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Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
WEST CORNWALL

MT. and Mrs Smith last week attend ed the funeral of Mir. McCutcheon, who was one of our summer residents.
 The weekly Thursday evening prayer meetings will be resumed this week.
 Beginning next Sunday the regular service for the winter will be at three o'clock in the afternoon. Sunday school beginning at two o'clock.
 Rev. o. H. Perry, of Kent, will ex- change with the pastor pext Sunday.
 Mrs. o. N. Fitch, who has been mak. ing an extended trip in the West is ex- pected back on Friday.
 Francis Cole has closed his engage ment with R. F. Smith, therefore the latter's grocery team this week failed to make the usual rounds.
 The Foreign Missionary society met with Mrs Robert Cochrane on Friday. Being the thanks offering meeting and special program was presented.
 Miss Jessie Wheaton IS again away nursing.
 Miss Angie Goodwin, who has been visiting Miss Belle Morse, returned to her home in Torrlngford on Saturday.
 Sunday morning the funeral of MT. Frank Bailey was held was held in the chapel, burial in Cornwall Hollow. MT. Bailey had been sick long time and suffered greatly. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias. four of whom attended the funeral. He leaves wife, father and mother and several brothers and sisters.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
NORFOLK

Deputy Sheriff Edward Reidy. of Winsted, was iu town Monday on busi- ness.
 Edmund Brown, Jr. returned to Am. herst Monday after spending a few days at his home here.
 Geo. Pixley, of Winsted, spent Sun day at his home Tn South Norfolk.
 A small delegation from here attended "The Princess of Mystery" in Winsted, Monday evening.
 The condition of Mrs. w. F. Stearns who has been seriously i'll, is much i'm proved.
 Mrs. Michael Cranley spent Monday iu Torrington.
 Misses Rosalind Spring, Hazel Hide grade and Alice Bruhn were visitors in Hartford, Monday.
 Peter Coggins and Miss Ellen Kene- fick, of Canaan, visited local relatives Tn town Sunday.
 The Y. P. s. O. k. held the first social of the season Wednesday evening, at the home of John Hollister.
 Dads Girl" will be the attraction at the opera house Thursday evening.
 Miss GenevIeve Halpin, of New Mil ford, who has been the guest of Miss Gertrude O'Brien returned to her home Friday.
 MT. and Mrs. Eugene O'Connell spent Monday in -Torrington.
 The:Norfolk Inn closed Saturday for the winter.
 MT. Will c. Wilcox is recovering from a recent illness:
 Mrs. Geo. Barbour is visiting her daughter at Branford.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
CANAAN VALLEY

The deer hunters are ont in full force just over the line in Massachusetts. Have not heard of any being killed, although several have been seen.
 Last Friday night the cabbage patch of 0. C. Thompson was robbed of about twenty-five dollars worth. The thieves were evidently frightened away as they left several bags of cabbage trimmed aud some empty bags. Also two chick ems were stolen from Ed Linquish. Pork and cabbage used to be the proper thing but probably chicken and cab bage are little more up to date.
 Henry Rhoades has moved from Rhoades Hill to Norfolk
 Fred Bailey is negotiating with a party from Winsted, for the sale of his property on Oleaveland Hill.
 Charlie Hadsell has been laid up with a bad hand. Blood poison was feared.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
EASILY SELECT JURY
 TO TRY BURTON GIBSON
Alleged StrangIer of Mrs. Szab0
 on Trial For Life.

One hundred and ninety talesmen. most of them farmers, crowded into the little courtroom in Goshen, N. Y, for the trial of Burton W. Gibson, the New York lawyer. charged with mur- der in causing the death of his client. Mrs. Rosa Menschik Szabo. in Green wood lake July 16 last. The attorneys hoped to fill the jury box at once, and the prosecution said might rest it's case by Thursday. The jurors were selected without great difficulty.
 District Attorney Rogers will endeav- or to prove that Mrs. Szabo's death while boating with Gibson in Green wood lake was due not to drowning. but to strangulation, and that Gibson hurled her from the rowboat which they occupied into the water, grappled with her and choked her to death. To uphold his contention the prosecution will call forty odd witnesses, including pr. Otto Schultze of New York. the cor oner's physician who performed the au. topsy. pr. Schultze testified at Gib- sons examination that Mrs. Szabo died of strangulation by compression from without"
 As motive the prosecution will seek to prove that Gibson coveted bis clients S10,OOO estate, of which, under a will drawn by him for Mrs. Szabo. he was named as executor.
 Jacob L. Hicks of Highland Falls was the first talesman accepted. He was sworn within ten minutes of the time the proceedings began. Hicks is a stOrekeeper He said he had read only the headlines in the newspapers regarding Gibson and had never read a complete article.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
General Markets.

