Norwich bulletin. [volume], April 13, 1914, Image 1

About Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011

Image provided by: Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT

                
WW
PRICE TWO CENTS
VOL. LVI. NO. 87
NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1914
The Bulletin's Circulation 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
GUNMEN'S EXECUTION SET FOR 5.45
All Hope for a Reprieve for Condemned Meir Has
Been Given Up
SEND GOOD ADVICE TO4
Governor Glynn Hears Final Appeal of Attorneys, but Re
fuses to Interfere With the Executions Men Still Stout
ly Protest Innocence of the Crime No Confession is Ex
pected, Notwithstanding Rumors to that Effect.
Albany, X. T.. April 12. The last
faint glimmer of hope that a reprieve
might be granted the four New York
gunmen passed late today.
In the executive chamber of the de
serted state capitol Governor Glynn
heard the final appeals of two attor
neys. C. G. F. Wahle and H. L. Krin
gle, for a stay of the death sentence
and then for the last time refused to
interfere with the executions.
For two hours from about three
o'cloek until live the attorneys plead
ed with the governor. They made no
appeals to his sympathies, (inly the.
new evidence that was presented be
fore Justice Goff in New York yes
terday was presented. When they had
finished, the governor and his legal
adviser, John G. Saxe. retired to a
private room and considered all the
evidence.
Then the gunmen's attorneys were
sent for. Pale and a trifle nervous,
but with a Arm voice, the governor
eair:
"Gentlemen, I am sorry, butu I can
not see my way clear to change my,
deicsion."
With their last chance to save the
punmen from the electric chair gone,
the attorneys walked slowly from the
chamber.
"It seems the boys must die," Mr.
Wah!o said. '"Unless the governor
chancres his decision before morning,
they are doomed."
"Did he hold out any; hope?" was
asked.
"No," he replied, '"on the contrary,
he said his decision was final"
Mr. Wahle then told of the nature
of his appeal, emphasizing the fact
that ihe thought the governor was
very patient.
"Tl governor seemed anxious to
knov ' every new fact in the case," he
paid, "and I tried to explain them fully.
We presented all the evidence and
affidavits produced before Judge Goff
yesterday, set forth verbally the sa
lient features of the evidence and
then pave him and his counsel the af
fidavits for their own examination.
"There is nothing: left for us to do
but continue our duties as bearers of
t&ii news. We shall telegraph - to
OnxLning and later return to Newr
York to report the governor's decision
to the relatives of the condemned
men."
Statement from Executive Chamber.
-V written statement issued at the
executive chamber follows:
"Judge Wahle renewed the applica
tion and the governor heard him for
one hour and a half.
"The application was renewed on
the same facts that were before the
g-nvernor originally and the affidavits
of new witnesses presented to Justice
Goff yesterday afternoon.
"The governor replied that there was
nothing before him to justify his in
terference with the course of the law."
The final plea was made in the ex
ecutive chamber with only the gov
rnor, his legal adviser, John G. Saxe,
the gunmen's two attorneys and Frank
A. Tierney. the governor's secretary,
jresent- The governor did not appear
after the attorneys had ieft the cham
ber. Mr. Saxe gave out the statement
and said that the governor would
have nothing more to eay.
While the attorneys were with the
grovemor a report became current that
the mother and a sister of "Oago
Frank" Cirofioi were coming here to
mce the executive. One rumor was
that rhey bore a confession from the
gunmen. Another was that they
thought a last persona! appeal to the
Kovemor might save the gunmen's
lives.
When the "nvprnnr heard this re
port, he said positively he would not
rant the women an audience. He de
eded several days ago not to talk
with any of the relatives of the con
demned m-Ti.
The women did not arrive, however,
end Mr. Wahle said he did not think
they ever had any intention of com
ing. "If fliey should ha e come," he
ITALY TO FORESTALL
RAILWAY STRIKE.
Army and Navy to Be Used to Main-
tain Order. J
Rome. April 1. In addition to the
eriny, the whole fleet will be employed
t-j facilitate communications and main
tain order in case a general strike is
inaugurated by the railway employes
on Wednesday next. In this way the
gnvf-rnrntnt hopes either to check the
trike or to minimize its effects. In
its attitude the government appears to
to supported by public opinion which
fee not favorable to that section of the
railway men which is advocating the
employment of strong coercive lutas-ur-.-f.
The various organizations of civil
eiervi' e cmp'oyes have already planned
. what points to erect barricades and
arc in readiness to take possession of
.n ious offices. They believe they have
-owe of the army on their M. Mean
wnile the p.rtuy officers ale under or
ders to j' 5:i their regiment.-;. Uetacli
m :i i s lia.(been cotK'eiii.rat'd hi tho.se
j.!aces oiiRid-rd the most dangerous,
especially in Milan and in Rome.
LTI LITi ES COMMISSION
TO INVESTIGATE WRECK
C D;r , y" Train on New Haven
rio-t' at Clayton's Saturday.
v .-v ! : :.
