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the in glove, a us a a THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1904 The Liartford Couraut. MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1904. SIXTEEN PAGES. St. Louis is not yet "educated up" to the Sunday bullfight, it appears.

It is conjectured that John P. Elkin knows by this time whether he's to be Matthew S. Quay's successor in the Senate. He was to see the great "Iz" Durham yesterday. The "New Haven Register' has interviewed Hon.

Donald T. Warner and asked him about these rumors that he is a candidate for governor, for congressman-at-large, and so on; and Mr. Warner's reply is, am not a candilate for anything." A month ago the "Norfolk Virginian exhorted the democrats of the Old Dominion to try their hardest this year to get a good Virginian name on the democratic national ticket- not in first place, then in second place. It suggested as available Allen Caperton Braxton, John Warwick Daniel and Andrew Jackson Montague. It now withdraws the Daniel and Montague suggestions; the senator was a Confederate soldier, and the governor has been mixed up in a faction fight, It advises and urges instructions: for Braxton.

It expresses the opinion that Judge Parker, if not nominated on the first ballot, will not be nominated at all. NORTHAMPTON'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. This week the town of Northamptonthan which there are few goodlier towns, more beautiful for situation, in this goodly Connecticut Valley or outside it -is celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of it Settlement. Hartford ethan a neighborly interest in this celebration. Hartford saw Nordiampton's birth and has watched overy stage of its growth.

Good Hart word and Connecticut names were orthily represented among those fret settlers. Early in the Massachusetts town's history, it had occasion to ask help of us, and did not have to ask twice. At a meeting of the "Councill" in Hartford, May 20, 1676-present, Major Robert Treat, deputy governor, Mr. Samuel Willys, Captain John Allyn--the following minute was Upon the intelligence of the last engagement up the riven, the good people desireing assistance from us, we thought meet and accordingly doe order that eighty men, under conduct of Capt. Benj: Newber be forthwith raysed to march to North Hampton, upon Munday next here to continue for the defence of those plantations, for present.

Those that are to goe are, from Windsor, 32; Wethersfield, 30; Hartford, 12; Midleton, 11; Farmingion, 5. The Northampton people do well to be proud of their town, and to make much of its memories. They have, indeed, an enviable heritage. Great names are written on the pages of Northampton's annals. The Northampton of to-day is a delight to the eyes and a satisfaction to the mind.

Hartford's congratulations and best wishes go up the river to-day in the track taken by Capt. Benj: Newbery two hundred and twenty-eight years ago. We hope the weather will be good to Northampton throughout the commemoration. SOMETHING DOING IN DEMOCRATIC POLITICS. Mr.

Gorman's visit to New York last week did not pass unnoticed, you may be sure, at Wolfert's Roost nor yet in the abode of silence at Esopus-on-Hudson. Mr. Gorman visited New York on private business; they always do that. "Meeting a number of fellow-) democrats, 1 postponed my he says. "Naturally enough, we talked politics." The list of -democrats" whom Mr.

Gorman met casually in the metropolis includes Senator Joe Bailey of Texas, ex-Senator Edward Murphy, who had dropped down casually from Troy, ex-Senator James H. Smith, of New Jersey, who ran over from Newark, Colonel Jim Guffey of Pennsylvania, who brought Chairman Donnelly of the Philadelphia democratic city committee along. J. Sargeant Cram of Tammany, James J. Hill of the late Northern Securities Company, and Thomas F.

Ryan of Wall street, who does not really love August Belmont. After they got through talking politics, the Maryland senator said they had not been discussing candidates but prospects; also the platform incidentally. "My own opinion," he said, "is that there will be no definite settlement of the question of a candidate until after the delegates shall have assembled at St. Louis." Ex-Senator Smith said he was not committed to any candidate, nor in any conspiracy for or against any candidate. duty of every democrat now is to tablish such a condition of harmony within the party as will avert friction at the St.

Louis convention," he said. Colonel Guffey'8 announcement for the public was that he had entered into no "combination." and that he would not do so until after "free and full conference with delegates to the convention." Merrill A. Teague, writing from New York to the "Philade phia North American," reports that the talk really turned on the ways and means of detaching Judge Parker from David B. Hill and reducing the Wolfert's Roost man to political insignificance. He hears that the real inventor of the Par- ker boom is William F.

