Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 20, 1914, Page 1

e s VOL. LVI—NO. 67 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total FRIDAY, MARCH 20, Circulation CONDEMN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTIGE Vigorous Protest Against New Haven Dissolution by Waterbury Chamber of Commerce DEMOCRATS DENOUNCE THE ADMINISTRATION Governor Baldwin and Congresstnan Kennedy Its Severest Critics—New Haven Chamber of Commerce Urges the Railroad to Fight the Efforts of the Attorney-General— Connecticut Industry Bound to Suffer, It is Declared. e Waterbury, Conn., March 19.—At a | commission hearing upon the railroad's meeting of the chamber of commerce aPplication to retain its steamboat ines. here tonight the consensus of opinion was that the department of justice is making a great mistake in attempting | 2 to dismember the New Haven system. Presents Batch of Protests Against Among the speakers were Governor Dissolution. Simeon E. Baldwin, Congressman V T BRANDEGEE ACTS. Washington, March 19.—Protests by iam J. Kennedy, ex-Mayor Francis T. g S Reeves, Corporation Counsel Francis | Pasiks, trust companies and boards of P. Guilfoile and ex-State Senator | tFade In Connecticut agalnst continue e uiar e { agitation of New Haven railroad af- fairs were presented to the senate to- day by Mr. Brandegee of Connecticut. The general tenor of the protests was against dissociation of steamship and trolley lines and the New Haven and Governor Baldwin reviewed the sit- tion of the New Haven road and in plain terms condemned the action of he department in its conduct toward the New Haven road. Congressman | auinie asitation because of losses. o Fovermiment. thire. whs. oo much ins | S4vinEs banks trust companica and Vestigation and too much probing into | egucgtional institutions of the state. feel at liberty to confer with the at- torney general on behalf of his con- stituents because the duty rested with the attorney general alone to deter- mine whether actions should be | brought under the Sherman law. “The directors of the road are en- man from Texas, Jesse Adkins,” rominent in the present in- . was the butt of much un- comment from Mr, Ken- Suffer. | ! vestiza favorable nedy. Industry Will -Mayor Francis T. Reeves spoke | trapped,” said the senator. “As cus- of the great benefit the New Haven | todians for the stockholders, they will road was to Waterbury and in fact | be censored if they part with prop- he whole of New England. Mr. Reeves gaid that he thought that President Wilson and also Attorney General Mc- Reynolds were sincere and wanted to do the wroper thing by the New Haven road but that they were influenced by the opinion of men who are not fam erty they are not required under the to give up. If they resist th government they may v into years of lit- tuation is most em- ught with the most ome.” barrassing tremendous jin conditions in New Ensiar S who reasons of their own inter- | BLLIOTT HOPEFUL. €< ave casting an unfavorabie reflec- | e A T i he system. A Believes Agreement May Be Reached ion Counsel Francis P. 1 aid that he had been broushi Today on B. & M. Trustees. section which is most in- e success or failure « up fluenced in the by New York, March 19.—On his way luenc v nf | to Washinzton tonicht, Howard Fi- the New [laven road and that if the | 0., &L P g i at’the present in | ot chairman of the New York, New government ins srupting the system it would prob- ably mean that industry in this sec- tion would suffer consig#frably Resolution Fassed. ~ The following resolution was pass- ‘Whereas, for many vears both and .fter the passage of the Sherman act, a large portion of New England relied for its transporta- tion facilities mainly on - the New nd Hartford Railroad com- pany, expressed his belief in an early settlement of some of the more im- portant questions now pending with the zovernment respecting the dissolu- tion of the New Haven svstem. Primarily. Mr. Elliott hopes to ar- rive at an agreement with Attorney General McReynolds tomorrow regard- ing the personnel of the trustees of the Boston and Maine road and thelr ten- ed York, New Haven and Hariford rail-{ure of office. This has been & bone road and finally almost the whole of | of contention between the New Haven Connecticny came to be served by the | and the federal authorities, but it is New York, New Haven and Hariford | believed that both sides have made railroad, and 7 concessions. Mr. Elliott declined to “Whe: the people of Connecti- | 8ive out the names of the