Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 21, 1914, Page 1

Norwich VOL. LVI.—NO. 68 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Larges. in Conrecticut NORWICH, CONN.. SATURDAY, MA| TROOP MOVEMENT TOWARD ULSTER British Government Preparing For Eventualities in Disaffected Province of Ireland WHOLESALE RESIGNATIONS BY ARMY OFFICERS Cavalrymen Thus Protest Against Being Ordered to Ulster— Drastic Measures to Be Taken to Check Resignations— Residences of Orange Leaders at Belfast Guarded by Volunteers—Strong Possibilities of Clash of Arms. — e London, March 20.—*“War in Ulster” | ments from Vax'xuu,ii r.x»z‘ln;en s i _ ! Dublin, Curragh and Mult 1s the startling headline which the sen- | Dublln, Curiash and F0CH sational London newspapers are dis-| Playine in the blackest type. i The government began today to dis- | pose of its regular troops in Ireland, ! # thai ther may be in a position to| Qeal with any situation that arises.| The cooler men among the loyalisis and ihe Ulster unionists, however, be- | lieve that nothing resembling war is| vet in sight. = Ulster Garrisons Reinforced. for the loyali Craigavon, where Sir Edward Car-|of the superior c demonstrations by son is staying, is guarded by voiun teers, each man armed with a rifle and bayonet and carrying ball cartridges. The residences of the other Orange leaders have similar guards about them. Carbines Supplant Lances. Newbridge, County Kildare, Treland. March 20.—The Fourth Hussars and the 16th Lancers at Curragh c: now armed with carbines instead their usual lances and sword: rounds of ammunition were I man of the entire gart The army councils some time aso considered the possibilities of home | Tule sirife and instructed Lieut. Gen- | ersl Sir Arthur Fitzroy Paget, who | commanrds the Irish garrisons, to take| jight, Guards over the camp have Ml necessary precautions o maintain | jeen doubled and special patrols h: srder and safeguard property. A gen-| geen detailed at some disance outs eral redistribution of the forces in Ire- | fio camp. land therefore was begun today. Two regiments were sent from the south to reinforce the Ulster garTisons, while the troops in Ulster were moved to new stations, in_conformity with the castom that in the event of hostilities ar rioting soldiers should not be com- pelled to encounter people with whom they had formed friendships. In ac cordance with the same rule, some Irish recruits were sent from the Ar-| magh recruting station to England. Leaders Working for Peace. Preparing for Actual Service. Dundalk, Ireland, March 20. officers and 450 men of the Cg regiment arrived here from Dublin t | night and were quartered in the rc | field art cks, where ere al- ready force of 18 officel and { 500 men m pre; tions for act- ive service. a Kking Regiment Arrives at Armagh. Armagh, Ireland, March 20—A bat- The possibilities of a collision be- | talion of the Bedfordshire re tween the British soldiers and the Ul- | rived here tonight by sp gtor volunteers resulting from the su- | from Multinzar. Armagh is the cruiting station for the Royal I Fusiliers, and a large batch of recruits who had not completed the usual course of training will be withdrawn from the station and sent to regimental headquarts at Folkestone, England. per-heated political feeling ars recog- | niwed, but the leaders on both sides are | trying to exert a pacific influence. John Redmond, the nationalist leader in par- | Lament, ioday telegraphed the nation- ! slists in Belfast an \n-genlf a)lgea_ld to| estone. in mo:m?;mcnnffdwgm‘;"u‘iyg"CONNEc*rlcuT MILITIA TO would likely result in roiing. Sir Ed- | CAMP IN MASSACHUSETTS ward Carson, the Ulster leader, and members of the Ulster council in- | To Participate in Joint Manoeuvres with U. S. Army. I3 woked calmness on the part of the vol- | Enicers” Tour cabimet minisiers spoke | / of the Ulster aftuation at different| yagnington, March 20—Joint man- Deotings tondeht John B Dot | scuvres between the United States :n"“.'d":rg: én e the wey | &Xmy and the natlonal guard this year, . it |{ announced today by the war depart- veiling of his portrait in the National| SnnOURCeT 1oday by the war ceparts Yaberal club, sald: et B Washington, which will be defended Sentiment of Cabinet Ministers. against an invading army which will be_concent Baltimore, “Home rule is a question mainly for| " Mange be held about the Ireland ftself. Three-fourths of the|same time at San Francisco, which | yeople there have