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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-20
LARGE FUND IS REALIZED.
Building Committee of Church for
Italians Arranges Entertainment.

A large amount of money was realized
by the building fund committee of the
Church for Italians of the District Of
Columbia by it's entertainment Monday
evening at Knights of Columbus Hall.
The Italian ambassador, Marquis Con-
falononieri. and Nine. Jusserand. wife Of
the French ambassador: members Of
Congress, numerous groups of Catholic
women's organizations and Italian so
cieties assisted. Rev. Nicholas De Carlo
is pastor of the church.
Mrs. Florence McAulffe. formerly Miss
Braschi, who traces her ancestry to the
family of Pope Plus the Sixth, and Mrs.
Margaret L. Coope, chairman Of the COM
mittee, were responsible for the enter
tainment
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FOREIGN BOURSES.

r.NEIS. May 20--Prices were weak
on the bourse today Three per cent
rentes. SC francs 12i2 centimes En-
change on London, % francs 10 cen
times. Private discount. "a.
BERLIN May 20.-Prices opened
weak on the bourse today. The market
was supported later and closed gem
orally firyner.
The bourse will be closed tomorrow
Ascension day.
Exchange on London. 20 marks soy
pfennigs. Money. ca2N. Private dis
count. as.
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Fears Whipping; Runs Away.

Fearing his father would give him a
whipping last night when he returned
from his place of employment, Norman
Reinberg. thirteen years old. ran away
from his home at 1853 Chaplin street
northwest Louis Reinberg. his father,
reached home shortly after . o'clock,
searched for his son. but was unable to
find him.
Becoming uneasy over the continued
disappearance of the youngster. Mr.. Rein
berg appealed to the police, but this
morning theIgunaway was still missing.
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OHIO LINES IN MERGER.
Independent Telephone Companies
Form $25, 900, coo Concern.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. May 20.-A
twenty-fve-million- dollar merger of in
dependent telephone lines in Ohio has
been practically completed. according
to report here last night, and will be
put through subject to the approval of
the capitalization by the Ohio public
utilities commission. J. P. Morgan &
Co, according to the report, have agreed
to take general refunding bonds for
their stockholdings in the Ohio proper
ties
The merger it is said, will include
all the Morgan properties and several
others. including about fifteen companies
in various parts of the state.
Attorney Fl. NJ. Daugherty of Columbus.
attorney for the proposed new company.
said that all the interests concerned had
agreed on terms.
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James c. Lewis. lot 1873. square 1853

$40.
NO, 1874 r STREET NORTHWEST
Edith f. Dillenback ct vir, William
J., to Herman w. Van Sender, lot o.,
square 30; $40
d. Meade to Nal
colin N. and Marguerite V. Brown,
lot 10, square 300: SO.
NO. 1777 T STREET NORTHWEST
Corinne T Warning to Ralph p. VIII
liams lot 242. square Isl; $40 Ralph
P. Williams ct uX. convey same
property to Alexander l.. Satterwhite;
$40
NO. 17Os OREGON AVENUE NORTH
WEST-Harry ardman ct uX. to
Ralph P. Williams. lot 81. square 152;
$40 Ralph P. Williams conveys same
property to Corinne T. Waring: $40
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LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. May 20.-Cotton-Spot
steady; good middling. SIG; middling.
754; low midd ing. zoo: sales. 5000
bales. including $500 American and
1000 for speculation and export. Re
ceipts. 5000 bales.
Futures very steady: May. IT'S: May
and June, 7.1712. July and August.
700: August and September. SIS: Oc-
tober and November, 6.54 e December
and January, $40; January and Feb
ruary 646
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. May 2".-IIogs-Recepts.
2oss, head; steady: bulk Of sales. S..n4
So; light S35asiN: mixed SOFAS. 90:
heavy. s.IJasJ712: rough. S15as.2.: pigs.
1.-NaS ~.
Cattle-Rcceipts. 1902 head: slow;
beeves, 1.JOa9.Sn. steers. 1.I0aS.To. stock
ers and feeders, 6.+otS55: cows and
heifers. 3.65aS. 30. calves. 1.tOal0. 10.
Shecp-Receipts, 2i,Goo head weak:
sheep, oaa620: yearlings, 615a7.2O.
lambs. Seas ~: springs, 7.Goa265.
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LOCAL STOCK EXCHANGE.

