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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05

ably much subterranean activity. Sem ator Bulkeley isaa fighter '.to the last ditch". Mclean is probably endeav- bring to prevent Bulkeley encroach- ments upon his strength. but the de: feat of Goodwin for, Governor has made this a somewhat difficult task. The Mclean and Goodwin candidates were linked together in public estima- tion. and the defeat of the latter is interpreted in some quarters as pop ular disapproval of the former. It would not be strange if the Bulkeley managers should use this as an argu- ment in their proselyting labors with professedly Mclean legislators.
 Possibly. the defeat of Goodwin is the cause of MT. Hills non-activity in support of Mclean. He. is a close observer of the trend of public senti- ment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
HERMIIESS FOUND DEAD
New Milford Woman Estimated to
 Have Left $4O,OOO Estate

New Milford, Dec. 5-Miss Emily Williams, 70 years old, known among the townspeople for many years as "Old Maid Williams" was found dead in her home here yesterday Miss Wiz Hams had led the life of hermitess for many years and was peculiar in many ways. When found she was sit ting upright on an old sofa and had probably been dead for two days. Both of her hands which were hang ing down by her sides had been at tackled by rats as had been her face.
 Miss Williams was we'll to do, her wealth being estimated at $40 GOO. One of her habits was to carry around a package of bank books under her skirts, but these books which are known to have represented deposits n local and Bridgeport savings banks could not be found when a search was made of the home late yesterday. The search=swill be continued. tomor- row as it is believed that they have been hidden around the house.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
BIG FRAUDS IN ENGLISH =.
 ELECTIONS
fspeciai from United Press.)

Special from United Press.) %
 London, Dec. 5-Amid scenes of the greatest disorder, and with serious riots reported in several places, voting was resumed today, the third daysef the general election. The disorders dustrial centres.
 Owing to the tremendous rains of late, today's voting was conducted under a severe handicap. Floods held back the voters in many constituent cies. Several cases of drowning were reported. Members of parliament, representing 67 constituencies: were to be elected today. Never before. in an English election. has such. a cEy;sof fraud gone up. as in. the present; yot- ing This is due>to the fact that, the voting is under the registration of been thousands of deaths and. re- movals since: his registration.a the op- portunity is presented for much fraud uIent voting and both the Liberals and Conservatives are charging, the other with the grOssest padding of their polls.
 The groundwork is being laid. for many contests. The Liberals went in to the contest today with. renewed courage, Their strong showing in London and Manchester. on Saturday. gave them hope that they would still in the metropolitan IF boroughs of which there were contests today.
 There is no longer the slightest doubt that the Liberals, with their labor> and naionalis allies, will control the situa- tion. but the Conservatives are still hoping that the government majority will be so reduced that the King will not accede to the demand for the crea- tion of Liberal Peers and that a legis- lative deadlock can be expected on all question on which there is the least division among the coalition parties. rygES3E.sS E-fA Fl 41
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
WALL STREET IN AID OF HILL

As predicted in these columns. wal Street Is coming to the aid of Rali- road Magnate Hill in his campaign of pessimism" We find even so usually conservative banker as Henry Clews saying:
 The country is in the midst of re- actionary influences which, have been growing stronger and stronger through out the year. lThese advices have f-equently pointed out that an era or readjustment had begun which must continue until . stage of equilibrium has been reached upon which to base another substantial forward movement. Values of every kind, securities. com nodities, land, labor. etc. were highly inflated Consumption had been checked because of exhausted buying power. and the country's savings mucn diminished. halt, and at least tenn porary recession became necessary. This Is the stage through which we are now passing. How long 1t Will continue cannot at present be foreseen: The indications are for a quiet period in business. and general easing UP in industry. The effect of this VIII be to weaken prices of commodities, check enterprise and increase the number of unemployed. This Is much to be deplored. and the remedy will be hastened by recognition of the in evitable rather than by opposition 10 if. The sooner concessions are maoe upon all sides the sooner will recovery be possible.
 But he appends thereto the follow ing plea for confirmation of the rail- roads proposed increases in freight rates by the Interstate Commerce Com- rnission:
 The large declines in net railroad
 1.iv, cd aY- ceedingly significant. Gross earnings as rule are showing very moderate gains over last year.> and these are being heavily counterbAanced by the heavy growth in expenses. Many roads are now showing large losses m net results. owing chiefly to the liberal advances recently granted to labor. The railroads are hoping to secure -some relief through permission to pro- cure advances in freight rates.
 If we are not greatly mistaken. the pending of the railroads petition for higher freight rates. and the "cam- paign of pessimism" by MT. Hill and Wall Street stand in the relation of cause and effect. the latter being in tended to aid the former.
 We are the more inclined to this opinion for the reason that MT. Clews admits that tariff changes. if any, cannot go into effect before 1912, that no money crisis exists or is probable. and that the corn crop in the West and the cotton crop in the South as- sure prosperity in those sections.
 Until now, such conditions have al- ways been hailed as promotive of gen. eral business activity. There is no adequate reason why the same conclu- sion should not now be reached. except that the railroads desire to bring pres sure to bear on the Interstate Com, merce Commission in the form of an alleged business and industrial depres- sion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
It now appears that the commission

