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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
POURS CARBOLIC ACID
ON YOUNG WiFE'S FACE
Norfolk Plumber. In Murderous Frenzy,
Rubs Burning Liquid In
With His Hands.
CUTS HER THROAT WITH BOTTLE
Screaming Woman Escapes From.
Would-Be Slayer and Crentes Panic
Among Churchgoers.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
Norfolk, Va, May 3.-AIembers OF the
Lekies Memorial Methodist Church. on
Camp Avenue. were thrown into n
panic as they were leaving the church
after morning service to-day, whom
woman ran screaming from the house
next door, her clothes torn half off,
her hands tearing 1T her face, from
which blood was streaming, and the
burns from carbolic acid scorchiug the
skin of her neck and shoulders.
The woman. who staggered through
the half -fainting women OF the con-
gregation, was Mrs. Ruth Bell, the
nineteen-year- wIfe of Johnnie Bell,
n plumber. She had just escaped from
a room on the second floor OF the
house next to the church, In which
her husband had first tried to choke
her to death, had then poured the con-
tents of an eight-ounce bottle OF car
bolic acid over her face, rubbing It In
with his hands. and had then attempt
ed to cut her throat with a Jagged
edge of the bottle.
The nat in which Bell attempted to
kill his wife WAS Sl2 Camp Avenue,
the home OF her brother. Tom Blanch
ard. Mrs. Bell was picked up by Fl.
II. JOntlSOU, VINO ntU como 10 tuc
church to meet his wife and mother
in-law in an automobile. He rushed
to II nearby drug store and. procur-
ing some alcohol. applied ii to the car
bolic-acid burns. He then took the
injured woman, half unconscious from
the effects OF tho burning acid, to the
Protestant Hospital. Sho is expected
to recover. though she may lose the
sight OF her left eye which the acid
entered.
In the meanwhile Bell had rushed
from the bedroom, brushed aside his
wife's sister and slid down the post
to the back porch. He darted into the
alley paralleling Camp Avenue and
ran toward the North Street Bridge.
The last time he was seen by any OF
the neighbors he was making In the
direction OF Lambert's Point. Tho po-
lice of the Second Precinct Station
were notified, and four men were do
tailed on the case. They searched the
outlying districts and followed several
clues. but up to midnight Bell had not
been caught.
Blanchard, sister of Mrs. Bells broth
er. the attempted murder was duo to
the fact that Mrs Bell would not re-
turn to live with her husband, whom
she left on Tuesday after he had beat
Ell her Bell and his wife have been
living with his relatives on Forty
ninth Street, Lamberts Point. She is
only nineteen years old, and was mar
ried to Bell when she was fourteen
years old.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
HUERTA READY TO RESIGN
IF ASSURED SAFE CONDUCT
Persistent Reports I'm Vera Crun That
Provisional President In
tends to Retire.
CHANGE OF POLICY EXPECTED
Capitals Inhabitants Fear Coming Of
Villa More Thnn American Troops.
beginning to Learn OF False Reports.

Vera Cruz, May S.-Persistcnt re-
ports continue to circulate here that
General Huerta intends to retire from
on condition that he be assured q safe
conduct to port and be placed on
board a foreign warship.
1t Is declared In some Mexican cir
cles here that Huerta was ready TO re-
sign n week ago, but. was prevented
by internal diesenslons In his Cabi-
net.
The resignation OF Jose Lopez Por-
tillo Rojas. the Foreign Minister.
coupled with reports that there "a a
growing undercurrent of feeling In
Mexico City against the Huerta gov
ernment. Is interpreted here rs fore
shadowing a change In the Federal
capital.
Closo observers here believe Senior
Porti)lo's resignation may clear the
way eventually for the appointment of
Foreign Minister, who, under the
Mexican Constitution. could succeed
HCerta al President
May Cnunc Change iu Policy.
In these circles 1t is pointed out
tiidt WHlie IeueFUl SurrunZa QcCll10Q
to treat with Huerta. he might con-
sent to enter into negotiations with
his successor and thus facilitate medi-
alton. Continued rebel successes in
the North and attacks on Tamplco,
may in the opinion OF some, bring
about change of policy.
The interior was reported uuist to-
day. People arriving here from the
capital said the populace was begin
ming TO learn that Huerta was deceiv-
Ing them all the time by issuing false
reports OF Federal successes against
the Constitutionalists.
News of the peaceful way In which
Americans are occupying Vera Cruz. it
" said, has spread to the capital and
has convinced tho people there that
the American invasion OF tho mort is
not for conquest or aggression. The
capitafs inhabitants fear the coming
there OF Francisco villa more than
TINT Of the American troops. it is said.
Elements In Mexico City, which
cling to the memory OF the late Pres
ident Francisco I. Madero. are re-
ported to have been incensed by the
arrest OF deputies. who were cast int
jail on charges OF conspiracy.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
{. SINCLAIR ASKS FOR FACTS
Public Wishes to he Quite Sure of
WHO IL RcSp0nsibIc.

