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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-06

Mrs. julius Foster has returned
from a visit to relatives and friends
in Mathews county.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-06

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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-06
Social Persondl

Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Knight and little
son. of Franklin, are visiting Mr..
Knights brother, DR.. w. J. Knight. In
East End. Yesterday DR.. knight per-
formed a slight operation upon his
nephew at St. Francis hospital, and
last night the child was reported TO
be getting along as well as could be
expected.
Mrs. c. J. Padgett has gone TO Lam
,ego. N. c.. TO visit relatives.
Mr.. Bradford Reynolds. OF Whining
ton. N. c., returned home yesterday
after spending the Fourth with his
mother, Mrs. Mary Reynolds. ON West
avenue.
Messrs. 3. Bradford Reynolds and
Mr.. Stalnecker, of Wilmington, N. C.,
who have been spending several days
with Mr.. Reynolds mother on West
avenue, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. julius Foster has returned
from a visit to relatives and friends
in Mathews county.
Mrs. G.. G.. Himmelwright will leave
today for a visit of two months TO
friends and relatives In Maryland,
Pennsylvania and New York.
Mr.. T. B. Kyle has returned from
New York. where he was called by
news Of the death of his sister.
Mr.. Frank Sears, OF Washington. Is
spending few days with his parents
at Riverview.
Miss Made Payne, OF Warm Springs,
is visiting Mrs. ID. J.. Phipps. in West
End.
MIR. Sol. Peyser has gone to Balti-
more ON business trip.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-06

Mrs. c. ]. Padgett has gone TO Lam
tego, N. c.. to visit relatives.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-06

Mrs. G. G. Himmelwright will leave
today for visit of two months tt
friends and relatives In Maryland
Pennsylvania and New York.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-06

Mr.. T. B. Kyle has returned from
New York. where he was called by
news Of the death of his sister.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-06

Mr.. Frank Sears, OF Washington. Is
spending a few days with his parents
at Riverview.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-06

Miss Made Payne, OF Warm Spring
is visiting Mrs. d. J.. Phipps, in We
End.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
Date of Final Adjournment.
25Oth ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of the
 Founding of Norwich, July 5th and 9th

corning corporations engaging in busi- ness not authorized by charter or arti- cles of association; concerning persons or corporations engaging in business prohibited by law. Reports accepted and bill rejected.
 Taxation of Oyster, Grounds.
 The committee on shell fisheries re- ported bill authorizing the Governor to appoint a commission to investigate the taxation of oyster properties and appropriating $10,0e0 for the compen- sation and expenses of the commission. Calendar.
 Tuberculosis Bill.
 Senator Middleton offered an amend ment to the tuberculosis bill providing that the act shall go into effect on it's passage. The amendment was adopted under suspension of rules and the bill as amended passed.
 Town Management of Schools.
 On the motion of Senator Brinsmade the senate adopted the amendments passed by the house to the bill relat- ing to the town management of schools. The bill as amended was passed.
 Salary Increased. On the motion of Senator Searls the bill increasing the salary of the. secre-
 