' " '
ti .!.:..:
cm il;: i
Tll-sd:-
of ;he ",( t
Xl.- i - :
"!a- toi.
liiii'i wa.- k
. '".;m.. April - F
! ; V.V' t ie public utili--i-'H
yii'd tt.day In- would
-ii iiy at Walerb -try on
i ii- i-aoec of the wrccn
'' n . :t on the New York,
i-;ir:ford railroad at
. : . ic which the fire
n '' i nnber of per-
Wis T..i2 ..
The ii'tii:,!;. v.1,! .. b-M at. two
Wwi hi ihe.brn-e'oC .-;.m j. ir.tendent
'itzn:.turice, who is in .:.".r.v of the
4i virion.
Tr-t. i.:- ..I" Henry Carrol'., the fire
man, will b taken to, hit home in
"w'fi IJedding. All ihc injured have
imi. Ck? hospital
THE EAST SIDE BOYS
added, "I am sure they would not have
borne a confession from Tago Frank.'
In my opinion he will have no state
ment to make."
The attorneys left for New York
tonight.
MESSAGES SENT
JO EAST SIDE BOYS
Advise Them to Avoid Bad Company
and Stick to Church and Parents.
Ossining, X. Y., April 12. Harry
Horowitz, Louis Rosenberg, Frank
Ciroiici and Frank Seidenshner have
spent their last day on earth. As the
gunmen whose picturesque aliases
were flung across the continent after
the murder of the New York gambler,
Herman Rosenthal, they die at dawn
in the electric chair at Sing Sing pris
on, convicted of that murder.
To relatives who bade them good
bye today and to their spiritual ad
visers the four condemned men again
declared their innocence and as night
settled down over the prison and the
death watch stood close about their
cells there was nothing to indicate
that they would not deny their guilt
until the end.
Which would go first to the chair
was a secret that only the warden
knew. It would depend, it was said,
upon their demeanor. He upon whom
the ordeal bore heaviest, whose nerves
gave evidences of snapping, would be
first despatched, thus to obviate a
scene. Prison gossip had it that "Lefty
Louie" (Louis Rosenberg) was the
most erratic of the four and that he
would march first to the chair. Others
thought the first to die would be "Dago
Frank" (Frank Clrofici) the Italian of
the quartette, who has declared in
statements to Governor Glynn and
others that he was far from the scene
of the murder twhen Rosenthal was
sshot down. James Clancy, warden
of the prison, rigidly observing con
ventions surrounding even electrocu
tions, shook his head and turned away
when the subject of the order of death
was mentioned.
The Franciscan sisters, .black-robed
and black-'hooded, urged the four gun
men to accept their fate as punish
ment for their sins, whether they were
innocent or guilty of murder. They
told the doomed men that their com
munity would offer a special prayer
for them from four to six in the morn
ing. To the "boys of the East Side in
"New York the Jewish trio of the gun
men sent a. final message through
Rabbi Jacob Goldstein. ".Whitey Lew
is" wrote:
' "There are many boys who are well
brought up and have good parents,
who do not look out for the company
they get into. Bad company is the
Cause of their fall. They get a bad
record and then, no matter whether
guilty or not, they would be framed
up.
" TCeeip away from bad company," is
the best message I can send."
"Lefty Louie" said: "Add what I
said the other day about bad com
pany. A fellow who honestly earns
$6.00 a week is better off than he who
gets $1,000 a week, if he does not get
it straight.
"We were supposed to have as many
friends as any fellow that was on
the East Side, but when it came to
a showdown, it was only the 'shod
(synagogue) that stood by us, outside
of our parents. Stick to the 'shoo!' and
to your parents. If I had life to live
over again, I would surely follow this
advice."
"Gyp the Blood" said he had nothing-
to add to what he had said.
"I must die some time," Lefty Louie
told his wife; "if it pleases God that
I die now I am ready."
"Whitey Lewis" asked his brother
to tell their mother that she was not
the mother of a murderer. "I have
never been more than a little wild," he
said.
The execution axe expected to oc
cur about 5.45 a. m., eastern time.
WARSHIPS THROUGH
PANAMA CANAL.
Atlantic Fleet to Steam Through Big
, Ditch Early in July.
San Diegs, Cal., pril 12. United
States warships of the Atlantie fleet
will steam through the Panama eanal
early in July, speed up the Pacific coast
to San Diego, and return te Hampton
Roads by the same route, according to
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secre
tary of the navy, who inspected San
Diego harbor today and made prelim
inary arrangements for the veceptlon
of the battleships.
The purpose of this early jaunt
through the sanal, he said, was to
prove to the world that the big water
way is. even now in readiness to ac
commodate shipping.
I
; RATE OF INSANITY
; IN WORCESTER COUNTY.
: Chart Shows It to Be Highest of Any
i in Massachusetts.
i Boston, April 32, Certain towns in
j 'Worcester county have the higihest' rata
I of insanity in the state, according to
. a chart shown by Dr. E. E. Southard,
j a Harvard medical school professor, in
a lecture be fore the students today. He
said his figures were based on the in-
; take ot various stats insane asylums.
' He did not name tiie towns,
i Dr. Southard's lecture was on eu
I genies, through which he declared such
a condition as that in Worcester
county might be improved, as many of
the insane had been found to com
from a few families.
OBITUARY.
Lieut. Thomas M. Benham.
