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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
B YEARS IN PRISON.
Libbis Carrabrandt, Who Killed a Man
 When Only Seventeen.

Trenton, N. J., April l4.-L1Dble Garrabrandt, thirty-three years pris- Oner and the only. woman ever sen- -tenced in New, Jersey to life imprison- ment, is soon to have her freedom. Her case, which has been before every court of pardons for the last twenty years, has now received favorable coll sideratiOn, and if plans. do not miscar- ry the Paterson murderess will walk out of the prison doors before the end of this month.
 A committee of the court of pardOns sat in the state prison to-day, and af- ter going over the batch of letters and petitions urging a pardon for the wo- man, whose case has aroused the sym pathy of thousands of women in every section of the state, the judges sum- mOned the now aged prisoner before them.
 Dr Mckenzie, the prison physician, had certified that Miss Garrabrandt was subject to heart failure. Her ap- pearance moved the judges to pity. The once prepossessing young woman is now gray-haired, and so feeble that she can scarcely walk. She has been before the court of pardOns many times before, and has told her reasons for hoping for freedom. To-day, in response to questions put to her, she replied that she had nothing to ada to her former pleas, save that she had been confined within the walls of the big prison for thirty-three years and five months, and that she believed she had been sufficiently punished for her crime. She was told that her case would be given due consideration. She had heard these words so often before that she seemed to expect them. and there was no look of disappointment in her eyes.
 That she was more hopeful than in any of her previous forty interviews with members of the court of pardons was apparent to her prison associates. The knowledge that Miss Mary Phil brook. Mrs Caroline B. Alexander Mrs Emily A. Williamson and other public-spirited women had interested themselves in her behalf seemed to give her encouragement.
 q feel" she said day or two ago to another woman prisoner, that l am about to breathe the air of free dom." Then she gave long sigh and added: How I hope that will not be doomed to disappointment"
 Iibbie Garrabrandt is now past fifty years of age. She was only seventeen years old when she was convicted in the Passaic county courts of the crime of killing a man with whom she had been living. Her love for him had turned to hatred. and one night while she was preparing his meal she put poison in his coffee. Her youth was all that saved her from the gallows.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
KILLED BY X FALL.

Norwalk. April 14.-Miss Flora Wen chill. aged II, fell down a flight of stairs last night and was almost in stantly killed. Miss Wenchill. for the past nine year. had kept house for her brother-in-law. Ephraim Capron. and this morning the man. who is I6 years of age. took pillow from his bed. se- cured q 3S-calibre revolver. laid down on the pillow. and put bullet through his head. He was removel to the Nor walk hospital in a dying condition.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
GAS POISONING.
One Woman Dead and An. other In a Critical
 Condition.

Bridgeport, April 14.-Mary Me- lnerney. 40 years of age, servant in the employ of ex-Postmaster Freder- ick w. Smith, is dead from gas poi sOning and another servant. whose first name is Maggie and whose last name is unknown, is unconscious and will probably die. The two women occupied separate beds in the same room and the hot water heater in the kitchen was connected with their room by an open stairway. In some manner the supply of air to the heat CT was restricted and carbon monoX- idle was formed. MT and Mrs Smith and three other members of the fam fly were affected, but not seriously.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
Extreme Sensitiveness.

Canon Liddon wrote this in his diary concerning an incident of a holiday tour he took with his friend. Charles l.. Dodg- son, better known as Lewis Carroll'': "Dodgson was overcome by the beauty of Cologne cathedral I found him leaning against the rails of the choir and sobbing like child. When the ver- ger came to show us over the ehapels he got out of the way. He said that he could not bear the harsh voice of the man in the presence of so much beauty.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
WANTS NEW TRIAL.

Reading, Pennsylvania, April 4.- Application for new trial by Samuel Greason. under sentence of death for the murder of John Edwards, was made in court to-day. He was cOll- victed over three years ago on the tes- timony of Mrs Kate Edwards, wife of the dead man. Lately she declared he was innocent and his application for q new trial was the result of her con fesSiOn
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
WAS A MILD WINTER.