Sales-ReguIar cali. 10 O'Clock noon:
Capital Traction. 16 at 100. 10 at zoos, At
10O1a . at 1OOH
Washington Railway pfd.. 10 at s4s, at
s4st. at S4a4.
Washington Gas at 7TA at 77s4.
After call-Captal Traction IS. 81. 800 at 1919,
81 coo at 1917. 900 at 107ia $1,000 at 1O7ls,
$500 at 1O71a, $500 at 1071".
Washington Railway Is. $l,cO0 at IS. $1,000
at So
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HECOURTS.
Court of Appeals.

Present-The Chief Justice. MI Justice
Robb and Mr.. Justice Van Orsdel.
Royden D. Chase and James A. Purcell
were admitted to practice.
No. 1858. National Union agt Sawyer;
motion to advance overruled.
No. 26OS. Berl agt. Dulany: mandate
ordered to issue forthwith.
Adjourned from day to day
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LONDON MARKET.

LONDON. May 20.-Mouey and dis
count rates were quiet today. The stock
market opened steady. but reacted at
noon on further liquidation. chiefly in
Mexican rails and Russian and Peruvian
shares The afternoon brought a fair
recovery in British and Canadian issues
but the Paris favorites closed uncertain
owing to the Albanian situation. and
Rubber stocks were weak in sympathy
with the auction results.
American securities were quiet and
featureless until noon. when continental
selling depressed prices. Later the list
improved under the lead of Canadian Pa
cific. but the leaders sold off again in
the late trading. The closing was quiet.
Closing Prices.
consols for money. "a l3-l6: for ac-
count. i4's: Pennsylvania. :I1i4: Reading.
S5'4: United States Steel, 64is.
Bar silver, easy, 261.d.
Money. III; short bills. 15-16a3; three
0onths. 2a1ts.
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Rev. James Donelan Mari Buried.

Funeral services for Rev. James Done
Ian Mari were held at the Church of the
Immaculate Conception THIS morning at
$50 o'clock. Bishop Corrigan of Balti-
more, assisted by Rev. Paul Griffith and
Rev Charles Bart. officiated at the
requiem mass. Interment was in Mount
Oliyet cemetery.
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NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS, May 2O.-First
prices in the cotton market today were
unchanged to points down. Offer
ings were not liberal. and a moderate
demand after the call served to put
the market 3 to ) points over yes
terdays close.
Futures opened steady: May, 1886;
July. 1901; August 1855; October.
12l5; December, 1913; January. 12.15.
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LIVERPOOL,

LIVERPOOL. May on.-wbe,t-No I.
red western winter. Is 51sd: No. ] Mani
toha. IS lid; No .. Is 6l2d: No. d, Is
sd: July. IS 4isd October. Is 1z,d
Corn-Amercan mixed, Is nd. I,1ly nc
Id; September. Is 1Oiad.
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Lunchroom at City Post Office.

Employees of the new city post Office are
to enjoy a cooperative lunchroom. by
special dispensation of George f. Dow
ney, controller of the Treasury. on a re-
quest from Postmaster General Burleson,
it is announced.
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NEW YORK METAL MARKET

NEW YORK. May 2o-Lead-ouiet
3s5a3.95: London, e19
spelter-Steady. 5.10a5.2O; London Ell
IS, bid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-20

