Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 17, 1914, Page 1

NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 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 City's Population INDICTMENTS IN BILLARD HEARING Against the Witnesses Who Refused to Testify Before Interstate Commerce Commission. TWO HAVE ALREADY YIELDED UNDER PROTEST Counsel Stoddnr;l Brands Resort to Criminal Procedure as “Unjust, Arbitrary and Tyrannical’—Homer Cummings Notified that His Clients Must Submit Without Further Conditions. rashington, and residents of the state of Connecti- g Al With the Inevitable annoyance, trouble and expense connected with 4 criminal proceeding in a jurisdiction far removed from defendants’ place of Therefore, to relieve them- selves from the burden of such an- noyance, trouble and expense, they feel that vour threatemed action is unjust, arbitrary and tyrannical, m; clients, Messrs. Whipple and Field, are constrained to submit and to abandon claimed rights and liberty this wholly because of ths Such eriminal prosecutio in reply, directed atten- | tion to the fact that the commission had no power to punish for contempt as courts have, and, as a result had Dbeen given authority by the congress to proceed against recalcitrant wit- nesses by criminal action. that so long as he was at the head | of the law department of the commis- criminal statute would be invoked in every clear case of the r Calcitrancy of Witnesses. Later Mr. Folk today Judge Steddard to ascertain whether his clients would be willing to pro- ks and papers of the Bil_ lard company which were required by the commission. response has been received tonight, Homer S, Cummings, Samuel Hemingway and Samuel More- | house, through telegrams to Mr. Folk sought further delay criminal proceedings. {hat his clients must submit their tes- timony to the commission without fu; ther cenditions, 16.—Indictments were voted today by the federal grand it is understood, authoritatively. against the four witnesses whe refused before the Interstate Com- last_Friday con- the relations of -the Billard smpany with the Xew Haven Tailroad The indictments probably will - returned for sever: 1 days, pend- from the recalcitrate they desire to_change their attitude. names are before Whipple, pres- Merchants’ National bank Hemingway, president of the Second National bank Samuel Morchouse, all of New Haven. supposed to have offi- with the Billard com- has been al- e been rddard, rounsel for Whipple notified Chief Coun- of the Intersiate on that his clients, duce the bool than undergo the stigma of an indict- prosecution. inquiry no of applying: to- a in order to determined to resort to 1 suppose that jurisdiction iestion directly He was notified proceedings. of Columbia against citizens | REBELS TO RESUME ATTACK ON TAMPICO Movement Will Be Hastened to Try | Capture Before Return of Federal CHOATE'S VERSION OF HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY | Correespondence ion of Tolls for 16—Joseph H. American ambassador to Great Britain during the negotiation of the Fay-Pauncefote treaty, correspondence with The British government ai that time precludes the American coastwise Ship- ping can be exempted from paying toils the Panama canal rmer President Taft, who signed Panama Canal act. containing- the exemption clause, thought that in do- € = he was granting a subsidy to rican coastwise shipping and be- nless congress reverses the United States will uestidn to arbitratien, hoth welcomed by the advecates of repeal were brought out | toduy al the hearing before the senate 1= on interoceanic canals. Sen- @tor Simmons introduced a tramecript of an address delivered by Mr Taft ! club_at’ Ottawa | Juares, Mexico, April 16—Peaceful | | settiement of the presases an early Tebel attack on that city, to_-official, Information received here today. Rebel authorities are still with- out information as to the whereabouts of the two federal gunboats which re- fled from the ports and the at- tack will be hastened in an endeavor to capture the place before the “feet” can return, General Caballero, the redel forces in the Tampico dis- ‘trict, man be reinforced by Generals Pablo Gonzales and Jesus Carranza. A report from Torreon today said that a federa] column was_defeated yesterday at Venado, fifty miles north of San Luis Potosl, by a detachment of the troops of General Eulalio Guer- rez, undef command of the brother, - Colonel Luis- Guitterrez. A special train carrying two million rounds of small ammunition, six field pieces and a supply of shells will leave here Saturday for the front. tract for ten field pieces has been placed with a German firm. ammunition seized by States