Seattle. Wash. April 14.-A special from Nome to the Post Intelligencer states that the past winter has been unprecedented for mildness and that the ice is rapidly breaking up all along the coast. In St Michael's bay the water is open and the ice in Norton bay and sound has already moved north as far as Nome. Bering strait has been open all winter and at no time since January has the thermome- ter been lower than zero. and for the past forty days the average tempera- ture has been J0 above.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
MAY DAY TROUBLES
 ARE LOOKED FOR.
Workmen and Peasants are Very Uneasy Just at Present Appeals for Military Protection are Pouring in From Many Places Bombs and Arms Struggled - Bl00dshed Feared.

morning there is considerable specula- ton as to the cause of the publication of the statement at this time. It is re- garded as a friendly manifestation towards Russia on the part of the United States, Russia having always contended that the statement of M. Kurino former Japanese minister at St Petersburg) to Foreign Minister Lamsdorff when he presented the note severing diplomatic relations in which he expressed the hope that the rupture was only temporary, gave Russia no reason to anticipate an attack without warning in the shape of declaration of war.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT.

Washington, Conn. April 14.-A slight improvement in the condition of Sen ator o. H. Platt. who is suffering from pneumonia, was again reported today by the attending physician He passed a satisfactory night The fluid in the pleural cavity continues to be a dis turbing feature of his symptoms. al- though there has apparently been some absorption Of 1t.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
TO DEFEND POWERS.

Springfield. III, April 14.-Ex-Gov- ernor Yates has been retained. with ex-GovernOr Black of New York, to assist in the defense of Caleb Powers. who will be placed on trial again at Georgetown. Ky. the first Monday in May. Powers is charged with murder ing Governor GOebel.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
WATERBURY COMPANY.

Hartford, April 14.-The Connecti- cut Realty company of Waterbury, with capital stock of $5O,OOO filed a certificate of incorporation with the secretary today. The Green Land and Cattle company of Stamford, also filed 8 certificate of incorporation with a capital stock of $15,O0O,0OO. The Ob- jects of this latter corporation are for the improvement of land, the carrying on of mining in Mexico and Arizona and the raising of cattle.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
Strange Sight in Switzerland.

Curious atmospheric conditions pre- vailed in Switzerland at the beginning of this year. While the valleys were shrouded in dense, cold mists. the re- gions above . thousand yards in eleva- vation had . blue sky and sunshine % warm that men took oR their coats to work Strawberries and alpenroses were in bloom The practice of keep ing the mountain hotels open in win ter is coming moro and noU into vugua
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
GROUND TORN UP
Five Thousand Pounds of Dynamite Exploded In 
 Tunnel.

Nashville, Tenn, April 14.-At late hour last night 5000 pounds of dyna- mite and 600 kegs of powder exploded at Baker, seven miles northeast of here, on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, where tunnel is being con- structed. Half an acre of ground was torn up where the explosives were stored. It is not known whether any lives were lost.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
THIS STRIKE SETTLED.

Danbury. April 1.-The strike of the plumbers for an eight hour day was settled this morning by confer ence of the representatives of the jour neymen and the master plumbers. The men will return to work at the old nine hour schedule and the eight hour day will start on November I5- The men have been out two weeks.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
MOUNT SHASTA ACTIVE.

