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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
Concert andDanCe given by the A. BIG. Club
 at Colonial Hall Friday, March 17th, 1911
 Admission S5 Cents Finklestone's Ochestra SIS r%
Proposals For Furnishing Gas And kap,ha Lights to
 City Of Bridgeport

Sealed proposals for furnishing in candescent mantle lights in which gas or naptha shall be burned, as re- quired, on the streets, bridges and the committee on lamps of the com mon council at the office of the city clerk of the City of Bridgeport until twelve o'clock noon on Wednesday,, March 22, 1911, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened by said committee.
 Proposals shall be made for fur nishing five hundred lights and also six hundred lights and for three periods, namely one, three and five years.
 The proposals must be made in terms per light per year, and must be addressed to the lamp committee of the common council.
 A certified check in the amount of one thousand G,000) dollars, payable must accompany the proposal of each bidder to insure his signing con tract to carry out any proposal which the city may accept. In case the bid der whose proposal is accepted does not appear to execute the contract for furnishing said lights within five days after notification of the acceptance of his bid, the check accompanying his proposal shall be retained and kept and owned by the city, not as penalty, put as iiQuIQdIeQ QanaSoS for his failure to execute said con- tract and enter upon the performance thereof.
 Specifications for the furnishing of said lights can be obtained on appli- ! cation at the office of the said city clerk.
 The committee on lamps reserves the right to reject any and all bids for any cause.
 The bidder receiving the contract will be required to purchase all the lamp posts now used for said lights in the City of Bridgeport and pay therefor six dollars and twenty-five cents S6.25) each and each bidder in manIng his proposals for furnishing g said lights must make proposal based on the city's agreeing to re- purchase said posts at the expiration r of the contract at said price and also a proposal based on the city's declin- ing to repurchase said posts at the expiration of the contract. LAMP COMMITTEE,
 Per,
 Stephen F. Boucher, a% Clerk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
OBITUARY

With impressive services conducted by Rev. H. G. Weimer, pastor of Ger man Reformed church, the funeral Of Jacob Schietinger, one of the most popular and highly respected German residents, having made his home in this city for the past 56 years, was largely attended from his late home. No. 694 Brooklawn avenue, yesterday afternoon at o'clock. The house was thronged to it's utmost capacity with relatives and friends who wished to Day their last respects to their beloved friend, who by his genial and loving disposition had endeared him. self to all Delegations were pres ant from the German Workingmens Aid Society of which deceased was a charter member and from the Schwaben Benevolent Verein. The floral tokens were numerous and sur rounding the bier, attested in what high esteem deceased had been held. As the remains were being lowered into their last resting place in the family plot in Park cemetery the Schwaben Singing Society rendered. s.In des Friendhoffs Stillen Grunden. 7 The pail bearers were chosen from among the delegation of the societies
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
DIED.

DIED. CAIIfAHAN.-Ins New York city March IF, fsIf, Henfy P$ Caila han Friends are invited to attend the funeral af St. Thomas church Fairfield. on Tuesday. March II, at 9:30.
 -Interment at St. Thomas cemetery.
 Stamford and Norwalk papers please CODY a. DAILEY.-In this city, March 11th, 1911. Winifred,f wife cf Edward alley
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral at her late residence No. z6e Harral avenue, on Wednes- day, March 18th. at S:30 a. m., and thence to St. Augustine's church where a sol emn high mass of re. quiem will be offered at o'clock a. m-
 Burial in St. Michaels ceme- tery. S Is bsr GREEN.-In East Norwalk, March ' Hannah. widow of Aaron Green aged S2 years. COX--In Greenwich, March 5, Elm ma wife Of Bradford Cox, aged zE years
 DELANEY.-In So. Norwalk. March 5. Katherine, wife of Michael De- lafey-
 TOWLER.-In Greenwich, March 6 John R. Fowler. aged 6S years. KIRK.-In Darien, March 8, William w Kirk. aged 59 years. NERRITT.-n Greenwich, March 6 Henry Merritt
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
HOUSEKEEPING IN
 THE HIMALAYAS.

