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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

This is the biggest day Bridgeport Odd Fellowship has seen in years as its marks the dedication of the splen- did hall and quarters in the Odd Fell lows building, erected by Hincks & Johnson at Broad and John streets. It is the most important step taken by the organization since 1843 when the first lodge of the triple linkers was instituted in Bridgeport.
 Promptly at 2 o'clock about 1900 of the 5000 members of the I. O.. O.. F. formed in line at the old quarters, Pequonnock Hall, State and Main streets, and marched to the Hotel Stratfield to meet the grand officers of the state and the invited guests who are making their headquarters there. The visitors were escorted dt- rect to the new home where the grand lodge officers dedicated the new rooms in accordance with the ritual of the order. The exercises are scheduled to last to almost o'clock. Because of the intense heat a large number of electric fans were placed this morning about the lodge rooms
 The grand officers who had charge of the dedication ceremony were: Grand Master Joseph H. Hawley of Danbury; Deputy Grand Master Ar thur F. Woodford of Bristol; Grand Secretary William $. HutchiSon of New Haven; Grand Treasurer Will liam H. Marigold of this city; Grand Warden Frederick c. Burrows of New London; Grand Marshal F. B. Roys c. Stevenson of this city; and Grand Chaplain Charles H. Smith of Barre, Mass.
 At o'clock this evening there will
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
CHARLTON CONFESSES
 TO HAVING MURDERED
 HIS WIFE IN ITALY

Charlton signed the statement and wrote on the bottom in his own hand writing, '1 understand that c. N. Ispolatoff is charged with the crime. defense to make and wish to make nOne."
 The police had received word by wireless than a man answering Charl- tons description was on the steamer and the captain had been instructed to the vessel docked. Headquarters de- tectfves were on hand and Charlton was hurriedly put under arrest and taken to the office of the chief of po- lice where he immediately admitted his idtntity but denied he killed his wife. Under fire of ross-questioning. how ever, he finally broke down and ad- mitted the killing.
 Mrs. Mary Scott Castle Charlton, wife of Porter Charlton, was murdered in her villa at Molterasio. Italy. near Como, either on June or 6. She was battered over the head with blunt instrument and her body stuffed into trunk and thrown into Lake Como. On the following Friday the half submerged trunk was drawn from the lake by some fishermen.
 The body was easily recognized and a search of the villa that she and her husband had occupied was at once made. disclosing the evidences of a fierce struggle, which evidently follow ed wine supper.
 Charlton remained in Como until Thursday, the day before the body was found. when he left, presumably for Genoa. The Italian authorities at first thought that he had been killed with his wife and they arrested a Russian suspect named Constantine Ispa1otoff who was held by the police until last Monday when he was released. The police worked on the theory that Is- palotoff was the murderer partially to satisfy Limited States Consul Caughy at Milan. and United States Ambassa- dor Leishman who insisted that Charl- ton was innocent and had himself been slain. This theory was adhered to de- spite the evidence of frequent quarrels between Charlton and his wife, his we'll known jealousy of her and the fact that on the day of the murder Charlton inquired of several fishermen as to the deepest part of Lake Como.
 The Charltons were married in Will mington. Del. on March 12, and left a few days later for a. trip abroad, Charlton announcing that he had a position in bank in Hamburg.
 Charlton is about % years of age while his wife was 35 This disparity in their ages coupled with the event full career of his wife is supposed to have engendered jealousy in Charlton and to have been the indirect cause of the murder.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
SEVEN INDICTED FOR MURDER OF
 WALTHAM MAN
All Arraigned Today and Plead Not Guilty to Charge of Kill ing Wealthy Laundryman
 Clarence F. Glover
fspecial from United Press.)

