Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 16, 1914, Page 1

LVI—NO. 90 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1914 The Bulletin’s ‘Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population CRIMINAL ACTION IN BILLARD CASE Proceedings Will be Begun Today Unless Recalci- trant Witnesses Change Their Attitude. GIVEN UNTIL ELEVEN O’CLOCK THIS MORNING Request for Putpone;llmt by Counsel for Witnesses Denied by Iinterstate Commerce . Commiuion—Conviction! Would Bring Penalty of $100 to $5,000 Fine, and Impris- | onment of not More than One Year, or Both. Washington, April 15.—Unless there May, treasurer of the New Haven: n over-n ;i b | Walker D. Hines, counsei for the New 18 an over-night change In the attitude Valker D Eines counsel for mne Sev of witnesses in the New Haven yall- i\ Faven; Arthur W. Bowmen, as- rosd esiization who refused (o teii | sistant treasurer of the New Haven; e rstite commerce cominisfion | Baward 1. Field of New Haven, Conn., | erations of the Biliard | and Samue! Morehouse of New Haven, 2 millions of dollar: | counsel for the Billard company. i e Field Prepared to Testify. | < Under the atiminal stai- | New Haven, Conn, April 15.—At| « lnstituted here tomorrow | least one of the witnesses who last| ernment tv compel them to | week refused to testify before ihe in- vas announced today by | terstate commerce commission as to chief counsel of the | his connection with the Billard com- ommerce commission. | pany has changed his mjnd. Edward & tonight wired Homer S.|I. Field of this city, treasurer of a s of Stamford, Conn.. counsel | large department store, who held a ! Secaleitrant witieases, that ar- | minor ofiice in the Billard company, uts had been made with the | $8id tonight he was prepared to testi. orney office here to vegin fv before the commission when called re the grand’jury to- uPon. Asked whether or not he would | ping al 11 o'clock. Mr turn over to the commission what | Cumming® had asked that the matter A DOOks he had, he declined to say. i Cumn! Tangeimne Ats e sstponeyd, but he was advised that Counsel for Samuel. Hemingway, 16 hic Chents desired o change their however, sald he had not changed his attitude and testily he should inform |und, and would still decline to festi- the commission before 10 o'clock to- | fY. Harry V. Whipple, another witness, morrow gave the same impression. Homer §. Cummings of Stamford | said tonight over the telephone that | he represented only Samuel Heming- | way of No Haven and Jonn 1. Biilara Nt Gf Merlden in the Billard company in- e o ¥acuoe, | Vestigation at Washington last week, | Tnont of not more thanone | and as far as Mr. Hemingway is con- | cerned there will be mo change in_his « federal statutes cited by | v person who ret to lawful inquiry shall an offense and upon con- Jeamy Ov by both fine and imprison- | (HETGe I Tofusing to testiny before | ff ihe proceedings are begun tomor- | the commission. Mr. Billard has not | Tow it is said that the Billard com- | yef been called to testify. i paiy, the scveral recaicitrant witness- | | Harry V. Whipple, president of the | B e iponst to bh cohace v 2 | Merchants’” National banik of this cit Fitlard compan. the New York. New | Was not inclined to credit the news | Hasen and iartiord Railroad comj from. “Washington jthat * progcedines | an® the daitere suoeidiare. the aw | Would be instituted in case of failure land Navgation company. will be to testify. The news despatch was | gy o read_to him, but he had nothing to e % appeared before | $aY for publication, except to give the s S Aoy abpeared before | impression that he had not changed whom virtual'y no information was | his attitude. & obtained, were Harry V. Whipple, | Billard Declines to Talk. g:. dent of the Merchants' National'| Meriden, Conn., April 15—John L. nk of New Haven, Conn.: Samuel | Billard declined to say anything when Hemingway, president of the Second | Joseph Folk’s announcement was read National bank of New Haven; A. 8-l to him tonight, shortly after 8 o'clock, CENTENNIAL OF PEACE | WITH GREAT BRITAIN STRAUS ADVOCATES REPEAL OF TOLLS Declares That Action Should Be Taken Regardless of Great Britain. Memorials Proposed Aagregating Cost $1,000,000. in April ~—Memoriais | Washington, April 15—Oscar S. niennial of peace be- | Straus, secretary of commerce and la- s country and Great Britain |bor in the Roomevelt cabinet, adyo- cated repealing the tolls exemptior. clause of the Panama canal act todayv before the senate canals commiitee Then the committee which has insti- tuted hearings on the administration repeal bill to continue until Aprii 24, adjourned because there was no other witness to be heard. Mr. Straus declared that the exemp- tion ‘clause should be repealed, re- gardless of the attitude of Great Bri- tain and added that there should be no_quibbling over the construction of | a treaty on which the brightest mem- | | bers of the senate and house and the | 000 were tentatively approved today b; -committce of the American Cen tenary organization meeting this The organization’s finance com- mittee must yet ratify the z.pprnprL’s-‘ | | | , at an aggregate cost of $1,000,- | | i | 1 contracts made. 000 to $75.000 each part for statutes of Lincoln Francis Parkman the his- Crnada, and Queen D. C. abroad _for | countries “are | he proceeds of ngton, ational trips men of all tuted with edu. one of the funds available for the com- | most prominent international lawyers mittce's use, it was announced, lg- |are divided, Borance of foreign countries causes “Are we now to east aside all our Wwriting which _engenders friction, | high purposes for a paltry sum ef, at reign travel for newspaper |most, twe million - dollars annuall men would promote peace, in the opin- | which in the last analysis will b fon of the committee. To writers of | largely taken from ali our people gnd | ocms. bymns and essays extolling | given to a monopolistic shipping | ea.