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Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-13
Facts About Four States.

When the century began the census men found PISA farms in Nevada; last year they found :, ,66o. In the ten years the area under tillage grew from 573,- 900 acres to 745.ooo. the value of the farm land grew from $13,276,0o8 to s34,s7s.000, of the farm buildings from $2,340,90e to $4,277, 600, of the farm inn plements from $SS9.0O0 to $1,s5S, 900. White men own 2.4s9 of the 2,6s0 Ne vada farms. The owners run 2.155 of the farms wholly or in part; tenants run 330; managers run ITS. Of the of incumbrance, and 359 are mort gagged.
 As farming and fruit growing state Oregon is more impressive than Ne vada; nature has been kinder. In 1900 there were 35.S37 farms in Oregon the area under tillage was 3,32S. .0oO acres i; the value of the farm land was $113,- 13s,o0o, of the farm buildings s19.200,- 900, of the farm implements 6,597, 900. Last year there were 45,128 farms in Oregon; the surface under cultivation was 4,253,000 acres; the value of the farm land was $4o9.949,000, of the farm buildings $43, 1922, 900, of the farm own 44.511 of the 45,12S~ Oregon farms The number of farms run wholly or in part by the owners is 37,456; of these 24,817 were unincumbered last year, and 12,579 were mortgaged. The aver age size of the Oregdp farm last year was 258 acres; the average value, was $39.01 per acre, as against S15.15 per acre in Nevada.
 Oklahoma and Utah farm for liv- ing, too, but they are not wholly agri- cultural states. Year before last Okla homa had 2,310 manufa curing plants representing $3S,S73,eo0 capital invest ed and reporting total output that va r, Utah were: Number of manufacturing plants. 749; capital invested, $52.S2T.- 900: value of years output, $61, ,9s9 900 The Courant.
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NEW HAVEN WOMAN
 GETS s1oo,ooo ALIMoNY.
She Accused Prof. Wheeler of Yale of
 intolerabIe Cruelty.

New Haven, Conn, May 12.-On re ceiving the referees report today, Judge Edwin B. Gager, in the superior court. granted Mrs. Eva Wheeler, wife of Prof Henry Lord Wheeler of Yale, a divorce and $l0o,000 alimony, the largest ever granted by the state courts. The hearings were conducted by Referee H. C. White, and intoler- able cruelty was given as the ground for the complaint. The complaint a1 legged that last winter Professor Wheeler struck his wife several times at their home, AS Trumbull street, in- turing her so that she was obliged to place herself under physicians care in a. sanftarium. Since that time Mrs. Wheeler has remained at the Wheeler home and the professor has lived in bachelor quarters.
 Before her marriage Mrs. Wheeler was Miss Eva Swartout of New York The couple were married in March 1906. Professor Wheeler who is from Chicago, graduated from Athe Yale Sheffield Scientific school fH 1890, and was given his Ph.D. in 1903. For the past few years he has been professor of organic chemistry in the Sheffield scientific circles both in this country Scientific school. H eis prominent in scientific circles both in this country and abroad. The family srwas premi- inent socially.
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CHINAMAN WHO MARRIED
 WHITE GIRL IN JAIL
Charged With Violation of Chinese
 Exclusion Act.

New York, May 11.-Dr. Jin Fusy Moy, a Boston Chinaman, who has an American wife. was held 5n S5,109 bail by United States Commissioner James w Carpenter in Jersey City today -7 answer to a federal sndjctmenr ir Massachusetts, charging violation o< the Chinese exclusion act AIiss Anna M. Dodd of Newark, who gave bond for Dr. Moy when he-w7s arrested re- gently would not renew the bond aud the Chinaman was locked sp m the Hudson county jail. As he left for fhs jail iais wife embraced and Kissed him
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Passengers Thrown from Beds.


