Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 16, 1914, Page 1

NORWICH, CONN.. MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1914 PRICE TWO CENTS VOL. LVL—NO. 63 ~ The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Pro..ction to the City’s Pdpulation LINING UP FOR A BATTLE AT TORREON| Cebld Paraurahs General Forward Movement of Both Armies Seems | to Forecast Early Engagement Rebels—Villa Denies Knowledge of Preliminary Skirm- | fmmqdia ishes—Huerta Notifies United States That Mexican Gov- | “* * "* ™ I ¥ , Suffragettes Smash Windows. ernment Won’t Pay For Keep of Mexicans at Fort Bliss | rondon, March 15—a detachment of militant suffragettes armed with smashed every s on the ground floor of international | the residence of Reginald McKenna, mith square, Houston, Tex forw: can f Post In the first s Orde A special t Juarez to bring ecretary of war i Within a riillery eral movem: 1t westwa £mall rebel force retreated. Rebel Troops Mobi »rth, immediately mediate northward of Torreon. A later report from the front said General Aguirre Benavides had pro- ceaded gouthward from Conejog in re- to General Villa's order Lo ad- vance and, encountering a large body of federals south of Peronal, had driv- en them into Bermijillo. Losses were sponse mot reported. Train Service Suspended. General Villa is said to be impatient for the arrival of General Angeles in order that he may reach the scene of battle. He hae suspended regular train service, as all rolling stock will be used for troop movement. TEXAS RANGERS ON DUTY. Entire Force Watching for Thievee Along Border. Austin, Texas. Ma #ire force of Texas mondville, Texas, in response appeal from perpdoes. announcing this step. Governor 0."B. Colquitt also made public a long Bt of Texas border trombles on which bis appeals for mors power to protect the boundary have heen based and the nature of the ran- which explai gers' activities Many of the incidents mentioned by @e governor wers comparatively petiv erimen, the handling of which b Eers, the records show, prevented them March 15.—A general A developing movement of both the Mexi- | complications, derals and rebels at Torreon was begun early today, prelimrinary, The sending of rangers to Raymond- ville was based on'a petition | ing that “for the past few months cat- belicved, to opening of the long de- |tle thieves have been depredating and several murders have been committed.” similar arges was made public tonight from Ranger Captain J who brought assert- 4 battle for possession of that . according to a despatch from Chi- | op, huahus, Mex., tonight to the Houston | . | R Hugh mishes the constitu- | trone "Sre" peii- | investiga- had been killed and several were reported slain; were alleged to have depredations by persons who took re: uge in Mexico and that the petitio ers believed more would allay the trouble. HUERTA WON'T SETTLE. United States Must Stand Expense of [ New Haven, Conn., March 15 Mexicans at Fort Bliss. Mexicans | gat that the killing police protection Mexico City, March 15—The Mexi- | Cromer, aged o Nelson | Sella Mott, aged 13. The latter is now the New Haven hospital with bullet through his_groin, and his con- ion is said to be critical. Cromer rested on a technical charge of and is out on $1,000 bonds, government haughnessy, the American charge today informed the United States government that it will to meet the cost of the maintenance of the Mexican prisoners now interned Texas. The note ed the chargo d'affaires quctes exten- various international refuse at Fort Bli hand- w hours after orders were en for the rebel advance, despaiches om the extreme front reported a fed- rd from Mapimi throush Canyon lLa Cadena, which owing to its proximity to the federal sutposts, had not been strongly gar- risoned by the constitutionaiists. 15 wi izing. General Urbana, with 2,000 men at Palayo, nine Spanish leagues to vas ordered to ad- ance, and General Villa issued orders for the advance of all the cavalry at Escalon, Conejos, Peronal and other points along his battle front to the im- stole over burned Huerta to Inerease His Army. Mexico City, March 15.—Another in- erease in the army is announced. stated that the regular establishment | is to be raised from 200,000 to 250,600 | Including the irregular service, | SUFFRAGETTES DEFACE if the official figures of | the strength of the army are ecorrect, would give President Huerta 300,000 1t is this mcrease, No Tunnel at Fort Bliss. arch 15.