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VOL. LV. NO. 15
NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1913
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MYLIUS BARRED FROM THE COUNTRY
Secretary Nagel Decides That His Libel of King
George Involved
DOES NOT CONSIDER
Declares It Was Not Part of a
Who Was Alleged to Have Figured in Morganatic Mar
riage Pronounced Story
Journalist Has Right
Washington, Jan. 16. Edward F.
Mylius, the Journalist convicted in Lon
don of libeling King George V for
which he paid a penalty of ten months
In prison, was ordered turned away
from the gates of the United States
today by Charles Nagel, secretary of
commerce and labor, as an undesir
able immigrant within the meaning of
.American immigration laws.
Claimed It Waa Political Crime.
The cabinet official' held that My
lins' offense was a crime involving
moral turpitude which haired his ad
mission to the shores of this country.
He denied the contention that It was
a purely political crime, excepted by
the statutes. Only appeal to the courts
can now stay Myliu3' deportation.
Secretary Nagel's Contention.
"I cannot assume," said Secretary
Nagel In his decision, "that a law
which excludes anarchists and per
sons who advocate the overthrow of
government or the assassination of
public officials, was intended to ad
mit the publisher of a false charge
of bigamy simply because he ad
vances a political purpose or motive
for the act, , or because th-3 false
charge was directed against & king,
among others, or because the court
In which the trial was had regarded
the political aspect of the case as an
aggravation of the offense."
Argued London Trial Was Farce.
Proponents of Mylius advanced -the
defense that he was convicted of sedi
tious -libef a political crime; that his
trial in London had been a farce;
that In circulating a story attacking
the honor of the king of England he
was aiming' a blow at monarchical
frovernment In the interest of repub
icanism which should make him a
welcome visitor to a free country.
Purpose of Libelous Story.
The alleged libelous story, published
In the Paris Liberator, and for the
distribution of which in England My
lius was convicted, charged that
George v., when a prince, contracted a
morganatic marriasre in 1S90 with the
daughter of Sir Michael Cu7me-Sey-tnour,
an admiral of the British navy,
bow the wife of Captain Trevelyan
fiapier.
Not Barred from England.
In ordering the deportation of the
Journalist, Secretary Nagel was con
fronted with the unique situation that
though Mylius was not eligible to en
ter America he was not barred from
returning to England, where his al
leged crime was committed.
TO GIVE PUBLIC
BETTER P'CTURES.
Purpose of Organizing the So-C
Moving Picture Trust.
lied
New Tork.' Jan. 16. How and why
Independent movinpr picture companies
were combined or absorbed to form the
alleged moving picture "tru3t" in De
cember, 1908, was told on the stand
today by Henry N. Marvin, president
of the American Biograph company
and of the Motion Picture Patents
company, a witness in the government
uit to dissolve the "trust."
Mr. Marvin In answer to questions
paid the e-eneral film company was not
organized for profit.
"The company," he testified, "was
organized by the manufacturers to
protect the exhibitor and to give the
public bettpr pictures. It was not or
ganized for-profit, and In fact the man
ufacturers thought they would lose
money by it."
Before the combination was accom
plished there were 150 independent
companies in the United States, said
Marvin. 'Of the onlv 116 were
licensed, the witness conceded, and the
' others went out of ' business, after
which the ---nufaeturers organized the
oeneraj rum company, buying 57 of
the 11 licensed exchanges and cancel
ing the licenses of many others. Many
exchanges went out of business after
that, testified Marvin, and the General
Film company acquired the business
of practically all of the original 150
. companies.
BILL AIMED AT
POWDER TRUST
fhfbits Army from Paying Over
Cents a Pound for Powder.
53
!
Washington, Jan. 16. A drastic pro
Vision aimed at the so-called powder
trust, following testimony alleging that
the DuPont Powder company maintains
a lobby here and spends hundreds of
thousands of dollars in Washington,
features the fortification appropriation
bill reported to the house today.
The bill which carries an aggregate
of $5,218,250, a bag: cut from the
army's estimates, directs that no part
f the appropriation shall be expend
ed "for powder, other than small arms
powder at a price in excess of 53 cents
a pound."
Both the army and navy powder
plants at Picatinny arsenal and In
dian Head respectively arj making
powder at much less than the sixty
cents which the government now pays
per pound to the DuPont Powder com
pany of Wilmington, Del.
GOVERNOR SULZER TO
HEAR BRANDT'S STORY!
8chiff Former Valet to Appear Before
Him Today.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 16 Folke E.
Brandt. Mortimer L. Schriffs former
valet, was brought from Clinton prison
today to be present tomorrow at a
hearing to be given by Governor Sul
eer on Brandt's application for clem
ency. The governor's statements that he
intended to see that "substantial Jus
tice" is done in the Brandt case,
coupled with the unusual proceedings
of having applicant for clemency ap
pear personally before him, indicate,
according to the general expressed
opinion, that the governor will exer
cise clemency in Brandt's behalf and
fkat be will not b returned to prison.
Moral Turpitude
IT POLITICAL OFFENCE
Political Controversy Woman
Untrue in London Court
to Appeal to the Courts.
"It Is admitted," eaid the secretary,
"that this alien was accused of hav
ing published a libel charging the king
with bigamy; that he was tried be
fore a Jury; convicted and sentenced
and that he served his term.