Baltimore. Md., April 12. Lieuten
ant Thomas M. Benham, a retired offi
cer of the revenue cutter service, 70
years old, died here tonight. He was
retired jjn account of blindness caused
by hardships during" his four year'
service in the Arctic region.
Cabled Paragraphs
French Liner Springs Leak.
London, April 12 The French Line
steamer Niagara, which sailed form
Havre April 4 for New York, has
sprung a leak and is steaming for the
Azores. A wireless message, dated
April 9, was received today from the
Niagara, conveying this information.
British Steamship Abandoned.
St. Thomas, D. W. I., April 11
Abandonment of the British steamship
Croydon, which went ashore April 16,
off Barbuda Island, was decided today,
The 150 tons of dynamite forming
part of the cargo was saved, but the
coal on board was lost.
Militant Createes Disturbance.
London, April 11 May Stewart,
the militant suffragette, who with a
cleaver tried to demolish a case of
valuable porcelains in the British m
seum on April 9, created such a dis
turbance when charged today that the
police magistrate was compelled to ad
journ the trial.
Suffragettes Liberated.
London. April 12 The suragettes
Dorothy Evans and Madge Muir, of
ficials of the Belfast branche of the
Women's Social and Political Union,
who were held on the charge of hav
ing in their possession explosives for
the purpose of committing a felony,
were liberated from prison today after
going on a hunger strike.
TRAFFIC BLOCKED ON
NEW HAVEN ROAD
Locomotive and Two Mail Cars of
Green Mountain Express Leave Track
New York, April 12 The track? of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad were blocked for near
ly three hours this morning by a
train wreck on the main line three
quarters of a mile east of Harrison.
The- Green Mountain express, which
left the Grand Central station at S.04
a. m., bound for Montreal via Spring
field, was derailed at S.30. The elec
tric locomotive and two mail cars left
the tracks but the two passenger
coaches remained on the rails. The
train crew and the passengers es
caped virtually uninjured.
Tra.ftc was blocked by the wreck
of the steel bridge above the tracks
which carries the electric feed wire.
When the locomotion left the rails
it crashed into one of the supporting
pillars and brought it down with the
bridge in a tangle of steel beams and
wires.
The only injured were the engineer,
William J. Murphy of New Haven,
who received a scalp wound, and Jer
emiah Hackett, a mail clerk, who re
ceived injuries to his back.
The accident it is believed was due
to the breaking of one of the pony
trucks of the motors.
The passengers were placed on a
special train and continued to their
destinations.
LID DOWN TIGHT
. .... . . AT . SAV I N ROCK.
Nineteen Arrests For Alleged Viola
tions of Sunday Law.
. New Haven, Conn., April 12 That
the lid will be clamped down tight
at Savin Rock this summer was indi
cated today when nineteen arrests
were made for alleged violations of
the secular law. Proprietors and em
ployes of moving picture houses, the
flying horse3 and the "racer" were
those taken in custody. One of the
motion picture houses opened again
tonight and the proprietor-was again
arrested, together with four men in
the audience.
The entire nineteen were released in
bonds of $100 each for a hearing In
Orange town court "tomorrow. The ac
tion of authorities has caused some
thing like consternation among the
proprietors of various enterprises at
the "Rock" who figure on Sunday bus
iness to make a living.
MORE WRECKAGE F.ROM
SEALER SOUTHERN CROSS.
Large Quantities Passed 100 Miles
Southeast at St. Johns, N. F.
St. Johns' N. F., Aprill 12 Floating
"wreckage, believed to have come from
the missing sealer Southern Cross, was
reported by the sealing steamer
Bloodhound which arrived today. The
Bloodhotind passed a large quantity
of wreckage Saturday afternoon,
about 100 miles southeast of this port.
It has aprarently been washed from
a sealer's deck, but as the crew of
the Bloodhound had not heard of the
loss of the Southern Cross, no effort
was made to ldentif y it.
The steamer Kyle, which has been
searching in the vicinity of Cape
Race was notified by wireless today
of the position of the wreckage and
started immediately for the scene.
MRS. WILLIAM SPRAGUE
SUFFERS STRAINED BACK.
Had Just Returned from Two Years'
Stay in Paris.
New York, April 12. William
Sprague, one-time governor of Rhode
Island, and Mrs. Sprague arrived here
today on board the steamer Lorraine
from Havr.e They have beer, living in
Paris for the last two years.
Just before the Lorraine left quaran
tine Mrs. Sprague was in one of the
rooms of her suite when a burst -of
flame shot out froma break in the In
sulation of one of the electric light
wires. She sprang backwards out of
the door and fell on her back. Stew
ards ran to her assistance and It was
found that her back had been strained.
Greenwich Trolley Conductor Killed.
Greenwich, Conn., April 12. Patrick
Renagharn, conductor on a trolley car,
died in a local hospital today, as the
result of Injuries received last night
at the car barns. He had alighted
from his car to remove the headlights,
when he was struck by another trol
ley, receiving severe internal injuries.
Smallpox at East Tartford.
East Hartford, Conn., April 12 Two
more . cases of smallpox were dis
covered here today, making a total of
three now under quarantine. Health
officials have taken all the necessary
precautions to prevent a possible
further spread.
Steamship Arrivals.