demanded it persi will be defended agalnst an attacking entiy for years, and we have no right| force which will land on the beaches to listen to the demand for more Con- | iy advance against the city. The pro- | ceswions or rield to clamor. We have|gramme for the eastern division in- no more desire to yield to lawless law- | ers than to lawless laborers. Thomas McKinnon Wood, secretary of state for Scotland, said: “We will carry home rule by agree- ament If we possibly can. but without it if we must” Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for freland, in his speech declared that the government’s proposals gave U ster freedom from coercion for years, and that the scheme of Andrew Bonar Law, the leader of the opposi- tion_ meant coercion if a referendum went against Ulster. cludes a camp of the militia division | In Massachusetts of state troops from aine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massa- setts at a I yet to be selected, EMPEROR AROUSES RELIGIOUS FEELING. German Monarch Expresses Strong Anti-Catholic Views in Letters. Berlin, March 20—An alleged letter Emperor William in which he is said to have expressed strong an- ti-Caiholic views, is attracting much attention in the press. The letter is understood to have been w His Maesty to the Jand graxin Hesse, who was a princess of Pri and was converted to the Catholic faith on October 9, 1901 The Volks Freund of le, a Catholic newspaper. declares whr; z you fr OFFICERS RESIGN. | Cavalrymen Protest Against Being Ordered to Ulster. London, March 21.—The Daily Mail's | Dablin correspondent claims to have | visited the Curragh camp and says he ascertained that over one hundred offi- | (he letter contains the cers, mostly of the cavalry branch, | hate the religion which have resigned. “ - % { adopted.” The Daily Mail says it understands ' The letter is said to have been found that the ministerial conference held last night arrived at a decision to take drastic measures, whieh the govern- | ment believes will successfully limit | the arex of the resignations of officers. | When inquiry was made at the war la-Chapel- havd Kopp. Churches to Dea! With Unemployed. New Yo 20—Resoiutions office tonight concerning the report I°gommending o tion of com- Shat o husdred Srmy ofcers in the | mittees in . churches and-other Curragh camp had resignes rather ious organizations to deal \Eth the than serve in Ulster, War Secretary | ion of the unemployed in New Becley's secretary admitted that simi- ork city and the lor‘nx:xur)n of a lar rumors had reached the war office | FePresentative “ommittee to urze remedial legislation, were adopted to- day by a committes of clerzymen rep- resenting twelve denominations, in- cluding Protestant, Roman Cathélic and Jewish that appropriate measures would & taken to deal with the situation. It wus impossible to obtain confirma- tion tonight of the report that the war official actually sent a kind of ulti- matum to the Curragh regiments, but! = T e L s s e Tl Action on Free Tolls Delayed. resigned as a protest against being | Washingto: March eovdered to Ulstes | tion of the bill to repeal emption provision of the Panama canal TROOPS SENT NORTH. act will not be undertaken by the | senate ecommittee on inter-oceanic Two Special Trains Leave Dublin, | C2nals until late next week despite More i Eoliow: | efforts of democratic senators who fs toh > | vor the repeal to hurry action. This 1ot | ion was reached late today by e T oorroclal | Senator O'Gorman, chairman of the | ! comm rying troops to the north, and several | COTiMittes. other trains are preparing to depart.' Oppose Repeal of Free Tolls, The first carried the Duke of Corn-| Pose A e wallis' light infantry from the Cur-, New York, March 20.—The proposed ragh camp to reinforce the Newry and | repeal of the law giving American Dundzlk garrisons. - The second took | Coastwise v = ge through the ‘roops from Multingar and Athlone | the Panama al W the subject agh and Enniskillen. Two reg- | of a meeing tonight which crowded for Om ments will go to Euniskillen touight, ! Cheshire roguneat, which is pro- | from Londonderry, being one arnegie hall to capacity. Exception was tuken by the speakers to the att tude of President the repeal of the act. Those who ad- my service corps tonight was ssed the meeting were Supreme forty tons of provisions here Justice Samuel Seabury of New Former . Littefield of | District Attorne i Armed Volunteers Patrol About Rni-} dences of Leaders. ongressman ne, and Frank Moss Ch istant arrisons. ik ORANGEMEN GUARDED. Poor Taste in Literary Criticism. New Haven, March 20.