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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-18
MIDDLEBURY MEMS TROUBLES
Suit for $4,000 as Result of an Assault
Case

Suit for $1,000 as Result of an Assault
Case.
A suft for 5000 damages has come
out of the assault case of Samuel 30
binovitz against James Bird, which
was heard in Middlebury last week.
Robinovitz owns q coal yard near the
gas works, and Bird is farmer in
Mdddaebury, where both live.
Yesterday Bird was arrested on a
body writ for $4,000 and was released
on bail furnished by Thomas FiZsi-
mons, president of the Novelty Manu-
featuring 90. The case is returnable
to the September term of the district
court
The cause of the trouble is said to
have been tickets which Bird tried to
sell to Robinovitz. The latter, it is
said, agreed to take number Of them,
but later changed his mind and when
Bird ascertained this he accused him
of being the cause of loss of money,
for it seems Bird could have disposed
of his tickets had not Robinovitz
agreed to- take them. Hot words
were followed by hotter blows. Ro-
binovitz was knocked down, it was
claimed, and one Of his ears was al
most severed from the head. Robino
vitz claimed Bird tried to bite it off
This was denied by Bird, and DR. Lo-
PEI, who dressed the injury, was of
the opinion that the injury was caused
by blow.
Birds arrest followed and he was
fined by the Midd1ebury justice Of the
peace ST and costs, which amounted
to about $24. Judge Peasley is Ro-
ibinovitz's counsel
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-18

C<ftfciSing Sermon Led to Fatal Shot
ARDMORE, L t., Aug. 18.-D- Roach
accidentally shot and killed his broth
err, J. o. Roach, at Ellen while firing at
Tom Lanham, a cattleman. Roach
sought to kill Lanham because Lanham
had criticised a sermon Of Roach's Ia
Their, who is preacher.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-18

The women editors, says the Chicago
Record Herald, should not overlook the
story concerning the Illinois man who
talked himself TO death.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-18

Where fhe Numbers Are Needed.
mo, I am not in favor Of this move
mentsto have all the ntonobilessRum-
~bered," asserts the first citizen
= "sBut. it seems to me wise proyi-
sion, argues the second.
Mot at all What should be re-
qufred is that all pedestrians wear a
Number. LookZhow muchs trouble-there
is every day identifying some Of them
who have DISTRACTED the path of the
automobiffsfs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-18
She Had ThouSht IT Out.

Papa" asked five-year-old Helen,
Couldn't you make me over into a
boyY'
81 don't see how could" said papa.
WELL" suggested Helen, you could
take me down to the BARRIERS and get
my hair sharpened. couldn't you p
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-18
Regulating Automobiles.

In Leipsie, Germany, automobiles are
prohibited in the inner city and limited
to streets traversed by electric cars else
where.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-18

Equipped.
|Have you every thing for the auto
mobile?" asked the stranger, entering
the store.
Eyes, SIR" replied the clerk.
'fWen, give me four yards of court
plaster, six gallons of arnica, bundle
of cotton batting and half a dozen cop
les Of First Aid to the Injured -
Yonkers Statesman
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-18
-
RGaGE@r to bear.

KGas1er to Bear.
9Th get some. OF the stuff if you can
assures me from. your own experience
that ftsVfll cgre~my FbaEkllsszzeesss. r--.....
!, '<Well, it won't absolutely cure it,
but it viii mitigate it.greatiy."
Glow mitigate ft?s
cit makes you sort O. hope it will
cure you, and you always feel better,
you know, when you can hope."-Chi-
cago Tribune ~&'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
MRS. BORDlCK EXAMINED
UNABLE TO THROW ANY LIGHT ON
HER HUSBANDS MURDER.
Theory of the Police Concerning the
Mysterious Buffalo Case-Man and
Woman Involved.