—General completed his investiga- a report that a tunnel being dug at the prison camp at Fort | Bliss, but found no trace of the al- | higl leged plot. % Scott today Villa Knows of No Fighting. Chihuahua, Mexico, there has been any T vieinity of Torreon General Villa does | the pews i 15.—The en- angers, totalling m¢ present omiy fiffeen mounted men, was assigned to duty on the 800 miles of Texas-Mexican border today fhe arrival of two rangers at g in the |had a the rumor that t! had advanced morthwest f federals rre inens there for protec- e ton inst cattie thieves es- o - b again: 3 and des- |3 0ned that the enemy would not evac- uate thelr stromgnold, as he hoped to captore most of thém. he only Rigid Censorship of Telegraph. Inaugu- ratton of a rigld censorship over tcle- eraph Tines tonight is believed here 1o has indicate that already occurred glon, or that Villa has begun the lon: awaited attack on Torreon. fmportant flehting More Chanting Suffragettes. Yor leagues. Buesseldorf, Germany, March from here, took fire Mrs. Pankhurst Out Again. London, March Mrs. started y day last at | hatehets and nammer: pane of gl home . secretary in Westminster yesterda Glasgow ftant suff; uring the service toda Lord, we beseech ino Pankhurst, March 15 x "hee to m took no no stration, out_of | e 8 MIND INFLAMED BY Wounds Companion. playin, 162 g “wild nished by his father. omer, it is ver at their heads; Wog | “Hola up “your hana % | pide. Cromer helped carry the hoy to a phy hosp ing. mingham Cathedral. Birmingham, England, March was reading: “Votes for Wome must rise in our behalf torturing of women in prison!” —1¢| Tovery foot of space except the altar | sign painted on it, including H»,i The work is believed té6 have been that of women who o1 aled them- n | selves in the cathedral last night his | is thought it was done for the bensfit | { FAIR, EARLY SPRING Unsettled, However. Wa, nz wi of the cou gton, March 15.—FPair, sp: YO “HOLD THE TOWN FOR THEIR GRUB” Declaration of I. W. W. Leader with | Refersnce te His Followers. New York, March 1 the parish house. Polic made to inteefers with them. Prank §. Hamilton, the present W. W. leader of the unemployed and Enccessor to Frank Tannenbaum mounced tha! tonight's meeting in Rut- gers square would be the last one that efforis wers being made a hall in which the men might a24 sperd (e t, “WeTl hold the town for their grub,” ®e added. Represemtalives of arganizations and the unempioved met in the madern schasl on the upper Fast Bide tonight to discues the for- mation of an unemployed confe; of New York. While severai I. W Jeaders wers present, thoae in charge wanted it understood that the meeiing wae not being held under {ne auspices of that organtzation. “Dead Line” Reestabl: established, it was learned Manc vears ago Police Inspector Thomas Byrnes fixed this line, ebove the finamcial and jewelry dis- tricts, an one which Ro man with a | criminal reeord could pass without be- | ing swhjected to immediate Within the past three or four years the rule has not been in effect, but men of the criminal class were becoming in- the former prohibited district, induced Police 1 McKa Sent Objectionable Note to Wil J.. March 15.—Charged with having written a letter_couched | in objectionable language to President | which Newark e commi jail by United Commissioner Stockion. TWO STRIKEBREAKERS CHARGED WITH MURDER Striking - Miner Killed Caused by Cry of “Scab.” —One hundred | and five of the unemplored marshalled | by leaders of the Industrial Workers | of the World were the guests tonight of the Rev. Dr. John Haymes Holmes, | ington tonight, charged with the pastor of the Church of the Messiah | ing of one striker and seriously wouw on Park avenue After the men had Been given supper al a mearby taurant they wers Invited to sieep In officials who had followed the “army” from a meet- ing in Rutgers square were told by Dr. Holmes thai the men were guests of the church. No attempt was Oak Creel, Colo. House and A. D. Perkins, two strike- OBITUARY. breakers employed at mines, were arrested by Sherlff Chi Creelk ing a second in a street fight Both House and Because of high feeling here, the sheriff took his pris- oners to Steamboat Springs. “hivington. four men were engaged in the was precipitated, he said, by crfes of “scab” hurled at {he strike- breakers by the union men brawl, whic! | BUTTER AND EGGS Postmaster-General Approves Amend- to the Regulations. Washington, March -Postmaster- son today zpproved to the parcel post regu under which butter. vegetables, poultry and other reels weighing from pounds may and second zones, in hoxes and | O similar to < companies. amendment articles hed. New York, March 15.