—Liter criticism in American book reviews lacking in good tastte and intellectual ry Si M3 )— was " - B it B eu:i‘)rUQ:’m;r‘g‘;%mssgd candor, according to Prof. Bliss Perry bk Lodomi e g oaoole of Beltust. | of Harvard university, former editor The dramaiic enlry into Belfast of Sir Edward Carson, the unionist leader in TUlster, fresh from his defiance of the the annual s of Bromley lectures on Jourmalism at Yale. pvernment in the house of commons; fis “reception by General Sir George| _ Searlet Fever at Yale. Ricpardson, rerired, commander of the New Haven, Conn., March 20.—Pre: Vister Volun . and 2 picked body- | ident Hadley and Ds guard, and = conference which follow- n Jomes of Yale issued a statement tonight minimizing €d of Ulster Jeaders, furnished the ex- | reports of the scarlet fever epidemic citement. The complete shifting of the | at the university. There are eight thoops throughout Ulster and the ar- rival of rcinforcements from the south furnished the surprises, Troops tonight were students ill of the disease and cases, with one exception, are mild. the moving all London has only one mile of tram- along the Ulster border. Messages re- | ways to every 30,000 of her popul: ceived from Bnniskillen, Newry, Ar-|tion: Manchester has one to everv wmagh and Omagh said that detach-10,600 enthusiastic | 4| among the papers of the late Cardinal | Wilson in favoring | | | mp Are | ernor in the of | : Princeton and Yale on March | subject is: of the Atlantic Monthly in the first of | | Prospective Groom Commits Suicide Cabled Paragraphs New Altitude Record. Johannisthal, Germany, March 20— The altitude record of 12,303 feet for a flight with three passengers Was established today from the aerodrome here by Robert Thalem, the German aviator. Exposition at Tokio. Tolkio, Japan, March 20.—An elab- orate exposition was opened with great ceremony here today, in commemora- tion of the opening of the reign of Emperor Yoshihito, whose coronation is to take place next Nevember. Bishop Nilan Received by Pope. Rome, March —The Right Rev. John J. Nilan, bishop of Hartford, was Teceived in private audience today by the pope. About 200 American pil- grims also were presented by Mgr. Charles A. O’Hern, vice rector of the American College in Rome. JUDICIARY ARE NOT ALL RASCALS Kelly Tells Judge Case He Referred Only to the Bad Ones. Conn,, March a former water com- d by Judge Case, rt today, to come orward from his seat in the court room. Kelly handed up a paper, and after nodding that he understood that what he was doing was of his own free will, he was excused until Tues- day. Monday night, Kelly, at a gathering which plagned to bring about the nom- ination of Professor W. C. Fisher, for- merly of Wesleyan university, for gov democratic_staté conven- Middletown, homas Kel oner, w: s invi m tion, made a speech. It was a vig- orous one. The next day Kelly claim- ed his statements had been miscon- strued. He said he had no idea that they wou printed. It is alleged ed the fudiciary ar state “d—d rascal that he criticised Judge Case’'s decision by which Professor Fisher was denied ight to see allots cast in the recent election and charged that the democratic state centr men had given gin to voters as a bri h Since Tuesday poltt! have been wa ng for some: hap- pen. Mr. Kelly, after court said that the paper he handed to was simply a statement remarks; that if he calle ciary and legal fraternity meant only the bad ones He withdrew the characterization of ~d— rascals” as that was degrad- ing. Professor Fisher as a citizens’ can- didate, lost the mayoraity race by ten votes to his repubiican opponent, the democratic nominee being far behind WELLESLEY RECEIVES OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE Other Educational Institutions Rally to Its Aid. Wellesley, Mass., March 20.—Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton. president of Wellesley coilege, said tonight that notwithstanding the paralyzing effects of the fire which destroyed College was expected that the acadamic and the social life of the insti- tution would continue uninterrupted from the opening of the spring term on_April 7 until commencement day This _announcement was made Dos- | sible, she added, “through prompt and | generous offers of assistance from | Tufts college. University of Pennsyl- Harvard university, Massachu- Institute of Technology and university.” inst! ons will supply equip- ment and material for the conduct of the laboratories which were burned out in the fire. Basements of remaining college buildings will be fitted with black- boards and chairs and used as tem- porary recitation rooms; the students d instructors who were rendered To Boom Lake for Governor REPORTED PURPOSE OF NEW HAVEN MEETING | i i OUSTING OF RORABACK Rumor Has It That This Was Alsa Subject of Discussion—Republicans and Progressives Present. New Haven, March 20.—A meeting of about twenty republicans and progressives, more or less prom- inent in the state, was held today at the Hotel Taft, at which it is under- stood the “welfare” of the republican Ceonn., RCH 21, 1914 i of justice and PRICE TWO CENTS Stockholders to Voite On It TO HAVE VOICE IN DISSOLUTION PLANS FOR NEW HAVEN ROAD Department of Justice Agrees to Sug- gestion of Railroad Officials—Nego- tiations Progressing Satisfactorily. Washington, March 20.—Negotiation between attorneys for the departme the New Haven rail road progressed smothly tod: The principal points discusscd today were the names of tru es for the Make It Your the desired results. It s a means thing else efficiency should prevail Boston expert conscientlously say merely by clever writing. Stmply people what you have to sell and mood merchandising. all the Important things in this wo: essarily limited. sire to buy, by picturing them as tl * It circulates. reaches the trade. tin, the home daily: “Tt deesn’t lie in any particular method of display. vertising {s that it does not convey clearly and convincingly to reader’s mind an adequate idea of what you have to sell. window advertising is the best of all advertising—Dbut its appeal is nec- And that newspaper advertising is most successful that makes its readers see the goods and arouses Interest and the de- Window advertising is not only limited but it is fixed. that the buying public must go to it. It goes into the homes. Show Window As in evervthing else experience has proven an important factor in developing and demonstrating the value of advertising, better advertising is constantly being done. More and Why? Because it brings to an end but in that as in every- and ecencerning such efficiency a It fsn't done expressed it is merely telling the succesaful advertising is based on It sounds very simple and it s very simple as rid are. The trouble with most ad- the To my mind hey are.” It requires It is not so with The Bulletin. It is the show window which Make 1t your show window! In the past week the following matter has appeared in The Bulle- Bulietin Telsgraph Loca/ Genera’ Tota/ Saturday, Mar. 14.. 91 150 1019 1260 Monday, Mar. 16.. 102 118 258 478 Tuesday, Mae 1755 .92 104 262 458 Wednesday, Mar. 18.. 87 140 232 459 Thursday, Mar. 19., 95 120 216 431 Friday, Mar. 20.. 88 128 210 426 Totals 760597 5512 party in Connecticut was considered. Just what happened is not definitely known, for newspaper men were denied admittance to the meeting and no formal statement was given out later. | Judge Malone Presides. Judge William J. Malone of Bristol presided. Dr. Delmar E. Croft, who progressive party in the state at the last election, but who has since broken with the local organization, was one of the leading figures at the confer- ence. Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale, chairman of the New Haven progressives, was at the hotel, but he was not at the meeting. Former Lieutenant Governor Blakeslee was alzo noticed in the lobby, but he de- nied that his presence there had any- homeless will be given shelter by crowding other dormitories and quar- ters will be found also for adminis- tratlve offices and lecture roorms. COLLEGE DEBATERS ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE Personnel of Yale Teams for Trian- guiar Contest. New Haven, Conn., March 20.