BUFFALO, n. Y. March Mrs. Bur-
dick, wife of Z. L. Burdick who was MUIR
dered at his home here last Thursday night
and Mrs. Hull. her mother were examined
at considerable length early to-day at the
police station, where they were taken upon
their return from Canastota. where they
had attended the funeral of the murdered
man.
Mrs. Hull was first questioned by District
Attorney Coatesworth and Assistant Su-
perintendent or Detectives Cusack. She
said she knew nothing of what happened
until she was called by the domestic in the
morning. She heard no sounds in the night,
heard nothing of any voice, and awoke in
the morning ignorant of any tragedy in
the house. She denied positively that her
relations with Mr.. Burdck were unfriendly
and emphatically declared that she believed
that nobody in the household had anything
10 do with the crime or knew anything OF IT
until the morning.
Mrs. Burdick was next questioned at
length as to what she could offer to throw
light on the possible identity of the muir
derer, after which both women went back
10 the Ashland-avenue home.
The district attorney said after they had
gone: We examined Mrs. Hull and Mrs.
burdick Tor the purpose of completing the
examination of all those present in the
house on the night the murder occurred,
and to ascertain from Mrs. Burdick, il pos
sible, who, in her judgment, might have
been actuated to commit such crime"
AFTER four days spent in investigation of
the mystery the police believe they have
tangible theory in standardization of which
they are seeking evidence. The theory is:
That Burdick was killed in the smoking den
by a man while partaking of luncheon
with woman in whom the man was inter-
ested; that the woman went to Burdicks
house about the time Burdick was ready
TO go to bed; that at the woman's ring Bur-
dick descended to the front door In his
underclothes and admitted the woman: that
Burdick produced the bottle of cocktails
and the edibles; that while the two were
eating, drinking and talking sitting
on the couch the man who killed
Burdick entered suddenly and con-
| fronted them; that quarrel ensued during
which Burdick was killed with a golf club
and the cocktail bottle by the man. The
woman In the case is said to have called
Burdick over the telephone on Thursday,
| the day preceding the murder. Some one
representing himself as Burdick answered
| The woman was not satisfied and called at
| Burdicks Office. He was not there and
| had not answered the telephone. The police
| believe that the man who answered the
| telephone made date with the woman in
| the name of Burdick and that he after
wards followed her to Burdicks house in
| the cab driven by Delahunt to within a
| block of the murder. This theory explains
why the woman went to Burdick's house
as though to keep date and took Burdick
| by surprise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03

pension of the rules be passed to engross-
mcnt- Then there was an hour OF more or
less humorous oratory.
WOOD ON CIGARETTE BILL.
Senator Wood declared that the bill was
plainly unconstitutional and that it was
a foolish. useless measure of a kind on
which the Senate should not waste time.
1t singled out a special object. Senator
Wood said, and could no more be enforced
than law preventing the bringing of
bottle of whisky into Indiana The bill was
so manifestly unconstitutional that the
committee had given it little attention, Sem
ator Wood said. but a report could be made
IN another day. he promised, II the senator
from Marshall so desired.
At this point Senator Kittinger, of An
dcrson. the wag OF the upper house, took
occasion to remark that he stood ualterably
opposed to two things-cigarettes and yell
low shoes.
Senator Parks in his remarks said that
while there might be a question as to the
constitutionality of the measure ne did
not deem IL the purpose OF a committee
of the Senate 10 pass on such question:
The senator from Plymouth, who Is a
hard man to beat in an open fight on the
floor OF the Senate, produced a volume OF
Tennessee law reports which, he said, con-
tained decisions of the Supreme Court or
that State upholding the constitutionality
OF the Tennessee anti-cigarette law. HIS
own bill. he said. was taken word by word
from the Tennessee statute, and there could
be little question as TO the constitutionality
OF the bill.
Senator Parks was victorious. His mo-
ton to withdraw the bill from the commit
tee carried a by decisive vote. The bill
was then read a second time, more atten-
tion being paid to the reading clerk than
usual. Senator Wood then moved that
further consideration of the bill be in
denitely postponed Senator Starr, of Rich
mond, determined enemy or the festive
cigarette, moved that Senator Woods mo-
ton be laid upon the table. He demanded
the aye and no vote. and the motion pre-
vailed There is a probability that the bill
will be passed by the Senate. although 1t
may be defeated in the House.
FARMERS UP IN ARMS.
The farmers of the Senate We're up in
arms yesterday against Representative
Harley's bill giving telephone companies
the right TO erect poles along public high
ways When the bill was called up Sem
ator LAWYER moved that 1t be amended to
place the erection of poles under the SUPER
vision of county commissioners. Senators
Lindley and Barlow declared that the bill
as originally drawn was Injurious TO the
interests OF the farmer, and Senator Lind
ley introduced an amendment providing
that telephone companies, to secure the
privilege Of erecting poles, must go through
the same proceedings as are obligatory
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
SLOW TO SENIOR B0NILLA
SOME OF HIS SUPPORTERS DEFEAT.
ED BY HoNDURAN TROOPS.
Little Army of Chief Of Police Christ
mas, an American Adventurer,
Cut 10 Pieces.

