Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 15, 1914, Page 1

VOL. LVI—NO. 89 The Bulletin’s 70;rcruglatinn inilior\;viitr:h is Double fha; of NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1914 PRICE TWO CENTS — _ny Otl;r?aper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest to ih;fity’s Populaiion Cabled Paragraphs Buxton Created a Viscount. London, April 1i—Sydney Charles Buxion, the newly apjointed governor seneral of the Union of South Africa, was today created a viscount 46 WARSHIPS FOR MEXICAN WATERS| FPresident Wilson Determined to Force Huerta Govern- ment to Salute Stars and Stripes. FORMIDABLE ARRAY TO BACK MAY(Q’S DEMAND Complete Denial Authorized. Madrid, April 14—Premier Eduar | Dato today authorized the most tom- piete denial of reports published in the United States that King Alfonso had personally asked the British govern- ment to use iis’influence for the Di tection of Spanish subjects in Mexico. | G. A. R. COMMANDER Tampico Will Number 15,0600 Men— ADDRESSES ENCAMPMENT United States Force Off | Big Fighting Force of Army Already Close to Border of Mexico—Not Thought in Military Circles that Interven-| eriden. Conn, April !large audience composed tion Will be Necessary. Recounts Causes That Led Up to the Civil War. 14 and the delegates to the d encampment Washi. R. delivered Auditorium said this evening and ago ton! Pr mortally wou ssin and that 4 he passed away ipon that immortal roil who had been instru- ng a aking per cd of Am. but recall that any men laid d able lectu hile not taken ashore, was fiying at | evening. e stern of the whaleboat, and all the [ bluejackets were in uniform. Rear Ad- | think miral Mayo allowed the Huerta com- | ident until 6 o'clock that evening to | by a a saluce, but later extended the years ! time in order to afford the local comr | to be marder an opportunity to communi- | of great cate with his superior officers in Mex- [ mental in City. A statement of apology was | petual the 1 Ged in Mexico City General | | car 3ig Uerta and the ofticer who ar- war in w rested the blueja heir Liv |ished. Thi The iirs States errible u salute insisted ierai Hueria Lad response 10 that the thi Washingt Wilson entire In part he = stand here that Linc Gasia omorrow aced men April- 14— President ordered practically the fleet to Mexican water: salute to the Star from the Huerta govern apology for-the arrest’of arines at Tampico - last in nerican hursday No uid been Issued— ified time has been crta governmen: mus. | e naval demons a ne iatum s has locai h wn eterm and greatest result of that ars was th I rights an to determine this country Confederation think tha use of war, b evidently that for many years previous to 1360 the question of tes rights was w preeminent feature the country’s problems of state. To settle the sovereignty of the Indi- vidual state the war of 1861-65 stituted and the country | plunzed a onal demonstra body tion _whet] the fundamental of our national government were s or ontheir the constita on. re war General fucria o e agreed to o £ etary in the Mexican o : . office did - inquire of Charge e tat hauzinessy if @ salute il S % | snbont Dolphin and responded to b : cl o "ihe | Ene American ship wouid be accept the Sitanlion. | able. Tius was emphatically rejected o the flew: “Was | by the United States, and word was Srosidenc ad Sec. sent that nothing short of a publ conferred. for am | salute o the American flag would be ad, onal re,re- i president in_AMexico, hour capinet mect- h d s irom a-the i 2 nim- siactory not 1 demand “Fu developments Huerta hime't,” was admirict 1 official President summarized The decision ic hed aiter sentut and al.e depend the way upon A w0 eople re: the n had ; th Cabinet Officers Optimistic. i Cabinet officers and others were in- sistent (hat no chauge in the g bolicy toward Mexico was immune and tiat soffar as possible the fac tions would be left to fight their b tles unhampered by American incer ference. It was stated by taan one offiviai with empnasis that otier phuses of the Mexican situat beyond tne afiront to the Hig at Ta bico were involved in the despateh -’ | the ficet, aithough officials admitted the stralegic value of having so big a hting force in proximity to a coun- +'in which emergencies might arise at any time. i No direct statement of explanat.on of the deveiopments of today was is- sued either by the White House or Siate department, the announcem from the navy department of naval ot ders alone furnishing the key to the situation. “Action, not words” Was the wav a cabinet officer described the answer of the United States (o Huer ta's unwillingness to fire a salute wheu demandea by the ~American govern- ment. Tacidentally, @ copy of the naval or- ders issued by Secretary Daniels is understood to have peen transmitted to Charge O’Shaughnessy so that the Jinerta government might be inform- ed of the course which the United | States ha adopted. It was said there Was no necessity of informing other foreizn governments unless a state of blockade was declared. Scnate Members Keenly interested. Tomorrow the situation will oceupy the attention of the senmate foreign re- | lations _committee. Members of thef S house foreign relations committee to- day also manifested keen interest in developments, and Representative Flocd, chairman of the committee, confefred with his colleagues about preparation for any emergency rnat might arise. Beyond asserting that the tion seemed tc seriou one, Acting Chairman Shively of the senitc foreign relations committee made no comment. 