It now appears that the commission governmental plan for the city of Norwich does not. as first reported, include a provision of non-eligibility for office of all who do not pay other than State taxes. The eligibility pro- vision is that mo person shall be eli gible to the office of Mayor or director who has not been a legal voter and resident of the town for five years and of the city for one year immed- lately preceding the election" This makes it possible for any registered elector to become a candidate for of- flee whether or not he pays other than State taxes.
 To certain classes of citizens, the original report was very pleasing. They have long contended that only taxpayers should be eligible to city offices. But the non-eligibility pro- vision was evidently too radical for acceptance ill Norwich.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
HITS EDISON
 LIFE THEORY
Rev. Dr. Sheath Declares His Philosophy Will Never Lift
 Burden From the Soul
IMPERIALISM IS INHUMAN
Christianity Trying to Meet Human
 Need-Edison's Idea Unphilo- .a sOphical, He Says.

3 New Haven. Dec. 5-At the nnorning service in the Grand Avenue Congre- gational church. yesterday, the Rev. Dr. Sheath. pastor. preached a strong sermon on 'Edison's Barren Faith He said in part:
 "On last Sunday.s we noted the weak nesses of the philosophy of fatalism, and this morning we want to note the weaknesses of materialism. It is not so prevalent as is fatalis,n; but it manifests itself in unexpected quar- ters
 "A recent magazine article assures us that Mark Twain was a materialist Also that John Burroughs and Thomas A. Edison are materialists. It is mak- ing itself felt in Europe. Germany Is it's hot bed and it is declared that there are more suicides in Germany than in any, other country on the globe. MT. Edison assures that there is no evil dence in nature of a loving Father. nor are there any good reasons for believ- ing in a future life.
 "Materialism is unnatural and inhu- man. We are but dirt: there is no God nor future life; Christianity is but the futile visionary scheme Of the Galilean dreamer. But. over against this. it Is evident that there has been a people discovered without the con viction of God and a future. It ex- presses ltSelI III the WOruS.
 ""Thou wilt not. leave us in the dust,
 Thou madest man, he knows not .i. why;
 He thinks he was not made to die. And thou hast made him. thou art
 just.'
 "Materialism is unphilosophical. A true philosophy recognizes physical and mental states in intersection; but the one never becoming the other. Further, it never helps.
 'Mr. Edison has done an incalculable service to humanity through his dis coveries and inventions: but his phil osophy of life will never remove the sorrow from the human heart. nor the burden from the soul. It calls for re- ligion and Christianity is endeavoring to meet the human need. Over against fate or an memorable law. it places Heavenly Father with a sympathetic heart and helping hand. It gives an assurance of a victory over sin and selfishness; so that the individual need never say that life does not pay eX- penses and is not worth living. It also promises future life ever lived with God with triumphing. sinless and perfected life. We need to give the youth of our generation the true vision of God. of a victory over sin and of an abiding life and we have given them that which holds through all the changes of time."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05

Public service corporations-express telephone, telegraph, trolley and steam railway companies-pay total of $1,- 91S, ,23S.66 in taxation to the State. Of that amount. the N. r.. N. H. & H. R. R. Company pays S1.24S. .324.22 or within s664. .912.44 of the total. In the belief of State Senator-elect Donovan of Norwalk. none of these corporations pay their proper share of taxation, and he intends. at the coming session of the Legislature. to call attention to the matter, which he will probably do in his usual vigorous manner.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
l he D. M. Read Go.
 Est4bLsbed I85Z.
EsMbHsbed 1857.