Philadelphia. April 12 Arrived
steamer Bohemia, Hamburg. '
Halifax, N. 8., April 11 Arrived,
steamer Empress of Britain, ; Liver
pool. Fair Weather Forecast For Week,
Washington, April 12 Generally fair
weather for Easter week in all parts
of the country except the South At
lantic states where rain js indicated
for the first day or two, was fore
cast teda' by the weather bureau.
Woman Disturbs
Divine Servic
L W. W. SYMPATHIZER IN MADI
SON SQUARE CHURCH.
ORGAN DROWNED VOICE
Attacks on Dr. Parkhurst Unheard Bo.
cause of the Sonorous Vibrations of
Big Pipes Ejected from Edifice.
New York, April 12. Jane Est. a
young woman sympathizer with the
doctrines of the Industrial Workers of
the World, today at the morning ser
vice of Madison Square Presoyterian
church interrupted the service and waa
arrested. Risjjig from a seat which
she had preempted in the pew of a
parishioner, in the gallery just over
the chancel. Miss Est started an at
tack on the Rev. Charles D, Park
hurst, the pastor.
"I want to call your attention to
an article in this paper," the young
woman said. It was just as the prayer
of consecration ' was about to be of
fered. As she spoke she waved a
newspaper before her. "This church,"
she added, "has a minister who re
pudiates Christ "
A Tactful Organist.
The organist, looking over his shoul
der and catching sight of the speaker,
began running his fingers gently over
the keys. Miss Est then essayed to
pitch her voice above the melody of
the organ, but the organist changed
from the treble clef, three on the ped
als, and fairly shook the edifice with
the sonorous vibrations of the big
pipes. Only a syllable or two of what
the woman was trying to say reached
the congregation.
Hearing of the disturbance, the sex
ton rushed to the street and called
a policeman and these two men, as
sisted by members of the congrega
tion, ejected Miss Est from the build
ing. She was taken to a police sta
tion,' where she was charged with
disturbing public worship. A large
number of the congTegation-came out
of the church to see the woman taken
away. When she was arraigned at
the police station Miss Est -said to the
desk sergeant: "Nobody could be heard
with that old organ squeaking."
Dr. Parkhurst, who was ill, was not
in the building when Miss Est began
her harangue.
EXPEDITION TO ;
NORTHERN SIBERIA.
U. of P. Museum Seeking Ethnological
Specimens and Data of Tribes there.
Philadelphia, April 12 The Univer
sity of Pennsylvania museum -today
despatched an expedition to the north
ern portion of Siberia which lies be
tween the Yenesei and Lena rivers,
fo rthe purposes of collecting ethno
logical specimens and data among the
indigeneous tribes there, of whom lit
tle is known. H. U. Hall, recently a
student of anthropology at the Uni
vsreity of London, heads the expedi
tion which will join others sent out
by the University of Oxford and the
Moscow Academy. The latter is led
by Miss Czaplicka, a noted Russian
woman scientist.
The triple expedition was planned in
or rdeto save expense as well as to
make the results more certain. It is
expected the party will set out together
from Moscow next month and except
for side journeys they will remain to
egther throughout the trip. Through
the assistance of the Russian govern
emnt Miss Czaplicka has secured many
etlters and official documents.
MILITANTS ASSAIL
BISHOP OF NORWICH
As Protest Against the Forcible Feed
ing of Women Prisoners.
Lowestoft, England, April 12. A
large number of suffragettes disturb
ed the service at St. John's church to
day while the bishop of Norwich was
officiating. Several days ago the
bishop was visited by a delegation of
suffragettes and after a long parley
consented to see two of them. They
protested to him against the forcible
feeding of women, and he promised
to take their protest under consider
ation. Today they kept up a continuous
chanting of "God save Emmeline
Pankhurst." Several of th mewere
ejected; then others ran to the foot
of the pulpit and excla.imed:
"My Lord Bishop, will you protest
against the torturing of women!"
These disturbers were also dragged
from the edifice, after which the bish
op was able to deliver his sermon.
EARLY PROSPECTS
FOR FISHERIES POOR
Breton Fishermen Arrive to Man 24
Schooners of the St. Pierre Fleet,
St. Pierre, Mlq., April 12. The
French liner California arrived here
today from Bordeaux bringing the Bre
ton fishermen who will man the 24
schooners of the St. Pierre fleet dur
ing the season about to open.
Captain Mehouas of the California
reported tempestuous weather on the
north Atlantic during the fourteen
days required to make the passage.
The steamer carried 650 passengers,
of whom one-half were fishermen. The
others are bound for New York.
Early prospects for the fisheries are
poor. Several Newfoundland fishing
schooners which made an eariy start
iiave been detained here fjr a week,
unable to obt;iln bait.
CARDINAL GIE30NS
ON EASTER FASHIONS.
Would Discourage Tendency to Over
emphasize Dress.
Baltimore, April 12. Discussing the
modern tendency to make of Easter a
day for personal display, Cardinal Gib
bons said yesterday:
"Easter should be a day of spiritual
joy, a day fur the celebration of the
resurrection of the spirit, a day in
which spiritual considerations should
be mure prominent. Any secular or
civil activities that interfere with the
true spiritual observance of the day
should be discouraged. I would include
in such activities the tendency to over
emphasize fashions. I have noted that
tendency, and I feel that it should be
seriously discouraged."