1t will be fully a week before tl flect is assembled at Tampico, ships are expected to away tomorrow. al ‘ rules nd S e ceded, nor when the other southern states followed suit. We d | not go to war when the government's w throughout the south but we did go to war when national colors were fired upon at umter and the integrity of the United States of America placed at stake. It was for your country and for vour mes, not for the slave, that hundreds thousands of men went from every al state to teach the seceding f tion that the constitution of the coun | try demanded reparation when assail- ed by force of arms.” Other speakers were Mayor Daniel J. Donovan of this city, departmen commander James R, Sicane, div commander of the Henry Cooley of vice president of X Toran of Plainfield, department pres- ident of the W. R. C. Mrs, Griswold of Waterbury and past commander-1 chief of the G. A. R. Alfred B. Bee of Bridgeport. ched to Fleet. sinet meei- was he White House, t and the navy de- as expressed that ee. would not iead nocs and there was admi e senior a Mrs, dicticn among, were carct. fons wits the H ended and that pen to General no CLEANING UP BOY FREIGHT me, the omplete navy instru depart- Five Arrested at Shelton—One Drew { | | | a Revolver, n Do pton £ of here rkansas A\dmiral Fiske left relion, a req | detectives Chief of day aitempied to ar were stealing a r Apri onn., from 14.—Acting on Haven « railroad Police Robbins to- st flve boys who on a freight train, One of them threatened to draw a re- as the chief started for him ith one of his companions, three boys were arrested their names Henry of Brooklyn, and John a5t accompany departm S Hartford oy ng tomorrow on The railroad det view of th to- persons tracks recently, ders from the T to keep all | erty, who have ng Admiral Badger's Squadron. s Arkan Eire, Michl N with tak him of tr stated of fatalities walking the railroad they had recelved or- ad’s detective bureay ons off raliroad prog business there, lly a week in which to a demands. The ¢ is expected now diso or Newpor: )r tomorrow, wville, now at Mont has been or- to and e America: the situation seneral Huerta declines to vieid b the time ihe Atuntic feel arrive arious succeeding steps Giscussed among maval offic ind those familiar with precedent say {iiere was no exact parallel in internu- tional law. Believe Huerta Will While the consensus of opi those best informed was that so ous a step as military intervention may | ar not be required to force 14 10 that Vieid fro mhis position on fhe question edee of a salute, they recognized Todiy’s Qevelopments carried the situat closer to real hostilities than it has been during the threc yes turmoil in Mexico. w cume if ENGLISH VIEW OF OUR MEXICAN PROBLEM. is That Intervention Can't Be Avoided. mo coal T ¥ gin o it Jeen ther will join A The transport the First wry for Nebraska. V 3 ow do. decided vet wheticr al Budger's forces ancock will leate Tampico today. with <iment of the expeditlon- ¢ marines The £ ng ships are in ad on the Utah, Connecticut, Minnesota, Moizes, Chester, Dolphin and San ot Tampico and the irie. now at Vera Cruz. The t t flotilla at Pensacola, | that the naval ¥la. has heen ordered to stand by for | REPORT FROM ADMIRAL MAYO. tended as a w 2 t as well as to Huerta, but Wh on the At- | Attack of Constitutionalists on Tam- even 1f Huerta and the Jande Daniels tonight | pico is Over—Refugees Landing. constitutioralists desist from the des- e £iene g S truction of foreign prperty, the gen- tion in the b lost of the Amer- eral problem will be no nearer solu- lean war craft in the Pacific alrends tion. are in Mexican waters, “It Army Remains Passive, L he navy was active, not irned in the army. Tw. for this were advanced, 2 o Sentiment T.ondon, April 14—The mornir ited States armed interven all Daily g« Mail in e i Lce he of co, with n g 3 s oL to Des Francisco Florid: 1e whether lost faith in thinks it more President his han demonstration s im- rning to the constitu- n Wilso: of waiting, has v moved S eretar te Washington, April 14—Rear Ad- miral Mayo, through Rear Admiral Fletcher at Vera Cruz, late today re- Ported to the navy department: The attack of the constitutionalists on Tampico is undoubtedly over, ana the refugees who weer taken on .ard that the constitutionalists battleships at Tampico are nov being ntrol of northern Mex- landed.” | . 