—An- notncement was made tomight of the makeup of the Yale debating teams for the sixth annual intercollegiate triangular debate between Harvard, Tha “Resolved. that the wo- men of the United States should be given the suffrage on equal terms with men.” The affirmative team composed of Edwin A. Burtt of New Haven: Charles Cohen of Hartford and Morri3 (son of President Hadley), will meet Princeton at Princeton. The neg- | ative team, Philip O, Badger of Po mouth, N. H.: John D. Robb of Minne- apolis and Clarence Reidenbach of Nineveh, Ind., will meet Harvar® In New Hav TOLD HIS FIANCEE SHE WAS TOO GOOD FOR HIM, On Day Set For Wedding. i Los ste M Angeles, Calit, Mareh 20—In- d of appearing to be married to s Carrie Schabbel last night, Har- D, Schultz sent the wedding ring with a note announcing that he was about to commit suicide. A few min- utes later he was found lying on the floor of his apartment with a bullet through his breast. He died today, His note to the prospective bride de clared that she “was too good for a | fellow 1 me” and expressed the | i they would meet in the | | haven’t the heart to marry you, nor the nerve to face you,” he wrote, Steamship Arrivals. Queenstown, March 20 —Steamers ;, Boston for Liverpool; Baltic, York for Liverpool rbourg, March 30.—Steamer Ka! serin Auguste Victoria, New York for | Southampton and Hamburg. Libau, March 14—Steamer Mitau, | New York. Taft’s View of Sherman Law. Minneapolis, Minn, March 20.—Tt | would be better to leave the present | anti-trust statute absoluteiy un- | changed than to risk losing the advan- | ages gained through years of judicial interpretation, in the opinion of W liam H. Taft, as expressed in his clos- ing lecture before the law school of the University of Minnesota late today. Bank Robber Killed. Shawnee, Okla,, March 20.—In a bat~ tle with a sheriif's posse near here to- night Joseph Patterson, who, it is al- leged, robbed the state bank of New- ella, Okila., late today of $1,200, as shot and killed, and Charl Hawk, chief of police of Shawnee, and Frank Timmons, a deputy sheriff, were wounded thing to do with the gathering. Two Rstire from Meeting. Among those who wers at the meet- ing were former Governor Woodruft, L. E. Whiton of New London, Judge Malone of Bristol, Colonel W, H. Hall of Willington, F. H. Vincen:, Bridge- pori: F. E. Duffy, West Hartford Mayor Farnsworth of New ‘Haven, M. E. Chatfield, New Haven: .Attorney Prentice W. Chase, New Haven: Sol Sontheimer of Hartford, Gutzon Drog- lum of Stamford. and Myron D. Bug- bee of Putnam, Shortly after the meeting began Messrs. Sontheimer and Duffy left and remarked to the newspaper men in the lobby that they “didn’t llke the tune of things” at the gathering. Dr. Crof! said later that the men left to catch an early train. Reported Drive Against Roraback. Those at the meeting were rather uncommunicative as to what occurred. Dr. Croft said that the peopls of the state wers not satisfied with the “democratic rule” and matters were discussed whereby the republicans could effect a reorganization. Several conflicting reports were heard. One prevalent rumor was that the meeting was a preliminary one, at which a concerted campaign will be made to oust J. Henry Roraback as chairman of the republican state cen- tral committee, Another rumor was that \ge mesting was the start of a boom for Everett J. Lake of Hartford for governor. Nome of those present would confirm either of these reports. Heated Argument in Corridor, It was stated by Dr. Croft, how- ever, that another meeting would be held soon. There was a ripple of excitement in the crowded lobby of the hotel after the meeting adjourned, when Dr. Croft shouted to a group of local progres- sives “ou're a lar! T.ater he became engaged in a heated conversation with Professor Henderson of Yale and other progressives and gain passed the li The nature of the argument could not be learned. No Alliance of Progressives. Professor Henderson said he had no invitation to be present. The pro- gressives stand just where they did before, he said, and there would be no alliance with the republicans. Hoboes Capture a Train. | _ Redding, Calif., March 20—One hun- dred and fift inemployed from Sacramento seized norihbouna freight train today and are holding it with the emcouragement of the | thorities, who take the position t inasmuch as the men were given free transportation from Red Bluff to Redding on a freight train they should be given like transportatien out of town. Receiver For Middletown Sun. Middletown, Conn.. March . 