Only Question at Issue.
"This record Is, therefore, conclu
sive with respect to everv question
but one. It cannot be doubted that
the offense for which the alien was
convicted is of the character described
in our statute as a ground for" ex
clusion. "The only question left for discus
sion is whether the offense should be
regarded as "purely political, not in
volving moral turpitude' and there
fore meets the exception in the stat
ute. "Primarily a false charge of bigamy
is a common crime, in this instance
that charge was directed, not only
against the king, but ..by inference
against Mrs. Napier.
Story Denied by Mrs. Napier.
"While a conviction in a properly
constituted court of a civilized coun
try is for all purposes conclusive upon
us in the consideration of such cases,
it is proper to add that the alien ad
mits the circulation of the libel, that
at the trial that Mrs. Napier, her
father and her brother, and other wit
nesses testified without contradiction
on cross examination to its entire un- j
truth. The sole argument so advanced
in iavor or treating this offense as a
purely political one is that the writer
of the article in Paris and Mr. My
lius in England, intended it as an
attack upon a phase of monarchical
institution and in Justification of good
morals and true religion; and that the
crown in its proceeding treated it as
a political offense.
Not Part of Political Controversy.
"I have not found a clear defini
tion of 'political offense. The accepted
rule seems to be that, to constitute
a political offense, it is necessary to
show something in the nature of "con
certed action."
- The alleged crime- lacked this char
acter, the secretary further said, and
was not a part of a political contro
versy, an uprising or a common move
ment, but Myllua depended entirely
upon his avowed motive or purpose
to give nis act the required political
character.
'"If such a contention is to be ac
cepted," added Mr. Nagel, "there is no
crime in the calendar which cannot
be provided with the nroner enlorine-
I by the offender himself."
MONEY CONCENTRATION
SHOULD NOT BE CHECKED.
Jacob H. Schiff Believes Individuals
Should Enjoy That Liberty.
Washington, Jan. 16. Liberty of in
dividuals to conoentrate money and
power to the limit of their ability was
advocated today before the house mon
ey trust committee by Jacob H. Schiff
of the New York banking firm of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Mr. Schiff declared that individuals
should be- allowed to exert their ut
most efforts to concentrate fortunes
and power until the "laws of nature
caused the attempted monoply to fall
of its own weight." He was opposed,
however, to concentration through cor
porations and holding companies. Mr.
Schiff could not say whether concen
tration had as yet reached a point
where it was dangerous.
The New York bond financier fol
lowed George A. Reynolds of Chicago
on the stand. Mr. Reynolds told the
committee he had studied the concen
tration of money and credit, and that
he believed, at the point it had now
reached, it was "a menace to the prog
ress of the country." He said that
competition in banking should be re
vived. ST. JOSEPH, MO., GETS THE
BATHTUB OF THE MAINE.
Was First City to Put in an Applica
tion for the Relic.
Washington, Jan. 16. Within an hour
after the newspapers had appeared to
day announcing that the navy depart
ment had an available Maine relic in
the shape of a bathtub, the city of St.
Joseph, Mo., wired a peremptory claim
to the department. Standing by his
pledge of "first come, first served,
Captain Leigh, In charge of the relics,
allotted the bathtub to the Missouri
town.
TAUNTED MAN TURNS
UPON HIS PERSECUTORS.
Haverhill Shoe Worker Shoots Fellow
Worker Who Was on Strike.
Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 16. Angered
by the taunts of a group of striking
shoe workers who followed him home
from the shoe factory where he was
employed, Charles A. Eaton is alleged
to have shot and seriously wounded
Joseph Harris, one of the strikers, to
night. The revolver bullet Itjit Harris
in the abdomen. Eaton surrendered to
the police and was held on a charge of
assault witn a dangerous weapon.
Three hundred shoe operatives went
on strike at a number of factories
three weeks ago. They demanded rec
ognition of the union and the abolition
of the blacklist.
OBITUARY.
Nelson P. Hinman of Meriden..
Meriden, Conn., Jan. 16. Nelson "P.
Hinman, aged 68, son of the late
Franklin and Phoebe Hinman, died
here tonight after a week's illness in
grip which resulted in fatal complica
tions. Mr. Hinman had been employ
ed as bookkeeper by the International
Silver company for more than 35 years.
His mother died about a month ago at
the ag6 of 90 years. He was a brother
of the late City Attorney Leverett C.
Hinman, who died four years ago.
All lan.ds to be planted to fruit next
spring should be heavily manured dur
ing the wiateiv
Cabled Paragraphs;
Archbishop Sot on Received by Pope.
- Rome, Jan. 16. The Most Rev. Rob
ertr Seton, titular archbishop of Hello
polis and formerly of New Jersey, was
received by the pope this morning'.
New Potash Bill Being Framed.
Berlin, Jan. 16. The German govern
ment is preparing a new potash bill
which is designed to restrict produc
tion, according to a statement made
by Clemens Delbrueck, minister of the
interior.
v , Atlantic Steamship Pool.
Antwerp, Belgium, Jan. 16. The At
lantic steamship pool has been practi
cally dissolved, according to the Nep
tune, by the Canadian Pacific compa
ny s decision to inaugurate a new ser
vice between Trieste and Canada, and
the Hamburg-American line s an
nouncement of a new line of steamers
between Hamburg and Boston.