My housekeeping was a never-end- ing source of amusement to me. Tan dock came every morning for the days orders, saying "Verrywellsir' 10 all my suggestions, running the words together as though the whole phrase was one, and rolling his r's as sonor- ously as a Spaniard.. Certain he had no idea of the masculinity implied, for he sometimes varied his response by saying "Yes, Madame" One could write a volume on the eccentricities of Tibetan's English. W was al- ways making Tandook say sixteen meeleek," which is being interpreted, ''sx tins of milk
 We were sometimes lucky enough to be able to buy a chicken from some passing Nepalese hi1lman. I have all averson to making the personal &C., quaintance of my animal food before it is ready for the table, but that I could never make Tandook under stand. He always sought me trium- phantly with a squawking chicken under each arm. I must look at them, and even lift them to see how heavy they were and how good a bar gain he had made!-Mary Blair Beebe in Harper's Magazine for March.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
MILLIONAIRE SHOT
 BY OWN REV0Lv YER
Wealthy Missurian, Seeing Gay Paris, Starts Lively Fight in Fashionable Cafe
Especial from United Press )

|
 Paris, March 13-A lively fight was followed by. the shooting early today, in the fashionable Cafe De Paris of William Lee, who is said to be Mis- sourian and a millionaire. He has a bullet in his hip which came from his revolver, but his condition is not ser- ious.
 Lee was at a table accompanied by an unusually pretty woman, declared by the newspaper, Midi, to have been ia friend.'' At an adjoining table were seated the American vaudeville team of Morris and Miss Leonard.
 Morriss said something to the wo- man at the Lee table and she laugh ed gaily. Then Lee demanded that Morriss and Miss Leonard dance.
 The big Missourian snatchad a re- volver from his pocket. Norris grappled with him, but the pistol was discharged, the bullet smashing one of the big group lights in the ceiling Morriss forced the hand of his an- .tagonist downward and a second bull let was discharged, penetrating Lees hip.
 Lee later said that he had taken too much campagne.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
RAILROAD DECISION:
 GOVERNMENT LOSES

Washington, March 13 - Decision against the government was made by the Supreme Court of the United States today in it's suit against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F>e Railroad to test the so-called Hours of Ser vice Law
 The government discovered that the railroad was working it's train dis patchers from 6:30 a. m. to noon, and from to 6:30 p. m. This, they al- legged, was in violation of the law which prohibits the continuous en- ployment of railroad telegraphers for more than nine hours a day because while actual time of employment was only nine hours, the man worked over a period of F hours.
 The Supreme Court of the United States today held this construction of the statute untenable.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TAX ON
 CORPORATIONS
President Taft's Pet Meas ure is Sustained by Unan- imous Vote of Highest Court in Land.
(special from United Press. )

Especial from United Press.)
 Washington, March 13-The consti- nationality of the corporation tax pro- vision of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, one of President Taft's pet measures, was unanimously upheld today by the Supreme Court of the United States in a decision in fifteen cases arising in various parts of the United States. The law brought in about $27, 100000 last year.
 First of all, Justice Day declared that the contention that the law was in the Senate in the form of an amendment to the Payne law was un- tenable
 "It has been urged that this is a tax on ownership of business" he said. "As we construe the statute it is tax on doing business, not upon ownership.
 privilege of doing business. The pro- vision for an excise tax in the con- stitution makes only one stipulation that the tax shall be equal. Geo. graphically, the tax is the same all over the country.
 ''It is next contended that the at tempted taxation is void because it levfes a tax upon the right of State to grant corporate franchises; because it taxes franchises which are the crea- ton of a State in its sovereign right and authority"
 New York, March 13-Following the upholding of the constiiutionality o1 the corporation tax law by the Su- preme Court today, there was a IL minute furry in the stock market fir ioI, thn 1icf stuff common sold as low as 76 IA and other shares were weak in conse- quence. The decline was followed by 8 sharp rally in which prices rose to g. little above the previous high level of the day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
MEYER-sTEIBER.