 $S,OO0 year was passed
 Fish and Game Bills.
 The committee on fish and game re- ported favorably on two substitute bills. The first bill related to the hunting of gray squirrels, and it em- powers the selectmen of any town, on the application of twenty electors, to prohibit the hunting or killing of the squirrels
 The other bill allows the catching of pickerel in trout brooks.
 The reports were tabled/for the cal endar.
 Against Old Saybrook Bridge. The committee on appropriations re- ported unfavorably on the bill making an appropriation of S500,000 for the construction of a bridge over the Con necticut river between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme
 On the motion of Senator Alsop the report of the committee was tabled.
 Bank Commissioners Salaries. The committee on banks reported a bill increasing the salary of each bank commissioner to $3.500 year and all lows S15O for necessary expenses. The commissioners may employ clerk at salary of S2,000 year and a stenog- rapher at a salary not exceeding 1000 year and the clerk and stenographer are allowed $500 for expenses. The comptroller should apportion the sal aries and allowed expenses of the bank commissioners and of the clerk and stenographer employed by the bank commissioners among the several banks. savings banks and trust com panies in proportion to the aggregate amount of the capital and deposits of each. The comptroller shall provide an office in the capitol for the bank com missioners
 Tabled for calendar.
 Boys to Chartered Institutions. Senator Searls called from the table the bill to provide for the commitment of boys between the ages of ' and Is years to chartered institutions and moved it's passage.
 Adjourned.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
Chinaman Arrested at West Galway Under Terrific Pressure of 'the "Third Degree"
TELLS HOW ELSIE SIGEL MET DEATH
First Drussed with Chloroform and then Stransed-Saw Ling Preparing to Place the Body in the Trunk-Des' cribed Everything Except the Actual Commission of the Crime-Real Murderer Not Yet Caught.

I Port Arthur restaurant in Chinatown, | who is also held in connection with the case. Incidentally, he said that Leon Lin and Gnu Gain had come to blows over the girl in Chinatown some weeks ago. The police theory is that Leon killed the girl because of her atten- lions to Gnu Gain.
 No Clue to Lins's Whereabouts. The confession, today serves but to Il elinch the already prevalent theory | that Leon Ling killed the twenty-year- ,Old girl, who was introduced to the way the Chinese live through her mother now in sanitarium crazed
 with grief. It does not, however, so
 far as can beslearned, throw any light Npent or the route which he took in his flight from the city, and the police throughout the United States and in many foreign ports are looking for the x English speaking oriental. Gnu Gain, who was arradgned in the Tombs po- lice court this morning, and discharg- Hed by a magistrate, was later rear frested at the instance of Coroner Hamburger and held in $1,0o0 bail by him as a material witness. During
 his examination by the coroner, Gnu Gain, who speaks English very well, threw some interesting side lights on 1 the ease. He readily furnished bail after the examination. Three other Chinamen are still held as important witnesses.
 Many Things Learned Which Will As
 sist in Capturing Ling.
 Neither MT. Jerome nor the coroner discussed Gnu Sins confession. T am aware of the nature of this testimony" said the coroner tonight, but I cannot make it public" The district attorney has done effective work in handling the man and has learned many things which undoubt- edly will assist in the capture of the murderer.
 The confession in full will be placed before the grand jury.
 One other arrest was made in the case tonight. A Chinaman who was mysteriously skulIxing about the Eighth avenue restaurant, which has been closed since the discovery of the mur- der, was captured by a policeman who has been on special duty there. The man had key to the place, but de- clined to explain his mission. He gave the name of Joe Kay.
 Chinatown Stirred to Its Depths.
 Chinatown is stirred to its depths by the murder, and those among the Chinamen who have been converted to Christianity profess to be cooperating with the police in every possible man. ner. The Oriental club in Mott street, an organization composed of a number of leading Chinese, has offered a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of the murderer.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23

the dutiable list. The senate sustain ed its committee.
 Senator McLaren undertook to have the provision amended so as to make the duty applicable to hides weighing less than 25 pounds, but failed, his amendment being voted down 31 to 4S. An amendment by Mir. Stonev plac- ing, not only hides. but many of the products on the free list was also lost.
 New Lumber Schedule.
 Just before adjournment for the day at o'clock Senator AIdrich on be- half of the finance committee present ed the committees new lumber sched- ule and also a number of amendments relating to linoleum and oilcloth. The committee proposed a rate of $1.50 per thousand, on sawed lumber, which is a 50-cert increase over the house rate. Neither the lumber nor linoleoum schedules were acted upon.
 Plea for Tariff for Revenue.
 Previous to the balloting more than six hours was devoted to speech mak- ing, beginning at 10 o'clock with an argument by MT. McCumber for a duty on hides. in which he was sus- tained by Messrs. Gamble and Hey burn. They took the position that the effort to make hides free was solely in the interest of the manufacturers, and MT. McCumber contended that this was a monstrous injustice growing out of the protective system MT. Burton and incidentally Mr., Page supported the free hides policy, the former in a speech of some length. He declared that the beef trust obtained all the benefit to be derived from a high duty
 One of the features of the day was a speech by Senator Taylor of Ten nessee which attracted much favora- ble attention and established good na- ture. MT. Taylor pleaded for a tariff for revenue and took a decided posi- tion against free raw material.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
MAID OF ORLEANS
 IN HARVARD STADIUM
Miss Msude Adams and a Company
 Numbering 2,0oo Persons.