20—Ap- plication was made today for the ap- pointment for a receiver for the Mid- dletown Printing Company, Inc., pub-| lishers of the Middletown Sun. There | will be a hearing at Hartford on| March 2 In the last year one aviator killed for every 62,000 miles flown. | was one of the active workers for the | President Wilson. i ex- i i | Bunday, ington. \\a.si Connecticut and Rhode Island trolley | should live with his wife only systems owned by the New Haven anc | the disposition of that road’s so-called |sound lines. There was mno serious | disagreement on any point and it was generally understood tonight that both ides would be prepared tomorrow the entire dissolution plan Attorney neral McReynolds and Will Be Submitted to Stockholders. The department of justice has agreed to the suggestion by the New Haven that the agreement be submitted to the road's stockholders for approval in the belief that affirmative action will be taken. Both the railroad and the gov ernment are confident that the stat of Massachusetts will speedily enac legislation necessary to permit sale of the stocck of the Boston and Maine railroad now owned by the New Haven. Such action probably will not | precede an agreement here, but the settlement wiil be based on the theory that Massachusetts will fall in line 1 to | Springfield to | alumni gathering at Boston. | the | | with the plans of the federal govern- | ment and the railroad. Satisfactory Progress. Late tonight the conferees { this_statement: “The representatives of the depart- ment of justice and the New Haven | railroad state that negotiations are | progressing in a satisfactory manner and it is believed that all details will | be satisfactorily arranged at an early | date. “A further statement my be given out omorrow.” issued BELMONT ALLOWED HER $400 A MONTH. Wife of Wealthy Youth Teils of Mar- riage Arrangement. New York, March 20.—Mrs. Lor- {raine Belmont had to dergo a searching cross examination today when she appeared as a witness in her suit for a separation from Raymond | Belmont, son of August Belmont, whom | she married in November, 1912. Al- though she had passed as an actress, she admitted in response to a question | today that she had never been on the stage. She had met voung Bo-=ont mn 1909, she said. They had discussed marriage many times and planned in detail their married life tosether. “He figured out on a piece of paper one day whila wa were lunching that he could marry me and allow me $400 a month to run the house” she testi- fied. “‘Tll take what dogs I have in my kennels on Long Island' and move them to Jersey and we'll raise bean- gles,’ he told me. He said there was Iots of money in beagies and he knew | how to ralse them.” Mrs. Belmant declared present time she had only about $1,000 left of a lump sum of $20,000 other amounts that her husband given her before her marriage. that she had received only from him since the wedding. The case was adjourned to next Fri- da; that at the had She Another Woman Buffrage Effort. Washington, Mareh 26.—Woman suf- frage came to the fore in the senate | again teday when a new resolution for a constitutional amendment ! posed by Senator Shafroth te tak place of that defeated yesterday would require states to decide suffrage question for them. whenever § per cent. of the vot titioned for it. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Siasconsett, Mass., March mer Pergul alermo for ork, signalled 376 miles Hook at.noon. Do Lobbies in Washington. It seems that there is another sldious lobby” hanging 'round Wash- Lobbies are like flies 'round barrel—hard to get rid of iking @ovay the sweets.— apolis News, a sugar without tal Indig and - | ing $2 Condensed Telegrams Fire Yesterday Destroyed the J. M. Clement Printing and Binding plant at Buffaio. There Was an Increase of 3,244 the past year in the number of persons of school age in Maine. Nearly 200 Brewery Workers at Reading, Pa., went on strike, demand- a week increase. A Regular Hydro-Aeroplane between San Francisco and will be inaugurated soon. [} The Business Section of Dum: Man., on the Canadian Northern ra road was wiped out by fire vester- day. Robbers Yesterday blew open the vault in the r: tional bank at Gallatin, Tenn., secured $18,000, and esc “Lady Cornell, by a famous hen owned the” Cornell College of Agriculture, cad. She laid 771 eggs during her car: Public Ownership and oper: n of ay by repre- of n East Rochester, N.Y., destroyed the Eyer block, burn- Ing out several firms and causing a loss of $200,000. Eight Children of Mr: dos, of New O groes were decls long court fight Camillo Pra- known as ne- white after a The Government at Kingston, Ja- maic )pted a law Imposing a head tax of $150 on all Syrians and Chinese who enter the country Dr. Hans Reck, of Berl has disccovered a humas man Africa w to be 150,000 yea: he estimates Robert Lansing of New York and Cone Johns of Texas, were nom- fnated counsellor and solicitor, re- spectively, of the state department. The Earth