5 1d not misinterpret the action, | | Six-Year-Old Girl Darted Directly in fact that the United States | NEW YORK POLICE | Its Path, has a big fighting force distance of Mexico. Twelve Watabuess Contl trcops are at Texas City, | trudeCarrington | instantly killed a trolley car_on four army transports are af | nd thousands of cavalry and | | Bast Main street, this afternoon. The are spread along the border | | girl darted around the rear of a west- they can be moved quickly. | Hartford, Conn, April l4—Detec- | Bound car into nistration officials do mot ' tive Sergeant Louis G. Melbersger tel- | hound trolley. developments, but they egraphed from New York city at ot ny emergency. Sec. vesterday afternoon to Chief of il veiraiold! a* miotorinte of <5 who Ig ill, had inicnded | lice G. J. Farrell that he had arrest- | days experience. was. operating the Nt for Miumi, ila. He ed In that city George Fuchs, wanted ' car and was arrested for mansiaughe re i and an. here for alleged complicity in ter. William J. Haves, a veteran mo- ‘ashing. . Vogel jeweiry store robbery herc SOme | torman, who was on the car Inatruse: p n $1.000 worth of 20005 jng Leary. was also taken into cus- ciis is also wanted 0T tody but rel his own recog- Springfleld, Mass. nizance by Coroner The police said that it had been peace leariied that the real name of the so- | called Lester Dyson, arrested here for being concerned with Fuchs in_the Vogel store bnrglary, and who claimed 1o be a granason of the “late Duke of Mariborough.” is John Leslie Fred- ericks. According fo the detective bu reau he hus been famillarly known as vassing between Rear Admiral “Skin Dyson” After the first search | ,,"Cherge O'Shaughnessy and the |of Fredericks room i No. 30 Capital | BOSORU, 10 IF SRONETS, (he chil ston govornment was described | avenue, when a suit case and two box- | fralicRIE CORIEARE the | potson. - cs flied with jewelry were found, the | mytior which in being Investigated i Qetective visited the place again and 3 e At Cauted Orde .| & thorough overhauling bronght to | — ‘Assista aymaster s c.lm a ST &t Tampico last Thursday fo ODLBIN ' jredericks was in police court yes- gupplics. They were arrested, DUl ierday and his case was adjourned un- iater discharged. In accordance With '‘Hov 33,000 bonds regulations in all navies of the world, | 4 Rear Admiral Mayo, on considering | e | resignation today, to take effect at that an unwarranted arvest had been | The Supreme Court Upheld the Towa | commencement. Professor Grosvenor made, and that the uniform of the |railroad commission's order directing | ls president of the National Phi Beta American y had been disregarded. | the St. Paul railroad accept cars|Kappa seciety. His resignation was demanded reparation in the form of a | loaded with coal for (ransportation | prompted by the pressure of literary salule of 21 guns, The Ammerican flgg, | over ibw lines within the stats, oz, = difficult to see” intervention ca the Post adds be avoided.” Whiie = a W explanati the desire who are jco_she and already striking thousand where anchor infant wher High TROLLEY KILLS WATERBURY CHILD within CAPTURE JEWELRY THIEF Wanted in Hartford in Connection with the Vogel Store Robbery. April six years 14.—Ger- old, was Her head was alms body. Michael Leary t Senator h i the sena 5 r Ey had a Bryan an as well the rezular meeting ce tomorrow he would the information he jol Deputy M of the trang- had ob- | Nicotine Poisoning Causes Death. New Haven, Conn, April 14—The five months oid son of Mrs. Mary D. Duda died today in the office of a local physician as the result of poisoning. It is thought the chiid Infant’s f the case as summed up rs and other officials familiar with the messages that have been Ambherst Professor Resigns. | Amherst, Mass., April 15—Edwin A, Grosvenor, for 32 years professor of | modern government and international law at Amherst college, tendered his not go to war when South | “HOPPERS” | the path of the east- | Make- | nicotine | Nine Day Batile RESULTED IN VICTORY FOR GEN. | VILLA’S FORCES. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE Killed and ‘Wounded on Both Said to be in Neighborhoed of 3,000 —Battle Line 20 Miles in Semi-Circle Juarez, Mexico, April 14—A nine anys battle, possibly more desperate than that ai Gobez Palacio and Tor- con, has resulted in a victory for the bels under General Francisco CVilla |7t San Pedros de las Colonios, state | 6t Chihuahua, according to anofficial Teport made public here this afternoon. The combined rebel forces came up | on the united federals, said in the last | days of the battle to have numbered 15.000 at San Pedro de ias Colc state of Coahulla, forty miles east ol Torreon. On both sides the killed and wounded, it is sa I number in the neighborhood of is said to garrison, t by e federal army included the Torreon intact