WANTS INAUGURAL
BALL ABOLISHED
President-elect Wilson Writes
Chairman of Committee.
to
Trenton. N. J., Jan. 16. President
elect Wilson favors the abolishment of
the inaugural ball. This became known
today when he sent a letter to Wil
liam Corcoran Eustis at Washington,
chairman of the inauguration commit
tee, asking him to consider the feas
ibility of omitting the ball as a feat
ure of the inauguration ceremonies.
Mr. Wilson's lett-er follows: '
"My Dear Mr. Eustis: After taking
counsel with a great many persons
and assessing as well as I eourti gen
eral opinion in the matter, Ihave
come to the conclusion that it is my
duty to ask you to consider the feas
ibility of omitting the, inauguration
ball altogether.
I do this with a great deal of
hesitation, because I do not wi?-to
interfere with settled practices or with
reasonable expectations of those .who
usually go to -enjoy the inauguration,
but it has come to wear the aspect
of a sort of public duty, because of
the large indirect expense upon the
government incidental to it and be
cause these balls have ceased to be
necessary to the enjoyment of the vis
itors.
"I hope most sincerely that this re
quest will in no way embarrass you
and that I have not too long delayed
in making the suggestion.
ith cordial regards,
"Sincerely yours,
"WOODROW WILSON."
"RATHER LATE DATE."
Chairman Hamilton Says Wilson's Re
quest Is "Remarkable'
Washington. Jan. 16. President
elect Wiison"s letter to William Cor
coran Eustis. chairman of the inaug
ural committee, suggesting the feas
ibility of abolishing the inaugural ball,
had not been received by Mr. Eustis
at a late hour tonight. Mr. Eustis,
together with other officials having'
in charge the inaugural plans, were
greatly surprised when informed of
the suggestion of the president-elect.
Mr. Eustis declined, however, to ex
press any comment because the letter
had not reached him. He immediately
got in touch with George E. Hamil
ton, chairman of the finance commit
tee of the inaugural committee, and
arranged to 'have a meeting of all the
inaugural officials early tomorrow to
consider Governor Wilson's proposal.
Mr. Hamilton declared Mr. Wilson's
suggestion to be "remarkable coming
at this late date."
PASSENGERS SAVED
WITH
LIFE LINES
Sixteen Thrown from Basket, How
ever, and Probably Perished.
Vigo, Spain, Jan. 16. The British
steamer Veronese with 139 passengers
on board was wrecked early this morn
ing off Leixoes. the outport of Oporto.
Eighty -four of the passengers were
saved by life lines from shore, but it
is reported that sixteen were thrown
out of the basket and perished.
The steamer Hollandia stood by the
Veronese all morning, but the tremen
dous seas made it impossible to ren
der any assistance. The stranded ves
sel could not be reached by boats,
but finally the life savers managed
to get their lines aboard.
When the Hollandia left the work of
rescue was still going on, but it was
feared that the ship would break up
rapidly.
The Veronese was bound, from Glas
gow to Grazit and thence to New
York. h.Se is owned by the Lamport
and Holt line.
SEPARATED IN INFANCY
TO MEET AFTER 40 YEARS
Meriden Woman Learns Whereabouts
of Her Sister.
Meriden, Conn., Jan. 16. Mrs. Jabee
Lee, of this city, learned today through
the morning paper that her sister, Miss
Annie R. Mewes of Philadelphia, whom
she has not seen in forty years and
whom she considered had died in in
fancy, was alive. Miss M-ewes has
been making a country-wide search
for her sister and has at last been
rewarded. Mrs. Lee has written to her
long lost sister and there will be an
affecting reunion soon. Mrs. Lee says
that, she and her sister became sep
arated In infancy and she had always
been told by relatives, her father and
mother having died early in her in
fancy, that her sister was dead.
PANAMA FORTIFICATIONS
WILL COST $15,000,000,
War Department Asks For $6,700,000
For the First Year.
Washington, Jan. 16 Colonel
George W. Goethals, chairman of the
Isthmian Canal commission, told the
house of the progress of the Panama
canal over- which he expects to send a
ship or two experimentally next au
tumn. He and half a dozen bureau
chiefs of the war deparement spent
the day at the capitol explaining the
official estimates of $6,700,000 that the
government wants provided for in the
coming sundry civil appropriation bill,
to cover fortification, batteries, camps
and the like during the next fiscal year.
Ultimately the fortification expense is
estimated at $15,000,000. The date set
for opening the canal to commerce is
January 1, 1915.
' BULGARIA NEEDS $40,000,000.
Minister of Finance in Russia to Raise
a Loan.
St. Petersburg. Jan. 16. The Bulgar
ian minister of finance. T. Theodoroff.
about whose mission to St. Petersburg
there has been much mystery, declared
today that the purpose of his trio
here and to other European capitals
was to arrange for a Bulgarian loan
after the war had ceased. The sum
necessary, he said, would amount to
more than 200,600,000 francs (approx
imately J 40,000,000)-
New York Now
Strike-Ridden
NEARLY 200,000 NOW OUT, MORE
COMING.