Boston, June 23.-Secretly indicted as accessories after the fact to the murder of Clarence F. Glover, Wal tham, Mass, Iaundryman, last fall, Glover's wife, Lillian M. Glover. her attorney Samuel D. Fillmore, Glover s two brothers, Seymour and A. M. Glover, Arthur F. Tupper and MT. and Mrs. George Freeman, were arraigned here today before Judge Stevens in the Cambridge suepior court.
 The murdered Glover on his dying bed accused Hattie Leblanc, young girl, of having shot him at the laun- dry after a clandestine meeting. Af- ter the shooting the girl disappeared and was found three days later se- creted under a bed in the Glover home where she had been employed as domestic. It is now charged that the wife of Glover and the other persons arraigned knew of the girls presence in the house while all New England was being searched for her, and con- spired to hide her, thereby defeating the ends of justice.
 When the seven were arraigned to- day all pleaded not guilty and each was held in $2,OO0 bail. Ever since the crime occurred the circumstances surrounding it have been wrapped in mystery, the Leblanc girl declaring that while she was with Glover in the laundry it was some other hand which fired the fatal shot. The trial Of the seven persons accused in the latest de- velopment of the case is being proceed ed with today.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
Special from United Press.)

Special from United Press.)
 Hoboken, N. J., June 23-Arrestec when the North German Lloyd steam CT Princess Irene. in today from Med iterranean ports, docked here Porter Charlton, accused of the murder of his wife, in Italy, broke down after being subjected to the third degree at police and admitted that he committed the crime.
 Ten minutes later in the police headquarters in Hoboken he was facing a loaded revolver in the hands of Captain Scott, United States Coast Artillery, a brother of the dead wO. man. Scott was disarmed before he had time to shoot.
 Charlton was arraigned before Re- corder McGovern in the HObOken pO- lice court and to the clerk he said he had no defense and wished to make none. He was remanded until tomorrow and the state department at Washington was immediately in- formed of his arrest.
 Charlton was registered on the steamer as Jack Coleman of Omaha He was neatly clad in a blue serge suit and wore Derby hat.
 Coleman" who is a slightly built youth, said, What do you want?'' SdpId1u SCOlI 1lluIOuIdlcIys IOCOSulZ6O him as Porter Charlton. In spite of this the man denied his identity and still declared that he was Jack Cole man of Omaha.
 He was then rushed to police head quarters and taken to the office of the chief.
 ''I might as we'll tell you all," and then he made the following state ment:
 My name is Porter Charlton. I live at No. 204 West 55th street in New York city. Am 21 years old. My home is in Omaha. I am a bank clerk by profession. I lived very hap oily with my wife who was the best woman in the world to me but she had a most ungovernable temper and so had l.. We quarrelled frequently and she used vile language to me the meaning of which I am sure she did not know. On the day I killed her she had cursed me and I told her that if she did it would fix her. Again she swore at me and I was in daZe. I struck her with a mallet with which I had been fixing a couch on which we had been lying. I thought she was dead. I stuffed her body in trunk and threw. the mal- let in after her. That night at 12 o'clock I dragged the trunk to a pier near Moltrasio and threw it into the lake. The following day I left Lake Como for Genoa where I boarded the Princess Irene four days later"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
M'KENNA NAMES MEN
 TO MAKE BLOCK MAPS
This Action kS Defeat of Long Sustained Effort to Support
 Contract System
Public Service Corporations Fear Precedens Under Which City
 Does its Own Work at Cost.

City Engineer Maurice F. McKenna today named the three men who will have charge of making the block maps provided for by the board of apportionment, in February, when it appropriated s9,500 for this work.
 The appointees are Irwin W. Schrewe, civil engineer and gradu- ate of the Charlotta Polytechnic School of Berlin, Germany; Steven Azhderian, civil engineer, a graduate of Sheffield Scientific school, 1904; and John F. Bowling, who was for several years employed by Scofield & Ford, and who was under Horace G. Scofield, when the bulk of the block maps now in use by the assessors were made by MT. Scof1eld
 Engineer Schrewe has been six years in the service of various pro- jects of municipal engineering and ary is $1,300 a year.
 MT. Azhderian will receive $1,2o0 a year. He has served two years in the office of city engineer had been terbury, and most recently was draughtsman for the Bridgeport Fly
 MT. Bowling will receive $1,2o0 a year. He is regarded as one of the best practical men in engineering work in the city. His appointment will meet with the approval of a large number of people.
 City Engineer McKenna will begin work upon the block maps, Monday. He said this morning: q am con fdent that the results will be of the highest order. I am convinced that the taxpayers will be thoroughly sat- fsfied with the work that will be done by the city engineer"
 The appointments are made under an authority of an amendment to the ordinances passed by the Common Council at its last meeting. The ordi- nance contemplates a temporary in- crease in the force of the city en- gineer until such time as the work of making block maps is completed.
 These appointments mark the cul- mination of a long struggle to pre- vent the block maps from being made by the city itself.
 A strong influence has put of the work during more than two years, to prevent the city from making the maps. or rather because the Common Council would not authorize the maps to be let to contract.
 DuBeg the Eesond year of Mayor Lees term an appropriation of $10.- 900 was sought for block maps. The matter came duly up to the Board of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
AERONAUT CODY IS DASHED TO
 EARTH TODAY
AerOplane Smashed to Bits and British War Office Experi- menter in Dying Con-
 ditiOn
Especial from United Press. )