—The old time| @ead line ai Fukon street has been re- provides that par- | tems i | ward ¢ | cels welghing heretofore and must manner be safely treated in bags with obier matter.” Teddy on Horseback 500 Miles. Rio Janeiro, Marcn 15.—Colonel Ron- |74 years old, don, a member of the Brazilian com-| General Reid served in | mission accompanying Colonel Theo- | cor | dore Roosevelt, telegraphs that the ex- | pating in both the Civil and the Span- creasingly bold in their invasions of | Pedition reached Barao de Malgatoafi- | ish-American wars, er a ride of over 500 miles on horse- back through the interior of the coun- | marine corps graduated from Ober- ry without being attacked by savages. |lin colleze and the Columbia College RooseveM of Law. Since his retirement in 1904 “ommissioner Douglas to revive the Byrnes system. | | The telegram sa. in excellent health, To Buy Waterloo Battlefield. , was _arrested toffice inspectc ise a nd of $30,000 to purchase the | was today d serve it from a spec ative builder. was bureau. will be raf in the nort h Pacific | _ Rev. Dr. Maurice J. Dorney. Maur J. Dorne here | whose name is familiar on both_sides of the Atlantic, died today at Mercy declare | hospital, where his sister is one of the nuns in charge. Death was due to i | paraly | aitacked hlm a few wee | | s ago. Hartford, Conn., March 1 Willlams, principal of the An | the last 34 years, died toda; long illness incident to old age. term of service at the school covered | BY PARCEL POST, forty-scven vears. Pomifret, C'onn. children survive, Judge Louis Munrce Clark. Louis Munroe Clar) an to the Ti's auto and Jeaped tn of AMr. Clark 56 years old. Gen, George C. Reid. Washington, March 15 retired, died at hi | stricken last iday night. He he had practiced law here. she is Dorathy Arnold, w ed from her home in this city cribed as “pure semse” by the father of the m girl, Francis R, Arnold yor London, March 15.—Suffragettes to- day chanted prayers in Westminster minster and the Brighton parish church for their imprisoned col- Famous German Church Destroyed. The famous thirteenth century church of St. Quirinus at Nauss, four miles terday and the REBELS INTERCEPT A WIRELESS FROM HUERTA |friciiye, of e =iien wos aviers mmeline : : . | Pankhurst was asain released from Message Directed Federal General to Take Offensive Against | 1ioiloway jail vesterday. She ‘hunger and thirst strike” :‘arrest on Sun- and is report- nd exhausted. Suffragettes Disturb Cathedral Service A band of mil- es rose in the cathedral and chanted ; Helen Crawford all the brave women who are suf- tionalists, it is sajd. were put to flight, | fion sald an ~merican named Rowell | fering for their faith.” The congre but in later minor engagements rebel troops were reporied victorious. Huerta's Message Intercepted. s were given by General Fran- cisco Villa for the advance of his troops late last night. His action was tened by the interception of a wire- less message from President Huerta ac Mexico City to General Refugio Vales- mmanding the federal garrison at Torreon. As caught by Villa's wire- less station, the message directed Velasco to take the offensive against ie constitutionalists immediately. Carranza’s Secretary of War on Way. has been started for eneral Felipe Angeles, the cabinet of Gen- eral Carranza, to ChihuaRua to com- ice of the demon- WILD WEST MOVIES. New Haven Boy Shoots and Critically —Wh said, was a devotee of authori- | the motion picture shows, and ties in support of the Mexican gov- | Wwild west” holdups had a peculiar ernment’s contention that the expense of keeping the borne by the United States. ascination to him. He purchased.a should be | revolver several weeks ago and amus- ed himself by making his boy friends hold up their hands while he pointed Federal Sympathizers Burn Bridges. |the revo : Sonora, Mexico, sympathizers the international behind Gener: toward Chihuahua, rallroad bridges on and Nogales railroad last nigh smoke of other fires presumabl. At the club today he pointed the re- volver at a boy friend and shouted, | This_action scared young Mott, and he_tried E mer saw’ him and ordered e | him to hold up his hands. The