THREE BIG STRIKES ON
Railroad Trouble at Yonkers Settled
Jewish Reporters Catch the Strike
Fever Hotel Workers Vote for Strike
New York, Jan. 1. Strikes in three
big industries axe progressing in this
city, and efforts of various mediatory
bodies to settle the differences between
employers and employes and put the
nearly 200,000 persons involved back
at work again, had accomplished noth
ing up to tonight. . A fourth strike
which had tied up trolley service In a
suburb for two weeks or more was
settled today. Summed up, the situa
tion tonight is as follows:
150,000 Garment Workers Out
More than 150,000 workers are in
volved in the great strike In- the gar
ment making industry, the chief among
tne laDor troubles which has been in
progress for weeks and has grown rap -
idly in proportions in the last few
days. Continued conferences today
had no apparent result towards ending
the strike.
Several hundred waiters, cooks and
hotel employes have been on strike
since early this month.
More Hotel Help to Strike.
Tonight a committee of thirty rep
resenting the International Hotel
Workers' union and the Industrial
Workers of the World, including Jo
seph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, was
in conrerence to decide whether to is
sue a strike order calling out 12,000
waiters, cooks and helpers of various
classes in an effort to tie up the hotels
and restaurants of the city in enforc
Ing wage and other demands of the
men. By a vote of 10 to 1 about 5,000
hotel employes earlier in the day had
voted in -favor of the proposed strike
order, It was announced.
Yonkers Railroad Resumes.
Car wheels turned for the ' Yonkers
Railroad company today for the first
time this year. The difference between
the company and the men who struck
on December 31 were settled by inter
vention of the public service commis
sion. The strikers agreed to resume
work on satisfactory terms with the
understanding that ony future differ
ences are to be submitted to arbitra
tion. Jewish Reporters Quit.
Reporters and other writers on the
Jewish daily newspapers of the city
today added another strike to the labor
unrest. Editors-in-chief, city editors
and even stockholders are gathering
and writing the news for these papers,
and the proprietors declared the edi
tions would be issued as early as usual.
The strikers, members of the Jewish
Writers' union, demand a minimum
wage scale of $25 weekly; ari agree
ment that no reporter shall be forced
to write more than three columns a
day and less blue pencilling of copy by
the editors.
Possibility of Firemen's Strike.
In addition to these strikes, negotia
tions between railroad managers and
35.000 firemen , on fifty-four eastern
railroads far a settlement of the men's
demands for increased pay and better
working i conditions which, have been
in progress here, have been suspended
and the firemen's officials in this city
are preparing to take a vote of the
men on tho question of striking.
FRANCE TO ELECT
PRESIDENT TODAY
Result
in Doubt, but Lies
Poincare and Pams.
Between
Paris, Jan. 16. A president of France
will be chosen tomorrow by the mem
bers of the chamber of deputies and
of the senate sitting together as the
national assembly at Versailles. The
eve of the election finds the situa
tion as respects the candidates as In
volved as it was at the beginning.
The Joint caucus to nominate a can
didate for the presidency ended today
without giving an absolute majority
to either Premier Poincare or Jules
Pams, the minister of Agriculture and
it is impossible to forecast tomor
row's result, though apparently the
election lies between these two offi
cials. The third ballot taken this af
ternoon gave Premier Poincare 309
votes while M. Pams received 313.
It is thought, however, that the
radical left may bring forward a new
candidate, or revive the candidacy of
Antonin Dubust, president of the sen
ate, or ex-Premier Ribot, if M. Pams
does not win on the first ballot, for
which, it must be remembered, the so
cialist, Eduardo Vaillant, stands.
It is explained that the uncertain
situation is due to the fact that a
large number of M. Poincare's sup
porters would on no account vote for
M. Pams. if the premier withdrew
while none of the opponents of Pro
portional representation, who support
the candidacy of M. Pams, would vote
for Premier Poincare, if the minister
of agriculture retired.
ORDERED PRINT AND .
MOP BY PARCEL
POST,
Rural Folks Regard It is a Paternalis
tic Shopping Service.
Washington, Jan. 16. Reports from
rural free delivery carriers indicate
that the rural population seemingly has
accepted the parcel post as a sort of
paternalistic messenger service. A
Vermont postmaster reported that one
of his rural carriers found in one farm
letterbox beside tne road a note at
tached to a scrap of calico. The not&
read:
"Please get me five yards of colored
priift as per sample, and also buy me
a mop wringer, i win pay wnen you
bring them."
In another waysiae nox was rouna
a dollar bill appended to a note which
instructed the carrier as a representa
tive of the parcel post to deliver two
boxes, of patent medicine, and five
lengths of stovepipe from the adjacent
town. Postoffice officials said today
that when the parcel post advantages
are apparent there will be no friction.
" Steamship Arrivals,
Genoa. Jan, 12. Arrived, steamer
Ancona, New York.
Naples. Jan. 13. Arrivea, steamer
Mendoza, New Tork.
- Trieste, Jan. 13.. .Arrived, steamer
Martha Washington, New Tork.
Madeira, Jan. 16. .Arrived, steamer
Adriatic, -New York for Naples.
Copenhagen. Jan, is. Arrived.
steamers Russia, New Tork; for Ll-
bau;- lath, woamer Weuig (J lav. New
Xvry
Home Rule Up
to the Lords
BILL PASSES THIRD READING IN
COMMONS.