< The l inc has Come . to Reduce Prices on I ailored Gowns Women who have waited until this time to buy a winter street suit, have something good to expect Instead of putting off the reductions until mdwnter give them now and there are very tempting values.
 Sample Suits in Colors ,. The greater number of these model suits and there is but one of each style. The colors those which fashionable today, and the materials Cheviots Homespuns, and other stylish suit fabrics, trimmed with braid with the coats elegantly lined, and both garments showing the best of tailoring. ! Black Suits ...-7@ The assortment is not SC large in these but if the group is small the attractions great. There included few suits of Chiffon Broadcloth of excfu- sive style, suits of diagonal serge, and cheviot each one of fine grade sive that it is impossible to make sts but those who come will receive generous offerings.
 Second floor elevator at Dress Goods.
 Fans for Holiday Gifts. Of all lovely tres Fans are the most beautiful and fascinating. The Fans of Princess and Point Gaze Lace exquisite, with decorated sticks, and there are French conceits in the way of Empire and Louis XIV Fans painted with court figures and dainty : shepherdesses.. There Fans of unusual cololings, shades of lilac, golden brown and French blue, with gold and those are mounted on sweet smelling sandawood sticks. H White Gauge Fans, hand painted and spangled from $10O $125 up to $1200, with sticks of pearl decorated ivory.
 Colonial Fans with white bone sticks are novel, and but 50 cts.
 Persian Fans quite novel, at 65 cts.
 Black Fans with jet or silver spangles.
 For the Children
 Little Fans of ostrich feathers or silk spanged on chains for dancing school or party use;- cts < -
  l he D.. M. Read Co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05

Congressman Hill who is now in Washington, says he is mot suffi- ciently familiar with the Senatorial contest to discuss it, but. the inter- viewer adds. MT. Hill is deeply inter- ested in the success of Governor Mo Leans candidacy to succeed Bulke- ley
 From this, it appears that Mir. Hill is taking no active rart in the Rulke- ley-McLean contest, but does not dis guise his preference for Mclean. By the way, an unusual surface-quiet pre- vails in the contest. but there is prob
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
TAKE CARE!

Remember that when Xour kidneys are affected, your life is in danger. M. Mayer, Rochester, NY, says. My trouble started with a sharp shooting pain over my back which grew worse daily. I felt sluggish and tired. my kidney action was irregular and in frequent. l started using. Foley Kid ney Pills. / Each dose seemed to put new life and strength into me. and now I am completely cured and feel
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05

Canada Is to have a navy. composed of foNr cruisers and six torpedo-boat destroyers. involving an expenditure of about s10.000.00o This cannot be interpreted otherwise than as prepara- ton for possible hostilities with the United States. for the British navy is abuhdantly able to protect the Canad- ian coasts in case of war with Europ- can powers. It will probably cause an increase in our naval strength on the great lakes.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

plication of diseases. Moses Straus the
Oldest leather manufacturer in Newark,
head of the firm of M Straus & Sons, died
his summer nome at Deal Beach. Word
was received in this city of the sudden
death in the South American junges If
Professor Charles P. Holt of Santa Ana,
Cal, who left here last April at the age Of
sevanty-fiye years to prospect for gold IN
Colombia James Bigler one of the pio-
neer telephone men on the Hudson River.
died at his home IN Newhurg a the age Of
nnety-two years Henry O Reilly Tucker.
owner and publisher OF The Troy Daily
Press died suddenly at Little Compton II
L, where he and his family had a cottage
for the summer George Watson. jr.. New
York clubman md horseulan. died at the
Homeopathic Hospital in Pittsburg. After
the PittsburS horse show three weeks ago,
to which Mr.. Watson took nineteen horses.
he had a bad fall in a hunt at the Harl1a-
way Hunt Club. He was removed TO the
hospital Immediately and underwent sew
eral operations in the hope nf saving MS
life Ira G. Rawn, president of the Monon
Railroad, was shot TO death in his summer
home in Winnetka, near Chicago. Mem
hers of his fa mily say he was murdered py
d burglar. Others who accept the burglar
theory believe hat Mr.. Rawn may have
started downstairs to meet man suppos I'd
to be in the house. but that instead of be-
ing shot by the burglar he tripped in his
night robe and accidentally pulled the trig-
ger of his own revolver as he was falling
A third theory, which is resented by mem
bers of the family and by subordinate Off
cials of the Monon. is that Mr.. Rswn took
his own life. being prompted by worry and
sleeplessness over the scandals which have
developed in the affairs of the Western In
diana road of which Mr. Rawn was di-
rector and those of the Illinois Central, of
which he was vice-presdent. in charge OF
operation until last fall.
Nelson, one of the most remarkable and
best known trotting and breeding stations
in the country. who once held the old
fashioned high wheel sulky record. and
later the bicycle sulky- record died at
Sunnyside Farm. Waterville. the stock
farm of his owner. c. Horace Nelson"
What have the aviators been DOING?
asked Busy Man.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