Miss Mildred Steiber of this city, and William Meyer, a United States weigher at the port of New York, were married Saturday evening in New York at the Hewitt Street Tenn pie, by Rabbi A. Hermann Cohne A wedding supper followed at the home of the brides sister, Mrs. Herman Speigel, 2651 Fulton street. Their honeymoon includes trip to Wash ington. They will hold their "at home after April 15, at 551 51st street, New York 1.' +a-y
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
K. OF 6. CONFER
 3RD DEGREE ON
 78 CANDIDATES

One Of fhs rargest gatherings of Knights of Columbus eyer present .. at initiation in this city turned out yesterday afternoon at Eagles hall to witness the exemplffication of the first degree upon a class of TS candi- dates. Fully 800 visitors were pres- ent from various parts of the state and ft is estimated that the initia- tory work was watched by over l,5e0 knights
 The degree team came from Brook 1yn and was headed by State Deputy Daniel Griffin of New York, and was the same team that recently initiated the firzt council of the order in Portto Rico . g-
 Alter the degree work 1s0 Knights sat down to a very enjoyable banquet at the Atlantic hotel. Among the guests was State Deputy William A. Mulligan of Thompsonville.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
Wear The t
 Green

''St. Patrick's Day in the Morning. and show your colors.
 You don't have to be Irish to honor the patron Saint of a brave people.
 As a good American it is up to you to enter the rejoicings of those other brave Americans from "Ould Sod"
 We have a fine line of novelties for "The 17th of March,
 Some of them come from the Emerald Isle, others are made in the U. $. A.
 All of them have a significance dear to every admirer of a brave race.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
Bridgeport, Conn.,.
 Monday, March 1S, 1911.
aori fancy linens from Japan--underprice.

Pure fine linen goes all the way from the British Isles to Japan. Japanese fingers, clever any that the world holds today draw it's threads in designs that wonderously beautiful They edge it with lace dainty neness And the completed pieces richly attractive for table decoration for sideboard use known Tao linens. x E Js1 But an importer can have too large supply of even such artistic linens these And imported did As result we have good share of that stock and have sell for athird to ahaf less than the usual price,
 Doyies in either round square shape and in sizes from IS to 54 inch. Scarfs in 20by54-inch size Sets easily be made up from the doyles sets that will cude pieces from those large enough to entire table 1S-inch, worth $1 to $1 25-75c
 4-inch, worth $1 50 to $175-$1.
 3O-inch, worth ST. to $2-$1.25 36-inch, worth $2.5O-$150.
 45-inch, worth $3- $2.
 54-inch worth $4 to $6-$3
 Scarfs 20 by 54 inches worth $2 and $25O-$15 50 and
 Such beauties that the who loves fine linens will be genuinely delighted
 rear
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
E.. H. DILLON & co.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY BY MRS. WOODS
 DEATH TODAY
Especial from United Press.)

Branford, March 13-Having hovered near death since last Thursday from a self-inflicted wound near the heart after killing her husband and Il years old son, Mrs. Christopher Wood died early today. An autopsy upon the other bodies was held yesterday, an6 a statement from the coroner is short lyexpected.
 Coroner Mix announced, this after noon, that his finding in the triple tragedy would not be filed for severa1 days.
 Walter Wood, the only surviving sor of the family, refused to see his moth CT before she died. Then he came neal death at his mothers hands when he tried to make his way to his fathers room is consistently run1ored around the city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
MUSICAL UNION TO
 GIVE BALL AND CONCERT

The Bridgeport Musical Protective Union, local 6S, at their meeting, yes terday, appointed committee to make arrangements for grand concert to be held after Easter.
 In every large city in the U. 8. the local Musical Unions give an annual concert and entertainment, and 1t is the intention of the Bridgeport local to follow the example and if the music loving people of our city appreciate the event the union will make an an ? nual effort to please.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
GAELIC LEAGUE DANCE
 ON ST. PATRICK'S NIGHT

The Bridgeport Gaelic Athletic club will hold their 17th annual dance on Friday evening March IF, St. Patrick's day. at Arion hall. The committees in charge have left nothing undone to make the dance even a greater success than any of the past annuals. Irish reels, break downs, jigs and music will feature the evenings entertain ment, Music will be by Rfsley's or chestra and prompting by Prof Hac- kett.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
IRE sIl!|l s ss
 Specialsfor Tuesday Pork Chops Ib 1 2c| Sliced Bacon ID 1 7c
 Hamburg Steak Ib 10c Compound Ib 9c $ Qts. I. E Beans f0l 23c Potatoes pix l6c
Judge Hallen Commits l
 Children to Home But Finds that Father Is Able to Support Youthful De Aulisas.