authorities before the embargo | having been released by court order, will form part of the ship- In addition the rebels are con- | sidering the possibility of purchasing a gunboat for use along the Atlantic umption of the Dbelieves that oy in command_ of These points, last January Were suimitted in a jeljer to Henry. White, seoretary of the American em- London, while Mr. Choate was ambassador. accompanied by a num- addressed by him to Sec- r explafning _the )zress of the nezotiations. ‘was raised, of the parties ys and ex- possibility of the exemption kind of vessels ‘of the United Letween the reat Britain PARIS HAS NEW TYPE OF FLYING MACHINE. izes the Wind to Exclusion of All Other Motor Power. PROVIDENCE TERM OF IRON ORE STEAMERS. 16—A new type fiying machine, the object of which is to enable a man to utilizing, the wind to the exclusion of | other motive power, was described to- night at the congress of the Society | of Savants. i ot Dr. A. Magnan, and its flignt is in- tended to be a continuous volplane. Like large birds, provided with a spreading tail and two latter being s: Announces Large Flset Will Use Pier Built by Ixltateahirosrin | Providence, R. 1, April chaamber of commerce announced to- day that a steamehip company o - iron ore carriers from_Svdner, principal terminus for the dis- the apparatus ‘wings, .the placed as to enable it to remain The control of the machine | acquired by . practice as the case of a bieycle and, it is admit- | ted, this will present great difficulty | | and even danger. . The steamers Will uxe Tecently built by the state. vice is expected to begin July 1. SLIT FIREMEN'S COATS, Rubber Boots, Slickers, and Fire Hoss | Gut in Dobbs Farry. Wow York, April 16—Some one en- ) Sercr the engine house in Dobbs Ferry the shoes on the $10.000 auto fire engine, destroved ev- ery length of hose, cut the top off the and sHt every robber coat in the place down the back. The board of trustees offered a re- ward of $100 today for the arrest of the guilty person. whether the person that did it con- templated setting fires about the vil- | Judge Landis 16.—Bridge Structaral Iron Workers’ 10, which submittéd a question a few to arbitration by last night and wesks ago firemen’s boots, against them today. The iron workers struck because laborers were employ- ed o severai big buildings here to pui steel rods in reinforced concrete con- Judge Landis, after exam- ining the agreement between iie urion | and employers, ruled that the laborers might be so employed and dire iron workers to go back to work It ie a question MILITANT ARSON IN ULSTER. | - ‘ PHYSICIAN SENTENCED FOR SALE OF MORPHINE. New York Just Residence Burned Near Londonderry —Aimed at Sir Edward Carson. e Imposes $500 Fine Lorddonderry, and One Year in J :ettes made their + squad” set Jarge resi- | the words, muin penaity of one year i nihe penitentiary and a fine of for the promiscuous sale of morphine. hisconviction,” | —. “nine men and women | Early This Morning at New York— have been arrested in another estab- lishment eondueted by this man. We are sorry that we cannot give him & longer sentence.” Stop the Torture | was found on the premies- tice O'Keefe, New Milford Puzzle Soived New AMilford, Conn., young woman who was taken charge vesterday by the town author- | ities as an apparent victim of aphasia | and dementia_was today identified as liie Cubig, 21 vears old, whose | ts live at Prospect. She employed as a domestic at home of Mrs. Edward i Goshen. On Monday she left there and walked to New Preston, a distance of 16 miles. She then came to this town, where her pecular actions were no- ticed and led to the lhwa anthorities taking chiarge of her, , Miss Cubig will home of her parents. 11l mentally for some ime April_16—The Child Killed by Delivery Wagon. 16—Frances W. the 12 year old daughter of | Alfred M. McCann, special writer and | food investigator, was rand down and instantly killed by an automobile de- [ livery truck in front of her home to- New York, Death of Widely Known Hotel Man. Middletown, . Brown, widely known as a ho- tel man, dropped dead at the Mitchell inn here late today of heart disease. Cabled Paragraphs Norwegian Minister Resigns Portfelio. Christiania, Norway, April 16— Johann Castberg, minister of social and industrisl_affairs in the Norwe- gian cabinet headed oy Premier Knud- ser,, resigned his portfotio tuday owing to a disagreement with his c :i'eagues on social question: Italians Rout Enemy. Bengbasi, Africa, April 16.—A severe engagement was recently fought be: tween the ltalian forces and 2,000 reb- els near Gedebia. The Italians routed the enemy after hard fighting, killing 51 of them and wounding many. The Italian loss was slight. Belgium Non-Committal on Peace Court. Brussels, Belgium, April 16.