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Bursting I‘I'Bublile in Artery as
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ldeinllerol Many Patriotic Orders
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ing Historical Anniversaries
Lieutenant Teltair Marriott Minton,
.a member of the Order of the Found-
iers' and i’atrlots‘ of America. Society
iof Colonial Wars, Society of the Cin-
cinnati. Sons of the lievolutlon, So-
ciety of the War of islz.
Order of Foreign Wars, Society of
American Wars and the Naval and
Military Order of the Spanish Ameri-
can War also the Military Order of the
loyal Legion. has a unique wny of
celebrating the anniversaries of the
historical evehts of our countrg'. by
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iical events that occurred in the Dutch
and English colonies in the seven-
teenth century from lt‘tttT which an»
con.|wards became the l'nited States oil
lAmerica. a lac-Emile of tile flag of
Military)
t tile Netherlands at that period or the
flaw of England at that time. is flown.
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O'NE'Y. iii. July 3..., The burst-t.
tug of e. stiltlil air bubble in an artery ontin ed on theifth a e
tin-hr 'ile phy~ir~iali's knife gave the, (C u p 3 ) l
proswu'ing iiillfittrlllte.“ what they con;
sidtr tiltient'e ‘llat Miss Elizztbetlli
'1‘d3tjifle came to her death througll
.l on _tle crime. lit-y illnterliler, who
lilo.t;ii‘ :ili's body to it bililihll‘.
lutn are ill-i Friday night in a hugqu
H lteil today by action of the cor-i
on. r = j‘lry. which bound hint over to‘
the tirnn‘l Jilly without bond. ‘
li;:l‘erl:'er begun calling on the. girl.
about ten nionth- ago. when she came
to (they from Piloli. llid.. to live with
her sis'er, Mrs. Bert Puncher. Lust
Friday evening the couple Went driv-
lllg. The girl E‘i said to have dietll
under an old elm tree two miles from:
town. ‘lmctors say she was dead wheui
she. was, placed in the bug? for the‘
-ride to the sanitarium. '
' \‘te ‘were gefitlg near town when
she did. ‘Roy. i feel bad."' Hinter-
liter told the physicians. "Then she‘ have turned. Slinking up 6.0m the
fell ttvrr in my lap and i rubbed her underworld of the city yesterdny they
hands. and feet. but could not bring crept in a constant procession in the
her Mr." ' criminal courts buiitilng to loybefore
At an autopsy no marks of violenceI the district attorney evidence of graft
were found, hilt it developed that tlie'. they paid to corrupt policemen for the
girl was soon to become a ninliler.‘pl‘i\'ilege of carrying on their illegiti-
Examinarion failed to reveal any at; inate trade without molestation.
tempts at an illegal operation, t All Want to a. Flrut.
The stomaCll was examined. No‘ ‘ it was not exactly the rain th'ii
race of poison was found. Then one brought the “worms" to the surface.
of the examining doctors struck :1 Rather it was the desire to be re-
pmbe into an artery and a bubble‘ vengetl upon the police that muiated a
burst. it was said by the physicians, large percentage of their wnges ol'
Eshame that the male protectors of
POEICE GRAHERS
RECEIVE $50,000
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Otten collected for Deuces
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!sought the chambers of Dis‘Tlct Attor-
,ney Switnn and James E. Smith, as-
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"embargo will be placed by the New
Work. New Haven andHartford tRailo
electrocution here ‘for the murder of. road after midnight tonight upon all
his' father-in-law. John E' Peck of cnrload and less than carload freight
(tr-and llaplds,ulllich.. was "found "3 coming to the'lines of the company
his cell in the ,death house .tomfih‘t and those of the Central New England
mean“ from a wound on EL” “he“: Railroad from connecting rail and
made m the shape or a CEO” Thelsteamship lines via Harlem River and
prisoner had cut himself With a piece; Maybrook N. Y. except on perishable
of broken glass. ' '
(t‘ontinued on Twelfth Page.)
Found Bleeding in “Death Ilouse"
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SING SING. PRISON. N. Y.. July 26.
~Arthur Warren Waite, awaiting
{women operating disorderly resorts.
freight find" livestock freight for the,
: inns oi‘ the yea
‘.c\‘elllllg, took up VQflOlla‘ matters of
Ilor some time.
ilor all Hill"
0 field I'
‘lnen heard in regard to the molten-("WINle
’and had presented their views pro an
Over Score of New Yorlt Polioenien con.
