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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
NOR CAGES HELD BY MRS. PERRY TOTAL $4I5,285 Inventory of Estate Shows Aggregate Value of
 $75O,135.o1 HELD STOCK IN MANY CORPORATIONS Held More Than $125, 900 Worth of Securities of
 Water Company

The inventory of the estate of Mary E. Perry Sherman filed in the probate. court today shows s750, 0,1s5.- 01. The appraisers report that of this amount, there is real estate val ued at $39. .0O0; bonds s61:568.36; stocks, $179,739; notes secured and unsecured $41,0o0; mortgages on real estate $415,285; savings bank de- notes. $20; household furniture, $500; jeweIry, $775; garage and contents, $100; cash on hand, $1S8.80
 Of the bonds the appraisers esti- mate those in the Bridgeport. Hydrau- lie Co to be worth $20,66777; New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road, 13,765.2S; Bridgeport Theatre Go, s6,750; Connecticut Co., s9,26S.- 75; Bridgeport Gas Light CO, $6, ,436; United illuminating Co, $4,6SO.56
 Stocks which pay dividends of 8 per cent are estimated as follows: Bridge port National bank, 932, 900; Bridge port Gas Light Co, $14,10O; Connec- ticut. National bank, $12s524; New England Power Co.,, $4,7G0; Citizens association, $5,000; United I1lunfnat- ing Co, $4,40O. There is also stock in the Phoenix National bank of New ork valued at $765, shares in the Masonic Temple association at $1OO and in the schooner Perry Setzer val ued at $70O.
 The amount of real estate mort gages is the largest ever fnventoried in an estate in Bridgeport and the to- tai estate is one of the largest inven- toried in several years. The apprais- CTS were William T. Hincks, Philip .L HoIzer and c. D. s. Miller The exc cutors are the Rev Hezxs M Saer- man, husband of the deceased, Judge George ". Wheeler and City Attorney William H. Conley.
 About ane-71a1f of f17o esfr4a iz +,< queathed to charity and public instf- tutions The remainder is divided among relatives of the deceased. The will was drawn prior to Mrs Sher- mans second marriage and under it she gave S50.00 outright to her sur viVing husband. There is also a. be- quest of $25,OOO to the Mountain Grove Cemetery association
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
OPERATIVE CAUGHT BY HAIR, DRAGGED
 INTO MACHINERY
Prompt Action of Office Employe Helps Save Girl
 From Being scalped


 Miss Augusta Bechlein, an office employe Of the Bias Marrow Fabric Co. acted with rare presence of mind at the factory. Wednesday when she saw an operative being drawn by her hair into the mechanism of a heavy machine.
 While the sl1rieks of the victim drove. those working around her into hysterie and fainting, Miss Bech1efn perceived the fatal consequences i'm pending and jumped clear over a table with the intention of scissoring the hair from the threatened girls head. The overhead safety equipment was operated instead and the girl taken to her home in an unnerved condition
 The equipment of this building is said by inspectors to be among the best in the city, and it is believed that had the girl had her hair bound up according to requirements the accident would not have befa1len her. Miss Bech1ein. who resides with her par ents at 395 James street, has been in the employ of the econpany as book keeper for some years and is well known in social circles in this city. She was highly praised today by the other girls who witnessed her agility and admired her presence of mind.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
SECOND SEALER
 FEARED VICTIM DE SNOW STORM
Steamer Southern Cross Missing Since Blizzard
 of Tuesday
RESCUED MEN OF ONE
 SHIP NEARING PORT
Sixty-four Sailors Known to Have Perished With the
 New Foundland

New York, April 3-A private mes sage received here said that the sealer Southern Cross had not arrived at Channel, N. F., as reported from St. Johns and grave fears were expressed for the vessels safety.
 Bowring & Company, agents here for a half dozen ships, including the FIorizel, how on the sealing grounds off New Found1ant7. today received a private message from St Johns as foi- lows
 Regret to inform you that one hun dred men of the steamer New Found land were caught on the iee-in g. howl ing blizzard Tuesday night Ships have picked up between 60 and TO men frozen to death. Thirty men who sur vfved the blizzard, have been picked up by other ships
 The agents announced that 9dd1- tional advfces said the New Found land had not been damaged
 Bowring & Company said they had no word of the Southern Cross The last they heard of her was on Tues day.
 Curling, N. F.. April 3-The missing sea1er Southern Cross had not been reported here this morning. The bliz- gard continued.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
POSTAL MARKET FOR PRODUCE OF LOCAL FARMERS Marigold to Cooperate With Boston Post Office to
 Effect Sales FARMERS HERE TO SELL THROUGH MAIL Postmaster General Burle son's Plan Is Carried Out
 Tn Local Office