San Francisco, April 1.-The Ex- aminer to-day says that Mount Shasta threatens to become active again. Some startling occurrences are report ed at Sissons, town in the vicinity of the mountain. The ground has opened at several points and mud is elected. The railroad fill across q big canon has sunk forty feet, with the streets of the little mountain town filling up with muddy stuff, full of oil,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14

St Petersburg, April 14.-Develop- ments all point to crisis in the pres ent agitation among the wOrkmen of the cities and the peasants in the coun- try on May day and appeals are pour ing in from all quarters of Russia for military protection. The St Peters burg workmen are preparing great demonstration. Arms and bombs ill large quantities have been smuggied i'll and bloOdshed on large scale is feared. Wealthy persons who or d1narily go to villas on the islands of the Neva or to neighboring country places this year are going abroad. The government has taken few special measures to meet the situation evident ly relying on the troops. and police to guard the capital. The latter are ex- tremely active. All the prominent.agi- tatOrs are being arrested or have al- ready been sent back to the villages from which they originally came. The prisons are filled to overflowing.
 There have been fresh disputes be- tween the wOrkmen and the managers of the Putiloff, Baltic and Nevski works and between the employees and the management of the government cartridge factory. At the latter place the men refuse to continue any longer to donate any portion of their pay to assist in the support of families of tho soldiers at the front, claiming that the money is used to prosecute the war, to which they are opposed.
 The news received from the interior Is alarming and especially from the Baltic provinces where the entire pupu- latiOn is in state of intense excite ment. The cities are being flooded with revolutionary ,proclamations call ing on the people to rise on May day. The criminal classes are taking advan- tage of the situation to pillage and plunder while in the country the land lords are pOwerless to cope with the peasants and demand the stationing of troops at every station.
 From Bunaburg, government of Vitebsk come reports that the Jews are in a panic over the circulation of proclama tiOns similar to those which preceded the outbreaks at Kishineff and GOmel.
 At Ekaterinoslay (south Russia). three revolutionists who were sur rounded by police fought their way to liberty killing or wOunding several of the latter
 A dispatch from Kars CTranscau- casia) says that the employees of the Transcaucasian railroad are on strike and that one hundred miles of the track has been damaged.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
MORGAN A GRANDFATHER.

New York. April 14.-A daughter has been born to Mir and Mrs Her bert Le Roy Satterlee. formerly Miss Louise Morgan. daughter of J. Pier pont Morgan. in this city. News that he has another granddaughter has been cabled to Mir Morgan, who is cruising in the Mediterranean.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
ATTRACTING ATTENTION.

St Petersburg, April 14.-Despatches from Washington showing that Japan officially notified the United States when the rupture with Russia occur red that 10 act of hostility would take place till after a formal declaration of WAT had been made. whereas hostili- ties broke out Feb and the declara- ton of war was not formally made un- til Feb 10. attract much attention here Althoagh the dispatches afrived too
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
JAIL FOR ONE YEAR.

New Haven. April 14--Robert H. Goldst,oro. who was eonvicteI of man. slaughter in the shooting of Albert Ten Eyck at Wallingford July I. 1sli- was sentenced to one year in jail to- day by Judge Ralph Wheeler in the criminal side of the superior court
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
CARNEGIE'S OFFER.

Atlanta, Ca, April 14.-Andrew Camegie has offered $40.OO a year for three years to mainain in Atlanta . library training school for southern women. He has made the promise that if the school shall prove . sue cesD the donation will be made per maneat and wiu be increaDed e tho popdg d@nn1
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
WAS A SLOW TRIP.

Dover. Eng. April 1.-The Ham, line steamer Pretoria which arrived here today from New York April l. and p-oceeiesi- uas de layei by heavy weather During one day of her voyage the Pretoria only loTVea 139 miIea
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
A COSTLY FROLIC.

Swainsboro, Ga, April 14.-At a country frolic last night an unknown negro fired rife into a room in which forty or fifty negroes were dancing. Two women and one man were killed. The murderer escaped.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
NO TRUTH IN IT.

Tokio. April IA (nOon).-The naval department pronounces the reports of a naval engagement recently osf Saigon to be unfOunded.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
THE CENSORSHIP.

St Petersburg, April 14.-The press commission has recommended the re- moval of the censorship from car toOns and the debates of Zemstvos and other legal organizations.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14

hundreds of others who have not been arrested in connection with the dis turbances at St Petersburg. January 22, it is understood that the govern ment has abandoned its intention of bringing him to trial.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
IS OPERATIVE TO-DAY.