Cambridge, Mass, June 22.-The ex- periment of producing Schiller's Maid of Orleans beneath starry skies, with close approach to the historic detail surrounding the bright figure of the fifteenth century. was carried out with considerable success tonight in the ex- tensive arena of the Harvard stadium, by Miss Maude Adams and a company numbering about two thousand per- sons.
 At the suggestion of the Germanic museum 'at Harvard, the spectacle was made possible through a realiza- tion of the resources of the largest amphitheater in the country, by John Alexander, the Parisian American, g with Miss Adams personality and tal- ent as it's inspiration. The perform ance was undertaken for the benefit of the museum and the greater part of the working force of the Frohman syn dieate became actively engaged in it's production.
 More than 15,0o0 people massed tier above tier saw what was intended to be a nearer approach to the German poets idea of Joan of Arc, and the eventful scenes in her brief career, than Schillers drama itself is, sur rounding the French maid of Dom remy
 The beauties of Schiller's lines and the magnitude of the plan of repro duction combined to make the few hours in the stadium the period of in tense pleasure. The prospective was truthfully maintained throughout, from the little pastoral scene in loans fa- thers home, with the flocks of living sheep and actual trees, of the forest, to the splendor of the French court. the clash of the English and French armies, the coronation pageant, and the death scene in the cathedral.
 The motley crowds of serfs and val cts were made up of Harvard stu dents. Men of the state militia march, ed as archers and spearmen in the French and English armies. Horsemen from militia batteries clattered into the arena in coats of mail of nearly five centuries ago, while able actors in armor tramped the greensward and clashed in duels in the most realistic manner. And through all the scenes threaded the slim figure of Miss Ad- ams as the French maid, first in a homely peasants dress, then brilliant armor and seated on a milk-white charger, and finally in the knightly costume which at last became her shroud.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
Finishing Touches Put Upon the Proposed Tar
 if Bill Amendment
NIGHT CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE
For Two Hours the Corporation Tax Measure Viewed
 from Every Ange-Provisions of the Terms of the
 Measure Finally Agreed Upon-PenaIty for Max
 ing False Report to Revenue Agents.

Washington, June 22.-Gathered alt out the banquet board in the state Going room at the White House to- night, .he guests of President Taft, were the leading lawyers of the close administration circle and all of the re- publican members of the senate finance committee. They were assem- led to put the finishing touches upon Inc proposed amendment to the tariff bill laying a tax of 2 per cent. upon the net earnings of corporations A draft of the proposed amendment was presented by Attorney General Wick Crsham and Senator Root, who had been charged with its preparation.
 The conference following the dinner resulted in a complete agreement up- Ot all the details of the amend ent.
 The presidents guests tonight were attorney General Wickersham, Sela- tor Root, Secretary of State Knox and Senators Aldrich. Burrows. Penrose, Lodge.
 Two Hours Discussion.
 The statesmen sat down to dinner in the state dining room at 8 o'clock. No business was discussed at the din- ner but for two hours afterwards the corporation tax measure which had been prepared in the form of an amendment to the tariff bill was view ed from every angle.
 All agreed not to make the form of the amendment public until it is ready to be introduced in the senate as a finance committee amendment to the tariff bill.
 Forms of the Measure. The terms of the measure as finally agreed upon, although not yet whipped into form, provide that all corporations having capital stock and organized for profit shall pay a tax of two per cent. upon their net earnings. Corporations coming within that designation will be compelled to make returns to an espe- cially named agent of the bureau of in- ternal revenue of the treasury depart l ment. giving the amount of their gross | receipts, capital stock, bonded indebt- edness and all other visible debts. Sep arately from the returns. the corpora
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
FINArADJouRNMENT GOSSIP.
It is Said That Business Cannot Be
 Finished Before August 15.

