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Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07

but he came out in a hurry when he bumped into what semed to be a hear of earth and boulders- The walls oi the tunnel were unshored and only the cohesion of the earth held the roof up Whoever dug it must have worked in secret for weeks
 Fearful of further exploration from the cellar, the inspectors began to dig down from the street level, sounding at the same time the cellar walls of the bank and the jewelry shop. So far as they could learn, both are sound
 No Trace of FinkeIstein.
 Digging continued all the afternoon and all night with crowds of curious persons in attendance. The work went slowly, both because of the depth of the excavation and the necessity for caution. At a point beyond the first obstruction a fcrk in the tunnel was found, which there split into two branches, one of which headed for the bank vaults and the other for the jew elry shop. In all, the diggers had un- covered about fifty feet of burrowfng, with no trace of the body of Finkel- stein late tonight.
 There is some doubt whether he is in the tunnel or not, dead or alive. for 1t is pointed out that the home en- trance was barrfcaded from the out side. On the other hand, a confederate could have effected just such an ap- pearance..
 Brother in Law Arrested.
 Isidor Garbus, the brother-in-law of the missing man, was held by the police as a witness.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
ABDUCTED COUNTRY GIRL
 ON WITNESS sTANu Pastor stueksy's Sweetheart Tolls sf Joys of the Big Gay City.

Ottawa Kansas. Jan. 6-When sha took the witness stand again today, Lorena Sutherland. the young country girl, told the jury which is trying Rev. Wallace M. stuckey. for her abduc- ton. of her joy of living in the bln "gay city of Chicago"
 "GVerything was strange. SO biz. it seemed almost as if I were living n novel," she said.
 All of Stuckey's courtship the wit- ness said, was carried on by means of notes and love missives This. 70 appears, was continued even while tho two were in jail at WaulQegan, III. There he. she testified, sent her note reading:
 Dear Grille: Your papa and mann ma are not coming for you. only Sheriff Latimer will take ua home. still love you, little sweetheart ana when we get back home l will get a divorce from my cross wife. ! may have 10 go To jail Cor forty or NftW days, but when I get out we will get married and go back to WanSegan to live. Remember if you love me. tell the sheriff what I told you in Chl- cago, that you came to me of your own accord because your parents were cross 10 you at home"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
TRIALS FOR MURDER
 OF THE PLUM BLOSSOM"
fin New Works Chinatown Makes But
 Little Progress. M

New York, Jan 6.-Tfe trial of Lau Tang and Lau Shang. charged with the murder of Bow Rum, the Plum Blossom of Chinatown, made little progress today. but again there were moments of Illuminating insight into the workings of the Oriental mind when confronted with Occidental jus tice.
 Hong Fong, one of the Plum B1os- som's' callers, testified that on the night of the murder he left her rooms about Il o'clock after a visit of ten minutes and went home. About two o'clock in the morning he heard great excitement in the street and put his head out the window to ask what had happened He was told that Bow Rum had been murdered.
 And then what did you dor" asked counsel for the defense.
 '1 went back to bed" answered the witness.
 Two other witnesses testified that they saw the defendants enter Bow Kum's rooms on the night of the nur- der, heard groans shortly after and saw the defendants come out again, and pass down the steps to the street.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07

When he was off duty he tended bau in his uniform, and several of hln friends, members Of his company. also tended bar in their uniforms when not on duty. Holloman mentioned that there were three or four tables on poker going on in one room and a dica game fin another.
 Heavy Interest on Loans to Players.
 Holloman described how he charged interest on loans made the players. Twenty-Five per cent. per month, said Holioman. was his charge, and it waa just the same whether they kept it the full month or paid 1t back fin an hour. Nearly All the Battalion He Debtors.
 At times 75 per cent. of tho battalion. including n-commissioned omcers. were his debtors, and on the payday just preceding the shooting up of the town he collected between S400 ana $500
 But Holloman was not making mona ey at Fort Brown as fast as he did aG Fort Niobrara, Neb., where the bat- talion was before going to Texas. Id was estimated that Hoiloman was then making 60 per cent. profit.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
BATTLESHIPS FOG-BOUND
 IN THE HUDSON RIVER
Departure from New York Postponed
 Until Today.