out of the city in retre: relasco on_ April 2 and the Maas, General Hi- Moure and two oth- il De Moure were with rein- H Hidalgo and De { vay to Torreon forcements | {heir arrival. Since then until tho con- entration at San Pedro and Environs the federal columns, their routes de- termined by the presence of scattered Suuplies of water, have bean manoev- in ’an’ endeavor to mobilize in Which rebel detachments have Soarried hither and. thither hetween Viekes, Parras and San Pedro to pre- When' the general engagement was brought on, It 18 reported that the bat tle line measured twenty miles mi-circle about the eity. RAILROAD BRIDGES DESTROYED. Piedras Negra Federal May be Cut OFf from Forces in Interior. | Eagle Pass, Texas, | ters from General stitutionalis April 14—Cour- Nurgia to the con juta here brought m sages today announcing that bridges and culverts on the railroad near Sabinas had been destroyed. Sa- binas is 55 miles south of the Rlo Grande, and if the despatches are true, Piedras Negras will be cut off from communication with the federal forces | in the interior. Althoush federal officials at Negras, opposite Bagle Pass, deny that the line has been cut, a troop train which left for Monclova last night with i50 soldiers returned today | the train were a number of Spanish re- fugees from Torrean who were enroute to Monterey or Mexico City. Pledras W. U. EMPLOYES SUMMONED IN_ANTI-TRUST SUIT 453 to Appear at Jackson, Miss., in Case Against American Cotton Oil Co, | Jackson, Miss. April of 45 the Western Union snd Po 1 companies in Mississippi are being summc pear in Jackson April 27 testimony in the state’s ant azainst the American Cott van® and concerns alleged with it. The loyes graph compar are bring wit hthem copie that passed between operators to the to give trust suit n Oil com- be allied the tele- instructed Ro of all m; s ton | suit, demand- ed combine be broken in fines be paid and mill co: sippi RAILROAD TAKEN OUT OF HANDS OF RECEIVERS. up, that that_cotton 1 in domiciled oil Mis e ousted not Knickerbocker Trust Company Fur- nishes Funds for a Kansas Road. Kansas City, April 14—Funds suf- cient for taking the Kansas City, Mex- ico and Orient rallroad out of the hands of receivers and placing it on been ned according to_a T. Kemp: ident of the Commerce Trust and 2 member of the Orient organiza- tion commiitee. The telegra from J. Z. Miller, who is representing Mr. Kempe tiations. The Colonial Knickerbocker Trust company of New York, according to the telegram, has underwritten $5,500,- 000 in two-year notes for the reorgan- ization committee. These notes wilt permit the paying off of the receiver: certificates and current debts and take the road out of the expensive receiver- ship, according to Mr. Ker | CEl | AVIATOR RAN OUT OF OIL { CIRCLING NEW YORK Landed in Central Park and Was | Promptly Arrested. in the nego- New York, April 14—J. Guy Kil- patrick, an aviator, must explain in a police magistrate’s court tomorrow why he descended in his monop Central park today. > | _““What would you have me do; | Kilpatrick to the policeman served him with mmons_as alishted from his machine. “Did want the machine to fall and you up tha remnins?” Kilpatrick left Garden City, L. L {to circle the city. He ran out of oil and, glancing down, gaw that Central park was the only avaflable place for him to land. It was a choice of | descending on city property or falling | 3,500 feet into a street or onto a roof, | the aviator said. said who he | $1,500,000 ESTATE FOR Actor Beneficiary of His Niece, Minnie Hackett Trewbridge. i, April actor, will receive 00 estate left by his \nie’ Hackett Trowbridge. An o | this effect was signed today by the | surrogate here. Relatives of M | Trowbridge ~who had contemplate | contesting the terms of the will made withdrawal of their claims last w and the will ways probated, | New | Hackete, 1 000, Y K $1,- Min der to _Tames the niece, 14 San Pedro, Sides | he rebels claimed to have taken 700 | but Velasco retired before | naf fifteen | Aboard | JAMES K. HACKETT | Rep. Landslide - al New Britain DECISIVE VICTORY WAS A BIG| SURPRISE TO BOTH PARTIES. |A LARGE VOTE POLLED | | Mayor Halloran, Who Sought Third Term Defeated by Plurality of 1,660 | —Republicans Parade in Celebration. | New publican Britain, Conn. landslide Britain at its bienn tion today and Quigley was carr April 14.