« and the centenary celebration |trust?” he asked, “Are we to saeri- 9. 1 prizes will be distributed. | fice our self-respeet for the opinions A of $11.600 was voted to the city | of mankind for this miserable mess ®f Ghent, Belgium, where the treaiy |of pattage? of 1515 was signed | Mr. Straus deelared that former he Wasshington homestead in Eng- | President evelt betieved the ex- | Jand. Sulsrave Manor, will have its|emption of coastwise shipping did net | ed to Washinston Manor, | violate the Hay-Pauneefote treaty, but 8nd an ingfitute is to e established | thought the question shouid be sub- there to her peace tifrough lec- | mitted te arbitration. tures of representatives™of foreign e @ountries. - Steamship Arrivals, New York, April 15—Steamer Olym- pie, Southampton. Antwerp, April 14—Steamer Va.nder—i land, New York. Hivre, April 14—Steamer France,| New Yeork. CAPTURE OF TWO SAFE BLOWERS. After Running Pistol Fight at Fort! William, Ont. ‘ London, April 15—Steamer Ansonia, kot Witkiam, Gne, Awril 15—Two | PENRML o h tenrmen | capiured oy the police early today Roma, New ¥ork via Prowidence for Marseilies. after a ruaning. pistol fight in which i i | one of the men, who the policie say S[H}:’fie‘ l(}"g }‘_ Sicdlizn, | #8 Georze Hardy of Baltimore was: >oJohw I B for Londan, painfully injured. " The other man, ac-. oaor oy seay Yo 10— Steamer ;xn-l»nl t the police records, l!“ b Siphad o:t ert Sampson of Montreal. The au- 5 i im that two have con- | 26 Des Moines Druggists Charged cssed to rolbing sixteen il With Liquor Selfing. | ri Arthur and Fort . an Des Moines, Towa, April 15—Twen- e wanted in the United States, | ty-six Des Moines druggists were in- | — —= ldlcte:ix today by c‘%‘:rge Pq%k Gounty | it ive in | EFaDd Jury om a of maintain- | Bulgaria Queen's Representative in | FA2{ B0V 0%, 5 Saarse of maintain Washingten. . | were heavlly fined by Judge McHen- _Washington, Apri! 15— Willinm Cas- | Iy on contempt charges, as a result| Far_rerresentative of Queen Ileanoraof the Iowa apti-saloon leagie's cru- | e conferred with stue de- | sade against the alleged Tesal sale als today over the forth. | of intoxicants. o of the queven -to this | BegPres Fon m her arriial in (s | Resignation of Lehigh Valley Director. .,’ queen probably wil 2% | Philadelphia, April 15—The second = * .| resiguation from the Lehigh Valley » Himsat . 1. W i Railroad board of directors within a ¢ 3 3 Phite monih took place today, when Charles [+ be a dinner at (ie White | 5i.cie of J. P. Morgan and company | retired and was succeeded by William | ;P Clyde. George F. Baer, president ' B " Mty of “Arson: of the Reading, resigned from the | Grtiand Man Guilty of Arson. |7 U5 yoard lsst month, Midd fn, Conn., April A Jufy ——— he superior court, after deliberat- | Vincent Astor hmproving. fl; wo hours today, found Frank An- | 7 proving. crson of vt v o | New York, April 15—Vincent Astor O T stomas "oves | has"had an"abscess i the lower part but acquitted his brother, William, | Of the right lung but this has: now oo weas tried with hom for arsom,|discharged and the patlent’s condition Judse Reed imposed o sentence of | bas Ereatly huproved according toa = : mpal stateme; ven ou from two to four,years in state's pris- | {PoPe SAlement eter out tonlgk igs on. The prosecyjtion considered that ot the two had set five to the barn of Jo- | Heien” Dinsmore Huntiugton. peph Kiellerstedt in Portland for Te- e ks e ¢ P sy 2 Winsted, Conn., April 15—North- = western Connecticut is tomtght ex- $1000,002 For Northwest Unive ntyA1 Chicago, April 15—\ gift of $1,000,- 906 from James Deering to Northwest University Medical. school was an- nounced here today. The gift is in the form of an Endowment and is to be used m estublishing ehnics to furnish ald to the poor. The new Frod Ginics. w1 e af Wesley. hospl- tal ia Chicago. periencing the novelty of zn April snowstorm. It began snowing at five o'clock and by nightfall the ground! was white with the snow still falling. The thermometer registered 30 de- grees at eight o'clock. Derby—Tree Warden James Rogan is having some young mapie trees planted in yarjous parts of-the gity. | | Stars and Stripes. | Thes | folk naxv; {that they are thoroughly aetuates | on the programme, track offieials an- Cabled Paragraphs Russian Dreadnaught Launched. St. Petersburg, April 15.—The sec- ond Russian dreadnaught, the Im- perator Alexander III, was launched here today, Chinese Revolutionists Arrested. London, April 15.