Operation of the parcel post has be-
 gun as means of reducing the high cost of living, of eliminating the mia dIenan from over B per cent. profit wrung from the farmer and consumer of agriculturaI products and of mar keting butter, eggs and general pro duce without the intervention or cold storage.
 Under the direction of the postmas- out through New England with the city of Boston as the medium. Through Postmaster Margold. the postmaster at Boston has requested all farmers. and poultry raisers who wisl, to secure 8 direct market for their product in Boston to inform the postoffice department specifically what they have to offer. The products are to be divided into three classes. butter, eggs and general the latter including dressed poultry, vegetables, etc. Upon receipt of the information 1t will be sent by Postmaster Marigold to Boston by the department and dis tributed broadcast to householders and consumers that ordering may be ac- scnmpIished direct.
 E It is planned to have eggs. butter and other articles of farm raising delivered for table use within IF Ehours from the time it leaves the farm. Arrangement will be made for the rural carriers ito make morning col- Iections and immediate transporta- ton to Boston will insure delivery either the same night or early the following morning.
 Much has been written upon the subject in Boston where the plan has been successfuIIy carried out Between neignboring towns. The demand has said to have extended to such de- gree that Boston can now draw upon the territory adjacent to New York. Postmaster General Bur1eson ex- presses himself of the firm conviction that this plan is the one thing neces- sary to enable the people to secure the greatest benefit from the parcel post system and to reduce the high cost of living.
 l The question of hampers at first per-
 plexed the department but it is the belief that farm produce may be ship ped in containers which will be of such little value that they. may be
 discarded by the purchaser or charg- ed against him by the seller until returned.
 1 The system is advocated as bringing the buyer and seller into closer re-
 1atfons --hich will eventually tend to increase the quality of farm pro- ducts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
TORREON TAKEN;
 DEAD AND WOUNDED WILL TOTAL $500
Villa Reports Capture Of City With Hundreds Of Federal Troops After Six Days Of Bloody Fight ing === Rebel Sympathizers Mad With Joy

Gomez Palacio. Mex, April 3-Gen- era1 Villa occupied Torreon last night. Some of the federals who had been fighting on the outskirts of the town fled but a large number of prisoners who had been defending tPe barracks and street barricades w1e captured. The soldiers were exhausted from fighting and, when it became known that the enemy had been routed, most of them fell asleep in the streets wherever they were. The streets were full of dead and wounded.
 Great supplies of food, ammunition and artillery and stores of cotton fell into the rebels hands by the capture.
 In all the fighting no foreigner was killed or injured. The taking of Tor reon marks the climax of the first movement to oust Victoriano Huerta from Mexico City. It gives the Com stitutionaIists virtual control over the whole northern tier of Mexican states The fighting began last Friday and was almost continuous
 FOREIGNERS MANNED GUNS.
 Positions were taken and lost time and again. Several night. attacks sent the federaIs scurryingN from strong holds but at daybreak the captors would be compelled to abandon them because of the strength and accuracy of the enemy's artillery fire, much is said to have been directed by French and German gunners.
 Losses fiave not yet been compiled but General Villa estimates his own losses at 800 killed and 1,Foo wounded. and f1se Featra1 loss <St 1snee killed and 2, 500 wounded, with an u1l1zncWn number of prisoners.
 Villa believes those whom his cav- airy Is pursuing to the south forms but remnant of the Federal force whose loss he says probably is close to being total
 The subordinate generals have not yet reported, however, and until they do the number captured cannot be ac7 curately stated.
 The battle line was four miles long and the field was determined by three great hills formed like a carpenter s square at either end of which Lay the towns of Gomez Palacio and TOrreon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03