Hartford, June 22.-Recent degeiop- ments in the house seem to give promise of an early adjournment and the taking of a recess until next fall or winter, possibly from July f5 to December or January 1st, despite the fact that the house last week reiuset to adopt sucn pian.
 Members of the house seem to have changed their minds as to, the ddvis1- bility of a summer recess since the action of last week, having in mind the large amount of business that still remains t be done De ''r,. the hnai adjournment, and since the meeting of the committee chairmen today ad- journment over the warm season has become more acceptable to ths senate. some of the members of Wk.ch believe that the house .vlll raks a recess with in two or thr.:s weeks, leaving tie seL- ate with no OptiJa oti.er than 70 il.Uw suit.
 The reports of the committee chair men presented at conference wi.h Senator Searls and Represents tive Burnes were staggering in their reve- lation of the number of important mat ters which yet remain for action on the part of the general assemol..'. The dilatory policy which has pre- ,-aile9 al during the session has left ths com mittees with dozens of measures u1 great moment not yet reported. A majority of these have been acted upon in executive session. but in many cases, especially as regards the busiIcss in the hands of the judiciary committee and those on excise and pubic health and safety, there are redrafts If meas ures to be favorably reported tbat re- main to be repaired, all of which will take considerable time.
 Despite the fact that the senate con- cured with the house today in fixing July 15 as the date of final adjourn ment, it seems to be the consensus Af opinion that there is not the siiehte st chance of completing the work oy that time and that it would not DC possiOe even if all the business still to be tone had been reported and stoc.. on inc calendar of either branch. ,S nator Searls is doubtful if final adjournment could come either Aug. 1 or lj and ig unwilling to say when he thinks Ihe business of the session can he con- Cludel.
 In the meJ ;me some of the SCI a. tors and a fe .: the mel'bers of he house are BSIning to leave inc siate, while others tre ha1s:ng grimiy 'b sO as to pTeve"- ths pdssags Co. measures that do nos rect thti' approval Scr . ator Searls 's posi- i've n ihe statement that he leaves thc state JUly i6. \. n ator Blakes.ee has "a sage tc Euro pc booked for me middle nf, next IT ,n,h: Senator Gos lg-in is pianniDg a tlr to Europe in July. w'llle others have va cation plans. 1. th.re w-ra prnzTe :s of the general assembly being brought to close by the first of August Ciese senators miShe be willing 10 cIs nge their plans. bI: ;ne "I,i nik is sem ingly so hore'es5 that they are uni.ke- ly~to do so lnass there .s g dec:rtd change.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
TEXAS BANK ROBBED
 IN TRUE FRONTIER STYLE.
GenteeI Hishwayman Secured $s,1oo in
 Currency and Escaped.