—Chinese govern- ment officials in Shanghai today ar- rested several revolutionaries who had come from Japan, according to_an | Exchange Telegraph company's' des- patch. Yorkshire Miners’ Leeds, England. April 15—A seitle- ment of the York hire coal miners strike was reached oday when a bai- | lot of the men resulted in favor of t resumption of woerk The strike! numbering 170,000, left work on Aprii demanding thée introductiqn of a minimum wage scale BATTLESHIPS ARE OFF FOR MEXICAN PORTS Strike Settled. Full Supply of Ammunition Taken— Provisions for Three Months, Norfalk, Va. Mexico April 15—Bound to t6 force Huerta to salute the nine American war. Ships steamed out of Hampton Roads at noon today. Tonight they are 6% miles below Cape Henry in a denso fog and with a northeast storm ap- he ships are the battle- New Hampshire, Ver- mont, New Jersey, the dispatch yacht { Yankton, the collier Lebanon and the | Patapsco. Every one of them carries a full supply of ammunition and' pro- visions enough to last three months. The tugs equipped with three-inch rapid firing guns -and carry a num- ber of rifles, pistols and small arm ammunition. ~ Prior to the departure of the ships from Hampton Ro:ds, the officers and many enlisted men went ashore at Old Point to bid goodbye to relatives. Rear Admiral Badger, who for the present has his flag on the Arkansas, spent several hours ashore with rela- tives and friends. He also was in con- ference with Rear Admiral Fiske, who brought sealed orders from the pres- ident for the commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet. All the morning was spent in getting the ships ready for sea. Scores of launches and barges carried provisions to the ships in the Roads. Tons of mail were taken out in launches, while the Yankton busied herself in helping auxiliares to carry fresh supplies, The auxiliaty Vestal which was to have gone with the fleet. was at the last moment ordered to remain behind | with the torpedo boats Cummings, | Parker, Benham, Cassin and Truxton. craft also were ready to sail, but ‘it was announced tonight at the office of the commandant of the Nor- yard that they will engage in manceuvres and may not go to Mexico. Rear Admiral Badger declined o discuss the Mexican situation. He said the Atlantic fleet was in good condi- tion and it would be ready to carry out-any -service required of it. “We do not know what we will be called upon to do,” he sald, “but we are ready. Rear Admlral Fiske, who left the Arkansas a few minutes before she ot under way, also declined to talk. Until the weather clears, the fleet Will maintain & speed of ten knots an hour. After that they are expecied to average 15 knots. Admiral Badger expects to reach Mexieo in six and a half days. PEACE FOUNDATION DISCUSS MEVICAN SITUATION Declares Admiral Mayo's Aotion Accord With International Usage. Boston, April 15—The Mexican sit- uation and the naval demonstration | were diseussed in a statement issued tinight by Edwin D. Beao as chief ai-| rector of the World Feace Foundation. The statement declared that, Admiral Mayo's action in strict accordance | with international right and usage in| demanding the salute of our marines at Tamplco, After quoting as precedent cases in which the United States was called upon to salute the flags of Spaln, France and Braail, the statement said | that in these cases the salute was given “only after long negotiations ta | determine preciselly the prevocation | and cireumstances,” “Can we not afford seme eorres- ponding time and patienee in demand- ing ‘a particular kind of salute te our flag?” continued Mr. Mead. “1 re- fuse to construe the present demon- stration, so ridieulously dispreportion- ate to the superficial or advertise oc- casion, as meant merely thus to en- force a flag salute. The patient and restrained conduet of this whole per- plexing Mexican business by Presi- dent Wilsen and Seeretary Bryan has been such as cemumands us te believe by peaee motives and have ne purpese to play the bully.” STATE MILITIA CALLED OUT TO GLOSE RACE TRACK. Jockey Ciub at Tulsa, Okla, Quit When Volley was Fired Over Riders’ | Heads. ! Pulsa, Okla., April 15—State militia acting under orders of Governor Cruce to prevent g.’imblinR" at the Tulsa race trackc late today fired a volley over | {he heads of riders g they camp down | the stretch in the first race. No one | was injured but the race was broken | up. Adjutant General Camton said of an- other race wwero attempted he would order the soldiers to kill the horses i Just ‘before the race_ which was nod nounced they were determined to race in spite of fthe militia and the | crowds began filing slowly back Into the grandstand. Wlen soldiers at- tempied to eject them, two men resist- | ed and were forcibly taken outside| the grounds. Following this the| crowd again left. OBITUARY. George Alfred Fownsend. New York, April 15—George Alfred Townsend, Wwidely known jourpalist ang author, who wrote for many years under~the ‘pen namé of “Gath” died today. He was 73 years old and had been in poor health for some time, Martial Law Ends in Colorade. Zrinidad, (olo. April 15"Mother” Jopes wflJi Lerr'jmovsguizm the "".