High pressure is now general over
practically all parts of the United States.
and no storm of any Importance appears
within the field of observation. During
the last twenty-four hours there were
local rains in Florida, the west gulf
states. the plains states and the Rocky
mountain region, and generally fair
weather elsewhere.
Temperatures have not changed decid-
eddy in any part of the country and are
moderate for the season generally
With the exception of local rains in ex-
treme southern Florida and in upper
Michigan. the weather will be generally
fair without material change in tempera-
ture tonight and Thursday in the states
east of the Mississippi river.
The winds along the New England coast
will be light to moderate variable. mostly
southwest and west; on the middle At
lantic coast light variable; on the south
Atlantic coast fresh northeast and east.
probably strong on the south Florida
coast; on the east gulf coast fresh to
strong east.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four hours
beginning at 2 pm. yesterday:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT pm, SO; 8
pm. II: 70 midnight 63; today, 4 am,
81; am, G4: l. noon, 81: 2 pm, 81
Maximum. S. at go pm; minimum, 80
at ) am. today.
Temperature same date last year-Maxi-
mum, -; minimum, 50.
Barometer-Yesterday 4 pm, 30.41:
pm, 3O46: II midnight, 3O.44; today. 4
am. 30.41; s am, 3O43; 12 noon. 3O37;
2 Pm, 30.31.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition of water at
8 am: Great Falls-Temperature, Sc.
condition, 49, Dalecariia reservoir-Tem-
perature, 66; condition at north connec-
ton, 20; condition at south connection,
IL. Georgetown distributing reservoir
Temperature. &C: condition at infuent
gatehouse, Is; condition at eff1uent gate
house. 20.
Weather in Various Cities
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO. May 2o-Unabated renorts
of damage from Hessian fly continued
today to enhance the value of wheat.
The market opened 1sa4 to 1 higher but
some reaction followed
Although corn at the outset showed
flrmness with wheat. prices later failed
to hold up. Prices started unchanged to
,saA higher. but then receded to slightly
below last nights level.
Dry weather and less favorable crop
prospects gave strength to oats
Provisions ruled steady with hogs R,si
ness lacked volume
Butter-Cnchanged
Eggs-Lower; receipts. 3O.946 cases
at mark, cases included. 171sa1Sh; or
binary firsts. 17Aa17A: firsts 18a1Sh
Cheese-Lower: daisies 14a14L: twins
13Sa1i: American, 15,4a151a; long horns
l4Aa141a ''- no.
cars.
Poultry-Alive. unchanged.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. May 2o-Flour-Firm,v
held. is
More fly damage reports caused high
er market for wheat this morning M
1.Ooa1 .O6: July, 373sa971s.
Pork-Steady.
Beef-Steady
Lard-Steady
ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
Hay-Steady.
Hfdes-Steady.
Leather-Firm
Raw sugar-Firm: molasses, Isl: CEN
trifugal, 3.26. Refined. firm.
Butter-Steady, unchanged. recein+s
5000 tubs.
Cheese-steady; receipts. $500 boxes.
state whole milk, fresh white or colored
specials liza 1874: average fancy, 13H.
Egss-unsettled: receipts, 5000 cases
fresh gathered storage packed. ooMaeS.
extra firsts. 20s4a2l1k; firsts. 19ka2O,5: :
seconds. 1S1za13A: state, PennsyIyania
and nearby gathered whites, 22kaoo:
mixed colors. 2Oa2o. 72"--'
Dressed poultry-Steady: western chick
ends. frozen, 17a2o: fowls. I4a19: tmr-
keys 21a26 "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-20

Rex Dividend Today.
General Chemical Company com, IL:
Pressed Steel Car Company CON-, q:
Pittsburgh, Youngstown an Ashtabula
railroad pfd-, Ia; Homestake Mining
Company, Is cents per share; Butterick
Publishing Company. q, and Studebak3r
Corporation pfd., Ia
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WEATHER..
Fair, With Mild Temperature To-
night and Thursday.

For the District of Columbia. Maryland
and Virginia. fair weather and mild tenn
perature tonight and Thursday; light va
riable winds.
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NEW YORK CURB PRICES.

uuosatio furnished by ". r. Hihbs Co,
members New York Stock Exchange.
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for the purpose Of inspecting steel under
manufacture for the ordnance DEPART
ment.

for the purpose Of inspecting steel under
manufacture for the ordnance depart
ment.
Naval Orders.
Commander ". s. Whitfield, to in
spector of ordnance at works William
Cramp & Sons. Philadelphia. Pa.
Lieut. Commander r. L. Spafford 10
the Delaware as first lieutenant: Lieuts.
II. G. Bowen. c. a. Bonvillian, W. r.
F-urlong. and Lieuts. Junior grade)
3. r. Ware p. Il. Hammond, r. T. s.
Lowell and c. II. J. Keppler. from Co
lumbia University. TO temporary navy
yard. New York. n. Y.
Lieuts. Gunior grade) r. B. Horner.
r. F. Frellsen and Bryson Bruce. from
Columbia University. New York. to
works General Electric Company. Seine
nectady. n. Y.
Ensign Wadleigh Capehart, from the
Parker. to naval aeronautic station.
Pensacola Fla.
Passed Assistant Surgeon w. r. Owens,
from marine detachment. Managua.
Nicaragua. to the Tallahassee.
Paymaster c. W. Eiiason. to the West
Virginia.
Chaplain e A. Brodmann. from the
Maine to the Missouri.
Chief Boatswain John Mccarthy, to the
North Carolina.
Chief Boatswain Stephen Mccarthy.
from command the Ontario to naval
training station. Newport. r. I.
Chief Boatswain E. v. Sandstrom. from
navy yard. Boston. Mass, to command
the Ontario.
Boatswain ]. L. Thomas, from the
South Dakots to the Glacier.
Paymasters Clerk ]. L. White, resig-
nation accepted.
Naval. Movements.
The City of Tampico has arrived at
Vera Cruz. the Cyclops at Norfolk navy
yard. the Whipple at La Paz and the
Orion at Vera Cruz
The Salem has sailed from Vera Crus
for Puerto Mexico. the Balch from
Charleston for New York yard, the
Texas from Hampton roads for Vera
Cruz. the Machias from Hampton roads
for Guantanamo, the Uncas and GI
from New York yard for exercises in
Long Island sound. the Saturn from Mar
zanillo for Maaatlan and the Hull from
La Paz for Guaymas.
The commander in chief. Atlantic feet
reports that he will shift his flag from
the Arkansas to the Wyoming tomorrow.
The Mars will leave Hampton roads tor
morrow for Vera Cruz. via Key West.
The Nereus will leave Hampton roads
about the I'D instant for Vera Cruz.
The Cyclops will leave Hampton roads
about the 18th instant foptyeFa. CzuA
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WILL HAVE AUDIENCE
WITH THE PRESIDENT
Judge Lindsey and Others From Col.
orado Strike Zone to Tell
Conditions.

Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Colorado.
accompanied by wives of miners. by
children who escaped from the Ludlow
fire and by the women's relief commit
tee. organized to present to the Presi-
dent a report on conditions in the Colo
RADIO strike field as they have seen
them. will arrive in Washington this
afternoon and have an audience with
the President at the White House to-
morrow morning.
They will reach Washington at 4:40
o'clock. They will plan to tell the
President the need of federal aid that
still exists in their state.
Tomorrow evening they will speak
under the auspices of the Washington
Suffrage Council in National Rifles Ar
mory, 91S G street northwest. at 8
O'clock
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Public Invited to Meeting.

This meeting has been arranged to
give the people of Washington an OPP
portunity to hear Judge Lindsey and
his committee explain the strike condi-
tons in Colorado.
Commissioner f l.. Siddons has prom
Used to preside and members of the
Colorado delegation in Congress have
accepted an invitation to occupy seats
on the platform.
The Consumers League. the National
Voters League. the Monday Evening
Club and the American Federation Of
Labor have been invited to participate
in the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-20
Representatives to Speak.

Representatives Mcdonald of Michi-
gan and Bryan of Washington will also
make brief speeches.
In the Lindsey party are Mrs. Lee
Champion of the Colorado woman's re-
lief committee and the following, who
passed through the battle at Ludlow;
Mrs. Mary Petrucci, who lost three
children in the death hole: Mrs.
Pearl July and Mrs NJ H. Thomas.
with her two young children.
Mrs. Lindsey, became ill in Chicago
and will not complete the trip.
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NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. May 2o-Flour-Fir,n,v
held. III
wore ny damage reports caused a high
er market for wheat this morning NJ
1.05a1 .06: July, 37ssa971s.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18
GERMAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT
 BL MARcoNI WIRELESS Servian Forces Which Crossed River Save Have Been Driven Back.

London, Sept. IT, s:25 D. m.-The following German official statement was received here tonight by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com pany:
 Tt Is reported from East Africa that fully attacked the Uganda Railway at different points.
 Tn formation has been received from Cape Town to the effect that a German division on the Orange River has been surprised and made pris- oners by the South African forces.
 All German between 19 and 45 years of age resident in states of the South African Union are being &C., commodated in the concentration camp at, Roberts Heights.
 Subscriptions to German War Loan
 Subscriptions to the German war loan, which began at the savings banks. have surpassed all expectations.
 ''Servian forces which crossed the River Save have been repulsed every where. The enemy has now been and Banat.
 Rifles in the form of sticks have been taken from Belgian franc tireurs Grregular troops). These rifles were 87 centimeters long and could be fired by merely pressing a, button. Our IIOOpS udVS DcSu WdIn0O OI the Qa,n- ger of these apparently harmless in- strumentsin. the hands of fanatical BeIgians.
 "The report in London that the Ger man moratorium has been extended to the end of September is untrue A moratorium was neither required nor recreed. There Is, therefore, no foun- dation for the report that its pro- lonration Is contemplated All the banks are carrying on business as usual"
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18
COUPLE SPENT TRYING
 NIGHT OH THE SOUND
Launch Struck Ledge-When Rescued
 They Were Exhausted,

Stamford, Conn.,, Sept. 17.-After a struggle throughout the night in try ing to keep their power boat Dorothy afioat, MT. and Mrs, William Hunter, of New York, were rescued today by B. B. Ford. off Sound Beach and brought here to recover their strength The boat temporarily repaired was sent to City Island.
 MT, and Mrs. Hunter had enter tained a party of friends from Nor walk. and after leaving the latter at that city. were returning along the Sound. The bcat-a forty foot one ran upon a ledge off Sound Beach. The leakage was considerable and Mr. and Mrs. Hunter had ta work pump and to bail to prevent the Dorothy from sinking. MT. Ford. who is the master of an ocean going tug, IS spending his vacation at the Beach He noticed the Dorothy in distress and rowed cut te it, finding those aboard nearly exhausted
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18
END OF SOUTH AFRICAN
 GANG OF DESPERADoES
Two of Them Committed Suicide
 After Shooting a Woman.

