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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
NEW TYPE OF SWINDLER GETS
 A SMALL HAUL
Bicycle Thief and Forger Poses as Doctor" to Boarding House
 Keepers
Pays in Advance with Bad Check and Tries to Get a
 Few Dollars Change

Posing as a doctor in search of a office, a new type of swindler struck town yesterday, and his arrival was promptly reported to the police. This fellow combines the vacations of check forger and bicycle thief and is poor at both.
 Two dollars in cash and two bicy- cles were the extent of his reward for yesterdays work. One bicycle has been returned to its owner and the other isa in the possession of the po- lice, awaiting a claimant who can identify it.
 The fellow appeared first at J. H. Umstatter's house at 515 Fairfield avenue and engaged a suite of rooms for two weeks. He paid in advance with a check for s25, drawn on the pr. Frank Davis, which the man claimed. was his title. He received g in change. He left at the house a bicycle which was afterward iden- tified as the property of George w. Swann of 130 Shelton street and had been stolen from in front of g. bowl ing alley.
 Immediately afterward the 'Dr." called at the home of Mrs. Clarence w. Seward and this time represented himself as "Dr. James Courtney" He again engaged roms for couple of weeks and offered $25 check, claim ing $2 in change. But Mrs. Seward was suspicious and said she would give him the change when she cashed the check, so Dr. Courtney" had nothing but his pains for the business. Here he left another bicycle, owner unknown.
 t'Dr. Davis," alias ''Dr. Courtney" apparently has departed for other fields.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
Especial from United Press. :,

Washington, Nov. 18-A fire of cri- ricism was aimed at President Taft, today, in a statement issued by Me dill Mccormick, formerly editor and part owner of the Chicago Tribune and now one of the active managers of the LaFollette Presidential cam paign. It was the opening of the di- planned by the LaFollette supporters.
 'I imagine it is not forgotten" Mo- Cormick said. in part. that MT. Taft's most active supporters in the 1908 convention were those very Re publicans who are now actively op- posed to his renominaiton. They be- lieved, by reason of his association with MT. Roosevelt. that MT. Taft was best fitted to carry out the unfinish- ed policies of his predecessor.
 During the first special. session of pointed when he signed the tariff bill. Later, they were startled by his praise of Aldrich, whom they held responsi- ble for the tariff law, which violated party pledges. They were shocked by the Winona speech.
 'sBut even then, like others, I felt that the President had made the mis- take of q man long in public life but little experienced in political leader ship.
 when the Ballinger-Pinchot con- froversy resulted in the dismissal of Glavis and Pinchot and eliminated in the discovery that the so-called Vic kersham report had been antedated by direction of the. President, like good many other progressives. I began to doubt MT. Taft's qualified tions for the Presidency.
 Senator Cummins was called to Washington to attend executive eau cuses on the railroad bill but after rect attack on Taft and his policies
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
PRESIDENT TAFT GETS SEVERE SCORING FROM
 LA TOILETTE MANAGER
Medil Mccormick Fires Opening Gun in Series of Att tacks Planned by Progressives G. O. r.
 Chief Executives Policies
He Claims His Active Supporters in 1908 Convention Are Now Most Bitterly Opposed to His Denomination
 Because He Has Violated the Party Pledges

the first visit he was never asked to return. The railroad presidents were called to the White House. The bill, drafted after the railroad presidents had been heard, legalized pooling and a controlling ownership of stock by in short, the purpose was to permit the elimination of competition in the railroad work
 ''The American railroad bill went to Congress with notice that it must not be touched. In Congress, the progress sives so amended the bill that it's likeness to the administration bill could be recognized only by the re- tention of the commerce court clause. The President, insofar as he could, proceeded to punish the progressives. He was not ashamed to use patronage to coerce Republicans who dared to differ with him in a single bill.
 '.As Senator Cummins has pointed out in every one of the problems that has confronted this administration the President has sided with those who are opposed to the logical de- mands of the people. Not that he is not we'll meaning President, but because he is unable to understand the needs of time and aspirations of the American people.
 He is unable to approximate his own constituencies and would legalize transportation trusts while he pro- nounced the miasmic Sherman law ade- quate legislation for industrial trusts. The most conscientious businessman is not competent to determine what constitutes reasonable or 'unreason- able restraint.
 'The reciprocity bill was damned through with little or no investiga- tion by the tariff board while the President proposed revision of other long-discussed and outrageous tariff schedules for a report from the board"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
NOAH'S FLOOD
 DUPLICATEOIN IN ALOCAL STORE Several Hundred Gallons Accumulate on Roof of Moss & Krieger Building Clogged Drain Pipe the Cause-Heavy Damage
 Before Bremen Save
 the Day