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.1
New York, May 3-Upton Sinclair
to-day sent to John D. Rockefeller.
Jr. letter in which. after reciting
the formers testimony before the
House Committee on Mines. assuming
responsibility for the conduct OF COL
orado Fuel and Iron, and going over
tho Rockefeller refusal to see Sinclair.
or to compromise or arbitrate any of
tho questions involved, he says:
The report was the beginning Of
a movement which had two purposes;
first, to awaken tho general public to
q realization OF what was going on in
Colorado, and, second. to show you
what the public would think of tho
matter when 1t was once informed.
That we have succeeded In this Is
clearly shown by the letters, tele-
grams and other assurances OF moral
support that have come to us In over
whelming numbers from individuals of
social and intellectual standing. Ou
demonstration was meant to be. and
has been throughout. a strictly peace
ful one. That there have been at the
sarno time threats of violence against
you has nothing to do with us, al
though those threats have social sig
nificance which should not be ignored
Not only do our purposes in this pro-
test not involve violence against any
individual; they earnestly oppose and
condemn 1t. Even supposing that
some one were to kill every one OF the
capitalists who compose that abhorrent
thing which the American people
know as STANDARD or and tho 'sys-
tenn that system would not be changed
q particle. On the contrary, the pro-
gress OF social evolution would be put
back many years.
Now, unless I misread the public
(ContInued on Second PareO
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
BODY is RECOVERED
Mystery OF Texans Abaence ly,. p..
Explained.

Explained.
Laredo. Texas, May 3.-The boav 30
fornrio Laurel. an American ranch.
man. VINO disappeared last November.
@ mas lecoVered to-day from a grave
near Nuevo Laredo, Mex. I,aurai ha :,
Deen arrested by Mexican FederaIs
VINO persistently denied reports OF his
execution and until the body was ex
~ muIneu to-day the mystery of the
ie1ahs absence was unexplained.
recovery of the ranchman:, body
was MADE possible by the evacuation
e. NueVo Laredo by the FederaIs.
heoel officers commanding the Con
stitutionalist force which now occu.
pies tho town. interposed no obtection
70 the Investigation of relatives and
friends, which resulted in tho location
or the grave. The body Will be brought
burial. ioi
Laurel's son identified his fathers
body by spectacle case and scraps
Oh clothing in the grave. and meusuro-
ments tailed with known meas,re
ments OF tho dead man.
Nothing definite was ever known OF
tho circumstances OF Laurels arrest
ny tho Federals unlike the case Of
Clemente Vcrgara, which was instant
ly recalled here when the border heard
that Laurers body had been found.
coincidence Is that Laurel disap-
peared near Hidalgo. the town oppo-
site Vergara's ranch. Vergara was
taken TO Hidalgo. after arrest by the
Federals. and was buried there after
being killed.
1t was commonly rumored at tho
time Laurel disappeared that he had
been talSon to Nuevo Laredo and exc
cuted. Cergara's body was recovered
secretly after his case had attracted
international attention and been mado
the subject OF vigorous protests to
the Mexican government
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
REPUDIATES AFFIDAVIT
WifnesH I'm Frank Cnse Says He wn.
Bribed to Favor Defendant.

brfDeu to Favor Defendant.
Atlanta, Ga. May 3.-Arguments on
the extraordinary motion for new
trial for Leo NJ. Frank. the factory
superintendent, awaiting execution
for the murder OF Mary Phagan, four
teen years old. will be resumed in the
Superior Court here Tomorrow.
Present indications are that the
new trial hearing will be concluded by
Wednesday. Judge Hill is expected to
take the case under advisement for
few days before announcing his de-
cision. No time has yet been set for
hearing of arguments Of another mo-
tion, which asks that the verdict of
guilty he set aside because Frank
was not In the courtroom when It was
returned
j. f. Duffey. who was a witness for
the State Of the trial OF the factory
superintendent, and who recently made
IN. affidavit for the defense, repudiat-
ing his testimony, has made another
sworn statement. in which he insists
that his original testimony regarding
bloodstains on the second floor Of the
National Pencil Company's plant was
correct Duffey asserts that he was
bribed to repudintc his original testi-
mony.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
NEGROES HELD ON SUSPICION
Two Arrested in Connection with sIur-