—A re- wept over New al mayoralty elec- Alderman George A. d into office as m: or by a plurality of 1,660 votes over Mayor Joseph M. Halloran, democrat, Who sought a third term. While both | ublicans and democrats had claim- ed the election, the result generally was a complete’ surprise—in fact, one of the greatest prises_in the state in some time. Tonlght, the | republicans are celebrating their vic- with two parades, speech-mak ning of much red fire. v cast its largest vote—8§ ent.” of_those le golng to the polls. Mr. Quigley's vote was 4,019 “and Mr. ‘Halloran’ Mr. ley carried the four Te- wards, and_cut into Mayor Halloran's vote in the two remain- ing wards, which are democratic, Her- bert N. Beebe, the socialist candi- date, received 131 votes and F. G. Platt, prohibition, received 89 votes. The republicans will control the common council by a vote of 20 to 11 and they will have a majority repre- sentation on all boards. The demo- crats endorsed three republican offi- cers: Tax collector, city treasurer and city ' comptroller. Mr. Quigley, ‘the mayor-elect, will | probably be sworn into office next Mon! He has served in the council and on the board of aldermen. He is in the real estate business and was formerly a newspaper correspondent. WHITMAN DISCREDITS GUNMAN'S STATEMENT. lower” | pointed governor of the | South Africa, was created a viscount. | Claims Vallon Hasn't Nerve Enough to | Discharge ‘Revolver New York, April ney Charles S. Whi that part of the confession of Fran made before the gun- | man was put to death in Sing Sing prison vesterday morning, which charged that Harry Vallon, 4 witness for the state in the trials of the gun- | men, was one of the men who fired the Shots that killed the gambler, Her- | man Rosenthal. | Y allon never fired & revolver in hi lite,” the prosecutor said today. “He | hasn't the nerve. The idea that Val- | ion, a man absolutely twithout any courage, Rosental when Dago Frani fessed sunman, ran awe: All the gunmen had records and had | been convicted at one time or another. | 1t was their business to do that sort of thing, and they were not the men to loso their nerve. Regarding the statement of “Dago Frank” that he @id not know Charles | Becker, the police lieutenant whose | convicton for the murder was re- | rsed by the state court or appeals | and who will be tried again, prabably | next month, Mr. Whitman said he had never co cd that the confessing Was acquainted with Becker. | vrobably knew two of the the district sttorney sald, | “but there is no evidence that he and | | “Mr. Whitman Is said to believe that | Dago Frank” was enimated by a of revenge in naminz Valion. | Louie” Rosenbe; “Gyp orowlia were other “Dago Frank” shot a pro- l-k" a the said against Vallon, M. finds no suppor adduced at the the gunmen; ts of the confes- sion were borne out by the statements of the informers, Vallon, Schepps, | | Webber ana others. | MAMMOTH RESERVOIR i FOR THOMASTON | Talked of to Supply Water for Nau- | gatuck Valley Factories, Conn.. April 14.—I that Thanufacturers from Naugatuck valley American vesterday after- ans for build- Whitman in any of the evide and Waterbury ned today 2l towns in the 1 the office of the this cit and talked ove 4 mammoth rescrvoir in Thomas- on for the pur of keeping Naugatuck well supplied water for the ories located o banks summer month: when low. A commit- e Preston, Jr., a civil engineer, ex-Senator Lewis A. Platt of this city and W. H. H. Wooster of the Sesmour Manufacturing pany, w ppointed to make an in- vestigat ind return a report at a meeting to be held next week. If the committee decide that the plan is a e plans will be drawn for ervoir capable of holding 1 gallons of water. MASONS PAY TRIBUTE TO MAJOR BUTT. Barbecue Given in Connection With Dedication of Memorial. with its fact the er is of three, C. H. luring com- feasible « 000,008, 14.—Masons iodge 7 of and citizens of Augusta ted in paying tribute to_the the late Major Archie W Buit, alde-de-camp to tw of the United States, and his life in the Titanic disas- The occasion was a barbecue in connection with the dedication of the Butt Memorial bridge, which spans the first lev the city canal at teenth a cen streets. from Washington t memory o a « Steamshi April 1 York via Genoa. Dover, April 13.—Steame ew York for Antwerp. Gibraltar, April 14— Steamer burg, New York for Naples. Londen, April 14.—Steamer Minne- | tonka, New Yorl Genoa. April | New York Plymouth, April 13 —Steamer | nia, Portiand for London %Stnck Barn Burned at West Suffield. | West Suffield, Conn, April 14—A | stock barn and dairy house -owned by Arrivals. ras, Steamer thia, N Carpa- Vaderiand, Ham- 13, -Steamer Pereugia, Anse- . | Neland L. Miller was burned here early | vesterday with its contents. including | s ubout $2,500, with The cause of the fire is net kmown, vould brace up and fire at | ; is incredible. | © ed by | prison Condensed Telegrams Mayor Mitchel Cut His Finger while shaving. James Gordon Bennett will leave Calro today for Europe: A Two Year Course in lumbering was adopted at Harvard. More Than 3,000 Dancing Masters | met in their first congres sat Paris. Arthur McKee Rankin, the veteran actor, is eritically-ill in San Fran- cisco. Francis Quick, president Yonkérs (N. Y. aged 4. of the Statesman, is dead, Ground Was Broken for Jersey building at the Pacific exposition. The Sale of the Chicago Inter-Ocean was postponed until Saturday by Fed- eral Judge Carpenter. the New Panama- The Supreme