aDeREA | wes evidently too 1 start. | the commands and started to them. was vieiblo from here | @Way, when —Cromer fired. Cromer ician's office and he was later hurried to al. Cromer did not seem great- Iy concerned when he was placed un- | der arrest. Coroner Mix s investigat- ghtened to obey INTERIOR OF CHURCH Paint Walls, Floors and Pews of Bir- in the cathedral today is and floors of the edi- fice covered with suffragette proclama- tions painted in white letters a foot ! The eclergy nd step the WEATHER THIS WEEK Today's Weather Is Scheduled to Be athér over nearly all part ntry during the coming week promised tonight by the weather “Tthe weather Wil be unsettled Monday, however” sald the weekly bulletin, “along the northern border Quarrel | from the Great Lakes eastward the first part of the Chicago, March 15—The Rev. , a Catholic_priest following heart trouble which Job Wliliams, Native of Pomfret. v merican School for the Deaf in this city after He was born March 1, 1842 and was eraduated from Yale in 1864. Several Boston, March 15.—Assistant Justice . of the land court, a_ |2 former Harvard athlete, dropped | es, froits, | dead of heart fallure at the wheel of | his automobile on Beacon street | pigkt. Dr. W. P. Cross of South Bos- | ton, in another ' machine, saw Mr. obfle zigzag as its driver by | tell forward, Dr. Cross set hls brakes 10 street. He ran ahead car as it ewerved to- sidewalk. Judge Clark was Brigadier General George C. Reid, U. 5. M. home here today om apoplexy, with which he was the marine more than forty years, partiei- He was born in Lorain, Ohio, and before entering the | Not Missing Dorothy Arnold. commites | New York, March inéiudes the Duke of Welling- 49 years old, of | ton, Lord Roberts and the lord ma of London h and { publie The elaim ef Blla_Evans of Los Angeles, Cal, that vho disappear- To Provide for Siegel Employes, SETTLEMENT WORKERS TAKE UP THE MATTER. WEALTHY MEN ASSIST Pledge Aid for Fund to Provide Them Money Until They Obtain Employ- ment—I. W. W. After Them. New York, March 15.—The aales- girls and salesmen who had net ob- tained positions when the Fourteenth street and Simpson Crawford com- pany stores crosed their doors last night, will be looked after by some of the Fast Side settlement werkers, according to Dr. Robbins Gilman, head worker of the University Settlement, tonight, Majority Have Secured Work. The stores were closed by court order on application of receivers of those enterprises of Henry Siegel and associates which failed recently. The great majority of the 2,500 persons thrown out of employment by the closing have secured work elsewhere, other stores having taken them in, but to insure that all are taken care of Dr. Gilman conferred today with some of ‘the men and women active in set- tlement work and a plan was devised whereby those out of work will re- celve sums sufficlent to tide them over until they can secure positions. Wealthy Men Pledge Aid. Dr. Gilman sald several wealthy men of the city had pledged their laid. Meanwhile the employment bu- reaus of the Young Women's Hebrew association and the Young Women's Christian association are making ef- | forts to get work for the needy and the Working Women's Protective league has begun a canvas of the of- fices and the stores of the city to find employment for the gir! I. W. W. After Them. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World and the army of the un- employed have been bus Siegel stores to jgin their ranks and invitations were sent the former em- ployes to attend a meeting of the u employed tomorrow morning at Bee- thoven hall called by leaders of the LW W MEXICAN BANDITS BURN CUSTOM HOUSE. | Shoot Postmaster Dead for Withhold- ing Combination of Safe. San Diego, Cal, March 15 ston, was shot dead by. th bandits -wers Mexicans. A charred American flag was found | in the ruins of Johpston’s stere, Which also was the eustoms office and post- office. A posse started at daybreak in pur- sult of the bandits. Johnston, it was learned, was shot through the heart when ho refused 1o give the combina~ tion of the safe. Elliott D. Johnston, the dead man's brother, sent telegrams today to Secvetary of State Bryan, | Governor Hiram W. Johnson at Sacra- | mento and Representative Kettner at Washington demanding a thorough in- He placed the responsibil- vestigat ity for the tragedy on Mexicans. Bitter feeling along the border caused by the tragedy was intensified today