Moss & Krieger's store at Main and Gold streets was visited by an unex- pected and disastrous flood this morn ing which did several hundred dol lars worth of damage. The strange ed on the roof When the first man arrived to open the store this morn ing he found a perfect downpour leaking through onto the show cases. Investigating, he found two and one half feet of water on the roof.
 A hurried examination showed that a drain pipe on the roof had been clogged up. The roof at this point slopes down heavily and is surround ed on all three sides at the lower regular swimming pool containing several hundred gallons of water had formed over night. The water had
 finally forced its way through the roof by sheer weight and was pour ing into the store below.
 Frantic attempts to open up the drain pipe and relieve the flood prov ed useless. Aid was hastily sum- moned from the No. l Chemical crew and 5 Engine company on Middle street and about dozen firemen formed bucket brigade and hurried ly baled the water over the side of the building. Chief Mooney arrived and took charge of affairs. The chief sent for a hose from the fire house, attached 1t to the hydrant, forced it down the drain pipe, and turned on the water full force. The entire strength of the water was directed against the Instructions. For many use. Finally the pipe was forced clear and the water drained away.
 In the meantime f1remen and em- ployes of the store had gone into the cellar, ripped out the plumbing and worked at the root of the drain pipe. ton was finally relieved, but not until many gallons of water had poured in to the north side of the store.
 Inventory hastily taken showed that the showcases containing the most valuable clothing were the ones jured fabrics consisted mostly of la dies garments of velveteen, silk, etc. All this fine material is uninsured against water and the loss is heavy one.
 If the flood had been allowed to would have poured through the win dows of the house above the store. Residents of this building awoke this morning and gla-ncing outside, were astOunded to see an immense pool of water on a level with the window sill and just about to pour into the house. The pool was big enough for several men to go swimming in.
 The whole affair is attributed to the gross carelessness of workingmen on the recently rebuilt Lavign building next door. A window was cut through the brick wall just above the dram pipe in the Moss & Krieger roof Bits of brick and quantities Of nla aSter and other refuse were allowed to get into the drain pipe without any attempt at protecting it and the result was tOday's flood.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
Father Tells Of Insanity Al Murder
 Trial Of His Son

Springfield, Nov. 1s-wilbur L. l.. Spencer, father of Bertram G. Spen- -cer, on trial for the murder of Miss Martha B. Blackstone in the Dow took the stand, today, in his sons behalf. The appearance of his father as a witness was the signal for a violent outburst on the part of the prisoner. His eyes bulged from their sockets, he uttered inarticulate sounds and thrashed around in the dock like a maniac. It was all Turnkey Wade could do to subdue him. When quiet was restored, the elder Spencer pro- ceded to relate the tale of his cruel ties toward the defendant, beginning with his punishment when he was less than one year old. He admitted that, when Bertram was only three years old, he fell from the fathers lap, while being whipped, and struck on his head on the stove.
 The witness. who, up to two weeks ago, was superintendent of the Con- gregational Sunday School in Leban- on, Conn.,, said that he punished Ber- tram with a certain stick because the child did not try to learn a prayer.
 T thought he was wilful and I tried to assist him to learna in that way" said the witness. He recalled pun ishing the boy when he was about nine years old, in the woodshed. This was the time when he put the boys head on the chopping block with his hands tied behind him.
 T told him if he ever did a thing like that again (the offense for which the punishment was being inf1icted) I would sever his head from his body. Another time I took him two miles into the woods. I told him I would leave him there for the wild animals to devour I left him for an hour. He was there when I came back. I pun ished him at the age of Il for being late at home after he was selling newspapers and told him to leave the house and never to return. Another time I punished him and he ran away. I told him to come back and he turn ed and SwOre at me. I went into the house, got a revolver and fired in his direction as he fled acros sthe pas- ture. Once I broke the boys fishpole because I stumbled over it and caught the hook in my leg.''
 After reciting Severa l instances of cruelty on his part and of wild ac- tions on the part of the defendant, the witness was turned over to the prosecutor for cross examination. Nothing new was developed in the cross-examination and, at noon, court adjourned until Monday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
BRIDGEPORT MAN TAXES IMPORTANT PLACE IN
 CHINESE REVOLUTION
George C. Hanson Made American Vice Consul a
 Shanghai in Midst of Uprising
Late Dispatches Today Tell of Engagement of Rebels
 and Imperialists N ot Far From City

Out of the turmoil of the Chinese uprising has come news of the ad- vancement to position that just now is of singular trust of a Bridgeport boy. George c. Hanson, the son of Park Commissioner Charles Hanson, of 129 Main street.
 MT. Hanson has been made the American vice consul at Shanghai, the point about which much of the activ- ity of the revolutionists just now cen- ters. Late dispatches this afternoon tell of desperate encounter between the imperialists and rebels at Nankin, a city not much more than 100 miles from Shanghai, and the fall of Nankin would in the course of the rebels plans mean an advancement upon Shanghai American warships are hurrying to the scene to safeguard the American interests.
 MT. Hanson is graduate of the Bridgeport High School and Cornell University, where he followed an en- gineering course. About three years ago he was one of a party of young American engineers sent to the Orient in the government service, to familiar
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
MOTOR PARADE SMALLER THAN
 LAST YEARS