Two Arrested In Connection with MUIR
der of Atlanta Merchant.
Atlanta. Ca, May 3.-Two negroes
were arrested by the police here to-day
on suspicion of having been connected
with tho shooting and killing OF Harry
Wolfe. a local grocery merchant, last
night.
An unknown negro entered Wolfe's
store last night and demanded that tn,
merchant, who was alone, surrender
his money. When Wolfe objected and
made move as though he was going
to draw Il revolver. the negro produced
n revolver and shot the storekeeper.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
LADY ALFRED PAGET DEAD
Wns One of Most Notable Survivors q,
Early Victorian Icrn. :

Especial Cable to The Times -Disnatcn
London, May 3.--I.ady Alfraa Paget
died to-day at the age OF eighty four.
Lady Paget was one OF the most mo-
table survivors OF tho early Victorian
era. She was endowed with remark
aole mental gifts and fascinating per-
eight daughters and six sons. two az
whom have American wives. Lady
Pagets husband, who died In 1855, was
great favorite OF Queen Victoria and
King Edward. :, 6
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
GARDINER PUPILS
WHO GO TO PORTLAND

The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of
the Maine Teachers Association
which is to be held in Portland Oct.
and 80 will have a peculiar inter-
est to the people of Gardiner inasmuch
as some of Gardeners pupils are to
take part in the exercises of one OF
the days. The morning session of the
opening day is always SHINY attend
ed and Hon. Payson Smith, State
superintendent of schools, and Herbert
j. Chase, superintendent of the Gar
diner schools, We're appointed as
special committee from the executive
committee to arrange a program for
that session that would be conducive
to a good, attendance. A meeting of
the various supervisors of music or
this section of the State was held in
Portland and the following chosen to
CO. cooperate with 4hs special committee
for. musical program: George T.
Goldthwaite of Portland. Miss Buck
nam of Bath and N L. Mower OF
Auburn.
The session is to be called the School
Musical Festival and is to be held in
the Auditorium, City hall at 10 o'clock
on Thursday, the 20. The session has
been arranged to exemplify the work
in music in the public schools of
Maine. A chorus of over 200 voices
has been selected from the students
in the secondary schools in the fol-
lowing places: Auburn, Augusta, Bath,
Biddeford BrunsW wick, Canton, Cornish,
East Livermore, Fairfield. Gardiner
Hallowell, Kennebunk, Lewiston, Lis
bon Falls, Norway, Oakland Portland.
Rumford, Sanford, South Portland
Turner, Waterville, Webster and West
brook. From Gardiner the following
are to go: Beatrice Davis, Sadie Brisk
Eleanor McCausland, Edith Chase,
Norman Fleming, Dwight Davis and
Lawrence Emerson.
An orchestra of 40 pieces has been
selected from the school orchestras of
Auburn, Bath, Brunswick, East Liver
more, Gardiner, Lewiston, Portland
and Sanford. From Gardiner. Ray
Monaghan, first violin, and Andrew
Sugar, trombone, are to go. The pro-
gram contains IS numbers of classical
music for chorus and orchestra.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
ASTHMADOR GUARANTEED
TO RELIEVE ASTHMA

81 have arranged with Bowditch-
Webster Co. that every sufferer from
Asthma, Hay Fever or Bronchial Asth-
ma in Augusta can try my treat
ment entirely at my risk" DR.. Ru-
dolph Schiffmann announces. He says:
Buy a 50-cent package of my
Asthmador, or asthmador cigarettes,
try it, and if it does not afford you i'm
mediate relief, or if you do not find
il the best remedy you have ever used,
take it back to Bowditch- Webster Co.
and they will return your money,
cheerfully and without any question
whatever. After seeing the grateful
relief it has afforded in hundreds of
cases, which had been considered in
durable. and which had been given up
in despair, l know what it will do.
am so sure that it will do the same
with others that | am not afraid to
guarantee it will relieve instantane-
ously. The druggists handling Asth-
nlador will return your money if
you say so. You are to be the sole
judge and under this positive guaran-
tee, absolutely no risk is run in buy
ing Asthmador."
Persons living elsewhere will be
supplied under the same guarantee by
their local druggist or direct by DR.. r.
Schiffmann, St. Paul. Minn.--Ady.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20