Court in Washington adjourned without deciding the rail- road rate cases now pending. One Person Was Killed when fire destroyed the business section of Cul- peper, Va,, at a loss of §65,000. Burglars Blew t"e Safe in the Unit- ed Cigar Stores Co. on Third avenue, | New York, and escaped witn $500. Sydney Charles Buxton, newly ap- Union ~ of Discovery of a Case of Smallpox caused the vaccimation of _Police Commissioner Woods of New York will endeavor to extend the vaca- tions of policemen from 10 to 14 days. Governor Glynn Vetoed Two Bills relating to the purchese of highway machinery by the townships of the state. Frederick G. Bourne $500,000 as an thedral of St. York. has donated Easter gift to the Ca- | John Mrs. Diana Eddy-Brown of Provi- @ence’ testified before the grand jury probing tho failure of Henry Siegel in oston. A Seventeen Story Hotel will be erected on Lake Shore drive, Chicago, by Tracey M. Drake, at @ cost of 32,- 000,000, The State Department at Washing- ton was informed that the mikado had requested Count Okumm to form a new cabinet. Lioyd Thompson, an Aviator, creat- a new American record when he | the ed looped negeles. Jesse W. Sargent of Malden, Mas dropped dead after he had marche with Knights Templar to attend an Baster service. Joseph Ryan, son of Thomes F. Ryan, the capitalist, was appointed gherift at Suffern, Rockland The Safe of the Brooklyn Trousers company on Fulton stfeet was blown { to pieces by thieves who esoaped with $1,000 in cash. The Eighteenth Annual Cenvention of the American Cotton Manufactur- association will be held in New York April 27-28, John Nelson of Brookiyn, 18 years old, died from rupture of a blood ves- sel’ caused by being hit on the head with a baseball, John McCormick ef Brooklyn, who has spent more than 30 of his 74 years in jail, wa ntenced to five vears' {ard of Hartford, George E. Hill of 50 patients | in the Philadelphia General hospital. | {and in the other said “It is belleved | the Divine, New | loop elght times at Los | imprisonment for burglary. Movie Burglars Invaded the Wind- | sor Park theatre in Chicago. While one of them turned the machine the ! other saw the show undisturbed. David Shellard, former accused of the murder of Reig in Irving park, Brooklyn, was discharged from custody. policeman, Barbara | n 1908, | Italy Has Notified Turkey that she vill not restore the Azein Isiands unless she is granted railroad and other concessions jn Asia Minor. A Heavy Snew and a gale of wind broke windows and partially disabled the electric lighting system in Mon- treal. It was 10 above zero. | Ratlroad company, who in May of last Samuel Wasiiburn, a farmhand em- ployed by Oscar Sattara nea} Mount | Morris, N. Y, was burned to death When fire destroyed the Sattara home. | John D'Angelo, 23 years old, and hie | Dbrother Joseph, 18, were shot to death in their home near Boswell. Pa. by two gunmer, who escaped in an auto- mobile. While Frank, Lacara, was eating_dinner with Westbury, L. I. 80 years old, his family at he was shot and kill- two men who fired through an open window Exercises Celebrating the ninety fifth_anniversary of the founding of he University of Virginia were held on the university campus at Char- lottesville, Va The Temporary Wooden Building that will serve as the main bullding | at Wel college until new ones are erected was formally opened and christened the Henhouse. Jacob Weitz, a Fireman on a Ward ne steamer, was arrested in Hobo- ken, N. J., charged with throwing an unidentified woman from the fourth floor of a hotel. She was killed. The United States Supreme Court decided that E. A. O’Sullivan, a New Orieans Jawyer, waited too long to sue for $60,000 for his whiskers which were cut off in an election prank in 1908. Acocrding to Private Messag| ceived y Man., yesterday former ident of the Canadian Pacific railroad, died at Los Angeles, Calif., today. He was 72 years old and was widely known both in Canada and the | United States. Prison Sentence For Stafford Burglar. Rockville, Conn.. April 14—Judge reene inthe superior court todmy =entenced Joseph Dellomo to the state from one to two years for burglary committed in Stafford last ' December. The acqused pieaded guilty. $250,000 Summer Home Burned. Sea CHff, L. L, April 14.