NEW ORLEANS, March 2.-The steamer
Breakwater, from Puerto Cortez. Honduras.
brought news to-day of a desperate battle
between government troops and force or
insurgents, under command of Lee Christ
mas, an American. which resulted I'm the
defeat of Christmas and the almost COM
plete humiliation Of his little army.
years ago and took part in the revolution
which resulted in Senior Arias being seated
in the presidential chair. AS reward for
his work in that revolution Arias made
him chief Of police of Tegucigalpa and COM
mander of all the soldiers I'm the capital.
Christmas is a close friend of Senior b.
nilla, who now claims the presidency, and
at the outbreak of the present revolution
cast his lot with Bonilla. He organized an
army in the interior of Honduras. and was
marching at the head Of column of two
hundred men when he fell into trap set
by the government forces at Mani. in the
valley of the Comeagaua, about two days
march from the capital. He was attacked
by the government troops from all sides.
and a fierce fight following, which resulted
in sixty OF his men being killed and one
hundred wounded. Christmas, with forty
men. cut his way through the lines OF the
government troops and escaped. The gov
ernment has offered large reward for his
capture, either dead or alive The govern
ment forces lost one colonel and three nom
commissioned officers.
The commander of the Brcakwater re-
ports that the revolution has completely
paralyzed all business in Honduras
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
RIVERS FALLING FAST
WORST OF THE FLOOD Is OVER At
PITTSBURG AND ALLEGHENY.
Conditions Along the Ohio and Other
Streams No Serious Damage
at Louisville.

PITTSBURG, March 1.-The rivers are
almost within their banks and as the waters
are rapidly falling here at headquarters
the worst of the flood may be considered
over. Only half dozen times in GEN.
fury has the record of yesterday been beat
en-. but Notwithstanding this and the fact
that the rise came within few hours the
damage has not been as great as in many
previous floods when the water did not
reach as high a stage. Indirectly the loss
is heavy, all the mills and factories
fronting the two rivers have been compelled
to close on account of the water getting
into the fly pit and probably 10000 men will
be thrown out of employment for several
days. This will mean a heavy loss in wages
With the water falling mass of mud and
sediment is left deposited on the lowland
thoroughfares of the two cities. Little pools
of water are frozen over and the sidewalks
are covered with sheets of ice. The water
in many of the cellars also froze during
the night and the health authorities are
apprehensive of much sickness following in
the wake of the flood. AS quickly as the
waters recede gangs of men will be put to
work and the flooded districts thoroughly
cleaned.
Portions of Allegheny are still under
water, and the police are patrolling the
flooded districts in skiffs to prevent acct
dents. Many of the residents who are still
confined in their houses are in destitute
circumstances and the Department of Char
tiles is busy supplying the poor with coal
and provisions. The trains on the Pitts
burg and Western divisions of the Balti-
more & Ohio and the Buffalo. Rochester &
Pittsburg Railroad are still arriving and de-
parting froI.. the Baltimore & Ohio station
In this CITY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
FIGHT WITH LADR0NES
NINETEEN KILLED AND MANY
WOUNDED NEAR MANILA.
Attacked by Scouts Under Command
of Lieut.. Nickerson-No Casualties
Among the American Force.