Steamer Reported by Wireless.
New York, April 12 Steamer Saxo
nia, Trieste far New York, signalled
390 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon.
Dock 6.39 p. m. Monday.
President Wilson
Faces Busy Week
HAS 0 LEFT SULPHUR SPRINGS
FOR WASHINGTON.
HE ENJOYED QUIET REST
Expects to Return Next Sunday
Mountain Air has Greatly Benefited
Mr. Wilson's Health.
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., April
12. President Wiison left here at
12.12 o'clock tonight for Washington.
Should ofllcial business permit, he will
return next Friday and spend the week
end with Mrs Wilson, who remained
behind tonight with her daughters,
Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre and Miss
Margaret Wilson. Mrs. Wilson has
improved in health, since she has been
here, and' another week in the moun
tain air is expected to bring back her
strength and health.
The president faces a busy week at
Washington. Uppermost in his mind
at present are the Panama tolls con
troversy and the anti-trust pro
gramme. He feels confident that the
exemption clause will be repealed with
out amendment in the senate as it
was in the house. With regard to trust
legislation, he expects to confer with
Representative Underwood and other
house leaders during the present week.
The president has transacted no ofii
cial business here. He has enjoyed a
quiet rest and his own health has ben
efited greatly by the short vacation.
The family, with the exception of Mrs.
Wilson, attended services at the Epis
copalian church today. In the after
noon the president went driving and
then took a long walk.
Those who left with the president
tonight were Secretary McAdoo and
his fiancee, Miss Eleanor Randolph
Wilson, Francis Bowes Sayre and Dr.
Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N. The party
went aboard the private car which was
attached to a train due in Washington
at 7.25 a m. tomorrow.
CAMPAIGN FOR
ELIMINATION OF ROOSTERS.
Kin, Sell or Coop Them to Reduce
Egg Loss, Is Advice.
Washington, Aprfil 11 This Is the
plot that the Department of Agricul
ture announces against roosters.
"In the Interest of egg conservation
the poultry specialists of the Depart
ment of Agriculture have started a
campaign for the elimination of the
rooster among poultry flocks during
the season between May 1 and Decem
ber 1. Saturday, May 1G. has been
set aside as Rooster c"ay In Kentucky
and Tennessee, where poultry dealers
have agreed to " pay the same price3
for roosters as they do for hens and
pullets."
The department estimates that ona
third of the tremendous annual loss of
eggs is due the rooster. It is expect
ed that other states will follow and
that "Rooster Day" wil be pretty gen
erally established.
MEMORIAL BRIDGE
TO MAJOR BUTT.
Former President Taft to Deliver Ad
dress at Unveiling.
Augusta, Ga., April 12. Former
President William H. Taft will deliver
the principal address at the unveiling
here Tuesday of the Butt memorial
bridge erected in memory of Major
Archibald W. Butt. Mr. Taft's subject
will be "Archie Butt, My Friend and
Aide." Major Butt was military aide
to Mr. Taft while the latter was presi
dent. Major Butt was a native of Au
gusta. The memorial was erected by
the Butt Memorial association and the
city of Augusta. The Masonic order,
of which Major Butt was a member,
will have a prominent rart in the core
monies. Sixty members of the Temple
Noyes lodge will attend.
FOUND GUILTY OF
STRANGLING HUSBAND
Jury Debated Five Hours Over "Lit
tle Woman In Black."
Milwaukee, April 11 Mrs. Carmeln
Musso, the little woman in black, wa3
found guilty tonight of first degree
murder by a jury which had been out
for four hours. She was accused of
strangling her husband, Joseph Musso,
who weighed seventy-five t pounds
more than herself.
The defence contended that Musso
was choked by an apple peeling found
in his throat Black Hand methods
were charged In the suppression of
evidence. One witness, who made a
damaging statement before the trial
failed to remember anything when he
faced the eyes of his countrymen in
the court room.
FRENCH BULLDOG
WITH RUBY IN RING
Arrived in New York Saturday Prop
erty of Vienna Baron.
New York, April 12. The Baron and
Baroness Kary Czoernig con Czern
hausen of Vienna arrived yesterday on
the Austro-American steamship Kaiser
Franz Josef I. The baroness was Miss
Helene Wr. Schmidt of Phlladelpnia.
She brought a French bulldog of an
cient pedigree, who, in addition to a
horsehair cellar and pink necktie, wore
a gold ring, set with a ruby, in his
nose.
ONLY ONE HURT
I NNEW HAVEN WRECK.
DMr.jt.a Ps;no Iniijrv. Although
! Cars are Hurled On Sides in Ditch.
Hartford, Conn., April 12 The New
Y'orlc, New Haven and Hartford train
that left New Haven nt 3.32 o'clock
yesterday afternoon for this city was
pounding along at a fast clip, when at
a point directly o pposite the Clayton
station in the southern outskirts of
Newington spreading rails sent the lo
comotive, tender an dll four pasenger
coaches in which there were 140 per
sons, off the track.