Get Money From WCIICII 0f . in place of the late J. lrving Dunning.
.and Messrs. Johnson an
tment. to fill the vacancies
NEW YORK. July :«.*7319 "worms"ic1rried. was passed by the
i with a slightnioditlcation. Twenty-live
How Waite got possession of the
glass could not be explained. it is
presumed that when he was taken
out for exercise in the court yard he
picked it up when the vigilance or
his guard was relaxed, and conceal-
ed it until he returned to his cell.
Waite. was removed to the prison
hospital, but he steadfastly declined
to answer questions. The prison au-
thorities believe if he had intended
to kill himself he would have inflict-
ed the wound elsewhere than on his
chest. The in] y is not serious. A
Strict watch ill be kept on Waite
when he returns to the death house.
lARGE MOVING VAN
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A large moving van came to grief
about 10 o'clock last. evening on En
Hill Road near the old Burke hom'e-
stead. The driver. Mr. McCullen, was
returning from a trip to Bridgeport.
and when he reached the point of the
accident the stearing gear faiial 80
work. and the vanplunged into the
gutter. An early call was made at
Edward J. Fisherty. owner of the
Parcel Post Delivery. but his large
truck was unable to pull the m-
abled you on: of its trouble.
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L'nited States Government, newsprint
paper. materials for the two compan-
ies, freight in common for the Bos-
ton and Albany. Boston and Maine,
{Tentrzl Vermont and New York Cen-
tral roads. and freight originating on
the Ontario and Western lines. The
embargo will be raised next week
Wednesday at midnight,
A statement of trafllc conditions ic-
compnnying the embargo order shows
that 2,887 east-bound cars with 6.976
enroute on connecting lines are at
Harlem River gateway; 1781 with 1.-
0 151 enroute for that point at Maybrook
or a grand total of 12,795 to lie're-
ceived. ,
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BRIIISH SiEMiEli
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ST. JOHN. ‘N. I13., July 26.-—Tho
British steamer Tyne, which struck
fin the Muir hedges of! Grand Multan
during a thick fog Sunday. was floated
by tugs early today and brought into
this port. The Tyne was leaking
badly and it had been felted that she
hauled from the rocks.
.would break up before she could be.
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WTID PIE“ KIWI FROM ILL PAR“ DIME“! WORLD IV A WIAL Will AND OUR OWN OPERATOR.
sou'rt-l NoawrtiLx, CORDLWEDNESDAY, JULY 25, i916
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M of loner— Treasurer
leuis L Stoddard Resigns
National Committeemun Homer S.
Cummings was the guest of honor
Drivers lust Milo lendef
$1,000.audduly aFeiv Ole
Vlltllellened to Stand in
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Money. and Street Complaints
Are Disposed Of
of the moat importunt meet-
r, the City Council, lust.
in one
business which have been hanging lift?‘
and disposed of them!
Proposed layouts in
Meadow street. East avenue and l-‘atr«
.trk were voted. after citizens,
from each of the three districts hild
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lhlniel Keogh was elected
registrar of voters in East Norwulk.
d Suites were.
appointed as drivers in the tire depart-
recently
made by resignation. 'i‘bupw iltney
ordinance, calling for u hold of 31,000,
for proper puklagupuoe. and 'tor‘dimil
ltation in the number of passengers E
council
or thirty iiiney operators gathered in
the hall to defend their rights. object-
ed strenuously to the passage of the
ordinance through several spokesmen.
A coming shortage of $313.24 in the
fire department. was explained by Fire
Commissioner Gnnung and Chief Bo-
gardus'. and the council voted to up
propriate $150 to the department for
the next two weeks until I way out
of the difficulty could be discovered
and presented at the next meeting.
Other matters of more or less impor-
tance relative to complaints tly
about the streets-aria the stree de-
partmen‘i were received and disposed
of. The regular quotient of bills was
presented by the clerk. and all were,
taken care of by the council. Reports
from the various committees were read,
and accepted. . t‘ourlcilnltln Murphy
was the only member of the board
who was not present. m
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SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican tRe-.
public. July Bit—Federico Henriquez
Carvajal was proclaimed provisional
president of Santo Domingo by Con.
gress today.