%i pital maxa of the esenberg robably within the next twelve haits an dtaken fo Denver fn response to the Suprems court order in babeas u§ proceeding according to the best imformation obtainable here to- night. ‘The aged leader, it Is said, probably will be removed under mili- tary guard and produced in court M| conneetion with the order. Martiai | law in ihe sirike zone will'end auto- matically with the final withdrawal of troops tomorros, | New London Tug Submerged DRAGGED UNDER BY SHORT HAWSER ATTACHED TO BARGE 2 OF CREW DROWNED Géorge Marsdale of Stafford Springs and Wallace Hodges of New Lon- don the Victims New York, April 15—The strange submersion of the steel tugboat Aries by being dragged under by the barge she was towing caused the death by Growning of two of her erew today. The tug was owned by Frank Chappell of New London, Conn., and was com- manded by Captain George Halebut. The two men drpwned were George Marsdale, a fireman__ of Staffora Springs, Conn._and_Wallace Hodges, a_deckhand of New London. The sur- vivors were rescued by the oppertune arrival of an oyster dredge. The tug with the barge Pequot in tow, was just swinging around the Great Beds ligh when th ebarge which was on a short hawser, was struck by a sharp wind and veered to one side, dragging the tug under water. As the boat sank the bofler exploded. Willlam Griswold of New London, chief engineer, was scalded about the back and legs. STRANGE ACTIONS OF WOMAN PUZZLES NEW MILFORD. Believed to Be Either Mentally Unbal- anced or Victim of Aphas New Milford, Conn., April town authorities are purzled case of a young woman, apparently about 21 vears old, who is belfeved to be either mentally unbalanced or a vic- tim of aphasia. She was taken into custody tonight and is at present at the town farm under observation of physicians. Last evening the woman knocked on the door of the house of Mrs. J. M. Madigan, in the river district, and ask- ed for_some apples, which wers g:ven her. She then disappeared. This morning she again eppeared at the house and was given breakfast. Mrs. Madigan, noticing her pecullar actions, telephoned the authoritles. It devel: oped that the young woman had spent last night In a small summer cottage in the hills. She made an entrance by braaking a window, and it appears that she took a broom and swept the house from attic to cellar. The woman is unable to give ner name and has nothing to say as to where she came from. No one seems to know her. Two physicians made & preliminary examination today and ex- Dressed themselves as puzzled over her case. The girl i apparently an American, fairly good looking, and seeminsly Well educated. The only intelligible word she spoke was “Torrington,” which leads the au- thorities to believe ghe may have coms from that town, or perhaps has friends there. §he repeated tho name of the town several times. 15.—The over the SECRETARY BRYAN ASSURED BY CARRANZA. That Representation on Behalf of Forelgners Will Bo Given Attention. Washington, April 15—Secretary Bryan announced that he had received | assuranees from Carranza that repre- sentations on behalf of foreigners in Mexico upon request of the represen- tatives of forelgn governments ac- credited to the United States would be received and given attention. Mr, Bryan sal “It’ is anticipated that there will be no further questlon raised in this connection,’ The secretary stated that a com- plete understanding had bean reach- ed with Carranza about inquiries con- cerning foreigners and that in each case the American government would state whieh foreign government had requested representations, Mr, Byran ddad that this did mot constitite rec- ognition of apy formal eharacter, The difficulty arese i n_ connectien with the inquiry of ihe United States sbeut the execution of William S. Benton, a British subject but today's assuranees were said by Mr. Bryan to cever the general subjects and will apply to all éases in {he future Fhe seeretary asseried thai efferts were still being made to reduce the harshness of the erder of expulsion against Spaniards in Mexice. RAILROAD FARE CHANGES EFFECTIVE MAY 1. Orders of Intersiate Commission Will Cases of New Rates. Cause Reductions in 95 Per Cent. of Washington, April —Readjust- ment of passenger rates on all inter- state roads in the United States in copformity with the long and short haul provision of the law, under orders of the interstate commerce cammis- sion, will become eifective on May The new taxifts filed by the roads wit tha ¢ ion indicate a mazerial re- 1 icolarly from Dortant 5, and jate-basing Ppoints to infermediate points. It s pstimated by officlals of the on, after an analysis of the | a tariffs, that “95 per gent. of the changes in fares will be reductions and § per cent. increases. Such ad- vances as are made are between ter- minals or basing points and fn such in- stances the increases are made only when the trafiic to intermediate points is so great as to affect or defray the revemues of the roads. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Siasconsett, Mass. Apr§) 15—Steam- er Athinai, Piraeus for New sigrialled 430 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock at 9.30 a. m. on Friday. Sablé Istand, N, §., April 15.