Aldershot, Eng, June 23.-Captain $. F. Cody, the American aeronaut who has been experimenting with an aero plane for the British War Office is believed to be in a dying condition as a result of an accident on Laffan's Plain today when his machine dashed to earth.
 Cody was rendered unconscious and his aeroplane smashed to bits. Cody is a naturalized Englishman. He be- gan his aerial experiments for the war office but after spending $6,0O0 of the governments money without visible results, more money was refused and he spent his private fortune in his work The machine in which he was injured is a cumbersome affair of his own invention, weighing two thou sands pounds and having 780 feet of wing surface. It was driven by an eighty horsepower motor.
 Cody's most successful flight was made September 28 1909, when he made a cross country flight around Aldershot, remaining in the air one hour and three minutes flying Al miles
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
ISTRATFIELD ELEVATOR BOY ARMED LIKE BANDIT WOULD
 HAVE BURNED TENEMENT
Has Y M 6. A. Membership Button and Claims to be Wfi-
 mantle Mill Hand
Poice Investigating What They Believe to be Strange Attempt at Arson in lpTofab|e Store Whose Proprietor is Miss Ing-Tried Three Times to Shoot Police
 Sergeant 0'Ledry

CT the sort of man that was under arrest.
 Judge Foster fixed bail at s1ooot and continued the case until tomor. row.
 Following his arraignment in the city court the prisoner was closeted two hours with Captain Arnold. Al first he feigned inability to speak Eng. fish, but the detectives soon forced him to converse with them and found he could talk freely.
 Hadad was dressed in a cheap suit with a soft shirt, and he wore the rubber sneaks that burglars and sec- ond story men find invaluable in their work. The candle found in his pocket was such as the professional burglar often uses. When confronted with the candle, several hours after he was searched, he denied it had been taken from him and said he never had such a thing in his clothing.
 Asked about his being so heavily armed, he said he used to be a ped dler in Mexico, and in travelling through the country was used to wear ing the cartridge belt and pistols. He said he was a workman in thread mill in Willimantic and he lived in that city with his mother, and broth CTS and sisters at 38 Jackson place.
 It remained for a subsequent inves- tigation of the premises by Detec- tive Hall to unearth what the police now suppose to be his real motive for visiting the place as he did. Hall found that the gasoline fumes, which the police supposed at first arose from the accidental overturning of a can square tin, which Mrs. Abdo, the wom- an in charge of the store, said she had never seen before.
 In his statement to the police, Ha- dad declared that he had come from New Haven last night where he had been looking for work. He said he had $45 with him, and that he carried his pistols to protect his money. He knew few people in Bridgeport and he went to the store of Smith expecting to find him there. He found the back door open, he says, and thinking Smith had left for a short time, he went in to await Smiths homecoming.
 He denied all knowledge of the gas oline tank, andswhen the police press ed him too closely for an explanation as to how it came to be overturned with it's contents spread through the place, he pleaded inability to under stand them.
 The police have learned that Smith, who left here Tuesday, had been con- ducting an unprofitable business in Main street. He was formerly in Fairfield avenue, near Park avenue, but his new store was not so pros porous. He had been reducing his stock. they say, and Hadad visited him several times. 7.
 For several weeks, up to about a month ago, Hadad was an elevator boy at the Stratfield hotel. He is 5 feet inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, and is possessed of an exceptionally wide girth of chest and shoulders. In his struggle with the police, his shirt and trousers were nearly torn off.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