when a newspaper photographer | on the Americun side was fired at by Mexicans, He was not injured. Major Devis, commandér st Fort Reseerans, San Diego, with several of- jicers and & platoon of men, left for Major Davis said he weuld conduct a rigid examination in behalf of the war de- partment and report immediately to the department commander at San Lecate today by automobil Franeises Johnston's hody was brou: Diego today. THREE EMBASSIES TO LOCATE AT NEWPORT Foreign Diplomats Engage Residence at Fashion’s Resort. Newport, R. I, March 15—Three embassies to this country, German, Russian and Spanish, plan to come | here next summer. Haniel Von Haim- hause, counsellor of the German em- bassy, has taken a large house on Le- venue and will be in charge of | embassy affairs while the ambassa- dor, Count J. H. Von Bernstorf, Is o passing his vacation in Germany. An estate on Belleville avenue op- posite the Casino will be occupied by George Bakhmeteff, the Russian am- bassador. Senor Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, | y, 18 ex- pected here soon to select his residence Iread of the Spanish emba for the summer. | A FASHIONABLE CLUB AMONG THOSE RAIDED State and Local Police Stir Things Up at Dambury. Danbury, Conn, March 16.—Five te policemen, assisted by ten local officers, made a sensational series of louor raids in the heart of the city | ubs, Including the prom- clib, were raided and nine arrests were made. It is said s today. Nine cl inent Wooster warrants are out for seven others. About thirty kegs of beer, twenty cases of am and lager, and many bottles of | whiskey were seized, and carted to the police station. The Wooster club is a well known social organization and a number of prominent citizens are members. At | the time the raid was made there were | only two persons in the club besic the employes, Bridgeport Pastor Called, Danbury, Conn., March 15—The Danbury Baptist church today extend- ed a unanimous call on Rev. A H. morial Bap- | tist church in Bridgeport, to become Boutwell, pastor of the M its pastor. It s beileved he will ac- cept the call. More Bodies Recovered at St. Louls. St. Louis, March 15—Thres bodies were removed today from the ruins of the Missouri Athletio club fire, bring- ing the total of dead recovered to 28. Thirty persons are belleved to have 1g0. One of tha bodies removed today was identified as that of Allen Hancock of this city. Seven perished a weel bodies are still ynidentified. A Gommission of Only Three NEW TRADE COMMISSION BILL PREPARED. the Elks at Newark, N. J, at a l of $20,000. SALARY IS STILL $10,000 But There Will Bs Two Less to Pay Than Under Original Bill—Subcom- mittee Unanimous for Hew Measure. passed a workman compensation bill providing both death and accident | Waahington, Mabch indemnity. state trade commission the approval of President Wi Attorney-General o died_ther breakdown. following many cenferences among members of house interstate commerce cimmittee. The democrats expect this measure to command substantial republican sup- port and an effort probably made soon to bring about concert the senate and house interstate commerce commitiee. tion programme of commerce tion and anti-trust legislation. Committes Unanimous on Bill. The new bill was unanimously agreed framers, a sub-commit- republicans, upon by its of demeocrats headed by Representative of Maryland, and it is approved virtuaily the full committee. “The whole theory of the commission, ton tonight, “has been to make it an independent body. of the matters of publicity it has en- tire control of the facts gathered. Trade Secrets Protected. its discretion contains ample authori- ty for it to prevent the disclosure of trade secrets which are valueless to the public in promot- ing lawful competitive business, disclosed, simply opportunity for injurious use by com- investigation, proper constitutional limitations against unlawful searches and seizures, are taken from a subordinate department of the executive to this non-partisan body.” Provides For Three Commissioner: transfer all powers and duties of the bureau of commissioner the proposed years sexton of the Congre: ch of Biddeford, Me, committed | suicide Saturday. chui of the creation gir | white goods factory building at New- A be Dol ark, N. J.,, Saturday. those necessary sateguarded by trying to induce the men end women fTom the s i Sarparations shamrock were bro of corporations to mission of three