 The Merida's lights were extin< guished ten minutes after the collis- 10n Passengers were thrown from their beds in staterooms and hunks below. Ship officers quieted ths 7vo- man passengers. three CT four Of whom Infants in their arms rushed on deck in their night dressez. Mexican Refugees Among Passengers Two-score Mexican refugees were among the Merida's passengers, bound for the United States and Europe. One passenger is said to have been a Ro- man Catholic archbishop en route to Rome
 One Woman Lost sf,ooc.
 One woman said she lost s1.0oo fn gold, deposited with the Merida's purs- CT and half a carload of tropical birds which she was importing. The secrs- tary to the Italian legation in Mexico lost eight trunks and there were many other losses equally as great. One Man Left With Only Bath Robe Some of the passengers were left very scantily attired. Senor Peon- whose wife was injured. escaped only in his bathrobe. He said he was, with his wife. five children and two maids. on the way to visit five other children by former marriage. His wife was so badly hurt that she had to be low cred from the Merida in a chair and
 
 ilton in like fashion. She was borne to a local hotel for medical ezamlnz- tion.
 Women Save Red Blankets.
 All that one party of New Torx women were able to save were red blankets taken from the Merida
 Boy Falls from Lifebost-
 As one lifeboat was being lowered from the Merida with 25 people in her /, ,xr;< 1 <4~T = an angle of 25 degrees. A necessary plug to keep her from sinking had been forgotten and this had to be awaited. Women chung to the sides to prevent falling out as the oest swung at an agIe. One boy fell out but was rescued
 Woman With Babe Painted.
 A womas with a babe tainted and dropped her child. which was picked up by a stewardess. A. D. Guerre Of Brooklyn and Mr. Jones had to jump from the Merida to a life raft The former was slightly injured Both were on the life raft for several hours be- fore rescued.
 Passengers at Norfolk HstsI. There were brought from the Merida 131 first class passengers, 32 second class passengers, 24 steerzge. and 151 crew. The crew, steerage and eight first class passengers left tonight f0g New York The others were given hotel accommodations and will 5s given tickets tomorrow to their des- tinations.
 "Nine Lives" Lost
 The only death resulting from the accident was that of cat. the mass cot of the ship. which was overlook ed
 Left Havana Tuesday.
 The Merida left Havana last Tues day and was due in New York esrI4 this afternoon. She started from Vera Cruz. where she took on most of her passengers. and stopped at Pro- greso before touching Havana The collision occurred 16S miles north of Diamond shoals
 Captain Stood by Ship
 Capt. A. Robertson stayed on the ship until fifteen minutes before she went to the bottom.
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delivery of his charge to the jury just after the evening recess. and an hour later, just before o'clock, the jury re- tired to consider the evidence and pre- pare their verdict.
 The Judges Charge.
 In his charge, Judge Hall repeated ly instructed the jury that they could not find Mrs. Dodge guilty of murder in the first degree, and called their at tention several times to the fact that they must be satisfied beyond reason able doubt if they were to find her guilty of murder in the second degree or of manslaughter.
 Jury Returns for instructions.
 The jury returned at 9.4S for in- structions, asking the court to repeat that portion of the charge defining murder in the second degree and man slaughter.
 Not Hopeful of Early Verdict.
 After. he had given the informant desired, Judge Hall asked the jury as to the probability of a verdict tonight, but the jurymen were not hopeful. The court stated, however. that he would be ready to receive their verdict when ever one should be reached
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A Rhxmsstsrs Prank

Walt Mason played a cruel joke on Dr. Crunfbine the other day. The doctor wanted Walt to write a poem on Swat the Fly which he could use in his monthly bulletin The doctor is great on swatting the fly. Walt wrote the poem all right, but the swatted the f1yss Waits idea was that if a man had to swat anything he should swat humble bee or yellow jacket or some cthsr insect that had stinger that could fight back. His poem will not, appear in Crumb, ue's bulletin.-Ansonia Sentinel.
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AMERICANS ACCUSED OF
 LOOPING IN MEXICO.
Several Of Them Leave Rebel Army
 and Cross Border.