Apportionment, and then it was dis covered that the ordinance governing the office of city engineer nas been 6arefuily Se made to prevent these maps The fact was that the ordinances had been drawn by friends of the principle that the city should as far as possible do it's own work and ever it could be abandoned.
 under these circumstances the block map appropriation was not pressed. Again in the present year the demand for money to make block maps was inserted, the desire being to secure the repeal of the ordfna nee so that the work could be let to pri- vate contractors.
 Every influence was brought to bear to secure the repeal. but unsuc- cessfully.
 The city. out of it's own funds. win make the maps. It is perfectly well known that the city will make more maps of a better quality than could possibly be made under a contract system and the work will be done af cost
 No one will have any object in sk1mping the job. Defects will be remed1ed as they appear and will not be left for discovery after contractors other communities.
 The public has gained more in this contest over minor matter than sf first might be supposed
 The very powerful gentlemen who own the public utilities know ff1e danger of precedents. It is their fu- f1uence that throws cold water upon every plan which involves the city doing something for itself.
 Their influence was busy fin csus- ing the street paving commission to take action under which the city Iefs Its paving contracts to private con tractors.
 To this end great publicity was sfv- en to the failure to lay the FsfrfeIT avenue pavement properly, while the fact was obscured that the city had cheaply and successfully laid several permanent pavements.
 City Engineer McKenna promises fo show the people that they can d0 their own work through their rezu- larly constituted agency, the once Of the city engineer, better than they can through the medium of private con tractors.
 To this end he has made his sp- pointments so that no fainf of u11lg can be discovered among them a7Yd has named those who gre zc be fpfa assistants solely because they are ff1e most competent men to be had af ff1e salaries the city pays.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
FIVE MORE ARRESTS
 IN $3O0,000 BANK
 LOOPING CASE
Big Bill Keliher is Supposed to Have Squealed on Men Higher
 up in BuncO Game
Especial from United Press.)

Boston, June 23.-Five new arrests, among them one which is expected to stir legal circles here, are expected today, after a report by a Federal Grand Jury which for the third time has probed the s300,000 footing of the National City Bank of Cambridge by George w. Coleman and the gang of faro swindlers by whom he was f1eeced of his p1under. Indictments against Martin J. Walsh, alleged head of the gang and John P. Strosneider, an alleged member who is held in Brooklyn, are believed likely.
 The other three cases considered, it is understood, relate to witnesses who testified at the trial of Big Bill' Keliher who was convicted on a charge of aiding and abetting in the misapplication of the funds of the bank. These witnesses, including one of the women who testified, have been accused of perjury by the gov ernment. One of them is reported to have turned Seate's evidence.
 Judge LeBarron B. Colt, of the United States Circuit Court, will re- ceive the grand jury's report and is ordered to issue warrants at once.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
POPULAR FIREMAN
 WEDS MISS HENSS

William Flick, fireman, and Miss Catherine Henss, neice of Hr. Henry c. Henss of 1149 Noble avenue, were married at the brides home, yester- day, at o'clock, last evening, by Rev.
 Mr. Weimer, pastor of the German Lutheran church. The bridge was formerly employed in Lustig's mil linery store. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was held at the guncle's house. The couple left for Washington, Niagara Falls and other points of interest on the 9:30 D. m
 train. The groom has fitted up a home at 830 William street and the welded pair will be home to their friends after July 1. The wedding was private and only the immedia friends of the family were present
 MT. Flick is a member of the Bridge port department, and is popular with large circle of friends. He is sta toned in the house on Middle street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
DIVORCE FOR CANNADY.