—M. Davignon, the minister of roreign af- New Trial for IN CONVICTION. Tairs, anhounced today that before | cution Sentence. answering the proposal of the United States to confide to the permanent court at The Hague the mission of a: ranging for a third peace conference the Belzium government desired to | know how the proposal would be re- ceived by other governments. WHITMAN PREPARING FOR BECKER TRIAL. Hopeful of Learning Who Manu- factured Evidence For Final Plea|twice convicted for murdering Jennie glieri, a_ Chicago underworld For Gunmen. ney within twenty their New York, April 16—District Attor-|1912. He awas originall Whitman hoped tonight to learn |Pe hanged April 4, 13 S hours: who helped | Preme court found a te~hnical error | to_ manufacture some of the evidence |and ordered a new trial. He was again introduced in behalf of the four gun- men slavers of Herman Rosenthal in al plea to Supreme Court Jus- Bridgeport, Conn., Apr today found er; for the woman, +| The supreme court found no error in the appeal of Joseph Buonemo of Bridgeport for a new tri He w Cav characte at Stratford October 2. tice Goff last Saturday, for a new | eXgeution, trial. Karl Dresner, one of the gunmen’s new witnesses on that da brought from the Tombs to the dis- trict atterney’s office today and ques- tioned as fo who, if anyone, induced him to prepare the affidavit submitted to Justice Goff in an apparent effort to show that cthers than the gunmen | s, (akedsld and Plew —wero killed Rosenthal. = This aflidavit, and | man's hushand last June. The Wake- fields were living in Bristol at the me. Plew worked on a farm near Waterbury and was a frequent caller at the Wakefield home. The evidence indicated that on a Sunday afternoon when Plew calied he started a dis- Pute with Wakefleld according to a plan that had been arranged by him- seif and the wife beforehand. The the evidence showed, chloroformed Wake- fild and Plew dragged him from the house and for several miles into { the woods north of Cheshire, killing and Dresner's testimony to the same effect, were admitted vesterday by Dresner to be false. He pleaded guilty to perjury and is in the Tombs pend- ing his appearance before the grand Jury. Dresner would not give the prosscu- tor today the information Mr. Whit- man wants, nor would he tell whether he was paid to become an eleventh | hour witness as Mr. Whitman is said to suspect. The prosecutor let it be known tonight, however, that he ex- pects to break down Dresner's reluc- tance tomorrow. . Meanwhile detectives for the dis trict attorney are searching for Will- iam E. Burwell, known as the iouis Kid" of Waterbury, Conn, and Samuel Kalmanson, of Buffalo, who| peal acted as a Justice Goff last week. Mr. Whitman js anxious to were witnesses befc question them about thelr testimony, it was stated. o Charles Becker, it was learned to- ay, gwn defence when he is placed on trial - hiring the gunmen to do the actual shooting. Both he and Mrs. are anxious to testify, according to Joseph A. Shay, retiring as the form- er_police lleutenent’s counsel. would welcome the appearance of Becker on the stand. NEWSPAPER MEN ARE CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT Two of New York Tribune Staff Refuse to Disclose Source of Information i Smuggling Cases. New York, April 16—As a result of their continued refusal to answer questions concerning the source of the information on which they had based news stories concerning the Littauer and other smuggling cases, renewed presentments charging contempt were handed up today hy the federal grand jury against George Burdick and Wil- lam L. Curtin of the New York Tri- bune staff. The cases have been pend- ing for some time and recently further attempts were made to get the nenws paper men to respond to questions along the line desired but withaut re- sult. ¥rank E. Carstarphen, assistant | United States attorney, asked that the | defendants be at once committed, but Judge Hand granted an adjournment until Monday, upon the requost of Hen- ry A. Wise, their counsel, In granting the delay, Justice Hand said that since the question involved in the present were the same as those already gone over in previous proceed- ings in the case, he would sign the commitment on Monday without hear- {ing any further argument. He also isaid he would at the same time grant !Sla siay pending the appeal which he understood was to be taken, TULSA RACE TRACK CRISIS. Plan to Resume Raci Threat M g Met with itia Will Shoot. Tulsa, Okla, April 16.