trustees cut are generally of the opinion that under competent and honest manage- ment the New York, New Haven and Hartford em is capable of giving most efficient service, “Resolved, That the Waterbury Chamber of Commerce respectfully re- Guests the attorney gemeral, applying of reason, not to press for memberment of a property which has been created at great effort and expense, but to permit the Inte state Commerce Commission and pub- selected by the New Haven for the Boston and Maine and the trolley sub- sidiaries. nor would he say to what extent his directors had empowered him to close any agreement with the department of justice, No call has yet been issued for a meeting of the New Haven stock- holders who are to ratify any disso- lution proceedings, this being contin- Zent upon further negotiations with the authorities at Washington. The New Haven directors today au- lic utilities commission to deal with | thorized the issue of $2,490.000 of five the situation and not further handicap | per cent. eouipment notes, to run for this section of the country by radical | 15 vears. for the purchase of steel organic changes in the N Haven and construction of _electrical &ystem, which is =o essential to the ment between New York and prospe ¥ of New England.” Haven. No arrangements have been made, said Mr. Elliott, for ment of the $45.000,000 of notes May 18 next. The directors also anthorized the purchase of 15,000 tons of rails for the New Haven and 1,300 tons for its subsidiary, the Central New Fngland railway., March earnings of the-system con- | pas RAILROAD URGED TO FIGHT. n | Qte Resolutions Adopted by the New Ha- | ven Chamber of - Commerce. Haven, Conn., March 1 r than surrender to the demands Ne of the attorney general of the United | tinue to show decreases, according to Etates for the dismemberment by: Mr. Elliott. but the second week twas ezreement of any part of the New Ha- | better than the first. n railroad system.” the New Haven e mber of commerce today passed DISSOLUTION PLANS. utions calling upon the president | and directors of the railroad to “resist | © the utmost such demands and com- | pel the attorney general to arguc his Final Conference Today—The Details As Now Arranged. 'ase in cour Washington, March 19.—With vir- The present plans of the attorney! tually every detail of the plan for general mean. the resolutions say, “the | “untangling” the New Haven railroad destraction of the present transporta- | system settled, officials of the road tion system of New Hneland, with con- | and attorney gequent paralyeis to the business and 1 for the department of ustice will begin here tomorrow what are expected to be their final confer- ences According to information avail- able tonight the plan wiil be ready for submission to Atiorney General Mec- IRsynylgs Friday night or Saturday, | and it is probable that President Wil- son will have an opportunity to see manufaciuring interests of this impor- | tant and populous territory, and with enormous and unjustifiable loss to the thousands of New England stockhold- | ers” Boston and Maine an Extension. committee on railroads and transportation also prepared another | the fruits of the conferees’ labors the #et of resolutions which will be for-| same day warded to the department of justice; If it is approved bv the attorney the interstate commerce commis- | The resolutions sayv in part: W hereas, New England’s geograph- general and the president, there will | De little left to be done before the New fcal situation makes it peculiarly de- | conditions of reorganization laid down pendent upon a well-linked railroad in the plan. Action by the Massa- @nd steamboat service, it is the opin- | chusetts legislature to change provi- fon of the New Haven chamber of!sions of the charter of the Boston commerce that any arbitrary separa- | Railroad Holding company. controlled tion of the New York, New Haven and| by the New York. New Haven and Jartford raiiroad from its present con- | Hartford, and in turn direct owner of 7ol of the Boston and Maine railroad, | the Boston and Maine stock which the ®nd of the steamboat and street rail- | New Haven is to give nn. will mark way lines in Connecticut, would be ai a final stage of the untangling. Abont fatal mistake, leading to the most far- | the only step to ha talen after such reaching consequences. We cousider | s énacted. will he the le the Boston and Maine raflroad an ex uncement of solution the | 1 3 i | | i Haven starts out to comply with the | tension and not a natural