Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 8, 1914, Page 1

VOL. LVI~NO. 83 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1914. : ' PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the ;Gity’s Population HARTFORD REELECTS MAYOR CHENEY Plurality of 64 Out of IG,OOb Votes Cas --Coul}; cil Remains Strongly Democratic FAULTY MACHINE MAY LEAD TO CONTEST Democrats Claim It Failed to Register 100 Votes—Proposition to Abolish Lower Board Carried—Big Majority for Pur- chase of Water Frontage at Cost of $500,000—Warmest Municipal Election in Years. Hartford, Conn, April 7—Mayor Louis R. Cheney, republican, was to- day re-elected mayor of Hartford, de- feating Attorney Joseph H. Lawler, democrat, by a plurality of 64 votes, out of a total of approximately 16.- 000 cast. The democrats claim, how- ever, that one of the voting machines in the fourth ward failed to register one hundred demccratic votes and it was said _tonight that the case will be carried to the courts. The ma- chi registered 1,224 votes for Che- nd 850 for Lawler. The total vote stood: Cheney 7,549; Lawier Socialist and socialist fabor tic were also in_the fleld, but the vote was small. Democrats elected majorities in both -the upper And lower boards of the common coun- wil. By a good mejority the progosition to abolish the lower buard nexi year was passed. Thhe city also voted, by e big majority, to purchase -water frontage at a cost of $500,000. The democratic majority in the up- per board of the council is 14 to 6 and ir lower board it is 27 to 13. Today's election was regarded as one of the warmest in some vears. Both sides were cornfident before the battle of the ballots began, but very few anticipated such a close result on the mayoralty. % The mixup concerning .the .voi machine in the fourth ward, has caus- ed almost endl diseussion -among the crowds that thronged the streel: The crowds in front of the Newsparn offices were the largest, at any reccut municipal election. As an aftermath of the election, threa rrects were made in East Hartford :(vr‘ alleged violation of the excise laws, As the saloons in the city were closed, there was a large outpouring over the bridze to Easi Hartford, where it is said the cafes did an unusually heavy Business. GALLIVAN SUCCEEDS CURLEY.’ Twelfth Massachusetts District Give Him Substantial Majority." James A, Gaili: was elected today to Boston, April van,' democrat, ongress from the twelfth district, to E:’ the unexpired term of Mayor James 1 ley, resigned. He received e in a triangular contest. he vote was livan, 8,708; Frank Brier, republ James B. nolly, pr REPUBLICANS SWEEP PATERSON. Result Awaited with Interest in Wash- ington. terson, N. J., A 1 7.—Early re- indicated o sweeping republican in the special el ion held today in the seventh New Jersey dis- t to elect a representative in con- to succeed the late Robert L. t gress April T.—Leaders of all | ‘d the reeult in with { ranted by can Victory came tonight, Representa- tive Doremus, of Michigan, chairman of the democratic congressional cam- | paign_committee, after & conference with Secretary Tumulty at the White House, issued this statement: “Two special congressional elections were held Tuesday, one in the seventh New Jersey and the other in the | twelfth Massachusetts. In these two | elections the democrats broke even. ! The seventh New Jersey district as | recently gerrymandered is stronsly re- publican and always has been. The late Representative Bremner, because of his tremendous personal popularity, was probably the only democrat who could carry the district. If the demo- crats had succeeded there yesterday it would have been almost a miracle. | “A resume of the elections held ! during the past year shows an over- wheiming sentiment in_favor of this | administration. _Since President Wil- son assumed office eight special con- gressional elections have occurred in widely separated sections and the | democrats were successful in five dis- | tricts. “So far as the New Jersey election }is concerned the only observation war- e result is that a strong republican aistrict has gone republi- can.” WOMEN VOTERS NEGLIGENT. Less Tha Eligible n One-Half Number Voted in Chicago. Chicago, April 7.—Early estimates tonight Indicate that between 75,000 and 100,000 of the 217,614 women voters eligible to vote here fent to the polls for the first time today and cast their ballots in the aldermanic election. The male voters, of whom 455,283 were registered, voted in about the same proportion. None of the nine women aldermanic candidates was elected. Except in the first- ward,. where Miss Marion Drake had made 2 spectacular fight against John -(Bathhouse) Coufhlin, the wo- men candidates polled only a small fraction of the women votes. The in- dications are that Coughlin won by about 4 to 1. Numerous charges of irregularity in voting were made go the election com- mission by Miss Drake’s campaign managers, : 1,000 Salocons Voted Closed. Conservative estimates based on act- ual reports from townsships show that more than one thousand saloons were today voted out of existence in the state outside of Chicago. Springfield Votes “Wet.” Springfield, Ils., April 7.