power for the mills but for the electric
lighting and streetcar service of Mime
apolis and St. Paul The company is sad
to have paid the Pillsbury- Washburn in
terests approximately $12,000000 for is
plant.
The theft of railroad bonds Of the value
of $4,000 from the agency of the Russo
Chinese Bank. at No 52 Pine street, was
announced in warning sent out from the
agency against negotiating or purchasing
any of the bonds given in a list accom-
paDyias the notice The missing bonds in
clude $25, 900 of the Southern Pacific De
veopment Company per cent bonds, S30.-
0c0 of Union Pacific IS, $4,000 Of Southern
Pacific convertible is, and $1,000 of Nor
folk & Western is. Just how and when or
by whom the bonds We're stolen was not
known it was said at the agency.
After a search covering two continents
and extending over six months. the police
captured a man in this city who gave his
name as Louis Mendelbaum, whom they
charged with the theft of $4,000 from the
banking house of FRANCOIS and Emile
Narck. In LiAge, Belgium. IN January Of
this year. The police say that he has been
going under the alias of Louis Cohen, and
that his real name is Leibus Brisk.
'Wlthln q nlOntI1 Oh MS picillttloii " tiiC
place of paying teller in the Herald Square
branch of the Greenwich Bank, Walter
Hall twenty-sx years old. disappeared
from his home in South Brooklyn, where he
lived with his wife and two children, and
there also disaopeared about $4,000 of the
banks funds
~ Howard Lowery. fornI-c assistant
ca shier of the City National Bank of Utica.
n. Y. accused of embezzling s135,500. was
arrested in Philadelphia
Alexander Holander wanted by the
federal authorities al New York in connec-
ton with alleged Custom House frauds.
was arrested in Naples by an American Dc
tectiye Hollander was travelling under
the name of James Bonhome. 1t is under
stood that Hollander was the head of the
customs brokerage firm of Alexander Hol-
lander e. Co. at No So Wall street: He
left New York last January after the ar
rest of two of his clerks charges of fall
sifying invoices and certificates of appraise-
ment of imported automobiles.
"JJntted States Commissioner Llndsly
Rowe. of Jersey City. who has held thai
office for thirty years, and is the oldest
limited States commissioner in point OF SER
vice after Commissioner Shields of this city
has been asked by United States District
ATTORNEY John B. Vreeiand for his resigna-
ton. An investigation of his ONCE was
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

THE axe has fallen in the Bureau of
Buildings in Borough President McAneny's
Office. Superintendent Rudolph P. Miller.
having decided that there were too many
high priced doing work that could be
just as well done by others, abolished six
places, and the present incumbents will
have from now until the first of the month
to find other jobs. The annual saving will
be $1,000.
Mayor Gaynor approved new city law
relating to weights and measures. As
amended the ordinance provides that the
head of the bureau shall be known as Com
missioner of Weights and Measures and
that subordinates. formerly known as depC-
" inspectors, shall be inspectors. A sig
nifcant provision is that such employees
shall be removable by the Mayor at his
Measure and from time to time he may ap-
point additional inspectors.
provision is made to bond inspectors for
ST. 900 each, and II is set forth that nobody
shall sell offer for sale any commodity
or article of merchandise in any market or
any other place in the city at any othe"
than true measure weight, under pei
atty of $1O0 for each offence, except with
regard TO poultry, which may be offered for
sale and sold in other manner than by
weight, Dut must De weighed whenever Inc
purchaser wishes II.
mo one is permitted to sell ice in any
other manner than by weight and 1t is
provided that the ice shall be weighed I'M
mediately before delivery. 1t is further
ordered that all scales shall be examined
and sealed before use. and that no false
measure of any kind shall be manufactured.
under penalty Of 800 fine for each offence.
Giving as a reason that they are forced
to pay the farmer a largely increased price
for his milk. two of the biggest dealers in
the city. the Sheffield Farms Sawson- Deck
er Company and the c. II. c. Beakes Dairy
Company, raised their prices from to
cents q quart.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
NICARAGUA'S TROUBLES.