Sheehan. "With him, working hand is August Belmont, who follows polities as fad and is not considered of especial consequence, though his connection with the Parker boom has been suttlelent to array a good part of the Wall street crowd against the sphinx of After a long talk with Colonel Guffey Thursday evening. Sheehan started for the World's Fair Friday understanding being," Teague explains, "that it would not be wise for him to be in New York white the actual plans were making for capturing Hill's scalp." If Teague has got the facts straight, the price which Mr. 'Gorman and his friends are prepared to offer Judge Parker for Hill's scalp is a nomination on the first ballot at St, Louis by the votes the uninstructed delegates whom they control or influence. If the deal goes through, Mr.

Gorman is then to take the chairmanship of the democratic national committee. Judge Parker was in New York 1 the last of the week, as our readers may have noticed. He, too, was called there by private business. Apparently he did not meet the distinguished visitor from Maryland. AN UNTIMELY SUGGESTION.

The esteemed "Waterbury American," a staunch friend of Yale University, makes a suggestion regarding the pending election of trustee by the alumni that seems to us a long way from being actually friendly, however amicable its intent. It is that Candidate Houghteling be voted for on the ground that he is an Episcopalian and his election might prove a taking bait for Episcopal influences. Yale set out as a Congregational institution, but with the liberalizing of centuries has considerably outgrown that notion. The admission of graduates to the corporation was one step, the election of a nonclergyman, Arthur Hadley, as president, was another proof. The evidence is all about.

But whatever quality of creed the university possesses is Congregational. Better, far better, so than that the different creeds should be battling for recognition in the management. That would be followed by contests among them for control, and a long step backward would be taken when that condition was reached. Raising the question of creed and church for the election of a graduate member of the Yale corporation is inviting trouble all along the line. As the Congregational ministers in the corporation are declared by excellent authoriues not to be bound by anything stronger than tradition to choose Congregational ministers as their successors, it was suggested a while ago that they vary the monotony by electing ministers of other denominations, but this was promptly and wisely met by the same objection raised in this paragraph--that it would be introducing the question of creed and eventually be inviting contests among denominations for control.

The whole notion is wrong. There have been blunders enough in the managements of Yale elections, but the worst is yet to come if they are going to run the church test in. A GOOD NOMINATION. Not long before the Illinois republican state convention quit its foolishness and made its ticket, we said there were at least two reasons for thinking it would make no mistake if it put at the top of the ticket the name of Charles S. Deneen.

These were, the fine official record of the man himselfwho has been called the Joe Folk of Chicago--and the quality of the Chicagoans supporting his candidacy. We might have added a third reason, the character (or no-character) of a part of the opposition to him. At first his nomination for the governorship this year seemed pretty hopeless. It was made possible at the last by the withdrawal of Yates, Hamlin and Sherman in his favor. That shut the convention up to a choice between Deneen and Colonel Frank O.

Lowden, George M. Pullman's son-in-law, who was backed by Senator Cullom, Speaker Cannon and Chicago's republican "boss," William. Lorimer. The choice the convention made pleased some of the Chicago newspapers greatly. A staff correspondent telegraphed to the "Recordfrom the Illinols capital Friday ing: "It pressages a new era in the conduct of the republican politics in Illinols, with former unsavory conditions abandoned and the spoils machine on the scrap heap." Saturday morning the editor of that journal said of Deneen: "He was as strong as any other possible candidate in the state at large, and he is in a claes by himself in Cook county.

His popularity here was strikingly attested when he secured a larger vote than McKinley in 1900, and since then the growing knowledge of his fine qualities as a man and an official has appealed to the moral sense of the community in such a way that every year has brought him an increase of the public regard." And the "Chicago Tribune" said that same morning: "Because of his tireless energy, splendid ability, and unswerving rectitude as a public official Mr. Deneen had endeared himself to the people of his own county. It is perfectly safe to prophesy that as 'governor of Illinois he will exhibit in the larger fleld the same energy, ability, and rectitude, and that he will in equal consequence endear himself to the people of this whole state." It is always possible, as we have pointed out on a number of occasions, that A man who has done very well indeed in one office may not achieve the same success in a different office. Deneen, the state's attorney, has made his record: the record of Deneen, the governor, is yet to be made. But he has an intimate knowledge of Illinois politics and public men, he has served in the Legislature, he is intelligent as well as upright.