—Spring- field voted “wet” today by more than 3,500. Both men and women voted wet. Kansas City Reelects Democrat. Kansas City, Mo., April 7T.—Henry L. Jost, democrat, was reelected may- or of Kansas City today over four other candidates by a majority esti- mated at between 6,000 and 7,000 votes. COLUMBIAN TREATY HAS BEEN SIGNED. Marks Settiement of Long Standing Panama Controversy. Bogota. Colombia. April 7—The treaty botween the United States and Colombia, settling the Panama contro- versy, was signed today at the state department of Colombia by the Amer- icon minister, Thaddeus A. Thomp- son and representatives of the Co- Jombian government. The ceremony of signing the treaty was an impressive one. The American minister was accom- panied by the secretary of the 1 MUNICIPAL NOMINATIONS AT NEW BRITAIN. More Than 3,000 Votes Cast in Repub- lican Caucus. New Britain, Conn., April 7.—Demo- crats_and republicans met in caucus | tonight and selected candidates for the biennial mayoralty election which comes next Tuesday. The democrats nominated, without opposition, Mayor Joseph M. Halloran for another term. They also endorsed two republicans: F. S. Chamberlain for city treasurer and H. L. Curtis for comptrotler. The' republican caucus was one of the largest ever held in the city, 3,081 tion. Teland Harrison. The Columbian signatories wers the Colombian min- ister of foreign affairs, Francisco Jose Urrutia and the members of the ad- visory committee who had been given full powers; Marco Fidel Suarez, first, vice president of the republic, Nicolas | Esguerra, former minister of state, Eenator Jose Maria Valencia, Sena. tor Rafael Uribe Uribe, and Antonio Jose Uribe president of the house of Fepresentativ The conferring of full powers on this ! eommittes to sien the treaty bound to- | gether the representative heads of all| the political parties, insuring the ratification of the treaty by congress, ! May 1. It is also a guarantee of the future stability of the government. The negotiations with the Colombian government have been carried on by the legation at Bogota and sinco the yeturn of the American minister March 8, frequent conferencese have heen ! beld. It is said that they have been | most difficult to bring to a success- ! ful conclusion, ng to misleading advices on_the situation fro mplaces | outside of Colombia and a certain an- ti-American sentiment which has been kept to the front by various in- terests. The signing of this treaty is looked | wpon as a most momentous event in | the history of the foreign relations | of Colombia 2nd marks a new era for }‘;r future. Rumor of $25,000,000 Payment. Washington, April T—Details of the mgreement between Colombia and the! Tnited States have been mads public here. It is understood, however, that the treaty provides that the Upited Btates shall pav to Colombia a lump sum of $25,000,600 in full payment for the loss suffered by the latter coun- trv when Panama seceded and trans- ferred the canal zome to. the United Btates for exciusive rights to the United States for the construction ot an interoceanic canal through Colom- bia territory and for a coaling privil- ege on the Colombian coast. The greatest importance is attach- ed by the Washington government to the consummation of this agreement @8 it would dispose of one of the most ¥rcublesome problems with which the United States ever has had to deal ‘with in its relations with Latin-Amer-, ballots belng cast, and Alderman George A. Quigley was named for mayor on the second ballot. Mr. Quig- ley led the three candidates on the first ballot, but did not have half enough for nomination. E. W. Schultz ran second, and H. M. Steele, tax collector, was third. On the second ballot Mr. | Quigley led by about 100 votes, and his nomination was declared unanimous later, upon motion of Mr. Schultz. Willilam H. Scheuy, who has been registrar of voters for the las 18 years, was defeated for renomiantion by Wil- liam Ziegler. CRISIS IN OUR POPULAR GOVERNMENT. Former President Taft Defends Our Judiciary. e Boston, April 7.