competitor. an ‘“‘agreed derrea” prepared Co-operation beiween these various departmeni, approved by the | yatems of trensportation lhas in- | New Haven and sanctioned by a feds crezsed the facilities of New Pngland aral court 1y, and 11 ie our opinion that tha e plan was predicted in off Age will he g0 greatiy jessened circles tonight, will be along the t of mervice thar wing lines I every line i he New Have pui itx Boston system is torn apart. aine s the hands of five Inter-Relation is Necessary. ees. They will serve for two and one-half years and thelr term of ser- ] g f justice is regus 1 The depuriment of jusiice HUSSt | vico may he extended by federal | ed “to give the most careful consider- | ation” to the business, the indusesinl| COUt Which sancions fiie agreement, and transportation conditions in south- | F1€, Tersonne of ‘his heard will be that when ' Tnally ratified tomorrow ern New England, beuevinf these are considered and fuily under- stood. it will be shown thai the pres- ent inter-relation of the road has net been harmtal. “We beiieve it to be the opinion of tie greater part of New England, and the unanimous opinion of Connecticuc | manufecturers, that this inter-relation | is necessary for the Industrial pros- | ty of New England. It has at no and does not new constitute ner tend to creste any interference with industrial compstition ner with free development of the jndustries of the| New England states.” v i 2 8 3 Haven will be lefi to the read. The Delegate to Attend Hearing. New Haven already has rid iiself of The chamber will name a delegate to! many of its irodey lines in that state appear before ihe Intersiate commprre and it is net thewght at the depgre- | The New Haven will put its Rhede Island trolisys in the hands of other trustees, and its Connecticut lines in the care of still another set, The trus- tees have not been chosen, but a first of the qualifica- tiens of several men suggested offi- clals of the department, led to the be- lief - tonight that selection will not e difleult, There probably will be ive trustees for each system, and the term of their service has not beea a | matter of dispute. The dispesition of the Massachu- setts trolley lines owned by the New { | hand investigation Cabled Paragraphs T End Strife Launch Sunk, 50 Drowned. London, March 19.—A Venice des- patch to the Exchange Telegraph com- pany says that a torpedo boat today sank a launch in the Grand canal, fifty persons being drowned. ediaper. o Prof. Morcalli Burned Death. Naples, Italy, l%‘%tfl!essor Guiseppe Mercalll, direetor of the qb- servatory on Mount Vesuvius, was found today burned to death in his bedroom. Three Dreadnoughts for Greece. Athens, March 19.—The minister of marine announced in the chamber of deputies today that the Greek naval programme provided for three dread- nought battleships, one of which is now under construction, three armored cruisers and a number of lighter craft. Council of State Approves Divorge. Stockholm, March 19.—The ecouncil of state has approved the decision of the consistory court granting a diverce in the case of Prince William of Swe- den and Princess Marie, who before her marrlage was the Grand Duchess Marie Paviovna of Russia, and has de- clared ‘the marriage dissolved. In_their petitions for diverce incompatibility of temperament was given by both the prince and the princess as the ground for their appeal. PREFERS ELECTRIC CHAIR TO LONG TERM IN PRISON Statement of a Confessed Murderer of 19 Years, New York, March 19—*I would. rather go to the electric chair than spend twenty years in prison” said 19-year-old Harry Schaefer to his parents in the supreme court today when they urged him to plead gullty to second degree at his trial on the charge of first degrse murder for the killing of William T. Martin, a Toron- to, Canada, milliner, last August. Tak ing the stand in his own defense, Schaefer told how he and another man had wrapped a towel around Martin's neck so tightly that death resulted, after Martin had been lured to a West Side flat, Schaefer said he and his companion who is a fugitive, to kill Martin, but merely to quiet him until they could rob him. crime the youth testified he and his companion fled to Baltimore. pawned Martin's ring there. went to St. Louis | Schaet ke da later becom- and gt that virt and separated, ing ence-st himself up. He 1 the testimony troduced by the osecution was the truth The case will go to the jury to- morrow. BELIEVES UNITED STATES WILL HAVE TO INTERVENE, Progressive Congressman Discusses the Mexican Situation. Washington, March 19.