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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1913
Page
5
Massillon Ohio January 30 General Jacob S Coxey the pioneer of the Washington march is still campaigning for better roads. He seeks to interest the Ohio Legislature in issuing low interest bonds to aid highway construction.
Funeral services for Susan A. Price were held today at 1 30 p m at the mortuary chapel of H B Bishop. Burial was in Fairfield East cemetery. Caroline E Burritt widow of Robert W Burritt died yesterday at her home 1128 Kossuth Street. She was 74 years old.
The Bridgeport group of Epworth League will hold a rally this evening at o'clock at the First M E Church. A praise service will be held in the audience and congregation.
Listing offers a wedding dinner ring and various properties for sale including a 10 room cottage at 857 Noble Ave a 12 room two family house on Noble Ave a 30 acre farm for 2290 13 acre farm with outbuildings 100 acre farm nine miles out at 7000 with mortgage terms. Also notices of deaths funerals and obituaries with dates and addresses and thanks card.
In Dundee on January 30 suffragettes stormed a meeting with Prime Minister Asquith, shouting traitor and coward as police and bystanders restrained them. Many were ejected and one woman nearly leapt from the rail before being dragged to safety. London reports add that militancy remains the movement’s chosen tactic.
New Haven prison records identify Arthur Hayden as a county jail inmate found dead by the watchman. Authorities say the death stemmed from a heroin overdose Hayden obtained while crossing the jail bridge toward the chair factory cell area.
Torrington January 30 William G Bond foreman of the Torrington Printing Company died at his home last night He was engaged in job work for many years and at one time was editor and proprietor of the Torrington Item He was 42 years old and leaves a widow and four sons.
Washington January 3 Official despatches reveal how tin cans strung on barbed wire at a camp in Jolo Philippines helped avert a massacre by Moro tribesmen. American troops, sent to quell revolting head hunters, faced daily brushes with natives since Sunday. Eight Americans killed and 25 wounded to date. An alarm plan by encircling the camp and posting sentries enabled a night defense that shocked about 1,000 tribesmen, with several score killed. No American casualties.
El Paso January 30 rebels under General Salazar and Rojas moved toward Juarez at night from Guadeloupe. daylight saw residents flee to the U S border amid fears of border violence. Texas Rangers opened fire wounding and capturing two rebels. General Rojas apologized for the rebel presence, saying they crossed unintentionally.
Norwich January 30 Richard B. Chute seventy a prominent merchant found guilty by the superior court on seven counts of assaults on girls aged fourteen and sixteen in Mystic is in county jail in serious condition. He collapsed in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. The deposition leaves one for trial. Of the others implicated in the Mystic scandals two have been convicted two committed suicide and two have disappeared. All were elderly businessmen.
New York Jan 30 Joseph G Robin a convicted bank wrecker served 15 minutes of his year long sentence on Blackwell Island then was brought to the criminal branch of the Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus and remanded to the Tombs for one week pending a hearing. He had previously secured three stays in the sentence while Norwich Michael Jacob sues his niece for divorce claiming they were related by marriage and had never lived together.
Harper's Weekly describes the ten boy choristers of the king's private chapel in St James Palace London. Their state suits cost about 200 dollars each and feature scarlet cloth purple bands and heavy gold lace. undress suits are replaced every eight months and each boy must care for garments lasting three years.
A collage of curiosities on protoplasm and cell unity, tropisms, and plant animal life links. Included are sketches of Disraeli’s digestion predilections, natural spectacles like the third eyelid, and quips from newspapers such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Chicago Tribune. Ads end with cent a word.
Grace Conlon a Washington laundry worker testifies before a House committee about brutal hours and low wages. She began at 13, earned $1.50 weekly, now about $7.50, while men she worked with earned $15 to $20. She describes 7:30 pm to 6 pm shifts, holiday or rush stoppages with no extra pay, and exhausting machinery noise. Leaders like Gompers urge humane hours as reform. Maude Younger notes eight hour bills pass in California and wages remain low in Southern hotels.
Pittafield Mass January 30 Rosa Smith 31 testified she was married eight months and Zucco and Joseph Long Italians were held in 5000 bail each by a U S commissioner on a formal charge of violation of the Mann white slave law in a court appearance.
Hartford reports in the Connecticut House a petition signed by about 90 residents of Trumbull and Bridgeport seeks to block renewal of the Bridgeport and Danbury Electric Railway charter. Citizens argue the company has failed to fulfill promises to complete the line, left roads in poor condition, and may be only 25 percent completed as speculation rather than a real project.
Berlin reports the bill to prevent Standard Oil from cornering the petroleum market was killed in committee with a landslide defeat of the motion for first reading. A final attempt to read the measure seems unlikely after today’s decisive vote. Other items note a Budapest woman bound for Norfolk, a New York note writer harming himself, an arrest of Paul Allen linked to a Three Weeks hero, and opinions on discipline in education.
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