—"“We are at a crisis with respect to the form of our popu- lar government,” Prof. William H. i Taft told law students of Boston uni- versity today. “We find a formidable movement throughout the country,” he continued, “toward a destruction of its represent- ative character, and the reversion to an | old type that in the history of the world has proved a failure, called pure democracy. But more radical and dangerous than thig is the effort being made to subordinate our courts in their administration of justice to rules of decision and standards of equitp and justice that are to be determined arbitrarily by the hasty vote of an electorate.” Arrested For Horse Stealing. Derby, Conn. April 7—Sherift Spin- ney of Reckingham County, New Hampshire, came here today and at his instance, the local police arrested Hyman Bronfin, proprietor of a meat market, charged with horse stealing. The alleged theft occurred in 190! Bronfin denles the charge and has se- cured counsel. | Provence, Income Tax on Alaskan Railroads. ‘Washington, April 7—A four per cent. income tax en the net incomes of railroads in Alaska as a substitute for the present license of $100 a mile a year, i8 proposed in a bill favorably reported to the house today by the territories - committea Cabled Paragraphs James Gordon Bennett Slightly Worse. Cairo, Egypt, April 7—A slight change for the worst was noticed to- day in the condition of James Gordon Bennett, who several days ago was reported to be recovering from an at- tack of bronchitis. Les Bond Declared Insane. Southampton, England, April 7.— Lee Bond, or Lewis Knight Brook Brace, the motorist, who on February 15 hired a machine and compelled the driver at the point of a pistol to drive at great speed for thirty hours over the country roads, has been adjudged insane, and ordered “to be detained during His Majesty's pleasure.” House Where Lord Byron Stopped. Rome, AprilT—At a meeting of lit- erary men here today, including the American ambassador, Thomas Nel- son Page, and the British ambassador, Sir Rennell Rodd, the announcement was made by Nelson Gay of Boston, secretary of the Rome committee of the Keats-Shelley Association of the discovery of the house where Lord By- ron lived in Rome. Golf Tournament Postponed. London, April 7—Owing to the heat- ed feelings engendered by the home rule question it has been found nec- ssary to postpone the annual parlia- mentary golf torunament. Some of the members of the house of commons who have been keen participants in these contests decline to meet their pelitical opponents on the links. French Women Denied Right to Vote. | Paris, April 7—French women have not the right to vote, according to a decision pronounced today by the court of cassation. The Women's Rights league of France had tried to have its members register as voters for the coming election and had ap- plied to the lower court, which ruled against them. An appeal was taken to higher court, which confirmed the decision. PUBLIC HEARINGS ON CANAL TOLLS BILL. Administration Forces Are Sustained by Vote of 35 to 27. Washington, April 7—Confronted by telegrams from gulf and Pacific coast, urging public hearings on the bill pro- posing the repeal of the free tolls pr vision of the Panama Canal aci, th senate inter-oceanic canals committe: decided today to give fifteen Cays, be- ginning next Thursday, to hearing both proponents and opponents of the measure, which passed the house. In the meantime the committee 1wiil listen to various senators who havo offered substitute plans, for the fat repeal measure passed by the house These proposals ranged from posi- tive declarations of the right of the United States to exempt any and ail of its shipping as proposed by Senator Gallinger, minority leader, to Senafor Norris’ suggestion that the matter_be made the subject of arbitration. The committee entered into no dis- cussion of the merits of the bill it- self. A long-standing rule that com mittee meeting should be secret was put aside and the discussion thrown open to the public, but a few sena- tors, a group of school girl tourists and the newspaper men were tis only persons to take advantage of.the departure from precedent. In the senate the repeal fisht occu- pied the entire day, aithough the form- al presentation of the matter will not come until the conclusion of the com- mittee hearings and its deliberations. The first roll call on the gencral subject was taken on a motion to re- fer to the foreign relations commit- tee a resolution offered by Senator Poindexter asking that the president explain what matters he had in mind in writting in his repeal message of “matters of even greater delicacy and nearer conseugnence” gnd what con- nection these matters might have with the Panama canal regulation and tolls. Tho administration forces by a vote of 35 to 27 sent the resolution to the committee, Seven _democrats voting in the negative and nine republicans in the afirmative. The senate adopted without dissent a resolution offered by . Senator Brandegee calling for all correspand- ence relative to the negotiations for the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. It was stated that substantially all of this matter already was in print in senate documents, . PUBLIC BEQUESTS BY BRISTOL WOMAN Connecticut Institutions Among the Beneficiaries. Bethel, Conn. April 7.