—A crisis is Iron | €xpected in the fight between the state | authorities and the Tulsa Jockey club L3t the Tulsa race course this after- noon. With the course under martial {law by order of Governor Cruce, and | in face of threats by Adjutant General | Canton that he will shoot horses If rac- | ing is attempted, officials of the club | today made preparations to continue | racing as if nothing had happened. At the racetrack every entrance was guarded by soldiers, and none save horsemen were permitted to enter the grounds, and these were all searched | for firearms, It is stated that attorneys for the Jockey club are seeking Supreme Court St. hopes to take the stand in his the second time; next month on| - Waterbury, the charge of murdering Rosenthal by | ney. Thomas_ F. Devine, he on M Wethersfleld. woman and her paramour the: | him, ter. had found an error in the con of Mrs. Bessie J. only comment he made. Lord!” Wethersfield, Conn., April 16. granted. “Thank the Lord! terically. Decision Written by Judge Thayer. ering more than 3,500 words. LONDON TIMES' COMMENT © Shown the Rebel Leader. London, April 16, contrast to the unprotesting mildnes with which the United States has su macy and the unique demands upon him, Huerta during the pa: courtesy and self-control in his de ings with the United States. None the less,” elimination remain: American policy and the despa the Atlantic fieet signifies rather pect that th ican problem any nearer. FOR RIGHT TO ORGANIZE. Move to Compel Legal Recogni Planned. | intervention at Oklahoma Gity to block | " aes oL 20qr Delng held here. | Governor Cruce’s programme of en- forcing tha State Anti-G ambling laws. The governor said at Oklahoma City law against racing horses. the only | oiigiase: way he conld prohibit gambling on the | races, prescribed by law, was to pre- do | NINE LIVES LOST Eight Bodies Recovered, New York, April 17.—In a fire in a five story tenement house at Eighth avenue and 47th street, nine lives were ing. Steamship Arrivals. al George, St. John, N. B. Trieste, Apr pathia, New York. Queenstown, April 16. — Stsamer Cymrie, Boston for Liverpool. Leghorn, April 16—Steamer Perugia, New York. 14~ -Steamer Car- | PETIERERTT ton to a vote, the effort nec the right of djudication. 3 Senate Rejects MacNally Washington, April 16.--T} motion to confirm his non a Nanking, China. Draper Estate Shows $234,000. of for 000 in public bequests. Mellen Sought Mrs. Wakefieldl as Labileader, SUPREME COURT FINDS ERROR|MAY HEAD FEDERATED BODY OF RAILWAY WORKERS. EXCLUDES MIX EVIDENCE | TWO MILLION MEMBERS Convicted at New Haven of Abetting Murder of Husband at Bristol— Thousands had Protested Her Exe- Has Been Approached and is Said to be Consideration— Organization German Lines. ! 16.—Ruling | that a part of the evidence given by Coroner Eli Mix in her trial should | have been excluded, the supreme court r in_the conviction of Mrs, Bessie J. Wakefield of murder in the first degree and ordered a new trial Boston, April 16—Charles S. Mellen New York, Haven and company, may become the active head | supreme amoag | arious organizations of the United | States with which road employes are affiiated. became known today Mellen had been approa subject and that he was giving it fa- | consideration. ganization to be known as the Feder- ated Council of Railroad Brotherhood, will be formed at a meeting of dele- on April 26 and the of the New raflroad system will be nominated for the presidency. idea of the council promoted by the Order Station Agents, January and appointed to invite the many independent organ- izations of railroad men to send dele- forthcoming - meeting. of a wederated ched on the | sentenced to but the su-|gates in this cit convicted and sentenced to be hanged, March 13, 1914, but an appeal for an- | other new trial acted as a stay of Mrs. Wakefield was found gullty in perior court of New Haven Sas | county on October 31, 1813. Her trial 2 | before Judge laucian’ F. Burpee had followed that of her partner, James Plew, who was executed for the crime ch 4th at the state prison at committee | were received and 10 delegates been elected. At present there is no central body in this country and the organization will be along the line of the Enj German federations. deputy lord mayor of Westham, Eng. and associate secretary transportation England, will be present to The council present all branches of the service in- Mrs, Wakefleld and Plew were Harry Phillip: i ganization. men, station agents, freight handler: track walkers. The plan 1o pl. head of the council was come of a statement made by him an address made at a dinner tende: ed him by employees of the Boston & Maine railroad here on after he had resigned the presi New Haven. to the men of power in labor organizations and said that labor had not received ward it otherwise might because jealousy among and a lack of loyalty to the common a direct out- Women's organizations have made a strong fight to save Mrs. Wakefield from the gallows, on which she was | sentenced to die March 4th. Her ap- stay of execution. Thousands of protests against -her ex- ecution have been received by Gov- ernor Simeon E. Baldwin from all parts of the country. No woman has died on the gallows in Connecticut for more than a century and a quar- your power “Be fair, be prudent, but be Steadfast one to the othe have the power and the price.” concluded: “I would like to lead you. like to advise you, Conn., April 16.