New York. Jan. 6.-Ten battlesfips of the third di -ision of the Atlantic :battleship fleet, uist enshrouded and adrip with a melting coat of last nights frozen rain, lifted anchor in the Hudson this afternoon, prepara- Roads to join their sister ships; but the fog bound and ice cluttered river held them back.
 Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, in command, decided that the fog was too thick to warrant his charges pick ing their way down the river and out of the craft-laden harFbor, and the departure, was postponed until to- morrow He advised the navy depart ment of his decision by wireless.
 Although the fog that hung over the waters of the harbor all day begun lifting at nightfall. many vessels, out ward and inward bound, were still at anchor, halting in caution.
 Sound-going vessels left their piers in the evening not much behind sched- fIle.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
TO PENSION suPERANNUATED
 GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES
Efforts to Have Congress Pass Law
 to That Effect.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Efforts are to be made at the present session of congress to have that body pass a law permitting the compulsory retire. ment of superannuated government employees and providing for pensions for such employees. Secretary Mac Veagh has instructed Herbert D. Brown of his department to draw up such a plan. The secretary is under stood to have the support of Presi- dent Taft.
 Mfr Browns tentative plan. 1t is said, contemplates the creation of 8 pension fund which will be maintained entirely by the working clerks them selves as soon as the scheme gets in to full swing There Is provision also for the retirement of the ordinary clerks in the classified service at the age of 70, the mail carriers at 65, and the railway mail clerks at so. The differences in the ages for retirement are predicated on the more arduous and trying work of the two classes last mentioned.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Opposition to Proposed Federal Income

I.a<evs oOd V. J.. Jan 6.-J. Franklin Fort. governor of New Jersey. is likely 10 side with Governor Hughes of New York in opposition to the proposed fed erzl Income tax Although the overnor declines to commit himself as yet, a close associate says that he holds views on the amendment almost iden- teal with those expressed in Governor Hughes message of yesterday. 1T re- ceiv=@ a copy of the amendment some -tue ago said Governor Fort today,
 and l have well defined ideas on the subject What those ideas are I am not at liberty to say now. as I have embodied them in my message to the legislature and it would not be right to discount them by making them public now"
 The governors message will go to the legislature next Tuesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
OPPOSED TO SHIP SUBSIDY
But Favor UpbuiIdins of the American
 Merchant Marine.

New York, Jan. 6.-The New York chamber of commerce refuses to en- dorse any measure for the rehabilita- ton of the American merchant marine to which is attached a provision for ship subsidy. In lively debate today between Lewis Nixon, the ship builder. former Representative William H. Douglass and Jacob H. Schiff the atti- tude of the chamber was definitely placed on record.
 Resolutions were adopted "emphati- cally favoring the rehabilitation of the American merchant marine" but the chamber refused to urge upon congress liberal provisions for the immediate establishment of American owned and managed mail and freight lines to our dependencies and the leading commer- cial centers of the world.'
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Taft Sends Out Hurry Order
AFTER READING THE EVENING
 NEWSPAPERS.
CABINET MEMBERS CALLED.
For Conference at the White House The Pinchot Letter Said to Have Aroused the President.

Washington. Jan. 6.-Late this aft ernoon. after reading the newspaper reports of the lively tilt caused in the senate by the reading o( e letter ad- dressed to Senator Deliver as chair man of the senate committee on agri- culture. by Clifford Pinchot, in which the chief forester vigorously upheld the subordinates in his office for the aid they gave Louis R. GIavis in the reports he made public attacking Sec sretary of the Interior Ballinger, Pres .fdent Taft sent out hurried order for such members of his cabinet as were printed on another pase-)
 Four Members Respond.
 Secretary of State Knox, Secretary of the Treasury MaoVeagh, Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson soon put in an ap- ,pearance.
 Pinohot's Conduct Discussed.
 It was said that Forester Pinchotss conduct in sending an official com munication to the Chairman of a con gressional committee was freely dis cussed, but none of the cabinet offi- .cers who participated in the confer ence would discuss their call to the White house in any way.
 President Taft some time ago issued an order that no subordinate in any government department should dis close any information to congress ex- NSPI iAV~SA eAC hcau oA tiC uCPo1 - ment.
 Direct Slap at the President.
 In his letter MT. Pinchot virtually uphelds Glavis and describes him as 'the most vigorous defender of the peoples interests" notwithstanding President Taft declared Glavis unfit longer to remain in public service. This direct slap at the president and the further declaration by MT Pin chot that the Cunningham coal lands were really about to go to fraudulent claimants until Glavis and the forestry bureau officials took a hand in the fight, thus impugning the intentions of high officials of the interior de- partment. are said to have aroused MT. Taft to keen resentment.
 The president is said to have felt for some time that MT. Pfnchot has been "defying the lightning" and some ac- tion as to his course in writing the letter is not unexpected
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
HoRroN's WIFE IS A NEeREss
And Not the Mere Romantic Creole
 She Claims to Be.