All the presumptions are in his favor, and we expect to see the convention's choice amply justified by the sequels. NO CALL FOR SYMPATHY. We observe with interest that our PAteemed contemporary, the "Hartford objects to the term "old fool." applied In Saturday's "Courant" to the man Platt In New York, who has paid between $800,000 and $700,000 in blackmall and now "squeals." As Mr. Platt 19 86 years of age, we assume that the punetum of the objection rests on the word "fool." It would generally be conceded that he was old. It seemed to 118 that fool was a very mild and gentle term to apply to the lecherous hypocrite, whose performances have brought disgrace to Nuclety Itself and have resulted in the murder of such A fine citizen as Andrew H.

Green. The "Times" cites, as if It were a parallel case, the buncoing of Charles Francis Adama, the first. in BoRton when he was in him dotage. But it seems to an insult to the proud and honored name of Adame 10 associate these two cases. Mr.

Adams was taken in by sharpers who secured his signature to notes or got cash from him by false representations, whichever it was, and there was no suggestion of scandal in the matter. There is buncoing all the way from Wall street to Chatham square. But paying blackmail is a practical confession that there is something disgraceful being kept out of sight, as has been SO abundantly proved in the Platt affair. To be swindled in the street is one thing; to pay by the year for nameless colored babies is a different business, and decent folk have no call to gloss over the performance. There should be nothing but cold contempt for man Platt, and there is no call to conceal it.

NOTE AND COMMENT. Five small sunfish, caught out of season, have just cost Professor Drum of Bucknell University $51.50. A vigilant game warden was around. Mrs. Polk, who died at Cannes last Thursday, aged 77, was a descendant Penn, and mother of the Baronnea de Charette.

Charles A. Williams of Cumberland, has a sword that once belonged to Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. When the commodore retired, he gave the sword to James Williams and it has become a family heirloom. The "Boston Herald" hears rumors that the ex-dean of the theological school in Boston University, Dr. Marcus D.

Buell, a Hartford pastor, was crowded out of his office by the friends of Professor Bowne and Professor Mitchell because of his conservatism. Harry Treat, the Maine Central's train dispatcher at Portland, thinks he's the youngest American holding such a position. He got his diploma from the Livermore Falls high school when he was only 15, was hitting the key a telegraph office at 16, has been train dispatcher for two years, and is only 23 now. "A good deal has been whispered around in Kansas," says William Allen White, "about the alleged fact that the Kansas building at the World's Fair contains bedrooms for the Kansas commissioners, for the 'visiting statesmen, and for the Kansas nobility generally. It is also said that a kitchen is fitted up in the building and that the state pays for a hired girl and a cook." Last week a big bull moose prowled around the village of Fort Fairfield (Maine) and frightened the women.

The "Roanoke World" complains because cows are permitted to go where they please in that town. Years and years ago the spectacle of the cows loitering about in the streets of Augusta, made a great impression on the mind of the late Mr. Sala. Mr. Delany wanted to ask a question in the House of Commons and as is the usage, wrote it out.

In his manuscript the words "Catholic clerks" were used. In the official printed question sheet the phrase became "Roman Catholic clerks." Mr. Delany objected to the addition. "The appellation 'Roman' has always been regarded as offensive forth Redmond. Catholic "I church should of be Ireland," extremely said anxious avoid giving offense," said Mr.

Speaker. The question was restored to its original form. One of the features of Fourth-of-July night in Providence, R. is a huge bonfire in Jones's lot on Smith's Hill; and a the authorities of the near-by Channing Hospital are trying to abate The "Providence Journal" tells why: "The noise attendant upon the celebration is so great that its effect upon nervous patients has been bad. The heat is intense that in the front rooms of the hospital it is felt by the patients, and that alone, it is claimed, is sufficient to a sick person suffer a nervous shock." Miss Jessie B.