—Attor- 3 counsel for | Mrs. Wakefield, first heard from a re- Becker | porter tonight that the supreme court iction Wakefield. “T am very glad Mrs. Wakefield is to have District Attorney Whitman said he|a new trial and I am sure her many friends will be equally glad,” was the others must pay With some feeling, 3 heip you | can do =0 and when you call, you wii not find me Mrs. Wakefield Cries “Thank the | 510 .TROLLEY COLLISION e AT EAST HARTFORD. matron in Mrs. Wakefield's ward at = the state prison here, awakened her from a sound sleep late tonight to inform her that a new trial had been Hou: = | Met Headon—Results in Death of Turo | of Machine. Fast Hartford, | Charles E. Pease of this town was in- killed and Albert Judson -w injured tonight when the wuto- mobile in which they were riding c lided head-on with outh Main street. Judson died later in the ford hospital, Wi “Is it really true?” asked Mrs, Wake- field. Being reassured, she _cried, and sobbed hys- The decision, which was written b: Justice Thayer, is a lengthy one, cov- regaining con- He was 43 vears old is survived by his widow, mother and The trolley tracks turn info another street, at the point where the accident occurred. thrown fifteen fest by tue force of ine | Pease struck on head on the pavement and received a | ON TREATMENT OF HUERTA | Finds Great Contrast in Leniency Bnin men were The Times, in an editorlal this morning, finds Washing- ton’s treatment of Huerta in curious | ried to a Hartford hospital. fracture of the skull, deatlr was only | short time. Both men were empl: anl wore on their way accident occurred. rs cld and lea: fered insuits and rebuffs and down- | right _defiance at the hands of Villa and Carranza. The Times things that considering the extremely embarras sing and anomalous pesition in which he has been placed by American diplo- made ¢ thir- teen months has 'displaved remarkable ved in Martford <tk Sy Pease was ves his widow | ment in Sing Sing. BAPTIST WOMEN'S STATE MISSIONARY SOCIETY Rough Elected Secretary ays the T 1t 5 ‘fixed Dotnt of | of Literature at Wallingford Meet- a fixed point of of change of method than of aim. Un- happily there is little discernible pros- present proceedings will bring a lasting solution of the Mex- Wallingford, Conn. The annual meeting of the Baptist Home Missionary Connecticut was held There was an attendance representing twen- | tv-four churches. Following routine reports, there was an addregs by Mrs. man of Boston on The Perils that Officers were elected_as follows Mary Howard, Hartfore dent, Mrs. A. recording secrotary cer, Suffield; Kansas City, April 16.—A move in the plan to compel legal recognition of the right of workmen to organize | was_expected to be made at today’s | session of the convention of the raii- way department of the American Fed- New Haven; corresponding secretar F. Genung, of Young People’s T. Thayer, Walilingford; retary of literature, Mrs. J. D, Rough, association, This was_to be accomplished by the adoption Gf a resolution to petition the industrial relations commission to last night that while there whs ng hear the Illinois Central and Harri- LIFE SAVER'S BODY FOUND. Opposition to this action of the con- | | He Had Been vention was forecast during the debate 3.| vent the racing, which Tie Intended to | Hon 1 atvors, A mans or thr Gorcsoily declared they did not believe it worth ary to present the cases to the commission, because the IN TENEMENT Fige | DOWOTs of that body do not include Missing Since the Big | Storm of March 1. | body of Wiiliam Bennett an of the Jone ! Hemiock Beach man of Gilgo station, Bennett disappear | day of the great storm. v Burch, a surf- Nomination ace today rajected for a second time th nomination of James C. Maenally of Pennsylvania *0 be consul at Nurem- lost. Kight charred bodies have al- | burg, Bavaria. On motion of Senator ready been recovered. Three others | Sheppard the senate agreed t are known to have been in the build- | Sider the vote by which the nominatimn Wwas rejected last week, but the secin on was | defeated, 29 to 27. MacNally was <charged with irregularities in a raui Avonmouth, April 16.