—“War with Mexico means a war of extermina- tion: the moment our troops pass the frontier the Mexicans will quarrel and make common cause had not intended | I | After the ! { i { , ; of Mexicans AN AMERICAN CO;JIMISSION SUGGESTED PRESIDENT FAVORABLE Will Be Glad to Name One if It i Agreeable to the Two Factions— Reopening of the Negotiations. Washington, March 19.—The United States government will welcome a re- opening of negotiations with the Huer- ta government or the constitutional- | ists and will be glad to consider any yrovosal that will tend to draw the 1= factions together into a plan the restoration of. peace in Me This is the attitude of President ‘Wiison, as it was revealed today af- ter reports reached here saying “Senor Portillo y Rojas, minister for foreign affairs in the Huerta cabinet, had gone to meet John Lind, Mr. Wilson's personal representative, to seek a re- sumption of the peace parleys. Senor Rojas has been mentioned as the man who would succeed Huerta if he re- tired, and the object of Jhe visit to Mr. Lind, it _has been reporte: was to acquaint the president’'s envoy with his personality. The President’'s Attitude. Incidentally, the president, in tal ing with callers today, while remark ing that he had no official report « any new parleys, spoke in compli- mentary terms of the Mexican minis- ter of foreign affairs as a man of high character. What the president emphasizes in his informal discussions on the Mex- ican situation is that he, as president | cations that a ¢ { for such | however, | the hou 1914 PRICE _TWO CENTS “Blood Wiil be Spilt in Ulster” DIRE PREDICTION BY A LONDON NEWSPAPER. A CRISIS IS IMPENDING Rumor That Government is Preparing Ulster Men Growing Impatient. for Military Occupation of Province | { London, March 19.—Grave events ar: impending in Ulster, according to th unionist newspapers, and a rumor is current that the government is pre- paring for the militarv occupation of the province. There are various indi- isis has been reached. Vote of Censure Rejected. A vote of censure on the British government which was moved in drew Bonar Law, ieader of the sition, was rejected 345 to 252. Arthur J. Balfour, summoned by Mr. Bon Law, made a hurried return from the Riviera and arrived in London in time to participate in the division. Sir Edward Carson Vanishes. There were reports also threatened arsest of Sir Edward Car son and other leaders of the Ulster un ionists, but it was officially declare: that there was truth in the ment that warrants had been arrests Sir made a dran oppo- signed atic exit from e before e debate was con=- cluded to catch a train for Belfast. Ulster Men Chafe Under Restraint. Austen Chamberlain declared last night that Sir Edward had been called away in response to sudden devel ments in Ireland. Other unionists of the United States, has never sought to approve or disapprove of individuals | Wwho may aspire to the presidency of | Mexico and that he has no list of men | whom he holds under so-called ban because of alleged complicity in the assassination of Madero. His refusal to recognize Huerta. it may be stated on the highest anthority, was not hased on any personal antagonism to Huerta, but on the ground that the constitutionalists wounld nev, be | reconciled 1o the man wiv had over- thrown Madero and Suarez and that | governments set up by arbitrary force and not reflecting the popmlar will should- not be dealt with by the United States. An American Commission. One of the suggestions made to President Wilson lately contemplates | the sending of a commission of prom- drop their | against the hated Gringoes,” declared nia, progressive, today in the house. He declaerd -it- was the duty of con- | gressmen to stand shoulder to shoulder in the Mexican situation, and that he belleved order would never be restor- ed in Mexico save by a strong man supported by a force superior to the factions now harrying the country, and that there was no such force in Mex-~ ico. “I believe the time must come, if it has not already arrived,” he added, “when it will be the imperative duty of this government to announce to the world that present conditions in Mex- jco must cease, and that unless by a given time the Mexicans themselves | shall have made pacific arrangements and cease hostilities the United States, in the interest of humanity, will un- dertake to restore peace and good or- des STUBBO;N RESISTANCE TO FREE TOLLS REPEAL.‘ Debate on Bill to Begin in the House Tomorrow. ‘Washington, March 19.