L Juarez, April 3-With the taking of
 Torreon by the rebels last night. Con stitutiouaiists now control an immense wedge-shaped portion of Mexico with the point resting on Torreon, 800 miles south of here and the top extending along the American border from No gales, Ariz., to point just west of Eagle Pass, Tex. At Piedras Negras
 known also as Cfudad Perfirio Diaz,
 across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, there is a federal garrison but it does not now constitute a men ace to the. rebels. The states now subject to the rebel arms are Chihua-
 hua, Sonora (except the port of Quay
 mas) most of Coahuila, Durangay and
 Sina1oa.
 The main federal force, according
 to Villas report to General Carranza, was wiped out by death, wounds, cap ture or flight at Gomez Pa1acio and
 Torreon. Mazatlan the federal port in the state of Sinaloa, also is in a precarious state.
 General Francisco Villa has practi- cally assured rebel control of the vast territory of the northern sstaets of Mexico and gained for himself the
 reputation of being tie foremost sol-
 dier of the country.
 JUAREZ MAD WITH JOY. Never in all it's dramatic history since the Madero revolution of 1910 has JuaT0Z gone so nearly mad W1Cn en- thusiasm as it did when a foot mess enger from military headquarters ran through the streets shrieking that Torreon had fallen.
 l Drunk with elation, men embraced each other wherever they met. Bells l in the 300 year old Mission of Guada- 1oupe were set ringing fodder and faster than ever they have rung for religious purposes. Khaki-cIad rebel l leaders woke from their sleep in the
 then. stirred by a. common impulse For a time, inhabitants of Fl Paso
 supposed Juarez was again suffering i one of it's periodical attacks. Carranza administration. threw their
 diers in the streets and yelled their delight. The municipal band, hastily
 bundled from their beds, paraded
 through the streets playing the ma tiona1 hymn and serenaded Carranza
 until the Constitutionalist chief tired
 of the music.
 CARRANZA GFTS NEWS. Samuel Belden, of San Antonio Texas, a friend of Carranza, described the scene in the Carranza. home when the news of the fall of Torreon was ] received.
 General Carranza had been talking with Gomez PaIacio off and on last
 night for some time,s MT. Belden said ..and was chatting with members o1 l his family. He seemed cheerful, even ! buoyant. At 1 o'clock the telegraph
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
sealers Report Finding Of 55 Living, 60 Dead
 Of Sunk vessels Crew

st Johns. N. F., April s-The sealing steamer Southern Cross. famous as one Of the vessels used in the Shack1e- for A Antarctfc expedition, does not ap- pear to have come safely through the storm of Tuesday which brought death to more than 60 members of the crew of the sealer New Foundland. Meaere adyices received early today indicating that the Southern Cross |. was safe at Channel, N F., tiny port near Cape Race at the south eastern extremity of New Foundland, have been denied
 The only message received here in dfcating that the seaIer had found refuge Twas the despatch early today from North Sydney, N. s. This stat ed fhat-wfreless messages received at Sydney last night reported the South ern Cross at Channel.
 The government was skeptical re- garding the report and this morning sent a wireless message to the Unit ed States revenue cutter Seneca ask ing her to search for the Southern Cross. The Seneca is patro11ing for fceberss seven hundred miles off Cape Race. Practically all communicate tion by telegraph or wireless with the since Tuesday when the gale tore down the telegraph lines and aerials-
 The Be1laxenture. one of the seal ing fleet. was neafing this port in th e m1QSL or another. 5LOTI1, DT1uSlDS 0c bodies aTad-35 survivors of the men of the New Found1and who were over whelFned by the blizzard while hunting seals on the ice floesN at some dis tance from their vessel. Sixty four men are known to have perished and lt was understood that the steamer Stephano, which. with the F1orizel, recovered six bodies and two surviv- ors, also was on her way to St. Johns.
 After getting out of range of the wireless station at Cape Togo, on Togo Island, a third of the way down the east coast from the sealing grounds the Be1laventure was unable to send further news of the disaster.
 When 90 miles from port the Bella venture @ecame blocked in the ice of Cape Bonavista and at noon her captain sent a wireless message 7stat- ing that it might be Sunday before he could bring in the dead and sui. fering sailors Many of the rescued sea1ers were reported so i'll that the death list sAas expected to be increas- ed before saN made port.
 As the reS$t1y equipped wireless station for the Sealing steamers was partially wrecke> Nin yesterdays gale communication with the BelIaventure was established today through the EzurHess line steamer, Eagle Point
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
HUERTA. EMBASSY DENIES
 CAPTURE OF TORREOE

Washington, April S-The IeTican embassy here today still claimed vir- tory for the federal forces at Tor reon. Charge Algers today gave 1ut this statement:
 An official despatch signed by the secretary of foreign affairs. senor Lo- peg Porti1Io Rojas. has just been received at the embassy giving an a-c- count of the crushing defeat of rse rebel forces under Villa at Torre0r-
 General Maas, who left SaitlllO aas~ eraI sdays ago with large reinfgree- ments. has arrived at Torreon- Gen eral De Moure's column has reacne1 San Pedro De Las ColOnfss. where c decisive defeat was administered l1 the rebel forces sent out to orpcse his advance.
 ''The government has also succeeded in raisinEa loan of over 50,00C.o00 rs- sos which will materially asslst G lu it's tireless efforts towards pacffra- tion-'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
NO DECISION
 TO-DAY IN CASE
 OF c. S. MELLEN