Made Desperate by Lack, of Easter I
Bonnet. j
New York, April 12 Because her
savings for an Easter bonnet were
olst, Freda Lester, a dressmaker, aged I
21, jumped to her death today from a
window of her third floor room in Har
lem into a throng of paraders on the
sidewalk. Her brother saved her life
on Easter eve, when she tried to in
hale gas. Five dollars of her savings
had disappeared from her purse, he
told the police and the disappointment
over inability to make Esater pur
paches preyed upon hen
'Condensed Telegrams
Prince Henry of Prussia sailed for
Europe from Buenos Ayres.
The Dreyfus Theatre at Lafayette,
Ind.. was destroyed by lire. Loss
$110,000.
The Fiench Government signed an
agreement approving of a new loan to
Turkey.
Union miners of the Pittsburgh dis
trict asemoled to discuss the wage tit
ration. Lady Elizabeth Cust, of London,
dri.Piied uead from heart disease on her
way to church.
Tho House voted to abolish the Car
Bon, New. mint and the Boise, Idaho,
assay office next year.
The Union League Club of New
York, went on record as strongly op
posed to woman suiTxage.
A man believed to be John Egan, of
Washington, was killed by a New York
Central tra.'n at The Bronx.
Striking conductors burned the
bridge of the Savannah & Northwest
ern Railrcad near St. Clair, Ga.
Prof. Hen-y H. Scvags, head of the
Hampton Woman's College, near Now
port News, Va., connuitted suicide.
Rotert E. Wood-ow, a Jisti t ra
etnc of 1 "resident Wiison, was killed
in a inn 'cycle a -Mt-nt i: lTu!i.in;-p'-iis.
-
c Secet.ii-y Bryan will leave Wash-
inglcn on Tuesday to spend a wt'.i."
or two :.t his wi iter home in Miami,
I la.
William S. Richards, postmaster at
Landing, N. J.. was arrested and
charged with appropriating $3,000 for
his own use.
The coronation of the Emperor of
Japan was postponed until 19! fi be
cause of the death of the Dowager
Empress Ilaruko.
The first ''divorce court" in Ohio
was opened in Cleveland. The court
will attend only to cases involving
marital difficulties.
The race meeting at Norfolk, Va.,
has been called oft" as a result of Attorney-General
Pollard's campaign
against bookmaking.
Two persons were drowned and five
injured when an automobile plunged
off a ferryboat into the Elizabeth riv
er near Norfolk, Va.
More than 64,000 miners will be af
fected when practically all of the soft
coal mines in central Pennsylvania
will be. closed by operators.
Charlec Dixon, a negro, shot and
killed two women in South Baltimore.
Md. He then frightened other negroes
and made good his escape.
A permit was issued" ta organize the
Guaranty Bank and Trust Co., of Chi
cago with cap'tal stock of $750,000.
The bank will open July 1.
Joseph Tedesco, 28 years old, an al
leged Brooklyn masher, was sentenced
to 60 days imprisonment when IB
girls appeared against him.,
John Moore and F. W. Biehl, en
gineers, were killed when Baltimore
& Ohio freight trains crashed at the
Glenwood Bridge near Pittsburgh.
Dr. W. Van Rapoard, Minister from
Holland to the United States, will hs
the guest 'at a dinner given by tho
Netherlands Society in New York.
Walter Smith, a negro, paroled pris
oner, confessed to killing William Mo
niff, son of the Chief of Police at Me
dia, Pa., who arrested him for burglary.
Secrtary Bryan and Sir Cecil
Spring-lUee. British ambassador, ex
changed ratification of the arbitration
treaty which will continue for five
years.
At the convention of the Master
Ilorseshoers of Indiana at Fort Wayne,
plans were laid for founding a course
in horseshoeing course at Purdue Un
iversity. The battleflg of the Seventy-sixth
Ohio regiment, captured by General
Hardee's Corps, during the Civil War.
will be returned at the Jacksonville,
reunion.
Anna Rice, six-year-old daughter of
an ironworker of Somerville, N. J. is
dying from wounds received when a re
volver she was playing with accident
ly discharged.
More than 5,000 school children un
der the direction of the Washington
Bird Club marched through the streets
of Washington scattering- food for the
hungry birds.
Tho Revenue Cutter Service an
nounced that examinations for line and
engineer cadetships in the naval ser
vice will be held on the five days be
ginning June 1.
Henry C. Merritt, former supervis
or of Eastchester, N. Y., whose oc
counts were short $227,000, has of
fered to effect a compromise by giving
the town $150,000.
The Government of France has ap
propriated ?30.000 for the construc
tion of a permanent legation building
in Panama and has awarded the con
tract to a Panama firm.
Georga Gay, an ironworker, 33 years
old, who claims to be a brother of
Eva Tanguay, was arrested in New
York charged with having $150 worth
of cocaine in his possession.
A youth who registered in PhiladeK
phia as 11. E. Ford. Jr.. son of the De
troit miilio'taire automobile manufact
urer, proved to bo a.n ft-convict when
arrested, l ie was held in .S0O hail.
Officers and crew of the steamer
Kroonland were awarded medals by
tile. Life-saving lienevoient Associa
tion of Xew York for braver." in rescu
ing passengers of the burning Voltur
no. Four of the statues in the celebrat
ed Avenue of iotory in the Tiergart
en at Berlin were Blight ly mutilated
by Antoine Astier, a retired surgeon of
the French navy, who is thought to
be Insane.