members, presidential to confirmation, would be $10,000 an- Only two of the commis_ could be from the same The original from which the Covington very substantially, vided for five commissioners and that the present commissioner of corpora- tigns should be autvmatically min af-the new the annual appointees whose saiaries nually each. nalist, of New the Editor and Publisher, died Satur litical party. day at_ Mattick, L. L He w years old. The United States customs office and post~ office at Lecate were burned last night and the postmaster, Frank V. John- se bandits, according to advices recelved here to- night. Warren Widenback was wound- ed. Observers of the tragedy say the commission. Definition of Corporations. The new bill of the commissioner of corporations It makes the fixed tenure of the com- missioners six years and mission would chouse own chair- ‘The Covington bill porations all bedies incorporated under and jeint stock associations associutions shares of capital or other capital stock or erganized to carry on business for defines as [ ! | | | Steamers Reported by Wireiess. Cape Race, N. er Potsdam, ‘Rotterdam for New York, signalled 1,111 miles east of Hook at 1145 & m. Dock 12.30 & m. Steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Bre- signalled 1,236 Hook at 6 p. m. New York, miles east of Sandy 9 a. m. Wednesday. Island, N. mer Zeeland, Antwerp for York, signalled 795 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock .30 a. m. Wed- Capt Race, N, P, March 15.—Steam- er Potsdam, Rotterdam for 1,111 miles ea: Hook at 1145 a. m. Wednesday. ht to San Dock 12.30 p. m. Steamer Lusi- 226 miles at 1 p. m. guard 5 & m, Kaiser Wilhelm II, New York for Bre- 50 miles southwest at a Due Plymouth 10 p, m. Scilly, March 15.—Signalled, steamer Minnetonka, New York for London. Cape Race, N. F., March 15.—Steam- er Carthaginian, Liverpool for Phila- delphia, signalled 330 miles southeast at 3.45'p. m. Steamer Manitou, Antwerp for Bos- 1 Philadelphia, miles east of Boston at 8 p. m, Amerika, Genoa for New York, signalled 1,200 miles Sandy Hook at 815 p. m. Dock $.30 a. m. Thursday. men, signalled 17 penitentia; er county judge, leading lawye er supreme master of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and form- | er grand master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Wisconsin w in his garage at Sparia, urday. Eight Taken in Poolroom Raid. March 15.— persons were arrested early a raid on a pool room conducted by Burns of Bristol. e Peace Starr was his sleep at two o'clock and heard the of the accused $2 awakened from finlng each and costs. said to have been found on the prem- ises, and this fact ha cated to the prosecuting officer. been communi- Steamship Arrivals. New York, March 15.—Steamer Pre- toria, Hamburg. Gibraltar, March cinnat{, New York Naples, March 15 New York. 15.—Steamer Cin- ~Steamer Saxonia, Steamer Mount March ' 15.—Steamer Fran- | nterest wa forts of the colonial government o ne- | Eotiate a loan of $2,000.00 development to wh tion I¢ pledged. sir the premler, left for I by way of E. Davidson will leave direct for Liv- erpool on Wednesday for the purpose of trying to raise the money. $13,000 Fire at Franchvills, Me. 3 March 15.—Four buildings, including the postoffice, c hotel and sta- es | Franchville, toms office, ble and a geners today and three oihe aged. The total lass is $18,000. Storm Wrecks Swedish Bark. bark Trifollum was driven ashore on night and Captain Olsen and four sailors were drowned. < members of the crew were saved. Storms all along the coast @id mw Land's End L. night, died (oda; Horn and his-son, Freder the wagen when they were run into | Danbury Grecery Store Burned. Danbury, Conn., March 1 Kautz damage to against a telegra Wooster stroot Sherwood estate Injured. Kauts was arrested. Saturday Marked the Sixtieth birth_ day of Vice President Marshall. A Gang of Chinese Opium smug- | glers is menacing Canadian border cities. Fire Destroyed the Club House of One More C: Stanley Lowndes, millionaire ovster planter, who weighed more than 400 pounds, died at Greemport, N. aged 55. The Kentucky State Senate has Judge C. A. Willard of the United district court, at Minneapolis, The Grand Opera House, erected at | Leechburg, Pa., two years ago at u.! cost of $100,000, was destroyed by fire Saturday. The Round House of the Grafton | t Milford, M. Upton railroad was destroyed by fire Saturday with a loss of $40,000. Charles