A VOTE OF 367 TO 257
Announcement of Figures Followed by
Cheers for Redmond and Asquith
Belfast Orangemen Make a Stir.
London, Jan. 16. After a long, stern
battle, the home rule-bill passed the
house of commons tonight by a ma
jority of 110. It was later read for the
first time in the house of lords.
, There were two divisions in the low
er house. Mr. Balfour's motion for its
rejection was defeated, 258 to 368, while
the third reading was carried by a vote
of 367 to 257. one member of each, side
having left the house in the interval.
Fate Sealed in House of Lords.
The result of the division was too
much a foregone conclusion for a tre
mendous demonstration, but. Irishmen
inside and outside of the house did
their best. and. assisted by the liberals
I and laborites, gave the measure for
which they had waited and worked so
long a good sendoft on its way to tne
house of lords, where its fate is cer
tainly sealed.
Series of Brilliant Speeches.
The division was preceded by an
other series of brilliant speeches by the
political leaders, among whom were
Frederick E. Smith and the solicitor
general, Sir John A. Simon, two of the
cleverest among the younger members,
and the veterans, John E. Redmond,
Timothy Healy and Augustine Birrell,
chief secretary for Ireland.
The House Crowded.
The house was crowded throughout
the day. The nationalists were only
one short of their full strength, Jo
seph P. Nannetti being prevented from
attending by a paralytic attack which
he suffered today. Several of the older
nationalists who are seldom able to
attend came over from Ireland for the
division.
The liberals and laborites, too, turn
ed out in force and the unionists were
not far below their total membership.
The galleries likewise were filled to
their capacity, those occupying seats
including many dignitaries of the
church and the Bulgarian peace pleni
potentiaries. Cheers for Redmond and Asquith.
When the figures were announced
the nationalists waved hats, handker
chiefs -and papers and cheered lustily
for Premier Asquith and Mr. Redmond.
The latter, who is usually impassive,
was caried away by the enthusiasm
of-his followers and entered 'into the
spirit of the demonstrations as effu
sively as they.
Those who crowded the lobbies re
ceived the figures with another roar of
welcome and followed this by cheering
the bill itself as a copy was carried by
an official from the commons to the
lords.
Measure Received by Lords.
The upper house met especially to
receive the measure and formally pass
ed its first reading.
The house of commons soon quieted
after the Irish demonstration, but out
side the crowd, continued to cheer for
some time. A strong force of police
prevented any attempt at an organized
demonstration, fearing a clash between
the opposing factions. The nationalist
songs and cheers brought forth counter
cries from the public who had gather
ed largely out of curiosity.
Anti-Home Rule Demonstration.
An anti-home rule demonstration
was held in the streets of Belfast to
night and a copy of the bill burned
amid deafening cheers. Intense excite
ment prevailed, but there was no dis
order.
ORANGEMEN
DEMONSTRATE.
Revolvers
Discharged and
Shot at Belfast.
One Man
Belfast, Ireland, Jan. 16. Thousands
of orangenlen and members of unionist
clubs held' demonstrations outside city
hall this evening and burned a copy
of the home rule bill: There was
much firing of revolvers, mostly blank
cartridges, but one man was shot in
the back and is in a critical condi
tion. There were no further disorders, but
bands paraded the streets until mid
night. "A
MOST WICKED PLOT"
BY NEW YORK POLICE.
Whitman Exposes Their Underhanded
Methods in Sipp Case.
New York, Jan. 16. Denouncing as
"a most wicked plot" the arrest in At
lantic City of George A. Sipp, the hotel
keeper who fled to the New Jersey
resort after giving evidence before an
aldermanic committee that he had pail
for police protection for his resort.
District Attorney Whitman today de
clared in a statement that there had
been a conspiracy to render worthless
Sipp's testimony before the grand jury.
This conspiracy, according to Sipp's
later testimony before the grand jury,
involved two attorneys who are al
leged to have paid him $700 to leave
the jurisdiction of the courts of this
county.
The district attorney declared in his
statement that had the plan succeeded
of having Sipp Indicted by the grand
jury for a crime alleged to have been
committed four years ago and charged
to him by the police, his evidence
against Patrolman Fox, later indicted
by the grand jury for bribery through
the testimony of Sipp and others,
would have been worthless. After
stating that the police charge against
Sipp had been disproved before the
grand jury, Mr. Whitman said:
"The outrageous abuse of legal
process by which Sipp was arested and
imprisoned in Atlantic City was re
sorted to not for the purpose of as
sisting the people of the state of New
York, but of assisting a-police officer
accused ' of bribery.
"After his discharge Sipp came back
willingly, asking only to be protected
until he could testify before the grand
jury from the very people who now
pretend that they wanted to bring him
back a prisoner so that he could testi
fy." . Connecticut Messenger Arrives.
(Special to The Bulletin.) .
- Washington, D. C, Jan. 16.
Frank W. Lynch of Hartford, the
messenger selected by the electors of
the state of Connecticut, called at the
room of the president of the senate,
yesterday, and deposited the vole of
the state for Wilson and Marshall. He
received the sum of $84.75, being at
the -rate of 25 cents per mile for the
235 miles between Hartford and Waeh-
Condensed Teief s
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Official Statistics Published in France
show that. 4,150,000 women and girls
earn their living in France.