—Steamer Roy- | 85iate transaction while consul ai He had been morning he boarded his scooter and set out in the storm to cross to the beach. since then men searching for his recon - up on the island, where h < found this morning. Yesterday’s storm threw up the bedy, | Chinese republic is st Prison Graft Case to Jury. Hudson Falls, N. Y. case of the Hudson Valley Construc: tion company, charged with grand lar ceny in comnéction with the cons of the Great wesit 1o the jury today, April 16—The | formerly “financial adviser to the Chi- | Atlania ‘Worcester, Mass.,, April 16—The will er Governor Eben S. Draper .| filed for probate today leaves $234,- Condensed Telegrams | HJERTA ACCEDES T0 ALL DEMANDS A hurricane swept over the Conora Islands, Madagascar. Sylvia Pankhurst was pro o daar e e w & | His Offer to Salute Stars and Stripes for Arrest - e b of American Bluejackets Accepted. Rathér than have his leg amputated, York, committed suicide. y Benjamin Franklin, a tailor of New John Fields, an Okiahoma City, Okla., editor, was nominated for governor on the Republican ticket. {RETURN SALUTE WILL BE GIVEN TRI-COLOR. The country home of Mrs. Peter F. Collier at Southampton, L. I, was de- stroyed by fire. Loss $100,000. The New York Association for the | Closing of Tampico Incident Will Have no Bearing on Ad- _ Blind has passed the $100,000 mark in | its effort to raise a $300,000 fund. | minstration’s Mexican Policy of Neutrality—Virtually o Lot 158000 o e ad i Certain that Many of the Warships Will Receive Recall tate to the Presbyterian Hospital. Orders. Washington, Apri States Genera/ The memorial bust of William T. Stead, the English writer, was unveil- ed in the Palace of ‘Peace, The Hague. William L. Sayer, editor of the “Evening Standard” of New Bedford, 16.—The United | Will Continue Policy of Neutrafity. tonight accepted | While the president declared the fiv- s offer to salute the |ing Of the salute would ciose the Tam-= = g pico incident, it will have no particu- governmen Huert | Stars and Stripes as an apol *8Y f0T | jar bearing on th 3 N 2 general Mexican )l:i:.. died of pneumonia, aged 63| the arrest of American blue jackets | polle the administration. Other years. & Fampice. = week ago! today: | offenses, such as the arrest of & mail ¥ ute to | Orderly at Vera Cruz, have been apol- e ogized for and the United States will answered | continue its position of neutrality. More than 170 apprentice seamen| The Huerta government left the I tion to sall ke Bluff, with the 2 training sta- the American flag will feet for gon with a salute to the tri-color of the |, Incidentally the president and Mr. Bsicing Mexican nation, | Bryan drew attention to official reports —— This arrangement, the details of | which they had received pralsing Gen- nationi S of (|Chabiss ¥ H-{ ayias s sacgeinent, the' deta } o arranged to- | eral Villa and the comstitutionalists f mes- | for their treatment of prisoners and i Mex. | foreigners in the bloody battle of Tor- Ii | reon. Not a foreigner was injured, J. Guy Gilpatrick, the aviator who : D was arrested for landing his acroplane s \tneri- | Huerta's of in Central Park, New York, was di < | gress genera charged. ot 5 - £ United States Minister to|njght in an official excha Sweden, was accepted by President | sages between \y Wilson. fer was received in com- v with approval and utive quart ressional | members famillar with international reathed f that | precedents agreed that a return sa- on had pa | lute from American guns could not be d as he | No time has been set t - | regarded as recognition of the Huerta farmhand he had be- | of the salute, and until t | regime or in any wise as beneath the further or ity of the United Stat = t an fleets n | Senator Lodge, ranking republicam The Oxford University team which | south. is_virtually cer Sow. | member of the foreign Telations come will Tun in the Pennsyl ever, that while many « els | mittee who had said early in the day rnfval arrived in New the | will ‘be turned back Il con- | that to return the salute would nullify Olympic. nue south and subs nereased | the effect of the apology, withdrew his Frank Sammis, a wealthy farmer of Huntington, L. I, was mur slept in bed by a friended. naval force will be tai Mex- | criticism after a telephone conversa- Four persons were killed and two |ican water tion with Secretary Bryan. The Mass- injured when a train col- | Huerta’s offe for o achusetts senator was informed that lided with an a at George- | turn s: W naval officers and those familiar with town, Texas. to ask fc ion from the « - | precedents