Putnam patriot., 1913-10-10
HOSTILE CROWD
 CEASES SPEAKER
Salvation Army Ha1 Attacks Church Q d Scene Follows
THR0kG sHELLED TO 2.500
Police Called to Protect Orator Were Forced to Draw ReVolvers-one Boy Shot in the Leg-Rioters
 Threw Eggs and Stones.
(speeiaI Hartford correspondencel

Threw Eggs and Stones.
 Special Hartford CorrespondenceD
 Hartford ~ Derogatory remarks against the Catholic church made at an open air meeting Of the Salvation Army by Cornelius T Magner d mem. Der Of the army, precipitated a riot al New London. Stones. rotten eggs and decayed fruit were thrown at the speaker, and it was necessary to eall out the police.
 Wagner devoted almost his entire address to tine Rev Hans Schmidt and used his arrest for murder in New York City as ground for attacking The churches. Tire hoOting Of the small crowd which had gathered at first attracted others and the throng around the speaker swelled to nearly z,5e0 and an effort was made to reach the speaker The police surrounded Magner, and drew their reyolYers. Alter much difficulty. the crowd was pushed aside and Magbar was taken to his home No. 30 Hampstead street The Towd followed all the way and stoned the house. demolishing nearly every window
 Boy Shot in Leg.
 The police. fearing that bodily harm might befall him decided 10 remove Maguer to police headquarters. He vas taken there iu the patrol wagon. Fke crowd was threatening. and the police had 10 draw their revoiVers again. During the melee Peter Wood. aged 3, as shot Ia the leg by a bull let from one of the policemens re- YolYers. He was removed to the Lawrence Hospital
 The mob followed Magner All the way to the station. hootine and hiss. ing Several Of the policemen were struck in the faea with stones. Fay Chapman and Patrick Hogan were ar rested charged with breach Of the peace. They were released on bail.
 II was said that Magner had pre- viously attacked the church. The meeting was held at the Parade be. fore a crowd that soon grew to be hostile. As Wagner launched into his subject more, he was hissed and final ly the storm broke Officers Leary, Coreoran and Sullivan were struck in She face and on the body by eggs and etones.
 Objects to Miss Holloway.
 Miss Mary C. Welles. secretary of fhe Consumers League of Connecti- cut. protested to Governor Simeon P. Baldwin in regard to the appoint ment of Miss Charlotte NJ. Holloway. at Ne@ London. as investigator of the working conditions of women workers in stores and shops Miss Holloway was appointed by Commissioner of Labor Statistics Patrick H. Connelley.
 Miss Welles says that Miss Hollo. way has not the proper qualifications for tbe duties of the place. in that she has had no special training in work of that character The law pro Nides that the investigator shall be woman specially trained Commits sioner Connelley was evidently of the opinion that Miss Holloways expert ence in newspaper and charitable work constituted sufficient training
 Governor Baldwin said that he did noi think the action of the commits sioner called for his interference and ehat he was of the opinion that Mir. Gonnelley had made thorough in- yestigation of Miss Holloway's quali- fcations before he appointed her. s Mastodon In New Haven.
 The bones of the mastodon diseov- cred on the A. A. Pope estate in Garmmgton have been packed and shipped to the Peabody Museum. New Haven, where Yale experts will dry. clean and mount them in skele- ron form The Yale men are now of She opinion that the Pope mastodon is one of the most complete ever found. Very nearly every bone of the ami anal has been found, with the exeep- tiou of some of the lower legs As the bones of two legs are all found, plaster casts will be taken of them to complete the other legs, instead of taking casts from some other skele- Son The tail bones were not all sound agd most of the foot bones are missing The tusks have not been discovered and there Is no expeeta- liOn that they win be
 Gets Out of Retreat.
 Robert Hillery. young man tenn porarily detained at tine Hartford Re treat while Judge l. P Waldo Marvin of tAe probate court Is considering she gdyisability of committing him to the Connecticut Hospital for the ln- sane al Middletovn. escaped from the retreat Hillery's commitment to the snsane asylum was thought unjust by several friends he had in New York city, where he has been broker up 60 about year and a half ago. and at Is thought that some of these friends aided the man to escape from ehe Retreat
 Nine Toadstool Victims.
 Nine members of two Italian fam flies residing in Newington were rushed 10 the Hartford Hospital suf- fering from toadstool poisoning. A moss of toadstools was cooked upon Che supposition that they were hush rooms. Two of those in the hospital are critically i'll.
 About Stamps.