H. for twenty-one Rt. Rev. John Scarborough, Protes- | tant Episcopal bishop of New Jer-| sey, dled at Trenton Saturday after a short illness. Perfection in a Fire Drill saved 400 is from a fire panic in a four story The Body of Antone Botelhe was found in Crab Pond, Fall River, Sat- urday. He has been mis home g from his v 16. nce February Daniel O’Connell, known during the last few years as the oldest member of the FEiks died at his home ne Owosso, Mich., Saturday. The Passing of the United States Express company, which its directors voted to dissolve, will throw 1% persons out of employment enteen Thousand Pots « sht to New Yo the Cunard liner Mauretania ebration of Marc] S Allan Forman, founder of the Jour Tk, now merged with s o4 Small Pox Conditions in South Texas | due to the influx of thousands of Mexicans who have crossed the border | to escepe the revelution,it. is-declared have assumed serious propertions. Hunt For the Treasure the pirate, Jean Lafitte is supposed to have buried in the swamp ana during his suc the gulf 1s of Louisi- sssful operatior oast, has been renewed. Consolidation of the Fitchburg Na- tional bank and the Fitchb Safe Deposit and Trust company, two of the largest institutions in Fitchburg, Ma announced on Saturday. Tramps Who Bu nt section o that did yn, caused a of three firemen Mrs. Tanka Belatski, a Widow years of age, was murdered in the yard at the rear of a house where he hoarded on Spring street Saturday at Fall River, Mass. whose attentions the woman refused. Five Armed Robbers broke into the mail order branch of the Hartman Furniture company at Chicago, Sat urday, blew open the office safe, threw aside valuable securities, discarded $40,000 in money orders and escaped with $15,000 ca: The World’s Record for a day's run by an east-bound Atlantic steamship has been broken by Lusitan! William Cheney Ellis, Gincinnati leather merchant, convicted go of killing his wife, accepted a sentence of fifteen years in the state y Saturday without making an effort to get a new trial. Judge C. M. Masters, aged form- Wis., Sat- The 1500 Employes of Henry Siegel & Company, at Boston, were made happy Saturday by th that throngh a rearrangement of the | sale of the bankrupt stock by the trustee tinue the business and retain servi , another company would con- Neither Twelve Months of contin- ous school nor a class day lasting un- til 5 or 530 o'clock in is favored by Chicago school teachers However, it is probable that the other of these two plans will o be recommended to the cation by perintendent of Chic: of edu- Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, su- go public schools, Newfoundland Seeks $2,000.000 Loan. March 15.—Much the ef- St. John's, N. F. expressed today don yesterd ew York. and Governor W. New Haven Ccllision Results Fatally. March 15.—John | Horn, a florist who was injured in | a collision between an autamobile and | an express wagon at Marris Cove last | in_a local hospital. | ck, were in ew Haven, Conn. ile driven by Horn was 1 pole and hi ctured. _The son was only of bubonic plague | in_Havana has been reported to the | public health service. 1 as the result of nervous | casu; The ' disturban train was covered w damaged the railroad and dead workmen, ail | lines. evidences ional | 1t a Fire on the wooden floor of a vacant factory building in the Green P« of Brookl §300,000 damage, and resulted in the inju by a man the Cunard liner Between Thursday noon and Friday noon the vessel had cov- ered 618 knots, an average speed of 26.70 knots an hour. Chica- , form s found dead announcement afternoon Gondnsed Torams EARTHQUAKE ON A JAPANESE ISLAND Two Villages Wiped Out and a Heavy Loss of Life in the Garrison City of Akita AN ERUPTING VOLCANO ADDS TO THE TERROR Copper Mine Collapses and Fate of the 300 Miners at Work There is Not Yet Known—Sixty Dead Bodies Already Found and 320 Houses Destroyed in One District—Hur- ricane in Southern Russia Causes a Loss of 1500 Lives. Tokio, March ous _earth- { cars wel by the rus quake occurred today in the prefecture | waters ¢ ey it e acetd of Akita, Island of Hondo. A number The b ged for ten hours. of persons in the city of Akita were | Wh the receding floods killed and many houses destroyed or | 1 struction, destruction, damaged. In which was r The volcano Asama-Yama, 90 miles | whi northwest of Tokio, is in eruption. endeavo > 320 Houses Destroyed. Full details of the di have not ige. e o been