Juarez, Mexico. May 12.-warrants were sworn out today before Mexican provisional officers in Juarez for the arrest of a number of members of the American legion in the insurrecto army. on the charge of footing and robbing Chinese during teh recent fighting. Several have come to the American side.
 Twenty two Americans composed the American force that made itself fam ous by it's desperate fighting in the streets of Jaurez. Whether charges ot footing have ben brought against all these is not known.
 The Americans vehementily deny the charges of footing, asserting that jeal- ousr among the insurrecto leaders is back of the. accusation.
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Washington. May 12.-Secretary of War. Jacob McGavock Dickinson of Tennessee. the democratic member of President Taft's cabinet, has resigned. Herrys.L. Stimson of New York, re- gently defeated republican candidate for governor of that state, has been given the war portfolio. This an- nornccment was made at the White Blouse tonight and occasioned great surprise.
 Private AHsirs'' Given as Reason.
 In the letters exchanged between the president and Mir. Dickinson no reason. other than that of pressing private af- fairs. is given for the secretary's TO- tircment. The pre silent will confer wi-n Mir. Ssimson in New York to- morrow or Sunday. but tfe new sec retary of war will not be sworn in until the return of the president to the capital OF Monday.
 Win Engage in Business. M
 Mir. Dickinson will go to his Ten nessee home immediately upon the qualification of his successor. He ex- poets to devote his attention to busi- ness and will not return to the practice of law, in which he was engaged when President Taft appointed him secretary of war in March. 1909. He is the sec ond member of President Taft's cabi- ne. to retire to private life. Secretary of the Interior Ballinger having sever ed his connection with the presidents official family only few months ago.
 New Assistant Treasurer.
 Coincident with the announcement ce Mir. Dickinson's retirement came that of the appointment of c. S. Mil iington of Herkimer, N. r.. to be as- sistant treasurer of th7 United States at New York.
 The New Secretary of War.
 Mr. Stimson was the Roosevelt can didate for governor while MT. Milling ton w2S d former member of the house from the Twenty seventh New York district and is close friend of Vice Preside1t sherman and other leaders of the old guard in the state. He suc( ceeded 1Ir. sherman in the house when ths latter became vice president.
 May Unite New York Republicans.
 In ths two appointments official Washington found food for speculation ana many politicians thought they saw thsrein the first effort by the adminis- traitor to straighten out the tangled esesn of New York politics. No effort vas made by the president to conceal the satisfaction with which he viewed the appointment of MT. Stimson. Not only has ne the hi iGhast personal regard fer the incoming member of his cabi- net but he is Wen aware that the ap- pointment will be acceptable to a large fec.ion of tns republican party in New York.
 Root Apvroves, Roosevelt Expected To
 While the selection of Mir Stlmson was made after only a few days con efderation. Senator Root and othes leaders were consulted and gave it their un0uslifed approval. Forme- President Roosevelt was not called ir the conference. but there is no ques- tion but he must approve the selection for such an important post of. a man for whom he worked tooth and nail in the recent etibernatorial campaign.
 Step in Direction of Peace.
 The position of assistant treasurer at New York. which has been given to the Sherman Barn ~s- Woodruff faction while not SO important as that given
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DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE
 GAG JUNGLE JOE" CANNON.
Pleaded for Five Minutes to Speak, but
 Failed to Get 1t.

Washington, May 12.-Tne house ad- jourEed today until Tuesday after a sfscrt session. Former Speaker Can non had a few words h wanted to Sa Y about tnis effort to adjourn over Mon day. on Hh-ch motions to discharge committees would he in order, but Mr. Underw ooG. the democratic leader. de- C. ned .o let him say them and insisted upon adjournment.
 ..Unole Jce'' pleaded for just five minutes time. giving all sorts of req sens, but MT. Underwood was obdurate. Mir. Cannon would not tell the demo cratic leader what he wanted to say, and he would not assure MT. Under VI COG that it was a purely personal ma tier
 The republicans forced 8 rollcall on the rotion to adjourn for the day. but were defeated in both cases. The state hood resolution will be taken up on Tt IesCay.
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SENTENCED TO DEATH g
 AT THE AGE OF 65.
Aged Man to Pay Penalty for Lumber
 Camp Murder.

Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. May 12.- For the second time within a week, a death sentence was pronounced to- day in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Will liam Carroll 65 years old, tottered from the court after being sentenced by Justice Britton to be hanged July 26. Carroll's crime was the murder of William Theland last November in a lumber camp near Blind river Mrs Angelina Neapolitana was sentenced d few days ago to be hanged Aug. for killing her husband with an axe The dates of the twoy executions fall juss two weeks apart.
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NEW HAVEN WOMAN GETS
 POET POE'S ENGAGEMENT RING,
Mrs. Susan Mower Inherits It from
 Mrs. Eliza Poe Hayden.

Nsw Haven, Conn, May 12.-The en- gasement ring of Edgar Allen Poe, the poet. figured in the inventory of the estate of Mrs. Eliza Poe Hayden, filed in the probate court here today. The poet gave the ring to Mrs. Sheldon of Richmond, Va, whom he was on his way to visit when he died at Bal timcre. Mrs. Hayden was a second cousin of the poet The inheritor of the ring is Mrs. Susan Mower of this citv
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TEN MEAT PACKERS
 MUST GO TO TRIAL
Charged with Violating Antitrust
 Law in Controlling Meat Prices.