Judge Howard H. Curtis in the Su- perior Court, yesterday, after listening to considerable spicy evidence in the divorce suit of Frank Cannady, an employe of the Public Market, resid- ing on Gregory street, against his wife, Carrie Cannady, allowed the de- cree on the ground of infidelity, one, Samuel Brown, being named as CO., respondent. The parties in the suit are colored and were married in North Carolina in 1895
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
WEALTHY GREENWICH
 MAN DIES ABROAD
 OF HEART FAILURE

London, June 23-A coroner's inves- tigation has revealed the fact that Lyndon H. Stevens, a wealthy resi- dent of Greenwich, Conn.,, died mys- teriously Tuesday at the Grand Ho- tel. MT. Stevens was found dead in bed under circumstances indicating poisoning The autopsy, however, did not substantiate this theory and the coroner's inquiry has been adjourned, pending" an analysis of the stomach.
 Mr. Stevens is said to have broken down from overwork. He had been abroad for several months.
 Greenwich, June 23.-Friends of the family of Lyndon H. Stevens say that death was caused by heart failure, brought on by several severe attacks of influenza. MT. Stevens was accom- panied by his wife when he went abroad but she returned home three weeks ago and is now in New York with her daughter. Besides being a director in several corporations he was president of the Batopilas Mining Co.,, of Mexico, and president of the local board of trade. He was about 67 years old and leaves besides his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Edward Stevens and Miss Louise Stevens.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

a worlds record at that time On Dec. 2s,- 1909. he attempted to fly from Liv- erpool to Manchester, a distance of 39 miles. but after flying IA miles got tangled up in telegraph wires and was thrown to the ground, sustaining seri- ous injuries then. Cody claims that he invented "warping wings for aero- planes long before the Wright brothers but his claims are denied
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

Los Angeles, Cal. June 23.-A- G. Spalding, head of the sporting goods house of Chicago, for several years a resident of San Diego, has been for mally requested by San Diego busi- ness men to accept the nomination to succeed Frank P. Flint in the United States senate. Aubrey Davidson, president of the San Diego Union Sav- ings and Trust company, gave out a letter addressed to MT. Spalding, sent by a committee of business men, making the request. Edwin A. Me serve of this city, a close friend Of MT. Flint, announced his candidacy with the support of MT. Flint follow ing a report confirmed by one of the senator's personal friends that he would succeed MT. Ballinger as secre- tary of the interior within a month.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
BOYS PASS EXAMS.

James Eldon Deane and James Rex ford Flynne, students at the local high school, have passed the entrance exams for Rensselaer, Polytechnic In- stftute at Troy, N. Y., The boys will enter in the Fall,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

QUEENS DAUGHTERS TO MEET.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Queens Daughters will be held at St. Augustine's church at o'clock to- morrow evening.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23
PAINTING AND EXPERIENCING

No correspondence school meth ods, but 22 years practical experi- ence. Do you want first class work
 c. Pardee & Co.,, 1230 Pembroke St. Phone 3569. R31as 70
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

The Washington avenue home of Mrs. Joseph A. O'Brien is offered
 for rent. For particulars call on Mrs. O'Brien at 778 Washington avenue. F. 21 u*o
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

AT FAIRFIELD BEACH a fine ten rooNa cottage all furnished can be ,,nt;1 oct st for soso m i raDI nuM opportunity for two or three small families to spend the summer at the shore. Call quick or melt The lot is so feet fronting on the Sound
 200 feet deep. You can buy land, cottage, furniture and row boat for $3,500.00. City water, bath room, shower bath and telephone, go to it. Call at Miller & Jordan's office, 29 Fairfield Ave. a.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

DON'T FORGET to call and look over the free lunch and sample same at T. J. Murphy's, SSi Main St Bust ness mems lunch a speciality, stuff ed and baked clans. Saturday special lunch, roast beef and potato salad. Wm. F.. Hogan. Mgr.
 R q q 70
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-23

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The Coconino sun., 1910-03-25

1t is indeed passing strange that the editor of the Winslow Mail should accuse republicans of "parti- sonosis when the democratic pa pers have been So thoroughly wrought up that they are willing to refuse statehood unless they get it with all the special provisions. including the ''partizanacious, so called educational qualification law. It is it be deeply regretted that one so well versed in the affairs of love, life and liberty should wander so far aheld, and go wrong in the defense of party that even the Great Bryan never was able to defend, successfully. Stop, ponder upon thi, grand wal lop, Editor rehan.