Opened and swallowed two miners and a work shanty on the mounta de at the Kepley Run col- liery at Shanandoah, Pa., yesterday. The Receivers For Henry Siegel com- pany of Boston announced yesterday it $392.000 had been realized on the e of the stock and other assets of the company. Henry Goodman, 55, an oven builder for the Hubbard Oven company, New York, dropped dead in a bakery at Torrington yesterday. Death was due to heart trouble. Robert McC. Beck, for a superintendent many years for the Pope Manu- facturing company Hartford and in Hagerstown, Md,, died Thursday night, aged 64 years. A Passaic, N. J vorce to Mrs. Ina W leged her husband ourt granted @i- achter, who al- told her a man 10 years. He didn't A Gift of $50,000 kefeller to t Christian was from Johan - D. © International Young ociation college at announce at an Rc Men zirl of 29, commit- her throat with Cassie Havey, razor, at_the home of her uncla a lintr sterday. She had troubl insomnia. An Elderly Man, belioved to ha Perrin H. Sumne known to the pal American Identified” died of heart disease in a New York subway train. who was once well as “The Great Marie Janson, a Comic Opera fa- v and prominent in died at Milford, the home of her week’'s illness. in Prfiborfion to the City’s Population Preparing to . Shell Torreon VILLA'S ARMY OF 12,000 OUTSIDE THE CITY CONFIDENT OF VICTORY Expects to Capturs Federal Strong- hold Within a Week—The Federals Now Completely Cut Off. Coastitutionalist Headquarters, Yer- mo, Chihuahua, Mexico, March 20— General Villa ris army of twelve thousand reoels today invested the federal stronghold of Torreon, The khaki-clad columns occupled the environs of the city without op- position and today was spent in wheel- ing the field pieces into poaition to shell the federal trenches which have b dug at every point where the eral commander, General Refugio elasco, expects attack, Federal Force Numbers 9,000, _His army is estimated to number nine thousand men. South and south- west of the city his position is re- garded as almost {mpregrubie by rea- son of the mountains, tarough which only three passes run, and these have been rendered aimost Impassable by fortifications and barbed wire entan- glements. In other directions, the city eached through the desert and high hills, . Viila’s recent progress has been stow because it Whs necessary to repair the railroad tracks and bridges. This morning, however, the road was open from Yermo, whers the troops have been mobil mejillo, which g, to Mapimi and Ber- e only a few miles north of Torreon and are virtually suburbs of that city. At these two clties, after suffering long hours in the freight cars, whers they were stuffed like figs in a box, and with but scanty supply of water, the troops detrained and plunged into the desert. Great clouds fine desert dust marked their progress over hummocks of cacti-crowned sand and through dry water courses. Great tank wag- ons, laden with the water supply which has been Villa's greatest problem, rum- bled in the trail, the wheels at times almost Lub-deep in the sand. Their Passage Unobstructed. The lips of the few foreigners i the army were cracked and swollen from the heat and alkali dust, but the Mexicans trained to such conditions, covered their mouths with folds of their blankets and fared better. Al eves were bloodshot. In_ this way, amid the suffering which the harshest waste of arid land Mexico can furnigh, the outskirts of Torreon were reach- ed There was no opposition and Gen- eral Villa stated that theres had beeu none since he had begun to repair the railroad south of Jiminez. The fed- j erals contented themselves with strew- ing ull porsible obstruction except bul- iets in his way. There were occasional exchanges of shots between outposts, but noihing that assumed evem the dignity of a skirmish Villa Confident General Villa was now_that the eve of hand, he is a fury of energy, now grabbing the haiter of a refractory mule, now criticieing the lashings of a pack saddle, or snapping orders at a lesser leader. “Torreon will be mine in a week,™ he exclaimed jubilantly: “Bvery preparation has been made and we can’t fail” Genera] Felipe Angeles, chief of the artillery corps, was named second In of Victory. everywhere, for the dattle is at | command to take full charge in the event of the death or incapacitation of Villa. Angeles is a member of Gen- eral Carranza’s cabinet and was de- tached at Villa's urgent solicitation, to participate in the