—The sum- | home here of Paul D. Cravath, a York lawyer, was destroved by s afterncon. None of the fam- The loss is - esti | cal dogmatics and ethics at the Hart- | today. ! a tarm. { cannot become police | police commissioners TRUSTEES NAMED FOR TROLLEYS - To Take Over Connecticut and Rhode Island Lines Own- ed by the New Haven Road. ANNOUNCED BY ATTORNEY GEN. McREYNOLDS Judge Walter C. Noyes, of New London, One of Five Ap- pointed for the Connecticut Holdings in Case Stockhold ers of Road Vote to Accept Proposed Plan of Dissolution —Trustee Board for Merchant and Miners Co. to Come. Washington, April 14—Judge Wal- ter C. Noyes, of New London, William W. Hyde of Hartford, Lyman B. Brain- in charge or the case, howev alize that the New Haven stockholders may vote not to accept the plan of dissolution, and in such a contingency only a suit under the Sherman law would be left to the government to effect the chang- es desired With the announcement f these two boards of trustees tho settlement of the New Haven problem S0 far as the department is concerned, f the plan is accepted, Is virtually ocer. Only onme othor trustee board, that for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company, one of the New Haven's so-called outside steam- ship lines is to be named. There have been reports from Baltimore that a local trust company is negotiating for the purchase of this line. Officials of the department said te= Haven has com- Bridgeport and Charles Cheney, of | South Manchester, Conn., were nimed | ioday an trustees (o tike over the | ! icut trolley lines owned by the | New Haven. s Rathbone Gardner, Theodore F. Green, John O. Ames, John P. Farns- worth and Charles C. Mumford, all of Providence, R. I were chosen to take over the Rhode Tsland trolleves. An- nouncement was made by Attorncy General McReynolds. S The announcement of the names of the trustees was accompanied by a statement of two mentences. In one the dephrtment said the men had been selected to serve “in case the sug- gested adjustment of the New Haven night that the New transportation problem Is carried out” plete control over both the Rhode 18- land and Connecticut trolley systems. They said the investment in_the Con~ necticut lines was about $40,000,000 and in the Rhode Island about $24,- 000,000. The mileage of the two sys- tems was put at over 1,000. The iwo Dboards of trustees may serve five years cach, although a satisfactory sition of the properties befora time would end the trusteeship. that the trustees agreed upon. will ac- cep! The fact that the statement referred to the carrying out of the suggested adustment was not taken here to- night to indicate that any disagree- ment had arisen between officlals of the road and the department of jus- et tice. The attorney general and = T. “GUILTY BUT INSANE” BILLS VETOED BY GOV. GLYNN. Measures Were Recommended by New York Bar Association. SENATE ADOPTS BRANDEGEE RESOLUTION. Calling for Correspondence of Treaties Concerning Panama Canal. ‘Washington, April 14—Hem White | former ambassador to France and sec- retary to the American embassy at Great Britain at the time the Hay- Paunceforte treaty was negotiated, told the senate committee on inter- ocean canals that it never was his un- derstanding nor that of amy of the mnegotiators for Great Britain that the United States ever contemplated ex empting American coastwise shipping | from Panama Canal tolls. Another witness who supported the view of the president thata toll ex- emption for American ships should be repealed was Professor Bmory R Johnson of the University of Penn- Sylvanta, a former member of the I thmian Sanal commission and employ ed by former President Taft to frame a toll schedule for vessels passing through the canal. ‘While the hearing was In progress the senate at the instigation of Sen- ator Brandegee, republican member of !Um canals committee, Who favors re peal of toll exemption, adopted resolution calling upon the secrstary of state, if not incompatible with the public interest, to submit all corres- ndence eonnected with the nego- lations of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and the treaty with Paname known as the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty. The last named was included in the resolu- tlon upon the suggestion of Senator John Sharp Williams . Little discussion of the tolls eon- | Troversy developed outside the sen- ate, but Secretary Tumulty made pul | lic ‘at the White House more than five hundred telegrams received within the last 24 hours from democrats in all parts of the eountry, ex proval of the pres ‘These messages, asserted, Albany, N. Y., April 14.—The Blau- velt bills, designed to provide for a piea of “guilty but insane” in criminal cases, were vetoed today by Governor | Glynn. ~The measures were recom- mended by a committee of the state Dbar association to meet conditions re- sulting from the repeated attempts of Harry K. Thaw to regain his iiberty. Opponents of the bills at a recent hear- ing hafore the governor pointed out that if the measures became law it would practically mean the elimina. tion -of the death penalty for first de- £Tee murder cases. In a memoran- dum accompanying the veto, the gov- ernor said: “While both bills indicate a sincere attempt on the-part of persons inter- ested In the subject to substitute some- thing better for the existing law, I am constrained to the opinion that the subject is cne which will require fur- ther investigation and discussion e fore the existing law is amended.” MELLEN DISCHARGED FROM CUSTODY For Manslaughter Charge in Connec- on with Westport Wreck, Bridgeport, Comn, April 14.