Allen of the University of Chicago will soon be a Ph. D. She offers for her degree a paper on "The Psychology of a Guinea Pig." She has explained how she came to write it. "I made original experiments," she says, "to discover whether or not the guinea pigs had fully developed memorles and other faculties at the age of one day. I discovered that such was the case.

You know that a white rat does not open its eyes for sixteen days after birth and does not remember anything for nearly a month. Guinea pigs are not so stupid as that, and can remember almost anything at the tender age of one day." The "Mexican Herald" thinks there's more than a fair chance that Porfirio Diaz will live out his new term. "The President is a strong and active man," it says; "few young men can compete with him in standing the fatigues of a hunting party. His vigor of body 18 matched by his vigor of brain. His astonishing youthfulness of physique is unmatched among the older rulers of the earth.

His relation to the Mexican people to-day is paternal; he has won the popular affection. Time has mellowed the stern soldier who had to transform 8 people and give it new ideals. The country has come to cord the President its esteem and sympathy; the people understand him, and have accepted him as the great National Arbitrator and Referee." Dr. Charles B. Cooper, Hawail's health commissioner, thinks the federal government should aid the territory in studying leprosy and caring for the lepers.

"Though annexation was hailed with delight, it has been to us a disappointment and a financial loss," the doctor says. "All our revenues derived from taxes on imports that used to go to local benefit are now sent to the Washington treasury, thereby making our burdens much heavier than formerly. Besides this, the application of the immigration laws of the United States has robbed us of the best laborers we could ever have--the Chinese. With our revenue and labor thus cut off. it seems as though a rich and humane government ought to be willing relief to a remote but deserving and patriotic territory." A Bonquet for Gunshanan.

(Trumbull in New York Sunday Her- ald.) The Workingmen's Club of Hartford has just brought to a successful close another notable season. The list of speakers reveals the fact that Mr. Gunshanan has had at his disposal intellectual material enough to run a firstclass lecture bureau, recruited not alone from the walks of Connecticut life, but from other states. In fact, this is one of the unique institutions of Connecticut, and it con be accounted for only upon the ground that the man who manages it possesses a genius for that Fort of work. It is another phase of the man behind the gun, and the only regret one can have is that there is not in every manufacturing community a man of the same enthusiasm and horse sense.

It la unfortunate that it is not so, but the fact has to be faced that in this particular the city of Hartford is luckter than any other of the eighteen cities of the state. Whether It would be possible for him to organize branch clubs elsewhere I do not know, but it would be good thing for Connectleut if he could. The only fear I should have would be the loss which might come from the absence of personal contact, which at one place comparatively easy. IN MEMORY OF CONFEDERATES Their Graves in Arlington Cemetery Decorated. Washington, June the presence of thousands of ex-Confederate and exUnion soldiers and a number er of officers of the United States army and the G.

A. the first formal memorial exercises ever held over the graves in the Confederate section of Arlington Cemetery were held to-day. As the result of a movement initiated by the late President McKinley, the Confederate dead now have been gathered in one large and beautiful circle in the southern part of the cemetery where the graves have been marked with separate stones. The exercises were opened with music by the Fifteenth Cavalry band. In a spirit of good will and fraternity after the exercises over the graves of the Confederate dead, those in charge of the services repeated them over the graves of the 2,000 unknown soldier dead at Arlington and decorated the graves with flowers.

Rev. Alexander W. Pitzer, pastor of the Southern Presbyterian Church in this city and an ex-Confederate soldier. was the orator of the day. He referred to the fact that the government of the United States, through representatives of its army, was participating in the exercises and that the government of the United States had collected the remains of.

the Confederate soldiers and had erected suitable stones to mark their graves. He asked the ex-Confederates present if they should not recognize that as true magnanimity. The exercises were brought to a close by Rev. Dr. Prettyman, who prayed for the living representatives of those who fell on both sides and for the coming of universal peace and good which the ceremonies of the day foreshadowed.

SHOT DEAD IN A CAB. "Florodora" Actress Suspected of Having Killed Bookmaker. New York, June in a cab beside an actress whose relations with him for some time past has threatened to break up his family life, "Caesar" Young, one of the best known and most prosperous bookmakers on the Metropolitan track this season, shot and killed yesterday morning while driving down West Broadway. wife was waiting for him on the pier of the White Star line tickets which were to have carried both to Europe. It is said by her friends that the object of the trip abroad was to remove him from the influence of the woman who was with him when he died.