—Public be- quests of $22,600 are made by the terms of the will of Mrs, Julia E, Fer- ry, probated here today. She died re- cently in Florida. Among the bequests are: $10,000 to St. Thomas’ Episco- pal church of this place; $1,500 to the Danbury hospital: $500 to the Chil- dren’s home, Danbury: $5.000 to St. Luke's hospital, New York; $5000 to Foreign and Domestic Missions of the Episcopal and $500 to the New York Free Circulating Library for the Blind. Mrs. Ferry’s estate has not yet been inventoried, but it is reported to be worth more than $100,000. Steamers Reported by Wireless. New York, April 7.—Steamer Imper- ator, Hamburg for New Yorlk, signalled 1,170 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon, Dock 8.30 a. m, Friday. Siasconset, Mass., April 7.—Steamer Kroonland, Antwerp for New York, signalled 377 miles east of Sandy Hook at ‘noon. Dock 1 p. m. Wednesday. Steamer Bergensfjord, Bergen via Halifax for New York, signalled. Time end_distance not given. Dock 9 a. m. Wednesday, Brow Head, April 7.—Steamer La New York for Havre, sig- nalled 280 miles southwest at 11.40 a. m. Due Havre about Wednesday. Sable Island, N. S., April 7—Steamer Koln, Bremen for Boston, signalled 510 miles from Boston at 4 p. m. Steamer Oceanic, Southhampten for New York, signalled 835 miles east of Sandy Hook at 2 p. m.. Dock 10.30 a. m. Thursday. 8teamship Arrivals, Genoa, April 1.—Steamer Taormina, New York. Meadeira, April 5.—Steamer Prineess Irene, New York for Naples.. Plymeuth, April_7.—Steamer Presi- dent Grant, New York for Cherbourg ang Hamburg, remen, April 7.—Steamer Kaiser ‘Wilhelm der Gresse, New York. Glasgow, April 6.—Steamer Califor- nia, New York. Naples, April 6.—Bteamer America, New York, Antwerp, April 7.—Steamer Lapland, | New York. Gibraltar, April 7.—Arrived, steam- ers Prinzess Irene, New York; Car- pathia, New York. Philadelphia, April 7.—Arrived, steamer Mongolian, Glasgew, | wag the case after the Hima robbery llud-’ky that a Posse Kills Two Bandits HAD ROBBED BANK AT NEW HAZELTON, B. C. 6 MEN WERE IN HOLDUP Band Had Operated in Other Cities of The Norchwest—Pursuit is Still in Progress. New Hazelton, B, C., April 7—Two bandits were killed here todey in a battle between a band of robbers and a large posse of citizens after the Tobbery of the Union Bank of Canada branch. Six men held up the bank and four took $1,100 cash. A posse Is pursuing them. The bank, a substantial buflding of | log construction, had been opened | only a few minutes for business to- day when the robbers appeared. Two men armed with rifles tered up | the road two others came from the Wwoods at the rear of the bank and | | two more came from another direction. The first two stepped inside the doors and with rifles raised, called out: “Hands up.” The four others appear- ed and took up positions outside the bank. The only customer in the bank was John Gaslin, manager for a contract- ing firm. Gaslin had a sheaf of checks and postal orders in his hand and $50 in cash. One robber relieved Gaslin of his cash, then reached over the teller’s desk and took all the cur- rency within reach. As the bandits backed out the clerks reached for their pistols and the rob- bers fired several shots. Fenton, a bookkeeper, slight wound. Robbers Always Unmasked. Vancouver, B. €., April 7—The band of robbers which came to griel at New | Hazleton today is supposed to have been the ome which in the last year has_robbed banks at New Hazleton, | B. C., Granite Falls, Wash., Abbotts- ford, 'B. C., and Elma, Washn. It was the custom of the gang to appear at 2 bank during business hours and compel the tellers to hand over all the money in their cages. The | robbers . were always unmasked and | were garbed like loggers or railroad | laborers. After the four roberies, no one who saw the robbers could give a good description of them. After each of the four robberies the men_headed ostentatiously for the i woods_ but it is evident they had means of flight arranged, for they were never intercepted. Instead, the posse were soon fiiring at ome another, as | suffered a lasi month, when the robbers escaped with $4,280. WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY OF TRINITY INSTRUCTOR Accused Says Better Half Required More Money Than He Could Supply. Hartford, Con 7—William G. Wellinf, an instructor at Trinity college, whose wife is suing him for divorce on grounds of intolerable cruel- ty, took the stand in the superior court late today and specifically denied al- legations made_eariier in the day by Mrs. Welling. He said he and his wife became acquainted in March, 1907, at a hospital, where they had undergone operations for -appendicitis. While Mr. Welling made denial of charges of crueity, ted his marriage had been He_ explained his financia! condition and declared his wife was not eco- nomical and when