it has not been thought that any al
legation of fraud or irregularity would
be introduced, and the Commercials
correspondent says that il Is consider
ed unlikely in Washington that moth
ing less than positive evidence of
fraud would lead, the next House,
even if Democratic, to vote to upseat
Mr.. Kinds.
Complaint against the Kittery navy
yard as a factory in York county and
First District elections, has been
made, the Commercial says, and hints
included that many employees either
legally or unduly participated in the
election. AS the total Kittery Repub-
lican vote would have 20 be rejected,
including the votes of lifelong resi-
dents of the town as we'll as of the
navy yard employees, the absurdity of
making such a claim, should that be
the only basis of contest, is appar-
ent.
So far az local understanding of the
situation goes, Mr. Scates is unlikely
to bring forward a contest in the
First District election. Only by arbi-
trary methods could the next House,
even If Democratic, GUST minority
member.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
Cause of
Kidney Trouble
Take Salts to Flush Kidneys II
Back Hurts or Bladder Bothers.

If you must have your meat every
day, eat it, but flush your kidneys
with salts occasionally, says a noted
authority who tells us that meat forms
uric acid which almost paralyzes the
kidneys in their efforts to expel 1t
from the blood. They become slug
gish and weaken, then you suffer with
a dull misery in the kidney region,
sharp pains in the back or sick head
ache, dizziness, your stomach sours,
tongue is coated and when the wealth
er is bad you have rheumatic twinges.
The urine gets cloudy, full of sedi-
ment, the channels often get sore and
Initiated obliging you to seek relief
two or three times during the night.
To neutralize these irritating acids,
to cleanse the kidneys and flush off
the body's urinous waste get four
ounces of Jad Salts from any phar-
macy here; take tablespoonful IN a
glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys will then
act fine. This famous salts Is made
from the acid Of grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush and
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
neutralize the acids in urine, so it no
longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in.
jure, and makes delightful effer-
vescent lithia- water drink.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
DIVORCE DEGREES
IN OXFORD COUNTY

South Paris, Me-, Oct. 19.-The follow
ing additional divorces were decreed dur
ing the October term of the oxford SUI
preme judicial court:
Mildred L. Saunders from Carleton o.
Saunders. both of Albany, intoxication,
libellant to resume her maiden name
Mildred L. Bennett; Walter P. Young
from Louise c. Youth, both of Norway,
cruel treatment; Lillian Mason from Irv
ing Mason, both of Porter, non-support,
child to mother; Henry o, Wilbur of
Bethel from Nellie r. Wilbur of oxford,
desertion; Rollin n. Stetson from Ursula
NJ. Stetson, both of Sumner, cruel treat
ment; Gertrude II. Hunnewall from Guy
Hunnewall, cruel treatment; Laura e.
Chase from George Olin Chase, cruel
treatment Sadie Weber of Rumford
from Leroy H. Weber of Boston, Mass.
statutory cause child to mother; Clara
H. Lefebvre of Gilead from Archie NJ. l..
Lefebvre of Steelton, Canada, cruel treat
ment, child to mother; Mary A. Lapham
of oxford from George F. Lapham of Ma
pies. desertion; Edna A. Hood of Rumford
from Eugene S. Hood of Myricks.
Mass, intoxication Albert NJ. Hol-
man of DiXfield from Effie S.
Holman of Lewiston, desertion; Ag
mes Louis from James 1. Louis both
of Fryeburg, extreme cruelty; Dav-
id Barnett of Rumford from Bertha
NJ. Barnett of Campbelltown, y. B.,
statutory cause; Maud a. Douglass
from Charles A. Douglass, both of
Grafton, intoxicaticn; Frank L. Fes-
sender of Brownfield from Nellie NJ.
Fessenden of Sebaeo, desertion; Ella
V Gray from Frank A. Gray, both Of
Brownfeld desertion; Celestia C. Be-
lieu from George Bolieu, both of Paris,
cruel treatmCunt an intoXication;
Richard A. Walker of Paris from Lii
Ian Mary Walker of Gardiner, cruel
treatment, child to father; Lille j.
Kerr Of Hebron from James r. Kerr
of parts unknown, extreme cruelty;
Frank b. Taylor of Bethel from Hell
en- NJ. Taylor of Boston. desertion;
Francis c. Hand of Bethel from Rus
sell E. Hand of Boston, desertion;
George r. Campbell of Dallas Pl from
Annie V Campbell of Rumford, deser-
zion: William A. Dyer from Mary NJ.
Dyer both of GiIead, statutory cause;
Ethel l.. Bandon from Charles Ban
don, cruel treatment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
RED CROSS NURSES.
What the Women are Doing.