She is Mrs. Patterson, better known on the stage as Nan Randolph, a member of Florodore company. first she was held as a witness in $1,000 bail. Then, as fresh details of the case came to light, this amount was raised to $5,000. After an autopsy on the body of Young and when detectives detailed to the case had made their reports, the authorities refused to accept any amount of bail, and the woman passed last night in the Tombs a prisoner.

"It looks to me like a murder," said Captain Langan after he had finished his preliminary investigation. "In the information placed in our hands are included certain letters, said to have been written by the woman, which are of a threatening nature." Mrs. Patterson told the coroner that she received a telephone message from Mr. Young yesterday morning asking her to meet him at Fifty-ninth street and Eighth avenue at 8 o'clock. When she arrived there Young was waiting for her.

After few minutes' talk Young went into a saloon and took a drink. "We then took a hansom," she said, "and drove down town, Young telling me he had to meet his wife at the Fulton Ferry. The understanding was that Young would leave the cab a few blocks from the ferry and that I should drive back home in it. "We first went to a Fifth avenue store, where Young bought a new hat. Then we drove to 'Bleecker street and West Broadway, where he got out and took another drink, and it was when we drove on after that that he first told me he was going away.

He told me how sorry he was and seemed despondent. Then, in the middle of our talk, I heard a muffled sound--a pistol. Mrs. Patterson denied that she had seen the pistol in Young's hand, but an examination of his coat after the shootIng showed conclusively that the weapon had been placed directly against his breast. The bullet entered high in the left shoulder, and, passing diagonally downward, went through the lungs and lodged in the spine.

"I loved him dearly," she said, "and he told me he loved me. I believe he killed himself because he was despondent at the thought of having to leave me." "The wound could not possibly have been self-inflicted," said Dr. J. J. White, family physician for the Youngs, who was the autopsy.

"It begins high on the' shoulder, several inches above the heart, where a man contemplating suicide naturally would point his weapon, and is in a noticeably downward direction. It would be almost impossible for a man to hold a revolver against his chest in such a position as gun must have been in from which the fatal shot was fired." J. D. Millin, Young's partner at the race track, says Young never carried a pistol. Notee amounting to more than $1,800 were found on Young's body, but Mrs.

Patterson admitted to reporters that Young had given her $300 while in the cab. MAN GAGGED, SAFE ROBBED. Safe at Stafford Springs Post Office Blown Open. Stafford Springs, June is no clue to the men who assaulted Night Watchman Henry Mellen yesterday morning and, after binding and gagging him, blew open the safe in the local post office taking therefrom the stamps and some money. While Mr.

Mellen is recovering, he was not able to be on duty last night. Mellen says that he stopped to mail a letter shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday morning when someone struck him on the back of the head. He fell but attempted to draw a revolver when a second blow rendered him incapable of further resistance. The men, of whom there were five, gagged him with a handkerchief and bound his bands and feet with picture cord. The men dynamited the sate, blowing open the door and left with its Mellen managed to free his wrim shortly after 3 o'clock in the morning and then gave the alarm but the robbers had disappeared.

The only clue on which the authorities have to work 1s the handkerchief with which Mellen was bound, and which bear the letter Fostmaster Abell refuses to ray how much money was taken from the sefe. Careless Manager. (Wall Street Journal.) John D. Ryan, at the head of the Amalgamated forces in Montana, is a young man, and like all the leaders in the Heinze camp, well under 40. He 1g belleved to be worth less than $1,000,000, but his strong point 18 hie aggressiveness.

He is sometimes, however, forgetful in money matters, and It is said that after a legislative campaign in Montana he was careless enough to send his tailor a coat in which $10.000 was found sewed Into the lining. The tallor was not in Montana politics and returned the cont with lining intact. HANNAH ELIAS SEEN. Denies that She Got Any Money from Platt by Threats. New York, June Elias, in the home in Central Park West, which she das made her citadel, last night made a complete statement of all the affairs in her life which have a bearing on the case which has been brought against her by the octogenarian, John R.