she made further | demands on him for more money, he was unable to_comply. Mrs. J. M. Turner of Philadelphia, grandmother of Mrs. Welling, took the stand and said she had sent money to the couple. In May, 1913, she claimed to have received a letter from Welling | in which he said he had not done the right thing by bis wife. The case will be heard again tomor- row. April a general he admit- a failure. SHALL PICKLE DISH SUPPLANT PUNCH BOWLT! Question Rises in Purchase of Silver Service For Battleship New York. Atbany, N. Y., April 7—If Secretary Josephus M. Daniels had issued his| “ry” order for the navy several weeks hence he would have saved three state officials worry over what kind of | a silver service shall be purchased for the battleship New' York, At the last session of the lezisla- ture a bill appropriating $10,000 for the purchase of a silver servise for the | new ship was passed and a few days| later the governor signed it. 'Thus did he also make himself, Lieutenant | Governer Wagner and Speaker Sweet | responsible for the selection of the| present. Today the governor was in quandary over the whole proposition. “We may have to eliminate the pun: bowl and substitute a pickle dish” he said. He hopes that either the lieutenant governor or tne speaker will be able| to suggest a way out of the difficulty. ; | REBELS ACTIVE IN SANTO DOMINGO. President Bordas to Take Field | Against Insurrectionists. ‘Washington, April T—President Bordas of the Dorinican republic has | left Santo Domingo City for Santiago | to take the fleld against the insurrec- tionists. Commander Bierer, on the | gunboat Wheeling at Santo Domingo City, reported to the navy department Dominican gunboat is carrying General Bordas and two hun- dred government troops to Puerto Plata, from whenee they will go over- land to Santiage. Despatches from Commander Bost- wick on the gunboat Nashville at Puerto Plata, announced thet govern- ment troops have driven the rebels under General Arias from Santiago, but tsat the railread is not being op- erated except for a short distance out of Puerto Plata as the insurrection- ists have come down out of Santiago provinee as. far as Biabonico. The Zovernment, the report said, has been impressing all available men at Puer- to Plata into service to combat the rebels iy the interior. Death of 107 Year Old Ohio Man. Youngstown, O., April 7—BEdward Jones, 107 years of age, died last night at his home in Niles. He was born in ‘Wales, and in his younger days follow- ed the sea. He had been a resident of Niles for hall a cenfury, j of the Spaniards | the | undergo the hardship than she. Protest Sent to Carranza UNITED STATES TO EXTEND PRO- TECTION TO SPANIARDS. FIGHTING AT TAMPICO Admiral Fletcher Sends Battleship Utah to Reinforce American Force Now at That Port. Washington, April 7.—Vigorous rep- resentations went from the American government today to General Carran- za, the constitutionalist chief, urging that he modify the order of General Villa expelling Spaniards from Tor- reon. The United States has under- taken to extend to Spaniards in Mex- ico the same protection it affords Americans resident there, and Ambas- sador Riano has been assured that nothing will be left undone to assure for the unfortunates at Torreon every right to which they are entitled un- der international law and us That Spain proposes to exh: ery resource to protect her veople in the revolution-torn republic was made plain today when Rear Admiral Mayo at Tampico cabled the navy depart- ment that the commanding officer of the British cruiser Hermerne had been instructed to care for Spaniards at this besieged federal port. Officails here did not comment on this devel- opment, Embarrassing Situation at Torreon. The state department, as well as the Spanish embassy here, is embarrassed in dealing with the situation at Tor- reon by a lack of exact information as to the extent of the decree of ex- Dulsion and how far it has been exe- cuted. It is understood that Villa, in a public speech, has told the Spaniards of Torreon that they were to ported en massi that a commi would be appointed to examine into each individual case and that such of them as could establish the fact tha they have rendered no aid to the Huer- ta cause would be permitted to return to Torreon, __The gravity of the problem has been increased by unofficial but credible in- formation that this policy of expulsion is to be of general application; that as rapidly as the constitutionalists by force of arms ex tend their control over such cities as Saltillo and Monterey and other plac now within the federal line, they in- tend to drive out the Spaniards and seize their property. An attempt to carry out such a plan would meet with determined opposition from the United States government. Officials say the Spaniards are in M ico under the provisions of treaty