BUTTER - Firm; receipts. 6,S49 pack ages; creamery. extras, lb., 35c. tirsts, 32a 34c: seconds. 2S1aa31c.; thirds, 26a2Sc held, extras, 3215a33c.; firsts, 3O1aa32c.; sec onds, 2Sa3Oc; state dairy, tubs, finest. 33c good to prime, 29a32c.: common to fair, 24a 28c: process. extras, 21ha8c. tirsts, 26a 27c.; seconds, 24a2511c.; imitation creamery. firsts, 2a25hc.: seconds 2312a24c.; thirds. 2a2212c.; factory. June make, hrsts. 211aa 5c; current make. frsts. 2413c.; packing stock, current make, No. 2, 23c.; No. 5. Da PC
 CHEESE-Steady; receipts, 232 boxes: state, whole milk. specials. white, fresh. held, lb., 171ha17Ac. colored, fresh, held, 17%c; average fancy, white, fresh, held, 17Ac; colored, fresh. held, 17ha1Ihc.; un- dergrades 14a161kc.: daisies. fresh. 1Sc.: state skins. held, specials, 1414a14a4c. fresh specials. 14c.; fair to choice Sal3hc.; undergrades, 4a6hc.
 EGGS-Unsettled; receipts, 7,796 cases' fresh gathered, extras. doz., 38a41c.; extra firsts. 34a37c.: firsts. 29a33c.; seconds 2a 28c; dirties. 16a23c.; checks, l5a20c.; re- frigerator firsts, storage paid for season. 22a23c. seconds, 2o1Aa21hc: thirds, 18a20c. state Pennsylvania and nearby, hennery whites, fancy large. 35a60c.; fair to good, 35a53c.; hennery browns. 31a32c.; gathered brown and mixed colors. 3Sa40c.
 HAY AND STRAW-Steady; timothy, new. soc. a$1 121kc.; shipping, SOaS5c.; clo- Yer, 70C. .aSl.O0; long rye stTaW' o0C'' sHldll bales, 21Aa5c. less.
 POTATOES-Wea Maine, bag. g.. IOa 22o; 1S0 lbs. $2. .25a2 37; Pennsylvania, $2. 25 a25O; state $1.75a2.25: bag, $1.75a2; Long Island, bbl. or bag, $2.50a3 sweets, Jer- sey, bbI. $1.75a2.50; basket. 65c. c.a$1 l5; southern, bbl, $1.25a225.
 LIVE POULTRY-Weak; prices unset tied
 DRESSED POULTRY-Fresh killed. un- changed; western, milk fed broilers, 12 to box. 24 lbs ID dog and under, lb, 27c.; 2S to 50 lbs, 24c fryers. 31 to 45 lbs and over to doz, 17a1Sc.: coasters, AS lbs. and over 70 doz, l8a19c; corn fed broilers, "A lbs to doz and under. 23c.; 28 to 30 lbs. to dog. 2na21c; fryers 31 to 45 lbs to doz., l5c coasters, 4S bs to dog. and over, 17a18c chickens. barrels. Philadelphia and othe nearby, squab broilers, pair, 65a7Oc.; broil- CTS. lb. 25a26C.: roasting, 22a24c.; average, DOC; Pennsylvania broilers, 22a23c.; roast CTS. 18a19c; average chickens. 14a16c.; Vii ginia milk fed broilers, 24c.; average chickens. 17c.: western. milk fed lbs. and over, 1Sc; mixed weights, l6c.: corn fed broiIers, 18al9c.; 1 lbs. and over, l6c. i: medium, 13a14c.; fowls, dry packed west ern. boxes, 13ha1612c.; bbls., iced, llal3l2c. : old roosters. 1112c.; spring ducks western l5a1Sc: squabs, white. doz., $2.25a4 50, dark, $1.75; spring turkeys, average best, 22a23c., frozen turkeys, No. 1, 21a21c.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
CRIMES AND C4>. aT'ES.