Platt, to recover all or part of nearly $700,000 which he says he has given her under threats of blackmail. Her confession was made to Assistant District Attorneys Lord and Kernochan, in the presence of her attorney, Washington Brauns, and a stenographer from the district attorney's office. The confession was arranged for at a conference held at the Hotel Grenoble early last evening between Mr. Brauns, Mr. Lord and Mr.

Kernochan and was a direct result of Mr. Brauns's repeated statement that his client was prepared to meet the district attorney at any time and to tell him all she knew of the case. The mulatto admitted having received large sums of money from Platt, but denied that they had been other than free gifts to her. Mrs. Elias's lawyer has been unsuccessful in preventing service upon his client of the summon and complaint in the suit brought by Mr.

Platt's lawyers yesterday applied to Judge Dugro for an order allowing service by substitution. It was granted and at twenty minutes after four o'clock in the afternoon two process servers from the office of Warren, Warren O'Beirne nailed the papers to Mrs. Elias's front door. In addition to this order Judge Dugro granted an application for an order making legal the service to-day a of papers in injunction proceedings restraining the negress from using any of the money which she may have in banks or in her own possession. the statute such a special order minder issued where it appears that the interests of a party to an action may be Jeopardized by following the usual procedure which provides in against the service of any papers except a criminal action on a Sunday or holiday.

Judge Dugro also issued an order extending for another week the life of the injunction. It was returnable yesterday, but as the papers had not been served on Mrs. Elias the matter had to be adjourned. CUP FOR PROF. JACOBUS.

Gift from the Trustees of Theological Seminary. As a result of a vote of the trustees of the Hartford Theological Seminary, a handsome silver loving cup was given to Professor M. W. Jacobus on Saturday afternoon. From the time ex-President Hartranft went abroad until President Mackenzie took charge, Professor Jacobus, is dean of the faculty, was acting president and it was only at his earnest desire that the institution be strengthened by the choice of such a man as President Mackenzie that he was not himself chosen to that posttion.

It is largely on account of this that trustees decided to show him in visible form something of their appreciation of him and his work. The executive committee had charge of purchasing the cup. It. consists of Rev. H.

H. Kelsey, pastor the Fourth Church Lyman B. Brainerd, Atwood Collins, John Allen, Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, pastor of the First Church, and Edward W. Hooker.

The committee surprised Professor Jacobus at his home on Marshall street and Mr. Hooker presented the cup in an informal speech. The cup is handsomely gotten up, has two handles, stands about a foot high and is inscribed as Presented to Melancthon Williams Ja-: by vote of the trustees of the: Hartford Theological Seminary in recog-: and acknowledgement of his self-: devotion to the needs and wel-: of the seminary, and as a token of: appreciation of his successful and: administration as acting 25, 1904. HOW THEY ATE SHAD! Senator Davis Gives Dinner to His Colleagues of 1903. All of the members of the Senate of 1903 except Senators Ney, Woodruff, Ayling, Brown, McNeil, Clark and Chaffee, were guests of Senator E.

S. Davis of Middletown Saturday at Glen Grove, where the senator feasted them on planked shad, and other things, though the shad had the star part. Senator Ney of this city narrowly escaped being, one of the guests. He reached Middletown a little too late to take the naphtha launch which carried the party from the dock at Middletown to the grove, ten miles down the river, and spent a part day, as a result, in visiting the State Hospital for the Insane, and greeted the party when they reached Middletown on their return about 4 o'clock. Besides the senators there were present Lieutenant Governor Roberts, State Secretary Vinal, Rev.

Dr. George W. Phillips, the Senate chaplain, Senate Clerk George E. Hinman, H. Wales Lines of Meriden, Silas A.

Robinson and Judge Wesley U. Pearne of Middletown. When the party reached Middletown most of them left on the afternoon train, but the local members and one or two friends were entertained at dinner Secretary Vinal at the Middletown Club. Lieutenant Governor Roberts left early and went to New Haven to see the Yale-Princeton baseball game. CLUE TO SANTORO BURGLARY.