New York, Jan. civilian Horton,s piqued contention that his wife is a negress and not the mere romantic creole as she maintains, is sustained by depositiens of the woman's matern- al grandmother and aunt, taken in Bridgeport Conn. and filed here today ton is wealthy contracting plumber.
 The grandmother. Mrs. Ella Will Hams, swears that she is the mother of Mary Ella Williams, the mother of Mrs. Horton. The latter, she contin- ues, was negress, who married a mulatto, and the defendant is a child of the couple, born in 1890. Corrob- ternal aunt, Gladys E. De Val
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
UNKNOWN MAN FOUND LEAD
 IN BRIDGEPORT POLICE CELL
Had Fallen Against Iron Bars and
 Fractured Skull.

Bridgeport. Conn, Jan. 6.-An un- known man. presumab bly, John Connors of Springfield, was found dead in a cell at police headquarters here to- night, death having been caused by a fall against the iron bars in the cell door. The man fell on the street at noon and the emergency ambulance was called. The surgeon diagnOs ed the case as one of plain drunk and had the man placed in a cell at head quarters. His slow recovery during the afternoon and curt replies to ques- tions led the authorities to believe the man was a victim of knockout drops. Early this evening he appeared to inn prove and the doorman passing the cell and seeing the man on the floor thought him asleep. Later exan1ina- tfon shove dthe man to have been dead some time. Medical Examiner Downs viewed the body late tonight and found death to have been caused by fracture of the skull, probably in f1icted accidentally when the man at tempted to stand alone and fell against the iron bars. His nose was also broken
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
COMPETITIVE DESIGNS
Submitted for the $2,5oo,oo0 Monument
 to Robert Fulton.

New York, Jan- 6.-The names of ten successful architects who have subrnit- ted competitive designs for a g, 300, ,000 monument in New York to Robert Full ton were made public tonight by the jury of the Robert Fulton Memorial association. All but one are graduates of the Institute Des Beaux Arts of Paris. Each received a prize of $500 and, in further competition, additional prizes will be awarded to the first four among the ten already announced, bringing the total in prizes to s3,000 for first place, $2,000 for second q .0O0 for third and $1.000 for fourth place. These selections will be announced on March Ia and the name of the winner will be given out April 1st
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
ROYAL FAMILY ESCAPED.
Palace at Tatoi, Greece, Partly De-
 stroysd by Fire

Athens, Jan s-The royal palace at Tatoi caught fire at ten o'clock while this evening. while the royal family were gathered around a Christ mas tree. The flames spread rapidly, rising to great height, and soon the right wing of the palace was practi- czNy destroy ed
 The fire is believed to have been due 10 filunfnations on the tree, and the efforts of the attendants in the pal ace to extinguish the flames were 1ruitiesz The royal family made a hesty escape. and so far as is known no one was injured
 A large force of firemen were soon on the scene and they were assisted by sailors from the English and Rus sian warShips but at a late hour it ZAR feared that the whole edif1ce would be destroyed The Tatoi pal. ace was the kings summer residence.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
TRAINED NURSE DIES
 FROM EFFECTS OF WOUNDS
Received While Attending Typhoid
 Fever Maddened Patient.

Washington. Jan. 6.-Giving her life as sacrifice for others, Miss Mary R. Brown, trained nurse, aged 27, died tonight in a local hospital. Two weeks ago she was shot through the left lung in a fierce struggle to wrest a revolver Sterling typhoid fever maddened patient she was attending. Thereby she saved from injury, possibly from death, several members of Sterling's family, who sttod helpless while the brave little nurse grappled with the temporarily. insane man.
 For her heroism Miss Brown was rec commended by the commissioners of the District of Columbia for a Carnegie medal.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
VALUABLE NOTES
 AND SECURITIES FOUND.
Had Been Missing Eighteen Months
 Hidden by Cashier Now Dead.

