Connecticut western news., 1911-06-01
.BRIBE BOERS TO
 MURDER MADERO.
De ViIIers, TranSVaaI General,
 and an American Arrested.

Charged by his old friend and Boer war comrade, General B. F. Viljoen. with conspiring with an American named W. F. Dunn against the life of General Madero. Dan de Villers of the Transvaal is under arrest in El Paso Dunn is under arrest at Monterey. l General Viljoen says that the men tried to induce him and General Pas cual Orozco to desert General Madero, stir up a revolt among the revolution ary troops at Juarez and start a new revolution. He says large sum of money was promised to him by the men for information as to the time of departure of General Madero for the City of Mexico and his route.
 This alleged plot is laid to the Glen. tifcos, who have left nothing undone to block the establishment of peace and the success of the De la Barra administration. Baked in their plans to foist reactionary governor on the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila and So- nora, they planned to take the life of General Madero, using, 1t is alleged, Dunn and De Villers as their agents.
 It is declared that De Villers first broached the plot to General Viljoen ten days ago. In response to two tel egrams De Villers and Dunn came 1 here last Tuesday and made, it is al- legged, a flat offer of $50,000 to General {, Vfjoen and $3o,Ooo to General Orozco if they would stir up trouble against i General Madero among the troops in 1 Juarez. The two rebel leaders pre- l tended to fall in with the scheme and then let General Madero know about it. General Madero told them to go ahead and enmesh the plotters enough to procure their arrest. .. #. GENEPAl After. a pursuit which | nE,uo took New York de- ,.a-,n tectives to Europe and '''''7r - many parts of the Unit ed States, Adolph Pricken, twenty-nine years old, of New York, formerly an employee of Park & Tilford, the gro cers, is under arrest, charged with the theft of $30,O0O worth of goods
 Major E. E. Winslow. United States engineer corps, and Major Frank c. 1 Boggs, general purchasing officer of the isthmian canal commission, have arrived in New Orleans on the steam ship Abangarez from Colon. Major l Winslow carries reports and blue prints of the canal Notifications. to- gether with documents and data of importance for the war department Failure of the effort to raise the Maine from Havana harbor is predict ed. The piling, it appears, has been driven so deep into the harbor bed l that high tide washes over 1t. The engineers plead miscalculation, and the critics intimate ineficiency or a desire toproIong the work. ..
 President Taft has decided to send Secretary of Agriculture Wilson on the prorecinrocity excursion of the De troit board of trade from that city to Houghton. Mich, early in June. MT. l Wilson replaces Secretary of the h. terior Fisher who found he could not make the trip. | After a meeting more than a thou sand men marched to the city hall at Oklahoma City, Okla, and demanded the resignation of Mayor Lackey, who. with the city council, has refused to yacate his office in favor of the newly elected mayor and the city commis- siouers. -..' A bill declaring "every contract, con- spiracy or combination In restraint of trade" illegal and imposing heavy pen- alties on officers connected with them and branding violations as felonies has been introduced in the house by Rep 1 resentative Smith of Illinois.
 Thomas Motley. a prisoner in the South Norwalk jail, became caught in an aperture used for passing food to 1 prisoners when he tried to escape, and 1t required a policemH n. q physician. a blacksmith and a hG,.crmaker to liber- ate him.
 President TiEt has tentatively ac- cepted an invitation to attend a re- union of veterans of the Union and Confederate armies at Manassas. Va. July 21, the fftieth anniversary of the first battle of Bull Run.
 The Right Rev. Edmund F. Prender gast. auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia, has been appointed archbishop of Phil adelphia in succession to the late Most Rev. Patrick John Ryan, who died Feb. Il.
 As a result of break in the Erie canal at Bushnelrs basin, near Koch ester, canal boats bound for weste; Il ports are being held up in Albany and Wateryliet.
 Unnerved by the sight of her hus- band still in stripes after her long ef- fort to free him. Mrs. Charles ". Morse has collapsed in Atlanta, Ga.
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