Ring D. C. Wilson Was Wearing May be Policeman's. The police are hopeful that Donald C. Wilson, under sentence in Springfield, for theft, may be able to throw some light on the recent burglary at Officer Santoro's home.

A gold ring, set with three opals, which Wilson was wearing at the time of his arrest, has been or will be sent here and Officer Santoro will decide ft it is the one taken from his house. Its description answers that of one taken. It had not reached the police station last night. Wilson was sentenced in Springfield Saturday to pay a fine of $100 or go to jail for three months for theft of gold watch and chain. He 1g said to have served time in Massachusetts and this state for forgery.

The Worcester police also want him on a charge of theft of a gold watch and chain. VICE-PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. Minister Limantour Declines--Corral May be Named. Mexico City, June Limantour has published a letter declining the vice-presidential candidacy. He gives 88 his reason a conviction that his apIn an administrative capacity as long is 89 titude his willing does to services not lie continue are along serving considered political his lines.

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His subject was "The Vital Force of Christianity." Newton, June Dr. Nathan E. Wood, president of the Newton Theological Seminary, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class to-day. His theme was Trial Test of Truth." Boston, June Rev. William Lawrence, Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, to-day preached the ing class of the Massachusetts Instibaccalaureate sermon to line graduattute of Technology, The services were held in Trinity Church.

ELISHA S. CONVERSE DEAD. Former President of Boston Rubber Shoe Company. Malden, June S. Converse, widely known as the former head of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company and through his many public tions, to-day died of a at his complication residence of in this diseases.

city Bishop Tierney at New Haven. New Haven, June laying of the cornerstone of the new St. Michael's Italian Roman Catholic Church, took place to-day. Bishop Tierney of Hartford, who performed the ceremony, made the principal address. Ex-Senator's Wife Dead.

Darien, June Lounsbury, wife of former Senator Lounsbury, died at her home to-day, aged 57 years, High School Notes. The high school track team had its picture taken Saturday morning. The boys in the group are: Captain Robert M. Keeney, Manager Philip S. Wainwright, Trainer "Steve" Daley, Harry A.

Rapelye, Montague Flagg, Leroy Mack, Walter Batterson and Raymond Williams. Robert M. Keeney was unanimously re- captain. Keeney is a hard worker and thoroughly understands the duties of captain. The "Owl A Annual" will be on sale at the close of school to-day.

All who have signed contracts to copies will assist the board by getting them promptly. The annual meeting of the P. H. S. Athletic Association will be held in the senior room directly after school to-day.

The annual public inter-club debate, which is this year between the Athena and the Hopkins Debating Club, will be held in the assembly hall Wednesday evening, June 15. The subject is, "Resoived, that Porto Rico should be given the status of a United States territory." The H. P. H. S.

Glee Club will give its initial performance at this debate. Children's Wash Dresses. Many New Styles That Should Be Seen. All Linen one-plece Suits are in the majority and they are worthy ct the recognition that is given them. Linens are worth all they cost.

We have them in sizes 8 to 14, in blue, pink, white and linen color with trimmings and insertions of drawnwork, lace and fagot. ing. Then there are the Batiste, Cham. brays, Muslins Ginghams--and the new Gingham Suspender Suits. Prices range from $2.50 to $15.

C. W. PRATT, 73, 75 and 77 Pratt Street. WHEN TONTINE (Which is only another term for 20 Year Accumulation or 20 Year Distribution) policies mature at only half the estimates under which they were sold--less, too, than the returns of Annual Dividends in the Mutual Benefit the moral is obvious. Arthur J.

Birdseye, State Agent, 71-2 First Nat'l Bank Bldg. Assets over $87,000,000. Horace S. Howe Andrew T. Smith The Hartford Courant.

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THE CONNECTICUT COURANT 15- sued every Monday and Thursday morning, with elght pages or more each issue, $1 per year, 10 cents a month for less than one year, payable in advance. Famous Name. FOR EIGHTY-THREE YEARS Greatest Musicians, Professional and Amateur, and the Piano Purchasing Public have recognized the superiority of the instruments bearing the name CHICKERING The productions of the present year have established more firmly its position as THE GREAT AMERICAN PIANO. And that means best in the world. See the WONDERFUL QUARTER-GRAND A piano of marvelous value.

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