knew of no case where a b salute was not returned and that, Robert P. McAdams, of Elizabeth, N. | departn ha: | moreover, statement that the sa- J., took the oath of office as Clerk of | it was t 1 lute would be returned was included the Court of Chancery at a salary of | practice to retwrn a salu 1 ¢ in Rear Admi Mavo's original dee $6,000 a vear. { precedents e vas |mand. N nage said he had been Sy | informed tha nir avo. in | mistaken about it and expressed th The Brazilian Government has ar- | mak nd for a sa- |hope that the custom In such cas ranged to send a steamer to mcet Col: | lut 1t would be made clear to the country, Roosevelt and his party at the mouth | Mr. Wilsor - | Return Salute in Accord with Inters of the Ariparana Kiver Wite undet = t e o national Law. J. Frank Best, former cashier of the A ernment, er sy faceror ] - TElien Senator Shively, acting, chates National Bank of Netcong, N. J. wa: same 3 s grasp he | an of the foreign relations committee, sentenced to five years imprisonment | hand of an individual who was anol- | Visited the Woite House he learned { from Secretary Bryan of the proposal from General Huerta to yield to the { American government. The Indiana | senator who had carefully studied all % | the possibilities in the situation, was that the United States not refrain from an- swering the Mexican apologetic guns, and when besieged by senators at the apitol later, he assured them that a ing as Bryan too, took i The House sub-committee reported | Amer alute favorably on a bill providing for the | the flag of the Mexican 1 municipal ownership of street rail- | TUch respected by the roads in the District of Columbia. ists the Huerta g that no technical reco volved Complete Acceptance of Demand. for misappropriating. $5,000. | J. Parker Whitney, son of a wealthy alifornian, pleaded guilty to violating the Mann white slave law a€ San { In less tha s Presi- |roturn salute was in accordance wi Francisco and was fined $2,500. | aent Witso red ¢ | ntns tonat qoment. - o 4 == and Pa M n water ing exe - session late today Mayor Mitchell of New York con- | and had ral Huerta that | ssed the re tributed $100 to the fund for the widow | unless a e was fired to atone for | and it was | of Detective Joseph Guarnieri, who was | repeated _offe st the digi | agre United States should killed in the performance of dut. of the Unit : | nc er returning the salute; { but some senators we: rclined to the request from n of the salute The entire second divi United States army, will hike from ¢ on ion of the |« a o umbering 11,000 | demand of ston, Texas to| Immediat distance of 150 | the atmosphe | As the storm | Witson arran The cavalrymen on strike duty at|plur Sprinzs Iy nd return, e of the flaz, and mi ards,” was the sed his opinion. 3 r 3 re of one thing,” the Gould Coupler Works in Bu end and ton of West Vir- were recalled and a force of 100 d planned to take wrn of the Mex- uties were stationed there to prevent |to Miami, FI " zovernment would rioting. erica 1 the | mean recogn of the Huerta gov- 1¢d azain to | ernment, there would he no American ute in answer to Mexico's the country ma is that when Pres- himself filmly, as ere will be no been Governor Fielder of New Jers: signed the Edge bill compelling roads to provide protection to the pu lic at all grade crossings within three | c months. ey | routine. Aerial lines between cities in # United States ing of bility of allow- hips, now enroute *foreign count ified in the charter of the Atlantic ierman ambassadors to Mexican waters, to proceed regard- al Navigation® Co. capitaitsed. +t who iearned less of the acceptince of Huerta’s of- ,000 at Trenton | the serious inten- | fer, many members of CODETeSS ex- | etar: 3 | préssed the opini the admin _Fearing an outbreak of smallpox the | all had brought at istration proposes to keep a firmer New Jersey By of Health urged t national | hand on the situation In the future and, vaccination of a pe living in | readiness to stand that further reasons for vigorous ac- Pamberton, _Sykes Wrightyille, | tion upholding the president’s position. | tion may develop at any time. J town and Colubiis. | itliam Hahn, a New York burglar | HEARING ON PANAMA | GEN. COXEY’S “ARMY™ prison, was sentenced e COMMISSARY SCANDOL. IS DWINDLING FAST. ment, was sentence e | Board of Inquiry Held Its First Ses-| But a Score Left of the 200 Who session Yesterday. Started on March to Washingtom. . Rudolph P. Mi e — intendent of Buildings for Manhattan, | Conlon, April 16—The board of in-| Canton, Ohio, April » 16— “General® to assist the Building Committec quiry appointed to I ko evidence | Jacob S. Coxey’s “army of unemploy- the Board of