pinney Earle, the American artist, and Miss Charlotte Herman, Wwho were found guilty yesterday of having abducted Karle’s son, Harold, from a boarding school nesr Faris, left here today for Bois, an historic town 25 miles northwest of this city. Sentences respectively of two months and one month in prison were imposed upon Earle and Miss Herman, and in uddition nominal fines were assessed. The pricon sentences were suspended in view of the fact that the man and the woman had spent some time in jail prior to the trial. SUFFRAGETTES AGAIN BATTLE WITH POLICE. Sylvia Pankhurst Arrested for Sixth Time—Ten Other Arrests. London, March 8.—Militant suffra- gettes again engaged in a battle with the pelice today on their favorite field, Trafalgar square, and in_a pouring rain, The arrest of Sylvia Pankhurst for the sixth time under the “cat and mouse” law precipitated the confiict. In addition to Miss Rankhurst, seven women and three men were arrested. Among those taken into custody wae Miss Zelle Emerson of Jackson, Mich. Miss Emerson has been arrested sev. eral times for participation in suffra- gette demonstrations and recently 1t was rumored that the British govern- ment would expel her from the country as an undesirable alien. Replying Feb. 26 to a question put in the houss of | commons as to whether this report was | true, Reginald McKenna, the home sec- | retary, declared that no such steps were being taken. He added, however: i “If Miss Emerson again commits an | offense bringing her within the pro- | visions of the aliens act, the question of applying to the court for a recom- mendation for her expulsion will be | considered.” This afternoon several hundred women and men had marched in pro- | cession to the square to attend a meet- ing of the Men's Federation for Women Suffrage. Sylvia Pankhurst, who for | some weeks had been hiding from the police, arrived in the square in t taxi- cab to deliver a speech, but detectives surrounded the cab and started it for Holloway jail before the militants realized what was happening. When it was discovered that Miss Pankhurst had been abducted, the chairwoman of the meeting, Miss Patterson, who later was among those arrested, shouted to her supporters from the base of the Nelson column: “Follow the flag an: see if we can't find something to do. The militants then surged toward the government building in Whitehall, with th esuffrage banner borne aloft, but a cordon of mounted police barred the way. Some of the women assalled the police with short sticks, but the marchers were soon dispersed. WATERBURY YOUTH OF 18 HELD AS A MURDERER. Victim While Drunk Was Pushing P destrians from Sidewalk. Waterbury, Co: March 8.—Guisep- pl Famigliotto, 18, of 205 Railroad Hiil Btreet, was arrested this evening at 7.35 and held without bonds on a charge of suspicion of being the mur- derer of Guiseppe Benedito, 24, of 1050 Bank street. Benedito was shot and instantly killed about 6.30 o'elock to- night on Rallroad HIll street, Two bullets suppesed to have been di charged from a 38 ealibre revolver were lodged in his body, one gomng through the heart amd the other threugh the hip, < | The shooting is sald te have fallowed & quarrel, The poliee say that Bene- ditp was under the influence ef liquor ed several persons frem the sidewalk. One of the men he is said te have pushed aside is the accused. At the peliee atatien Famigliotto denied that he sket the man, but ad- mitted that Benedite punched him, OBITUARY, Frederick Townsend Martin, London, Mareh $.—¥rederick Town- send Martin, wealthy New Yorker, so- cial werker and auther, died teday at the Berkeley hotel here from angina | pecteris, Frederick Townsend Martin suffered 2 nerveus breakdown in London last November. Recently he leased No. 6 Cumberland place, furnished, and in- tended to occupy the premises about | the 25th of this month. It was his | intention to spend a few months in | London each year. Gen. William Ames. Providence, R. March 8—Gen- eral Willilam Ames, formerly collector of internal revenue for this district and prominent in business, died today at the age of 73. He was president of the Blackstone Canal National bank and vice president of the International Braid company. He had a brilliant record in the Civil war. John L, Abbott, Keene, N. H., March 8.