Officials of the Detective Bureau in
Chicago are preparing a great round
up of the crooks in the city.
Dr. Thaddeus S. Lowe, scientist and
inventor, died yesterday at the home
of his daughter, Pasadena, Cal.
Postmaster General Hitchcock last
night entertained at his annual cabi
net dinner in honor of the president
and Mrs. Taft.
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The Brooklyn Navy Yard Restaurant
was turned over to the sailors on a
co-operative basis. It was sold to 1,000
men at a dollar a share.
The New Hampshire Legislature
balloted for the third time yesterday
without electing a United States sena
tor to succeed Henry E. Burnham, re
publican. Samuel R. Brick, Sr., of Philadel
phia, who was recently elected presi
dent of the Masonic Veteran associa
tion of Pennsylvania, died yesterday at
Bayonne, N. J.
Emilio Aguinaldo, the former Philip
pine outlaw, aspires to be president of
the islands in case the Jones bill,
granting autonomy to the Philippines,
becomes a law.
The Rev. Frank Horn, pastor of a
Richmond, Cal., church, sued by a
woman who declares he married and
deserted her. asserts that his twin
brother married the woman.
W. J. Henry of Philadelphia, an egg
expert, employed by the Housekeepers'
league, declared that fresh eggs would
soon sell at 28 cents a dozen, as deal
ers will be forced to cut prices again.
Senator Root in the Senate yesterday
entered vigorous denial of a . speech
which he is alleged to have made re
garding relations between the United
States and Central and South American
countries.
Railroad Officials expressed the opin
ion yesterday that because of the fail
ure of mediation by the federal labor
commission it was improbable that the
demands of the firemen on eastern rail
roads would be granted.
Representative Reilly has been made
a. member of the committee of "high
waymen" appointed from the members
elect of the 63d congress, whoso duty it
is to go over "and examine and report
upon the good roads bills now pending
before congress.
Floyd and Claude Allen, the two
Hillsville gunmen, sentenced to die to
day for their part in the Carroll Court
House murders last March, were again
reprieved yesterday by Governor Mann,
who has agreed to hear argument Feb.
1 in favor of commutation.
Anxiety Over the Steamer Ramore
Head, of the Head, line, 27 days out
from Port Talbot, Wales, for St. John,
was allayed yesterday when a wireless
message was received from the steam
er Rappahannock saying she had been
In communication with the Ramore
Head.
If the Christian Church at Los An
geles accepts any assistance from John
D. Rockefeller, personally, or from the
Rockefeller educational foundation, it
will forfeit a bequest of $75,000 left the
university extension work, according to
the will of the late Thomas W. Phillips
of Newcastle. Pa.
BALKAN SITUATION
IS AT A
STANDSTILL.
Collective Note of Powers Not Yet Re
ceived at Constantinople."
London, Jan. 16. Another day has
passed without progress in the peace
negotiations. The ambassadors of the
powers have not yet presented their
collective note to the porte. Constan
tinonle despatches say that the delay
is due to the failure of the German
ambassador to receive instructions
from his government.
Part of the European press blames
Germany, charging that she is stand
ing outside the concert of Europe and
plavine: a erame of her own. The am
bassadors at London deny this. One
said today:
"This suggestion is wholly unjust
Thank God, the most promising fea
ture of the situation is that all tne
powers are marching together."
Considerable difficulty has been ex
perienced in carrying on an exchange
of views through code telegrams, and
this is explained to be the real cause
of the delay. The fact that King Fer
dinand of Bulgaria with his ministers
journeyed to Mustapha Pasha for a
council of war yesterday with General
Savoff and the commanders of the four
Bulgarian armies is considered as
proof that the Bulgarians' threat to be
gin the war soon is in earnest.
Dr. Daneff. the chief Bulgarian en
voy. has received a long cipher tele
gram from the premier, telling of King
Ferdinand's visit and describing the
condition of the armies besieging Adri
anople and facing Tchatalja. The Bui
garian soldiers, says the premier, are
in high spirits and are eager to meas
ure themselves against their tradition
al foes again.
Fugitives, all claiming to be soldiers,
are escaping from Adrianople in such
numbers that the Bulgarians suspect
a strateem on the part of Shukri
Pasha, the Turkish commandant, to rid
himself of the burden of feeding civil
ians by sending them out as deserting
soldiers.
RAILROAD BRIDGE MAY
CROSS WARD'S fsLAND
New York Supreme ' Court Vacates
Temporary Injunction.
New York, Jan. 16. A barrier which
stood in the way of construction work
on the great railroad bridge across the
East river, crossing Ward's Island
and connecting the Pennsylvania rail
road and New Haven railroad systems,
was removed by cotirt action today.
Justice McCall in the supreme court
vacated a temporary injunction ob
tained by the authorities of the Man
hattan state hospital for the Insane
on Ward's Island, who claimed a state
law prevented any railroad from cross
ing the lands of a state hospital with
out permission by special legislation.
The court held that there was no
ground for the complaint as the law
pirmitting the building of the bridge
was passed , two years previous to the
act quoted by the hospital authorities
who asserted the construction ol such
a bridge would seriously affect the
health of the inmates of the Insti
tution. . '
Accepts Call to Meriden Church.