Alderman in a revision | Which John Burke, m 3 awindled from 206 to a scoro of of the Building Code. of the commissary T privates camped here tomizht, Prepara- Panama Canal, has prom John N. Anhut, a lawyer convicted of mit to prove his bribery in connection with one of Har- | charges made < ry K. Thaw’s attempts to get out of | tion with the commis sent to the Tombs un- | its first session t point. When composed of Colonel Harry I , | Massilon, Ohio, Captain Frank O. Whilock and -l found that only a s About 200 hotel men, members of the | tenant Frederick deas Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Associa- | ent of the Panana railroad. tory to sta its march The march | 2. m. with econi lex of 02 tomerrow. sumed at $.30 ® as the objective ieft his scme im mo..ing it was 1 percentsze of the followers he had counted em | were in line. Several had gope on sail from New York on the | It is understood | ahead by way of convenient ‘relghts. jeorge Washington for a two | mitted However, the racks wers swelled by months’ tour of the continent. deposited Massilon 1 and whea “Gen- i ates arn eral” and ey 521 into Horace Hervey, a Socialist of Tren- | a Coxey’s old n and the “ ton, N. J., went t rather than | mate iransac eral” gave the signal to start by eluck. pay $416 in tolt taxes, was released that he nrodaz>l evilancs t ing to the old mare, ne had a fairiy when the money. sent b; was received by the tax_collector. s innar..e was po for,” | that part wite ard s | eonsiderabie wara Lorenzo B. Adams, former business | large command. The marchers found the roads between Massilon and Can- fore he eame|ton very bads Squar aftér squad anama dropped out. | associate of Al Adams, the policy kine is_exprcied that the board willl On his arrival here Coxey made am . aded guilty in New York to usin several sosuns and will then Te- j address in the PuNi> square. < to defraud and was sentenc. to Gova~ s ! == months imprisonment and | —_— = i OBITUARY, o) Coogan Hartford’s Corporation Counsel | United States Customs Officials in | Martford, C: April 16—Ma Philadelphia unearthed t for | Joseph H. Lawl ' smuggling opium through the arrest | nounced the appointment of McLeod, president of the of Ah Mon and Ruh Tie, two China- | Coogan to be corl n counsel of | Trust eompany, died ionight, Air. Alc- mer They recovered ~more than Hartford. succeedi “dward L.| Leod, who was born in Scotland 64 2,600} wortl of ‘the deag: Steele. who held offic r Mayoriyears ago, had been identified with Angus MeLeod. | Newport, R. I, April Cheney. The salary )0 @ vear business and banking interests for A Silver Loving Cup was presented @nd it is the bi 1 plum in| nearly forty years. One of his sons vesterday to the Brs and men of | the Sift of the mave r. Coogan is William_ was mayor of Newport last | the batteship New York., which went | One ¢ e older law of city | year. | into commission Tuesdoy at the Brook- | and standing well in his profession. Iyn pavy yard, by the members of the Frigate Constitu chapte National Society of Uni Daughters of 151 = of Bank Robbers. Ty el | $9,000,000 More for Chewing Gum Tkan Bingham, Utah, April 16—One of 5 >\ for Reli two robbers wha heldup the Miners = | sSaratega, N. Y. Mercantile store late last night, shot “Wo Do Not Know What We Will | assertion tiis and killed Eugene Ailen, an employe, b _— on Tra e called upon to do | 806 more for chewing | Who frustrated their attempt to rob g o e i g 2r¢ | than all the Christia | the place. Officers are following the Rear Admiral Charies . T Chent | nominations gave for N | trail across the mountains. A doctor mander in_ct Trov Method ening on horseback to the scene of the shooting ran over and serious- Iy injured Mrs, Willlam Schaaf, mem- ber of an excursion party visiting in Bingham. had {v make as his ships steamed out | conference, now holding iis $2d an of Hampton Roads for Mestcu. meeting here, urged the clergy iy to put into operation plan designed to increas nevolences, ‘ The Provisional Constituticn of the e I pending, wc- n received yes- emiah W e Typhus Fever in Steerage. Jenas,| Stay of Execution for Frank. | New York, April 16.—The Fabre line cording to a cablegr terday by Prof. J , Ga., Apr | steamship Madenna, which arrived to- | nese government, from Welington Ku. jsleo M. Frank, the young factory su- ‘da_\' from Marseilles, Naples and Prov- general seoretars of the Wal-Chiao- | perintendent sentenced o hang fomor- | idence, R, I, was detained at quar- Pu. or department of foreign affalrs, at | row for the murder of 14 vear vid Mary | antine owing' to three edses af ty P Peking. | Phagan, was stayed today, fever' among her Steeragh cugasd ¥, < 5 $ -~ HATY g Tt b b