President (‘arvajal
idoro Jlminez. He was elected? by
the Chamber of Deputies on May 17.
but confirmation by the Senate was
postponed at the request of Admrtal
Caperton. commanding the American
naval forces in Santo Domingo. The
disturbed condition of the republic
was t e reason of Admiral Csperton's
reques _
RESCUE FORCES SH“.
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Imittee in the Hartford club yesterday
imembern
at the meeting of the members at
the democrntic state central com-
afternoon. including the state clair—
man, Dnvid l. Fitzgerald, and the set:-
reiary. P. B. O'Suilivan. there were
thirtyone present. Mr. Cummings, in
a brief uddrtueu, referred to the en:
coursging prospects for November
elections and urged the members or
the committee to do everything is,
their power to make these prospectni
accomplished facts.
The meeting was called for ll
o'clock. but it was nearly an hour.
later before a sulllclent number had]
arrived, and then it was deched lot
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take lunch before attending to busi-
ness I
Alter lunch various matters were:
taken up. The resignation of Major.
Louis E. Stoddard as treasurer was:
accepted with regret. and the oomw
ments showed that the members oft
the committee nppreciated the ser—
vices which lulor Stoddnrd had ren~
tiered the party in the put.
A vacancy in the Fourteenth Dis»
trict mused by the death of Alex~
ander Lynch was tilled by the 3p
pointment of Arthur O’Koefe of
Orange
The proposition to join the position
of secretary and treasurer was dis
it was plli‘lit’d out till!
formerly they were held by the same
person.
The proposition contained in a cir-‘
cular issued by C. M. (lullup. chain,
man of the democratic town com-,
mittee of Wet Hartford. that the
adoption of a platform should be
taken out of the blade of the stem
convention the drafting ant
adoption be entrusted to the candi-
dates on'the state ticket and the
of the state central coup
mitten was discussed at considerable
length.
N0lillil|i SAVINGS
$0000" MEEi0l0
The annual meeting of the cor
pontore of the tNorwnlk Savage So-
ciety was held this morning in the
banking house of the society.
John W, Bancroft and Robert 5. Van
Buren. both of Norwntk. were unani.
mously elected as corporators of thel
society. ;
Albert R. Malkid. Stephen HA
Holmes and'ilenry P. Coleburn, whose
term of ofllce as directors had expiredl
were reelected to serve for three;
years. t
The annual report of the treasurer:
was read. and it stated that there haul
been deposited during the year 01,-!
014,657.39. and that there had been
withdrawn $932,822.03. making a gain
of deposits for the year of $31,835.36.
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The Society has 6,896 depositors.
Immediately after the corporators'.
meeting the directors met and organ~i
lzed as follows:
Presldent—-William A. Curtis.
Vice-President—Stephen H. Holmes.
Secretary and Treasurer—Frederick
A. Elia. '
Teller—Samuel L. Weed.
Bookkeeper—Cyrus W. Gray, Jr.
Clerk—William E. Grindrod.
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CLEVELAND, 0.. July 26.-—Rescue
forces went to waterworks crib No. 5.
011le Lake Erie. tbl forenoon. in
hopes of being able one time today .
to penetrate the remote and wrecked
portion of the tunnel where the bodies
of the unrecovered dead of Monday
night's disaster still remain.
Watdrworks onlcinls stated today
that they believe there are eleven
bodies still in the tunnel. instead of
twelve. as previously estimated.
Should this prove to be the case. the
toast death toll of the horror is
twentyone. instead of twenty-two.
The city's investigation into the
disaster fine under way today.
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—'l'ry n Sentinel Want ad. it pays.
(to piling at the edge of the dock.
DETROIT. Mich. July 26.—Two per-
sons were drowned and three others,
narrowly escaped late last night. when
an automobile they occupied backed
off a dock at the waterworks park into
the Detroit River.
The drowned were Mrs. Gertrude
Steadman and her two-yenr-old daugh-
ter Helen.
beroy Steadman, husband of the
dead woman; «Miss Lydia Johnson, of
Rome. N, Y.. and Harry Draper, of
this city. were saved through the
quick work of Harry Hellman. out-
fielder on the Detroit American
league baseball team. When Hellman.
saw the machine back into the river.'
he jumped from his own car into the
water, and succeeded in pulling them
where they clung until unlisted from
the water.