battle. He is & the big gun arm William D. Sweensy, of Draent,{ Mass., was arraigned In the Lowell | Yeteran expert of police court vesterday on a charge of | Of the service. his wife, at their home. attacked his wife with an ering ney mu Swe axe A Bill Permitting the appointment of women police officers by cities and towns was reported to the Massa- tts house of representatives by the committee on legal affairs yester- iay. A Il Permitting the appointment of women police officers by cities and towns was reported to the Masss chusetts house of representativ the committes on b: legal affairs yes- Suit Has Been Filed at Hutchins, Kas., on behalf of one hundred and ten farmers against the United States for $370,000 the result of the failure of a_ government firrigation plant at Deerfield Miss Ruth Agnes Bergstrom, 17 years old, climbed 165 feet to the top of the dome on the Pavilion of Trans- at the Exposition grounds ne d unfurled a five- foot American flag All the Indians in the United States would be divided into two classes, ate rolls of “competent Indians’ and “non-competent Indians” under bill introduced by Representative Ko- nop, of Wisconsin. Nine Persons Were Arrested yester- state-wide crusade nd Dental Society ilicensed dentists. Four ar- ts were made at Providence, two in wiucket, two in Woonsocket und one West Warwick, Mrs. Hester Mansell Monree, for many vears a missionary in India un- der direction of the Methedist Episco- pal church, and wife of Rev, David C, Monroe, rector of Trinity Kpiscopal church, died at her home at Bristol, Conn., after a long ilines A Minimum Sentence of from five month to ten years and in Sing Sing was im- ay at New York upon re di Angelo, years old, who took the law mto his own hands and shot | made his 14 illed year and thy old ¢ who had hter Nellie, a white slav Guilty of Opium Smuggling. n Francisc 20—When seven alleged m of an opium smuggling ring—former customs em- i ployes, mail dock, watchmen and Chinese R ts—were ught to il today . indicted men once It was an- an. tify against the othe suilty were mer [nited State The sifth is Young T, customs guards, , & Chinese, 1 | | hand. | son. Federals Compietely Cut Off. Villa bhas food for a month, 2,080 cartridges to the man and his rafl- road service, unless cut, can maintain the water supply Indefinitely. It i3 believed hers that the federals ara now completely cut off from the outside world, even by wire, although the wireless stations may permit them to communicate with the national cap- ital, 700 miles to the south. Villa pro- fesses to belleve ho wiil capture the entire army. Few Foreigners Left, Normally thers is a large forelgn colony at Torreon, but most of these residents have fled, leaving only a few as caretakers of important property. AMERICANS M AL‘TREATEDA Mexican Bandits Reported to Mave Raided Mormon Colony. B! Paso, Texas, March 20—F. L. Taylor, an American colonist, arrived here today by way of Columbia, N, M., with a story of mistreatment at the hands of bandits operating around | Colonia Juarez, a Mormon colony In | Chihuahua state. Taylor said he fled to save his life, leaving behind his family and property. Bandits under Manuel Gutierres raided the American colony a week ago, said Taylor. They entered his home and he fought desperately, wounding one of the Mexicans in the Finelly he was overpowered and sentenced to death. Later Gutler- rez decided that he must pay $500 and | confiscating $1,500 In grain and stock, t6ld Taylor once. The Gutierrez band recently raided the American lumbering town of Pear- Gutlerrez formerly was second in command under Maxirgo Castillo, now held a prisoner at Fort Bllss, Texas. Mexicans Kidnap American. Austin, Texas, March 20.—Charies Hallard, ‘s Texan has been kidnapped to leave the country at ! by five Mexicans near Carrizo Springs according to information received by Governor Colquitt today. Citizens of rrizo Springs have asked for rang- ers. Lake Kenosia Residence Burns. Danbury, Conn., March 20.—Fire of undetermined origin tonight destroyed the residence of Mrs. William L Du- rant, near Lake Kenosia, entalling an estimated loss of about 37,000. The family of Peter Fitagerald occupled the house. Rate of 2 1-2 Cents a Mile, Conmcord, N. H.,, Mareh 20.—A wuni- form passenger rate of two and a halr cents a mile is planned for the Bos- ton and Maine railroad in place of the present two cent rate, according to Fxd- gar J, Rich, the road's genoral solioii~ L 1 i e L L e