—Steam- er Rochambeaun, Havre for New Yorlk, §50 miles east of Sandy Hook at 11 a. m. Dock 3.30 p. m. Friday. Tennessee’s Governor Renominated. Nashville, Tenn., April 16—The re- publjcan sfate cobvention foday fe- ominated Ben W. Hooper for a third term as governor. ‘The’convention re- ferred to a commitfee the natiopal committee’s plan for changing the Tepresentation at nationml conven- tions and endorsed the national pro- hibition amendment. Rabal, Brazil's oldest city, has been | construcing & mew port at an outlay that will approximate no less than 12,500,000, Did Not See FALSELY FOR GUNMEN. Wwho was one of Herman Rosenthal to obtain | trial, arrested teday after | statement to District man. Attorney | the testimony of Dresner and tigate the source of the | few hours after ‘the pros: default of bail the grand jury { guilty to a charge of perjury. | statements which * prompted urge Webber to * restaurant. Dresner’s gunmen were Rosenthal's slaver. | Webber, did not coming trial. tico Goff Saturday | witnesses for Becker. Dresner | tonight, known Dresner remain in while to think it over him before the grand jury. but Mr. Whitman let borne to a cemetery county. | MYSTERY SHROUDS DEATH | Norway, Maine, Aprfl 15.—Instead ot accepting a theory of sulclde that was advanced last night, a coroners jury M, Cummings, 17 years of age and a pride of only fifteen’ months, Met her death at the hands of an unknown person, Mrs, Oummings died from o gunshol | rowm, ents, Mr, |and Mrs, William Adams, in Albany When her mother called neighbors to the house, saying that the young woman had committed suicide, {hey found the body on the { floor of fhe sitling room with a shot- i The gun was one whica | tonight reported that Mrs. Eth d at the home of her p near hre, yesterday, | gun beside {had been kev Mrs. in_the house, Adams said she believed a neighbers suicide a year ago. cumstapces surrounding the were placed before it. | wou lon tonight. Mrs, Cumming | uary, 1013 iroveten, Vermont. ing with ner parents recently Dreparing fo rejoln her huy | Bethel, Maine, today. the journey. in prosperous circumstances, STRIKING SHOE WORKERS | Ohio. Portsmouth, Ohio, Ap: refusing to sign a blanket to which they had been I of violating the mayor's factory district, thirt ive | sent to jafl late today | A big crowd composed mos | sympathizers followed the stri the sheriff's office and cheered |at the jai were reached. waved preliminary examination. Biteen e, an actress, the United States, died today, “Murder” Car DRESNER ADMITS HE TESTIFIED LOCKED UP IN TOMBS District Attorney Whitman Regards Confession as Insignificant in Con~ nection With Becker’s Coming Trial. New York, April 15—Carl Dresner, the eleventn-hour witnesses before Supreme Court Jus- tico Goff Jast Saturday in the final ef- fort of the four gunmen slavers of a new on- | fessing himself a perjurer, in e signed 1 Whit- Justice Goff last Saturday denounced three | othiers as worthless and unreliable. The | prosecutor announced he would inves- testimony. | Hearing thls, Dresner today appeared | Yoluntarily at Mr, Whitman’s office a | cutor had | succeeded in having May 6 tentativel | fixed as the day for the beginning of 1 effort to save the gunmen, he was arraigned before a committing magis- trate and locked up in the Tombs in for a hearing before In court he pleaded In his affidavit, one of several sworn Justice Goff to consider the gunmen'’s counsel's plea for a new trial, and in testimony before the justice, Dresner told of hav- | ing seen the gray murder car on the | “Bridgey” Webber and others_near an- | | other restaurant and had heard Rose ut it over” on Rosen- thal as the gambler was leaving the apparent pur- Dose was to show that others than the In his statement today Dresner said | he was not near the scene of the mur- | der, did not see Schepps nor Rose nor overhear Rose urge nificant in connection with Beckera | It had been reported to him that both Dresner and another of the witnesses who testified before Jus- WeTe prospective has refused to talk that phase of the case over with the prosecutor, it was stated be hat he was content to have e Tombs for a Dbefore taking it The last of the four funerals of the exacuted gunmen was held today when the body of “Dago Frank” Cirofici was | in Wostchester | OF NORWAY, ME., BRIDE At First Thought to Be a Suicide, Deed Is Ascribed to Unknown Persons. al Corener Albert P. Bassett empaneiled |a jury today and the results of an autopsy and of the investigation of eir- | deatn | Fhe inquiry was seeret and neither the poroner nor the medical examiner sypplement the verdict with any | Sxplanal | g5 was married iy Jan- _to Sherman Cumminzs of v She/had been liv- Her trunk was | found 'in_her Toem partly packed for | Her father is a farmer | ABE SENT TO JAIL | Refused to Sign Bond for Appearance | Before Grand Jury at Portsmouth, 1 15.