Tokio, April 14.-The imperial or dinance which declared Mako harbor, on the Pescadores islands, in state of siege, becomes operative to-day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
WILL NOT BE TRIED.

St Petersburg, April 14.-On account of the condition of his health and the fact that the evidence against Maxim Gorky is not stronger than that against
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
SNOW, NOT BASEBALL.

Cleveland, April 14-The base ball game scheduled for the opening of the season here to-day between Cleveland and Detroit was postponed because of q heavy snow storm which prevailed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14

been as formality condemned to death by the commission appointed to inquire into the surrender of Port Ar thur. His trial only began to-day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
WEAfHER FORECAST

Forecast fer Connecticut. Fair to- night and Saturday. continued cool: lght winds, ge0a1Ily wegtRx1y.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14

STOESSEL'S TRIAL.
 St Petersburg, April 14.-There is no truth in the report from Cracow that Lieutenant-G General Stoessel had
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14

Come in and see them. They're easy to roll. easier than ever before. You can shut them up. Small, saving room when not in use. They're lighter this year than ever before. Have strong springs. cushiony and comfortable.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
New Housekeepers

should look over our stock. Do you know that you will get the best satis- faction from our furniture. It's made well from good stock-priced right and delivered and set up in your home as good as tin. day it came from the factory. Prompt and efficient service.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14

You know what they are-the best go-carts on the market-couldn't get enough of them to satisfy the demand of our customers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-14
Great Bargains In Solid
 Oak Dressers at
You Surely Can Afford One
 of Our Chamber Suits,

They range in price from s1s.oo m solid oak tn saao. One dozen popu- lar prices from $500 to 5000.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-21
COUNCIL AND MAYOR
CLASH ON PATRONAGE
New Positions Created by Proposed
Police Ordinance Lead to Friction
Between Officials

The ordinance providing for changes
in the police department, contrary 10
expectation, was not reported to the
yesterday. The reason for this is said
to be a plain intimation by the coun-
Gil to the mayor that the council de-
sires to make the new appointments
which will arise under the emergency
clause.
There are five of these appointments,
three telephone clerks, one secretary
to the captain of police and one identi-
fication clerk. The police who are now
doing this work will be restored to the
work of active patrolmen.
The changes in the police department
were undertaken at the suggestion of
the mayor, who expected to make the
appointments. In cases of this kind
the appointees are known as emerg-
ency men. After time the civil ser
vice commission orders examinations
for the positions. Usually the emerg-
ency man succeeds to the regular ap-
pointment because of his experience.
The commission allows ten points for
experience, which in a place recently
created gives the emergency man de-
cided lead over an outsider.
The three men who are to be APP
pointed telephone clerks will receive
a salary of SIS each month, and the
two clerks will each get $S5.
This patronage looks good to the Re-
publican majority in the council and
the mayor has been notified that the
passage of the ordinance will be con-
ditioned upon his agreement that the
council name the incumbents of the
new offices.
1t is said the mayor is attempting TO
form a new lineup of the council.
This is alleged to be Harmon, Hitler
and Ford with the mayor; Blanchard,
Smith, Summerland and Ford against
him, and Kern and Houghton ON the
fence.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-21
NAVY LOOKING EAGERLY
FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS
Private Enterprise Absorbs Best Tall
ent and Only lncompetents
Apply for Public
Service