Mrs. Luella Nest, of Topeka, Kan,
brought suit against Governor Hodges
for injuries inflicted by the Governor
in his office during a scuffle for the
possession of papers relating to parol
ing a State prisoner.
A Statewide Movement to raise a
fund to aid the families of men lost
recently in the Newfoundland sealing
disaster was inaugurated at a mass
meeting of Newfoundlanders at Bos
ton last pight. Five hundred dollar
was pledged at the meeting.
it is Understood that the
Refugees
CHIHUAHUA IS NOW
Heavy Fighting has been Reported Between Contending
Forces Hospital Ship Solace Ordered to Hasten De
parture for Scene of Strife Lind to Confer with Pres
ident Wilson thi3 Week.
New Orleans, La., April 12. The
United States transport Hancock to
night received imperative orders from
Washington to proceed immediately to
Tampico.
It is understood here that the vessel
will take aboard refugees from Tam
pico, where heavy fighting between the
.Mexican constitutionalists and federals
has been reported.
The Hancock will sail tomorrow af
ternoon at 2 o'clock.
The transport arrived here twb
montns ago, bringing VZ.t) marines from
the first advance base regiment. The
marines will remain at the naval sta
tion hero, it is said.
When the transport steams south to
morrow sho will probabiy be accom
panied by the United States hospital
ship Solace, under orders to hasten her
departure tor Tampico.
The Solace arrived here early last
week, and the crew was given shore
leave for eleven days. Two days later
the ship was ordered to proceed im
mediately to Tampico. but was delayed
by coaling and by necessary repairs.
CHIHUAHUA NOW CAPITAL.
General Carranza and Staff Have Es
tablished Quarters There.
Juarez, Mexico, April 12. The new
constitutionalist capital was establish
ed at Chihuahua today with the arrival
of teneial Venusiiano Carranza. first
chif of the revolution, anil his stafi.
This information arrived today in
the form of a brief telegram. Carranza
ieft here yesterday mornmsr, but the
train did not run at ni;t, in order
that his arrival might coincide with
the reception planned for him today.
It is said that his interview with 0n
eral Villa will take place next Wed
nesday or Thursday.
General Carranza telegraphed to
Rafael Zurbaran, his minister of the
interior and the only cabinet member
SENSATIONAL ESCAPE
OF BANK ROBBER.
Used Rope Made From Mattress Was
To Have Been Sentenced Today.
Altoona, Pa., April 12 Frank G.
Hohl, alias Frank Wilson, the confess
ed robber of the Union bank of this
city, who was confined in the Ilolli
daysburg jail awaiting- sentence which
was to have been pronounced upon
him tomorrow, made a sensational es
cape some time after one o'clock this
morning. An employe at the jail who
went on duty at r."0 saw u rope
made from a matrcss daieiing from
the roof to the sidewalk in front of
the jail. Going insije he found
Hohl's cell empty.
A watchman who patrolled the jail
yard all night saw nothing unusual
and was apprised of the brei k by the
jail employe who discovered the pris
oner was missing. There was no
watchman on duty inside the jail. It
is thought Hchl received outside as
sistance. A railroad man reported he had seen
a man answering Hohl's description
making for the mountains in the
southern end of the county and tho
sheriff and a posse started in that di
rection in automobiles.
The crime for which Hohl was
waiting trial was as sensational as
his escape. The Union bank, situated
in the heart of the business section of
the city, was entered during the noon
hour on March 23 by K masked bandit,
who drove the cashier and paying tel
ler from their cages and shot the
cashier in the leg. He then fil'.ea a
bag with neariy S3, 000 in bills from
the bank's counter. A depositor who
was entering the door was shot by the
bandit as tho latter was leaving. He
then terrorized a crowd on the street
by firing his pistol s.t random before
disappearing. He was finally captured
at Salem, Ohio, where he had taken
his wife to her father's home. He
made several desperate attempts to
escape while being conveyed by the
detectives in ono of which he threw
a cup of hot coffe in tho face ofhis
captor in a railroad restaurant at
Pittsburgh.
SHOOTING AFFRAY
AT BRIDGEPORT.
Italian Killed While Protecting Sis-ter-in-Law
Murderer Escapes.
Bridgeport, Conn., April 12 While
protecting his sister-in-law from be
ing assaulted by his brother, Girardo
Renna of this city was shot and in
stantly killed this afternoon when
the brother, Lorenzo, because enraged
at the interference, drew a revolver
and fired. The bullet entered the right
eye and penetrated the brain. Lo
renzo made good his escape. Within
a half hour after the tragedy and only
two blocks distant Felice Piccerno. a
relative by former marriage to tho
woman whose husband was murdered,
was shot in the right leg just above
the ankle by Donato Andrea. He was
taken to St. Vincent's hospital. His
assailant also escaped and so far the
police have, no clue to his whereaho-its.
Destitute Woman Victim of Tubercu
l losis.
New Haven. Cov.n., April 12. -A
woman Kiving her name as Kaihcitno
l;rown applied for shelter at the home
of Mrs. May Katlile at 1G0 East street
tonisht and died a lew hours after
wards. The medical examiner gave a
erdict of death from natural causes.