Though attorneys were present to represent Charles Sanger MeIIen, ex- president of the New Haven railroad. . charged with manslaughter for deaths in the Westport wreck of the Spring. field express, Judge Joseph Futile to- day convened the criminal superior court and adjourned the session until April 1 4 at 1 O o'clock without fanding 2 down any decision in the Mellen mo- tfons-
 The attorney general and special prosecuting attorney recently appoint ed to prosecute the case have been en- ragged in famiIiarizing themselves with the evidence taken before the coroner and motions made before the court.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
.AN~ELOPEMENT WHICH
 WAS GLEyERLY FOILED
Mssi Wheeler and Capt. Glenn Collins Were to Have Been Married But Their Plans Were Frustrated.

A Baltimore despatch to ttf1es New York World today says:
 Baltimore, Md, April 3-Capt- Chas- lGlen Collins latest adventure in TO- cessfuI attempt to elope with Miss Amelia Wheeler daughter of Samuel H.. Wheeler, the sewing machine capi- ta,lists who hasa home in asuburb Of Chicago. She ran away from her home three times in efforts to meet divorced by the former Miss Natalie Schenck, whose second husband, S. Osgood PeI1 was killed in an autofno- bile accident near Long Beach, N r. Despite the fact that she has been watched day and night by detectives, them, and once made her way to this city before being intercepted.
 Just how the couple have been able to correspond has puzzled every one connected with tie ease. Miss Wheel er's mail has been carefuI1y inspect- ed by d matron in her father's employ. It seems that the secret lies with hes Ihairdressef. The captain has address ed all hiss letters to the hairdresser. who gave them to Miss Wheeler. The latter gave all her letters for the cap tain to the hairdresser.
 Capt. Collins. who is thirty-tk-ee years old, came here six months ago and with his winning ways found no difficulty in getting into social circles However, a case is pending against aim here now for passing a bad draft l of $25 It will come up on the 18th of this month. Miss Elizabeth Lau- terbach, a school teacher of New York, also is pressing a case against him. Miss Lauterbach is an intimate friend of Miss sWheeIer's stepsister, Miss Theodore Wheeler.
 Capt Collins is staying at the Ho- l tel Altamont, in Eutaw place. His l lawyer was out of town today but a. son Robert Bartlett said: There is nothing new in the case as far as I know
 1 Miss Wheeler is said to Be staying ] with an aunt in Chicago. Itis said
 that she too might be mentioned
 among the creditors of the captain, aa
 she gave him large. sum Of money i through a lawyer named Swift in New l York. The amount Is said to be s10,- 900.
 i Miss Wheeler mentioned above is l the daughter Of Samuel H. Wheeler 1 proprietor of The StratfeId and one
 l of the largest realty holders in the
 city She is we'll known in local SO
 l c1ety. She has always been interested I in the suffragfst movement Although
 she has spent much of her time 1T l Chicago. Miss Wheeler has been a ire.
 I quent visitor to the Wheeler country l home in Fairfield and has been prorni.
 nent iE Brook1awn club affairs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
BENCH WARRANT
 FOR CASHIER OF GREENWICH BANK
William L. Ferris Char9 ed w ith Elm bezzl e men t On 3 Counts

A bench warrant was issued this afternoon by Judge Futile in the criminal superior court for WilIiamSL. Ferris, cashier of the Greenwich Saw ings bank He is charged with en- bezzlement on three counts. Ferris has been out on $3,000 bonds It is said that he embedded $50 in January, 1910, $1,141.25 on October Il. 1e1 3, and made false entries with intent to deceive and defraud the bank commis- sioners February 3, 1913.
 Assistant States Attorney Carter asked for the bench warrant.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
Calvary Church to
 Act On New Building
 At Meeting Tonight

The annual. meeting of Calvary Episcopal church will be held tonight in the church building in Wells St.
 at o'clock. Wardens and Vestry- men will be elected and some action taken oa&the proposal for the new church building. All men and worn~ en who are entitled to take part in the meeting have-been urged to at
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
AGAINST LIQUOR
 LICENSE TRANSFER

A delegation of Shelton citizens ap- peared at the county commissioners office today to renonstrate against the application of William Metzger, who wants to transfer liquor license from 426- Howe avenue in that place to 33O Howe avenue. The con1nissionersSwill hold a hearing on the remonstrance next week but the date has not been decided.s-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
Father of Four Kills
 Self When Twins Come