MANILA, March "A detachment of
scouts under the command of Lieutenant
Nickerson attacked and defeated a body
of ladrones near the village of Mariquina,
seven miles from Manila, yesterday. Lieut.
Nickerson attacked before daylight. After
an hours fighting the ladrones were scat
tered, and nineteen were killed and many
wounded. There were no casualties on the
side of the scouts.
The constabulary last Wednesday sur
prised and captured the stronghold of the
ladrones in the mountains of Albay, Luzon,
where a force of ladrones attacked small
detachment OF constabulary Feb. 20
The constabulary on Wednesday met with
some resistance from the ladrones, who
were defeated with a loss of ten killed
and four captured. The ladrones strong
hold and supplies were burned.
Brigadier General Sumner, commanding
the Department of Mindanao, telegraphS
that he expects trouble along the military
road north of Lake LanaO.
General Sumner says that the dattos OF
the Sultan of Mindana0 are friendly and
anxious for peace, but are unable to con-
troll sections of their unruly followers.
General Sumner has warned the soldiers
TO avoid any conflict and to carefully
guard against surprises.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The hearing of evidence for the govern
ment in the proceedings instituted to con-
fiscate $4,000 worth of the property OF
former Capt. o. NJ. Carter, now I'm Leav-
enworth prison convicted of conspiracy
day.
The formal farewell of Archbishop Quig-
ley to the Buffalo diocese was said on Mon
day. and in commemoration of the occasion
farewell services were held in st. Josephs
Cathedral, at which a large number of dig
nitaries of the church and the laity was
present.
AS the result of beating which a SER
geant and a private of the Newport News
police force received at the hands of sailors
from the battleship Maine on Saturday
evening Chief of Police Johnson will make
formal complaint TO the Navy Department
In the statement now being prepared the
chief of police asks specific complaint
against the officers of the warship and calls
attention to the apparent lack of discipline
As the result of the development of scar
let fever in the family of Prof James p
whyte. of the English department of the
school for boys at Lake Forest ILL.,, that
institution has been ordered closed for ten
days. The one hundred or more boys of the
school were hurried out of town to their
various homes IN Wisconsin, Minnesota
Illinois. Indiana. Iowa and Michigan. The
precautionary measure was deemed advis-
able by the health authorities, who feared
a general epidemic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.


In addition to disposing of the appropri-
alton bill the House yesterday passed half
dozen measures. Among them were two
bills in which Representative Lewis, Of
Fountain county. is deeply interested. He
Is at the bedside of his wife, who is crit
ically ILL., He does not expect to be back in
the House during the session, and on mo-
ton by Statesman his bills were taken I'D
on suspension of rules and passed without
opposition. The bills are H. B. ALP. relating
to the disposition of the bodies or dead ami
mails, and II. b. 424, legalizing the incorpor-
alton OF the town of Wallace. Fountain
County.
The other bills passed were: II. b. $50
Salisbury-prohibiting the drainage of lakes
OF more than $40 acres in Indiana; III. B.
295-Wrfght-the Indianapolis pesthouse
measure. providing that the pesthouse shall
not be located within 1,500 feet of any hos
pital or school. nor within 500 feet of any
residence building; II. 3. 2S9-Kirkpatrick-
providing for the clearing of distractions
from public bitches and drains: H. B. 49,
Miller-providing for the election of road
supervisors by the people of the township
outside Incorporated towns and cities: III.
B. 343-Tarkington-pro the combi-
nation OF insurance companies to fix rates
III. b. 2-Stansbury-providing for the let
ting or county printing contracts in four
groups instead of three
Senate concurrent resolution No T. ask
ing Congress to make appropriations for
the construction of dams and locks i'm the
Ohio river. was adopted without opposi-
ton.
Senate bills Nos. $50 and 35S were adj
vanced to third reading and Senate bills
Nos 245 and 294 were reported from COM
mittee with favorable recommendations
The House concurred i'm the Senate
amendments to House Bills Nos. 16s and
without opposition, but when the Senate
amendments to II. b. 1898, increasing the
salary of the adjutant general to 81 $50,
were considered a lively fight was precipi-
tated. The amendments provided for an
increase in the salary of the quartermaster
general to $1,000. Sayre opposed the amend
ment. and Slack and Carmichael spoke I'm
favor Of concurrence. On motion of Pepple
action on the amendment was deferred
The Governor returned to the House with
his disapproval III. r. 291-Stansbury-au-
thorizing the transportation of school chill
dren and legalizing the same The Gov
ernor's reasons for vetoing the bill were
that its title and its provisions were incon-
sfstent, that the title was unconstitutional.
and that the bill provided for the paving of
the expense of transporting children from
the tuition fund, which cannot be devoted
to any such purpose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
LEGISLATIVE APPoRTIoNMENr.
Ii Is Agreed I'm Caucus to Amend the
Statesman Bill.