—John L. Ab- | bott, a lawyer of New York, who was formerly United States minister to Co- lombla, died at his Lhome here today after a long illness. Mr. Abbott was at one time counsel for the San Do- mingo Development company, which played an important part In the con- cerns of that island. He was 50 years of age. | To Decide International Questions. Washington, March 8 —Numerous fmportant cakes, involving questions of international Jaw, are to be decided by the international tribunal of arbi- tration which begins its second session in Washington tomorrow at the Carns- gle institute. The commission, created by treaty to adfust all outstanding pecuniary claims beiween the United States and Great Britain, is expected at this session to hear argument on 26 cases, 10 American -~~~ 1f British, in- volving damages aggregating nearly 6,000,600, { help their auditors who fail fall The Fruit of Selfish Lives ARE PRODUCTIVE OF HAY - ‘WOODS AND TANNENBAUMS SPEECH BY PROF. TAFT Indifference and Cynicism Hane aps to Religion and Education—“Pamp- ered Darlings” of Little Service. New Haven, Conn., March 8.—“The things we must fight hardest in col- lege life and in the religion and edu- cation of strength, is indifference and cynicism,” said former President Wil- liam Howard Taft in addressing the closing session of the Religious Edu- catlon association tonight in Wool- ey hall at Yale. The topic was The College and the New Social Order. During the course of his address, Mr. Taft criticised strongly the Industrial Workers of the World but said it was because of the “cynical satisfaction of those who don't care,” that arguments for the Haywoods and Tannenbaums are furnished. The Argument for the Agitators. “Give me misdirected fervor, wild theorles lacking In sanity, extreme er- Tor, if only the sincere spirit of fe- liglous and social service is alive and militant,” he said, “because the hard experience of practical results will temper this into useful activity later on. But nothing can overcome the Smug contentment and cynical satis- faction of those who dom’t cate and whos® selfish lives dry up the springs of the spirit of human brotherhood and kill the gratitude of the blessinga of God. They in their attitude furnish the argument for the Haywoods and the Tannenbaums. Let us be glad that thelr number is not increasing.” Mr. Taft said: “Wa do not promote human progress toward an ideal by losing all our common sense and san- ity in the contemplation of one part of the whole picture. The hysteria and misguided enthusiasm aroused by real wrongs and a lack of the sense of proportion in regard to thelir pos- sible remedy,” he said, “manifests it- self in hunting a scapegoat for the sinner, and the lazy and shiftless, in the Injustice of our social system. It results In such informing and signi- ficant exhibitions as we have had from the Industrial Workers of the World with their motto ‘No God, No I 3, No Country,” and their impugdeni, law less, selfish and unjust demands that are based on the propesal that seciety owes them a living, whether they made effort and labor or not. Where Ministers Fail. “The ministers of religion do not to keep clearly in mind the necessity that all | of men have duties as well as rights; that generosity, and they make neither for social nor Teiigious progress when they preach doctrines that arouse in those Wwho have not, merely the selfish desire to take from those that have, and who encourage the resentment and harsh feeling of class against class, by fail- ing to dwell on the whole picture of human society, rather than on a single part of it” “Now I would be very much disap- pointed,” he said, "if anything I have sald should be interpreted to mean that I am not in favor of real soctal reform, and am not very hapeful that much is to be done in this direction. It is most encouraging to note the earnest Investigation of the suffering in soclety, the study of problems of sociology, the eystematic effort to pro- mote the health and comfort of the congested population. Speed the suc- cess of all such work. The New Sccial Ordaer. “The new social order,” said Mr. Taft, “if it is to be a permanent con- ditlon, making for real advance in hu- man progress and happiness, must conform te natural econémioc law and be consistent with the possibilities and the frallties of human nature, and their practical betterment.” Other speakers were President W, H, P, Faunce of Brown university and Rabbi Stephen 8, Wise of the Free Bynagegue, New York, President Faunce said that in looking backward fifty years there