—More stub- born than anything that has arisen to stir the transquility of the democratic majority since the party control of the national government, is the opposition to President Wilson's plea for repeal of the toll exemption provision for American ships in the Panama canal act. While the president and democratic members in both houses who will sup- port his position are confident that the repeal will pass by a comfortable ma- jority, few have any idea that the ma- jority will be large. Debate on the re peal will begin in the house Saturd: Yhen debate to 15 hours. In the senate act- fon by the committee on interoceanic canals on a repeal bill submitted by Senator Owen may be taken tomorrow or Saturday. Greenwich Savings Bank to Reopen. Greenwich, Conn., March 19.—Two hundred depositors of the Greenwich Savinge bank, recently closed by the state bank commissioners, met tonight | in the town hall and heard the report | of a special committee appointed some days ago ot learn the true state of affairs at the institution. The com- mittee reported that the deficit is came into | a rule will be offered limiting . Representative Hulings of Pennsylva- | | about $30,000, but that ail depositors ' would be paid principal and interest on their money. The bank wiil prob- ablydreopeu June 1, with a surplug on hand. New Haven, Conn oner Mix, in a finding made publi teday, holds Louix Keutz of this ety eriminally responsihie for the aeaih of John L. Horn, a « © red in an auiomobile co urday mighi at ol was arrested soon because he had no dri ment that the di maining is sufficienly quire a trusteeship , Prustess will not be the so-called wuiside steamship lines of the New Haven, from which it must pari. These iines will he taken eare | of by the New Haven ilseif. the de- partment of justice of course remain- ing in the pesition te press for ac- tion by the road in divercing them. Regarding fhe so-called Sound lines and the wharves and decks in Sound cities, the department of justice plans to leave them for the present to the Interstate Commerce Commission which has authority under the Pan- ama canal act to separaie them from the rafiroad, The department, however, reserves the right to adopt its own atiitude on this question. \No trusteeship for these lines will be provided, and if ine eommission decides thai the New Ha- ven shall retain them. the depariment probably will mot intesfors. March 19.—Cor- | demand for 18,000,000 pesos (§9,000,000) | Torreon was still in the hands inent Americans to investigate con- ditions in Mexico. Unofficial reports have had it that both Carranza and Huerta would receive such a comm sion. President Wilson is carefully considering this suggestion, said to have been made originally by Oscar 8. Straus, former ambassador to Tur- | key, and prominent in the cause of world peace. The president would be glad to send such a commission if it could assist: the Mexican factions in arriving at an agreement, but it i believed he feels that actual peac proposals must necessarily originate with the Mexican factions unless the commission were invited to go to Mexico its errand would be fruitless, mediation of the same sort having previously been rejected by both factions. BET $1,000 ON VILLA. i Federal Sympathizer Covers This Wager With American Gold. Juarez, Mexico, March 19.—A letter dated at Torreon March 16 was re- ceived here today by way of Eagle Pass, Texas, Indicating, it is said, that of the | federals on that date and that the ! rebel General Villa had not closed the railroad. General Villa telegraphed a friend today, saying: “Bet all your money that my forces will capture Torreon by March 31.” The recipient found a federal! sym- pathizer who wagered $1,000 American | £old that Villa would not make his boast good and that the federals would still have Torreon at the end of April. Monterey to Be Attacked. Brownsville, Texas, March 19.—Mon- trey, the most important city in north- east Mexico, will be attacked within two weeks, and before an attempt is made on Torreon, accordirg to T. J.| Foster, an American gunner, who has been fighting with the constitutional- | ists for nearly a year. Fighting Reported at Tampico . Port Arthur, Texas, March 19.—Pas- sengers arriving on the steamship Trinidadian from Mexican waters said | here today that Mexican rebels began an attack on Tampico Monday. They sald the water supply station was blown up and that there had been fighting along the outposts. O'Shaughnessy Has Sciatica Mexico City, March 19.