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BRITISH AND ERENCH
Treasurer Eugene I. llelly. Wife
and Assistant viruses Per-0
lissiOItuland iningland '
Pilll tits titttt
itllll $50,000!
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lip leney, But Objects to
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NEW YORK, July %.—e0mcers of
the triple Relief Rind are awaiting 1n
explanation of the Masai of the Brit;
isb Government to permit Eugene H.
Kelly. treasurer of the fund. and his.
asslsunt. Joseph Smith. to land in
England The matter bus been taken
up with the State Department at
Washington.
Messrs, Kelly and Smith wished to
go to Dublin to distribute Si.t.t,ttott rats-
ed in the limited States for the leltct
of persons who suffered through the
recent lrish revolt. Dispatches from
London yesterday said that they no.»
not permitted to land from the steam-
ship Philadelphia at Liverpool. but
that they were permitted to send Tit
850.000 ashore and that it had been
transmitted to ireland.
hood client-u of the trial: Relief
find asserted they could see no just
grounds for the detention of lilt‘ll"
agents. Their organization. they said»
was strictly non-political in spite of
the fact that muny of the members
openly fnvored the cause of lrish in-.
dependence, .
“tMr. LKelly." said James K. Mc-
Guire. member of the executive corn-t
mittee. “was considered especially val»
usble for the work i; lreland. lie
and Mr. Smith would have gone earl—t
ier thus they did. but for the tat-t that
their plans were disarranged at the
last moment. it was therefore dew
clded to send John A. Murphy. on iii-l
surance man of Buffalo. and John.
Gill, of New York. to lreland tlrst. Mr.|
Murphy and Mr. Gill left a week be;
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they carried $25,000 for distribution int
lrelnnd."
till tilt till
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Coleman Charnok. the North, Main
street butcher. is suffering from a
painful lniury on the back of his head
caused by someone
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green paint, thrown from some w’here
in the vicinity. nearly struck Sims in
the head. A few seconds later a stone
jar come tilylng through the air. and,
this struck er. Chnrnok squarely in
the back of the head. A gash an inch
long was made in the scalp. and
«civil service commission and
hitting hint with,
as 0! July 1. 1916. were ‘4.‘",58065 an earthen jar late yesterday after..
and the surplus and undivided profits‘ noon. My; Cfigmok was in the backi
lynrd. engaged with his clerk. William}
5 Sims in cleaning it up. when a can of’
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b, " 7n til-m:
Each llill Fought For separately and omit.- mm
bore llesislenee Ivy the Germans, Who llave [out
for Several loathe ’ ‘
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British liplane Shel Dunn by a German Sub-arise m heir”
hrugge, Belgian, and Tue Office
rollers caplet-ed
The capture of Pozi
jSomme river region re’
[day by Field Marshal
j las Haig. the British c-t .
ill-chief in France. gi‘ “ .
British troops domimti' .. ,2
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. . .l' e tend to the
“09“.” M mutt“ In“; "aim: of the artist
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‘fighting in the recent
:fensive, which now hag.
l'pon application
hospital board for the exemption of
of [he somwrs‘neariy a month. has - .. it .
the streets of this viii ;
their appointees from the provt~vthe Germans have forti‘
sums of the civil service law for it became one of the
cause shown. after a hearing at the points of their line.
t'apitol yesterday ill the executive . _
chflber. Governor Marcus H. 1101-. EVCTV hi“ bid to be is
com found that the application‘for and taken ueparteiy‘ ' '
should be granted. In accordanco‘British. after obtaining ..
with the roviuions of Section 2t otlsion of . Commbh . ‘ ‘
(‘hapter "of the'l’ublic' Acts of . . . .
1915. the governor ordered that alitthe “uncum will.“
the appointees of the board be ex- V5" counter “flu“.
erupted from the provisions con-,withstood successfully f- 3
tained in Section 14 of Chapter 2 “'idays, and then in turn c
the Public Acts of 1:013. and sec-
tions .\'os. 12, 13. it and 19 or the
same chapter for one year.
There were present at the confer-0
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:ed the initiative until “Widest-Wes;
tPiae fell before their “trou- W
The Gemn General
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ence with Governor Holcomb,l gardcd the pomion of "' ‘ ..