Chicago. May 12.-Ten Chicago meat sdictments charging them with con spiracy to control the prices of fresh meat in violation of the Sherman an- ti-trust law. This was decided today by Judge George A. Carpenter of the United States district court who overru1ed a demurrer in which the packers held that the Sherman law failed sufficiently to define the offense it sought to prohibit Attorneys for the government declare the decision is a tremendous blow to the packers defense and the prosecution had scored at every point.
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THREE SPOTTED FEVER
 CASES AT BRIDGEPORT.
Disease at First Thought to Be
 Ptomane Poisoning.

Bridgeport Conn. May 12.@Three year old James Galluzzo died at the Bridgeport hospital early today of iri fectious spotted fever. He was taken to the hospital last evening by the father The mother and seven year old brother are also at the hospital, critically il of the same malaGy. When they were received at the hospital, two or three days ago, it was at first thought they were suffering from ptonaaine poisoning
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Kindly Advice.

The Norwich Bulletin pathetically remarks anent the March winds of May: After walking through our Prettiest streets these days. it is sur prising how much dirt one can comb out of his hair" The only alleviation that we can suggest is to cut the hair short and keep the hat on. Then one will only have to dig the dirt out of eyes, ears and nose, unless one incau- tiously wears his mouth open Bridge port Standard
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DIED IN PREFERENCE
 TO JOINING A UNION.
Suicide Declares His Fellow Workmen
 Drove Him to it.

Philadelphia, May 12.-Driven to dis traction over the efforts of fellow worknen to force him into joining a union, Ernest Eebleb. 23 years old, an empleye of the Baldwin Locomotive works, shot and killa1 himself today.
 The young mans reason for his act was given in 8 letter addressed to his wife. The letter in substance was as follows:
 Ny Dear Wife: I can no longer .en- dure the efforts of my fellcw Morkmen to force me into joining the union l do not believe in unionism and they are making my life so miserable that cannot bear it any longer. So, good bye''
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ALLEGED CROOKS FOLLOWED
 THE 1o1 RANCH SHOW.
Ssvsht in Act of Picking Mans
 Pocket at Hartford.

Hartford Conn. May 12.-Morris 6ossn Of Bridgeport. suspected pick pocket following 101 Ranch show which was in town yesterday was arraignec Dn the police court today. His counsel asked for an adjournment, which was granted under a bond of s1.000
 Charles Sally, an alleged accomplice of Rosen. was arrested after court and Fill be arraigned tomorrow morning. Rosen had his hand in the hip pocket pf Julius Kohler of this city when ne kas caught.
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oxstsr sIoop ersanaed.

New York. May 1f-Ths oyster sleep claud L.. loaded with seed oyster from Milford, Conn, for Sayvi1fe, r.. l.. grounded on a sand bar off Fire Ts- land today Captain Ravnor and his crew threw overheard the deck cargo and life savers from the Oak 1flI and FiYe IsIand stations rnanag<d t. work the vessel into the bay. where sne vas beached It fs planned to tighten fh8 sloop and tow her to sayviIIs te6ns<- row fl possible
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Bakersfield Bank Closed.

San Francisco May 12.-The Kern Valley bank of Bakersfield was closed today by order of the state superin- tendent of banks. Assets and habfii ties in the May statement were given at S1,0S4,6 ,63O; capntal stock, $1o0,G00.
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 'Diaz Won't Quit The Presidency WILL STICK WHILE STATE OF UNREST CONTINUES. so DECLARES LIMANTouR Rebels Will Benefit by Decision of United States Government to Permit Sale of Arms to Border Towns.
so DECLARES LlMANTOUR

Mexico City, May 12.-General Diaz will not quit the presidency while the country is in it's present state of un- rest,s it wa S asserted tonight by Finance Minister Jose Yves Linlantour. He also said that Diaz stood ready if necessary. to state in more explicit terms than those contained in his re-
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Winsted PrineipaI Resians.

The resignation of Harold Lawton Ds principaIsof school Nd 1 was read hts a meeting of the Winsted town bcrool committee Tuesday evening. It Eas announced that Miss Minnie A. Persons of sCooperstown N Y- had been secured to succeed Nils Grace L. Morgan. resigned, as instructor of tnuzir in the public schools. Miss Per fons win also teach music in the Gil- bert school
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III Health Causes Suicide.