—The Amer- fean charge daffaires, Nelson O'Shaughnessy, is confined to bed by an attack of sciatica and it is thought possible that he may proceed to Vera Crua, where he may receive benefit be- t cause of the lower altitude. | No pECISION 18,000,000 Pesos for Huerta. Mexieo City, March 19.—It was re- ported tonight that the bankers would probably accede to President Huerta's monthly, guar: incomes and « nteed on the ipital es on IN CASE OF MRS. WAKEFIELD | Supreme Court of Errers Won't Sit ! ! ng more dec Again Until April. Hariford, Cenn., Mar 19 preme court of ors handed dow five deeisions teday, but the AMrs. Bessie Wakefield, far a e Was not ameng them. There anded dew the court sits in Bridgeport April, so Mr acts as a siay of execution. She was originally sentenced to die on the gal- lows with James Pyw on March 4 for the murder of her husband. gain in Wakedeld's appeal still Goethals to Sail for Panama. _ Washington, March 19.—Colonel George W. Goethals left Washington tonight, and will sail from New York tomorrow for Colon, where on April 1| he will assume his new title and office of governor of the Panama canal. Col- onel Goethals had a conference with Secretary Garrison and received the latter’s approval of the persous select- ed to head the various branches of the permanedt government on the isthmus, Salazies of the officprs also were sizcd. ! | will be spilt in Uister befor ,and that | serted that the Ulster men longer be restrained from break and that Sir Edward's is to endeavor to hold them in Blood Will Be Spilt. The Daily Telegraph’s lobby “Unless all omens are false, the L mons sees Sir Edward Carson can an mission check no out- | ¢ of co again. The Marquis of Londonderry and other prominent Ulsterites are now on their way to is regarded as a challenge to the gov- ernment if, as asserted, any intention exists to issue warrants for their ar- rest. Volunteers Called Out. An emergency force of picked men from the Ulster volunteers was hastily summoned to headquarters tonight The motive for the sudden call has | been kept secret, but rumors persi | of military action on the part of | sovernment and projected arrests. he LITERACY TEST IS RETAINED Favorably Reported by Senate Immi- gration Committee. IN_BILL Washington, Mar 19.—The | nett immigration bill, with its litera test, which, if finally retained, is gen- erally expected to cause President Wiison to veto the measure, was fa- vorably reported today by the senate immigration committee. Various amendments to the bill as It pa the house had been made, but the eracy test clause was unchanged. that provision the committee's said: “The pill contains one provision in- tended ectly to restrict { tion, although said provision also, ir | cidentally, is to a certain extent lective in its operation. The ‘literac | test” has been adopted as the device so far suzgested for redu immigration where it most need be reduced. So full has it been d cussed at in the past various time: it necessary to offer in this report ex- tended comment upon it.” TROLLEY RUNS WILD, | Car Starts at Full Sped During Mo- torman's Absence. Gasport, March 19.—One man was killed and a scors were injured in a collision between two cars on the Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester trol- | ley line at Wyekwire, two mile seast here, tonight. The dead man w | Glenn W, Bridgban, 32, of Lockport Gasport statlon at for orders. Fred Markham, the moterman, and Robert Baxter, the conductor, got off the car and went Into the statio cause the car ot twe miles From seme unknown started and quickly 3 Fo At the car speed. wild. Ing it. Not one of the scora or more sengeers escaped injur: pas- $1,500,000 SUIT FOR BREACH OF PROMISE. Young Woman Makes Against Millionaire. Los Angeles, ('al, March 1 H. Howard, a San Diego millionaire, was made defendant in a 0,000 mreach of promise suit filed here to- dav by Maud Armfleld, who alleges that Heward is the fatehr of her * ye: old daughter. In her action Miss Armtield aserted she married Howard S the summer 190 Iy —Bryant $1 riage from W =ed She ¢ valued to keep his prow Howa 160,08 OBITUARY. Rev, Edward B. Coe, D. D. New York, March 19.