had been three dis- tinct lines of advanee in calleges— frem mere discipline te eulture—the develapment of social respomsibility; and the advance from a merarehy to a demecracy in eollege gevernment, Pampered Darlings in College. Rabbi Wise said there are too many cpllege men who seem to imagine that it is their ehiefest duty te be apelo- gists far “the phenomena of meral dis- order|” “What service ean eollego men ever render the sacial erde o asked, “as long as they drag on their way through college—thase who peith- er lafl ner spin, but are petied and pampered darling: In the forces of cerrupt government he said there had been foumd within the past gemeration almost as many Fecruits from the colleges, as arrayed themselves under the banner of good gevernment, e | HELD FOR STABBING HiS DIVORCED WIFPE. South Norwalk Man Also Pulled Her About Street by the Hair. South Norwalk, Conn, March $.— Antoine Nagy is held without bail in the police lockup, charged with mur- derous assault on his divorced wife, Lizzie Sé..s, late Saturday night. It is alleged picture show, in company with Albert Kahn, Nagy stabbed her with a long knife in the breast. Nagy then grab- bed her by the hair and commenced | pulling her about the street, when as- sistance arrived. / X Mrs. Serkes recetved medical aiten- | tion and it is belleved she may recov- er. She has a wound four inches long in_the breast. Nagy will be arraigned in police court tomorrow. HIGH SCHOOL GiRL HAS SMALLPOX. Daughter of Meriden Saloon Keeper Discovered With Mild Ca Meriden, Conr case of smallpox March 8. —One mild was disesvered in this eity today when Miss May Mc- Gulre of 135 Springdale avenue, a member of the at the glunibr class Meriden High seheel, was found to be the vietim. City Health Officer Louis F. Wheatley immediately ordered the house quarantined and the paticnt, her father and mother, a sister and thres brothers are ail forbidden to leave. The | #aloon and grocery store comducted by the girl's father on the premises have also been ordered elesed i | men must exercise self-restraint | and self-sacrifice and benevolence and | | churches throughout Rhode Island to | was resentenced to death at Atlanta, | Assemblyman Hover has introduced a at while his divorced wife | bill proposing the was on her way home from a moving | $55.000 for its purchase. | | { | MORNING FIRE IN Condensed Telegrams Jacob Riis, is said to be suffering with an me::'don of the heart. Admiral George A. Lyon, U. S. rertlred. died at Philadelphia. Pearl Entinge at one time most noted actress on the American stage is dead in Atlantic City. R N, Two_ More Scarlet Fever cases de- veloped at Suffield yesterday, making a total of twelve now under quaran- tine. Chief Justice Harry H. Clabaugh of the Supreme court of the District of Columbia, died suddenly of heart failure. 8L A Son Was Born Saturday to Mrs. Richard Derby, of New York, who was Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. Fred Schnitzel Risked his life to save his pet cat when fire destroyed the Otten building at Freeport, L. L Loss $25,000. Samuel Knight, President of the Topsham and Brunswick Twenty-Five Cent Savings bank of Brunswick, Me., the past 20 years, died Saturday. The Worthy Hotel Company of Springfleld Saturday filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy showing lia; bilities of $51,646 and assets of $42,092. G. Criswell Smith, 80 years old, su- perintendent of Public schools at Media, Pa., was married to Miss Eliz- abeth Lamb, 30 years old, of Tyner, N. C. The Will of Mrs. Mary Reeves Lawrence of South Hadley, Mass., leaves $1,000 to aid one needy student each year at the Mount Holyoke col- lege. Astronomers of the Naval observat- tory at Washington announce that on the night of Wednesday, March 11, there will be a partial eclipse of the moon. Distriot Attorney C. Pelletier is making an inquiry regarding the af- fairs of the Henry Siegel company at Boston which is in the hands of re- cetvers. Goods Stolen From the New TYork Central freight cars and valued at $75,000 were found by the police in a | flat in the Bronx occupied by Nicholas Smith, an engineer. “Go to Church Sunday” aided by falr, weather, was pronounced last night by pastors of the principal have been a great success. Leo M. Frank of Brooklyn, N. Y. Ga., Saturday for the murder of Mary Phagan a factory girl. His execu- tien was set for April 17. Rev. Dr. John Henry Jewett, pastor the