Meriden, Jan. 16. The Rev. Paul
Kirch of Brooklyn. N. T., has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the Ger
man Emanuel Lutheran church in this
city. He succeeds the Rev. C. R. Tap
pert, who has resigned to go "to a
church in Berlin, Ontario. The Rev.
Mr. Kirch will take up his duties here
next weo
PULLMAN SIPESWIPED BY A FREIGHT
Rear Car of B. & A- Express Left Iron and Bounced
Along Into Path of Other Train
TWENTY PERSONS INJURED, EIGHT SERIOUSLY
Colored Porter Sustained Fractured Skull and May Dkj Pas
senger Train Jumped Switch at Charltoli Depot Freight
Engineer Unable to Avert the Collision- One Sid; of
Pullman Torn Off Woman Rescued by Window.
Springfield, Mass., Jan. 16. Eight
persons were seriously injured and
twelve others suffered minor hurts to
night when a Pullman ear of a pas
senger train bound from Boston for
Albany, jumped a switch at Charl
ton Depot and was sideswiped by an
eastbound freight.
Porter's Injuries Probably Fatal.
The wrecked Pullman Car was un
coupled and the train was rushed to
this city, where the injured were taken
to a hospital. J. N. Milton, a colored
porter, suffered from a fractured skull
and the hospital authorities said he
was probably fatally injured.
Others Seriously Injured.
The other seriously injured persons
were :
Ward G. Grant of Springfield, se
vere cuts and bruises.
Charles R. Hanlan of Dorchester, left
shoulder fractured.
Walter S. Roberts of New York, in
ternal injuries.
Thomas H. Kilduff of Boston, left
arm nearly severed and bruiyes about
the body.
C. B. Potter of Springfield, injuries
about the head and body.
Miss Alice Perkins of Japringheld,
internal injuries.
INCREASE IN EXPORTS OF
COTTON AND BREADSTUFFS.
Decrease in Value of Meats and Food
Animals.
Washington. Jan. 1 6. An increase
in the value of breadstuffs and cotton
and a marked decline in the value of
meats and food animals werj the feat
ures of the exports nf 1012, which
broke all records for total value, ac
cording to the report Jocfav by the
I bureau of domestic and tloreisn com
merce.
The value of the breadstuffs .in round
figures 'was $150,000,000, ag:n'nsr, $!:!.
000,000 in 1911: of cotton $62:,00,0,000,
against $517,000,000: of mineral oils
$122,000,000. against $1 0 4.00. ,000 : of
meat and dairy products $123,000.001,
against $137,000,000, and of cattle $3,
500,000, against $ 14,r00.000.
The incren.se in breadstuffs occurred
chiefly in wheat, of which the 1912 ex
ports were 60.000,000 bushels, valued
at $32,000,000. against 50,000.000 bush
els valued at $29,000,000. Corn, how
ever, shows an equally striking de
crease, the quantity having been 30,
000,000 bushels valued at $22,000,000,
against 60,000,000 bushels valued at
$35,000,000.
The number of cattle exported was
32,626, against 14S.611 in 1911; of fresh
beef less' than 9.000,000 pounds, against
28,500,000 pounds. Other classes of
meats alsd showed a decline, though
less strongly marked than in fresh
beef.
ALLOWED $1.50 A DAY
TO LIVE IN NEW YORK.
California Witnesses Make Complaint
and Are Excused.
New York, Jan. 16. Many govern -mant
witnesses from California in the
Wisner Oil and Mining stock trial who
had complained to the court that their
allowance of $1.50 a day each was not
sufficient to pay their expenses in New
York, were excused today. Counsel for
both government, and defense agreed to
a stipulation that these witnesses
would have given testimony to show
that they had purchased mining and
oil stocks of A. L. Wisner & Co.,
upon representations that they were of
great Value.
George W. Stork, a government ex
pert accountant,- testified today that
during the years 1905, 1906 and 1907
the California Monarch Oil company
realized from its products a total of
$108,308, that it .spent $93,679, and that
in this same period the company de
clared and paid $126,840 in dividends.
OUTBREAK OF SCARLET FEVER
AT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Fifty
Students Leave
Institution for
Massachusetts
Home.
Amherst, Mass., Jan. 16. An out
break of scarlet fever at Massachu
setts Agricultural college has led to
th,e banning of all athletic games and
dances, and the isolation of students
infected and exposed to infection. J-falf
a hundred students have gone to their
home, through fear of quarantine. Ex
amination by physicians has developed
twelve suspected cases. These have
been isolated at the Kappa Gamma Phi
fraternity, while a score of students
who were exposed to contagion have
been 1 placed in the Kappa Sigma
house.
After a consultation between the
college authorities and the health au
thorities it was announced tonight that
it would be safe to continue recitations
under certain restrictions.
COLONEL M'CLERN AN D
CONFIRMED BY SENATE.
Succeeds General Wetherspoon as
Brigadier General.
Washington, Jan. 16. After two
hours' debate in executive session the
senate today confirmed the nomination
of Colonel Edward J. McCIernan of the
First cavalry to succeed General Weth
erspoon as brigadier generaL There
was no other confirmation, and the
senate adjourned with the understand
ing that immediately after the routine
business tomorrow another executive
session will be ordered for tho purpose
of further considering army promo
tions. Shop Talk at Crescent F. A. Co. -
The Mystery of Spiritual Things was
the topic of Rev. F. W. Coleman's
address at the Crescent Firearms com
pany's plant Thursday noon. Mrs.