—Stoutly bond_for their appearance before the grand jury, 21d on charges proclamatio | against congregating in the local shoe youns men {and women strfking shoe workers were | them | York, |as the cell doors closed behind them | Mayor Frick was hissed and the prisoners kept up constant ex- changes of repartee until the cell doors | The thirty-five were amonz forty- four persons who had been arrested yesterday and were given a heari this morning before Mayor Frick. Actress a Fire Victim at Boston. ston, April 15—The body of Miss | was found ledo, one of the most successful lines in that her daughter had become temporarily insame through dwelling on stories of Condensed Telegrams Another revolt is threatened in Chi- na. Governor Glynn signed a bill increas- York city. Premier Asquith was accorded an ovatlon upon his return to the House of Commons. Robert Higgins, of Galesburg, Il was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife. The Massachusetts House passed the bill compelling railroad corporations to issue three months tickets. Roland Garros, the French aviator, flew from Monaco to Marseilles, a dis tance of 130 miles in 107 minutes. The Senate passed a bill authorizing the appointment of an ambassador to Argentina in place of a Minister. Theodore Matterson and Antone Per- ra, laborers, were killed by falling from a eoal wharf at Taunton, Mass. Thomas Starbird, a wealthy mining man of Invermore, British Columbia, committed suicide by taking poison. The German battleships Kaiser and Koenlg Albert and the cruiser Stra burg-left Valparaiso for Montevedio. It is rumored in Washington that the wedding of Miss Eleanor Wilson t Secretary McAdoo will take place Ma: 6. the second trial of Charles I3ec] r, the S3: v cher, the | pr, Murchis, a Sardinian, who is the one-time police lieutenant, convicted oV r eged cure for er-. With the gunmen, but granted a new | jcOverer of an alleged cure for tuber (rlla)l by the state court of appeais. ey, —— resner was examined sharpl. by i Mr.S Whitman, Jand “atter | SIEHNE. & |ineoror e oo aand de Turckheim & statement in which he admitted that | o oo 5105 9" Mintreux, Switzerland :m told many lies on the stand in the | 20895, 0 PLEE Despite the settloment of the Calu- met, Mich, copper strike, the House sub-committee will continue its inves- tigation. Hastening home for a celebration of 49th birthday, Charles M. Richard- son of Winchester, Mass,, dropped dead from heart failur | morning of the murder. He said he | John Kopp, a mining prospector, who {saw Sam ‘Schepps on the running | disappeared from New York 15 years board. Several nights before that he | &80 leaving an estate of $200,000, was testifled he had seen Jack s, | declared legally dead. Miss Beulah Hepburn, who was graduated from Wellesly in 1912, has given the college a check for $10,000 toward the fire fund. James C. Murfey, an iron salesman, died suddenly in a hotel phia. His will cuts off his widow from any part of his estate. Webber to kill Rosenthal, and that his | The government at Kingston, Ja- teslimony before Justice Goff was |maica bought out 3225000 in second known by himseif to_be untrue. mortgage bonds held by the Mauhat- | Districy. Attorney Whitman said { tan Trust Co, of New York. to_regar@Dresner's confession as sig- | A youth named Defrance, 20 years old, who weights but 42 pounds and is only three feet, three inches tall w | SAmicea o the French arms Sorority and fraternity houses at the Leland Stanford University were thrown open for the entertainment of the poor children of San Francisco. Frank Smith, of New. York, was Kkilled while stealing a ride on a New Haven freight train to attend his si ter’s birthday party at Middletown. District Judge C. G. Lee, of Ames, announced his candidacy for Governor off Towa on the Republican ticket against Governor George W. Clarke. land-American Line, arrived New York wi th more than 500 American tourists and reported a. stormy trip. Harry L. Smith, a taxicab chauffeur, was sentenced to Six months imprison ment at Buffalo for charging an im- migrant girl $12 for a ride of two mile One workman was killed, five injured and 1,200 women were thrown into a panic by the bursting of a shell in the George 1. Ham, formerly pres; the United States Bank jent of t Mexico C and D. H. Elder, were instantly killed in an automobile accident at Whitti- er, Cal. Organized labor advecates from all anada are meeting Press As- | ever the United states and n St. Louls for the annu: of the International Labor sociation. George Crestesinger, a farmer Williamsville, N. Y., reported to the police that he had been swindled out of $11,681 by confidence men in a Buf- falo hotel. of Week's bill, establishing navy eruisers to carry p: | and’ freight between South America. a line enger: Snited States of Josephine L. Rogers, 38 years old, of Philadelphia, dressed herself in her | best clothes, wrote a long tale of ro- and then committed suicide taking gas. The wrecking tug Relief, which suc- ceeded in getting F. W. Vanderbilt's yacht Warrior from the Tocks off the Calpmbion c: left Kingston, Ja- maica, for New York. A ball which took place in the un- derground picture gallery of Welbeck Abbey, London, given by the Duke and Duchess of Portland, was attended by more than 1,606 persong. Robert E. Lee, of North Carolina, | grandson of the Confederate general, | and P. H. Hodson, of Nevada, were | among the West Point Cadets charged for deficiency in mathemati examinations. al | Internes at the State Prison at Wethersfield will not have to pass the civil service examination, according to a ruling made yesterday by the state civil service commission at its meeting at the capitol. N Salem, N. H,, Fair Grounds Sold. of t - | park, a race track and fair ground 'All | here, was sold at auction today for $100,000. Frank A. Andrew of Law- Tence Mass., assighee of a mortgage | of $100,000 on the property, was the | purchaser. Guilford Built Schooner Abandoned. oday in the rojus of fhe apartment | - IS o e 12 T Hton aletct “pamasd Pl S R ’{?:T;g.?f’ ysler&uflz?