Fifth _ Avenue Presbyterian church, New York, has declined to ac- | cept the call to Union chapel, a Con- | gregational church in London. Democratic Leader A. E. Smith in- troduced a bill in the New York as- sembly prohibiting smoking in mer- cantile establishments where more than 10 persons are employed. The Comptroller of the Currency Saturday issued a call for a statement of the condition of all national banks of the United States at the close of business on Wednesday, March 4. A Ten Percent Reduction in the salaries of afl chiefs' captamms and leutenants as well as many clerks, engineers and foremen in the Boston Fire department was put into effect Saturday. The Bedy of Mrs. Annie B. Hayden, who has been missing from her Bea- con Street home ir. Boston since last Wednesday was washed up on ‘the beach near her summer estate at Clif- ton Heights, Swampscott, Saturday. The Body of Framels MoRoris, as- sistant postmaster of Milford, Y was found in a snow drift by a search. ing party Saturday a short distance from Middlefield. He started to drive to Milferd at b e'clock Sunday even- ing. 8ix Sailors of the Naval Tug Poto- mac, who arrived from Newfoundland Friday were arrested early Saturday at a Pertsmeuth, N. H., dance hall, where they were eelebrating thelr es. cape from the Gulf of St. Lawrence iee, A Nymber of Rower Boats and pow. er beat fittings, belonging to summer residents and local fishermen, were burned or badly damaged in a fire which destroved {he sheps of Frank €ele at Rocky Neek, Kingston, Mass., Batusday, William 1, Bryan vesterday erowned Springficla’s “overvbody-go-to-cherch Bunday” serviees with two addresses delivered to an audience of 1,800 wo- men in the Court Square theater and te four thousand men in the muni- eipal auditerium. Carl Minkley of Milwaukee, 2 prom- inent Nocialist member of the Wis- consin legislature in 1913, speaking last night before New Haven social- ists,' made a bitter attack on the In- dustrial Workers of the World. He called Tannenbaum and Haywood “wind bags.” The Old Martin VanBuren Mansion in Kinderhook, N. Y. in which town Governor Glynn was born, may be turned into a summer state capitol. appropriation of A Letter Sent to Mrs. Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, asking her to request her husband to tervene for the life of Mrs. Bessia akefleld, who is at the state prison | under senfence of death has been re- | ceived at the governors office at Hartford. A STRATFORD COAL YARD. Bridgeport Sends Two Chemical En- 5 ines to Fight the Blaze. Straiford, Conn, March $—Wake- lee’s coal yard in Broad Street 1s burning and the Bridgeport fire de- partment has sent two chemical en- gines here to help fight the biaze. The fire started n & iwo-story cement bleek adjoining the yard and spread to the yard itsell. The firemen are de- voting their attention te saving nearby bulidings and & marine rallway near | = The Tolls Repeal is Essentia: HAS A BEARING ON OUR MEX- ICAN POLICY ADMINISTRATION’S VIEW Great Bri European n's Attitude Nations United States Into Preventing Frem Forcing Intervention, Washington, March 8.—Develop- ment of American foreign policy as an influence for commercial expansion and the cause of universal peace is a vital concern of the Washington ad- ministration in its efforts to have re- pealed the tolls exemption clause in the Panama canal Aside from President Wilson’s assertion that the national honor of the American people is invol g a treaty ob- ligation, re circumstances sur- tlement of the contro- versy wh are expected by admin- istration officials to have a broad ef- fect on the diplomatic relations of the United States with the entire world. All Europe Behind Great Britain. .. Behind the protest of Great Britain, it has become known authoritatively, stands the united support of Kuro- pean nations whose formal objections to the tolls provision have been held in abeyance to await the outcome of England’s negotiations wlith the United States on the subjeot. Underlying t settlement of the tolls dispute is an ambitious program of Americ dipiomacy ich eon- templates an early adjustment of re- lations with other ions so that the Panama canal may be opened in an era of dip! good feeling, Great Britain Aiding American Pelisy, Though thers exist no agreements, obligations inderstanding with Great Br is effect, the exten- slon of Bngiand’s reciprocal good will, in the view of diplomatists and per- sons