Judge Edward F. Hallen refused this morning to commit Domenico De Au- lisa, aged 8, and Adolfo Aulisa, aged 6, to the County Home, Dornenico, their father, being able to support them. 12 respectfully, were committed.
 George A. Tatten, Jr., aged Il, col ored, whose mother deserted him four years ago, was committed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
BLOWN TO PIECES
 IN $25O,OOO FIRE

Buffalo, March 13.-Fire, following an explosion in the Woods Products Co.'S plant, at noon, today, caused the death of one man, serious injury to another and a property loss amount ing to $25O,000. As the fire reached the tanks containing about 20,OOO gallons of alcohol they began to ex- plode, scattering firemen at work on adjoining buildings. William Cllfl- ton, a fireman, was blown to pieces
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
BIDS RECEIVED FOR 5000 TONS OF ROCK
 FOR CITY STREETS

Owing to the illness of Director M Kenny the contract for the cfty's spring supply of trap rock was not awarded today Bids were received in the office of Auditor Heating from the Biltz Construction Co.,, George E. Sukes Co., Rockland Lake Trap Rock Go. Prices are well under $1 ton. The purchase will be 5000 tons of assorted lSizpSs ta-.ia sssE4fs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
KILLED
 MANY INJURED
 IN STRIKE RIOTS
Especial from United Press )

Cincinnati, March 13-Armed noun taineers and strikers have held up three freight trains near Kings Noun tain, Ky, on the Queen & Crescent Railroad. about 20 miles from this city. Eleven persons have been killed.
 The clashes followed the strike of more than two hundred firenen on the Queen & Crescent route. resulting from the refusal of railroad officials to give white firemen preference over ne- groes, in the matter of promotion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
Guaranteed silk socks.

Men, here silk socks with the weak point made strong. You count on them for wear
 Every would wear silk socks with satisfaction with low shoes. But they out too quickly Here that will no know it because maker has thor oughly tested them esf
 Fine silk with ight1weight lsle toe and heel. Com forttable, handsome, durable
 Black tan blue gray; four pairs of color in box.
 Guaranteed by the maker and by for three nontIls .t@ The box of par-$2 ss { =. F
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
Martial Law Means Shooting of $500
 Political Prisoners
tContiued from Page 1.) MINISTER'S PLAN TALK.

New York, March 13.-That Senor Limanteur, Mexican Minister of Fin ance, is far from satisfied with the "maneuver" explanation given for the presence of American regulars on the Mexican border. was made very plain, today. The Mexican official gave out a lengthy. typewriter statement from his apartments in the Plaza, in which he carefully quoted the word imam euvers'' wherever they occurred.
 Limanteur was most emphatic in saying that he would, under no cir cumstances, meet members of the Mexican revolutionary junta who have hurried to this city. It would be necessary to see first that all of the rebels in the field" laid down their arms and threw themselves on the mercy of the Diaz government.
 informa jon that tde United States has decided to send 10000 additional troops to Texas read the Limanteur statement. ''Of course, your govern ment has the right to send as many troops as it pleases to that section of the United States but not even 10000 men are needed to stop the insurrectoS from smuggling arms and ammunition across the border"
 Mexico City, March 13.-How far the Mexican officiels, under the direc- ton of President Diaz and operating through the suspension of constitu- tional guarantees" will go in sum- marily executing insurrectos and finitely determined. It is likely, how ever, that the actual insurrectos will not be scared by threats of death in- asmuch as they would be in posi- ton to make feprisals on Federal of- ficers and men who are captured.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13

San Diego, Cal, March 13.-The West Virginia, of the Pacific fleet, arrived here from the North, today. Their arrival gives Admiral Thoma command of six cruisers besides a host of smaller craft, all mobiliZed here.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
IN emo cOrscts:
 Expert advice.

We shall count it a favor from you to have you consult Mrs. Dearborn, the Memo corset expert who is at the store all through this week.
 No corsets that we know are quite equal to Memo for wear by women of full fig ure. They have special strength and wearing power and they are so modelled that they give actual comfort. There is even a very-long Memo corset that is comforts able when one is sitting down.
 Mrs. Dearborn knows cor sets and her advice and ser-- vices are freely extended to any woman who calls upon her. Naturally, she is most interested in Memo corsets, but she will help a woman to choose and be fitted to the corset that is best-suited to her igure-even if that cor set does not chance to be a Memo.
 r this season are the 319 and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13
TEDDY AT FRONT.