—Char Melien, former president of New York, New Haven and the Hartford ar was artested on a bench war- rant charging him with manslaughter because of the death of one Jane Doe in the wreck of the Springfield expre in Westport on Oct, 3, 1912, was orde od_discharged from custody today, fol lowing a nofle prosse of the charge b Judge Joseph P. Tuttle, Action by the court was ta ter it had received from the coungel, Atterney General John F. Light and State’s Attorney Alcorn of Hartford county, recommendation to what course should be taken. ken af- e ecretary Tumulty were unsolicited. REPORT OF STATE EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS. Norwich Had 61 Applications—38 Se- cured Situations. Hartford, Conn., April 14—The re- port of the five free employment bu- reaus in the state for the month end- ing Mareh 31, made public today, shows that of all applicants for em- ployment, 50.9 per cent. were supplied with situations, the same percentage as In February. Of the total number applying $0.5 per cent. were furnished With help, against 78.9 percent in Feb- ruary. Hartford had 239 applications for employment; 131 applications for help and 101 situations wers secured. Now Haven had applications for em- ployment; applications for help and 110 situations were secured. In Bridgeport there were 338 applications for employment; 213 applications for help and 136 situations were filled. There: were 156 applications for em- | tions for help, 105 situations secured. | ployment in Waterbury; 131 applica- Norwich had 61 applications for sit- uations and 45 applications for help. There were 3§ situations secured. BIENNIAL CONVENTION OF FRATERNAL BENEFIT LEAGUE TAX EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGED AT MIDDLETOWN Alleged Shortage of $2.000 in Ex-Col- lector De Ferest's Accounts. Middletown, Conn., April 41.—Judge Joel H. Reed, the superior court today issued a bench warrant for Frank I. De Forest. former tax col- lector of the town of Westbrook. ~An embezzlement of $2,000 of the town's funds is charged, Mr. De Forest had trouble with his | accounts in 1911 and later paid up the amount of the shortage. Recently he brought suit against the town to re- cover the maney he had paid over, claiming_that a mistake had been made. His suit was to have been heard in the superior court here. The bench warrant has been turned over to State's Attorney Alcorn of | Hartford county, as State's Attorne: Hains of Middlesex county inter- sted in the previous civil suit OBITUARY. Rev. Clark S. Beardsiee, Hartford, Conn., April 14.—The Rev. Clark S. Beardelee, professor of bibli- W. S. Shippee of Danielson Elected Guide—Next Session in Hartford. New Haven, Conn., Apru 14.—Su- premo, council ‘of the Fraternal Benefit league met here today for the seventh biennial convention; reported the or- der in the best condition since it ganization in 1900, elected offi the next two years, and vo the mext convention in Hartic Officers elected were: Sup ident, Avery E. Ford, Ne¢ supreme vice president, J South Manchester: sccrei Tyler, New Haven e Dwyer, Hartford: medica Dr. B, C. M. Hall, New [ clllor, J. P. Glynn, Winsted; « lair Mrs. Mary Colvin, Hartford; guide, W 8. Bhippee, Danielson guard, Hugh MacDonald, New Haven. ford Theological seminars dled at his home, since 1888, ©. 138 Collins street Prof. Beardslee was born try in 1850 and he was brou, He prepared for college at Oxfora_academy, Oxford, N. Y. and graduated from Ambherst in 1875, tak- ing his degree of M. A. two years later. He was a graduate of the Hart- ford Theological seminary in 1879, af- | terwards remaining there as an in- structor in Hebrew until 1883. In the latter vear he became pastor of a church ‘in Lemans, Towa, afd later in Prescott, Ariz. In 1886 he returned to New England and was for two bears pastor of a Congregational church in West Springfield, Mass, coming to the seminary in 1383. In 1889 he received the degree of D. D. from Berea college. He was the author of several books of a religious char- acter which have been widely circu- lated. He is survived his wife and weveral children. Coven- up on lew Haven Chauffeur Held Respons: ble. New Haven, Conn.. April 1{—Coro- ner Hii Mix, in a finding handed down Island. | today, holds Samuel Rogers, s Women | chauffeur, criminally respons in this | the death of Mrs. Phtlomena Riccio® o tate until they possess the right of | Highwood last Friday night. The ag: suffrage, it was learned today after | lady was crossing the strest to attend an examinatipn of the statute<. The | church, when the large automobile had decided to | driven by Rogers struck her, breaking appoint two women to membership of | nearly every bone in her body. It was lie local force, but discovered later | aaid at the time that the machine was Thae SRy i wers cloge to a mile minuie gaite 1N by No Wemen Pelice in Rhode Proyidence, B.