The Record of th4 V'-cr nr Acc, enso
 and Tragrc C<=nts.
 Believed to be inS;l,t. a> L result of his defeat at the May primaries for the nomination for county treasurer Vii liam B. Magill. forty-Seven years old. a schoolteacher of Mount Vernon. O., shot his wife while she was still suicide by turning the gun upon him. self, Magill probably will die.
 Falling 150 feet down the interior of n sm0kestack of the Memphis Street railway company, in Memphis, Tenn. from a scatfold on which he and an. other laborer were working. t'rnes; Atwood of Coferville. Kan, was in stantly killed when his body struck the concrete floor at the bottom.
 Twenty-eight persons were injured one fatally. in a wreck on the Frisco railroad near Sinton, Tex, when an en- zine. baggage car. smoker and day coach jumped the track from some cause as yet unknown. All the injured are in the Frisco hospital in Corpus Christi. Tex.
 Mrs. Barber was shot twice at her home In Rosedale. near Kansas City. by an unknown man when she tried to take the pistol away from him He sprang from a bush and attacked her while she was wheeling her baby car riage. Her condition is not serious
 Franklin B. Dorr, formerly proprietor and editor of the Douglass (Ariz.l Dai- ly Dispatch, was shot and killed in Clifton. Ariz.. by William Allender Allender when surrounded by officers committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart
 Five were killed and many injured in a head-On collision near Granite, Va, between the north and south bound Florida-Cuba through trains on the Seaboard Air Line railway.
 Albert Soules, twenty-two years old, of Holland, Mass, was shot in Win sted, Conn.,, by Lawrence Carter, the latter mistaking him in the dim light at daybreak for a deer.
 Four women are dying in a hospital in Camden, N. J., and two other per sons are in serious condition as the result of an auto driver fainting at the wheel.
 Miss Anna McIjnden. a nurse, was killed and three men were critically in jured when their automobile crashed into a tree in Clarksburg, W. Va.
 Five workmen were killed by an ex- plosion of dynamite near West Chester, Pa.l in one of the quCrries of the Gen eral Crushed Stone company
 Three persons were killed and twen- ty injured in a fire in the St George hotel in Los Angeles, Cal.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
SOUTH CANAAN AND HUNTSVILLE

Mrs. Edward Crossnan of Worthwhile is spending a few days with her parents aC Variety farm.
 The many friends of MT. A. M. Bos- worth are glad to know that he is able to be around the house again.
 Mrs. Asaph Palmer of Torrington has been guest of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Gan. ser
 Mrs, Whitford has been spending & few days with her son MT. Frank Nichols.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
CORNWALL HOLLOW

It is reported that John Bailey's dog caught twelve pound woodchuck last Saturday.
 The burial of Frank Bailey took place here last Sunday.
 Ben Sedgwick has been selling off some of his cows.
 It showed Sunday night and whitened the ground in places.
 The Cause. "Jack has a logged expression" How can he help it with such pug nose Y-Balumore American.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21

For making plaster casts of United States coins Allison M. Mcfarland who was acquitted of the murder of his wife after a second trial in New ark a few weeks ago, was sentenced to serve one and a half years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings of Interest In Various Parts of Our Country.

ParT@ or OuF country
 The proposition to bond New York state for $5O,OOO,OOO to continue the improvement of highways was carried in Albany county by 17,694, according to the official tabulation of the board of canvassers. The total vote cast was 44,385, of which 22,789 were in favor. 6.691 against, 13 void and 14,892 blank.
 For making plaster casts of United States coins Allison M. Mcfarland. who was acquitted of the murder of his wife after second trial in New ark a few weeks ago, was sentenced to serve one and a half years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
 Mayor Lunn of Schenectady, convict ed in Little Falls, N Y, of violating a local ordinance and sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or serve fifty days in jail. was released from the Herkimer coun- ty jail under $10O bail pending his ap- peal.
 State troopers are on duty following forty eight hours of rioting and blood. shed in the strike districts in West Vir- ginia. The soldiers have arrested a dozen or more rioters and captured a number of rifles, pistols and ammuni- tion.
 Since the voters of Oregon have de cided to retain the institution of capi. tai punishment, the state officials have set Friday, Dec. 13, as the day upon which seven condemned men will swing on the gallows.
 Woodrow Wilson carried Idaho in the recent election by HOO votes. With one small county incomplete and all other official, the vote on president stands: Wilson, 34,O10: Taft. 32,91O; Roosevelt, 25,51O.
 Colonel Roosevelt's plurality over Governor Wilson in California is 119. by the latest compilations. The gain of twenty over last nights figures came through the official returns from several counties.
 Lucille Cameron, who has been held by the government in Chicago as a witness against Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist indicted under the Mann act, will be admitted to bail
 Nelson Sharpe, convicted of the mur- der of Policeman Frank Ford, was sentenced in Rochester, N. Y, to die in the electric chair at Auburn in the week of Jan. 5.
 The navy department will ask con gross at its December session for three super erDreadnoughts, greater even than the Pennsylvania, the last warship ap- propriated for.
 Judge Kirtland l. Perky of Boise, Ida, has been appointed United States senator by Governor HaWley. He succeeds the late Senator Weldon E. Heyburn
 The investigation of the so called money trust" which was to have been resumed on Nov. 20 by the Pujo com. mittee has been postponed to a later date
 Practical completion of the Panama canal by July 1, 1913, is assured. ac- cording to the annual report of Colonel George w. GoethaIs, chief engineer.
 L.arz Anderson, United States minis ter to Belgium. has been appointed am. bassador to Japan to succeed Charles ?. Bryan, resigned.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21