—The Re: Edward B. Coe. semior pastor o Collegiate Reformed Church of York, died tonight at his home aged 72 years. Philadelphia Dwellings Coliapse. Philadelphia, March 19 Yo dwe ings in the downtown collapsed late tonight, | negroes in the ruins. \while the other four slight Injuries. lapse the ruins ing the police rescue work. FKi nine burying escaped with Shortly after the coi- aught fire, hamper and firemen in the: ‘e unidentified bodie: four men and a woman, were recovered | U belove ihe Sre siariod. the | state- | Edward Carson, | Condensed Telegrams George Westinghouse. left $35,- 000,000, The Delaware River rose five feet in 24 hours. Secretary Bryan reached birthday yesterda Williams College cane rush. his G4th abolished the ha United States Submarine K-4, launched at Seattle, yesterday. was Donations to the U cago during the last y $1,307,329. ersity of Chi- ar amounted to Thomas Cooper de Leon, author of numerous bool died at Mobile, Ala., vesterday aged Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will be out | again attending to social engagements lin a day or two. the | house of commons yesterday by An- | John Mitchell will testify before the 1 house ommittee investigating the | Michigan Copper strike, early next week. Captain _ George W. Eldridge of | Vineyard Haven, author, chart maker and navigator, died suddenly at Boston vesterday Snow Began Falling at Nashville, | Tenn., yvesterday and reports indicate a light all ov a large portion of Jelfast and their action | that the committee does not consider | | | | | Academic Freshmen at Yale, will shortly receive from Jones, | comm ng each to con his fam as to the a bility igainst feve | | | | | | | | A PASSENGER KILLED.! | lands the | under full | ran | Wyckwire i erashed into a| Buffalo bound ear, cempletely telescop- | | Allegations - Five were killed | . | sion i | ment Alabama. aviowa, the Ru: t are insured Ler foot wi Anna P . Ingram .dej was in Bet thre el We he Four Buildings in tion of Sidney. Ohio by fire with 50,000 Handlers in New York zre conc over advices they received from way and wede th a m: kerel is im process of f tion there. destroy loss were a vesterday rm: now el Lake Eflen Wiison th of a beautiful body. Natio: Park. o named it in honor Sec Dr. W. T. Dutton, aged 62 mathemati nd civil e Allegheny college, at Meadyv professo neering Pa = n the street from Plans For Establishing a federal pellagra hosp t nburg, S. C for the study of t 1se by gov- ernment experts, were being mapped out yesterday Reports Just Submitted Mitchell of New ¥ by tains in every pi City show sons out of polic Dr. B. S. Lew of Westville was held at New Haven vesterday in $3,000 bonds for trial in the superior court on the ch illegal oper: of Eva Chatto, Aged 53, was killed av b passenger train_from hile walking along the Maine ilroad tracks from Me., to Ellsworth Is, An Armed .Robber held up W. H.| Burns, night clerk in office of the Hotel Metropole, at Detroit yesterday and compelled the clerk to hand him $ he robber then escaped in an automobile. Six Men Consular Agent .boardc abandoned United es naval tug tomac, five miles south of Point he, vesterday after a trip of one hundred miles over land and sea lce. Government Ownership of Monticel _ Thomas Jefferson’ irginia home, by chase condemnation, in lution favora- ve by the senate nitte lo, a I terds er r bly repo com Two Wemen Were Painfully injured | and a score of others made their es- cape from a bullding near the Patent office Washington, which was burned yester with a proximatel; loss ap- 000, A Shipment of Cotton m Egypt to Arizona was Intercepted at Bo: yesterdsy on suspicion that it con- tained the pink bell worm whica s said to have caused much damag: to eotton grown on @ Nile. William E. Lee of Long Prairie, inn., was tidate for by the n as the re srnor to be opposed to th stration at the conferan esterday bliean ed state admir pre “elimira tien” An Organized Camp. illicit W 1a under aign tc for H sociologi- 1 of Frederick the York medieal jour- District Attorney Whitman day zsked the New York board of timate to autherize the of $3 000 in special reve to meet the ex ceptional exg newrred by his of- prosecution of certain In- vester- i nses Woolen numbering terday t Wire pealel - supreme court to recov T 32,000 id the state under prote: of What the snow er cost the City of terday when ommission an- pend before i th normal condition The Interstate Commerce Commniis- to be e New Hamp Lumt association for ation the abandon- by the wd_ Maine raii- rcad of the custom of making free re- of tar stakes and of furnishing shite ry j <4 wire for use on lumber cars having performed an | is the Largest- in Connecticut in Propofiion to the City’s Population Woman Suffrage Fails in Senate A MAJORITY OF ONE FOR THE RESOLUTION TWO-THIRDS REQUIRED' Proposal to Give Ballot White Women Only Defeated by Vote of 