San Antonio, March 13.-Passing through this city, where is encamped the largest armed force massed in the United States since '9S, Colonel Roosevelt. up almost by daylight, ar- rived at Fort Sam Houston in an auto today and was met by the officers commanding the brigade regularly stationed there. The Presidential salute of 23 guns was fired by the battery of the Third Field Artillery while Roosevelt, surrounded by the commanding generals staff, drove hurriedly over the great field where infantry, cavalry, artillery and en- gineering branches of the regular army are camping.
 Later in the morning, Colonel Roosevelt addressed school children cf San Antonio on the Alamo PlaZa.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-13

Special Memo corsets for this the 319 and 321 with the atnng back and sereducing features that found only in Memo corsets. S3
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-03-17
rr,p THE GUARDS AND RIFLES

The request made by the two mill
tary organizations of Staunton, to the
effect that the city government appro-
pirate $500 to help pay for the rental
of the armories in which the COM
mands are housed IS very modest
one and one which the councils Will
no doubt see their way to grant.
These companies are part OF the
states military forces and as sucn are
and have long been a credit TO the
town. They are liable to be Called
upon at anytime to protect Life ana
property here as well as elsewhere IN
the state and for service with the reg,
ular army, and it would seem tha'
local pride alone would dictate tha'
some provision be made for theil
proper housing. In practically every
other city of the state where military
com panies are located, the armorle'
are furnished by the cities themselves
The financial condition of Stauntor
will not permit its doing this just nov
but it certainly can afford to make tn
small appropriation requested and no
let the entire burden of armory renta
fall upon the officers and the men
The equipment of the companies
furnished by the United States govern
! ment and it is of the latest and mos
efficient type and the city ought Gel
, tainly to be able to help pay for qual
tiers in which to keep it and in who
the companies can drill.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-03-17
EDITORIAL lettings

Not having heard anything to the
contrary, we will suppose that Messrs.
Pinchot and CLAWS are satisfied with
the gentleman whom Mr.. Taft has
named to succeed Mr.. Ballinger.--
Norfolk Landmark.
The most important and difficult
problem is to devise some method of
electing Senators who will not prove
ashington Star.
Suppose we quit blaming Murphy
awhile, and put some of it on the New
York legislature which permits itself
to be deadlocked by one man.-Peters-
burg Record.
Mrs. Eddy's estate is valued at
50, 512, 146, including 81 ,O57. 1888 in stocks
and bonds. This will tremendously
increase Wall Streets respect for
Christian Science. New York World.
Being as how our army is down on
the Mexican frontier, why not, after
getting through with Mexico, make
spring cleaning of the whole Central
American revolutionary exit and
biln,n and give old man Monroe Doc
trine a permanent rest?-Richmond
News Leader.
In view of weather conditions in
Texas, it is to be hoped that the
maneuvering cavalry.is equipped with
good mud horses.-Baltimere News.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-03-17
WAS WELL KNOWN HERE
Sudden Death of Harrisonburg Man
Great Shock to Staunton Friends

The news of the sndden death OF
Captain Thomas Lannig in Harrison
barg on Monday night was received
in Stanton with the deepest regret.
Captain Lsnnig was we'll known here,
he having become acquaiEted with
many local people OF his frequent
trips to Stanton.
Captain Leipzig wss foand dead in
his bath room on Tuesday morning
by a servant who had come to clean
up his rooms. Henorrnage from q
bursting bronchial artery caused
death.
Unmarried and with no relatives.
he lived alone at his home on Court
S1rare. He was a native of Phila-
delpbia, where lie has two brothers
ana Sisters all prominently connected.
He was q Unicn soldier, prominent
Catholic aDd spoke seven langua4ei
| hnentiy. He was educated in Oxfor-
aad Leipsic.
The Captain was exsre nelly gener
ous in his contributions to churcl
work, one OF his gifts being an orgal
to Saint Francis Catholic church, o
this city. II. had msds his home Ii
Harrisonbnrg for 30 years.