con- ferring the right of residence, trade and travel and anything like a Sweep- ing deportation under these circum- stances would be violation of the principles of international law and would form a proper subject of re- sentment by the Spanish government, even to the extent of hostile measur if need be. lllegal Confiscation of Property. It has also been pointed out that as Villa’s _decree involves the confisca- tion of the property of the Torreon Spaniards, it is wholly illegal, for even conceding the right of expulsion of aliens under certain circumstances, in- ternational law expressly provides that this shall be done humanely and with- out inicting losses upon the subject. Foreseeing the gravest international complications if the constitutionalists should undertake to apply this doc- trine of wholesale expulsion of aliens to other than Spaniards, the state de- partment is expected to lay this sub- ject before General Carranza so plain- - that he will exe o prevent further all foreigners. Confirmation of reports of s fighting in the neighborhood of 1 pico have reached the navy ment in messages from Admiral May. forwarded by Admiral Fletcher at V Cruz. Admiral Fletcher has ordered the battleship Utah from Vera Cruz to Tampico to reinforce the formidable American naval force at that port. The battleships Connecticut and Min- nesota and the cruisers Des Moines, Chester, San Francisco and the des patch boat Dolphin already are there. FOUND GUILTY OF interference with UNMINISTERIAL CONDUCT. i New York Conference of M. E. Church Finds Against Rev. Dr. Price, New York, April 7—“Guilty of im- prudent and un-ministerial conduct” was the verdict of the court of the New York Conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church today against the Rev. Dr. Jacob E. Price, pastor of the Washington Heights church, | defendant on charges made by women | members of his congregation. Two other specifications, one ac- cusing Dr. Price of “immorality in conduct in violation of the moral law"” and the other of “ikdulgence of sin- ful tempers and words” were sustained. It was the judgment of the select committee which reported to the con- ference that Dr. Price “should be and hereby is adminished” as a result of his conviction on the first specifi- cation. Bishop Luther B. Wilson, presiding at the conference ,directed the con- ference to receive the finding” of the committee without any expressions of approval or disapproval. The com- mittee’s report accordingly was re- ceived in silence. The court did not find Dr. Price| guilty of acts sufficiently flagrant to demand a change of pastorate, for in list of changes for the ensuing year by Bishop Wilson, Dr. Price re- tains his Washington Heights pul- pit. Weman Con ted of Shoplifting at Boston. Boston, April 7.—When Mrs. Anna C. Deftch was sentenced in the munici- pal court today for shoplifting, her son, a college student, asked to be permit- ted to go to jail In his mother's stead, declaring that he was better able to The court informed him that it was im- possible. Mrs, Deitch, who was sen- tenced to thres months' imprisonment, appealed and furnished bail Acquitted of Serious Charge. Middletown, Conn., April 7.—In the superior court today the case of Aaron Perkins, charged with a serious crime | against Adella Glossering, aged 23, was nolled bYy the state's atterney. Per- kins was bound over to the higher court from a justice court in Eseex. William James, eolered, charged with burglaries committed in Clinton, was sentenced (e ene year im the county Jail se his full power | not | Condensed- Telegrams John Lind sailed from Vera Cruz. An earthquake was recorded at To- nopah, Nev. The Dowager Empress Haruko of Japan is dying. Thomas Ryan, Minister to Mexico from 1889 to 1893, diegd at Muskogee, Okla. £ . It was officially announced that the import duty on eorn and rye has been reduced in Portugal. George H. Vining, war correspondent during the Cuban war, died in Kan- sas City, aged 53. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck -a Baltimore & Ohio train near. Snowden, Pa. Two shots were fired at troops do- ing strike duty at the Gould Coupler works in Depew, N. Y. e-president of the died in Tren- Moses Callear, Maddock Pottery Co,, ton, N, J., aged 66. Dudley Field Malone, Customs Col- lector, confered with President Wilson about New York politics. During the first thrse months of 1914 there were 33 aviators killed making a total of 462 since September, 190%. Thieves entered the United Cigar Stores shop on Fifteenth Street, New York, and escaped with $300 in cash. The will of Miss Sarah Ferguson, filed at Stamford, Conn., leaves $100,- 000 to Protestant-Episcopal charities. The Bureau of Immigration admitted to this country in February 48,878 aliens, against 71,355 in February, 1913, 1, The bell of the famous steamboat Sylvan Dell was placed