The women of the Red Cross are
ahursing, cheering and comforting the
wounded or dying. The women Of
Europe not only wrap bandages and
scrape lint. but they tend the farms,
dig COAL carry burdens and do the
work of the men now under arms.
Every male fighter, however brawny
land heroic, was born Of woman; the
high courage and hardihood that are
d nations strength are inherited from
the mother.
lcharms of face and figure in spite of
an increasing family and the care
of growing children are always to
be envied. DR.. Pierce's F'avorite Pre-
rscription gives the strength and health
upon which happy motherhood de-
bends. 1t practically does away with
the pains of maternity 1t enables the
pending on her, and enjoy the hourly
happiness Of watching the develop
tnent of a perfectly healthy child.
Thousands of women who are now
blessed with robust health cannot I'M
derstand why thousands of other
women continue to worry and suffer
from ailments peculiar to women
when they can obtain for trifling
sum DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton, which will surely and quickly
Danish all pain, distress and misery
and restore the womanly functions
to perfect health.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
Thin Folks Who
Would Be Fat
Increase in Weight Ten Pounds or
More.
A Physicians Advice.

I'd certainly give most anything to
be able to fat up a few pounds and
stay that way" declares every excess
sively thin man or woman Such 2
result is not impossible despite past
failures. Thin people are victims OF
NAL nutrition, a condition which pre-.
vents the fatty elements of food from
being taken up by the blood as they
are when the powers of nutrition arc
normal. Instead of getting into the
blood, all the fat and flesh producing
elements stay IN the intestines unit.
they pass from the body as waste.
To correct this condition and to pro.
duce healthy, normal amount of fat
the nutritive processes must be arti-
ficially supplied with the power which
nature has denied them. This ;an
best be accomplished by eating a
Sargol tablet with every meal.
Sargol is scientific combination of
six of the best strength giving. fat
producing elements known to the
medfcdr profession. Taken with
meals, it mixes with the food and
turns the sugars and starches into
rich, ripe nourishment for the tissues
and blood and its rapid effect is re-
markable. Reported gains of from
ten to twenty-five pounds in a single
month are by no means infrequent.
Yet Its action is perfectly natural and
absolutely harmless. Sargol is solo
by Bowditch Webster. Co. and other
good druggists everywhere and every
package contains a guarantee OF
weight increase or money back
CautIone-While Sargol has pro-
duced remarkable results in the treat
ment of nervous indigestion and gen.
eral stomach disorders. 1t should not,
owing to- its remarkable flesh produc-
ing effect, be used by those who are
not willing to increase their weight
ten pounds or more.-AdY.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
ANNUAL MEETING
OF new ENGLAND
BASEBALL LEAGUE

Boston, Oct. 19.-The New England
League of Professional Baseball Clubs
held it's annual meeting today. Presi-
dent Timothy H. Murnane, who holds
over another year in that Office, pre-
sided. Arthur B. Cooper, after being
reelected as secretary treasurer, ten
dered his resignation. It was refused.
and the matter ordered laid on the
table.
The league voted to amend its Con-
stitution, increasing the membership
of the board of directors from four
to five, the members to be elected an
nually, and to meet frequently during
the season as an executive committee.
Representatives Of the Portland. Low
ell, Worcester, Lynn and Haverhili
Clubs were elected to this body and to
them was entrusted the work Of map
ping out a schedule for the coming
year.
There was a discussion over sug-
gestion that the playing season be
shortened, closing it on Labor day In
stead of a week later. But this mat
ter, with a motion that a salary limit
be made, was held in allegiance for fu-
ture consideration.
Notwithstanding many reports OF
purchases and deals, no change In the
league membership or franchise own
ership developed. =
The Lawrence Club was awarded the
pennant for the season Of 1914 at
meeting of the board Of directors,
which preceded the annual meeting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
RIJMOR SCATES MAY
CONTEST ELECTION

Bangor, Me-, Oct. 19.-The strange
rumor comes from Washington in a
special to the Bangor Commercial to
the effect that John Clark Scates,
this District, may contest for the seat
in the next House. That this inference
is novel proposition here is admit
ted by these who might know if AIR.
Scates had any such intention before
going to Washington where he is now
on a visit.
The corrected geturns in this dis
trict, Cumberland and York counties
combined. show that he received 16,035
votes. and Asher C. Kinds, Republic
can, 1862. While the vote was close