Americus, Ga, Jan. 6-Forty thou sand dollars of notes and valuable se- curities belonging to the Bank of Ella villa. which is owned and controlled by the Bank of Southwestern Georgia, of Americus, were found today carefully concealed in the boxing about the El- lavilla court house.
 When Cashier Walters of the Ella villa bank committed suicide in Amer icus about a year and a half ago, most of the bank papers were found missing. Every effort made to discover them proved fruitless. Two citizens came upon the papers by accident today. Five hundred dollars reward offered by the Americus bank is still outstand- ing. The object of the concealment of the. securities remains a mystery.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
ENCHANTED ON HILLS
 IN BELOW ZERO TEMPERATURE
Flood Water Drives Nevada People
 from Their Homes.

Salt Lake City, Jan. 6.-Inhabitants of Caliente, New, flood swept by tor- rents from melting snow, are encamped on hills almost unsheltered in a tenn perature below zero. So far as known only one person died of exposure
 Every house in Caliente that remains standing is unfit for occupancy. The interiors are mud puddles. At the Hot Springs resort flood water poured over the transoms of bathroom doors.
 Through traffic over the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railway will probably not be resumed for a couple of months. Whole hills were washed away by the rushing waters.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
REPORT OF THE FINDING
 OF ELOPING GIRL.
Members of Family of Robert De Ja-
 non Refuse to Talk.

Philadelphia, Jan. -Representa- tives of the family of Robert A. De Janon refused tonight to either con- firm or deny the report that the e1op- ing girl had been found. Henry E. Walton, counsel for Robert Buist the girls millionaire grandfather, and ac- tive in representing him in the prose cution of the search, refused to make any comment on the reported finding of the girl. To al Inquiries directed to himself and to w. Atlee Burpee, a friend of MT. Buist, who has also been directing the search, MT. Walton said: T know nothing for publica- tion." The local police authorities are equally reticent
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Oklahoma Women Want the Fran.

Guthrie, Okla, Jan. 6.-A petition bearing over 33,00O nams was filed with the secretary of state today asking that @ constitutional amendment granting the franchise to women be submitted to the people of Oklahoma Under the initiative clause of the state constitution the proposed amendment would be submitted to the voters next Tall unless protest against the valid ity of the petition be filed and sus- tained. Thus far no protest has been filed. The petition contains 5000 more names than the law requires
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Summer Weather In Mldvinter.

Norfolk. Va, Jan. 6.-With eitiea and towns less than a hundred milea distant wrapped in ice. sleet and snow. Norfolk today experienced summer weather in midwlnter with a tcmpera ture which rose from s2 degrees af n. nl.,. to nearly 70 degrees this after noon. The mercury jumped from e TO 60 degrees in one hour. T0rrenttri rains fell ns in mIdsummer.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
NORTHWEST BLIZZARD COMES.
 BUT WITHOUT ITS sTINos
Three Different Kinds of Weatheu
 Within 100 Miles of Pittsbura.

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. G.-The north- west blizzard scheduled to reach hera today arrived on time, but came With- out its sting. Since yesterday tha thermometer has dropped, risen 42 de- grees above, dropped 12 degrees above and tonight is slowly descending from an average 25 degree temperature to a promised zero mark by morning
 Photographic reports from western Pennsylvania show three different kinds of weather within q radius oa 100 miles of Pittsburg. At BlhirsWlll0 it is showing and cold. at Butler it ia raining and showing, and at Washing ton it is cloudy
 Trains from the east and west ara from 35 minutes to three hours late Colder weather is predicted for tomors row,
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
WANTS TO MARRY EDNA LoFrus
Rheinstronn Ordered Back to the San-
 itarium.

Cincinanti.' Jan. 6.-Edna Loftus of New York, who says she is the divorc- ed wife of Winnie O'Connor, a jockey, made another effort today to obtain by .habeas corpus the release of Harry Rheinstrom, who was sent to a san itarium last Saturday at the instance of relatives after his announcement that he intended to marry Miss Loft us. The writ was filed in the insolV- ency court. Judge Warner, after hear ing the evidence in the case reserved decision until tomorrow and ordered Rhetnstrom taken back to the sani- tarium.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
May Be Referred to Arbitration.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Proceedings in mediation of the controversy between the officials of the railways operating out of Chicago and their switcllmen will be begun at the offices of the in terstate commerce commission in this city next Wednesday. The negotia- tions will be conducted under the Erd- man act. If the mediation should prove unavailing. it is entirely likely that the controversy will be referred to arbitration. under the provision of the law.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Ice eoraes Break, Dancer Ended.