in the tower of St. Sebastian’s church at Woodside, L I Having recovered from her fall in the White House, Mrs. Wilson went motoring for the first time in several weeks. Colonel Sharman-Crawford was elected to Parliament as Unionist member for East Belfast. opposed. He was not s s i Forty tons of matzoths, bread of the Passover feast of the Jews, were dis- tributed to the poor of the race in New York. More than 200 miners and’laborers are on strike at Dover, N. J. demand- ing that 80 discharged employes be reinstated. Lillian Johnson, a widow, is in a hes- pital in New York having taken bi- chloride of mercury in mistake for | headache tablets. A Long Island Railroad train jump- ed the track at Oakdale delaying traf- fic east of Babylon several hours. No one was injured. China will appeal to the Hague Tri- bunal for an equitable settlement of foreign claims for damages done dur=- ing the revolution. Viscount Keigo Kiyoura, forming a _new Japan having a difficult task Minister of Marine. Church attendance who is Cabinet, is in selecting a in Washington last Sunday was the largest in the city’s tory, the result of a go-to- church campaign. Three men were injured by an ex- plosion on the torpedo boat destroyer Aylwin while 15 miles off the Diamond Shoals Lightship. More than 5,00 persons watched the funeral procession of Joseph Guarnieri, who was killed in the performance of duty in New Yo Nine persons were reported to be killed in a gas explosion on the Han- rahan Bridge being constructed across the Mississippi at Memphis. The Old Dominion liner Jamestown, bound for New York ran on a har off Old Point Comfort; but was floated at high tide without damage. The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived | Liverpool and reported she was un- able to touch Fishguard because of the violence of the wind and sea. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr, has engaged Lewis Hobart, a San Francis- co architect, to build a $250,000 res- idence on her Long Island estate. Walter Murray, 20 years old, was ar- | rested in Tarrytown, Y. charged with entering the Lowery cottage on the estate of John D. Rockefeller. The safe in the department store of Timothy Smith & Co., at Roxbur; Mass., was blown by thieves who e: caped with several thousand dollars. Battalion Chief Patrick F. Graham, | of the New York Fire Department, was | injured when his carriage struck a | coal tsueck. The driver of the truck | was arrested. { Edmond P. Perkins, president of the National Drainage Congress, announc- ed that President Wilson will ask Con- gress to provide for the prevention of flood damage. As a result of the few cases of small- pox In New York the Department of Health is urging proprietors of stores, theatres and hotels to have their em- ployes vaccinated. | Capt. J. H. Griffin, disbursing officer | of the army quartermaster depot at | Seattle, disappeared on the eve of his | trial by court-martial. A shortage of | 1 $9,000 was reported. The $10,000 damage suit brought by Charles E. Palmer, of Irvington, N. Y., against Vincent Aster because he was struck by Astor's automobile, was set- | | tled out of court for §3,100. James Gordon Bennett, who has been ill at Cairo for seme time, has recov- ered sufficiently to resume the active direction of the New York Herald and the Paris edition of the same paper. Prefesser J. G. Andersen and F. R. Tegengren, of the Swedish Geologieal Bureau. have accepted an engagement with the Chinese Government te or- ganize a geological state institution in China. in La Crosse, Wis., one of the ten cities in the United States in which the post office department is trying to get the producer in direct touch through the parcel post with the con- sumer, not one consumer had up to Gunmen fo Die Next Week GOVERNOR GLYNN REFUSES TO COMMUTE SENTENCE. WARDEN IS TO FIX DATE Claim Made That the Second Trial of Becker Could Have No Bearing on Guilt of Condemned Men. Albany, N. Y. April 7—Governor Glynn tonight refused to either com- mute the death sentence of the four gunmen who were convicted of slaying Herman Rosenthal or to grant them a Teprieve until after the second trial of former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker. They now must died by elec- trocution in Sing Sing prison some time next weel, probably Monday. The court of appeals, in denying their mo- tion for a new trial, set the week of April 12 as the time for their execu- tion. The exact date is fixed by the warden to suit the convenience of him- self and his assistants. Improper to Exercise Executive Power. It would have been a miscarriage of justice 10 have granted commutation, and an improper exercise of executive power to have granted a reprieve, the governor sald in a statement. The case of the four gunmen does not de- pend in the least on the result of the Becker case, he ‘ontinued, and