Related by adverse weather, the annual automobile procession to the football game at New Haven was smaller today than for several years. The rush of machines usually experi- enced in the morning of the big game was noticeably diminished, but at noon there was a considerable in- crease and during the noon hour the cars went through in large numbers.
 The new pavement of State street made that thoroughfare popular with many of the motorists, and relieved pressure to 8 considerable extent at Fairfield avenue and Main street. for many of the cars coming to the city via State street continued to Water street then swung up to the foot of Fairfield avenue and across the lower bridge Thus they escaped the busy corner.
 Superintendent Birmingham had a number of extra policemen doing traf- fic duty and with ready directions to the motorists they facilitated traffic through the city to considerable ex- tent. They were stationed at the prin- cipal cross streets where traffic was heaviest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
GOVERNMENT
 VICTOR OVER
 BEEF BARONS Judge Kohlsaat Quashes Habeas Corpus Writ, Pre- viously Granted to Nine
 Meat Packers Under His Decision Trial of 10 Millionaire Defend antssWill Begin Next
 Monday
(special from United Press.)


 Chicago, Nov. 1S.-Uncle Sam won 8 signal victory in his eight year fight to prosecute the packers for al- legged monopolization of the meat packing industry, when Circuit Judge c. c. Kohlsaat oday, quashed the writ of habeas corpus which he had previously granted to the nine mil lionaire defendants and which prom ised to add another years delay to the long chapter of legal difficulties in bringing the beef barons to time.
 Judge Kohlsaat's decision was based on the ground that the district judge, before whom the packers are sched- uled to appear for trial, on Monday next, has no Jurisdiction in the case. He held that for the circuit court to interfere at this point in the litiga- ton would, in effect be to review the case, a prerogative, which, he said, had not usually been granted to cir cult courts.
 Under this decision, the govern ment will be enabled to begin, on Monday, with the trial of the 10 mill lionaire defendants, according to the belief expressed by leading lawyers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
Five Permanent
 Jurors Now For
 Mcvamara Trial
Especial from United Press. )

Los Angeles, Nov. 1S.-In the Mo Namara trial, today, Judge Bordwell qualified the eighth panel of venire- men for interrogation by both sides. To date 445 men have been drawn from whom five permanent jurors and one tentative juror have been secur- ed. There are fewer than 300 names left on the original jury list and when it is exhausted the sheriff will have to draw the jurors from the regular county tax lists with the supervision of the superior court
 Unless the attorneys show greater willingness to aid the court in Quali- flying jurors, Judge Bordwel1 will or der night sessions, next week, as he is determined that a jury shall be completed by Dec. l. The court is now sitting from 8 a. m. to D. m., with a brief luncheon recess. The lawyers complain they are compelled to work too hard but the court re- fuses to accept the excuse. He says when the jury is completed he may shorten the sessions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
BEATTIE HAS SIX
 MORE DAYS TO LIVE
Governor Mann is Deaf 70 Flood of Entreaties to Commute Sentence to Life Ifn-
 prisonment

Richmond. Va. Nov. 15.-W1th bus six more days to live, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., sat suIien1y and ffdfaer- ent in the gloom Of the deathhouss of Virginia State Penitentiary. De- spite the flood of confessions, pro- tests and appeals for mercy for ff1e wife murderer, Governor Mann, who declined to interfere in Beattie,s be- half, today, reiterated his determina- tion to allow Beattie to go to the cleo tric next Friday.
 Henry Clay Beattie, father Of the condemned man, today, was almost prostrated with grief over the fate Of his son. But in Richmond death house, calmly smoking his cigarette, the murderer, himself, showed no anxiety or grief. The same stolId fn- difference that marked his behavior through the trial was in evidence.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
U. s. Troops To Mexican Border For
 Reyes Revolution
fspecial from united Press.,