Cincinnati, Jan 6.-Both the Little Miami and Medoc bar ice gorges. which have threatened shipping in Cincinnati harbor for several days. broke today and tonight the floes are moving easily down the river The danger is believed to be over Twen- ty-five hundred saw logs, valued at S25,000, and eight coal barges, valued at s31.s0o. the property of a Pitts burg firm, were carried away and da- Atroyad by tha hTaaidRg ice
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
DIAz coNeRATULATEs MADRIz
On His Becoming Head of Niciraguan
 Government.

Mexico City, Jan. 6.-President Diaz today sent congratulatory telegram to President Madriz of Nicaragua in reply to one received from Madriz stating that he was now the head of the government formerly presided over by Jose Santos Zelaya
 Francisco Castro, Nicaraguan minis ter to Mexico, has asked his govern ment for a leave of absence, and it is believed to eb equivalent to a resigna- tion.
 Minister Castro hopes to leave soon for his home in Nicaragua. He is a close friend of Zelaya.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Results of Employment of Anti Menin-
 qitis Serum.

New York, Jan. 6.-The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research of New York has been presented by the Pas- teur Institute of Paris, through the French consul general, with a replica in bronze of the bust of Louis Pasteur. by Paul Dubois. in recognition of the aid rendered by the Rockefeller Insti- tute during the recent epidemic of cerbro-spinal meningitis in France.
 Statistics show that the employment of the anti i-meningitis serum furnished by the Rockefeller Institute reduced the deaths of those afflicted from so per sent. or more to Is per cent. or less.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Gathering Facts for "White Slave" in-
 vestigation.

New York, Jan- 6.-John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., foreman of the grand jury which is Investigating the white slave traffic" in New York, had a consul tation today with George Kibbe Turn CT, writer whose article attracted attention to the subject last fall.
 MT. Turner is to testify before the Investigating body on Monday next. Today he gave some of the facts in his possession to MT. Rockefeller and District Attorney Whitman who were in conference for some time with him, in MT Whitman's office.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Mrs. Philpott 35 Years in Government
 Service

Washington, Jan. 6.-After thirty five years in the government service, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Phllpott, within six years of being a centenarinn, sa dead at her home here. Up Co % week. ago. when she was taken. sick, ahe had performed her duties as nn empb1ya. of the bureau of engraving and ,1'nt- ing
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Senator Perkins of California Injured
 by Fall on Icy Pavement.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Senator Per kins of California, who slipped and fell on the icy pavement in front of his residence today. was reported tonight to be resting as well as could be ex- pected. His physician ordered him to remain in bed, owing to suspected in- jury to his spine. He is experiencing little pain tonight, however, and al- though suffering from the shock has developed but little fever.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Memorial Services for Father Of Gov.
 ernor Huohes.

Albany. V. Y- Jan- 6.-Governor Hughes and family will leave Sunday for New York to attend the memorial services for the governors father the Rev. Dr. David C. Hughes. to be held Sunday night at the Calvary Ba ptist church
 The governor will go from New York Co New Haven. Conn, where on Mon day and Tuesday he will deliver the last of the series of four Dodge lec- tures before Yale university He ex- poets to return Wednesday
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
FOUR BELOW AT CHICAGO,
 ALARMING SHoRTNESS o FFUEL.
Manufactories Must Close Unless Re.
 lief Comes Within 48 Hours.

Chicago, Jan. 6.-The long continued cold weather has reduced the reserve supply of coal in Chicago to such an alarming extent that dealers were powerless today to supply the demand for fuel from many manufa acturing in stitutions which are facing a shut down unless relief comes within the next 4S hours.
 Tiday the thermometer in Chicago registered degrees below zero at the minimum.
 The United States naval training sta- ton at Lake Bluff was forced to shut down today because sof lack or coal The Illinois Steel company reported that the coal situation Tat Carp Ind, and South Chicago was serious.