Mayor Lunn of Schenectady, convict ed in Little Falls, N. Y, of violating a local ordinance and sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or serve fifty days in jail. was released from the Herkimer coun- ty jail under $10O bail pending his ap- peal
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21

The proposition to bond New York state for $5O,OOO,OOO to continue the improvement of highways was carried in Albany county by 17,694, according to the official tabulation of the board of canvassers. The total vote cast was 44,395, of which 22, 2,789 were in favor
 6.691 against, 13 void and 14,892 blank.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21

Three persons were killed and twen- ty injured in a fire in the St. George hotel in Los Angeles, Cal
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21

Miss Anna McIinden. a nurse. was killed and three men were critically in jured when their automobile crashed into a tree in Clarksburg, w. Va.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Some Things That Are Happening In
 Other American Countries

A severe earthquake occurred in the City of Mexico. The movement was oscillatory and passed from north to south. It lasted more than three min utes. Slight damage was done and no casualties were reported.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21

A large delegation of Spaniards wis ited the Spanish minister in Havana and condoled with him on the death of Premier Canalejas of Spain. On leav- ing the legation the Spanish delegation was almost mobbed.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21

larger area II the Titan" had full
Roadway. and the brunt of the dam
age would be borne by the other. sec
ond that If tho "T.tan' was the ag-
grcssor she would certainly destroy the
other craft, even at nalf-speed, ana
perhaps damage her own bows, while
at full speed. she would cut her in
two with no more damage to herself
than u paint-brush could remedy. IN
either case. as the lesser of two avis.
Il was best that the smaller hu..
sf1odld suffer. II thirti reason was,
that at full spced she could be more
easily steered out of danger and a
fourth, that in case of an end-on 9o!-
llsion with an ice. berg--the only thing
afloat that he could not conquer
her bows would he crushed In but a
few feet further at fun than at iialf
speed. and at the most. three compart-
ments would he flooded--which would
not matter with six more to spare.
So. II was confidently expected that
when her Angines had iirnherad them
selves. the steamship Titan" would
land her passengers three thousand
miles away with the promptitude and
regularity OF a railway train. She
had beaten nll records on her maiden
voyage, but, up to the third return
trip. had not lowered the time be-
tween Sandy Hook and Daunt's Rock
To the five day limit: and it was un-
oiiiciaiIy rumored among the two
thousand passengers who had EN-
barked at New York that an effort
would now he made to do so.
Chapter ii.
Eight tugs dragged the great mass
to midstream and pointed her nose
down the river; then the pilot on the
bridge spoke Il word or two; the first
officer blew a short blast on the
whistle and turned a lever; the tugs
"a thered in their lines and drew off;
down In the bowels of the ship. three
small engines were started, opening
the throttleA Of three large ones; three
propellers began to revolve: and the
mammoth, with a Migratory tremble
running through her great frame.
moved slowly to sea.
East OF Sandy Hook the pilot was
dropped and the real voyage begun.
Fifty feet below her deck. In an in
ferno of noise, and heat, and light.
and shadow, coal-passers wheeled the
picked fuel from the bunkers to the
fire. hold like those Of tortured fends.
tossed 1t into the eighty white-hot
mouths Of the furnaces. In the engine
room, oilers passed 10 and fro. in and
out Of the plunging, twisting. glisten-
everseen BY the watchful staff on
ing for false note In the CON. used
tumble Of sonnd--a clicking Of steel
out az time. which wonld indicate a
loosened key Or NUT On deck. sailors
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21