The Republican senators and representa-
tives held a joint caucus in the hall of
representatives at 7:30 o'clock last night to
consider the legislative apportionment
problem. Senator Kittinger, joint caucus
chairman, presided.
A bill was not agreed upon, but il was
decided that the Statesman bill. which is
now on second reading. shall be passed
by the House and sent to the Senate,
where it will be amended in accordance
with the conclusions reached by the joint
caucus at another meeting tonight In the
meanwhile a subcommittee of the legisla-
tive apportionment committee of both
houses. composed of Senator'S Wood and
Gray and Representatives Statesman, Bam-
berger and Talcott. is at work on a bill
which will be reported to the caucus to-
night. The subcommittee held meeting
last night and will meet again to-day.
Each member of the House and Senate
was asked TO put his suggestions on the
proper apportionment in writing and turn
them over to the committee. 1t is alto
gether probable that there will be some
lively arguments before substitute bill
Is agreed upon at to-night's caucus, but
once the majority gets together the SUBJ
stitute will be offered as an amendment
TO the Statesman bill in the Senate and
pushed through at once.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
Drawn IN OLD AGE.


Two noteworthy Examples OF Energy
at Three-Score and Ten.
New York Evening Telegram.
Gilbert sang of Beauty in extreme old
age" and from two striking-very striking
examples given here within a few days
the tuneful librettist might have chortled
in praise of the Drawn of the same period.
John Judge, jr., twenty-three years old.
went to his home in Jersey City and started
row with his mother and sisters He
threw dishes at them so fast that they
were forced to seek shelter i'm a closet. One
OF the daughters said, Il hear papa COM
ing"
Papa, seventy years old. came upon the
scene In time to hear his son remark sneer-
ingly. 'The old man don't know how to
fight" There was, says the chronicler a
few minutes of sparring, side-steppng and
lodging. and then John Judge, jr.. went
down and out for nearly ten minutes. be-
ing revived by his aged sire and a couple
of policemen.
The other instance is that of Arthur
on a farm near Richfield, N. j., who was
going peacefully home on Saturday night.
carrying basket of groceries, when he
was halted by two footpads, one of whom
caught him by the arm while the other de-
manded his money.
Pretending to be much frightened the old
man. pleading that he be not hurt, put
down his basket and then suddenly con-
verted himself into a fighting machine,
with such success that when he picked up
his basket and trudged on he left both his
assailants insensible in a snowbank Mr..
Derby, 1t appears, in his earlier years, had
exercised with John c. Heenan and others.
and had not forgotten his lessons
that many of us far too soon become "aged
men, full loath and SLOW" and that it is
possible to attain "a green old age, uncon-
scious of days" And how much better IL
is none will scarce deny.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-03
MAY TIE UP STREET CARS:


CHICAGO. March 2-Employes of the
Chicago City Railway and Of the Metropol-
itan Elevated Railroad tonight threatened
general strikes that will tie up half of the
transportation lines of the city IL they so
into effect Aroused to a high pitch OF
excitement because the arbitration board
agreed upon to settle the grievances of the
cable splicers of the Chicago City Railway
Company over which a strike was narrow
ly averted two weeks ago, has done moth
ing officers of the South Side Carmen's
Union have issued an ultimatum to General
Manager McCulloch and Judge seers and
William Prent.ss, two of the arbitrator,
that no more names from which third ar
bitrator may be chosen would be submitted
and that IL the board was not completed by
noon tomorrow general strike would oc-
cur. The names of fifty men, twenty
five from each side. have been presented TO
been unable TO agree upon the third mein-
br of the board.
The sentiment among the men has been
for a strike all along, and IL was only pre-
vented through the influence OF the Anal
gamated Association of Street-railway En-
q. Pratt. Now Mr.. Pratt. Is ready for a
strike if terms are not speedily made. ana
the strike would have the stanch sup
port of the national organization Five
names were submitted to-day. These are
absolutely the last names to be suggested.
and the entire situation now rests In the
hands of Mr.. Prentiss and Judge Sears.
The employees of the Metropolitan Com
pany demand an increase I'm pay which the
officers say they cannot grant.