Fort Worth, Tex. June 22.-In true frontier style. a highwayman described as genteel in appearance today robbed the branch banking house of the Wag- goner Bank and Trust company in the heart of Fort Worth of $s,10O in cur rency and escaped The robbery was the most daring attempted in Texas in years. Cashier Walter King was alone in the bank at the closing time, bal ancing the business of the day, when a man walked in. This man approach ed the window of the cashiers desk. King looked into the barrel of a re- volveF.
 Make a move or noise of any kind and I'll kill you" was the greeting Mir. King received.
 Seizing the roll of bills, the man backed out of the door covering King with the revolver. King ran to a tele- phone as he saw the man walking down the street and mingling with the crowds with an air of unconcern.
 The police reached the scene five minutes later, but the robber had dis appeared. At the time of the robbery several hundred. persons were near the building and many noted the arrival -at the bank and the departure of the man, but his manner was so bland that he did not arouse suspicion.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23

nurses home at the Connecticut hos pital for the insane; appropriating for the maintenance of the ferry at Lyme. Calendar.
 Misbranded Food.
 Dr. Knight of Salisbury called from the table a bill dealing with the chang ing of drugs or foods. He explained the bill as to allowing druggists to sell certain drugs approved by the federal law under a certain ruling.
 Public Utilities.
 After the order of the day had been disposed of MT. Scott of Plymouth in- troduced a resolution extending the time in which the joint select commit- tee on public utilities shall report.
 MT. Scott said that a resolution would probably be put in Wednesday defining the time. MT. Lyons of Thomaston opposed passage till date was settled.
 MT. Chandler said he understood that after a1 executive session of the com mittee this afternoon a date would be decided upon.
 The resolution was passed and Mir. Hayes of Waterbury made a motion that the resolution be immediately transmitted to the senate.
 Adjourned.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
FIFrY-EIeHT HOURS A WEEK
Working Time for Women and Minor, Bill to Be Reported This Week.

Hartford, June 22.-The efforts of the merchants who fought to have the unit of working time for women and minors changed from ten hours a day to fifty eight hours a week seem to have been successful in the main. The joint committee on labor has prepared a bill to be reported in the senate this week which provides that fifty eight hours shall be the unit of working time and that merchants may shorten the days of work of their employees during the other days of the week for the sake of keeping them at work longer hours on Saturday. But in the bill there is provision that merchants must in no case have their shops open or their employees at work later than 10 o'clock any evening unless the latter work in shifts. In such cases the 10 o'clock limit is not operative.
 The bill also removes the 10 o'clock limit for the week before Christmas. This phase of the bill was strongly op- posed by the Consumers league.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
HOTTEST JUNE 22D
 ON RECORD IN NEW YORK. Everybody Suffered - More Than Twenty Heat Prostrations - Two Suicides,

New York. June 22.-It was sizzling hot here today-90 in the shade at noon and humid. Everybody suffered; the East Side fairly panted, and thou sands took suburban car rides or a jaunt down to Coney and nearby beaches.
 According to weather bureau rec ords today was the hottest June 22 on record here. Thermometers register ed as high as 91 at three D. m. with humidity at A. Toward evening, how ever, the clouds gathered and a few rain drops fell. and as dusk came a fresh breeze pushed down the mercury and brought relief.
 More than twenty heat prostrations occurred during the day in the great city, and at least two suicides were in- directly caused by the high tempera- ture. Herbert Van Name, a passenger conductor from Binghamton, N. Y., whose train reached Jersey City last night, cut his throat early today, and Peter Sien, out of work and irritated by the heat, hanged himself in a basement.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23
SORT OF VOCAL DERBY EVENT.
Sangerfest at Madison Square Garden
 Imperial Stakes.

New York, June 22.-Behind a can vas screen which eliminated the eye as a factor in the judgment, ten sensitive ears listened critically tonight to the final and most important competition of the sangerfest at Madison Square Garden, It was a sort of vocal derby event of a four days festival which has brought thousands of German Americans together here from almost every city in the east that boasts a Teutonic population
 The stakes" in tonight's event were not only royal but imperial. for the trophy for which five glee clubs sang was offered by William. king of PrusE sia and emperor of Germany. Each clubsang Warming Vor Dem Rhein, ? pleasing but difficult piece which sounded fathers warning to his son against the gay life of the Rhine.
 The winner of this event and several other prize contests will be announced tomorrow, -.4 I-