G. T. Lord rendered in an effective
manner Constancy and Just for To
day. ' Hiss Ruth Kord. accompanied.
Joseph T. Norcross of Boston, bruises
about the body.
Nobody in Pullman Escaped.
None of the fifteen passengers in
the Pullman which was the rear car
of the train, escaped injury 'and many
of the passengers in the forward cars
were badly shaken up. Tho rear ruck
of the Pullman jumped a switch as th
train which left Boston at oi!2 ?. ni.
over the Boston and Albany raiJroad.
passed Charlton Depot. The detailed
ear bounced along over the tir.-n for
thirty yards and then rolled clo.-e to
the eastbound track directly into thr
path of an approaching freignt iraln.
The engineer of the freight was uuablo
to avoid striking the Puilman, one slda
of which was torn off.
Rescued Through Window.
The express train was brought to
a stop by the setting of the automatic
air brakes and soon the train crew
and unhurt passengers were assisting
those inside the wrecked car.
Miss Perkins, who was pinned down,
by a heavy chair, was pulled through,
a window to the ground.
Mr. Potter, a Springfield yarn man
ufacturer, waa one of the first to be
rescued.
The injured passengers wore carried:
to the other cars and brought to this
city.
JUDGE PREVENTS THE
ENFORCEMENT OF LAW.
Sensational Charge Made by Commit,
sioner of Internal Revenue.
Washington, Jan. 16. A sensational
report by Royal E. Cabell, comralarfon
er of internal revenue, to fclecrt tary
MacVeagh, teeming with caustic crit
icism of alleged whiskey frauds in,
North Carolina, and of the courE? of
the federal court presided ovnr by Dis
trict Judge Boyd of Greenshnro, N. C,
in dealin- with the conditions, waa
made public here today by the bons
committee on expenditures in tht
treasury department, which has under
taken an Investigation of the ajtua-.
tion.
Mr. Cabell describes the condl' Iom
in the case directed against T; (
Foster, a distiller e- Williams, N. C.,
and N. G. Williams, the alleged pur
chaser of the whisk?" in questioi , as
"a history of frauds against the jov
ernment, embracing debauchery of em
ployes, bribery of revenue officers and
successful theft."
The commissioner declared that
Judge Boyd has issued a, total of t ire
injunctions to restrain the governnent
from seizing and selling the whi skey
for taxes.
MUNICIPAL BUREAU
TO INFORM FARMERS,
Innovation Urged by Member of New
York Market Commission.
New York, Jan. 16. A municipal
bureau to Inform farmers all over t.he
country of the demands of the New
York produce markets and (lie bewfc
methods of packing, preparing and
transporting their products so an tu
reach the dealers and consumers liere
in prime condition, was urged toda .v by
Mrs. Elmer Black, a member of Mj .yor
Gaynor's market commission advLtory
board.
Mrs. Black's recommendation wna
made at a hearing of the connmis lion
on the advisability of establishinf a
great terminal market to relieve the
congestion of freight cars whiol, it
was stated, sometimes were held In
freight yards for a week or more be
fore their contents, because of lack of
terminal accommodations, could be de
livered to the consignees.
It was charged that these delayu re
sulted in large amounts of foodst jfrs
spoiling in transit and affording tha
dealers an opportunity to main aJn
prices artificially.
JUDGE THAYER TO
BE ONE OF BEARERS.
Funeral of Chief Justice Hall to B
Held Tomorrow.
Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. IS,- Thu
funeral of Chief Justice Frederic B.
Hall of the Connecticut supreme court
of errors, who died suddonly in H.-Jt-ford
last night, will be held Satur lay
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock from his ate
home. No. 2 SI Mill Hill avenue. Ser
vices will be in charge of Rev. Dr.
Gerald II. Beard, pastor of the ParH
Street Congregational church.
The honorary pallbearers will bo:'
Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, a former
chief Justice, and the following asso
ciate Judges of the supreme coirt:i
Samuel O. Prentice, Hartford; John
M. Thayer, Norwich; Alberto 'P. Roca
back, Canaan; George W. Wheeier,
Bridgeport, together with James P. An
drews of West Hartford, reporter of
the supreme court, and former Justices
William Hammersley of Hartford end
Silas A. Robinson of Mlddletown.
The active bearers have not. yet been
chosen.
PLEA OF POVERTY BY
EVELYN NESBIT THAW.
Her Lawyer Tells Court She is Without
Funds or Property.
New York. Jan. 16. Evelyn Nesblt
Thaw, wife of Harry K. Thaw, la no
poor to defend further a suit brouirht
against her by a firm of Fifth aveiuo
Jewelers to recover $2,041 for gwd
sold to her while her, husband was in
the Tom be awaiting his second trial
for the killing of Stanford White. She
pleaded In effect In court today
through her attorney The attorrey
told the court that Mrs. Thaw as
without funds or property. The court
ordered an inquest, which means that
the Jewelry company can obtain a
Judgment against Mrs. Thaw by eub
mitting its evidence of the debt.
Edwin I. Church, paying teller of the
Bertsen and Lafayette Trust' compare
Jersey City, was arrested yeatcrdf j
chwged wIUi stealing SM.nOa,