Wi11inantic, April s-Gustav Te. Nelson. a blacksmith. committed sui eide at his home here today by talk ing gas. Dependency is believed to Have caused his act. He was 4o years bld-
 His wife is at the hospital where, on Sunday. she gave birth to twins In addition. he leaves four other ehiE-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03

Hartford, April 5--Asgignruert weFr made today 1rl the superior cours of the trial date of the $7a0.O dauars suit against the directors Of lhe te- funct Windsor Locks sasinE5 l1rr The date is Tuesday April ga. end will come before Judge Wnlfar Ls Bennett.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03
.S3,A7,OOO GIVEN AS VALUE OF LOCAL
 GAS COMP ANY
Attorney David Day shies at Disclosing Salaries
 Paid to Officials
Associated Press Dispatch.) )


 Hartford, April ~3.-David s. Day attorney for the Bridgeport Gas com Fany, objected strenuously today be- fore the public utilities commission to making public the salaries paid to of ficials of the company as requested fn 8 petition brought to the commission. MT Day declared that Representa- tive Lynn Wilson of Bridgeport want cd the information TOT newspaper purposes. MT. Wilson. who was pres er1t, said such a statement was pre- posterous. Mir. Day said he had no objection te giving the total of: saIa- Ffes.
 He submitted a report made by en- gineers showing the physical va1ua- ton of the plant to be 8, AT, 900. The hearing was adjourned to a later date to afford the Commission opportunity to study the physical re- port-t
 <7.-<,<7 ..
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03

There are engaged in positions of varying imporfance in the German postoface department no fewer than 166seO0 worn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03

More than thre hundred and sev- enty million feet of lumber are yearly used in New York state in making
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-02
SCHOOLS CONTRIBUTE.


The following is the amount Of
money which the school children coa-
tributed in the names of their various
schools, to the hospital fund:
Virginia avenue school ~. .S14.45
Fourth ward school ......... 1891
Fifth ward school -. o.. /. AZ
Second ward ..........5..B.. s.97i
Jamestown ..s......... ..... 5.31.
East Park ......:.....,. 49,
High school ~. .A....... 1920.
coloted school ..s,..... LIS
CHI en- Cry
FOR ELETcHER's
GAS U q RI a
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-02
Bankers
Meet Again
AT Paradise
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FORMS
PLANS AT CONFERENCE IN
GRAFTON.
ANNUAL GATHERING OF Fl.
HANGERS TO BE HELD MAY
FIFTEENTH.
By ASSOCIATED pEl:sS. ]

BY ASSOCIATED rEESS.1
GRAFTON, w. Va. May L.
The executive committee of Group
SIX OF the West Virginia Bankers
Association met here last evening at
the Willard hotel In Grafton to lay
plans for the annual meeting 10 be
held by the association In the near
future. The personnel of the ,conl-
mittec is as follows: II. w. Chadduck,
Grafton Banking 4 Trust Company.
chairman; Lee SatterHeld, First M
Lional Bank Of Nlonongah, secretary:
John o. Morgan. First National Bank,
of Fairmont, Earl Al. Lantz, First
National, Bank OF kingwood, and w.
~. Holdren, Merchants and Produc-
crs Bank, of Salem.
The arrangements were made to
hold the annual meeting OF tile
bankers that belong to this group
of the association at Paradise" tile
,, beautiful hcmc OF Governor Fleming
1T Fairmont, on May 18th, II that
date is suitable to Governor Fleming.
other wise the meeting will not be
held until May 27th.
Howard showalter. of the First
National Bank of Fairmont also was
present at the meeting in the inter
osts of the selection OF Fairmont as
the location of the federal branch
reserve bank, which has been ap.
proved by most of the banks Of this
part of the state.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-02
COMPLETES COURSE.

Miss Gertrude Coulter. who ha
completed the Miners hospital nurs,
c. training course, left this morning
for her home at Palmer. She will at,
tend the nurses, examination at Blue
field May II. After spending few
weeks with her parents she will go tc
White Sulphur Springs where she
will likely locate.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-05-02

"OPENS STAND.

Mrs. =: Mlittefords of EOS Bellview
ssyenuc, Bellview, has opened stand
g the place recently vacated by Mir.
William Lynch on Bellyiew avenue.
She Will handle ice cream. pop, can
dies and other confectioneries, be-
sities aSline Of cigars, tobaccos. etc.
! lie store Is near the ellview station
az die traction 3line5and is u very de-
sitable location.