Fear that Edwin W. Trimmer, United
States Consul ut Cape Gracias, Nicaragua.
might be assaulted or possibly even assas-
sinated. caused the dispatch of the cruiser
Tacoma to that port to investigate, and. II
conditions seemed TO demand 1T, to lan.i
marines to protect American lives and
property.
This was The report made 20 the State
Department by Thomas P Moffat. United
States Consul at Bluehelds. Two officers
and forty-fve men were ordered to Cape
Gracias on the Tacoma
The State Department made plain its
position in regard to Norway's recognition
of the blockade by the Madrfz faction OF
Bluefields on the east coast OF Nicaragua
In a long telegram 10 seven American
firms ir New Orleans engaged in trade
with Nicaragua. the department declared
B!uefields to be an open port. and an
nounced that this government would not
allow the seizure OF American property
entering the port, whether in American
ships or not, so that the trade which has
been carried on hitherto by the Bluehelds
Steamship Company. an American firm.
in ships leased from Norwegian owners.
may continue with the same safeguards
as before Norway. 1t is said. has been
"A new Cabinet has been formed in Nicar
aqua. according to cable advices received
from Consul Olivares- It's personnel con-
sists, with a single exception. Of adherents
of Zelaya and men who were officials Of the
former Presidents government Consul
Olivares strongly intimates that the new
ministry Is likely to be unfriendly TO the
United States.
William P Pittn1an, the American en-
gineer who was captured by the Madriz
forces near Bluefields. in Nicaragua. 10
now confined III a commodious cell. Pitt
man at first was placed in a dirty cell. less
than six feet square. Against this treat
ment the American Consul entered a Wig
orous protest, Ind the prisoner was trans
ferred to better quarters Pittman's new
cell is shared by two other prisoners Pitt
man is i'll with nalarial fever. although his
condition is said not to be serious.
Investigations made by Raymond Fos-
dick Commissioner of Accounts. have dis
closed the fact that out of 42S bail bonds
made out in The 4th District Magistrates
Court, at No. 1Ss Bedford avenue. Brooklyn
from May 1, 1903. to May II, 1910. 102 were
furnished by Daniel Carroll According TO
the report of Commissioner Fosdick made
to Mayor Gaynor. property at No 1SS
North Sd street. Brooklyn assessed at
$4,000. with a $500 mortgase). was the
security given In seventy-eight OF the
bonds. and during the period under investi-
CATION continuously was security for bonds
totaliing from $4,000 to $4,000. Masis-
trate Higginbothann accepted Mr., Carroll as
on fifty different occasions. and in
forty cases the North Sd street property
was used. Magistrate O'Reilly accepted
thirty-two of The 102 bonds furnished by
Mr.. Carroll
James P. Holland. the member OF the
Board of Education who admits he told !
meeting of puolic school Janitors that a
squealer Is worse than a man who takes
the money IL they had paid for their Jobs.
sent IN his resignation to Mayor Gaynor.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
LONDON SHOPS.

have entertained to add to her representa-
ton in Congress. The increase amounted
to more than 114,000, but this figure is not
sufficiently large to insure an additional
Representative Rhode Island is the first
state whose census has been totalled by the
bureau.
1.-The population of Chicago has passed
the 2.o0O0 600 mark according to estimates
based on the 1910 school census just made
public. The total minor population of the
city is S14,115 an increase of 66.76S over
the census of 1908. Based on the minor
count, the total population is 2,100,oOo-
Children of German parentage take the first
rank, followed by Poles, Russians and Irish
The total population, according to the
school census of 1908, was 1,922,336. In
1904 the population was 1.174,144