“;‘flflgg“ ‘haemfi"“‘:‘;‘i s ;chmxmc—r .hm‘:\ B ('Tun‘wn:.'lou. “raéndrd( ead ight ~ Miss o Was 2 {on the rocks on the west side o guest of friends in the house, | Campbello Island, has been abandoned and the work of strip g the vessel David Robinson. Jr’. aged 85, build- | began today. Successive ebbing and er of the first eleetric rafiroad in To- | flowing tde: have twis.ed the keel The Carrington wa: uilt at Guilford, Conn, fory. years 2o ing the pay of men teachers in New | The Pope presented a gold medal to | in_Philadel- | The steamer Rotterdam, of the Hol- | United States Arsenal in Philadelphia. | 8ecrtary Daniels endorsed Senator | Salem, N. IL, April 15—Rockingham | FINAL WARNING IS GIVEN HUERTA To Atone “for Repeated Offenses Against Rights and Dignity of the United States” | { PRESIDENT IS STRONGLY BACKED BY CONGRESS i el leord Sent to Federal Executive that the American Govern- [ ment Will Temporize No Longer—Order Issued by Sec- retary Daniels for Naval Demonstration on Pacific Coast of Mexico. April 1 Washington, | tivity at the state | the day—the war and —Incidents of | forelgn affairs b; was substantially i notes sent to all fors the ‘president and reviewed in the governments. l\\’h!le House—the conferences between | L Congress Supports President. J{x'c s, showed that while th United | sive policy to demand reparation for | be avolded by deferentia on the | 0L o8 SeAte Sand., hdnse ode T opinion was general that the president | would be backed even to actual war- part of General Huerta arm of the government was ve prep- |fare against Mexico to uphold the aration for emer binet of- | Sovereign dignity of the United States. ge- | Both administration and republican il his _physician's a spirit of s cd the emphauc iteq States is sending the a “bIuff,” but at at last the of this government has been a reparation must be rn_ republic must ew had planned to go ying here nst orders. where { tension was |_ “The army i retary = Garrison, zo the fact t and the | to cros | or to go to an: ress pro- | _Incidental of legis~ | Ward line peran: day, it { With orders to proc: was everywhere at the de- where four a: SiEhad parture of the fleet for Mexico had ands of troops are loc tood to be only aroused patriotic fervor, and the Mex-~ ated, | foan situation was the absorbing topic | | of preparation being ? {of informal discussion in the cloak transportation of troops rooms end corridors. | As evidencing the serio Tomorrow ouse committes on | the Washington sovernmg | foreign affairs to consider sentative Coover ranking developments in the situation. Repre- { member of the house for sentative Flood, chairman of the com- | mittee, and Represer | ranking member, who saw the presi- dent today, will apprise the committes formally of the conditions as outlined by the prestdent. af s ative Cooper, o aggravated A few discor come dangerc ed in congress today presentative I now was t Mondell of Wyoming, in a speech in now that the 1 the house, charged that the president sought to use the Atlantic fleet “to | enforce the mandates of his personal prejudice” agalnst Huerta. Represent- ative Bartholdt of Missourl declared that refusal of Huerta to salute the flag with 21 _guns should not precipi- tate the sacrifice of an American life. Senator Works of California issued a statement criticizing the attitude of the administration. dured the condit ults In Mexico a justification to |explained that the den [ico were strictiy in a in cases of |:md that he hoped the ¢ ration would be prom ‘ing as it ought to be. cedents Washington, April With 2 ma- of the jority of the ships American = navy under orders today to proceed at| PACIFIC FLEET OF WARSHIPS once to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts | of Mexico, the United ment gave General Huerta fi ing that unless a s govern. | Ordered to Give Demonstration on the al worn- | West Coast of Mexico. salute was fired to st the Stars and S \ a rea-| Washington, April 15—A naval dem- sonabe time to atone d of- | onstration on the Pacific ast of Mex- | fenses against the rights {ico has been ordered. e navy de- | of the T ted Sta serio partment so announced late today. alitfes wovld re | _ The crulser Pittsburgh, the transport It was learned g Buffalo, the cruis: Huerta, when app land and Chattan: Maryland, Cleve- hight that General | : a the' colliers 1 arze | O'Shaughnessy of the proposed | Jupiter end Satur ordered_to | onstration of the Atlantic fiec Prepare for immediate departure. The | thaat the episode growing | torpedo flotilla of the Pacific fleet, With | arrest of the American its tender now at San Pedro, Cal, was ordered to stand by for orders “to_any Tampico was a fit sub s Mexican port to which Admiral How- tion at The Hague a nd appoint a commission to ir ard may order them. the incideng President W The ol Exz_yu ment's announce- Jn —nphatis cegly: Hircieh ment read as foll told Huerta that the time for delay | telegraphed to Rear Admiral Howard, and evasion had passed and that the|in command of the Pacific fleet, that American government would tempor- | the ships in can