Charles G. Morris of Newtown,‘ f c - ‘»' =~
president of the commission.' Com-t: Sit :tIMPOCII'tlfnce tint '
missioner Jo‘iln Bundsmaid of roug r m “can“!
Washington. representing the stateHUOODS which had been _ '
commission. John H. Thatcher until!!! the Verdun sector.
Adjutant General George M. Cole otiheld tennciously tto .
gzgézgrfnd Alfred B. Beers oliviuagre until driven out; ..
‘ "ensured in the hand to had'
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The hospital board a few
Stamford as a steward in tho‘
soldiers' home at Noroton. It was‘
learned litter that he had not taken‘; - . ~ .. we .
the personality test required by th‘e'BrmSh' accordmg to..w' «e.
thannouncement made by i, ‘-
sequerltly. according to the stand- ish War Office.
(ards prescribed by the commission. The text of the 5“
Elle was not an eligible. ilows‘
' He stood about sixteenth on the? l .
Elisi, but the board ' ‘The Wh°l° "mg" °
The village of Pozi-t' .
been completely captu u,‘
selected‘ hint.1 , , E _ .
l They retained him and later were‘ 15 “0‘” "1 our 111de W
intltliied that butterman was not anivillage our territorial
Kli‘gtiubtl; within the meaning of theimade a further advance > ‘
.. - ttured two strong trench ..
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front there is no ch egg;
0 John Pierce. of South Norwalk. ap-
An attack on German 0
tpeared before the secretary of‘state
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0leged to have taker}: "-
ei in Hartford. yesterday afternoon. and
tSwerish terriorial wa.- '
“’33 obliged to ‘33“ Dr- Jean Dumortiert explained his side of the accident which says: “TWO R
*ported by the Dirt: ..
Agency in a suntan .
to have several stitches taken in the
wound.
Many complaints have been made
about the gatherings of irresponsible
youths in the suction known as the
hollow. and the police for a time tried
to break up the gangs congregating
there. Passers by and the occupants
of the buildings in upper North Main
street are insulted every night. and fre-
quently tights have occurred there.
‘which resulted in the death of little troyers attacked four
Marlon Wilson, in Winfield Streo‘ttmerchant steamers It .
some time ago. Mr. Pierce was new :t-
companied by Attorney Joseph J. 'lilnx- trance to the Port 0‘ L ,
weiler. and after hearing the evidence in swediSh waters- The!” 09
Secretary of State Burnes exonerated warship Virgo steamed ~ ..
Pierce of all blame. and permitted him them and the Russian ." “i
to relain his license to operate an.“-
mobues' ;southward. pursued by
Attorney Linxweiler also represent-1301 WhiCh had m‘df
ed Mr. Pierce at the hearing before actton. The Swedish
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Property owners are of the opinion "In... ,.
that something shduld be done to pre- ‘
vent future trouble,
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A'l‘l‘lihll'l‘s SUICIDE TO-DAY
NEW YORKJuly 26.——John Kennel.
a detective attached to the “wire tap-
ping squad" of the police department, MADRID. Via Paris. July 26. 5:25
attempted suicide today. by shooting! a. m.——Ahhurricanedofhunprecie‘dented
himself through the breast in the violence as ravage t e prov ces of _
room used by the squad in a doivntown E Saragossa. Sorta. Valladolid. Leon and. statement follows ' -
oilloe building. Kennel was a witness t Pontevedra. The village of Torreonj On the “tempo“ 0‘ - ,
in {be John Doe inquiry which hulls completely in ruins and threetGerman submarine by:
been investignting charges that Catho- ’ chuaches anve been swept away :ytibrought down to the _
lic priests conspired to obstruct- ius- iloo s in t e village of Ateca, in t e - - h .
tics during the rocent lnvestlgn'tlon'provlnce of Aragon. I“; b‘phne' The 0 319*.
into charitable institutions and due The bodies of 11 victims have been 0 cent m ““50
ring which th epolloe tapped the wiresf recovered so far and the material-
ot certain clergyman. [damage is enormous.
Coroner Phelan in South Norwalk. i'mcnt has protested I
in point north of Zeeb -- ’ mt
' on Monday. sayg, '
HURRICANE RAVABES 0;; British biplane
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own by a German a
Admiralty today. The' '
‘tured.
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