WashingtOn, Nov. 18.-MajOr Gem pral Wood, today, telegraphed the commanders of all army posts in the southern border states to hold them selves in readiness to dispatch troops at once to the Mexican border when ever called upon by the proper Fed eral officials. The War Department Is officially informed that the Reyes followers are preparing another revo- lution- Their effort will be made to enforce the neutrality laws.
 The Mexican situation is acute. Re- ports received at the State Depart ment. today, confirm the reports of revolutionary activities along the bor- der. The State Department notified the departments of war and justice pf the latest developments and steps Rre being taken to restore the guard to prevent passage of arms, ammuni- ion and insurgents across the border from the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

pire, Williams, of U. Of F.; head lneS- man, Costello. of Cornell; fed judge, Snow, of Michigan.
 The Yale Bulldog and the Princeton Tiger met in their 29th annual foot ball struggle today on a field inches deep in mud. A high wind that swept across the gridiron from the west rem dered kicking uncertain while the soggy field made the running equally uncertain. A pouring rain, which did not cease until noon, had made Yale Field a Quagmire despite it's excellent drainage. Half a hundred men work ed desperately for hours before the game to get the gridiron into fair shape. Long drainage ditches carried off most of the water while loads of sawdust made the field possible for playing.
 The inclement weather conditions, though holding the crowds away until late in the day, made no difference in the size of the throng that made its way into Yale Field Stadium.
 It was 1:15 before the mass of spec tatOrs began to arrive and from that time until the game started there was a steady stream jamming its way 1n- to the stadium.
 Conditions were expected to favor Yale. for the blue had played Army, at West Point, on the same kind of a gridiron and was really expert in sub marine foothall. The Yale cheering squad took the east stands with brass bands to carry along songs of old Eli
 The crowd kept back by the rain grew to such proportions about the entrance at 1:30 as to cause much con- gestion about the entrances, and it was impossible for all the spectators to be seated by the time the game be- gan. Threatening weather had lit 'le effect on female friends and there were thousands of them wrapped in furs and steamer rugs in all the great stands.
 At 1:35 it was estimated that 18,000 persons were seated and that the en- tire capacity of the stands-33,0 ,0Oe-, would be taxed.
 At 1850 the Yale squad, 60 strong, came onto the fled amid the widest cheering from the stands.
 The Princeton squad came on the field at 1855 and were greeted by mighty cheer
 In the premilinary practice Camp did the bunting for Yale, but his style was them, being unable to get up speed on the miserably slow field.
 Princeton won the toss and chose to defend the north goal with the ad vantage of the wind.
 Francis kicked off to Baker, who was downed on Princeton's 25 yard line. On a fake play Dewitt was thrown for yard loss. Dewitt kicked to Camp, who was dropped ex- actly in centerfeld Camp immed- lately kicked to Baker who was thrown on Princeton's 10 yard line. Dewitt returned the ball to Camp, who fumbled but recovered the ball on Yales 50 yard line. On the shift play Princeton broke through and ,car- ried Spalding back five yards for a loss The Yale crew were unable, to maintain their footing on the slippery field. Camp then kicked out of bounds to the west stands.
 Princeton's ball on Yale's 54 yard line. Dewitt kicked to Dunn who was dropped in his tracks. The Princeton ends were smothering the Yale run ners.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
UNCLE HORACE WANTS CREDIT.

To the Editor of the New Haven Register:
 siderable force put in an appearances between the dates from the 18th to the 21st of the present month. It will be a reminder of winter; be pre- pared.
 Yours, Uncle Horace N. B-I don't notice that you give me any credit for the cold wave we are now passing through, that gave you and published with the schedule of disturbances in your journal of the date of September H. Yours,
 H. J. Middle Haddam, Nov. IA, 1911.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

o'clock. Stores. were cleaned Of rufy~ Der coats, macintoshes, rUbbeTs and umbrellas. The supply of these final ly failed the visitors, who found them selves unprotected. They then pur- chased oilcloth and made eaDs for themselves.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
Mayor Wilson Motors
 to Big Game as Guest
 of James T. Rourke

Mayor Wilson was the guest of Former Charity Commissioner James T. Rourke at the Yale-Princeton game today.
 MT Rourke's party left the city at noon in his Locomobile.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
Secretary Rogers To Deliver Talk
 0n Good Roads

Secretary of State M H. Rogers, departed on the 12:30 train, today, for Richmond. Va, where he will attend the annual National Good Roads con- vention. On Nov. P, which is the day of the Touring Club of America, he will address the convention on the subject of Connecticut Automobile laws and good roads.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

Jabots or plisses are extremely wide and long. In the majority of cases they extend to the waist line and over as far as the shoulder. The shape is generally broader at the top than at the bottom.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

New York.-Captain Jack Bonavita. served with divorce papers, said tam ing lions was easy toward pacifying ibis wife.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
SEVERE COLD CANCELS
 PRESIDENTS ENGAGEMENT
Especial from United Prass !

Especial from United Press.A
 Washington, Nov. 1S.-Because of 8 severe cold affecting his throat, President Taft cancelled all his en- gagements. today, and did not leave the mansion for the executive offices.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

Referee, Langford, of Trinity; hnn. pire, Williams, of U. of F.; head lines. man, Costello, of Cornell; fed judge Snow, of Michigan.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
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