waters on the ize no lomger, Administr e Don | west coast would be increased in num- er. The Pittsburgh, now in Puget sound, will transport 260 marines, now at More Island, constituting a regi- ment of marines which will be trans- | portea to San Diego, where they wil be under orders of Admiral Howand. hold that insuits tlons of national jects for arbitra All information, | wise, that Mexico City ched W ash JUSESE Cendhd oo nsport Buffalo and the ar- jerali s as BunGnvinosd mored cruiser Maryland, now at Mare United States was in _earr Taland, will proceed to Mexican wa- thought the Washington gov ters. was bluffing. Anti - American “The cruiser Cleveland !s under of- ders to proceed from Mare Island to Mazatlan, and will be followed shortly by _the cruiser Chattanooga. “The torpedo flotilla of the Pacific Demonstration Re- ported. Soms ant1-American demonstrations | at Vera Cruz and other poinis were | fleet, with their tender, the Iris, which | reported, Developments of the day |are at San Pedro, Cal, have been or= | here showed clearly that o determined | dered to stand by, waiting orders to and forceful pelicy had been a umml‘?.l(y ,\Xgflmn op:z;c‘.r Kf».a:;hmh Admiral | i which wor oward may hem. | Echod up b soneeoes ana stor CThe coliier Tapiter and the colller | if_neeessary, by the army and m: Saturn are loading coal for the Pacific ‘Wijile expressing earnest hope eet and will soon leave San Francisco for Mexican wate: peace, the president told members of the senate u commitices on foreign affairs that t offenses of the de facto government Mexico City to the dignlty of United Sfates could no longer be tol- herated and that unless Huerta com- [ plied with the American demands, the El Pasa, Tesas, April 15.—General f the houses at, Villa and his lofest victory at S d even the Pedro were virtually lost sight biockade, among Mexicans and refugees here and in Juares today in the intense in- | terest felt over developments of the Tampieo incident. General Carranza at Chihuahya was kept fully informed of the orders to un, CARRANZA'S VIEWS. Regards Situation as Onme of Great Gravity to Mexico as a Whole. Geclaration a pacific shutting off commereial intercourse | with the United Ftates would be | justified by precedents in inter al law. ¥t was established of th t no sive act, such as the Ianding of ma- | the fleet and the attitude of Washims- rines or the shelling of any town or | ton, but no statement of What position | the seizuze of any ports, would be un- he would assume, should the Amerl~ | dertaken without authorization from |cans take Tampico and Vera Cruz, was congress after President Wilson had forthooming. personally delivered a message on the | Tt was leamned, however, from ana subject. 'The virtually unanimeus ap- | of Carranza’s closest advisers that proval which republicans and demo- | Carranza views the whole situation as erats alike gave the administration's ome of the greatest gravity to Mexico initial steps made {t apparent. how- | as a whole, Robert V. Pesqulera, econfidemtial agent of the constitutionafists in this aid for publication that all rebel ever, that should Rear ger find it necessary io act v in an emersency, CORgTess w 1 3 up the American mavy without caders are convineed that Huerta tation. would nat hesitate to piunge the whale After orders had been issued to- country into a forelgn war when he ng, thinkifs to save himself by umiting the country day for a maval demons Pacific coast of Mexico, the Aflantic, General Huerta agammst an alien enemy vised that the most powerful force the American governme: > = ever assembled on se carrying New York, April 15.—Sir Lionel Car- thousands of marin | is headed for the seaport towns of the southern republic, ready to enforce to | the extreme the Amrican policy. Upon General Hueria depends the next developments; he has almost a week in which to decide the question, for the warships will not reach Mex | can waters for several days | Foreign Governments Notified. i In the meantime all foreizn govern- ments have been notified by the | | United States of jis attitude toward the Tampico incident, and of the di: | paieh of the fiects to Itevican wa- | ters. This notification is in lin ewith | conduct Ly cour martal and sen- | the " previously “announced policy * of | tenced to Qismissal from the wrm, 3¢ Keepins foreign nations advised of all | Fort Terxy, N. Y. foday “the steps taken by fhe American govern- |war eot fir leas a ment in the Mexican situation. Ditet I Benatt of fho conviet = The position of the sdminisiration, | The petition i E as it was explained to members of | granted e war has ilie senate and house commitices om-\jel Teviewdd: (hecase. - ; den arrived here today on tae steam- ship_Olympic. He declined to discuss the Mexican situation or to tell of hiz immediate plans. He is on his way | to Afexico Cfty and it fs sald that he | may travel overiand o Galveston and | there be met by a British cruiser. Sir {Tionel was until recently the British minister fo Mexico. Hsi] present re- {urn to that country is only temporary ‘before proceeding to Brazil. Appeal for Convicted Actillery Officer. ‘Washington, April Te—Counse] for Mafor Benjamin M. Koehler, the coast arfillery oficer convicted Gf immoral and’ blujacket . i