ret the triangular sails on the two
inaSts, TO add their propulsion TO the
momentum of the record breaker ana
the passengers dispersed themselves as
suited their several tastes. Some weIe
seated in steamer chairs. we'll wrap
qed---for though 1t was April the
salt air was chilly some paced the
deck. acquiring their sea legs: others
listened to the orchestra in the mu-
sic-room, or read or wrote In tho
library, and a few took to their berths
-~sea sick from the slight heave of
thr strip IN the ground-swef1
The decks were cleared, watches set
az noon. and then began the never
ending cleaning-up at which steam
ship sailors put in so much OF their
time, Headed by a six-foot boatswain
gang came aft ON the starboard
side, with paint buckets and brushes
and distributed themselves along the
rail
Davis an stanchions. men---never
mind the rail-" said the boatswain
: Ladies'. better move xour chairs Back
a little. Rowland. climb down out o.
that--you'n be overheard. Take a
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21
WIFE of BROADWAY MANAGER.
MP NOT KNOW HUSBANDS
FATE AT FIRST.
LAMBS CLUB TAKES
APPROPRIATE ACTION
THREE IHEATRES CONTROLLED
ny DEAD NAV CLOSED OFT
OF RESPECT TO PROMO
TIERS MEMORY.

NEW YORK, April Gothic death
OF Henry r Harris or board the Tit
anic threw shadow over the New
York theatrical world, when even
the most ssngulne OF his friends we're
conpel.c1 t. giye w hope OF his
rescue Esneelatiy was there gloom
at the Lambs Club. 81 which he was
treasurer and where scores Of his per-
sonaI friends met and exchanged con-
dolences with one another. AT the
next meeting Of the Lambs Council
appropriate action vii lhe taken on
air. Harris death.
The three theatres managed by Mr..
Harris. the Hudson. the Harris and
The Fulton. were closed last night.
and black bordered card at the
doors announced; This theatre Is
closed out Of respect to the memory
of Henry Il. Harris"
Mrs. Harris did not know OF the
sad fate OF her husband until she
reached the pier. having been told on
board the carpathia that he was safe.
The shock following the ordeal
through which she had passed served
to make her condition critical.
Mrs. Harris arm was broken two
days before the wreck when she slip
dItion 10 such that she has not been
allowed TO tell her story of the dis
astef fer publication
For the present no change Will be
made In the management OF the the
Atricaf enterprises controlled by Mr.
Harris. Active management Will de-
yoive on Lee kugei and on William
Harris, father of Henry r.. Harris
Everywhere friends OF Mr.. Harris
paid tributes yesterday TO his life and
character. One of those who felt
the loss most greatly was Lee Shu-
bert.
Joseph r. Grismer. shepherd OF the
Lambs Club. said MIR. Harris had
the respect and affection of the whole
Lambs club. Actors. playwright, com
paSars and masicians--ali were his
personal friends Many had business
relations with him and ell loved him.
The club feels its loss most keenly."
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21
DIED AFTER He
TOLD FATAL TALE
ENGLISH EDITOR LAUGHED At
EGYPTIAN SUPERSTITION ON
THE TITANIC.
OTHERS IMPRESSED
BY ANCIENT STORY
LONE SURVIVOR OF EIGHT WHO
FEAsTED ON DOOMED VESSEL.
REFUSES TO REPEAT
sTEAD's EXPERIMENT..

NEW YORK, April 20.--An incl.
dent of one OF the last evenings OF
William T. Stead on board the Titanic
was told today by the sole survivor OF
eight men who had been companions
at the table Of the veteran journal-
lst, author and story teller. The group
had remained In conversation in the
cabin until nearly midnight OF FRI
day, April IL, and ghost stories and
superstitions became the subject. Just
before midnight MIR. Stead volunteer
ed to tell story. which he said he
had never told before, for reasons that
really could only be binding upon q
man of superstitious inciinations, q
trait that he smilingly disclatmed.
TO prove 1 am not supcrstitious,"
said he, Il call your attention to the
fact that 1t was Friday when / began
this story and the day of its ending
my watch tells me will fall upon Z
thirteenth
Tho story concerned the finding and
translation of an inscription on q
mummy case found in an Egyptian
tomb. This inscription gave warning
that whosover should repeat verbally
the story contained in its mysterious
hieroglyphics would without fall meet
with violent death. Mr.. Stead then
proceeded to tell the story. 1t pro.
duced marked impression On hts
auditors. and while considered only
curious coincidence, the relator Of
the incident said that while he was
not exactly superstitious, he did not
feel at present in an experimental
mood. Then after a pause, in which
he recalled some of tho things through
which he had gone. the man added EN-
phatically Il guess on the whole Il Is
a story that / will never tell.''