Johannesburg. Union of South Afri- ca, Sept 1.-The gang of desperadoes under the leadership of man named Jackson, who were indirectly the cause of the killing of General Jacobs Hend- rick de la Rey. the noted Boer gen. eral, came to a dramatic end today. They took refuge in a cave on East Rand and the police surrounded the cave and called upon them to sur render.
 The desperadoes offered to give up their arms to Jackson's wife. She entered the cave and Jackson shot her. Jackson and his two accomplices then committed suicide.
 General De la Key who was one of the ablest commanders in the Boer war, was proceeding in an automobile to his farm when police, who were watching for the Jackson deperadoes, challenged him. He continued on without stopping and the police fired, bullet entering General De La Rey's heart.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18
BRITISH TRAIN SHIP
 FOUNDERED IN CHANNEL
Twenty one Members of Her Crew
 were Drowned.

London. Sept IS. 12:S0 a. m.-The admiraTity announces that the train ing ship Fisgard II. formerly the bat tleship Erebus, has founred during a gale in the English Channel and that 21 members of her crew were drowned. At the time of the disaster the Fis- gard II was being lowed. Boy arti- ficers were trained on the vessel.
 The F'isgard foundered off Portland as she was being lowed by tugs through a heavy sea- Forty -four of the crew were rescued by the tugs.
 The Fisgard foundered at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The survivors were landed here. The crew was com posed mostly of backyard workers. The vessel was outward bound from Portland when she struck rough weather, during which some of her heavy equipment broke loose. giving her a heavy list.
 The Fisgard turned back in an ef- fort to make port, but turned turtle in right of hundreds of spectators ashore when she reached Portland Race
 The work of rescue was hampered by the heavy seas.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18
JOINT ANSWERS FILED
 IN UNITED STATES COURT
By New Haven Road and New Enq-
 land Navigation Company.

New York. Sept 17.-In reply to the governments suit aginst the New ork, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road Company under the Sherman antitrust law. the New Haven road and the New England Nayigation Company today filed joint and sev- eral answers in the United States dis trict court here denying that railroad, trolley and steamboat lines mentioned in the complaint were acquired or are now controlled as a result of any unlawful act or in the way specified in the federal allegationes or through any unlawful methods. Such properties were acquired and are now controlled the answers set forth in compliance with and subject to the express pro- visions of the statutes of Massachu- setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York and in accordance with the public policy of those states.
 Although the government and the New Haven have reached an under standing looking to a dissolution of agreement was reached, is still pend ing, and the answers filed today con- sttitute part of the groundwork on which will be built the dissolution decree.
 The defendants answers set forth that there was no substantial compe- tition between the New Haven and the lines 1t subsequently, acquired and that there has since been no unrea- sonable restraint of trade or com merce. but that on the contrary the acquisition of the properties was for the best interests of the public.
 Many. if not all of the transactions specified in the governments com plaint took place, according to the answers more than ikree years prior to the filing of the suit and prosecu- ton accordingly is outlawed. The defendants question the constitution ality of the governments suit, as- serting that the matter Is one of states right.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18
SKELETON FOUND
 NEAR SOUTH NoRWALK.
Bullet Hole in Left TempIe-6uried for
 Years.

South Norwalk, Conn, Sept. 17.-A skeleton. presumably that of a man, was dug up today under a stone wall by an Italian workman near the John J. Cavanaugh property on the old Saul gatuck road between this city and Bridgeport, There Is apparently bull let hole in the left temple. With the exception of some of the breast bones. all the bones are In perfect condition No clothing nor any articles of poS51- ble Identification were found. It Is believed the skeleton must have been buried for many years. It was found under two feet of earth
 Angelo Tomasetta, a workman, was engaged in grading the property when his pickaxe unearthed the ghastly f1dn. Overcome with fear. he ran from the scene and reported his discovery. The matter was reported to the police.