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Officials of
the Brooklyn navy yard are disgusted
with the result of the examination for
the corps of civil engineers recently
held at that navy yard. 1t was ex-
pected one or two at least of the five
vacancies in the grade of assistant civil
engineer could be filled as result of
the examination, but none of those who
took the examination came up to the
standard imposed by the department.
The reason for this is found in the
fact that civil engineers find plenty of
work outside the navy. and the result
is there is no great desire to enter the
navy corps of civil engineers. That the
remedy for this dearth of necessary
civil engineering talent lies in an in
crease of pay, is not doubted by those
qualified to pass judgment.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-21
J|U J|TSU EASY
TO WEST POINTERS
JAPANESE CHAMPIONS COME
OUT SECOND BEST
OrientaIs Find Uncle Sans Cadets
the Hardest Problem That
Has Yet Been Set
Before Them
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
WEST POINT, Feb. 2O.-Through
the courtesy of Japanese Consul Gem
eral Uchida, West Point was treated
today to its first exhibition of jiu jitsu
by Prof. Tomito. Japan's most IA
nous exponent of the art, and his as
sistant.
The exhibition took place in the gym
nasium in the presence of the corps
of cadets and the officers and ladies'
of the post.
First a fourth-class man was picked
out to take turn In jiu jltsu art
Honors were easy between the Jap
anese and the plebe. Cadet DAILY, the
famous Harvard quarter back, was in
vited to enter the arena. DAILY held
his own until he was compelled to re-
tire on account of sprained ankle.
Then came Upton, West Points star
football center. Upton handled the
jiu jitsu men at viii. throwing them
all over the mat and even tossed one
of them over his head. The Japanese
admitted the West Pointers We're the
hardest problems they had as yet met
in the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-21
MEN SUFFER AWFUL DEATH
FROM EXPLOSION
BELIEVE ALL MUST PERISH
Comrades of Doomed Men Work
FranticalIy All Night in Shaft
in Endeavor to Liberate
Them
BY Associated Press.


BIRMINGHAM Ala, Feb. 2O.-By
an explosion in the Virginia mine,
about eighteen miles southwest OF
Birmingham, at o'clock this after
noon between 40 and 135 miners arr
entombed, and it is believed that the
entire number suffered an awful death
Reports at 10 o'clock tonight state
that every effort is being made to
reach the men, but that they cannot
possibly succeed before tomorrow
morning.
The mines belong to the Alabama
Steel and Wire company. Both white
and negro miners are employed.
The mines are considered models of
their kind. The slopes are we'll located
and there has never been any trouble
from gas heretofore.
The explosion is believed to have
been caused by an accumulation of
dust. 1t is also believed that as the
entire quota has probably been killed
the details of the cause of the disaster
will never be known.
The camp is almost isolated from the
rest of the world. Details of the dis
aster were slow to come in.
Relief trains with surgeons and
workmen were dispatched from both
Birmingham and Bessemer as soon as
the news of the disaster was learned.
They began the work of succor IN
earnest before o'clock and at mid
night had not dug half way through
the mass of debris.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-21
.STROHM SAYS HE
WILL NOT RESIGN
MAYOR AND ORGANIZATIONS
ARE AT OUTS
FIRE UNDERWRITERS IN FIGHT
Chiefs Resignation Is Demanded
by McAIeer, While Leaders
Favor His Re.

Mayor McAleer has asked Fire Chief
Strohm for his resignation and the
sturdy blaze fighter has declined to
hand in the document. 1t is said that
the request was made at the executive
session of the fire commission Satur-
day morning.
The mayor and the commissioners
were desirous of keeping the facts
from the public because of Strohm's
lack Of consideration for their wishes.
Strohm is reported to have said in an
swer to the demand for his Job:
Il will not resign. You can prefer
charges against me and put me on
trial, or If you want to you can fire
me outright but you can't have my
resignation"
1t has been known for weeks that
there was a break between the mayor
and "the organization" but the actual
severing of relations, 1t seems, was
caused by a Democrat (Strohm).
Walter Parker and his friends are
known to be in favor Of strohm's re-
tention, as are the fire insurance UNDER
writer's, who threaten to increase the
rates If the present chief is dismissed.
The commissioners are divided in their
opinions as to the advisability of
Strohm's summary dismissal.
One Democratic member, Betowski, is
said to agree with the mayor. 1t is
predicted that the settlement of this
affair will develop all the strength of
the mayor and his friends on one side
and the Organization of the Repub-
lican party on the other.