received, owing tc 1o e tion to comniunic odies we: Omono river destroyed. was burned, quake colla g s rocel men Flames from Volcano Terrifying. Simultaneous _with the ea came terrific explo: t ing of flames fr: Yama, which terri of that district A City of 30,000 Akita is 2 garrison town on the s of Japan. -It does port trade, especially it popul e « active periods I only showers eruptio several vi the moun streams of 1 s SWEPT BY HURRICANE Loss of Life in a Province of South- ern Russia Estimated at 1500 nest and other t St P | flooded. Three t seawall at of the hurri Granviile ay. The dam- province of o Dieppe w ery great. A large S were | portion of tne 1 was wrecked fre erin and harbor T e Jand, inund roar of the m an the inhabitants ma rising tidé to a train At many pla s railway line and gave way, ouses on it. Soon, how edges in danser r ECUADOR’'S PRESIDENT | sHOT IN CELLAR MAY BE BOTTLED UP OF DERBY SALOON. Rebel Evacuation of Esmeraldas Prob- | Man Who Acted as Peacemaker Now ably a Strategic Move. 1 in the Hospital Panam h onn., ceived here today ing.as a p: the British several friends been, ordered to D speed | saloon V¥ : to Memeraidas at e a : : British vice consul. Comm a serious conditio; with raldas b > 1 > on, the c g n a room an ter finishing > th whera A ot s shot rying to been g pOw~ rclothing e can be ns hav The in- who shot intention Plaza and his DAVIS OF MYSTIC IS NAMED ON THE JURY arreste to have To Pass Judgment at Annual Interna- tional Art Exhibit. the shoot: was'John e butldin: Pittsburgh, Pa., March 15.—John W. a polices Beatty, director of the department of | pii, 1d the officer fine arts of the Carnegie institute, to- | he haq peen s day announced the jury to judge the | ZBo 085 ()7 18th annual international srt exhibit which will oper 30. The jurors, who were elected by the e T o Toae i ers in the Uni es and isna: countri ar W.. Alexander | NEw YORK POLICE lecilia HBeaux, William Chase, Robert N Henri, W. E. Schofield, all of New GET SAFEBREAKERS. fork; Charles H. Davis, Mystic, Conn.; i DO mber. Lumberville, Pa.; W. L. | Confess That They Intended to Dyna- Lathrop, New Hope, Pa.; Henry Carol- mite Safe Containinf Diamonds. Delvalle, Paris, and Julius Olss Ives, England. his_han New York, Mar e pol 3 VETERAN SUICIDES IN intended A DANBURY CEMETERY |55 gaent No Cause. Kriowh Tor Desdi ot Forman [ oo 1har s Restaurant Keeper. they bad pa Cwo men who, confessed they 1 diamond cut- monds valued cre arrested to- been -trailed for during which time liminary visit by f their intended 1's names were given 2lias “Mike Danbury, Conn, March 15.—The body of the man who shot himself in | the German Lutheran cemetery on the | Sneider,” 2 ars and Jake outskirts of the city last: night was | Rothman, also known as “Phil Weiss,® today as that of Georse Wil- | 22, > obtained what best and most aged 635, a Civil war veteran, | until a short time ago was the Soldiers’ Home at Noro- | complete equipment fon Son is known for the act. | which e their motice, in- Williams conducted a restaurant in cluding o new sort of sectional “Jim=- this city about 15 years ago. Recently | my” etore th he had been living w latives Shelton. paper of believe t connec 1 may haye been >bbery of the sefe {of the Williams Jewelry company of sriies-Robettaon, the spiuest, i that eity the day before, which caused h actor, who recently announced his | the firm a loss o 06, an dpassibly; rotirement from ihe siate and Lady | with other burgiaries in Boston Forpes-Kobert: who betore o sieftis marriage wa s Gertrude E Lost Leg “Hopping Freight were tendered a farewell dinne nizht by the New York Press club. Among those present we: prominent in theatrical work. | “hopping 1 ards tod: ights” at_the 3 Joseph Moran, aged 15, fell between and’ his_right leg was cut off. He is in a local hos- Dpital suffering from the shock and loss Maine Campaign Begins. af biood, Portland, Maine, March ‘15—The po- | et litical season has entered early in t Auto Kills Woman of 60, stale and gives evidence of contin Brociton, Mass, March 15—An ags with increasing interest v B tamobile owned and driven by John A, ennial election on September n- | Whittemore, Jr, of West Roxbury, didates for state and cous i | strack and kiled Mra Annis Brophy, nominations at the June primarics ure | 60 years eld, tonight. As no evidence already circulating nomination pa- | of negligence was found Whittemore Lers. was released from custody,