Providence, R. T.. May 12.-Despon- dent because of her continued ill., health, Miss Nellie 6. Breslin, 2S years old. committed suicide by asphyxiation last night. Her, act was discovered by her maid when she went to Miss Breslin's room today Miss Breslin was afflicted with heart trouble.
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Sherman Wa. R;oht.

How would you like to be the ar mistfce man" said Navarro to Madero After this awful wittfcism both sides felt constrained to rest for five days. Chronicle-Telegraph.
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will Remain at Princeton.

Princeton, N. J., May 12.-Dr Hen " Van Dyke, who resigned last Mo- vemoer as the Murray professor of English literature at Princeton uni- versity, has recalled resigna ton and will retain the chair.
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suicid. of Princeton Student.

Princeton, N. J., May 12.-Kamilton Brown of New York city, and a mem Der of the junior class of Princeton university, shot himself in his room latc today. Death was probably in- stansaneouS
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Value of Insursencx.

Insurgents in the United States sen ate have decided that they value their principles at one-f fourth of the commit tee placeS-Albany Argus.
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cent nanifestor his attitude with ref erence to his retirement.
 Diaz Wants Modero's Terms.
 The president, he said, demanded fromi his opponents knowledge of the terms in which they expect him to announce his willingness to resign, and is waiting a reply from them. The Selling of Arms in United States.
 The importance of the decision of the American government to permit arms and ammunition to cross the door der into Mexico through the regular channels of trade is fully appreciated by the government. Throughout the instruction the greatest handicap to the rebels has been the difficulty of procuring rifles and ammunition.
 Will Greatly Help Maders.
 Tflisd ecision will greatly simplify Maderos task of arming tho recruits whom he expects to flock by teh thou sands to his standard on his propected march to the capital
 The Provisional Government.
 The provisional government of Mex ico made such progress with it's work few days. it is believed Chihuahua and Sonora will be administered by pro- visional state and municipal officers.
 Garrisons Established. :
 The establishment of garrisons in various place$ in northern Mexico, the Installation of local officers and the direction of Provisional Pr esident Francisco I. Madero, Jr.. and his cab met.
 Like AIohonse and Goston.
 Although nothing was done today by officers of the provisional govern :, ment respecting peace negotiations, the fact that there is a deadlock over procedure became more pronounced The federal government and the pro- visionaI government are keeping their distance, each waiting for the other to make the first move.
 Won't Interfere With Legitimate
 Commerce.
 Washington, May 12-Legitimate commerce between the United States and the border towns of Mexico now in the hands of insurrectos will not be in5erfered with by the American gov ernment. The intricate problem of in ternational law arising from the border situation was discussed by theca'binet today. and the general policy was laid down that there would be no interrup ton of trade which did not violate the neutrality laws of the United States.
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' le1 sAoAi es5teIudy SVOLeu to QOtQ the 1913 convention in Denver.
 Rev.. William w. WoIcott. for the past 26 wears pastor of a Lawrence. Mass, Congregational church; died yes- terday, aged 59 years. of angina pee toris.
 James L. Dexter, We'll Known to thousands of simmer visitors during the thirty years that he was chief of police at Oak Bluffs, died at his home in E1gartown. Mass, yesterday.
 The City of keene, N. H., yesterday was covered by dense clouds of smoke towns of Marlboro and Roxbury, ad- joining Keene on the east and south east.
 Resolutions Urging Closer rela- tionsh D between the Primitive Meth odist church and the Presbyterian church were adopted at yesterdays session of the eastern conference of the Primitive Methodists.
 After r Months in the Jungles of Asia, wlaither he was sent to study the pheasant, Prof. Charles William Beebe, curator of ornithology of the New York Geological society, return ed with his wife on the Chiyo Maru.
 Arber Day Was Made More signifi- cant in Providence yesterday by the distribution of 30,0G0 young catalpa trees to the school ch ldren for plant ing The trees were given by John Shepard, Jr., of Boston and Provi- dence
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Another suooestion,

President Diaz and Senator Lorimer might get together and start a little government of their own.-Chfcaxo Iaurnar
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Steamship Arrivals.

At Copenhagen: May 8. Oscar II, lron7. New York.
 At Lfbau: May :. Lituania, from kew York At BouIogne: May 12, Potsdam, from New York.
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None But t4iy Byst.ndet. Hurt.

The Mexicans know how to pull off safe and sane celebration that must be the despair of Fourth of July com mittees.-Wsshington Post