She had been ill of tuberculosis. From
papers found in her pockets it was
learned that her home was in Spring
field, Mass. She was about 45 years
old. The woman had no relatives or
friends in the city, as far as known.
She had been employed in a local
laundry.
Case of Bubonic Plague at Havana.
Havana, April 12. One new case of
bubonic plague was discovered today
by the commission on contagious dis
eases. The sanitary department has
closed three blocks In the infected
zone, ordering the resident to leave
their homes-
ORDERED TO TAMPIGO
Vessel Will Take Aboard
at that Port
THE REBEL CAPITAL
remaining in Juarez, today, to assure
the state department at Washington
that his first duty would be to return
formal replies to representations
hitherto unanswered owing to the press
of emergency matters connected with,
the military campaign.
LIND TO CONFER
WITH PRESIDENT.
No News at Either War or Navy Do
partment from Battlefields.
Washington, April 12. Washington
officials and diplomats were speculat
ing tonight upon the outcome o two
conferences to be held during th
coming week, one in this city between
President Wilson and his personal rep
resentative in Mexico, John Lind, and
the other at battle-torn Torreon b
twejn General Venustiano Carranza.
first chief of the constitutionalists, and
General Viila, victorious leader of the
Mexican rebels in the field.
President Wilson returns to the cap
ital tomorrow from his week end trip
to West Virginia. Mr. Lind is coming
up the coast from Vera Cruz aboard
the yacht Mayflower, and though no
word has been received from the yacht
since she left Mexican waters, he is
expected to reach here Tuesday. About
the time Mr. Lind is making his report
to the president the Mexican rebel
leaders will ia meeting for the first'
time since the days of the Madero rev
olution, and upon this conference much.
Is believed to depend. Officials here)
think that a face to face talk between
Carranza and Villa will result In a
clearer understanding concerning the
rights of foreigners in Mexico, and
especially their privilege of pressing
claims through American consular of
ficers. No news from the scene of war cams
today to either the war or navy de
partments. WIND DOES DAMAGE -
AT LYNN, MASS.
Woman Hurt by Falling Sign Trees
Blown Down.
Boston, April 12. A fifty nfi wind
swept over the city from the northwesc
tonight, wrecking store signs and plate
glass front3 and causing other minor
damage.
Mrs. Martha Sherburne was hurt by
a falling sign in Lynn and was taken
home in an unconscious condition.
Trees in that city were blown down
and a number caught fire from contact
J with broken electric wires. An eleven,
j foot gate at the Lynn New England
j league grounds was torn from ita
fastening3 and thrown across the
' street
Woods fires in Salem and Arlington
blurned fiercely during the height ot
the gale and many acres were black-,
ened before the flames were controlled.
SAN DOMINGO REBELS
HAVE SURRENDERED.
Government Now Virtually in Control
of the Republic.
Santo Domingo, April 12. The rebel
forces who have occupied the citadel
at Santiago have surrendered to the
government, delivering up all their
arms and ammunition. Another rebel
force under command of General Mau
I ricio Jiminez, the military chief of the
j insurrection, which occupied a forti
fied position at La Vega, has also sur
' rendered to the federals commanded
by Tancredo Savinon, who has been
appointed governor mere. iresiaent
Bordas, at the head of 1,500 men, is
now on his way to Santiago, having
taken the field against the insurrec
tionists a week ago.
The government is now virtually In
control of the republic and peace pre
vails except in the northeast portion.
MAINE STEAMSHIP CO.
STEAMER DISABLED.
Hatted in Long Island Sound for Tern
porary Repairs.
Xew York, April 12. Because of an
accident to her piston rod, the steamer
North Star of the Maine Steamship
company, which left here last night for
Portland, halted her voyage when only
a few miles up Lond Island sound and
anchored while temporary repairs were
effected. The steamer returned to her
pier today and after further repairs
had been made she was expected to
sail again at a late hour tonight for
her destination.
The North Star had more than fifty
passenger.-? on board. There was no
excitement among them. Some of them
remained, to sail again on the steamer
this evening, and others took trains for
their destination.
NEW LONDON BOUND
SCHOONER RAN ON SHOAL.
Hauled Off by Revenue Cutter Acush
net in Vineyard Haven Sound.
Vineyard Haven, JIafS, April II
The British schooner Percy B from
Port Clyde, N. SM with a cargo of
wood pulp, proceeded on her way.
to New London today after she had
been floated from the shoal on which
she grounded Saturday morning. She
was apparently not damaged. The sea.
remained calm during the night so
that the revenue cutter Acushnet was
able to halu her off the shoal after sev
eral attempts.
Two Injured in Auto Accident.
Greenwich, Conn., April 12. Clar
ence Kelly was seriously injured and
Christopher W7enkenbach received
minor injuries, as the result of an au
tonjpbile wreck near Christ Church to
day. The driving shaft of the ma.
ohine broke and both, men were thrown
out in the roadway. Clarence Tenovi.
the chauffeur, was arrested, charged,
with operating without a license.
Kelly is in the Greenwich hospital
with a fractured skull and a broken
collar bona, Kenkenbttcfc la aiapi at
ttie hospital.
f -
v