close to the administration hers, cannot but aid in bringing about eventual triumph of the American, policy in Mexico and a satisfactery settlement of delicate negotiations with Japan and influence with other diplomatic difficuities which have ac- cumulated to the United States in the Igst decade and in which the friend- ship of Great Britain could be = healthy factor, Eurepe Guided by Great Britaim, The United States realizes that Great Pritain’s self-restraint in the recent Benton case has lessened con- siderably the likelihood that any Fu- ropean nation would assume an ag- gressive pesition in pressing the United States to interventien er dras- actlon in Mexieo or in awy other emergency in Latin-Ameriea, Europe, it is realized here, often is guided largely by the attitude of Great Bri- tain, Great Britain's alliance with Japan, it 1s believed, already has been a ‘ac tor In the dispute between the Unitec States and Japan over the Californta anti-alien land laws. The increasing friendship of the United States and Great Britain, is admitted, would render it diffic for Japan to expeot support from her ally in controversies with the United States. Thers is said to be good reason to belleve, toq, that the settlement of the tolls question on the basis of equal payment by all nations will find favor at Tokis, where an exemption In faver of American coastwise shipping was coming to be regarded as a serious blow to rOS - Dective Japanese trade with the South Atlantfe cotton states of America. Japan withheld any protest on the tolls_question, it is knewn, just as did European nations, because of the feeling that Great Britain through her speclal treaty with the United States had superior and prior rights of pro- test, Interest of Other Nations. Germany, too, has a vital interest in the settlament of the tolls ques- tion and Italy and southern France will be Interested greatly in the open- ing of the canal, as it furnishes a direct route to the Pacific coast for many emigrants. The possibility of emigration direct from Europe to the Pacific coast without the stop In New York ar an overland journey is ex- pected to contribute materially to the building vp of the wesL and it Is part- ly on this aceount that Italy as well as Germany has protestsd agalnst pro- posals to placs American immigra- tlon inspectors en board Italian and German ships before leaving Furopean ports. It is considered possible that a eompromise may be reached in the acceptance by the United States of the certificates of Italian and Ger- man officials as to the condition of emigrants. NO IMPORTANT STORM SCHEDULED THIS WEEK. Week of Bracina and Seasonable Weather is Predicted. ‘Washington, March 8.—FHope for a week of bracing, seasonable weather, with generally fair skies, was held out tonight by the weather buream fore- casters to virtually every section of the storm-battered, snow and ice-cov- ered country. “No important storm is charted to cross the country during the week.” said the bulletin “although a disturb- ance of moderate intensity will prevail over the middle west Wednesday or Thursday, and the eastern states about Friday. The precipitation attending this disturbance will be generally light and confined to the northern states. “There will be frosts at the begin- ning of the week in the gulf and south Atlantic states, except central and southern Florida”™ TO FIGHT AGAINST RELINQUISHING B. & M. Report That New Haven Directors Will Take This Attitude. Washington. March §.—Although no ord had been recelved tonight from Chairman Howard Elliott of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road, officlals of the department of justice expectsd conferences over dis- $olution pians to be resumed here dur- ing the present week. Reports that ihe New Haven directors had declded to fight in she courts rather than give up control ever the Boston and Matne read have not cpset the hope of aff- elals ihat & peaceful settlement will be Peached. Attarmey General Me- Reynolds has received mne intimation ince the New Haven board met tr Jew York city Friday that its officers origin of the .blaze could met definitely be learned this merning. The buildi where the fire siarted was uneccubied, being just completed. At 240 o'clock the fire was upder control, Loss $17,008 or §i3,680, have ahandored negotiations, “Pyehib Be enforcsd r Never Will in a Christian country,” said Cardinal Gibbens at New: Qvichnn, Satardey,