no evi- dence has been offered him tending to show that there is any reasonable probability of anything developing in the second Becker trial which would change the result reached in the gun- men's cases. The full names and nicknames of the condemned men are: Frank Cirofici (“Dago Frank” Harry Horowitz (“Gyp the Blood”), Louis Rosenberg (“Lefty i Jacob Seidenshner (“Whitey Lewis”). Included in the governor's statement were the texts of letters he recelved from Supreme Court Justice Goff and District Attorney Whitman, who acted in the case. Both men strongly op- posed the granting of a reprieve. Tha district attorney declared that “to de- lay or prevent the execution of the just judgment of the law against them would, in my opinion, tend to destroy the sense of security which every law- abiding citizen should feel.” The jua- tice declared there was no doubt es %o the prisoners’ guilt. Justice Goff's Opinion. Justice Goff wrote the governor aw follows: “As near as absolute certainty can be attained by human means in a hu- man tribunal, it was attained when these four men were convicted of mur- der. The conviction has been unani- mously affirmed by the ecourt of last resort. “It was proven that these men did not even know Rosenthal, that they were hired to murder him, that they did murder him, and that tne only mo- tive which could actuate them was to earn their price. Their guilt, there- fore, did not in any mauner depend on the prior comviction of Becker, who, it is claimed, through his agents, hired them, nor would it be affected if the identity of Becker had never been dis- covered. “The person who procures another to commit a crime and the person who commits it are distinct entities, and the conviction of one in no sense is de- pendent on the conviction of the other. As the whole matter now stands, it is settled beyond peradventure that they physically shot Rosenthal to death, and the question whether Becker instigated their act may affect him, but it cannot affect them. Even if Becker on his trial should be acauitted, it might leavs to doubt and conjecture the identi of the instigator, but it would not raise any doubt as to the identi’y of the men who fired the shots. “A respite, therefore, to awalt Beck- er’s trial, no matter what the outcoms, could not operate in the slightest de- gree to detract the truth now demon- strated, while in all probability it would tend to undermine ail public confidence In the administration of justice. I have endeavored to separate the true and governing principle from the confused and loose thinking which confounds the gunmen's case 2s in some way interlaced with or dependent on the view that a respite could be of no avail except to delay and create 2 situation that would be fraught with dangerous consequences.” HONOR SYSTEM FOR TEXAS CONVICTS. But Two Attempt to Escape Out of Fifty Left Unguarded. Lindals, Tex., April 7—The honor system among Texas convicts has worked so well that Governor O. B. Colquitt came here today to pay in person the wages of fifty, the pioneer band in the system who work unguard- ed on roads in this section. There has been but one attempt at escape in the two months the experiment has been under way, and even then the two run- aways were captured by the other con- victs, who wrote the governor apolo- gizing for the broken promise of their tellows. S0 The governor is considering extend- ing the system to other roads in the state. The convicts are paid fifty cents @ day for road work. Radium Lands Being Gobbled Up. Washington, April 7.—Radlum lands of the west are being taken from the public domain at the rate of 100 claims | & month, Senater Walsh, chairman of the mines committee, told the senate today, in an effort to bring up the radium bill reported several weeks ago. The senate failed to get unanimous consent to have the bill taken up Thursday, but served notice that he would recpen the question at the first opportunity Officers on State Ice Dealors. Hartford, Conn., April 7.—At the 26th annual meeting here today of the Connecticut Ice Dealers’ association these oflicers wefe elected: President, ©. E. Culver, New London; vice presi- dent, G. B. Curtis, Norwalk; secretary, E. D. Sprague, Bridgeport; treasurer, H. B. Sherwood, Southport, D. L. Bishop of Meriden was elected a member of the executive cemmittee for three years. Detreit Brewery Employes Strike. Detroit, Mich.,, April 7—Preduction and delivery of beer manufactured by Detroit breweries was practically stop- ped this afterneen by a strike of 1,200 Dbrewery employes working in the vari- ous plants. The drivers, workers, bot- tlers and engineers seek an increase in today - applied at the postofice for the lists of farmers willing to lhlyd.—l ¢ > rect te city dwellers wages and, in some cases, sherter hours. The brewers claimed the trou~ hie would he of brief duratiem,