44 to 21—How the Senators Voted. to Washington, March 19 —Woman suf- frage advocates today lost their fight in the United States senate for a reso- lution proposing an amendment to the federal constitution giving women ths ballot. The vote was 35 for the meas- ure to 34 against it—a two-thirds af- firmative vote being required for pas- sage—and when it was all over suffra- gist leaders jubilantl; inted to the majority of one &s proof that their cause had A triumph in defeat a was mmeasureabl stronger th. illing had ever oppon to concede. ded for postpo: the v womeun nt, of Its ses- the Or woman firage committee ithorized Senator Ashurst to report it favorably. Though otherw e the vote was vir tually non-partisan, the southern sen- democrats, lined up almost | inst the amendment. Thes | contended it would complicate the ne- | ETo question in the states. Of the | south only Senators Ransdell of Louis rd of Texas and Lea of Tennessee voted for the resolution. Vardaman’s Proposal Voted Down. tor Vardaman led a movement the friends of woman suffrage south to repeal the fifteenth amendment e constitution, by which the states are prohibited from ng the right to negroes to vote. the negro question removed, he he favored the granting of suf- o women. His proposal was de- d by 48 to 19 and a proposition by illlams to give the ballot to n only was defeated by 44 to 21. “Sad Day When Women Get Bailot” The vote was preceded by a three- hour kaleidoscopic debate on the vari- ous phases of sufirage. Senator Mar- tine of New Jersey was the only mem- ber who stated was opposed to woman suffrage on principle. He de- clared the -participation of women in politics had failed to purify the ballot | and that 1t would be a sad day for both women and men when they were given | the ballot universally. Connecticut Senators Against it. Senators voting for the suffrage | amendment were | Ashurst, Brady, Bristow, Burton, | Chamberlain, Clapp, Clark (Wyoming), | Gallinger, Gronx Hollis, Hughes | Jones, Renyon, La Follette, Lane, Lee, | Myers, Nelson, Newlands, Norris, Owen, Perkins, Poindexter. Ransdell, Shafrath, Sheppard, Sherman, Smoof Stephenson, Sterling, Thomas, Thomp- —$5. son, Townsend, Work - The memators voting against the amendment were Bankhead, Bora Brande- | gee, Bryan, Catror ham, Du- | Pont Gore, Jame: J - po_) (Maryland), Lodge, McCumber, Me- Lean, Martin, Martine, Oliver, Over- man, Page, Pittman, Pomerene, Reed, | Bhields, Smith (Georgia), ~Smith (Maryland). Smith (South Carolina), Swanson, Thornten, Tillman, Varda- man, Weeks, West, William 4. “Woman's Independence Day. New York, March 19.—The Nation ‘Woman ffrage association appealed to President Wilson today to establish the first Sunday in May in each yvear as “woman’s independence day.” On | behaif of the executive bomrd of th .ssociation President Anna Howarl. Shaw has addressed to President Wil- son a letter making such request PAID $37,075 FOR BOOKS WORTH $4,079. Boston Woman Tells How She Wa Duped by “De Luxe” Editions. Boston, March 19.—After Mrs. Marv | L. Rogers of this had testified at the so-called de Mlixe book trial in the | superior court toda it she -paif | Glen F. Farmer. Samuel Rosenfield | and James P. Cilark ¥ for 1,000 volumes, Frederick Dopkins o Yonkers, who claimed to be an expert declared that the market value of the books was $4.07 Mrs. Rogers said she bought the books ,not to read, but to hold for an increased price, which the defendants had assured her she would be able to obtain within a few months, saying that the books were going out of print. Fire in Department Store. Newark. N. J, March 19 —Twelve hundred employes and several hun- dred custumers of a big department store at and Broad streets left the bullding perfect order late to a when a tho n blaze broke i in the ehimney. When a fire drill bell sounded men took their pasts and direcied the customers while the wo- men and girl employes went to the | street by way of (he eloak room. The fire was quiekly extinguished with slight damage. Fixing of Oatmeal Prices. ago, March 19—Oatmeal man- ufacturers joined to put an arbitrary Price on théir product prior to passage of the Sherman act, according to the testimony today of M _F, DOnaman. the frst witness in the hearing before Kate S. Holmes, special exsminer in the government's dissolution sufs against the Quaker Oats company and the Great Wesiern Cereal company. | Discovery Was Mads vesierday that 30 cottages on the State Walr grounds at Lewiston, Maime, had beem ran- sagked by robburs | ! 1